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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 105.
SEWARD. ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Noted Railroader
Henry Huntington
Dies In California
PHILANTHROPIST W A S INTERNATIONALLY
KNOWN AS BOOK AND ART COLLECTOR—AT
ONE TIME FINANCIALLY INTERESTED IN
MORE THAN FORTY RAILROADS—BORN OF
PROMINENT AND WEALTHY PARENTS
PHILADELPHIA, May 24. (/P)—Henry E. Hunting
ton, railroad executive and philanthropist of California,
died in a hospital here. He was also internationally
known as an art collector. He was 77 years old and had
been in the hospital since May 4 and undergone an opera
tion.
LUST DRY SPOT IN
THE "SUGAR BOWL"
NOW THREATENED
THOUSANDS SEE THEIR WORK
GO FOR NAUGHT WHEN LE
VEE CRUMBLES
NEW ORLEANS, May 24. UP)—1The
last dry spot in the famous Louisiana
“Sugar Bowl" is threatened with im
mediate inundation through a break in
the levee at McCrea, on the west bank
of the Atchafalava today. Two thou
sand men, augmented by an additional
thousand, tins morning saw their work
go h). naught when the waters rushed
through parts of five parishes. Fif
teen hundred persons evacuated. Of
ficials estimated that the McCrea
break would affect SO.000 people,
fllooding 1.142.000 acres of rich cane
lands.
HURRICANE IN ITALY
ANCONA. Italy, May 24. (JP)—A
storm of hurricane proportions swept
suddenly out of a clear sky taking a
heavy toll of life in the fishing fleet
outside the harbor. Five boats are
known to have been wrecked with the
loss of ten lives.
TREACHEROUS TIDE DIP
SANTA BARBARA. May 23. (/P)—
Leslie Brown aged 14. of Newhall, and
Charles Bowers, aged 15, of Glendale, J
were drowned when caught in a
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treacherous tide rip six miles above
Ventura on the Rincon beach today.
Thelma Brown, 18, sister of one of
the boys, was saved by Enos A. Diaz
of Santa Barbara, who sprang from his
car and rescued her from the surf.
Hundreds of people on the beach wit
nessed the drowning. The bodies
have not been recovered. /
■ in many respects me career or
Henry Edwards Huntington in the
railroad world was simiLar to that ot'
his famous uncle. Collis P. Hunting
ton. who was among the first of the
country’s big railroad men and a
pioneer in the idea of transcontin
ental railroad traffic. The most
marked contract between the two
men was that ColLis P. Huntington
was primarily a railroad builder,
while his nephew, whom he started
in the railroad business, became o: e
of the country’s most successful of
railroad directors.
Although of a family that had won
lame and fortune in railroads and
born February 27. 1850, in the rail
road city of Oneonta, N. V., Mr.
i Huntington did not incline toward
railroading when he was ready to
enter business. After an education
in public and private schools in One
onta he went into the hardware busi
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SPOKANE, Wn„ May 24. (TP)—It’s a
wise child that knows his father and
possibly it’s a wise wife who knows
her husband. A woman 44, mother of
a nine-year-old child, reported to the
police today that she believes a strang
er posed as her husband and for days
in her home here. She said the boy
felt that the man was not his father.
The woman said that the supposed
stranger looks very much like her hus
band, wears the same sort of clothes
and has a very similar voice. The
police are investigating the case.
i
NEWTON, N. J„ May 24. (#>)—Mrs.
Sadie Raser was sentenced to 35 years
imprisonment on ^hree indictments
involving her with the murder of her
husband, Edward Raser.
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SOLO IT ST. LOUIS
F
PRICES UNDER LAST YEAR—DE
CREASE ATTRIBUTED TO GEN
ERAL DECLINE OF FUR
ST. LOUIS. May 24. (/Pj— Fifteen
thousand seal skins sold at auction for
the United States government at the
International Furj Exchange at prices
! averaging 25 per cent less than those
prevailing at tlte last semi-annual
I
| auction sale. The total half a million
S dollar decrease was attributed to a
I general decline in fur prices, and
I prompted New York buyers to predict
increasing popularity for seal-skin
garments because of the lower price,
j Fifteen hundred skins classed as log
I wood brown sold 15 per cent higher
jthan the previous sale because of the
[rarity of this type. The average
I price of black skins was $31.13; for
brown, $49.17, with the top §65 lor
both.
FOG COMPELLS COMMANDER TO
DESCEND—NOW BEING TOW
ED TO HORTA
BUENOS AIRES. May 24. (£>)—
Wireless advices from Lisbon to La
| Nacion said De Pinedo landed 150
I miles from the Azores because of fog,
and the machine is being towed to
Horta by tug.
SUFFERED NO INJURY
LISBON, May 24. (/P)—A radio re
i ' ' !
! ceived directly from De Pinedo stated
. he wasi being towed to the Azores and;
tneeded no further assistance. The
commander suffered no injury in the
descent of his plane to the sea.
SUN KEEPER ‘SQUEALS'
BODY FINALLY FOUND
CHICAGO, May. 24. (/p)—The police j
here have learned that the saloon!
i
keeper who disappeared last January,!
and whose body was found last night,
had planned to turn State’s evidence;
in the liquor graft probe now under j
way here.
SOCIETY WOMAN TO WED
WASHINGTON, May 24. (£>)— Grace
Vanderbilt, daughter of the Cornelius
Vanderbults will be wed to Henry
Casaway Davis, III., this summer, ac
cording to announcements made here
yesterday.
DESTROYER FOR LINDBERGH
WASHINGTON, May 24. (£>)—A
naval destroyer was placed at the com
mand of Lindbergh for his return to
the United States.
SEADBIESIPOSED
AS HAIG STATIONS
IN ATLANTIC OCEAN
TEST WORK TO BEGIN WITHIN
SIXTY DAYS—PROVED WORK
ABLE
PHILADELPHIA, May 24. (/P)—The
Public Ledger says the announcement
is made by Edward R. Armstrong of
Wilmington, Del., that work will be
started within 60 days on the test of
a seadrome landing field to be an
chored in the Atlantic ocean as a sta
tion for trans-Atlantic airplanes. Arm
strong is an official of the Dupont
Powder company and inventor of a de
vice, is quoted as having said that
small models already have been prov
ed workable, and plans are under way
for the formation of a trans-Atlantic
flying organization. He intimated the
organization might be headed by
Lindbergh.
BASEBALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 2, Washington 3.
Detroit 4, Cleveland 9.
Detroit 7, Cleveland 5.
Chicago 4, St. Louis 1.
Only games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburg S, Cincinnati 5.
Brooklyn 1, Philadelphia 7.
Only games played. No Coast
League games played.
LOS ANGELES. May 24. (;P)—Mrs.
Sarah Kerrick, between sobbing and
fainting spells on the witness stand
here denied she fired the shots which
killed her husband, Tom Kerrick, Wes- '
tern film player, and declared the gun
was accidentally discharged during a {
scuffle. Mrs. Kerrick and four other j
members of a drinking party in Hoi-1
lywood the night of April 19, are 1
charged with Kerrick’s murder.
ATTEMPT MU TO SHOOT
BISMARK, N. D., May 24. (£>)—A 1
bullet fired through a Avindow of the s
executive mansion here narrowly i
missed striking Governor A. G. Sor- <
lie, it was revealed at his home today. 1
The reason for the attempt on the s
Governor’s life is not known. 1 f
MILK SUPPLY BELIEVED SOURCE
OF SICKNESS—TWO DAIRIES
CLOSED
MONTREAL, May 24. (/P)—Although
the city health officials declared that
the typhoid epidemic here was under
control late in April, in the past two
weeks there has been nearly 1.400
new' cases. This is more than half
the number reported between March
4, when the epidemic first became
acute, and last April. There were 29
deaths since March 4. City officials
believe they have found the source
of the epidemic in the milk supply of
two dairies whose business they sus
pended.
VIEWS ARE EXCHANGED WITH
GREA BRITAIN AND JAPAN ON
ARMS LIMITATION
WASHINGTON. May 24. (/P)—1The
United States, Great Britain and Jap
an exchanged views on the arms limi
tation policy here yesterday and it is
understood that the United States will
stand for the construction of big
cruisers for sea duty. ’
The United States also voiced its
iisapproval of scrapping the cruisers
now building, which will be more than
10,000 displacement w'hen finished.
STEEL OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT
NEW YORK. May 24. (^—Speak
ing at a meeting of American iron and
steel workers Elbert H. Gary, chair
poration, predicted a good volume of
man of the United States Steel Cor
jusiness for America and declared op
portunities were greater now than
iver before.
WIFE FAINTS, HUSH
DIFS SUCCESSFUL SUICIDE
ARBUCKLE, Calif., May 24. (JP)—A
vife lost a ghastly battle with death
iere when she fainted over the sight
>f her 38-year-old husband hanging
limself. She was unable to stand the
ight long enough to cut the rope by
rhich he was hanging and he was
lead when she revived and secured
Lelp. Her husband, a banker, was not
hort in his accounts and no reason
or the suicide is revealed.
OF SIXES” WEDNESDAY