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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 54.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
SATURDAY, MARCH 5 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
STATE POLICE (BE
NOT IITEBESTEOIN
HITS CHAUFFEUR
ALL FACILITIES OF NAVAL AIR
forces placed disposal
(IF §MlTCHERS
HOPEWElX. N. J., Mar. 5- (/P»—
The State police announced they
ire not interested in Henry “Red”
Johnson, held for Questioning in
Hartford, Conn. Johnson is a sail
jr friend of Miss Betty Gow. nurse
of the baby, and was subjected to
an all-night grilling in Hartford.
A woman, operating his rooming
house in Englewood. N. J., said he
was there all Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning.
Reporters were told there was no
basis for the rumors. Lindbergh,
nmself. had flown to Hartford; he
is now at his home.
All facilities of the United States
Naval air forces have been offered
for search by Lindy’s close friend,
Assistant Secretary Ingalls.
Police and prosecutors of 10
States joined in a conference with
Governor Moore at his offices and
President Hoover sent a Justice
Department representative.
After a long grilling. Miss Gow.
who was the last to see the baby
and the discoverer of the kidnap
ping, was exonerated
RUSSIA DISSATISFIED
MOSCOW. Mar. 5, —Soviet Rus
sia has taken a firmer and more
militant attitude toward Japan
ese and White Russian activities
in the Far East.
The government expressed sharp
dissatisfaction with Japanese plans
affecting the Soviet-Manchurlan
frontier and with the alleged Jap
anese support of White Russians
plots to attack Siberia.
The Soviets formally demanded
Japanese explanations. Red army
garrisons in the Far East declared
iheir readiness to fight and even
in Moscow mass meetings of Com
munist youths shouted their will
ingness to shoulder guns
HELEN WILLS MOODY
mns m new hole
NEW YORK, Mar. 5, —Helen
Wills Moody, woman tennis cham
pion of the world, displayed her
ability as an etcher for the first
time at the Grand Central Art
Galleries.
“Behind her name,” said Erwin
3- Barrie, manager and director of
the galleries, “lies real talent. Her
sport etchings will be in demand,
for they are authentic; she knows
anatomy and she knows it’s form
for every stroke she portrays.”
AWAITS VISIT
NEW YORK, Mar. 5.—Mrs. Mary
Mooney looked forward to return
ing the visit of Mayor James Wal
ker of New York City paid her
when he was in California to plead
for the freedom of her son, Tom,
imprisoned in connection with the
San Francisco Preparedness Day
Parade bombing in 1916. Although
she had received no invitation as
yet to call on the Mayor, Mrs.
Mooney believes a visit will be ar
ranged during her stay here.
1932 SAILINGS
During the 1932 open season of
navigation on Bering Sea, the Al
aska Line will have four passenger
steamer sailings and two freighter
sailings on the Bering Sea route.
The first passenger steamer sailing
will be the SS Victoria on June 2;
the first freighter sailing will be
May 25.
While no one appears to know
just when District Judge E. Coke
Hill will commence the 1932 term
of court, it is believed he will hold
a short session early in April.
VIGOROUSLY ATTACKING
NANKING. Mar. 5. <7P)—A report;
to headquarters of the Chinese
army said the Japanese are vigor-j
j ously attacking Nanziang. about 30 j
miles west of Shanghai.
MSKOB SMS HOOVER
TO RUN ON PUTFQRM
: HE WEI PM
NEW YORK. Mar. 5.—John Ras
kob said, in an address here, that
he had direct information that
j President Hoover had signified his j
; willingness to run on a platform
i containing a wet plank.
Raskob, who is chairman of the
Democratic National Committee,
made the statement in answer to a
question put to him when he ad
i dressed the monthly dinner meet
ing of the New York Young Demo
i cratic Club.
He declared that the drys, who
had regarded the President as their
leader, will consider him a Judas
and will vote for the devil before
they vote for Hoover.
ILL Ml OPERKTIONS
SHANGHAI HAVE CEASED
GENEVA, Mar. 5. UP)—Japanese
i and Chinese delegates disputed the
status of affairs at Shanghai; the
Chinese insisting the attacks are
; continuing, while the Japanese
protested the “false propaganda.”
President Paul-Boncour, of the
l League Council, received a telegram
: that fighting had ceased at 2 p. m.
| Thursday. The British command
i er at Shanghai reported ‘‘all main
operations had ceased."
SOU COMMISSI*!
DISCUSS BORDER ACIS
j RIGA. Mar. 5. —Dissatisfied with
Japanese Ambassador Koki Hiro
! tas’ explanation of Japanese troops
! near the Siberian border, the Sov
iet-Rusian Commissariat of For
eign Affairs, met in full session
and decided to summon an extra
ordinary meeting of the Union
Council of Peoples Commissars and
the Central Executive Committee
i to determine measures to be tak
j en.
MARCHERS DEMAND TOLL
'i VICTORIA, B. C., Mar. 5, —
i Twenty-five dollars a week and
i J non-cdntributory u n e m ployment
| for every unemployed man, were
■ demanded by 300 jobless marchers
- who paraded in front of the Par
- liament building. The demonstra
were refused permission to present
their demands from the bar of the
lower House of the Legislature
Special police were called out but
, there was no disorder.
MUST PASS ALONG lElT
! TO NEEDY: BUT BO PHOEIT
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 5,
Congress raised the lid from the
swollen wheat bin for the Red
Cross to take out 40 million bush
els for distribution among the un
employed.
The House passed the bill 344 to
2. The Senate had previously pass
ed the measure which now goes to
the President for approval.
The Red Cross, or organizations
designated b y it may mill the
wheat into flour and in cities over
25,000 bake into bread, no profit
being allowed.
HEATING PLANT
Plans for a central heating plant
for Juneau were explained to the
Juneau Council at its regular meet
ing in the Municipal Hall last week,
and an ordinance granting a fran
chise for the project was introduced
and by unanimous vote passed the
first reading, says the Empire.
The halibut schooner Omaney
arrived in port today.
STATE ATTORNEY REFUSES TO
MAKE ANY STATEMENT
OF PROGRESS
HARTFORD, Conn.. Mar. 5.—j
Henry “Red” Johnson, formerly a .
chauffeur for Colonel Lindbergh, j
was taken into custody by police j
late Thursday evening for ques
tioning regarding the kidnapping J
of the Lindbergh baby.
State Attorney Hugh J. Alcorn
immediately after the arrest of j
Johnson began grilling him and;
when he was through he announc- j
ed to a group of newspaper men
that thev were holding Johnson on
the strength of his own story. Al
corn declined to amplify his state
ment but it is believed that John
son knows considerable about the
kidnapping and as to the where
abouts of the child's abductors.
Johnson is aLso asserted to be
the person who was in a green;
Chrysler coupe, which has been the
object of police search for several;
days.
Johnson,, who was taken at 11
o’clock Friday evening, was grilled
for several hours before Attorney
Alcorn made his announcement.
Johnson, when arrested, said he
did not know the police were look
ing for him and said that if he had
known this he would have gone to
Hopewell instead of Hartford.
More details as to the kidnap- j
ping case and Johnson’s connec
tion with the kidnapping were ex
pected to be revealed when New i
Jersey police department officials]
arrive at Hartford for the purpose;
of further grilling. Inspector Walsh ;
of the New Jersey police left for
Hartford in a plane early Thurs
day morning. Colon 11 Lindbergh
also left Hopewell in a plane en
route to Hartford.
During the while these develop
ments were taking place Colonel
Lindbergh and Anne Lindbergh
made public another appeal to the
kidnappers wherein they stated
that “Mrs. Lindbergh and I desire
to make personal contact with the
kidnappers of the child Our only
interest is that the child be re
turned safely.’’
The appeal continued oy saying
that the Lindberghs would meet
any representative of the kidnap
pers if they so desired. The Lind
berghs further assured the kid
nappers of the child that they
would not press the apprehending
of the abductors by the police or
anything which might result to
cause the abductors u> fear for
their personal safety.
Thousands of people waited out
side the Hartford courtroom to
await any word as to the results
of the grilling. A larger crowd than
the one outside the courtroom went
down to the airport and awaited
the arrival of Lindy himself,
the arrival of Lindy himself, but
were apparently disappointed as
he did not even leave Hopewell.
Since the kidnapping of the
Lindbergh baby Hopewell has be
come over-populated overnight.
The tiny town has hiked up its
rates in practically every branch.
On every train scores of report
ers and magazine writers are ar
riving.
Ham and eggs, once selling for
30c in the restaurants, have risen
to 75c. Hotel rooms are $5, take it
or leave it. Even the bootleggers
have spirited up applejack.
Where expense accounts won’t
stretch, visitors room and board
with outlying farmers. One New
York photographer, inquiring his
way to the Lindbergh estate, was
met at a farm door by the farmer
flashing a pistol on him and back
ed up by his strudy wife with a
double-barreled shotgun.
The Toman cannery, at Anchor
age, in all probability, will not be
operated this year but arrange
ments may be entered into with
neighboring and larger plants to
can the Toman fish on a pro-share
basis, says the Seldovia Herald.
CAUL EXPERT ROPES
SEWARD UNO INDUSTRY
IT REAP BENEFITS
“Construction of the coaling sta
tion at Seward is, I understand, as
sured and I hope that its opera
tion will prove to be a benefit to
both Seward and the Alaska coal
industry,” writes F. R. Wadleigh,
one of the most outstanding of
coal or structural geologists in the
world and who last year spent sev
eral months making exhaustive
tests of Alaska coal and compiling
reports on other subject matter
thereto, in a letter to The Gateway
received in the last mail from his
offices in Washington, D. C., The
Wadleigh Bureau, Inc.
Four reports of his Work in Al
aska have since been submitted to
the government. These included:
Report on Claims of the Alaska
Matanuska Coal Company.
Report on Coal Tests at the Cur
ry Power Plant.
Report on Locomotive Coal Tests
made on The Alaska Railroad.
Report on the Coal Situation in
Alaska and on The Alaska Railroad.
Publication of the last named
report, with some omissions, is now
being considered.
These reports were in addition
| to various specific reports, made to
j the General Manager of The Alaska
Railroad during the past year and
weekly reports to the Secretary’s
i office at Washington.
A copy of the Davis-Kelley bill
; for regulating the .bituminous coal
industry, which was in the hands
of the Senate Committee on Mines
| and Mining, has been referred to
the Department of Commerce and
Labor and the Interstate - Com
i merc^ Commission, for their views
| and it was expected that public
j hearings would be started shortly.
| The bill refers only to interstate
j and foreign commerce and does
| not cover interstate shipments.
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SEATTLE DENTIST KILLS i
MOTHER BECAUSE OF j
OF DEBT HE OWED HER!
_
SEATTLE, Wash., Mar. 5, —Dr. j
Albert C. McKeown, prominent!
dentist, confessed yesterday to kill
ing his 81 year-old mother, Mrs.
|Rhoda McKeown who was visiting
; him from her home in Muscatine,
! Iowa, in the basement of his home
I here last Tuesday.
He denied a debt which he owed
j her. He had an anesthetic for her
| when he killed her. Previously it
was claimed she had fallen down
the basement stairs; later he said
he had knocked her down and she
had cried “are you trying to kill
me.”
“I then lost my head” and struck j
her franctically with my fists, he
said. The dentist made the con
fession after hours of grilling. It
was first reported that he thought
his mother was carrying $5,000 in
bonds in her waist.
MQISLE5 TOOK FOUR i
RECENTLY IT KENII
—
Letters from Kenai relate the
deaths of two adults and two chil
dren from the effects of the
measles, reports the Seldovia Her
ald.
Mary Knik, wido wof the late P.
Knik, passed away on the 6th. The
passing of Peter Knik, brother of
the late Paul, was also reported.
Two babies, children of Mr. and
Mrs. George Peterson, and of Mrs.
(Lydia Dolchok, also died, it was
reported.
THIRD LOSS
A. A. Shonbeck of Anchorage re
ceived word last week from Mata
nuska that during the recent ex
traordinarily heavy gales, his hay
shed on his farm had been blown
over and a nearby pine tree brok
en down. The shed occupied a
sheltered spot, reported the An
chorage Times.
BE A BIG PARCEL
TRENTON, N. J., Mar. 5.—Con- j
siderable discussion has taken place j ’
regarding what the abductors of
the Lindbergh baby hope to gain
by having the $50,000 they demand- ^
ed in ransom in currency of $20
bills or less. It has been figured
out that a package of such bills
will make a parcel of about two'
and one-half cubic feet and will I
weigh almost 10 pounds.
CHINESE INSIST I
DEFENDING SELSES ;
AGAINST JAPANESE!
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l
SHANGHAI, Mar. 5. — Chinese J
military leaders who were forced .
,o withdraw from Shanghai because
of the intensiveness of the Japan- 1
eSe offensive for a few days and (
because Chinese reinforcements
were slow in arriving, announced
tht it was their intention to con
tinue fighting until the Japanese ’
withdraw their troops from Shang
hai.
Meanwhile, the Japanese landed
more reinforcements from their ■
ships in the river. The reinforce
ments were said to number 10.000 '
soldiers.
When the Japanese had their
reinforcements ashore they imme
diately advanced in all directions
to .consolidate the Japanese lines
on the city’s outskirts.
JOS CAMPAIGN IS
I TO WAGE EARNER
-' 1
NEW YORK, Mar. 5, —The drive
to put the nation’s unemployed:
wage earners back to work is ad
vancing rapidly toward the goal
of a million jobs for a million wor- i
kers, set by the united action for
unemployed.
Since the campaign was launch- j
ed a total of 89,812 unemployed
have been placed in new jobs, it is
announced at the headquarters of
the organization, which is coordi
nating the efforts of the American i
Legion and the American Federa- i
tion of Labor and the Association I
of National Advertisers.
MORE TROOPS LANDED
SHANGHAI, Mar. 5. (/P)—About i
10,000 additional Japanese troops
were landed in the Shanghai area.
The Japanese insisted there is no
serious fighting although a trip
through the Kiangwan and Woo
sung area by an Associated Press
correspondent supported the Chin
ese claims that there was consid
erable skirmishing.
STR1SE RESULT IS -
OBTAINED IT ELECTION
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 5.—“Must
be the warm weather,” declared i
startled student election commis- j
| sioners at the University of South-,
! ern California as members of the j
[junior class had elected Jean Har-!
low, “platinum blonde” screen star,
as the most popular girl in college.
The Junior class also named her
vice president of the class. Miss
Harlow is not a student at the uni
versity.
MATT KING GONE
Matthew King, Fairbanks old
timer, passed away two weeks ago
Sunday. Death was caused by heart
trouble. Mr. King had been con
fined to the hospital for some time.
He was born in Chester, Vt., 67
years ago and came to Alaska 32
years ago, reports the Fairbanks
News-Miner.
LECTURES AROUSE INTEREST
Residents of Oregon are learning
; a lot about Alaska this winter thru
illustrated lectures which are be
ing delivered by Rev. Wm. R. Mac
pherson, pastor of All Saints’ Epis
copal Church, who is on an ex
tended furlough in the States, re
ports the Anchorage Times.
The Territorial Primary election
falls on Tuesday, April 26, this year.
I
TUCK oi HIM
UUiSl
jUMIj r.uuuniAii iu nr, ivtAU
BEFORE NEXT MEETING
OF ORGANIZATION
The slackness of Tacoma bust
less men in entering Alaska after
lew business and investments, was
ecently pointed out in a Gateway
iditorial, a copy of which w'as
nailed to the Tacoma Chamber of
Commerce, the Mayor and other
irominent men of that city. The
ollowing letter has been received
n reply:
Tacoma, Wash.,
Feb. 18, 1932.
5ewfard Gateway:
“We appreciate your sending us
i tear sheet from the February 5th
lumber of The Gateway with the
;p!endid editorial, ‘Standing in Its
)wn Shadow7.’ This is useful in -
ormation for us. It is well for our
people to know7 how you feeel. I
shall see to it that it gets general
urculation and that it is read be
fore our Chamber.
“The pamphlet attached to the
editorial showing an itemized state
ment of the commerce of Alaska,
is likewise appreciated. We are
referring this matter to our De
velopment Committee for discus
sion at its next meeting, also to
3ur Wholesalers’ Association.
“I wish you would make it a
point to keep us posted on what
Alaska needs from the Federal
government and what we can do
to assist. We have a man in Wash -
ington, D. C., that we pay by the
year, to work for the Northwest.
He is Mr. C. B. Dodds. 1221 Rational
Press Club Bldg. He is a very able
man, has been in Washington for
years, and may be useful to you.
“A year ago, we were concerned
with an appropriation for your
railroad, but as I remember it, we
did not get what we asked for.
However, we shall gladly try again
when you feel the time is oppor
tune. Yours very truly,
T. A. STEVENSON,
Manager, Tacoma C. of C.”
TROOP MTS III
FAR EAST UICI1
MOSCOW, Mar. 5.—Soviet Rus
sia Friday announced that because
of the menacing Japanese troop
movements in the vicinity of Rus
sia’s Far East border, that she
was going to strengthen her de
fenses in this area.
The officials did not make any
statement as to what means would
be taken to protect this border
from any encroachment, but it is
believed that Russia will dispatch
some of the men that are assemb
ling to this area.
UPS MSS CONCERN
BOYCOTT IGUITl 0. S.
TOKYO, Mar. 5, —Representa
tives of Japan’s leading banks con
ferred with War Minister General
Sadao Araki, expressing serious
concern over agitation in the U.
S. for an economic boycott against
this country.
The bankers informed General
Araki they considered the petition
signed by Newton D. Baker, and
a number o f educators, asking
Secretary of State Stimson to as
sure the League of Nations of
American support of a boycott, as
unwarranted and likely to have
extremely harmful results.
MINISTER PASSES
OSLO, Norway, Mar. 5. </P) —
1 Prime Minister Kolstad, 54 years
of age, died here today.
Attorney Harry P. Morton and
his secretary, Mrs. Nell Scott, left
Anchorage for Fairbanks recently
to attend the court session in prog
ress in the Interior city. Mr. Mor
ton is counsel for Carl Lottsfeldt.