THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. X NO; 40
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. OCTOEBR 18 19550
PRICE 25 CENT S
Hoover Law
Commission
REPORT ON PROHIBITION WILL
NOT BE A* “PUSSYFOOTING”
ONE, SAYS' CHAIRMAN.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1£—Prom
ise of an early report on prohibition,
ip which,there will be “ho> pussyfoot
ing,” is announced by President
Hoover’s law enforcement commis
sion.
It became known that the wet and
dry fight is now dominating the
commission ■, and the sessions have
Ween filled, with argumnts for and
abainst an. immediate report on the
question.
Chairman-George Wickersham ex
presses hppe that the commission
will he ready tq, report to Congress
in December, .adding: “If the com
mission reaches the conclusion that
prohibition is unenforceable I think
we will sayvaoJ"
It is fairly certain also that the
commission is ready to assail poliical
influence in the administration of
justice. Members of the commission
have already,, attacked this phase of
C9nduct. ,
It is expected: it', will be several
months before.; the- commission is
ready to- make a, complete report.
DISPARITY IN AGES FAILED
TO HALT THEIR ROMANCE
LONDON, Oct. R—The marriage
yesterday of Princess Marie Charlotte
de Broglie,;member of the French no
bility, 73 "years old1, and Prince Louis
Ferdinand- of: Bourbon, infante of
Spain, 42^ culminated a romance that
began twenty years ago. Relatives
of the princess-oppos, d the marriage,
even going „to the French Law courts
in an attempt to stop it. In 1921
King AJfQhse of Spain virtually de
prived Prince Louis of his privileges
as an? infante.
LAURA. INGALLS ESTAB
LISHES NEW RECORD
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13.-Laura
Ingalls, 25 years old, who holds the
world’s .-record. of 714 barrel rolls
and the woman’s record of 980 loops,
today claimed’the women’s east to
west elapsed time record.
She landed at. Glendale after bat
tling a storm from Kingman, Ari
zona, her last stop. She claimed an
elapsed time of 30 hours and 27 min
utes from. New York.. Nine stops
were made ,.
TAKOTNA/VISITED BY SLIGHT
QUAKE EARLY THIS MORNING
Were ynm awakened from your
slumber during the early morning
hour? Did you. hear the accompany
ing- rumbling; with something of a
jolt to it?.
Well,, that was a slight quake of
Old Earth* which happened pst
about 2 sl m. And, in passing, it
may be saiil .it was no small jolt, for
some citizen*, aver that their build
ings shook;, dishes on shelve rattled
diiinctly, asadt other evidences of
something -unusual were manifest. So
far as Known, no damage has been
reported..
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Brink left
Thursday for a short visit at Mc
Grath.
Pete Jensen left Friday for his
Headquarters-on Ganes.
Labor Asks
' Modification
WOULD ALTER VOLSTEAD ACT
TO PERMIT MANUFACTURE
OF 2.75 PER CENT BEER.
BOSTON, Oct. 17.—The American
Federation of Labor today reiterated
its commitment to its policy in favor
of 2.75 per cent beer and defeated a
resolution demanding repeal of the
eighteenth amendment and the Vol
stead act.
Green, as president, and other offi
cers lyere re-elected for another year.
c/llLe dmayor walker
A GRAFTING POLTICIAN
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—When Sam
uel Nisen, one <jf four communists
attending the bord commuist meet
ing in the city hall Thursday, brand
ed Mayor Walker as “a grafting
Tammany politician,” he was man
handled and badly beaten up by
members of the crowd in attendance.
FLOYD MORTON, ALASKAN,
IS HELD IN SEATTLE JAIL
SEATTLE, Oct. 17Floyd Morton,
a recent arrival from Alaska, is held
i in the city jail here charged with
! threatening to shoot his wife. The
latter claims Morton followed her
, here from the North, determined to
I kill her.
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.1 WINE BEVERAGE OFFICIALS
OF CALIFORNIA INDICTED
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12.—Indict
ments charging nine officers of the
California Vineyard Company with
violation of the prohibition laws were
returned by a federal grand jury.
| Five of them are- Chicago men and
four residents of Los Angeles. Those
indicted include Carl Fluter, presi
dent, and former President William
J. Vaughn- of' Chicago-.
Bonds were set at $5,000 and the
arrest of the indicted men was or
dered.
Prohibition officers said the de
; fend'ants have an annual revenue of
$5*000,000 from the nation-wide sell
, icrg of their product. They have 2500,
000 customers on the Pacific coast
alone.
Advertising was sent to hundreds
of thousands of customers telling of
a secret process which turns grape
juice into wine at the end of 30-day
or 60-day periods.
Telegraphic Ticks.
SEATTLE, Oct. 171—Rear Admiral
Henry Zegelmeyer, commandant of
the Puget Sound navy yard,. dropped
dead Wednesday while playing golf
on the Bremerton golf course.
SEATTLE,. Oct. 18.—The steamer
Alameda sailed at 9 this morning for
Southwestern Alaska, carrying 55
passengers, including 13 for. Seward
and interior points. .
FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Oct. 16.—
Three university students, on their
way toe the; Navy- '$ jke footbhll game
at Annapolis, were killed in an auto
mobile collision near here last night.
NEWARK, N. J, Oct., 16,—Pilot
McAdoo arrived .Here fast evening,
having made the flight from .Los An
geles in, J7 hours. v
FRANK MANLEY FILES SUIT
AGAINST THE FAIRBANKS
EXPLORATION COMPANY
(Fairbanks News-Miner.)
Frank Manley filed suit in the fed
eral district court Monday against
the Fairbanks Exploration Company
to cancel the lease given by Manley
on October 9, 1924. to the Fairbanks
I Exploration Company on Discovery
; and 1 and 2 above Discovery, creek
claims; No. 4 belo wDiseovery, creek
claim; No. 5 below Discovery, bench
claim, left tier, right limit; and 12A
below Discovery, all located on
Cleary creek.
The grounds assigned for cancella
tion of the lease are that the Fair
banks Exploration Company has
failed to work and mine the propties
ties in a miner-like manner and has
failed to account to Manley for the
true amount of gold mined from his
properties this season in the follow
11-wv
First. That the Fairbanks Explor
ation Company failed to mine a strip
of ground having an average width
of 86 feet and being 1,200 feet in
length situated on the right limt side
of creek claim No. 4 and adjoining
the property of the defendant known
( as Durand fraction and No. 4 below
! Discovery, first tier, right limit.
Second. That said ground con
; tains approximately 109,275 square
feet of bedrock of an estimated value
of $1.50 per square foot, making a
total value of about $163,912.50, to
which Manley is entitled to 12 1-2 per
cent, or $20,439.25.
Third. That by reason of the fail
, ure of the company to work this
' ground the same will be entirely lost
i to Manley unless unless Manley shall
hereafter consent that said strip of
ground may be mined together with
; said Durand fraction and bench claim
; No. 4 belonging to defendant.
This, Manley states, he will refuse
to do for the reason that it has been
j the policy, purpose and intent of the
company to commingle the low-grade
gravels of their claims with the
known rich gravels of Manley’s
clams in order that the values con
j tained in Manley’s properties may be
brought down to belo wtheir true
value, thus depriving Manley of the
royalty to which he is entitled.
One of the reasons assigned for
this conduct is. that the amount of
royalty that Manley will receive is
dependent upon the total gross
amount that shall he mined from his
I properties. If the amount is below
one million dollars Manley is to re
ceive 10 per cent royalty and if above
one million, dollars he is to receive
12 1-2 per cent royalty, so ths is as
! signed as one of the reasons for min
ing and commingling the gravels of
1 Manley’s claims with the company’s
I own claims in order as stated in the
| complaint to reduce the output of his
claim sand tq defra ud him of royalty
that justly belong.-, to him.
It is also charged that the Fair
banks Exploration Company has al
ready commingled the rich gravels
! of creek claim No. 4, belonging to
Manley, with the very low grade and
practically valueless gravels of their
own claim known as No. 4 below,
'eft limit, and that they have deduct
edfrom tee .pcpibHM.87 cmfw mfw w
: ed from the gross amount of gold
that has resulted from their opera
tions on Manley’s ground, namely,
$453,560; the sum of $81,190.36,
which the company claims is the
value of gehl mined from No. 4 loft
limit, whereas in truth and in fact
said ground carried scarcely any
values whatsoever, all of which the
company well knew and knows, and
so commingled and mined said claims
Matter Of
Idle Workers
HOOVER APPOINTS SPECIAL
COMMISSION FROM .CABNIET
TO STUDY RELIEF.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Presi-j
dent Hoover yesterday appointed a
special commission from his Cabinet,
composed of Secreearies Lamont,
Davis, Wilbur, Hurley, Hyde and
Mellon and Governor Meyer of the
Federal Reserve Board, to work out'
a plan for stimulating unemployment
during the present winter. ney will
enter upon their duties immediately.
PROBLEMS OF Unemployment
CHICAGO, Oct. 17.—Big business
men of this city are raising a $12,-1
000,000 unemployment fund.
and gravels thereof with the intent
and purpose of defrauding the said
Manley.
The complaint charges that the
said Fairbanks Exploration Com
pany in preparing No. 12 below for
mining washed off of said claim onto
their own adjoining claims by hy
draulic water pressure tailings of the
estimated value of $20,000, thus de
priving Manley of the royalty he
would have received therefrom to his
damage in the sum of $1,500.
The complaint also charges that
Manley on acquiring knowledge that
the defendant was mining his ground
with their own immediately notiled
the company to desist therefrom and
that th company in retaliation has
notified Manley that while a part of
cseek claim No. 1 2is now ready for
mining and that the dredge is ready
to mine the same, yet it will not do!
so but will delay the mining of said |
property until it rearhes said prop-'
erty loming down stream, whirh will
be several years from the date here
of, thus depriving Manley from the
royalty that will be derived from j
slaim No. 12 for a long periojd of
! nine.
And this, it is charged, is done in1
order to coerce Manley into consent- j
ing that the creek claim may be
worked with the adjoining claims of
the defendant so that Manley may
j receive the fruits of said mining
! now.
! The complaint further charges that
j it is the duty of the company to mine
; said properties and to continue to j
mine the same under its lease with
reasonable diligence.
It recites that the company has
1 notified Manley that after the pres
ent mining season it wll cease to:
mine his properties for a period of
three or four years, thus depriving
Manley for a long period of time
from royalty to which he is entitled.
| It also sets forth the company has
notified Manley that it will mine its
own ground with Manley’s at its
pleasure.
The complain, after alleging the
foregoing facts in detail and in legal
phraseology, then alleges:
“That the defendant, by its wrong
fhl and frahdhlent conduct, as here
inbefore set forth, in refusing and
failing to work said creek claim No.
4 separate and apart by itself, and
by leaving a portion thereof un
mined, and in mining and comming
ling the gravels extracted from said
creek claim No. 4 with the gravels
extracted from its own ground, and
in its conduct in asserting that it
will continue to mine said ground
described in said Exhibit A with its
(Continued on Page 4.>
Battle Ones
Drawn, Brazil
BATTLE EXPECTED SOON BE
TWEEN FEDERALISTS AND
REVOLUTIONISTS.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct. 12.
—Brazilian revolutionary troops
were rushed to the border of the
states of Parana and Sao Paula,
where a battle with federals is im
minent.
Two regiments of cavalry and ar
tillery, accompanied by volunteers
numbering 800 men, have left Santa
Ana du Livramento for Castro. 75
miles from the border of Sao Paulo
and Parana. Revolutionary dispat
ches said “a very bloody battle” will
probably be fought there. Insurgent
troops are already in the battle area
and will probably bear the brunt of
the early fighting.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 12.—Fed
eral forces from the base port of
Florianapolis launched an offensive
against the revolutionists. General
Costa and 2,500 cavalrymen have
taken the field.
The possession of Florianapolis is
of great strategic value to the gov
ernment, as it furnishes a base for
operations in the south.
The government has called army
and navy reserves between the ages
of 21 and 30 for duty, but does not
expect to use them just yet.
The first reservist to report was
Victor Luis Pereira de Eouza, young
•est son of the president.
GREAT NORTHERN RY. TO
SPEND BIG SUM IN 1931
SPOKANE, Oct. 17.—Ralph Bush,
president of the Great Northern Rail
way, today said that his line will
spend $33,000,000 for maintenance
and improvements in 1931.
UNIFICATION OF N. P. AND
G. N. RAILROADS DELAYED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Recon
sideration of the order giving the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
railroads conditional permission to
unify into a new company was grant
ed today by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. Protests came from
various states.
J. P. TAYLOR APPOINTED
TAKOTNA POSTMASTER
J. P. Taylor, officer in charge of
the Takotna radio station, received
notification of his appointment as
Takotna postmaster several days ago.
The postoffice is now located in the
rear of the wireless station, all of
the postoffice paraphernalia having
been removed to its new location
within the past few days.
That his duties as radio operator
and postmaster may not conflict, and
which will be of benefit to all, Mr.
Taylor has adopted the following
schedule for postoffice hours:
Postoffice Hours—9 a. m. to 10:15
a. m.
3 p. m. to 4:30 p. ns.
Above hours for administration of
all postoffice duties.
7 p. m.. to 8 p. m. for distributing
mail only.
Charlie O'Halloran and Charlie
Konig, well known mail carriers, left
for Ophir yesterday, on their, wxvy to
Flat, from which point the winter
mall sendee starts.