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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 105.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1932.
PRICE *TEN CENTS
SERVICE RECORDS OF
HONOLULU. May 5. (JP) - The
- .itencing of Lieut. Thomas H.
Massie, Mrs. Granville Fortescue
and two enlisted men here Wed
nesday to 10 years imprisonment
at hard labor and the commuting
of the sentence by Governor Judd
to one hour imprisonment each,
was said to have been a surprise
move.
Only a few persons were present
in the courtroom and after they
had been sentenced and their sen
tence commuted, the four defend
ants were taken across the street
to Iolani Palace where they re
mained in a large reception room
with their friends. The four de
fendants were under a nominal
surveillance by authorities for an
hour and were then freed.
It wras later announced that the
service records of Lieut- Thomas
Massie, E. J. Lord and A1 Jones
would not be marred by their im
prisonment. Their civil rights have
yet to be restored.
The four remaining men who are
awaiting retrial on Mrs. Thalia
Massie’s charges will probably not
be retried. *
COMMITTEE WHS
OF POSTAGE BUSES
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 5.—
Increases in the postage on letters
and newspapers were voted by the
Senate Finance Committee.
The committee approved the
one-cent raise put by the House
upon first-class postage and boost
ed the second-class rates to the
1921 level. It expects $144,000,000
annually from the additional one
cent on letters and $5,000,000 an
nually on second-class rates of
postage.
I
PARIS, May 5.—Primo Camera
got one on the chin at a club here
from the fist of “Mickey” Devine,
petite American dancer. The ring
worn by the actress cut the man
mountain pugilist.
“Mickey” objected to Camera’s
ring tactics in a fight a short time
before with Griselle, a Frenchman.
Attending excitement spread and
Leon Garfield, described as a for
mer Stanford University fooball
star and ex-Hollywood resident,!
was sent to the hospital for treat- :
ment for abrasions and lacera-'
tions.
CALIFORNIA ELECTION
SAN DIEGO, May 5.—An idea asj
to the sentiment expressed by the'
various cities in the California
election of May 3 is shown in the
incomplete election returns from!
this city. Returns from 220 out of
384 precincts show Franklin D. I
Roosevelt is leading A1 Smith about
two to one with Garner third. The
Sharkey oil bill proposition num
ber one is being beaten seven to
one and proposition number two,!
two to one.
CRUCIAL VOYAGE
NORFOLK, Va., May 5. — The
present trip of the yacht Marcon
to sea is termed by many as the
crucial one in the negotiations of
Norfolk men to recover the kid
napped Lindbergh baby.
even divided
GENEVA, May 5.—Japanese and
Chinese military forces in Man
churia are now almost evenly di
vided, it was revealed here in the
first official report from the League
of Nations Manchurian investiga
tion commission. >
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* GARNER STILL LEADS *
* SAN FRANCISCO, May 5. *
* (/p) — Nine thousand and 138 *
* of the State’s 10,271 precincts *
* gave John N. Garner 200,477 *
* votes; Gov. Franklin D. Roosc- *
* velt was given 158,959 and A1 :;:
* Smith 131,601. The Hoover *
* count was 584,669 votes. Cali- *
* fornia’s 44 votes at the Demo- *
* cratic convention lined up for *
* Speaker Garner. His margin *
* in the California election to- *
* day was 45,000 votes. *
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BILLS WILL U
BTTIICKEIIS BE FREED
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 5.—
Efforts to prevent a jury disagree
ment from freeing the four men
charged with attacking Mrs. Thalia
Massie in Honolulu were com
menced in Congress.
Bills effecting the case were
taken up for action by the Judicial
Committee of the House. Its chair
man, Representative Summers,
Democrat of Texas, is determined
to speed the Senate bill which will
block possible legal escape for the
four men charged with the atta'ck
on Mrs. Massie.
ARMISTICE SIGNED
SHANGHAI, May 5. (A5) — Four
months of open warfare was ended
here when representatives for both
China and Japan signed an armis
tice. It was declared that there
was no need of statesmen to gather
to sign the peace truce as the con
flict never officially was a war.
FOUR ill PICTURE
STARS ARE OFF PAYROLL
HOLLYWOOD, Cal., May 5.—The
ranks of insurgent motion picture
artists now includes Nancy Car
roll, red headed actress. The na
ture of her differences with the
Paramount studios has not been
disclosed although she has been
off salary for several days as a re
sult of a disagreement.
Miss Carroll is the latest of four
artists at odds with their em
ployers. Marline Dietrich, James
Cagney and Joseph von Sternberg
previously announced severance of
relations with their studios.
AFFECTS TERRITORIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 5. (A5)
—Chairman Summers, of the House
Judiciary Committee, introduced a
bill Wednesday to authorize the
President to grant reprieves and
| Pardons for offenses committed by
persons in all the territories and
: possessions of the United States.
A BRUTAL MOTHER
HARTFORD, Conn., May 5.—Ac
j cused of brutally beating her eight
; year-old daughter with a strap,
i Mrs. Adeline Sanchez, 43, is under
: arrest here. The police charge
that she locked herself and her
daughter in a room so her husbantj
could not interfere, then stripped
the girl of her clothing and thrash
ed her with a strap.
TRY IDENTIFY BABY
BUFFALO, N. Y., May 5.—A blond
blue-eyed baby boy, about 22
months old, is being held by police
after they found him wandering
apparently lost. Joseph T. White
well, chief of police, noted a mark
ed similarity of features between
the boy and a picture of Charles
Augustus Lindbergh Jr. An effort
is being made to ascertain the
child’s identity.
ADMISSION TAX
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 5.—
The Senate Finance Committee
knocked out of the revenue bill
the new 10 per cent tax it had im
posed on Pari Mutual race betting
tickets and voted instead to in
crease the admission tax to horse
races from 10 to 25 per cent.
PIONEER FRONTIER
EDITOR, WELLS DRURY,
FUSSES ST BERKELEY
I BERKELEY, Calif., May 5- (A*)—
S Wells Drury, 81 years of age, a
pioneer editor and survivor of the
days made famous by Brete Harte
and Mark Twain, and who often
walked the streets of the rough
mining camps of Nevada under the
threat of being shot “at sight” be
cause he dared to print news that
hurt the tender feelings of gun
toters, died at his home here Wed
nesday.
But Drury, who when only 10
years old had been appointed by
President Lincoln as an Indian
interpreter, was well able to take
care of himself although hair
trigger pistols blazed sudden death
around the Comstock lode in those
pioneer days.
On his first day in the Comstock
as a reporter for “The Gold Hill
News,” young Drury covered a fatal
shooting, a stage-coach wreck on
the Geiger grade, and two fatal ac
cidents in the mines. The day j
otherwise was peaceful except that j
an intruder came to the newspaper
office to shoot the editor, but fled
hastily when a pistol went off ac
cidentally.
Drury’s pay as a reporter was
$7.50 a day, plus an allowance of
$2.50 a day as “whisky money.” j
The liquor allowance, which never j
proved sufficient, was not for the
young scribe himself but for the
entertainment of the citizens inter
viewed in saloons, the invariable
meeting places, on his rounds as
news gatherer.
This was the background of a
newspaper and political career
that extended from California to
Chicago and covered more than 60
years’ activity.
Drury was born in a log cabin
at New Boston, 111., September 16,
1851, his patents being Squire
Thompson Drury and Rebecca
Drury.
Quitting his newspaper work in :
1908, he remained with the Ber
keley, Calif., Chamber of Com
merce for 14 years but was not
ready to retire even then and be
came associated with his sons in
an advertising agency.
Drury married Ella L. Bishop of
Reno. Nev., on May 23, 1888. They
had two sons, Newton Bishop and
Aubrey Drury, and two daughters, |
Muriel and Lorraine.
SUICIDE REPORTED
BERLIN, May 4.—Suicide of Lu
cille Chalfant, descendant of Jenny
Lind, was reported at the American
Consulate. She had been dead two
days when her body was discov
ered.
SEARCH FOR GOLD
WINNIPEG, May 5.—A myster
ious valley of gold, which for many
years has eluded the white pros
pectors in the Interior of Alaska,
is the goal of an airplane party
which recently left for the North
Pole, piloted by Anscel Eckmann,
active for many years in northern
flying trails.
ORCHESTRA LEADER DIES
CHICAGO, 111., May 5.—Carlton
Coon, co-leader of the nationally
known Coon-Saunders orchestra,
died Wednesday in the Herotic
Hospital. Coon had been critically
ill for a week after infection set
in following an operation on an
abcessed jaw.
EMPLOYEES KILLED
CROWNLAND, Ont., May 5.—
Three employees of the Michigan
Railroad were killed when a terrific
explosion shattered the railroad
roundhouse here.
MODIFICATION RECOMMENDED
ROSEVILLE, Calif., May 5.—Mod
ification of the 18th Amendment
is recommended in resolutions
passed by the Rosevill branch of
the California Vineyardists’ Asso
ciation.
ALASKA ITEMS OF
INTEREST AT THE
The Senate instructed its Ap
propriations Committee to reduce
the total of the amount allowed in
the House bill to the Department
of the Interior by 10 per cent. This
was done and in the bill as passed
by the Senate most of the reduc
tions were sustained. As a result
Alaska is affected and the Alaska
Railroad appropriation was cut
from $500,000 to $450,000. However,
a clause was inserted to include
“operation and maintenance of
agriculture experiment stations
heretofore operated by the Depart
ment of Agriculture on the line of
the railroad.” In making the ap
propriation of $34,300 for support
of reindeer stations in Alaska, the
following clause was inserted: “Pro
vided, That no part of this appro
priation shall be available for the
payment of employees who are ex
perienced in animal husbandry.”
* * * *
Col. James G. Steese, who spent
seven and a half years in Alaska
as president of the Alaska Road
Commission, and who has been out
of the Territory for nearly five
years, is now serving as an execu
tive in a business capacity in New
York. He was a visitor in Wash
ington a few days ago and told of
a much-looked-forward-to outing
that he expects to take shortly. He
will reach Fairbanks Jn time to be
present at the commencement ex
ercises of the Alaska Agricultural
College and School of Mines, on
; May 23, and also to himself receive
a college degree. He will then
| spend two or three weeks in other
parts of the Territory.
* * * *
An Alaska constituent who has
been receiving a $68 per month
pension for partial disability writes
to inquire what amount in a lump
; sum settlement he would be enti
tled to receive. The Delegate took
the matter up with the United
States Employees Compensation
Commission and the chairman ends
a letter of information with the
following statement: “The com
mission has found, from experience
that the payment of a lump sum
in lieu or regular installments of
compensation is not advisable in
the interest of the injured em
ployee. The unsatisfactory exper
ience which has followed where
lump sum settlements have been
made has caused the commission i
to practically discontinue making
this form of settlement. In the
case of an employee well advanced
in years, the payment of compen
sation in regular monthly install
ments would appear to be much
more advantageous than the pay
ment of a lump sum. It would, at
least, insure the injured employee
a regular income which would en
able him to be self-supporting
during the remainder of his life
and he would not be left to the un
certainty of safety investing the
proceeds of a lump sum payment.”
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The Senate has reduced the
amount appropriated by the House
for the education of natives in Al
aska from $690,000 to $650,000. The
large reduction is $25,000 for sal
aries and $10,000 for equipment,
etc. The rest is for travel expense
and repairs. There is nothing al
lowed for operating the vessel
Boxer, which is to be succeeded
this summer by the new North
Star, which will be finished and
operating this month. No salary
has been allowed for employees of
the Shoemaker day school, which
has just been completed near
Wrangell, and it is feared that this
school will not be able to open for
another year unless more consid
eration is given its necessities in
the conference between the Senate
and House committees.
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* NOME LANDING FIELD *
* WASHINGTON, May 5. (>P) *
* —Delegate James Wickersham *
* introduced a bill in the House *
* Wednesday, authorizing the *
* Alaska Road Commission to *
* spend $25,000 of the funds as- *
* signed to road work in the *
* Nome district to build an air- *
* plane landing field at Nome. *
* The landing field would be *
* 200 feet wide and 4,400 feet *
* long. *
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MITRICIDE CASE JURE
TRY TO flEHCH VERDICT
SEATTLE, May 5. (A>)—The Su
perior Court jury, four women and
eight men, in the second degree
murder trial of Dr. Albert Mc
Keown, dentist, was given the case
last night and they were still out
today.
Dr. McKeown is accused of slay
ing his aged mother when she was
visiting him here to avoid payment
of a $10,700 debt to her. The den
tist is pleading temporary insanity.
The prosecutor said that if Mc
keown was brought to trial a sec
ond time, a first degree murder
charge would be pressed.
FLASH — The jury in the Mc
Keown case returned a verdict this
afternoon convicting Dr. McKeown
of second degree murder. The jury
recommended leniency.
POSTPONEMENT PROPOSED
WASHINGTON, ,D. C„ May 5.—
A 40-day postponement of consid
eration of the Naval construction
bill was proposed in the Senate by
Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
Democratic leader, to await devel
opments of the Geneva disarma
ment parley.
BLUE SKY LAW, M
YEARS OLD, REPEALED
BALTIMORE, Md., May 5.—Bal-;
timore can go to its moving picture
shows or go to a baseball game
legally next Sunday for the first
time in history.
By the most overwhelming vote
ever registered on a question, the
voters repealed the State’s 200
year-old blue laws insofar as they
applied to that city in a special
election which overshadowed the
Presidential primary between Pres
ident Hoover and former Senator
Joseph L. France.
UNUSUAL SITUATION
LONDON, May 5.—Because there
is no American Ambassador in Lon
don, a somewhat unusual situation
has risen in connection with the
presentation of a group of Amer
ican women at the first of the
British courts this week.
MUST REMAIN IN JAIL
LOS ANGELES, May 5. —Daisy;
DeVoe, former secretary of Clara :
Bow, film actress, must finish her |
18 months jail term, the Second!
District Court of Appeals stated in 1
denying her a new trial on her|
conviction of grand theft from Miss!
Bow. i
BITTERNESS GONE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 5.—
The extent to which the bitterness
engendered by the World War has
evaporated in the disclosure that
two civic organizations of St.
Thomas, capital of the Virgin Is
lands, have tendered invitations to
ex-Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany to
make his home in that paradise of
the West Indies.
NEVER BOUGHT STOCK
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 5.—
The man at the helm of the Sen
ate’s stock market investigation,
Chairman Norbeck of the Banking |
Committee, has never bought or
sold a share of stock in his life.
SMALL FORGE JAPANESE
SOLDIERS TRIED ENTER
FOREIGN SETTLEMENT
SHANGHAI, May 5. —Fifty Jap
anese soldiers crossed Soochow
Creek into the International Set
tlement from Chapei Wednesday.
The Japanese were met by Amer
ican officers who held them from
proceeding into the International
Settlement and questioned them as
to what their reason was in break
ing a military ruling and coming
into the settlement in that manner.
The Japanese soldiers said that
they were pursuing Chinese who
had been bothering them by throw
ing rocks at the Japanese soldiers
across the creek. The Japanese
soldiers said the Chinese threw the
rocks from the International Set
tlement.
The Japanese, after conferring
for some time, decided that the
best thing for them to do would
be to withdraw and they went back
to the Chapei sector.
AVIATION HISTORY CHALKS
UP ANOTHER ACHIEVEMENT
LAKEHURST, N. J., May 5 —An
other major achievement was
chalked up in aviation history
Wednesday when two Navy planes,
without hitch or difficulty, took
off from here and snagged them
selves successfully on the great
dirigible Akron, cruising about on
a test flight. The two planes were
then hoisted inside the hull of the
giant airship.
The test took place ?t an alti- *
tude of 3,000 feet. The pilots of
the airplanes were Lieut. Howard
•Young and Lieut. Ward Harrigan.
Lieut. Comdr. Charles E. Rosen
dahl was in charge of the novel
test operations aboard the dirigi
ble
BRITISH TO STRENGTHEN
SHUT Nil OISE
LONDON, May 5. —The Singa
I pore naval base is to be made
j stronger if the British dominions
give heed to the British Admiralty.
Work on the base is not proceed
I ceeding on a modiifed scheme
i adopted by the Labor government,
; but the recent Shanghai trouble
! has resulted in a keen realization
here of the necessity of Britain
being adequately protected in the
East.
CAUSE OF WARS
SHANGHAI, May 5.—Individual
and collective craving and yearn
ing for happiness and efforts to
attain it without regard for the
happiness of others. This is the
fundamental cause of wars, said
Karl von Whegand.
MAY WITHDRAW
ROME, Italy, May 5.—That Italy
may withdraw from the League of
Nations next fall is a belief foster
ed here by recent pronouncements
of Premier Mussolini and actions
of the Fascist government.
IN ATLANTA PRISON
ATLANTA, Ga., May 5. (/P)—The
big steel gates of the Atlanta Fed
eral prison clanged shut Wednes
day night behind “Scarface” A1
Capone, gangster who held himself
mightier than the law, where he
will serve an 11-year prison sen
tence for income tax evasion. Ca
pone, still in a furious mood and
appearing downhearted, said he
was through with “politics and all
other rackets.”
SPECIAL TAX
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4.—
The dry-controlled Senate Finance
Committee Tuesday boosted a spe
cial tax on brewers’ wort, which is
used only to make home brew.
DANCE TONIGHT I.O.O.F. HALL