THE
KUSKO
TIMES
VOL XI NO. 81
TAKOTNA ALASKA SATURDAY. t)UTOBEK 3 1 Da 1
ri-u^r, 1 a
Thomas A.
Edison Near
Life’s Close
life of great wizard saii
TO BE. SLOWLY EBBING.
AWAY..
WEST ORANGE, N. J., Oct. 3.
A,nxiety increased, throughout thi
world today. as Thomas A. Edisoi
continued to grew weaker. Mr. Ed
ison is gradually losing strength. Hi
did. not have a good, night. It. is in
creasingly difficult for him to taki
nourishment. The stamina that huil
up the. Great Wizard, during a lorn
life- time of labor appeared to be ebb
ing away under the onslaught of ■<
fourfold ailment He has been suffer
ing with—uramic poisoning, gastrii
ulcers, diabetes, and Bright’s disease
Goes Into Semiconsciousness—Deatt
Only.a Few Hours Away.
WEST ORANGE, N. J.. Oct. 5.
Death is only a few days away foi
Thomas A. Edison, his personal phy
sicians said today. A bulletin de
scribed the mental condition of th<
Wizard of!’ Menlo Park as: Iethargii
and said he had gone int osemi-con
sciousness.. Dr. Howe’s statemen
was a definite blow to the lingering
hope that Edison’a life might be pro
longed. Only last night the physi
cians’ bulletins were of a more opti
mistic tenor..
Champions
' Are Battling
PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS AND
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS HAVE
1 TWO GAMES EACH.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 5.—George Earn
shaw pitched a two-hit game yester
■ day to give the Athletics a 3 to 0 vic
! tory over the St. Louis Cardinals and
i even the series at two games each.
. Both hits off Earnshaw were made by
, Pepper Martin, oustanding figure of
the world series. One was a single,
the other for two bases.
The Athletics made one run off
Sylvester Johnson, right-hander, in
the first inning, and batted him out
' | of the hox in the sixth, when they
1 scored two runs, one of them a homer.
The next game of the series will be
: played today in Philadelphia. The
• teams will return to St. Louis for the
i sixth game, Friday.
| EIGHT TONS OF DYNAMITE
SHOT OFF IN ONE BLAST
AT PORTAL TO HOOVER DAM
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Oct. 3.—Eighi
tons of dynamite, the largest amount
scheduled for use at one time in the
construction of Hoover Dam, was ex
ploded today to demolish a great
, shoulder of rock at the Nevada por
: tal of the dam diversion tunnel. Th
| large crowd present was kept back
by a number of guards.
Alaska Interests At ]
The Nation’s Capital j
(By W. A. S.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Seven
teen.. of the resident painters of Ju
neau have sent in a protest against
the firm that has the contract for
painting1 the new Federal and Terri
torial building. It is claimed that
only ¥ per day is bein6g paid master
painters and $4 to helpers, while the
prevailing scale at Juneau is $8 and
16,. The contract provides that the
prevailing local scale should be paid,
and Delegate Wickersham has sub
mitted the matter to the Treasury
Department, wih the rssult that the
Supervising Architect is investigat
ing the mater and an increased wage
scale may be ordered.
• Edwin P. Dillon, of Ketchikan,,
served his country during the sectn
World Won but has never been able
tovsecure' his certificate of discharge.
H6 was-accepted for enlistment July
26, 1918, altthe American Embassy in
, London, bufc.be had practically been a
member 0x43*6 British military firres,
and through some tehhnicality his en
listment was not completed before
peace was declared. The matter has
been takenvtq* by the Delegate with
the. War Department, but the Adju
tant General’s Office decides that Mr.
Dillon’s enlistment was never com
pleted and consequently there is now
no authority to furnish him a certifi
cate of discharge therefrom.
Those who dwell in th efar reaches
of the Arctic Circle, where the Es
kimos have come to know the calli
letters KDKA as their synonym for
radio, are to receive an extended ser
vice. For eight years past there has
been a weekly broadcast of special
programs on Saturday nights. Begin
ning October 7 the Washington Co.
will send oht a similar program on
Wednesday nights. The story of
these broadcasts to the desolate
wastes of the North, where thohsands
of Americans and Canadians live
their lonely existence, is one of a
dio’s real sagas. Letters and mes
sages are read to individdals, mis
sionaries, trappers, fhr post employes
and explorers.
Hon. W. H. Holmes, formerly of
Nome and later of Ruby, at which
places he was better known as “Doc"
Holmes, but now of Amarillo, Texas,
who iswell known in the North be
cause of his long residence in Alaska,
was prominent in the Washington pa
pers last week. As a factor in the
Republican politics of his adopted
State he was the- nominee fcr gov
ernor in 1928 and aided largely in
carrying the State of Texas for Pres
ident Hoover. He is now urging the
Republican organization of Texas to
induce the Navy Department that the
name of the second giant dirigible,
sister ship to the Akron, should be
the Amarillo, from which city comes
the only available supply of helium
gas to inflate this ship. That Mr.
Holmes is still vitally interested in
Alaska is evidenced from at resent ar
ticle in the Amasillo Daily News. It
refers to a recent address he made
(Continued on Page 3.),
THOUSANDS OF SPECTATORS
THRILLED IN SPECTACULAR
AUTO WRECK AT CAN JOSE
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 3.—Thou
sands of spectators received a thrill
today in a spectacular wreck in the
feature forty-lap race at the local
track when Driver Hinkley’s car
plunged into the pit, overturned there
three times, and pinned him, uncon
scious underneath it. At the local
emergency hospital he was revived by
physicians, who could not find any
injuries.
Sen. Dwight
W. Morrow
SENATOR FROM NEW JERSEY
SUCCUMBS TO DEATH, AFTER
BRIEF ILLNESS.
INGLEWOOD, N. J., Oct. 5.—
Dwight W. Morrow, United States
Senator from New Jersey, father of
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, died at
his home here today, following a
brief illnes.
uneral arrangements are held in
abeyance in deference to Mr. and
Mrs. Lindbergh, now in Japan.
SIR HUBERT WILKINS HEAD
ED FOR U. S.—SUBMARINE
NAUTILUS SOON TO BE SUNK
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., Oct. 3.—
Sir Hubert Wilkins, famed explorer,
ailed today for New York. The sub
marine Nautilus, in which he cruised
under the polar ice, would be towed
to sea out of the port of Bergen and
■;unk, after the scientific apparatus is
removed.
REPUBLICAN PARTY'S STAND
TO BE THE SAME IN YEAR
1932 AS IN LAST ELECTION
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—At a con
ference today between President Hoo
ver and Senator William E. Borah,
the man who has led much of the Sen
ate’s opposition to the Executive’s
policies, it is understood that prohibi
tion was one of the topics discussed.
Following the conference Borah pre
dicted the Republican party’s stand
on the liquor question would be the
same in 1832 as it was in 1928.
I -
'n. y. raiders gather in
SUSPECT CHARGED WITH THE
KILLING OF FIVE CHILDREN
I NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—Vincent Goll,
sought by the police in connection
with the shooting of five children on
the upper East Side last summer, and
two more recent crimes, was arrested
with five companions today in a raid
by Bronx detectives. The six were
arrested on suspicion of having killed
John Mullins on riday morning, and
also of a bomb explosion that night
in a garage during the seizure of a
truck load of beer.
Miss Elsie Rieck, who left here a
few days ago to receive medical treat
ment at Anchorage, underwent an ap
pendix operation at the Anchorage
hospital on Monday, the telegram
from Mrs. C. F. Lottsfcldt stating
that the operation was most success-!
fol, that the patient was doing fine, ]
and that recovery would be a matter
of only a few days.
Bill Goss arrived yesterday from
Yankee for a brief visit. i
Pangborn,
Herndon
TRANSPACIFIC FLIERS REACH
WENATCHEE FROM TOKYO
IN 44 HOURS.
WENATCHEE, Wash., Oct. 5.—
Clyde Panborn and Hugh Herndon,
noted fliers, arrived here today, hav
ing made the first trans-Pacifie non
. stop flight from Tokyo in exactly 41
, hours. They were greeted by thou
sands.
They circled Mt. Ranier three times
1 before attempting to make a landing,
in doing which the landing gear of
' the plane was broken, although no
j other injury resulted.
i
j BREMERTON, Oct. 3.—The motor
; of an airplane, believed to be that of
! Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndorn,
Jr., was heard today over False Pass,
in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, the
navy radio here was advised by its
station at St. Paul Island, Bering Sea.
The message sent by St. Paul radio
.said: Transpacific plane heard False
! Pass 9:55. Plane not sighted, due to
heavy fog, but sound of motor indi
i catcd it was on right course.”
! The Aleutians are the half-way
I mark of their course, and False Pass
was figured to be the point where the
aviators would begin their last big
water hop over the Pacific Ocean, in
the Gulf of Alaska. Pangborn and
Herndon had planned to fly to Dutch
Harbor and thence start out for the
coast of British Columbia or Wash
ington.
Britain To
Hold Election
TO DTTEIiMINE WHETHER MAC
DONALD GOVERNMENT SHALL
CONTINUE IN POWER.
LONDON, Oct. 3.—Great Britain’s
thirty million men and women voters
will go to the polls in a general elec
tion October 27 to decide whether the
nation, torn by financial and economic
ills, shall continue to be ruled by
Ramsay Macdonald’s national govern
ment. After days of-almost unparal
leled political uncertainty, Macdonald
today announced the government pro
gram to the House of Commons,
which will be dissolved tomorrow by
royal proclamation. Tomorrow even
ing Macdonald will appeal over the
radio for the nation’s support and the
campaign, in which much stored-up
party bitterness will be unloaded, will
be under way.
Pilot A1 Monsen, of the Pacific In
ternational, flying from here on Wed
nesday for Anchorage, had as passen
gers Miss Elsie Rieck, Hans Erickson,
and Robert Gurtler from Flat. j
Charles L. Baker, after a summer
put in over on Moore creek, arrived
here Saturday, departing for Ganes
on Sunday.
On his arrival here Saturday Pilot
A1 Monsen brought the mail and also,
one passenger headed for Dillingham.'
Joe Blanchell returned a couple of
days ago from a trip to Yankee. i
Turbulence
At Glasgow
U NEM PLOYED DEMON SIR AT(>RS
SMASH AND LOOT SHOP WIN
DOWS, RATTLE POLICE.
GLASGOW, Oct. 2.—Central Glas
gow was in wild disorder tonight as
crowds of unemployed demonstrators
smashed and looted shop windows,
followed by serious rioting, with fre
quent clashes between the demon
strators and police, which lasted until
this morning.
There was no mass meeting tonight
similar to the gathering on Glasgow
Green yesterday, hut groups of riot
ers rushed from store to store, creat
ing panic in the central section of
the city.
MOYLE AND ALLEN LAND
AT TACOMA, AFTER COM
PLETING FLIGHT FROM JAPAN
TACOMA, Oct. 5.—Completing the
last leg of their flight from Japan to
Tacoma, Don Moyle and Cecil Allen
landed at a Tacoma airfield from Ket
chikan at 3:45 p. m. today.
BRITAIN'S l NEM PLOYED.
LONDON, Oct. 3.—Disturbances
broke out again today among the un
employed when a band of several hun
dred parading jobless men threw fire
crackers into the ranks of mounted
police stationed to keep order. After
the horses stampeded, the parade was
broken up and several of the leaders
arrested.
Eighteenth
Amendment
A. F. OF L. IN DISCUSSION OVEtt
BEER AND REPEAL OF THE
VOLSTEAD ACT.
VANCOUVER, Oct. 5.—Whether
the American Federation of Labor
will go beyond its stand for beer with
a 2.75 per cent alcoholic content to
urge repeal of the Volstead Act and
the Eighteenth Amendment was dis
cussed behind closed doors in commit
tee rooms he tonight as the first day’s
grist of resolutions worked through
convention machinery. President Wil
liam Green and members of the ex
ecutive council, whose annual reports
also were srrutinized in committee
rooms, contented themselves with ad
herence to what has been organized
labor’s settled policy for several
year:, but whether the delegates will
go a step further was a matter of
speculation tonight. The International
Union in which the bartenders once
were a force sponsored a resolution
urging repeal of the prohibition
amendment. The Central Labor Coun
cil of Tacoma asked the Federation to
oognrecordforthe a .... cmf EC
go on record for the repeal of the
Volstead Act.
Joe Ferris, coming from the Sid
Paulson headquarters over in the
Cripple section, arrived here a couple
of days ago.
Mrs. Warren Alford, following a
visit of some days at Anchorage, re
turned here via plane on Monday .