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VOLUME XXII, NUMBER 213. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LIST BF ST. LOUIS !
VICTIMS 111 TORNADO
RECHECKED. DOUBLE;
WRECKERS START WORK CLEAR.
ING AWAY DEBRIS; LABOR
PROMISED ABUNDANCE
ST.' LOUIS. Oct. 1. (£>)— Hospital
* lists of itEe tornado victims, which
have been, rechecked, indicated the
number injured is almost double that
of yesterday’s highest figure and
reached 89. A house to house convas
gave a total of 5,500 buildings destroy
ed or damaged and more than a mil
lion dollars in automobiles were des
troyed.
The total loss is close to $100,000,
000. The president of the Red Cross
said St. Louis will meet the emergency
without outside help.
Ten gangs of wreckers started work
tearing down and clearing away dan
gerous parts of buildings; overhang
ing walls- were the principal menace.
Work for skilled and unskilled labor
is promised in abundance.
■ ALASKAN WIN NOVI
IN CHICAGO, TEACHES
' BRIDGE, $1,000 MONTH
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CHICAGO, Oct. 1. (^P)—A futile
search for gold in Alaska brought Mrs.
Virginia Tubbs and her husband to
Chicago 12 years ago. Six years later,
widowed and inexperienced in busi
ness, she turned to bridge as her only ;
means of support.
Today Mrs. Tubbs earns more than
$1,000 a month teaching Chicar#>’s
gold coast residents how to play
bridge. She had learned the game
during the long evenings in their iso
lated Alaskan home. Her mastery of ;
cards now causes leading men bridge j
experts to comment her as “the only
woman who knows anything about j
bridge.”
The first few years she taught for
50 cents an hour and often had to take j
long, cross city street car rides in or
der to obtain pupils. Now her lowest
price is $10 a lesson and she never .
lacks luxurious transportation, either j
in her own car or in the automobiles
of her “students.”
Teaching bridge, she says, is much I
like educating a child. It requires in- j
finite patience, and an ability to re- !
frain from belittling the efforts of j
those who are learning.
SUNDANCE, Wyo., Oct. 1. (JP)—
Green gold is being panned at the
August Sshleichardt discovery re
cently made in Spotted Tail Gulch,
about 20 miles east of this city.
The green film with which the
minute particles of gold are coated,
is believed to come from copper. Re
cent assays of ore from the Spotted
Tail claim gave values as high as
$400 a ton in gold. The lowest value
among 30 samples assays was $30 a
ton.
TO RENEW SEARCH
j WASHINGTON, Oot. 1. (^—Presi
dent Coolidge authorized the sending
of a naval vessel to Johnson Island,
750 miles northwest of the Hawaiian
Islands, to renew the search for the
Golden Eagle, one of the lost Dole
planes.
HALIBUT FISHERMEN ARE
CONCERNED OVER LACK
OF HERRING FOR BAIT
KETCHIKAN, Oct. 1. (/P)—Halibut
fishermen here are concerned over the
reported shortage of herring bait. The
last frozen herring on (the Ketchikan
market has been sold. Prince Rupert,
Wrangell and Petersburg likewise re
ported they have exhausted supplies.
The use of herring for fertilizer is
blamed by some. A number of small
halibut fishing vessels are said to be
tied up at Petersburg for lack of bait.
LAST RIVER STEAMER OF
: SEASON BOUND UPSIMM
RUBY, Oct. 1. OP)—'The river steam,
er Davis passed thru here as the last,
up river boat of the season. Among
the passengers from the lower Yukon
was Jack Clausen, mining operator
from Marshal City bound for Fair
banks.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh, 1; Cincinnati, 2.
New York, 5; Brooklyn, 10.
Philadelphia, 2; Boston 12.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit, nothing-1 Chicago, 1-4. The
first game had 13 innings.
Cleveland, 5-4; St. Louis, 4-9.
Washington, 2; New York, 4.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle, 7; Hollywood, 8.
San Francisco, 2; Oakland, 11.
Los Angeles, 4; Sacramento, 10.
Portland, 8; Missions, 1.
CLEGHORN DRAWS
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1. (JP)—
Walter Cleghorn, Seldovia welter
weight, fought a six round draw with
“Lefty” Cooper of Minneapolis.
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INCITED SLANDER AGAINST RUS
SIA ABROAD, DECISION EX
PLAINS
MOSCOW, Oct. 1. (/P)—Leon Trot
sky, brilliant leader of the Russian
revolution, and Voyovoch, one of bis
chief-aids in the opposition fight
against Joseph Stalin and the central
communist committee, were expelled
from the communist international by
a unanimous decision of the commun
ist international.
President Trotsky was hailed before
the desciplinary committee and the
decision explained as due to the strug
gle Trotsky made against the organi
zation by means of underground print
ing plants coupled with organizing
“illegal centers and inciting malicious
| slander against Soviet Russia abroad.”
AS PIRATES LOSE
GIANTS PSHED OUT OF PICTURE;
PITTSBURGH NEEDS TWO
GAMES
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NEW YORK, Oct. 1. (^—Suspense
over a definite settlement of the Nat
ional League championship is prolong
ed again as the Pirates tumbled in the
opening game in the Cincinnati series
I while the Cardinals idle, returned to
Pittsburgh with a lead of two games.
The Giants have been pushed out of
| the pennant picture thru their defeat
| by Brooklyn. A victory for the Pirat
| es or a defeat for the Cardinals in
! either of the clubs two remaining
i games will clinch the flag for Pitts
| burgh.
TWO THOT DROWNED
TANANA, Oct. 1. (/P)—A searching
| party left for Fish lake in an effort to
find the bodies of Herbert Engstrom
and Donald Long who are thot drown
ed.
RIVER RUN CONTINUES
TANANA, Oot. 1. (/P)—The fall run
of silver and red chinook salmon still
continues on the Yukon but is gradu
! ally slowing up.
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MIGHTY “BAMBINO," THE
KING OF "SWATS," SETS
NEW HOMER RECORD
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NEW YORK, Oct. 1. (/P)—'"Babe”
Ruth improved his own standard for
homers per season by turning out his
60th of the current campaign. In the
Yanks clash with Washington he set
a new record for the past time over
his own which has stood since 1921.
The heavy slugger hit four homers in
the last three games.
SIX PANHANDLE OIL
COMPANIES ML PAYING
BIG CASH DIVIDENDS
— .. . : —
AMARILLO, Texas. Oct. 1. (/P)—
Six leading Amarillo oil companies
,are now paying out $379,750 in cash
i dividends. Prior to this time these
[six companies have already paid
'$423,750, bringing total dividend dis
bursements of these six companies
up to $803,500. These six companies,
a short year or so ago, were listed
as “development -enterprises.” Cock
rell-McIlroy is paying 25 per cent
'cash at this time. Dixon Creek is
J paying a 100 per cent cash dividend.
I Mollroy Oil is paying a 25 per cent
icash dividend.. Echo Oil is paying
[a 25 per cent dividend. Bryan Roy
alty is paying out $15,000 cash. Apex
[Oil dividend amounts to $8,500. This
brings the Dixon Creek total up to
300 per cent. Echo has paid a total
’of 100 per cent. Bryan Royalty has
[paid 30 per cent. All of these are
[cash dividends, and in every instance
the dividend is paid on the entire
outstanding capitalization of each
company.
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MAI OF CHICAGO
OUTTO BEAT FORMER
DOES NOT CONSIDER LOWDEN A
GOOD MAN TO REPRESENT
STATE OF ILLINOIS
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| CHICAGO, Oct. 1. (/P)—William
I Hale Thompson, Chicago mayor, said
he will permit the use of his name on
the Illinois Presidental preference
ballot next spring if in so doing he can
prevent former Governor Frank Low
den from obtaining control of the
state republican delegation. Thomp
son and the Governor are political
foes.
Thompson said “I dor’f think Low
man in Washington *v 1d help the
water ways or flood control. I don’t
consider Lowden a good man to repre
sent Illinois in the Presidental race.”
ON POUR EXPEDITION
j CHICAGO, Oct. 1. (£>)—Mrs. John
| Borden, Chicago society leader and
member of an Alaskan expedition
headed by her husband, brought down
a polar bear in the far north.
The party has just returned from
Wrangell Island with seven- walruses
and seven polar bears. Mrs. Roches
ter B. Slaughter of Chicago, another
member of the expedition, also shot
a polar bear.
II. $. IN DRESS BADLY
LONDON, Oct. 1, (/P)—American
girls look a “great deal smarter” than
I English girls, but American men are
badly dresed according to the conclu
1 sion of 30 girls belonging to the staff
• of a London department store 'who
have returned to London after a tour
, of 10,000 miles to America and back.
'LONDON Hi SNIPPED
LOSES HIS SCISSORS
LONDON, Oct. 1. (/P)—Andrew Mc
Kenzie, 34, is serving his fifth sen
tence for snipping off tresses of young
■women. His most recent offense oc
curred in a London omnibus and
brought him a penalty of six months
at hard labor.
McKenzie testified ht his trial that
he stole ten shillings from a man in
order to buy scissors to cut off the
hair of his recent. victim, who lost
eight Inches of a plait which she wore
hanging down her back. The girl had
never seen the snipper before.
OIL SUIT FILED
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 1. (^—Nine
teen oil operators were named in a
suit filed in court here by the state
of Texas for $4,700,000 worth of oil
and gas. The suit claims 742 acres
for the state, located in the Roxana
pool field in Hutchinson county as
serting that a vaqancy exists. The
isue is one of correctness of survey
lines.