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Seward daily gateway., 1928-08-18
SOUTHERN STATES
 COUNT TEN DEAD
 IN WAKE IF FLOOD
RAGING WINDS AND WATERS LAY WASTE LARGE AREA ALONG
 SOUTHEASTERN COAST

ATLANTA, Aug. IS. P)-Four States counted 10 dead and great property damage in the wake of the storms and floods. Bat fling the receding waters railroads, telegraph and telephone companies, ar struggling against heavy odds to restore communication lines which were broken by raging waters in Vir ginia, North and South Carolina and in Georgia.
 Property owners in those states contemplated 1000 acres of farm land was destroyed including many damaged homes and buildings as we'll as nnestimated bridges and highways damaged which can not be restored for months. While showers are fore casted with drenching rains and wind storms of the last few days have ap- parently subsided.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-08-18
SEWARD SELECTED
 AS SITE FOR B|G
 SUPPLY COMPANY
PROVEN PRODUCT SALES CO.,, OF SEATTLE TO HAVE WARE
 HOUSE HERE

Selection of Seward as one of two warehouse and distributing points in Alaska for the heavy hardware and machinery lines of the Proven Pro- ducts Sales Co., of Seattle has been announced by George E. Davis, found CT and head of the company who is now in Seward. Juneau will be the other point, under the present pro- gram, and both should be in operation by next sppring. The movement means a direct connection between the needs of Alaska and the facilities for supplying them, according to Mir. Davis. Some of the biggest houses in America, whose products are known the world over, will be repre- scented in the deal.
 We will have waratsq1ses here and in Juneau with allotments of the products of those bigger companies which we represent and those which We manufacture ourselves" said MT. Davis We want to get in direct connection with the trade of the North We will have display rooms.
 Continued on Page Six)
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SEWARD LUMBER MILL TO RESUME
 OPERATIONS SOON
NEW BUILDING ACTIVITY CAUSES SAWS TO HUM AFTER
 SILENCE OF YEAR

After a silence of nearly a year, the saws of the Seward Lumber Cor poration mill at the head of Resur- rectlon Bay on the outskirts Of tho city will be humming again in a short time, according to the announce. ment Of J. L. Graef, head ol the com pany
 A logging crew with logging equip ment has already been dispatched t. Forth of July creek across the bay to the eastward where they are now engaged in getting out logs for the beginning of operations. At the mill men are getting equipment in shape and the machinery will be turnin , lover soon although no definite date has been fixed, awaiting word fro Il .the logging camp.
 The Seward mill turns out rough dimension stuff chiefly and the re- sumption of operations is called up on by the number of different con struction and building operations now going on in Seward and vicinity and projects planned for the immedi- late future.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-08-18
FIVE AND QUARTER MILLION SALMON
 PACK THIS YEAR
SEASON PRONOUNCED NORMAL FEDERAL OFFICIALS MAKE
 JOURNEYS OF INSPECTION

JUNEAU, Aug. IS. [P)-Prasent fig ures of this years Alaska salmon pack 5,25O,0OO cases is apparently normal year, U. s. Commissioner of Fisheries Henry O'Malley reported. The only weak area is the west coast of Prince of Wales Island.
 These figures will presumably be increased before the closing pack in most aras and compares favorably with the banner year of 1926 when 6,6OO,OO0 cases were packed.
 Secretary Jardine, Solicitor General Miacbsll, Governor Parks, MT. O'Mal ley, and Chief of the Biological Sur vey Paul Redington, left for Skag- way and Sitka on an inspection trip; they return Tuesday Or Wednesday.
 Redington sails South in time to address the Interna tional Association of Game Commissioners and allied Societies of Seattle on August 2S.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-08-18
ABSENCE IF TEN MILE ROAD STOPS
 OPENING EMPIRE
SHORT ROUTE TO iLIAMNA COUN- aA TRY WOULD ELIMINATE 2,0O0
 MILES OF SEA TRAVEL

A road only 10 anu one-naH miles long. capable of transporting freight, would open up a vast country, rich in game, fur, minerals and timber and would start an enormous indus try in reindeer product, in the opinion of Jack Bailey of the Portage Road House Trading Post on Iilamna Lake. He referred to the oft-discussed high way from Iliamna Bay on Cook Inlet to Iliamna Lake. It would save a steamboat trip of nearly 2,O00 miles and would bring the trade of great section of Alaska directly to Seward s door. Mr. Bailey. who is interested with Hans SeYersen in the trading post is now in Seward awaiting the departure of the s. s. Aleutian Sun day, when he will go to Seattle to pur- chase supplies and will then continue to his old home at Burley, Idaho, planning to be back here in Novem- Der.
 "The future of that great sweep of country north of Iliamna Lake and Lake Clarke, to my mind, lies in the reindeer industry. It is ideal for the purpose. The natives have 5000 head in the region now but there is no
 Continued on Page Seven)
Seward daily gateway., 1928-08-18
SEAPLANE WRECKED ATTEMPTING FLIGHT
 ON INSIDE PASSAGE

PRINCE RUPERT, Aug. IS, (P)- The wrecked and disabled seaplane of the fisheries patrol which crashed on a mountain on Porsher Island, near Welcome Pass on Wednesday, was towed here. Pilot W. N. Cummings is recovering in the hospital from severe cuts on the head. The plane was enroute from Prince Rupert to Queen Charlotte City and he attempt ed to climb above fog bank. Two fisheries officers, as passengers, were unhurt.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-08-18
YUKON ENROUTE
 NORTH; HAS MANY
 TEACHERS ABOARD

SEATTLE, Aug. IS. (P)-The s. s. Yukon, of the A. s. s. Co.,, sailed at o'clock this morning carrying ITO passengers. The Seward listing was H. c. Bennett, Geo. Bennett, Mrs. A. Langton, Mrs. F. H. Lounsbury and daughter, Miss M Clark, Miss | Cline, Mrs. c. Houston, Miss c. L. Price, and Miss D. Hill.
 B. F. Green, MT and ITS. A. F, Wood and son, Wm. H. Miller, Dr. E. Romano, Mrs. A. A. Bennett, Mrs. J. H. King and daughter, MT. and Mrs. Edward Bath, pr. Frank R. Clark, Mrs. M. R. Boyd, Lilly Johnson, Miss A. Bixby, Mrs. Edgar Clausen and two daughters, MT. and Mrs L. G. Kaye, MT. and Mrs. F. Robbins, Bruce Thorne, Geo B. Graves and Erling Strom. f%
 Mrs. Ellison and daughter, Miss L. Hopkins, Mrs W. H. Suksdorf, Mrs. Hopkins and daughter, Lorena >Cuth- bartson, Miss V. Jones, Miss L. D. Lehman, Mrs. E. Carlson and daugh ter. D. M. Hill, Miss L. Ford, Wm. s. Cuff, J. H. Thurber, MT. and Mrs. D. M. Jacobs, Mrs A. Bastness and son, Mrs. John Walgren and c. c. Masic.
 E. N. Medley, N. F. Gilbertson, W. F. Howard, Miss K Browning, F. Sim mons, Miss F. Pope. Miss A. James, w. M. Lynch, MT. and Mrs. J. K. Loh- nes, Miss Genevieve Lamb, Eva Argus, Lois King, Miss Vera Wheeler. Ramaka Kamkoff, Mrs. A. E. Edgar. V. Forsman.
 There was also one steerage and two round trippers. :,
Seward daily gateway., 1928-08-18
AMUNDSEN MAY STILL BE ALIVE IN WASTES
 0F SIBERIAN ARCTIC

STRANGER, Norway, Aug. IS, (P) -Commisar Oras, of the Soviet ioe breaker Krassin, believes Amundsen and his five men are still alive. The Krassin is undergoing repairs pre- paratory to continuing search for Amundsen and his party and the six men missing in the balloon part of the Italia. He beblieves that the Amundsen plane may have flown to the balloon party after being forced to land because of lack of fuel.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-08-18
SAILING SCHOONER
 LASTED TO- ICEBURG
 IN POINT BARROW BLOW

POINT BARROW, Aug. IS, (P)- Lashed to stranded icebergs the sail ing schooner c. s. Holmes, command ed by John Backland, Jr., of Seattle, is holding its own against a raging gale which threatened to blow the ship ashore Thursday. Small boats, belonging to Tony Edwardson, Jack Smith and Henry Chamberlain. Are tic traders, have been pinched and raised up by icebergs.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-08-18
STRIKE LOOMS O|V FRASER RIVER AND
 THROUGHOUT 3. |.
FISHERMEN ASKING FOR PRICE EQUIVALENT TO THAT PAID
 SOUTH OF BOUNDARY

NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C., Aug. Is LP)-The possibility of a strike on Fraser River and spreading through out British Columbia in the salmon fisheries loomed at the conclusion of a meeting last night between repre- sentatives of the fishermen and can ners.
 The men remained firm in their demand for a price equivalent to that paid for sockeyes, red and white springs, and cohoe's in canneries south of the international boundary
 R Marshall, of the Fisherman s Executive Committee, announced if no settlement is made a strike will be inevitable land it will not end in the Fraser for they will carry it to the northern limit"
 He said that despite pressure by men for immediate settlement the cannery fisheries promised a joint meeting Sunday morning.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-08-18
HOOVER DEPARTS HOME STATE FUR
 FIGHT IF CAREER
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE SPEAKS SOUTHERN CALF. BEFORE
 EASTERN CAMPAIGN
ABOARD THE HOOVER TRAIN

ABOARD THE HOOVER TRAIN,
 Aug. IS, (P)-Hoover tarried for awhile in the Southern part of bis home State before heading Eastwai :: for the supreme battle of his career with little more than time to say hail and farewell.
 Hoover has arranged to visit six California cities in the morning and late evening with one prepared ad. dress at Los Angeles; he will visit Santa Barbara, Pasadena, San Ber- nardino, Long Beach and Glendale.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-08-18
WET CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR STILL LEADS
 IN CLOSE OHIO VOTE

COLUMBUS, Aug. IS, (P)-Recti- fication of two mistakes by the Coun- y Boards election placed Hunt, wet, in the lead for the Democratic short term in the Senatorial nomination, over Locher, dry.
 An official vote is expected necas. sary to determine the winner The latest figures gives Hunt lead Of 445. The count stands, Hunt 93,469 and Locher 93,O24.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-08-18
NO SHORT HELLO GIRLS'

PARIS, Aug. IS, (P-short girls who would be telephone operators haven't a chance in France. Appli- cants less than five feet tall are turned away, for they can't reach the top multiple jacks of the switch, hoal Is.
Evening star., 1928-11-18
Hardest Job One Which Requires Constant Hunt for Such Things Whales
Doodlebugs, Armadllos Turtles, Bats Bees Mice and Mosquitoes
Frantic Efforts Make Them Act.

mouse. At least. that was what she
firmly declared.
The little rodent had hardly made a
point just below the knee when she
| gave one screech and a leap, stimuli
| taneously, and was off and away down
| the cinder path. No mouse in the
world could have clung to her leg the
way she put 1t in motion and kept it
going The rodent was spilled on its
neck not two feet from the starting
line, while Miss Daniels gave an exhi-
bition of sprinting that would have done
credit to Charlie Paddock in the days
when he was known as the worlds
fastest human.
Clara Bow had a somewhat similar
experience during the making Of Hula"
when honey bee was to alight on her
leg, sit down and back up. A beekeeper
had carefully extracted the stinger,
however. before the act was filmed
Nevertheless, Miss Bow eyed 1t warily
as 1t started wandering about-and
backing.
Armadillos with grotesque rubber
backs were used in one of Chaney's
pictures to give the appearance of ter
rible, distorted. anamorphoSe scaven-
gers. At Paramount recently techni-
clans worked two days to get pictures
of moths dashing their heads against
the chimney of coal oil lamp. The
insects refused to do their part, but
chose to fly in the white light of the
kleigs which illuminated the set, there
by committing suicide. The moths
finally were tricked by turning off the
kleigs and while they fiuttered about
the lamp-the only light remaining
suddenly popping the kleigs on again
and photographing the insects before
they had time to leave.
The prize assignment came from
scenario writer who conceived the brill
liant idea Of having humming bird
fit from flower to flower and then
alight on carnation in young wom-
ans hat.
1t couldn't be done!
Evening star., 1928-11-18
BY A. L. WOODBRIDGE.

M OTION picture camera men and
M prop providers believe there
|V should be law against doo-
4 / dlebugs beetles and bats.
Likewise there should be some
way to suppress turtles, Single-hump
camels, armadilloS and little fluttering
moths which possess mania for sui
eide. They're making no end of trou-
bic. They're clogging the wheels OF
motion picture progress, so to speak.
They're aggravating and obstreperous.
The studio prop men have to provide
these creatures for certain scenes in the
movies, and the camera men have to
photograph them doing their stuff. Any
one who thinks that making turtle or
bat or any other member of natures
underworld act in a picture-any one
who thinks it's just bit of fun or
frolic-had best not go near the studios
in Hollywood. There Is mayhem In
the hearts of the technical men. They
could bite the authors of some scripts
who write In things seemingly impos-
sible to do.
For instance, when they were filming
Wind" with Lillian GiSh and Lars
Hansen, . year or two ago, the script
called for a doodlebug to climb slowly
up Hansen's trousers leg, perch on his
knee and In approved doodlebug style
rear up on its hind legs sr1c deliver an
Grafton. or do whatever doodlebugs do
when they stand on their hind legs and
wave their other limbs
The call for the doodleS came during
the Winter time, when all law-abiding
insects of that variety are alternating.
Texas is accredited with having the
finest collection of doodlebugs of any
State in the Union but wire to w A.
King (knoWn as the Snake King') at
Evening star., 1928-11-18

THE shiny silk cylindrical hat, vari-
ously called the topper" high
hat" plug" high dicer," "stovepipe, +"
or "four-gallon hat" by the irreverent,
seems fated to disappear, after little
more than century and a quarter Of
existence. In England, the place of its
origin. 1t was long esteemed the very
highest badge of respectability, so much
admired that varsity crews rowed races
and varsity elevents played cricket in
correct, shiny belltoppers To Amer
leans who remember the pleasing GUS
tom In frontier towns a few generations
ago of shooting any high hat full of
holes while 1t was carried through the
street on the head of It's owner, the fol-
lowing bit of history will seem familiar:
This form of headgear was first seen
in London on January is, 1897. when
John Hetherlngton, a haberdasher.
emerged from his shop in the Strand
wearing silk hat, and was promptly
surrounded by an astonished mob OF
such proportions that he was arrested
and charged before the lord mayor
with inciting lot. The officer who ar
Evening star., 1928-11-18

consummate cunning. This knavish-
ness, IN the suave Gerald, had strong
roots In his neurotic composition. What
case-history psychiatry now could
write of him and his endocrines! His
record, however, will show that he pos
sessed only a sporadic invention or
initiative. He needed some one to lean
upon. Unquestionably Anderson was
his inspiring, directing spirit in all their
years of criminal partnership antedating
the mail truck outrage. And when he
undertook his memorable escape at At
lanta 1t was the veteran Frank Gray
who made the rope ladder.
Chapman's entry on national no.
toriety dated from the famous mail
truck robbery at Broadway and Leon
ard street, New York city. october "a.
1921. With the help of man named
Loerber, two or three other accom-
plices, never caught-and Dutch An
derson himself indirectly-he relieved
that numbering vehicle of $2,400 900 in
jewels, securities and cash. Appre-
hended soon afterward, 1t is significant
enough that during the period of his
trial he eluded his guards In the old
Post ONCE Building. only to be prompt
ly recaptured in closet in one of the
rooms. He was finally convicted along
with Anderson, and shipped to Atlanta
in the late Fall of 1922, decked with a
25-year sentence. On admission he was
promptly assigned to the tailor shop
squad. There, in a melee of whirring
machines ana elbowing, perspiring fel-
low-felons in blue denim, he learned to
be an expert pantsmaker.
Like Anderson's, his conduct was
irreproachable. Records and personal
memories describe him as a polite and
industrious inmate; he read many
books from the prison library-and he
was markedly uncommunicative. There
was nothing to distinguish him from
his average fellow behind walls until
the fateful hour when those walls were
scaled by him.
And Gerald didn't wait for the break
half as long as his pal Dutch Be-
yond question, Anderson must have
been completely In his confidence, con-
sidering their many past years of part
nership in crime Yet, so far as any
one observed or knew, Dutch" was
left entirely out of the preparations.
Chapman chose as his accomplice a
willy and taciturn inmate-one Frank
Evening star., 1928-11-18

, Propitious, of course, meaning the time
when Gray and Chapman might enjoy
the good luck-or be able to effect the
artif1ce-of coincident disqualification
This made the only delay; all the other
preparations had been masterfully
perfected.
At 4:30 am, March 81, 1923, their
fellow patients soundly asleep in ward
b, Gray and Anderson-one of whom
had somehow sneaked saw, a heavy
bar Of piping and three files into the
| infirmary-slipped out of their cots,
dressed hurriedly in their prison suits,
subdued and trussed the one doing in
mate nurse then on duty-at this
period the hospital did not boast a
night guard-and began their frenzied
attack on the bars of the secluded lava
tory window.
One can envision the pair at their
grilling task-the first faint illumina-
tions of misty sunrise lighting up
their desperate faces! There was, in
deed, no time to lose. From their bed
sheets Gray had improvised stout
cable on which they were to descend
to the ground, 80 feet below 1t must
have taken at least 20 minutes ere
three of the bars had given way before
the busily piled files and saw. They
then made their cable fast. Chapman
went down first; Gray followed quickly.
And while Chapman was exhuming the
ladder, buried nearby, Gray climbed a
tree, clamped fragment of steel
against a skinned electric light wire
and instantly short-circuited the entire
prison system. The vast grounds were
now in total darkness. Dashing for
the wall, they shot the graphing hook,
fitted the end of their ladder at the
platform of temporarily unguarded
tower; the sentinel thereof was busy
trying to discover why the lights had
gone out. The ladder held fast-and
up they went :. up and over and
away
Obviously the short -circuiting of the
lights had thrown the entire prison into
state Of wild confusion. Efforts were
Immediately made to blow the great
power house siren. But for some rea-
son it refused to work Maybe more Of
the handicraft of the fleeing pairl
When, within Is minutes, the escape
became definitely known, the firm of
Chapman g. Gray was in the third lap
Evening star., 1928-11-18
Movie Property Man Forced to Provide Weird Accessore

I'VE set some youngsters hunting for
California beetles, which are about the
same size and shape as doodlebugs,"
Mr.. Mcdonald said. Eventually they
| found one under some boards in
garage. We took the bug to the studio
| and painted white spots upon its back.
The beetle made the climb up HAnsen'S
pants leg all right and paused to rest
at his knee. But when Ii came to stand
ing up on its hind legs and wigwag-
ging its greeting as a doodlebug does,
1t baked. 1t knew nothing about
standing up that way. That wasn't in
about its neck and gently lifting 1t up,
but invariably 1t tumbled over back
wards or went swinging of into space
as though in hangman's moose. We
tried wire to hold 1t up, but 1t fought
the wire.
I'VE gave It UP. Only one thing to
| do-get a metal doodlebug with wire
legs and photograph it two frames at
5ime, first in one position and then
with very slight change in the next
position, and so on bit by bit. It took
"'THEY give US the most insane
\ things to dot" he protested.
when they made the Merry Widow
the script called for cross-eyed frog
which would look up at pair of lovers
and blink its eyes.
Nothing doing!' replied, half mad.
| That's too much. We can make me-
ehanical frog for you, but we aren't
| sufficient animal trainers to make
| frog go croSs-eyed.'
There was Lon Chaney's London
| After Midnight Two hundred bats, a
requisition said. Can you feature that?
! Two hundred night-prowling, bleary-
| eyed bats to be corralled somewhere!
And they meant it! 1t was up to us
to get them.
/ I'VE sent Jack Altman, a fellow who
Is up on snakes, tarantulaS, bats and
the like, into the desert where there are
so many abandoned mining claims. He
got 200 bats and sent them to us in a
box. They died overnight
More bats wired. Pack em in
| SaWdust and ice.'
THE sudden transition from cold.
dar1k desert caves to warm sunshine in
| open-air Southern California finished
that batch, too. We'd take few from
the box, give 'em boost in the air,
and they'd plunk back to the stage like
chunks of mud.
"'Get some bats from church bel
fries or from attics Of old houses or
from the hills said to Jack. We
need more bats
Jack found few in the trees and
brought them in. 1t cost us 81 900 to
put those few goofy night-flyers into
London After Midnight and If any one
mentions those things around here now
he's slated for the gate without even
carfare home
H \ y
MO less amazing was the order re-
~ ceived by the head property man
at Warner Bros studio when John
Barrymore was making the Sea Beast"
we want whale for Mr.. Barrymore
TO harpoon,' an order said. Get us a
nice live whale about so feet long"
But no one is handling live whales"
'the prop man protested. and / couldn't
Evening star., 1928-11-18

Gray, who was doing five years for the
passing Of forged money orders.
So that the reader may obtain a more
vivid picture, let me describe briefly
the architectural pattern of the prison
hospital, fated to be starting point of
Chapman'S nocturnal flight.
This structure, in 1923 but recently
erected, sits rather aloohy at the rim
of wide lawn in the rear Of the main
building and its cell blocks. Its hind
most end is not more than rs yards
distant from the western wall This
retreat is built in the form of the
letter H. three stories high, the left
stem-on the second fioor-containing
A and B wards. In the short corridor
joining these wards Is situated, on the
inner side, the medicine room; ON the
outer side are large twin lavatories.
This always immaculate infirmary. the
last word in modern clinical resource,
follows the rules and routine marking
all the great hospitals without.
ON March 20, 1923, Chapman
never very robust-contracted a
temperature, was taken from his detail
in the tailor shop and became an
inmate of ward B. Already stretched
on cot in that division was Frank
Gray. with whom, as was afterward
recalled, he had been on extremely
friendly terms, Yet nothing was at the
tir1e attached to so common coinci-
dence, and the pair continued to receive
medication until the pm. lights-out
order on the night of March 26. But
1t happened that that order was the
last which Atlanta was ever to visit
upon Gerald Chapman.
Never was it entirely clear how
Gray had been able in the weeks pre-
ceding to assemble the ordinary tether
rope and steel rungs with which he
had fashioned the gangling ladder that
now abruptly enters the drama. All
who later viewed the contrivance united
in describing 1t as masterpiece of its
kind. Short steel rungs were knotted
into the twin ropes, and ingeniously
capped for the entire length so as to
avoid dislodgment. It was discovered
that the apparatus had been COM
pleted weeks before March 81 and
deftly concealed under loose earth at a
point proximitous to the hospital build
ing, awaiting the propitious occasion.