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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 60. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1932. PRICE TEN CENTS
I OF iRIiUIY
AFTER LULL OF WAR
FORTY-TWO FACTORIES WERE
TO RESUME WORK
TODAY
SHANGHAI, Mar. 12. —The city
.of Shanghai, which for many days
was the scene of terrific warfare
with artillery and machine gun
oombardments and aerial bombing,
is now beginning to take on an air
of normality inasmuch as all the
► fighting has practically entirely
ceased for the last several days.
Forty-two of the factories in the
city were to be opened today and
thousands of the workers who be
came war refugees are going back
to work. Many of the workers had
left the city during the thick of
the fighting but they are now re- j
turning—some to find they are
without homes or any possessions
•is they have all been destroyed by
the gunfire or the disastrous fire
which caused so much property
damage.
The Chapei sector probably suf
fered the most and it is nothing
out a desolate ruin caused by the
oig fire and the shell fire which
was directed towards that area for
' most of the time.
Seemingly, the communists are
caking advantage of this opportun
ity for the furtherance of their
relief and they are spreading thous
ands of leaflets throughout the In
ternational Settlement.
While all the industrial activity
was going on, the Japanese forces,j
which were landed from the ships j
„n the river, were moving toward j
the outer lines of defense and up
:o the Chinese. It rained Friday
out this did not deter their activ
ities and supplies and men are now
plentifully distributed along the en
tire Japanese outer line.
The Chinese soldiers are outside
he city and no doubt they are re- l
living some reinforcements and
Jigging themselves in pending the
outcome of peace deliberations at i
3eneva
HOPE EDO PEIGE BUT
PilEPli FOB IPSE
SHANGHAI. Mar. 12. (iP)—Japan- j
ese said the brisk skirmish between 1
Chinese cavalry and Japanese !
troops north of Rating lasted an j
hour and said there were many:
Chinese casualties but none among \
he Japanese.
Thousands more of Japanese
iroops were landed at Woosung.
Japanese officials fsaid they hope
for the best from the peace par
leys, but the army is preparing for
■he worst.
LYING IN STATE
PARIS. Mar. 12. —The body of
Aristide Briand will continue to lie
m state until Sunday when it will
oe taken on its last journey. Tens
of thousands are passing the bier
.n last respect to the famous states
man.
$150 PER BLACK EYE
SEATTLE, Mar. 12.—The value of
a blackened eye was fixed yester
day by Judge Calvin Hall when
comely Miss Margaret Derenso ap
peared before him with a beauti
ful “shiner” annexed hi an auto
accident. She was suing the driver
for her optical decoration. The
judge awarded her $150.
RATIFIES MEASURE
TRENTON, N. J., Mar. 12.—The
‘lame duck” measure, which was
passed by Congress recently, was
ratified by New Jersey Legislators
Friday. This makes New Jersey
the first State to ratify the meas
ure which will become law if a
sufficient number of the States
ratify it
With the object of studying dra
matics and technique of the stage,
the Ketchikan Little Theatre move
ment has been organized in Ket
chikan with some 20 members, re- i
ports the Chronicle.
WARTIME HOSTAGE?
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 12.—
President Hoover conferred Friday
with members of his cabinet about
the statements and desires of A1
Capone, head of America’s golden
age of crime, now in prison. Ca
pone believes he can restore the
kidnapped Lindbergh baby to its
parents providing he is given his
liberty.
YUKON LEAVES SEATTLE
WITH 107 PASSED
SEATTLE, Mar. 12. (JP)—'The SS
Yukon, of the Alaska Steamship
Company, sailed for Seward and
wayports this morning at 9 o’clock
with 107 passengers of which 58
! were cabin passengers and 49 steer
!age.
There are 22 passengers on the
vessel who will disembark at Sew
ard and they include Mrs. O. £).
Krogh, Mrs. M. Schwartz, C. C.
Huston, Henry Gunn, A1 Copeland,
F. A. Hammers, Glenn Day, Mrs.
R. A. Hall and son, Dora Werner.
Mrs. Edith Bakshaw, Leo M. Rod
riguez, F. H. Mamers, Mrs. Hal
Daly, Minnie Thompson, Mrs. C. M.
Eckmann, J. W. Hopkins, Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Hopkins, August Peter
son, Robert Swanson, Mrs. Ben
Logan and 18 steerage.
PREDICTION IS ME
REVENUE BILL ILL
BE PASSED IS STANDS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 12.
(TP;—House leaders predict the rev
enue bill will be passed substan
tially unchanged despite turbulent
opposition to sales tax on virtually
all manufactured products.
LaGuardia, however, claims the
support of the independents of
both parties for an amendment to
shift part of this burden to lux
uries.
Higher incomes would be made !
to yield $518,000,000 more under i
than under the present plan.
The proposal to legalize and tax
2.75 per cent beer is expected to
draw a big vote but is not consid- j
ered to have a chance in passing. |
MATCH -MAKER SUICIDES
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 12. (TP)—Ivar j
Kreuger, 52, head of the Swedish j
match factories, committeed sui
cide in Paris. Company officials
said the organization has 90 match
plants in various parts of the world, j
JACK GIBBONS STEPS UP
ONE NOTCH TO FAIiAEj
MINNEAPOLIS, Liar. 12. TTP;—
Jack Gibbons, with the father of
the famous mike as his second,
won the bout in the middleweight
championship of the Northwest
Golden Groves tournament, by pol
ishing off Del Styers of Minneapo
lis in three rounds.
He now enters the Chicago tourn
ament in an attempt to qualify for
the American Olympic team.
THOUSANDS GATHER
PARIS, Mar. 12. (TP)—Thousands
of French people and representa
tives of 57 nations united in the
funeral of Aristide Briand who was
eulogized by Premier Tardieu.
PINCH-HITTING ATTORNEY
DETROIT, Mar. 10. —Judge Ed
Jefferies is a good judge, but a
mean attorney, pinch-hitting as a
counsel for fundless Wilbur Day,
charged with carrying concealed
weapons. He stepped down from
the bench and persuaded himself
in abstract that Day should be ac
quitted; Day was dazed.
MILK PRICK DOJVN
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 11.—South
ern California milk dealers have
cut the price of their product so
that additional consumption can
take care of the overproduction.
Milk has been cut from 12 cents
to 11 cents per quart and milk,
guaranteed, has been slashed from
17 to 15 cents.
FEDERAL JUDGE
HEADS IT ACT
TO BUREAUCRATS
—
CONDEMNS POLICY OF SECRET
INDICTMENTS BY FEDERAL
GRAND JURIES
PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 11.-kludge
Oliver B. Dickinson, senior member
of the United States Federal Dis
j trict Court, recently criticized
| “Washington bureaucracies” which
i he said, “are the outgrowth of the
trend toward centralization of
power.”
He scored what he termed the
Washington Law Bureau for “med
dling too much with the adminis
tration of law by United States
attorneys,” and criticized Federal
investigators as “real sleuth
hounds, trained to the minute,
whose efficiency is measured by
the number of prosecutions that
are brought.”
He condemned the policy of se
cret indictments by Federal grand
juries instead of following the age
old system of arraigning an accused
person before a United States com
missioner, and maintained that as
a result of secret indictments many
offenders against Federal laws are
being deprived of their constitu
tional rights.
The expression of the jurist’s
views followed his flat refusal to
issue a bench warrant for Joseph
Wingret, a bank clerk accused of
embezzling $2,000. He ordered a
test made of whether or not the
court “must” issue bench war
rants against defendants who have
been indicted, without having been
arrested and having a preliminary i
hearing.
Judge Dickinson rejected the ■
contention of the government that
the court has “no discretion” in |
such a case, and “must” grant the i
warrant, and urged the Department |
of Justice to take the matter to j
the Supreme Court for a final de-1
cisibn.
SEATTLE, Mar. 12. {IP)—Adolph
Linden and E. W. Campbell, who
were convicted of embezzling funds
of the Puget Sound Savings and
Loan Association and sentenced to
five to 15 years, gave notice of ap
peal; their bonds were permitted
to stand.
Judge Steinert denounced them
as despoilers of widows, newsboys,
school children and scrubwomen.
An unidentified woman punched
Campbell who is on crutches after
court adjourned, crying, “Get out,
you big millionaire crook.”
FLORIDA IS COLD
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Mar. 11.
—Baseball clubs, who are training
for the 1932 baseball season, were
confined indoors Thursday because
of the cold weather.
MHUttOKMTEl
AFTER TROPICAL FISH
PALM BEACH, Fla., Mar. 11. (JP)— j
A woman bear hunter and her hus- j
band, both of whom have set en
viable records as big game nimrods
of the Northwest, have launched
an expedition which has as its goal
capture of the largest possible as
sortment of tropical fish.
They are Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Peterson, of Nashua, N. H., who,
after taking an eight-foot sailfish
in the Gulf Stream near here,
pushed on to more southern Flor
ida waters.
Mrs. Peterson on her regular fall
Canadian hunting trip last year
bagged a black bear, a large bull
moose and two large buck deer
within three days. She killed the
moose with a single rifle shot at
more than 400 yards.
THE IMPORTANT
WESTWARD RESOURCES
TIED OP, REGULATIONS
“My -first landing on the Alaska
Peninsula was in the fall of 1891,
over 4Q years ago and, after sizing
up things, I made up my mind that
the Aleutian Islands, Shumagin
Islands, and the Peninsula were
the richest in natural resources of
any part of equal size on the en
tire Pacific Coast,” writes a Gate
way subscriber.
“I have since navigated vessels
of my own, and for others, along
the whple coast from Bering Straits
to Ketchikan in Southeastern Al
aska. Prior to arriving in Alaska,
I had cruised the southern portion
of the Pacific. Since my residing
out here I have fished all the prin
cipal banks and many of the
streams, and have not changed my
mind. Rather, my original idea has
been substantiated in every partic
ular.
“But three of the most important
of our resources out here are com
pletely tied up by governmental
regulations, as far as the pioneers
and natives are concerned. These
are the sea otters, seal hunting and
salmon fishing.
“Sea otter and seal hunting were
overdone in the earlier days, but
the 3almon ^egulartions are the
worst outrage ever perpetrated on
a civilized people. I am not kick
ing about the attempt to perpet
uate salmon for posterity, but am
registering a protest as to the man
ner by which tens of thousands of
dollars of governmental money are
being spent toward this endeavor,
and the subsequent burden and
personal suffering placed upon a
pioneer people.
“At this time I do not wish to
take up your time, lightly skim
ming the surface of this important
subject but will write you an out
line giving our ideas as to regula
tions, preservation of salmon and
at the same time, giving all an
equal chance in the fisheries.”
JUNEAU, Mar. 12.—Tile gasboat
E. J. N., which left here 10 days
ago and for which some anxiety
was expressed owing to the long
time since that vessel had been
heard from, is being held at Sitka
by Federal authorities.
The authorities said that a large
quantity of deer meat was found
aboard the vessel and the deer are
believed to have been killed in the
Icy Straits area.
The killing of deer now is a vio
lation of the Alaska Game Laws.
There are five or six men aboard
the vessel and all are from Brem
erton, Wash. Their names are not
known.
TWO CONFIRMED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 12.
UP) — The Senate confirmed the
nomination of Frank Evans and
William Schilling, as members of
the Federal Farm Board.
FORMER ALASKAN IS
MANAGER FRYE HOTEL
Glen C. Bartlett, widely known
Seattle and Alaska hotel executive,
has accepted the appointment of
manager of the Frye Hotel in Seat
tle, where he worked as a mail
clerk a few years ago.
In recent years he was manager
cf the Claremont apartment hotel,
and leaves the post of manager of
the Windsor Hotel to return to the
Frye.
Bartlett was active a few years
ago in securing an annual appro
priation from the Alaska Legisla
ture to care for Alaska’s patients
in the Children’s Orthopedic Hos
pital in Seattle.
STATESMAN ILL
NANTES, France, Mar. 12.—Ex
pressions of anxiety for the con
dition of Raymond Poincare, for
mer Premier and President of
France who is ill here, have been
voiced by the French people. The
former statesman is just about to
be placed on France’s pensioned
list and it is proposed in a bill be
fore the French government that
he be given a pension of $8,000 a
year.
TOMBSPiiEliy
nil dims
HOPEWELL, N. J., Mar. 12- (/P)—
Five men are now suspected in the
Lindbergh baby kidnapping plot
conceived last November.
Two of these dropped out and
one, who abandoned the plot, was
brought here from Tombs prison,
New York, and the other is sought
in an attempt to find three others
who are believed carried the plot
through.
The Tombs prisoner’s name is
closely guarded. He was brought
after he was interviewed by Morris
Rosner, underworld agent for Lind
bergh.
TWO KILLED UNO
j POLITICAL PARTIES
i
j
J BERLIN, Mar. 12. (A5)—Two killed
and several political clashes mark
ed the eve of tomorrow’s election.
Hindenburg is running for re
election and promises to maintain
moderation. The republican peti
| tioned to run declares he’s non
j partisan.
j Hitler, the Fascist candidate, of
! fers the main opposition. The two
| other candidates are not in the
I running but the votes may force
! a second election to decide a nia
! jority.
! The other two candidates are
: Theodore Deusterburg, the steel
helmeters candidate, a'nd Ernst
Thaelman. communist.
FOUR POLICEMEN SHOT
CHICAGO, Mar. 12. (JP) — Four
I policemen were shot when they at
| tempted to quell a demonstration
i against Japanese occupation of
I Shanghai, at the Tribune Tower,
j Several were injured when the po
I lice charged.
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I
FRANCE SILENCES
WHISTLES ON ENGINES
PARIS, Mar. 11. CflP)—Those French
locomotive whistles that provided
so many laughs for men of the
A. E. F. have succumbed to the
march of progress.
The tweeting, chirping and twit
tering that once announced the de
parture of French train from small
country stations is over.
Following an anti-noise cam
paign, the State railways installed
loud-speakers which warn people
off the right-of-way, and engineers
were instructed to whistle only in
cases of emergency.
ALL RESCUED
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Mar. 12.
—All of the 700 fishermen who
were stranded on ice floes on the
Gulf of Finland are now safe. Three
hundred fishermen were rescued
Thursday and the rest of the men
were taken off Friday. Icebreakers
and airplanes took part in the
rescue work.
SUBSISTED ON RAW FISH
HELSINGFORS, Finland. Mar. 12.
(/P)—The last 100 fishermen saved
off the ice floes lived on cold raw
fish and had flimsy tents, huddled
together. They drifted three days.
DREDGE CAUGHT IN ICE
CHICAGO, Mar. 12.—The United
States government dredge Taylor
is caught in the ice in the Great
Lakes and no rescue ships can get
any closer than within two miles
of the vessel. There are a number
of men in the crew.
POLICE OOlfril
FUTILE EFFORTS
TO LOCATE BABY
NUMBER OF RACKETEERS VOL
UNTEER SERVICES TO
HELP IN SEARCH
HOPEWELL, N. J„ Mar. 12.—The
New Jersey police department has
ordered a microscopic examination
of the Sourland Hills country ad
jacent the Lindbergh estate in the
hope that they may uncover val
uable clues. Sixty troopers have
already begun the task and it is
expected that a number more will
be placed in the field.
CorUliderable public resentment
has resulted owing to the virtual
demobilizing of the State police de
partment to work on this one case.
Experienced reporters believe
Colonel Lindbergh is in communi
cation with the kidnappers of his
child but they declare that the kid
nappers have not come to any def
inite understanding with the Col
onel as to how the child will be
returned and how they may be
given immunity when they return
it
A number of “big shot” rack
eteers have started to “muscle in”
on Capone’s wish to leave his pris
on cell to locate the baby. Capone
will be asked just what procedure
he would follow if he were freed
from his Cook County cell to look
for the baby.
All ships arriving in foreign
ports, which left American shores
about the time of the kidnapping,
have been carefully searched but
nothing has developed.
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FIVE-DAY WEEK
CHICAGO, Mar. 12.—A five-day
working week is now in effect in
the Chicago building trade, having
been begun Friday. This shortened
working time will effect thousands
of men.
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 12. (/P)—
! Joan Bennett, screen actress, and
Gene Markey, screen writer, ob
tained a license to be married here
| last Wednesday.
Markey is a native of Jackson.
Mich., and the author of several
well known movies.
Miss Bennett was divorced more
than three years ago from John N.
Fox of Seattle.
MUST BE “NUTS”
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 12.—Dan
Reardon, who served time from
1929 to 1931, proposes to bring suit
against the State of California,
judges, witnesses, lawyers and a
couple of hundred additional peo
ple for $2,500,000, claiming false ar
rest and imprisonment. He was
convicted on a charge of embezzle
ment. The judges named by him
say they never heard of the man.
HISTORICAL DAY
BERLIN, Mar. 12.—Personal bit
terness among the three political
parties is at fever heat and to
morrow, Sunday — election day —
promises to be a historical day in
Germany.
USED TOBACCO ONCE
LAWRENCE, 111., Mar. 12.—Roscoe
Langford never smoked, chewed or
used any kind of tobacco in his
life until yesterday. And today he
is dead after swallowing a large
slice of chewing tobacco on which
he choked to death.
GOOD TIME COMING
PASADENA, Calif., Mar. 12.—One
hundred and 65 conventions will
be held in this city this summer
and in the new $1,300,000 commun
ity auditorium just opened. Good
times are looked for, once again.
DENTIST ON VACATION
PASADENA, Calif., Mar. 12. —A
local dentist was sentenced to six
months in jail and fined $6,000 for
false income tax returns. He kept
two sets of books.