ITVAT PORT m? nil FOR THRFF HEADQUARTERS U. S. SIGNAL CORPS
FINAL PORT OF CALL FOR THREE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES I N
STEAMSHIP COMPANIES ALASKA PROPER
COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA
RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII.
NUMBER 112. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FIRST COMMERCIAL AIR MAIL
LEAVES NORTHERN CAMP
EN ROUTE TO NENANA
NOME, June 3. (/p)—Bering sea is
open to navigation. The ice went out
at Nome Thursday and Solomon Wed
nesday. Norton sound has been open
two months. The £as schooner Silver
Wave and the Carpenter, enroute to
Nome from Seattle, have not arrived
and no word has been received of
their whereabouts. The Anchorage
plane left Nome en route to Nenana
Wednesday with the first commercial
air mail.
CHALLENGE 1TI0N
SAYS GEN. JADWIN
IMPRESSES ON FLOOD CONTROL
CONGRESS NECESSITY FOR
ADEQUATE METHODS
CHICAGO. June 3. (^—Character
izing the Mississippi flood as a chal
lenge to the nation and a threat less
serious only to war itself Major Gen
eral Jadwin. chief ofthe United States
Army Engineers, impressed upon the
flood control congress the necessity
for adequate methods of flood control.
With 1,400 lives known to have been
lost, millions of acres of agricultural
lands flooded and damages totalling
hundreds of millions of dollars done
in this the greatest of a long series
of floods, it is apparent the floods
threaten and challenge the entire na
tion,” he said.
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FARM LANDS TAKING
'•POOPS IN PURSUrr Op INDIANS
WHO ARE HFADE*) TOWARD
•'FOUNTAINS
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NOGALES, Avi? dune 3. —A
message received today reported that
a band of Yaqai Indians are raiding
farm lands in the vicinity of Elagul
la in the state of Senora and are
taking all beans, corn and peas 'the
men can lay their hands on. Federal
troops are in pursuit of the Indians
who are headed toward the mountains
in the east.
SETS NEW RECORD
PARIS, June 3. (*?)—Driving a
stock model car M. Miarchand estab
lished a new automobile speed record
of 206 miles per hour, bettering Maj
or Seagraves recard of 203 at Day
tona Beach, Florida.
LOWERING PRICES
FISH BUYERS REFUSE INCREASE
PRICE DUE TO PUGET SOUND
COMPETITION
KETCHIKAN, June 3. (/P)—Express
ing dissatisfaction with prices offered
bv Ketchikan buyers of salmon, trol
lers of the Baranoff Island district
ceased fishing. The opening prices
of 16 cents for reds and kings of over
16 pounds, eight for reds between
four and 16 pounds, and four for
whites were offered. The buyers fe
fused to increase the price on the
grounds of lower prices in Puget
sound made competition difficult.
TRAIN WRECK IN FRANCE
PARIS. June 3. (/P)— Nine persons
were killed and seven injured when
the Paris-Nimes express ran into the
overturned cars of a wrecked freightt
rain near Moulins, 160 miles from
here.
FRANCE AIR AGAIN
KEEPS PROMISE AND MAKES A
FAREWELL VISIT—SAILING ON
SATURDAY
PARIS, June 3. (/P)—Laden with j
new honors and bearing with him
memories of a heart warming recep
tion by King George and the English ;
people Lindbergh returned to France!
for his promised farewell visit before
leaving for home Saturday. At Cher-1
bourge he will board the cruiser Mem
phis for Washington, where he will be
greeted by President Coolidge. Lind
berg flew from England in a British
plane after being forced to return be
cause of fog. He left Kenlev Field
at 6:20 o’clock. Conditions were so
bad he descended at Lympne after
covering 50 miles in an hour. Later
he took to the air again and landed
gracefully on Le Rourget Field at
10:02.
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MONOPLANE PACKED
1 SOUTHAMPTON, June 3. (/P)—Lin
berg’s monoplane, “Spirit of St. Louis,”
is packed in two long wooden crates
| which weigh three tons and placed
; safely aboard the cruiser Memphis
which left shortly after for Cherbourg.
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ROUND-WORLD FLIER TO
COMPETE IN HAWAII HOP
LOS ANGELES, June 3. (£>)—
Lieut. Leslie Arnold, one of the Am
erican around-the-world fliers, today
announced he probably would at
tempt a non-stop airplane flight from
Los Angeles to Hawaii and return,
the flight to be started sometime in
August.
CUE CONCEDED
BY MIL SURVEY
BE PARTY CHOICE
IS MOST AVAILABLE PRESIDEN
TIAL CANDIDATE OF THE
REPUBLICANS
; WASHINGTON, Jaune 3. (/P)— Jas.
| Francis Burke, former secretary of the
j Republican national committee, told
| Coolidge that the national survey of
available ’ presidential candidate.’
the “best minds’ ’of the Republican
' party has shown Coolidge to be the
choice of 76 per cent a^ “the most
| available presidential } candidate.”
! Frank O. Lowden of Illinois is endors
ed by 10 per cent while the remaining
| 14 per cent chose other candidates.
Governor Smith is nampd by 51 per
1 cent as the Democrat wlio “would be
! the hardest to defeat." Senator Reed
j was named by 10 per cent and Mc
: Adoo by 9 per cent.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Oakland 14, Missisons 6.
San Francisco 3, Portland S.
Sacramento 5. Hollywood 3.
Los Angeles 3. Seattle 1.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 3, Pittsburg 7.
New York 7, Cincinnati 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 4, Philadelphia 8.
Philadelphia S, Chicago 7.
Broston 2, Detroit 0.
Detroit 0, New York 2.
St. Louis 2, Washington 11.
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COUNTER COMPLAINT
CHAPL1 CHARGES
WIFE INFIDELITY
FINALLY FILES LONG DELAYED
ANSWER TO WIFE’S DIVORCE
SUIT
LOS ANGELES, June 3. (Jp)—Chas.
Chaplin filed a long delayed answer
to Lita Grey’s sensational divorce
suit. He not only denies all her
charges against him, but in a lengthy
counter complaint accuses her of in
I fidelity, extravagance and neglect of
: her children.
BIRGER GANG PLAN TO
KIEL FORMER MEMBER
LOS ANGELES J'lV; 3. (^.—Ar
thur Newman, alleged member of the
notorious Birger gang of Franklin
county 111., who is under indictment
for murder was under heavy guard in
the city jail here following reports
that members of the Sheldon gang
had arrived here from Illinois to kill
Newman.
FAMOUS FLIER IKES
“OUTSIOE” LOOP; IS:
ALL OTHER AVIATORS WHO
HAVE ATTEMPTED LOOP |
HAVE BEEN KILLED
DAYTON, O., June 3. (JP)-~Lieut. ,
James Doolittle, famous flyer, who
has made a Ions list of notable air j
exploits to his credit including a j
flight over the Andes mountains, j
sprung into the limelight yesterday |
when he made an “outside loop”.:
Physicians who examined him, after
lauding, said the airman’s eyes were j
bloodshot and there was evidences of;
hemorrhage of his lungs. Every pil- j
ot who has attempted an outside loop,
before Doolittle has been killed.
WHIPPING POST REVIVED
SANTIAGO, Chile. June 3. In
a campaign against communism the
government has ruled that any for
eigner who returns to Chib* after
being deported shall receive I d lash
es at the w’. h ying
pf'St.
MOTORSHIP LASSEN
SAILS GOAL LADEN
EDOM ANCHORAGE
FIRST PORT OF CALL GRAYS HAR
BOR FOR LUMBER, THENCE
TO SAN FRANCISCO
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(Special to The Gateway)
ANCHORAGE, June 3. (£>)—'The mo
torship Lassen sailed at 7 o’clock last
night for Gray’s Harbor where she will
pick up the balance of a cargo of lum
ber for San Francisco. The Lassen is |
l
under charter to Capt. C. P. Pedersen |
of the Western Alaska Trading com-j
pany of Anchorage, and arrived a week!
i
ago with a full cargo of general mer-:
chandise on the initial trip of direct |
service to San Francisco to Cook In-!
let. It is estimated the Lassen will j
save the merchants $5,000 a trip in re
Iduced freight charges. The Lassen
| carries 300 tons of sacked Matanuska
;coal and a carload of birch wood, as
: an experiment shipment, which it is ■
|
believed will be satisfactory to the
California market awaiting develop
ment. The Anchorage plane arrived
at 6:30 last night from Nome via
! Fairbanks.
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ROCHESTER, N. Y„ June 3. (£>)—i
Canadian rum runners are now using
submarines to convey liquor to the
United States shores, according to
coast guardsmen who declare they
saw a submarine submerging 300
yards from them while they were on
the lookout.
mm sue
FOB NOME DELAYED
ACCOUNT OF ICE
WAS SCHEDULED TO LEAVE SE
ATTLE SATURDAY — DANGER
BEING MAROONED
SEATTLE. June 3. (JP)—The S. S.
Victoria will sail for Nome Tuesday
instead of Saturday, the Alaska Steam
ship company announced following re
ceipt of advices that the ice floes
block the Nome roadstead and extend
south of the Pribiloff Islands. With
the prospect of delay in Bering sea,
and requests of passengers that they
had rather remain in Seattle than be
marooned in the ice caused the post
ponement.
ALLEGED GIGANTIC
PLOT TO SMUGGLE
RUSSIANS TO 0, S,
CONSPIRACY REVEALED BY U. S<
ATTORNEY AS ORIGINATING
FROM CUBA
PHILADELPHIA. June 3. (/P)—Ev
ery available man his been called into
action by the Immigration Depart
ment to combat an alleged plot to
smuggle thousands of Russian aliens
into this country from Cuba. The
conspiracy was revealed by Assistant
United States District Attorney Gra
ham who asserted that there are be
tween 35,000 and 40.000 Russians,
mostly Jews, in Cuba waiting oppor
tunity to slip into the United States
on freight steamers or any way they
can reach the Florida coast line.
RETURNS TO FOLD;
“WAYLAN D DEAN" TOOK THREE
DAYS OFF WITHOUT ASKING
PERMISSION
PHILADELPHIA. June 3. (/P)—
Pitcher “Wayland Dean” who van
ished from the Phillies folds three
days ago, turned up today at the club
house and was informed by manager
“Stuffy Mclnnis” that he had been
indefinitely suspended with out pay.
Dean did not appear at Shibe Park
Monday or Tuesday when the Phil
lies broke even in two games wikt
Brooklyn. He has not pitched in a
game since the season started.
NEW SIZE APPROVED
WASHINGTON, June 3. (/P)—The
plan to reduce the size of paper
money was given official approval
here yesterday. A new dollar bill
will be issued in about three months.