Seward Daily Gateway
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YOU ME XV. NUMBER 148.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
SATURDAY,
JUNE 28,
1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BUREAUCRATIC JEALOUSIES
A few illuminating facts have
come to light in connection with
the efforts last winter to utilize
beaver as a means of relieving dis
tress of a large number of men,
who, in the absence of other winter
employment, were forced to turn j
the trap line. The situation, as j
presented at that time, pictured ,
these men returning from the hills ;
penniless and compelled to remain ■
idle several months before work
was available. The picture was not
overdrawn; rather it was minimiz- i
ad, for owing to unavailable funds,
the Alaska Railroad was compelled
to lay off a large number of men j
this month and await the fiscal
year. July 1. before maintaining j
full labor crews.
This was tne situation pointed j
out to the Alaska Game Commis
sion. Time has given proof.
Now for the efforts of that un
workable body, to stultify itself in
its adamant stand against public
opinion and What
ever the cause for refusing to heed
the petition of commercial bodies
and organizations of trappers
(which, it may be pointed out par
«enthetically, include many men
forced to the trap line as an exped
iency against want) it now crops
out that actual chicanery on the
part of members of the Game Com
mission was practiced in Washing
k ton to thwart those who had a bet
ter conception and understanding
of Alaskan needs than an organiza
tion whose knowledge of legislation
is more academic than practical,
and which has been experimenting
at the expense of the people since
its creation—a sort of school in
political economy
It will be recalled that at the time
# the Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce passed a resolution request
ing the Bureau of Biological Survey
to open the season on beaver. Mr.
Charles H. Flory, who is delegated
the difficult labor of injecting elas
ticity into red tape bound bureau
adjuncts in Alaska, or in other
words, co-ordinator of bureau
functions, was present at the meet
ing. The records in the case show
*hat Mr. Flory, before taking the
matter to the Biological Survey,
held a personal conference with the
Ciiairman of the Game Commis
sion. Tnose in a position to know
say Mr. Flory expressed it as his
opinion that the matter warranted
“serious consideration’. This was
^ as far as he could go in the peculiar
diplomacy that hedges prerogatives
of these organizations. Being assur
ed that his viewpoint was shared
and that anything a member of the
commission, then in Washinkton
did in the premises would meet the
acquiescence of other members
Mr Flory proceeded to reiterate hij
oosition in a cablegram to the
effect that “the matter be giver
serious consideration”, indicating
that his close personal contact witt
the subject matter had molded hi:
viewpoint to that of popular opin
ion. In some manner the wore
reached Washington that Mr. Flon
had “approved” the opening of th<
season. This evoked a cablegran
from the chief of the Biologica
* Survey asking Mr. Flory “who gav<
him the authority to approve?”
Then, according to a letter fron
the delegate to Congress, chief o
the Biological Survey, Dr. Pau
Reddington and Mr. Terhune, :
member of the Game Commission
anpeared in the delegate s offic
and stated that Mr. Flory had dis
approved of the matter.
Thus Mr. Flory was nominatei
:oTr membership in the Alaskai
branch of the Ananias Club. Bein
a man of impeccable character, en
SOLO FLIGHT NEXT
MELBOURNE, June 28. (/P>—
Kingsford-Smith, talking over the
wireless telephone from New York ;
to his fiancee in Australia, said j
he intended to leave from England j
soon, probably toward the end of
July, on a solo flight to Australia
in a light plane in an attempt to
beat Bert Hinkler’s record.
SEWARD DENTIST AND FAMI
LY, MISS SYLVIA SANDBEK,
ARE PASSENGERS
SEATTLE, June 28, The S.
S. Yukon, of the A. S. S. Co., left
Seattle this morning for Alaska
with 418 passengers on board of
which 26 are for Seward:
C. A. Holt. Mr. and Mrs. Harry
"UT and two children, Sylvia
Sandbeck, Dr. A. R. Roberts, Mrs.
Roberts and son, F. Lay, S. M.
Shaw, Mrs. S. Swanson and son.
Sam Shaw, John Dukovich. Mr.
and Mrs. W. G. Eastman, Miss
Tracy. Mrs. Haggard and son,
Dr. F. L. Tracy, Mr. and Mrs. G.
W. Albright, Miss G. Doran. Mr.
and Mrs. VVeshan Mantel. C. F.
Lane.
THREE WAR FRONTS
SHANGHAI, June 28, (/P)—Nat
ionalist military dispatches claimed
success in fighting on all three war
fronts.
trusted with a high and difficult
office, known thruout Alaska for
his conservatism, yet enjoying the
faculty for giving the purely hu
man touch in his contact with the
public, a storm of protest arose
against admitting him to the Liars’
Club, whose constitution and by
laws'calls for real liars and admits
no novices or pretenders.
The problem confronting the
Ananias Club is just who is eligible
to the honor of membership in ’the
present instance. It has been prov
en conclusively it is not Mr. Floiy.
It is a sad commentary on gov
ernmental efficiency when the
various ramifications of what has
become a cumbersome and un
workable system fall to squabbling
over prerogatives and precedents.
I if Mr. Flory was sent to Alaska to
effect reform in what has become
an irksome and inelastic system
standing in the way or real pro
gress, it is evident that he is held in
high esteem by those responsible
: for his appointment. As such, there
| is no better authority or adviser
than he in such matters as the fur
'question. If this is not true, it would
be difficult to determine just what
1 his mission in Alaska is. To Alas
kans it presages progress, and un
: !der this inference, the people of the
1 'Territory are willing to co-operate
1 i with him in every manner, having
' confidence that his judgment wil
[ survive that of the small fry whe
r have kept the heads of depart
• ments and Congress in ignorance
L of facts, if not actually qualifying
l for th Ananias Club in combating
> those men who are sincerely en
deavoring to accomplish some
r thing.
f in his work of survey of the need:
1 of the Territory, Mr. Flory is no'
1 .gathering arm chair information
, jas has been the practice of sucl
i organizations as the Alaska Gam:
-1 Commission. He is mingling witl
jthe masses, giving an attentive ear
1 to the recommendations and criti
i cisms, then, like the miner, pannini
I j out the logic and discarding th'
- visionary.
I
ROME, June 28, (AJ>—The coun- !
cil of ministers and Premier Mus- !
solini, the presiding officer, took
up national defense problems.
He issued a statement saying
this action has been taken be
cause of France’s preparations to
ward fortifying her frontier.
In order to raise money for de
fense the ministers, on the Duce’s
recommendation, decided to raise
the tax on exchange transactions.
They plan to increase the bud
get in this manner for an armed
force of more than 26,000,000.
Mrs. Paul Bcran, who has been
the house guest of Miss Sylvia
Sexton for the last few days, de
parted today for her home at An
chorage.
soman listing
The local list of reservations
on the Steamer Aleutian for the
south included the following:
SEATTLE—J. R. Russell, Mrs.
Elsie McAuley, C. R. Waynick,
IE. H. Proudman, Mrs. F. Keil. H.
P. Ford, W. W. French. Herbert
Horn, B. W. Brereton, H. J. Brer
eton, John Elias Edwards, J. J.
11reland, Mrs. Ireland. John Ire
land. S. R. Twona, George Tre
dale, T. McDonough, J. H. Rhrne
hart, B. Perkins.
CORDOVA—Harold Wilkins. W.
J. Wagner. H. P Sullivan, Olaf
Christensen. Mike Thompson, B.
Thompson, Pete Nelson, H. Han
sen. M. D. Williams, Carl Way.
John H. Paluse, W. A. Lindquist,
George Lindquist.
JUNEAU—A. E. Wick. Frank
Avery, R. . Mize, H. S. Webster.
LATOUCHE—Zella M. Crawford,
Grace Warrinser, G. Petroff, Jack
I Satton, Wm. Duvall.
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RETURNING WEDNESDAY
; M. D. Williams, head of the
Bureau of Public Roads, Alaska,
district, left yesterday for Cordo
va. Mr. Williams returns Wed
nesday to continue reconnaissance
; work on the “Missing Link” road
| which will connect up the Sew
ard-Kenai Lake Highway with
I the Moose Pass Highway, two of
jthe most outstanding roads in the
Territory.
YESTERDAY'S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 4; Washington 6.
St. Louis 8-3; Philadelphia 2-8.
Chicago at Boston postponed on
account of rain.
1 Cleveland 11; New York 7. Ruth
made his 27th homer.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 9; St Louis 4.
Pittsburgh 6; Philadelphia 4.
Cincinnati 7; Boston 6.
Brooklyn 5; Chicago 7. Guylen
made a homer in the 10th inning
’ which put Chicago one game be
' hind the League leading Robins.
’ ■ PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
I * Los Angeles 8; Seattle 7; 12 in
? jnings.
II Sacramento 2; Hollywood 8.
> Oakland 3; Missons 11.
San Francisco 9; Portland 10; 1<
l innings.
J j Los Angeles ousted Sacrament<
lead of league.
DIFFERENT FIGHTING SHIP
WASHINGTON, June 28, UP)—
Plans for a drastically different
hydrid fighting ship are occupying
the Navy’s designers. It would be
a combination cruiser and aircraft
carrier, capable of engaging in a
running battle as well as launching
more than two dozen airplanes for j
scouting or combat.
BERLIN, June 26, (IP)—Trans- i
Atlantic air passengers of the fu
ture may ride at an altitude of 40,- ti
000 feet at a speed beyond present
conception in a rocket plane driven i
by a combination of liquid air and
liquid fuel.
Such is the prediction of Dr. Paul
Heylandt, German authority on liq
uid gases, who estimates a rocket
plane could fly from Berlin to New
| York in from six to eight hours.
“Our tests with the rocket car
designed by Max Valier have dem
onstrated that the combination of
| pure liquid oxygen with liquid fuel,
isuch as alcohol, gasoline, or fuel
! oil, produces a continuous recoil
! power with which much greater
1 speeds can be obtained than with
any airplane motor yet devised”,
Dr. Heylandt told the Associated
Press.
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lOPPEB CUBTSILF.D
i south mm
LONDON, June 26, (ff)—In the
Legislative assembly of Northern
Rhodesia, questions were asked re
cently as to the degree in which
American financial influence pre
vailed in the copper field.
It was pointed out that the
neighboring Katanga copper group
by reason of its association with
American interest in the copper
cartel,’ had limited its output.
BOXING LICENSE REVOKED
PHILADELPHIA, June 28, (/P>—
George Godfrey, the giant negro,
who fouled Primo Camera, the
“Ambling Ape”, in the fifth round,
lost his license as a boxer. In ad
dition to revoking his license per
manently, the Pennsylvania Ath
letic Commission allowed him only
$5,000 for the bout.
HER ADDS TO WEIS
j ALTOONA, Pa., June 25, (JP)—
|Billy Arnold of Chicago, winner of
the Indianapolis Memorial Day
Race, added the 200-mile Altoona
Irace to his laurels, traveling at an
average of 115 miles per hour, to
| lead the field by about four miles.
! Deacon Litz, DuBois, Pennsylva
nia, was second and Frank Farmer,
Philadelphia, drove the late Ray
!Keech’s car into third, 10 miles or
more behind Arnold and Litz.
COLLEGE WRESTLER
SEATTLE, June 26, (JP)—Howard
Jantonwine, former University of
owa football player and one of the
jading heavyweight wrestlers in
he country, has signed a contract
nth the London Stadium Co-, of
,ondon, Eng., to appear in 30
Hatches in Australia, New Zealand,
ndia and England. He will receive
30,000 for the tour.
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WIFE WAS ATTENDING SER
VICE AGAINST WISHES OF
HER HUSBAND
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y„ June 28,
'/P>—A few seconds after Reverend
Edgar R. Wood in a small mission
here had finished a sermon last
night, containing a common pray
er in which the passage “In the
nidst of life we are in death,'
Frank Ross left a rear pew and
shot the minister dead.
He then whirled around and
shot and wounded, seriously, hiii
vife Mildred. Leonard Towe, who
had brought Mrs. Ross, was shot
in both legs when trying to pre
vent the escape of Ross.
Ross’s wife had attended the1
services against the wishes of her
husband. Ross was arrested this
morning on a road near the city.
He still had the pistol but offered
no resistance.
WHOLESALE BUYING
WASHINGTON, June 28, (/Pi
Rampant bribery lies behind the
wholesale buying up of municpaUy
owned electric plants by the power
trust and by smaller independent
power interests, according to a
batch of confidential reports that
have come into the hands of the
Federal Trade Commission.
FIN AL CONFERENCE
NEW YORK, June 28. (/P)—Madi
son Square Garden was the scene
of a final conference over the pro
posed return match in September
between Max Schmeiing and Jack
Sharkey.
PARIS, June 26. (/P)—“Breathe
Ideeply; eat less meat and more
! vegetables. Wine is an excellent
tonic, but hard liquor is poison.”
j These are some of the maxims of
Dr. Alexander Gueniot, 98-year-old
member of the French Academy of
Medicine, which recently celebrated
| lis 50th year as a member of t..
institution.
FIRE INTO CROWD
SEVILLE, Spain, June 28, (/P)—
Many persons were wounded dur
ing rioting resulting from a sudden
conflict between the police and
strikers. The police fired into the
crowds in an effort to suppress
demonstrations.
MRUS PREPARE
; FOR TRIP ‘UP WORLD’
LOS ANGELES, June 26, (/P)—In
a recent visit with the local com
mittee in charge of the 1932 Olym
pic games to be staged here, Capt.
H. G. Nobbs of Australia, reported
that people from the territory
“down under” are already making
plans to attend the classic. Special
steamships will be chartered to
bring the people here, he said
HOMESTAKE MINE
The Homestake Mine in the
Black Hills of South Dakota, is the
largest gold mine in the United
States. It has produced over $218,
000,000 to date