THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL XII NO. U5
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 10 1982
PRICE 25 CENTfi
Japan Sore at
United States
A LONG LIST OF FGRIEVANCES
A ARE ASSERTED IN ANGRY
PROTEST.
TOKIO.—The storm of protest
which developed over the photograph
ing of a number of Japanese business
and industrial buildings by the Na
tional City Bank of New York has
assumed a serious aspect, calling for
diplomatic action.
Delegations from several Japanese
patriotic societies visited a National
.City branch bank at Osaka and at
tempted to intimidate Japanese em
ployes.
■ Osaka newspapers carried full-page
protests, hinting that the United
States is making preparations for a
possible war and that the pictures
will be given to the United States
Army.
Alexander Joseph Grew immediate
ly arranged for an interview with the
Japanese foreign minister, Count
Uchida..
Newspaper charges contained a
long list of U. S. activities, such as
the presence of the American fleet in
the Pacific, the alleged cruise of three
airplane carriers along the Kurile
Islands, and the establishment of a
new United -States air base in the
Aleutian Islands.
There were also broadcast over a
semi-official radio station charges
charges that the photographs might
get into the hands of the U. S. War
Department.
Maine Goes
Democratic
ELECTS DEMOCRATIC GOVER
NOR, AND TWO WET ADVO
CATES FOR CONGRESS.
PORTLAND, Me.—The Maine elec
tion, which always is watched with
nation-wide interest in presidential
years because it long has been re
garded as a political arbometer, indi
cating what the country is to do m
the following November, gave a vic
tory to the Democrats yesterday, with
the election of Louis Brann, Demo
crat, as governor, the first time in 18
years that the Republicans have lost
a gubernatorial contest. Governor
Burleigh Martion, Republican, the de
feated candidate, refuses to comment
on the result of the election, but the
Republican State chairman, Daniel F.
Field, is quite positive that the State
j vote does not in any way indicate the
I State sentiment nationally.
Carl Moran, Jr., Democrat, has de
feated John Nelson, veteran Repub
lican Congressman, by a margin of
2,420 votes. John Utterback, Demo
crat, defeated Ralph Brewster, Re
publican, former governor, for an
other congressional opst.
Congressman Carrol Beedy is the
.only Republican to win. He has al
ways been dry, but all of the success
ful Democratic candidates are wet.
NEW YORK.—Democrats hailed
hailed their victory in Maine as a
forerunner of success in November,
whle Republican campaign leadars
I
Alaska Interests At
The Nation’s Capital
L
By W. A. S.
WASHINGTON, August 15.—Mrs.
Anna Borak, of Fairbanks, is con
cerned as to the whereabouts of her
son, Paul John BoTak, who served in
the World War, returned to Alaska,
.. and then disappeared. It is not known
whether the young man is still living,
and the parents have written to Dele
gate Wickersham to aid them in try
ingto locatethe whereabouts of Paul
. John. The matter has been taken up
with the Veterans Bureau, and the
‘ director of compensation is now try
ing to find out through the regional
office at Seattle whether his applica
' tion has been received for additional
compensation under the recent law.
'When this report is received a ther
• ough saerch will be made of the cen
* tral office records to get such data as
may be available.
There may be a reason—and possi
bly .it i? political—but every few days
some report is wafted into the office
of the Delegate from Alaska from
the. favr'dfff Territory that is entirely
without truth or reason. The latest
is that wages on the Alaska Railroad
Save been cut but that the wages on
the govenunerit-eperated railroad in
Panama have not been disturbed. The
atcst declaration is absolutely untrue,
as the "Warl Department, operating
the Panama activity, states that the
recent Congressional Act made it
mandatory, that.reduction in wages
be effected. The employees took the
matter up with‘the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen, and their attor
. Several weeks ago Delegate Wick
ney submitted a letter stating that
in his judgment, and under the wage
agreement made with the govern
ment, the cut of 10 per cent made in
the wage scale was fair and legal.. So
the insidious rumor circulators, in this
instance are about as near correct «.as
was the learned politicians who re
cently declared that “Anchorage and
the railroad belt are solid for i (the
Democratic ticket.”
ersham received a petition from J'. C.
Allen, secretary of Igloo. No. 8, Pio
neers of Alaska, asking for additional
mail service to Wiseman, and that the
mails be carried from Fairbanks. The
matter was taken up with Second As
sistant Postmaster General W. Irving
Glover, who has just written, the Del
egate as follows: “The investigation
just completed discloses tihat the pro
posed increase in service '.itr practic
able. I am glad to inform you that
the two additional trips in winter de
sired have been authorized; also the
contractor, .the Alaska Airways, Inc.,
has been permitted to preside the ser
vice from Fairbanks, as .requested.
Although th erecent economy act
calls fori a 10 per cent dut. in appro
priations, it was not believed’that the
act would apply to such Buildings un
der construction at the' ^Fairbanks
Federal building. But the’ -aa tiger to
the Federal building program of the
government throughout the country
was not fully averted until Controller
General McCarl, on August 11, issued
a far-reaching decision to the Secre
tary of the Treasury. He held that i
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said it would stimulate activity which
would bring about President Hoover’s
re-election.
Hoover wired Everett Sanders, G.
O. P. national chairman, that the re
sult in Maine “imposes the need for
renewed and stronger, efforts that the
people may fully understand the is
sues at stake.”
Roosevelt said the.result'.‘’is .all to
the good.”
Vice President Curtis said, “We are
greatly disappointed,, hut it will only
make us work harder. We will carry
Maine in November.”
Speaker .John \.. Garner said: “TJae
people are not going. to sustain an ad
ministration such as we have had for
the last twelve years, the electior in
Maine clearly shows.”
LIBBOCK, Texas.—The Democratic
conventiondeclared Mrs. Miriam (Ma)
Ferfuson the party’s nominee for gov
ernor.
Governor Ross Sterling filed suit
contesting her nomination on the
ground of primary election fraud.
LEGIONNAIRES ASK IMMEDI
ATE PAYMENT CASH BONUS
PORTLAND, Ore.—The fourteenth
annual convention of the American
Legion went' on record today in favor
of immediate payment of adjusted
compensation certificates'. The Le
gionaires also adopted a resolution
favoring repeal of the dry law and hy
viva voce vote censured the action of
President Hoover in ordering out
Federal troops to evict bonus march
ers from Washington in July.
The cash payment resolution was
adopted by a vote of 1167 to 109, and
the repeal resolution by a vote of
1144. to 133.
A message was received from Pres
ident Hoover .latg Yesterday, appeal
ing. to the delegates to refrain from
demanding immediate payment fo
adjusted compensation. It was as
serted by the President that the adop
tion of such a resolution would would
wreck the welfare of the nation. He
said that he had consistently opposed
immediate payment of the bonus in
the public interest and must continue
to do so.
.Leaders ol the Legion announced
later that they disagreed with the
views of the Presdent, expressing the
belief that the bonus can be paid im
mediately without wrecking the finan
cial structure of the nation.
PORTLAND.—Gen. Joseph O’Neil
issued a statement late yesterday in
which he assumed fuil responsibility
for the distribution of copies of Sec
retary Hurley’s bonus marching state
ment among delegates attending the
American Legion convention. The
distribution was resented by the dele
gates, and, believiag the Secretary
responsible, he was censured by the
Legionnaires in the closing hour of
the convention. Hurley was not pres
ent when the distribution took place,
having left the city almost immedi
ately after he had addressed the con
vention.
O’Neil said he was sorry the action
haken by him had resulted in a boom
erang against his friend. He de
clared that the statement was mimeo
graphed at his own expense and that
the clerk erroneously had used
franked envelopes instead of the
plain envelopes which had been pro
vided for the purpose. He said the
statements had not been sent through
the mail but were distributed pri
vatel yin the convention hal.
Hurley previously had denied a’.l
knowledge of the distribution.
Del Thompson was a today arrival
From Ophir, coming over with P. W.
Carlson.
Items of Importance
! In Reecnt News Events
CHICAGO.—Four bystanders were
wounded when police and six youth
ful hoodlums fought a running gun
battle fro maulomobiles through the
Loop streets as home-going throngs
j flocked from, offices.
The clash was precipitated b; the
hoodlums in the mistaken notion that
a police squad car was after them.
The police car, assigned to the ac
cident prevention bureau, followed.
The gunmen opened fire, and police
returned it. The hoodlums escaped
after their car rammed into a truck.
SEATTLE.—Final primary election
results show Senator Wesley Jones to
have been renominated on the Repub
lican ticket. John A. Gellaty was
nominated for governor by Repub
licans, defeating Governor Hartley.
On the same ticket Judson Faulkner
was nominated for lieutenant gov
ernor.
All congresmen except Ralph Horr
were renominated. John Miller, for
mer congressman, defeated Horr.
Democrats chose Home? Bono as
their candidate for senator; Clarence
Miller as governor, and Vic Myers,
orchestra leader, as lieutenant gov
ernor.
THE PAS, Manitoba.—-Dr. Arthur
Compton, physicist of the University
of Chicago, returned from.the Arctic
Circle with what he said, is 'evidence
that the cosmic ray is an electron,
not a wave as Dr. Milliken of Califor
nia has been quoted as believing. Dr.
Compton said he believed his Arctic,
experiments have, produced other evi
i dence which probably will have im:
| portant bearing on all Jut • cosmic
ray investigations.
SACRAMENTO.—The oody.ioff a
woman found in a Sacramento river
sough near Walnut Grove has been
definitely identified as that of Dorothy
Millette, mystery woman in the life
of Paul Bern, who committed suicide,
the coroner announced.
Paul Bern’s last will, bequeathing
all his fortune to his wife. Jean Har
low, was produced at Los Angeles to
day by Irene Harrion, Bern’s secre
tary. The will was dat< d J.ul\ 29, Less
tha na month after their marriage..
The will is said by relatives to su-1
persede former wills or papers be
queathing the money to Miss Millette
or his relatives.
WASHINGTON.-r-£he reaction of
the American people to war debt can
cellation proposals by Montague Nor
man, governor of the Bank of Eng
land, and international bankers in
New York, has been so positively un
favorable that Secretary of the Trea
sury Mills and President Hoover are
being admonished by other Cabinet
members that the Administration)
must stand pat against cancellation.I
This was learn d yesterday, follow
ing the first Cabinet meeting since
Norman’s conference in this country,
to which he came under the name of
Professor Clarence Skinner.
ANGMAGHAL1K, Greenland.—The
flying Hutchinson family is here after
being rescued from an Eskimo village
: bout fo.t ymib.s away near where
be Hutchinson plane was wrecked
on a reef. The trawler Lord Talbot
landed them here yesterday, suffering
from exposure out not in danger.
The Hutch in-sons have not decided j
on their plans, but it is reported that
the trawler is ready to take them to
Scotland or Iceland, or anywhere they
can catch a steamer soon.
CLEVELAND—-The Yankee’s today
reached the end of their Jong march
toward the American League cham
pionship by defeating Cleveland 9 to
3. The game which clinched the flag
for them was their 100th victory of
the season, against 43 losses.
WASHINGTON.—A Federal em
ployment insurance bill is being pre
pared by the American Federation of.
Labor for introduction at the next
session of Congress ,in December, ac
cording to announcement by Frank
Morrison, secretary of the Federation
WASHINGTON.—A nice question
of the legality of the use of Federal
troops on July 28 to ouse bonus
marchers from their camps here will
be posed before Congress, if it takes
up the investigation demanded by
Senator McKellar.
WASHINGTON—President Hoover
issued a brief statement today on the
German arms controversy in Europe,
clarifying the American stand and
declaring the matter to be solely a.
European question.
BOMBAY.—Mahatma Gandhi, an
8;J-pound man, in a loin cloth, staked
his frail, brown body ami his life
against edicts of the British govern
ment today in a hunger strike. Ma
hatma started his strike,, urrie death,
after his noonday meal todav al Yer
■>vda . prison, where he has been a
prisoner of the Indian government.
At the pleasure of his majesty the
king emperor he was technically
freed just before be began his fast,
but the government did not remove
him against his will
TOK10.Soviet Russia has displayed
a more friendlj attitude toward Japan
since the latter's recognition of the
independent state of Manchukuo, t is
1 stated hy military authorities
PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Persistent
search by the police, who were con
fident that Charles Dubois, jeweler,
murdered his wife, resulted yesterday
in the finding of the woman's grave
in the basement ofc the house occu
pied by the couple The body had
been cleverly concealed in a cement
tomb, and an examintion of the re
mains disclosed that the woman had
been shot through the back 'Dubois
committed suicide at Quincy follow
ing an attempt ori the part of the offi
cers to obtain his- arrest. The court
refused to issue a warrant because
of the inability ,of the omcers to pro
duce the body
All the time.that Dubois -was at
work in the basement preparing the
grave for his wife, she sat at hei
sewing in the room abate, wondering
what it was all about She wrote a
letter to a friend, stating that heT
husband was acting queerly, that he
spent days in the cellar digging and
appeared to be strangely silent when
he came out
As nearly as can be determined, the
murder was committed August 10,
Later in the month Dubois gaw r,
drinking part., at the house and in
formed-some'o his guests at that
time that Mrs. Dubois had gone • tc
Montreal and met death there hm
automobile accident