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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 217.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1930.
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FEEDERS, EITHER RAIL OR
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FAIRBANKS, Aug., 26, (/P)—
A portion of the story of the
Alaska Railroad’s needs and trou
bles have been placed in the j
hands of the Senatorial investi- j
gating committee and the public
hearings adjourned last evening af
ter a long array of witnesses had
been heard at the two-days ses
sions.
Continued government aid is
necessary, it was declared by sev
eral speakers, to permitdevelop
ment of the rich areas for from
such areas, they said, comes the
constantly growing tonnage which
would reduce and eventually wipe
out the annual deficit under which
the Alaska Railroad has opreated
for many years.
John L. McGinn, pioneer attor
ney and mining man, said that
lodes in many sections are of
great value but that feeders to
the railroad, either highways or
rail spurs, are needed to open
them up.
Capt. A. E. Lathrop told of the
expansion of the Alaska coal in
dustry and said the output has
doubled in the last eight years.
The railroad is needed, he said,
to permit continued growth of
the industry.
The committee made a trip to
day planning to return to Fair
banks and attend the Commercial
Club banquet. They leave for the
south tomorrow visiting at Me
Kinley Park enroute.
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THOUGHT IMMIGRATION IN
SPECTORS WERE ABOUT
TO ARREST HIM
FORT FRANCES, Ontario, Aug.
26. (/P)—Two U. S. Immigration in
spectors, Lawrence Doton, 30, and
Lawrence Jones, 27, were shot
and killed on a train at Emo, near
here, by Emeric Frenett, 21. Fre
r.ett had been pursued and was
fatally wounded by a posse and
died several hours later.
The inspectors were killed with
out warning by Frenett who thot
they were about to arrest him as
Fort Frances police had pursued
Frenett when they caught him
tampering writh automobiles.
The inspectors were on the train
in course of ordinary duties and
neither knew the police were af
ter Frenett.
FAIRBANKS, Aug., 26. t/P>—
Senator Howrell, Admiral Coontz,
and Commissioner McManamy
went to Nenana to hold further
hearings.
Senators Kendrick and Thom
as, and Assistant General Attor
ney Sisson airplaned to Circle
City to hold public hearings. ,
WEATHER HALTS HOP
TOKYO, Aug., 26, (/P>—Brom-1
ley’s flight to the United States
was again postponed when the
aviator received adverse weather
reports. Bromley said he might
start at dawn Thursday although
the weather is likely to continue
bad for several days.
SENATORIAL PARTY
MAY RETURN 10 |
COAST. EARLIER1
“APPLE-CART UPSET WHEN A
SERIES OF SET SPEECHES
ABANDONED
FAIRBANKS. Aug. 27. (Special
to the Gateway)—When the Sena
torial Comission left Seward it was
cli the schedule to go direct to
McKinley National Park, there to
spend two days. However, it was
speedily shown to the members
the two days at the Park would be
a waste of time, and that bad
weather might make the visit there
i unprofitable.
When Friday morning dawned
at Curry, with a heavy rain falling
the whole schedule was changed,
'and the train was run through to
Fairbanks. Word was telegraphed
ahead so that the Fairbanks wel
come committee came down the
road to a pcfrit between Nenana
and Healy and boarded the train
there.
The arrival at Fairbanks was not
cheering- A heavy rainVas falling
and as one of the senators re
marked, the people on the station
platform looked like drowned roo
sters.
The Commission, in the mean
time, had got right down to bus
iness on the train, and held an
impromptu haring, especially as to
coal rates and prices'. Capt. A. E.
Lathrop having come down with
the Fairbanks committee, was quiz
zed as to prices of Healy coal to
individuals and prices to the big
gold mining company, and just
why there was such a tremendous
difference in the rates charged.
This will be further inquired into
Mdnday
j Chairman Howell sent a note to
the Commercial Club that a hearing
would be held all day Saturday at
the parlor car of the special train,
and designated the different sub
jects that woud be discussed. This
made a rapid readjustment of plans
dn the part of the Commercial
Club, which had expected to take
i up these matters in set speeches
jat a banquet which was to have
been held last night
It is quite easy to hake a mem
orized speech at a banquet, and not
nearly so easy to make the same
speech at a hearing where at any
moment some member of the Com
mission or some outsider may jump
lin with an embarrassing question.
! With the prevailing weather
there is no prospect of extensive
i sight-seeing, and cor^eq, u e^ij 11 y
[there is prospect of very extensive
i inquiry* which makes some of the
IFairbankers feel as wet as the
weather.
I A half hour stop was made at
McKinley and another at Nenana.
At Healy the railroad people took
lunch at one of the eating houses,
;while the Government party took
lunch on the special car.
The interference with the ad
1 vertised schedule by th weather will
• result in a more extensive inquiry
here by the Comission, and a two
'days earlier return toward the
jcoast than had been originally
Dlanned.
MISSING PAGE IN BLACK BOOK
DESTROYED BY WHITNEY,
IT WAS SAID
SEATTLE, Aug., 26, (/P)—The
outline of the government’s case
against former dry offfficials was
completed in the Federal court.
About 25 witnesses for the
prosecution are yet to be heard.
Their testimony will be mainly
corrobrative, government officials
said.
Olmsted concluded his testimo
ny which dovetailed with Hub
bard’s.
Three witnesses followed Olm
sted, Mrs. Elsie Olmsted, Mary
Alexander, and a nurse in the
Olmsted home in 1924 and .05.
They testified accompanying Olm
sted downtown where he told
| them he was to meet McKinney.
I Neither one saw McKinney nor
| saw Olmsted bribe him either
' with money or liquor.
George Behner. a former dry
| agent was the next witness. Olm
: sted a*d Hubbard testified that
j Behner was “framed” at the re
quest of Whitney because he
j was an “outlaw” agent who had
not followed Whitney’s instruct
| ions. Behner indentified Olmsted’s
; black book with its allegedly miss
jing page. He said he took it from
| Olmsted during a raid. The miss
| ir.g page was destroyed by Wh?t
! ney, Behner said, with the expla
nation that while the information
i was no entirely correct it would
have a bad efcct on the jury as
i the names of Whitney, Corwin
! and Revelle were on the missing
page with sums of money notec
: besides each name.
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SEATTLE, Aug. 26. @ — Eric
Brattstrom, 51, shipping man, and
,at one time vice-consul to Swe
Iden dropped dead at his summei
I home in Brownsville. It is believed
| that he died from heart attack
as he collapsed while cranking an
automobile and died a few min
utes later.
Soon after arriving in Seattle
in the year 1906 Brattstrom went
to Nome where he engaged min
ing. At one time he was passenger
agent here for the Swedish-Am
erican Steamship Company.
THE STOCK. HIKE!
Int. Tel . 43
American . 121
Stand. N. J.. 68
Richfield . ^
Zellerbach . 13
LeHigh . No sale
Juneau .. *
University of Cal.75
Goldman Curb . 1£
Ban Corporation . 2S
Goldman, (later) . 3G
Kennecott . 34
.Steel .-. I61
| Radio . 4C
| Cons. Gas . 104
j Twin Cities . 27
I Carbide . 76
Motors . 44
HOLMES HEARD FRO*i
BARROW, Aug., 26, (/P)~ -The j
schooner Holmes is reported as I
being at Wainwright, by the fleet
of small boats and is due here
tonight. The ice is still far out
with the wind shifting in all di
rections.
MINERS SPOKESMEN
■BE INTEERESTS
WRECKING ROAD
SENATORS DUE LEAVE FAIR
BANKS TODAY ENROUTE
SOUTH
Fairbanks, Aug., 24, Special to
t The Gateway—Yesterday after
jnoon the Senatorial Committee
heard more witness presented by
i Chairman Richert of the Com
jmercial Club, relating to sluice
j mining and also lumber manu
j facture.
The several people who were
i presented fought shy of any ref
1 erence to the Chatanika branch
of the Alaska Railrad, showing
that if there was collusion in the
suspension of that road they
were more or less involved. But in
the evening there was a change
in the tune.
John Durand and J. W Murphy,
representing the group of small
er miners in the Shatanika dis
trict, appeared and showed that
the road had fceen used by the
big fellows getting their mach
inery and heavy freight delivered
at small cost or no cost at all and
then used their influence to junk
the road before the smallest
miners could get any benefit.
They charged that there was a
conspiracy to kill the road,
squeese out the small fellows and
gobble up their claims. Also, that
the road runs through ground
that a big company desires to
use. and that the rails and ties
are to be taken out.
Durand and Murphy filed writ
ten statements to support theii
testimony and also copy of a tel
egram to the Secretary of the In
terior protesting against the des
truction of the road.
The Committee will visit the
College and the mining section
today. Additional testimony will
be heard tomorrow and Tuesday
morning the special train will
start o nther eturn trip,
j Manager Ohlson joined the
party yesterday afternoon.
LUNESJIEIIOH
i LOS ANGELES, Aug, 26 (/P)—
j Lon Chaney, “The man of a
thousands faces,” died at St.
Vincents Hospital after a valiant
j battle against anemia, congestion
of the bronchial tubes and hem
orrage of the lungs, shortly after
midnight.
The last suddenly cut short the
veteran actor's fight for life af
|ter he had been reported on the
!road to recovery.
| He was 47 years of age. When
I the hemorrage struck unexpected
ly, he was dead within 30 minutes.
At the bedside were Mrs. Chaney
and their 22 year-old son, Creigh
ton.
_
A press dispatch tells of a poor
fellow who “died without the aid
of a doctor.” But fortunately few
have to shuffle off without such
assistance.
NAUTICAL
U. S. S. DESTOYERS
WASMUTH AND PERRY
(By Inbad the Sailor)
Ensign Schumacher of the Was
muth has taken over the boxing
and wrestling stable for the Navy
If the hefty slugger lets go on his
men there’ll be no fights at the
smoker. Our nose still smarts from
the sock he gave it Saturday after
noon. Ensign Schumacher was a
member of the Naval Academy
boxing squad prior to graduation
and got the low down, high up and
in between, from trainers who knew
their fist-cuffs
(Editors Note: “D..o..w.Jn..e..s”
not “Wones”. The poor fellow’s be
en in a quandary all day wondering
i if he is himself or someone he never
met before.)
| Olaf Svensdahl of the Wasmuth
j spent the last hour Sunday night
jand the first four hours of Mon
day morning relating his exper
iences in catching whiffenpoffs in
Alaskan waters. A whiffenpoff
!is a backward swimming fish and
can only be caught with “spitting”
Itobacco. Olaf will give you all the
“dirt”.
I Give the little scribe a big band!
The Navy wins! Lieutenant Sylves
ter, took ye “Ed” for a buggy ride
! yesterday in a game of handball.
It was outright slaughter from the
first. Biff! Bang! And the game
was ourn
| Kenneth Fuller doubted the siw
of fish caught by Cells until last
night- when, in the darkness by the
after deckhouse, he nearly did
Jonah down the maw of a fish
! caught by Celis earlier in the even
! ing.
Thanks, girls, for coming down
to see us, but remember we wash
our socks on the Wasmuth.
“Mr- Schoeffner: The Navy buys
■some excellent long glasses, don’t
they? Signed: Love and Kisses the
Officer of the Deck".
Plase note that we quote the a
bove and are * not responsible for
any reaction.
! Fish stories hve been told, we
suppose, since Eve kided Adam a
bout a little red apple, but when
Strumer and Schooling of the Perry
went forth on a hunting and fish
ing expedtion and returned to the
ship with two jars of bluberry jam
and one string of dried fish and
the big bums tried to make us be
lieve they hunted with guns and
! fished in the water with hooks, vre
hand Eve the red, red, razzberry
and turn a deaf ear to the tales
'of Ike Walton and Will Rogers
iThen along came Red Dieltz with a
story of catching an 18 pound fish
jand being unable to bring the last
j three and a half pounds aboard - -
iwho said they never did it that way
'on the Pittsburg?
I We .have asked Ye “Ed” to re
Imove the “S” from our name for
I this issue, at least. Something
! happened last Sunday night and we
learned the right to be hung in the
jhall of fame. But we interviewed
'ourself earily today and you’ll find
| the hoary tale elsewhere in today’s
I paper.
Things are picking up In the old
home towm, dear readers. The Navy
- - I like to write that*- -will be
ihalf-directly (we just coined that
i word and some day we’ll be famous
ifor it) the cause of holding the
iAlaska over from 9:00 pm. unti’.
jmidnight Wednesday and thus in
j crease the fun OUR — I include
you all in this smoker! Captain An
| sell, - -what WOULD we do with
out him, the dear old horse thief
I started it and if it can be done, he
'and the Navy and you folks, are the
| ones to do it. If there’s no other
[way, Lieutenant Cooper and Ye
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