MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 53. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY. MARCH 4,1932. PRICE TEN CENTS
PRESIDENT HOOVER PLACES SE
CRET SERVICE MEN ON
THE CASE
TRENTON. N. J„ Mar. 4, —After
a day of running down every avail
able clue nothing further was
learned Thursday as to the where
abouts of the Lindbergh baby, kid
napped Tuesday evening from the
nursery of his parent’s estate at
Hopewell.
The only major development in
the case yesterday was the send
ing of another note, with hand
writing similar to that of the note
found in the crib and with a pe
culiar toe-shaped mark. The note
said that $50,000 was wanted for
the return of the baby and that
the sum must be paid in bills of
$20 or less.
Lindbergh’s hope of communi
cating with the abductors dwin
dled yesterday as he believed that
the extensive publicity which the
case has received and the intensive
search by the police, will make any
attempt at communication almost
impossible.
The Lindbergh’s made public an
appeal in which they wished and
noped that “whoever is in posses
sion of the child to communicate
with them.” Every facility was as
sured the abductors so that they
may return the child without any
personal fear for themselves.
The United States secret service
vas yesterday placed by President
Hoover to work on the case
It is stated that Colonel Lind
oergh is willing to pay anything
-co have the baby returned safely.
11 a. m. REPORT, TODAY
HOPEWELL, N. J., Mar. 4. (/P)—
The Lindbergh baby is still miss
ing. Police revealed that an anon
ymous phone call to Colonel Lind
oergh at midnight had been inter
cepted in an attempt to trace the
call The police declined t-o answer
reporters whether Lindbergh will
grant immunity.
He said he would pay any ran
som. Police exhausted a hundred
clues and now do not know where
cjo look or whether the baby is
still alive.
Lindbergh authorized radio sta
tions to broadcast an appeal to
the kidnappers asking them to get
in touch with them. Another sleep
iess night was spent by the parents.
100,000 SEARCH FOR BABE
* NEW YQRK, Mar. 4, —A conser
vative estimate placed on the num
ber of peace officers and cooper
ating citizens engaged in the hunt
for the Lindbergh baby, is placed
at 100,000.
The whole Eastern half of the
United States and Canada became
a field for the nation's greatest
man-hunt and thousands of aut
omobiles were stopped, while every
bridge, ferries, railroads, steam
ship lines, interurban busses and
other methods of travel were care
fully guarded.
HIDEOUT REPORTED
BOSTON, Mar. 4, —The child of
Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh’s, kidnapp
ed Tuesday night, was reported,
in a letter mailed by a woman in
Boston, to be held captive in a
small New Jersey town.
The letter is said to have been
mailed by an elderly woman of for
eign extraction and a wide search
is now under way for her- The let
ter was taken from the mails and
opened by authorities.
LONDON, Mar. 4, —The Lind
bergh baby kidnapping case over
shadows even news of the war in
the Far East and pushed aside ar
ticles regarding Great Britain’s
economic recovery in the majority
of the papers of the British press
The British public is horrified
at the ruthlessness of the act and
the British press editorially e x
pressed themselves in .saying that
the act is an open challenge to civ- I
ilized government.
FIGHTING OVER SOON
TOKYO, M a r. 4, (/P)—Govern
ment officials said they are confi
dent that war will be over soon;
! they believe the Chinese army is
! so shattered that it will be unable
; to return to the conflict. Efforts
[ are now being concentrated to se
curing an early round-table con
ference with powers at Shanghai.
1 urider the League of Nations plan
CHEAT HI IS ON
HOIO TO HEM!
LONDON. Mar. 4. —Great Brit
ain’s national government indi
cated today its conviction that the
; nation is rapidly recovering from
: the financial crisis which threat
ened it six months ago, Neville
Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Ex
! chequer, announced in the House
of Commons.
He stated that Great Britain is
; (repaying $150,000,000 of the two
hundred million dollar credit ad
vanced by the United States at the
: time of the crisis. Payment will be
made Friday.
OLOTIME rally ON
SEITTIE WATERFDONT
SEATTLE, Mar. 4. —Seattle’s
waterfront, for the next several
! weeks, will take on visages of old
j time prosperity.
This is because the Lukenbach
! Steamship Line has decided that
j their 21 large freighters will be
i completely overhauled and that
Seattle will be the place where all
! this marine work will be carried on.
The overhauling of these ships
will add to the payroll of Seattle,
' keep the drydocks busy, and create
a demand for lumber and other
raw materials.
FIVE-DAY WEEK LOOMS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 4, —
A bill providing for a six-hour day
and five-day week for workers on
government projects was propos
ed in the House. The bill specifies
that failure of a contractor to
abide with the terms of a six-hour
day and five-day week would aut
omatically make the contract void.
MOTION PICTURE TRUST
GWEN I BROADSIDE
! WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 4, —
| The motion picture industry was
| accused of violating the anti-trust
I laws, flaunting indecent pictures
| and unloading watered stock upon
jthe public, in a Senate broadside
fired by Senator Brookhart of Iowa.
He introduced a resolution pro
viding for a sweeping investigation
of the industry and a bill to prohi
bit the practice of “block booking.’’
Under the latter practice, he said,
exhibitors are required by the pro
ducers to buy a number of films
“sight unseen.”
GERMAN SUNS REFUSE
SELL FAVORITE DRINK
— — ■ —
BERLIN, Mar. 4, —Beer strikers
claimed that 12,000 Berlin saloons
had answered their call to refuse
to sell beer until the government
price czar, Carl Goerdeler, lower
i ed the tax and prices of Germany’s
| favorite beverage.
| The movement came before the
Berlin saloon keepers union thle
previous night and they decided
by a vote of 600 to 500 to strike in
protest against the high tax which
was imposed in one of the Bruen
ing emergency decrees. Enforce
ment was left to the price czar. !
BETTER LA1*E THAN NEVER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mr. 4, (ff)
—Big fellows are charged with
shaking down the stock market in j
order to sell short and by a vote
recently taken for an appropria
tion of $50,000 for an investigation,
same may begin next week.
BACKS UP APPRECIATION BY
SENDING IN FEW NEW
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Nome, Alaska.
February 13, 1932.
Seward Gateway:
“A copy of your valued paper,
published under date of November
21, 1931. has just been received.
My particular attention was at
tracted by your editorial entitled,
‘Candidates and Roads.’ I wane to
say to you, that this is the best
article I ever read pertaining to the
need of roads in Alaska, and par
ticularly this division. I therefore
take the liberty of complimenting
you on the courage, good judg
ment, interest and frankness ciis
played in bringing to the attention
of the people of Alaska the dire
need of roads.
“In my opinion, 90 per cent of
the citizens realize that this article
fits our condition exactly. I am
in constant touch with the miners
and prospectors, who are trying to
open up our section of the coun
try (incidentally have spent many
thousands of dollars myself) ieel
that I am well qualified to advo
cate roads, and more roads, 'he
better.
“Seward Peninsula h’as many
i hundreds of creeks, that were
| mined in the early days with pick
and shovel, and only the richest
pay extracted therefrom. These
same creeks will yield a handsome
profit if worked by our moderp
cheap power dredges. Many of
these creeks are producing already,
where transportation costs are not
prohibitive, but the major portion
of them, account of lack of roads,
remain dormant.
“We blame the members of the
Legislature of the Second Division
for being instrumental in passing
the 1919 Sessions Act, authorizing
the Alaska Road Commission /to
spend our road money simply to
create jobs for their friends, in
stead of spending it for the benefit
of the Territory. Previous to that
time, the Alaska Road Commission
in this Division did not own any
road bulding equipment, but hired
most of their work done by local
people, writh local equipment, and
were accomplishing considerable
road building until after the pas
sage of this act. They started buy
ing their own equipment and the
result is very little roads have been
built by them, since that time,
mostly politics. The money seems
simply to disappear without any
results.
“Getting back to your editorial,
you say approximately 30 per cent
of our road funds go for overhead.
From a close observation in our
Division, I would say 60 per cent
goes for overhead; in every other
respect your editorial, in my hum
ble opinion is commensurate with
our needs and I have also heard
many opinions expressed, substan
tiating this.
“Please inclose find list of names
of new subscribers, with Postoffice
money order to cover.”
“P.S.—I have just received your
weekly papers dated January 2
and 16. In regard to your editor
ial, “Aftermath of Legislation,”
and “Unreasonable and Irresponsi
ble,” these three articles are surely
the truth and nothing but the
truth, and surely hits the nail on
the head; please keep up the good
work and we will try and do like
wise. I am enclosing you a couple
of letters written by old-time pros
pectors and miners, which speak
for themselves, just to show you
and substantiate your arguments.”
NEW RECORD
NEW YORK, Mar. 4, —Before a
crowd of approximately 10,000,
Gene Venske cf Bfo-yertown, Pa.,
reigning sensation of the current
track and field meet, established
a new world retard of 3.53 4 for the
1500 meter run*n the annual con
tests of the Knights of Columbus.
The old record of 3.55.7 was set by
Lloyd Hahn in Washington in 1925.
CHINESE DRIVER
OUT OF SH1GHA!
DISTRICT. IS CLAIM
| CHINESE CONTINUE OFFENSIVE
THOUGH JAPAN CLAIMS
POINT GAINED
SHANGHAI, Mar. 4, —Military
i activities ceased in the majority
I of the Chinese city’s battle sectors
yesterday as the Japanese forces
; had fulfilled their avowed intent
; of driving the Chinese to a d i s
; tance of 12 V2 miles from the city.
The Japanese officials made the
! statement that unless the Chinese
showed further hostilities and all
| firing would be quieted down.
The last action of the Japanese
before they gave the order to cease
firing was to place their flag o n
Woosung fort.
While the Japanese wrere consoli
dating their positions, the Chinese,
reinforced by 20,000 additional sol
diers. immediately began cin of
fensive of their own and and the
Chinese leaders claim they won
| a major victory in the battle which
: ensued. The new battle sector was
! about 25 miles south of Shanghai,
i Japanese officials at Tokyo were
j alarmed over this continued show
j of hostilities on the part of the
j Chinese soldiers, but it is pointed
| out that as yet there is no armis
tice or agreement in effect that
| fighting is to be stopped.
The proposal that a peace con
ference be held is still in abeyance.
| In sectors which were quiet Jap
I anese soldiers were busy tearing
out the barbed-wire entanglements
preparatory to turning those
places over to the International
police.
REJECT JAP DEMANDS
SHANGHAI, Mar. ,4 (/P)—The
Chinese government rejected the
! new Japanese demands for fur
thur peace parleys. Just as Shang
i hai is surrounded again the Chi
nese wall quietly get down to work
again and are planning a new bat
! tie.
At Tiatsang, 25 miles northwest
of here, fighting is underway. The
I Japanese denied, however, that any
1 fighting is taking place and that
i everything is quiet.
WASHINGTON TOWN
IN SERIOUS CONDITION
SNOWQUALMIE, Wash., Mar. 4,
Failure to touch a match to the
gasoline soaked walls of a garage
here apparently spared the city
from one of the most disastrous
fires in history.
It appears that someone had
broken into the garage and for
some reason had soaked the walls
with gasoline. Had a fire started,
it is probable that a large part of
the city would have been threat
ened as there is no water to com
bat fires, the water system hving
been disrupted by the floods.
FLIERS BLUED OUT IS
PUKES CRUSHED 10 LIB
I
| RIVERSIDE, Calif., Mar. 4, —I
I Two army lieutenants were bailed
| out and floated to safety after
their pursuit planes collided in mid
air while flying over the moun
tains between Paris and Corona.
The pilots, Lieuts, Morril and
French of the 73rd pursuit squad-!
ron, leaped from' their planes at
the moment of impact and their
parachutes prevented them from
being injured. The planes crashed
on a mountainside and were de
molished.
WHITE RUSSIAN ARMY
MOSCOW, Mar. 4, —The Soviet
press will publish a dispatch from
Peiping charging that a White
Russian Czarist army is being form
ed in Manchuria under the direc
! tion of Japanese to attack the
I Russian maritime provinces i n
cluding Vladivostok.
FORCE BEER VOTE
WASHINGTON-, D. C., Mar. 4, —
Representative 0‘Connor, in the
House Thursday, made a formal
announcement that the wet bloc;
force would seek to put through a j
vote on a beer legislation measure ■
which is now pending action. The
beer bill is designed to aid the'
Treasury in raising additional!
i funds without resorting to too
! heavy a sales tax.
10 OF GROWING
TERRITORY’S 26 COMMERCIAL
CRAFT TRAVELED 381,234
MILES DURING YEAR
.
, Commercial aviation in Alaska
has shown good growth the last
fom years, Ernest Walker Sawyer,
adviser to the Secretary of the In
terior, announces.
The Territory’s 26 commercial
| planes in 1931 flew 947,695 passen
ger miles and carried 161,718
pounds of mail and express, he
said. The following additional in
formation was suppled by Mr. Saw
yer, who has just compiled statis
tics on commercial aviation in Al
aska :
In 1927 there were 10 commercial
planes. They transported 16 tons
of express. A total of 415 passen
gers were carried 60,000 passenger
miles. The machines that year
flew 95,000 plane miles
Development Traced
In 1931, there were 26 planes
which flew 381,234 plane miles, car
ried 7,947 pessengers, and flew 947,
695 passenger miles. In 1930 the
24 planes then in use carried 3,654
passengers a total of 684,361 pas
senger miles.
Commercial aviation made its
appearance nine years ago in Al
aska. A special experimental air
mail contract was made to carry
mail from Fairbanks to McGrath,
a distance of about 300 miles.
When this system was inaugurated,
mail was being transported by dog
sled. It required 17 days to make
I the trips compared with 2 hours
and 45 minutes by the first air trip.
I Once the advantages of air-mail
1 were demonstrated, progress in the
development of this means of
; transportation has continued.
Six Companies Operating
At present there are 67 land av
! iation fields within the Territory
and five hydroplane ports. The
landing fields vary in size from 250
I to 600 feet to 400 by 1,400 feet,
i Fairbanks and Anchorage fields
j have two runways 400 by 2,000 feet.
; Governor George A. Parks states
! that the total aid to aviation has
been approximately $180,000 and
: that the economic benefits have
i justified the expenditures- In 1931
there were six commercial avia
tion companies, one each located
at Nome, Fairbanks, Anchorage,
Chitina, Juneau and Ketchikan. An
airway weather service has been
developed by the Weather Bureau
because of the progress made in
aviation. Reports are made reg
ularly and aerial navigation is
aided through this service.
In recent months an aviation
i base has been established at Sew
ard, the coastal terminal of the
: Alaska Railroad.
inn sum case
HE OF St DRAWN
!
HONOLULU, Mar. 4, —The ven
ire from which a jury will be chos
en to try the four Americans on a
murder charge, March 10, was
drawn in the court of Territorial
Circuit Judge Albert Cristy.
Officials had under consideration
a plan to draw a special venire of
50 in order to obtain the highest
type jurymen possible for the trial
in which Mrs. Grace Fortescue,
Lieut. Thomas H. ^lassie, and two
naval enlisted men are charged
with killing Joseph Kahahawai, one
of the five natives accused of at
tacking Lieut. Massie's young bride.
DISTRICT SUPERINT|i;N DENT
RELATES DETAILS OF
TIDAL WAVE
A first-hand account of the great
tidal wave which swept the west
ern coast of Alaska from the Kus
kokwim delta to the northern
mouth of the Yukon river, on De
cember 8 and 9, was related to The
Gateway by Clark M. Garber, dis
trict superintendent for the Bu
reau of Indian Affairs, Akiak, who
since has left for the South on the
SS Yukon.
The native villages were hard
hit. Great blocks of ice were car -
ried on the gigantic waves, crush
ing igloos, cabins and fish caches,
sweeping inland 10 to 15 miles.
Water came in the igloos to a
depth of four and five feet, forcing
the occupants to escape through
the roofs and not giving them time
to save their effects.
Everyone sought refuge in the
government schools and buildings
or on high knolls.
In giving an idea of the sudden •
ness of the flood, Garber said that
ten dogs were drowned before they
could b e unhitched from their
sled.
Garber said that at Eek and at
Apokok on the Kuskokwim the
flood came at night, adding to the
terror. He stated that the local
officials are caring for the natives
and have driven reindeer to the
area and butchered.
Commercial fishing stations were
carried inland bodily for several
miles, and about one-half of $8,000
worth of material for the school
house, unloaded last fall, was wash --
ed away.
He estimated the tide or waves
, reached points 30 feet above the
!normal high tide stage; the water
! rose at the rate of three feet an
hour. About 3,000 people were af -
fected.
Many New Schools
Referring to departmental activ
ities, Mr. Garber, another one of
I those highly educated young col
lege men, and a former professor,
whom are devoting their lives to '
missionary educational work in the
far-flung corners of the world,
said that in the past three years
10 new modern school houses and
one n£w hospital, the latter at
fountain Village on the lower Yu
kon, have been built.
However, it is the intent to con
struct 16 more schools in the west
ern district, extending cooperation
educational service to all the na
tives. The present enrollment is
about 700 but with the new build
ings, an additional 700 will be cared
for. A bill, calling for an appro
priation of these schools, is now
before Congress for consideration
and approval.
Another hospital is needed, Mr.
Garber added, at Bethel on the
Kuskokwim, to especially care for
tubercular patients, with at least
a 30-bed tubercular ward and a
16-bed general ward.
Radio reception from station
KJFQD, Anchorage, is excellent and
is awaited with eagerness by all
each evening.
This is the first leave of absence
for Mr. Garber since his arrival in
Alaska eight years ago with the
department. He will visit his par
ents in the East, than pay a semi
official trip to Washington, D. C.,
returning North in about three
months.
OPENING GAME
SANTA CRUZ, Mar. 4, —The
opening game in the new Santa
Cruz baseball pary, which was
built at a cost of $45,000, will be
played Saturday when Seattle will
play Oakland.
FURTHER UNIFICATION
ROME, Mar. 4, —The church and
the state further consolidated
their friendship when King Eman
uel of Italy bestowed one of the
government’s highest honors and
decorations upon one of the church
cardinals.