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ALASKA PROPER
COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA
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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 9S.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1927.
PRICE TEN CEN'IS
■ Flood Relentlessly
Rolls Over Fertile
Southland Crops
FORMER ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION OFFICER
MAJOR JOHN C. GOTWALS, IN CHARGE OF OP
ERATIONS OF RESCUE BOATS, INFORMS HEAD
QUARTERS ALL REFUGEES MAROONED 0?S
CRUMBLING BIG BEND LEVEES ARE RESCUED
THOUSANDS PERSONS EVACUATED FROM
OTHER LEVEES
FLOOD WATERS SWEEPING ONWARD TO GULF OF MEXICO
Six Hundred Unguarded Convicts Establish Own Senti
nels to Prevent Black Sheep From Making Break foi
Liberty—Toil Heroically on Levees to Save Blossoming
Farms—Devastation is Spreading
NEW ORLEANS, May 16. (/P)—Rolling relentlessly
down the fertile west side of the Atchafalaya basin the
flood waters from ten major crevisses in the Bayou Des
Glaces levees drew closer to St. Mary and St. Martin par
ishes, spreading devastation on the way to the Gulf oi
Mexico. Avoyeles and St. Sandry parishes, with greer
crops of corn and sugar cane, are already submerged by
the torrents. Thousands of persons have been driver
from their home and other thousands are preparing tc
seek safety7.
CHESTNUT COLT OF HARRY
PAYNE WHITNEY CAPTURES
FAMOUS HORSE RACE
LOUISVILLE, Ky.. May 16. (IP)—
Whiskery, Harry Payne Whitney’s
chestnut colt, won the $50,000 Ken
tucky Derby Saturday. Time for the 1
mile and a quarter was 2:06. Or-,
mand was second and Jock third. In
the Pari mutueks, in which the Whit- j
ney entry of Whiskery and Bostonian
were favorites, paid $3.80 to place, and
$3.40 to show on $2 tickets. Wagers
totaled nearly $2,00,000.
TOW-BED 081 OF 15
SAX FRANCISCO, May 16. UP)—A
tow-headed boy of 15 yesterday con- j
fessed to the shooting of a gasoline
station attendant over 25 cents. A
\ companion of the boy, aged 16, admit
ted being with the quintet which
staged the shooting. The wounded
man is still in a critical condition and
not expected to live.
MANILA IS SHOCKED
* MANILA, May 16. (IP)—A slight
earthquake was felt here yesterday.
There was *to damage.
1 MAJOR GOTWALS IN CHARGE
BATON ROUGE, La., May 16. (£>)
A radiogram from Major John C. Got
wals, army engineer in charge of op
erations of rescue boats to Bator
Rouge relief headquarters, indicated
all refugees marooned on the crurn
bling Big Bend levees. Bayou De;
Galces, have been rescued. Gotwals
message said thousands of persons, in
eluding a few women, were evacuated
from the levee between Moreauville
and Kleinwood. Three hundred were
taken from embankments near Red
Fish.
ESCAPED CONVICT RETURNS
BATON ROUGE, La.. May 16. (/P;—
Working practically unguarded 60C
convicts from the Louisiana State pen
itentiary are toiling heroically on the
levees to save fertile farms from the
flood waters. The prisoners are on
their honor. The convicts establish
their own sentinel system and at night
the prisoners themselves stand guard
to prevent any black -sheep from
braking away. Only one escape oc
curred. A negro lifer for murder got
away one night, but the next day he
walked back into camp, shame-facedlv
asking for a shovel and lias been work
ing since.
FEEBLE WALL STILL INTACT
NEW ORLEANS, May 16. (/P)—Al
though it was said that Bayou Des
Glaces dike was tottering, the feeble
wall still held intact while the raging
orient surges past. Vidaria, the only
town in Concordia district heretofore
that, had not been engulfed was buried
beneath flood waters when the old
levee which had held off the river
finally crashed.
LEGISLATORS IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, May 1G. (/P)—Senators
T. D. Jensen of Nome and John Dunn
of Ruby, and Representatives Ralph
Lomen. Aimer Rydeen of Nome and
Walter Fisher of Fairbanks arrived
here yesterday on the S. S. Yukon for
a short visit in the States.
NOT ONE CASE EVER BEEN RE
PORTED LACK OF FOOD SAL
MON ON COAST
i
Juneau, May 16. (.-P)—Expressing as
tonishment that the lack of food and
' economic distress among Alaska In
, dians should be blamed by the Na
tional Board of Missions of the Pres
byterian church upon the salmon can
ning industry. Governor Parks de
clared that cessation of the salmon
■ packing would be one of the worst
, calamities that could befall the native
i population. Parks said he had been
informed of no case where anyone in
k the coastal region was unaole to ob
tain salmon for food purposes, nor any
• conflict between the whites and In
dians resulting from industrial fishing
, as stated by the church board. The
| report of the development of the can
i ning industry, the Governor declared,
had been accomplished by correspond
ing progress among the natives. Many
adult Indians have been given employ
! ment by the industry and afforded
I beneficial contacts by development of
J the Territory by salmon packers.
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MANAGE TO CRAWL TO SAFETY
AS 700 FEET OF CABLE FALLS
ON CAGE
SORANX0N, Pa., May 16. (/p>—
Ten persons were injured, nine seri
ous, when a cage being lowered into
the Johnson mine dropped sixty feet to
the bottom. Four suffered broken
legs and others w'ere injured inter
ternally. All the injured managed to
crawl to places of safety just as a
cable measuring 700 feet fell into the
shaft and crushed the cage, which
would have killed-the men if they had
been under it.
LOVE LET!EII5, MESSAGES
READ ST KELLY'S TIL
LOS ANGELES, May 16. (A3)—Love
letters and telegrams between Pearl
Kelly, charged with the murder of Ray
Raymond, and Raymond’s wife Doro
thy MacKaye, wrere read in court here
today during Kelly’s trial.
BRITISH 01IID ON
SOVIET QUARTERS
STIRS ALL RUSSIA
STREET DEMONSTRATIONS. ED
ITORIAL TIRADES, SCORES
RESOLUTIONS APPEAR
IMPORTANT PAPERS FOUND
Union, Army Units and Various Bodies
Join in Denouncing England and
Demanding Boycott
MOSCOW, May 16. (/P)—Indignation,
gathering force as the news of the
British raid on Soviet House, London,
spreads throughout Russia, is finding
expression in street demonstrations,
editorial tirades and contributed art
icles. The newspapers are filled w'ith
resolutions and protests from scores
of workers unions, army units and or
ganized bodies of every conceivable
kind denouncing England and demand
ing a commercial boycott, and empha
sizing the necessity of Russia being
prepared to use all means to resist
British aggression. Meanwhile the
government is working on an official
protest note.
COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA
LONDON, May 16. UP)—'The Daily
Mail asserts that documents which
members of the British Cabinet re
gard of the gravest importance were
found in the Soviet House. They es
tablished, the Mail asserts, a long sus
pected association between the opera
tion of the Arcos company, controlling
Russian exports and imports, and po
litical activities of the Soviet govern
ment. and furnish new remarkable
evidence of Communist propaganda
activities in Great Britain.
LONDON, May 16. (TP)—A rupture
of British and Soviet relations was
admitted by both Russia and British
officials here yesterday. The break
was nearer last night than at any oth
er time since they were resumed in
1921. The present tension is caused
by the British raid on the Soviet of
fices here Friday morning when all
of the records of the offcers were
seized. Last night men from Scot
land Yard were busy in breaking into
the huge vault of the officers in
search of evidence.
CHANGE IS LOG ALLEGED
ST BOAT COLLISION TRIAL
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1G. (/P)— j
Charges that the log of the steamer
Newport had been changed after it
had collided with the ferry boat Gold-!
en City, in San Francisco Bay and in ;
which the ferry was sunk, were made ;
here Saturday in the trial of the cap
tains. The first mate of the. steamer
Newport told how the captain had de
stroyed the log after the accident oc
curred and substituted a new record.
ARMED Bit) OF NATIVES
' STUCK U. 5. IE
WASHINGTON, May 16. UP)—An
attack on an American marine camp
at Chinandega, Nicaragua, was .made
Saturday night by an armed band of
natives who fled when the Americans
returned the fire, the Navy Depart
ment was advised. No casualties
were reported.
PARIS TO NEW YORK AIRMEN
REMAIN UNHEARD FROM;
PLANES TO HOP WEDNESDAY
MINEOLA, N. Y., May 18. (/P)—The
chances of any of the New York to
Paris airplanes getting away before
Wednesday seemed remote as unfa
vorable weather showed obstinancy
distressing to flyers.
S25,000 DEAD OR ALIVE
NEW YORK, May 1G. (JP)—Rodman
Wannamaker, who is sponsoring
Byrd’s proposed New York to Paris
flight, offered $25,000 reward for find
ing Nungesser and Coli dead or alive.
STEAMER JOINS SEARCH
ST. JOHNS, N. F„ May 16. (/P>—
The French steamer Angease has been
ordered to go to Fortune Bay, on the
south shore of New Foundland, to
make a thorough search for Nunges
ser and Coli. which were reported to
have been flying in that vicinity last
Monday. The vessel will also cruise
the west shore, where there are
small fishing settlements with no
means of communication with the
world other than by boat. It is con
sidered a possibility that the fliera
might have been picked up by fish
ermen and taken to one settlement.
THESTRES TO GIVE AID
TO VICTIMS OF FLOOO
SEATTLE, May 1G. (/p)—All ar
rangements have been completed here
by the local theatres for the big Mis
sissippi flood relief performance that
will be held tonight at the Fifth ave
nue theatre. All the local theatres
and traveling shows will contribute
their talent and the entire proceeds
will be added to the city’s Red Cross
fund for the sufferers.
FAIR COAST WEATHER
IS WEEK'S FORECAST
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16. (/P)—1The
government weather office here yester
day afternoon issued its weekly fore
cos for the coming week in which the
general forecast for the Pacific and
North Pacific coast was fair weather
and warm weather, slightly cloudy
along the north coast