MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 55.
SEWARD,.ALASKA
MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
STATE POLICE HEAD SAYS NO
ONE HAD COMMUNICATED
WITH KIDNAPPERS
HOPEWELL, N. J., Mar. 7. (£>)—
Capt.-J J. Lamb, of the New Jer
sey SLite police, announced that no
demand for ransom had ever been
made for the Lindbergh baby and
neither Colonel Lindbergh nor the
police ever had been in communi
cation with the kidnappers.
The above statement of Capt.
Lamb directly contradicts the in
formation given cut by investiga
ting officers that the note pinned
to the window sill of the Lindbergh
nursery demanded ransom and
threatened harm to the baby.
Captain Lamb replied to a long
list'of prepared questions at a press
conference and he also said that
no note had instructed Lindbergh
to announce Salvy Spitale and Ir
ving Bitz, New York gangsters, to
oe the intermediaries between him
self and the kidnappers.
Spitale issued a statement where
in he said that he had been re
quested to act as a go-between but
he believed that Colonel Lindbergh
may have acted independently of
the authorities in choosing him.
AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL
LEARN HIT BECAME
OF 1932 INVESTMENTS
WASHINGTON. D. C., Mar. 7 —
Twenty million Americans may
learn within the next few weeks
the details Gf what actually hap
pened to their investments before
and after the stock market’s “black
Friday" of November, 1929.
The Senate Banking and Cur
rency Committee has been given
$50,000 with orders to investigate
buying and selling on American
security exchanges.
The full committee of 18 mem
oers will undertake the investiga
tion which is to begin with an or
ganization meeting Tuesday. Bull
and bear operators will be subpoen
aed and from their testimony the
millions of sheep may learn the in
side story of market ups and
downs.
ARRESTS ANNOUNCED
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Mar. 7.
/P)—The Finnish government an
nounced the arrest of General
Marti Wallenius and a number of
other leaders of the Fascist re
volters who were responsible for
the uprising to oust Communist
members from their government
positions. The arrests were made
over the week end.
STOCK MKRKET REkCHED
NEW HIGH GROUND
Slim SESSION
NEW YORK, Mar. 7.—The stock
market Saturday broke thru into
new high ground since the Decem
ber 8 close in a short session. New
highs for the year were attained
by the Dow-Jones industrial av
erages. The rails are still several
points below their 1932 highs.
Steel common assumed the lead
and carried the market up. Gains
ranged to more than four points
and a long list of issues made new
highs impelling motives for the rise,
carried over from the preceding
session, and included reduction~'in
bank failures, evidence of Federal
Reserve launching out o nan easy
money policy, payment of $150,
000,000 credits due America by
Great Britain and evidence of re
duction of money in hoarding.
Spring is just around the well
inown local comer and frozen as
sets are thawing rapidly.
U. S. WILL PARTICIPATE
GENEVA, Mar. 7. —The League
of Nations assembly shortly after
convening yesterday received for
mal notification that the United
States will participate on the
Shanghai armistice committee.
NEW YORK, Mar. 7.—The music
world was shocked to have learned
Sunday of the death of John Philip
Sousa, famed American composer
and band leader. He was 77 years
old. His widow, two daughters and
a son survive him. Sousa died from
a heart attack.
A career of more than 50 years
before the public, during which he
composed more than 300 works and
had directed his famous band in
all the principal cities of the
world, made John Philip Sousa one
of the most widely known of con
temporary American musicians.
Although an accomplished musi
cian early in his teens, it was his
work as director of the United
States Marine Corps Band that
served as the stepping stone to a
position of prominence in the mus
ical world.
Sousa became a member of the
Marine Corps band when only 13
years of age, through a scheme
hatched by his father, a member
of the band, to htwart the boy’s
plans to run away with a circus
band.
John Philip Sousa was born at
Washington, D. C., November 6.
1854, the son of Antonio and Eliza
beth Trinkhaus Sousa. His musical
i education began at the age of six
and included vocal study as well
as instruction on the violin, piano
and several other instruments.
Millions who had never seen him
were familiar with his likeness from
his pictures which, until the World
War, always showed, him with a
neatly trimmed beard. When he
shaved off his beard, some said he
did it because he did not want to
look like on old fellow among
thousands of young huskies, all
anxious to get a chance to go over
seas.
The bandmaster, always of a
jolly, humorous nature, made the
loss of his beard the subject of a
story, declaring that it wras respon
sible for winning the war. He used
to put it that the Kaiser, when he
heard Sousa had shaved off his
beard, quit, declaring that there
was no use fighting a people who
would make such sacrifices.
Sousa w-as responsible for start
ing many soloists, both vocal and
! instrumental.
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JIPS HIKING HI
OF CHINESE IS CCH
SHANGHAI, Mar. 7. — Chinese
military leaders are worried over
the large number of Japanese
forces which are being landed con
tinually in this city and who are
further consolidating the Japanese
in this area. Protests have been
made to Tokyo but the Japanese
claim that these reinforceemnts
were enroute to Shanghai before
the hostilities there ceased.
The Chinese leaders also said
that they retreated to the outskirts
of Shanghai so that Japan could
be given an opportunity to with
draw her forces but the present
action of the Japanese makes it ap
pear that “we are defeated."
The Chinese also assert that the
Japanese are making terms which
cannot possibly be carried out by
the Chinese who declare that Ja
pan has designs on more territory
than Shanghai.
VESSEL DESTROYED
GLOUCESTER, Mass., Mar. 7.—
An explosion which resulted from a
fire on a small vessel off the coast
here completely destroyed the ship
which is thought to have been a
fish schooner. The men apparently
had taken to lifeboats as a Coast
Guard vessel is enroute to pick up
the survivors.
BELIEF IS EXPRESSED THAT
KIDNAPPERS MAY BE ON
RUM SHIPS
i HOPEWELL, N. J., Mar. 7.—The
J son of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
i was still missing today while the
best minds of criminology tried
desperately to develop two clues.
A sailor, former chauffeur for
! the Lindberghs, was being ques
i tioned in Hartford, Conn. In Hope
! well, microscopic examination of
t the ladder used in the kidnapping
I was expected to reveal some evi
dence leading to the identity of its
builder.
Officials at Hopewell have com
plete faith in the integrity of
Betty Gow, the baby’s nurse, and
issued an official exoneration of
her and they placed little faith in
the Hartford development.
Later, the wood in the ladder
found at Colonel Lindbergh's home
j after-his baby had been kidnapped
was described by a county officer
! as the kind used at a Br >nx ship
1 yard, frequented by Henry “Red”
Johnson. Lindbergh’s former chauf
[ feur, held at Hartford for investi
j gat ion.
It was also stated that a milk
bottle cap. found in the car in which
Johnson came to visit a brother
'here, controverts his contention as
to the hour of his arrival.
Check Up Johnson
i At Englewood. N. J.. Mrs. W. T.
; Sherman, proprietress oi the room
i ing house where Johnson stayed,
jsaid Johnson was at h'er home
i Tuesday night but she cannot re
member whether he was there all
evening. The Lindbergh child was
kidnapped Tuesday night.
She was equally uncertain re
garding a telephone call Johnson
is reported to have made Tuesday
! evening to Miss Betty Gow. Mrs.
j Sherman, whose hearing is defect
ive, displayed extreme annoyance
at being questioned on her earlier
alibi for Johnson and after an
swering in sharp laconic sentences
one or two questions, she slammed
; the door in a reporter’s face.
New- Angle
Another new angle of the kidnap
j ping case was revealed when it
| was learned that two underworld
characters, both Italians, were al
leged to be go-betweens in the
case. Because of their connection
authorities are now looking be
yond the 12-mile limit of the At
j lantic Ocean as the hideout of the
! kidnappers.
The waters of the Atlantic are
not far from the Lindbergh estate
at Hopewell—an hour's distance by
automobile and it was stated that
transferring the child to a waiting
motorboat would have been an easy
matter.
Mystery Ships
All winter, rum ships are an
chored beyond the 12-mile limit,
and this winter business has not
been as flourishing as usual. The
Coast Guard cutter patrol recall,
on the night of the kidnapping, a
mysterious motorboat was sighted;
also, a mystery ship which another
vessel sighted and went to her aid.
The mystery ship apparently was
in trouble but when the passenger
ship came alongside, the mystery
ship immediately protested 'from
being boarded and sped away. Two
men were aboard the mystery ves
sel, it was said, but it would have
been an easy matter for others
and the baby to be hidden below.
This mystery ship from that spot
may have proceeded on to rum row
and one of the theories is that the
Lindbergh child is being held here.
This latest angle is made more
plausible by the fact that the ran
som money could be transferred at
sea with much more ease than on
shore, as there would not be so
many interested outside persons
as newspaper men, photographers,
private detectives, etc.
Communication between Colonel
Lindbergh and the gangster inter
mediates was believed to have been
established. New York police, how
ever, refused to discuss this feature
FIGHTING ON LARGE SCALE BE
RESUMED UNLESS TRUCE
ARRANGED SOON
SHANGHAI, Mar. 7.—The United
States Consulate protested to Jap
anese authorities Sunday against
an attack on Miss E. Rose Marlow,
an American teacher at the Bap
tist Mission school, who was se
verely beaten in the war wrecked
chapei district of Shanghai.
Miss Marlow was beaten by Jap
anese reservist troops while in
specting the ruins of her school
which had been destroyed by an
artillery attack on Chinese troops
formerly defending the district.
She was struck in the face and on
the body with sticks.
The Consulate demanded that
the Japanese authorities fully in
vestigate. Tire American woman
was removed from Shanghai to
Hongkong to convalesce. She was
| attached to the Shun Tak girls’
school which is affiliated with the
| Southern Baptist Mission. The in
i cident aroused the feelings of Am
erican residents of the Internation
1 al Settlement.
There was constant danger of re
; sumption of fighting on a large
! scale unless a truce is arranged
: within a short time. The nego
I tiations for a truce continued
without any indication of success.
Japanese patrols in the Chapei
! district have attempted to keep out
! thousands of curious who thronged
| into the area.
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CAPONE VOLUNTEERS 1
RETURNING LINOY BABY
CHICAGO, Mar. 7.—A1 Capone,
| from his jail cell, offered his sym
pathy to Col. and Mrs. Charles A.
| Lindbergh, on the kidnapping of
i their infant son and hinted that
! if he were not in jail, he doubtless,
; could be of aid in recovering the
; child.
The notorious public enemy also
offered a $10,000 reward for infor
i mation leading to the recovery of
; the child unharmed and appre
! hension of the kidnappers.
Capone said: “This is an out
rageous thing; I have a son of my
own and know how Mrs. Capone
and I would feel if he were kid
napped. I am powerless behind
! the bars but if I were free, I could
i be of real assistance through
j friends all over the country whom
! I could enlist in running this thing
\ down.”
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THE STOCK MARKET
SEATTLE, Mar. 7. — Saturday’s
quotations: American Can, 73; in
ternational Tel. & Tel. 113; Stand
ard Oil of N. J., 3014; General Elec.,
21%; General Motors, 22%; Radio,
9%; Standard Oil of Calif., 25%;
Richfield Oil, Vz; Union Oil of Calif.,
12%; United Aircraft, 57; Bethle
hem Steel, 23%.
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LONG BEACH, Calif., Mar. 7.—
A great public festival takes place
here Monday in celebration of the
opening of the $1,600,000 municipal
auditorium.
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of the investigation or give any
j information regarding Lindbergh’s
| alleged communication with the
!two men.
Baby Is Happy
It appears that Lindbergh has
been doing his own private inves
tigating while the police are re
lentlessly pursuing other clues. If
the Lindbergh baby is being cared
for expertly by his kidnappers, he
is happy and the absence of his
parents will not frighten or upset
him. He is used to all these things.
This is the knowledge that keeps
Anne Morrow Lindbergh at Hope
well from going mad with worry
as the frantic search for her 20
months-old son continues fruitless.
If they bring him back safe and
| sound he will never know anything
! has happened to him, she said.
EXPRESS CONCERN
TOKYO, Mar. 7.—Members of the
Japanese military department have
expressed concern over word from
London that the British intend to
continue their work of building a
strong Naval base at Singapore.
MOSCOW, Mar. 7.—The Soviet
; government again announced Sat
; urday, a wide scale strengthening
; of its Far Eastern frontier defenses
1 and, through the official newspa
i per, claimed collaboration of the
| Japanese military plot with Euro
, pean powers to destroy the Com
: munist regime in Russia,
j The documents in possesion of
Soviet officils show that respon
I sible representatives of military
j and non-military circles in Japan
plan an early attack on the Soviet,
hoping to seize Russian territory
: as far west as Lake Baikal, more
i than 400 miles from the Manchur
! ian border.
DELEGATE SAYS JAPS
INTERESTED II AREA
SHANGHAI TO Nil!
GENEVA. Mar. 7.—The small na
tions indirectly joined hands with
China in a united demand that the
League of Nations’ general assem
bly vigorously support a policy of
protecting weak countries from
their more powerful neighbors.
1 Enrique Buero of Uruguay said:
i “I am sure all states on our side
of the Atlantic are of the same
! mind against the principle of mili
! tary intervention.”
The declaration was made after
i a preliminary session of the assem
bly as a general committee which
i heard the charges of W. W. Yen.
.'Chinese delegate, that Japan was
| landing thousands of more troops
i and definitely intended to take
( control of the entire region between
} Shanghai and Nanking.
The Japanese denied the charges
1 in a bitter exchange with Yen.
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WON’T INVADE RUSSIA
j TOKYO, Mar. 7.—General Sadao
j Araki, Minister of War, told the
j members of the League of Nations
Manchurian investigating commis
sion that Japan has no intentions
of invading Soviet Russia territory,
but that if the Soviet army men
aces Manchurian territory, Japan
will have no choice but to defend it.
CHINESE SOLDIERS LAUNCH
; DTT1CK Oil JIP5 IT INI
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SHANGHAI, Mar. 7. (^—Japan
ese officials said that 3,000 Chin
ese soldiers in the vicinity of Liuho,
north of Shanghai proper and near
the end of the fortified wall on the
Yangtze River, began an offensive
against the Japanese troops, forc
ing the later to take defensive
measures.
Neutral observers said that there
was considerable skirmishing con
tinuing on the outskirts of Shang
hai between the two forces but
there was no general engagement.
MAY SIGN BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 7.—
President Hoover, Sunday, indi
cated that he intended to sign the
Capper bill which provides for the
turning of 40,000,000 bushels of
Farm Board wheat over to the Red
Cross. Millers have volunteered to
| grind the wheat at cost for the Red
; Cross and the resultant flour will
| be distributed among needy per
j sons.
JUMPING MANHOLE COVERS
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 7.—This city
will have to tie its manhole covers
down. Ned Gordon is attempting
to sue the city for $675 damages
on his claims that a manhole cover
jumped up and injured him.
“APOSTLE OF PEACE” IN WOULD
DISCUSSIONS FOR OUT
LAWING WAR
PARIS, Mar. 7. (/P) — Aristide
Briand, veteran French statesman
and an “apostle of peace,” died
here today at the age of 69 years.
Death was caused by heart trouble.
He was co-author of the Kellogg
Briand pact outlawing war, a mov •
ing spirit in the Locarno treaties
which guaranteed the sanctity of
the frontiers of Germany, Belgium
and France and in 1930 was the
originator of a comprehensive
scheme for an economic union of
Europe.
He formulated the French pol
icies connected with disarmament,
: always insisting upon safeguard**
| for national security as a prerequi
site to reduction in means of de
fense. At the same time he plead -
' ed constantly for an united French
and international will against war
,and distinguished sharply between
I defensive and aggressive conflicts.
In his own country, he was 11
j times premier, 16 times foreign
minister, four times minister of the
interior, thrice minister of justice
'which carries with the office the
vice-presidency of the French cab
• inet) and twice minister of educa
tion. All told, he held posts in 2.i
cabinets and on March 14, 1931,
celebrated a full quarter century
i of service in official life.
I Only one gift, the presidency of
the French republic, was denied
him by his fellow parliamentar
, ians. Strangely that defeat came
after one of his most dramatic tri
umphs, an endorsement by the
Chamber of Deputies of his for
| eign policies after they had been
j under prolonged fire by the r;a -
, tionalist elements of his country.
The vote encouraged Briand’s
j friends to put him forward as a
j presidential candidate in opposi
tion to Paul Doumer, even though
| the election was only four days
j away. He reluctantly consented,
! but on the first ballot, taken by the
J combined Chamber and Senate at
j Versailles on May 13, 1931, Doumer
| had a comfortable lead and Briand
withdrew.
Aristide Pierre Henri Briand was
born at Nantes, Brittany, May 28,
1862, of a Breton father and a Ven
deean mother. They were of peas
ant stock but had deserted the land
: to engage in retail commerce. Dur
■ ing his childhood, they took over
a little saloon in the rough seaside
town of St. Nazaire, well known
in the United States as the first
port of debarkation of the A.E.F.
Thus it was that three sons of
tavern-keepers — Briand, Gustav
Stresemann and Benito Mussolini
—were the central figures in post
war European diplomacy for a con
siderable period, as foreign minis
ters of France, Germany and Italy
j The combination was broken by the
| death of Stresemann and II Duce’s
handing over his portfolio in 1929
to Dino Grandi.
M. Briand was a bachelor and
"man of wealth. Often it was re
ported that he was about to marry
and once, when his name was link
fed with that of a beautiful young
French woman, he made this char
acteristic denial:
“No young woman would want to
marry me and I would not marry an
old one.”
800 SCHOOLS REOPEN
MEXICO CITY, Mar. 7. —Eight
hundred rural schools will be re
opened this month, the Mexican
Ministry of Education has an
nounced. These schools were closed
some months ago owing to the
economic situation.
SHIPS BE SCRAPPED
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 7.—The
two of the best known ships on the
Pacific and particularly well known
to San Francisco, are to be scrap
ped, it was learned. The ships are
the Siberia Maru and Korea Maxu
of the N. Y. K. Line.