TURBULENT CHANNEL
IS SWIMMING GOAL
OF GERTRUDE EDERLE
NEW YORK. May 12.—(/P)—Game
ness and determination in addition
to exceptional strength and stamina,
as shown in her past performaces,
will be of great aid to Miss Gertrude
Ederle, 18 year old mermaid of the
Women’s Swimming Association of
New York, when she undertakes to
swim the English Channel this sum
mer.
This struggle through 20 miles of
turbulent water has been contemplat
ed for some time by Miss Ederle,
who is an experienced outdoor swim
mer and quite at home in rough
seas. As a result of competitions in
the south last winter she possessed
the necessary speed.
While she thrives in chilly water,
Miss Ederle will find the Channel a
worthy foe, for in midsummer the
temperature seldom rises above 62
degrees. However, this is not likely
to interfere with her trial, for she
will start outdoor training at once
to accustom herself to conditions
over there.
Miss Ederle’s perseverence in face j
of defeat has figured largely in all j
her successes and will no doubt aid
her materially in bridging her way
*to additional conquests. Although
still in her ’teens, she already has ac
quired most of the world’s free style
swimming records.
Apparently unknown up to the sum
mer of 1922, she came into promi
nence as a long distance swimmer in
the international three and a half
mile race for the Cay Cup in New
York Bay. Then she was but 15
years old. Before that summer had
passed, she had captured several
national titles and set many world’s
records for distances between 150
yards and 500 meters.
Each >ear Miss Ederle spends four
months at the family country place
near Atlantic Highlands, New Jer
sey, and daily covers several miles
regardless of weather, so that in ev
ery way she is prepared for the com
ing classic. She intends to keep up
Marathon
CAFE
JOSIE EMSWILER, Prop.
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SEWARD, ALASKA
her routine until June 17 when she
will sail on the Berengaria for Eng
land. She will attempt to cross the
channel in late July or early Aug
ust.
Sweden Shows Fondness
For American Bread
STOCKHOLM May 12.—(&)—White
bread of American wheat flour is
gaining in popularity in Sweden, ac
cording to official trade and crop
j statistics for 1924 now available. But
j at the same time Sweden’s own grain
producing capacity is rising, so that
in a pinch the country could supply
its entire need in breadstuffs.
While still being supplemented by
wheat from the United States, Swed
en’s own wheat production has also
j risen during the same periods from
! 51 to 63 per cent of the total domes
tic consumption, and yet the imports
of wheat flour rose from 267,000,000
kilograms in 1923 to 286,300,000 in
1924, so that the population not only
raises more wheat than formerly, but
also imports more. At the same time
it consumes less of the old-time dark
rye bread which was once its princi
pal staff of life.
England Lets Contracts
To Improve Air Defense
LONDON, May 12.—(/p)—Contracts
have been placed by the air minis
try lor ten new airdromes in vari
ous parts of the country. These are
part of the amplified scheme of air
defense and will be equipped for the
use of squadrons of day and night
fighters and long-range bombers.
The plans now being developed
provide for a series of zones of de
fense. Immediately around London
is to be a rin of airdromes provided
with every new devices to facilitate
night-flying. From these dromes
squadrons of steel-built fighters for
the defense of the capital will be
sent up.
Farther out will be another chain
of air defenders with special costal
stations from which machines will
ascend to attack raiders before they
reach the coast. From another ser
ies of airdromes situated at strate
gic points will operate big weight
carrying bombers to raid air bases
of the enemy.
Mohammed el Araba, customs
guard ol Cairo, Egypt, has divorced
his 27th wife and is looking for
another. He has 52 children.
Brunswick Radiolas, tne Radiola de
Luxe at the Alaska Shop. tf
Eaton, Crane, Pike Stationery at
the Alaska Shop. tf
Pacific Coastwise Service
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H.FALEXANDER. PRESIDENT
NEXT SAILING STR. STARR MAY 10,1925
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 1S>. SEWARD, ALA8KA
S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
Sails from Arrives South from
Seattle Seward , Seward
May 5 May 12 May 19, 9 p.m.
S. S. ADMIRAL" WATSON
May 19 May 26 June 2, 9 p.m.
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports including Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
Dutch Shippers Look Forward
to Better Business in Europe
ROTTERDAM, Holland, May 12.—
(IP)—A slow clearing of the interna
tional European horizon, coupled with
a gradual stabilization of exchange
rates and prospects of the execution
of the Dawes plan enhancing the
buying power of central European
nations, are mentioned as favorable
factors for this year in the annual
report of the Netherlands Shipown
ers Federation, which controls 656
vessels, or 97 1-2 per cent of the en
tire Dutch mercantile marine.
For* the present, however, the con
dition of the freight market imposes
extreme economy, says the report,
which points out that foreign com
petition remains exceedingly keen.
Dutch, American and English rates
of pay for seamen, according to the
report, are the highest in the world.
They are double the German or Ital
ian rates, and this explains why ships
sold to the latter countries because
they cannot be made to pay at home,
can be run at a good profit by their
new owners.
Dull Wits of Olden Days
Wasted Time Orer Cards
LONDON, May 12.—(£>)— Card
games of the middle ages required
much more than the card games of
today because the brains of the peo
ple of that period were much slower
than the modern mind, according to
card playing experts who have in
spected a rare old collection of cards
shown recently at the City of Lon
don Guildhall Library.
The collection consisted of 18 va
rieties, the earliest pack being that
of the 13th century. It has crude
fanciful figures etched on thin plates
of horn, backed with paper.
Several decks date between 1714
and 1765 and are known as geogra
phy packs. They have complicated
maps and much information concern
ing the countries of the world. The
cards of 1780 are adorned with sket
ches showing incidents in various
fables with verse.
Five hundred years ago people’s
brains worked so much slower than
they do at the present time that it
was natural there should be interest
ing matter for the players to read
while awaiting their turn to play,
in the opinion of modern card ex
perts.
Passing of Barber Recalls
Many Celebrities Shaved
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.—(Jp)—
The recent death of Bernhard Bern
hard, known to two generations of
San Franciscans as the owner and
manager of the Palace Hotel barber
shop, recalls the many celebrities he
shaved and looked after in other ton
sorial ways.
He was past 80, and for 50 years
had missed scarcely a day at his
shop. He trimmed the beards o'
President Ulysses S. Grant and Ben
jamin Harrison and shaved Presi
dents William McKinley, Theodore
Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and War
ren G. Harding. Among other nota
bles in every walk his list included
Enrico Caruso and John L. Sullivan.
An old mule that eats very young
chicks is reported from a farm near
Orange, Texas.
E. G. Walford of Long Beach, Cal.,
has his trousers and wooden leg
stolen by a thief while he slept.
Pierre Audrade who saved a child’s
life at the risk of his own in Paris,
turned out to be a notorious thief.
FOR SALE
Pool and dance hall, bakery and res
taurant in connection, barber shop and
moving picture house, rooms. Four
room residence, Electric light and
water system. Price $12,500.00. $7,
000.00.cash, balance terms. Good In
vestment in live fishing town.
C.W. WAGNER
SELDOVIA, ALASKA
Will Honor American Dead
In Westwinster Abbey
LONDON, May 12.—(/P)—The re
cently organized London branch of
the American Overseas Memorial As
sociation, composed of all the Am
erican organizations in the British
metropolis, will have charge this
year of the memorial services to be
lield in Westminster Abbey and at
the cemeteries of England and Ire
land where lie buried some 700 Am
eiicans. After the Abbey ceremonies
on the morning of May 30 members
of the association will journey to
Brookwood cemetery, 25 miles from
London, where rest 454 Americans
who died in the late war. Here spe
cial exercises will be held.
Brookwood is a British national
cemetery, with a section devoted to
soldiers from the United States who
died here from wounds sustained in
Fiance. In Ireland there are buried
91 Amei ican soldiers and sailors
who died during the World War.
In various other parts of the coun
try there are a score or so of graves
or Americans who fought in the wal's
of 1812 and 1861. These also will
all be decorated with wreaths on
May 30.
Mrs. Arthur Denny of Chicago,
called police to remove her cook,
who she said had remained drunk
for several days.
—-—
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—the point of a Parker jd Duofold
is made of genuine jS native
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over three times as / / much as the
iridium used in //ordinary
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! Mexicans Seek Amity with
American Business Houses
MEXICO CITY, May 12.—Adoption
of a commercial arbitration agree
ment by the National Chamber of
Commerce of Washington and the
Confederation of Mexican Chambers
of Commerce is recommended by a
special committee named by the Mex
ican confederation. The plan rec
ommended to settle, without recourse
to the courts, differences between
Mexican and United States business
houses follows virtually without
change the American-Argentine agree
ment. It will be voted on at the next
meeting of the confederation.
ENGLAND REPLANTING TREES
LONDON, May 11.—(/P)—in an ef
fort to make good the depletion of
English forests during the war, the
forestry commission of the govern
ment this year has planted more
than 30,000,000 young trees, covering
approximately 16,000 acres. It is the
intention to double this umber of
planting next year.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
6 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
— Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Vessel—
ALASKA
YUKON
Northwestern
ALASKA
YUKON
Northwestern
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
May 2 May 9 May 9
May 9 May 16 May 16
.May 16th May 23rd. May 23rd
May 23 May 30 May 30 '
May 30th June 6th June 7th
June 6th June 13th June 14th
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
NOTE. Beginning with the S. S. Yukon June 7th, steamers will not
leave Seward earlier than 4 o’clock p. m. Sunday, sailing date.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
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Prosperity
The prosperity of any community depends very §
largely upon the co-operation manifested by the i
many individuals and institutions forming the com- =
munily There can be no lasting prosperity or gen- §
eral progress in the life of any community without 5
honest co-operation between all elements that in 5
any way affect the common welfare.
So it is with Alaska. No one section of this 1
great land can prosper for long at the expense of 1
any other section; all constructive efforts must be I
so co-ordinated that but one outcome will result— =
Co-operation; and Co-operation means Prosperity, i
It is the constant aim of The Alaska Railroad i
to at all times render such service as will best serve 1
the citizens of the entire Territory. 1
^ Department of the Interior r
The Alaska Railroad I
(Mt. McKinley Park Route) 1
Anchorage Alaska