\ VOL XXI NO 13
TAKOTNA ALASKA SATURDAY. APRIL 25 1931
PRICE 25 CL*!TL
'Repeal Alaska
iBone Dry Act
i LF.&fSITA 'PURE PASSES BILL AND
MEASURE GETS SIGNATURE
iUW GOVERNOR PARKS.
JUNEAU, Api*il 26.—The Alaska
1: iituie-driilaw was. repealed today by
. the Legislature.
i he i. easure was signed immedi
aUiiy-jhy Governor Parks- and will be
ec.nio- a iaw, barring its non-sustain
- n»ent by Congress.
GENERAL SMEDLEY M. BUT
LER WILL ENDEAVOR TO
HALT CRIME IN OREGON
QUANTICO, Cuba, April 25.—Gen
,.."eral Smediey M. Butler will leave
1 here , shortly for Oregon at that
: -state’s request to organize its state
police and devise plans for wiping
<i out; crime. The Government is loan
... ing General Butler at the request of
t. Governor Meier . of Oregon.
C COMMANDER BYRD MOURNS
' DEATH OF HIS DEVOTED DOG
* CHICAGO, April 24.—“Igloo,” the
f -fox terrier which accompanied Com
mander Richard E. Byrd to both the
- North and South Poles, died today in
i. Boston. Byrd, who had suspended
. his ecture tour last night to rush
I -Tback to Boston, received news of the
death of his devoted dog on his ar
j rival here.
Too Much
Bureaucracy
SENATOR BORAH WARNS THAI
MANY COMMISSIONS ARE
RUNNING WILD.
WASHINGTON, April 27.—Sen
ator Borah, in a statement given out
last night, warned the Federal Gov
ernment that it is building up a bu
.eaucracy, asserting that during th<
past two years Hoover has estab
ished twenty-six government com
missions, despite the fact that th(
taxpayers of the country now carrj
four layers of officials, namely, city
county, state and federal, adding thal
for every ten persons employed om
person is carried on the public pay
roll.
SHARKEY AND CARNERO SIGN
FOR 15-ROUND MATCH, AT
BROOKLYN, ON JUNE 10TK
i. -
NEW YORK, April 26. —Jacl
Sharkey and Primo Carnero todaj
signed articles for a 15-round worlt
championship match, to take place al
Ebbetts Field, Brooklyn, on June 10
EDWARD MIORRSSEY PASSES.
KETCHIKAN, April 24.—Edwar<
i. Morrissey, proprietor and editoi
of the Ketchikan Chronicle, died a.
his home here today, following an ill
ness of about two weeks.
' iTo Determine Mineral and Other
FResources Along Alaska R. R. Line
WASHINGTON, April. 20.—The
t> most significant effort yet made to
< determine the mineral values of
- Alaska will be carried out this sum
mer by the Department of the In
t terior.
The recent Congress appropriated
?:#250,000 “for continuation of the in
'• vestigation of mineral and other re
- soui’ces of Alaska,” along the Alaska
f. Railroad. This is in addition to the
regular appropriation for work in
- Alaska.
The appropriation was placed in
the hands of Secretary Wilbur, and
i he has organized the work chiefly
through the Goeological Survey.
Though this specia appropriation is
not available until July 1, the Geo
logical Survey, considering the short
working season in Alaska, has ar
1 ranged to make advances from its
i funds that the work may be started
early and sa full season of results at
t tained this year.
As fast as given investigations are
t completed they will be reported and
; the facts made available in Alaska
v; without reference to Washington.
'One of the maor proejctsin this in
vestigation will be an examination of
t the Anthracite Ridge coal field in
r. the <vicinity of the Alaska Rairoad.
1 This will include detailed surface in
' vestigations, .including test pitting
r. and (trenching in the Anthracite
Ridge coal field, where there are
1 known veins more than 50 feet thick,
. subsurface core drilling and investi
gations in the Anthracite Ridge coal
field, entailing about-4,000 fe&t of I
core drilling. Examinations of re-!
ported new prospects and re-exam-,
nations of nonmineral bearing areas
• with special reference to quantitative)
(determination of possible miners
tonnage and the assembly of and re
cording of al known mines and pros
,e-ts within the railroad belt will b<
carried out.
Sixty thousand dollars has been al
ocated to Willow Creek, Fairbanks
Copper Mountain, Girdwood, Kan
tishna, and Moose Pass districts, am
a party will operate at each of thesi
areas. In these districts rather ex
tensive prospecting or development
1 has been in progress, and the worl
will be of an intensive type and on i
rather detailed scale.
Twenty-four thousand dollars hai
been allocated to the West ork 02
Chulitna, Vadez Creek, Talkeetns
Mountains and Yenti.a districts, am
the investigators will operate in foui
parties. Only a small amount o1
mineral has yet been taken out ii
these districts and they are practical
ly undeveloped, but the probability o1
valuable finds is believed to be good
The examinations in these areas wil
be of the preliminary exploratory
type.
To investigate, test, and report or
non-metalic minerals such as clay
limestone, marl, etc., in the railroac
belt, and prepare a pamphlet or
their economic value and possibilities
of production, $5,000 has been sel
aside.
It is estimated that the surface in
vestigation of the Anthracite Ridge
coal field will cost $27,000, and that
the core drilling in that field will cost
$100,000.
As the purpose of the investigation
is to develop natural resources aong
the Alaska Railroad, it is important
that the results of the examinations
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CHICAGO GANGSTER, CRKD
ITED WITH SLAYIl«G'OP,18,
DRAWS LIFE IMPmSONURNT
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., April- P.7.—
Fred Burke, Chiiago gangster, -w«s
sentenced to life imprisonment todav
for the murder of Charles A. Kely,
St. Joseph poliseman.
Kelly Ls credited with the slaying
of eighteen men, including seven
gangsters killed in Chicago on St
! Valentines day, 1UU0.
. I --—
ILLINOIS OEMS LINING OP
FOR J. HAMILTON LEWIS,
SAYS CHICAGO’S MAYOR
FORT PIERCE, Fla., April 23.—
■ Mayor Cermak of Chicago, who is s»
i journing here, stilted today that Illi
■ nois will present the name of Sanator
, James Hamilton Lewis for president
, at the next Democratic national con
i vention.
Telegraphic Ticks.
PORTLAND, Aprl 27.—William B.
Gilvert, 75, presiding judge of the
! Federal Court of Appeals, died today
I at his home here.
, SEATTLE, April 25.—The steamer
I Yukon sailed this morning with 280
passengers, including 10 for Seward
and the Interior.
1 ALBANY, April 26.—Gov. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt today dismissed the
I charges brought against Mayor Wal
ker of New York by the city agairs
. committee.
WINDSOR, Eng., April 28.—The
1 Prince of Wales arrived here this af
ternoon, folowing the completion of
an 18,000-mile to South America,
j ALBANY, N. Y., April 27.—Gov
1 emor Roosevelt today signed the bill
i commiting the state of New York to
J the $171,000,000 hydroelectric devel
[ opmcnt project on the St. Lawrence
. river at Massenapoint
! BOUND OVER TO GRAND JURY.
Charged with violation of the dry
- law, Warren Alford was arrested at
, his home here about 6 o’clock on the
■ morning of April 22 by Deputy U. S.
I Marshal Nichols, who with U. S.
> Commissioner W. T. Vanderpool had
■ arrived here shortly before from Mc
i Grath.
Aford was taken to McGrath im
i mediately after his arrest.
■ At the conclusion of a hearing the
• same afternoon before U. S. Commis
• sioner Vanderpool, Alford was bound
i over to the grand jury, the bonds un
I der this charge being placed at
‘ $2,000. Aside from the foregoing
• charge another one was placed
i against Alford, that of violation of
! Section 1904 of the Alaska criminal
•; code, charging assault with a danger
ous weapon. Bonds on this charge
were fixed at $5,000. Unable to sat
isfy the $7,000 bonds, Alford was
transferred to the custody of the
United States Marshal at Fairbanks,
i to which place he was taken last
Tuesday by airplane, under surveil
lance of Deputy U. S. Marsha Pat
O’Connor of Fairbanks,
j Also going over at the same time
was Frank Lange, arrested some
' days ago on a charge of violating the
dry law, and who had been bound
over to the grand jury under bonds
of $2,500.
J. Theodore Melberg was a Tues
day arrival from McGrath.
Charles (W. D.) Smith was a
1 Thursday visitor from McGrath.
Lamb In Plane
Brings Death
T. D &TIMSON, SEATTLE MIL
LIONAIRE, CRASHES IN
-5 HIS OWN PLANE
SEATTLE, April 27.—Thomas D,
Stinson, millionaire business man and
civic leader ’son of the late C. D.
Stinson, was killed Sunday when his
airplane crashed in the Okanagon
country, while flying from Spokane
to Seattle. • He was a most enthusi
astic aviator, owning his own plane.
SEATTLE, .April; 29.—Department
of Commerce inspectors announced
today that Thomas IX Stinson’s death
crash resulted from a lamb getting
its head jammed in-:a hole under the!
control stick, causing -Stinson to lose
control of the plane’s course- He had
purchased the lamb irf Spokan- and
was carrying it. home as a pet for the
pleasure of his children
“PEOPLE OF AMERICA HAVE
LOST FAITH IN HOOVER’
DECLARES JOiJETT SHOT HE
SEATTLE. April .'21.—"The people
! of America have lost faith in Ho ver
because he has tried to deceive them,”
Jouette Shause, chairman of the
Democratic national executive com
mittee, now on a swing throughout
the country, decared in his address
! here today.
TO INVESTIGATE ALASKA’S
NAVAL COAL RESERVE;
SEATTLE, Apr. 24—Senator* En d-:
erick Hale of Maine arrived here-to
i day, and with Seth W. Richardson,!
Assistant United States Attorney
General, Samuel Stern of Fargo, N
I D., sailed tonight on the Government
* cutter Shoshone for Seward. They
■ wil investigate the naval coal reserve
of that section, after which they will
hunt big-bear in the Kodiak region.
Leaving Thursday for Ganes creek
was H. C. Wallick, who will under
take drilling operations immediately
on the claims owned by C. L. Baker,
John Rieck and Dick Stevenson, to
j determine the values of those claims
fox dredging operations. A -large
! drill and a large quantity of supplies i
have been moved to the ground dur
ing the last few days and drilling
operations will start at once.
Mrs. Victor Hill was an airplane
departure here a few days ago for
Anchorage, on her way to the Out
side. Feeling none too well for sev
eral months past, Mrs. Hill consult
specialists and visit on the Outside
for the next few months.
! Among those scheduled to arrive
here within the next few weeks is!
Ikey Hayes, we! known oldtimer, who!
has been on the Outside for the past’
couple of yeare. He will be a pas-'
senger up on the Tupper to Bethel.
! -
Jack O’Connor, game warden, with
headquarters at Holy Cross, was a
visitor here on the 21st.
Chester Brixik returned yesterday
from a trip to McGrath.
John H. Peterson, after a few days
visit here, left Saturday for Ophir.
Mrs. P. A. Anderson of Ophir was
a Thursday town visitor.
Doings At
Washington
KING AND QUEEN OF SIAM ARE
FIRST MON ARCHS TO CROSS
WHITE HOUSE THRESHOLD.
WASHINGTON, April 23.—Presi
dent Hoover said today that General!
Saudi no, leader of the Nicaraguan in
surgents, has placed himself outside,
of the civilized pale by the murder of
American civilians and Nicaraguans,
Hoover said he was perfectly con
dent Sandino would be brought' to
justice.
WASHINGTON, April 24,—Aliens
advocating overthrow of the United
States'Government should he deport
ed, Vice President Curtis declared!
last night, is an address before the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion.
WASHINGTON, April -25.—The
Daughters of the Ajnerican Revolu
tion,. at their convention meeting here
yesterday, adopted a resolution de
manding that a navy second to none,
be built, to the limit under the London
naval treaty.
WASHINGTON, April 23.—The
United States, Great Britain ’ anr
Sweden have formally recognized" the
new government of Spain.
WASHINGTON, April 36.—The
king and queen of Siam called for
mally or President Hoover today, it.
being the first time in history th’at-.t.
monarch ever crossed the threshold
of the White House,
President Hoover immediately re
turned the call
Archie Higgins, well known man
ager of the Higgins Dredging Coir
p&ny, and Mrs. Higgins, coming di
rect from their home in San Fran
cisco, were Thursday arrivals here
having come from Anchorage to Mc
Grath by Alaska Airways plane, 'arid
from McGrath to Takotna by Pilot
Blunt in a Pacific International plane
This was the first visit of Mrs, Hig
gins, esteemed oldtimer, to these
parts in several years, and she has
been more or less busy in renewing
acquaintances with former friends.
A1 Smith, former well known old
timer of these parts, was a Thursday
arrival from McGrath, Mr, Smith,
after an absence of about five years,
spent mostly in-Alaska coast towns,
returned to McGrath about a month
ago, following a stay of about four
months in Seattle. He declares that,
he wants no more of the Outside,
that he s pleased to get back, and
that Alaska s plenty goo<i enough for
him.
The last of the school days was
celebrated by a party given for the
school children by Miss Beth Ander
son, their teacher, in the Takotna
school ■ house. Many games were
played, after which cake cocoa were
served, which was enjoyed by al.
Gus Rosen, well known dredge
master, after spending the winter on
the Outside, was a Thursday arrival,
coming from Anchorage via airplane,
George Kangas was among yester
day visitors here, returning to Ophir
yesterday afternoon.
Andrew Olson was a yesterday ar
rival from McGrath.