THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. VI. NO.
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TAKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1926 .
WILKINS’ 3
AIRPLANES
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Fire Destroys One Ma-i
chine, 2nd Disabled
3rd Wrecked . i
Fairbanks^ ■March 20..—The last of
the three airplanes of the Wilkins
Polar Expedition wax ..wrecked here
vesterdayawthlo rtttempting to start
on its test' flight!.’ ■Fvre.idestroyetf the
first macUine-and thi second was dis
tbted during rthi1 trial ^flight. Com
mander Wilkins: said the mishap sim
ply meant, another delay.
The hig plane went up at--2 p»/tn.r
stayed up for.* half an hour, and the
landing" gear .gave out while landing.
Detroit* March 19.—The damaging
of two planes of the Detroit Arctic
Expeditions at.. Fairbanks will not
caus eany abandonment of the pro
jected flight across the polar ice cap
this spring, JH. G. McCacroll, assist
ant manager of the: expedition ■ said
today. Spare parts will lie rushed to
Fairbanks in plenty of time to permit
the taka-off from Point Barrow be
fore the middle of May, MiCarroll
said.
Senate Committee
Reco m mend s U n seat*
ing.of Sen. Brookhart
Washington's March .19.-+-The Sen
ate elections committee today faced
the question *f accenting or rejecting
-he reports of its sub-committee rec
ommending the unseating sof Senator
Brookhart, Republican* of Iowa, .in
favor of hia Democratic, opponent,
Daniel F. Stock.
Brookhart announced.-that he.:will
contest the case to its end.
At the executive session, late- yes
terday, the sub-committee reported
* hat it had conciuded.-thaL .Mr. .Steck
had .received a majority of the votes
and should, be seated.
Establishes Fsyjng,
Record Between Se
attle, San Francisco
Seattle, March 18.—Establishing a
new flying record of seven hours and
three minutes between San Francisco
and Seattle, Vern C. Gorst, who has
the contract for marrying the air mail
between Seattle-and Los Angeles, ar
rived at the local.airdrome this after
noon in his monoplane. .
TAKING OF PHOTOGRAPHS
OF WILKINS EXPEDITION
Fairbanks.—The District Court has
dissolved the injunction restraining
photographers from taking pictures
of the Wilkins expedition holding
that the undertaking is a public enter
prise. The plaintiffs were given five
days in which to file-an amended com
plaint.
The leaders of the expedition claim
the enterprise is of a private nature,
financed with a view of taking and
selling photographs and moving pic
tures and the taking of pictures by
others will spoil their ovm sales.
A1 Goslaw and Arthur L’heureux,
after almost a winter's season spent
in the Poorman and Cripple sections,
are among the latest arrivals. Re
turning with tmem are “Blizzard”
and “Windy,” two half-wolf cubs, five
weeks? old, the admiration of all who
have seen them.
Charlie Ross, with the outgoing
mail, arrived Thursday, leaving for
McGrath on Friday, accompanied by
Carl Almsdahl.
Charlie Mespelt was among today’s
■•arrivals, dxinviruc up from McGtath.
ACTIVITIES I
OF ALASKA
Plan Suggested for Re
organization of Ter
ritorial Govt.
vVashingtun, March 18*—A plan
suggested by the Interior Department
to reorganize Federal Government ac
tivities in Alaska, with the view to de
centralization and to give greater au
thority in local affairs- to officials ;n
the' Territory, is before Secretry
Iloover, of the Chamber of Commerce,
and Secretary Jardine, of the Agricul
tural Department, for revision ami ap
proval.
The proposal provides that the Sec
retaries of Agriculture and Com
merce each appoint from among their
present forces-in Alaska a man to
supervise and co-ordinate all work in
| his own department, which in some
cases is divided among twenty-two
bureaus. These executive officers,
These executive officers, who would
not occupy any new position,, would
have power, subject to final appeal to
their respective, secretaries, to decide
all local administrative matters. The
plan will he submitted to Congress.
Governor . of Alaska Darks, who
j leaves for home tomorrow, said the
plan was in a formative stage..
A floating hospital will be in opera
tion on the Yukon river next sum
mer, .Governor Parks said.
(',\Y THEATRICAL PARTY
THRILLED OLD NEW YORK
New York.U-Police and prohibition,
officers have been ordered to make an
investigation .of a gay part reported
to have been staged in this city last
night by Earl Carroll, producer at the
local-theater:bearing his name. The
party is said to have been arranged
by Carroll in honor of his backer, W.
R. Edrington, a .Texas millionaire, and
the 300 guests included .h number of
notables, among whom were the
Countess of Cathcart; Harry K'. Thaw,
slayer of Stanford White; trvin Cobb,
humorist, C. T. Brainerd, publisher,
and- CdndeiNast.
After the guests had. been feasted
in lavish style, with much, champagne
in evidence, a bathtub was placed on
the stage and filled with the vrine^and
a pretty" stage girl who served the
guests until the tub was drained.
Other stage girls danced about • the
stage in scanty attire;
Countess Cathcart declares that
nothing involving moral turpitude oc:
curred during the party. She said it
was wonderful and that no such affair
was ever staged in England..
Mrs. B. J. Boyd. Takotna’s popular
teacher, and her ward. Miss Bessie
Fred, left this morning for Nenana,
as passengers' of Owen Gray. Mrs.
Boyd is on her way to the Outside,
and, aside from visiting with many
friends and relatives, she will attend
the Teachers’ College which convenes
during the coming summer at Cheney,
Wash., returning to Takotna on one
of the last up-river boats.
H. K. Carlisle, timber agent of the
U. S. Land Office at aFirbanks, de
parted Tuesday, on his way to Nenana
and Fairbanks.
Harry Panther, of Hat, who was a
Sunday arrival, left Monday on his re
turn to that place.
Dave Strand berg arrived at Mc
Grath last night, en route to the scene
of his summer oj)erations >at Flat
Moody Green was a Wednesday vis
itor for a few hours, returning to
McGrath that afternoon.
Henry Martella left Wednesday for
a trip to Nixon.
Del Thompson was u Thursday ar
rival.
Shoots and Kills His
Wife and Four Other
Women, and Attorney
Placer ville, Calif.. March 19;—Be
cause his wife sneeringly refused to'
occupy the house he had built for her
and had instituted proceedings for di
vorce, John H. (loins, a Stockton busi
ness man, shot and killed her and
four other women, arnd also her at
torney, and ran off to the mountain
grade after he had fired a shot' into
his own brain, while pursuing officers
were firing at him
MEASURE BY
DELEGATE |
Proposes Literacy Qual
ifications Required
of Ail Voters.
Washington, March 17.—Congres
sional Delegate Sutherland of Alaska
today introduced a bill in the House
proposing that literacy qualications j
shall lie required of all voters in
Alaska. For several years a contro
versy has been waged over the ques
tion of permitting natives to vote.
The bill would not disfranchise
those who have previously voted. It.
would require that voters -write their
full names, sex and addresses in a
poll book, without aid.
Eielson Company Not
^Awarded Contract forg
Carrying Alaska Mail
Seattle.-*— W. Irving Glover, Second
Assistant Postmaster General, who
arrived here yesterday on an inspec
tion tour, has announced, that the
Postaffice Department has rejected
the bid of Carl B. Eielson to carry
the Alaska mail by airplane, declar
ing the.hid is too high. “This means,”
Glover explained, “that dog teams
will continue to handle the mail con
tract in Interior Alaska.”
Glover is in charge of milway, air
plane. . Alaska and foreign mail ser
vice.
Palmer Hutchinsonr
of Detroit News* Meets
Death at Fairbanks
Word received here during the past
couple of days from Fairbanks states
that Palmer Hutchinson, a nationally
known newspaper man, was killed at
that place by airplane. It is assumed
that he backed up into the machine
while the propeller was running.
Palmer Hutchinson was a widely
known writer of the Detroit News
staff, and had the assignment from
that paper for “covering" the expedi
tion for the North American News
paper Alliance. He arrived in Fair
banks only a few days ago.
FOREMA NFOR MAMMON COM
PANY. NOME. MEETS DEATH
Nome.—Jack, McFadden, foreman
foreman for the Mammon Company,
died in the hospital here yesterday as
the result of exposure on the trail.
He was found lying iii the snow Mon
day night with both hands and one
Toot frozen, the temperature being 25
below zero.
Doctors in attendance express the
belief that McFadden fainted on the
Frail as the result of kidney trouble.
A H. Twitchell, well known reindeer
magnate, coming from Ophir, was a
Friday arrival.
Pete Jensen arrived Tuesday from
a trip to Ganes creek.
Dick Stevenson was a Monday ar
rival from Gurt
DENY ALL
CHANGES
Reed and Shoup Defend
Their Records Before
Senate Committee.
Washington, March U*.—Judge
Heed and District Attorney Shoup, of
the First judicial district of Alaska,
whose nominations arc under fire, de
fended their records today before the
Senate judiciary' committee, of the j
charges against them brought by
Delegate Sutherland of Alaska.
Judge Reed prefaced his statement
by denying that lawlessness is ram
pant in the Territory. He character
ized as “a blot upon my administra
tion of the court” the charge that he
had sentenced three men to jail for
contempt when there was no founda
tion for such charge.
Washington, March cries
Y. Miller, former fed - cf
the First division, re" l- nate
committee today in : I .nw he
cleaned up Ketchikan pr or to the
visit of President Harding. Miller
said1 District Attorney Shoup urged
him to hold ami direct attentions to
ward prohibition enforcement.
The Reed hearing is virtually con
cluded, and that of Judge Ritchie will
be taken up next
HULL INTRODUCED BY
DELEGATE SUTHERLAND
Washington, March 19.—Delegate
Sutherland of Alaska today intro
duced in the House a bill to direct
army engineers to survey ocean front
age at Afognak, Afognak Island, in
Alascka..
Telegraphic Ticks.
Washington, March 19.—The Sen
ate today rejected the nomination of
Wallace McCamant, of Oregon, as
judge of the Ninth Federal Circuit
Court.
Moslow, March 19.—General Alexis
ftrusselov, who commanded the drive
from l'ripett to the border of Rou
mania during the world war, died here
today.
Seattle March 19.—Dr. Arvid C.
Silverberg, under sentence for draft
evasion, was removed today to Camp
Lewis and from thence to Alcatras
military prison.
Washington, March 19.—The Ad
ministration bill to create a bureau of
prohibition in the Treasury Depart
ment was approved today by the
House ways and means committee.
Washington, March 19.—-The Sen
ate adjourned today, out of respect to
Colonel Coolidge
Athens, March 19.—Coundouriotis
has resigned from the Greek presi
dency.
FORBES ARRIVES AT LEAV
WORTH PENITENTIARY
Leavenworth, March 19.—Charles
R. Forbes, former director of the
United States Veterans Bureau, under
sentence of two years for conspiracy
to defraud the government, appeared
at the federal peniten' *' this
afternoon.
Harry Carter, form - t of
the N. C. Co. station cGrath,
is now attending an a .mobile elec
trical school at Los Angeles, accord
ing to recent word received here a
few days ago.
Dr. Westz, of Akiak, and Deputy
Marshal Frank Wiseman, of Bethel,
left Fairbanks Friday on their way
to the Lower Kuskokwim and are due
to arrive here within the next
days.
FATHER OF
PRESIDENT
Colonel Coolidge Passes
Away at Vesmont
Home.
Plymouth, Vt., March 19.—Colonel
Coolidge, father of President Coolidge
died her today, at 10:41.
Death of Col. Coolidge resulted
from two heart attacks, yesterday.
Plymouth, March 19.—President
Coolidge came home to Plymouth to
day at 10 o’clock. The President ar
rived at the White Farmhouse, where
his father lay dead. He was driven
to Plymouth from Woodstock, accom
panied by Mrs. Coolidge, their son
John, Attorney General Sargent and
Major James F Copal, White House
physician. The President had hoped
to reach the cross-roads hamlet in
time to see his father alive, but word
that the end had come reached him at
midnight when his train was in
Bridgeport, Conn.
Plymouth, March 110.—Colonel Cool
idge was buried today at Plymouth
Notch cemetery, in the midst of
eight generations of ancestors. Pres
ident and Mrs. Coolidge were in at
tendance
Govt, to jTake Over
[Unclaimed Money of
Demented of
Washington, March 18—The United
States will take over unclaimed
moneys of legally adjudged insane
Alaskans if the bill passed by the
Senate tp^pty becomes a law.
The it leisure provides that ail
money belonging to insane persons,
Chat has been deposited by them with
a person or institution, under con
tract with the Department of the In
terior for the care of Alaskan insane,
who have died, been discharged, or
who have eloped, and whose where
abouts is unknown, shall, if un
claimed by the person or his legal
heirs A’ithin three years be deposited
in the United States Treasury by the
Department of the Interior. This
would be subject, however, to recla
mation by an insane person or his
heir within five years from the date
of the passage of the bill.
Sargent to Accompany
Mapping Expedition
San Diego, March 18.—R. H. Sar
gent, chief of the Alaskan survey sec
tion of the Department of the In
terior, has been granted permission
Iv the Navy Department to accom
pany the North Island nnvai air map
ping expedition to Alaska this sum
mer. Sargent plans to proceed direct
from Washington to Ketchikan, where
the naval air expedition will establish
its first base.
May 1 is the tentative date set for
the departure of the air-mapping de
tachment from San Diego.
The weather bureau takes no stock
in suggestions that volcanic activity
in Alaska has caused recent high tem
peratures. Instead, the bureau de
clares a peculiar layout of tempera
ture pressure Has brought warm
ocean winds to Alaska and has de
flected down through Canada the cold
waves that usually pass over the
Alaskan-Siberian sector. “That’s all
there is to it,” say the experts. “Vol
canoes may look and act fiery, but the
most ferocious one in the world isn’t
warm enough to heat up even a small
corner of a regular cold wave”
The Fairbanks plane, with Aviator
Bennett as pilot, is scheduled to -ar
rive at McGrath within Iho-wtU
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