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For Beaver
AMENWMENT TO REGULATIONS
EXTENDS TIME IN SEV
ERAL DISTRICTS.
JUNEAU, 10:19 a. *n., Nov. 2.—
The following was released for pub
' lication; today:
’“Upon -(recommendation of the
. Alaska Game ■Commission the Sec
retary of Jtgriaultur* on November 1
' issued'an amendment to the existing
trapping regulations extending the
open! beaver seas»n in Fur Districts
Nombered i£, A, \ 6 and 7 until May
10, 1933.
““All pnovTsions of present regula
tions, including those respecting the
« opening date of the season, bag
limit, methods of taking, tagging,
• sealing and Shipping of beaver skins,
remain unchanged and as set forth
in Game Latw Circular N.9 9.
“This recommendation was made
by the Commission as the result of
...an extensive field investigation dur
. ing the past summer.
“‘Alaska Game Commission.”
Jade Nixon and Red Richardson,
■well known oldtimers of the Nixon
section, were recent departures from
McGrath for Anchorage, en route to
the Outside.
Casimir Naudtz was a town visitor
for a couple of days during the week,
leaving for Ganes on Friday.
Pick Goes
Thru Neck
POORMAN MINER STILL ALIVE
AFTER UNPARALLELED
ACCIDENT.
POORMAN.—An accident the likes
of which is without precedent hap
pened a few days ago in the Poor
mun country to Baldo Ferno, mining
operator on the old Kickbush and
Davis diggings.
Forno was working in a deep shaft
when a sharp pick fell from the top
of the shaft, one of the points strik
ing him in the neck, penetrating
clear through the neck between the
esophagus and spine.
Mr. Ferno was rushed to Ruby,
from which place he was brought by
plane to the Fairbanks hospital.
Dr. Carter pronounces it as one of
the most miraculous accidents he has
ever seen, the point of the pick pene
trating this vital part and not sever
ing any large blood vessels.
Mr: Ferno is getting along nicely
and will be up and about in a few
weeks.
LOS ANGELES.—With his head
crushed and with knife wounds in the
back, Lyman Pulver, 65-year-old
landlord, was found slain in the bed
room of his ransacked home today.
The murdered man still held in his
hand an old police night stick, with
which he apparently had attempted
to defend himself.
I Alaska Interests At
i The Nation’s Capital
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By W. A. 8.
"WASHINGTON, Oct. 10—Delegate
Wickersham, with the valued aid of
friendly Administration officials, has
made a continuous and p rsistent ef
fort to have Anchorage and Ketchi
kan included in the $100,000,000
emergency construction program au
thorized by the 1932 relief and con
struction act. He has been partially
successful, in having the Secretary of
Treasury and Postmaster General an
nounce that the Federal building at
Ketchikan will be constructed, under
the relief act. There had previously
been $10,000 appropriated and ex
pended in the preparation for a site
• onhthe tide lands at Ketchikan and
$400,000 allocated but not appropri
ated for the construction of a public
building. The economy act provides
for; a. {reduction of 10 per cent on the
amount appropriated, and the Con
troller General has decided that this
reduction roust apply to each individ
ual project, which will reduce the
; amsnntttto apply to the Ketchikan
building to $360,000. The Treasury
Department has informed the Dele
gate’s office! that the first step neces
sary will fctf'vthe drawing of plans to
be ■submitte&ito bidders. Then will
follbwhihAdajtaertisiRg and then the
awarding-'ot contract. All this will
take soma time, but it has been ex
plained tfcsthe Department that Ket
chikan has-v mild climate during the
winter-and1 tfcgfr /work -could start en
the foundation, i and construction of
the nevro&dldtn^iduring any month
Pf. tite ■ year. dSasrly action is espe
• cially -desired ter give employment to
~a.latgo number 'd unemployed.
There still remains $5,200,000 of
the appropriation to be spent on pro
jects not yet determined upon. The
Delegate is hopeful that Anchorage
may be taken care of out of this
sum, but success is not.assoured, as
so man£ others towns throughout the
United States are pressing their
claims with such vigor apd influence
that the result is uncertain. Ketchi
kan was given preference over An
chorage because it was: felt that the
project had already beenn started
there, and further because of the re
ported larger number of unemployed
at Ketchikan and geater necessity for
a Federal building to house the larger
number of court and other activities.
On October 5 the United States
Geographic Board named, a. newly
discovered creek in the Kobuk region
of Northern Alaska Holmes creek,
after former Associate Justice Oliver
Holmes of the Supreme- Court of the
United States. The creek was dis
covered by a member of: the Geolog
ical Survey on March 8, 1931, Justice
Holmes’ 89th birthday anniversary.
At the same meeting of the Board
names were selected, for 392 rivers,
creeks, mountains and. lakes. Two.
hundred were designated: for: Alaska#
75 for California, 30. for Montana, 10
for Wyoming, 3 for: Washington, 60
for Utah, and one, each in. Florida,
Michigan, South Dakota* and: Colo
rado.
A report by Generali Manager^ CoL
O. F. Ohlson, of .the lAUHca. Railroad,
which has juest been received: by Sec
(Continued, on .Page>. 8.)
WHICH MOST IMPORTANT
MINING OP GOLD. OR PRO
TECTION OF BEAVER HOMES?
Dan MeDoneli, well known mining
man operating at Candle, -wante to
mine. To do this he must transport
supplies from McGrath to hCandleJ
On this road to Candle, however, tire
building of beaver dams have blocked
transportation, as alleged by Mr.
McDonell. He appealed to the Alaska
Road Commission.* The A. Jt. C.
passed. Appeal then went to the
Alaska Game Commission, with no
result. And there you are.
Mr. ■Mr/Danefl a few days ago dis
patched a telegram to Delegate
W ickersham, as follows.
“Delegate Jamest cmfwy mfwy w
“Hon.-James Wickersham,- Juneau:
Have received no satisfaction from
Game Commission, or Governor in re
gard to destruction of Candle Creek
road. , I am not asking any money
from the Government, for road re
pair; just want permission to keep
road usable tit, my mine from river.
Evidently the Alaska Game Commis
sion and Governor value the few
beaver as of more importance to this
community than rpy mining opera
tions. I am sending a copy of the
correspondence to the press.
D. S. McDONELL.” ;
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The Little Creek dredge, following
its operation of about two months by
Wain* Puntila and associates,, came
to a halt on Thursday last, after
what is asserted to have been a most
successful run.
Among those coming in from the
dredge on Friday were Waino Puntila,
Charles Uotila, Arvid Larson, Swan
Anderson, Happy Jacobson, R. E.
Lowrie, John Adams, Ralph Ander
son.
Mr. Puntila will remain here for a
few days before leaving for the Out
side. Charlie Uotila expects to leave
for Fairbanks within the next few
days.
Mr. and Mrs. Hawley W. Sterling
will depart within the next few days
for Juneau, to which point Mr. Ster
the position ofcmf cmfw mfwyp wy
ling goes to assume the position of
A9ssistant Clef .Engineer .of the
Alaska Road Commission, announce
ment of which appointment was made
some days ago. During their resi
dence here Mr. and Mrs. Sterling
Sterling have made many friends,
fitting nicely into this interior com
♦nunity, and many regrets are ex
pressed at their departure.
SALT LAKE CITY.—A Bamberger
Line electric train today crashed into
a crowded truck, injuring 13 men.
Seven men escaped unhurt.
WASHINGTON—The United States
will not sit in with the League of Na
tions when that body meets at Ge
neva on November 14, to take up the
Lytton report and dispose of-the Man
churian problem.
SA NFRANCISCO.—Church par
ticipation in a movement for birth
control and voluntary child-bearing,
recognition of Soviet Russia, reten
tion of capital .punishment, and regu
lation of motion pictures were fav
ored by congregations of Northern
California in ballot results announced
today.
A. H. Twitcbell, coming from his
reindeer headquarters over in the
Dtetna. section, was a today arrival.
Items of Importance
In Recent News Events
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-SAN FRANCISCO.— Manufactur
ing .-und trade increased moderately iD
.activity ;dlorg the Pacific slope dur
ing- the.month of.September, accord
ing ito ar.: announcement -by , the .Sian
Francisco Reserve Bank. The state
ment is abased after.#. survey of care
fully compiled repotts'.tocthe, bask.
The hasik’s announcement .says the
gratifying gain is coming after three
months of comparative stability.
The report further, states .that com
modity prices have turned down
ward, and the hanking position is im- !
proved.
Farm income, says . the report, is
lower than last year despite the in- j
creased production of dumber. The
output is.^teady and orders are com-;
ing in now in ercess of the production
of the operating mills.
WASHINGTON.—'The Fndecal de
ficit continued ,to increase in spite of
the Tact .that tax .collections increased
during ‘the mortlh of September.
According to a report issued today
ity the Treasury Department, the de
ficit on October IT amounted vto $554,
357,227.
The increases in collections -were
due .to new levies included ;in the bil
lion-dollar tax bill approved by Con
gress last winter. Income taxes, the
normal sources >of revenue, continue
to decline.
SEVILLE, Spain.—Jean HBaul, ar
rested at the instance of the Amer
ican consul in connection with the
Lindbergh kidnapiny case, -was ap
prehended after the consulate had re
ceived an anonymous letter from two
American sailors, -who stated that
they had talked with Saul in :a saloon
and that he seemed to know much
about the kidnapinl and a division of
the sum ’of '$50,000 which had ’been
paid sfoTi ransom purposes.
An unfinished letter -was foundifey
the authorities amony the personal
belonginys ;af Saul, which .said.-in
part:
,rDear Bill: 1 am afraid' I talked
too much. But I .'h^pe/L-hasitn’t com
promised myself. You know how I
iim when drinking!”
The local detectives who had been
working on the case say that Saul
admitted that he iknew something
about the kidnaping, but that he did
hot express himself further in the
matter.
WASHINGTON,' D. C.—To keep
the United States up to treaty
strength in cruisers, the Navy De
partment intends .to start work* next
year on another fessel of that type.
Bids have been infited for a ten
thousandrton, eight-inch cruiser, to
cost approximately#17,000,000 and to1
be completed: some time during the
year of 193E. IThis will gife the
United States, sixteen cruisers ef this
type. ;
Under thertondon treaty the seven
teenth cruiaer ,of the type can be:
started, one in 1934, and the 18th
after Mar A 1 the first of the year
following.
NEW. YOBK—The amphibian plane
carrying Assistant .Secretary of War
Danitdaoiui^feepabliosn candidate . for
rimltonniitii'finTrrmrr on a campaign
flight ..from Locust Point to Water
town, was forced down today by fog
over, the ..Hudson river south of Al
bany.
MUSKOGEE, Ok]a.—Rev. S. A.
Berne, 52 .yearn of age, unfrocked
Presbyterian .minister, was convicted
Tuesday of murdering his first wife
with poison. The verdict carried with
it a term of life irpprisonmpnt.
Shortly after Berrip’s first wife had
taken the fatal sedative he married
Ida May Bright, s Sunday school
teacher in Jiis church.
Berrie .had .a iyiectacular -career be
fore he became a minister and had
figured conspicuously in the sensa
tional new sof the day. before he en
tered the pulpit.
NEW.CHANG—-It is reported here
today that the . Japanese ^rray in
Manchuria hap launched- a pigorous
campaign against Ghmesp bandits in
a determined effort to free., that re
gion of attacks >an Japanese con
trolled cities.
The release this week of Mrs. Ken
neth . Pawley and Charles JCorkland.
British subjects, who were held cap
tive for six weeks by the bandits, hai
made it possible for the Japanese
troops to launch their.eampaign with
out fear of injuring, foreigners .in the
area to be .attacked. Aa previously
announced, it is the intention to make
use of bombing planes for the pur
pose of driving the bandits into the
mountains, where they will be starved
out .during the .winter.
iCiOLU M BUS, VO.—JSormm. Thomas.
Socialist candidatte for president, de
livered .an address here .last night in
which he advocated jl capital levy on
wealth for the purpose, of lightening
the Joa-dof debt,, He.,contended that
sucb.a levy, is Just-because it would
fall equitably on-all persons owning
cash, whereas piecemeal confiscation
or .debt repudiation-would not.
. SAN .BERNARDINO, Cal.—inves
tigators are mystified.as. to the iden
tity of the .body of an.attractive au
burn-haired woman of about .25.year*
o fage, found in the lcsert wastes 4#
miles north of this .place. Apparent
ly the woman was slain. The body
was in a nude condition when found,
and from all appearances the woman
had been killed by a blow on the heed
with some blunt instrument.
A well-to-do couple residing in the
town of Rosmond thought it might
be their daughter, from whom they
had not heard for some time, but in
vestigation on their part failed to
identify her as such.
James Edwards, of Los ..Angeles,
says that the description nf .the slain
woman matches that of his .wife Mil
dred, from whom he has.net heard
since she left here three, weeks ago
for Ronald, Wash.
SAN FRANCISCO^-The merging
of two of Japan’$..greatest shipping
companies, involving many millions
of dollars, has been consummated, ac
cording to reports received here to
day. The conyaanies are Nippon Yu
sen Kaisha, which operates a fleet of
liners and freighters, into San Fran
cisco and other Pacific coast ports and
controls 15Q ships all over the world,
and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, which
operates,a..freight fleet into this port.
LOS .ANGELES.—Mrs Minnie Ken
nedy. Jtodynn. mother of Aimee . M •
Phenf/vrf Hudson, announced ycjter
depytiial *sht had been granted' a»di
vorce id Mexico fron “What
Guy Hudson.