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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 77.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA,WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1927
PRICE TEN CENTS
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Casualty List Is
Over One Hundred
More Levees Break
NO SLACKENING , OF FLOODS—WEATHER BU
REAU FORECASTS GENERAL RAIN—RIVER
WALL AT CLARENDON BREAKS, SWEEPS THRU
TOWN—SCREAMS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
HEARD ABOVE ROAR OF RAGING WATERS;
, TWENTY VILLAGES LIE IN PATH OF DESTRUC
TION-REFUGEES IN TREE TOPS CRY FOR
HELP
KANSAS CITY, Ajril 20. (/P)—With the casualty
lists showing more than 100 dead the Southwest continued
to gamble on rapidly changing weather in the hope of
avoiding further losses losses from tornadoes, freak
* storms and floods. Ten persons perished in a tornado
that jumped about the Oklahoma and Texas borders yes
terday.
OVER MILLION DOLLARS DAMAGE
SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 20. (/P)—A line of squalls
that extended like visible tentacles in two directions yes
terday left 22 known dead and nine probably fatally in
jured, and more than 100 other injured. While the area in
which persons killed was small, the destruction extended
over a wide area, including Northern and Central Illinois
and part of Indiana. The damage is estimated at more
J than a million dollars
■RED RADICALS
KILLED IN CANTDN
FIGHTING; DISARMED
AMERICAN SAILOR SUFFERS
FLESH WOUND—AUTHORITIES
TAKE EXCEPTION COUP
HONGKONG, April 20. (/P)—Fight
ing and shooting throughout Canton
in which about 100 radicals wore killed
were reported in a wireless dispatch
from that city bearing yesterday’s
date, and received here today. The
fighting is said to have occurred while
Conservative forces were rounding up
and disarming many radical unionists
bv orders of the Canton government.
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MACHINE GUN SUPPORT
4 LONDON, April 20. —Details Of
the anti-Communist coup at Canton
show the authorities took exceptional
precautions to insure the foreign
quarter of Shameen against disorder.
A cordon of picked gendarmes, sup
ported by machine guns, was thrown
around Shakee street facing Shameen.
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SIGNING BIG MATCH
NEW YORK, April 20. (/P)—Nego
tiations for a heavyweight match be
tween Puv ii and he heavy
weight champion to be held the
•'.kee Stadium June 22. pro* y
will be closed today by Tex F; jrd.
TWO MORE LEVEES BREAK
.MEMPHIS. Tenn., April 20. (TP)—
Mississippi tributaries broke thru
two more levees with indications that
the floods would not slacken, the
Weather Bureau forecasting general
rain and showers. The Arkansas
river is flooded north of Little Rock.
The White river suddenly broke its
wall at Clarendon, Ark., and swept
thru the town with a roar heard above
the screams of women and children.
River craft were smashed to bits
against the buildings. Owing to the
suddenness of the break it is feared
the loss of life will be heavy. Many
are trapped in their homes with the
water from ten to 14 feet deep.
More than four inches of rain fell at
Little Rock in three hours this morn
ing. More than 20 villages lie in the
path of the flood sweeping' down the
St. Francis basin in Southeastern Mis
rouri and Northeastern Arkansas from
a break near New Madrid. The num
ber of homeless persons are uncount
able. Many refugees are in tree tops
or on the levees crying for help.
■LIE CHAPLIN MUST
ANSWER BY NEXT MONDAY
LOS ANGELES, April 20. (/P)—
Superior Judge Edwin Hahn today
ruled that Charlie Chaplin must ans
wer the divorce complaint of Lita
Gray Chaplin by Monday or lose the
case by default. The controversy in
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vo.. 's the custody of two children
and the settlement of community
property valued at $10,QQO,OQO.
INDUSTRIAL INSIICT
1CT IS POSTPONED 8T
AlftSKA LESISLATU8E
CODE MEASURE DESIGNED TO ES
TABLISH CANNERY SANITA
I
TION PASSES SENATE
JUNEAU, April 20. (/P)—'The Sen
ate passed the so-called sanitary code
measure designed to establish a stand
ard of sanitation for canneries and!
salteries. j
The House, by a vote of 9 to 7,'
adopted a motion to indefinitely post
pone the industrial insurance act which
was discussed at several public hear
ings.
WILKINS, EIELSON SAFE *
NEW YORK, April 20. (/P)—The J
North American Newspaper Alii-|
ance is informed that Captain Wil- {
kins and E. Ben Eielson, who have '
been missing since March 30 after !
I
hopping off from Point Barrow for i
a
the blind spot of the Arctic, on •
l
Marc 30, have returned safely to J
Beachey Point. *
HOOVER WILL NOT
j
PRESIDENT WILL NOT ALLOW
ONE SECRETARY TO DICTATE
TO ANOTHER
WASHINGTON, April 20. (JP)—
President Coolidge has set at rest
published reports that his cabinet is
split over the administration’s Chi
nese policy, that Secretary Kellogg
proposed to resign and that Secretary
Hoover had been selected to succeed
him. It was said at the White House
that these reports were erroneous and
it was added that even if Mr. Kellogg
resigned, Mr. Hoover would not be
appointed at the head of the State De
partment. It was emphasized that Mr.
Coolidge would not allow one secreta
ry to dictate to another how the lat
ter's department should be run. In
regard to the situation in China the
President was said to believe that all
Cabinet members were in accord on
the steps that have been taken.
WASHINGTON, April 20. (#)—No
explanation has been made by the
White House to soften the statement
of the presidential spokesman that if
Secretary Kellogg resigned Secretary
Hoover could not be Secretary of
State. Gossip persists here as to the
meaning of the spokesman. Feeling
here is that Secretary Hoover is
placed in an embarrassing position.
One view is that Coolidge is irritated
over the persistence of Hoover’s
friends in boosting him for Secretary
of State and wanted to publicly rebuke
them and not Hoover.
Years May Elapse
Prior Production
Paper in Territory
FORESTRY SERVICE RECOMMENDS ISSUANCE
OF POWER PERMITS FOR WHICH ZELLER
BACHS APPLIED FOR IN VICINITY OF KETCHI
KAN-ENGINEERING STUDIES OF PROPOSED
PROJECT MAY REQUIRE TWO YEARS
WASHINGTON, April 20. (/P)—The Forest Service
awarded the sale of 835,000,000 cubic feet of spruce and
hemlock pulp wood in the Tongass forest, near Ketchikan,
to I. and J. D. Zellerbach.
* WASHINGTON, April 20. (/P)—After announcing
the acceptance of the Zellerbach bid, the Forestry Service
said it would recommend to the Federal Power Commis
sion the issuance of water power permits for which the
Zellerbach corporation applied in the vicinity of Ketchi
kan. The Zellerbach timber bid averaged 50 cents per
cord. The competing bid of the Alaska International Pa
per company averaged 45 cents.
CONTRACT ATTRACTIVE *
The award of timber is conditional
upon receipt of water power permits,
and terminates automatically if the
water power permits are cancelled or.
failure of the company to comply with
their terms. The officials expect it
will be at least one and probably two
years before the completion of engi
neering studies necessary to the cbn
struction of a paper mill. It may be
five years before paper is actually pro
duced. Under the award development
of water power estimated required
will involve the investment of several
millions of dollars.
“Bids for this timber,” said the For
estry Service,” indicate that in the
judgment of experienced pulp paper
manufacturers the expansion of the
newsprint manufacturing industry to
Southeastern Alaska is now economic
ally feasuble, and that the contract of
fered is reasonable and attractive.
The price bid for pulpwood are 25 per
cent higher than the .minimum prices
set in the advertisement.”
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Pittsburg-Chicago— rain.
St. Louis 9, Cincinnati 1.
Brooklyn 0, Philadelphia 4.
New York 4, Boston 5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 5, Boston 6.
Detroit 8, Cleveland 5.
Philadelphia 3, Washington 1.
Chicago 5, St. Louis 7.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Hollywood 10, Seattle 3.
i Missions 2, Portland 3:
Oakland 7, San Francisco 6—ten
| innings.
Sacramento 14, Los Angeles 7.
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WATSON NORTHBOUND
I SEATTLE, April 20. (£>)—'The S. S.
Admiral Watson sailed at 10 o’clock
this morning- and carried 41 passen
gers. Seward passengers: B. Larson,
to. G. Herning and five steerage.
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HURLS CHALLENGE AT BILLY
SUNDAY OR AIMEE MCPHER
SON
VINCENNES, Ind., April 20. (/P>—
Will Rogers today says it is now all
the rage to hold a debate on prohibi
tion, it you can find a crowd drunk
enough to pay to hear it. “I hereby
challenge Billy Sunday on the sub
ject. Resolved that the talk used
for and against prohibition is wor=o
on the public morals than the drink
ing. Billy can take either side a*
firmative or negative, and at the fin
ish we will split fifty fifty, he can
take ike decision and l ♦iiis.e the ga„o
receipts. If Billy doesn't accept
Aimee I will.”
RUSSIANS, RUMANIANS BATTLE
VIENNA, April 20. (jP)—An uncon
firmed Bucharest report says Ruma
Inian and Russian border troops fought
last night with many dead and wound
ed on both sides.
Y1CHT NORTHERN LIGHT,
OWNED Of JOHN BORDEN,
PREPARES ALASKA TRIP
LEAVES GOLDEN GATE TOMOR
ROW FOR CRUISE IN THE
ARCTIC
SAN FRANCISCO, April 20. (JP)—
The yacht Northern Light, outfitted
at Alameda shipyard for John Borden,
; the Chicago millionaire, will leave on
[an Arctic cruise Thursday morning.
The craft will c’ e Arct ’ rs
picking up anything that prc.es of
teresi j Field Museum of Chica
go. Tn<. ’ ^w includes eight Chica
'go sea scouts.