js’viuarii Daily (Batrutay
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 137.
SEWARD, ALASKA, - MONDAY, JUNE 13,1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ENGLISH ACCUSE II. J.
POLICE WITH HARRYING
GIRL TO HER DEATH
ALPINE, N. J. June 13- (/P)—The
case of Miss Violet Sharpe wore an
international aspect as police deni
ed accusations they harried her to
death. This charge was voiced in
dignantly in the English press and
was followed by the news that La
bor members of the British parlia
ment expected to ask their govern
ment to make representations to
the United States about the girl.
After watching the theory they
built up against Violet Sharpe and
Brinkert go to pieces New Jersey
police busied themselves with fin
al checkups.
‘ There never was undue pres
sure brought to bear during the
questioning by the police,” Colonel
Schwa rtzkopf said in denying the
accusations that the police had
harried the girl to commit suicide.
In view of Ernest Miller’s state
ment in which he admitted he was
the one out with Miss Sharpe on
the night the baby was kidnapped
and with Brinkert’s alibi, Col. N.
Schwartzkopf said it was “a mat
ter of opinion” as to whether or
not Miss Sharpe had a guilty know
ledge of the crime.
Miller said he, .Miss Catherine
Minners, and Elmer Johnson went
to a dance in- a restaurant with
Violet Sharpe on the kidnapping
night. This statement shattered the
theory that Brinkert was the man
with whom Violet went out on the
tragic night of March 1. Miller’s
statement was later corroborated
by Miss Minners.
POLICE ADMIT CADE
BUILT AROUND GIRL'S
SUICIDE, COLLAPSED
NEWARK, N. J„ June 13. — Ad
mission by the New Jersey police
that the case they had built up
against Violet Sharpe, maid in the
Morrow household who committed
suicide, and Ernest Brinkert, a
White Plains taxicab driver, had
collapsed, was the outstanding de
velopment in the Lindbergh case
today.
Brinkert, questioned for 24 hours
after his arrest in White Plains,
remained voluntarily with Inspec
tor Harry Walsh, vigorous New
Jersey inquisitor, for possible fur
ther examination. He has been
cleared of suspicion.
From Alpine, N. J., comes word
that the police, acceeding that
whether or not Violet Sharpe had
guilty knowledge of the Lindbergh
case was a “m atter of op
inion,” they reluctantly were ab
andoning the circumstantial theory
built on the suicide of the Mor
row waitress.
The immiediate reaction to the
corroborated story of Ernest Brink
ert and the establishment that the
other man, Ernest Miller, was Miss
Sharpe’s companion on the night
of the kidnapping, was expressed
in two questions to Superinten
dent H. Nbrman Schwartzkopf, of
the New Jersey state police.
“In view of Miller’s statement
and Brinkert’s alibi, do you still
believe Violet Sharpe had guilty
knowledge of the crime? Do you
publicly exonerate her?” he was
asked. Schwartzkopf gave one an
swer to both questions: “It is a
matter of opinion.’’
Schwartzkopf was a^sked: “Are
you still looking for any definite
person or persons in connection
with the crime?” “Still looking for
‘John’,” answered the superinten
dent. “Jojhfci’’ was the name by
which Dr. John F. Condon, inter
mediary, knew the man to whom
he paid a futile $50,000 ransom
for the Lindbergh baby’s return.
Radio is proving satisfactory in
Alaska and the cable, will soon
be a thing of the past; the cable
ship will never return to Alaska.
These words are said to have
been made by Col. Dawson Olm
stead, chief of the Signal Corps.
FOR ROOSEVELT
WEISER, Idaho, June 13. —The
eight democratic delegates of this
state to the National Convention
will vote for Gov. Franklin Roose
velt- The Democratic party of Id
aho, like the republicans, made no
mention of prohibition.
PRE-MI Tins
IRE AIRBUS OF I
REITER G. 0. P. MEET
CHICAGO June 13, —President
Hoover’s first real attempt to bend
the Republican National Conven
tion to his will, will begin today.
Administration leaders, arriving
in droves, began to pooh-pooh re
ports of numbers of threatened
uprisings against White House pol
icies and programs. They set about
to arrange a schedule of procedure
for the convention, which opens
Thursday, and which will smother
insurgency.
As the real business of the con
vention began to assume form,
these developments stood out; the
movement to unseat Vice Presi
dent Curtis and either draft Chas.
G. Dawes, or pick some other wet,
gained adherence.
Administration leaders asserted
Curtis would be renominated.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of
New York, disclosing the text of
his prohibition repeal plan, and
assailing the “straddling, pussy
footing and hyprocy of any re
submission plank,” served notice
he would not permit the Hoover
forces to squelch him in the reso
lutions committee.
The Hoover program, what the
President has done or tried to do,
and .*hat he proposes to do, "was
revealed as the basis of the Repub
lican declaration on the economic
situation.
i
y
. CHICAGO. June 13. (/P> — The
swiftly rising whirlpool of Repub
lican dissention over prohibition
has completely engulfed the chos
en representatives of the party to
the party general and rear rank
private alike.
On the eve of the National Con
vention what to do about the dry
law became one big question.
More trouble was seen to be in
store for the delegates as it was
declared that delegates were not
only not ready to renominate Hoo
ver but this sentiment is now said
to be turning definitely to Vice
President Charles Curtis.
All the lesser disputes over plat
form procedure seemed' to be
headed toward a harmonious de
cision but no one expected that
there would be harmony on pro
hibition. The prediction that the
platform committee had drawn up
a plank “acceptable to us all” has
gone up in the smoke of one of
the most furious platform battles
of any G. O. P. convention since
the League of Nations row in 1920.
OF LITERARY BENT
Bo’s’n’s mate Eddie McLean of
the U. S. S- Discoverer announced
to his shipmates last week that he
is making a collection of antique
magazines and would appreciate
contributions from the archives
of every sailor’s private library.
This is the first collection of lit
erary antiques to be gathered
aboard a vessel sailing the high
seas, and McLean expects to
achieve distinction for his pioneer
ing efforts in this unquestionably
notable endeavor.
A black bear with brown sides
is reported to have voted himself
a member of a logging camp crew
near Ketchikan, sticking around
for several days until it approach
ed too close for comfort,* when it
was shot by Ed Sande.
HOOVER PICTURED AS
WORTHY REING SENT
BACK TO WHITEHOUSE
CHICAGO, June 13 —The super
man picture built up around Pres
ident Hoover four years ago, is un-;
dergoing alterations.
The revised 1932 model will be
rolled off of the assembly line dur
ing the Republican National Con
vention this week.
President Hoover will be pre
sented to the country as the only
world statesman who has taken a
constructive lead in dealing with
the greatest depression of all time.
He will be pictured as having re
sisted all nostrums and fantastic
schemes and an attempt will be
made to represent him as safe and
sane and send him against a back
ground of Democratic policies
which Republicans will doubtless
describe as unsound economically.
DIEM EXTORTION
USE STILL PUZZLING
HOLLYWOOD POLICE
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HOLLYWOOD, June 13. —Three
opposing theories confronted the
authorities in the Marlene Dietrich
extortion case as they followed
dwindling clues to authors of the
notes threatening the screen star’s
daughter unless they were paid
$20,000.
Previous suspicions that the
notes were the work of “c h e ap
chislers” were practically aban
doned when investigators for Dis
trict Attorney Burron Fitts began
checking up on the whereabouts
of known Eastern gangsters.
The aid of State’s Attorney J. A
Swanson, of Chicago, was enlisted
in seeking the whereabouts of cer
tain racketeers now linked with
the case. Detectives said the ex
tortion notes were similar to those
employed by an Eastern gang in
other kidnapping cases. All of the
notes threatened to k i d n ap six
year old Marsha Sieber if Miss
Dietrich, her mother, failed to pay
i the money.
i -- . ■ —
CHICO DEFEATED Bf
THE BROOKLYN DODGERS
NEW YORK, June 13. —Smould
ering ill feeling between the Chi
cago Cuhs and Brooklyn Dodgers
flamed into a battle royal at Ex
bets Field Saturday and the fight
loving fans enjoyed a double treat
with an excellent free-for-all and
a 4-1 Brooklyn victory.
This defeat cost Chicago the lead
in the National League as the Bos
ton Braves again climbed to the
top.
The melee was halted after 15
minutes of merry slugging.
To investigate marine losses in
the Ketchikan area, Bruce Park
er, of Parker & Huff, insurance
adjusters, recently visited that
district.
I
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 6, Cincinnati 1.
Chicago 5, Boston 3.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 1-3, Oakland 2-2.
Seattle 4-0, Portland 2-4.
Los Angeles 1-6, Hollywood 3-4.
Sacramento 9-8, Missions 10-11.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 13, Cleveland 5.
Boston 1, Chicago 4.
Philadelphia 6, Detroit 8.
Washington 3-0, St. Louis 6-4.
* * * *
In the New York-Cleveland game
Babe Ruth slammed out his 19th
and 20th home runs of the season.
Both of Babe’s four-baggers came
with Joe Eewell on base. These
home runs brought Ruth even,
game for game, with his 1927 re
cord season when he made 20 home
runs in 52 games.
CHIU SPEAKEASIES
Will PRICE PLENTt
INTOXICKNTS VISITORS
CHICAGO, June 13, —It was al
most as easy to buy liquor as or
ange or tomato juice in Chicago.
Branch speakeasies blossomed out
all along West Madison Street, the
route visitors will follow to the Re
publican National Convention in
the stadium today; an avenue of
saloons.
Five hundred regular loop speak
easies, that had closed temporar
ily to avoid last minute raids, be
gan unlocking doors and laying in
large stocks of intoxicants.
High pressure salesmen for the
bigger bootlegging firms, paced up
and down Michigan Boulevard
making sales-talks in the hotels
and passing out cards telling what
number to call to get almost any
drink thirsty Republicans could
crave.
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I 1,111 CASES SDLMON
SE1RD FISHERIES
The local and southbound listing
| of passengers on the SS Admiral
I Evans, Capt. O. H. Hansen, which
i arrived in port at an early hour
| today, was as follows:
j William Bennett for Seward; J.
Truitt for Juneau; H. Naro and N.
P. Morrison for Seattle.
Mi*. Truitt is the well known
staff engineer with the Alaska
Road Commission and the man
who made the first survey of the
present local LowTell Creek project
; He has just completed a survey of
] the projected improvement of Ko
diak harbor.
Mr. Bennett is a fox farmer lo
j cated on Long Island, and is said
; to have one of the finest ranches
in the country.
I H. Naro is connected with the
Bureau of Fisheries.
Besides the approximate 1,000
| cases of salmon from the Seward
; Fisheries being loaded aboard here,
j the Admiral liner has about 3.000
i cases in her holds from Westward
I points; there are also 1,000 cases
j of clams on board from the Pio
! neer Packing Company at Kukak
1 Bay.
The Evans was scheduled to sail
| south at 2 p. m. today.
LIGHT SHIP CM ON
NNNUAL TRIP INSPECTION
On her annual inspection trip
and with supplies, the tender Ce
dar is enroute to Seward and light
house stations to the Westward
Capt. J. W. Leadbetter is in com
mand.
E. W. Laird, of the Ketchikan of
fice under Capt. W. C. Dibrell, sup
erintendent in charge of the ser
vice in Alaska, is making the trip
to inspect stations at Cape Spen
cer, Cape Hinchenbrook and Cape
St. Elias. He will return south from
this port on a regular steamer.
The Cedar will continue to the
light station at Sarichef at Uni
mak Pass and Scotch Cap. The en
tire voyage will take about three
months.
A mechanic and carpenter are
aboard to do repair work at Cape
St. Elias. Supplies will be landed
at all light stations.
WEDDING BELLS
Two popular young folk were
married at Anchorage Saturday
[ the Gateway was informed today,
when Miss Evelyn George and Wil
liam Gill stepped to the alter. The
bride is one of the Inlet city’s most
beautiful and gracious of girl’s and
a member of the faculty of the
Anchorage school. “Bill” is the son
of the Mayor of Anchorage and if
employed by the Alaskan Airways
The many Seward friends of these
fine young folks join the Gateway
in extending congratulations.
NO MENTION PROHIBITION.
BOISE, Idaho, June 13. —The 11
delegates to the Republican Nat
ional Convention are favorable to
Herbert Hoover but are uninstruct- !
ed. The delegates were chosen last]
week. No mention was made of!
prohibition.
DIO PRIEST SENDS
MONEY TO PURCHASE
FOOD FOR VETERANS
DETROIT, June 13, —Father C.
Coughlin, radio priest and pastor
of the Shrine of the Little Flow
ers, at Royal Oaks, Michigan, gave
$5,000 to feed the bonus army in
Washington.
The only condition placed on the
gift is that all benefited by it keep
clear of communist leaders and
communistic suggestions.
The priest granted H. R. Burton,
Washington, D. C-, attorney, auth
ority to spend the money.
Father Coughlin said:
“For the first time in the history
of a civilized nation, 20,000 of its
heroes, who bore the brunt and
hardship of battle while their fel
low citizens remained home to en
joy luxury and immense war pro
fits, 10,000 of them have been told
there is no bread for them. They
are not seeking bread so much as
jobs whereby to earn bread. Since
neither bread nor jobs is being
supplied to them by a forgetful
government, they have asked in an
orderly and patriotic manner for
the prepayment of bonus, which
every loyal citizen feels should be
given to them immediately.”
STUM LEFT PORI FOR
WEST SUM MORNING
The mail boat SS Starr, Capt. A
Ryning, left port at 1 a. m. Sun
day for the Westward and Bristol
Bay, carrying a fair list of reser
I vations, a good load of mail but a
j Small tonnage. Passengers were:
Mrs. Jack Anderson, Edith Aga.
Zenia Summerland, Mary Muller,
Christine Muller, for Kodiak.
Agnes Smith for Sanak.
E. M. Polley, Captain John
New’marker, Capt- J. M. Clark, Le
Roy Vestal, J. L. Dennison, Chas.
Dennison, Earl Hawkins, for Nak
nek.
C. W. Olsen for Chignik.
Mike Swartz for Seldovia.
Through the courtesy of KFQD,
the Starr passenger listing was
broadcast Saturday night and, for
the benefit of Westward residents,
each future sailing list will like
wise be broadcast
Reservations made after 10 p. m.
Saturday included the following
additional to those previously men
tioned:
Francis Carey for Uyak; Molly
Lyons for Unga, and Frank Hill
for Dillingham.
SURPRISE MOVE
FLEMINGTON, N. J. June 13.—
The defense for John H. Curtis,
confessed hoax negotiator in the
Lindbergh baby a b d u c tion and
slaying case, has made known that
it is their intention to call Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh to testify in
defense of the Norfolk boat build
er. This move on the part of the
defense is considered as somewhat
of a surprise as Col. Lindbergh re
cently stated that he would be will
ing to testify against Curtis.
CALIFORNIA VETERANS
TO VISIT WASHINGTON
SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 13. —
The Southern California bonus
army of 1,200 ex-service men and
50 women started for El Centro
Calif., Sunday afternoon, on the
second leg of its journey to Wash
ington.
The travelers’ ranks already
were thinned as a dozen automo
mobiles defied volunteer machin
ists, and refused to budge. The
army hoped to complete the 160
mile journey sometime this even
ing.
LOST POLISH AVIATOR
PICKED UP BY TANKER
OFF PORTUGAL COAST
SS CIRCE SHELL, 600 miles off
Portugal, June 13, (/P>—This small
tanker was enroute today to New
Orleans with Stanislaus Felix
Hausner, missing Poland flier who
attempted a solo flight across the
Atlantic and who was thought to
have been lost- The tanker picked
him up exhausted from the red
monoplane in approximately 42.41
north latitude and 20.04 west lon
gitude.
Captain Wilson of the Circe
Shell said his unexpected passen
ger was too ill, apparently from
exposure and starvation, to give a
coherent account of his experien
ces. However, Captain Wilson al
layed any fears that Hausner was
in a critical condition. He said the
flyer was progressing favorably.
The Circe Shell, three weeks out
of Hamburg, decided to abandon
the monoplane because darkness
soon closed in after Hausner
was taken aboard. The plane was
drifting southward at about a knot
and a vessel, whose position was
convenient, was asked to salvage
her. When last seen the plane’s
tail was sticking high out of the
waves, about 500 miles off Portu
gal.
Hausner left New York, the start
ing point of his attempted flight
to Warsaw, Poland, on June 3 and
after being sighted once or twice
by ocean-going ships he was never
seen again until picked up by the
oil tanker.
AKRON ENCOUNTERING
IDEAL WEATHER ON ITS
EASTWARD JOURNEY
SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, —
Through sweltering heat, even at
an elevation of more than 4.800
feet, the U. S. S. Akron was stead
ily pushing her way across West
Texas Sunday, on her return flight
to Lakehurst, N. J.
In contrast to her stormy voyage
across the continent to the Paci
fic Coast, the giant dirigible is now
encountering almost ideal condi
tions, according to radio reports
received at the 12th Naval district
headquarters here
The Akron left her base at Sun
nyvale at 10:15 a. m. Saturday; 24
hours later she passed over El
Paso, Texas, and at 2:35 p. m. Sun
day, was on her mapped route.
Reports that the Akron had been
in trouble over Phoenix, Arizona,
were denied in messages received
at Naval headquarters. From on
board the air-liner, however, it was
explained that the ship was mere
ly being “trimmed’’ for the trip
across the mountains.
EMERGENCY MEASURE
WAS RUSHED THROUGH
SENATE RECORD TIE
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 13, —
A $300,000,000 securities bill for
emergency relief to the destitute,
providing for Reconstruction Fin
ance Loan Corps, loans to the
States,was rushed through the Sen
ate Saturday in less than five
hours by a vote of 72-8.
The measure provides for the
issuance of that sum of new secur
ities by the corporation, to finance
the program, and includes defi
nite provisions to make the loans
possible to such states as are in
hibited against borrowing by their
constitutions.
This is the measure through
which Chicago expects to be able
to relieve the plight of its unpaid
school teacheirs. The money will
be allocated according to popula
tion and will be repayable by de
ductions from the Federal road aid
payments during the next five
years.