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VIKING OF THE AIR
It was about the year 1376 when Eric the Red pointed
the prow of his little craft to sea and sailed out of the
Norse port in search of new lanes across uncharted seas.
He might have been the original Odysseus in his memora
ble voyage from the castle of Circe into the mystic land of
Hades. The ultimate result of that adventure was the
discovery and settlement of Greenland. Many years later
Biarni, son of Heriulf, intent upon spending the winter
with his father, sailed out of Iceland for Greenland, wan
dering the sea and sailing by instinct, sought the land of
his father. On that memorable voyage he encountered
what is set down in the old Norse Sagas as “Vineland”,
believed to he America.
Since that day the sea and the Norseman have be
come practically synonimous terms, with the blood of
Eric the Red and Biarni blazing the trails of the sea
to the farthest corners of the earth.
With no more seas to conquer the Norseman lifted his
eyes to the sky. Saturday Captain Charles Lindbergh
leapt from earth to challenge the uncharted seas of the
air in a different ship from that which first touched Amer
ican shores. Like the old viking who sought Valhalla via
the sea, Lindbergh plunged into the unknown, as he ex
pressed it. “like one entering the death cell.” He found his
living Valhalla on Labourget Flying Field. Paris, when
he sailed out of the night, having traversed the air trails
from New York to Paris alone and unassisted, thus set
ing up another monument to the Norse courage and spir
it of adventure.
MORE ON BAHAI
(Continued fiom Page One)
der one of the important services for
which Congress had intended it.
“A few hours before President Har
ding sailed from Seward for Seattle
he decided to check up on these rep
resentations. unknown to the three ap
pointees of Fall and Denby. On his
own initiative, and acting through the !
intemediary of a newspaper corre
spondent with the Presidential party
and through one of the members of his
official family, President Harding sent
for and read a verified report of the
naval coal commission of 1921, which
I had in my possession. That report
showed that the naval coal commis- j
sion had tested 5,000 tons of coal from;
the naval coal reserve in the Matanus- i
ka field side by side with the 5,0001
tons of Pocahontas coal from West
Virginia, in both boiler and labora-1
tory, and had pronounced it 15 per1
cent higher in every point of com- j
parison than the Pocahontas coal.
The Navy Coal Commission also
stated in its report that this coal from 1
, i
the naval reserve in the Matanuska
district was suitable in every particu
lar for naval use, that there was 600,
000 tons blocked out for immediate
mining, that there was 2,000,000 tons
in sight, and probably a total of 30,
000,000 tons in the naval reserve.
Fall-Denby Agreement
“At the time President Harding re
ceived and read a photographic copy
of a private memorandum agreement
between Secretary of the Interior Fall
and Secretary of the Navy Denby, by
which they bound themselves to trans
fer the naval coal operations in the
Matanuska field from Denby to Fall,
together with other papers, w'hich
proved that Fall and Denby were then
attempting to dispose of the naval coal
reserve in the Matanuska district pre
cisely as they did with the naval oil
reserve in the Teapot Dome district
of Wyoming.
“Well, to make a long story short,
when President Harding delivered his
memorable speech *ip Seattle after his
return from Alaska, only two of his of
ficial family knew these secrets, or
knew what kind of a speech lie was
going to make. In that speech he sur
prised the political world by announc
ing a complete and radical reversal of
his former views and attitude on Alas
kan policies and problems. He came
out frankly in favor of the conserva
tion laws, and against all the meas
ures and policies for Alaska which
Secretaries Fall. Denby and Weeks
and their Alaskan appointees had been
urging.
“And now for the climax. If all
those officials, including Fall and Den
by and Weeks and Bone, who took
particular pains to keep from Presi
dent Harding everybody not in the
circle of their conspiracies, myseli
■as w^ell as others, were to be told that
I had been officially and privately and
confidentially requested to submit a
written outline of the kind of a speech
I thought the President ought to de
liver on his return to Seattle, they
might be incredulous. If they wTerc
told further that President Harding
•followed the outlines of the speech
thus requested and submitted, in its
entirety, their incredulity might be
modified with their knowledge of the
facts as they actually occurred.”
(Mr. Ballaine has the original ol
an official letter making the requesl
he refers to, which he showed the
editor of The Gateway.)
“All this has a direct bearing or
Alaska and the Alaska Railroad,” Mr
/Ballaine continued." Taken with othei
circumstances, it furnishes pretty
good proof that the government-owned
Alaska Railroad can be placed on £
profitable and highly useful basis
whenever the responsible officials
\choose to initiate policies that wil
make it profitable and useful.”
! Turning to matters of a more loca
nature, Mr. Ballaine cited other in
stances of misrepresentation, both t(
BELLANCA ATLANTIC
FLIGHT CALLED OFF;
PLANE IN FLAMES
OWNER AND PILOT COME TO
PARTING OF THE WAYS;
ONLY BYRD LEFT
1 NEW YORK, May 23. (/P)— Moving;
!o a definite split between Charles!
Levine, owner of Bellanea airplane!
, and G. M. Bellanea designer, Clair-j
ence Chamberlain ideal of Lindbergh !
for ocean flight honors will never!
take off on the trans-Atlantic trip, i
After Bellanea and Levine came to
the parting of the wavs the owner'
declared the Bellanea machine would
never take air. At the very moment
the plane was ready to take off for
Paris. The airship was being wheel
ed back to the hangar when suddenly
it burst into flames. For a moment
it was thought the craft must be
lost but the flames subsided leaving
the body unhurt. Only commander
Byrd looms as a duplicate of Lind-;
bergh’s Historic achievement.
the President and other high officials,
which aimed to discredit anybody and
everybody not in the inner circles of
Fall and Denby and their Alaska ap
pointees.
“For example,” he said, *‘I learned
while President Harding was in Sew-!
ard that one of Bone’s appointees had
told him that I had acquired the orig
inal townsite of Seward with Alaska
Central money. The story included a
recital to the President of an affi
davit by John Dowdle, in which Dow
dle charged that I had taken $5,000
of Alaska Central bonds from him by
deception. President Harding was
further told that in 1021 I went along
the route of the Alaska Railroad from
Seward to Fairbank under an as
sumed name and used railroad meal
tickets in that disguise, in a country
where I am known to every man and
•woman in every mile of the way. The
viciousness and falsity of those state
ments were quickly proven to the
President from official documents, in
cluding the judgment I recovered in
the United States District court of this!
district against the Canadians who
fraudulently tried to get the townsite
from me by alleging these false charg
es, and also by the judgment for $30,
£>00 which I recovered against them in
in the United States District court at
Seattle before Judge Cushman for
bringing a suit on false and malicious
statements. The Canadians settled
with my attorneys for that judgment,
too, in payments made through the;
Seattle branch of the Canadian Bank ;
of Commerce.
Why Harding Turned
“Of course when President Harding
heard the complete story, or stories,
and realized how trusted officials un
der him had lied to him from beginning
to end, he turned against them and
all that they represented. That is
the explanation of his change of at
titude in his Seattle speech.
“I mention the personal phases of
these matters only because they are
Necessary, with others, to give a clear
understanding of the extremes that
the partisans of the Fall-Denby crowd
Cared to go.
“I encountered again and again pre
cisely such conditions of wilful but se
cret falsehood in all my long efforts
to get the Alaska Railroad act through
Congress, in getting the route chosen
from Seward thorugh the Susitna val
ley, and in my efforts to have the rail
road honestly managed to serve the
purposes for w.hich Congress intend
ed it.
“Fortunately, most of the officials
, who tried their best to wreck and dis
. credit the Alaska Railroad have grad
ually been exposed and eliminated,
and the railroad is slowly but surely
, (making progress to better condi
, tions.”
I
I
T1 ctu-o Larkin of Chicago com
plained to the police that his w’fe
had hidden his shoes so that he
could not go out at night.
LIBERTY
THEATER
One Show
Tonight
8 Sharp
LEWIS STONE
ANNA 0. NILSSON
in
Too Much Money
From the famous Stage play of
ISfiSEL ZflNGWILL
It is the first time these two stars play together,
and the result is sure good
With it will be a Pathe News and a very inter
esting Pathe Review
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A SIDE-SPLITTING COMEDY REEKING IN
WHOLESOME FUN
TO BE PRESENTED AT THE LIBERTY
THEATRE ON THE NIGHT OF
Wednesday, May 25
by the
Seward High School
This play was written by the author of the
“Prince Chap” and “The Little Rebel.”. It ran for
over a year at the Longacre theatre, in New York
and excited such a furore of fun and praise as has
never been exceeded in the history of metropolitan
theatricals.
Take in the Lioerty tonight.
Seattle Tee Cream at Schallerer’s
Alaska Shop. tf
A newsy newspaper, The Weekly
Gateway.
Sunkist fresh fruit or
angeade and lemonade. See
it made at the Candy Cot
tage.
The Best in the “Belt”—Gateway.