NEW BEACON LIGHT CAN
PIERCE MIST, CLOUDS
BERLIN, April 9.(yP)—A new bea
con light, which is described as vis
ible through mist and clouds and is
easily distinguished from street lamps,
is now in wide use in Germany to
mary flying fields.
While the new light, known as the
“Neon’’ tube, is used chiefly for mark
ing boundaries and obstacles, a report
says it also has enough power to aid
in illuminating the fields and con
sumes very little electricity, an ad
vantage of particular value in the
marking out of a flying path along
which the lights are left burning all
night.
GATEWAY JO CHINA
A package of papers left the Gate
way office today which are destined
for the Orient where an old and es
teemed friend of the Territory, Col.
Wilds P. Richardson, is now on a
mission. Colonel Richardson express
ed the desire, through a friend, of be
ing able to hear from Alaska while
traveling about Japan and China, so in
today’s mail came the inquiry for the
last month’s file of the Seward Gate
way.
CARP OF THANKS
Thanks are expressed to all those
who helped me since my husband’s
death.
MRS. NIKEFEROFF and CHIL
DREN.
ARE NEVER SOLD
till you are satisfied.
The broadest possible
guarantee of satisfao
tion goes with every
package—
CHOCOLATES
A DOUBLE GUARANTEE—OURS AND THE MAKERS
Seward Drug Company
C.M.B.
Builders’ Supplies
i
A Complete Line of
GROCERIES
Fresh Vegetable Received
Each Week.
PHONE MAIN 34 *
P. C. M’MULLEN
Prompt Deliveries
3k
ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF
THE
Arcade Barber Shop
AND
BEAUTY PARLOR
THE MOST MODERN AND SANITARY IN
ALASKA -
Beauty Booth Special Service for Ladies de
Two Chairs siring latest in Coiffeurs, Fash
Tub Baths ionable Bobs and Scalp service*
Shower Baths Manicuring and Dermatology.
Appointments can be made with Mrs. Reid as
heretofore
ALL SERVICE UP TO THE MINUTE
JESS LANDER, Prop. In the Arcade Bldg.
Phone Adams 121
CAPT. WILKINS JUIID
E. BEN EIELSON
BELIEVED LOST
AMATEUR PICKS UP MESSAGE
SAYING EXPLORERS NOT RE
PORTED FOR THREE DAYS
A wireless message, believed to be
from the Wilkins base at Point Bar
row, and picked up by an amateur set
says that Captain George H. Wilkins
and E. Ben Eielson, pilot of the plane
Detroit News No. 1 hopped off from
Barrow three days ago and had not
reported back to the base either in
person or by radio.
If the message is correct, it means
that the explorers of the “Blind Spot”
of the polar regions have been forced
down and their radio apparatus it
not functioning so that they may in
form Point Barrow of their plight.
While passing through Seward en
route on his perilous and daring ad
venture Captain Wilkins told the
Gateway that he had arranged with
his base that, as soon as he passed
out of sight into the unknown land of
the north he would begin signalling
by wireless. The instrument used for
receiving by Howard Mason, radio
man of the party, who remained at
the Point Barrow base, was so ar
ranged that current could be generated
by hand. It was equipped with a
disc which, when influenced by a mes
sage in receipt would signal “OK.”
The instrument used on the plane was
similarly equipped. By reversing the
disc on the sending instrument it
would reverse the “OK” into “KO.”
This latter signal was to be interpret
ed as signalling trouble. Other sig
nals, such as position of the exploring
plane were to follow.
It was understood that in the event
of the Point Barrow base failing to re
ceive tidings of the explorers within
two days, they were to be considered
either lost or having been forced to
the ice. In this event they proposed
to undertake a Journey overland
to Siberia if nearest that shore, or
back to the northern Alaskan coast.
In preparation for this eventuality,
Wilkins and Eielson were equipped
with “canned lire,” guns, ammunition,
concentrated food, etc., together with
a collapsible rubber boat weighing
only four pounds, but capable of sus
taining hte weight of five men. This
was to be used in the event of open
leads being encountered while cross
ing the ice to the mainland.
The explorers expected to augment
Uheir food supply with game shot
upon the ice.
Owing to the unsettled weather, in
cluding blizzards, which has prevailed
for the past eigh days or more, it is
feared the explorers were caught un
awares.
However, it is plausible to believe
that those remaining at the Point Bar
row base would have sent a wireless
to Detroit if there was apprehension
for the safety of the explorers, or pos
sibly they hoped communication was
only temporarily interrupted, or that
the Detroit News No. 1 had landed
on the ice to weather a blizzard, and
would report, a thing altogether like
ly in view of weather conditions in
the Arctic.
Again, the radio man at Point Bar
row might have been trying to get a
message out to Detroit announcing
the non return of the explorers.
D. E. Valade was reelected last
evening for the third consecutive
year as secretary and treasurer of
the Seward Volunteer Fire Depart
ment.
■ t*
i
i
i
■
i
i
•
i
i
i
i
i
i
■
i
i
i
i
i
i
i
i
i
!
I
I
I
I
I
i
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
• ■I
ESTABLISHED 1J905
Bank of Seward
Resources $450,000
Statement of condition as reported to the Territorial Banking Board
at the close of business March 29th, 1927
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts.—. $180,840.52
Overdrafts .. 147.10
United States Bonds. 31,050.00
Other Bonds, Warrants
and Securities.:... 92,831.16
Real Estate, Banking
House, Furniture and
Fixtures . 22,606.50
CASH and EXCHANGES 100,919.95
$428,395.23
LIABILITIES
Capital .$25,000.00
Surplus and Undivid
ed profits . 20,044.26
DEPOSITS ...383,350.97
$428,395.23
CASH RESERVE____-..$100,919.95
SECONDARY RESERVE (Bonds)_ 123,881.16
Total Reserve _$224,801.11
Ratio of Reserves to Deposits 58 Per Cent
Territorial Depositary, United States Depositary for Postal Savings,
City Dajtositary
MONEY TRANSFERRED TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD
Four Per Cent Paid on Savings Accounts
SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
John Nelson, Mgr.
Office, Arcade Building.
Wayne Blue, Agent
Phone Main 17
t
■
e
i
%
99m
HOTEL
OVERLAND
MEL A. HORNER
Manager
SEWARD ALASKA
On the Main Street
OVERLAND GRILL
Next to the Overland Hotel
Open Day and Night
Private Boxes
Gabriel Santos Proprietor and Chef
* -
OrapTi
DUT be sure you get the best Meats obtainable.
^ Ours are the finest to be had, health-giving
and strength-building. Low priced, too!
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
CARSTENS
PACKING CO.
CLIFF RUSCHER. Mgr.
PHONE MAIN 130