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VOLUME XLX, NUMBER 198
SEWARD ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
v AMERICAN WARSHIPS ARE SEARCHING FOR
LIEUTENANT LOCATELLI, ITALIAN AVIATOR
On Hoard Cruiser Richmond, between Greenland and Iceland,
Friday, August 22.—Rear Admiral Thomas Magruder has ordered the
cruisers Raleigh and Richmond, with a number of destroyers to
search the district east of Cape Farewell, Greenland, for Lieutenant
Locatelli, the Italian aviator, who accompanied the American flyers
on their flight yesterday, but is still missing- It is feared he has
fallen into the sea.
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T
REKKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 22.—
The American round the world fly
ers safely negotiated the longest leg
of their whole journey yesterday
when they landed at Fredericksdal,
• on the west coast of Greenland at 6
o’clock. They made 725 miles in 11
hours . The trip was without incident
other than Lieut. Nelson, was forced
to descend a few minutes at Skeja
fjord. He ascended again almost im
mediately after making a few minor
adjustments to his motor.
# Lieutenant Smith, the other United
States flyer, and Locatelli, the Ital
ian airman, who hopped off at the
same time, proceeded on to Freder
icksdal, arriving safely.
Considerable relief was expressed
by the Navy department over the
safe arrival of the flyers on the most
dangerous leg of their journey. Fred
ericksdal is just west of Cape Fare
well on the south-most point of
Greenland. The next leg of the
flight will be across Davis Straits to
Labrador.
Chautauquans Warned
of Approaching Alliance
by Four Great Powers
CHAUTAUQUA ,N. Y., Aug. 22
Warning of an international combin
ation by the four great powers of
Germany, Russia, China and Japan
was expressed today by Major Gen
eral A. D. James Harbord, former
deputy chief of staff, U .S. A., in
an address before the institute on In
^ ternational Relations for the Christ
ian point of view he urged adequate
armament, international co-opera
tion for the limitation of competitive
arming, and declared that Russia and
^ Germany would not remain content
to be excluded from the Far East,
and added that our unhappy manner
of doing things had lost us the
warm friendship of the Japanese as
well as the greater part of Asia.
SPRINTER ON 2ND BASE
KILLS MERKLES HOMER
ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 22.—In
an intercollegiate League game re
cently played here Fred Merkle, for
mer Giant first sacker, learned the
answer to the question “When is a
home run not a home run?”
With Gonzales on third and Grif
fin on second, Merkle hit the ball
over the fence. Griffin, running fast,
touched the home plate ahead of
Gonzales and thus caused the third
out, robbing Merkle of a homer.
Lightning Hits Near
President and His Wife
PLYMOUTH, Vt., Aug. 22.—Light
ning utterly demolished a telephone
pole standing within 50 feet of the
Coolidge residence where the Presi
dent and his wife were sleeping.
^ They were unharmed .although some
what shocked.
CRUMBLING SHORE DOOMS
HISTORIC OLD LIGHTHOUS
WILMINGTON, Dela., Aug.—Hen
lopen Lighthouse, which has guided
ships by Delaware Bay since 1764,
faces destruction at any moment, ac
cording to Captain John C. Gray,
keeper of the light.
It is the second oldest lighthouse
in America and was constructed by
the British to direct ships to the
Colonies, but was partly destroyed
by British troops who landed there
in 1777.
Originally built 1,400 feet from the
shore line, only eleven feet of land
lie between it and the water now.
Captain Gray said he had seen a
good storm take away more than
that at one sweep and predicted that
“one more good nor’easter would
end the historic landmark's career.
FISH PRICES
JUNEAU, Aug. 22.—Fresh halibut
^ is quoted at 12 and 7 cents per pound.
Salmon at 16 and 10 and 5 cents.
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U. S. Business
Eager To Sell
Goods Abroad
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 22.
—The growing interest of Amer
ican business men in expert trade
is reflected in the fact that during
July Die Department •'! Com
merce received more than 125,000
inquiries regarding foreign traoe
openings.
Business men, both those of the
inland cities, and others of the
Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf coasts,
indicated their desire to find an
outlet for their goods abroad.
In 1921, when the first records
of commercial inquiries were kept
about 30,000 letters were received
by the department. The figure
grew rapidly, having reached a
maximum of 131,000 inquiries in
May of this year.
Officials said that they expect
ed the indicator of inquiries to
start up again within a few
months.
SEABORN A SUICIDE,
SAY SEATTLE OFFICIALS
SEATTLE, Aug. 22.—Indications
here are to the belief that C. N. Sea
born who disappeared from the yacht
Tenino the other day points to a
clear case of suicide
It also developed ,after a thorough
investigation of the case, that there
were three young women, whose
names will not be disclosed at the
present time .aboard the yacht with
Seaborn and that on the night before,
his wife had disappeared from her.
Old Timer from Yukon
On Way to the States
P. I). Carroll ,an oldtimer from the
Yukon district, where he has been
carrying mail from Tanana to Ruby
for a number of years, arrived on
last night’s train in company with his
daughter whom he is taking outside
to school. Mr. Carroll has been in
nearly all the camps on the Yukon
and has a wide acquaintance. He re
ports a small strike on Mud river,
but of little magnitude- Fur is poor
on the river this season, the catch
being very light. Mr. Caroll and his
daughter will leave on the Northwes
tern. He will return in November.
Mr. Carroll reports a two-inch
snow at Yukon ;points early this
month. He stated at all points the
potato vines were black with frost
and that crops were practically ruin
ed by the early frost. The Yukon
district is practically depopulated,
owing to the post at Gibbon being
abandoned and the railway furnish
ing coal to river points doing away
with woodcutters. Many fish are run
ning up the river this year, and a
good supply will be put up.
PARTY HAS HARD TRIP
Maurice A. Gale ,of the firm of
Felder and Gale, who recently went
thru Seward on his way to Tocotna,
has installed the first motion picture
machine seen on the river, and will
show Paramount pictures. Mr. Gale
and Mr. J. W. Felder, who accom
panied him, had a hard trip home.
At the Portage they found Grass
lake frozen over, and the boat and
one thousand pounds of luggage had
to be dragged across the lake, tak
ing the greater part of a day. Their
boat leaked badly and the party al
most swamped.
W. J. ULOW NOMINATED
AS SO. DAK. GOVERNOR
PIERRE, S. D-, Aug. 22.—W. J.
Bulow, o fBeresford, was nominated
today by the state commission to
take the place of Andrew Ganberson,
democratic nominee for governor,
who died a few days ago.
MAKES NEW JAVEL L. < tJKLM* RECORD
C. C. Brooks, of Northeastern College, who established a new javelin
record throw of over 161 feet at the athletic meet at the New England
Inter-Collegiate games, at Massachusetts Technical field.
First Sailing Vessel
From Bristol Bay Is
Recent Seattle Arrival
SEATTLE, Aug. 22.—Marking the
first sailing vessel of the Alaska
cannery fleet to reach the States
from the Bi'istol Bay district, the
Northwestern Fisheries vessel, Ben
jamin Packard arrived last night
with 200,000 cases of canned salmon.
The trip down was an uneventful
one.
Jack Dempsey May Fight
Gibbons in London Soon
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22.—A very
tempting offer which may carry Jack
Dempsey, world’s champion heavy
weight boxer, across the Atlantic to
meet 'tommy Gibbons in London, was
made to the champion by an Eng
lish syndicate late today, it was an
nounced here by Jack Kearns, Demp
sey’s manager.
The offer, Kearns declared is of
such attractiveness that it is im
possible to ignore, and comes at a
time when the champion has ex
pressed a determination to abandon
his more recent calling, motion pic
ture acting.
Dempsey .according to Kearns, has
wearied of the grease paint and will
start training soon in an effort to
reach the pink of physical condition
by October, so that he will be in a
position either to accept the English
offer or to meet the winner of the
Wills-Firpo bout next month.
Dempsey at the present time was
described by his manager as being
ten pounds overweight, but in good
physical condition.
The London bout appears to be
the best bet of the future and will
receive the champion’s fullest con
sideration, Kearns declared.
Hunting Party Leaves
Today for Skilak Lake
Messrs. Sterling and Hoover, with
Henry Lucas and George Nelson as
guides, left on today’s train for low
er Skilak lake on a month’s hunt
ing trip. The party will go to Mile
23, and down Kenai lake and river
to the hunting grounds. The father
of Mr. Hoover was a member of the
Chase party to the westward last
year, but found little game. There is
no doubt that with Messrs. Lucas
and Nelson they will bag the limit.
Hank Frost went as packer.
Ballaine Making Trip
Up the Susitna River
John E. Ballaine, who passed thru
Seward the first of the week on his
way to the interior, is making a trip
up the Susitna river with Jerrold
Ballaine and C. V. Geary. The party
is investigating a heavy stand of
birch timber reported to be in that
section.
COURT PROCEEDINGS
In the case of the Trustees of the
New School of Applied Christian
Psychology of California ,for an in
terest in the Primrose mine, vs. C
B. Hubbard, Ora Hubbard and John
Weise, plaintiff concluded its case
and defendant moved that case be
dismissed, which was denied by the
court and the case adjourned until
Monday.
Chas. Fisher applied for naturali
zation papers.
Platonic Love Affair
Lands Erring Couple
in Toils of the Law
SEATTLE, Aug. 22.—Marcus A.
Miller, 40, a wealthy building con
tractor of San Rafael ,Calif., and his
bigamous bride, Mrs. Delphine Schul
ler, 23, were arrested at a hotel here
last night and are now in jail. Mrs.
Schuller was nurse to the invalid
wife of Miller, and claims that the
latter told her to live with him as
his wife and give him the joys a man
was entitled to, as she could not.
Violent Demonstration
Made by Communists
PARIS, Aug. 22.— A violent dis
play by communists forced Paul Pn
inleve, president of the chamber, to
discontinue its sittings this after
noon. Premier Herriott placed the
Dawes reparations plan before the
chamber and remarked that while
he had been for the plan, nothing as
yet had been really done.
GOOD LOOKING PROPERTIES
IN jhe mka bay district
Frank Kempfer, of the Seward
Real Estate company, returned last
night from the Nuka bay district,
where he went to investigate a num
ber of mining properties. He was
delighted with the outlook and states
that a number of fine properties are
to be found, with money in sight.
The Alaska Hills Mining Co-, is
sinking a shaft and electing a mill.
Their ore is high grade, similar to
ore in the Cliff mine near Valdez.
Burman and Car.’.-cn have two
fine leads, eight feet in width with
liberal showing of Uve gold. The/
arc working on ihe ground and have
a good concentrating 01 shipping pro
ject.
Frank Lang has a good free gold
property on tiocwatei. He recently
shipped GO sacks of high grade ore t;.
the Tacoma smeller.
Bob Hatcher has a large ledge a.
tide water, and has ■» number Of men
on the ground t ufling in a camp,
and has a very fine .cvoperty.
Numerous big dykes are to be
found cutting through the country
and the work done up :o the pres
cnt time intlira'es what, some good
paying mines will be developed in
the district. Many prospectors are
in the hills, about od non working
in the district. IV country is a
large one and heavy7 laden with min
erals.
SAYS “STRONG, SILENT”
MEN ARE OFTEN “DUMB”
LONDON, Aug. 22.—These so
called “strong, silent” men may be
silent, but they are not necessarily
strong, according to Winston Church
ill. It may be they are silent only
because they are dumb.
“Too often,” said Churchill, in an
address before a class of college
graduates, “the strong, silent men
are silent only because he does not
know what to say, and he is re
puted strong because he has remain
ed silent.”
Churchill urged the collegians to
develop a real “gift of gab”—that
is, to have something to say and
learn how to say it.
SEATTLE, Aug. 22.—Theodore Ma
thon, an employe of the Alaska fish
eries fleet, fell into the hands of
thugs here last night and was robbed
of $775 ,his season’s earnings.
Georgia City
Electrocutes
Vagrant Dogs
ALBANY, Ga., Auf. 22.—No
onger are dogs in Albany com
pelled to face the firing squad and
neet death in this fashion. In
stead, they are disposed of in a
'more modern way, that is, by the
electric chair route.
Only in their case they are plac
ed on an electric floor instead,
and begin their pourney to the
“happy hunting ground” in this
manner.
During the past few weeks more
than 200 members of the canine
family have met death here in
this fashion. They go six at a
time ,by standing on an electric
charged metal floor and wearing
a copper collar, causing a circuit
to be completed by a slender wire
attached to the neck piece.
When the sextette is placed on
the floor, the executioner turns
on the current and it is all over.
No blood or anything.
This new means of doing away
with the dogs resulted from a city
ordinance requiring that owners
of each animal have it innoculated
against against rabies and place
a city tag on its collar to that ef
fect.
If the dog shows up on the
streets without this tag then
there is but one thing left—the
electric floor.
FUNERAL CORTEGE IS
GRAZED BY METEOR
DENVER, Aug. 21.—Hundreds of
curious persons have been viewing,
at the Colorado State Museum, here,
a huge meteor that fell recently near
Elwell .Colorado, creating great ex
citement in the surrounding country
side.
The portion of the meteor on ex
hibition here weighs twenty pounds
and in size and shape resembles a
man’s head.
The meteor thundered out of the
sky in midafternoon, router partici
pants in a baseball game, narrowly
missed hitting a funeral procession
and buried itself in the ground near
the entrance of the church from
which the funeral cortege was pass
ing.
In falling, the meteor made a trail
of gray-blue smoke and as it pro
ceeded downward sounded like a
machine gun being fired at a dis
tance.
The sky traveler appeared high
in the heavens directly over a field
in which a baseball game was in
.progress. The players were first
attracted by the noise of the falling
body and scattered for shelter as it
shot toward earth. Whizzing through
| the air, the meteor swerved and em
bedded itself two feet in the ground
near the church.
A score of men secured shovels
and picks an ddug the aerial speed
er from its resting place.
Several days later a second sec
tion of the meteor was discovered
embedded five feet in the earth on
a ranch near Elwell. This piece
weighed fifty-four pounds. ■
A third segment was found on a
farm six miles south of Ehvell, short
ly after the discovery of the fifty
four pound section. The third sec
tion of th ecelestial body weighed
only seven pounds.
The first meteor, weighing twenty
pounds, was purchased by the Colo
rado State Museum and is on exhibi
tion here.
CALLS IT DISGRACE NOT
,TO PREVENT APPENDICITIS
LONDON, Aug. 22.—Appendicitis
is a disgrace to the medical pro
fession ,in the opinion of Dr. Her
bert Craaigor ,well known English
doctor.
“It is a disgrace to our profession
that we have not been able to dis
cover the cause of appendicitis,” Dr.
Craaigor told the assembled mem
bers of the British Medical Associa
tion at their annual meeting at Brad
ford .
“There is strong reason to be
lieve,” he added, “that the disease
is connected with our civilized mode
of diet. Those of uncivilized nations
do not get it.”
TODAY’S FISH PRICES
KETCHIKAN, Aug. 22.—Fresh
halibut 13 and 8 cents per pound.
Nome Mining Operator
Lores Suit Brought to
Recover Mining Interest
OLYMPIA. Wn.. Aug. 22.—Be
cause he delayed 18 years in ascer
taining the value of a rich claim on
No. 1 below discovery, on Little
Creek, in the Nome district, J. E.
Teeter, former Nome mining man is
denied a one-third interest fought by
him in the claim.
The Supreme Court decision hand
ed down yesterday affirms the de
cision of the King County courts,
and dismissed the case
Teeter in waiting eighteen years to
advance his claim and begin suit for
recovery, was advancing a cause
which was stale ,the court pointed
out.
New Political Party
Be Formed in South
SEATTLE, Aug. 22.—The break
up of the Solid South and the forma
tion of a new political party were
prdicted as a possibility in the pres
ent campaign by Senator Shipstead
who opened the electoral battle in
the State of Washington.
WAITERS SPILL SOUP SO
JAZZ ON SHIPS BANNED
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22—Jazz
and soup don’t mix.
For that reason the orchestra on
the steamship H. F. Alexander has
i been instructed not to play synco
pated music at meal times.
Investigation disclosed that color
ed waiters could not control their
shoulders when the orchestra played
jazz and consequently spilled soup
and other food on the diners.
Hereafter nothing but classical
music will be .played when meals are
served.
425,000 People Register \
for Washington Primaries
SEATTLE, Aug. 22.—-Four hund
red and twenty-five thousand .persons
registered throughout the state of
Washington for the primaries which
are to be held here on Sept. 9 .
MANY LIVES ARE LOST
IN CONNECTICUT WATERS
WEST HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 22.—
Waters of Connecticut this summer
have exceeded the automobile in
deadliness. Just when a statewide
campaign to reduce motor tragedies
seemed successful, a startling series
of drownings occurred. Every town
in the state has recorded at least
one such tragedy. ;.nd in some tovrs
not a week has elapsed since June
began without several such fatalities.
The little seaside town of Fair
field led the list of tragic events
when seven small children perished
in a summer tornado that over
whelmed their canoe. From Green
wich to Stonington, the Long island
sound shore has been claiming vic
tim after victim until the oldest
resident knows of no precedent. A
dozen lives have been lost in the
smooth-flowing , treacherous Connec
ticut river that cut the state in two,
and the little hikes that dot the
state from end to end have claimed
many more than that number. Most
of the victims have been children,
but an unusual number of grown
ups have perished.
PIONEER ALASKA MERCHANT
PASSES AWAY IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Aug. 22.—Samuel A.
Cahn, one of Seattle’s earliest hard
ware dealers nad an Alaskan sour
dough, died here suddenly last night
of heart disease, as he was convers
ing with an Alaskan friend who had
just arrived from the north on a
steamer.
THE WEATHER
Calm, partly cloudy, 40 above.
“THE LURE OF THE YUKON”
Tomorrow night the Alaska
made feature, with Eva
Novak as the star will be
shown
Many well known interior
people took part in this
east. It is one of the best.
at LIBERTY THEATRE
Saturday Night