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TAKOTNA ALASKA SATURDAY.. OCTOBER 24 1931
PRICE J5 CKSTS
iDem ’Leaders Ask Nominee
tOf ‘Dripping Wet’ Variety
I WOULD' SHELVE FRANKLIN D.
5'*HO0SEiyELT AND NOMINATE
. JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS.
1 INEW YORK.—Formal attacks by
tv two (Democratic party leaders on
1' Franklin D.. Roosevelt today thrust
j. again to the fore the New York Gov
ernor’s reputed presidential aspira
i tions
Mayor Anton J. Cermak, of Chi
. eago, arriving in New York, asserted
. that a dripping wet, a man of the A1
Smith type, has got to be a nominee
if the Democrats hope to win. He ex
> plained that he meant James Hamil
ton Lewis, United States Senator
„ from Illinois.
Former Governor Alfred E. Smith
made what political observers called
the first direct criticism of Roose
velt’s state administration when he
. attacked his successor’s state traction
policy. He coupled this with an ap
peal to the nation to prepare for the
t 1932 presidential campaign.
A series of important conferences
< designed to force the nomination of a
“dripping wet” Democrat for the
presidency next year was in prospect
with Cermak’s arrival with a party
* of mid-West political leaders. Mayor
< Cermak’s group bore down upon New
York Democratic chiefs with the
threat of a third party and the warn
ing that Illinois did not consider Gov
ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt a formid
able candidate, especially without the
support of A1 Smith. “A man of the
A1 Smith type has got to be the nom
inee if the Democrats hope to win,”
Mayor Cermak asserted. “If Governor
Roosevelt is wet enough to be gov
ernor of New York and to be support
ed by Smith, he is probably wet
enough for the needs of the party,
but when I speak of a man of A1
Smith’s type I mean James Hamilton
Lewis.” Mayor Cermak explained
he meant that Lewis, United States
Senator from Illinois, is as wet as AI
Smith and as popular with his home
state constituents. Lewis carried II
nois by 750,000 over Miss Ruth Mc
Cormick last election. Herbert Hoo
ver defeated Alfred E. Smith in Illi,
nois by 350,000 in the presidential
polling of 1928. >
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RUSSIA MAY DISCONTINUE
POLICY OF WHEAT DUMPING
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TORONTO—The Toronto Globe to
day published a copyrighted cable
i from its European correspondent,
which is in part as follows:
“It can now be said quite definitely
that the Soviets will export no wheat
this yeor or next. This statement
was made by M. Dolgaevsky, Soviet
ambassador to France. The ambassa
dor added that the decision to discon
tinue the policy of wheat dumping by
his country was made following the
signing of a new trade agreement
with France.”
Alaska Interests At
The Nation’s Capital I
(By W. A. S. I
WASHINGTON, October 8.—John
Barrymore, who cruised with his wife
in Alaska waters during the past
summer, and who is an outstanding
figure in the American threater, is
the latest star to advise the District
v of Columbia Bicentennial Commission
of his willingness to participate in
the George Washington play to be
performed in honor of the firs Presi
den, on the Monument grounds, next
. June, 22 and 25.
Dr. .W. A. Borland, known in Ju
nea uand other parts of Alaska as a
mighty hunter with no fear of the
1 brown' bear, as an angler of the
largest' piscatorial specimens in the
colS.-Nbrth Pacific, as a fearless air
passenger, and as a careful driver of
a large auto, spent ten days in Wash
' vingfcouh limping about because of a
, recam. (accident in the North while
: ■ Jriyrigfiifa dog team. But early one
. even®Jarae met a stinging defeat
r whiter attempting to cross Pennsyl
vanur-anaU'.. A careless driver of
< one* ofbtfsrrxenowned little bugs ran
him down*, dragged him along a few
feet, leff'Mbi oruisedly stunned, and
with a merryvha Jia, speeded away.
' The doctor,was pirked up by a taxi
•• driver and taken to his hotel, satisfied
that the big mty had no regard for a
village physicist A nertf mf mf wy
village phytaeian. After consultation'
with Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Charles J. Rhodes and Dr. M. C. i
Guthrie, chief of the medical division,
- .Dt Borland, induced them ta order.
him to return to his official duties at
Kankanak, where he is the physician
in charge of the hospital, and t»
which place he is now gratefully
speeding.
The Department of Justice has an-'
nounced that, effective October 1, the
travel allowance of its employees will
be trimmed a dolllar a day. The per
diem allowance in lieu of subsistence
now fixed at $6 is reduced to $5, and
the limitation on actual expense of
subsistence now fixed at $ 7a day is!
reduced to $6 a day. This order will |
affect all officers and employees of:
the Department, including Alaska,
and will result in the saving of about
$1,000 a day in the expenditures. i
Frequent complaints have been re-'
ceived by Delegate Wickersham that
the present game regulations of the
Alaska Game Commission are work
ing a hardship on many Alaskans, in
cluding trappers, traders and pros
pectors. A recent petition has been
received from the Fourth division,
with 32 6signatures of residents
from Takotna, McGrath, Betties,1
Alatna, Tanana, Kokrines, Flat,j
Shageluk, Healy Fork; Anchorage,';
hurricane, Rampart, Ruby, Tolovana!
and a few scattering localities, pray-'.
ing for the repeal of the present law <
and the enactment of Congressional ■
legislation that would protect the ,
game and fur-bearing animals and ;
which would meet with the:approba- \
tion of the peo pleofi the '-Territory. ]
A letter received in connection -with j
the petition complains that the. most
“obnoxious” part of the present regu- ■ \
(Continued; on Pag* 8.) I
ALASKA FORESEEN AS POW
ERFL’L STATE, HALF ACROSS,.'
PACIFIC, BY ERNEST SArWREt.
The following .address wasvgtveu
»y Emest Walker Sawyer, member
>f the Internal i f>nal Highway Com
nission, in a speech presented at the.
Pacific Foreign Trade Council’.at its
;ighth annual convention at:Oakland,;
Palif., September 17, 1931:
“I will endeavor to give you a de
icription of the Pacific International
lighway to Alaska and its possibili -
iies. Two thousand miles northwest
>f the Golden Gate is a vast, expanse
if unexplored and undeveloped re
sources called Alaska. .Three hundred
ind seventy-eight million neves of
possibilities, a land where dahlias are
jight inches across and cabbages av
erage 25 pounds, greater in area than
the thirteen States including Illinois,
3hio, Pennsylvania, New York, Mich
igan. Indiana, Massachusetts and
jthers served by the Pennsylvania
Railroad system. Even when the
area of California is added to the area
of those thirteen States you find
Alaska still larger. Those States sup
port 60,000,000 people. Alaska has
today a population of 60,000—6,400
acres of land for every man, woman,
and child, and about a half mile of
ieacoast for each of the inhabitants,
A country of minerals, opportunities
and wilderness.
“The ma pof the world drawn by
Marco Palo shows that he bad a bet
ter idea of Alaska than most people
have today. Gulliver’s Travels in
1700 show by the maps in the first,
editions that Swift referred to Alaska
as the land of the giants, Dater, in
1741, the .Russian officers, Bering and
others, explored parts jj£ the coast
;ine ,and in 1804 the beautiful town
of Sitka was located as a center of .a
great trade in sea otter and seal
skins. Alaska is still a land of mys
tery. Only forty years ago great
Mount McKinley, ,Denali, the Home
of the Sun,’ was unknown to white
men. In 1867 Secretary of State Sew
ard purchased Alaska from Russia
for $7,200,000 in gold. Since that
time Alaska has exported products
valued at over $1,600,000,000. The
exports of Alaska are over twice her
imports. Seattle, that beautiful city
of 365,000 inhabitants, was born of
Alaska.
“The Alaska salmon catch for the
summer of 1931 averaged 5,100,000
eases. The mineral production of
gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, plat
inum and other metals has been
1636,000,000, and yet only a few
lumps of gold have been taken. The
great quartz veins have been only
scratched. Two thousand one hun
ired and fifty miles in an airline from
San Francisco is the thriving com
munity of Fairbanks. Fairbanks is
riot only the center of the Territory
Alaska, but it is strategically
placed as the aviation center of the
North Pacific. Fairbanks is 3,510
miles from Tokyo, 3,260 miles from
New York, 3,820 miles from Petro
?rad, 4,270 miles from Berlin, and
1,430 from London. Petrograd is due
north from Fairbanks, Honolulu is al
most straight south of Fairbanks.
Approximately 70 per cent of the
Deputation of the world lives within
>,000 miles of Fairbanks.
“Alaska is the stepping stone to
Soviet Russia through Siberia, with
>nly 56 miles of water between the
wo mainlands. Under ordinary cir- j
iumstances the fur and gold trade of
Siberia would be coming to ns
■trough the airports of Nome and
Fairbanks.
“Soutrward from Fairbanks the
lew Alaska Railroad winds its pic-,
nresque and substantial .patb 476,
, . (Continued on Page 2 )
A1 Capone’s
Fading Smile
IL‘E IS UNDER SENTENCE OF 11
XEARS AND $50,000 FINE; AP
PEAL LOOKS HOPELESS.
WASHINGTON.—The negative de
cision of the Supreme Court to Ralph
Capone’s plea that it review his con
viction. reverberated ominously today
through tax-harrassed gangland. It
was the first big case involving the
conviction of a notorious gangster for
violation of income tax laws to come
tor the highest court.
■ Moving slowly toward the same
goal,- however,.are other similar suits.
4hrn.“ of .them is the- conviction of
.Ralph ‘Big Snot’s” brother, the more
notorious “Scarface” Al, win. is un
der sentence of eleven years in addi
tion to ’a. tine of $50,000. His case
[ rnf^y present somewhat-different legal
questions. from that of his brother,
i but'there was nothing in. today’s-court
: action to dispel, the moroseness that
|dn recent days has replaced Al’s usual
geniality.
HOOVER APPOINTS .FIVE TO
DETERMINE QUESTION OF
HIS NAVAL ATTAINMENTS
WASH I NGT.ON —Five jnen high
placed in public*and private life were
chosen to form, his committee of vin
dication against charges made hy the
i head of .the Navy League by Presi
dent Hoover today* A..few .minutes
| after receiving the membership list
: of the League the Chief.. Executive
late today named Admiral Hugn ilod
| man, retired, John. Hays Hammond of
Washington, Eliot Wadsworth., of Bosh
ton, Under Secretary of State Castle,
and Assistant Secretary of, the'Navy
Janies Wadsworth. Wadsworth and
Castle are members of the 'League.
These men he has asked to study
a very .statement, of tact madeiljy -Wil
liam Howard Gardiner in the Navy
, League pamphlet, issued .every Thure
. day. This publication, which the Pres
[ ident has characterized as a tissue of
! falsehoods, said Hoover was abysmal
ly ignorant of naval affairs and ac
cused him of seeking to restrict, re
duce and starve the Navy at every
turn.
ENORMOUS FEDERAL DEFICIT
POINTS TO HIGHER TAXES
WASHINGTON.--The tremendous
diction that Congress soon will raise
federal deficit led today to a flat pre
taxes The balancing of books, which
vw*rk has been agoing on for the past
few days, is about completed. Secre
tary Mellon's leapperts had to find out
how the Treasury stood at October’s
end. Their ataye’- was $661,000,000
in the hole. This is almost four times
as much as the bad balance shown for
the .first four .months of the previous
fiscal year, which end ?d last June 30
with the Treasury .$903,000,000 less.
No sooner did the .fact become known
than talk of ne wand higher taxes
was revived.
Assistant Clerk .of Court at McGrath
-Stanley J. Nichols, Deputy U. S.
Marshal, received appointment a few
days ago as.aeistant clerk -of court at
McGrath. The- dutiftS*. of the ap
pointee are primarily to take care of
mattre pertaining to naturalization,
for which purpose a session of court
:s scheduled to be held at McGrath
on December 1.
Fascists and
Anti-Fascists
CLASH ON FRENCH TERRITORY!
CRIES OF LONG LIVE ITALY!"
“DOWN WITH FASCISM!”
PARIS.—Four Italians were punit
ed seriously and others were knocked1
about as the result of clashes between
Fascists and anti-Fascists .on French
territory today. The anti-Fascists in
terrupted a blaek-shirt fete at Cham
brey, near the Franco-Italian front,
with cries of “Down with the Duke!”
i A melee followed, in which Vice Con
sul Luther was stabbed in the head,
and two.consular attaches, named
Camosio and Boggio, also were badly
wounded.
j Fist lights also broke out at Nice
where Lugi Lajacona, Fascist deputy
surrounded by twenty blackshirts
brougbt from Rome to attend the in
: auguration of a monument to war
dead, drew a counter demonstration
from anti-Fascists, who shoutec'
“Long live Italy! Down with Fas
cists!” French--police quieted the dis
i turbance, but later one man, attacked
by a number of others., fired a. tfistol
seriously - womattgga—BftifrKitoti,
MRS. WINNIE RLTK-SliffllTt >
HAV>: HER TRTAL NOT LATER
THAN FIRST WEEK DECEMBER
PHOENIX, Ariz.—County Attor
reel? Lloyd J. Andrews announced to
day that he plans to brine Mrs. Win
nie Ruth Judd, charged with the mur
der of Mrs. Agnes Ann Po; and Miss
Hedvig Samuelsan, to trial not later
than th*1 first week in December. An
' drews said he had not decided dr-fin
j itely which murder the woman will
: bu trrnd upon first, but it would prob
' ablv bo that of Mrs. LeRci. The couti
f-tyaattorney also said no inquest woiilc1
i be herd in' -Phoeuu
Jail officials said Mrs. Jhua spent s
very goort night last nignt. Early to
.lay she was closeted for several min
utes with’Herman-Lewkowitz, Phot
j nix attorney, who nacamevaL. associ
; ate counsel with Pad. S’cnenck. of Los,
j Angeles. Andrews arid Lewkowit?
probably will confev this afternoon tc
determine when Mrs. Judd will bt
brought before Justice of the Peace
Clarence Rice for preliminary exam
ination arid setting of her hearing.
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY ON A
CALIFORNIA DAIRY RANCB
j DIXON, Calif.—Oue of thos«- ter
j rible tra edies which shock rural.com
• munities periodically struck at dawn
, today at the dairy ranch of Manuel
■ Blanc, near here, when Blanc’s daugh
! ter, Julie, 12, was murdered by his
partner, Laurence Cerise, 31, who
killed himself after the murder.
The parents and neighbors fur
nished a possible motive for the don
! hie crime. Cerise was in love with
the 12-year-old girl and wanted to
marry her. His partner, the girl’s
father, refused to. permit the wedding
Early this morning, while the mother
and father were out milking cows.
Cerise entered the child’s room, killed
her, and shot himself.
Deputy *1. S. Marshal . Stanley J.
Nichols, after a visit of a couple of
days here, returned to his Jtca.>quar*
ter sat McGrath on Friday
Arvid Repo and AndjUHan-'in were
arrivals from Ophir oni t.Wednegdav
for a brief visit.