KUSKO TIMES
VOL. IX ; NO. 1H
TAKOTNA ALASKA SATURDAYS!. AY 4, 192*).
PRICE 25 CENTS
Tornado Hits
Sciioolhouse,
Ryecove, Va.
BODIES OF FIFTY CHILDREN RE
COVERED;. HUNDREDS ARE.,
IN.I l KEDl
RYECOVE,, Va.f May 3,—Sweeping
into Nolihhuckey valley, a terrific tor
nado yesterday leveied the Ryecove
consolidated school, kille dnineteen
children and injured seven so critical
ly that physicians did no expect th
recover, while others are seriously
hi;rt. Some of the children were
blown one hundred feet from the
buildings, while others were buried in
tre debris. The tornado str .ck the
school at 1 o’clock, just after the chil
dren had entered it fro nthcir midday
recess.
KNOXVILLE,. Tenru, May 3.^
Si^ty-three were killed today when, a
tornado demolished the. schoolhouse
at. Ryecove. Virginia.
RYECOVE. May 3.—Fifty bodies
have been recovered, all dead school
children, save two teachers. One
hundred are injured.
S^NAT STAKES 10 MINUTES
TO EXTEND:.GRE®TlVGS TO
COL. CHARLES LINDBERGH
WASHINGTON, April 30.—The J
Senate took a recess of ten minutes!
today to greet Col. Charles A. Lind
befgh. Standing, between Vice Presi
dent Curtis and Senator Bingham,.
Lindbergh smiled and shook hands
with, the Senators as they, filed by to
congratulate, him on. his exploits.
DEM. NATIONAL COMMITTEE
TO PAY OFF MILLION OF IN
DEBTEDNESS IN FEW DAYS
WASHINGTON, May 1.—Chair
man John J. Raslcoh announced today
that within a fortnight the million
and a half indebtedness of the Demo-1
cvatic N ational Committee will, have j
been reduced to less than one-half
million dollars. He also announced
that Jouett S. House, as chairman of
the executive, committee, is opening
permanent headquarters here for the
purpose of recovering in the 1930
congressional elections some, of the
ground lost yast year.
81; INDICTMENTS RETURNED
AGAINST FORMER ALLEGED.
BAD ONES, CHICAGO: HEIGHTS
CHICAGO, May, 4.*—A four-years’
investigation of liquor law. violations
in Chicago Heights was climaxed to
day by return of federal indictments
against eighty-one perstu s, including
former police officials, th postmaster
and alleged numerous officers. It is
■aid that evidence will be presented
■howing that they did a business of
136,000,000 dufing that period and
are directly responsible or. a score of
tourders in the city..
Charlie Goebel, after a visit of sev
'*r»l days here, left th s morning, for
McGrath. Going, dor •: at the samt
was Bernard H. Ivey, after >>
of three or. four lays here.
ain George A. Green, master
steamer- Tana, returned to Mc
on Monday, a.'t^rvft winter on
Itsido
Joyriding
and Death
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WOMAN KILLED, SEATTLE MAN
FACES CHARGES OF MAN
..SLAUGHTER...
SEATTLE, May 2.—Charges of
manslaughter were filed today
against Jacob William Knauss, 63,
and married, in connection with the
death Sunday in an auto crash of
Mrs. Zella May Harvey,, 36, wife of
Guy J. Harvey.
During the inquest Knauss related
that he and Mrs. Harvey were auto
riding; that as he was kissing and
embracing her with one arm, driving
the machine with one hand, the auto
ran into a telephone pole. The woman
was killed. Knauss sustained a frac
tured leg.
EDISON TO SELECT BRIGHT
EST OF 49 BOYS, WINNER TO
GET A COLLEGE EDUCATION
NEW YORK, April 30.—Thomas
A. Edison has asked the governor of
each State and commissioners of the
District of Columbia to designate a
board to select from among high
schools and preparatory schools pu
pils, each, a boy who ha sshown him
self with ability in scientific sub
jects. . Th.iR school year he will pay
the expenses of forty-nine boys from
their home t ohis laboratory, and
there he will'select the brightest one,
the winner to be given a college edu
cation at Edison’s expense.
FEDERAL TAXES FOR FIRST
• 9 MONTHS CURRENT FISCAL
YEAR REACH $2,137,000,000
WASHINGTON, May 1.—Federal
taxes collected during the first nine
months- of the (.urrent fiscal year,
which ended March 31, amounted to
i'2,11’7,000,000. Washington and Alar -
ha paid ?10,f>04.U' 0, Hie government
in'll unced.
GERMAN AND AMERICAN
REPARATIONS DELEGATES
REACH A FULL AGREEMENT
PARIS, May 4.—The German and
American reparations delegations
have reached,full agreement on com
• plete settlement of reparations prob
lems. It remains, however, for the
American to win the Belgium delega
tions to their plans. The British,
Japanese and Belgians have ap
proved the settlement tentatively.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE HOLMES
MOURNS WIF EOF 57 YEARS
WASHINGTON, May ; 1—Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes, oldest mem
ber of the Supreme Court- in age and
| service, today mourned his wife, who
shared his life fifty-seven years. Mrs.
; Holmes died last night. ^
John Taylor,. who arrived Monday
at McGrath via airplane, from Fair
banks, arrived here Tuesday, coming
up with Henry M ii'tolla. Mr. Taylor
on Thusday succeeded Mr. Glancey as
operator in charge of the lakotna
radio station, having come to this
place from Seward, at which point he
1 had been stationed for a year prior.
, Emil Anderson, well known dredge
master, after a winter spent with his
• family at Oakland, arrived via plane
. at McGrath on Monday, and came
i up from the latter place on Tuesday
i with Henry Martella. .
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FORMER ALASKA PROSPEC
TOR WINS CONTEST TO RE
COVER HALF $43,000 ESTATE
SEATTLE. April 29. — Superior
Judge Howard M. Lind ley has rnle.i
1 h;vr George McLean., Alaska p' o,j
V-fftor, 60 years old, a.vJ deaf, shall
have half of the $43,000 estate of his
sister, the late Mrs .Revelle, wife* of
I Joe Revelle, Seattle policeman and
brother of Thomas P. Revelle, former
United States attorney, here. Lindley
denounced Revelle for having fraudu
*ently attempted to cheat McLean out
of his half, and srdered a set of ap
praisers to b ring in a ne waccount
ing of the estate. Revelle had repre
sented that McLean had received his
share of the estate.
Railroads
Battling
PENNSYLVANIA R- R. VS. BAL
TIMORE & OHIO'AND CHES
APEAKE & OHIO.
NEW YORK, May 1.—The Times
says today that a battle of millions
for the control of strategic railroads
in the East, cdVnparable to that waged
between the Pennsylvania railroad
and the Gould interests in the early
part of the century, has been started
^between the Pennsylvania railroad on
- one side and the Baltimore & Ohio
and Chesapeake & Ohio on the other
side.
Telegraphic Ticks.
SEATTLE, May-1.—Deming Boson,
i.new Seattle business man, has been
! awarded the Congressional medal of
honor f orhaving during the World
War led, as lieutenant, a platoon of
men, destroying a. German machine
gun nest, killing the gunner.
ENGLEWOOD, May 3.—Miss Ann
Morrow, affianced of Colonel Charles
A. Lindbergn, famed aviator, accom
panied by Mrs. Morrow; and her sister
Elizabeth, arrived home her? today
! from Mexico.
WASHINGTON,x May Ik—Former
! Govern**!- Charles G Moore of Idaho
i was appointed Commissioner General
! of the Land Office by President. Hoo
; ver late this afternoon..
i _I.
1 NEW YORK, May 2.—Charles
Evans Hughes, famed American,
] sailed. yesterday es route to Geneva,
! to take up his duties as judge of the
j World’s Court.
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SEATTLE, May 4.—The steamer
Aleutian sailed for Seward and way
ports this morning- with 203 passen
gers, including 100 for Cordovia and
96 for Seward and interior points.
SEATTLE, April 29.—Clark P.
I Bisset, noted professor of law at the
I University of Washington, resigned
today, on account of failing health.
‘ DOUGLAS, Ariz., May 1.—The
garrison at Agua Prieta, Sonora, the
last Mexican rebel, stronghold, sur^'
rendered today.
NEW YORK, May 2.—Thomas
! Aloysios Dorgan, cartoonist, who
| signed his pictures “Tad,” died at his
home here today.
SEATTLE, May 1.—Tre Coast;
Guard service announced today that!
the cutter Northland will sail from,
Seattle on May 10 for Point. Barrow.;
From Nome
To Chicago
CRAMER, ROUND TRIP FLYER,
COVERS DISTANCE IN LESS
THAN A WEEK.
CHICAGO, May 2—Parker Cramer,
aviator, returning from his air trip
to Alaska and Bering Straits, landed
at the municipal airport today from
La Crosse, Wis., where he had been
forced to stop last night. He plans
to take off today to end his Nome-to
Ne wYork flight.
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N- Y., May
4.—Parker Cramer, who last year at
tempted a non-stop flight from Rock
ford, Ills., to Stockholm, Sweden,
landed here last evening in a Cessma
plane, in which he left Nome, Alaska,
last Saturday. He arrived from Chi
cago, where the round-trip flight to
the Actic Circle started and ended.
SITK AWOMAN, ILL, MAKES
AIRPLANE TRIP TO SEATTLE
SEATTLE, May 2.—Mrs. Kostro
metinoff, wife of Peter Kostrometi
noff. Sitka business man, arrived
from Sitka by airplane last night at
8 o'clock for medical treatment. Ac
companied by her husband,’ she left
Sitka at 9 o’clock yesterday morning
in an AlaskaJ^asKmgton Airways
plane, with Ansel Eekmann pilot and
Robert E. Ellis navigator. Stops
were made at Ketchikan and Alert
Bay. Though seriously ill with sep
ticimia. she stoid the trip well.
FJSAR LUNDBERG, RESCUER
OF NOBILE, ARRIVES SEATTLE
SEATTLE ,May 1.—Captain Einar
Lundhcrg, Swedish aviator, who flew
into the Arctic last June and thrilled
the world with his rescue of General
Umberto Nobile, arrived in Seattle
today.
CONSTANCE TALMADGE, 27,
TO TAKE THIRD HUSBAND
LOS ANGELES, May 4,-Con
stance Talmadge, 27, well known
screen star, filed notice at the mar
riage license bureau here today of
her intention to marry Townsend.
Chicago merchant, next Wednesday
This w:ll be her third husband, and
his second wife.
MEX. REVOLUTIONARY HEAD
ON HIS WAY TO CANADA
EL. 1*AS*0, May 4.—General J G.
Escobar, commander-in-chief of the
forces of the Mexican revolution, is
on his way to Canada in an airplane,
Lieut. Col. J. E. Sustriana, special
representative of the president, tele
phoned today.
NEJNANA ICE POOL.
FAIRBANKS, May 5.—The ice in
the Nenana river broke at 3:43 p .m.
today. There are from seven to nine
lucky ones in line to split the esti
mated $53,000 purse.
Lloyd Glancey, for the past year
operator in charge of tht* Takotna
radio station, left Friday for Mc
Grath , going down with Charlie
O’HaUoran. He will he a passenger
on Tana for Bethel, and then take the
Tupper for the Outside. During his
stay here he made many friends, all
of whom will extend him best wishes
for the future.
Charlie O’Halloran returned here
yesterday from a trip to McGrath,
Joyriding
Airplaners
! THREE YOUNG MEN BURN TO
DEATH WHEN THEIR MA
CHINE CRASHES.
LOS ANGELES, April 30.—Wil
liam Oviatt, 22 years old, rich son of
William H. Oviatt, former manager
of Morris T. Gerst, noted stage pro
ducer; Ray N. Scott, 25, nephew of
Charles Murray, famous screen come
dian; Mack A. Flicker, 25, motion pic
ture character actor, burned to death
when the airplane in which the trio
were joyriding crashe dto earth yes
terday.
Workmen at the Rogers airport,
from which he plane took off, report
ed that all three men were under the
influence of liquor.
ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRA
TION AT MEXICO CITY MAY I
NEW YORK, May 1.—Anti-Amer
ican demonstrations in Mexico City,
in which police and riot squads
quelled several hundred men and
women in front of the United States
consdlate, and clashes between Berlin
police and commhnists, in which one
man was killed, marked the observ
ance of May May, 1929, by radicals
abroad,. At tjrye nemon,
strators shouted Drath to Airier -
JUDGE CARLOS S. HARDY, AC
QUITTED, RESUMES DUTIES
LOS ANGELES, April 30.—Carlos
S. Hardy, following his acquittal by
the California Legislature of articles
of impeachment in connection with,
the Ainiee Semple McPherson affair,
resumed his duties today as one of
the Superior Court judges of Los
Angeles county.
INTERIOR DEPT. ASSISTANT
TO MAKE VISIT TO ALASKA
WASHINGTON, April 30.—Ernest
W. Sawyer, administrative assistant
to Secretary of Interior Wilbur, will
leave Washington on May 20 on ai)
inspection trip which will carry him
through a number of Western States
and Alaska. He first plans to go to
Chicago to confer with officials of the
Alaska Railroad. In Alaska he pur
poses studying in detail the adminis,
tration of that Territory.
NON-STOP FLIGHT AROUND
WORLD NEXT SEPTEMBER
WASHINGTON, May 1.—A non
stop flight around the world next
September is the prcjeet oi Lieut. Al
bert D. Hulse, army reservef flyer,
Captain H. W. Lyon Jr., navigator of
the Southern Cross when she made
the trans-Pacific flight, and three
others.
HOOVER WORKS OFF 15 LBS.
SINCE TAKING OVER OFFICE
WASHINGTON, May 4—President
Hoover has v/orked off fifteen pounds
since taking over the office of Chief
Executive. He now weighs 185, which
is regarded as normal weight for men
of hu ..tight.
Mrs, Georgia Sheehan, after a visit
of a couple of days at McGrath, rcr
turned here Tuesday.
Dan McGinty returned Tuesday
from a brief visit at McGrath,