FINAL PORT OF CALL FOR THREE
STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
HEADQUARTERS U. S. SIGNAL CORPS
COMMUNICATION FACILITIES I N
.ALASKA PROPER
COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA
RAILROAD
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SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 9,1927.
VOLUME XII. NUMBER 68.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MERRILL'S PLANE
G0IM1RD
WEATHER CONDITIONS NOW PER
j FECT — COMMUNICATION RE
STORED
NOME, April 9. (/P)—Phone commu
nication to Council and Golovin was
restored at 10 o’clock Thursday morn
ing disclosing that Merrill’s plane
was not seen or heard at Council.
Golovin residents saw the plane going
Eastward on Wednesday, the same
ctay it left Nome. The plane was fol
lowing the Bering sea coast line.
Nothing was seen or heard of it since.
The weather conditions at Nome are
perfect, the sun is shining and there
is good visibility, with the tempera
ture at 50 degrees above. The Candle
radio reports no news ^ the plar
^and the weather fine. Parties are be
ing organized to start a search be
tween Candle and Council believing
that Merrill might have overflown that
point or passed it and was heading
north. The distance between Coun
cil and Candle is approximately 100
miles, that between Golovin and
Council H5 miles, the distance Mer
rill would have been compelled to
travel to reach his objective after be
in ~ seen at Golovin.
c
The Alaska Road Com Commis
sion’s map in the last annual report
shows one trail leading from Golovin
to Council without indication of a
roadhouse. Another trail leads from
Topkok Bluff, about the same distance
to oCuncil, forming a V, with the apex
to Council, forming a V, with the apex
ern shore of Norton sound. One road
house is shown on the Topkok Bluff
trail.
Advices to the Gateway from its
special service say that dog mushers
are combing the country for many
miles on each side of these trails for
trace of the missing plane.
BOY UNO KITE IN
FDANKLIIU STUNT
< DO MUCH DAMAGE
TWAINS BOLT OF ELECTRICITY
CAUSING SHORT CIRCUIT
TELEPHONES
•» VIS ALLA, Calif., April 9. • (JP)—A j
small boy flying his kite during a
shower yesterday ran into a charge j
of electricity that put to shame the
current Benjamin Franklin obtained ^
1 from a bolt of lightning.
The wet kite string touched simul
taneously the 11,000 volt line of the
Su«hern Edison Company and the
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wire of a Farmers Telephone line.
The resulting short circuit burned
<f jut six telephones and set one house
afire, but due to the telephone line,
the lad escaped unhurt. The proper
ty damage was small.
MOST IMPORTANT SINCE SLAVE
RY AND SECESSION, STATES
BUTLER
SYMPHONY HALL, BOSTON, April
9.(/P)—“The repeal of the eighteenth
amendment is the greatest question
since slavery and secession,” said
President Nicholas Murray Butler of
Columbia University.
! “A repeal without an alternative
would be a return to the old saloon
and a retreat from their position of
the people of this country who en
actedthe amendment eight years ago,”
|
said Senator Borah. They were de
bating the question of what stand the
national Republican platform should
t,;,1-e in 1928. The debate was held
under the auspices of the Roosevelt
Club. No decision was rendered.
EMPLOYES OF BANK UNDER
GUARD; OWEN B. SULLIVAN
PLACED UNDER ARREST
SAN FRANCISCO. April 9. (/P)—
An alleged series of colossal swindl
es. through which the Angle & Lon
don, Paris National Bank is declared
to have been victimized to the extent
ol' $400,000 and in which other San
Francisco banks may be implicated
as victims, was revealed yesterdaj
by the arrest of Owen B. Sullivan
Sullivan is the head of the Sullivan
& * Company, Importers and Export
ers. Two employes of the bank are
also under guard, but have not as
yet been placed under formal arrest.
ENTERS LADIES HANDICAP
MELTON MOWBRAY, Eng., April
9.(/P)—The Prince of Wales entered
his horse “Cark Courtier” in the Lei
cestershire Ladies Steeplechase and
the Ladies Purse at the Milton Hunt
Steeplechases.
FREIGHTER ELKTON LISTED
MISSING SHIPS’REGISTER
WASHINGTON, April 9. (^—Ano
ther mystery of the sea had it’s cli
max yesterday, when the United
States Shipping Board officials list
ed as lost, the freighter Elkton,
which vanished with it’s, crew of 37
officers and men on February 16th,
during a hurricane in the Western
Pacific ocean, between Manila and
Guam.
PLANS NEW NOVEL
LONDON, April 8. (JP)—Sinclair
Lewis may write a novel with a Lon
don-American as the hero.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
_r.
Seattle 4, Sacramento 3.
Los Angeles 9, Hollywood 3. j
San Francisco 4, Missions 2. :
Portland 4, Oakland 3, (12 innings.
INCIDENT OF TWENTY Y^ARS
AGO MAY BE REVEALffc;
COMMUNICATION SUNDAY
SEATTLE, April 9. (#*)—Curiosity
or hunger of a small whale, which bit
into the Alaska cable caused a, break
in communication at 5 o’clock Sunday
morning, the cable ship Dellwood re
ported. It has been hunting the break
since that time and expects to restore
cable communication Sunday. The
whale presumably mistook the cable
for something edible and in its strug
gles after it discovered its mistake
! broke the conductor inside the ar
I
| mored cable. Twenty years ,.£gp a
| whale bit into the old Seattle-Sitka
S cable and became entangled with the
wire it was shown when fished up and
the break repaired.
COWBOY DISCOVERS WRECKED
PLANE AND BODIES OF TWO
MEN
SAN FRANCISCO. April 9. (£>)—
From a cowboy off the grazing lands
of Merced County came the startling
news that Edward Neher, airmail
pilot and Alfred Schaller, his passen
ger, lay crushed to death beneath
their wrecked plane.
Aircraft which has been searching
for the missing plane since last Sun
day morning, was rushed to the spo'-.
a few miles from Gustine and found
the report to be true and that the
men had been laying there several
days, probably since Sunday morn
ing when they were reported missing.
REVIVE "BATH A WEEK”
BERLIN, April 9. (,/p)—Reviving
the slogan, “A bath a week for
every German,” devised by Prof.
Oscar Lassar in the days when Ber
lin had more beautiful fountains than i
bathtubs, the Society for Free Pub
lic Baths has begun a campaign foy
more swimming pools and baWtfng
beaches.
WANT FRUIT EXPERTS
MINNEAPOLIS, April 9. (£>)—'The.
Russian Soviet government has asked
the University of Minnesota Agricul
tural School, which perfected the use
of gas for ripening fruit, to send ex
perts to demonstrate the method in
that country.
ROBT. DOLLAR SHIP
REQUISITIONED TOR
TRANSPORTING MEN
FIFTEEN HUNDRED ADDITIONAL
MARINES ARE ORDERED TO
CHINA
WASHINGTON, April 9. (JP)—The
decision of the government to send
1,500 more marines to China, increas
ing the force to 5,200 is generally be
I
lieved to be due the‘holding of fast
transportation at San Diego for emer
gency to rush to China should there
be a call for reinforcements. ' The
White House spokesman said Presi
dent Coolidge would be advised of any
| important change in the Chinese situ
ation.
DEPART ABOUT APRIL 20
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9. (/?)—'The
Robert Dollar Steamship company an
nounced that it’s liner, President
Grant, one of the fastest vessels in
trans-Pacific service, has been requi
sitioned to transporri^OTr additional
marines which the government has
start from San Diego not later than
April 20. The vessel will also take
provisions and stores enough to last
the entire American marine contin
gent in the Orient 60 days.
RUBBER TAIL LIGHTS NOW
PARIS, Ajril 8. (/P)—A French in
ventor has produced a tail lamp en
tirely of rubber except the glass bulb.
The lamp bends but doesn’t break in
collisions.
TOWN AUTHORITIES AND RANG
ERS MAKE ROUND-UP AFTER
CRIME WAVE
BORGER, Texas, April 9. (£>)—Two
hundred underworld characters were
moving out of this panhdndle oil
town* today, after they had been
rounded up by local authorities and
Texas Rangers.
The round-up followed a week of
crime, including the robbing of a
bank and the killing of two peace
officers, together with the arrest of
a number of election officials, grow
ing out of charges from the last city
election. The officials, under the
orders of Mayor John Miller started
the cledn-up and the sentence was
24 hours to leave town.
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MISSION TO BE SHRINE
TOPEKA, Kan., April 9. (/P)—Shaw
nee Mission, in Johnson county, estab
lished by the Methodist church in
1829, will be purchased by Kansas
for a State shrine.
SIXTY MEN WATCH FACIAL EX.
PRESSION HOOVER, SPEAK
ING MILES AWAY
NEW YORK, April 9. (&)—Sixty
men sat in a room here yesterday
and watched the facial expressions of
Secretary Hoover, as he talked over
a long distance telephone from Wash
ington, D. C. to President Gifford, of
the American Telephone and Tele
graph Company.
It was the first formal demonstra
tion of the new television, which i3
a device to see over the telephone,
as well as to hear 'and may be used
over the radio w'aves in the same
manner.
As the men talked, they looked
into a small aperture about two
inches square and could see as well
as hear each other. Any facial ex
pressions were easily noted.
Later, the telephone was attached
to a» loud—speaker and -he rfsictr ae
Hoover enlarged onto a huge screen,
so all present could see and hear the
demonstration.
The perfection of the device will
open up undreamed of possibilities
in the manner of communication,
both visual and auditory.
WASHINGTON, April 9. (£>)—Earl
Carroll, theatrical producer, at whose
party a chorus girl bathed, nude in
a bathtub of wine on the stage, for
the amusement of the men guests
and who was sentenced to one year
in jail for perjury, as an outcome of
the case, lost an appeal to President
Coolidge to halt his sentence, yester
day.
COASTWISE VESSEL
IS FOUNDERING IN
OREGON COAST GALE
FREIGHTER NECANICUM, 18 MEN
ON BOARD REPORTED SINK
ING OFF COOS BAY
PPORTLAND, Ore., April 9. (/P)—
Her plates badly sprung during a
battle with a gale off the Oregon
coast last night, the steel freighter
Neeanicum, with 18 officers and men
aboard, is sinking off Coos Bay.
Two ships, the Doyleston and Che
halis are standing by. The Necani
cum’s pumps are unable to take care
of the water and a deck cargo of
lumber has been jettisoned to keep
her afloat, if possible. The crew is
still aboard but will abandon the
ship, if danger demands.