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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 61.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1932.
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HOPEWELL, N. J., Mar. 14. </P)—
Sunday was another day of false
hope for the return of the Lind
bergh baby. All trails have fiz
zled out even though the best de
tective brains ,as well as coopera
tion from the underworld, are em
ployed.
Nothing developed from the
Crossville, Tenn., arrests of twTo
women, a man and a baby. It was
revealed this group had been just
released after four days imprison
, ment for a like rumor at Marion,
Ohio, that the baby was Charles
Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
The four persons and cliild being
held at Crossville were quickly
eliminated when the Lindbreghs
viewed an Associated Press photo
of the Crossville infant which was
sent to Hopewell. The Lindberghs
said that it was not their child but
the Tennessee authorities are hold
ing the person! fbr further in
vestigation.
A telephone message wTas al
leged to have been received from
the kidnappers stating the baby
was safe and happy and was in the
care of a family.
Newspapermen have been barred
from the Lindbergh estate, so an
, airplane was dispatched to circle
the home- It was reported much
activity was apparent about the
residence with many people and
cars coming and going.
Authorities now believe the kid
nappers are amateurs for none of
the finger prints taken in the
child’s bedroom compare with those
on file in the records.
“RED” JOHNSON FREE
NEWARK, N. J., Mar. 14, (/Pi
Henry "Red” Johnson, sailor suit
or of the Lindbergh nursemaid,
was described as cleared of parti
cipating in the baby kidnapping,
by Deputy Police Chief Brex and
permitted to talk to reporters.
Investigating potential airplane
landing fields at points west of
Seward, the Navy has made request
of Seldovia for information in de
tail relative to local faciliites, says
the Seldovia Herald.
The letter of inquiry came from
John M. Cook, of Anchorage, to
Judge W. A. Vinal, and along with
the letter came twro forms, bearing
titles:
"Report on Seaplane Anchorage”
and "Report on Landing Field.”
The first form deals with avail
ability of local conditions for land
ing and takeoff for the seaplane
type that taxies up the beach; the
other for land planes.
The Hydrographic Office of the
Navy Department had solicited Mr.
Cook for information about landing
fields, and in connection with work
that he is doing for the Navy, he
is sending out the inquiries.
The blank forms call for infor
mation covering topographical, hy
drographical and meteorological
facts pertaining to the locale. Lo
cation and size of landing area,
are points that are stressed. They
want to know about refueling, av
iation gasoline, oil and repair fa
cilities.
Judge Vinal is undertaking the
task of filling out the forms, giv
ing all information desired, and
these he will mail, at the request
of Mr. Cook, to the Hydrographic
Office, Navy Department, Wash
ington, D. C.
PUBLIC BE -?
SEATTLE, Mar. 14.—Amos W. W.
Woodcock, Director of the Bureau
■of Prohibition, who passed through
Seattle Sunday, said he did not care
what people thought of prohibi
tion or how they expressed them
selves in straw votes on the meas
ure, that his department would
continue to enforce the law strictly
until they received instructions to
the contrary from Congress.
BEATINGS KILL CHILD
j MT. CLEMENS, Mar. 14—Hattie
Fletcher, 17, who was beaten se
verely by her parents, died in the
County Hospital; death resulted
ifrom nervous disorders and heart
weakness being aggrevated by the
beatings. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben
Fletcher, the parents, were sen
tenced to one and one-half to four
years each for felonious assault.
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CRUSHED TO DEATH
AGUA CALIENTE, Mar. 14.—Rob
ert C. Jones, 29, fell from a motor
truck and was crushed to death
underneath the ponderous wheels.
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DETROIT BEAT MISSIONS
SAN FRANCISCO, Mr. 14, (JP)—
The Detroit baseball team hung it
on the Missions 7 to 6 in the second
of the exhibition games between
the two clubs.
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REFERENDUM?
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 14.—
The eyes of the Wets are eagerly
awaiting the outcome of today’s
test vote In the House on the refer
endum bill.
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SUNKISSED ICYCLES
MIAMI, Fla-, Mar. 14.—Florida is
gripped in unusual weather; freez
j ing temperatures were registered
■ throughout the coastal belt on
| Sunday.
FOR THE UNEMPLOYED
1 -WASHINGTON, D. C.. Mar. 14.—
j The proposed $136,000,000 Federal
j highway appropriation has been
j endorsed by the American Legion
; as being a timely unemployment
! relief measure.
APACHES GATHER
WHITE INDIAN RESERVATION,
j Mar. 14.—Apache Indians are gath
ering to attend the hanging of a
member of their tribe who assault
1 ed and killed an Eastern co-ed who
was studying tribal customs.
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ADVANCE RACE SALE
INDIANAPOLIS, Mar. 14.—Tho’
three months away, the advance
ticket sale for the auto speedway
races began in a big way.
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200 GO TO WORK
MARTINEZ, Calif., Mar. 14.—The
| big cement plant which has been
closed for months will be reopened
! immediately, giving employment to
200 men.
TUNNELED TO VAULT
i SAN DIEGO, Mar. 14, — Tunnel
: bandits were frustrated here Sun
, day from robbing a local bank
! when a 90-foot tunnel, leading
j from a manhole, was discovered.
Only a few inches of concrete sep
arated the tunnel from the steel
vault. Tear gas bombs were hurled
into the tunnel but the bandits had
already made their escape.
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MRS. GANHI RELEASED
BOMBAY, India, Mar. 14, —
i Mrs. M. K. Gandhi, wife of the In
I dian nationalist leader, was re
leased from prison at Ahmadabad
after completing a sentence for
nationalist activities contrary to
recent emergency decrees.
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SMALL BUT POWERFUL
TACOMA, Mar. 14. —Mrs. Mar
garet Green, the smallest deputy
marshal in the State of Washing
ton, arrested two six-footers Sun
day for violation of prohibition
laws. Mrs. Green is four feet, two
inches in height and weighs 82
pounds.
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AVIATOR S FINDINGS
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, —
Maj. Gen. Malin Craig said that
the main thing he learned from
recent war maneuvers in Hawaii
was that defense aviation is by
no means as effective in practice
as it is in theory.
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FOUNTAIN* PEN EXPLODED
SUISUN, Calif., Mar. 14, (&)—
C. M. Duren of Suisun valley was
the victim of an odd accident; a
fountain pen exploded in his vest
pocket when sparks from his pipe
ignited the novelty celluloid com
position. The only damage was a
burned pocket and some frayed
nerves.
ANOTHER ELECTION BE
HECESSSfiy TO SELECT
CLOUTS PRESIDENT
BERLIN, Mar. 14. (/P)—President
Von Hindenburg failed to secure
enough votes for reelection in Sun
day’s voting. Tabulations Monday
morning showed that he lacked a
few votes of the number necessary
for reelection.
It will be necessary to hold an
other election on April 10.
Unofficial compilations showed
that Von Hindenburg needed 12,
000 more votes. Hindenburg re
ceived 18,659,000 votes; Adolph Hit
ler, Nazi candidate, 11,325,000 votes;
1 Ernest Thaelmann, Communist, 4,
1970,000; Theodore Duesterberg, Na
tionalist, 2,479,000, and Gustav
Winter, Independent, 109,000.
HINDENBURG LEADS
HITLER BY MILLIONS
BERLIN, Mar. 14—German vo
ters went to the polls Sunday fol
lowing threats of insurrection
made by those most opposed to
certain civil and political author
ities. Some trouble was experi
enced at the poll boxes and there
were a number of street fights in
which two persons were killed be
fore the day was over.
First returns on the election
showed that President Paul Von
Hindenburg, running for reelection,
was leading Adolpli Hitler, the
Fascist or the Nazis party candi
date, with about seven million
! votes. The Communist and other
i candidates are trailing Hinden
: burg and Hitler by many votes.
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NCOME MS WILL EE
EASIER TO COILECT
SEATTLE. Mar. 14.— With the
j deadline for filing income tax re
turns almost here, Burns Poe, in
come tax collector, states that the
i public’s attitude on filing these re
turns has undergone almost a
i complete change.
Poe says that the lucky 10,000 in
come taxpayers in t h e Pacific
[Northwest, instead of concealing
i*the fact that they are paying or
! should be paying income taxes, are
now beginning to boast about it
and are stirring up a lot of jeal
ousy. Poe says that this will make
tax collections a lot easier.
March 15, tomorrow, is the dead
line for filing returns without hav
iing to pay a penalty.
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j DETROIT, March 14, —A huge
mass meeting, alleged to have been
sponsored by communists, was held
* here Friday afternoon and a num
! ber of speakers dictated to the
! masses that they demand the trial
of Henry Ford for the killing of 4
of their comrades recently when
the mobs marched up to the Ford
plant.
One of the speakers said he in
tends to bring Henry Ford into
court to account for the killing of
the four workers. Thousands of
laborers attended the meeting.
EXPECT TROUBLE
GENEVA, Mar. 14-—Russian del
egates at the Geneva assembly of
the League of Nations make no
secret about the fact that they ex
pect trouble with Japan over the
new State of Manchuria. They ex
pect trouble even if the Shanghai
situation between the Chinese and
Japanese is settled by the League.
Russia, for months past, has been
“strengthening her Far East fron
tiers.”
“PUT MONEY TO WORK”
CHICAGO, March 14, —Former
president Calvin Coolidge implor
ed his countrymen to cease hoard
ing and put money to work.
ANOTHER LINER FOR i
FRISCO FLEET TO BE !
LAUNCHED VERY SOON
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SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 14, —
Another new ocean liner for San
Francisco’s fast growing fleet of
moderk merchant vessels, will be
launched when the Santa Rosa
takes the water March 24 at Kear
ney, N. J.
The liner is the first of four new
vessels building for the Panama
Mail Line of San Francisco, the
total cost of which will exceed $18,
000,000.
Juliet Proctor, daughter of a
Santa Rosa hop broker and expor
ter, will sponsor the ship. Accom
panied by her parents she is en
genuine champagne will be broken
genuine champaign will be broken
on the ship’s nose.
Sisterships o? the Santa Rosa
will be the Santa Elena and Santa
Luisa- All will be launched and
completed for service by early 1933.
CHIDE GIRL MUCKED
HONOLULU, Mar. 14. (£>)—A 17
year-old Chinese girl, Bernice Lum,
was brutally assaulted last Satur
day night in this city. The assault
occurred when the girl and an es
cort left a private dance for a brief
walk.
This is the third attack upon wo
men to be reported here within a
period of three weeks.
Two hours later the police ar
| rested Joseph Young, a Korea
| Hawaiian, in connection w’ith the
| attack.
The Hawaiian Legislature recent
ly passed a law making an attack
on a woman a capital offense.
SEATTLE. March 14, —Libby, Me
Neil & Libby will operate their
Alaskan canneries on their usual
scale this season, according to D.
W. Branch, manager.
The Libby, McNeil & Libby com
pany has at least a dozen plants
in Alaska waters. It wTas also said
that the company would employ
its usual complement of 2,600 men
this year.
The first contingent of cannery
workers left Seattle a few days ago
and more laborers are to follow.
SCORES K.O.
. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Mar. 14.
—Mickey Walker, former welter
weight champion, scored a techni
cal knockout over Jim Mahoney, a
Boston heavyweight, in an engage
ment here last Saturday. Walker
was awarded the victory in the sec
ond round of a scheduled 10-round
bout.
NEW YORK, Mar. 14, (yP)—Mrs.
Ida E. Wood, who lived alone as a
million dollar hermit in the heart
of Manhattan since the panic of
1907, died Sunday in a third-rate
hospital where she had lived a re
cluse’s life for a quarter of a cen
tury.
A search of her personal effects
revealed nearly a million dollars
in moldy currency and coins and
an equal amount in jewels as well
as invaluable mementoes of her
intriguing past.
INTERNAL STRUGGLES
SHANGHAI, Mar. 14.—Reports of
internal strife in China continue
to flicker in from the various cen
ters of Chinese population and the
latest scene of trouble was at Han
kow, where a party of Communists
attacked a group of Chinese sol
diers. A fierce engagement result
ed before the police drove the Com
munist mob back.
55 ATHLETES
BERLIN, Mar- 14, (£>)—'The Ger
man Olympic committee has de
cided to send a team of 55 athletes
including eight women to the
Olympic Games at Los Angeles.
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TO THE SCRAP HEAP
SEATTLE, Mar. 14.—The historic
cable cars which have been in op
eration for half a century are to
be silent. Motor busses will re
I place them as a matter of economy.
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NEW WAY TO TRAIN
NEW YORK, Mar. 14. (/P)—Max
Schmeling will make an exhibition
tour of 15 cities in preparation of
his forthcoming heavyweight cham
pionship match against Jack Shar
key. No Western cities are includ
ed. He will start training for the
Sharkey bout May 10.
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RUM CHASER IN TOW
NEW YORK, Mar. 14, —The Bri
tish steamer Dahotian radioed on
Sunday that it took the U. S. Coast
Guard rum chaser 218 in tow 400!
miles southeast of New York. All
members of the crew were safe, the
vessel reported.
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TAKES OATH TODAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 14, —
Only the formalities of oath tak
ing remained before Benjamin Na
than Cardozo of New York goes to
his place on the Supreme Court
bench today, as the succsesor of
Oliver Wendell Holmes, resigned.
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WILL APPEAR ON COAST
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 14, (/P)—
The famous Paderewski will again
be heard in San Francisco, on the
afternoon of April 10. This is his
18th tour of the United States in
40 years. Paderewski plans a sea
son of but three months giving
about 40 concerts.
DOWAGER QUEEN ILL
BUCHAREST, Mar. 14, —Dowa
ger Queen Marie was suffering
from a cold Sunday. Her ailment
was described as grippe but phy
sicians said her condition w a s
causing some anxiety.
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CHAMPION SNEEZER
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, —
! The title of all time catch as catch
i can champion sneezer of this lo
' cality was won Sunday by Cyril
Thornton, 32. Thornton found that
the sneeze on its way to liberation
had dislocated his shoulder.
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A GREAT COUNTRY
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Mar. 14, —
As far as Rhode Island police offi
cials are concerned three per cent
beer is legal and anyone manufac
turing or possessing liquor for his
own use cannot be prosecuted un
der the state law. The two new
bills automatically have wiped off
the books the enforcement acts
which have been in effect since
1922.
POLITICIANS BLAMED
HENDEYE, France-Spanish fron
tier, Mar. 14, —Political forces in
control of Spain are alarmed over
the recent disclosure that King Al
fonso has accepted the claim of his
uncle, Alfonso Carlos, to the Span
ish throne, and agree to work with
him for restoration cf the Bour
bon monarchy, according to word
from Madrid.
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SAFETY QUESTIONED
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, —
The safety of Boulder Dam has
been questioned by Martin H. Ger
ry, Jr., consulting engineer here in
an article in Civil Engineering,
the official organ of the American
Society of Civil Engineers. He con
tends the dam is of insufficient
weight to withstand the pressure
against it.
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JAILBF.EAK OCCURS
KINGSTON, N. Y., Mar. 14.—In
a daring jailbreak Sunday, three
burglars, serving light terms, made
a break for liberty and succeeded
in remaining outside the confines
of prison for several hours. The
prison officials soon tracked the
escaped prisoners down and in a
fight wrhich ensued one of the pris
oners was shot and killed and the
other two returned to their cells.
TO KREUGER FIRMS
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 14. (JP)—Both
chambers of the Swedish Richsdae
Monday adopted a bill authorizing
the government to grant a short
moratorium on payment of debts.
This action was taken because
of the death of Ivar Kreuger, Swed -
ish match king, who killed himself
in Paris Saturday.
He was to have held a financial
conference with the government
this week. The government will
extend a moratorium to the Kreu
ger companies probably until March
31 as an aid in readjusting the
great firm’s affairs.
It was reported the debt mora
torium is designed especially to
keep out foreign control. In Wall
Street circles it was said the sui
cide was not expected and will not
affect New York banking or the
stock exchange ot any great extent.
MULTI-MILLIONAIRE
IS TIRED OF LIVING
PARIS, Mar. 14, (/P)—Ivar Kreu
ger, 52 year-old Swedish financial
wizard wrhose magic touch trans
formed matches into millions, and
who was found dead 1 ,st week in
his Paris home as a result of a bul
let wound, is said by the police to
have left a note indicating he was
tired of living.
Kreuger’s financial affairs are
said to be critical but are not des
perate.
The direction of his great busi
ness interests was left to his wid
ow.
The Pioneer Reindeer Company
expects to arrive in the Alaska
Peninsula area this spring from
the Kuskokwim with a large herd
of reindeer, The Gateway is in
formed by a correspondent at Snug
Harbor, at which point the com
pany will make its headquarters.
The company has between 45,000
and 50,000 reindeer and it is the
intention to concentrate the herd
at a point near tide-water and
build a cold storage plant, corrals,
warehouses and wharf, large
enough for a steamer to tie up at.
This venture, together with the
adjacent fishing banks off Shumi
gan IslaJnds, considered the best
on the Pacific Coast, is anticipated
as being the nucleus of increased
settlement.
The deep water banks, running
from 35 to 400 fathoms in the Shu
Migan Island area, have not been
fished extensively excepting by a
few Seattle halibut boats during
the middle of the summer. It is
said some of these boats take only
the halibut, throwing overboard
possibly hundreds of tons of other
kinds of fish, such as cod, rock
cod, ling cod, red snappers, black
cod and millions of Atka mackerel.
A cold storage plant in Balboa
Bay, the correspondent adds, would
enable fishermen on the Bering
Sea side of the Alaska Peninsula to
dispose of their silver salmon and
herring because owing to closing of
navigation and to the ice condi
tions, fishing could continue and
the catch freighted over the port
age, by tractors, to the proposed
cold storage plant.
DOUBT DISPELLED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 14, —
All doubt at to whether President
Hoover will be an active candidate
in the Ohio primary in May was
dispelled when Postmaster Gener
al Brown, after a visit to the White
House, sad it is safe to say the
President will signify in writing
his permission for the filing of his
name, within a few days.