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VOLUME XXI. NUMBER 202.
SEWARD ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7,1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
NOOSE PASS
WONDERFUL
\ RECENT PICTURES SWELLING ES
TATE DAILY; CONTRARY TO
USUAL RUN OF PICTURES IN
WHICH STARS DIED, VALEN
T'NO’S PLAYS, POPULARITY IN
CREASES
died at height of career
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Will Be Buried in Hollywood Ceme
tery: Pola Negri Accompanies Cas
ket Across the Continent.
NEW YORK, Sept. 7. (/P)_Broad
way where Rudolph Valentino once
worked as a dishwasher, yesterday
paid farewell tribute to the man who
died at the height of his career as the
hero of the movies.
'■yaw YORK, Sept. 7. (£>)—'The body
of Rudolph Valentino, screen star,
started on its journey to Hollywood
with Pola Negri, his fiancee, entering
the train by way of the baggage ele
vator to escape the morbidly curious.
NEW YORK. %pt. 7. (/P)—Pola
Negri, actress and fiance of Rudolph
Valentino, stood ^yesterday at the bier
of her sweetheart. For an hour the
famous actress stayed by the casket,
opened by special permit of the
Health Department so that she might
\ have a look at the man she loved.
Later she was led weeping from the
parlors. Rudolph’s funeral services
will be held today.
NEW YORK. Sept. 7. (^)—The es
tate of the late Rudolph Valentino is
growing at a pace never before equal
ed in the history of the motion pic-,
ture industry. When Valentino died a
week ago it was estimated that he was
just about solvent, having spent the
bulk of the great fortune that he had
learned in the past few years. Now
however, it is estimated that his es
tate is worth close to a million dollars
and still growing. The phenomenal
rise is due to the popularity with
which his last two pictures are now
meeting,although these pictures, “The
Son of the Sheik” and “The Eagle”
had been more than ordinarily suc
cessful their popularity has been in
creased tremendously by the publicity
attending his death. This is contrary
to the usual run of pictures after a
star has passed away. In the cases of
Wally Reid, Olive Thomas, and Bar
bara La Mar the income from these
pictures fell perceptibly after the
death of the stars.
READY FOR THE WATS
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TANANA Sept. 7. (/P)—1The govern
ment hospital boat Martha Angeline,
arrived here yesterday, where she will
await orders for going Into winter
quarters. Chas. Swanson and wif^ ar
rived on the steamer Yukon en route
■to California after having sold their
extensive mining interests at Ram
part.
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STRIKE IN FRISCO.
OVER WAGE DISPUTE
SEVENTY-FIVE THEATERS ARE SI
LENT TODAY; OTHERS
WALK OUT
SAN FRANCIS’CO, Sept. 7. (JP)_
Musicians in seventy-five theaters
here in San Francisco and in Marine
County went on a strike today follow
ing the failure of efforts to settle
their wage dispute with the theater
managers. Stage hands, electricians,
and moving picture operators acting
0 a program previously agreed upon,
quit with the musicians. The strikers
stated that about one thousand men
were out although the theater manage
ments put the number at 400, and de
clared that the theater-goers would
not be interrupted. The Union men
who took up positions in front of the
doors armed with placards pled their
cause with customers. Theater owners
protested this action and had their
1 biggest ushers sent to the sidewalks
to prevent the strikers from interfer
! ing with the public. Later owners re
quested the police department to send
officers to prevent disturbances and
in the course of the afternoon four
pickets were arrested.
PRESIDENT OF THE LABOR UNION
ADDRESSES THRONG AT
EXPOSITION
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7. (^—Wil
liam Green, President American Fed
eration of Labor, at the Labor Day
celebration and Sesquicentennial ex
position declared the United States
prosperity was associated with, and
dependent upon high wages and short
ened working day. Living standards
do not permit the lowering of wage
rates. Industrial supremacy depends
on the efficiency and producing ability
of the wage earners and not on low
wages and living standards.
G. W. Edgecombe was a week-end
arrival in Seward from the McKinley
park region, on his way outside.
EXPERTS BAFFLED AS
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WILL BE BURIED IN ARLINGTON
NATIONAL CEMETERY WITH
NAVAL HONORS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. (IP)—Com
mander John Rodgers will be buried
in Arlington National Cemetery here
next Tuesday with Naval honors.
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. Sept. 7.
■(JP)—The gray-haired mother and fath
er were bidding farewell to Command
er John Rodgers, killed last Friday in
I an airplane fall at the Philadelphia
Navy Yard, while the nation waited
j to honor the hero of the San Fran
I cisco-Hawaiian flight tomorrow at
the Arlington National Cemetery
! Rites were to be said this afternoon
.at the ancestral Rodger home at Zone
Hill.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. (/P)_Army
and Naval air experts were baffled
i today in trying to solve the cause of
!
the death crash of Commander John
Rodgers into the shallow waters of the
Deleware River. It is thought that the
plane piloted by Rodgers met an air
pocket just as he had started to make
a landing.
FIVE ATTEMPTS MADE TO START
FIRES IN WALLA WALLA
PRISON
! WALLA WTALLA, Sept. 7. UP)—
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Three incendiarv attempts were made
on the prison last night and this morn
ing. Two attempts which were made
on the license plate factory failed aft
er the main blaze was controlled. No
prisoners escaped as all were housed
in the undestroyed lower tier of cells
in the main building and in military
tents in the yard.
The sheriff announced today that
twenty five sticks of dynamite were
found hidden in some brush near the
prison. The explosive was not pur
chased in Walla Walla and no one in
the vicinity knew anything about it.
DEMPSEY WALLOPS TAR
OUT OF SIX PARTNERS
ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 7. (/P)—
Throwing off all wraps, champion
Jack Dempsey yesterday walloped six
sparring partners all over the ring at
his training camp here, revealing a
flash of fighting fury that he has kept
under cover since he established
quarters here. He lifted one boxer off
his feet and knocked him unconscious.
WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE
Water will be shut off at mid-night
on Fourth and Fifth avenues from
Adams street.
S. W. & P. Co.
NECESSITY OF CONNECTING
ROAD LINK TO NOOSE PASS
OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE
THE 50 MILE HIGHWAY FROM MOOSE PASS TO
SUNRISE AND HOPE IS OVER 60 PER CENT COM
PLETED—BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS CON
STRUCTION FINE EXAMPLE OF ROADWORK—
i BE FINISHED EARLY NEXT MONTH
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VISITORS AMAZED IT SCENIC ATTRACTIONS OF REGION
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Present End of Construction at Mile 31—Six Mile stretch
To Sunrise Yet to be Built—Moose Pass is Journey’s
End Traversing Region Dotted With Agriculture and
Fur Farms, Placer and Quartz Mining—Game, Fishing.
Magnificent Country Cannot Be Seen in a Day
—
Twelve Seward automobiles, containing 37 people,
formed the first motor caravan over the Moose Pass high
way Sunday and yesterday, and like all others who have
been fortunate enough to make the trip, returned, sold on
the country and loud in their praise of the natural beauty
of the region, still in its virgin state and of the fine piece
of road construction by the. Bureau of Public Roads. The
enormity of the potential assets at Seward's back door,
was apparant to all, and the most common expression
heard was, “What a pity this wonderful region has not a
direct road outlet to Seward."
The unusual took place upon the caravan's departure
from Seward, for it was first necessary to load the autos
on railroad flat cars, Then at Mile 29, Moose Pass station,
the cars were rolled off onto a platform, built especially
for that purpose, thence down to the highway proper.
; There was no possible chance for an accident to occur in
loading or unloading as the Alaska Railroad and the B. P.
’ R. working in conjunction, had foreseen any difficulty
which might have happened and had prepared according
ly. A short curve road was especially cut out at the Pass
| from the platform to the highway and C. H. Keil, engin
eer in charge for the B. of P. Rds, was there personally
to help. The railroad had section crews assist! in unloading
and loading and to see that the autos were all tied down
securely on the flats.
j Many of the motorists were oldtim
jers in the Territory who had visited
; the many scenic points in Alaska, said
; that for constant and complete change
| of gorgeous panorama, Moose Pass is
supreme. It was said that It might
well be named the Golden highway for
where it traverses the placer diggings,
literally speaking, every shovel full
ofi gravel thrown on the road contains
gold.
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For three miles after disembarking
at Moose Pass the motors skirted the
shore of placid Trail lake.
On a roadbed as smooth as mac
adam the miles were swiftly left be
hind and John’s creek was reached. It
was named in honor of John Gilpat
rick, well known citizen of Seward,
who owns a fine piece of mining
ground nearby.
Quartz creek was next at Mile 13%.
From this point iti is but 8 miles down
to Cooper’s Landing, Kenai lake, and
to where in the near future it Is quite
likely a road will be constructed en
route to the town, of Kenai on Cook
Inlet. Summit creek, at Mile 14, came
next, then beautiful Summit lake
which runs along for a mile between
Mile 16 and 17. Then at Mile 17%,
Colorado creek is crossed. Little Sum
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U.S. CAPTAIN WANTS
ACCOMPANY FONCK
ACROSS ATLANTIC
FRENCH WAR ACE AND RESERVE
OFFICER COME TO
OPEN BREAK
NEW YORK, Sept. 7. (^—Captain
Rene Fonck, French ace, today faces
the possibility that a non-stop trans
Atlantic flight for which he had been
| preparing might end in court instead
of Paris because of dissensions over
personnel. Captain Homer M. Berry,
U. S. Air Service Reserves, a ten per
cent stockholder in the backing cor
poration, threatens to ask an injunc
tion to prevent the flight unless he is
taken along.
NEW YORK, Sept. 7. (£>)—Captain
Berry of U.* S. Reserve Air Service ad
mitted an open break with Captain
Fonk, French ace, who has refused
to carry him as assistant pilot in the
trans-Atlantic flight. Berry says he
helped obtain financing for Fonck on
the condition that he make the trip.