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TAKOi NA ALASKA SATURDAY. DkOffiMBEK 10 1-. 3*
PRICfc 25 GfaJNTS
Fairbanks School House
burns to the Ground
F a i ban k suNe ws - Miner. )J
-: 'tinea hunored and forty Fair-1
ban.;:, school pupils started an en-.
l.-u-wii Vacation this morning, while
teas*. ia. charge of. school affairs de
li c._ - what should he done tor the.
vti.cer of the winter.
1 iuns fox temporary housing of
classes were taken under advisement
wiii.e .rabtrs still glowed in the ruins
of the school.building which was de
ti.o.ytu oy tire.early Sunday morn
ing.
ihe. fire.wJiich burned to the ground .
Uu. otnool was the most disastrous
Ixiix hanks has experienced dnee the j
Ncruale Hotel on First avenue was.
destroyed by flames almost a. decade j
ago.
Authoritative, estimates were made!
this morning that the loss would be !
between $&0,000. and $100,000. Of!
tuat amount $50,000 was covered by 1
insurance. Insurance policies were
issued by several, different companies.
ah text books which pupils hadn’t
taken home were, hurned. Two pian s
were destroyed. Probably $1,500
worth of band instruments were lo
including some instruments, own 1
privateiy by band members.
Every piece of equipment in th •
building was lo3t. A brand new mim
eograph machine and several new
typewriters are included in the prop
erty destroyed. A new room had just
been completed in the basement for
the fifth grade and other additions!
made at a total cost of about $1,000 !
Carl Tartar noticed smoke issuing
i re. the building and notified his
father,. Deputy;U. S. Marshal Fred B.
. attar, who. turned in the alarm. In
a short time a crowd of several hun
dred persons had gathered to watch
the flames.
When the fire department arrived,
the building was filled wii.h smoke,
from one end to another and it was
impossible to tell the source of the
lire, but firemen naturally headed to
ward the boiler room.
They entered the hasemont and
were driven out by clouds of smoke.
In the distance they had seen, a tiny
plow of fire.
1 hen a window was broken with a.
hose from a chemical rig and the fluid
directed into the building.
Suddeny the air was drawn -into
the building in great volume, and the
confined flames, fed by oxygen, hurst
out throughout the building. They
came out through the cupola at the.
same second they first flared in the
boiler room.
The. sudden relapse had. the force
of an explosion. A.t first it was re
ported the boiler had exploded, but
it was said by firemen that that was
not so.
However, it had all the effects of
an explosion. Four men were lifted
bodily off their feet and hurled thru
the air. Firemen Sig Brodie and
Charlie Cravey landed against a gar
age 40 feet distant. Joe Hubhard was
thrown against a chemical truck,-and
Alaska Interests At
The Nation’s Capital
; tt.
By W. A. S.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—As the
Democratic admininstration will take
office, in the Nation on March 4, 1933,
there will nnecessarily come a change
in. the Federal officials of Alaska soon
thereafter. When the change from
Democratic to. Republican administra
tion came in. 1921, Governor Thomas
Riggs, Jr...had until 12, 1922, to serve.
! But his resignation was delivered to
|f>; President Harding soon after he took
office and Scott C. Bone was appoint
ed his successor the early part of
June, 1921, and was s worn in on June
16, serving four, years. The term of
the preseent Governor, George A.
flParks, commenced on. June 16, 1925,
• «nd will expire on Oct. 1, 1933, unless
-le should follow, the example of Gov
ernor Riggs and resign earlier. The
'Democratic Collector of Customs for
the Alaska district. John W- Troy,
Was appointed late in the administra
tion of President Wilson, but in the
fall of 1921 he was induced to r“e
gign” and make way for John C. Mc
Bride, then Republican national com-'■
mitteeman and! who had been in
Washington since March seeking the
appointment. He ..finally secured the
^ orsement Of .Delegate Dann Suth
nd. and was*-,appointed Dec. 21,
. His presentterm will, expire in
, 1934. The present Secretary of.
Territory, Karl Theile, was ap
ited in the summer of 1921, and
present tdrnumttlmot. expire until
ary 8, 1934*.-.
In the Department .of .Justice ap
ntments there wsHtfbd'aeveral early |
ations of commissions. In the j
o Juneau, division, the- term of j
Judge Justin. W_ Harding will expire
' on Jannuaryi 15, 1933, and of District
Attorney Howard D. Stabler on Feb.
8, 1933. If their successors are ap
pointed by President Heaver it is a
! question whether confirmation, would
follow by the present Senate. The
term of Marshal. Albert - White will
not expire until Feb. 25,-1935,.:
j In the Second, or Nome, division,
the term of Judge G.. J,. Lomen ex
pired on Feb, 16,. 1930. He, was. re
appointed, but the. Senate declined to
; confirm him. John Rustgard of Ju
: neau was a candidae for a judgeship,
preferring the Third, division. The
Department, however, .defined to rec
| ommend him for that post; but did
finally, the middle of April, 1932>jse
; cure his. appointment as Judge in the
Second division. At, that, time Mr.
, Rustgard was a candidate for. the Re
! publican nomination of Attorney Gen
eral of Alascka., and, protests. were
filed with the Senate judiciary, com
mitt against his. nomination for
| Judge. For some uneyplainable and
! absolutely incorrect, reasonmng, Mr.
; Rustgard publicly proclaimed .that his
\ appointment to a $10,000 position was
J because of a conspiracy upon- the pprt
{ of Washington officials..to prevent his
j nomination for a $5,000 ->■ Territorial
j office. These expressions; were sent
; to an angered iuaidiary.i. committee^
| which urinated to > the. .Departmental L.
| Justice that Mr. Rnatgaxd shufani 'notr
and would not Ime* confirmed,. - Asi a
result the appointment', of \Mf-iiRuafc
gard was withdrawn* bp the President
and on May 27 the we initiation of Les
ter O. Gore, at Ketchikan; was sent
i (Continued from Page S.>
Jack Ellis, was knocked bndef? it. Fire
Chief Buck Weaver, who was lying :«*»■
the ground, managed to remain where,
he was, but part of .his. cap . was
burned. -
No one was seriously. - injuredL
Weaver was burned slightly, on the
head, and Brodie on the.left wrist .and.
chin. His eyebrows also were some
what scorched.
'three ones of hose were laid, bnl'
as th eflames burst out from aU diree
tions it was instantly apparent. thw
building was past savings
Main efforts of the fire department
from that time, on were .directed, to
war dsavin gad joining buildings.
Joe Pollastrine’s house and garage
came close to goiiij. .up in the flames,
but by dint of hard weak.the fire, was
prevented from, gaming a foothold.
Paint on busses across the street
were blistered. The exterior of the
houses were so hot a person could not
place his hands against the walls.
Snow.melted from the roofs of houses
over a block distant. .
Flames mounting high into the air
lighed up the whole sky.
The hose lines were not taken up
until 11 a...m.. Ail day Sunday the
fire continued with diminishing in
tensity.
Pex-manent.records and..other valu
able papers, were -stored in a safe in
Superintendent. Moore’s office. . When
the fire broke out with such force,
! storm windows .were pushed outward
and som elanded several hundred feet
away. The front doors were blown
off.....
The origin of the fire remains, un
determined. . George Rink. the. night
watchman, had been in the building
at 2:30, and there was nothing, wrong
then.
MOTORSH1F DISCOVERY SINKS;
CREW OF THREE GET AWAY
.[ ANCHORAGE.—The mystery »ur
rounding the whereabouts of the ino
torship Discovery, .over a week over
due at Seward, was, revealed Thurs
day last upon receipt of communica
tion from Kassilof, from a member of
the crew who had. reached that place*
in which it was stated that Captain
l Heinie Berger and tree members of
the crew were safe, but that the Dis
covery, submerged in water, seven
miles away,, was a total wreck..
The account stated that, while sev
eral miles out from Anchorage and
about several miles off shore, while
plying through.Heavy? ice, with a bad
windstorm prevailing, the Discovery
sprang a lea kaud commenced to go
down. The Discovery, with Captain
Berger and his crew of three were
returning to Seward for the winter.
The cew packed their effects and
! blankets, also taking a can of kero
sene, and, crawling into their life
boat, started rowing for shore, seven
miles from shore, at, about 3 o’clock
in the morning. They saw that a
high' surf was running on the beach.
Rather than take chances of ruining
their lifeboat on the beech and stay
ing with it, thw, < cwled to take their
[blankets and an of jasoline, jump
j overboard and wade ashore, which
! they did. Arriving on shore they
| found it a barren spot, without tim
i her. Being cold and vet, they satur
! a ted their blankets in the kerosene
j and managed to keep warm fairly
| warm until morning, when, locating
[their position, they found themselves
jif Kussilof, 25 miles distant. They
then hiked the 25 miles to Kussilof.
At that place they got into communi
cation with Anchorage, upon which a
Star Air Service plane left an re
turned shortly afterwards with the
stricken men. One thing in their
favor:the moderately mild weather.
i
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Hems of Importance
In Recent News Events
| P .VHIS.—-The foreign affair scom-“
mittee of the French Chamber of
^Deputies today, adopted a. snbcom
| rnittee resolution providing for pay*
cnent to the United.States of France's,
: $20,000,00ftt debt installment. The'
i resolution carries at qualifying, pmvi-,
, si«s that payment is contingent upon,
the United States agreeing, before-:;
hand to participate in a world .debts*
conferet ct.
SAN-FRA NCI SCO. i'rtjductibn of
fuel mTifrom coal has been perfectedi
after 14 years of experiments ini
Japan, according to Commander Isa
horu Watan, of the Imperial Japan
ese Navy, who arrived here today on!
the New York liner. Taiyo Mauri.,
Commander Watanabe, on a world
survey .of oil holds and refineries,, who!
said he .was seeking new. and modern
methods of-turning the synthetic oil:
of coal.intoomodern: gasoline...
LONDON..,— .Soviet. Ambassador,
JVIaisky today, accepted tha Foreign
Office pgoppsaL to ^negotiate ■ at; new
Anglo-Russian.-. commercial treaty,
while the question of an apology hy
the .Soviet newspaper Izestia-forrrer
cent, criticism.-of. the British Govern- j
ment remained unsettled, officially..
SAN FJ1ANCISCO.^—Tong leaders.,
have turned their dicerences over to!
the Chinese Perach:> society for arbi
tration and have assured that there-'
will be no war. Inspector John Man-!
nion, of the Chinatown detail, an
nounced today on his arrival here
from New York withaLu Mong June,
accused of the murder of Wong Woo.
Lip. A dispute over Lip’s death is
the cause of the trouble.
I
. BRIDGEPORT, 111.—Lawrence Os- j
borne, cashier of the Farmers State j
Bank here, was found shot to death,
and Sam S. Selby, insurance sales-j
man, dying: of gunshot wounds, in the
bank, this afternoon. Police said
Selby had shot Osborne, and then
tamed the gun uppn. himself.
NEW YORK.—Fasquale Natalies,
of Chicago, moved into a three-way:
tie for the lead imithie.^world’s pocket,
billiard championshi, today, hy' '• de
feating James S. Mills, of San Jose, ■
Calif.. 125 to 29, in 23 minutes. Na
talies had a high run of .44, and Mill**'
high was 10.
RICHMOND, Eng.*—William Giles
Bill East. 86, the King’s harge master,
died here today at the. hotel of which j
he was proprietor. East attached the'
Cambridge .crew for 4& years.
BALTIMORE.—The board of re
gentx of the University of Maryland,
by unanimous . rr>fcer has upheld the
suspension of I -•oBjUamores who>!
refused to take military training... j
MIS ANGELES.—Allan Hoover,'
son of Pr£:si<ior>', and Mrs. Hoover, has'
been ducted to the exclusive Los An-|
geles Bachelors Club, whose member-j
ship is op* r only to socially promi-j
tient v: - -mg men who have never wed..j
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LAKEHURST, N. J.—The Naval
| dirigibia-Akron was hack in its han
] gar uaiuy. after completing a 24-hour
■ traisiag,*rpis«jala*iK, the Atlantic.
.-iBsuuw crews to
c f**rdillhp T»b<Ees of the last of
(2S. _ .aii.;suc*a whose lives' were
audF^si- out .in an explosion in the j
CHICAGO.—Melvin Fried, mail
plane pilot, saw flames pouring thru
the roof of a garage in a Chicago sub
urb Friday night. He dove his plane
over the house repeatedly until roar
of the motor awakened occupants,
who called the lira depart amt.
SEATTLE.—Mm Theodore Eoaee
velt, widow, of the i'x-Preaident,
sailed today on. the President Madison
for the Philippines.
LONDON .—Marilyn Miller and
Don Alvar ad*., of the American stage
and screen, were expected today to
be married here at Christmas, if the
Government permits them to remain
in England until that tinte.
WASHINGTON. — The California
delegation, fighting today before the
House ways, and means committee for
inclusion of wine in the Collier beer
hill, was prepared to take its modifi
cation hat.tle. to' the House joor under
the separate Lea hill, ;r it loses.
WASHINGTON.—Leaders of out
standing. dry. organizations met to
outline strategy against repeal and
modification. A national educational
Campaign, against drinking is being
considered.
Prohibition leaders have taken the
attitude that the presidential election
was na>a. popular verdict on prohibi
tion and that while presidential can
didates were bound by party plat
forms Congressmen were not, as
their votes are bound by promises to
tliair constituents.
NEW YORK—In, Liberty Magazine
President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt
has an article saying that he intend
ed to lead Congress as “the Consti
tution clearly contemplated."
He said he interpreted the eleel ion
as “a mandate truly national in
scope" and declared he hoped to co
operate with the “whole Congress,
Democrats and' Republicans alike.”
“The vote was; the expression <>£ de
termination to meet the depression
boldly and give? the people a new deal
in their political and economic lil'e. 1
hope I can cooperate with the whole
Congress.
“The Constitution, however, clearly
contemplated that the President
might without overstepping nis pr >p
er function provide a degree .»f lead
ership for various points of view rep
resented in Congress. This leader
ship it shall be my primary pun se
to provide.” __
LONDON.—England has set down
to a period of watchful waiting while
the American Congress deals with
war debts.
Prime Minister MacDonald Is to
take part in tbv disarmin'*at meet
ing in Geneva^
Secretary of State StiaMon’e re
ported statement that it might not
be necessary fan the United States to
reply to last week’s note from Eng
land received pceasiaence in newspa
pers, but in Government circles it was
not regarded, as the final word.
GENEVA-—The four big powers
Of Europe and the United States set
outut today to gain definite progress
toward world disarmament before
Christauat.
The Asnancan delegation warned
that. In., a mere “window dreas
ng would1 nod be satisfactory, and the
basis, of the proceedings was “dia
Zero mine Friday.