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VOLUME XIX, NUMBER 15.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY JAN. 17, 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Demos Received In Home of
Former President Wilson
RAILROAD EMPLOYEE, INJURED
IN EXPLOSION, GETTING WELL
P. R. Strong, who was injured in a
premature blast at Mile 88 on the
Alaska railroad a month ago, will be
discharged from the railroad hospital
in another week, according to Dr^ C.
H. Turpin, surgeon in charge.
Strong received severe burns on the
face and head, and also had seveial
broken limbs when he entered the
hospital. His face has almost entire
ly healed with the exception of one
eye, which is still causing some lit
tle trouble.
I is not expected that Strong will
be able to return to work for several
months.
The Anchorage Times says the fol
lowing:
William D. Coppernoll of Seward,
candidate for the republican nomina
tion for territorial attorney general, is
in Anchorage seeing old friends and
making new ones. Mr. Coppernoll ar
rived yesterday, and is staying at the
Hotel Anchorage. Recently he re
Turned to the north after an extender
vacation trip to New York and Wash
ington, D. C.
“Everything looks fine for my cam
paisn,” said Mr. Coppernoll today
“On the trip north I received assur
ances from friends in the 1st division
and at Cordova and Valdez that I will
have plenty of support I am going tc
make an earnest bid for the place
now held by John Rustgard of Ju
noau, and my campaign will be free
f from personal issues."
Mr. Coppernoll, who was formed.'
U. S. Commissioner at Talkeetua, ser
ved for a time with the shipping
board at Washington, D. C., and or
his return to Alaska became commis
sioner at McCarthy, in the Copper ri
ver country. He is now engaged ir
the practice of law at Seward. Mr
Coppernoll will be here until Satur
day, when he returns to Seward
Sometime in February he will go it
Fairbanks and the interior country
, on business in connection with hi:
campaign.
While in Washington recently Mr
Coppernoll met former Territoria
Senator O. P. Hubbard of Valdez
Hubbard, he says, is now a specia
prosecutor in the federal prohibitioi
service, and has been assigned to th<
so-called “brewery cases" in Pennsyl
vania.
. ANNOUNCE BEST
• sm IN BON
PENCE BONIEST
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—TheAmeri
can Peace award jury announced that
plan number 1469 had been adjudged
the best of all the plans entered in
' the competition for the $100,000 aw
ard offered by Edward W. Bok for the
best practical plan by which the Unit
ed States might co-operate with the
other nations to prevent war. The
plan which has been chosen as the
most practical proposes that the Unit
ed States should immediately enter
the permanent court lor internation
al justice, which was indorsed by the
late President Harding and then,
without becoming a member of the
League of Nations as is now constitu
ted the United States should offer
co-operation with the league under
certain condtions as a body of mutua^
consent.
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—The winner
of the Bok peace plan will not be an
nounced until after the referendum
which is to be taken in all the cities
and many of the smaller towns thru
out the country. It is likely that the
results will not be heard until early
in February.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 17—Having
an hour before the adoption of a res
olution assuring him that the Dem
ocrats will go into the approaching
presidential campaign, Shaunes&y j
pledged to uphold the political people
and their ideals for which he gave his
health and very nearly his life. The
members of the Democratic National
Committee and three hundred other
admirers late this afternoon called
and were received by Woodrow Wil
son who was seated in his home. They
came in a down-pour of rain and ap
proximate one hundred taxicabs
were in waiting outside his library.
ILLEPoir
FOR LEGISLATURE
J. L. Waller prominent attorney,
announced recently in the Anchorage
Times that he will be a candidate for
the house in the next Alaska legisla
ture, on the Republican ticket. He
will file notice of his candidacy at Ju
neau by letter within a few days, he
said.
Mr. Waller has never held political
office and his decision to enter the
April primaries as a house candidate
is the result of persistent urging by
his friends. He came to Alaska first
in 1893, in connection with some bus
iness in southeastern Alaska and re
turned north again during the gold
rush in 1897, locating here permanent
ly. He was admitted to the bar in
1901, at Nome and also has resided
in Eagle. He has been a resident of
Anchorage lor several years, engaged
in the practice of law He also is in
terested in fox farming.
Other candidates for the house from
the third division are J H. Murray, of
McCarthy, Frank H. Foster, of Cor
dova, and "Edmund C. Oldfin of An
chorage, republicans, and A. E. Ruck
er, democrat, of Seward. Dr. W. H.
Chase, of Cordova has announced for
the senate, to run against Senator E.
FI Chamberlin of Seward.
ME ON m
TO INSURRECTION
I WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The crui
ser Richmond has been ordered to
[ proceed immediately to Vera Cruz to
i replace the cruiser Tacoma which
» went aground on Blanquilla reef, two
. miles off Vera Cruz at the breakwa
ter. The warships Bay Springs and
the Allegheny areproceeding to the
assistance of the Tacoma.
THOMPSON DELAYS TRIP
W. F. Thompson, Fairbanks pub
lisher, who is planning to go to Ro
chester, Minn., for an operation in the
Mayo clinic, probablv will not leave
for the east until March, according to
word received here. Mr. Thompson
; has been advised that he is not
! strong enough to withstand the shock
of an operation at present.
CURLING IRON INTO EYE
i
Carelessly reaching for her hair
e | with a hot curling iron, a woman ac
j cidentallv sticks the iron into her eye,
ej U blinds her. Queer accident, It has
q happened to five women in America
e in the last few months. Another odd
_ case: A Swiss cheese (its holes flu
x' with accumulated gasses) explod
. i ed when it was cut open at a Bong
j Island fair. A spectator had an eye
severely injured by one of the flying
3 fragments. Then there’s the case of
[. the baby who playfully gouged a
r man’s eye out with its thumb. Anoth
r er man’s eye was badly cut by the
sharp kicking leg of a stray grasshop
per. These strange accidents, report
i ed by the National Committee for
j- the Prevention of Blindness are re
l- minders of the uncertainty of life,
n Fortunately, the masked dangers are
s few and far between. Nevertheless,
i- the improbable occasionally happens
e —
y If your girl is a good psort, she
will take you to lunch after the Leaf
Year Dance.
qodTunderwoodTTTy^
NAVAL OFFICERS HOLD FIRST MEETING TO PLAN POLE FLIGHT
The Arctic Exploration Board ot' the Navy Department photographed
at its first session, following appointment, to lay plans tor the projected
naval aerial dash to the North Pole in which the new super-Zep “Shena
ndoah’ ’will figure next spring. Lieut.Commdr. Robert A. Baitlett, L. S. N.
Reserve, who aided Peary on his famous dash, and who has been selected
to lead the expedition, was present to communicate his experience and ad
vice, as wras Secretary of the Navy Denby. Lett to right: Lt. Commdr.
A. G. Allen, Lt. Commdr. Robert Abram Bartlett, Commdr. W. R. Furlong.
Lt. Commdr H. J. Bartlett, Gilbert Grosvenor, Admiral \V. A. Moffett and
Secretary Denby, at desk.
Shenandoah Makes Record
Flight Seventy Mile Gale
LAKEHLRST, N. J.,Jan. 17—The Shenandoah, larg
est. airship in the world poked her nose into^ her hangar
at the naval air station here at 4:24 o’clock after complet
ing the most remarkable flight a ship of her type has ever
made. . . . .. .
The flight was a fight against a wind blowing seven
ty-two j dies an hour at times, the gale wrested the giant
•*raft from her mooring mast at last night and swept
her on a mad chase up the Atlantic coast to Staten Island
where Captain Anton Heines, German Zeppelin expert m
command when she broke her mooring, as soon as he was
able, turned hei* nose into the teeth of the storm and ma
neuvered her back to her home port.
UNION PACIFIC SHOPMAN
TAKES FERRELL PLACE
According to a general circular is- i
sued today at headquarters ol' the Al-j
aska railroad, Robert H. Hale will
| succeed Fred C Ferrell as master me
chanic of the railroad. The change is j
i effective immediately.
Mr. Hale arrived recently from i
Kelso, Calif., where he was master
mechanic for the Los Angeles and >
! Salt Lake railroad, which is part of
| the Union Pacific system. He was
accompanied to the town ot Anchoi
age by Mrs. Hale. The new master
mechanic was employed by the U. P.
j and L. A. & S. L. shops for several
rears before he became master me
chanic for the latter road. His cre
; dentials, it was said at railroad head
I quarters today, are of highest or
der. He i sthe son of H. H. Hale ot |
San Francisco, field representative j
of theGa’ena Signal Oil company, who j
has been spending several weeks
in the vicinity of Anchorage examin
ing lubrication of theraili’oad, at the
request of the general manager, Col.
Lee H. Landis.
Mr. Ferrell's retirement as master
mechanic terminates a service ot
nearly four years on the government’s
■ Alaska transportation project, first j
j with the Alaska Engineering commis-j
j sion and later with the lAaska rail
i road. "He has been master mechanic
j since May 20, 1920, when he began
i his service under the administration'
i of Col. F. Mears, the then chairman of
; the A. E. C.
I
PAVALOFF BLOWS OFF HER TOP
SEATTLE, Jan. 17.—The Freight
ed Latouche wirelessed from Western)
Alaska stating that the southern edge
of Pavaloff volcano was blown to
i bits, at eleven Tuesday morning. Dur
ing the seven minutes the earthquake
lasted it was probably thecontinua
tion of the tremblers that shook Ja
pan the same date.
LOVE FOR HIS DOG
COSTS BOY’S LIFE
FORT PAYNE, Alabama, Jan. 17.—
J Long, aged 8, is dead today, but his
dog still lives as the result of th(
boy’s heroism which brought about
his untimely death.
The story as told by his two com
panions is that young Long and thf
two others were walking along a rail
road track near here when a fasi
train was seen to be rapidly bearing
down on the trio. All three ot th(
boys jumped to safety, but John, see
ing his dog still on the track, una
ware of the dangers of the approach
ing train, ran and threw the dog of:
the track as the train struck anc
killed the young hero.
ARRANGING PLEBISCITE
ATHENS, Jan. 17.—Premier Veni
zelos announced today that he is ar
ranging a plebiscite on the banish
ment of King George of Greece. Ven
izelos is strongly opposed to the ban
ishment of the crown
GALVESTON, Jan. 17—The cruise:
Tacoma is still hung up on Blanquilh
reef acocrding to wireless received a
this port.
ALBERT ORLAND DEAD
NOME. Alaska, Jan. 17.—Albert Or
land, one of thefounders of the towi
of Nome pased away today.
DIDN’T LIKE THE STYLE
SO SHE GETS DISMISSEt
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 17.--rPei
sistent swearing in the Circuit cour
lury room, and because the men spi
and smoked resulted in Mrs. Louis
Palmer Webber being dismissed fror
jury duty. Mrs. Webber is promir
ent socially and politically in Oregor
A1 Peel returned to Lakeview o
thetrain that left this a m.
Sec. Fall Flatly Charged
In Tea Pot Dome Case
FIVE HUNDRED WINTERING .
AT NENANA SAYS STEINMETZ
—
About five hundred people are now
spending the winter in Nenana, ac
cording to W C. Steinmetz, general
foreman for the telephone and tele
graph service w-hose headquarters
have been moved recently to Anchor
age.
Although the winter trail from Idit
arod and the Kantishna brings most
of the traffic through Kobe, the dog
mushers and miners and prospect
ors make Nenana their headquar
ters and while the Tanana river city
is quiet, it is by no means dead, ac- ■
cording to Mr. Steinmetz.
P.
Anchorage, Jan. 17.—Suddenly be
coming violently insane Monday even
ing, P. R Neilsen, who owns a farm
at Cove Bay, on Katchemak Bay, in
an attempt to massacre his family,
mortally wounded his nine-months
old baby and then turned the gun on
himself, taking his own life. In mor
tal terror the family fled to the woods ;
thus escaping the fate of the baby.
The report of the tragedy was re
ceived last evening in a brief wireless
message from Seldovia. The mailboat
plying between Homer and Seldovia
brought the news to Seldovia last ev
ening.
According to the meager reports,
Neilsen, apparently as well as ever,
suddenly became a raving maniac and
tried to kill his wife and four child
ren. With the exception of the nine
months-old baby girl all escaped safe
ly. The message also stated that a
coroner's jury left Seldovia last even
ing for the scene of the tragedy which
is on a 150-acre stock ranch about 17
miles from Homer.
Arrivals from Fairbanks are relat
ing a story Itiat is going the rounds
in the interior city which deals with
the potency of moonshine whiskey
made in the Tanana camp.
According to the report, which came
from a reliable source, a quantity of
confiscated booze was turned over
by the marshal’s office to the Sisters
of Charity, for medicinal use in the
Fairbanks hospital. It is said the
“white mule” was used as a substi
| tute for alcohol, in rubbing down pa
tients, but that the stuff took all the
skin off the back of those upon which
the experiment was tried. Later some
j experiment was tried. Later some
| surgical instruments were placed in
a quantity of the whiskey, to test its
utility as a sterilizer, and the instru
ments turned green.
LONDON, Jan 17.—Lloyd George
| in a speech from the throne said “my
ministers are anxious to remove the
j difficulty with regard to the illicit
j importation of liquor to the United
• States and have made a proposal for
1 the agreement which is about to be
t concluded.”
T. W. Hawkins was a passenger on
this morning’s train for Anchorage.
Antone Eide left this morning on
the train for Anchorage.
WILL GIVE UP ARMY PLACE
' | Sergeant Major McFarlane of Unit
ed States army post ai Anchorage
will leave thatplace for here soon en
j. route to the States, where he will re
^ ceive his discharge from thearmy. He
3 has been stationed at Anchorage post
for the past two years. He arrived ir
Anchorage in 1922 on the transport
Buford.
i
L. W. Bishop was a passengers tc
Roosevelt on this morning’s train.
WASHINGTON Jan. 17.—Fall, tin
former secretary o' the inteiior w
charged flatly toda> with accepting *
corrupt consideration in com * c: ion
with the Teapot Dome oil h-us. b>
Senator Caraway, in a speech on th»
floor of the House today. Caraway
said that it has been the first tine i.
the history oi our nation and hope ,
will be the last tine. . ,»; a e ib. •
officer betrays the confidence and t •
trust bestowed upon him !>> the A
erican people for a corrupt con-el
ation.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Senator
Caraway also assailed Secret a r; D»
by and Asistant Secretary o tin- Na
vy, Roosevelt, in connection with
their approval to Fal's Teapot Done
oil lease which was turned over to
the Sinclaire interests recently H
attacked Daugherty, the attorney si-n
eral, declaring that as long as Daugh
erty remains at the helm of the De
partment of Justice they may as well
sell the White House and be absolut
ly immune from prosecution in the
Federal courts.
NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 17.—Former
Secretary Fall of the Interior Depart
ment vigorously denied the accusa
tions of Senator Caraway that there
were irregularities in the leasing o
the Teapot Dome Naval Oil reserves
to the Sinclaire interests and ha
received no compensation from any
one, he said.
Advices received in Fairbanks v
the late mail trom Norman Dawn imii
cate that rapid progress is being
made in the completion 01 the cm
pane’s hrst picture, at present desiv
nateed by the working title “ rhe
Trail of Broken Hearts."
The company arrived at Holly -
wood December 19th and stai ed
work immediately. The use ot the
Universal Company’s extensh .-’m
ios was obtained for the tew interim:
and finishing scenes to b< ninten a: .
the developing ana printing v. a.- dote
at the Standard Film Laboratories.
Mr. Dawn reports remarkahh u k
in the photographs. In spite of the
cold weather in which many ot tin
scenes were takeen. and notwith
standing the peculiar light eneouut
ered during the short winter days, all
the film turned out clear and not a
foot was lost. This is considered a
notable achievement even in Califor
nia.
! The company attracted consider
able notice in Los Angeles after their
| return from the North and were writ
; ten up extensively in the local pap
! ers. The big dog "Ilak," which Mr
Dawn purchased in Fairbanks :rom
Theo. Van Bibber, made a hit all a
long the route and drew knots of in
| terested observers at every stopping
place.
Mr. Dawn reports that the cutting
is nearly done, the titles are beinc
printed and the picture will be ready
to put on the market within a few
weeks. He is highly pleased with tlw
results and they all tell him he has
a very fine picture.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.—Hurley,
former chairman of the shipping
board has been nominated a membti
of the World War Debt F’unding Com
mission.
George B. Christian, former secre
tary to the late President Harding
will be appointed a member of the
Federal Trade Commission.
Joe Elmes, traveling engineer for
*the Alaska railroad came in last night
and returned this morning to Anch
orage, his headquarters.
The Bridge Club will meet with
' J%8. Graff on Friday afternoon at
the usual hour.