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Hyder weekly herald., 1927-06-25
WICK ASKS DISMISSAL
 OF INJUNCTION SUIT

On the motion of Judge Jas.
 Wickersham, the suit filed by
 him on May 6, last against
 Walstein G. Smith, Treasurer
 of the Territory, seeking to en- join the payment of certain
 legislative appropriations, was dismissed without prejudice in the U S. District Court a few
 days ago, according to the
 Juneau Empire. No reason was
 assigned in the motion for this
 procedure.
 This ended the suit by which it was sought to hold up all appropriations made for Ter ritorial support of the office of the Governors and' the Sec retary's office and for pay ment of special legislative ex- penses. Of the 18 individual items attacked by Judge Wick ersham 16 were declared to be legal and mot subject to restraint, and two were held invalid in a ruling made re- gently by Judge T. M. Reed.
 Following the dismissal of the action Secretary Karl Thiele said that the items upheld by Judge Reed would now be- come available, making poss- ible payment of salaries to clerks in the offices of Govern or and Secretary, and for cert ain special legislative expens- es. The appropriations for sal ary of the Secretary of Alaska and for overtime regular cler- ical forces of the Senate and House, held by the Court to be invalid, will not be used, he said.
 The suit was filed by Judge Wickersham on May 3, the day following the adjournment of the Legislature. By it he sought to prevent the use of the funds appropriated for the Governors office and mansion; the salary of Secretary Theile, clerks in his office and contin- gent expenses, and four items for special Legislative expen- ses.
 Arguments were heard on May II and 12, on demurrers filed by Attorney General Rustgard representing Treas urer Smith ,and Hellanthal & Hellanthal, representing Gov. George A. Parks and Secretary Theile, intervenors. Judge Reed then took the matter un- der consideration and on May 31, in a 41-page decision ruled on each item separately. He sustained the objections rais- ed by Judge Wickersham in but two instances but did not rule as to two of the items re- garding the Governors man. sion saying unless some at tempt was made to expend funds hereunder, there was no occasion for ruling. He, al so, declared there was a seri- ous question as to the right of Judge Wickersham to bring such action, but inasmuch as the question was up on demur- Ter only, he said he would not rule on the point at present.
 The motion to dismiss the suit intimated it was not i'm possible that some other act ion might be brought later, possibly in different forms. out regard to tide conditions. l = I... AL ..~I T .
Hyder weekly herald., 1927-06-25
CHAMBR OF COMMERCE
 LUNCHEON INTERESTING

!
 One of the most interesting
 luncheon meetings held by
 the Hyder Chamber of Com
 merce since it's inception took
 place Tuesday at the Ideal
 Cafe in honor of Bishop Shep-
 ard, resident Bishop in the Portland area of the Methodist
 Episcopal Church, Rev. Dr.
 Smith, District Superintendent
 for the Spokane district and
 Rev. J. T. Mcqueen district
 superintendent of M. E.
 churches in Alaska. A majori-
 ty of the Chamber members
 attended and listened with
 close interest to the remarks
 of the various speakers, in ad-
 dition to pay due respect to the very excellent luncheon
 prepared by the capable hands of Meinhost Behrmann. At the conclusion of the repast
 president. Merl F. Thomas of the Chamber of Commerce in- troduced Dr. Mcqueen, who spoke briefly on the work of the M. E. Church in Alaska and outlined the itinerary of noted companions during their visit to the Territory. Wm. Bunting, pioneer mining man of the district succeeded Dr. Mcqueen and delivered an in teresting address on the early mining history of the camp, including the story of the great Premier mine and other noted properties. Being one ot the earliest locators in the dis trict, Mir. Bunting was able to recite many little known facts concerning the events which have brought the camp to its present advanced stage of de- velopment and production.
 Ernest Blue next gave a graphic outline of the Peace River railroad project and Fly der's prospects for ultimately becoming the Alaska terminus of a transcontinental rail route. During the course of his ad- dress, MT. Blue quoted num- erous statistical evidences showing that the value ot Alaska's export and import trade alone provided a pow erful incentive to railroad con- struction and prophesied that Hyder will one day become the great shipping mart of the Territory as we'll as one of the worlds greatest mining cen terS.
 At the conclusion of MT. l Blue's address, Dr. Smith was introduced and gave an inter esting dissertation on his ob- servations in the district and 1 also touched upon the spirit ualizing efforts and aims of | the church.
 Bishop Shepard was the next | speaker and held his hearers spellbound with a display of l forensic ability of the highest i order. Drawing analogies and 1 comparison from Biblical hist ory with the rare skill of the born orator he applied them to local conditions and efforts in a manner to uplift the spir- its and hearten the efforts of | those who are striving to ad- vance the development and | progress of the district; point ing out that the will to do is the main factor in all advance ment and that optimism is the l
New Britain herald., 1927-06-28

FINEST-Californians, ever given to boastins, and this time with reason, proclaim Los Angeles new city hall as the most beautiful civic building in the United States. Photo made when building was dedicated
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New Britain herald., 1927-06-28

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New Britain herald., 1927-06-28

SPELLER-Dean Lucas, of Congress, O., wins the 1,000 prize in the national spelling contest held. at Washington, D. C., handling "abrogate," which stumped the last of his competitors
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wy" FRANCIS mcdonald. A thrill-swept
action drama of adventure. Jimmy Arthur
In "tInsA Shavas T~.o~. To-
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was decorated with Dalms. ferns. smilax
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III the ClTcuIt court Tor Montgomery county,
Maryland. No. Ass Equity.
Evening star., 1927-04-24

become lightheaded, and after saying
something about his father and mother
he suddenly threw up his arms and
disappeared from sight.
Almost Immediately after this was
seized with violent cramp. but the men
turned the boat over and crawled in
for ten minutes or so, suffering ter
ribly. 1t seemed infectious, for during
the next two hours every one suffered
fro.a the same complaint. Strange to
say, however, we all felt better after
ward.
All that day. all the night, and all
the following day until after sundown
we hung on to the dory, one more man
going mad and trying to drown the
rest of us before he succumbed. Dur
ing this terrible time the boat had
been drifting steadily to the westward
before an easterly breeze, which
gradually fell away until 1t became al.
most dead calm. Taking advantage
of this opportunity, we made another
great effort to bale out the boat. We
had tried to do this many times be-
fore, but always without success.
After long struggle we got the
water out and piled gratefully into the
dory. the two divers and myself squat
ting together in the stern, with our
arms around one another to get what
warmth we could, and the crew doing
the same in the middle. We must all
have been a little mad that night for
we imagined that we saw many boats
passing us with lights in them, al
though the thing was impossible so
far out to sea
Finally we dozed comfortably until
dawn, when another problem con
fronted us, In the far distance we
could see the mountain peaks on the
Island of Panay, but how we were TO
reach the shore with nothing but our
bare hands to propel us through the
water we did not know. Yet by some
means or other we should have to get
something off the boat to make pad
dies with otherwise we should drift
out into the China Sea and perish
miserably.
There was just a chance that we
might be able to pry off one of the
light pieces of planking. about four
inches wide, that had been nailed to
the side of the boat as tenders.
After some hours Of cautious work
we succeeded in getting off one whole
piece, nine feet long, without breaking
it. and then, swapping 1t into three
pieces, we used one for a steering oar
and the others as paddles. They made
fairly good substitutes, but the nails
sticking in them annoyed us great
deal, for our skins were very soft
from our long immersion in the water
and the least thing lacerated them.
Still, with every one taking a turn
at the paddles, we gradually forged
our way toward Panay, but that
night, much against my better judg-
Evening star., 1927-04-24

for ourselves or some member OF the
family or some friend. let's get proper
values associated with our worries,
If underweight is the subject of worry,
let. us begin to- VERY first about the
children, for they are the ones most
injured by thinnesss Then, as the
subjects of our concern increase in
age. we may permit our worries to di
minish in amount until the persons
have reached the age of 80 or 50.
Now an interesting thing may happen
If we are worrying about our own
weight and at 80 or whereabouts see
the futility of it and cease worrying,
during this period of relaxation we
may find ourselves picking up pounds.
Then the scene may shift. After that
comes the time when we must begin
to be concerned about afatness rather
than thinness. So we are free to re
sumo the worrying habit which wet
spent the first half OF life trying TO
keep up. And that's that!s
Evening star., 1927-04-24
Excessive Thinness and Methods to Be Used in Over

Lettuce salad, mayonnaise dressing.
Stewed fruit--cookies.
Glass of milk if desired.
MTDAFTERNOON.
If hungry, glass of milk and graham
cracker.
If not hungry, fruit juice or piece
Of fruit. or dish of fruit pulp.
DINNER.
Meat soup.
Large chop, baked potato.
Spinach or cabbage.
Baked custard with tart jam and
cream.
A piece of candy if desired.
1t may be interesting to know that
there is evidence to show that liberal
use of fruit seems not only to encour-
age appetite, but to improve the utili.
zation of foods by the body
In summing up the question of
weight. If we are the worrying kind,
and feel that we must worry, either
Evening star., 1927-04-24

proceeded to open. The first one
gave me a lot of trouble, and all at
once it dawned on me that there was
something under the knife, To my
delight, on opening it, I found a splen-
did pearl weighing 152 grains.
You should have seen the change in
Marcus! After that he worked with
a will and we got some 20 more pairs
of shell. There was nothing sensa-
tional in them. but I managed to get
quite a number of fair pearls out of
the lot
After this we set sail for Iloilo and
when my partners had duly admired
the big pearl we sent it to Singapore,
where it was sold for $500. This,
with the price received for the others,
returned all our capital and gave us
handsome dividend to boot.
Naturally. my good fortune on this
trip inspired me to further efforts, and
after another short visit to Bantayan
/ fitted out the little lugger Culion and
prepared to pearl again in real
earnest.
The spot chose to work, with the
aid of a couple of divers from Banta-
van, was off the coast of Balhagon,
and after prospecting the ground for
a few days picked up patch of shell
carrying a large percentage of pearls.
So, good was It that in few days i
had collected quite valuable parcel
of these gems. With these / set sail
for Estancia, the nearest port on the
mainland, and, leaving the men to
replenish our stores of water and
fresh vegetables, started off for the
hacienda of Mr.. Noakes, an old friend
of mine, situated some miles from the
coast.
Noakes greatly admired my pearls
and / made up my mind to leave them
with him for safekeeping, as he was
the proud possessor Of an up-to-date
iron safe, but later | decided to stick
to them This proved to be one of
the most unlucky decisions ever
made.
Carrying my precious parcel, I went
aboard and we were soon at work
once more on the pearling grounds,
results being so good that 1 soon had
over Is hundredweight of shell and
more than $4,000 worth Of pearls to
show for a weeks work.
Yet never were the uncertainties OF
Evening star., 1927-04-24
Pearng Schooners Grew Cngs Tossing Dor for Two Da
seNThPrc nedanMn AhauB BrdyEsa death
,erturned and Men Aboard Barely Escape Death

when the natives in the shack saw his
terrible appearance and heard the
sounds=he was making, they were so
terrifi~d that they fed.
Providentially, however. one or two
of them picked up enough courage to
return; also our boat had be N seen.
with our bodies scattered over the
sand. Once our plight was realized,
the people hurried back and did all
they could for us.
Before 1 relapsed into complete un-
consciousness, / managed to scribhle
a message 10 Capt. Griffiths, the
American officer in command of the
C8piz province. This was taken TO
him By one of the fishermen. and i'm
mediatelys after receiving my SOS
he set to work packing up extract,
brandy and ether necessaries and per
sonally came along to us with one of
HI best men. ] can never be too
grateful to him, for had he not acted
as he did most of us would never have
recovered. AS 1t was, | was soon
safely lodged in Capiz Hospital.
Those dreadful days and nights of
exposure left their mark upon me. For
time my eyes were glazed like those
of dead man, and the doctors warned
me that ! ought to take two years
COnlIt6IS -IkSLr III OTucI u klNC lily
nervous system a chance of getting
back to normal. But this l could not
do; all my little fortune had gone
down with the Culion, and it was i'm
perative that / should either raise
some more pearls or regain those lost
on the sunken lugger.
The trip proved terribly trying to
me. My poor half-skinned body was
| mass of infiamed and quivering
nerves. rendered worse by the pitch.
| ing and rolling of the boat.
| 4 WEEKS rest on shore benefited
me considerably and / was soon
back again, this time in small steam
| launch. 1 made my headquarters on
the little coral island of Balbugan,
which enabled me to sleep ashore and
thus avoid the ceaseless motion OF the
launch. Here occurred the curious
episode of the turtle--an extraordinary
fluke that was instrumental In en-
ablin, me to retrieve my broken for
tunes.
About mile and half from where
the Culion foundered, the diver came
lup one morning with couple of sDlen-
Evening star., 1927-04-24

did pairs of dead shell, each of'wEich
had piece bitten right out.
1 was 80 interested that. putting on
the divers boots, l went down in the
helmet TO have a look around / found
large, fiat rock standing about six
inches above the bottom, and around
1t were strewn hundreds of pairs OF
dead shell. all with a piece broken ous
of the lips.
Next day the mystery was solved
when the diver saw an enormous
hawk's-bill turtle carrying a shell in
IT'S mouth. 1t placed the shell on the
fiat rock and then curved its powerful
neck and beak. pressing the shell down
until q triangular piece was broken
o of It. Then it swallowed the oyster.
After this, the di zer's one idea was
to catch that turtle; he was convinced
the brute must be fur of pearls,
though / told him that the acids of its
stomach would dissolve any that It
swallowed. This. however, he refused
to believe, and one day he actually got
hold OF the brute. with the idea Of
turning it over and bringing il to the
surface.
1t was his first and last attempt.
Before he knew what was happening
he had received a smashing blow that
dented his helmet ana drove = DOWN
onto his head. and it was a bruised
ana badly frightened diver that I pres
emily helped oyer the side.
. Before long. however, a. bright idea
occurred to me. The turtle always
seemed TO come from the same direc-
ton, and it struk me that somewhere
or other he probably had his own. pri-
vate larder--some hole on tina i floor
into which the live shell had been
swept by the tide. | told the. diver.
therefore. to follow the turtles tracks
backward and try TO find this hidden
store. which might we'll be rich in
pearls. This time he was good enough
TO approve my theory. and he had not
been down long when he came up
smiling broadly, with his bag full of
shell.
You're right. boss" he grinned;
that old turtle has got three holes
into which the shell must have been
drifting for years. Wen get more opt
of them in a week than we've been
getting in month up to now"
Calling for bigger bag, he prompt.
ly disappeared again.
He was right; that patch, which we
called the turtles larder." proved a
little gold mine. Unfortunately, 1t was
too good to last, and in less than
week we had completely cleared it.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-04-24

the pearier's life fated to be more dra-
matically illustrated. BY this time
strong northeast breeze was blowing
and the weather looked threatening,
but / determined to hang on where
we were, as the island broke the force
of the waves. BY 10 pm. it was blow
ing a gale, but still was not pavticu-
larly uneasy. as 1t was only the End
of June, and typhoons are very rare
at that time of the year. / took the
precaution, however, of letting go an
other anchor and Stacking off the
cables.
BY, II o'clock, however, / was con-
yinced that we were in for something
much more serious than / had imag-
ined. The wind was now terrific and
/ realized that if our cables parted we
should be in a very tight place. What
] did not realize was that | was about
to undergo one of the most terrifying
experiences / have ever known.
x
TT was just after haH-past II when
the catastrophe happened. The
wind was now a regular hurricane, at
times almost burying the little lugger
in the water. All at once it seemed
to make one stupendous effort. First
one and then the other cable snapped
and in an instant the vessel was on
her beam ends.
She lay there for moment and
then turned turtle, hurting me into
the raging sea. | certainly thought
my last hour had come, for the
spindrift was terrible, slowly but sure
ly drowning me as it was forced by
the wind into my ears and nose.
Just before / went overheard | had
seen the dory--the little boat we used
for going ashore in-f1oating off in a
smother of foam, and I came to the
conclusion that unless 1t had sunk it
must be somewhere ahead of me in
that roaring waste of waters. ! was
being carried along at racing pace by
the wind and sea, but at thought of
the dory / started swimming instead
Of treading water, as ] had hitherto
been doing. Almost Immediately.
however, l had to desist, the spin
drift proving too much for me.
Pulling myself together and trying
Evening star., 1927-04-24

ment, we took a rest, and when dawn
broke next day we found that the tide,
or light -southerly wind that had
been blowing during the night, had
carried US out nearly as far as we
were the morning before. ~
OF course, l blamed myself for not
insisting that padding should go on
though our exhaustion was at any
ra = some excuse--but it was no good
thinking about that now. The only
thing to do was to keep the boat NOV
ing. for we were getting weaker and
weaker all the time and also suffer
ing horribly from thirst.
#
THE whole of that last day and
night was nightmare that will
hardly bear thinking about even now.
T. many cuts and abrasions l had
received, which had given me little
trouble while in the water, had now
hardened and every movement was
torture. All the remaining members of
tn, crew were more or less acraay by
tbs time, and it needed constant Wig
lance TO keep them to the paddles or
iIOiIt dudA AASs Az Us
way, was a good thing, however, as
1t prevented me from dwelling too
much on my own misery.
Yet, in spite of their agony of thirst
and fatigue, the poor fellows still
obeyed me as far as lay in their
power, and although l myself was
now at the last gasp, my head fortu-
nately remained clear and / was able
keep the boats nose headed for the
shore. The divers, too, kept their
senses as we'll as did. AS far as pos
sible we tried to divide the padding
equally, but often man would drop
his paddle and fall back exhausted.
and then another would take his
place.
AT length, on the evening of the
third day after we had managed to
bale out the boat and climb aboard, we
saw some fishermen's torches on the
shore, and this sight caused us to
summon up the last Of our strength.
My final recollection is of padding
blindly and mechanically-and then
running the boat ashore.
Unable to speak or walk, we fell
PROSTATE on the sand, and there we
might have lain and died had not one
of the divers managed to crawl to the
nearest fisherman's shack. But. owing
to his swollen tongue, he could only
utter strange and uncouth noises, and