VOLUME XXVIII.
nuarii
NUMBER 47.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1932.
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REPRESENTATIVES HOUR AND
CARTER ARE OF SAME
OPINION
A navy yard should be located at
Seward, writes Louis P. Green of
San Francisco in a letter received
oy The Gateway in the last mail.
A newspaper clipping from a pa
oer accompanied his letter in which
:t was said:
“Representative Horr of Seattle
and Representative Albert Carter
>f Okland think an airbase should
•>e constructed at Unalaska. This
s as far west of San Francisco bay
as Washington is east therefrom
and would form the northern end
of the mid-ocean line of defense.”
The flare-up in the Far East is
stirring the California Congression
al delegation to ask the question:
.Are Pacific Coast defenses ade
quate?
Generally it is agreed that the
iia yof forts and stationary big guns
js about past. It is realized that the
Navy and its airmen constitute the
-eal defense of the coast line. Navy'
men admit that in case the United
States became involved in a war
with Japan, the Philippines would
easily be taken. Hence their base
and first line of defense would be
Pearl Harbor at Hawaii and the
broad ocean stretching south to
he Panama Canal and northward
*:o Alaska.
Mr. Green says: “There is one
very important thing that ought
o be in Seward that I have never
heard anything about and that is a
navy yard there. There is plenty of
.oom in your harbor to have dry
locks enough to accommodate our
warships and also room enough to
aave machine shops and other
units. This would prove a great
nelp for the Alaska coal miners be
ause the coal is wonderfully
.dapted for steaming and black
smithing purposes.
“In case we ever have any dif
ficulty writh Japan, Alaska will nc
•loubt be a center of operations and
rasily taken by our opponents and
I am wondering how Alaskans
would take to the idea of having
Orientals taskmasters who hate us
•worse than poison.
“Such an undertaking will not
involve any too exorbitant expense
:or Alaska can furnish much of
“he material in the makings, ce
ment. gravel, rock and other build
ing materials.
“If any other nation had Alaska
you would see things humming, we
* never appreciate our wonderful
possessions until it is too late. Why
dont ’you Alaskans get busy and
get some legislation through on
:hi proposition?”
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NORWEGIAN ATHLETES
MAKE CLEAN SWEEP
LAKE PLACID, N. Y., Feb. 26, —
Ivan Ballangrud of Norway won
both the 1,500 and 11,000 meter
l races, capturing individual world’s
speed skating championships.
His victories gave Norway a clean
sweep in the championships.
Haakon Petersen placed first in
yesterday’s 500 meter race.
The first three places for indi
^ vidual performance also went to
Norway with fourth place to Bert
Taylor of the United States.
WANTS BIGGER NAVY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26.—
Rear Admiral Frank B. Upham
Thursday told Congress that he
favored a Naval academy to be built
on the Pacific Coast, but he added
that the United States must build
a bigger Navy before that time.
CREATE NEW POWDER
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26. — The
r Japanese have created a new pow
der for their military forces, en
tirely smokeless and absolutely
tireless, according to word brought
here by C. N. Bates, Oriental repre
sentative of the Dupont interests.
II IB SHU!
SHANGHAI, Feb. 26, —Another j
fierce battle is underway through
out- this entire battle zone. Two
additional divisions of Japan ese
troops are reported to be enroute
here, numbering 50,000.
Japanese transports, loaded with
soldiers, arrived off the mouth of j
the river. With these and the two
new divisions gigantic operations!
are planned.
Prior to these new forces swing
ing into battle formation Chinese
Generals have laid plans for a
great counter-attack.
Part of a Chinese airport was
destroyed yesterday by Japanese
planes and a section of the Shang
hai-Chengzie railroad was bombed.
This, the Chinese reported later,
was immediately repaired.
Tokyo officials interpreted Sec
retary Stimson’s note to Japan as
branding Japan as a treaty viola
tor. Japanese newspapers denied
the Nine Power Pact had been vio
lated.
The Chinese announced that the
railway which wras badly damaged
as a result of the Japanese bomb
ing attacks, had been repaired and
that Chinese military traffic over
the line had been resumed.
An advance supply transport of
the Japanese has arrived. The
ship is carrying munitions and
supplies for the Japanese forces.
The Japanese transports, carrying
two divisions of Japanese soldiers,
are said to be nearing Shanghai.
ATTEMPT SECURE SERVICES
HONOLULU, Feb. 26.—Mrs. Grace
Fortescue and her three co-defend
ants. Lieut Thomas Massie, E. J.
Lord and Alfred Jones, who are
facing a trial for the slaying of a
Hawaiian youth, are said to be at
tempting to persuade two of the
leading criminal lawyers in the
United States — Clarence Darrow
and J. Malone—to come to Hono
lulu to take up their cases.
GEN. AUGUSTIN JUSTO
BENOS AIRES, Feb. 25.— Gen
eral Agustin Jus to was inaugurated
as President of Argentina in an
impressive ceremony, replacing the
Provisional president, Jose Uribura,
leader of the 1930 revolution.
President Justo declared in his
inaugural address that he would
seek constitutional reforms to im
prove the electoral system and
would encourage trade with coun
tries offering Argentina “reciprocal
advantages.”
One of the last acts of Provis
ional President Jose Uribura, was
to pardon all political prisoners.
FOUNDER DIES
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25. —Mrs.
Florence Kelly of New York, foun
der of the National Consumers’
League, died in a Germantown hos
pital after a long illness.
BROTHER CONFESSES HE
WELLINGTON, Kans., Feb. 26.—
Walter Wilson, brother of Dick Wil
son, cashier of the Valley State
Bank of Belle Plaine, has confessed
that he assisted in planning the
robbery of the bank on August 25,
in which four bandits escaped amid
a hail of lead fired by vigilantes.
Wilson, about 30 years old, is a
sign painter here. The holdup was
planned, he said, after a friendship
with Betty Weaver, alleged mem
ber of the gang now in jail in
! Wichita, being held as a material
witness.
ILFJLFi BILL"
IS ENDORSED FOB
“ALFALFA BILL WILL BEAT TLE
GUY WHO MADE A SOUP
IIOUND OUT OF ME"
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 26, —
Governor William “Alfafa Bill”
Murray was unanimously endor,...,
by the State Democratic conven
tion as candidate for the party’s
Presidential nomination.
The Convention named Gover
nor Murray chairman of the State
delegation to the National Conven
tion at Chicago and authorized
him to appoint his own delegates.
The Presidential platform form
ed by Murray would commit the
Democratic party to unemploy
ment relief, conscription of wealth
as well as men in time of war, abol
ition of excess government bur
eaus, payment of cash bonus to
World War veterans and better
ment of economic condition of the
middle class.
The Convention enthusiastically
sang Murray’s campaign song of
“Alfalfa Bill will beat the guy who
made a Soup Hound out of me.”
CAPTURE HIJACKERS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26.—Three
hijackers successfully held up a
liquor cache here and unwittingly
guided police to 1,000 cases of Scotch
whiskey valued at $50,000. The
three hijackers were captured.
TflflDIEU FORMS NEW
PARIS, Feb. 26, —Andre Tar
dieu. war minister in the retired
Laval cabinet, announced that he
has succeeded in forming a new
cabinet
The Ministry is based on the
right wing in the Chamber of Dep
uties, rather than on concentra
tion of parties.
It's strength and probable life
was considered doubtful. The Cab
inet will face the Chamber today
and if it is given a vote of confi
dence, Tardieu will return to the
Arms conference as the chief del
egate of France.
ANOTHER BOY GONE WRONG
SEATTLE. Feb. 26, —J. P. Han
sen, the big salt man from Alaska,
is no more. He is now resting com
fortably behind steel bars. His bar
rels of salt turned out to be pure,
unadalterated moonshine fresh
from the Olympic mountains and
as potent as the morning dew. Han
sen had fond hopes of reaping a
harvest from Alaska halibut fish
ermen who need lots of salt.
DID AWAY WITH SELF
SEATTLE, Feb. 26, —A coroner's
jury finally figured it out how a
woman could shoot herself four
times then slash both wrists be
fore dying and s o solved the
strange double murder of Frank
Case, bus driver, and his house
keeper, Betty Woods. The woman
shot Case through the head and
then killed herself. When found
the death house was locked from
the inside
TWO-STROKE ENGINE If
REVOLUTIONIZE AIRCRAFT
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 26. —Air
craft engineers who have seen the
two-stroke gasoline engine perfect
ed by Leland L. Scott, president of
the Scott Two-Stroke Motor Com
pany here, have predicted that it
will revolutionize the aircraft in
dustry.
Several aircraft companies have
already placed orders for the new
motors, despite the fact that he
does not expect to have, the en
gine in the air until this spring.
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GRAHAM MD CO-PILOT
HIVE SiFEiy Ilf OTLIN
VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 26. (JP)
—Pilot William Graham and Mrs.
Edna Christofferson, missing for 10
days in the South Atlin country
while on a flight from Seattle to
Point Barrow via Nome to search
I for the schooner Baychimo, arrived
at Atlin Thursday at 5 p. m., Pilot
S. E. McGillan wired Major D- R.
MacLaren, assistant general man
! ager of the Canadian Airways.
McGillan was sent out from Atlin
to search for the missing pair by
j the company. The Graham plane
!was flown to Atlin.
REFUSES PORTFOLIO
PARIS, Feb. 26. — M. Tardieu,
former War Minister, has declined
a portfolio in the new cabinet be
ing formed by Paul Paileve. Pierre
Laval, whose cabinet fell recently,
also refused to join the new minis
try. The radical bloc in the Cham
ber of Deputies has voted unre
served support to M. Painleve.
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SHANGHAI. Feb. 26. (JP)—A fierce
battle of artillery, machine gun and
| rifle fire is underway and both
sides claimed the advantage.
The Chinese yesterday succeeded
in ousting the Japanese again. To
day the Japanese claimed again
they had surrounded Kiangwan but
observers were inclined to discount
these claims.
The Chinese reported their head
quarters at Hangchow. 100 miles to
the southwest, had been bombed
LETTER FROM DEAD SON
TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 2 6, —
Tears fell from a mother’s eyes
upon a letter from her son in Chi
na- Mrs. Elizabeth Short, mother
of Bob Short, American aviator
with the Chinese forces who was
shot down by a Japanese pilot, had
just received and opened a letter
from her boy, now dead. He had
written: “Don’t worry, Mother
dear, I will take good care of my
self and be sensible.”
PUNE WHS FORCED
DOWN, LICK DE CIS
VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 26. (JP)
—Pilot Graham’s plane was forced
down on the afternon of February
15 upon a frozen lake about 40
miles east of Atlin, owing to lack
of gasoline.
The stranded couple were located
three hours after Atlin aviators
took off Thursday. Neither were
the worse for their sojourn in the
wilderness, although they suffered
considerable from cold. They will
remain in Atlin for a few days.
SOME MORE NOTES
TOKYO, Feb. 26. (JP)—American,
British, French and Italian ambas
sadors called on the Foreign Office
to present notes expressing the de
sire of their governments in which
j it was said the Japanese must keep
' military operations out of the In
| ternational Settlement.
TRY AND GET IT
COLON, Panama, Feb. 2 6, —
Aimee Semple McPherson, Los An
geles evangelist, has a million dol
lar goal in sight. Becoming vexed
at a Colon cabaret owner who was
serving “hallelujah cocktails” she
is suing him for that sum alleging
defemation of character.
PROHIBITION LAW IS
HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR
GUN-TOTING YOUTHS
CHICAGO, Feb. 26.(/P)—Prohibi
tion and its synthetic liquors are
responsible for wholesale gun toting
by Chicago youths, Municipal Judge
Brooks charged in exhibiting 57
weapons taken from youthful of
fenders.
He said the guns had been col
lected in the last three weeks, be
ing a big harvest for the boys’
court. “Prohibition is to blame for
90 per cent of the gun toting by
minors.
Edward Mackay, 19, won remit
tance of his $200 fine when he re
| fused to turn “informer” against
j a woman who sold him liquor. He
| said: “I will take what is coming
to me; the woman who sold me this
stuff must support a jobless hus
band and two children.”
“While I cannot condone law
breaking,” the Judge said, “I do not
like a ‘squawker.’ I admire you
for protecting this woman; I will
not punish you for a situation made
possible by prohibition — responsi
bility for it rests with society.”
EMOTION DEMANDED
OF JAPANESE REQUEST
MOSCOW, Feb. 26. The Sov
iets demanded an explanation of
the Japanese request for a troop
train on the Chinese Eastern Rail
road, charging in “reality troops
are expected to be sent to the Sov
iet border.”
The Soviets said the request was
made “under pretext that the lives
of Japanese were threatened.” The
Russian statement said the Japs
are beleaguered with White Rus
; sians in Manchuria and that the
| Japs are protecting the activities
! of the whites as plans called for.
HUNDREDS SEEK JOBS
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Feb. 26.—
! Hundreds of unemployed stormed
! the municipal garage, seeking 200
■ ash and garbage collection jobs
i left vcant by union strikers. Union
| men struck because of the plan to
: reduce their time and salary by
one-half to provide part-time work
i for the jobless
.
SEATTLE Ell THOUGHT
SHE WAS LITTLE EVE
SEATTLE, Feb. 26, —June Car
roll, sometimes 24 years of age and
at other times, when the spirit so
moves her, 29, is again, in all prob
j ability, the life of some wild party.
| June, some weeks ago, was ar
I rested on charge of imbibing too
! deeply from the cup that cheers.
June was paroled and told to go
i along and behave herself.
But nope! Yesterday June was
picked up again, this time giving
a one-girl style show in an Eve
costume in a local downtown hotel.
A policeman said “naughty, naugh
ty,” and rang for the wagon but
before the cart arrived, strange to
relate, June had in some manner
escaped from the clutches of the
officer.
CONUS ENJOY SELVES;
STEP OUT OVERNIGHT
HONOLULU, Feb. 26. (#) — The
story of convicts carrying keys to
their cells outside the prison, and
stepping out for a night over week
ends, was told in a report on High
Sheriff John Lane, who resigned
during the crime wave in which a
Hawaiian was lynched for an al
leged attack on Mrs. Thomas Mas
sie, wife of a Naval lieutenant.
The report charged laxity of
morals; also that a baby was born
to a woman prisoner,
BALANCE OF TRADE IN FAVOR
OF ALASKA FOR YEAR 1931
AMOUNTS $29,575,910
An increase of over one million
dollars in shipments of domestic
gold and silver and an increase in
shipments of fresh, frozen and
canned fish over the previous year,
are encouraging figures note in the
annual compilation of the com
merce of Alaska for 1931 as made
by John C. McBride, Collector of
Customs at Juneau, and the De
partment of Commerce at Wash
ington.
The total shipments of domestic
gold and silver for the past year
amounted to $9,018,378, or an in
crease of $1,206,335 over shipments
| for 1930. Shipments from the First
Division of domestic gold and sil
ver amounted to $4,000,819, or an
increase of $759,504. Third Division
shipments amounted to $677,820, or
an increase $487,408, Fourth Divi
sion shipments amounted to $3,
282,051, or an increase of $47,265.
The only decrease in shipments was
noted from the Se cor Division
where total shipmei ere made
amounting to $1,057,6 'hich was
a decrease of $118,292.
Heavy losses are si i in both
pounds and value < pper ore
shipments during the past year.
Total shipments amounted to 22,
055,271 pounds valued at $2,080,338.
This is a decrease of 15,719,698
pounds and $3,260,697 in value from
i the corresponding period in 1930.
A large per cent of the decrease in
! value may be attributed directly to
! the lower average price of copper
in 1931 than in 1930. The low price
! also acted to restrict operations in
copper production. The average
j selling price of copper during the
! year, as computed by the Bureau
of Mines at Washington, was 8.3
cents, against 13 cents in 1930. Loss
| in tonnage was also due to the clos
; ing of the copper mine at Latouche
| which had been in operation for a
| number of years.
Increases are noted in the ship
| ments of fresh and frozen halibut
j and salmon, also in canned salmon.
: Shipments of fresh and frozen hal
| ibut amounted to 13,634.083 pounds
[ at a value of $1,462,773, which rep
I resents an increase of 2,053,733
I pounds and $60,509 in value. Ship
i ments of fresh and frozen salmon
; amounted to 8,060,972 pounds at a
value of $838,568, or an increase of
1.068,178 pounds and $27,640 in
value. Total shipments of canned
salmon amounted to 267,293,021
pounds valued at $31,161,504, which
was an increase of 28,084,451 pounds
and an increase of $1,077,176 in
value. Total shipments of fish and
fish products for 1931 amounted to
$36,322,861, or within $396,568 of
| the total shipments for 1930. The
! slight decrease was caused princi
pally in the falling off of shipments
of fish fertilizer, meal and oil.
The total commerce of Alaska for
the past year amounted to $76,125,
410. Of this total amount of trade,
$52,850,660 represents merchandise*
i gold and silver shipped from Alaska
to the United States and foreign
countries; while $23,274,750 repre
sents the value of shipments to Al
i aska during the same period. The
j balance of trade in favor of Alaska
i for the year 1931 amounts to $29,
i 575,910- The detailed tableetaoin
! 575,910.
SENTENCES COMMUTED
• OSSINING, N. Y., Feb. 26.—Four
| men who were to be electrocuted in
Sing Sing prison Thursday had
their sentence commuted to life
imprisonment by Governor Frank
lin Roosevelt. The commuting of
the sentence saved the four men
from going to the chair.
SATISFACTORY SETTLEMENT
WEST ORANGE, N. J., Feb. 26.—
Legal proceedings to contest the
will made by the late Thomas Alva
j Edison have been withdrawn by his
Ison, William L. It is said that a
satisfactory settlement was made
out of court.