MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 39
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1926.
PRIC17, TEN CENTS
Would Extend Alaska Ry.
Into Far Northern Wastesj
Surveys Would Involve An
Expenditure of $100,000;
All This In Connection with
Future Development of the
Alaska Railroad Which
Spells Seward the Coast
Terminus.
WOULD OPEN FAR REACHES
AND DEVELOP TERRITORY
Propose To Connect Copper
River & Northwestern with
the Alaska Railroad and
Make One Huge Govern
ment Enterprise.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
Feb. 17. (AP).—Congress
man Perlman, republican of
New York, introduced a bill
n the House in which he pro
posed an expenditure of one
hundred thousand dollars
tor the purpose of making
permanent surveys in con
nection with future railroad
construction in Alaska.
The Bill proposes the Gov
ernment use the railroads
now in Alaska tfor postal,
military and telegraph pur
poses. It also would extend
the Alaska Railroad to the
Yukon river from Fairbanks
through to the Chandalar
Pass and up into the Arctic
region; also from Fairbanks
thru the rich agricultural
district of the Tanana Val
ley, thence around Skotai
Pass to the Interior terminal
of the Copper River and
Northwestern Railroad at
McCarthy. * This latter route
would take in the rich White
River country, which if de
veloped would emulate the
Kennecott district.
Some Description
Providing the above Bill is passed
the survey would probably swing
northeast out of Fairbanks toward
Circle, on the Yukon river, thence
northwest passing Fort Yukon, con
tinuing on through Chandalar Pass
over the Endicott range of mountains,
and thence toward Point Barrow on
the Arctic Ocean.
The other route mentioned, would
be along the route of the Richardson
Highway, but swinging to the left of
Mount Blackburn, Skotia Pass, then
westward to McCarthy. Last summer
Joe Ulmer, field engineer for the Al
aska Road Commission made a com
prehensive survey for trails and wag
on roads thru the latter country des
cribed and, reported to the Gateway
wagon roads thru that area would open
up a tremendously rich country in po
tential resources.
Little is known of the region located
within the Arctic Circle due to its
isolation which has made it almost
impossible for the average prospector
to enter that portion of Alaska. What
little prospecting has been accomplish
ed, and from what has been learned
thru Government reports, it is a virgin
mineral field as well as being indica
tive of oil and coal deposits of tre
mendous magnituditness.
State Senator Florence Bohrer is
the first woman elected to the upper
house of the Illinois legislature.
j Ritchie, Reed and
| Shoup. Be Called
j To Washington, D. C.
! | WILL GO EAST IN
I | CONNECTION WITH
* THEIR NOMINATIONS
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| || According to word reaching
J The Gateway office yesterday,
» Judges Ritchie and Reed, and Dis
i i trict Attorney Shoup, will be call
2 ed to Washington, D. C., in con
j * nection with Aieir nominations
l in Alaska. Associated Press dis
■ patches from Washington yester
! day were to the effect the Judi
• ciary Committee has held up these
; t nominations as well as that of Al
j bert White, for marshal in the
! J First Division.
Bids for Arctic Cruiser
: Released to Replace
Superannuated Bear
SEATTLE, Wn„ Feb. 17. (£>)—Bids
I for the construction of an Arctic crui
I ser to replace the Cutter Bear will
be opened March 2 at Washington D
C. The new Bear will be in service by
March 15 next year. She will have a
diesel electric engine with a single
screw drive shaft of 1000-h.p. The hull
will be part steel and part wood. Its
speed will be eleven knots with a
cruising radius of ten thousand miles
not counting sailing. The Bear makes
its thirty-eighth annual voyage this
coming spring.
LUTHER ACCEPTS TASK OF
FORMING NEW GERMAN
CABINET
<C)_HENRX.MIWLIR, washjj. e.
Dr. Hans Luther, who rose from Bur
gomaster of Essen to the importani
position of Chancellor of Germar
Reich, agreed definitely to undertak*
the formation of a new Cabinet sue
ceeding the old Luther Cabinet. Dr
Luther was officially commissioned t(
do this work by President von Hinder
burg. Luther proceeded to sound ou
party leaders.
HIGHWAY FIELD AGENT AFTER
HIS HEALTH IN CALIFORNIA
SEATTLE, Feb. 17. (AP)—E. F
Clarke, general field agent of the Unit
| ed States Highway Commission, Alas
} ka, is here en route to California am
Texas, due to threatened health, caus
| ed by a recent breakdown.
Miss Minnie Evans has serve<
nearly 12 years as a police officer ii
South Bend Ind.
AMERICAN TENNIS
STAR DEFEATED BY
FRENCH CHAMPION
HELEN BATTLES TO THE LAST
BUT FRENCH LADY IS TOO
MUCH FOR HER
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STAGGERS FROM THE COURT
WITH HER HEAD IN HER HANDS
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Some Sweetie Comes To Her Rescue
With the “Don’t Worry" Gag
and Sweeps Her Sobs Up
CANNES, France, Feb. 17. (£•)—
Helen Wills and Suzanne, tennis stars
are playing off the advance finals;
| Wills defeating Eileen Bennett yester
day, 6-2, 6-0; and Lenglen defeated
Lady Loundway, 6-0 an^l 6-0.
LATER—Suzanne Lenglen, French
tennis champion defeated Helen Wills,
the American champ in the singles
played off at the Carlton tournament
by the score of 6-3, S-6. Suzzane and
Mmle. Vlasto defeated Helen and
Mmle. Contoslavos, 6-4 and S-6 in the
finals of the women’s doubles.
Helen won the service game at love
in the second set, and took the next
one after a deuce had called. In the
third, Suzzane began to cough, and
stepped to the sidelines where she
took a long drough of cognac with wa
ter. Supzzane took the next, three.
In the evening count, Helen took
the seventh and was within a point of
Winning the second set when Suzzies’
| racquet appeared to be outside, but
was allowed by the linesmen. For the
first time in her career Helen falter
ed- and appeared physically tired.
She put her hands to her head and
| staggered, out of sight and then hur
ried away with an American friend,
who said “there will be many other
tennis matches in other years com
ing.”
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METHODIST TOLD
TO MOVE, MEXICO
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EAGLE PASS, Tex., Feb. 17. (£>)—
Reverend J. A. Phillips, president, and
three women teachers of the People’s
Institute of the Methodist school at
Piedras Negras, Rio Grande, yester
day complied with the 24-hour notice
issued by the Mexican mayor, and re
turned to the United States.
The mayor cited the Mexican con
stitution which prohibits a religious
corporation to operation schools.
TIA JUANA, Feb. 17. (£>)—Officials
announced today they would sentence
to death before the firing squad the
attackers of Audrey and Clyde Peteet,
if convicted. Deportation of all wo
men in the resirts of this city, enter
tainers and suspicious characters was
also ruled. All obnoxious resorts will
be closed. Heavy bonds are being
placed on saloons which may mean
the doom for some of them.
GEORGE SEXTON IS
! En Route to Seward
t -
George Sexton, Republical National
committeeman from Alaska, who has
been at Washington, D. C., for the
v past three months, in a telegram re
ceived by Mrs. Sexton yesterday, stat
• ed he has returned to Washington
- from Chicago where his brother Ern
- est, who recently passed away, was
1 buried.
He said he planned leaving Washing
ton yesterday for the coast traveling
via Kansas City and Denver to Seat
1 tie. On his way to Seward he will
i stop off at Ketchikan, Juneau and Cor
dova between steamers.
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL
WITNESS AGAINST MELLON’S
ALUMINUM TRUST
tc) HENRY MILLER. WASH. O. W
Wm. J. Donovan, Assistant U. S.
Attorney General, who is one of the
principal witnesses in the Senatorial
investigation of the failure of the De
partment of Justice to bring contempt
proceedings against the Aluminum
Company of America in which Andrew
Mell n, Secretary of the Treasury, is
a large stockholder.
Judiciary Committee
Recommends “Look-See”
Into Aluminum Trust
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 17. (/P)
The Senate made a report to the
Judiciary Committee recommending
an investigation into the Aluminum
Trust Company of America. A special
order of business is on the slate for
tomorrow at which time additional
confirmations of Alaska nominations
are expected.
SENATE SENDS POSTOFFICE
INTO CONFERENCE TODAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 17. (JP)
—The Senate yesterday passed and
sent for conference the Treasury post
office papropriation bill of $869,000,
000, which is $903,000 more than the
House authorized.
COOLIDGE STANDS PAT ON
NOMINATION OF PORTLAND
JURIST, DESPITE REPORTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 17. (ff)
—President Coolidge will stand by the
nomination of Wallace McCamant,
Portland circut court judge, despite
the reports from Senate leaders tha;t
tiis confirmation is improbable.
HOUSE NAVAL COMMITTEE
AGREE BUILDING PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 17. (£>)
—The House Naval Committee vir
tualy agreed upon a five-year building
program for the Naval Air Service,
which will cost in the neighborhood
of $100,000,000.
ADMIRAL WATSON
LEAVES SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Wn, Feb. 17. (IP)—The
Admiral Watson of the Pacific Steam
ship Company sailed this morning at
ten o’clock for Seward and way ports
with fifty-six passengers. Those book
i ed thru to Seward are:
Miss Marjory Downes, O. Nord, R.
Heingerling, P. W. McCarthy and wife,
G. W. eParson and two steerage.
SIX CHILDREN BURNED TO
DEATH IN MICHIGAN TOWN
HOUGHTON, Mich.., Feb. 17. (£>)
Six children were burned to deatl
when they were trapped in a burning
farm house. hTe parents, Mr. anc
Mrs. Gotfried Rothenborger and baty
were severely burned in their escape
World Flyer Makes
Up Expedition from
Eastern Institutions
Lieutenant Leigh Wade Will Establish Base Within Three
Hours of North Pole—Well Known Alaskan Engi
neer Selected Go with Expedition Into Arctic
NOEL WEIN, ALASKAN, WILL PILOT ONE OF THE PLANES
Expedition Plans To Charter Vessel In Seattle To Haul Their
Supplies into Point Barrow Via the Arctic Ocean;
Expect Leave Seattle June Eighth.
NEW YORK, Feb. 17. (AP)—Lieutenant Leigh Wade,
World flyer, announced he would resign from the Air
Service in two weeks and lead a Polar flying expedition
this coming summer. Lieut. Wade said that Lieut. H. H.
Ogden, another World flyer, who resigned last night will
act as his assistant. The personnel, equipment and finan
cing of the expedition will be strictly American and back
ed by the Alumni of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
The expedition will be known as the American Uni
versities Alumni Expedition. Robert Anderson Pope,
New York engineer and well known Alaskan, a Harvard
graduate who spent five years in the Arctic regions con
ceived the idea of this expedition.
Although the personnel is almost completed, the
names of two pilots and navigator cannot be announced
until they resign from the United States Air Sendee.
Other Pilots will be Noel Wein, Alaska commercial
flyer, and Norman H. Head, a Yale man who joined the
Royal Air Forces at the beginning of the World war, and
who has a flying record of six thousand hours gained by
scout reconnaissance flying during the war and in the
service of the United States.
Other members of the party will be Lowell Thomas,
prominent writer and photographer Harry Ehleb, mining
engineer; L. L. Jackson, radio expert, former Naval man,
and at the present time geologist and meteorologist of the
American Museum of Natural History. An ornitholo
gist and botanist are yet to be selected.
The expedition is negotiating for a steamer to trans
port their equipment to Point Barrow. Wade said he
hoped the steamer would be ready to leave Seattle June
8.
The expedition will be prepared to make its first
flight early in July. The flight to the North Pole will
be attempted as a minor purpose of the expedition, Wade
said, and “if an unknown continent is found, which we
feel certain, lying north of Siberia and Alaska, we will
establish a base there, and from that point will make a
round trip flight to the Pole which may be made in about
three hours, providing flying conditions are right. This
should be a very simple matter. We will be equipped with
five Douglas planes, each having three 220-h.p. motors.
If land is discovered and a favorable place is found to es
tablish a base the expedition will spend the winter. On
the other hand, if the trip calls for greater preparation, it
is our plan to go in again the following summer.”
Lieut. Wade is remaining in New York for several
days making up immediate preparations.
MINERS RETURN
AFTER VACATION
WITHOUT ANY PAY
SCRANTON, Pa., Feb. 17. (/P)—An
thracite miners here ratified the new
wage agreement after an idleness of
five months and 17 days.
They will resume work on Thurs
day. No voice was raised in opposi
tion to the new compact which sends
back to the mines 158,000 men and
boys.
PRES. COOLIDGE INDISPOSED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 17. (JP)
—President Coolidge, after a brief
; stay in his office returned to his liv
. ing quarters at the White House, suf
r fering from a fever developed thru
. a heavy-cold.
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WISHAAR FREED
OF NINE COUNTS;
FIVE COUNTS LEFT
SEATTLE, Wn„ Feb. 17. (^—Offi
cer Wishaar of tne Cutter Algonquin
was today acquitted of nine of the
fourteen charges brought against him.
The remainder are minor offenses.
The specifications of which the court
acquitted Wishaar included charges
of falsifying the monthly reports, hav
ing deceived his superior officers, fail
ing to properly supervise the repair
work of the Algonquin, failing to set
a good example to those under his
command, failing to see drills were
properly held, thereby permitting the
ship to deteriorate, failing to keep the
public property on record, and using
abusive language toward the Junior
officers.