YOL. VI. NO 42
1 ■ 1 ' - . ' ..... --j 1 77
TAKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1926 V-M 7 '
PRICE 25 ClfflTS
Earthquakes Rock Cali
fornia; ’Frisco, Oakland,
.San Jose Badly Stirred
. San r Francisco, "iCct.. 21.—Three
. earthquakes reeked the central and
^( «oasrticounties of California this morn
L jjQEV at ahohour apart .
Thtefirsfi sh oak to cams at 4184 a. m.
in San Francisco,? /Oakland and San
- . Josf.
Large btfildings-.aftvayed '-like trees,
> driving the people intaiho .streets and
parks fen?safety. H*ftei guests, shaken
from their sfojmbgrs, rushed' into the
•t streets!. Ini the.£'attiertng8 were many
scantily-clothed women.
At the Palace H-oielr . ifiateg glass
windows were broken, plaster fell
from the ceilings, and cracks ap
peared in the lobby floors.
The center shocks were felt be
tween San Francisco and Monterey
Bay. Temblers were felt at San laris
Obispo, 150 miles south of San Fran
cisco, and as far north as Napa, 50
miles from here, and were, also felt at
Stockton, 190 miles .distant.
At the new Bulletih building the
clocks were stopped, and molten type
metal was. shaken from the pots in
the stereotyping room, and furniture
juggled crazily around.
HURRICANE
7700 Bead ’Thousands!
Homeless; 10 Towns,
.tillages Destroyed. -
Havana, Qci. 21.—The death list re-!
suiting, from Wednesday’s hurricane!
, now numbers* seven' hundred. Ten j
t towns and villages were entirely de
l stroyed. Many, thousands...are home
•. less.
'. TAKOTNA CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE ORGANIZED
A large attendance of Takotnans
■\ were present at ,a meeting held in The
Times,mffice last Monday evening, at
•>’ which time the JTakatna .Chomben of
t Commerce was orgarrizi d^-uncjprgan
r ization winehehenceforth v ill- i*e rep
. resentative in advancing and forward
ing the needs and wishes of the peo
j pie of-Takatna and this section gen
< erally.
Informal talks were made by. most
, of those present, all of whom stressed
. the importance .'of securing an im
< proved summer mail service, as well
. as other matters.
Officecsu chosen for the new organ
ization ware: A. X. Grant, president, |
and Jack. Mutchler, secretary.
IRRESISTIBLE GLACIER
LITERALLY TOPPLING
OVER A MOUNTAIN
t., Gcurdova.—How a giant, irresistible
glacier is .literally toppling over., a
; snountain was told today by Henry
Wolkins, oldtime Alaska prospector.
The mountain was first repotted in
eruption, but Wolkins made his way
along the Copper River & Northwest
j ern railroad to the scene, and f'. und
. that what appeared, to be clouds of
smoke were actually dust.
The glacier was bearing down upon
the mountain -with tremendous pres
j sure. On the opposite aide of the
mountain great masses of rock were
being bulged from their places and
sent hurtling down the mountainsideL
: Sometimes as much as..1,000 or 2,000
. tons of rock would be loosened at a
i time, Wolkins said.
A great crack, severaJLhundred feet
long and perhaps thousands of feet
t deep, from one to two feet in width,
i was made in the mountainside, by the
glacier’s pressure.
Alex Tavitoff, of Flat, is among
: recent arrivals Mr. .Tavitoff left Flat
on October 14,. coming over via air
plane with Joe Crosson to McGrath,
. and coming ftfo nrthe hitter place last
Wednesday with the..A. A.. Bennett
. airplane.
James Wilson, Cripple mining oper
: ator, who arrived yesterday for a
1. brief business visit, left: this morning
f. for Ophir, headed for home.
Charlie Ross, who arrived Thurs
v day. returned to Ophir yesterday.
Many Changes Filed
.^Against Gov. Hartley
.".Seattle, Oct. 118. — Allegations
charging Governor Hartley with mis
uappliance and violation of his oath of
office will be filed at Olympia tomor
row, and .petitions £ or recall elections
will beiin circulation before, the end
of next week, it was announced today
by Worral Wilson, chairman of the
(State recall .committee, . in .session
here.
CRIME WAVE RAMPANT
IN. SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco.—Three persons were
killed', last night and three seriously
wounded as a result of the continu
ance of the crime wave which began
Saturday night.
Gunmen shot and killed .Walter
.Swanson,, taxicab driver., and then en
tered a restaurant with, drawn guns
and shot ..jLouis Fernander, cook,
Vbbbed the cash register, and then
went across the street and shot: rand
(killed Jack Duane, and wounded two
others.
Police found the bodyr of Frank Pe
trovich in another district. He had
been shot to.death.
Police are armed with shotguns and
have been instructed to shoot to kill.
THREE NEGRO PRISONERS 1
KILLED BY SOUTHERN MOB
I Aiken, S. CC.C— Amob stormed the
j jail here and seized three negroes,
whom they shot and killed just be
yond the limits of the city. The vic
tims were' Clarence, Damon and Ber
tha Luwman, who had been on trial a
second time for the murder of Sheriff
Howard, who was shot on April 19,
1925, when he raided the home of Sam
Lowman. The negroes had. been con
victed, but the circuit court had grant
ed a new trial.
The judge yesterday decreed that
Damon was not guilty. He was re
arrested yesterday, charged with as
sault and battery with intent to kill.
Police said the mob evidently prged
the negroes to run, and then shot eaeh
when starting in a different direction.
A phone message from McGrath at
8:30 this morning stated that the A.
A. Bennett plane was sailing over
head, evidently having soma trouble
in making a landing, owing to ..the
heavy fog hanging over the town. A
landing was evidently .made a.little
later, for the airplane, coming from
McGrath, passed over Takotna. about
10 o’clock, headed for Flat.
Arriving almost simultaneously
Wednesday afternoon were two Ben
nett-Rodebaugh planes, the larger
one piloted by Mr. Bennett* and the
smaller voce by Ed Young. Taking
the airplanes from here were Fred
Morledge, A1 Guinap, jr.yJohn Holm,
Emil Anderson and iBert Hetfelfinger.
The planes remained over;: at Mc
Grath that night, all excepting Mr.
Holm leaving for Ncnana or Fair
banks on Thursday.
A1 Colwell, after a season at the
Flume Dredge Company camp, Yan
kee creek, was a last Sunday arrival.
Alleged Large Sums
of. Money Being Spent
On Behalf of Bullitt
Chicago, Oct. 21.—^Investigation of
charges that large Hums of money are
being spent in Washington on behalf
of the candidacy of A. Scott Bullitt,
Democratic senatorial candidate, was
ordered today by the Senate campaign
funds committee. The inquiry -will be
conducted by Senator McNarj, Repub
lican, of Oregon. The charges were
! made by Samuel Sumnery-chairman of
the Washington State Republican, com
mittee.
WILBUR. HOOVER AND DAVIS
BOLSTER COOL IDLE POLICIES
_
Washington, Oct.. 21 .—Secretary of
' Navy Wilbur told New York voters
last’.night that if-.Democrats win the
control of Congress week from
Tuesday it will mean the tearing
down of : that remarkably successful
policy built up during the Coolidge
Administration.
Similar talks were made by Secre
tary' of Commerce Hoover-in Kentucky'
and by. Secretary of War Davis in
[ Ohio.,
I_
L EUGENE V. DEBS PASSES.
Chicago, Oct. 21.—Eugene V. Debs
diet! at a suburban sanitarium here
last night.
1 LOMEN WILL'CONTEST SOVIET
CLAIM TO WRANBELii ISLAND
New York.—Carl J. Lomen, of
Nome, Alaska, who claims Wrangell
Island .for .the .United States,..^.chal
lenged Russia’s claim, to 'tin island,
taxing the soviets with » “policy of
extermination” in dealing with the
colony Stefanxsun established .there in
1023, which the..Russians removed two
years ago.
Lamen said he was confident inter
national law would uphold his. claims.
He said he had.Jib'd with, the State
Department $30,00 ' .claims against
the soviets for removing .the coliny.
“Wrangell Island still is .ours, de
spite forcible ejection of .the eojony.
There was no one on-the island when
we settled it,” Lome n. declared.
Lomen asserted that the •: 4sland
would be of great economic; value to
the United States
Telegraphic .Ticks
Washington, .Oct. 18.---Mrs. Coolidge
today stopped widespread publicity of
a series of articlesi entered when
Mrs. Coolidge was a little girl, from
the pen of Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife!
of, the Secretary of Commerce. Mrs '
Hoover had.already begun a syndicate!
story. \ j
Seattle, Oct. —Alaskansso-‘
jonriunjr ift this -city gave a banquet j
last night at the Hotel Atwood to l)r.;
and Mrs. E. J. Monroe, who recently ;
were married here. Mrs. Monroe was
formerly Miss Bertha Groff, a well1
known business woman of Fairbanks.
Washington, Oct. 21.—The hotly of
Robert Todd TmicoLn, son oftth* mar
tyred president, has been placed tem
porarily in a vault in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery, until such time as a
suitable tomb can be built there.
Auburtl, N. Y., Oct. 22.—Thomas
Mott Osborne, jan.on reform advo
cate, and founer warden r f Sing Sing
prison, dropped dead or. the street
here last bight.
. I.akeharst, Oct. 14.—The navy diri
gible iLuS Angeles left today; on a
three-days’ flight to Detroit.
ASKB DISBARMENT OF
i 5 SEERS, SEATTLE ATTORNEY
_
Seattle, Oct. 19.—Recommendations
that John Francis Seers, Seattle at
torney, be disbarred from practice be
fore the courts of Washington State
and that his license as a lawyer be re
voked, were made to the State’s su
preme bench at'Olympia by the State
Board of Bar Examiners yesterday.
Seers is held guilty of questionable
tactic in his practice of the law pro
fession.
IMPERIAL
CONFAB
25 Delegates of King
George’s Domains As
semble in LordoD,
London, Oct. 19.—Twenty-five dele
gates from “ight branches of King
George’s domains gatfaeared at No, 10
Downing Street this raining for the
opening of the v • rial conference
which many prr ’ v/.•! he the most
important in tl.e — -itors of the em
pire.
Among thi delegates were six pre
miers, the president of the Irish Free
State Executive Connell, and Maha-j
raja Dliraja, basadur of Burma, India,
all of them representing 441,000,000'
people, or about one-fourth of the j
world’s population. The busbar of
Bardjan is over six feet tall, and is
the largest, individual taxpayer in the
British empire. He pays a. million and
a half taxes annually.
| ROFITABLE WHALING- SEASON. |
Victoria.—After five months of
i hunting in the North Pacific the whal
ing fleet of the Consolidated Whaling
Corporation returned t<» Victoria. The
fleet .caught 26!) mamnuT; during the
season. The -tations at Nadera Har
bor and Ross Harbor ate closed for
the season.
The boats operating out of Rose
Harbor caught caught 211 whales,
while Nadern.contributed 58.
A TENNESSEE LYNCH INC
Hopkinsville, Ky.—Herb Bell, ne
gro, was lynched when a. mob took
him from the Dover, Tenn.. jail, and
hanged nLo to i limb and shut him
: full of holes. . He was held for the
slaying of Rufus .Joyner, last Sunday.
MANY ALTO DEATHS
Washington.—.The Department of
Commerce reports that auto deaths in
seventy-eight cities during the "first
thirty-six .weeks of this year were
-1,012.
AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE.
Seattle, Oct. 18.—Jefferson Meyers
Phillips, teller of the Pacific Coast
members of the United States Ship
ping Board, began today a Govern
ment, hearing to ascertain the views
of .Washington citizens «m ways and
means of building up an American
merchant marine.
Messrs. Fr.v;l Morledge, ATGuman,
jr., Bert Heffelfinger. and Emil An
derson, .who wm Thursday, depart- 1
ures from McGrath, via the Bennett
,airplanes, will make connection with
boat leaving Seward this evening, ac
cording to advices received yesterday.
Frank Hart, was a. KBiiday .arrival
from the Flume Dredgt ,wmp, Yankee
creek. Mr.iHart will he among tho?e
who will spend the v::nter on the Out
side, •foiv'tv'hich hs i probably -leave
withiti, the next c.-ple of .weeks
Lars Indegard and. Henry Martella
were amongnSundayaimvals from the
Flume Dredge qamp, Yankee creek, to
which they; again returned yesterday.
Frank, fepeljack. who wad a Thurs
day visitor, returned to Little, creek
yesterday.
■J. E. Btmdixen, after a<couple of
days in town, left rkiay, headed for
Little creek.
Jack McDonald was a. Thursday, ar
rival, having come over the trail from
Flat.
William Behan, driving the W. iH.
Jones team, .left this morning for
Ophir, taking over a. large load of
lumber.
Del Thompson was an early-m-4h.e
week arrival for a few days in tow n.
James Harlan, after a short visit m
town, returned to Gants on Wednes
day.
QUEEN OF
RUMANIA
Received at theNationa)
Capital With Fitting
Geremonies
Washingtonf Oct.. 19.—The homage
of Old World royalty was paid again
to the shrink of New World democracy
when pilgrimage today to the'tomb of
the Unknown Soldier of’ the United
States became the first official act on
American soil of Marie, Queen of Ru
mania.
Queen Marie today is the official
guest of the great nation, having
been received at the. White/House with
Princess Ueana and Prince Nicholas.
A.dinner at thp WhiteHouse, with
fifty guests present , guests presents
mark* d the Presidential ceremonies.
Washington, Oct. 19.—Queen Marie
of Rumania, following her arrival in
New York Monday,- spent the first
night at the National Capital. She
described her reception in New York
as exciting, and touching
Washington, Oct. £1.—California
has been. «x!uded from the itinerary
of Queen Marie.
Mr?. Nicholas Lc-ngworin, MrB.
William E. Borah, Senator and Mrs„
Claude A. Swanson of Virginia, were
among the official guests at the dinner
to Queen Marie at the White House.
TRAPPED BY BESIEGERS,
HALF MILLION- CHINESE
FACE MISERABLE’DEATH
Hankow, Chine.*—Penned > up for
More tWrjr.- O'inth fe» -»the Red Can
tone.se wmies, e half huUioh Chinese
Tace deathly Starvation, col'd and gur,
fire at Wu Fang. Many .dead lie in
the streets. These living have eater;
isiags,; cat» and 'Tats, abd-ccreSd;opping
•in puhiiv places or- ere dying miser
ably in shelters into which they have
crawled.
The Northern troops of f tienerai.
Wu Pei Fu. who are garrisoning the
city, are hoping for the arrival-o^ the
armies of their- ally, Srnr Oman Fang,
to-break 'tr.rough.
The Cantonese Reds have notified
the defenders that they will bombard
the city Sunday
W«won aait . dtiilrim . of the impov
erished classes have been permitted tc
pass, through the. gat"s to the river,
where the ‘Red* Gross took 30,000 tc
Hankuw. Tn a fight tor places on tht
boats several hundred were burned to
death and many were thrown into the
river,
Joe Ferris anti tua.ni left yesterday
for a trip, to Gaees. .Going oat witl
Mr.- Forris wert* Miss .Rose and .Master
Joseph Gates.. JVlissXl«.t6s will make a
short visit at Gaues with-Mrs. Charles
Nicollet, -Mrs. Bert, ijomientieff anc
Miss Elizabeth -Egsak
'Manager Jack Guman, of}the G. &.
A. dredge, Ganes creek, was a Thurs
day arrival.' for a few short days here
before leaving for the Outisde
Jake Estlenian, chef, ’in cnarge of
the culinary department at the G. 4
A. camp Garus,-during the past sea
sejn, was a Thursday arrival.
Dick Stephenson, after a visit of a
couple of days in town, left Thursday,,
headed for .Ophir
AI Greenberg - was among Sunday
arrivals, coming from Ganes, and left
Wednesday for' Ophir, headed for
Cripple.
Claude Nyberg was a SfeoJiay ar
rival from the P. D. catn|>,.tAankee
creek.
John Repo,- after a visit df three or
Tour days, left {Thursday foit Ophir.
Billy Gibbs, after a season at Elat
| was a Thursday arrival.
Bob Roberson, with tractor- lei* ic?
I-Little on Monday.