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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 20. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1932. PRICE TEN CENTS
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HELD UP; BUT
ROBBER IDENTIFIED AS WM.
E. MC GEE OF SEATTLE,
KETCHIKAN
JUNEAU, Jan.. 25, (IP)— It will be
a long time before Dan Ralston,
taxi driver, who attempted to help
capture a bank robber after an un
identified robber was wounded by
Mr. McNaughton. cashier of the M.
M. Behrends bank from which was
taken several thousand dollars in
currency.
Ralston wounded one of the
holdup men; the robber’s gun was
discharged as he fell the bullet
lodging in Ralston’s leg.
Upon seeing McNaughton r u li
ning toward him, the bandit fired
again hitting Ralston in the neck.
Both wounded men were taken to
the hospital where the bullet was
removed from Ralston’s leg. Doctors
said he would recover but held lit
tle hope for the robber. The stick
up man was identified as William
E. McGee of Seattle; he came here
from Ketchikan Last March.
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SOME OF TIE MRS
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HONOLULU, Jan. 25, (IP)—'The
unexpected adjournment of the
Grand Jury without returning an
indictment against Kahahawai
slayers, gave rise to the rumor that
some of the jurors wanted to apply
the unwritten law to the case.
Other rumors were that failure
of the prosecutor to produce the
actual killer or witness convinced
some of the juors that they could
not vote for a murder indictment,
Put only on one charging abduc
tion.
Fourteen Anglo-Saxons, two Por
tugese, four Hawaiians and one
Chinese were on the jury.
Governor Judd signed the bill
placing the police force under an
appointed commission instead of
the present elected sheriff.
SKI REFUSES
DIVULGE HIS FILES
SENATOR JOHNSON INTENDS TO
TAKE ANOTHER PHASE OF I
INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jail. 25,
UP)—Secretary of State Stimson
complained to the Senate finance
Committee in a secret session that
information from his confidential
files had leaked into the hands of
investigators of foreign loans.
A heated debate between Stimson
* and Senator Hiram Johnson was
closed when Stimson explained he
did not intend to cast reflections
upon Johnson’s honor or integrity
but he believed the information
t could have come from no source
but from his own confidential files.
4. Stimson then declined to permit;
the committee to examine Amer
ican Minister to Colombia Caffery,!
whom Johnson called as a witness,
- complaining the investigation was
disturbing Latin-American rela
tions.
Johnson said the refusal of Caf
lery as a witness was satisfactory
to him as he intended to go on with
another phase of the investigation.
Later Stimson stated the docu
ments would not be produced but
promised a definite answrer to the
committee regarding the papers.
Up to the time of going to press
no word as to the basketball score
of last night, at Fairbanks, had
been recieved. The Seward Tonies’
vere to have played the City.
ORDERED TO SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25, —To pro
tect American lives and property
the United States war vessels which
are at present in the vicinity of
Shanghai, have been ordered to
proceed to Shanghai as a safety
measure owing to the precarious
situation between the Chinese and
Japanese there.
TO BEGIN FIRING CITY
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25, —This city
is under strict martial law and it
was feared Sunday evening that
the Japanese, who for several days
have been in Shanghai harbor
with a large fleet, would occupy
the city before morning.
For a wihle yesterday it was the
belief of many that the Japanese
war vessels had opened bombard
ment on the city but it was later
found out that a Chinese amuni
tion barge had exploded. Some
Chinese soldiers on the barge were
killed.
One American is reported to
have been killed by a Chinese sen
| try because the American’s chauf
feur failed to halt the car soon
I enough when challenged by the
sentry.
Representing the United States
at Shanghai, is Edwin S. Cunning
j ham, U. S. Consul, and it is the ;
opinion of the State Department i
that he can handle the situation !
as he has been in the service for !
many years and is an expert nego- j
tiator.
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‘PEPPER’ MARTIN
REMAINS WITH ‘CARDS’!
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 25, —The Brook
lyn “Robbins” Saturday purchased
“Hack” Wilson, outfielder, from the
St. Louis “Cardinals.”
“Pepper” Martin, third baseman
for the “Cards” last season and
largely responsible for their win
over the “Athletics,” has signed a
contract with the “Cards” but will
receive a much more substantial;
salary. Last year he received $4,000 j
plus a bonus of $500 for the fine
playing he was responsible for,
in addition to the world series bo
nus.
ALDLRMAX KILLED?
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, —Patrick
S. Dowd, a former alderman, was
found dead here with his skull
fractured. Police have begun an
investigation.
TAXES STACK WHISKEY
LONDON, Jan. 25, (JP)—England
has 748,435,000,000 bottles of “im
mobilized” whiskey in her -ware
houses.
This is due to diminished demand
for hard liquor by the English peo
ple, who find whiskey drinking a
positive luxury.
Before the war they paid a bit
more than a dollar a bottle for
choice brands. Now the govern
ment excise tax duty amounts to
$2 a bottle and wholesale dealers
are clamoring to have the tax re
duced.
ANOTHER BANK ROBBED
LOUISVILLE, Colorado, Jan. 25,
—Two smartly dressed young men
walked into the bank here and sr ?d
to the woman cashier: “This is a
stickup. Reach for the nuon r '
give us that money.” The woman '
could not but comply and she ha • - j
ed them $12,000 in currency; tl
robbers doffed their hats, bid he
farewell and made their exit before
an alarm could be given.
BOAT DUE TOMORROW
The SS Northwestern, of the A.
S. S. Co., is due to arrive in port
tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock,
according to a report today.
GRIGSBY AND ZIEGLER PROB
ABLY WILL RUN FOR THE
SAME OFFICE
FAIRBANKS, Jan. 25, (/P)— The
Democratic Territorial Convention
adjourned Saturday night after go
ing on record favoring the candi
dacy of A. J. Dimond as the party
nominee next April.
The resolution adopted read:
“It is the individual and personal
conviction that the delegates fav
or the candidacy of A. J. Dimond
for the nomination of Delegate to
Congress.”
The resolution also invited Geo.
Grigsby and Mr. Ziegler, as well as
Mr. Dimond, to enter the primar
ies, as the result of the insistent
demands made at the convention
by Mr. Dimond and is therefor is£
deference to his personal wisdes.
The resolution was unanimously
approved.
The commiittee recommended
the following to file their declar
ations of candidacy:
James Truitt of Anchorage for
Attorney General; Claude Helge
shen of Juneau for Auditor; An
thony Karnes of Ketchikan for
Commissioner of Education; Wm.
A. Hesse of Ketchikan for Terri
torial Highway Engineer, and Jas.
Connors of Juneau as National
Committeeman, for reelection.
Delegates mentioned to the nat
ional convention were John W
Troy of Juneau, William Kirk of
Juneau, A. A. Shonbeck of An
chorage, Harry Morton of Anchor
age. John Powers of Eagle, and T.
H. Deal of Fairbanks.
About 30 women of Cordova re
cently organized a woman's club.
bummestS
STOP: EMIL STRIKE
BARCELONA, Jan., 25, (/P)—
Shops closed, trolley c.irs stopped
running and the streets are prac
tically deserted by all save soldiers
and police, as a general strike was
declared by extremists who are res
posible for disorders.
Catalonia leaders described it as
a prelude to a nation-wide strike
and establishment of a republican,
soviet in character.
The police force has been doubled
but, for the most part, regular
troops and the civil guard remain
ed in their barracks but are pre
pared for action if necessary.
Airplanes soared over the Seville
region scouting for strike gather
ings.
PREHISTORIC FINGERS
PARIS, Jan. 25, (>P)—Finger prints
left by prehistoric artists were dis
covered in a grotto of the Pyre
nees by MM. Mandement and
Jauze, archaelogists.
Crawling into the cave, they
found on its wTalIs 10 high reliefs
in clay. All depicted charging buf
faloes, four of the images being
a foot long.
The clay had been first thrown
on the wall and then shaped by
hand, the marks of the primitive
sculptors’ fingers being plainly vis
ble.
MORE ON FIGHT
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, (#)—In the
fight betw7een Petrolle and Rann,
which Petrolle won by a terrific
knockout in the sixth, both fighters
fought each other to the point of
exhaustion. Petrolle continaully
played for the head while Billy
flayed away for the body. The
knockdown was as much a sur
prise to the fighters as to the howl
ing mob of 17,000 fans.
IEN PER CENT CUT
IN HAIL WORKERS
WAGES LOOIfflC
REDUCTION IS NECESSARY SO
THAT RAILROADS MAY
PROSPER
CHICAGO, Jan. 25, —The rail
road conference which is underway
here will end in a deadlock, a c
cording to opinions expressed by
many observers. The conference
will continue this week.
Railroad executives formally told
representatives of 1,900,000 em
ployees a 10 per cent reduction
in pay is necesarry for the future
prosperity of railroads.
The workers replied then needed
relief must come immediately.
Daniel Willard, president of the
Baltimore & Ohio and chairman
of the committee of nine railroads,
presented a program to keep the
railroads out of the sheriff’s hands.
David Robertson, leader of 21
Union railroads, asked that an av
erage force of employees be assur
ed one year’s work, that a six hour
day be established, that federal
compensation laws be enacted for
workers benefit and that compet
ing forms of transportation be feg
ulated.
Labor union chiefs blamed the
present state of the United States
industries to unsound financing
rather than it being brought about
through the paying of high wages.
HOPED LOWER RECORD
AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, Jan.
25, (<P)—Hawks expected to com
plete the round-trip to Vancouver,
B. €., 2,600 miles, in 13 or 14 hours.
He decided on the attempt when
li o was advised perfect flying
weather was at hand.
IS WILLING
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, —Gover
nor Franklin Roosevelt, in a letter
which he made public, expressed
his willingness to accept the Dem
ocratic nomination to be the choice
of his party as the next President
of the United States.
TELESCOPE MIST, FUNNEL
IS ll-ELECTl SNIPS
DETROIT, O., Jan. 25, (.Pj—The
SS Chester, second of the proposed
fleet of Ford ships, presents a rad
ical departure in Great Lakes ship
building.
The squat ships look like barges
and all deck equipment is electric
ally operated.
Her pilot houses, masts and also
smokestacks can be lowered into
the deck to permit passing under
bridges.
PROTESTS DISSOLUTION
ROME, Jan. 25, —The Pope is
sued a new decree in which he pro
tested the dissolution of the Jes
uit order and the confiscation of
their property in Spain. His de
cree lauded the work of Jesuits.
AMERICAN RUSH BEITS
BRITISH TO SOVIET JOBS
LONDON, Jan. 2 5, (/P)— British
unemployed who would like to go
to Russia to get jobs are finding
all the good places taken by Amer -
icans.
Recently it was announced here
that 6,000 were open for skilled
workers. The Amtorg Trading Cor
poration now announces that 85,
per cent of the posts have been
taken by Americans.
MILLS PARALYZED
AHMEDABAD, India, Jan. 25, (TP)
—The strike of mill hands has par
alyzed 76 textile mills. The entire
police force u'as called out to at- j
tempt quelling rioters who insisted!
upon burning down the police sta- j
tion. The situation is tense and all ■
processions and meetings h a v e j
been banned.
FREED BY KIDNAPPERS
DENVER, Colo., Jan. 25, —Ben
jamin Bower, bakery manager, was
back with his family Sunday af
ter having been held for several
days by kidnappers. He said that
he had been held for ransom and
had been threatened with death
if no ransom was forthcoming.
WORK OF PUMPING
MILLIONS INTO 0. S.
BUSINESS IS READY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25, —
The federal government is now
ready to begin its colossal task of
pumping millions of dollars into
stagnant American business in an
effort to help the nation’s econom
ic recovery.
The measure calling for an ap
propriation of $125,000,000 so that
that the refinance corporation can
begin work immediately, received
instantaneous approval in the
House Saturday an the Senate will
act on the appropriation today.
Charles Dawes, who was selected
by President Hoover to head the
reconstruction corporation, and
I Eugene Meyer, chairman of the
: Federal Reserve Board, named as
j chairman of the corporation, have
| estimated that the cost of admin
istering the work of this recon
struction will take about $2,000,000
for the first year with some de
crease for the years thereafter.
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! ‘HUMS' IICITl
ULBY, Mich., Jan. 25, (/P)—This
village is so well off that no village
tax has been levied this year and
the office of village assessor has
been suspended.
Walter C. Schrader, village pres
ident, announced that through eco
: nomical administration during the
past five years a surplus of $3,000
had been accumulated and that no
tax would be necessary.
At the same time a program of
improvements in sidewalks, sewers
and waterworks was carried on.
FIND RICH GOLD REEF
MELBUORNE, Jan. 25. UP)—What
is claimed to be one of the richest
gold reefs in Australia has been
opened at Combien Bar, 60 miles
from Orbost. The first two tons of
ore yielded 120 ounces of gold.
SECRET TRUCKING
CHICAGO, Jan. 25, UP)— Hijack
ing the hijackers is the new game
Chicago police are playing.
Twenty-one streets radiating out
from the city’s principal railroad
freight stations have been secretly
designated as “protected areas or
routes,” over which merchants and
truckers will route their goods with
assurance of protection from spe
cial police details.
Confidential route maps showing
the safe ways have been provided
hundreds of the city’s heaviest
shippers and to all police captains,
squad cars and motorcycle patrols.
GOLD IN INK OF FRNNGE
am our visitors
PARIS, Jan.^25, (/P)—There is so
much gold in the vaults of the
Bank of France that there is no
room for visitors.
So the doors to the underground
chan, jers, lying under a sunken
lake and guarded with the latest
wrinkles in bank protection, have
been closed to all but bank e m
ployes.
When the bank will be opened to
sightseers depends, officials say,
“on the United States,” since
bankers here lay the flow of gold
to New York exchange operations.
AMERICA CHECKS
Hill STRENGTH IN
CHINA WAR ZONE
SHANGHAI GESTURE BY JAPAN
ESE NAVAL FLEET CAUSES
CONCERN IN U. S.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jail. 25, —
The United States government is
much concerned over the menace
to American lives and property in
Shanghai and in the Far East as
a result of the Japanese landing
marines in Shanghai. The admin
istration contends that the action
on the part of the Japanese is cer
tainly not a peace move.
The Japanese say that their ac
tion in landing their forces is mere
ly to back up the Japanese Con
sul General’s demand that Shang •
hai disband her anti-Japanese
factions which are believed largely
responsible for the economic boy -
i cott from which Japa suffers.
The War Department o f the
| United States has made a survey
l of their marine and naval officers
; which are near the danger zone.
; It is announced that the United
1 States has 52 marine officers and
11,070 marines at Shanghai.
| Two naval destroyers and son: *
j gunboats are north of Shanghai
I on the Yangtse river, and three
destroyers and seve 'al g u n b o ats
to the south of Sb .nghai. A sub
marine base and i ore destroyers
and gunboats are ose enough so
that they can be t mmoned in a
case of emergency.
Most of the Ame ans. together
with people of oth nations, live
in the International settlement of
Shanghai. The Frem residents of
the city have a set rate conces
.xi on
IN HIGH TO TIN
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, (TP;—Max
Schmeling will recieve 371 •> per
; cent and Jack Sharkey 12!2 per
cent of the gate receipts in their
bout next June.
Sharkey agreed to fight one title
| bout in defense of the crown next
j September in Madison Square Gar
; den, should he win.
Schmeling is signed only for this
one fight, in June.
The champion sailed last night
| for Germany; he returns in March
j to begin training.
DOCK REGULATIONS
FOR AUTOS AND TRUCKS
WHILE SHIPS IN PORT
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The attention of drivers of auto
mobiles, both of passenger and
freight, is called to the following
regulations adopted at the Sew
ard Dock by the local offices of the
Alaska Railroad:
While a ship is tied to the dock
no cars will be permitted on the
face of the dock.
Taxies and baggage trucks will be
{.permitted to park at the rope be
> tween the two warehouses until af
ter the arrival of the ship. How
ever, these cars must move as soon
as the passengers have left the
ship.
Cars will not be permitted to
park on the East side of the a p
proach to the dock.
Cars will be permitted to park on
the West side of the approach to
the dock, but must not go South
of the approach to the city’s float
ing dock. Cars should be left fac
ing South when parked on this
strip.
When no ships are tied to the
dock delivery cars with freight for
small craft may drive to the ships
side to make delivery.
Under the new air-mail con
tracts to Nome, that far-north city
will receive weekly first-class ser
vice.