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VOLUME XXII NUMBER 71. SEWARD, ALASKA,WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Rock Springs Razed
By Tornado 62 Are
Dead And Injured
"HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOOT TWISTER WAS MOST
DISASTROUS TO HAVE EVER HIT THAT SEC
TION—ONLY FEW BUILDINGS LEFT STANDING
WITHIN TWO-MILE PATH OF DESTRUCTION;
POPULATION OF TOWN WAS 800
ROCK SPRINGS, Texas, April 13. (/P)—A tornado
virtually razed Rock Springs, killing at least 62 persons
and injuring about 150. The twister was the most disas
trous that ever hit this section. Sixty bodies have been
recovered from the ruins- Of the injured, 20 are expected
to die before night.
WILKINS. EIELSON
* If BE UNABLE TO
RETURN FOR MONTHS
THEIR POSITION CONSIDERED
PRECARIOUS SAYS FAIRBANKS
REPORT
FAIRBANKS. April 13. (<?)—'The
latest reports here are to the effect
tier. Captain Wilkins and Pilot E.
Ben Eielson. who left here for Point
Barrow March 29 have not returned.
They may be delayed weeks or months
by the oncoming spring fogs and
thaws. Their position is considered
precarious as the open leads in winter
ar.d ice-cap may block direct return
by walking or make the route so cir
cuitious that supplies may run out.
Willi TO UNITED SMS
SOUTHAMPTON, April 13. (/P)—
Rairsay MacDonald, former Labor
Premier of Great Britain, sailed from
here for the United States on the
liner Aquitania at coon today. He
is to visit New York, Washington
and other cities in the eastern parr
of the Republic and return about
«prli 17 th.
W STEALS COIT IS
SENT TO SIN QUENTIN
SACREMENTO. April 13. (£>)—
Notice of appeal to a higher court on
behalf of Joseph Tassey, baby bandit
of Youngstown, Ohio, is on file today
following action of a superior Judge
sentencing him to San Quintin for
■stealing an overcoat. The first dis
trict court of San Francisco ruled
t fid his case should have been heard
in the Juvenile court.
ATTACKS GIRL, GETS LIFE
CHICAGO, April 13. (/P)—Frank
Egan, former college student, was
sentenced to life imprisonment for at
tacking a girl.
w only a re wbuuamgs were ieit stana
i ing within the two mile path of de
j
.struction. Relief workers, including
physicians and nurses from San An
tonio and Kerrvville, and a detach
| meat of troops were delayed in arriv
ing by the storm-damaged roads. The
storm came from the northwest af
; ter dark with little or no warning.
' Fire broke out soon after. Rock
; Springs is an isolated town with a
j population of 800, in the centre of the
goat-raising section. Three airplanes
left San Antonio to bring supplies to
, the sufferers. A baby was hurled 50
feet through the air and landed safely.
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STRIKE EFECTIVE THROUGHOUT
BOTH INTERNATIONAL AND
NATIVE CITY
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J SHANGHAI. April 13. (JP)—The
! Labor unions called a general strike
! as a protest against raids on labor
j union halls by the moderate wing of
j the Cantonese political organizations
i under orders from Chiang Kai Shek,
j Cantonese Generalissimo, who is at
! odds with the radical civil government
in Hankow. The strike is effective
throughout both the international and
native section of the city.
ARTILLERY DUEL
SHANGHAI, April 13. (£>)— The
British distroyer Veteran engaged in
an artillery duel yesterday with
Chinese batteries 15 miles below
Chinchiang on the Yangtse River it
was learned today.
NO MORE JAP TROOPS
TOKIO, April 13. (JP)—The Japan
ese Cabinet decided today to send
no more troops to China at present.
The minister of war was empowered
however, to use his own discretion
as to future requirements.
NOTE UNSATISFACTORY
MOSCOW, April 13. (JP)—The Pe
king governin' s sent a note to
Soviet Russia explaining the raids on
the Soviet legation in Peking, but the
Soviet officials declare that the note
t
i containe serious discrepancies.
MOTHER HACKS SON
TO DEATH ID KILLS
SELFKB CITY
WAS WIFE OF PROMINENT ATTOR
NEY JOHN M. LANGS DALE, JU
NIOR
KANSAS CITY, April 13, (/P)—Mrs.
John M. Langsdale, Jr., hacked and <
stabbed to death her son John, aged '
seven, and then killed herself in the
childs’ playroom. She was the wife
of a prominent attorney. A negro
maid related that the mother went
to the room carrying a hammer and
a kitchen knife. Soon the maid heard
an outcry and stamping on the floor.
Harry Batlett, a grocery boy, attracted
by the outcry, ran to the room and
returned a moment later bearing the
child, who was bleeding. He ;broke
away from the arms of Bartlett and
ran upstairs crying: “Help me save
mother." Meanwhile the maid sum
moned a neighbor woman. The trio
proceeded upstairs “Oh mother, you i
are killing me,” they heard the child I
scream. Unnerved, the trio fled to
summon aid. When the police arrived :
they found the bodies stretched on the
floor.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Missions 5, Seattle 3.
Oakland 5. Los Angeles 6.
Sacramento 5, San Francisco 12.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 15, Philadelphia 7.
Sf. Louis 1. Chicago 10.
Brooklyn G, Boston 2.
Pittsburg 2. California 1.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia 3, New York 8.
Poston 2. Washington 6.
Chicago 2, Cleveland 3. A
Detroit-St. Louis, postponed, rain.
MAKING PREUIUlHf
ARRANGEMENTS FLIGHT
NEW YORK, April 13. (£>}—Lieu
tenant Commander FitzhiNgh Green
arrived to make preliminary arrange
ments for Byrd’s New York to Paris
non-stop flight, which is planned to
start May 16. Bennett and Lieuten
ant Commander George O. Noville
are slated to accompany Byrd.
FISH COMMISSION UNO
HATCHERIES WIPED OUT
JUNEAU, April 13. (/P)—The Senate
approved, seven to one, the House
bill abolishing the Territorial Fish
Commission and wiped out all pro
visions for caring for the operation of
hatcheries.
LONDON, April 13. (/P)—Two bat
teries of field artillery at Aldershot
and a field hospital and ambulance
unit from London, were yesterday
ordered %to be held in readiness to
embark for China. <
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NEW YORK, April 13. (/P)—Irregu
arity was less in evidence than usual
md was partly obscured by extreme
juoyancy in a number of .industrial i
stacks. General Motors, Dupont Com
mercial Solvents and Freeport Texas
climbed to new levels. United States
Steel common after a poor start
firmed up, and Hudson Motors and
Studebaker were well takeu. Total
iales, 1,129,600 shares.
Other quotations were as follows:
Allied Chemicals 1401*2, Inter. Nickel
16 7-8, Radio Corpn. 43 7-8, Am. Brown
B. 22-3-8, Kan. City So. 62, Rep. Steel
71 3-8, Am. Can 45 1-8, Mack Truck
105 3-8, South. R. R. 126 1-8, So. Pr.
Sugar 162, Baldwin Loco. 186 1-2. Mar
land Oil 46 1-2, S. Oil Calif. 55 3-8,
Chesp. & Ohio 169 7-8, Mox & Tex
17 3-4, S. Oil N. J. 36 3-4, Chi. Great
West. 15 78, Com. Solv. B 319, Mo.
Pac. 56 3-4, S. Oil N. Y. 31 3-8, Corn
Prod. 57 3-4, Nash Motors 63 3-4, Tex.
Crulf Sul. 64 1-2, Dupont 247 7-8. X. Y.
Cent. com. 171, Gen. Motors 185, Pan
Am. Pet. 58 1-2, West Maryland 37.
Hayes Wheel 27, Peop Gas 149 3-4.
Cotton—May high 14.21, low 14.08.
dose 14.19; July high 14.3S, low 14.33,
dose 14.37.
Cluosing coffee prices, March 11.28,
May 13.65, July 12.65.
Call money 4 1-2 per cent.
Wheat-May high 1.35. low 1.32 1-2;
Tuly 1.2S 7-8, 1.26 3-S. 1.26 3-4.
Foreign exchange—Britain 4.85 5-16,
France 3.91 3-8, Belgium 13.90. Swit
zerland 19.23, Italy 4.SI 1-4, Sweden
26 1-2, Norway 25.SO, Denmark. 26.66,
Spain 17.65, Holland 39.90, Germany
23.70. Jugoslavia 1.7S, Czechoslovakia
2.96, Brazil 11.87, Argentine 42.37,
Chile 12.12, Peru 3.63.
ML BOUT BEAVER
GAME COMMISSION CRAFT WILL
BE SHIPPED TO YUKON RIVER
IN NEAR FUTURE
SEATTLE, Ajril |3. (JP)—The patrol
boat Beaver will be launched for the
Alaska Game Commission late today.
Mrs. Kenneth Talmage, wife of Cap
a'n Talmage of the United States Bio
logical Survey, assisted by her two
mns, will christen the Beaver, which
will be shipped to Fairbanks to be re
launched on the Yukon. The Beaver
will be christened here with Yukon
water sent from Fairbanks.
ANOTHER GIANT MERGER
SAN DIEGO, April 13. (^P)—A giant
nerger, consisting of the consolida
ion of 15 western oil companies writh
i combined value of $30,000,000 into
\ large California independent con
cern, was announced in New York
;oday.
PAYS RECORD PRICE
LOS ANGELES, April 13. (JP)—
Thirty-six. Yaqui Indian warriors cap
ured by the Mexican federal troops
n recent battles of Sonora, Mexico.!
were executed last week at Ortiz, ac- i
wording to dispatches received here.
PROSPERITY AND HUGE INCOME
TAX REDUCTION IS RESPON
SIBLE
WASHINGTON, April 13. (/P)—Pros
perity and huge income tax reduc
tions produced 30,295 American mil
lionaires in 1925, Which '/number is
9,000 more than in 1924 when the
millionaires totaled only 21,081.
These figures were obtained from,
the 1925 income tax returns,, which"
showed t^e United States to- be at
the peak of a wave of prosperity and
that more than 200 Americans enjoy
ed a clear income of $1,000,000 and
seven had a $5,000,000 yearly in
come, with the remainder of the mil
lionaires having their money invest
ed in property.
The toral amount returned to the
Government fell off $3,400,000 from
the expected funds, owing to an in
crease in exemptions. Secretary
Me’lon announced that the Treasury
Department had collected $516.00.000
in the March income tax returns.
EARL CARROLL EH ROUTE
TO TIE PEN COLLAPSES
GREENVILLE, S. C.. April 13. (JP)—
Earl Carroll, theatrical producer, en
route to the Atlanta penitenfiary to
serve a year and a day for perjury in
connection with a party in which he
posed a nude girl in a bathtub full of
champagne, collapsed before reaching
here and was removed, to a hospital.
KING RAUD TO LONDON TOWN
LONDON, April 13. (#*)—King Faud
plans to visit London in July accord
ing to a dispatch from Cairo. Egypt.
SPLINTS ARE BEMUD
FROM H FORD'S RIOS
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DETROIT, April 13. (jP)—'The
splints that encase Henry Ford's
ribs will be removed today and he is •
expected to have fully recovered
from the effects of his automobile
smashup, before the two weeks set
as the time limit by his physicians
for recuperation.
HWSIHTM PLACED
IS CHARGE cony
SAN F RANCISCO. Aj).'! 13. (JP) -
The affairs of Sullivan & Company
have been placed in the hands of an
administrator pending the disposition
of the $400,000 bank fraud charge*
against Sullivan. Sullivan is alleged
to have defrauded the Anglo-London
and Paris bank through alleged ma-*
nipulation of the bank’s books by two
employes.