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VOLUME 20, NUMBER 236.
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SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MISSING PLANE
NOT BEEN FOUND
AT LATE HOUR
Rescue Ships Speeding to Scene
HONOLULU, Sept. 1' (JP)—Darkness
and continuous rain hid the rescue
ships from the view of the five avia
tors. The PN-9, Number One, was
forced down in a storm on the ocean i
when the fuel supply failed. The last
message, received at 1:42 said: “We
haven’t enough gas left for five min
utes’ flying. Hurry.”
'^The destroyer Farragut, the aircraft i
tender Aroostook, the tender Tanager,
mine sweeper Sunnadin, and two sub
marines are speeding toward the point
where the plane is believed to be lo
cated. Six planes started a search
from Maui but were foiled by intense
darkness.
Believes Plane Is Safe
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 2 (/P)— j
Capt. Stanford E. Moses, commander
of the flight project, said, “Rodgers I
had three years experience in Hawa- j
iian waters. The plane could land in i
rough water and still survive. Some j
time ago I was caught in a much;
smaller plane off the California coast,!
much heavier weather, and was (
taken off after five hours without get- j
ting my feet wet. Planes have been
ordered to take off at 6:35 this morn-,
ing to aid in the search.”
Plane Will Try It Alone
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2 (Jp)—
The Navy seaplane PB-1 which was
unable to accompany the other planes
in their attempted flight to Hawaii,
will take off Thursday afternoon and i
make the flight alone.
Capt. Stanford Moses, flight com
mander, announced that he was unde
cided whether the PN-9, Number 3,
which was forced down 300 miles off
the California coast, would make an
other attempt.
Excursion Steamer Bums,
Two Drown, One Missing!
WESTFIELD, N. Y., Sept. 2 (/P)—
Two persons were drowned and a third
is missing from the 'burning of the
excursion steamer, Colonial, on Lake
^jgjErie. A coast guard cutter, rum
chasers and fishermen rescued 28 pas
sengers burned to the waters’ edge, i
CARNATIONS USED FOR BAIT
FOR RATS IN LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2. (£>)—’The
fragrant garden variety of carnations
used as bait, has proved far more
irresistable than cheese to the rat
population of the Hall of Records
and Court House buildings here.
Discovery was made recently by L.
C. Robinson, chief janitor of the two
buildings, after several weeks of in
vestigations, that rats have a liking!
for carnations. Through the use of j
the flowers as bait in traps large'
numbers of the rodents, which grad
ually were reducing hundreds of law
books to a sad state of dilapidation,
were exterminated.
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BANK OF MONTREAL TO TAKE
OVER IMPERIAL PREMISES
TORONTO, Sept. 2 (JP)~It is an
nounced by the Imperial Bank of
■Canada that in conformity -with the
present day practice of eliminating
unnecessary bank expense by the cur
tailment of overlapping branches, an
arrangement has been consummated,
by which the Imperial Bank has dis
posed of its hanrsome premises at
Kamloops to the Bank of Montreal and
is transferring its business at that
point to that institution.
The steaniship Yukon left Valdez
this morning.
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Alaska Yukon Pioneers and
Ladies of Golden North
Hold Picnic Near Seattle
The Alaska Yukon Pioneers and the
Ladies of the Golden North, both Se
attle organizations, held their annual
picnic at Hall’s Lake near Seattle,
August 30, according to a local report.
Athletic events with prizes, dancing
and other diversions occupied the day.
The affair served to bring together
many former friends who are visiting
or making their homes outside. Ben
Ferguson, a northern chef, was in
charge of the affair.
EARTHQUAKEIN
EASTERN STATES
DOES NO DAM AGE
EVANSVILLE, lnd.. Sept. 2 (£>)—
A light earthquake shock was felt
here last night but no damage was re
ported.
Kentucky Towns Hit
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 2 (/p)— An
earthquake shock of slight intensity
was reported in several towns last
night. The tremors were slight in
this vicinity.
GERMAN OFFICERS 1
WEAR UNIFORMS
BERLIN, Sept. 2 (JP)—Former offi
cers of the German army and navy
were permitted to wear their uniforms
today for the first time since 1921,
when a decree was published forbid
ding the wearing of uniforms follow
ing the murder of President Mathias :
Erzberger.
FIVE ABATEMENT ACTIONS
BEGUN, HOUSES CLOSED
Five abatement actions have been j
filed in the U. S. District Court of
the First division at Juneau, accord
ing to the Juneau Empire, alleging
certain resorts on Lower Front St.!
to be operating as public nuisances j
in violation of the Volstead Act. Tern- j
porary restraint orders were issued I
in each instance by Judge T. M.
Reed, with orders to show cause why
they should not be permanently re
strained.
The places named in tire abate
ment proceedings are :The Horseshoe
Cigar Store, said to .be operated by :
Dorothy Potter; Case Rooming House,
Louise Mouret, alleged to be the op
erator; Neptune Rooms, S. Tanaka,
owner, and two women said to oc
cupy rooms there being named; the
Iditarod Cigar^Store, Billy La Herr,
alleged operator; and 32S South
Front Street, Betie Ash, being named
as operator. In addition to these sim
ilar proceedings were started yester
day against the City Baths.
COOLIDGEMAKE
NO SPEECHES SOON
SWAMPSCOTT, Sept. 2 (£>)—'The
tenth week of the Coolidge vacation
period is over and the President is
expected to return to Washington
after Labor Day. He indicated that
he will make no speeches until Octo
ber G, when he will address the Amer
ican Legion at Omaha. He is not ex
pected to go to the Pacific Coast prior
to the congressional elections next
year.
Coolidge said he would think over
Haney’s refusal to resign from the
Shipping Board.
Legal Blanks at Seward News Co.
ANCHORAGE BOYS
DROWN ENTRANCE
TO FISH CREEK
SCHIEBER ELLIOTT AND ROBERT
PATTERSON FALL OFF PON
TOON AND DROWN
One Lad Swims Safely Ashore
Fish Nets Dropped Across Entrance
of Ship Creek In Effort To
Recover Bodies.
Schieber Elliott, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Gitchell, proprietors of
the Gitchell hotel at Anchorage and
Robert Patterson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dave Patterson, were drowned
yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock at
the entrance of Ship Creek while
playing with a pontoon which cap
sized. Malcolm McKinnon, son of
Henry McKinnon of Anchorage, who
was playing with the drowned* youths,
swam ashore. The bodies have not
as yet/ been recovered. News of
the death of the two Anchorage lads
was received in Seward last night
by D. H. Williams, Anchorage mor
tician, who has been a business vis
itor in Seward for the last two days
and wiio left town this morning for
the Inlet.
Well Known Here.
The two drownel boys were well
known in Seward as is also Malcolm
McKinnon. Schiebe' Elliott and Ro
bert (Bobbie) Patterson were nbout
14 years of age and the McKinnon
boy is probably a year or sm older.
The accident took place in 18 feet,
of water and according to informa
tion received by Mr. Williams, the
boys failed to rise to the surface of
the water after their fatal plunge,
which was at high tide. In an ef
fort to recover the bodies fish nets
were immediately stretched across
the entrance of Ship Creek. It is
j hoped the bodies would be recovered j
| as the tide receded, but the opinion j
has been voiced, owing to the power-:
ful currents of the Inlet, that this
will be practically impossible.
The pontoon, mentioned in the
telephone message, has been anchor
ed near the stream all summer, or
since the airplane accident of last
spring when an old plane, formerly
owned by Hammontree, dove into
the bay from a height of 100 feet,
the pontoons being torn off from
the body of the machine by the im
pact, floating to where it is now an
chored.
Schieber Elliott wa sthe younger
son of Mrs. Fred Gitchell, who, for
many years, has been conducting the
restaurant in connection with the
Gitchell hotel. For the last three
years, he had been a route boy em
ployed by the Anchorage Times. He
has an elder brother, Myrton Elliott,
son of Mrs. Gitchell. Robert Patter
son’s father has been in the hauling
and wood business at Anchorage for
many years.
Steamer Starr Leaves Port
Tomorrow Morning on
Trip to Cook Inlet Points
The steamer Starr, of the San Juan
Fishing & Packing Co. will depart for
Seldovia and Anchorage tomorrow at
11 o’clock according to announce
ment made today by Capt. Ch A. Jo
hansen. The special trip to Anchor
age is being made for the purpose of
towing to Knight’s Island, Prince
William Sound, the large railroad
barge Lawrence, which Oscar Ander
son who is operating a tie camp on
the island will use in hauling ties to
Seward.
Few reservations have been made
for the trip to Cook Inlet. A quantity
of freight will be shipped to Anchor
age on the Starr.
Reduction of Taxes by
Nation Does Little Good
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 2 (/P)—
Reduction of Federal taxes last year
was accompanied by a fifty per cent
increase in state, county and local
taxes, the National Grange reported.
A demand for lower taxes was made
by members of the Grange.
Editor Leaves Estate
of Over 20,800,000
CHICAGO, Sept. 2 (£>)—The estate
of the late Victor F. Lawson, editor
and owner of the Chicago Daily News,
was $20,800,000 a will with invento
ries filed showed today.
NO HOPE HELD OUT
FOR CREW OF SUB
ROME, Sept. 2 (/P)—Hope for the
recovery alive of a crew of fifty offi
cers and men on the submarine Se
bastino Veniero, was abandoned when
aviators searching for the missing
men found a large patch of oil and
naphtha on the water between Syra
cuse a^d Cape Passero, Sicily, near
where the vessel last submerged dur
ing naval maneuvers last week. The
water is 4,000 feet deep at this spot
and dredging is impossible.
To Make Study of Glacial
Action at Harriman Fjord
Prince William Sound
To measure the action of glaciers
at Harriman Fjord in the Port Wells
district, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Handy
departed from Seward on the steamer
Yukon for Cordova from which point
they will visit the little known beauty
spot of this region. Merl La Voy,
Fox Film moving picture photogra
pher, who is making Seward his head
quarters while journeying about the
Territory for the next six months,
states that Harriman Fjord is the
most magnificent picturiol scene in
the entire Territory and probably the
least known. Mr. and Mrs. Handy
agree with him for they also visited
the fjord in 1914 at which time as
members of the National Geographic
Society they obtained measurements
of the glaciers, of which there are
six lives ones, all coming down to the
waters’ edge.
BASEBALL
American
New York 2, Boston 1.
Washington 7, Philadelphia 3.
. National
Boston 2, Chicago 0.
Philadelphia 3, Pittsburgh 10.
Coast
Portland 2, San Francisco 4.
Vernon 4, Sacramento 1.
Oakland 8, Salt Lake 7.
New York Broker Departs
for Kodiak Island On Big
Game Hunt of Few Weeks
Uganik Bay will be the base camp
of the big game hunt of W. P. Rauch,
a New York broker, who after spend
ing the last month in Seward depart
ed this morning with A1 Blair, one of
the best known bear hunters of this
section, on the gasbo’at Rolfe II, Capt.
John Smith. Uganik is said to be a
good starting point on Kodiak Island
and it is anticipated by the party they
will return within three weeks with
good specimens. Mr. Rauch purchas
ed an entire new outfit in Seward,
running into hundreds of dollars, and
upon leaving port said he might be
gone a month. The gasboat has been
chartered for the entire trip.
FISHERIES WILL
EXCEED MINING
IN THIS REGION
SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA CAN
NERY OPERATOR TO ENTER
SOUTHWESTERN FIELD
Plant Located Port Chatham
Halibut and Herring Fishing Falling
off in the South and On the In
crease in This Section
“I am pleasantly surprised with this
my first visit to Seward, and in all of
my 25 years of residence in Alaska, I
have never seen better streets than
in your town.” So stated L. A. Kracke,
a cannery operator, who was a guest
at yesterday’s chamber of commerce
luncheon and banquet at the Seward
Grill. Mr. Kracke has been operating
until this year in Southeastern Alaska,
but this season made his entree into
this district. Though his initial ef
forts have not been as good as was
expected, due to internal affairs, he
anticipates next season, and the com
pany’s future operations will be all
that can be desired. Indications point
to this fact, he stated.
Fishing Industry Is Backbone
“The fishing industry as a whole,
according to my firm conviction, is
the backbone of this district, and as
far as my judgment is concerned,
means more to Seward than mining.”
I was in Petersburg for six years,”
Mr. Kracke continued. “In 1914 busi
ness conditions were very, very quiet.
There were approximately 800 inhab
itants in the town at that time. The
idea was conceived by a group of Pe
tersburg people to purchase halibut
and though we did not have a cold
storage we had ice houses, the ice be
ing procured from ice bergs floating
in the channel. A compilation brot
forth the fact that Petersburg that
year shipped out over a million and a
half pounds of halibut. The result
was that from the bank deposits of
about §35,000 in 1914 were run up to
the huge sum of $360,000 in six years.
And this came all from fish.
Fishing Is In Its Infancy
“That is why I say I believe the
fishing business in this district is in
its infancy and why I make the state
ment that the future of Seward is in
terlocked with the fish industry. One
of the most important things the Sew
ard Chamber could sponsor at this
time would be a better mail service
to the Cook Inlet region for, as I un
derstand the case, from this period
on there will be one mail a month to
Seldovia and other westward points.
Halibut and herring fishing in south
eastern Alaska appear to be falling
off, but on the other hand the Port
lock banks reported to be the largest
halibut banks in the world, and other
regions in this area, appear to be on
the upgrade. Our company calculates
entering into the codfish business this
winter as well as operating other
enterprises which includes a sawmill.
We are located at Port Chatham.”
Oil Drilling Will Start In
Chickaloon District Shortly
Drill Arrives from Seattle
With the arrival in Seward Satur
daay on the steamer Yukon of an oil
drilling rig, work in the Chickaloon
field will be started within a few
weeks. The drill, which is on two
flat cars in the local yards, appears
to be a brand new outfit. It is billed
to the Peterson Oil Company at Chick
aloon. For some months past, in fact
for over a year, the advent of an oil
company into the district has been
discussed.
Jerome Hachey, an old timer of thisr
district, arrived in Seward yesterday
from Girdwood.