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SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1927.
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 45.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Walrus Hunters
Swept Sea; Six
Survive Ordeal
ARCTIC STORM DRIVES FRAIL SKIN CANOE
ACROSS BERING SEA FROM SIBERIA TO ESKI
MO VILLAGE ON ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND—RES
CUED MEN IN TERRIBLE CONDITION—ARMS, j
LEGS FROZEN, EYES SWOLLEN SHUT AND
STARVING
SEVOONGA, St. Lawrence Island, Feb. 18. (/P)—
Swept from Little Max Bay, Siberia in a skin canoe by
an Arctic strom six starving survivors of eight walrus
hunters, with arms and legs frozen, eyes swollen shut and
their clothing in tatters, reached the Eskimo village of
Gambell, where the United States uBreau of Education
maintains an Eskimo school in the northern part of the
island, from which the story reached here.
SOUTHERN PART OF STATE IS
EMERGING FROM DESTRUC
TIVE STORMS
' LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18. (^—Sun
shine broke through the clouds and
revealed a silver lining as Southern
California slowly emerged from the
most destructive rain and snowstorm
in recent years. Although the proper
ty loss will run into several millions
of dollars the orchardists and truck
farmers predict benefit to crops by the
soaking of four days rain, which they
say will overshadow the storm dam
age.
4 Los Angeles and the beach resorts
today began creeping from beneath
the deluge and approach a semblance
of normalcy.
NOTE!—And still the weather is fine
in Seward.
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ADMIRAL LINE BOAT
IS BELIEVED LOST
FREIGHTER ELKTON AND CREW
OF THIRTY-SIX GIVEN UP FOR
LOST, NEAR GUAM
MANILA, Feb. 18. (#>)—Hope is lost
for the Admiral Line freighter Elk
ton, and her crew of 36 men apparent
ly sunk with the crew aboard near
Guam. S. O. S. calls brought the
Shipping Board vessel Liberator, but
when she arrived on the spot she was
unable to find trace of the vessel or
her boats. Four destroyers left Ca
vite to search for signs of the craft.
Approaching starvation forced the
Eskimos to leave Little Max Bay to
hunt walrus. Failing to find walrus
near shore they ventured out. They
then caught the full force of the gale.
They pulled the canoe onto the ice
the fourth night and the next day the
floe carried them to St. Lawrence
Island, although they did not know it
was St. Lawrence. Two hunters lost
themselves in a blinding storm and
were never seen again. Five suffer
ing and starving struggled into Gam
dead following a search headed by
Samuel P. Troutman, government
teacher.
CRUISER TRENTON TO BE RUSH
ED FROM CUBA TO CORINTA;._
ANOTHER FROM SAN DIEGO
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. One
thousand six hundred additional Am
erican marines have been ordered to
Nicaragua to put an end to the blood
shed and disorder that has been rag
ing In that country for some weeks.
Two hundred marines are aboard the
cruiser Trenton will be rushed from
Cuba to Corinto. Another 200 will
proceed from San Diego and a full
regiment, 1,200 strong, will sail from
Virginia aboard the transport Hender
son. The outcome of the impending
battle between the Liberals and Con
servatives at Matagulpa probably will
decide the exact use Rear Admiral
Latimer will make of the additional
forces of marines. The new detach
ments will increase the Nicaraguan
contingent fourfold.
It is the belief of observers that
the evidence of determination on the
part of the United States ito safeguard
foreign interests will -have effect.
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M’NARY-HAUGHEN FARM RELIEF
BILL PASSES HOUSE AS AP
PROVED BY SENATE
COES OIRECTTOPHESIDEKT
BILL PROPOSES CREATION OF
FEDERAL FARM BOARD—BILL
WAS DEFEATED TWICE
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. (/p)—'The
i McNary-Haughen farm relief bill
passed the House exactly in the form
approved by the Senate by a vote of
214 to 178. It now goes directly to
the President with congressional opin
ion divided as to whether he will veto
it. The bill proposes the creation of
a farm board with power to levy an
equalization fee on six basic agricul
tural commodities for the purpose of
controlling the surplus. The House
in passing the measure reversed its
position in less than 12 months, hav-,
; ing rejected the bill, 212 to 167 last
I
•spring, embodying the same general;
provisions. It also voted down the
bill two years ago with the same simi
lar provisions, including tobacco and
rice and the elimination of cattle as ;
| basic farm commodities generally;
; credited for increase. In the strength
mustered for the bill the basic com-,
, I
modifies in the measure as it goes to i
•the President are swine, wheat, corn,
cotton, tobacco and rice.
President Coolidge has opposed the
bill on the ground that it is price- j
fixing measure. This the authors of i
the bill emphatically deny, while as
serting that the Curtis-Crisp bill pro
vides for a bungling kind of price
fixing. Representative Dickinson (Re
publican of Iowa) one of the corn belt
leaders, pointed out in an interview
that the only reference to price-flx
and to prices in the Haughen bill
is the following:
“To prevent such surpluses from un
duly depressing the prices obtained
for such commodities, to enable pro
ducers of such commodities to stabil
ize their markets against undue and
excessive fluctuations, to preserve
advantageous domestic markets for
such commodities, to minimize specu
lation and waste in marketing such
commodities and to encourage the or
ganization of producers of such com
modities into co-operative marketing
associations.”
“The Haughen bill provides that
when the conditions warrant, the
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Hankow
Confirmed Fang
Troops Flee City
COUNTER OFFENSIVE IS PLANNED AGAINST
VICTORIOUS NATIONALISTS — TWENTY-ONE
WARSHIPS OF FIVE FOREIGN COUNTRIES LY
ING IN WHANGPOO RIVER-MEN READY TO GO
INTO ACTION
SHANGHAI, Feb. 18. (/P)—The capture of Hankow,
an important centre 113 miles southwest of Shanghai by
the Nationalists is confirmed. The forces of Marshal Sun
Chuan Fang, who formerly held the city, fled, and are
planning a counter offensive. Chinese press reports say
four divisions of Marshal Wu Pei Fu’s forces have been
reorganized under the banner of Ankuox in the Northern
alliance for a drive against Hankow, now controlled by
the Nationalists. -.**{
Twenty-one warships of five foreign® L
sountries, including five American
vessels, are lying in the Whangpoo
fiver here, their fighting men ready to
into action if necessary to protect
foreign lives and property should they
be menaced or threatened by the in
vasion of the Cantonese.
Four thousand British soldiers are
ishore within the international settle
ment awaiting developments. Other
British troops en route on the sea
bring the number to 16,000.
While the Northerners are prepar
ing for their offensive, indications
point to Sun’s determination to re
tain the initiative.
TEMPORARY ALIMONY CANNOT
BE AWARDED UNLESS DEFEND
ANT LEGALLY SERVED
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18. (^—De
priving Lita Chaplin of $4,000 a month
alimony, an award by the Superior
court, the Appellate court ruled that
temporary alimony cannot be awarded
the plaintiff in a divorce case in Cali
fornia unless the defendant has been
legally served. The court made per
manent the writ of prohibition re
straining the receivers in charge of
Charlie Chaplin’s fortune from making
alimony payments which the Superior
court ordered.
IS SUNDAY SCHOOL “ACE’’
COLUMBUS, Ind., Feb. 18. (£>)—
Albert Wertz is not a church mem
ber, but he has attended the same
Sunday school for 16 years without
missing a Sunday.
SOUTHERN SUITES
LOUISIANA SUFFER HEAVY DAM
AGE FROM WINDS AND HEAVY
RAINS
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 18. (IP)—'Tor
nadoes swept parts of Louisiana and
Mississippi last night, killing at least
10 persons and injuring scores of oth
3rs, leaving a trail of heavy damage
in its wake. It is reported that 14
were killed and 40 injured at Pleas
ant Hill, La., and nine killed and IS
injured at Rose Hill, Miss. Heavy
rains accompanied the storm. eRscue
workers are striving to recover the in
jured and dead. Fifty houses were
levelled at Pleasant Hill, where a five
year-old boy was killed when the wind
lifted him into the air and hurled him
back to the ground crushing him. A
negtess was* killed when her house
was blown into a lake.
NOTE—And still the weather is fine
In Alaska.
FISH KITCHENS MUST GO
BERLIN, Feb. 18. (IP)—Popular
fish kitchens, recently installed in
Berlin after the model of London,
may he alright, hut a number of
business men have launched protests
with the police* against the odor.
BLIND PUBLISHING HOUSE
PARIS, Feb. 18. (IP)—Blind men
and women at a publishing house for
the blind here put out in Braille,
books and magazines which bring to
gether, in one written language, the
sightless people of the world.