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-..."""siWASOLAai^lvEDNESDAY. J WUARY 22. I91».
\ o..l ME Ml. NUMBER 1M. _ •_;____:- ---—
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(By Edward >1. Thierry)
BEKLIN. Jan.. 22— Germ-my i
building super-Zeppelins for trans- J
Atlantic flights. |
l have visited the immense works
outside Berlin at Staaken.
I have been told by l'Oiilina?' !
Kasch. director of the Zeppelin works
at F: iedrichshaven a secret hitherto
unrevealed, that on a record long dis
tance flight in November. 1917. a Zep
pelin flew from Jamboli in Bulgaria to
Khartoum, in Egypt and return, a dis
tance of 10.*'0 miles, in 96 hours.
On this flight the Zeppelin carried
a crew of 22 men and 25 tons of mun
itions and medicine intended for the
_i:-# r*T witi
i vuri v* v-i v. * 4v * a* ^ - - —
-out landing.
This machine had a gas sp ice of
67.000 cubic motors (87,634 cubic
yards.)
The new super-Zeppelin which *s
now building has a gas capacity or
ion 000 cubic meters.
It will have nine engines and eight
propellers.
It will be more than 800 feet ir
length.
This super-Zeppelin will cast near
ly $1,000,000.
It will have a carrying capacity of
100 passengers and 45 tons of m?;!
and baggage and 30 tons of pot”ol. oi ’
and water and provisions.
The first machine for the trirv
Atlantic sendee is to bo completed ir*
July. For maintenance of the service
planned. eight active machines and
four in resen'e will be required.
As soon as the international situ
ation is clarified, it is proposed to
establish the service with a hangar in
New York.
Rasch admitted that the Zeppelin
had not been much of a success in*
war, even from the German view
point.
The nation never had more thaM
six in active duty at one time. It !o*t
twenty, shot down or destroyed by nc
cident.
Rasch exploded rumors that o’an
were made for the bombing of \mer
ica from airships last summer. TT'
said that such a project was neve*
contemplated, because >'t was too dan
gerous and because of the small bomb
capacity.
Oenranv is making the transfor
mation from war to peace-time form.?
tion with astonishing speed, particu!
arly in the commercialization of ;rv
olanes and airships.
T4 is planed to use the same ala?''
which bombed Paris and London 'or
passenger ami freight and portal
flights encompassing Europe.
I was permitted to climb ir.to the
gigantic airplane which last summer
bombed Paris. Its guns and its bomb
ing apparatus are now bmng removed,
and it i* being prepared for long dis
tance flights. It* has a wirg spread o#
143 feet and its length from nose to
tail is a little more than half Its
breadth.
Five engines, each of 2,000 horse
power. turn its five propellers.
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iU Associated Press
SEATTLE, Jan., 22— It is estimat
. d th.it 87,OIK) steel workers are strik
ing in Seattle, Tacoma and Anacortes.
All steel shipyards and many of the
. ood yards, are closed.
The wooden shipbuilding yards M
Olympic and Aberdeen are still open.
The employers in an open state*
p' >nt regret that the men did not take
a referundum vote regarding* a strike.
The Employers believe that the ma
jority of the strikers did not favor a
strike.
Th » officials of the Metal Trade
Conivi! claim that a referundnm vut
w:r taken last November and severa*
’ iv t> urvons voted last week ir. favor
'r the strike. The Metal Trades Coun
*i! claim t’ at die employers make
'2*2 000 clear profit on even* ship.
The strikers today are congregat
'd on sfreet corners in the various cit
ies. In this city, many strikers ha'"
already packed un their tools and left
others are contemplating corner tr
Alaska.
It was equipped with six machine
~uns and carried a ton of bombs.
Its crew consisted of e;ght men, c
•ommander, two pilots, a wireless op
'rater, four mechanicans doubling a
'runners.
It car»iod an eight-hour supply of
oetrol. but bad ext^a tanks for 11
''our flight. It had a speed of 81 mile
•in hour and flew at an altitude or
1.3000 feet.
The weight of the rnachin * is nin'
. and it is capable of carrying five
tors ruor**.
The machine was known as th*
^taaken. by th" Germans, ins* 'ad o'
fhe Gotha a3 the allies believed.
It is possible to walk about the cn~
;n of this huge machine while it f
Hying, and to walk over the wing
from the cabin to the immense en
gin*' bodies, suspended between th'
wings on either side.
The wings are equipped with nav
**e!ous parachute contrivances, am’
necific spots are thinly cover d, p"
'blinp a man to jump through, fore
:ng th*' tearing awav of the rolled-up
parachute.
‘The airship is bettor than the air
•v for commerco,” Rnsch declares.
It ^eqtii-es less power to the passen
r r 4 bar. th° hie planes.”
T! roe thousand workmen were err
’oyed in tk » hie factory and hand
"?.rs in war time. When I visited thr
'’ant, ! saw If,00 workmen preparing
lhe planes for the resumption of com
nerce by Germany.
W’OTIIER PORTUGAL TOWN
GOE> TO THE MONARCHISTS
PARIS. Jan.. Z2 — Valencia, a sm:dT
ov n :n Northern Portugal, has sur
•t le-od to the Monarches. It is un
l< r.'t od that farmer King Manuel do
| ''s not *avor the monarchist move
1 ment.
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TO RESTORE MONARCHY
WASHINGTON, Jan., 22— -The
Stat? Department says that the pres
ent revolution in Portugal is on^ seek
ing to restore a Monarchy. This is the
second movement of the kind within
the past two weeks. The first was ten
days ago and was suppressed by the
government.
CITIZENS ARE REQUESTED TO MEET AND
FORM SEWARD COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATION
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Tomorrow night at 8 o’clock there will be a meeting
of citizens in the Fire Hall. The purpose of the meeting to
morrow night is to form a commercial organization to pro
mote the city’s interests in commercial channels. There are
no bars to the membership, any citizen willing to contri
bute to a fund for the commercial chib’s financing, cun be
come a member. There are many matters to come before
the meeting tomorrow night which if soundly discussed
.vill greatly benefit the city. Let all past organizations lx
forgotten; forget what has happened and come out tomor
row night and start a new organization to promote the in
terests of this city and the surrounding country. The or
ganization may be called the Seward Booster’s club, no
matter what it is called, the intent and purpose of the or-1
ganization is along promotion lines.
If you have the city’s interest at heart, attend the
meeting.
SALT LAKE CITY . Jan., 22— Dr
,'inite steps- toward the organization
f the state for the purpose of providi
ng employment for returned soldiers,
ailors anti war workers has been tak
'n by a joint commission appointed by
L. H. Farnsworth, chairman of the
Utah state council of Defense.
Specifically the task in Utah will
So to find work for an estimated 22,
T00 men who have been in military
•ervice, and for an estimated 15,000
pen who left Utah for employment in
hipvards and munitions plants.
An additional task also faces the
ommittee in this state due to rapidly
’evoloping plans for the reclamation
great tracts of land in Utah foi
•*hich workers must ^e provided. T^c
tate council of defense is providing
•aids for use of various countv and
’’strict councils on which will be list
'd the names of employers, business
nd possibilities of employment, to
other with all necessa^' details. This
Inta is to be tabulated bv each ’nrli
ddual commission, then sent *'0 tV
•fate commission and by that bo*’
be made available to the authoiitie •
•it Camp Lewis and other cantonments
where Utah men are gathered.
The work outlined for the district
•nd county commissions calls for or
•upational surveys and this already is
under way.
Information bureaus for soldiers
ilso will be established throughout th<
tatc. In fact, according to the com
mission plans, the campaign to in-ui’e
vork for the returning soldiers is to
be conducted in a manner similar to
the Red Cross and Liberty Loan cam
>aigns, particularly in the matter p;‘
publicity.
One of the plans which is oxpect
d to insure much work quickly ia th>*
resumption of work on public high
ways and private buildings which was
topped at the request of the war in
dustries board. No stone is to be left
unturned in the effort to find employ
ment for every man who “did his bit”
either in the army or navy or in in
luF^ries doing war work excusively.
Many soldiers who already have re
ceived their discharges have been
found employment and it is expected
that openings for all will be found
without any unusual delay or trouble.
At least such is expected to be the
^asc if the Utah citizens co-operate in
this work as they have in other war
activities.
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There will be no train out for the
north until next Sunday morning 3t
the uauaJ time, about 9 o’clock.
(By Edward M. Thierry)
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ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan., 22—
There's a royal farpily jar in Switz
l orland,
Constantine, ex-king of Greece,
am! his German wife, former Queer
Sophia, arc scrapping again.
humors com< that the er.* whe*
royal couple are estranged an ! *!».;» ;
Sophia will ge* i divorce, leaving
“'lino*’ without throne or wife.
"ophia is all d.'s-s-ed up for ;1r* d'
voice- hut sh" has r.o place to po Fc
, she may compromise in the i a’*i4 .
warfire and bring ; bout sir. '’y r
■*pt; ration.
Her brother. Ka .c*** Wilhelm, u:,<
to be her '*biof m’y Now C r ?ole>
himself, he can't help . ister So''ha.
All Switzerland i4* laughir p over
the royal couple'.: troubles. TheyTe
speculating too. : •».>.: th° eft n-»*e
ported pl^ts of ( onstantim* to g.4
back in power in Grcese.
Constantino lives in a big villa out
side Zurich, surrounded by all his pro
Gcrmsn ministers who fled with hir*
when Greece got to hot.
Family jars are nothing new fro
Mr. ,wd Mrs. Constantine. Bofo * tUo\
went to the junk pile Sophie was e<
tremely jealous of ‘‘Tino", and it wa
common gossip that they had violer
m* *
spats after some of the magnificien'
parties they used to give in the pa’
ace at Athens.
Constantine wasn't above rpyim
on friend wife, either, accord’ng t<
Swiss rumors. He even had severe
dictaphones installed in Sonhia’; bon
doir.
The gossips said Sophia often re
reived Count Mirbach, then Orman
minister of Greece, and the Greet
statesman, Thootokis, in the boudoir
Mirbach later was sent to Russia
where he was assassinated.
Nobody knows what choice ’'its or
scandal percolated to Constantine vie
the dictaphones. But ever since the
royal couple has been in exile in Swit
zerland he ha.? held aloft frem his
wife.
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OFF FOR TDITAROD
Bob Griffins, veteran musher of
Alaska, got away for the Jditarod lat'*
yesterday afternoon. Griffins had If
dogs and two sleds tandem. Twelve
cases of eggs, two cases of lemons,
two cases of oranges and 500 pound
of latest magazine and Sunday paocr
constitutes the shipment Griffin if
taking into the interior. Bob is travel
ing alone and made fast time last
night reaching Mile 20 at 0 o'clock.
Early this morning Griffin was off
again over a trail reported to be like
a boulevard and hard as rock.
C. E. Spillum, of Seldovia is regis
tered at the Hotel Seward.
Frank Cotter headed the human
rotaries on Broadway this morning
digging tunnels through the drifts
made yesterday by the slight north
wind.
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BULLETIN*— PARIS. Jan 22
Eigland. America, France and Ita?>
have v ached a def'uiir a^rcera nt * -
Tardinsr Russia.
PARIS. Jan., 22- The Si rem>
Council of the pcac/* <onfe;
lorided to : end a mission to Coin ••
to report upon the situation h t.
list* set of Europe.
It was stated this morning t'..* '*:
‘dent V/il on and Picmie*
fje r prr.rd the r 'V 'em o ’ 4
inn situation as absolute !y
is n preiiminn y to the f r a
» Lcarrue of Nation:*. 13 a •
*nxious to secure evidence i’1 ' »* •
'ted affairs.
The Par’s Nail today ;ay 4
>oneh are of the opm’on *\ * m \<
mission of Russian affair
\oken from Rob'hm.'ki • -r*
os they are only a di tr.rbiog
ment.
The Russian situation 'm:v. a
be diseased today hy 4’* ? !
Council.
LISTEN TO WILSON
PARIS, Jan., 22— The pence «. >
nee is to di^cu^- this afiernnt n 4J.*
roposal from Provident Wi:» o ?e
janlin^ the Ru. s’an quest.on.
PARIS, Jan., 22— Com nan
hief Foch all nded Jic scs ions l ! i>
of the Supremo Council but t» o’ i\ >
)art in any of the discussions.
FIFTH II. S. DELEGATE
PARIS, Jan., 22— It is believed
hat Presidt nt Wil. or. may rr.n e a
”fth delegate to the American dele
ation attending the peace conL r< ncc
This delegate will represent the Prosi
lont when he returns homo. Elihu
Root and William Howard Ta t
understood to have been sugge* trd.
WANT TO GET IN
PARIS, Jan., 22— Canada an<
ralia, with other selfgoverninc
sh Dominions have started an
'or individual representation
League of Nations. The varioi
ninions claim the right to c~
he League on the same status :.
t nations. Australia claims th i*
has earned the right by her sac f-c
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STRIKE AS PROTEST TO
LIEBKNECHT ASSASSIN/ ’'
AMSTERDAM, Jan., 22— A
°ral strike has been proclair cd r
Remcheid as a protest to the a nssi
nation of Dr. Liebknecht, ai d
clubbing to death of Rosa Lume dr? '
Luxemburg factories are repor "<! t
be closed and traffic stopped.
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In-*; r* t rr Mrkerwi , t'1 ' y::g today
”.t the p op; rr;.*n * i - . L.:: ‘. on, said
that nnare!’ t- plotted ;urninst the
’*vos of John I), Uockef Her and his
son sho ily aft r tho United States
entered the war.
Th' ph *'C!.‘ V."J*e !<!!!'■ 1 tho r>v.
rdo. ion o'* one of their own bombs, ac
. vhr" to U'1 f.o’ico in d * t *r, with
whwh thr / ! ad intend d ' > I:*!! tin*
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SAX DIAGO. Jan 22 2 ajor
K'nn. !>. ?Iarr, of Sar. F anci.'co, for
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e-.‘ : t'.ud !.:iv from over
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AMSTERDAM, Jan., 22— Work
ingmen vi tnatty control Rremcn ac
cording to authentic advices.
The v orl ingm n have occupied two
barrack , t’n tov n hall, tran sport of
fices and brmki. The men have posted
machine gun in the market places
and the public buildings.
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OANDiDATE .
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Jan,, 22— T
do e R -o?«volt would have accepted
the Il^nrbli^an P-* Mmtfal nominit
in*' if he had lived f n 1 if ;t had been
offered to him. Th* ftr.tew.cnt was
mode to’ay 'rom T> publican hcad
irters ible m sn who
.'i him last July.
The men rtr.tH that Roosevelt assur
ed them he would answer the unam
call.
Ivlins Man: Rn^n Wright has tak'm
apartments at the Hotel Seward for
the remainder of the winter.