VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 52.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1932. PRICE TEN CENTS
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FIRST DEFINITE CLUE HAS BEEN
FOUND;THREE MEN ARE
* SUSPECTED
TRENTON. N. J., Mar. 3.—The
whole world is seemingly engross
ed in the horrible kidnapping of
one of the world's most famous
babies, the 20-month-old blue-eyed,
curly-headed Charles Augustus, son
of Col. and Anne Lindbergh.
Governmental agencies, detective
agencies and other agencies, which
•can possibly be of any assistance
m solving the kidnapping case, have
deen placed at the disposal of the
authorities who are handling the
case.
Much mystery surrounds the kid
napping note which w’as left in the
v>ed from which the baby was
snatched, but it is said that the
contents specified that the abduct
ors wanted $50,000 for the return
of the child. The note did not, it
is said, specify any rendezvous for
the transfer of the money to the
abductors.
Colonel Lindbergh, when inter
togated by newspaper men regard
ibkythis note, told them that they
inust not ask him anything regard
ing the note. Lindy’s attitude was
courteous and because of Iris re
fusal to talk about the note, it is
taken that death, in no uncertain
terms, is threatened should the
note’s contents be divulged.
Lindbergh said last night that he
believed that the baby would be
Returned safe within 12 or 15 hours
or before dawn today. He ordered
the road to his home cleared so
that it would be easier for the kid
nappers to approach the house
should they desire to communicate
with Lindbergh himself or to re
turn the baby.
^The Lindbergh family is facing
the situation with admirable cour
age. Lindbergh was exhausted from
a frantic search throughout the
nearby woods and said that he had
received about an hour of sleep
until last evening. Mrs- Lindbergh
continued on with her household
duties.
Early clues, which developed as
a result of the investigation—the
improvised ladder, the note left in
the child’s nursery, the footprints
and the smudges on the ladder, all
seemed very futile and disappoint
y-jg to the investigators.
Later developments gave addi
tional promise that these first
clues would be of some import
ance, officials disclosed early today.
The most tangible clue discovered
so far as to the identity of the ab
Auctors was contained in a report
4>y Chief Thomas Wolf, of the Jer
sey City department, who reported
that one of his subordinates, In
spector Charles Wilson, had dis
covered a waitress named Keating
in a restaurant at Pennington, eight
miles from the Lindbergh estate,
who identified pictures in a
rogues gallery as being those of
three men who had stopped at the
restaurant four days before the ab
duction. While they ate a light
Hdnch, they had asked directions
as to the Lindbergh home. They
came back again Monday night,
about three hours before the time
set for the kidnapping.
A second tangible clue was the
discovery of an abandoned car, a
1927 model, near Greenwich, Conn,
in the back seat of this car was
found a piece of pink baby ribbon,
about a foot and one-half long. A
receipt for $2.70 from a lumber
company was also found as well as
a piece of paper with six kinds of
writing on it and some kind of a
cipher. The receipt for the lum
ber company may be a receipt for
the lumber which went into the
making of the improvised ladder.
The uTiting on the piece of paper
^is believed to be the paper on which
the kidnappers practiced various
styles of writing before they wrote
the note which was found in the
crib
A postal clerk in a Newark post
office spotted a post card addressed
¥
to Colonel Lindbergh and police
immediately removed the card from
the postoffice in the hope that it
might contain some clue. The card
said that the Lindbergh baby was
safe and that further instructions
would be given later. It also told
Lindy to act accordingly.
The police violated postal laws
by removing the card from the
postoffice but the police believe
they were justified in its removal.
The card which was mailed was
later identified as the one pur
chased by a man and a woman in
Newark. The man was described
as being about 40 years of age. A
house to house search has been
started in an effort to locate the
man and woman.
Lindbergh was reported to have
been in communication with the
; kidnappers and that he had paid
j the $50,000 ransom demanded. He
! refused to comment on this feature
but said that the Governor’s office
would give out all statements re
garding the case. Lindbergh is
eager to pay the ransom and he
can well afford to do so as his for
tune amounts to $2,000,000 and
Anne Lindbergh has $19,000,000 in
her own name.
Word of the kidnapping over
shadowed all world news, even the
war in Shanghai. Millions of words
were printed on the front page of
almost every newspaper in the
United States and in foreign coun
tries and even in Japan and China
the news of the kidnapping of the
son of the United States’, and prob
ably the world’s, most idolized fig
ures overshadowed even the war
developments in their own coun
tries.
President Hoover has conferred
with Attorney General William Mit
chell regarding the case and Con
gress was in a furore over the kid
napping. They immediately began
consideration on several measures
tended to curb kidnapping. They
also gave consideration to the
Cochrane bill which makes kidnap
ping punishable by a death sen
tence and to be regulated by the
Interstate Commerce Commission
| on a code similar to that deal with
white slavery.
I A famous airmen’s organization,
! known as the “Quiet Birdmen,”
‘ has expressed its willingness to
I help their buddie, Lindbergh, out
‘and all day today they have been
! taking off from various points to
I conduct an aerial search in the
! hope that they may discover the
' hideout of the abductors. The or
, ganization is made up of such men
j as Richard E. Byrd, Clarence E.
| Chamberlain, Wiley Post, Clyde
Pangborn and others, who have
made a high mark in the history of
i aviation.
j There never has been such a hunt
I in all time and the intensity of the
I search is not only because it is the
| son of international figures, but
; because of the fact that the De
; partment of Justice seeks to break
! the threat of kidnapping which
i may jeopardize the safety of many
American homes in the future.
All branches of the State and
J Federal government have been
mobilized and directed toward the
search which has now become na
tion-wide.
Every State bordering on the At
lantic seaboard is being searched
by authorities and civilians.
Expressions of sympathy are
pouring in to the Lindberghs from
every part of the world.
Neither parent have slept since
their small son was kidnapped; the
Colonel said he would not sleep un
til his son is back in his arms.
Yesterday the child's special diet
was broadcast in the hope that the
kidnappers would hear.
At Trenton, a mysterious phone
call wras received -by a newspaper,
the speaker saying, “The baby is
being cared for by a trained nurse,”
then hanging up the receiver.
In China and Japan the kidnap
ping is front page news alongside
of war dispatches and hundreds of
telegrams of condolensces were re
ceived from the Far East, where
I both of the Lindberghs visited last
' year.
1 Mrs. Lindbergh is reported to be
j holding up remarkably well, con
J sidering her present condition.
Twenty-five State troopers are
on constant guard on the Lind
bergh estate.
A special national broadcast sta
tion has been established in Tren
Ill DUCK' MEISUHE
PISSED BY CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C.s Mar. 3.—
The so-called “lame duck” meas
! ure, which calls for the convening
of Congress two months after elec
l tion in stead of 13 months, as at
present, has now been passed by
| both Houses of Congress. It was
! passed by the House last week and
yesterday was passed in the Senate.
| The measure now goes to the
| various States of the Union for rat
i ification or rejection. The States
• are given seven years to act on the
| measure.
Under the provisions of the
i measure, the incoming President
! takes over his duties January 15
j instead of March 4.
PESSIMISM REIGNS
GENEVA, Mar. 3. — Failure of
peace moves in Shanghai as a re
| suit of the extensive conferences
I carried on and the extensive Jap
anese offensive against the Chin
, ese is the cause of much pessimism
j among Geneva delegates.
ton and a short-wave station near
the Lindbergh estate in order that
the country may be kept informed
as to the progress of the search.
Throughout the night, and today,
all radio programs were inter
spersed with bulletins from New
J Jersey stations.
CHILD STILL MISSING
HOPEWELL, N. J., Mar. 3.—Lat
est word in the Lindbergh baby
kidnapping case today was that
the baby was still missing. Miles
of roads on each side of the Lind
bergh home have been cleared to
make it easy for the kidnappers to
return the child to Lindbergh, who
is ready to pay the whole sum of
$50,000 demanded by the kidnap
pers.
The home of the Lindberghs
blazed in lights last evening and
the Lindberghs were considerably
heartened by the postcard mailed
from Newark which said that the
baby was safe.
Lindbergh asked newspaper men
to leave his estate so that it would
be easier for the abductors to com
municate with him.
MORE SEARCHERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 3.
! (IP)—Prohibition Department forces
were placed at the disposal of New
Jersey State police for use in the
search for the Lindbergh heir by
Amos Woodcock, Director of the
Prohibition Bureau. President Hoo
ver was in conference with Attor
ney General Mitchell yesterday and
today immediately asked that he
be informed of the developments
of the search which occurred dur
ing the night.
WOMAN LOCATED
—LATEST DISPATCH.
NEW YORK, Mar. 3. (A*) — The
| Lindbergh baby has not yet been
found. A woman and baby were
I seen in Boston today; the woman
I was driving a New Jersey regis
j tered touring car and is said to have
i mailed a letter to Col. Chas- Lind
bergh, addressed to his home in
Hopewell. Orders were at once
flashed by the police to all sta
tions to try to find her.
POLICE BROADCAST
NEW YORK, Mar. 3. (IP)—Police
headquarters sent out a radio mes
sage before 10 o’clock this morn
ing, to all radio equipped police
automobiles to stop an automobile
with a license plate reading 1087,
going out 6th Avenue, in which two
women with a baby were riding.
AUTO STOPPED
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Mar. 3.
{IP)—Police stopped a man in a car
with a young woman and baby.
The car had been sighted and re
ported by a chauffeur.
—
HAGGARD BUT HOPEFUL
HOPEWELL, N. J., Mar. 3. (A*)—
Haggard yet hopeful, Col. Chas.
Lindbergh wras ready today to meet
any demands of the kidnappers for
the return of his baby son.
PRIVILEGE TO USE
GASBOATB BRISTOL
RAY IS OIRE NEED
RESIDENT FISHERMEN ARE NOT
BEING TREATED FAIRLY,
SAYS WAMSER
While there is no depression in
the Bristol Bay district, yet the
bona fide residents of that region
are so handicapped by government
al fishing regulations, that little
development or larger settlements
can be expected in the future until
such restrictions are removed after
which progress and contentment
will follow, according to A. C. Wam
ser of Naknek, a resident of that
area since 1917 and who is now in
Seward on business matters.
“The biggest local industry out
there,” Mr. Wamser said, “is fishing
but the regulation which prohibits
the use of gas boats is extremely
detrimental to the fishermen who
are compelled to use sailboats.
“In, some cases, the fishing
grounds are 20 miles distant and
to reach them, we often have to
buck hard winds and heavy seas.
We have to do about 16 hours of
sailing a day in order to reach the
grounds to do about four hours of
actual fishing. We are not com
plaining so much about the short
fishing period and would not even
feel bad if the actual fishing per
iods were changed, but it does seem
non-sensible in having to waste
the greater part of our time going
to and from the fishing grounds in
sail boats when the majority of us
have gasboats; now we have both,
sailboats and gasboats.
“The resident fishermen receive
only the worst of gear, rotten nets
! and rotten boats, from the canners.
The fishermen from the States are
given the best gear and boats; they
are taken care of first and Alaska
residents, last.
“Last year we were paid 10 cents
per fish and this price will prob
ably be paid this season. But with
out gasboats, the fishermen can
only make in a season an average
of $400 or $500. Permission to use
gasboats is the only thing which
will help us out.
“At Naknek, during the fishing
and packing season, there are ap
proximately 1,500 cannery hands
and about 1,000 at Nushagak. In
addition to these, there are ma
chine gangs at both places to the
number of 500 or 600 each; also,
about 100 fishermen at Naknek
and 500 at Nushagak. These num
bers are supplemented by the resi
dent fishermen by about 300; resi
dent cannery hands are rare ex
ceptions.
“Most of our provisions we get
monthly from the canneries and
their charges are very high with
the exception of the Libby, McNeil,
Libby Company, which gives their
employees everything at cost; it is
the only fair outfit in Bristol Bay.
“Nearly all companies employ
Italians to bring in booze,” Mr.
Wamser cdntinued, “and it is a
known fact that some of these men
brought in from the Outside, as
cannery hands, remain over the
winter for only one purpose, that
of making ‘moon.’ During the win
ter months not a drunk is seen in
the entire district.
“When the fishermen and can
nery crews arrive each spring from
the States, booze flows like water.
It is believed most of this comes up
with the Portland Packers outfit.
There is apparently no interference
from the local authorities. Last
year,” Mr. Wamser stated, “two
men, brought north by the above
cannery, literally drank themselves
to death; we folks often wonder
how things like this are permitted.
“Many people from the States
have asked whether or not they
could build homes and make a liv
ing if they settled in Bristol Bay.
If model equipment could be used,
such as gasboats for reaching the
fishing grounds, they could exist
and the future of the country would
be most encouraging. If gasboats
could be utilized the same as in
Southeastern Alaska, the region
would quickly populate.
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MAY GO INTO ACTION
VLADIVOSTOK, Mar. 3.—The re
port is current here that the Sov
iet troops which have been mass
ing here and in the Ussuri River
region have begun moving toward
territory owned or occupied by the
Japanese. Details regarding the
movements of the Soviet forces are
under the strictest of censorship
and word of their movements is
carefully guarded.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT IS
EXPECTED BE MADE AT
PEACE MEETING
SHANGHAI, Mar. 3. (A5) — The |
Japanese Army and Navy com- j
manders ordered their land forces
and warships to cease firing andj
hostilities in the Shanghai area j
and to consolidate their position in
the 12V*> mile zone around the city
which they now hold and where
they had been demanding the
Chinese to withdraw their military
forces, in an ultimatum delivered
during an early period of the hos
tilities.
In quick succession after their
taking Kiangwan and other strat
egic points, the Japanese captured
Woosung and then Kating, 15 miles
to the northeast of Shanghai. The
Japanese also took over Lungwha,
to the extreme south of Manchuria.
A peace meeting is expected to
be held on the British Admiral’s
flagship and some important an
nouncements relative to the status
of the Japanese stand in China and
Manchuria will be made known.
D JAP DEMANDS
DEJECTED BY CHINESE:
SHANGHAI, Mar. 3.—New Jap
| anese peace demands yesterday
j were rejected by the Chinese and
| the fighting continued on as in
tensive as ever with the Japanese
creeping ahead and the Chinese
giving their ground reluctantly.
From Kiangwan, which is now oc
cupied by the Japanese soldiers,
the offensive continued on against
j the Chinese who are rapidly drawT
i ing near the outskirts of the city
! The Chapei section, north of the
; International Settlement and once
I the place where mere than 6,000
' persons made their homes, is rap
i idly being doomed to destruction
by the fire which is completing the
devastation caused by shrapnel, ar
tillery and machine gun fire.
The Japanese, pursuing the re
treating Chinese, once more had to
contend with snipers and the Jap
anese were ruthless in their war on
these persons who, from houses and
other points of concealment, will
pick off any stray Japanese soldier.
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Mar. 3.
(jp)—one of the demands of the
Lapua Fascists, who have been in
revolt for five days, was met when
Baron E. von Born, Minister of the
Inteiror, was replaced by General
K. L. Oesch, at a meeting held here
Wednesday.
Meanwhile President Pehr Evind
Seinbufuud said that he would take
personal leadership of the National
defense forces in an attempt to put
down the revolt against the Social
ist members of the Finnish gov
ernment.
ON MARCH 15
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 3—Gov
ernor Rolph of California stated
yesterday he will announce on
March 15 his decision in the Moon
jey case.
IS STILL MYSTERY
INDIAN, WITH POKE OF GOLD,
BRINGS MEMORIES OF
EARLIER DAYS
The “Valley of Gold” is still a
mystery, despite the fact that a
consistent search by Captain Axel
Olsen, owner of the motorship
Ruth C, failed to reveal the El
dorado of the Alaska Peninsula.
Captain Olsen passed thru Sew
ard last week enroute to Seattle
and while here gave the details of
his disappointing search, made last
summer; first by himself and an
other, without a guide and later
with the man whose story of fab
ulous riches “just over there” has
given rise to another mine ro
mance.
“It ws back in 1914,” said Cap
tain Olsen, “that I discovered an
Indian, his squaw and papoose in
a starving condition on the Penin
sula. I had put into Chignik Bay
and caught the signal of distress.
I will never forget the little bundle
of skin and bones represented in
the papoose. The native turned
out to be One-Eyed Mike
“As we- boarded the motorboat,
Mike pointed to the hills beyond
Katmai and said, ‘You savvy him
gold? Over there I picked big
pieces out of the moss with my
hatchet. Some time I show you.’
“It was not until I built the Em
mirson that I was prepared to make
a- search for the ‘Valley of Gold.’
That was in 1930. So sure was I
that I could find the valley, that I
took a companion, sailed into Chig
nik Bay, left ‘The Admiral,’ Mrs.
| Olson, and the boys aboard to tend
ship, while we climbed mountains
! threaded creeks and alternately
froze on the plateaus and half
^ drowned in the rains of the val
leys. After days of search of ev
ery likely looking spot, we gave it
up in disgust.
“The reason why I searched with
jout Mike was that I had heard he
' had tried his aim on another In
! dian, was arrested for murder and
sent to McNeil’s Island. Then I
| heard that Mike was back on the
Peninsula and in 1931, after build
ling the Ruth C, I went in search
| of him. I believe I called at every
| native settlement on the Peninsula
I and most of the Aleutians until I
| found him.
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SII-IP SITUATION
GENEVA, Mar. 3. (/P)—Delegates
from 50 countries met in an extra
ordinary session here in an attempt
to find a solution to the Sino-Jap
anese problem. The meeting was
adjourned for a period of four
hours after they had elected Paul
Hymans, Belgian minister, to be
president of the meeting during
the session’s discussions.
The American disarmament con
ference delegates sat in at the
meeting as spectators. They have
no voice in the discussions, as the
[United States is not a member of
the League of Nations.
Small powers, who are members
I of the League, have an equal voice
in the discussions as compared to
the larger powers, who also are
participating in this meeting.
Observers say that this meeting
and its result may have an im
portant influence regarding the fu
ture of the League of Nations.
THE STOCK MARKET
SEATTLE, Mar. 3. — Quotations
on the market: Alaska Juneau,
13%; Chrysler, 12%; Kennecott,
9%; Kroger 16%; General Motors,
20%; Radio 9; Radio-Keith, 5%;
Freeport; 18%; Trans-Cont. 3%;'
United Corp., 9; U. S. Steel 40%;
[Cities Service, 6%; Premier, %;!
iu. S. Gas, 2; Big Missouri, 8c.