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VOLUME XIX, NUMBER 206
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SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1924.
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SEATTLE, Aug. 31—The Bureau of
Educaton schooner Boxer, has report
ed here that the Canadan schooner
Lady Kindersley which is caught in
the ice floes off Point Barrow and
that the crew is being transferred to
the Boxer.
SEATTLE, Aug. 31.—Captain L.
Knafflich, owner of the schooner Ru
by and head of the syndicate which
^ yesterday made proposal to the Ca
nadian government to go to the res
cue of the Lady Kindersley’s crew,
imprisoned in the Arctic said if the
Ruby goes north for the Lady Kin
dersley crew she will also rescue the
schooner Maid of Orleans, a gaso
line auxiliary vessel which left June
'25th for Coronation Gulf, via Nome.
She carried five persons including
Miss Alice Supplee, aged 24, a young
Seattle school teacher who is going
to teach Eskimoes in Victoria land;
Christian Klengenberg, the Corona
tion Gulf trader and his sons, And
rew and Jordan Klengenberg. The
latter came out in the spring with a
fortune in cargo and bought the Or
leans, remodeling her and taking a
stock of goods north for the winter’s
trading and has not been heard of
since.
SEATTLE, Spt. 2.—After continu
al working back and forth 16 hours
in which she made only 60 feet in
the ice, the Lady Kindersley again
froze in solid. Yesterday morning the
Boxer came to within three miles
and the Kindersley was abandoned at
one p. m. A strong noi-theast wind
was blowing and ice continuously
moving the ship, which was 25 miles
off shore. The crew pulled three ca
noes loaded on sleds using them to
cross several large patches of water
between ice floes. Two-thirds of the
way they were met by a party of na
Vves with large skin boats and after
’much difficulty through loose ice all
nineteen arrived safely at three p. m.
yesterday aboard the Boxer.
* VANCOUVER, Sept. 2.—The vessel
and cargo worth $400,000 were aban
doned to their doom today when the
crew of the Lady Kindersley were
taken aboard the ship Boxer for ship
ment to Nome. The Lady Kindersley
was a Canadian vessel en route to
Herschel Island with supplies for
the Mounted Police station.
NOME, Alaska, Sept. 2.—The
schooner Silver Wave is due here to
day with Knud Rasmussen, who has
Eskimo families with him. He has
been exploring the Arctic regions 25
years .having left Copenhagen with
the present expedition in 1921 with
seventy-five dogs and five Eskimo
families and six scientists who took
different routes in Canada. Rasmus
sen is reported with having written
six books on data gathered the last
three years and wall have six more
ready. He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Copenhagen and reads and
writes Eskimo.
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STEAMSHIP WATSON
ON WESTWARD WAY
i^he steamship Admiral Watson
arrived in port yesterday afternoon
leaving at 8 o’clock for the westward.
The following passengers were listed
*for Seward and westward points:
For Seward—J. Hannon, Mrs. A.
T. Rowe, Mary Lund, Hans Martin
sen, Hans Maidinsen, jr., G. C. Bet
ties, W. F. Brown, Mrs. G. W. Hick,
Miss Helga Hansen, and one steer
age.
For Seldovia—B. O’Brien, Geo. L.
Lloyd and wife ,Harris Gordon, Mrs.
J. Sandsles, Mrs. P. S. Watland, and
two steerage.
For Halibut Cove—Hazel Peter
son.
For Anchorage—Hilda M. Kohl, M.
B. Cunningham, Raph P. Anderson,
L. C. rove and wife, Mrs. M. D.
Wertz, Ernest Coburn, Bessie B.
Barnes, Mabel White ,G. Raymond
Hood and wife, A. E. Ware and wife,
and one steerage.
For Kodiak—E. Ryan.
Round trip—J. E. Strong and wife,
Marjorie Strong, E. R. Walsh and
wife.
THE WEAATHER
Vt 8 a. m., clear, calm, 38 above.
MARX THANKS THOSE
INSTRUMENTAL MAKING
REPAR. AGREEMENT
BERLIN, Aug. 31.—On occasion of
the adoption of the Dawes report,
Chancellor Marx issued in the name
of the German government, a procla
mation, thanking all members who
have contributed in bringing about
the result obtained.
The steamer Yukon of the Alaska
Steamship Co., left here at 10:30
Sunday morning with 171 passengers,
includng 24 excursionists. Those that
are booked for Seward are:
Chas. Lechner, H. Doheny, Miss G.
Smith, Mss M. A. Rousch, G. D. Bar
nett and wife, E. Pervallie, Anna Con
nell, Emma L. Newton, Mrs. L. Lee,
P. R. Anderson and wife, Agnes An
derson, L. L. Levensaler, Miss Doro
thy Daugherty, Mrs. D. C. Byer, Mrs.
L. Coombs, Mrs. W. P. Mealy, Mrs.
R. M. Stevenson, Miss E. Trail, and
R. D. McCrea and wife.
PACT IS DRAWN PIT
REPARATIONS EFFECT
LONDON, Aug. 31.—A pact was
drawn up at the recent International
conference here outlining the ways
and means of puttng the Dawes rep
arations program into effect. It was
signed by representatives of the vari
ous nations this afternoon.
FRENCH TO EVACUATE
THE RUHR TOMORROW
PARIS, Aug. 31.—The French gov- j
eminent will order the evacuation of j
the Ruhr tomorrow. This is in con- j
formity with the premier’s agree
ment that the evacuation of the Ruhr
would begin the day after the signed
London agreement which occurred to
day.
DEMOCRATS IN BITTER
STRUGGLE IN TEXAS
AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 31.—On the eve
of the new week an indication looms
that one of the bitterest fought Dem
ocratic state conventions, that has
ever been held in the state of Texas
for fifty years. A company of Texas
state rangers force was hastened here
tonght by Governor Neff.
WALES ARRIVES
NEW V ORK, Aug. 30.—The Prince
of Wales arrived here yesterday.
.KEVSTOMS VIEW CO- HEW YORK
IN JOLLY MOOD
The Prince of Wales will soon ar
rive in New York for the internation
al polo matches. According to re
ports he will reside at the Syosset,
Long Island, home of Miss G. H.
Senff.
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AMERICAN FLYERS
REACH LABRADOR
SMITH RAD TROUBLE
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ICE TICKE, Labrador, Aug. 31.—
Lieut. Commander Lowell H. Smith,
and Lieut. Erik Nelson, American ar
my world flyers arrived this after
noon, completing the North Atlanlic
expedition. The crossing was un
eventful. Smith and Nelson hopped
off irom Ivigtut to Hamilton inlet, a
distance of 572 miles across Davis
Sir:' : it. eight hours-forty minutes.
Vessels of the navy escorted the fly
er; ai d at one hundred mile interval**
vessels stood at attention while the
intrepid aviators soared overhead on
their journey. The flyers* were re
ported from each vessel that was
standing by to be on schedule time.
Coolidge Wires Congrats.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 31
President Coolidge today wired Smith
and Nelson congratulations before
they left Ice Tickle.
ICE TICKLE, Labrador, Aug. 31.—
The continuing stormy weather p re
siling here has caused further de
lay and indefinite postponement of the
American army round the world fly
ers. They will make no attempt at
leaving the station until weather
conditions are so so as to permit a
safe expedition.
ICE TICKLE, Labrador, Sept. 2.
—Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, comman
der of the remaining globe flyers,
and his assistant, Leslie P. Arnold,
arrived here at eight o’clock last
evening from Greenland.
Some distance from Labrador, Lt.
Smith’s engine faltered, threatening
a forced landing which would have
put the flagplane out of the flight.
The trouble lay in the failure of the
fuel pump to function properly. Ar
nold pumped gasoline into the engine
for four hours, two strokes a min
ute. Smifh said that only Arnold’s
efforts kept the plane going.
HERRI MS AGAIN A
SCENE OF MASSACRE
HERRON, 111., Sept. 1.—Six were
slain Saturday afternoon in riots be
tween Ku Klux Klan and the military
forces in charge.
HERRIN, 111., Sept. 2.—Chief of
Police Walker signed a statement in
which he declared that Sheriff Galla
gain and his gu nmen repeated the
clash yesterday which killed six men
the other day.
AUXILIARY MEETS TONIGHT
The American Legion Auxiliary
will meet at Mrs. A. H. Thoday’s to
night at 8 o’clock. All members are
requested to be present.
WATSON BACK WEDNESDAY
The steamship Admiral Watson
will return from the westward Wed
nesday, Sept. 10, making connection
with the train.
URGES FRATERNAL1SM
MAINTAIN GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug.‘ 31.—
Fraternalism as a strong reliance to
government according to law, was elo
quised by thg president today in
an address to a delegation represent
ing the National Fraternal Congress.
The rituals of nearly all fraternal or
ganizations, the President said, are
based upon religion. No true frater
nity, he added, can rest on any other
conception.
NAVAL OFFICER FIRES
SHOT THRU HIS HEART
SEATTLE, Aug. 30.—While laught
er and departing jests still echoed
through the ship, Leutenant Lyle A.
Morgan, of th£? battleship divison, on
the staff of Vice Admiral Wily, com
mander in chief of the battleship divi
sion fired a shot through his heart
in his stateroom aboard the Battle
Cruiser New Mexico. The cause is
a mystery.
SEC. WILBUR IMPRESSED
WITH AVIATION BASE
SEATTLE, Aug. 1.—Secretary of
the Navy Wilbur indicated today at
the conclusion of a thorough inspec
tion of the Sand Point aviaton field
that he was greatly impressed with
the new base established by his de
pa rimeut recently.
WHEN BRITAIN’S ROUND THE WORLD FLYERS REACHED TOKYO
Honored guests of the Japanese Empire, Major A. Stuart MacLaren
(right) and his aide Flying Officer Planderleith arriving in Tokyo on their
flight around the world are taken by auto to their hotel, having landed
at the flying field a short distance from the capital.
FIGHTING INESCAPABLE
IN AND ABOUT SHANGHAI
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 1.—
Two communications have been ad
dressed to the Peking government by
British, Japanese, French and Amer
ican diplomatic cfficals in the most
solemn manner of its inescapable ob
ligations to prevent loss of foreign
life and property as a result of fight
ing in and about Shanghai.
Trying to Avert Civil War.
PEKING, Sept. 1.—Nine members ot
the foreign diplomatic corps today
stated the Chinese government is en
deavoring to avert a civil war.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Four U.
S. warships have been ordered to
crucial Chinese centers of disturb
ances.
PARIS, Sept. 1.—Owen D. Young,
agent-general for the reparations pay
ment, has informed the German treas
ury that his office will be prepared
on Thursday of this week to receive
the first twenty million gold marks
as called for under, the London agree
ment.
SMOKE CORN SILK; IGNITE
HAY BARN; TWO PERISH
Bl'TTE, Mont., Sept. 1.—Three
boys smoking corn silk cigarettes in
a hay barn at Ryegate, near here,
started fire to thehay accidentally.
Two of the trio died in the flames
unable to make exit.
MUCH MONEY SPENT TRYING
PREVENT INCURABLE DISEASES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 1.—
Secretary Weeks called attention to
day in a statement brought about by
statistics of his department, which he
said show that about one-half of the
populaton of the United States is sub
normal and the country suffers an
nually a loss of approximately a mil
lion dollars in preventable means by
illnesses and curable physical defects
of its citizens.
REPARATIONS PAYMENT
WILL ROLL ACROSS SOON
SEATTLE, Sept. 1.—Perfect weath
er assured the success of the Labor
Day celebration in whch all Seattle
was engaged today.
PRINCE OF WALES HAS
LUNCHEON WITH COOLDGE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 1.—The
Prince of Wales arrived in Washing
ton ths afternoon and was driven im
mediately to the White House for an
informal luncheon with the President.
GUNBOATS ORDERED SHANGHAI
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 31.—
Three Destroyers have been ordered
to Shanghai and the Gunboat Sacra
mento to Amoy, China, as a precau
tionary measure by Admral Thomas,
Washington commander of the Asiatic
fleet.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Mrs. Sha
ver, wife of fhe chairman of the
Democratic National Committee to
day threw a bombshell into the camp
of the Democrats by scoring Charles
Bryan, vice presidential candidate as
a pacifist
FOUNDER OF PLANE
WOULDN'T DISCREDIT
MARTIN FOR MISHAP
BELLINGHAM, Sept. 2.—William
E. Sullivan, foreman of the fish hat
chery at Baker lake, near Belling
ham, who while in Alaska this sum
mer studying spawning salmon and
who, during his trip out of the wil
derness found the wreck of Major
Martin’s airplane near Port Moller,
Alaska,, arrived here on the steamer
Catherine D. He said he had facts
which “would contradict some details
and statements made by Major Mar
tin but would not discredit him.
Rudolph Amundson, superintendent
at the Pacific American Fisheries Co.
at "Port Moller bought a despatch
bag which Sullivan found at the
plane . Sullivan also said he left two
handbags and a chonometer.
Photographs taken by Sullivan
distinctly showed that no mountains
were in the vicinity of where Mar
tin’s plane was wrecked. Sullivan
said he was willing to tell what he
knew about the plane but rules of the
•Fisheries department forbade J. R.
Russell, field representative of the
bureau of fisheries from giving out
any information, he has wired the bu
reau for instructions. Sullivan said
he would be sure “that anything he
makes public contains nothing which
would reflect on the War department
or Major Martin.
Persons familiar with the Alaskan
peninsula inspected the photograph
of the wreck taken by Sullivan, and
developed here said that the moun
tains existed off to the right bottom
of the picture. The plane lay iir a
spot estimated six hundred feet above
the level of a stream flowing in the
middle distance of the photograph
beyond the plane.
MILWAUKEE, Ws., Sept. 2.—The
state of Wisconsin is holding state
and congressional primary election
today.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
A PROCLAMATION
To each and all to whom these
presents shall come, Greeting:
Upon September 12, 1924, all
citizens are called flpon and re
quested'1 to participate in the ob
servance of DEFENSE TEST DAY.
The way to secure peace is to
prevent war.
/In Alaska, proper observance
of the day is for the greater part,
limited to patriotic demonstrations
and public ceremonies.
Let us lay aside our daily pur
suits and consider the present
state of our security,
legiance to the United States of
Let us renew our pledge of al
America. The nation of which we
are a part, the Nation to which
we owe loyalty and service—and
to the Nation which has so hon
orably continued to endow and be
stow upon us the Blessings of Lib
erty.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, Sep
tember 2, 1924.
L. V. RAY,
Mayor of Seward.
Approved:
SCOTT C. BONE,
Governof of Alaska.
PRES. CID1TES
MAKE LABOR DAY
SPEECHES II EAST
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 2.—
President Coolidge, addressing labor
representatives who called at the
White House yesterday said the gov
ernment would continue a policy,
which he declared, had resulted in
American wage earners living better
than at any other time in our his
tory. If anything is to be done by
the government for the people who
toil for the cause of labor, which is
the sum of all other causes, the pres
ident said, it will continue its efforts
to provide healthful suroundings, ed
ucation, reasonable conditions of em
ployment and fair wages for fair
work, stable husine«s prosperity and
the encouragement cf religious wor
sli’p
Davis Explains Position.
WHEELING, W. Va„ Sept .2.—J.
W. Davis, democratic presidential
candidate, declared that those coun
selling the isolation of America were
blind leaders, in a speech to the Ohio
Valley Trades Association. He called
the laboring men as those on whom
the burdens were felt with the most
crushing weight. He would take the
lead in insuring that America takes
her rightful place in the councils of
humanity.
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La Follette Attacks Coolidge.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 2.—
; In his Labor Day speech yesterday,
La 'Follette bitterly attacked Presi
dent Coolidge and the Republican
party proclaiming the arrival of a
] new political cleavage based on eco
nomic divisions, and assailing by
name President Coolidge, whom he
I sarcastically termed the mythically
! strong man, the courageous, strong,
| silent watchman who occupies the
j presidential chair. He attacked
j Dawes for his gallant sendee in a
| war on organized labor, while he re
j ferred to Davis as a man who would
! be willing to be a subservient tool of
I Wall Street.
He asserted that he would mak^
a campaign to convict “the monopoly
system which he declared was pro
! tected by certain laws and whose
powers have become so great that
I both parties have become its abject
slaves. He said the message of both
; the Republican and Democratic par
ties was a message of despair, and
added the only hope of the people
was in the progressive movement.
Wheeler Opens Campaign.
BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 2.—Vice
presidential candidate Wheeler open
ed his campaign for the vice presi
dency in a speech pertaininge to the
new political crisis. He said he glad
ly accepted the classification of “rad
ical” and would be found fighting
against special privileges at all
times.
Bryan Scores Republicans '
ELK POINT, So. Dak., Sept. 2.—In
an address here today before the
South Dakota Farmers association,
Charles W. Bryan, democratic nomi
neey for vice president, directly
charged the party with responsibility
for the period of depression from
which agriculture is now emerging.
“The people of this country, espe
cially farmers and the middle classes,
who have passed through an experi
ence they cannot forget.”
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 2.—
Senator Wheeler stated here last
night that “it is clear that President
Coolidge still has house cleaning to
do.” He also declared that George
Remus was said to have made an af
fidavit repudiating the testimony of
the former Attorney General which
concerned the whiskey distribution,
that was given during the senate in
vestigation. He was a close friend
of Daugherty.
LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 31.—In an ad
dress in this city last night, Monday,
Dawes, vice presidential nominee, de
clared, that the best fundamental ini
tiative the Republican party could
suggest for the farmer was to put his
entire trust in Coolidge for president
and republicans throughout.
FORMER GOVERNOR DIES
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31.—Henry T.
Gage, former governor of California,
died last night after a two years’ bat
tle with that dreadful disease, influ
enza.