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VOLUME 21, NUMBER 124
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
IS CONVINCED LAND IS BETWEEN
POLE AND ALASKA; LIEUT
NOW IN LONDON
LONDON, May 31. (£>)—Lieut. Rich
ard Byrd, who is here announced his
plans to return to the Arctic to hunt
land before going to the antarctic. He
is convinced land lies between Ells
rnere, Axel, Heiberg and Alaska and
plans an Arctic flight next year. His
plane in starting for the pole, car
ried 9,400 pounds. He called this evi
dence of the great adaptability of avi
ation to commerce and exploration.
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IGNORE PROPOSALS
KING’S MESSAGE DECLARES CON
TINUANCE OF STATE OF
EMERGENCY ENGLAND
LONDON, May 31. (JP)—Home Sec
retary Sir Joynson Hicks presented a
message from the king to the House
of Commons declaring a continuance
of the state of emergency. Premier
Baldwin accounted the government re
served liberty in action regarding the
tieup of the coal fields, because min
ers and owners ignored all proposals
including an offer of a three million
pound subsidy.
' EL PASO, May 31. (/P)—Bob Law
son, New York negro lightheavyweight
champion, technicaly knocked out J.
Johnson at the end of the seventh
round of a scheduled 12-round bout in
Tuarez, Mexico Coliseum. Johnson ax
parently had a big weight edge over
the New Yorker and held him off the
first few rounds. Lawson, however,
gradually began to land punches and
just as the bell rang at the end of the
seventh landed a body punch which
floored Johnson.
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I MAPPERS PLUS
ARRIVE IN SEATTLE
I* SEATTLE, May 31. (>P)—Two air
planes for the Alaska air mappers ex
pedition arived and left for Bremer
ton to report to the commandant of
the Thirteenth Naval district. They
will return to Sand Point field, near
here, tomorrow*, to await the arrival
of the S.S. Gannet, which carries the
two other planes, one of which is being
picked up at Coos Bay, wTiere it w*as
forced to land. Wyatt said it was
likely only twro planes w*ould fly to
Ketchikan. The others will go north
on the Gannet which it is said, will
/ probably proceed t© Alaska by the
end of the week.
STRUTHERS RELEASES
BONDSMEN, COES JAIL
FAIRBANKS, May 31. (£>)—J- Fred
Struthers, who was bound over to
the grand jury automatically realesed
his bondsmen when he voluntarily ap
peared at the jail door and asked to
be reincarcerated. No motive is in
dicated for the move unless it was for
seclusion. No effort will be made to
requalify bondmens.
COMMON SENSE MUST
BE KEYNOTE AMERICA'S
CONTRIBUTION OE PEACE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 31. (£>)
—President Coolidge in the memorial
address delivered at Arlington Nation
al Cemetery said common sense must
be the keynote of America’s contri
bution to world peace and the con
trolling force in her conduct at home.
He applied the rule to practical pos
sibilities to the Geneva arms nego
tiations. The war debt negotiations
and domestic problems, the President
declared, are “the practical results of
what America expects from the nego
tiators at Geneva.”
DEMPSEY TO DEFEND
TITLE IN SEPTEMBER
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., May 31. (TP)—
Tex Rickard announced Jack Demp
sey will defend his title September
16. He said: “I will tell who his op
ponent will be when I appear before
the New York State Boxing Commis
sion on Wednesday.”
ETHEL PLEADS GUILTY
SEATTLE, May 29. (TP)—Ethel Dow
tearfully, as usual, pleaded guilty to
grand larceny. Sentence was defer
red until the completion of the inves
tigation. She said she had no law
yer and wanted none.
SEWARD TRADING GO
SOLD JOE sum
Completing one of the largest local
business deals in years, Joe Stanton
this morning assumed charge of the
Seward Trading Company, having pur
chased the establishment from Ohas.
A. Tecklcnberg, pioneer business man
of Seward. Mr. Stanton has been
identified with the local general mer
cantile business for many years and
his many friends predict a splendid
and prosperous future for him in his
new business venture.
There will be little changes in lines
handled in the large store, Mr. Stan
ton stated this morning, with the ex
ception the same first class merchan
dise stocks which have been carried
in the past will be increased some
what. Mr. Stanton does not expect to
set the world on fire, or anything like
that, he said, but anticipates he will
enjoy a moderate business. Mr. Jones
and Mr Arnstein, both experienced
store salesmen, have been employed
by Mr. Stanton.
GUSTAVE STENFELDT
KILLED. FAIRBANKS.
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
JUST_. RETURNED. TO ALASKA
FROM FOURTEEN YEARS’
ABSENCE
FAIRBANKS, May 31. (JP)—Gustave
Stenfeldt, a pioneer of the Klondike
placer camps was killed Friday night
when an automobile in which he was
j riding with Frank O’Farrell, supt. of
j transportation for the Fairbanks ex
ploration Company, turned over into
| a ditch while traveling at a fast speed.
The accident happened three mile
| north of the town and O’Farrell suf
fered minor injuries. Stenfeldt and
O’Farrell, who had just met for the
first time in many years, were dis
J cussing former days when the name
, of Tex Rickard was mentioned. Sten
feldt became excited and grasped the
arm of O’Farrell who was driving the
car -which swerved sharply. Stenfeldt
was known as the Swedish count and
is said to have been from noble line
age. He was engaged in placer min
' ing, associated with Dan Sutherland
i
l and Captain Work, on Five Below
| Cleary, during the boom days and had
, just returned after an absence of 14
I years in the States.
PARIS.—Five hundred American
soldiers, veterans of the Wo~ld War,
today arived in Paris to visi: the bat
tle fields of the late war.
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SANR1MO.—Forfmer Sultain of
(Turkey, M. Ehmed the 6th. is dead
here of heart disease.
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PARIS.—A daily air servic will be
maintained between Paris and Ber
lin in the near future. This is the
first regular service to be a tempted
| between the two capitals.
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BERLIN’.—Negotiations .are prac
! tioally completed for a loan of thirty
million dollars by Lillon Road and
Company of New York to 'tie Unit
ed Steel Works of Germany.
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CHICAGO.—John J. ’Mitchell thinks
Chicago is destined to become the cen
ter of aviation in America because of
its central location to all parts of
the country.
CHICAGO.—Convicted ;he testi
mony of his son, Jack Yasewitt was
sentenced to life imprison nr ' for "die
murder of Florence Boaaea, fourteen,
of St. Louis. The son told ‘hat his
father had returned home covered
with blood and told of the murder and
attack.
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LONIX1X.—Lord Willingdou is slat
ed to succeed Lord Bync as govern nr
general of Canada,
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NEW YORK.—A bungalow on the
property at Belmore, L. L, recently
purchased by Edward W, Brown itg.
was burned and hints are that Rians
men set afire to warn Browning
against bringing his 15 year old bride
to Belmore.
urn. Mm boosts
mini w Tent
SEATTLE. May Si. <£>—P. Edw
Medley, Cordova attorney and hank
er. arrived in Seattle and said al*bc
mining by dredges has been done n
Alaska the new development will al
most supplant old time methods arc
said prospects were good for a big
fish catch this year.
HUCESWIW
! WITHIN STONE'S TM
; . OF HULL DF JUSTICE
SAX FRANCISCO. May Si. <£* —
With a mighty roar, that shook the
; entire block, a mammoth 5W gallon
1 liquor still exploded in the basemen:
of a hotel here, disclosing one of the
largest illicit liquor plants anc distri
buting stations ever uncovered in this
city since the start of prohibition
Wthin a stone’s ttttow of the Hall
i
t of Justice, officers found a cellar with
10,000 feet of floor space, founo anoth
er still merrily sailing ava: iO.fMM gai
i ions of choice liquors The operators
escaped
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CAMBRIDGE. Mass. *5 ay T. s> —
The rnrrersity of South Otfif'-r . '?
spectacular tract and field -trad
strengthened its prospect* by
inc off the intercollegiate cbamr ••t‘
for the second straight peat |jt jjr. r-c
poli/rng the major honor? it the da: 's
elimination test* paving the for
Saturday's finals.
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