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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 97.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CAPONE MYMTLY IS
CONNECTED ISIIH BUY
ABDUCTION AFTER ALL
CHICAGO, April 26.—A1 Capone,
gangster overlord in the Cook
County prison here, who has twice
offered to aid in the recovery Oi.
the Lindbergh child if he were re
leased from prison temporarily, is
being held incommunicado in pris
on now and no visitors are allowed
to see him and he is not allowed
to send any messages.
Capone is being held incommuni
cado on orders from Washington.
This action was taken by officials
so that the Lindbergh family can
have time to think about the ad
visability of accepting the offer
and also to prevent Capone, should
he have anything to do with the
case, from bringing further pres
sure to bear against the sorrowing
family.
The action on the part of Wash
ington officials is taken as a strong ,
indication that Capone ‘ might
have something to do with the kid
napping of the child” and that the
kidnapping was done by Capone’s
organization just for the purpose
of getting him from behind the
bars.
GREAT ARMADA ON
DISPLAY IN WATERS OF
THE GOLDEN GATE
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26.—San
Francisco opened its Golden Gate
to welcome the greatest armada of
Un~le Sam’s fighting craft to enter
in years. Before sundown, nearly
125 gray-hulled midgets and mon
sters of the combined battle and
scouting fleets were anchored in
Man ’O War Row to join the score
already there.
For nearly three weeks the 40,000
officers and men will be free to
enjoy the hospitality of San Fran
cisco. Elaborate recreation and en
tertainment programs have been
arranged for them here. No formal
welcoming ceremonies were plan
ned for the day. No salutes were
fired because this is not the an
nual official visit of the fleet.
Monday, the 18 admirals will ex
change official calls with shoreside
Navy, Army, Marine Corps and
civic leaders at 12th Naval District
headquarters.
UHL) THINKS CEOIi
BE FUMED SOOH
ROME, Italy, April 26.— Fascist
ruled Italy looked with interest on
the results of the German elections
which were held in Prussia Sunday
and in which Adolph Hitler’s Fas
cist or National-Socialist party was
leading other parties by some 3,
000,000 votes.
Italy sees in the Prussian issue
the answer to the future boss of
Germany and Italy believes her
own experiment is taking place in
Germany.
% Italian officials are also of the
opinion that when Hindenburg
turns over the reins of government
to some successor that this suc
cessor will be Adolph Hitler.
REGIME ENDANGERED
HARBIN, Manchuria, April 26.—
Fifteen hundred Chinese rebels,
fighting against the new pro-Jap
anese Manchurian government re
gime, defeated socalled loyal troops
.in several battles Saturday.
This new outburst has intensi
fied the danger to the Japanese
» opinion that salvation of China lies
titular government, while the
League of Nations investigating
committee is disputing the govern
ment’s right to prohibit Dr. Wel
lington Koo, a Chinese diplomat,
from occupying a mission in north
ern Manchuria.
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LUCKY BOY
ALBERTON, Pa., April 25. —A!
small boy will go to school today i
and proudly point out to his play
mates bruises on his forehead. The
boy fell from a two-story roof Sun
day, landed on a clothes line,
bounced up and fell to the pave
ment. The clothes line saved his
life.
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SOCIALISTS LEADING
BERLIN, April 25. — Tentative
final returns from the state Diet
election in Prussia Sunday, out of
a total of 20,233,000 ballots, gave
the National-Socialists 7,444,000 as
compared with the nearest other
party vote of the Social-Democrats
4.251,000. The National-Socialist
party is that of Adolf Hitler.
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REDS ARRESTED
NEW YORK, April 25.—Several
red rioters and two police were in
jured and five reds were arrested
after 4,000 communists attempted
to storm the city hall to tell Mayor
Walker they wanted bread instead
of beer. Walker has been cam
paigning for beer legislation.
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UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 21.—
Albert Thomas, director of the In
ternational Labor Commission, said
that between 20.000,000 and 25,000,
000 persons were unemployed last
year. This, he thought, affected
between 60,000,000 and 70,000,000
persons.
* * * *
GOLFED IN HURRY
LOS ANGELES, April 25.—Be
cause he was in a hurry to drive
his employer, Douglas Fairbanks,
screen star, to the golf links, Chas.
Rousseck, his chauffeur, must ap
pear in court next Thursday to an
swer' to a speeding charge. The
chauffeur is said to have been
traveling 60 miles an hour in a
45-mile zone area.
* * * *
MAY VISIT CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES, April 25.—Presi
dent Herbert Hoover may come to
Los Angeles after all in time to at
tend the opening of the Olympic
Games, Senator Shortridge of Cali
fornia has informed h i s home
State. Recently, it was said that
it would be extremely doubtful if
I the Chief Executive would be able
to attend the opening.
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TROPHY PRESENTED
LONDON, April 26. — A silver
trophy, gift of the people of De
troit, was presented Kaye Don,
racing driver, by Ambassador Mel
lon at the Embassy Saturday. The
Ambassador spoke briefly, terming
it a privilege to present a token
of admiration of Don’s good sports
manship as evidenced at last au
tumn’s Detroit races.
* * * *
ITALIAN CONSUL KILLED
SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 25.—
An assassin’s machine gun bullets
fired from an automobile killed
John M. Picco, Italian Consul for
the Springfield district, as he walk
ed with his nine-year-old son, Jos
eph, from the home of Dominic
Picco, brother of the Consul and
uncle of the boy.
* * * *
MODERN RESCUE
NEW YORK, April 25.—Pilot Lu
cien Tribus of the New York Na
tional Guard saved the lives of
two women and a man when their
canoe capsized in the lower bay.
! The flier say the accident, swooped
! low and dropped a life preserver
| within five feet of the struggling
j trio. He then notified the Coast
| Guard by radio and a patrol boat
j rescued the three.
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WAS NOT AN ALASKAN
J SEATTLE, April 26. (A5)—The el
derly man who leaped to his death
from a Seattle-Bremerton ferry
and whom it was believed might
possibly have been Frederic Die
mer, former Nome transportation
company operator who disappeared
March 12 leaving a suicide note,
has been identified as a Los An
geles man
* * * *
MILLIONS FOR WARSHIPS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 26.—
The House voted to allow $14,000,
000 for the modernization of three
battleships next year.
JAPAN IS BEGINNING
TO SEEK 1 ENDING TO
PEACE CONFERENCES
SHANGHAI, April 26.—'The peace ;
conference which has been under- !
way here for some time is still
deadlocked with neither the Chin
ese or the Japanese ready to ac
cede to the other’s terms. There!
is a growing feeling of restlessness
on the part of the Japanese who
are beginning to show signs that
they want to settle the affair.
Japanese delegates are becoming
impatient because to keep her gar
risons and military personnel in
Shanghai costs considerable and
each day mounts up her expense
bill. It was taken by some that
Japan would be willing to make
some concessions if an early set
tlement could be arranged.
The Chinese, however, now ap
pear to be the ones who are going
to hold out for better terms and
they seem content with letting Ja
pan’s army upkeep expense bill
mount higher daily.
The Nanking government of
China is beginning to reach the
opinion that salvatio of China lies
not at the hands of the League of
! Nations but at her own hands.
POLITICAL FICTIONS
LINE UP FOR OITTLE
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 26.—
! All pretense of non-partisanship in
consideration of methods for bal
ancing the Federal budget was dis
sipated as leaders of both parties
prepaed for battle on the omnibus
salary cut and economy bill, ap
proved by the House Economy
Committee.
The bill, which proposes to save
$200,000,000 from the government’s
annual budget requirements, will
be reported to the House for con
sideration on Wednesday
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 26.—
John J. Raskob, chairman of the
Democratic National Committee,
was included in the list of nation
ally prominent names involved in
“bear” pools on Wall Street.
The disclosure was made to the
Senate Banking Committee by two
big bear operators, Thomas E.
Bragg and Bernard E. Smith.
Others mentioned in the big
pools were W. C. Durant, Fred J.
Fisher, W. F. Kenney, M. J. Mee
han and Percy A. Rockefeller.
TAKING OF TESTIMONY
HONOLULU, April 26—The tak
ing of testimony in the “honor
slaying” trial here was completed
Monday afternoon and the final
argument was expected to take
place today with the case going to
the jury tomorrow.
Dr. Joseph Catton, professor of
psychiaology at Stanford Univer
siey, who testified for the prosecu
tion, said that he had reviewed all
the evidence available to the court
and said-as far as he knew, Lieut.
Thomas H. Massie was sane when
the Hawaiian, who attacked Mrs.
Massie, was killed.
A fall of snow came down yes
terday over the Mile 46 area and
drifted over the tracks, prohibiting
a gas car from Anchorage coming
through.
SMALL VOTE AT NOON
Dripping skies greeted local vot
ers today, primary election day,
but failed to dampen the spirit of
those who desired to exercise their
right of franchise and vote for
their favorites. Citizens began fill
ing out their ballots at 8 o’clock
and at 12:30 o’clock 60 had voted.
Of these 38 chose Republican bal
lots and 22 Democratic.
PROPERTY CLAIMS BILL
WASHINGTON, April 26. (A5) —
The Senate today passed and sent
to the House of Representatives a
bill authorizing the Tlingit and the
Haida Indians of Alaska to sue the
United States in court for claims
in connection with property taken
over from them over the time of
purchase of Alaska or hence.
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ECONOMIC IDIOCY FOB
U. S. TO BLOCK TRIBE
HEUITIONS WITH HI1SSII
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 26.—
Charging that it is “simply idiocy”
for the United States to block trade
| with Russia at this time, Senator
| Hiram Johnson of California, a
high ranking member of the For
' eign Relations Committee and
chairman of the Commerce Com
mittee, came out for normal rela
tions with the Soviet Union.
“For two persuasive and compel
ling reasons,” he told Scripps-How
ard newspapers, “first, there are
billions of dollars worth of future
orders in Russia for American
workers to fill, and in these times
it is simply economic idiocy for
America, by its policies to preclude
Americans from trade and com
merce which so readily could be
obtained.
“Secondly, the question of peace
or war today is more delicately bal
anced than at any time since 1914.
At any moment the Far East may
explode, plunging the U. S. into
another terrible conflict.”
NEW MHO ALTITUDE
ESTABLISHED BY YANCEY
BURBANK, Calif., April 26.—A
new altitude record for autogyros
was believed to have been estab
lished by Lewis A. Yancey, veteran
pilot, when he took his ship aloft
to a height of 19,200 feet.
The previous record was held by
Miss Amelia Earhart, who piloted
an autogyro to 18,500 feet last year
Yancey was in the air two hours.
He said he was soaring upward at
the rate of 200 feet a minute when
shortage of gasoline and cold thin
air caused him to descend.
NATIONAL
Philadelphia 4, Boston 3.
St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 2.
New York at Brooklyn, called off.
Pittsburgh at Chicago, called off
AMERICAN
Cleveland 10, St. Louis 5.
Only game played.
PACIFIC COAST
Portland 4, Missions 2.
Only game played.
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LINDBERGHS TO MOVE
HOPEWELL, N. J., April 25. (J?)—
The Lindberghs will move back to
Englewood this week, probably
Wednesday, from their home which
has been the scene of so much sor
row. The State police headquar
ters here will be transferred to
Trenton.
DANCE SATURDAY
A May Day dance will be given
Saturday, April 30, in the I. 0. 0. F
hall, according to W. L. Corliss of
the Odd Fellows’ dance committee.
The usual admission price of $1 for
gentlemen has been changed and
couples will now be admitted for
75 cents and ladies 25 cents.
Something was wrong with the
elements last evening and recep
tion from KFQD, and elsewhere,
was so poor, the broadcast of Rep
resentative Ray C. Larson, Anchor
age Republican, was not heard.
ANOTHER BUZZARD
CALGARY, Alberta, April 26.—
Forty-three persons were marooned
for 48 hours in a small dance hall
near here in a wild blizzard. James
McIntyre, a garage employee, broke
through the snow-drifted highway
to reach here and summon res
cuers.
SHELL EXPLODED
BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 25.—
Four workmen, engaged in remov
ing war relics from a museum here
Saturday, were killed when a Ger
man shell, a souvenir of the late
war, exploded.
* * * *
DELEGATE DEMPSEY
RENO, April 25.—Jack Dempsey,
former heavyweight champion, ad
vanced a notch on the political
ladder when he was elected as a
Washoe County delegate to the
Republican State Convention.
* * * *
RESUME HEARINGS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 25—
After five days of hearing oppon
ents of the $2,000,000,000 Patman
soldiers bonus bill, the House Ways
and Means Committee was in re
cess Saturday until today.
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LAUSANNE MEET
GENEVA, April 25. —The long
delayed Lausanne conference on
future reparations payments prob
ably will be convened June 16, it
was learned authoritatively.
* * * *
WORK FOR MEN
MARYVILLE, Calif., April 25.—A
million dollar postoffice will give
employment to hundreds for many
months. Construction is starting
at once.
* * * *
INSURGENT OUTBURSTS '
MUKDEN, Manchuria, April 25.
—The Japanese command rushed
reinforcements to the north to put |
down new insurgent outbursts in j
districts around Taonan and Tung
liao.
* * * *
DIDN’T KILL HER
LOS ANGELES, April 25.—Gun
ther Lessing, attorney for many
film actors, has been divorced by
his wife, Lora Lessing, who charg
ed that he threw a glass of ice wa
ter in her face when he became
enraged during a bridge game.
* * * *
DEATH ENDS BATTLE
HAVANA, Cuba, April 25.—Jos
epr Barlow, 69, American citiezn
who battled vainly for a dozen
years to collect $9,000,000 he claim
ed from the Cuban government be
cause of seizure of his real estate
in Havana, died from pneumonia.
*# * *
LEONARD WON DECISION
BROOKLYN, April 25. — Benny
Leonard, former lightweight cham
pion, won a six-round decision over
Kike Sarko, New York middle
weight, at the Ridgewood Club. It
was the fifth bout in Leonard’s
comeback campaign.
* * * *
AN ECONOMIC MEASURE
LOS ANGELES, April 25 —The
Citizens Employees Association has
suggested that all city employees
take a vacation of two weeks dur
ing the summer, without pay,
thereby effecting a large saving to
the city.
* * * *
ITALIAN ADMIRAL DIES
GENOA, April 25. (JP)— Admiral
Umberto Gagni died here today.
In 1900 he came closer than any
one to the North Pole, to the 86th
parallel. With Duke Abruzzi three
years before they climbed Mount
St. Elias in Alaska.
* * * *
AGAIN DECIDES TO ACCEPT
NANKING, April 25.—China has
decided to accept the draft resolu
tion on withdrawal of troops from
the Shanghai area prepared by the
League of Nations committee of 19,
a foreign office spokesman an
nounced.
* * * *
RETURNS TO POLITICS
LONDON, April 25. — Winston
Churchill was given an ovation in
the House of Commons when he
urged cooperation between Britain
and America to solve the world
economic crisis. The speech mark
ed his return to politics after years
of absence.
* * * *
BIG LOCUST SWARM
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa,
April 26.—Reports from the inter
ior say that a swarm of locusts,
said to be 100 miles wide, is trav
eling over the country. The locusts
are traveling at approximately 100
miles an hour and have not stopped
to eat crops yet.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 26.—
Echoes of the Mooney pardon de
nial rolled up here in increasing
volume. Threats of boycotts and
other reprisals against California,
mass meetings, telegrams of pro
test and debates in both Houses of
Congress indicated that, far from
considering the “California skele
ton” buried by Governor Rolph’s
action, the people view it as the
outstanding test of the American
system of law and justice.
A mass meeting of protest was
to be held in Baltimore. A telegram
denouncing the decision as up
holding “one of the most demon
strably corrupt legal verdicts of
history” was sent to Governor
Rolph by J. B. Mathews of the Fel
lowship of Reconciliation.
Definite steps toward a Con
gressional investigation of the Pre
paredness Day bombing case will be
taken Monday in Washington.
It was learned that John Mac
Donald, the recanting witness
whose repudiation of his original
testimony led to the sensational
supreme court hearing two years
ago, may be thp chief figure in any
federal inquiry of the Tom Mooney
and Warren Billings cases was
strongly indicated.
Ill POLICE m
NEW DELHI, India, April 26.—
Two hundred leaderless but deter
mined delegates to the outlawed
National Congress tricked police
in an unsuccessful effort to put
new life into the Indian independ
ence struggle against British rule.
Aided by hundreds of demonstra
tors, the delegates gave police a
busy afternoon. More than 500
persons were arrested, bringing the
total to almost 800 in the last week.
The outbreak was led by Seth
Ranchand Das, Ahmedabad mil
lionaire, who took charge of the
Congress meeting after Mrs- Saro
jini Naidu, famous poet, and the
Pandit Madan Mohun Malaviya had
been arrested.
The government finally dealt a
staggering blow to the Indian Na
tionalists by arresting 369 delegates
and spectators who were attempt
ing to hold the annual convention
of the National Congress.
The arrests brought the total
since Mahatma Gandhi’s most re
cent civil resistance campaign to
over 50,000, it was estimated, and
puts the last of his council of 15
in jail, including himself.
FORMER LEWIS OPPOSE
ABOLISHING OITH TO KINS
DUBLIN, April 26. —Leaders of
former President Cosgrave’s party
served notice of their opposition to
the Fianna Fail bill abolishing the
oath of allegiance to the British
Crown. They filed an amendment
to the bill asserting it places in
jeopardy the rights, liberties, econ
omic privileges and freedom as
sured to the Irish people by the
treaty of 1911.
When the bill comes up for sec
ond reading Wednesday, they will
oppose it. The government’s bill
prescribes deletion of Article 17
from the Constitution in which the
oath of allegiance is Incorporated.
MYSTERIOUS SEA VOYAGE
NORFOLK, Va., April 26. —The
yacht Marcon, which for several
days has been viewed with renewed
interest as having some connection
with the Lindbergh baby kidnap
ping case negotiations, made a
mysterious voyage to sea Monday.
John H. Curtis, one of the Norfolk
intermediaries, was aboard the
craft as she left. No information
was made known as to the purpose
of the voyage.