THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. II.. NO: 11
MCGRATH, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1921.
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PRICE 25 CENTS
ROMA DEAD
TOTALS 36
Accident Was Due to
Collapse of Vertical
Controls.
Norfolk, Feb 22—The Roma’s
list of dead, according to semi
official accounts, is now figured
at thirty-six.
The giant airship was two
thousand feet up at the time of
the explosion, and dropped,, a
crumbling mass of flames, at
Lambert’s Point, two miles out
from the Norfolk base. The ac
cident was due to a collapse of
vertical controls and the fouling
of a high tension wire.
The list of dead includes First
Lieutenant William E. Riley, of
New York, the only officer iden
tified. The missing officers are:
Majors John G. Thornell and
Walter W. Vantsmeir, Captains
Dale Mabrey, George D. Watts,.
Alien P. McFarland and D. Bur
schmidt. Eleven of the bodies
have been recovered;
Washington, Feb. 23. — The
war department, in an announce
ment today, says the airship
Roma was engaging in "trial
flights following the recent in
stallation of ILaberty motors to
replace the Italian engines with
which the ship was originally
equipped.
The appointment of a board,
headed by Davenport Johnson,
to inquire into the Roma disas
ter, was announced today. The
other members are Majors John
H. Jouett and Joseph T. Me
nalley. The first work of this
board will be to probe the re
ports, now current at’ Newport
News, that the bag of the#>ig
dirigible was rotten.
Says No World Peace
Until Horrors of Rus
sia Brought to an End
Seattle, Feb 24.—Until I the leading
world powers take measures to end the
horrors now prevalent in Russia there
will be no world peace, according, to
Sir William Gibbs, noted war corre
spondent,now in Seattle.
Gi bbs further states his personal be
lief that the Washington conference
had failed entirely to eradicate the
oauses of war.
A. Hi Twitchell returned yesterday,
from a business trip to Mixon, and is
scheduled to leave in the morning for
Ophir. _
Al Goslaw, after a short visit here,
returned to Tacotna this morning.
SINN FEIN
CONVENES
—
De Valera, Certain of a
Split. Openly Advo
cates Division.
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Dublin, Feb. 23.—The national
Sinn Fein convention, supplying
the opportunity for revealing
the extent to which the Sinn
Fein clubs of Ireland are sup
porting the new provisional gov
ernment, opened amidst most
tense excitement in the Mansion
House, in this city, today.
De Valera, regarding a split in
the Sinn Fein party as inevit
able, openly advocated such di
vision in addressing the conven
tion. He declared it would be
tar better for Ireland to have
two armies, each ready to assist
the other, if the country were
imperiled, rather than have one
army divided against itself.
SALES TAX.
REJECTED
Method Is Not Favored
as Means for Raising
Soldiers Bonus.
Washington, Feb. 24.—By a
vote of five to three the Repub
lican subcommittee of the House
ways and means committee to
day voted against the sales tax
as a means for raising the sol
diers bonus. The subcommittee
members decided to report the
outcome through voting to the
full Republican membership
later today, and it was held like
ly that the full group would con
cur. Pro sales tax members said
the matter will probably have to
go back to Harding.
Tony Bosio Injured.
Dr. W. P. Green left early yesterday
morning for the Nixon mine, word
having been brought down by Dan Me-*
Rea that Tonv Bosio had been injured
while working in oae of the shafts. A.
H. Twitched, who returned here last
night from Nixon, said it was thought
at the mine that Mr. Bosio’s injuries
were notes bad as first thought, al
though he was unable to give the true
extent-_
Mr. aud Mrs. T. P. Aitken, after a
visit of a few days in town, returned
yesterday to their home at Candle.
Eric Hard, of Ophir, arrived yester
day for a brief visit.
Harding Would Post
pone Soldiers Bonus
Legislation for a Year
Washington, Feb. 23. — President
Harding is “strongly in favor” of post
poning soldier bonus legislation until
next year, according to a Republican
Senator who called at the White House
this morning.
Chairman Fordney. of the House
wavs and meaDS committee, on the
other hand, is authority for the state
ment that a soldiers bonus bill will be
presented to the Republican caucus
within the next ten days and that the
Republican House -vill pass it.
TROUBI
LINDE!
ESOF
ERG
Automobiles and Aero
planes Instruments
of Kidnappers.
San Francisco, Feb. 23. —Jafet
Lindeberg, wanted at Tacoma to
answer a number of indictments,
returned many months ago by a
special grand jury, in connection
with the failure cf the Tacoma
Scandinavian-American Bank,
had a narrow escape from being
transported out of the State by
most extraordinary methods,
yesterday.
The charge is made that mem
bers of the local police depart
ment, acting in collusion with
two agents of the district attor
ney"^ in Tacoma, attempted to
kidnap Lindeberg, which plan
was frustrated by W. H. Metson,
his brother-in-law. It is claimed
the kidnappers desisted in their
purpose only at the point of guns
handled by Metson. It is as
serted that two automobiles and
an aeroplane were to have been
employed in the kidnapping in
order to bring him within the
confines of the State of Wash
ington, where he could be made
to answer the criminal charges
against him.,
Man and Woman Leap
From Vessel Into Sea
San Francisco, Feb. 23.—Mrs. Alice
Hills, of Los Angeles, and Harold Hol
loway, of San Francisco, passengers on
the Matson liner Huckeye Slate, were
drowned today when they jumped from
the deck of that vessel, hree buddred
miles south of Los Angeles. No notes
were left aDd no cause is known for the
strange death pact.
A1 Thorns returned Thursday from a
trip to Nixon, again leaving this morn
ing for Anchorage. He will return
here the latter part of March.
Andrew Olson arrived early today.
WIRELESS
STATIONS
New Radios and New
Equipment for Many
Places in Alaska.
San Francisco, Feb. 24.—The
establishment of wireless sta
tions in the arctic circle' region
of Alaska is the job assigned to
Captain C. H. Burkhardt, of the
Army Signal Corps, who arrived
at the Presidio here today from
the East.
Capt. Burkhardt is under or
ders to organize and obtain
equipment for group officers and
radio experts, and to establish
or import radio stations at Eagle,
Circle, Fort Yukon. Fairbanks,
Livengood, Fort Gibbon, Noor
vik, Nome, KotHk, St. Michael,
Holy Cross, Iditarod, McGrath,
Nulato, Wrangell and Craig.
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FOUR-POWER
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TREATY
Ordered Favorably Re
ported By Senate
Committee.
Washington, Feb. 23.—The
; Pacific treaty, with supplement
ary reservations, and the naval
limitation and submarine treaties
were ordered favorably reported
today by the Senate foreign rela
tions committee. The reserva
tion declares that nothing in the
treaty shall be construed as an
alliance.
The modified blanket reserva
tions to the four-power treaty
wei*e debated at length till late
yesterday, when the treaty be
came satisfactory to bath Hard
ing and a majority of the mem
bers of the committee.
Plenty Lawyers, Says Taft.
Washington.—Supreme Court Justice
Taft, addressing the national confer
ence of bar associations, expressed the
opinion that the country has all the
lawyers it needs, declaring that appli
cants should have two years at college
and three years at law school.
Suffrage Extension Not Popular.
Tokyo. — Disorders are rampant
throughout Tokyo tonight, many par
ticipants being beaten up by the police
durlDg the demonstration for the ex
tension of suffrage to all,men.
Gus Schuler was a Thursday arrival.
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