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TAKOTNA ALASKA SATURDAY.* OCTOBER 17 iy31
PRICE 25 CENTS
MOD Troops j
W Britain1
X HUSHED TO ISLE OF SUPPRESS
. TO SUPPRESS RIOTS AND^
INSURRECTION.
. CAIRO, Egypt, Oct: 23. —British
1 troops were rushed by sea and air to
night to the ancient Islerof Cyprus to
suppress riots and to put down a well
„ advanced movement to link the Cyp
rian government to Greece. Two
cruisers, the London and the Shrop
.. shire, and two ■ destroyers, the
Achates and the Acosta, with more
than 1,40ft men and officers, were dis
patched from the Mediterranean fleet
base, on the Isle of Crete, after riots
at Nicos, capital of Cyprus, in the
course of which the government
houses were burned.
NIECE OF QUEEN MARY
TO MARRY A COMMONER
BALCOMBE, Eng., Oct. 22.—This
little Southern English town was
ironing out its best bib and pinafore
today in preparation for becoming
the center of the stage of British so
ciety tomorrow when Lady Mary
Cambridge, 25, niece of Queen Mary,
will be married in the old church here
i to a commoner, Captain Abel Smith,
of the Royal Horse Guards.
Charlie Konig was a late~Ffiday
• arrival, he being the first to arrive
< from McGrath this season over the
winter trail.
May Pool
Revenues
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BIG AND LITTLE RAILROADS
MAY PROFIT FROM FREIGHT
RATE INCREASE.
ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 23.—Amer
iia’s big brother railroads today pro
nounced themselveB willing -to help
Jieir little brothers meet .the vicissi
tudes of business, by accepting in
principle the plan of the Interstate
Commerce Commission to pool reve
nues resulting from a freight rate in
crease to be granted by the Commis
sion. The Association of Railway
Executives apjpointed a committee to j
confer with the Commission to obtain
a more definite understanding and to
suggest certain modifications.
FROM OTTAWA TO MEXICO
, CITY IN 12 HRS. 24 Ml
MEXICO CITY, Oct. .23.—Twelve
hours and twenty-four minutes out of
Ottawa, Canada, Major James H.
Doolittle brought his biplane down on
lofty Valbuena Field at 3 :16 p. m. to-:
day, completing a threo-capital flight, i
which he described as uninteresting. |
SIGNS HIS REAL NAME.
YUMA, Aria., Oct. .23.—Richard i
Dix, motion picture actor., .and Wini
fred Coe, of San Francisco, were mar
ried here today. The debonair Dix
signed the marriage license applica
tion in his real name, Ernest Carlton
Brimmer.
Alaska Interests At
The Nation’s Cap tai
(By W. A. 8.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—There
nas been some complaint, especially
from the Copper River district, that
the Alaska Road Commission dis
v , inate sagainst pioneers in favor
of “white collar boys from the Out
side,” in the selection of men to do
work. The matter has been
. p w.th Major Malcolm Elliott,
president of the Commission, who
writes to Delegate Wickersham: “I
i am heartily in sympathy with your
idea that the old-time Alaskan should
i be given employment where possible.
i!If you were to go over our roads and
, personally see the men at work, you
■ would*, be entirely satisfied that we
. are observing this policy. I also un
<.'• dersiand that your constituents ex
pert you to aid them in rectifying
thegr grievance, and you may be as
snreiifciAhat all such cases brought to
- our .attention will receive careful
consideration. As you are aware, the
* viorkingru^rogra mon the lower end
>. ofi! th&.'<£ichardson Highway is de
creasing inivolume from year to year
as the igijWDvements are completed
: and the rotad approaches a strictly
maintenance ..-Status, and this inevita
bly means « reduction in our working
force.’
Major 'Eiliotfr'Jiad-a list of all em
ployes in the'-vQhitina district com
piled as of July 1, 1931, giving the
name f each employee, the number of
years residence in Alaska and the
number of seasons employed by the
Alaska. Road. Commission, from .which
the following summary has been pre-'
pared: j
Length of residence in Alaska—
Over 40 years, 2; 30-40 years, 25;
20-30 years, 29; 10-20 years, 39; 1-10
years, 68; less than 1 year, 9. Total,
172; average, 14.7 years residence in
, Alaska.
Number of seasons worked worked
for A. R. C.—Over 20 seasons, 5;
15-20 seasons, 11; 10-15 seasons, 6;
5-10 seasons. 4; 1-5 seasons, 85; 1
season or less, 21. Total, 172; av
erage, 4.7 seasons employment by
the, A. R. C.
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The evident intention of the Na
tional Park Service to give encour
agement to the proposition of estab
lishing a modern hotel is McKinley j
National Park has given rise to the
fear on the part of those people re
siding within a few miles of the park
extended farther north, so as to in
hat the park may he enlarged and
elude many who would be sdbject to
bureau regulations. Bnt the Service
in Washington knows of no such in- j
tention. Director Horace M. Albright
has not yet returned from his recent |
visit to Alaska, where he had to be |
treated at the hospital far appendi
citis, and who may have some impart- \
ant announcements to make concern
ing the future glory of the Park.
The Postoffice Department has or
• red the establishmes& nl^an office
... St. Timothy, mor^a^fartieularly
designated as Tanana Crossing, with
tition for the establishing of a post
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NEW NON-POLITICAL CABINET
NOW JWORKING IN MEXICO
MEXICO30ITY, Ocf..23.—A.v.pcv
non*politieal .-caLinot, swept < cleat af.
generate and politicians, .with one ex
ception, took its .place in Mexico- to
day to aid in solvir. jra political crisis
that brought. a "number of -resigna
tions and left a two^onan government
in power for seven days. General
Plutarco Elias ; Galles was the only
military man included in the new
cabinet .announced . suddenly last
night
End Nearing
For Capone
ATTORNEYS MAKE LAST ARGU
MENTS REGARDING INCOME
TAX CONVICTION.
CHICAGO, Oct 22.—Kearface A1
Capone went to court again today,
listened glumly while his .attorneys
gave rt-r.sons why they believed his
income tax conviction should be set
aside, and was ordered by Federal
Judge V. ilkerson to come back to
morrow .
"J wi.I dispose of this case.at 10.a,
m. tomo.r.aw,” the rourt said.”
That (was taken to indicate he
would sc.itenre Capone immediately
if the dt-Ssnse motion for «an-arrest in
judgment, presented today, -were de
nied.
DECREASED SHIPMENTS
EEC.’,I ALASKA. SEPTEMBER
Septeny i-.; shipment? of Alaska
commod to the States, exclusive
of precu»,.s .metals, dropped to less
than $l/UU10jD0D for the first time -in
many years -for that month, it war.
revealed in .the -monthly .-.tatement of
commerce issued by J. CL McBride,
collector -of customs for Alaska. Gen
eral decline in fisheries products and
copper ore was accountable for the
decreased total value.
The outgoing commodity shipments
for the month just passed totaled
$9,753,495. This is $3,114,121 less
than for September, 1930, whin the
aggregate value of all products was
$13,067:616.
Almost $2,000,000 of the loss was
caused by a decline in the value of
canned -salmon shipments, due in the
main to lowered prices of that variety
of fish. The total quantity of canned
salmon exported was S0.,io2,94,'
pounds, which had a declared custom
house value of $8,706,850. In Septem
ber, 1930, canned salmon shipments
were worth $10,637,067.
Herring dropped $210,000 in value
Fresh fish, salmon and halibut, con
tributed another $50,060 to the total
decline. Fish meal was $230,000 less,
and oil $190,000 under last year’s fig
ures. Of all fisheries products, shell
fish alone registered an advance for
the month.
Copper ore dropped $160,281, the
total value of shipments falling $341,
$55.
ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED.
LONDON, -Oct. 22.—The Evening
Standard said tonight that Adele As
taire, American actress, is engaged
to be married to Lord Charles Caven
dish, young son of the Duke of Dev
onshire. The newspaper said she had
confirmed the report of the engage
ment m a trans-Atlantic telephone
conversation from New York this af
ternoon.
Japan Will
! Not Yield
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’LEAGUE OF NATIONS’ LABORS
•: TO REESTABLISH PEACE
•SEEMS FUTILE.
}.,' SHANGHAI, Oct. 20.—Movements
i ments under Chinese, Mongolian and
! Manchurian sponsorship to separate
'.the vast-area of Manchuria from the
’rest of. China were reported today,
! developing spontaneously in various
.parts .of the three Eastern provinces.
Exact information, however, still is
| lacking. The few dispatches reaching
uherw were from Japanese sources,
1 since -the Chinese no longer control
the-Manchurian communications sys
tem.
GENEVA,-Oct. 2Q.*—The next move
j in the negotiations do bring peace be
tween .laoan and China in Manchuria
was up to the Japanese tonight. The
Council of. th*>-League of Nations
awaited word from the Japanese gov
ernment on Aidstide Boriand's flexible
peace proposals^ submitted on behalf
of -the* Council to Kenkichi Yoshi
zawa, Japan’s r representative,. and
transmitted- by him..sto- Tokyo
WASHINGTON,> Oct- 2<L-^America
today• called upon Japan <ndd China
to remember their solemn pledges
against war. -Par the second time in
history the W«^ipgton vowernxnent
voiced the Kellogg-Brand peace pact
df Paris by which more than fifty na
tions promised to nettle their dispute*
by pacific means. This thae the
United States was content <tt let
other nations take lead lead, its action
in invoking the pact being in compli
ance with a aequest received from
five European countries which on Sat
urday at Geneva agreed to mobilize
world public opinion to prevent war
in Manchuria.
GENEVA, Oct. 20.—The League of
Nations’ labors to reestablish peace
in Manchuria were blocked tonight
when the Japanese representative,
acting on fresh instructions from
Tokyo, reiterated at a public session
of the League Council his govern
ment’s refusal to withdraw its troops
by November 15. Kcnkishi Yokhi
, zawa, the-Japanese spokesman, voiced
I this refusal after Dr. Alfred Sze, for
China, had accepted with reservations
the Council’s plan for peace, includ
ing the time limit on evacuation.
FLAT AND IDITAROD
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LFAT.—-Hairy Panter has sold bis
house to Mr. sod Mrs. McVey.
Frank Turner has moved into his
new house in Venice. suburb.
Billy Kaskneseexi and'.brother and
Mary Marcelle ara-ived in Flat yester
day from Moore creak,, coming by dog
team, and Bid is showing a 20-ounce
poke that he jeer vared. this season on
Moore creek.
Pilot Monsen haS beet* in Flat two
days, and is. leaving' for Anchorage
today.
Harry Sheppard. -has his house
moved o its-newocaiiop.,
Mr. and Mrd. 'Culver--moved into
their new home thrrtreek.
Charles Arnold “leflP^oday for his
camp on Granite mountain.
Bill Bums left yesterday, for his
trapping tHdqunxters.
Two Women
Murdered
and bodies shipped in twu
TRUNKS FROM PHOENIX
TO LOS ANGELES.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20.—Detec
tives posted at every avenue of es
cape searched today for a slight
blonde woman of 27 years, wife of a
physician and daughter of a minister,
as the perpetrator of a murder plot
in which two women were murdered
and their bodies shipped here from
Phoenix, Arizona. The prey of th®
squads of detectives, thrown into an
all-encompassing search, was Mrs,
Winnie Ruth Judd, forme*- employe
of a Phoenix medical clinic and wife,
of Dr. W. CL Judd, who was under
terhnical arrest here. With every
finger of evidence pointing- against
her, police capped their accusation
with a statement from her brother,
B. J. McKinnll, a university student,
that she had confessed the killings to
him and fled from his automobile
after suspicion had-spread at a roil
road 'station here, whero the bodies
were-f tfuud.
-PHOENIX, ridcnx, t-Ucl. -21.—New
pointing to^an .amuqnlice in
tins* ii IiijIhl iT Mm ' “turn i ufogrc i am..
Miss fiedvig Samuelson. whose bodies
aeere «ent.to Los Angeles as baggage
by Mrs. Winnie . J£uth Judd, mwi
fugitive, was intimated today by in
vestigation. The.author'ti^.s declined.,
pending return to Phoenix of County
Attorney Andres, now 1 in Los An
geles, to divulge the evidence. This
change of theory brought.the invest!
eatkn back to lines followed after
the slayings, which took place about
JQ.:30 p. m. last. .Friday,
LOS ANGELEK, Oei 22.—Mr,,
Winnie- Ruth/ Judd late today an*
swered her husband’s public appeal to
surrender for the Phoenix trunk-mur
ders. A telephone call from the miss
ing woman was received at the attor
ney’s office .and resulted in a hasty
departure of former Judge Louis P„
Russell and the husband. Dr, W.-C.
Judd, to a point outside -the * city
limits. There Mrs.. -Judd . made her
first appearance front hiding since
the discovery of the '-crimes. Mean
while Richard Ht Cantillon, partner
of Judge RuaaelL. hastened to the
district attorney’s office to prepare
the way for.Mrs. Judd’s surrender.
RELIGIOUS RIOT. MEXICO CITY
MEXICO .CITY, Oct. 13.—Fifteen
women were detained today after po
lice intervened in the National Con
gress of Women Workers and Peas
ants to put down a near riot, marked
by shouts of “Down with the govern
ment!” The discord resulted from
discussion of a resolution to request
immediate discharge of all Catholic
employes of the government.
DIVORCED AT RENO.
RENO, Oct. 222.—Pauline Lord, ac
tress and star of many stage produc
tions, including “Strange Interlude,”
was sued for divorce here today by
Owen B. Winters, nationally known
advertising naan. Winters’ complaint
charged cruelty on the part of his
wife, these cruelties having seriously
injured his health.
Game Warden Oddie Ballsan. After
a visit here of about - thrift1, day a, re
turned to- his heme aC'UMfrrtAh flsfr
arday