Section Two
VOLUME 20.
NUMBER 163
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
FOX FILM MAN
TO MAKE CITY
BASE FOR MONTHS
New York Film Corporation
Sends Alaskan to Film
Alaskan Features
WELL KNOWN SEWARD
Beauties of Kenai Peninsula
to Be Exhibited to
the World
Seward will be headquarters, for at
least six months this year, for Merl
La Voy, representative of the Fox
Film Corporation of New York City.
However, he expects to remain in the
Territory for one and one-half years,
according to his statement to the Sew
ard Gateway prior to his departure
for the Pribilof Islands, on board the
cutter Haida which departed Satur
day afternoon. Mr. La Voy's office
will be in the Ellsworth Building,
Room 6.
Carries Much Equipment.
Mr. La Voy brought to Seward
with him many trucks and boxes all
containing moving picture paraphan
alia. He does not anticipate having
to make a trip to the States until his
work in Alaska is fully completed.
No assistant is accompanying Mr. La
Voy but it is possible, he said, that
he would employ someone in Seward
to assist him at various times. Among
his scads of equipment is material
taken to and purchased in 40 odd
countries during the last twenty
years, countries where he has spent
many months taking pictures of un
usual merit. Prior to coming to Al
aska on this trip he had just arrived
in the United States from the South
Sea Islands and Australia.
The special assignment he is now
on for the Fox Film people will be
called an “Epic on Alaska.” This fea
ture reel will form five to eight reels
in length. In it he wrill endeavor to
reproduce Alaska as it is, and being
an oldtimer himself, some 15 years
ago, he is extra well suited for the
task, having that knowledge of the
Territory which it is impossible for a
stranger to absorb in one or two
summers. “Mention Alaska Outside
and at once it is associated with ice
bergs,” Mr. La Voy remarked. The
idea that Alaska is an icebox must
be dispelled from the minds of the
masses in the States. Much publici
ty of a favorable nature has swept
over the country during the last two
years. I hope to assist in spreading
the truth about Alaska with these pic
tures,” Besides the feature film he
expects to make as many single reels
as he can possibly film during his
stay in the North.
Back To First Love.
‘‘I have a, natural fondness for Sew
ard and this district of Alaska, Mr.
La Voy continued, for Seward was the
first town I landed in. It was home
to me for many months 20 years ago
when I worked on the old Alaska Cen
tral railroad survey. And it was in
Seward where I first began to be in
terested in photography.”
With Burton Holmes.
For the last 12 years Mr. La Voy
has been more or less free lancing.
Last year he had been selected as a
member of the Mount Logan moun
tain climbing expedition, but an at
tack of flu prevented him from ac
cepting. He was with Burton Holmes
whose travelogues are widely known
to all movie fans, and during the
world war, ,took pictures for the Red
Cross Society at the front. Last sea
son he was a member of the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History expe
dition that explored the ‘‘Hidden
Caves” of Virginia. This expedition
penetrated the caves one mile further
than any previous expedition. In 1910,
Mr. La Voy was a member of the
Parker-Brown expedition to Mt. Mc
Kinley and with the same expedition
! two years later, on which occasion
the top of the mountain was reached.
| He was one of the three who are ac
[ credited with reaching the top of the
majestic mountain. He anticipates
ascending the “pride of the North” on
this trip, prior to his return to the
States.
To Shoot Pacific Patrol.
During his present trip to the
westward on the cutter Haida, he has
obtained special permission from the
government to be conveyed to vari
I ous points on the cutters and to visit
all the government bases, and sup
ply points, radio stations and the
sealing rookeries. He will return to
Seward the first of the month at which
time his future plans for work in this
district will be announced.
Owing to insufficient entrees for
the boxing contests, one of the big
features of the Celebration, the
Sports committee announce this
event will have to be stricken from
the program.
join the Chamber of Commerce.
Gov. Roland Hartley
Criticised by Consul
SEATTLE, June 29 (#>)—'Thomas
H. Kolderup, Norwegian consul, vigor
ously denounced Governor Roland
Hartley of Washington, before 8,000
persons at the Pacific Coast Norwe
gian centennial in the Washington
University stadium for his failure to
attend the celebration. He said:
“President Coolidge thought the
Norwegian centennial in Minneapolis
important enough to attend and
speak at.”
Kolderup said: “The governor of
your state does not consider us very
important, however. He has no time.
He is too busy to address us, but l
have here a personal message from
President Coolidge. I think it quite
satisfactory. More so in fact than
I the presence of Gov. Hartley.”
—
Lauerine Lumeire Wins
Grand Prix de Paris
PARIS, June 29 (/P)—Lauerine Lu
meire won the grand prix de Paris at
Longchamps track today before a
gathering of 250,000 including Presi
dent Doumergue. She was the first
“lady horse” to win a blue ribbon on
the French turf since 1902. Her own
ers received 120 francs for one in
vested. Not a single favorite finished
in the money.
COPENHAGEN LAUNCHED AT
SOUTH BEND LAST WEEK
SOUTH BEND—A 35 foot boat to be
used for trolling and crab fishing was
launched last Sunday by Hilberg
Hanson at Eklund Park. It will oper
ate on the Columbia river. It is 35
feet long and is thoroughly coppered.
At the launching not a drop of wine
was available so a box of snuff was
used in place of the beverage the in
gredients being scattered over the bow
with pomp and dignity. The craft was
christened Copenhagen.
“Jolly Three” To Give
Big Hop 1.0.0. F. Hall
Friday night, July 3, the night be
fore the big celebration, a dance will
be held at I. O. O. F. hall under the
auspices of the “Jolly Three” orches
tra. Special music is being prepared
for the evening, the kind heard no
I where but in Seward.
PAINTER KNOWS HIS
NOSE WILL NOW BE
GOOD MEMBER AGAIN
A cartilage in the nose of H. Paint
er is broken, which when healed, will
make the facial member as good as
ever, Mr. Painter was struck on
the tip of his nose by a foul tip
while at bat, at the ball game last
week. His nose is a patch wrork of
tape, one of his eyes is covered with
an azure blue and part of the opposite
eye is slightly discolored. Outside
of that, everything is fine and dandy.
MRS. TRUIT HERE VISITING
DAUGHTER, MRS. MOEHRING
Mr. and Mrs. E. Moehring have mov
ed from their former home on Third
avenue into the modern Lechner res
ident, opposite the postoffice. Mrs.
Truitt, wife of attorney Truit of An
chorage and mother of Mrs. Moeh
ring, arrived from Anchorage last
Saturday to visit with her daughter
and son-in-law for a week.
So far, it has not been announced
whether the winner of the Marathon
race would aspire for the Olympic
classic this year or not.
MO TIME TO HUNT
for a doctor or drug store
when one of the family is
suddenly seized with agoniz
ing intestinal cramps, deadly
nausea and prostrating diar
rhoea
CHAMBERLAIN’S
COLIC and DIARRHOEA
REMEDY
?;ives instant warmth, comfort, ease
rom pain. Keep it always in $[our
home, ready for emergency by night
or day.
Today
men of judgment
are measuring cities and towns by
their Chambers of Commerce.
In any survey of an American town
or city, it is impossible to name a
live, growing community, which
does not have a virile Chamber of
Commerce that numbers in its
membership every successful busi
ness and professional man and wo
man in the community.
The
Seward .Chamber of Gommerce
welcomes you to the big 4th of July Celebration.
Welcome to Seward
and to ’'Sylvia’s”
\\ here ICE CREAM, the kind you like, is made daily.
Thirst-quenching soft drinks.
Box and bulk CANDIES of all sorts.
SYLVIA’S
IN THE SEXTON HOTEL BUILDING
A full and beautiful assortment of Alaskan photographs,
and curios. Pictures framed. Expert Developing.
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