FINAL PORT OF CALL FOR THREE
STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
HEADQUARTERS U. S. SIGNAL CORPS
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ALASKA PROPER
COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA
RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUUMBER 1*9.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAV. MAY 17, 1927.
RICE TEN LENTS
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ROARING WATERS SWEEP HOUSES FROM FOUN
DATIONS—INHABITANTS OF TOWN, NUMBER
ING 1,000 COMPELLED TO FLEE IN NIGHT
CLOTHES—SCREAMS OF WOMEN AND CHIL
DREN HEARD ABOVE THUNDERING WATERS
BATON ROUGE, La., May 17. (/P)—It is reported
that the main levee at Melville, La., on the west bank of
the Atchafalava river broke and that the residents were
forced to flee. The information came from the telephone
operator at Melville who said that virtually everything
in the town was destroyed. Most of the 1,000 inhabitants
sought refugee on the levees. Two relief trains are
* standing by to remove the flood victims.
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FOG OFFiCIIL MEET
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GOVERNMENT AWARE OF SITUA
TION WHICH IS AFFECTING
NATION
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NEW YORK, May 17. (>p)- -With the
support of the government already en
listed the officials of the leading oil
companies in mid-continent territory
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met in the offices of the Standard Oil
groundwork for drastic curtailment of
company of New Jersey and laid the
crude oil production, which it is hoped
will solve the problem which is threat
ening many companies with disaster.
While there was harmony at the meet
ing. no definite decision was arranged
and the parley will be resumed
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Thursday. Walter C. Teaguel, presi
dent of the Standard Oil Company ot
New Jersey, said that the aid of Wash-'
ington has been secured when he
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made known his message. He said
that the government was aware of the ,
oil crisis and it was thought that this
situation was affecting the nation’s!
entire business.
GAS PRICE RAISED
SAN DIEGO. May 17. (AP)—All but,
three of the largest oil companies !
have boosted the price of gasoline to ;
10 cents a gallon. The raise in‘price|
ordered for 6 o’clock this morning is
general up the Pacific coast. This six- ’
cent increase in price proclaimed the <
end of the battle for ETAOINUNar
by the leading oil companies for the
last two months.
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ADOPT GAS LEVY
SACRAMENTO, May 17. (/P)—State !
gasoline revenue under the new three-j
cent levy adopted by the Legislature,
which is ebelieved certain of the sig- 1
nature of Governor Young, will ag
gregate approximately $24,000,000 per <
year, it was estimated today bj’ finan-1;
cial experts.
■ The scene that followed the break
| was described by Mrs. Julia MacNeill,
wife of a Melville druggist. She was
the first refugee to escape. Everyone
was roused by a shot fired by the
levee guards, and rushed from their
homes in their night clothes. She
said: “They scrambled up on the
levees, where they waited for boats.
They saved absolutely nothing. Most
of them did n ot have time to get any
clothes. The waters rushed through
the break with a roar, swept away
houses from their foundations, lift
ing them up and tossing away heavy
boards and timbers like feathers. In
termingled with the roar of waters
could be heard the screams of wo
men and children. They sat on the
levees of the river bank crying and
shivering. It was dreadful. The shots
may not have aroused everyone. I
do not know, but I am afraid that peo
ple whose homes were near the cre
vasses may have lost their lives."
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REOPENING OF ENSIGN M’SHANE
CASE ORDERED BY SECRE
TARY WILBUR
LOS ANGELES. May 17. (/Pj—Evi
dence of foul play uncovered by a
Baltimore physician and an undertak
er of Redwood City, Md., yesterday
were revealed as important factors in
the reopening of the inquiry into the
death, last October, of Ensign Mc
Shane, following a party at the Yacht
Club at San Pedro. The reopening of
the investigation was ordered by Sec
retary of the Navy Wilbur.
COOLIDGE BACK AT DESK
WASHINGTON, May 17. (#)—Presi
»
dent Coolidge returned to his desk af
ter he spent yesterday in bed with a
cold on his chest. He will deliver an
address before the American Medical
Association tonight.
PLANS MAKING ANOTHER AT
TEMPT EXPLORE BLIND SPOT
IN THE ARCTIC
FAIRBANKS, May 17. (JP)—Capt.;
G. H.. Wilkins will return to Point
Barrow from Fairbanks late this week
in another attempt to explore the Arc
tic blind spot, he announced while pre
paring the Fokker plane “Alaskan” for j
a flight. He flew here Saturday from
Kotzebue. The explorer plans to flyj
in a northeasterly direction from Point'
Barrow over territory hitherto unseen J
by white men. He will be accompa-'
nied by Alger Graham, pilot, while
E. Ren Eielson will remain ht*re for
treatment for frosted hands. The
plane “Alaskan” will replace the De
troit News No. 1 while on the trip
over the ice.
REVOLUTIONISTS LACK CAPABLE
LEADERS
PROBLEMS CON
FRONTED
MEXICO CITY, May 17. (^—Pres
ident Calles delared the present revo- j
lutionary movement in Mexico is ab-1
solutely unpopular and lacks capable j
leaders. The government, he added, ■
is confronted with two problems in
this connection—the local Yaqui up
rising in the State of Sonora and sev
eral gangs of Catholic extremists head
ed by Catholic priests in the State of
Jalisco. But, he said, these gangs!
never controlled a Zone, city or town
in the State of Jalisco.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 6, Detroit 2.
Philadelphia 10, St. Louis 8.
P.oston 2, Chicago 5.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis, 2, Philadelphia 1.
No Coast League games scheduled.
MSYTERIOUS KILLING IN
HOME OF N. y. NOVELIST
WILFRED IRWIN, NOVELIST, IS
KILLED IN UNEXPLAINED
MANNER
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WILLIAMTIC, Conn.. May 17. (JP)
—Wilfred Irwin of New York was shot
in an unexplained manner at the home i
of Leonard Clane, playwright and nov
elist, and died in St. Joseph’s hospital.
Efforts were made to save his life
earlier in the night when Clane gave
a pint of his blood in a transfusion
operation which failed.
NO TIDINGS OF NUNGESSER
NEW YORK, May 17. (/P)—After a
week of search, hope and rumors the
world today knew as much of the fate
that has befallen the French aviators,
Nnugesser and Coli, as it did May 9,
when the aviators failed to reach New
York. The principal hope left is that
they were picked up by a fishing boat.
ATTEMPT OF U. 3. TO
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LIBERAL LEADER ASSAILS
SONAL REPRESENTATIVE
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
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PUERTO CABEZAS, May 17. (£>)—
In a statement Or. Juan Sacasa, head
of the Liberal government, asserted
that Henry L. Stimson, personal repre
sentative of President Coolidge in
Nicaragua, instead of an investigation
of the real situation appears to have
been sent to Nicaragua for the express
j purpose of ramming down the throats
I of the Nicaraguan people the presi
^ dency of Adolfo Diaz. He expressed
j the fear that disarming of the Lib
j eral troops by United States marines
i would result in bloodshed. He assert
| ed that such bloodshed would only be
! caused by the attitude of the Ameri
| can government.
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YET TO BUCK U
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WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
MEMBERS HOPE TEAR DOWN
TARIFF WALLS
j GENEVA, May 17. (/P)—Speakers
at the world economic conference
showed definitely that a resolution
will probably be passed aiming to tear
! down the tariff walls, which it is con
ceded has militated against the eco
nomic recovery of Europe and im
periled the prosperity of all the conti
nent. The Swedish representatives
I have suggested a covenant be signed
i
| by the League members under which
each nation would be compelled to
give a warning of tariff changes.
Practically all economists at the con
ference have warned that Europe is
not yet ready for trust formation and
that Europe can not yet line up eco
nomically against the United States.
PITS IDf OF WOMAN
WITH SHOE BLACKING
LONDON, May 17. (JP)—Sir Gerard
Maxwell Williams was arrested on the
sensational ,cha.r!ge btjought against
him by a young woman. She alleged
he took her on an automobile ride,
then overpowered her and painted her
body with shoe blacking.
OF DEPUTY SHERIFF
ALBERT BROWNLEE PRONOUNC
ED DEAD 16 MINUTES AFTER
TRAP SPRUNG
SALEM, Or.. May 17. (/P>—Albert
Brownlee, World war veteran, was
hanged in the penitentiary for slay
ing Eston Hooker, deputy sheriff of
Lane county February 27. Brownlee
was pronounced dead 18 minutes af
ter the trap was sprung. Hooker was
a member of a posse searching for
Brownlee following the robbery of a
pool hall at Veneta and the shooting
of John Maddaugli, proprietor.
ms DEBT OF 75C
CHECK FOR $20.40 I
BY GROCERYMAN
VANCE
RECEIVED
FOR AD
OGDEX. Utah. May 17. (/R)— Fifty
years ago Amos H. Gotschall of Har
risburg, Pa., was broke in Ogden. He
borrowed 75 cents from Alfred Lowe,
then a young man conducting a fruit
stand at the Union station here. A
few weeks ago he. recalled the loan
and wrote to Thompson Corn, agent,
asking as to Lowe or his heirs. Corn
turned the letter over to the newspa
pers and a score of persons immedi
ately came forth with information.
One of these was Alfrd Lows. son. A.
F. Lowe, grocer, who wrote to Cot
schall. On Thursday Corn received a
check for $20.40 which Gottschall said
represented principal and interest on
the loan of 75 cents.
LOUIS LERCARI ARRESTED—AL
LEGED TO HAVE BEEN INTOX
ICATED
BERKELEY, Calif.. May 17. f.d5)—A
■warrant for the arrest of Louis Leoari,
who is charged with manslaughter as
a result of a crash in which one of the
University of California co-eds was
killed, and three others were serious
ly injured will be asked. Lecari is
said to have been intoxicated and col
lided with a street car -while going at
a high rate of speed. It is said he
disregarded all protests of. his passen
gers, whb told him to slow down and
not to be so reckless.
COOLIDGE HAS COLD
WASHINGTON. May 17. (^—Presi
dent Coolidge was forced to his bed
this afternoon with a cold which is
described as slight by his physician.
There is no temperature and the pulse
is normal with cold in the chest. The
physician suggested that Coolidge go
to bed and rest.