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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 118.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1932.
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BEING M(DE SGdlNST
NORFOLK BDAI BUILDER
NORFOLK, Va., May 20, (/P) —
Revelations of a cruel hoax planned
and executed by John H. Curtis,
Norfolk boat bulider and the Lind
bergh negotiator who confessed his
stories of negotiation were all false
were accompanied by new develop
ments Thursday. The Reverend H.
Peacock whom Curtis was associat
ed in arrangements to go to Hope
well at request of police to dis
cuss the hoax plans to arrange
a misdeamor charge against
Curtis making him subject to three
years in prison and a thousand
dollars fine, has been held up here
until furthur questioning.
The Norfolk boat builder is a vir
tual prisoner guest in the home of
the Lindberghs. The police kept a
close watch on Curtis to prevent his
departure or any attempt to com
mit suicide. “Jafsie”, Dr. John F.
Condon blames Curtis for his own
failure to save the life of the kid
napped baby and return it safely
Rev. H. Dodson-Peacock refused
to go to Hopewell Thursday to con
fer with the police and John H.
Curtis regarding Curtis’ confession
of a hoax. His refusal was taken to
indicate that he was not satisfied
that Curtis’ actions have net all
been a hoax and that Peacock is
also connected in some way with
the Norfolk boat builder’s activities.
It has been noted that at least
two of the persons that Curtis men
tioned in his alleged “hoax” stcries
have turned out to be real per
sons.
The First Christ Church where
Rev. Peacock is pastor has given
the Reverend a vote of confidence
and it is expected he will continue
to cooperate with the police as he
best- sees fit.
Dr. Ccndon did not take the rest'
which he was ordered to take by
his physicians but spent Thursday
in traveling around. He visited the
Military Academy at West Point
and while there conferred with cer
tain persons.
“Red” Johnson, sailor sweetheart
of Betty Cow, nurse, who was early:
brought into the case has again
been questioned.
Today marks the 5th anniversary
of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s
memorable hop from this continent
to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and
reach France.
IN CLOTHES CLOSET:
FOSTER-SON MISSING
SEATTLE, May 2 0, (JP)—M r s. j
Sadie Carter, 53, was found dead
in a closet of her home by J. H.
Carter, mechanic and husband.
Her foster-son, Richard, aged 19,
who disappeared mysteriously, is
sought by the police.
A diamon ring belonging to I
the slain woman is missing and I
her purse was found in the closet,
empty.
She had a knotted bath towel
about her head and face and her
feet were bound with heavy cord.
Carter told the police that he and ;
his wife were suspicious as well
as afraid of Richard and that they
had “bickered” over the handling
of the youth.
His wife was missing when the
husband returned home and the
youth told Carter that he suppos
ed she had gone to a lodge meet
ing. He wras not worried but at 2
a. m. awakened and found she was
still missing. He then searched the
home and found her body.
COMMUNISTS THREATEN
AMOY, China, May 20. — Com
munists again are threatening this
city but it is thought that the for
eign soldiers here are sufficient to
take care of any menacing move
which the Chinese Reds may at
tempt. Reports from interior China
state that 60 American missionaries
are being menaced by an army of
Chinese Reds. A Canadian minister
is said to have been killed.
I WOMAN WILL FLY ATLANTIC
i ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, May
i 20. —Amelia Earhart Putnam, not
ied American flier, arrived here
from New York Thursday night in
preparation for a solo flight to
Europe. She was piloted here by
Bernt Balchen. Miss Earhart plans
to take the great circle route. She
expected to take off today on the
hop which will the first woman’s
solo flight across the Atlantic.
IMPRESSIVE SERVICES
MI>1 LAST RITES FOR
CAPT. ROOT. COLLAR
SANFRANCISCO, May 20, (/P)—
An impressive tribute to the mem
i ory and character of Captain Rob
! ert Dollar was paid Thursday at
the funeral services in the First
Presbyterian church in San Raefel.
Every available foot of the aisle
space in the church was taken
early in the morning and more
than 3,000 mourners, who had come
from near and far to pay their
last respects, were provided with I
chairs on the lawn of the public
library across the street.
Large amplifiers placed in the
surrounding trees enabled all to
hear the services. Floral remem
brances from all over the world,
including a wreath from each of
i the Dollar ships on the seven seas
were banked in great profusionj
I against one side of the church.
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WEAR A POPPY!
Red Poppies bloom again on
Seward’s streets, reminding us
that for scores of “our boys”
the was is not yet over; never
will be over.
Today the Poppies will be sold
and the money thus raised used
to make life a little more bear
able for sick and wounded ex
soldiers. The American Legion
Auxiliary Pest, No. 5. Seward, is
conducting the ceremony.
For most of us the great con
flict of. 1914-1918 is history; to
many, lying crippled and brok
en in hospital beds, it is as
poignantly present as it was
many -years ago—1 o n g w eary
years of pain and hopelessness.
Never mind what the war ac
complished, if it accomplished
anything. Don’t let your cyni
cism about war blind you to the
fact that these boys DID fight
for you; that they DID get
smashed in the brutal conflict
that convulsed the world with
rage—for you.
A Red Poppy in your button
hole today shows that you DO
care; that you haven’t forgot
ten the sacrifice these lads
made on what we called “the
alter” of their country.”
POPPY, Mister? POPPY, Lady?
CMB HIS PROPOSAL
DESIGNED FDD RECOVERY
WASHINGTON, May 20. —Speak
ger John N. Garner made a propo
sal in the House Thursday calling
for an increase in the capitaliza
tion of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation to the $1,000,000,000
mark.
The plan met with the approval
of both the Democratic and Re
publican sides of the House and it
is planned to lay it before the Sen
ate in a short time.
The plan is designed to pull the
country out of its present slump
and to furnish employment for the
idle.
REVOLUTIONISTS ARRESTED
HAVANA, Cuba, May 20. —Police
announced that they have broken
up an alleged plot to overthrow the
government. Forty of the revolu
tionists have been arrested.
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WORLD-WIDE BREVITIES
PAINLEVE GROOMED
PARIS, May 19. — Political circles
are grooming Paul Painleve as the
most likely choice for Premier of
France to succeed Tardieu.
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DEFEAT PREDICTED
DUBLIN May 19, (A5)—The defeat
of Eamon Devaleras, Government
and a General Election was pre
dicted by President William Cos- ■
grove at a convention of the op
position party.
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HOLD UP THEATRE
LOS ANGELES, May 19, (/P) —
Three armed bandits Tuesday held
up the RKO Theatre at Eighth and
Hill Streets and escaped with $300.
The holdup occurred while hun
dreds of pedestrians were passing
the theatre.
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GLUM SPRING IN SWEDEN
STOCKHOLM, May 20, {^—Be
cause of the crisis growing out of
the Kreuger affair, students of the
Universities of Lund and Upsala
abandoned for this year their an
nual celebration of the return of
spring.
FAMOUS FINN WEDS
ABO, Finland, May 20, —Paavo
Nurmi, Finland’s greatest distance
runner, married Miss Sylvia Laas
aonen Wednesday at a private cer
emony attended only by relatives
and close friends.
DRASTIC MEANS
WASHINGTON, May 19, (JP) —!
President Hoover warned the na-:
tion, in a statement, issued, that the !
Government intends to use drastic'
means to balance the budget and
defend the proposed unemployment:
; relief measure as an emergency
i measure necessary to fight depres- i
! sion.
BE INDEPENDENT
MOSCOW, May 19, (TP)—A pre
diction that the Soviet Union would
soon be independent of Foreign
Aluminum Producers was made at
the opening of the first Ru.ssian
Aluminum plant near Leningrad.
The plant is an important part in i
: fulfilment of the Soviet five year
I plan.
EXCESSIVE SALARIES
j WASHINGTON, D. C., May 20, (/P) I
j —Charging the postmaster depart- j
ment was being paid excessive sal- j
aries, primarily because of politi- j
cal purposes for the Hoover admin- *
istration, R e p re sentative M. A.
Minn on Wednesday introduced a
bill to abolish all first class post
masters. Their salaries, asserted
Minn, will save $10,000,000 a year, j
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U. S. WILL REMAIN
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 20, (/P)
—The United States will not go off
the gold standard, Gov. Eugene
Meyer, of the Federal Reserve
Board said in testifying before the
Senate Banking and Currency
Committee today. No country has
gotten off the gold standard suc
cessfully and no country that has
got off it has done so except when
forced to do so by fluctuation cur
rencies, he said.
HOP OFF SUNDAY
SEATTLE, May 20. — N a 11 C.
Brown, well known Chicago aviator
who arrived here last week in his
big Fokker plane, announced that
he intends to take off from Boeing
Field Sunday on a non-stop flight
to Tokyo, Japan. Brown is one of
the many entrants in the race for
the Japanese purse which is being
offered for a flight over the Pacific
from Seattle to Tokyo.
FIVE YEARS AGO
NEW YORK, Ma> 20. —It was
just five years ago tocu>y the Chas.
A. Lindbergh, a slim la£ with no
one paying any particular attention
to him, stepped from an airplane
in this city with a couple of ha^ j
sandwiches and a few hours later j
flew to Paris.
APPROVE KIDNAP BILL
WASHINGTON, May 19. — The
i Senate judiciary committee has ap
proved of the Cochrane bill which
m a k es kidnaping punishable by
death.
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MORE BATTLESHIPS
BERLIN, May 19, (/P)—Provisions'
for two additional “pocket battle-1
class ships of the 10,000 ton class]
is contained in the budget for the I
Ministry of Defense, the newspaper J
Tageblatt said.
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SOLD LIQUOR GET FOOD
MONTEREY, Calif., May 19, (/Pi
After telling the Court that she
faced starvation unless she sold
liquor, Mrs. Marts Serrano, 75, was
given a thirty day suspended sen
tence.
463 MILES AN HOUR
ROME, May 20, (JP)—Lieut. Neri
of the high speed section of the
Italian Air Force was recorded yes
terday with an unofficial speed re
cord for seaplane of 463 miles per
hour established over Lake Gara
da.
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RACE TRACK PLANT
LOS ANGELES, May 20, -Alex-:
ander Pantages has leased 200
acres of land southwest and on the
outskirts of Los Angeles where he
proposes to construct soon a mil
lion dollar horse racing plant. The
lease runs for 25 years.
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WINS WINDJAMMER RACE
LONDON, May 19, (/P)—‘The four
put into the river Thames, winner
in a race with a score of veteran
windjammers which put out from
Autralia with cargoes of wheat for
England. The Abraham Ryberg
overtook the Finnish banque Win
ter Hyne in the last few days of the
long race via Cape of Good Hope.
CARRIED TO SAFETY
OAKLAND, Calif., May 19, (/P)—
A 78 year cld Emeryville woman
and a fifteen year old girl were
saved from probable death when
they were carried to safety over a
roof and down a ladder during a
fire in their home. The hero of
the rescue was the girl’s uncle and
owner of the home A. J. Smith
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MILITARY DICTATORSHIP
WASHINGTON, May 19, (/P)—
A bill which would place the Terr
itory of Hawaii under a military
dictatorship was introduced in the
house today by Rep. Britten, rank
ing Republican member of the
naval affairs. He declared that no
other nation on earth would allow
so important a possession to be so
completely dominated by a native
population.
ITS LEAP YEAR, ALRIGHT
CHICAGO, May 20, —Elsie An-1
derson was bitten by spring fever,:
struck by Cupid’s dart, or some
thing, so took a boy friend for a
ride. The ride was eight hours dur
ation and every few minutes Elsie
asked the swain to marry her. He
replied no! No. No! NO! to her
pleas. So to home. Later he was
invited to appear in court to de
fend himself against an unpaid
taxi cab bill- The judge said no!
So the woman paid; Elsie’s mamma.
BEING QUESTIONED
NEW YORK, May 20. VP) —Mrs.
Mary Ford, Brooklyn school tea
cher, for whom, authorities are said
to have been looking in connec
tion with the Lindbergh case, is be
ing questioned. Early reports said
that the baby had been in her
home. An investigation by police
officials disclosed that the report
was not true. Mrs. Ford is also be
ing questioned about a larceny mat
ter.
GATHERS STRENGTH
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt
gathered 32 more delegate Wednes
day in North Carolina, Vermont
^nd the District of Columbia. Roo
|velt now has a total of 428.
NICARAGUAN CASUALTIES i
MEXICO CITY, May 20. —Gener
al Sandino, Nicaraguan insurgent
leader, and his troops Thursday
killed a American Marine officer
and five members of his patrol in
a battle in east Nicaragua. Hutch
croft was the American officer who
was killed. Dr. Pedro Zepeda, San
j dino’s foreign representative a n -
I nounced that 14 Nicaraguan Na
[ tional guardsmen were also killed
jin the battle.
! SOVIET'S AIR FLEET
! LAUNCHED BY TEST
! OF FIRST DIRIGIBLE
LENINGRAD, May 20, (A*)—Fore
runner of a fleet of lighter-than
air craft, Soviet Russia’s first diri
gible built of domestic materials by
native workmen made a successful
trial flight here of 35 minutes.
The fleet is to be turned out un
i der the supervision of General Um
berto Nobile, Italian aeronaut, with
| in three years.
i Details of design and size were
kept secret except for the an
nouncement that the new ship has
; a gas capacity of 2,200 cubic meters
and a “group” of 150 horsepower
motors. It is christened the “UK
1.”
The craft was constructed by the
factory “Dirigiblestory,” where No
bile will take up his work this sum
mer, assisted by picked Italian ex
perts.
Laying of the framework of a sec
ond dirigible of similar design, the
“UK-2,” was begun immediately.
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MEETING GO-BETWEENS
HOPEWELL, N. J. (JP) — Anxious
to confront John H. Curtis with
Rev. H. Dodson-Peacock in person,,
the police offered to pay the mini- I
ster’s expenses if he would come to
Hopewell for questioning. Peacock, i
however, refused to go even when
that offer was made.
Dr. John F. Condon has compiet- '
ed his inspection of rogue’s gallery !
photographs and today was called :
to testify before a Bronx grandj
jury at an investigation being made J
of his alleged payment of ransom |
money to persons who claimed to |
be the abductors of the Lindbergh
baby.
No lawyer has been to see John
Curtis, Norfolk negotiator, who is
still in jail.
YAKUTAT RAILWAY WILL
GET LAND FOR TERMINAL
WASHINGTON, May 20. (/P) —
The House Lands Committee a p - j
proved Delegate Wickershams’ bill i
to permit the Secretary of Interior
to trade 60 acres of Monti Bay land
with the Yakutat Southern Rail
way to be used for a terminal.
The committee also approved of
a bill allowing the Attorney Gener
al to convey to the city of Nome for
street purposes one of the lots held
by the government in that city.
The lot involved in the Nome
transfer was lot 2 block 50.
OE VALERA'S BILL PASSED
BAIL: NOW GOES SENATE
DUBLIN, Irish Free State, May
20. —The President De Valera bill
to abolish the oath of allegiance to
the British crown was passed in the
Senate Thursday by a majority of
eight. The bill now goes to the Sen
ate. The final vote was 77 to 69.
President Eamon DeValera de
fended the measure in the final
stages of debate. William Cosgrave,
opposition leader and foe of the
bill, was absent due to illness.
BIG BIOS BEGIN
MOVE TO POT IDLE
BOLUS BUCK WORK
NEW YORK, May 20. UP) — A
new move to put hundreds of mil
lions of idle dollars to work has
been started by a powerful com
mittee of bankers and industrial
ists here under Owen D. Young’s
chairmanship.
The group was called together
by George Harrison, governor of
the New York Federal Reserve Bank
to discuss and make the federal re
serve’s policy of credit expansion
effective and in answer to demands
in many quarters for more drastic
means for stimulating recovery
and prices the group begin work
ing on a plan to accomplish this.
They hope to find means of
bringing together vast surpluses of
idle funds so that the many worthy
projects in need of credit can be
aided. These projects are scattered
over the whole country the officials
said and any move which will help
these projects will effect a nation
wide betterment of conditions.
The group said that nothing suf
ficiently definite had been arrang
ed yet but it was suggested that
one possible avenue of credit ex
pansion lay in loans to building
loan societies by large commercial
banks. This move, it was said, would
answer the demand for credit for
financing the construction of small
homes.
LIMITED, SAYS METER
WASHINGTON, May 20, (JP) —
| Gov. Eugene Meyer of the Federal
Reserve Board today resumed be
fore the Senate Banking and Cur
rency Committee the administ
rations, effort to side-track the
Goldsborcugh dollar inflation bill.
Meyer told the committee that
the bill assumes that the board has
the power to carry out the power
of dollar deflation required by the
bill but that the board has no such
power and the assumption is un
justified.
WASHINGTON, May 20. — Huge
profits in the 1929 radio pool which
the participants, were revealed
paid $5,000,000 in seven weeks to
Thursday as the Senate banking
committee resumed the inquiry in
to the stock market operations.
During the week the pool op
erated, participants deposited $12,
683,000 and split profits of $4,924,
000, William Gray, special attorney
for the Senate committee disclosed.
Percy Rockefeller, millionaire fin
ancier, who first revealed the op
erations of the radio group, was
a minor participant, receiving only
$29,171. Walter Chrysler, automo
bile manufacturer, received $145,
000.
John J. Raskob, one of the largest
participants, was paid $291,710, as
were N. Brady, J. J. Regan, W. F.
Kenny.
Mrs- M\ J. Meehan received $290,
710 in one account and $87,513 in
another. Four other firms or per
sons received $145,000, five others
received $116,000 and scores of
other persons or firms received
smaller amounts.
NO PROGRESS
WASHINGTON, May 20. — No
progress was made by the Senate
in its consideration of the tax bill
Thursday. The members kept quar
reling over tariff items. Some of the
Senators do not want to pass the
bill if these tariffs are included in
the bill while other threaten they
won’t pass the bill unless they are
left out.
BUY A POPPY TODAY
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