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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 44. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23,1932.
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SHANGHAI. Feb. 23. (A5) — The '
Chinese let loose a heavy bombard- i
rnent of heavy artillery fire over I
the International Settlement aim- |
ing at the Japanese cruisers. One
•stray shell struck an Italian war
ship.
From early morning, in the east -!
ern area, the Chinese hammered i
away at the Japanese forces, com
pelling the latter to withdraw. The j
Chinese troops then charged, pen
etrating and recovering some of
their former trenches.
Northward the Japanese made
gains. In the Kiangwang area the
Japanese flanks are converging
and have penetrated the Chinese
lines for some distance. In this
district the countryside has been
Laid to waste; the peasants have
betm completely wiped out.
It is here that the Chinese civil
ian snipers, wdio are considered he
roes, left to face death, wrought
havoc. If captured alive they are
taken to a nearby race track where
they are executed. Horrible scenes
are everywhere; women shot in the
back, children riddled by machine
gun bullets and farmers laying in I
pools of blood.
General Uyeda of the Japanese
forces is now twro days behind his |
announced schedule that he wrould
drive the Chinese out of Shanghai. !
IEHICI Will
; liLculliiL UL
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WASHINGTON, D. G\, Feb. 23, —
The United States will not bring
pressure to bear against Japan by
aneconomic boycott unless such a
move becomes necessary because of
some overt act such as firing on a
warship .attack on American citi
zens, etc.
This was the opinion voiced in
official circles at Washington when
they were probed as to what stand
the United States would take if
member nations of the League of
Nations adopt such a plan.
It had previously been stated
in official U. S. quarters that a n
economic boycott against Japan
urged by various organizations as
a peace movement “might easily
be the first step toward war,” ac
cording to Senator Borah of the
Senate committee on foreign rela
tions.
INSURGENTS KILLED
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 23,
iJP)—The killing of 10 Nicaraguan
insurgents and the wounding of
several others in four engagements
with the native national guards
men under the command of U. S.
Marines, was reported to the Navy
Department. Only one guardsman
was wounded
BIKER HUS PLMI HASTEN
RETURN OF PSOSPFffl
ST. LOUIS. Mo., Feb. 23, (flP)—
Henry Stude, president of the Am
erican Bakers Association, appeal
ed to American women to help
bring back prosperity by stopping
diets.
He said over 100,000,000 bushels
of wheat would be consumed an
nually if women would eat as they
should. He advocated making;
curves stylish again, explaining I
that now three-fourths of the wo- |
men between 16 and 60 are worried!
about their figures.
TWO WERE KILLED
CHICAGO, Feb. 23, —Two per- '
sons were killed here when a
street car collided with a heavy
truck.
j PREPARE FOR YEAR WAR
TOKYO, Feb. 23, (A5)—The Japan
| ese, anxious over the fact that the
| Chinese are resisting strongly at
Shanghai and that their forces;
i are meeting some reverses. Theyi
J had previously thought that the;
! conquest of Shanghai would take
but a week or 10 days; it is now
tlKHight that perhaps it will ex
tend several weeks. Meanwhile the
j Chinese are preparing for a war of
la year.
JAPANESE COMMANDER ASKS
GOVERNMENT TO SEND
MORE TROOPS
SHANGHAI, Feb. 23, —Observers '
of the conflict between the Jap
anese and Chinese forces declared
that the dogged, resistance of the
Chinese soldiers is almost as sting
ing to the Japanese as a defeat. ;
The Chinese are showing great!
courage in defending their soil;
and simply won’t budge under the :
heavy Japanese offensive.
General Uyeda, of the Japanese |
forces, has sent word to Japan
that he desires additional forces ■
to carry out the Japanese plan in I
Shanghai.
Two Britishers were wounded
Saturday when they -were attempt
ing to extinquish a fire on the
border of the International Set
tlement. They were hit by pieces
of flying shrapnel.
The Chinese reserve lines are
said to be weakening and the Jap- j
anese troops have begun a flank j
movement. It appears that the Jap- j
anese are using military tactics
which were successful in the late
war They wage an artillery of
fensive against the reserves and:
wb<- these have been sufficiently
W' eoed the infantry goes over
tl e .jp to force the entire oppo- i
sit-ion back.
DEMPSEY WILLING TO
! TI1KE ON LEVINSKY
I WITH LIGHTER GLOVES
j CHICAGO, Feb. 23. —Uppermost
in the mind of sport-followers has
• been the question as to whether
or not Jack Dempsey would con
j tinue his exhibition bouts and at
: tempt a “come-back fight” since
his poor showing against King Le
i vinsky in the recent four-round
j exhibition bout.
j Dempsey answered their question
jwhen he said he intended contin
! ue his exhibition tour but would do
I less hand-shaking, and change his
training routine.
Jack is scheduled to make his
next appearance at Louisville, Ky.
The former heavyweight cham
pion also said he would be willing
to meet Levinsky again with six
ounce gloves. These are of consid
erable lighter weight than those
used in the exhibition match with
Levinsky.
ANOTHER TRAGEDY
HAZELTON, La., Feb. 23, (/P)—
Five small children and their mo
ther were burned to death in a:
fire which destroyed their home, j
The mother ran into the street, |
gave the alarm and rushed back ;
into the house to save her children
but did not return.
POLITICAL MOVE
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Feb. 23.
(A1)—A national “Garner for Presi
dent” movement was begun here
when a number of Texans met in
this city and began formulating
plans to boost the present speaker!
of the House for the Democratic
nomination. i
CITIZENSHIP REVOKED
MOSCOW, Feb. 23. —The Soviet
government has revoked the cit
izenship of Leon Trotzky, former
Soviet official and aide to Lenin.
Trotzky will also be refused ad
mission to Russia
PITIFUL C01ITK
1 WAR ZONE AS
RATTLING WAGES
ONCE FERTILE COUNTRYSIDE
LAID IN WASTE; MARAU
DERS ACTIVE
SHANGHAI, Feb. 23, —Probably
more than one Chinese or Japan
ese soldier had tears come into his
Jeyes as the pitiful scenes resultant
j of warfare continued to be enacted
■ in the Japanese lines.
The pitiful conditions of human
; beings was probably epitomized
! when a lit tle Chinese girl, with
: tears in her eyes, and homeless.
| ventured forth to the battlefield.
She had been driven from her
• home and had snatched a piece
I of bedding as her only belonging
, of bedding, and a doll, her only be
I longings. She paused on the bat
i tlefield as if attempting to decide
I where she should go—back to the
I Chinese lines where she had come
or whether there was refuge with
| in the aJpanese lines.
The flight of the little refugee
; and peasants from the war-torn
I area continued as their homes
were burned and living conditions
became unbearable.
The only pleasant feature in
Shanghai and the countryside is
the turning green of plants; but'
this was more than offset by the
grim, monster of war.
Not only inside the city is war- j
fare going on but outside, as well,
where the finely cultivated fields
are being destroyed by fire and
the entire fertile countryside de
vastated by marauding parties.
Added to the horror of the bura
ing is the heavy pall of black
smoke in the direction of the city
itself where further pillaging is
going on.
Inside the city observers see
nothing but chaos and the grim
looking Chinese trenches which
have been vacated because of the j
ferociousness of the Japanese on- j
slaught. The Chinese trenches are •
non-descript things being con- I
structed of straw and mud. Not!
many sandbags are in evidence as j
the defenders did not have enuff !
of these to go around.
SS YUKON ENROUTE
! SEATTLE, Feb. 23. (£>)—'The SS
! Yukon, of the Alaska Steamship i
| Company, sailed at 9 a. m. today,j
j carrying 110 passengers; 29 of these !
; are for Seward, as follows:
• A. B. Cummings, Mr. and Mrs
| Joe Crosson, Mrs. W. E. Thomas,
■ Mrs. J. N. Hague and baby, B. H.
j Barndollar, Frank Knight, Ray j
Larson, Chas. Halky, Ernest Axel-;
son, Paul Oehme, Michael Tehoeff, j
Chas. A. Pinska.
Harry Nelson, Harry Owens, R. F.
Butler, Mrs. C. L. Blackstone, J. F.
! Martin, Geo. Whittlesey, Nick Gai- j
I kema, Mrs. Ella Vanette and baby,j
j Mrs. L. V. Stanley, Theodore Lafon,!
! Joe Lacon, Mrs. Zelle Nicken, Lewis '
; Gjon and S. P. Jeppson.
GRAHAM !0 GO-PILOT
ATLIN, B. C., Feb. 23, —Wm. B.
Graham, former Alaska flier, and
Mrs. Edna Christoferson, his co
pilot, who left Hazelton a week ago
last Monday on another leg of their
hop to the northern reaches of
Alaska, are still unheard of.
Nothing has ^een jheard from j
the two fliers since they bored in- j
to the snowstorm w'hich then rag
ed. Search plans are being held up
owing to the continued storms in j
the area wherein they vanished.
There were only five fatalities
in Alaska mines in 1931; one atj
Kennecott and five in the Alaska;
Juneau mine.
NORTH DIVISION OF
ALASKA RAILROAD IS
BLOCKED BY DRIFTS
EQUIPMENT SCATTERED ALONG
RIGHT-OF-WAY BATTLING
HEAVY SNOWS
■
j There will be no train in or out
| of Seward for several days.
Practically every piece of railroad
! equipment is now scattered along
; the right-of-way, between Anchor
age and Fairbanks, either stuck or
battling the elements.
Never before in the history of
the Alaska Railroad has such a
combination presented itself; sub
zero temperatures, howling gales,
continuous snowstorms and moun
tainous drifts. Arrayed against
these titanic forces of the elements,
! it is practically impossible to keep
the line open for traffic.
The regular passenger train
which left Seward a, week ago
Wednesday, was halted at Hurri
cane Gulch by tremendous 27-foot
drifts in the cuts. There the train
was marooned until Monday morn
ing when the giant rotary plows,
manned by strong-hearted crews,
carved a passage through a few
miles, still in the Broad Pass area,
i where progress was again halted.
And there the train Is today while
another heavy storm is raging.
Monday night a rotary left Curry
; for the south where it has since
bucked out a slide at Mile 247. At
I Willow, this rotary was to turn, pick
up a load of coal for its mate, and
return to Broad Pass.
Early this morning, the general
manager, Col. Otto F. Ohlson, was
' at Willow, enroute to the scene of
I the present snow battle at Broad
! Pass.
Reports from the Interior say
i the drifting snows sweeping thru
I that area resemble ocean waves.
The Southern division, aside
from a slide at Mile 79 and light
drifts of snow across the tracks,
is said to be in fairly good shape
though it will be necessary for a
rotary to first clear the way for
any train. This slide came down i
j several days ago and is about 500 |
| feet long and approximately five ’
j or six feet deep.
Owing to these conditions there i
| isn’t a chance in the world for the j
regular passenger train to meet i
l the SS Admiral Evans, due in port
this evening from the South,, or
even a train to meet it, southbound,
the later part of this week.
At Moose Pass this morning, the
barometer registered 50 below zero;
at Anchorage, 30 below; at Broad
Pass, 40 below, and 50 below at
Fairbanks.
MEN: GAVE FINE MONEY
DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 23. (£>)—R.
E- Holefield, local grocer, has the
laugh on robbers because he was
prepared for them. Robbers, who
raided his store, carried away a
money sack well filled.
Holefieid had filled the sack with
iron washers of the sizes of nickels,
dimes, quarters and half dollars,
wrapped in bank paper. He had
prepared the sack after he had
been held up a month ago.
PACIFIST KILLED
TOKIO, Feb. 23, </P)—J. Inouye,
former Japanese finance minister
and advocate of a mild policy to
ward China, was shot and killed
by two political extremists, one of
whom was captured. Three bullets
killed Inouye, whose policy toward
China had incurred the hostility
of Nationalist factions throughout
Japan.
RAT HUNT REVEALS TUNNEL
BUENOS AIRES. Feb. 23, (IP)—A j
secret passage Reading from, the
ancient national cathedral to an I
outlet a quarter of a mile away1
was found by public health offi- j
cials who poked into odd corners j
during a municipal war on rats.;
The tunnel dates from the days of
Spanish rule. i
“FER GOODNESS SAKE!”
i WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23, —
j The United States and other pow
ers having interests in the Inter
national Settlement in Shanghai
are understood to be preparing a j
note to Japan saying that Japan 1
cannot avoid being held largely'
responsible for any property dam- j
age or loss of life that may occur
because of the present hostilities
Jin Shanghai.
:
SIGNALLING APPARATUS AND
I AND AMMUNITION SEIZED
BY AMERICANS
| SHANGHAI, Feb. 23, —The Jap-j
| anese consul here indicated Sat- i
i urday he would file a protest w'ith j
| American authorities for the U. S. i
' marine raid on a cotton mill in;
! the Japanese part of the Interna- j
tional Settlement
It is claimed that the Americans
went “to far” in their raid when :
they uncovered what they w'ere
looking for and then continued
their search until they found con
cealed ammunition.
The United States marines con- 1
\ ducted a raid in search of signal
: ling apparatus, after they had
| learned that the Japanese were
| using the International Settlement t
| and he cotton mill to direct the
| movement of Japanese forces.!
| They found the signalling appara
| tus in the cotton mill.
Previous to this, neutral patrolsi
j in the International Settlement, j
i had taken into custody a number!
| of Japanese forces from house
! tops. Signalling from the Interna- j
tional Settlement is declared to j
be a violation of neutrality in that1
area.
:1IN ATTEMPT MADE
KEEP BIG BLIMP FROM
! PLUNGING TO EARTH
I
: NEW YORK —Two men in the (
| gondola of the large blimp “Colum-;
bia” of the Goodyear Rubber Comp
any, yesterday fought vainly for six
hours to keep their crippled craft 1
in the air. One man lost his nerve
and attempted to jump to ground
and was killed. The other man stay
jed wth the doomed ship and was
! uninjured. A few moments before
j the final crash, onlookers saw
John Blair, mechanic of the blimp
i open a gondola trap door and leap
' as the craft was about 30 feet above
j the ground. He died on the way to
| a hospital. Prescott Dixon, the pilot
istepped uninjured from the wreck
j age of the blimp.
The ship was worth $70,000 and
jwas used for advertising purposes.
SENTENCED TO 19 MONTHS J
j SAN DIEGO, Feb. 23, (JP)—'The
j government war on Chinese smug
gling racketeers in the San Diego
district assumed military propor
tions following the imposing of a
19V2 months prison sentence upon
Clarence Aiken, former Army of
ficer. The sentence is declared toi
j be the heaviest ever imposed in this |
! destrict for a similar charge.
TARIFFS ENACTED
| LONDON, Feb. 23, (A5)—The House
I of Commons passed four govern
mental financial resolutions for
tariffs and customs duties, ending
Great Britain’s 100-year tradition
al free trade era. The first reso
lution provided a general 10 per
cent tariff.
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RESIST FRENCH PROPOSAL
j GENEVA, Feb. 23. (A5)—Delegates
to the Disarmament Conference
from the United States and Eng
' land prepared to resist the move
| ment by France to postpone tak
i ing action in the Far East warfare.
: There still remain a half-dozen
j countries to table their proposi
I tions
SMALL GROUP OF
HOLD! VILLAGE
EARLY FALL OF KIANGWAN IS
LOOKED FOR; TERRIFIC AT
TACK UNDER WAY
SHANGHAI, Feb. 23, (/P)—U. S.
infantry patroling the Soochow
Creek area were fired upon as they
were strengthening barbed wire de
fenses. There were no casualties.
Chinese headquarters, in ex
pressing regret, said that the Chi
nese soldiers thought the Ameri
cans were Japanese as they wore
blue uniforms
During the artillery fire, a shell
struck an American, Seven-D a y
Adventist mission hospital, in the
Chapei area. The building was un
occupied as the 169 patients had
been recently removed.
The Japanese fought their way
around Kiangwan in the most ter
rific attack since hostilities began
Saturday, but the village held firm
with only a tew hundred Chinese
soldiers defending it. Its early fall
is expected. The artillery pounded
the Chinese for two hours before
the tanks and infantry started to
advance and continue fierce fight
ing.
LAST CHANCE TODAY
PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 23. (A3)—
Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd was sched
uled to appear before the Judge
to day to appeal for a new trial.
If the appeal is refused, she will
be taken away to the penitentiary
at Florence to await execution.
HAMPTON ROADS, N. J., Feb. 23.
: (JP)—While the large airship Akron
; was being taken out of its hangar
Monday preparatory to making a
triumphant flight to Washington
with a group of Congressmen, a
strong gust of wind came up and
badly damaged the rear of the
huge liner.
The gust of wind put the Akron's
stabilizer out of commission, and
tore off much fabric of the ship it
self. A gaping hole was punctured
in the ship’s rudder.
Lieut. Commander Charles Ros
enthal, after an investigation, said
that it would be impossible to re
pair the damage in time for the
vessel to make her scheduled flight
to the Pacific on March 2. The
ship was to take part in Pacific
maneuvers with the battle fleet.
The Congressmen immediately
inspected the damage and with the
commander, they were in accord
that the mishap was an accident
and not due to any structural de
fects.
UNFAVORED BE HIM
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb., 23,
(JP) — Secretary Hurley told the
House insular committee that be
cause of the political chaos in the
Far East, the present is no time
to consider liberation of the Philip
pines.
He said any immediate sever
ence of political relations between
the United States and the Philip
pines might lead to anarchy and
revolution.
CAUTIOUS COWARD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb- 23, (JP)
—Bishop Cannon called Represen
tative Tinkham a “cautious cow
ard" except when speaking of im
munity on the House floor. Cannon
charged Tinkham lied when he as-^
serted he didn’t claim Congress
ional immunity in defending the
$500,000 liability suit brought by,
Cannon.