THE KUSKO TIMES
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TAKOTNA. ALASKA. SATURDAY, ^PRIL 16 lHi!7
PKICE 25 CENTS
AFTERMATH
OF FLOOD!
50.000 Are Cornered by
Breaks in Missis
sippi Levees.
NEW ORLEANS', May 8.—The res
cue of fifty thousand men, women and
children cornered by repeated breaks
in Mississippi levees during the past
four days, became the immediate
problem today for the great relief
machine. Louisiana craft of every
type, from the lumbering river steam
ships to. flatboats propelled by out
board motors, are moving the home
less to concentration camps in Louisi
ana and Mississippi.
MEMPHIS.—Ninety thousand flood
refugees have been subjected to vac
tection against typhoid and smallpox.
LITTLE ROCK.—The loss of life
from flood, in Arkansas alone now
numbers 119.
NEW ORLEANS.—Torrents, of the
Mississippi still rage uncurbed over
Northern Louisiana today, after hav
ing overrun five million acres of land
on their wild rush for the Gulf of
Mexico.
WASHINGTON.—The Red Cross
flood relief fund contributions a tnoon
today amounted to $10,12(1,000, with
all chapters urged to continue their
appeals for money.
ZELLERBACHS AWARDED SALE
OF SPRUCE AND HEMLOCK.
TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST
WASHINGTON^—The Forest Ser
vice yesterday awarded the sale of
835.000 cubic feet of spruce and hem
lock pulp,.wood, on the Tongass na
tional forest, Alaska, to I. and J. D.
Zellerbach Paper Corporation, of San
Francisco.
ARMOUR CO. SUSPENDED FROM
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE
CHICAGGO, April 20.—The Ar
mour Grain Company, , the world’s
largest grain trading corporation,
has been suspended from the Chicago
Board of Trade under charges of dis
honest acts. The concern has ordered
as high as 5,000,000 bushels of cash
wheat in a day.
125 LIVES TAKEN IN TORNADO
AT ROCK SPRINGS, TEXAS
SAN ANTONIO, April 22.—One
hundred and twenty-five lives were
lost last night in the tornado which
struck the town of Rock Springs, the
county seat of Edwards county..
WACO, Tex., April 23.—The.News
Tribune early today received reports
that fifty bodies had been recovered
from the wreckage at. Rock Springs,
Texas, where many buildings were
leveled by the tornado. there last
night.
NAVAL AVIATORS KILLED.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—Lieuten
ant Commander Noel Davis and Lieu
tenant Eaton. H. Foster; naval avia
tors, were killed in a forced landing
of the great biplane American Legion,
in which they planned to attempt a
non-stop New York to Paris flight.
Charlie Kimball, Flume Dredge
Company superintendent, returned a
couple of days ago from a visit of in
spection at Little creek.
V
TORNADOES
AND STORMS
Sweeping Middle West,
Kill Hundreds; Thou
sands Injured.
KANSAS CITY, May 10.—Deaths
from tornadoes and storms which
have been sweeping the Middle West
since Saturday, stood at 220 dead,
with 2,000 or more injured, and prop
erty losses running into millions of
dollars.
Fifty-four persons were killed and
and a hundred injured when a tor
nado mowed through the business
area of Poplar Bluff, Mo., late yester
day, while seventy were killed and
three hundred injured in the serious
twisters that shot through and across
Arkansas.
KANSAS CITY—Some streets here
are filled with water three feet deep.
The rushing water swept Kansas City
today, marooning thousands en
route to work. The rain fell so hard
at times that the instruments of the
Weather Bureau were unable to re
cord it.
MEXICAN FEDERAL FORCES
AND BANDITS ENGAGE IN 5
HOUR BATTLE; 68 KILLED
MEXICO CITY.—Federal forces
sent in pursuit of the rebel band
which burned a train in a holdup last
week overtook the rebels at El Guit
arrero Valley, in Jelico, and in a five
hour battle sixty of the bandits and
eight soldiers and officers were killed,
a war office announcement today said.
The rebels are reported to have been
commanded by Catholic Priests
Veaga and Angalo.
“CHINA HAS TURNED RED,”
SAYS J. HAROLD DOLLAR
SEATTLE.—“China has turned
red,” J. Harold Dollar, vice president
of the Dollar Steamship Line, de
clared Monday when he landed in Se
attle after six months in the Orient,
spent principally at Shanghai, with
the hand of Russia active, being the
center of the nationalist movement.
“Prompt action” by the United States
and European governments, he in
sisted, is needed to prevent complete
bolshevik control..
45 GUNBOATS IN YANGTSE,
GUNS TRAINED ON HANGKOW
SHANGHAI.—Forty-five gunboats
were stationed in the Yangtse today,
with their guns trained on Hangkow.
There is much tension and rumors
that the British are planning to re
take the concessions.
Arriving here a few days ago from
McGrath, to which place she had come
from Fairbanks, was Mrs; W. A.
Vinal, well known former resident of
Ophir, from which place she has been
absent for the last few years, prin
cipally at Anchorage and Healy. Mr.
Vinal remained at Healy, giving at
tention to business affairs at that
place. Mrs. Vinal left immediately
for her former home on Spruce creek.
Leaving a few days ago for the
Outside was Mrs. A. G. Johnson, who
took airplane from here to Nenana,
where she will visit her sister for a
short time and then proceed to Pe
tersburg, where she will visit with a
brother for a few days and then pro
ceed to Seattle.
Telegraphic Ticks.
DETROIT.—An order of mistrial,
granted upon motion of defense coun-1
sel today, brought an abrupt halt in
Aaron Sapiro’s $1,000,000 libel suit
against Henry Ford. Judge Raymond
ordered the jury discharged and in
structed that a mistrial be entered
upon the plea of the defense that Mrs..
Cora Hoffman, the eleventh jury'
chosen when the trial started six
weeks ago, had granted an interview,
the substance of which appeared in
last Tuesday’s Detroit Times
SEATTLE.—Christened with Yu
kon river water, the patrolo boat Bea
ver, built for the Alaska Game Com-i
mission for use on the Yukon, was'
aunched yesterday afternoon in Lake 1
Union, with Mrs. K. C. Talmadge as1
sponsor. The craft will be shipped to
Seward, thence over the Alaska Rail
road to Nenana, and there placed in !
commission.
LONGVIEW.—T. G. Randolph,~of
Seattle, International News Reel cam
eraman, and Francis, his brother, and
Arthur Bassett, a Longview pho
tographer, were swept to their death
in the Columbia river yesterday af
ternoon, when they were engulfed on
a rock on which they were taking
pictures.
LAREDO, Tex.—Archbishop Mora
Delro of Mexico City, Archbishop Lo
peldo Rula of Morelia, Bishop Fran
cis Ceuranga of Curenavaco, and
Bishop Jesus Maria Beavaurria of
Saltillo, deported from Mexico City
on orders of President Calles, arrived
here today.
SEATTLE.—The new steel Coast
Guard cutter Northland, under con
struction at Newport News, will be
taken over by the Government from
the builders during the next few days
and shortly after dispatched to the
Bering Sea to replace the cutter
Bear.
SEATTLE.—Helen Ardell, Seattle
candy queen, who a year ago wed
Lyman Destaffany, Arctic explorer,
filed suit for divorce today. Their
matrimonial expedition came to grief
when their love boat crashed upon the
iceberg of incompatability.
MINEOLA, April 25.—Two air
planes taking off simultaneously on
opposite shores of the Atlantic and
actually racing each other across, is
the latest plan in a New York-Paris
non-stop flight, in competition for the
S25.000 Orteig prize.
LONDON.—Premier Baldwin an
nounced in the Commons today that
the government will introduce a bill
at the next session of Parliament to
give women a vote at the age of 21,
thus equalizing their franchise with
men.
SEATTLE.—Mrs. Rosamond J.
Densmore, 80, wealthy pioneer and
former national chaplain of Women’s
Relief Corps, died at her home here
today. Her husband was founder of
the Densmore district, Seattle.
HARDWAR, United Province of
India.—Thirty-six pilgrims were
killed and many injured during a rush
to bathe in the holy Ganges river, as
part of the Hindu religious bathing
ceremony.
SEATTLE.—The power boat Silver
Wave, operated by Lomen Brothers,
will sail for Nome via the inside pas
sage on May 11, with passengers and
perishable freight.
SPRINGFIELD, Ills.—Forty-three
were killed and two hundred injured
in a torpedo which swept six Central
Illinois counties yesterday afternoon. |
VIEWED BY
C08UC6
Hopeful Outlook Ex
pressed Regarding
Mexi:o, China.
NEW YORK.—President Coolidge,
addressing the United PPress banquet
Last night, revealed that Mexico has
promised to refrain frini confiscating
American property within her boun
daries and to prosecute and punish
those who commit outlawries upon
American citizens, and she has de
clared her desire to maintain most
amicable relations, he said.
The President declared the United
States to be China’s friend, adding:
“We do not w' v >n any course
of aggres.':: the Chinese
people. V prevent ag
gressions < . ..pie by any
disorderly eh
MEXICO < . resident Calles
today declax oe.ieved the road
had been opened for a satisfactory
settlement of all difficulties between
Mexico and the United States. He
emphasized this in commenting on
President Coolidgc’s New York ad
dress.
WOULD LIKE TO SEE WELL
QUALIFIED CATHOLIC ELECT
ED TO THE HIGHEST OFFICE
WASHINGTON, V. C.—Ex-Gover
nor Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming,
?n a speech to the National Women’s
Democratic Clubs, said:
“I am a Protestant unalterably by
birth and conviction, and yet I should
like to see a well-qualified Catholic
elected to the highest office in the na
tion, just to prove that this in reality
is a republic in which we live and not.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SAII)
HE WOULD TAKE A CHANCE
NEW YORK.—Governor AI Smith,
after calling on President Coolidge,
when asked what transpired at the
visit, replied: “I called to bid him
welcome to the city. I told him to do
anything he wanted to, provided he
didn’t get caught at it.”
When asked what the President
said, the Governor answered: “He
said he would take a chance.”
CO-OPERATIVE HERRING
FISHERY AND SALTERY j
SEATTLE.—With fourteen Norwe
gians aboard, as stockholders and
workers for the Drier Bay Packing
Company, the purse seine boat Alden
and the cannery tender Harold sailed j
today for Drier Bay, Prince William
Sound, to engage in co-operativee her
ring fishery and saltery for the
spring and summer. The venture,
which was tried out for the first time
last year, proved successful.
Miss Elizabeth Egsak arrived here
a few days ago from Ganes creek,
coming in with Charlie Konietzko.
Miss Egsak will be a passenger on
the first trip of the Tana down river,
going to Akiak, where she will visit
her father.
Bob Lov/r , 't with Joe
Ferris, left toda • .e F. D. camp,
Little creek ,to j attention to
dredge blacksmi g.
Billy Jones, Torn Shallow and Vir
ginia Howard were Friday arrivals
from Ophir.
AVIATORS
Undoubtedly Met Mis
hap in Paris-io-New
York Flight.
PARIS, May 9.—Captains Nunges
ser and Goll are ready to take the air
tomorrow at dawn on their Paris to
New York flight, if expected improve
ment in weather continues over the
Atlantic is confirmed by final assem
bling of meteorological data at mid
night.
NEW YORK.—Vessels of the U, S.
Navy and private craft are combing
the reaches of the stormy Atlantic for
the missing Paris-to-New Y’ork flyers.
Fifty-two hours had passed at 2
o’clock this afternoon since the White
Bird lifted her wings from the flying
field at Lebourget and not one au
thentic word of the p.ane’s where
abouts has come from any source.
PARIS.—The French minister of
the navy now fears that Nungesser
and Goll may have been lost in the
English channel. Minister of War
Painleve, when informed that there
was no confirmation yet that Nunges
ser had been seen, broke down and
sobbed: “It is the greatest blow of
my life. I fear Nungesser and Goll
have perished.”
NEW YORK, May 14.—Still no
news of Nunge^.‘;«Sfe'.,v Goll, missing
aviators, in their attempted trans
Atlantic flight.
RIO JANEIRO.—Anxiety was in
creased here today over the safety of
Captain Saintroman, French aviator,
who has not been heard from since 1
o’clockthi smorning.when mfvv ni
o’clock this morning, when he report
ed his position by radio as 120 miles
off the Brazilian coast, on his at
tempted transcontinental hop from
African mainland.
TO SEND EXPEDITION
TO ALASKA PENINSULA
CHICAGO, April 26.—Director C.
C. Davis, of the Chicago Field Mu
seum, announced that a new expedi
tion to the Alaska Peninsula would
leave Seattle May 1 to collect a group
of Kodiak bears and other specimens.
Alexander Kevell, Chicago merchant,
will finance the enterprise. It is
called the Alexander S. Revell-Field
Museum expedition to Alaska of 1927.
Robert YV. Tansill, another Chicago
business man and big game hunter,
will command the party. It will in
clude five other Illinois and Wiscon
sin sportsmen. They will make the
voyage in the Ethel, a 63-foot cruiser.
SERIOUS JAPANESE
FINANCIAL SITUATION
TOKIO, April 25.—It is understood
that bankers in conference at Premier
Tanaka’s residence failed to reach a
decision to meet the serious Japanese
financial situation. Sixteen banks
have announced a three-weeks’ sus
pension. All remaining banks are at
tempting to weather severe runs.
The Bank of Japan advanced $50,
000,000 to Tokyo institutions, bring
ing total advances to over $500,000,
000.
Jack Misher, lately from Hyder,
and who arrived at McGrath from
airbanks via airplane, was an arrival
here a few days ago from the latter
place, coming up with Bill Phillips.