Hemard Daily Gatemsty
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 63.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1928.
PRIC^’.TEN CENTS
HALF A DOZEN EXPEDITIONS UNDER
WAY TO CARRY ON EXPLORATIONS
Area North of Alaska To Be Gridironed By Air Courses
This Summer By Numerous Polar Parties.
NEED TRAFFIC COP AT POINT BARROW
To Search for the Famed “Lost Continent of the Arctic”;
Americans Certain Planting Flag First for U. S. A.
In order that Seward citizens may act as their own traf
fic cops this summer and keep a record of the darting,
buzzing planes and dirigibles which may possibly hover
overhead in the opaque mists en route to and fro mthe
Polar fields, a description of the various expeditions might
not be amiss.
Just about everybody already knows all what there is
to be known thus far about the Detroit Arctic Expedition,
headed by Captain George Hubert Wilkins. This party has
two monoplanes in which an attempt to discover new Arc
tic lands will be made. The party may fly across to Spitz -
bergen. They are in Fairbanks now preparing to hop off
to Point Barrow any day from which point the final dash
into the “Unknown” will be made.
From Rome To Nome.
The flight of the Ellsworth-Amund
sen expedition across the North Pole,
while directly under the auspices of
the Norwegian Aero Club, will receive
the support and material assistance
of half a dozen countries. Of the
crew of sixteen that will be aboard
the Norges when the airship leaves
the soil on the final stage of the big
flight from Kings Bay, Spitzbergen,
eight are Norwegian, six are Italian,
one American and one Swedish. Gt.
Britain and Russia will supply land
ing places for the airship on the jour
ney from Rome to Spitzbergen.
During a recent test flight the Nor
ges was kept at a speed of between
45 to 55 miles an hour. The dirigi
ble is capable of attaining a maximum
speed of TO miles an hour. The start
from Spitzbergen will not be made
until weather conditions are auspi
cious, and as soon as the Norges takes
the air an arrangement with the Unit
ed States comes into effect whereby
the wireless station at Cordova will
send weather reports continuously for
three days. This service will include
signals from five Alaskan stations. It
is the aim of the leaders of the ex
pedition to make the flight across the
North Pole, carefully observing con
ditions, and then to continue on to
Point Barrow and Nome.
The Norges carries 30 tanks for
fuel, each containing 67 gallons, tho
weighing only a trifle over eleven
pounds. The total contents of the fuel
tanks are 2,000 gallons, or 13,000
pounds. Another 400 pounds of fuel
is carries in tins. With this amount
of fuel the dirigible will be able to
cover a distance of well over 3,000
miles.
The French Expedition
The French scientific expedition to
the North Pole, which will proceed
to Franz Josef Land in August, before
the island is isolated by ice, will re
main in winter quarters there until
the end of February, 1927. Early in
March, while the ice is still strong,
the party will leave by sledge for the
North Pole, thence to Point Barrow.
The whole trip can be made, it has
been stated, before the -ice begins to
break and under satisfactory condi
tions of visibility. The principle on
which the automotive sledges are bas
ed, was derived from the front of the
tread of a dog. A special wheel jut
ting from the front of the sledge pro
vided with feet, which grips into the
ice, dragging the sledge ahead. In
stead of using trailers behind the six
sledges, as originally planned by the
leaders of the party, twelve sledges
have been recommended, which will
permit greater rapidity in advancing
and thus a wider traveling range with
less gasoline. The speed of the sled
ges will be 25 kilometers an hour.
Byrd To Soar North
The object of Lieut. Commander
Richard E. Byrd, commander of the
naval unit of the recent MacMillan ex
pedition, with his independent group
to explore the Polar regions from the
air will be -in particular to investigate
that region of North Canada, Green
land and Alaska, between Alaska and
the North Pole, with a possible dash
to the Pole. It is expected that King’s
Bay, west of Spitsbergen or Ttah will
be used as the base for the takeoff
THIS SHOULD
INTEREST OUR
SCHOOL MARMS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 18.
(AP).—Delegate William P. Jar
ret of Hawaii, introduced a bill
to exempt school teachers of Ha
waii and Alaska, in pay of the
Territories, from the Federal In
come tax.
LEAGUE COUNCIL
EXPECTSSTUDY
AMERICA ENTRY
_
GENEVA, Mar. 18. (JP)—The council
in secret session during the night de
cided to put Germany on a commis
sion which will study a revision of
covenant clauses concerning its com
position and methods of election to
the council. The council today decid
ed to discuss at a fifteen minute ses
sion the American adherence to a per
j manent court of justice, including its
j reservations in the senate.
! Chamber reported he had been ad
vised by the British ambassador at
Washington that the American gov
ernment did not deem such an exam
ination of the problem by the council
offensive or unwarranted.
north, and Point Barrow, their final
destination.
Two amphibian planes, capable of
landing on sea, snow and land, will be
used for this flight. The naval offi
cer is backed by J. D. Rockefeller, jr.,
Edsel Ford, Vincent Astor, and two
other wealthy Americans.
Wade Wades Into Limelight.
Lieut. Leigh Wade, World Flyer,
and well known to many Seward citi
zens, will lead a Polar flying expedi
tion and with his party, outfit and
planes, planned leaving Seattle June
8, direct for Nome, thence to Point
Barrow where the takeoff will be
made. Noel Wein, who, previous to
last fall had flown for two years in
the Interior, and also Anton Ander
son, another well known Alaskan, will
be members of the Wade expedition.
July is the time set for the first
flight. It has been stated the Pole
flight will be of minor purport or the
expedition, Wade having said it will
be his purpose to establish a base
on the “believed to be unknown conti
nent, lying north of Siberia and Alas
ka. Five Douglas planes, each with, a
220 h.p. motor will be taken north.
Russians Plan Expedition
No official reports have been issued
from Russia, in fact the only report
that the Bolsheviks planned to make
an attempt to discover new Arctic
lands, eminated from Lieut. Wade,
shortly after his announcement that
he was planning an expedition.
It has also been rumored that En
gland, Japan and Italy are strongly
considering sending-expeditions into
the Arctic.
Spokane High School
Wins Championship
SEATTLE, March 15.—The Lewis
and Clark highschool of Spokane, de
feated the Yakima school who were
last year’s titleholder and won the
stat highschool basketball champion
ship by the score of 20 to 17. The
score at the end of the first half was
11 to 6 in favor of Spokane.
SEATTLE-ALASKA
NEWSPAPERMAN
ADVANCING B.C.
MINING INTERESTS
SAYS FLORIDA CAPITALISTS ARE
STUCK ON ALASKA AND ITS
OPPORTUNITIES
SEATTLE, Wn„ Mar. 18. (/P)—Frank
J. Cotter, who writes under the name
of Pat O’Cotter and who is business
manager of the Alaska Weekly pub
lished in Seattle, told the Seattle Min
ing Club at a luncheon yesterday that
“I had found greater interest in Al
askan things in Miami and Hollywood
by the Sea, than could be found here.
Florida men are going to visit Alas
ka this summer and hunt big game
and fish, and see real hills.”
Cotter went to Florida to interest
capitalists in the Cassiar district of
British Columbia and said his mis
sion met with great succes.
PASSAIC TEXTILE
WORKERS STRIKE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. IS. (/p)
—A delegation of strikers from the
textile mills at Passaic, N. J., failed
to lay their grievances before Presi
dent Coolidge. The mill owners from
the strike area conferred with Secre
tary of Labor Davis and his councilli
ators with a view of settling the con
troversy.
Albert Weisbord headed the strik
ers who visited the White House and
conferred half an hour with Secretary
Sanders, who advised them to see the
Department of Labor.
WESTERN WATERS
OF COAST LINE
BE UNSURVEYED
SURVEYS TO WESTWARD WILL
BE DISCONTINUED THIS
‘ SEASON
SEATTLE, March 17 (#).—Capt.
Derickson, North Pacific Supervisor
of Coast and Geodetic Survey, an
nounced yesterday he will renew
work this spring mapping the chan
nels of southeastern Alaska, the work
to be done by the Explorer and Sur
veyor.
The Surveyor will work outside
the channels north of Sitka. The
Explorer will work on the inside
passage south of Juneau.
€apt. Derickson said the urvey
will discontinue this year to explore
Alaskan western waters in order to
obtain better charts of Oregon and
Washington -waters.
Officials Election Board
Appointed by the Council
Officials for the Town election, on
April 6, were appointed at last night’s
special meeting of the Town Council.
Wm. H. Whittlesey, attorney, was ap
pointed to the position of inspector;
George Long and All Peel, judges; H.
Dougherty and Mrs. Ehvell, clerks.
Mayor L. V. Ray made a complete
detailed report to date of the legal
work on the recent light case. A set
tlement was arrived at for attorney’s
services rendered.
NOME RACE POSTPONED
ON ACCOUNT SOFT SNOW
NOME, Mar. 18. (TP)—The forty-mile
dog race has been postponed on ac
count of the soft trail and stormy
weather. The race will be run at the
first opportunity.
TELEGRAPHIC
BREVITIES
NEW YORK.—Graveraet Y. Kauf
mann, son of the President of Cha
tham and Phoenix the National bank
eloped and married Mae Daw, former
Follies show girl.
WASHINGTON.—-The Senate Com
mittee is expected to report Wednes
day for uniting of Senator Brookhart
of Iowa and the Senate may install
Captain Steck who contested the elec
tion.
NEW YORK.—The whipping post
in Delaware has won that state the
lowest burglarly insurance rate.
TANGIERS. — Internation politics
in Morocco is beginning to boil again.
The natives are proclaiming that now
is the time to end Internation control
of Tangiers.
NEW YORK.—Viola Genrty Avia
trix thrilled crowds of people by
piloting her plane beneath Brooklyn
and Manhattan bridges.
CLEVELAND. — Lieutenant John
McReady of McCook field at Dayton
estblished a new world record by a
flying plane ascending to an altitude
of 39,000 feet.
NEW YORK.—Forty three thous
and travellers are handled in and out
of New York each day by the steam
ship and railroads.
PARIS.—M. Perot, new finance min
ister, announced that only 275,000
out of 1,800,000 francs have been paid
on the tax voted last December to
offset inflation.
WASHINGTON. — President Cool
idge went on a week-end cruise on the i
Mayflower after receiving word that
the condition of his father, Colonel
Coolddge, was slightly improved.
W/ ASHINGTON. — The , Treasury
Department is prepared to purchase
from the holders of $100,000,000, of
Liberty Bonds to apply them to a
sinking fund for the Public debt.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15. (£>)—
The city sweltered in the warmest sun
of the year. A temperature of 70 de
grees was officially recorded. Life
guards have been assigned to the
beaches.
WASHINGTON.—The navy has de
veloped a new sounding apparatus for
underwater telephoning between sub
marines and other warships.
NEW YORK.—Municipal operation
of street cars on Staten island has
proved a failure after losing $346,000
in four years time.
WASHINGTON.—Commerce and
Labor reports show improved busi
ness and industrial conditions.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15. (£>)
San Francisco’s mad strangler struck
again yesterday but the woman’s ter
ror strength cheated him of death.
Mrs. Edna Martano, wife of a real es
tate man, choked by the fiend tore
away before losing consciousness and
leaped behind a door and sprang the
lock which furnished a barrier until
she could call for aid. The fiend es
caped before help arrived.
HER IS KILLED
WHILE RESCUE
OF TWO OTHERS
WALLACE, Ida., Mar. 18. (JP)—
Clarence McMurray and Dan Knup
perberg, trapped at the 1800-foot level
in the mine for 36 hours, were rescued
unharmed. Shortly before the res
cue, E. J. Roesner, a miner, was kill
ed when in another part of the mine,
a large slab of coal falling on him.
PROMISED WEATHER PREVAILS
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 17. (£>)—
Summer weather has prevailed on the
coast as was promised the last two
days.
Another chapter of the great India
Hunting scenes at the Liberty tonite.
Complete Half Century As
Printer In One Newspaper
INDIANAPOLIS, March 15.—Fifty
years of world events, written into
the columns of The Indianapolis News
have passed before the eyes of Wil
liam T. Ellis, who today completed
half a century’s service with the me
chanical department of the newspap
er.
COLONEL COOLIDGE
LOW; LITTLE HOPE
IS ENTERTAINED
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE LEAVES TO
BE AT BEDSIDE OF
DYING FATHER
PLYMOUTH, Mar. 13. (/P)—Colonel
Coolidge at midnight had a heart tre
mer which alarmed his nurse, but ral
lied so his physician was not sum
moned. The patient early today had
a second severe attack, his pulse beat
ing 140 when Dr. Cram called. He
said the patient might die any mo
ment.
President Coolidge is expected to
arrive before tomorow morning.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 18. (>p)
—President Coolidge prepared to go
to the bedside of his father and is ex
pected to leave early this afternoon.
In order to reach Plymouth he must
leave the train at Ludloe, 12 miles
away, or at White River Junction, 30
miles away, for the last stretch is
over snowy roads.
PLYMOUTH, Mass., Mar. 18. (JP)—
Dr. Albert Cram said that Col. Cool
idge would not last more than 48
hours, perhaps not more than 24.
HE TOOK THE CASH
BECAUSE HE HAD
IT COMING
JAFET LINDEBERG AND HIS DE
FUNCT BANK FIGURES IN
SEATTLE COURTS AGAIN
SEATTLE, Wn., Mar. 18. (JP)—Coun
sel H. C. Cutler, accused of embezzl
ing $6,480 from the Arctic Fishing &
Trading company told the jury today
that “the books of this company are
crooked and were used to hide the as
sets which belonged to the Scandina
vian-American banks of Tacoma and
Seattle. This fish concern is far from
being a small enterprise and manag
ed by a poor fisherman, but is really
owned by Jafet Lindeberg.”
Lindeberg, a former Nome banker I
and mining man, lives in California.
He defeated the authorities in extra
dition to this state after the Scandina
vian-American bank failed and after
the Tacoma grand jury indicted him
in 1921 in that case.
Cutler was formerly aln adjutant!
in the American Legion post of Seat-1
tie. He told the jury the money he is !
accused of taking was due him in wag
es.
B. C. LUMBER MILLS
MUST MAKE ALL
WAGES SAME
VICTORIA, B. C., Mar. 18. (JP)—
The deputy minister of labor announc
ed a new minimum act, requiring em
ployers to pay the same wage to all
workers, regardless of race, to be ef
fective May 1. The new act will be
applied first to the lumber industry
where orientals have been employed at
cheaper wages than the whites.
Swimming Pool Is Feature
Hawaiian War Memorial
HONOLULU, March 15. (^—Ha
waii’s memorial for its soldier dead
of the world war will be featured by
a swimming pool which the ocean will
provide with water and the tides keep
clean. It will be constructed at Wai
kiki beach, cost $250,000 and be more
than 300 feet long by 120 feet wide.
Bleachers on one side will seat 2,000
persons.
NO CONSPIRACY IN
CONJUNCTION WITH
SEATING OFSEXTON
“FROZEN FOOT" JOHNSON CASE
CITED BY SUTHERLAND AS
FAILURE TO PROSECUTE
FORMER DRY CZAR IN ALASKA
IN DEFENSE OF SUTHERLAND
Marshall Intimates Collusion Existed
Between Bootleggers and Mar
shals In First Division.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 18. (/P)
—Delegate Dan A. Sutherland charged
U. S. District Attorney Arthur G.
Shoup had failed to diligently prose
cute several liquor cases which re
sulted in the failure to convict “Frozen
loot” Johnson, whom he described,
“that arch criminal and biggest boot
legger in Alaska.”
Shoup denied the charges and said
Johnson had not been arrested on one
occasion because prohibition agents
advised him to postpone proceedings
until they had obtained “an open and
shut case.”
John B. Marshall, special assistant
attorney general, and former prohibi
tion director of Alaska, denied the ar
rest of Johnson had been delayed on
the request of enforcement authori
ties. He said if the case “had been
followed up, I believe he would have
been convicted.”
Marshall said he had been transfer
red to Washington because he had
been arresting too many prominent
bootleggers.’ ’ The name of former
Governor Scott C. Bone was frequent
ly mentioned as being prominent
among the opponents of prohibition.
In one of Bone’s speeches he was
quoted in which he referred to prohi
bition enforcement agencies as “the
fifth wheel of the government.”
Contentions of the various factions
in Alaska politics got into the record
several times, until Chairman Cum
mins remarked: “We cannot continue
to have this controversy here; let’s
have harmony.”
Marshall yesterday said, during his
tenure of office in Alaska, he had dif
ficulty in obtaining cooperation from
the U. S. marshal forces, especially
at a time when several notorious road
houses were in operation.
Shoup, in explaining his activities
at the Republican National convention
at Cleveland said he nominated Geo.
Sexton of Seward, National Commit
teeman, because he had been inform
ed no official count of the primary
ballots had been made, and that John
Frame had an unofficial majority of
150 votes. Shoup said that “Frame,
in my opinion was not the man qual
ified for the position. If I had known
then what I know at the present time,
I would have had the entire matter
referred to the whole committee.”
Shoup and Judge Reed emphatically
denied they had conspired to seat Sex
ton instead of Frame on the commit
tee.
Charles H. Miller, former assistant
United States district attorney testi
fied before the Judiciary committee
today regarding the abatement pro
ceedings against disorderly houses in
Ketchikan, and said that such pro
ceeding could have been extended for
more than a year “if anyone should
have been more interested and more
active on such matters.”
Correspondence, which was read in
to record tended to show friction be
tween District Attorney Arthur G.
Shoup and Miller, prior to the lat
ter’s resignation, which was request
ed by the Department of Justice.
Miller told the committee he was of
fered 1500 as a monthly bribe by
a Prince Rupert liquor ring if the
attorney’s office would “not be too
hard’’ on the bootleggers if any of
them would be arrested. Miller in
troduced a letter he wrote Shoup re
garding such overtures, and Shoup’s
answer was asking to have the matter
stand in abeyance.
“Why didn’t you arrest the bribers
on the spot?” asked Chairman Cum
mins.
Miller replied he had no authority.
No word has been received from
the M. S. Boxer which is now again
overdue reaching this port.
-i*-.. —
The steamer Starr is still due to ar
rive in port Saturday, no word to the
contrary having been received from
Capt. O. A. Johansen.