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THE RUSKO TIMES
VOL. VIII NO. 16
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. MAY 26. 19278
PRICE 25 CENT*
Vetoed By
Coolidge
McNAKY-HAUGEN FARM RELIEF
DISAPPROVED—MERCHANT
MARINE MEASURE O. K..~
WASHINGTON, May 23,-*-Presi
Coolidge last night vetoed the
disabled emergency officers retire
ment bill, a measure favored hy the
American Legion, and the bill creat
ing* a grand band master in the army.
President Coolidge also today, for
the- second time, vetoed the McNary
HaUgen farm’relief bilk
The President signed the Jones
White bill, designed ‘ to -maintain .1
strong merchant marine by .aiding
private ship-operators.
WASHINGTON, May 24.—The bill!
te- grant increased pay- - to postal
-workers, also the-fourth class postage
bill, the Hill authorizing 110,000,000;
for Western roads purposes, and the
emergency officers retirement bill— j
aii four were passed today' by the
Senate over the- veto of President
Coolidge.
TOD MORGAN BOXES WAY TO
DECISION OVER EDDIE MARTIN
I NEW YORK, May 25.—By the nar-*'
rowest margin, Tod Morgan,. Hustling
king of the junior lightweights, last
* night hoxed his way to a 15-round
decision over Cannonball Eddie Mar
tin, one time bantamweight title <
holder.
WOULD PROSECUTE FALL,.
DOHENY AND SINCLAIR'
WASHINGTON,. May 24:-r-A reso
Ihtion directing President Coolidge to
prosecute Doheny, Sinclair- andi Fall'
on charges of bribery was introduced!
in the Senate this afternoon, by
Chairman Nye, of the Senate investi
gation committee.
PLANES WILL CUT TRAVEL
ING TIME, COAST TO COAST
NEW YORK.—The Transcontinen
tal Air Transport is the name of a
new corporation which, has been or
ganized to inaugurate a passenger
transportation service between New
York and Los Angeles, using air
planes and railroads. It is promised
that the time between the Atlantic
and Pacific coast will be cut from
four to two days.
Announcement of the organization
of the new company was mad ehere
today by C. M. Keys, president of the
Curtis Aeroplane & Motor Cbmpany;.
He is president of the new company;,
and states that the combination rail
and plane service will he inaugurated
within the next few months. .
The Sea Wolf, CaptaituFramk Lar^
son, arrived last Monday-; on its first
trip of the season; .bringing up a
large cargp.ofoil. Also coming up
were ChbwHe O’Halloran and Einor
Carlson. i .Thftj Wolf returned to Mc
Grath 'on-.-Tuesday.
Mr. and. Mrs. Dave Clough were to*
lay departures for the A. R. C. camp
at Little tfcreek, where Mr. Gldugh as
sumes duties as foreman.. . i
Billy 'Chse, after a visit of a* couple
| of -days d>ere, returned to ' MsGrath
Friday evening, going down .in his
launch.- ‘-. .
Claud Nyberg, after a visit of a
ouple of days in town, returned tb
ay. to Yankee creek..!:.
Films Party
Is Missing
LEFT WISEMAN MAY 11 IN TWO
PLANES, WITH PILOTS NOEL
WIEN, R. H. MERRILL.
FAIRBANKS, May 24.—Bound
for Point Barrow in search for the
Fox. Film expedition. Pilot Matt Nie*
menen, of the Aschorage Air Trans
port Company, and Richard Heyse,
radio- operator, took off from the
Fairbanks airport today. Word from
Kotzebue indicates that the relief
plane arrived there Saturday.
The Fox expedition left Wiseman
for Point Barrow on May II in two
airplanes,, piloted by Noel Wien and
Itu'ssell Merrill, veteran sourdough
aviators.
GOV. PARKS, MAJ. ELLIOTT
AND R. J. SOMMERS MAY
MAKE VISIT TO KUSKOKWIM
Governor George Parks, Major El
liott, of the Alaska Road Commission,
and R. J. Sommers, Territorial high
way engineer, will soon make an
aerial survey of the Interior, flying
-to the Koyukuk and Kuskokwitv) dis
tricts and perhaps to Nome, arc -r.iing
to advices lately received i.i
Airship Itaiia
Is Missing
BELIEF IN SPITZBERGEN THAT
SHIP IS DRIFTING TOWARD
SIBERIAN COAST.
OSLO, Norway, May 26.—Captain
Roald Amundsen, explorer, has been
called into conference with Norwe
gian government authorities concern
ing the possibility of sending a relief
expedition to search for the missing
dirigible Italia, which has not been
heard from in twenty-six hours. It
is the general belief in Spitzbergen
that the ship is drifting toward the
Siberian coast.
ALASKA TELEGRAPH SYSTEM
BIGGEST EVER LAST YEAR:
WASHINGTON.—Major General
C. McK. Saltzman, until recently, chief
signal officer of the army, points out
last, year as the greatest in the.* his
tory of. the Alaska cable and -.military
system;.
Commercial business amounted, to
over $278,000 and government. busi
ness to over $130,000, not including
War Department business.
Einor Carlson, well known old
timer, was an airplane passenger
from McGrath to Fairbanks on-Fri
day, with Pilot A. A. Bennett. Mr.
Carlson, from Fairbanks, will leave
directly for the Outside, headed for
Denmark, where he will make a stay
of indefinite duration, visiting with
relatives and friends.
Gilbert RuSsell. Flume Dredge
Company superintendent, - returned
here Thursday from a ...visit to the
company’s camps atk .Little and Yan
kee creek, again departing today, for
Little creek.
Gharlie Baker, Little creek, was
among yesterday, arrivals for a brief
visit hem,-.
JUDGE AND MRS. G. J. LOMEN
TO CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVER
SARY OF MARRIAGE, SEATTLE
SEATTLE, May 24.—G. J. Lomen..
Federal Judge of the First Alaska di
vision, and Mros. Lomen, will arrive
in Seattle Saturday to attend the
wedding of their daughter, Miss
Helen, and to celebrate the fiftieth i
anniversary of their own nuptials at'
the home of theih son, Ralph Lomen.
of Seattle. Miss Helen will be mar
ried on May 27 at the home of her
brother to Clinton Aftein, of St. Paul.
Two days later Judge and Mrs..
Lomen will celebrate their anniver-t
sary.
Miss Laura Volstead, daughter of
the father of the noted Volstead law,
arrived today to attend the nuptials
of Miss Helen Lomen. Miss Volstead .
and the bride-to-be were former
schoolmates. j
Bank Robbery
! Lamar, Col.
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j FATHER AND SON MURDERED—
BANDITS MAKE GOOD THEIR
ESCAPE.
LAMAR, Col., May 24.—Four ban- i
dits held up the First National Bank]
, of this place late yesterday afternoon j
i and killed A. N. Paish, president of!
! the bank, and his son, John Parish, i
j the cashier. The bandits made good.
I their escape, taking with them two
.hundred thousand dollars, in cash and
Negotiable securities.
LATE DOINGS IN NATIONAL
HOUSE AND SENATE
WASHINGTON, May 25.—The;
* House today passed the Swing-John-|
! son Boulder Canyon dam bill.
! The Senate today sustained Coot- j
idge’s veto of the McNarv-Haugen
farm relief bill, but by a margin of |
' only four votes.
The House yesterday, by a vote ofi
161 to 182, killed the bill appropriat
ing $10,000,000 for roads in national )
parks and Indian reservations, sus-j
taining Coolidge’s veto which the,
Senate had passed over the veto.
The House today apj roved the
$222,455,000 tax eduction bill and!
sent it to President Coolidge.
The President today signed the bill
carrying $25,000,000 for Federal aid
| Li States for road construction.
TAKING OF 1930 CENSUS.
WASHINGTON.—The taking ofj
the 1930. census will start on May 1i
of. that year and will combine an en-!
uincration of both population and1
live stock under the Fenn bill, which:
was appoved by the House census
committee. The census will include a
computation of commercial distribu
tion and output of mines is all
; States and Territories, including
j Alaska.
| Carl Lottsfeldt, A- R. C. superin
tendent, was an airplane passenger to
Fiat on Thursday with Pilot Ed
! Young, returning here on Friday.
Miss Ann Hughes, for the past year
teacher in the Takotna school, was a
. Tuesday departure to McGrath on the
; Sea Wolf. Miss Hughes will be a
passenger on the Tana to Bethel.
Jeanne Daniels was a passenger on
the Sea Wolf to McGrath last Tues
day for a brief visit.
Owen Gray departed a few days
j ago for Spruce creek.
Nobile Over
North Tale
i
FLIGHT OF 750 MILES FROM
KINGS' BAY WAS MADE IN
TWENTY HOURS.
KINGS BAY, May 23.—The dirigi
bleltalia started on its third trip into
the North Polar regions early this
rooming •
LONDON, May 24.—General Em
berton Nobile flew across the North
Pole in the Italia shortly after mid
night, said a message from Oslo early
today. The flight of 750 miles from i
Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, was made in
twenty hous.
TO AUTHORIZE 10-ROUND BOX- j
ING MATCHES IN ALASKA
WASHINGTON, May 23.— The!
Houston bill, a measure designed to |
permit the holding of ten-round box-:
ing matches is Hawaii and Alaska,
was passed by the House Monday.
ALBERT E. PARISH PASSES.
SEATTLE, May 26.—Albert E.'
Parish, former managing editor of
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, twice !
assessor of King county, and promi-!
nent in Stale politics, died at his
home here yesteday afternoon, at the
age of ?3.
200 Tlanes
Are Scouting
_
LOOKING FOR FOUR BANK BAN
DITS WHO HAVE KILLED
FOUR MEN.
DIGHTON, Kan., May 25.—Fleeing'
before a posse of two hundred air
planes, four bank bandits, who have
killed four men so far, are reported
today to be near Modcc, Kansas.
The bandits killed Dr. W. W. Wien
ger. of Dighton, whom they abducted
last night, and E. A. Kessinger, as
sistant cashier of the Lanier Bank,
whom they also abducted.
CONFIRMATION OF E. J.
ADAMS FOR JUDGE FIRST
DIVISION IS IN ABEYANCE
WASHINGTON, May 23—The Sen
ate Monday discussed confirm?lion of
E. J. Adams for Federal judge for
Alaska, but deferred action until the
return of Senator Steiwer from
North Carolina.
1 Hot Ed Young, with the Fair- i
banks plane, went to Ophir on Thurs- j
day, returned here the same evening,
and left Friday for Flat, having A.
M. Rice and John Auld as passen
gers.
Bert Goodpaster was a today de
parture for the A. R. C. camp at Lit
tle creek.
Carl Lottsfeldt, A. R. C. superin
tendent, left today for Ophir on offi
cial business.
Dave Peck was a today departure,
headed for Little creek.
Lee Lamprecht left today for Little:
creek.
Matt Kivi, after a couple of days’
visit here, left Thursday for Ophir.
! School Board
Within Rights
200 UNION TEACHERS OF SE
I
! ATTLE BARRED FROM DU
TIES, SEPTEMBER.
I SEATTLE, May 23.—Holding that
the Seattle school bourd is entirely
within its rights in refusing employ
1 ment to teachers who are members
I of a union, Judge Howard M. Findley
today dissovlved the temporary re
straint orders issued against the
board and dissolved the famous teach
; ers’ union case.
■ The decision means that two hun
dred teachers no waffiliated with the
! teachers’ union will not be p rmitted
i to teach in Seattle schools, beg.i.ning
! in September.
! CANNERY SHIP WRECKED ON
ROCKS NEAR UNIMAK PASS
i SEATTLE, May 24.—The San
j Francisco cannery ship Star of Falk
land, bound for the Naknek cannery,
j was totally wrecked on the rocks
, near Unimak Pass yesterd.,.’. The
crew of the Falkland were rescued,
• according to advices received here.
' KETCHIKAN W OMAN LEAPS
: INTO HUMBOLDT I AY, DROWNS
EUREKA, Calif., . May 24.—Mrs.
Eva Sperry, 24, of Seattle, leaped into
. Humboldt bay today, and drowned,
j She was the wifi of E'Is worth Sperry,
! musician, and daughter of Mr. and
; Mrs. Joseph Auriolo, of Ketchikan.
I MODERATOR OF PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH OF UNITED STATES
I -
j TULSA, Okla., May 24.—Dr. Hugh
K. Walker, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church of Los Angeles, was
today elected moderator of the Pres
I byterian Church in the United States,
at the opening of tho 140th annual
assembly here.
SOCIALIST LABOR CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENT DROWNED IN
ATTEMPT TO RESCUE A BOY
BEND, Ore., May 23.-r-Frank T.
Johns, of Portland, who was nomi
nated a week ago in New York as
the Socialist Labor Party's candidate
for President of the United States,
was drowned yesterday while trying
to rescue a drowning i oy.
BACKING COL. LINDBERGH
IN A NEW AIR \ ENTI RE
ST. LOUIS.—Three St. Louis busi
ness men, who backed Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh on his flight across the At
lantic last May, have become inter
ested in another trail-blazing air
venture.
They are Harold M. Bixby, presi
dent of the St. Louis Chamber of
Commerce; Major William B. Robert
son, president of the Curtiss-Robert
son Airplane Manufacturing Com
pany, and Harry Hall Knight, broker
and president of the St. Louis Flying
Club.
The three are interested in a plan
which the Pennsylvania Railroad has
under consideration for combination
air mail service between New York,
£•.. Louis and Southwestern points.
Passengers would be transported in
trains at night and transferred to
airplanes for day travel. Under such
a scheme the New York-Dallas travel
time would be cut from between -JO
and 45 hours to 24 hours.