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Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE COAST TERMI
NUS OF THE ALAS
KA RAILROAD.
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 45.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, February 27, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SOVIET, AND U. S.
FLAGS AT HALF
MAST, NANUK
SOLEMN CEREMONY MARKS RE
CEPTION BODIES BY AMERI
CANS FROM RUSSIANS
NANUK, Feb., 27, (JP)—American
and Russian flags stood at half
mast yesterday as Commander
Maitric Slipenov, representing the
Soviet government, formally gave
the bodise of Eielson and Borland
into the custody of the American
pilots for transportation to Alaska.
While the wind swept the tundra
and sea the mortal remains of the
aviators were taken from a small
hut, where they had reposed since
being brought to North Cape, and
placed on two sleds covered with
American flags and were drawn
slowly over the ice toward the S. S.
Nanuk where a Fairchild plane
■waited to receive them.
Ten Americans, on the S. S. Nan
r.k, formed a line and as the pro
cession approached the funeral
plane, opposite them, the Russian
subjects at North Cape, including
Governor Ponemarov of Crukotsk
jl tmaouia, w uu uamu coptt xuiij
:he ceremony and those aboard the
Stevrapol together with a number
of wandering trappers and natives,
formed a line parr’.lei to the
Americans.
When the sleds entered between
the lines, Slipenov presented the
bodies of the Americans to Pilot
Young who received the bodies on
behalf of America.
He expressed gratitude and ap
preciation for the splendid cooper
ation they gave in the search for
•he bodies. They were then placed
in the plane’s cabin, with closed
windows shrouded in black.
The plane will take-off at the
first break in the weather.
School House
Gives Way For
Fine Residence
%3 cial t - The Gateway
KODIAK. Feb.. 27.—Construction
iioes hand in hand with destruction
!■ Kodiak as witness the newest
venture of Capt. Jake Johnson,
owner and skipper of the motorship
Olive, who has just been awarded
tire contract for tearing down Ko
#5 tenfold school building and will
use the material to construct a fine
residence at his fur and cattle
iuim un crooned j.siana, one mile
from Kodiak town.
The old four-room school build
ing gives way to the fine, new
school house erected last year in
order that a new playground be
prepared for Kodiak’s growing
school population. It contains much
valuable timber that can be u^ea
:r. new constiuction.
Captain Johnson purchased
Croked Island from homesteaders
in 1922 and has ambitions plans
• iqr the future. In addition to the
cattle already on the island he will
put on fox and mink and poultry
and his plans also call for a eom
* modious residence which will be
built in the spring.
Last‘night's victory by the S.
A. C. women’s team over the
Anchorage women, marks the
first game any Seward team has
won away from home this sea
son.
Attroney Wickersham, candi
date for Delegate from Alaska to
Washington, is said to be buy
ing up large tracts of land near
Homer.
Fur has been scarce around
Seldovia and Homer this winter,
* recent arrivals report, though
there appears to be plenty fur
ther westward.
PLANES CRASH MIDAIR
WASHINGTON, Feb.. 27, (£>)
Lieut. Joseph L. Wolfe of the Mar
ine Corps and Second Lieut. Wil
liam K. Ostertag of the Marine Re
serve were killed in what is be
lieved to have been a mid-air eras!
over Quantico, Va. The wreck oJ
! their planes was found in the Po
‘tomac river near Quantico.
DISCOVERY OF'
HELIUM GAS IN
COLO., ACCIDENT
NON-INFLAMMABLE GAS DIS
COVERED BY ACCIDENT;
210,000 CUBIC FEET, DAY
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NEW YORK, Feb., 27, (/P)—Fur
ther details of the discovery in
southeastern Colorado of a supply
of helium gas, were announced by
Prof. F. F. Hintze of the University
of Utah, before the Petroleum
Division of the annual meeting of
Mining & Metal Engineers.
The discovery of helium, a non
inflammable gas used m dirigibles,
was an accident, the result of
drilling operations southeast oi
Pueblo, the Professor said in his
ciioc.uooi.v_/ii ui jjcuuacuiu ucvriu^
merits in the Rocky Mountains re
gion during 1929.
The helium content of the well
amounts to 210,000 cubic feet per
day.
Traveling Court
Westward Region
Special to The Gateway
KODIAK, Feb., 26, —Another
traveling coui’t is to be held in the
Westward within the next few days
with the hearing of several cases
that are pending at Karluk. Deputy
U. S. Marshal Ed Boyer and U. S.
Commissioner Stowe have charter
ed a motorship for the trip around
the island and the duration of their
stay will depend upon the number
of cases that the brought up. They
are mostly small offenses as report
ed by the local representatives of
the bureau of education at Karluk,
but it is considered more economi
cal for the court to go to the scene
of the alleged offenses against the
law than to bring the offenders
here.
WILL CONTEST WILL
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.,. 27, i/P)—
Contest of the will disposing of the
$500,000 estate of the late Captain
Harry Walter Goodall, former San
Francisco shipping man, who died
February 2, was filed here by Regi
nald Bland of Pasadena, a nephew,
|who was cut off with $1. Bland is
a musician.
1 Six boats will call at the Port
I of Seward monthly for at least
i three months this season owing
! to increased tourist travel which
! is expected to exceed all previous
records.
REDUCTION LOOMS
| LONDON, Feb., 26, (/P)—A reduc
tion of between $15,000,000 and $75,
000,000 of the annual naval expen
diture of the U. S. loomed as a pro
vable outcome of new developments
in the naval conference program.
!The conference held no official
session owing to the French Cabi
net crisis.
CRIME GROWS IN PARIS
PARIS, Feb., 26, (/Pj—The annual
| police reports shows more violence
more arrests and greater use ol
drugs. There were 124,000 street
accidents in Paris and the suburbs
last year.
THE DUKE WEDS
| LONDON, Feb., 26, (/P)—'The Duke
(of Westminister married Miss Loel
la Ponsonby, daughter of Sir Fred
erick Ponsonby, treasurer to the
King.
UNEMPLOYED
STAGE PARADE
IN SEATTLE
DISTURBANCE QUELLED BY THE
POLICE AFTER PARADE HAD
MARCHED A BLOCK
SEATTLE, Feb., 27, (ZP)—Police
used clubs, fists, motorcycles and
automobiles to break up a parade
of approximately 500 communists
and radicals which started in the
southern downtown district at
about noon. The marchers carried
banners reading "Down with capi
talism; work or wages”.
About 50 officers were sent to
quell the disturbance and tore up
the banners.
One woman. Helen Hufa, 21, was
arrested. She was among those
who attempted to fight off the
police. No one was seriously injured
beyond bruises.
! The line of march extended only
a block when the officers broke it
Chicago Business
Men lake Action
Against Crime
CHICAGO, Feb. 27 (/P)—Chicago’s
I business men. by taking the law
I into their own hands, were report
ed to be about to undertake the
most comprehensive program ever
jattempted by any city to free itself
| from crime.
j A fund of $1,000,000 to start with
I and more to come later, if neces
sary,. is reported to be made avail
go into all phases of racketeering,
|able to an organization which will
criminal syndicates, corruption
among officers and criminal politi
cal hookups.
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Edwards And Case
Oppose Each Other
SEATTLE. Feb., 27, (&)~Mayor
Frank Edwards and Otto Case
j have been selected to oppose each
j other at general election March.
, 11.
| Edwards received 32,716 votes
| at the primary and Case, 17,866.
Edwin J. Brown, former mayor,
I received 13,377 which vote elim
; inates him from the race.
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Japanese Princes
| “In The Army Now”
! TOKIO, Feb.-. 27. (/P>—'Two more
of the Princes of the blood, heads
of collateral branches of the Im
perial family, have been promoted
I to general officers rank in the Im
perial Army. They are Prince
Vasuhito Asaka and Prince Narihi
ko Nigashikum, each 43 years old,
who recently have risen from col
ioneloies to be major-generals.
Both have had real army service
rising thru all the various grades.
LED TACOMA FIELD
TACOMA, Feb., 27, (/P)—Former
Mayor Tennent and Fred Shoe
maker led the field of five in
the city primary election and
will go in the finals; the general
election. Major James Newbergin
was third.
! It is estimated that the parent
i company of the Alaska Airways
spent a quarter of a million dol
! lars in the search for Eielson
and Borland; the greatest man
i hunt in the history of aviation
j and probably the most spectacu
j lar of all time.
OPPONENTS OF
| THE DRY LAW
| RENEW ATTACK
!
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WASHINGTON, Feb., 27, (IP)—
Renewing their attack upon the
dry laws the opponents of prohi
bition opened the next to the last
day of testimony with the pre
sentation to the state, by Nich
olas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia University, demanding
an outright appeal of the 18th
amendment on the ground that
it constituted an invasion of the
Constitution.
He urged the return of state
control of liquor as state statutes
dealing with the question could
again take force.
Wallace Irwin, author, said:
I “The submission to tyranny was
1 as immoral as tyranny itself and
i unless there is strength to bring
| about an honest revolt against
| tyranny the fanatic majority of
the United States it cannot en
dure as a free country and a
free people”
Pantages Said to
n o • I III
Be jeriousiy in
In County Jail
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LOS ANGELES, Feb., 27, (IP)—
fl^v.,v,Her p<->ntages is seriously
ill in the county jail hospital suf
fering from the most serious of
o <5 f;es of heart attacks since last
Sunday.
Attendants declare his condi
tion shows no improvement and
that “he is a very sick man; that
his condition is unchanged since
Sunday.'’
Dr. Benjamin Blank, the jail
physician, said Pantages was so
weak he couldn’t rise.
New Liberal Party
I To Fight Dry Law
WASHINGTON, Feb., 27, Ov
ereating of a new liberal party to
fight for repeal of the 18th amend
ment was urged by Samuel Harden
Church of Pittsburgh, before the
House Judiciary Committee.
Church, who is president of the
Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh,
declared leaders of the democratic
and republican parties are too tim
id on prohibition.
Cardinal Passes
Away At Rome
ROME, Feb., 27, (/P)—Cardinal
Merrydelval, former Papal secre
tary of the state and in recent
years archpriest of St. Peters,
died from heart failure after an
appendicitis operation.
He was 65 years of age and
was suddenly stricken yesterday.
The Cardinal’s death leaves the
College of Cardinals w'ith 32 of
the socalled foreign cardinals and
28 Italians.
ASKS DISMISSAL
WASHNGTON, Feb., 27, (VP)—
: Immediate dismissal of F. E. Bon
| ner, secretary of the power com
| mission was demanded in the
Senate by Norris who complain
i ed of the official power of the
; man.
J Reports from Seldovia as to
the coming cold storage plant
i this spring, is very encouraging.
I The plant will be in operation
this spring, it is reliably stated,
1 and the plant wall take all kinds
of fish and will have ample bait
on hand at all times.
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ACTOR AND AUTHOR
HOLLYWOOD, Feb., 27, (A*)—Will
Hays, arbiter of the movies, was
credited with having effected peace
in the ‘Battle of the Century’ be
tween actor Jack Gilbert and au
thor Jim Tully. The two shook
hands and said they were sorry
that they had engaged in recent
fistic display.
SEWARD WINS
FIRST GAME
AT ANCHORAGE
Special to The Gateway
ANCHORAGE, Feb., 27, —
Whoopee!
In a hectic and fast moving
game between Seward and Anchor
age City Women teams on the An
chorage floor, Seward won by the
score of 22 to 13. Referee Thnmo
son started the game and Green
got the tip-off on a pass from
Geyer to McCauley and back to
Green which netted the first basket
of the game. This was quickly fol
lowed by another basket by Mc
Cauley. Anchorage came back
strong at the end of the first quar
ter wnen tne score was s to 4 in
favor of Anchorage.
The second quarter was featured
by some pretty shooting by Mc
Cauley and Green and some prettv
pass handling by Geyer. The scc'm
at the end of the second quarter
was 14 to 7 in favor of Seward.
The third quarter saw some close
checking by both teams and then
McCauley, from near center, shot
a long, side angle shot that was
very spectacular. The score at the
end of the third quarter was 10 to
18 in favor of Seward.
The fourth quarter slowed con
siderable as the fast pace was be
ginning to tell on the players.
Green made two baskets in the last
quarter and Davis made three
points, the final score being 22 to
13.
Thompson refereed a fine game.
Fouls were committed by Hopkins,
two persoinais; Neville two person
als; Green one personal.
There were no substitutions by
Seward. The game was featured
by some close checking by Hopkins
and Neville and Noble and fine
passing and shooting by McCauley,
Geyer and Green.
McCauley was high point man
with 12 points to her credit; Green
eight points and Geyer two points.
High point man for Anchorage
was hawson with five points and
both Laksha and Davis with four
points each.
It was some game and “watch
our smoke tonight”.
SERVE ANOTHER TERM
WASHINGTON, Feb., 27. (fP)—
President Hoover nominated the
present radio commission in its ert
tirity to serve another term.
Continue Arguments
In Case Against Wien
Arguments in the Fairbanks
.hearing in which the Alaskan Air
'ways seeks to obtain an order pre
venting Ralph Wien from flying
for any other airplane concern are
not completed and will be continu
ed when opportunity affords be
tween criminal cases.
The plaintiff alleges that Weiii
signed a contract when the Wein
; Alaska Airways was sold to the Al
iasfcan Airways, agreeing not to en
jgage in business with any competi
tor. The defense contention is that
jthe contract is void because the Al
askan Airways had not filed arti
cles of incorporation when it was
signed and that the company in
purchasing the Anchorage Air
Transport and Bennett-Rodebaugh
Airplane Co., and the Wein Alaska
Airways created a monopoly in re
straint of trade. (News Miner.)
COOLIDGE ASKED
TO DEDICATE BIG
GILA RIVER DAM
SPENDING PART OF VACATION
AS GUESTS WRIGLEY, JR.,.
ON CATALINA ISLANDS
WASHINGTON, Feb., 27, (IP)—
President Hoover dispatched a tel
egram to former president Coolidge
asking him, if convenient, to go to
Arizona and dedicate the Coolidge
Dam.
The dam, which is on the Gila,
river in Arizona, was constructed,
during Coolidge’s administration
and named in his honor. The dam
supplies water for one of the larg
est reclamation projects ever built
by the United States, government.
Mr. Coolidge and his wife arrived
at Avalon, Catalina Islands to
spend part of their southern Cali
fornia vacation as the guests of
William Wrigley, Jr., the chewing
gum magnate, who is owner of the
islands.
I Altho a drizzling rain had taken
the place of the traditional sun
shine of the southland, the ex
president met it in a jovial mood.
Assassination Plot
Being Investigated
| WASHINGTON, Feb., 27, (ZP)—An
investigation of a purported Mexi
can student plot to assassinate
President Hoover will be made by
the United States Secret Service,
as reult of dispatches from San
Luis Gotos, Mexico, telling of the
arrest of a student there and seiz
ure of letters.
Secret Service officials were in
clined to doubt the story of the
purported plot, but with customary
vigilance, where such matters are
concerned, will conduct a thorough
invsetigation of the American end
of it.
Confesses Killed
Eight Men, Poison
DETROIT. Feb., 27, (ZF)—Confess
ing that he had killed eight men
with poison and a ninth with a re
volver, James Baker. 25, was being
held for New York police who
have sought him for more than a
;year in the death of one of his al
leged victims. Baker was arrested
I on a farm ix
burb. He had
| a year.
ar FarnpingtML a su
lived there Mr nearly
VIOLENT ERUPTION
NEW YORK, Feb., 27, (/P)—Ships
report that Mt. Pelee, destructive
volcano of the Island of Martini
que, is in such a violent eruption
that vessels are not permitted to
dock at St. Pelee, which was de
stroyed by an eruption in 1902.
- GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb., 27, (/P)—
Initial steps, looking forward to the
submission to the voters of San
Francisco. Marin, Sonoma, Mendo
cino, Napa and Del Norte counties
of the 4-30.000,000 bond issue for the
construction of the proposed Gold
en Gate bridge either in August
or September are now under con
sideration.
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A. L. DANCE SATURDAY
i Announcement by Seward Post
No. 5, American Legion, that a
j public adnce will be presented
by them Saturday night in Odd
Fellows Hall, assures the public
of another splendid evening’s fun.
A specialty number, a character
ization, will be given by Mr. Mit
chell, one of the best comedians
who have cracked a pun within
[the confines of the Territory.
Anchorage vs Seward March 3-4