TIMES
[Vol. 1. No. XVI.
TAKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY,JANUARY, 26, 1935.
PRICE, 25 C®THl
COLLISION AT
SEA RESULTS
IN TRAGEDY
A death toll which may reach BO
:ls the result of a collision between
the $2,000,000 liner Mohawk and the
freighter Talisman 5 miles off the
coast of Jersey.
The Mohawk sank shortly after
■ being rammed by the Talisman.
Most of the 117 survivors accounted
for were taken aberad the Coast
(Guard cutter Algonquin which went
to the rescue. There are 32 known
■ dead, 15 bodies having besn picked
up frozen. Searching airplanes re
:ported sighting -a number of other
bodies. Fog and darkness is said'to
have caused the catastrophe. The
Mohawk belongs to the same Com
pany as the ill fated Morro Castle
which burned off the Atlantic coast
last November with the loss of 135
lives.
CALIFORNIA'S 1936 BUDGET
CALLS FOR TAX INCREASE.
SAN FRACISCO, CAL. Jan. 23.—
'Governor Merriam in producing Cal
ifornia’s budget for 1935 declared
• that taxes would have to he in
■ creased in that state. The new
increases make the average annual
tax $125 per tax payer in California.
Taxes were increased on beer, to
bacco, gasoline and incomes,also an
increase in the sales tax by one per
'Cent.
About $47,000,900 was allotted for
unemployment relief.
A.Dimond Asks
Approp nation for
Highway Survey
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 24.—
Delegate Anthony J. Dimond today
introduced in the House a bill call
ing for appropriations for the survey
of the proposed International high
way and asked that $2,000,000 be
appropriated for the construction of
the Alaskan part of the highway.
The survey will be to determine the
most practical route. No money
will be authorized before an agree
ment has been rqpched with Canada.
Senator McNary of Oregon intro
duced similar bills m the Senate.
EASTERN STATES IN GRIP OF
SEVERE COLD SPELL.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—The East
is experiencing a severe cold wavi
extending from Canada to Florida
'Snow fell in New Orleans and bliz
zards were reported in Texas. A
total of 170 deaths were attributed
to the cold spell. Calgary, Canadi
was warmer than Miami, Florida, th<
former having » temperature of 4/
degrees above while Miami recorded
r38«Khove. Thousands of dollars dam
mge .was caused :to erops.
Paimut Native
In Custody Over
Death of Wife
Nels Anderson, Deputy U. S.
Marshall from Bethel enroute to Fair
banks with a prisoner remained over
nite in Takotna, leaving early
Tuesday morning. Pilot Nat Brown
flew the party from Piemute and
on to Fairbanks.
The prisoner, Goolka Behn, a na
tive from Piemute on the Ttukon rs
| accused of killing his wife. Mr.
J Anderson was ordered over from
[ Bethel to investigate the case.
Behn’s story is that to celebrate
Christmas a friend of his w Jr
brought liquor to the home and all
drank freely. The wife became m
toxticated and decided to leave taking
with her an adopted child. Behn
following overtook her on the river
bank > near an overturned boat. *n
the struggle that followed he struck
the woman causing her to fall
against the boat strike her head and
become unconscious. Taking the
[ child Behn went to a neighbors, a
white man, who thinking that it was
nothing but a drunken squabble per
suaded Behn, who was very drunk,
to go to sleep.
In the morning the woman was
fotind dead beside the boat, having
fronen to death while unconscious.
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Never Saw Baby
.
Is Hauptmann’s
Reply to Charges
FLEMINGTON, N. J.. Jan. 23.—
Bruno Hauptmann was today direct
ly connected with the ladder left
standing under the window at the
time the Lindberg baby was kid
napped. Wood experts testified that
the grain of the lumber was exactly
the same as that in a piece of board
(found in Hauptmann’s home also that
the ladder was made by tools owned
by Hauptmann.
The following day the defense open
ed with Hauptmann on the stand.
After explaining his apparent afflu
ence, after the Lindberg ransom
money was paid, he testified that on
March 1st, the night of the kidnap
ping, he was drinking coffee and
talking in the bakery where his wife
worked, while waiting to take her
home.
Friday.—I did not, was Haupt
mann’s stock reply to all charges.
I was ndt in the vicinity of Lind
berg’s home at the time of the kid
napping? I never saw the Lindberg
baby, alive or dead. I did not receive
the ransom money from Dr. Condon.
Hauptmann said that Fisch left
$15,700 with him and after Fisch dmd
in Germany, he had spent a few of
the bills not knowing they were from
thfe Lindberg ransom money.
Bandits Rob Mail
Truck of $130,000
FALL RIVER, Mass. Jan. 23.—
, Four bandits held up a mail truck
i today escaping with a $130,000 pay
, roll. The gunmen halted the mail
! truck and after tying the driver
drove off with the money which was
in currency and silver.
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SOLD OUTPUT
The Department of the Interior
announces, through an advance state
ment prepared by Philip S. S.mith,
of the Alaskan branch cf the Geo
logical Survey, that the minerals
produced from Alaskan mines in 1934
had an estimated value of $16,793,000
as compared with $10,366,000 inl933.
This brings the value of the mineral
output of Alaska since 1880 to more
than $680,000,000. The figures for
1934 ore nreliminary estimates and
sub. i vision.. The final fig
ures pear in the Geological
Survey annual report on the min
eral resources of Alaska, now in
preparation.
Gold
Ji ne gold production in Alaska m
1934 is estimated to have been
worth $16,105,000, based on the cur
rent price of $35 a fine ounce. This
value exceeds that for the production
of any year subsequent to 1916. In
this comparison, however it should be
remembered that in all preceding
years the established price of gold
has been $20.67 an ounce, so that
the new price is about 69 per cent
greater than the old price. The
total value of gold production of
Alaska from the beginning of pro
ductive mining ! in 1880 to date is
estimated as nearly $435,000,000.
As is well known, the gold pro
duced in Alaska comes from two
distinctly different types of deposits,
placers and lodes. In the placers
the .gold is recovered from gravel or
other unconsolidated deposits, where
as in the lodes it occurs in the
solid rock or vein matter. In 1934
the proportion of gold produced from
deposits of these t\yo types is es
timated to have been about 56 to44,
or $8,966,000 . from _ placers and $7,
109,000 from lodes. This is the same
ratio as in 1932, but in 1933 the
ratio was 54 to 46. As has long
been the case, .the hulk of the lode
gold produced in the Territory came
from mines in southeastern Alaska,
of which the mine of the Alaska
Juneau Gold Mining Company, near
Juneau, is by far the largest, How
ever, while this region still maintain
ed frst place in production of gold
from lodes, its lead over other Alas
ka districts appears to have been
lessened, for in ,1934 it is estimated
to have supplied only 68 per cent
of the Alaska lode production, where
as in 1933 it supplied about 74 per
cent. This decrease appears to have
been brought about through both a
smaller production df lode gold in
southeastern Alaska in 1934 and i
considerable increase in the output
from other lode-gold districts. The
greatest increase in value of the lode
production of these other districts
occurred in the Willow Creek and
Fairbanks districts, in each of which
the value of the output was nearly
double that in 1933. Increases were
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AKOTNA PUBLIC SCHOOL
The following pupils were neither
absent nor tajity for the school
month ending January 25, 1935 :
Freddie T. Oates, Viola O’Halloran,
Vesta O’Halloran.
Orah Dee ..Clark, teacher.
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LIGHTEST SNOWFALL ALONG
RAIL BELT IN HISTORY.
SEWARD, Alaska, Jan. 24.—For
the first time in the memory of old
employees of the Alaska Railroad a
snow plow has not been used this
late in the winter. From Seward to
Fairbanks the Railroad extends a
distance of nearly five hundred miles
yet no place along the line is there
more than one foot of snow. Scarcity
of wind and the light fall of snow
are accountable for the clear tracks.
NOTORIOUS OUTLAWS SHOOT
WAY OUT OF POLICE TRAP.
ATLANTIC CITY, Fla. Jan. 29.—
Alvin Carter and Harry Camel, no
torious gunmen and classed in the
Public Enemy number one type of
desperado, shot their way out of a
police trap and escaped. Two woman
companions were captured. The men
are wanted for numerous robberies
and kidnapping. None of the officers
ere wounded in the gun battle.
‘ Alchy ’! Smeirglers
Cheat Treasury of
40 to 50 Millions
WASHINGTON, . C. Jan. 24—Ad
ditional funds were asked in Congress
to combat smijpjjlers who are bring
ing into the country 190 proof al
cohol without paying the necessary
duty. It is estimated that between
40 and 50 millions of dollars are
lost in revenue due to the activities
of the smugglers.
MRS... E- COKE_ HILL.. WRITES
. STORY FOR MAGAZINE.
The last issue of the “Scientific
American” contains an article by
Ella Wilson Hill, wife of Federal
Judge E. Coke Hill, of the Fourth
Division, called “Before Winter Cato*
to Alaska.” It is an interesting.
count interspersed with enlightening
discussion on the numerous recent
finds of prehistoric animal remains
near Fairbanks.
PAA TO MAKE EXPERIMENTAL
FLIGHT ACROSS PACIFIC.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan.24. —The
Pan American Airways will attempt
an experimental flight to China this
summer and if it proves to be a
success they will inaugurate a reg
ular trans-Pacific service in the near
future. A special type of a plane is
now being tested for the proposed
flight.
JAPS ADVANCE ON CHINESE
CITIES IN MANCHUKUO.
PEKIN, China, Jan. 24.'—Two
thousand -Japanese troops equipped
with fighting planes, tanks and other
war paraphernalia, are advancing
against three Chinese cities in Cha
har province in western Manchukuo.
The cities want to retain their in
dependence and are defying the
Manchukuan government.
Dorbandt Forced
Down by Storm
In Br. Columbia
HAZELTON, B. C. Jan. .23.—PiLit
Frank Dorbandt, noted Alaska Ace,
flying a plane for the Bowman Air
ways of Anchorage, was forced do\ n
near here today in a blinding snow
storm damaging one df the skiis
and the propellor. With Dorbandt
are Grant Reed and Russ Gillis as
passengers. As fit will take some
time to effect the necessary repairs
the passengers, it is believed, will
travel by rail to Prinee Rupert whion
s 175 miles from where the plane w
now grounded. Dorbandt was en
deavoring a flight from Anchorage
to Seattle.
NABESNA MINE RESUMES WOES
AFTER BREAKDOWN.
CORDOVA, Jan. 19. — Operations
were resumed yesterday at the Na
besna old mine after a shutdowr
since December 7. The shutd< ■ vi
ftvas caused by the breaking of tnc
main engine’s shaft.
A shaft weighing 1,255 pound.1
was taken by airplane fromCCo
dova to Nahesna. The shaft* we?
too long to go inside 'the plane, sh*I
was carried suspended below the
aircraft.
LEGISLATORS
SUBMIT Mi
& LABOR BILLS
JUNEAU. Jan. 8.- Establishment
of a universal eight-hour djr..
six-day week, a. higher gross tax or
dAning, an increase in the bounty <*_
.wolves and coyotes, repeal of the
bank stablization.act and an addition
al tax on fish traps .are . provided ir
bills that were introduced in the
House late yesterday at the Ala d?
Legislature, according to the Fair
banks N ew»-Miner.
The eight-hour day and-six-d :
work week measure was submit!
by Representative Alton <1. 'N or dak
of the Fourth Division. The pro
vision of the bill would apply U
mines, mining claims, mills, factor
ies, canneries add : manufacturing
establishments.
The measure providing for a.
higher gross tax on mining was in
troduced % Representative Joscpl
Green of the First Division. It pr o
poses a ross tax of 2 and one halt
per cent on mining net incomes dl
$10,000 to $100,000; 3 per cent or
$100,000 to $500,000; and 5 per cc !
on mining net incomes over $500,00
The wolf and coyote bounty nun -
sure was introduced by Represent a
tive William N. Growden of the
Fourth Division. It proposes to rair
the bounty on wolves and. coyotes
from $15 to $20 an animal.
The bill providing for an" increa
sed tax on fish, traps was introduce:
by Speaker J. ' S.. Hof man of th
Third Division.
No bills .were .Jateoduesd v
Senate.