THE
' VOL* XII. NO. 18
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY! JUNE 10. 1932
PRICE 25 OHS-Tg
1 Hoover and Curtis Are
vChosen By Republicans
< -'CHICAGO. -J— Herbert Hoover and
ChChaxles H. Curtis were nominated to-.
<■ day. as the candidates of the Repub- I
•ican party to succeed themselves as:
President and Vice President of the
' United States. The friends of Mr.
Hoover swept him into the nomination
by an overwhelming vote of 1164.
*Bherii the (supporters of Curtis, with
aid from some of the Administration
• forces, beat down sharp opposition to
a close-margin and brought about h1s
^ domination on the first ballot.
. scenes:and doings just
PRIOR TO BIG CONVENTION
v CHJCAGO.-^It was almost as easy
to buy liquor as orange or tomato
juice In Chicago today, branch speak
<• easies out. all along West Madison
street marking the route visitors will
-■ follow ta .the Rpublican convention in
i. the Stadium tomorrow an avenue of
;; . saloons.. Five hundred regular Loop
speakeasies that had closed lempo
j. . raj-ihr. to avoid lats-minute raids be
gan unlocking, .their doors and laying
in large stocks of intoxicants, while
l high-pressure salesmen for the bigger
bootlegger firms paced up and down
Michigan boulevard, making sales
talks in the hotels and passing out
i cards&telling what number to call at
t to get almost any drink a thirsty Re
i publican .could crave.
l vCBIGAGO.—The superman picture
built up around President Hoover
four years ago is undergoing altera
tions. The revised 1932 model will be
rolled off of the assembly line during
the Republican national convention
this week. President Hoover will be
presented to the country as the only
world statesman who has taken a
constructive lead in dealing with the
greatest depression of all time. He
will be pictured as having resisted all
nostrums and fantastic schemes. An
attempt will be made to represent
him as safe and sane and set him
against a background of Democratic
policies which Republicans will de
scribe as unsound economically.
WASHINGTON.—President Hoover
had been converted to the idea of a
plank in the Republican platform re
submitting the question of the 18th
amendment to a vote of the people,
but he is--firmly opposed to a plank
recommending the repeal of prohibi
tion, it was learned tonight. It i»
stated on unimpeachable authority in
Administration circles that the Pres
ident will rurt for re-election on a re
submission plank, if one is adopted
at Chicago. The President feels, how
ever, It is stated, that the fight now
rests between advocates of a repeal
of the amendment and those favoring
resubmission of the question.
'CHICAGO.—A restless Republican
convention, straining for White House
. Alaska Interests At
The Nation’s Capital
By W. A. S.
WASHINGTON, May 23.—In these |
hectic days of retrenchment in the
House of Congress the treatment of
the War Department appropriation
bil lillustrates how the ruthless slash
ing is done. The -bill as finally
passed and sent to the Senate carries
a grand total in appropriations of
*392,775,237. This is a reduction of
$52,997,998 compared with the 1932
appropriations, and less by $18,588,
525 than was recommended by the
Budget Bureau. To this depreciation •
Alaska contributed over $450,000, in
the apropriation Tor the Alaska Road
>. Commission, which was $800,000 in
1932. For 1933 the Budget recom
mended $650,310, but the appropria
tion committee, reporting the bill, cut
the figures tD $354,310, which was
finally adopted by the House.
When the item was to be consid
• ered Delegate Wickersham moved to
amend and increase the appropriation
to $650,310, making a lengthy talk on
behalf of the necessity for the in
creased sum. When the amendment '
was put it was defeated by a vote of 1
25 ayes and 43 nays. Mr .McDuffie, '
of Alabama, chairman of the economy
committee, then sought to entirely 1
eliminate the appropriation for the 1
Alaska Road Commission. He moved ^
as an amendment the elimination of 1
the entire paragraph providing for 1
the appropriation. After debate the
amendment was defeated by the close
vote of 50 ayes and 56 nays. i
Delegate Wickersham had printed ‘
in the Congressional Record a lengthy '
statistical record showing the trade ^
value of Alaska to the United States, '
and in the debate figures from this (
statement were frequently quoted, by
the several speakers and which un
doubtedly was a vita lforce in the-de
feat of the amendment. However ,the
facts did not convince Chairman Mc
Duffie, who, among other things, de
clared: “The idea of maintaining 3,100
miles of highways in Alaska for the
Lise of less than 60,000 people is per
fectly preposterous to me... . . No
loss will occur to the people of Alas
ka if we strike this item out, and I
submit again that it should be strick
en out.”
On May 19 two Alaska bills were
favorably decided on by the House
rommitteeon public lands. One pro
vides for the conveyance by the
United States of theold: court house
ot in Nome to the city.of Nome, to
ie used for street purposes. The bill
lad tb eapproval of the Attorney
jeneral. The other bill grants a pat
snt in fee to the Yakutat &> Southern
Railway for about 65 acres of land at
ifakutat upon the payment therefor
>f $2.50 per acre and the celinquish
nent of its gran for terminal grounds
>n Monti bay. The billi. had the ap
proval of the Departments of Interior
ind Agriculture. The cogipany agrees
o lease to the village o£ Yakutat the
and occupied hy its-.ypaweiL.and light
>lant for ten years,, at a.atnominal
ental of $5 per year.
On May 16th seueral Alaskans, were
mong those who Attended the funeral
n Washington oftAacuthfether of- Mrs.
1. E. Robertson, hfi .lun*aa,.and Miss ,
largaret Greene* of'this1: city, with
vhom her mother lived.'' Some years ^
(Continued on. Page 8.)
guidance on the prohibition ancfcvii r
presidential tissues, .will open here t? -
morrow to renominate - Fdesidern.
Hoowr, ibattle w ith gusto over ft j is
liquor plank, and sing its best- cir:
lenge to the Democrats. Still vyii u
with prohibition “for ’first place in t|e
quadrennial gossip race is talk oi'
dropping the venerable Vice’ ^Fresi
dcnt Oharlos Curtis—talk- that iriser
and falls as energy ebbs and flaws.
On the eve of the convention thetAc
ministratio group, supplemented tor
day by the last contingent fresh from
Washington, suddenly busied itself to
squelch several little upheavals which
the Administration .does not like and
try, if possible, to get the feverish
crowd of delegates in Jhand They
worked in two directions: First, to
check the anti-Curtis movement
which, 'despite talk of1 White House
disapproval, seems • to be. ’gaining
sterngth; second. -to suppress the
noisy uprisings of the repealists who
gathered today full ^forces- about the,
tall and handsome .Senator Hiram
Bingham, of Connecticut. He, the
son of a..missionary, will be the re
peal champion in a floor fight that
promises to he a thriller.
War Veterans
Bonus Bill
SENATE REJECTS .f SOLDIERS’
BONUS. MEASURE, BY. VOTE
♦ OF GJCT 018
. WASHINGTON.—Surrendering to
the demands of the bonus expeditkm
acy foroHS, the -House of Representa
tives today, passed, 200 to 17b, the
amewt^l f’atman bill, authorizing a
<2,400,000,000 bond issue to pay in
full compensation certificates >.of
World War veterans. Fifty-four Re
publicans .and 154 Democrats and the
Farm Labor 'Voted for the bill, and
127 Republicans..land 47 Democrat*
against it. The measure now goes to
the Senate o na vote, probably late
this week, where it is expected to be
defeated. Even if the Senate passes
the measure, President Hoover is
certain to veto it. The vote in the
House today indicated the measure
could not be passed there over the
veto with the required .three-fourths
majority.
WASHINGTON.—The Senate, by a
vote of 64 to 18, refused to pass the
bonus bill as it came from the House.
Tana Makes Quick Trip From Bethel.
The steamer Tana, Captain George
A. Green, laden with freight brought
to Bethel by the steamer Tupper, ar
rived at McGrath about 11 o’clock
Thursday night, June 16, after having
left Bethel late in the afternoon of
June 10, having made the trip in
about Q days and 3 hours. So far as
The Times knows, this is a record
trip. Thanks, Cap.
Frank Meiers, well known mining
man of the Ophir section, arrived a
few days ago for the purpose of tak
ing airplane to Anchorage, to receive
treatment for an injured eye. Mr.
Meiers was so unfortunate some time
ago as to receive a piece of steel in
me of bis eyes, the imbedding of
which gave him some trouble. Late
word from Anchorage is to the ecect
hat the injured eye has received
reatment and that Mr. Meiers will
eturn here within the next few days.
I
interns of Importance
In Reecnt News Events
r
iltHOLLYWOOD.—The -million-dollar
-motipn picture industry faces bank
ir-uptcy..within ninety days unless dras
tic, measures are introduced to save
it,. JVisrlin H. AyLesworth, president
of RKaO .and the National Broadcast
; ing Company, warned fellow produc
ers -today. The first company that
sacrifices its pride and applies for
receivership will find every other rna
j jor-studio following, he declared.
PHILADELPHIA.—A large Coast
Guard-seaplane, .turned into a flying
hospital, flew 45<mi]es out to sea to
day and r&scuad-.itwo men wmo were
seriously injured in an explosion
aboard the Standard Oil tanker Sam
uel C. Brown and brought them to
| this..city.
—
■ <. -SAN .BERNARDINO, Calif. — The
> Southern California bonus army of
twelve .hundred ex-service men and
some.fifty women .started for El-Cen
tro, 'Calif., this. afternoon on. the sec
ond .leg of its journey to Washington.
The travelers’ ranks already were
thinned as .bnokarr automobiles ser
vice and refuseriutoibudga^ The army
hoped .to complete, the 160-mile jour
ney some time, this evening.
i SAN. PEDRO, Calif.—rA message
was intercepted bjt Maskay Radio to
day from the vessel Tteliance, report
ing discovery of an.iabandnned purse
seiner beached at San Roque island,
400 miles south San Diego. The
Reliance, said it found no signs of life
aboard the seiner, andi circled -the
island in .a'sdKrch for survivors. The
ship's 'smift boat •'war. missing.
-SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif—Evi
dence which two motorists took to in
dicate murde or foul play were traced
to a dead cow today by officers who
searched the hills between here and
Santa Marguerite. Lewis Barroit and
Lloyd Gay told authorities in Salinas
that they found hunting and fishing
icenses made out to Leo J. Dunn, of
Los Angeles, scatered in the under
brush. Nearby were several articles
of women’s clothipg. ■ Officers fdund
i the garments, but a -.suspicious odor
reported by the motorists was caused
by a dead cow.
BANKS, Ore.—Renewed fighting
between Filipino berry workers and
white farm hands broke out here
again late today as the ^result of the
arrest of five white men near Hijls-,j
boro earlier in the day. Sheriff' Cop-,,
nelly and three deputies were re part
ed to he em route here from HiHAoro
to investigate. The interracial strife
so .far .has been confined -to *the use
of fists andn clu bs..
SAN FRANCISCO.—3\Sar veterans!
of -San .Francisco, lad>"by-*J. J. Hen-j
nessey, tonight .prepared to mobilize
a second San Frarieisdo. .division of
the bonus army and'virtarch .on Wash-!
ington. A first unit-is already in the
National Capital* r“We .nave seven
hundred marchers . already signed,”
Hennessey saittv'- “warexpect to have
1,500.”
SAN IRAWCISCO!:—A' burglar
alarm today* brought bapture to three
men who were sretsed «£ "attempting,
to remcve'flShiOSdsTworth of liquor!
from a government-bonded ware-!
house. i
HILO.—R. Konishi, *ihort-6tature<i
Hilo contractor, placed a package of
sandwiches under his arm this after
I noon, stepped into a steel cage and
nonchalantly began the first descent
into the maw of the firrf pit Halemau
Ma uin an attempt to recover the
bodies of two young islanders who
leaped to their death into the 1200
foot hole.
STIFFKEY, Eng.—The -Res. Har
old F. Davidson, who recently ww
tried in consistory court on charges
of immorality, created an uproar in
his church tonight when he attempted
to resume his duties as rector of
Stiffkey.
NEW YORK.—The American dol
lar continued to improve its position
in the eyes of the world today and
inspired a buoyant rise in stocks and
bond prices. Many traders took
profits in late trading . Stocks at the
clsse were behind plus signs that
Tanged from fractions to more than
2 points on the average. United
States Government bonds were in the
spotlight in that sector of the finan
cial -front*, while wheat jumped al
most 2 cents a bushel and cotton 75
cents a bale. The sugar market went
^through its*eleventh session of rising
price;;, and< rubber was high.
EOS ANGELES.—Edward Demp
sey, 40,. was fatally stabbed today in
a battle with his brother-in-law, W.
J.. Shackleford, a war veteran, over
the right to manage their household,
Police- said Shackleford, 49, admitted
arming, himself with a pocket knife
and .a hammer,, intending to run
Dempsed out ,of the house, but
claimed the stabbing orcurred acci
dentally when the victim fell upon
Shackleford.
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Full of mulligan
stew, the 2,300 members of Southern
California's bonus army rested today
in thu comparative cool of the Salt
river valey, preparing for their next
Eastwaed desert, trek. The army
plans to remain here until tomorrow
night, when it will set out via Tucson
for Washington and an appeal to
President Hoover to sign the Patman
bill.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.—William Corn
ton today narrowly escaped a sudden
transfemfrom the front end of his
hearse to the rear. Comton, Flag
staff's only undertaker, drove his
.hearse into the path of a switch train.
He jumped as one freight car plowed
through his hearse and lay untouched
in a ditch as the splinters of a secofid
car, derailed, showered around him
The business end oft bp hears* was
empty at the time.
—uomuuco, wno was said to
have confessed to being a professional
assassin, was sentenced to death be
fore a firing squad today for plotting
to kill Pre mier Bennito Mussolini.
Margherita Blaha, a Venetian dancing
girl and companion of the professional
terrorist, escaped the firing squad, but
was sentenced to forty years’ impris
onment.
VANCOUVER, B. C.—A Melvxle
Dolar, 52, prominent Pacific coast
shipping man and sort of^tfceftlate Rob
ert Dollar, was foandadead in .a gar
age at his home-yesterday. An eai
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