THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. 1. NO. IS
TAKOTNA. ALASKA, F RIDAY. JUNE 4, 19*7
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J.ROCKEFELLER
DIES SUDDENLY
AT THE AGE 97
ORMOND BEACH F!a.. J4*v 24—
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr., more
than 9" years old, passed away peace
fully in his sleep at 4:05 o’clock yes
terday morning at his winter home
in Ormond Beach of hardening of
heart muscles. No members -the
family were present.
Mr. Rockefeller had passed the
winter in better health than usual.
He disclosed evidences of illness Sat
urday, but his condition did not be
come alarming until Saturday mid
night. Then ie lapsed into a coma.
Just before he drifted into uncon
sciousness he complained that he felt
very tired. So far as known his last
words came when he arse OP in bee
slightly to a«k his valet to raise him
a little higher'in bed.
“There, that's better.” the dyijrj;
man said.
The founder--of the world.’s greatest
“dollar dynasty” is at. last-stilled it
death just 26 months short of his
cherished desire to live *o 'be 106
years old. He would have been 98
years old next July 8.
Mr. Rockefeller years ago disposed
of his property so inatkhei has left
only “a relatively small very liquid
estate,” the spokesman for the fam
ily in Ormond Beach declared.
"" Mr. Rockefeller had turned the bulk
of his wealth over to his son and to
philanthropic endowments that reach
to the far ends -of the earth.
Mr. Rockefeller spent the first half
of his life making money and the last
ha’f giving it away.
“I believe it'is-a duty!” he said
many times, “for a man to get all
the money he honestly can and to
give away all he can."
LOCAL ROAD COMMISSION
CAM PS BEING ”SET TP
E. A. Adams, "Road Commission
superintendent' here, sent form mai
out to Yankee’Crehk last Tuesday to
prepare the camp at that point. The
balance of the crew, including Mr.
Adams and the cook, Mrs. Adams,
moved out to site camp early this
(Friday 1 morning.
The camp will open with a crew of
nine men: Mike McRoberts. Johnny
MeClnne. George Christo. Ed Fomer.
Frank Guskey. 'Curly Anderson, Al
bert Ivey, Dm Lee, ar'd Harry Akfc.
M WT AMFRTCVN
"WAR CASUALTIES
MADRID, May So—American vol
unteer battalions which are used al
most coniirruaHy as shock troops by
the Loyalist government in Spain's
c'vil war hart'kis; almost a third of
their number m killed, relial !e sourc
es anr.o'nr- d today in Madiid.
The number c'f United States citi
zens k-Hed in corBict on the Loyalist
side is estimated at oV. or more
than 33 per c nt of the 1.700 report
ed to have enlisted with the Loyalist
forces.
A few of these vo’unteers were
professional ampiane pilots, airr’ane
technicians and professional soldiers
of fortune, but the overwhelming
ma iority lacked previous military ex-,
pemence.
The largest corn:"cent of '
cans has been the‘Sixteenth Infantry
or the Abraham Lincoln Battalion.^
the members ofwhich were recruited
In the United 75181*8. Of the 4K7
men originally in this un»t, 3 41 w e
]os- February 12 in a battle near Me
dr;d.
"WINCIM *VS t,OT*V FOUND
IN REFRIGERATOR Of SH"'
F"TC!'hAN, May IP—When ih
steamship Yukon, bound fr-m c a‘
t’e to Seward, ea'led nt Ketrh:ksn
yesterday, the body- of Chris Gjerdes,
a wmrbman was found in her r-fr;e
crator room. The remains were taken
o'" *he vessel and sn autopsy was
re*frrr'-J n Them i^Vv '
Iran. The distri t attorney’s nffic de
f’hrs 'o eou’mer-t on wha*. if any-.
tv ”'_. the a”topsy disclosed, sfvingj
the return of the sh’p to K tchTcan
on her southbound v yaire fr m Sew
ard to Seanle will be awaited for
posable questioning of tbe crew.
Irte’Ttal organs of tb dead men.
It 'ec’ared, will be sent to Seattle
to de'oj-mine -whether they contain
evidence of poison.
c *" *"=’rjr.Tion to Tbe:
KUSKO TIMES tod«g.
! WHAT’S DOING IN THE BUSY TOWN OF McGRATH j
By Mrs. Dorothy Tibbs—(Special Correspondent) !
McGrath Residents
Move From Homes
When Floods Conn
A slight fall in the flood -waters::
McGrath Sunday and M <, n d a >
brought hope that the water woul
-o n t .• hack between the. banks of th
rivers.
r'cr th past two weeks it ’-as be*
ver the banks, and in m'st of the
cuses in town. Mrs. MrLean has
r. c iv lined to the uprtairs of her
st re. for the past two weeks Dave
Clough and his family have been liv
ing in the stilt house bark of the old
■oo1 hall Dinar Carlseo and Phil
MacDonald moved to 'Mr. Widmari-s
former home, at his sawmill site.
Mrs.' Konig and Mrs. Maxillee took
therr children and moved to the hill
on the Tatalina River, where it is
understood that they have planted a
garden, and intend to remain 'for
some time. Mr. and Mrs.’Joe'Condry
and Mrs. Albert Ivey and ’ her son
moved into the Larson cabin on th:
Sprague side of the Kuskokwim.
Jeanne Keith returned 'from Takotna,
to find the water just coming into
her cabin, but she decided to slick it
it out, and the water is now down
enough so that her cabin is dry. Bill
Kruhm and A1 Nordstrom " have bees*
-ring in the floating warehouse, be
longing to Mrs. McLean.
LEGISLATION FOR
LABOR IS ASKiED
WASHINGTON. May 24—President
Roosevelt today asked for a flexible
labor law -providing fur minimum
w~ ages, .maximum hours, a ban on the
r carts of child labor and'a preven
tive from employers exploiting unor
ganized labor. The Chief Executive,
in‘Jus message to the federal law
makers, said:
“All but the hopeless reactionary
agree that we should conserve oar
primary resogrees of man power. The
-Joeral government must have some
on.rol over, maximum hours, mini
mum wages, the evil of child labor
and the explnitatian - if um rgacized
’abort”
ihe President m hi? Iomr-awaited
message did rot .specify any stand
aids as a substit te for those that
ere ~r~orporated in re National Re
covery Act. which was invalidated by
the United States supreme court. He
left to congress the "working out (if
details.
In onnection with hours of work,
bow. ver, he said:
"The general maximum working
vec-k should not'be difficult tc *tfot.
A bill on the subject has n
(Continut-id «n kag-j 2./
jLATE "NEWS ARTICLES FROM OPH1R
~Bv Christian Bolden—(Special t3on*espondent)
j
'-•'Hi Be Night Operator—
John Mykkbust has closed'Irs new
V me rear the month :f Anvil C; e -k.
n the Ophir-Tskotr.a r a and k J
' r Spaulding Creek at tin beanning
f last week, where'he w'll’be'em
oyed by Sehwalsdail & Vbe as right
jperator of their dragline scraper.
;ai>gh To Spaulding Creek—
Jesse Baugh, who has beer s petti
ng the past four or five weeks 'm
wn filing up his home, left for
euld’o'r C reek iwi rays ago. where
v-11 be w rking for S hwal dall &
be during fbe coming season.
-bn Peterson In Town—
John Peterson :ame in from Takot
way of Yankee T-eek, this
v-er >n arid returned to Yankee in
' e afternoon, after attending to bus
es in town.
’Vomn And Anderson Leave—
trhn Twomey and Ed Anderson left
wt> this week to go to work for
<*’• 'ovn.-'n n No. I Above Up
er, on 'Ophir Cieek.
r Fr m Anvil Creek—
Mrs. P. A. Anoerson made a visit
* ■ vn ‘odrv from her ho’ding* on
—v' C. k, where rh' end Carl 01
•r have been taking out .a wiatsr
dump.
TUESDAY, JCNET1
Son Torn To Bernard’ Iveys—
A young s^n, weighing nine and a
"”ar' ~r round?, was burn to Mr. and
“orrard Ivey, cn the 517th of
--- and Mr'. Ivey have earned
; Gereij Ivey.
- - "ere livery To Hand—
i r y whes: hand was ser
rcil at Candle' Creek recent
aken into Anchorae-e Tuesday
_ e: nine;, by Pilot Jack Elliott. Mrs.
Cc dry accompanied her husband.
. il . Elliott also took Charles Korrig
*j Takotna, where he will await a
1 plane equipped with wheels, to take
him to Folder, where he will work
"or the summer. Pilot Elliott stated
that it would be a week perhaps be
fore we had mail here, as the Star
has only one pontoon ship at present.
Morri- on Comes To Town—
Ronald Morrison, of Medfa. came to
McGCra h with Mr. Winsns. It is be
’ieved that Mr. Morrison plans on
ter rinng in McCrath during the
sur-r er. except, possibly, for a trip
o Fairbanks to see an eye specialist
's McRae Returns—
Dan McRae returned to McGrath
art Sunday after a long visit in Fair
anks. Mr. McRae states that there
a great deal of mining activity in
hat regmn, and that the Upper Kus
■ kwim is much talked of in mining
-Ms. as is Goodnews Bay.
MOVE SAVTM1LLTWELVE
MILES DOWN RIVER
The M. S. Alaskan crew under com
mand of Capt. Miller, have dissem
bled the sawmill recently purchased,
and loaded it on the M. S. Alaskan
0 be taken down the river 13 miles
where it will be set op and operated.
Messrs. Dallis McRoberts and Bill
Neleen have'a timber camp or. the
mill site and are mewing the trees
down in preparation to turning them
into lumber.
EA WOLF BRINGS MANY
TONS FREIGHT TWO TRIPS
The-Sea Wolf, owned and operated
by Oh*'. Smith and Frank Lang, re
turned to McGrath Sunday n ght af
ter. unloading £0 tons of oil and other
freight here. They went down to get
another and last load of freight,rar
. vir.sr back in Taicoisia Thursday ev
e ir.g with 22 tons aboadd. This
'■ans up he last of the freight left
'n ' ’"Grath last fall.
Bci' Clary is engineer <* the Sea
Wolf and Eat Yanderpool is working
of deckhand. .Tix part
h and Lang are old-timers
ri * - -tl n of Alaska and are
. :n as experienced liver
. They anti:ha.? ta b'g
n'the river this year.
"Creeks Humming '.Vith Actrv 'y—
Yes"' r ’ay Rudy Kransi and Oro
■'ridle; i ade the firs: trip of th?
i w h a car, as far as the Pun
Ilia dredge un Little C-t -k. The -
T.&de a b:t f two bits befo~' leaving,
that tv. •• w edd make it, and won the
m.cmi- Ora was acting as sort o*
rfar-scat drrvsr, technical advisor and
•ttsvlge- r. The young adventurers rt
, the r-,ad r’fairh, "good as far as
dney went; but that there is "a -nan
waspout at Little Creek Bridge, mak
. 5t ~p' ssible to pvt through to
Takotnt with a car uniil the 'damage
to -h- i at that place is renarr^.
Today they will be kav n v h
c. ' flies ' for t' Sot’
a' I t =-.r & Lar~-n n' h
’la r d' e n Little C-=vk. Thev
-I , -eport that there r-' five men
thing n 'be dredge, “t -r ing it in
r vr for the season s d:ggir-»: that
end Arvid Larson are busy in
-tallrv h? nipe line "e in ' :idy
o stan hycraulicing on'No 2 Abav
' Em f roup; and hst the c cw
’ « 't-iepark camo nr w
*ig t get the wat^r through the
ditch in ordeT to commence work.
’fidy To Begin Mining—
Sunday visitors to town were Mr.
pnd lirs. Hill from Victor Gulch and
4.^1 i.. Jones from Bpiuce ('«**
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Dave Clough Will
Construct Modern
Building, McGrath
Dave Clough announced Monday
that he would start immediately pgor
the construction of a large log road
house. Mr.-. Clough plans an .building
adjacent to Jack Melburg’s cabin
near the N. C. sttue.
The building will be l£xK> feet,
fully equipped with new beds, a bath
rot m. and evqry convenience, pots tale.
Mr.. Clough'••twill move the large
bunkhouse from its present location
to a spot near the roadhouse, and will
continue using it as a bunkhouse,
while the r adhouse will have bed
rooms, both double and single.
McGrath has long needed a larger
roadhouse, and everyone is glad that
Mr. Clough has decided to build.
Back From Trip To Hills—
Jack Stewart returned from a short
trip to the hills, bringing his boat
down to McGrath. Mr. Stewart has
been living in Charles Wood’s cabin,
•;nee his was three-quarters under
water, when he returned.
Winans Business Visitor—
Clint Winans, who recently pur
chased the Berry interests at Medfra.
was in McGrath on business over the
w-.ek-end. Mr. Winans states that the
water was high in Medfra^but-dkfii.o
damage.
SOVIETS HiAKE
B ASE IN ARCTIC
MOSCOW. May 2T—In three camp
at and near the North Pole, 42 Rus
sians now are mapping their positions
and planning by radio to unite their
f.rces.
The first airplane, containing a
party headed by Dr. Otto J. Schmidt.
. e .or o Russia's Northern Explor
ation and Settlement Department,
landed at the Pole last Friday from
i.Uuolf isi. nj, th? Soviet Arctic base
560 miles distant.
Three pjar.es with supplies and
equipment left Rudolf Tutsd*-- even
ing-for .the Top of the World. One j.
of them landed at the Schmidt camp.
..n .ner of them landed m safety.
I2H mile.- iium the Schmidt camp,
ana the thi:d craft landed h..safely
35 miles beyond the S hmidt camp, s
Dr. Schi..idt, who is commander of:
the rolar expedition, sent a radio!
message today to Moscow saying:
"We shall await developments j
.almiy."
Rass.ans plan a- establish a
permanen; aviation Uasc and meteor
! gicai . ta: on at the North Pole in
ection with the operation of a
. r to -eu commercial air route be
.»• en w and Sas. Francisco.
Evan reports that r.iinself and his
partner Nicholson and also Jaquemai
4: Weir are now. ready to commence
mining after doing a lot of repast
work to ditches and dams <r tt?
Spruce Creek benor.es _
SECURITY ACTS
HELD VALID BY
THE HIGH COURT
WASHINGTON. May 24—By deci
sions today by the I'nited States Su
preme Court upholding the constitu
tionality of the treemploymant insur
ance provision* and old-age persiat
provisions of the Federal Social Se
curity Act, and the supplementary
stale laws in connection with the op
erat ion of compressiona) -unemploy
ment and old age statutes, the Roose
velt Administration achieved epochal
triumphs for its New Deal.
The decisions today af< the high
coo-t give the Roosevelt Administra
tion a clean sweep of victories on
New Deal legislation bejore the tri
bunal at this term.
Some of the opponents of the Pres
ident's judiciary reform proposals
predict that the action of the supreme
court at this term, indicating a siring
to liberalism, will defeat the enact
ment of court reform legislation or
the .ground that it is do longer ne
cessary.
The decisions on the federal unem
ployment and pension issues were 7
to 2 and the decision with respect to
the supplementary state legislation
was 3 to A
These 7 to-2 majority decisions as
serted that the unemployment insur
ance and old-age provisions of the
Security Act “do not cal! far the sur
render by the respective states of
powers essential to thei- quasi-sov
ereign existence." Associate Justice
Cardoza added:
“The Social Security Act is a purge
for the ration-wide calamity that be
gan in 1929. That calamity taught
many lessons not the least of wfci. r
is solidarity of interests. Problems
that once seemed divided are plain.r
national. Moreover the laws of sep
arate states cannot deal with these
problems-"
MINING MEN LEAVE
ON PROSPECTING TRO
Alf Monssr. piloting a P-A.A. plan*
dropped down on the Takotna river
Sunuay -afternoon and left three par
sengers: Philip MacDonald, the new
ly appointed United States Deputs
Marshal at McGrath; Btbby Win
bauer and BiUy Bruce. The latter tw*
are interested in mining and plan or
investigating ground on the creeks
possibly doing a little staking.
NEW EAGLET FOR
THE .LINDBERGHS
JCLEYELAND, Ohio. Mr, 2-1— Mu
Char -is A. Lindbergh. wife of tk*
f r.i flier, pave bh*' to a son »t
May 12, Coronation night at .he Luv -
bergh country home T.f-ar Wea’A
County Kent. England. Ann. Scatter,
an aunt of *> rs. Lindbergh, announ -
ed today in Cleveland. No further
comment was. forth com mg from the
atria
MAKES BUSINESS TRIT
Mias Elkn Reidy made a bu* ".ess
trip to Ophir Thursday, travel: n as
far as Little Crtek with Joe Oates.
Stfce ejoected to walk or catch a . rdt
from there on. I.ittie Creek le n>:A
and ha*'washed the road out maki :g
it impossible to cross until repaim
are . made.
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