THE COAST TERMI
NUS OF THE ALAS
KA RAILROAD.
Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE TERMINUS OF
THREE OCEANIC
STEAMSHIP LINES.
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 70.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SEIZE!. SEATTLE
TWO MEN ESCAPED ABAN
DONING SHIP ON BEACH,
BROWNS BAY
SEATTLE, March 28, </P)—Driv
en by a tw<-man crew through
a hail of leao from shot guns of
United States immigration agents,
a seaplane, believed to have been
used in smuggling aliens, nar
cotics and liquor into the coun
try, escaped from the inlet at
Meadowdale, 20 miles north of
here yesterday, only to be car
tured later by Customs officeis
on a beach closer to the city
where it had ran out of fuel.
The two men in the plane es
caped but officers arrested Ar
thur Monday who said was trans
ferring beer from the plane to
an automobile parked on the
beach. Officers said the auto
contained five sacks of beer and
T5 gallons of aviation gasoline.
Acting on advance information
mmigration officers were posted
an Look-out hill from where they
watched. When they sighted the
plane landing they notified com
panions who rushed to the beach.
Monday warned the fliers who
began to get underway when they
nade their escape
Officers commandeerer an air
mail plane and took up the pur.
suit. The fleeing plane alighted
m Brown’s Bay where the oc
cupants ran it onto the beach
and abandoned it.
<’ \is IS ATTRIBUTED TO EX
TENSIVE ADVERTISING CAM
PAIGN
NEW YOPK. March 28.— Total
.-'fts oi The American Tobacco
Company at the end of 1929
: mounted to $265,495,903 as com
pared with $221,205X93 in 1928, ac
•ording to the company’s balance
dv-et which has just been compiled
or issuance to the stockholders.
This was an increase during the
•ear of $44,200,213.
Liabilities amounted to $184,536,
574, leaving a surplus of $80,869,
332 which was almost twice the
surplus as of December 31, 1928.
At the end of the year the compa
ny held $47,493,965 in stocks and
oonds, an increase of $15,237,501.10.
Inventories, of leaf tobacco, manu
factured stock, operating supplies,
etc., advanced by $11,155,260 to a
otal of $102,541,553.
Current assets totalled $146,766,
363, which included $20,490,152 in
ash, while current liabilities were
mly $3,458,317, leaving a working
capital of $143,308,051, the highest
.n the record of the company and
an increase of $33,906,409 over 1928
Brands, Trade Marks, Patents,
Good Will, etc., were valued at
554,099,430. There has been n
"hange in this item since 1913, al
though it includes the increasin'
prestige built up for Lucky SaT.
cigarettes, through extensive ad
-ertising of the merits of the wast
ing process which have resulted Tn
steadily increased sales.
BRILLIANT AFFAIR
LOS ANGELES, March 28, {/-P)— j
Celebrities of motion picture of- j
ficials and social life of Califor-j
nia witnessed one of the most j
brilliant affairs of the season:
when Miss Edith Mayer, daugh- j
ter of Louis B. Mayer, Metro- j
Goldwyn-Mayer executive, become!
the bride of William Goetz, film i
official. !
The organization of a Mer-1
chants’ Credit Organization at
Juneau has been formed.
COSGROVE RESIGNS
DUBLIN, March 28, ^—Presi
dent Cosgrove and his ministry
resigned after their defeat at
the government dail which vote
was G4 on the opposition measure.
The opposition announced the
nomination of Devalery for pres
ident. When the dail meets again
on Wednesday, Cosgrove may be
reelected.
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FIVE AND ONE-IIALF HOURS
FROM DILLINGHAM TO
ANCHORAGE AIRPORT
Again clearly demonstrating
the value of airplane transpor
tion in Alaska as against for
mer methods of traveling, the re
cent flight of Mr. and Mrs. John
Bailey of Uiarnna to Anchorage,
is very interesting.
First, stated Mr. Bailey, it took
five days travel by dogteam from
the trading post to reach Dil
lingham where a radio station is
located and from which point he
dispatched a message to Anchor
age for a plane. Eighteen days
rolled by before the plane arrived
the long delay being unavoidable
owing to the Eielson.Borland. fun
eral planes winging their way
from Siberia and due to unfavor
able weather conditions.
Previous to the arrival of this
plane, Mr. Bailey said, only two
had set down there and, natur
ally. the residents of that vicinity
were anxious as to the third ar
| rival of an air-cruiser. In fact,
' there were many there who never
before had seen an airplane
Twenty minutes after the ship’s
departure from Anchorage, Bailey
received word it was winging its
way; this was the signal for peo
ple for miles distant to head for
Dillingham.
A stretcher patient, Olaf Han
' sen, who was to be carried to An,
chorage for an operation, was
made as comfortable as possible,
then the plane soared aloft head
ing for Seversen & Bailey's Trad
ing post which was reached in
two and one-half hours from
Dillingham.
Mrs. Bailey joined the plane's
passenger there, at Iliamna, and
within 30 minutes the plane again
was in the air darting on a
straight airline for Anchorage
over glaciers and rugged moun
tain peaks for about 80 miles
then swinging over to the Inlet
side. Bailey stated they passed
close to Mount Iliamna which
appeared like a gigantic smelter,
smoke pouring out its cone in
great clouds. “That picture alone
was worth the price of the whole
trip,’’ he said.
After three hours the plane
came down at the Anchorage
airport terminal ending a most
exciting and pleasant ah* journey;
the entire time of flight from
Dillingham being exactly five and
one-half hours. Via dogteam,
mushing and boat, this trip, hi
former days, would have required
weeks
“Radio stations and airplanes
ha^e brought that big isolated
region into contact with Anchor,
age and Seward,” Bailey added,
for in the past, at times it really
took six months to send and re
ceive letters and supplies.
Pilot Matt Neimenen was the
aviator who flew the plane and
of him Mr. Bailey spoke in glow
ing terms. Equipped with ski is,
the landings and takeoffs were
so perfect that at times the pass
enger hardly knew whether they
were in the air or on the ground
Bailey said there were few places
in this world where one could
travel by dogteam, airplane,
automobile, train and boat, all
within the short space of 12
hours.
Mr. Bailey, a former Seward res
ident, is here on business but
expects to return home in about
10 days. During their stay here
they are guests at the Van Gil
der hotel
Scene of the recent strike
in the Interior.
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CANTON, O., March 27. UP\—
Two physicians were burned seri
ously and a baby, of whom, an
X-ray picture was being taken,
was blown across the ooera tin ra
table at the Molly Stark TnK<n*_
culosis Sanitarium, by an exnlr>
sion of the film.
Ambulances and sur^eo >s
were rushed to the hosn!^1 •
employes of the Ohio Powjt Com
pany rushed t-o the hospita' wltt.
inhalator.
Hospital officials were reh
to give out any informatk
:
AGENT SUSPENDED
WASHINGTON, March 27. (.-?)—
Commissioner Doran said he
would suspend Chapman imme
diately; that press reports indi
cated Chapman was engaged in
a duel. “Duels are out of date "
seid Doran.
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BOOZE RAID
NEW YORK, March 27. (/P)~
Storming a Newark garage, 13
prohibition agents, armed with
1 guns and pistols, arrested 40 men
and seized 7,000 barrels of beer
and five truck-loads of the bever
age.
MOVING CHATEAU
PARIS, March 27. (JP)—W. J.
Quigley, decorator, living at Lake
Forrest, Illinois, has bought the
j Chateau Dampierre, in the de
partment of Aube, and will move
it piecemeal to Chicago, it is re
ported.
FOUND GUILTY
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, March
27. (JP)—Elmer Huckins, known as
the Ponzl of the middle west, was
found guilty of fraud in handling
the funds of his clients. He
faces a seven years’ prison sen
tence or $5,000 fine, or both.
AMONG BASEBALLERS
BRADENWOOD, Fla., March 27.
(-P)—Scoring a run in the thir
teenth inning, the St. Louis Na
tionals again defeated the Yan
kees, the score being 8 to 7. The
Boston Nationals won over De
troit, 5 to 4.
AN OPEN LETTER
OTTAWA, March 27. [IP]—R.
Percy Sharks, prominent in the
1926 customs probe, has written
an open letter to Premier Mac
Kenzie King, urging that a recip
rocal treaty be made with the
United States to curtail contra
band trade in silks, cigarettes and
other commodities.
MANSION TO BE SOLD
NEW YORK, March 27. (/Pi
Negotiations are under w'ay lor
the sale of the Riverside Drive
mansion of Charles M. Schwab,
steel millionaire, at the reputed
price of $300,000 yearly for 100
years- Plans have been made for
the erection of an apartment
house on the site.
MINERS PLANT GARDENS
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March
28. (#*)—Sixten hundred miner*
employed by a coal company will
compete this year in a better gar
dens and home surroundings con
gest
SEATTLE GIRL
| ATHLETE IS GIVEN
! GREAT RECEPTION
’WON MANY EVENTS IN FLORI
DA; WILL TRAIN FOR
OLYMPIC GAMES
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SEATTLE. March 28, (A1)—
Weeping tears of joy, Helene Mad
ison returned home from a ser
ies of great aquatic achievements
1 at Florida.
She flew here from Tacoma in
her first air ride and was met at j
the Seattle airport by 6,000 cheer, j
ing admirers who paraded thru j
the streets in the greatest recep
tion ever shown any athlete in
the history of Seattle.
Helene and her coach were the
guests of honor at a welcome ban
quet last night in the Civic Audit
| orium. She will continue to train |
for the Olympic games in 1932.
oio BiioToT
JULMN COMPANY BE
DELVED INTO, COURT
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LOL larch 28, (JP)—
That the grand jury will delve
far back into the records of the
Julian Petroleum Corporation deb
| acle, including the stock overissue
v'd stock po is revelations of 1927,;
which netted indictments against j
300 Los Angeles men, was the i
startling word from Hall of Jus-!
tice over shadowing the La vine |
Leon tine J oh n son extortion case
; and the more recent indictments i
charging jury bribery in the over-j
issue conspiracy trial of S. S. Lew-,
is, Jack Bennett, and others. The
latst trend of investigation is said j
to have as its purpose the clear- !
ing up of numerous questions In- J
volving bankers, brokers and at- j
| tomeys which have been put to I
District Attorney Fitts on numer- j
ous occasions since he assumed j
office.
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INDIAN GIRL ON TRIAL
| BUFFALO, N. Y., March 27. (IP)
\ —Lila Jimmerson, unlovely In
j dian girl, went on trial on the
! charge of being directly instru
! mental in the death of Mrs. Henri
Marchand, wife of the noted
sculptor. Miss Jimmerson is said
to have preyed on the supersti
tious fears of Nancy Bowen, an
old squaw, until the old woman
slew Mrs. Marchand.
| EXPORT DEBENTURE BATTLE LOOMS;
HOUSE CONFEREES MAY SETTLE FATE
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Representatives likely to be named conferees on the
export debenture’s inclusion in the tariff bill are J. W.
Collier (upper left), W. C. Hawley (upper right), A. T.
reTadway (center), Isaac Bacharach (lower left) and
J. N. Garner (lower right).
STUBBORN OPPOSITION
WASHINGTON, March 27. (JP)—
Senator George, Democrat, mem
ber of the senate foreign relations
committee, expressed the opinion
that the consultative pact as se
curity for France, which was men
tioned in connection with the
conference, would meet with «•+”’
born opposition in the senate.
PRISOfSIEfiS lies
CONVICTS OBJECTED TO THE
BRAND OF IRISH STEW
SERVED THEM
JEFFERSON CITY, March 23,
UP)—More than 3,000 of the 4,000 !
prisoners in the Missouri peni
tentiary wrent breakfastless as
the prison authorties began to I
put into a new regime of the;
strictest discipline and hard.boil- !
ed methods into effect following:
the two mutinies of the convicts, i
Warden Rudolph said that at!
the time of feeding the strikers
in their cells has not been deter- 1
mined but when fed will get the j
same kind of Irish stew to which !
more than 700 men objected to j
on Wednesday when the mutiny I
started.
LOS ANGELES, March 23. (JP)—
Complaints charging conspiracy to
smuggle aliens by airplane were
filed against five men by the
United States attorney's office.
They were arrested following the
forced landing of their tri-motored
plane near Imperial Valley. Tho^e
named include George E. Flaher
ty. wealthy owner of the plane,
and Harold Sweet and George
Gray, pilots:
PLENARY SESSION
LONDON, March 27. UP)—Chipf
delegates to the naval conference
decided to hold a plenarv ses*i'~"
April i, and expected the ou^
tion of some sort of a seon^*~
next from France would come im
then.
According to a report bright
and early this morning the S. S.
Starr, Capt. C. E. Anderson, of
the San Juan Fishing & Pack_
ing Company, was due to arrive
in port today from the Westward.
FIVE Min
BETTER FOOD AND WORKING
CONDITIONS DEMANDED;
FACTORIES CLOSE
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., March
27. (/P)—Approximately 500 con
victs in five factories inside the
Missouri penitentiary vent on
strike after 750 mutinied vester
day against the prison food.
The new outbreak re'nilW!
curtailment of operations of the
plants and about 900 prisoners
were sent back to their cells.
Demanding better food and bet
ter working conditions, the pris
oners a.uit work in two overall
plants, one pants factory and in
the chain and broom factory.
ALASKA PROPERTY REPORTED
UNDER BOND LEASE TO GEN
ERAL DEVELOPMENT CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 28. (£>)
Stockholders of the Crown Dredg
ing and Mining Company are re
ported to have ratified a bond and
lease to the General Development
Company of New York City, by
which the property of the company
is to be equipped with dredges and
the necessary machinery.
Back of the announcement of
President A. J. Baumbartner of the
corporation is hidden a plan for
the investment thru the New York
corporation of many new millions
of dollars in the development thru
huge and modern dredges of more
than 5,500 acres of gold-bearing
gravel on Birch creek, i. that part
of Alaska known, contemporarily,
as the Fairbanks-Tans up district.
Contracts for the manufacture of
dredges have been made. This new
enterprise is reagrded by mining
men as anepochal event in the re
covery of gold from points in Alas
ka where prospectors were active
before the discovery of go’d in the
famous Klondike district was ever
heard of. Mining engineers have
covered the vast terrain amounting
to seven and one-half miles on
Birch creek, Alaska. They have
found evidence of early-day pros
pecting by miners in the day of
pan and shovel and rock r, where
“flour” gold was found “from the
grass roots” down to bedrock at 15
feet.
Before President Baumgartner
and his associates in the Crown
Dredging and Mining Company
could enlist the support of new
capital, complete boring tests w'ere
made of the terrain by me most
competent engineers available. La
borious as were these undertakings,
the fact was proved that the
ground average of $1.42 per cubic
yard in gold—this to the complete
satisfaction of those owners of the
new capital funds which will pro
vide for a tremendous new devel
opment.
The General Development Com
pany is controlled by Adoloh Lew'
ishon & Son, prominently identifi
ed with the Miami Copper Compa
ny, Tennessee Copper Company
and in scientific gold dredging op
erations in Colombia, South Amer
ica.
It is estimated that there are 40,
000,000 cubic yards of gold-bearing
ground in the district held by the
Crown Corporation. Each dredge
to be placed on the property is to
cost not less than $300,000, and a
dredge is to be placed on every 10,
000,000 yards of gold-bearing
ground contained in the holdings
of the Crown Company.
Official and sample ballots for
the municipal election are now
in the hands of the local print
shop and will be delivered tomor
row afternoon.