MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 34.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1932.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
K. S.»BRITISH
TROOPS PREPARE i
THREATENED CHINESE ATTACK.
ON FOREIGN DISTRICT
BE REPULSED
SHANGHAI, Feb. 10. (/P)—-Alarm- ,
"d by Chinese artillery attacks on
foreign districts of Shanghai, Am
erican and British troops prepared ]
to aid Japanese marines in repuls- j
,ng a threatened Chinese infantry
offensive against the International
Settlement.
Foreign defense forces will “shoot
down” any Chinese soldiers attack
ing any part of the settlement, de
clared Brigadier General George
Fleming, British commander of
the foreign defense. He had been
informed that Chinese military
leaders were threatening an at
tack on the Hongkew area to wipe
out the Japanese marine base.
Chinese artillery in Chapei, just
north of the settlement, began fir
ing into the supposedly neutral
foreign area after dusk Monday and
continued throughout the night
while Chinese troops down the
Whangpco River continued to hold
The Woosung forts against Japan
ese land and naval attacks.
Meanwhile, a conference of ad
mirals was cheduled aboard the
Japanese flagship Idzumo. Foreign
and Japanese naval officers will
confer to see if some settlement of
Shanghai warfare cannot be work
ed out.
The SS Victoria. Capt. A. W. j
Westerholm, commanding, of the'
Alaska Steamship Company, ar-!
rived in Seward at an early hour
his morning from Seattle and way
ports.
Passengers arriving in Seward j
were as follows:
Seattle — V/m. Butler. Elizabeth
Bernhard. Leo Berg. J. J. Chisholm,;
Carl Ek. Chris Folberg. John Flink,!
O. L. Grimes, E. C. Hale, R. Hector, j
Milt Hickerson, Mr. and Mrs. F. L.!
Higgins. Mrs. L. E- Judd. C. A.
Matheson, Mrs. F. R. Martin, Mrs.
A. H. Mellick. Oscar Nelson, Carl
Nyberg, R. E. Shelby, and three
steerage.
From Juneau—Mr. and Mrs. H.
C. Burkett, E. Peverall, Sam Shuck
in, W. T. White. J. O. Ebing.
From Cordova — Ernest Johnson. {
Dr. J. H. Romig, A. H- McDonald, j
L. V. Ray, Mervin L. Wrarner.
NO FURTHER WORD
Nothing further has been heard
as to the activities of Mount Shis
shaldin volcano, on Unimak Island,
to the Westward of Seward, aside j
from the report received from;
Squaw Harbor last week that the I
volcano uras in violent eruption j
February 5. The report also said J
that dense fog and clouds obscured
the mountain February 6 so that
its activity was hard to note, ex- j
cept for the great quantity of smoke
which rose thousands of feet into
the air above the crater. A report
that Mount Iliamna is emitting
huge clouds of steam and smoke
has been unconfirmed.
The SS Oduna, of the A. S. S. Co.,
is now’ enroute to Seward with
freight from Seattle. Captain New
land is skipper. Radio Chief Frank
Hoseth is also aboard.
Two handball recruits have sign
ed on the dotted line with the lo
cals in the persons of Fr. Merrill
Sulzman and Quartermaster Mac - j
Intosh, of the good ship Starr And 1
how!
Efforts w’ill be made to co-operate
with cannerymen in Cordova with
a view to utilizing local labor ex
clusively in next season’s opera
tions, reports the Cordova Times.
WHEAT BILL KILLED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10.!
(fp)—The proposal to distribute Fed
eral Farm Board wheat to feed the !
unemployed was killed when the1
House Agricultural Committee re
jected a bill passed by the Senate
authorizing distribution oi 40.000.
000 bushels.
SHANGHAI, Feb. 10. {JP)~Chin- i
ese bankers inside the Interna-1
tional Settlement and out are high- |
ly perturbed by fighting near the j
j city. They, with leading native 1
! business men, merchants and land- !
! lords, have been hardest hit by the
I fighting in Chapei.
One report said they had offered j
the 19th Route army commanders
' five hundred thousand dollars sil
i ver (approximately $125,000 gold)
j to conduct hostilities at least 20
I miles from greater Shanghai. The
army men were reported holding j
out for four times that amount.
UNITED STATES HILL
REJECT JAPANESE PLAN
i NEUTRALITY III CHI
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10. |
(/P)—The Japanese plan for neutral- ;
ization of Chinese ports will be re- |
jected by the United States if;
placed formally before this govern -;
ment. The United States finds it |
difficult to believe that reports of!
the project can be authentic.
It appears to officials here as
nothing more than a scheme for
the partition of China, which was
blocked by Secretary of State John
Hays’ open door policy- Further,
the American government finds it
difficult to credit reports of the
scheme because of the Japanese
declaration of November 9, assert
ing it sided with the other pow’ers
of the world against the partition
of China.
Secretary of State Stimson v/ould
make no statement about the plan.
STUDENTS PROTEST
TOKYO. Feb. 10. {/Pj—Twenty-live
students were arrested for partici
pating in a demonstration and dis
tributing handbills urging the peo
ple to “stop this imperialistic wrar.”
It was the first protest against the
present military operations.
ATTEMPT TO BOLSTER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10.
(.‘Pi—A non-partisan move to loosen
the credit situation and strengthen
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration was instituted at Presi
dent Hoover’s conference with six
Senators. Senator Glass of Vir
ginia plans to introduce a bill to
bring about these results. The de
tails were not given out.
REGROUPING GARRISONS
GENEVA, Feb. 10. (/P)—'The Sov
iet delegation to the World Arms
Conference announced a regroup
ing of the local Soviet garrisons on
the Manchurian frontier for the
“strengthening of the frontier
against eventual aggression by
White Guard groups armed and
concentrated in Manchuria.” The
delegation denied any Red army
concentration at Vladivostok and
said the above movements prob
ably started the rumors.
FIRST ROLNDTRIPPER
' The honor of being the first
i tourist to Alaska this year goes to
| Miss Vivian R. Thompson, comely
j young lady from the fine State of
| Minnesota. She is a roundtrip
passenger on the SS Victoria, in
| port today. Miss Thompson came
' north to attend the recent Juneau
wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Lance
Henrickson and decided to continue
on. Both, Clark Andresen and Lyle
' Hebert, are friends of the charm
1 ing young lady.
CJP THOUGHT TO BE
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i
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It might be described as a whale
of a row, because it all started j (
over a whale. ''
And thereby hangs a tale where- j i
in twro otherwise urbane and tem- ;1
perate individuals, condemned to i
remain in a lighthouse for many j
months with no other companion- j i
ship but themselves, all but bit; *
each other. j1
It was at Scotch Cap, on the j 1
southernmost tooth of the saw-like
shoreline, of Unimak Island. When i
the shoreline does not resemble a • 1
saw it looks not unlike a Scotch-: ■
man’s whiskers. Tliat, in itself, iSj
sufffeient to try the equanimity of
any man.
Among the diversions of this al
most diversionless neck of forbid
ding terraine is that offered by
whales, who find the rocky shore
line a splendid place whereon to
scratch cooties.
When a man owns a high-pow
er rifle and a whale calls “hi-spi” ;
almost under his window it is a;
sore temptation to use it. Bill, we ,
will call him, fell wuthin the temp- ;
ter‘s snare. He shot the whale.
Then the sun came out. Some -1
how sunshine and whale do not;
harmonize—from an olfactory view j
point—especially when a high tide j
lands the whale beneath the win-i
dow of a lighthouse.
Within a few' days Tom upbraid
! ed Bill. No sensible man would:
| have shot a whale, and especially;
! when by so doing he submitted an '
! otherwise orderly and refined
| lighthouse to a gas attack.
“If you must muss with whales,” ;
I Tom said, “build you a barabara,
| for verily ye smell to heaven since |
: ye have been visiting that defunct:
I leviathan on the beach.”
“Smell!” shrieked Bill, “verily
your presence is redolent of a ran
| cid mixture of garlic, asafoetidy:
! and sulphuretted hydrogen. Why:
don’t you use up a little of the
ocean in ablutions?”
Safe within the snug lighthouse
! and with the aid of improvised
punk sticks the bunkies were able
| to eat at the same table without
i throwing the dishes around. But'
i there was wood to gather and wat
er to bring. Even improvised gas,
: masks failed to turn the aroma
' of that whale.
The lighthouse tender Cedar was
cruising off shore seeing that the
Japs had not lifted any of the
Aleutian Islands when “Sparks”
caught the tapping of S-O-S. On
ly in this instance the message,
read “Save our lighthouse.”
The Cedar rushed forward un
der forced draft until it neared
the lighthouse. It is said that her
powerful engines were unequal to
the pressure of the aroma w'afted
out against her bows. She stopped
and began to back up.
“It’s the new Japanese gas,”
said the bo'sun.
“Helm hard a-lee!” commanded
the captain. “Give us blue water
and lots of room.”
Then along came a high tide
and removed Moby Dick's aleagi
nous cadaver from the beach.
The bunkies resumed speaking
acquaintance.
BOBSLED RECORD
LAKE PLACID, Feb. 10. ^—Hu
bert Stevens, U. S. athlete, flashed
down a bobsled slide 1 minute and
,59 seconds better than the world's
j record. Reto Capadrutt of Switzer -
j land made it in two minutes and
i three seconds.
DENY CANCEL LEASES
Contradicting propaganda broad
cast by J. M. Holzworth in his ef
forts to force the reservation of Ad
miralty Island as a brown bear re
serve, Senator Frederick C. Walcott,
chairman of the Senate Committee
for the conservation of wild life, in
! a telegram to the Juneau Empire,
denied that he had ever “advised
or suggested that the government
I cancel any of its commitments for
developments there.”
MORE JSP TROOPS M
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10. j
(/P)—The tension had not abated
here despite an official announce
ment from Tokyo that Japan has
no political ambitions in the vicin
ity of Shanghai.
Washington is aware that an un
revealed but “adequate” number of
Japanese troops are on the way to
Shanghai with orders to blast out
the Chinese defenders at any cost.
The situation, therefore, is viewed
more than ever as an open powder
barrel liable to explode at any mo
ment, involving others beside the
Japanese and Chinese
Washington still is unable to
fathom what is in the minds of the
Japanese general stdff and upon i
that everything depends. If the
Japanese general staff is convinced
that now is the moment to round
out the Mikado’s Empire, nothing
will be allowed to stand in the way.
EDGAR WALLACE DIES
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Feb. 10.
I (/P)_Edgar Wallace, the highest
paid writer, died of pneumonia. He
j was»56 years of age. Stricken Sun
; day, he became unconscious yes
terday. He came here to write
i scenarios se\c 1 months ago His
i wife is enrouuv. from England.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb- 10, —
Having lost $17,000,000 during one
month because of the Chinese boy
cott, Japanese shipping interests \
are planning to cooperate to meet j
the competition of a new Ameri- j
can company which plans to send j
eight vessels into the Far East, the j
Department of Commerce an
nounced.
It is estimated that at the close of
1931, 60 per cent of the total Jap
anese tonnage was tied up from
lack of business. Losses from the j
boycott have been estimated at;
Y46.670,000. (Yen equal about 35c.)
MAY SEND ENVOYS
TOKYO, Feb. 10—Foreign Min
ister K. Yoshizawa said he is con
sidering a plan to send envoys to
the United States, England and!
France to explain the Japanese j
position in Manchuria and at I
Shanghai. He said Japan is woe
fully misunderstood.
CONSIDER INDEPENDENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10.
—Because of political chaos in the
Far East, Secretary Hurley told the
Insular Committee of the Senate
the present is no time to consider
independence for the Philippines.
Mr. Hurley recently toured the is
lands.
I EMPLOYING MANY MEN
SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 10,—
Mines of the Coeur d’ Alenes are
now giving employment to 3,002
men, some on part time.
When spring opens from 400 to
, 500 men must be sent into the hills
to do the annual assesment work
required by federal law on unpat
jented claims.
A few additional men will be
‘added in a few weeks and in the
spring, even if better metal prices
do not add substantial numbers
to the big producers.
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WOMAN HELD UP
Halted by a man as she made
| her way home, Mrs. Henry Howard
| of Fairbanks found herself reliev
ed of her purse, reports the Fair
banks News-Miner. Only a small
sum was in the purse. The robber
1 has not yet been arrested.
SCREEN STAR ARRESTED
SHANGHAI, Feb. 10. (JP)—Ronald
Colman, American screen star, ap
peared on the Shanghai front,
positive that Shanghai police mean
\ business when they enforce a 10
o’clock curfew hour. Colman was
haled into court for being out after
10 p. m. Ho was released with a
warning. The screen star was the
.trench guest of the U. S. Marines.
POLICE DISPERSE URGE
GROUP OF
TOKYO, Feb. 10.—The 800 stud
ents who gathered in front of the
administration hall Wednesday, all
from the Imperial University, were
dispersed by the police after an
attempt to form a parade through
streets carrying red flags.
The police tore down posters
reading “Down wTith the Students
Patriotic Association;” “Down with
.Empire Day,” which plastered the
; walls of the university.
ITALY IS WILLING 10
Olsen [NIHIL LIST
GENEVA, Feb. 10. (/P) — Dino j
Grandi of Italy and Tsuneo Mat
sudaira, Japanese, presented the
last two disarmament proposals to
the Five Powers Conference.
Grandi was applauded thunder
ously w'hen he read a list of war
implements Italy was ready to
scrap including capital ships, sub
marines, aircraft carriers, heavy
artillery, tanks, bombing aircraft
and chemicals.
The Japanese representative as
sured the conference that “not- j
withstanding the unfortunate sit- j
uation in the Far East that Japan ■
is as eager as ever to further the j
cause of disarmament.”
A plane, thought to be one of the j
Barnhill & McGee ships, soared in- j
to Seward at noon today from the j
Interior.
Miss Elisabeth Bernhard, of the
Jesse Lee Heme, who recently went
to Seattle for the purpose of hav
ing a new artificial limb adjusted,
returned to Seward on the SS Vic
toria. It is said that Miss Bernhard
suffered the loss of her foot thru
freezing some years ago.
An hour or so following the ar
rival of the regular passenger train
from the Interior barren lands, the
SS Victoria wrill sail South.
It felt as if yesterday morning’s
62 mile-an-hour gale reached a
velocity of 150 miles per hour just
before the shades of evening were
fell.
Profit From Lion Kill
REDDING, Cal., Feb. 9, </P)--C.
Laidshaw collected $130 from the
state and $35 from the county for
four days’ work. His job is to track
down and kill predatory animals
and in four days he bagged seven
mountain lions, a record kill for
that length of time.
ALL REELECTED
At a recent meeting of stockhol
ders of the Healy River Coal Cor
poration, held in Fairbanks, a 11
present officers of the corporation
were reelected. Capt. A. E- Lathrop
is president; August W. Conradt is
vice-president; and A. H- McDonald,
secretary-treasurer. O. J. Egleston
and Roy W. Ferguson compose the
board of directors.
A “MOVING” PICTURE
The president of Loew’s, Inc.,
i picture producers, drew $304,000 as
;salary and bonus in 1930; the
treasurer of the corporation $207,
643, the stockholders $2,473,752 in
dividends. Salaries of all employees
other than officials have been or
dered reduced. Truly, a “moving”
picture.
EMUS CHAPE
JAPANESE FAIL TO DISLODGE
CHINESE ENTRENCHED IN
SHELL HOLES
SHANGHAI, Feb. 10. (/P) _ The
Japanese directed another deter
mined attack upon Woosung after
Chinese cavalry was reported to
have inflicted heavy casualties at
Chapei with an oldtime charge
with sabres and in the face of rat
tling machine guns.
I At the same time, U. S. Marines
are guarding a 10-mile front inside
and outside the International Set
tlement, taking the heaviest bur
den of defense. The cavalry was
! finally driven off but not until it
had inflicted heavy damage on
; Japanese troops.
Chinese banking h o u s e s tele
graphed the United States, France,
British and Italian governments
urging a settlement of the dispute
j in “accordance with the ideas of
j the League of Nations, the Kellogg
Pact and the Nine Power Treaty."
Chinese defenders of Woosung
clung tenaciously to their positions
* in the face of terrific shelling; Jap
j anese bombing planes failed to dis
j lodge the Chinese machine gun
| ners in shell holes and shells and
I bullets from Chapei continued to
1 fall in the International Settle
ment, striking the walls of the
municipal police station
FUND FOR BELIEF IS
ENGOUR1BEO BY DUNKS
CHICAGO, Feb. 10. (/P)—Five Chi
cago banks with guaranteed de
posits of $18,750,000 state the tax
anticipation warrants raising a
fund for relief of the poor, as pro
vided by the State Assembly, will
meet the unemployment situation.
The appeal of A1 Capone from in -
come tax evasion and conviction
was taken under advisement by the
United States Court of Appeals
SS STARR OUT TONIGHT
Capt. Arthur Ryning, of the SS
Starr, San Juan Fishing & Pack -
ing Co., announces his vessel will
sail this evening at 8 o'clock on its
regular monthly voyage Westward.
.115 rail 10 BOW
Ctrl AFFORD SHOTGUNS
W. PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 10, -
After 35 years of using the white
man’s rifle and shotgun, Seminole
| Indian hunters are going back to
| the bow and arrow.
The reason, said W. Stanely Han
lon, friend and adviser of the red
men, is because the Indians in
many cases no longer have the.
money to buy ammunition.
Continued inroads of sportsmen
on their hunting grounds and fires
caused by unusually dry w'eather
| have made the life of the Seminole
huntsman increasingly difficult the
llast year.
Alaska forestry representatives
are now' in San Francisco conferr
ing with G. T. Cameron relative to
plans for a Juneau paper and pulp
mill.
FALL, A TRAGIC ONE
Mrs. Wm. Murphy died with
tragic suddeness January 20 at Sei
duvia, reports the Herald, (when
she slipped on an icy path, the in
juries ,at first thought minor, re
sulting in congestion and internal
hemorrhage.
C. L. (Buck) Hoyt, formerly of
Valdez but now conducting a gro
cery store in Seattle, was recently
injured when struck by an auto,
says the Valdez Miner.
See “Nothing But the Truth” February 13 and 17