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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 104. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MODEST AIR “ACE”
TELLS OF BIG HOP
ACROSS ATLANTIC
LINDBERGH KNEW HE WAS ARRIVING OVER
IRELAND BY DESCRIPTIONS HE HAD READ AT
HOME—DID NOT FEEL HUNGRY OR SLEEPY
ON FLIGHT—“WE HAD A FINE TRIP” DARING
YOUNG AVIATOR REMARKED, MEANING HIM
SELF AND HIS PLANE
IICTOIV TILLS TIL PEOPLE Of BOTH CONTINENTS
Estimates on “Flying Fool’s” Earnings for Next Year
Placed at Many Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars;
Three Hundred Things Could T * Tun
gesser and Coli, States Lindt
PARIS, May 23. (/P)—Lin
flight from New York to Paris . ^ , . Vkssy,
where he is quartered during his stay in Paris.
“The first part of the flight was better and easier
than any of us expected. All the way up the American
coast to New Foundland we had uncommonly good we.°|h
er.” At this juncture Ambassador Herrick remarked
“When Lindbergh says ‘we’ he means the ship and him
self.” ‘ -
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BYRD CONSIDERING
MAY FLY FROM GREELAND TO
POINT BARROW ON EXTEN
SION WORK
NEW YORK. May 23. (/Pj—'The
New York World said that Command
er Byrd was considering a flight over
the Arctic or Pacific as alternatives
to the New York to Paris flight. Byrd
explained that if he makes the At
lantic flight it will be a scientific ex
periment to determine the feasibility
of trans-Atlantic mail and passenger
service. If he finds that Lindbergh
accomplished the object of America’s
flight he is considering flying from
the east or northernmost tip of Green
land to Point Barrow, which will be
an extension of the work of the Mac
Millan expedition of two years ago, of
which Byrd was a member. Another
flight under consideration is from
San Francisco to the Hawaiian Islands
which the late Commander John Rog
ers and crew of four fell short.
RAILfiOlERSHrOUT
UPON REFUSAL ARBITRATE
DETROIT, May 23. (£>)—Claim
that Frank Alfred, president of the
Pere Marquette Railroad, refused to
arbitrate after demands of 6,000
workers of various crafts had been
placed before him, voted to strike
and set a day for the walkout.
Further conferences are being held
in an effort to reach an agreement.
V
i
I FLEW JUST ABOVE WATER
Cintinuing, Lindbergh said: “After
we got away from land we ran into
fog. and then into rain. Sometimes
we flew not more than ten feet above
water. The highest altitude I attain
ed was 10,000. We went that high to
try to get above a storm, but the av
; erage altitude for the whole second
thousand miles was less than 100 feet.
I If we had known the weather to be so
, bad we would not have started, but
J once we go into it there was nothing
to do but keep going. In the after
noon we picked up Ireland. From
what I had read at home I knew Ire
land inclined to be mountainous, so
when I saw pretty high ridges off in
i front I knew it was Ireland.”
In response to questions, the flyer
said : “I did not feel hungry or
sleepy during the flight. I ate about
a sandwich and a half and drank about
a half glass of water. I kept the win
dows open all the way.”
ONE DIES IN ARGUMENT
NEW YORK, May 23. (£>)—An ar
gument over the nationality of Lind
bergh resulted in the death of Joseph
Hand and the arrest of Sidney Levene,
charged with homicide. Levene is ac
cused of stabbing Hand.
EARNINGS ESTIMATED
NEW YORK, May 23. (^—Esti
mates on Lindbergh’s possible earn
ings for the next year on contracts
offered are movie contracts, $600,000;
vaudeville, $400,000; radio, $50,000;
his story in book form, $50,000; maga
zine and newspaper articles, $50,000;
advertising concessions, $75,000. Close
friends of the aviator feel that his
modesty will cause him to waive the
atrical and movie contracts.
CLUES ON MISSING FRENCHMEN
(Continued on Pare Eiyiit)
NEWSPAPER MAN DIES «
"^WASHINGTON, May 23. (/P)— Rob
ert Small, superintendent of the South
■
ern division of the Associated Press,
widely known newspaper man, died in
a hotel here. He recently worked lor
the Consoludated Press.
WERE ENDEAVORING TO MAKE
NON-STOP FLIGHT FROM ENG
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LAND TO INDIA
SIMLA, British India. May 23. (/P)—
Lieutenant C. R. Carr and L. M. S.
Gilman of the Royal Air Service, who
started from England on a non-stop1
flight to India, were rescued in the
Persian Gulf. The plane was forced
-n and is a total wreck. They flew
niles, 200 less than Lindebergh.
FIGHTING CONTINUES
i POPULAR PASTIME1
THROUGHOUT CHINA
MARINES AND SUPPLIES ARRIVE
AT SHANGHAI ABOARD U. S.
TRANSPORT
—
I
SHANGHAI. May 23. (JP)— Rumors j
of fighting in the city in the near
future continues to take place here,
despite assurances of safety. Gen
eral Chi-Chang Kai-Shek, Command
er of the moderate communist force?,
has launched a new attack on the
forces of General Sun Chuan-Feng,
the Northern leader.
Repeated reports of negotiations
between Generals Chang and Sun
h3ve failed to produce a tangible
agreement and it is thought that the
greater part of the next drive will be
directed against Chang Tsung-Chang,1
who holds the Tsientsin to Pukow!
Railway.
The American transport ‘^Chau
mont” arrived here today from Ma
nila, bringing 500 United States Mar
ines, also tanks and airplanes.
PICKET WASHINGTON EMBASSY
WASHINGTON, May 23. {&)—It
Tvas reported (that Cantonese armies
are pushing further north against
the armies of General Sun Chuan
Fung. Chinese picketted the British I
Embassy at Washington for half!
an hour with placards demanding
the end of imperialism in China.
RESCUING CREW OF STEAMER
EUREKA, Calif., May 23. (fi>)—At
5:30 yesterday afternoon a Coast
Guard cutter managed to get a breech
es buoy line to the stranded steamer,
Indiana Harbor, aground off Point
Gorda, and it was believed that the
rescue of the crew would be effected
with' w hours. The vessel is re
porter iking up under the heavy
pounding of the surf.
Alaska Attitude
HOW FORMER SECRETARY FALL AND SECRETA
RY DENBY SOUGHT TO DL PLICATE TEAPOT
DOME DEAL IN DISPOSING OF ALASKA COAL
FIELDS
The long standing enigma of President Harding’s
radical reversal of his views and attitude on Alaskan poli
cies and problems, as announced by him in his memorable
speech in Seattle after he had returned from Alaska, was
explained today for the first time in any newspaper to the
Gateway by John E. Ballaine of Seattle, founder of Sew
ard, organizer and builder of the Alaskan Central Rail
way and leader in the campaign that resulted in legislation
for the building of the Alaska Railroad. Mr. Ballaine ar
rived from Seattle and San Francisco on the Northwest
ern en route to the Interior with a party of his business
associates from California.
The explanation given by Mr. Bal-"
laine is so interesting in its bearings
on national politics that The Gateway
h«*-~s<?nt,it as a copyrighted article to
all of the 3,000 newspapers of the As
sociated Press.
A Peep Behind the Curtain
“President Harding's trip to Alas
ka,’’ said Mr. Ballaine, “was origi
nally planned by Secretary of the In
terior Fall, Secretary of the Navy
Denby, Secretary of War Weeks and
others of their political friends who
favored the creation of an Alaskan
Board clothed with power to sell any
and every species of public lands and
other property of every kind in Alas
ka at any price on any terms. Sen
ator New of Indiana, now Postmaster
General, introduced the bill in the
Senate, but Secretary of the Interior
Fall admitted in a hearing before the
House committee on Territories that
he was the author of the bill.
“When President Harding arrived in
Alaska his party was joined by Gov
ernor Bone, who had been appointed
Governor of Alaska on the endorse
ment of Secretary New and Secretary
Fall. During the President’s trip
over the Alaska Railroad, Governor
Bone took on the then manager of the
railroad, another appointee of Secre
tary Fall, and also a naval officer who
had been detailed by Secretary of the j
Navy Denby to expend $1,000,000 that j
had been appropriated by Congress to j
develop a supply of coal for the navy
on the Pacific in the naval reserve j
of the Matanuska coal fields.
“These three officers, all appointees
of Fall and Denby, were the only men
in Alaska, either officials or private
citizens, who were allowed on the
Presidential car, and they sat by the
President’s side every mile of his jour
ney from Seward and return. All the
information that President Harding
was permitted to gain about Alaska
and the Alaska Railroad on that rail
road trip was given through those
three appointees of Fall and Denby.
“One of the things they told Presi
dent Harding was that development
work in the naval coal reserve of the
Matanuska coal fields was suspended
because the coal was found by a naval
coal commission in 1921 to be unsuit
able for naval use, and therefore the
Alaska Railroad was unable to ren
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BE PINEDO HOPS OFF
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
SIXTEEN HUNDRED MILES OPEN
WATER IS YET TO BE CON
QUERED
TREPASSEY, New Foundland, May
23. (/P)—De Pinedo hopped across the
Atlantic for the Azores on his road
from Rome and back, which carried
him across the broad South Atlantic,
over the impenetrable jungles of Bra
zil, above the stretches of the Carib
bean sea and into Arizona, which
brought him to one of the most peril
ous portions of his long adventure
since it meant that the treacheries of
fog on the Grand Banks must be suc
cessfully negotiated and more than.
1,600 miles of open water conquered
before victory is grasped. He left
at 1:58, Eastern Standard time, and
predicted the trip to the Azores wrnuld
take 12 hours.
SCHOOL HOUSE DISASTER
DEATH LIST CROWING
BATH, Mich.', May 23. (£>)—'With
the death list fatalities in the dyna
miting of the Bath consolidated
school now standing at 44 and
threatening to increase, Bath town
ship began to bury it’s dead. Sat
urday and Sunday were days of fun
erals and mourning. Two of the vic
tims of the disaster were buried
Saturday morning and six yesterday.
DARROW WILL DEFEND KILLER
CHICAGO, May 23. (jP)—Clarence
Darrow will take up the defense o£
Frank Caruso, Italian laborer, who
murdered a physician whom he
thought killed his little girl when he'
treated her for a serious disease.