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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII.
NUMBER 14. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA
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THREE GASOLINE TANKS TO BE PLACED ON
WINGS OF BIG PLANE AND ONE EACH BEHIND
AND BESIDE PILOT—PLANE BE CAPABLE OF
FLYING WITH 2,000 POUND LOAD
DETROIT, Jan. 18. (/P)—The Wilkins “flying gas
tank” in which an attempt will be made to explore the Arc
tic blind spot will make test flights this week. The as
sembling started at the Ford airport where skiis will be
attached and practice take-offs and landings on the ice
covered Lake St. Clair. Three gasoline tanks will be
placed on the wings, one behind the pilot and one beside
the pilot where the passenger ordinarily sits. The capa
city of the tanks is 325 gallons, sufficient for 20 hours
flying. The plane must fly and carry a load of 1,000
pounds before accepted.
NEW YORK WORLD DECLARES
JOHNSON HAS VIOLATED HIS
PLEDGES ON DECISIONS
NEW YORK, Jan. 18. (#>)—'The
World said Johnson “has talked him
self out of the presidency of the Am
erican League” unless the club owners
go back on a promise made to Landis
in 1924 that Johnson’s “misconduct
will cease or his immediate removal
violated the pledge that he acquiesce
from the office will follow.” Johnson
in all Landis’ decisions and not sub
ject sport to public criticism.
!N y. S. INCREASE
PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS RE
PORT WIDER, PREVALENCE
FEVER
NEW YORK, Jan. 18. (^-^In
creases, as compared with last year,
in the incidence of diptheria, measles,
scarlet fever and smallpox are re
ported. The Public Health Service
announced in its regular weekly sur
vey of communicable diseases,
State health officers also report
decreases in the prevalence of typh
oid fever, poliomyelitis, and deaths
resulting from influenza and pneu
monia.
A total of 4,OSS cases of scarlet
fever were reported in 41 States for
the surveyed -jveek of this year,
whereas for the corresponding week
of 1925, 3,704 cases were reported by
the same states. Reports from 100
cities disclosed 1,392 cases for the
1926 week and 1,199 cases for that of
1925. The estimate expectancy was
1,031 cases.
The fishing boat Shamrock arrived
in port today from Seldovia.
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DRIVEN ACROSS FRONTIER
MANAGUA, Jan. 18. (£>)—General
Zapata, Liberal commander, with 200
soldiers, was recently driven across
the Cota Rico frontier. He returned
and threatened to attack San Juan del
Vur. The Conservatives are rushing
troops as the customs house is full of
American merchandise.
EMPRESS CHARLOTTE
PHYSICIANS ANNOUNCE DEATH
MAY COME AT ANY MOMENT;
UNABLE TO SPEAK
BRUSSELS, Jan. 18. (/P)—Empress
Charlotte, aged 86, widow of Emperor
Maximillian of Mexico, was in a dy
ing condition at 11 o’clock this morn
ing. Influenza, from which she suf
fered, developed into pneumonia. The
physicians announced that she might
die at any moment. She has scarcely
eaten for five days. She recognized
persons, but was unable to speak.
King Albert hurried to the bedside.
5ITS BEER IEALTIEIR
THAN COFFEE OR TEA
LONDON, Jan. 18. (/P)— Beer is
better for tbe health than tea or cof-!
fee because of its vitamin content,
said Dr. J. Lewis Rosedale of St.
Thomas’ hospital, addressing the Peo
ple’s League of Health on the com
mon errors of diet.
“Our valiant and stout-hearted an
cestors were far greater meat eaters
than are we, but they balanced their
excess of protein with beer, which
contains vitamin B and has a large
dietetic value, instead of with the
valueless tea and coffee of today,”
said the physican.
ASTORIA, Jan. 18. (£>)—'The
schooner Oregon Fir is reported lost
north of Vancouver Island.
'PHELPS SELLS OUT;
GOING TO STSTES
THERE TO REIil
j PIONEER OF SEWARD COM
PELLED TO DEPART OWING
TO ILLNESS IN FAMILY
George Phelps Among First Seven
teen Pioneers to Settle in City
of Seward
In the announcement made public
today that George Phelps, proprietor
of the Seward News company since
1918, has disposed of his business,
lock, stock and barrel, to Schallerer’s
Alaska Shop, Seward is on the verge
of losing one of its esteemed citizens
and one of the first of the seventeen
original pioneers who witnessed Sew
ard grow from a tent town to a small,
ft
modern- city. Schallerer’s officially
took over the business today, and are
moving the large stock across the
street and merging it with their al
ready big and excellent assortment
of goods. Mr. Phelps stated last even
ing that he would remain in Seward
for a few weeks longer winding up
other business matters before leaving
for California.
Speaking of the departure of Mr.
Phelps, a prominent local business
man said last evening: “It is just like
losing a member of the family. .George
has been with us for so many years
that in his departure all those who
have known him as I have feel a
kind of tug at their heart. eRgard
less of what the nature of the enter
prise was, as long as it was for Sew
ard, one could always depend on
George for his moral support, and if it
required financial support, his name
was generally found listed among
those leading.”
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NEW YORK, Jan. 18. (/P)— Zero
weather, which holds the East, killed
six in New York, one in Boston and
one in Philadelphia. Traffic is de
laye'd by snow from six inches to two
feet deep. In New York 25,000 snow
shovelerd, 671 plows, 23 motor sweep
ers and 22 motor loading machines
cleared off six inches of snow.
SIX DEAD IN COLD WAVE
CHICAGO, Jan. 18. (/P)—With ithe
passing of the first cold wave six are
dead, and a second cold wave roared
down from the MacKenzie river basin.
CHAPLIN IS ILL
NEW YORK, Jan. 18. (£>)—Chaplin
has not eaten solid food for two days.
Specialists reported his condition- “not
so good.’'
MORE CHILDREN BURNED
HARRISON, Idaho, Jan. 18. (£>)—
Five children of William Nelson, a
farmer, were burned to death in a
Bre at their home yesterday. He was
severely burned.
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STORY OF FOREIGNERS KILLING
CHINESE CHILDREN WHICH
CAUSED BOXER TROUBLE
BEING CIRCULATED
DISPLAY BODIES OF BABIES
Hankow Mob Tears Oown Barricades
of Japanese Concessions—Ameri
can Destroyers off to Foochow
FOOCHOW, aJn. 18. (/P)—Chinese
mobs last night beat a number of
American and British women, and
' two ministers and dragged them thru
i the streets. Churches, schools, hos
pitals and foreign residences were
ransacked. Northern soldiers incor
| porated into the Cantonese army pre
cipitated the outbreak.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 18. (^P)—1The Am-,
erican destroyer Pillsbury left last
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night for Foochow.
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PEKING, Jan. 18. (AP)—A Foochow
message indicated that the story of
foreigners killing children, which pre
cipitated the Boxer uprising 26 years
ago, is being revived. Twenty de
composing babies’ bodies were dis
played and declared to have been
brought from a nunnery. The priests
and nuns fled in disguise.
SHANGHAI, aJn. 18. (IP)—A Han
kow message said a mob tore down!
barricades around the Japanese con
cession a few days ago. Foreigners
are evacuating Szchwan Province,
systematically leaving the capital in
groups of 30.
FEARS WAR IMMINENT
LONDON, aJn. 18. (IP)—'The Cabi
net decided to spare no preparations
for the defense of British citizens and
property in China. The Liberal press j
fears war is imminent.
COURT UPHOLDS SENATE
IN DAUGHERTY SUMMONS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. (£>)—'Tne;
Supreme court upheld the Senate’s!
right to compel Daugherty to comply j
‘with the summons in the 1924 con
tempt proceedings pending against
Sinclair for opposing the right of Con-)
gress to summon a witness.
EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN
TOKIO, Jan. 18. (JP)—A sharp earth- -
quakes stopped clocks and tumbled the ■
old walls on North Hondo Island. The :
shock centred at sea. 1
ANOTHER WRIGLEY SWIM
LOSi ANGELES, Jan. 18. (IP)—Oscar i
Reichow, manager of Wrigley's Mara- ]
thou swim, announced that he is con- ;
sidering another $25,000 channel <
swim for women only, probably this i
summer.
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jJ. BOH EXPLORER
I IS COMl TO ALASKA
SEARCH OF SPECIMENS
WILL LEAVE SAN FRANCISCO IN
HIS NEW YACHT “NORTHERN
LIGHT,” IN FEBRUARY
WILL HUNT KODIAK BLAH
Vessel is Two-masted Wooden Schoo
er 123 Feet Long, Semi-Deisel
Engine
CHICAGO, Jan. 18. (/P)—John Bor
den of Chicago announced that his
new yacht, the Northern Light, will
be launched eWdnesday at Oakland
and sail for Alaska to collect oKdiak
and polar bear and other zoological
specimens for the Field museum. The
vessel will leave San Francisco in
February, proceeding early in June
to hunt bear and moose, and then mov
ing north to hunt polar bear and wal
rus. The vessel is a two-masted aux
iliary -wooden schooner 123 feet long
with a capacity of 200 tons, having a
sem-deisel engine and carrying a crew
of 15. Borden will be in command.
Mr. Borden is a noted navigator and
explorer, and during the World War
was placed in command of his yacht
Kanawha, "which he has tendered to
the government and which was fully
equipped as a submarine destroyer,
and attached to the U. S. naval forces
in France. In 1919 he commanded
the U. S. S. Piqua, formerly the Ka
nawha, as part of the Breton patrol.
He has gained a world-wide reputa
tion as a big game hunter, having
made several whaling trips in the
Arctic. His own ship, the Great Bear,
was wrecked in Bering sea in August,
19116, and he w'as rescued with his
crew- 15 days later by the U. S. reve
nue cutter McCullough, sent by the
government to search for him.
Mr. Borden was admitted to the bar
in 1918; is a graduate of Yale and a
member of many famous clubs and
fraternities. He is the owner of the
Glenwild plantation, Grenada, Miss.,
where he has been engaged in rais
ing purebred shorthorns, Herefords
and durocs. His home is in Chicago.
PLEBISCITE NOT TO BE HELD;
CANNOT ACCEPT PROPOSED
CESSION
WASHINGTON, Jan. IS. (ff)—Peru
'ejected the Kellogg proposal that Bo
ivia be given Tacna-Arica, a memo
•andum sent to Secretary Kellogg de
:lared, because a plebiscite has not
ieen held. “The Provinces continue
Peruvian. Peru cannot accept the
>roposed cession whether by purchase
>r any other method, because we who
lave defended it for more than 40
/■ears the rights of the territories
sannot convert them into merchandise,
subjects, however large the price,’*
he memorandum stated.