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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 124. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LINDBERGH WELCOME
OVERSHADOWS ALE
MOVIE SPECTACLES
PICTURE INDUSTRY EXECUTIVES
STATE DUPLICATION COST
$50,000,000
NEW YORK, June IS. (£>)—'The
Evening World says two “active exec
utives” of the motion picture industry
estimated it would cost $50,000,000 if
the movies attempted film duplication
of New York’s tremendous greeting to
Capt. Chas. Lindbergh last Monday.
“Here we have been putting on spec
tacles for years like the fall of Rome,
destruction of Babylon, the birth of a
nation. We spent millions and we
never came within touching distance
of that show New York put on for
Lindbergh,” said one executive.
BY FIVE LENGTHS
WASHINGTON JUNIOR ALSO WIN
FROM FRESHMEN BY LENGTH
AND A HALF
MADISON, Wi«., June 18. (^—Lift
ing their shell into a sprint in the last
500 yards the University of Washing
ton Varsity crew defeated the Univer
sity of Wisconsin by five lengths over
the two-mile course on Lake Mendota.
Washington Junion Varsity defeated
the Wisconsin Freshmen a length and
a half. They were neck and neck
over most of the course, but the West
erners sprinted at the last minute.
U1HGEST PUNE EVER j
BUILT IS COMPLETED
NEW YORK, June 18. (£>)—'The■
i
largest airplane engine ever made,!
running on 24 cylinders having a com-;
bined push of 1,250 horse power, has
been completed b/ .the United States
Motor company and delivered to Al
fred J. Williams, who will attempt to
break the world’s land ands eaplane ;
records in a few weeks.
MAJOR ROGERS IN SEWARD
Major Thornton Rogers, Chilkoot
Barracks, was among the arrivals
in Seward last night on the S. S.<
Yukon. Major Rogers is visiting the ^
local Signal Corps headquarters on
|
official business. He returns South
i
on the Yukon. t
PILOT IS INSTRUCTOR
Joe Crosson, prince of the pioneer,
Interior aviators, and head pilot of!
the Fairbanks Airplane Corporation,
has branched out as an instructor.
George King, student pflot under
the personal supervision of the vet
eran flyer, made his first solo flight
last week. Pilot King is attached to
the Fairbanks Airplane staff.
EMDEN AT DUTCH HARBOR
DUTCH HARBOR, June 18. (/Pj—
The new German battleship Emden,
which is cruising around the world,
arrived here from Japan en route to
the Pacific coast.
TO m FRANCISCO
IS NOW PROPOSED
PLANS CALL FOR TRIPLE MOTOR
ALL METAL MONOPLANE FOR
FOUR PERSONS
BERLIN, June 18. (£>)—'The Tage
hlat published a report of an intended
flight from Berlin ot San Francisco by
way of New York between July 15 and
25 by Lufthansas, leading pilot, and
Otto Koennecke, who was said to have
planned to make a flight over the
southern route via the Azores. Koen
necke is confident he can attain a
speed of 140 miles an hour. The plans
call for a flight in a triple^notor, all
metal monoplane carrying himself, a
radio operator and two passengers
who are financing the project. Koen
necke intends to drop mail at New
York and continue to San Francisco.
NOTED CHICAGO CAFE
MIN, CAPITALIST DEAD
*
CHICAGO, June 18. (£>)—John R.
Thompson’s belief that he could make
better coffee than was served him in
the World’s Fair days started him in
the restaurant business and netted
him a million dollars as he added t<^
his string, it was recalled by friends
of the late capitalist, who died after
an illness of six years.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 6, Sacramento 7—12 in
nings.
Seattle 4, Oakland 8.
Hollywood 3, Missions 2.
San Francisco 8, Lps Angeles 7.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 8, Pittsburg 7.
Brooklyn 5, Cincinnati 3.
^Philadelphia 12, Chicago 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
'Chicago 3, Philadelphia 8.
Detroit 1, Washington 3.
-Cleveland 6-4, Boston 3-3.
St. Louis 2, New York 3.
CEDAR ARRIVES IN PORT
The U. S. L. H. S. Cedar, Captain
Ledbetter, arrived in port yesterday
from the vicinity of Seal Rocks, where
die recharged buoys and the “light. The
Cedar will remain until Monday.
Next Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock
it the fire hall all Fourth of July
jelebration committees are asked to
>e sure and attend. It will probably
>e the last meeting of the commit
ees before Jhe big day.
TRIP HOP TO EUROPE
WILL CARRY 1,300 GALLONS GAS;
NO WOMAN WILL BE CARRIED
AS REPORTED
NEW YORK, June IS. (/P)— Com
mander Byrd said ihe might take a
fourth person in his monoplane on
the proposed trans-Atlantic flight, but
denied the person would be a woman.
“We are carrying 1.300 gallons of gaso
line. sufficient to fake four to Paris
and beyond,”Jie said. It is reported
the person whom he proposes to take
will be Lieutenant Bernbalcher, form
er Norwegian naval officer, who aid
ed Byrd on his North Pole flight.
TELLS OF ATTEMPTS TO
GET BOOT THOM POOL
H Lutsch, partner to the late M. A
Keating of Gulch C ^eek. who accom
panied the body into town, stated
yesterday that contrary to the belief
that he had lefjt his partner on the
creek while he hod gone up to tin
cabin to prepare lunch, that he had
rot worked on the °Mm at all dur
ing ti.rt morning, only his partner.
A number of other men in the vicin
ity upon whom he called for assist
ance helped him to extridate the
body from the pool o* water at the
foot of the 20 foot bluff. This was
a difficult task. The :ct.n held each
others hands over the bluff, the last
man down casting a loop about the
foot of Keating which has risen
above the water. Upon the first
heave the boot came off the foot
but on the second attempt the body
was successfully pulled to the top
On the way back to the cabin ;t was
necessary to cross two light foot
bridges which Lutsch had built
Fearing that one of these would
break, the wrelght of three men upon
it, Mr. Lutsch went on ahead to fash
ion a stretcher. Upon his return
the party had already crossed the
last bridge and from that point on
the body was carried into camp on
the stretcher. The next morning the
body was taken to Moose Pass sta
tion and thence into Seward.
Burial services were conducted yes
terday from the Seward undertaking
parlor. Interment was made in the
new Seward cemetery.
RUSSIAN COMMANDER IS
SENTENCED TO DEATH
\ MOSCOW, June 18. (£>)—1The mili
tary and naval authorities at Kron
stadt have sentenced to death Com
mander Olfekoff, (who formerly com
manded a ship in the Baltic fleet, on
charges of espionage for Great
Britain. His wife was sentenced to
serve three years in prison.
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LINDBERGH AT ST. LOUIS
1 ST. LOUIS, June 18.(/P)—Captain
Charles Lindbergh arrived over the
city at 3:07 o’clock yesterday after
noon.
CONNECTION WITH
j THE DETROIT NEWS
—
GATEWAY’S EXCLUSIVE STORY
OF WEEK AGO IS CONFIRMED
BY ARCTIC EXPLORER
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KETCHIKAN, June IS. (£>)—Capt.
Wilkins, en route to San Francisco,
I announced his plans for a flight from
Point Barrow to Europe via Greenland.
The explorer plans to fly alone. He
will return to Point Barrow within a
j month or six weeks and take a plane
; to Point Barrow from Fairbanks. He
said he has plenty of gas stored at
j Point Barrow and expressed the be
| lief that any land in the Arctic will
j be found between Point Barrow and
Banks Land. He will jump to Green
land and then if he has enough gas
| left will continue his flight to some
; point in Europe. Wilkins said he
jhad severed connection with the De
troit News and the flight will be made
I “on his own.”
LONG DISTANCE FLIERS
FORCED DOWN ENUD
1 7
: MARTLESHAM, Suffolk, Eng., June
! 18. (/P)—The British long distance av
iators Lieutenants Carr and Mac
i Worth, who hopped off from Cranwell
for a flight to India, were forced down
a short time afterward at Martlesham
airdrome because of a minor defect.
DE PINEDO BACK HOME
ROME, June 18.' (/P)—Commander
; Francesco De Pinedo, the Italian
J world flier arrived in Rome yesterday,
icompleting his 25,000-mile journey, and
was received by Premier Mussolini.
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WILL ROGERS SICK
BEVERLY HILLS, June 18. (IP)—
Will Rogers, the comedian and Mayor
of Beverly Hills, was removed to a
hospital yesterday to undergo an op
eration for gallstones.
The S. S. Admiral Farragut, due in
port today from the Westward, will
depart for the south at 10 o’clock to
night.
JOHN BALLAINE RETURNS
John Ballaine, founder of .the city
of Seward, returned yesterday from a
lengthy visit to the Interior.
Janet Preston returned on the S. S.
Yukon from Seattle where she at
tended the Forest Ridge Academy
during the winter. Janet is return
ing to Fairbanks, where her parents
are. She has not been home for two
years as she spent the vacation last
summer with relatives in California.
LI
WILL DEMAND GREAT BRITAIN
RELEASE HER BASE AT SING
I
APORE
TOKIO, June IS. (/P)—Japan is re
ported to be alarmed by Lindbergh
and the Chamberlin and Levine non
stop flights because it proves to them
that Tokio can be bombed by plane3
flying from Honolulu. They will de
mand that Britain relinquish her
Singapore base and that the United
States retain her present fortificaitons
at Honolulu only in exchange for an
extension of warship quota.
PRESIDENT PUTS ON
! TEHILLON HOT INO
! BOOTS, GOES FISHING
RAPID CITY, S. D.,* June 18. (£>)—
President Coolidge today put on
a ten-gallon size hat of the shape that
make movie actors or cowboys envi
6ns, slipped on a pair of rubber hip
boots and went to Squaw Creek Angle
1 for mountain trout.
PRESIDENT ARRIVES CAMP
CHICAGO. June 18. (/P)—President
| Coolidge arrived in the Black Hills,
1 South Dakota, for his vacation, today.
: He went fishing with a guide and
I caught seven good-sized brook -trout*
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AIRPLANE DUE TODAY
A plane from Anchorage is expected
to arrive today en route to Cordova
I with two passengers, after which it
will return to Seward to pick up a
group of pmoninent cannerymen who
arrived on the S. S. Yukon, and con
vey them to Bristol Bay. The men
are W. Timson, president of the Alaska
Packers; Dave W. Branch, general
manager of Libby, McNeil and Libby
Co.; H. B. Friele, general manager of
the Nahat Bay Packing company, and
C. P. Hale, president of the Alaska
Salmon company and the Bristol Bay
Packing company.
KREFTINGS DEPART FOR
SUITES AND EUROPE
En route to Europe, one of Sew
ard’s pioneer families, Mr. and Mrs.
C. H. Krefting and daughter Eleanor,
depart tomorrow on the S. S. Yukon
It has been 36 years since Mr.
Krefting has visited his folks in Nor
way so having obtained a six months
furlough from the Alaska Railroad,
by whom he is employed, he is tak
ing this opportunity to make the long
delayed journey.
They recently sold their home in
Seward but that does not signify
they are not returning, Mrs. Krefting
says, for after living so many years
in Seward no other place would seem
like home.
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