MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 51. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
YLL AUTOS BEING HALTED ON
STATE HIGHWAYS AT
NIGHT
HOPEWELL, N. J., Mar. 2.—The ‘
whole nation was shocked Tuesday j
to hear that the young Lindbergh
neir had been kidnapped from the !
home of his parents Tuesday eve
aing. _ J
The son of Col- Charles Lind- j
oergli and Anne Lindbergh was:
put to bed about 7 o’clock by Mrs. j
Lindbergh and the kidnapping oc
curred between 7:30 p. m. and 10
p. m. when someone looked into
the nursery and found the child
gone
The kidnappers apparently en
tered the room through a bedroom
window.
The New Jersey State police are
all on the lookout for the kidnap
pers as a State-wide alarm was im
mediately made. All cars on high-;
ways were being stopped and
searched Tuesday evening in an ef
fort to find some trace of the child.
The baby son. named Charles
Augustus, was 20 months old. The
oabv was ill with a severe cold and
was clad only in night clothes when
taken from his nursery room. The
mother said that no blankets had
oeen taken from the room through
the window.
The Lindbergh estate is five
miles in back of the Sourland Hill
country and the kidnappers were
greatly aided in keeping out of
sight by the country's topography
and the virtual isolation of the
Lindbergh home.
The Hopewell policeman denied .
that a note was left on the window
sill by the kidnappers but State
police said that there was a note
out refused to divulge the contents
}f the note.
Forces totaling over 100 officers
nave been mobilized in three;
States.
Foot prints at the scene of the
Kidnapping indicate that there was!
one woman and one or two men in j
the kidnapping party. The kid-;
-tappers left three pieces of ladder !
near the window.
Lindy, with a silent calm, ap-1
oeared numbed by the catastrophe ■
and early this morning tramped j
_nto the woods seeking a clue as to
the kidnapping.
Mrs. Lindbergh expects another
baby in May. Mrs. Dwight Morrow, |
mother of Mrs. Lindbergh, remain- !
ed at her home at Englewood, N. J., j
out was much perturbed by the;
kidnapping.
The tracks of the kidnappers ■
were traced for two miles and
where they disappeared it was ap
parent that the kidnappers enter
ed into a car and drove off.
Hundreds of motorists who heard 1
about the kidnapping of the Lind
bergh heir, flocked to the estate j
and blocked the roads for miles
around in a hopeless jam.
CONTINUE OFFENSIVE
SHANGHAI, Ma -. 2.—The Japan
ese army offensive will continue
until the Chinese defenders are
driven 12l/2 miles from Shanghai,
influential Japanese sources indi
cated in commenting on the latest
peace suggestions from Tokyo.
PAPER VICTORY IS
HIM Of JAPANESE
WASHINGTON, D- C., Mar. 2.—
Diplomatic quarters believe Japan’s
note proposals to the League of
Nations may reflect her confidence
of breaking through the Chinese
iines at Shanghai within a few days
and winning at least a paper vic
tory.
Japan probably will desist be
• cause the campaign is costly and j
< difficult in face of the Chinese re
sistance. . Moreover, diplomats be- !
lieve Japan’s truce offers may be
made to forestall an economic boy
cott of the League of Nations as
sembly.
INCREASE AMOUNT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 2.—
The Senate, voting on the Interior
Supply bill, increased the amount
as passed by the House $4,000,000.
The increased amount provides $2,- j
000,000 for the Boulder dam. $1.
000,000 for additional highway con
struction and another million dol
lars for various projects. j
* PISTOL BUTTLE
BUENOS AIRES. Mar. 2. «7P)—A
band of 150 extremist members of
the Personalista radical party
fought a gun battle in the center
of Buenos Aires with the staff of
the newspaper La Fronda. Two
radicals were killed and 50 persons
were wounded, several seriously.
The paper staff, a Conservative ,
publication, fought with revolvers.;
The entire staff was arrested pend- j
ing an investigation. The editors
charged that the radicals, return- !
ing from a political meeting, at- !
tacked the newspaper building with j
the intention of burning the plant.
They claimed the mob fired first, j
whereupon the staff defended i
themselves.
Eleven were reported wounded at,
Necocheta where the radicals and:
police battled in the streets.
HUNDREDS CHINESE KILLED
HARBIN, Manchuria, Mar. 2.—A
Chinese powder magazine here ex
ploded Tuesday, killing hundreds of
Chinese. It was believed by some
that the powder magazine was
touched off purposely.
CUBAN DISTURBANCES
HAVANA, Mar. 2—At least one j
person was killed and several were j
wounded in the disturbances at- i
tending Cuban municipal elections.;
The outbreaks occurred in spite of i
military guards at the polling '
booths.
REVAL, Esthonia, Mar. 2.—About j
100 Russian fishermen, reported
marooned on floating ice off the [
Esthonian coast, were believed to *
have perished in a severe storm.
At the request of tile Soviet gov
ernment, the Esthonian authorities .
organized an airplane expedition,
to search for the fishermen, but lit- 5
tie hope was held that the expedi
tion would be successful. Tire re
ports said the fishermen were on a
huge ice block when it was swept
away from the coast during a
storm.
GUNMAN TERRORIZING j
CALIFORNIA FARMERS
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 2.—Hun
dreds of armed men were combing
the hills of San Mateo County in
a search for Joe Kramer, the phan
tom gunman who twice appeared
and fired shots at San Gregorio
residents.
Joe Kramer is a crazed farmhand :
and Monday he visited a farm and
left word that he intended to sur
render after he had killed 15 per
sons. He has terrorized the coun
try to such an extent that many
peopde are afraid to join the posse
searching for him.
DARROW TO HONOLULU
CHICAGO, 111., Mar. 2.—Clarence
Darrow, one of the most noted
criminal lawyers in the United
States, will leave for Honolulu
March 20 to take up the defense of
Mrs. Grace Fortescue, Lieut. Mas
sie, E. J. Lord and A1 Jones, who are
facing a second degree murder
charge for the notorious Honolulu
“honor slaying.”
WILL TRY ONCE MORE
PHOENIX, Ariz., Mar. 2.—Attor
neys for Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd
will file another appeal in her be
heif.
THOUSANDS AHMED
MEN IN CHIII
i
ARMY COMMANDER PREPARED
TO COMBAT UPRISING
WITH TROOPS
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Mar. 2
—Four thousand armed men took
control of the Maentsala district,
50 miles north of Helsingfors, after
opening fire on a Socialist meeting
of men, women and children.
Leaders of the outbreak, which
was started by a Fascist-like or
ganization called the Lappo party,
said 20,000 to 30,000 more armed
men were converging at Maentsala.
Government leaders met in an ex
traordinary session at Helsingfors.
Later, acting Premier Fahlgren de
clined to discuss the sitpation but
said "the government knows what
it is doing.”
The Lappoites said demonstrators
would proceed to Helsingfors to de
mand htat the government of Pre
mier Sunila suppress all Social
Democratic organizations in Fin
land. The Social Democratic party
is the strongest in Parliament.
The outbreak started at a Social
ist meeting at Maentsala. Lappo
leaders demanded that a Socialist
speaker halt the meeting. He re
fused and Lappoites outside open
ed fire on the hall. The police fin
ally persuaded the Lappoites to
cease firing, and the meeting broke
up.
The Lappoites then ordered de
mobilization of all their supporters
throughout Finland for a drive on
the Socialists. An armed band at
Maentsala defied the police and
patrolled the city. It was under
stood 30,000 will join the demon
strators.
The commander of the Finnish
army prepared to combat the up
rising, ordering ail troops prepared
for suppressing it.
* * * *
FINLAND QUIETING
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Mar. 2.
—Latest reports here were to the
effect that trouble, started by Fas
cists who demanded that Com
munist members of the Finnish i
government be ousted, was quiet
ing down.
PORTLAND, Mar. 2. — Chinese
merchants of this city who have
been carrying out pleas that Port
land shoppers boycott Japanese
merchants, find that the boycott
works to hamper their business
also.
Americans do not readily distin
guish between Chinese operated
shops and the shops operated by
Japanese and as a result, the Chin
ese stores also found their sales
dropping off.
One establishment has hung out
a sign saying that it is Chinese -
American owned.
GIG 11 VICTIM III
TIE HOUSE TIME
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 2—
The Wet Bloc in the House Tuesday
succeeded in obtaining the 145 sig
natures necessary to force a test
vote in the House on the proposal
to give the national controls of
liquor back to the various States.
Seventy-six Republicans and 6S
Democrats voted in favor of the
measure.
The obtaining of all these signa
tures by the Wet Bloc is declared to
be the biggest anti-prohibition vic
tory scored so far. A vote will be
taken in the House on March 14 on
a measure which will provide for
the resubmission of liquor control
to the various States.
NAPOLEON, la., Mar. 2.—A lion
in the zoo here broke out of its
cage and until killed terrorized
citizens. 1
GLASS-STEW.
SILL TO EXPAND
PRESIDENT TERMS BILL AS A
“NATIONAL DEFENSE
MEASURE”
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 2.—
The Glass-Steagall bill, which was
signed by President Hoover, is de- j
signed to expand the country’s cur
rency and further loosen credits.
The bill means that the Treasury
can issue as much as $3,500,000,000
in new money; that credits can be
expanded in industry, commerce
and agriculture up to $10,000,000,
000. Idle gold in the Treasury |
will be put work to this end.
The President proclaimed the bill j
as a “national defense measure,”
and said that “by freeing vast
amounts of gold in our Federal
Reserve System—in excess of gold
reserved by law—it so increases the
also large available resources of
Federal Reserve Banks as to enable i
them beyond question to meet any !
conceivable demands that might j
be made on them at home or from
abroad.”
The bill provides for rediscounts j
of paper held by members of Fed
eral Reserve Banks which was prev
iously ineligible, thus expanding
credit and making business easier, J
according to experts.
President Hoover was understood
not to regard the legislation as in
flation, and Secretary of the Treas
ury Mills and administration lead
ers have emphasized that putting
out new money is no “inflation”
in the sense that the term is used
in Europe where inflation, it is
said, means printing money with no
gold or other backing.
HEAVY TOLL PUD B¥
SHANGHAI, Mar. 2.— Japanese
troops closed in on Shanghai de
fenders yesterday but for every
yard gained a tremendous toll of
blood was made.
Japanese airplanes dropped 19
bombs on the Shanghai railway.
Peace negotiations continued in
Shanghai but it is freely admitted
there is slight hope for reaching
an amicable understanding.
KHANS PUN ASSIST ;
cm TO FIGHT JAPAN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 2.—
The headquarters of the Korean
independence movement announc
ed plans to recruit an entire divi
sion from among 1,000,000 Koreans
in Manchuria to help China fight
Japan. Headquarters said hundreds
of Koreans already are participat
ing under Chinese colors.
Representatives of the movement
said an attempt by Japanese plain
clothes police to raid their head
quarters in the French concession
at Shanghai failed when Korean
officials removed their offices se
cretly to another place.
JAPAN OUtS ACTION |
IN FLOATING OIC LOIN
TOKYO, Mar. 2. (JP)—After an
investigation by a committee, Ja
pan’s Privy Council withheld ap
proval of the Japanese govern
ment floating a $22,000,000 bond to
raise funds to finance Japan’s mil
itary operations in China and Man
churia.
The foreign office announced Ja
; pan accepted the League of Na
tions’ proposal for cessation of hos
tilities in Shanghai but said that
the proposal was not what tempt
ed them to turn in an unfavorable
report on the floating of the huge
i loan.
AMENDS DRY LAW
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Mar. 2.—
The proposal to amend the State’s
dry law has been passed by the
State Legislature and was signed
by the Governor and is now law. j
The proposal also provides for the j
legalization of three per cent beer
Rhode Island folks may now in- j
[ aulge in real liquor provided the j
! 18th amendment is set aside.
SI. LOUIS Mi IS !
LOW BIDDER ON ALASKA !
POSTOFFICE PROJECT
I
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 2.— j
William McDonald, St. Louis, sub- ;
mitted the- low bids for construct- ;
ing the new postoffice at Fairbanks,■
Alaska, when the proposals were j
opened at the Treasury.
McDonald bid $393,000 to con
| struct the postoffice with three
| stories, basement and a one-story
I tower, and $446,000 to construct it
| with three stories, a basement and
| a two-story tower with a more elab
orate outside finish.
The contract will be t*warded af
j ter Treasury experts have examined
; the bids to see that they comply
writh government requirements.
This usually takes a week or long
er, and sometimes contracts are
held a month or longer to settle
details.
Other bids were: M. P- Severn,
Chicago, $422,000 and $474,000;
j Charles Weitz Sons. Des Moines, la.,
: $452,000 and $512,000; Largura Con
| struction Company Gary, Ind.,
$430,900 and $529,000; Western Con
struction Company, Seattle, $469,
800 and $528,100; Schuler & Mc
Donald, Oakland, Cal., $489,000 and
$539,000; Warrack Construction
! Company, Seattle, $490,000 and
■$570,000; A. W. Quist Company,
Seattle $509,000 and $580,000; Hen
rikson-Alstrom, Seattle, $458,000
and $530,000; Johnson Brothers.
Seattle, $475,750 and $557,202; Lov
ering-Longbotham, St. Paul, $460.
000 and $524,000, and R. H. Stock,
Seattle, $636,500. Stock did not bid
on the second class of the project.
HAWAIIAN CONFESSES
HONOLULU, Mar. 2.— A young
I Hawaiian was arrested yesterday
!and confessed to Honolulu’s latest
| outrage upon a white woman. He
! admitted his guilt.
ADMITS ASSAULT
SAN DIEGO. Mar. 2.—A1 Parks
was arrested here yesterday and
charged with assaulting a woman.
He later admitted his guilt,
i
ACTRESS DROWNED
: LOS ANGELES, Mar. 2.— Viola
Dana, actress, was drowned at a
reservoir when she attempted to
save a child’s kitten.
THRILLING AND DARING
DESGDES ON ATLANTIC
NEW YORK, Mar. 2.—Two ser
ious disasters resulted on the At- j
lantic Coast, both attended by i
thrilling and daring rescues but
without loss of life
In a terrific gale about 600 miles
northeast of Cape Race, the Dan
ish steamer Aggersund had to be
abandoned in a sinking condition.1
Her crew of 22 men was rescued by
the Scandinavian steamship Blan
kaholm.
In a blizzard off Cape Cod, the
Coast Guard cutter Acushnet col
lided with the American schooner
Welzey and the schooner sank. The
six men, comprising her crew were
saved by the cutter.
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THREW AWAY $2,800
BOSTON, Mar. 2.—Ann S- Butler
won $2,800 and felt so ashamed of
herself that she tossed it out of a
window. Such a large crowd gath
ered that police were called to pre
vent a riot.
RECEIVE BACK PAY
CHICAGO. Mhr. 2.—Drastic re
ductions are being made on the eve
of elections- Teachers and other
city employees yesterday received
two weeks back salary and there
is rejoicing in the land.
j OFFENSIVE IS QUICKER WAY TO
END HOSTILITIES THAN
THE LEAGUE
SHANGHAI, Mar. 2.—The after
, math of the two attempts to blow
i up two Japanese warships resulted
; in a thorough search of river san -
! pans for the guilty Chinese who
:laid the mines. Two coolies have
'been arrested.
i Two regiments of Japanese
j troops were landed yesterday under
' a heavy barrage from the Japanese
I warships.
1 General Uyeda moved his divi
sional headquarters to a new posi
tion in the Kiangwan area Tues
day. The Japanese are not pushing
matters on the Chapei front be
cause of the present peace moves
at Geneva.
At Geneva optimism reigns as it
is generally believed the conference
^can amicably settle the Shanghai
1 trouble.
Japan anticipates keeping the
Shanghai and Manchurian issues
separated. In Shanghai, interna
tional police measures may have
to be taken.
At Tokyo, government officials
stated that the announcement of
the British admiral of a round -
; table conference at Shanghai, be
tween Japan and China, was pre
mature; that until Chinese troops
withdraw 12*/2 miles from Shang
| hai, will Japan agree to any sort
| of a truce.
Japan officials said they are of
i the opinion that a Japanese offen -
sive at Shanghai will settle mat -
ters quicker than the League
China and Japan are doing a
large buying business with Eng -
land, France and Germany. Air -
j planes, munitions and war material
and equipment of all kinds are be
; ing purchased. The extent of this
' business will continue so long as
: cash is paid.
OWN SETTLEMENT
i
! SHANGHAI, Mar. 2.— With the
i landing of additional Japanese re
I inforcements from the battleships
j in the river, the Japanese offensive
| began closing in on the Chinese
' 19th Army. The Chinese defenders
resisted steadily and every foot of
the battlefront was bitterly con
tested and there was an awful toll
of blood.
The Japanese said that they
found 200 dead Chinese soldiers at
| one of the cross roads where heavy
j fighting was going on. The Jap
anese casualties were not revealed.
The Japanese, as a result of the
i bitter fighting, succeeded in ad
I vancing from three-fourths to one
I mile in their offensive on Kiang
! wan. During the night the Japan
ese reinforcements were brought
up and the new lines consolidated.
With flames over 50 feet high,
300 feet deep and extending for
nearly a mile, eastern and south
ern Chapei is now a blazing group
of buildings and the fire is said
to be drawing close to the Inter
national Settlement.
CHINESE DRMY RETREHTS
IN FACE OF JXP OFFENSIVE
SHANGHAI, Mar. 2. (A5)—Japan
ese, after an intensive and bloody
offensive, occupied the North Rail
way station in the Chapei area and
the city of Liuso, 20 miles from
Shanghai.
The Chinese 19th Army is in a
general retreat. Japanese had fur
ther success in their offensive and
also occupdied Tachang and Miao
Chung Ch4n. The Chinese said
they would establish new lines at
,Nanziang and continue to defend
themselves against the Japanese.