THE KUSKO TIMES
' VOL XI NO '19
TAKOTNA ALASKA SATURDAY.A JUNE 27 1931
PRICE 23 CENTS
Heat .Wave 1
Continues
■: TOLL>.OKJ.DEATI1S ATTRIBU1A
BLE Tfl’HEAT TOTALS AL
. MGSTTSIX HUNDRED.
^ SAN. .F-RANCISCO.-^All America
0 except the far V. est and the New
- I&ng-ami .seaboard suffered all week
.. from sh.zli. ar temperatures as the
. sweltering, spell invaded the Eastern
States. .The toll, of deaths attributa
b ble to-.the.heat neared six hundred.
•. Ralieijhy-.Thursday was held out for
c only-.the Northwest, but elsewhere
< CITY. OF. DETROIT BORROWS
■V $5 000,000 FROM HENRY FORD
DETROIT.—The City of Detroit
t. today accepted an offer by the Ford
, Motor Company for the loan of five
r. .million dollars, the amount that will
t he necessary to tide Detroit over until
>. taxes start coming in, July 15. The
* loan, city officials reported, is at 3 1-2
1 per cent interest and extends until
. September 15.
FONTAINBLEAU, France. — For
,\ mer Queen Victoria of Spain left for
London today to meet former King
. Alfonso and I rincess Beatrice.
C. F. Lottsfeldt, A. R. C. superin
t tendent for this district, following an
» official visit to Iditarod, Holy Cross
. and Bethel, returned to his headquar
ters here on Wednesday.
World Flight,
N.Y.ToN.Y.
GATTY AN DPOST FLY FROM
FAIRBANKS TO EDMONTON
LY TEN HOURS.
EDMONTON—William Post and
Harold Gatty, the globe-circling
American birdmen, brought their
monoplane down on a rain-soaked
field here at 4:35 p. m., concluding a
l, 450-mile flight from Fairbanks,
havng traveled approximately 13,500
miles of their 16,000-mile flight.
The men appeared in need of rest,
and at first said they were uncertain
when they would continue their flight.
An hour later, however, they decided
to proceed tonight to Saskatoon, ap-.
proximately 300 miles distant.
The pair lleft Fairbanks at 3:24 a.
m. today, fighting rain and murky
skies to complete the Edmonton leg
in approximately 10 hours.
NEW YORK.—Assuming that Har
old Gatty and William Post arrive
here between 6 and 10 o’clock tonight,
plans are being made to give them a j
rousiing welcome for a feat which j
has captured the imagination of the
the world. The official welcome will
be held tomorrow, after the fliers
have had a night’s rest. The parade;
will be up Broadway, the fliers being \
escorted by soldiers and sailors be
tween the lanes of cheering throngs.
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V
Alaska Interests At
The Nation’s Capital
i
(By W. A. S. p
WASHINGTON, June 8.—Dr. Win. j 1
j Hamilton, of the Alaska Bureau of 1
..Indian Affairs, gives us the informa-1
. tion that Secretary .of the Interior
• Wilbur recently signed the .contract
i for the construction of .a modern,
v wooden hull motorship for the £u
t reau’s service among the natives -of
. Alaska, in place of the steamer
. Boxer. The successful bidder was
. the Berg Shipbuilding Company, ( of
.. Seattle, and the contract price is for
. $389,390, the vessel to be completed
in 270 days. She will have a single
, propeller, will be of heavy wood con
_ struction, so necessary in the ice-in
fested waters of the North, and have
. a speed of 14 knots. Accommodations
> will be provided for 22 passengers in
- first class and 20 in steerage.
—
A party of mighty, and well satis
u fied,. hunters returned to Washington
lash week after a very successful out
ing.en. oKdiak Island, under the guid
ance.’of the Kodiak Guides Associa- <
. tion^tof which they speak in high
j praise. .The party hunted in the in
. taxiori'of the island from May 1 to the
16thv->and secured six fine Kodiak
, grifcahes The largest was killed by 1
Assistant Attorney General Seth W. 1
. RidMcdscn, and measured 10 1-2 feet. >
U. Si Senator Frederick Hale, of 1
Maine, not only killed his quota, but <
- also oerured three live cubs, which he '
brought east and presented to the 1
Washington roo. They are five '
months aid and weigh about 18 <
j pounds each. Samuel Stern, of the <
Elks national executive committee, 1
. also killed two of the big bear, and ’
i thinks that the hunters of the East |
vho have not taken advantage of the
ine hunting in Alaska are just too
mfortunate for anything.
Last week Delegate and Mrs. James
iVickersham pleasantly spent a cou
)le of days at Annapolis, in connec
;ion with the graduation of Midship
nan Hugh Douglas Gray, of Douglas,
irom the United States Naval Acad
emy. They atended the farewell ball
that was given to the class of 1931,
ind which was enjoyed by over 10,000
persons, and also witnessed the grad
uation exercises. Mr. and Mrs. Felix
jray, parents of the young midship
man, as well as Miss Edle Holbrook,
me of the popular school teachers of
Douglas, were also in attendance at
the exercises and festivities. After
graduation the resignation of Mid-!
shipman Gray was accepted because
if a defect in one of his eyes, received j
while engaged in a successful wrest
ing match last year, and which was
10 thrilling that a photograph of the
ivent still hangs in Bancroft Hall.
Two members of the Senate com
mittee on wild life resources, Hon.
Frederic C. Walcott of Connecticut
ind Hon. Peter Norbeck of South Da
cato, with Senator Joseph T. Robin
ion of Arkansas, will sail from Se
attle on June 28 aboar dthe Bureau
>f Fisheries boat Penguin. Starting
with them will also bo Paul C. Red
ngthon, chie fof the Bureau of Biol
•gical Survey, and Henry O’Malley,
ommissioner of the Bureau of Fish
eries. The latter will leave for the
vest the middle of the month and
vill make his annual inspection tour
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A reception will be extended..,#- City
Hill by Mayor Walker,' where medals
will be presented. Mts^ 'Pok*. and
Mrs. Gatty will .bof,h.,tie»hes« fc>‘wel
:ome their husbands.
FRENCH FLIERS HGPJBTTo
CIRCLE GLOBE IN "POUR HOPS’
LE BORG FT, France.—Jpdeph l>c-!
brix and Martin Doret, Frenchrlong
distance fliers, arrived her*‘ today
from Tours in their airplane Hyphen,
preparatory te an attempt- to; make, a
nonstop flight to Tokyo- ..The fliers,
who have held various Paris'records,
said that they hoped, to < cirehi the
globe soon in four hops—rParis, To
kyo, San Francisco, New York and
laris.
Alaska-Asia
‘Air Route*
DELEGATE WICKERSHAM ASKS
LINDBERGHS TO BLAZE
NEW AIR TRAIL.
{Washington Times.)
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and
his wife today were asked to blaze a
new trail—a trail to be followed by
commercial aviation between the!
United States and Asia—in their pro
posed flight from New York to Pie
ping, China.
The request was made by James
Wickersham, Delegate to Congress
from Alaska, who transmitted to
Lindbergh maps of the route which, i
he says, aviation experts in Alaska
believe will be the future airway to
Asia. *
56-Mile Water Jump. *
This route, which would take th'et
Lindberghs from New York to Ha
zelton, British Columbia; Fairbanks
and Nome, Alaska, and into Siberia,
can be made with an over-water jump
of But 56 miles.
Wickersham said:
“The Great Circle route -would take
Colonel Lindbergh across the heart
of Alaska, -over 56 miles of the -upper
end of the Bering Sea and into Kam
chatka, in Siberia, and thence south
to China and Japan, llecould follow
the Russian Railway route into Eu
rope.
“The Army ’round-the-world fliers
went up the Alaska coast and across
the Aleutian islands to Japan,
la Safe Route
“Aviation experts in Alaska believe
the former will be the airway of the
future to Asia. The course is over
great basins. There are no glaciers,
no water except for the short jump
over the Bering Sea. The land is for
the most part level and landings can
be made easily.
“There are fewer storms than
along the Aleutian islands route.
Being the Great Circle route, it is
shorter.”
BELIEVED IN KEEPING COOL.
EVANSTON, Ills.—Miss Hannah
Donnelly was alarmed about Willard
Robinson. She had an engagement
with him last Thursday. He failed
to keep it and all her attempts to
communicate with him failed. She
appealed to the police. They found
him in his home yesterday, sitting in
a bathtub, where he said he had been
reading magazines ever since the cur
rent heat wave began.
H. C. Wallick was among early-in
the-week arrivals for a brief town
visit.
Schmelling Stops Young
Stribling In I5th Round
CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Max Schil
ling of Germany retained his heavy
weight championship over the world
here this evening by stopping Young
Stribling in the fifteenth round.
Young Striblin, accompanied by
his mother, his brother, and Herbert,
a. friend from his home town in Ma
con, Ga., motored to the stadium a
few minutes before 9 o’clock. The
challenger immediately went to his
dressing room, while Ma Stribling
went to her ringside seat. Pa Strb
ling was busy at the ringside hand
ling preliminary boxers.
Gene Tunney, retired heavyweight
champion, strolled into the arena to
put his 200 pounds in a choice ring
side. seat.
Schmelling,. the champion, climbed
into the.ring at 10:06 p. m.
The. flashlights boomed, the crowd
cheered, and the battlers were ready
to square away.
..The.first round was about even,
with both exrhanging nunches No
one hurt.
The second roun-'< was. a bit more
fierce, with Stribling fighting, hard.
Round 3—Stribling- a terrible lean
greyhound compared -.o the champion.
Schmelling always advancing and
StabBr®. harking ay, hitting as
he went.
Round 4—Stribling's nose bled a
little in his. corner
Round 3—The champion madr
Stribling '« iio.se bleed again.
Nothin-' much happened until the
ninth round. Ktribling’s .knees wob
bled whpn Schmelling caught hirt
with a hard uppercut. Stribiing be
griming to get weak; nose and moutl
and eyes bleeding.
The eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth
and fourteenth rounds Stabling came
gaek nearly out. On his feet in the
fifteenth round Stribling came bad
weakly, retreating from the hand
shake. As Max punched him Strib
ling went down in his corner from a
right to the 'head. He got, up aad
held desperately. Stribling reeled
before Schmellipg’s attacks. The
champion appeared to motion the
referee to stop the slaughter as
Stribling struggled from one side oi
the ring to the other and wound ut
hanging helpless to -the--ropes in hi>
corner. The referee stepped stepped
in and awarded Schmelling the fighi
on u technical knockout, .2 minutes
and 46 seconds after the start, of the
round.
The attendance was beta ten 4$.00(
and 50,000. Receipts about $350,000
Stribling was a 3 and 7-5 favorite
There was little betting because then
was very little Schmelling money- n
sight. They were as well matched
physically-as any two Vravyweight:
who ov\&r fought.
.Items of Importance
* In Recent News Events
FRANCE AND U, S VO I.
CLOSER1 ON MORATORIUM. j <
WASHINGTON.—Faced with auj
adamant French status far raodifica- ;
tion, the American government lost,1
today, much of its optimism ovei'thc | -
prospects for Preside nt IIco ver’.s >»la" j1
for. a war debt andfre ivarations'intra
torium. One high?ad ministration i
cial, .when, asked bis opinion ei the
possible outcome,' repliedi “Nobody i
can tell. Hope for an agreement has
not been, abandoned, however. It was
said that as long as the discussions
in Paris were continuing the United
States was not discouraged. It was
made plain, however, that the ne
g tiations had brought the two gov
ernments no closer together.
WHO WILL BE NEXT
PRESIDENT OF GERMANY?
BERLIN—-Who will be president of
Germany when Kiel-1 Marshal Paul
Von Hindenburg’s office expires, May
22, 1932? This question is beginning
to avitate the public mind. “Our
Hwideuburg, as Germans call him
affootionatelv, has oome to be regard
ed as something like a. permanent in
stitution, but he will bo 84 years old
next October, and it is- reasonable to
suppose that the retirement from
which he came at Kaiser Wilhelm’s
bidding 17 years ago is. now due him.
DRAWS 5 YEARS AND $2,000
FINE, AFTER 30 YEARS.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Every night
for two years Arthur G. Fisk beheld
himself facing a court of justice un
dergoing a sentence far embezzle
ment, and yesterday the vision be
came a reality.
Fisk was sentenced to five years in 1
prison by Federal Judge St. Sure and
was fined $2,000, at the termination
»f a political career in California oi
hirty years.
Fisle, a former United States com
nissioner, who was ousted in Apiil
nade one of the most, extraordinary
)lea for .mercy ever-heard' in a fed
:ral court-room here But Probatt
Edward. Powers had reconi
nended, against leniency, and Judge
it. .Sure denied probation, after read
ng extensively from Powers’ report
SAN FRANCISCO.—The Standard
Jil Company of Californio has an
jounced an increase of 5 1-2 cents &
gallon on gasoline, effective immedi
»tely, and at the same time it is the
ntention of the company to boost the:
price of crude oil from 20 to 40 cents
i barrel.
The company’s increase will bring
:he tank wagon price of gasoline te>
13 cents.
It is reported from Los Angeles
;hat the Shell company has announc
ed similar increases and other com
panies are expected to fall into line
without delay.
RENO, Nev.—This city almost had
i real shooting in high society yester
Jay. The only thing that prevented
it was a sudden weakening on the
part of the would-be killer and the
fact that his gun was not loaded
When interviewed after the story
:ame out, however, Cornelius Vander
jilt, Jr., had “nothing to say’’ con
:erning the report that he had gone
gunning for Peter Arno, New York
:artoonist, because of Arno’s alleged
attentions to Mrs. Vanderbilt.
The story is that Vanderbilt dtart
:d for the Arno home with a revolver
n his pocket. Before he arrived-a*
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