THE KUSKO TIMES
‘ ' VOL X NO. 4G
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY; DECEMBER 13 1930
PRICE 25 CENT?
Burke Dead,
Exposure
1 HIS" TWO COMPANIONS, KADIC
AND BOB'MARTIN, TAKEN
TO WHITEHORSE.
( WHITEHORSE, Y. T., Dec. 10.
■ Captain E. J. A. Burke, missing s:nc<
* October 11, died from exposure
a Pilot E. L. Wasson reported today or
his arrival back from a search for th<
lost aviator.
. Burke’s two companions, Emil Ka
a dig.and Bob Martin, were found saf<
.- at a point forty miles up river fron
* where Burke’s plane was found, anc
Wasson brought them here. Josepl
Walsh, veteran prospector, sightec
^ the plane in the air late in November
WHITEHORSE, Y. T.-The plant
piloted by Captain J. A. Burke was
found wrecked at the headwaters oJ
the Liard river in Yukon Tcrritoy bj
. Pilot Everett Wasson on a flight from
Whitehorse. He was forced to return
to Whitehorre because his gas supply
was low.
It was indicated that Burke was
forced down in the rough country.
Wasson will return there and travel
f5 miles over the sno wto the scene
of the wreck. He was unable to land
there.
Burke’s plane is .froze* ; o ,:n a nar
row part of the river 50 miles noth
of Wolf Lake.
Crash! Goes
Big N.Y. Bank
BANK OF UNITED STATES OWES
$202,000,000 )TO )100,000
DEPOSITORS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—The Bank
1 of the United States closed its doors
' yesterday.
An annour.ccment later in the day
stated that the bank owed two hun
■ divd and two million dollars to four
hundred thousand depositors.
ASIIV1LLE, N. C.—The American
National Bank failed to open its
doors this morning, bringing the total
number of banks closed in western
, North Carolina to nine in two days.
. j A note on the door said the bank
was closed to protect depositors. De
1 posits are listed at $2,000,000.
In all the banks which have closed,
I deposits totaling $2,000,000 are tied
up.
Failure of the Central Bank &
Trust Company, fourth largest single
bank in the State, precipitated a
financial crisis. Within a few hours
: oven smaller banks had closed.
More than $4,600,000 in city funds
and more than $3,000,000 in county
funds are tied up in the closed Cen
tral Company. Officials said most of
( foe money is protected by collateral.
Niemenen, Lottsfeldt and Lusher
Have Thrilling Air Trip Following
Take-Off of Plane From Iditarod
Matt Nieminen, pilot of the Alaska
. Airways, and his two passengers,
Carl Lottsfeldt of Takotna and Fred
Lusher of Flat, had an experience
bordering on the thrilling on Thurs
day last, the likes of which it is most
certain not one of them will care to
go through again. Takotnans also
went through three days of intense
anxiety.
First, it may lie stated that Pilot
Ed Young, flying from Fairbanks
with an Alaska Airways plane, and
Pilot Frank Dorbandt, from McGrath,
with his Pacific International plane,
had that day made their way through
to Flat, although Pilot Young was
unable to land, and both fliers re
. turned to this place about noon.
Word received here from Flat a
little after noon stated that Matt Nie
minen had left that place with his
two passengers at 11:30. It was also
revealed that, due to foggy condi
tions, he would follow the Iditarod
Ophir mail trail.
Under ordinary or any way favor
. able conditions Nieminen should have
landed at Takotna before 1 o’clock.
The hours of the afternoon passed,
night came, and to Takotnans his
whereabouts was a mystery. Word
from Iditarod stated that he had not
returned to that place. Apprehension
was manifest, although general hopes
prevailed that the party had met
with some slight mishap and would
land here on the morrow.
Friday came. Dark and foggy;
another poor day for flying. Leav
i jog his three passengers at McGrath,
Pilot Dorbandt came up early to join
Ed Young in search, the latter, ac
companied by Charlie Ulch, scouting
• over area between here and Flat.
Then came a ray of hope. Dorbandt,
after being away about an hour, re
turned here, bringing what was con
sidered most reassuring news. He
was unable to land at Ophir, but in
his circling around that place he had
seen one figure, wearing goggles and
attired like an aviator, whom he felt
sure was Nieminen, while another in
dividual not many feet distant re
sembled Lottsfeldt. Cheerful news;
everybody pleased. Dorbandt soon
off again to Ophir. Returns not
unany minutes afterward with news
that he was mistaken; that the man
with goggles and “aviation suit” was
none other than Pete Carlson, and
that nothing of the missing men was
known at that place. Disappointment
on all sides. Dorbandt and Young
again take off to do more scouting,
and return later in afternoon. No re
sults. Hopes lowered.
Saturday came weather and people
still gloomy. Dorbandt, accompanied
by Ulch, goes beyond Ophir to Bea
ver hills, while Young, accompanied
by Milton Rice, covers the winter
mail trail from Ophir to Iditarod. No
results. Hopes fading, dejection on
all sides.
Sunday somewhat colder; fairly
clear day and everybody anxious.
Dorbandt leaves Takotna about 10,
Young leaving Iditarod at abouc the
same time.
Just at the time when affairs
looked the bluest, when all were be
coming low-spirited, the Dorbandt
plane was heard and seen coming
over the peak toward town, afterward
learned to be traveling at a speed of
about 160 miles an hour. A quick
landing. As the plane landed, Carl
Lottsfeldt was seen pushing his way
out of the door, seemingly 20 ildn't
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL
ATTEMPT TO STAMP OUT
GANGDOM’- RULE IN CHICAGO
WASHINGTON.— A most, concert
ed drive on the part of the Federal
Government to break . up the activ? • I
ties of Chicago gangsters .was made
| known today by Attorney .General
! Mitchell.
| Federal agents have been active in
Chicago since early last summer.
Mitchell said the number of agents
was recently increased.
Exactly how large a concentration
of government agents is ultimately
intended to be placed in the Chicago
area the Attorney General would not
say, but he declared: “We intend to
keep going indefinitely or at least
until our aid is no longer needed.”
Mitchell said narcotic, interna! rev-'
enue and labor department immigra
tion agents have joined in the drive.
ELLIOT BOOSTS HIGHWAY.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14.—Mal
colm Elliott, of the United States
Army Engineers Corps, who arrived
here yesterday fom Washington, en
oute to Alaska, predicted there will
be an automobile highway from Se
attle to Fairbanks in less than ten
years, maybe five years.
Washington Notes
NEW YORK, Dec. 12—Einstein ar
rived yesterday for a visit of some
duration in the United States. Bar
raged by a hundred repotes, he e
maked: “They are like a pack of
wolves, each one trying to take a bite
at me.”
;
WASHINGTON, Dec 10.—Presi
dent Hoover today submitted .o ihe
Senate the protocol for American ad
herence to the World Court.
■ -
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 — The
House today passed the bill providing
for a 44-htiur week week for postal.
employes.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — The
Senate yesterday passed the bill au
thorizing $00,000,000 for relief of
drought stricken farmers.
13 ARE HELD IN KIDNAPING
PLOT AT LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES.—With the arrest
of twelve men and a woman, police
claim they have broken up the kid
napping gang which planned to hold
wealthy Californians for ransom.
Those arrested were Sam Strong,
Albert Kempe, Harold Stanberry,
Margaret Bryce, Upward Smith,
George Scott, Ernest Stocker, Tony
Long, George Wilson, Jack McNeil,
Ray Sealock, Ben Nicholas and Paul
Cook.
| The prisoners are said to have or
kanized a plot to kidnap Harry
Chand.er, publisher of the Los An
geles Times. He learned of the plot,
and police guarded him, after which
he received no more threats.
SEVERAL BIG NORTH CARO
LINA BANKS CLOSE DOORS
RALEIGH, N. C.—Four banks in
the western portion of the State, in
cluding the Central Bank & Trust
Company of Asheville, with deposits
of $18,000,000, have closed. !
John Mitchell, State bank exam
iner, said his office has been advised
that the other banks closed are the
First . Bank & Trust Company, the
Biitmore Bank, and the American
Bank & Trust Company of Hender
sonville. I
Frank Larsen and Warren Alford!
were yesterday arrivals from Mc
Grath. I
What About
Reindeer?
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT STUDY
ING PROBLEMS CONCERN
ING ALASKA’S HERD
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Secre
tary of Interior Wilbur today ap
pointed a committee to advise him
with relation to boundaries, carrying
[rapacities and range rules, and dis
puted ownership and other problems
which'have arisen from the rapidly
increasing reindeer herds of Alaska,
rhe members of that committee are:
Senato John B. Kenc'rick of Wyom
ing, Representative Scott Leavitt of
Montana, and * Assistant Attorney
General Charles I*. Sisson of the De
partment of Justice.
The purpose of the present exam
ination into the reindeer situation in
Alaska is to make it possible that the
reindeer industry should be placed on
a logical and sound foundation. It
will be recalled that the Government
in 1891 introduced from Asia 10
reindeer, which, to that time, were
not known on the American side of
Bering Strait. The total importation
from Siberia amounted tol,280 by
1901. They have been distributed
among the natives up and down the
west coast of Alaska to localities as
far north as Point Harrow. The na
tives, mostly Esk.rco, proved them
selves capable of developing herds,
and the result is that there probably
are at the present time 1,000,000
reindeer in this area. They have
brought food and fur clothing in
plenty to the people of these far
northern areas.
Most of these reindeer are in the
narrow belt lying along the exten
sive coast of Alaska. The reason for
this is that, the natives, before the
deer came, subsisted chiefly by fish
ing and because of this lived along
the coasts. So great have grown the
numbers of these reindeer, however,
that some of the most.available lands
have been stocked to their capacity,
and range problems have developed.
Reindeer raisiing, likewise, has be
come a business comparable to cattle
raising in the early West, and is de
manding organization on a., new
Ernest Walker Sawyer, represent
ing the Department of the Interior,
last summer went to Alaska, cover
ing the reindeer area by airplane and
visiting many qf the villages that
formed headquarters for this new
livestock industry. The grass and
moss upon which the animals subsist
is abundant in great areas of the in
terior and deer are being moved
there. Already some of the Eskimos
have abandoned their homes on the
Arctic coast, migrating to interior
points, and taking up permanent res
idence, and more are to follow. The
development of tbe reindeer industry
in interior Alaska depends largely
upon accelei'ating this movement and
upon developing tbe possibilities of
utilizing these ranges. Their use, it
is held, may turn out of benefit to
individuals from the States possess
ing the pioneer spirit of earlier days.
Reindeer breed so rapidly and de
pendably that it is estimated that a
herd of 1,000,000 may pi'ovide 300,000
individuals a year for slaughter and
still maintain its number. Mr. Saw
yer believes that Alaska is now ready
!o yield that number of reindeer car
casses every year.
Some tens of thousands of reindeer
carcasses are now heing shipped to
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Rebuked By
President
HOOVER DECLARES POLITICS IS
J BEING PLAYED AT EXPENSE
OF nUMAN MISERY'.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Presi
dent Hoover Tuesday gave a stinging
rebuke to Congress in a statement in
which he declared that politics is
being played at the expense of
human misery in an attempt to boost
appropriations in ill-considered
schemes for emergency relief.
The House appropriations commit
tee yesterday, in reporting the un
empoyment emergency construction
bill, alloted $275,000 for Ketchikan
creek, Alaska, $17,000 for the Port
| Alexander project, and $35,000 for
; the harbor of refuge at Seward.
SHE MAKES FLIGHT FROM
LOS ANGELES TO ROOSEVELT
FIELD, N. Y., IN 13 HRS. 21 MIN
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N Y. Dec
10.—Ruth Nichols, Lye, N. Y.. society
g rl, arrived at, Roosevelt Field this
aAernoon, having flown ber mono
plane New Cincinnati to this placf
from Los Angeles in thirteen hours
: and twenty-one minutes
Jl UGE BE>< *\ EINDsSEY THE
ATER COMMOTION IN CHI RCB
NEW YORK, Dec. JO.—Judge Ber
D. Lindsey of Denver, noted advocate
of companionate marriage, created.?,
disturbance Sunday during service?
at Bishop Manning’s church. He was
ejoctel.
PORTLAND DOCTOR SAYS
DEATH STORY WAS FRAME!
PORTLAND.—Dr. Paul Cooper
wh<. attended Mrs. Leona Bowles
after her fatal stabbing in the apart
ment of her husband’s former secre
tary, Mrs. Irma Paris, ten. days ago
said Mrs. Paris, Bowles and himself
had rehearsed the story to be told tc
police.
Dr. Cooper had formerly said Mrs
Bowles was not dead when he was
| called with an ambulance, which tool
her to a private mortuary,
j Yesterday he said Mrs. Bowles had
f been dead twenty minutes when he
arrived.
Bowles and Mrs. Paris are held for
first degree murder, with no bail
Cooper and W. II. Cadlers are held
j as material witnesses under $2,500
bail each.
A big feature ol' Takotna’s Christ
mas doings will be the entertainment,
to be given by the children of the
| Takotna school, scbednle-d to take
place Wednesday night, December 24.,
at 8 o’clock. An excellent program
has been arranged.
Mr. and Mrs. James Weir arrived
Thursday from Spruce creek. They
plan to remain here for some time,
having taken up residence in the
Frank Jaquemai cabin on Second av
enue.
Dave Strandberg, well known Flat
mining man, was among the week’s
visitors, and was a passenger on the
Dorbandt plane for Anchorage yes
terday.
T ice departed this morning
with Pilot Robbins for McGrath, ai
which place he took passage with! E<
Young for Fairbanks