THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL XI NOV25
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. AUGUST 22. 1931
PRICE 25 CENT?
Near Tokyo
fit ON PRESENT” LAP THEY MUST
A VOIIVELXN'G, OVER FORTI
I’FIBD AREAS.
NEMUED Japan. Aug. 22.—On
t the last .IjEgiof -their-.flight from New
\York,U Colonel--and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh.-staBted for K-rsumigiura
Airport?,.' near Toklo, :at 8:21 a. m. to
. day. -The Lindberghs were expected
to.-makeline '45£3 mites .flight to Ka
sumigiaiura in about seven hours.
Their courseHay, nsarly all the way,
over fch« 4’aci’fto ocean. Upon request
of the -'Japanese -Communications De
; nartment- that they avoid flying over
r fortified areas, they were expected to
s. skirt ftfce eastern coast of Hokkaido
-island, son 'which Nemuro is located,
t-andtsof Hondo, main island of Japan,
t; jntil approaching the Kasumigiura
landing- field.
( CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR’S SO
i CIAL SECRETARY KEPT BUSY
FLYING WITH INVITATIONS
-5ALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 21.—Miss
r Betty C. Gerke, flying social secre
t tary to Governor Rolph of California,
; arrived here today by airplane with
I invitations to Governor Dean and
3 Mayor Bowman for the Olympic
; games to be held in Los Angeles next
. summer. Miss Gerke already has vis
i ited fifteen States bearing invitations
to governors and mayors.
A Suspected
Rum Runner
A 5-MILE RUNNING GUN BAT
TLE BEFORE SPEEDY YACHT
COMES TO A HALT.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15—After
a five-mile running gun battle in
which the cannon of a Coast Guard
cutter equalized its superior in speed,
the cutters Tahoe and 262 early yes
terday captured a suspected rum run
ner off Point Reyes. The suspect was
the motor boat Redwood, which failed
to answer the commands of the cut
ters to stop until six shots had been
fired from the one-pound gun of the
262. After the fifth shot across the
Redwood’s bow the gunners of the
262 began to fire in earnest, and when
the sixth shot fell a few feet in front
of the fleeing launch the crew hove
to and submitted to questioning.
According to officers of the Tahoe,
the Redwood attained a speed of 32
knots during the chase. When officers
l of the Tahoe boarded the Redwood
after the long chase they found no
i contraband cargo and were forced to
turn the suspect loose. In answering
questions of the Coast Guard , the
crew of the Redwood insisted, “This
is a fishing boat. We are all fisher
men.” Then, to the question, “What
does a fisherman want with a boat
I that will attain a speed of 32 knots?”
I no definite answer was given.
Alaska Interests A*
The Nation’s Capital
(By W. A. 8.
WASHINGTON, July 28.—About a
■ year ago the Department of Justice
' wrote letters to the various district
. attorneys, U. S. marshals, clerks of
the court, etc., in Alaska that glad
< dened their hearts with the informa
tion that effective July 3, 1930, their
s. salaries would be advanced $200. They
" received the advance and properly
. expended it, but were startled a cou
! pie of months ago to receive a com
» munication from Comptroller General
McCarl stating that this advice had
tdbeen made under the “Brookhart”
act, which was not applicable in this
instance, and indicating that they
would.have to blow back the advance.
’ The'officials at Fairbanks referred the
; matter to Delegate Wickersham, who
- took it up with the comptroller gen
t eral and the attorney general. As a
resultiithe latter has issued an order
■- makings an “administrative increase,”
which will be respected by the comp
- trolier.*,general, and the Alaska offi
cials;5 Will: not be erpected to return
. the past year’s advance.
For’aeflewen years Albert J. Zyvol
oski worked on the Alaska Railroad
. and th^C wpper River & Northwest
ern Railway', but recently came Out
side and took a civil service exam
ination” iri. Seattle. He successfully
passed and was assigned to the Navy
Department at Washington, where he
has been for three months. He was
in to see the Delegate the other day
to say ('that die intended to return to
. Alaska and wishes to retain his legal
residence in Alaska, where he last
lived and voted, and wanted to know
whether the act that was passed at
the lasts session of the Territorial
Legislature providing for absentee
voting would permit him to cast a
ballot in Alaska at the next election
Unless Congress approves this act or
something similar there can be no ab
sentee voting in the Territory.
! The common council at Seward has
memorialized at bureau of fisheries
here to prohibit the taking of salmon
• from any stream emptying into Res
urrection bay, so as to insure the es
capement of salmon to their spawn
ing grounds, and thus aid what is be
coming an important industry to
j Seward.
C. E. Giebel, of eKtchikan, has ap
' plied for elimination of a small tract
of land in Loring, Tongas national
forest, and an order of elimination is
expected to soon issue for this tract
and two or three others.
The other day D. N. Protopapas
came over from New York to attend
to some business. In the early days
j he was mining at Nome and still has
property in several seitions of Alaska,
coming out from there last in 1925,
and stating that he will return next
i year. For some time past he has been
engaged in raising plantago psilium
in the Argos district of Pelopponesus,
Greece. It is a medicianl product and
he has 500 acres under cultivation,
employing twenty workmen, fourteen
horses, and using fourteen plows. He
will return to Greece nsxt month.
A request comes from’the Interior
to send copies of land withdrawal or
ders that President Hoover has made
(Continued on Page 8.)
JUROR HELD Ol'T AGAINST
11 OTHERS; BOMB FOUND’ON i
THE PORCH OF HIS HOMK
SANTA MONICA; Calif-, Aug?.'21,
—A makeshift bomb, probably do'*,
erful enough to do considerable dan,
age, was found early today on fcb»
porch of the home ,of William ,.E.
Weller, 73-year-old juror who held
out against eleven others for.a.‘con
viction in the murder trial of David
H. Clark, former deputy district at
torney. The bomb was found by Mrs
Weller.
THREE FIENDISH MURDERS,
SLAYERS OF I YDUTHS, GET
SWIFT JUSTICE IN MICHIGAN
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Michigan
courts have established a record for
swift justice in the apprehension,
conviction and imprisonment, of the.
three men who were responsible for
the fiendish murder of four young
people on a lonely country road near
here Tuesday night. Within six hours
after the murderers had confessed
their guilt they had been sentenced
to life imprisonment and were placed
in solitary confinement at Jackson
prison. Th confession was obtained
when the landlord of one of the mur
derers gave gave the police a gun
which was identified as the one used
to do the killing.
The prisoners are: Fred .Smith, an
ex-convict; Frank Oliver, a 10-year
old painter; David JBlackstone, itin
erant negro. When it became known
that the trio had confessed, angry
citizens gathered and made four un
successful attempts to take the pris
oners from the officers, with the in
tention of lynching them. The first
attempt was made at Ypsilanli, soon
after the men had admitted their
guilt; another attempt was made af
ter the murderers had .been brought
here; a third when they were taken
into court for sentence, and the last
when they were being taken to Jack
son fo imrprisonment. The fourth at
tempt was almost successful. Hun
dreds surrounded the police squad
and made a frenzied effort to drag
the men from th eofficers. The cloth
ing of the prisoners was tom, faces
were scratched and they were pulled
and struck with fists and sticks. The
police found it necessary t© use. tear
gas to protect the men in their cus
today.
It was revealed in the confessions
that the victims, two girls and two
boys, had been held up by the trio of
bandits and then shot, after which
the fiends set fire to the automobile
in an effort to destroy evidence of the
crime, just as the police had suspect
ed when the charred "bodies were
found. The negro confessed that he
had attacked one of the girls.
RECORD RUN OF SALMON
ON SOUTHEASTERN COAST
GETCHIKAN.—Eight seine boats,
which arrived here yesterday with
full loads of salmon, found that the
i run of pinks had filled all the traps
and that the floors of canneries were
overoflwing with cheap fish. Seiners,
therefore, were unable to sell their
catches.
The run took a sudden spurt Tues
day, and all of the twelve canneries
operating here are now far ahead of
last year’s pack. The price at present
runs from 70 to 85 cents, and it as
expected that it will reach a dollar
later.
Coming from Ganes creek last
Tuesday were John Krieger, Charlie
Goebel, Peter Jensen, J. Theodore
Melberg, John (Happy) Jacobson and
Andy Swartzdale.
Thousands of
Flood Victims
SHANGHAI VISITED BY ONE OF
WORST TYPHOONS SINCE
YEAR 1905
SHANGHAI, Aug. 22.-40ne of the
worst typhoons since 1905 struck
Shanghai today, flooding a portion of
the city and causing anxiety for the
safety of . many thousands of flood
sufferers clinging to water-surround
ed hills..of interior .China. No word
had come for several , hours after
nightfall from the stricken area of
HankoW, Wu Chang and Hanyang
Boo, 900 mileiy up the Yangtse river,
where several thousands persons per-1
ished within the past fortnight
EVIDENCE OF EXISTENCE OF
PREHISTORIC1 VILLAGES ON
KODIAK JSL'V-SAYS HRDLICKA
SEATTLE.—Dr. Ales Hrdiicka, of
Smithsonian Institute,.•who has devot
ed a number of years to. a search of
Alaska for evidence of. the supposed
trek of Asiatics, across .-Alaska in. an
cient times, announced , upon " his ar
rival .here from ffadMiorth?mir: week
that his investigations .at'Kodiak Is
land have been.productive;'of evidence
pf the existence of prehistoric vil
lages on the island.
The doctor believes the villages
were among the oldest on the North
American continent, proving his the
ory that the drift of the human, race
'into.North and South America was
tbrrtigh Alaska from Asia. He be
lieves the early settlements flourished
and died and were reoccupied many
times before the Russians cam*.
The doctor will return to Kodiak
next year to resume his studies there.
Charged with violation of the pro
hibition law, Frank Lange of Mc
Grath appeared before Judge Cecil
H. Clegg,at Fairbanks, last Tuesday,
pleaded guilty to the charge, and was
sentenced to serve six months in jail
and to pay a fine of ?1O0, according
to advices received by United >States
Deputy Marshal Stanley J. Nichols
Charlie Smith and A1'Smith, oper
ating the Quill, returned'to McGrath
aat Wednesday, folowing the landing
of .a quantity of oil here.
Among those arriving here Monday
from -the A- R. C. camp were Mrs. D.
E. Clough, Bert 'Goodpaster, Alex
Schidell, Eels Anderson, Owen Gray,
Matt Xivi, and Foreman Milton Rice.
Peter Jensen, after a brief visit in
town, returned a couple of days ago
to Ganes creek, where he and Andy
Swartzdale will engage in prospect
ing work
Pilot Harry Blunt, of the Pacific
International Airways, landed here a
couple of days ago, brjnging.the mail,
and then proceeded.to Flat.
Mike Mynfci was-alSWesday arrival
from Ganes, to whk^L-plaiie he again
returned to Thursday,
John Jacobs on 'retorndcl here Fri
day from a visit at McGrath, coming
up with Pilot Matt JNietuinen.
J. T. Melberg, following his arrival
here from Ganes, left Wednesday for
his home at McGrath.
The mail coming by way of Holy
Cross is expected daily.
Britain Has
New Cabinet
NEW GOVERNMENT OF TEN IN
DIVIDUALS TAKES OVER
POWER
LONDON, Aur. 21.—Great Brit
ain’.s new government of individuals
took over power tonight and plunged
into the tasck of pulling- the nation
through its financial crisis. The new
cabinet, composed of only ten mem
bers, was presented by Prime. Min
ister Ramsay MacDonald to King:
George this afternoon and received*
the approval of the thronp, Tomor
row the members ■ of MacDonald's old
Labor government will turn over
their seals of office, and the new na
tional government, headed by Mae
Donald and participated in by' Labor
ites, Liberals and Conservatives, will1
hold its first meeting.
MACDONALD SAYS HF BAS
FOUND GOOD ROUTE FOR
ANTERNATIONA1, HIGHWAY
FAIRBANKS.— Ilouah- MacDon
member of the .engineering forces o'1'
the Alaska Jtdad Commission who
has been investigalipg oossible routes
for the,proposed International. high
way. Is. reported to .have located two
feasible routes, with easy terrain yhli
the way .with the- exception '-of. about
ten miles near . the .inferaat.ioria1
boundary..
PACIFIC HIGHWAY i PLANS
UP TO CANADA NOM
VICTORIA, B. .CL-—-Renre.septatire^
of the United States, appointed tc
investigate, the feasibility of. the pro
posed International highway are
ready to proceed with, their, examina
Mans and will .get busy just. &■- suer
las the.Canadians are prepared.to act
j This is the substance of a state
i ment made . here today by Ernes;,
Walker Sawyer, A merman highway
-commissioner, who is here conferring
with Premier Tolnre and other r'ana -
dian officials.
""Karl K. Katz, recentl; appointed
Anchorage manager of the Alaska.
Airways, was a. visitor tier** vaster
day, coming nwr.witV Chief Piolt
Matt Niemien. Mr. Katz .takes over
the duties .at. Anchorage of Jack
Warren, .who has taken over duties
! of the com pan v at the Fairbanks
base. Mtf Kate is; a veteran in the
transportation business, having beer.
Jopg sconneetad with the Northern
PacifiA Railroad :as its Alaska repre
sentative, and his -visit to- the interior
section at this time was to familiarize
himself with, matters pertaining tc
his new duties,
Charlie Goebel returned a couple oi
days ago to Ganes creek, where he
and Dave Eison will busy themselves
at prospecting work.
Ivar Chilstrom paid McGrath a
visit during the week, returning here
Friday, coming up with Pilot Matt
-Nieminen.
Ivar-Chilstrom, after an absence of
about three months over at Flat, re
turned to Takotna last Saturday
night.
Dan McGinty, former . TJakctnan,
is now located at Hot Springs, hav
ing left the Poorman seoMeci seller^
weeks ago. >