#i'nuu*it Daily (Bateuraa
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 101. SEWARD, ALASKA,
SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
DEFENDANTS ARE
CONVICTED BY JURY
•HONOR SLAYING” CASE TO 15E
APPEALED SAN FRANCISCO
COCRT OF APPEALS
HONOLULU, April 30. (/P) — All
four defendants in the Joseph Ka
hahawai lynching case, Lt. Thomas
H. Massie, Mrs. Granville Fortes
cue, Albert Jones and E. J. Lord,
were convicted Friday night of
manslaughter by a racially mixed
jury which asked leniency.
The maximum penalty for man
slaughter in the Hawaiian Islands
is 10 years imprisonment.
The jury deliberated for 48 hours
and when the news spread that a
verdict had been reached every
available policeman was rushed to
the judiciary building and they
maintained perfect order both be
fore and after the verdict was
made known.
Cars bearing court officials and
other principles sped hastily to the
eourtroom also and when Judge
Davis, presiding at the trial, turn
ed lo th*- bailiff and asked if the
jury had reached a verdict, there
was no ot.'.er sound in the court
room except the remarks made by
court officials.
The bailiff announced that a
verdict had been reached and was
instructed to have the jury take
their seats in the jury box. Judge
Davis then asked the foreman if
they had reached a verdict and the
foreman replied in the affirmative.
Judge Davis then asked what their
decision was regarding Lieutenant
Massie.
“Guilty of manslaughter,” was
the foreman’s reply. The jury
foreman was queried separately as
to the jury’s decision regarding the
other three and each time he an
nounced “Guilty of manslaughter.”
Mrs. Thalia Massie, wife of Lt.
Thomas H. Massie, sobbed as the
verdict was read. She was the vic
tim of the admitted attack which
Ipd to the killing of the Hawaiian.
Mrs. Massie’s mother, Mrs. Gran
ville Fortescue, another defendant,
did not flinch at the verdict. Al
bert O. Jones and E. J. Lord did
not flinch either and showed no
emotion.
Montgomery Winn, defense coun
sel, gave notice of appeal.
Judge Davis placed the defend
ants in the custody of Capt. Ward
Mortman. Naval officer, and Davis
announced that their sentence
would be pronounced next Friday.
Chief Defense Attorney Clarence
Darrow, who made a brilliant de
fense, took no part in the final
proceedings. He said: “I am cer
tainly disappointed. I never ex
pected this.” Darrow also gave
notice that the case would be ap
pealed.
When the case is apoealed it wall
go to the Circuit Court of Appeals
in San Francisco.
The defendants were placed in
jail today as a safety precaution.
The Navy population of Honolulu
and Hawaii is indignant.
NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS
NORFOLK, Va., April 30.—John
II. Curtis, one of the Lindbergh
Norfolk intermediaries, failed to
return to his home here Thursday
> night and was away all day Friday.
The other Norfolk agents were
hopeful that contact would soon be
established with the kidnappers of
the Lindbergh child but aside from
that there were no other develop
ments.
TRAVELING GOVERNOR
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.—
Gov. James J. Rolph, Jr., of Cali
fornia, was to have breakfast at
4:30 this morning in Washington
and then take a plane for Cali
fornia. He expected to have din
ner this evening at the Biltmore
Hotel in Los Angeles.
BODY FOUND
CORDOVA, April 30. (/P)—Miss
ing since May last year, the body
ot’ James Chester Hambrick, who
was about 35 years of age, was
fcund at a place three miles from
here. It was believed that Ham
brick had fallen from his boat and
had succeeded in getting to the
beach but had died from expos
ure. Hambrick was known here
for many years as Jimmy Hayes.
OSS GI1ET Hi TWO
lim FUMES IBM
HERE THIS IFTEAIM
The two Loening amphibian air
planes of the Navy’s Alaska Suivey
| Expedition soared into Seward this
! afternoon arriving here about the
same time the plane tender, the
USS Gannet, arrived. The planes,
both identical, circled overhead for
some time while the Gannet was
docking and soon settled down to
rest upon the waters of Resurrec
tion Bay. The USS Gannet making
fast to the Seward dock.
The USS Gannet is commanded
by L. L. Rowe. It was the inten
tion of the expedition to remain
t in Seward five days, completing the
, final arrangements for the expe
dition to map and take pictures
of the southern shore of the Al
aska Peninsula in the vicinity of
Chignik Bay. Shelikof Strait and
the north shore of Kodiak Island.
The expedition is under the com
mand of Lt. Robert H. Harrell and
Lt. J. P. W. Vest pilots the two am
phibian planes.
The two planes flew to Seward
direct from Cordova. At Cordova
the planes were delayed somewhat
because of motor trouble and ad
verse weather conditions. The
planes were hoisted out of the wa
>er«at Cordova by one of the Cop
per River Railroad cranes so that
engine and planes could more eas
ily be put into condition again.
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McKINLEY PARK. April 30. (Spe
cial to The Gateway)—The Allan
Carpe scientists, who will study the
; cosmic ray on Mount McKinley,
after arriving here and finding
that the going would be heavy
overland to the base camp, reem
barked on the train for Nenana
and flew in by plane.
The Park Service rangers with
dog teams landed supplies and in
struments at the mountain.
The Park telephone line is out of
commission to Copper mountain
and no word has been received, but
it is believed the Lindley mountain
climbers are working from their
first base camp on Muldrow gla
cier at the base of Mount McKin
ley, establishing a new camp high
er up.
Heavy and numerous snowslides
are reported, but no accidents. The
weather remains clear.
SATIIER LEAVES
Pete Sather, master of the MS
Rolph, left for Nuka Bay Friday
evening with Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Madsen, Wm. Barnett and Dave
Downey. Mr. and Mrs. Madsen ar
rived from Seattle on the SS Yu
kon and are going out to the Down
ey and Babcock mine on Surprise
Bay, for a visit. Mr. Barnett ar
! rived from Anchorage on the train
Friday and will go to the Alaska
Hills mining property in Nuka Bay.
i Dave Downey returned to the Bab
I cock and Downey mine after hav
ing spent several weeks receiving
; medical treatment at the Seward
General Hospital for an injured
i hand
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E. F. Zuern, traveling saleman,
left on the SS Yukon for Valdez
‘ Friday.
THE EXTENDED HAND
It has always been Seward’s pleasure to receive and entertain mem
bers of the U. S- Navy, whether they are landsmen, blue water tars or
airmen.
The city will; have an opportunity for sustaining: its traditions with
the arrival of the USS Gannet and a crew of 60 men and two planes,
two pilots and four men, from Cordova.
There is always a warm spot in the heart of Seward for the Navy,
and it has been the city’s pleasure to receive and entertain its mem
bers, ranging from the commander-in-chief, admirals and down to the
happy young “gob.”
As an honor to Seward, the flag plane of the survey fleet headed for
Chignik Bay and environs has been christened the “Seward.” In Sew
' ard, the Jack Tars will be on Navy ground, since this is a Naval Reserve,
and whether they have orders or not they are welcome to take com
mand.
KHE DIME ENROUTE
TO Mill ISLE HON
I
PHOENIX, Ariz., April 30.—Gol
ney Seymore, Apache brave recent
ly convicted for the murder of
Miss Henrietta Schmerler, univer
sity co-ed, Friday began his trip
to McNeil Island where he will be
gin to serve his life term sentence.
It is generally believed that Sey
more will not be able to live for
long behind prison walls and offi
cials have given him seven years
to live in a prison environment be
fore he will pass away.
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LEAVE FOR TSITSIHAR
MUKDEN, Manchuria, April 30.
—The League of Nations inquiry
commission, composed of principle
member nations of the League, who
recently arrived in Mukden to make
an investigation of the situation
this recent war area, left Friday
for Tsitsihar. Tsitsihar was a re
cent “hot spot’’ in the battles in
Manchuria.
BE THROUGH IN JUNE
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.—
The Senate Banking Committee, in
announcing plans for investiga
tions on a larger scale into the ac
tivities of the rftfew York Stock Ex
change, said they expected to com
plete their work by mid-June.
BEAT LEVINSKY
CHICAGO, April 30— After being
floored in the first round. Mickey
Walker Friday night came back
strongly and fought so terrifically
that he succeeded in winning a
10-round decision over King Le
vinsky, a promising heavyweight
champion. Levinsky, who out
weighed Walker by a number of
pounds, recently was awarded a
newspaper decision over Jack
Dempsey. Eighteen thousand peo
ple saw the fight. Referee Eddie
Purdie voted for Levinsky but the
two judges voted for Walker. Le
vinsky weighed in at 195 and Walk
er at 172.
• Thursday’s Games)
NATIONAL
Cincinnati 7. Pittsburgh 6.
St. Louis 7, Chicago 12.
Brooklyn 11, Philadelphia 5.
New York at Boston, rain.
AMERICAN
Philadelphia 4, Washington 10.
Boston 1, New York 5.
Chicago 2, Cleveland 11.
Detroit 4, St. Louis 5.
PACIFIC COAST
Missions 9, Seattle 8.
Hollywood 4, Portland 13.
Sacramento 2, San Francisco 3
Oakland 2, Los Angeles 1.
(Friday’s Games)
NATIONAL
Brooklyn 6, Philadelphia 13.
New York 3, Boston 8.
Cincinnati 6, Pittsburgh 4.
St. Louis at Chicago, rain.
AMERICAN
Chicago 5, Cleveland 7.
Detroit at St. Louis, rain.
Boston 7, New York 8.
Philadelphia 1, Washington 2
PACIFIC COAST
Portland 6, Hollywood 1.
Missions 7, Seattle 5; 10 innings.
SMALL BOY BURNED
Said to be suffering from severe
burns sustained when in some man
ner he fell into a brush fire near
the Ely home today at Hunter, the
three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Ely was being rushed to Sew
ard to receive hospital attention
today. Mr. Ely is section foreman
at Hunter. The extent of the lad’s
burns was not made known but Dr.
A. D. Haverstock, of the Seward
General Hospital was said to have
gone to Woodrow in order to reach
the child with doctor’s aid as soon
as possible.
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EXPRESSES FEAR OF WAR
ISTANBUL, Turkey, April 30.—
Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian ruler,
expressed fear Friday of a war in
I the Far East which would involve
Russia.
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400 GO TO WORK
GREYS HARBOR, Wash., April
30.—Two mills and one logging
; camp will resume operations Mon
j day with 400 men on the payrolls.
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SELL GIRLS INSTALMENT PLAN
j LONDON, April 30.— Natives in
English Africa are selling their
daughters on the instalment plan.
Formerly they were sold C.O.D.
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TAX ON HORSE RACE BETS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30—
| The Senate Finance Committee
agreed on the suggestion to place
a 10 per cent tax on race track
: bets.
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THREE ATTACKED GIRL
HONOLULU, April 30. — Three
men were arrested here charged
with assaulting a 12-year-old Ha
waiian girl.
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FOUND RING IN SHOE
CHICAGO, April 30. —A local
| shoemaker upon starting to repair
i a pair of ladies shoes found a ring
I in one. “Ho! Ho!” said he, “what
! is this, a new form of proposal?”
He later learned the owner of the
| shoes had lest the diamond ring
which was valued at $5,000.
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MUST POSTPONE TRIP
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.—
President Hoover indicated Friday
to Governor James J. Rolph of
California that he did not think
he could pay the Pacific Coast a
visit this summer because of the
j serious economic condition in the
States which required his close at
tention to business affairs. Presi
dent Hoover must, therefoile, be
content with his weekly fishing
trips to his Rapidan River camp.
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LOOK FOR GREAT WAR
TOKYO, April 30- — Yesterday’s
! bombing of five Japanese officers
! has upset peace proposals for the
j time being. Five suspects were ar
| rested and included in these was an
j American from Chicago. Japanese
: authorities are satisfied the al
5 leged Korean bomb thrower was in
i the employ of Russian communists,
j It is reported here that Stalin
I looks for a great war in the near
| future in the Far East.
PASSES SECOND READING
DUBLIN, Ireland, April 30.—
President Eamorm de Valera s bill
to abolish the oath of allegiance to
King George succeeded in getting
over its most formidable hurdle
today when Fianna Fail and its
Labor colleagues passed it at its
second reading in the Dail Friday
night. The bill passed in the Dail
by a vote of 77 to 71 votes.
PRE-MIT MY INCIDENTS
EXPECTED RESULT III
FEW DEVELOPMENTS
SEATTLE, April 30. (JP) — May
Day throughout the world appear
ed today to be due for an unusual
amount of incidents as final touch
es were being given plans. The
j first scare regarding probable May
I Day incidents came from Vancou
i ver, B. C., where it is reported that
communists stole 1,000 pounds of
dynamite from a powder magazine
at Ashcroft and are enroute to
Vancouver to stage their May Day
celebration.
Further probable communistic
activities were revealed when po
lice were warned that they might
commandeer railroad trains on
that day in the vicinity of Kam
loops, to further make May Day a
I day of celebration.
Taking a hop to the United
; States’ southern neighbor. South
i America, we find that Chile also
! will probably have her share of ex
citement. Soldiers of that country
were called out today as a precau
' tion against possible uprisings on
May Day.
Returning to the United States,
we find that a giant mass meeting
is planned for New York with Nor
I man Thomas, Socialist leader, as
I the principle speaker. Many other
cities and various other countries
j are expecting extensive events as
j May Day is International Labor
, Day.
The outgoing list of passengers
on the SS Yukon, which left port
Friday night at 9 o’clock for Seat
tle and wayports, included the fol
lowing:
To Seattle — Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Barrows, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Daugherty, Mrs. Edw. Whitehead,
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wooll, F. C.
Wooll, Henry Lee, Leon Urbach,
Kenneth Urbach, Lawrence Ur
bach, Jack Hansen.
To Juneau — Allen Morgan, A.
Richard Rodes, Harold E. Bowman,
Geo. Anderson. Roger Paul. Chas.
H. Flory, Mrs. L. J. Jacobsen, John
J. Roberts.
To Valdez — Mr. and Mrs. Leon
Ensch, Jean Ensch, Robert Ensch,
Dorothy Ensch, E. F. Zuern.
To Ketchikan—Bill Falconer, S.
Lachman.
To Cordova — Mrs. H. E. Ray
mond, Edison E. Moutton, Peggy
O’Day, Mrs. E. W. Chambers.
FUNERAL SERVICE SUNDAY
Funeral services for Harry H.
Mitchell will be held Sunday at 2
p. m., in the chapel of the Seward
Funeral Parlor under the auspices
of the Pioneers of Alaska, Seward
Igloo. Interment will follow in the
Pioneer plot of the Seward ceme
tery.
Mrs. W- W. Ward left on this
morning’s train for Anchorage to
visit her daughter, Mrs. Lucille
Wilson, who recently underwent an
operation. Mrs. Wajrd will remain
in Anchorage for a week.
Henry Lucas, noted Alaska guide
! and ardent local golfer, departed
| today for Kenai where he will be
j the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Andy
j Simons at Lakeview.
HIGH JMESE OFFICIAL
OILS RESULT INJURIES
SHANGHAI, April 30.—President
Yawabata of the Shanghai Japan
ese Residents’ Association, one of
the seven high Japanese officials
who were injured in the bomb ex
plosion which occurred at a re
viewing stand in the Honkew area
Friday, died today as a result of
his injuries
The others, including General
Yoshinori Shirakawa, commander
of the Japanese army here; Ma
moru Shigemitsu, Japanese minis
ter to China; Consul General Ken
kichi Uyeda, who began the Shang
hai battle and later was replaced
by Yoshizawa, are at present in
j hospitals receiving treatment for
their injuries.
The peace negotiations in Shang
hai between the Japanese and
Chinese have been halted tempor
arily but they will be resumed as
soon as new men have been chosen
to replace the officials now in hos
piatls. Both the Chinese and Jap
anese have agreed to resume the
peace parleys.
OVER 900 PASSENGERS
LEAVE SEATTLE, ALASKA
SEATTLE, April 30. (A5)—The SS
Alaska, of the Alaska Steamship
! Company, sailed from Seattle at 9
i o’clock this morning with 309 pas
j sengers of whom 210 are cabin pas
sengers and 99 are steerage.
There were 38 passengers on the
vessel with tickets for Seward and
they included: L. B. Cpaulding, Mr.
they included: L. B. Spaulding. Mr.
C. N. Nelson, C. W. Cash, E. H.
Stroecker, J. H. Chandler, Mrs. Nora
Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. E. Wilkinson.
Geo. Nagle, H. S. Coffey, Miss
Jean Staser, A. C. Stewart, A.
Conin, Elmer Perry, Mrs. Walter
Johnson, J. Brenneman, Mr. and
Mrs. S- R. L. Foster, N. J. Nichol
son and 17 steerage.
TO FILM ESKIMOS
SEATTLE, April 30. — Metro
Goldwyn Mayer has chartered the
motorship Nanuk and will use that
vessel on a trip to the Arctic to
film the Eskimos. The Nanuk al
ready has made 38 trips to the Arc
tic. Twenty-seven players and di
rectors will be aboard the craft
when it starts its voyage north.
STOCKS DROP AGAIN
NEW YORK, April 30.—The stock
market suffered another attack
Friday of nervous selling and prin
ciple Issues were crowded down to
lower levels. Latest quotations gave
the Alaska Juneau 8^8; Chrysler
8%: Freeport 1434; General Motors
IOV21 Kennecott 7: Radio 4V2; Tri
Cont. 21/2; U. S. Steel 27^s: Cities
Service 4: U. S. Gas l1^; Big Mis
' souri 7 V2C.
MORE GO TO WORK
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.—
The Senate Banking and Currency
Committee approved the plan to
i employ a large number of clerks
i and experts for several weeks in
1 connection with the present inves
; tigation of Wall Street and stock
selling.
ON EXTENDED TRIP
Enroute to California on an ex
tended visit with his mother, Leon
I Urbach, local business man and
: president of the Chamber of Com
I merce, left on the SS Yukon, ac
; companied by his two sons. Mr.
i Urbach will attend the U. S. Cham
ber of Commerce convention and
! view the Olympic Games while in
the southland.
“Babe” Hayes, Alaska’s ambassa
dor without a portfolio, recently
visited San Francisco. “Babe” has
since returned to Seattle.
MAY DAY DANCE TONIGHT