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The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
MAKE TRIP TO McGRATH
 VIA MOTORBOAT MONDAY

Joe Oates, Jr. and Leonard Wan tock pushed of for McGrath Monday morning via motorboat, making 1t through the same day.
 Theirs was the first boat of the season to venture through the ice7 filled Takotna waters to 2McGrath. Ev- eryone in Takotna stood beside their river steeds awaiting word of happy landing. On receipt of word back that the river was clear, number of the motor boat enthusiasts started pre- pairing to burn the waters between hare and McGrath to attend to much important business.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
P.A.A. PILOT IS
 FIRSTTO ARRIVE AFTER BREAKUP

Al Munson, piloting a P.A.A. plane was the first plane to land alter the breakup on pontoons in Takot.a.
 He unloaded his one lone pass-n- ger, Johnny Adams, and left for Nc Grath with Miss Ellen Re;dv. Sh- remained over night in McGrath while Pilot Mun-on made a ehcr e trip to Bethel, returning Tuesday morning to Takotna with Miss Reidy.
 Miss Reidy reported the town or McGrath pretty well under water. The water being two feet deep at the back of Mrs. McLean's store and up to the top of the kitchen range in Dave Clough's roadhouse. Tt was a pretty sight when I left that morn ing" Miss Reidy said, mot rifle stirred on the water. It was smooth as glass broken only by the partly submerged houses thrust 'ng their dark, ugly heads up like serpents of the sea. The ground floor of most of the houses was under water, with the exception of the N. C. Store. wh ] seemed to be safe from flooding, and a few other houses, inlluding Pete Michels' and Miss Keiths'.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
M. Alaskan Goes
 To McGrath To Get First Load Freight

The MS. Alaskan pulled anchor late Monday night and quietly slip ped away, McGrath bound. This Is the first trip of the season. Ted Me Adams, Andy Miller, Dallis McRob- erts and 'Takotna' Bill Nielsen, ship ped under Capt. Ed Miller as the crew. They expect to load up with freight at McGrath and return to Takotna immediately.
 LATER-The Alaskan left Me Grath yesterday loaded with freight for Fielder & Gale and Canes Creek dredging companies with Q total of 50 tons on the boat and barge. The MS. Whipporwill, following in the wake of the Alaskan, Is carrying about 10 tons. The boats ae expected to arrive in Takotna sometime tomor- TOW.
 Ire MS. Langley brought the freight to McGrath from down river where 1t was unloaded late last fall, and then pulled anchor for the first trip of the season Bethel bound.
 The MS. Seawolf is being loaded in McGrath with 150 barrels of oil and other freight for Takotna and was expected to leave for here this (Friday) morning.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
ADAMS RETURNS

E. A. Adams, George Christo and and Warner Afford arrived ir the formers motorboat from McGrath at noon today. Albert Ivey and Curley Anderson, accompanied by the latter's wife and five children, are following in the Road Commission boat and pulling Joe Oates barge behind. At the time of this writing, they had not appeared. but are expected to arrive within a short time. Ivey and Am derson will be employed by the Road Commission this summer. They have been so employed for the past sev- eral eSasonS.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
NEW MARSHAL ARRIVES
 TO ASSUME HIS DUTIES

4 MT. McDonald, who has been appointed United States Deputy Mar shall at McGrath recently, succeed ing Bert Berry who resigned to go prospecting in the Goodnews Bay country, arrived in McGrath Monday with Pilot Al Munson from Fairbanks to assume his new duties.
 Although a newcomer to this sec tion, it is understood that MT. Me Donald is an Alaskan having been engaged in mining in the co~n-rv around Ruby for some years. He is expected to make a visit to Takotna shortly on business and to become ac- quainted with the people.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
Ophir Road Is Now
 Broken Open For Caterpillar Travel

The Road Commission crew finished connecting through, to Joe Oates. aruf his caterpillar late Wednesday after noon and Joe brought his eat on in to Takotna the same evening.
 The road to- 0phir- is now broken open for caterpillar travel with the warm spring sun shining on the bro ken surface of the road. the snow will soon be melted and trucks will be travelling out to the creeks and Opiiir, ioadsd with much- needed freight.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
CAT" STALLED BY SHOWS
 ON THE 0PHIR HIGHWAY

Ine Oates, Sn., and Jack DeLane pulled in afoot from 0phir at eco o'clock Monday morning. They made 1t to within six miles of Takotna with the caterpillar and the snow became so frozen they were forced to. aban- don the ''cat' and hike the rest of the way. in.
 The Road Commission is breaking the road out to meet them from this end. The last report they had made 1t to within a mile and half of Joe Oates ''cat" and were bucking seven feet of snow.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
DESCRIPTION OF ZEP DlSASTERIS IS GIVEN IN DETAIL

fThe following detailed story of the terrible disaster of the German dir igible Hindenburg, at Lakehurst, N. J., May 6 is taken from copy of the Seattle Daily Times which was brought to Takotna last week by E. Hegg.)
 Trapped in a flaming hell of high explosive gas, B persons were listed as known dead today in the crash of the mammoth, silvered Zeppelin Hin derburg at 6:23 last night.
 The tragedy striking with light ming swiftness as the giant craft hung aloft, preparing to moor at the end of its Fist voyage across the NortI7 Atlantic, left 0 survivor s, many of them terribly burned and injured.
 Lieut.. Comdr. Charles E, Rosendahl, commandant of the naval air station, at Lakehurst, announced that 20 Of the ships 36 passengers and A of the crew of 61 had been accounted covered at dawn
 One of the fatalities was a mem Der of the ground crew, caught amid
 
 the skies in a fiery rain.
 Intimations that the mystery ex- plosion might have been caused by sabotage" came from German dirig- ible experts at widely separated points-from Dr. Hugo Eckener, vet eran former commander of the ill., fated craft, in Ora, Austria; and from Count C. c. von Zeppelin, a nephew of the famed German inventor of the lighter-than-air craft, in Chicago.
 By strange coincidence, both promptly suggested sabotage as a possible cause of the tragedy.
 ''I cannot grasp that flames have turned our pride into smashed skeIeton," muttered Dr. Eckener, when informed of the explosion. DoZ- ems of the survivors, catapulted or stumbled dazedly from the holocaust, lowered between life and death to- day in hospitals nearby the scene of the disaster.
 Scores of spectators witnessed the sudden, shocking tragedy One instant they waved greetings up to the pas sengers standing in the windows of the observation compartment.
 Then, in flash, cannonading ex- plosion jarred the huge cigar~shaped craft, a streak of flame lashed out, and the Hindeuburg plummeted clum- silly to earth.
 In the span of seconds before flames enyeIoped the silvery fabric of the worlds largest dirigible. some of the passengers and crew jumped, crawled ! or were hurled clear of the falling i ship.
 Others were trapped in the blazing stern, their screams audible to the comparatively small crowd gathered to witness what they considered 2 routine" arrival of the Zeppelin.
 What happened to the airship that l had made so many safe crossings tC l this and other countries remained { 1 mystery.
 Carl WGgand, skipper of thu 1 steamship Deutschland, who rushed tC ] Paul Kimball Hospital at Lakewood ] to see Captain Lehman, quoted hin ! as saying:
 'T don't know what happened. Sh' J just went up"
 i Something strangs caused tha 4 tragedy" said Gill Robb Wilson, state aviation inspector, announcing imme diate federal and state investigations I There was an explosion, he said, il ,i No. 2 gas cell stern.
 'In all my q years Uf flying ex perience I have seen crack-ups, ex plosions, flaming airplanes," he said "but nothing measures up to the ex pIosiou of the Hindenburg-"
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
MESSENGERS TO MeGRATH

4. H. Twitehen left for McGrath early Wednesday morning with three passengers. Miss Jeanne Keith, who is returning to her home at that place, Ed Adams and George Christo. MT. Adams is taking three sled dogs down with him to put in summer camp and expects to bring back the Road Commission boat and two men who will be employed on the road crews ir this district
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
MODERN YOUTH

junior college gym class have won their demands for a more modest uniform. Comp aiming that short shorts and equally skin1py biouses were 9 trifie immodest. they request ed the board of education to author izs a fuller gym suit The board agreed.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
SPRING HAS CAME! l!

Spring is here; Mike McRoberts followed in the footsteps of Jack De- Lane and had his beautiful locks sheared as close to his head as it was possible to come Wednesday night. Next, Don't be backward boys, step right up.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
WATCH YOUR FISH

If anyone Tn cleaning large pike should run onto a SIG Eastman Ko- dak, it belongs to The Kusko Times Wandering Reporter. With eyes still full of sleep, he dropped 1t overheard early Sunday morning.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
USES FINGER, NOT HEAD

CINCINNATI-Pat J. Coch- rane got a call for help from 9 dis traught housewife. Her husband, she said, was battling Ieaky water tank. He found the n~an of the house val iantly plugging hole with his finger Ten inches away was the shut-oH valve.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
NOW HE'S FX-KAISER

CHICAGO-Mrs. Emil Fritz became tired of having her husband glover at her, shake his fist and proclaim, I'm the kaiser" That is what she
 Superior Judge Johr Lewe in eLing an injunction to prevent Emil rom TaoIesting her. He's been call ing himself the kaiser since 1916, she said heatedly.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
YOUTH DIES ON DAY HE'S WELL

NEWARK -SickIy all his life, John Mathews, 15, celebrated Saturday when the doctor told him he was completely cured and would need no more medicine. His aunt, who had been caring for him, suggested a movie but John decided on a ball game. An hour later he was dead, killed by 35-foot fall from the school roof where he climbed to re- trieve a lost baseball.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
AGAIN ON THE co

MT. Twitchel is again on the go. With the moving of the ice, we have the moving of Mr. Twitchel He fol- lowed the ice down and set his nets out, and with the help of Miss Peas rood, he has managed to supply a few of the citizens of Takotna with fresh grayling, out of the water into tle pan
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
WILL START WORK SOON

Waino Puntilla was in town early this week and reports that he expects to start operations on his dredge on Little Greek in few days. He re- turned Monday taking his horse along to break trail 50 that the caterpil- lars can get through.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
LEAVE FOR McGRATH

Woodrow Vanderpool and Warren Afford left in Woodrow's motorboat for McGrath Tuesday afternoon.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28

EVANSVILLE, Cal.-Garlic as a delicate seasoner for salad may be all right but a garlic plant in com munity is a public nuisance, accord ing to certain elements Of the com munity here. They have asked the city council to suppress a local indus try as detrimental to the city in gen. eral.
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
WARNS OTHERS TO PAY
 BUT FO2GETS TO HERSELF

ARKANSAS CITY, Kas.-Mrs. Marie Snyder, clerk of Cowley County district court, recently finished pre- pairing and mailing 2,500 notices to delinquent taxpayers.
 This job done, she had time to open her own mail. Included was a notice from the county treasurer informing her that she was on the delinquent list. Worrying about other peoples taxes, she had forgotten to pay her own.
 CHICAGO-Counsel for Mrs. Laura NJ. Hart, A, related in divorce court hw her husband spanked her when she came home late Judge John C. Lewe looked at Mrs. Hart, who weighs more than 200 pounds, and asked, "He he did what?" Turned her over his knee"
 That man shouldn't get divorced, the judge observed, he should get a medal"
The Kusko times., 1937-05-28
ELECTRIC CLIPPERS BELIEVED
 USED HERE FOR FIRST TIME

What is believed to be the first el- ectric clippers to have been used in Takotna, were put to work of the light plant at the home of Ed. Adams Tuesday night.
 Mir. Adams had the honor of being the first person to have his hair cut the modern way in Takotna. Miss Ethyl Peasgood following second and Mrs. Adams an easy third. The Wan dering Reporter was the owner and operator of the new Oster clippers which work on either DC. or A.C. and run like a charm.
 John Peterson was an arrival in Takotna from his ground on Yankee Creek to replenish his supplies.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-03-19
Man Becomes
Father At So

BROOKSVILLE, Fla lC) =
What is reported as the thirty
eight child of a 93-year-old father,
Ambrose H. Douglass, was born
to what is claimed to be the mans
thirteenth wife, Mrs. Minnie Doug
lass, Sunday, The child, an ap-
parently robust girl, was brought
into the world with the aid of the
City Welfare Board. Mr.. Doug
lass Oldest child is said to be 66.
Mr.. Douglas is described as active,
and the Garner of a living for the
twelve children living in his house.
The man was born slave in
North Carolina.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-03-19

- EG~- aH
Patience is the flower of success
stone by stone a mountain can
be moved.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-03-19

For the woman wt0 watches her
diet carefully. eliminating the fatty
foods. but still has trouble with a
rulging waiStline. a few simple En-.
ercises will often work miracles.
The secret of successful exercis.
Ing Is persistence. Don't overwork
your muscles with too heavy or too
much exercising at one time. but
pick out few mild exercises and
stick at It. You'll get better results
If you exercise only i've minutes
every morning for three weeks than
&C. will II you wear yourself Out
with half an horr of exercise for a
few mornings and then abandon
them.
The exercises | am going to give
you for reducing the waistline are
rather strenuous. SO be sure to OBJ
serve this caution: Don't try to do
too much at the start. II you aren'i
IN tOpnOtch physical condition. and
especially II you are considerably
overweight. begin with few simple
movements the first morning and
gradually increase the number. You
can easily OverwOrk your muscles
without realizing II until sou wake
up the following morning. stiff and
sore. So remember: Take II easy
at first. but stitch to It. DO your
exercising right after you get M
and later you may add brief exer4
else period just before retiring.
One Of the hest exercises for re.
ducing the abdomen is to lie on your
back with your arms folded across
your chest and your legs hooked un-
Ter n heavy piece Of furniture Then
without using your arms, pull the
uppe" part nf your body into a sit
ting position and lower It slowly.
back to the floor You may moi he.
able 10 do This even once. the first
day. hut little by little. day by day,
II will becOme easier. Then you can
gradually increase the number Of
times Won de- il each. morning ater
The Arizona gleam., 1937-03-19
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you can make the exercise even
more effective by turning the body
first to the right. then (" the left.
as you raise II from the floor.
Another one: Lie on your back
and slowly draw your legs upward.
keeping the knees stiff. until they
are straight up and down: then
lower them slowly to the floor The
slower your heels move. the more
effective the exercise will he. After
a few weeks Of this. II you're not
too stout. try bringing the legs back
over the head as far as yOn can.
still keeping the knees straight. hut
allowing your hips TO come up on
the floor as you round your back.
Women in perfect physical cOndi
tiOn can touch their toes to the floor
behind their head, but you'd better
keep at the milder forms for a while
before trying that.
A third well-knowr torso exercise
Is to stand erect. feet parallel and
about ten inches apart. arms
straight up over your head. and then
bend forward. keeping the legs
straight and the abdomen held in.
and try to touch the floor. You
probably won't be able to reach II al
first. bnt stretch down as far as yOu
can two or three times. and try
again the next day Take deep
breath before you start. let II out
slowly as you bend forward. and In
hale deeply as you come back up
There's nothing complicated about
these exercises. hut II you spend
i've or ten minutes n day AT them.
the results may surprise you Al
first. just use one Of the exercises
and do II only two or three times
Later you can increase the number
Of times. and add second exercise
But hear in mind that regularity "f
exercise. day In and day out. Is more
important than the amount Of effort
expended IN any one day.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-03-19
1 Harlem Man Is
Arrested For
PhiIo. Murder

NEW YORK, March = (CNA)
Harold w. Hastings, white AS
sistant District Attorney this week
week claimed to have solved the
mysterious killing in 1886 of a
relative of President Buchanana
with the arrest of Fredrick Tho
mas, 27 year old waiter.
Thomas was alleged to have ad-
mitted that he shot and strangled
George F. Buchanan, 63 owner of
a Philadelphia printing establish
ment, as he was robbing him in
the victims apartment over a
night club where Thomas was en-
ployed, at Walnut and Third
Streets on the night of July 6,
1885. &
Thomas agreed to waive extra
dition and return to Philadelphia
to face the murder charge, accord
ing to police.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-03-19
BEAUTY HFN 5
BY NINA TEMPLE
II YOU ARE TALL
ON STAYING THIN

If you want to stay thin, just
remember that all green ve3eta-
bles that grow above the ground,
will not add one bit Of thickness
to your dainty waist. Also you
can indulge in eating fish or meats
as they do not cause fatness. It
is much safer to watch your diet
and remain thin that to get fat
and then try to reduce. Many
women who are dead today would
be living, if they had not ruined
their health by reducing.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-03-19

l.. u. s. How apuor THIS boy l
met. Will he make me good
husband?
Ans.-Their is no questions
about this young mans SINGER
ITY, he would make you an excell-
ant mate, only be certain that you
are definitely decided about giving
up your present gay life for him.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-03-19
SPOT NEWS
calvin SerVice)

NEW YORK - Growth in
southern sentiment toward Inter
racial work was reported by e. K.
Jones at the annual meeting of
the National Urban League last
Wednesday.
NEW YORK-The Handy Bros.
Music Co., 1887 Broadway, has
sent to high schools throughout
the country a letter in which it
says: 1.-THE success of our efforts
to stimulate larger interest in
works by colored composers de-
pends upon your hearty coopera-
tion, especially since the Negro
composer has contributed largely
to the growing list of musical pub
lications in the United States"
WASHINGTON The CCC now
has approximately 200 colorcd
companies in 81 states, with III
colored educational advisers in
charge of the leisure time activ-
The Arizona gleam., 1937-03-19
Deans Of Women
und Personality
Discuss "Co-eds
Continued from Page p


rather than integrity in order to
create popular personality. We
are not sufficiently sure ourselves
in what or in whom we have be-
lieved. We have not sufficient
desire to depose from the saddle
the things that ride mankind AS
long as mothers, teachers, person
mel directors rate jazz above a
symphony, a movie above a good
book and the 'funnies' above an
editorial page our youth will have
no higher standards. I blame
youth not at all. conceive the
attainment of the wholesome per-
sonality in coed to be the result
Of an unrelenting struggle by her
elders from her birth to her degree
to integrate what she thinks, how
she looks, in what she believes,
and what she enjoys"
The Arizona gleam., 1937-03-19
Try Negro
B uIIef In
Carnegie Hall

NEW YORK (C) The first
presentation Of the American Neg
10 Ballet daicer was given We'd
nesday evening for approval be-
fore q grou of about twenty-five
persons, among them Mr.. and Mrs.
W.. c. Handy, at Carnegie Hall
Studios by Eugene Won Grona, dir
ector.
The group of dancers, eighteen
In number, danced to the Reginald
Forsythe suite, Garden of Weed"
Lullaby, and "Dodging Divor-
cee", as the first scene. For the
second scene. LA Plus Que Lente,
and "Anegory" by Bach, and Der
ceuse-Fireburg Suite, by ,Stra-
vinskie. The third and last scene
used as the musical background
Duke Ellington's Creole Love
Call" as prelude to "St. Louis
Blues"
The director said that his pur-
pose Of teaching the ballete to the
Negro is to change their way of
soul expression to something more
real than the usual dance of the
day. He has spent several years
living among the group and he
sees that they want and need a
new way Of expressing their joy.
love, and suffering.
The members of the ballet group
are Archie Savage, Elizabeth
Thompson, Marion Brown, Dolly
Klein, Pearl Spears, Edith Ross,
Hettie Stephens, Beryl Clarke, AL
Blidger, James Smith, Stephen
Harris, Otis M'dese,e Ian Edward,
Frank H. Green, Valerie Black,
Coleman Hill, Anthony Fleming,
Jr., and LeWanne Cuneard.
2 INSURANCE statesmen
PASS $1OO, 900 MARK
The Arizona gleam., 1937-03-19

A. e. W. am terribly worrleu
about my sons trouble. Is their
anything that I can do to straigh-
ten this mess out?
Ans The damage is already
done and the LAW must exact it's
penalty. On the face of things
your boy will come out a much
wiser and better man after he has
served his sentence.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-03-19
2 INSURANCE statesmen
PASS 100000 MARK

NEY YORK (C)- Two sales
men of the Victory Mutual Life
Insurance Company staff, G. G..
Gales, manager of production of
the New York office, 2303 Seventh
avenue, and G. William Nickens,
manager of the agency at 4O8
North Avenue. New Rochelle, N.
Y, personally passed the $100, 900
production mark last year, it has
been announced. Gales, native of
Marshall, Tex, was educated at
Texas College, and Nickens, from
Decatur, Ill, finished the business
course at Wilberforce University
and later studied insurance at
Columbia University.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-03-19

A worlds record of Is miles an
hour for craft of that type has
been set by a Frenchman with a
gliding boat driven by an out
board motor.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-03-19

A friend who can be won with a
feather, can be lost with a straw.
A soldier I'm peace time is like a
stove in summer. 2.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-02-11
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A LITTLE girl, reared in pow
u erty in the backwoods of Vir-
4 n ginia, destined for a brief
and none too happy life, was to
grow up and bear a child whose
career more than fulfilled her high
est dreams for him.
Born at Patterson's Creek, Va,
in 1884, Nancy Hanks went at the
age of twelve to live with her aunt
and uncle, Thomas and Elizabeth
Sparrow, in Mercer county, Vir-
ginia. She had a chance to attend
school there, and made the most of
it. In community where many
of the men could neither read nor
write, she learned to do both, notes
a writer in the Indianapolis News.
She was skilled at needlework,
too, and hired out to families in
the neighborhood. Though she
worked for wages she was never
regarded as a servant, but sat at
table with the household wherever
she went. Report says she was
tall and handsome, with a frank,
open countenance and voice pleas
ing both when she sang and when
she talked.
A young apprentice named Thorn
as Lincoln was learning the trade
of carpentry in the shop of Joseph
Hanks, uncle of Nancy. The two
young people were attracted to each
other, and were married on June
IL, 1906. Thomas took his bride
home to a tiny house fourteen feet
square.
He could not write his own name
until the ambitious Nancy taught
him how. But his ambition could
not keep pace with hers. Her dis