VOL. V. NO. 9
TOKOTNA, ALASKA.. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1925.
PRICE 25 CENTS
House Aircraft Com
mittee Investigation
Ends Abruptly.
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Washington,’ Fob. 25.— Thej
House aircraft committee has|
ended its investigation abruptly, ■
and unless something develop^:
before t he adjournment of Con
press there will* be no resump-j
lion until next December. The;
pressure of republican leaders,
who objected to the manner in |
which the hearing -was being!
conducted, was primarily re
sponsible for the decision of the
committee to vote to close it.
The refusal of those in control
of appropriations to provide 1 ur ■
ther money for its continuance
was the directcause of its death.
Thirty million dollars for the
modernization of six battleships,
the conversion of two vessels
into airplane carriers, and the
construction of two cruisers and
six gunboats, was the chief item
m a deficiency appropriation um ;
reported- to • the Ho-asa today-.
The bill carried a total ci $54.
426*563.
The new $43,030 OCC risers and
harbors bill was favorably re
ported by the Senate commerce
committee,-which added a score
of projects to those already eu
acted by 4lie House.
The House passed the Senate
bill increasing the pay of repre
sentatives from $7,500 to §10.000
a year.
The Bursum bill, giving re
tirement privileges to 1:800 vol
unteer. officers of the army and
navy who were disabled by
wounds or disease during the
world war** was passed by the
Senate yesterday afternoon.
Woodrow^ Wilson’s birthday,
’' December 28, would be a legal
holiday throughout the country
under a joint resolution intro
duced in the Senate by Neely, of
West Virginia.
F. W. Upham, Repub
lican Figurehead, Dead j
Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 2.3—Fred W. |
Upham;' of Chicago, formerly treasurer
of the republican national committee,
died he re-Shod ay. He was for twenty
•years the genius in the financial affairs j
of the national republican conventions.
Billy Jones, who had the misfortune
•to break sec-oral of his ribs, a few
nights ago, while carrying a load of
wood into his cabin, in doing which
his feet slipped aod he was thrown
onto the low-fence in front of his cabin,
is doing as well as can be expected.
He has been removed to the Gullikson
House, where he is under the care of
Miss Virginia Howard, who came from
Ophir on Tuesday.
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Tokotna Igloo of Pioneers, at its last
meeting, passed resolutions urging the
adoption of a summer mail route via
Lake Mincbumina.
Hank IVallick left Tuesdav for Mc
Grath, as a passenger of Pete Michels.
From Airplane to Deter
mine If Ship Can ’ e
Blown Out of Water.
Washington, Feb. 24, — Briga
dier General Mitchell, first as
sistant of the army aircraft ser
vice, will bomb a battleship run
ning at full speed, and tilled with
high explosives, off Fortress
Monroe on March 2, in the pres
ence of the House ; ircraft corn
tniltee, to demons! rate his con
tention tnat any battleship float
can be blown out of water by
bombs dropped from planes.
Secretary of War Weeks and
Secretary of Wavy Wilbur liave
given iheir consent to the House
aircraft committee, which asks
that the test, be held.
Strange Malady At
tacks Eskimos, Seattle
Seattle. Feb. 24 —t\ sum rare malady,
combining symptoms >4 influenza and
pleurisy, with a raging fever, lias
stricken ttie members of tbe- eleven
Eskimo refugees from Wrung*-! island.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Seattle.—-Michael Dot ovan, while at
tempting to escape from a truck load
of l«iquor which he was conveying
through the city, was dangerously
wounded Monday by George Browu. a
federal prohibition agent.
Rome.—Pope Rius Sunday, for the
first time, descended in ot. Peter’s to
worship at the holy tomb of the apos
ties. The pontiff was accompanied hy
the entire membership of the sacr< d
college residing here.
Seattle.—Mary Louise Huge Sulli
van. daughter of Janies L). Hoge.
banker, obtained a divorce Thussdav
from James Colbert Sullivan, dealer in
insurance and surety bonds.
Chicago.— Addison li. Proctor. 87, ol
St. Joseph, Mich., last surviving dele
gate to the republican national conven
tiou that nominated nbraham Lincoln
for president, died Tuesday.
Pittsburgh.—The explosion of a dy
namite bomb in the produce district
Thursday damaged two buildings and
broke windows in others around an en
tire block.
San Francisco.—M. fi. De V ting,
editor and owner of the San l< ,-tse
Chronicle, died Tuesdaj nigiM. i w
ing an operation for appendicitis.
Seattle.—The baud of VYi angel J
island Eskimos will he returned u
their native land on the cutter Bear,
sailing from Seattle on ;Vlav 10.
Columbus.— Hal, 18. son of Governor
Donahey, Tuesday, was sentenced to
three davs m jail for violation of auto
mobile H attie la »«
Seattle,— 1'he Hart & Smith music
Store, on Fourth avenue, was held up
i id robbed til $300 cash, Tuesday even
log.
Seattle. — Mrs. Bernice Woolev. 23,
was killed Tuesday in an early morning
*uto crash on the Bothel high way.
Airplane Mail Service
Alaska Next Summer
Seems Most Probable!
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Washington.—The situation regard- i
ing the diphtheria epidemic at Nome]
has spurred the Postoffice. Department i
to press plans for an aw tua*!'service
for Alaska, and Congress ints author
ise d the establishment of the service
Jul.v 1. provided the cost is not greater
than the present methods.
Paul Henderson, second assistant
postmaster general, declared this af- j
ternoon that experiments tried last j
winter with the airplane service be
tween Fairbanks and McGrath demon
strain,J t^ie superiority of the airplane
over other methods.
Tremor of Half Minute
at Seward, Full Min
ute at Fairbanks. j
Anchorage, Feb. "25.—Towns!
along the line of the Alaska rail- |
road were rocked yesterday by
one of the most severe earth f
quakes ever experienced by !
Alaska pioneers, according to
reports received today. Chino
neys were wrecked, water pipes
' broken and much other damage
'done. The tremors lasted from
: half a minute ai Seward to a full
i minute at Fairbanks.
World Flyer Wade
Disapproves Hill
Cbicago, Feb. _<’> —Lirst Lieutenant
Leigh Wade, world 'her. here todav, !
disapproved o? the bill passed by the
House of Representatives, advancing;
tiie world fliers eti the air set vice pro- 1
motion list and conferring upon them
distinguished service medals. He said
he would resign front the air service if
the bill becomes a law.
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Federal Judge McGee,
Minneapolis, Suicides
Minneapolis. Feb Li — Federal Judge
John Franklin McGee, of ibis city, shot.
him>elf to death in his oh am hers, to
day. The belief that his health was
failing is said to have prompted the
act._
British Rum Runner
Without Fuel, Water
San Francisco, Feb. 22 —Federal ofii
rials have granted permission to the
[fed Stack Tug boat Com patty to tow to
Vancouver the B itUb rumrunner,
Stadacona, which lias been lying to
twenty five miles off the Golden Gats,
for the past seven weeks, without fuel
or water A coast guard cutter has,
been keeping constant vigil of the:
Stadaconu, __
iVe Jensen, from up the Nsixon sec
lion, was a Tuesday arrival from Mc
Grath, ____
Owen Gray, after having brhught up
a load of shortages, returned Thursday
to McGrath.
Former Warden at At
lanta Borrowed Thou
sands From Convicts.
Atlanta, Feb. 23. — Albert E.
Sartain, formerly warden of the
United States penitentiary here,
was found guilty this afternoon j
of accepting bribes from pris
oners.
Sartain admitted on the wit
ness stand daring his trial that
he had borrowed §5.000 from
Willie H Haar, convicted Savan
nah bootlegger, while Haar was
a convict at the penitentiary.
Sartoin was also charged with
having solicited and accepted
bribes from prisoners at the in
stitution in return for soft
berths.
Two Found Guilty of
Bon Marche Robbery
Seattle, Feb. 24. — Edward Fasiok and
bis wife. Esther, and J. H. Dooley were
found guilty of the Bon Marche rob
berv. late this afternoon.
Joseph O’iSeiil, ex poMeeman, and
bis wife, Mi' . wanted for trial upon
the same charge, and who jumped
bonds totaling flo.OOO, are still at
large.
Washington Notes
Washington, Feb. 26.—Coolidge ap
pointed George A. Parks governor of
Alaska because he felt that that post
ought to be given to a resident of the
Territory, be f xplains to callers at the
White House. At the same time, how
ever, the President makes it plain that
he has the greatest respect for Scott C.
Booe, the present governor.
Washington.--The House aircraft
committee adopted a resolution Mon
day asking Sict tary of Navv Weeks
for a confidential report on the it>23
bombing tests against the battleships
New Jersey and Virginia.
Washington. I tie Senate. Thursday
night gave its approval to a pay in
crease for vice president., cabinet ofli
cials and members of congress. The
measure has been sent to the House.
Washington The Senate commerce
Committee Monday knocked out. .if the
rivers and ha'hors anthorizaiion bill
the House provision requiring comple
tion of ail projects within five years.
Washington,—'Cooltdge has uomiuat
ed Adolphus Frederick Steure to be
United States district judge for the
Northern California district.
Washington,—The House on Sunday
paid a two-hour tribute to the memory
of uiree New ling land republicans—
Senators .Lodge. Itraodegee and Colt.
'Washington.—William J. Jardine,
president of iCa.tr.as Agricultural Col
lege. was Darned by Cooltdge as Secre
tary of Agriculture, Monday.
Washington. -The Mouse Tb-ursday
passed the bill to reward the world
flyers along the Hoes recomtneuded by
Secretary of Navy Weeks.
SCANDAL
REVEALED
In Application for Writ
of Habeas Corpus at
San Francisco*
San Francisco, Feb. 26.—Ap
plication for a writ of habeas
corpus in the superior court this
afternoon revealed an unusual
story, involving a naval scandal,
the suicide of an officer, and the
incarceration in the Napa State
Hospital for the Insane of an
other officer.
The writ was applied for de
manding that Lieutenant Frank
Kennedy, now in the Napa asy
lum. be brought into court for
the purpose of showing that he
is not insane. Judge King grant
ed the application, which is re
turnable Monday.
Lieutenant Albert Pierce Bur
leigh, who committed suicide at
Mare Island ten days ago, was
to have appeared as counsel for
Kennedy in a trial sought by the
latter to clear his record of
charges made by the captain of
a vessel in^ Far Eastern waters
on which Kennedy served as
navigation officer.
Application for a court martiai
was denied by Secretary of Navy
Wilhnr
Informal Discussion of
New Arms Conference
London, Fob. -4.—A nev,r armament
conference which President Goolidgt
would summon has been meotionec.
here Id conversations with tiie Amer
ican ambassador and is under consid
eration, Foreign Secretary Austin
Chamberlain announced in the [Jous»
(if Commons today
Washington.—Informa! discussion of
a new arms conference to be called by
President Goolidge has been proceed
ing in London, but officials here indi
cated today that no definite result*
have been attained.
J.D. Rockefeller Files
Suit Against Daughter
New 'York, !• eb. 24. —John I). Rocke
: feller filed suit today against his
[ daughter, Edith Rockefeller McCor
mick, of Cnicago, in which he calls for
an accounting of a trust fund created
for her in 1817 and which has increased
: to 88,500,000
Mr and Mrs. Howard Langley, who
were among those in attendance at the
enjoyable party given by the ladies oT
Tokotoa, last Saturday evening, re
turned to McGrath on Sunday, as pas
sengers of Owen Gray.
Dan Nicholson, Little cieek operator,
was a Thursday arrival-fur a couple o'
days in town.
Charlie G'Uallorao. after an absence
of several months, arrived Sunday front
McGrath, and left Monday for- a shor:
visit at Opbir.
W. J. Widtiian was a Wednesday r
rival from McGrath