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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 59. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 11.1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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LIFE DE PRESIDENT
CHIEF EXECUTIVE ESCAPES
FUSILLADE OF SHELLS
WITH INJURIES
LIMA, Peru, Mar. 11.—Additional
•details have been made public as
to the shooting and wounding of
President Luis Sanchez Cerro in the
center aisle of the Miraflores
Church last Sunday.
The details say that a nattily
» dressed youth stepped up beside
President Cerro and fired a pistol
at the President at close range.
The slim, militant President fell
bck against companions, clutch
ing his left shoulder, where the
bullet penetrated.
The assailant again raised his
pistol and fired. Colonel Antonio
■Rodriguez, chief of the military
household, leaped in front of the
President, shielding him from the
bullet. Colonel Rodriguez fell to
the floor, seriously wounded.
President Cerro sprang forward
drawing his pistol. The would-be
assassin stood his ground and fired
a third time. Then, before the
President could obtain a position
where he could shoot without eh
4 dangering women and children in
the church, his aide, Luis Solari,
fired at the attacker.
The bullet from Solari’s gun
struck the assassin, whose name
was given as Jose Melgar, member
of the Aprista party. Blood spurt
ed from Melgar’s neck and the
crowd of society women in the
church screamed wildly.
Melgar clasped one hand against
his wound, stood still, raised his
pistol and fired repeatedly directly
at President Cerro. Four other
persons were wounded as the crowd
fled. Melgar emptied his pistol and
turned to flee, but was captured.
The church crowd reassembled
and threatened to lynch Melgar but
police rushed him to jail. President
Sanchez Cerro walked from the
church to an automobile and was
taken to a hospital.
Later, the government announc
ed the country was quiet and no
danger existed of an Aprista party
outbreak, despite their repeated
revolutionary plottings and threats
against the President.
President Cerro, who has already
been wounded 16 times during his
military and revolutionary career,
will be at his desk within a few
days.
CONTROVERSY LOOMS
SEATTLE, Mar. 11.—Seattle’s ma
yoralty election appears to have
just started as John Dore, the vic
torious candidate, seeks to oust
Robert Harlan, present acting ma
yor, who was defeated at the elec
tions. Dore has filed suit against
Harlan to remove him from office
but Harlan says that he intends to
continue on in office until the term
he was appointed for expires in
June of 1933.
CABINET CRISIS LOOMS
PARIS, Mar. 11.—A cabinet crisis
looms here as cabinet members and
government officials differ strong
ly on the measure providing for
universal suffrage or giving women
of France the right to vote. A
number of cabinet members have
threatened resignation unless an
other vote is taken on the measure.
COSTLY PRAYER
TULSA, Okla., Mar. 10.—While
Mrs. Charles Wesley was kneeling
in prayer at the Trinity Episcopal
Church, a thief seized her purse
which she had placed on a seat be
hind her. The purse contained
diamonds valued at $3,400.
BOARD MEMBER
WASHINGTON, D. C-, Mar. 10.—
Vulosko Vaiden of Farmville, Va.,
was nominated by President Hoo
ver as a member of the Federal
Farm Board. Vaiden will succeed
George Cooksey.
EDMONTON, Alberta, Mar. 11.—
There are a number of persons who
would like to claim relationship to
Albert Johnson, demented trapper
who was dislodged from his cabin
in the Rat River country and
brought to justice when he was
killed by a posse of Canadian
Mounted Foiicemen.
Johnson, when he died, was the
possessor of a small fortune of furs,
some gold dust and jewelry. A
Portland woman already has made
a claim that Johnson was her bro
ther and that he escaped from an
insane asylum in the United States
a few years ago. As far as can be
ascertained Johnson left no known
relatives.
Fll BOV ALMOST SENT
DEMPSEY TO CLEANERS
IN ITCH AT AM
AKRON, Ohio, Mar. 11. (iP)—Jack
I Dempsey, in an exhibition bout
-here Thursday night knocked out
| his youthful belligerent opponent
; after a round and a half of terrific
(body slugging.
Hank Hankinson, weighing 205
| pounds, a Lancaster, Ohio, farm
| boy, was the lad who sent the for
| mer champion reeling into the
I ropes with a left to Dempsey's jaw
\ and then swarmed all over him in
| a vicious mopping up maneuver.
I Dempsey, however, unleashed a
; strong left and a hefty right : o
Kankinson’s jaw which put him
1 down as the bell ended for the first
| round.
Hankinson came out of his cor
1 ner at the start of the second round
| gamely but was apparently suffer
ing from the effect of his knock
1 down in the first round and he was
'only able to stand up against
I Dempsey for one minute and 40
(seconds of the second round when
[Dempsey knocked him out.
AUTOS CROSSING BORDI
[016 SEARCHED
MEXICO-CITY, Mar. 11.—It is re
ported that all automobiles and
vehicles crossing from the United
States into Mexico are being
searched carefully by officials of
the Mexican War Department.
The Mexican officials are search
ing for arms, ammunition and
other war supplies which they have
good reason to think are being
smuggled in and it is feared that
another general uprising will re
sult in the arms can be taken to the
interested parties in Mexico.
SOUSA BURIED
WASHINGTON, D- C., Mar. 11.—
John Philip Sousa, noted band
leader, who died Sunday from a
heart attack, was given a funeral
with full military honors Thursday
and the body was laid to rest in
the Congressional cemetery here
i beside his father and mother. Tire
; funeral services were held in an im
provised chapel at the Marine bar
i racks.
100 RESCUED FROM ICE FLOES
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Mar. 11.
(&)—Boatmen rescued about 100 of
the 700 fishermen stranded on ice
floes in the Gulf of Finland, which
broke loose during storms. Others
with horses were seen huddled on
two floes but rescuers were unable
to reach them. Later word from
Helsingfors says that an icebreaker
rescued more fishermen from the
ice floes. About 300 fishermen are
still on the ice.
STAMPS NO. 1 ON NEW CAR
[ DETROIT, Mar. 11.—Henry Ford
! Thursday officially stamped No. 1
| on the first car turned out in his
new' line of eight-cylinder cars.
TO SETTLE DISPUTE
JAP DELEGATION INSTRUCTED
NOT TO VOTE ON THE
PROGRAM
GENEVA, Mar. 11. (/P) — The
League of Nation’s assembly Thurs
day approved of a three-point pro
gram for the settlement of the
Sino-Japanese controversy. The as
sembly said that agreements reach
ed by military pressure would not
be recognized by member powers
of the League.
The assembly also accepted the
Chinese thesis that the assembly
I was competent to deal with the en
tire Far East question and power
was requested to assist in main
I taining order in war-torn Shang
| hai.
| A committee of 19 members of
j the assembly is to supervise the
; peace making between the Chin
| ese and the Japanese and to set up
machinery for the e vacation of
Japanese troops.
The Japanese delegation at To
kyo was instructed not to vote on
the program adopted by th* League
which leaves the League in a quan
dary as towhether Japan adepts the
1 program or not. The Leago'e knows,
however, that Japan is not v^en on
accepting their prograix
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CHIEF OF POLICE
FEELS UNEASY TO
ANSWER QUERIES
REPORTERS ASK EXPLANATION
OF DISCREPANCIES IN
INFORMATION
| HOPEWELL, N. J., Mar. 11. I/P)—
I The State police chief charged the
i press with attempting to dictate to
; the police department and inter
fering with police work. The police
chief discontinued replying twice
daily to pre.s questionaires and
I from now on information will be
' issued in bulletin form.
| For some time reporters felt that
j they were not receiving accurate
I information from the police chief
i and the action was precipitated
! when the reporters asked for an
| explanation of the discrepancies of
their previous answers.
On different days, the police an
swered that there were no blood
hounds available to follow up the
trail taken by the kidnappers. It
was known that more than 200
bloodhounds could have been made
available within two hours after
the kidnappers took the child out
the nursery window.
RELICS OF PRE-IRON AGE
! FOUND WEST OF SEWAIID
Additional evidence of ancient
civilization in Westward Alaska is
supplied The Gateway by a cor
respondent.
This evidence of habitations long
before the “Iron Age” is seen in the
discovery of hundreds of bone and
ivory implements, needles, spear
and arrow points, dug from the
banks around the hot springs which
are located between Moller Bay
and Herndeen Bay.
Because of these hot springs, but
primarily on account of being a
means of rapid egress and ingress
to the Pacific from Bering Sea, resi
dents of that part of the Alaska
Peninsula feel a road across the
j portage is justifiable. It is said
I the project would be inexpensive
; to build and one of the most wel
| corned innovations on the entire
| peninsula.
-APPOINTED PRESIDENT
SAN JOSE, Calif., Mar. 11—Rev.
J. J. Lyons was appointed president
of the Santa Clara University
; Thursday.
PROSPECTIVE GEODUCKS
1ST EXERCISE CURE
HER TAKING DRINK
WASHINGTON, D. C-, Mar. 11.—
Prospective prohibition agents are
barred if they have had a drink of
liquor within a year before taking
the civil service examinations, but
not if the drink was “for medicinal
or official purposes.”
This was developed in hearings
before the House Appropriations
Committee on the independent of
fice supply bill. Commissioner
Campbell was being questioned by
Representative Boylan, Democrat
of New York, who asked: “Let us
assume that a man does take a
drink on advice of his physician;
does that disbar him?”
Campbell replied: “No that does
i net if the drink is for medicinal
| purposes or official purposes.” He
i added that a man who took a fes
! tive drink, on his birthday or on
| his wedding anniversary, would be
; rejected under requirements of
: Prohibition Director Woodcock.
GUDIM POLICE ME
! CHECKING UP ANGLE 1
I BUBY KIDNAPPING CASE
—
| VANCOUVER, B. C., Mar. 11—
The Royal Canadian Mounted Po
i lice here are investigating another
angle which appears closely con
nected with the Lindbergh child
j kidnapping case.
The police are questioning a wo
man here who is alleged to have
known about the kidnapping al
! most even before it happened in
' New Jersey. Other circumstantial
| evidence has also been discovered
! which seems to connect her with
jthe kidnapping case in that she had
met both Henry “Red” Johnson,
, former chauffeur of Colonel Lind
bergh, and also Betty Gow, the
j nurse of the Lindbergh child. ,
The Vancouver woman met Miss
; Gow and Johnson about two years
! ago here. Johnson was then a
: sailor with a yacht, making an Al
askan cruise and Miss Gow, then a
! sweetheart of Johnson, was visit
ing in Vancouver
(TEXT OP RESOLUTION
! SOLUTION HOSTILITIES
| .COMPLETED BY LEIIGUE
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j GENEVA, Mar. 11.—The drafting
committee of the League of Na
| tions has completed the text of its
j resolution seeking a solution of not
| only the Shanghai hostilities, but
I also a solution of the Manchurian
problem as well.
The contents of the resolution
; were not specifically made public
1 but it is declared that it provides
| that both sides—the Japanese and
| the Chinese—withdraw their arm
| ed forces from Shanghai. No date
was set for this withdrawal,
i The resolution also carries feat
! ures of the Stimson policy which
! provides that any territorial gains
| which may be resultant of force
I will not be recognized by other
I powers.
J The resolution was submitted to
1 the Tokyo and the Nanking gov
ernments Thursday and early ac
tion is hoped for.
MEN GOING TO WORK
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Mar. 11.
—The Portland Cement Company
of this city, heartened by the de
mand for building cement, has de
cided to put 175 additional men on
the payroll. The list of additional
workers will probably be increased
to 200 in a short while.
POLICEMAN TAKES TO SKATES
STEVENS POINT, Wis., Mar. 11.
(IP)—This city has its first “mount
ed” policeman. Officer John Nolan
straps on a pair of ice skates to fa
cilitate the patrolling of his “beat,”
the municipal skating rink. Hie
glides eight hours a day.
TEN INJURED
HOUSTON, Texas, Mar. 11.—Ten
persons were injured in a wind
storm that struck in the vicinity
of Houston. Fifteen residences were
damaged in the region of Deep
Water, Deer Park, Lynchburg and
Highlands.
WANTS TO BE RELEASED FROM
PRISON SO CAN UNDER
TAKE HUNT
CHICAGO, Mar. 11. (/P)—A1 Ca
pone Thursday said that he was
“pretty sure’' that he could get Col
onel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh’s baby back if he were re
leased on a bond from the Cook
County jail where he is confined,
pending an outcome of his appeal
for conviction on tax evasion
charges.
The gang leader insisted that he
“never dreamed that the Lind
bergh kid would be kidnapped. I
had absolutely nothing to do with
it, but it is probable that I could
do as much as anybody alive to
ward getting him back.”
Capone said that he was willing
to put up a bond of $200,000 for his
release until his conviction was
either confirmed or revised. Mean
while, he would aid in the search
for the baby.
Capone made this statement af
ter he had been visited by Arthur
Brisbane, editorial director of the
Hearst newspapers, and Harry Read,
city editor of the Chicago Evening
American. Brisbane said, after a
conference with Capone, that he
was not acting as an official repre
sentative of either the police au
thorities or the Lindbergh family
| Federal judges and officials were
reticent when they were asked
about their attitude toward freeing
i A1 Capone on a bond.
SWEDISH PRINCE SHIES
OP RIGHT TO THE
j LONDON, . Mar. 11. (JP) — Prince
Lenhart, grandson of King Gustav
of Sweden, was married to Miss
| Karin Nissvandt, daughter of a
wealthy Stockholm business man,
for whom the prince renounced his
right to the throne of Sweden at
the prince’s row at the registry
office.
Prince Lenhart and his bride-to
be came £ere a week ago because
the King refused to consent to
their marriage. Unable to be mar
ried in Sweden, they came to Lon
don. The newlyweds plan to go to
Switzerland soon and will make
their home there. They will raise
cattle in Switzerland.
NEGRO PRISONER KILLED
NEW ORLEANS, Mar. 11. (/P)—
Percy Thompson, negro prisoner,
was killed yesterday in a second
attempt to break free from jail
after he hd killed three Policemen
and wounded a jail trustee. He died
on the way to the hospital.
DAUGHTER WEDS
WESTCHESTER, Pa., Mar. 11 —
Miss Ethel Peters Butler, daughter
of Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, be
came the wife of Lieut. John Wehle,
of Norwalk, Conn., amid a colorful
assemblage of Marine officers and
prominent guests here.
APPOINTMENT CONFIRMED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 11—
The Senate Thursday confirmed
the appointment of J. Lindley
Green as Register of the U. S. Land
Office for Alaska at Anchorage.
NO MARITAL TROUBLE
HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 10. —Clark
Gable, screen star, denied that the
recent departure of Mrs. Gable for
New York was caused by marital
difficulties. He said she merely had
taken their two children to a New
York school and he would join her
as soon as he finished his present
picture.
ALASKA JUNEAU
ORE ENRICHES
1 DEEP LEVEL
TWENTY-EIGHT DOLLAR ORE IS
REVEALED IN WORK ON
600-FOOT LEVEL
That the Alaska Juneau has dis
covered workable ore bodies rang*
from $2.60 per ton to more than
$28 in its deep level exploratory
operations, in progress for more
than a year past, was revealed re
cently in an announcement from
San Francisco that was published
in various newspapers.
The values were found in pros
pecting operations on the No. B
level, 600 vertical feet below the
present main haulage level.
* Text of Announcement
The following article appeared in
the Boston News Bureau, one of
the nation’s leading financial pub
lications, a short time ago:
San Francisco — Alaska Juneau
Gold Mining Company, in develop
ment work 600 feet vertically below
the tunnel where main mining op
erations now are being carried on,
has struck ore that averages as
high as $28 a ton in gold for a
distance of 15 feet in a drift 600
feet below the haulage level. ThL.
compares with an average value of
about $4.50 a ton for the full 600
foot depth and with less than the
$1 a ton in main operations thru
out all of 1931.
The prospectii : winzes are being
I deepened from )ur to seven feet
I a day with prosp cting levels turn -
ed off from the zinze about every
100 feet. Prospecting now is being
done on No. 8 level, or about 600
feet below the main haulage tun
nel.
| Working west from the incline
; winze on the 600-foot level the first
| 15 feet averaged $6.98 gold a ton,
! the next 10 feet averaged $8.72 a.
| ton and the next 15 feet averaged
' $28.32 a ton.
i Prospecting east from the winze
! on this level, the first 20 feet av
| eraged $5.84 a ton, the next 10 fee*
I $2-60 and the next 10 feet $11.47.
I Juneau’s mill during 1931 hand
led approximately 4.162,350 tons of
ore, against 3.924,460 in 1930 and
2,836,440 in 1929. This is an av
erage of just slightly less than 4.
I 900,000 tons for the last three years.
| If the mfill is operated under
! present conditions the higher grade
| ore now available is sufficient to
i maintain operations for another 10
! years. However, because of exist
j ing conditions the new ore will not
I be reflected in operations for some
j time, possibly not for more than a
year.
ON UPGRADE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 11.—
American steamship business is on
the upgrade, R. Stanley Dollar of
San Francisco declared, following
a call on President Hoover.
APPROVE *TAX
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 11.—
A general manufacturers sales tax
with a rate of two and one-fourth
, percent to raise $625,000,000 in rev
jenue was approved by the House
Ways and Means Committee.
ENGAGEMENT ENDS
j ST. LOUIS, Mar. 11.—The 35-year
engagement of Julian K. Glasgow.
70, and Miss Laura Maude Goff, 58,
ended last month when the pair
were married. Recently Glasgow
was taken to a hospital seriously
ill. He died late Friday.
COLLIER ABANDONED
NEW YORK, Mar. 11.—The dis
abled collier Debardeleben was
abandoned Thursday off Nantuck
ett, Mass. There were 34 members
in the crew. The ship was not
abandoned earlier because of the
heavy sea, which made it impossi
ble for the crew to board the vessel
standing by.