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VOLUME XX, NUMBER 269
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CAPTAIN HEINEN,
ZEPPELIN PILOT,
GIVES TESTIMONY
DECLARES THAT DISASTER WAS
UNNECESSARY AND WAS
LITTLE SHORT MURDER
LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 1 (/P)—
Captain Anton Heinen, a former Ger
man Zeppelin pilot, told the inquiry
board investigating the Shenandoah
disaster that in his opinion it could
I liave been very easily avoided. He
said, “My criticism is applied only to
handling the ship on the fatal trip. I
hold responsible the man in charge
during the flight. The ship ran delib
erately into the center of the storm a
half hour after danger signs were
shrieking aloud.” He denied that it
was a wreck but rather was “pure
murder.”
The reduction of the eighteen safety
valves to eight were directly respon
sibl for the disaster, he told the judge
advocate.
Judge Advocate Foley asked Heinen,
“Are you prepared to say that had you
been in charge you coould have es
caped the storm?”
Heinen replied, “I am proud to say
^ thfcat I could have and would have done
so.”
He gave a loud explanation of tech
nical details at the time gesticulating
violently and raising his voice as he
told how he would have avoided the
disaster.
Tells Source of Information
At the behest of the court Capt.
Heinen revealed that the basis of his
information was secured from Benja
min Hereth, a Shenandoah survivor,
and from James Work, chief draughts
man of this station, who gave him
' most of the particulars.
Heinen stated that Lansdowne was
well versed in aerology, but judged
wrongly because he was not experi
enced in handling dirigibles.
Judge Advocate Rosendahl asked:
“What is your opinion of Commander
Lansdowne as a pilot?”
“The very highest and still is,” was
the reply of Capt. Heinen.
Capt. Heinen said “when Lieuten
ant Anderson told Lansdowne he saw
storm clouds going apparently against
the wind, he was observing one of the
greatest danger signals we know in
the air.”
He declared a course should have
been steered to which the ship would
hold without drift then or the ship
allowed to drift to the left out of the
path of the storm.
GOOD AMOUNT IS
COLLECTED FOR
ATHLETIC CLUB
A large list of contributions and new
members were obtained yesterday by
Louis Tinkler, secretary of the Sew
ard Athletic Club, which was organiz
ed for the benefit of the children of
Seward. Each of the following named
distributed the sum of $5: Beck &
White, Otto Schallerer, Mel Holben,
E. Swetmann, J. L. Graef.
Other contributors are: Dr. Roberts,
Wm. Manthey, L. Hopkins, L. Olsen,
E. J. Johnson, Prof. G. D. Barnett,
E. J. Johnson, Jack Sparks, B. M. Sny
der, J, Ratliff, T. J. Selby, S. Henrick
son, Francis Leslie, L. Tinkler, Wal
ter Blue, H. B. Selby, Mr. Valaide, H.
5eferovitch,~G. Bowley, E. Mount, E.
Kurtz, C. H. Jansen, George Propadis,
Tom Dyer, Tiny Mohring, Gus Borgen,
H. McLaughlin, Mr. McGhie, Wm.
Wolfgram, M. Synth, Alex Bolam, Jess
Landers, each 51.
.Prof. Barnett 52, W. R. Shellhorn
•if1, P. Ogle $2.
T. Lorang, Howard Seferovitch 50c.
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ANTON PETERSON
NOME PIONEER
PASSES AWAY
OPERATED ROAD HOUSE AT IRON
CREEK FOR MANY YEARS—
MINING OPERATOR
NOME, Sept. 30. (£>)—Anton Peter
son dropped dead along the railroad
track yesterday, his body being brot
in to Nome.
Anton and his brother Nels ran a
roadhouse at Iron Creek for many
years and owned valuuable mining in
terests in the district.
The Peterson brothers were coming
via dogmobile express on the narrow
gauge railroad, when the tow line
broke on the up-hill grade near Ban
ner Creek. Anion ran after the dogs
across the tundra, sitting down to rest
after the long ch^se. His body was
found by his brother who started out
to look for him.
MOST DELEGATES
JOURNALISTS IN
FORMER YEARS
FRENCH DEBT MISSION DELE
GATES COMPOSED OF NEWS
PAPER MEN
i PARIS, Oct. 1. (jp)—Most of the del
egates accompanying Joseph Caillaux
minister of finance, on the French debt
mission, now in the United States,
are, or have b'feen journalists; a ma
I jority of them have been and still are
i lawyers.
Henry Berenger, who ranks next af
| ter the minister of finance, has been
; director of at least three papers in
Paris during a well filled career and
i has found time to write four novels of
I a political and philosophical turn. He
is senator from Gaudeloupe, and an
active member of the budget and na
val committee of the senate.
Senator Paul Dupuy is a distinguish
ed journalist rather than a legislator.
He owns Petit Parisien, the paper
which has the largest circulation in
the world—1,750.000 to 2,000,000 copies
a day. He is an enthusiastic friend
of the United States and his wife is
an American.
Vincent Auriol, socialist deputy and
until recently chairman of the appro
i priations committee of the chamber of
i Deputies, is also a journalist in the
| French acception of the term, that is
| to say he occasionally contributes to
| the papers of socialist opinion. He
is a lawyer also and now one of the
guiding hands of the socialist party.
The Marquis de Chambrun, who
needs no introduction to the Ameri
can public, is a lawyer, but as yet, has
made no claims to the title of jour
nalist, though, he also, has contrib
uted some valuable papers to the
French press.
The cannery tender Lady Jane of
the San Juan Fishing & Packing Co.,
which arrived in port yesterday from
Sawmill bay, departs this afternoon
on the return trip. Mr. C. H. Jensen,
superintendent of the local cold stor
age plant will be a passenger on the
craft for the Sawmill bay cannery
where he will inspect the machinery.
Messrs. H. C. Whitehead, J. V.
Smeaton, and John M. Campbell were
hosts at a trout dinnef last evening,
their wives and friends enjoying the
banquet at Fisher’s Cafe.
The steamer Starr will leave this
evening at 8 o’clock for Knights Isl
and with the big barge Lawrence in
tow. The steamer will return imme
diately to this port from the island.
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ANCHORAGE FIRM
TO RETIRE FROM
FIELD JANUARY 1
BROWN & HAWKINS WILL CON
FINE THEIR ACTIVITIES TO
SEWARD IN FUTURE
A report in the Anchorage Times of
Tuesday stating that the well known
branch of Brown & Hawkins in An
chorage would be closed January 1,
withdrawing from the field and con
fining its activities entirely to Sew
ard where their main store is located,
was confirmed this afternoon by Mr.
T. W. Hawkins, senior member of the
corporation, who issued the following
statement:
“Since the establishment of our An
chorage branch in 1915 we have con
sistently enjoyed good patronage from
the people of Anchorage and we an
nounce our withdrawal from the field
with sincere regret.
“We find that the maintenance of a
proper staff and facilities for provoid
ing the retail service which we have
always tried to give, make very seri
ous inroads on the small margin of
profit which the Anchorage people pay
on their limited volume of business,
and we have decided to retire from
this field.
We have not lost faith in Alaska,
nor in Anchorage. We are simply
confining our efforts to Seward where
we already have a large a growing
business, and will develop and enlarge
our wholesale business.
“We will enter more extensively in
the spring into the wholesale business,
especially in groceries and hardware.
This move has been planned for the
past year and is not a sudden decision
by any means. Without doubt this
move will mean the enlargement of
departments and the construction of
additional warehousing facilities and
it is also expected the personnel of
the staff will be enlarged.
“With regards to putting on a ves
sel carrying merchandise to Seward
from the States, and taking back car
goes of coal, w'e have considered this
problem for many months, and it is
quite probable that this will be done.
“Mr. Brown plans making a busi
ness trip to the States sometime after
Christmas and while Outside will go
into the matter thoroughly with re
spect to such service.”
The firm of Brown & Hawkins is
one of the largest and most reliable
in the Territory, and has been in busi
ness in Seward for many years. The
stock carried by this firm is the larg
est and most diversified in Alaska.
BISHOP ROWE
ARRIVE HERE
ON SATURDAY
Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe of the
Episcopal diocese of Alaska, arrived
in Seward last evening from Anchor
age. He will hold services locally
prior to his departure for the South
on the steamer Alaska.
While in the Interior at Fort Yukon
Bishop Rowe supervised the rebuild
ing of the mission which was destroy
ed by fire last year. He made the trip
into the Territory via Skagway and
Dawson. He has stopped at Nenana,
Fairbanks and Anchorage, where he
conducted services. From Seward he
will go to Valdez and Cordova where
other church matters await his appro
val.
While in Seward Bishop Rowe is a
guest of the Hotel Sexton.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee and daughter from
Mile Seven arrived in Seward Wed
nesday evening and plan going south
to Seattle on the steamer Alaska. Mr.
Lee has been acting as section fore
man for the Alaska Railroad at that
point.
RAINING STEADILY
IN NOME FOR THE
PAST 3 MONTHS
MINERS OVERJOYED AT AMOUNT
OF WATER IN CREEKS—VIC
TORIA DELAYED
NOME, Sept. 30. (£>)—'The freighter
Nabesna and the Victoria are unload
ing here, having been delayed on ac
count of rough weather.
It has been raining here steadily for
the past three months, and miners are
rejoicing over the amount of water,
aiding them much in their hydraulic
operations. The ditch of the Ham
mon company broke near Banner
Creek, cutting down the volume of
water delivered for thawing ground at
Little Creek. A slide on the mountain
side caused the break.
GIANT CRANE WILL
LIFT SUBMARINE
ABOARD U. S. S. CABDEN, Oct.
1 (IP)—The giant cranes on the ships
Monarch and Century are fastened to
the submarine S-51 and will attempt
to lift it immediately. There is no
hope for the 33 men on board.
FRENCH WAR DEBT
SETTLEMENT IS
IN DEADLOCK
FRENCH PRESENT FINAL PROPO
POSAL AND WILL RECEIVE
ANSWER EARLY HOUR
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 1
The French war debt settlement is up
to President Coolidge. The commission
offered what it considers it final pro
posal, to which the American com
missioners were unable to agree.
Caillaux has been promised an an
swer at 11 o’clock today.
The French offer forty million dol
lars annually for five years, and sixty
millions annually for the next seven
years, and one hundred millions an
nually for the next fifty years, total
ing $5,620,000,000 principal and inter
est on a recorded debt of $4,210,000,000
principal. The interest rate has not
been mentioned bftt is expected to av
erage two and a half percent.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 1 (/P)—
Rejection of the French debt propo
sals is disclosed in a statement by
Secretary of Treasury Mellon, after
the American commission had con
ferred with President Coolidge who
submitted no proposal. Caillaux an
nounced that he would return at 3
o’clock this afternoon with the French
views on the subject.
French Refuse U. S. Terms
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 1 (£>)—
The agreement by the United States
which is subject to the French ratifi
cation, provides that France pay the
United States forty millions annually
for five years which will be consid
ered as full interest on the debt. Pre
mier Caillaux refused to sign this
agreement flatly on the ground that
he had authority only to settle the
debt fully and finally.
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BASEBALL
Coast
Oakland 6, Vernon 9.
Portland 3, Salt Lake 6.
Seattle 0, Sacramento 8.
Los Angeles 12, San Franicsco 7.
American
Boston 5, Washington 4.
National
Philadelphia 6, Brooklyn 4.
JOHNSON SAID
HE MADE GUNS
FOR JAILBREAK
THREW SOME IN GARBAGE BE
CAUSE DID NOT LOOK REAL
ENOUGH
SEATTLE, Oct. 1. The Seattle
Post-Inteligencer published the story
given by Johnson yesterday relating
the jailbreak.
Johnson said, “There weren’t any
real guns; I made all of them. I mad
a lot of them and threw some into the
. garbage because they didn’t look very
natural.”
In telling how he made the weapons
Johnson further said, “I made the han
dles and part of the barrels of wood,
cutting tin out of Velvet tobacco cans
to put around this rough shape to give
appearance to the guns. I then saw
ed the handles off spoons and bent
them to look like trigger guards, fit
ted fountain pen covers to look like
barrels, and made the rear sights out
of half a screw-top of a tooth paste
tube. The front sights were made
of tin, glued to the gun with chewing
gum.
“The guns were then blackened with
shoe polish, to give them a dull fin
ish, said Johnson.”
“Morgan let us out and I marched
him to the back door of the corridor
with a spear at his back. They al
ways have saws around the cells in
the jails, and when a shakedown is
coming, the boys usually break up the
saws. I used pieces of saws and
spoons in manufacturing the spear.”
Starwich vsaid Johnson’s story was
all a lie.
Three of Bandits Caught
SEATTLE, Oct. 1 (/P)—T. H. John
j son was caught with James Kendall
and William Callan alias James Fan
ning after robbing a bank of $6400.
He refused to talk about the jail
break or his pals. Sheriff Matt Star
wich said, “I am going to found out
how this jailbreak happened.”
Robbery developments point to the
likelihood that Richardson, Burns and
Watson, the other trio of escaped
prisoners were close to the scene of
the holdup.
Capt. Hedges recommended that Pa
trolmen Rush and Sands, who cap
tured the prisoners, be cited for brav
ery. They captured Rush and John
son in a woodshed after a pistol duel.
Sands captured Fanning by crawling
under a house after him, using a
small flashlight to discover his man’s
whereabouts.
No Officials Implicated
SEATTLE, Oct. 1 (JP).—After an all
day grilling T. H. Johnson said that
no deputy sheriff or police official was
implicated in the jail break of Septem
ber 15 when six prisoners escaped
from the county jail.
J. Miller, cook, left Seward yester
day morning for Mile 34 where he
will preside over the kitchen for the
forestry crew at work running a trail
in that region.
J. R. Van Winkle, Jack Lodge, Jas.
Bishop and Joe Loghlan, departed yes
terday for Anchorage. They have
been engaged during the past summer
on the Alaska Road Commission road
project at Kodiak.
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The salmon canneries in the Cordo
va distript were practically all closed
down by September 25.
A. T. Steele, formerly of Boise, Ida.,
has joined the news staff of the An
chorage Daily Times serving in the
capacity of reporter. Mr. Steele is a
graduate of Stanford University.
Charles J. Robinson of Bellingham,
Wash., was a recent visitor in Seward
en route on a sight-seeing trip to the
Interior.