PROPOSES Iff
JAPANESE LINE
VIA ALASKA
SEATTLE, July 23 (by Associated
Press).—Establishment of a trans
pacific communication route in alter
nate cable and wireless “jumps” fol
lowing roughly the “great circle”
steamship route off the Alaska coast
and across tp Japan has been advocat
ed by Liei^papt Colonel B. O. Le
noir, Seatjtl^, jpfftyef ip charge of the
cable and wireless sysieifl ppepated by
tli§ United States arpty signal corps
between Seattle arid Alaska.
Congestion on the trans-Pacific cable
and wireless systems has caused Se
attle’s chamber of commerce to inves
tigate the possibility of establishing a
new line of communication between
the Northwest and the Orient. The
suggestion of the “jump” route along
the Alaska coast was made to the
chamber by Colonel Lenoir,
The present military cable between
Seattle and Southeastern and South
western Alaska probably could be a
part of the system proposed by Colonel
Lenoir. Messages filed from here to
the Orient over the line w’ould be sent
on the cable to Valdez or some other
Southwestern Alaska town.
From the end of the cable, probably
at Valdez, the messages wrould be re
layed by wireless out along the Alaska
peninsula to Attu island, a dot of land
on the map far out on the end of the
Aleutian string.
Attu would take the messages off
the radio and send them to Japan over
a cable which Colonel Lenoir believes
could be laid along the Japanese coast,
from Yokohama to the end of the Aleu
tian islands.
Erection of wireless stations at Val
dez and on Attu island and the laying
of the Attu-Japan cable would be nec
essary. The line from Seattle to Val
dez already is down and working daily.
By using a cable from Attu west, ac
cording to Colonel Lenoir, delays at
relay points would be avoided to a
large extent. He pointed out that if
over the entire distance to the Orient
messages were handled exclusively by
wireless stations considerable delay
would occur, because of one station
interfering with another while send
ing or receiving. There is some dif
ficulty in sending and receiving radio
messages at the same station at the
same time. The same rule would work
on the eastern cable end of the pro
posed system.
DEATH OF PRIZED HORSE
OF LATE GENERAL NOGI
TOKIO, June 12 (by mail).—The
famous horse “Longevity,” which was
presented by the Russian General
Stoessel to General Nogi as a token
of respect on the occasion of the sur
render of Port Arthur in January, 1905,
died the other day. “Longevity’s”
mane has been sent to the Nogi shrine
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at Momoyama.
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we sell electric waffle irons, toasters,
grills-, toast-stoves, immersion heaters,
curling irons, cozy-glow heaters,
and everything. Northwestern Hard
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AIR PATROL
ON BORDER
OF MEXICO
EL PASO, Texas, July 23 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Aerial “cavalry” keeps
watch over the Mexican border in this
district, patrolling the Rio Grande,
where horsemen ride their lonely pa
trols between outpost stations. Each
morning as the horse cavalry ride
away to cover their beats big air
planes leave the Fort Bliss flying field
for Columbus, N. M-, on the west; and
Fort Hancock, on the east, to scout
along th§ international border for
bands of Mexican bandits. The avi
ators make daily reports tP military j
headquarters on the same blanks used
by the cavalry patrol officers, and fre
quently report armed bands below the
border.
The Mexican border is called the
southern front by the aviators, and
Fort Bliss has been selected as the
headquarters for the aviation section
of the southern department. A flying
field beyond Fort Bliss has been set
apart for the use of the flyers, a bomb
ing field selected at the government
target range in New Mexico, and wire
less stations built at the fort and at
landing fields along the border. Diri
gible balloons will be stationed at Fort
Bliss and other important points along
the border, and machine shops erected
to repair airplanes damaged in the
patrol service.
American army airplanes attracted
much attention from the Mexican sol
diers and civilians on the south bank
of the Rio Grande. When the first
plane to loop-the-loop was seen, many
Mexicans believed it to be falling, and
scurried to cover. The Mexican army
has fourteen airplanes at the north
eastern zone headquarters at Chihua
hua City, and General Manuel Dieguez
is planning to establish regular air
plane patrols of the Mexican Central
railroad as soon as it is repaired, with
a temporary aerial service between
Chihuahua City and the border until
the train service is resumed.
SAILOR ON SUBCHASER
WRITING EXPERIENCES
FOR YACHTING JOURNAL
Many persons and localities of
Southeastern Alaska are brought into
prominence in an article appearing in
the July issue of the Pacific Motor
Boat, the yachting journal published
at Seattle.
This issue contains the beginning of
an article by Vernon L. Lucas, one
of the members of the crew of sub
chaser No. 309, and tells of the ex
perience of that vessel and its crew
when it was patrolling the waters of
Southwestern Alaska during the war.
The subchasers 309 and 310, built at
Bremerton, it will be remembered,
were assigned to Alaska waters in the
summer of 1918 to patrol the salmon
canneries and prevent labor troubles
or any work of a seditious nature that
would retard the production of salmon
which was an important food product
among the allies.
Mr. Lucas’s article will run through
several issues of the Pacific Motor
Boat, and contains scores of pictures
of interest to people in Southeastern
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ATHLETIC MEET FOR
WOUNDED SOLDIERS
DES MOINES, Iowa, July 23 (By
Associated Press).—A “telegraphic
track meet,” with wounded soldiers
from nine army hospitals in the Unit
ed States as the only contestants, is
being planned for some date early in
August.
The boys at the Fort Des Moines
general hospital recently held an ath
letic carnival exclusively for wounded
men, and so successful was the affair
that they have issued challenges for
a general meet to settle definitely the
“world championships for wounded
men” in athletic events. It is planned
to have each hospital hold a track
and field meet on the same day and
telegraph the results and records in
each event by the other hospitals.
The hospitals which have been chal
lenged by the Fort Des Moines soldiers
are: Tacoma Park, D. C.; San Fran-1
cisco, Cal.; Colonia, N. J.; Fort Mc
Pherson. Ga.; Fort Sheridan, 111.; j
Plattsburg, N. Y.; Carlisle, Penn., and
Fort McHenry, Md.
A tentative schedule of events in
cludes 50 and 100-yard dashes, a 30
yard hop for one-legged men, 40-yard
potato race, 50-vard wheel chair race
for men with two amputations, base
ball throw for men who have lost their
natural throwing arm, 30-yard race for
men on crutches, tennis, croquet, tug
of war, cage ball, tether ball and pil
low pole matches.
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