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TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY.A JULY 18 1931
PRICE 25 CEJiT^
(Grists'as Big *Barik Closes
OCOLLMS25 UAKMSTiAEDTRK
I iLlWK' THREATENS MANY
DjumaaKTiojus.
I TE«LLN,J-duly 15. Germany's
ftxSnaacial , crisis touched ftth® average
j. rnsnutodBy?whenh*Kwant to the hank
lota get his mucks etapigeduoto Anrer
icaaanlf dollars. ''IHa’tben.'aiearrled thrff
i- exchange, bad.been closed and ithere
x fora no foreign currency:"was ^obtain*
aiable.. .Apprehensive, Germans, v \re- i
i. naentberjng:. how' their savings...had
..disappeared in lithe 1222 .'.inflation,
v, were depressed fuothet by the closed :
i.. doors io£ one.of ithe. country's ibiggest
1> banks, the Darmstaedter. Even those
ti tbe;-gpvernment assured depositors■
a., againsbilosa; their fears were not en-1
•, tirely assauged. “That was 'hrfaati
liXhejt. told ois in 1922,” was the re
r.narlcilof seme.
- A
(' BERLIN.—President Paul von; Hin
c denburg* acting under’the extraordi
i nf*y powers- grantedihe. government,
.■shortly before midnight .tonight or
t dared: banks, in Germany to remain
e ctoshd. .Tuesday and1 Wednesday. The
( president’s decree .gives td.ldhe:i|r®v
u ernment blanket authority to declare <
i‘ A.hank holiday,(‘.thus making a new |
■ decree unnecessary if on Wednesday
i night., itLshould appear expedient to)
I' keepbthe bank closed thratighout-dhe j
rest Lof . the week.
WAl$ HINQT-ON.^-(Deeply concern-;
ecT over the growing acuteness of the!
Carman financial situation, President J
Hoover tonight stiudied .all phases of j
ithSr problem. ■Two (‘reports of the'
delicate -.economic positior of the!
Bruneing .government had reached
the State Department by .the time the
chief executive had returned frorti his
Rapid®n camp.One fronkSackett .in1
Berlin told of the immediate need of
financial assistance ifi .Germany. The
other was given ?the Department by
Rudolf Leitner, charge d'affaires of
►the German -embassy. ( On instruc
tions from Berlin, he informed the
United States thattfcht Bruening gov
ernment was endeavoring.to keep the
effects of the collapse of the Darra
staedter BdnJCrfrtr inbringing disaster
to other institutions.
White House officials said the Pres
ident- 'Waa-devoting i his ^entire time to
the German situation. While the
American government can take aho
direct uotk.iv' the .President has re
ceived the assurance - of Amerioan
banking circles that they will put
their powerful influence behind any
movement which premises effective
relief for the Reidhs.
LONDON, Jjily'il2.—-.Great; .Britain
today.^tookvdecisive.'action to put the
Hoover moratorium into affect, so far
as she is concerned, by informing the
Bank for International Settlements
th&thehe would not expect payment .of
ctne ‘German reparhtnns ^installment
due on July 15.
'?w w. A«r.s.
'.WASHINGTON, June MS.—Federal
I Radio Commissioner Harold A. La
ir fount is leaving Washington June 27
on. an extensive inspection trip !tof
in radio stations in the third and fifth
• axadio zones. T. He will be at Seattle
. Jgly-15 to 18. The commission) dur
ing the past few days, Juts granted
rvxeaewaLof licenses In Alaska as fol
;• lows: ii.KLWf.Alaska Pacific Salmon
< Gjprp., Port Althrqp; HON, Nakat
Backing Corp., Union Bay* KUU, it.
>-R. Farish, Steamboat Bay, >N«yes
Ls^.KQL, Nakat Packing Corp., Hid
t den Inlet Cannery ; KPR, KarKHan
. sen, Port Alexander;; KLP,.Radio
i marine Corp.: of America, Ugenik, re
> newal of two licenses to July 15;
- KDI, Radiomarine Corp., moored ship
• Santa Flavia, Nushagak river, .tc
. Jtuly 15; KYM, Bristol. Bay Packing
< Co., Kvichak,, to install new tube
.•transmission; KZV, Alaska Salmon
v. Co., Nushagak, to install new tube
transmission; KHE, Everett Packing
C Co;,. Herendeen Bay, moored vessel
. Mazaraa, construction , permit, for
f* SD-w» -low freqeuncy. transmitter.
. Henry M» Gillman, who has been
• representing the Interior Department
: at the Exposition in Paris, has' re
turned-to Washington and will pro
• cee<Ltp perfect the arrangements for
. Alaska’s exhibit at the American
- Fair, to.ha .held at Atlantic City, July
• 16 to August 26. I He will have
> • charge of the Interior Department
*■- exhibit and expects cooperation upon
the part of various chambers of com
i merce in Alaska.
- Alaska was given considerable pub
licity the other morning by a Wash
ington newspaper in referring to the
letter, and: maps sent by Delegate
Wickersham to Col. Charles. A. Lind
bergh, suggesting the advisability of'
making his flight to Asia via. Alaska.
ThaKColonelhas indicated that he
will make the flight early in Jylyrand
has under, consideration four diqerent
routes, with the probability that,
however he roes, itswill .be in a sea
plane equipped- with; pontoons, which
could land on rivers and lakes and
would be as safe to descend on., land
as if,‘the plane had wheels. The one
route the Lindberghs are consider
ing and which would not favoor
Alaska is .via Greenland and Spits
bergen, up in the Arcitc, then to the
northern European l mainland—Nor
way, or.-Russia—and. then down and
across 4,500 miles of Asia. The other
routes that^the yare considering are:
First—Across the United States or
Canada, .up the Pacific coast to Alas
ka, along the Aleutian islands to the
Kamchatka Peninsula of Siberia* ■ and
down the Japaneses Kurile islands to
Japan proper. Second—To Alaska
as in the above route, then up beyond
the Bering Sea across the narrow
Bering Strait to the Siberian main
land, and so down. Third—Up
through Canada, to Hudson’s Bay,;
then along the northern part, of Can
ada to Alaska and Siberia.
P. N. Neal, whd has traveled all
over Alaska as a postoffice inspector
for many years past, was in Wash
ington last week. While here he took
up the matter with the Department
of filling the site and surroundings,
(Centiadefirien :?■(«. i.)
REPORTED DRO WNTNtt ’ *OF
) CHARLES KICOCET ANBFAM
ILY; tLATE WORDrSA YSiSAFE
That Charles Nioejet, bcttfenknown
to his many fri* nds; -.as" “GmAohno
Nick, well known ild timer ot Alaska
and particularly of this.- section, and
Mrs.. Nicolet and their fouih children
may have perished recently during a
Bering sea. storm, was ^th«r rno-it>-r»>
g reliable newshroughtby the Tana
on its arrival . at-(MeGfatb l. toom
Bethel a few days ago.
Accounts vary and it isuhbisd to get
any details concerning the supposed
disaster. .One account is that.. Mr.
Nicolet and ..family, with supplies, for
a contemplated trading post, irii their
own hoaL.and Wood Riyer Chris, in
his own boat, outside!:the-mouth, of
the JCuskokwim river, despite threat
ening storm, were taken in towb by
Captain Louis Knaflich of the motor
powered boat Ruby. It&was not long
after, says this account, before Wood
River Chris, either of his awn accord
or through, breaking of Jkow line, got
adrift.. . Report says; that Chris un
doubtedly saved himself.. How long
Mr. Nicolet . remained in bow of the
Ruby is not. known, the only matter
definitely reported, it is asserted,
being that the crew of the Ruby,
looking later over the, .stem of their
boat, made, the. startling discovery
that the Nicolet boat.was missing.
Word reaching The'-Times yester
day. from Bethel stated; that nothing
further is known nor has been heard
there.
The many friends of Mr. Nicolet,
known.as a most resourceful man,
still .have strong hopes (that he may
have landed safely somewhere on <£he
desolate shares between the mouths
of the KuskoJcwim and Yukon rivers.
Charlie Nicolet Safe!
Ju«t. as the foregoing .has been.put
in type word reached The Times this
morning that Mr. Nleokt • is safe,
thevreport haj^ngbeen .flashed from,
the, wireless pperator . at Dillingham
to.ithe.radio operator at Bethel,.and
thence to this*.paint. That, however,
was.the only detail given.
DANIEL mRK BAKER.
Information is wanted as to the
whereabouts, of Daniel Wark Baker,
supposed tat be in Alaska, but ; who
.has not been heard from since Au
gust,;; 1930, and a search for whom
has. been instituted by Senator Cara
way; of Arkansas, according to..ad
vices received from Fairbanks /by
Deputy, U. S. Marshal Stanley J.
Nichols. Any information regarding
Baker should be forwarded to . the
Marshal’s office.
'Christian' Bolgen, U. S. commis
sioner of Ophir precinct, arriyed last
evening, and departed this morning
for Ganes, traveling with Jo Oates.
Mike Hochriter left yesterday for
a brief visit at Ganes creek.
John E. Strand, well known min
ing man of the Nixon section, arrived
Thursday at McGrath, following a
business visit of some days over at
Fairbanks.
Fred Dubois returned Monday from
a trip to Yankee creek.
FLAT AND IDITAROD
FLAT, July 15.—The Banco barge
overturned near St. Michael. No one
was drowned, although soaie freight
was lost, as well as the housing on
the barge. . They are back in St. Mi
chael now, loading again. The cause
of overturning of the barge was not
stated.
Washington s
if a McGrath
iln Five Days
.VICE-PRESIDENT OF A-MEIUCAN
Vi AIRWAYS DOES SOME EAST
’i TRAVELING
, Prom ..Washington, E). C., to Mc
Grath—or Flat, as you please—in
five days! Some traveling, you will
say.
Thatijwas. the accomplishment of
. Heijner Hinahaw, vice president of
the American Airways, of which the
Alaska Airways Is a subsidiary, who
left Washington, on the evening of
Sunday, .July. 12, .and arrived at Mc
Grath, on the evening of Friday, the
17th.. Mr, Hinahaw, in accomplish
ing. thiar e ,ult„ txayeled over and
upon .established air lines, presum
ably, flying from the Nation’s Capital
to ,Seattle, /hence to Juneau, Valdez,
Fairbanks and McGrath.
!.. Accomtou'yingrMr. Hinshaw on the
plane'from.. Eaithanks, piloted by Joe
Crosaon, were Arthur W. Johnson,
general -manager of the Alaska Air
waysi. and Vance McDonald. Shortly
after arrival at McGrath the plane
took off for JFlat with Messrs. Hin
shaw, Johstt'ui and Oliver Anderson,
N. C. Go., manager at McGrath.
CIRCUMNAVIGATING, THE
.WORLD IN 3*TOS YACHT
i. YOKOHAMA, July II. —Edward
Miles, of. Mephis, Tenn., who is navi
gating. tEe,world aingle-handed in a
five-ton ..yacht with, an, auxiliary mo
tor, will rileavje. ihere . tomorrow -for
, Honolulu. ... He erpects to raach Ha
waii in 50 to 00 days, and hopes to be
the first lone, sailor to cross Ihe Pa
cific.
John Collins was a. Monday visitor
from Ophir, coming over with P..W.
Carlson... Returning to Ophir, -Mr.
Carlson had as passengers Mrs. W. A.
Vinal, returning to her Spruce creek
headquarters; Axel Peterson, John
Rieck.
Frank A. Mortimer, purser of the
steamer Tana, was a last Sunday vis
itor, coming up from McGrath with
Frank Larson and .Charlie Ulch, all
of whom returned to the lower port
that afternoon.
Fritz Tittel at McGrath is reported
to be a quite sick man and in all
probability wili be a passenger oh the
first outgoing plane.
Fairly good showers-for the* past
couple of days, -which, has given new
lift to the agricultural end there
abouts, . notwithstanding which' the
-water in Takotna river is at .one of
its lowest stages for-years.
Pilot Barnhill, of the Pacific Inter
national, was a Tuesday Arrival'from
Anchorage, bringing freight and tak
ing the outgoing mail.
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Chester Brink, With tractor, and
Billy Gibbs returned Thursday from
Ganes, after About two .weeks at that
place transporting Wood for use- on
the Ganes dredge.
Pilot Wien of the Alaska Airways
passed over here Monday, dropping
the incoming mail.
Mrs. W. A. Vinal returned Sunday
from a few days’ visit with Mrs. A.
Higgins at Ganes.creek.
SeattlerTokio
i Near Nome
TOTAL TIME .FROM -SEATTLE* TG
S, .SOLOMON WAS -TWENTY
,,( SLIIOCRS
NOME, Juiy 14.—Inability t? man
age their plane Fort, Worth in heavy
wind, -with full load of gasoline, way
given by Regil S. Robert ami Harold
S. Jones, Texas aviators, as the rea
son for abandonment of their Seattle
to Tokyo fligght,
“We tried as hard as we could,’
said Robbins. “The plane became un
manageable after we ran into the
storm and we could not keep the re
fueling hose contact long enough to
taflie on a.full load of gasoline. The
weather being bad and visibility .nil
we would have been killed in attempt
ing to get through, so we decided tc
land at Solomon.”
The flyers indicated they would not
attempt to fly the route to Tokyo
again with the same plane, but would
sell it in Alaska, if. possible. The
total time from Seattle to Solo mot.
was 26 hours.
NOME.— Storm-hound here after
the- hedrt-hreaking failure of their,
attempt to complete a non-stop flight,
from Seattle to Tokyo, Robbins lane!
Jones, Texas aviators, were resting'
today and planning another trial., A
few hours after they set their trim
white monoplane Fort Worth on tho
beach at Solomon, 30 miles east of
here, almost half /the. way to .Tokyo,
rains, foga and wind«*t which ccntrib
uted to. the forced abandonment' of
! the flight, shut in around Nome.ianr
•shopped all flying.
MORE THAN 3,000 REPORTED
’v .DROWNED IN CHINA FLOODS
-CANTON, China, July 14.—Mora
than three thousand persons are re
ported to have been -drowned in the
past three days as a result of flood.1
in Kwantung Province. The water*
of the East and North, rivers are
beHaved.no wte> be -subsiding.
! There is some apprehension at Mc
Grath that mishap of some, kind may
have overtaken Theodore von Frank,
well known oldtimer located at the
head of the Nixon.. Mr. von Frank,
according to, report, has not been
seen or heard-from since some time
in February, although for many years
it. has- been* his custom to. make ap
pearance at McGrath late in May or
early June. To set at rest all fear*
a..party, left McGrath three or four
days ago for, ther head of the Nixon,
the party itfonsisting of t Woodrow
Jfanderpdol, ." Dick McArthur ar.d
Henry Peel.
Vance R. .McDonald, well known
representative * of several outside
mercantile concerns, was an arrival
at McGrath last evening from Fair
banks.
Gus Schuler, former well known
oldtimer of this section, after an ab
sence of several -years, was a Thurs
day arrival at McGrath.
Joe Ferris is scheduled to loave
this morning for Poorman,, headed
for the Sid Paulson claim.
Miss Helen Rieck left for Flat last
Monday, going over with ’Piloh-.Barn
hill.