WEDNESDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC)
TANKER OROWAITI IN DANGER
FROM FIRE, REPORTED
Los Angeles, August 18—The
British tanker Orowaiti which
piled up on the rocks south of
Port San Luis the other day, has
shifted her position and is now in
danger of fire. The four tanks un
der the engine room are punctured
according to their wireless opera
ITALIAN AVIATOR MAY
FOLLOW C. S. FLYERS
Washington, August 19—In ans
wer to an inquiry from Lieutenant
Fin it h. which announced the arriv
al of Loeatelli. the Italian avia
tor, who reached Reykjavik yes
terday. General Patrick Chief of
Air Service cabled Smith “You
aie authorized to allow Loeatelli
to accompany when in your opin
ion his plane won’t endanger the
success of your flight. Be sure of
your own success, however.”
HELEN WILLS DEFEATS
MALLORY, WINS TITLE
Forest Hills. August 16— i delay
ed)— In the presence of five thou
sand people in in a boiling sun,
Helen Wills defeated defeated Mol
lie Mallory, who was seven times
the title winner. The scores yes
terday were six to one. and six to
three, giving Miss Wills the cham
pionship for the national womens’
singles.
McLaren to try world
FLIGHT NEXT YEAR
IF AMERICANS TAIL
Prince Rupert, August 19—Af
ter announcing that lie would at
tempt a world flight -again next
year if the Americans fail. Mac
Laren said today that he would
probably not make another attempt
because the resources necessary to
make the flight was greater than
any private firm could provide.
Sergeant Andrews, who suffered a
sunstroke in the Kuriles is going
to a hospital in Vancouver for a
long convalescence. After the dis
aster at Nikolski. Colonel Uroome
claimed that the mountains in tlie
..Rering Islands signalled to the
Russians, and that the Russians
were also wirelessed from the
Thiepval for assistance l»i|t with
out result. He said that the Rus
sians at Paropavloek hesitated for
hours before letting the Thiepval
have any coal.
85.000 JKWKbS TAKEN FROM
BOttY MRS. MOERS, PI,AIM
lx>s Angeles. August 19 -Attor
neys ertained by Albert Moers. the
divorced husband of the Moers
woman murdered here by hir bro
ther Kid McCoy, declared tod.iv
that jewels worth live thousand
dollars were taken from the body
of the wife after she had been
killed by a bullet through her
brain, last Tuesday.
LA FOLLETTE BE VICTORIOUS,
HE TELLS A. F. L.
Washington. Aug. 20—LaFol
ktte in a letter to the partisan
political campaign committee of
the American Federation of Labor
predicted “In the end we shall be
victorious." He said that although
his campaign "brands me as rad
ical by the forces we are fighting,"
be declared that he was essentially
conservative because his campaign
is aimed at the conservation of hu
WRIGLEYS
After Every Meal
It’s the longest-lasting
confection you can buy
—and irs n help to di
gestion and a cleanser
, lor tne mouui
" and teeth.
' Wrlflley’s means
l benefit as well as
LADY KINDERSLEY DRIFTS ..
42 MILES BEYOND FT. HARROW
The motorship Kindersley has
drilled 4 2 miles east of Point Bar
row and is drifting Northeast at
the rate of a mile an hour in the
ice. Some hope of escaping from
the ice. The crew remained aboard
the vessel but was prepared to
leave the ship last evening.
SCH. ARCTIC TOTAL WRECK
OFF POINT BARROW
The Liebes Company motorship
Arctic on a trading voyage to Pt.
Barrow and other Northern points
was crushed in the ice yesterday
and is a total loss. Crew all safe
and landed at Pt. Barrow, they
plan to return to Nome on the
the Bureau of Education motorship
SOURDOUGHS PICNIC IN
WOODLAND PARK IN RAIN
Seattle. Aug. 20—Despite the .
rain which fell yesterday, a large ‘
number of Alaska Sourdoughs un
der the auspices of the Alaska Yu
kon Pioneers’ Lodge No. 1, attend
ed a picnic in Woodland Park. All
present reported that the day was
u most enjoyable one. despite the
rain, and those from Southeastern !
Alaska said that the rain made !
them fee? at home.
ROTH AMERICA.< PRANKS
RECEIVE DAMAGES
Reykjavik. August If*—In at
I tempting to take off for Freder
kksdale. Greenland, one of the
I American planes broke its spreader
| bar on the propellor of the other,
damaging both planes. The dam
age is said to he serious.
CORRECT LENGTH OF
LADY KINDERSLEY
i Vancouver, August 10- The cor
j reot length of the Lady Kinders
1 * ' r, porte<* Monda>’ to *'e *n
•one hundred and ninety two feet,
j in that regard today.
FRENCH BEGIN EVACI \TIO\
Om’l’IKD TERRITORY’
French troops began tiie evacua
tion of Edenburg anrl Appenwier.
j jition is expected to be completed
l lUiKS FRENCH RKIXilANS
l'(>M1*LETE RV.Vt TATTO\
IX I.KSS THAJi VFA R
London. August 19—Premier
j .VacDonald has written both the
j French and Belgian Premiers urg
| ing the two countries to take everv
‘ possible step to evacuate the Ruhr
| ir less than one year, as agreed
upon, provided the agreement to
such action is given by the Inter
i national Conference. He said in
the letter, among other things,
j ' Continued occupation may preju
dice the working out of the Dawes
HEHRIOT RETURNS AS
CON QI* A RING HERO
Paris. August 19 President Her
riot returned from the Interna
tional Conference as a conquering
hero. At the O.aro Saint Lazarre
many thousands of people cheered
him as no public official has been
cheered in France in many years.
TO RK-FUEIi U. S. PLANES
ON .irMP, IS PLAN
Washington. Aug. 20—The lT. S.
Army Air Service is making plans
to re-fuel the around the world
planes at sea on the jump of 825
miles from Reykjavik to Freder
icksdale. Greenland according to
an announcement made public to
day by General Patrick. Ho stated
further that the date of departure
from Reykjavik is now indefinite,
owing to the damage to,the planes
yesterday in attempting to take off.
RIOTING ON THE
“ROAD TO MANDALAY”
London, Aug. 20—According to
the Exchange Telegraph today, two
policemen and two Poonghies, or
I'uddhist priests have been killed
r.nd at least nineteen persons have
been wounded with knives and
other weapons in rioting since Sat
urday at Mandalay.
RIG CROP ESTIMATES
SMASH COTTON PRICES
New York, August 19—Private
crop estimates suggesting a mini
mum yield of thirteen and a quar
er million Laics of cotton this sea
ion, coupled with favorable wea
ker conditions, resulted today in
i violent break in prices of cotton
tor October delivery, the price Ko
ng down to twenty-five point thirty
tour, a drop of over half a cent in
i fortnight.
['RESIDENT RECEIVES TWO
RAKES AS GIFTS
Plymouth, August 20—A com
mittee of his neighbors met Presi
dent Coolidge at the roadway at
his old home and presented him
with two rakes made in Mass
achusetts. The President said that
the gifts reminded him of “days
gone by.” He said that he sup
posed the newspaper men would
give bis father enough help to keep
the front yard clean.
THURSDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC)
RICHMOND ARRIVES WITH
REPAIRS FOR PLANES
Reykjavik. August 2CT—The 1'.
S. Cruiser Richmond arrived here
yesterday afternoon with spare
parts for the two damaged plant s,
but it was pronounced too late to
DELAY OF THREE DAYS
FLIGHT FREDERICKHDA I.E
Reykjavik. August 20—The de
cay has been extended to thiv
days for the flight to Frederick s
dale by the American around the
world flyers because of the dam
age done yesterdav to both planes
when they tried to rise with the
heaviest loads of gasoline yet tak
en during the entire expedition.
The Italian flyer. Loratelli will ac
company the Americans when they
MRS. COOLIIMJE CAN AN'SWKR
ONLY FKW CONDOLRNn-lS
New York. Auk. 21 Mrs. Oliver
Ingersoll of Brooklyn, today made
public a letter from Mrs. Calvin
Coolidge, responding to a letter of
condolence on the death of young
Calvin. Mrs. Coolidge said she re
gretted that she could only answer
expressions of condolence received,
because a ‘Mot of the, cards seem
so cold." She ended her letter.
\. ith a quotation from the famous
poem- “I know not where Ills is
lands lift their fronded palms in
a r: 1 only know 1 cannot drift
SENATOR WATSON SPEAKS
OX DAWKS I*LAX
Chicago. August 21- Senator
James E. Watson, Republican,
from Indiana told the Hamilton
( lub in a speech today that 'lie ne
ttle Allies and Ormans is the an
swer to John W. Davis’ question
as to what contribution the pres
ent administration bad made to
world peace. He said: "The Arms
Conference at Washington and the
Dawes Finn are the two longest
steps ever taken toward the pacifi
cation of the world ajid the United
States Republic took both without
belonging to the League of Na
tions.” He said further “America
could not have been the umpire
if she had belonged to the
/ANNUS PLANE TURNS WRECK
Hanoi. Aug. 20—Zanni’s plane
overturned here today and was
wrecked as he tried to hop off for
Canton, but Zanni was unhurt.
I KRMAX AVINS OVER JOHNSON
Seattle. August 20—Tiny Cer
tnan of Tacoma and Omaha, won
[lie decision last night over Floyd
Johnson of Iowa and Auburn.
Washington, in the last round of
heir scheduled six-round go. It is
mnounced that Johnson was re
lently regarded as a possible con
ender for . Dempsey’s title. John
son won a decision over Rojas, the
Chilean fighter ami some time ago
>ver Jess Willard. Johnson seem
id lion-hearted but slow. He re
vived many hard blows but . did
lot flinch until the last round,
vhen he was floored by a terrible
■ight blow, after which he tried in
rain to rally.
*T)UR ROBBERS HOLD UP
STORE, LIFT 8150,000 OEMS
Boston. August 20—Four rob
iers held up a jewelry store today
rnd escaped with diamonds and
jewelry valued at $150,000. in a
tray which had just been removed
iTOiu the safe. One of the rob
bers remained in the automobile,
two covered the three clerks in
the store and the fourth lifted the
FRENCH CABINET GIVE GREAT
CREDIT TO HERRIOT
Paris. Aug. 20—The Cabinet to
day voted great credit to Ilerrioi
and unanimously endorsed his
work with the French deelgation
tc the International Conference,
red thanked the Conference for
the important work it did and the
definite results obtained with defi
nite benefits to France.
IOWA VISITED FLOODS, STORM,
TWO DROWN, HEAVY LOSS
Dcs Aloises, Iowa. August 20 -
I Two men were drowned. many
I head of cattle were destroyed and
! property damage of hundreds of
thousands of dollars sustained as
the result of terrific storms in the
[eastern portion of this State last
i night, flooding practically all the
j towns in the path of the storms
1 Des Moines. August 20—Every
! house in Oli. a village near Cedar
j Hapids. was flooded anil destroyed
in the floods of last night. Walnut
Cieek on which the town was sit
j rated is still rising un inch an
! hour today. Relief parties worked
all night taking people from the
! floating houses. Thousands of
[chickens were drowned and were
picked up today for food from the
Utreets which are littered high
' with drift and debris.
IIRI'O’S HEARING PIT OVER
1NTIL AFTER FIGHTS WILLS
New York. August 20 Tin
hearing of Luis Firpo. charged
'With perjury in connection with
i is bringing Blanca Lordes with
j him into the Cnited States, has
been put over until September
(twentieth, so as not to interim.
with his match with Wills on s -p
tent her eleventh.
I Itl'GI AVAN 1'OI.ICK FIRED
I PON BY BRAZILIAN TROt.lS
.Montevideo. Any. 20 l-ruguir
an newspapers declared today th
Brazilian troops have tired u i»«»•
i . <>. department to bfild
.1,000 ARMORKIl < Alts
New York. August
Cnited States Post Office
j ment has contracted for th
ing of three thousand cars.
! armored and equipped w
'vices to repel the attack
. heavily
lit IKS OPERATE ON IH'SIIAND
LANDS IN JAIL
j Brooking. S. I).. Aug. lfl Mrs.
: .\i. A. Baker, thirty three years of
* age. is in jail here today charged
I with having attempted an opera
11if.n upon her husband which was
j < i.lculated to mutilate him.
I BODY OF MATTEOTTI BEEN
FOI’ND AND IDENTIFIED
Home. Aug. 21 The body of
C'iaccmo Matteotti. the Socialist
leader who was assassinated June
tenth, has been found and identi
fied by a dentist, and by relatives.
WOMAN SWEARS SAW MOERS
KIN FRO.M APARTMENT
AFTER WIFE FOI'ND DEAD
I Los Angeles. August 20 Mrs.
Iva Martin, an apartment house
neighbor of Mrs. Moors, today told
the Grand Jury that she was posi
tive she saw Albert Moers. the di
vorced husband of the dead wo
man, run away front Mrs. Moers
apartment a few minutes after
Mrs. Moers had been found dead.
Two alienists examined McCoy, the
dead woman's brother who is ac
cused of the crime, and today an
nounced that McCoy is shamming
insanity. Albert Moers was the
Jteir of the dead woman's estate
and the beneficiary of her life in
surance. When Mrs. Martin’s tes
timony was concluded, a Deputy
District Attorney hastened from
the Grand Jury room in search of <
Moers.
FLYERS LEAVE THREE TODAY
FOR FREDERICKSDALE
Reykjavik, August 22—It was
announced after the conference on
hoard the Richmond, between Ad
miral Magruder. Lieut. Smith and
Locatelli, the Italian flyer, that the
three planes would leave for Fred
cricksdale. Greenland, at three to
FRIDAY
i ftLtORAPHiC'
FIFTY WHITES FOIND IN
SLAVERY IN AFRICA
London. .August '22- South Af
rica's Locust Expedition annonnce
by cable that they found fifty
white men and women in the in
terior wno are slaves of a black
chief who is well educated and can
speak fluent English. It is believ
ed that the party of whites are
the descendants of the Dutch pion
eers who lost themselves in the
desert and threw themselves upon
the m»rcy of the natives.
CHANCE NAME AS OFTEN
AS ONE LIKES IN KFHS1A
Rifca. August 2'2 A recent de
cree of the Central Soviet authori
ties has permitted every Russian
over the age of eighteen years to
change his Christian or family
name as often as he wishes, by
simpl.v registering in the proper
office of record, the. alterations he
desires to make in his name.
I.IfiHTNINCi STRIKES NEAR
llorSE COOLIDLE PARTY IN
Plymouth. August ‘22 The light
ning struck near the home of the
father of President Coolidge last
night where the President is resid
ing. and disabled the telegraph ap
paratus of the temporary office lo
} rated over the general store about
! fifty yards from the Coolidge dwell
' ing. but the President’s residence
lard the others in the vicinity ap
! reared to be undisturbed.
TRI CK LOAD OF SILK STOLEN
ON MADISON KQt'ARK
1 «-(l men captured a truck load of
I silk, valued at flf»y thousand dol
j lars. in Madison Square today, in
the presence of semes of people,
McCOY l.MMtTKI) ON
! two < tu nts grand intv
Los Angeles. August 21 The
j County r.rand Jury late yesterday
indicted McCoy for the murder of
Mrs. Moers. his sister and also in
, dieted him on a charge of assault
j v. ith intent to commit murder and
SMITH HOP OFF THURSDAY
! Reykjavik. August 21 Id. uten
ji-nt Smith, eommand. r of the Am-|
|erican around the world flight, an
(nounced that he would hop off to
[day i Thursday > weather and other j
1 conditions permitting.
MOKKS (iKMS RECOVERED
I Los Angeles, August 22 The
police announced this morning j
that the live thousand dollars'
worth of jewels, reported to have!
been taken from the body of Mrs. j
Moers at the time <f her murder.!
j were recovered last night from '■
McLAREN REPEATS Wild, l-LY
IF \MKKH A NS FAIL
Thiepval arrived here yesterday.!
and McLaren, the British flyer, re- j
iterated his intention to try again
to circle the earth next year, if
the present American circumnavi
gation fails.
Mrt’OY PRONOUNCED SANE.
POLICE TODAY CLAIM MAD
Los Angeles. August 22 -With
out the aid of alienists McCoy was
yesterday pronounced sane. hut
today the police believe that he is
really mad. They announce in ex- i
planation that he •‘cracked" tin- j
der the strain of the events of the
last few days. Today he hacked
at the wall of his cell with a strip
of pasteboard answering all in
quiries with "I’m making a trap
for a rat." Guards were placed
in his cell to prevent him from do
ing himself injury.
EIGHTH WIFE OF McCOY
SPYING, NIGHT OF KILLING
Los Angeles. Aug. 21 -Dagmar
Dahlgren. the eighth wife of Mc
Coy. told the police today that on
the night Mrs. Moers was killed,
she was spying upon him and Mrs.
Moers. She said she saw McCoy
leave Mrs. .Moers and switch off
the lights. Then a heavy-set man
arrived and she heard an argu
ment. She hastened to District At
torney Keyes where she reiterated
her story. Keyes declares that
McCoy is sane and guilty. He said
that the case will be tried within
a month and that he would take
personal charge and ‘‘use every
legal fair means to obtain a con
viction."
LADY KINDEKSLEY STILL i.N
icE, HOPES escape S<»<
Vancouver, B. • Auk. 21 I)i
patches last night to tin* Hudson
Pay Company from the Lady Ki
dcrsley’a own wireless set. said ti
vessel had drifted forty miles ea
«»f Point Barrow, and was sti
•'rifting northeasterly at the ra
o! about a mile an hour. She in
hopes of escaping from the i<
park, and the crow remained o
hoard. If conditions do not *b«
come worse, she is in no immedial
IRMIICAL ROGERS STATES
VIEWS BRITAIN AND LEAH
Williamstown. Mass.. Aug. 22
Hear Admiral W. L Rogers, retii
ed. in a statement contained in a
address before the Polytechnics
Institute declared that Great Brit
am dominates the League of Na
tions and the commerce of the en
fire world. He said that Gren
Britain inspired the Washingtot
Conference so as to prevent tht
i'nited States from having a nav\
large enough to protect a merchant
marine service large enough tr
compete with that of Great Brit
.11 RGB DWIGHT. ANTI-KLAN
DIED OF WOl’VDS RECEIVED
Port Worth. Texas, Aug. 21
.11 dge Dwight, who was reported
found in his garage with bullet
wounds in his head, at his home at
Childers, this State. (Reported as
Judge Wright), was rushed to the
hospital here in the hopes of sav
ing his life, but he succumbed to
iiis wounds today. He was the
anti-Klan candidate for Sheriff.
I‘.1ST Ol' WASHINGTON FOUND.
LOST IN FIRE OF 1831
New York. August 22—Mitchel
Kennerley. an art collector, an -
iiouneed today that he had found
i marble bust of George Washing
ion. presented to the United States
by France, which was lost when
the Congressional Library at Wash
ington burned in 1851. Kenner
ley said he bought it from an ob
scure stone cutter in New York
and has sold it to another collector
named Daniel Chester.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION' FOR
PATENT
Si. rf. No. 1360. M. A. No. 0618.
I NITBD STATES LAND OFFICE.
NOME. ALASKA.
July 16. 1924.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
I. S. McIntosh, whose Post Office
address is Fresno. California,
through his duly authorized agent
and attorney in fact. G. R. Jackson,
whose Post Office address is Nome. '
Alaska, has made application before ’
the United States Land Office at
Nome. Alaska, for a United States 1
Patent for placer mining claim ’
known as GOPHER PLACER
I'LAIM said claim being located In
the first tier of benches on the left 1
limit of Little Creek, adjoining Nos. *
S and 9 below on Little Creek, in *
the Cape Nome Mining and Record
ing Precinct. Second Division. Ter
ritory of Alaska, and designated by *
the United States Surveyor General ,
of the Territory of Alaska as Min- *
eial Survey No. 1360: the exterior
boundaries of said claim, according
tc the plat and field notes of said •
survey now on file with the said
Land Office, with a variation of IS
deg. 10 min. E. to IS deg. 40 min
E.. being as follows:
BEGINNING at Cor. No. 1.
identical with original N. E. Cor.
of location, a fir post 4 ins. sq. t
ft. long, scribed 1 1360 G.
whence U. S. L. M. No. 11 bears
N. 86 deg. 38 nrn. E. 9017.90 ft:
Anvil Rock b»*ars N. 2 9 deg. SO
min E and Monument Rock bears
N 40 deg 46 min W; thence S 53
deg. 2 3 min W. (Var. 18 deg. 25
min. E.l 103 8.10 ft. to Cor. No.
2. identical with the S. E. Cor. a
tir post 4 ins. sq. 4 ft. long scrib
ed 2 1360 G; thence N. 61 deg.
54 min. W. (Var. 18 deg. 25
min. E.) 870.30 ft. to Cor. No. 3.
identical with the original S. W.
Corner of location, a fir post 4
ins. sq. 4 ft. long scribed 3 1360
G: thence N. 61 deg. 43 min. E.
(Var. 18 d'*g. 40 min. E.) 1448.
00 ft to Cor. No. 4, identical with
the original N. W Corner of lo
cation. a fir post 1 ins. sq. 4 ft.
long, scribed 4 1360 G: thence S.
2 4 deg. 10 min. F. (Var. 18. deg.
10 mill. E.) 668.00 ft. to Cor. No.
1 and place of beginning, contain
ing an area of 19.996 acres.
The original notice of location
of said claim is recorded In Vol
ume 8 2. at Page 134 of the rec
ords of said Cape Nome Record
ing Precinct.
The adjoining claims are: On
the North. East and South are
undurveyed and claimants un
known: on the West Nos. 8 and
9 Relow on Little Creek. Sur. No.
IT. S. L. M. No. 11 to which
this claim is tied. Is a fir post. 6
ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground, scrib
ed U8LM No. 11. with a mound
of earth and rock 4 ft. at the
base and 30 ins. high around
same, situated about 80 ft. East
of the Bessie Road. 2.70 miles N.
E. of the mouth of Snake River,
in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. N.
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. W.
JOHN SUNDBACK.
Register.
Publish July 19. 26. Aug. 2. 9. 16,
23. 30. Sept. 6. 13. 1924.