Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 221
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
F. I. REED, H. F. MORTON, A.
THOMPSON, THOS. GAFF
NEY SPEAK AT HEARING
i
(Special to The Gateway)
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 30.— Of
the six witnesses appearing at
the day and night session two
had important data to offer re
lating to developing of business
for the railroad
Frank I Reed stressed the im
portance of sue' i'pc- arces as
timber, coal and . advocating
an intensive campaign of indus
trial agents soliciting capital for
the development of these and
said a match factory and birch
mill are now preparing to est- i
ablish here but are awaiting final j
attitude of the government on i
the railroad.
Harry F. Morton offered fig- !
ures to show the deficit com-1
plained of is not real and show- |
ec how all powers of Alaska’s
resources reposed in the hands
of Washington, and the limita
tions of the Territory in handl
ing of its own affairs.
He built up a case to support
broader powers and stimulants to
the Alaska Railroad.
Arthur Thompson presented a
resolution from the Pioneers con- j
demning conservation and point- ;
ing to it as the cause for capital |
Mr. Thomas Gaffney, of Nome,
s&-d curtailment of the railroad
would crush the lower Yukon
MISSING THREE DAYS WHEN
BODY IS FOUND IN ALLEY
NEAR HOME
SOUTHBEND, Ind., Aug., 30, (/P) j
—Police sought in vain for some
cine as to the identity of the mur
derer of Marveline Appel, eight,
whos body was found last night in
ar. alley two blocks from her home.
The child had been missing since
Wednesday evening and had been
dead only one hour when found, j
She had been attacked before kill- j
ed.
A man is reported to have in
vited the child and several other
girls to take a ride with him Wed
nesday but the girl and her com
panions refused to enter the car.
It is believed the man might
have later enticed her into the
machine. -
31ood stains were found on the
floor of a barn about a block and
a half from where the body was
found and it is considered possible,
she was attacked and killed in the
b: rn.
LINDBERGH BEACON
WASHINGTON, Aug., 30, C/P)— j
The light atop the Palmolives j
building in Chicago, known as
Lindbergh Beacon, was lighted by |
President Hoover who pressed a
button in Washington.
Chamber of Commerce regular j
weekly business meeting and!
luncheon next Tuesday at noon ‘
in the Seward Grill. Visitors in- j
> v::ed. ‘
A “SOB” REPORTER
POINT BARROW, Aug., 30, (/P)— |
A sudden southwest gale rolled the
schooner Holmes, opposite Barrow
so much, it prevented any unload
ing and the fleet of small eastern
boats ran to safety behind Point
Barrow. Barrowites alnxiously
watch the pitching ship which
holds the year's supply of food.
PLi TO NOP
TO T1C0H NOT
HALTED, BROMLEY
MIGHT CONSIDER TWO-LEGG
ED HOP,~NOME THEN TO
TACOMA
TOKYO, Aug., 30, (/P)—Brom
ley and Gatty failed to get off
on their transpacific hop as
their plane was overloaded but |
stated their plans are not halt- j
ed insofar as making the flight
to Tacoma.
Bromley said he will seek a
beach with a longer runway
than the Naval air base before
trying another start on his 4,8- j
CO mile hop
He blamed the failure of yes
terday’s attempt to take-off on
the soft and uneven field, a,
cross wind and excess weight; !
1,050 gallons of gasoline.
When it became apparent that:
he would not get the monoplane 1
off with the weight which he or
iginally intended to set out with
he dumped 500 gallons of gasoline
and rose to miss the trees which
were 300 meters away. However,
the plane rose unsteadily so he
had to bring his plane down
again.
Bromley immediately cabled his
Tacoma backers for advise and
said he doubted whether he
could get the plane off any Jap
anese field but said that he might
consider a two-leg flight with a
stop-off at Nome, Alaska, to re
fuel.
SPOUSE, 27 YEARS HER SENIOR,
REFUSED TO SIGN OVER
PROPERTY TO HER
PORT ORCHARD, Aug., 30, (IP)—
Breaking under the strain of a 48
hour grilling, Mrs. Julia Christen
son, 36, bride of one month, told
officers she killed her husband, G
L. Christenson, 27 years her senior
and his partner John Highbar,
about 60, at the Christenson ranch
Tuesday.
She said she shot her husband
because he mistreated her and re
fused to deed property bought
from Highbar to her and refused to
give up the liquor making business.
She killed Highbar to seal his
lips against revealing the slaying
of her husband.
About 5 o’clock in the afternoon
she took a loaded revolver and
went to the root house where he
was making liquor and shot her
husband in the chest twice, then
turned the gun on Highbar .
Shore leave has been extended j
to members of the dstroyers un- j
til 4 p. m. Monday but this does
not mean the ships will depart i
at that time for Kodiak.
EDITORIAL
PERTINENT FACTS
We believe Senator Howell’s
avowal that he is viewing the Alas-!
ka Railroad situation with an un
biased and unprejudiced mind re
gardless of his Cordova speech in
which he is quoted as saying:
“I am told there are 8,000 per
sons living along the railroad and
of these 4,000 are in one way or
another connected with the rail
road. So WE have an investment
of $72,000,000 operating at an an
nual deficit of nearly $1,000,000 a
year to serve these 4,000 people
Where else in the United States j
are WE treating OUR people so;
generously. I fav^r public owner
ship, but utilities Jhould be run for
blood.”
Acknowledging, (for the sake of
argument, that the Senator is cor
rect with respect to the numbers j
beneficiary of the railroad. Is he
prepared to tell his colleagues in
the Senate the cause of this condi- j
tion? Let us assist him. For 14
years, during construction and j
long after, the railroad was in com
petition with the mercantile busi
ness established by those attracted
to the railroad belt by promises
that the enterprise carried with it
something more than, as has been
stated by a number of Congress
men and Cabinet members, the
building of a railroad, “now it
is up to Alaskans to make it pay.”
These are words used by former
Secretary of the Interior Hubert
Work- It is a well known fact that
during construction the sum of ap
proximately $5,000,000 was expend
ed by the railroad for foodstuffs
capable of being produced from the
soil of Alaska. Until the towns
along the railroad were incorporat
ed along about 1920, the utilities
were operated by the Federal Gov
ernment and purchasers of lots in
the townsites were assessed for
street, water and sewer improve
merits
During construction of the rail
road contracts' were let for station
work at figures permitting only of
day’s pay profits. If these profits
exceeded this figure the allowance
for yardage was reduced. In fair
ness, if a contractor failed to make
wages, he was allowed a sufficient
advance to guarantee him against
loss. Thus economy was practiced
to the nth degree, and the man of
toil did not secure sufficient to
make him independent of the din
ner pail and time clock.
The little merchant was forced
to be content with the “crumbs
that dropped from Uncle Sam’s
table. “Today the coal miner meets
competition thru the purchase of
coal by the railroad at from $3.65
to $3.85 per ton and resells it to its
employees at a figure below the
current rates paid by non-em
ployees, while the private dealer
must pay $5. This is excused un
der the plea that “it is part of the
workman’s compensation” Thus
he is not gven cash value in coin
for his labor, but something after
the nature of a rain check or cou
pon.
The Senator must know that
during this interval, and continu
ing today, the federal government
retains control of a major portion
of the natural resources in Alaska,
prominent among which is the
Matanuska coal fields; that these
resources are obtainable only thru
a leasing system that denies the
individual the privilege of develop
ing under the freedom of action
enjoyed by the investor in uncon
served resources; that various ex
periments have been indulged with
respect to these resources and are
being indulged today despite a
background of American progress
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LOAD TO HEAVY
TOKYO, Aug., 30, (^P)—Bromley
and Gatty attempted to start their
flight across the Pacific but their
plane was unable to leave the
ground at Yasumigaura because of
her heavy load of gasoline, 1100
gallons. The plane wouldn’t rise
from the short naval base field.
ARTHUR BOYD, BEST BOOZE
SALESMAN, SLAYS PAID
CASH TO TWO
SEATTLE, Aug. 30. (JF)—Bryant
and Hubbard both accepted huge
bribes from Arthur Boyd, ex
service man and once called Seat
tle’s best booze salesman, he test
ified today.
Boyd, who was decorated for
bravery in France during the
World Wer. is now serving a
sentence at McNeil Island; he
was sentenced at the second Olm
stead trial. He did not include
Lyle, Whitney, or MsKinney in
his accusations.
When he answered defense
questions if he had ever paid
money to Whitney he said “never
directly/' but testified Hubbard
was the “go-between” for boot
leggers and the prohibition de
partment.
He said that Bryant asked him
to “pqy my part direct to me
as do n©t think that I am get
ting all that is coming to me.”
He said he paid him $100 for a
trip to Vanvouver and gave him
$100 or $50 on several other oc
casions.
He testified he paid Hubbard
$11,000 a short time after for the
protection agreement which they
made in the year of 1927.
m ITER TRIP
III A EIRE: ALASKA
TO EAST GATE PANAMA
JUNEAU, Aug., 30, (/P)—Cana
dian brothers, Alvin and Evans
Fisher with Carl Bruder arrived
last night and left this morning
for Prince Rupert via Petersburgh
and Ketchikan in a 19-foot canoe
on a journey to the eastern gate of
Panama Canal.
They have 11,000 miles yet to
travel- They added an outboard
motor at Circle and plan to go to
the Skenna by rail, descending it
to the Fraizer into the Saskatche
wan, Lake Winnipeg to Red River,
portaging to the Mississippi and
descend to New Orleans thru the
Gulf of Mexico to Panama.
HD SCORE DEATHS
GREAT BRITAIN. BEAT
LONDON, Aug., 30, (/P)—Nearly
two score deaths have occurred in
Great Britain during the present
heat which is scorching the British
Isles and continent since early in
the week.
By mid-afternoon six more
names were added to the 29 deaths
previously recorded due to heat
Hundreds are in hospitals pros
trated. A trainer, feeding four
bears, was killed by the heat-mad
dened animals.
(By Sinbad the Sailor)
We know something of bee hives,
have once been stung investigating
the litttle beelets’ habits. When we
walked into the “Throne Room1' of
Ye “Ed” this morning we almost
ran out again, it was so reminen
cent of our beehive days- What
with the click-clicking of the lino
types and the moan of the press,
the scurry of type setters, visitors
coming in with “copy”, prominent
folks with pertinent discussions,
Ye “Ed” rushing wild-eyed fjom
task to pleasure and return and
Sint ad wandering aimlessly about
interferring with everything, it was
one busy place.
We suppose you folks realize the
importance of this bustling little
plant which brings you daily “The
Best in The North”. Of course you
do, but since we enjoy making
speeches and you have no means
of stopping us, we’ll not waste the
one which arose in our mind, to
wit :The home town paper is your
means of reaching the outside
world, of creating markets for your
surplus and of advertising your
potentialities. The Editor publish
es what you have given him to be
lieve are your policies and your
opinions or the policies and opin
ions which other discussions have
led him to anticipate. He is at the
apex of a thousand channels of
information, consequently gets a
view of the whole picture and en
deavors to condense this informa
tion for you. He tries to build to
ward the future prosperity of the
town. None but a fool, a few Edi
tors are that, would place an ob
stacle in the way of progress. We
speak of small papers in general,
and we take our bow and thank
you.
From the sublime to the sub
liner—Ye Editorial staff went over
enmass to the dance. Especially
ourself and the departing member
We could have demonstrated some
classy steps but some big ox trod
on our corn field. Thanks a lot
folks for the dance, we have not
enjoyed ourselves so much since
our worst enemy fell on a cactus.
Best matched couple attending—
Maud and Ray; cutest couple—
Bill Williams—who gave a hand on
the piano—and a little miss whose
name we were unable to worm out
of anyone. We already have a
black eye so won’t hazard remarks
about best dancers. Ditto, our pet
sea crab who sits on our desk and
nods his body because he has no
head, just gave us the dirt on you,
you big animal, but even with our
black heart we won’t tell.
Gentlemen who left note on our
desk about handball games kindly
prove same. Anyawy, “Truthful”
Burns caught the largest fish and
you can’t dispute that because the
fish got away.
Ladies! Ladies! When next on
the Perry ask to see their lovely
Cupie. You’ll get the thrill of a
lifetime.
We bemoan necessity which will
soon drag us from your midst and
wish to stop here and thank Mr.
Jessen for extending us the previ
lege of meeting you all in this
column daily. We hope you’ve got
an extra laugh or two. \n able
scribe once said, “Laugh and the
World Laughs at You, weep and
They Giggle the Same”. We’re
sold with the splendid town and
Seward boosters. You have enter
tained us in a princely fashion for
which we lack adjectives to thank
you.
O Yez! We got our jam. Three
jars ftzljl, which sits ^behind our
typewriter watched over hungerily
by Ditto. We are again confronted
by a drouth of adjectives, Mrs.
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