THE COAST TERMI
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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 58. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LIFE TERMER
TRIES ESCAPE
AND IS KILLED
ATTEMPTED SHOOT WAY OUT.
KILLED GUARD WOUNDED
TWO OTHERS
TRENTON. N. Y., March 14, (/P)
—The attempt of Charles Evans, j
29, a double-life termer, to shoot j
his way out of the state prison,I
ended in his death after he had
- killed one guard and wounded
two others.
Frank Butcher, guard, died of
bullet wounds suffered in a gun
right with the convict. Charles
Soren, another guard was slugged
with a black-jack and Ernest Gor- |
don, a third guard, suffered a
bullet wound in the shoulder. He
claimed it was a bullet from his
pistol which killed Evans.
Evans opened the attack by
Celling Soren with an improvised
black-jack, seizing his pistol and
as the guard called for help back- |
ed into an empty cell where he;
opened fire.
Butcher and Gordon ran to the
aid of Soren who continued to
lire until Evans fell with a bul
let wound in his head. Evans was
sentenced from Hoboken charged
with the killing of a policeman,
also William Byroff.
Doheny Oil Case
Opens; Attorney
Ridicules Idea
WASHINGTON, March 14, UP)— |
The government efforts to prove
hat Doheny gave Fall $100,000
jpened before the jury with Owen j
Roberts, special prosecutor, ridicul
ng the contentions of the defense
:hat the money was a loan from
me old friend to another.
Roberts outlined the govern
ment’s case to the jury by grilling
nine men and three women.
The prosecution hoped to show
that Fal! and Doheny conspired to
set the Elk Hills oil reserve award
'd to the m-Ameriium Petroleum
P>! .
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Over
nches Ice
Something very unusual has 1
occured at Nuka Bay, so unusual 1
in fact that it is almost unbe
lieveable. For the first time of
Capt. Pete Sather’s long residence
there the bay is frozen over for j
a distance of one and one-half
miles with six-inch ice. The op
erators in the quartz camp are1
completely corked up, as it were.!
On Nuka Island, where Capt.
and Mrs. Sather have a large fox
ranch, six inches of snow covers j
every foot of it, which is also ‘
different from former seasons.!
Pete says it snowed four days
without letup.
Bob Hatcher arrived with Sath
er this morning and will go to
Anchorage first then on to Fair
bank.
BROSIUS GOING OUT
Cal M. Brosius, local lumber!
baron, President of the Grand Ig- j
loo, Representative candidate to
the Alaska Logis^ture from this
Division, and General Chairman
of the Seward Aviation Committee, j
Chamber of Commere, is making j
his annual business trip to Seat- i
tie, leaving here on the S. S. «
Alaska. Mr. Brosius exoects to
be absent about a month dur- i
in which time he will remain on
the coast.
A BOWER OF FLOWERS
The train from the Interior,
due here at 7 o'clock this even
ing, it literally filled up with
bouquets and wreaths from the \
legion of admirers and friends of j
Eielson and Borland. At everyj
stop along the long rail journey j
from Fairbanks tribute and horn- j
age have been paid to these de- j
parted sons of the North.
Planes Dip
And Zoom In
Salute, Departed
FAIRBANKS, March 14, (JP)—
When the train bearing the bodies
of Colonel Carl Ben Eielsan and
Earl Borland steamed south yes
terday morning, Pilot Joe Cros
son and companion members of
the Alaska Airways personnel,
paid final tribute from the air.
A squadron of six planes dipped
and zoomed over the station
as the train slowly pulled away
heading for Seward, the coastal
terminal, 400 miles away.
Pilot Crosson, at the last min
ute, decided to abandon plans to
accompany the bodies as the en
tire personnel of Alaskan fliers
are needed to complete the Si
brian work including replacement
of gasoline to the S. S. Stavropol,
completion of the fur haulage
and repairs to the Fairchrild be
yond the scene of the Hamilton
wreck.
PAY TRIBUTE SATURDAY
The bodies of Colonel Carl Ben ;
Eielson and Earl Borland will be j
escorted from the deoot this
evening to Odd Fellows Hall where
they will lay in state throughout
tomorrow thereby affording the
citizens of Seward to pay last res
pects to their fellow Alaskans, i
who died in Siberia last Novem
ber. Previous plans were changed
by Seward Post No. 5, American
Legion, when it became known of
the late arrival here from the
south of the S. S. Alaska. A few
hours before the departure of the
vessel a guard of honor will es
cort the funeral cortege to the
dock.
Dr* Law Violates
Amendment
Of Constitution
NEW YORK, March 13, UPi—A
new question on the constitutional
ity of the 18th amendment, not
iiere-to-forc passed on by the U. S.
Supreme Court, is raised by a com
mittee of New York County Law
yers Association which recom- j
mended presentation to the court I
ratification of the amendment by ;
State legislatures and not bv the
people.
The report said tlm law violated ;
,he 10th amendment of the Consti
pation and therefore is not legal.
The report will be voted on at
,he next general meeting of the as
iociation in April or May.
Boats in port today include .
the Redondo, Pacific, Omaney, ,
Resolute, Nordic, Bonanza, Thor, ,
Polaris, Discoverer, Red Wing,
Chase, Marian, Bavaria and the ,
Rolfe.
Be not surprised if tomorrow's |
regular train for the Interior is' ]
held over until Sunday, the same ;
as last week, for the steamer jt
Alaska, the “Greyhound” of the !<
A. S. S. Co., fleet, is late and it 1
is thought, therefor, that the
train will be held over.
S. S. ALASKA TONNAGE
The cargo to be discharged at
this port from the S. S. Alaska,
due tomorrow afternoon, will in
clude 60 tons for local merchants.
35 tons for transfer to the S. S.
Redondo for the Westward, and
250 tons for railroad points
There will be 37 excursion trips
>y steamers of the Alaska Steam
ship Co., this season; 22 trips to the
Westward and 15 to Southeast Al
iska.
Norma L. Wimmler, formerly j
field engineer investigating placer
mining methods in Alaska, has (
been employed by the Soviet j
government to take charge of
underground mining in Siberian i
fields. He draws down $1,000 a j
month, gold, and expenses for |
both himself and wife.
The trappers of the Yentna dis
trict will not have many pelts to
show for their winter of trapping.
I New Fisheries
J Rulings Made By
Bureau Fisheries
A new fisheries policy in which
competitive canning and fishing
would be abolished thru the limita
tions of both canning and fishing
licenses was recently pronounced
for British Columbia by S. L. Howe,
Provincial Commissioner of Fisher
ies for that Province. His state
ment is regarded as one of the most
important in the history of the sal
mon fishing industry in that Prov- j
ince.
It is claimed for the policy that
it is designed to protect existing
investment, the fishermen engaged
in the industry, and to conserve the
fishery resources. It is designed to j
put an end to competitive effort by j
limiting gear and equipment w'ith j
which the industry is seriously,
burdened.
The notable features of the new j
policy are:
Limitation for five years of the
issuance of licenses to salmon can- I
nery and dry saltery operations to j
plants now in existance and where ;
operated or licenses in 1928 or 1929: j
the issuance of licenses on the con
dition that each plant will receive j
fish only from a designated amount |
of gear; failure to comply with this:
requirement to result in withdrawal
of licenses: similar restrictions will
apply to pilchard reduction plants I
pending the outcome of current in-,
vestigation on fresh fish or freez
ing operations.
The issuance of licenses to plants,
and their regulation is within the i
authority of the Provincial Govern
ment. The issuance of licenses to
and regulation of individual fisher
men is under the Dominion Gov
ernment. Thus, while it is not pos-;
sible for the Province to directly ;
restrict the number of fishermen’s^
licenses to be issued in any area, by '
limiting the gear from which any
cannery may receive fish it ac
complishes that end indirectly.
Opportunity Knocks
Says Oil Salesman
A chance of a life time to act
rich is to be offered to the Seward
public in a few days. Mr. Jimmy ,
Fhayer, the high power salesman
)f the South American Oil Co., will
3e in town next week and will give
hose, who are interested, a chance j
>f a life time to invest in diamond!
studded, platinum mounted gilt-1
idged —-—just a moment, be- j
'ore we let you in on the proposi- j
;ion, save your sheckles and get a «
,icket to the funniest of American j
;omedies, ‘On Vacation" to be pre- |
.ented at the Liberty theatre March i
8th.
Here you will be given a chance
n buy a share of this great enter- ;
jrise, and it Db warranted to make
mu laugh till your sides ache. Keep
his date and have the Seward Drug ;
yO., hold a reserved seat for you
omorrow.
TOMORROWS THE DAY
Tomorrow is the day when the
big bake sale of the S- A. C.;
women’s basketball team, starts,
and finishes. The sale opens at
10:30 in quarters in the Johan- ,
son building and closes when the
last biscuit is sold.
i
Changes in the personnel of the i
[J. S. Signal Corps station at Fair- .
Danks include: Private First Class!
lames E. Thomas, Private First j
ZJlass Willis Wightman and Corpor- j
il Clarence F. Woofter, who will j
become chief radio operator at the j
radio station and Wightman will be
a, radio operator at Juneau. Thomas
who has been in Fairbanks before,
will be telegrapher operator at the j
city office. Privates Moran and i
Scholtfeldt have be&n transferred
to the Seattle Cable Office.
The “Gold Book” to be published
prior to the Stampede convention
in Vancouver, B. C. next August,
will bear the names of 20,000
persons who mushed the Klon
dike trails 33 years ago.
Old Folks And
!
i Sick, Sealed Up
In Homes To Die
Reminiscent of the many
strange adventures he met with
on his Siberian flights from Alas
ka, Frank Dorbandt, aviator, re
called the fact no seriously ill or
old people were noted among
the tribes and upon investigation
that due to the primitive life of
Siberian Eskimo in which each
depends upon the other for their
very existence—there are no
drones—those seriously ill and the
old are “sealed up” in a dwelling
place in which they suffocate to
death.
The natives are entirely resigned
to this end, Dorbandt said.
Where the Alaska Eskimo has
thin limbs and is small in stature, j
as a rule, the Siberian natives j
differ 'to the extent of having
exceptionally sturdy legs and, tho
averaging about five foot, ten in
ches in height, they are very
rugged with barrel-like chests.
Fat is a delicacy with them and
for sweets the children are given
dried fish. Dorbandt stated he
saw one child, about four years
of age, eat four dried fish one af
ter the other then cry for more.
Children are adored by the grown
ups and beating a child is un
heard of, yet they are trained rig
idly and cause little difficulty at
anv time. For instance: If three
children are together and one is
given a fish, the child will break !
or tear it into three equal portions I
and prss it about. They divide |
their all in this manner.
The men do the hunting and
the women the cooking and sew
ing. A child is an expert seam- ■
stress almost before they are able
to walk. j
For water they me it ice. oeai (
and fish is the staple food of the '
coastal natives. Inland they sub- j
sist on reindeer. They are great I
tea drinkers but do not- permit j
water to boil as the steam forms;
ice particles on the ceilings of
their homes which are made of
wh 'le bone and skins. One small
vent, high in the ton. is the only
ventilation therefore the interior:
of their dwellings are stifling.!
Each home has two compart-1
menfs, the inner and outer. Un
like other races, when they leave ,
t he home, they are out for hours
and likewise, when inside, remain j
there for long periods.
Prior to entering they use a j
small stick with which they slao
away all snow from their gar-;
ments. If this were not done their :
clothing would freeze from the j
wet snow. They then crawl thru;
the door, on their hands and
knees, where they take off their
clothing. fAnd we don’t mean
their coat) This room, separated ■
from the inner compartment, is j
a sort of a cooling room for the j
inner one, lit and heated by three.'
pil lamps, is as hot as the envir- j
ans of Hades, so to speak. At!
night two lamps are put out the j
center lamp forever remaining1
alive.
I
Everybody has an iron pipe, .
from the smallest child up, and ,
the tobacco is strong enough to ,
walk in any man’s land. The pipes, (
very similar to Chinese pipes,
have long stems and small bowls
and are so heavy that they must
be held up by one hand.
The S. S. Tanana, of the A. S.
S. Co., arrived in port this morn
ing from the south, unloaded a
carload of dynamite and proceed
ed Westward to Uganik with a j
couple of hundred piling for the
well known Robert’s cannery.
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Miss Sylvia Sexton, one of the;
most skillful in making artificial j
flowers, has a magnificent wreath I
in the making for Eielson and j
Borland.
“He doesn’t love his wife so there j
is a leak in the bath-tub-can you
tie that”? See this leak “On Va- j
cation” at the Liberty theatre |
March 8, )
Slayer Two Women
Cheats The Electric
Chair; Hung Self
McALESTER,, Okla., March 13,
'(/P)—Cheating the electric chair by
16 days, Charles Fray, slayer of two
women, who was scheduled to die
in the state penitentiary March 28,
hanged himself in a death row cell
as other prisoners were eating
breakfast, using cell blankets. He
killed his wife and a former wife.
Governor Holloway had intended
to appoint a commission to deter
mine if Fray was sane.
Bureau Control
Reindeer Industry
Condemned, Seattle
I
SEATTLE, March 14, (#>)—Proper
federal regulations administered by
persons familiar with Alaska rath
er than bureau control a thousand
miles away is the only solution of
the controversy on Seward Penin
sula growing out of industrializa
tion of the reindeer industry, in the
opinion of A. C. Goddard, former
Alaska sourdough, at the reeligious
educational workers meeting.
C. I. Andrews told of charges he
had filed with the Interior Depart
ment that the natives would soon
be without deer or grazing lands.
Canada s Ranking
“Ace” Crashes Death
OTTAWA, Ontario, March 13, (JP)
—Canada’s second ranking World
War “Ace” Colonel William Bar
ker, 35, winner of the Victoria
Cross, crashed to death when
his motor stalled in an upward
loop while flying at a low alti
tude.
He had two German planess to
his credit and once shot his way
out of a “flying circus.”
BISHOP PASSES
BOSTON, March 13. (A5)—Bishop
Charles Lewis Slattery, 62, of the
Episcopal diocese of Massachu
setts, died at his home here from
acul heart attack after a four
day illness.
WITH HUSBAND AGAIN
WASHINGTON, March 13, (JP)—
The ashes of Mrs. Mary Baird
Bryan were laid beside her late
famous husband, WiPiam Jenn-1
ings Bryan,, in Aldington Ceme-j
tery. Only a few witnessed the
funeral services which were held
in California where she died on
January 31
REFUSES RECONSIDER
WASHINGTON, March 13, hu
rtle Senate refused to recorder j
-he increased tariff on sugar from <
17 to 38 which leaves in the Senate ]
i tariff rate of two cents on Cuban ,
raw’ sugar as against 1.76 the pres- ;
?nt law.
DISAGREE TO VERDICT !'
i,
NEW YORK, Mar., 13, (/H—The,
fury hearing Mrs. Frances Bran- ,
ion’s $5,000 breach of promise suit '
igainst George Gillespie, president (
>f the Board of Water Supply, and
churchman, disagreed as to a ver
iict and was dismissed. A new trial
will probably be held in the spring. '
Well we guess the fliers got
away in good shape this morning
for the Anchorage airport for
neither hide nor hair have been
glimpsed of them during the fine j
day. They just couldn’t leave the
city before.
HAVE YOU REGISTERED?
Things are perking up!
Speaking politically.
A flock of new aspirants to the
City Council, and for the Mayor’s
office, are reported daily. But
few filings have been made so;
far.
In any case it is high time for
the voters of our fair city to reg
ister at the City Clerk’s office.
For as the veterans know, if you
don’t register you can’t vote. The
municipal election takes place on
April 1st. It won’t be long now! j
APPROVE TAX
REFUND MILLIONS
TO U. S. STEEL
WILL BE PAID IN CASH OR IN
FORM OF CREDIT TO
OTHER TAXES
WASHINGTON, March 14, (/P)—
Chairman Hawley, of the joint
committee on internal revenue
legislation, announced that the
committee has approved a tax
refund of $33,555,000 to the
United States Steel Corporation.
The action brings to a close a
controversy carried on between
the corporation and the Treasury
department.
Hawley said the refund will
probably be executed not later
than tomorrow and will either
be paid in cash or in the form of
credit to taxes.
Ninth Planet In
Solar System Found
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 14.
IfP)—Prof. Harlow Shapley, director
cf the Harvard Observatory, an
nounced receipt of word from the
Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff,
Ariz., of the discovery of a ninth
planet in the solar system.
The planet is as yet unnamed
and beyond Neptune and is proba
bly larger than theearth and is
smalled than Uranus.
EVANS SAILS NORTH
SEATTLE, March 14, <ZP>—The S.
S. Admiral Evans of the P. S. S.
Co., sailed at 9 p. m. Wednesday
and carried 103 passengers of
whom one is for Seward, Miss Myr
tle Berry.
DIPLOMAT, AUTHOR. DIES
NEW YORK, March 14, (ZP)—
Authur Sherburne Hardy, diplo
mat and author, died at his home
at Woodstock, Conn., at the age
of 82. He wras Minister to Greece,
Roumania, Servia, Switzerland and
to Spain.
PROTECTION OF
c.c/ ?
s~4 J i Li
„_,$s
END APRIL SO
PRESENT REGULATION EyPIRES
THEN BUT PROTECTIO>“aIAY
BE EXTENDED
The regulation of the United
States Department of Commerce
vhich protects sea lions from being
rilled, unless found in the act of
iestroying food fish, expires April
10, of this year. It is reported,
aowever, that the Department is
considering a new regulation which
vould continue the protection for
mother two-year period.
Alaska fishermen, particularly
salmon trollers, have criticized this
aolicy of the government and are
jpposed to any protection for these
nammals. It is generally under
stood that eastern conservationist
hfluence is responsible for that
aolicy.
The trollers claim the sea lion is
highly destructive to salmon and
herring, both being consumed in
arge numbers for food, and that it
rills many which it dose not eat.
Representatives of trollers who
were in Juneau at the 929 session
af the Alaska Legislature told legis
lators that more salmon were taken
by sea lions in Alaskan waters than
svere taken by fish traps and all
Dther gear combined. Estimates of
the number in waters between Dix
an Entrance and Cape Spencer run
anywhere from a few thousand to
100,000.
Several years ago the British Co
lumbia government removed pro
tection on them and launched an
active campaign of destruction.
Since then the numbers in local
waters have largely increased and
many fisherman have contended
they are being driven from British
Columbia waters north.