THE KUSKO
VOL. VII. NO. 15
TAKOTNA. ALASKA-. SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1927
PRICE 25 CENTS
75,000 ARE
HOMELESS
Along Mississippi and
Tributaries, Due to
High Floods.
MEMPHIS; April 23.—The. greatest
, . disasfceKi.on.the lower Mississippi val
ley in: one hundred years- is grow
acute.df^day with hourly reports of
further widespread death, desolation
and. destruction caused by floods oof
the Mississippi and its tributaries.
Thfe known dead total twenty-eight,
but, it . is, believed that dhe, toll will
grow<ni«ch greater.
WASHINGTON, April 23—Presi
dent; Coqlidge today issued a procla
mation asking aid for sufferers in the
area flooded ,by the Mississippi river
;<jind, its. tributaries. The flood situa
tion this afternoon is indeed grave,
, the proclamation .said, and the num
ber of refugees who must be fed, shel
- tered and clothed for weeks exceeds
seventy-five thousand.
MEMPHIS, April 24.—Fifteen ref
• ugees have been taken off the main
Mississippi river levee at Greenville,
Miss., by the steamboat Tollinger and
transported to Vicksburg. Seven
thousand more remain over the entire
flooaded area of the Mississippi river
valley, and there'is. a ?ry today for
rescue steamboats.
WASHINGTON, April 27.—The
Red Cross relief fund reached $2,546,
800 today. A fund .of $5,000,000 is
sought,
NEW ORLEANS, Apt il: 27.—The
tramp of National Guardsmen is
’ heardrvalong the. levees today as two
solid parishes of Louisiana were being
evacuated preparatory, to surrender
ing them to the Mississippi, that the
- South’s largest city might be saved
from the qnsiaugnt or. nooa. vigui
ous protests, on the part of the citi
zens of the two parishes, St. Boinard
.and P.laque Mines, was registered thai
armed watch overt hele vees cmfmfv,
truck farmers and troopers kept at
armed watch over .the levees which it
had proposed to dismantle to savt
New Orleans.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover, tht
President’s representative in the flood
relief, work, arrived here this morn
ing.
t CHAPLI NTQ PPUNGLE UP
$100,000 IN SETTLEMENT f)F
5 YEARS’ UNPAID TAXES
WASHINGTON, April 22.—Char
lie Chaplin will pay the Government
. $100,000 in settlement for unpaic
taxes covering the period of mor<
than five years. An agreement has
been reached., by which this amount
will permit .the. releas eof the pro
t ducer’s property. According to t
Treasury official, Chaplin’s check foi
$100,000 is now on its way East fron
. the West coast,
Chester Brink made the round trii
to McGrath on Tuesday, taking dowr
, about 25 cases of .gasoline.
Pete Michels, after a trip to Flat
passed through Takotna on Thursdaj
last on his way. to McGrath.
Charles Baker.. Little creek, arrived
Tuesday foor atshort town visit.
John Krieger returned yesterdaj
.Jirom. a trip to Ophjr.
GOV. SMITH '
EXPLAINS
- i
Speaks of Hifhself, the
Catholic Church and
Presidency.
—
BOSTON, April 19.—Governor A1
Smith, of New York, in a letter to the
: Atlantic Monthly, declared he recog
■ nizes no power in the Roman Catholic
Church to interfere with the opera
tion of the constitution of the United
States or enforcement of the laws of j
the land.
The Governor, a Roman Catholic,
and a potential candidate for the
presidency, wrote the letter to the
magazine in reply to another letter
published in the Atlantic Monthly
; last month by Charles Marshall, a
; New York lawyer and Episcopalian,
| who asked a number of questions
seeking to define his views on the re
lation of the Catholic Church to the
State.
NEW YORK, April 23.—The Times
and World, supporters of Governor
Smith, say today that leaders of the
! Democratic partty have seriously dis
cussed the circulation of a round
, robin among leaders of the party call
I ing upon both Smith and McAdoo to
withdraw as candidates for presiden
tial nomination.
INDUSTRY
FOR ALASKA
Paper «and Pulp Mill,
Capacity £250 Tods
Daily, Assured.
I -
J WASHINGTON, /pril 20.—An ini
J tial investment of $12,000,000 will re
1 sut fro mthe sale of 50,000 cords of
timber in the Tongas Narrows forest,
j for which bids were opened by the
! Forest Service yesterday. This will
' mark the first big establishment for
the manufacture of paper and pulp in
Alaska’s national forests.
The Alaska International Paper
Company, which is a subsidiary of
the International Paper Company, bid
90 cents for spruce and 30 cents for
the rest, while the Zellerbach Paper
Company bid 80 centts for spruce and
I 40 cents for other vorieties.
I The proposals have been turned
over to experts for analysis,
j It is believed an award., will. be
i! made next week. The mill to be
! erected will have a capacity ol 250
, tons of paper daily. Both companies
' have filed on the same power site, and
,: the power site award; will go to. the
successful timber bidder.
WASHINGTON, April 21.—Hie de
stroyer John I). Ford today fired upon
Chinese Northern troops, using her
four-inch guns, and silencing the . fire
which the Chinese on. the Yangtse
river had directed upon the Standard
Oil ship Helen.
WASHINGTON, April 24.—Philan
der Chase'Knox, 39, son of former
Secretary of' State Knox, was, jailed
here today, charged with drunkenness
and illegal possession of two pints of
corn whisKy.
Telegraphic Ticks.
WASHINGTON, April 19.—Presi
dent Coolidge had a political break
fast Tuesday morning, when he enter
tained thirteen guests who were
prominent in Republican county Ls, and
at which general . political conditions
and the party outlook were discussed.
Among those present were Chairman
Butler, of the Republican national
committee, Senators Smoot, Curtis
and McNary.
SEATTLE, April 21.—Mrs. Carrie
Iola Gilmore, wife, of William A. Gil
more, Alaska pioneer, is dead in this
city. Mrs. Gilmore .was a.member of
Alaska Chapter, No. 1,. Order o fEast
ern Star, at Nome,, where the Gilmore
family lived for thirteen years.
SEATTLE, April 20.—Judge O. R.
Holcomb, who was defeated for re
election to the state supreme court in
the last election, was appointed to
membership in that tribunal today by
Governor Hartley., to succeed Justice
Dridges, deceased.
SEATTLE, April 21.—Rev. Father
Thomas Otto Zeegan, 43, Franciscan
priest at Riverton Parish, a suburb
of Seattle, was arrested today on a
warrant charged , by Elinor Munger,
15, of being the father of her child
and her betrayer.
LARIOJA, Argentine, April 22.—
General Justoto^.Argentine minister,
was blown out of his plane while fly
ing in this city on an airial tour of
inspection. However,, he was watch
ing a para,- .ts, .which brought him
safely to earin.
WASHINGTON. April 2S.—Homer
R. Harris, administrative assistant in
i the commerce department, air service
section, was killed today when his
airplane crashed at Bolling Field.
YV ASril-NliTUrM, April ZZ.— 1 UP
Mare Island and Bremerton navy
yards each will build one 10,000-ton
cruiser, £ orwhich bids will soon be
opened by the Navy Department.
JUNEAU, April 20.—The Senate
yesterday passed the so-called sani
tary code measure, designed to estab
lish sanitary standards for Alaskan
canneries and salteries.
SEATTLE, April 19.—Dr. Miles W.
; Ward, Seattle dentist and world war
| veteran, lost his life yesterday when
1 his canoe capsized on Lake Hancock,
where he was fishing.
PORTLAND, April 22.—Jesse D.
Bridges, 65, associate justice of the
Washington State Supreme Court,
died here last night from cancer of
the stomach.
LOS ANGELES, April 20.—Dr.
Charles H. Parkhurst, 85, New York’s
veteran crusader against crime, and
Mrs. Eleanor Marx, 65, were married
here today.
SEATTLE, April 20.—The North
ern Life Insurance Company has or
dered the construrtion of a 24-story
buildin gat Third avenue and Univer
sity.
DETROIT, April 24.—Henry Ford,
motor magnate, who was injured in
an automobile accident some days
ago, is able to sit up, but cannot walk
yet.
1 WASHINGTON, April 20.—The
White Hous e announced today that
there had been no split between Cool
idge and Hoover.
WASHINGTON, April 20.—Win. C.
McAdoo is opening law offices here.
SEATTLE, April 20—Senator Dill
and brjde arrived today.
GLEAN UP
SEATTLE
If Mayor Doesn’t D<
J it, Sheriff Han nick
Says He Wilt
SEATTLE,. April Vi.—Sheriff Ban
nick today served notice on Mayo
Landes that unless she takes imme
diate steps to clean up the city h
will step in and do it himself.
The sheriff charge sthat the mayo
has failed to live up to her pre-elec
her promises and her oath of office si
far as vice Issues are concerned. In
stead of waging war on gamblinj
dens and disorderly houses, he flatl;
alleged that the present city adminis
tration has sanctioned a system o
regulation which covers up the opera
tions of malefactors instead of put
ting them out of business.
MACDONALD FINDS COOLIDGE
GENTLE AND AFFABLI
WASHINGTON, April 21.—Ram
say McDonald was received today b;
President Coolidge, and for 30 min
utes they indulged in a \ isit describe!
by Macdonald as “homely” in thi
British sense of the word. Macdon
aid described “homely” as ocsiable ex
pres: he added that, he founi
Cool and affable.
■ i fit!!
UPON
BY CHINESE
U. Si Destroyer Prebk
and Chinese Soldiers
Exchange Shots.
WASHING70N, April 18.—Th
Navy Department was informed to
day that the destroyer Preble ha<
fired upon Chinese on the north ban!
of the Yangtse river, opposite . Kian
gyin fort. One enlisted man on.tb
Prehle received a wound in the lei
during the firing from the shore di
rected at .the ship. The Preble usei
j her three and four-inch, batteries am
j machine guns. The Preble w aspro
ceeding from Shanghai - to Hangkov
when it .was fired upon by Chines
soldiers.
SHANGHAI, April 20.—Twent;
pickets of the Shanghai general labo
union were killed this morning whei
they .attacked the headquarters o
General Chiang Kaishek’s Cantones
troops in the .chapel1 district, north o
the international settlement. The at
| tackers, apparently, were angered b:
yesterday’s raid on the red labo
unions, ordered, by Chiang
SHANGHAI, April 23.—Martia
law was. declared in the native city o
Shanghai today because of -agitatioi
by radical unionists. Six labor lead
ers were executed; this morning.
SHANGHAI, April 20.—Resolu
tions impeaching, the Cantonese gov
eminent at Hankow were adopted a
today’s meeting- at Koomintang, ii
consequence of which General Chiang
Cantonese generalissimo, is expecte<
to establish a new government a
Nanking.
r
A HORROR
OF HORRORS
► Mexican Bandits- Trap
187 Men in Coaches,
Then Set Aflame.
MEXICO CITY, April 23.—One
• hundred and seventy passengers and
-! an entire military escort of seventeen
■ soldiers were killed or burned to
I death Iasi night when bandits wreck
• ed and burned a Guadalajara and
Mexico City passenger train near Li
> mon, in the state of Jalisco.
.] The outlaws locked the doors of the
■ coaches and drenched the cars with
r gasoline and kerosene, and then set;
■ them a£re. The drain was almost
' completely destroyed.
FLUME DREDGE CO. ATTACHES
ARRIVE FROM THE OUTSIDE
Arriving Friday via plane from
' Anchorage were Emil Anderson. Gus
| Rosen and Bert HefFelfinger, all
Flume Dredge Company attaches, who
'' speett the past winter on the Outside,
■ i These three, incidentally, were the
1 first passengers to fly in airplane
‘ from Anchorage over Rainy Pass to
■ this interior section, and all of then*
■ speak in terms of praise of the flight;
I in the enclosed plane, which was
made from Anchorage to'Takotna in
2 hours and 40 minutes.
Mr. anderson spent the past win
ter with his family at Berkeley, Calif.,
Mr. Heffelfinger with his family at.
Oakland, while Mr. Rosen spent the
winter ni .,'ieattle.
! Leaving Sunday with Mr. Andersor.
for the Flump Dredge Co. camp at
Yankee creek for starting of initial
operations were Half dan Wiig, Henry
1 Martella ,Lars Indegard and Claude
Nyberg.
Leaving, on the same day for Little
creek were Gust Rosen, Bert, Hoff el
finger, Arthur L’heureux, A1 Colwell,,
Olaf Waagen and Frank Hart.
’ APPEALS FOR AID FOR
1 SLSSIPPI FLOOD 81)* .KERF
, Concerning relief for sufferers due
, to the Mississippi flood. Frank Gus
’ key, local N. C. Co. manager, on
I Monday received the following from
I George Preston, chairman of the Tan
ana Valley Chaper of the Red Cross;
T FAIRBANKS, April 24.—The fol
> lowing telegrah, received from Red
Cross headquarters states; “Presi
dent Coolidge has issued a -proelama
tion calling upon the people to give
quickly and generously to Red Cross
j Mississippin flood relief funds. The
p emergency situation is extremely
, grave, with seventy-five thousand
j. homeless needing emergency care. The
relief problem is acute, as the number
r of flood refugees is increasing every
„ hour. It is imperative that a large
relief fund be raised immediately to
meet mounting needs. Every Red
Cross chapter must do its part in this
national appeal. Use same, .quota as
' for Florida disaster and stage an ag
1 gressive campaign for immediate
‘ funds.”
Please do what you- can for this
urgent cause in your- district by giv
• ing publicity to the appeal. All news
■ paper reports indicate that the disas
t ter is of far-reaching magnitude and
1 that there is a great toll of suffering
> among our fellow- citizens. Will up
l prcciate your assistance.
t GEORGE PRESTON,
Chairman Tanana Valley Chapter,