SEWARD,
ALASKA
1
CENTER of
EVERYTHING”
Seward
COAST TERMINAL OF THE
ALASKA RAILROAD
Gateway
DAILY AND WEEKLY
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 216
SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1929
PRICE TEN CENTS
Charles D. Garfield
Delivers Annual
Message Seward
MANAGER OF THE ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF
THE SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
HONOR GUEST AT SPECIAL LUNCHEON:
GAVE INTERESTING TALK ON CONDITIONS
THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY AS OBSERV
ED BY HIM ON LONG JOURNEY.
distinquisheiTgIjests present
"Tany listened intently to the annual message del
bv Charles D. Garfield, manager of the Alaska j
ent of the Seattle Chamber of Commecre, at a j
mt of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, at a !
at the reward Grill at noon Sunday. The message re
flected progress throughout the Territory and he par
ticularly noted Alaskans expressed confidence as to the
future.
CAPITOL HOMS
DEVELOPMENTS IN
SHIPJBOPAGANBA
ANOTHER CLASH OVER TAR
IFF; CHARGES ARE
HURLED
WASHINGTON, Sept.. 16. (JF)—
The capitol city hummed with de
’ opments in the case of William
Shearer, self asserted conductor of
;r paganda against disarmament
in behalf of three shipbuilding
companies. Members of the sen
ate naval affairs committee will
meet to decide whether there I
b- an investigation of Shearer’s
claims that he defeated the Gen- i
f a conference for arms limitation.
There is little doubt that the in
quiry will be held under Senator ;
B.rah and the foreign relations
committee.
President Hoover and Secretary |
of the Navy Adams brought them- I
selves into the picture. Both men j
denied intimations that Shearer i
received his information from ad
mirals or other high naval officials |
and President Hoover made it a j
point of declaring false the charges
that Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones, j
American delegate to the Geneva !
conference, was acquainted with
Shearer. Shearer himself denied :
mentioning admirals as his infor- j
niants. altho he said his informa
tion was official.
The senate witnessed anothpr
clash over the tariff between Sena
te:* Simons and Smoot. Senator i
Smoot charged the democratic '
m ve for publication of corporation j
income tax reports was a mere a1.- j
tempt to filibuster against the tar
iff bill. Senator Harrison, a demo
crat. accused Smoot of concealing
important facts concerning the
tariff.
ROBBED THEATER
CHICAGO, Sept. 16. (/Pi—Three '
armed robbers held up a theater i
;u<c before opening time and es- j
c. ped with $500 in silver.
NEED MORE FUNDS
Garfield praised highly the
work being accomplished by the
United States Geological Survey.
He pointed out the need of this
most important work to deter
mine the mineral resources of
Alaska; he showed where more
coverage in this field of activi
ty was required and urged that
the Seward Chamber of Com
merce work for increased appro
priations by congress so that de
velopment of mines in the Terri
tory will progress at a healthy '
pace.
RADIO BEACONS
Garfield pointed out the need
for more radio beacons along
the coast line of Alaska, which
is 26,000* miles in extent, with
but few beacons established at
the present time. He stated it
would be a big aid to ships go
ing to the Westward, like the S.
S. Starr, which for a ship of its
size is making one of the longest
regular runs in the world.
BOOST FOR ROAD
With sincere interest he told
of the need of a road to the high i
way from Moose Pass to Hope. !
with the road now extending
from Seward to Mile 18. This !
would lead to a more rapid de- I
velopment of the highly miner- |
alized section in the Hope dis- j
trict, the agiicultural section, and !
would be an aid to those located ;
there and would also bring bus- |
iness to Seward.
Working in the interests of 1
this connecting link he will take
the matter up with the Juneau 1
office of the U. S. Bureau of
Public Roads.
CONDITIONS GOOD
Garfield has just returned from
a trip to Fairbanks and other
Interior points and was deeply
impressed by the healthy con
ditions in Alaska in general. He
found conditins fine over in
Anchorage and the people there
hopeful. Anchorage is now us
ing electricity from the Eklutna
hydro-electric power project, and
getting the energy for lights,
heat oad power at a lower rate
thsm before. Putting this new
plant in operation is expected ;
j.o interest other industries in
locating there. He inspected the
plant at Eklutna, being pleased I
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NO OECUMI1
‘
ft?
u
DE
TOWN IS SHELLED
RUSSIANS AND CHINESE CON
TINUE TO BATTLE ALONG
RAILROAD ZONE
j
MUKDEN, Sept., 16, (/P)—Soviet ;
Russia is making war on China
without a declaration. Russian
troops, reinforced by Moscow bat
talions, have begun forward move- j
ments. Chinese armies have been
ordered to protect themselves with
out impinging upon Russian terri
tory and fighting on a wide scale 1
for the last three days has been re
ported.
Pogranichna has been shelled ■,
and bombed with heavy damage I
and other key cities are under!
siege. One train was bombed by a !
Russian airplane and five mem- j
bers of the train crew were wound
ed, with two dying in a hospital.
The Chinese commander has re
quested reinforcements to be I
brought up.
THREE KILLED: AUTO
PLUNGED OVER BUNK
WITCHITA, Kansas. Sept., 16,
(/P)—Three persons were killed
and a fourth injured when an
auto plunged over an 18-foot
embankment near here. The dead
are Arthur Remer, 22; Donald
Thornton, 23; Miss Dorothy Bal
lard, 17, and Miss Billy Barnett, i
21, with her hip broken, walked !
and crawled one-half a mile to a
farmer’s house for aid.
JEWISH WAILING WALL WORN SMOOTH IN
IN AGES OF RACE’S SORROWING
The wailing wall of Jerusalem, two views of which 1
are shown, is a barrier to amicability between Jew and
Arab. The map shows the principal centers of the re
sent disturbances.
OLYMPIA, Wn„ Sept., 16, UP)—
Mrs. William A. Appleyard, 30
and stepson William Wallace, age
five, were killed when a Olympia
Tacoma bus struck the, mother
who dashed after the boy running
into the path of the bus in an
effort to drag him away. Both
were hit and Marie Epley, age
six, a daughter from a former
marriage, was seriously injured.
SPLIT DOUBIL-HEIDEI
Biff HUBLEBS
ST. LOUIS, Sept., 16, (/P)—'With
two rookies pitching St. Louis di
vided a doubleheader with the
Giants dropping the first game
and winning the nightcap.
The Giants remained three
games behind Pittsburgh in the
race for second place in the Nat
ional league.
Young A1 Grabowski, who won
his first major league start for
the Cards against Boston last
week, got off to a bad start in
the first game allowing four hits
and four runs in the opening
frame; thereafter he held the
Giants to four more blows.
Jim Lindsey, of Houston, Tex
as, made his major league debut
in the second game and won it.
COLLIDE IN FOG
TACOMA, Sept., 16. (/P)—An
automobile collision in a dense
fog killed one twin baby, a daugh
ter of Arley B. Mathison of Port
land. As a result of the fatality
J. M. Sunich of Tacoma was ar
rested on manslaughter charges.
POWERS VnilULLY
AGREE EQUALITY OF
j
AMERICA WILL ASK THAT PRES
ENT 10-YEAR HOLIDAY BE
EXTENDED
j WASHINGTON, Sept., 16, (/P)-As
a result of the virtual agreement
between America and Great Brit
jain upon the fundamental princi
ples of equality of cruiser strength
a general naval conference is in
i prospect for early December,
j So successful have negotiations
with London been, which began
with the inception of the Hoover
and MacDonald regimes that such
a parley will be attended by Japan,
France and Italy as well as Eng
land and America.
It is definitely promised that the
United States intends to ask that
the present 10-year holiday of con
struction of capital ships be ex
tended from 1931 to 1936; then it is
j expected the way will be open for
further curtailment of tonnage and
heading elimination of this type of
vessel as a fighting unit.
! But a single difference of opinion
|was reported is in the way- for a
complete Anglo-American accord
and that is the problem of cruiser
parity. This concerns some 30,000
tons of cruiser strength and
whether it will be embodied in
three large vessels or five smaller
ones.
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FOUR MORE BODIES
RECOVERED EDOM LAKE
MICHIGAN, FREIGHTER
GRANDHAVEN, Michigan, Sept.
16, (/P)—Lake Michigan gave up
four more bodies of the crew of
the freighter Andaste which sank
last Monday while enroute from
Chicago.
The crew consisted of 24 men
and one boy. The bodies of R.
Wiley, second engineer; Capt.
Charles Brown, have been recov
I ered. Over the week-end the four
above were found. Two of them
| wore life preservers six bodies
j have thus far been found and
i searchers are trying to find the
; remainder.
AMBASSADOR TO CUBA
WASHINGTON, Sept., 16, (TP)—
! Harry F. Guggenheim has been
named as Ambassador to Cuba
in place of Brandon Judah of
Chicago who recently resigned.
The name of the new Ambas
sador has been prominently men
tioned in diplomatic circles for
sometime. The appointment has
been confirmed.
J. S. BARNES DIES
SEATTLE, Sept., 16, (TP)—John
Sloane Barnes, aged 74, known
:as “Father of baseball in the
West, ’ died here. He managed
baseball teams in Minneapolis,
St. Paul, Spokane and Portland