VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 191.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16,1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ANOTHER SON BOHN
TO THE LINDBERGH'S
IT MORROW HOME
ENGLEWOOD, N. J-, Aug., 16, (/P)
_Another son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Lindbergh bringing
happiness back to the home dark
ened by the tragedy of five months
and 16 days after their first son
was kidnaped.
Anne and child are both in good
health. The son was born at the
Dwight Morrow home where the
first baby, was born.
Mi's. Morrow recently returned
from Europe to be present.
It is considered likely that the
baby’s nurse will be Betty Gow,
the first baby’s nurse, who, al
though questioned closely in the
kidnaping case, the Lindbergh’s al
ways expressed complete c o n f i
dence in her. She is visiting her
parents in Scotland, at the present
time.
STATEWIDE SEARCH
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug., 16,
—The statewide search for John
Santis. 22 year old mechanic, want
ed for the sack murder of Diana
Siders, centered at Stockton. An
unidentified man closely resembling
Santis died at the San Joaquin
County Hospital there. He had
been found several hours earlier in
a Southern Pacific boxcar at Tra
cy, unconscious from a beating.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., 16. —
Washington today viewed with
concern what appeared to be a duel
to the death, declared over the
week-end, between President Paul
von Hindenburg of Germany, and
Adolf Hitler, the rebellious Nazis
leader.
The American foreign policy, es
pecially that part of it having to
do with reparations, war debts,
disarmament, the coming world
economic parley and world coop
eration to restore prosperity, can
hardly fail to be affected.
Hitler’s ultimatum to von Hin
denburg is nothing less than “pre
cisely the same powers exercised
by Mussolini after his march on
Rome." And the German Presi
dent's emphatic “no,” is also seen
as bringing Germany to a perilous
impasse.
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 16, — A
Finnish team which will include
outstanding stars will compete
against Japanese Olympic Games
athletes at Tokio and Osaka next
month.
About 11 Finnish stars will make
the trip to Japan. Among them will
be Paavo Nurmi, Lauri Lehinin,
Hollo Isohoand and Akilles Jarvi
nin. The team will leave within
the next few days.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., 15, —
Attorney General Mitchell made a
statement Sunday that regardless
of what the sentiment is on prohi
bition by the people and various
political organizations and the pro
bable result of future considera
tions with respect to the dry law,
he stated that there would be no
letup in prohibition enforcement
until such a time as the measure
is no longer law or the measure has
been modified.
Mitchell’s statement was made
following suggestions that vast eco
nomies might be effected by the
government curtailing prohibition
enforcement expenditures.
[ VESSEL IN DISTRESS
DUTCH HARBOR, Aug., 16, (/P)—
The schooner Sophie Christensen is
i reporte dto be leaking badly, under
| sail in Bering Sea, and is making
: for the nearest port. She has a car
! go of cod fish on board
SCORES OF IOTOISTS
WITNESS A MUNICH
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug-, 16, —
In a blaze of maniacal fury and in
plain sight of scores of motorists,
a Daly City auto camp owner kill
ed his wife, wounded his mother
in-law and committed suicide
Climaxing years of bitter domes
tic and legal strife, Morris Ratto,
65, shot to death his 47 year-old
wife, and seriously wounded her
aged mother, Mrs Josie Crawford.
The killings which followed a
terrific struggle between Ratto and
his wife in front of his auto camp
at Daly City was witnessed by scores
of camp dwellers and motorists who
had stopped at the sight of the
man and woman battling.
And following the murder and
suicide the amazing revelation was
made that her husband had been
arrested on an insanity charge af
ter, she had said, he had threaten
ed to kill her.
CONFERENCE NEARS END
OTTAWA, Ont., Aug. 16.—The
| empire economic conference en
j tered its final week as Premier R.
B. Bennett of Canada and Stanley
Baldwin of England met to discuss
I the outstanding points of the trade
agreements.
TOKIO. Aug. 16.—Reading into
President Hoover’s speech an indis
creet reference to the Manchurian
trouble, a spokesman for the Jap
anese foreign office today said the
government cannot see how the
President’s doctrine of refusal to
recognize territorial gains acquired
by force can apply to Japan’s posi
tion in Manchuria.
"We object to the anti-war pact
being constantly poked under our
noses with charges that we are vi
olating the pacts,” the Japanese
spokesman said.
DISASTER HIGH SEAS
MIAMI, Fla-, Aug. 16.—Eleven
Cuban refugees were taken to
county inspectors after the fugi
tives halted their 40-foot single
masted auxiliary schooner off an
island to ask fishermen for fresh
water.
The Cubans said they had plenty
of food, but had been without
water for 18 hours. Their craft
was leaking and they had been
forced to bail water since leaving
Cuba.
HELEN JACOBS FAVORED
WIN NATIONAL CONTEST
NEW YORK, Aug. 16-—With the
invincible Mrs. Helen Wills Moody
no closer than the Champs Elysees
Miss Helen Jacobs of Berkeley, Cal.,
was an overwhelming favorite to
day to win the annual women’s
national tennis singles champion
ship, which begins on the courts of
the West Side Stadium, Forest
Hills, New York.
UNDER MARTIAL LAW
EAST ST. LOUIS, Aug., 16, —
East St- Louis was placed under
virtual martial law and 100 extra
police and sheriffs deputies guard
ed the district where a labor union
officer was slain and two others
wounded.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. (ff) —
President Hoover’s political strategy
in his prohibition declaration was
revealed today. He believes the ma
jority of the American voters will
favor the same middle ground with
him. Representative James M. Beck
of Pennsylvania, most prominent
constitutionalist in the wet block
in the congress, revealed the ad
ministration theses. After a con
ference at the White House, Beck
said, “His treatment of the prohi
bition quetion should favorably
impress the members of the repub
lican wet block in the house, indeed
it suggests a common ground upon
which republican wets and drys can
meet and solve this vexing problem.
CONSUL S CHILD STOLEN
WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 16.—Pa
tricia McMillan, four year old
daughter of the United States Con
sul, disappeared mysteriously un
der circumstances that indicated
she had been kidnapped.
BROTHER SHIN REYNOLDS
ENROUTE TO CHUM
NEW YORK Aug-, 16., (JP) —Pan
American Airways received a report
that Richard Reynolds, brother of
the late Smith Reynolds, would
reach Miami by plane on his way
home to Winston-Salem, North
Carolina, Reynolds, wh owas in Af
rica when his brother died, travel
ed by plane and took a boat as far
| as Port of Spain, Trinidad. He will
take a plane across South America
to Barninpuilla, Colombia, and
from there fly to Miami.
PREFERENCE TARIFF
LIST BEEN FINISHED
OTTAWA. Aug.. 16, —Great Brit
j ain offered Canada preference tar
iffs on wheat, copper and lumber
in return for preferences on tex
tiles. leather, iron, steel and coal.
The offer, if accepted, will mean
I the loss of $100,000,000 trade an
nually for the United States.
The United States trade lost in
I textiles, leather, iron, steel and
! coal will go to Great Britain; the
i other trade will go to Canada.
, STOCKS CONTINUE SHOW
I STM ADVANCE
”
j NEW YORK, Aug., 16, —Resump
! tion of the rise in wheat helped
! restore confidence in the stock
market and prices ran up to more
| than six points.
The best levels were reached in
| the last few minutes hopeful of
early recovery in the major indus
j tries. Three stock exchanges show
1 ed increased salaries of their em
ployees and large numbers were
reinstated in job's.
A curb exchange seat sold for
! $36,000, an increase of $7,000.
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ASKS PAROLE
SACRAMENTO CALIF. Aug., 16.,
(/P)—Clara Phillips, “hammer mur
eress” is asking a parole from San
I Quentin prison, the state prison
board’s August calendar shows.
WORLD TOUR
PORTLAND OREGON Aug., 16.,
(JP) — Jack Dempsey and his man
ager Sacks, are talking about a
world tour for the ex-champion.
In a statement Sacks said they had
received offers for exhibition tours
in Australia, Japan, Hawaii, France,
Germany and England.
TONS OF ASPIRIN
CHICAGO Aug., 16. UP)— Police
with the worst headache on record, i
would like to find the gentleman
who stole three tons aspirin from
the Gibrey warehouse today.
NEAR VICTIM KNIFE
WEILDER RECOVERING
FROM KNIFE WOUNDS
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug.
16.—William Rider Babcock, who
was wounded by the same savage
ly wielded butcher knife that hack
ed his wife Lillian to death on July
26, is able to talk for the first time
since he awoke to grappel with the
assailant, who stole into his bed
room in Los Angeles.
The wealthy Manila importer dis
cussed the fatal stabbing and the
youth who is alleged to have con
fessed it, his nephew, George Tem
pleton Douglas, Jr. Of the nephew
he said: “I have forgiven him
for the attack on myself, but upon
my wife, no.”
BONUS SEEKER SLAYER
WASHINGTON Aug., 16. (/P) —
Capital police were concentrated
in a manhunt for the slayer of pat
rolman Shinault, who killed Will
iam J. Hushka, Chicago war vet
eran, in the bonus army riots of
July 28. Shinault was slain by a
negro as he appeared at a house
where a fight had been reported.
The shooting occured just a few
blocks from the scene of the bonus
clash. Police expressed the theory
that the shooting was for revenge
for the slaying of Hushka; four
negros were held as witnesses. The
hunted man had no connection with
the bonus army.
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 16.—Speak
er of the House, John Nance Gar
ner, running mate of Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic
presidential candidate, may carry
the brunt of the speaking in their
campaign, it has been learned.
Friends of Roosevelt pointed cut
that the Governor regarded the
trips he is scheduled to make in the
light of informative ones and not
purely campaigning.
TRANSFER ACTIVITIES
WASHINGTON. D. C., Aug., 16, -
The Department of Justice will
economize this year by transfer
ring to the states as many of its
law enforcement duties as it can.
It will not, however, relax its ef
forts to enforce the Volstead act.
CUBA RAISING TAXES
HAVANA, Aug- 16.—Determined
to balance the 1932-33 budget Con
gress is enacting a series of tax
measures affecting practically ev
ery commodity sold on the island.
Imported goods will be particularly
affected.
CONTINUES FLIGHT
BURBANK CALIFORNIA Aug.,
16. (TP) — An airplane flight from
Newark N. J. to Mexico City and
Los Angeles was completed by Rob
ert Buck, youthful New York flier,
when he brought his plane down
at United Airport here. Buck in
tends to enter the air derby at the
Cleveland air races. The last stage
of his flight was from Yuma Ari
zona.
BASEBALL SCORES
PACIFIC COAST
San Francisco 7-2, Portland 4-1.
Oakland 5-6, Los Angeles 2-0.
Sacramento 5-6, Missions 4-4.
Hollywood 11-5, Seattle 1-4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 2-4, New York 1-8
St. Louis 2-2, Chicago 0-1.
The last game was 10 innings.
Cincinnati 3-9, Boston 1-3.
No others scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 5, Washington 4.
Detroit 2, Cleveland 0.
St. Louis 5-9, Chicago 0-5.
Phillies 6-0, Boston 1-2.
SOMEWHAT IMPROVED
CHICAGO, Aug., 16, —Mrs. Edith
Rockefeller McCormack, critically
ill, was reported somewhat im
proved Monday night after having
responded to treatments. Her con
dition was reported still grave,
however.
ENRAGED APE INVADED
CHASED SOCIETY FDLK
CANNES, France, Aug., 16, —An
enraged ape set out to “do” the
Riviera and invaded the fashion
able tennis courts, introducing him
self to international society with
a set of sharp and flashing teeth
and an arm of prodigious strength.
Before the flurried society folk
with the aid of Cannes puffing fire
department had turned the animal
up, he had bitten or scratched a
number of those bearing the names
famous on both sides of the Atlan
tic. Among those slightly injured
were the much-married Peggy
Joyce, Rosie Dolly, of the famous
dancing twins; Princess Sherbatoff.
The ape broke away from a gyp
sy camp near Cannes and shuf
fled along onto the courts while a
tournamnt was on. The stands
didn’t know how to take his en
trance but the players did.
They dropped raquets and balls
in flight. These, the much amused
ape picked up and threw at the
stands. He also threw a couple of
water bottles for good measure.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE
FMED IN BIS POLL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 16.—
The first straws in the wind of the
1932 campaign as revealed by the
nation-wide presidential poll of the
San Francisco Examiner in co-op
eration with all Hearst morning,
evening and Sunday papers in the
United States, are blowing in the
direction of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
With scattered returns on hand
and canvassed from all the 48
States the Democratic nominee
starts off with a 63 per cent to 37
per cent advantage over his Re
publican opponent.
INTOXICATED DRIVER
CHASED TWO BOYS
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16.—Two
intoxicated motorists pursued two
small boys on a bicycle and forced
them to ride headlong over a 50
foot cliff.
Peter Albi, aged 9 years, the least
injured of the boys, ran two miles
to Olympic village, heedless of his
own fractured arm, to bring aid to
his companion, Thomas King, aged
12, who lay at the foot of the pre- j
cipice.
SCENE OF COSTLY FI
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 16.—Sev
en firemen were injured and a
$200,000 lumber ship destroyed in
a spectacular blaze and series of
explosions in the Oakland estuary.
The motorship Lassen, owned by
Capt. William Peterson of Oakland
was burned. It required two alarms
and the San Francisco fireboat,
Dennis T. Sullivan, and the South
ern Pacific fireboat Ajax, to ex
tinguish the flames and exploding
fuel.
SEAPLANE OVERTURNS
BEIRUT, Syria, Aug. 16.—An air
mail seaplane, flying between Mar
seilles and Syria overturned in a
rough sea off Beirut when it was
brought down.
VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE
ATHENS, Aug., 16, —A violent
earthquake rocked Central Greece
early Monay. First reports said a
number of houses collapsed, but no
casualities were reported.
STRONG POSSIBILITY
OF MODIFICATION AT
DECEMBER SESSION
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug., 16, —
The importance of the Congress
ional contests in this general elec
tion Is becoming more evient in
the prohibition fight as Wets and
Drys argue the immediate liquor
question, modification of the Vol
stead act.
Republicans have always formed
a large part of the socalled beer
bloc in both the Senate and House.
Candidates no wrunning for Con
gress are pledged in their party’s
platform for immediate modifica
tion of the law enforcing the 18th
amendment and from that side,
particularly the new Wet strength
is expected to come.
The Hoover position on modifi
cation is not definitely known, be
cause he shunned this pr
question in his acceptance speech.
But Governor Franklin Roose
velt has said he will recommend
modification to the next Congress
which comes into being March 4,
provided he is elected in November.
There is now a stronger possibil
ity that modification may be ac
complished at the short December
session of this Congress, because
of the growing interest in it, and
demand for it.
JIMMf WALKER MUST
EXPLAIN $1,11,900
UNEXPLAINED REVENUE
ALBANY, N. Y„ Aug., 16, —May
or James J. Walker, is “a sick
man,” according to his physicians,
resumed his defense against charg
es involving unexplained revenue
of nearly $1,000,000 traced to the
records of Russell T. Sherwood, his
reputed financial secretary.
John J. Curtin, the mayor’s at
torney, hinted he might act to halt
the hearing by obtaining an in
junction if Governor Roosevelt
does net change the form of pro
cedure to meet Walker’s demands.
Gov. Roosevelt began calling
witnesses to substantiate testimo
ny against Walker. The Governor
first summoned Walter R. Herrick,
former New York park commis
sioner, to corroborate his previous
evidence against the mayor.
NAVY SHIPS WILL BE
KEPT PACIFIC WATERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 16.—
The belief was general in the Navy
Department circle that ships of the
United States scouting fleet which
have been stationed in the Pacific
area since March, would remain
on the west coast until the end of
March, 1933.
Admiral William V- Pratt, chief
of naval operations, twice post
poned the departure of the units
of the scouting force for their
home ports in the Atlantic.
DEPRESSION VICTORY
DEPORTED IN SIGHT
LAWRENCE, Mass., Aug., 15, —
Declaring that victory against de
pression “already is in sight,” As
sistant Secretary of War Freder
ick H. Payne appealed to the
American Legion to support the
Administration’s recovery program.
Payne spoke before the Massa
chusetts branch of the Legion in
convention here. He said:
“Various groups throughout the
United States are being stampeded
to support various ill-considered
proposals because they bear the
label of relief legislation. In spite
of pressure the Legion stands firm
against any radical departure from
our ideals and institutions."