THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL XI. NOa23
iTAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. AUGUST 8 1931
PRICE 25 CENTS
TokyotGoing Wild Over
Coming of Lindberghs
.SEA OF'SttEflESTS WjfLL 6KEET
I NOTED AMEKiCANR—ELABOR
ATE RECEPTIONS PLANNED.
TOKYO, Aug. 5.—A sea of silk
: thatsa will (“Colonel and Mrs.
Charles A. Lindbergh when they ar
rive in. this cityand two - elaborate
. receptions-aria, being prepared for the
couple. Countless silk toppers which
haveheen placed away .for the .sum
mer are bejpg'jbrought down from
..the. shfelf , ta be worn when the Lind
berghs .arriye. not only Japanese
here but the. foreign residents as
well favor. t'le ^formaL hats on such
occasions. . Althougn'Colonel Lind
i bergh. has. insisted he and his wife
i. ararrcoinpsg merely as tourists, a
m large/ outdoor reception is being ar
nranged under the auspices of the mo
1,.ripipatffy at Hibiya Park, and elab
o. orate preparations are under way for
i -rewiring the Lindberghs at the Ka
sasorpigaura naval airport.
. AKLAVIKA, Ahg. 4.—Cold winds,
. fog and rains from the Arctir whip
fpeddp the waters of Peel channel in
\ 1 the delta of the Markenzie river to
day', holding’ Colonel Charles A. Lind
h’uriteh and bis wife in this Far North
trading post. Colonel Lindbergh said
b he.? would not take off until Friday
unless the weather improved. They
H:had planned to leave for Point Bar
row, Alaska, 336 miles north and
: west, but the storm came up soon
after they landed at 9:15 a. m. yes
terday, preventing communication to
the south for sixteen hours. The bar
ren lands, great treeless waste be
tween ort Simpson and Aklavik, were
swept by violent winds. Meanwhile
the Lindberghs were given an oppor
tunity to furthe rexplore this me
tropolis.
LOOKS BETTER FOR THOMAS
A. EDISON; HE IS PERMITTED
TO TAKE AUTOMOBILE RIDE
WEST ORANGE, N. J., Aug. 4.—
Physicians granted the request of
Thomas A. Edison that he be permit
ted to try an auto ride this after
noon, and the 84-year-old inventor,
recovering fgro mhis illness, walked
unassisted to the car.
MAIL VIA HOLY CROSS.
P. VV. Carlson arrived today from
Ophir, bringing the much-delayed
mail coming via Holy Cross. The
weight of the mail totaled 958
pounds, divided among Tukotna, Mc
Grath and Medfra.
PARIS, Aug. 5.—General John J.
Pershing paid his first formal call on
Premi 'r Laval this morning, and the
two were together for some time,
talking over the war days. The Gen
eral plans to leave for home soon.
/Alaska Interests At
The Nation’s Capital
(By W. A. S.
WASHINGTON, July 13.—Pros
t pectors-trappers located on the feu
i kon, about 50 miles from Eagle, com
. .plain of a recent questtionaire issued
1? fey.; the Alaska Game Commission,
wwith the idea of formulating further
» regulations and allocating trapping
^•territory to a favored few. Question
U6. inquires, “In your opinion, who
should decide how much trap line any
c one person should be entitled to reg
ister?” The trappers contend that
4. iviwould fee an utter impossibility to
i allocate trapping territory equally.
They further contend that the fur
’ bearers are not disturbed evenly and
... that while one man might have a line
ten. miles long and get lots of fur
. another man might have a hundred
i miles and then not get an even break.
These men on the Yukon wish to
i bring some influence to bear that
% would tend to curb the alleged
‘ “vicieiis” activity of the Commission.
The an&tter has been taken up with
. the-Secretary of Agriculture.
i.'&.iLuhdblad and Earling Anderson
. are not: easily discouraged, and while
theythsve not been very successful
•; aroundt Seward they are willing to
try something more difficult in the
desir*:>to /remain in Alaska. They
- .would like to lease Shuyak island,
one tof the Afognak groups north
easterly "from Kodiak island. They
•feebeve they could live off the natural
resources. of the island by combining
'. various possibilities, that include a
i few goats, cattle, chickens, an abund- j
: ance of berries that they would can,
, etc. They would not interfere with j
any of the other small operations on
the island and would take a chance
of an occasional brown bear swim
ming across from Afognak to visit
them. The Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Office gives some hope
that these citizens might be able to
lease the unappropriated portion of
the land, under the act of March 4,
1927.
While the Forest Service of Alaska
recognize the desirability of con
structing a trail up the Unuk river
valley, the Regional Forester realizes
that the shortage of trail funds will
not permit of this improvement in
the immediate future. The major
part of the trail funds allote d to
Southeastern Alaska are being ex
pended upon short and urgent pro
jects, which are particularly import
ant for mineral development. Mr.
Flory writes that in the Ketchikan
region these projects provide a trail
from Helm Bay to Union Bay across
the Cleveland peninsula, leading
through a region known to be miner
alized, and also a trail across Prince
of Wales Island leading past the
high mountain mass east of Klawak
lake and lagoon, which is also known
to be mineralized.
The members and officers of the
Cook Inlet Trappers Fur and Game
Protective Association, Anrhorage,
have sought the efforts of the Dele
gate to try to prevail upon. President
Hoover to, by executive brder, set
aside and amend the rules and regu
lations relating to trapping of furs
(Continued on Page 3.)
CHINA FLOOD WATERS RECED
ING SLIGHTLY-LOSS OKsUFI
NEAR HANKOW, 70U TMr.4,*0t
HANKOW, Aug. 4.—Although the
flood waters were receding, «>ligt)Tly
today, Hankow’s modern buildings
still resembled brick and stmle ;*sf«ted*
rising in the midst of a copper-col
ored sea which extended in all direc
tions beyond the range of power*il
I binoculars. A trustworthy tally • ol
i the drownings still was lacking,, al
though the estimates ranged from 701
tu 1200 in the tri-cities of Hankow
Wuchang and Hanyang alone.
HANKOW, Aug. 5.—Floods rolled
over sixteen provinces of China to
day and unknown thousand,1 were, re
ported drowned. Hundreds of thest
were homeless and threatened by
FLOODS ROLL OVER CHINA;
Pangborn,
Herndon
SAID TO HAVE REACHED KHAB
AROVSK; UNCERTAINTY AS
•SAHOHVMH3HM OJ.
I TOKYO, Aug. 3.—-Clyde. Pangbom
! and Hugh Herndon, American avi
j ators racing around the world, ar
i rived at Khabarovsk, Eastern Siberia
j at 3:50 p. m., after flying 950 air
miles from Chita, Siberia, through
rai nand fog that hid the Khingar
mountains, over which they soared,
A dispatch, reporting their arrival,
said one wing of the plane was dam
aged and the flyers were near ex
exhaustion on reaching Khabarovsk,
Pangborn and Herndon were 2V hours
and 58 minutes behind the time of
Post and Gatty.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. .^.-^Con
flicting reports left in doubt last
night the whereabouts and plans oi
Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon,
American flyers who hopped off fronr
New York on July 28 in an effort tr
set a world-circling speed record.
The Nome, Alaska, radio station of
the United States Signal Corps re
ported yesterday that it had inter
cepted from an unidentified Siberian
wireless station a report that the
pair had hopped off from Khabarovsk,
SCiberia, at 3 p. m. Monday, Eastern
standard *ime. The report was gen
erally discredited in aviation circles
however. Another dispatch from To
kyo said Pangborn and Herndon
were still grounded at Khabarovsk bj
adverse weather. Their headquarters
in New York reported the aviators
telegraphed they had abandoned theii
attempt to break the record of Post
and Gatty and had decided to try a
nonstop flight from Tokyo to Seattle.
Pilot Barnhill, flying from Holy
Cross to Nome, was forced down at
a point about 65 miles this side of
Unalakleet, due to the blowing out of
a cylinder. Mr. Barnhill and his pas
senger, Postoffice Inspector E. Jeffer
son, reached Unalakleet after hiking
about 35 miles, according to report
received here.
John Repo was a town ’visitor on
Wednesday for a few hours, coming
and returning to Ophir with P. .W.
Carlson.
The steamer Tana, Captain George
Green, left McGrath Tuesday for
Bethel, where she will await arrival
of th esteainer Tupper, which also
left Seattle ou the same date.
Amr Johnson
Lands Tokyo
COMPLETES FILGHT FROM LON
DO NTO TOKYO IN TEN AND
ONE-HALF DAYS.
TOKYO, Aug. 5.—Amy Johnson,
British aviatrix, the first woman to
fly from London to Tokyo via Siberia,
arrived here late today, completing
the flight in ten and a half days and
breaking by a few hours the eleven
day light plane record between the
two cities made by Seiji Yoshihara,
Japanese aviator.
Miss Johnson landel at Tachikawa
airdrome at 5:50 p. m., completing
.the last l"g of her hazardous flight,
which was made in easy stages. The
Korea, Japanese and British officials
greeted the aviatrix, who was accom
panied by Mechanic C. S. Humphries.
A few minutes after Miss John
son’s arrival the American flyers
Herndon, Jr., and. Clyde Pangborn
arrived at the air.'field.
Amy Jbohnson was chosen by the
International League of Aviators
this year- as*, the world's premier wo
man flyer. The distinction was won
by her .solo flight from England to
Australia in . 193ft h-., fiite<;n>.dayc.
King George himself * conpcatulatcd
her ©n hc» • return-.io Crroya® ^ and
it was estimated that nearly a-million
persorss were at the field to greet
her. Last winter she tried the Tokyo
flight, but bad weather stopped her
at Moscow, The flight just completed
started on July . 27.
|2,000',Cases j
Of Whiskey
PLEASURE YACHT GRABBED BY
COAST GUARDS AFTER 35
MILE CHASE,
CAPE MAY, N. J., Aug. 3.—A ;
pleasure yacht- loaded with about two;
thousand cases of whiskey and j
manned by a crew of nine men!
dressed as yachtsmen and with two
girls in .sports clothes walking the
deck, was captured 95 miles out at
sea after a 35-mile cnase, coast
guards reported today. The capture
was made last night by a coast guard
patrol hoat from the Cape May base.
The crew of the yacht disabled the
engine and it was necessary to tow
the seized boat to shore, according to
the coast guards.
The rise of water in the river due
to the copious rains of the past sev
eral days,.aside from giving growing
crops a good boost, has helped in a I
transportation way, permitting Frank
Larson with the -Sea Wolf to make
two quick trips- Reaching here last
night on his. second trip; he' left again
this morning, and is due- to, arrive
within the next few h«urrS wiki his
third load. >
Miss Mary McLea narrived Thurs
day for a visit of * few •bays in town.
Fred Roethlisberger,< coming in
with Superintendent Higgins, was a
Monday visiter from Yankee.
red Dubois returned Thursday from
a trip to Yankee creek.
500 Negroes
Riot, Chicago
.3 KILLED, 3 INJURED, PROEST
ING EVICTION OF FAMILY FOR
FOR NONPAYMENT OF RENT.
CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—Three negroes*
were killed and three more injured
late today in a riot by several hun
dred negroes protesting the eviction
of a family for non-payment of rent
The negroes were slain, officers said
after the police had been attacked
with knives and pistols. The crowd
was dispersed by police reserves and
several scares were taken into cus
tody. Tonight every police reserve
in the city had been mobilized in the
South Side negro district as a precau
tion against further outbreaks. Sev
eral squads were deta. iled to thwart
an expected gathering of negroes and
communists in Washington Park
More squads were under orders to pa
trol. the district and disperse ar'
gathering threatening disorders.
Today’s disorders resulted whei
two court bailiffs started-to move to
the street, the household belongings
of Rose Warwick fro. ma flat build
ing at -Fifteen,thr atuLDeanaoru street -
for,nonpayment or rent. A. crowd rt
negroes, estimated, by police at mart
than five hundred, quickly gathered,
shouting defiance to the bailiffs and
threatening them. Police declatat
the ringleaders of the mob were ne
gro communists who have been actrw
recently in opposing other evictions
In the other cases, however, orde>
has always been restored by dhe ap
pearance of the police.
Objective of
U. S. Navy
A NAVY SECOND TO NONE, CAT
ABLE O FREAIJY WARTIME
EXPANSION
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.— A nav;
second to none, efficient, well bat
anced and capable of ready war-time
expansion, today was pronounced tin
objective £>f, American sea forces.
This was contained in a statement of
policy, the first of the Hoover admin
istration, signed by Secretary of thf
Navy Adams, cn.4 issued in poster
form, to all branches'of the naval es
tablishment. It superseded one issued
in IDiS8 By Secretary Curtis D. Wil
bur. The new declaration advocate?
maintenance to the limits of the Lon
dot* treaty-gaud maintained at that
level by a replacement program. Out
lining the fundamental navy policy,
it said the navy shjuld be maintained
at sufficient strength to support the
national policy and commerce and to
guard the continental and overseas
possessions of the United States.,
With a slig'. tichange of wording this
was a reiteration of a statement
made in Wilbur’s enunciation of pol
icy.
BOMBAY, July 23.—Mahatms
Gandhi has informed the government,
of India that he is likely to go to
London for the second round-table
conference in September. If .no fur
ther difficulties arise with the con
gress party it is expected he .wilUsai
in August 15.