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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 138.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SUHF1CE BUT BELOW,
IS MB STORK
CHICAGO, June 14, (£>)—In an
orderly and almost solemn mood
the Republican Convention began
as calm and harmonious on the
surface as it was divided and dis
turbed beneath.
It paid a quiet and dignified
tribute to the flag, then transact
ed, without a hitch, the formali
ties of getting its committees to
work, then sat waiting patiently
for the temporary chairman, Sen
ator L. W. Dickinson, to conclude
a long keynote speech which was
cheered but little.
Senator Dickinson called for the
reelection of President Hoover as
the dependable means toward res
toration of normal conditions. He
rapped the Democrats then re
viewed the steps taken against
the “depression on a hundred
fronts,” but steered clear of the
thorny prohibition issue.
The real convention work begins
late today in the committees as
the platform makers begin to
wrestle with prohibition. It hopes
to have that finished by tomor
row night, renominate Hoover on
Thursday and be enroute home
Friday.
The convention, as assembled,
heard that Hoover was still con
sidering a compromise o n pro
posing resubmission; it also heard
rumblings against the renomina
tion of Chas. Curtis and a real
boom seemed in progress for C.
Dawes. Some still think he would
get it and would accept
Senator Dickinson talked to the
restless delegates and a half-fill
ed gallery about almost everything
but prohibition- The passive faces
of the delegates testified to the
fact they were pre-occupied with
other things than party principals.
FEVERISH ACTIVITY
CHICAGO. June 14. (/P>—Work- 1
ing against time the administration
forces frantically hewed the pro
hibition resubmission plank into
final form with the wavering hope'
it will lead the Republican party
safely past the threat of the most1;
tumultous platform battle of the
century.
Party leaders are awaiting the
unequivocal approval by President
Hoover of resubmission of declara
tion before going into action
against a repeal campaign of un
determined proportions. The ad
ministration proposal s a n c t ions
resubmission with a call to Con
gress to provide support for the
amendment, guarding the wishes
of those States desiring to remain
dry.
The presumption was that the
plank will be acceptable to Hoover.
Several of his cabinet members
were in an all-night conference
drafting it.
SCW HIS
FOUND FEE! HIND
NEW YORK, June 14. — Max
Schmeling has discovered his left
hand.
Max had a pretty good left last
year, but he used it most at short
range, with a hook. Now he is back
from Germany with a really educat
ed left, and Jacobs says that left is
going to cause Sharkey a lot of
grief.
Max has been using the left on
h i s sparring partners. They are
short bouts and each sparring part
ner retires to the showers with a
bloody nose and perchance, puffing
eyes or two. This fills Jacobs and
McCarney with joy.
ITALY TAKES LEAD
MONT CRUX, Switzerland, June
14. — Italy gained a 2 to 1 lead
over Switzerland in the Davis cup
tennis series by winning the doub
les today.
DAWES IS OUT
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14, (/P)
—Chas- Dawes said he is not a can
didate for the vice presidency and
told friends attending the G. O. P.
convention not to embarrass him
by placing his name in nomina
tion. In Chicago, the news made
delegates certain Curtis will con
tinue as the running mate of Pres
ident Hoover.
GOTNBjir
FOUND GUILTY ON
URGENT COWES
WASHINGTON, June 14- — Gas
ton B. Means, former special in
vestigator of the Department of
Justice, was found guilty Monday
night by a jury of 11 men and one
woman on two charges of larceny
growing out of receipt of $104,000
from Mrs. Evalyn McLean, Wash
ington society woman, in connec
tion with the Lindbergh baby kid
napping case.
Mrs. McLean paid the money to
Means after he had made a fan
! tastic offer to return the Lindbergh
baby to its parents if he were given
that amount of money.
The jury deliberated for a per
iod of about two hours.
The verdicts carry a penalty of
10 years in prison.
Means was remanded to jail
without bond, pending action on
i his appeal. He was in the court
room but made no statement when
the verdict was returned.
IRELAND ELIMINATED
BERLIN June, 14. — Germany
eliminated Ireland from further
Davis cup tennis play in their
series just concluded, 4 to 1.
THIRD PARTY THREAT
CHICAGO, June 14, (/P)—The
threat of the Wets to put a third
party in the field with A1 Smith
as candidate, was sounded at an
anti-prohibition rally by Raymond
Pitcairn, Philadelphia member of
the United Repeal Council.
SOLUTION ARRIVED
AT FOR SETTLEMENT
PARIS, June 14. —Premiers Her
riot of France and MacDonald of j
Great Britain announced they had
arrived at “the basis of a common
viewpoint”, which they hoped
would permit a satisfactory solu
tion s of war debts, reparations,
and other problems to be gone over
at Lausanne Thursday.
Except for a brief communique
to that effect, the details of the
understanding were held in the
deepest secrecy, but one newspa
per, Le Matin, said Premier Her
riot had been convinced with Mac
Donald, that it was imperative to
end the financial obligations of the
war.
FIND ABANDONED SEINER
SAN PEDRO, Calif., June 14. —
A message was intercepted by Mac
kay radio from the vessel Reliance
reporting the discovery of an ab
andoned purse seiner beached at
San Ropue island, 400 miles south
of San Diego. The Reliance said
it found no signs of life aboard the
seiner and circled the island in
search of survivors. The ship’s
small boat was missing.
STEEFIEGHASE RECORD
SMASHED, LEUD
NEW YORK, June 14. —Lieut.
George Lermond, former Boston
college and army star, smashed the
American record for the 3,000 met
ers steeplechase as the last five
events of the senior track and
field championships of the metro
politan Athletic Association were
run off here.
Lermond was clocked at 9 23 and
4-5 for the distance to win by 25
yards from Walter Pritchard, of
Hamlton college, with Ensign F.
E. Highley, of the Navy, third.
ELABORATE HI-JACKING
PLOT FOILED BY A
STRING ALARM, FLOOR
SAN FRANCISCO, June 14. —
Authorities were delving feverish
ly into one of the most elaborate
hi-jacking plots in local history. A
plot which, if successful, would
have removed more than $100,000
worth of high grade liquors from
a United States bonded warehouse.
A slender piece of string, stretch
ed across the floor of the plant,
frustrated the plot at the exact
moment when the hi-jackers had
completed their extensive prepara
tions and were about ready to be
gin operations.
The string tripped a burglar that
brought a horde of police, prohibi
tion agents and private detectives
swarming into the place
Apparantly aware that their
careful planning had been over
thrown, the hi-jackers fled in such
haste that they abandoned trucks
and equipment valued at approx
imately $35,000.
A portable lighting system was
installed throughout the four-story
building; a field telephone system
was plugged in and stretched from
the tr u c k s on the ground floor
through the elevator shaft to the
store of liquor on the fourth floor.
Hundreds of feet of construction
hose, connected to two centrifu
gal pumps, were strung beside the
telephone wires.
Then the hi-jackers were ready
to transfer more than 5,000 gal
lons of brandy from the casks
above to more than a hundred 50
gallon barrels on the trucks.
Before the pumps were set in
motion, a member of the gang in
advertantly set off the burglar
alarm, by striking a string which j
was stretched between the rows of
casks.
TO MARCH ON CAPITAL
SAN FRANCISCO, June 14. —
War veterans of San Francisco, led
by J. J. Hennessey are preparing
to mobilize a second San Francisco
division of the “bonus army’’ and
march on Washington. A first unit
is already at the national capital.
“We have 7 0 0 marchers already
signed,’’ Hennessy said, “We ex
ect to have 1,500.”
EASY VICTORY
FOREST HILLS, N. Y. June 14.— j
Scoring a ridiculously easy victory;
over Brazil’s best d o ubl e s pair,
the United States Davis cup team j
completed a two-day conquest of
the Brazilians and cleared the
final obstacle this side of the in
terzone finals.
RESCUE PASSENGERS
SHANGHAI, June 14. —Two Bri
tish destroyers Monday picked up
350 passengers from the Chinese
steamer Shengking, which went
aground on Chien Ming Island, in
the Yellow Sea, 15 miles off Wei
Hai Wei, on the Shan Tung penin
sula.
SEAPLANE HOSPITAL
PHILADELPHIA, June 14.—A large
coast guard seaplane turned into a
flying hospital, flew 45 miles out to
sea today, rescued two men who
were seriously injured in an ex
plosion aboard the standard oil
tanker Samuel Q. Brown, and
brought them to this city
TORNADO IN COLORADO
COLORADO SPRINGS, June 14.
—A tornado struck the residential
section of Colorado Springs late
Monday. Six houses were abolished
several persons were reported in
jured and numerous trees were up1
rooted. The funnel shaped clouds
just missed the business district.
SCORED CLEAN SWEEP
WIMBLETON, Eng., June 14, —
Great Britain’s hope to even the
Wightman cup score with the Unit
ed States suffered a rude jolt today
when the Americans, headed by
Mrs. Helen Wills Moody scored a
clean sweep in the opening days
three matches.
BUDDIES REJOICE
VICTORY, FIRST ROUND
WASHINGTON, June 14. —With
20,000 ragged, wet and muddy vet
erans here as living appeal for
their 4,000,000 buddies of the World
War, the House answered Monday,
by voting 226 to 175, to consider
the $400,000,000 cash bonus bill.
The dens of the bonus expedi
tionary forces encamped in the city
of shacks on the outskirts of the
city went mad with joy as the news
reached them that they had won
their first round of the battle that
brought many of them across the
continent.
While the majority of 51 by
which bonus advocates in the
House forced the bill to a direct
vote was impressive, it fell 12 4
short of the necessary two-thirds
to pass the measure over the ex
pected presidential veto.
HUH SUNKEN LB
YIELDS $411,111 BULLION
BREST, France, June 14.—The
stubborn hull of the sunken liner
Egypt, clinging to $5,000,000 in gold
and silver bullion these 10 years,
today yielded $45,000 to Genoese
divers. Fifteen livels and two
strong ships have been lost in the
two year quest for the metal by an
Italian salvaging crew.
Today’s haul apparently herald
ed ultimate victory. The Egypt
was sunk in a collision in 1922 at
a point 40 miles off Brest. Two
years ago the Italian salvage ship
Artiglio gave up an attempt to get
the bullion and turned to another
wreck in the harbor here.
THEY WANT CURTIS
CHICAGO, June 14, (/Pi—Self
removal of Chas- Dawes from the
vice presidential picture was made
by administration supporters who
are more confident that it will be
Hoover and Curtis again. The C.
Dawes announcement was un
known to the delegates before Tex
as and Iowa decided to support
him; quite strong sentiment is
prevalent among New Mexico del
egates for Hoover and other dele
gates and leaders let it be known
they wanted Curtis.
PISH FIGURES ARE GIVEN
BY BUREAU GF FISHERIES
Of the 2,476,163 pounds of hali
but on hand in cold storage hold
ings^ *4,747,617 pounds were still
on the Pacific coast, April 15, ac
cording to the bureau of fisheries
report. The five year average of
holdings are figured at 3,026,000
pounds. From March 15 to April
15 a total of 275,795 pounds were
frozen.
The total of frozen fish pro
ducts in cold storage was 26,095,417
for the previous year. In addition
was 13,157,354 pounds of cured her
ring and 2,946,074 pounds of mild
cured salmon. Holdings for both
herring and mild cured salmon are
greater for 1932, the totals for the
same date in 1931 being 11,397,111
pounds for cured herring and 2,130,
664 for mild cured salmon.
Holdings for salmon for the same
dates were as follows:
1931 1932
Chinook.108,365 421,734
Silver .658,077 556,329
Fall and Pink.549,550 527,860
Steelhead .685,046 227,291
All other.,...548,637 506,318
The Dominion of Canada’s re
port shows that there were 1,138,
706 pounds of halibut, 346,102
pounds of mackeral, 1,060,401
pounds of salmon, and 6,702,196
pounds of all other varieties of fish
on hand April 1, fresh frozen only.
CREATED UPROAR
STIFFKEY, England, June 14. —
The Rev. Harold F. Davidson, who
recently was tried in a consistory
court on charges of immorality,
created an uproar in his church to
night when he attempted to resume
his duties as rector of Stiffkey.
SOME BOOZE PARTY
SAN FRANCISCO, June 14. — A
burglar alarm today brought cap
ture to three men who were accus
ed of attempting to remove one
hundred thousand dollars worth of
liquor from a government bonded
warehouse.
INVESTIGATION IHILL BE
MADE INTO PROCEDURE
OF POLICE METHODS
ALPINE, N. J. June 14. —Reper
cussions, state and international,
rumbled in the distance Monday as
state police investigation into the
Lindbergh baby kidnapping and
murder reached an apparent dead
end and Gov. Harry Moore came
to the defense of the police hand
ling the case. *
An investigation into the police
tactics in the case was said to be
a virtual certainty by state Sena
tor Emerson Richards, republican
leader. He asserted the case has
been slaughtered to make a demo
cratic holiday.
Meanwhile, in London, labor
members of parliament, aroused by
the suicide of the English waitress,
Violet Sharpe, in the Morrow home
last week, signified an intention to
ask the British government to
make representations to the Unit
ed States government over the sui
cide.
Newspapers there expressed in
dignation against New Jersey po
lice, some accusing them of driv
ing the girl to commit suicide by
their insistent questioning.
COMPETENT NAVY
NEW YORK June 14 — A United
States Navy so competent that it
will command the respect of other
countries was recommended b y
William Howard Gardiner, pres
ident of the Navy League of the
United States. Gardiner, lives in
| New York, was re-elected president
■ at the annual meeting.
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MTMCTOR
DESCENDS FIDE-PIT
HILO, Hawaii, June 14. — R
Kunishi, short-statured Hilo con
tractor, placed a package of sand
wiches under his arm, stepped in
to a steel cage and nonchalently j
began the first descent into the !
maw of three-fire pit of Halemau- !
mau in an attempt to recover the
bodies of two young Islanders who
leaped to their death in the 1,200
foot hole. If he succeeds in bring
ing their bodies to the surface he
will receive $900, the price which
he contracted to undertake this
dangerous work.
JURORS SUBPOENAED
SAN FRANCISCO June 14. —
Grand jurors who returned mur
der indictments against public de- !
fender Frank J. Egan and two con- I
victs Verne Doran and Albert Tin
nin, were subpoenaed to ap
pear before Superior Judge Conlan
tomorrow. It was believed Vincent
Hallinan, attorney for Egan, would
question them. Hallinan indicated
he would ask dismissal of the in
dictments.
NEW YORK, June 14. —Burgoo
King, Kentucky derby and Preak
ness winner, probably will be with
drawn from the American derby,
to be run Saturday at Washington
Park in Chicago.
The three-year old son of “Bub
bling Over,’’ was injured in an ex
hibition gallop here. Pending the
final report of a veterinarian who
took X-ray pictures of the horse’s
leg the extent of the colt’s injuries
will not be determined. The owner
said that he had not yet been in
formed as to how serious the in
jury was.
G. 0. P. CONVENTION
STRAINS FOR WHITE
HOUSE GUIDANCE
CHICAGO, June 14. —A raucus
Republican Convention, straining
for White House guidance on the
prohibition and vice presidential
issue will open here today to re
nominate President Hoover to bat
tle with gusto over its liquor plank
and sing its best challenge to the
Democrats.
Still vying for prohibition for
first place in the quadrennial gos
sip race is talk of dropping the ven
erable Vice-President Charles Cur
tis. Talk that rises and falls as en
ergy ebbs and flows.
Monday, on the eve of the con
vention the administration group
was supplemented by the last con
tingent fresh from Washington
and suddenly busied itself t o
squelch several little upheavals
which the administration does not
like and try, if possible, to get the
feverish crowd of delegates in
hand.
They worked in two directions:
First. To check the anti-C u r t i s
movement which, despite talk of
White House disapproval, seems to
be gaining strength. Second: To
suppress the noisy uprising of the
repealists who gathered Monday
with flags flying about the tall and
am Hir n oo NShtnegdsna-amiBr
handsome Senator Hiram B i n g
ham, of Connecticut. He, the son
of a missionary, will be the repeal
champion in a floor fight that
promises to be a thriller.
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 14. —
President Hoover has been convert
ed to the idea of a plank in the
Republican platform submitting the
question of the Eighteenth amend
ment to a vote. of the people but
he is firmly opposed to a plank
recomending the repeal of prohibi
tion, it was learned.
The press was advised on unim
peachable authority in administra
tion circles that the president will
run for reelection on a resubmis
sion plank if one is adopted at Chi
cago.
The president feels however, it
is stated, that the fight now rests
between advocates of a repeal of
the amendment and those favoring
resubmission of the question.
TRIAL IN JULY
PARIS, June 14. —Paul Gorgou
luff, assassin of President Paul
Doumer, has been ordered to be
tried July 17 and 18, charged with
voluntary and premeditated homi
cide. A plea for further mental ex
amination was denied.
NEW INDICTMENTS
WGRINST CAPONE GANG
CHICAGO June 14. —New in
dictments charging conspiracy to
violate the prohibition laws are to
be sought shortly against A1 Capone
and about eighty members of his
syndicate, it was learned.
In the event of conviction, Cap
one may have another two years
added to the eleven years imprison
ment he is now serving. More than
four thousand pages of evidence
have been accumulated. Ralph Cap
one, Al’s brother, serving three
years for income tax fraud, i s
among these whose indictments
will be sought.
THEIR MONEY IS SAFE
SANTIAGO, Chile, June 14, (/P)—
The revolutionary Junta is com
plete again and new hope was ex
tended to foreign investors, includ
ing Americans, whose interests run
into hundreds of millions of dol
lars. Rolando Merino, minister of
the interior, was chosen by the re
maining members of the Junta to
fill the place of Carlo Davila who
resigned because of disagreements.