THE COAST TERMI
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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 62.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
EXTENSION TO
SEWARD DOCK TO
BE IDE SHORTLY
FUTURE OF PORT OF SEWARD
EXTREMELY BRIGHT, COL.
OHLSON FEELS CONFIDENT
Work will commence shortly on
extending the Seward Dock, ac
cording to Col. Otto F. Ohlson,
general manager of the Alaska
Railroad, who was a brief visitor
here last week. It has just about
been decided to run the big dock
west another 100 feet and it is
thought a similar extension will
be made toward the east end;
Colonel Ohlson desires to have
ample berthing space for two or
more large steamers.
Referring to the breakwater, he
stated that he thought a small
one, as has been approved, would
be sufficient for the present needs
of small craft; that a breakwater
extending out from Lowell Point
would cost an enormous sum and
he doubted if at this time such
protection was needed for gov
ernment property; the dock. With
the natural growth of transporta
tion and Port of Seward business,
he feels the time will come when
the entire present dockage system
will have to be torn out and piers
built. Piers will give vessels all
the protection necessary from the
* elements, particularly from south
winds
Colonel unison, during the
course of his conversation, com
mented for a moment as to the
future of Seward. “Seward,” he
stated, “has, I believe, the finest
harbor in Alaska, and I look for
it to become Alaska’s greatest
seaport. You have every conceiv
able natural facility here to make
it the greatest and as the ocean
terminus of the government rail
road system, the near future
should bring many substantial
cha ages.
“The promotion of the reindeer
industry alone, which we are now
engaged non, with respect to
centering the activities along the
railroad belt. Nenana to Cant
well, will be a tremendously big
item in the future of this city.
Pic ns call for a lar re cold stor
age plant here for the carcasses,
and a huge warehouse and ship
ments to the states twice a
month- This forthcoming industry
for the railroad belt will involve
a sum of approximately $25,000,
000.
“The construction of the con
necting road link between your
highway with Moose Pass will
prove of great benefit to the city
of Seward as well as to the Al
aska Railroad. I am heartily in;
favor of construction of roads and
trails anyywhere in the Territory
where they are needed insofar as
the various road departments have
funds to carry forward such pro
jects.
“I also see a great future in our
air-lanes; it is a wonderfully ef-1
ficient way in which to journey
about the Territory; this I know
having, as you may recall, made;
an air voyage from Nome to Fair
banks. The air-view of Mount
McKinley from the west side was
gorgeous.”
Colonel Ohlson will probably re- j
tuurn to Seward in about a week
at which time further annouunce
ment as to local railroad activi
ties will be made.
MAY LEAVE SUNDAY
Capt. Eh-inie Berger, owner and
operator * the M. S. Discoverer,
who has been giving the vessel’s
engine another thorough over-1
hauling while awaiting favorable
weather to resume the season’s
operations, mail, passengers and
freights, between Seward and Cook
Inlet ports, expects to leave for
Seldovia and way ports Sunday.
MAY CLEAN HOUSE
WASHINGTON, March 19. (IP)—
Senator Pat Harrison plans to of
fer a resolution in the Senate
early next week requiring Senator
Grundy to remove from his Sen
ate offices persons not carried on
the rolls of the government. Sen
ator Grundy was charged with
permitting lobbyists to use his of
fice.
DEL MONTE, Calif., Mar. 19. {&)
—A combination of perfect team
work and superb mounts enabled
the noted Argentine poloists to j
defeat the Monterey peninsula j
All-Stars 16 to 8, in a colorful
game here. The match was play
ed before the largest gallery in
Del Monte’s polo history, many j
society folk and titled visitors
lending added color to the specta
cle.
Sill UPTON'S HEW
MGER REMIT SPOIL 14
BELFAST, Ireland, Mar. 19. (JP)
—B. A- Barbour, secretary of the
Royal Ulster Yacht Club, has an
nounced that work on Sir Thomas
Linton’s Shamrock Fifth was pro
gressing rapidly and that launch
ing of the challenger for the
America’s cup was expected April
14. The ceremony is to be per
formed by the Countess of Shaf
tesbury. Sir Thomas was elected
commodore of the club.
FACES MURDER CHARGE
G RIDLEY, Calif., Mar. 19. (A5)—
Augustine Araya, 50, muust face
the Superior Court on a charge of
assault to committing murder fol
lowing an alleged attack on his
stepson, 33, with a knife during
an altercation. Complaint was
sworn by William Alexander Kind
er, sheriff of this county.
WIND BAFFLES LINDY
CARMEL, Calif., Mar. 19. (j£F)—
Colonel Charles Lindbergh glided
four miles in a flickering wind in
his glider above the Carmel hills.
He alighted after a narrow escape
from collision with telephone
wares. The wind again baffled him
in his attempt at a long distance
flight.
REFUSE EAT SPUDS
BELFAST, Mar. 19. (IP)—Refusal
of English women to eat pota- i
toes in order to preserve their
figures was charged by Sir Ed
ward Archdale, minister of agri- j
culture, as a reason for the slump
in the market of the Irish prod- j
uct.
DR. AVERILL PASSES
The many local and Territorial
friends of Mrs- H. W. Averill, who,'
with her children Warren and
Evelyn, recently left for Seattle,
will be sorry to learn of the death
of Dr. Averill at Burn’s Lake, B. i
C., on February 28; death was
caused from hemmorages from an
ulcerated stomach. Dr. Averill
was bom in Butte, Montana and
was 43 years of age. He was
quite an oldtimer in Alaska, hav- j
ing traveled the trails since 1906.
Members will please take notice,:
that the time for the beginning
of the meeting of Resurrection
Lodge No. A-7, I. O. O. F. Thurs
i day evening, March 20, has been
advanced one hour, and for that
meeting only The gavel will fall
at 7 p. m. sharp.
Mrs. Geyer, wife of Sergeant
Geyer who was recently transferr
ed to the Juneau office of the
Signal Corps, and daughter June,
are planning to leave Seward Sat
urday for the Southeastern Alaska
city.
WASHINGTON, March 19. (/P)
After hearing the exchange of
views, and Chairman Huston, of j
the Republican National commit- j
tee, of the row among its mem- !
bers, the Senate lobby committee
issued a subpoena to obtain from j
the New York brokerage firm of |
Blythe and Bonner records of the
$31,000 deposit it made last year
by Huston.
He objected strenuously to the
committee action and character
ence in his personal affairs. He
said he collected the money from
the Union Carbide Company which
was to get part of Muuscle Shoals |
Power if the bid of the American
Cyanamid Company was accepted.
MORE AVIATION MONEY
LONDON, Mar. 19- {A1)—Lord
Thomas, secretary of state for
aviation, announced additional ex
penditures of $4,450,000 on the air
force, bringing the total to $89,
250,000, compared with $84,000,000
last year.
CANNES, France, Mar. 19. {IP)—
William Tilden believes he has un
earthed the future tennis cham
pion of the world in the diminu
tive person of 12-year-oid Etienne
Van Der Eerg, the son of the
Dutch professional of the Hotel
California C ub. Tilden was so
impressed with the boy’s play that
he has been devoting hours daily
training him and will enter han
dicap events in the most import
ant tournaments with him.
OH, PRODUCTION CUT
LCS ANGELES, Mar. 19. (TP)—Oil
production in California has been
cut to 644,464 barrels at the end
of the first 10 das of state-wide
curtailment. This is within a
small fraction of the 600,000-bar
rel production ordered.
BE BEASY ON RELIGION
MOSCOW, Mar. 19 (/P)—'The dis
position of the government to
soften its blows against religion is
seen in an editorial in the Erver
tia, an official paper which says
the use of violence must cease
and action taken only in accord
ance with the will of the major
ity.
ALL OPPOSE IT
WASHINGTON, March 19. (IP)— j
Opening debate on “book censor
'ship” in a section of the tariff
bill, Senator Cutting said practi
cally all educators in the country
opposed the present system and,
urged the Sentae to adhere to the i
decision to repeal the censorship I
section.
ON THE VERGE OF DEATH
LONDON, Mar. 19. (/P)—Lord
four, noted British statesman, now
82 years of age, is reported by his
physicians to be seriously ill.
_
J. Frank Calbreath, pioneer trad
er and pack-train owner of Tele
graph Creek, B. C., succumbed to a
long illness which ended in a par
alytic stroke Feb. 6, according
to his partner, John Morrison, who
arrived in Wrangell a short time
ago from Seattle.
After spending the better part o
the fifth round on the mat for five
seperate counts and ending the
frame sitting on the bottom rope,
Red Campbell lost the main event
in the American Legion smoker at
Juneau to Joe Collier in a technical
knockout.
loin mm is |
lUTKlZED TO SELL I
OLYMPIA, Mar. 19. (&)—'The
Lomen Reindeer Company was
authorized to sell $400,000 worth I
of stock, by Charles Bowen, State |
Blue Sky law supervisor; 40,000
shares will be sold at $10 par in
order to gain the public good will
and interest.
The outstanding stock of 200,
000 has been sold to the Inter
state Sales Publicity Company,
one of the Lomen operating com
panies, at $7 50 a share.
IN KILLED 9) DID
if BEEN (LUSKIN
SEATTLE, Mar. 19. (/P)—An un-!
identified man, who carried $90
wrapped around his leg, died in
the city hospital after being struck
by a car driven by W. B. Talking
ton.
The man’s hat bore a Fairbanks j
store trademark; his spectacles
came from a Seattle optician. I
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SUBMARINE LAUNCHED
VALLEJO, Calif., Mar. 19. (/P)_
Wtih Governor Young and many
others of official standing attend
ing, the V-6, the most up-to-date
submarine in the United States
Navy, was launched from the Mare
Island Navy yard.
DIAMOND ROBBERY
WICHITA, Kansas, Mar. 19. (/P)_
A robber held up H. W. Resnick,
one of the proprietors of the Gold
en Diamond Company in the
caped with diamonds and other
downtown district here and es
jewelry valued at $20,000.
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VIA THE HEMP NECKTIE
j SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calif.. !
Mar. 19. CP)—Alphonse Reilly, Los
s Angeles murderer, for whom a
state-wide appeal was made at
the last moment, on the ground of '
insanity, was hanged here. He
faced the noose bravely.
Douglas high school girls’ has- •
; ke: b dl team by winning basket- i
; ball title for three years straight. !
I have won the championship tro- t
phy presented by Goldstein’s Em- !
porium; permanent ownership.
BEER RUNNERS AT WAR
NEW YORK, Mar. 19. (/P)—Gang j
! warfare between rival factions of j
beer runners resulted in the
shooting to death of William:
I Simpson and Harry Engel. .
BODIES AIRMEN FOUND
PARIS, Mar. 19. (/P)—A Brussels
dispatch to the Intransigent says
the bodies of the three French
airmen who left Madagascar last
January for Paris have been found
beside their wrecked plane in the
Belgian Congo.. They were last
seen fighting high winds. They
were found in the Pret Kasar
forest.
Alaska coal mines has the low
est accident record of any field
in the United States. Only two
fatal accidents have occurred in
a decade.
MORE EXPLORING
LONDON, March 19. (/P)—Com
mander Frank Worsley, a member
of the Shackleton Expedition, is
to lead another Antarctic expedi
tion, according to press reports.
DEFEATS CHAMPS
f MIAMI, Fla., Mar. 19. (A5)—The
Boston Braves, although held to
six hits, turned back the world’s
champion Athletics 3 to 2. The
St. Louis Americans downed Buf
falo 10 to 5 and Washington trim
med New Orleans 15 to 1 in other
exhibition games.
STILL IN LUMBER MILL
PORTERVILLE, Calif., Mar. 19.
(/P)—The Dillon Lumber Mill in
the high Sierras east of here,
long silent and apparently de
serted, became suddenly imbued
with life when Sheriff R. L. Hill
arrested two men and seized a
large still. A large quantity of
mash and liquor was also confis
cated.
AEMil SQUADRON
ESCORT S: S: ALASKA
SEATTLE, March 19, (JP)—'Ten
planes will form an aerial escort
for the S. S. Alaska to her pier
when she arrives in Puget Sound
bearing the bodies of Colonel
Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Bor
land, this weekend.
1 Elaborate ceremonies are plann
i ed which include Marion Swen
| son as one of the speakers at the
I eulogistic ceremony in the Cham
ber of Commerce auditorium the
i day the steamer arrives.
QUEEN VISITS SALOON
LONDON, Mar. 19. (/P)—Queen
; Mary visited a London saloon, the
Anchor Inn, and -chatted with the
| men standing at the bar. The
i place is in the slum district of
| North Central London.
Alaska commodities shipped to
the States during February were
valued at $1,496,892, according to
the monthly statement of Com
merce issued by district headquar
ters of the United States Cus
toms, at Juneau. This was $270,- 1
071 in excess of the outgoing com
merce of the Territory for the;
same month last year.
Copper ore. heading the list in
value with shipments worth $469.
326 made the largest gain—$154 -
830. H libut was next, the total
for the month being $142,426, a
ain of $71,263. Gold and silver
shipments for the month were val
ued at $233,035, which was $53,500
larger than in February, 1929.
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* POWER NOTICE *
* Electric power will be off *
* tomorrow from 9:30 to 11 a. m. *
* providing weather conditions *
* are favorable to repairs.
* S. L. & P. CO. *
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STORMY DEBATE
WASHINGTON, March 19. (JP)— j
The cross-examination of Claudius (
Huston, chairman of the Repub-1
. lican national committee, by the i
Senate lobby committee ended in!
; a stormy debate as he and Sen- j
ator Blaine clashed over his right;
! to file a statement and the ne- j
; cessity for producing records on
Muscle Shoals lobbying.
NEW SYSTEM TAKE-OFF
SYDNEY, Australia, Mar. 19. (/P)
—Captain Charles Kingford Smith,
startled aviation circles here byj
taking off from the center of a |
forest by tying the tail of his air- j
plane to a tree and releasing the
machine after the engines, going i
full blast, had lifted the nose of j
the plane into the air.
ARRIVED AND LEFT
j The delayed passenger train
from the North which arrived
at 12:30, was expected to leave
for Anchorage at 1:30 p. m.
TEMPTING TO DEMPSEY
ST. LOUIS, Mar. 19. (/P)—Mique
Melloy, Chicago fight promoter,
j announced he will offer a purse
of $1,000,000 for a fight between
Jack Dempsey and Primo Camera
if Camera wins his next figh't.
jHe said Dempsey is considering
the offer.
BANDITS 1
CIA KILL
SHANGHAI, Mar. 19. (£>)—Ban
: dits, say delayed Chinese reports
! received, attacked and captured
j’Fuan town in central Kiangsi
i Province killing all of the Fuan
officials and 2,000 men, women,
j and children, early this month,
j After slaying the populace they
looted the town, carrying the
' plunder into the mountains in
western Kiangsi.
The outrage was reported by a
Magistrate at Kianfu, near Fuan,
who said the people were paralyz
i ed with fear and afraid to further
! oppose the bandits who are depict
picted as subjecting the Kiangsi
Province to a merciless deluge of
robberies and wholesale killings.
SEARCH FOB 10ST
AIRMAIL PILOT SMS
SALT LAKE CITY, Mar. 19- (/P>
t—An intensive search for Maurice
j Graham, Western Ah* Express
j pilot, missing since January 10,
when he was lost in a snowstorm
en route from Las Vegas, Nevada,
to this city, will be started next
week by the Post Office depart
ment, it was announced here to
day by Charles F. Dutton, inspec
tor in charge of the Salt Lake
office.
Four scientists will be used by
the United States Bureau of Fish
eries in field investigations in Al
aska waters during the current
year, studying different branches
of the fisheries industry
commissioner Henry O’Malley,
head of the bureau, will inspect all
of the fishing areas between Ber
ing Sea and Dixon Entrance this
' summer. He will arrive in Alaska
early in June, and remain until
the end of the fishing season.
Three of the scientists working:
in the Territory will continue stu
dies of the salmon industry. Dr.
Fred A. Davidson will resume his
studies of the pink salmon, which
he began in 1929, confining his in
‘ vestigation to Southeast Alaska,
i Dr. Willis Rich, in general charge
j of the bureau’s scientific work in
, Alaska, will go to the Karluk
| area for a continuation of the red
j salmon investigations. The red
; salmon studies, so far as confined
| to the east side of the Alaska
| peninsula, will be extended this
; season to the west, or Bristol Bay
side. The work in that district
will be under the direction of Dr.
Alan C. Taft.
G. A. Rounsefel, who for several
years has been studying the her
! ring fisheries, extending his cb
| servations two years ago to South
i feast Alaska, will be in this field
j again during the current season.
EVANS IN AT 10:30
The Admiral Evans, of the Pa
cific Steamship Co., is expected
to arrive in port tonight at 10:30.
With plans of opening a large
tourist resort at Goddard, Alaska,
to be ready for the coming sum
mer season, Capt. W. G. Dare,
William Hood, Ralph Emerson and
Bob Wyel are bound for Sitka.
MERE POCKETFUL
WASHINGTON, March 19, (/P)—
The treasury revealed that on
March 12, the nation’s balance
stood at $665,231, the lowest level
within the memory of the oldest
treasury employee.
“On Vacation” Thursday and Friday