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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 208.
SEWAKD ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
< THREE DIE IN WORST {
STORM SCORE YEARS
STATE OF KANSAS
HUNDRED FAMILIES HOMELESS
SLEEPING IN CHURCHES AND
SCHOOLS; RIVERS FLOODED
VAST AREA; HIGH WATER
MARK NOT YET REACHED
EMPORIA, Kansas, Sept. 14. (/P)—
The death toll from the worst storm
in a score of years was fixed at
three. A hundred families are home
less and are sleeping in churches and
schools. The live stock losses are not
yet known. Three rivers, the Neosho,
Cottonwood and the Verdigris, flood
ed the region for over 60 miles long
and 25 miles wide and the high wa
ter mark has not yet been reached.
It iS reported that in Burlington,
Madison, Iola and Neosho Falls rescue
parties are using boats in the streets
where roofs and second floors pro
tuded.
MUSICIANS BUCK AT
ONE DM OFF, WEEK
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14. (JP)—
Striking musicians were back at their
jobs in all of San Francisco's thea
tres yesterday, after a settlement of
difficulties with theatres. At a con
ference yesterday at the Palace hotel,
a plan was submitted by union men to
the owners, suggested by Joseph N.
Weber, president of the Musicians
International Union, who telegraphed
his proposal from New "lork. The
accepted plan calls for the theatre
owners to concede the right of the
musicians to take one day off each
week, provided they pay for their own
substitutes. There was no raise ih
pay.
W. A. CLUB MEETING
A special meeting of'the Womans’
Athletic club has been called for this
evening at 8 o’clock. Every member
is asked to be present as matters of
importance with regard to the com
ing winter’s activities will be discus
sed.
GIRLS URL KIDNAPPED,
SEVERELY UPPED
ID THEN RELEASED
BRISTOL, Va., Sept. 14. (^—Ano
ther mysterious kidnapping, this one
of two young women, who said they
had been taken three miles out of
Bristol and whipped severely with
leather straps was added today to the
series of similar incidents already un
der investigation in Virginia.
The girls, Blanche Stone. 22 and
Lily Frick 24 years old, exhibited
welts which they told police had been
raised on their backs by the whip
ping.
They said they had been forced into
an automobile, driven to an abandon
ed residence three miles away, strap
ped and then taken to the roadside
and ordered to walk back to town.
FUR RESTORES SPEECH
TO TWO GIRL MOTES
CHICAGO, Sept. 14. Fear
caused by the antics of an airplane in
the air restored the voice to two girl
mutes who had been unable to talk
since birth. One was fifteen and the
other twelve years of age.
TASK OF CHECKING
DEAD CONTINUES
BETWEEN 19 AND 25 ARE RE
PORTED DEAD IN COLORADO
TRAIN WRECK
SALIDA, Colo., Sept. 14. (JP)—With
the list of dead in the wreck of the
Denver and Rio Grande Western rail
road Scenic Limited near Granite,
Colorado, last week estimated at from
19 to 25 persons, the task of checking
the passenger list further is proceed
ing slowly. The railroad list contain
ed 19, while another compiled by the
Lake County coroner contained 25
bodies. Ten lay in morgues here and
at Leadville, while still others re
mained in the wreck of the train that
plunged into the Arkansas river when
the engine was derailed, dragging fiv^
cars into the stream with it.
RESIGNS AS CHAPLAIN
ACCOUNT nil*
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. (£>)—Mon
| signor Chadwick, chaplain of the bat
j tleship “Maine” when she went down
I in Havana harbor during the Spanish
American war, has resigned as Na
tional chaplain of the Spanish War
Veterans following the rumors that
the Ku Klux Klan has obtained con
trol of that organization.
F
SISTERS UNDER FEDERAL GUARD
AS SUSPICIOUS PERSONS; AR
RESTED WHILE TRAVELING ON
\
MONTREAL SLEEPER
SISTER, MOTHER SUPERIOR
Claim Is Made All Denied Ability to
Speak English but Later Answered;
Disclaim Knowledge of Fine Lace
SAINT ALBANS. Ver., Sept. 14. (/P)
—Under a Federal guard of customs
authorities, four nuns of the order of
Franchiscan sisters are held as suspi
cious persons whom were arrested on
a Montreal sleeper when officers dis
covered fine laces valued at ' more
than $5,000. Officials identified them
as Sisters Isarr and Perfectu Locoro
of Saint Anthony’s convent at Fall
river. The other two were Sister
Sagrado, who is Mother Superior of
the convent of “Our Lady Gloria” of
Newbedford and Sister De3 Olivers
of the convent “Our Lady of Good
Help,” east Boston. All denied their
ability to speak English but after a
French interpreter extensively ques
tioned them they began answering in
English. They disclaimed knowledge
of how the lace came to be in their
petticoats and said the clothing was
given them at the convent on Saint
Dominick street, Montreal, where they
stopped after coming from Quebec.
Custom officials said the lace the fin
est of Breton quality and included
baby clothes, doilies, priests garments
and table linen. Each piece was care
fully sewed into the petticoats.
Extra good show on at the Liberty
theater tonight.
MEXICO WILL SEIZE
HUNCH FORMER CONSUL
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 14 (£>)—'The
government will seize the ranch of
Edward H. Thompson, former United
States consul at Progresso on charges
of illegally removing valuable archae
ological objects from the country.
WSllfSEY BE
IN PERFECT SHAPE
SO HE NO ALIBI
TUNNEY IS THE CONFIDENT LAD
ACCORDING TO RECENT
STATEMENT
STOUDSBURG, Penn., Sept. 14. (IP)
—Gene Tunney, who on the afternoon
of September 23, confidently expects
to be wearing the heavyweight crown,
said that he hoped Jack Dempsey’s
layoff of three days would do him a
world of good. “I hope it enables the
heavyweight champion to reach the
perfection of condition within the
next ten days. I don’t "want to beat
any man who will state, following his
defeat, that it was due to staleness.
I want to down a man who will be al
most as good as he ever was for I
don’t want the sport writers to pull
out the old moth-eaten “lead” ‘A mere
shell of a former great fighter,’ in tel
ling of Dempsey’s downfall.
DEMPSEY 2-1 FAVORITE
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. (/P)—With
the Dempsey-Tunney fight less than
two weeks away the champion is a
two to one favorite.
LADIES NOTICE
Hart Schaffner & Marx coats for
ladies will be on display at Urbach’s
store today and tomorrow only.
"•The Sphinx**
BILL REDUCTION
SENATOR SIMMONS OF NORTH
CAROLINA CHARGES REPUBLI
CANS MAKING ATTEMPT HOLD
OFF TAX REDUCTION AT NEXT
SESSION OF CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. (/P)—Sen
ator Simmons of North Carolina, a
member of the Senate Finance com
mittee, declared in a statement to the
Democratic National committee that
Democrats will demand half a billion
dollar tax reduction at the next ses
sion of congress. He charged Re
publicans attempted to hold off the
reduction and further, that Republi
can presidential aspirants plan to
provide political capital. He said “A
S562,000,000 surplus is available for
reducing at the coming session.
SEAMSTRESS SAYS
SHE FAKED STORY
M'PHERSON CASE
WAS ARRESTED LAST SATURDAY
CHARGED ISSUING WORTHLESS
CHECKS; MRS. L. W. M. SEIL
AFF CONFESSES UPON TWIN
SISTER’S REQUEST
LOS ANGELES. Sept. 14. (£>)—
The Examiner in a copyright story
said Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman McDon
i
; aid Seilaff, an $1S a week seamstress
i confessed she faked the story of shar
ing the seaside cottage at Carmel
with her sister the “Miss X” and Or
miston for which she said she receiv
ed $5,000 from Aimee McPherson. She
said she received $150 expense money.
The confession climaxed the meeting
between Mrs. Seilaff and her twin
sister, Mrs. Virla Kimball of Oakland
who "was said to have requested the
confession. They met in a newspaper
office to where Mrs. Seilaff had been
taken from the county jail. She was
arrested Saturday charged with is
suing worthless checks.
WHEN THE TIDE GOES OUT
BLOOMFIELD, U. J., Sept. 14. (JP)
—Marion Overton of this city made a
round trip hike from the Atlantic sea
board to the Pacific and now plans a
little walk to Alaska.
SIN DIECO-CONONIDO
IT COST OF MILLION
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 14. (TP)—The
construction of a bridge to connect
the cities of San Diego and Coronado,
a long dreamed project that at last
is to become a reality, at a cost great
ly in excess of one million dollars,
was announced yesterday by the J. D.
and A. B. Spreckles securities com
pany.
Permission to construct the 2700
foot span will be asked of the San.
Diego county board of supervisors,
October 18. > *