THE KUSKO TIMES
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VOL XI NO. 41
TAKO I NA ALASKA SArl LKLAX.» DKCKfiTBER 12 li,31
Situation In
'.Manchuria
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'JAPANESE FORCES START TO
3 CLEAN OUT BANDITS ALONG
RAILKOAD LINE.
TOKYO.—The Japanese forces in
Manchuria have started moving
southward, ostensibly to clean out
.awl ss .'dements along the South
Manchurian railroad. Rengo dis
patches from Mukden said the troops
i which had been held for emergency,
departed from Nanking J Kirin and
<• other points. Numerous reports men
tioned engagements with bandits
of Mukden, and one referred definite
ly to troop movements. Chief of
Staff Jiro Minami, prior to his de
parture for Mukden, issued a state
ment saying all military operations
in Manchuria had been completed
with the’ exception of that affecting
Chinchow.
. REPORT WILL NOT FAVOR
PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE
WASHINGTON.—Secretary of War
Patrick Jay Hurley said today his re
port to President Hoover, as the re
sult of his recent visit to the Philip
pines, would not favor immediate and
complete independence of the islands.
Mr. Hurley added that the report
would not be made public until after
conferences with the Philippine inde
pendent commission,' but that it could
be said the report fixed no time when
such steps as would be proposed
should be taken.
I Alaska Interests At
I The Nation’s Capital
(By W. A. S.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. —The
I’ head of the Forest Service of the De
partment of Agriculture has notified
the Delegate that there is due to the
Territory of Alaska, a sits share of
receipts from national forests for the
fiscal year 1931, the sum of $12,
931.37. This sum is derived from the
Toagnss reserve, in Southeastern
Alaska, amounting to $10,161.08, with
Its forest area acres of 16,646,106;
and $2,770.29 from the Chugach re
serve, with its 4,799,361 acres. The
sums indicated are 25 per cent of the
\ total amounts received.
Frank Speljack, of Ophir, ia very
;■ anxious to have his 22-year-old
nephew, Erwin Dolonz, come over
from Austria to get an English edu
cation and then to help his uncle in
‘ his mining affairs. He was under the
impression that unless a special per
mit were secured the young man
i' could not enter this country inside of
ftfctrjyears. He wrote to the Delegate
fbmasdistance, Vhich was gladly ren
«. tiered^ and it is expected that the
(younguxtan will be starting from Vi
enna ttithin a few months.
From- telegrams and letters re
ceived* hy\ the Delegate it is evident
(that various sections of the Territory
*re very- fearful that the Washing
ton-Alaska’.Wfilitary Cable and Tele
graph System should be sold by the
government to some corporation.
Many may be interested in knowing
I. how this agitation started. On Sept.
Doings At
Washington
CONGRESS TO SPEED UP WORK
ON ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
EARLY IN THE YEAR.
WASHINGTON. — Congress hopes
to clear the way before Christmas
adjournment Tuesday night for
speeding work early in the new year'
jn the economic program advanced by
President Hoover. The Democratic
House has shown the way with the
passage of the one-year moratorium
and enactment of the bill increasing
capitalization of the Federal land
Lar ks by one bilhlion dollars. The
.wo bills for great infusion of federal
capital by which President Hoover
opes to put new life into railroads
and financial institutions and ease
the mortgage worries of the farmers,
will command Senate consideration
immediately after the holidays re
cess.
FIRE DESTROYS INTERIOR
OF LINER SEGOVIA
NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—Fire to
day destroyed the interior of .the
liner Segovia, leaving the nearly com
pleted United Mail Steamship Com
pany vessel half submerged at her
berth. During the five-hours’ fire the
ship, which was to have been commis
s'oned January 30, listed twice and
ilnally turned over on her side, with
ii.r masts and funnel resting on her
pier at the shipbuilding yard. The
fire was of undetermined origin.
23, 1930, an interdepartmental com
munications committee was organized
wit ha personnel that included repre
sentatives from the State, War, Navy
and Commerce Departments and the
h'ef engineer of the Federal Radio
Commission. This committee submit
ted various reports ,one of which rec
ommended the sale of the Alaska
communication system, and such re
port was marked approved by Presi
dent Hoover early in 1931. As a re
sult the legislative commission of the
War Department drew up a bill pro
viding for the sale of the system,
which was introduced in both Senate
and House on Feb. 18, 1931. These
bills were referred to the committee
on military affairs in the respective
branches of Congress, but no hears
were had and no report was submit
ted, and when Congress adjourned on
March 4 the bills died.
The bill provided for the sale of
the system, in part or as a whole,
after due advertisement, "to the
highest responsible bidder.” The lat
ter term, the bill prescribed, ‘'shall
mean any corporation, partnership,
•r association who wall agree to
maintain and operate a system of
communication by cable, radio, tele
graph and telephone between the
continental limits of the United
States and the Territory of Alanfro,
so as to give service which, in the
judgment of the Secretary of War,
shall be satisfactory to the people of
the United States, including', the Ter
ritory of Alaska, andVwhhe in the
judgment of the Secretary <tf vWar, ;
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FEARING A COURT MARTIAI.
FOR DESERTrON FROM tTA^Y^
ENNSIGN TAKES SLOW’WMSO|
_SAN .FRANCISCO.—-Navy physi
cians were fighting desperately this
evening to save the life of - Ensign
W.Iliam Shinn Gates, 24, who drank’,
a.ow poison because he considered
.himself a deserter from the battle
ship Nevada. Believing -he would be
courtmartialed for overstaying hip.
leave, the ensign swallowed hip
' .a'h draught and wrote farewell let
ohis mother, Mrs. H. B. Gates,
i :caster, I’a., and his chnm, En
0n E. D. Lucas, also attached to th
Nevada. Then he walked from his
hotel room to the Central Emergency
Hospital to tell the doctors what he
aa done. After the ensign was at
tended .at the Emergency Hospital he
•Was taken to the Mare Island Naval
Hospital. “I got into a jam in Los
Angeles. I smashed up another fel
ow’s car. I got leave from the Ne
vada, lying in San Pedro harbor, and
a me to San Francisco. Then I/found
( had overstayed my sleave. That
n.eant I was a deserter from the
navy and that I would have to face.a
^ourt .martial, so I took the poison,"
he said.
LARGE LINER BLAZES
FIERCELY OUT ON PACF1FC
SAN FRANCISCO. — A large
.1 anier was blazing fiercely.at 5 p.
i.u today in the Pacific, five miles
vv.st of Pedro Point. The identity of
the steamer could not be learned and
i/o appeal for assistance went out by
radio. The plight of the vessel was
first noted from Pedro Point and
Eockaway 'Beach. Watchers on shore
saw a huge biast of flames shoot sev
eral hundred feet into the air from
the vessel and flames followed fierce
ly. The burning ship was also seen
from the Dollar Steamship Com
pany’s Mosel Rock Radio station. The
ship blazed fiercely for an hour while
coast guard vessels raced to her aid
from San Francisco bay. The Mussel
Rock radio station tried in vain for
half an dour to get in touch with the
vessel by radio, but the calls were un
answered.
FORMER PROHI AGENTS
CONVICTED AT TACOMA
TACOMA.—Graham Johnson and
Jones Stickler, former Seattle prohi
bition department employes, charged
with participation in the operation of
a giant $60,000 distillery at. Graham,
near here, were convicted by a jury
in federal court o Jconspiracy to vio
lating the prohibition laws by oper-j
ating a distillery without bond, fer-;
menting mash and maintaining a
nuisance.
BANDITS EXPLODE BANK
VAULT AND GRAB $15«0M
LOS ANGELES. —Cutting and
blasting their way through fifty feet
of earth and sections of solid con-,
crete, robbers entered the Belvedere
branch of the Security National Bank
during the week end, exploded the
vault with dynamite, and escaped
with $16,000.
S. S. PILSNA.—Mahatma Gandhi,
on his way back to Bombay in this
steamer, said today he would renew
his civil disobedience campaign in
India only after all the possibilities
of peace had been exhausted.
BALTIMORE.—Police today held
Robert Jones, 16, who today shot and
killed his stepfather with a rifle as
the man advanced to attack the
youth’s mother with a penknife. The
stepfather was Herbert Bowen, 39. ]
Murdered By
t Crazed Jap
.WEALTHY MANUFACTURER IS
STABBED TO DEATH BY
HIS BUTLER.
• POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.—William
Schatz, 56, wealthy manufacturer,
was -stabbed, to death today by his
Japanese butler, Gentro Akiyama,
who also seriously wounded Florence
Carozza, 26, a house guest of Schatz.
The Japanese, discharged by Schatz
last night, entered the manufacturer’s
bedroom thi ; morning and attacked
both Schatz .and Mrs. Carozza. The
woman told the district attorney that
after, .a terrific struggle Akiyama
dragged Schatz into the basement,
where he almost decapitated him with
a .butcher kni ~e The Japanese wo
man, known only as Hanna, had sub
dued -Mrs. Carozza,. whom the butler
had dragged into .the basement, to see
him finish Schatz with the. knife. Mrs.
’ Carozza had been .able ta.call a tele
phone operator, and? police reached
reached the scene as the Japanese ap
parently prepared to renew the-attack
upon the1 woman.
THIRTY FIR EM EN INJURED
A TSTl TTGART, GERMANY
..^STUTTGART, Germany—The en
tire fire department was called out
today as flame.? swept the Altes
Schloss,.a palace* built in 1570, and
threatened a rau~Jk.m of antiquities.
The blaze was brought under xontrol
and most x>f the objects of art, except
a collection of textiles, were saved.
Thirty firemen were injnred.
WINSTON? CHI RCHILL RUNS
AMUCK N Y. TAXICAB
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NEW YOHK.^His.face .Ftillypatah
ed with adhesive piaster. Winston
Churchill, iiaurnl British statesman,
today was .take nin a wheel chair and
auto to his hotel from the hospital in
which he had passe deight days. Mr.
Churchill was knocked down by a tax
icab on Fifth avenue a wee kago yes
terday. His doctor said steady re
covery made.departure from the hos
pital possible.
in a Social way.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Anderson -en
tertained with -a big' feed at the Ta
kotna Roadhouse Christmas eve, hav
ing as their guests R. E. Lowrie,
Chris Nelson, Aaron Erickson, J. P.
Taylor. After having a wonderful
dinner, everyone’s attention .was cen
tered on a brilliantly decorated
Christmas tree, heavily laden with
presents. About 8 p. m. Santa Claus
silently entered and began distribut
ing presents $or the children. Every
one present liafi a wonderful time and
a Merry Christmas eve.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dubois enter
tained with a uig turkey dinner
Christmas night, having as their
guests Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Anderson, j
Mr. nntj Mrs. .Frank J. Cuskey, Miss'
Frances Guskey. Chris Nelson, R. E. j
Lowrie, G. W. Clyde, Aaron Erickson j
and J. P. Taylor. Aaron Erickson:
participated in the dinner by helping
Mrs. Dubois ..prepare the meal. Ev
.-,,-one had an enjoyable time, and oh!
wnat a dinner.
MOSCOW.—Joseph Stalin, aged a
bit, but hale as over, "and probably
more firmly in control of party ma
chinery than at- any time since he
rose to power, passed his .fifty-second
birthday tpday by working.
Found One
Split Piston
BROTHERS aFELTES, LAPEYRE
ON WAY TO HOLY CROSS FOR
PARTS TO REPAIR PLANE.
After a stay of several days rn and
near the spot where their.plane be
came stalled some days ago, Brothers
George J. Feltes and Charlie Goebel
headed by Charlie Goebel, returned t©
Takotna last week, on their way t®
Takotna in the hope of catching an
airplane to take them to Holy Cross,
to obtain needed parts for repairing
their place. Speaking of their trip t®
the plane. Brother Martial Lapeyre
said.:
“Leaving Takotna, we spent the
first night at No. 6 Gams, going the
following day .to Happy Jacobson’*
cabin, where we had bad weather for
three days. We then went to the
plane, finding .about two feet more of
snow than from the time we left Wo
took one day to take snow off the
wings and refuel ship. Each night
we returned to Happy’s cabijn, and
back again the next morning. The
following., day wai returned to the
plane, -with the -intention yaf. getting
-off.' - The.feenrmexmtenp'waK'down t© 15
below zero, and th® motor, ’instead of
hitting on nine cylinders, would hit
on only four cylinders, due to carbon
ized piston rings. So we at once pro
ceeded to put up a tent* so as to be
able to work on motor. That night
we brought m of the 'pistons
and rings to dean, staying up till 2:33
the next morning in the hope of get
ting away. The next day we returned
to.the plane .and took ^-off.ihe-other
three pistons, .a an * examiaation < of
which disclosed'.that tone was split,
•which'of course necessitates x>ur
going to Holy .Cross. We now have
to go .to Holy Crass to get the parts
necessary to place the motor .in -run
ning condition. We are now or our
way to McGrath to take a plane to
Holy Cross.'”
Brothers Eeltes and 'Lt.pe.yre left
McGrath Monday mom in ,gfor Holy
Cross, going over with Pilot Harry
Blunt of .the Alaska Airways. /They
hope to return here within the next
few days.
MARITAL TROUBLES JACK
DEMPSEY, ESTELLF TAYLOR
LOS ANGELES.—A ^petition for
dismissal -of Estelle Taylor’s divorce
action against the film Actress’ for
mer pugilist-husband, -lack Dempsey,
was file din superior court today and
bore out the statement Miss Taylor
made recently that a property agree
ment had been reached at the time
Dempsey ebtaised a divorce in Reno.
Miss ^Taylor Rled suit here, contend
ing a Nevada, divorce, was not coun
tenanced by California laws.
GREENSBURG, Ind.——George S.
Litell lostr bis glasses* when he was
struck and seriously injured by a Big
our train here today. But he is wear
ing the magain. They were found on
the pHot of the locomotive by Engi
neer William Maloney after the train
bad reached Indianapolis. They were
unbroken.
WASHINGTON.—President Hoov
er was requested today , bydfta Senate
to send it all the unpublished ^reports
on which the WickersfaaA^Coramlssiob
based its criticisms Yjl-daws* under
which the famous MooneyJ3iliin*e
aa conducted