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VOL IX ; NO 16
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. APRIL 20. 1920.
PRICE 25 CENTS
P Hoover’s
Message
RECOMMENDS CREATION FARM
BOARD ANO, LIMITED RE,
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VISION, OF TARIFF.
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WASHINGTON, April 16 -Presi
uept Hoover, in his message to Con
gress „t.od.ay,, recommended the crea
i.on of a .federal farm board, with
authority and resources to remedy
recurring causes of depression in the
agricultural industry, and limited re
vision of .the tariff, with the reorgan
ization of the tariff commission. In
addition he proposed in this, his ,first
sta,>e paper,, the completion of legis
lation initiated at the last session for.
suspension of the nationa lorigins
clause of the. immigration act, .the
taking of the 1930 census, and reap
portionm,ent of congressional repre
sentation.
The new House farm relief bill,
which .was introduced, was referred
to the agricultural committee.
WASHINGTON, April 18.—Farm,
relief. 1930 census and House reap
portionment, measures all in the ad-|
ministration program for. the extra
session, were the first bills introduced
in the Senate today.,
WASHINGTON, April 20.—Chair
man. Me Nary of the Senate agricul
tural committee announced today that
the, committee, has definitely decided
to .incorporate an export debenture
plap jn the farm bill to he introduced
Mond/iy, irrespective of whether Pres
ident; .Hoover declares against the
proposal,
PA.NTAGES chain of the
atres SOLD FOR SI 4,000,000
NEW. YORK, April 18.—The Pan-!
tages crain of theaters has been sold
to the Radio Keith Orpheum Corpora-;
tion for a consideration of $14,000,-,
COO., with principal houses at Los An-^
geles and Seattle.
Alexander Pantages, then a Greek
immigrant, joined the Klondike gold:
rush, worked as a bootblack at Dawr'
then came out and began his,
theater career in Seattle, running a
10-cent show on Second avenue..:
FIRST/CIVILIAN NON-STOP
FLIGHT, SEAT’L’LE.dUNEAU
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•JUNEAU. Ap'H IK*—A none-stop
flight fro .mSeattle. to Juneau was
made todajfch^ thee Washington-Alas
ka' Airytays Company’s Lockhead
Vega airplane, piloted by Anscel C.
Eckmann, and accompanied by his
mechanician* Jack Halloman, and R.
G, Ellis, navigator. The plane tooff
off -from Bryn Mawr. field, Seattle, at
7 a. m.„ and arrived here at 2:45 p.!
m., completing the first civilian non
stop flight between the tvo cities.
BORAH WANTS U. S. RECOGNI
TION OF RUSSIAN SOVIETS;
WASHINGTON, April 18.—Chair-1
man Borah of the Senate foreign re
lations committee toda,.- reintroduced
his resolution dealaring for recogni
tion by the. United States of the Rus
sian soviet government. *
WISCONSIN SEN AT U OKAYS
REPEAL STATE PROHIBITION .
MADISON, ^ih., April 17.—By a
vote of 5^54 £3 ‘the*. State Assembly
today passed/ the bill to repeal state
prohibition enforcement. The meas- .
ure^ has yet to-go to the Senate. . i
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Sutherland
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POPULAR ELECTION OF GOV
ERNOR; 20 MUSK OXEN
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FOR LASKA.
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WASHINGTON, April 18.—The'
rchase of twenty musk oxen from
Northern Asia, to determine the prac
, ^ability of establishing- the musx ox
as a dofestic animal in Alaska, would
be authorized in the bill, introduced
n Congress today by Delegate Dan
Sutherland. The bill calls for an ap
ropriation of $50,000 and would au
horize the President to set aside land
as a refuge for the musk ox. The
measure was referred to the House
committee on agriculture..
WASHINGTON, March 18.—A bill
to provide for popular election of
governor of Alaska, at the: first; elec
tion to be held ’<m. the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November,
1980, was introduced today , by Dele
gate from Alaska Sutherland. The'
measure provide sthat the governor i
elected serve a term of. four years,!
that .he be at least 30 years old. and
a bona fide resident of Alaska for five
years previous to his election.
The Delegate also introduced < a
measure to > fix the salary of .each of
the four United States marshals. in
Alaska at $6,000 annually.
MRS. TABOR LOSES TIGHT ""
FOR POSSESSION OF MINE
THAT YIELDED MILLIONS
LOUISVILLE, April 20.;— Mrs.
Haw- Tabor, aged widow of the alte j
United States Senator Tabor of Colo-!
rado, has lost her .fight for possession
of the historic Matchless mine, which
.v:e!ded her - husband '' more -than ten .
m'Ton dollars-: She was-unahle. to
...eA a §16,000 mortgage.
CALIFORNIA VARSITY
WINS FROM OAKLAND
SAM FRANCISCO, April IT.—1The'
California varsity crew won the
hree-mile race at the Oakland estu
ary* Saturday, defeating Washington
by four and sever.-tenths lengths.1
Washington junior varsity won from
California juniors, and California
freshmen won over Washington
freshmen..
ROMAN CATHOLIC POPULA
TION SHOWS BIG INCREASE,'
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NEW YORK, April 18.—Figures j
published in the new official Catholic '
directory show an increase of 423,709
n the Roman Catholic population of,
the country during the past year, the.
total of which is given ?at ,20,112.781.
Two and one-half million .children
are attending parochial schools. .. .
BABE RUTH MARRIES.
NEW YORK .ACTRESS
NEW YORK, April 17.—iLess than
an hour after daybjeafc-toddy Babej
Ruth, famous baseball swatter, was
arried in St Gregory’s * Roman
Catholic Church,*to MitB-Claide Hodg
son, New York actress, while a group
of early-morning worshipers? bent to
their prayers .
HE NEVER SAW. THEM SMILE. ,
ST. LOUIS/April Ifi.—Fortner Sen1'1
a tor Rfeed, iir an -address here last
night, declared that as long-as he had
known Senator Jones and Volstad’ he
had never seen them smile.
SURVEYING AIR ROUTE,.
SEATTLE. TO SKAGWAY
SEATTLE, April 17.—The Gon*
Air Transport’s Amphibian plane
Alaska took off fro mits .terminal on
Lake Union this morning at. 7 on its
first hop-off flight to Skagway and
return, in survey of a route for the
operation of an air passenger service
between Seattle and Southeastern
Alaska. The craft was flown by
Clayton L. Scott. Verne C. Gorst,
head of the Gorst Air Transport, went
along as co-pilot. Gordon Graham
was mechanician. E. M. Greenwood
and A. C. Iverson accompanied the
party as passengers. Stops are to be
made at Aleut Bay, Prince Rupert,
Ketchikan, Petersburg and Juneau.
JUNEAU, April 19.-?-The Gorst
airplane Alaskan arrived from Se
attle yesterday. Besides Gorst,, its
owner, Graham, mechanician,. and E.
M. Greenwood, the plane carried A.
C. Iverson, first paying air passenger
ever to come to Alaska.
SEATTLE, April 17.—Seattle is to,
be linked by the Boeing and affiliated
air lines with Juneau on the north
and Santiago, Chile, on the south.
Going, After
Platinum
15 MEN ARE PREPARING FOR
OPERATIONS IN GOODNEWS
BAY SECTION.
' GOODNEWS BAY. March 30.—
men who are mining- in the new plat
inum field near here have just com
pleted hauling their supplies to the
district and are preparing to continue
operations which were started last
yestr, as well as the opening up of a
number of new claims. Last year
there were seven men in the field, wh©
took out about 130;»unces of plat
inum. This year thirteen men are
commencing operations, with the hope
of more than doubling the output.
Tupper Thompson will work, the
claim he worked on "last year. .
Joe Shangey and Ed St. Clair (Gas
ton) will work the- aleim. St. Glair,
worked last year, jqn Squirrel creek.
George Wickert, Fritz Walters and
Fred Moeck are opening up two
claims on Platinum.-creek.
Neal Corrigan and Ed McCann will
work Discovery claim on Fox gulch
(operated by Charky Thorson last
year).. *
, Charley Thorson (Tom-Cod) will
continue work, start' d last year on
Clara creek.
Martin Garthe and Sampson will
open up on No. 1 .above Discovery on
Clara creek.
Wicklund and ‘ Haroldson will pros
pect with a. hand.drill, on. Salmon
creek..
FUNERAL OF MYRON HERRICK.
CLEVELAND, A pril 16.—Former
Ambassador Myron T. Herrick was
buried today from- Trinity Episcopal
Cathedral. Factories throughout the
city were closed and classes at schools
suspended. Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh and Count Desartiges, the lat
ter as the official representative of
France, were in attendance...
KING GEORGE FA RBETTER.
LONDON, April 16.—King George,
•near complete recovery, .will leave
Aldikick,. w here he'is now staying, for
Windsor in Msty. -
•• Bernhard H. Ives was a Wednes
day arrival from, McGrath.
Reparations
Conference
SECOND DAWES COMMITTEE:
FAILS I NT ITS ITJRPOSE T.Ot
SET. DAMAGES..
PARIS, Apj 16—Hjalmar Schacht,
chtef of the German reparations dele
gation, today definitely rejected the
recent allied reparations figures as
being beyond .Germany’s capacity to
pay.
PARIS, A_p*il 19.*—The second
Dawes committee lias failed in its
purpose to set German reparations
for damages in the World War. A
sub-committee has been appointed to
prepare a report to the several gov
ernments. stating reasons for the
failure.
PARIS, April 19.—Broken and
tired by failure of the reparations
conference to arrive at a satisfactory'
settlement. Lord Revelstoke, distin
guished British banker, died today of
heart attack..
Telegraphic Ticks.
SEATTLE, April 16.—A bandit en
tered the room of 15-year-old Grace
Eennett last night as she lay sleep
ing. Following an attempt to attalk
her the bandit -shot ho- through the
I foot and. escaped.
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SEATTLE. April 16.—Inspector of
Police Joseph T. Mason, 53, died yes
terday afternoon, following an oper
ation. A veteran with 37 years’, rec
ord ranked next to chief and was very
popular.
WASHINGTON, April 19.—Mrs.
Lowell Fletcher Hobart of Ohio was.
elected president-general of the!
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion, defeating Mrs. Julius Young;
Talmadge of Georgia.
LONDON, April 16.—The Express
. today says the temperance issue may
[ for the first time in. English history
! play an important part in the out-!
come of the general election, now.only,
six weeks away.
SEATTLE, April 19.-—Dr: Louis
Ferdinand, grandson of the former
German kaiser, second son of the for
mer, crown prince, passed the night in
i Seattle, en route to Hollywood and
| South America. He was the guest of
Henry Ford in DeDtroit for, one week.
SEATTLE, April 20.—The steamer
Yukon sailed for SewarcJ and way
points this morning with 336 passen
gers, ineluding about one .hundred for
interior points via Seward and' Cor
dova.
WASHINGTON. April 2QJ—Mra
Herbert Hoover delivered a .brief ad
dress over the radio yesterday, after
noon doing dedication, of Constitution
Hall by Daughtes of., the America**
Revolution-.
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NEW YORK, April; 16.—Forme*
Governor A1 Smith announced-! today
that he will write a, story ofi'his life,
to run serially in the Saturday ,-Even
ing Post.
WASHINGTON? Apnf 18—Kiri
D. Church,, of’ Hertford, Cilnn., was
today appointed commissioner of
pensions.
CLEVELAND. April 16.—The body
rf Ambassador Herrick was returned
to it.s home here today.
Nominations
By Hoover
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USUAL PROCEDURE WAIVED IN
MAKING DAWES AMBASSA
DOR TO ENGLAND.
WASHINGTON, April 10.—Within
a few minutes after Hoover today
forwarded the nomination of Former
Viee President Dawes as ambassador
to England the Senate confirmed it
without roll call. The Senate accord
ed Dawes the honor of considering
his. nomination without the usual pro
cedure of referring it to committee.
Immediate approval als owas given
to the nomination of Joseph M.
Dixon, former Senator from Mon
tana, selected by Hoover for Assist
ant-Secretary of Interior.
Oscar B. Colquitt, former governor
of "Texas, was nominated to be a
member of the railroad board of med
icine.
WASHINGTON, April 18.—Presi,
dent Hoover late today sent to the
Senate the nominations of eleven
United States circuit and district
judges for various parts of the coun
try. They included Curtis D. Wilbur
«f California, Secretary of Navy in
the Coolidge Cabinet, to he United
States circuit judge for the Ninth
cxrruil.
HOOVER INCONSISTENT,
DECLARES BROOKHART
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WASHINGTON, April 1C.—Sen
ator firookhart, one of Hoover’s moat
ardent campaigners last fall, de
clared today that the executive had
taken an entirely inconsistent posi
tion an his message to Congress witfc
respect to agricultural problems.
IMJpM TURN OUT TO HEAR
LLOYD GEORGE. LIBERAL
LONDON, April 1C.—More than
one hundred thousand persons, the
largest political audience ever to lis
ten to one speaker in England, turned
oak last night in Manchester to hear
Lloyd George, Liberal leader, in his
campaign for return to power.
DDAUGHTER OF W. J. BRYAN
HAS CONTEST ON HANDS
WASHINGTON, April 1C.—Con
test of the election of Mrs. Ruth
Bryan Owen of Florida was started
in the House today by William C.
Lawson, Republican, whom she de
feated last November. Lawson’s con
tention is that Mrs. Owen is the
widow of a British arr*y officer and
net a citizen, though American born
and daughter of the late William J.
Bryan.
Milton Rice, well known A. R. C.
man, after a visit of some duration
«*> Hie Outside, who came to McGrath
via airplane, arrived here Tuesday,
camh»g up from McGrath with Super
intendent Lottsfeldt.
Arnolf Gjeld, an airplane arrival at
McGrath, arrived here Tuesday, and
left Wednesday for Ophir, headed for
Cripple.
Billy Gibbs and Dave Peck wero
Thursday departures for the Gibbs
dredge (formerly Guinan), on vGancs
Claude Nyberg was a Friday 'ar
rival from Ganes for a visit of a dear
days in town.