THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. TCIV: :%ry.zl.
TAKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6. 19.14.
PRICE, 25 (’EM*
Tales? Gf Loss
Of $18,000
MTRAHUlANACIGARETTES AL
L.EGEW RESPONSIBLE FOR
C1G LOSS.
Horn M? Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Dubois, on vacation to the
outside in many years, become victims
to sharks who fleeced them out of
$1&,000 ? Tfa-at; is the leading ques
tion iq these parts, where the Dubois
have made their home for about a
quarter of a century.
There seems to.be several versions
iof the affair. First reports were to
the effect that the Dubois, either on
the boat plying from Seattle or after
arriving at that port, had met a
’ “nice” gentleman who paid them
much attention. Their newly-formed
friend, so the story went, shortly af
-ter their arrival in Seattle, had in
vited thm to accompany him on an
. auto trip to Tacoma; that somewhere
on the highway leading to Tacoma
their .friend spied a large wallet, the
opening of which revealed “valuable”
bonds or securities estimated at
. $100,000. Their new friend was, of
course, an honest man. and was only
too egarer to return the wallet to its
> owner, whose address was given in ran
enclosed card.
Was the owner glad to receive his
'lost securities ? Well,' weTl - say#. So
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Denounced
By A1 Smith
FLAYS ROOSEVELT'S MOSEY
POLICIES AND TAKES RAP
AT ‘BOLONEY DOLLARS’.
_
NEW YORK.—Alfred E. .Smith
broke openly today -with Pit evident
Roosevelt’s monetary program, de
claring he. was for. sound money and
a return to the gold 'standard.
“I am for gold dollars as against
boloney dollars,” said the former
governor n an editorialto be ,pub
Ished in the December ssue of the
New Outlook.
“I am for experience as against
experiment. If I must choose .be
tween private management of busi
ness and management of .government
bureaucracy, I am for private man
agement.
“If I must choose hettween the
leaders of the past, with all the er
rors they', have made and with all the
selfishness they have been guilty of,
and the inexperienced young college
professors who hold no responsible
public office, hut are perfectly ready
to turn 130,000*000 .Americans intio
guinea pgs for experimentation, I
am going to he for the people who
have made khe. country what it is.”
“And I say this with full knowledge
of the fact that there are many
things in the old ord-r society
.which I should'like to hr vfechanfeed
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THE.MUKLUK TRAIL
By Bob Bartlett.
WASHINGTON,!' Nov.?. ^.‘^-An
nouncement was made today by Col.
. K. W. Lea, assistant administrator of
the National Recovery Administra
tion, that te iNRA plans or Alaska
had been jjiyem final approval and
■will be .placed in effect in the im
i mediata lutin'.
At the am time Col. Lea made pub
lic the,, names o three member h—
lie ha. ntmi-v of three members of
hhe NRA board for Alaska.
Hugh J. Wade has been appointed
deputty< administrator. Other mem
■ . bers—contingent upon their accept
. ance—-crtRi to be James J. Connors,
collector of customs for Alaska, and
aDvid Housel, Juneau hotel propri
etor.
Mr. Wq<& able young attorney, has
been- vrithv the NRA in Washington
been with, the NRA in Washington
. since early last summer. He is now
assistant to Deputy Administtrator
H. O. King, a graduate of the_JJni‘
versity of Iowa. Mr. Wade was a
special^ s^jeift. for the Department of
Justice several years ago and in that
capacity pent some time in Alaska.
. It was because of hi knowLege of the
Territory, coupled with his familiar
ity with tjhe NRA setup, he was ap
pointed to he responsible position he
, will opcaRy. A*! Alaska. Mr. and Mrs.
Wade will probably leave for Juneau,
where thef -yfill make their home, late
next weei^Vtlfrs. Wade was formerly
Miss Madjg£.:-Case, ss a member of a
pipneer Alaka family.
At a conference held this week by
Delegate Dimond and Governor Troy
with Harry L. Hopkins, head of the
, Civil Works Administration, it was
learned, that Alaska will obtain its pro
portonate .shape, of funds, tp be re
leaesed by CWA to decrease unem
ployment. The amount to be made
available to. the .Territory will prolf.
ably be between $150,000 and $2i»0,
000, and that um will provide 1,500
jobs. As it is a requisite that the
money be spent between December
1 and February 15,for stated purposes
only, it follows that most o the work
will have to be done in the coastl sec
tion where climatic conditions permit
of the corrying out of the construc
tive projects.
The hill drawn by Delegate Dimond
for introduction at the coming session
of Congress not only provides for the
Territorial election to take place in
Septmber, but advances the dale of
the convening of the Legislature
from March to January. If the bill is
approved the election will he held on
the second Tuesday in September,
commencng next year, and the Legis
lature will convene on the second
Monday in January, effective for the
1935 and succeeding sessions.
Asa C. Baldwin, TJ. S. •mineral sur
veyor, whose associations/ with the
Territory has dated backtover a pe
riod of many years, is hoVv in Wash
ton. He was engaged inf field work •
in Montana during tfhe sarumer for
the boundary camnus^jon.
Delegate Dimdnd,xgaye. ^lecture on
Alaska this week he|ore«a local club,
and at the conclys^iop pf* his remarks
iad to answer iptmjimu^attona about
the Territory.
Dr. Charles E.' Bunnell, president
>f the Alaska Agricultural College
) Continued, an Pace 8)
.and-which I do -not applaud or even
condone.”
Portions of Smith’s editorial were
made public at the office of the New
Outlook. The ■former governor, who
recently was a guest at tea at the
White House, ..was not present. 1
i he statement, which created a se«
sationn in the metropolis, expressed
Sm.th’s personal disbelief that “the
Democratic party is fated always tto
be the party of greenbackers, paper
money printed*, free, silver.ites, cur
rency mnageers, rubber dollar manu
facturres, and crackpots.”
’“If so, the issue is more than.a par
tisan one,” .Smith : continued “because
we -are dealing .today -with a . party
which actually holds responsible gov
ernment office,i-which is not merely
agitating .cjire-,alls in a campaign, but
which has in its hands the present
welfare of 1304)00,000 people., and the
future of . our most cherished Amer
ican institutions.
“I am too old now to be regular
just far .the sake of regularity.
“What .we need in this country is
absolute dependability in our money
standars. It is the only thing which
will restore .confidence. The latest
fiscal move o ftfie.administration has
undermined .public epnfidenece. .They
have created uncertainty.
“Uncertaintty paralyzes business,
discourages private initiative, drives
money into hiding and places the en
tice: burden of. susfcqininfc r, tins, popla
tion on the central government.
“We are told that there is a new
theory of gevprnnjent abroad. It is
the theory.,iha .the. i executives are
quarterbacks on. a football team who
do n ot .know a minute in advance
what signal t hey will call next. They
determine tlje. plays- on.-the basis of
‘hunches.’
■ _“Qf courses, this is just anothere
ypame fou opportunism. , There .is
nothing .pew in it. It never polled a
..great modern industrial nation out of
a depression.
yv hat tlje people need today is
! what, the Bible centuries ago dsscribed
as a shadow of a great -rock in a
weary land. That was what GTover
: Cleveland represented to the people
to the pcopie in his day—a symbol
of strength and firmness, of coolness,
of rock-like ntegrity in the midst of
shifting sands, heat and desolation.
“In the absence of anything defi
nitely known to be better I am for
nite I am for a rteurn to the gold
standard.”
The editorial was titled “Sound
“Sound .Money. An open Letter to
the Members of the Chamber of Com
merce of the State of New York.”
The Letter was written in response
to a request for his views from the
officers of the Chamber, which recent
ly went on record as favoring im
mediate return to -the gold standard.
“I know that in writing this letter
I am inviting the charge that I have
‘gone Wall Street,’, ” Smith conclud
ed. “Well, this is.not the first time
that I have taken the unpopular side
of a great national question. Put-me
down, therefore, as a sound money
man and as bing with you in your
campaign.”
Dick Matthews, an oldtimer -of this
district, recently sold his holdings at
NLy ■ 1 to Clint Winan. Mr. Matthews
intends to locate on the coast, where
he is said to have excellent prospects.
Frank Guskey has been at XJanr.s
the past week, giving attention . to
business affairs.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Brink are the
proud parents of a son born at An
chorage on Dec. 19. Mrs. Brink and
son returned to the family home at
Takotna on January 3.
Items of Importance
In Recent News Events
BERLIN.—Eugenic courts were
again functioning in Germany Janu
ary 1 in -an effort to make the nation
physically fit. Under the plan as for
mulated by Chancellor Adolph Hitler
T700 courts will examine at least
400,000 men and women who are con
sidered to . be hereditary defectives.
Such as are ascertained to be heredi
tary defectives will he deprived of
reproductive . power.
BERLIN. — G Government regula
tions passed today provided for the
.sterilization of 430,000 persons, vic
tim? pf , hereditary disease .or mental
deficients.
"BUCHAREST, Roumania.—The as-i
sassinated Premier Bucca of Rouma
nia was. .scarcely .laid in his grave
when members of the Iron Guard at
ecratpd his tomb.
. EOS A_NGELES.—The .Tainfali /of
iBundayi, Dey. . 24, broke all known
previous records for Califomia, when
14 inches of rain.fell in a few hours.
Many highways .are closed ta traffic.
Damages in the vicinity of Los An
geles win . excadd*$l&jOOO,00O. There
aye fifty .known dead and mapy: re-,
ported missing.
,x KELSG, Wash.—The * recently re
paired (Joweepian river dyke at this
place again gave way under ./the -tor
rential rains of the ■ past week and
the whole sovjtherp section of the city,
was flooded in many places to a depth
of ten feet. Much of the flooded area,
was on.lypartially rehabilitated after
the flood of last JuDe. .No deaths
known, hut 41 reported niissijng.
LONGVIEW.—Both the Lengbell
and Weyerhauser lumber mills, as
w^jJL as the fiber and-pulp'plants have
been closed for the past week. The
employes.. are<. being/worked in shifts
in an attempt to prevent the giving
away of the Columbia river dyke, the
breaking of whiclrwould flood the en
tire Longview section.
The Cowlitz, Coweeman, Klamath
aid Columbia rivers are all above
high nvater mark. Many valley farms
are under water, and damages will
amount to .many thousands of dollars.
The/ flood of January 1 is general
over southern Washington and the
Oregon and southern £ California
coast. .Damages < wil 1. amount to
many million dollars and .thousands
of families left homeless.
COLUMBUS, O.—“Roosevelt \ will
not be President three, years from
now,” Senator. Simon. D. Fess, Repub
lican, of Ohio, predicted today.
“It looks like we are. going to hell,”
the. Senator added. “We are facing
the most ..stupendous deficit in history.
We are only .beginning, too. No gov
ernment can spend itself into pros
perity!”
' Senator Fess, "32 years old,-before
becoming Senator, served in the
House of Representatives from 19131
to 1923. He le'ft the House of Rep
resentatives torjonter the Senate, of
which he hag jnt$tinued to i>e< a mem
ber. He ifi.iItKPui'lican whip in the
Senate. He :iga£ temporary chairman
of the Republican national conven
tion in 192$ apu was chairman of the
Republican national committee - from
1930 to 1932.
Before entering Congress Senator
Pess was prominent in the educa
tinnnl fiplfl. Ha waa nrftfpssftr e\f his.
tory, dean of theMfluIlege of "Law arjd
vice. president of <Hii» Morcthern Uni
versitty.
fCH4CA'QO.—Staunch suyportt of
Federal . Administration's program
for facm recovery, was the response
made today by Jheyrwe thousand
farnws iuiattendanee at' ‘the «o*ven
tion inv Chicago of American Farm
Bureau .<Federation,, to the , -rpeesage
sent yesterday Ao >.ltie gathering by
President Roosevelt argrog that be
be jiiven, the-coQperatipp of all -agri
cultural interests in .hLs plans for
solving facm problems.
CHICAGO.— For,.the simprovement
of labor Secretary oT Labor* Francis*
Perkins eUtlkud today a neir-point
program, which, if adopted * sbv says
will pay dividends in increased indi
vidual production,, better health and
more satisfaction among workers.
Her program ^provides for.*
1.. Permanent limitation for the
hours *f labor.
2. Prohibition of 'child labor.
3. ^,£HpiKiarcl jnifiimuut wages for
women.
4. Requirements for .-sate . and
l. health y. .work i ng-* vend it isna.
%f». Provisions foi agnd woi-kers.
d. turtle form of ..unernptpyment
reserved funds.
7. Adequate workmen’s eornpensa
tio,o laws.
H_ Frep. public* employment . bu
i rtvtu- .
yitro river administration <vf "la
j bor laws.
HO: .Stepato make permanent pres
ent improved labor conditio as
JUNEE AU. — -Unemploy men tf con
ditions in the Indian villages in
i Southeastern Alaska art probably
more serious than last year, ami the
situation - among the Indian popula
tion at 'Ketchikan' is -particularly
acute, 'acceding’ to Pad) W.sGardon,
director of education of the 'Alaska
division of the Federal ’Office- .of In
dian Affairs, -who has returned -to his
headijuarters in Juneau after- a par
tial survey Of the communities in
Southeastern Alaska.
His bureau has already started to
*refieve the situation through projects
financed by the Civil Works. Aidniin
.istrtafcam and. the Public' Works "Ad
ministration. .The Juneau sEmpirr
says Mt. Cordon inspected Schools,
Studied general conditions and con
rfcrred with Indian' residents regbro •
ing .proposed- 'projects.
With exception of Metlakatla con
ditions ib the1 Indian eommunities-are
hot »goOd, Mr. Cordon said. This is
due to the poor tithing season. 'Most
of the couumuuties earn little money
from that osuroe and many . ©f the
people jase in want.
Due to ta. successful tithing season,
Metlakatla residents are fairly pros
perous. This in not true at'Ketchi
kan,; where the situation, is said-to be
acute.
ATHENS, -Greece.-4Samu6l Insult,
former utilities upronioter-of Chicago,
and now iniAthenga fqgutive from
justice froniHbe^UnitedtStates, must
leave Greece by January 31, .he was
notified .dafe yesterday fiy the ’Greek
government; He was at' first direct
ed to leajnt/iy January 1/but fatter the
time 'wapoffJ$e|‘ded ta January' 31 .£te
sull hr tbaUfScck courts has twketdc
feated, efforts'of the United.
pytraHito Kim ‘fnr trial