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Razors, Tree Decorations, Drums,
Toasters, Flat Irons, and
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DEPRIVED OF SPEECH
FROM ODD ACCIDENT
Val Jollicher, employed with the
Ketchikan Mercantile Co., was the
victim of an unfortunate circum
stance recently, says the Ketchikan
Chronicle, the details of which he is
unable to relate. Together with Axel
Koskey, Jack Palmer and Robert
Hall, Jollicher occupies the Woodruff
residence just below the courthouse.
In the morning, Koskey, Palmer
and Hall left the house to go hunt
ing and did not return until shortly
after 5 o’clock that evening. When
they departed Jollicher was in bed
asleep. Upon their return they found
Jollicher laying unconsciuos upon his
bed with a deep cut across the bridge
of his nose and his eyebrows. Fail
ing to resuscitate him they called in
medical attention and although Jolli
cher is now conscious, he is unable
to talk.
When questioned as to what caus
ed the contusions he apparently
makes a great effort to speak but
no words are forthcoming and he
seems in a sort of semi-paralysis.
The physician who is caring for him
says that the injury in itself is not
serious and will heal within a short
time.
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TWO MANDAMUS ACTIONS
ARE DISMISSED BY COURT
OLYMPIA, Dec. 18.—Dismissal by
tfod supreme court of the United
States of two mandamus actions brot
by the alien enemy property custo
dian to compel the state auditor of
Washington state to issue warrants
payable to the alien enemy property
custodian against the accident insur
ance funds for all claims due depend
ents of alien enemy workmen injured
in Washington industries during the
war, and to compel the state treas
urer to pay such warrants, fully up
holds the contention of Washington
officials, it was stated here by M. H.
Wight, assistant attorney general.
The amount involved was about
$40,000.
Such claims as are now allowed
will be paid to the beneficiaries
through the alien enemy property
custodian and the different embas
sies, it was stated.
MUSCLE SHOALS PLANTS
COULD BE MADE READY
BY JULY, ENGINEER SAYS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The Mus
cle Shoals electrical power and ni
trate plants will be ready to operate
by July next year should congress
so desire, Major General Taylor, chief
of engineers of the army, declared to
day in his annual report.
Expenditures on the plant are be
ing made at the rate of $800,000 a
month. Completion of the work is
expected by October 1, 1923.
The cost of the Muscle Shoals
project, including all funds expend
ed from the inception of t^e work,
as revised to December 4, 1923, was
placed at $51,123,611.
MILWAUKEE AGAIN
HAS OPPORTUNITY
TO BECOME FAMOUS
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 18.—Offi
cer Georgono Konstanynitolipanczyki
ewiscowicz, sounds like a delirious
crossword puzzle, but its a name
that will soon meand^ across the
roster of the Wilwaukee police de
partment. He is a young man who
today passed civil service examina
tion as patrolman.
With this new calamity going down
into the annals of Milwaukee history,
the “Brown’’ bottle of the keep in a
cool place variety is fast vanishing,
although the people here anticipate a
resurrection of it within a few years.
Note: We never new anything in
“brown” bottles J^ad to be resurrect
ed in Milwaukee? That’s a new one.
And so an elephant talks with its
trunk. Well, we’ve heard a mere
suitcase say “gurgle-”
Restless age: One in which people
rest more.
AMUNDSEN TO SEEK CONTINENT
NEAR POLE AS AIRPLANE BASE
FOR JAPANESE-EUROPE FLIGHT
TOKIO, Dec. 17.—A passage betwe
hours? Another continent in the vici
These probabilities are seen in th
Seattle, a citizen of Denmark, who is i
world. And because there are possit
the reason for the attempt by Captain
plorer, to fly across the North Pole re
The value to the world of a con
tinent near the North Pole, says Mr.
Hammer, is primarily as a flying
base. It is doubtful, he remarked,
that such a place would prove prof
itable as a crop-producing area, for
example, even were it possible to
raise wheat or other grain there, with
its twenty-four-hour day of constant
sunlight.
“Even if it could be raised,” he
said, “the transportation costs would
be too great to make it possible to
export grain under present conditions.
Coal might be found; but then this,
too, would be of little value. Even
gold, or other precious metals, would
scarcely be exported unless it were
by air.”
Mr. Hammer has been associated
for years with Captain Amundsen. He
said they had already spent more
than $400,000 on the attempt to fly
across the Pole, or the polar regions,
and that the effort is still alive.
Mr. Hammer hopes to find out
whether the reports of others regard
ing the polar regions are true. To
this end a vessel—the Maud—was
sent into the Arctic circle two years
ago to freeze into the ice and float
through with it from side of the Pole
to the other. Instead of going right
across, howrever, the ship intends go
ing into a circuitous route, indicating
it is believed, that something more
than ice obstructs the flow. This ship
somewrhere in the ice-bound recesses
of the land beyond the Arctic Circle
—or the region, for it may not be
land—has seven occupants who have
yet to live from four to six years in
that vast solitude before they will
see civilization again.
The ship was built especially for the
test, and the cargo consists of food
enough to last the eight years of the
journey. Much is expected to be
added to man’s knowledge of the pol
ar north when the expedition “comes
out.”
This region, Mr. Hammer said, is
the last part of the world which is
unkonwn. “We wish to explore it
and make it known to the world as
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en Japan and Europe in thirty-six
lity of the North Pole?
e dreams of Mr. H. H. Hammer, of
i the Orient on a trip around the
ilities, as well, they are given as
Roald Amundsen, well known ex
gion in an airplane.
much as anything,’ he said. “From
the air we shall be able to tell wheth
er there is a continent of some mil
lion square miles up there. Some
say there is.
“In Greenland Eskimos tell tales of
a colony of settlers who took many
reindeer and started northward, al- j
ways farther northward. They never
have been found, and it is not known
whether they perished on the expedi
tion or still live on this undiscovered,
ice-bound continent. To look for this
lost tribe would be one object of such
a trip as that we are planning.
Mr. Hammer believes it will be en
tirely possible to sail from the north
ern part of Norway across the polar
region to the northern part of Japan,
or right to Tokio, for it is proved the
flight is practical. This, he believes,
will be done eventually. The distance
he estimates at 2,000 miles.
“The flight, Mr. Hammer said,
“will not be impossible on account of
the cold. The temperature in the
Summer is often around 40 degrees.
We found it at that both at sea level
and at an altitude of 500 feet. True,
the attempt could only be possible in
the Summer, because it is always
night there in the Winter. Later on
If
even Winter flight might be attempt
ed, for the airplane is developing,
and we are yet on the threshold of
airplane navigation.
“An air service between Japan, or
Asia, proper, and Europe would be in
valuable, not only for commerce and
mail purposes, but also for air bases
in time of international conflict.
Somebody is going to find the route
sooner or later. It may be that we
will find nothing there but ice. We
cannot tell now, but we hope to find
out.”
MAY PdAKE PARK AT
BIG NATURAL BRIDGE
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 17.—Na
tural Bridge, a great rock arch on
the dividing ridge between Wolfe and
Powell counties, in the Red river val- \
ley, in eastern Kentucky, is favored
by Dr. William R. Jilson, state geol
ogist and chairman of the state park
commission, as a state park site. The
commission will recommend a num
ber of sites of natural beauty to the
1926 legislature.
Natural Brdige is of outstanding
importance because of its size and
accessibility. In an air line, it is
about six miles northwest of the
town of Campton and nineteen miles
northeast of Irvine, the center of
the Estell oil fields. The bridge is
within a few hours’ ride of the popu
lous Blue grass district, whose good
roads and well known country places
attract many tourists.
There isn’t enough wild life to
please the hunters, but there’s a lit
tle too much to please the courh^
says a Seattle paper.
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