THE KUSKO TIMES
TAKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1933.
PRICE, 25 CENT??
VOL. x in., no. 16;;
■IS
Ora Barnhart
Takes life
•3TCNY RTVER TRADER EMPTIES
CONTENTS: Off SHOTGUN IN
HIS FACE.
i>Ya Barnhart,. one well: known ir
Jiasj paiis took his own life at s
point near the mouth of Stony river
near the Kuskokwim, about three 01
four days ago, according to word; re
ceived here yesterday.
No. details arrived* aside of the
fact that Barnhart fired the contents
of i a. shotgun in his face, which was
badly disfigured:^.
Barnhart was a former well knowr
oldtuner of .this, section, having lived
at Ophi in the early days of that
eamp. He alsowas a familiar figure
at' McGrath, which place he visited
several times each year. For the
Pfgt several, years he conducted a
trading post, at Stony river, as well
as a couple of other places along the
Kuskokwim.. He was about 60 years
of agQ at the time of his death. He
had bean in ill health for several
years, which, may account,, in part
for his trag|c end...
P. W. Carlson,, Ophir merchant
was a yesterday, arrival on matters
of business. Also riding, over was
Virginia Howard, a round-tripper.
A- Hi Twitchell was a today de
parture for, McGrath.
Abandoning
Goid Standard
. .. O i ONDS OR OBLIGATIONS OF
ANT FORM WILL HAVE TO
BE PAID IN GOLD..
1 WASHINGTON.—President Roose
.. veil has decided that the United
. States should follow up her recent
emergency step by going off the gold
: standard by statute and requesting
Chairman Stegall of the House bank
. ing committee to introduce a resolu
tion which would accomplish, that end.
Ha showed newspaper men a copy of
a resolution which, he said, declares
i . the United States off the gold, stand
ard by statute and said it. repeals the
gold standard act, adding under the
resolution: “No bonds,.no obligations
of the Federal Government, and no
| obligations of any. form will have to
j be pai din gold or gold currency upon
.. enactment of the measure,” which: it
| is expected will be adcomplished next
; week. The resolution also says it will
be possible for foreign debtors to pay
i the United States, war debts in any
. legal currency. .
This bill frees the United States
from obstacles, and handicaps of the
gold standard. Stegall declares it is
an administration bill and part of j
Roosevelt’s emergency relief pro
j gram, making it unnecessay for
■ Roosevelt to devaluate the gold dollar j
I under provisions of the farm relief
I THE MUKLUK TRAIL
By. E.. fc- Bartlett:
WASHINCTON, May 8.—Moving
tat fulfill his home rule campaign
pledges. Delegate Dimond hfas intro
duced. in. Congress measures giving
Alaskans, administrative control over
the vital resources. of fish and-, fur
bearing. animals.
He does not expect passage of.
either during, the special session,
which, is* confined to* administrative
measures, hut will press vigorously
for their enactment when the special
session opens in December.
The bilb are broad in. scope.. No
attempt is made to say what the new
set-up shall he. It.ia the belief of the
Delegate that, it is. not within he.
province of any one man to do that,
but rather that Alaskans themselves
should determine, the course they
want to pursue through their duly.,
elected representatives to the* Legis
leure. Provision is made for the call
ing of a special session of the Legis
lature, should such , a course be deem
ed necessary
In the fisheries measure,, control
over the fur seal and sea otter fish
eries would be left to the federal gov
enment. In connection with exemp
tion of seal: fisheries from Territorial
jurisdiction there is one section that
will be tremendously, important in de
fraying the cost of administration. It
provides that one*half of the net pro
ceeds of.' the United States Govern
ment from sale of seal skins shall be
turned oven to the Territory to de
fray the east of administering other
fisheies.
Another fiaportant section, which
will go far to save the Territory
money sets forth that “Any and all
property of the United States under,
the supervision .and«4umiBPluof .- the!
United States Bureau of Fisheries
heretofore or now used exclusively in
connection with the administration*,
supervision and control of the fisheies
of Alaska, or so much thereof as may,
be requested by the Governor of the
Territorf of Alaska, for use in con
nection with the administration of
seal fisheries by the Territory, shall
be transferred by the Secretary of
Commerce to the Territory of Alaska*
such transfer to be made only after
the administration of the said fisher
ie sis accepted by the Territory in the
manner hereinbefore prescribed.”
The fur bill is briefer. It merely
povides that legislative control be
transferred from the Federal Govern
ment to the Territory and that all ap
propriations available for the protec
tion of the game and fur-bearing, an*
imals of. Alaska shall be disbursed
under the supervision of the Gov
ernor. —
From his hospital bed Delegate D»
mond intends to dictate a detailed,
statement to be presented to .. the
labor committee and setting; fifth?
forth why the five-day week, six-hour
day bill should not apply to Afrtefca -
He had intended, of course, to testify:
in person, but now that that *uf im
possible he is still ■ determined to
place before the committee the facts
in. the case.
On the legislative! firing of
Capitol Hill the tempa of toddyjcom
pared with that of yesteryeaaanay be1
likened to the difference sbdttpsBa. a-,
single-shot musket and a a .machine
gun. Even, the eldest of ttktocttnns
dare not predict with any$degree of
certainty what Is going to ^ hhpjien
from one day o another.
(Continued «a Page
act. Stegall termed this act one of
the greatest steps toward stabilizing
money in the United States, and all
legal money Kill meet all obligations
payable in gold.
WASHINGTON—The House bank
ing committee approved the bill out
lawing the gold clause of contracts
and to make all contracts, private
and public, payable in legal tender ,
money. ,
The new bill declaes that regard- ,
less of demand of any contract past .
or future for the payment in gold, all ,
coin or currency of the realm will be
legally usable for the payment.
PRISON WARDEN KIDNAPED
DURING BASEBALL GAME
LANSING. Kansas.—Warden Kirk
Prather was kidnaped during a prison
baseball game and carried away by
eleven despeate convicts. The. war- 1
den and guards who. were seized were ,
used as protection to the escaping
party. One guard, was shot and one
convict shot in. the leg by a guard
along the wall us the party escaped.
The eleven desperate convicts are.
still at large, but the warden tele
phoned he - had been released, un
harmed, 15 miles southwest of Welch, i
Oklahoma. The warden said the con-:
victs tied a wire' around his neck anti
held him captive and obtained a bot
tle of whiskey to warm him up; He
believes that otherwise he never
would have been released alive. j
Three women were seized along the
highway for hostages and taken.
along in their motor car which the I
men commandeered for the flight,, and
later were released safely at Pleas
anton.
Late arrivals from the Cripple sec
tion bring information that H. C‘.
WalLick, 'former Takotnan, has. been
feeling none, too well for some time.
Mr. Wallick, during the winter, was
so unfortunate as to have met with
an accident, while driving his dog
team, in which’ his hand was quite
badly injured, and which it is. stated,
has caused him much trouble.
The steamer Tupper, which left Se
attle on May 2fi, is scheduled to- ar
rive at Bethel onj or about June 7.
The steamer Tana, after connecting
with the Tupper, is scheduled to ar
rive at McGrath about June 23 or 24.
Atvid Larson, from Little creek,
was a Monday arival for a brief town
visit.
Dave Strandberg, well known min
■ ing man engaged in operations at
Flat, and. who is now entering upon
operations in the Cripple section, left
Sunday for Flat, from which point
he will depart for the Yukon to
superintend incoming shipments of
mining equipment destined for the’
Cripple section*
Charlie Larson, a former oldtimer
of Nome, but Ihtely making his home
at Anchorage, was a Monday arrival,
leaving, yesterday for a brief visit at
OpfcuK.
Watho Puntila was a Sunday ar
rival from little, leaving Monday for
Tom SaknofF and Alber Ivey were
Sunday arrivals from McGrath for a
brief visit here.
AxeT Peterson left a few days ago
ttie’Puntila camp, Little creek.
Chris Nelson left at few days ago
for the Putih camp at Little creek.
Chaifie OTIalloran left during the
week far week, for Little creeks
Items of Importance
In Recent News Events
WASHINGTON—President Roose
velt today informed the members of
.he banking committee that he want
ed their investigatio nof Morgan and
Company and other private bankers
‘pushed without limit,” and expressed
:omplete confidence in the committee.
William H. Woodin, of Pennsyl
vania, Secretary of the Treasury, will
>e kept in the Roosevelt cabinet de
ipite the clamor for an immediate
mster since his name was found
among Morgan’s preferred customer
1st.
Furthermore, Roosevelt intends to
seep intact all his "official family.”
fhese facta developed in the week
;nd cruise of the President on the Po
omac, accompanied by Secretary
Woodin and others.
Woodin said on returning, “I have
lot resigned,” and it did not take
Lake long; to find out he was no fired
>T was not going to be.
WASHINGTON*—With the pass
age by the House of the national in
dustrial “Recovery •Act," industry is
taking prompt steps to beat the draft
and enlist as a partner with the Gov
ernment in the battle against unem
ployment and corporate deficits. Some
fifty trade associations have signified
Lheir intention of aligning with the
new program.
Washington.—investigators in
the Senate committee conducting the
financial probe sought to show that
the house of Morgan made a profit
of $25,000,000 in 1929 by creating its
utility holding company known as
“United. Corporation. This is the im
mediate objective of Senator Pecora,
conducting the inquiry.
Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts,
of the Supreme Court, gave testi
mony showing buyers on three lists
produced so far could have realized
twenty million dollars on basis of
market prices prevailing soon after
they acquired the stocks.
^The beneficiaries so far have uni
formly insisted that there was no im
propriety in their actions.
WASHINGTON. — New tales of
faboulous profits for favored fajtnous
persons were unwound dn the Morgan
investigations when a third 'list of
names was produced of those allowed
to make “inside” purchases of stock.
George Whitney, partner of Mor
gan, defended the practice as one “to
distribute the risk o funderwiting.”
The names included those of Davis,
counsel and fomer presidential candi
date; Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Sec
retary of the Treasury William H.
Woodin, Gen. John J. Pershing, Nor
man Davis, J. J. Raskob, and others,
including Edgar Rickard, mining en
gineer, whom the questioners tried to
connect with former President Her
bert Hoover, but Whitney did not
give further identifications. Stocks
sold on this list at '$40 .to *$47*. which
cost Morgan one dollar each and
brought $8,500,000.
WASHINGTON.—The Senate to
day confirmed the nomination of J. J.
Connors of Juneau, as collector of
customs for Alaska.
GENEVA. — Ambassador Davis,
representing the United States at the
Geneva disarmament conference, stat
ed that in order to prevent any er
roneous impression hat Europe might
have in advance in regard to the
United States participating in the
punishment of any nation violating
disarmament pians now being nego
tiated. he could say the United States
is wholeheartedly for disarmament
but unable to accept any implied ob
ligation that it will join other nations
in bringing pressure against a coun
try violating an arms agreement.
The United States is strong for moral
pressure, but can make no promises
beforehand, he said, to punish any
body. —
HARRISBURG, Pa.—The Governor
called upon Supreme Court Justices
John Kephart and William Schatfer
to resign, asserting that judges who
take favors from “interests” are cer
tain to have cases before them and
have utterly disqualified themselves.
They are named among are named
among those permitted by Morgan to
buy securities at less than their cur
rent market prices.
WASHINGTON. — Gaston Means
and Norman W'hitacker were sen
tenced to two years each, after hav
ing been convicted in the trial con
, eluded several days ago in which they
were found guilty of defrauding Mrs.
Evelyn McLean of $35,000 in the
Lindbergh baby hoax.
, SAN FRANCISCO—Irene Jardine,
i 23, formerly of Seattle, who came
! here a year ago, removed her clothes
and jumped from the fourth floor of
an apartment house, and sustained in
ternal injuries and injuries to her
back, wrist and fingers. “I was tired
of living and wanted to end all,” she
| said.
| WASHINGTON—President Roose
‘ velt nominated Rear Admiral W. D.
' Leashy to be chief of the Navy Bu
! reau of Navigation, and William A.
Holzheimer, of Ketchikan, for U. S.
District Attorney for the First divi
sion of Alaska. Mr. Holzheimer for
merly was judge in the Second divi
sion. _
NEW YORK.—Two women, one
of whom may die, were struck down
in a street skirmish that threw Broad
way into a shrieking panic as two
hoodlums, racing southward in cais
along the -thoroughfare, poured a fu
silade of hot shot from machine guns
a third automobile.
The target car, spiting with gun
j fire, careened around a corner and
crushed into an iron fence. Two men,
trailing blood, limped out and quickly
I got away.
WASHINGTON—The Senate pass
ed and sent to the House the Wagner
bill for a national program covering
Federal and State employment ser
vice,inending to provide a highly cen
tralized system in each State through
a Federal and State cooperative plan.
Six Republican members, including
Senator Steiwer of Oregon, signed a
round-robin going on record against
the adjournment of Congress until
the President has revised his position
in respect to the reduction of allow
ances to veterans under the economy
j act.
LOS ANGELES.—Jimmy McLar
I nin, in a brief but decisive battle, won
I the honors here in a battle for the
world’s welterweight championship
when at the end of the first round he
put Young Corbett to sleep. Corbett
4ed all the way with a baffling-attack
until McLarnin delivered the.decisive
, punch.