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THE RUSKO TIMES
' VOL. XII NO. 26
TAK0TNA ALASKA: SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 11)82
PRICE 25 CENWi
Wisconsin
Primaries
V LA FOLLETTE FORCES ROUTED;
BLAINE FAILS FOR SENA
ATE NOMINATION.
"CHICAGO.—Walter J. :Kohler, con
servative Rpublican and anti-LaFol
lette candidate for the '.party’s guber
. natorial nomination, is leading his op
ponent with, a margin of 40,000 votes,
and John Chappel, another conserva
tive,. has a good lead over Senator
John Blaine for the .'Senatorial nom
ination. These contests in Wisconsin
i overshadowed the -wet and dry bat
tles in Massachusetts and New York,
which featured yesterday’s primaries.
On the Democratic side in Wiscon
; sin, Mayor. Schnedeman, of Madison,
is leading for the gubernatorial nom
ination.
RADIO OP..SAYS HE PICKED
..UP MESSAGE FROM JAPAN
l ESE GOODWLIL PLYING SHIP
TACOMAWilliam G- Gunston,
i of Tacoma, amateur radio operator,
toda yinsisted that he had picked up
a radio message indicating that the
missing Japanese good-will fliers
> .were safe. Although the monoplane
Hochi Nichiedi has not answered
radio calLs for three and one-half
■ days, Gunston said the message he
intercepted apparently came from a
position near here on the Pacific.
Roosevelt
At ’Frisco
GREETED BY 12,000 PERSONS IN
ADDRESS AT CIVIC AUDI
TORIUM.
SAN FRANCISCO. — A roaring
crowd of 12,000 persons greeted Gov
ernor Rooseveltin the Civic Auditor
ium as he made his second speech of
' the day, a speech in which he assailed
Repiiblican leadership in vigorous
terms as one that had failed to cope
with the country’s problems or per
mit the issues of the campaign to be
joined
In his first speech, given in the .af
ternoon before the Commnnweath
Club, Roosevelt laid down an eco
nomic declaration of rights in which
he said responsible headss.ef finance
and industry shuld work together in
the common interest, with the Gov
ernment holding the check rein; “not
to hamper but to protect ±.”
At the beginning of his evening
speech the Governor recalled that he
was nominated' for the vice presi
dency in the same hall in 1920.
In discussing economic problems,
Roosevelt criticised the lack of ad
ministration solutions.
“What do the Republican leaders
say?” he asked. “The distinguished
gentleman running against me says
nothing can be done for the farmer
except to improve general conditions.
"In the meantime he may do what
the President’s own farm board sug
i
i Alaska Interests At
The Nation’s Capital
By W. A. S.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—Another
unconlrmed and untrue report that
■'.has reached the Delegate’s office from
. Alaska is to the effect that the Cop
per River & Northwestern Railway is
to close down in September for the
(Winter. By reason of the curtailed
shpmeztt ~at the Kennecott copper
mines, land because of the low price
for the ore, the railroad was closed
down last January 15, for three
months. It may be found necessary
' to suspend operations on the railroad
on December 1 for several months,
it but there is no intention of earlier
inactivity, acording ot authoritative
sources.
The Bepaetipent of Justice was one
< - of fived epartments of the Govern
ment whose appropriations received
- .an extra cut of 10 per cent, which
means a curtailment of $881,000 for
ithis fiscal jyear. This condition has
: brought- an inquiry from Alaska as
*to whether :the report was correct
(that each employe in the department
iwould have: to take an average fur
ilough of .about (60 days without pay. 1
!The Attorney 'General states that it 1
as hoped ae U expected that such a >
(drastic cut.-in salaries will be avoided, !
as there “ia a reasonable prospect of <
discharging #ur (duties during the 1
present fiscajoyear without impairing
the service by application of the ad
ministrative furlough.” He further t
says that “we cannot relax in the en- c
forcement of . the. criminal .Jaws, and l
t .fche malefactors must be brought to \
justice." While it has been decreed i
..that, the Federal judges in Alaska .are
subject to 10 per cent reductin in sal
ary, it is not expected that other offi
cials will be affected.
But putting into effect various pos
sible economies, the Attorney Genera]
said, the department will be able to
transfer |450,000 to other appropria
tions badly needing money, thus Jeav
ing an apparent net deficit of $4&1,
252. “With such a deficit,” he said,
“if the application of the administra
tive furlough is to be avoided, ad
ministrative economies must be rig
idly enforced. Careful and prudent
administration upon the part , of the
United States attorneys, murshals and
clerks of courts will result in., saving
a considerable part of this sum from
the allotments for their traveling and
miscellaneous expenses, and it will be
possible to avoid the remainder of the
apparent deficit by not filling vacan
cies whea rhey arise, unless absolute
ly necessary, and by starting all new
appointees at the minimum, of their
respectivegrades." District attorneys
vere requested to give special atten
tion to the saving produced by care
n not summoning witnesses until
they are actually needed, and officials
tharged with the duty of selecting
ind summoning jurymen ,:can effect
avings, he said, by aare.in avoiding
he selection of thosg ineligible or
subject to release frogi 'jprjr service.
Various etters hav* been received
t the office of DelegatdbWicteersham
ommendatory of his reoent address
efore Congress- on Alaska’s trade
alue to the United States. One of
sany similar ones is from P. H.
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gested—^oymp every.,third row and
shoot every tenth sow. Will Rogers
had an even better suggestion—shoot
every, third Republican politician.”
After, the speadLRoosevelt boarded
his train for Los. Angeles, on. which
he would pass tha home, of Hoover at
Palo AJto.
REPUBLICANS COME BACK
AT DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE
NEW YORK.—Sfcatejnentts releas
ed through the Republican, national
committee asserted that .Roosevelt’s
suggestion..regarding, railroads made
in the Salt Laka. City ..speech “were
lifted bodily from the President’s
message .to Congress in December
and cribbed from the Interstate Com
merce -Commission documents.”
The statements were signed ,.by
Representative Snel, .Senator Watson
of Indiana, and Senator Hastings of
Delaware.
Snell said- “I am .glad to see
Roosevel mailing progress. This is
the first constructve suggestion he
has made in the entire campaign, but
it was lifted bodily from the Presi
.dentls .message inJDecember.”
“Roosevelt has .practically .adopted
the recommendations of the President
and the. Interstate Commerce .Com
mission,”, said Watson.
„ J. J-. Riley, president.of the New
York, New. Hay.en & .Hartford, .Rail
road ^sailed the speech a “very con
structive statement roncerning tht
In a .statement issued through Dem
ocratic ..national headquarters Daniel
Tobin, chairman of,.the labor division
of .the Democratic committee,: sail
the, speech has aroused a “high degret
of satisfaction” in,.railroad, and lahoi
circles.
DORBANDPS. AIRPLANE
.SEOED AT -SEATTLE
: • SEATTLE-V^n airptei* belonging
to Frank Dorbandt, Alaska aviator
was seized -by. special agents of. tin
cusctoms .• serrct.
Dorbandt, learning, ot.the seizure
hastened to the office of the collector
George B. Hubbard. He was., latei
questioned by ..agents.
“They- wouldn't tell me anything,’
Dorbandt, said later.
The. seizure was made at the Ben
ton airport.
Fur Smuggling Alleged,
v SEATTLE.—Explaining seizure of
Frank Dorbandt’s airplane, specia
agents of the United States custom.'
said they are investigating an inter
national fur smuggling organizatior
in Alaska and British Columbia.
Dorbandt denied that he was smug
gling.
STRIKERS DISPERSED BY
SOLDIERS IN ILLINOIS
TAYLORSVILLE, 111.—Coal miners
who desire to accept the reduced wage
scald recently apyroved by officials of
the Union Mine Workers and who
have been prevented from doing so
by the striking contingent of the coal
fields, were enabled to enter the
mines hereabout yesterday under the
protection of the State mlitia, and
many of them took advantage of the
opportunity to get on the payroll
again, willing to accept $5 per day.
Pickets of the new mine union, who
have been stationed along all -roads
leading to the mines, wore driven
from their posts by use of tear gas
and smoke bombs. Machine guns
also were mounted, ready for action
in the event of serious trouble with
the strikers. But there was no re
sistance beyond jeering the troopa-as
they marched through the streets
driving the pickets to cover.
Items of Importance i
In Reecnt News Events t
DES MOINES, Iowa.—'Call for a
demonstration by twenty thousand
farmers when President Bcover
speaks here, October 4, and a warn
ing that a dictatorship or a resolution
are the only alternatives to adequate
farm relief, were made by leaders
addressing the Iowa Farmers Union
convention here.
BOMBAY.—The Bombay confer
ence today deeded to cable the British
government urging the immediate
withdrawal or suspension of it* arbi
trary Indian Communcar Settement,
to prevent the death of the Mahatna
-Gandhi, nationalist leader. Gandhi
entered the third day of his fast look
ing considerably weakor. .He ap
peared famished. His voice was bro
ken. He was placed in bed n the
shade of a mango tree outside hs celL
He drank frequently from three bot
tles of water.and sodium bicarbonate
placed .at hm bedside.
MEMPHIS, Teim.—-Captain Ed
mund A. Larkin, head of the West
Tennessee prohbitian enforcement bu
reau, and Paul Sullivan. Federal
agent, were -ambushed and shet by
moonshiners near here today, -after
capturing a suburban liquor plant.
NEW YORE.—Wood alcohol sold
on .the .lower .East Side .as .a beverage
, ihas' killed nine men,since Monday in
the third major poison liquor out
break here this year. Sixteen were
killed in one four-day period, and 18
killed in a second five-day period.
.GENEVA.—Soviet .Russia, - joined
with Germany today in declining to
send representatives to the first meet
ing of the disarmament conference
steering committee. The Soviet
government indicated that it supports
> Berin’s, demand for arms equality.
WASHINGTON.—The Railway La
bor executive.committee, today unani
mously rejected offers of railroad
leaders for a joint, conference on
wages prior to tbeuexpiratioa dr. ..Feb
ruary 1 of the present. 10 pea cent
wage cut.
PORTLAND. ■—Gqyernor Franklin
D. Roosevelt arrived here today for a
speech on water pe>*<’c and. public
regulation, after a .tumultuous wel
come at Seattle, where he advocated
a reciprocal tariff to restore American
export trade.- “This, tariff,” he said,
“will be a remedy for the high tariff
wall set up about the United States
by the Republican administration and
resulting in retaliatory tariffs that
started us on the road where we now
find ourselves—diie, road to ruin."
NEW YORK.—Stocks, bonds and
commodities swept upward for gains
ranging to more than 10 points today
in the strongest ^buying movement
since early Avgust. The turnover in
the stocks market totaled more than
4,000,000 sharec, while trading in
other markets picked up sharply.
WASHIMGTO^, — Alarmed over
the growing peril of being left alone
to face the wrath of warlike Japan
for seekrg to block her path to con
quest, the United States is quietly
moving to un i -vut.. where the-'fAip
clpal(»©y»eri, of. ckaope stand on the
dangaroa.: ear. Eastern question.
Upon the result, in -a large measure,
depends the future course of Amer
ican diplomatic action.
WAS HINGTON—Gordon Heaetter,
executive director «f the Employer*
Association of Chicago. said racket
eering by business men, labor leaders,
criminals and politicians is causing
the American public.a etupcnSous an
nual loss.
Racketeering: in Chicago costa
$145,000^000 annually, lie said.
Hosetter told the National Confer
ence on, government that racketeering
is an inside job .and a native Amer
ican product for -which business itself
is greatly responsible.
Raeketeeringhashe enwonse b b m
Racketeering has been worse the
last two years, he declared. .-Several!
year sago-organizations of business
men and organized labor were mainly
responsible, with the criminal merely
a tool, but the criminal us no -regain
ing the ascendancy.
'He said .a Federal judge estimate®
the annual cost of crime to the United
States at from 11 to 12.billion dollars.
"MILWAUKEE.—Jn Wsaeonain, th*
1 LaFollettes and "Senator Blaine have
waged .a fight .against .former Gov
ernor Kohler on taxation .and other
economic issues.
Governor Ehilip faaFRoKette ia ad
vocating redistribution of -wealth by
taxation.
Senator Blaine is 'seeking renoaK
ination against John Chappel, Repub
lican editor of Ashland,.who charges
Blaine with radicalism.
WASHINUT«JNv--Sfcol»taj-y of t««
Nayy Adams today announced that
as a measure of relief for ihe unem
ployed the Navy would undertake im
mediately construction* o*' three de
stroyersone at Boston, one at Phila
delphia, and . one at New York.
MADRID.-—A shipload of men who
once, were regarded as the-finest cab
elleros in all Spain steamed out of
Cadiz at .dawp. yesterday, en -route to
an African city, from which many of
the may never return.
Among the exiles are two cousins
of the former King Alfonso and many
other samong them were the constant
companions of the king in h srecrea
tions before the downfall of the king
dom and the rising of the new Span
ish repuhlic. The Marquis of Aquil
ache and Duke of Seville and many
others of Ike rank were crowded
aboard the smal steamer.
The exiles are being sent to Rid do
Ore, fever-haunted Spanish colony*
thus paying their price for their part
in the recent unsuccessful royalist
revolution.
POONA, India.—Leaders of caste
Hindus and untouchables who have
been strvinig for-three days for \ fc
compromise plan-on tire electoral
question to halt; .Gandhi’s death has
reached an .agreement. The agree
ment , followed lanxious hours when a
rft split the negotiations.
It is planned .to cable the agree
ment to Premier MacDonald in Lon
don in the hope that the British gov
ernment vrotfid accept it in time so
that the Mahatma would eat before
death overtook his fast. The. doctor
said Gan<&i-would die in three days,
otherwise.
Gandhfe (.condition became sudden
ly worsd. ]a*t\night.
The-mortlodar point in the preaan*
electonpl-plan v> which Gandhi.-Wt
jects *is - establishment of sqtman
tkctoraLaiaasM