MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 207. SEWARD, ALASKA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1928.
PRICE TEN GENTS
Noted Film Artist
Tells Of Struggles
In Arctic Wastes
JACK ROBERTSON OF NORTHERN PICTURE
FAME GIVES FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF
FIGHT WITH ELEMENTS THAT NEARLY COST
LIVES OF FOX MOTION PICTURE COMPANY
HEADING BY AIRPLANE TO POINT BARROW.
UNSELFISH DEVOTION AND HARDIHOOD OF
COMPANIONS IN ORDEAL LAUDED. A TALE
OF UNSUNG HEROES.
A tale of suffering and hardship seldom equalled in
all annals of Arctic adventures was modestly detailed
here Sunday by Jack Robertson when he and Ewing j
Scott of the Fox Film expedition came thru this city on j
their way to the States, the last two of the five men to
remain in the North to complete part of the work that
had been outlined at the beginning. The other three had
proceeded them back to Hollywood by plane and train and
steamboat, but in the wake were left sick and crippled
men and wrecked planes. These two finished part of the
program originally outlined by spending a month on the
ice floes off Wainwright Inlet photographing walrus.
The whole expedition started on a general scheme to
get Arctic scenes as the foundation oi a screen story of
the North projected by the Fox people. Scott is a new
comer in the North but Robertson has seen lS"years' in all
parts of the North, including northern Siberia.
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FIELD FEW DS¥S
FIRST CAMPAIGN UTTERANCES
FOR HOOVER IN THE EAST
IN FEW DAYS
WASHINGTON, Si^pt., 4,
Herbert Hoover, Republican Presiden.
tial candidate, will (speak in Newark,
N. J. on September 17, in 'bis first
campaign utterances in the East and
which will be the chief battle ground
since it is the home of the Democra
tic candidate, Governor A1 Smith.
Hoover’® address will deal largely
with questions effecting labor and
will probably be delivered in the First
Regiment Armory and be broadcast
throughout the Nation in a wicle
radio hookup.
Hoover worked out the draft of ltisi
address and plans to complete it by
next week after his return from a
fishing trip on Chesapeake Bay on
which he expecds to depart Thursday.
Senator Borah, who will begin a j
speaking campaign for Hoover and
Curtis in Detroit on September 19, j
He meets today with the eRepublican j
standard bearer for luncheon at Hoo
ver’s homee.
Chicago Police Dept.
Rotten To The Core
Declares Grand Jury
CHICAGO, Sp. 4, (/P)—A special
grand jury investigating the primary
election irregularities, returned four
indictments, naming 14 persons on
charges of kidnapping, assault and
conspiracy. Thee grand jury’s report
, ,. 11 es that the Police Department
is roiten to the corq
TOOK GREAT PICTURES
During the last seven yea is pieced,
ing this season he has filmed some of
the most remarkable pictures of
Northern animal life ever put on the
screen. This season hie lias been mi
der contract with Fox and expects to
spend another summer in the finish
of the work. Alter that he has many
things to do in the Norh according to
his plans now.
To get down to the story of this re
markable expedition, Robertsen and
Scott, Virgil Hart, business manager,
Ray Wise and Charles Clarke came
thru Seward May first headed for
Fairbanks where they intended to
take planes to Point Barrow.
At. Fairbanks arrangements were
made with the Wien airplane company
of Nome and representatives of the
Anchorage Air Transport for two
planes. On May lath with two cabin
ships Noel Wein and Russell Merrill
with quipment' but few food sup.
plie;s, took off from the town of Fair
banks carrying Robertson, Hart and
Clarke.
STARTED FOR BARROW
They got away on the evening of
the 13th, which was then the begin
ning of the long days of light in the
North and sailed across the Yukon
the Kuskokwim and the Endicott
range, which is the northermost and
bleakest of all North American mou'u.
tains.
They crossed the Collville river,
which is the biggest river emptying
into the Arctic and still unmapped,
passing through a million lakes, in a
veritable “no-man’s” land. The planes
plunged into so dense a fog that they
were soon lost. In order to save gas
they landed on a lake which they cal.
culated to be about 60 miles from Pt.
Barrow, but which was afterwards
found out to be about 150 miles from
their objective.
CAUGHT IN STORM
A heavy storm came up that was
worse than the fog and a plan was
hurriedly worked out whereby Wien’s
plane was unloaded and Hart and
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DEMOCRATS HEADY
TO BATTLE PUT IE
SMITH III CHAIR
DEMOCRATS ARE NOW ORGAN.
IZED IN EVERY STATE IN
THE UNION
ALBANY, N. Y. Sept., 4,
With the official announcement that
Governor A1 Smith, Democratic Pres
idential candpite, ha® made known
dates and places for the first dash
in the Preidential race and with only
a few days off, A1 has turned to the
Capitol office for the first time since
his notification, to catch up running
State affairs.
The latest advice to the nominee
from his advisers show the organiza
tion is now on a National scale with
representatives in every State work,
ing among the various elements of
the electorate which is rapidly taking
form and (setting up departments to
take charge of missionary work
among farmers, first voters, women
and naturalized citizen®.
The farm department will send rep
resentatives only into the States
where the agricultural problem is of
major Importance but every State
expected to be reached by the Nation
al agent who will work with State
first voters, women, naturalized cit
izens, lawyers, college leaders and
Smith elubfe.
Airplane Saves 24
Hours In Arrival
Of European Mail
BOSTON, Sept., 4, (JP)—A Sea
plane with mail from the French
liner Isle of France arrived at Quar
antine Station at 3 p. m. from Halifax,
was catapulted from the steamer at
5:45 a. Ml. while the ship was 500
miles, off Halifax and 90.0 miles from
New York where the steamer was
destineded to arrive.
More than 24 hours is estimated
to have been saved in transportation
of the mail. Although handicapped
most of the way by fog and a heavy
rain the ,seaplane arrived without a
mishap.
Judge Huges Wants
To Take Stump In
Hoover Campaign
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WASHINGTON, Sept.. 4. (/P)—
Chairman Hubert Work, of the Rep
ublican National Committee cam.
paign, announced former Chief Jus
tice Hughes, Supreme Court, plans
to stump for the Hoover-Curtis ticket.
The offer was cabled Croon Europe.
The Republican 'speakers bureau in
tends to arrange a series of speeches
mainly in New York with wide radio
hookups:, Work said.
Trans-Ocean Aviatrix
On Solo Air Flight
Across Continent
SCOTT FIELD, 111., Sept., 4, (Ay)—
Amelia Earhart, the first woman to
fly across the Atlantic Ocean, ar
rived here completing the first leg
of her solo flight from Dayton to Los
Angeles. She was the guest of Miss,
Annabelle Hopper at the Belleville
Country Club dinner dance. After a
morning round of golf she will re
sume her flight.
Frenchmen Over Ocean
Flying On Non-Stop
Paris To New York
SERGEANTS OF THE FRENCH ARMY IN GIANT
PLANE COMING WESTWARD OYER VAST SEA
CONTEMPLATING THAT THEY CAN MAKE
THE DISTANCE IN 40 HOURS AS THE LIMIT OF
THEIR GAS SUPPLY SIGHTED BY FISHING
BOAT OUT FROM BORDEAU AND APPARENT
LY GOING STRONG.
NEW YORK, Sept. 4, (/P)—The publicity firm of Gil*
lespie and Kusterer received a cable from their Paris
representative announcing a French plane is headed
for Mitchell Field, New York, and expected to make a
non-stop flight in 40 houurs.
FLIERS SIGHTED OVER THE SEA
Paris, Sept., 4, (/P)-—The flying Sergeants, Assolant
and Refeevere, were sighted this morning by a fishing
boat in latitude 34.50 North and longitude 1.47 heading
Westward on their transocean hop. The fishing boat was
1 in the Bay of Bisassout, 30 miles Southwest of Bordeau.
STILL MAKING KINGS AND |
NURSING TROUBLE
! ROME, Sept. 4, (fi>)—Dispatches to |
11 lie Do a in ale Ditali.'*. .om T:r»- State
] that I'm National Assiambl* re; • • lro<l
[only 1 ■> minutes today in which to'
decide to proclaim Ahmed Zogu king.!
jThe advices add that his’ title will hr |
jKing of this Albanians.
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j BELGRADE, Sept. 4, (/P)—The Ceil-J
jtral Committee of the Albanian Re_ j
publican organization today warned j
all European Chancelleries that the'
party -’could use weapons as it did I
lin 1920 to prevent ascension of Zogu !
to the throne of Albania. They urge
Ithe Powers to oppose his usurpation !
■to the throne.
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Puts Poison Kick
In Beer, Loved
Brother s Wife
BOSTON, Sept. 4, (#>)—Cracking
under the strain of a long grilling,
Samuel Weiss, conllessed to poisoning
home.brew beer which caused the
death of his brother John and two
'friends. He said he did it because j
lie loved his brother’s wife.
i
Gene Tunney Shines
At Highbrow Feast
LONDON, Sept. 4, (JP)— Gene Tun
ney, former boxer, scored an intel
lectual knockout at a dinner given in
his honor and attended by a host of
notables, including Lord Decies, Hugh
Walpole and Arnold Bennett, all of
whom highly' praised Tunney’s ora.
Itory in delivering a 30 minute speech.
AL OVER ONE HURDLE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, (^—Re
publican and Democrat Presidential
campaigners are bending every effort
to creat efficient voting machines.
New England, it is believed, will be
the center of a big Hoover.Smlth
fight. Smith has won the support of
New York.
IRISH SALUTE KELLOGG
DUBLIN, Sept. 4, Amid the
roar of saluting guns ami cheering of
thousands, Secretary Kellogg paid his
first official visit to Irish Free State.
Welker
Mickey
Discarded
Wants
Crown Of
Heavyweight Cramp
x
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 4,(JP)—Mick
ey Walter is announced as tile con.
tender for the world’s heavyweight
championship anil would be successor
to Gems Tunney. His Manager Jack
Kearns has wired Jack Sharkey a
550,000 oiler to meet Walker as his
first bid for the heavyweight crown.
Freighter Rammed
And Goes To Bottom
All Crew Rescued
SEATTLE Sept., 4, (/P)—Search
for the freighter Floridian rammed
by the S. S. Admiral Fiske, has been
abandoned by the Coast Guard Cut
ter Algonquin which radiod it wasj
proceeding to Seattle with wreckage
that proved conclusively that the
Floridian foundered after the crew of
40 had been rescued by the Admiral
Fiske.
His Bread On Waters
Is Back Many Fold
CHICAGO, Sept. 4, (/P)—Becaus'3
he came to the rescue of his friends
seven years ago and helped tide over
the Sears.Roebuck & Co., thru a try
ing period, Julius Rosenwald has
come into $25,000,000 he otherwis'3
would not have had.
THIRTY DAYS FOR KNAPP
ALBANY, Sept., 4, (jP)—Mrs. Flor.
ence Knapp, former Seretary of the
State of New York, was convicted of
grand larceny, first degree, in con
nection with her administration of
State fundte, and sentenced to serve
30 days in jail.
THIS GLAND WORKED
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4, (/PJ—
rhe gland transplanting operation in
which glands taken from the body
jf Claionce Buck Kelly, executed out
law, were used so successfully that
ihe recipent of the glands latiar un
derwent an operation for tonix goiter
ind rcovOrd.