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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 121.
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TUESDAY, MAY 27. 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Seal Herd Controversy Looms
Japan Pressing
Washington for
Seal Convention
(By Associated Press)
TOKYO, May 27.—Uncle Sam’s seal herds in the North
Pacific have grown so numerous in the 19 years
following the treaty of 1911 that they are devour
ing large quantities of fish which Japan needs to
feed its many people.
TOKYO, Japan, May 27. —The government of Japan
began pressing Washington for revision and desire
an International Seal Convention. The Japanese
complain that the seals are causing a loss of about
$10,000,000 to Japan’s fishing industry.
Diplomatic communications have been passing over the
Pacific for months but due to the lack of relaton
ship with Russia the negotiations have been beset
by diplomatic perplexities. _
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AND SDN FOUND ALIIIF.
CORDOVA, May 27. (/P>—James
Dineen, mailcarrier, and son, who
started out in a mail-boat for
Hinchinbrook two weeks ago, and
who since have been sought by
numerous searching parties were
found Saturday on a fox farm on
Montague Island.
The boat was wrecked and Wil
'iam Johnson, one of the crew,
was drowned. His body was found
on the beach Friday. Dineen and
son had walked for three days
*o reach shelter. They were brot
here Sunday.
appointed minister
WASHINGTON, May 27, (/Pi—
Hanford MacNider has been ap
pointed minister to Canada. The
announcement of appointment
waits only the word that he is ac
ceptable to Great Britain.
FIELD TOO SMALL
PARIS, May 27, (/Pi—Le Bourget
field has been outgrown by the
French aviation industry and mili
tary authorities are cooperating
with the government and munici
pal authorities in search for anoth
er field.
SHOT NURSE, SUICIDED
JUNEAU, May 27, (/P)—William
Witsell, a carpenter, shot twice at
Mrs. Edith Manners, a nurse in
Stann hospital, wounding her in
her hip, then suicided. Her wound
is not serious.
RESIGNS OFFICE
CORDOVA, May 21, (/P)—Assis
tant District Attorney Clyde R. El
lis resigned after serving four years
to enter law partnerships with At
torney Frank Foster of Cordova.
CONTINUE PROGRAM
LONDON, May 27, (/P)—Great
Britain will proceed with the com
pletion of the 1929 naval building
program which was suspended
pending the outcome of the Naval
Conference at London, First Lord
of Admiralty A. V. Alexander an
nounced. Three submarines are
among the ships id be built. <
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CANNOT ACCCEPT
JUNEAU, May 27, (A5)—Governor
Parks is unable to accept the invi
tation of Governor Dern to Utah to
attend tilt* anaal Governor; Con
ference next month at Salt Lake
City as he plans to make an exten
sive tour of Interior Alaska then.
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IE HELD WE5TI1
CORDOVA. May 27. (/Pi—The
District Court, which adjourned
here will leave on the Chelan in
June on its annual journey and pil
grimage to remote parts of West
ern Alaska, principally for natur
alization purposes although sever
al important cases will be tried.
Federal Judge Coke Hill, United
States Marshal, Clerk of Court and
attorney for defense form the
floating court to be held aboard
the ship.
HRS. N. F. EDWARDS
CULLED Ti SEITTEE:
Mrs. N. F. Edwards, former bus
iness woman of Seward and of
late a resident, was a departure
on the S. S. Admiral Evans last
night for Seattle. She was called
on account of the illness of her:
oldest daughter, Mrs. Jack Me-;
Donald. Mr. McDonald is the stew-;
ard on the S. S. Alexander.
Louise, accompanied her mother
but will not return to Seward. I
She will be placed in a boarding j
school.
Mrs. Edwards is coming back as
conditions and business matters.
permit.
STINGING REPLY
CHICAGO, May 27, (/P)—The
ability of Fritz Kreisler, famous
! violinist, to make a stinging reply
was brought to light here. A prom
inent society woman asked him his
charges for playing at her musicalc
and he said $2,000. When told ht
could not mingle with the guests he
;ut his fee in half.
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INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
AWAIT THE SMALL
CAPITALIST
By Ernest Walker Sawyer, Rep
resentative of Alaska Railroad
Department of the Interior
Alaska needs hotels. Investiga
tion will show that a hotel may
be a profitable investment there.
There is room now for six or eight
medium-sized hotels of 50 to 200
rooms. The existing hotels are
usually full the year around.
In winter the peope from out
lying districts come to town. Last
summer the hotels of Seward.
Anchorage and Fairbanks were at
times crowded to capacity. This
year the passenger and shipping j
facilities have been increased 50
per cent,
The Alaska Railroad and the
shipping companies, by careful j
management of schedules, have!
assured the tourists this Summer
of ample accomodations. But ii
some one were to build addition
al hotels, then we would be in
sured of additional passenger fac
ilities.
There no limit to the num
ber of tourists available to the
west coast in Summer. It is only
hotel facilities of Alaska that con
trol the number of visitors.
Last year it is estimated that
80,000 people visited the Terri
tory. Less than 1,000 of these en
tered Mount McKinley National
Park.
The accomodations within any
park are of greater importance
than most people realize. Comfort- :
able accomodations are maintain
ed near Mount McKinley, and next
season a $200,000 hotel will be
built just a few miles from the j
mountain.
The Department oi tne mieum
is anxious to find a private in
dividual or company to build a
similar hotel near the entrance of
the park along the Alaska Rail
road. There is also room for a
typical resort hotels or hunter s
lodges in various sections where
fishing, hunting, and scenery
would attract; but the main need
today is for regular, comfortable
reasonably priced rooms and
^The opportunities of Alaska are
1 ^ ^ vot <£10 000 $20,000,
stupendous. Yet $1U’UUU> * ’
550000 or $100,000 investment
hances are. I believe, the most
There is very little manufact
lrlng done. Almost every shipmen
C a raw product, and Alaska has
iroduCed well over $1,500,000,000
,11 raw products.
Don’t go to Alaska for a job.
So there to start something which
:an use cheap, raw products—$3
» $4 coal, and pkmy oi watei
>ower. Twenty billion feet of
pruce, 60,000,000,000 feet of hem
ock, 50,000,000,000 feet of birch
,nd cottonwood are available.
It is also easy to start a fox
farm there. More than 60 new
farms were started last year. Very
little money is required for that,
as fish and reindeer meat is
cheap both for man and animal.
The summer climate of Seward
is about like that of Bar Harbor,:
Me. The winter temperature com
pares favorably with that of Bos
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! ton. A sunshine curve shows that
j Fairbanks, during the Summer
j tourist season, has twice as much
j sunshine as Florida, but, temper -
, ed by the cool Arctic which lies
I far to the North, it usually has
a mild Summer climate, promot
! ing dense vegatation and rapid
! plant growth.
Alaska is the keystone to the
| Pacific, and an important thres
hold to Asia and the Orient. It
is only 56 miles from Alaska to
Siberia.
Already commercial aviation
from Fairbanks west is assuming
considerable importance, with ab
out 15 planes operating constant
ly all Winter long from excellent
landing fields of that important
center.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 27. (/P>—
The Circuit Court of Appeals re
versed the Alaska Federal District
Court's finding Karl Armstrong
guilty of manslaughter and sen
tencing him from one to 15 years
in prison for his connection with
the slaying of Eric Dahlberg in
Kodiak, September 13, 1928.
Judge Curtis Wilbur dissented
option of court trial to judge
guilty on a prejudicial error re
fusing to instruct the jury of an
alleged dying statement of Dahl
berg, not given under oath.
Thn outgoing listing on the S.
S. Admiral Evans of the Pacific
Steamship Company which arrived j
and departed fro mhte Port of
Seward last night was ,
SEATTLE—
Thomas Greenby, Mrs. Florence
Blum, Mrs. N. F. Edwards, Louise
Edwards.
JUNEAU—
Miss L. K. Bell, Miss L*. JJ. .Len
man, Henry Pennyon, Sam Guyet.
CORDOVA—
Louis Cradoletti, F. W. Cook.
LATOUCHE—
S. Wallstedt.
1 There were four steerage pas
! sengers on the vessel.
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burned to death
; COLLINSVILLE, 111., May 27, <#)
—Jimmy Shelton, 23, veteran jock
ley at Fairmont racetrack, James
'Eaton, 25, an exercise boy, and
Randall Smallwood, 37, a jockey’s
agent, burned to death wThen their
automobile caught fire crashing
into a concrete house.
* BASEBALL
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YESTERDAY’S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 7; St. Louis 3.
Boston 5; Philadelphia 8.
Washington 10; New York 7.
Chicago 3-2; Cleveland 7-5.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 6; Chicago 2.
St. Louis 10; Pittsburgh 4.
New York 0; Brooklyn 7.
Philadelphia at Boston postpon- 1
ed on account of rain.
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ELEVEN DAYS OF INVESTIGA
TION GRAND JURY BRINGS
FIVE INDICTMENTS
SEATTLE, Wash. May 27. (JP)_
After an investigation which last
ed 11 days into the charges of
bribary and corruption of the
Pacific and Northwest Enforce
ment Unit, and during which the
most notorious bootlegger of the
region gave testimony, the grand
jury yesterday returned indict
ments against five past and pre
sent leaders of the Unit.
Administrator Lyle, and his chief
assistant, Whitney, were indicted
on charges of bribery, conspiracy
and perjury as were also Early
Corwin, Whitney's chief aid. C.
T. McKinney , former United
States assistant district attorney
under Revelle.
Richard L. Fryant, former dry
agent was dismissed as deputy
sheriff as the result of the in
d:ctment. McKinney was the only
one not arrested, yt Lyle was given
person01 liberty in lieu of a $10,
~' v i Witney was required to
furnish $5 000 bail. Fryant posted
a bond for $,2,500 as bail. Cor
win is at liberty and he said he
had been given 48 hours in which
w post bail.
Whitney, a few hours before,
sued Ralph Horr, King County
Republican Chairman, for $50,000
for “deflamation of character” at
G. O. P. Convention in Bellingham.
It is expected that the dry men
may be suspended at any moment
since a statement has been issued
saying that the indictments were
based on the statements of a boot
legger “we absolutely do not
fear.”
FINES COLLIDED
DURING PRIGIICE
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SAN DIEGO, May 27, (/P)—Four
marine airmen escaped in para
chutes here when two planes col
lided in mid-air during practice
maneuvers.
A machine piloted by Lieut. R. J.
DeLacey was blown by the wind
into a machine with Staff-Ser
geant I. G. Masters at the controls.
Both pilots jumped, as did the me
chanics- The machines fell to earth
locked together and burned to their
framework.
One of the men suffered a
sprained ankle but no other injury
was reportd.
SON IS QUESTIONED
CHICAGO, May 27, (/P)— Harry
Curtis, son of Vice-President Cur
tis, was questioned at the State's
Attorney’s office with reference to
charges that contractors had paid
him retair.ers for aid in getting
government contracts.
GENERAL STRIKE
JErV. SALEM, May 21 (.<' in
protest against the BiitU.i order
suspend ng immigration into the
country.the Jewish National Coun
cil prot?aimed a general strike, to
take effect form noon to evening.