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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 172 SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
. Coolidge Approves
Material Increase
National Defense
‘S ARMY AND NAVY WILL BE AMPLY PROVIDED
FOR — FIRST YEAR’S WORK ON ALL AUTHOR
* IZED NAVAL CRAFT BE CARRIED OUT AS AU
THORIZED BY CONGRESS—ARMY PROGRAM
INCLUDES 1,800 PLANES.
RAPID CITY, S. Dak., Aug. 15. (/P)—President Cool
idge has approved “of a material increase” in next year’s
expenditures for national defense, General Lord declared,
upon concluding an all day conference at the summer
White House. Both the army and navy bills will be “am-!
ply provided for” he added.
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FIRST THS-0CE1C
AERIAL RACE SMS
OAKLAND, Aug. 15. (^P)—The first
long distance aerial race in the his
tory over a trans.oeeanic course of
2,400 miles will get underway at noon
tomorrow when planes will wing their
way to the Hawaiian Island of Oahu.
Seventeen men and one woman will
travel towards the goal. The first
prize is $25,000 and the second $10,000.
But one plane lacked official approval
but it expected to qualify before the
deadline was reached.
AVIATORS CRASH iT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 15.(/P)—
The navy radio station at Hampton
Reads has reported to the Navy De
partment that two Naval aviators
crashed after a take-off here, but es-1
caped uninjured. The plane was <pi_ 1
loted by Lieutenant S. H. Arthur and I
was accompanied by B. B. McKay,!
Chief Machinist Mate.
CUTTER HTHD
TO POINT BARROW
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BISHOP PETER TRIMPLE ROWE;
IS PASSENGER ON MILLION
DOLLAR VESSEL
SEATTLE, Aug. 15. (JP)—'The mil-!
lion dollar coast guard cutter North-1
land sailed on its maiden voyage to 1
Nome, via the inside passage Com
mander J. F. Hottel, said it was pro
bematical 'whether the vessel would
be able to reach Point Barrow this
year. The Northland carried a crew *
of 86 and one passenger, Bishop Peter
Trimble Rowe, who is enroute to the
Arctic. The vessel will stop at Ket
chikan, Juneau, Cordova, Seward,
Dutch Harbor and St. Lawrence Island .
before reaching Nome.
B Coolidge desires sufficient funds to
, be recommended to Congress to carry
out the first year’s work on all autho
rized naval craft including the six
; cruisers the last Congress anthorized.
Lord said the tax reduction is entirely
up to the Congress, but from his fig
! ures the reduction is extremely un
likely. Coolidge has provided for car
i lying forward the five year aviation
1 program of the Army and Naval and
: for the Commerce Departments. The
aircraft plans complete program gives
the army 1,800 first class planes and
the navy 1,000.
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CONTINUES TO MAKE AVIATION
HISTORY; WAS FORDS FIRST
FLIGHT
I DETROIT, Aug. 15. (/P)—Colonel
I Charles A. Lindbergh made aviation
history yesterday when he took Henry;
• Ford and his son Edsel aloft in his
thans-Atlantic monoplane “The Spirit !
of St. Louis”. This was the first flight1
■ that either of the Fords have made in
| an airplane, though they are building
them in quantities now.
Having made the start, the Fords
next went aloft in one of their own [
big all metal planes, Lindbergh ac-!
companying them and alternating at
the control with the Ford (pilot. The !
plane is equipped with dual controls
and after gaining an altitude of 2000
feet, Edsel and later his father took
the seat of alternate pilot and had
their first experience in learning to
fly.
Both expressed delight at the expe
rience and said that they will continue
flying. Ford said he has long been
intending to do so, but had not got a
round to it before.
JAMES OLIVER GURWOOD
OSSEO, Mich., Aug. 15. (/P)— James
Oliver Curwood, author and convera
tionalist, died at his home Saturday
night from a streptococcus infection
which confined him to bed for a week.
Death came after a desperate battle
against the infection which steadily
sapped his strength.
SACCO GETS HUNGRY
BOSTON, Aug 15. (.P)—Sacco broke
last after starting upon his 30th day
hunger strike by refusing breakfast,
j During the forenoon he took a quaart
of beef broth.
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STEEL CORPORATION
BEEN IN ILL HEALTH FOR MONTH
CONFIRMATION OF DEATH
WAS UNEXPECTED
NEW YORK, Aug. 15. (£>)— Elbert
H. Gary, chairman of the Board of the
United States Steel Corporation, died
in his home at 4 o’clock yesterday
morning. Reports of Gary’s death be
gan to circulate in the Wall Street dis
trict during the forenoon but confirm
ation was not immediately available
and when the reporters went to the
Gary home, an employe of the house,
hold made the bare announcement
that he had died at 4 o’clock and that
all further details would be given out
in a statement by the steel corpora
tion. It was later stated the cause of
death was chronic myocardities. He
had been in ill health a month or
since July 25. After Gary had been
ill a week it was reported he was on
the mend and was expected at that
time to return to his office in a few
days. One of his last acts, on June 16,
was when by his passing his hand
over an electrically operated machan
ism, he set in operation the gigantic
electrified Homestead Steel Plant,
near Pittsburgh.
WIFE Mil-SUN :
LEAGUE HEAD MEETS
FRIGHTFUL DEATH
DRUM GASOLINE EXPLODES IG
NITING CLOTHING; WAS A
FLAMING HUMAN TORCH
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( GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 15. (JP)
—Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler, wife of the
anti-saloon league head, died in the
Shelby Michigan hospital from burns
received in an oil container explosion
that also resulted, indirectly, in the
death of her father, Robert Gandy,
age 82, of Columbia, Ohio Mrs. Rob
ert Candy, age 81, mother and wife of
one of the victims, is prostrated from
the shock tand physicians fear for her
life.
The accident occured in the Wheel
er summer home, near Grand Rapids,
when a large drum of gasoline, near
which Mrs. Wheeler worked, exploded,
igniting her clothing. She ran scream
ing into the living room where her
father, w’ho recently suffered a heart
attack, w'as reclining on the couch.
Candy arose at the sight of his flam
ing daughter, clutched at his heart
and toppled over dead. Wayne Wheel
er. in an upstairs room, was attracted
by his wrife’s screams and succeeded
in extinguishing the flames but she
died within a few” hours.
REVOLT FADING
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 15.(JP)—
Rear Admiral David Sellers has re
ported to the Navy Department that
the Nicaraguan border at Costa Rico
the Sandion troops are retreating and
that the band is dispersing.
SUBS PILGRIMAGE
TO FAIRBANKS WAS
WONDERFUL EVERT
NILE TEMPLE OF THE MYSTIC
SHRINE OF SEATTLE, WASH
INGTON
COMPLETE FOURTEENTH ANNU
AL PILGRIMAGE TO THE TER
RITORY
(By Frank Lazier, Recorder)
Like the true Arab, and taking but
little more time for preparation, Nile
Temple of the Mystic Shrine, of Seat
tle, hits the trail out into the open
spaces to carry the Spirit of the
Shrine to it’s Nobility and to the
wandering Bedouins it gathers into
it’s fold.
It received it’s charter in 1909 and
the same year made a 6000 mile pil_
grimage to Nome. In 1912 it made a
7500 mile trip down the Yukon river |
to Juneau, Dawson, Fairbanks and j
Nome, staging ceremonials at all these j
places except Dawson. In 1914 it
made a 14,000 mile pilgrimage to Jap
an, China and the Philippine Islands.
Since then it has made three more
treks to the Orient.
On July 30th, of this year, Poten- i
tate Win. A. Eastman, accompanied ,
by Noble Van S. McKenny, Oriental
Guide, Frank B. Lazier, Recorder, and
Past Potentate Thos. M. Askren, High '
Priest and Prophet, left Seattle on the .
S. S. Alaska on Nile Temple’s 14th!
pilgrimage to Alaska, traveling, since |
it received it’s charter, over 100,000
miles. This places it far in the lead I
as the most traveled Temple in Shrine
dom
In Potentate Eastman’s party are,
also, Mrs. Eastman, Mrs. McKenny,;
Mrs. Lazier, Noble Chas. M. Howe and j
wife of Seattle, Mrs. A. McDonald of
Los Angeles and the Misses Nina and
Helen Howard of Stanwood, Wn. On
the steamer, Potentate Eastman found
Noble C. E. DeWald, of Aladdin Tem-!
pie, Columbus, Ohio, and wife; Noble j
Swartz of Indianapolis, Ind., and wife; j
Noble Jackson of Murat Temple, of I
Cleveland, Ohio; Noble J. C. Winfield,
of Nile, from Matanuska, and Noble
Sharpless, of Korein Temple, Rawlins,
Wyo., now of Anchorage. At Juneau
he was joined by Noble John Chamber
lin, of Nile, an oldtime Alaskan and
his wife, all of whom he adopted as a
part of his caravan. Ideal wreather
favored him almost the entire voyage
to Seward Stops were made at Kef-1
chikan, Wrangell, Juneau and Cordo
va, where the Nobility gave him the
usual greetings and the true Alaskan
hospitality. At Cordova, he broke all
records for staging Ceremonials. Ar
riving late at 7 a. m., Aug. 5th, he had
but five hours at his disposal. His
camels were speedy ones, however,
and they made record time to the
Masonic Temple where a Ceremonial
was staged in full form ih five hours
and he was ready to sail at 12 noon. «
rhe sand heaters were evidently in 1
?ood working trim, because one of the 1
mregenerates, when asked if he was <
satisfied, replied: ‘I surely am, but, 1
lor the luva o’Mike, what do you give <
hem in Seattle when, you have plenty
)f time?” Nobles Anderson, Holt,
Irving, Liebe, Nafsted, Robinson,
liong, Swanberg and Young, were s
nembers of the class. £
At Valdez, he was met by Shiek 1
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CLEARS SITUATION
KETCHIKAN, Aug. 15. (JP)—Henry
O’Malley advised the Chronicle, re_
garding the closed season until Sep
tember 14, that the order does not in
clude the west coast of Prince of
| Wales Island.
GERM AVIATORS
HOP OFF FOR N. I
COMPELLED RETURN
BREMAN TURNS BACK ACCOUNT
I ENGINE TROUBLE; EUROPA
IS WRECKED
NEW YORK, Aug. 15. (IP)—Ger
many’s first bid for trans-Atlantic
aerial honors failed when the metal
monoplane Breman, which left Dessau
at 6:20 Sunday night, returned to the
airdome and landed at 4-20 yesterday
afternoon. The plane was forced back
by stormy conditions over the Atlan
tic. Its sister ship, the Europa, sec_
ond in the aerial argosy of Junkers
planes, had already landed, being
forced to turn about on account of
engine trouble. In the dense fog over
the North Sea the Europa, in landing
at Breman last night was badly dam
aged but Herman Koehl and Freder
! ich Loose brought their ship, the Bre
man, down unharmed on the Dessau
Airfield. After an examination of the
Europa experts said it was so badly
damaged as to preclude all hope of
continuing the trans-Atlantic flight
and said it would take weeks to repair
the machine.
PARIS REPORTS
PARIS, Aug. 15. (IP)—A Havas
agency reports the German trans-At
lantic plane Breman returned to Des
sau yesterday afternoon.
EUROPA ELIMINATED
DESSAU, Germany, Aug. 15. (/P)—
The Breman and the Europa, two low
wing one motor Junker airplanes, hop
ped from the airdome outside of Des
sau at 6 o’clock Sunday night. The
Europa was eliminated from the race
several hours later when it made a
forced landing at Breman
BREMAN OVER ENGLAND
LONDON, Aug. 15. (IP)—'The Bre
man was sighted over Wakefield, York
county, in Northern England, at 1:40
this morning.
CAB PIGEON IS
FOUND KETCHIKAN
THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN RE
LEASED BY SMITH-BRONTE A
MONTH AGO
KETCHIKAN, Aug. 15. (/?)— An ex
hausted slate colored carrier pigeon,
thought here to be one of those re
leased by aviators Smith and Bronte
a month ago on the Hawiian flight,
was picked up on a fish trap near Ket
chikan. “False alarm, don’t send
boat”, said a penciled message tied to
the pigeon. Anothed carrier landed
on the trap but got away. The rubber
band which held the note to the pig
eon’a leg had lost all its elasticity.
GERMANY CELEBRATES
BERLIN, Aug. 15. (£>)—1The Reich
stag convened here for a special ses
sion as all Germany prepared to cele
brate the egiht anniversity of the
Weimar republican constitution.