VOL XI NO. 10
THE KUSKO TIMES
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY.A JUNE 6 1931
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DERAILMENT OCCURRED NEAR
FRAGO; 1 DEAD; MORE THAN
A SCORE.ARE. INJURED.
FARGO, N-D., May 28.—Dashing
along at a speed of 50 miles an hour,,
the crack. Great- Northern “Empire
Builder” coast train, eastbound from.
Seattle, was picked up like a toy from
Its track, and wrecked by a. tornado
eight miles -southeast, of - Fargo late
yesterday. afternoon.
Andrew Anderson of Montesano,
Wash., was thrown through a win*
dow and ground to death beneath the
whees.
Mrs. Emil Hannan of Seattle may
not reeoverr as ttis possible her. neck
was broken and she was internally
injured.-*
More than a score of other persons
were injured as the twelve coaches of.
the train were picked up without
warning and deposited with a third of
them on the prairie, leaving only the
engine and tender on the track.
The cars of the train were all-steel
in. construction and none collapsed.
ROME, May..30.—Michele Schirru,
a--naturalized American citizen, was
convicted today-of plotting .the assas
sination -of .Premier. Mussolini and.
sentenced to-death- by .shooting in the
back.
Republicans
Make Gain
DEATH'OF N..Y. MEMBER GIVES
REPUBLICANS AN EXTRA
SKAT IN HOUSE*.
NEW YORK, May 29^-The Repub
licans made an important gain in
House strength yesterday when Con
gressman Matthew O’Malley, Demo
crat,succumbed to a. heart attack. He
was 53 years of age.
The sudden death of O'Malley came
as a shock to his party and to his
many admirers in Brooklyn, where he
resided.
As a result of the death of O’Mal
ley the division of the two major par
ties when Congress convenes in De
cember will be: Republicans, 216;
Democrats, 214; farm labor, 1.
DOORS OF PEN SOON TO
OPEN FOR ALBERT B. FALL
WASHINGTON, June 1.—The Su
preme Gourt today refused to review
the conviction of Albert Bacon Fall,
firmer, secretary of interior, whowas
recently convicted of the iharge of
accepting a $100,000 bribe in connec
tion with the Teapot Dome oil scan
dal. Fall must now report at once
for commitment to the penitentiary.
DON’T WANT THEM IN FRANCE.
JARIS, June 1.—The government
today ordered Texas Guinan, notori
ous night club queen, and her retinue
of girls to leave France
Copulation. of. Alaska, By
Color, Nativity, Sex, Etc.
WASHINGTON, April ■ 3<WTh«
Dkeetorof -the ' Census today an.
nounced the population of the Terri'
tory of Alaska classiled by color, na
tivity*. and sex, as returned in th<
1930 census,-, together with the num
ber of persons 21 yearn of. age am
over, and-the foreign-born white pop
ulation by.-citizenship. The total pop
• ulalion. of- the Territory on October
1, 1929, was 59,278, comprising 35,764
males and 23,514 females, or an ex*
cess of 12,250 males over females.
: There were in the Territory 28,640
■ | white persons, 29,983 Indians, 278
I Japanese, 164 Filipinos, 136 Negroes,
■' and 77 of other races, including Mex
■ icans, Chinese, Koreans, and Ha
THREE LEADING SEATTLEITES
PASS TO THE GREAT BEYOND
SEATTLE, May 27.—Horace A_
Middaugh, 7, Asuperintendent of. con
struction of the White Pass Railroad,
Alaska canneryman, and C. E. Villas,
pioneer banker, died here yesterday.
| Dr. William Robert Inge .Dalton,
last surviving officer of the Confed
erate Navy, a distinguished physician,
died at his home here on Monday, at
the age of 89.
HOOVER MORE ENCOURAGED
I OVER ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
WASHINGTON, May 27.—At the
close of a prolonged Cabinet meeting
Tuesday afternoon, the White House
issued a statement that President
Hoover was more encouraged over
the economc condiitons of the country
than he has been at any time since
the depresion set in. His optimiism
is the result of a study and. careful
survey of federal ndu strial activities.
HOOVER LAUNCHES HIS
CAMPAIGN FOR RE-ELECTION
SEATTLE, May 30.—Presdent
Hoover virtually launched his cam
paign for another term in his address
at the Union League Club dinner last
night.
A crowd of fifty communists at
tempted a demonstration as Hoover
entered the hall it being fully twenty
minutes before the communists were
routed by the police.
! WASHINGTON, June L—To cover
the deficit in the current expenses of
the government, Secretary of Treas
ury Mellon today offered (800,000,000
bond sales on June 15, to draw 3 1-2
j per cent, and to mature n 1959.
waiians. As compared with the num
ber in 1920 (27,883), the white popu
lation shows an increase of 12.9 per
cent. The white population included
18,460 persons of native birth and
19,180 persons of foreign birth.
The population 21 years of age and
over numbered 36,074, or 60.9 per
cent of the total. The foreign-born
white population 21 years of age and
over amounted to 9,952, of which
1,411 were returned as alien.
These figures, which are subject to
slight correction, are summarized in
the following table:
Color,. Nativity and
Citixenship.
Total population
White_
Native ...
Native parentage
Foreign or mixed parentage
Foreign boro
Naturalised
Fiat papers
Alien_
Unknown
Indian -__
Full blood_
Mixed, blood ..
Other
Population 21 yean of
age and over -
White...
Native ..
Native parentage .
Foreign or mixed parentage
Foreign bora .
Naturalised .
First papers
Allen _
Unknown —
Indian •_
Full blood -
Mixed blood
Other
1930
Total
69,278
28,640
18,460
10,990
7,470
10,180
6,359
1,974
1,528
319
29^983
22,155
7,828
655
36,074
22,599
12,647
7,793
4,854
9,952
6,265
1,965
1,411
311
12,922
10,641
2,381
653
Male
35,764
19,904
11,615
6,930
4,585>
8,389
5,143
1,867.
1,110
269
15,359
11,345
4,014
601
23,944
16,740
8,477
6,227
3,250
8,263
6,091
1,860
1,046
266
6,764
5,511
1,253
440
Female
23,514
8,736
6,945
4,060
2,885
1,791
1,216
107
418
50
14,624
10,810
3,814
154
12,130
5,850
4470
2,566
M04.
1,689’
1,1741
105.
365.
45*
5,030
5,030
1U28
113
1920
Total
55,036
27,883
16,286
9,538
6,748
11,597
5,478
2,378
3,080
66 h
26,558
(1)
(1)
595
35,545
22,686
11,379
7,041
4,338
11,307
5.370
2.370
2,943
624
12,325
(1)
(1)
534
Per Cent
Distribution
1930
100.0
48.3
31.1
18.5
12.6
17.2
10.7
3.3
2.6
0.5
50.6
37.4
13.2
14
100.0
62.6
35.1
21.6
13.5
27.6
17.4
5.4
3.9
0.9
35.8
29.2
6.6
1A
1920
100.0
50.7
29.6
17.3
12.3
211
10.0
4.3
5.6
1.2
48.)
(1)
(1)
1JL
100.0
63.8
32.0
19.8
12.2
31.8
15.1
6.7
8.3
1.8
34.7
(1)
(1)
1.6
age and ever
Items of Importance
In Recent News Events
From Washington comes word that
a battle over radio regulations is ex
pected to develop in the next Con
gress. Decision of the American
: Newspaper publishers Association to
' wage a fight against alleged unfair
competition by radio stations in news
and advertising broadcasting is con
! sidered certain as the result of the
introducton of measures seeling to
! prohbt or restrct direct advertising
i
I«
over the- air.
The publishers’ association has in
structed its directors to investigate
the legalty of direct advertising
broadcasts. The publishers contend
that these stations receive govern
mental, aid by virtue of a franchise in
a wavelength which they say is tanta
mount to amonopoly. This is held
by them to be unfair competition
with other. advertising media not so
favored.
1
At Indianapolis, on .May 2C, while 1
tryng out their car in final tests for 1
the 500-mile automobile classic, Joe '
Cacda, 31, of Bryn Mawr, ha., and
Clarence Grove, 23, of Ha^erford,
Pa., his mechanic, were almost in- '
stantly killed when their car lost a i
tire and careened up the track, final-1 ]
ly going over the retaining wall and t
falling to the ground many feet be- i c
low. As'the car wei over the wall f
. it crashed into a tree and burst into J
flames as t crashed to i he ground, s
The driver and his mechanic were J1
caught in the wreckage and undoubt- . 1
edly would have been cremated b’’t j 1
BODY OF F. C. H. SPENCER T
REPORTED FOliND TODAY
JUST BELOW VICTORIA BAR
What are assumed to be the re- 1
mains of F. C. H. Spencer, who un- *
i doubtedly fell overboard from his 4
boat while making a trip to McGrath r
Last August, were found today by 1
some natives at a point just below i1
Victoria bar. It is understood that j 4
Commissioner W. T. Vanderpool and!
Deputy Marshal Stanley J. Nichols,
together with Frank Larson, are on
their way up to the scene this after
noon, aside from which there are no
other details.
HOOVER MEMORIAL DAY v
ADDRESS AT VALLEY FORGE
VALLEY FORGE, May 30.—Pres- *
ident Hoover today called upon the j
country to extricate itself from an j
economic Valley Forge by showing i
those qualties of steadfastness and . /
resourcefulness shown by Washing- j;
ton and his men on this campground i]
during the bitter winter of 1777-78.
Speaking to the Memorial Day crowd, j
the chief executive warned against an
easy way out of the present difficul
ties.
Last week visitors from Ophir in
cluded P. W. Carlson, Andy Hansen,
Alex Schidell.
Fred Roethlisberger left Ophir a
few days ago for Yankee creek, to
join the Higgins dredging crew.
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Coming up from McGrath last d
week were John Sinclair and Albert P
Ivey. E
- t<
Archie Higgins, manager of the
Yankee dredge, waa a town visitor
today. j ci
or the fact that rescuers reached
he scene speedily and dragged the
wo bodies from the burning car.
Samuel Stein, ex-convict, and
larry Greenberg were formally
harged at New York with the mur
ler of Vivian Gordon, Broadway but
erfTy, by Harry Schlitten, Newark,
'I. J., taxi driver. “Izzy” English
jewis was held as a matterial wit
less after an alleged confession by
schlitten at police headquarters. The
>olice said Schlitten told theem he
Irove the car i nwhich Miss Gordon
vas strangled on February 6 and
rom which her body was thrown into
l thicket in upper Bronx.
Fur prices in the Tacoma fur mar
et showed stiffening prices at the
nonthly sale. A total volume of $50,
00 represented pelts from Alaska
,nd several western states. Cross
ox, lynx, muskrat and marten were
irime favorites. Most of the furs
kill be shipped to New York.
At Madrid, the new Spanish pro
isional government has taken what
s generally regarded as the first im
'ortant step in its avowed program
o separate the church and state. The
abinet decreed absolute religious
reedom of worship for all creeds in
pain, but this action does not yet
ctually mean separation, because
here is a signed concordat between
dadrid and the Vatican which must
e terminated by mutual agreement.
telegraphic Ticks.
ROME, May 28.—Fascist students
ast night stoned the Catholic pub
ishing house of Critic and other pub
ications. From the office of the
;ewspaper Observatore Roman they
arried an oil painting of Pope Pius
nto the street, exclaiming “Here is a
raitor to his country.”
SEATTLE, June 3.—Conrad Siem,
lome pioneer, identified with the in
roduction of reindeer into Alaska,
ied at Washington a couple of days
go. His remains were cremated, and
he ashes will be strewn into the Po
omac today.
PARIS, June 1.—President Dou
lergue of France, bachelor, was mar
ied today to Mme. J. Graves, widow,
le retires on the I3th.
SEATTLE, May 30.—The steamer
Jaska saled for Seward this morn
lg, carrying 200 passengers, includ
lg 75 excursionists.
IUSSOLINI ISSUES A FEW
NEW REGULATIONS
ROME, June 1.—The government
might dissolved all Catholic youth
ssociation. Mussolini at the same
me ordered that newspapers cease
nti-Catholic attacks upon the Pope,
ad also ordered Catholic papers to
;op abuse of fascists.
Mrs. W. A. Vinal departed a few
ays ago for Spruce creek, to which
lace she was accompanied by Miss
lsie Rieck, who returned hem yes
irday.
Andy Schwartzdale, from Yankee
Mk. was a recent town visitor.