VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 139. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1932. ' PRICE TEN CENTS
ROBERT SHOD! IS
NON-COMBIM WHEN
SHOT DOWN SHMHI
SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, (/P)—
Mrs. Elizabeth Short of Tacoma,
on arriving from Shanghai, assert
ed her son, Robert, who was shot
down by Japanese aviators over
Shanghai, was a non-combatant.
She said he was flying a com
mercial plane for delivery and was
taken for a Chinese combat plane
by Japanese and was forced to
fight.
“I was given to understand that
complaint was made to the Amer
ican Consul, General Edwin S. Cun
ningham,” said Mrs. Short, “and
that he declined to take diplomatic
action. I am going to present facts
to the State Department at Wash
ington and have everything done
that will result in this country
having diplomatic representatives
in China.”
Mrs. Short was unable to find
her son’s belongings, although she
knew he left some cash in his fur
nished apartments.
A large delegation of local Chi
nese headed and directed by lead
ers vn Chinese diplomatic, busi
ness and fraternal affairs, headed
by a brass band leading a long
parade, accorded Mrs. Short an
enthusiastic reception. S p e e ches
were made eulogizing her heroic
son in whos honor a national mon
ument has been erected and who
was posthumously elevated to the
rank of Colonel in appreciation of
his daring fight.
SUSPICIOUS ODOR
ONLY U OEM COW
SAN LUIS OBISCO. Calif., June
15. —Evidence which two motor
ists took to indicate murder or foul
play were traced to a dead cow by
officers who searched the hills be
tween here and Santa Marguerita.
Lewis Barriot and Lloyd Gay told
authorities in Salinas that they
found hunting and fishing licenses
made out to Leo J. Dunn of Los
Angeles scatterer in the under
brush. Nearby were several ar
ticles of women’s clothing- Officers
found the garments but a suspic
ious odor reported by the motorists
was caused by a dead cow.
ASSAULTED JAPANESE GIRL
HONOLULU, June 15. —Police
charged Sergeant Carden, 24 year
old soldier of the United States
Army, with attempted criminal as
sault on complaint of a twenty
year-old Japanese girl. Carden
denied the attack, and police said
the case probably would be turned
over to the military authorities.
LOCAL GLACIER RECEDES
The western extremity of Good
win glacier from whence Fourth
of July creek draws its supply of
water, has receded approximately
1.500 feet since 1927 when a Sew
ard resident camped near the face
of the glacier and who returned
there several weeks ago to pros
pect a mineralized ledge which at
that time was covered by the ice
mass.
EASTERN SCIENTISTS
WILL STUDY SELDOM
Mrs. Grace de Laguna, of Bryn
Mawyr, Penn, who last summer
spent several weeks in the Seldo
via-Kachemak bay region with an
archaelogical party from the U. of
Pennsylvania, was a passenger on
the SS Admiral Watson for Seldo
via to join her daughter Miss Fred
erica DeLaguna who preceded her
to the city of Seldovia, arriving
there on the last Admiral Evans.
The archaelogical party which
conducted a quest for relics of the
past, last year included her son
Wallace and daughter, Frederica;
they will probably carry on more
intensive explorations in that re
gion this summer.
15 YEARS OF REST
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15,
(/P)—Gaston B. Means has been
sentenced to 15 years imprison
ment for swindling Mrs. McLean of
$104,000 on the promise of return
ing the Lindbergh baby.
HUSK! DELEGATES -
PREPARE RESOLUTION
TO GOH:''M ACTIONS
CHICAGO, June 14. (/P) — The
Alaska delegation to the Repub
lican National CkunVdntion chose
Edward A. Rasmussen, of S k a g
way, national committeeman, Mrs.
Frank I. Reed, of Anchorage, na
tional committeewoman, and W. H.
Caswell, of Ketchikan, was select
ed as assistant sergeant-at-arms
for the delegation. The Alaska del
egation found the weather rather
warm.
Delegate James Wickersham met
the delegation from Alaska. He is
returning to Alaska after the con
vention.
The Alaska delegation has ad
opted the following resolution gov
erning their actions at the con
vention :
“We favor a policy of giving to
the people of Alaska the widest
possible territorial self-government,
the appointment through the re- j
publican organization in Alaska of
bona-fide Alaska residents for all!
appointive positions, that the Ter
ritory be given active development,
that Alaska be given application of
all general laws of the United
States, thus placing its citizens on i
| equality with those in the United
States, that a more liberal policy
in development of A 1 a s k a’s re
sources be followed, and that a
more liberal stand be taken in the
operation of the Alaska Railroad.'*
The party also inserted in their
resolution a clause providing for
the early construction of the In
ternational Highway from the Unit
ed States to Alaska.
CALIFORNIA VARSITY
IS ROPE OF THE WEST
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y„ June 15.
—The California “bears,” carrying
i half the far west’s hopes in the
i intercolligiate rowing association
I regatta and had their first trial
j over the four mile Hudson river
course. Coach Ky Ebright said the
trial, rowed against a slight tide,
was completed by the varsity in
more than twenty minutes and less
than twenty five.
California’s junior varsity and
freshman eights also traveled the
course- They will row next week.
No other admitted trials were rowed
although Syracuse, Navy and Co
lubia covered the course. Their
coaches said no watches were held.
WINCHELL BRINGS THREE
Pilot Oscar Winchell, of the Mc
Gee Airways, drove in on the heels
of a wind today bringing three
passengers from Anchorage; Attor
ney A- J. Dimond of Valdez, Demo
crat i c nominee for Delegate to
Congress from Alaska; Miss Anna
May Dolan, member of the official
court party; and Fred “Chester
field’’ Jensen, representing the fa
mous tobacco house and who has
just completed a circuit of the In
terior. Pilot Winchell was due to
take off at an early hour this af
ternoon with passengers on the re
turn flight. He may make it back
here this evening, if not, tomorrow
for a couple loads of passengers
from the incoming SS. Aleutian.
TAKING MOVING PICTURES
On the flight to Bristol Bay, B.
R. Hart, vice president of the Alas
ka Packers Association, who Tues
day took off here with .Pilot
Harry Blunt of the Alaskan Air
ways, will take moving pictures of
scenic glories. Mr. Hart is an ama
teur photographer of excejtional
ability and upon his return to his
headquarters at San Francisco it
can be expected Alaska will re
ceive considerable extra favorable
publicity.
NHIIL RESERVE MEN i
EMUTE TO ALKSKR
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SEATTLE, June 15, (JP)—For a
cruise of two weeks on Alaskan
waters upper class men of the Na
val Reserve Officers Training Corps
of the Universities of Washington
and California, sailed on two des
troyers.
Heretofore the classes cruised
for a month, the past years, to
Hawaii. The limitations of the pre
sent criuse are attributed to con
gressional economy programs.
Washington’s 30 men sailed on
the Destroyer Trevor, and an equal
number from the California Uni
versity are aboard the Destroyer
Crown Shield.
Brief stops will be made at Ju
neau, Wrangell and Prince Rupert
on the return trip.
STILL IN SESSION
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15,
(JP)—Congress hammered away to
day on the farm relief, bonus and
the budget balancing problems, al
though its interest centered in
the Republican National conven
tion now in session at Chicago. It
was the first time in decades that
Congress had been in session dur
ing a national convention. Most
of the House and Senate members
remained in Washington.
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ONE BODY FOUND
NORTON, Va., June 15. —The
body of one miner was recovered
while rescuers worked to release
nine others entombed in the
Splashdome Coal Co., mine 35 miles
from here, as the result of an ex
j plosion.
FORMER HUD CHILE
WILL GO TO EUROPE
SANTIAGO, Chile, June 15, —
Carlas G. Davila, just resigned as
head of Chile’s new socialist gov
ernment, accepted the request of
the government to go to Eurape on
a mission and prepared to leave the
country shortly.
Davila’s resignation was the re
, suit of disagreement with others
of the new government.
Rolando Merino, minister of the
interior, was named to succeed
j him as a member of the govern
| ing committee.
HUM'S TESTIMONY
BE MMLYZED THOROLT
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ALBANY, N. Y., June 15, —Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt has appoint
ed John E. Mack and Martin Con
boy to help analyze the testimony
of Mayor James J- Walker, before
the Hofstadter committee, c o n
cerning his fitness for office.
Mack is a former Democratic
supreme court justice; Conboy is
a Democrat and a leading attorney
of New York city.
ACCEPTS POST
TOKIO, June 15, —Viscount Ya
j suya Uchida today formally ac
i cepted the post of foreign minister
i in the Saito cabinet. He will be ap
1 pointed early next month after his
successor a s governor o f south
1 Manchuria railway is appointed.
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• • ALASKA AT THE CAPITOL • •
Some parties in California have
wired the Delegate that they have,
acquired Unit No. 2, in the Mata- |
nuska coal fields and that they 1
have sent an engineer north to
make a final examination of the
property before deciding just what
work is necessary in order to get;
coal out to supply the coastal mar
kets
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The revenue bill that has been
under consideration by the Senate
contained three schedules, approved
by both^House and Senate, which
is of particular interest to Alaska.
One schedule imposes a tax of four J
cents per pound on copper import- [
ed into the United States; another
provides that imported coal shall
carry a tax of ten cents per 100
pounds; another imposes a tax of
$3.00 per thousand on imported
lumber.
Prohibition enforcement work j
during the current fiscal year will
cost each person in America 8.9
cents, as the total cost of enforce
ment work will be $11,069,500, ac
cording to information available
at the Bureau of Prohibition. The
per capita cost of enforcement
in Alaska, where $26,555 is expend
ed on a basis of 58,758 population
at an average of 45c. The next
highest is in Nevada where $32,915
is expened for 90,981 people, or an
averange of 36 cents. The lowest
costs are in Porto Rico, where $52,
194 is spent for 1,543,813 people, an
average of 3.4 cents, and in Ohio
where $250,859 is expended for 6,
639,837 people at a per capita of 3.7
cents. The largest sum $1,610,419
is expended in New York with a
population of 12,619,503 and a per
capita of 12.6 cents.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
has decided to dispense with the
office of Chief of Alaska divisions,
with headquarters at Juneau. In
stead the duties of that position
will be performed by the present
Medical Director, Dr. Fellows, and
the appointment of Dr. Carl W.
Gordon of Indiana, as Director of
Education for Alaska. The latter
sailed from Seattle early in June
for his headquarters at Juneau,
although he, as well as Dr. Fellows,
will travel considerably around the
territory in the effort to build up
the two departments referred to.
At present Charles H. kawkesworth
is the Acting Chief of the Alaska
Division, and he is expected to con
tinue in the Indian Service as Dis
trict Superintendent of Schools to
with headquarters at etaoinETAO,
be assigned to one of the Districts.
Prior to his present appointment he
was Superintendent of the South
eastern district, with headquarters I
at Juneau.
Lyman S. Brewster, of Bemie,
Montana, has been engaged by the
Department of the Interior to go
to Seward Peninsula for the com
ing season to assist in. the reor
ganization plans adopted for the
care and expansion of the rein
deer industry. Two other exper
ienced men wrere sent north sever
al weeks ago to also participate in
this work.
Judge John Barton Payne re
ported to President Hoover the
other day that already 23,000,000
bushels of flour of the 40,000.000 j
bushels turned «over to the Red ;
Cross by the Federal Farm Board
for distribution to the needy thru
out the country has been given
away. Distribution of this flour
has been made in every state and
| in Alaska.
The present Superintendent of
Railway Mail Service, at Seattle,
| with jurisdiction over Alaska, is a
; bout to retire. Some of the Alas
ka postmasters are sending in re
comendations rejuesting the ap
pointment of J. H. Fehse, as suc
cessor to this office. He has been
an assistant and is particularly
familiar with Alaska conditions,
having frequently traveled through
the North.
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The Postoffice Department has
furnished the Delegate with the
following information with refer
ences to Alaska, that has develop
ed between June 1, 1931, and April
30, 1932: Post offices established!
and name changed, Baldwin, Fan
shaw, Galena, Ferry Gakona, Good
news Bay, Kwiguk, Lakeview, Law
ing, Old Harbor, Saint Timothys,
Selawik, Tolovana, Warton. Cape
Fanshaw was changed to Fanshawi
and McCord was changed to Old]
Harbor. The offices discontinued
were Chorniy, Kantishna and Speel
River, and mail should be directed
to Ketchikan, Nenana and Juneau,
respectively.
BRITISH PREPARE
LONDON, June 15, —The Admir
alty announced today that- the
British navy has ordered ships to
go to Calloa, Peru and be ready in i
e^vent it was needed for protection j
of British interest in Chile.
SOUTHERN ATHLETES
CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS
IN OLYMPIC 6AMES
CHICAGO, June 14—It has been
suggested that California track
and field stars could take care of
Uncle Sam’s Olympic business with
little or no help, but a half-dozen
or so mid-West athletes would be
a comfort to any teams. With
Ralph Metcalfe of Marquette,
Mich., “the flying ebony,” who won
the 100 and 220-yard events in re
cord time yesterday, the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
championship has produced an
amazing fine list of performers,
as indicated when it won its first
title with 56 points.
Metcalfe won his 100-yard dash
in 9 5-10 to equal the accepted
world’s mark. The Olympic ver
sion of the race, in 10, and was
two tenths of a second faster than
the recognized record. His per
formance in the 220-yard dash and
the 200 meters was even better. He
traveled over the furlong in 20.5
seconds, shaving a tenth from the
world’s standard, and passed the
200 meter mark in 20.4, three
tenths of a second faster than the
accepted record.
GUERRILLAS BOMBED
HARBIN, June 15, —Japanese
aviators today bombed a band of
guerrillas estimated to exceed 1,000
who have been active near Harbin.!
The reports said that the Japanese j
forces from Tsitsihar were occu-1
pying the walled city of Nuoho.
RENO, Nev., June 15. —The win- ,
ner of the Schmeling-Sharkey title
bout was offered an outright guar
antee of $100,000 by the city of
Reno, represented by a committee
of businss men, to meet the winner
of the Baer-Levinsky fight here in
a championship battle Labor day.
The following wire was sent to
Joe Jacobs, manager of Max
Schmeling at New York. “If you
are successful in defending your
title against Jack Sharkey, the city
of Reno will give you $100,000 to
meet the winner of the Max Baer
King Levinsky-fight in a twenty
round decision bout here Labor
day. Please advise.”
STATESMEN GATHER
SEALTLE, June 1 5, (/P)—Lau- i
sanne conference statesmen of a
dozen European countries arrived
in preparation for the opening of
th International conference Thurs- ;
day. It makes this Swiss town the :
center of much of the World’s
hopes for economic recovery. The
first problem to be discussed is;
relief for Germany from the bur-J
den of reparations payments, more i
than three millions of which fall;
due July 15 unless new arrange- j
ments are concluded.
REMOVED FROM JOB
SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, (JP)—
Frank Egan was formally removed
from office as public defender, by
the. Board of Supervisors. He is
under suspension and indictment
for the murder of an old friend
and client, Mrs. Jessie Scott Hughs,
and declared guilty of obstructing
justice by refusal to co-operate
with the police in their probe of
the murder.
CAN NOT ACCEPT
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15,
(/P)—Charles G. Dawes in a formal
statement said he could not accept
the Republican nomination for
vice president if offered him. He
said he had given the subjct much
thought. The move to place him
on the ticket instead of Vice Pres
ident Curtis gained strength des
pite his previous announcement
WOMEN GIVING MEN
A HAND AT CHICAGO
G. 0. P. CONVENTION
CHICAGO, June 15. —Women are
taking considerable interest in the
Republican convention which began
Tuesday and are doing much work
to aid the cause of their party.
The leaders of the women are Dolly
Ganns, sister of Vice-President
Curtis and Mrs. Alice Longworth,
wife of the late Speaker Nicholas
Longworth.
Delegations from all parts of the
country are in the city and they
are accompanied by the many
newspaper syndicate writers and
other personages. Will Rogers and
Floyd Gibbons are both here to
give a first hand account of the
convention happenings. Radio
stations throughout the country
featured broadcasts of the opening
ceremonies.
Convention happenings are made
known in almost every nook of the
land almost as soon as it happens.
ROUSING LONE PEP TALK
CHICAGO, June 15, (JP)— Dr. J.
France, sole opponent of President
Hoover for the Republican nomi
nation, blustered with confidence
today after giving himself a rous
ing pep talk as the national con
vention opened. All the former
Senator from Maryland could see
ahead was a triumphant nomina
tion and success at the polls.
ON BRINK OF DEFEAT
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15,
The cause of the Philippine inde
pendence stood precariously near
another defeat today at the hands
of a determined minority of sena
tors out to kill the Hawes bill, in
the closing days of the session.
The proponents are of two camps
and the most bitter of these which
opposes the form of independence,
are led by Senator Copeland, N. Y.
Democrat, who is ready to filibus
ter if need be to prevent the bill’s
passage.
A compromise bill, led by Sena
tor Vanderberg, Michigan Repub
lican, will fight for a substitute
when and if the cause ever comes
to a vote.
PORTRAIT REMOVED
WASHINGTON, June 15. —A
large portrait of John D. Rocke
feller, Jr., for years has adorn
ed Washington headquarters of
the anti-saloon league, has been
removed, callers observed. Rocke
feller, long the league’s financial
mainstay, recently came out for
repeal of the eighteenth amend
ment.
PRISONERS ESCAPE
YAKIMA, Wash., June 15. —Five
prisoners succeeded in escaping
from the Yakima County jail Sun
day and were still at large Monday
evening.
i COURT pm COMING
; TO ST1R0 ON TOWN
Yesterday, Tuesday, marked
the closing of the month court
term at Anchorage and today
Judge E. Coke Hill will arrive and,
until Friday, hear local civil mat
ters; he plans to board the SS
Aleutian Friday for his Valdez of
fices.
The local hearings will practical
ly terminate Judge Hill’s activities
in the Third Division for about
July 1 he will take up his new du
ties as Federal judge of the 4th
Division with headquarters at Fair
banks.
The Anchorage term of the dis
trict court was adjourned until
July 5 when Judge Cecil Clegg,
former Seward resident, will take
over the bench. Judge Clegg is ex
pected to arrive from Fairbanks
the latter part of the month en
route to Valdez.