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VOLUME XX, NUMBER 324
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
, MILITARY AND
NAVAL AVIATION
BE EXPANDED
NO DRASTIC CHARGES MADE IN
PERSONNEL OR ORGANIZA
TION SAYS BOARD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3 (/P)—
The Coolidge Air. Board recommended
expansion of the Military and Naval
t ^aviation service without any drastic
changes in the present organization,
but is opposed to a unified air service.
It recommended the creation of three
assistant secretaryships in the War,
* Navy and Commerce departments, to
handle the problems offered. Special
representation from the aviation staff
of the Army, and the general staff of
the navy, who will co-operate with the
chief naval official in the operation of
aircraft.
It also recommended the government
continuing its aviation policy and the
encouragement of better commercial
aircraft development; with the elimi
nation of government copmetition in
civil industrial aircraft production with
the assistance of commercial aviation
by the establishment of airways, air
points, and the addition of two more
brigadier generals in the Army Air
^ Corps, with continuation of flight pay
to all aviators.
The Board emphasized its opinion
that the military and civil aviation
branches should remain distinctly
separate. It said the type of plane
criticised as “flying coffins” by Col.
Mitchells had flown a million miles
the last three years without casualty;
j and recommentAi^- .—at flying officers
be given command of airplane carries
and other activities requiring immedi
ate command of flying activities.
Further Protection of
British Industry Asked
LONDON, Dec. 3. (ff)—Premier
Baldwin stated in the house of com
mons today that legislation will be
introduced at the present session for
the further protection of British in
dustries. This would mean further
import duties.
RULING SET ASIDE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (IF)—A rul
ing of the general land office holding
that a soldier's additional homestead
rights are assignable only during the
lifetime of a soldier or by his widow
during her widowhood, or by his minor
orphan children, in case of the death
of both parents, was set aside yester
day by the supreme court.
Ghost of Girl He Slew
Years Ago Caused Suicide
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SPOKANE, Dec. 3 (/P)—The ghost
of the girl he murdered eighteen years
ago at Butte, Montana, Saturday caus
ed Sampson H. Penna, 42, to slash
his thoat from ear to ear.
A few days ago the man came to
the sheriff’s office and asked to be
locked up.
“I feel myself slipping,'’ he declared.
An examination showed the man to
be sane and he was released.
Saturday his body was found in a
room at a local hotel.
The story of the “ghost girl” was
told by Glen McEwen, a deputy sher
iff, who talked to Penna in the jail
last week. Further inquiry has veri
fied the facts.
Penna in 1907 walked into the room
of his sweetheart, who had jilted him
for another man, and put a bullet
thru her heart. He was convicted of
second degree murder and served 15
years in the penitentiary. At the end
of seven years he was paroled.
“I have had no peace since I killed
the girl I loved,” he told McEwen.
“Every night I see her face. Her
ghost is driving me insane.”
World Wheat Crop This |
Year Larger Than 1924
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (/P)—A world
wheat crop of 300,000,000 bushels in
excess of last year’s crop was forecast
by the agricultural department yes
terday on the' basis of estimates re
ceived up to November 12.
“Wheat production in three coun
tries of the northern hemisphere,” the
department announcement said, “is
2.953.000. 000 bushels compared with
2.863.000. 000 in 1924. The output in
the southern hemisphere, it added, is
still somewhat uncertain with indica
tions for a crop about the same as
last year.
BIRCH TIMBER BE
MANUFACTURED
INTO FURNITURE
ANCHORAGE, Dec. 3 (^)—The
Birch Production Corporation will be
gin to harvest the large birch forests
adjacent to Anchorage, preparatory to
starting the manufacture of dimen
sion timbers and other products, for
which marketing arrangements on
the Pacific Coast have already been
completed. The company is pioneer
ing in the utilization of Alaskan birch
with local capital backing the enter
prise.
Anchorage today started its Legion
endowment fund with a thousand dol
lars as its goal.
JAKE SCHAEFFER
LOSES HIS TITLE
CHICAGO, Dec. 3 (/P)— After a most
extraordinary display of billiards,
Jake Schaefer lost the world’s cham
pionship 18.2 balk line billiard title
to Edouard Horemans, the Belgian
champion 1500 to 1495.
CHARLES BROWN VISITOR
Charles E. Brown, president of the
Seward Bank and member of Brown
& Hawkins Corporation, arrived in
Seward last evening from Anchorage.
Mr. Brown is a guest at the Hotel Van
Gilder.
Mother Gets Divorce;
Her Daughter Gets Two
TACOMA, Dec. 3 (IP)—When May S.
Wand, of this city appeared before
Superior Judge M. L. Clifford yester
day and procured a final decree of di
vorce from Tom Wand, a 26-year-old
daughter, Louise, obtained legal sepa
ration from two husbands.
First, she got an annulment of her
marriage to George Kallas in Walla
Walla, on March 5, 1925, on the plea
that she was still the wife of Robert
W. Conley, whom she married in Se
attle on February 25, 1922.
She testified that Conley deserted
her in January, 1924, and that she w'as
later informed he got a divorce fn
Ohio. Believing she was single she
married Kallas. She left him upon
learning she was still the wife of Con
ley,
After obtaining the annullment she
then got an interlocutory decree of di
vorce from Conley.
Seattle Divorce Granted
on Grounds of "Climate”
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SEATTLE, Dec. 3. (/P)—Comes now
a new cause for divorce—‘climatic
incompatibility.” ‘“She couldn’t stand
the Washington climate, and I couldn’t
stand California’s, so we parted,”
F. A. Udell, retired captain of the
marines, told Presiding Judge Ever
ett Smith. He got his decree.
GIGANTIC CRATER
FOUND ALASKAN
MOUNTAIN PEAK
NEARLY AS LARGE AS FAMOUS
CRATER LAKE IN OREGON—
OMANEY BBAY NAMED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3 (£>)—
The discovery of a huge volcanic cra
ter, believed to be nearly as large
as the famous Crater Lake in Oregon,
is reported by the Geologic Survey.
The crater is approximately five miles
wide at the top of a mountain 8000
feet high on the southwestern part of
the Alaskan peninsula. It is thought
to be the highest crater of like dimen
sions in the world.
The bay at the southern end of Bar
anoff Island, near Cape Omaney, has
been named Omaney as well as the
mountain nearby.
The bay on the west coast south of
Puffin Bay, has been named Puffin
Bay.
The peninsula on the west coast will
be called Ketur peninsula, the National
Geographic Board announced.
43 OUNCE NUGGET
ON EXHIBITION
FROMKANTISHNA
ANCHORAGE, Dec. 3 (/P)—C. B.
Nelson delivered a gold nugget to the
First National Bank weighing 43
ounces and valued at $731. The nugget
was discovered on the Kantishna riv
er among several weighing $20 to $30.
The Kantishna country was the scene
of a stampede many years ago and
has produced much placer gold, and
is known for the richness of its cop
per and silver lodes.
Nelson declined to discuss his find
and left immediately for the Kantish
na with an outfit.
WHEAT JUMPS 6
CENTS A BUSHEL
CHICAGO, Dec. 3 (/P)—Wheat jump
ed almost six cents a bushel the first
half hour today. December touched
SI.77 1-4. Liverpool quotations were
advanced on reports of unusual scar
j city.
GEORGE BRADLEY
FUNERAL SUNDAY
A number of intimate friends paid
their last respects to the memory of
George C. Bradley at the Anchorage
funeral chapel Sunday. The deceased
was a victim of pneumonia. Burial
was made in the Anchorage cemetery.
Promoter Ponzi May Be
Returned to Prison Cell
BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 3 (/P)—'The
Boston Herald today will say that the
Suffolk county superior criminal
court has been asked to vacate the
stay of sentence granted Charles Pon
zi, postal coupon “wizard,” who was
sentenced from seven to nine years
as a common thief. Ponzi is in Flor
ida trying to recuperate his fallen
fortunes.
A motion was filed with the clerk
of the court yesterday and a hearing
has been set for tomorrow with As
sistant District Attorney Maurice Caro
prepared to ask that Ponzi be declar
ed in default and returned to serve
his sentence.
The motion contends that Ponzi
has had ample time to perfect and
present his bill of exceptions on which
his stay of sentence was based and
has failed to do either.
Minerals Have Sexes,
Says Rus. Physician
MOSCOW, Dec. 3 (/P)—The PhysiJ
cian Manuelilov, residing in Lenin-;
grad, which is the seat of most of;
Russia’s fiction, announces the dis-l
covery that minerals have sexes just!
as animals and plants. He said that'
investigation of minerals show the1
same masculine and feminine charac-j
teristics as those of vegetable and ani-j
mal cells.
Facetious Moscow commoners on j
the discovery point out that if the
theory were carried into practice, it j
might be possible to start gold, dia-1
mond, platinum and radium breeding
farms.
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LARGEST RUSH
SINCE DISCOVERY
OF FAIRBANKS
NELSON FOUND BIG NUGGET ON
TRIBUTARY OF KANTISHNA
BELOF LARGE GLACIER
ANCHORAGE, Dec. 3 (/P)—1The
largest stampede since the Fair
banks strike is expected to follow the
Nelson discovery of a 43 ounce nug
get. Nelson found the large nugget
on a tributary to the Kantishna below
a large glacier. More than $1000 was
picked up against the ledge, mostly
in large nuggets.
Nelson obtained a loan on his big
nugget and bought an outfit which he
is taking in via Kobe and the Alaska
Railroad 60 miles to the fork of the
Kantishna and Toklat where he will
winter.
Nelson said the region had been
little prospected and included many
unexplored creeks.
LAFOLLETE GIVEN
INVITATION TO
CONFER PARTY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3 (/P)—
Robert LaFollette was invited today'
to attend a Senate Republican confer-,
ence Saturday. The group opposed to
questioning his Republicanism is grow
ing and include Senator Edge, who led J
the fight a year ago to have the four
insurgents read out of the party.
Chairman Butler said that LaFol
lette’s status was still one for “con
sultation.”
Vice Chairman Watson of the con
ference said he is still studying La
Follette’s speeches in the last cam-1
paign. to see whether he really attach
ed the Republican party.
LONDON, Dec. 3 (/P)—An agreement
over the Irish boundary question has
been reached and it is promised the
announcement will be made tonight.
FRENCH NAVY PLANS
EXPEDITION TO POLE
PARIS, Dec. 3 (/P)—'The French
navy department plans an expedition
to the North Pole next spring and a
subsequent airplane flight from the
pole to New York city. The expedi
tion which will be supplied and man
ned by the navy department will be
known as the “French Air Expedition
to the North Pole.”
The expedition will leave Dunkirk,
France, about the end of April,’ and
establish a base at Spitzbergen, the
Norwegian archipelago, and then hit
out for the pole, carrying seaplanes
on specially devised auto sleds, capa
ble of traveling on either water or ice.
Upon the arrival at the pole plans
provide for the members of the expe
dition to take off by air for New York.
FRANCE MUST WIN
FROM RIFFS OR
QUIT MOROCCO
PAST YEAR’S CAMPAIGN HAS
NOT SERIOUSLY ANNOYED
REBEL LEADER
OTIEZZAN, Dec. 3. —Now that
the Moroccan campaign is ended and
that our connection with the French,
army operations is drawing toward
its end, it may be interesting to take
a retrospective view of the general
results.
Last April Abd-El-Krim, in spite
of the friendly relations he had al
ways had with the French, attacked
suddenly French outposts guarding
the plains about Fez and the coast
cities against incursions of mountain
tribes. At that time he had a well
trained, well supplied veteran army
of 80,000 regulars, elated by their
victory over the Spaniards.
As they advanced into the French
zone, tribes as yet unsubdued or
those just lately subdued, rallied to
his standards, attracted by the pros
pects of rich booty. It is useless to
attempt to describe the ferocity of
that first attack, or the desperate
situation of the French forces, who
were outnumbered and almost over
whelmed.
; Paul Scott Mowrer, in a brilliant
series of dispatches, gave an unfor
gettable picture of the almost hope
less situation of the gallant little
French army and its super-human
efforts to hold out.
Arrival of reinforcements enabled
Marashal Lyautey to stem the flood
and finally to reestablish a defensive
line behind which a counter-offen
sive could be organized.
Now General Petain has earned
out that offensive and the French,
line has been reestablished approxi
mately as it was before Abd-El
Krim’s raid.
But what is the situation now?
The Riffian Pancho Villa, who has
been driven back over the Moroccan
Rio Grande, unfortunately makes the
answer only too clear. He has not
been touched as yet. Up to the pres
ent, the French have been fighting
only against warriors drawn from
tribes which revolted under the in
fluence of the bandit leader. The
Riffian army itself furnished only
the necessary number of trained sol
diers to stiffen the mass of irregu
j lars. But the Berber troops have
| not yet encountered the enemy.
Abd-El-Krim’s eighty thousand
regulars, entrenched in their moun
tain fastnesses, await a favorab'e
opportunity again to raid the fertile
i plains. This promises new fights in
the near future.
Spam, meanwhile, it one can be
lieve the Madrid press, intends to
persist in her announced policy of
| leaving Abd-El-Krim a free field
to fasten his hold on the mountain
tribes. From time immemorial the
chief occupation of these hillsmen
has been raiding and plundering the
'lowlands, and certainly only force
can stop them from continuing this
lucrative and agreeable trade.
One is compelled to conclude that
sooner or later the French will send
a punitive expedition across the
mountains. In a word the presence
of Abd-El-Krim and the French in
Morocco at the same time is prac
tically impossible. The French must
conquer him or get out.
It is now evident that the cam
paign of 1925 has done little toward
a final clearing up of the Riffian
situation.
It has established a basis for a
future solution, but it has not
solved the problem. If the French
Intend to conquer northern Morocco
•there arises immediately the ques
tion of the control of Gibraltar and
the Mediterranean.