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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 94.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENT!
DODSON-PEAGOCK
LOOK FOR IMPOBTSIIT
DEVELOPMENTS SOON;
HOPEWELL. N. J., April 22.—
Rumors continued to be heard on
every hand as to the latest devel
opments in the Lindbergh baby
kidnapping case. It is reported a
group of seven men were flown to j
Martha's Vineyard but what the
visitation was for. no one seems to
know. Colonel Lindbergh made
another secret plane flight Thurs
day.
Search for the Lindbergh baby
was confined yesterday to routine
# police investigation with private
negotiators reported inactive. In
dications of wire tapping on tele
nhon.e lines leading to the Lind
bergh estate led to New Jersey po
lice establishing a patrol.
Colonel Schwartzkopf, State po
lice head. Wednesday night was
reported to have ordered two sub
machine guns sent to the Newark
i airport. This gave rise to rumors
that the arms were to be used in
the kidnapping case to prevent hi
jacking.
Dean H. Dodson-Peacock, one of
the three Norfolk. Va„ Lindbergh
kidnap negotiators, passed through
Washington. D. C., enroute to New
York in a commercial ariplane.
He said he expected important de
« velopments soon
Absent two days on a mysterious
trip. Colonel Lindbergh drove home
about midnight. Lights shone in
many windows and activity was
apparent. Later an automobile ar
rived. owned and driven by a friend
of John H. Curtis of Norfolk. Dob
son Peacock went to New York to
‘ lose himself” to carry on the work.
EDCIfl WSLLSCt WEALTH
SHOWN BY BRITISH TIL
LONDON, April 21. (/P) — Edgar
n Wallace, the writer of detective
thrillers who died recently in Bev
erly Hills, Calif., is one of the few
British capitalists who did well last
year.
His income approximated $2,000,
000, putting him up in the same
class as tobacco and brewery mag
nates.
The list shows that Britain has
100 fewer millionaires than three
years ago when 485 were listed.
PEACE IS MERE MYTH
•' DESPITE Bill TREATIES
BERLIN, April 22. (JP) — Despite
some 8,000 peace treaties, mankind
has seen only 268 years of peace
in 3,400 years, say statistics com
piled by the Institute of Interna
tional law.
Even in these 268 years peace
was only relative, as minor con
flicts between remote tribes prob
ably escaped record.
The enduring peace promised by
the 8,000 pacts lasted only about
two years for each, it was figured.
100-YEAR-OLD WOMAN
> LIVES ON LAND GRANT
SAN BRUNO, April 21. (/P)—Mrs.
G. Valencia, 100- year - o Id San
Bruno woman, lives on the last
remaining parcel of a Spanish land
grant to the Sanchez family of
which she is a descendant.
PUTS OUT BLAZE WITH EGGS
LIBERAL, Kas., April 22. (JP)—
M. R. Patterson, en route to town
with a supply of eggs when his
automobile caught fire, used them
to extinguish the blaze. “I would
only have received 7 cents a dozen
for them anyway,” he said.
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DULUTH COAL RECEIPTS LARG
DULUTH, Minn., April 22. (JP).
Coal receipts at the Duluth-Supei
ior harbor, second largest in tl
United States in point of tonnaj
handled, have aggregated near
100,000,000 tons in the last decad
Receipts for 1931 were nearly 8
000,000 tons.
OLDTIMER CALLED
DAWSON, April 22. (/P)—Daniel
Coates, 72, one of the best known
pioneers of the Yukon and Alaska,
died Thursday, a victim of influ
enza. He is survived by a widow,
two brothers and two sisters.
PREMIER MACDONALD
BE TIM TO LONDON
LONDON, April 22.—Officials at
Felixtowe Airdrome said an air
plane had departed for Geneva
with urgent instructions from the
Air Ministry to bring Premier Mac
Donald back to London.
Medical advisors who accompan
ied Ihe Prime Minister to Geneva
are believed responsible for the in
structions. His eyes have caused
grave concern since a recent op
eration.
Grave concern was expressed for
MacDonald’s eyesight before he left
for Geneva as it was disclosed that
he was virtually blind for a few
moments recently after adjourning
a cabinet meeting because of his
condition. He left for Geneva de
spite the affliction but was in
structed to be very careful with his
eyes.
LUTE MUTCH KING
ILLEGED SWINDLED
STOCKHOLM, April 22.—Contin
ued investigation into the affairs
of the late match king, Ivar Kreu
ger, whose death at Paris disturbed
I the entire financial world, reveals
| that the Swedish financier made
his associates believe that he had
negotiated for secret match mono
polies in foreign countries, Italj
being one of these. These match
monopolies have now been found
not to exist.
Further falsification of the Kreu
ger books has been found by the
officials who are conducting the
investigation and as the investiga
tors are only about half through
the extent of falsification can not
yet be determined.
TARIFF WALL RAISED
LONDON, April 22.—Britain last
night raised her general tariff wall
a step higher, hitting many Amer
j ican products and becoming vir
| tually a high tariff country be
| cause of her advantage in the de
i creased exchange value of the
| pound.
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POLICE VISIT NEARBY HOMES
LOS ANGELES, April 22. (/P)—
Two hundred Los Angeles police
men who guard school crossings
were ordered to visit houses in the
vicinity of their work to become
acquainted with the residents.
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INDIAN SKELETONS FOUND
MARSHALL, Mo., April 22. (/P)—
Workmen cutting away a sharp
promontory to straighten the chan
nel of the Missouri River near Mal
ta Bend have unearthed more than
50 Indian skeletons apparently in
an aboriginal graveyard. Indian
relics also were found.
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THREE ACES IN DAY
OAKLAND, April 22. (JP)—'Three
golfers each made a hole in one on
the same day at the Castlewood
links. Mrs. C. R. Rankin sunk an
ace on a 162-yard par three hole
and accounted for her second hole
in one. Tom Pine aced a par three
eighth hole which measures 121
yards and E. H. Neilson accomplish
ed the feat on a par three, hole
which measured 249 yards.
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TO JURY ON TUESDAY
HONOLULU, April 22.—Mrs. Mas
sie was calm on the stand today
but her husband appeared to be
near a nervous collapse. The re
buttal will continue until Monday
and it is expected the case will be
given to the jury on Tuesday. Is
land residents seem to be indig
nant over the prosecution’s method
of securing evidence such as the
medical testimony.
! GOV. ROLPH BELIEVES
MOONEY IMPRISONED
JUSTLY: NO PARDON
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22. —
Gov. James J. Rolph denied a par
i don to Tom Mooney. Governor
| Rolph is the fourth to refuse him
1 a pardon. Mooney obviously was
; disappointed. His friends will con
! tinue the struggle for his liberty.
Governor Rolph denied a pardon
to Mooney because he believed
Mooney was imprisoned justly for
his part in the bombing of the Pre
! pa redness Dav parade at San Fran- :
I cisco in 1916 in which 10 were
killed and over 40 injured. Mooney
lias been in San Quentin prison
| fcr 15 years, denying any connec
tion with the outrage.
I Mayor Jimmie Walker of New
, York and three attorneys present
ed application for the pardon last
December.
The Governor said he studied the
application and record of the trial
for five months before reaching a
decision.
Mooney took the decision imper
turbedly at San Quentin. But it
! was a crushing blow for his aged
| mother, who had toured the coun
! try in his behalf.
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SZE RESIGNS
j NANKING, China, April 22—Dr.
: Alfred Sze, Chinese minister to
I London, resigned Thursday be
casue of his ill health.
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VETERAN ANSWERS CALL
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, April 22.
Warren Keifer, 96, a Civil
Wair major general, died. He was
a former speaker in the national
House.
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PILOT KILLED
FORT WAYNE, Ind., April 22.—
Lieut. George Hill, airmail pilot
and World War aviator, was killed
here when his plane stalled and
fell 300 feet after a flight from
South Bend.
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ARRIVE AT MUKDEN
MUKDEN, Manchuria, April 22.—
The League of Nations commis
sioners investigating the Sino
Japanese situaiton, arrived today
to begin studies of Manchurian an
gles of the situation.
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READY IN A WEEK
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22.—
The new proposed billion dollar tax
bill will be ready for presentation
in a week.
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“OKEII BEER” THEME SONG
NEW YORK, April 22.— Mayor
Jimmie Walker stated that plans
for the great “We Want Beer” pa
rade are coming along nicely and
that a theme song has been writ
ten entitled “Okeh Beer.”
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PROHIBIT LOW FLYING
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22.—
The Department of Commerce is
sued a warning prohibiting avia
tors from flying low over the Olym
pic Games; 1,000 feet altitude is
the minimum.
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SOLD ITS HIDE
COLORADO SPRINGS, April 22.
—A. E. Sisson solved the problem
when the wolf appeared at his
door. He killed it and sold the pelt
for food for his family.
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BLAMES “BEARS”
LONDON, April 22. —Sir Henri
Detreding, British oil magnate, Fri
day charged that slump of Royal
Dutch Petroleum Company shares
on the market Thursday was mani
pulated by a bear attack on him
and his companies. He said the
attack originated with a Paris syn
| dicate backed by Moscow.
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APPOINTED TO BENCH
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.—At
j torney A. Clark, 30 years of age,
j has been appointed to the Circuit
j Court bench by Gov. James Rolph.
! Judge Clark said he would temper
| his verdicts with charity and jus
tice.
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* TODAY’S “NUGGETS” *
* A Senate Committee swoop- *
* ed down upon Wall Street *
* bears. Which sent the Alaska *
* Game Commission scurrying *
* to Gotham to see that all were *
* accompanied by guides. *
* ★ ★ ★ *
* At least the move to exter- *
* minate the bears of Wall *
* Street should keep John Holz- *
* worth and Stewart Edward *
* White busy for a time. *
* ★ ★ ★ *
* Now that Washington is out *
* to exterminate the Wall Street *
* bears, it might place a bounty *
* on the wolves. *
'k ☆ *
* Why not make it a clean *
* "sweep- Exterminate the Wall *
* Street bears, pelt the wolves *
* and slaughter the bulls and *
* give the meat to the unem- *
* ployed? *
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WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22.—
Charles Dawes appeared before the
House Ways and Means Committee
in opposition to the proposed pay
ment of soldiers bonus. He de
clared conditions in the country
are getting better.
In starting the administraiton’s
fight against the soldiers bonus,
Dawes, chairman of the Recon
struction Finance Corporation, de
clared that passage of the Patman
bill for issuance of $2,000,000,000 In
currency to pay bonuses would have
disastrous effect upon the country’s
I currency system and credit struc
ture of the country.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL
Brooklyn 3, Boston 6.
New York 5, Philadelphia 4.
Cincinnati 2, Chicago 3.
St- Louis 6, Pittsburgh 7; the
Cardinals have now been defeated
six times straight.
AMERICAN
Detroit 5, Cleveland 3.
Philadelphia 8, New York 6.
Boston 1, Washington 0.
Chicago-St. Louis; rained.
PACIFIC COAST
Portland 6, Missions 5.
Hollywood 3, Seattle 2.
Los Angeles 4, Sacramento 2.
Oakland 6, San Francisco 3.
AVIATORS TO CONVENE
ROME, Italy, April 22.—This city
in June will be host to 100 aviators
who have flown the Atlantic. A
number of Americans have been
extended invitations and accepted.
Colonel Chas. A. Lindbergh sent
his regrets.
REPRESENTATIVE DIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22.—
Another Congressman, Representa
tive Edward M. Beers, Republican
of Pennsylvania, died in a hospital
here Thursday. Representative
Beers was 55 years of age and had
; served in Congress since 1923. His
home was at Mount Union, Pa.
$250,000 STORM DAMAGE
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.—The
damage to southern California by
the gale is estimated at $250,000.
There was no loss of life but two
fishing barges were lost at sea as
well as considerable other small
boat loss and damage on shore.
CALIFORNIA MILL STARTED
The Elm Mining Company is
making a 300-ton mill test run at
the McCormick mine on the Tuo
lumne River near Jacksonville,
Calif., being operated under lease
and bond.
W. A. MacKenzie, minister of
mines of British Columbia, advo
cates a return to the system of
grubstaking prospectors who will
spend this summer in the gold dis
tricts of the province. He is is
suing a bulletin on lode gold re
gions of promise.
It cost Columbus approximately
$2,800.30 to discover America.
UNEMPLOYED PARADE
PHILADELPHIA, April 22.—Sev
eral clashes occurred between the
police and the unemployed here
Thursday when the unemployed
paraded on the city streets. There
were no injuries and no property
damage was reported.
‘HONOR'CASE TRIAL ,
ADJOURNED FOR DAY i
HONOLULU, April 22. (JP)—With 1
court adjourned until tomorrow, 1
Dr. Joseph Catton, alienist who 1
helped convict Winnie Ruth Judd,
and Dr. Paul Bowers, arrived from 1
California to examirte Lieutenant *
Massie for the prosecution.
The court is undecided yet on
the prosecution’s demand that the
paper torn up by Mrs. Massie be
admitted as evidence.
Prosecutor Kelley announced he
intends asking a directed verdict
of manslaughter against Lieuten
ant Massie in the murder case
wherein Massie and three defend
ants are charged with slaying the 1
native, Joseph Kahahawai, who
was accused of attacking Massie’s
wife. He had made no decision
regarding the other three.
SCIENTISTS IN SEARCH
OF MYSTERIOUS RAY
Allen Carpe, scientist, and party ■
arrived from Seattle on the SS Al
aska enroute to McKinley Park.!
Cosmic ray-detecting apparatus
preceded the party. From the top
of the majestic McKinley “counts”,
of cosmic ray frequency and inten
sity will be recorded.
Cosmic rays are many times more
powerful than X-rays. It is hoped,
to establish definitely that cosmic!
rays are photons, or darting par-!
tides, such as light, or X-rays.
The significance of this explora- |
tion may be but briefly imagined
when it is said that the rays ap
pear to be similar to starlight in
that they are due to events which
took place millions of years ago at
remote portions of the cosmic.
Alaska is but one of 14 widely
separated parts of the world in
which scientists are conducting in
vestigations this Rummer of the
enigma.
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES
BIG GOLD VEINS FOUND
AUKLAND, N. Z., April 20—Eight
gold veins have been discovered in
the Aroha mountains, 6Q miles from j
here, it was reported. The reports 1
said one of the veins was 50 feet'
wide in two places.
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ALARM REFLECTED
MOSCOW, April 22.—Soviet Rur
sia’s alarm over the possibility of
serious disturbances in Manchuria |
was reflected in newspaper head
lines, while editorial comment ac
cused Japanese militarists of seek
ing a pretext for war with the So
viets.
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SHEEP LEAD CATTLE IN PROFITS
HELENA, Mont., April 21. (/P)—
Sheep and wool sales added $11,
360,000 to the agricultural wealth of
Montana in 1931. Beef cattle pro
duced wealth totaling $11,069,000,
dariy products, $9,943,000, and
wheat, $5,779,000.
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DROWNED THREE CHILDREN
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 22.
—Mrs. E. Edibutt drowned her three
children yesterday afternoon by
throwing them down a well in the
backyard of their home and then
jumped down herself. The hus
band rescued her. Authorities said
the mother suddenly became in
sane.
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IT’S DIFFERENT NOW!
PARIS, April 22. —The French
government is much concerned
over America’s retaliatory discrim
ination of her exports. The U. S.
government is said to have an
nounced the 50 per cent tax on
French imports will remain until
France lowers her discriminatory;
tax from American products.
ME PROGRESS IDE
COMPROMISE BETWEEN
0. FRENCH PLAN
GENEVA, April 22. — The most
mpressive gathering of world
itatesmen in the history of the
jeague of Nations began in Geneva
rhursday when the premiers and
foreign ministers of every great
>ower except Japan met informally
or discussion of outstanding inter
lational problems.
There was considerable early op
tmism expressed concerning the
mtcome of the conversations, par
icularly in regard to possible solu
tion of the long standing France
Italian deadlock on Naval limita
tions.
Premiers and foreign ministers
conferred on world disarmament
olans today but made little prog
ress toward compromise between
the French proposal for an inter
national peace army and the Am
erican proposal for abolition of of
fensive guns.
American Secretary of State
Btimson assured Premier Tardiea :.
Df France that America would not
participate in the French plan.
ALBERTA SNOWSTORM
CALGARY, Alberta, April 22. (TP)
—A snow and wind storm has
swept this province the past 30
hours, marooning automobiles and
knocking down telegraph and tel
ephone lines. A brief letup came
Thursday followed by a renewal of
the storm. This is no loss of hu
man life but the property damage
is large. It is believed livestock
loss in the hills will be consider
able.
PARTY WILL BLAZE A
TRAIL FOR GOLD FIELD
HYDER, Alaska, April 22-—A
prospecting party comprising Er
nest Blue, Tom Waters and Blackie
McRitchie will leave as soon as
weather conditions are favorable
on a prospecting trip into the little
known region surrounding the
headwaters of Taylor Creek, a trib
utary of the upper Nass River.
The region for which tlje party
is heading lies about 90 miles
northeast of Meziadin Lake and is
said to be highly mineralized. Sam
ples of rich float have been brought
out by the few prospectors who
have visited the region and evi
dence of placer deposits have also
been found.
SEA FLIER, SAVED ONCE,
TO BRAVE ATLANTIC
COPENHAGEN, April 22. (TP) —
Christian Johannsen, the Danish
aviator who last year was rescued
with his companion after a forced
‘landing” in the Atlantic, is going
bo have another shot at a trans
Atlantic flight, both ways this
time.
He has signed a contact with the
Junkers company, it is reported, for
i flight in April or May to New
ifork and back via Paris and Ber
in.
REAL MONEY IN SIGHT
CHICAGO, April 22.—A wave of
Dptimism is apparent among the
school teachers who rarely have
seen pay checks these last 12
months. The city’s finances are
well on the road to recovery and
beginning in June teachers will
receive checks regularly.
BIG DAM PROJECT
PASADENA, Calif., April 22.—
rhe contract was awarded yester
day for construction of a huge dam
on which work will start in 10
days at a cost of $7,500,000. From
300 to 400 men will be employed
for two years.
Radio reception at Nuka Bay
from KFQD, Anchorage, is the same
as in Seward and the programs,
says Mine Owner Dave Downey, are
enjoyed immensely.