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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME 20. NUMBER 241 SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
TOLL TAKEN BY
CLOUDBURST IN
WENATCHEE, WN.
WALL OF WATER SWEEPS THRU
SPRINGWATER CANYON WITH
DISASTROUS RESULTS
Seven Dead; Three Missing
Five Houses and Three Story Hotel
Carried Away by Raging Waters
Without Warning
WENATCHEE, Wn„ Sept. 7 (JP)—
Seven known dead, three injured and
10 missing is the ghastly toll of a
cloudburst which swept Springwater
Canyon, flooding south Wenatchee’s
railroad terminal this afternoon. The
torrent smashed five houses and car
ried a three-story frame hotel 60 feet
down the valley, leaving it in ruins.
One hundred and fifty men are en
gaged in the search for bodies.
Cloudburst Started by Slide
WENATCHEE. SepL 8 (/P)—Major
K. W. Thom, of the regular army,
who is here on leave and was an
eyewitness to the flood, said the
cloudburst started a rock slide high
J^tip in the mountains, the rocks form
ing a natural dam which held the wa
ter until a great lake formed, which
broke.
Capt. Vermilya, of the Wenatchee
National’Guard, posted guards around
the entire area. Vermilya said the
first guardsmen reached the scene 15
minutes after the cloudburst.
The Salvation Army established field
kitchens and is giving free food to
the survivors. The Red Cross is en
gaged in checking up the missing.
A wall of water six feet deep swept
through the valley at 8 o'clock Satur
day night.
Miss L. M. Lovegrove, clerk at the
roundhouse telephoned the dispatchers
along the line when the water and
wreckage covered the tracks and she
stopped the east bound Great North
ern passenger train. The water hit
the settlement without warning, and
the occupants of the wrecked hotel
were unable to escape.
Twelve Dead, 4 Missing
WENATCHEE, Wn, Sept. 8 (IP)—
Twelve dead have been identified,
and four known to be missing are
believed to be deaad. Nine are in
jured. The death list is uncertain as
the auto tourist camp was demolished
without any record of the number of
people there.
Betty McDonald, aged 5, was rescued
alive from under part of a floor,
where she lay stuck in the mud for
16 hours.
Earthquake Shocks Felt
In Far-Off Australia
MELBOURNE, Sept. 8. (£>)—’Three
pronounced earthquakes were felt in
various parts of Victoria with slight
damage yesterday.
w Shenandoah Parts Be
Sent To Lakehurst for
Scientific Examination
CALDWELL, O., Sept. 8. (^—Sal
wage of the ill-fated dirigible Shen
andoah was begun and portions of
the wrecked airship will be crated
for study by the Lakehurst board of
investigation. The Board firmly
maintains that the wreck was un
avoidable, due to the intensity of
the storm.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4 (£>)—
Jack Dempsey, world champion, has
applied for a license to fight in Cali
fornia.
Insane Youth Thought
Cured, Confesses Killing
of Little Daly Girl
ADMITS HE KILLED COLORED
CHAUFFEUR AND STUFFED
HIS BODY IN CULVERT
MONTCLAIR, N. J., Sept. 8. (/P) —
Mary Daly, 6-year-old girl, who was
kidnapped Friday was found dead in
a hut near Cedar Grove with bullet
wounds in her head and neck.
Harrison S. Noel, 18-year-old son of
a prominent Montclair resident con
fessed today, when he led the police
to the hut. Noel escaped from an
insane asylum six months ago, but
left in custody of his father as he ap
peared at the time almost cured.
He also confessed that he killed
Raymond Pierce, the negro chauf
feur and stuffed him in a culvert
to cover up his crime.
IOWA PRESIDENT
W. C. T. U. KILLED
VINTON, la., Sept. 8 (£>)—Mrs. C.
B. Cook, president of the Benton
County W. C. T. U. was shot to death
by an assassin by a bullet fired thru
a window on the first floor of her
home while she sat sewing last ni^ht.
She had been active furnishing in
formation leading to the arrest of
bootleggers and rum runners. A con
vention of the organization was to
have opened today with her presid
ing. 4
Dawes Eulogizes Soldier
Monument At Centralia;
“Defended Amer. Ideals”
CENTRALIA, Wn„ Sept. 8. (Jp)—
Pausing for a few minutes, en route
south at the foot of the statue of
the “Doughboy,” erected in memory
of the Legionaires killed while bat
tling I. W. W. mobs on Armistice
Day of 1919, Vice President Chas. j
G. Dawes eulogized the ideal for
which they died. He said: “These
Legionaires stood for organized gov
ernment—woe be the man or organi
zation who would tear down their
ideals.”
No Yellow Streak Down
Backs of Western People
SEATTLE, Wn., Sept. 8. (£>)—
Speaking of the reform he is ad
vancing in the Senate rules, Satur
day night, Vice President Charles G.
Dawes characterized the present
rules shameful and humiliating.
Comparing Eastern and Western
radicalism, the Vice President said:
“I know the people of the West are
property owning, God-fearing and
conscientious, they are people whose
radicalism consists only of kicking
like the Devil when ihey know some
thing is wrong."
West Greenland Said To
Be a Beautiful Country
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 8 (£>)—
West Greenland is described as a
land of ‘‘red and brown hills, with
bright, orange colored lichens, and a
succession of knolls covered with
green timitry grass.”
A radio report received said that
the Eskimos principal summer food
is the breast of the little auk. A
hungry native will eat 100 at one sit
ting where a white man can eat only
four.
ALASKA OUT OF KETCHIKAN
The steamship Alaska sailed from
Ketchikan yesterday at 1:50 p. m.
GEN. MITCHELL
SAYS AVIATORS
BE BENEFITTED
DOUGHTY WARRIOR FISHING FOR
TARPON AT ARANSAS PASS
TELLS OF ATTACK
Says He Knows Its the Truth
No Action Been Taken by Superiors
Unless Mitchell Has Gone Fur
ther thana He Should
PORT ARANSAS, Tex., Sept. 8 (/P).
Brigadier General Mitchell arrived
here yesterday on a tarpon fishing
' trip. Commenting on his 6,000 word
attack on the army and navy aviation
[service said: “High army and navy
i officials know my statement is the
' truth. That’s why it is going to
sting.”
No Action Been Taken
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 8 (£>)—Major
i General Hinds, commanding the 8th
Corps, before reading Brigadier Gen
eral Mitchell’s statement in the Sun
day papers said, “I do not believe any
disciplinary action will be taken un
less General Mitchell has gone fur
ther in his criticisms than previously.”
Hiram Bingham, senator from Con
necticut, commander of the largest
flying field in the world war, said:
“I feel that many of Mitchell’s state
ments are exaggerated. I would be
better satisfied if the navy placed the
flying schools, aviation carrier and
aeronautical operation^ in the hands
of flying officers.”
It was indicated that President
Coolidge was behind the War depart
ment in its action against General
.Mitchell.
Will Require Action
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 8 (£>).
A consensus of opinion by War de
partment • officials available here is
that the charges of Mitchell require
disciplinary action provided the state
ment of the officer is substantiated.
Will Do ’Em Good to Read It
SAN ANTONIO. Sept. 8 (JP)—‘“It
will do them good to read my state
ment two or three times more and
then think, it over as they read,” Gen.
Mitchell said over long distance tele
phone from Aransas Pass, where he
has gone on a fishing trip.
Dempsey Makes First
Appearance In Frisco
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 (£>)—
Dempsey emerged from his partial
retirement from the ring Saturday
night and toyed two rounds apiece
with Bill Larve, former National hea
vyweight champion and “Cowboy” Ed
Warner. This was Dempsey’s first
ring appearance this year.
Italian Masons Meet In
Violation National Law
ROME, Italy, Sejt. 8 (JP)—The Fas
cist newspaper, Limpero, published
an account today of a secret meeting
of the general assembly of the Ma
sonic lodge of the Graand Orient in
violation of the Fascist law against
such meetings.
The article said the meeting was
held Sunday in the Justinian Palace
with 332 Masons attending. It gave
an abstract of all the speeches and a
list of those attending, adding, “The
Fascisti are requested to commit the
matter to memory.”
ARREST STRIKING SAILORS
MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. 8(/P)
Warrants for the arrest of 600 strik
ing British^ seamen were issued today.
The men are charged with refusing
to return to duty.
Boxer Has Uneventful
Trip from Point Barrow
With FitzGerald Party
VICTORIA TAKING ON CAPACITY
CARGO REINDEER MEAT
FOR THE STATES.
NOME, Alaska, Sept. 8. (/P)—The
Bureau of Education’s schooner Box
er arrived here yesterday from Point
Barrow and other extreme North
coast points bringing in four members
of the Geological Survey party head
ed by Gerald FitzGerald. The party
'will make their transfer here to the
steamship Victoria which leaves for
Seattle today.
Mr. FitzGerald said that he found
the most favorable explorations con
ditions he having covered nearly
twrice of much territory as he had
expected.
The Boxer reported that she en
countered no ice from Point Barrow
south to Nome. The Victoria is tak
ing a capacity cargo of reindeer
meat from Nome, Teller and Golo
vin.
Train Takes Family
Into Land Beyond
When Hits Machine
RIVERS. Tenn., Sept. 8. (£>)—
Claude Warren, a Beardstown far
mer, his wife and two mothering
babes, and Tom Curl a friend, were
killed near here when a train struck
the automobile in which they were
riding. v
Two Tourists Meet Tragic
Death In Illinois Tornado
SPRINGFEILD, 111., Sept. 8. (/P)—
Two tourist were killed and five oth
er persons were injured when a tor
nado, struck the little town of Browns
town.
Alaska Sailed Saturday
with But 115 Passengers
SEATTLE, Sept. 5 (JP)—'The steam
ship'* Alaska sailed at 9 ’clock Satur
day morning carrying 115 passengers,
the following being listed for Seward:
N. J. Singleton and wife, I). A. Hoff
man, Joe Magill, D. Coyle and wife,
Clara Willard, Mrs. A. H. Dennis, Eve
lyn Frank, Mrs. J. P. Davies, Frank
H. Skully, H. G. Lohner, W. D. Wand
ling and wife, J. J. Sherry and wife,
Mrs. C. V. Hoover, Mrs. C. A. Wag
ner, A. Lutro, Nellie M. Hills, Mrs.
M. Walker, Miss C. A. Hopkins, W.
H. Johnston, wife and son, Rev. A.
Lambert and wife, H. A. Trumbell and
wife, Mrs. L. A. Davis and daughter,
Roy David, C. V. Brink and daughter,
Mrs. E. M. Thorpe, one steerage.
Congressman Fears Japan
Will Want Philippine Isles.
GREAT FALLS, Mont., Sept. 8 (/P)—
Expressing the fear that possession
of the Philippines by the United States
will eventually lead to war with Ja
pan, Congressman John Evans of Mon
tana advocated relinquishment of the
islands. “I fear Japan will take the
Philippines, then the American peo
ple will get excited, the bands will
play, and speeches be made on the
question of wdiether or not America
will go to wrar to get the islands back.”
Four Men On Destroyer
Killed By An Explosion
SHANGHAI, Sept. 8 (£>)—'The U. S.
destroyed Noas radioed a report that
four men of her crew had been killed
by an explosion.
FORMER PREMIER
VIVIANI DEAD AT
PRIVATE ASYLUM
HAD BEEN CONFINED FOR PAST
TWO YEARS FOLLOWING
DEATH OF WIFE
Rene Was Crazed By Grief
Was Outstanding Figure in Stormy
Period Following Adjustment of
World War Affairs
PARIS, Sept. 8 (/p)—Former Pre
mier Viviani died last night at Mal
maison sanitarium where he was con
fined the past two years, following a
collapse while pleading a case while
worn out with grief over the death of
his beloved wife.
Born In Algeria.
Rene Viviani, ex-Premier of France
and internationally famous lawyer,
and statesman, was the most renown
| ed of the public men given to
j French nation by her young
i ies in Africa. Born Novembt
i 1863 in the thriving little vili
Sidi Bel Abbes, in the interior
geria—whch was itself born
b) -3f Viviani
c » years
I <. ho em
bodied in their truest sense Lae prin
ciples of liberty, equality and frater
nity upon which the French Repub
lic was founded.
Destined by his pious mother to
the cloth of the Roman Catholic
! Church, Viviani’j taste for oratory
| and love of debate estranged him
j from the secular influence in early
manhood and decided his choice of
the law as a profession.
He -was graduated from the Uni
versity of Paris and immediately be
gan the practice of law in Algers, but
it was not long before his ambitions
required a wider field. He overcame
many obstacles to establish himself
in Paris, and many more before any
one knew he was there yet his rise
was meteoric and he took high rank
at the bar and an enviable niche in
politics.
His advanced views on social and
religious questions naturally drew
him definitely into the Socialist
movement just then beginning to
grow rapidly in France. He saw the
needs of the laboring and low salar
ied classes; he fought with them for
a readjustment of their social con
ditions; he won the confidence of
farmer and woodman voters in pic
turesque Auvergne; he brought into
being the old-age pension laws, then
I he became the first Minister of La
bor, and it was upon the shoulders
of the workers he befriended in those
early days the he was carried to the
high positions he afterward held in
| the political affairs of the Republic.
His first election to the Chamber
of Deputies ocurred in 1893, when
he was sent from the department of
the Seine, including Paris. He was
reelected in 1897, but met defeat in
1902 *when the Nationalists swept
Paris. He devoted the next few
years to the practice of his profes
sion, althought still continuing to
lead theSocialist party, which was
rapidly losing strength because of a
conflict between its twTo factions.
The turning point of his career,
however, came in 1904, when the In
ternationaly Socialist Congress, un
der the influence of Bebel, the Ger
man Socialist leader, adopted a res
olution demanding the unification of
the party. Vivciani, with Aristide
Briand and Alexandre Millerand, re
fused to accept this decision, and
rather than compromise with the
revolutionary element of the body,
organized a separate wing that ul
timately became the Republican So
cialist Party. Its first success came
in 1906, when 20 deputies, including
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