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COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA
RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII.
NUMBER 72. SEWARD, ALASKA,THURSDAyTaPRIL 14, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ATTEMPT PUMP OUT WATER AND
DIVERT CREEK PROVED USE
LESS
TULSA, Okla., April 14. (JP)—'Twen-j
ty-three miners are believed to have ■
been drowned this morning when the
waters from McDonald creek broke,
into the Cato mine at Henreyetta. The j
water is 20 feet deep in the mine
shaft. Several caveins are reported, j
It is thought the only thing that could j
l save the miners was a cavein which
blocked the water from the passage;
In which they were working. Fire
men attempted to pump the water
from the shaft and others attempted
to divert the creek from its bed. i
However the water was 40 feet deep 1
in the shaft befoer noon.
27 ESCAPE DEATH
HENRYETTA, Okla., April 14. (JP)
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—Twenty-seven miners escaped death J
when they gathered on a level above
li eh water mark. Communication has
been established with them and six
have been rescued.
AUTHORITIES REFUSE
PARIS. April 14. (ZP)—Several at
tempts to remove Countess Alice
<ie Janze. accused of shooting her j
friend and attempting suicide, fol-1
lowing a lover’s quarrel, from a hos
pital to a private clinic, was thwart
ed by gendarmes who are keeping
her under close guard.
TO LURE II
OXFORD, Md.. April 14. (£>)—'Tiiio
little village on the banks of the
Tred Avon River is going to have u j
resident physician if it has to spent* !
■$ 40,000 to get him.
The population of Oxford is abou* j
900. The villagers found a young !
physician who was convinced that |
there were enough disease gscm? in j
^ the village to enable i>. to support |
him. But when the young physician j
discovered that Oxford has neither
^ water nor sewage system he feared
to risk his reputation nit a too many
germs, and so hied nimself back to
the city.
Oxford now has authority from the
state legislature to issue bond for
$40,000 for a water supp'y system
and a sewage disposal plant. When
the improvements are installed the j
village will cast about once more for i
a physician.
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STEEL HOUSES FOR SCOTCH
GLASGOW, Scotland, April 14. (#>) j
—The first 1,000 steel houses in |
Scotland have proved so successful j
that another 1,000 have been ordered
MEN BLOWN TO BITS
BERGER, Texas, April 14. (/P)—Two
men were blown to bits and three in-!
jured when a premature blast of nitro-|
glycerine shattered an oil well nearby. |
ENDURANCE FLIGHT
PASSED ONE RECORD LAST!
NIGHT—NOW ON WAY BREAK
WORLD'S
MIXEOLA, N. Y., April 14. (/P)—
Bert Acosta and Clarence D. Chamber
lin. civilian pilots, set a new Ameri
can endurance flight record when they
passed the former record of 36 hours i
and four minutes at 9:35 Wednesday1
i night. They then Continued in an!
| attempt to break the world’s 50-hour j
record.
GAS TANK DRY
MIXEOLA. X. Y.. April 14. (£>)—
, Acosta and Chamberlain landed at
112:40 this afternoon setting a new
endurance record of 51 hours and 12
minutes. The French formerly held
the iti-ohi of 44 hours 11 minutes and
59 seconds. Thousands watched the |
plain, and the air was literally filled
with other planes trying to get a good
view of theendurance fliers. The
plane climbed on thewind and then
glided down when it to save gas. The
aviators were in the air well over two
days. Their landing was perfect, and
the gas tank was dry.
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TWO UTILE GIRLS ARE
CRUSHED-91 SEDAN
ITHACA, N. Y. April 14. (/P)—Lil
lian Hall, 12 years old and Ruth Pur
dy 10 years, were killed by a sedan
driven by J. H. Tanner, professor
Ereitus in mathematics at Cornell
University, which crushed them
against a building.
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| PARIS, April 14. (#»)—A million
j aire scrub-woman, who rummages in
| garbage cans and begs on the side,
has been found by the police. Priva
tions, they say, are killing her.
Keeping secret her name, the au
thorities nevertheless vouch for her
ownership of the apartment building
' where she lives in an unheated attic
| room. Her income exceeds that of
j Premier Poincare. Besides the Paris
| building, she owns two houses in
Arras, three farnr-s and some securi
! ties, all valued at more than 2,000,000
francs.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 13. (7P)—
Eamon de Valera, former president of
the Irish republic, was accorded a
hearty welcome here. Mayor Rolph
handed him a floral key.
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PEOPLE RUSH FROM HOUSES IN
NIGHT ATTIRE—COMMUNICA
TION SEVERED
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SANTIAGO. Chile. April 14. (JP)—
Seven persons are reported dead and
55 injured in an earthquake this
morning. The most casualties are in
the residential sections where a num
ber ot' houses collapsed. In the busi
ness district the streets are littered
with brick and debris. People rushed
from their houses in night attire. Nu
merous fire alarms were turned in
when communication was severed.
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MRS. MARY WOOD DIES
j SAN FRANCISCO. April 14. CP)—
Mrs. Mary Wood Swift, widow of
John F. Swift, former American am
bassador to China and Japan, died at
; Berkeley, aged So.
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1 Mill CONTRACTS
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WASHINGTON, April 14. OP)—The
| Chicago to Ne'".* York air mail route
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' has been leased to the National Air
Transport Company, by the United
States, commencing July 1st. At that
time all Government air mails will
be carried by private companies.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Missions 0, Seattle 4.
Hallywood 5, Portland G.
1 Oakland 4. Los Angeles 11.
| Sacramento 2, San Francisco 3; ten
innings.
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, AMERICAN LEAGUE
J Chicago 7, Cleveland 2.
I Philadelphia 4, New York 10.
Detroit-St. Louis, Boston-Washing
J ton—rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 2, Boston 4.
St. Louis 5. Chicago 0.
New York-Philadelphia, Pittsburg
Cincinatti—rani.
EVANS NORTHBOUND
| SEATTLE. April 14. (£►)—'The S. S.
Admiral Evans sailed at 10 o’clock
yesterday and carried 92 passen
i gers. Seward passengers: H.- A.
j Parker, J. J. Masterson and wife, Art
| chSuzak andwife, M. Furgar and ten
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I steerage.
STRAIGHT FROM PARIS
Beige is the shade of shades in the
millinery of some of the smartest
designers in Paris.
Lewis is among the number who
shows the beige predominatly for
both large and small hats. Even the
hats which are almost entirely cov
ered with small flowers—and there
are many such models shown—carry
out the beige color scheme.
EYE WITNESS DESCRIBES
ROCK SPRINGS TORNADO
UNDER MILITARY RULE
SIXTY DEAD AND 170 INJURED -SAN ANTONIO
AND CAMP WOOD HOSPITALS CROWDED—SIN
j ISTER FUNNEL APPEARED TO GRIP ROCK
SPRINGS FOR PERIOD OF AT LEAST SIX MIN
UTES, FRANK RAHMSTORF REPORTS
ROCK SPRINGS, Texas, April 14 (/P)—Military con
trol has been placed over relief and salvage operations in
the wake of the tornado which wrecked this town yester
day. The casualty toll is 60 dead, four missing and 170
injured. Seventy persons are in hospitals at San Anto
nio, 120 miles east of here, and the same number in impro
j vised hospitals at Camp Wood, 40 miles south.
| GREENISH YELLOW TINGE
| ROCK SPRINGS, Texas, April 14. i
(/p)—Frank Rahmstorf of San Anto- j
n'o, an eye-witnefes to the Rock
Springs tornado, describes it as fol
lows:
! “I was driving to Rock Springs from
the junction. Miles before I reached
Rock Springs I saw a sinister funnel
| shaped cloud racing ahead of me.
There was a greenish yellow tinge to
the main cloud set in a background of
inky blackness. When 1 got into
Rock Springs, the cloud was hanking
just above the city. Not a breath of
air was stirring* At 7:30 it broke
with just a swish and a roar. Then
havoc and pandemonuim reigned. The
cloud dipped and seemed to grasp the
city. For six minutes it raged and
roared. Humans, houses and build
ings were hurled about like so much
chaff. The sidewalks literally ran
with blood.”
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ELK HERD RELEASED
i III ARIZONA FOREST
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I PHOENIX. April 14. (/P)—The Blue
River Country of Arizona, where 40
years ago thousands of elk ranged
the hills, will once more be the home
of a herd of these handsome Ameri
can big game animals. *
| The Arizona State Game Depart
ntent and the Forest Service and
BiologicarSunvey of the United Stat
! es Department of Agriculture and lo
!cal interests, have just placed a herd
of 23 elk on the Blue Range game
refuge in the Apache National Forest.
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NEW AIR RECORD
LONDON, April 14. (/P)—Capt. R.
H. McIntosh, British air pilot, creat
ed a new air record by flying from
London to Berlin in four and three
quarters hours. The average speed
! for the* 620 miles was 130 miles an
j hour.
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ICE HOCKEY CHAMPS
| OTTAWA, Ajril 14. (/P)—1The Otta
l wa Senators won the world’s profes
! sional ice hockey championship, de
feating Boston three to one in the
fourth game of the series.
CARROLL REMAINS SUITE
COMA YET IMPROVING
GREENVILLE, S. C., April 14. (/P)—
Earl Carroll has not regained con
sciousness in more than 26 hours after
being removed from the prison car
bearing him to Atlanta penitentiary.
Despite liis continued coma, his con
dition is reported to be improving.
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Elion WEE SHOT”
OUT 10 HE BANO
SHANGHAI, April 14. (/P)—Chinese
credited with invention of gunpow
der, have now produced “noiseless
cannon.” saps newspapers reporting
tests of a gun designed by Yang Yi
cheng.
The silencer is not an attachment
but a part of the original mechanism
and the principles are kept secret.
Although the gun is effective at a
distance of 2.3 miles, it is claimed,
the explosion cannot be heard more
than 400 feet away.
“Makee shoot—no makee bang” is
how the achievement was captioned
i bv a foreign language newspaper
| which said Chang Tso-lin, Northern
j generalissimo had purchased the in
vention for the Peking government,
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[giving the inventor a bonus of
$10,000.
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SECRET WEDDINGS FOR
COMMON-LAW COUPLES
PARIS, April 14. (/P)—Secret wed
dings for what Americans know as
common law households have been
legalized by Parliment. The gov
ernment prosecutor can authorize
formalities that keep many from
marrying.
Unmarried fathers and mothers
of children often fear to reveal the
truth by a wedding years after the
birth of their children. Frequently
couples supposed to be married have
no children because they do not wish
them to be illegitimate, and they
shun the publicity of the long delay
marriage.