MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 113. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY. MAY 14,1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
PRESIDENT ORDERS FEDERAL
OFFICIALS NEVER TO
CEASE SEARCH
HOPEWELL. N. J., May 14.—Clues
to the identity of the kidnappers
and slayers of Charles A. Lind
bergh, Jr., were obtained by police
Friday from two men who led ne
gotiations for the baby’s recovery
during the time he was believed to
be alive.
After a day of questioning, it de
veloped both Dr. John Condon of
New York and John Curtis of Nor
folk, Va., had been in touch with
either the murderers or their per
sonal agents and New Jersey police
were prosecuting a manhunt with
the hope of apprehending the
criminals.
Doctor Condon is known to have
been face to face with the agent
of the kidnappers when he paid
$50,000 in ransom money. Curtis
had lengthy negotiations with the
abductors or their agents of which
is considered important- Question
ing of Condon and Curtis was
kept secret.
All the might of the Federal gov
ernment was marshalled by Presi
dent Hoover for a campaign that
will endure until the murderers of
the baby are “implacably brought
to justice.”
Words of sympathy came from
all over the world for the parents
of the 21-months-old baby.
The kidnapping was discussed at
a cabinet meeting in Washington
and President Hoover issued this
statement: “I have directed law
enforcement agencies and several
secret services of the Federal gov
ernment to make the kidnapping
and murder of the Lindbergh baby
a live and never-to-be-forgotten
case: never to be relaxed until the
criminals are brought to justice.
The Federal government does not
have police authority in such cases
but its agencies will be unceasing
ly alert to assist the New Jersey
police in every way until this end
has been accomplished.”
Colonel Lindbergh went to Tren
ton to make identification of the
body at the undertaking parlor be
fore it was to be cremated at Lin
den later Friday. He bore the or
deal with great courage.
Mrs. Lindbergh did not accom
pany him. but she is reported to be
standing the strain bravely
BEER Hi INCOME
TIKES STM CENTER
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—
Beer and income taxes formed the
center of the controversy Friday
as the Senate settled down to what
promises to be a bitter fight over
the $1,000,000,000 revenue bill, de
signed to balance the budget.
As the first day of the debate
ended, Chairman Smoot, of the
Finance Committee, in charge of
the bill, announced the Senate
would meet at 11 a. m. every day
beginning Saturday and hold night
sessions in order to expedite the
measure.
A tax on beer was proposed by
Senator Tydings, Democrat of
Maryland.
12 HORSES RUN TODAY
BALTIMORE, May 14. —Twelve
horses have been named for the
$50,000 Pimlico Preakness race to
be run here today. The track is
reported to be heavy. By virtue of
his victory in the Kentucky Derby,
Edward Bradley’s “Burgoo King”
is expected to run as a favorite in
the betting.
FASCISTS SENTENCED
BERLIN, May 14.—Three Fascists
in the Reichstag were sentenced
to three months in prison Friday
on charges of assaulting a German
journalist. The attack occurred in
the Reichstag Thursday leading to
the tumultous break-up of a Par
liamentary session.
| MUST AVOID KURILES
j TOKYO, May 14. (£>)—'The Min
istry of Communications today
j granted permission to Harold
Bromley, who plans a flight from
I Seattle to Tokyo this month, to
land on Japanese soil but specified
that he must land between Sendai
and Mito or at the Haneda Inter
national Airport on the southern
outskirts of Tokyo. Bromley was
instructed to avoid the Kurile Is
lands.
DESPITE BIG MISTS
VANCOUVER, B. C., May 14.—
The problem of nude demonstra
tions by the Sons of Freedom, the
Doukhobors, is still puzzling the
provincial authorities here. A to
tal of 247 men and women have al
ready been sentenced to prison
terms ranging up to three years
for parading in the nude but the
others still refuse to don clothes
when parading.
Eighty-seven more were placed
under arrest Friday and in this
latest group were 52 women who
were sentenced for parading naked
at Thrums, B. C., last Sunday.
The provincial authorities have
yet to try 39 men and 48 women
who were arrested following a
march from Grand Forks, N. D.
A hunger strike is going on
among the imprisoned Doukhabors
and the authorities are at odds as
to what their proceedure shall be.
ATLANTIC FLYER IS
F
OFF IRELAND GO,1ST
ABOARD SS ROOSEVELT, Off
I the Coast of Ireland, May 14.—Am
1 crican Pilot Lou Reichers, flying
j from New York to Paris, was forced
down in the Atlantic Ocean Friday
afternoon and rescued by the SS
President Roosevelt 46 miles off
Fastnet, Ireland.
Reicher brought his monoplane
Liberty down on rough sea from
which he was sighted by Capt.
George Fried and Chief Officer
Harry Manning.
Reichers suffered a broken nose
and lacerations of the face in land
; ing.
Captain Fried swung the Presi
dent Roosevelt around when the
plane, one wing damaged and vir
. tually out of fuel, was seen. A boat
wras lowered and Reichers was res
cued but the plane was abandoned
on account of high seas,
j Reichers left New York Thursday
i night for Newfoundland for a
' trans-Atlantic flight to Paris.
niOII INSIRUCTOR
: DIES IN Pin CRUSH
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MODESTO, Calif., May 14.—John
Pennfield, Modesto aviator-instruc
tor, was killed here Friday when
he attempted to instruct a stud
ent in the correct method of bring
ing a plane out of a spin.
He was unable to take the plane
| out of the spin and at once told the
I student to bail out while he made
a final last effort to straighten
the ship out.
Both had parachutes on but
Pennfield did not attempt to jump
before the plane was but a few
hundred feet above the ground
and he was killed in the crash. The
student was safe.
STARTED SOMETHING
LANCASTER, Calif., May 14—
When James Kelly drove his auto
; into the rear quarters of a mule
he started something. The mule’s
owner had Kelly arrested when the
autoist refused to pay for injuring
the animal. Police then discover
ed Kelly was an escaped convict
and had been arrested eight times
before. He was driving a stolen
car.
PREMIER OF NEW
SOUTH WALES IS
KICKED |UT OFFICE
SYDNEY, Australia, May 14
Governor Sir Phillip Game Friday
dismissed J. T. Lang from the Pre
miership of New South Wales. The
decision was hailed with enthusi
asm by political foes of the Pre
mier.
B. S. Stevens succeeded Lang pro
visionally. Lang had been a stormy
figure in Australian politics for the
past year and the Premiership be
came of international importance
when he defaulted payments of
foreign debts of New South Wales.
The Australian government at
Canberra met the obligations and
seized New South Wales’ revenues
to regain funds expended.
Wednesday the political situa
tion reached a climax when the
police raided the headquarters of
the New Guard organization, num
bering 100,000 men, revealing a plot
to “march on Canberra” and cap
ture Prime Minister Joseph Lyons.
The New Guards were opposed
by the Lang regime.
PEIPING, China, May 14.—Fur
ther apprehension is expressed in
circles here over Japan’s intentions
toward China in the future. It w'as
said the other day that Japan was
merely withdrawing her troops
from Shanghai so that she could
strengthen her armed forces in
Manchuria but now it is intimated
that Japan intends to use high
pressure through her diplomatic
methods to achieve what her armed
forces in Shanghai could not ac
complish—the breaking down of
the Chinese boycott on Japanese
goods.
Observers here stated that Japan
has warned'the Chinese in an un
official way that if China does not
begin buying Japanese goods that
there may be another Shanghai
incident and possibly a third
Shanghai incident.
NAME AGAIN APPEARS
WASHINGTON, D. C-, May 14.—
The name of Owen D. Young has
reappeared as a Democratic Presi
dential possibility. He is favored
by some of the most influential
Eastern Democrats who are op
posed to Gov. Franklin D. Roose
velt as a candidate.
SOUGHT BY POLICE
LOS ANGELES, May 14.—Sought
by police on charges of kidnapping,
Firn Wood, 31, said to be a mem
ber of Aimee Semple MacPherson
Hutton’s organization, is believed
heading for Vallejo. A State-wide
broadcast for her arrest has been
issued.
AN OUT AND OUT LIE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—
Representative Britten, Republican
of Illinois, told the House that the
statement by Senator Glass on the
Senate floor, that Chicago bankers
hired some Congressmen to defeat
the branch banking legislation was
an out and out lie.
VIGOROUS DECLARATION
BERLIN, May 14.—A demand for
foreign governments to “end this
madness of political debts before
it is too late” was issued by Chan
cellor Bruening when he delivered
a vigorous declaration of Ger
many’s inability to resume repara
tions paments.
AMERICAN
St. Louis 4, Philadelphia 9.
Detroit 0, Washington 7.
Other games, bad weather.
NATIONAL
Boston 2, Chicago 3.
Brooklyn 5, Cincinnati 4.
Philadelphia 7, St. Louis 8.
New York at Pittsburgh, rain.
EXILED ALFONSO IS
HO IN FRINGE
MARSEILLES, France, May 14.—
A Spanish laborer attacked exiled
King Alfonso of Spain at a dock
here Friday and attempted to push
the former ruler into the ocean.
When the attempt failed, the la
borer struck Alfonso in the face,
cutting his cheek and tried to
choke him. “Alfonso needs a les
son,” the attacker, Gonzales Mas
sanares, shouted when he rushed
at the former monarch.
Alfonso, startled, quickly gained
composure and, with, the aid of his
son Juan, fought off the attacker.
Massanares was arrested. Alfonso
suffered a slight cut on his right
cheek; his face was scratched from
eye to jaw. Only a few persons
witnessed the attack.
“I could not bear to see Alfonso
travelling luxuriously while the
Spanish people are living in mis
ery,” Massanares told police when
arrested. He faces the maximum
of two years in prison after which
he will be subject to deportation.
Alfonso did not file a complaint
against Massanares.
MISSIES fflRHE FROM
ISLANDS ENROUTE EAST
'
SAN FRANCISCO, May 14.—Lt.
and Mrs. Thomas Massie showed
keen happiness on their return to
the mainland here on the SS Ma- I
lolo after a troublesome time in
Hawaii. They were reluctant to
discuss any phase of the Hawaiian
affair.
Lieutenant Massie has secured a
month’s furlough and it is his in
tention to go East with Mrs. Massie
to visit relatives residing there ;
Mrs. Granville Fortescue, mother
! of Mrs- Massie and a co-defendant
with the Naval officer in the “hon- j
• or slaying” case, who also arrived
! in San Francisco Friday, will also
i go East. It is understood that they
1 will fight for a full pardon.
IDES
SCHAAF WON BOUT
NEW YORK, May 14. — Ernie
Sehaaf, Boston heavyweight, won a
10-round decision over Jack Gross j
of Philadelphia Friday night.
* * * *
AMERICANS VICTORS
NEW ORLEANS, May 14—Amer
ica defeated Mexico in the Davis
Cup singles tennis matches here
Friday.
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CUBA DEFEATED
HAVANA, Cuba, May 14.—Aus
tralia defeated Cuba Friday in the
first two singles matches of the
second round of the North Amer
ican zone Davis Cup tennis.
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BUSINESS IMPROVES
TACOMA, Wash., May 14. —In
creased business in the match in
dustry has necessitated the local
factory to build a $10,000 addition
and employing 225 additional men.
* * * *
OMITTED DIVIDENDS
NEW YORK, May 14.—Directors
of the New York Central Railroad
omitted payment of dividends for
the first time since 1870.
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FEDERAL DEFICIT
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—
The Federal deficit stood at $2,
497,262,965, the Treasury Depart
ment announced. The total def
icit last year was only $903,000,000.
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LABOR DIRECTOR DIES
PARIS, May 14.—Albert Thomas,
55, director of the International
Labor Bureau and French states
man, died here of heart failure.
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PLOT TO CAPTURE PREMIER
SYDNEY, Australia, May 14.—A
plot* to stage a “march on Can
berra” to capture Premier Joseph
Lyons was disclosed by police who
raided the headquarters of the so
called “New Guard” organization.
CENTENNIAL OBSERVANCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.
(/P)—Touching the historic Alaska
Yukon Pacific Exposition key,
which is studded with pure Alaska
gold nuggets, President Hoover to
day opened a world-wide centen
nial celebration of the conception
of that ticking little instrument by
Samuel Morse. Morse began work
ing on the plan to use electric mag
netism in telegraphy in 1832, and
in 1835 he exhibited a workable
instrument.
HOOVER WARNS NATION
USING DRASTIC MEANS
TO BALANCE BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—
President Hoover warned the na
tion Friday night that the govern
ment intends using drastic means
to balance the budget and defend
ed the proposed unemployment re
lief program as an emergency
measure necessary to fight the de
pression.
In a statement, President Hoover J
said he had been conferring with
Senate and fiscal leaders on means
of establishing unity of action in
the general relief to restore public
confidence and added the “govern
ment would stay on the job” until
the task is done.
The President reiterated the im
perative and immediate step is to
balance the budget and said “when
our people recover from frozen con
fidence” the nation’s credit ma
chinery will function normally and
there will be no need to exercise
emergency powers already vested
in governmental agencies.
NEGOTMH MAT
TET PROVE TO BE
URENTON, N. J„ May 14.—
The futile negotiations which
were conducted by John H. Curtis
and Dr. J. F. Condon, the “Jafsie,'’
may yet prove to be one of the
most important phases in the quest
for the atrocious killers of the 21
months-old Lindbergh baby.
It wTas reliably reported Frday
that the two intermediaries had
compared notes on the persons
with whom they had conducted ne
gotiations and it was said they
found they had been dealing with
the same parties.
If this is the case, the quest for
the murder fiends will narrow
dcwn somewhat.' It is also hinted
that the persons with whom Curtis
and Condon have been conducting
their negotiators may also be the
actual killers.
It was reliably reported Friday
headquarters of the men with
whom Curtis and Condon had been
dealing had been revealed and
one official said he expected an
arrest to be made within three days
or sooner, in connection with the
case.
NATION'S PROBLEMS BE
DISCUSSED MEET FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 14.—
About 2,000 American business
leaders from both small and large
cities are enroute here to attend
the 20th annual meeting of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce which begins its session here
next Thursday.
Numerous American problems
will be discussed and the discus
sions will also include a prohibition
discussion. This will be the first
meeting that the members have
discussed the prohibition question.
Prohibition will be discussed in
the light as to how it effects gov
ernmental and national economies.
“BURGOO KING” MAY START
BELMONT PARK, N. Y., May 14.
—“Burgoo King” probably will
start in the “Preakness” at Pimlico
today. A final decision depends on
the Kentucky Derby winner’s work
out
COLONEL LINDBERGH TASTED
THE VERY DREGS OF
BITTERNESS
HOPEWELL, N. J., May 14. (JP)—
A baby’s ashes were placed in a
simple urn and rested in the cre
matory of the chapel, a solemn
symbol of human helplessness when
madmen roam free. They were
the ashes of the Lindbergh baby.
In her lonesome Sourland Hill
home, Mrs. Lindbergh lay ill after
more than two months of remark
able fortitude. Last night her phy
sician ordered her to bed. Colonel
Lindbergh is near exhaustion as he
has been long without sleep save
the tortured slumber of parents
who lived 72 days o nthe brink of
emotion.
Yesterday Lindbergh took the
baby’s ashes in a simple casket to
Rosehill cemetery at Linden. For
hours he tasted the very dregs of
bitterness when he looked on the
body of his baby to add his verifi
cation of previous identification.
It was as horrible an experience
as could come to any parent and
must have been the cause of the
illness of Mrs. Lindbergh who fol
lowed the recital, at her own in
sistence the details concerning the,
condition in which the body of her
baby was when found. These de
tails had been kept from her fear
ing the story was too much for her
to stand in her condition which,
however, is not serious.
The questioning of Condon and
Curtis satisfied the police their
negotiations were in good faith.
Each felt he had established ac
tual contact with the kidnappers
or bonafide representatives. Curtis
and two detectives were off today
on another mysterious journey in
quest of the men with whom he
had been r.egctiatng. Norfolk po
lice joined with other farf’ung
searchers in an intensified hunt
for the murderers.
FAIL TO MOOR AIRSHIP
SUNNYVALE, Calif-. May 14.—
An attempt to moor the dirigible
Akron failed Friday evening when
a sudden shift of wind swept the
huge craft upward, making it im
possible for the ground crew to
reach the ropes through the nose
of the dirigible.
SPIRITED DRIVE TO
STABILIZE CONFIDENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C-, May 14.
(£*)—Congress winds up this week
in a spirited drive to complete stab
ilizing confidence and breeding a
program of legislation in time for
final adjournment before the poli
tical conventions.
A new spirit was manifested
during the week under the spurring
words of President Hoover and
showed in the Senate’s dominant
bi-party coalition which today
pushed along the billion dollar rev
enue bill and ready to fend off all
attacks on its tax provisions.
WON DECISION
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 14.—
Steve Hamas, up and coming light
heavyweight, won a 10-round deci
sion over Tammy Loughran of
Philadelphia. Hamas won by a
knockout over Loughran in a pre
vious fight in New York three
months ago.
FORFEITED BOND
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—
Gaston B. Means, former Depart
ment of Justice investigator, for
feited his bond of $65 Friday after
noon on a charge of drunkeness,
assault and disorderly conduct.
V. S. GIRL LOST
BERLIN, May 14.—Helen Jacobs
of the United States, ranking wo
men’s tennis player, was eliminated
from the Berlin championships
Friday by Jadwiga Jedrejowski,
Polish champion.