VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 68. Jj &
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 20,1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Oris of the Next Boats-Engineers Coming
H. V. Hoben today received a wire from Al. Davis, who is in Seattle, stating that he (Mr. Davis), had received two wires yesterday, one from the
bonding house, stating that everything had been settled and that work on the pulp mill would be started within a short time; and the other from the
engineer on the project, stating that he had ordered a No. 2 Sullivan Machine Company drilling outfit, with a pentration of from 50 to 200 feet,
which would leave Seattle on one of the next boats, to be used in boring for the foundations on the big dam to be constructed at Kenai Lake. The
engineers will leave Seattle about the same time, ready to rush the power project to completion as rapidly as possible.
This is the first machinery for the proposed pulp mill to be shipped north and is a most encouraging sign that the plans of the promoters
are nearing fruition. In recent letters received here it is stated that the purchasing agent now in Seattle, is assembling his material for con
struction of the dam. It is now practically certain that the engineers will start work before the frost is out of the ground.
J. H. Flickinger of the Alaska Steam
ship Company received a message to
day from E. T. Stannard, at head
quarters in Seattle, stating that the
Seward radio station would be reopen
ed April 1, but the message did not
state whether the Navy or the Army
would be in charge. For several
months past the Chamber of Com
merce has been trying to have the
station turned over the Army, and or,
Tuesday a message was received that
ti e War departm- m d recommend
ed it transfer. It is believed that ac
tion has been taken by the Navy >!c
paiiment in order to keep Cue War
department !V: a getting a foo:liold on
t? e coast.
The local Chamber has had strong
assistance in the project, the San
Francisco Chamber, the Seattle Cham
ber, the Alaska and Pacific Steamship
Companies, and the Harriman Bank
people insiting that the station remain
iu operation. Secretary J. P. Hannon
of the local Chamber, has rendered
invaluable service, as he was in charge
or the local station for some time, and
is thoroughly familiar with all phases
o, the questions involved.
The station was closed last fall, os
tensibly for the reason that the Navy
had no money left for its maintenance.
Since that time all efforts of local peo
ple to have the station used has been
nullified by Washington. Pressure re
cently brought to bear by the army
to secure use of the station by the
Signal Corps, has been fought vigor
ously by the Navy department, which
apparently would rather see the sta
tion rot than made use of by the peo
ple.
The caretaker at the radio station
also received a message today stating
the station would be reopened April
first.
This is good news for residents of
Sewrar d who have been compelled to
send all messages destined to the
westward by way of Cordova, at an
extra cost of five cents per word.
1PIM BASE FDR
SAND POINT, WISH.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 20.—The es
tablishment at Sand Point of a heav
ier than air naval base will be advo
cated today by Rear Admiral Jackson,
assistant chief of naval operation, and
Rear Admiral Wm. A. Moffatt, chief
of the bureau of aeronautics.
NATIONAL PARKS BILLS PASSES
WASHINGTON, Mar. 20.—The Na
tional Parks Road Bill, authorizing the
expenditure of $7,500,000, passed the
House last night.
CORDOVA CANDIDATE IS
MUCH ENCOURAGED BY
TRIP TO INTERIOR
Ivan H. Suphellen, of Cordova, who
has been on a trip to Anchorage, ar
rived on last night,s train, and left to
day for Valdez, where he will remain
until the Alameda returns south. Mr.
Supheiliu states that he received much
encouragement from Anchorage re
| publicans, over his candidacy for the
iower house, and also has been assur
ed of a heavy vote to the westward
Mr. Suphellen has been a resident of
Alaska for the past twelve years, and
at the present time is employed by
i the Copper River railroad.
Mr. Suphellen states that he intends
to make his home permanently in the
Territory, and whether elected or not
wiil always be found working for its
best interests.
lEKfiiiiip
BEFORE COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, Mar. 20.—Tex Rick
ard was grilled three hours today be
fore the Daugherty investigating com
mittee. He admitted he had slipped
| the Dempsey-Carpentier fight films
j into various states in violation of the
law; and that he had employed a law
yer, an intimate friend of Daugherty’s,
as his attorney in handling the films.
“You are same Rickard who said in
New York a short time ago that you
would bet a million dollars they didn’t
find Daugherty’s foot slipping,” Sena
tor Wheeler remarked to him during
the interview.
POLAR PLANES BEING
BUILT FOR AMUNDSEN
NEW YORK, Mar. 20—Lieutenant
Ralph E. Davidson, U. S. N., who will
take part in this summer’s attempt
with Captain Roald Amundsen to
reach the North Pole by a flight from
Spitzenberg to Wainwright Point Bar
row, Alaska, is here on his way to
Pisa, Italy, where the polar planes are
now being constructed.
With him is Mrs. Davidson, former
ly Miss Elizabeth Dunham, of Pensa
cola, Florida, whom he married several
weeks ago and who will accompany
him to Italy and then on to Tromsoe,
Norway, on the fringe of the Arctic
Circle.
IRISH MINISTER RESIGNED
DUBLIN, Mar. 20.—General Richard
Mulcahy, minister of defense in the
Free State government and head of
the Irish army resigned.
SPECIAL RATE TO FAIRBANKS
A special round trip rates from
Seward to Fairbanks of $37.40, on ac
count of the Grand Igloo of Pioneers,
will be given by the Alaska railroad.
Date of sale March 24, and good until
April 2.
706 REVENUE AGENTS
DISCHARGED ACCOUNT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 20—
Because cf dishonesty and graft, 796!
revenue agents, inspectors and collec
tors of the Bureau of Internal Reve
nue. have been discharged in the last
three years, assistant commissioner
Nash this afternoon told the senate
committee investigating the bureau.
EiELSON CANCELS FLIGHT
FROM M’GRATH ANCHORAGE
Plans of Aviator C. B. Eielson, the
Fairbanks aviator, to fly to Anchorage
some time this week have been can
celed by orders of the postoffice de
partment. until after the flights have
passed the experimental stage. Eielson
will make his fourth flight to McGrath
this week.
W. F. THOMPSON HAS LONG
INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, Mar. 19.—W. F.
Thompson, veteran publisher of the
Fairbanks News-Miner, in company
with Delegate Sutherland called on
President Coolidge yesterday and con
ferred for some time on Alaskan mat
| ters. Mr. Thompson is very much im
| proved in health since his trip to Hot
j Springs and will return to the North
i in April.
jilt BASE IT MEOI
TURNED DOWN Bf HOUSf
WASHINGTON, Mar. 20.— The
House Naval Committee today turned
I down the plan for the establishment
| of a naval base at Alameda.
—
i AUTONOMOUS JEWISH
REGION IS PROPOSED
LONDON, March 20—It is stated in
Jewish circles here that an autonom
ous Jewish region will be established
in northern Crimea and adjacent dis
tricts in the Ukraine ,including Odes
sa, Kherson and Nikolaiev, where the
populations are mostly Jew.
The area comprises approximately
14,000,000 acres, of which 2,000,000
hitherto have been uncultivated and
unpeopled.
The diplomatic correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph hears that the soviet
leaders favor the scheme, which ,it de
clares is not, as suggested in some dis
tricts, a revival of the szarist system
of the “pale.”
DR. IVAN A PERRY DEAD
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Mar. 20.
Dr. Ivan A. Perry, a noted Seattle
surgeon touring the Orient, died here
last night.
0FFF1 SUPPORT WOOD
IFHE APPOINTED OIL
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 30
Wood was approached at the conven
tion of the big oil intei'ests who offer
ed to support him if he would name
an oil man Secretary of the Interior,
Tiffin Gillmore deputy secretary of
Ohio testified before the Senate oil
land commitee. Wood declined the
proposition.
PROMINENT POETS TO
WED IN CALIFORNIA
SALINAS, Mar. 20—A marriage li
cense was issued here yesterday for
Clinton Scollard, 63, and Miss Jessie
Kittenhouse ,53, two of the best known
writers of poetry in America. Both
are residents of New York, but have
established temporary homes in the
artists and writers colony at Carmel.
The marriage date was not announc
ed.
Scollard who is also widely known
as a professor of English literature,
obtained a divorce a month ago in Re
no from his first wife, Mrs. Georgia
Brown Scollard, on the grounds of
cruelty.
A. H. Humphrey, representing Hill
Bros.’ Coffee, returned from a trip to
the westward.
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 20.—Curtis
Wilbur, the newly appointed Secretary
of the Navy, was sworn in today by
the U. S. Federal court.
CASE REVERSED BECAUSE
PROSECUTOR REFERRED TO
PRISONER AS EX-CONVICT
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 19—Refer
ence to a defendant as an ex-convict,
by a prosecutor in a United States
district court constitutes reversible
error when the exconvict status has
nothing to do with the case at bar,
the United States circuit court ruled
in reversing judgment and sentence
against Wesley Leroy Sischo, alleged
narcotic vendor of Seattle, on the
ground of such error.
Sischo had been sentenced to seven
years in McNeil island penitentiary
and the payment of a fine of $4,000;
after a trial in the United States dis
trict court in Seattle.
James E. Louttit, formerly with the
Ladysmith Smelting company at La
touche, is now connected with the Ter
minal Machinery company in Seattle.
ENGINEER FOR NEW ENGLAND
PASSES THRU ON WATSON
The engineer ior the New England
Fisheries who passed through here on
his way to Kodiak, branded as bunk
the reports going around that the New
England would locate its main plant
at Kodiak. When Messrs. Davis and
Nunen were in Seward they stated a
branch would be located at Kodiak to
handle shorts, and that this would
have no bearing on the plant ior Sew
ard. Mr. Davis stated that the plant
at Seward would be compelled to put
carriers on the run or else build a
branch at Kodiak, and the engineer is
now on his way to look the ground
over.
PARIS, Mar. 20—The new poison
gas developed in Germany embodies
carbon monoxide, in the opinion of the
eminent French chemist, Dr. Pierre
Louis Rehm, writing in the Matin. The
German chemists, he says, probably
have succeeded in getting solutions of
metallic carbonyls, the microscopic
particles of which are capable of pen
etrating the filters of gas masks, and
then giving off carbon monoxide. This
gas is not only odorless and colorless,
but is one of the deadliest known to
science.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
IS HIT BY CLOUDBURST
LOS ANGELES, March 20—A
| thunder storm ,accompanied by light
ning, struck Los Angeles yesterday
afternoon, bringing with it heavy tor
rents of rain. A cloudburst in Glen
dale and Eagle Rock flooded the bus
iness streets with water, held up traf
fic for several hours and did consid
erable damage to homes and gardens.
The storm was reported to be general
from the mountains to the sea.
DETECTIVE AGAIN CLAIMS
BONDS WERE DUPLICATED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 20—
Charles B. Brewer, a special atorney
v itn the department of ius* ice, at a
hearing today before the h >use rules
committee reiterated his charges that
a million dollars in bonds had been
duplicated at the bureau of engraving
and printing.
During examination by the commit
tee, which had before it a resolution
to authorize an investigation of the
charges, Brewer added little to his pre
vious statement and the committee
took no action.
POTLATCH REVUE —Saturday,
night, March 29, at the Liberty The
atre. Adults 75c; children 25c. tf
VANCOUVER, Wash., Mar. 20.—
Taking the air at 3 o’clock this after
noon, the Army round the world flier
proceeded toward Seattle as far as
Chehalis, where they encountered
such a severe wind and rain storm,
that they returned to Vancouver, land
ing at 4:12. Lieut. Martin said there
was no need of taking such desperate
chances until it became necessary.
CLOVERFIELD, Los Angeles, Mar.
20—Inpursuit of his fellow fliers I.t.
Erick Nelson piloting the fourth air
plane, took off at daybreak yesterday.
SACRAMENTO Mar. 20—Lt. Nel
son in world cruiser Number 4, pass
ed over Mather Field at ten a. m. yes
terday morning on his way to Seattle
to join his companions in the round
the-world flight.
EUGENE, Mar. 20—Three world
flyers hopped off on the third lap of
their journey yesterday morning at 11
for Vancouver Barracks, where they
will make a stop before proceeding to
Seattle.
SEATTLE, Mar. 19—If the airmen
arrive at seven as expected, they will
be given a dinner at the Raineer club.
Fourth Aviator Lands
EUGENE, Ore., Mar. 20.—Lieuten
ant Nelson, the fourth Army aviator,
landed here today at 4 o’clock.
ABBEY TAKES POSITION
WITH MINING COMPANY
Woodbury Abbey of McKinley Park,
who has been in Fairbanks the past
week, left for the Park. It is under
stood, says the News-Miner, that Mr.
Abbey has accepted a position with
the U. S. Smelting, Refiining and Min
ing Exploration Company as engineer.
Mr. Abbey, for several years cadastral
engineer with the General Land office,
Suffering from cancer of the stom
ach, Tom Blalock, a miner from the
Koyukuk district, was taken outside
on the Alaska by Dr. de la Vergne.
who was also in charge of A. Lempi
nen, a Finn, totally blind.
Passenegrs on the Admiral Watson
from the westward, were Wm. Hart,
Mrs. Hart, Alta Hart, W. P. White,
and Fred Stone. Allan Suppellen, H.
G. Steel and several others left from
! here.
POWER BE OFF TOMORROW
A slide came down and damaged the
pipe line causing a temporary shut
down for a time today. The power
will be off tomorrow (Friday) from
10 o’clock until 2, repairs having not
been completed today.