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XOLUME XXII. NUMBER 141. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 9,1927.
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Co-operative Program
" And Settled Objective
Helpful Early Results
FOUNDER OF SEWARD SUBMITS OUTLINE OF
PROGRAM WHICH WOULD MAKE REGIONS
SERVED BY ALASKA RAILROAD MECCA FOR
THOUSANDS OF TOURISTS AND ASSIST IN
BRINGING PERMANENT SETTLERS—BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION OF RAILROAD UNDER MAN
AGER SMITH LAUDED
Residents of Seward and of all other towns along the
line of the Alaska Railroad have been for several years
discussing and urging the need and desirability of bring
ing tourists by the thousands to spend the long and de*
lightful summers in these latitudes of perpetual daylight
and magnificent scenery, but the work of bringing them
has faltered. A few hundred come every summer, rush
along the railroad, and go out. But the thousands who
should come to stay for weeks or months are lacking.
The Gateway requested John E. Ballaine today to
submit an outline of a program that could and should be
put into effect to make the country along the Alaska Rail
road the tourist mecca for thousands every summer. His
wide experience and acquaintance in the United States
and the pioneer work he has done in Alaska as founder of
Seward, and in originating, planning and carrying thru
to completion the Alaska Railroad project qualify him to
handle that subject intelligently and practically.
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EXPLORATION IT SOUTH
POLE MOST DANGEROUS
PARIS, July 9. (/P)—Commander
Byrd told the French newspaper men
he plans to start his projected South
Pole expedition “before the end of the
year. The difficulties of the trip are
exceptional, and South polar explora
tion is much more dangerous than the
> North. To reach the South pole he
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will be obliged to fly at a height of
4,000 feet and the winds make flying
most arduous and perilous. Our party
of 40 or 50 will include experts in va
rious branches of science.”
BYRD SAYS FAREWELL TO
PARIS; HOMEW1ID BOUND
PARIS. July 9. (£>)—Commander
Byrd and his companions said fare
well to Paris, leaving on the train for
Callais. There were no formalities,
but a big crowd cheered the aviators.
From Callais they will motor to Dun
kirk where he will be made a free cit
izen of the city; then they will go to
Le Touquet where a banquet has
been planned. They plan to arrive at
Cherbourg Tuesday to board the Le
viathan for the United States.
JOHN DREW DIES
SAN FRANCISCO, July 9. (£>)—
John Drew, aged 73, noted American
actor, died after being confined to a
hospital since May 31 with arthritis
and rheumatic fever.
“The best I can do to give an out
line of what should be done along
'hese lines,” he said today in reply
to The Gateway's request, “is to
refer to a conversation I had on this
same subject a few years ago with
Harry Chandler, publisher of the
L-os Angeles Times. He was discuss
ing the feasibility of putting touiist
boats on the run from Los Angeles
to Seward for four summer months
each year. He favored it strongly.
He said to me, ‘“I investigated the
situation, and found that the hotel
accommodations would care for only
a few hundred all together from Sew
ard through to Fairbanks and that
there were practically no automobile
roads in the Kenai Peninsula, which
is the particular part of Alaska that
offers the best scenic attractions for
tourists. If the Alaska Railroad
would build, or have somebody build,
at least two big hotels, each capable
of accommodating 500 or more guests,
at desirable • centers in the Interior
of the Kenai Peninsula, and another
near Mount McKinley, and would see
to it that 200 or more miles of auto
mobile roads are built in the Kenai
Peninsula, so that tourists would
’)3ve comfortable places to stay and
scenic roads to travel over, we could
send 10,000, 15,000, or 20,000 tourists
up to that country every summer,
from Los Angeles county alone, with
out half trying. There are 150,000
people of leisure in Los Angeles
county, and they need the change
that the exhilarating climate of that
northern country would give.’
“It seems to me Mr. Chandler’s
statement covers the case in a,nut
shell. I would say that a large hotel
on Kenai Lake, for summer use. cap
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LANDED ON BOGOSLOF ISLAND,
FOUND NEW STEAMING INNER
CONE
DUTCH HARBOR, July 9. (£>)—
With the report of having seen 20
large volcanoes, Dr. T. A. Jaggar,
Hawaiian volcanoligist of the United
States Geological Survey, returned
from a cruise in the western Aleutian
Islands to Atka on the Coast Guard
cutter Unalga. Both Bogoslof and
Garelot volcanos are active. He land
ed on Bogoslof Island, where he found
a new steaming inner cone of hot,
rough lava surrounded by a rough
shaped lagoon of warm salt water.
Out side of this was a complete ring
of gravel with beaches inside and
outside and no open channel. Jaggar
believes the new spell of intense ac„
tivity started on Bogoslof closely re
sembles the 1906 eruption. Four hun
dred sea lions were found living on
the beaches close to the active vol
cano, and millions of 3ea birds nest
ing in the cliffs and sandbanks. There
is sulphurous steam but no noxious
gases were encountered.
LEE LUTZ. PITER.
OF ANCHORAGE. ENDS
HIS LIFE BY HIGH
ABSENCE OF APPARENT MOTIVE
SHROUDS ACT IN MYSTERY;
LEAVES WIFE AND BABIES
Lee Lauritz, painter, residing at An
chorage, ended his life by suicide
Thursday, according to reports from
Anchorage last night. Lauritz, when
found, was hanging in his place of
business with his knees drawn up, but
with feet touching the floor.
The only circumstance that might
have a bearing upon the case was the
presence of a native or half-breed al
leged to have been under the influence
of liquor, at the Lauritz home early in
the morning, according to Walter G.
Culver, special agent for the Alaska
Railroad. Mr. Culver reports that he
was aroused at about 5 a. m. by a
woman calling for help. When he ar
vide at the Lauritz home he was told
that the native had tried to get into
the front door, but was ordered away.
He then went to the back door, where
Lauritz met him and ordered him to
leave. On refusal Lauritz took down
the telephone receiver to call the po
lice. The native is said to have torn
off the screen door and then wrested
the telephone from the wall. At that
juncture Mrs. Lauritz screamed.
About three years ago Lauritz’ part
ner, Bacon, committed suicide in the
same manner.
The deceased leaves a wife and tewo
children.
WATER NOTICE
Water will be shut off on 4th and
5th Avenues at 12 o’clock tonight in
cluding Van Gilder and Tecklinberg
buildings. •
HUGH'S CONTRACT
WITH LEVINE CALLS
FOR SALARY S1U0
BOTH MEN CONDEMNED BY HEN
RY FARMAN, VETERAN FLY
ER IN FRANCE
PARIS, July 9. (JP)—M aurice
Droughin’s contract with Levine runs
for one year with compensation of
1150,000. The sum appears rather
stupendous to the French public. A
newspaper which characterizes
Droughin’s decision to pilot Levine
across the Atlantic to America as “re
grettable,” and printed a communica
tion from Henry Farman, veteran flier,
who condemns both men and says he
thinks Levine might have chosen a pi
lot from the large number of men only
too willing to go without taking a
man who has been training f9r his
own trans-Atlantic flight.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 2, New York 6.
Chicago 1, Pittsburg 0.
St. Louis 2, Boston 3.
Cincinnati 8, Philadelphia 5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 7-4, Cleveland 4-3.
New York 8-10, Detroit 11-8.
Philadelphia 7, St. Louis 5.
Boston 11, hicago 5.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 12, Missions 13.
Portland 2, Oakland 4.
San Francisco 4-1, Sacramento 11-5.
Los Angeles 3-3, Hollywood 14-4.
TOTEM POLE AN ASSET
KANSAS STATE TREASURY
TOPEKA, Kas., July 9. (JP)—A to
tem pole is among the assets in the
Kansas State Treasury.
Its gaudy and grotesque faces grin
at Carl R. White, State Treasurer,!
who has placed it near his desk, be
couse nowhere else in the office is
the ceiling high enough.
The pole was purchased from In
dians in Alaska at the request of the
Kansas State Historical Society. The
friendly traveler who made the pur
chase expected the society to refund
his $300 immediately, but he must
wait until 1929, when, the Legislature
will be asked to make an appropria
tion for that purpose.
EXPEDITION SAILS
SYDNEY, N. S., July 9. (£>)— Com
mander MacMillan’s sub-arctic expe
dition sailed for Battle Harbor, Lab
rador, this morning.
IS GUTTED BY FI
THREE CHILDREN AMONG DEAD;
PAINTER HELD BY AUTHOR
ITIES
VANCOUVER, B. C., July 9. (ff)—
Seven persons, three of them children,
were burned to death when fire gutted
the upper stories of the large Royal
Alexandra apartment hotel late yes
terday. A dozen others were injured.
David Henderson, painter, is declared
by the police to have accidentally
started the blaze and is held on a
charge of manslaughter. Immediate
steps will be taken to revise the city
ordinances relating to construction of
buildings. Mayor Taylor declared ai
der a survey of the ruins. V 1
the rapid spread of the fire d
to be due to drafta through air shafts.
Most of the occupants of the hotel
were visitors. All lost clothing and
personal effects. Many are being
cared for at other hotels at the ex
pense of the city. The police said
Henderson accidentally dropped
sparks from a cigarette into a can of
highly inflamable paint remover. Hen
derson said a cigarette dropped
by a passer-by on paper was respon
sponsible for the fire.
NEW YORK, July 9. (£>)—Ban John
son tendered his resignation as presi
dent of the American League, effect
ive on or before November first. It
was accepted with regret by the club
owners. Ill health is conceded to be
' the chief factor in Johnson’s retire
ment.
RADIO MARKET SERVICE
IS BEING DEVELOPED
PITTSBURG, July f«. (/P)—Through
co-operation of the United States De
partment of Agriculture radio market
service and the Pittsburg Post,
Westinghouse Station KDKA has
welded together a market service of
the widest ramification, serving urban
and suburban listeners alike with quo
tations from all important market
centers.
PROGRESS HALTED
GENEVA, July 9. (JP)—“No progress
has been made*’ Admiral Viscount
Saito of Japan told the Associated
Press as he emerged from a meeting
of the executive committee of the na
val conference. He appeared ex
tremely downcast.
M. S. ETHEL IN JUNEAU
JUNEAU, July 9. (JP)—Returning
from a successful two months hunt
ing trip to Western Alaska, W. Tan
sill, leader of the Alexander Ravell.
Field Museum expedition, arrived on
the motorship Ethel.