PARIS, Feb. 5. (JP)—The high cos
of travelling has put a crimp in th
provincial theatre business in France
Railroad fares have risen more rap
idly than the price of theatre tickets
so much so that road companies ar
finding it difficult to make ends mee
and many are going out of business
Others have taken unusual econo
my measures. Plays making hits ii
Paris are often rewritten befor
being sent out on the road in orde
to reduce the number of characters
The provincial theatre has other ai’
merits, which are painful though no
necessarily fatal. One is the compet
ition of the movies and another i;
the high taxes which most municipal
ities assess against visiting troupes
The Peggy O’Neil spring styles
have arrived.
SEWARD’S “CAL” OUTBOUND
C. M.B., it was learned today, plans
I departing for Seattle soon for the
} purpose of purchasing additional shop
equipment to his already large lum
bering concern and to lay in new
stocks of building supplies. C. M. B.
will make the trip a brief one for
he expects to be back in his water
front office two weeks following his
departure.
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STRUTHERS FOUND GUILTY
Guilty on all four counts of the ia
1 dictment was the virdict of.the jury
3 in the case of the United States vs
r J. Fred Struhters, former manager
. for the Waechter Brothers Company
- at Fairbenks, charged with forgery,
t Sentence will be passed later.
; Matt Sefervich, well known resi
. dent of Seward for many years, left
. for the States on the Alaska en route
to California. It is possible, it is
i stated, that the entire family may
follow within a few months.
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NORTHERN LIGHTS
Louis Van, who with Charles Wal
lace operates the Axel Link Island
blue fox ranch, was a visitor to Val
dez last week. He brought with him
53 fox skins, which were shipped to
the London market.
John and Leo Reinken, who are de
veloping a promising gold quartz prop
erty on Mineral creek, made a brief
visit to Valdez last week. They report
good progress in opening up their
claims.
Despite the lower prices for blue
fox skins which have prevailed for the
last two years, blue fox farmers have
met some encouragement in that the
increase has been good, the fur excel
lent and the indications are that the
receipts this year will be considerably
higher than last year. That the in
crease has been good is evidenced by
the fact that to date approximately
700 skins from the Prince William
Sound country have been shipped
through Valdez, and it is expected this
number will be increased to nearly
one thousand when all the shipments
have been made. Other shipments
from the Sound have been made
through Cordova, and while the num
ber of skins so shipped is not known
here, it is probable that something
over one thousand have already been
sent out of this distirct.
Superintendent Huddleston of tlie
Alaska Road Commission has received
orders that the bridge at Tazalina, on
the Richardson highway, which was
recently washed out by the breaking
of an ice jam in the river, will be re
constructed at once.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Quigley left
Fairbanks last week for their home
at Eureka, in the Kantishna district.
They will travel by dogteam from
Kobi. Mr. Quigley will continue de
velopment work oil his lode proper
ties during the winter and will prob
ably return to Fairbanks on a busi
ness trip soon after the breakup.
There is a persistent rumor abroad
that a cold storage plant at Cor
dova is being contemplated. The
success of similar enterprises at
Seward, Juneau, Ketchikan, Peters
burg and Wrangell has, so it is said,
caused interest in the Cordova enter
prise to develop.
Gouvernor Morris, one of the most
popular contributors to the Saturday
Evening Post, and author of the re
cent colonial American novel “Bali
sande” will visit the Copper River val
ley district next fall, it is learned
from acquaintances of the writer.
With the novelist and short story
writer will come J. V. Rittenhouse,
California mining engineer. The pair
plan to come north from Pebble
Beach, Cilaf., in September. They
plan to go to Dawson first, then down
the river to Tanana and over the Rich
ardson highway to Chitina, from
where they will proceed down the
Copper river valley on a sheep hunt.
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Sometime in March he will turn
the nose of his “flying gas tank”
northward from Point Barrow, Alas
ka, in a second effort to find out
whether land lies under the ice-capped
wastes in the vast region above the
North Alaskan coast.
The region has been designated the
Arctic “blind spot” by explorers, for
none know for certain whether its
thousands of acres are land or sea.
Byrd and Amundsen have con
quered the North Pole by air, but their
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exploits have not removed opportuni
ty for further exploration in that
clime, Captain Wilkins believes.
He tried last summer to chart the
“blind spot,” but adverse conditions
prevented achievement of some of his
objectives. With the valuable data
he obtained, he will try again, and
even if he is frustrated a second time
he expects to make meteorlogical and
geographic observations in the ob
scure area.
The Wilkins flight is sponsored by
the Detroit News, and his ship will
be a stock airplane of Detroit manu
facture. His “flying gas tank” is so
called because it has a carrying ca
pacity of 2,000 pounds, most of which
will be gasoline in five tanks. The
plane will cruise for 20 hours with
out refueling.
Wilkins plans to land on the ice
and to prove again that an airplane
can be handled successfully in any
temperature.
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