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TAKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20. 1934.
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China WiL
Resume War
NA . »</.'ALIST TROOPS. ADVANC
ING AGAINST FOO CHOW IN
FINAL THRUST
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tl -A.GKGNG-— Heavy. casualties
wet.. mfi.cted as naionaust troops, be
iunu ueauiy bombardment, moveu to
ward B'oo Chow, which is now the
ceer.ter of bitter nationalist revolu
tionary movements.
Military leaders at Nanking claim
their lorces are eady for a final crush
i: g Girust a he rebels.
TOKYO.-The forhcoming coro
nation of young Henry Pu-Yi as Em
peror of Manehukuo is described as a
mo\1i to emphasize the separation
of that Japanese-sponsored state
from China.
A Japanese spokesman says the
bovv ment emphasizes the Reparation
of Manehukuo frem China and its
troubles.
Some important improvements
have recenttly been made to the
Takotna Roadhouse ,all in the way
of betterment. The lobby and dining
room have been remodeled and a
new hot air. heating system, wih reg
isters in every room, installed. The
heating plantt, which is giving ex
cellent satisfaction, was installed by
Robert E. Lowrie.
A son was b om t o Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Vanderpool of McGrath on Jan
uary 19.
Conditions
Improving,
C ELKFUL OUTLOOK AS TRADE
TRENDS OF NATION SHOOT j
UPWARD.
NEWYORK.—Businesstrends thus
fax far in the January forecast poin s
„re favor aabjj ecndiions for t he
first, quarter oof 1934 than previous
ly estimated. * ..
Lun and Bradstreet said: In an
parts of the country there is a pro
nounced uniformity n the report in
dicating an unexpected high elvel, at
which retil sales are being main
tained in spitie of he nearly recoord
propoorioon of December business.
The movementts in staple mer
chandise continue to receive fresh im
petus weekly as employment totals;
swell.
It is not this division which forms
the bulk of new buying, as the de
_tyn and for high-priced goods wih
qualitty the prime consideration has
attained a force unequaled since 1929. ,
WASHINGTON—Senate investiga-,
tors have given evidence of approval j
by the RSC “to bale ooutt Ford
to the Guardian Banks oof Detroit, |
which will result in a potential loss
of $50,000,000 to the Ford motoor
interests. :_
The investigators say the losses
include $2,000,000 paid in by Edsel
Ford on his bubble stock liabilities ,
wen ino he hands of a receiver.
Ford paid the losses in full despite
of the heavy loosses already incr: ed.
THE MUKLUK TRAIL
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By Bob Bartlett
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—With the
second session of' the Seventty-thirc
Congress, starting- next Wednesday
Delegae Dimond is completing the
drafing of bills which he will offer
during the early days of the session.
Last spring, it will be remembered
Congress confined its- activities al
most entirely to Administration meas
ures. Daring-the coming .months,
however, it is . anticipated tha legis
Iaion of a more general nature will be
considered. This: will give opportun
ity for action not only on the bills af
fecting Alaska. tt> be introduced dur
ing he second session but also those
which were introduced early in the
Tear.
If a bill prepared by Mr. Dimond
receives favorable considreation Alas
ka will have a representaoive in he
United States Senat as wll as in the
House of Representatives.
It is the Delegate's thought that the
prestige of theiTerritory will be en
hanced and solution of its legislative
problems made touch easier, if it had
an elective officlaLin the upper house.
Such an fficial would be elected for
a term of six years anid would have
the privileges.erf 4be floor of the Sen
ate, bnt would -hoi- be entitled to a
vote, corresponding in tha respee to
the Delegate. - •,
The bill aLo nclds the Territory of
Hawaii, and: Delegate Lincoln L. Mc
Candless is one of its enthusiastic
supporters.
Delegate Dimond and Slim Wil
Juuns spoke fro ma local station oof
the National Broadcasing Company
. the day following Slim’sarrival in
Washington, concluding a 5,700-mile
trip by dog team from Copper Center.
The Delegate questioned Slim aboout
the trip and within the next few days
letters arrived from many parts of
the Eas in which the writers said they
had heard the broadcast and asked
for information about Aaska.; Slim is
cammed in a park in' the downtown
section and expects to be here for an
other three weeks at least.
Mrs. Roosevelt has asked) him to
take her grandchildren, Siatie and
Buzzie, for a ride.
Ever since he has been in Washing- ■
ton Delegate Dimond has endeavored
to hasten action on he rivers and har
bors and flood control projects in the
Territory which have been-approved
by the Army engineers, Several Alas- i
ka items are contained in'the rivers
and harbors bill before Congress, but
, that bill was s helved when the Public
Works Administration was created.
Orally and by leten he Delegate has
urged these projects as.pubic works
of worthy character and suggested
that allotments be mad el for theem. j
However, the Administration has
very slowly in approving -anjh rivers,
harbors or flood control tvdrki.1:
To dae the only aiseable t projects
approved are those_-prpviding for flood
control of the upper Hfssssippj and the
■ Sacramento rivers. It!is believed that
! when and if a more liberal attitude is
J adopted in respects to—this -*claas of
j work, Alaska will share proportion
ately with other sections of the cou.n
* try. ■
PAYROIIS SHOW GAIN
IN WASHINGGTON STATE
OLYMPIA.—In the payroll volume
of basic industries in the State f
Washington an increase oof8i per
cent was recoorded in the ten monttbs
hat en-.ded last November 1, accord
ing to a repor made by the Washing
ton Department of Laboro.
Walno Puntila retturned during
the week from a business trip tto the
Outside. He reports business on the
upgrade.
Dan McRae, of McGrath, is taking
short mining course at the Alaska
College, Fairbanks.
"WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The De
partment of the Interior announces,
tthrough an advance statementt pre
pared in the Alaska branch of. the
Geological Survey, that the produc
tion of minerals from Alaska mines
in 1933 had a value of $11,457,000, as
compared with $11,638,0002 in 1932.
This brings the value of the mineral
output of Alaska since 1880 to $64,
686,000. The figures for 1933 are pre
liminary estimates and subject to re
v sion., The final figures will appear
in the Geological Survey’s annual re
port on the mineral resources of
Alaska,-nowr iiv preparation. - Tire*
value of the individual mineral com
modities was as follows:
Value of M:neral Outtput of Alaska
*Tiold _ $19,758,000. $10,209,000
Of Alaska
in 1933 and 1932.
(estimated)
1933 1932.
S'lver ..
Coal ..
**Other min—
64,500 <*6,000
500,000 613,000
era’s -
-)..,500 850,000
....Tota _$11,457,000 $11,638,000
^Estimated at $26.67 a fine ounee.
**Copper, pettrcleum, tin, lead,
platinum, etc.
platinum, etc.
General Conditions.
The continued low ebb of business
activity i nthe United States and
throughout the world was felt in
Alaska also, and the prevailing low
prices for mineral products other than
god resulted in curtailed production
or even incomplete cessation of min
ing by several producers who in pre
vious yearshad been importantt con
tributors to the Territory’s mineral
output. The prevailing prices for
such metals as copper, comma, lead,
and zinc offered no promise of profit
to those who had lodes awaiting de
velopment..
The open Season of 1933 witnessed
unusually dry weather in those parts
of Alaska from which most of the
placer gold is mined. As all placer
mining operations are dependent upon
an abundant water supply, there is a
tendency for the placer output to rise
ini fall in accordance with the
amount of rainfall, and the shortage
'of water during, the past year seri
ously affected the amount of ground
that could be handled by hydraulic
methods. The gold dredges able to
use the same water over and over
ain were less affected, but some of
i hem were also handicapped by the
'■iv? streams discharged
Gold.
The gold production of A’aska in
1933 is estuuTrr3d-trr$M7Tfc,th)0rThl§
is a notable increase over 1932 and
brings the total gold production of
(Continued on Page 3.)
Items of Importance
In Recent News Events
SEATTLE.—Governor John W.
Troy arrived here recently after a
vis.t to Washington. He is optimistic
over Alaska’s trend toward good
times. Wih the rising price of gold,
he says: “When the new price of
gold is stabilized at a price where
capital, can be assured of its perma
nency I expect to see considerable
developent of gold fields which are
now dorfant
“Public works projeetts have taken
up the slack in - the unemploment
problem of he Terriory, wih practical
ly all public residentts workingi We
are not encouraging an influx of new
residentts wl*o have no definite con
nections at this time, but I do be
lieve oour own peoople are being
taken care of with employment.”
WASHINGTON.—Income ax in
quiries relating to Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh, famous aviator, former
Postmaster General Walter F. Brown,
who rteired from office with the out
going Hoover administration last
March; Rerbert C. Hoover, Jr., son
of the former Presidentt, and vari
ous other ous other persons connected
with air mail contracts during the
Hoover administration are in progress
at the' Treasury epartmentt at the
t he-Senate committee in
fPestiga^n air mail contractts, it was
revealed "yesterday by members of
the committee.
The informoation developed by the
committee has been of a sensational
character to the effect tha frfmer
Posmaster General Brown, contrary
lu Lae Law, icl auuma uuuuaciis) wiur
out advertising for bids, that some
such contractts were given to an avi
aion company with which Herbertt C.
Hoover, Jr., hel dan executive posi
tion; that former Postmaster Genera!
Brown, just before he rettired from
office, burned papers from his per
sonal and offioial files, and that oother
papers are missing from the officittl
files.
Inquiry into the income tax of Col.
Lindbergh is one of the latest re
quested by the committee of the Trea
sury Department.
TOKYO.—Japan must prepare and
is preparing to defend herself
against what appeaars to be “Amer
ica’s policy of hastily encircling Ja
pan by every possible m eans,"'says
jaqoso aq-; ui quatua^ms tujqnd a
number of a monthly magazine.
The satement is attributed to Vice
Admiral Novunassa Suetsugu, com
mander of the navy’s combined fleet.
Encirclement instances in the inter
flight along the Kuriles in 1931, and
Harold Bromley’s aborive attempt to
view cited the Lindbergh leisurely
fly the Pacific the year previous.
PHILADELPHIA.—-That Mother
Earth is on the mend is a firm con
viction of economics and political sci
eitists attending tht fifteenth annual
convention of the Politician Science
Association in session recently in
. hiiailelphia.. i
Speakers in analyzing the world’s
i’.!s and the ore: i rtf state of them do!
not comment in extravagant style on
the pr '-Tress that is being made in
\vorld • n ‘S3 or international re
"ai'cm-i - . m'verrt.v:dess, all the ad
dr .. r. i -ii rr.Vat-d with—a.-tora
H L JTu-iv-eiirutely optimistic.
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LrfrZfG.—Mari tuts Van Der Lub
be, Geri-iwas beheaded here -to- f
day for setting fire to the German
Reichstag building in Berlin last Feb
ruary. He confessed repeatedly to
seting fire to the building, but re
fused to divulge any information as
towhethe r ornot hehada m c m mg
to whether or not he had accoro
comnlices.
WASHINGTON—After receiving a
promise that she would behave—po
litically speaking—while in the Unit
ed States, the Bpreau of Immigration,
it is said, permitted Mrs,'James Co
ton, 64, to return o he United States
from Canada, in order to visit rela
tives. Mrs. Colton is better known
as Emma Goldman, famous “red,”
who was deported in 1919 to Russia
as an anarchist.
WASHINGTON.—The House coin
age committee decided to begin hear
ings soon on the general plan to sta
bilize the dollar, during which con
sideration will be given to silver.
The Senate adopted a proposal to
place an excise t a xon liquors from
nations behind in their debt payments
to the United States.
Senator Dill announced that the
i committee had adopted plans for cre
ation of a communication commission
to regulate all radio, telegraph and—
! telephone service.
Propoosed loans extending five bil
lion dollars government credit to
help business along the upcurve are
j listed by the Reconstruction Corpora
! tion in asking Congress for longer
life and still greater lending power.
They have asked for from one to
three years additional time for mak
ing loan stoward retturning prosper
ity and from ha^f a billion more with
n uiLii tu uw
CHICAGA.—Two women are on the
list of public enemies hat was today
transmitted b ythe Chicago Citizens’
Committee of Law,and Order tto the
' Police departmen. The women are
: Pearly Elliot and Mary Kinder. They
' are he first women, to b e named on
a publii enemy list. They are de
j rlared to be assoriates of the no
| torious desperado John Dillinger and
| his gang.
Dillinger heads the list as public
enemy No. 1 and his pictture is print
ed on the list. Police are instructed
to shoot to kill him onsight.
PARIS.-The new blast of for
mer Premier Edouard Herriot in fa
vor of payment b y France of is war
debt to the United States “fell like a
pebble in the ocean,” a govenmentt
spokesman said today.
M. Herriot said that he recoognized
his opinion was unpopular and that
statement passed unnoticed.
Hsrriot, whoose cabinet was ©over
thrown on the death issue last yeaar,
asserted “We committed a grave mios
take idn not recoognizing the debt as
Great Britain did.”
France on December 15 made the
third default to t he United States
on $22,200,000interest on the re
maining $3,803,000,000 debt. At the
same ime England made a token pay
ment.
“ The position we have taken has
isolated us,” Herriot said, urging his
-country to rafUcfc-Vhat might happen -
in the case of aEuropean -war.”
“I am .for as close "contact as“ pos
sible with t he United States -of
of .America,’’ he^added.