VOL XI NO/ 29
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAYS.-PSETEMBER 19 1931
PRICE 25 CENTS
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Victorious
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.MANCHURIA ARE OCCUPIED,
AFTER SEVERE .CLASHES.
NANKNG,. Sept. 17.—Immediate
cessation of hostilities by Japanese
troops in and about Mukden and their
•■withdrawal to their original positions
was demanded in a vigorous note sent
<hy oFreign Minister C. T. Wang to
day to Japanese Minister Shiemitsu
for transmission to Tokyo. This ac
tion followed receipt of reports of the
fighting in and about Mukden yester
day*. which resulted in casualties on
both sides and in Japanese occupation
of the capital of Manchuria.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—The
State Department was informed to
day that Japanese troops have occu
pied four towns, in addition to the
city, of Muckden, but that all foreign
ers are safe. The State Department
feels that, on the basis of the news
received thus far concerning the Jap
anese-Chine clash in Manchuria, there
is no ground for construing it as a
violation. of the Kellogg anti-war
pact.
The Sea Wolf, following its last
trip of the season, got away today
for its home port at McGrath.
Matt Kivi, after a season with the
A." KC C., left today for his home at
Ophir, going over with P. W. Carlson.
Big Liner
Is Doomed
LINER COLOMBIA, ON ROCKS,
BROKEN IN TWO, RAPIDLY
SINKING.
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 18—Heavy seas
pounding on the battered hulk of the
Panama Mail liner Colombia spelled
its doom today and the liner began to
break up. She went on the rocks off
Point Tosco, 700 miles south of here,
in Lower California, last Sunday,
with 234 passengers aboard. Ad
i vices to the Marine Exchange here
; said the liner had broken in two at
; the No. 2 hatch, forward of amid
i ships, and the bow was sliding rapidly
beneath the waves.
LINDBERGHS ARRIVE AT NAN
KING, AFTER 800-MILE FLIGHT
NANKING, Sept. 18.—Pending de-J
cision as to their further itinerary,
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh, who arrived here this after
noon after an 800-mile flight from
Fukuoka, Japan, rested at the Amer
ican consulate. On their journey from
Japan the Colonel took time to super
| vise the many planes on the lake for
; the night.
Eddie Carlson, who was among the
| weeks’ visitors, left a few days ago
' for his home at McGrath. Mr. Carl
son, it is said, will make a trip to his
former home in Sweden some time
during the coming winter.
Alaska Interests At
The Nation’s Capital
(By W. A. 8. I
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—In the
; year 1930 the output of gold from :
- Alaska amounted to 497,356 ounces, j
with a value of $8,420,880, which was j
second in production in the United
States, California taking the lead
with a value of $9,308,300. Some of
the Government officials in Washing
ton predict that for the year 1931
Alaska will take the lead in the out
put of gold, which amounted to $47,
247,600 in the United States last
year.
President Hoover, on August 4th,,
signed a executive order excluding
three tracts of land from the Tongas
.National Forest in Alaska, heretofore
occupied as homesteads or for can-'
■nery purposes, and restoring them
for entry under the applicable public
larutiaws. Included in this order is a
tract, of '2.54 acres occupied by Con
E. Giesel, under special use permit
frortufche .Forest Service, which he de
sires itoiienter under the act of March
3, 1927 j
—
Efftnrtsb&rt being made to have
some'oflrtee big salmon packers in
AlafekaJ>give.ia little more thought to
the needs of "the natives, particularly
in the matter ® fsecuring employment
in the fisheries. Writing on this sub
jecththe manager of one of the large
companies says: “I realize that con
ditions are not good at some of the
canneries. For instance, during the
past winter the aatives at two of our
*.. operations had no monry or food, and |
I instructed our representative to
help them by giving some of these
men a certain amount of work each
week in clearing land, when the land
probably will have no value to us for
many years to come. I believe of
more salmon pacskers, steamship
companies, and miners will assist
along these lines to uplife the natives
the day will come when we will be
more prou dof our natives in Alaska
than could well be imagined.
Anewspaper man from the West
ward writes a long letter to the As
sistant Director of the Department
of Commerce, in the plea to have
Alaska represented in the “Commerce
Reports—A Weekly Survey of For
ign Trade.’ He cites the aricle writ
ten and delivered by Delegate Wick
ersham on “Alaska’s Trade Value to
the United States” upon the occasios
of the completion of the Capitol at
Juneau, last February, as an example
of what might well be brought before
the people of the country. In closing
his letter the writer says: “The
weight of evidence in favor of Alas
ka is impressive. Increased public
interest in the Territory, the develop
ment of more scientific and accurate
methods of analyzing her trade, cou
pled with an effort to hriijg the facts
before the thoughtful citizens not
only in the States but anullil<parts of
the world, will receive, its . due .share
of attention.’
Ever since the Lindberghs decided
[lying route to Japan, and particular
(Coatuiuad on Png* a.)
FLYERS MOYLE AND ALLEN
ARE DECLARED SAFE* BUT
LITTLE KNOWN OFI YEEANS
SEATTLE, Sept. J'..—^to
day again concealed the plans and
whereabouts of Don Moyle and' C. A.
Allen, California flyers, who were
scheduled to leave the Siberian coast
yesterday on a 60-mile: flight to
Nom, Alaska. The two birdmen, who
left Samushiro Beach, Japan, Septem
ber 7, on a nonstop flight to Seattle,
were not heard of again until Sep
tember 16, when word came from a
Russian steamship, the Buria, that
they had been forced down hy lack of
fuel on Navarin Island, near the Si
berian coast, after fighting storms for
thirty-four hours over Bering Sea.
DR. DAVID STARR JORDAN,
NOTED EDUCATOR, PASSES
AWAY AT PALO ALTO, CAL.
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 18.—Dr
David Starr Jordan yesterday kept a
tryst with Death. Across the sun
I dial of his life there fell at 8 o’clock
yesterday morning the moving
shadow of the end, as peacefully as
the recession of an outbound tide, the
80-year-old chancellor emeritus af
Leland Stanford University, slipped
through the portals into the dust of
an eternal .tomorrow, and another
great one had passed.
“WWEATHER MAN” PAYS
VISIT TO TAKOTNA
Howard J. Thompson, associate
meteorologist of the United States
Weather Bureau, with Headquarters
at Fairbanks, was anionthe week’s
visitors. During his stay here Mr.
Thompson installed ad apparatus
necessary to the functioning of the
local weather service— not to regulate
the weather, but only to record a few
facts in connection with it, such as
to give thermometer and barometer
readings, wind velocity, etc. As a
mater of fact, his -visit here was ac
companied by one of the worst wind
and rain storms known here for many
a day. Mr. Thompson states that
similar equipment has been installed
at Anchorage, Seward, Valdez, Cor
dova, Kodiak, Snug Harbor, Puteh
Harbor, Bethel, Kanakakanak (Dil
lingham), Nenana, Manley Hot
. Springs, Tanana, Fort Yukon, Can
! die, Eagle, Crooked Creek, Flat and
McGrath. Much of this service is
primarily for the benefit of aviation,
for which a twice-a-day service is
rendered, and which consists of giv
ing the kind of weather, the ceiling,
the velocity and direction of wind.
Pilot A1 Monsen, of the Pacific In
ternational Airways, and Pilot Robert
Ellis, of the Alaska Airways, at
tempted flight yesterday morning to
Flat, but, owing to heavy fog over
Ganes creek, Pilot Monsen, who was
in the lead, backtracked to Takotna,
assuming that Ellis would do the
same. Pilot Monsen, following his
landing here, expected to see Ellis
i flying in at any moment. Time went
j on, with no Ellis in sight, and there
was some apprehension as to the
whereabouts of the missing flyer.
Pilot Monsen made several scouting
flights, and learned nothing. Word
! came from Ruby this morning, how
ever, that all was well with Ellis, who
would return immediately to Mc
Grath to take George A. Green, cap
tain of the Tana, and Purser Frank
Mortimer to Anchorage, both ofj
whom are on their way to the Out-:
side.
Back Home
To Alaska
3 ESKIMOS, TIRED OF BIG OUT
SIDE, EAGER TO GET BACK
TO NATIVE DIET
MARYSVILLE, Calif., Sept. 18.—
After asking aid from a local relief
society, three Eskimos are making
their way back to the frozen North
as fast as they can travel.
Nine months ago five of these Es
kimos set out to see some of the
world. Two of them died from the
heat in St. Paul, Minn., according to
Charles Matthews, 28, who called on
Mrs. Dennis McCauliffe for food. He
wanted raw meat -and raw potatoes,
saying he and his two companions
could not eat cooked fond.
The Eskimos were scantily attired,
because of the heat.
FORMER MISSOURI GOVERNOR
TAKES SLAM AT HOOVER OR
DER TO SPARE THE DUCKS
KETGHIGANL—'“Saving: the ducks
and starving the people,” is the way
Frederick .Gardner, '-wartime governor
of Missouri, characterizes the Presi
dential proclamation restricting the
duck-hunting season in Alaska to one
month. The former governor and his
two sons and Walter Smith and son,
all of St. Louis, are visitors in Alas
ka, having arrived at Ketchikan
aboard a private yacht, via Prince
Rupert.
POSTAGE RATES GO UP.
WASHINGTON.—Postage rates on
letters and postcards mailed to Great
Britain and Ireland are to he increas
ed in September to 5 cents for the
first ounce and S cents for each addi
tional ounce. The postal card rate
will be 3 cents.
The rate now for both Letters and
postals is 2 cents.
Hans Erickson, manager of the
Ganes creek dredge, was among re
cent. visitors. Mr. Erickson declared
! that the operation of the dredge dur
I ing the past season was most suecesa
I ful, and indicated that it was his in
tention to leave -for the Outside with
in a fed yas for a winter visit, during
which Diesel engines will be pur
chased, the same to be installed on
the dredge during next season.
George W. Marchand, chief clerk of
the railway mail service, successor of
the late E. G. Wetzler, was a Monday
arrival with Pilot Monson of the Pa
cific International. Mr. Marchand is
making an inspection of affairs con
cerning duties -of ihis office through
out these interior parts.
Pilot Blunt, of the Pacific Inter
national Airways, following his re
turn here from a flight to Dilling
ham, got away Sunday- morning for
Anchorage.
Mrs. Oliver Anderson; who arrived
Monday with Pilot. Monson, of the
Pacific International/ reisurhed to her
home at McGrath today, going down
as a Sea Wolf passenger.
M John Sinclair, following a sea
son with the AVR. <2., departed today
for his home at McGrath, going down
as a Sea Wolf passenger.
Pete Jensen, after a few days in
town, left on Friday for his ,head
quarters. on Ganes,
Crashes On
Reef In Fog
SALVAGERS WORKING TO SAVE
5,000-TON MOTORSHIP BONNI
VILLE, OFF CBEMAINUS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18.—SaF
vagers were working last night to
pull the 5,000-ton Norwegian motor
ship BonniviHe, with its .crew of 45
! men, from a reef off 'Chemninus,,
I north of Vancouver, where it crashed
yesterday in a fog. It was feared,
according to wireless dispatches to
the marine department of the Cham
ber of Commerce here, that the Bon
i niville's cargo of 4,000^)00feet of
lumber, destined for Atlantic, ports,
might have , to be jettisoned- to save
the ship.
THOSE ‘DOCILE’ ALASKA
BEARS BREAK CHAINS
CLAW THREE IN STREET
FALLS CHURCH, Vsn-VTwo 350
pound Alaskan hiack hears and sev
eral score citizens of this historic
community fought- a twa-houv battle
on the main streebAoday - The noin/
score was one <hear- killer! ..the other
recaptured, and three, .men ..sjappeo
and clawed.
The bears brokei away from chains
in the rear of the home of E. R,
Makeley, an automobile dealer, whc
captured the min Alaska. Women anc
children fled to their homes. Mer
armed with guns and clubs -chased the
beasts. One hear attacked a cow anc'
clawed the bovine’s owner before
being cornered in a garage and roped
COST OF RUNNING ALASKA
DURING .LAST FISCAL YEAR
WASHINGTON.—The net oost t<
the United States of running Alaska
during the last fiscal year ending
June JO was $7,485,371, as compared
with slightly less than $6,000,000 the
preceding year.
These figures, which have just beer,
made public by t.he Department of
the Interior, reflect the difference be
tween the total expenditures during
the year, of $12,321,646 and the total
. receipts -of $4,840,275. from, territorial
sources.
The erpenditur- • were approxi
mately a million dollars more last,
year than the preceding year, while
the receipts/ decreased .about hall' s
million dollars.
A still of 30 gallons capacity, 50
< gallons of mash, about, a gallon of
the run-off in one five-gallon oil can, jj
' and about the same quantity in an- di
other can containing the drippings >s
from the worm, were gathered in by ij
Deputy >U. S. Marshal Stanley J, -s
I Nichols at McGrath a rowple of days 2j
| ago. The most wonderful thing about o:
: the affair .was that the still was made he
of galvanized iron, and the coil of lj
drop inze. Just think of it—galvan- r<
ized iron! »j
Stanley J. Nichols, U. S. deputy
marshal, and Oliver Anderson, N. C. >r
Company manager, were last, evening j
arrivals from McGrath for a brief ;s
visit, both returning to that place on h<
with this morning with Pilot A1 Mon- d
sen, of the Pacific International, v
- ij
Ivar Chilstrom returned Jsese “yes- a
terday from a several day -, visit if s
McGrath, and is scheduled to..leftv« w
for Flat on an early aixpiane f