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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 93.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY. MAY 9,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FIFTY PERSONS REPORTED KILLED, HUNDRED
INJURED, §2,000,000 DAMAGE WHEN VIOLENT
STORMS LASH MIDDLE WEST AND SOUTHWEST;
TEXAS HARDEST HIT—NEVADA, MISSOURI,
KANSAS, IOWA IN STORM AREA
KANSAS CITY, May 9. (/P)—At least 50 persons
were killed, more than a hundred injured and property
damage of more tham $2,000,000 was the result of cyclonic
winds accompanied by downpours of rain in the Middle
West and Southwest over the week-end. The death lists
are expected to increase as additional reports come from
the storm area. Texas is the hardest hit with 25 deaths
and 50 injured in tornadoes in Garland and Nevada early
Monday. In Missouri the tornado toll is 14 dead and an
undetermined number of injured. Kansas reported ten
dead. Iowa suffered the greatest property damage. At
Hutchinson, Kas., where tornadoes swept the industrial
district and the poorer residential section the damage is
placed at $1,000,000 with one death.
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JUDGE SAYS BEST IT
ATTRACTED BY TRIAL OF ONE OF
DAUTREMONT BROTHERS, NO
TORIOUS TRAIN ROBBER
COURT HOUSE, JACKSONVILLE,
Or., May 9. (^P)—More than 100 High
school girls, attracted by the trial of
Hugh Dautremont. youngest brother
» of the “phantom trio.” were ordered
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from the court room by the judge yes
H terday Dautremont is charged with
dynamiting a Southern Pacific train
known as the “gold special” and the
murder of four men in a tunnel in 1923.
CRAIG MILLER, PIONEER
ALASKAN, DIES SEATTLE
SEATTLE. May 9. (/P»— Crate Mil
ler, aged 51, pioneer Alaskan and
president of the Hopper Cannery Ma
chinery company, and Swift Arthur
Crosby company, died Saturday. He
lived in Alaska ?>4 years. The town
of Craig, Prince of Wales Island, was
named after him.
LONGVIEW ELECTRICAL
ENGINEER COMES NORTH
LONGVIEW, Wn„ May 9. (/P)—John
C. Coates, electrical engineer of the
Longview Public Service company,
for the past four years, left for Fair
l banks to become chief electrical en
gineer of the American Smelting and
Refining company.
BOOTLEGGER QUEEN TOLD
TO OIIIT UNITED STATES
NEW YORK. May 0. (yP)-Mme.
Gloria de Cassares, formerly called
by the London newspapers the “Queen
of the Bootleggers,” but now known as
the woman without a country, must
leave the United States within 24
hours, as the Department of Labor
has refused to grant her a 15-day ex
tension.
S, S. ALASKA ON WAY
ALASKA WITH III
PASSENGERS ABOARO
FIFTY-SIX RESERVATIONS FOR
SEWARD—MOSTLY INTERIOR
FOLK i
SEATTLE. May 9. (£>)—1The S. S. j
Alaska sailed at 9 o’clock this morn
ing and carried 262 passsengers. Sew
ard passengers: Mrs. G. Valern, Mr.!
Nichols and child, Agnes Butcholtz, j
Nan Mowrat, P. Neilson, Mrs. E. Mc
Gee, J. H. Langley, Martin Knuppe
and wife, C. A. Delcin. J. R. Campbell,
R. H. Graham, A. J. Arivee, A. C.
Jorgeson, M. Weaver, H. C. Roberts,!
J. C. R. Coats, wife and son, Anna j
Johnson, O. J. Wicklander, Ray Wehr,!
Mrs. F. N. Wasky and child, Lee Hud- j
son, D. W. Philpot, D. Galloway, F. j
Boucher, D. Borrin, J. B. Heutis, Mrs.
H. C. Crook, K. Kaller, K. Mars and
wife, Mrs. A. Farstic, C. Kniblin, E.
Marshall, Ted Maxwell, A. Olson and
17 steerage. '■1 "
KESSER PLW1E
SIGHTED OFF GAPE
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PARIS TO NEW YORK TRANS-AT-j
LANTIC FLIGHT PROMISES '
BE SUCCESSFL
NEW YORK, May 9. (/P)—French
Aviators Capt. Nungesser and Coli;
hopped off from Le Bourget flying j
field, near Pars, at mdnight Sat-1
non-stop flight to New York. The New
York Evening Post says Byrd will
take oft' for Paris next Saturday if
Nungesser and Coli are unsuccessful.
Byrd says Bert Acosta will replace
Bennett who is still injured.
NEW YORK, May 9. </P)—The
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Times received a report from its cor
respondent at Sydney, Nova Scotia, I
that the “White Bird” Nungesser air-;
plane was sighted off Cape Race, New- j
foundland, at 10 o’clock this morning. '
If true. Nungesser should arrive in
New York at 8 o’clock. Eastern day
loght time. i
ALASKA STATIONS GET PERMITS
WASHINGTON, May 9. (>P)—Radio
broadcasting stations were granted
temporary permits to inclule Juneau
KFIU and Anchorage KFQD.
SEATTLE GATHER 1
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PALATIAL RESIDENCE IN UNI
VERSITY DISTRICT ALLEGED
HEADQUARTERS
SEATTLE. May 9. (/P)—In two raids,
one in a palatial University district
residence, federal agents arrested
three women and one man and seized
narcotics valued at $7,000. The raids
are believed to have broken up a
ring supplying narcotics to dealers.
The four prisoners are Mrs. Cherry
Adams, aged 28. said to be the brains
of the ring; C. M. Twohey, 26; Mrs.
Twohey, 26, and Bernice Richards, 26.
The last three were arrested in a
downtown hotel, and are declared to
be out of town agents working under
the direction of Mrs. Adams. The
Federal officers said it was known
that narcotic peddlers from Oregon.
Washington, Utah, Montana and Idaho
were frequently visiting the Adams
home. Narcotics alleged to have been
distributed from the Adams home are
believed to have reached here from
the Orient on a Japanese vessel.
ASKS STAY OF EXECUTUION
BERLIN, May 8. (J-P)—Laur Roebe,
president ofthe German Reichtag, ap
pealed to Governor Fuller of Massa
chusetts for a stay in execution of
Sacco and Vancetti, sentenced to be
executed for murder. The Gover
nor remained silent as to his action.
SEMI REIMBURSED
$10,000 0! LEGISLiTORE
In a telegram received yesterday by
Mayor L. V. Ray from Senator Bart
ley Howard at Juneau, he was inform
ed that the House and Senate both
passed the local bill, put forward by
Mr. Ray, in which an appropriation
was asked for the Lowell creek pro
ject. The bill passed included a $10,
000 appropriation to the City of Sew
ard for the local project.
FIEIIID BELIEVED BE
RUNNING AT LARGE IN
FAIRBANKS DISTRICT
MUTILATED BODY OF ROADHOUSE
KEEPER DISCOVERED TWO
DAYS AGO
FAIRBANKS,. May 9. (/P)—With the
discovery of the mutilated body of
Howard Riding, woodsman and trail
roadhouse keeper on Little Check
river, 14 miles northeast it is believed
that a fiend is at large in the woods in
this district. The coroner’s inquest
disclosed that Riding was beaten to
dath and his body kicked, trampled
and otherwise mutilated after the vic
tim was unconscious. The roadhouse
bore evidence of a terrific struggle
Riding’s arms were torn from their
sockets. An aged neighbor discovered
the body.
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Sunday’s Games
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 4-3, Sacrametno 5-5.
Seattle 2-3, Missions 10-4.
Los Angeles 1-2. Oakland 11-7.
Portland 5-5, Hollywood 4-4—seven
innings.
NATIONAL LUEAGUE
St. Louis 5, Brooklyn 1.
Chicago 4, New York 5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 2, Detroit 3.
Philadelphia 2. Cleveland 4.
New York 9, Chicago 0.
Washington 3, St. Louis 8.
Saturday’s Gomes
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 6, N$w York 4.
Cincinnati 9, Boston 8.
St. Louis 0, Brooklyn 3.
Pittsburg 5, Philadelphia 6.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 8, Chicago 0.
Boston 5, Detroit 2.
Washington 16, St. Louis 9.
Philadelphia 10, Cleveland 11.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 13, Hollywood 0.
Los Angeles 3, Oakland 2.
Seattle 2, Missions 5.
San Francisco 5, Sacramento 2.
ART OBJECTS FOR SALE
LONDON. May 9. (£>)—The Pall
avicini art collection will be auction
ed in London during May.
um Jl
'L! I Utt!U l
REQUIRED BUT HOUR AND FIFTY
NINE MINUTES TO REACH
VERDICT
NEW YORK, May 9. (/P)—The jury
deliberated but one hour and 59 min
utes in arriving at a decision and re
turned a verdict of first degree mur
der against both Mrs. Snyder and
Henry Judd Gray, carrying a sentence
to die in the electric chair.
The case went to the jury at 4:59
this afternoon after Justice Scudder
delivered his charge of more than an
hour, during which dozens of women
were overcome by heat.
ACCURATE CURTS GY
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT ESTI
MATES MARINE LOSSES HELD
DOWN- TO LOW FIGURE
SAN FRANCISCO. May 9. (/P)—The
Coast Geodetic Survey announced
that as a result of the publication of
accurate charts of Alaskan waters
marine losses from 1921 to 1925 were
held down to $481,000. Colonel E.
Lester Jones, director of the survey,
estimated that if the losses had con
tinued in the same proportion as dur
ingthe previous five years the total
would have reached $5,000,000, due to
increase in commerce.
MORE THAN TWO THOUSANO
WOUNDED ARRIVE AT HAN
KOW SAYS REPORT
PEKING, May 9. (£>)—'The greatest
[Chinese battle since the defeat of Mar
| shal Wu Pei Fu near Chin Wing in
11924 has bee fought in Southern Ho
|nan Province. The result has been in
decisive. More than 2,000 wounded
have arrived at Hankow, according to
brief report3.
GERMAN CHEMICAL TRUST
I BERLIN, May 9. (JP)—British and
German chemical industries will be
aligned in a solid front against Am
erica it was learned here. The infor
mation is from authoritive quarters
and says there is a pending merger of
the German dye trust and British Im
perials Chemicals, Ltd.