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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 60. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Great Reservoir Crumbles
• Suddenly Unknown Cause
Estimated 400 Perished
THEORY MOST CREDITED IS THAT SEEPAGE
THROUGH ABUTTING HILL CAUSED A SUP
PORTING END TO GIVE WAY—DAM WAS 185
FEET HIGH BACKED BY SHEET OF WATER
FIVE-MILES LONG—THOUSANDS DEPUTIES
AND RESERVES SEARCHING WATERS FOR
BODIES.
St. Francis dam gave way at midnight, last night—150
employes of Water and Power Bureau thought lost—
mass of water, 75 feet high, swept all before it for
distance five- miles.
NEWHALL, Calif., March 13. (A5)—William Bright,
in charge of the sheriff’s squad in the police rescue work
in the St. Francis dam; estimated between 200 and 500
persons lost their lives when the dam went out shortly
after midnight. *
ALL EMPLOYES DEAD BUT ONE
LOS ANGELES, March 13. (/P)—The Water & Pow
er Bureau received a report that 150 men employes of the
Bureau in the camp at Kemp all perished except one man. j
Bright sent 600 deputies into the district to preserve
order and to aid in the rescue work.
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BERING SEA SI
COURT OF APPEALS UPHELD ONE
’PART DECISION RULES AND
REVERSES ANOTHER
SAX FRANCISCO, March 13. (>P)—j
The United States Court of Appeals j
upheld one part of the decision of;
George Bourquin, Judge of the Feder-j
al District Court, and reversed him in i
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another case, at the issue of the right
of ship owners to bring suit against
the Government for prohibiting hunt
ing of seals in the Bering Sea in 1889
to 1892. .
The District Court ruled the owners
of 24 ships have not showm Govern
ment interference but the Circuit
Court ruled interference is shown in
seven of the 24 cases of suits involv
t inS 11.000,000..
SWEEPS EVERYTHING IN PATH
A mass of water, 75 feet high, pour
ed down the canyon from the dam to
Harry Cary’s ranch, five miles below
! the dam, literally gouging out every
I thing before it. The dam itself was
i
185 feet high and backed up the be
hind the dam was a sheet of water
five miles in length.
THOUSANDS OF POLICE
NEW HALL, Calif., M\rch 13. (/P)—
What caused the retaining parapet of
the great reservoir of the Los Angeles
city water system to give way sudden
ly was a mystery as the dead lay
buried beneath a deep covering of yel-1
low sand which carpets the pretty;
little valley.
Thousands of Los Angeles police
men have been sent into the district
while thousands of officers and vol
unteer ranchers and farmers slushed
thru the waters searching for bodies.
Officials, who survived the broken j
dam, are of the theory, and which is
most credited, that there was a seep
age thru the abutting hill which caus
ed one of the supporting ends to
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VIEWS EXCHANGED
BRAND ASSAILS HOOVER AND
PREDICTS WILL BE ROUTED
ON APRIL 24
WASHINGTON, Mar. U. (Jp)—Th(}
possibility of Vice President Dawes or
I
, Frank Lowden profiting as Presiden
1 tial candidates from the itolitical fued
t
in Ohio between Senator Willis and
Herbert Hoover was suggested on the
floor of the House by Representative
Brand, one of Willis’s men. Hoover
and Willis have entered in the Ohio
primaries, but not Lowden nd Dawes.
Some of Willis’s candidates for
delegate have signified the former
j Illinois governor as second choice;
i some are dose friends and known ad
mirers of Dawes who declared he is
1
not a candidate.
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i Brand assailed Hoover and predict
I ed he will be routed in the April 24
voting. He said the opposition to
Willis is “especially wets who flocked
to Hoover hs soon as he came to Ohio
as a candidate. Those who are op
posed to Willis are not satisfied with}
Hoover and are looking around. They!
are beginning to see that the nomina
tion of Dawes or Lowden might be j
achieved by voting for Willis.”
! NEW YORK, Mar. 13. (Jp)—Johnny
I Risko cuffed and clouted his way to
a surprising but a decisive victory
over the subdued Boston sailor Jack
Sharkey in a 15 round mauling match.
While a crowd of barely 10,000 look
• ed on the big rough and tumble man
| from Celevland bettered Sharkey out
of the heavyweight elimination tourna*
ment with his awkward but tireless
and frequently effective, attack.
SENATE SUMMONS 0.0. P.
MEN BARE OIL BEAL
WASHINGTON, Mar. 13. (/P)—Com
mittee investigating the Continental
Trading Company profits, which in i
the form of Liberty bonds found their >
way into the Republican National
campaign fund, summoned trustees:
| of the Pratt estate and Irl Hipsley,!
j associate of the late Fred Uuham, pro. j
: minent Republican leader, to testify |
It was hinted that the committee
| might go to Chicago to quiz Julius
Rosenwald and a score of more Chi
cagoans whose names came to light
a scontributors to the Republican cam- i
I
paign fund in 192Q»
RESIGNATION OF
MELLON SHOULD BE
MELLON KNEW DEAL WAS
CROOKED, DECLARES SENA
TOR AUTHOR RESOLUTION
j WASHINGTON, Mar. 13. (/P)—Sen-j
ator Norris, author of the resolution'
under which the Teapot Dome Com- ■
mittee is working, declared President j
Coolidge should demand the resigna
tion of Secretary Mellon because of
his failure to advise the investigators !
that Will Hays had sent part of the
Sinclair bonds and declared “Mellon
knew this was a crooked deal. He
should have advised the committee of |
the conversation Hays had with him j
on the .matter.'’
BUTLER TESTIFIES
HAYS INSISTS INFORMATION WAS
IRREVELANT SO HAD SAID
NOTHING
WASHINGTON, March 13. (>P)—Wil
liam Butler' chairman of the Republi
: can National Committee, testified in
| the Senate investigation that Will H.
i Hays met him late in 1923 in New
| York and attempted to have him ac
| cept a package which Butler said he
I was told contained S25,000 in bonds,
j Butler said he turned down the pro
i position flatly.
He testified Hays asked him to give
the $25,000 as a contribution toward
wiping out the 1920 deficit and did not
disclose from whom the bonds cam&
from. Butler said the package was
I not opened and Hays took it away
i with him.
I
Hays testified he sought to have
Secretary Mellon and Butler accept
the bonds from him and in their stead
contribute toward wiping out the com
mittee’s 1920 deficit.
| Mellon had told the Committee he
j knew the bonds offered him had come*
from Sinclair after his lease of the
' Teaik>t Dome. Butler said wThen Hays
^ approached him he did not disclose
the bonds had come from Sinclair.
When asked why he had not_ dis
closed the transaction with Mellon and
Butler in testifying before the Com
mittee on March 1., Hays insisted the
information wras irrelevant.
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The Democratic Presidential candidate for 1928
Albany, N. Y.—Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York.