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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 256.
SWARD, ALASE. . MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1930.
PRICK TEN CENTS
-NEW DEVELOPMENT STRIKES
KEYNOTE OF ALASKA PROGRESS
ACCORDING TO CAPITALIST
JOHNNY” MC GINN POINTS WITH PRIDE TO
RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT AS THE BEST
EVIDENCE OF GREAT THINGS COMING.
HE PROPOSES TO INVEST MORE MONEY
IN THE TERRITORY.
‘‘Pm beginning to believe that Ester Dome in the
Fairbanks district is one of the best mineralized zones
in Alaska and for its extent, one of the best in the
world,” said J. L. McGinn, or “Johnny” McGinn as he
is known, lawyer, mining man, capitalist, who has
spent many years in the Territory from Nome to Fan
banks. “I think so well of it, that Pm coming back to my
old love, Alaska because she offers some of the best
opportunities in the world right now as she has al
ways done. I’ve got a real gold mine near Fail ban s
and a crew is working there this winter. Theie is.
enough in sight to justify enthusiasm and more devel
opment will bring bigger showings.
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BRITAIN RECOGNIZES
RIGHT OF DOMINIONS
SECEDE FROM EMPIRE
LONDON. Oct. 13, (/P)-Britain
formally and in so many words
"ecognizes the ritrht of her dom
Tons to secede from* tLo Empire if
ai any time they shout 1 desire to
oo so. J- H. Thomas aiit*7,r.r g a
■direct query regarding tt.c British
attitude to be tahtca r.L th’’ Im
perial Conference which starts this
week said “Nobody questions that j
right.’ j
The question of secession was
brought up recently by Premier
Herzog of South Africa. Mr- Thom
as tempered his statement how- j
ever, by adding, “You can’t prevent:
a man from shooting himself if he j
wants to. You can only advise him
it is an unwise thing to do.”
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SEATTLE, Oct., 13, (/P)—Arch
bishop Pietro Fumasoni Biondi
will be honored with a banquet j
here today which will be at
* tended by Catholic prelates,
state and city officials.
He is the Apostolic delegate,
to the United States.
He will lay the cornerstone of
Stedward’s seminary on Lake
Washington. Among those who
will attend the ceremony will
be Gov. Hartley. A mass meet
ing will follow in the Civic aud
jtorium which is expected to be
attended by at least 5,000.
. FRENCH MBS I
COMPLETE AIR TORI
NEW YORK, Oct. 13 /P.-Costs
and Bellonte have completed their
good will tour of 25 days. They cov
ered a distance of 1,500 miles and
have been in 30 states
The famous French aviators will
sail for Paris October 17. On Octo
ber 16 they will be presented with
4 the $25,000 check by William E.
f Easterwood, Jr., for the first Paris
to Dallas flight.
“There is justification for the
belief that the whole Ester Dome
will some day be a cluster of
hard rock mines all turnnig out
additional wealth while the pla
cers continue to yield their har
vest. Fairbanks produced over a
hundred million from her pla
cers in the old days and will pro
duce another hundred million
from the gravels under the new
processes. Its not too wild a
statement that she will stack up
still another hundred million
from the rocks that were nev
er moved by the glaciers.’’
Mr. McGinn was a passenger
on the SS Yukon Saturday, en
route for his home at San Ma
teo near San Francisco but he
said he would be among the
first of the returning passengers
in the spring.
“I can not get excited about
all this talk about tearing up the
Alaska Railroad and throwing
it into the garbage can,” he
said. “In the first place we have
not a big enough can and be
sides we need the railroad now
more than ever. How could we
keep up the present program of
development if we didn’t have
that road running into the very
heart of things?
“There are enough develop
ment projects now going for
ward or in the formative stage
to justify the road to say noth
ing of what the future holds in
store for us. After 30 years in
Alaska I am just waking up to
her possibilities and before I
pass out of the picture I expect
to see the Alaska Railroad so
busy with a profitable traffic
that no one will be found carp
ing about the cost of its con
struction. The time has arrived
when its cost is balanced by the
status of achievement in Alas
ka. In other words we have ar
rived finally at a realization of
what we have got. The present
showings nearly everywhere in
Alaska justify great energy and
money in turning raw materials
into the channels of the world’s
business. That alone, should be
enough to silence all this rail
road talk. Supposing there is a
million dollar deficit. Does that
amount to anything in this
game of trying to release hun
dreds of millions? I say its idle
and I believe it is absurb to even
abide an unjust thot about the
railroad because it is here to
stay. It is vital to our program
of development. Its cost is in
finititesminal to the good it is
doing and will do.
“Take Ester Dome for instance,
in the heart of the Fairbanks
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DEVOTE EFFORTS
PfIESFP RELIEF
PREMIER STRESSES IMPOR
TANCE DEALING WITH
ACUTE PROBLEM
LONDON, Oct. 13. (/P)-A 20- I
per cent tariff is to be imposed,
by the British Isles and all dom- !
inions on foreign imports; this!
was one of the chief recommen- j
dations laid before the Imperial I
Conference at its opening ses- |
sion.
Premiers or high representa
tives of the Dominions and Col
onies were . in attendance. In
opening the conference which
will devote its efforts to solution
of the pressing economic prob
lems of the empire, Prime Min- I
ister Ramsay MacDonald stress
ed the importance of dealing
with the acute world wide trade
depression, also of forwarding
work toward disarmament be
tween nations.
“We have been suffering from j
a bad attack of pessimism,” he
declared. “Our weakness is in;
our physchology far more than I
in our skill, our material, our
resources or our opportunities. |
It is renewal of will that we
need.”
The Premier in a radio ad
dress on the w-ork of the con
ference later pictured it as
“another turning point” in the
history of the English people.
WASH STATE WINS
FROM II. Hr S3. SSL.
PULLMAN, Oct., 13. {£>)— The
Washington State Cougers claw
ed down the walls of Troy, Sou
thern Califrnia, winning by the
score of seven to six.
The Couger hurled himself
at the U. of S. C. from the start
with a smashing drive and scor
ed the first touchdown in seven
and one-half minutes of play.
Schwartz, Ellingson and Lain
hart were the heaviest clawrs
for the Couger rushing the ball
to striking distance where Lain
hart took it over.
In the fourth period Mohler
i passed 25 yards to Apsit after
the line plungers failed and Ap
sit fled 20 yards scoring for
Troy. Baker failed to convert.
GRIGSBY III COMM
CORDOVA, Oct., 13, Special to
[ The Gateway—A Democratic
mass meeting was held in the
Empress theater Sunday after
noon and was attended by 270
people.
George Grigsby, candidate for
Delegate to Congress, addressed
I the large throng and delivered
j practically the same speech as
at Seward and elsewhere. The
address was favorably received.
EXTEND FOREIGN CREDIT
BERLIN, Oct., 13, (/P)—'The
Vossiche Zeitung reported the
agreement extending foreign
credits about $120,000,000 to
Germany has been signed. The
interest rate is about seven per
cent. The agreement, it is said,
wiH be subject to passage by
f the Reichstag and is in line
; with Chancellor’s Bruening’s fi
' nancial reforms.
FRANK J. Mil I
PASSES SI SITKA
JUNEAU, Oct., 13, (/P)—Frank
J. Aldrich, member of the Alas
ka legislature for three sessions,
died at the Pioneers Home at
Sitka where he had lived for i
the past month.
He was born in Fort Wayne,
Indiana in 1857 and came West
in 1871; to Juneau in 1893 where
he mined in one of the earliest ,
sections of Alaska. .
He stampeded to Nome in 19- J
09. He was a former Grand Pres
ident of the Pioneers of Alas- ]
ka. Mr. Aldrich never married. .*
AIRPLANE ARRIVES i!
AT BARROW FIRST !
NOME PILOT AND PASSEN
GERS COMPLETE HAZ
ARDOUS FLIGHT
POINT BARROW, Oct., 13, (JP)
—Celebrating the arrival of the
first plane in three years, the
entire village is in the throes of
happiness.
Pilot Bill Graham, U. S. Mar
shal Graham and Cliff Allyn,
manager of the Northern Air
Transport, arrived at 1:50 p. m.
Saturday after flying over 300
miles of snow storms, dense
fogs and heavy head winds. They
said that for the most part
they were forced to fly within
100 feet of the ground.
They departed from Kotzebue
Saturday morning flying to Pt.
Hope.
It is the first time an air
plane has ever attempted such
a trip at this time of the year
as weather conditions are so
unsettled.
The pilot and passengers ex
pressed their thankfulness in
coming through safely.
NEW YORK, Oct., 13, (£>)— J. j
“Kid” Berg, British lightweight won
a ten-round decision over his two
time conqueror Billy Petrolle of
Fargo, North Dakota.
In the no-knockdown fight Berg, j
who became the leading contender j
of his division, won cleanly and j
showed more stmina but Pet- j
rolle is a stiffer puncher.
F001BALL SCORES
Army 39, Swarthmore 0.
Oklahoma 20, Nebraska 7.
Dartmouth 74, Boston 0.
Harvard 27, Springfield 0.
Pennsylvania 40. Virginia 6.
Princeton 7, Brown 0.
Northwestern 19, Ohio State 2.
Alabama 25, Sewanee 0.
Wisconsin 34, Chicago 0.
Michigan 14, Purdue 13.
DEMO COMMITTEMAN DIES
WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 13,
(/P)—josiah Murvel, democratic na
tional Committeman from Dele
ware died suddenly fro mheart a&
tack. He was defeated for nomina
tion to the senate recently when he
ran as a dry oponent of Thomas
Bayard, wet.
>VILL BE NO COMPROMISE WITH
REBELS; AS ARE PREPARED
FOR VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN
M« \N TEVIDJ- O. »»
rhe victorious Brazilian revolution -
sts are drawing the net of insur
•ection tighter about Rio de Jan
;rio, Sao Paulo, Fall Joinville and
San Francisco state.
Santa Catherina in isolated Flor
nanapolis is the sole federal strong
lold that remains and is made so
ay its position and because the gar
dson there. Its position was also
nade precarious owing to the fact
;hat between Sao Paulo and Rio de
Janerio where a small insurgent
force is said to be operating.
At Lorena, where the railroad from
:he capital to Sao Paulo has been
;ut another rebel force was advanc
ing toward Guidad, a Campus rail
way junction of 175,000 inhabitants
[f this city is captured it will cut
all rail communications between
Rio de Janiro and the states of
Espirito. Sanot and Bahia.
The only two apparent points
noted in the federal’s progress are
Doth in the State of Minah Geraes
rhe federals occupied Barbacenas.
a railway point about eight miles
from the capital Bello Horizonte
where the royal force is ao present
holding out against the insurgents.
Government oficials at Re de
Janerio said that there would be
compromise with the rebels as they
were prepared for a vigorous cam
paign and had strengthened the
army and navy with reserves and
volunteers. They will commission
commercial vessels as warcraft.
NOTRE DIME INS
FROM TIE MIES
SOUTHBEND, Oct., 13, (&)—
In Notre Dames $750,000 stadium
the none the less renowned hod
carrier from Three Cars, Mich.,
Joe Savoldi, pierced the Navy's
steel-plated defence.
Savoldi made the dedication
ceremonies in the new stadium
perfect by leading Notre Dame
to a 26*to 2 victory over the Mid
dies.
PREMATURE EXPLOSION
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Oct., 13,
(>P)—Five men, all unconscious,
victims of a premature explosion
on a moving picture location in
Dinosaur Canyon, were brought
to the hospital. Two of them,
ambulance drivers said, had
fractured skulls.
FIFTEEN PEISONS STILL
IN TIE HOliPITALS
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Oct., 13, (£>)
—Fifteen of the 40 persons in
jured in the powder explosion
which went off prematurely dur
ing the making of a motion pic
ture, are still in hospitals.
The Pathe Studios was making
a desert picture which called for
for a landslide.
The explosion hurled rocks
and debris, shattered cameras,
ruined the sound recording
equipment and knocked down
ictors.