Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 209.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
SATURDAY, ANGUST 16. 1930.
PRICE TEN CEN'iC!
Veteran Newspaper
Writer In Alaska
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ALASKA DOES NOT NEED BOOMERS OR VISION-;
ARY GET-RICH-QUICK MEN BUT DOES NEED
PERMANENT HOME-MAKING POPULATION
BUSINESS FOR BUSINESS MEN—WORK FOR1
EVERY WORKING MAN—SCHOOLS AND THE
HOMES FILLED WITH CHILDREN.
Frank A. Harrison, veteran newspaper writer and
former Washington correspondent, is here from his
home at Alhambra, Calif., to get impressions of Alaska
for future articles and lecture work. He has been in the
Interior for three weeks, having gone up to Fairbanks
by rail, and north from there through the nearby mining
district by stage. Coming back to the coast he has stop
ped over at various points for a study of local conditions.
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NEW LID IS
DISCOVERED II IRE
ARM SOVIETS
RUSSIAN FLAG PLANTED ON
NEW SOIL NORTH OF THE
SIBERIAN COAST
y MOSCOW. Aug.. 16, (/Pt— An
Arctic expedition formed by Sov
iet scientists, on the icebreaker
Sedov, radioed that they had
discovered new land at 79.2 de
grees latitude and 76.10 longi
tude.
The message said that the land
extended great distances west
ward.
The expedition expects to plant
the Soviet flag on the new soil.
The position of the land is given
( as high in the Arctic Ocean
off the north coast of Siberia and
lying about 200 miles north of
Yen Exisei Bay.
MEMBER OF COUNCIL DROPPED
DEAD WHILE WATCHING
MOORING
CARDINGTON, England, Aug.,
16. UP)—Through terrific storms
which thoroughly tested her met
al, the British dirigible R-iQO
completed her round-trip voyage
to Canada and is moored safely
at the home mast. The dirigible
arrived at 6:92 a. m. Eastern
Standard time.
The Atlantic Ocean crossing
was made in 57 hours with a
speed up to 92 miles an hour at
times but when headwinds buf
fered her she was forced to 12
* to 15 miles and hour.
Edward Lill, Chipping council
member, dorpped dead while he
was watching the crew tie the
dirigible to the mast.
Passengers said the ship rode
^through the 5 mile gale with no
discomfort.
CUT FROM ONE PATTERN
“I have been much interested
in hte scenery and conditions in
Alaska,” said Mr. Harrison. “This
is my first trip North. Heretofore
my newspaper travels have all
been in the Latin-American
countries.
“We get very little information
about Alaska in the States. The
steamship companies have some
attractive folders, but the aver
age citizen never sees the inside
of a steamship office until he goes
in to buy a ticket somewhere.
“You have a curious sort of ad
vertising campaign adverse to
your interests up here. We read
many attractive books about Alas
ka in the States, all fiction of
the Rex Eeach-Curwood-Marshall
sort, describing only sensational
struggles for life in a deesperate
winter country.
“Like detective stories, these
Alaska romances are all cut from
one pattern. The hero and a com
panion are battling across the
frozen wilds, with the snow 20
feet deep. Their sledge breaks
down, their dogs eat each other,
they run out of matches, and only
have one cartridge. The compan
ion becomes snow-blind and ex
hausted. He refuses to go further
and begs our hero to go on and
leave him to his fate.
“But Alaska heroes, in books at
least, are made of stern stuff. I
iThis one always shoulders the fal- J
len man and carries him two or
! three days and nights, wading
1 through snow shoulder deep* and
i subsisting entirely on rawhide
straps. Finally he arrives at some j
trapper’s cabin, falls in a heap j
against the door, is pulled inside j
by the trapper and revived with
hot tea. Between them they thaw j
out the helpless comrade, "who of i
course turns out to be a woman. J
She is up there to re-locate a j
bonanza mine which her father j
had discovered 20 years before.
The mine turns out to be about:
100 yards from the trapper’s cab- :
in, for convenience, and after
chasing off two or three villains j
| who arrive the next day, they
| scoop the gold out of the mine
and live happy ever afterward.
WRONG SORT OF GUFF
“That is the sort of guff v/e get j
about Alaska. Never a word about j
! the wonderful gardens and flow- !
ers, the grass four feet high, the j
abundance of potatoes, celery, \
cabbages, turnips, lettuce and!
parsnips; the strawberries, blue
berries and raspberries to be had;
(Continued Page 5)
ENMTE III SE1ID
SEATTLE, Aug., 16, (/P)—Chas.
P. Sisson, Assistant United States
Attorney General, sat in on the
Lyle trail here yeesterday.
He is leaving today for Seward
on an inspection tour.
Judge Cecil Clegg, of the 4th
Division, who came to Seattle to
confer with Mr. Sisson, was also
among the ^spectators.
ileutmlT
FOR NORTH WITH
EXCELLENT LIST
NUMBER OF ALASKANS NOTED
ABOARD BIG A. S. S. CO.,
LINER
SEATTLE Aug., 16. (/TP)—1The SS
Aleutian, of the A. S. S. C.. sail
ed from here this morning at 9
with 173 passengers for Alaska.
Fifty-six are for Seward as fol
low's :
Mrs. J. D. Harlan and two daugh
ters. Ellen C. Giarbe, H. M. Graeff.
J. J. Chisholm. Mrs. F. Hunt. Mrs.
M. S. Banbury, Mrs. M. M. Weltyin
and two children, Mr. and Mrs. H.
L- Thume, Mr. and Mrst R. L. Wil
bur, ,J. S. Burlew. E. K. Burlew, Miss
S. McCormack, Mrs. L. J. Hanson.
A. Granville, Rev. and Mrs. John
Bentley, Geo. Gallety, Mr. and Mrs
' °'herwin and child. Mrs. J
Pierce, F. Berg, Mrs. R. F. Swatz, J.
1 Hare, J. R. Hoffman, Mr. and
Mrs. D. E. Taylor, Mrs. Chas. Case,
Mrs. 3. Falls, Roy Sterns, T. H.
0. C. Maguire, Mrs. C- C. Maguire,
V. E. Schrolled, Mrs. F. Aden, Mr.
' Mrs A Martin, Mr and Mrs. C
E. Maguire, Miss Anna Hopkins,
Miss M. Holman, Miss M. Kali. Miss
' ■'Hsher, Miss M. Moffett, Mrs. J.
Clyman, Mrs. Etta Tracy, Marcelle
Cormier, Tom Harry. Mrs. F. Jar
lin and son, and five steerage.
MONUMENT UNVEILED
LONDON, Aug. 16. (IP)—A monu
ment commemorating the trans
Atlantic flight of Amelia Earhart
was unveiled at Barryport, Wales,
the place where her plane landed.
At an altitude of 6,000 feet,
the sky-riding firm of Dorbandt
and Cope, soared over the city
today—another hovering eagle.
They arrived in Seward from An
chorage in nothing flat, having
magnificent flying weather.
Tom Leach, Ht*,e miner, was
taken home from Anchorage and
so, having come that far, the
partners figured they might as
well come to Seward for the day
and take local folks up for a ride.
A few moments after coming
ashore Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bolam
and D. C. Brownell expressed
a desire to go aloft. Undoubted
ly, there will be many others
go up before Dorbandt and Cope
take-off for Anchorage.
REACH AGREEMENT
BERLIN, Aug. 16- (/P)—German
and American talking picture com
panies have reched an agreement,
whereby the Americans are given I
the right to import 210 pictures j
during the next 12 months.
GOVERNMENT WITNESS ON THE
STAND SAYS LYLE TOOK
S5O0
SEATTLE, Aug., 16. (/P>—Nattily
dressed and with a half-smile
on his lips, A1 Hubbard, who is
said to have acted as both a rum
runner and a government agent,
accused Whitney of accepting a
bribe of S500 before he (Hubbard)
we suppose, became a dry agent in
1925.
He had been building a radio
recieving transmitting apparatus,
he said, when he first met Olm
sted; he built Olmsted a trans
mitter.
Whitney telephoned him short
ly after he had installed the ra
dio in Olmsted’s home and asked
him about Olmsted’s bootlegging
activities. He refused to deal with
Whitney.
Two weeks later the prohibition
office galled again and asked
about Olmsted. Again he refused
and soon afterward Olmsted s
heme was raided and Hubbard
and others arrested.
Then Olmsted supplied him with
money for his radio activities.
Hubbard filed a $50,000 damage
suit against Lyle for false arrest.
Whitney promised him an ap
pointment as a dry agent if he
would dismiss the damage suit.
After two months of connect
ion with the prohibition bureau,
he said he gave Whitney $500 in
cash and a radio set to “fix"
charges against bootleggers.
Olmstead supplied the money
and the radio and was very much
pleased when Hubbard reported
he had taken the bribe.
W. C. T. U. ANTI-SALOON AS- I
SOCIATION AND OTHERS
ASKED FOR MONEY
SEATTLE, Aug., 16, (JP)—A1 Hub
bard will be recalled Monday to
the stand to resume his testimo
ny relative to alleged collection of,
money and its distribution for j
protection as an intermediary be- i
tween rum runnars and prohibi-'
tion chiefs.
Hubbard yesterday testified that1
he had turned over thousands of i
dollars to the former prohibition j
chiefs during Olmsted’s heyday.
Hubbard said he had received a
contribution of $6,000 from Olm
sted and others for the 1926 sen
atorial campaign and testified he
also collected $250 from Olmsted
at the request of Whitney who
told him Lyle was “being pressed
all the time for contributions j
from the W. C. T. U., anti-saloon
league and other such organiza-1
tions” and any help will be ap-1
predated.
FINALS
SOUTHAMPTON, N- Y. Aug. 16.
(A5)—Sydney Wood, Jr., and Wilmer
Allison will meet in the finals of;
the Southampton Tennis Singles
Tournament. Woods defeated the
aggresive player Shields while Alii- j
son defeated Frank Hunter in the j
semi-finals.
EDITORIAL
JAZZING A NATION
Time was when the dance hall,
gambling hall, honky-tonk and
kindred concommitants to a fron
tier boom were frowned upon by
the elite of the older centers of
civilization as being the last word
in vulgarity and license. If any
one cared to scan the pages of
recent history he could discover
foresic broadsides, delivered by
preacher and layman, pointing
with horror and alarm at the
pace being set, and predicting the
ultimate damnation of dance hall
ess, bamglerees, honky-tonkees,,
etc., etc.
If these pastimes of frontier
society had no other valuable ef
fect they at least gave a number
of able-bdied men and women an
excuse for shirking manual labor
and afforded them linen and fine
raiment, while lecturing on the
evils of the day.
One of the essential stimulants
to the old-time saloon, gambling
house and dance hall was jazzy,
spirited music. The ivorv-pawer
who injected something sentimen
tal, smattering of “The Old Oak
en Bucket’’ or “Carry Me Back to
O’d Virginy” received his pinch
of change at the end of the shift
and was told to go wash dishes
for the Chink restauranteer.
Yet at this late date of science
and modern invention, plus fours,
golf and bootleg whiskey we find
the very advocates of suppression
of frontier temperament not only
stealing the wild and wooly west
ern stage setting and props, but
legitimizing it as one of the es
sentials to prosperity and business
success. What with the radio, jazz,
high-pressure ballyhoo, all greet
ed to instill a sense of reckless
ness into the masses, cause them
to abandon the time-honored
philosophy of frugality and decor
um, the average old-time dance
hall caller or circus ballyhoo man
would look like a man trying to
shove a nickel into a pot when
Dawson was young and the cefT
ing was the limit.
The nation has been jazzed
into so much pep that the old
style tobasco and cayenne pep
per has about a§ much sting as
a drink of good Bourbon after
three fingers of the stuff that has
replaced a temperance advocate’s
periodical snort.
Now that the hysterical de
bauch of buying beyond one’s
means, satiating the system with
thrills, super-thrills, and the na
tion begins to arrive at the morn
ing after* and reaches for the wa
ter pitcher and a John Collins, it
will be interesting to see what the
toll will be.
Whatever might be said, the
ills following the old frontier
days were minor compared to
those following the stealing of
the wild man’s playthings. It has
been like giving a six-year-old a
six-shooter and allowing him to
learn to use it.
Summed up, it appears that
everything todate has ended as
it did during the days when men
tilted their poke onto the bar.
The dealer of the game lias the
bank roll and the man who tilted
the poke has the experience.
PAID $11,000 FOR JOB
NEW YORK, Aug. 16. (/P)— Dis
trict Attorney ordered a Grand Jury
investigation of charges that Geo
Ewald, magistrate, bought his job
from Tammany bosses for $11,000
Mrs. Ewald testified but instead
the $10,000 she gave Martin Healy,
Tammany leader, about the time
her husband was appointed to the
bench constituted a personal loan.