.VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 38.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FOUR IDENTIFIES IS
THE UIPPERS OF
WEILTHV DENVER MIN
DENVER. Feb. 15. —Exciting de
velopments. possibly indicating an
arrest was near, crowded each |
other in the search for Charles!
Boettcher, 2nd. Denver million-j
aire, held for $50,000 or S60.000 i
ransom.
Announcement was made by Po
lice Chief Albert T. Clark that
four men were the kidnappers, one
of whom was a Denver man. who i
selected Mr. Boettcher as the vic
tim for three outside gangsters.
A telephone call was reported i
received at the home of the vic
tim’s father, Claude K. Boettcher,
which may or may not have been
from the kidnappers, from gang
sters trying to “muscle in” on the
ransom or from a crank.
CUE ON STAND 01
DEFENSE ONE MINUTE
LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 15. — i
It took William James “Curly”
Guy little more than a minute
to detail his own defense to a
charge that he murdered Capt.
Walter Wanderwell, adventurer*
aboard the schooner Carma on
December 5.
Guy took the stand as the af
ternoon court session opened and j
declared he was attending a par- !
ty at the home of Edward Delarm. i
Indian aviator, at the hour when !
the state claims Wanderwell wasj
shot in the back.
CALIFORNIA PUGILIST
NEW YORK. Feb. 15, —Ernie!
Schaaf. whose bid for the World
heavyweight championship ^nded j
in a weird knockout Friday at;
the hands of Primo Camera, died ,
yesterday.
His death touched off an inves- j
tigation that threatened the prize j
industry in this city.
Camera, the lumbering giant j
from Italy, and all others closely!
connected with the bout, were'
questioned at the office of the j
district attorney.
Exoneration of Camera was in-1
dicated when examination was j
concluded.
CHATTERBOX Plffl
SHOVES SON FORWARD
CHICAGO. Feb. 14—Leo “Gab
by” Hartnet, chatterbox Cub
catcher is determined to keep
Bruin backstopping a Hartnet
family affair.
Gabby invaded the office of
President William Veeck of the
Cubs and persuaded Veeck to take
Herman Hartnet, Gabby’s 22-year
old brother to the Bruin Catalina
Island training camp this spring
for a trial.
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MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 15, —Presi
dent-Elect Roosevelt has made
tentative arrangements for a week
end meeting with Senator Carter
Glass of Virginia, who has become
the ‘‘keyman” in the cabinet sit
uation.
Glass has the acceptance or re
fusal of the treasury portofolio
and the incoming president is an
xious to have him as a member of
his official family
OUTLINES PROGRAM
LONDON, Feb. 14,—Prime Minis
ter MacDonald told the House of
Commons Monday that the debt
discussion at Washington next
month will range over a whole
program outlined for projected
world economic conference.
INDIANS SAVED
EDMONTON, Alberta, Feb. 15, —
One hundred Beaver Indians, liv
ing in the isolated Stony Creek
district, have been saved from
starvation after an airplane brot
them 1.500 pounds of food, medi
cine and clothes. Five of the num
ber, including two children, had
succumbed before Pilot McMillan
made his mercy flight.
QUEEN HURRIED ROME
TO FACE A CRITICAL
GOVERNMENT PROBLEM
THE HAGUE. Feb. 15.—Queen
Wilhelmina hurried back from, a
holiday in Switzerland yesterday to
face a critical government situa
tion. She was cheered by a large
throng at the railway station. The
populace sung patriotic songs as
she bowed, smiling and waving to
her subjects. She left Switzerland
when word reached her of cabi
net trouble.
The government faced serious
opposition in the second chamber
of Parliament and was defeated on
its program calling for abolition of
four courts. The ministry decided,,
however, rather than resign, to;
confer with the Queen on possibili- ,
ty of dissolving the chamber and j
holding fresh elections in hope of'
averting a change in administra-\
tion at this time.
SCHOOL CHILDREN
HAD NARROW ESCAPE
SULLIVAN, Indiana, Feb. 15, —
A speeding freight train crashed
into a school bus near here, but
the heroism of the driver, who
was hurt, saved the lives of 22
children in his charge.
The driver calmly instructed the
children to jump out a rear door
when he found his brakes were
frozen and a train was approach
ing. All but the driver and one
student escaped the crash. They
were slightly injured.
ST. JOHN. N. E„ Feb. 14.—Four
steamers are under charter to car
ry full lumber cargoes from Saint
John during the next fortnight, it
is learned.
They will take approximately
6.300.000 feet of sawed hard wood
and soft wood to Great Britain. I
Not for some time have such large
shipments of New Brunswick lum
ber lumber been booked for Brit
ish islands.
DROWNED HER DAUGHTER
LOS ANGELES. Feb. 15, -Ac-1
cused of having drowned her 8
year old daughter by holding the
girl’s head under water in the
bath tub, Mi’s. Herbert Kennedy,;
36. was taken into custody by Dep- ;
uty Sheriffs. “God told me to do;
it,” Deputy Sheriff W. C. Killion I
quoted Mrs. Kennedy as saying.
MEETING TODAY
GENEVA,Feb. 15, —A meeting
of the general commision of the
World Arms Conference was set
to start working out features of
the British plan. The political
commision will meet for the first
time on Tuesday, to discuss the
security suggestions of the Brit-1
ish plan.
REDUCTION SEEN
WELLINGTON, N. Z., Feb. 14
Reduction of 300.000 pounds in es
timated budget deficit of 1.000.000
pounds is now looked for as a re
sult of increased tax revenue unex
pected buoyancy in customs re
ceipts and reduction of the public
expenditures.
FAMILY BURNED DEATH
YOUNGSTOWN, O., Feb. 14,
family of four were burped
death when fire of undetermined
origin partly destroyed the bunga
low home of Alexander A. Spr^ker
here.
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JAPANESE CONSCRIPTS
OF 1333 WILL RE SENT
TO MANCHURIAN FRONT
TOKIO, Feb. 15.—Japan's mili
tary forces in Manchuria will total
upwards of 57.000 by the end of
March, according to information
in foreign military circles here.
Observers here understood the
conscript class of 1933, now being
called to the colors, largely will be
assigned to the divisions now on
duty in Manchuria which thus
will be brought up to war strength
or around 20.000 men to the divi
sion.
Reserves of 1932 are not being
released and will be held over until
the end of the year or longer.
The strength of Japanese Man
churian forces at the end of Janu
ary was estimated at 40,000, not
including armed reservist settlers,
gendarmes and police.
NEW OBSTACLES ARE
PLACER BEFORE ARMS
PARLEY BY FRANCE
GENEVA, Feb. 15.—The French
placed new obstacles before the
general commission of the world
arms parley yesterday when Jo
seph Paul Boncour announced it
wrould be impossible for them to
limit the size of their tanks or
artillery until they knew what
type of European armies would use
them.
Boncour’s announcement was
regarded as an effort to force the
conference to accept the French
scheme for unification of Europe
an armies, or at least strong co-or
dination in a European police
force arrangement He pointed to
the semi-official military organ
ization in Germany and Italy as a
menace to this co-ordination in
forces, or limitation of armies as
such.
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S60.000 SWEEPSTAKES
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 15.—The
$60,000 Hambletonian sweepstakes
will be trotted on August 16. over
the track at Gosheen, N. Y.. for
the fourth consecutive year, J. J.
Mooney, president of the society,
announced yesterday.
CONDITIONS HOT RIGHT
FOR MEM
MILAN, Italy, Feb. 14, —Willy
Farner, Swiss glider, arrived at
Taliedo Airport in his glider in
tow of an airplane.
Apparently conditions were not
right for attempting to glide across
the Alps, as he had intended to do
when he started from Zurich. He
glided to the ground here from a
height of 6,500 feet after the mot
ored plane released him.
STRENGTHEN REPLY
GENEVA. Feb. 14,—The Japanese
Cabinet has made certain changes
in the draft reply of the Japanese
delegation here to the League of
Nations on Manchuria, the delega
tion was advised by cable from
Tokio. The changes were under
stood to strengthen the proposed
negative reply.
ANXIOUS MOMENT
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 14,
—Sir Malcolm Campbell and his
mechanics were given a bad
moment when fire broke out in
front of the building that quar
ters the British driver’s racing
car, Bluebird. Sir Malcolm grab
bed a fire extinguisher, as did two
of the mechanics, and the fire was
quickly put out.
PRELIMINARY HEARING
ROANOKE, Va„ Feb. 14, —The
two Roanoke men who tried to
cash a bogus $17,000 check with
which federal agents had baited
a trap for the writer of extortion
letters to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
were to have a preliminary hear
ing before U. S. Commissioner
Charles D. Fox Jr.
GOLD STRIKE!
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 15, —Dis
covery of an important new gold
field near the municipality of
Cosala, State of Sinaloa, was an
nounced at Manzanillo by Deputy
Felipe Ratamoza.
TWO PROPOSALS TO
1 TOE RAILROADS
REJECTED CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C-, Feb. 15.—
Two proposals designed to aid
manufacturers and railroads were
rejected by Congress yesterday, j
The House voted 212 to 174 against
considering the Crowther bill,
sponsored by the Republicans,
which would have raised import
duties on products from nations
operating on depreciated curren
cies.
The Senate judiciary committee
reported a bill to aid individuals,
but eliminated a section which
would have authorized financial
reorganization of railroads and cor
porations. The vote on the pro
posed higher tariff scheme came
on a petition to discharge the
ways and means committee from
further consideration of the Crow
ther bill.
POSTPONES FLIGHT
RIO de JANEIRO, Feb. 15, —
Jean Mermoz, French airmail pilot,
has postponed his return flight
across the South Atlantic to Mar
seilles until the next full moon, in j
March, Aero Postal announced
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REGRETS WHIPPING
POST OUT OF FASHION
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 14,—Ex
pressing regret because the whip
ping post is not legalized in Utah,
Police Judge J. Bronson sentenced
Ralph Coon, confessed wife beater,
to 90 days in jail.
“The court is sorry he does not1
have the power to send you to the j
whipping post in a public square j
and there to receive 100 lashes”,1
said Judge Bronson.
LONDON, Feb. 14.—The Evening
Standard understands that Sir
Alan Cobham, noted British air
man, is planning an ambitious
venture of a non-stop flight of 10,
000 miles from England to Austra
lia in five days and five nights;
he plans to refuel in the air.
A cabin monoplane, in which Sir
Alan will be accompanied by an
other skilled pilot, is nearing com
pletion at York.
CAPTURED A CITY
BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb. 15, —
It was unofficially announced that
Colombian troops had captured
the city of Tarapaca on the Putu
mayo river in the vicinity of the
city of Leticia, over which Colom
bia and Peru have been in con
flict since last September.
GROWING WEAKER
BAYSIDE, N. Y„ Feb. 15, —
James J. Corbett, former heavy
weight champion boxer, ill of heart
disease at his home here, was just
“a little weaker” last night.
BOBSLED CHAMPIONS
LAKE PLACID, N. Y., Feb. 15.—
The Lake Placid A. C. Bluebirds, led j
by the guiding of Curtis Stevens,
whizzed down the Mount Van Ho
evenburg bob run at a record
breaking speed yesterday to win
the national A. A. U. four-men
bobsled title. Stevens negotiated
the two-mile course in 1:47.86.
OUTRIGHT REPEAL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 15, —
Senate majority leader Robinson
announced in the Senate that he
would offer to the proposed mod
ified prohibition repeal resolution
an amendment for outright repeal
in conformity with the Democratic
National platform pledge.
The Stock Market
MONTREAL, Feb. 15.—Brazilian
8 3-4, Nickel 9 3-4, Vancouver-Big
Missouri 17, George Copper 35, Gol
conda 17, Pend Dreille 60, Reeves
MacDonald 16, AP Con 10, Calgary
& Edmonton 36, Home Oil 40.
WINNIPEG, Feb. 15.—Wheat:|
May, July 49 1-4; October 501-5;
U. S. March closed.
BILL COMPULSORY
EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
INTRODUCED ST. PHIL
ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 15—A
bill for compulsory employment
insurance with the entire benefits
payable by employers was intro
duced in the Senate here, sponsor
ed by 35 Senators as co-authors, j
The measure, the major legisla
tion on Governor Olson’s program
of social reform, has more than
enough sponsors for passage. Ol
son’s final major change in the
bill was to eliminate the proposi
tion that employers and employes |
should share equally in making |
payments toward a state unem-j
ployment fund. He substituted
the requirement that employers
carry the entire burden.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 15, —
The House judiciary committee
adopted a final report censuring
Federal Judge Harold Louderback
of San Francsico for his handling
of receivership litigation.
The report will be submitted
to the House today with a resolu
tion finding that there is not evi- I
dence to warrant impeachment of |
the jurist.
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SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 14.—The
old ruse of posing as a prospective i
tenant was used in a $2,209 theft |
in an apartment house in the Mar- |
ina, according to Mrs. W. H. Mor
gan, victim and manager of the
place.
She told police that while one
man lured her from her apartment
on the protest of looking at a va
cant one, an accomplice entered
her Quarters and stole two rings
valued at $1,400, a diamond stud
ded watch and $26 in cash.
BELATED EFFORT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Con
gress accelerated activities in a
belated effort to rush thru legisla
tion before March 4. The Senate
Agricultural committee began
rounding into shape a drastically
revised domestic allotment Farm
Relief Bill, while cotton aid pro
posals moved nearer Senate ac
tion.
PLAN APPROVED
MANILA, P. I., Feb. 14—A cau
cas of Nacionalista party legisla
tors informally approved the plan
of Manuel Quezon, president of
the Philippine Senate, to send a
new delegation to Washington to
w'ord for a new independence act
or concessions from the one re
cently passed by Congress granting
freedom in about 12 years.
RUMORS REVIVED
BERLIN, Feb- 14,—Rumors of an
impending engagement of Chan
cellor Adolf Hitler and Frau Wini
fred Wagner, widow of Siegfried
Wagner, son of the composer, were
revived after Herr Hitler and Frau
Wagner met Sunday at the Wagner
anniversary festival.
LOCUSTS RUIN CROPS
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 14,—Four
million acres of choice Argentine
corn land, containing one-fourth
of this year’s sowings, have been
ruined by vast hordes of locusts,
the government officially an
nounced.
SANTA FE EXPRESS
SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 15, —
A spectacular gun fight on a
speeding Santa Fe train brought
death to C2i6 of a band of four
holdup men who were attempting
to loot an express car of cigar
ettes.
His three companions escaped
For some time an organized
gang had been raiding the night
train for shipments of cigarettes.
W. A. Thomas, the shipper, placed
a special agent aboard at Irvine.
Four men entered the express
car. The agent killed one, the oth
ers leaping out into the darkness
and escaped by automobile.
DETROIT, Feb. 15, —Governor
William A. Comstock, who in the
early morning hours of Tuesday
declared a sweeping eight-day
banking moratorium throughout
the State of Michigan, charged
officials of the Ford Motor Co.,
responsible for the unprecedented
move.
“The Ford Motor Company re
fused to accept an agreement
to subordinate its deposits in the
Union Guardian Trust Co., and the
result was necessarily a morator
ium,” the Governor declared.
DETROIT. Mich., Feb. 15, —
A speedy termination of the “acute
financial emergency” which yes
terday caused Gov. Wm. A. Com
stock to order an 8-day closing
of Michigan’s banks, was sought
as the available cash of citizens
dwindled: $40,000,000 arrived from
New York to stem the tide here.
Plans are underway to permit
depositors to withdraw five per
cent of their savings.
WASHINGTON. D. C„ Feb. 15. —
United States recognition of Rus
sia soon after March 4 is regarded
both here and abroad as the ine
vitable outcome of the present
rush of events in Europe. Ameri
ca and the Far East.
America’s best interests are now
so involved, observers point out,
that the trend of war events in
the Orient is the real key to rec
ognition, regardless of what the
President-Elect might feei. one
way or the other.
BUST OF EGKPT1
KINO OISCOHD
CAIRO, Feb. 14.—Discovery of a
bust of a 14th Century Egyptian
King, Amenophis, whose introduc
tion of Sun worship was branded
as heresy by his successor, Tut An
kh Amen, wras announced by exca
vators of the Egyptian Exploration
Society working near Tel El Amar
na.
The expedition also discovered a
life-sized bust of Queen Nefertiti
and a group showing the “Ape of
Thot” as. the recorder who weigh
ed souls in the underworld.
ASKS MORATORIUM
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 15.—Gover
nor Charles Bryan issued a pro
clamation yesterday calling upon
holders of mortgages on Nebroska
farms and homes to suspend fore
closures. He asked that the sus
pensions remain in effect until his
recently appointed board of re
conciliation could complete its or
ganization and until the state leg
islature could pass mortgage re
lief measures.