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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 82. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY. APRIL 26, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
DISEASE. HUNGER ID
EXPOSURE IS RAMPANT
IN FLOODED DISTRICTS
AIRCRAFT SCOURING REGION j
AND TAKING OFF MAROONED
PEOPLE
MEMPHIS. Tenn., April 26. (IP)—‘
As floods continued over more area to ;
add to deaths, disease, hunger and ex-'
posure, estimates of the disaster’s!
death toll for the area ranged between j
200 and 500. Refugees are estimated j
at 150,000. All available boats and air-j
craft are scouring the district to take j
a off marooned persons. Additional;
troops and National Guardsmen have !
been called to maintain order and to
patrol the levees.
BRIDGE SWEPT AWAY
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 26. (IP)
—The south half of the Missouri
i Pacific bridge across the Arkansas
river here, was swept away by the
current early today, carrying with it
trains of cars loaded with rocks'
which were placed there in an at
tempt to hold it down.
JUMP TO DEATH
MEMPHIS. April 26. (IP)—Twenty- j
five persons, both whites and negroes, j
were drowned at the heads of a small
village near Leland when they jumped
> into the flood waters to escape a burn
J ^
ing building, said a dispatch to the
Memphis Commercial-appeal from Le
land.
MORE DEATHS REPORTED
LITTLE ROCK. Ark., April 26. (IP)—
Five more deaths by drowning in
Arkansas floods are reported. Two
were whites.
BULLY FROM STATE OF
COMA AFTER LONG FIST
DENVER, Colo., April 26. (/P)—Af
ter rallying from a four-day coma
Irene Gimbel, aged 26, who has been
suffering from a 63-day fast, is able to
eat. speak and move her head slight
ly. The long fast was enforced when
she was unable to eat after a 20-day
voluntary fast.
> FIRST CHICAGO CASUM
. FROM HEAT RECOBDED
CHICAGO, April 26. (/P)—The first
Chicago causalty this year from heat
is on record here today. The victim
-was bandmaster Carles A. Mueller of
the Austin Commandery Knights
Templar. He dropped dead while
directing his band from a heart at
tack caused by heat and over exer
tion. The mercury reached 78 at
noon, the highest mark recorded so
far this year.
ONLY ONE BIDDER FOR
HREF TRACT PULPWOODi
WASHINGTON, April 26. (JP)—[
George T. Cameron of the San Fran- ■
cisco Chronicle was the only bidder ‘
for a large tract of pulpwood timber on j
the Tongass national forest, near Sit-;
ka whenthe Forest Service opened i
I the proposals.
i
SMITH’S MEMORIAL TO REMOVE j
i
! CAPITAL TO SEWARD OR AN
CHORAGE DEFEATED
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I 1
JUNEAU, April 2G. (JP)—For the]
third time the Senate rejected the1
Comptroller bill by a vote of 4 to 4. |
The Smith memorial for the remov
al of the capital from Juneau to An
chorage or Seward was defeated. The
measure authorizing legal organiza-'
tion of political parties was also de-;
I feated in the Senate. The House i
i 1
j passed 11 measures, several carry- j
' ing appropriations from minor sums to i
j i
! $30,000 for predatorv animal hunters.:
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GET TRIP TO PIS
I
ALASKA LEGISLATURE PASSES
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BOTH BILLS FOR DOUBLE THE
AMOUNT
|
i JUNEAU, April 26. (^—Besides a
j trip to Washington, a visit to Paris
j with Alaska World war veterans as j
an escort looms for Benny Benson, de-1
| signer of the winning flag that is to be-1
i
come Alaska’s emblem when the
House increased the appropriation
bill for the trip to Washington from
$1,000 to $2,000. It also increased the
appropriation for flags 50 per cent.
The American Legion escort is al
ready provided. The Territorial
Senate is expected act favorably on
the measure.
PROMINENT CITIZEN DIES
PORTLAND, Or., April 26. (£>)—
William Widgery Thomas, aged 87,
Minister to Sweden under five presi
dents, died here.
LABOR PARTY IN REVOLT
LONDON, April 26. (JP)—'The Inde
nate him for treasurer of the Labor ^
pendent Labor party revolted against
i
the parliamentary leadership of Ram
say MacDontld by refusing to nomi- ^
nate his for treasurer of their party
or appoint him delegate to the Labor
party conference.
MISS MARY CRAIG, MISSIONARY,
REPORTED TO BE FREE AND
WELL
SHANGHAI, April 26. (/P)—'The
United States auxiliary vessel Pengu
in was fired on in the Yangtse river
with rifles, machine guns and field !
pieces. Several of the Penguin’s men
were injured, one seriously.
SEARCHLIGHTS AID GUN FIRE
SHANGHAI. April 26. (£>)—Attacks
on American and other foreign war
ships by Chinese troops along both
sides of the Yangtse river continue.
Americans and Britishers, the latter
including a naval captain, were halt
ed at Rifle Point, at Wiihu and pre
vented from landing except singly, and
at considerable intervals.
Miss Mary Craig, a Philadelphia
medical missionary, captured by ban
i dits in Southern China, is reported
“free and well.”
The Nanking batteries repelled the
! Northerners’ attempt to cross the
j Yangtse in force by stealth. Search
I lights revealed the boats and they
were sunk by direct artillery fire. It
I is estimated that 2,000 Northerners
were killed.
Many Chinese were drowned when
persons burned in the Yangtse river,
a Chinese vessel carrying about 3,000
When the fire was discovered on board
the ship panic broke out and hundreds
of natives leaped into the river be_
j fore the ship could be moored and
| were drowned.
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I
! SHANGHAI, April 26. (/P)—Morris
j Schlichter, Canadian minister, and his
infant daughter, were slain by the
; Chinese who abducted his wife and
son John and an American trained
nurse, Miss Craig. The incident is
only one of the widespread outbreaks
of anti-foreign sentiment which is
sweeping China from end to end. It
is thought American marines stand
t ready to persue the Chinese if de
j mands for return of the captives are
not met immediately.
Firing on all commerce along the
Yangtse river continues unabated.
The Chinese seem to be acting with
out fear of punishment although the
United States destroyer Noa routed
Northern forces which fired on the
ship while it passed up the river in
i
the vicinity of Patchow. Rumors
persist that General Chiang Kai Shek
intends to march upon Communist
(Nationalists at Hankow. It is also
thought that the Conservative capital
will be established at Nanking and
split China into three parts.
SIXTY TRAIN BANDITS KHE
KILLED BY FEDERALS
MEXICO CITY, April 26. (JP)—Sixty ■
of the rebels who attacked the Guada
lajara train were killed in an engage
ment with Federal troops Saturday,
the War Department announced.
com NOEL DAVIS.
LIEUT. S. H. STANTON
ARE KILLED IN CRASH
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I GIANT NEW YORK-PARIS FLIGHT
PLANE, “AMERICAN LEGION”
FALLS
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va., April 26.
i(JP)—Commander Noel Davig who was
I preparing for a New York to Paris
flight, and Lieut. Stanton H. Wooster, i
his alternate pilot, weTe killed when j
the giant airplane "American Legion”
crashed near Messick, Va. Reports
said the plane apparently developed
j engine trouble, and while Davis was
i attempting to make a forced landing
i became unmanageable and fell several
i hundred feet to the ground
■ carrying a load of more than 13,000
pounds. Messages said the machine
I was badly smashed. Neither of the
'■ airmen had time to jump. The plane
crashed in four feet of water.
! GUTTER NORTHLAND
SAILS NORTH JUNE 1
VESSEL REPLACING THE BEAR
BE ACCEPTED BY GOVERN
MENT MAY 1
j -
j SEATTLE, April 26. (/P)—Captain
i
i John G. Berrv, coast guard commander
I
forthe North Pacific, advised that the
j cutter Northland, which will replace
the Bear, will be taken over by the
j government from the builders at New
j port News May 1, and will reach San
I Francisco en route north June 1.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 4, Philadelphia 12.
Chicago 9, Cincinnati 11.
Pittsburg 0, St. Louis 1.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston-Philadelphia—cold weather.
St. Louis 1, Cleveland 9.
Washington 5, New York, 4.
Detroit 6, Chicago 7. Ten innings.
LIMITED IS WRECKED
CHICAGO, April 26. (£>)—1The Pa
cific Limited of the Milwaukee rail
road, was derailed while traveling 50
miles an hour outside of Delmar. It
is thought two of the passengers have
been mortally injured.
ATTEMPT TO SECURE
MAYOR RAY DISPATCHES WIRES
TO GOVERNOR PARKS AND
COLONEL STEESE
In addition to sending telegrams to
day to Governor George A. Parks and
Colonel James G. Steese, president o£
the Alaska Road Commission, under
which department the proposed Lowell
creek improvement will be made,
Mayor L. V. Ray sent a similar mes
sage to the President of the Alaska
Senate. Bartley Howard, and Speaker
of the House, Sumner S. Smith.
The telegrams, which are telf-ex
planatory, follow:
“Seward, April 26, 1927.
“Governor Parks,
“Juneau, Alaska:
“Urgently request that you confer
with Steese concerning effort to se
cure assistance from the Territory to
cover the demand made by the Federal
government for contribution to Lowell
creek improvement. You are fully
aware of the repeal by officers of the
^liaska Railroad of the congressional
act giving Seward ten cents per ton
for commercial freight passing over
i
the Seward dock. Other towns in
Alaska have this revenue. Seward
merchants pay the tax on all goods
received but the money is absorbed by
the railroad and not returned to the
city treasury. This discrimination
would seem to me to warrant legisla
;
tive action requested in thus aiding
a government project. “RAY.”
i
“Seward, Alaska. April 26, 1927
!
“General Jas. G. Steese,
“Juneau, Alaska:
“Kindly give Bartley Howard copy
of your letter to me concerning Lowell
; creek and suggest you assist in obtain
ing unanimous consent for the intro
duction of a bill whereby the Terri
tory appropriates $12,500 for relief of
Seward under the terms of the con
gressional resolution. By reason of
facts with which you are familiar
since the year 1915 the municipality
of Seward has been cut off from all
revenue on account of tonnage tax
from the Seward dock. Seward mer
chants still are paying the same and
the money is absorbed by the railroad.
There has been sufficient commercial
freight passing over the Seward dock
since 1915 to pay the entire cost of the
glacier stream expenditure. Your as
sistance desired. “RAY.”
MYSTERY NEAR SOLUTION
CHICAGO, April 26. (JP)—The police
are nearing the solution of the my
tery clothing the death of the girl
flung from an automobile. A promi
nent man in society is said to have
thrown her from the third floor of his
house and then carried her away in
a motor car.