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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 262. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
* SCORE WORKMEN INJURED!
WHEN BRICK GARAGE IS
STRUCK BY UGHTNING
WALLS COLLAPSE BURYING
WORKMEN IN WRECKAGE
4 BRICK, TWISTED STEEL
CHICAGO, Nov. 29. (&)—More
than a score of workmen were in
jured, several so seriously that there
is little hope for their recovery,
wlhen a brick garage building under
construction collapsed during a
storm after it was struck by light
ening
Tlie men were buried in the mass
of wreckage.The first reports said
eight or 10 were killed but a search
through the tangled wreckage re
vealed no dead.
The collapse came at the height
of a rain and electrical storm when
a bolt of lightening struck several
steel girders -which were being set
in place and three of four brick
walls suddenly buckled and crashed j
inward, carrying the workmen down
under tons of twisted steel and brick, j
The shattered scaffolding and!
one of the great girders smashed i
thru a construction shanty where j
about 15 workmen sought shelter j
from the rain.
FLOODS ALGERIA TAKE
HUGE TOLL OF LIVES
WORST HALF CENTURY
SITUATION GRAVE, TORRENTIAL
RAINS, COMMUNICATION IS
SEVERED
ORAN, Algeria, Nov. 29. (/P)—With
every hour bringing fresh 'tidings of
the disaster it is estimated the total
loss of life from the floods which
^ swept northwestern Algeria will ex
ceed 900.
The catastrophe is the worst ex
perienced in 50 years. The situation
is grave and the weather bad with
torrential rainfall continuing^ Com
munications are cut everywhere and
efforts are being made to drop food
from airplanes to residents of strick
en vilages.
STREAM BULLETS DRIVE
YEGGMEN AWAY BANK
m
s
bTOCKTON, Cal., Nov. 29 (/P)—
Yegg men were driven away from the
Union Safe Deposit Bank of Stock
ton, at Lockford, by a stream of bul
lets. They left $1,200 in gold and cur
rency packed in a sack.
The alarm was given by a woman
nearby who heard the blast. Her
husband summoned the constable and
the fireworks began.
COLD IN CORDOVA
CORDOVA, Nov. 29. (/P)—Zero !
weather was recorded here today for
the first time in November in the
history of the town.
RIGHT TO MINING LAND
FAIRBANKS QUESTIONED
DECISION IS REVERSED
ACTION, EJECTMENT BROUGHT
ABOUT TO DETERMINE RIGHT
POSSESSION
• SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29^ (/P)
The Tight of O. A. MeConnell to min
ing land in tlft Fairbanks recording
district is questioned b/ the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals which
reversed the decision of the Wash
ington federal court giving McCon
nell a judgement against G. A. Vedin.
A new trial has been ordered in
the suit. The action of ejectment
.was brought to determine the right
of possession of land for which a
patent application had been filed.
WILL TAKE A CHANCE
LISBON, Nov. 29. (/P)—Marshal
Gomez de Costa, former .president of
Portugal who was exiled to the
Azores by the government, that 'he
intends to return to Portugal before
Christmas.
LIGHTS OUT TONIGHT
i We tCre sorry to notify our cus
1 tomers that we are unable to furnish
any light tonight.
Seward Light & Power Co
OLMSTED, EIGHT OTHERS
BEGIN SERVING TERMS
SENTENCED FOUR YEARS
COMMITMENTS ISSUED SIMUL
TENEOUSLY WITH RAISING
OF BIG BOND
SEATTLE, Nov. 29. (/P)—Commit
ments were issued for Olmsted and
eight codefendents in the first Olm
sted case almost simultaneously with
the raising of a $10,000 -bond which
would have given Olmsted freedom.
He started serving a four year sen
tence today.
Other defendants are Attorney Jer
ry Finch, two years; Cliff Maurice,
15 months; Tom Nakagawa, two
years; Clarence Healey, 18 months;
Francis R. Browp, 1 months; John
Eatty, 18 months; .Meyer Berg, and
Ed Engdahl, 15 months^
LARGE AMOUNT LIBERTY
BONDS SEIZED BY LAW
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. (&)—'The
government seized $100,000 in Liber
ty bonds posted by attorney for H.
M Blackmer, fugitive witness in the
Fall-Sinclair trial. They were seized
pending the outcome of contempt
charges against Blackmer.
Attorney Peyton Gordon and Jus
tice Siddons clashed over the publi
cation of correspondence concerning
the trial.
CANDIDATES ELECTED
CORDOVA, Nov. 29. (£>)—C. P.
Mickeison, H. B. Woking, Fred Long
and J. Donohue were elected by the
Democrats of the Cordova precinct as
delegates to the Third Divisional con
vention at Valdez on December 6th.
COUNTRY IN THROES
OF CIVIL WAR; FORTS
AND CITIES CAPTURED
BUCHAREST, Nov. 29. (^—Hun
dreds are reported dead as a result
of street fighting throughout the
Uerain, which is described as being1
in the throes of a civil war.
Several forts have tuvnel rebel
and the movement is spi ending all
over the country.
loyal troops are fighting valiant
ly against over-whelmlug bdds and
the revolutionists are are taking
every city in their path Their num-;
bers are being augmented at every j
town and village. Anarchy is adding1
chaos to the rebel rule.
WANDERING BOAT RETURNS
I
The M. S. B. of E. vessel Boxer, ’
Capt. Whitlam, is due to arrive in j
port this evening at 6 o’clock, accord
! ing to the local report. For 10 days
past the whereabouts of the Boxer
has been unknown locally the opinion
being the vessel had passed up the
Port of Seward and was enroute to
Seattle from the Arctic
'One SpotTh atis Always Sore"
I " ... 1 - 1 ... V-7-'* .. 1 —"I )
HOOVER AND AL SMITH
LEAD PARTY CANDIDATES
IN COUNTRY-WIDE POLL
NEED SECOND IN DEMOCRATIC
POLL WHILE LOWDEN SEC
OND IN REPUBLICAN
WASHINGTON, Not. 29. (£>)—
| Great interest was aroused in politi
cal circles by publication of a poll
among editors and politicians thru
the country which forcast the nomi
nation for president of Governor Al
1 fred Smith by the Democratic Con
vention and pictured Secretary Her
' '•'".'t Hoover, of the Department of
Commerce, well in the lead for the
republican nomination.
The poll was based on the assump
tion. that President Coolidge will not
ag^in run for office*.. About 3,000 re
plies were received to a Little more
than 1,000 queries and they indicated
that those close to public opinion be
lieve Smith an over-whelming fav
orite for nomination by his party.
; Senator Jim Reed of Missouri was
| second in the democratic poll while
! Low-den was second among the rep
j ublicans candidates. Charles Evans
! Hughes w'as the third choice among
i the republicans
MILLIONS-OF DOLLARS
BE SPENT FOR OPINION
PEOPLE ON PROHIBITION
t
| PLANS FOR REPEALING OR
CHANGING ACT OUTLINED AT
LEAGUE DINNER
NEW YORK, Nov. 29. (/P)— Plans
for raising a $3,000,000 fund to inter
est voters in national or state refer
endum on repealing or changing the
Eighteenth amendment was outlined
at a dinner at the Union League Chib
by Captain William Stay ton, chair
man of the association against prohi
bition amendment.
While the dinner was a private af
fair to which newspapermen were not
admitted Stayton told a reporter the
gist of the plans at the hotel before
the dinner began. He said the fund
will be used to send 27,000,000 let
ters to voters of the next four year’s
campaign and learn the attitude of
the people on the question.
BILLY EVANS ELECTED AS
i HEAD CLEVELAND CLUB
• •
CLEVELAND, Nov. 29. (£>)—Tb*
selection, of Billy Evans, American
League umpire, as General Manager
of the Cleveland Baseball Club eras
announced by President Alva Brad
ley. In this capacity Evans will be
the executive head of the club, hand
ling most of tjie duties looked after
the last year by former President B,
S. Barnard.