TANANA RIVER IS
SCENE OF WRECK;
ONE MAN DROWNS
_
NENANA, May 20—The swift wat- j
ers of the Tanana river claimed their;
first victims of the present season
early last Thursday in the person of
Chaim Perlman, former employe of
the Alaska Railroad, who started down
river in a poling boat on Wednesday
' in company with Joe Keplan.
The two men left Nenana Wednes
day morning and the following morn
ing, at about six o’clock, while they
were passing through Minto cutoff
slough, the swift current carried their
boat into a cut bank, where it capsiz
ed. The two men grabbed hold of some
willows, but the bank was too steep
and they could not reach to climb out
o fthe water. After clinging there for
some time, with occasional cakes of ice
coming against them with consider
able force, i*endering their positions
doubly hazardous, Keplan finally de
cided to take a chance on one of the
cakes and climbed upon the first that
offered sufficient buoyancy. It was a
case of each man for himself.
Perched on top of his ice cake Kep
lan drifted down stream about a mile,
without being able to get close to the
shore line. Fearful that the ic<* would
go to pieces under him he finally took
to the ice cold water and swam to a
nearby island. After being there a
short time, the water, which was ris
ing rapidly, overflowed his landing
place and he was forced to swim to
the mainland some distance away,
with ice cakes and swift current com
bining to make the swim both difficult
and perilous. He was successful, how
ever, and once on solid ground he
started out in search of aid for his
partner, arriving at the cabin of Jul
ius Warner sometime later. Here he
obtained food and dry clothing and
then started to the rescue of Perlham.
Arriving at the place where the
boat capsized, no trace could be found
of the young man. It is believed he did
not try to get on an ice cake, as his
partner had done, and become so
numbed by the cold water that he
oculd no longer retain his hold, on the
willows and sank in the water.
Keplan made his way to the N. C.
store at Minto on Saturday and Louis
telephoned to town for aid. The launch
Dan Patch was immediately dispatch
ed down river and has searched both
banks of the stream below the scene
of the accident, without finding a trace
of Perlham.
Perlham was about 26 years of age
and had been in Alaska about three
years ,working part of the time for
the Alaska railroad. His home was in
Milwaukee.
NON PARTISAN LEAGUE
LEADER KILLED BY CAR
ONE DEAD AND TWO SERIOUSLY
INJURED AS RESULT OF
AUTO ACCIDENT
STEELE, May 23—State Senator
B. F. Baker, of Glenburn, was killed;
Roy Frazier, county clerk of Crosby
and Chairman of the independent re
publican state committee, and A. G.
Sorlie, of Grand Forks, non-partisan
league candidate for governor, were
injured seriously in an automobile ac
cident near here late today.
The three men were on the way
from Bismarck to Carrington to fill
a speaking engagement tonight at a
preliminary campaign meeting of the
non partisan league.
Frazier and Sorlie are in a local ho
tel where they were rushed after the
accident. Steele had no hospital.
Frazier is conscious only part of
the time, according to Dr. F. B. Lodge
attending physician. His head is bad
ly lacerated. Sorlie’s most serious in
jury is believed to be a broken collar
bone.
An examination of Baker showed
that death was caused by a blow on
the head. Two men driving by, found
the car turned over with the bodies ly
ing beside it in the road. It appealed
that the car had rolled over several
times.
Baker was the league candidate for
governor two years ago and was rec
ognized as one of the leading figures
in the non partisan organization at the
time.
NATION’S SUBMARINES
BELOW EFFICIENCY
WASHINGTON, May 23.—For
mally replying to the question oi a
representative of Great Britain^ Sec
retary Wilbur reported the nation s
submarines far below efficiency.
Carl Whitman, pioneer mining man
of the Shushanna district, concerned
in placer ground in that camp, who re
cently came south, has gone to Olym
pia to visit his father. After passing a
•-onple of weeks there, Mr. Whitham,
accompanied by Mrs. Whitham, will
make an extended trip to California
and to the East.
FRANK E. YOUNGS BE
INTERRED IN STATES
The body of Frank E. Youngs, who
died suddenly in Anchorage Saturday,
is in the Anchorage undertaking par
lors, and interment will probably take
place in Anchorage, unless his rela
tives, living in New York, desire oth
erwise. A telegram was sent to Mrs.
Dr. Louderdale, a sister in Geneseo,
N. Y. notifying her of her brother’s
death. Another sister and two bro
thers live in Rochester.
F. E. Youngs came to Seward in
1903 with B. Grigsby, and Wm. Casey,
and from 1903 to 1907 was employed
as paymaster and storekeeper for
the Alaska Central. From Seward he
removed to Valdez where he was em
ployed during the brief career of the
Alaska Home railroad. Returning to
Seward he made his headquarters un
til his appointment last year as a
denuty U. S. marshal at Talkeetna.
Deceased was 65 years of age and
was born in Rochester, N. Y. A mar
ried daughter lives in the Spates.
Mr. Youngs was a life member of
the B. P. 0. E. No. 22 of Rochester,
N. Y. He was a non-resident mem
ber of the Arctic Club of Seattle;
a member of the Blue Lodge, F. &
A. No. 214. Geneseo, N. Y.; a life
member of Ionic Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, Rochester, N. Y.; a life
member of Munroe Commandery,
Knights Templar, Rochester, N. Y.; a
member of Damascus Shrine, A. A. O.
N. M. S., Rochester, N. Y.
In case relatives are heard from
the remains will be sent East for
SENATOR SAYS TALE
OIL WITNESSES UNTRUE
CAPPER DECLARES HE DID NOT
EVEN KNOW PENROSE HAD
HEADQUARTERS CHICAGO
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 21—
When the senate oil committee re
sumed its hearing today, Chairman
Ladd placed in the record a letter
from Senator Capper, republican, Kan
sas, contradicting the testimony of J.
A. Alcorn, a telegraph operator at the
Penrose headquarters at the republi
can national Convention at Chicago in
1920, in which Alcorn stated that Sen
ator Capper was among the hundred
or more people who were in and out
of the Penrose headquarters.
Senator Capper declared “there is
not the slightest foundation for that
statement by Alcorn as far as I am
concerned.”
“I had no communication or consul
tation with Penrose either before or
during the Chicago convention,” said
the letter. “I had no conference with
anyone representing Penrose. I had
no part in any conference on the pres
idential nomination and had no hand
in the selection of the nominee.
The Kansas senator added that he
| did not even know there was a Pen
rose headquarters at the convention.
VALUE OF APRIL
EXPORTS $1,543,276
Exports of Alaskan products for the
month of April just closed aggregate
in value $1,543,276, according to fig
ures compiled by Collector John C.
McBride. It is the largest total for
that month since 1920, when it was
$1,801,867.
The total was $258,591 less than the
exports of last year owing to a de
crease in copper shipments.
FREDERICK ZORN INJURED
Frederick Zorn, an Alaskan explo
rer, lecturer and miner was injured
on th§ trail near Talkeetna, sustain
ing several broken ribs. He was
taken to the railroad hospital.
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GEORGE EDWARD LEWIS
TO FILM ANOTHER
BIG ALASKA PICTURE
WILL BRING CAST NORTH SOON
TO FILM “THE ETERNAL
FRONTIER”'
SEATTLE, May lfr—George Ed
ward Lewis, the man who made “The
Cheechakos,” is off for Alaska to
make another picture.
When seen at The Atwood yester
day, Mr. Lewis said: “Yes, “The Chee
chakos” is a success. It is one of the
biggest pictures that has ever been
made and critics who have had an op
portunity to look it over carefully, pro
nounced it a bigger picture than the
'Covered Wagon’, and that is praise
enough for anyone.
“1 like it myself and am proud to
have been instrumental in the making
of it, and now I am going to make a
bigger and better Alaska picture than
‘The Cheechakos.’ I am leaving in the
morning and will start the preliminary
work on a picture that I am going to
call ‘The Eternal Frontier.’ It’s a
theme that I have had in the back of
my head for the last dozen yeai-s, or
in fact, ever since I started to wan
der about the great Land up North,
and I have finally got it whipped into
shape to film and now I am going to
make the picture. You know I have al
ways had the idea that Alaska is too
big, too wild and to great to ever be
tamed.
“As long as this race lasts, Alaska
will be a frontier, hence the title, “The
Eternal Frontier.’ I learned a lot
while making ‘The Cheechakos’, and
I believe that the lessons that I learn
ed will show up in my new effoi’t.
“I have in mind five Alaskan pic
tures and hope to be able to shoot
them all. It will take a year to a pic
ture and when I have finished, I be
lieve that I will be able to offer the
world an idea of Alaska that they will
never get in any other way, and will
never forget.
“I am taking four cameramen with
me on this trip and will shoot the stills
and long distant shots while the snow
is still good. I have what I consider
a wonderful story for the picture,
thrills and human interest running all
through it, and the biggest kick at
the end that has ever been filmed. I
don’t like to talk too much right now
about it ,but I don’t mind tipping off
to you that I am going to use a snow
slide to bump off my villain and I
don’t believe that has ever been done
before, and if I get away with it, it
will be a wonderful scene. I am going
to try not to kill my villain, but you
know a snow slide is a touchy thing
to work with and he is game and is
willing to take a chance, so I am going
to stage it for him. It should be a
knockout.
“I will have Billie Dills, who made
such a hit in “The Cheechakos,” as my
leading ‘character’. I consider him the
best in the business for such a role and
the balance of the cast will be of the
the same high standard.
“Gladys Johnstone will have the
lead. For cameramen, I will have Shir
ley Weeder, Raymond Johnstone and
Alaska Surrat from Wrangell.
“I will be back inside of a month,
and will take the cast up then and
hope to finish the filming this cum
mer.”
G.O.P. HALL WILL BE SHIP
SHAPE FOR CONVENTION
CLEVELAND, May 23—When the
republican pilots who aspire to steer
the ship of state gather in the munici
pal auditorium here in June for the
national convention, if they find the
hall as ship-shape as its management
expects, it will be largely due to the
work of the United States navy.
Lincoln J. Dickey, manager of the
hall, after taking charge, experienced
difficulty at first in obtaining efficient
results from the charwomen. After
the women who directed them had fail
ed in organizing their efforts to Mr.
Dickey’s satisfaction, he turned to one
of the workmen in his employ, James
Pokorny. Pokorny had served in the
navy. It occurred to Mr. Dickey and
his assistants that a former seaman
doubtedless knew something about the
swabbing of decks and holystoning
forecastles, and would not be afraid of
water. He was placed in command of
a cleaning crew.
Soon after the assumption of his
new duties, Pokorny was observed in
the act of clapping his hands while the
charwomen moved in time to his claps.
He had established navy morale.
Seaman Pokorny is still in command 1
of the cleaners and means to see that
the delegates find the auditorium •
“sea-going.”
ROSE INLET MAN DEAD
James C. Casselym, 51, a resident
of Rose Inlet, died suddenly last
week at Ketchikan. He had resided
in Alaska for many years.
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Brojac are now
in charge of the culinary department 1
of the Pioneer’s Home.
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EUROPE MORE TRANQUIL
THAN FOR PAST DECADE
PARIS, May 28—All is quiet along
the Thames, the Seine, and other of
the various European Potomacs.
Europe has not been tranquil at any
moment in the last ten years.
Even May day which originally pro
du< e? some excitement, passed off with
out in* ident.
In Rome the soviet embassy, which
was surounded by mc»jnted guards dis
played the Red flag, but a socialist
deputy who displayed it in the parlia
ment house was quietl> arrested.
Berlin reds organized into a Saen
gerbund tried to chant the Internation
ale and were dispersed by the police.
London revolutiooaiies gathered in
Hyde Park and .:en varied Prime Min
ister MacDonalds housing policy.
Paris taxi drivers took a day off.
In Madrid involution was prohibited
by order of the dictator.
The elections in Germany and :n
France have petered ■ tit in interest. A
few weeks ago, one was tempted to
believe that fate of the world depend
ed on them, but as the campaigns have
proceeded and issues have become in
extricably tangled and common man
in both countries has just shrugged
his shoulders and concluded it does
not make much difference which way
things go.
WOMAN GIVEN DECREE;
BUT MUST PAY ALIMONY
CHICAGO, May 23—Mrs. Emma
Tillotson, 48, was given a decree of
divorce from her 78 year old husband
but was ordered to pay him $15 per
week alimony.
JUNEAU PIONEER DEAD
Mrs. Gus Studebaker, resident of
Juneau for 32 years, died in San Die
%o on April 29( of cancer. Mrs. Stu
lebaker went to Juneau in 1888. She
eaves a husband and adopted daugh
:er.
RIVER STEAMER LAUNCHED
The General Jacobs, the steamer
jelonging to the Alaska railroad ply
ng on the Yukon, was launched Mon
lay and sailed for down river points
•esterday it was stated.
Rasmus Sime, an old resident of
Petersburg, who has spent some time
n the hospital there suffering from a
paralytic stroke, entered the Pioneer
Home last week.
JAPANESE START A BOYCOTT
TOKYO, May 23—A boycott has
>een started in this city against all
California products. I
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AMERICAN KILLED
BY CHINESE BANDITS
PEKING, May 23.—An America!
named Dinsmore an agent tor the
China Importers’ Lumber Company,
was murdered today by Chinese ban
dits n^ar Shah Sien.
STRICKEN JAPAN PLANS
TO BUILD HUGE STADIUM
TOKIO, May 23—The wave of sta
dium building, which has swept uni
versity centers of the United States
since the war, has reached Japan. A
stadium with a capacity of 50,000
which can be expanded to 80,000 is to
be built this spring and summer about
half way between Kobe and Osaka, on
the line of the Hanshin Electric Rail
way, which is constructing the park.
MILLER LEADS STRAYER BY
TWENTY-THREE VOTES
PORTLAND, May 23—Returns over
Sunday have cut the lead of Milton A.
Miller, Portland candidate, to twenty
three votes over W. H. Strayer of
Baker for the democratic nomination
for United States senator.
MELL URGES VETO
PROPOSED TAX BILL;
WILL PASS OVER VETO
WASHINGTON, May 23.—Secretary
Mellon went to the Whit? House his
■u'ernr.on and urged President Sord
id ge to veto the tax bill when it
reaches him next week. Republican
numbers of the House and Senate
dec,are that the bill will be p.t ed
o\cr the presidential veto.
PRESIDENT’S COLD DOES
NOT YIELD TO CHLORINE
WASHINGTON, May 23.- Despite
two chlorine gas treatments Dresident
Coolidge’s bronchial cold hangs on.
FRENCH ADMINISTRATOR
MURDERED BY NATIVES
IN AUSTRALIAN GROUP
PAPETTE, Tahiti, May 23—A trad
ing schooner arriving here yesterday
brought word that two natives had
murdered the French administrator on
the island of Rurutu. Rurutu is in the
Australian group.
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