THE KUSH© TIMES
’ VOL XII NO 9
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TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. MARCH 2b 1932;
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TUtOPOSAH'MEETS DEFEAT IN
iVOTHTISEV AFTER SPECTAC
-V ULARiDEMONSTRATION.
’K WASHINGTON.—A proposal for a
t. tax on beer was defeated in the House
t today after the wets had made a spec
if tacular demonstration with demands
i tor the abolition of prohibition. The
, beer tax amendment was defeated by
. a vote of 216 to 132.
The high point in the debate was
reached when Mrs. Mary Norton,
Democrat, of New Jersey, garbed in
a plain black dress, rebuked members
who, she contended, drink, but vote
dry. The drys rallied their majority
forces with less dramatic display and
more precision. They marshaled be
hind the dry leader, Representative
Thomas Blanton, Democrat, of Texas,
m telling the House that liquor ruined
everything it has ever touched. The
outcome was a foregone conclusion
from the start, but it was pressed as
part of the wet campaign being con
i, ducted by the anti-prohibitionists of
the House.
The amendment was ofFered by the
Tammany leader, Rep. Cullen, of New
York. It provided a tax of 3 cents a
pint on all beer, porter, lager and ale
of less than 2.75 per cent alcoholic
contents by volume.
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Late Clue
Gives Hope
THREE NORFOLK MEN BELIEVE
THEY ARE IN TOUCH WITH
THE KIDNAPERS.
NOFOLK, Va.—Three Norfolk men
rtnewe defforts today which they
hoped may lead to the return of the
kidnaped Charles Augustus Lind
bergh, Jr. The three—Rear Admiral
Guy H. Burrage, retired; the Rev. H.
Dodson Petcock, and John Hughes v
Curtis—denied the baby was on a
yacht in Chesapeake Bay, ready to be
returned to them when .the ransom ,
was paid.
Stories circulated here were that a ,
rum runner had called upon Curtis
and had advised him that he could
arrange the return of the Lindbergh
jaby. The men visited Lindbergh
and, according to the stories here, re
turned and entered upon negotiations
for the immediate return of the
chi.d. Norfolk dispatches revealed
that Admiral Burrage was the com
mander of the cruiser Memphis,
which brought Lindbergh home after
h.s famous flight to Paris; that Dean
Petcock was a friend of the Morrow
family and was dean of the Episcopal
hurch in Mexico attended by the
late Dwight Morrow when -ambassa
dor there, and that Curtis was a boat
.manufacturer.
Dean Petcock was quoted as say
ing: “We have been in contact with
Alaska Interests At j
! The Nation’s Capital j
By W. A. S.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Senator
1 Wolcott, chairman of the special com
mittee on the conservation of wild
jfe, has indicated that there will be
i no legislation this session toward cre
ating either Admiralty, Chicagof or
_ Baranof Islands into a brown bear
sanctuary or a national park. Agi
tat ion, however, along this line con
. tinues, and yesterday a Senator in
i quired of the Delegate whether it was
really true that the Government was
„ arranging to sell Admiralty Island.
* One of his constituents had reported
v. that this was to be done. But, of
. course, no one in Washington had
heard of any such move.
Since the bill to repeal the Alaska
Bone Dry Law was introduced in the
House by the Delegate on December
i S last but three pritests against the
> enactment of the bill have been re
v eeived from Alaska, and they were
- from two families. The opposition
. . has been from organizations with rep
i resentatives in W ashington. The
•.. committee that has held several hear- j
ings on the bill, the last being. on
'. '.February 16, has practically decided
not to-f avorably report the bill. They
are -considering, however, favorably
. reporting that certain amendments be
* . enacted to the Alaska Bone Dry Law
so as to brng it more in harmony with
the Volstead Act. 1
On the evening of February 16 the
blouse passed the Interior Depart
ment appropriation bill for the fiscal
. year beginning July, 1932. So far as
i Alaska is concerned there were noj
decreases from the amounts recom
mended by the appropriations .com
mittee—neither were there any in
creases.
Delegate Wiekersham hesitatd
about introducing a bill to extend the
Smith-Hughes Act to Alaska, be
cause, after investigation, he was un
certain as to the value of the Act to
Alaska and whether the Federal
Board for Vocational Education
would approve such a bill. The Act
would provide the minimum of $10,
000 for agriculture, $10,000 for trade,
home economics and industrial educa
tion, and $10,000 for teacher-training,
the $30,000 to be provided by the
Government when an equal amount
was provided for these purposes by
the Territory. Dr. J. C. Wright, sec
retary of the Federal Board, ex
pressed a doubt as to the Board ap
proving a bill to extend these benefits
to Alaska until a more thorough in
vestigation was made as to Alaska’s
needs. He suggested that the situa
tion be first studied by a competent
investigator, favored by the Governor
and the Legislature. The matter was
then referred by the Delegate to
Governor Parks, who conferred with
Commissioner of Education Keller,
after which the Governor wrote:
“After a thorough -discussion, we
decided that it would he. much better
if the matter is appreadhod along the
lines suggested by Hr. ^Jhgfat. Ac
cordingly, we will take*.tcp.th* matter
with the next Legislature and. request
authority to engage, theyservices of a
representative appoihbfcgp toy the Di
rector of VocatvonaldifiiiWcation. If i
(Continued omrjtafte 3.)
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Jhese people, the kidnapers; aw* sc
ivlieve they are acti-rg in goOd.ita.jti.
rhe .man .who approached >u« w-ivjaa
wit ha c&iiiti. We-are certain-it it the
Lindbergh ' baby.*' .
.HOPEWELL, N.J.—Circulation ?oi
•cports that the kidnaped sun*u£-Col
Sharks .A.. Lindbergh was in the qus
oday of a rum runner on -board »
/aeht in Chesapeake Bay and that .ne
satiations for his return were being
Advanced, brought a new. stir of.in
-erest in. the kidnaping case today. ’
Earthquake shocks felt
VARIOUS PARTS OF ALASKA
Disturbances of Old Mother Earth
Mice reflected in several shocks -at
,i,xs pmce on rnday. t he Urst shak
ng-up, perhaps the most pronounced,
:ame at 1:65 p. m., the second at 1:5'J,
while others were noted at about 3:30,
1:50 and 5:45.
Reports from other places state
-hat.heavy snucks were felt at Fair
banks, Anchorage and .Seward. A
ew mies out, from Seward, on the
abroad line, a landslide occurred,
overing the track for quite a dis
,ancc, but which in ail probability has
been cleared by this time. Accounts
Also state that the center of earth
quake disturbances seemed to be in
vicinity of Healy, where several
ieavy shocks occurred.
SCHOOL HOARD ELECTIONS.
Vesteraay’s election for a new
i.ember of the 'l'akotna School Board
ooard resulted in, the election of
crank. J. Gufekey,'who received 20
votes, white A;M, Twitchcll received
i4 votes.
At McGrath, A. R. Eldridge won,
receiving 25 votes, while Thomas Mc
e.ean received 12 votes.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Speljack were
v, eunesoay arrivals for a brief visit,
returning to their home at Little
zreek on Thursday. This, incidentally,
was Mrs. Speljack’s first visit to
,own since sue passed through here
joiiie months ago as the betrothed of
..,r. Speljack. Sne enjoyed here brief
visit here, during which she made
many friends.
Pilot H. W. Barnhill arrived here
Tuesday, having as passenger Mrs.
ELsie Pearson, for Anchorage. Mrs.
Pearson is a daughter of the lately
deceased George W. Hoffman. “The
death of my father,” she said, “was
a great shock to everyone who knew
him.”
Hawley W. .Sterling, Alaska Road
Commission superintendent, and Mil
ton Rice returned here Wednesday
from a visit to the Ruby section, and
departed on Thursday for Flat.
Mrs. Margaret Ulch, former resi
dent of McGrath but for some weeks
past a visitor at the Nixon Quartz
Mine, departed from. Medfta on Tues
day, traveling to Anchorage as a pas
senger of H. W. Barnhill.
Pilot Estol .Call and L. McGee ar
rived Wednesday evening, having as
passenger Mrs. W. H. Jones, coming
from Plat, and who is making a brief
visit here.
A. H. Twitehell left today for his
reindeer headquarters, going over
da airplane, and is scheduled to re
urn almost immediately with a quan
tity of meat.
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Frank J. Guskey was a Thursday
leparture for a brief business visit
it McGrath, going down via airplane.
Items of Importance
In Reecnt News Events
j HOOVER SURE BUDGET
WILL BE BALANCED.
' . WASHINGTON—President Hoover
today- called on the Nation for unity
of action and sacrifice to balance the
.budpet. At his Friday afternoon
! press conference he said he was con
; fident that the undertaking of the
representatives iof both political par
ties to. balance the budget will be ful
filled^ “ft is the very keystone of
recovery,” be said. The President’s
statement followed action of the sales
tax in Congress Thursday. lie. amid
that the -deficit must be lehminated
and that, there were1 two chief ways
inc-Vuhioh .it could begone—by de
creasing Government expenditures,
through economy,'- and by increasing
taxes. He said -that sacrifices were
necessary, as'<a part bf the country’s
war on. depression, and ‘that to con
tinue-to liva on .borrowed money only
postponed the difficulty.
PROPOSED SALES TAX
SCHEDULES W IPED OUT.
WASHINGTON.—The 21-4 per
l cent-manufactures tax, heart of the
billion-dollar revertee hill, was torn
j rudely, from that measure today in
an unusually-tense •-and boisterous
session of the Hous<*. The sales tax
; schedules were wiped out by a vote
of 223 to-153. The «rar»pant coalition
of rank-and-fi:# . Democrats and 'Tte
publicans which fought the sales tax
was victorious beyond its -own nopes,
■ and its success left both them and the
! regular leaders in-such confusion that
| the House adjourned shortly after
ward tet'asseks the results of -its acr.
tion.
ANOTHER CASE'FOR
DEATH PENALTY.
SAN FRANCISCO. — A weeping
I girl, her fists clinched, today told how
Paul Hanson, .21, gave his life early
j.today to protect.her. honor.
Three men. held-them up in their
parked auto, Miss Alice'Olson,-. 20,
said. -One of -the -men- dragged her
toward their -machine, while a second
trained, a rifle on Hanson. “The man
started tearing -off my clothing,” she
said. “I screamed. Paul cried ‘What
is happening?’ He jumped- frdm his
car and I heard-a shot. The three
men got in their car and drowe off.”
Miss Olson ran nearly-a mile to a
house, where she ’phoned for aid, and
Hanson was.-dead when officers ar
rived
DEMPSEY AND CAitXERA MAY
BATTLE AT RENO, JULY 2 OR 3.
CHICAGO.—The ;p*op6sed 'heavy
weight bout between ‘•Jack Dempsey
and Primo Carnera'ftt Reno, Nevada,
July 2 or 3, appeared near consum
mation today on the arrival Jtere of
tiie former heavyrcvighth-^champion
and his-manager.,-Leonard Sacks, and
Jim MacKay, R«00 Sportsman. Sacks
indicated that theirtfatch virtually was
made, but said thathe-hadnot signed
any papers. It was- learned that
MacKay conferred "-with ’ Bil><- Duffy
while in New Yorl«a*d-that the giant
Italian will return tkiitbis country
next month.
-SAN FRANCKGa—The Southern
Pacific Company^ net rating income
for February 193&t<mowed a deficit of
$400,000, a decrease-of $814,000 from
February 1931, the’company’s report
i showed today.
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RIOTS, FIRES, GENERAL
DISORDERS, MARK STRIKE OF
PENNSYLVANIA COAL MINERS.
WILKESBARRE, Pa.—Riots, in
cendiary fires, fist fights, stonings
and general disorders marked the
eleventh day of the insurgent strike
of anthracite miners in Pennsylvania,
A general riot, with five hundred men
participating, ensued at Taylor when
miners willing to work refused to
heed the company of pickets to re
turn to their homes. Chief of Police
James Morris was severely beaten,
and State police were called to re
store order. State troopers, swing
ing riot clubs, dispersed the group
Five leaders were arrested on charges
of inciting a riot
WRS. LONGWORTH RECEIVES
NOTE DEMANDING MONEY.
WASHINGTON. — Detectives are
stationed in the home of Alice Roose
velt Longworth. and a special police
guard has been thrown about the
home of Sir Wilmott Lewis, corre
spondent of the London Times, fol
lowing the receipt of threatening
notes demanding money. Police- re
vealed tonight that the note to Sir
Wilmott threatened he kidnaping of
his son, Wilmott, jr., while the one to
Mrs. Longworth demanded money but
made no mention of harming her
daughter Pttuline.
CYCLONIC GALES DO DAMAGE
AT PASCO, WASH.
PASCO, Wash. — Cyclonic gales
which reached a velocity of 70 miles
an hour damaged buildings, destroy
* ’ a airplane hangar, uprooted trees
and sent citizens scurrying to cover
here today. Power and transporta
tion lines were paralyzed for several
hours by the storm, one of the worst
experienced here.
FOSHAY AND AIDE ABE
CONVICTED AT MINNEAPOLIS
MINNEAPOLIS. — W. B. Foshay
and H. H. Henly, founders of the
Foshay enterprises, were convicted on
four of seventeen counts for using
the. mails to defraud.
.. Among the numerous Foshay firms
were the Ketchikan Power Company,
the Northland Transportation Com
pany, and public utilities in Oregon.
Federal Judge Molyneaux immedi
ately sentenced each to fifteen years
i in the penitentiary and fined then?
$1,000 each. Neither showed any
sign of emotion. Henly chewed gum.
and Foshay, short, pudgy and gray
j haired, smiled when he was permitted
to leave court after his appearance
bond had been continued.
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; HIS LAST “GOOD MORNING.”
i RALEIGH, N. C.—With a cheerful
greetin gof “Good morning, gentle
men,” John Robert Myers, Pitt county
negro, walked into the death chamber
at North Carolina State prison today.
He died in the electric chair for the
murder of R. H. Hodges, storekeeper
and postmaster at Factolus. “I don’t
knew o fany reason why I shouldn’t
be electrocuted,” Myers said.
MME. SCHUMANN HEINKE
ATTACKED WITH GRIPPE.
ST. LOUIS.—Mrs. Ernestine Schu
mann Heink was treated today for an
attack of grippe and laryngitis, that
her physician feared may develop
into pneumonia. She was schedule*
to open a week’s engagement.h«r<>