THE KUSRO TIMES
VOL. Via. NO. 27.
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. AUGUST 25. 1928.
PRICE 25 CENTS
A1 Smith Strong For
Prohibition Referendum
HIGH LIGHTS IN SPEECH FOR
MALLY ACCEPTING PRESI
DENTIAL NOMIN ATION*
ALBANY, Aug. 22.—Governor Al
7rid Smith, in formally accepting the
Democratic presidential- nomination
tonight, declared for a drastic change
in the prohibition amendment as well
as- modification of the, Volstead Act
Touching the, amendment, Ire said: “I
believe, moreover,. tha't there-should
be submitted to the people,.she ques
* tion of some change in the>-provisions
of the Eighteenth Amendment. Cer
tainly no. one foresaw when- the
, amendment was ratified the condi
tions which exist today, of bootleg
ging, corruption ami open.-violation, of
the- law in all partts of the country.
THe people themselves should, after
this eight-year, trial, be permitted to
say whether - existing conditions,
should be rectified.”
Other high lights of speech
were as follows;
“Government should be construe
. tive, wot destructive; progressive, not
reactionary. I am unwilling-fo accept1
an: old order :of things asr the- best
until I become convinced-thai .it can
not be,maoe better.”'
Predicted
By Raskob
• SAYS AL .'SMITH WILL HAVE 399
V«TES IN THE ELECTORAL
COLLEGE.
STL LOUIS, Aug. 25.-John Ras
ktob, treasurer* of the Democratic Na
tional Committee, today raised the
ante on Democratic campaign money
from* $3,000*000 to $4,000,000. One
half million dollars will be spent to
win the. corn belt. States.
Raskob predicted that A1 Smith will
’ hake, 390 votes in the electoral col
lege
. REPUBLICANS WORKING FOR
MORE CAMPAIGN FUNDS
WASHINGTON, Aug4 2&1—A Re-!
publican drive for : more campaign
funds was planned today at a confer
ence: held by National Chairman
WAli with with treasurers and lead
ers .from Chicago and New. York
headquarters. .
FLAT PLANNING FOR A NEW
$4,Q00 COMMUNITY HALL.
FLAT, Aug. 25.-^-A subscription is
being taken up ip Flat for a new
$4,(100 community, hall, to replace the
oneidestroyed by fire last winter. The
Loyal Order of Moose has contributed
$1,200, and 42,000 more has been sub*
scribed by (individuals.. No definite'
announcement regarding construction
will be made until the entire sum has
beek assured. 4.
Chester Brink’s meat barge is re
posed to have left Bethel on Thurs
day. The barge, replenished with a
lai jge stock of fresh meats received
on the Tupper, should reach Takotna
within the next seven, or eight days*.
“When four million men are unable
to secure employment there is very
little in the picture of prosperity to
attract them-.”
“I shall, to the very limit, execute
the pledge of our platform to make
an honest effort to enforce the
Eighteenth Amendment. Corruption
in enforcement activities I shall ruth
lessly stamp out.”'
“No more dishonest or unpatriotic
propaganda has ever been seen in this
country than that disclosed by inves
tigation into methods of certain util
ity corporations.”'
PLEASED WITH AL SMITH’S
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 23.—“Gov
enor’s Smith’s acceptance speech
rings true upon the. fundamentals of
democracy,” Josephus Daniels, former
Secretary of the Navy in the Wilson
administration, declared, today, add
ing, however, that the nominee’s
stand against prohibition is unwise.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Senator
George of Georgia praised Governor
Smith’s “remarkable grasp of na
tional and international problems”
and declared that the speech ecective
Iy destroyed the myth of Republican
prosperity.”
Monoplane
Disappears
HOPE ABANDONED FOR SEVEN
OCCUPANTS OF SHIP FLYING
VICTORIA TO SEATTLE.
SEATTLE, Aug. 25.—All hope
.was abandoned today, for the seven
occupants of the monoplane which
began its flight from Victoria for Se
attle on Monday and was last seen
oc Pot Townsend, and which seems
certain to have, gone down in Puget
Sound.
The lost passenges include Alex
ander. MacCallum Scott,. British
statesman, and his wife; Dr. B. B.
Seldon, Tacoma physician, and
Thomas E. Lake, prominent oil man.
GENE TUNNEY SAYS HE’LL
BE MARRIED IN PARIS
PLYMOUTH, Eng., Aug 22.—Gene
Tunney,. American heavyweight,
champion, arrived today aboard the
liner Mauretania and revealed that he
intends to be married in Paris.
A. H. Twitchell, who arrived-hare a
few days ago,, will be a passenger to
Fairbanks with Pilot Ed Young on
the return flight of that plane to the
home port.
Hans Erickson, after a few. days in
town, returned to Ganes creek a few
days ago.
John T. Mefberg; was a yesterday
arrival, and returned again to Ganes
creek today, taking with him a horse
purchased, from A. Ifl. Twitch clt
CitT Lottsfeldt, Ai.'E.-,"C. superin
tendent, left yesterday.with Pil6t Ed!
Young on the Fairbanks plane for,
Flat, on a business trip that will last t
foe several days. j
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL
NOMINEE BACK IN WASHING
TON, AFTER CAMPAIGN TRIP
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—Herbert
Hoover, Republican presidential nom
inee, returned to Washington last
evening, completing his first cam
paign trip, which has taken him into
nineteen States since leaving the na
tional capital.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Aug. 23.—
Another round conference with farm
leaders today closed Hoover’s three
day visit to the great Mid-Western
grain country, and the candidate left
this evening for Washington.
AIR MAIL BETWEEN DISTANT
POINTS IN U. S. WITHIN THE
REALM OF POSSIBILITIES
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Trans
portation by air of all first class mail
between distant points in the United
States is within the realm of possi
bilities, Postmaster General New in
dicated today.
WM. F. WHITING SUCCEEDS
HERBERT HOOVER AS SEC
RETARY OF COMMERCE
SUPERIOR, Wis., Aug. 22.—Pres
ident Coolidge today appointed Wil
liam F. Whiting, o fHolyoke, Mass.,
to succeed Herbert Hoover as Secre
tary of Commerce.
COL. GEORGE HARVEY, FOR
MER AMBASSADOR, PASSES
AWAY AT HIS DUBLIN HOME
DUBLIN, Aug. 22.—Col. George
Harvey, former ambassador to Great
Britain, died yesterday at his horn.*
here, from heart attack.
BOY, 18. SHOOTS HIS GRAND
MOTHER WHEN ASKED TO
BUILD FIRE IN FURNACE
BREMERTON, Aug. 25.—Because ■
she asked him to go Into the base-'
ment and build a fire, Wallace A.
Ritchie, 18 years, shot and seriously
wounded his grandmoteh, Mrs. E. A.
Moe, 62.
Telegraphic Ticks.
SEATTLE, Aug. 25.—Miss Frances
Lovell Oldham, daughter of Robert
Pollard, of Seattle, today became the
bride of Hon. James Henry Barty
Rodney, at Princess Row Registry, in
London.
SEATTLE, Aug. 24.—The navy
transport Vega arrived here today,
bringing 357 barrels of Bering Sea
seal skins, which will be sold at pub
lic auction in St. Louis by the Govern
ments..
BISMARCK, Aug. 25.—A. G. Sor
lie, governor of North Dakota, died
at his heme here today, death being
caused by heart disease.
SECRETARY OF STATE KEL
LOGG AND PREMIER MACKEN
ZIE KING ARRIVE IN PARIS
PARIS, Aug. 2d.—Seeretary of
State Kellogg arrived In Paris today
for the purpose of participating in
the signing of hfo renunciation of war
treaty on Monday. Seeretary Kellogg
was accompanied by Premier Mac
Kenrie King of Canada.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nicolet and
their two children were recent depart
ares from McGrath for Bethel, where
they will take passage on the Tupper
for the Outside.
4
Two Aviators
Still Missing
MONOPLANE GREATER ROCK
FORD MAY HAVE FALLEN
INTO ATLANTIC.
MOUNT EVANS, Greenland, Aug.
22.—The fact that another day has
passed without any news of the miss
ing American aviators, Bert Hassell
and Parker Cramer, increased the
fears today that they have been lost
somewhere in the North Atlantic be
tween the Canadian and Greenland
coasts.
CHICAGO, Aug. 24.—A wireless
message, signed “The Rockford Fly
ers,’* was received in Chicago early
today by R. J. Harris, an amateur;
operator. The message said the mon-;
oplane Greater Rockford was down on
a small island fifty miles off New
foundland, and that the flyers were'
safe but without food.
Harris is confident the message is'
bona fide, but other amateurs ex-;
pressed the opinion that there were
several discrepancies which led them
to doubt that it came from the
Greater Rockford.
PETTY QUARREL LEADS WIFE
OF WEALTHY SEATTLE CON
TRACTOR TO SHOOT HERSELF
SEATTLE, Aug. 25.—Mrs. Eleanor
Mae Hoard, 25, wife of Maurice
Hoard, wealthy Se»*j^e contractor,
shot herself in their nilatial home
last evening, as the result; of a petty
family quarrel. When Hoard was
informed of the act he attempted to!
commit suicide.
PRESIDENT COOLIPGE TO
QUIT WWISCONSIN SEPT. 11, j
TO VISIT IN NEW ENGLAND
SUPERIOR, Wis., Aug. 25.—Presi
dent Coolidge will leave Cedar Island
Lodge for New England on Septem
ber 11, traveling via Washington.
JUDGE WICKERSHAM AND
MRS. G. R. BISHOP WEDDED
Judge Janies Wickersham, former
Delegate to Congress from Alaska*
and Mrs. Grace R. Bishop, of Juneau,
were married in Seattle a few weeks i
ago, according to word recently re
ceived here. Mrs. Bishop for several
years past was a high school teacher
in Juneau. The newly-weds are now
back in Juneau.
Incidentally, Judge Wickersham’s!
“Bibliography of Alaska,” a work |
upon which the author has occupied
much time for several years past, is
now off the press. The volume con
tains a vast amount of information
concerning Alaska and is declared to
be a work of high merit.
George Walters, well known Mc
Grathite, was among the week’s vis
itors, having come up with Ed Young
in the Fairbanks plane. Mr. Walters
returned to McGrath on Thursday,
going down with Tom Saknoff.
The steamer Tupper reached Bethel
on August 25th. The steamer Tana,
Captain George Green, is not expect
ed to return t o McGrath until about
August 10th.
John H. Peterson, after a visit of
several days in town, left Thursday
for Gnnes creek, going out with Joe
Ferris, who also took out a large
load of supplies. I
13 Killed,
100 Injured
IN WRECK IN TIMES SQUARE
SUBWAY, N. Y„ CAUSED BY
DEFECTIVE SWITCH.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—Thirteen
persons were killed and a hundred in
jured in a wreck last evening in the
Times Square subway station. The
terrible calamity was due to a defec
tive switch. W. E. Baldwin, motor
man, was arrested on a charge of
homicide.
L. D. HENDERSON, COMMIS
SIONER OF EDUCATION, PAYS
TAKOTNA AN OFFICIAL VISIT
Lester D. Henderson, Territorial
Commissioner of Education, reached
Takotna last Sunday, coming up from
McGrath with Ed Young in the Fair
banks plane. Mr. Henderson is now
awaiting the arrival of an airplane,
and will make the trip from Takotna
to Nome by ’plane, touching at Flat
and Golovin to inspect the schools sit
uated there. This is Mr. Henderson’s
first visit to Takotna and the Kusko
kwim river section. He left Juneau
late in July, and after making-short
stops at Seward, Anchorage, Fair
banks and Nenana proceeded down,
the Tanana and Yukon rivers by. boat
as far as Marshall. The trip from the
Yukon river to the Kuskokwim river
was made by way of the Russian. Mis
sion portage. .
Mr. Henderson rtj* f '*Taat there,
are now five Terpito ial school dis
tricts on che Kuskokwim river, name
ly, at Bethel, Akiak, Napamute,
Crooked Creek, and McGrath. It is
probable that, a. school will be stab
lished at Morgan’s Place next sum
mer. He stated that two teachers are
new employed at Bethel and that
first-year high school work will be
presented there this year. It is the
aim of the department to build up a
high school at Bethel * -r the accom
modation of high seh< udents liv
ing in the Kuskokwin :er district.
Mr. Henderson rep< .s that the
school enrollment of ti. Territory is
increasing each year. This increase
is especially marked in the high
school department, where the enroll
ment has more than , ubled during
the past ten years. The largest in
crease in enrollment has taken place
in Southeastern Alaska communities,
notably at Juneau, Ketchikan and Pe
tersburg. At the present time more
than six hundred pupils are enrolled
in the Ketchikan school.
Considerable activity in providing
better school buildings has been ex
hibited by many communities during
the past year. At the present time a
8100,000 high school building is being
erected at Juneau. Last summer a
new building for elementary school
use was constructed at Ketchikan at
a cost of §50,000. Fairbanks has
completed the erection of a school
gymnasium, with classrooms on the
second floor, and has expended a con
siderable sum in improvements and
alterations to the old school building.
Seward recently voted a §50,000 bond
issue for school building purposes.
MACLEAN RESIGNS PREMIER
SHIP OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
VICTORIA, Aug. 22.—Hon. J. D.
MacLean resigned today as premier
of British Columbia. Hon. F. Tolmie,
Conservative leade, was called upon
immediately by the administration to.
form a new government.