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VOLUME XLX, NUMBER 197
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1924
PRICE TEX CENTS
AMERICAN FLYERS OFF;
IDEAL FLYING WEATHER;
ITALIAN PAVES ROUTE
REYKJAVIK, Aug. 21—The Am
erican round the world flyers, who
have been detained here for the past
two weeks, and Lieut. Locatelli, the
intrepid Italian airman who flew
from Italy here to advance with the
American planes on their homeward
^ stretch ,hopped off from here at
8:15 o’clock this morning for Fred
ericks Bay, Greenland. The distance
is approximately 865 miles and lies
far across the Danish straits.
The flyers, heading for their chos
en landing place, passed the United
• States Cruiser Richmond, the supply
ship which at the time was on pa
trol duty in connection with the
world flight. The ship was about
seventy miles off the coast of Ice
land when the planes passed at 9:35
in the morning.
Lieut. Locatelli was leading the
fk American planes, which were being
piloted by Lieut.-Com. Lowell Smith
and Erik Nelson, by five miles.
Tire weather was beautiful which
made flying conditions excellent
when the aviators set out for the
far-off south Greenland port.
No reports as yet have been dis
patched concerning their safe arrival.
TWO FILE MOTIONS TO
QUASH INDICTMENTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 21 —
Harry Sinclair, oil magnate and Al
bert B. Fall ,former secretary secre
tary of the Interior who figured in
the oil scandal the past eight months
filed motions in the District Supreme
Court here to quash the indictments
which are placed against them in con
nection with the naval oil leases.
VALUATION OF CLARKE
COUNTY OVER MILLION
VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 20.—
Increase of more than a million
■^o’lars in valuation of property as
sessed for taxation in Clarke coun
ty this year over last year’s valu
ation, is reported by ^County Assess
or Chester Palmer, who has just re
cently completed compiling the re
sults of this year’s work in office.
The increased valuation will re
sult in a lower tax rate for Clarke
county, provided county expenditures
for next year are not increased. Pal
mer declared.
BRYAN IN AUTO SMASHUP
BUT IS ABLE TO LECTURE
TERRE HAUTE, Aug. 21.—Will
iam Jennings Bryan was injured last
night when the auto in which he was
riding from Tuscola to Mattoon, III.,
turned over on the highway.
The Commoner was bruised and
cut about the head and face, but was
able to give the scheduled lecture on
his arrival at Mattoon.
ONE LEG LOST! OWNER
WANTS TO FIND IT
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21—Wal
ter A. Nolan has asked radiocasters
to help him find a wooden leg he left
in Oakland as security for a board
bill for $14 ,a year ago . When he
got the money he could not find the
lanulady. He valued his leg at $150.
DEMOS ARE SUREOF
- DEMOCRATIC STATES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 21.—
Electoral votes are expected by the
Democrats this fall from the states
which now have Democratic govern
ments, Senator Jones, chairman of
the Democratic senatoral campaign
committee said last night.
• REKKJAVIK, Aug. 21.—The Am
erican flyers had made all prepara
tion to start this morning on the hop
to Fredericksdal, near Cape Fare
well on the East coast of Greenland,
but unsatisfactory weather condi
tions again forced them to abandon
their departure. A gale sweeping
thru that vicinity delayed the arrival
here of the U. S. Cruiser Richmond
which is bringing spare parts with
which the two machines can be- re
paired.
BRIDGE CLUB TO MEET
The Bridge Club will meet at Mrs.
W. Root’s home tomorrow, Fri
day afternoon, at the usual hour.
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NEW HEAD OF TAMMANY
Judge George W. Olvany, selected
as leader of Tammany Hall to suc
ceed the late Charles F. Murphy.
Judge Olvany was favored for the
position by Governor A1 Smith, who
had appointed him to his present
bench in the Court of General Ses
sions. The Judge announced that
as Tammany leader he would follow
in the main, the policies of his pred
ecessor. His selection was virtually
unanimous.
JESS WICKERSHAM
IS SHOT BY WIFE;
EVIDENCE OF ROW
(Anchorage Alaskan).
Jess Wickersham, well known res
ident of the Chickaloon district, is
dead and his wife, a native woman,
is in jail, bound over to the grand
jury, as the result of a family row
at the Wickersham cabin in an In
dian settlement on the Chickaloon
river, about two miles above Chick
; aloon. The woman is said to have
admitted shooting Wickersham claim
ing that it was done in self defense
after he had slashed her hand sev
eral times with a knife. Three shots
were fired, one bullet grazing the
skull, one entering the neck and the
third lodging in the thigh.
The shooting occured late Satur
day night and early Sunday morning
Deputy Marshals Frank Hoffman
and Charles Watson and R. C. Lou
dermilch left for the scene after hav
ing been advised of the tragedy by
Lee Harris. U. S. Commissioner W.
H. Rager joined the party at Wasilla
and upon arrival at Chickaloon a
coroner’s jury was impaneled, the
verdict being that Wickersham had
come to his death as the result of
gun shot wounds inflicted by his
common-law wife. In relating the
details of the tragedy, Mrs. Wicker
sham declared that her husband was
drunk at the time he attacked her,
and the officers found ample evi
dence of liquor on the premises, in
cluding four gallons of moonshine,
fifty of mash and a still. The testi
mony indicated that Wickersham
had made a rpevious assault upon his
wife and had been warned at that
time that he would not be permitted
to beat her up again.
Mrs. Wickersham and a babe in
arms were brought to town and lodg
ed in the federal pail to await action
b ythe grand jury. The body of the
dead man also was brought to An
chorage and is being held at the An
chorage Funeral Parlors pending the
receipt of advices from relatives in
the States, it being understood that
Wickersham was well connected. The
relatives aresupposed to reside in
Arkansas.
Wickersham was a man about 48
years of age and his wife is not
much over 20.
WARSHIPS ARRIVE TO
EFFECT MARSHAL LAW
KHARTUM .Egypt, Aug. 21.—Sev
eral British warships have arrived at
Port Sedan to aid the troops there
in maintaining order . Martial law
will be put into effect if any further
disturbances arise in Port Sedan.
Northwestern To Westward
It is reported the steamship North
western will go as far west as Ke
nai and Cook Inlet this trip, to load
salmon, returning here Tuesday or
Wednesday.
WOULD PULL EQUIPMENT
FROM SEATTLE STREETS;
POWER CO. SQUABBLE
SEATTLE, Aug. 21.—Wm. Hick
man Moore, chairman of the fran
chise committee selected by the Seat
tle city council, began to draft a res
olution instructing the board of pub
lic works to remove all equipment of
the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company from the city’s streets. The
resolution will be introduced at the
council meeting on Monday.
PROMINENT SHIPBUILDER
DROWNED NEAR SEALLTE
SEATTLE, Aug .21.—Disappear
ing from the yacht Tenino, C. N
Seaborn, a brother of Henry G. Sea
born, war-time ship builders, was
drowned in Puget South last night off
Magnolia Bluff. Seaborn was on a
pleasure trip to Bainbridge island
with a party of friends at the time
of his disappearance overboard. He
was manager and part owner of the
Seaborn Ship Yards, which engaged
in extensive wooden ship construc
tion during the world war.
DAWES WARNS AGAINST
DANGERS RADICALISM
E'ANSTON, 111., Aug. 21.—In hi?
speech at this place last night, Chas.
G -Dawes, candidate for the vice
presidency on the Republican ticket
said that the accomplishments of the
Republican party would stand the
keenest scrutiny by lh* ether parties,
being progressive and conservative
under the leadership of Coolidge,
who had taken his stand firmly iv>oi>
legislative matters, so that all knew
where he stood. The only effect of
the candidacy of its opponents might
be to throw the contest into the
house < f representatives and a1 low
Bryanism to prevail, which policy
would be a movement untried and
dangerous radicalism.
ALLEGED PIRATE VESSELS
LISTED BY CANNERYMEN
(Juneau Empire).
The systematice campaign of trap
robbing, said to have existed in the
southern end of the division, near
Ketchikan, has been dealt a body
blow by the salmon packers them
selves, according to word brought to
Juneau by Maj. George D. Beaumont,
U. S. Marshal who returned last
night from the FFirst City. The can
nerymen, he said, have entered into
an agreement not to buy fish believ
ed to have been stolen.
This agreement, said Marshal
Beaumont, was reached at a meeting
of Ketchikan canners and others in
that vicinity and followed offical
notice given by the government’s at
torneys that persons or firms whom
it could be shown were knowingly
buying fish from trap robbers would
be prosecuted either for conspiracy
or for receiving stolen goods. Un
der the terms of the agreement the
packers furnished each other with
a list of boats which they knew or
had reason to believe were engaged
in “pirating.” The list is said to
have included boats which had offer
ed to buy fish from the watchmen
on tramps owned or operated by the
individuals or companies represented
at the meeting. It is reported that
I more than 30 boats were listed by
the connerymen. Since the agree
ment was made vessels listed have
been unable to sell fish on the Ket
chikan market. The action created
a big sensation among the operators
and owners of the prescribed boats
and protests are said to have been
made.
MACLAREN IN* VANCOUVER
VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 21.—
Stuart Maclaren, the British round
the-world flyer who was forced down
in the North Pacific waters and
wrecking his plane, arrived here from
off the coast with the crumpled re
mains of his broken plane.
Gerhardt Johnson and crew of men
will start stuccoing the Mel Holben
building in the near future, Contrac
tor John Helm having completed the
carpentery work on the front. When
completed the building will be an
ornament to this part of town.
B. E .Crow has a yard full of hand
some poppies this week ,the flowers
attracting considerable attention
from tourists.
PAT HARRISON DEFEATS !
FORMER GOV. BREWER
SENATORIAL NOMINATION
JACKSON, Aug. 21.—Pat Harri
son defeated former Governor Brew
er, five to one today, for the Demo
cratic nomination in the senatorial
primary here.
DUTCH ISLAND IS SOUGHT
BY THE UNITED STATES
MANILA, Aug. 2l.—'The United
States government has entered in tv)
negotiations with the Netherlands
government to bring under the Am
erican flag Palmas island, situated
about 50 miles southeast of the Pro
vince of Davao, Island of Mindanao.
Palmas island was ceded to the
United States by Spain in the treaty
of Paris in 1898, but the Dutch flag
which has flown over it for nearly
a century, has ever beer taken
down. Although the people of Pal
mas are virtually all of Filipino or
igin and the icland a party of the
Philippine archipalego, the Dutch
have assumed sovereignty over the
500 inhabitants.
JEWELS OF SLAIN
WOMAN RECOVERED
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21.—Three
rare pieces of jewelry, stripped from
Teresa Moers when she was slain re
cently, were recovered by police. The
jewelry consisted of valuable dia
monds sapph,res and pearls and were
in possession of the attorneys for
Mrs. Jennie Thomas, a sister a Kid
McCoy, the latter charged with the
crime.
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U. S. FILMS LEAD IN
ENGLISH MOVIE HOUSES
LONDON, Aug. 16.—The growth of
England’s infant motion picture in
dustry has been stunted by the blow
given it during the last six months
by the matured products of the U. S.
A bankruptcy suit has been filed in
the courts by the Hepworth Films,
pioneers in the English field and oth
er companies are reducing their pro
grams.
The English films thus far have ad
mittedly been inferior and their pro
duction unsatisfactory financially, but
there has been hope that it would
be possible to develop them into
successful rivalry with the American
enterprises.
Probably the curtailment of the
English production will not leave a
great gap in the lives of the picture
fans, but it has been a serious set
back to the English desire for inter
nal commercial independence in this
field.
Cecil Hepworth, head of firm, su
ing for bankruptcy, said, in explain
ing the action, that the economic po
sition was against the English.
“America,” he declared, “has suf
ficient theaters to use up all its pro
ductions and pay the cost of produc
ing. When the pictures are brought
over here all the rentals obtained are
clear profit, while we have to ask
sufficient to cover our enormous
costs. When money is scarce, the
English theater owners choose the
cheaper American films. We cannot
compete financially with America in
this matter.”
DEATH SUMMONS
INGVALD RYSTAD
Ingvalt J. Rystad, employe of The
Alaska Railroad, who was injured
some time ago as the result of being
caught beneath some heavy timbers
which fell from a car which he was
unloading, died suddenly at the Gov
ernment hospital the other day,
death being attributed to a blood
clot on the heart. The patient was
eonvalscent from his previous trou
ble and the fatal stroke came without
warning ,death occurring within a
few minutes after Rystad had col
lapsed. He had just finished break
fast and was walking about the ward
when stricken.
The deceased was a native of Nor
way, where he was born 56 years ago.
He was an oldtimer of the North and
resided in the Interior in the early
days, moving to Anchorage shortly
after the commencement of railroad
activities. He is survived by a sis
ter and brother, residing in the
States.
Excavating has been practically
completed for the Arcade Annex, and
lumber is being hauled to the site.
tUNoettwooo 4 uNotnwooo. m. v.
u. s. OBSERVER, ZR-3
Capt. J. H. Klein, jr., U. S. N-, in
charbe of the U. S. Naval Air Station
at Lakehurst, N. J., officially quali- j
fietl as a pilot recently and has ar-j
ranged to leave early in August for
Friedrichshafen, where the ZR-3 is
being constructed for the U nited
States. He will make the return trip
to the United States as an observer
aboard the ZR-3 which is expected to
start flight from Germany to Amer
ica early in September.
FLYER MAKES TRIP
TO EAGLE IN DAY;
LANDS RIVER BAR
—
Linking Eagle with Fairbanks by |
1 air route for the first time, Pilot
Noel Wien yesterday made a round j
flight in remarkable time and with
complete success. Leaving Fail banks
field ai 11:30 a. m., with Norman :
Wimnder, placer mining engineer of;
the U- S. Bureau of Mines, as a pas
j sengei, he winged his course toward j
Eagle .arriving at his destination and j
landing on a sandbar on the uppo-;
site side of the river to the town in
3 hiurs and 25 minutes . Returning
he took a straight course for home,
! landing on the local field at 8 p. m.
The return flight was made in two
| hours and forty-five minutes.
AGED WOMAN KILLED;
STRUCK BY STREETCAR
SEATTLE, Aug. 21.—Mrs. Effie
Gardiner, mother of Raymond L.
Gardner, president of the Bryan
Lumber company of this city, was
instantly killed when struck by a
streetcar on Alaska street.
HARRY ELLSWORTH SELECTED’
FOR ADVISORY COMMISSION
Harry Ellsworth, member of the
Territorial Fish Commission received’
a telegram this morning from Her
, bert Hoover, Secretary of the De
partment of Commerce, stating that
he had been named a member of the
advisory board which will consider
the present regulations governing
laskan salmon fisheries to make
changes and recommendations or ad
ditions to the present laws for the
coming year.
A letter was also received from
Governor Scott C. Bone advising Mr.
Ellsworth that the Advisory Com
mittee of the Bureau of Fisheries
would meet at Juneau the first week
in September . Commissioner Henry
O’Malley will be in attendance as
well as Delegate Sutherland.
The value of having a member of
this advisory board in Seward can
not be too greatly estimated. The
Fisheries Bureau has built and is
maintaining a splendid hatchery at
Grouse Lake ,has cleared the streams
in this vicinity increasing the run
of red fish, and will continue its pol
icy of propagation. Plans next year
call for the construction of traps at
Bear Lake and on Quartz Creek, to
prevent trout from ascending to
these streams.
SEATTLE, Aug. 21.—In a grelling
race and marked by disqualification,
the U. S. S. Mississippi crew came
out first at the finish with the Arizo
na second this afternoon. The Miss
issippi crew was disqualified for
crossing in front of the Arizona in
the race which was held at Lake
Washington.
,A FOLLETTE’S BEST TURN
WOULD THROW ELECTION
TO DECISION OF H. OF R.
QUINCY, III., Aug. 21.—Wm. J.
Iryan, discussing important move
nents in regards to the coming elec
ion said that the best LaFollette
:ould do would be to throw the elec
tion into the House of Representa
tives where the decision would make
i victory for the Democrats certain.
[RACK SWEEPER COMES
INTO $30,000 FORTUNE
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 21.—Ro
)ert Moreland, employed as a track
weeper in the Southern Pacigc yards
lere, has been notified of his share
jf $30,000 of the $200,000 estate left
iim in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
PREDICTS DEMOS WILL
CAPTURE THE SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 21.—
Senator Anderieus A. Jones, of New
Mexico, returning here today from a
swing around the country to assume
his new duties as chairman of the
Democratic senatorial national cam
paign committee, predicted that the
Democrats will capture the senate in
the November election.
COLD WAVE HITS NOME
MOVES TO INTERIOR POINTS
Somebody is monkeying with the
weather in the North Alaska regions.
Yesterday Nome reported 30 degrees
above zero, which is two degrees be
low freezing, and today the cold
wave struck the Tanana Valley gar
den spots, but goin gto 23 degrees
above zero or 6 degrees below the
freezing point.
WANTON DESTRUCTION
FILLS SELDOVIA JAIL
SELDOVIA, Aug. 21.—Charged
with violation of the regulations of
the White Bill, for the protection
of the fisheries of Alaska, thirty
eight Cook Inlet fishermen were tak
en into custody this week and lodged
in the Seldovia jail, or rather, as
many as could be crowded into the
jail were lodged there and the over
flow offenderg are being cared for
elsewhere pending the hearing of the
cases. The specific charge against
the men is that of wanton destruc
tion of fish, herring for the most
part. The defendants are employes
of three companies operating on the
inlet, the San Juan, Fidalgo and one
other —
The arrests are the result of an
investigation of conditions along the
inlet and a determination o nthe part
of the fisheries bureau charged with
the protection of the fisheries, to put
a stop to waste of fish, of which
there is said to have been an unwar
ranted amount this season.
Photographs have been obtained
of large quantities of dead fish scat
tered along the shores of the inlet,
chiefly salmon, the number of this
species wantonly wasted being esti
mateed roughly at upwards of $50,
000 in one locality.
DAWES ACCEPTS TENDER;
AND COOLIDGE LISTENS IN
EVANSTON, 111., Aug. 21.—“I
accept,” Dawes bit off in reply last
night to the formal tender given him
of the Republican vice presidential
nomination. Coolidge, in the mean
time was listening in from his fath
er’s Vermont farmhouse, while his
running mate declared that the ad
minist ation had reduced the taxes
and that it was not done by accident.
WOMAN FIGURES WELL
IN DIVORCE DECISION
SEATTLE, Aug. 21.—The Divorce
case of Lucille MacKinnon, against
her husband Dr. Goff MacKinnon, one
of Seattle most prominent physicians
held in Judge Everett Smith's court
yesterday afternoon granted the
plaintiff the custody of the children,
the family home, a separate mainten
ance sum of three hundred and twen
ty-five dollars per month and ordered
the defendant to keep up the fifteen
thousand dollar life insurance which
is being held.
Mrs. Doris Fay Eldred figured as
co-respondent