THE RUSKO TIMES
V VOL.: XII NO: 2
TAKOTNA ALASKA bAlCRDAY, JANl ARY 6 1932
PRICE 25 CENTS
Wotetoilake
^Reductions
K R. UNION EMPLOYES
V SVO-TETG. ACCEPT A 10 PER
. CENT-REDUCTION.
CT-CHICAGO.—Unionized forces em
l ployed on-the railroads of the United
I States: have voted to accept a 10 per
« cent reduction in wages, having
i reached this unprecedented decision
in the express hope of stimulating a
i. general business revival. The reduc
tion becomes effective immediately
and continues in force for a period of
one year, the agreement erminating
January 31, 1933.
The negotiations which resulted in
the decision of the rail workers bega
. January 15 and terminated yesterday
afternoon, when the representatives
< of nearly two million union employes
. accepted the proposal presented by
the rail executives. The basic rates
will remain unchanged, but with a
flat 10 per cent deducted, with the
agreement automatically terminating
at the end of the 12 months.
On their part the railroads pledge
an “earnest and sympathetic effort”
- to keep up the present forces and to
ncrcase them if possible. The roads
i expect to save about $205,000,000 as
} a result of the wage reductions
George W. Clyde wits V .yesterday
departure for McGrath, going down
with Pilot Blunt.
Alaska Interests At
I The Nation’s Capital
(By W. A. 8.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. — Since
the Territorial Legislature of Hawaii
declared for statehood a year ago
there has been more or less sentiment
in Alaska for similar action upon the
part of its Territorial Legislature,
without giving much consideration to
the argely increased cost of maintain
ing a State With a limited population
of 60,000 people scattered over an
area of 586,400 square miles. Hawaii
has a population of 386,336 and an
area of but 6,407 square miles. Dur
ing the past week Delegate Houston
introduced a concurrent resolution
“requesting and urging the Congress
of the United States of America to
pass an enabling act authorizing the
people of the Territory of Hawaii to
form a constitution and state govern
ment, to be admitted to the Union on
. an equal footing with the original
* States.”
t Delegate Houston privately admits
1 that he does not believe that the reso
i turn will pass at this session, al
though he says: “We have the disad
< tagea of statehood, but not its advan
tages.^- -We are carrying the burden,
7 but...have to plead for the rewards.
Hawaii*today is an example of taxa
tion without representation. We have
more people than four of the States,
..and we-pay 'more income and corpora
tion taacEtetban thirteen of them.”
When.«flovacnor Lawrence M. Judd
was in Washington last month he said
that statehood, for Hawaii is inevitl
. able in tbeedistant future but at pres
ent any political change would be
premature and inopportune. He then
< explained that “agitation to make the
-fjjf»fitory a State, so pronounced a
U. S., Britain j
and France
— I
JOIN IN MAKING REPRESENTA
I
TIONS TO THE JAPANESE
GOVERNMENT.
PARIS.—The French government,
has jo.ned with the United States and
Great Britain in making representa
tions to Japan, insisting that the in
ternational settlement at Shanghai
must he respected. This action was
taken yesterday and is being backed
up by the issuance of orders for the
assembling of additional French
fighting forces at Shanghai.
The Italian government also is join
ing in the movement .to safeguard
Shanghai, having announced today
that she is joining in the action taken
by the western powers in the Shang
hai crisis.
TOKYO.—Ambassador Forbes has
i filed a formal protest against the use
| of the Shanghai international settle
| inent as an operating hase for the
Japanese attack on the Chinese quar
ter. The protest was not written, but
the foreign office regards it as formal
and something more than a diplo
matic representation. The British am
bassador has made a similar protest,
and the FreFch ambassador is confer
ring with the foreign minister today.
The Forbes protest contends that the
Japanese are aggravating the. situa
turn.
TOKYO.—The British .cruiser Ber
year ago, appears to have abated as
many of the political leaders realize
the fravity of altering the political
omplcxitm during an unsettled
period. At present it is unwise to
s l up State sovereignty. Economic
conditions are unsettled. Hawaii
he lid wait until the political com
Pitixicn is definitely determined and
t has been proven demonstrably that
State government will be better for
ihe people themselves than territorial.
Hawaiians are coming to this point
of view. They are reflecting on the
change from every point of view,
which, of course, means the eapacitf
of all groups io participate.”
The other nigffat Rev. Bernard K.
Hubbard, S. J-, head of the geology
department of the University of
Santa Clara, Calif., gave a very in
teresting talk hefore the National Ge
ographic Society, in the Washington
Auditorium. Last sprit® Esther Hub
bard led an exploration .party into
interior Alaska and made .amazing
discoveries in the word’s largest act
ve vo minaes, Aniakchak and Veni
uuiinof. These vast craters . are 21
and 20 raiiesc in circumference, re
spectively, and within them were
found geological And geographical
features which recalled the '-begin
nings of our earth. On .Mayil .the
volcano erupted with great violence,
and was still erupting in June .when
he flew over it and .examined it from
the air. Six weeks warp spent: in col
lecting specimens .antfc nmtionvpicture
films.
_ i
Scott W. Bone, son <S tue ‘former
governor of Alaska, Hon. Scott C.
(Continued on Page 3.) ]
wick, with 800 marines, has beeikda—'
patched from here to Shanghai. Tne
aircraft carrier Hermes also has e#n
at a momenta notice. V;
The United States cruiser Houston,
flagship of the Asiatic fleet, and four
destroyers are en route from Manila
to Shanghai.
WASHINGTON-—The army and
navy joined forces yesterday in the
movement to give protertion to
American lives and property -at
[ Shanghai. By direction of President
; Hoover the transport Chaumont has
i been,ordered to proceed from Manila
| with 1,000 infantrymen, and in the
j wake of the- cruiser Houston there are
seven destroyers and other was ves
sels, which set out from Manila at
midnight last night
There are already approximately
1,300 American marines at-Shanghai,
j and the Houston has .almoo&t .600
1 more men.
The four destroyers which were
I dispatched from Manila late Friday
j arrived at Shanghai today. The Brit
! ish aiso are increasing their .forces at.
; Shanghai.
| GENEVA. — Spokesmen if or the
I United States, England, France and
! Italy made the announcement, today,
following an extraordinary, session of
the Council of the League of Nations,
that Japan must suspend hostilities in
i China and that immediate action will
be taken by those powers to put a
stop to further -fighting.
Dick McArthur, well "known old
timer of this section, and who for
many years -has .been located at Mc
Grath, was among the week’s visitors,
giving attention to a few business
matters as well.as .renewing acquaint
anceship with many former tilhcums
hereabouts. .Mr. -McArthur is sched
uled to .leave during the .week for
Fairbanks, from which point he may
continue to the great Outside for -a
visit.
Headed for the-Arctic Tegion on a
fur trading expedition which will take
them to Point Barrow and pernaps
down.tin* coast in search for the Hud
son Bay trading ship Baychimo, Pilot
Frank Dorhandt, his mechanician,
ii rb Larrison, and Wells Erwin, of
.n^ First National Bank, Anchorage,
hopped off from Anchorage a couple
f uays ago in the Dorbandt mono
^.ane, says the Anchorage Times.
'■ Superintendent ..Hawley W. Ster
ling, of the Alaska-Road Commission,
is scheduled to leave tomorrow for a
visit to Medfra, returning from which
piace he will make a tri to Flat and
i also to the Poorman section on mat
| ters connected with-his officia duties.
Pete Jensen, after a business visit,
here.of a couple of days, returned to
i ar.e3 .reek.yesterday, accompanying
hoe Oat^s with a load of freight.
. a: I degard and Harry Panther
•v e .Moauay .arrivals from Flat, to
f _i. place they again returned on
A. H. Twitthell and Joe Ferris
were Tuesday departures, headed for
the TwitcheR & Fowler reindeer
camp.
Deputy U. - S. Marshal Stanley J.
Niehols was a Tuesday visitor re
turning to McGrath Thursday.
Pilot A1 Monsen of the Pacific In
ternational, arrived yesterday, bring
the tower Kuskokwim section.
I Items of Importance
1 In Reecnt News Events
BISHOP CANNON OPPOSING
REPEAL OF ALASKA DRY LAW.
KETCHIKAN.—Incensed over the
proposal of Bishop Cannon to testify
before the House committee on terri
tories in opposition to the proposed
repeal of the Alaska bone dry law,
the members of the Ketchikan igloo
of Pioneers has sent a letter to the
bishop informing him that they “vig
orously protest against your pre
sumptuous intereference in a matter
which .is■ wholly the business of the
residents of this Territory.’’
The oldtimers declare that there is :
no moral, issue involved and that the
Legislature memorialized Congress
with th. ^approval 0f the peoople of
the Territory. The letter asks what
concern .tff fine hishop’s it is and “in
what way art- qou qualified to speak
on this , question- and who requested
you to .doiSh.7-.lt’appears to us to be
a voluntary, unwarranted imperti
nence on your .part, and as such we
unhesitatingly rasent .t ”
The letter was signed by the presi
; dent of the igloo,' H. P. HanseL
| FAIRBANKS. The News-Miner
i says Alaskans are expressing resent
! ment over the ^act that Bishop -Can
! non is going to make hi-v appearance
against the proposed repeal of the
: Alaska bone dry law. They feel, the
ip a per says,., that the bishop is entire
ly unfamiliar*. with'-conditions and is
hardly .in a position to argue against
repeal of a law. which they, through
I their legislature, have memorialized
to <wipe off the -statute hooks. The
paper declares fuctHot that the repeal
proposal.has the’Support id the Alas
i ka dry element as well as of the- wet
j element.
KILLED BY CRAZY TRAPPER.
ALKAVIK, N. W. T.—Constable E.
j Miller, member of the Royal North
-west Mounted Police, is reported to
have been shot to death by Albert
Johnson, demented trapper, whom the
mounties have-been trailing for more
' than a week. The fatal shooting oc
curred at a point SO miles up the Rat
river on Saturday morning, but de
tails of the tragedy have not been
. learned here. The message was re
layed here today hy means of a port
able radio outfit carried by r he posse
j which was sent out to capture John
| son.
! On a previous occasion, Johnson
stood off a mounted police patrol for
i- fifteen hours-and then made his es
cape from the cabin in which he had
made the stand.
FREIHAGE CASE REVERSED,
j SAN FRANCISCO—Holding that
i the trial court Tailed to instruct the
jury properly in- the case of the
United. States vs-. John Freihage, ac
cused of killing his common law wife,
Mrs. Big Joe, theeFedecpal -Circuit
i Court of Appeals--has set aside the
conviction and ordered a new trial.
The accused ~wSs‘ .tried in the Dis
trict Court, at Fairbanks and found
guilty of mans&vtghter. He was sen
tenced by District. Judge Clegg to a
term of twenty^jyears in prison.
The case of The:gv>vernment was ar
gued before the^»pneals court Terent
iy by Julien-Hurley, United States at
torney, who made a trip to the States
especially f off'Ahjal - nurpose.
ARNOTT CASE,' GUHDOVA,
HARD FOR PROSECUTION.
CORDOVA.—The trial of Mrs.
Mrs. Martha Arnottt, who is accused i
of taking thy life of her husband at
t
Strelna last year, is in progress here
before District Judge E. Coke Hill
and a jury, and it is admitted by the
prosecution that the case is a difficult
one for the reason that there was lack
of proper investigation immediately
following the murder. The revolver
with which Arnott is believed to have
been killed is said to have been han
dled by many persons immediately
after the finding of the railroad
worker’s body, thus making it impos
sible to obtain finger prints of the
person who did the shooting.
When Arnott was found dead, he
was in his bed, with hands behind his
head. It is understood to be the in
tention of the government to try to
prove, the the aid of expert witnesses,
that Arnott could not have placed his
hands in the position they were when
he was found if he had fired the shot
which caused his death. This evi
dence is desired to prove that Arnott
did not kill himself.
In a statement made soon after the
tragedy, Mrs. Arnott is said to have
explained that she heard a shot after
she had left the house at Strelna on
the night of ;the tragedy, Jso. summon
aid from the railroad, bunikhouse, it
bppearing that Arnott. v had been
drinking on the night of his death.
FILINGS FOR PRIMARIES.
JUNEAU—Attoorney General John
Rustgard, who h%a been variously re
ported as aspiring to the Fourth divi
sion judgeship and as seriously eon-.
|-sidering entering the Republican pri
j maries in opposition to Delegate
j Wickersham, put all such reports at
! rest today when he filed as a candi
j date for the Republican nomination
| for, .the position he now holds and
{ which he has held continuously for
I many years.
j Frank Foster, «h< moved to Ju
neau last year from Cordova, also is
out after the Republican nomination
for attorney general, having filed sev
eral weeks ago. Judge James Truitt,
j of. Anchorage, will be the Democratic
1 candidate for the position.
Attorney A. H. Ziegler, of Ketchi
kan, who announced some time ago
that he woud seek the Democratic
nomination for Delegate to Congress,
has not been frightened out of the
race by the convention indorsement
| of A. J. Dimonti. He is going through
with his campaign, having filed today
as a candidate.
Karl Theile, who has served as Sec
retary of Alaska under three presi
dents and with two governors, filed
this week as a candidate for delegate
.to the Republican national convention
: in Chicago, June 16. The effiee is an
; elective one, voters at the primaries
| electing.
Other filings include those of An
thony Karnes as Democratic candid
date. and W. K. Keller, incumbent, for
the office of commissioner of educa
tion. Karnes was the Democratic con
vention indorsement. Keller is run
ning as a Republican.
! MUSSOLINI WOULD WIPE
WOMEN FADS.
ROME.—Physicians of Italy have
been called upon by Mussolini to as
sist in reforming the women of the
nation. One of their tasks will be to
discourage women from striving for
thin figures, it being the contention of
Mufcsolini that the thinning process is
weakening the Italian ractr and all
other races of the worlds*4ucn are in
dulging in the practice.
The doctors also have been direbtltf
to counsel against birth control.