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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 41.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, Feb., 22, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LOMEN COMPANY
CHARGED WITH j
UNFAIR DEALINGS
ASKING FOR LEASE OF LAND
COMPANY HAS OCCUPIED
15 YEARS OWN HERDS
SEATTLE, Feb., 22, (R>)—The Lo
rnen Reindeer Co., Is criticized as
acquiring ownership of reindeer
grazing lands from Eskimos by un
fair dealings, was wired Governor
Parks, asking him to order an in
estigation of the situation as soon
*s possible.
The message said: “C. L. Andrews
‘nrmer Bureau of Education teach
•r at Deering has filed charges
with the Department of the Inter
or and broadcast thru the Ameri
•an press that thousands of rein
leer have been taken from Eski
mos' also, that within three years
ihe Eskimos’ reindeer will all be
ong to Lomen and nothing will be
eft but memories of the Eskimo".
Andrews, who is here, said the
liomen Co., persuaded Eskimos to
j^t it manage their herds and b>
including them with those of the
company fixed the price at $3 per
‘lead for the native reindeer, then
'barged the natives on an average
>f more than $1 per year for herd
ng their own deer.
This arrangement, he said, would
result in ownership of animals
massing to the company in three
fears and said the company also
aas applied to the government for
grazing lands rightfully belonging
io the EsKimo.
Loman in denying the allega
, ions, said his firm merely offered
:o buy whatever reindeer the Eski
mos wanted to sell because they
frad no facilities for butchering.
Me added that Eskimos own 80 per
«ent of the reindeer now in Alaska
nd much of that is where the Lo
*ren Co., have had no interest or
•ontrol.
He said several hundred Eskimos
themselves are employed as herd
ers at ‘ liberal salaries” and where
& e Lomen Co., is herding deer for
Rikimos. He said they charge Es
, mos for herding deer prorated on
#tC actual cost to the company,
roe Eskimos are enabled to pay
:iis either in labor or money.
He said the available grazing
and has already been apportioned
lev the Land Department in Alaska
o Eskimos and private companies
an the basis of size oi herds. The
Lomen Co., is asking for a lease on
.and it already has occupied for 15
years and which had never been
occupied by herds other than those
belonging to the company.
PHAROAH’S CURSE
STRANGE DEATH
CAUSES SUICIDE
INQUEST VERDICT OF SUICIDE;
WORRIED MONTHS DEATH
SON, LEFT NOTE
LONDON,, Feb., 22, (A5)—His mind
harried by thoughts of the Phai
oah’s curse and the recent death
of his son, 78-year-old Lord West
foury today fell or threw himself
lo death from a bedroom window
on the seventh floor of St. James
Court.
The body crashed thru a glass
veranda ceiling 100 feet below' and
Knocked over a woman. She was
so badly cut by glass and effected
by the shock that it was necessary
,o take her to a hospital.
Lord Westbury was dead when
aicked up The inquest brought in
sound mind. He had worried for
a verdict of suicide while of un
months over the strange circum
stances of the death of his son,
Richard Betiiell, 46, who was secre
lary to Howard Carter, whose in
vestigations :in Egypt revealed the
treasures of ancient Tut Ank
Hamen.
Westbury left a note saying:
Really I cannot stand any more of
-hese horrors.”
SOURDOUGH DIES
SEATTLE. Feb., 22, (/P)—Edmund j
Smith, seventh Alaska pioneer and j
former member of the Seattle law j
firm of Smith & Matthews, died |
yesterday. Before coming to Seat- j
tie in 1912 he was a school director j
! at Valdez.
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Bodies Aviators
Taken To Nanuk
. S. S. NAUAK, Feb., 22, (/P)—With
the temperature 50 below zero,
Slipneov brought the bodies of Ben
Eielson and Earl Borland yesterday
to the Nanuk.
Pilot Reid, who arrived • from
Nort Cape yestedray with 18 cases
of gasoline, damaged the landing
gear on one side of hte Fairchild
plane as he brought the craft down
to the hard surface of the Nan
uk. It will be necessary to make
repairs before it can be taken into
the air again.
The bodies will be taken to Nome
as soon as conditions permit.
Hard tought Game
Goes To The Colleg |
By Score 26 To 20
Wot a game! j
Fans who treked to the S. A, j
C gym last night to witness the
play-off between the Alaska Col-!
lege quint and the fighting Fire- j
! men. wTere treated to a basketball j
classic which ended in a rare j
l display of fireworks.
Trailing for nearly three-quar- \
, ters of the dynamic tussei,,
‘Red’ Kubon, one of Coach Ryan's
I forward charges, with a well ex
: ecuted free throw, broke the 18 i
to 18 tie, which a moment before j
liad been created by Brumbach, |
one of the cleverest players who'
has ever stepped the local floor.
The wearers of the purple and
gold delivered a punch in the
final quarter that gave them
the 28 to 20 game. The achieve
ment duplicates their, performance
at Cordova, the Varsity having
won four out of five games play
ed against the various teams of
of that city.
The Firemen were well on the
way to the coveted victory, over
whelming the visitors 9 to 2 in
the early quarter on a basket and
j a free throw by Captain Kunz and
baskets by Andresen, who started
' the fireworks, and Shellhorn and
Peyton, while Showell’s field goal
was the only retaliation. Shell
1 horn connected for two more Fire
1 men baskets in the second quar
‘ ter, brining the local count to 13.
J College fininshed the half at 9
points on two baskets by Brum
; bach, and one each by Morton
; and Jackson.
The hot time “in the old town"
j came in the 3rd quarter, with
| Brumbach, College star, doing
* | the heavy work. Peyton/ playing
'* \ a fast game at center for the
I Firemen, in place of Turner whe
o-ot the damp earlier
I scored from the field and ther
i from the foul line, and will
Shelly’s goal the Firemen’s tota
reached 18. Putting on a cham
pionship spurt, however, the Col
lege, with three fine baskets b?
i Brumbach, and one by Kubon
| and fouls converted by Kuboi
and Tom Ek, two swell chaps—a,
j they all are—gained a one poin
: lead at the finish of the thir<
Quarter.
Free throw's by Kunz am
I Peyton wrere all the Fire lad
i could muster from the now sup
reme Collegians, who didn’t sto
; until their markers reached 26.
Referee Don Shellhorn han
i died the game very efficiently fo
| a beginner missing but few play
' ! in the fast game. Jack Rosnes
| refereed from the lines. Followin
| the game the members of the Col
: lge team were dined which woun
j up their visit here just right.
OXEN GRADE ROAD
> BROWNSVILLE, TeX., Feb., 2
(JP)—when Jesus Lopez, Mexica
I farmer recently bought an automc
bile, he used a yoke of oxen t
f grade the road from a highway t
jhis home.
GEORGE WASHINGTON “The Father of Our Country’’
British Ohstinancy
Will Cause Third
Fizzle, Is Feared
WASHINGTON, Feb., 22, t/P)—
Chairman Britten of the House
Naval Affairs Committee, contend'-;
the American representative t
the London Naval Confereac
,o
should accept the advice of tlieir
technical advisors “against agree
ing to build for American use the
type of cruisers the British want:
us to have”.
‘‘America needs,” he said, “large
cruisers with extensive cruising
radius”. If the London conference
fails he believes it will be said that
it will be the “third one to fizzle
because of (British obstinancy”.
FROM ICE-CIL'rV-O FUR
S. S. hANUL IN
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SF2ERIA, TO SEWARD
Marion Swenson, Seattle high school girl, who ar
' rived in Seward last night from North Cape, Siberia.
3 Miss Swenson was the Seattle Times correspondent dur
s ing the search for Colonel Eielson and Earl Borland.
_! & _____
5 Plucky Marion awenson wm ouun
” be seeing gay city lights instead of
d blizzards and the gray vastness of
the arctic.
! She and her father Captain Olaf
Swenson, in Seward today, flew
1, from his fur trading ship, the Nan
n !Uk, instead of patiently waiting for
- the ice to break,
o J Since last June Miss Swenson,
o | Seattle high school student, has
Ibeen on her father’s ship now lock
ed in the ice off Cape North, Sibe
ria. Many weeks of shoil rations
and hours around an oil stove in
the cabin waited her.
Then came aviators searching
for Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Bor
land, lost flyers. The Nanpk serv
ed as a base. Now Marion and her
father are enroute back to civiliza
tion. A trip to New York waits as
ja reward to her help.
McMullen Buys
Business Property;
Will Build At Once
Announcement was made yester
day by P. C. McMullen, local busi
ness man and mayor of Seward,
the purchase from Chas. A. Teck
lenberg of the business property
located between the Seward Drug
Co., and Orlander’s Jewelry estab
lishment, and immediate construc
tion of a one-story concrete and
hnildinc.
The deal involves the approxi
mate sum of $15,000. One of the
buildings, now upon the property,
is occupied by The Osbo Electrical
Shop, the second store building
being empty. These buildings will
be torn down as soon as Mr. Osbo
moves to a new location. In the
meantime work will proceed, start
ing Monday, in clearing away as
much of the present structures as
. is possible.
j Mr. MeMullen, who has been a
tenant in the Johansen building for
many years, expects to be located
!in his new structure by July 15. The
interior will be replete in new fur
niture and fixtures; two large
display windows in the special
front and hard wood floors are in
cluded in the contractor’s plans,
and there will be a full basement
the same size as the building, 30 by
,90.
! Mr. McMullen started men at
work today in clearing away por
tions of the buildings now occuping
the property and Contractor Ger
hart Johnsen, who has been
awarded the erection job will start
at once manufacturing about 10,
000 concrete blocks.
G. N. And JV. P. Ry.
Merger Approved
WASHINGTON, Feb., 22, (/P)—The
Interstate Commerce Commission
! approved the merger of the Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific
Railway, which is to be known as
the Great Northern Pacific Rail
>way.
The Chicago-Burlington & Quin
cj&has been divorced from the sys
tem and has made a truck line o:
.its own. The merger will als<§ ac
quire the Portland-Spokane &
'Seattle Railway,
MOTHER OF TWO
CHILDREN HUNG
STATE ARIZONA
TELEGRAM DELIVERED REVEAL
ED UNKNOWN CHAPTER OF
HER EARLY LIFE
FLORENCE, Ariz., Feb., 22, UP)—
The name of Eva Dugan, mother
of two children, was written on the
pages of Arizona history as the first
of her sex to be legally executed in
the name of the sovereign state.
The 52-year-old housekeeper was
convicted of the slaying in 1927 of
A. J. Mathis, her employer, on his
ranch near Tucson.
Shortly before dawn she calmly
! walked up the 13 steps leading to
Ithe gallows, smiled as she stood on
Ithe trap and while prison officials
'adjusted the black hood about her
ihead remained unshaken in her
! resolve to “show the world I can
itake my medicine.”
She went to her death without
making a statement. A telegram
delivered to her death cell revealed,
a hitherto unknown chapter of her
early life.
The message, signed “Ada Host
,apple, Seattle”, read: “Sympathize
with you and I have the greatest
admiration for your bravery and
grit”.
I “Ada”, she said, “was an old
friend of the Yukon days. Probably
'you didn’t know it but I was one of
those who followed the gold rush
linto the Yukon”. The woman was
I unfound in a Seattle directory.
j NOTIFIED BY RADIO, ILLNESS
JUNEAU, Feb., 22, (A?)—Casey Se
' crest, who was notified by K O M O
broadcasting station. Seattle over a
| week ago that his wife was serious
ly ill in Seattle, received word m
the Taku district and came here.
He left cn the steamer Northland
for the south Thursday.
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WEATHER HALTS
\ FLYING ACTIVITY
SIBERIAN FILERS
MAY NOT USE FAIRCHILD PLANE
MECHANIC, PILOTS TESTING
ENGINE, TROUBLE
S. S. NANUK, Siberia, Feb.. 22, (IP)
—No developments have taken
place owing to the extremely cold
but clear weather which, is over 40
below w'ith wind.
The aviators have decided not to
use the Fairchild engine and it is
not working properly. Young took
■off in a test hop and it functioned
poorly so he landed. Mechanican
McCauley and Pilots are checking
the engine trouble again today.
It is possible they will use a dif
ferent plane. The Junkers plane,
which left here on the ninth landed
yesterday from St. Lawrence Bay
after a three and one-half hour
; flight. They reported a non-stop
flight. Weather has been unfavora
ble since they left here.
BIG JAPANESE
VESSEL AGROUND
UNIMAK PASS
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OFFICIALS SURPRISED SHIP IN
| ALASiva^i viaitao; urr-n
ATED JAPANESE COAST
f SEATTLE, Feb., 22, (/P)-—'The
grounding of the Japanese steamer
Koshuna Maru near Scotch Cap
i Light, Unimak Pass, was reported
! | to the cable office last night by the
t Signal Corps operator at Squaw
t!Harbor about 200 miles from the
: wreck. The message gav"' no de
> tails except that the ship was leak
- ling in two of her holds.
Officials of the line reported she
- jordinarny operated in Japanese
- coastv\£se trade and (declared they
f were surprised the ship was in Al
- askan waters.
i | 1 he vessel was built in 1927 and
}was 4.271 gross tons.