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TIMES
VOL XI NO. 8C
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATUIlDAYiUESETSMBER 26 1931
PRICE 25 CENTS.
Ablaze'With
ManyFires
7. HfEKlWClN O' '-COUNTY, CAI.IF, A
>ROAKING FURNACE FROM
•BORDER »TO BORDER.
:1SA'N ' FRANCISCO, Sept, s- 24.—
J Blanketed . by. a pall, of smoke so
i dense that .motoristsahad to use their
headlights at midday. Mendocino
coiiity 'was a rearing .furnace of fire
last night from.'border to border. At
least eighteen -known fires were burn
ing'in different parts of the county.
A A doye»;juthef fines, believed to have
been started/by! thfe back-fire opera
tions of ranchers frantic to save their
from »?fire 20- miles distant .ff mf f
homes,'were also burning. At Ukiah
cinders showered down in the streets
i from a fire. 20 miles distant. At
V Wending, *20 miles east of Fort
. Bragg, a population of 200 was bat- i
tling desperately against a circle of
* flames that was creeping upon the
t town from four sides. More than 500
. fire fighters were struggling against
heavy odds, and at the State For
< estry office at Sacramento it was:
. announced last night that it was im
possible to get an estimate of exact
v conditions.
SALVATION ARMY LEADER DIES
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28.—
missioner Adam Cflord, territorial
commander of the western unit of the i
. Salvation Army, comprising 11 west- ,
ern states and the Hawaiian islands,
died yesterday of a heart attack, at
the age of 68.
Make Stand
For Beer
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AMERICAN LEGION ASKS FOR
4 REFERENDUM ON 18TH 4
AMENDMENT.
DETROIT, Sept. 24.—To the ac
companiment of cries from the floor
of “We want beer! We want beer!”
the American Legion today aligned
itself with the forces seeking a
change in the prohibition laws and
asked Congress to submit a referen
dum on the eighteenth amendment to
the people of the various States. At ■
the same session the veterans, organ
ized, turned down a proposal that im
mediate full payment of bond certifi
cates be asked and asserted its belief |
that able-bodied men should refrain
at this time from placing added finan
cial burdens on the government.
MOVIE COLONY GIVES WEL
COME TO ELOPING COUPLE
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24.—A sur
prised movie colony today gave wel
come to James Kirkwood, hero of a
hundred thrilling screen plays, and
his bride of a few hours, the former
Beatrice Powers of Hollywood. With
out confiding their plans to any of
their friends, the couple eloped to Las
Vegas by airplane yesterday morn
ing, at which place they were married
by Judge Frank M. Ryan, and again
returned to their home here by air
plane.
Alaska Interests At
The Nation’s Capital
(By W. A. S.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Paul C.
O’Connor, the postmaster at Holy
Cross, has resigned his office and is
urging his release. The Department
is considering and will likely appoint
Rev. Francis Menager as his suc
cessor.
The Seward Chamber of Commerce
• writes urging the cooperation of the
Delegate in completing the highway
.. that will connect Seward and Moos$
Pass. The project has been surveyed'
. and the field work completed and now
it is hoped soon to have station work
started, which would tend to relieve
.. an acute labor situation. It is also ,
expected that the completion of the
project would materially assist in the
development of agricultural and min
eral: resources on Kenai Peninsula.
The-road already runs 20 miles north
i . of :£eward, but there is a gap of 13 ,
mQesMBouth of Moose Pass, and the ;
estimated cost of construction ■
’ Vthrpnghjjcanyons is $700,000. When
■ this is. built the mighway would ex- i
tend''4fcifeui«s northwest of Moose i
Pass to.‘Hope, on Cook Ilnlet, and 33 i
miles soutbtof Moose Pass, making a <
through Mgrnray of 78 miles from
Seward. There is available forest 1
money to -start this work, but the 1
project must first have the endorse- <
-nient of District orester Flory, the c
Alaska Road Commission, and the ]
Bureau of Public Roads. |1
The Geological Survey has just I
i .completed and sent to the Delegate a.
:opy of a new edition of a large wall
nap of Alaska, which has been re
vised and brought up to date. It is a
sale publication, and will prove quite
valuable to those concerned.
Ernest Walker Sawyer, of the In
terior Department, brings to Wash
ington the pleasing information that
another meeting of the commissioners
sf the British Columbia-Yukon-Alas
ka Highway will be held in Victoria
some time during the month of Oc
tober, to consider data of a very in
teresting nature that has been col
lected during the past six months,
rhis joint commission consists of
Hon. George Black, for the Yukon;
I. M. Wardle, Federal parks engi
leer for the Dominion parks branch,
and George P. Napier, for the Prov
nce, representing Canada; and E. W.
Sawyer, Major Malcolm Elliot, pres
dent of the Alaska Road Commis
sion, and Herbert H. Rice, prominent
automotive executive of Detroit, rep
resenting the United States.
Referring to the highway, an edi
torial in a recent issue of the Wash
ngton Post sets forth the following
'ery interesting and illuminating
onclusion:
“It was a happy choice indeed that
lr. George Black, the Speaker of the
louse of Commons, should, have been
hosen as a representative on the
ommittee which is <1 is cussing the
ireliminaries of a Brrtisff-Columbia
'ukon-Alaska highway. It is a com-1
liment to the Yukon, which Mr.1
Slack has represented in the House
(Continued on Page 3.) i
NATIONAL RELIEF DIRBCTWK
MAKES ADDRESS ON CUMIN*
WINTER’S RELIEF PBOOKAM
NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—.Consumer
buying was the pilot recommended by j
Walter H. Gifford tonight to .the' na. j
from. “If the public buys neither
work nor goods, it is the public that i
is indirectly discharging men,” h the
President’s national relief director
told the country in the first of . a
series of addresses on the winter re
lief program. Gifford said that, emer
gences Ike the present one occur n
ths country so seldom, there s not and
probably could not any permanent or-;
ganization to cope with it. .He .de-:
scribed the condition as temporary
and best met by the ■volunteer mass,
efforts of the people.
Big Concerns
Slash Wages
U. S. STEEL, GENERAL MOTORS,
U. S. RUBBER CO. MAKE CUTS
FROM 10 TO 25 PER CENT.
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—In spite of
the desire of i’resident Hoover to
maintain the pj t sent standard of liv
ing throughout the United States, he
has found it impossible to hold indus
trial leaders to their promise to main
tain wage scales at their pre-slump
levels.
ollowing th enmiouiicement yester
day that the United States Steel -Cor
poration had decided to slash wages
10 per cent, a i.^mber of the other
leading corpora .ii.ns have made it
known that sin.ilar action is being
taken by them.
The wage cut of the United States
Steel Corporation affects 220,000 em
ployes. Cuts ranging from 10 to 20
per cent have been announced by the
Bethlehem Steel Company, Youngs
town Steel Tubs Company, General
Motors, United States Rubber Com
poration, American Smelting & Re
fining Company, and Utah Copper
Company.
The General Motors cut, which
ranges from 10 to 25 per cent, affects
25,000 employes in shops and offices;
the United States Rubber Company
has annonnred a five-day week, which
amounts to a. wage reduction of 9
per cent for 25,000 workers.
MA KENNEDY AND HUDSON
HAVE NUPTIAL KNOT RETIED
BOULDER CITY, Col.—Ma Ken
nedy and Guy Edward Hudson were
remarried here yesterday, following
the granting o fa divorce to Hudson
from his former wife. The first mar
riage of the couple was annulled until
Hudson obtained a divorce from his
other wife. The marriage was per
formed by a justice of the peace on
Observation Point, 1,000 feet above
Hoover dam.
Hans Erickson was a today arrival
from Ganes dredge, having completed
all his work for this season. Mr. Er
ickson will take first plane for An
chorage, headed for San Francisco,
where he expects to remain during
the winter. He expects to return
here early in April.
Joe Blanchell, after an absence of
almost two years, was an arrival in
town Friday from Yankee creek.
Miss Elsie Rieck, feeling none too
well, will be a passenger en first air
plane for Anchorage.
Big Question
Of Revenues
WILL AMERICAN TAXPAYERS
BE ASKED TO DIG DEEPER
INTO POCKETS’
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—The
American taxpayer probably will
know in a month or sir weeks
whether Congress will be asked to
dig deeper into his pocketbook.
Treasury experts are trying to
solve the ■ problem of present declin
ing tax receipts anl mounting expend
itures. Whether it is for tax revision
ot^. continuation of the present bor
rowing policy, with consequent in
crease in the public debt. President
Hoover must pass upon it before it
goes to Congress.
ONLY A PLOT TO DISCREDIT
CMC AGO PROSECUTOR
CHICAGO,. Hept-ti8.—The federal
Government’s investigation of a story
that two alleged gangsters paid $75,
000 to escape, prison sentences for
income tax violations tonight appar
ently hart settled presumption that it
was a plot to discredit District At
torney Johnson. .Johnson has direct
ed successful income-tax prosecutions
against several gangsters, and cases
against others, including “Scarface"
AJ Capone, are pending.
GREAT BRITAIN TEMPORARILY i
ABANDONS - GOLD STAND ARD
LONDON, Sept. 21.—One of the
most serious financial crises since the
World War has compelled Great Brit
ain temporarily to abandon the .gold
standard, and announcement is made
by the Bank of England that the dis
count rate is being raised from 41.-2
to 6 per cent,as a means of halting
the overflow of gold. The announce
ment followed a special session of the
Cabinet, £jt which- it was unanimously
decided that only the immediate sus
pension of the gold redemption act
would prevent a currency catastrophe.
The Losdon Stock Exchange will re
main closed tomorrow.
LONDON, Sept. 28.—An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Stockholm
says that the Swedish State Council
has decided to place an embargo on
gold exports. The bank rate was
raised September 11 from 4 to 5 per
cent.
OSLO, Norway, Sept. 28.—The
Norwegian government announced to
night that Norway temporarily will
suspend the gold standard. The dis
count rate of -the -iBank - of Norway
has been raised to eight per cent. The
government announced that the State
Bank was authorized not .to exchange
notes for gold until November 30.
CORN BELT PREPARING TO
LOOK AFTER UNFORTUNATES
OMAHA, Neb., The com
belt is girding itseHNxfc-the task of
looking after its . un&u&unates this
winter. So far, this appears to be a
task easily within its 'capacity, al
though it is :<an^iei|)hbcd it will call
for rather wore* ecort than usual, both
in the collecticn and. administtration
of relief.
Frank Larson and Charlie Ulch ar
rived yesterday from McGrath, com
ing up in a small power boat.
Hostilities
May Cease
CANTON INSURGENTS INVITE*
TO PEACE CONFERENCE
AT SHANGHA
TOKYO, Sept. 24.—A .dispatch
from Mukden to the Rengo News
Agency tonight said Japanese police
at Changchun, Manchuria, said they
had received a repcrt that thirteen
Japanese women and children were
killed by Chinese soldiers.
. HONGKONG, Sept. 24— Gesefrai
Chen Ming Iasu, acting under "orders
from President. Chiasie Kai .fih- k ol
the Nanking government, today in
vited the beads of the Canton insur
gent government by teltajrair. Ut at
tend a peace conference at Shanghais
GENEVA, Sept,. 24.—An official1
communique from Tokyo announced
today that Japanese troops had been
withdrawn from Kirin, in .Manchuria
HONGKONG. Sept. .24.—There
were Turther ■ minor disorders :n the
Japanese section followmg last
night's riotings.'.iniiwhKu w. number
of »windows in ijananes.- fspops were
broken, but. rur persons i®,mired vcre
wporterL
SAN FRANCISCO. Senl: 2.4—For
mal denial of the killing of ttirei i
Americans in Mukden bv 'Japanese <
soldiers was issued 'here yesterday by
the consul geoenl of J^pan.-The cart
•suits statement follows:
"The Japanese eansdl general at
San Francisco at officially informed! 1‘
from Tokyo that the report from >1
Berlin published in the newspapers a
here that three Americans were killed *
by 'Japanese soldiers at Mukden is ‘s
entirely unfounded. That repor was &
originally published in Berlin i*y the &
Chinese nationalist, party" J*
The original dispatches said the />
Americans were killed when Japanese
airplanes swept the streets«of Muk
den ’.with gunfire ie
_ g
TOKYO, Sept., - 28.—Japan’s rtply "
to the note sen/ recently oy Secretary
of State Stimson .‘concerning the oc
cupation of several.Manchurian cities
probably -willi. • e; rtieuaidhad late to
night. The' raply emphasizes that
Japan, in common with the hope of
the American government- already
had*retrained fro mfurther hostilities
in MaDchuria. The Japanese reply
adds that. Jauan is taking every pre
caution to .prevent, any extension of „
trobule, to avoid further compliea
tion, and stresses its contention that 2j
Japan is abstaining from violation of
any international agreements. As- ,g
suranee is .given that every effort is
being made to reach an amicable set- ,s
tlement with the Chinese,
HONGKONG, Sept, 28—Asserting j,,
that a state of emergency exists, the jj
government late tonight called out r<
troops to quell rioting mobs of Chi
nese at Koohloon, after several days
of anti-Japanese demonstrations. Po
lice were armed with riot guns and 3r
ordered to shoot without warning if ,
necessary. A crowd of Chinese en- ;8
tered the home of Shimziro Yaba- h'
shita, a Japanese, in. an isolated dis- d
trict of Kowloon, murdered hfcn, his v
wife, his mother, two sons, and a
housemaid. Only a 3-yeartold baby a
was spared. Police and. Staid lets ar- s
rived in time to find. aaanob of on* «
thousand Chinese WTeckiiig thoJieqfe x
and a fierco fight followed