Hemnrd Escle Gateumy
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 65.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1926.
PRKW.TEN CENTS
Detroiter, Piloted By
Major Lanphier Meets
Near-Disaster Interior
FAIRBANKS, Mar. 20. (AP).—The landing gear of
the big two-engined monoplane Detroiter buckled, throw
ing the plane on its nose. The main engine was thrown
out of alignment and the propellers were bent.
The accident occurred when the plane had shot along
the ground for about forty feet.
Major Lanphier was piloting the Detroiter, with Capt.
Wilkins as a passenger when the mishap occurred. The
wheels of the big monoplane sank through the soft snow
into the field causing the full weight of the plane to bear
upon the wheels which were blocked.
DETROIT, Mar. 20. (AP).—The board of directors
of the Detroit Aviation Society will meet tomorrow to con
sider plans for continuing the Wilkins expedition. Carl
B. Fritsche, secretary, announced after reading the Asso
ciated Press dispatches announcing the wreck of the De
troited. The expedition- which is equipped with addi
tional parts for the two plane is being considered, as it
will probably only be delayed for a brief period.
GAS HOUSE FIRE
threatens™
HOMES OF MANY
NEW YORK, Mar. 20. (JP)—Fire
started in a two-storv building in the
gas house district, at Williamsburg
section of Brooklyn.
The flames spread and exploded a
small gas tank and it is feared the
flames will spread to other gas tanks.
All firemen in the district have been
called out and scores of families have
been ordered from their homes.
FISH PRICES
KETCHIKAN, Mar. 20.—(Special
to the Gateway).—Halibut was quoted
today at 14 1-2 and 7 cents; Salmon at
17, 13 and 7 cents.
S. S. Alaska Arrives
With Large Listing
Seven days out of Seattle, the S. S.
Alaska, Capt. Gus Nord, arrived in
port this morning at 10 o’clock, com
pleting an uneventful voyage with the
exception of being delayed once, for
eleven hours, in a dense fog.
The big liner brought 464 tons of
general cargo for rail shipment; 90
tons for Seward merchants, and 56
tons for the San Juan Fishing and
Packing Co. About 150 boxes of hali
but will be shipped south to Seattle
from the San Juan plant.
The inbound list of passengers was
large but to date the southbound list
ing is quite small. The vessel departs
at midnight tonight.
BODY OF WRITER
BE SHIPPED OUT
ON S. S. ALASKA
FAIRBANKS, Mar. 20. (JP)—The
hody of the late Palmer Hutchinson
left here today and will be shipped on
the steamer Alaska tomorrow. Mr.
Howard, who was to have accompanied
the body East, has been instructed
±o remain in Fairbanks.
The freighter Latouche, of the Al
aska Steamship company, is reported
to be to the westward discharging
■cannery crews and supplies.
FAVOR REPORT
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Mar. 20. (JF)
—The Senate ordered a favorable re
port on the bill to give employees of
the Alaska Railroad free mileage the
same as similar workers in the
States.
SMALLPOX GAINS
MOMENTUM IN
THE QUEEN CITY
SEATTLE, Mar. 20. (^-Eighty
three cases of smallpox has occurred
here since January first, twenty of
whom have died. Health Commission
er Hanley urged everybody to vac
cinate.
Enforcement will be made thruout
the State by a regulation of the State
Board of Health against the return of
purchases of wearing apparel has been
promised.
SPECIAL RATES
TO IGLOO MEET
VALDEZ, BOATS
PIONEERS WILL GATHER AT
VALDEZ THIS MONTH FOR
ANNUAL PARLEY
The Grand Igloo convention of
the Pioners of Alaska will meet
this year at Valdez, the convention to
start the 29th, H. R. Shepard, grand
sectary, etlegraphed the local Pioneer
lodge that arrangements had been
made with the steamship companies
for a roundtrip between Seward and
Valdez of $15.20. Those desiring to
attend this . convention, can leave
Seward on the N(orthwester,n on
March 28, and return on the next
boat from the south the following
Saturday
DR. J. VENTERS ARRIVES
Dr. John Venters, physician for the
Bureau of Education, stationed at Nu
lato, returned today from Seattle
where he underwent an operation.
Dr. Venters succeeded Dr. H. C. Ran
dall, who was transferred to Unal
aska. The Bureau of Education
maintains a hospital at Nuiato which
is one of the largest down river set
tlements on the Yukon.
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RESOLUTION MADE
BY SUTHERLAND
SKAGWAY ROAD
WASHINGTON. D. C., Mar. 20. (/P)
—Delegate Sutherland introduced a
resolution in which he proposed the
construction of a wagon road between
Skagway and the White Pass Summit,
the costs to be paid from the Federal
Highway Act appropriations.
NOTED SCRIBE
FROM SEATTLE
ARCTIC BOUND
ANOTHER REGULAR MEMBER OF
THE FOURTH ESTATE
ARRIVES.
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Frederic Lewis Earp, correspondent
for the North American Newspaper
alliance, arrived in Seward from Se
attle on the steamship Alaska Satur
day morning, on his way to Fairbanks
to join the Detroit Wilkins Arctic Ex
pedition. Mr. Earp was named to suc
ceed Palmer Hutchinson, who was
killed on the landing field at Fair
banks a week ago Thursday.
Mr. Earp, a veteran new*spaperman
of the Pacific coast and the southwest
has been employed on the Seattle
Times for a number of years as a spe
cial feature writer, columnist and ed
itorial executive before joining the
staff of the N. A. N. A. He is a vet
eran of the world war, and a first
lieutenant of infantry in the officers’
reserve corps. He has been promi
nently identified with the work of the
reserve officers’ association of the
United States and at present is state
of Washington publicity committee
man for the national organization.
“There is nothing I can say regard
ing my assignment,” said Mr. Earp
when he came ashore from the Alas
ka. “Captain Wilkins is the com
mander and as I have been aboard
ship for eight days I am out of touch
with affairs at Fairbanks. It is a real
assignment for a newspaper reporter.
Captain Wilkins, Maj. Lanphier and
their associates must make the his
tory. I’m merely going along to try
and tell the world what they are do
ing.”
ONE GANGSTER
IS SENTENCED TO
SERVELONGTERM
SEATTLE, Wn., Mar. 20. (JP)—Alva
Kilbourn of Everett was sentenced
yesterday to serve 26 to 36 years at
Walla Walla in connection with the
robbery of the State Bank of Bothell,
June* 5, when citizens of Bothel killed
George Jone and Pollock and wound
ed Alva Kilbourn.
MINING MEN EN ROUTE.
W. S. Horning and J. R. Bartholf,
owners and operators of the Mabel
mine, in the Willow creek district,
near Anchorage, were northbound
passengers from Seattle this morn
ing, en route to that district to begin
their summer’s work. Mr. Horning
intended sailing north on the Alaska
last Saturday, but waited until this
week in order to accompany his part
ner. They spent the winter in Cali
fornia and Washington points.
SANDY THROWING
PLENTY GROUND
BEHIND HIM
WISEMAN, Alaska, Mar. 20. (JP)—
The Malcolm Smith party of eleven
men departed for Betties on March 13
expecting to reach the head of John
River in eight days and Point Barrow
six days more.
There is no trail beyond Betties and
progress is slow owing to the deep
snow on the river. The party expects
to speed up when they reach the
crusted snow region farther north.
A horse-drawn sled was discarded
at Betties as it was too wide for the
dog trail as dog sleds are expected to
facilitate the progress a great deal.
Some of the dogs have sore feet and
those that are crippled will be return
ed from the head of the John River.
Two hundred pounds of supplies are
used daily.
The temperature dtiring the past
week has ranged from zero to twenty
above, $vith intermittent snow flur
ries. The morale of the party is ex-!
cellent.
SEWARD SLATES
TO BE THE NEXT
BIG FISH PORT
HALIBUT SCHOONER CAPTAIN
POINTS OUT ADVANTAGES
OF THIS PORT
“Seward will unquestionably be the
next big Alaska fishing port”, stated
Captain Bliason, skipper of the hal
ibut schooner Western, in port a few
days ago. “By running into this
port from four to five extra trips a
year can be made by the hundreds
of vesels fishing off the banks. But
one thing is lacking here at the pres
ent time; that is bait. If it were
known to the fish boat owners that
they could procure bait at this port,
I feel sure t would mean a consid
erable increase in local busness”.
Last year, Captain Elason said, he
paid $3 a barrel for bait, or S40 a ton
for frozen herring, of the poorer
class, at Ketchikan. The herring,
caught for bait purposes in these
Waters are far superior to that of
the south, he added.
A fleet of over two hundred vessels
were off the banks a few days ago,
but the violent storms of the past
week or so has almost prohibited
fishing. Indications are, Captain El
iason said, that halibut is scarce and
he, personally, holds little hope of
making much of a showing this year.
Last season halibut abounded in large
quantities. To date, the majority of
vessels have made two trips to the
banks.
He deplored the fact that the mid
dleman, engaged in the fishing indus
try, was absorbing the greater por
tion of the profits from the cold etor
ae plants and the fishboat owners.
With respect to this question he
stated the owners of fishing vessels
met with a Mr. Shapiro, nationally
known organizer, last winter at San
Francisco, to discuss ways and means
to eliminate the middleman and to
put the industry on a basis whereby
the owners of the vessels could make
a reasonable profit from their fish
harvests. Nothing definite was done
last winter, but it was proposed to
meet again this coming fall and en
deavor to work out a solution.
NO SINGING IN GERMANY
IN THE AFTERNOON
BERLIN, Mar. 17. (>P)—Sustaining
a complaint of a landlady against af
ternoon singing of a music student,
the Rent Arbitration Commission rul
ed that a person was entitled to rest
undisturbed between the hours of 2
and 4 in the afternoon.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 19. (£>)
—The census bureau has estimated the
population of the United States will
have reached 117,000,000 by next July.
ANOTHER RECORD
MADE INTERIOR
BY MUSHER
i TANANA, Mar. 20. (>P)—Charles
Brink took Doctor Averill, dentist, to
Wiseman and returned to Tanana, on
Wednesday. He made the return trip
in four and one-half days, the short
est time known with a dog team.
He reported Merl LaVoy, Fox Film
Company’s photographer at Alatna
seeking help for the trip up the Alat
na and across' the divide to the coast,
following the Indian trail to Barrow.
Brink saw the Smith party at Bet
ties. Smith was heavily loaded with
a motor to operate the wireless plant
at Barrow and was relaying it up to
the John river from that point. The
party planned to cross Brooks divide,
40 miles from John River, whence
an easy slope runs across tundra to
Barrow.
Smith said he would reach Barrow
from Betties in 35 days. There is no
dog fish at Betties so Smith is cook
ing food for them.
The airplane route will be up the
middle fork to V iseman and on up the j
middle fork across the range to Bar
row.
CANT SEE WHY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 20. (JP)
The American Government is un
opposed ,to the conference of the Lea
gue of Nations to discuss American |
reservations in the World. Court, and !
doesn’t understand that such a con
ference, as is proposed at Geneva,
would constitute the League of Na
tions’ action on reservations.
NORTHWESTERN
SAILS WITH BIG
LIST FOR SEWARD
SEATTLE, Wn., Mar. 20. (JP)—The
steamship Northwestern of the Alas
ka Steamship Company sailed from
this port for Seward and Way ports
this morning at nine o’clock, with a
list aggregating 230 passengers, the
largest so far this year leaving for
the North.
Those booked for Seward, Railroad !
points and the Interior follow”
O. C. Waagen, J. A. Anderson, O.
C. Fowler, Mrs. A. McIntyre, E. S.
Peterson, W. Peterson, E. K. Brakawr,
A. Everson, Carl Bengesen, J. J. Buck-!
ley, S. Palmer, G. Andere, C. Cun- j
ningham, R. M. Critcheon, A. Hollum,!
Homer Stewrart, O. Roberts, Paul Nor-!
dying, B. Cockerell, Andrew Nerland,
G. C. Dickens, J. T. Cunningham, J.
A. Magill, Frank Cooper, J. R. Bar
[ tholf, Miss E. C. Shaffer, Mrs. D. H.
Williams and child, Winifred Daymo,
Mrs. L. E. Gallagher and two children,
S. Jasper, J. Coffey, A. M. Rice, W. S.
Horning, Mrs. Emilie Weybrecht, J.
C. Luken, C. A. Carlson, Mrs. J. Bogel,
Miss M. Maxwell, Edward Tindall and
wife, Isadore Bayles, Zella Crawford,
Viola Moore, Mrs. E. Robinson, Mrs.
Sarah Parkens, H. L. Ryder, Dr. H. L.
Hedges, F. Kellam, E. G. Lohner, Miss
Suzanne Eamon, Mrs. F. Gales, Mrs.
A. Tuck, E. Morgan, J. Hill, W. B.
Jones, J. Reso, Sammy' Reso, Joe Pi
cott, W. Lange, Mrs. T. Gales, Ben
Dahl, Tony Rankinson, C. H. "Ward, Ed
Regin, M. Weaver, L. Paulsen, P. Gar
seth and ten steerage.
BYRD COMMENTS
ON THE WRECK
OF DETROITER
NEW YORK, Mar. 20. (£>)—Lieut.
Commander Richard E. Byrd, com
menting on the wreck of the last air
plane of the Wilkins expedition, the
Detroiter, said it will, by no means,
put the outfit out of running. He
said: “Capt. Wilkins is an able and
resourceful man and will get and give
a good account of himself.”
BERLENBACH MADE
DUCK SOUP FOR
NEW CHAMP
NEW YORK, Mar. 20. (Jp)—Paul
Berlenbach, world’s light heavyweight
champion, was battered into a deci
sive defeat and nearly was knocked
out by Johnny Risko, the 22-year-old
light heavyweight and wrecker of
champions, in a ten-round bout at
Madison Square Garden.
The tenth round saw both men slug
ging away at close range, neither
yielding ground. Risko seemed wob
bly after a succession of lefts to the
jaw but grinned and came back with
a smashing right to the chin which
sent Berlenbach staggering back, but
whaling away with both fists at the
sound of the bell.
Risko brought the crowd of 16,000
to their feet in the first round in
flooring Berlqfnbach with a savage
left to the jaw. The champion took
a short count and barely weathered
the storm of blows which buffered
him until the end of the round.
In round three a succession of stiff
rights to the jaw parred Berlenbach
and in the eight the champions knees
were sagging at the crash of the bell.
TERRIBLE BLAST
FURNACE TAKES
LIVES 16 MEN
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Mar. 20. (/P)—
Six were killed and seventeen injur
ed in an explosion of a furnace in the
Woodward Iron company, which blew
off the top of the huge furnace and
spread a hundred tons of molten met
al widely.
The cause of the explosion is more
or less in obscure.
The dead included H. E. Massey,
furnaceman.
The injured were taken to the Ten
nessee Iron and Railroad company
hospital at Fairfield. The surgeons
said the majority of the men were ter
ribly burned.
The total up to noon today listed
the dead from the explosion of a fur
nace here at 16, and seventeen in
jured.
COOLIDGE FUNERAL
MET WITH BIG
SNOWSTORM
PLYMOUTH, Mar. 20. (£>)—A snow
storm swept over the Green Moun
tains of Vermont as President Cool
idge traveled the treacherous road to
the funeral of his father. The snow
was wet and almost blinding and fell
incessantly after a rain thruout the
night.
3 MONTHS FOR
LIFTING FUNDS
COPENHAGEN, Mar. 20. (£>)—An
ton Bast, Methodist Episcopal Bishop
of Scandinavia, was convicted of em
bezzlement of $48,000 from charity
funds. He was sentenced to serve 3
hs.
►ARR DUE TOMORROW EVE
The steamer Starr, Capt. O. A. Jo
hansen, left Kanatak. last nigh-t, Sew
ard bound, and is due to arrive in
port early tomorrow (Sunday) eve
ning, according to a wireless report
received from the vessel today.
SUTHERLAND INTRODUCES BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 19. (£>)
—Delegate Sutherland introduced a
bill to direct army engineers to make
a survey of the ocean frontage at the
port of Afognak.