THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. v; * NO. 2
TOKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY,♦JANUARY 10, 1925,
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PRICE 26 CENTS
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*out Kaatl^h Portion
Massafeliasetts.
<■ -fiWtonv1 Jam 7. — A severe
earthquakewSt*4 felt ft 8 o’clock
this rmorning throughout the
•ststern ■ pdtfDios?i- of this state.
^Hornsea wertMefeafeetfand dishes
jarred from ‘shelves in Marble
head; *w-her’eHhe shocks were un
usually hesvy^ Scores of people
bought safety in cellars.
^' GHotrfiestei^BfrteO' aad 'other
•here townstreported very heavy
•bocks, ■ lasting “thirty seeonds,
and accompariie'd.' by rumblings
•reseinbfcng noises made' by load
ed ti*uck^on: paved'streets! In
-6wStrip 9dott* stovecave?*' were
dislodged/ and' in Kanant pic
ture# were « knocked«ipouft* the
trails. /
ISSyOOd ArreitB List
£ fok'fifiolation :
ofoP WohibitfoiUMw
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'' Washington. Jnw. 5. During*' the
• that twelvetnbnths 89.000 peroofis were
arrested for violating the prohibition
enforcement law, according to records
•( the prohibition department. Fines
> »od'forfeitures aggregating ■I5;7001'000
' were collected.
12 American Eskimo
Held Prisoners,Ohina
' Washington, Jan. 6.—Twelve survlv
ist Eskimos, who were rescued from
Wrangell islaad by soviet officials, are
being held as prisoners in China, and
continued persecution of them was{con
wejed in a cable received by Secretary
•f- Steto Hughes from the American
< consul at Harbin.
* Tornadoes Take Ter
rible Toll in the U. S.
v " Washington, Jan. 7.—Sii hundred
• bad seventy million dollars* worth of
I property were destroved or damaged
r by tornadoes in the United States from
1 Wlf^tb 1923 and resulted in the loss of
1 1928 lives, Herbert C. Hunter, of the
1 United States weather bureau, told the
American Association for the Advance
BMOiiOf Science here todav.
IjResjgnation of Asso
< sisfce Justice McKenna
~ WtttytfBfftoa, Dee. 7.—The resigna
• tioA^f Joseph McKenna, associate jus
* Stcedfrebs United States supreme court,
v Wnwitid today, bie retirement
1 feeing cb account of age. Tha retiring
juaticMOok bie seat on the supreme
beach January 28. 1808.
1 Baiidits Gets $6,000
Los Angeles Holdup
T, Lot Angeles, Jan. 5.—four bandits
! bald up the California National Bank
this afternoon and looted that instltu
' tioa of ell thousand dollars. They es
• -enaed in an automobile.
AIR FORGE IS
INADEQUATE
700 Planes Needed to
Bring Up to Standard,
Says Army Air Head.
Washington, Jan. 8.—The air
force of the country is inade
quate and would be ineffective in
a major war emergency. Major
General Patrick, chief of the
army air service, told the spe
cial House aircraft investigating
committee, today. Seven hun
dred planes are necessary, said
the General, to bring the
strength of the service up to the
present construction program,
as even with these in cornmis
sion he thought the strength
would not be equal in a struggle
fur air supremacy under war
conditions.
New Alaska Game Bill
»‘Soon to Become Law
Washington, J»d. 5.—The Alaska
(fame bill passed the House todav, and
Wiirbdcotne a law to a few days.
Dan Sutherland.
Delegate from Alaska.
Cdtflidge Economy Pol
icy Gets Indorsement
Washington, Dec. 7.—The Cooiidge
policy of drastic -government ecnnomv
was endorsed bv the Senate this after
noon when it sustained his veto of the
163,000.000 postal pay bill: One vote
was taken, twenty-eight republicans
and one democrat Supporting the Pres
ident.
Washington Notes
Washington. — The Navy Depart
ment, under orders from Coolidge, has
begun preparations for the evacuation
of one hundred United States marines
who have been kept in Nioaragus
since 1912 to protect American inter
•sis.
Washington.—Because of failure to
begin work within the prescribed time,
the license of the Alaska American
Paper Corporation for a power project
at Orchard Lake, Alaska, has been
canceled.
Washington.—The House has passed
the bill authorising the creation oi an
Alaska game commission, to protect
game animals, land fur-bearing an
imals and birds in that Territory.
Washington.—Congressman McKen
tie, republican, of Illinois, was elected
chairman of the House military affairs
e tmmiitee, to succeed the late Repre
sentative Kuhn, of California.
Washington.—Durinr tbe week John
D. Rockefeller. Jr., Judge Gary and
other New Yorkers, by request, will
give President Coolidge their views on
prohibition enforcement.
Washington.—Tha annual aaval ap
propriations bill and deficiency meas
ure were reported Tuesday by tbe Sen
ate appropriations committee.
France Ask£& Years’, .
Time, 10 Years* MoraT-* <
torium, to l?ay. U« S,
Washingrtoa, Jan; t.—ThT-Freach
tnamorandurn regarding tb* tnl-fmeni
of France’s war debt to the .TnUei
* 8tates whs trsosmiued today by Setye-]
tary of State Hughes to“SecretaVy of,
Treasury Mellon, for his personal aud!
private information.
Washington.—Secretary df Treasury
Mellon announces that the French note
contains a request for' eight years’,
time aod a ten years’ moratorium to
pay the four billion francs she owes
the United States.
Baffling Action of Can
nery Supt N. W."Fish“
cries Cd:, Seattle.
Seattle, Jan. disap
pearance of Captain Harry De*.
gueldor, caonecy superintendent
of fbe iNorfchivaete'fn Fisheries
Company, is*baffling bis friends
and the police authorities, de
spite the 'fact that members of
the Arctic OU»b have conducted
a futile search during the past
five days.
Captain Deguelder has not
I been 6eeo since Tuesday night,
land on the following morning
I this5note was found rn his room
at t-he A retie Club, addressed to
the Arctic Club;
*‘fn the event that I don’t re
turn, please give everything to
the Club telephone operator,
wbo has two children to sop
port.”
The telephone operator men
tioned is Mrs. Zella Glass, a
j widow.
Drastic Resolution
-Directed at Coolidge
Washington, Jan. 5 -Ooolldga’e de
lay in making return* of sugar inves
tigations conducted by the tariff com
mittee and any part be took in soaping
legislation, would be thoroughly venti
lated by the Senate finance committee,
under a resolution "introduced by Rob
inson. The rexolution it one of the
most drastic and sweeping ever direct
ed at a chief executive.
Future of Civilization
in Hands of Scientists
Wa9hingtoo, Jan. A —The future of
civilization lies io the bands of the
world’s scientists. President Coot id ge
said in an address at the White House
to members of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of Science.
•’You are the wonder-workers of all
ages,” the President said.
Ola! Waagen, returning from Ophtr
Fridav, left today for McGrath.
Brian McDaid, from Candle, wae a
Tuesday arrival.
Harry Panter, Flat, was « Friday
arrival.
NEW YORK,
SEATTLE
Plans forv 48-Hour Mail
* Service'May Soon Be
come Effective.
San Francisco, Jan. 7—‘*We
•plan a forty-eight hour mail ser
vice between New York and Se
attle, via Elko, Nay., and Pasco,
Wash., jastras soon as the bill
now before-'Congress to tdeclare
an air mail service a permanent
and integral part of the, post
office department becomes a
law,” Paal^Eeaderson* second1
assistant postmaster general, aa~
uoonced today.
Telegraphic Ticks:
' Paris.—A conferencebf allied fescc*.
ministers began here" this afternoon,,
with Kelldgg, American ambassador to,
Britain, Will A Logan, ;jr., American
representative with the reparations
committee, and Herrick, American aar-j
byasador to France, attend tog,
Seattle.—li«f. Joseph Fops, superin
tendent of the Anil Saloon League of
Washing Lon sad Idaho, died at his
home m thin city Mooda* night, fie
was widely known for his activities i®
the Northwest as a militant prohibi -
tionist.
Des Moines.—Tbs establishment of a
national guard aero observation squad*
ron, with headquarters at Camp Dodge,
is recommended by 'Governor Kendall
in his biennial Message to the legis
laiure.
Daytoa.—Two employee e? Wilbnr
Wright were killed today when tbsir
truck was struck sad demolished by an
airplane flying over the speed course,
piloted bv Lieut. E C. Basksdals.
Los Angeles.—Federal agents Tues
day captured 450 cases of Scotch liquor
on the beach near Balboa, following
an exobanga of shots with several rum
runners, one of v> bom was killed.
Rome —The police atinue to dis
snlv« socialists, •. - muoist and repub
lican aasneiatiocs to many towns. In
the Florence section the d’Annunsio
union seas dissolved,
•Seattle. — Ragsdale^ following the
prosecuting attorney's iorcstigatioo,
wu irrutif today for driving while
drunk. He resigned bis position, and
will be prosecuted.
Los Angeles.—Ku pert Hughes, noted
author, and Elizabeth Patterson D.al,
screen artiet. were united in marriage
at the home of the bride, Tuesday.
T<eww, -Dal. — The liner Mohawk,
from which two hundred and fifty pas
sengers were rescued, burned to the
water’a edge, Thursday.
Seattle.—Walter Fulton left an es
tate of fl&O.OOG, one-half of wnicb is
bequeathed to his widow aad to his
daughter Jeanette.
Ketchikan.—J. W. Kebne. formerly
of Juneau, has reoeieed appointment
as United States commissioner at Ket
chikan.
* Owen Gray was a Thursday arr Irak,
POLICEMEN
TO M’NEILL
Several at Seattle Sen
tenced for Violation
Prohibition Act
Seattle, Jan. 7.—Four police
men and Clarence H. Shively
have been ordered to be removed
at once to the McNeils island
penitentiary, to serve two-year
sentences for conspiracy to vio
late the Volstead law.
The Canadian authorities, thus
frustrated in their attempt to ex
tradite Shively in connection
with the Nanaimo bank robbery,
announce that they will be wait
ing at- the prison gate for him
when he is released.
^’William T. Worabatn, former
city-detective, convicted of con
spiracy for violation of the na
tional prohibition act, was sen
tenced today to an 18-montka
term at McNeill island prison.
NeUieCafchman, Pio
neer-Alaskan, Dead
' Victoria. Jan. 7.—Nelli* €*«ka>Ui(
well known rer1 ’ynt cf WmcuBs
Alaska, sod also well known pioneer of
thedEiondika nod Castiar void coup*,
died in a hospital here today.
Need Not Be .Alarmed
AboutAmerican Navy
Washhsgtea, Jan. 7.—After eram'.a
Ing Secretarv cf Navy Wilbur ant
otnsr high naval officials of the navy,
the Senate naval appropriations com
mittee today concurred in the view dfi
tae House committee that the country
need not ba<a!ariued about reports that
the American navy has failea below
the 5 5-3 ratio.
Coolidge Boosts Co
operative Marketing
Washington Jan. 7.—Co-operative
marketing can and should be made a>
success in America, because : tprovidee
tbe beet means cf stabilising the coun
try'# agricultural' marketing organisa
tion, Preeidert Coolidge declared is
.addressing tbe annnal convention of
the National Council of Parmere’ Co
Operative Marketing Organisations.
Emergency Deficiency
Bill Being Rushed
Waabiegton, Tjm. 6.—The smsrg.
eeey deficiency bill, carrying #157, lli,
'70#, wee reported today by the House
appropriation committee, with House
Seeders plaaniAg to rush it to aha 8se
ete within m Week. 'On its* enactment
into lew, #150,000,000 will be available
or tbe refuediegr e! Seegeliy collected
taxes.
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New Yorfci—New.y«rk is to -bare ec
eighty-eight stery office building out*
reeking *fi«*hsigiic',!of- the «ifty-one
story Woolworth building, according
to infornrdtioc' tb *rsel estate circles.
Tbe building will occupy en’totire
dtfoak ,o<*io*WHBtewr Breed way