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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 75.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
' 101 DEMOCRATS ARE
INSTRUCTED TO VOTE
FOR CO). ROOSEVELT
* DAVENPORT, Iowa, Mar. 31. (&)
—The State Democratic Conven
tion late Tuesday instructed its 26
delegates to the National Conven
tion to vote for Governor Roose_
velt. Resolutions pledged the dele
gation “to use all honorable means”
to bring about the nomination of
the New Yorker, and instructed the
delegates to vote as a unit all ques
* tions.
The adoption of the resolution
came during a “storm session” in
which members opposed the pledg
ing; one delegate hurled cries of
“railroading.”
The opposition was in favor of
binding the delegation and was
- not necessarily against Roosevelt.
NIRCOTIG TREATY IS
MOVED Of SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Mar. 31.—
The Senate Wednesday approved
of the League of Nations’ narcotic
* treaty and ratification of the
treaty in that branch of Congress
is expected soon.
The League plan which was
adopted in 1931 would limit the
manufacture of drugs to the esti
mated medical and scientific needs
under a strict license system. Dis
tribution within the various coun
tries would be controlled by a sys
tem in which drugs will move from
one licensed person to another and
finally to be passed to the con
sumer on medical prescription.
The American delegates signed
the treaty in 1931.
. FISHING NO LONGER MAN'S
SPORT IN ALABAMA WATERS
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Mar. 31.—
Bachelors who think they can es
cape the leap year menace by go
ing fishing are due for a disap
pointment.
I. T. Quinn, commissioner of
game and fish, estimates that 125,
000 Alabama women will cast a line
in Alabama waters this year. He
bases his estimate on the fact that
100,000 women were regular patrons
of the sport last season.
FLIERS BODY BE CREMATED
NEW YORK, Mar. 31. (/P)—The
body of Captain Nagoya, Japan. J
ese airman killed Tuesday a crash,!
will be cremated and the ashes are
to be sent to Japan. Other Japan
ese pilots will go after the $25,000
prize offered by a Tokyo newspa
per for the Pacific flight. The back
ers have two other planes, a Ger-!
man Junkers plane and an English
flying boat.
FLEXIBLE TARIFF LAW
CHICAGO, Mar. 31.—The flexi
i ble tariff law, which provides that
the President has the power to raise
or lower duties on imports, was
held unconstitutional by the Unit- I
ed States Customs Court in a de- j
cision handed down here. The case |
was brought by Sears, Roebuck &
k Company, concerning imported
steel wire.
RESIDENCE PURCHASED
HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 31.—A $100,
000 Beverly Hills residence has been
purchased by Rudy Vallee, the
crooner, his wife, the beautiful
former Fay Webb, daughter of a
California police chief, announced
before she departed for Washing
ton, D. C., to join Vallee. The man
sion was christened “The Three
Pals.”
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ARMS BE BARRED
MEXICO CITY, Mar. 31. —The
Ministry of War announced that
no citizen will be permitted to bear
arms on April 3, during the pri
mary elections in all States.
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NEGROES LOST APPEAL
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Mar. 31.—
Seven negroes convicted of crim
inally assaulting two white girls
on a freight train a year ago, failed
in their appeal to the Alabama
Supreme Court from death sen
tences. The high court upheld the
convictions.
* * * *
BLOCKED RECOVERY
MAYVILLE, Wis., Mar. 31.—Sen.
ator Rbbert M. LaFollettee Jr., in a
campaign speech for reelection,
charged here that President Hoo
ver and the conservative elements
of both parties blocked a proposed
measure for relief and recovery in
the unemployment situation.
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WENT INSANE
LAKE ELMO, Minn., Mar. 31.—
Ernest Kern, proprietor of a small
basement battery shop, apparently
became insane and started shoot
ing at passersby. When police ar
rived, he varricaded himself in the
shop with two guns and plenty of
ammunition and for 12 hours held
the officers at bay.
* * * *
WAS TICKLISH
GREENBAY, Wis., Mar. 31.—Ben
Fontaine refused to be honored for
knocking down a holdup man, ex
plaining he was ready to give up
money when the bandit touched
his ribs with the gun. “I let him
have it then; I can’t stand to be
tickled,” he said.
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U. OF ORE. COACH RESIGNS
MADISON, Wis., Mar. 31. (/P)—
Dr. Clarence Spears resigned as
coach of the University of Oregon
and accepted the position as head
football coach of the University of
Wisconsin.
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KANSAS—ONLY DRY STATE
NEW YORK. Mar. 31. — Kansas
remained the nation’s only Sahara
in a prohibition poll conducted by
the Literary Digest. It was re
vealed a total of 3,040,036 votes
have been cast to date.
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TAX LAW PROVISION VOID
WASHINGTON, D. C-, Mar. 31.—
The tax law providing subjecting
transfers of property without re
compense made within two years
prior to death to Federal estate
taxes was set aside as unconsti
tutional and void by the Supreme
Court in two cases on certified
questions sent it by the Philadel
phia Circuit Court of Appeals.
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EVANGELIST FOR GOVERNOR
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Mar. 31—Jas.
L. Delk, evangelist, has started a
campaign for the Democratic nom.
ination for Governor of Missouri on
a platform of abolition of capital
punishment and county poor farms.
He is stumping the State in over
alls.
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WORKING LIKE MACHINE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 31.
(A5)—In an extraordinary response,
Speaker Garner’s appeal found an
unwieldly House working like a
machine in approving the new tax
provisions recommended by the
Ways and Means Committee to
balance the budget. The main is
sue will be the raising of letter
postage from two to three cents.
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STILL OPTIMISTIC
NORFOLK, Va., Mar. 31. (A5)—The
Reverend Dodson-Peacock returned
from a conference with .Colonel
Lindbergh and said Lindbergh had
asked him, Admiral Burrage and
John H. Curtis to continue their
efforts to recover the baby, it is
said they are still optimistic.
GARNER'S CLARION CALL
IS WELCOMED SI
FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS
LONDON, Mar. 31. — Featured
I stories on the leading newspapers
in England were stories relating
Speaker John Garner’s clarion call
in the Senate in which he pleaded
that his colleagues use every effort
to secure and approve legislation
which would balance the budget
and save the nation from one of
the greatest panics in years.
The news, as featured in English
and also German newspapers, said
there was no need for any world
alarm because of the fact that the
sales tax was defeated in the Unit
ed States and that the budget had
so far not been balanced. They
branded as premature the looming
of a world-wide panic because of
the fallof the American dollar.
All of Europe looks to America
to aid in the world’s economic
recovery and they are watching
the United States with keen inter
est. When America’s legislators
have completed their work of bal
ancing the budget these nations
; across the water will feel consid
erably relieved.
NINETEEN ALLEGED
RADICALS ARRESTED
WASHINGTON, D- C., Mar. 31.
(/P)—Nineteen of the group of 21
radicals, arrested Saturday after a
clash with police in front of the
Japanese Embassy, were convicted
Tuesday in police court.
The fines imposed varied from
$100 to $300 each and sentenced to
terms varying from 30 to 60 days in
jail. Those receiving $300 fines
and 60-day sentences included
Joan Hardy, red-haired leader, and
three other girls.
The group carried banners de_
nouncing “Japan’s imperialism.”
Mrs. Laura P. Siemens recently
became the bride of Fred K. Ord
way at Juneau. Mrs. Ordway has
made her home there for several
1 years. Mr. Ordway is a well known
business man and is owner of the
Alaska Scenic Views at Juneau.
STUDENTS ME CLOSELY
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Mar. 31.—
Threatened simultaneously with
kidnapping in ransom demands, a
San Francisco girl student at Sa
cred Heart Convent in Menlo Park,
two of her classmates from Boise,
Idaho, and their brother at Santa
Clara University, were being closely
guarded.
Edward J. Margett, San Francis
co leader, disclosed a letter threat
ening to kidnap his daughter Jac
queline, unless a big ransom was
paid and that the girl was followed
by two men.
lUURlGE HANDBOOK
IS LATEST THRILLER
LONDON, Mar. 31. —The Daily
Herald says that a handbook of
marriage and birth control to en
able the clergy to advise engaged
couples has been compiled with the
approval of the Archbishops of
Canterbury and York and will soon
be published.
It is the outcome of a resolution
passed at the last Lambeth confer,
ence of the Church of England,
calling for education in matters of
marriage and sex.
INTERMEDIARY AGAIN
ALLEGED IN CONTACT
ABDUCTORS OF BABY
NORFOLK, Va., Mar. 31.—J. H.
Curtis, boatbuilder, who has come
into the limelight because he is
alleged to be an intermediary be
tween the kidnappers of the Lind,
bergh baby and the Lindberghs,
Wednesday revealed that he had
again been in contact with the ab
ductors following a flight to Phila
delphia.
It was disclosed that Curtis had
registered at a Philadelphia hotel
but it was declared he did not re
main there overnight.
No further definite developments
resulted. Rumor said that one of
the three Norfolk intermediaries,
Admiral Burrage, had admitted
that the clue which they were
working on might be a fake but he
was said to have added that “they
were in the case up to their necks,”
and they intended to continue un
til the end of their train was
reached.
Burrage was declared to be the
spokesman of the other two, whose,
whereabouts Wednesday afternoon
were unknown.
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ROOSEVELT LIST OF
DELESATES MOUNTING
i
WASHINGTON. D. C., Mar. 31.
j UP—Governor Franklin Roosevelt
now has 111 delegates; Iowa’s 26
delegates joined those of Georgia,
Minnesota, New Hampshire, North
Dakota, Washington and Alaska.
It is expected Maine delegates
will be his, even though they go
uninstructed. Roosevelt backers
agree on Senator Buckley of Ken
tucky for the keynote speech at
the convention.
BUDGET DEVELOPMENTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 31.—
The House continued'its delibera_
tions in an attempt to balance the
budget and legislation to this ef
fect was expected Wednesday night
to be passed within a period of 48
hours. House leaders have stress
ed the need of passing a substitute
for the defeated tax bill and action
on this legislation was expected to
be favorable.
INTOXICATED BIVIILIIES
DANCED INTO CANNERY
MOONY FORD, Ariz., Mar. 31.—
A new canning plant was in op
eration on the shores of Huuschuca
Lake, canning “stewed oysters.”
The oysters became stewed when
deputy sheriffs emptied 19 barrels
of moonshine mash into the lake.
Their presence was noted when the
oysters, exhilerated by the mash,
came out of their shells and started
dancing on the lake shore.
Inventive persons hired a small
jazz orchestra to play at one end
of the lake, attracting the intoxi
cated bivalves in groves. They were
then rounded up and rushed to the
cannery.
HAD TOUGH LUCK
BEATRICE, Neb., Mar. 31.—Wil
liam Kennedy, of this city, appar
ently has been in for his share of
misfortune. Recently he broke a
leg and spent several weeks in a
hospital recovering. When, he was
discharged he took a walk in the
backyard of his own home which
resulted in his stumbling over a
log and breaking his shoulder blade.
Kennedy is back in the hospital
today.
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WRITER DIES
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 31.—Ed
ward H. “Ned” Hamilton, veteran
California political writer, died
here at the age of 73.
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DIES OF STARVATION
SAN DIEGO, Mar. 31.—After 67
days of fasting and “waiting for a
sign from the Lord,” Raymond
Sharpless, Sr., chicken rancher of
Johnstown, 30 miles from here,
died of starvation.
* * * *
BEGIN WORK SOON
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Mar. 31.—
Santa Cruz county will begin con
struction on a new Veterans’ Me
morial building immediately. The
estimated cost of construction will
be $60,000 and from 150 to 200 men
are to be employed for several
weeks.
ICE PATROL BEGINS
NEW YORK, Mar. 31.—Ships of
the United States Coast Guard
Wednesday began preparations to
start out on an international ice
patrol of the Atlantic. The pur
pose of these patrols is to trace out
icebergs and keep track of them
so that ocean going vessels can be
aware of any lurking dangers.
* * * *
SHOWS DEFICIT
SAN FRANCISCO. Mar. 31.—The
Southern Pacific Company’s net
rating income for February, 1932,
showed a deficit of $400,000, a de
crease of $814,000 from February,
1931, the company’s report showed.
. * * * *
WILL KNOW SOON
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 31.—Tom
Mooney, convicted Preparedness
Day bomber, will know early in
April whether he is to spend the
rest of his life in San Quentin or
receive an unconditional pardon
at the hands of Governor Rolph.
Such was the statement of former
Chief Justice Matt L. Sullivan, the
Governor’s chief legal advisor on
the case.
* * * *
STONE AGE HORSE RELICS
BAD KOESEN, Germany, Mar.
30, (JP)—Quantities of wild horse
teeth and 1,500 stone axes and
knives were unearthed in a pale
olithic settlement on the Saale
River. It is deduced that stone-age
hunters drove the horses over the
cliffs into the river.
* * * *
CLASHES CONTINUE
SHANGHAI, Mar. 31. (IP)—Sharp
skirmishes between Japanese and
Chinese were reported at Chiawang
Miao yesterday during the lull of
the peace parleys which will be re_
sumed today. The Japanese said
the Chinese had been driven to
South Soochow Creek.
♦ * * *
QUAKE AT PORTLAND
PORTLAND, Mar. 31. —Earth,
shocks were recorded here Wednes
day afternoon and, although no
damage is reported, the shocks were
quite severe. A seismograph at a
local observatory was reported to
have been put out of commission
by the force of the “shakes.”
FAST MAIL SERVICE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 31.—
A special delivery air mail stamp,
by which letters posted at 9 a. m.
in Washington would get an an
swer from New York the same day,
was predicted before the House
Post'office Committee by Postmas
ter General Brown.
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WAS NOT JOKING
COLORADO SPRINGS, Mar. 31.
—W. D. Lang, 40, went to J. C.
Cooper and asked for a longer rope
saying the one he had was too
short for him to hang himself.
Cooper, thinking it was a joke, sup_
plied the rope but a half hour later
saw the man’s body dangling from
a nearby telephone pole.
PROPOSES TO SHOE
WRECK OF STEilSHIP
FOR ssioyoo PRIZE
NORFOLK, Va„ Mar. 31. (A*)—
Captain Carl H. Wiley of the Ro
mano Marine Salvaging Company,
Seattle, announced Tuesday he had
located the wreck of the Ward liner
Merida about 65 miles northeast
of Cape Charles.
The ship sank in 1911 with about
$5,000,000 in gold, silver and jewels
aboard. Wiley intends to fly to
Seattle to prepare salvaging op
erations.
Wiley and his associates had
been interested recently in efforts
to raise the SS Islander, sunk in
Alaskan waters in 1901, supposedly
with a large amount of gold
aboard.
Ml MURDERS ARE
REVEALED IN ARCTIC
I _
Eugene Olson and Emanuel H
Bode, trappers, were hacked to
death with an axe in their tent on
the waters of Thelon River, in the
area of the Arctic Circle, on or
about December 15, 1930.
A wandering Eskimo named Tek
aluk is sought for the double mur
der.
The murders were discovered by
another trapper who came upon
the bodies of Olson and Bode just
befc-c Christmas but who did not
reach civilization until recently.
He then reported the killings to
the Canadian Northwest Mounties.
ISEIITTLE BULL TERM
DOWNS NEW YORKERS
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Mar. 31. (&)
—Before a crowd of 5,000, the Seat
tle Indians trounced a picked team
of the New York Giants 17 to 4
here Tuesday in an exhibition
game.
The Coast Leaguers routed two
of the Giants pitchers, Parmalee
and Signor with 24 hits, which in
cluded six homeruns. The Seattle
pitchers held the Giants to nine
hits.
DAPPER BANDITS
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 30.—Po
lice yesterday pressed vigorous
search for two dapper bandits who
held up the Yark, crack Southern
Pacific train, as it pulled out of
the depot yesterday from Los An
lgees. The bandits obtained near
ly a thousand dollars from passen
gers in the club car before leap
ing from the train.
I. C. C. LASHES BIG BANKERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 31.—
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion lashed big bankers for their
attitude in railroad loans. The
Missouri Pacific was authorized to
borrow $5,850,u00 of government
funds to pay half of $11,700,000 in
bank loans due April 1.
GOES OUT LIKE A LION
CHICAGO, Mar. 31.—With heavy
rainstorms, cold weather and gen.
eral inclement conditions, extend
ing from the Great Lakes to the
Gulf of Mexico through the middle
section of the United States, indi
cations Wednesday were that
March would go out like a lion in
that section. This storm was mov
ing in an Eastward direction.
Surplus wheat is being ground
into flour and will be distributed
to needy persons in Ketchikan and
that vicinity by the Ketchikan Red
Cross.
Public Dance Tonight LO.O.F. Hall