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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 35.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1932.
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SETTLEMENT
SHANGHAI. Feb. U. (/P)—A four
hour truce to permit f reign non
combatants to get out. of Chapel
v.;v. . d for by a French priest
rear i ,f gu ;;ot £i.S the CiimCSC
N.aiu force5 continued to
dig in Hr a predicted forthcoming
major engagement.
Thirty foreigners, bearing white
iiags will go into the Chinese city
to remove wounded women and
children who are trapped in shell
tom buildings. This four-hour truce
will be the first cessation of hos
tilities since the battle in that sec
tor started.
United States soldiers have
moved into the International Sct
f tlement to take up a defense of the
American lives and property there.
Sporadic outbursts of shellfire,
both machine gun and heavy artil
lery, occurred in both the Chapei
and Woosung battle areas.
Fresh fires have been started on
buildings near the International
#. Settlement by the Japanese
A score of United States Marines
were endangered when a bomb
wrecked a cotton mill in which they
were billeted. No Marines were
injured but five Chinese women
and children were killed.
Admiral Shimada, in charge of
the Japanese offensive in the area
where the mill bombing occurred
apologized to the United States
forces, saying that the bombing
was a mistake. He said that the
bombs were accidently dropped
when a faulty bomb release on one
of the Japanese planes snapped
open as it flewr over the mill.
TO EVACUATE AMERICANS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11.
(/P)__The War Department has or
dered one more cruiser and two
more destroyers to proceed to
r Shanghai and has given out a
requisition order for American mer
chant vessels in the Shanghai area
to take away xAmericans from the
International Settlement before
that place becomes a battle ground.
PRESENT DEFENSE OF
HIM 51 TO 9E
I NOTIONAL DISGRACE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11.
(#>)—Declaring the present defense j
of America is not only a crime, I
but a national disgrace, the na-1
tional defense committee of the j
American Legion sent to President<
Hoover a resolution demanding!
the Navy be built up to the London
Treaty limits and the Army in
creased to 14,000 officers and 165,
000 enlisted men.
It said: “The so-called hand of
economy has placed its fingers
upon the throat of our Army and
Navy and is slowly strangling them
to death. An examination of the
condition as it actually exists will
convince any mind that the secur
ity pledged the American people
by our national defense act exists
only upon paper and in the hearts
of our people.”
NUMBER OF REVOCATIONS
SACRAMENTO. Feb. 11. (IP) —
Driving while drunk caused the
revocation of 779 automobile driv
ers’ licenses in 1931, out of a total
of 1.775 such penalties inflicted, ac
cording to figures issued here by
E. Raymond Cato, director of the j
California Highway Patrol.
CHICAGOAN DIES
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 11. (/P)—Henry
Ward, 97 years of age, and the first
white child born in Chicago, died
here Wednesday night. j
PLANES LEAVE HONGKONG
HONGKONG, Feb. 11. (TP)—Nine
Chinese airplanes left here Wed
nesday to join the Chinese defens
ive forces at Shanghai. Hongkong
Chinese subscribed funds liberally
for refugee relief and war purposes.
Reinforcements for the Shanghai
troops from the Kwangsi province
have reached Hunan.
PREDICTS ANOTHER GRF »T WAR
INLFSS NATIONS ARE
DISARMED
GENEVA, Feb. 11. i.V -Predicting
another world war of “unprece
dented devastation,” Maxim Litvi
noff, Soviet Foreign Commissar,
asked for absolute disarmament as
the only valid security against war.
He said that he knew that any
plan calling for absolute disarming
of the nations would not be ac
cepted so he offered an alternative
progressive propositional disarma
ment plan. The Soviet Commissar
rejected the proposal made by the
French for an international police
body under the supervision of the
League of Nations. He said that
| there was no guarantee that these
police wmuld be used to defend the
weaker nations.
Litvinoff was cheered as he
mounted to the rostrum to address
I the disarmament delegate and
when he left his speech had influ
! enced the delegates so much that
! they considered it would do much
1 to increase the possibility of suc
i cess for the conference.
CHINESE OUTNUMBER
JIP SOLDIERS 8 T01
SHANGHAI. Feb- 11. iJP) — Ten
thousand Japanese marines, sol
diers and sailors, outnumbered by
more than three to one by Chinese
have swept into fierce and bitter
warfare along the 16-mile Shang
hai-Woosung front in a stern drive
to capture the ruins of the Woo
sung forts and drive the Chinese
out of Chapei, now a blazing char
nel house.
The resounding boom of Japan
ese naval guns, whaling away at
the reduced forts from the Yangtze
and Whangpoo Rivers, echoed in j
the ears of 3.000 fresh soldiers
from Tokyo, holding the line along
Woosung Creek and facing the de
pleted Chinese fort garrison on the
other bank.
CREW SAILS
NEW YORK, Feb. 11. (>P) — The
: crew of the Dornier DO-X sailed
i from New York today enroute to
Berlin where they go to arrange
for a transoceanic flight to be made
by the giant ship of the skies. It
is said that the transoceanic hop
will be attempted some time in
May.
HOOVER SENDS NOMINATION
WASHINGTON. D. C., Feb. 11.
(/P)—President Hoover sent to the
Senate the nomination of Ogden L
Mills, of New York, to be Secretary
of the Treasury and Arthur A. Bal
lantine, of New York, to be under
secretary of the Treasury.
CONFIRMS RUMORS
DETROIT, Feb. 11. (/P) — Henry J
Ford confirmed rumors that he is;
planning to bring out an improved
four and a new eight-cylinder car'
probably in March. The new car,
in which an eight or a four cylin
der motor will be installed, will be
longer, lower and heavier.
KENTUCKY BATTLEFRONT
JACKSON, Ky., Feb. 11. (JP)—One I
moonshiner was killed near here
when five distillers put up a hard ■
battle "with a number of Federal
officials.
A speech which has been termed ;
a Nevada classic was delivered on j
September 29. 1909, in Tonopah, by
Judge J. A. Sanders, new Justice
of the Nevada Supreme Court. This j
speech, preserved in the files of
the Tonopah Bonanza and re pub-'
lished recently in the Timcs-Bo-,
r.anza, is reproduced here:
“Mr. Chairman:—It is net pos- ;
sible to do justice to a subject cov
ering so vast a territory as “The j
Prospector,’’ in the space allotted i
me on this program. I know not j
how much of the western hemis- j
phere he has prospected, but we |
; all know that he has staked the j
whole State of Nevada. I shall, j
| therefore, ,with your permission
| will say a few words of praise for
| a friend, one whose grubstakes I
| have furnished, whose disappoint
i ments I have shared, whose legal
battles I have fought, whose booze:
j I have drunk and whose mulli
j gans I have eaten,
i “Of the numerous and varied
I characters who infest this desert
; land, the word painter has yet fail
ed to picture the prospector. They
are two kinds, male and female,
though they never hook up togeth
er nor go in pairs. The male con
tends that the female cannot keep
the secret of discovery long enough
to stake the ground; the female
' contends that the male always
freezes her out of the good and
leaves her the wildcats. Untutored
1 in the sciences of mineralogy and
geology, in his wanderings over
these brown tinted peaks he pre
fers the help and companionship
of an uneducated to a graduate of
a school of mines or a high book
expert.
“Endowed with slow but tireless
energy and perseverance, imbued
with an abiding faith in his possi
bilities, filled with dauntless hope
and undaunted courage, he stands
alone on this desert as the pedes
! tal of our greatest industry and as
a discoverer of nature’s wealth. Dr.
Cook and his Eskimos are not in
it with the prospector and his bur
ros.
“The call of the west is for de
velopment. The mother lode of ’49
has been traced by prospectors
from Alaska to Mexico and its a
ipex covers the Pacific Slopes. The
! cry of the pioneer is no longer for
j help but is a demand on predatory
wealth for gold and silver to sat
isfy the wants of a restless people,
but with this great question the
prospector has nothing to do. He
has blown in his, and is on his way.
God only knows where, to discover
another mine.
“His path is the vanguard of pro- !
gress and his lonely trail is the
great broad way to our nation’s
wealth; his discoveries keep in mo
tion the wheels of industry; lie has
blazed the way for railroads and
his weary tread is the forerunner j
of trusts. Trusts breed millionaires, j
millionaires beget duchesses, duch
esses produce divorce suits and di- j
vorce suits make Reno the mecca
for the broken hearts of America.
"While his life is a lonely one,
it has its social side and in it there
is a trace of sentiment, but it is
only when he has made a sale and
becomes "soused” that these ele
ments become conspicuous. With
an unlimited capacity for booze, he
is a prince of a good fellow. The
hangars-on extend to him the glad
hand- He plays faro with a confi
dence that none other than a rich
prospector could inspire, standing
before the green cloth fringed with
I pyramids of effervescent wealth, he
'sees his last speciment succumb to
! the nimble touch of the • dealer.
Disconsolate but not discouraged,
staggering in the stillness of the
night, sounds of sweet music lure
him to a place where all is glee,
all merriment, all is happiness.
There he fancies he has met his
first and only love on the floor of
a dance hall. In dancing her
declining years away in the sma’
hours she gives one loving kiss and
a last embrace and gently lays him
on the floor to pleasant dreams, on
ly to awake flat broke, drunk, and
longing for a grubstake for break
fast.
"But such is life in a mining
camp. Were I a “bull’ in a mining
camp; I would never pull a pros
pector; were I a dispenser of local
justice I would never tag him a
vag nor give him a floater, be
cause if he can only survive his
I jag he will wander back to his
| know not the hour when we may
j not the day nor the hour we may
1 hear of a strike that will raise
mining stocks from the mire and
quicksands of frenzied finance and
cause them to soar until they have
reached the dizzy heights of rail
road securities.
“Though historians have dedi
cated to him no page in history,
though his achievements are not
written in story or woven in song,
but, when the true story of this
western country is read by its pos
terity in the future, our children’s
children will call him blessed; tho
no high pointing shaft today marks
his last resting place, his epitaph
is written by nature’s jeweled pen
in the industries of our common
country.”
FORMER PERU PRESIDENT
GIVER SIMPLE FUNERAL
CALLAO, Peru, Feb. 11. uP)—For
mer President Augusto B. Leguia,
who died under guard in the Naval
Hospital here last Saturday after
ruling Peru for 11 years, was buried
Sunday with simple ceremonies.
His family refused the offer of!
the government to pay official'
honors, because the government is!
made up largely of men who helped j
overthrow Leguia in the 1932 revo- j
lution.
Leguia’s will mentions that his
income once was $80,000 annually,
then declares only remaining pos
sessions are life insurance policy {
and a few medals.
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TALKIES AIDING EDUCATION
NEW YORK, Feb. 11. (£>)—The
effectiveness of talking pictures as
an aid to education will be tested
on a wide scale in a number of
public schools in the East starting
this month. The tests, which will
involve 2,538 pupils and 64 teach- 1
ers, will continue eight weeks, an i
announcement by the Western!
Electric Company said.
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* “AW, NERTZ”
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* CHICAGO, m.f Feb. 11. (JP)— *
* Herman Nertz has had his *
* telephone disconnected. Why, *
* Mr. Nertz? *
* “Well,” explained Herman, *
* “the dern thing made life un- *
* bearable. Some joker found my *
* name on the heading of page *
* 948 of the phone book, another *
* broadcast the story on the ra- *
* dio and then my troubles be- * j
* gan.” * ]
* “People kept calling me up * j
* at all hours of the day and *
* night,” he said, “saying, ‘Hello, *
* who’s this?’ I’d say, ‘Nertz,’ *
* and then they’d say, ‘Aw, *
* Nertz yourself’ and hang up.” * |
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MYSTERY PLANE
BALTIMORE, Feb. 11. (JP)—De- j
veloping a speed of more than 200
miles an hour, the heralded mys- j
tery plane of the bombing type, j
constructed to carry a crew of
three men and developed at a cost |
of more than $200,000, will be de
livered to the United States Army !
by officials of the Glenn Martin j
Company. 1
ENROUTE TO ARCTIC
PRINCE GEORGE, B. C., Feb- 11.
(TP)—William Graham and Mrs.
Edna Christofferson arrived here
Wednesday afternoon at 4:50 after
having left Orovilie at 11:20 a. m.,
' enroute to the Arctic to salvage
the Baychimo’s furs. Weather per
mitting, they will continue north
ward on their journey Thursday.
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| SHANGHAI, Feb. 11. — Sir
John Hcpe Simpson, director of the
National Food Relief Commission,'
| filed charges with the Japanese j
j Consul that Japanese bombers had !
j killed 51 men, women and children |
i who were flood refugees in a camp
i at Chapei this week.
I The protest reached the Japan
ese about the same time that the
! bombs were dropped on the Amer
ican billet in which were housed
'a score of U. S. Marines.
Sir Simpson contended that the
bomhing of ithe refugees in the
camp was unnecessary and without
military advantage. He further said
that the Japanese made two raids
and said that the “bombing was
worse than a crime; it is a folly.”
APPOINTMENT CONFIRMED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11.
(A3)—The Senate Wednesday con
firmed the appointment of Ogden
j L. Mills to be Treasurer of the
United States, succeeding Andrew
W. Mellon, who recently accepted
the post of Ambassador to England.
The appointment of Arthur A. Val
entine to be under-Secretary to
Mr. Mills was also approved.
I WASHINGTON, D. C.. Feb. 11.
■ (jP) — New proposals to halt the
Sino-Japanese fighting at Shang
hai are not barred by the State
Department’s new “waiting policy,”
it is learned.
Waiting is necessary because no
one here yet knows how many sol
diers Japan will send to China or
what use she will make of them
aside from fighting at Shanghai.
If administration officials decide
j further proposals will be fruitful,
: they will be made in cooperation
with other world powers. Previous
; proposals were rejected by Japan
Hast week.
VISITED POPE
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 11. </P)—
Premier Mussolini visited with the
Pope and was closeted for fully an
hour with the church head. This
was the Premier’s first visit to the
Pope since the Lateran Treaty was
signed three years ago. Altho both
men are from Milan this was their
first meeting and the Premier
I emerged from the conference smil- j
! ing and went to St. Peters church !
i where he knelt in prayer.
CHICAGO, Feb. 11. (^ — Argu
ments on A1 Capone’s appeal from
conviction and a sentence of 11
years imprisonment for income tax
evasion will be heard by the U. S.
Court of Appeals.
Defense attorneys will base their I
arguments on technicalities. Thej
higher court is not expected to
reach a decsion before two weeks.
Since his conviction last October
the former underworld gang chief
tain has been a prisoner in the
Cook County jail.
22,009 MORE NIPPONESE TROOPS
SAFI) TO BE READY FOR
COMBAT
SHANGHAI, Feb- 11. (/P)— Swift
and methodical preparations were
going on behind the Japanese lines
and it appeared that they were
planning an early attempt to blast
the Chinese military forces from
Shanghai sectors.
Field guns and heavy artillery
| were brought up from the rear by
| the Japanese and placed in position
for raining a heavy barrage on the
I Chinese defenders when the Jap
anese start forcing the battle.
The Japanese troops in the
trenches are all said to be nearly
fresh soldiers and it is also said
that there are 22.000 more Japan
ese soldiers available at Shanghai
; for immediate landing.
The Chinese, in yesterday’s bat
tling, found the range of the Jap
anese headquarters and dropped a
number of shells near that place.
However, it appears that the Chin
ese are conserving their ammuni
tion for an expected “push” by the
Japanese.
The Japanese leveled some more
! Chinese buildings by dropping
bombs. As a result a number of
; new fires made their appearance
j on the Shangdai skyline.
INCREASE DUTY
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 11. UP)—'The
Swedish government has made the
announcement that they intend to
increase the duty on American im
ported cars from 15 per cent to 30
per cent.
33RD ANNIVERSARY
| WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 11.
1 (A5)—Wednesday marked the 33rd
j anniversary of the wedding of
i President and Mrs. Herbert Hoo
i ver. Mrs. Hoover excused the exe
| cutive from giving special atten
tion, to the anniversary because he
was busy with his White House
duties.
PROHIBmOR HAS GOST
UNITED STATES PEOPLE
NEAT SUM SINCE 192Q
| WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11.
(/P)—The loss of Federal revenues
| from January, 1920, to July, 1931,
jwas estimated at $10,984,000,000 by
| the Association Against the Pro
; hibition Amendment, in urging
• Congress to submit the question of
I repealing the 18th Amendment to
! the people.
I The statement, issued by Henry
i!H. Curran, president of the asso
ciation, also estimated the cost of
i enforcement over the period at
; $370,000,000 and the national drink
bill at $28,414,949,600.
i In a letter to members of Con
gress, Curran said: “I am confident
! that, in the light of the totals of
‘this 12-year bill, you will be better
' able to form an opinion as to
whether or not the people opposing
National prohibition are justified in
| the contention that they have paid
i enough.”
ATTACKED BY LEOPARD
! HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 11. (/P)—Bar
! bara Weeks, film actress here, was
j attacked by a leopard Wednesday
during the filming of a scene which
was to show the tiger. Jack Mul
hall dragged the leopard off Miss
Weeks who suffered several cuts
and leg wounds.
LEAVE IN MARCH
! PASADENA. Calif., Feb. 11. (£>)—
i Albert Einstein, world known scien
tist, and Mrs. Einstein have an
nounced their plan of sailing on
; March 4 for their home in Ger
many. They said they would gd
ivia the Panama Canal.
Washington Bicentennial Dance Saturday February 20