Sewnrd Daily is atemsly
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME 20.
NUMBER 270
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
CHANGE IN VALVES
ONSHENANDOAH
WAS APPROVED
TESTIMONY SHOWS LANSDOWNE
ASKED FOR PERMISSION TO
MAKE EXPERIMENT
LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 2 (/P)—
A record read in the Naval court of
inquiry into the Shenandoah disaster
■disclosed that the Bureau of Aero
nautics in approving the change in
the system of gas valves on the Shen
andoah. warned Commander Lans
<lowne that the new system would not
he as “fool proof” as the original in
stallation, and that extreme care must j
be taken in the operation of the ship, i
Commander Lansdowne suggested ;
the change in September. 1924. The J
Bureau approved his plans May 28 j
with a warning from Capt. E. S. Land,
of the Construction Corps Bureau. The
warning was repeated June 13 by
Commander Richardson of the Con
struction Corps by direction of the
Bureau chief.
The correspondence showed that
Commander Lansdowne requested tel
egraphic authorization when the bu
reau delayed its approval. He said
the change was in the nature “of an
experiment.”
Commander Rodgers Testifies
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 2 (/P)—
Commander Rodgers told the Air
craft Board conducting an inquiry into
Col. Mitchell’s Statements to the press
that development of the airplane ne
cessitated the establishment of a Na
tional Defense department which in
cluuded the Army and Navy. He was
‘-opposed to a united air force or a sep
arate air corps. He said: “For the
permanent solution of the problem
the strongest man obtainable by the
government should be named Secre
tary of Defense. He should be given
a good staff and let him work out the
organization required and When ready
take over the Army and Navy service.”
WORKMEN BURIED
* BY LANDSLIDE
RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 2 (/P)—Thirty
to sixty members of a work train were
reported caught in a cave-in in a
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad tunnel
near Jefferson Park, with many lives
lost. A fireman who was badly in
jured crawled out of the tunnel and
said he did not know how many men
were caught. He believed the engi
neer was killed. The slide began
\ shortly after the train entered the tun
nel which is a mile long.
BASEBALL
American
Chicago 3, Cleveland 0.
St. Louis 4, Detroit 3.
Boston 3, Washington 1.
^ National
Philadelphia 6, Brooklyn 5.
Coast
Oakland 8, Vernon 3.
Seattle 5, Sacramento 7.
Los Angeles 8, San Francisco 6.
Portland 9, Salt Lake 10.
Shipping Board Resumes
Control of U. S. Fleet
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 2 (£>)—
The Shipping Board resuumed full
control of the Fleet corporation after
two years delegation of power to an
Iterating agency. At the request of
President Coolidge the Board refrain
ed from asking the resignation of
President Palmer of the corporation.
The vote to reassume power was 4 to
nothing.
Alaskan Eskimos Wanted
for Reindeer Propagation
SEATTLE, Oct. 2. (/P)—The govern
ment of Denmark is seeking four
Alaskan Eskimos to teach the people
of Greenland how to raise reindeer
profitably according to a message for
warded by the Bureau of Education.
GEORGE COLWELL
BARELY AVERTS
BAD ACCIDENT
CRASHES INTO REAR CABOOSE
WITH SPEEDER LAST NITE;
RAINING AND FOGGY.
Speeding along in his gas car thru
heavy rain shrouded by darkness on
| his way back to Tunnel, (Mile 52),
| from an inspection of a section of
! the railroad, George Colwell, road
master in charge of the Southern Di
vision of the Alaska Railroad, crash
ed into the rear end of a caboose,
standing on the track near Mile 54,
and was hurled down • an enbank
ment, about fifteen feet in height,
where he was found unconscious a
few minutes later by members of the
train crew.
An examination disclosed, outside
of taking the count, Mr. Colwell had
not suffered any serious injury, tho’
it is stated, the accident could easily
have ended more seriously. The ex
amination disclosed avlew minor cuts
and bruises. Mr. Colwell is at Tun
nel, apparently none the worse off
from his narrow escape of death.
King Island Eskimos
Work As Longshoremen
While the cutter Bear was in Nome
i recently there was a longshoremen’s
strike on and 175 King Island Eski
mos were engaged to do the work.
They arrived in four or five of their
large 'skin boats and when the work
was completed went back to their
cliff homes on King Island. These Es
kimos have the reputation of being
the most skilled ivory carvers in the
world.
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B. OF F. IS ASKED
ADVANCE DATE
HERRING CLOSURE
ALASKA BUREAU HEAD AGREES
WITH PACKERS IN CONSER
VATION OF HERRING.
SEATTLE, Wn., Oct. 1. (^—Pack
ers centering here have asked the Bu
reau of Fisheries to establish a clos
ed season on herring the rest of the
year, beginning October 5, in the
Prince William Sound, Kodiak and
Cook Inlet districts. The present reg
ulations close the season in Prince
William Sound November 15.
Lee Wakefield, of the Bureau of
Fisheries with offices in Cordova,
who is in Seattle said that “because
of excessive fishing for herring in Al
aska, wre deem it advisable to close
the herring season for the remainder
of the year and I have transmitted
such request to the head of the Bu
reau. We feel this move is neccessary
for conservation of herring and the
perpetuation of the industry.”
W. Hathaway and Ed. Gordon, who
have been working for the Katmai
Gold Mine Company, near Uyak, for
the past summer, and who arrived in
Seward from the Westward the first
Seward hotel yesterday, departing on
the morning train for the Interior.
Legal Blanks at the Gateway.
BANDIT KILLED
IN GUN BATTLE
WITH DETECTIVE
EMPLOYE OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC
ATTEMPTS STAGE HOLD-UP
BUT IS FRUSTRATED
OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 2 (£>)—R. A.
Porter, for 22 years an employe of the
Union Pacific railroad, was killed last
night after robbing a score of passen
gers in an observation car and two
Pullmans. The loot, consisting of §200
cash, with several watches and dia
monds was returned to the owners.
Porter boarded the train at an out
lying station and lining the passen
gers up in the aisles commanded a ne
gro porter to searcli them. He told the
negro that he had held up 25 passen
gers on a Missouri Pacific train enter
ing the railroad yards here Wednes
day night, escaping with $40 after a
desperate gun battle with a railroad
detective on the train, during which
Porter was slightly wounded in the
leg. W. H. Davis, a private detective,
stepped behind a refrigerator and he
and Porter fired their pistols at each
other several times. Porter fled the
train making his escape.
Aubrey Kenworthy, a special agent,
was on the train last night, waiting
a repetition of the robbery Wednes
day. He fired and killed Porter as the
latter jumped from the train after the
robbery.
REV. W. A. THOMAS
BRINGS HUSKIES
FROM POINT HOPE
NEW ANCHORAGE MINISTER AR
RIVES ON CUTTER BEAR
FROM THE ARCTIC
The Rev. William A. Thomas, ac
companied by his wife, were Seward
arrivals Wednesday on the cutter
Bear. Rev. Thomas has been serving
as missionary at Point Hope for the
past five years and has been trans
ferred to Anchorage to take charge of
All Saints’ church of which Rev. Bur
dette Landsdowne, who departed for
the south last week, had been in
charge for a number of years.
Rev. Thomas, who has departed for
Anchorage brought with him from the
Arctic, six dogs, one of them a huge
Baffins Bay husky, five years old. The
other dogs were splendid looking hus
^ kies of Alaskan breed. Jack Prosser
took charge of the dogs prior to ship
ping them to Anchorage, where Rev.
Thomas expects to breed from them.
The big husky from Baffins Land is
one of the remaining four dogs explo
rer Rasmussen used in his Arctic
work. The explorer started out with
about 70 of them and wound up with
14, of which Rev. Thomas’ dog is said
to be one of the best which survived.
Extra Session Called By
Governor Roland Hartley
OLYMPIA, Wn, Oct. 2 (/P)—Gov
ernor Roland Hartley has called an
extra session of the Washington legis
lature to convene November 9, to ap
propriate funds for running the state
government from March 31* 1926. The
regular January session of this year
only appropriated; enough for the year
at the request of Hartley, to give him
time to investigate the needs of the
state. The regular session is limited
by the constitution to 60 days. The
extra session may run indefinitely.
The meanest .man in the world is
the one who won’t quarrel with his
wife when she has a headache and
needs relief.
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Fifty-Three Fruit and
Produce Dealers Indicted
VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 2 (Jp)—
Fifty-three fruit and produce dealers
of British Columbia, Alberta, Sas
katchewan and Manitoba were indict
ed by a grand jury for wholesale fraud
in connection with price manipula
tion and restraint of trade.
BEAR COMPLETES
HER FORTY FIRST
CRUISE TO ARCTIC
LAST VOYAGE OF FAMOUS OLD
CUTTER—NEW VESSEL ON
PATROL NEXT YEAR
This season’s Arctic cruise of the
cutter Bear was exceptionally good,
fine weather prevailing a majority of
the time, while at others a few south
erly gales were encountered. In June
certain portions of the Arctic were
fairly clear of ice, with the exception
of the offshore pack met with at about
10 miles of the Point Barrow region,
according to Capt. L. C. Corvell, com
mander of the historic vessel, which
was in port overnight Wednesday. The
recent trip into port the other day was
the first time the vessel had been here
this year and Capt. Covell’s second.
In 1916 and 1917 he visited Seward
while on the Unalga, at which time he
was executive officer.
The Bear, which carried a crew of
70 men, is south-bound for Seattle and
San Francisco, the latter port being
the forty-first Arctic cruise of the ves
sel. According to dispatches receiv
ed from the Associated Press the Bear
has made her last trip to Alaska for it
was stated the cutter will be disposed
of and a new boat, now under con
struction, will take her place. The
new vdssel will be of special design
and construction and will be' equipped
with a diesel electric drive. A new
feature of the vessel will be an air
plane which will be carried on board.
It is estimated the new cutter will
cost about $925,000.
The Bear was originally built for a
Newfoundland sealing company in
1874 and was purchased by the United |
States government in 1884, making her !
first cruise north in 1885. She carries
a crew of eight officers and 59 men.
She was built in Greenock, Scotland.
The Bear has made more history than
probably any ship afloat, having figur
ed in many Arctic rescue expeditions
as well as making her regular Arctic j
patrol.
The Bear left the Golden Gate May
5. The patrol wrork was completed
at Point Barrow August 5, from
which area it proceeded to Unalaska
remaining in that vicinity until the
latter part of last month when she
sailed for Seward and the south.
Capt. Covell stated he had heard
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce is
endeavoring to obtain the vessel from
the government, the plan being to an
chor the ship in Lakes Union or
Washington and fit it up as a muse
um. The San Francisco Chamber is
also making a bid for the craft.
The Bear carries a deputy marshal
and a United States commissioner on
board in order to handle judicial
cases in the far north.
FRENCH CONCLUDE
DEBT PROPOSALS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 2. (JP)—
As the French delegation were prepar
ing to leave and catch their boat for
home, the French-American Debt com
mission’s session in ten minutes con
cluded their agreement. For five
years this was the American propos
al and it provides for a discussion
with a view to permanent settlement
at any time in the life agreement.
SUBMARINE S-51
MAY REMAIN ON
BED OF OCEAN
DIVERS RECOVER CLOTHED BOD
IES OF MATE AND ELEC
TRICIAN FROM WRECK
ABOARD S. S. CAMDEN, off Block
Island by Wireless, Oct. 2 (/P)—Divers
recovered the clothed bodies of Wal
ter B. Lawton, electrician’s mate, of
Somerville, Mass.; and B. D. Kindsay,
engineman, Pensacola. Fla., after the
hatch to the engine room had been
, cut open.
The hull of the rammed submarine
may not be removed from the ocean
bed owing to inability of the giant
cranes on the wreckers to lift it.
Engineman Grier, one of the three
survivors of the S-51 told the steam
boat inspectors that he counted six
heads struggling in the water as he
came to the surface after he was car
ried through the conning tower and
dragged down in a collision with the
steamship Rome. He said when the
collision awakened him he went up
the ladder and saw two others there,
and saw four on the bridge, recogniz
ing Lieut. Dobson, commander of the
submarine, which soon went down.
Grier went down, tangled in a clear
ing line, and was drawn under. Soon
after arising to the surface he saw
only four heads. The steamer City of
Rome threw a lighted ring buoy over
board and a boat lifted him in.
Fail to Budge Suubmarine.
NEW LONDON, Oct. 1. (/P)—The
combined efforts of the Monarch and
Century, fully exerted, under ex
tremely favorable weather conditions,
failed to budge the S. 51.
Last Words of Lieut. Dobson
BOSTON, Oct. 2 (JP)—Michael S.
Lira testified yesterday that the last
words that he heard Lieut. Dobson
speak were, “Give me a line.” He ad
dressed the City of Rome. A minute
later the submarine went down. Lira
was drawn under when he got tan
gled in the antennae of the subma
rine, but was later rescued by a boat
from the steamer.
OWNERS OF FISH
CRAFT ASKED TO
BE AT HEARING
HARBOR OF REFUGE HEARING
TO TAKE PLACE IN THE
FEDERAL BUILDING
With regards to the hearing relative
to the proposed harbor of refuge or
breakwater in Resurrection Bay,
which will be held on the evening of
October 10, in the Grand Jury room
of the Federal Building, it is stated
Congress provided at its last session
for a survey of the said waters for
the purpose indicated.
This is an authorization for the
Board of Army Engineers to approve
or disapprove after survey, as a basis
of legislation in furtherance of the
project.
All owners cf fishing craft are asked
to be present at the hearing, or their
representative, so that the benefit of
their knowledge, experience and ideas
may be had.
Major Oliver, district engineer for
Alaska, of the Board of Engineers,
United States Army, will arrive in
Seward from the Interior October 10,
and will conduct the hearing. Major
Oliver has just completed making a
survey in the Nome district and is re
turning South via the Yukon.
The freighter Latouche is scheduled
to leave Seattle for Seward next
Monday, carrying explosives and gen
eral cargo.