' VOL. II. NO. 37.
McGRATH, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1922.
PRICE 25 CBiM\S
AIR FLIGHT
OF WORL
Blake, British Airman,
Leaves England On
Globular Circuit.
Croydon. Eng., May 24.—Maj. ;
W. T. Blake,, celebrated British i
airman, todays started on his
flight around tbe-world, leaving
Croydon at 3:02 p. m.
Blake’s route in encircling the
globe lies theough France, Italy,
G reece, Egypt, Mesopot am ia,,
India,- Eastern. China, Japan,
.-thence via the Aleutian islands,
Alaska to panada, through the!
United States..to. New York, to|
Newfoundland, -and across the
Atlantic, via Greenland, Iceland
and Scotland. The navigator ex
pects to complete, the world cir
, . cuit in -sixty days.
Paris, May 27.— tylajor Blake, British
aviator, who arrived here on the 24th,
today resumed his # round-the world
i flight, stepping, off from Lebourget
i Field, and headed for Lyons; He is ac
. cotnpanied by Capt.. McMillan, mecha
' nician and relief pilot.
Seattle.rr-Maior H. W. Patten, pio
neer of,,.tbs ^Pacific coast and well
known newspaper jnae, died last night
at Spokane,
fc^Pt
May Resign Agricul
tural Job if Sec. Fall
Gets Upper Hand.
Washington, May L5.—Secre
tary of Agriculture Wallace, it
is stated on high authority, may
resign from the Cabinet as a re
sult of the differences with Sec
retary of the Interior Fall over
departmental control of Alaska.
It is the belief, also, of several
intimate friends jef Wallace that
the latter’s resignation will be
forthcoming the moment that
the departments -of forestry and
public roads are taken from tiis
department, Secretary Fall ad.
heres to his statement of some
weeks that if the transfer takes
place his first act will bo to
“tire” Greeley, head of the for
est ry bureau, who lias opposed
most of Fall’s Alaska policies.
A late wire from Dr. W. F*. Green
states that. owing to his weakened
conditiuti^ue to a reeent operation, he
will be unable to return here, by way
of Fait banks, as intended, but will
come to Bethel on the Goodrich. Mrs.
Green wilt be passenger on the Tana
to Bethel, to meet the doctor and ac
company him to McGrath.
Winter Mail Could Be Received Here
Up to May 1; Summer Mail by June 1
□ The last mail to reach- McGrath over
it he. Rainy Pass route arrived April 12.
The next mail to arrive here will be
brought bye the • steamer Tana from
Bethel, about July 1.
Which means that, the people of Mc
Grath and this section will have been
without a maUiservice for something
like -eighty days—almost three months!
■Rumors are rife that future winter
tna il for McGrath will* come by way of
. Ruby—that the-Rainy Pass route will
. be thrown into, the discard. All this
i in spite of the fact that the mail serv
i ice to this place during the past winter
was the best ever known.
Reasons for this switch on the part
of the Postoffice Department are hard
-to state. Some say it is due to the
high costs of a service over that route;
others hint that the route has not been
praised by certain individuals.
Some weeks ago a telegram came to
the local postmaster asking for bids for
a su mmer service via Menchumin% but
the wording of the telegram was so
■vague that it was a hard matter for
prospective bidders to determine ex
actly what the Postoffice Department
desired. Thenteagain, bids were asked
for a through service, Nenana to Mc
Grath, or McGrath to Nenana, just as
one wishes to put it. Several bids,
-however, were submitted fora service
from here to Menchumina portage.
And that -was the, last heard regard
ing a service via Menohumina.
Some days later a telegram came
Asking for bids- far s. monthly service
during June, July,.August and Septem
ber, from McGrath to Ophir. Then it
Jooked as though McGrath’s summer
mail would corner by way of Ophir,
which would cot, after all, be so*b|jl,
considering that Ophir was to receive
four,mails during the open season, com
pared to the- two received here last
- aiumner.
But up to date not a word comes
from' Postoffice Department officials re
garding the coming summer mail serv
ice. The mail mav come either direct
from Seattle to Bethel to McGrath, by
way of the Yukon-Kuskokwim portage,
by way of Ophir, or Menctaumina, or
Mount McKinley, or bv aeroplane—no
!_body here knows, the Postoffice De
partment officials apparently deeming
it a matter of such immateriality that
they consider it hardly worth while o
give any notification or information re
garding it.
Be this as it may. isn’t it about t ime
some effort was being made to urge
trial of a summer route by way of
Menchumina, also a winter route di
rect from Nenana or some other point
on the railroad lino direct to the Kus
kokwimV
Owen Gray, who wont from here
early in March to Nenana, traveling
I by way of Salmon, Nikolai, Taleido and
Kantishna, declares that an ideal
winter route could be established over
that or some similar course.
.1. H. Peterson arrived here May 8
from Nenana. coming from that place
in about nine days, traveling with live
dogs and snowshoeing most of the wav.
He also declares that an ideal winter
mail route could be established,
Mail this spring could have come
over such a route certainly as late as
i Mav 1, for Mr. Peterson arrived here
May 8. And then, again, there is no
reason why mail could not at this mo
ment be on its way here from Nenana
via Menchumina. cutting off five or six
weeks from the system now in use.
] n other words,, winter mail could be
received here up till May 1, open sea
son majl by May 25, or no later than
June 1.
These routes may be adopted some
day in the future. Echo asks, When?
Taylor Murder Sus
pect, After Thrilling
Hunt, Grabbed, N. Y.
•Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—A mao known
only as “Mac,’ sought for the shooting
of William Desmond Taylor, moving
picture director, was arrested today at
Fish wed 1 'i!!age. The arrest came
after a thrilling hunt, to which a
she riff’s posse, armed with shotguns
and revolvers, searched one of the vil
lage buildings which he had been seen
to enter. He is held here, pending ac
tion of the federal authorities -at Los
Angeles.
Scheduled to Arrive At
Lower River About
June 11th,
The steamer Admiral Goodrich, the
[vessel chartered by the Northern Com
mercial Company to take the place of
the ill-fated Oarno, is scheduled to
sail from Seattle for Bethel on May BO.
according to Capt. Wallace Langley,
! in a telegram to Capt. George Green.
The Goodrich, according to Captain
Langley, isdue to arrive at Bethel on
June 11.
The steamer Tana, Capt. Green, is
■scheduled to sail from McGrath on
Tuesday, the >Oth, for Bethel, also tak
ing down the steamer Quickstep, fn
i event of there heing no dclav in the
arrival of the Goodrich at. the lower
river port, Capt. Green is hopeful of
being able to return here about June
2t> or 27, which sounds far better than
some date in July.
Among those who will leave Monday
for Bethel ou the Tana will be Mrs.
John Heino, daughter Esther E. and
Master Melvin Heino. Mrs. Heino wilL
spend several weeks oa the coast and
later pay a visit to her parents at her
former homQ in Minnesota.
Genoa Parley Prevent
ed Another European
Conflict, Says George
London.—The Genoa parley prevent
ed another European war and laid the
foundation for an agreement of Eu
ropean powers with Russia. These re
sults were claimed for the conference
by Lloyd George in his speech in the
House of Commons tonight.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Portland.—GovernonOlaott has been
renominated, but by a very mall ma
jority.
Seattle. Captain Raold Amundsen’s
aeroplane and all-metal moroplaue are
due to arri'e lo re Sunday.
Seattle.—Charles EL Black, pioneer
capitalist of this citv, and head of the
Seattle Hardware Company at d Black
Manufacturing Company, died at his
home in this city today.
Seattle.—Uuder circumstances point
ing to murder, the body of A. A. Al
mour, a Seattle salesman, who has been
missing since March 8th, was found in
the woods near Stanwood, to*
Seattle.—Capt. Wm. Eisher, super
vising federal marine inspector for the
Washington-Alaska district,-, will nail
Suudnv for Nome on the Victoria on a
tour of inspection, which will also in
clude the Yukon district.
ITROLLED
That’s the Charge Made
Against Department
of Justice.
Washington, May 25— Senator
Robert M. La Follette, of Wis
consin, today caused to be en
tered in the Senate record the
charge that the Department of
Justice is under the control of J.
P. Morgan & Co.; that t e cor
porations over which Morgan &
Co. exercise financial control are
enabled ^o do what they please
without regard to law, and that
■this control is exercised irro
•epective of whether a Republican
or a Democrat is in office in
Washington
The charge ss made by Samue:
Untermeyer, of New York, in a
communication, sent to La Pol
iette
Poineaire Serves No
tice Upon German}
i
I Paris.- -Premier Poineaire,. address
■ ing the chamber of deputies this even
; iog, openly threatened that Prance
| will invade-and occupy tfce iluhr dis
| trictif Per many, fijfis to meet her rep
arations payment, due on May 31.
Crane, Former Amer
ican Minister to China.
Seems to Be in Trouble
■■ Washington, May 2<>.—-A resolution
asking Secretary -of State Hughes tc
make inquiry of the french govern
ment as to the correctness of reports
alleging imposition of a twenty-years
sentence upon Charles ii. Crane, by a
.French military court at -Damascus,
•was introduced in the House today
'5aris.—T he Foreign - Office has no
-knowledge of the reported conviction
of Charles I t. Crane, former American
minister to ( hunt by. a French military
court in Damascus, on the charge of in
citing riots.
Paris, May 27 —1The report.- that
Charles A. Crane, former American
minister to China, has becc sentenced,
to twenty years' imprisonment by the
French military couit in Syria, for in
citing Syrians to rise against French
occupational troops, is absolutely false,
the Foreign Office announced tonight
Among those to leave Monday on the
Tana for Bethel en route tc the Out
side will bo H. E. Carter, retiring
manager of the N. C. Co.’s local store,
Mrs. Carter and daughter, Miss Grace
Mr. Carter states that he has no de(;
cite plans regarding the future, oilier
than that the present summer will
be spent by himself and family visiting
at various points betwe :,d Seattle and
Los Angeles.
L. B. Loomis, newly-installed man
ager of the N.jC.’s local store, will be
a passenger on the Tana for Bethel,
whither he goes to give supervision to
incoming shipments for the company
aDd other matters. He will return on
»
the Tana.
The Mud Hen, Master Frits Tittel,
with Aleck Mengel and a full cargo o
summer supplies, departed up the Ta
cotna yesterday afternoon,. boupd fo
il p, the Nixon