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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME 20. NUMBER 192
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6- 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
CHICAGO TALKS
BY RADIO WITH
MACMILLAN SHIP
COMMANDER MCDONALD SAYS HE
CAN HEAR NEW ZEALAND,
FRANCE AND HOLLAND
CHICAGO, Aug. 6 (/P)—Through the
Zenith Radio Corporation of this city,
the Associated Press obtained a 300
word interview with Commander Mc
Donald of the steamer Peary, with the
MacMillan expedition. Communication
was established at 10 o’clock last even
ing, at Etam, 3700 miles north of Chi
cago.
Five questions and answers were
exchanged in the 90-minute interview.
McDonald said that he could hear code
messages from, New Zealand, and had
worked in code with England, France
and Holland, Sweden and Catalina Isl
and. He said he had heard the human
voice from Chicago and Schenectady
in daylight, and his transmitted voice
had been heard in Seattle, New Eng
land and London.
He said Itookashu. an Eskimo guide
on the previous MacMillan expedition
was with them, and declared he had
much difficulty in maintaining two
way communications with the radio
sets on the three planes with the ex
pedition. He also said the Eskimos
were greatly enjoying the radio con
certs received by the ship.
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CANADIANS NOT
SURPRISED AT
NEW DISCOVERY
GOVERNMENT HAS LONG BEEN
AWARE OF EXISTENCE OF
ALLEGED HARBOR
VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 6 (£>)—'The
Provincial government’s Geological
service said it was not surprised at
the discovery of a new channel from
the Pacific ocean through the panhan
dle of Alaska into Yukon territory. It
said it had known of its existence for
many years, as Canadian lands at the
head of the bay had been reserved
by the Provincial government for port
purposes, many years ago.
Ohio Lady Making a
Trip To Bristol Bay
. On Steamer Starr
From Columbus, Ohio, to Dilling
ham, Bristol Bay via the Interior of
Alaska, is the journey now being un
-dertaken by Miss C. Olnhausen who is
aboard the staunch little steamer
Starr, now plying its way to the far
Westward. This is her first trip to
the far western country, Miss Oln
hausen said, prior to her departure
from Seward Monday, but it will not
he the last. She contemplates return
ing to Seward in time to catch the
Admiral Watson for Seattle.
Miss Olnhausen debarked at Juneau
on her way up from the south, going
to Skagway, thence to Whitehorse,
down the Yukon river to Dawson, Fort
Yukon and Fort Gibbon, where she
branched off to the Tanana, coming
.up this river to Nenana. A trip wras
*fnide to Fairbanks and later into the
JVlcKinley National Park. At Anchor
* age a few days stop was made, then
on to Seward and the westward. The
-entire journey was replete with en
joyment and interest and was her
first through the above named route,
though some years ago. Miss Olnhau
sen made a trip to Southeastern
Alaska.
President and Mrs. John Adams
gave the first public reception at the
White House on New Year’s day, 1801.
Fifteen Million Dollars
Worth of Oil Shipped
From San Pedro Harbor
SAN PEDRO, Calif., Aug. 6 (£>)—
Figures obtained by port authorities
of this city show that approximately
15 million barrels of oil were shipped
to the far east from this point the
first six months of 1925. $11,250,000
went to the Japanese navy. The oil
was carried from San Pedro by Japa
nese navy tankers between January 1
and July 1. This equalled one third
of the aggregate shipments of oil to
all points during the past four years.
CHAS. GARFIELD
BELIEVES ALASKA
IN GOOD SHAPE
MANY NEW DISCOVERIES OF HIGH
AND LOW GRADE ORES MADE
IN ALASKA HE SAYS
SEATTLE, Aug. 6 (jP)—Charles D.
Garfield, secretary of the Seattle Min
ing Club returned here on a month’s
trip north. He reports new discov
eries in both high and low grade ores
in Alaska, and said production was
ahead of recent levels in most sec
tions. He believes the outlook in the
North is better than last year, but
said that coal developments remain
the same.
Canners Good Buyers
of Seattle Foodstuffs
Value of the salmon canneries of
Alaska to Seattle is shown by the fol
lowing incomplete list of foodstuffs
exported annually to them from Se
attle :
Eggs, 600,000 dozen; bacon, 7S0,000
pounds; butter 850,000 pounds; ham,
820.000 pounds; cheese 65,000 pounds;
flour, 30,000 barrels, canned milk,
1.400.000 pounds; sugar, 600,000 lbs.;
potatoes, 2,000,000 pounds; lard, 50
000 pounds.
Gov. George Parks
Collects Some Data
for Emergency Use
REPORT ON MEDICAL FACILITIES
IN TERRITORY WILL BE
COLLECTED
Commissioner Curtis R. Morford is
in receipt of a letter from Governor
George A. Parks requesting a list of
all physicians, dentists, nurses and
hospital facilities in Seward with the
view of use in emergency cases such
as influenza or diphtheria. The gov
ernor stated that in instances of epi
demics in isolated communities would
enable his office to send immediate
aid to the stricken settlements.
The district judges have also been
asked to collect these statistics and
forward them to the governor.
LIVES FOR CENTURY AND
NEVER HAD A DOCTOR, SAYS
LONDON, Aug. 6 (#>)—Miss Eliza
Sazby of Hastings, who has just cele
brated her 100th birthday, proudly
boasts that she never had a doctor in
her life.
Her age is verified by an entry of
her baptism dated August 31, 1925, in
the register of the church at Wartling
Hill, Sussex.
Miss Saxby walked to church, a
quarter of a mile from her home, last
Sunday and she declared that she is
going again next Sunday.
She is interested in the forthcom
ing railway centenary celebration, as
she remembers the old open coaches
and old engines which used to run on
the first lines alid down in Sussex.
ADOPTED GIRL
WAS FORMERLY
IN THE MOVIES
WAS ENGAGED TO DENTIST WHEN
SAW ADVERTISEMENT OF
FATHER-TO-BE
NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (/P)—The Even
ing Post said that the new adopted
daughter of Edward A. Browning, the
millionaire realtor, is 21 years old and
not 18 as was announced yesterday.
The girl was formerly a motion picture
actress, and according to her former
neighbors at Astoria, Long Island, was
engaged to a dentist when Browning
advertised for a girl not over 14 years
of age. Her father owns a $60,000
apartment house in Astoria, Browning
said the girl told him her father earn
ed thirty dollars a week in an apart
ment house and he considered them
poor.
SEATTLE TO PROFIT BY
GREATER ALASKA TRADE
The day of the pick and shovel mi
ner is gone^ forever in Alaska, accord
ing to the new governor, George A.
Parks, who in his recent inauguration
speech said, “The people of Alaska
want big capital and are willing to
treat it fairly so that investments will
yield an adequate return and attract
other investments.”
Seattle's business men and civic
bodies have realized what a great
trade asset is Alaska and have built
up carefu 1 business relations by
which the city expects to gain in the
tremendous increases of trado which
the Territory is certain to enjoy.
MISSING GIRL IS
FOUND IN SEWER
CHICAGO, Aug. 6 (£>>—Three-year
old Bessie Dorn, who has been miss
ing since yesterday morning, was
found today in an exhausted condition
in a catch basin of a local sewer. Her
father declared that the girl had been
imprisoned by an enemy of the family.
The girl’s faint cries led the father
and brothers to the basin.
MOSQUITOES INVADE ENGLAND
LONDON, Aug. 6. (£>)— Britain is
getting not a little alarmed over a
plague of mosquitoes, and demands
are being made all over the country
for concerted action by local au
thorities against the unwelcome vis
itors.
In some districts on the east coast
of Britain it has been found neces
sary to equip beds with mosquito
netting. In other districts resi
dents are already complaining bitter
ly of the inconvenience which has
been caused by the mosquito bites.
BAVARIA SEEKS AUTO ROAD
MUNICH, Aug. 6. (IP)—The govern
ment has asked the diet to appro
priate $370,000 for the first automo
bile road in Bavaria. The proposed
road would be 15 miles long, con
necting Munich and Starnberg.
NO MINISTER TO UNITED
STATES UNTIL PEOPLE VOTE
OTTAWA, Aug 6 (IP)—The appoint
ment of a Canadian minister to
Washington is unlikely to be made
if there is to be a general election,
although during the recent discussion
in the house it was intimated that ac
tion "would be taken during the recess.
It is suspected that opponents of
the government would hail this de
parture as a move toward closer rela
tions between Canada and the United
States even though the position is still
unfilled, was created by Sir Robert
Borden.
City Streets Too
Hazardous for An
Old Sourdough
SO HE IS GOING BACK TO FLIRT
WITH NORTHERN BLIZZARDS
SAYS DISPATCH
SPOKANE, Aug. 6 (yP)—H. M. Han
sen, Alaska mail carrier, is going back
to the north country as soon as he
gets patched up from the results of
accident in which he was thrown
from a sled and lay for hours with
the mercury 27 below zero before he
was rescued.
He said today that city streets are
too hazardous and city crowds too
friendly.
“What if a fellow ever got in front
of one of those street cars,” he ex
claimed. “I’ll take my chances on a
blizzard. And up in our country we
are all brothers. When you see a man
on the trail you stop and say ‘hello.’
Why, today, around these streets, over
2000 people have seen me and not a
one of them has noticed me at all.
Hansen had his first automobile ride
in Seattle June 1, on his way from
Alaska to Spokane. He had an air
plane ride there too, and said it was
“fine.”
Because of his injuries Hansen will
| not be able to re-enter the mail serv
ice. He expects to became a trader.
He has been in Alaska since 1904.
Will Hunt for Gold
On Westward Island
Among the additional reservations
; on the steamer Starr, which departed
from Seward last Monday for Bristol
Bay ports, were H. Goldfield and Jno.
I Enge, bound for Aniakchak bay, a
I port this side of Chignik, abreast of
the Sutwick Islands. Both men are
experienced mining men and prospec
tors and propose to thoroughly pros
pect that remote region.
CUBAN GOVERNMENT TO
ESTABLISH DOZEN NEW
CONSULATES IN AMERICA
HAVANA, Aug. 6. (/P)—The grow
ing importance of commercial rela
tions between Cuba and the United
States is reflected in the proposed
establishment of 12 ne'w consulates
in the United States. The foreign
relations committees of the senate
and house of the Cuban congress
are preparing a consular a id diplo
matic bill to provide expansion of
both services.
Cities in the United States already
named as points for Dew consular
offices are: Birmingham, Ala.; Indi
anapolis, Ind.; Wichita, Kan.; Buf
falo, N. Y.; Portland, Ore.; Provi
dence, R. I.; Beaumont, Fort Worth,
Houston and San Antonio, Tex.; Se
attle, Wash., and Millwaukee, Wis.
RUSSIAN RAILROAD BANDITS
SENTENCED TO BE SHOT
MOSCOW, Aug. 6 (£>)—'Two death
sentences and 21 long penitentiary
terms have been meted out by the
Kharkov court td the* gang of railroad
robbers who specialized in stealing
freight cars. For two years they en
joyed fat winnings reselling govern
ment goods to the institutions from
which they had stolen them.
Among the condemned were a Soviet
official and a group of railroad em
ployes.
FLAT CARS CONVERTED
In the shops of the Copper River
and Northwestern railroad a fleet
of ten flat cars is now in the pro
cess of being converted into ten
box cars. Eventually another lot
the same size will be built over.
The box cars will fill the demand
for more conveyances for shipping
bulk ore from Kennecott, as this
mode of transportation nets a big
saving in sacks.
CREDITORS FIND
BANKRUPT LOST
10 MILLION 5 YRS.
PRESIDENT OF CLOSED CARNEGIE
COMPANY WAS DEEPLY
INVOLVED IN DEBT
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 6 (/P)—A com
mittee of creditors of John A. Bell,
president of the defunct Carnegie
Company showed that he had lost
110,900,000 during the past five years,
mostly in speculations in wildcat
stocks. Bell is under arrest for al
leged false reports as to the condi
tion of his company.
Y0 HO; Y0 HO FOR
THE LIFE OF A
SOVIET MARINER
LIVERPOOL: The Soviet steamer
Bordienny, which is lying at the dock
in Liverpool is attracting the atten
tion and envy of British sailors, not
only because of its elaborately furn
ished social halls for all members of
the crew, but also because of the long
periods of rest and short hours work
ed by the men. On all Soviet vessels
the seamen work four hours and lay
off eight, while the stokers do a four
hour shift and lay off twelve.
It was explained to the visiting sea
men that Russian sailors are never
out of a job. If their vessel is tied
up or in dock for repairs their pay
goes on just the same until they go
to sea again, whether in the same or
another verssel. One month’s vaca
tion writh full pay is granted annually
when the seamen visit home or take
their families on a cruise, the expense
being borne by the government.
Bishop Crimont To
Arrive In Seward
Tonight from Inside
The Rt. Rev. J. R. Crimont, S. J.
D. D., Catholic Bishop of Alaska, who
has been touring the Territory, is
a passenger on today’s train from
the Interior and will arrive in Sew
ard this evening. Bishop Crimont
will remain in this city until Sun
day, 'going south on the steamer Yu
kon. Bishop Crimont’s itinerary was
changed upon his arrival in the In
terior, where he went down the
river only as far as Holy Cross Mis
sion, returning to Nenana from that
village.
BLOWS OFF HEAD
WITH SHOTGUN
AT FORTYMILE
HAD LOST EVERYTHING HE HAD
IN FLOOD LAST SPRING AND
BECAME DISCOURAGED
DAWSON: Charles Westphal, age
65, who resided about 11 miles from
Steel creek on the Fortymile river,
was found dead in his cabin recently
by Justus Elden. From all appear
ances it would seem the old man had
committed sucide as the side of his
head was blown off when the body
was found. He had visited his nearest
neighbor on the 14th, of May and bor
rowed a few supplies to carry him on
until he could get to the store at
Moose Creek. This was the last time
he was seen alive and it is believed
he killed himself out of sheer desper
ation at his circumstances. He had
lost all his supplies in the floods this
spring.