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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 111.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
THURSDAY, MAY 12,1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ALASKA DEMOCRATS
• GIVEN MORE VOTES
THAN REPUBLICANS
JUNEAU. May 12. (/P)—The Dem
ocratic party received more votes
than Republicans in the Alaska
primary for the first time since
1918. polling 4.929 to 4,173.
All but 35 precincts are in; they
are five from the Second, 12 from
the Third and 18 from the Fourth
Divisions, but it is figured these
will bring little change.
The Democrats polled highest
in Dimond with Grigsby following
him by 847 and Ziegler 160 behind
Grigsby.
Connors defeated Frame by a
wide margin. Rasmusson defeated
White two to one. The Troy slate
was elected except the Walmer and
Heath contest in which more re
turns are required
Chase and Thiele won Republi
can Convention delegate places as
Hoover supporters.
Observers blamed the great in
crease in the Democratic’s vote to
the general dissatisfaction with
Republican administration.
It is estimated 40 per cent of the
Indian vote swept over to the Dem
ocrats.
Rustgard easily won over Foster,
2,840 to 1,333; Cole polled 2,389 to
961 for Lucas and 731 for Charles.
Hesse and Wann are to fight for
the Highway Commissioner’s post.
FURTHER DISORDERS
WELLINGTON. N. Z., May 12 —
Unemployed persons were the
eanse of further disorders here
Wednesday as radical jobless con
tinued to incite the people with
their stirring speeches. The speak
ers were asked to moderate the
phrases used in their talks because
the speeches could do nothing but
further fan the heat among the
jobless.
As a result of the police trying
to quell the speakers, the masses
rioted and stoned the police- Be
fore law and order was established
by police 22 deaths had occurred.
BIRTH CONTROL MITE
WOULD CHANGE NATURE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12.
(rPi—Margaret Sanger, internation- j
ally known birth control advocate,!
renewed her battle against laws |
prohibiting dissemination of such
information, before the Senate
subcommittee, urging approval of
the bill by Senator Hatfield to ex- 1
empt physicians, hospitals and li
censed clinics from existing bans.
The bill, she said, directly af
fects the health, happiness and fu
ture of 25,000,000 women and fu- .
ture lives of 45.000,000 children.
II LEG TO STAND ON
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12.
(A5)—At liberty under a $50,000
bond, Gaston Means began lining
up his defense against embezzle
ment charges. He will be arraign- 1
ed tomorrow.
He scoffed at the charges and
shouted Mrs. McLean “hasn’t got I
a leg to stand on.” He said Mrs.;
Shepard never employed him and
he “never took a dollar from her.”
SAILORS EXECUTED
LIMA, Peru, May 12. — Eight
saiiors of the Peruvian Navy who
were tried here for treason were
found guilty and executed Wednes
day by a firing squad. The sailors
participated in Sunday’s mutiny
against the government.
INVALID DIES
RICHMOND, Va., May 12, (IP)—
Mrs. John Pollard, 56, wife of the
Governor of Virginia, who had been
invalided about ten years died at
the executive mansion here.
TRENTON, N. J., May 12. (/P)—Governor Moore, of
New Jersey, announced today that the Lindbergh baby
had been found dead near the flier’s estate at Hopewell.
He said he had no further details.
Shortly before the pronouncement, Colonel Schwartz
kopf, of the State police, summoned reporters to the Lind
bergh home where announcement was made.
At the Englewood home of Mrs. Dwight Morrow, it
was said they had been informed the baby was found
dead near the Lindbergh home. Both Lindbergh and Mrs.
Morrow were at the Lindbergh home.
IRISH FREE STATE WARNED
ABOUT ELIMINATING OATH
LONDON, May 12. (/P)—The Brit
ish government served notice on
the government of President Eam
onn de Valera that if the Irish
Free State abolishes the oath of
allegiance to the British crown
that the Anglo-Irish trade agree
ment will be discontinued.
Under the trade agreement Ire
land enjoys an additional $280,000
in revenue, it is declared.
Secretary of Dominions J. H.
Thomas, at Ottawa, also warned
Ireland that if it eliminates the
oath it will find itself in the same
relation to the British govern
ment as if it were a foreign coun
try, at the forthcoming imperial
conference this summer.
OPPOSITION STARTS
BERLIN, May 12. (/P)—A motion
of no-confidence against Bruen
ing and his cabinet was defeated
in the Reichstag by 30 votes. This
is the first series of the expected
opposition, especially from the Na
tional-Socialists. The votes bore
out the prediction the government
will be strong enough to defeat at- j
tempts against it.
H5SJSSIMT1I PLOT
MADRID, May 12, (IP)—A plot to 1
assassinate President Niceto Alza- j
la Zamora and Premier Manuel j
Azana after which a right wing j
“presumably monarchistic” govern- j
ment would seize power was dis- |
closed after the arrest of a lawyer ;
and a retired Military officer.
The lawyer, Perez Aragon and the
militarist, Joaquil Mediarees in the
plot which was described as an
amazing scheme providing for a
carefully timed attack by gunmen.
The plotters were said to have at
! tempted to arrange for the assas
| sination of Alcala Zamora during
his recent trip to Valencia. Then
it was planned to kill the Premier
when he (appeared ajt the state
funeral which would have been
held for the President.
With both of the powerful Re
publican leaders dead the plotters
were prepared to put a new govern
ment of right wing elements into j
power according to one witness.
The arrests of Aragon and Oyar
zabal were not believed to be of
importance at the time they were
seized by the police but the details
of the assassination plot were dis
closed later, the police stated.
AUTO BRAKES FAILED
SEATTLE, May 12. (JP)—A run
away auto with the driver helpless
at the wheel plunged over the First
Avenue hill and struck and fatally
injured Miss Marion Clark, 25,
stenographer. The driver, Dealo
Pickett, 20, brought the auto to a
stop. He told the police his brakes
had failed.
ANOTHER IS MADE
BERLIN, May 12, (A5)—Jacob Hop
pen, 35, Westphalian trader, hope
to prove that a sergeant in the
United States Army forces which
occupied the Coblenz area 13 years
ago is guilty of the murder of two
men for which Hoppen was twice
sentenced to death and has served
five years in prison.
TRAGEDY STALKED AS
DIRIGIBLE ATTEMPTED
TO MAKE LANDING
CAMP KEARNEY, Calif., May 12.
—Battling fog, clouds and dirty
elements in a trying attempt to
reach the Pacific Coast, the giant
Navy dirigible Akron finally ar
rived over the city mid-day Wed
nesday but the giant airship was
unable to effect a landing.
The ground crews had succeeded
in getting one cable from the craft
anchored and they were straining
to anchor the huge craft with more
cables. However, a gust of wind
came along and picked the airship
up so quickly that the lone cable
holding the ship down snapped
and the cables held by sailors of
the ground crew were torn out of
their hands. Three members of the
ground crew did not let go of the
cables even when the ship started
shooting upward and as a result
they were carried skyward, dang
ling on the end of the cables.
When the airship had reached a
height variously described as from
190 to 200 feet, two of the men
were forced to drop their holds on
RUSTGURD NOMINATION
III HANDS COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12.
(JP)—The John Rustgard nomina
tion as Judge of the Second Alaska
District is in the hands of the Sen
ate Judiciary Subcommittee con
sisting of Senators King and Her
bert.
King says “some protest” has
! been voiced. He also understands
it hasn’t been definitely decided if
Rustgard would accept the office
and said there is no development
as yet on confirmation.
the cable from sheer exhaustion
and they dropped to their deaths.
The third member dangling on
the end of the cable, C- M. Cowart,
succeeded in finding a knot in the
cable and he fastened his feet
around this and thus took most of
the strain off his hands. He hung
on the cable for two hours in this
manner while the dirigible went to
a height of 1,000 feet. After two
hours of maneuvering the man on
the cable was finally hauled into
the ship through a small porthole.
He was in a very exhausted condi
tion by this time.
When Cowart was hoisted into
the dirigible his first request was
“gimme something to eat.” When
he was landed on the ground from
the Akron he was carried off in
triumph by the many gobs who
attended the ship.
The dirigible did not try to af
fect a landing again until Wednes
day evening when it was finally
lashed to a temporary mast here.
The Akron was to proceed up to
Sunnyvale, its West Coast base, to
day and was to join the Pacific
Coast fleet at some time later. The
United States fleet was to sail
from San Francisco today without
awaiting the arrival of the Akron.
An inexpeiienced ground crew
was blamed for the mishap which
cost the lives of the two men.
FATHER OF ROAD SYSTEM RETURNS
Arriving today on the SS Yukon is Brig. Gen. James Gordon
Steese, retired, who in point of recognition of services as a
transportation expert, holds more decorations than any man in
the United States Army.
The return of Colonel Steese, as he is knov/n to every Alas
kan, is like the arrival of an old and valued friend. While his
mission is purely one of pleasure, he will be unable to escape the
hope that he has in some way again become identified with
Alaskan affairs.
It was Colonel Steese who prepared the Alaska roadbuilding
program, and under his administration, the present network of
highways and trails covering Alaska came into being.
His wonderful versatility and breadth of knowledge and
training served to call him into sudden shifts of activities, rang
ing almost the entire scale of engineering problems. Today, he
was supervising roadbuilding, tomorrow it was serving the Coast
and Geodetic Survey, and the next day seated as manager of the
Alaska Railroad. Hardly had Colonel Steese entered railroad
headquarters, and before the railroad was officially completed,
when he fell heir to handling a large Congressional party. Then
came the President Harding party, with large tourist contingents
treading upon its heels.
But there was not a hitch or break in the smooth-running
operating and directing machinery.
Colonel, now Brigadier General, Steese, has been decorated
by every member of the allied and associated governments par
ticipating in the World War. If he chose to do so, he could cover
his breast with enough gold and silver to resemble a jewelry
salesman.
But, he prefers the simple life of democracy, whose genuine
ness can be testified by every sourdough who has come within
his acquaintance, and they are legion.
HRE EXTOLLED IN POEM
WASHINGTON, May 12, (/P) —
A poem describing the virtues of
beer as an aid to “beggars, babies
and budgets” was read in the Sen
ate but proponents of the Bingham
Bill to legalize four per cent beer
were no nearer to victory in the
minority of the committee contend
ed four per cent beer not intox
icating and it would provide em
ployment, bring additional revenue
of $1,000,000,000 and decrease
crime.
The Gateway was delayed in get
ting off the press today because of
two power shut-downs which halt
ed publication three hours.
AMERICAN
St. Louis 0,New York 3.
Other games, rained out.
NATIONAL
Brooklyn 6, St. Louis 6; 12 in
nings.
Philadelphia 1, Cincinnati 4.
Other games rained out.
PACIFIC COAST
San Francisco 1, Oakland 3.
Hollywood 6, Sacramento 3.
Seattle 2, Los Angeles 0.
Portland 8, Missions 2.
The 90-foot river steamer Hazel
Barrington was launched Tuesday
in Seattle. The vessel will ply on
the Stikine between Telegraph
Creek and Wrangell. Capt. Sid
Barrington named the craft after
his wife.
EVANS SAILS NORTH
SEATTLE, May 12. (/Pj—The SS
Admiral Evans, of the P. S. S. Co.,
sailed at 10 a. m. Wednesday and
carried 94 passengers, five for
Seward: Wm. J. Smith, Fred Broad
well, Mrs. Pete Iverson and two
second class.
MAY ADJOURN JUNE 10
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12.
(IP)—Congress hopes to adjourn
June 10 but may he held up by re
lief programs.
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STRIKE REPORTED
BELLINGHAM, Wash., May 12.
(IP)—A strike of a ledge of ore 17
feet thick and assaying $175 a ton
is reported at the headwaters of
East Creek, near here.
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WITHDRAW GOLD
AMSTERDAM, Holland, May 12,
(IP)—It was understood that the
Netherlands Bank has decided to
withdraw all of its gold holdings
abroad. The holdings are estimat
ed at $41,000,000, mostly in America.
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PRINCE PLAYS GOLF
LONDON, May 12, (IP) — The
Prince of Wales moved into the
fourth round of the Parlimentary
Golf Handicap with one up victory
over Harcourt Johnstone. The
Prince had a handicap of 11 against
four of his opponents.
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WON’T APPEAR IN MOVIES
SOUTHAMPTON, England, May
12.—Arriving from America, John
McCormack, Irish tenor, said he
would not appear in any more
movies because he did not seem
to have “it.”
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FACING CRISIS
PHILADELPHIA. May 12, (/P)_
The American Olympic Committee
announced that it has raised only
$34,000 of the $350,000 needed to
finance the Olympic games this
summer. Avery Brundage, presi
{dent, said the committe faced a
crisis.
ENROUTE HOME
ABOARD SS VULCANIA AT SEA,
May 12, (IP) — Secretary of State
Stimson was enrouts home pleased
with his visit to Europe and with
the results of many conferences
with European government leaders
on international problems.
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FANTASTIC REPORT
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 12,
(IP)—Dramatic fantastic undercover
financial deals transacted in fam
ous “Swedish swindle” of the late >
Ivan Kreuger, were sketched in the
first police report into the affairs
of the Swedish match king who
committed suicide in Paris recently.
NEW TRAIL ORDERED
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 12, (>P)
—Rogers Caldwell, former out
standing financer was granted a
reversal of his conviction on charges
of fraudelent breach of trust by
the Superior Court. A new trail
was ordered. ,
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COMMISSION GUARDED
HARBIN, Manchuria, May 12. (/P)
—So many guards have been
placed over members of the League
of Nations Manchurian investiga
tion commission that they are hav
ing trouble getting evidence. The
commission went away from their
hotel Wednesday after hearing re
ports that witnesses had been in
timidated and were hot allowed
free access to the hearing room.
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KEYS TO SOLUTION
WASHINGTON, May 12, (IP) —
U. S. credit and confidence are the
keys of the solution of the present
economic troubles of the Nation
and both are definitely if gradually
improving, Secretary of the Treas
ury Mills declared.
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IN GRAVE CONDITION
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 12.—
Robert Dollar, aged shipping mag
nate, who lies ill at his home here
with bronchial pneumonia, Wed
nesday afternoon was reported
weak and practically unchanged in
condition since Tuesday when he
suffered a relapse. His condition
is considered as grave.
OBSERVERS BELIEVE
JAPAN IS PREPARING
TB SHIFT OPERATIONS
NANKING, China, May 12.—The
belief is expressed here that Ja
pan’s unexpected decision to with
draw her army from Shanghai im
mediately was only prompted by
that nation’s desire to have her
troops in Manchuria increased.
Japan’s Manchurian forces are es
timated to number 100,000 already.
Indignation was voiced in official
circles over the reports from Tokyo
quoting officials there as saying
that they hoped that the Chinese
troops would not enter within the
12-mile zone at Shanghai after the
Japanese troops are withdrawn and
have left Shanghai.
Japan’s decision has aroused
fears in other quarters and par
ticularly at Peiping as it is feared
that Japan will shift the theatre
of war to the inside of the Great
Chinese Wall.
Meanwhile, observers claim that
war activities on the Manchurian
border continue with the Soviets
assembling and training troops
there and Japan continually shift
! ing her troops around in the Chin
ese Eastern Railway vicinity. The
railway is said to be nothing but
a troop train now, and it is said
that if anything breaks out that
the first scrap will probably be in
the vicinity of this railroad.
PARIS. May 12. (/P)—France bow
ed in sorrow as she paid her last
tribute at the funeral of Paul Dou
mer in the greatest display since
Joffre, hero of the Marne, was bur
ied last year.
A king and four princes trudged
behind rumbling artillery caissons
all the way from the Elysee Palace
to the cathedral, an hour and one
half march in the damp morning.
A million people watched the pro
cession.
SEATTLE OFFERS PURSE
' SEATTLE, May 12—The $25,000
i purse being offered by Seattle busi
ness men to the first person suc
cessful in spanning the distance
between Seattle and Tokyo is be
ginning to attract a number of
aviators.
Charles Dickens. 74-year-old av
iation enthusiast of Chicago, is the
latest entrant into the race for the
purse money and he is in Seattle
investigating the details of such a
hop. Aviator Bromley is also con
sidering the possibility of going in
for the purse and has already ap
plied for permission to land on
Japanese soil.
The purse was posted by business
men five years ago following Lind
bergh’s epochal trans-Atlantic
flight to Paris. The offer stands
good until June 1, 1932.
OFF GOLD STANDARD
BANGKOK, Siam, May 12. (/P)—
Siam went off the gold standard
because of a slump in the price of
rice which it is expected to bring
benefit immediately because the
bulk of trade is in countries whose
currency either is the pound or
influenced by the pound.
KILLER OF MOTHER SMILED
SEATTLE, May 12. {/P)—Leslie
Barrett, 19, was convicted of man
slaughter for shooting his mother
March 1 by a jury after two hours
of deliberation. He smiled as the
jurors read the manslaughter con
viction which carries six months
to 20 years. There is a possibility
he will be tried on a second degree
murder charge. Leniency was rec
ommended.
Airmail stamps used by Clayton
L. Scott in transporting the first
commercial mail to Alaska are sell
ing at $1.50 each.