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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 127
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS.
NOEL WIEN WILL
FLY FROM SEWARD
; IN HUGE BIPLANE
TVill Arrive In Seward To
morrow from Interior
Brother with Him.
PLANEl ARRIVES HERE
TONIGHT ON ALASKA
Passengers Plan To Accom
pany Him On Flight
To Fairbanks.
Noel Wien, Fairbanks aviator,
arrives in Seward tomorrow night
and hops off for the Interior me
tropolis on Monday in the new
t plane, arriving on the S.S. Alas
ka. The take-off will be made
either from the brow of Fourth
avenue or from the flats. M ith
Wien, his mechanic and brother,
italph, J. S. Rodebaugh, mana
ger of the airplane ■ upany, and
possibly Robert Summers, Terri
torial highway engineer, will ac
company him on the long flight
to Fairbanks.
Mr. Rodebaugh arrived in Sew
ard last Thursday for the pur
oose of receiving the monoplane
and assisting Aviator Wien in
making the brief assembling of the
ship. In this respect, Mr. Rode
baugh said, very little is to be
lone, for the plane is intact with
the exception of attaching the j
wings to the fuselage, four bolts,
and the stringing of the rigging.
The ship was tested thoroughly last
winter, near New York by W ien, so
t is not anticipated test flights of
any length will be made in Seward,
* prior to hopping off Monday, weath
er conditions permitting.
Description of Plane.
The monoplane, a Fokker F-3 type,
5s a six passenger machine, with an
enclosed cabin, with a capacity pay
load of 1650 pounds. Pay-load as ex
pounded by Mr. Rodebaugh means,
the carrying load exclusive of the
pilot, gas and tools. The ship has
a wing spread of 52-feet 6-inches;
i height, 9 feet, and the length is 37
feet over all. She is equipped with
a 180 h.ij. B. W. M. engine capable
of making a flying speed of 90 miles
an hour; a landing speed from 35 to
40 miles an hour, and a cruising
radius of nine hours. This type of
plane is used almost exclusively for
commercial flying in Europe, it is
■stated. The manufacturers recently
fc. took over the Barling Bombing plant,
located at Hasbrook Heights, N. J.
Anticipate Mail Contracts.
It is confidently expected the com
pany will soon receive contracts for
carrying the mail to various locali
ties in the Interior, once it is seen
the company is permanently estab
lished, in respect to schedules, etc.
The schedule for rates for conveying
of passengers and freight is set forth
as follows by Mr. Rodebaugh:
One dollar each per mile; freight
20 cents for the first fifty miles, and
10 cents thereafter for each addition
al 50 miles. Passengers will be per
mitted to take with them baggage or
personal effects not to exceed 20
pounds.
W~ Pioneering New Camps.
A number of trips are contemplate
ed, at the present time, to Nome,
McGrath and other portions of the
Territory where landing facilities
for the plane is available. For short
flights to the outlying districts and
to regions where trips have never
been made to, the plane now in use
by Pilot Wien, will undoubtedly be
pressed into service. This precau
tion is to be taken on account of
the danger attached principally, to
landing on unknown fields. An ex
ample of this was seen last week
when Pilot Wien made his first trip
to Nome Creek, about 50 miles from
Chatanika, to pick up aud convey to
the Fairbanks hospital, an oldtimer,
Charles Updyke who was suffering
from blood poisoning, being in an
extremely serious predicament, ne
cessitating immediate attention. On
this pioneer trip a tip of the propel
lor was broken off when it came in
contact with a protruding rock while
making the landing on a prominence
about two miles away from the cab
in of the oldtimer, winch w'as the
only available spot the aviator could
pick out, from the air. Updyke wras
safely taken to Fairbanks and ac
cording to the last reports, is well
on the road to recovery.
Territory Appropriates Fund.
As an insurance against possible
accidents to individuals in the re
mote districts wiiere no landing
fields have been made, it is point
ed out by Mr. Rodebaugh,. to safe
guard against serious sickness or
trouble, which may visit them at
any time, these individuals should
take a few days off from their reg
ular work and clear off a field suf
ficient in size to enable an air craft
to make a landing with all due re
gard to safety. During the long win
ters it is also stated, by the clear
ing off of many of these individual
fields, the burden of isolation will
be lifted considerably, by the possible
frequent visitation of the planes.
For the purpose of assisting in
thecons ■’ of landing facilities,
the Tei nas appropriated the
sum of $10,000 this year, fifty per
cent of which is to be expended on
fields, and not to exceed $1,000 per
field. It is believed $10,000 has been
approved for like wrork next year.
Mr. Rodebaugh is the pioneer of
commercial airplane flying in the In
terior having sponsored the origina
tion of a company last spring w'hich
last winter combined its interest with
the new company formed, during the
winter, the Fairbanks Airplane Com
pany, of which Dick Wood, mana
ger of the First National Bank of
Fairbanks, is president. Mr. Rode
baugh said this morning the report
that the plane was too large to ship
[ across the continent, was erroneous,
but owing to the delay in obtaining
proper shipping facilities on the rail
roads, it was decided to send her
i thru the Panama Canal, which was
done. The Boeing Airplane Com
pany of Seattle supervised the ship
ment from Seattle to Seward.
NOME PIONEERS
PREDICT GREAT
DEVELOPMENT
STEAMSHIP VICTORIA SAILS ON
FIRST VOYAGE OF YEAR
NEXT WEDNESDAY
SEATTLE, May 29.—This summer
will see the greatest development of
Northern Alaska in recent years, pio
neers of Nome declared today, as they
gathered here for the voyage to Nome
next Wednesday, when the steamship
Victoria makes her first trip of the
1925 season with over 400 passengers.
New methods of thawing brought
from Norway by engineers of the
United States Smelting and Refining
Company wlil be tried this summer
by the company, working in the vi
cinity of Nome. It is expected that
this system will result in the working
of vast quantities of low grade gold
sands on the Seward Peninsula.
Lomen Brothers expect to break all
records by shipping five thousand fro
zen carcasses of reindeer to the
States.
H. R. Capps, of the United States
geologiacl survey, said that oil explo
rations were progressing favorably,
and fur is coming from 700 shippers
'in Alaska, Siberia and the Yukon.
NO CAUSE WORRY
OVER AMUNDSEN
SAYS ASSOCIATE
RALPH LOMEN BELIEVES CELE
BRATED EXPLORER IS
MAPPING COUNTRY
SEATTLE, May 29 (£>).—Ralph
Lomen declared today that there was
no reason to worry over the delay in
Amundsen's returning to his base at
Spitzbergen. He said that Amundsen
is more likely to return to Spitzber
gen than to fly to Alaska, and cited
the thorough covering of the territory
surrounding the South Pole, so that
no one could say he had not been
there. He said this might be taken
as an indication that Amundsen might
be working around the North Pole.
May Take Two Weeks at Pole
OLSO, Norway, May 29 (/P).—The
Norwegian Aeronautic Association
said that Amundsen instructed the
crews of the exploration ships Farm
and Hobby that his polar flight might
take a fortnight and even more, and
he asked the boats to patrol the edge
of the ice pack in case he did not
return within the time set.
The Association has asked the Nor
wegian ministry of defense to assign
two planes to assist in patroling the
ice.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29.—
(vP)—Answering the suggestion made
by Mayor George Maynard, of Nome,
the cutter Bear will be directed to
aid the Motorship Charles Brower
in ascertaining whether Roald Am
undsen came across the pole to Al
aska. The Bear is taking an air
plane, which is being rushed north
to Nome.
Treasury officials here reiterated
their hope that Amundsen would re
turn via the Spitzenberg route, and
expressed their unwillingness to
start a relief expedition until the
necessity appears incontrovertible.
LITIGATION OVER
ESTATE SETTLED
VANCOUVER, B. C., May 29 (£>).—
Settlement out of court of long litiga
tion over the Engineer mine was an
nounced today by Robert E. Williams,
of Milwaukee, and Horace K. Wil
liams of Los Angeles, brothers of Ab
bie L. W. Williams, the companion or
wife of James Alexander, both of
whom were drowned in the Princess
Sophia disaster.
FRENCH DEAD TOTAL 400
IN RIFFIAN INSURRECTION
PARIS, May 28.—(/P)—Premier
Painleve told deputies of the House
that the French losses in the Rif
rian insurrection was four hundred
killed; 1100 wounded, and thirty-three
■missing.
BOSTON, May 28.—</P)—Secretary
of War Weeks, who was operated on
for gall stones and had same remov
ed, and also had his bladder drain
ed by local anesthetics, was reported
by bulletin as resting good.
FRDERICK MEARS
NOW IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, May 29 (JF).—Colonel
Frederick Mears, former chairman and
chief engineer for the Alaska Engi
neering commission, who has been
chief engineer at St. Paul during con
struction of the St. Paul union depot,
has been appointed assistant engineer
on this division of the Great North
ern railroad and will arrive in this
city tomorrow to take up his duties.
RIVER TRAFFIC ON YUKON
MUCH EARLIER THAN USUAL *
SEATTLE, May 2S (£>)—River traf- j
fic on the Yukon will open several;
weeks in advance of the usual travel,;
it was announced today by the White i
Pass and Yukon Railway, which will
send out its first boat June 1. The lo-j
cal office announced that an early j!
opening is possible by the flooding of;
Lake Leberge breaking up the ice,
and stated that it would also open
service! to the Atlin district.
BLONDE INDIANS FOUND
NEW YORK, May 28.—(/P)—Radio 1
messages received here today, said
that Dr. Alexander Hamilton’s jun
gle expedition, which is in South
American, found white Indians in '
the Parima River region. 1
UNDERWOOD IN
FAVOR REVISION
SENATE RULES
!
BELIEVES IN A CAMPAIGN OF
MODI FAC ATION, BUT WILL
INDORSE DAWES
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 29 (£>).—
Senator Underwood last night told
the Associated Industries of Alabama
that the Senate under the present
rules “controlled by reflex the will
of the majority,” and that he indorsed
the campaign by Dawes of modifica
tion. He said: “The rules of the Sen
ate today stand for delay—endless
delay—if a Senator desires to enforce
them, and some rule must be adopted
to enable a majority of the Senate
to control its affairs and conduct its
business in an orderly, effective man
ner.”
He admitted that filibustering wras
sometimes used for selfish purposes.
KLONDIKE PIONEER
DEAD AT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, May 29 (£>).—Homer D.
E. Heels, a grocer, one of the first
men to leave here in the Klondike
stampede who died Tuesday was bur
ied here today. He came here from
Wisconsin shortly before the gold
rush started and entered the grocery
business; going to the Klondike and
returning to again enter the grocery
business. He retired several years
ago. He was a member of the Alaska
Pioneers.
TALKS ON RECEIVERSHIP
TALKS OON RECEIVERSHIP
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 29 (IP).
President Byram of the Milwaukee
railroad told the Traffic Club that
the causes of receivership for the
railway were wartime disturbances,
economic diversion of traffic by way
of the Panama canal, and acute busi
ness depression of the Pacific North
west. He stated that the road was
first embarressed by “government
control of railroad earnings and oper
ation.”
TEACHES WIFE RUDAMENTS
OF PISTOL; SHE SHOOTS HIM
TACOMA, Wn„ May 28.—(IP)—
Hugh Delaney, well known boxer on
the Pacific coast has been instruct
ing his wife for a long time how to
use a pistol to advantage, and so
she could protect herself again in
truders in their suburban home.
Last night they quarreled as he was
pointing a rifle at her, when she
seized her instruction pistol nad fired
two bullets. The first bullet hit the
stock of the rifle and spoiled De
lany’s aim. The second shot he fell
dead with the rifle in his arms. He
was shot thru the heart, the bullet
lodging between the stock and the
barrel of the rifle.
ELDEST SAWMILL
IN TERRITORY
BURS TO GROUND
WORKMEN FORCED TO CLIMB
THROUGH ROOF TO ES
CAPE FLAMES
PETERSBURG, May 29 (/P).—'The
argest and most historic sawmill in
\laska burned to the ground last
light. It was owned by E. B. Shields
ind Ed Salonka who estimate the loss
it §100,000. The fire started on the
second floor near the roof, and the
crew* were working below at the time.
Dne man in the second story was
iorced#to escape through the roof. Ac
cording to the crewr the flames burst
out all over the mill at once. Shields
announced that it would be rebuilt
immediately.
SHAVER WILL NOT RESIGN
NEW YORK, May 28 (/P)—Clem
Shaver denied his intention of resign
ing the chairmanship of the Oemo
cratic National Committee.
HART WANTED
SELL ASSETS AT
SMALL FIGURE
TACOMA, May 29 (/P).—F. B. Has
kell, receiver for the defunct Scandi
navian American bank, stated yester
day in his report filed that former
Governor Hart sought in September
to persuade Haskell to sell the assets
of the Scandinavian American bank
to Putnam Brothers, buyers of wreck
ed banks, for S250.000. but the offer
was so ridiculously low that Haskell
refused to even consider it. He re
ported that a better deal than the one
proposed had been offered to him
already. A representative of Putnam
Brothers said he was going to see the
state officials soon and Hart summon
ed Haskell before him and urged the
sale, declaring the liquidation must
be closed while he was governor.
Haskell declared that Minshul, for
mer supervisor of banking, declared
he would approve whatever fee Hart
named.
Hart Issues Statement.
OLYMPIA, May 29 (JP).—Former
Governor Hart issued a long state
ment today in answer to Haskell’s
affidavits, saying he called on Kelly
in October, because he did not want
to leave the bank’s affairs for his suc
cessor to toil with, and “merely said
he thought they ought to have six per
cent of all money handled. This
would be about $200,000 to divide be
tween the liquidator and the lawyer.
I immediately protested and said,
My God, I£elly, with that a man could
live for years and would not have to
hunt a job.’ ”
Hart said he directed Kelly’s atten
tion to the laws against the dissipa
tion of funds of defunct banks, and
Hart then related a visit of Haskell
and Kelly to the governor’s office in
Olympia. He declared Hart said.
“Kelly tells me you want the bank’s
affairs closed and desire part of the
fees.”
Hart said he replied, “I want the
business closed up but you can’t pay
me a damn cent.”
He said he had agreed with Has
kell that the Putnam offer was too low
and added, “I never did intimate or
insinuate to the supervisor of bank
ing what fees he should allow, and
Haskell and Kelly had no reason to
believe they could pay or give mo
anything fo£ their appointments.’*
STARR DUE SUNDAY.
While no reports have been receiv
ed on the boat it is expected that;
the steamship Starr will reach port
ifrom the westward Sunday.