THE TERMINUS OF
THREE OCEANIC
STEAMSHIP LINES.
Seward Daily Gateway
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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 39. SEWARD, ALASKA,
WEDNESDAY, February 19, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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MAJORITY OF TOWNS
STRIKING GROWTH
TEN YEARS
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JUNEA.U Feb., 19, (/P)— An of-!1
ficial preliminary census return 1
for 1930 has been issued by the
governor’s office for the First Di- 1
vision and gives Juneau a popu
lation of 4,016 the largest in the ’
division. j .
Ketchikan’s population is given (
as 3 780; Petersburg, 1,217; Sitka,.
the only other town to pass the
1,000 mark, with 1.053. i
The total population of the di
vision is given as 90,138 (this,
undoubtedly, must be 19.138) a
gain of 1,730 over the census of
1920. This will unquestionably be
increased when the final returns,
have been compiled which will be!
sometime in the approaching j
spring.
Absentees were not enumerat
ed in the preliminary figures and
are yet to be added to the canvas, j
Juneau gains since the last j
census are placed at 958; Ketclu- .
kan’s growth for the past decade
is more striking showing a gain
of 3,022; Wrangell, Skagway, Hy- !
der and Haines, in order of com- |
munities, showed gains; Douglas,
Thane, Treadwell and Chicagof re- .
vealed declines, principally be
cause of loss from mining activi
ties. . .
Wliile Juneau leads in munici
pal poulation, Ketchikan ranks
first as a recording district which
shows 36,385 (Figures according to
dispatch) residents; the Juneau
recording district shows a popu
lation of 6,242 residents.
EI.niBETH, N. J.. Feb.. 19. (/P)
.... -Tranks of 60 workmen, who
wer: seared with exploding nap
tha in the Standard Gil refinery,
were depleted by death until the
fist of fatalities reached 10.
Among the bandaged-swathed
laborers in three hospitals there
were 20 whose chances for recov
ery seemed doubtful.
It is feared that several besides
will be permanently blinded if
they do survive the scortching
blast.
EfflITI ORDER
DOES NOT SFFEGT
KM OIL LID
The four unreserved areas in
the Territory which were recently
withdrawn from the public land by
executive order, were set aside sole
ly to be used for the benefit of the
United States Navy Department, as
possible rdrplane landing fields and
not because they are tidewater en
trances to oil fields, according to
the Juneau Empire.
It has been reported that the
withdrawal of the land was made
m order to secure strategic points
which would enable the govern
ment, if it desired, to control the
oil fields.
The areas at Port Graham and
Yakatat Bay are not far from fields
which have shown oil seepage, but
the one at Wide Bay is not situated
near oil land. This latter area is
the largest of tue four reservations.
To get acquainted with trappers
and traders between Fairbanks
and Bethel on the lower Kusko
kwim river, Martin Victor, Jr.,
young Chicago fur man, will leave
Fairbanks shortly on a dog team,
trip of approximately 1,600 miles.
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USD KILLED ON :
LONELY 11 Ki
ST. MARIES, Idaho, Feb-, 19, </P)
-The body of Gust Helsing, 68,
/as found on his lonely ranch by
i is brother, John. Helsing had
teen beaten, slashed and strang
ed and had a rpe about his
teck, and his skull had been ham
nered.
He had been sought since Wed
lesday. There were no clues as
o the killer. Helsing had habit
mlly carried money. He was a
widower and lived alone. The
jody had been covered with hay
md horses, at the hay, uncovered
ihe body.
TARDIEU CONSIDERED FAVOR
ITE TO SUCCEED SELF:
POINCARE, SECOND
PARIS. Feb., 19, (ff)—The politi
cal storm which has threatened
the Tardieu cabinet since the
naval conference has been under
way in London, broke in the
Chamber of Deputies.
A few hours later the Ministers
handed, collectively, their resig
nation to President Doumergue
who had accepted the Cabinet a
little more than three months
previously.
The fall came over the finan
cial measure on the fourth vote.
Tardieu is considered the fav
orite candidate, to succeed him
self, with former premier Poin
care as second croice.
Reports from the S. S. Admiral
Rogers this morning was to the ef
fect it was late in arriving at Cor
dova steaming into that port at
9'30 a. m. today.
LONDON Feb., 19, (/P)—A re
cess of the London J'faval confei
ence until Februairy 26 appeared
most likely following conversa
tions between Stimson and Mac
Donald. The American urged a
holiday for the conference in or
der to give the French an oppor
j tunity for adjustment of their
i domestic . situation growing out
! of the fall of the Tardieu Cab
| inet.
Premier MacDonald immediatelj
consulted Grand! Wakatsuki and
a decision is expected later.
m IN CCGQRO
LOCH. 010 CLUB
' That the Seward Chamber of
Commerce is in accord with local
radio listeners and will assist in
sponsoring a movement to better
reception conditions after 6 p. m.
was manifested yesterday when the
organization held a lengthy discus
sion of the subject which was in
troduced by Carl Orlander, chair
man of the executive committee of
the chamber and senior member
of the city council.
| The ensuing discussions were
made interesting by radio owners
who do not own electric motors,
and do not possess radio sets. The
latter were finally convinced by
•the former, however, that a policy
of “the most good for the most
, concerned” would be followed, and
no charges made against a motor
until it could be proven that it is
an offender, and then means would
be taken to provide a neutralizer
] for it.
WILDEBRANDT ARRESTED
j WASHINGTON, Feb., 19, (/P)—
Mrs. Wildcbrandt, former assist
ant attorney general in charge
of prohibition, is charged with
speeding and will face trial to
morrow in the Washington police j
\ court. She was arrested three;
days ago. The arresting police
man said she was going 38 miles;
an hour. j f
SEATTLE, Feb., 19, (A5)—Judge *
Roger Sherman Greene, 89, prom
| inent in the history of the State
1 of Washington since Territorial (
! days, and a grandson of Roger 5
: Sherman, Declaration of Indepen- j
j dence signer, died at the home of1
j his daughter, Mrs. Cyrus A.
j Whipple.
J itdge Greene came to Wash-1
1 ington Territory in 1870 to serve
j as associate justice of the Terri
torial Supreme Court. He was
Chief Justice from 1879 to 1887.
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1 FORT CANBY? Wash., Feb., 19,
e i (A5)—Orders to ’ abandon ship
r went out from the bridge of the
e : S. S. Admiral Benson as a heavy
1 southeast wind rode in at dawn
s driving before it a rainstorm and
~ ; heavy seas.
‘ ; All but a crew of five had left
a; at 8:30 a. m. by breeches buoy.
S j Others will follow. A 40-mile wind
: was blowing and increasing in vel
' ; ccity. Mariners said the storm
! condition make it impossibe to
’; start salvage work.
FIVE PERSONS BURN
MANIWAKI. Quebec, Feb., 19,
(JP)—Five persons we e burned to
1 death and a number injured as
■ a fire destroyed the Galarineau
t Hotel and two adjacent build
‘ ; ings. Maniwaki is a small lumber
i town 85 miles northeast of Otta
I wa.
| NOMINATION REPORTED
Sj WASHINGTON, Feb, 19, (.•?)—
The nomination of Hughes as
Chief Justice of the United States
Supreme Court was reported fav
orably to the Senate by the Judi
•• clary Committee by a vote of 10 to
id 2, Norris and Blaine voting against
i- the favorable report,
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AILLIl DOLLARS j
DIES TO PUBLIC !
OFICK STSIED:
;OOKS OF ELECTRICAL OFFICE
MAY BE TURNED OYER |
TO PROSECUTOR
CHICAGO, Feb., 19, (A1)—Dis- j
ribution of more than a million |
[ollars in bribes to public officials!
iy George Chamberlain, head of|(
I. S. A. Company, electrical con- j
ractors, is charged in a petition j
i’ed by Assistant State’s Attor- ■
'ey John Northup.
The petiUon requests a court!
> der to compel the U. S. A. Com
>any to turn over its books to the
jrosecutors office which hopes
o present them to the Grand
lury investigating the expendit
ures of the sanitary district in
Chicago for the past several years.
The State’s Intention is that!
Chamberlain drew large sums on j
he firm's banks payable in cur- j
:ency and “used the cash to buy j
lastly presents for a number of
the sanitary district officials."
FORCED TO DRYDOCK
PRINCE RUPERT, Feb., 19, (JP)
—The S. S. Northland, operating
between Seattle and Juneau, put
into this port yesterday morning
in a disabled condition and will
be forced to enter dry dock ow
ing to trouble developing to the
propeller while in Grenville Chan
nel.
iSBSI Ws ff Ft
II IBS SELF
PORTLAND Ore., Feb-, 19, (/P)
—Louis Ellinger. 60, shot and kill
ed his wife, slashing her throat
and wrists with a razor, then
/ tally wounded himself with a
gun.
The police said that after
hr-aking into Ellinger’s hotel
fhe women was found dead in a
icHcng chair and Ellinger was
rdrawled across the bed. They
had been married for 15 years
md had had domestic troubles,
according to hotel employees.
INCREASE OF 2.099
BRUSSELS. Feb., 18, (/P)— Despite
evacuation of the Rhineland, the
Belgian soldiers this year number
65,000, an increase of 2,000 over
1929. Volunteer recruits number
20,500 and yearly recruits 40,500.
[IFF BILL WilL
HOT BE PASSED, SI,
BEFORE MARCH TENTH
WASHINGTON, Feb., 19, OP)—I
rhe Senate Republican leaders j
nformed President Hoover that;
;he tariff bill will probably not be
passed before March 10.
They were called to the White
House by the President. Republi
can chieftans have urged speedy ;
action on this long pending j
luestions but informed him that (
they were at the mercy of a coal-1
Ltion.
Senator Watson told Mr. Hoov- !
er “We have not got the votes.” ;
Hoover is represented as having
accepted the situation.
mWrIs
buck to mm
BASIS. 01 VOTE
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INDEPENDENT R E PUBLICANS
AND DEMOCRATS RUN
NING THE SENATE
WASHINGTON, Feb-, 19, (A*)—
The latest demonstration of the
strength of the Senate’s Demo
cratic and Independent Republic
coalition served to incorporate in
the tariff bill aluminum rates
equivalent to those of pre-war
days, by a vote of 41 to 39.
The amendment slashing the
duly on crude aluminum from
five to two cents was adopted.
Another amendment approved
| to cut from the tariff sheet alum
iran from nine to three and one
half cents, rates on aluminum
cooking utensils reduced from 11
cents per pound to 55 pel < ent.
a cl vo lore in to 25 percent. Adva
lorem had no fixed rate per
pound.
The rates approved are exactly
the same as those of the Under
; wood tariff in 1913.
DELEGATE DEPARTS
LONDON, Feb., 19, (/P)— The
| sudden change in plans of the
French delegation resulted in
; Georges Leygues leaving for Par
is in connection with the Cabinet
crisis. Fromer Premier Poincare
visited the Eylsee Palace. Pres
ident Doumergue is mentioned as
the new Premier. The naval con
| ference is marking time during
the Frenchman’s absence.
BLACK SHIRTS OF BULGARIA FGIHT PARLIAMENT
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Id (
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An open air mass meeting of the black shirts of Bulgaria listening to
an address by General ChkoinofT supr erne chief of the facists o fthe king
dom. Among those listening to the ge neral’s denunciation of parliamentary
government3 is M. Dimtcheff, vice president of the Bulgarian chamber
of deputies. He is facing the speaker and s holding his hat in his folded
hands.
WEB TRIED
SOLVE PROBLEM
BUT FAILED
UNDERTOOK BRING INTERESTS
TOGETHER WHILE HEAD
DEPT. COMMERCE
WASHINGTON Feb., 19, tb~
Testimony that ’ President Hoov
er. while secertary of commerce,
attempted to aid in solving the
long standing problem of Muscle
Shoals in an effort to reconcile
the divergent views of power and
chemical groups, was heard be
fore the Senate lobby committee
yesterday.
The information was received in
a letter written to Claudius Hus
ton, new chairman of the Repub
lican National Committee, by J.
H. Worthington, chairman of the
executive committee of the Ten
nessee River Improvement pro
ject.
It said that after Huston and
Worthington attempted to bring
the groups together, and failed,
Huston, along with Hoover, tried
to do so again later. Still later
Hoover undertook to bring these
interests together through Owen
Young and failed.
A vote to “stay in” until March 1
before commencing the halibut
season has been taken by the Fish
ing Vessel Owners’ Association of
Seattle, on account of the vast
quantities of imported foreign fro
zen halibut which has choked 'he
market ports of the Pacific north
I
west.
j The glutted market condition
which threatens to cause serious
havoc among Alaskan halibut fish
ermen is being fiercely fought by
organizations of Seattle and coast
al cities in Alaska who depend
largely upon the success of the
halibut fleet. United appeal has
been sent to representatives in
Washington urging congress to pass
a tariff of six cents per pound on
all frozen halibut imported into
the United States for human con
sumption.
1 Wired appeals were promptly re
sponded to by the Seward Chamber
of Commerce which body sent tele
grams to Washington officials ap
proving the requested six cent
tariff and is now. at the instance
I of the Halibut Fishermen of Ket
chikan, circulating a petition in the
!city endorsing the following reso
lution:
I
RESOLUTION
j Whereas, the importation of for
eign frozen halibut into the United
States for human consumption is
causing us grave concern, and,
Whereas, only recently in the last
three months of 1929 approximate
ly 800,000 pounds of foreign frozen
halibut was landed in Seattle, and,
Whereas, the Pacific halibut in
! dustry is of tremendous importance
| to the fishermen of Alaska and its
'people; an industry representing
an invested capital of $2,000,000 of
halibut fishing vessels only; an in
dustry in which 3500 men are en
gaged in yearly a catch of approxi
mately 40,000,000 pounds;
Now, therefore, be it resolved,
that we respectively request that a
! tariff of six (6) cnts a pound be
’imposed on all foreign frozen hali
but imported into the United States
for human consumption.
Adopted this third day of Febru
ary, 1930, by the Halibut Fishermen
of Ketchikan, Alaska,
i It is feared by the halibuters that
I if the importation is’nt checked,
‘the industry will suffer a serious
| blow, and operations in Alaskan
1 waters curtailed.