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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 27.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
JAPAN REPLIES WILL
CONTINUE PRESENT
COURSE OE ACTION
ADMINISTRATION HEARTENED
BY UNITED PROTEST
OF NATIONS
TOKYO, Feb. 2—A varied assort
ment of new developments present
ed themselves in the late develop
ments of the Sino-Japanese sit
uation. Chief among these was the
calm, rebuke of the Japanese for
eign office to the protests filed by
the United States. France, Italy
and other nations- The Japanese
foreign office in answering the pre
tests said that they could see no
reason for a change of the Japanese
foreign policy and that she would
continue her present form of action.
It is understood that the Japan
ese army has been urged to pro
ceed to Shanghai to aid the Nip
ponese bluejackets.
Press dispatches to San Francisco
Monday related a story of fierce
battles in which American Marines i
were fired upon by Japanese as the j
latest chapter in the troubled sit
uation in the Far East
A Central News Agency dispatch
to London reported that American
Marines were fired upon by the
Japanese at Shanghai and that
when the Americans retired, the
Japanese hauled down the Amer
ican flag over the American Meth
odist Church. No casualties were
reported.
In Shanghai, martial law, ef
fective after a series of disorderly
outbreaks, at the curfew hour,
became effective, the streets were
deserted as if by magic and only
steel-helmeted soldiers were to be
seen in the international settle
ment. No citizens will be allowed |
on the streets between 10 p. m. j
and 4 a. m.
Meanwhile officials of the Am
erican-owned Texas Oil Company
plant protested that the buildings j
had been fired upon by a Japanese '
destroyer in the Whangpoo River j
and that m achi n e gun bullets j
sprayed the plant. The incident j
was reported to Japanese authori
ties.
Most of Shanghai was ominously j
quiet after the sporadic fighting.;
additional air raids by the Japan
ese were expected. American de-J
stroyers were deploying into strat- ;
egic positions for possible emer- j
gencies.
After a two-lioui’ bombardment |
of Chinese forts in the Nanking !
area, the Japanese marines were j
put ashore and immediately en
countered regular Chinese troops
and fierce battling took place.
U. S. Consul Peck at Nanking has
ordered all Americans to leave Nan
king.
The Chinese banks are keeping
up their promise of furnishing the
Chinese fighting forces with $25,000
daily as long as necessary in the
defense of Shanghai.
From New York word came that
neither Japan nor China would be
able to obtain a loan from Wall
Street bankers with wiiich to fi
nance a Far East war. It was also
stated that like feeling with regard
to loans prevailed at Paris.
Truce efforts attempted by West
ern nations between the Sino-Jap
anese factions again collapsed.
Washington views the situation at
Shanghai as dangerous but was
somewhat heartened by the fact
that other Western nations filed
their protest along with the United
States.
EVANS SAILS THURSDAY
The S3 Admiral Evans, of the Pa
cific Steamship Company, arrived
In port this morning from Seattle
and wayports and departed for the
Westward at noon. The vessel re
turns to Seward in time to sail for
the South out of here Thursday at
2 p. m., according to the local office.
The MS trading schooner United,
Captains Pete Wold and C. E. An
derson, which arrived Sunday from
Seattle, continued on to the West
ward Monday. The United returns
to Seward the latter part of the
month, southbound
TO STOP FIGHTING
GENEVA, Feb. 2. (JP)—America,
I Great Britain, France and Italy
I made the announcement in brisk
; military style at an extraordinary
meeting of the League of Nations
Council saying that Japanese fight
ing must stop and that they would
take immediate steps to stop it.
I THOUSANDS OF CHINESE
! TROOPS POURING INTO
NANKING FOR BATTLE
NANKING, Feb. 2. (/P) — Thirty
thousand of China’s finest troops
streamed into Nanking and lined
the river front where Japanese
warships are anchored.
Many refugees who just came
from Shanghai were terrified by
the menacing aspect of develop
ments and sought safety aboard
British warships. Some Jap land
ing parties were put on docks but
there were no open hostilities.
The Japanese Consul General
I called on Low Wen Kan, Chinese
| Foreign Minister, who stayed when
j the government was transferred to
jL-oyang. The Consul lodged a for
|mal protest at fighting in Shang
! hai, charging the Chinese with
I starting it.
The Foreign Minister said, since
fighting began on Chinese territory,
the Japanese must have been the
instigators.
9! cm PASSENGERS
j SEATTLE, Feb. 2. {£>) — The SS
Victoria, of the Alaska Steamship
Company, sailed from here enroute
to Seward and wayports with 92
passengers and a fair cargo of
I freight and mail.
Passengers for Seward are Mrs.
M. Melliek, Leo Preg, Mr. and Mrs.
F. L. Higgins, Carl Ek, J. J. Chis
holm. Carl Nyberg, Wm. J. McNam
ara, C. Folberg, Mrs. F. R. Martin,
,T. Flink, O. Nelson, A E. Shelby, |
M. Hiekerson, Mrs. L. E. Judd, Wm.
Butler, E. C. Hale, R. Hector, O. L.
Gronnes, C. A. Matheson and three j
steerage.
McGEE IN CITY
A. J. Valley piloted the air- j
: plane which came over from An-j
! chorage today to pick up G. R.
I Gardner to take him to Nushagak.
j L. McGee, fur trader who, with H.
Barnhill operate planes out of An
| chorage, arrived in Seward from
Anchorage in the plane. Mr. McGee
remained in Seward. Valley took
off for Anchorage and Nushagak
shortly after his arrival here.
IN WINTERS GRIP
SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—Old Man Win
ter has been holding the Pacific
Northwest States in its grip with
low temperatures and strong winds
prevailing. The wreather forecast
for today showed that he would not
let up today either.
RECEPTION GOOD
H. N. Evans, prominent Kanatak
business man, says that not much
news is forthcoming from that dis
trict, except that there is still much
snow in the hills and a few bears
are still out. Winds are still bad
at Kanatak, but radio reception
this winter has been very good;
Anchorage especially, KFQD “The
Voice of the Golden North,” is en
joyed greatly.
BATTLE IS ON
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 2.—Paul N.
Cyr, claimant of the Louisiana gov
ernorship, Monday filed suit seeking
to oust Alvin O- King, who was
given the governorship by Gover
nor Huey P. Long, when the latter
departed for Washington to take
his 3>at in the U. S. Senate. Mr.
Cyr claims a right to the gover
norship because he was Lieutenant
Governor in 1927 and is the only
successor to Governor Long.
SMALL REVOLUTION
QUITO, Ecuador, Feb. 2.—Ecua
dor was the scene of another mild
revolution but the federal troops
and soldiers soon quieted the re
bellious people. -
Seward Mayor Warns
Against Invasion of
Alaska by Japanese
VISUALIZING THE HELPLESSNESS OF ALASKA IF
INVADED BY A FOREIGN COUNTRY, DON CAR
LOS BROWNELL, MAYOR OF SEWARD, GAVE
THE FOLLOWING INTERVIEW TO THE GATE
WAY, IN WHICH HE SOUNDS W ARNING TO
THE GOVERNMENT AND APPEALS FOR IM
MEDIATE PROTECTIVE MEASURES.
“There is one point on which all Alaskans agree, i. e.,
that there is an appalling lack of knowledge in Congress,
and throughout the States, of Alaska’s requirements and
dangers,” Mayor Brownell stated. ‘AVe try constantly to
arouse interest in our great Territory, but response is
very- very slow and so we hope and pray each year that
something may occur to focus attention on a need. That
‘something’ has now materialized, with menacing force,
in the form of possible trouble with Japan, growing out
of the present situation in China.”
«
“It is a time for straight from
the shoulder talk and I propose to
do so.
“The United States did more to
start Japan on the upward road;
to civilization than all the rest of j
the world put together, and then j
turned around and did more to re- j
strain Japan from exercising her
new powers and fulfilling her new
ambitions, than all jqjtheir coun
tries combined. j
“American pressure prevented
Japan from keeping the fruits of
her Russian war; from dispoiling
China in the past; from immigrat
ing to North and South America; j
from equality in Naval strength; j
from establishing coaling bases j
any place in the Pacific. We have.
constantly wounded her pride by j
anti-Japanese agitation and laws i
in the Western States. In fact, the \
United States started Japanese civ- ;
iiization and industrial pots to boil- |
ing, then insisted on holding the
| lids on. The result is an implacable
! resentment and hope for retalia
tion. There is a universal belief j
that WAR WITH THE U. S. IS j
COMING SO SOON AS JAPAN IS
READY!
“First, Japan wants an outlet for
her excess population; second, sup
plies of raw material. She is not
after markets or foreign subjects.
Her Premier spoke the truth when
he said Japan did not want Man
churia, obligating her to care for
the millions of Chinese there. She
can not colonize Manchuria, for
the Japs have long passed the stage
where they can compete on equal
terms with the Chinese in tilling
the soil. Chinese have been pour
ing into Manchuria by the millions
and there is no room for the Jap
colonist. All Japan wants there is
control of mines and other raw’
material; an unhampered hand in
exploiting resources. Labor can
never migrate to countries having
an over-supply of their owm, es
pecially where the wage scale and
level of living is lowrer. Japanese
cannot go to Siberia for geograph
ical and climatical reasons, and
the impossibility of holding the
country against Russian attack
from the west.
“Well, what then? it has been
suggested many times that Japan
wants the Philippines, but here
again the China and Manchuria
objections apply. The islands have
all the labor they can use at just
as cheap a wage. The Japanese do
not want the Philippines.
“In the countries of South Am
erica where Japs could thrive, there
are restrictions, and Japan can not
use force without running up
against the Monroe Doctrine.
“So Japan is shut off in all direc
tions and she rightfully regards
Uncle Sam as holding the lid on
her boiling millions, but knowing
that the pot will boil over some
tme soon, she Intends to burn Uncle
Sam's hand as much as possible
when the explosion comes. So she
expects war with the U. S. and has
been preparing for the supreme
struggle for years. Foreign residents
of Japan will all tell you that there
has been feverish preparation, both
on land and sea, for a great war.
She is now armed to the teeth,
and for whom? There is not the
remotest possibility of a European
country invading Japan or seriously
disputing her Oriental activities.
| Then why has Japan almost ruined
j herself finacially to build a Navy
| equal to ours, and a land force far
[superior?
“Japan’s present subjugation of
I Manchuria and Shanghai, and even
war with China would not justify
her immense military preparations,
and especially the Naval, for her
old strength of the Russian war
time would be more than adequate
for any Chinese or Russian trouble.
Japan's indifference to our pro
tests now; her flouting of the
League of Nations, and disregard
ing other treaties, is evidence that
she intends to undertake still grav
er operations than any that could
arise in China. What intent is
she hiding? There can be but one
conclusion—an expected war with
the United States.
“Now just take a look around the i
Pacific Ocean and see what large
section of land has the most to;
offer Japan, that she could easily
take and hold indefinitely. Just
one—ALASKA!
“For years, I, and other Alaskans
who have given the matter thought,
have wondered why Alaska was
never mentioned as a possible
prize for Japan. It must be just
one of those unexplainable over
sights that our nation is ever guilty
of. BUT NOT JAPAN! I believe
she lias had her eyes on Alaska for
years as the one holdable objective
in a war with the U. S. But Japan
ese statesmanship has led the Am
erican scare of invasion to every
other spot but the one she really
intends to grab. To seize the Phil
ippines would be getting a hornets
nest, costly and of no permanent
value to Japan. To take Hawaii
would mean the loss of many war
vessels and men, useful only as a
naval base for operations against
the Pacific Coast, and Japan is
wise enough to know that a coast
offensive could not be maintained
for any length of time, costing
more than it would be worth.
“But poor defenseless Alaska
could be taken and completely oc
cupied without the loss of a man,
or ship, and COULD BE HELD FOR
YEARS, after a quick mining of
the harbor entrances. And what
a prize it would be for Japan.
“Japan needs coal; Alaska has an
unlimited quantity of all kinds,
available by rail to Seward on a
wonderful mountain-locked bay
which a day's laying of mines in
the narrow entrance would make
impregnable to any fleet.
(PtoAM tars to Pug* Thr*«)
EXPECT FIERCE BATTLE
NANKING, Feb. 2. (/P)—A fierce
battle is looked for at any moment
as efforts of local officials to bring
about peace appeared to be failing.
An attack by the Nipponese forces
is expected momentarily and owing
to this expectation the Chinese for
eign staff has evacuated the city.
MISSING 1 LINER
HAS NOT BEEN FOUND
i YET; HOPE DWINDLES
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2. (£>)—
Hope dwindled Monday that any
of the eight persons who were in
the Century Pacific air liner, which
took off from Bakersfield last Fri
day, would be found alive.
The tri-motored liner is believed
to have crashed in the mountains
somewhere south of Bakersfield
and north of Taft. Nearly 50 air
planes, anxious to take the air and
comb an area of 8,000 square miles
for the missing ship, were held on
the ground by rain squalls, low
hanging clouds which clung to the
mountain peaks, and a wind. 30
to 40 miles an hour.
But the search was being pur
sued by a force estimated at 250
men from the ground. In an au
tomobile, on horseback and afoot,
men were plunging through snows
more than tw'o feet deep in some
places, mud and rocky terrain in
the search for the plane.
I
ALIENIST SITS MRS. JUDD
NOT RESPONSIBLE (GTIONS
PHOENIX. Ariz., Feb. 2. (/P)—Dr.
George W. Stephens, superintend
ent of the Arizona State Hospital
for Insane, firing the opening shot
Monday in the impending battle of
psychologists, testified Winnie Ruth
Judd did not know right from wrong
on October 16, when Agnes Anne
Leroi was slain.
Dr. Stephens, testifying as a de
fense alienist, said the first im
pression he receved from observa
tion of Mrs- Judd, was that of a
psychopathic personality, involving
moral irresponsibility.
! S’ne has paranoid delusions, pai
ticularly in regard to people,” he
said. ‘She has told me a number
of things I am satisfied are not
true. For instance, her complaints
of mistreatment by county jail of
fcials, I am satisfied, are untrue;
they are paranoid delusions.”
Mrs. Judd, Dr. Stephens said he
had observed, suffered from irres
ponsibility of emotions.
MOUNTED POLICEMEN KILLED
AKLAVIK, Northwest Territory,
Feb. 2. (/P) — Constable E. Millen,
of the Canadian Mounties, was shot
and killed Saturday morning by Al
bert Johnson, demented trapper
who has been hunted for more than
a week, at a point 30 miles up Rat
River. Word received here from a
portable radio carried by a posse
said that Johnson formerly stood
off a patrol of Mounties for 15
hours in a cabin.
LEFT ON PLANE i
G. R. Gardner, educational head ;
of Westward school districts under
jurisdiction of the Bureau of In- ;
dian Affairs, who arrived in Seward i
on the SS Starr, expected an air- i
plane Monday from Anchorage but \ i
owing to bad weather the flight i
here was postponed until today, <
when a plane from Anchorage ar
rived in the city and a short while '
later took off with Mr. Gardner, s
enroute to Anchorage. From An- j
chorage Mr. Gardner will be flown i
to Nushagak, in the Bristol Bay <
region. 1
SLUICED SNOW AWAY
Mining methods were transferr- 1
ed from the hills Monday to the vi- i
cinity of the Seward Machine Works
where Boss Charhje Lechner
coupled up a big hose to a hydrant <
land sluiced away the great drifts 1
I of snow in front of his fine build- 1
ing.
• Twenty-two million In $20 gold i
pieces were coined at the U. 6. 3
mint in November. <
JAPAN'S ULTIMATE
GOAL IS BV
OF PACIFIC OCEAN
FORxMER CHINESE MINISTER
PREDICTS WAR BETWEEN
U. S. AND JAPAN
SHANGHAI, Feb. 2. (JP)—'The ul
timate aim of Japan’s policy toward
China is mastery of the Pacific
ocean, Eugene Chen, who recently
resigned as the Chinese Foreign
Minister, said, and that means war
with the United States.
First, he said, Japan looks to
unconditional annexation of Man
churia, from which she can dom
inate the entire Asiatic mainland
and then to the conquest of Aus
tralia. To accomplish these things,
he said, Japan knows she is des
tined to fight the United States
As a preparation for this inevit
able struggle, the occupaton of
Manchuria is an effort to obtain
raw materials as the sinew’s of war.
“'Her present pressure against
Shanghai and the Yangtze Valley,
w’hch contemplates the occupation
not only of Shanghai but also of
Nanking, is sufficient to paralyze
the Chinese government and to
force its acceptance of Japan’s for
|mal annexation of Manchuria.
[ These are the first steps being car
! ried out by the medieval minded
military shogunate in the form of
a general staff which is the real
government of Japan. Men of this
type planned the Sino- Japanese
and Russi-Japanese wars. Now they
see Japan dominating all Asia and
Australa,” sad Dr. Chen.
Dr. Chen added: “Between her
and this goal stands the United
States; therefore, she plans war.
While other nations disarm, she
aims. Manchuria is but a prepara -
; tory step for her greatest conflict
i in which she hopes to banish for
ever the influence of Western na
tions in the Pacfic ocean ”
KODIAK, Feb. 2. (Special to The
Gateway)—Jack McCord, with the
chartered MS Dorothy, arrived in
Kodiak January 10 frem Cherikoff
Island after a most tempestuous
voyage and was to return as soon
as weather conditions permitted.
The Dorothy, while lying at an
chor among the mountainous waves
driven by fierce gales, lost two 600
pound anchors and had to put to
sea. This occurred in about the
same place from which the SS Uni
verse was driven to sea and forever
lost three years ago.
While on Cherikoff Island, they
managed to kill about 30 head of
wild cattle and are selling the meat
where ever they can. Those who
have partaken of it say it is very
delectable. One very large bull left
the herd of wild cattle and made a
vicious charge upon McCord and
Gabe Karlook and it took several
bullets to bring him to earth.
It is reported by the crew of the
Dorothy that Gage Karlook, who
made as careful a count of the ani
mals as possible, stated there are
close to 900 wild cattle on the is
land, and that they are all in ex
cellent condition.
Karlook and “Dimond Kid ’ J. F.
Toman, cannery man from Anchor
age, were left on the island. They
are prospecting for gold, and inas
much as the island is heavily min
eralized, it is believed by many that
their effort will be rewarded by a
strike.
Cherikoff Island is about 15 miles
long andT^about seven miles across
its widest area.
Today is Groundhog day. The
question before the house is: Did
he see his shadow? If so look out
for some more cold weather.
C. J. Lincke, veteran newspaper
man of the North, returned today
from a month’s special assignment
on the Cordova Times.