THE KUSKO TIMES
'VOLAXII. NO. 21
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. AUCUST 18 1W32
PRICE 25 CENT
'Return Liquor Question to
States, Declares IHoover
!• UPEECH'GF ACCEPTANCE GIVES
ELATION TO WETS, CON
STERNATION TO DRYS. t
WASHINGTON. —No longer ii
t there any speculation concerning th(
. attitude of President Hoover on th<
wet plank of the Republican plat
. form, as made apparent today in his
acceptance speech following notifica
. tion of his nomination by the Repub
ican convention.
Replying to the committee, discuss
ing the matter of prohibition, the
/President expressed his beief that the
Eighteenth Amendment had failed tc
- fulfill the purpose for which i was en
acted and that the liquor question
should be placed in the hands of the
i' individual States, to regulate as they
pleased. At the same time he de
clared that those States should be
given every Federal safeguard in
interstate matters, and stressed his
opinion that never again should the
open saloon be given tolerance.
The views expressed by the Chief
Executive, in which there was no
half-heartedness and no straddling,
■ went far beyond the declaration of
the Republican platform. They gave
elation to the wets, brought con
sternation to the drys.
Split in Dry Ranks Is Favorable for
Hoover’s Re-election.
WASHINGTON.—The split in the
* dry ranks over President Hoover’s
. prohibition pronouncement in his ac
i ceptance speech widened today when
Dr. Daniel A. Poling, chairman of
the Allied Board for Prohibition, an
nounced that the organization’s ex
ecutive committee had voted to sup
i por Mr. Hoover for re-eection. The
, allied forces are composed of more
than one million affiliated prohibition
ists.
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HINDENBURG STILL REJECT
IN GDEMANDS OF HITLER
BERLIN.—The outcome of Presi
dent Paul von Hindenburg’s action in
rejecting demands of Adolph Hitler
for the championship was awaited to
night with considerable concern.
President Hindenburg has been
anxious to incorporate the Fascists
into a non-party cabinet, but Hitler’s
refusal to accep less than the chan
cellorship, which the president firmly
refused, has made it almost certain
that the Fascist party cannot obtain
control. The president was quoted as
| threatening to use troops ruthlessly
against the Hitleries should they act
illegally.
HOOVER TO CONFER WITH
BIG INDUSTRIAL LEADERS
WASHINGTON—President Hoover
announced late today that he had in
vitedvited business and industrial
leaders of the nation to confer with
him at the White House on August 26
on methods of providing a unifed
front in the battle against depression.
Alaska Interests At
The Nation’s Capital
By W. A. S.
WASHINGTON, July 4.—For sev
» eral years past there has been a spe
cial select committee to investigate
the Alaska Railroad, composed of
. Senator Robert B. Howell of Ne
braska, Senator John B. Kendrick of
Wyoming, and Senator John Thomas
of Idaho. On June JO Senator Ken
> drick offered a resolution, which was
unanimously agreed to, as follows:
• “Resolved, That Senate Resolution
2£ti. agreed to July i, 193>.i, and con
! turned by reso.ulioi of January 10,
’ I* cl, authorizing a special-committee
• to investigate the operations, eco
• immic situation, and prospects of the
Alaska Railroad, hereby is continued
in full force and effect until Decem
i ber 3, 1933.”
The postmaster at Hot Springs has
- resigned and is desirous of removing
r.froxn that locality. Mrs. Claire Prin
,. gle has been recommended and will
:likely be appointed as his successor.
i The fore part of June the President
t signed-a joint resolution that sus
pended annual assessment work on
mining claims held l.y location in ihc
■-LnitejFfitatss and Alaska " b.ris.g the
al year fnm July 1, 1931, to July
I. 1932.’ On June 22 th>- Secretary of
. the Interior called attention of Con
gress that it wa sevideritly the intent
to make the exemption until noon of
July 1, 1932, and thus prevent any
^jumping” between the hours of mid
night on June 30 and 12 o’clock, noon,
• July 1. As a result the Senate im
v mediately passed another joint reso
1. hit ion to include the disputed twelve
hours; it was then passed by the
House on June 30, and signed that
afternoon by the President. Quick
action.
Two of Delegate Wickersham’s pri
vate bills passed the Senate on June
30 and have been signed by the Presi
dent. One directs the Secretary ■ .of
the Interior to pay te Ned Bishop, of
j Anchorage, out of the funds nf the
j Alaska Railroad, the sum of $1,009.10
in refund of a Liberty bond. This
j bond was unnecessarily forfeited in a
railroad tie contract in the year 1922.
The other bill directs the Secretary
of the Treasury to repay Clyde Shel
don, of Wrangell, the sum of'^250,
as the remission of a fine paid for
fishing in a closed area, when it was
later discovered that there was no
fish stream in that area.
On July 1, in discussing the House
bill to create Federal homedoan
banks, the Senate adopted one. amend
ment as follows: “As soon as prac
ticable the Board shall divide the
continental United States, Puerto
Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Ter
ritories of Alaska and Hawaii into
not less than eight nor more that
twelve districts.”
The Acting Chief of the Bureau of
Navigation, Navy Department. has
notified Delegate Wickersham that
James W. McCauey, of - Fairbanks,
candidate for midshipman, passed the
physical examination and was admit
ted to the Naval Academy at Annap
olis on June 28. He had previously
passed the physical examination at
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U. S. ATHLETES SCORE VIC
TORY OVER GREAT BRITAIN
KEZAR STADIUM, San Francisco.
—Making a clean swqep.irt the. first
four events, and showing their. su
periority in shorter relays, steeple
chase and hurdle events, outstanding
Olympic athletes pf the United States
defeated the British Empire in the
lfth quadrennial meet between the
two natins today. The final score was
six to four, the United States winning
first in six evnts and Great. .Britain
lrst in four.
Hurricane
In Texas
TAKES HEAVY HEATH TOLL, IN
JURES HUNDREDS—LAGE
PROPERT YLOSS.
HOUSTON, Ter.—A violent trop
ical hurricane swept across the Gulf
of Mexico and lashed the Texas
coast last night and early today,
spreading destruction over., a. wide
area. After the storm had spent its
fury, Texas tonight counted its
known dead at nine. More than, one
hundred injured were in . hospitals.
Property damage was estimated a
more than one million dollars.
HOUSTON.—With .lines of «r com
munication reestablished, dispatches
from all sections of Texas indicate
that the death list resulting from
yesterday’s hurrkcane will be heavy.
Lines of communication are still crip
pled, but it . is,, a pparent i that the
death list and number ot those .in
jured, as .'well .as the damage ...to
property, will be. far greater ..than
at first esimated.
HELEN MADISON TO JOIN PROS.
LOS ANGELES.—Helen Madison,
of Seatle, winner two Olympic swim
ming championships, wil becomes a
professional, in the near future, .she
indicated. in. an ..interview given out
tonight.
OPEN SEASON ON GEESE,
GEESE, BRANT, IN ALASKA
JUNEAU, July 22.—In accordance
with the provisions of the Alaska
Game Law, Regulation No. 12,
amendments to Treaty Act. Regula
tions, just approved, prescribe open
season on ducks, geese and brant in
Alaska from September 1 to October
31. Daiy bag limit on ducks, except,
wood ducks, ruddy ducks and buffle
head ducks, 15 in aggregate of all
kinds, but not more than 5 eider
ducks and not more than 10 of any
one or of aggregate of the following
species: Canvasback, redhead, greater
and lesser scaup ringneck, blue
winged, green-winged and cinnamon
teal, shoveller and gadwalL Posses
sion limits, 30 ducks in aggregate of
all kinds, but not more than 10 eider
ducks and not more than 20 in ag
gregate of canvasbacks and other
species listed in preceding sentence.
Not more than 25 live duck decoys
may be shot over. No restrictions on
use of lives goose decoys is Alaska.
While not specifically stated, it is
presumed that the open season for
Wilson snipe or jacksnipe will be the
same period and that the bag limit on
geese and brant will be the same as
specified in said regulation.
ALASKA GAME COMMISSION.
Items of Importance
In Reecnt News Events1
WINSTON .SALEM, N. Inves
tigation of the death of Smith Rey
nolds, heir to an estimated $15,000,
000 tobacco fortune, which was con
duced b ya Forsythe county grand
jury, resulted .yesterday n the return
of true bills rhargipg Libby Holman
Reynolds, chous girl wife of the mur
dered man, and Albert Walker, for
mer chum, with the charge of murder.
Walker was arrested immediately,
but the girl cannot he found. Her
father, Albert Holman, who is in Cin
cinnai, has refused to surrender his
daughter and has announced that he
will not give out any information on
a “frame-up.”
Reynolds, a youth of 20.years, died
of a bulet wound in the brain, follow
ing a prolonged party at his estate.
He Hid not make any- statement after
he had been shot and there was not
much for the coroner’s jury tc work
on. The verdict;, however, was that
Reynolds'had come to his death “at
the .hands of a person or persons un
known.” .It was the belief of the in
vestigators that -Reynolds did not
commit suicide.
WASHINGTON.—Tiie State De
partment has dispatched a note to
all of the more important South ard
.Central .American republics, warning
them that any territorial gains made
br force will not be recognized by the
United States:', This action was taken
in view of the threat of hostilities be
tween. Boivia and .Paraguay, these
two nations at present being at the
point of war as a result of setting
the Chaco controversy. The two coun
tries .have indicated that, they will
consider international moves now un
der way for the peaceful settleme: t
of , the dispute, but they are prepared
for war. Dispatches received from
the border state that there are 11,001)
Bolivian troops there ready for ac
tion. Paraguay has informed the
League of Nations , that arbitration
will be accepted*. J*nd a similar -atti
tude has .been -indicated by Bolivia
Serious objections have been made to
certain clauses contained in the
Washington note.
SEATTLE.-Jdayor John *. Dare,
who went into office recently pledged
to reduce municipal expenses, -at
tached his signature today to an or
dinance providing for the introduc
tion of the five-day week, eaeh day to
consist of eight hours. It is calcu
ated that this measure.- wil save the
ciy $3,000 daily in salaries.
City hall employes, the fire and po
lice departments, harbor-department
and other divisions requiring full time
operation will not he affected by the
shortening of the week, but there are
about 3,500 employes who will feel
the cut.
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..SEATTLE.— Oi\e woman was fcadfc
wounded in the eye by a hatpin and
others were bruised in the first dis
turbance of a strike by 1200 women
aundry workers here today. A group
of girls, reported to be strike beakes.
attempted to force their way into the
and oak hree o headquarterskcHb4
New Method Laundry' and clashed
with the picketeers. Police were
called and took three to headquarters
for questioning.
Employee sof ten laundries have
gone on strike, the workers charging
that the laundries kept up exorbitant
prices while paying small wages
( .HARBIN..— Twenty-one -days of
j continuous rain has converted the
j north central part of Manchuria into
| a vast lake, .the inundation already
having reached the proportions of a
great national disaster.
Tens of thousands of square* miles
are under water; thousands of farm
ers haws hist, their homes, harvests
have bee ^destroyed ard great .stores
of grain-and. spy i beans hav*- been de
| stroyed. It is estimated tv at thf
property .oss tuisry will reach 1 (Ml,
; 000,000 dollars Mexican.
Refugees are flocking into thr eities.
; and seeking shelter on high ground,
I Many have .peTished in? the 'flood, and
the Joss of livestock by drowning also
has been heavy.
.LONDON.—The Economist owe of
Great Britain’s foremost economic
authorities, expresses-the belief in its
atest edition that the depression crisis
in the United States ’.has Sheen safey
passed.
j “It. worn! be -rash to predit," the
very conservat iv»- statement says,
I “that America is yet within sight of
j. general economic recovery,, but .never
i theli’ss there is reason to think the
! ‘giant of the w est’ past ed its sick
i ness crisis in the spring and summer,
' Now the period of the panic -seems
past, the process of hoarding checks,
’ the banking position salvaged, and the
psychology of the peo-nle steadied.”
The belief is expressed .that indica
tions throughout the world .generally
ore- that the worst is over
MARQUETTE, Mich—A .fortunate
shift of the wind today eaved the vil
lage of Kagoa from being wiped out
| competey by a .forest fire whkb al
ready had destroyed twenty million
feet of valuable timber, with an -esti
mated money loss of half a million
ydoTlars
The village was in The direct path
of the fire and so certain did it seem
that it would be destroyed that virtu
aly all of . the. residents had moved
their belongings to a place ot safety
along the highways. The blaze was
nearing two gasoline storage tanks
when the wiDd shifted.
.SAN FRANCISCO.—The Hippo
drome, Tip-roaring center of Sar
Francisco's • old Barbary‘Coast, is a
firetrap and a menace, John Leonard,
building inspector, ruled today. The
. tdd structure, crumblki gon its foun
1 dations, must be razed or .rebuijt,
1 Leonard decided,
SHELTON, Wash.—Mirk Reed..
1 umberman, has announced that has
mill and camp wil lbegin. operations*
August 15, whihh will give ceuploy
,'ment to. 20Q men. Ths announcement
| is of particular importance o Shelton
' since it will. absorb al of the uftem
; ployed here.
i TUCKER PRISON FARM, Ark.—
! were killed and three wounded toda>
.in a daring break for liberty at the
; prison camp stockade. .In a •. subse
! quent gun * battle, hetween fugitives
'and officers,.and seven convics, one of
whom was killed, was a trusty serv
! ing as guard. The y surrounded the
woods, 20 niiles away, where three
| were shot to death and two wounded
The two Who surrendered wer<4 R.. G
Jones and Else Howell, a :trust?
| guard. Howell'.wa's killed by t Jon«
when he resisted attempts of th®**
caping convicts, ttu taka a£flabt