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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 96. 1
SEWARD. ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
" GOVERNOR PARKS AND SECRETARY
SPRING SURPRISE ON WICKERSHAM
BY ENTERING SUIT AS INTERVENORS
I
ATTORNEY GENERAL, REPRESENTING TERRI
TORY, REFUSED ARGUE QUESTIONS OF LAW
IN INJUNCTION SUIT AGAINST GOVERNOR,
SECRETARY AND TREASURER BECAUSE BE
LIEVES WITH PLAINTIFF
JUNEAU, May 13. (/P)—Governor Parks and Secre
tary Thiele cam ediretly into the injunction suit brought
by James Wickersham against Waldstein Smith, Treas
urer being given permission to file complaints of interven
tion against the issuance of a permanent restraining order
against certain appropriations made by the recent Legis
lature. Theplaintiff strenuously opposed the admission
of Hellenthal and Hellenthal to represent the intervenors.
Judge Reed overruled the objections and took the demur
rers entered under advisement.
Attorney General Rustgard opened the debate, speak
> ing on the demurrer as representing the Treasurer, but
stated that he was not going to argue any questions of law;
because his office had at various times taken a position
% not far different from that of Wickersham.
TREMENDOUS FLOOD
BIG BEND LEVEE
SUGAR BOWL COUNTRY OF LOU
ISIANA IS JEOPARDIZED BY
BREAK
BATON’ ROUGE, May IT (^—Tre
mendous pressure of the greatest Mis
^ sissipi river flood in history finally
broke down the Big Rend levee at
Moreauville on Bayou Des daises
levee. From Arkansas through cre
vases. On the west bank of the Miss
issippi. whicli has already blanketed
13 Louisiana parishes, for the past
week more than a thousand workers
laborer night and day to strengthen
^ the embankment.
John Parker, Louisiana flood direc
tor. said 25,000 people and 60,000 acres
in the immediate vicinity of the bayou
will lie affected as the waters from
the break run through Atchafalaya
basin into Grand Lake and through it
to the Gulf of Mexico. A thousand
more people will be driven from their
homes. Nearly a million acres are in
undated and the flood is expected to
break down the levees on the Atcha
falaya river and cause the spreading
of that stream’s swollen waters over
a huge and thickly populated region
jeopardizing more than 100,000 people.
The region is the “sugar bowl” of Lou
isiana, where practically all suger
cane in the country is grown.
REFUGEES COMPELLED FLEE
BATON ROUGE, May 13. (/P)— Prac
* tic-ally all refugees fled with only their
clothing they were wearing. Most of
them were men who were working on
the levees two days ago. They strip
ped themselves to shirts and trousers
while working in the hot sun conse-1
)
quently many reached Torras badly
jk, chilled and suffering from exposure.
The belief is expressed that this might
cause illness and boats are instructed
to lend all possible aid.
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1 Rustgard said Wickersham would
probably raise the issue, and permit
ted J. A. Hellenthal, who appeared for
the Governor, Secretary and Treas
urer, to argue these points. Hellen
rha 1 claimed that the legislative appro
priations were within the legal limit
and that Congress placed no limita
tions upon the Legislature which
would tend to obstruct its usefulness.
He pointed out that ihe Territory
would practically cease to function as
far as executive administration is con
cerned if the restraint sought were
granted, and that the. appropriations
attacked were virtually of the same
form and substance as similar items
provided by past Legislatures, were
legally sound and that no question
of fraud or graft was involved.
ARGUMENTS COMPLETED
JUNEAU, May 13. (7P)—Arguments
in the injunction suit of James G.
Wickersham against Treasurer Smith
were completed late yesterday after
noon. Wickersham contended that
the civil government act by which
Congress created the machinery of the
Alaska government does not give the
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Legislature authority to make appro
priations for the maintenance of the
Governor and Secretary’s office and
certain of its own expenses.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Los Angeles 14, Sacramento 6.
Seattle 4, Hollywood 0.
Portland 9, Missions 3.
San Francisco 3, Oakland 4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 4, Philadelphia 1.
Cincinnati 3, Brooklyn 6.
St. Louis 2, New York 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 4, St. Louis 3.
Washington 4, Chicago 5.
Philadelphia 7, Detroit 9.
Boston-Cleveland—rain.
CHURCH 10 MIX
IN ALASKA POLITICS
IN MAY ASSEMBLY
SERIOUS ECONOMIC AfND DIS
TRESS SITUATION FACING AL
ASKAN INDIANS
NEW YORK, May 13. Di
minishing game and the organiza
tion of salmon Ashing by large can
neries have deprived the natives of
Alaska of food and caused serious eco
nomic distress according to the Pres
byterian National Missions board,
whose annual report will be read in
the general assembly in San Francis
co in two weeks and which will urge
that the church be allowed to act as
mediator in the eonAict between the
natives and whites resulting from this
condition. The report points out that
the church is giving training in agri
cultural methods.
LUXURIOUS POOR HOUSE
ABERGAVENNY, Wales. May 13
{JP)— \ new i>oor house here has an
c.,.ctric be'l at each bed, hot baths
and showers, hot suppers served in
bed for sick inmates, and facilities
lor u fishing cocks and handkerchiefs.
NEITHER
DEFENDANT SHOW
EMOTION WHEN SENTENCE
PRONOUNCED
NEW YORK. May 13. (/P)—Mrs.
Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray
were sentenced to die in the electric
chair at Sing Sing during the week of
June 20. Neither defendant showed
any emotion as sentence was pro
nounced. Justice Scudner denied mo
tions asking that the verdict be set
aside. An appeal will be made.
DRIVE IS STARTED 1
MARRIAGE MASTERS
MANILA, May 13. (/P)—Marriage
merchants in Manila have been 'Imng
a thriving business but the matrimon
ial seas that lie ahead look stormy
Adverse criticism that was crystal
lized at the annual meeting of the
Methodist ministers has resulted in
disclosures that threaten this lucra
tive avocation.
Opponents of the “commercialized
wedding” have dubbed unordained
individuals who perform marriage?
“bootleggers of matrimony.”
SOVIETS TO AID MOTHERS
MOSCOW, May 13. (£>)—To encour
age maternity among Russian women
the government has issued a decree
providing for the partial support of
mothers and their offspring upon
payment of a small premium.
PROTEST AGAINST RAID
LONDON, May 13. (/P)—’The Rus
sian charge de’affaires, A. P. Rossen
gold, lodged a protest with the Foreign |
Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain,
against the raid on Arcos House, head
quarters of the Soviet trade delega
tion in London.
TWO DRY OFFICERS
SHOT ID KILLED IN
MAKING ARREST
FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE ES
CAPES IN DARKNESS AFTER
EMPTYING GUN
REDFIELD, Wa„ May 13. (Jp)—Carl
Bintloff. Federal prohibition agent,
and Charles Haldin, deputy sheriff,
were shot to death today by Walter
Crissnian, fugitive from justice, when
they sought to arrest him at his farm
home. Chissman is wanted on a
charge of having slain R. W. Labrin,
Federal office. He escaped in the
darkness after emptying his pistol on
three other officers.
MISSING WITNESS
FOUND IN FRANCE
FALL-SINCLAIR CASE POSTPON
ED UNTIL OCTOBER 17.—EX
PENSE MONEY SENT
WASHINGTON, May 13. (TP)—H. M.
Blackmer, one ofthe long sought wit
nesses in the Fall-Sinclair oil conspira
cy case, was located in France and
i served with a subpoena from the Su
preme court. Rlaekmen was given
j $500 expense money to return to the
I United States by aFil and Sinclair to
dav. The case was postponed from
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May 23 to Ovtober 17.
ACROBAT BLOCKS TRAFFIC
BELFAST, Ireland, May 12. (/P)—
A man walking on his hands front
Dublin to Belfast, 100 miles, on a
wage': caused such a sensation that
police were called out to regulate
traffic. The man saves wear and
tear on his hands by the use of spec
ial sandles. He is accompanied by
a goat harnessed . to a little cart
which carries a camping outfit.
LOBSTER FISHERMEN
GLIMPSE PLANE OF
KESSEO MONDAY
SIX PERSONS REPORT HEARING
PLANE 600 MILES SOUTH
WEST ST. MARYS MAY
The correspondent of the Halifax
Herald in Freeport, Digby county, re
ported that two lobster fishermen told
him they had seen an airplane pass
over St. Mary’s Bay early last Mon
day morning while attending to their
lobster traps. The men declared they
had only a brief glimpse of the plane
through the morning mist. It was
heading westerly across the mouth of
the Bay of Fundy. The Herald cor
respondent said the fishermen told
him this when they learned for the
first time search was being made for
the French trans-Atlantic fliers, Nun
gesser and Coli. Another fisherman,
unidentified by the correspondent, also
reported seeing the plane over St.
Marys Bay 600 miles southwest of
Harbor Grace, where six persons re
ported hearing sounds like an airplane
Monday.
FOUR DAYS OVERDUE
NEW YORK, May 13. (JP)—Intensive
search on sea and land still brings no
tidings of the French aviators, four
days overdue in New York. Reykja
vik Island sent word that watch on
Iceland waters had failed to sight the
missing plane.
COOLIDGE WIRES FRANCE
WASHINGTON. May 13. (^—Presi
dent Coolidge sent a message to Presi
dent Doumergue of France expressing
hope that Nungesser and Coli will be
found. He assured France that the
American government will do every
thing “humanly possible” in the search
for them.
S5.000 REWARD OFFERED
WASHINGTON, May 14. (£>)— Ray
mond Orteig, sponsor of the New York
to Paris flight, offered a reward of
§5,000 for the discovery of either of
the missing fliers or the airplane.
SAVED THREE BILLIONS
NEW JORK. May 13 (/P) —'The 67
savings banks of this city have near
ly §3.000.000,000 on deposit, repre
senting nearly 3,000.000 accounts.
NOTICE TO THEATRE PATRONS
T IKE the others who saw theplay last
^ night, I could not believe the end was
shown, and so looked into the matter care
fully after the show. I find there is an
other reel to show. Through a tag be
ing gone, I took it for granted the seven
reels in the can were the complete feature as
usual, but there was an eighth reel in an
other can which was overlooked by my
carelessness in not referring to the printed
list.
All those who saw the show last night
are invited to come free tonight and see the
exciting finish. If you get there only at
a quarter before 10 you will see the last two
reels. D. C. BROWNELL.