VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 272. SEWARD ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1926. PRICE TEN CENTS
Tornado Sweeps
Over Three States
Many Are Killed
ESTIMATED THAT MORE THAN THREE HUN
DRED PERSONS INJURED—PROPERTY DAM
AGE MOUNTS INTO MILLIONS—CALL FOR RE
LIEF FUNDS MADE—COMMUNICATIONS DAM
AGED OVER WIDE AREA—SEVENTEEN HUN
* DRED HOUSES BURNED
SAINT LOUIS, Nov. 27. (TP)—A Thanksgiving tor
\ nado zigzagged through Louisiana, Arkansas and Mis
souri killing between 30 and 50 people and injuring 100,
mowing down houses and disrupting communication. The
damage is estimated at several hundred thousand dollars.
The storm is apparently an intensification from a Paci
fic disturbance. The twister destroyed 15 blocks and dwel
lings and killed 15 at Heber Springs, Arkansas, a town
of 1700 inhabitants. Many homes were burned.
( MONROE, Louisiana, Nov. 27. (/P)—A tornado killed
seven when it struck a mile and a half southwest of Mer
rouge just before midnight and swept a path 100 yards
wide, crushing buildings and flattening fences for several
miles.
DEATH TOLL INCREASES
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 27. (/P)—The tornado death
■ toll reached 84 from Texas tp Virginia, more than 300 in
jured, property damage estimated at over one million dol
lars. Societies have began to raise relief funds.
TRAPPED III TUNNEL
ID WORKMEN DROWN
' EROM CLOUDBURST
BAY DISTRICT ABOUT OAKLAND,
CALIF., SUFFERS FROM
FLOODWATERS
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27. (£>)—
Ten workmen were drowned at Orin
^ da, 15 miles east of Oakland, in a
concrete tunnel they were construct
ing which flooded after a cloudburst.
The coffer dam broke and sent a tor
4 rent into the tunnel which was one of
two being built to carry water around
the Orinda hills into Oakland. The
downpour struck the Bay district and
flooded streets and basements, stop
ped street cars and automobiles and
turned sewers into veritable geysers.
Forty-four hundreths of an inch of
rain fell in 13 minutes and the fire
and police departments were busy
answering distress calls. The water
£
caught two girls on a street and
brushed them beneath a parked car
^ and nearly drowned them before ped
estrians dragged them to safety. Fif
ty street cars blocked one intersec
tion and automobiles took to side
walks. Street car conductors stood on
their seats while water covered the
rear platforms.
WILL AUCTION RUDY’S ESTATE
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27. (£>)—'The
estate of Rudolph Valentino will be
partially auctioned here today. The
portion to be sold will include auto
mobiles and real estate properties.
FLOODS INUNDATE MINES
MADRID, Nov. 27. (/P)— Floods have
inundated mines at Lacaroline, throw
ing three thousand men out of work.
DAUGHTER BORN TO MO.
MIS. 1010 BERLIN
NEW YORK, Nov. 27. (Jp)—A daugh
ter was born today to Mrs. Irving
Berlin. Mrs. Berlin is the daughter
of Clarence McKay, President of the
Postal Telegraph company, The Ber
lins were married last January.
RELATIONS BETWEEN
U. S„ MEXICO. BAD
CAUSTIC NOTES SENT U. S.; KEL
LOGG ENDS CORRESPON
DENCE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. (£>) —
While bleak official silence met every
attempt to ascertain the standing of
the U. S.-Mexican relations, Secretary
Kellogg went to the White House
twice yesterday to confer with Presi
dent Coolidge which was taken as sig
nificant that all was not well.
WASHINGTON—(Later) — Rela
tions between United tSates and Mex
ico drew steadily nearer the breaking
point yesterday. The most caustic
notes sent any government, even since
the w’orld war ended, when Secretary
Kellogg stated that it was no longer
necessary to continue the correspon
dence. He then pointed out that the
situation was so critical, that with
drawal of all relations was practically
unavoidable.
STRESMANN MAKES DEMAND
BERLIN, Nov. 27. (^p)—Foreign
Minister Stresmann demanded today
in a speech in the the Reichstag that
the Inter-allied military control com
mission be withdrawn.
HI MACHINE
GUN. J. W.BROWNING
BEGAN INVENTING GUNS WHEN
AT AGE OF THIRTEEN; RE
CEIVED MANY FLATTERING OF
FERS THROUGHOUT LIFE
DECORATED WITH MANY HONORS
Born in Ogden, Utah; Spent Many
Years in Hartford, Conn., Head
quarters of Big Plants
OGDEN, Utah, Nov. 27. (Jp)—John
M. Browning is dead in Belgium said
a cablegram to relatives received to
day.
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Browning went to Liege, Belgium
a few days ago to perfect liis latest
invention, an over-and-under double
barreled shotgun, and the message
telling of his death came from that
city. The new gun had one barrel
over the other, instead of two horizon
tal barrels.
Unlike many great inventors who
were deprived of the fruits of their
creations, John M. Browning, origina
tor of the famous machine gun which
bears his name, has been described as
“a success from the start."
The Browning water-cooled machine
gun, the .45 calibre automatic pistol
adopted by the United States army,
and the machine gun rifle, all Brown
ing inventions, were supplied to the
American and Allied armies by the
million, and played a tremendous part
in winning the war from Germany.
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ALL SET FOR BIG GAME
CHICAGO, Nov. 27. (5s)—Clear,
cold winds blew over the field on Lake
Michigan where the military naval
academies will fight their 29yi foot
ball battle. The gridiron is dry and
fast was seen as the removal of straw
and canvas began. The navy goat
and the army mule were the first to
be admitted on the field.
GIVEN MANY PRESENTS
NEW YORK, Nov. 27. (5s)—Queen
Marie had twenty boxes of presents,
when she sailed from here for home
a few days ago.
NAVY AND ARMY TIE
CHICAGO, Nov. 27. (5s)—The Army
and Navy football game ended in a
tie, 21 each, before a crowd of 110,
000.
BISHOP llli IS RESENTFUL
. OF INTERFERENCE BY VATICAN
MARLBOROUGH MARRIAGE CASE
SAYS ASSUMPTION OF AUTHORITY BY ROME BE
RESENTED BY GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE
MARRIAGE WAS PROTESTANT AFFAIR CON
TRACTED UNDER LAWS OF UNITED STATES—
CLAIMS SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS LIKELY TO
FOLLOW IN WAKE OF ACTION
NEW YORK, Nov. 27. (/P)—Bishop Manning, of the
cathedral of Saint John Divine, criticized the Roman
Catholic annulment of the Vanderbilt-Marlborough wed
ding and questioned the right of the Vatican to pass upon
the validity of “marriage between members of another
communition, solemnized in a Protestant Episcopal church
in New York under the laws of the United States.
“This assumption of jurisdiction by the Catican court
has serious implications and will be rightly resented by
great numbers of our people/' stated Bishop Manning.
CALLED UNION OF MAMMON
NEW YORK, Nov. 27. (£>)—Bishop
John J. Dunn, head of the Chancery
office of the Arch-Diocese of New
York, declared “the Catholic church
has always protested and will protest
against tyranny and selling of women
in marriage. It did seem that in the
days of making women captives and
holding them captives for marriage
had passed but tke church is apply
ing in this instance the same prin
ciple as always: ‘What God joined to
gether let no man put asunder,’ but,
i
that, at. the moment of union, it be
God and not mammon that made the
union.”
S. S. YUKON SAILS WITH 73
SEATTLE, Nov. 27. (JP)—'The S. S
Yukon sailed at 9 o’clock this morn
ing with 73 reservations. The Sew
ard listing consisted of Joe MaGill
F. Nash, O. B. Hubbard, Mrs. W. Gar
bracht, W. E. Brown, Mrs. Clara Lee:
Mr. and MrsJ C. A. Peterson and one
steerage.
ILLNESS REACHES FINAL STAGE;
QUEEN MARIE ON THE
HIGH SEAS
BELGRADE, Nov. 27. (£>)—Reports
from Bucharest says that King Fer
dinand’s condition is hopeless and-that
his illness has reached the final stage.
The situation, politically in Rumania
is reported alarming. The reports
state that Quen Marie, now voyaging
homeward on the steamer Berengaria
will stop for one day to confer with
her eldest son, Prince Carol, in Paris,
relative to the propriety to his going
to his father’s bedside if Ferdinand’s
condition should permit.
URUGUAY APOLOGIZES CUBA
HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 27. (£>) —
Uruguay apologized to Cuba for state
ments made by Alfredo Guani, Uru
gauyan delegate to the League of Na
tions which caused Cuba to order dip
lomatic representative to leave Uru
guay.
SEARCHING FOR WIFE;
DISAPPEARED FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27. (JP)—
Francis Cody, president of the New
York Trading Co., is here searching
for his wife, who he declares has not
been heard from since she left New
York for the coast.
TORRENT UNDERMINES HOUSES
NICE, France, Nov. 27. (/P)—More
than a score of houses -whose founda
tions were undermined by the Yesubie
river torrent, collapsed, killing 20
persons.
FOSTER FATHER
IS KILLED BY
FATALITY FOLLOWS GATHERING
OF DRUNKEN MEN AT
DUTCH HARBOR
DUTCH HARBOR, Nov. 27. (/p)—It
is reported that the 17-year-old adopt
ed boy of Ignaz Popoff, a native of
Biorka village admitted slaying Po
poff by shooting him in the mouth.
The United States Fisheries boat
Eider, took the marshal to Biorka
yesterday. It is reported the village
is full of sourdoughs and many are
drunk. The boy was arrested.
CANADIAN RAILWAY MEN
VOTE CO ON STRIKE
MONTREAL, Nov. 27. (^—Conduc
tors, trainmen, and yardmen on the
Canadian railways have voted over
whelmingly in favor of a strike to sup
port their demands for increased
wages.
NOT WILLIE’S FINGERPRINTS
SOMERVILLE, Nov. 27. (£>)—J. H.
Taylor, fingerprint expert for the U.
S. Navy, testified the fingerprint on
a calling card found near the bodies
was not that of Willie.