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The Alaska daily empire., 1926-05-19
CLAIMS CAPTAIN
AMUNDSEN LOST
WAY ON FLIGHT
Did Not Know That He Had
Landed at Teller
Plans, Future.

NOME, Alaska, May 10 Ii is
ideavOring to obtain Norwegian
freghter to go to Teller and take
the Norge to an Italian harbor.
Teller is locked in with six feet
of ice. 1t usually opens about July
Whether Amundsen knew where
he was landing when he alighted al
Teller last Thursday is the subject
l'of discussion here.
Tom Peterson, of Teller. related
that as Amundsen stepped from the
Norge he said:
Where are we? What place is
this? ?"
Peterson replied. This is Teller
Amundsen said. so this is Tel
Her"
Other members of the expedition
declared they knew their position at
all times.
Visit Two Poles
Amundsen and Capt Visiting are
the only men who have ever visited
both poles. They also travelled to-
gether through the Northeast and
Northwest Passages
Capt, Amundsen, when in Nome on
a previous trip, declared that when
both extremities of the earth and
sail through passages which he latel
discovered.
While still a young man. he rar
away from a Norwegian medica
school and joined whaler.
Lies Work Attained
Now that his lies work has been
attained, it seems certain [ h q
lAmundsen will never again subject
himself to the rigors of the Arctic
fand Antarctic climes. He is g.
years of age.
Alaskans here are glad to heal
that Capt. George II. wilkins viii
continue his plans for exploration
work regardless Of the Amundsel
flight.
The Norge followed the direc
course. due to heavy fog banks, ant
was forced to go to such nigh alti
tudes that it was impossible to SCI
if any land exists.
OFFERS TO PUR6riASE NORGE
/ NEW YORK, May 19. = An offe
to purchase or lease the Norge ant
Iuse it for exhibition purposes t
raise funds for the American Ret
Cross and the Physicians Home Ma
itiOnal Endowment Fund. was tele
IAmundsen.
Charles Copehard, who made tn,
The Alaska daily empire., 1926-05-19
MAY CAPTURE
KODIAK BEARS

SEATTLE. May 10. T. B.
Bakoby and II. c. Linn, represen-
tatives of the Youngstown, Ohio,
City Zoo, have arrived here enroute
to Alaska to capture and bring
back alive, two Kodiak bears. Ar
rangements have been made with
expert Alaska hunters to assist in
the capture of the bears. The two
men left last night for Victoria and
leave for Alaska early next week.
The Alaska daily empire., 1926-05-19
RETAIL FOOD
PRICES co UP
Much Higher Now Than One
Year Ago-Potatoes Lead
with Big Increase.

WASHINGTON, May 10. The
Labor Department announced the
retail food prices increased 1.5 per
cent during the month ending April
Is as compared with the previous
month and s per cent over the
same period last year. Seventeen
articles showed an increase, pota-
toes leading with 90 per cent in
crease. Sixteen articles declined,
including butter with five per cent,
which was the most.
The Alaska daily empire., 1926-05-19
Dn,vn of Memorial Day to
Fall on Ne,u and Stately
Memorials for the Dead

mortal plaza and building group at
cost of $15,000.0O0 Nebraska's new
capitol, on which $9,O00,000 was ex-
pended has beeen dedicated to the
states fallen sons. Indianapolis will
have ten million dollar group of
memorial structures.
Chicago Memorials
In Chicago. approximately 100000
900 has been put into beautiful me-
MORALS, one of which Is the horse
shoe stadium at Grant Park. Lib
erty Memorial" 217 foot grey
stone shaft, topped with bowl in
which fire will burn continuously. is
nearing completion at Kansas City.
The University of Texas million
Idollar memorial stadium soon will
Continued or Rage Two.)
The Alaska daily empire., 1926-05-19

From six TO eight feet of ice was on
the beach when the two Fairbanks
airplanes reached Teller last Sun
day. They landed on the ice at
Port Clarence which was soft and
rugged.
Pilot Bennett, who returned in
his plane with movies taken for the
international Newsroel, said the
Norge was virtually wrecked in
landing. Members of the Norge's
crew told him they did not know
their location when they reached
The Alaska daily empire., 1926-05-19
American Pardoned by
King Victor Emmanuel

ROME, May liking Victor En-
manuel has pardoned John Roach
American citizen, described as a
ship captain, who since May has
been serving a 25 day sentence at
Florence for insulting Premier Mus
solini and fighting carabineers.
The Alaska daily empire., 1926-05-19
Franc Takes Drop
To New Low Level

PARIS, May 10. The franc
reached a new low level yesterday,
|34.7 for 81. Continued selling in
Brussels and Rome to protect Bel
gian and Italian exchanges. is sug-
|gested as the cause.
The Alaska daily empire., 1926-05-19
RUNS AMUCK,
ST ABIDING Z
:. AT SKACWAy
Seamen Goes Insane at Skag.
way and Stabs Two
Brothers from Portland

SKAGWAY, Alaska, May 19.-T. b.
and C. A. DeGrace brothers. repre-
senting the Prudential Savings and
Loan Association of Portland, Ore,
were stabbed yesterday afternoon by
Jim Casper, seaman off the freighter
Norwood, who went violently insane
and ran amuck up town in his
birthday suit Casper was arrested
by Deputy u. S. Marshal A. f. Kin
dell and was lodged in the federal
Jail.
The Alaska daily empire., 1926-05-19

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 10
Pilot Joe Crosson, of the Pathe
plane, which flew to Nome and
Teller and then returned here with
movie pictures, said that over one
ton of ice was on the Norge when
she landed and over 100 pounds of
ice were en- the antenna. He said
the Norge was blown from SOC to
with men hanging on the ropes.
The Alaska daily empire., 1926-05-19
Pepper Supported by Presi-
dent Runs Second-Pin-
chot Runs Poor Third.
EXCESSIVE EXPENSES In
CAMPAIGN ARE CHARGED
Senate Orders Investigation
of Charges Made by
Reed, of Missouri.

PHILADELPHIA, May 19.-Con-
gresham William S. Ware, of this
city, wet candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for U. S. Senator,
was victorious in yesterdays pri-
mary election, defeating Senator
George Wharton Pepper, present en-
cumbent, and Gov. Clifford Pinchot.
Wares candidate for the Guberna-
torial nomination, former Lieut.
Gov. Beidleman, was also apparently
victorious in four-cornered fight.
Congressman Ware made his fight
for the nomination on a straight
out modification platform. Both
Senator Pepper and Gov. Pinchot
were listed as Drys. Gov. Pinchot
had the endorsement of the Penn
sylvania State Federation Of Labor
and the Ku Klux Klan. Pepper
had the endorsement of President
Coolidge.
Vote Is Incomplete
While the complete returns had
not been received late today, Vare's
nomination was assured Official
returns from 6,329 out of S,2S1
precincts gave: Ware, 545,S00; Pep
per 427, 800, Pinohot 270.498.
In the Gubernatorial nomination
fight returns from $500 precincts
showed: former Lieut.. Coy. Beidle-
man, supported by MIR. Ware. 534,-
615; John s. Fisher, an associate
of Secretary Mellon and a former
State Banking Commissioner, 472,-
24S: Congressman Thomas w. Phil
lips, Jr., 52,221; former Gov. John
X. Tener, known nationally in the
old days as a baseball man, 1898.
The Alaska daily empire., 1926-05-19

Not much is said about the
exploit of Floyd 0. Bennett.
the pilot who sent Commander
Byrd's plane soaring over the
North Pole. But it was Ben
nett's expert flying ability
which permitted the hasty
start and the successful race
against a short gasoline
supply.
The Alaska daily empire., 1926-05-19
WARE ISSUES STATEMENT

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. May 10
Commenting on the result of yes
terday's primary in Pennsylvania,
Congressman William S. Ware said
his victory evidenced the voters
The Alaska daily empire., 1926-05-19
". E. D. Stokes
DIES SUDDENLY,
IN n. Y. HOME
Hotel Owner, Financier and
Man Involved in Many
Suits, Is Dead.

NEW YORK. May 19.-W. f. ID.
Stokes, hotel owner and hnancier,
passed away suddenly today in his
home here
The Alaska daily empire., 1926-05-19
FHe,, Bound
North, Had
Fe,C Lessons

SEATTLE, May 10. Nj. B..
Favor, who is overdue at Ketchikan
in his aeromarine plane. enroute
to Bristol Bay, had only four or
five flying lessons. said Less Hub
BILE, mechanic for Eddie Hubbard,
air mail pilot from whom Favor
learned. Mrs. Ida Favor, his moth
er, expresses the greatest confidence
in his sons ability to handle his
plane.
Favor left Seattle Sunday morn
ing for Ketchikan and has not been
reported.
No Trace
SEATTLE, May 10. M. B. Favoi
and his mechanician, r. w. Swi-
hart. continue missing, no reports
having been received from them
since their hop-off from here for
Ketchikan Sunday morning.
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-06

occasions, noticed IN conterencc with
one OF the markInen ross checked
boz. whose blond hair fell IN disorder
over his forehead. 4 part of our
business AZ that ttntr was making mod
clS ior inventors, and tic unusual
thing in this case Mas that there were
none az the conventional signs Oh an
inventor about the boy
AZ this period the automatic telc-
rrapl, repeater. invented By Hicks. was
considered one OF the most important
inventions in electricity since the
Morse system had come into use. Tx
pcrImcnters who ten wears later woild
spend their time in revising telephones
and who nov would Try 10 devise iuls
rroyemeuiS in wireless telcgraplly were
al that time giving their attention 10
telegraph repcaterS
the boy IN question was Charles
II. Scrihner 81 Talesla. Ohio. who had
devised and patented A repeater which
was thought hy himself and others 10
be az commercial value He had como
sn Chicago ID have the usasiei made
wfth gt~nd Workmanship in usir shop.
"A slay ii two later. probably the
next day. visited the neSsee Of Cen
eral SsageF at the Western Inaosl
headquarters ia Chicago. IL ilapFrncd
that y0arax Scfihsier was calling on
/ General Ssaxer with the cashier 81 ane
( 81 the Chicago hanks 70 wllual he bad
Ia letter ii insEeslnctca. with xtss
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-06
FAITH IN FLORIDA
BY CLAYTON SEDGWICK COOPER
(Author, Traveller and Lecturer)

trade winds through the year, peo-
pie have not been enervated but
made capable of doing greater
work than they have ever been
able to do in the north. People
have come down here to retire and
within comparatively few months
have so truly renewed their physi-
cal vigor that they have been able
to begin Their careers over again.
We believe in Florida because
Florida adds years to the life's
span. 1t is literally fountain of
youth. If all other activities
should fail, Florida would always
i be Mecca for the worlds hui
manity seeking health.
1--WE believe in Florida also be-
cause Of its vast contribution to
the beautiful, to the artistic, to
the cultural and charming side of
life. Here where every morning
is the opening of beautiful sum-
mer day, here where we awake to
the singing of birds, here where
the very, air is song and where the
sea is a constant panorama of
change and delight-here is veri-
tally paradise of nature. The
very name Florida flowers
significant of its attraction. The
beauty of this state gets into the
blood and draws people back to
it as inevitably as the flower
turns its face to the sunshine. 1t
is said if you once drink the waters
Of the Nile you will return to
drink them again. Likewise it has
proven true that those who are
once captured by the charm of
Florida's natural beauty are bound
to turn again to her as to their
natural home, drawn as was Ulyss-
es by sirens singing
add to this beauty of nature
the growing sense of cultural un-
derstanding coming in our beauti-
full buildings, in the Identification
of our parks and driveways, in
our cultural institutions, churches,
schools, colleges, hospitals and
charming residences and you have
one of the reasons why people be-
lieve in Florida.
Owe also have faith in Florida's
business prosperity. We believe
/ in the soundness of our banking
institutions. We believe in our
new transportation activities into
which millions of dollars of north
ern capital are being poured at
present. We believe in our new
harbors being built along our ex-
tensive coast lines. We believe in
our new industries and in the
large plans for the agricultural
development of our hack coun-
try" We believe in our real es.
tate, for we know that as long as
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-06
REIMBURSEMENT IN
LAND DEVELOP MENTS
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so without sound judgment. Only
by accident can one profii' by such
an investment. Yet there are
many beautiful tracts in Florida
that will increase in value and on
which will be built many beauti-
full homes to be enjoyed by those
able to spend The winter in q
warmer climate. But paper pro-
fits of the last year or so are
gone-only the substantial devel-
opments survive. )
at more than ever evidences
the truism that there is no royal
road to fortune and that it is only
by hard work and the judgment
of a keen mind that one can OBJ
tain wealth.. In this, too. Florida
can be considered, for the tillage
of the soil and the wonderful crops
that can be produced there offer
new fields to one willing to engage
in this productive field of endeav-
or. Unwise speculation ventures
in land very often result in fail
ure; they must have solid found
alton just as the home itself.
THAT Florida's real estate con-
dition would adjust itself after in
flation to the proper level was UNI
doubtedly evident to all astute
real estate men. The Floridian
is welcoming this adjustment
Such a condition was on its way
at Cape Cod, but wisdom pre-
vailed. Only legitimate growth
is now taking place there and,
happily, initiation is no longer a
source Of worry to those who have
the sane growth of Cape Cod at
heart.
Land values have not increased
anywhere near in proportion to
other commodities and our subur-
ban cities and towns have shown
such active interest in conserving
the beauty and desirabiIity OF
suburbs that they are actually ere
ating the demand themselves
Zoning the various districts. re.
stricting the distance between
buildings and requiring setback.
from the street insuring ample
breathing space have made thess
districts even more desirable.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-06

to getting his repeater tried out by
the Western Union Company.
AS he and his banker friend LETT
General Stagcr's Office, It occurred to
me to get his address, and | sent
someone after him for that purpose,
with the thought that | might offer
him some definite employment. | did
not see the opportunity TO employ him
directly in the Western Electric, but
within the course OF a few DAYS |
succeeded in getting an appropriation
OF SIS month from the Gold &
Stock Telegraph Company for an as
sistaut to the Inspector OF Gray print
ers, oi which there were probably Is
10 50 lines in and around Chicago
Il wrote to Scribner, offering him
the place at SIS a month. Shortly
aitcrward he appeared with letter
from his father to me, asking me to
find suitable boarding place for his
son. | took him TO my house Tor the
FIRST night and found boarding place
Tor him the next day He was to as
siss e. H. Rudd. the inspector of Graz
printers
AT the end III another year the
business al the Western Electric had
grown somewhat and we were able %
find employment for the young cleo
trieian. His repeater never came into
commercial use. The telephone super
Seticd the printers. and the boy cleo
trojan necame one oil the foremost en-
gineerS and the foremost iuyentoe OF
telephone apparatus in the world He
did not give much attention 10 the con-
struction OF telephone transmitters and
receivers, bur his personality IS inn
pressed upon the apparatus used III
connection with those instruments 10
a degree which is unparalleled in the
history al the industry
Eli | had not happened 70 meet
vosrrS Serlhner In the shop Office when
he was carrying away hss repeater.
and II il had not been for the chance
meeting the next day IN General Sta
gers osfice. al which tiHse obtained
his address. his career and Tire career
al the MeSteul EIsCtrsc wousd an
aousacily hass resalted dsEtereusly
than tlres slsd
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-06

can old Hindu is quoted as say
ing, 4 love health, therefore my
body shall be always young; ]
love beauty, therefore my soul
shall never die; ! love friendship,
therefore my heart will continue
forever to beat in the hearts of
my friends,'o said Mr.. Cooper.
sFlorida would seem to be a
fitting hatitat for these words of
the Hindu poet. 1t is the land
par excellence for the renewal of
health. 1t is the state where the
sense of beauty is born again. It
is also meeting place for cos
mopoIitan association in the air
Of informal hospitality and friend
ship.
"a great Florida Exposition is
being planned for the coming
months in the north, and five
great trains are to carry these ex-
ceptionaI advantages of our state
to the north, to the east and to the
west, SO that the real truth about
Florida may be brought home to
tens of thousands of Americans.
The Faith in Florida club, now be-
ing organized, has for its aim the
providing of ways and means for
counteracting unfair and unjust
propaganda against great state.
It would seem that, as a matter
Of course, the many thousands Of
Florida residents, together with
other thousands Of visitors and
friends of the state, would be
ready to join hands in this club,
organized purely in the interest
Of Florida, and mot for profit,
since no state in the union has a
more loyal or more representative
body Of people who believe in its
future and who are ready to CO.
operate for its greatest good.
eve have faith in Florida be-
cause it is the state of good health.
In the early sixties we find books
representing the advantages of
Florida solely from the point Of
view of health resort. People
have always come to this state to
. escape the cold and trying winters
Of the north. Here frail constitu-
tions have been renewed, here
there has been escape from the
colds and pneumonia and a score
Of ailments consequent upon the
severe northern winters. Here
parents bring their children who
have been ailing and Florida's sun
shine and out-of-door life has built
up young bodies and given physi-
cal constitution for the work of
life.
"We believe in Florida because
49, exRerienced the fact that
IN this wonderful climate with
the inauguration Of tho constant
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-06

the sun shines and the sea rolls
on our beautiful beaches, Florida
land will be sought for both win
ter and summer homes. We be-
lieve that the present sterilization
Iof land values is preparing the
way for even greater real estate
developments than the state has
before known. We believe that
the peak of real estate values has
not been reached in Florida. We
believe that we shall have this
coming winter larger number of
people in the state than ever be-
fore in the history of Florida and
that business of all kinds will feel
the impulse of this great migra-
ton.
"More than all we believe in
Florida's people. We believe that
these great trains which are to
carry Florida's products and
literally her climate (since the
cars will be heated each day in
accordance with the days tenn
perature in Florida) and wherein
Florida's representative citizens
viii speak to northern crowds
about the things that they actual
ly know, will bring about new
point of view on the part of Am
orleans towards the kind of peo-
pie who have been coming to this
state. After all the human equa-
tion is a great factor in determin-
ing residence. Florida is made up
of the most cosmopolitan popula-
ton of any state in the union
North and south and east and west
are all represented here. 1t is a
new amalgam in which the spirit
of happiness and play and good
health are mingled with the fasci-
nation of building here new en-
pire beneath the low arched south
ern skies. The spirit of idealism
in Floridians, their tremendous
audacity in building and under
taking large things, the generous
and free hospitality and cordiality
lof the peopleall these are Flor
ida assets and give faith for Flor
ida's future.
eve may have differences of
opinion in politics, in religion and
in business methOds-there is one
thing that brings together the en-
tire population of this new state.
and that is an unquestioned faith
in its health and culture, in its
business and its men. The slogan
of Florida is and will be For
ward'!'
Mr.. Cooper delivered this ad
dress at the great open air meet
ing at Miami, July 31st. held un.
der the auspices of Chamber oil
Commerce at which time the first
Faith in Florida Club was or
ganized.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-08-06

GERS Bailey and Watkins were
kept inside on clerical work to
such an extent that they could
not properly keep tab on the field
work.
Andrew L. Lopez, newly APP
pointed Justice of the Peace for
the first district, was present in
connection with his written re-
quest for The county to furnish
him with office furniture, fixtures
and accessories for his court room,
also to provide SO month for his
office rent. He also asked for a
supply of legal forms, and stated
that seal is the only thing he had
found that was used by his prede-
lessor. The matter was referred
to Commissioner William r. Por-
ter, with power to act.
Senator VIM. III. Malone, count y
attorney, had prepared for publi-
cation a legal notice of the refer
endum to be held August IT to
secure an expression from the cit
izens relative TO the guarantee of
interest asked by the C. A. P.
Turner Company in connection
With the toll bridge proposition.
rhe notice gives location of voting
,laces and names of election man.
ayers selected. 1t is being pub
ished among the legal notices in
The Citizen today.