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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 316
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1924
PRICE TEN CENTS
ALASKA IS PAST
PICK AND SHOVEL
STAGE IN MINING
SEATTLE CHAMBER OPPOSES THE
ABANDONMENT ALASKA
RAILWAY
BIG CAPITAL NOW IN FIELD
Gold Mining Not on Decline But Is
Increasing From Year to Year
Says Sound Organization
SEATTLE, Nov. 24 (£>)—'The Cham
ber of Commerce of this city is pre
paring data for Congress, opposing
the abandonment of the government
Alaska Railroad. It is stated that
gold mining is not on a decline but
in the ascendency, and is past the
pick and shovel stage, with big capi
tal now in the field. Gold brought
from Alaska will show a decided in
crease. The report declares that the
United States Smelting and Refining
Company is starting operations at the
Interior terminus of the road involv
ing over $8,000,000 expenditure, which
includes the installation of a hydraul
ic plant, the building of dredges, erec
tion of a power plant using 25,000 tons
of Alaska coal annually, which the
Government road will haul, and will
construct 100 miles of ditch. It adds:
“This sort of development is what
Alaska needs to furnish a payroll and
tonnage for the railroad. As the Gov
ernment owns virtually all of Alaska
it is only right that the Government
continue to operate the road. It
should be remembered that when the
Northwest was being deevloped the
Government subsidized the transcon
tinental lines which which received
enormous land grants.”
BANDITS TAKE
MICHIGAN TOWN
BLOWING VAULT
WATCHMAN BOUND AND STREETS
CLEARED WITH AUTOMAT
ICS—ONE MAN SHOT
FAIL TO GET AWAY WITH LOOT
Telephone and Telegraph Wires Cut
to Prevent Summoning Assist
ance—-Woman Is Heroine
CASSOPOLIS, Mich., Nov. 24 (/P)—
Between five and ten bandits bound
a night watchman and three other
men in two all-night restaurants, cut
the telephone and telegraph wires
leading out of the city, and for two
and a half hours ruled the town.
After failing to rob the vault in the
First National Bank, the bandits left
in an automobile.
While the robbers held the town
sentries patrolled the streets firing at
every resident who happened on the
street. George Jons, a stock buyer,
was shot in the neck when he emerged
from his home to see what the firing
was about.
Five charges of dynamite were used
in tearing away the outer door of the
vault, but the inner door withstood
all their efforts.
Mrs. August, a night telephone oper
ator, over a wire the bandits failed
to cut, notified the police at Niles
while the bandits were still at work
on the bank.
Guards have been placed on all
roads leading out of Cassopolis.
WASHINGTON HOUSE PASSES
BANKER RECLAMATION BILL
OLYMPIA, Nov. 24 (h’) -M lie H.ous
passed the Banker reel .a Lon bill,
taking reclamation pro. < a c i of ih
hands of the Gove, no
it in the hands of the Sk o
missioner by a vote of
66 votes are needed io o
Governor’s veto.
INVENTS NEW X-RAY PROCESS
KEYSTONE VIEW CO- HEW.YOM
Dr. Evarts A. Graham, Professor of
| Surgery at the Washington Univer
! sity School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo.,
who has been awarded the Charles
Lester Leonard prize of $1,000 for his
development of a process known as
cholecystography, making possible by
x-ray accurate diagnosis by gall blad
Lder and other intestinal disorders. It
; consists of the injection of a salt sol
| ution which acts on the patient in
such a way as to make the entire re
gion of the bladder visible on the X
ray plate. Diagnosis are thus made
95 per cent perfect, and is of the high
est importance to the medical profes
sion. *
CRUISER ORDERED
SAIL FOR ARICA
BALBOA, Nov. 24 (JP)—The cruiser
Denver was ordered to stand in read
iness to proceed to Arica. She coal
ed yesterday and it was unofficially
stated would sail today.
The Chilean delegates have with
drawn from the commission headed
by Pershing and will hold a plebiscite
on the sovereignty of the nation.
The situation over the Arica-Tacna
boundary dispute is assuming a seri
ous phase with both nations deter
mined to ignore the decision of the
i United States and go to war.
TOLD TO HOLD
BACK EVIDENCE
ON SHENANDOAH
CHIEF RIGGER ORDERED TO
CLOSE OFF EIGHTEEN HELIUM
EQUALIZING CELLS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24 (£>)—
Arthur E. Carlson, chief rigger on the
Shenandoah, told the court that Lieu
! tenant C. Bauch, one of the survivors
of the disaster, told him not to tell
tiie court unless specifically asked
that 15 minutes before the wreck
Carlson was ordered to close off at
amidships the internal gassing mani
fold connecting 18 cells of helum gas,
designed to permit equalization of gas
in individual cells.
Carlson withheld this information
when he first testified at Lakehurst.
TAX REDUCTION
m 336 MILLIONS
' RHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24 (£>)—
vs and Means Committee com
its tax reduction bill today,
imously ordered it favorably
v- d. The bill incorporates reduc
; liu.* $336,236,000 annually.
COL. MITCHELL
TELLS COMMITTEE
OF HIS POLICIES
MADE MANY UNSUCCESSFUL RE
QUESTS FOR METEOROLOGI
CAL SERVICE
WANTED AIRWAYS TO ALASKA
Recommends Complete Change in Na
tional Defensive Policy So as
to Include Alaska
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24 (JP)—
Colonel Mitchell took the stand today
and recited recommendations he made
which the War Department had re
jected. The witness said he had never
been able to have a study made of the
precautions a city like New York
should take to defend itself against
an air attack. He said he had made
several unsuccessful requests for me
teorological service for aviators, and
the maintenance of air units at such
institutions at Culver Military Acade
my of Indiana and an air unit for
Alaska. He said arrangements should
be made with Canada for airways thru
that country to Alaska, Asia and Eu
rope.
“Last year,” added Col. Mitchell, “I
recommended a complete change in
our National defensive policy in the
Pacific so as to utilize Alaska as an
offensive and defensive point.”
He said he had unsuccessfully re
quested the building of planes with a
speed of 200 miles an hour at an alti
tude of 30,000 feet, with a cruising ra
dius of 1500 miles.
Aviators Flying in Flaming Coffins
Mitchell reiterated before the court
his charge that American aviators
are flying in flaming coffins.
Col. Gullion pointed out the number
of flying hours per fatality in 1921 was
934 compared to 4269 in 1925. He
asked Col. Mitchell: “Does this not
prove that safety has -increased 550
per cent?”
Col. Mitchell replied, “You state
ments are misleading; it means that
aviators are much better trained.”
JEKYL AND HYDE
LIFE LED BY DR.
JOHN FLANDERS
NEVER STUDIED MEDICINE BUT
STOLE CERTIFICATE FROM
HIS ROOM MATE
GOT JOB WITH ALASKA PACKERS
Supposed to Have Made Away With
Nephew Who Never Returned
from Trip With Flanders
CORDOVA, Nov. 24 (£>)—A re
markable case of stolen identity was
revealed in the trial of the supposed
Dr. John Akin Flanders, a cannery
doctor at Kenai, when District Attor
ney Foster returned last night from
Valdez. Flanders was arrested in
October by an indignant citizen’s
committee at Kenai, and taken over
100 miles to Seldovia, where he was
bound over to appear before the
grand jury on a statutory charge. He
was tried last week and acquitted of
the charge of sodomy, but during the
hearing he admitted that he was a
German, and that his real name was
Rudolph Griess, his former home be
ing in Chicago. Flanders admitted
he never had a medical degree, but
said while he was a student in the
Loyala College Medical School in 1919
he roomed with John A. Flanders, now
a successful Chicago doctor. Two
years later he got a job with the
Alaska Packers as physician for their
Chignik cannery, based on Flanders
name and reputation. Since that time
PURCHASERS OF
CASSIAR CLAIMS
ASK FOR MONEY
DRIVEN FROM CLAIM AT POINT
OF GUN ASK FOR DAMAGES
AND PURCHASE PRICE
SEATTLE, Nov. 24 (j-P)—Preferring
court action to gunplay, J. J. Wored
and Harry Quickstad of Seattle, se
cured a Superior Court order today
restraining John McNeill of Vancou
ver, B. C., and Janies J. Connors, of
Juneau, Alaska, from obtaining $10,000 i
placed in a local bank, part of a quar- j
ter of a million purchase price of two
northerners’ claims in the Cassiar re
gion.
The Seattleites say that McNeill
drove them and their miners from the
claims at the point of a gun, so they
are seeking $50,000 damages and a re
turn of their deposit.
PAINLEVVE CABINET RESIGNS
PARIS, Nov. 24 (£>)—Briand is at
tempting to form a cabinet, the Pain
leve cabinet which resigned yesterday
being defeated 278 to 275 on the fin
ance bill.
FIRST WHITE WOMAN TO
CROSS AFRICA ALONE
COPYfliSiJT. KtVJTON£ VI*IAUCa^NtW YORK
Mrs. Delia J. Akeley, of the Brook
lyn Museum of Arts and Siences, .who j
is the first white woman to cross dark-1
est Africa alone. With only creden
tials and travel papers, she entered
the jungle at Kasinyi on Lake Albert
on the second leg of her trip, she ar
rived at Matadi on the Congo river, i
September 3, with three of her 12 gun j
cartridges left, and five specimens of
jungle animals, unknown to science. J
She started originally from Lamu on j
the east coast on October 16 of last
year. One of her critical moments
was when she was besieged by four
foot high Pygmies, who coveted her
gun. She distributed her palm wine,
tobacco and salt, and during the re
joicing of the little African natives,
she made her escape.
he has been a doctor for the Libby,
McNeill & Libby and Northwest Fish
eries at Bristol Bay, and at the
Kenai plant of the latter.
During the winter of 1923 Dr. Flan
ders went trapping in a lonely region
near Kusilof lake, with his nephew,
Jack Barney. The latter disappeared j
and has never been heard from since.
Following the revelations in court,
Griess was charged with practicing!
medicine without a license, and viola- j
tion of the narcotic and dry laws. He |
pleaded guilty to violating the Alaska
narcotic law and leaves on one of the (
next boats to serve a year and a day !
in the McNeil’s Island penitentiary.
GRAND JURY SAYS
CANNERIES CAUSE
VIOLENT CRIMES
CHARACTER OF EMPLOYES BROT
NORTH BY BERING SEA PACK
ERS MOSTLY BAD.
CUTTER WANTED FOR VALDEZ
Commissioner and Deputy Marshal
Should Be Placed at Kenai,
Where Population Is 500.
CORDOVA, Alaska, Nov. 24—The
Grand Jury report brought here from
Valdez by District Attorney Frank H.
Foster bitterly attacks the Bering Sea
and Alaska Peninsula canneries for
bringing employes north “of such
character as to cause the greater part
of the violent crimes committed in
the Territory.” ItJ condemns the prac
tice of having men paroled from jails
and reformatories for the salmon sea
son, and says the lawlessness charged
by Washington officials against bona
fide residents of the territory are
mainly due to the canneries bringing
“the scum of the earth and polyglot
criminals” to Alaska annually. Half
t ie work of this grand jury was inves
tigating crimes perpetrater by these
people. The report advocates a rigid
examination of employes shipping to
Alaska on cannery boats, barring dope
addicts, degenerates and criminals.
The jury severely criticized the
Bristol Bay commissioner, who placed
the bail at so small an amount that
several felony defendants failed to ap
pear. It advocated that the marshal
be provider with skilled criminal in
vestigators to prevent delay causing
loss of evidence in remote districts,
and urged the appointment of a com
missioner and a deputy marshal at
Kenai, where numerous crimes are
committed by a population exceeding
over 500 now, and has no court offi
cials.
The jury suggested that the legis
lature pass a law providing severe
punishment for habitual criminals,
and the deportation of alien criminals.
Other recommendations were that
a coast guard cutter be stationed near
Prince William Sound for the purpose
of aiding distressed vessels; the pass
ing of a law requiring laborers be
pa.id by check or currency, checks to
be on Alaskan banks.
WOULD SEPARATE FLEET
CORP. FROM SHIPPING BOARD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24 (/P)—
H. G. Dalton of Cleveland, in a report
to President Coolidge made public
yesterday recommended the complete
separation of the Fleet Corporation
from the Shipping Board and suggest
ed that the head of the Fleet Corpo
ration direct operation of the govern
ment merchant marine fleet, under a
directorate including the Secretaries
of War, Navy, Commerce, the Postmas
ter General and perhaps one repre
sentative from each of the Atlantic
Pacific and Gulf States, serving at
the pleasure of the President.
Wlien Miss Myrtle Evans of St.
Louis criticized Mrs. C. E. Deane’s
coat in court the latter assaulted her
and was fined.
After working underground as a
miner since he was 7 years old David
Davies of Wales, has retired at the
age of 80.
Under an ordinance of the town of
Caribou, Maine, three aviators were
arrested and fined for flying on Sun
day.
Charles Tompkins of Port Jervis, N.
Y., raised a carrot which has almost
the exact shape of a human hand.
The Admiral Watson is scheduled
to sail from Seattle tomorrow.