THE KUSRO TIMES
VOL XII NO
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TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY.
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8 KPTEM’REK 1*7. 1982
PRICE 25'GEN V*5
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Pout© Rico
Hurricane
.32 PERSONS KILLED; PROPERTY
DAMAGES WILL RU NINTO
MILLIONS.
■WASHINGTON.—Information re
>. ceived by the War Depatment from
•Governor Beverly of Porto Rico
. states that , at Least 36 persons have
been hilled and a vast , amount of
property destroyed hy a tropical hur
ricane which struck in the .vicinity of
.San.Juan.
Early estimates ,the gvernor says,
indicate that the loss will he fully as
great as that resulting from the hur
ricane .of 1928. Residents of San
■ Juan estimate the property loss at
millions of dollars. The citrus fruit
tcrop is believed .to have sustained .a
loss of |7,00Q,000,. and it is feared the
class to coffee planters will exceed
i-.even this huge .amount.
The public utilities of San Juan
•were put out of business by the
storm, with the result that the city
is without light and .power today and
with water supply menaced.
Hans Erickson, Ganes creek mining
man. was .a Wednesday departure Tor
Anchorage, on -his way to -the Out
side. He will probably spend the win
. ter in San Francisco.
Joe Sterling left a .few days ago
Fairbanks, whither he went to attend
school.
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Tehachapi
WALL OF WATER 40 FEET HIGH
THROUGH PASS, FOLLOWING
CLOUDBURST.
BAKERSFIELD, Cal.—Leaving m
its wake thirty dead and at .least a
score of persons missing, a wall of
water forty .feet high swept through
Tehachapi pass last night, .following
a cloudburst in the .mountainous re
gion.
The roaring torrent struck a rail
road trestle at Wooduff, sweeping, a
locomotive and seven f eight cars to
destruction in a.canyon some distance
below, causing the death of Engineer
A. H. Ross and an undetermined num
ber of itinerants. Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Caad .and their two children ^perished
when the wall of wate demolished
their gas station.
The rush of water carried out a
ffimber of railroad and .highway
bridges and sections of grade, and it
is believed for the authorities that
many bodies will he found in the
debris.
Reports from Ophir state that Matt
Carrier Gurtler, on his way from
Holy .Cross to Ophir, encountered en
gine trouble about 35 miles from
Ophir, to which place • he came and
returned to his mail boat w ith .. a
couple of others to assist him in get
ting the mail to Ophir, where it .2 is
expected to arrive by Sunday.
Alaska Interests At
The Nation’s Capital'
Bjr W. A. S.
. WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—A letter
< of inquiry has been received at the
office of the Delegate from an “Old
Republican” of the Third division of
Alaska. He is somewhat anxious
about the result of the presidential
poll in the Hearst newspapers and
-wants to know whether it is really
legitimate or only “hokum.” He also
Bays that he hears many extravagant
claims about how the Democrats are
going ito sweep the Territory w^J)
their “strong” ticket, but he doesn’t
pay :mubh atention to that “bologna”
—the -kind that he has heard every
two years for twenty years past. In
order that the interested infuirer and
others .may get aslant on the East*
ern viewpoint of presidential possi
bilities but regular is news letter sup
plemented .by some political pickups.
Under ithe heading “Smith Spurns
Reconciliation With Governor,” the
Hearst'Washington Herald, on Aug.
29, started.-a news item thusly: “Po
litely but .firmly A1 Smith spurned a
reconciliation meeting with Governor
Roosevelt today which was thorough
ly arrangedfey some of the big chiefs
of Tammapy Hall. His absence put
a damper nm>-the party and left the
impressionttbat the once ‘happy war
rior’ is . still.'.unwilling to bury the
hatchet."
On Augpstf '31 the Hearst newspa
pers carred htbe .-following statement
under a Na wXark headline: “Presi
dent Hoover’s chanles for re-election
- are steadily increasing, according to
. odds being offered today by W. H.
’ Tuohey & Company, of $Q .Broadway.
, Wall Street betting commissioners,
i The firm today placed a wager of
i $6,000 to $0,400 at the odds of 3 to 2
'that the nation’s present.chief execu
! tive will be re-elected.
The independent Washington Even
ing Star had an editorial the other
day which contained the tallowing
expression: “Having publicly char
acterized Roosevelt as a demagogue
and pledged himself to fight i him.
Smith has not done violence to his
conscience by receding .from that po
sition.”
E. E. Hurja, who some yeans ago
did newspaper work in Alaska but
who is now employed by the Demo
cratic national committee, sends some
cheering news to the Juneau Daily
Empire. Referring to the political
pol lin the Hearst newspapers, . he
says: “I am prepared >to say.-that it
is a fair, just and equitably pall.' * *
Roosevelt will carry all but four or
five States. I made a wager today
that Hoover wduldn’t carry 10 States.
If I could get better odds L would bet
that he wouldn’t carryi five.”
The value of this prediction, the
kind that,is so familiar to.all Alas
kans, can’ (be found in the 5.Hearst
presidential poll that appears in. the
papers 'of September. 2. cHaover is
given the lead in nine States* as fol
lows: . .New York, uOhjp, (Massachu
setts,RKansas, Connecticut, Maine,
New..Hampshire, Rhndd lsland tand
Vermont. Possibly Hu*ja-will 'bet
his other $5 on Hoover and thus come
nut even.
v ICoathraad. on Pag* 8.)
SENATOR NORRIS THROWS
SUPPORTED RODEEA'EL’I*
__ 1
MdCOOK, Neb.-rr-Scnator Norris of
Nebraska presided at the Roosevelt
meeting which wash held here: last
night and introduoedhthe Btemoc ratio
candidate for the .presidency as the
next occupant of the White dLouse.
“What the country needs is. another
Roosevelt,” the-Senator told the-2ft,
000 who had gathered ..to hear the
New York governor' discuss,the issues
of the day. "Here he s,” he .conclud
ed, “the. governor .of New, York and
the next president vof , jthe (United
States.”
Jn acknowledtrijng .the.Norris -trib
ute, Roosevelt said: “Our cause is
common. I welcome your support.”
He referred to the senator, as a-better
Republican than President Hoover.
FUR SMUGGLING CASE
DROPPED IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE.—Charges of «n plica
cation in a nintecnationai fur smug
gling conspiracy, which were filed
against Piot Freak Dorband% Lyman
de Staffanay, fur trader and explorer,
and Albert and Fred -Kotserke,.. Se
attle fur .dealers, were thrown out of
court yesterday by United ...States
Commissioner A. C. Bowman, fol
lowing a brief hearing, iffhe arrest
ing officers were not .able to produce
sufficient evidence of-guilt to make a
case .
The charges were.based on the al-t
leged smuggling. of, heaver skins.
FARLEY HAS EVERY, STATE
PEGGED. FOR ROOSEVELT
; NEW, yOEK-TrrJ&roea.^ A- .Farley,
chairman.of .the .Democratic national
.campaign committee, Jbas, issued ... a
statement..in which he. asserts that
there .are iewec than .five States ,in
which, a ..Roosevelt victory. is not al-'
ready, assured., Jte did. not list..the
five doubtful States and insisted that
he would not concede ./‘one single
State” to..the. Republicans.
“I am. convinced,”. Farley said,
“that these ‘close’ States will he defi
nite 1 yin the Democratic column be
fore the campaign ends.”
FORD MOTOR <XL MAKING
“PAY READJUSTMENTS”1
! DETROIT.—The FordiMotor Com
pany, which some time ago estab
lished a minimum wage scale of $6
a day, has announced p“ay readjust
ments,” affectin gall employes.
Under, the new arrangements, Ford
workers will be paid 50. cents an hour
for common labor. Semi-skilled
workers will receive 621-2 cents an
hour, and skilled workers 15 cents
an hour.
GERAN GOVERNMENT UNABLE
TO MEET PAYMENT DUE U- S.
WASHINGTON.—Formal notifica
tion was received from Berlin yester
day .informing the United States that
the German government will be •com
pelled to postpone payment of $27,
800,000, which is due the United
States tomorrow under the terms of
the debt loading agreement.
It is explained by Secretay of the
Treasury Mills that the inability of
Germany to make this payment is the
result of unfavorable exchange con
ditions.
Asked regarding the statue «f
other foreign payments, which are
due December 16, Secretory Mills
stated that no similar situation has
arisen elsewhere and there ■ nothing
to. indicate at this time that other
nations will seek postponement of
their payments, which aggregate
wsawoojwo.
tte«s of tepoamce j
In Becent News Brans 1
TOKYO.—With, the flying limit
long passed, .th eowners of the Tokyo
newspaper sponsoring the Japanese
good-will flight have.appealed to the
Japanese .and soviet government? be
.make a search among the islands rim
ming the -North .Pacificuocean n an
effort to find, the missing fh*rs. The
! hope is entertained that the . plane
was .forced down and that the fliers
will be found on one of the many
islands along the route.
The good-will plane hopped from.
Tokyo for Nome at 12^25 o’clock on
I Septemher 23, Pacific time, was heard
| from about five hours later, that
being the last message to be re
ceived from the missing.fliers.
NEW YORK. —Mas Fcbm&iing,
former-heavyweght champion, scored
a technical knockout over Mickey
Walker here last night in . the eighth
round of what was scheduled as a 15
round -battle. The fight ended when
Jack Kearns, manager i'for Walker,
refused to lot the battle continue.
Walker’s left eye had heerrclosed and
his face badly cuthy two knockdowns
n the eighth rounds Sibmelling en
tered the ring at 18821-2, and Walker
at 1741-2^ podnds
Walker jwa*> soofthdlp.' iWtteteri .un,
det Schmfelfehgis vecimp!, atfiaek m the
eighth stanza£’<thj|£ hb barely 1 lasted
out he aeasion.^He- received tCfrific
punishment*rtdnd Kesms. seeing this
battered warrior’s condition, leaped
into the ring as toe 'bell sounded and
took Walker t®' hrs. seat srid reused
to let him continue. Schmelling .also
floored Walkersviora count of .six ;in
the first round.
NBW'YOHK.-^he New York Am
ericgn^, winners of yesterday’s open
?n%1'gHBK game of .the .1932 World
Series, scored another victory this
afternoon, ’when they agaid-defeated
the Chicago Ciibs, the game going to
the Yankees with; a score & & to "2.
CHICAGO.—Resuming ’ the; 1932
World Series here: thi»; afterwspny af-'
ter a lapse of a.day-.made, necessary
by the journey from NeWYork, where
the first two games were .-played, the
Yankees, pennant winners S of‘. ’, the
American Leagpe, scored their third
successive victory, defeating the Cubs
by a score of 7 to jBahe1 Bath cet
the pace with A home, run in the first
inning, and his tea»?mm»tes .main
tamed a -lead throughout' the a game,
starting with three runs in the open
ing inning.
SAN FRANClSCO-^-Carl Erickson,
a seaman, 30 years old, today brought
his 28-foot fidhing boat into pert
after a 27-day voyage down the coast
from Dutch. Harbor, Alaska. He has
a master’s, license,..and said that he
that he. navigated without use of a
chronometer, and?used only a compass
and sextant as {guides along the 2,300
mile .course.
POONA, India.;—Inspired by the
news coming from London that the
British government hda approved the
greater .pat. of..the compromise plan
relating -to privileges granted to un
tourbaj.Ies in. legislative elections,
riahatmC cGandSiriuPoke ■ his fast ytf
terdstS. i lt required just six days and
five hours, of fasting to bring the
^government toriime.
.SEATTLE.—Only three of the
more than twenty .persons'who were
aboard the Nevada when that vessel
was .wrecked .this - week among the
Aleutian Islands escaped with their
lives,'and-their rescue was .accom
plished under> difficulties which would
have vthscouraged a less courageous
crew-than that aboard the American
Mail Line steamer President Madison.
'When .the Madison reached the
island where the -three survivors
were marooned, the surf was break
ing over the beach with great waves,
making it impossible for ■* lifeboat to
reach shore. Finally one of the Mad
ison’s sailors -volunteered bo swim
.ashore wjth.a life'Jine-and he was
successful in getting through the
breakers. With the line fastened se
curely, the survivors L pulled ..them
selves out to bher waiting beat They
oouklvTidrt 'hBve’ lived 'much longer on
the storm-swept .beach.
'Officers of the vessel ktectere that
the wreck’6f the Nevada occurred sc
quickly that the an embers fjf the crew
did net have tnne'ic nmkeKuse ctf the
life boats. IThey .were .Ahsojsa into
the :sea when the vessel broke into
three (pieces and the .majority of
them died in the mater. The bodies
of two THrinese were seeri in the surf,
hut it was. not 'possible t o reach them.
SEATTLE.-^Zbe Indiner ’ business'
'business in the Pacific Nrthwest is
looking up, biit leaders 6f the indus
try are not prepared >to say that the
’’present pace ~will be maintained, ac
cording ttrt Col.' ’W'.’B.’,fe,eeley, sec
retary ■«££’ the West ’ Coast r Lnmber
men’s’Asriociatioti. Demands for lum
ber during the "last six -weeks, he
said, bad depleted stocks throughout
the nation, the buliding Of small
homes having helped materially to
bring, about-, this improved condition,
which has made it possible to resume
production.
j The' Western "Pme Assocation,
with.-Jie&dquartens .in Portland, also
reports increased business during the
last sir mieeks, with order? for the
■week ending .September 10 exceeding
byvone-third thestrolume accepted dur
ing the pr.evius week.
SEATTLE.-JThe : newly organized
Alaskan Navigation Company, which
is to invade Alaska waters in quest
of a share of the water-borne traffic
of the Northland, will dispatch its
first vessel to Western .Alaska and
the Aleutian.Klands October 5. The
vessel to mak the voyage s the mo
tonhip Einar By*r The members of
the company .ami" confident, that the
time is propitiaus. for their invasion
of Alaska waters. and they are em
barking on thei»3!enberprise with as
surances of fiupport from many
quarters.
The first weasel-will-carry more
than 5b0 tons.
sCHICAGO*rrJGovernd Rooseuek ar
rived here late yesterday and war.
given a nmsy reception, with bands
and torchlight -processions. renin1.*
cent tff the days of Lintoln anil Grant,
V»eary f«Mn,:his long ' s wing around
the oaaqti3U,«the Governor ratrrad
early and’TWtn.not seen again in rpub
lic until »he\wt* ended the ball game
this afternoon. He will go from Taw*
to -Detroit,.-**!-thence t» AlhfBW