MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 57. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1932. PRICE TEN CENTS
MATANUSKA OPERATORS NOT
OPPOSED TO DELAY IN
CONSTRUCTION
The following message was
phoned to The Gateway today by
Col. Otto F. Ohlson, general man
ager of the Alaska Railroad, in ref
erence to the proposed Seward coal
bunker:
“Senators Howell and Kendrick
called on the Secretary of the In
terior a few days ago and advised
that the Senatorial committee ob
jected to the Railroad building the
bunkers at Seward until such time
as the coal companies could guar-v
antee 10,000 tons per annum. Mr.
Ohlson had a conference with the
coal companies and they advised
that they were unable to make
such a guarantee at this time,
probably could not guarantee more
than half of that amount.
“The coal companies had figured
strongly on business in Southeast
ern Alaska but in view of the fact
that the Canadian coal companies
had reduced the price of coal and
the favorable exchange rate, which
gave the Canadian companies an
additional advantage, the compan
ies in the Matanuska coal fields
could not meet strong competition
in the Southeastern market at this
time. Also connections that they
had tried to make in that market
had not materialized, although the
Evan Jones did believe that they
might be able to establish ther own
agency in Juneau in due time.
“The Matanuska operators also
advised that they were not opposed
to the construction of the bunkers
beng delayed for the time being
and this information was wired to
the Secretary of the Interior.’’
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 9.—Be- ’
cause Federal raiders failed to pay
for their drinks, Pete Astuy, 408
Washington Street, was free after I
paying a $300 fine.
When arrested Astuy was charg- j
ed with sale and possession of liq- j
uor and maintaining a nuisance. •
But the agents, he charged, did not |
pay for the drinks, so he refused ;
:*> plead guilty to the first charge. 1
“If I don’t get paid for my booze
I don’t plead guilty,” he declared.
Astuy was fined on the other two
charges.
MAY RE-ENTER BUSINESS
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 9.—William
Fox passed through Les Angeles
Tuesday enroute to Santa Monica
where he and Mrs. Fox will spend
a brief vacation. It is a persistent
rumor on the West Coast that Fox
intends to re-enter the moving pic
ture business.
LIST MESSAGE FROM
1ITHIX FOUND BOTTLE
HONOLULU, Mar. 9. —A bottle
was picked up here in which was
found a note on which was written:
“Motor missing. God bless you.
Mildred Doran.”
Miss Doran vanished in the Pa
cific in 1927 in an attempt to make
a non-stop flight from California
to the Hawaiian Islands. The note
is believed to be authentic.
BE WEDDED TODAY
COLORADO SPRINGS, Mar. 9—
Ruth Hanna McCormick, former
Congresswoman and Rockford, 111.,
publisher, announced her engage
ment to former Congressman A. G
Simms of Albuqerque, N, M. She
said the wedding would take place
today in Colorado Springs. They >
expect to make their home at Al- j
buqerque. I
BUSINESS IMPROVING
TACOMA, Wash., Mar. 9. — A
highly optimistic report on the
present condition was made pub
lic here today following a survey
of the water commerce report.
: Shipments of lumber, doors and
flour showed great gains over 1931.
LINDBERGH COMPLETES
KECOTIMS RETURN
OF HIS Si, REPORTED
TRENTON, N. J., Mar. 9—Rumors
were prevalent Tuesday night that
Colonel Lindbergh has completed
! negotiations with the kidnappers of
i his son
The report is that the Colonel,
! Mrs. Lindbergh and other members
of the family are in full charge of
negotiations and that the Colonel
asked the New Jersey police for
permission to act alone.
Two messages received yesterday
j from the alleged kidnappers are
believed to be authentic.
Police have discovered that the
ladder used in the kdinapping had
been used elsewhere in New Jersey
■months ago.
NEW YORK, Mar. 9.—Plans are
underway to raise several divisions
of Korean troops in Manchuria to
help the Chinese fight the Japan
ese, Dr. Sjmgman Rhee, former
Provisional President of Korea, said
Provisional President of Korea,
said.
There are about 1,000.000 Ko
reans living in Manchuria and the
nucleus of a military force has been
kept intact there with officers who
received their training under Ger
man army men.
Cables from Shanghai, Dr. Rhee
declared, said the Japanese there
had raided the Korean Provisional
government’s headquarters located
in the French concession but that
no arrests had been made and
nothing of value disturbed.
STATE POLICE ON GUARD
DEARBORN, Mich., Mar. 9. — A
heavy guard of State police are |
patrolling the Ford plant area be- j
cause of a furious “hunger” riot in
which four unemployed were killed
and 50 injured. The 30 odd ar
rested are still in jail.
CHINA WANTS HOSTILITIES I
WILTED WITHOUT DELAY
_
GEVENA, Mar. 9. — China called
upon the “supreme authority” of
the League of Nations general as
sembly Tuesday to force the Jap
anese to cease hostilities in the
Yangtze Valley and asked that the
assembly’s decision be put through
without delay because no further
commissions were needed to prove
that the League Covenant had been
violated.
The Japanese sought to delay ac
tion by hurling counter charges at
the Chinese and attacking thei
Chinese attitude toward treaty ob
ligations.
CHI WON'T ICCEPT
HUMILIATING PICT
GENEVA, Mar. 9.—The League of
Nations has completed a new draft
as a solution to the warfare in the
Far East- Territorial gains made
by the Japanese will not he recog
nized because of treaty violations.
China served notice she will not
agree to a humiliaitng peace agree
ment and that Japan must pay in
demnity for lives lost and property
damaged.
COMMUNICATION ATTEMPTS
NOT BE INTERFERED
WITH BY POLICE
HOPEWELL, N. J., Mar. 9.—Tues
day night, exactly one week from
the discovery that the world’s most
famous baby was kidnapped, an at
mosphere of hopeful expectancy
permeated the Lindbergh house
hold.
Police maintained strict secrecy
concerning reports that Colonel
Lindbergh or his representatives
were in communication with the
kidnappers. The police also denied
; knowledge of any authentic com
i munication policy between Lind
, bergh and the kidnappers of the
‘ child- Another denial was issued
i that there was any friction between
; the police department and Colonel
i Lindbergh on the way that the
| search for the child’s abductors*
: was conducted.
4 The lumber in the ladder used to
reach the nursery window has been
identified as some of the lumber ;
j left over in the construction of an j
i addition to an epileptics’ asylum j
l nearby and previous reports that i
; the lumber came from a shipyard !
where Johnson, former Lindbergh!
' chauffeur, was working, have been j
cast aside and seemingly, par' y ex- i
one-rates Johnson from par cina
tion in the kidnapping.
Colonel Henry Breckenrid ?, Col
onel Charles Lindbergh’s clc* \st ad- i
visor, returned to the Lindbergh
home from a mysterious mission ai
11:15 o’clock last night and a half
hour later drove away with a wo
man believed to be Mrs. Dwight
Morrow, mother of Mrs. Lindbergh,
toward Princeton, N. J. it was be
lieved they may have gone to En
| glewood, N. J., the Morrow home.
Newspapermen called the Lind
bergh heme, seeking to confirm i
rumors that the baby had been j
found and was being taken to En
glewood. The man who answered ;
the phone declined to give infor- i
matron.
I Breckenridge, in departing from \
the Lindbergh home earlier in the >
evening on his mission, instructed
i police and State troopers to make j
| certain he was not followed by >
themselves or anyone else- His de
parture immediately released a
flood of rumors at Hopewell that
a contact had been made with the
baby-snatchers and all Hopewell
hoped for definite results.
The police guard at the Lind
bergh home was cut from 25 to 10
troopers, which was regarded as sig
nificant.
The whereabouts of Salvatore
Spitale and Irving Bitz, racketeers
appointed by Lindbergh as emis
saries to the underworld, was cloak
ed in mystery.
Meanwhile, Lindbergh fought
desperately to keep open every
channel through which the baby
might be returned. Even the po
lice were pushed aside when they
appeared to be interfering with
Lindbergh’s efforts to establish di
rect contact with the abductors.
Captain J. J. Lamp answered a
telephone in the Lindbergh home
and was promptly warned by Lind
bergh that “no policeman is ever
to touch a telephone in this house.”
SUPPLY BILL IN HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D. C-, Mar. 9.—
The annual supply bill for the In
terior Department was passed by
the Senate Tuesday. The bill now
goes back to the House for the lat
ter’s consideration of a few amend
ments attached to it by the Sen
ate. The bill, as passed by the j
Senate, provides the sum of $188,- i
000,000.
A BIG PROGRAM
SEATTLE, Mar. 9.—A $20,000,000
public works program for the city
of Seattle has been proposed by
one of the city’s engineers and the
Seattle municipal government has
stated that it will give the plan
early / Consideration. The plan is
designed to provide jobs for many
unemployed. \
TROUBLE AT ONCE
I KOREANS BECOMING RESTLESS
AND SAY THEY WANT
INDEPENDENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 9.—
Dangerous developments in the
vicinity of Manchuria are spurring
Japan to wind up her affair at
Shanghai as quickly as possible if
it can be done without “too much
loss of foce.
Koreans are increasingly restless,
demanding independence and if the
threatened Chinese drive develops
in Manchuria, the Japanese may
find their communications through
Korea cut by revolution. The Ko
reans may join the Manchurians in
a bid for liberty.
Russia, under such circumstanc
es, could hardly remain indifferent.
Every day reports from Moscow in
dicate increasing uneasiness there
over the trend of events along the
Siberian border.
Annexation of Manchuria or even
a Japanese controlled Manchuria
would seal the doom of the Chin
i ese Eastern Railway, Russia’s main
j artery to the sea, and eventually
also of Vladivostok, Russia’s vital
| port.
m
TOKYO, Mar. 9.—Sensational re
norts of a $50,000,000 American loan
to the defenders of Shanghai were
received by the government, over
shadowing two other developments
in the Far East crisis.
These reports came with the
arrival of the League Commis
sion, appointed to investigate the
Manchurian situation. A govern
ment spokesfan’s statement said
that peace efforts and truce nego
tiations were progressing at Shang
hai and Geneva with “fan* pros
pects” of success.
The Japanese at Shanghai under
stood a portion of the loan, either
two-fifths or three-fifths, was to
be paid in materials, including mu
nitons.
SCHOOL GIRLS IPPEIflEB
III SC1TUI5S SKIRTS i
HERMOSA BEACH, Calif., Mar. 9.
—Because school girls appeared in
scanty grass skirts at a school play,
Hermosa Beach was stirred by the
filing of many protests with the
board of education.
Authorities said there was noth
ing more revealed by the play cos
tumes than by the bathing cos
tumes of girls who frequented this
beach and refused to stop the play
which was sold out for the second
performnce.
TRADE AGREEMENT
PARIS, Mar. 9. — France and
Greece have completed details of
a new commercial agreement be
tween the two countries which will
be in effect for a period of eight
months. It may be renewed month
ly thereafter until a lasting trade
agreement can be drawn up.
ADIRONDACK WILD Ml
SHOT BY TROOPERS
NEW COMB, N. Y., Mar. 8.—In
the fastnesses of the Adirondacks,
20 miles from here, State police
shot and killed the giant wild man,
who has been roaming the woods
for the past week, terrorizing trap
pers.
Clad only in deer and rabbit
skins, the wild man was shot to
death in front of his cabin by five
troopers after they had [tracked
him for miles through dense woods.
DORE—MAYOR OF SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Mar. 9.—John F. Dore,
noted criminal lawyer, Tuesday was
swept into the office of Mayor of
Seattle with a record number of |
votes over his opposing candidate, j
Robert H. Harlan, union leader.'
Dore was given 140 precincts out of
the total of 146. A revised count
of the votes gave Dore, 72,448 as
against Harlan’s 41,212.
NUMBER OF ATLANTIC
SHIPS IN DISTRESS AS
A RESULT OF STORMS
NEW YORK, Mar. 9.—Seas whip
ped by heavy gales had, according
to Coast Guard reports, battered
eight or more ships into helpless
ness by Tuesday night.
Along the entire eastern coast
from Massachusetts to North Caro
lina, vessels fought to keep afloat
on the mountainous seas. Coast J
Guard cutters were dispatched to’
aid the disabled or sinking ships, j
but, in many cases, could no noth- I
ing to help on account of the heavy !
gales.
The steamer Debardeleben was j
believed to be in a sinking condi
tion off Nantuckett, Mss., and a i
Coast Guard cutter was dispatched
to her aid.
Meanwhlie, Coast Guard cutters
sped off the Virginia capes to a
similar mission of mercy for the
burning steamer San Angeleno. The
! latter vessel radioed tht she was
•afire 90 miles east of Cape Henry,
but later reports said that the fire !
j was now under control. The ves
; sel was, however, disabled with a 1
1 damaged steering gear.
30 LIVES TAKEN
NEW YORK, Mar. 9. (/P) — The
East struggled out of the storm {
which took at least 33 lives thru
the entire Atlantic seaboard today,
j Winter ruled in the South and the
; West. Four persons are dead from
| exposure. A coal barge and two
j fishing schooners are missing with
18 men off the coast of New Jersey, i
NEW YORK, Mar. 9.—The Amer
ican Boycott Association announced j
its organization for consumers boy- |
cott in the United States against j
Japanese products and Japanese j
business.
The purpose of the association,
the announcement said, is to “set
up a countrywide non-govern
mental boycott to effect arbitration
in the Sino-Japanese crisis and to
preserve the open door.”
Thousands of pamphlets listing;
principal Japanese exports to the
United States and urging emphatic
refusal to buy Japanese goods or
patronize Japanese business were
mailed to individuals in all parts of j
the country.
LATEST IN FASHION
NEW YORK, Mar. 9.—The tiny,
thin-lagged and dark-skinned little
man who is known to millions of
Nationalists in India as “The Ma
hatma,” has been blamed and
praised for a lot of things, but it
was only recently that “the Gand- j
hi pantie” got into the news.
Alice Hughes, who tells Manhat
tan about new things for sale, re
ported that the Gandhi pantie may
be purchased in pale blue silk, tea
rose or even in white, which is the
color preferred by the Mahatma.
It is a smooth fitting silk pantie
for women, bias out, in all colors,
Miss Hughes said.
A FRUIT BASKET
CHICAGO. Mar. Dr. Henry of
the University of Chicago said to
day that the old adage of “an apple
a day will keep the doctor away”
may be true. But the same also
holds true, by additional fruit, with
dentists.
FOUR JAP TRANSPORTS ARRIVE
IN SHANGHAI, LOADED
WITH TROOPS
SHANGHAI, Mar. 9.—Hopes for
immediate peace in the Yangtze
Valiev were dimmed Tuesday as the
Chinese government and military
leaders united in a policy of con
tinued resistence to Japanese forces
moving northwest from Shanghai.
! Japanese army headquarters said
they merely were consolidating
their lines in the Quinsan area
about 23 miles west of Shanghai,
; but Chinese charged the Japanese
I were pushing toward Nanking and
| the Japanese were driven back af
j ter fierce fighting.
Continued warfare and the re
! fusal of the Chinese government to
J participate in peace negotiations
until the Japanese withdraw ap
I peared to have si lashed all hopes
| of neutral dipl its for an early
j cessation of figi ig.
The Japanese lay continued to
j pour reinforcen ts, ammunition
! and supplies intc leir lines on the
Western Shangh front.
Four Japanese tnsports arrived
with troops whic, vill probably be
landed soon and urther consoli
date the Japanese ositions.
All was quiet in he Chapei dis
i trict and also at Woosung fort
j,where the Japanese soldiers are
patrolling.
j Chinese residents are timidly re
; turning to their homes in the city
i and many of the former residents
; have found that their homes have
j been reduced to nothing but sham
j bles.
Japanese officials said that peace
j is “hanging in the fire.” The Chin
I ese are awaiting developments at
Geneva.
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NATIONAL FUNERAL
PARIS, Mar. 9.—A national fun
eral will be held in France Satur
j day for Aristide Briand, French
statesman, who passed away the
I other day. According to Briand’s
own wish he will be buried on his
Normandy estate. A plaster cast
was taken of Briand’s face and
; hands Tuesday.
,51 FillSGO POLICE
MUSED BE ITTEMPIED
IIIIJCII ON fOONG GIBl
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Mar. 9.—
Aroused at a brutal attempted at
tack on the 16-year-old daughter
of Bishop Charles Wesley Burns, of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
authorities started fast action to
prosecute her alleged assailant,
Victor Para, a 20-year-old Hawai
ian.
The girl, Miss Barbara Burns,
identified Para as her assailant, ac
cording to police. She charged the
youth waylaid her a short distance
from her home and subjected her
to savage mistreatment before she
fought herself free.
Her coat, dress and other gar
ments were torn and she was
bruised badly about the body.
PLEDGED TO ROOSEVELT
CONCORD, N. H., Mar. 9.—Can
didates pledged to Franklin Roose
velt held a wide lead over those
pledged to Alfred Smith on a basis
of early returns from Tuesday’s
Presidential primary, the first in
the country.
With the Republican slate pledg
ed solidly to Hoover, all contests
centered on the Democratic issue.
Returns from 40 rural towns in
seven of the State’s 10 counties
gave Roosevelt 844 against 241 votes
for Smith pledged. The returns
indicated a heavy vote.