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SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS.
AMUNDSEN BACK
TO SPITZBERGEN
SAYS DISPATCH
% LONDON, May 25 (JP)—A Copen
hagen dispatch to the Daily Mail said
it was reported at Oslo, Norway, at
midnight, that news had been receiv
ed from Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, that
Amundsen had returned from his po
lar flight, but nothing was received
of an official nature.^
Amundsen Not Come Alaska
NEW YORK, May 25 (/P)—Loring
Pickering, general manager of the
North American Newspaper Alliance, j
stated today that Amundsen had no j
intention of returning from the pole
via Alaska. A published cablegram,
received May 4 from Amundsen, said,
“Despite rumors under no circum
stances do we contemplate continuing
■our flight to Alaska.”
Chances of Amundsen Good
BOSTON, May 25 (IP)—Duncan Mac
Millan today said the chances of find
ing Amundsen in Northern Grant’s
0 > Land were good, a.nd upon his arrival
at Etah he would dispatch an air
plane from old Fort Conger to the
shores of Grant’s Land.
Says Amundsen Is Safe
NEW YORK, May 25 (£>)—Vilhjal
mur Steffansson said that the chances
were about even that if Amundsen
is not located^today he will be found
safe on the north coast of Alaska.
Hammer Wants Plane Sent
LOS ANGELES, May 25 (JP)-Haa
{ kan Hammer telegraphed the Navy
department today asking that an ex
pert flyer be sent to seek Amundsen.
Nome Sourdoughs Give Opinion.
NOME, Alaska, May 25 (/P)—The
opinion of sourdoughs of this city who
are well acquainted with Amundsen
and ice conditions along the coast
from Nome to Barrow are that the
noted explorer would not attempt to
come to the Alaskan coast until the
4. 'sea ice is gone or the rivers clear of
ice, as this is the breakup season,
and no ice or weather reports have
been sent from here to Amundsen,
which would indicate that he does
not intend to come here at present.
Amundsen in a letter to Judge G. J.
Lomen during the winter stated that
he expected to see him at Nome this
year, and this is believed to mean
that if Amundsen if successful in find
ing a suitable landing place near the
pole a second plane will haul gaso
line and supplies will assist in explor
ing and gathering scientific data. It
is thought here to be impossible that
Amundsen without additional supplies
can hop from the pole to either Point
Barrow or here.
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Says Amundsen Is Thorough
NEW YORK, May 25 (/P)—Early
Rossman, a photographer, who lived
in Amundsen’s supply hut at Wain
wright for two winters, attributed
the delay in Amundsen’s return to his
thoroughness. He said, “If he found
a new continent he will tag it so no
body will ever be able to question it.”
SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 25.—(/P)—
Hans Nansen, of the First National
Banks here, a nephew of Fritjog
Nansen, announced that he is rais
ing funds to finance the Amundsen
Relief Expedition and is certain that
his plans will meet with success.
Will Organize Expedition.
LOS ANGELES, Calif., May 25.—
^jaakon H. Hammer is organizing an
expedition to go to the rescue of
Amundsen if he is not located by to
morrow night.
Nansen Will Assist in Search.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 25 (£>)—
Fritzjov Nansen, the Arctic efplorer,
is raising money for Hammer’s expe
rt
EVOLUTIONIST INDICTED
FOR TEACHING WORKINGS
DAYTON, O., May 25.—(3>)—1The
Grand Jury of Rhea county indicted
John T. Scopes today, science teach
er. on a charge that he taught evolu
tion.
PROFITS FROM RUBBER WILL
PAY BRITAIN’S WAR DEBTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 25 (Jp)—
The Department of Commerce said
inquiries indicated that the extra prof
its of British rubber plantations in
the East Indies will be sufficient to
cover that nation’s future payment of
her war debt to the United States.
SON OF JAPANESE EMPEROR
WILL STUDY IN ENGLAND
TOKYO, May 25 (/P)— Prince Chi
chibu, the second son of the emperor
of Japan, departed for a two years’
course of study in England, the first
time the son of a Japanese emperor
has been educated in the Occident.
DONALDSON AT
NOME WITH LOAD
OF GREEN TRUCK
NOME, Alaska, May 25 (JP)—The
gasboat Donaldson, Capt. Alexander
Allen, arrived at Nome Saturday, the
first boat of the season. Her arrival
caused great excitement among the
population over the prospects of get
ting fresh fruits, vegetables and eggs.
Oranges sold easily at one dollar
per half dozen and grapefruit brought
fifty cents each, with the rest of the
cargo bringing top prices.
Captain Allen said he had a good
trip through Bering Sea, following the
open lanes in the ice. He made one
stop at Nunivak Island, where he
found it impossible to pass between
the island and the mainland on ac
count of the ice being frozen solid.
He detoured on the Seward side.
The motorship Brower, trading at
Bamliell Bay, St. Laurence island,
wirelessed a few days ago that the
south shore of the island is free of
ice, but that a great ice field to the
north made it impossible to reach
Nome. This harbor is free of ice.
HOME MADE PARACHUTE
CAUSES DEATH INVENTOR
MUNICH, Germany, May 25 (lP)—
Arthur Gerst, using a homemade par
achute jumped from a plane at an
altitude of 1500 feet, and fell to his
death, the parachute failing to open.
APPOINTEE NAMED
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May 25.
—(,/P)—G. H. Williams, of St. Louis,
has been appointed United States
senator to succeed Spencer.
BODY NUDE WOMAN
FOUND IN COTTAGE
WINTHROP, Maine, May 25 (IP)—
The body of Miss Aida Hayward, who
was taken from a cottage at Lake
Maranacook Wednesday, when her
aunt was shot and wounded in the
same cottage, was found on the sec
ond oflor of another cottage a half
mile away. Miss Jennie Gray, the
owner of the cottage where the body
was found, said she had rented it to
Harry A. Kirby, who had sought per
mission to use the building for a
short time.
The body was in a perfectly nude
condition when found and investiga
tion showed that choking was the
cause of death.
dition. He assured Hammar the mon
ey will be obtainable in 24 hours if
.Amundsen is not located.
CASSIAR STRIKE
DECLARED MYTH
BY OLDTIMER
Alaskans Return to Seward
After Six Months Spent
At Scene of Reported Cas
siar Strike—Sank Holes
and Panned—Left Two
Claims.
“The Cassiar gold district
where hundreds of men are
now stampeding to the scene
of an alleged strike made
last year, is a myth, and a
good place for prospectors
to stay away from,” declar
ed Peter Paterno yesterday
to the Seward Gateway rep
rsentative. Paterno, a repu
table prospector and placer
miner on Cleary creek, in
the Fairbanks district, for
the last fifteen years, has
just; come from the reported
strike a sadder but wiser
man, so he says.
In District Six Months.
For six months past, or from No
vember 6 until a few weeks ago, to
gether with his partner Bruno Agos
tino, well known in the Anchorage
district, the men were on the ground
and staked two fclaims. Three holes
were sunk, one of them to a depth
of seven feet; one down five feet and
the third down about six feei. These
claims, located on Dome Creek as
far as the partners could ascertain,
did not produce a showing sufficient
to warrant them staying, it is stat
ed. At the levels they sank to they
were forced to desist on account of
water coming in on them. Bedrock
was at ten feet, at this point, sup
posed to be the shallowest ground in
the district, but in other sections near
by, the bedrock lies at various depths
down to 100 feet.
Pans Yield Faint Color.
On the partners’ claims, No. 24
and 25, three pans were taken from
which but two colors were discerni
able. On the discovery, Gold Pan,
Paterno took 20 pans and never rais
ed a color. This creek is now more
than 50 feet in width, it is reported,
narrowing down to about 20 feet.
Staking wrent forward all last winter
i until at the time of the partners’ de
parture from the camp, May 12, from
500 to 600 claims had been filed on.
Prices Beginning to Soar.
Where freight last year was pack
ed into the district for ten cents a
pound, at the present time the charge
has been doubled, twenty cents a
pound being the prevailing price now.
A bunk which cost a dollar last year
is now commanding $2. Meals have
jumped from 75c to $1. Fifteen men
were at the strike, when the partners
pulled up their stakes for the coast,
but they say, 100 men were going in
on the first boat with hundreds more
following. Even the steamer fare,
which last year cost $27, has been rais
ed to $34 this spring. Inasmuch as
the partners spent approximately $1,
100 on the trip, they appear to be
very much disgruntled on the returns
of their investment.
Discoverer Is Carpenter.
Grady, the discoverer of the alleg
ed gold strike on Gold Pan, worked
all last fall as a boat builder for Sid
Barrington, it is stated. The partners
say that Grady is authority for the
statement that he refused an offer
of $25,000 fof one-half interest in his
claim, while ;jyas in thfe States
last year. “That's a lot of cash
money,” Paterno stated, and went on
to say no one had better make him
a like offer.
ENFORCEMENT EXTENDED
TO THE PACIFIC COAST
EL PASO, Texas, May 25.—(JP)—
Lincoln C. Andrew, chief of the pro
hibition enforcement here, announc
ed that sea operation against rum
runners will be extended to the Pa
cific, and will be executed as vigor
ously as is now being done on the
Atlantic. He declared that he aim
ed to equip every coast guard ves
sel and dog every rum running ship
leaving lor New York. He came
west to assume charge of prohibi
tion under the navy’s western oper
ations, which will be centered about
San Francisco.
WILL PRESS HART
OLYMPIA, May 25.—(^—Attor
ney General Dunbar announced that
he has transmitted to Prosecutor
Selden, of Pierce county, evidence
that former Governor Louis Hart at
tempted to split fees of liquidation
of the Scandinavian-American bank
of Tacoma.
DAME NATURE IS
PLAYING PRANKS
ON ALL NATIONS
NEW YORK, May 25 (£>)—Unpre
dented May cold in the midwest and
the east on the heels of a record
breaking heat wave is reported from
many sections today. High winds,
rain, hail and snow caused millions
to shiver over Sunday. Four deaths,
numerous injuries, and damages esti
mated at hundreds of thousands of
dollars is reported from various sec
tions. At Buffalo puddles formed by
melting snow were covered with ice
less than a day after the city had
sweltered in ninety degrees of heat.
At New York hailstones an inch in
diameter shattered heavy plate glass
store fronts and killed chickens and
pigs. At Portland, Maine, a light
fall of snow was reported, the latest
in over fifty years.
Texas Swelters With Heat
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 25 (/P)
The mercury stood at 100 degrees
above zero yesterday, one of the hot
test May days in 13 years.
Mother Nature, besides the disas
trous earthquake in Japan, cut capers
in all parts of the world. A deep
snow fell at Leningrad while torren
tial rains flooded southern Russia.
While the liner Tasmania was en
route from Liverpool to New York, |
the sky became so dark that lights
had to be turned on in the vessel.
Scientists attributed the tidal wave
on the south shore of Lake Ontario
Saturday to oscillation of the water
due to atmospheric pressure.
Situation Most Remarkable
CHICAGO, May 25 (/P)—Sizzling
heat in southern and central states
and freezing temperatures in Minne
sota and Northern Michigan, where
a heavy gale blew throughout the day
constituted one of the most remark
able situations in the observation of
Forecaster Cox of this district.
SUCCESSOR TO WOELFKIN
NEW YORK, May 23.—(/P)—With
opposition of only seventeen per
sons, led by Miss Annie Peck, moun
tain climber and explorer, members
of the Park Avenue Baptist church
voited to call the Rev. Dr. Harry Em
erson Fosdick to the pastorate to
succeed the late Rev. Woelfkin,
STUDENT SUES SCHOOL FOR
NOT SUPPLYING GERMS
CHICAGO, May 25 (/P)—James Boy
len, a former student, has sued Fai
man’s National University of Science
for damages totalling $100,000 because
he paid $185 for a course in bacteri
ology but was unable to pursue his
studies because the school had no
^erms to study.
VICTIMS OF JAPAN
QUAKE NUMBER
TWO HUNDRED
TOKYO, May 25 It is reported
that 127 bodies have been recovered
from the ruins of Saturday’s earth
quake at Kinosaki, and 48 from the
Toyooka. railway tunnel, which caved
in on a passenger train. Damage in
this vicinity is estimated at half a
million dollars. The Bazebo naval
station is sending six destroyers with
supplies, tents, and provisions for the
homeless. Refugees describe the
earthquake as comparable to that of
1923, the shocks being most violent.
The panic stricken residents tried to
escape to the streets but were pinned
by falling debris and died in the
flames. The water mains were brok
en and firemen were unable to halt
the progress of the flames. Drinking
of typhoid is feared.
OSAKA, Japan, May 25.—(/P)—Of
ficial reports from Toyooka, Kinosaki
and Minato, showed that two hund
red and seventy-eight were killed and
five hundred and twenty-six hurt
during the earthquake and fire Satur
day. Four hundred and forty-four
houses collapsed, and 2300 homes
were burned.
CAPT. PARSONS
SAYS CABLE IS
PAYING ITS WAY
SEATTLE, May 25.—Captain Lloyd
C. Parsons, who has been in charge
of the Signal Corps office at Valdez,
arrived here en route to the East,
where he has been stationed. Capt.
Parsons said that the cable between
Seattle and Alaska is doing over
$300,000 business yearly. First Lieut.
Carter W. Clarke has succeeded him
at Valdez.
Capt. Parsons said the new cable
recently laid is equal to any in the
world as a result of late equipment
installed between Seattle-Ketchikan
and Seward. He said that sixty words
a minute can be sent each way be
tween Seattle and Ketchikan and 40
between Ketchikan and Seward.
Capt. Parsons is six feet six inches
tall, and regarding his extreme height,
said: “I guess I was the tallest man
in Alaska. I knew most of the thirty
thousand white people up there and
never met anyone of my height.”
JAPAN DOES NOT NEED HELP
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 25.—
The Japanese Red Cross has notified
the American Red Cross that no out
side assistance is needed on account
of the recent earthquake.
MAN ACCUSED OF FRAUD
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 25 (/P).
Two Mexicans testified that a man
seeking to establish through the court
his identity as Arthur Frazier, was in
reality their nephew, Arthur Lopez.
CONDON CLIPS RECORD
OMAHA, Neb., May 25 (/P)—Corinne
Condon, 14, clipped a tenth of a sec
ond from her own swimming record
of 21.8 seconds in the senior forty
yard free open style.
SOVIETS UPHOLD RULING
MOSCOW, May 23.—(£>)—The So
viet Supreme court denied the ap
peal of the Sinclair Oil company
from a decision by a trial court,
which annulled their oil conces
sions at Saghalien.
AUTO RACER KILLED
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 24 (^P).—.
Jack Kemp, am automobile racer, who
was injured yesterday while qualify
ing in trials for future races, died to
night.