THE KUSRO TIMES
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VOL. XIII. NO. 23.
TAKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1933.
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PRICE. 25 CE*i'l’>
Alexander
Wins Out I
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APPOINTED JUDGE OF FIRST
-ALASKA DIVISION, DESPITE
NUMEROUS PROTESTS.
WASHINGTON.—President Rotme
-velt has appointed George V. Alej^
.ander of Oregon to be judge of the
First judicial division of Alaska.
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PORTLAND.—George E. Alex-j
.-ander, new -Alaska judge appointee,
was prominent for many years in
OJr’gon Democratic politics. He was
United States marshal ‘here during
the Wilson administration. Since then
ihe has practiced law. He was nom
inaed by .Roosevelt for judge in Alas
.ka .early in the special session, but
the nomination was .not approved be
cause of objections made by the Alas
:lca delegate, who said a resident Alas
-kan should be given the position.
Alexander will leave for his new
.post whenever designated by the At
torney 'General, probably the first of
the .month.
"Corning and making th eround trip
'with P. W. Carlson from Ophir dur
ing the week were Augusta Louise
Livenhagen and Billy iSanafkas.
Miss Emma Liskey was a Sunday
arrival from McGrath, leaving here
Monday morning for Yankee creek to
visit her sister, Ms. Chester Brink.
Gallows for
Kidnapers
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FORMER OREGON ’CONVICT SEN
TENCED TO HANG BY CON- J
VICTING JURY*
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Walter Mc
Gee, former Oregon convict, was sen
tenced to death here today by a jury
which convicted him of kidnaping
Miss May McElroy, who was released
after payment of a ransom of $30,
000. i
The decision of Kansas to make
short shrift of kidnapers is expected
to serve as an example to the rest of
the nation, now roused to indignation
over the riotous operations of abduc
tors and organized criminals through
out the States.
ALBANY, N. Y.—No details are
reported n the O’Connell kidnaping
case. It is believed O’Connell was
killed nr the kidnapers are afraid to
open negotiations -for fear of being
captured.
Owen Gray was among the week’s
arrivals from Medfra for a few days
in town.
John Rieck was a Satuday arrival
from Ganes, to which he .again re
turned oi} Monday.
Frank J. Guskey returned Tuesday
from a business trip to McGrath.
HIE MUKLUK TRAIL
By Bob Bartlett.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8.—
•office of the Public Works Adminis
trator is said to Tie about Teady to
flash the “Ge” signal which will set
in motion the vast forces summoned
by the administration to aid m ■curing
the -economic ills of the nation.
?It .has been extremely difficult, if
-not impossible, to ascertain which
projects will be included in the initial
program. That is not becausetCbl.
'Donald H. Sawyer, temporar yadmin
istrator of public .works, is loath to
„^ive information, but the whole set
- ,np is in sutfh a formative stage, that
.decisions are changed hourly.
For that .reason Delegate Diniond
! has not learned -which of the Alaska
projects, if any, -are on the approved
-list of the first group, of . public works.
-Practically all .the Delegate’s time
aince .Congress adjournied has been
spent in protecting the Territory’s in
terests in this respect. He recently
bad a long conference .with General
fillabury, a ranging dfflcial in the
-office of the chief of army engineers,
and urged a comprehensive rivers and
y harbors program for Alaska.
There was general cause for regret
in the resignation this week as di
rector of the national park service of
Horace M. Albright. There was no
•political reason i for Mr. Albright’s
resignation-iirate*rihe vservice, it is
said. He reai#flaD:irt order1 to become
the president arid general manager of
the United States'..Potash Company,
-which operates mines , and. refineries
at Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Mr. Albright ..visited Alaska once.
His visit was marred by a sudden at
tack of appendicitis while he was in
Mount.McKinley .National Park.and.
he had to he rushed to Fairbanks by
airplane 'for an operation,, but that
unpleasant experience did. net prevent
him .from becoming 'ijtery; much at
tached to-*be country.
Hi scantinued interest was recently
shown in concrete for mwhen he rec
ommended thaty$25ft,000 be alloted
from,public works funds to be used
in road building ni/iMeKinlpy Park.
. . A member of the national park ser
vice since its-forpnation in' 1917, Mr.
Albright was. its - -seCond-l '■ director.
•Once superintendent of Yellowstone
Park, he succeeded ."'Stephen M.
Mather as director.
Arno B. tJammerer will follow him
as director, Mr. Cammeepr has been
associate director; since JI9J9. Arthu
E, Dcmerer is to jrtep up to the posi
tion of associate director from that
of senior assistant to t he ^director.
A press dispatch to Alaska news
papers which may hafe ejeated the
wron gimpressionj said that; $400,000,
000 in road funds under.the public
works act had beenr apportioned
among the several States».and that
Alaska was not included...The fact is
that the $400,000,000 was* intended
only for the States andfigvfaii, which
come under the fedeal highway aid
act. The allotments i*fQ<. ^Alaska,
Puerto Rico and!the Islands
are to come from! othecppblic works
funds.
Thomas M. DohohSH>K.Qdrdova at
torney, and Mrs. Pcfouhoei. visited in
Washington this *ree£f-*£$ep mtftoing
Across country1 fr<ft ntCabferrtia. When
they left here thfyplamied to go to
Quebec, then to' Milwaukee, where"
Mr. Donohoe will represent the Cor
)Contipuad an Paflrf S>
ROOSEVELT WANTS SUPER
FORCE TO FIGHT CRIME I
WASHINGTON.—On a dozen far-j
flung fronts agencies for the Govern- ■.
, rnent are fighting crime, especially ,
. the growing menace of kidnaping. .
At Albany, N. Y., Washington, D.
C., in the Middle West and along the
Pacific coast, are new evidences of de-;
! termination to crush outlaws of the
i kidnap breed.
i President Roosevelt let it be defi
nitely known that he wants estab
lished a super relief force of Federal
agents to step in and check the
growth o forganized crime, especially
kidnaping.
The convention, of governers of the
j 48 States fe the Union, which is now
being held at Sacramento, capital of
California, added an emphatic voice
to the demands for action in various,
parts of the nation.
.Signs of the pifblic indignation
which has arisen recently, against the
.wave of criminalism, especially kifl
S naping, producing results are now
evident.
Howeverf, ,there are no new devel,
, nients in the matter of the kidnaping
of John' CRConneU, Jr., at.Albany, or
.Charles Ursdhel, millionaire oper
i ator Of Oklahoma City.
Export On
GOLD ORE ANT) GOLD ''CONCEN
TRATES MAY Bp EXPORTED,
‘ SAYS. DECISION,
WASHlNfiTON,-^^xingt slight
ly the etrisngeitf. regulations against
exporting -gold* tire Pnite d States
Treasury decided yesterday that gold
ore and gold concentates could be, sent
abroad, but the, ban remained against
exporting smelted and imperfectly re
fined gold.
Earlier, Attorney General Homer S.
Cummings told newspaper men that
hoarders who refuse to return the
banned gold to the Government, will
be prosecuted within three weeks.
WASHINGTON—Attorney General
Homer S. Cummings today ruled that
no form of gold produced in this
country which Mas been through any
smeltin gprocess can be exported un
der the Presidents’ gol dembargo
proclamation.
If gold is exported, it must De omy
because of the value of its gold con
tent, in the opinion of the Attorney
General, which would not change the
present status of the gold situation.
American producers had urged the
President to relax the restrictions so
as to permit exportation of American
mined gold in order to enable them
to take the benefits of the higher
prices offered on foreign markets for
gold.
In the London market gold now
brings a little more than $30 an
ounce.
The United States Treasury previ
ously had taken the attitude that the
executive order had not prohibited
th eexportation of American mined
gold. Whether or not this will be
upset by the 'Cummings decision is
not announced.
Harry F. Morton, Anchorage attor
ney, was a Tuesday arrival, remain
ing here only a few hours.
F. J. Spach, A. R. <3. supeintend
ent, left last Thursday on an official
visit to Cripple.
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Items of Importance
In Recent News Events
.CHIC AGO,—:A blanket indictment
charging A1 Capone, Benjamin
Squires, Aaron Sapiro, noted [lawyer,
and others numbering about thirty,
with conspiracy, has been made here :
by the grand jury.
, 'i he charges under ;the head of con
spiracy ^include, bombings, window
smashing, and restraint of trade.
The indictment is regarded as the
State's f.rst frontal attack on racket
eering violence, and is interpreted as j
a systematic drive to clean up the;
nest of organized enemies of the law ;
■who have worked upon legitimate in
1 dustries.
Sapiro is known as one of the or
ganizers o.f. the cooperative 1 market
movement in the United States.
Squire, sformerly ,was arbiter of the
cleaning .and dyeing industry, ar,d is
now engaged in similar work in;the
Pennsylvania hosiery trade.
t Recent reports from Pennsylvania
report cetain of the hosiey organiza
tions have been dominated by inter
ests seeking to contravene the na
tional recovery . act.
SjEAfTLE.—A -radio/repost says
tljat Captain Jack Livingstoo„ master
of tne steamer Northwestern, reports
the vessel struck a rock off Sentinel
Island, near Juneau, and is now rest
ing on the beach at Eagle River.
The passengers, numbering 86, were
safely transfered to a naval destroyer
and taken to Junea^ .and will be
brought to Seattle later by the Aleu
tian.
The _ Northwestern struck the rock
at 3 o’clock g,n the morning and tore
a hole in .the hull. The ship was en
route from Skagway to Seattle. The
Aleutian sailed from Juneau yester
day, but was ordered to return- to that
port to pick up tthe passengers, who
are being taken there by the de
stroyer.
WASHINGTON.—President Roose
velt and Hugh S. Johnson, national
recovery director, began selecting 600
lieutenants to impel toward victory
their unprecedented peace-time pro
gram for putting at least six -million
idle people to work by September.
Both are said tc be highly pleased
by the first public reaction to the new
scheme, under which about five mil
lion are expected to sign agreements
with the President to increase pay
and put more people to work by
shortening hours of those now em
ployed.
MILWAUKEE.—The Government
is striking at the kidnap racket, and
aiming at Roger Touhy, Chicago
gang chieftain, and three associates,
as the alleged abductors of William
Hamm, Jr., wealthy-1 St. Pauj brewer.
They are in jail, and the government
is preparing to ask their removal to
i St. Raul to face kidnap charges.
Hamm was seized June 15 and held
four days, and then released on pay
ment of a ransonr of $100,000. The
Government claims dentification of all
members of th$-gatg.
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INDIAN AFQMS, Inod. — Minute
men have h>^n» organized at various
points in Indiana the last few days
and are ready .to spring into action at
the first word of any crime, especially
robberies or Jcidnapings. They will
.use the communication systems, in
cluding police radio broadcasts, to
draw the net around fleeing desper
hdoes.
WASHINGTON. — Hugh Johnson,
national Kecove* y . udministi'aWr, esti
mates that between '5,000,000 and
6,000,1)00 workers will)be re-employed
before Labor iDay of this year. He
.'ays nothing can step. Roosevelt's eco
nomic .program
A White House Attache .stafl tt<5 that
a ddluge of •messages came in from
all States offering to support Roose
velt in his call issued Tuesday, and
is the greatest response pf the kind
in the .history of the country.
Industries are forming now codes
and pledging support to higher wages
and more jobs. Johnson, -e an ad
dress, said: “Nothing even will .’ham
per the president’s program. The
power of the people once aroused and
united is the most-irresistible form ir
the worltL”
LONDON.—After weekj- of turbu
lent discussion on /varied major prob
lems, the world economic conference
today adjourned the session, hut be
fore dojng so agreed to meet again
It was formally agreed to consider
the adjournment in the light of a re
cess, and later,, to meet again and
make a new attempt-to. restore world
prosperity.
! President noosevelt, in a dramatic
message to Premier Ramsay Mac
Donald, president of the /Conference,
ripped the .labels of failure i'ram the
conference. Roosevelt gave the dele
gates perspective of the work they
have done and told them that results
, not. always are measured in terms of
formal agreement but by a better un
derstanding of nations of the prob
lems of, other countries and adding
that he does not regard the world
congress as a failure.
The message from 'Roosevelt to
the conference enabled the body to
adjourn for lunch in buoyant spirits
instead ;>of under heavy .atmosphere
of continued criticism which the
speakers ^oic^ed in the morning ses
sion. Tre delegates were, like school
boys released^: after a severe .lecture
.and then a'word-.of praise from their
teacher. They laughed and chatted.
•SEATTLE.—The trading vessel
Any ox, under Hudson Bay Company
charter, is battling a severe leak ir
her ‘hull. She is now located .in the
Northern Bering Sea, under the .Arc
tie ice pack.
The United States Government cut
ter Northland is rusbng to the .aid^o.f
the crew of'2L The ship radioed that
it patch has beem placed over the leak:
and the captain is hopeful of saving
the vessel. The. pumps still are hold
ing down tbe. water- There are ,n<
details as to bow .the leak started.
MORRISON, (7epn.—Citizens here
fought off a hand of bank robbers ii
an attempt to .wipe .out crime in this
section. One member of the posse
was killed, and two of the bandits
captured.
Roger Touhy and three of his men,
classified as members of a Chicago
gang, are held in Milwaukee ou
charges growing out of the kidnaping
of William Hamm, of St. Paul.
RENO, Nev.—It is reported here
that Mary Pickford is planning to es
tablish a. residence in this city. The
report, however, is without (direct
confimation,'. although Mary admitted
while here recently and also in Holly
wood that she had such plans in mind.
Some time ago she admitted her sep
aration from Douglas Fairbanks