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N O M E. ALASKA. KATI RPAY, NOV KM BEK 15, 1921
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MAUD GIVES UP POLAR
SUGAR
NOMEITES IN SEATTLE BUST ON !
SEWARD PENINSULA MATTERS
SEATTLE, 'Nov. 14. (AP)—E. J Mathews, Chair
man of the Alaska Committee of the Seattle Cham
iber of Commerce and he himself a mining operator
in Alaska, told the Alaska Committee last night at
a dinner meeting that the United States ought tr>
resist the claims of Russia to Wrangell Island sa>
ing that Russia had only contiguity in her favor
but the United States had the right of discovery and
occupation with her claim. He predicted that in
ten years the Island wotild be a strategic point
for distance between Europe and the Orient
As to distance from Scotland to Yokohama by way
of the Arctic, the route is only one third of the
former Toute. On other Nmatters before the com
mittee, Mr. Mathews. Judge Geo. D. Schofield and
Senator Ayer spoke knowingly
The question of the Cutter Be.ur was brought up
and these men were credited with having the com
mittee pass a resolution urging that the Bear be
fitted” up with new engines of greater power and
sent bach to Nome next spring pending the con
struction of special vessels for the government ser
vice in northern waters.
J. J. Cole, of the Bangor Creek Dredge operating
on Anvil Creek said that although Nome reached
eight million dollars gold output annually in the
boom days, he predicted that the next twenty years
would surpass the output of the last and also as
serted tha: the Seward Penninsula had passed the
million, three hundred thousand mark this season.
The committee reported on the proposed pro
gram of i making an effort to interest the govern
inent in extending the Seattle-Seward cable into a
trans-Pacifie lin- by way of Dutch Harbor to Jap’hn.
SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS SCATTER
60RNING DEBRIS IN JERSEY CITYiFIRE
JERSEY CITY. Nov. 14. (AP >— Spec ial - When
tire started in the saltpeter plant of the Richardson
Chemical Company and spread to the buildings of
the huge American Sugar Refinery Plant and the
buildings used by the Colgate Soap Company, an
entire city block bounded by Essex. Warren. Wash
ington and Morris streets became a roaring furnace
with flames leaping through the dozens of streams
of water and beyond control.
Explosions in the saltpeter plant blew out the
walls and roof and broke windows as far as one
half mile away, spreading terror among the resi
dents. Scores of firemen were overcome with the
fumes and many were treated for injury from fly
ing glass and the fumes which rolled over the city
and the Hudson River.
When the south wall of the refinery—the Dud
ley Street side—caved in and fell, the plant was
seen to be a roaring mass of flames and all hope
of saving it was abandoned.
The Hoboken Fire Department joined New
Yorl? Fire Boats in helping the Jersey City Fire
Department and several hundred volunteers helped
in extinguishing smaller blazes which occurred fre
quently in the •district.
Two thousand school children were rushed front
a nearby school building just before the roof of
the saltpeter plant was scattered by an explosion
inside tie building. Five hundred policemen
herded the children out of the danger zone where
they scattered, terrified, through the streets. Soon
' afterward stores of sulphuric acid in the refinery
began exploding, throwing blazing debris among the
firemen ami policemen who layed down on the side
walk to git air as the fumes of the saltpeter rolled
Fire t hief Boyle called for tons of dynamite
to attempt t<> halt the flames and City Commission
er Fagan .dosed one city reservoir, directing all its
supply of water to the lire nozzles. The firemen
expressed the belief early this afternoon that the
flames woo’d soon be under control.
ALASKA TERRITORIAL
RETURNS TO DATE
JUNEAU. Alaska. Nov. 16, 1924—Following is
a total of votes received by candidates for Delegate
and Attorney General In the first, second, third and
fourth divisions to date. There is still one small
precinct unreported in the first division: the third
division Is still incomplete, the fourth division returns
are nearly complete and in the second division there
are still four more precincts to be heard from. The
returns show conclusively- that pan Sutherland is
elected as our next Delegate and John Rustgard is
elected as Atorney General.
Delegate
Candidates ' 1 Div. 2 Div.
Sutherland R. 2630 636
Boyle, D 2024- 162
Attorney General
Rustgard R. 2477 473
Roden, Dem. 1902 158
4 Div. Total
961 5928
511 3570
853 60*32
61.7 3639
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BABE RUTH SLUGGER
BASEBALL AND GOLF
Lob Angeles. Nov. 14, (AIM 1‘laying his first
game .of golf since February, Babe ttuth drove
three hundred and flfty-two yards from the first tee
at Ranch O Country Club yesterday, the longest
drive ever made at Ranch O. The ball went three
hundred twenty-two yards in the air and rolled
thirty yards. The distance was marked so Abe
Mitchell, British professional who is due next month
can try his hand at beating it.
FAVORABLE TRADE BALLANCE
FOR THE MONTH IN UNITED STATUS
WASHINGTON. Nov. 14, (AP)—The Commerce
Department today reported /that the trade balances
for the month of October showed two hundred sev
enteen million dollars in favor of the United States.
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MAUD IS THOUGHT TO
HAVE GIVEN UP
POLAR TRIP
CHRISTIANIA. Norway. Nov. 14. tAi Spec
ial- -Otto Sverdrup received a message from the
Maud on which he commented as "unfavorable."
Sverdrup expressed fear that she must abandon the
plan to drift past the Pole. Hr. Frit/jof Nansen
said that the, message means that the Maud has
abandoned the drift trip and is trying to p'urn to
the Ferine Straits, having exhausted her oil and be
ing dependent on the sails to reach safety in this
case this would he th» third visit of tin- ‘Tip to
CHRISTIANIA. Nov. 14. Special Otto
Svendrup said that apparently the Maud must re
main in her present position near Cape Haranof for
at least another year. The Maud's message stated
i that four sailors were on Peer Island and that
1 everything was well with the exception that the
I Maud had sprung it leak before working free from
j tin* ice on August 7
Cape Haranof is on the Northern Shore of Rus
; sia. uni places the Maud in nearly the same place
j that 'he vessel was forced to wintei in.wbeq ('apt
j Amundsen made the Northeast Passage about three
'year- ago. Editor's Note
COOLIDGE SPEAKS
AT MEETING ON
FARM QUESTIONS
WASHINGTON Nov 14. (AP » President fool
iideclared in :m ;uldress tonight at the annual
meeting of the Association of Land Grant Colleges
tli tiie government should omit no effort to pre
vent the repetition of recent misfortunes involving
the agriculturalists but asserted that the farmer'
mu-: "adjust hi* methods of production and mar
keting until he mines within sight of a new day.”!
“The immediate problem.” said the president is to j
bridge over the lifflcultios resulting from abnor- ,
nutl and war times.” A. stimulated surplus pre-j
paration must a1s<> he made for the time fast
approaching when We will lik» l»e one of the
greatest agricultural nations instead of importing.
AMUNDSEN HAS BEEN
STAKED FOR FLIGHT
OVER NORTH POLE
CHRISTIANIA. Norway. Nov. 15. (AP) —Coming
In the wake of the news that the Maud has been
reported out of the race to make a trip in the drift
circling the Polar Ice Pack, is the statement in the
Tidenstegn which says that one hundred thousand
dollars has been placed at the disposal of the ex
plorer for an airplane flight over the North Pole to
start from Spitzenbergen in June next.
N KW ORI/BACS FIGHTER WINS
INCISION OVER THE POPI'LAR SIKI j
NEW YORK. Nov. 15. (AP) - Antonio Marullo of
New Orleans won An unpopular decision over Slki
in a twelve round bout here last night.
SAM GOMPERS SAYS
NEW HOUSE LOOKS
GOOD FOR LABOR
El Pas- Texas. Nov. ll, (AP) Samuel (Jumpers
president of the American Federation of Labor who
is here for the annual meeting of the Federation,
stated In face of the tremendous Hoolidge land
slide, then- were elected to the new House of Rop
resentat ivs. inure members having labor indorse
ments than are in th** present house -the new cong
ress is not. likely to pass any measures greatly
detrimental to the interests of the workers or our
people generally
VKitNovs territorial rights
IHSIM TEI> IN COAST I I ALII
Seattle. Nov !|. (AP) It was learned that the
resolution whit ii would establish full territorial*
tiphf*-* for ih" Vernon clul wc (’.fetfted in rf ■ .u1:»
uu a I meeting which wt adjourned Tuesday. Sac
ra • ••tit" ‘ . . nFram ci • 1 Y< i voted foi the
resolution and Seatth•. Los Angeles. Portland. Salt
Lake and Oakland against it.
MW \Oltl\ SOFIKTY EH‘STEREI> M
iniiM i iM)i:i; marrying m iesi: \i\ii>
New York. Nov I I. (AP» Society learned with
surprise that Leonard Kip Rhinelander, twenty
two and son of Phillip Rhinelander, a member of
one of the city’s oldest families, was married on
October 14th to Alice 1?. Tones, twenty three, a
nurse-maid and daughter of George Tones a citv
*: *• • cab driver.
MRS. H\i:iH\<; IS LETTER AGAIN
nARION. o Nov 14. i APi —Mrs. Harding show
an improvement today after suffering all night from
MANY FATALITIES
RESULT OF QUAKE
OKI JAMA ISLAND
BATAVIA. Nov 11. (AIM- The Island of Java
was lu*ii\ily shaken by an earthquak-. yesterday,
and three hundred an reported dead with countless
numbers missing. Many native towns in the Kedu
District the > ontra! residency of Java were destroyed
by landslide and one village has disappeared into
LONDON. Friday, A dispatch from the Morning
Post of Amsterdam quoting reports from Java says
that the river near Kampong is transformed into
a mud channel in which bodies of men and animals
are lying. The whole of Dessah Hanjingan is en
gulfed in the Pring River.
HONG KONG. November 14. (AP)—Dr. Sun Yat
Sen. the South China leader, sailed from here
for Shanghai on diplomatic business today.
HKCLA MINE DECLARES ANOTHER
QUARTER MILLION DOLLAR DIVIDEND
WALLACE. Idaho. Nov. 14—(AP) The famous
Heela mining company lias declared a dividend of
25 cents per share on a million shares of stock
making the fourth distribution of two hundred
fifty thousand dollars this year.
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