VOLVIV. NO. 20
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TOKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1924
PRICK 25 CENTS
2 AIRMEN
ALL RIGHT
1 Martin atid Companion
i vm 'Airplane Crash
* Near Pert Moller.
Cordova. May 12.—Martin and
ii Harvey, * missing airmen, -were
> fo und at Port Moller, near where
’ their plane struck on April 30,
an hour and a half after their
'.«• departure from Chignik, when
s their plane crashed in a fog, a
f total wreck.' Both llyers es
* caped uninjured. Martin, wit
* nessirig the greatest hardships,
• arrived May 7' at a trapper’s
• cabin'southwest Of Port Moller,
> w'bere he was found yesterday.
I False Pasd, May* 13.—Martin and
t- Harvey will leave tomorrow on the
i' Pacific American Fisheries steamer
steamer Catherine D„ proceeding di
r rect to Bellingham. They have been
ordered eoWashington.
Cordovan May 11.—Completing their
t- Hight in eleven ‘hours, the army air
• cruisers Chicago, Boston and New Or
i Jeans arrived at Attu island from Atku
1 island tu 9 o’clock last night, according
<- -eo-a wireless received here.
* Cordova,' May 18.—A 76-mile gale,
- snow laden, prevented the departure
of the American flyers from Attu, ac
1 cordieg to a wireless received today.
AHaehead, India, May 14.—McLaren,
* British army airman, arrived here to
doy from Nasinabad, and will hop off
1 tomorrow for Calcutta.
Washington.—All three globe-circ
i ‘ ling parlies of army flyers, represent*
> ing the United States, Great Britain
and France are eayeeted' to* meet in
Tokyo,-Japan; according to calculations
u-v.jaftde tyr the- Wtfr Department a viation
experts. _______
1 Paris.—Doiay, flying from Paris to
Tekio, arrived at Saigon, Cochin, China,
Sunday. __
London.—The British air ministry
aent congratulations to the American
■ embassy today upon receipt of news
that CommaDder Martin, of the United
Stales world flight party, had been
found. _
San Diego.—Mrs. Martin declared to
' day that her husband wilt not rejoin
the fligbt in Asia, as proposed, if she
* can prevent it.
! Side Glances at
.. Political Doings
Washington.—Speaker Giilette an
nounces that he will seek the repub
lican nomination for the Senate from
Massachusetts He has served fifteen
continuous terms in the House, his ser
vice commencing Marfeh 4, 1893.
Washington—The McAdoo opposi
tion claims to have more than one
third of * the delegates to the demo
cratic national convention 1 pledged
- againsfhlm. __
Seattle.—John S. Mae mil lan elected
a member of the Warning tow delega
tion to tb* republican national eonven
t Alnr
NAVAL FUEL
RESOURCES
Practically All in Hands
of Standard Oil Co.
and Sinclair.
Washington, May .141*—Practi
cally all naval fuel resources
have been leased to private in
terests, Assistant Secretary of
Interior Finley testified today
before the Senate oil investiga
tion committee. Finley also tes
tified that the Standard Oil Com
pany and the Sinclair interests
control the output of the Salt
Creek field, adjoining the Teapot
Dome.
Washington.—Commander H. A.
Stuart* and Lieutenant. Commander I.
F. Loomis, om order* of Secretary of
Nary Wilbur, proceeded Tcesday to
the-California and Wyoming oil dis
tricts to protect the nary’s interests in
those fields.
Ludendorff Stages
Monarchist Demon
stration; 12 Killed
Berlin, May 12.—Ludendorff Sunday
afternoon led an army of twenty live
thousand followers to the hail head
quarters of German communists and
staged a monarchist demonstration,
with the sequel that twelve commun
ists were killed at the near-by town of
Boeleberg and scores of others serious
ly injured.
Washington Notes
Washington. —Senator Wheeler, tak
ing the stand in his own behalf before
tfcs Borah committee, inseslagating his
Indictment by the Montana grand mry,
denied that he ever practiced before
the Department of the interior.
Washington.—Republicans retained
control of the conference on the tan re
duction bill through the appointment
Tuesday by the Senate of three repub
licans and two democrats, the same
ratio as by the House.
Washington. —Representatives Blan
ton of Texas and Hammer of North
Carolina engaged in a fist fight Tues
day in a House committee room, with
not much damage to either party.
Washington.—The establishment of
of u world court at The Hague, to
which the United States would adhere,
wa6 proposed Monday in a resolution
introduced in the Senate by Lodge
Washington.—The wit mill waa com
pletely eliminated in the Senate -Satur
day afternoon as that body passed the
tax reduction bill as scribed.by the
democratic-progressive commute.
Washington. - Coolidge sees no pros
pects of holding another world arms
conference this year, it was announced
at the While House Tuesday
Washington.—Coolidge’s veto of the
Bursmn pensions bill was sustained by
the Senate, Tuesday.
Washington.—Mrs- Work, wife of
Secretary of interior Work, died. Son
•lav afternoon. -'
Reverses Judgment
of $31*0QQ Awarded
Mrs. Isabelle Barnette
San Francisco, May 13.- The federal
circuit court of appeals handed down a
decision todav reversing the judgment
of $31,000 awarded Mbs. Isabelle Bar
nette against the Wells Fargo National
Bank and Fred G. Noyes, former re
ceiver of the Washington Alaska Bank
of Fairbanks, and dismissed the case.
Telegraphic Ticks.
'Washington, -it is stated in • an offi
cial report that Japan plans a sub
marine type df 4.500 tons, with a cruis
ing radius of ,53,000 tnilas and a surface
speed of 30 knots an hour. The state
ment is regarded with much concern
by big officials of the Navy Depart
ment.
* Tokyo.—Several members of the
crew, including the captain, of the Jap
anese vessel acting as guide ship for
tbs destroyers Hope and ord. await
ing America:: aviators at the Kurile
islands, were washed overboard and
drowned, Monday.
.Seattle.—Suits for damages 'amount
ing to “$12,000 • have been liled in su
perior court here on - behalf of three
men who charged that they were false
ly imprisoned on the Northwestern
Fisheries ship Ben jatnin Fackard.
Seattle.—Because she would ooi sup
port bis oppasition to tha marriage of
their 15-year-old daughter to John
Fisher, 10, B. 13. Swart wood killed his
wife and then took his o n life.
New York—Charles F. Murphy, late
Tammany chief, left an estate of one
half million, which is bequeathed to
his widow*, his sister, -a nephew and
several nieces.
Seattle.—James Palmer, a painter,
committed suicide Tuesday morning by
hurling himself under a moving street
car, rather than testify in a divorce
case.
Seattle.—Colonel Gibbs, the officer in
charge of the work, hojies to have the
Seattle-Ketehikaa reach of the new
cable in operation withhva north.
Memphis.—Billy Sunday, noted re
vivalist, became dangerously ill here,
and is being sent to Rochester, Minn.,
where he will undergo an operation.
Seattle.---Dr. L. 'Merrill, chief'pro
bate officer and referee in the juvenile
court, was drowned last night while
swimming in Bake Washington.
Seattle.—Lieut. Tonkin, attempting
a non-stop flight from Seattle to San
Francisco, Tuesday, was forced down
by heavy fog at Medford, Ore.
Bremerton.—Lieutenant Lestor B,
Karrelle, paymaster of commissary
stores in the navv yard, is missing, and
his accounts are being audited.
Norfolk, Va. The I’atoka, airship
tender for the dirigible Shenandoah,
and the first of her ty pe in the world,
ia nearing completion.
Richmond, 'Va. Mary Bolling Lee,
daughter-in-law of Robert R. Lee, Con
federate general, died at her home
here, Tuesday.
Paris.—Doisy, dying to-Japan, wan
forced down Monday at Rangoon, after
having taken off from Calcutta.
Seattle-—The thermometer- on Sun
day afternoon went to 77,< the hottest
May day ever experienced here.
Washington.—Frnssdent and ' Mrs.
Pool id go attended the oireue Tuosdrp
iftercoor
BARTLETT,
EXPLORER
On Way North to Map
Route for Shenandoah
Flight, Next Year.
Seattle, May 13.- The cutter
Bear, when it leaves for Coring
sea waters, will have as a. pas
senger Captain Bartlett, famous
Arctic explorer, who arrived
here yesterday. He goes to map
out a route for the contemplated
1925 polar 3ight oi the dirigible
Shenandoah,
-“If the Shenandoah light, .T
not staged as now planned, ” said I
Bartleit, “ii will have a .snip
built of Douglas hr in Seattle
and will drift across that un
charted expanse. If the Shen
andoah trip is gone through with
as now planned I will make that
trip the following year.”
Says Little Hope for
Wet Plank in Pres
idential Platforms
New York, May 15. Dr. Charles W,
Elliot, president emeritus o! Harvard,!
commenting on the recent wet decdar?.- •
tion of Shilv.-.J** M. Sutler, president;
of Columbia Diversity, assarted t at
neither the republican nor democratic
party would dare, mush lens be com
pelled, to spike a wet plank in their
presidential campaign platform.
Mining Engineer s
Mysterious Death
San Francisco, May 11.—Harry F. I
Beechwood. a well known mining ec-i
gineer, was found dead this j»amio£ jjp j
a Tishlyofam-isheu but unoccupied
apartment ad oiuing that o* his whe
from whom he recently separated. Mrs. j
Ueechwood was lying dangerously ill
her own apartment when the Siody of
her husband was found.
Editor Thompson, Re
covered, On Way Homej
Seattle. May 12. W. F\ Thompson \
editor of the Fairbanks News-Miner j
after a visit of several months on the
Outside, has completely recovered from
his ailments and is greatly improved
in health. 1 Mr. Thompson says the
X-rays did the work. He leaves for the
North on the liner Alaska, sailing this
morning. _
Congress Preparing
to Adjourn June 11 j
...__
Washington May 14. Agreement
was reached by republican and demo
cratic House leaders at a con'erente
today with Coolidge to work for the ad
journment of Congress on June 7.
1600 Cases Smallpox
Reported Los Angeles
_ 1 !
Seattle, May 15.—Passengers rrriv
ing here today on the steamer Alaskcn
report that there are sixteen hundred
small no v ?n that city
JAPANESE
July 1 Almost Certain
to Be Made Effect
ive Date.
Washington, May II.- Cool
idge’s demand for postponement
of Japanese exclusion was re
ecled by the House late today,
whan the conference report on;
the immigration bill was sen
back tc conference with- positive
orders to push the conferees ia
throw out the. provision, dictate
by the ‘ resident.
Washington, May 13. —ool
idge today again went into con
fereace with Secretary cf Statu*
I ugi.es and the ranking House
leaders of both parties, in an ef
fort to bring about a compromise
on Japanese exclusion. Those
participating declined tc discus
the tenor of the conversation
YVaahin^.on, May 1C.—Overriding
the opposition of Cooiidpe, the Uousi
today adopted the conference report oo
the immigration bill, which srotuc
make J uly 1 the effective date of Jar
ar.«3* exclusion. The report- .rae scat
i id madia tel’' .to the J-lenot*. alter* 1
was aaaojc- . -notion will he brojtgh
bc'ore adournrnent today
Washington. —V. 45. hlcCtathy. .--ar
sictant director of the dght before Go..
ijress !or-Japanese ere.l "rion,. ’eclat© 1
to la / that the extension of the date to
ei’cl-usion till March, aa Insisted cpei
by ' oolidge, wotttet e.«tabt* one-quarter
million more Japanese u) come into :.t*.
United States in the meantime.
Former Kaiser Leave#
for m Vacation
.vew York, May lb.—tormer Kaiser
wilhelm and wife.left Doom today for
Safor. Silesia, ostensibly to spend a ya~
cation with iJeraiine's children, »&■
cording to a wireless roport broadcast
ed from Nauen, Germany, and piekofil
up Ly the flew Yoafe World.
Poincaire Defeated,
to Retire on June 4
l aris, May 13.—Yc.-terday> parlia
mentary elections recalled n ‘the lots
of the Poincaire majority 4n th6 House
of Deputies, and tasy BVaan the ;resig
nations of lioth Millerand and Poin
eaire.
Paris.--interpreting the recto, elec
tion results as a repudiation of hie pov
ernment, Poincaire announced today
that he will retire on June f.
Coolidge Vetoes Sol*
diers* Boons Measure
V/aahkigtOD, May T6. bolidge in
lay vetoed the soldiers’ bonus bill, lb*
ec.sot; for his disapproval being an un
lue strain oc the treasury Treasury
hctifferias bail reported 'tfhfct the meat
ire would cost id, 100,000,000 over M
lefibd 6f years.
August Smith and Peter Snow w**«i
X «d nesday arrival*