THE
VOL XIII NO. 4
TAHOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. FSHKIMUY j,. ,.33
PRICE 25 CRMSt
Maniac Fires Volley of
Shots at President-Meet
Roosevelt, Miami, Fla.
\M3y0r Cermak of Chicago Shot Through Chest
and Not Expected to Live—Several Others
Injured—Thousands of People Near Scene.
/MIAMI, Flai—SeverAL shots wffire fired at President
elect Roosevelt while addressing a crowd in Bayfront
Park, aftrr his arrival from a vacation trip. JNoneaf the
shots took effect.
T Mayor Anton Cermak, of Ohlcago, who was fa the
party, was shot through the chest, and little hope Is. held
i forfcis recovery.
Mrs. Joe Gill, wife of President Gtf V of tfihe Florida
Light and Bower Company, was shot in the .‘stomach;
William Sennott was shot in the forehead:,; Margaret
Keyes swas shot in the back of the head, and .Russel
Caldwell was shot in the hand. All from Miasm.
The assailant, said to be an Italian bricklayer, was
capferred and jailbed,
Ten thousand people g.eeted Roosevelt on his return
here from his fishing trip. After the attempt >on his life
he was rushed to his private car, where his secretary re
po rted him .calm._
MASQUE BALL A PLEASANT
AFFAIR; LARGELY ATTENDED
The masquerade ball given at Pio
neer Hall last. Saturday night was
one of the happiest events pulled- off
inhere in many a month. There was a
large crowd present, all of whom en
joyed themselves until -a late hour.
The msakers were many, and - the
disguises so perfect that they kept
most of those in attendance guessing.
The music, as rendered by Mrs. ChiL
: strom Capt. J. H. McLean and R. E.
Lowrie, was of the best and highly
• appreciated by those present. An ex
• cel lent lunch was served at the mid
night hour.
lAhamg those present from Mc
Grath were the following: Misses
Freda Konig, Helen Konig, Hattie
Konig, Mrs. Charles Konig, Eddie
. tKonig, Woodrow Vanderpool, Robert
Vanderpool, Mrs. W. T. Vanderpool,
.Misses Avis and Rose Vanderpool,
Bernard Ivey, Albert Ivey, Mrs.
Frank, Chauncey Williams, Mrs. Carl
Theile, Bertha Theile, Jack Morris,
'Oliver Anderson, Charlie Cowan, Ed
Ralston, Grenold Collins, Miss Sallie
• Gabrielson, Harry Dulac.
Those present from Ophir were
Mrs. Augusta Louise Livenhagen,
John Repo, Christian Bolgen.
Among those from the outlying
j districts were Mr. and Mrs. George
W. i Clyde. Swan Anderson, Arvid
Larson,^Charlie Goebel.
lao.,among those present were Pilot
A1 Monsen and Mechanician Thomas
Groves.
LA GRANDE, Ore.—State Police
man LieuTTTUW Nye says that Wm.
Moore, arrested today, has confessed
to implication in the laying of Har
old O’Connor^ off Brooklyn, N. Y., a
motorist, twhose body was found at
Coopey:FaJls«B*ar Portland, Septem
' bar'll.
^ Chris Nelson and Mrs. George W.
• Clyde were departures today for the
Poorman section.
CAPT. GEORGE GREEN PAHSKK
ON AT HIS SEATTLE HOME
That Captain Georg® A. Green, for
many years, master of the steamer
Tana, had passed away at his home
in Seattle, was the sad and .unex
pected news to reach this place early
in the week.. Death is said to have
been due to a combination of ufl and
tumor of the brain.
George Green, as a young man,
J came to the Yukon section in 1898
with his uncle, Joe Green, with whom
he served on the steamer Monarch.
In 1900 George went up the Koyukuk
: on the Rough Rider, with Hoey Bean.
I In 1905 he was on the White Seal. 'In
1 1906 he went to work for the N. N.
' Company, and was with that concern
I until it passed into the hands of the
j White Pass and Yukon. In 1919 -he
: left the White Pass and joined Capt.
! Wallace Langley in his operations on
I the Kuskokwim, and had remained
| in this section ever since.
I He was well known along the Yu
1 kon and in almost every interior sec
tion, in all of which places he had ac
cumulated many friends, all of whom
will be saddened to learn of his
death. He leaves a mother, a wife,
two sons and two brothers to mourn
his passing. He died at the age of
: 53 years.
GARNER COMPLETING HIS
36TH YEAR IN HOUSE
WASHINGTON.—Congr.'-.. called
an extra session to hear the official
report of election of Roosevelt and
Garner to the 'Ehief positions in the
nation.
A few minates after the result of
, the election was .announced (Gamer
; remarked he wooiLar. father -be an the
i House than to preside,- iriHfae Senate,
i and that his heart woULfi always be
1 there. He is completing a service of
136 years in the Souse. After Snell
publicly congratulated him on the
floor of the House all members stood
| and applauded, the veteran. '
MAfffY SUFFERING WITH
tnfluenzFat SEATTUE
Frank .Mortimer, purser of the
steamer Tana*- waiting from .Seattle
to Dept. Ed Ralston, gives the follow
ing items of interest:
"Captain Wallace. Lahgley: his 'been
sick With the flu ever since Christmas.
He was down bn 'thef'office -yesterday
for the first time. lie is now getting
on in good Shape. Think he'wrU'takt
a-trip south very shortly. Cap Greer:
toook a trip East, and *f ter (ret,unking
was also taken down ■\lnthh thfe. flu.
He is now at.ihommaiui alsrosmbming
along all okay. Nearly yeuenybody
here that I know js hither, hick or has
been. The'flu'was very Pad Hand is
yet), many of the -school*1 being
closed. Tlrywever.nt 'Seems to- be in a
light form, ;as there has been very
few deaths.
“Business is .-and has been very
bum. Every bther fellow is out of
work, attti conditions, ate bad. ..There
is nothing but" hard-luck stories, and
no Tooling.”
BEREIN.A general strike as labor’s
answer.to "Hitler’s coming into power
is advochte’d by the communist organ
Rote Eahne, ■ which says that the {rep
resentatives and workersi irr foeunciC
of-2,000 organizations have -resolved
to agitate ^strikes.
JMaqy-disorders and strikes of Vari
ous kinds. are already under way, and
began immediately upon Hitler tak
ing the oath, and three persons, have
been Skilled in .the effort to restore
order.
The (police are kept busy dispers
ing ‘•communist gatherings . and pro
testing? :ugainst the elevation of Hit
ler. Jn -the dash :three were killed
ana many,ocnersvwounaea. many a»=o
were arrested. Five hundred student
demonstrators marched past -Berlin’s
Wall-Street shouting “Profiteers” and
other : abusive wards at the Bourse
members .until dispersed by police,
general .strikeffifftffi mfw mfwy fwy
The communists appealed for a
general ’strike. .There is.no definite
indication as to what effect the ap
peal-will have in Paris.
ALASKA MAIL BLUSHER SWIMS
IN TCY WATERS BERING SEA
FAIRBANKS.^*! dispatch from
Nuiato to the News-Miner says that
MitchelliCharles, an Eskimo mall car
rier, who left Ihmlakleet Monday ,en
route to Nome with a dog team, was
caught in the outgoing Bering sea ice
midway .between Utrahakleet and
Shaktolik and) swam two hundred
yards m the icy -waters to make
shore.
After getting on land and drying
out the best he could, Charlie mushed
to Unalakleet Monday night.
The Eacifie-Alaska Airways station
at Fairbanks contacted with Radio
Pilot Jerry Jones, who flew out over
Norton Sound with.his radio-equipped
ship. He spotted, he reported, a cake
oof ice about the size of a house, and
saw on it the dogs which had broken
away from the sleigh.
It was understood there was a
young Eskli#6 traveling with Mitchell
Charles when he was cut o fffrom the
mainland on th eice. What became of
the companion has not been learned.
Jones reports having talked with land
searchers who claims both the men
escaped to 'the mainland, but just
\vTfat became of the companion of
Charles is not made clear.
PORTLAND, Ore.—Flames which
swept through the engine rooms and
the lower sections of the steamer Pa
cific Shipper while she was on fire off
Coos Bay, Oregon, were extinguished
and the vessel is under to wto a coast
guard ship and bound for Portland.
Items ol Importance
In Recent News Events j
—
MIAMI.—Jesse Jones, of Texas, ap- ^
pears destined to head the Refinance
Corporation under Roosevelt, meaning
the displacement of Atlee Pomerene
of Ohiq. -whose appointment by Hoov
er was blocked with all the other
nominations h ythe Senate this ses
sion.
Speculation here.among Democratic
leaders hazard the guess that William
Woodin, of Ne wYark, will enter the
Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce;
Henry Stevens, of North Carolina, .as
Secretary of War; and Archibald
McNeill, of Connectict, or Max Gard
ner, of North Carolina, as Secretary
of the Navy.
k STRAUSBOURG, France.— More
than one .hundred persons are report
ed killed in the terrific explosion of a
huge gas storege tank at the Neun
kichn Steel Works, in the Saar valley,
n Germany.
Details of the distressing accident
• have not been loam-1. but many
truck loads of injure drnne have been
taken to hospitals, wh ch are prepar
ing to reverie a large number more
of tin; patients.
CHICAGO.—A spectacular fire de
I stroyed the Rosenbaum Grain Cor
poration . ele.vator on the waterfront
I here last; night.
The.i flamesi am still burning, and
; the jire is expected to smoulder for
I days, and. possibly weeks.
The loss includes nearly two mil
lion bushfls of.wneai, conn ann. »wa
grains.
>. '.Firemen foiught the' flames i n .a
temperature of: 7 degrees' below zero,
and "prevented the spread of flames
to other buddings.
’ The police fear anoother -explosion,
an dauthorities are considering plans
to have the lower part of the town
evacuated immediately .beeanse 6f
danger of gas poisoning
WASHINGTON. — The broadest
powers ever -given p. .pr*isklont was
voted, to Booseveli- as Hne Senate
passed a Treasufy-Fostofikitj bill au
thorizing the President to overhaul
i the Government 'DWchmery.
WASHINGT ON.— Prohibition re
peal, which has been during this ses
sion buried under appropriation bills,
has come to| light again. Senate lead
ers expect to take it u pagain within
a day or. so
McNary said the repeal proposal
will follow the Agricultural Depart
ment measure, on which work has
been started.
BATAVIA—The fleeing Dutch crui
ser De Seven Provincien, with muti
nouB crews nfi Sumatrans, was racing
for the open ocean under full head of
steam when it met a sudden and dis
astrous halt.
Out of the air plunged a huge
bomb, f so mat flying ship of the pur
suing Dutch naval squadron.
Quickly tine runaway ship burst
into flames, and the vessel came to a
full stop.
The mutineers took to life boats,
and surrendered to th eofficers of pur
suing ships.
Eighteen ."men on the Provincien
were!, killed - arid twenty-five injured
by Eh e«htptssi«B of the death-dealing
bomb.
Fifteere Japanese natives, a Dutch
officer and a young Dutch seaman are
among those wounded.
LONIX)N-—Roused to » .mew hope
for the return of gwafgjeritR, .the na
tion wa sassured lay Premier Mac
Donald that the world eot nt-roie con
ference 'will he htld -at the ^-arliest
possible mameai.
An Associated Press'-survey of vari
ous capitals -sbews the eonferenee’s
preparatory commissHm, with the
work well in Wand, has focused atten
tion on six points in IheTprogzam for
recovery, namely:
.1. Monetary and-eredit policies.
2. Price resumption.
3. Movement of capital.
4. Restrictions ■un mteniatiahai
trade.
5. Tariff and treaty'policies,
f>. Organixatiwr ofy’iirwhootion antf
trade.
The United States will -enter the
monetary and economic conference at
London next -summer with-a ftrni con
viction in favor of a concerted drive
by leading nations to' lower interna
tional trade barriers, believing it WiBl
■ bring a revival -of world commerce.
The conference will approach the
task of betterment of-world commod
ity prices through two Channels, eco
nomic and financial
NEW YORK.—Prhno Camera, the
Italian giant, hurling his 264 1-2
'pounds of beefl against Ernie Schaff’a
2071-2 pounds,.hattledsthis twaj- to the
next chance to meet SifaafcKey .fefr the
heavyweight crown.
Camera km* <ekafl out Hchaffwith a
left jab to the chin in the thirteenth
round of a icbcduled. fifteen-round
bout
| After frantic Efforts Oto revife
[ SCIehaff in his snmer,.:iwr «was lugyed
| out of th ering hy .■•Shatkei. .Two pe
1 licomen and doctors half an ifieur later
i examined him and found him suffer
! ing, according to the doctors, front a
slight concussion. He later .regained
consciousness, and.at lart reports was
out of danger anti resting well.
Critics insist that if the bant *ai
not one of the beat known to prize
ring history it at least was .one -of the
most dramatic staged in many a day.
The crowd yelled ‘Take" and booed
lustily efen as the victim lay stppsr
.ently unconscious ,wi the . floor. A
crowd o£.20,000 saw the fight. Vic
to rywas forecast for Camera, and it
now qualifies hi mfor the title match
.in June against Jac& Sharkey, who
owns half of Scbaff’s contract,
round bout two years age.
Sharkey trounced Camera? in a T5
The knockout wa«. & blow t® the
pose direct when the huge Italia
smashed his hand-iai.o the middle of
.Schaff’s face. Scheff was m trouble
from the start, hut' there were no
knockdowns pnart<t*> the knockout.
The hser was ahodred more than
knocked from hU -feet.
NEW YORK.—Two days after
after Roosevelt is inaugurated he
will confer' sfiTtbe White House with
Governors of the -18 States. He has
invited executives from all th•» States
to xrceet him there to confer on the
questions of mortgage foreclosures,
taxation; unemployment relief, better
use of lands, and reorganization <)£
local governments.
The&ftlt by the President-elect for
the iCWriereitcv sets a '.precedent, tod!
was^sent-out by wire ttf'frre 'various
governors from the Ne J$fcurkDa**f
era tie .headquarters.