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TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. SEPTEMEBR 20 i* 30
Dynamite
Explosion
Ifl.OOOO-POUNTl) MAGAZINE GOE
OFF NEAR MUKILTEO; 40 IN
JURED? HEAVY DAMAGES.
SEATTLE, Sept. 18.- -A 40.00C
ppund dynamite magazine of th
Puget Sound’& Alaska Power Con
pany blew up last night, near th
town of Mukilteo. Forty person
were injured and several houses an
buildings wreckfed in Mukilteo an
Everett. The latter place, seve
miles from the scene of the explosior
was. damaged to the extent of $400
000.
SEATTLE, Sept. 19.—Mrs. Luc;
Odhoff of .Everett died last night a
the result of shock from the Mukilte
dynamite explosion, the property los
of which amounts to three quarter
of a million dollars..
FASCIST PARTY WINS 106
MEMBERS FOR REICHSTAC
BERLIN, Sept. IK—The Fascis
party, headed by Adolph Hitter, i
was disclosed today, won 106 mem
bers in the reiehstag election las
week, increasing the membershi
from nine do .that, figure, which show
a substantial. Fascist growth in Gei
many.
BANK BANDITS' GET $41,000
FROM EVERETT BANK
EVERETT, Sept. 19.—Tile Citizens
Security vBfcnk.of this place was held
up yesterday afternoon by six ban
dits, using machine guns in their op
erations. The robbers carried oq
$44,0000 cash,. making their getaway
in a waitin gfuitomobile.
DECLARES 'FOR REPEAL OF
EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT
NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—United
States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle
last night-mailed his resignation tc
President Hoover. Tuttle, in a pub
lic statement, declared foe repeal ol
the eighteenths amendment.
TRUST FUND. TO CARRY OUT
WILL OF MRS. F.D.. GRANT
WASHINGTON.—The will of Mrs
Frederick. Dent Grant, daughter-in
law of former President Grant, cre
ates two trust funds to continue
through the lives of her two children,
their children and 21 years beyond
the lifetime -of her youngest grand
child.
Mrs. Grant was the widow of Ma
jor General Grant. The value of her
estate is unestimated. A daughter.
Princess Julia Cantacusene, was left
$50,000, and a son, Lieut.-Col. Ulys
ses Grant III, was left her Massachu
setts avenue home'.
MEMORIAL TO W. J. BRYAN.
DAYTON, Texas, Sept. 19.—A fun
damentalist university, on a 71-acre
tract, for which1 a million dollars has
been subscribed, was opened here on
Thursday as a'memorial to William
J. Bryan.
John Novak was a Friday arrival
for a brief visit, giving attention to
a few business matters.
John Griffin was a Thursday arrival
from Ophir.
Joe Ferris left a couple of days ago
the Cripple section.
Lyle-Whitney
. Case Closing
!
3 DR. MATTHEWS AND OTHER SE
ATTLE DIVINES HIT REPU
TATION OF DEFENDANTS.
I
J SEATTLE, Sept. 17.—Senator W.
e L. Jones testified today in the Lyle
. and Whitney case, denying that he
e knew anything1 of the $G,000 Olm
s stea l ’drihution. to his cabpaign in
j I92r>. Jones prais.-d both Lyle and
4 Whitney
1 SEATTLE. Sept. 18.—Senator W.
L. Jo; es, on cross-examination, ad
mitted he had secured the appoint
ment of Hubbard as dry adminis
r trator.
3 SEATTLE, Sept. 19.—Dr. -Mat
thews, testifying for the Government
in the Lyle and Whitney case yester
day afternoon, said Whitney5s repu
tation was very “bad and vicious,”
declaring he w’ould not believe him
under oath. Rev. Thomas H. Simp
' son and several other prominent di
vines characterized the reputation of
t Lyle and Whitney as bad, asserting
L Lyle as very weak. The testimony of
these divines came as a great sur
4 prise to the defense.
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3 SEATTLE, Sept. 20.Taking of tes
- moment, and that the Territory’s for
; timony in the Lyle and Whitney case
closed late yesterday, when argu
ments were begun. The case wil
’ probably go to the jury tonight.
I
s F. B. KELLOGG ELECTED TO
[1 INTERNATIONAL COURT
J GENEVA, Sept. 17.—Frank B. Kel
^ logg, former United States Secretary
y of State, was today elected a member
i of the permanent Court of Interna
tional Justice, to repace Charles
! Evans Hughes, resigned.
r WALKAWAY IN WISCONSIN
d FRO PHILIP LAFOLLETTE
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 17.—Phiip La
Follette, brother of Senator Robert
La Follette, won the Republican Sen
atorial nomination in Tuesday5s pri
maries, defeating Governor Kohler by
about 100,000 votes.
DELAWARE DEMOCRATS
5 NOMINATE THOS. F. BAYARD
J* DOVER, Del., Sept. 17.—The Dem
’ ocratic confention yesterday nom
inated Thomas F. Bayard for Senator
J for Maryland.
AMERICA’S WAR DEBT
SHOWS BIG DECREASE
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WASHINGTON—America’s gigan
tic war debt of more than twenty-six
and one-half billion dollars has been
reduced more than one-third in: the
11 years since the debt reached its
peak in August, 1919.
A Treasury statement showed the
public debt on .*ngust 31 totaled
$16,187,636,000, a slight increase over
the previous month resulting from
delay in applying the sinking fund to
retirement..
j Mr. and: Mrs. John Kieck'and their
' daughters, Miss Helen and Miss Elsie,
1 are recent arrivals to make their per
3 manent residence here. M#„ and Mrs.
! Rieck a, few days ago acquired the
1 J. H.' McLean building, in which they
are making their abode.
1 Ed Nollette, Yfcnkee creek, was
among the week’s .visitors..
BROMLEY’S FOURTH FAIL
URE; PLANE BROUGHT DOWN
CLOSE TO SHIUFASI, IN JAPAN
SEATTLE, Sept. 17—Having taken j
, off Sunday morning from Sambongi, |
Japan, in an attempted nomstop'1
flight in the monoplane. City of. Ta
coma from Japan to Tacoma* Wash
ington, Harold Bromley, American
aviator, and Harold Gatty, Australian
I co-pilot, brought their plane to ■ earth*
near the village of Shiufasi,. Japan,,
at 1 o’clock this morning.
This is Bromey’s fodrth failure to*
make a flight in thr monoplane, whilfi.
ra ricd 1,020 gallons of gasoline.
AMINATE, Japan—Bromley insist
ed today that lack of finances will
prevent him making another attempt
to fly to Tacoma, Wash. He asserts
he was forced down by a damaged
1 exhaust pipe and adverse weather
conditions.
Telegraphic Ticks.
SEATTLE, Sept. 18.—Heifner, in
an address here today in his cam
paign for-Congress, promised to work
for more liberal land laws for Alas
ka to allow freer development of the
Territory.
SEATTLE, Sept. 17.—Superior
Judge Adam Boiler was today ap
pointed by Governor Hartley to fill
the vacancy on the State Supreme
Court coused by the death of Judge
French.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Ad
miral William V. Pratt today succeed
ed to the place of chief of naval op
; erations.
SANT AMONICA, Sept. 17.—Mil
ton Sills, stage screen star, died last
night from heart disease.
CALCULATIONS CONCERNING
PLUTO. NEWEST PLANET
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Prof. Har
low Shapley, director of the Harvard',
j astronomical observatory, announced
that discovery on. photographic plates
of images q£ the new planet Pluto
had enabled him to calculate the
period of the orbit of the trans-Nep
tunian body is 251.8 years.
| Pluto will be nearest the earth in
1988, when it will be only 30 astro
nomical units distant, or 2,800,000,000
miles. Shapley said four of the
j plates on which Pluto appeared were
! taken for another prrpo.se.
j LACQUER COMPOUND, GINGER
DRINKS, CAUSES PARALYSIS
WASHINGTON.—A tasteless and
odorless compound" generally used in
the lacquer leather industry is re
sponsible, in the opinion of Govern
ment chemists, for thousands of cases
i of paralysis following the drinking of
ginger concoctions. It is orthotric
resyl, the orthotricresyl alone caus
ing paralysis.
EXTENSION OF AIR MAIL
SERVICE TO ALASKA
SEATTLE.—Establislunent of reg
ular air mail lines to the Pacific
Northwest and Alaska is regarded
i favorably By Second Assistant Post
j master General W. Irving Glover,
l who is here to look over the pro-'
posed routes.
Glover said: “T am going to put'
it up to the Postmaster General when
I get back, to* Washington. If that
official approves the plan, Congress
will be asked to increase the postal
department' appropriation for the fis
1 cal year 1931 so as to permit the ser
vice starting about .six months from
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Gup Stays
In America
‘ENTERPRISE’ WINS SERIES OF
FOUR VICTORIES OVER THE
‘SHAMROCK.’
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—The Amer
ican sloop. Enterprise Thursday com
peted to a successful defense of the
American Cup when she won the
fourth straight race and series of
four victories against the Shamrock,
the Thomas I.ipton chalenger.
The finish of the triangular .30
mile course wan made in 3 hours and
10 minutes. It marks the thirty
seventh time an American boat has
beaten British challengers in 79
years.
TWO DEAD AS RESULT OF
SEATTLE AUTO CRASHING
SEATTLE, Sept. 19.—A. P. Bush
man, bond salesman, 32, driving at
high speed, was killed last night
when his car, attempting to pass
from behind, crashed into another au
i^jmobile with four young people, all
of whom were thrown from their ma
chine into Washelli cemetery. All
four occupants were seriously injured.
SEATTLE, Sept. 20.—James Hen
ry, 18, one of the four occupants of
the car hurled by the. Busman ma
chine into Washelli cemetery, died
from Isis rnjurtes yr#'•rtfuy stfternoor..
BLAMES RUSSIA FOR WRECK
AGE OF U. S. WHEAT PRICES
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Secre
tary of Agriculture Hyde declared to
day that Russia’s recent selling of
15,000,000 bushels of wheat on the
Chicago market was the cause of the
wreckage of wheat prices in the
United States.
ANOTHER SENATE COMMITTEE
VISITING WESTERN CITIES
SEATTLE, Sept. 19.—A Senate
committee, consisting of Claude A.
Swanson of Virginia, Henrik Ship
stead of Minnesota, and Key Pittman
of Nevada, arrived in Seattle today.
They will hold a series of hearings
here and in other coast cities on pro
duction and commercial relations with
the Orient.
UN TED STATES RECOGNIZES
ARGENTINE, BOLIVIA 'M'tl.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. —The
United States yesterday extended rec
ognition to the provisional govern
ments of Argentine, Bolivia and
Peru, all three of which were recently
re-established by revolution.
BOSTON’S BIG CELEBRATION.
BOSTON, Sept. 18.—With a million
in attendance, Boston today began
• elebration of the three hundredth
; nniversary of the founding of the
ity by the Masaachusetts Coony.
BOULDE RDAM PROJECT.
LAS VAGAS, Sept. 19.—The Boul
der Dam project was effectively
started Thursday by Secretary of In
terior Wilbur, who christened it Hoo
ver Dam.
Henry Nicholson, after a visit here
of several weeks, during which he has
been giving attention to auditing the
affairs of the late F. C. H. Spencer,
returned to his home at Spruce creek
on. Friday.
Bad Blaze At
McGrath
A. R. ELDRIDGE STORE AND I'l
CONTENTS BURNED TO THE
i GROUND.
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Fire at McGrath Monday night o
stroyed the A. R. Edridg store, w; *
in gout an old, familiar landmark a
causing a loss of several thousu’
dollars.
The fire broke out about 10: - -
o’clock. Mr. Eldridge, who had r
tired somewhat early, was awakt
from his sound sleeping only to fi
smoke and flames coming from tr
rear portion of the structure. )
. made his escape, clad only in i
night clothing.
Everything contained in the ? "
was consumed, there not being
slightest opportunity to save an.-.
I thing. Fortunately, the direction
the wind was toward McGrath,
which reason the well-stocked r, .in
1 houses, 75 or 100 feet distant
a prey to the flames. The stocks
both warehouses, however, had K
moved while the conflagration v/a v
; its worst in wiping out the store, a*
hands present doing everything i'. a
sisting to save the goods.
The stock within the store ha i
estimated value of probably $4,00u
i $5,000, the building about $2,000, th
; insurance upon which is not km • •
, at this writing. Aside from this, Y
1 toss in personal '<f *cts i. -fe *
RUTH ALEXANDER KILLED
AS HER AIRPLANE CRASHE
SANTO DOMINGO, Sept. 18.—
Ruth Alexander, noted aviatrir, we
killed this morning four minute
after she had hopped off on a tran
continental flight. An explosion in
the gasoline tank of her pane cause '
the crash.
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SANTIAGO, Sept. l'J.—Notes hcr
said today that Ruth Alexander wa,
secretly married on June 21 at Yum.
Ariz., to Robert S. Elliott, a navy re
serve air pilot.
McGRATH NOTES.
Joe Condry, proprietor of the Bi;:
River Roadhouse, arrived in McGrat
a couple of days ago for a brief visi
“Diamond Dick” Rhodes left a few
days ago for the East Fork Road
house, which he acquired some aim
ago and which he will conduct dur
ing the winter.
—
Miss Ann Hughes, former Takotna
school teacher, who after leaving
here was engaged at Deering, in the
Nome district, for one year, and th
following year at Floresville, Texa
is now located at Pavlof Harbor, o'
Alaska Peninsula, where she is ur
der school engagement for the com
ing school year.
Carl Lottsfeldt and Frank Gusk _■
were Friday arrivals from McGratr
coming part way with Frank Larsor.
in his launch and finishing the larg.r
part of the distance by walking u;
owing to the launch going out of con
mission temporarily. Mr. Larso'
having made repairs, sailed into por
about half an hour after the arriv
of the former.
Andrew Peterson, well known trav
eler, arrived from McGrath a coupl
of days ago for a brief sojourn her'
Joe Oates was .a Thursday dep r
ure for McGrath,
M. E. Bondir on w a yesterday
rival for a brief town visit