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ALASKA PROPER
COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA
RAILROAD
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 100.
SEWARD. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATION
EXPECTED AT NEXT SESSION:
CITY BONA F!DE ASKED
Ail that is required ro complete the
final details for the improvement of
Lowell creek is an authorization from
the City Council or responsible indi
vidual stating that Seward's share of
the total cost, namely $15,000, is sub
ject to draft by the U. S. Treasury,
then make a requisition on the Terri
torial Treasury for the $10,000 voted
at the recent session of the Legisla
ture and make this available to the
U. S. Treasury. Upon the completion <
of these details Congress is pledged '
to supply $125,000 by appropriation. 1
This appropriation is expected to be {
made at the next session of Congress, 1
the bill calling for the money having (
been passed at the last session of that 1
body. 5
This was the explanation given to !
the City Council yesterday evening by f
Colonel James Gordon Steese, who (
met with the Council, and in addition
to explaining the status of the Lowell |
creek project, went into many details '
of other matters, including a break
water for Seward.
Following the statement of Colonel
Steese, the Council voted unanimously
that City Attorney Rucker be instruct- 1
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DEATH TOLL TAKEN IN MONDAY’S
TORNADO IS PLACED AT 102;
MANY INJURED
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., May 18. (/P)
—Poplar Bluff is engaged in the task
of burying, its scores of dead, the toll
taken in Monday’s tornado being
placed at 102 lives today, and the in
jured at about 250, of which 100 or
more are in a serious condition. The
debris has been searched almost com
pletely and it is believed all dead
have been found.
DAMAGE IN OTHER STATES
DENVER, Colo., May IS. (JP)—The
death toll of the week-end storm in
Montana and Wyoming stood at seven
today as delayed reports of pe/sons
frozen to death in blizzards were tab
ulated. Three of the storm’s victims
were sheep herders trapped by the
swirling snow and unseasonal cold as j
they followed their flocks. Six of the J
seven deaths occurred in Wyoming.
NEW YORK, May 18. (JP)- Sunsard j
Jant lasted to win the $2,000 Newtown
claiming stakes over a slow track that
proved ideal for the plugging colt of
Lawrence Brown.
FARRAGUT SAILS NORTH
SEATTLE. May IS. (/P)—'The S. S.
Admiral Farragut sailed at 10 o’clock
this morning and carried 92 passen
gers. Seward passengers include:
F. A. Scoville, H. A. Brown. A. Graf
ton. lngwald Jacobsoon, E. Clausen
uud one steerage.
3ROF. T. A. JAGGAR IS MAKING
STUDY RELATION ERUPTIONS
AND QUAKES
KODIAK. May IS. (£>)—Plans of the
United States Weather Bureau to
nake scientific study of the relation
if Alaska volcanic eruptions and
earthquakes ai»e divulged here with
he arrival of Prof. T. A. Jaggar, vol
canologist of the Hawaiian volcano ob
lervatory. Jaggar will be here sev
eral weeks superintending the instal
ation of seismographs and other in
truments for recording and measur
ng the earth disturbances. He will
hen leave for Dutch Harbor where
'ther apparatus will be installed.
SEATTLE. May IS. (/P)—The po
lice are a~ked to locate C. L. Werick
of Juneau, who dropped out of sight
following his arrival last week to pur
chase an artificial leg. Werick’s dis
appearance was reported by E. IT. El
well who said no trace of Werick could
he found. He is described as 40 years
old and weighs 235 pounds.
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MALONEY IS CONFIDENT WILL
KNOCK OUT SHARKEY WHO
HAS BAD CUT OVER EYE
NEW YORK. May 18. (TP)—Calm
hUxig over the fighting camps of Jack
Sharkey and Jimmy Maloney as a pre
lude to fistic storms that beat around
them tomorrow night at Yankee
Stadium. Sharkey said a cut over
his right eye received in training had
nearly healed and would not handicap
him. “He isn’t going to hit me in the
eye or anywhere else if I can help it,”
he said. Malonev delared: “I know
I
j T can knock out Sharkey and I will.”
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UNCOVER OLD LAW
CHICAGO, May 18. (TP)—Acting upo i
investigation of New York crime,1
which showed a decrease since the I
enactment of the Baumes law, legal.
| authorities ransacked the Illinois laws
and discovered a provision whereby
habitual criminals may be sentenced
to life imprisonment*
COUPLE FREEZE TO DEATH
LARA3VIE, Wyo., May 17. (^—Rob
ert Miller and wife of this city were
found frozen to death on the highway
15 miles northeast of here.
WOMEN PREACHERS LIMITED
I BERLIN, M a • 1V ,p) V u a ique
ruling granting women permission to
become preachers but limiting them
to female audiences was passed as a
law by the German Protestant church.
RIVER PLUNGE DROWNS THREE
SACRAMENTO, May 1s. f.tp)—An
automobile and its occupants plunged
into the Sacramento river at the Eye
Street bridge. The occupants were
drowned.
T. H. DEAL WINS CASE
WASHINGTON, May IS. (/P)—T. H.
Deal, who was postmaster at Fair
banks, won in the Supreme court the
case arising out of the loss of money
and packages in his custody.
ELECTRICITY DIRECTS PLOW
LINCOLN, Neb.. M:iv IS. Cp>— \
manless tractor, controlled by an elec
trice device, plowed a field success
fully here before a crowd of farmers
and professors of agriculture.
AUSTRALIAN CAPITOL OPENED
C AX A VERA, X. S. W„ May 17. (/P)
—The Duke of York opened Austra
tralia’s first Federal capitol building,
which is said to he modeled after the
United States capitol at Washington.
M’LARENS LAND THE BACON
S \X D1EOO, May 1;v hP)—Jimmy
McLaren knocked out Freeman Black
of Denver in the third round of a
scheduled ten-round bout. Sammy
Mr Bar in. younger brother of Jimmy,
made it a double-header by winning a
decision over “Battling” Doty of
Oceanside in a six-round special event.
JAPS WILL FORCE FISHING
TOKIO. May 18. (/P)—A serious di
plomatic situation is threatened as a
result of the announcement that the
Japanese fishing fleet will sail for
Soviet Siberian waters without license
is an amicable settlement is not ar
ranged within the next 24 hours.
MARRIAGE EDUCATION TOPIC
MEXICO CITY. May IS. (jp)—The j
Mexican government will launch a
nation-wide campaign to educate the;
masses to the necessity of contracting ;
civil marriages. The fact that reli- j
ligious marriages are illegal in Mex-1
ico will be emphasized.
NOT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
WASHINGTON, May IS. (£>)—The j
statement by Senator William Calder
that Secretary Herbert Hoover had
•said he would not be a presidential
candidate failed to arouse comment in
Republican circles aside from expres
sions of doubt that Hoover had sanc
tioned the statement. <
! PRESIDENT LOOKS FORWARD TO “ERA OF RIGHT
| LIVING, RIGHT THINKING AND OF GOOD WILL
AND PEACE IN ACCORDANCE WITH TEACH
INGS OF GREAT PHYSICIAN”
WASHINGTON, May 18. (/P)—Complimenting the
medical profession on its contribution to human welfare
President Coolidge declared the world looked largely to
its members to bring about physical, mental and spiritual
i regeneration “when the force of reason will hold universal
i sway.”
The president addressed the an-1
nua-1 session of the American Medical
Association during which he said:
“Somewhere in human nature there *s
still a structural weakness. We do
not do as well as we know and we
make many constitutions or relation
ship: we enact many laws laying out a
course of action and providing a
method of relationship one with anoth
er which are theoretically above crit
icism. but they do not come into full
observance and effect. Society is still
afflicted with crime, and among na
tions there are still wars and rumors
of wars in spite of all of our progress
and all our success. Xo one doubts
that much remains to be done.”
President Coolidge looked forward
to “an era of right living, right think
ing, of good will and of peace in ac
cordance with the teaching of the
Great Physician.”
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 4, Boston 3—22 innings, j
Cincinati 0, New York 2.
Pittsburg 1, Brooklyn 2.
St. Louis 3, Philadelphia 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 9, Detroit 2.
Washington 12. Cleveland 0.
Philadelphia 4. St. Louis 11.
Boston 6, Chicago 3.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle G, Portland 7.
I
Missions 12, Los Angeles 10.
Hollywood 2. San Francisco 3.
Oakland 9, Sacramento 8.
RAMMED WHALING SHIP
FLOATS BIT 7 MINUTES
SAX FRANCISCO, May 18. (TP)—The :
steel tug Port Saunder, a whaling ship, j
i
was rammed by the lightship tender
Madrono in the bay here yesterday
and sunk in seven minutes. The crew
/ • 1
were picked up o ut of the water by
life boats from the lightship, which
was badly damaged in the crash.
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ROADHOUSE ROBBERS SOUGHT
CHICAGO, May 18. (,/P)—The police ]
are in pursuit of two sets of bandits, ;
who have stabilized a fad of robbing i
roadhouses. The robbers held up the i
patrons in two roadside inns and es- 1
;aped with more than $6,000 loot
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YACHT NORTHERN LIGHT LEFT
JUNEAU LAST NIGHT EN
ROUTE TO SEWARD
JUNEAU, May IS. UP)—When lie
learned that attempts had been made
to kidnap his children John M. Bor
den, Chicago millionaire, on an Alas
kan cruise, vras unconcerned. He said
they were well guarded by detectives.
Mrs. Borden was temporarily worried,
but recovered and laughed. The par
ty arrived last night aboard the yacht
Northern Light and leave tonight for
Seward, Unga and Kodiak to hunt
brown bear. They will then proceed
to the Arctic tor a walrus and polar
bear hunt.
DETROIT, May IS. (/P)—Council for
Henry Ford in the million-dollar libel
suit refused the offer to withdraw the
suit from the Federal court and sum
mit it for settlement to the arbitration
committee of the Detroit Board of
Commerce. The proposal was made
by attorneys for Aaron'Sapiro.
COLBY SEEKS DIVORCE
PARIS, May IS. (/P)—Cambridge
Colby, former American Secretary of
State, has authorized liis attorneys to
start divorce proceedings against his
vife, former Nathalie Sidgwick of
stockbridge, Mass.
SEATTLE CHEF POLICE
SEATTLE, May 18. (JP)—In loss
han a week after Sheriff Claude G.
3annick presented Mayor Bertha K.
^andes with a list of 150 places in Se
ittle where he charged the law is be
ng broken, the city police Friday
light made 44 arrests on charges of
iquor law violations, disorderly con
luct and beink drunk.