Hernan Daily Gnteumy
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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VOLUME 21, NUMBER 129
SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, JTXE T. 1*36.
PRICE TEN CENTS
DETROITER RETURNS
TO FAIRBANKS FROM
< LONG STAY BARROW
WILKINS, LANPHIER, SMITH AND
WISELEY ARRIVE IN PLANTE.
SNOW BLANKETS ARCTIC
EXPEDITION BEEN ABANDONED
Pilot Bennett Forced Down Above
Arctic Circle and Walks Over
Slopes to Wiseman
FAIRBANKS. June 6, (£>)— The De
troiter, with Captain Wilkins and Ma
jor Lanphier, Pilot Wiseley and Sandy
Smith, returned from Point Barrow at
6:10 tonight. They made the trip in
six hours against a strong head wind.
The quartet said .they were glad to
get back as they were tired of Bar
row. Snow still blankets the Arctic.
Their return means the abandon
ment of the expedition for this year,
but it is believed they will resume
the flight next year. Dense fog has
shrouded the north since the begin
ning of May, without a break.
A. A. Bennett, commercial pilot,
went down with engine trouble Thurs
day 45 miles from Wiseman, above
the Arctic Circle. He reached Wise
man today, having walked over the
rugged country. In response to a tele
gram a plane will be sent from here
with repair parts. Wiseman is suf
fering from a food shortage, as the
town has been depending on the plane
service for supplies from Fairbanks.
The steamer Jacobs of the Alaska
Railroad fleet, en route to Betties with
the first cargo of the season, will
reach its destination in several days.
DETROIT, June 7. (/P)—'The Board
of Control of the Detroit expedition
said: “the expedition has been by
perverse and uncontrollable circum
stances but the board does not intend
intend to permit the original object
ives be set aside.”
COUNCIL MEET TONIGHT
A regular meeting of the Seward
City Council takes place this evening
beginning at S o’clock.
CONVINCED NEXT IB
BE FOUGHT III PACIFIC
\ GENEVA, June 7(/P)— The Austral
ian albor party decided to convoke a
workers congress a<t Honolulu to be
attended by workers of all the coun
tries on the Pacific Coast, “because of
the probability that the next war will
take place in the neighborhood of the
Pacific.” J. H. Beasley made this
^ statement today and caused a stir at
the International Labor Conference
here. Beasley, who is head of the
Australian workers union, criticized
the International Labor Office for do
ing nothing to prevent wars and said
Australia was convinced a meeting
of Pacific workers would do much to
maintain -world peace.
INDIANAPOLIS,(/P)—1The State Su
preme court today upheld the constu
tionality of the Wright bone dry law.
The law is the most drastic prohibi
^ tion statute in any state in the Union
WILL RETURN TO COAST OVER
RICHARDSON HIGHWAY AND
THENCE TO JUNEAU
WISEMAN, Alaska, June 7. (£>)—
Col. J. G. Steese, after a huried \hree
days’ inspection of conditions of the
roads in Wiseman and upper Koyukuk
districts, departed via a Fairbanks
Airplane Corporation plane for Fair
banks at midnight, expecting to leave
Fairbanks on Monday over the Rich
ardson Highway to the coast, then to
Juneau.
He is sending Supt. Haslem of the
Alaska Road Commission, to Wiseman
to immediately commence road con
struction between Wiseman and Ham
mond River.
i
DISAPPEARANCE OF
LOS ANGELES WOMAN
HIS POLICE ON JUMP
LOS ANGELES, June 7,*— With
Aimee Semple McPherson stil un
found a legal battle for the custody of
her 13-year-old son, Rolph, has sud
denly broken, with Harold G. Me
• Pherson, the divorced husband on one
side, and her mother, Mrs. Kennedy
of Angelus Temple, on the other.
Deputy sheriffs and forest rangers
today were dispatched to a point in
Bouquet canyon near Saugus, 30 miles
| northeast of here, with instructions
to comb the hills and search every
cabin and hiding place for a possible
clue to the whereabouts of Mrs. Mc
Pherson. The search was ordered
following the finding last night of a
brief penciled note which read as fol
lows, “Help, they took me to cabin
j in Bouquet.”
Plan Dynamiting Bay
Deep sea divers are making prepar
ations for the wholesale 'dynamiting of
Santa Monica bay and plans are being
perfected by Angelus Temple to re
quest the Navy Department for the
use of two mine sweepers to search
for the body of Aimee McPherson.
The Angelus Temple beach patrol has
been augmented by squads of police
and deputy sheriffs.
PLANS TRIP NUKA BAY
M. J. Conroy, who returned north
on the S.S. Yukon, left yesterday for
his former home, Anchorage. Mr.
Conroy is going into the Willow creek
mining district for a short period to
inspect his properties and upon his
return to Seward expects to take a
run down to Nuka bay and look that
promising field over.
SHELLHORN BOYS RETURNING
Merritt and Willard Shellhorn, sons
of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Shellhorn,
leave Seattle tomorrow on the Admir
al Watson for Seward. Merritt is
thru with school and will probably
find work with the B. P. R. depart
ment upon his arrival. Willard has
been working in Seattle since his de
parture, from Seward last summer.
T. S. Commissioner Morforc *a? a
busy man this morning. Three cases
came up before him. one a violation
of the Alaska Bone Dr?- Law and the
other two, assault and batter? cases
Karsten Svensen was arrested yes
terday afternoon by Chief “Bob" Ones:
and presented with a 20-day jail sen
tence for being drunk and disorderly
and appearing on the streets in that
condition.
Nick Nekeferoff was accused by
Thomas Riley of assaulting him on the
railroad tracks near the depot Nek
efgeroff was fined $25.
But Riley did not get off scot-free
at that for Mrs. Nekeferoff entered
a complaint against him charging him
with assault, claiming he not only beat
! her about the face and body but kick
; ed her as well. He was fined $20.
-.
EVANS DUE T0V0R»0*
The Admiral Evans of the Pacific
; Steamship Company will arive :r. port
tomorrow from the Westward and will
await here the arrival of Wednesday
evening's train fro mthe interior
BREVITIES
PARTS. iJp)— The French ns* onal
tourist office announces tha.: more
than 226 million dollar? tj? spent
by American tourists in France las:
year.
NEW YORK. — Ear] Carroll
; noted theater owner ana producer,
who was convicted of perjury for de
nying to the grand jury Irvesitgating
the affair that a nude g;r'. hathed in
a tub at his famous party was sen
j tenced to a year at Atlanta and fined
• S2000. He appealed the case and was
released on his own recognizance.
NEW' YORK. <iPi— In a wireless
i message to Chicago from is s*earner
! Berengaria. on which she is er route
! to France for another attempt to swim
‘the English Channel. Gertrude Ederle
said: “I do not know the world’s deck
walking record, but broke it this morn
ing with fifteen circles so fast that
I almost gained a mile on the ship it
self.” Miss Ederle last fall came with
in seven miles of successfully swim
ming the Channel.
LONDON. (jPi— The Great Britain
coal strike deadlock was broken to
day as the chairman of the mine own
ers invited the president of the min
ers union to meet him in a peace par
ley. The two men are good personal
friends and a satisfactory adjustment
of the difficulties is expected.
SHANGHAI, (JP)— The deportation
of Rodney Gilbert, American news
paperman and Harvard graduate, be
cause of his book. “What’s Wrong
With China,” was demanded here.
BOSTON, (j2p>— Denial of ci::zen
ship to aliens on the so^ ground of
claiming exemption from military ser
vice during the war is unwarranted
by law, the Ented. Saties circuit court
of appeals ruled in a decision hand
ed down today.
HD IIS MEW H BANQUET HELD IN
NOME lie WICES OF CATHOLICS
STfcP* WtS^eOLNC TOMG^-T
The steamer Starr Cspt C A ^
hanser departs tins ere-ninc a; i c ■
clock or Ire second *-jp of -She season
to Bristol Bet points. Oorsioerahle
Traunre will hf taker. Ww*awt hot a
small amoon: of mal. The nessel wifi
return to por the latter port of the
month
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-L. S S WHjL ASSUME
C^a«?GE HI JULY
COBUDA'i, June T , 2p— S-?e«t E
A Whitehead, a: preset: on 4»ty oat
the I'. S S Idaho wii. replace off
W. a Te're'N^fih it Joly as district
commardine oCvs- of Alaskat N*^
Radio stations. TarrersaT. has Vest
tBansfe~ret rr sea dosy 4® 'he S
S. Tennessee He has twee*, t ch*rr
of the Alaskan static®? for three
yea~s
HOPES eiisra FCF
■now of
~aE VOLSTEIO «ET
DEAT*- KICLi roc Cc
VAVV SOOXDEO EV Dc'
COKtUOL CCVV-ee
VASHIJ$GTOX Jmsf ~ r» — t> •
questiox of a xat»oxa; refe~exd-«;Tr. o®
the prohibitiox xmfaflmfTit ws* se*
tied adc the "hope wets eurertairsc for
modiffcsriox of the Yohceac A: »?>
Wasted a: least for a trine ’•hex th*
dry control comm r ee souxdet tap
death kxel'. of the ’•rets efforts at mod
iScmtiox by rexderixi: a rep - ha:
the dry lam- was “moral!?- rich: T The
committee.. »tick aif appointee tc*
ixves:irtre the acrsuC eoxc :ttt f\’«*
:ng ix the eouxtry as the result of the
Eightexth Amexdmex: axe which held
hearings ix April ix Its report recom
mended indefinite postponement of aJI
pending Senate measures for i refer
exdum ox mod location. The report
hits directfy a: the Xee Yoth State
plan fora state referendum axe ead:
“The modification bills were ax at
tempt a: xull.ficatiox axe that the
wees seek to upset a morally r.rh:
axd ecoxomically wise amendmexx.
The conclusions set forth ix the re
port were the outgrowth of facts and
opixioxs offered at the hearixx by
both the wet axe dry sides axe were
purged of axy propaganda.
CLETELAXD. JPV— Three hun
dred chairmen of the Brotherhooc of
Locomotive Engineers met here to
day to consider a movement for in
crease ix wages
COWlVDt* »\D
Or VC«?6I SEi. tvts LANDS IN
vNCK®LO«tC YWtC S'D£
Or Tv| f\xt-»4> 0®GAN»?t
r»iux E%»cor cn
} NOME 19** : **-Thp Catholics
of N-w i*s' lxt: tiro i haa<T*e' tfi4
jinnee if* Commander Nob If ar-d his
. Mte* I-i]»*u< l*ra<- *ioaHy frer*
' Catholic to :V. ‘ 4w4r»«': at “ended The
F-«d» haF* wa« crowded ;e Cl ra
rity src Nubile *w m
onrtim* w%eet TiwtoKft
ft. "“©dared Y » aht h<© t*fr
lined up *.h<v4 hands srfth al
GafTne* said Mnsenn ptooed \'mw it
<—ffliirtmmrio* * k the w rid ah :ch
b*-'****«f<i'T To.-k three m«r bs
Vkifito said: "Wher t renra v
Rome 1 shall eatnes* ’>| my rt»i
rkv>! *>©4 “>« pe^yde of
town* “he deer smrresjyo* aid* on
tb* Ttoliah n.rklr’t p| •>* taped*
ttoh hy the kindness shea* «t fa
>toi *
>W»i> op red 'K-~- lami- to
the me«tdOP©i **TA *1 5 * #e of tiff
pole and sa*4 he nupht «*•«» » as
FaJiat eapedriea for farther fv|w *a
COURT PUNS (RE
MITIKEiy WIDE
ri.C**'NG rc«V Or DISTRICT
re aE$*sa«:D n
GACOco as LJKEL>
Cp«t |»'ar« for :h> year are v.-ry
toe eft:‘re. noeordtoc te Wstiict An op
ney ICHtom I> Coppem©!! Tfe» only
dare thas far Iw4 is as ^s jy re~tr
called for June !* fa Arch trace.
TVtotattoe ptor* aceoritnc to infor
mation fen «hed V Air. CopperaoB
arc by Frark H Foster. attorney. ar^
for a Co*: toe omrt turn to he held
aboa-d a wafi p-»a~d carter. TV'
aoold probably leave Scantd ab>at
J«> 1$ lor F* «:el Bay. rrtaniat it
Aarcy
A prani *ory tent v® probably hr
held parly to Seprembe- af*er the re
ran of the eaner
I: ie reparded a? needy that a reps
tor rwi *aiy re rat aiE ha called la
Vt)of$ parly to November If bas cess
nmrrant* iMa X© Coricn Tent
aeald he held before mk fall a; Ike
earliest and then only W has toe at aar
rants.. la case sack a term :s oaUed.
tt aoaid probably he herareea the pc©'
posed A apes: sessiaa at Aacbonp^
acc the Ncremher cither tc at VaS
de*
NTW YORK. i.W*— Paseeapers oa
%he ltoer Ramharp. arrirtop here, re
ported :Ssa: they saw a hip polar hear
oa a mammoth Ice herp Com tap in
the North AtUit t, 12CC miles from
Near York
Hr and Mrs. O. K Tyler cere
ard ox the S. S. Yakr« and left for
Fairbanks today. ,
Good mm mi the Liberty