COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 7. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 10,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Position Folk
City Hankow
Reported Bad
PRESUMED CANTONESE ARE BEYOND CON
TROL—MOB MENACE SPREADS DOWN LOWE!
YANGTZE VALLEY — TWO HUNDRED ANI
FIFTY BRITISH WOMEN AND CHILDREN BOARI
GUNBOAT FOR SHANGHAI - ALL BANKS
CLOSED
LONDON, Jan. 10. (/P)—The British office is advise*
from Hankow that the Cantonese authorities have agree*
to withdraw troops and pickets from the British conces
sion. Police from the British and former German an*
Russian concessions are to patrol these with foreign train
ed Chinese. It is expected the British will return the of
fleers from the barracks where they have been concen
trated for safety. . s_
CANTONESE FLAG HOISTED
SHANGHAI, Jan. 10. (/P)—Japanese
sources reported the Cantonese flag
had been hoisted over the official
building of the British Hankow con
cession. A Reuters dispatch said ev
erything is quiet. Business houses
and banks remained closed. Ships be
gan arriving bringing refugees. Pri
vate advices said all securities in the
bank of Hong Kong at Hankow have
been removed to British ships.
LONDON, Jan. 10. (JP)—Mob men
ace has spread from Hankow down the
lower Yangtze valley. Conditions for
foreigners is designated as absolutel
intolerable. The soldiers, presun
ably Cantonese, are beyond control.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 10, (Saturday (R
•—Chinese soldiers are looting Kii
kuans, 40 or 50 miles west of Shanj
hai, after rioting by the Chines
against the British concessions. Th
position of foreigners is described a
“absolutely intolerable.” Local ai
thorities are unable to control the si
uation. Two hundred and fifty Britis
women and children boarded a gui
boat for Shanghai.
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PROIM NEWSPAPER IN Ur
MICHIGAN. EDMUND I. BBOTH
DEAD; AFTER MANY WEEKS ILLNESS
ACTIVE IN YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA
TION WORK FOR 15 YEARS—RRESIGNED TO BE
COME GENERAL MANAGER OF GRAND RAPID!
PRESS
GRAND RAPIDS, Moch Jan. 10. (/P)—Edmund V
Booth, editor and general manager of the Grand Rapid
Press, died after weeks of illness.
Edmund Booth was a member of the well known famil;
of newspaper publishers who ocntrol nine of the after
noon journals of Michigan. He was born at St. Cath
erines, Ont., Sept. 29, 1866. He was the son of Henr
Wood Booth, journalist and author, and Clara Gagnie
Booth.
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For several years he acted as ex
ecutive head of the New York As
sociated and its 30 branches. As
monuments to the success of his
work, the Twenty-third Street, Wesi
Side, Colored Men’s and Unior
branches are still factors of the Y
M. C. A. system in New York. Mr
Booth conceived, planned and raisec
funds for the erection of these build
ings.
Mr. Booth left the Young Men’s
Christian Association service in 190(
and became general manager of the
Grand Rapids Press- Simultaneously
with his appointment came the re
moval of the Press to its present
buildin The newspaper plant was
constructed on modern lines and
special attention was given to the
newsboys’ quarters. The carriers
' ] After receiving a public educatioi
■ Mr. Booth entered business in Detroi
1 which he left at the age of 24 years t
i enter a field of duty in which he wa
; particularly -interested—the -Youn
Men’s Christian Association worl
, For 15 years he was connected wit
, the Association, first at Detroit an
then at Albany, N. Y. From Alban;
Mr. Booth went to New York City a
general secretary for the associatio
in New York.
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PILOTS SET NEW RECORD
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. (JP)— Pilot
of the air mail service broke three r<
cords of the Chicago-New York sen
ice on December 16, covering the dis
tance in four hours and 20 minutes
The old record was four hours and 3
minutes.
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SEVENTY-SIX KILLED IN FIRE
PANIC IN MONTREAL MOVING
PICTURE THEATRE — TWENTY
MEN ON ROPE ATTACHED TO
KEY BODY ON STAIRWAY FAIL
TO BREAK JAM OF WEDGED
BODIES
s TRAGEDY IN TEN MINUTES
] Constable, in Removing Bodies, Dis
covers His Three Children Dead;
Small Blaze Started in Projection
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MONTREAL, Jan. 10. (/P)—Seven
ty-five were killed In a panic at the
Laurier Palace theatre. Most of the
victims were children at a matinee.
The fire was trivial, but a boy saw
smoke issuing from the projection
room and screamed. A stampede en
sued and the fear^stricken children
jammed the exits where many wer^
suffocated. The bodies were wedged
tightly in a stairway and rescuers
were unable to enter. An effort was
made to break the jam by tying a
rope to the key body of the jam and
pulling. Twenty men were unable
to budge the mass, so firemen cut a
hole in the wall and passed the bodies
out. Stores were converted into
emergency hospitals. Fifteen died in
one hospital. The whole tragedy took
place in ten minutes.
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YOUTH DESCRIBES PANIC
MONTREAL, Jan. 10. (/P)—Antoine
Girouard, aged 16, described the fire
panic and said:
“I got down the stairway and was
near the bottom when I was knocked
down by the rush of people who piled
over me. Three dead boys were be
neath me when the police raised me.
Above me six injured boys had to be
removed before I was reached. While
I was crushed and lying on the steps
firemen began to play the hose over
us.”
Ernie Fitzpatrick, aged 10, said:
“Everybody was laughing when we
saw flame and smok near the first
row in the center balcony. Some
men were playing fire extinguishers
and shouting that it was not serious.
I said a prayer and started to climb
over people and was carried to the
street on the heads of the mob.
Ushers tried to keep the people quiet
while others yelled fire! Get out
quick!”
Constable Albert Boisseau in re
moving bodies, discovered his three
children dead.
Firemen and policemen were on
the spot instantly, but the crazed chil
dren were difficult to manage. Most
of the victims were dead when re
moved from the theatre, but several
were taken to hospitals where they
died in agony.
A crowd of parents, crazed by the
thought that their children had perish
ed in the disaster, jammed the lobbies
of the hospital and mortuary.
MONTREAL, Jan. 10. (£>)—'The fire
panic killed 76 and injured 35. It is
reported jhe injured will recover.
SEATTLE MARINES, BOUND FOR SAN DIEGO, IN
STRUCTED BE PREPARED FOR TROPICAL DU
TY-CARRIED FULL FIELD EQUIPMENT—BRIG
ADIER GENERAL BUTLER ISSUES ORDERS
SAN DIEGO, Jn. 10. (/P)—Orders to organize and
“stand by” for the battalion to be ready to proceed any
where at a moment’s notice were received by Lieut. Col.
William H. Pritchett, acting commandant of the San
Diego marines. The base battalion eonsits of 288 men,
under command of Major Alexander A. Vandergrift.
Orders for the formation of the battalion came from
i Brigadier General Butler, in charge of the Marine Corps
and Western Mail Guard.
SEATTLE, Jan. 10. (A3)—Marines who left at 11:45 for
j San Diego, were instructed to be prepared for “tropical
! duty.” They carried full field equipment.
MARINES TO NICARAGUA
J SAN DIEGO, Jan. 10. (^—Organ
ization of an expeditionary battalion
of marines is under way and is expect
ed to be ready to proceed anywhere
tomorrow night. Tropical kits have
been issued to the men and Nicara
guan service is likely.
DUSTED PRESIDENT
BID BANK THOUGHT
HEADER FDD JUNEAU
CHICAGO, Jan. 10. (/P)—'The search
for G. H. Meeker, ousted president of
the Commonwealth Reserve bank, the
million-dollar corporation whose funds
the State’s attorney said, had dwindled
down to §100, after §600,000 had been
realized from the sale of stock, point
ed towards Juneau, Alaska.
August Beese, Chicago hardware
dealer, who invested §1,200, is willing
to sign a complaint. Another stock
holder recalled that Meeker’s mother
came from Juneau to visit him.
Meeker was last known to be in Van
couver, B. C. His wife is virtually
destitute. C. C. Woodmanse, treas
urer of the bank will be given a hear
ing January 22 on a charge of running
a confidence game and conspiracy.
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CHURCHMEN DISCUSS SITUATION
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 10 (ff)—Catho
lic bishops conferred with Jewish rab
bis and Protestant ministers on the
situation of the Catholic church in
Mexico for the first time in history.
LIMITED TRAINS CRASI^
NEW YORK, Jan. 10. (iP)—Twenty
people were injured and an engineer
was killed when a Boston section of
the Twentieth Century limited train
crashed into a Chicago-New York lim
ited at Savannah, N. Y.
PARIS, Jan. 10. (JP)—Henry Lettel
lier, French sportsman, and Yola
Henriquet were married here.
SPOKANE, Jan. 10. (/P)—County of
ficials said the county Superior court
grand jury will be called to investi
gate corruption in relation to gamb
ling in Spokane if the Federal grand
jury, now in session, returns indict
ments on liquor corruption. -The Fed
eral grand jury cannot include gamb
ling.
U. S. SHIPS INCREASING
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. (^—Eu
gene Chamberlain, transportation ex
pert, said the tramp steamer is giving
way to the ocean liner, and claimed
three-fourths of the world’s liner in
crease since 1914 has been in Ameri
can ships.
PAN-AMERICAN FLIGHT
ORDERED TO RESUME
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. (£>)—'The
pan-American flight was ordered to re«
sume without the flagship New York,
damaged at Guatamala City, while the
crippled plane goes direct to Panama
for repairs. A reserve ship is being
sent from San Antonia to Panama to
continue with the fliers as the New
York II., if the damaged ship is not
repaired in time.
DAWSON MAN CONVICTED
DAWSON, Jan. 10. (IP)—Jackie Mac
intosh was convicted of manslaughter
and sentenced to three years in the
Whitehorse penitentiary. Macintosh
killed Pelly Jim last fall.
BIG FIRE IN MANILA
MANILA, Jan. 10. <P)—Five Thou
sand persons are h ;<less by a fire
which destroyed 1,500 homes in Ma
nila. The loss is estimated at two
million pesos.