COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 12.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Students Attack
Orphanage Abduct
Many Chinese Girls
STUDENT MOB ATTACKS SPANISH DOMINICAN
ORPHANGE AND CHURCH, DRIVE OUT SISTERS,
ABDUCT CHINESE GIRLS—TROOPS OCCUPYING
FOOCHOW FAIL PREVENT ATTACK—BANKS RE
MAIN CLOSED—SUN CHUANG FANG VICTORI
OUS
NEW YORK, Jan. 15. (/P)—The Commercial Cable
company advises that communication with Hankow is cut
off by interruption of all lines along the Yangtze river be
yond Peking.
CANTON, Jan. 15. (/P)—The anti-foreign demonstra
tion, scheduled for today has been postposed until to
morrow.
FOOCHOW, Jan. 15. (/P)—A student mob, represent
ing the Fukien Students union, last night attacked the
Spanish Dominican orphanage and church nearby, and
drove out the sisters, abducted th£ Chinese orphan girls
and wrecked the property. Forty thousand Nationalist
troops, occupying Foochow, did nothing to prevent the
attack. The nuns are safe at the Hanatai foreign quar
ter. The nuns and priests are prepared to leave.
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PRODUCTION GREATLY AFFECT
ED — THOUSANDS ARE UNEM
PLOYED-LOSS HEAVY
TAMPICO, Mexico, Jan. 15. (JP)—
The government has refused permis
sion to drill wells to oil companies
which do not recognize the new regu
lations. The action created a sensa
tion here. Oil men say the decision
will greatly affect production of oil in
this district, throwing thousands out
of work and causing heavy financial
loss to the companies and to local
commerce.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15. (/P)—All Am
erican oil companies operating in
Mexico will file injunction suits
against the Mexican government if
Calles cancels drilling privileges.
UNSETTLED LID IN
' MONTANA OPEN ENTRY
GREAT FALLS, Mont., Jan. 15. (JP)
—The Department of the Interior,
thru the General Land Office, has
just announced the prospective open
ing of approximately 24,000 acres of
public land in the State of Montana.
The opening will be under the juris
diction of the local land office at
Great Falls.
The lands, are defined and described
in a memorundum issued by the Gen
eral Land Office. The text of the
memorandum follows:
Montana. The official plats of sur
veys in township 8 S., R. 13 W., and
M-' Ts. 11 and 12 S., R. 14 W., P. M.,
Beaverhead county, Mont., will be of
ficially filed in the district land office
at Great Falls, on January 25, 1927,
at 9 a. m.
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SHANGHAI, Jan. 15. (/P)—The
Cantonese forces are reported to have
suffered a reverse in Chiang Prov
ince. They lost Ningpo, the last
stronghold in that Province. Sun
Chang Fang, the Shanghai leader, is
supporting the Northerners. The de
feated forces are retreating toward
Fukien Province.
BANKS REMAIN CLOSED
SHANGHAI, Jan. 15. (JP)—An uncen
sored Reuter’s Hankow dispatch indi
cated that the British banks are re
maining closed and this has created
a desperate situation. The Cantonese
government troops are demanding pay
long in arrears. The officials are
pleading for the banks to reopen. It
is reported that some Cantonese
troops in Kiangsi Province revolted
because of not receiving their pay.
DISCLOSE ATTEMPT
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION IN
DICATES TRACK WAS UN
LOCKED BY SOMEONE
LINDALE, Go., Jan. 15. (/P)—A pre
liminary investigation of the Ponce de
Leon-Southern Railway wreck last
night in which an engineer was prob
ably fatally burned indicated a delib
erate attempt was made to derail the
flier. A switch was open, causing the
engine and three cars to leave the
track. The switch must have been
unlocked by a person with a key. The
signal light was wrapped in a newspa
per and placed in a nearby sewer.
BIG YEAR FOR HAWAII
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15. (£>)—
Higher prices in Hawaii and substan- :
tial production in sugar, coffee and i
pineapples, promise the islands & vSry
prosperous year, for 1927, according
to an announcement just issued by
the Department of Commerce. J
REMARKABLE DISPLAY OF RINGi
GENERALSHIP WINS SLASH- j
ING BATTLE
NEW YORK, Jan. 15. (/P)—Rallying
from the verge of a knockout, Joe
Dundee, Baltimore welterweight,
came back and pounded out a victory
over Eddie Roberts, the Tacoma Ter
ror, in a slashing ten-round battle.
Dundee is credited with eight rounds,
but only by a margin of seconds es
caped a sudden finish in the fourth.
He was knocked down by a smashing
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one to the jaw. He was pounded all
over the ring, but kept to his feet by
a remarkable display of boxing and
ring generalship. Roberts was decis
ively beaten from then to the finish, j
SEP, DILL AMS
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MOORE OF VIRGINIA STATES
NOTHING IN SITUATION JUS
TIFYING SEVERANCE OF
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. (/p)—Dill
attacked the Administration’s policy
in Mexico and Nicaragua, and Moore
(Democrat of Virginia) asked the
House to go on record that “there
is nothing in the Mexican situation
which would justify severance of dip
lomatic relations.”
Dill said: “I do not propose to sit
silent without protest against a poli
cy which might involve the United
j States in a conflagration over the
Jand laws of Mexico, which that gov
I ernment offered to arbitrate. The
people of the United States have no
| sympathy with, a policy which pre
sumes to tell the people of Nicaragua
they must have the kind of govern
ment we want them to have.”
5. S. Him EN ROUTE
HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT
SEATTLE, Jan. 15. (IP)—The S. S.
Alameda sailed at 9 o’clock this morn
ing and carried 128 passengers. Sew
ard passengers: R. H. Hale and wife,
Mrs. P. J. Kuley, A. T. Moehring, wife
and son, L. Preg, L. L. Laska and wife,
J. J. Donovan, Murdo Hacker, Simon
McDonald, J. H. Livingood, Grace
Howe, Evelyn Greenway and one
steerage.
ZERO WEATHER IN EAST
CHICAGO, Jan. 15. (£>)—Zero
weather gripped the Middle -West.
Thousands worked in Chicago to clear
the way for traffic. The thermometer
touched 12 below zero and reached 40
below at White River. Ggeneral mod
eration is predicted.
STATE COMPLETES CASE
AUSTEN, Texas, Jan. 15.(£>)—Tin
State rested in the Norris trial.
Government to
Sell Outright 2
Timber Tracts
TG ASSIST IN ESTABLISHMENT OF PAPER MANU
URING INDUSTRY IN ALASKA—WILL PARTIAL
LY RELIEVE NECESSITY OF PURCHASING
NEWSPRINT CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND
WASHINGTON, Jan 15. (/P)—To assist in the estab
lishment of a paper manufacturing industry in Alaska
capable of producing at least 1,000,000 tons yearly, and to
partially relieve the necessity of American buying from
Canada and Newfoundland, the government has offered
thru the Forest Service two of the largest timber tracts
ever offered for competitive bidding. Each embraces
five billion board feet each.
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REPRESENTATIONS
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FRENCH AND BRITISH AUTHORI
TIES PREPARE ELABORATE
DEFENSE OF THREATEN
ED ATTACK
CANTON, Jan. 15. (TP)—The British
and French authorities have elabor
ately prepared defenses for Shameen,
the foreign settlement of Canton in
fear of the threatened attack by Na
tionalists. They are closing many un
authorized unions and instituting ar
bitrary regulations in the strike set
tlement.
IGNORE ALL CONSULS
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AMOY, Jan. 15. (TP)—It is reported
| the Foochow authorities are ignoring
all consular representations regarding
| tile treatment and protection of for
eign lives and property at interior
points.
U. S. GUNBOAT FOR SHAMEEN
HONGKONG, Jan. 15. (TP)—'The U.
S. gunboat Helena left for Shameen.
ALTER NEWS DISPATCHES
SHANGHAI, Jan. 15. (TP)—A Han
kow wireless report said that news
dispatches were altered by the local
I authorities conveying a totally wrong
impression. The situation is quiet.
CRIPPLED PLANE ARRIVES
PANAMA, Jan. 15. (TP)—The crip
pled plane New York and St. Louis
arrived, completing the first division
of the 20,00(hmile good will journey.
Dargue is expected to arrive with the
three other planes from Amapala
Tuesdty.
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS
ANTI-EVOLUTION LAW
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 15. (/P)—
The Supreme court upheld the Ten
nessee anti-evolution law today. In
an opinion on the John T. Scopes; case
and reversed the lower court’s verdict
because the judge cannot assess a
fine of more than $50.
I The sale requires the establishment
of a 200 to 500-ton paper mill requir
ing an investment of at least eight or
ten million dollars in water power de
velopment, manufacturing plant and
logging equipment. One tract is in
the northern part of the Tongass for
est, near Juneau for which bids will
be opened April 25. The other is in
the southern part of the forest, near
Ketchikan, for which bids will be
opened April 15.
RESIDING SEATTLE
AFTER TOUR U. S.
DISPOSE OF BULK OF DEER TO
NEWSPAPERS AT $1,500 PER
HEAD
SEATTLE, Jan. 15. (TP)—Fourteen
Eskimos, after playing shepherd to
125 reindeer on a tour of the United
•States, reached Seattle to spend the
rest of the winter. Thomas A. Morris
said: “W hen we reached Seattle
from Nqune we split up. I had six
deer and toured the South, spending
two months in Kentucky. All the
deer wrere were sold. Most of the
buyers were newspapers who used the
deer for publicity. We got $1,500 a
head.”
The party will return to Nome in,
the spring.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. (JP)—In,
creasing imports of furs from Si'
beria and Russia into the United
States are reported as coming
through Manchuria. An announce
ment just issued by the Department
of Commerce follows in full text;
A large amount of raw furs were
declared at the American Consulate
in Harbin, China, for export to the
United States in 1925, according to
advices from Consul Samuel Sokobin,
Mukden, China. These furs are be
lived to originate in Siberia and Rus
sia. The single item of raw squirrel
skins showed an approximate export
of 1,190,000 skins in the declared
exports for 1925 over those of 1924.