FINAL PORT OF CALL FOR THREE
STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
HEADQUARTERS U. S. SIGNAL CORPS
COMMUNICATION FACILITIES I N
ALASKA PROPER
COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA
RAILROAD
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 192r
PRICE TEN CENTS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 107.
MONTHLY SALE OF THE SEATTLE
FUR AUCTION GETS UNDER
WAY
SEATTLE, May 26. (/P)—Mink ami
cross fox showed a decline while oth
er pelts were in demand at the open
ing of the Seattle Fur Exchange
monthly auction. Prices announced
were: Red fox averaged $20.75, the
best lots $40; white fox averaged
$08.25, top $01; muskrats sold rapidly
at an average of $2.10; cross fox show
ing 5 per cent decline, averaged
$25.70; mink averaged $14.21, the best
lot of Interior Alaskans bringing
$25; silver fox went rapidly at $104.75
average, the best skins bringing $220;
lynx was in demand. Beaver, blue
fox, ermine, sable, marten, otter, wolf
f and miscellaneous items will be of
fered today.
EDISON DEDUCES
RATES FOR POWER
TEST STARTS JULY FIRST TO DE
TERMINE INCREASE IN CON
SUMPTION
f SAX FRANCISCO. May 26. (/P)~
The Southern California Edison com
pany will reduce its electrical rates
for households by 14 per cent, effect
ive July 1. to determine whether de
creased rates will result in increased
consumption. The announcement was
made here jointly by the States’ Rail
road Commission and R. H. Ballard, of
^ the Edison company. The present
household rate of 6 1-2 cents per kilo
watt hour in Southern California will
be cut to 5.6 cents.
SKIES NEXT WEEK
COMMANDER HATTON AND HUN
DRED MEN SAILING VIA PANA
MA CANAL
WASHINGTON. May 26. The
new Coast Guard cutter Northland
will sail from Washington next week
to take up duties in the Arctic. The
Northland is in Washington for final
official inspection before leaving with
a hundred officers and men via the
Panama canal for her station in the
Arctic. Commander J. H. Ilottel is
commanding the ship.
WATER NOTICE
a Water will be shut off on For. ,
i
and Jefferson, on Adams streets and
Sixth Ave, including Federal build
ing, depot, and the light plant, at $
’clock tonight.
PAINT SAVES LIVE:'
SAN FRANCISCO, May 26 (/p) —
| R*. painting tin1 green e^ds ol street
! ears white, reduced the number of
injuries to pedestrians by 2d per
cent, tli e Market Street Railway
I Company discovered.
ALEUTIAN ALMOST IDENTICAL
IN EVERY DETAIL AS SISTER
SHIP YUKON
SEATTLE, May 26. (/Pi—Alterations
to the passenger liner Aleutian, which
the Alaska Steamship company recent
ly purchased from the Panama Rail
road company, is rapidly nearing com
pletion, and the vessel will enter the
Alaskan service June 4. She is being
virtually rebuilt while lying at her
| berth and will be in almost every de
j rail a sister ship to the Yukon. The
Aleutian will replace the Northwest
ern in the Southeastern and South
western route with the steamships
Alaska and Yukon, while the North
: western will sail the Southeastern
! route with the Alameda. The steam
ship Lukina will sail every ten days
| for Southeastern Alaskan cannerv
I
j points.
ITHlifllTELY
i KNOWN OF DE PESO
CIRCUMSTANTIAL REPORTS ONLY
BEEN RECEIVED OF SAFE
ARRIVAL
_
LONDON, May 26. </P>—Search is
being made near the Azores for De
Pinedo although circumstantial re
ports received that the Italian aviator
reached either Faval or Flores. The
I dispatches indicated that nothing defi
nitely is known in the Azores other
than the report that a schooner was
j sighted towing the plane generally as
j sumed to be De Pinedo’s.
SOOETT PLflYWRITES
Alii DIVORCED; CRUELTY
SAN FRANCISCO, May 26. (/Pi—
| On grounds of extreme cruilty, charg
ing that her husband was so engross
ed in the drama that he neglected
i her and caused her suffering, Mrs.
Charles Templeton Crocker was
granted a divorce from the society
playwright.
MIDDIES TAKE TO SKATES
ANNAPOLIS, May 26. (/P>— It’s
difficult to put the skids under a
midshipman, but he takes to skates
voluntarily. The roller skating craze
has * 'come epidemic at the United
Sta iava.1 Academy. \ common
Sunday sight on xhe ’ ”*s at the
\cadc’--v is a middm swinging Itard
a-p avoid collision wiii some
fair —„or.
SPEECH TO FRENCH
CHAMBER DEPUTIES
FLIGHT WILL CEMENT
FIRMLY FRIENDSHIP
OF COUNTRIES
PARIS, May 20. (/Pi—Captain Chas.
Lindbergh was introduced to the
French Chamber of Deputies and re
ceived a tremendous ovation. Lind
bergh in a speech said: “When Frank
lin came here lpO years ago somebody
asked him what good is a trial bal
loon? His reply was ‘What good is a
new-born baby.’ Bleriot crossed the
Channel in 1909 and people asked
what good did it dal to cross the Chan
nel. In the same way people are to
day asking what good it has done to
cross the Atlantic. 1 hope it will pro
duce the greatest good not only for
the great spirit of friendship between
the two countries but also for the fu
ture in actual regular communication
across the Atlantic by air.”
BLERIOT CONGRATULATES ACE
PARIS, May 26. (/P> —Louis Bleriot,
the first aviator to cross sea water,
greeted Lindbergh: “Bravo, Monsieur
Lindbergh: you have left little to be
done, but there is the Pacific to cross
and I am going to do it.”
GIVEN WONDERFUL OVATION
PARIS, May 2G. (TP)—Lindbergh was
paraded before the eyes of the pop
ulace of Paris to such cheers as no
man had heard in the city since Wood
row Wilson’s triumphal entry in 1919.
It was. the first opportunity that the
citizens had to see the aviator.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 14. St. Louis 8.
Chicago 1, St. Louis 0.
Detroit 6, Cleveland 9. Only games.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis, 8, Chicago 5.
St. Louis 4, Chicago S.
Pittsburg 2, Cincinnati 0. Only
games .
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 4, Seattle 3.
Oakland 4, Hollywood 3—13 innings.
Sacramento 7, Missions 8.
Los Angeles-Portland—rain.
HOT TOWELS SCARCE
PARIS, May 26. (jP)—The man who
gets shaved in a French barber shop
must wash the lather off his face
himself.
SINGER IS DOCTOR OF MUSIC
APPLETON. Wis., May 26. (/P)—
For the first time in all its 80 years,
Lawrence college lias conferred the
honorary degree of Doctor of Music.
It went to Mme. Ernestine Schumann
Heink.
HOPE
MORE
WI NDM ! LLS GOING
AMSTERDAM, May 26. (/P)—Near
ly half ol' Holland’s famous wind
mills have ‘been distroyed cr removed
in the past lour years. The number
has been reduced from 3,604 to 1,978
in that time.
SEVER RELAT1S
DIPLOMATIC AND TRADE RELA
TIONS WITH MOSCOW ARE
THING OF THE PAST
LONDON, May 26. (/P)—A note con
taining the British government’s final
words to Russia, in course of drafting,
will he handed to the Soviet represen
tative as soon as possible after the
House of Commons approved the gov
ernment’s decision to sever both for
may and trade relations with Moscow.
A period of ten <^ays will be allowed in
which to pack their baggage.
EGG HAS CROWN
Pl'RCELVILLE, Va„ May 26. tVP.i
—S. W. Brooks is preserving an egg
which has on it an impression re
sembling a crown of thorns. It was
laid in his hennery the day before
last Easter.
VICTORIA 1 SEATTLE
LOADING FOR FIRST
CAPT. H. ANDERSON COMMAND
ING FAMOUS OLD SHIP OF
THE NORTH
SEATTLE, May 26. (/P)—Within a
few hours after her return Saturday
from a special voyage to Bristol Bay
and Akutan, the liner Victoria, the j
gold ship of the North, will be prepar- j
ed for her first trip of the year to
Bering sea. She will start loading on j
Monday and sail June 2 for Nome. St. j
Michael and False Pass. Captain An-}
derson is commanding.
INSPECTION MADE TO PASS ON
PLANS FOR $528,000 EXPEN
DITURE
SAN DIEGO, May 26. (Jp)—Brfgadier
General William E. Gilmore, chief of
the material division of the Army Air
Corps, with headquarters at McCook
Field, Neb., arrived here yesterday to
inspect Rockwell Field and to pass
on the plans for $528,000 worth of
improvements at the military flying
post. It was announced some time
ago by the War Department that plans
had been formulated to establish sev
eral squadrons of pursuit planes at
Rockwell.
PRESIDENT HAWAIIAN PINEAP.
PLE COMPANY HANGS UP
$35,000 PURSE
HONOLULU, May 26. (IP)—The
Star-Bulletin carries a copyrighted
article announcing that James D.
Dole, president of the Hawaiian Pine
apple company, has offered a purse of
$25,000 to the first aviator and $10,000
to the second flier to make a non-stop
flight from the Pacific coast to Hawaii
during the 12 months starting August
15. Dole is quoted as being anxious
to have Lindbergh compete; if Lind
bergh does not desire to enter, the of
fer may be made effective sooner.
BELLANCA PLANE ENTERED
NEW YORK. May 26. (/P)—'The Bel
lanea monoplane in which Clarence
Chamberlin had hoped to be the first
to France, will be entered in the Pa
cific coast to Honolulu flight. Dole an
nounced.
REFUSE TO MAKE ORIENTAL TRIP
BECAUSE OF LACK OF SATIS
FACTORY FOOD
LOS ANGELES, May 26. (IP)—Eight
sailors are being held here following
an alleged mutiny on board the French
tanker Hyrcania, in which one man
was seriously injured. The fighting
began when the nine men refused to
sail for Yokohama from the local har
bor. The men claimed they had
signed for one trip from France to
Los Angeles and return and were
forced to make three trips to the Ori
ent from here, during which they had
been half starved. The French con
sul is attempting to compose the dif
ferences.
AMERICAN CROESUS RECEIVES
CHECK FOR SIXTY-THREE
CENTS
GENEVA. May 26. (/P)—John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., who is reputed al
ready to have plenty of money, has
been mailed a check for 63 cents from
the League of Nations. Learning that
the League’s budget failed to provide
for the publication of a handbook of
non-League international organiza
tions, the American Croesus offered
to pay the expenses. He sent 4,500
gold francs and the 63 cents is what
was left over.