The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 15, 1941, Page 5

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1941 UNCLE SAM HAS BEEN "ON THE BRINK" OF CONFLICT TEN TIMES ~ |Garnels by " - ‘Millions in Mighty Dike Great Brifain Has Been His Favofile Spprfing Pariner in Near-Wars of the Past By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE AP Feoture Service Writer WASHINGTON — Your Uncie killed 50 of its members. Germanr public opinion gemaudvd satisfac- tion while ‘American public senti- o TREAT YOURSELF TO V] sHERMITAGE & sam has come through ten major ment demanded our government war scare crises in his time, with- protect the Samoans: 0B out cnce stepping off the deep Warships were sent’to the scene Huge DQDOSI' Uneanhed ) end. Feur were Class A disputes and war seemed in the offing but WRAND - with Britain, There were twod tan- a hurricane descended on_the is- [ on Dome creek Near | R e IR ATCHT gles with France, two showdowns lands, “blowing bad feeling away ¢ | . ’ N with Germany, an armed inter- before it.” The sailors of both na- Fairbanks by Colbert | BOURBON WHISKEY vention in Mexico and an incident tions showed helpfulness and good | with Chile feeling and the Samoa aifair | Like the current situation, most cleared up. ’ (Fairbanks News-Miner) | of them had to do with freedom 3 S 11 Garnets—millions of them, un-| o of the seas, preservation of the INTERVENTION IN 1914 told tons, . perhaps . shiploads—in | fil‘ am&’lfl/lflll.ffixlclmf beautiful wine-colored. crystals Revolutionary disturbances in Mexico, threatening the lives and property of U. S. citizens, led o our armed intervention in 1914. Lentuchy Whiskey Nitional Distillers Prod. Corp., N..Y. 93 Proof fonroe Doctrine and sundry au- s of the neutrality question. The Je American Navy had a large as marbles and in grapular| form, the size of pinheéads. N Louyis D. Colbert, garnet king of woting war with the French in it B - P without a declaration of hos- President Wilson ordered the AskS, s them,. And ghey aws ; tilities. When Jay's treaty with Navy to. selse Vera Orus, wh lin o huge dike, 50 feet wide at Distributed by NATIONAL GROCERY COMPANY Litam committed us against in- U. S. forces held for several places and stretching away for AR Sccglmeanbu {ervention in the war in behalf of | months, Later when Villa raided half ‘a mile or more, less than 15|~~~ A % France, the I"rench directory sev-| | the town of cmun_xbus. N. M, Wil- miles from: Fairbanks, | BiShOP'S SOfl Kl”ed [ ered 1ciations, demanded abroga~ son ordered a military expedition Tungsten Also | ticn of the treaty and a large sum under General Pershing to advance Colbert, veteran Alaska miner A F L Y ' of money as a peace prerequisite. into the interior of Mexico. and . prospector made hjs. garnet, r L President John Adams sent tne Relations between Chile and strike and located minéral claims| f French consuls home. Merchaut the United States were strained {to cover them, .on Gilmore Dome,| :* | rl ! Pl . vessels were armed, an American in 1891 because of an attack by a | heart of the Fairbanks placer gold} Y Ur eas“re army was formed and Washington mob in Valparaiso upon sailors }nelds, early in the swnmer, and| cailed from retirement to com-| ashore from the U. S. cruiser Bal- has ‘been ‘quietly prospecting the RN 3T mand it. The fracas never got be-‘ PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS timore. Two sailors were killed {ground. Not only has.he an enor-! Hunt or fish, near and far, . yond a few sea fights, the U. S“ Sent the French Consuls home iand several injured. The Chilian mous garnet depository but with it| i in your own plane or in one Navy doing itself proud. Napoleon | L - e |government, after some contro- what is. probably more valuable, a | { e : ¢ came into power the next year| < | versy, apologized and paid an in- | promising percentage of tungsten,| { which you have rented. | redations of the famed Confederaie i‘“ form of- scheelite, ]l in the E Loatn:the Modem Spnrl! A | demnity of $75,000. | raider, the cruiser Alabama. The| "y o.e have been, of course, & North was incensed because (hel ey oiner jncidents in which feel- four Forty or Fight” “"“MM‘?bama e .bum In 8 British ing was strong against one coun- the cry of supporters of President‘smpyalfl‘ occasionally displayed the"m, and another, but they were Polk who demanded that latitude Was reported as fflVO“fls_a" inva-| . nfined chiefly to the exchange' be . fixed as the northwest boun- sion of Canada. The incident Was| ¢ wsharn diplomatic notes” which ! and renewed the peace. OREGON COMPROMISE |same vein. ) s IR ) Aviation is not expensive. ! There’s more pleasure per \ dollar in flying. ‘On. Gilmore Dome The properties lie at the head |of Gllmore Creek, near Pearl |Creek, and adjacent ‘to' scheelite properties long held and previous- All pictures from New York Historical Society. There was a furore' in 1863 when the “San Jacinto,” U. 8. frigate captained by Charles Wilkes, overhauled the British steamer “Trent” | - dary of Oregon territory. Secretayy | nOt closed until 1872 when an in of State Buchanan feared that the ternational court fixed an indem made rattling the sword unneces- | | sary: " which had on board the confederate commissioners Mason and |1y operated by -Mike ' Stepovich, J\vell-known' Fairbanks miner. One| Start Preparing for President’s sharp demands wowd Dity of $15500,000 to be paid by Slidell. bring on war with Britain but British flag and was welcomed in| ___* __|end of the. Colbert veih 1s not Your Private License Polk’ daid® British ports. | | more than 600 feet from’ the Stepo- TODAY! . vich' properties, “I will do my duty and leave Ardent unionists urged war the rest to God and the coun- :against Britain and General Grant| - try.” | Britain for ‘“breach of neutrality.”| ; ; 1 The British diplomats kept cool,| During the war between the ; : o and the dispute was compromised states, Napoleon the Third set up ’ 2 by giving Vancouver to Canada. |a French empire in Mexico. When The Lion roared in 1863 when a the war ended, the United States| U. S. war vessel stopped the Brit- demanded that French troops be | ish mail packet Trent and U. S withdrawn from Mexico. A large Marines arrested Confederate en- army of Union veterans got ready voys James M. Mason and John|to drive them out. Napoleon or- | Slidell, enroute to England and dered the French to withdraw. |2 Stimulated by the nation-wide demand - for .scheelite, one’of the | strategie minerals, - Colbert resolved {to go into the field, this season, |and see if he colild not find some- |thing very. much worth while in |the Iocality where Stepovich schee- lite. had - produced:. with success during World War- No, L./ ' | Picking up float, Colbert, worked his ~way ' up ‘the “hill ; gradually, Halis Kindler Taps Barrel O0f Fun by Serving Capifal Bach with Drink of Bee ' (Continued from Page One) Alaska School of Aeronautics, Inc. P. 0. Box 2187 Phone Black 769 JUNEAU | It'sEasy At - France respectively. Tlere wus consiaerable war talk in 1895 when President Cleveland became brusque with Britain over violation of the Monroe Doctrine in the Venezuela-British Guiana | Northerners applauded the“great feat” but the English people hailed the action as “a wanton insult to the British flag,” demanded release of the prisoners and a proper apol- ogy. The British navy was put oun a war footing, and a band played Dixie as England troops sailed for Halifax. Queen Victoria softened the Brit- | ish demands, President Lincoln re- gretted the episode and the Unioa government finally disavowed the action as unauthorized and released | the prisoners. | $15,500,000 INDEMNITY The U. 8. and Britain were “onj the verge” during and after the| Civil War in connection with dep- PRESIDENT GRANT Had trouble with Britain The Alaskan Holel Newly Renovated Rooms 1 =t Reasonable Eates . Phone—Single 0 — Rice & Ahlers Co. Plumbing — Ofl Burness dene more to make Washington music-conscious than all the musi- cians who have preceded him. :the great maestro doesn’t conduet 1thrm with any greater reverence-- but Kindler also has about him.a certain earthiness that suits. Wash- ington fine. He believes in having a good time, There's no reason, according to- Kindler, who. one shouldn't enjoy good music and enjoy one’s self too. It was that idea that led to . his introducing summer con- certs, played in the open air across a strip of water, to thousands who lounged on the cool lawns that aggression the appropriation by Britain of any lands which af- ter investigation we have de- termined of right belcngs to Venezuela.” : The British yielded to for arbitration. | BAD GRAB Theodore Roosevelt waved the HEIENA, Mont, Oct. 15—Russell big stick at Germany in 1902.| croff, filling station attendant, dis- German warships had been sent {0/ covercd a small blaze beside a }flcskadg Venezuelan ports to "“';heating stove m the building. He e tonyment of claims. = Tedd | grabbed a nearby bucket filled with | giope up from the Potomac to the ;eizrfc ng £ ermany intended 1)) crystal fluld, belleving it was Wa-|pincoln memorial. It was the same Seize and fortify harbors Wilh 4 ter, and tossed it over the flames.|ige, that caused him to introducs view to exercising some controlin turned out to be high test gas- i A over the projected Panama Canal,! the “pop” concerts indoors. d : 7anal cline. Croff will recover, The in-| ., . R ation 1 5 2: er;ad f\dmxr_al Dewey 19 be ready |gide -of the bullding was badly ¢ opl nnra revis rn;n o;}pop sail with his Puerto Rico squad-| purned. c:?t ul:f:s no:n l::::lnI nrm:t.am c«:n; s are s 4 ron on an hour’s notice. | Boston they have been going on T. R. demanded that the Ger- man Ambassador promptly an- for more than 70 years, but they BUY DEFENSE STAMPS boundary dispute. Not even Toscanini has any Cleveland said the United PRESIDENT CLEVELAND greater respect for the classic com-~ States would “resist as willful Upheld the Monroe Doctrine posers than Kindler and certainty also have ‘proved terrific’ finaricinl Sinking holes here, and. there, until | | he flops - in other metropélitan cen~ térs. Philadelphia, for ' instance, has given them the fishy eye '(cr ear) on several occasions. CULTURE IN SMALL DOSES It ‘was the experience of Phila- idelphia; that was -most - frequently thrown -up to Kindler by those .who argued against trying them here. But Kindler, -through some yeais of conducting the, National *Sym- phony, ‘has learned . a "lot. ahout Washington audiences. They are made up of people from all of, tha 48 states ‘and - as ‘many - foreign countries. They are about as “un- sectional” “as anything ‘you- can find. They are sophisticates and hoi-polloi; cosmbpolites” dand small- towners. They have no antipathy for culture, but being immersed in national and international affairs all day, they don't want it in big doses. That's why Bach, Beethoven Bizet and beer, mixed up with a little Strauss, Gershwin, Herbert and sherry, make up one of the capital's favorite entertainmen’s this fall. 3 swer his request for arbitration of the Venezuela cast. The Ambassa- dor expressed grave concern at “the consequences” of the Pres: dent’s ultimatum. Whereupon T.R produced a map of the Caribbean and said to the envoy: “There is no more unsuitable spet fer Germany to choose for a conflict with the United States. Dewey will be ordered- to sail 24 hours before the specified time for an answer arrives.” The German emperor agreed to arbitrate and his Ambassador was called home for “bungling.” We had a “hot” diplomatic af- fair - with Germany over Samca back in the eighties. A German Consul hoisted the German flag over the Samoan king's hut while the American Consul proclaimed it as our protectorate. A German warship bombarded some Samoan villages, the American ' Consul U, 8. 8. Boxwood It Heating Phone 34 Sheet Metad SAMN ,ARD B\RD - T GOT & DRTE W & COWPLE OF SWEW - LOOKIN JENNES THS AFTERNOON — \(® WANT To steaming his launch between the warship and the shore. A band of Samoans surrounded a German landing party and{ A near dupli tender of the U. S. navy will be used to lay and tend anti-submarine T SWF'LESS SHONK Y T ANOBLDHT TRUST dln 05 TR T CoWLD FLNG & BLIE NOSE ME L= Y Taw ‘World rights reserved 1941, King Features Syndicate New U. S. Net Tender—It Will Fish for U-Boats of the British éuyomt class of net tenders, the U. 8. S. Boxwood, above, ol boom-net nets protecting the harbors of the U4S. The Boxwood is a 500-ton craft. 160 feet overall in length. ByBILLYDeBECK came. into the dike ctarrying enormous quantities 'of ‘garrets. Several ‘who have visited Col- bert's vein say, they never saw nor dreamed of the likes of it as a garnet 'treasure-trove, ' | "I estimate,". said ‘Colbert, “that 20 to 25 percent of, the .vein mate- {rial in the ‘dike_ is comprised of | garnéts—many. - lagge, ,.often in groups like clusters of Tokay | grapes, ottiérs” Small” ahd scattered {and of various sjzes, down ‘to that lof*a pin point.” o= | . | “Government geologists and oth- ers recently vilited ‘the pfoperties. | While garnets!of eertain kinds are often used, as, jewels, some are used | ektensively as abrasives and for| other * purposes. It ‘remains to be| seen 'just what value these garne's | are, and what . is the demand. As| to. the scheelite in my dike, that may yet, prove, of sufficlent guan- tity to justify produepm. We shall seé, ; A Formation “Authorities differ as to just what is the, material in the dike' in, which these ‘garnets and the| tungsten occur. Some have - called |1t ‘an altered’ lime, and others a granitic material. " I have found | many ‘fossils in ‘the formation, fig- {ures of ferns and such. i “The . garnets are Qquite heavy,| |almost as 'heavy .4s the scheelite. | Just how to segregate the garnets| i from the material’ in which they | oceur, especially if mined on any scdle, is' another problem.” | Garnet King, Colbert has been { working, hard on his prospect all summer, and had reduced his adi- pose tissue and girth about 50 per- | cont—but féels as fit as an athlete —and his face is radiant and as beaming -as the most: treasured| “garbuncle,” highly prized translu- cent gem of ‘the garnet family. To Fellow Up: ' Colbert will' return to- his-claims within a_day ‘or £wo,’to continue prospecting until the snows drive him in from the hills. A veteran prospector. ‘and ° mjtier of ' nearly 45 years in the North, in which L has taken big stakes from gold- bearing placers from Atlin to Klon- dike, Nome, Iditarod and Fair- 0000 - ENoen ¢ T WUT TaLKW, WHEN T SHOMDA SEEN L\STenw' Bergeant James Maxon Son ‘of an Episcopalian bishop of Memphis, Tenn., Sergeant. James M. Maxon, 32, a gunner with an R. A. F. squadron, has been re- iported “killed in action” during an engagement over enemy terri- ftory.* This is “believed to have ‘been the last picture taken of Bergeant Maxon i banks, Colbert is keen to add:aun-| |other to the list in his scheelite ahd garnet find, and will do it he says, if the values are there. AR SRy KEEP IT FUNNY NEW YORK — According to a survey made at Fort Dix, a major- ity of ‘Army recruits are reading comic books. They also prefer pic- ture -magazines, the “pulps” and tabloids to non-fiction books. Among fiction readers adventure stories, westerns and mysteries are most popular. : are pictured safely back in San aboard the plane still are missing. The plane was hit Z ssion in the Caribbean sea. The men, left . tiys island, a Dutch_ to right, are Anthony Creider of San Diego, Cal; Harry Brown Phoenix, Ariz.; Ernie Cooper of Denton, Md., and Joseph Amodeo s arg. Brooklyn, - Bailed Out at Sea in Storm " Four of 11 navy men who bailed out of a U. §. when it was hit by lightning while cruising off the | FOR COACH. ~ DAUGHTERS SEATTLE, Qct, 15-The' name is | Daughters—Ray - Daughters, the Washington Athletics club swim- | ming ' coach who developed ‘such |stars as Helen Madison, Jack Medica and several star women's \relay teams. | And the ring of the name ap- parently lingers on. | Of 13 children born to Daugh-~ 1Lers-developed ace swimmers 12 'have been — you ‘guessed it— ldaughur.s. Latest was a daughter born t) | Medica's wife in New York. Helen | Madison MclIyor has a daughte, snd two of the ‘girls—Mrs. Olve McKean Mucha, wife of Chuck ! Mucha, one -time all - Americap guard from Washington, and Mrg. 'Bale Gilson Beckstrom, have had two daughters. | Mrs. Doris Buckley ‘Johnson is ithe only one who had a son. IR navy patrol plane - Virgin : Juan, Puerto Rico. ] of o