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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 86. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 30,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
TWO FREIGHTERS ON
SEWH-INLET BOR
S. S. ALEUTIAN, NOW BEING AL
TERED FOR ALASKA SERVICE,
DEPARTS JUNE 4
SEATTLE. April 30. (£>)—'The Alas
ka Steamship company freighters Re
dondo and Oduna have been placet
in immediate service. The Redondt
will start loading Saturday and wil
sail Tuesday for Cook Inlet and Ko
diak Island. The Orduna will star
f loading Monday and will sail Wednes
day for Unalaska and Bristol Bay. Tht
Redondo, after one more voyage, wil
be placed on the regular passengei
and freight route between Seward
Cook Inlet and Kodiak. The S. S
Aleutian, formerly the Panama, a sis
ter ship to the Yukon, is being alterec
, preparatory to sailing June 4.
FLEET OF AIRPLANES
BEEN SMUGGLING IN
ALIENS FROM MEX
FLEW EXCEEDINGLY HiGH, NEV
~r ERTHELESS THREE AIRCRAFT
WERE NABBED
LOS ANGELES, April 30. (/P)—Fed
eral agents reported the capture o
three airplanes in which aliens an
being smuggled into the State fron
Mexico, and that one aviator was slio
and killed in a fight which resulted it
the seizure of two other aviators cap
t ired. Ten Chinese escaped the Fed
eral immigration inspectors. A cor
don of police is being thrown arounc
Los Angeles Chnatown to preven
their escape. Investigation had re
vealed that a fleet of planes were con
ducting smuggling operations. Tht
officers were tipped off on three ar
riving today. Although they were fly
ing exceedingly high they were spot
ted.
RECRUIT FILIPINOS FOR CHINA
MANILA, April 30. (^*)—Professing
admiration for Filipino soldiers, Gen
eral Ciiiang Kai Shek, Chinese Na
tionalist general, sought to recruit 25
experienced Filipino officers here for
service in the Cantonese army. Local
Chinese merchants have raised a fund
to pay the expenses of the Filipinos
who volunteer.
PRINCESS DROPS ACTIVITIES
LONDON, April 30. (TP)—Even the
life of a princess has its drawbacks.
The Princess Royal, King George’s
eldest sister, finds the whirl of city
life too tiring and is leaving London
after 38 years to live in the suburbs.
j ORDERS DISMISSAL OF BILL
WASHINGTON, April 30. (#»)—
Supreme court in handing down the
opinion on the long standing Claire
Furnace Company case remained it
to lower court with orders to dis
miss the bill without further consid
eration.
FUNDS FOfi COLLEGE
; INLET SHIP SUBSIDY
: PISSED BY SENATE
AMENDMENT TO INLET BILL
PLACING OPERATIONS IN CON
TROL OF GOVERNOR
JUNEAU, April 30. (£>)—'The Senate
• passed the Fairbanks College appro
■ priation for $135,000, eliminating an
item totalling $31,000: also the ship
‘ subsidy bill for the Seward Peninsu
la carrying $17,200; for Cook Inlet,
$10,000, with an amendment placing
operation under the control of the
Governor.
The Juneau-Frince Rupert shipping
bill which passed the House on second
reading will come for final action to
day. The money will come from the
. First division allotment of Territorial
road funds.
A protest was received from Patrick
Flynn of the Seaman’s Union, San
Francisco: also from the Alaska Fisher
men’s Union, against the passage of
tax bills in the House. Flynn says
- the bill is discriminatory and unjust.
DYKES DYNAMITED
SAVE NEW ORLEANS;
m LBS. EXPLOSIVE
EMBANKMENT YIELDED STUB
BORNLY — THREE SMALL
TRENCHES RESULT
IMISSISSIPPj LEVEE, Near Violet,
, La., April 30. (^P)—The dykes were
^dynamited at 2:17 to save New Or
leans from disaster. The engineers
sank 720 pounds of explosives along
a thousand-foot stretch. The mass
ive earthen embankment yielded stub
bornly. only three trenches resulting
'from the blast. The water is running
through slowly. It is problematical
whether the hole cut is sufficient to
relieve the city.
WATERS SPREADING
NEW ORLEANS, April 30. (/P)—A
widening lake of water is spreading
gradually over two deserted parishes
through three small crevasses blasted
yesterday in an attempt to save New
Orleans. During the night flood waters
cut a 60-foot gap through the banks
which is expected to widen rapidly.
BOLT OF LIGHTNING
! STRIKES Ml;
WRECKED PLANE WAS EN ROUTE
FROM PHILADELPHIA TO
HAMPTON ROADS
NORFOLK, Va., April 30. (#)—Four
navy airmen were killed by a bolt of
lightning that struck their seaplane
1,200 feet in the air sending it hurt
ling into Chesapeake Bay off New
Point Comfort. The dead are Lieut.
Victor F. Marinelli, Lieut. Geo. Leh
man, Aviation Chief Machinest’s Mate
L. E. Poyner, Machinist’s Mate Geo.
j M. Michels. The wrecked plane was
one of two en route from Philadelphia
to Hampton Roads. The other brought
news of the tragedy, which occurred
during a. severe electrical and rain
storm.
SIXTY-FOOT GAP IN NEW OR
LEANS BANK — ESTIMATED
400,000 HOMELESS
Memphis. April so. (/p>-Two new
breaks added to the steadily crescend
ing demands for relief. The Red
Cross headquarters said that over
200,000 refugees registered, which fig
ure represents only half of the total
homeless. Evacuation of every small
town in Southeastern Arkansas was
necessary when a hundred workers
lost a ten-day battle and the Arkan
sas river levee broke at South Bend.
The known death toll in Arkansas
alone is 120.
DICTATOR NAMED
VICKSBURG, Miss., April 30. (£>)—
L. O. Crosby, wealthy lumber man, has
been appointed dictator of Mississippi
flood activities here.
KIDNAPPED, THROWN INTO BAY
SAN PEDRO, Calif.. Aprli 30. (#>)—
Mrs. Anna Guklinger, mother of four
small children, is today convalescing
from the effects of cold and exposure
after her rescue from the waters of
Los Angeles harbor She related the
harrowing experience of being kidnap
ped and drugged by two men and then
thrown from one of the docks into the
water.
AIM TO HALT BORER
WASHINGTON. April 30. (A3)—The
ederal government, with five states
for allies, has taken up arms—lire
and the plow—to halt the destructive
invasion of the European corn borer.
ANNEXES LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE
MONTREAL, April 30. (£>)— Le Ray
featherweight champion of Canada,
added the lightweight title to his
laurels last night when he was award
ed the decision over Chris Newton of
Toronto in a 12-round bout.
, EARTHQUAKES AND UNDER
WATER TEMBLORS BELIEVED
KILLED SEA LIFE
DUTCH HARBOR, April 30.—Con
tinuous northerly wind3 have piled up j
Ice around the Pribilof Islands, and'
the Bureau of Fisheries ship Eider j
has been waiting at Unalaska a week ;
I for a break in the weather to deliver!
mail and freight. Two walrus were
found on the beach here. They are re-!
ported to be the first seen in this lo-1
cality and are believed to have be
come lost because of constant winds !
which carried them away from their
usual haunts. Trappers returning
here reported several sea lions and
fish found dead on the beach giving j
i
color to the belief that earthquakes
and underwater tremblors near Bogos
loff Island killed some of the sea life,
■ ■ ♦ ■ ■ .
HUDKINS SCORES KAYO
HOLLYWOOD, April 30. (£>)- -Ace
:
Hudkms, Lincoln, Neb., welterweight,
scored a technical knockout over Sid
Socklyn, also of Nebraska, early in
the fourth canto of a scheduled ten
round bout here last night. It was
the wildest four rounds of fighting
seen in these parts in many a day. j
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 3, New York 10.
Cincinnati-St. Louis—rain.
Philadelphia 0, Brooklyn 7.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 2, Detroit 5.
j New York 9, Boston 0.
Washington 7, Philadelphia 8.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGE
San Francisco 2-0, Hollywood 3-2. !
First game 10 innings.
Seattle 18, Portland 7.
Los Angeles 9, Missions 4.
Sacramento 1, Oakland 2. Fifteen
innings.
BARRON STILL WINNING
SAN DIEGO, April 20. (/P)- Darrin
Barron, hard-hitting Los Angeles ban
tamweight. continued his line of eight
straight victories last night with a six
round decision over Freddy Albin o(
Denver in the featherweight bout at
the Coliseum.
SEWARD AND ANCHORAGE RESI
DENTS AMONG THOSE RE
TURNING NORTH
SEATTLE. April 30. (£>)—'The S. S.
Yukon sailed at 9 o’clock this morn
ing and carried 333 passengers. Sew
ward passengers include: Abe Stein,
Mrs. J. Sandwick and two children, H.
Fait, Alice Child, Mrs. K. Christian
son, X. F. Mays, Isaac Jacobson, S. B.
Metcalf, Mrs. F. R. Clark, Martha S.
Schrader, Mrs. R. Zirkes, Will Clay
son, J. B. Stoneking, Win, Morrison,
J. McDonald. Roger Summy, Dave
Dunbar, J. F. Schultz, Mrs. H. H.
Clark, Mrs. Theo Rodigett, George
Kingston, J. P. Norris, M. J. Conroy
and wife, May Ross, Ama Held. Capt.
G. M. Steiss and wife, W. E. Gerhart
and wife, W. H. Carney, G. L. John
son and wife, E. H. Barth-off and wife,
H. M. Larison. Earl Stout, F. Johnson,
L. Magnothi, James Crowley, E. A.
Crawford wife and son. J. L. Wing
fired, H. J. Delong, A. Carlson, A.
Wickland, Mrs. E.' O. Lange, Mrs. G.
Swain and 19 steerage.
ALL THAT IS NEEDED
DISCUSSION OF WORKMEN’S COM
PENSATION RATES CONTIN
UES IN LEGISLATURE
JUNEAU, April 30. (/PI—Only Gov
ernor Parks’ signature is necessary
to complete Alaska’s official adoption
of Benny Benson’s design for the
Territorial flag. The signature is ex
pected to pass the House today, and
(he Senate is expected to pass the
House bill appropriating funds to send
the boy to Washington and Paris.
The Senate defeated a measure revis
ing the primary law. The House spent
six hours yesterday and last night
discussing Murray's bill increasing
the present workmen’s compesation
rates 16 per cent, defeating numer
ous amendments. The discussion con
tinued today with the bill unchanged
from the original text.
STRANDED ABOARD SHIP
SYDNEY, Australia, April 30. (/P)—
Two hundred and fifty passengers of
of the steamer Riverina, stranded
aboard the steamer since it went
ashore last Saturday near Gabo Island,
tiave been taken off and landed on the
toeach. Several vessels had stood by
in hopes to help the vessel but until
today the sea was too rough for dis
embarkation.
PLAN TO
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