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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 83.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAYl APRIL 27, 1927.
'price ten cents
Flood Rushing New Orleans
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Artificial Break
Levee Ordered
* To Save Orleans
GOVERNOR O. H. SIMPSON ISSUES PROCLAMA
TION DECLARING PUBLIC EMERGENCY EX
ISTS—ARTIFICIAL BREAK MAY DIVERT FLOOD
WATERS FROM INUNDATING NEW ORLEANS;
/ LOUISIANA NATIONAL GUARD CALLED OUT AS
PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE
NEW ORLEANS, April 27. (/P)—Governor 0. H.
Simpson issued a proclamation declaring a public emerg
ency exists and ordering the creation of an artificial break
in the levee of the Mississippi near Poydras at noon Fri
day to save New Orleans from inundation. The break
4 will divert the flood waters which are rushing towards
New Orleans, but will inundate a hundred thousand acres
oi iertile land below the city.
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ANCHORAGE PUII
DELIVERING FRESH
VEGETABLES NOME
BUSINESS MEN OF INLET TOWN
DESIROUS OF ESTABLISHING
TRUNK LINE
(Special to The Gateway)
ANCHORAGE, April 27.—The An
chorage Transport plane pilot, Ed
Ed Young, which left here at 11
o'clock Monday, arrived in Nome at
4 r m. Tuesday, the actual flying time
^ being eight hours and 50 minutes.
Young encountered thick weather in
Rainey Pass and detoured to Broad
Pass and Nenana. He carried as pas
sengers C. E. Kimball for McGrath
and Dr. Rex Swartz, representative
of the Airplane company for Nome,
where he goes to negotiate with busi
ness men who are desirous of estab
lishing an aerial trunk line from
Nome to Anchorage. The plane also
carried a full cargo of fruit, vege
tables, eggs and other merchandise.
’ The plane will make a few short trips
out of Nome and then will hop to
^ Candle to pick up Aviator Merrill
-where his plane was damaged at Sela
•wik lake in a blizzard April 5.
DENIES IS DIVORCED
PARIS, April 27. (/P)—Count Lud
wig Von Salm Hoogstrachten denied
that he had been divorced by his wife, |
former Milicent Rogers* but admit- j
ted that papers had been filed in
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court He declined to say when ac
tion will be taken.
I PARISHES EVACUATED
Evacuation of the parishes of St.
Bernardo and Plaquemine before Fri
day has been ordered by Adjutant
General L. A. Toombs. He ordered
out the entire Louisiana National
i
Guard as a precautionary measure
| to meet possible flood development.
GENERAL EXODUS STARTS
i MEMPHIS, Tenn , April 27. (>P)—
! While a general exodus has com
i menced from two parishes to be flood
I ed by breaking of the levee South of
j New Orleans, many trappers and other
residents maintain armed watch de
manding guarantees against loss be
fore quitting thair posts. Homeless
! persons estimated at 160,000 are hour
ly increasing as the flood moves across
| Arkansas and Northern Louisiana.
DENTIST'S DEFENSE RESTS
STATE SEEKS TO IMPEACH
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SEATTLE, April 27. (£>)—'The Dobbs
defense rested, and the State launched
an effort to imperach the testimony of
defense witnesses who testified to
seeing Letitia four hours after she is
supposed to have been slain, indicat
ing that the case might not go to the
jury before Saturday.
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FAVOR LONGER WORKING
HOURS TO REDUCE CRIME
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NEW YORK, April 27. (/P)—The Na- '
tional Association of Manufacturers,
replying to an appeal of clergymen for
better labor conditions, declared in
dustry has advanved farther than re
ligion and politics, and advocated
longer working hours as an antidote
for crime menace.
MRS. SUER'S LOVE
MAKING KEPI JUDD
HYPNOTIC TREE
HOUNDED HIM UNTIL HE AGREED
TO KILL HUSBAND, ASSERTS
CONFESSION
NEW YORK, April 27.(/P)—Henry
Judd Gray agreed to kill Albert Sny
der because Mrs. Snyder “hounded
me and got me in a whirl with her
love-making,” he asserted. His con
fession was read in court. The con
fession related that Mrs Snyder told
Gray of a half-dozen attempts she had
made to slay her husband,* and said
Gray was like a man in a hypnotic
trance.
SENATE. LICENSE TAX
BILLS INCREASING TAXES ON
FISHERMEN AND FISH TRAPS
HELD UP
JUNEAU, April 27. {&)—'Two bills
were with drawn in the Senate, one
distinguishing between resident and
non-resident fishermen, imposing a li
cense tax of S50 on the former and 50
cents on the latter; also a measure
limiting fish traps. The house meas
ure for the election of a treasurer and
giving him functions now exercised by
the Governor was held up for a time
on a point of order ruling.
DEMPSEY BE MATCHED
WITH WOOD CHOPPER
NEW YORK, April 27. (/P)—After
receiving positive assurances that
Dempsey intends to stage a comeback
Tex Rickard announced he will match
him with Paulino Uzcudan, the Span
ish woodchopper, about July 1, prob
ably in the Yankee stadium.
S. S.ADMIRAL FARRAGUT
SAILS FOR THE NORTH
SEATTLE, April 27. (£>)—'The S. S.
Admiral Farragut sailed at 10 o’clock
this morning and carried 66 passen
gers. Seward passengers: Mrs. W.
W. Clarke, Mrs. Paul A. Smith and
child, John Forslen, wife and son,
Charles McKenzie, Capt. I. L. Peter-'
son, Capt. J. J Cary, O. Peterson,'
Mrs. Eva Herning, Miss M. A. Fleck- j
enstein, Mrs. O. G. Herning, Mrs. Clara j
Smith, L. R. Carroll, R. Wolf and three
steerage.
EN ROUTE TO DRIER BAY
SEATTLE, April 27. (£>)—'The purse
seine boat Alden and cannery tender
Harold will leave late Wednesday for
Jhe Rrier Bay Packing company’s
plant with 16 Norwegians aboard, in
cluding two women.
RICH COLD STRIKE
WASHINGTON STATE;
DOLLAR POUND ORE
TWO MILES WEST TOWN OF RE
PUBLIC — HUNDREDS CLAIMS
STAKED
REPUBLIC, Wn., April 27. (^—Re
ports of a rich gold strike two miles
west of here caused a rush of 600
persons to the vicinity. Nearly a hun
dred staked claims. The rush started
when Joe Wiseman and Jack Rounds,
prospectors, reported yesterday that
they had found gold along the wall of
solid rock, E. M. Taidy of the Depart
ment of the Interior said the ore would
run about $1.00 per pound.
DENOUNCES FEDERAL COURT
WASHINGTON, April 27. (^—Wil
liam Green, president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, denounced
the Chicago Federal court for confirm
ing a decree finding two labor organ,
izers guilty of violating an injunction.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 5, Cincinnati 8.
New York 7, Brooklyn 2.
Pittsburg 9, St. Louis 5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia 9, Boston 8.
St. Louis 2, Cleveland 6.
Detroit 3, Chicago 9.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 4, Portland 8.
Sacramento 2, Ookland 4.
Los Angeles 12, Missions 5.
SUN DIEGO TO BE THE
STARTING POINT HINES
SAN DIEGO, April 27. (/P)—San
Diego is to be the starting point of
15 planes which are to tour Califor
nia as a demonstration of the great
development which has taken place
in air travel. An entire squadron of
aircraft both military and commer
cial leave here May 5th to go to San
Francisco, according to plans an
nounced by Frank J. Belcher, presi
dent of the .local chapter of the Nat
ional Aeronautical Association.
AMUNDSEN SEATTLE
HOPES COME NORTH
TO REVISIT FRIENDS
GOING TO JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA
FOR SEVERAL MONTHS—HAS
NO PLANS
SEATTLE, April 27. (^—Amund
sen, here on a lecture tour, said he
hopes some time to return to Alaska
and renew acquaintances, but not to
strive for further penetration of the
Arctic blind spot. “There may be
islands there, but someone else will
find them. All big problems have
been solved, and the work left is mere
details.” He will sail from Vancou
ver June 9 for Japan and Australia
: for several months. Amundsen said
i he had made no plans for meeting
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with Nobile, w’ho is in Japan building
a dirigible.
jCMON'S BID FOR
: PULP TIMBER TURNED
DOWN BY BUREAU
A PROSPECTIVE BIDDER WANTED
TO MAKE A FIELD EXAMINA
TION
i WASHINGTON, April 27.(JR)—Cam
leron’s bid for pulpwood timber in the
Tongess national forest, was at the ad
vertised minimum of 60 cents per
hundred cubic feet for spruce and 30
cents per hundred for hemlock. Open
| ing of bids have been deferred from
! yesterday upon application by a pros
pective bidder for an extension of the
opening time, which application the
Forest Service rejected. The pros
pective bidder wanted to make a field
investigation.
AUTOPSY ms MIN
INIS SUBBED HCE
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! SAN* DIEGO, April 27. (/P)—One of
i the finest points ever brought out to
determine whether a man had killed
i himself or was murdered, was dis
cussed yesterday when an autopsy
on the body of Carl A. Nalley, phar
I macists mate first class at the Naval
j hospital who was found dead below
j a window of a room in a down town
hotel here. It was revealed that he
had two knife wounds in his heart.
BAD FIRE IN TEXAS
MARBLE FALLS. Tejj., April 27.
(#>)—A $250,000 fire destroyed a
business block here today.
PLAN TO GO • MAY DAY DANCE SATURDAY