THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. XI NO. 42
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SA'l L KJL AY.; DECEMBER 19 1981
PRICE 25 CE&TC
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Germany To
iT6ll World
— i
I
ttbat. her ability to pay re
P JPARATIONS IS AT AN END
i FOB INDEFINITE TIME.
I.. BERLIN.—djhancellor Bruening has
a. informed Great Britain that when the
Lausanne reparations conference con
venes Germany will tell the world
Shat her ability to pay reparations
is at an end. Bruening told Sir Hor
ace Rumbold, the British ambassador,
that not only for the present but for
an indefinite time to come Germany
will be unable to pay. The German
delegation to the Lausanne meeting
also will argue, he said, that so long
as the present reparations policy con
tinues, economic recovery for Ger
many and the world will be impos
sible.
Miss Beth M. Anderson has been
suffering for the past week or two
from frozen feet, which she contacted i
on her way home from Ophir, New ]
Year’s Day. The frozen members are
still in bad shape, and it remains to
be seen whether she will have to go
to Anchorage for medical treatment.
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Casimir Naudtz was a town visitor
from Yankee during the past few
days.
Mrs. George W. Clyde was an ar
rival from Flat a few days ago, com
ing over with Pilot Barnhill.
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Alaska Interests At
The Nation’s Capital
(By W. A. S.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—In addi
tion tc many bills for pensions and
private claims Delegaate Wickersham
has prepared and sent to the Clerk of
the House for introduction in Con
gress many important measures,
among which are the following:
A bill to amend the Organic Act
and give theTerritory greater pow
ers jproviding that the Legislative As
sembly shall have power to provide
for the creation and organization of
counties and county form foof gov
ernment; that no county shall have
less than 500 legal voters nor a less
area than ,2000 square miles, and
shall not be created until the ques
tion is first submitted to the legal
electors residing within the proposed
county and approved by three-fifths
majority of the legal votes cast at
such election.
That the United States shall annu
: ally pay to the Territory a sum equal
t to 50 per cent of the amount received
from the share of the United States
ife-Ahe operation of the seal fisheries
ittLitbe Pribilof Islands.
b Tftj repeal the act of Congress en
titlecLKAn Act to prohibit the manu
ture or. sale of alcoholic liquors in
the Territory of Alaska.”'
To establish a Supreme Court for
t the Territory of Alaska, to be com
posed of A chief justice and the four
'• district jjwfees.
* To authorize the construction of a
coal bunker, as a part of the Alaska
Railroad at Reward, and appropriat
ing $7 BfiOO therefor.
To authorize the Secretary of the
- Treasury to purchase block 8 in. the I
_
Chicago Gets |
Conventions
j
REPUBLICANS MEET EARLY IN
JUNE AND DEMOCRATS ON
JUNE 27.
WASHINGTON.—Democrats today
chose Chicago for their convention
city, and i na session as harmonious
as their last gathering was termed
referred the prohibition issue to the
national meeting. Chairman Raskob
and Vice Chairman Byrd, of Virginia,
representing conflicting groups which
• lashe din the March meeting, pat
through a smooth working program
without a hitch.
June 27, tow weeks after the Re
publicans meet In the same city, was
chosen for the convention date. .
The mild-mannered and soft spoken
Raskob unloosed an opening blast j
that a Raskob-Shouse machine was
working in opposition to the forces
favoring Governor Roosevelt of New
York for president.
Pilot Frank Dorbandt of the Pacific
International was a Sunday arrival
from Anchorage, having as passen-1
gers Mrs. L. Livenhagen and Jack
Morton. Mr. Dorbandt is stil here,
on account of bad weather conditions.
Pilot Matt Nieminen came up Mon
day from McGrath, remained here
yesterday on account of weather con
ditions, and returned to McGrath to
day.
town of Juneau for the site and bet-j
ter fire protection of the Federal and
Territorial building:, and appropriat
ing $80,000 for carrying out the pur
poses of the act; providing that the
town o f Juneau shall first donate $4,
000 to assist in the purchase of the
land.
To authorize the entry of fur farm
ing homesteads, after a lessee has re
sided on the land for at least three
years and paying $2.50 per acre for
said land.
To repeal the present law providing
for the location of placer mining
claims and restoring to Alaska the
general mining laws of the United
States as pertaining to placer claims.
(By request of the Territorial Legis
lature.)
To provide that no boat, trap, or
other property, belonging to any In
dian or other person residing in Alas
ka shall be seized and held for for
feiture for alleged violation of the
fisheries law until after the arrest,
trial and conviction of the owner or
operator of said property.
Amending a bill to provide that it
shall be unlawful to wantonly waste
or destroy salmon or other fond fishes
taken in the waters of Alaska; noT|
shall any portion of flood fishes, ex
cept for offal, be manufactured into
oil or fertilizer.
Comissioner of Fisheries Henry
O’Malley states to thq Delegate that1
he has fade it plain tp all interested j
persons that the fish traps ? which
were temporarily closed iSxAlaska in i
the season of 1931 must* either be 1
closed permanently in 1932 or oper- i
(Continued, from Page 3.) i
MEASURE PROVIDES FOR j
COUNTY FORM OF GOV V.?
EKNMENT FOR ALASKA
WASHINGTON, D. C.~Creation, of
a county form of government > for
Alaska through acts of the Territorial.
Legislature would be provided for
under a bill introduced in Congress,
by Delegate Wiekersham.
The measure .provides for amend
ing the organic act to give the Terri
tory greater powers; provides that
the Legislative Assembly -shall have
power to provide for the creation and
organization of counties and county
form of government; that no county
shall have less than 500 legal voters
nor a less area than 2,000 square
miles, and shall not be created until
the question is first submitted to the
legal electors residing within the pro
posed county and approved by three
fifths majority of the legal votes cast
at such election.
REPORTS Ob' NEW FINDS COME
FROM THE POORMAN SECTION
Mining conditions in the Poorman
sections are looking somewhat better,
nccording to a letter received recent
ly by Robert E. Lovrrie from Claude
Nyberg, well known olditmer who has
been is that section for the past two
years.
James Harlan, also a former Ta
kotnan, and partner have some $2
ground, says Mr. Nyberg.
Mr. Nyberg himself is also on Solo
mon, having moved a cabin of Joe
Ferris’ from two mies up the creek.
Dick Stevenson and partner on
Timber creek have a few holes down,
which show from $2 to ?5 to the foot,
the last hole showing even better
values, according to the letter.
•All parties are reported as install
ing plants, and there will be three
more plants working this year than
there were last year.
TWO CENTRALIA RIOTERS
PAROLED BY GOV- HARTLEY
OLYMPIA.—Eugene Barnett and
O. C. Bland, who were sentenced after
the Armistice Day riots in Central^
in 1919, in which four American Le
gion men and others were killed
were among a group of prisoners pa
roled by Governor Hartley, it was
revealed here.
Hartley would make no comment
regarding the paroles.
Eight of the men allegedly involved
in the riots were sent to the peniten
tiary. Another was aequited of mur
der charges on grounds of insanity,
and was later freed after serving
time in the insane ward of the peni
tentiary. Another died in prison .a
year ago.
NO SUICIDE PACTS IN
DEATH SAT KETCHIKAN
KETCHIKAN.—A coroner’s jury
found that Jack Daley apparently
shot and killed Catherine Mooney,
alias Helen Dempsey and Helen Wil
liams, at least a day before taking
his own life.
Daley left a leter indicating a sui
cide pact, but evidence introduced at
the inquest showed he had threatened
to kill the girl and also that he cov
ered a bulet mark in the wal with a
calendar and took other precautions.
Both were found dead Thursday.
The girl had apparently been dead
since Saturday and Daley since Sun
day.
A. H. Twitchell returned from a
trip to McGrath a few day a ago,
bringing up the Takotna and Ophir
naiL He also made the trip to Ophir
ind. return. j
Situation In
Manchuria
:japan reiterates its,adher
ence TO the open-door j
POLICY. |
LONDON.—Great Britain is not!
following the lead of the United
States in invoking the nine-power
past in Manchuria, a Foreign Office
statement said today. While the Brit
ish. government stands by the policy
of j the open door for international,
trade in Manchuria, the statement!
said, it has not considered it necee-l
sary to present any formal note to;
Japan*, since that country recently re
SENATOR NORRIS WQULJt
COMBINE FOUR H&TMONS
OF ALASKA WTO tONE
WASHINGTON, — Drastic -.curtail
ment of Department of Jus- ice ex
J penses in Alaska is provided tor in a
bill whilh has .been; introduced in the
upper house of Cqpgress by Senator
Norris of Nebraska.
Under the provisions of the meas
I ure, should it be, .approved, there will
be left-in Alaska after the 1st of- July
just one district judge, one s' United
States attorney, one clerk t of the
court, and one United States?} -shal
to handle the . business of tij, . ntire
Territory.
There are four kets' e fbffiu Ls at
the present time* one for eaci of the
four judieia divisions.
iterated its. adhei
‘renc
:e to the iopen
di
'icy.
U- S. ATTORNEY GENERAL
WOULD SPEEP Jl <HCE
WASHINGTON.—So crimtnuls can
be imprisoned more quickly after
their arrest, and the innocent set free.
Attorney General Mitchell, in his an
nual report, exhorted Congress to en
act a four-point program, honing it
accepted so justice can be speeded.
He recommended:
Appointment of nine new district
i judges and making permanent seven
teen judgeships row on a temporary
| basis.
Alowiog defendants to waive the
requirement of an indictment by . a
grand jury.
Legislation^providing that if twelve
eligible jurors vote for indictment, an
indictment cannot be invalidated be
cause of the presence of one ineligible
person on the jury.
That the Supreme Court' be author
ized to draft uniform rules to be en
forced in criminal cases after verdicts
have been returned in district courts
and circuit -courts of appeal
MAIL ORDER BRIDE KILLER
CONVICTED IN VIRGINIA
CLARKSBURG, W„ Va.—Harry E.
Powers was convicted Thursday of
murder in the first degree for the
“matrinumiail racket”: slaying of Mrs.
Dorothy Pressler Lejnke, Northboro,
Mass., divorcee.
The verdict*.carries with it a man
tory sentence of hanging.
Powers was accused of five killings
in all, but was tried only on one
count.
He chewed gum calmly as the ver
dict waa read and showed no emotion.
Arguments wil take place Satur
day on a defense motion for a new
trial.
His Act Was
Justifiable
SUPPORT FOR SUBMARINE OFFI
CER CHARGED WITH MUR
DER IN HONOLULU.
WASHINGTON. D. C -Support-for
of an attack on his wife by five men
Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie, youth
ful submarine officer charged with
murder in Honolulu as the outgrowth
of an atack on his wife by five men of
mixed blood, was seen today in a.
strongly worded statement from the
chief of naval operations. At the>
same time the navy department an
nounced the fleet would not. visit Hon
olulu during annual maneuvers next,
month off Hawaii.
meric a v men will not stand fir vio
lation of their women under- any cir
cumstances, Admiral William V. Pratt
said. “For this crime they have taker
the matter into their own hands re
peatedly when they have felt that the
law has failed to do.jhstice.”
Admiral Pratt instructed the com
mander-in-chief of the" fleet, Admiral
Schofield, stationed at San Diego, .to
carry out the winter training exer
cises off Hawaii as .ptermed.-but - to
deny liberty to the-shipscrews on
Oahu Island.
REPUBLICANS. PREPARING
TO FIGHT PROHIBITION
WASHINGTON. — Republicans of
the Iwrtr hraeek. of Congress, have
gress have (taken the initiative in
making preparations for the widely
advertised light against prohibition,
''ixty-five wet member s of .the Re
publican party met yesterday .and se
lected Congressman Beck, of Pennsyl
vania t dead .them in their attack on
the dry law, and they are .confident
that they soon -will have .all of the
Democratic wets lined up and work
ing harmoniously with them.
Conferences arc to be held shortly
by the leaders of the wet factions and
it is expected that a definite program
of action will be formulated -at an
eary date and the fight taken up in
earnest in both.branches jof Congress.
DBMS SCORE VICTORY OVER
^MINISTRATION FORCES
WASHINGTON.,—The scant . Dem
cratic majorjity scored its. first vic
tory over the administration forces on
a major political issue today .by forc
ing a major political issue through
the House. .It voted, 214 to . 1£2, to
revamp the Hawley-Smoot law, lead
ing with the flexible "tariff powers of
President Hoover, and went vu -record
as favoring an Internationa confer
ence.
Pilot Bob Ellis of the Alaska Air
ways crashed with his plane at (Dil
lingham a fe wdays ago. Following
the crash a Mr. Mason n school
teacher at Dillingham, who was as
sisting the pilot in salvaging the en
gine, received injuries that-caused his
death an hour -or so later.
Mrs. Louise Livenbager. wus - &
Monday arrival from -Anchorage,
coming over with Pilot Frank Dor
bandt of. the Pacific International.
Mra. Livenhagen returns here.follow
ing an absence of several months,
during which she paid a. visits to her
relatives and friends in (Norway. She
left this morning for Ophir,
over with Pilot Dorbandt