THE KUSRO TIMES
VOL. XIII. NO. 28. -
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TAKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1933.
PRICE, 25 CENTS
Cuba Has a
New Head
DR. RAMON CRAU SAMMARTIN
BECOMES PRESIDENT—M ANT
U. S. CRUISERS IN OFFING.
UNDATED. — Dr. Ramon Grau
Sammartin became president of Cuba
Sunday as nine more United States
destroyers approached the revolution
toin isand.
Sammartin, 48-year-old professor
chosen by the five-man commission
which took over the government after
Provisional President Decespedes was
deposed last week, submitted names
of a partial cab.net, which were ap
proved before a cheering crowd.
President Roosevelt is reported as
being insistent on proof that the
Sammart n government could main
tain order.
as a protest against me presence
of American warships, five thousand
gathered at Havana’s Central Parle,
where commuist mass-meeting speak
ers attacked the new government and
cried “Down with Yankee imperial
ism!”
H. C. Wallick, former well known
oldtimer of these parts, who was com
pelled to go to Anchorage hospital
during the summer for medical treat
ment, is reported to have left that
institution some days ago and to have
gone to Fresno, California.
I Hurricane j
In Texas
STAGGERING PROPERTY DAM
AGE RESULTS ALONG THE
LOWER RIO GRANDE
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HOUSTON, Texas—Late afternoon |
reports show that staggering prop
erty damage and heavy loss of life i
has resulted from the hurricane
which hammered the lower Rio
Grande valley for several hours. In
the first meager reports details are
lacking, but winds are still howling
at 80 miles an hour. A million dol
lars’ damages are reported at Rock
port.
DALLAS.—A hurricane tore loose
in Southern Texas, cutting off from
the world Brownsville and the garden |
country of the lower Rio Grande.
Smashed homes, crashed trees and
damaged crops marked the path of
the howling stwrm.
No one dared to survey the dam
ages until the winds abated. Gales
also smote the coast near "Corpus
Christi, 200 miles north, -where people
took refuge from the water on the
bluffs.
At Freeport all but six families
evacuated the town. Meanwhile Flor
ida picked up the debris in the path
of the hurricane. Damages are esti
mated at a million dollars. One negro
died from the effects of injuries. The
storm damaged homes and wrecked
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THE MUKLUK TRAIL
By Bob Bartlett.
WASHINGTON, Auk. 12.—Follow
ing the recommendation of Delegate
Dimond, the Postoffice Department
has appointed R. J. Peratrovich, Jr.t
to be postmaster at Klawock.
The Federal Radio Commission has
received from the Hyder Radio & Tel
ephone Company an application for
modification of license to communi
cate with Digby Island, B. C.
Joseph T. Bauer has been granted
renewal of a point-to-point telegraph
license. His station is on an island
six miles from Chicagof.
Adam W. Lipke, of Seldovia, has
l>een granted modification of license
to change frequency from 178 to 246
kilocycles.
Reports fro man unofficial source
are said to have been circulated in
Alaska to the effect that Secretary
Ickes has given approval for early |
start of construction of the American
section of the Pacific-Yukon highway.
Unfortunately, this is not so. The
Secretary himself states he has not
given such .approval.
Distribution of the reports of the
American section of the Highway
Commission is continuing in order to
obtain the widest possible publicity.
,Vic Ross, pilot for Northern Air
Transport of Nome and Fairbanks*
reached New York Wednesday after a
voyage from California via the Pan
ama Canal. The metropolitan press
carried interviews with him on avia
tion in Alaska.. He expected to leave
soon for EheTChicago Fair and then
return home.
The Public-Works Administration
has published two circulars, one of
which deals with “The Purposes, Pol
icies, Functioning and Organization
of the Emergency Administration”
and the other with “Information Re-'
quired With Application for Loans to
States, Counties, Municipalities, .And.
Other Public Bodies.”
Copies of the circulars piay be ob
tained either fro mthe Public Works
Administrator or from the. office?- of
Deegate Dimond.
The Alaska branch of 4he geolog
ical Survey has filed an application
with Che Public Wooks Administra
tion for $150,000 to be used in Alaska
activities. Because of the .lateness of
the season only aicomparafiiyely small
amount of the money can. be used
this year, providing the request is
granted.
Frank T. Bell, Commissioner o
Fisheries, has returned, to his head
quarters in Washington, following an
extended trip to Alaska,
E. S. Dill has bee ^appointed post
master at Kalskag.
Philip Gill, son of ..fq*am-r Mayor
Oscar Gill Mrs. Gill* pf Anchorage,
departed for thet West yesterday,
after visiting in N4w„¥ork and Wash
ington.
He (motored Eagt with a party of
friends from Beattie, v£i4re he took a
summer course .atltini^Ujiiversity of
Washington. Phi§pu£wiU. sail for
Alaska in the neaiffutur* an route to
Anchorage, whene |iejjs a /member of
the public school-dtagilty.
Another ruling- was r made last
night by the Treasury Department
. ) Continued Pag* S)
small boats along the .east coast, then
swung and devastated citrus crops.
Shipping is paralyzed on Mexico’s
east coast. Cuha is speeding relief
to devastated areas where hundreds
i were killed.
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MIAMI.—One tropical disturbance
tore across south Florida, leaving.de
struction to properties, chiefly citrus
groves, while another neared the
coast of Texas and is expected to pass
inland near Corpus Christ? today.
No casualties have been reported in
Florida as yet, but there is consider
able loss of. property ;and onmipuni
I cations are wrecked.
A wide slice of territory still is
isolated because of wrecked compiuni
1 tion lines.
John Gaske, former Ophirifce; after
an absence of about three years, re
turned Aere a few days ago, coining
i from the Manley Hat Springs sec
tion. He reports having met. several
former oldtimers of this section over
i in that district, among them Arthur'
LaRue, who is doing-nicely *»n prop
■ erty operated by ’.him ,oi) Sullivan
creek; Dan Mc^inty. left that section
early the. past spring for Fairbanks,
where he. is now employed, while
Frank Hart, , another formpr oldtimer
I of this section, is no win the employ
of the. Fairbanks F. E. Co.
Rain, most welcome,- arrived a few
' days ago, but not in sufficient quan
! tity to do .a great .amount of good, so
far as freighting is oencqrnfed.fc The
| rise of water lasted just long enough
i to permit the Annabelle and Sea Wolf
to make two up t/ips, although the
] latter did not make a Takotpa land
ing, being compelled to tie jap at the
last. turn below town, from which
point some freight is being relayed
to town by smaller, craft. r
Henry Martella, who. suffered se
vere injuries on. the dredge at Ganes
, creek -last Saturday mornipg by being
| struck jay a, revolving ^elt, >s report
ed much improved. The injuries sus
tained were mostly on the Jhead. and
arms, and his eyes were closed for
, some time, but all these are said to
be healing nicety.
"t William Lehmann, operator in
cfiar’ge of the local wireless station,
, returned “here Tuesday from Anchor
age, .following a stay of some days in
hospital at that place due to bad case
of tonsilitis, and is again on the job.
Richard Heyser, who substituted dur
ing his absence, left the same day
| for Anchorage.
' To Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Anderson
(formerly Miss Clara Rieck), at
Fairbanks, a few days ago, was born
a son. Word from the proud father
states that the new arrival weighs 9
pounds, has been named John C., and
he thinks the youngster can already
whip his weight in wildcats.
George Adams, well known old
timer of Flat and Iditarod, is reported
to have been an outgoing passenger
on a recent plane for the Fairbanks
hospital.
F. J. Spach, superintendent of A.
R. C. operations in this section, re
turned here yesterday from a busi
ness visit to Flat.
A. Higgins is reported as being an
incoming passenger and is due to-ar
rive here within the next few days.
Waino Puntila, superintendent of
Little creek and panes creek dredges,
was among the week’s visitors.
Nels Vibe, Little creek, was a today
arrival with P. W- Carlson, again re
turning to Ophir this afternoon.
Items of Importance
In Recent News Events
BINGHAMTON, N. Y.—At least j
23 were killed and more than a hun
dred nijured when two rear coachef; i
of the crack Erie passenger train
were, tossefl into the air. by a collrd-'
ing inilk train. The coaches descend-;
ed in a mass qf wreckage, mangling
the bodies in the wooden coach, be-1
Tore the steel car on the end of the .
dyer smashed like an eggshell. |.
Passengers in the dinpr were hurled [
from their seats in the weiler of;
broken. dLshes.
The wreck occurred east of Bing-:
ham ton qs-the.flyer was tearing the
,city Jlmits -Tuesday night.
Passing motorists piled .the victims'
on cars and carrieed thpm to over
tp?cgd hospitals.
DETROIT.—Wage revision now in
.progress by the Ford Motor Company
is interpreted generally as part of
the plan by Ford to go.NBA one bet
ter, but fro nranother quarter came;
indications that he and the Blue!
Eagle might eventually get together.;
Directors of the Dearborn NRA unit j
decided Ford should remain as honor
ary chairman, and Casper Hughes,
active chair* ,an, said he was told the
differences ;,n Ford and the-j
NRA eventual i would he ironed out.!
LONDON. — Professor Einstein,
fleeing from Nazi threats ppon his
life, went today to a quiet spot on
the east coast of England. He is at
presept working on a new mathemat
ical theory. He said he planned to
lecture in America in October.
DENVER-—Two persons are known
to have been drowned and a;t leas!
three are missing, with damages esti
mated at hundreds of thousands of
dollars, caused by a series of floods
which deluged Denver and suburbs.
RARID CITY, S. D.—Eight Indians
were trppecl in thgih beds by a 1
foot wll of water which swept Sol
diers creek, nef Fort Thompson, S.
D.t early Sundy.
WASHINGTON, D. V,—Four and
half million gallons of pre-prohibition!
whiskey to slake a 167,000;000-gallon
thirst is roughly the situation Amer
ica will .face if prohibition is repealed
within the next few months.
Bonded warehouses hold some 18,
000,000 gallons of whiskey. The stock
grows,daily, but the law requires that
it must be aged four years before;
marketed. The. supply is being con
sumed with a : rapidity which( is I
threatening to cut it quickly and sub- j
stantially through the “Celler” law,
which permits physicians to prescribe
whiskey in any' quantity. Thus the
supply of. domestic liquor provides
only a small fraction of the of the ]
expected consumption. Imported li
quors must pay customs duties, virtu
ally doubling The .price. One solution
is mixing whiskey with pure grain
alcohol.
JUNEAU —The salmpn pack to
September ^.totaled 5,068,497 cases,
which is visually .complete for the
year.' Ohly ifce Kodiak canneries are
still operating-, The pack is slightly
light, as th^re. was a shortage of
pinks. This, however, was compen
sated for'.fey The increase in reds.
The pink escapement in all districts
is considered entirely adequate, some
contend, for all spawning require
ments.
MONTPELIER. — Vermont, long
rock-bound prohibition stronghold,
joined the paraadt of States favoring
repeal, the tmenthy-fiffch consecutive
State recording against prohibition,
no ,State, having voted foro.the 18th
amendment.
..Completee. returns from Tuesday’s
special repeal election from 48 .towns
.and cities gave for repeal 41,279,
against. .20,57.
Regarded as the most doubtful
State yet . to act, Vermont went ap
proximately .2 to 1 fpr repeaL At
least two of the State’s 14 (counties.
Lamoille and Orleans, voted for re
tention.
BERLIN. — Nazi Dogma made
law in Prussia as Nazi ;Genrui.n.-Ohm
tians attending the general .synu^
pushed: though motions barring Non
Aryans from churches. The session
was a stormy one. As Nazi .pastors
smnfchere dopposition Bishop Mueller
said that members of th eopposition
! “spreading calumny abroad hat the
German government is violating the
! church” should be put in conoenttra
tion camps. Storm troopers stood be
fore the altar during divine services
WASHINGTON, I). Hope for
1 higher salaries ^cheered Government
! officials as the .budget bureau, calling
for expense .estimates for the next
.year,. asked that salary figures be
submitted, on -the base of pay rate
.without the 15 per cent reduction.
The bureau did not promise a
change in policy, but most Federal
agents feel that by January 1 Presi
dent, Roosevelt will restore half if not
all of the present 15 per cent reduc
tion.
ANGOLA PENAL FARM, La.—A
sanguinnry riot, started by 12 long
term convicts during prison basebll
game, resulted in the dpth of two
guads and one oonvirt., apd the escape
of eleven! desperadoes ip visitors’ u
tomobiles, A half dozen persons were
! wounded as prisoners fired on the
baseball crowd .to cover ,escape.
DETROIT.—The arms, and legs of
a woman, identified by finger prints
as Lourier Jobb.,22, which had been
hacked roughly from the, body, were
found in the bushes of af field on th»
outskirts of this city.
Search is being made -for the. re
mainder of the body. The woman was
j vngerprinted a year ago by immigra
j tion officers.
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WASHINGTON—Joseph Eastmai,
federal transportation co-ordinater,
is sending questionnaires to railroad
presidents to (determine whether or
not they .are observing the labor pro
tection provisions of the emergency
railroad act. He issued a blunt state
ment that railroad, officials must keep
hands off as far as labor organiza
tions are concerned, and said the law
gives employes absolute freedom t«
organize unions.
y/ASHINGTON.—September sees
the NRA plan on the eve of a real
trial with fs'tatistics due before long
to show to what exent it has helped
employment.-and payrolls and to en
courage the cause of the “Buy now”
movement,
There .are-more warnings of higher
prices toyeome, People are advised
make purchases now so that .mer
chants and •iwaustrialists can givftjas*
ployment to more people.