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COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 44. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1927. PRICE TEN CENTS
Second Storm
Due to Strike
in California
TWENTY CALIFORNIA CITIES PARTLY OR WHOL
LY DELUGED—WINDSTORM TOPPLES HUN
DREDS OF OIL DERRICKS AT TAFT—SIXTY
FOUR BLOCKS IN LONG BEACH SWEPT BY
FLOODS—VENICE INUNDATED — SIX SOUTH
ERN PACIFIC PASSENGER TRAINS PREPARE
FOR LONG WAIT IN SIERRA NEVADA—200 FEET
OF TRACK WASHED OUT
Li OSANGELES, Feb. 17. (/P)—Storms, death toll and
destruction continued to increase in California. The Edi
son plant slide death list reached 13, making the storm to
tal 24. It is estimated that 5,000 persons are homeless
and property losses will mount to several millions of dol
lars. A survey over the crippled telephone and telegraph
• wires showed that at least 20 cities were partly or wholly
- deluged, seven of them badly. Damage to bridges in Los
Angeles are estimated in millions. San Diego was en
dangered by a catastrophic flood, and plans have been
made to dynamite the Santa Fe railroad bridge to lessen
the danger. A wind storm toppled a hundred oil derricks
at Taft. It is indicated the loss will exceed a quarter of
a million dollars.
P San Francisco shippers claimed that
loss from the storm will be $100,000.
Untold damage was caused to crops
and orchards, highways and homes in
the San Fernando valley where several
towns wrere flooded.
High water swept Long Beach, flood
ing 64 blocks and making 2,500 home
less. Six hundred fled from their
homes when 20 blocks in Venice were
inundated.
Eighty thousand barrels of petrole
um added to the flood when an oil
tank toppled at Anaheim. Six and
three-quarters inches of rain fell at
Escondido in 24 hours.
Another storm is expected to sweep
the country today. Limited train
service has resumed.
ALL WORK TRAINS OUT
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 17. (JP)
—Six Southern Pacific passenger
trains are preparing for a 24-hour wait
in Sierra Nevada, near which place
200 feet of double track is washed
out. All available work trains have
been rushed to the spot. The possi
bility of using the routes of other
railroads was blocked when they were
stopped by washouts.
SNOWSLIDE KILLS THREE
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 17. (JP)—
Three persons were killed in Utah by
a series of snowslides which paralized
mail service for 24 hours.
NATIONALISTS CLAIM HANGHOW
IMPORTANT RAIL AND WATER
CENTER, CAPTURED
■SHANGHAI, Feb. 17. (^—Nation
alists claim that Hanghow, an im
portant rail and water centre 113 miles
Southwest of Shanghai, was captur
ed by the forces from Marshal Sun
Chuan Fang, a member of the Alli
ance Northern warloads. National
ists assert the Sun forces split into
three parts retreating separately to
ward Shanghai, Soochow and Pro
vince.
COUNTERFEIT NOTE
IS DECliRED DECEPTIVE
NEW YORK, Feb. 17. (IP)—A coun
terfeit $5 national bank note, de
scribed as dangerous and deceptive,
and a counterfeit $20 gold certificate,
regarded as likely to deceive the
“unwary”, have been discovered in
circulation by the iecret Service Di
vision, Department of the Treasury.
Announcement of the discovery of
the counterfeits was made in a re
cent statement by W. H. Moran,
chief of the division. He called at
tension, however, to certain defects
in the bills which, may aid in identi
fying them, one of the outstanding
flaws in the gold certificate being
the misspelling of the word “Treas
ury.”
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PRICE OF ‘SUDS' RAISED,
BEER 10 IS RESULT
BERLIN, Feb. 17. (£>)—The beer
•war in Bavaria which broke out as
a result of a IS .per cent boost in the
price of suds has spread to such an
extent that breweries, despite the 12
to 15 percent dividends declared for
1.26, are getting worried. \
GOVERNMENT'S CASE
AGAINST ILL BATES
IN BANDS OF ELLIS
TRACES ROUTE OF $30,000 PAY
ROLL FROM SEATTLE BANK
TO TIME DISAPPEARANCE *
FAIRBANKS, Feb. 17. (/P)—A jury
of 11 men and one woman will try
Nellie Bates, alias Nellie Beattie, ac
cused of possessing mail matter which
she knew had been stolen. The jury
is confined under strict guard as it
has been inferred that efforts had
been made to approach talesmen.
Prosecutor Clyde Ellis for the Third
division outlined the government’s
case, tracing the route of the $30,000
from the time it left the Dexter Hor
ton bank in Seattle until it disap
peared. He said Schemeyer and Nel
lie Bates took the money at Flat
where, after several burials in fruit
jars and other containers, the spoils
were divided in September, 1924.
Attorney Marquam’s motion thatj
the case be dismissed because the j
evidence submitted in the indictment j
was insufficient to constitute a crime
was overruled.
PROPOSE* SOLDIER MONUMENT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. (IP)—The
erection of a monument to the Fed
eral soldiers who fought in the bat
tle of Perryville, Ky., and the estab
lishing of a national cemetery, is
proposed in a bill (House Bill No.
16746) just introduced in the House
by Representative Gilbert (Dem.) of
Shelbyville, Ky. The bill would au
thorize an appropriation of $5,000 for
this purpose.
FILES RESOLUTION
FOR A NATIONAL
VOTE PROHIBITION
REPRESENTATIVE McLEOD OF
MICHIGAN SAYS TIME HAS
COME PEOPLE'S VIEWS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. (^—Rep
resentative McLeod (Republican of
Michigan) filed a resolution propos
ing a national prohibition referend
um at the presidential election. He
said the time has come for Congress
to know the people’s views on the
liquor question because “in the pres
ent state of affairs we do not know
our own mind.”
MANY U. S. CHILDREN DEAF
NEW YORK, Feb. 17. (IP)—There
are 3,000,000 school children with
defective hearing in the United Stat
es, according to an announcement
made by the Children’s Bureau of
the Department of Labor.
* PLANES RESUME FLIGHT
ARICA, Chile, Feb. 17.(£>)—The four
Pan-American good will planes re
sumed their fight along the Chilean
coast. The planes had been left at
Ilo while the aviators yisited La Paz
by rail.
Balkan Quakes
Continue Occur
Almost Hourly
TERRIFIC EARTH MOVEMENT SHAKES DOWN
BUILDINGS KILLING NINETY-ONE PERSONS;
INTENSE COLD ADDS TO HORROR—REPORTS
FROM STRICKEN AREA VARY IN AUTHENTICI
TY-RESIDENTS FLEEING HOMES
BELGRADE, Feb. 17. (/P)—Another earthquake
killed two persons at Ljubinje. Fresh earthquake kill
ings of many persons have occurred almost hourly thru
out the Balkans. Latest dispatches from the devastated
region report a terrific movement of the earth's surface
which shook down many buildings and killed 91 persons
| in Ljubinje, Province of Herzegovina. The same town
felt the full force of Sunday's tremors, scores of residents
being driven from their homes into the intense cold.
Rescue parties havebeen dispatched to the scene of de
! struction which is known to cover a large area along the
Narentna river. Communication is severed in almost
every direction. Reports reaching Belgrade highly con
| flict. Some tell of loss of many hundred lives in the first
! quakes and others place the loss at not more than 100.
PLANS CALL FOR SIX PLANES
IN MONSTER AIRSHIP; SUC
CESSOR TO SHENANDOAH
I AKRON, Ohio, Feb. 17. (JP)—The
Shenandoah’s successor as queen of
| the air is pictured uj engineers and
•artists of the Goodyear-Zeppelin cor
poration as a silver monster 780 feet
long, with half a dozen, airplanes
housed within its walls and machine
guns bristling from its sides.
The dirigible would have a gas
capacty of 6,500,000 feet, almost three
times that of the Shanandoah, which
was 680 feet long and held 2,115,000
cubic feet of gas.
When the new ship is built it will
present an almost unbroken line of
shining surface. The control cars
would he built in, to lessen air re
sistance. The power cars, too, would
be housed within the frame work,
with only the propellers projecting.
The propellers would be built on tilt
ing arms which could be turned in a
ninety-degree angle to help force the
ship up, down or forward.
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SMITH TOO ILL TO. APPEAR
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. (JP)—All
hope that Senator-elect Smith of Illi
nois would be seated this session ris
appeared with the announcement that
he is too ill to appear beforethe com
mittee.
SEEK HATCHERY FUNDS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. (JP)—An
appropriation of $50,000 for the es
tablishment of a fish hatchery in the
Seventh Congressional District of
Arkansas would be authorized in a
bill (House ibll No. 16745) just intro
duced in the House by Representa
tive Parks(Dem.) of Arkansas.
SEXES ARE WJIIED
WATCH THEIR STEP;
WOMEN LIKE PARIS
GERMAN MINISTER GLAD OF CO
OPERATION OF WOMEN IN
POLITICAL LIFE
BERLIN, Feb. 17. (/P)—Dr. Gus
tav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of
| Germany, in an exclusive interview
i with the Associated Press, warned the
J sexes against seeking to resemble each
other, insisting that otherwise man
J will lose that which distinguishes him
! and woman that which makes her
| lovable.
“Personally I believe the sphere of
woman is essentially in the home and
in the family,” he said. “I do not
know of a higher conception of a
woman than to b© just a woman and
a mother.
“I am glad we have the co-opera
tion of woman in political life, and
especially on educational questions.
I admit it is good that women should
have achieved important things in
other spheres, including the social
sphere, so that everything may not
be left to men, but no general rule
should be deduced from this. Re
member that nature has given us two
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FLOODS THREATEN ARIZONA
DENVER, Feb. 17. (£>)—Floods
threatened Arizona and Colorado
■while freezing temperatures held in
Montana and Idaho. Communication
is crippled.
BERLIN WANTS TOURISTS
BERLIN, Feb. 17. (A3)—It is a
■small percentage of American travel
ers who visit Berlin in winter, but
for those who do and for such other
tourists as put in an appearance here
during the cold season the travel
agencies have provided the maximum
of sight-seeing comforts.
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