TIMES
I TO. IS.
NO. 22
TAKOVNA ALASKA SATURDAY. JUNE 8, 1929.
PRICE 25 CENTS
Matter Of
Prohibition
business; men urge: honest
TRIAL FOR ENFORCEMENT
movement;.
NEW YORK, June o.—A message
to the American people urging that
‘prohibition be given an. honest trial”
and bearing the signatures of Henry
Ford, Thomas Edison, Captain Robert
Dollar, J. G. Penny, and twenty other
men prominent, in business circles*
has been published. The message
quoted the aw observance pleas in the.
reo Horinaugural address and invited
merchants “of whatever previous
opinions, social practices, and partic
ularly those in business and profes-j
sional life, to join with us in tallow
ing the President. Let us unite toi
give the. Eighteenth Amendment an|
honest chance and complete enforce
ment.”
A letter expressing disapproval of
♦"he recently, organised voluntary,
committee, of awyers opposed to the
amendment, and an answer, hy Joseph
Ghoate Jr., member of the lawyers’
board* published by Marshall Stim-j
son, Los. Angeles attorney, asked the
committee, to refrain from using the
word lawyers and avoid, bringing,
upon, the legal profession further dis
respect... Stison asked whether the
committee members are. retained by
forces seeking, the law’s repeal.
Ghoater replied that honest belief; is
the. mainspring of the. movement.
•‘We helieve. that prohibition is the
most, serious remedial..evi from.which!
the; country now suffers,” he declared.
SIGNAL CORPS HEAD
PLEASED WITH. CONDITIONS
SEWARD, June 3. — Immensely
pleased with Alaska on his first trip
ofi inspection of the radia stations',
Lieut. Col. Frank W. Griffin, accom
panied by his wife, sailed for Seattle
today. Colonel Griffin succeeded. Col.
Hartman, retired, taking over the Se
attle office, which is in charge of the
Washington-Alaska Military Cable, j
^ie was formerly stationed- at the.
Presidioj.
Col. Griffin said: “The Signal Corps !
stations are functioning well. I found
all in good shape and.serving the pub
lic faithfully and efficiently, Ihope
to make construction advances as fast,
at appropriations will permit. Tha
airplane a mighty factor in build-!
ing up Alaska, and in this connection
we are assisting, to* the. extent, that;
each of the thirty-five, stations here- j
after will serve as meteorological sta-[
tions and will, gather and dispense to
the planet, satmospheric. data without
remuneration..
“I believe Col. Otto QhLon, general,
manager of the Alaska Railroad, hits
the nail on the head and is halting
Alaska’s dwindling population by a
coloniaation plan now undeis way.”
Col. Griffin was the honor guest of
the Chamber of Commerce .at a ban
quet.
GRAFTING CUSTOMS OFFICERS.
DETROIT.—Six for rer. customs
border patrol officers p eaded guilty-f
yesterday to accepting bribes from
rum runners and were fined $1,000
each and given jail sentences. Two
others were placed on nrobatiorr and
given suspended sentence.
H. C. Wallick and Ernie' Gove re
turned Wednesday from a visit of a
couple of .days to ,the. creek, sections.
KILLER OF THREE, SOBERED*
COMMITS SUICIDE BY JUMP
ING UNDER A FAST TRAIN
CHICAGO, June 2. — Ferdinand
Preuss, maniac, who shot three men
dead and wounded four others, was
decapitated by a Chicago & North
western train. His body was found;
near the right-of-way and was identi- j
fled by a fishing card. Police believe j
that Preuss sobered overnight, real- j
ized the tragedy and committed sui-:
cide. The condition of the body indi
cated that he had lain on the track
and waited for the train to run over
hitm'
Preuss killed two policemen and
one civilian with, a pump gun. John
Conley, detective,, was the first to
fall. After mortally wounding him,'
Preuss kited Policemen Herbert Hag
berg and John Chorazak, neighbor,
when he came to polince aid Preuss.
said he had been drinking.
H. L. FAHY, TEST PILOT, HAS
ENDURANCE SOLO RECORD
LOS ANGELES, June 3.—Herbert
F. Fahy, test pilot for the Lockheed
Aircraft Company, landed his mono
plane at 5:39 p. m., after breaking all >
endurance solo records with a contin
uous flight of 36. hours 56 minutes |
and 36 seconds.
Fahy took off Tuesday at 4:43. a.
m.,. and when he came down said that
he could have remained up longer but
wanted to avoid, landing in the dark,j
as the. lights of the plane shorted'
yesterday. The flyer was reported in
good condition. He ate little during,
the flight, hut. drank two quarts of
coffee and orange, juice.
3 ARMY FLYERS- PERISH IN
MIMIC WARFARE, DAYTON, O..
WRIGHT FIELD, Dayton, Ohio.,
May 29.—Sergeant Frank Deenan, of
the army’s First Pursuit Group, died
fro minjuries received late yesterday
when he was struck by the propeller
of the plane he was starting.
His death:, marked the third casu
alty in the air corps mock warfare.
The others to die were Second Lieu
tenant E. L. Meadow, who fell to his
death Saturday, and Lieutenant Flo-,
ris W. Shade, killed when his plane
collided with another Monday.
MAID DURING ROW KILLS
HER EMPLOYER WITH KNIFEj
CLEVELAND, June 1—Anna Stef- i
fan, maid, killed her employer, Mrs.
Alonzo M.. Snyder, society woman,!
with a knife during a row over her j
wages. Anna said the quarrel start-;
ed in the kitchen and that Mrs. Sny-i
der was the aggressor. Mrs.. Snyder.
had been stabbed twice when she fell.
The woman is charged with first de
gree murders..
FILM STAR CHARGED WITH
EVADING INCOME TAX
LOS ANGELES.—Turn Mix, mov
ing picture actor, is accused in one
federal grand juiqv indictment, re-j
turned, yesterday, of falsifying in-. |
come tax returns,., and in two more 1
indictments of.conspiring with:others.’,
to withhold flrom-. the government..
$112. and $113*.'taxes due from 1925 to .
1927, inclusive.
Several others connected with Mixj
accused in the indictment.
United States; Attorney* Atnws Pe- j
terson indicated that other, indict-J
ments will follow. He said the'gov
ernment lost nearly $10,000,000' in. the -
Hollywood area in recent years from;
fraudulent income tax returns. j
Arriving early this morning' from
McGrath were Frank Larson and
John Adams, for. a. very Brief stay, j
Ruby Hard
Hit By Fire
FLAMES SWEEP MAIN: STREET*
TAKING TOLL OF MORE THAN.
A DOZEN buildings;
(Anchorage Times.)
The pioneer mining town of Ruby*
on the shore of the Yukon river be
low Tan ana, was almost wiped out
of existence Last Saturday, afternoon
when flames swept the business sec
tion, taking a toll of more than a.
dozen buildings on both. sides of. the
main street. The. entire.street would.;
have been swept clean of . buildings
but for the sudden shifting of the'
wind after the vre was well under j
way. News of the conflagration was .
contained in a delayed message which
was received in Anchorage by T. A. j
Parsons, general superintendent, of;
the Northern Commercial Company, j
from the company’s agent at Ruby.
The company lias a large mercantile
establishment at Ruby, but the prop
erty fortunately was beyond range of.
the fire.
The message states that the whole
lowe.r end of the main business sec
tion was destroyed, but quite, a. num
ber of the.. destroyed buildings were
unoccupied, reminders of the days
when Ruby was a. hustling mining
metropolis. Tom Devane, merchant
prince and the .owner of a number of
che destroyed, buildings, probably was
the heaviest loser, his general mer
chandise store on the lower side of
the street. having been among the
Durncc buildings. J/naivieronants caie.
street, which., was used as a ware
building, on. the upper side of the
house by .Ddvane, also was destroyed.
The Dayton drug and grocery store,
was anotheribusines to be wiped out
by the fire, and other “going” con
cern swhich were within the fire zone'
were: Wing’s restaurant, on the up-1
per side .of. the street, and Burke’s;
barber shop, on the lower side. The I
other destroyed buildings, all of
which were empty except those which
were used as warehouses, were: Hog-;
man building, Harvei’s old grocery1
store building, the Alabama building
and Shel Wettach’s old store building,,
all on the lower side of tho street:
the Martin Sickinger building, the old
Senate saloon, building, the Pay streak
and A!dx Capewell’s building, on the
upper iside-of the street. Pioneer hall,
at the end of the street, also was de- ■
stroyeA. .
The message to Mr. Parsons states
that very little was saved by anyone.
It was notistated whether or not any
fire insurance was carried.
OP HIE WILL CLEBRATE 4TH
OFiJULY IN FITTING MANNER
From Ophir comes word that the
Natitmaf’IHoliday wiU'be given proper
observance there. There will be
games and contests of all kinds, for
which preparations are now under
way," fdr the amusement of" both the
youngsters and grown-ups. A gen
eral iivixitiou is extended tin all..
REPORTED GOLD STRIKE
IN PEACE RIVER DISTRICT
VICTORIA, B. C, June 3.—A re
port has been received of a gold dis
covery made in the northern part of
the? province, between the Peace river!
and Cassiar districts. Some pros-j
pectors are are £oing in by way of
Dease Lake. The Department of
Mines has received no word of the
strike and details are not available:
KENNECOTT GROUP PRO
DUCED 800,000,000 TONS OF
COPPER DURING YEAR 1028
NEW YORK—Stephen Birch, pres
ident of the Kennecott Copper Com
pany, told stockholders of the corn
day that the company expected this
pany at the annual meeting yester
year will be good if not better than
last year as far as the red metal is
concerned. The Kennecett group of
mines had $93,000,000 in cash and
copper, of which more than $73,000,
000 was Kennecott’s equity. Most of
the metal produced has been sold, he
said.. The company produced 801,
000,000 pounds of copper last year
and sold about 930,000,000 pounds,
the. balance coming from reserve
stock.
“At present our production is in
line with consumption, which is in a
very healthy condition,” said Birch,
was sold for export and domestic
“Only about 45,000 tons of copper
shipments at above 20 cents per
pound by the copper industry. The
supply the world market, as there
production from Alaska is needed to
are no surplus stocks of the metal or
fabricated articles in the country at
present.”
SPENT 65 YEARS OF HIS LIFE
THANKING ABRAHAM LIN
COLN FOR HIS FREEDOM
SPOKANE, June 2.—The highest
officers in Spokane county planned to
do honor to an negro ex-slave who
spent 65 years of his life thanking
Abraham Lincoln for his freedom.
Mark Cain, 1>4 died at.the
county poor farm, He operated
a natrDer snop. jjimce morning alter
he opened his shop he knelt before a
picture of Lincoln to pray silently for
several minutes, ending his supplica
tion with “God bless you, Abraham
Lincon.”
The county commissioners voted to
close their offices so that they might
attend the funeral.
INCOMPETENT MILLIONAIRE
CENTER OF MONEY SQUABBLE
SANTA BARBARA, June 3.—Su
perior Judge H. S. Gans has ordered
an investigation of the treatment of
Stanley McCormick, incompetent
multi-millionaire, whose estate, which
is valued at $78,000,000, is managed
by his brother Harold and his sister,
Mrs. Anita McCormick Blaine. His
wife claims that McCormick is kept a
virtual prisoner by Dr. E. J. Kemps,
who was hired by the guardians to
take eare of him. The estate has
been th ecause of many lawsuits.
FRENCH PREMIER BANS
STATES OF HIMSELF
PARIS.—No statues while he is
alive, was the ruling recently of Pre
mier Poincaire, whose modesty is
proverbiaL He then expressed his de
termination to live to a ripe old age.!
Just recently a proposal was made
that a national monument should be
erected to the French Premier and
former President. He was consulted,
and the committee met with a firm
refusaL
“After I am gone you can do what
you like,” M. Poincaire later notified
his veto. “I shall not be here to stop
you. But I am going to live a long
time.”
P. W. Carlson, Ophir merchant, was
a Wednesday arrival, returning the ■
same afternoon to Ophir, having as
traveling companions Dennis J. Mc-l
Ginty, for a short visit at Ophir, and j
Miss Mary McLean, who went as far
as Mrs. UUl!s, for »vf»w (fays’ visit.
Akutan Peak
In Eruption
TOP OF MOUNTAIN APPEARS TO
HAVE BEEN BLOWN OFF;
HEAVY FFLOW OF LAVA.
CORDOVA, June 3.—The eruption
of an unnamed mountain on the south
end of Akutan Island, one thousand
miles west of Cordova, was reported
here today by residents of the far
westward, who said it appeared likely
that lava woul doverspread the entire
island. The top of the mountain ap
pears to have been blown off, with
lava flowing two-thirds of the way
down the mountainside.
Nothing is known of the fate of
those who may have been living on
the island. Akutan village, on the
northern shore of the ise.has a whal
ing station and cattle ranch, with
probably about twelve inhabitants at
this time of the year. These are pre
sumably the only persons living on
the island.
Heavy ash from the volcano cloud
ed the sky over the adjacent island
of the upper Aleutian chain, and
traces of ash have been seen here.
When ash is seen here it is generally
assumed that Bogosof, a mountain
ous, uninhabited islet near Akutan,
a av.uvt*.
SAWMILL OUTFIT AND CAT
ERPILLAR TO ARRIVE SOON
Smw i BrioJc. \
returned Thursday^Bom a sojourn of
almost a month up' $ie Takotna river,
during which time fce and Joe Oates
were engaged in gating out logs, of
which 531 were cut, all of which are
iy>w lodged up river near the old In
dian village, but which will be down
with the next raise of water and put
in boom at the mouth of Clear creek.
Coming up on the steamer Tana,
expected at McGrath during the nert
few days, is a complete sawmill outfit,
equipped with planer and other essen
tial devices. This mill will be erected
near the mouth of Clear creek and
will be in readiness for operation at
an early date. A wood-sawing ma
chine is also on the list.
Also to arrive with the mill, and
further anticipating the needs of this
community, will be a caterpillar, up
to date and of high power .which will
be utilized in the firm’s freighting op
erations.
EMERGENCY RADIO SERVICE
PLANNED BY SIGNAL CORPS
WASHINGTON, June 3.—The Sig
nal Corps of the United States Army
is organizing an amateur radio sys
tem to provide additional channels of '
communication during the time of na
tional disasters. Amateur operators
throughout the country will be asked
to co-operate with the Signal Corps
in building a communication network
whieh winll be used to augment or
replace land lines which are damaged
or destroyed by floods, fires, torna
does and earthquakes.
Those becoming part of the pro
posed system will co-operate with
military commanders and relief or
ganizations, such as the Red Cross.
Signal Corps heads in corps areas
will be responsible for each district.
A united net system has been
adopted for the organization whereby
every operator in the net knows his
duties in times of emergency. The
nets will be centered in , strategical
points in each state.
Pete Mesich. Jigs a Monday Iimm
visitor.