Seward Daily Gateway
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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 159.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WHAT THE PROBERS WILL FIND
Assuming tin1 position that ‘it is an ill wind that
blows no good” the forthcoming probing of the Alaska
Railroad and matters having to do with the success of
this portion of the Territory, a splendid oppoitunit\
offers for creating a boomerangue out of Senator How
ell’s antagonism to the the railroad.
Had "the Senator given as much attention to Alask
an expression as he doubtless has to bureaus of his cit
ation he would not find it necessary to make a jouiney
all the way to Alaska to secure first-hand information.
The cry has echoed from Washington that it is im
possible to get a guage upon Alaska s desires and needb.
Now is the time to forever clinch that bromide.
To do this it will be necessary for patriotic Alas
kans, not seeking some Federal favor, but rathei em
bracing the entire Alaskan subject in their deductions,
to present our desires in words that cannot be nnsiep
resented.
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There are men in me naiiruau dch umj m' . .
to perform this service-men who are capable of rising
above the purely personal selfish aspect of the ques
tion and speak for the masses.
If we were called upon to present the mattei n
concrete form we would suggest:
In view of the fact that an experiment in socialism
has proven wholly impracticable and incapable of ac
complishing the aims sought when the railroad w at> con
structed,, is it not about time to begin the process of
abandonment of the primary idea and revert to the
time-honored methods that have populated pioneer re
ckons and enabled Territories to gain status of mates.
What answer has the Senator and his colleagues
to the reiterated statement of capital that theie is too
much government in Alaska?”
What expediency can he offer to remove the stigma
that has attached to Alaska’s natural resources since
they were locked away from the pioneei settlei and
those promised when Federal promoters stood upon the
stump and regaled the trusting citizens with hyperbolic
sophistries,— of thriving industrial cities when natural
resources such as coal, oil and timber were developed.
We have a bit of interesting paradoxical history m
the Rooseveltan order withdrawing all save precious
metals, fish and farm lands from preemption under the
assertion that predatory interests were endeavoring to
steal resources of inestimable value, namely coal, the
having of the government’s face with foreign mvest
ors-not Alaskans-by the railroad plan; the expendit
ure of $60,000,000 in constructing the road to these te^
sources; then the appearance of Dr. H. I ostei -Bai.. .
doubtless under orders of his supenors.-declanng tins
■•esource insufficient in quantity and quality to wan ant
considering as an export article. It will be remembered
that at thft time the Pocahontas coal fields envisioned
competition for supplying the navy withi fuel It willi be
rpcalled that Secretary Fall, aided by Admual Kg >
•>fter yielding to the pressure of Pocahontas coal )ai
e«c»tel the Doheny-Smclair deal, where the dote
hip cross was given to Pocahontas and Alaska.
One naturally arises to ask: If these resources are,
as eWmeTo" Vimp.rta.ee thea why are they retain
-d bv the Federal government!
' The answer lies in the bureaucratic system whereby
political debts may be paid off in offices which consti
tute approximately one in nine of our population
Insofar as the railroad is concerned, no effort, has
’■teen made by Washington to permit of its becoming a
success. Every manager who has undertaken the as
has found himself robbed of initiative and where he ex
hibited those qualities bespeaking ability ana a
erasp of the problem, he has seen them crucified upon
the cross of political trickery, and been forcedto eveb
to an archaic system that may be found undeilyi g
The wreck of every business to which it has been apphe.
It is a sad commentary upon governmental efficien
cy when it cost the treasury approximately $b,000 t
secure six homesteaders for the Railroad belt, het th
„ matter of record. It is because of past enois and te
fusal to yield and acknowledge error. Under the natura
.-.rder of'things had Alaska been made available to the
odd as othef pioneer frontiers were available, it
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IS Or GOLFERS
BOBBY JONES IS
VICTORIOUS AGAIN
FAMOUS NATIONAL PLAYERS
FALL BY WAYSIDE LAST DAY
OF PLAY
MINNEAPOLIS, July 14, (fP)—The
King of all golfers. Bobby Jones,
clinched his fourth victory in open
golf championship in the United
States; his second in succession and
third successive major triumph
for 1930 when he finished 72 holes
with 287 shots.
His most dangerous rival, Mac
Donald Smith, posted 289. Horton
Smith was third with 292. He
cracked yesterday after leading
Saturday.
“Lighthouse” Harry Cooper was
fourth with 293; Tommy Armour,
Johnny Farrell, Charles Lacey and
Walter Hagen fell by the wayside
CHIEF TENH IS
TRRHSFERRED, S38TH
P. O. Harshman. Chief Yeoman,
who has been stationed at Ko
diak for 21 months, accompanied
by his family, arrived in Seward
yesterday aboard the Admiral Wat
ison enroute to the States- Chief
I Yeoman Harshman is one of the
popular and efficient of Navy ra
diomen ever to have been station
ed at Wooded Island and the
community at Kodiak greatly re
gret the departure of the fam
: Hy
Harshman has been transferr
ed to Bremerton but first will
| take a 30 or 60 day leave of ab
i sence visiting the folks at Che—
| wellah. in Eastern Washington
He expects to be assigned to sea
; duty this fall.
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COURT HERE ON 18
Federal Judge E. Coke Hill anc
members of the court party are
expected to arrive in Seward from
Valdez on July 18 at which time
local court will be held for a few
days after which the party will
move over to Anchorage for a
1 session.
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150 BLACK BASS
Mel Holben, proprietor of the
Seward Grill, and Mr. Robins
manager of the clothing depart
ment, Brown & Hawkins, brot
into town last evening one ol
the nicest catches of black basi
it has been the pleasure of any
one to see. The sportsmen caughl
them off Rugged Island.
WATSON ARRIVALS
Incoming local arrivals yester
day from the Westward on the
Admiral Watson included Mrs. W
A. Reid and three children; Mrs
W. E. Reilly and son; Dr. H. W
Alerts, T. H. Jasper and R. G
Southworth, all from Kodiak.
Mrs. Molly Reed who has beer
visiting her mother, Mrs. Jame:
Flynn at Kodiak, for several week:
is enroute to her home at Cordovs
on the S. S. Admiral Watson, nov
in port.
CHELAN NINE WON GAME
A mixed team comprising bal
players from the Geodetic survey
vessel Discoverer and Seward vi
I the Cutter Chelan nine, bit th<
I dust yesterday afternoon befor<
| the vicious onslaughts of the Che
lan players to the tune of 13-8.
CHICAGO, July 14, i/P>—Gallant
Fox, 1930 super-horse of the Ameri
can turf, proved himself a cham- (
pion like his master rider, Earl j
Sande, to win the $70,000 Arlington ;
! classic by a neck whipping finish
with Gallant Knight and Ned O
third, six lengths back in the field
of six. Maya was fourth,
j The race was a mile and one- 1
quarter and was run in two minutes
;and three and four-fifths seconds.:
|Gallant Fox added $64,750 to her
| winnings which aggregate todate
$274,830.
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SATURDAY’S GAMES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
I Cincinnati 9-6; Philalelphia 5-1.;
I Cincinnati making a clean sweep of
the series. Durocher, Heilmann and
iSukeforth homered in the second
igame. Klein’s 26th homer for the
Phillies was their only run.
Chcago 7; Boston 3. Each Chi
cagoan got at least one hit with the
exception of Wilson.
Brooklyn 10; New York 4. The
jGiants threatened once in the
|sixth when Jackson homered with
;two on bases. The Giants errored
five times
! st. Louis 2: Pttsburgh 3. Kremer
won his 12th game of the season.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 3; Cleveland 12. Hodapp
came out of a slump for two
doubles and two singles five times
up. Averll homered and got two
singles.
Philadelphia 15; St- Louis 7. Foxx
and Dress homered. The champions
scored 10 in the third.
Washington 2-7; Detroit 3-5.
Shires won the second singling as a
pinch hitter in the seventh scor
ing two and breaking the tie. Cron
fin, Alexander. Harris and Judge
| homered; Judge in the second
game.
; New York 6-11: Chicago 11-7.
Both teams hit hard; Chicago *.0
in the first and 13 in the second.
I New York 12 in the first and 15 in
!the second.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 3: Los Angeles 8.
Missions 7; Oakland 3.
Portland 1; San Francisco 4.
Los Angeles cinched the first half
of the League race by defeating
Seattle and bunching their hits in
; the third and fourth and scoring
all runs
,! Hollywood 5; Sacramento 4. This
| was a night game.
SUNDAYS GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 5; Washington 4.
Cleveland 11; Boston 3.
Philadelphia 12; St. Louis 1.
New York 7; Chicago 5. Simmons
made his 21st homer.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 2-3; Chicago 1-0.
New York 9; Cincinnati 5
L Pittsburgh 1; Brooklyn 0. Elliott
> lost thru allowing four hits. French
* land Littsburgh allowed nine.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
' Sacramento 7-1; Hollywood 4-4.
San Francisco 4-4; Portland 2-8
Seattle 5-0; Los Angeles 2-10.
Oakland 10-7; Missions 2-8.
r Mrs. C. E. Anderson, member of
> the Seward high school faculty and
; wife of Capt. C. E- Anderson of the
>js. S. Starr, left Saturday on that
- j vessel for an extended stay at the
Cook Inlet port of Seldovia.
I
PLiE SMASHED
ENGINE TROUBLE ON FLIGHT
CORDOVA TO KETCHIKAN
. LANDED ON GULF
CORDOVA, July 14, (/P;—Pilot
Clayton L. Scott and Mechanic
John Selby were rescued from
Icy Bay yesterday morning by
Pilot Robert E. Ellis, in an Alas
kan Airways seaplane.
Scott, in a Gorst plane, was
forced down with engine trouble
at 5 p. m. Thursday and landed
on the Gulf of Alaska. He then
taxied through the ice-choked
water to reach the beach.
Efforts to save the plane failed
as the wind and waves broke it
up. Neither man was injured and
they arrived here in the after
noon. Scott was flying from Cor
dova to Ketchikan.
ALASKA’S VET EDITOR HERE
Roy G. Southworth, Alaska’s
best known editor and veteran
of the early days, now associate
editor of the Anchorage Times,
returned yesterday from Kodiak
where Mrs. Southworth and him
self visited their daughter, Mrs.
Thomas Dyer. Mrs. Southworth re
mained at Kodiak for an extended
visit. Editor Southwmrth. a guest of
Mr. and Mrs. A. Novak, leaves for
Anchorage Wednesday.
A SPEEDY VISIT
Henry O'Malley, U. S Commiss
ioner of Fisheries, Department of
Commerce, arrived in port yes
terday from the south aboard the
M. S. Brant, and within the hour
transferred to the M. S. Teal
and continued on to Iliamna Bay.
The Commissioner, who was ac
companied by J. J- Underwood,
Washington representative of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce—
the publicity man—will cross the
portage down to Bristol Bay. The
Brant will meet O’Malley at Iku
tan for the southbound voyage.
TOMMY JASPER HERE
| Tommy Jasper, king of the
i tonsorial artists in the Kodiak
precinct. Territory of Alaska, U.
S. A., was among yesterday’s dis
tinquished arrivals from the
future Chicago of the North. It
is said Tom is here for medical
treatment though he appears to
be in excellent health.
WILL VISIT AT ANCHORAGE
Mrs, W. E. Reilly, former pop
ular Anchorage girl, but for the
last few years has resided at Ko
diak where Mr. Reilly is chief in
charge of the Navy radio station,
was an arrival on the Admiral
Watson yesterday, with her son,
enroute to Anchorage for a brief
visit with friends.
Bernice Wunderlick, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs- George Wunderlick,
! left on the S. S. Starr Saturday to
make an extended stay with Evelyn
Nelson of Portlock. Mr Wunder
lick is the popular purser on the S.
S. Starr.
Mrs. Alfred Rosness, accompan
ied by Edwin, Clarence and Mar
garet Larson left Seattle on the S.
S. Yukon Saturday enroute to Sew
'ard, where they will make their
future home. Alfred Ro;sness, who
is working on his Nuka Bay proper
ty, is returning to Seward to meet
them on their arrival.