THE KUSKO TIMES
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TaKOTNA ALASKA SATIKLAV. MARCH I* i 32
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Fingerprints Give No Clue
Lindbergh Kidnaping Case
> HOPEWELL, N. J—Two sets of
i.i; 1 p1 r.ts were found on the win
v t w s', of th Lindbergh nursery on
n gilt of the kidnaping nursey on
he night of the kidnaping, it was
stated tonight by a high official inves
gatiug the crime. One of these sets
af !- ij'wi.r.ms was repeated inside
th. n. r . .in<i both sets were those of
men. One footprint also appeared on
the sill. Recounting the kidnaping,
h s authority said there was no ques
tion but that the first kidnaper as
cended the ladder and entered the
oo n. The second followed him and
re eived the baby from his hands.
Upon reaching the ground, according
to this theory, the two men walked
rapidly away with the child. In addi
tion to the plaster casts were foot
prints made by shoes, which evidently
we e covered by stockings or cloth.
There was a set of footprints made
by a pair of heavy boots Two hun
dred yards from the house these two
tracks were joined by the prints of a
woman’s shoes. It is stated that a
check-up of the fingerprints revealed
no known criminals to whom they
would be assigned. The theory now
held, it was stated, is that if profes
sional criminals were involved they
may have hired workmen to commit
the actual kidnaping. On the other
hand, the fact that investigation of
the fingerprints disclosed no known
criminal may be taken as an indica
tion that the plot was conceived and
carried out by daring amateurs. In
.11 previous statements the police *u
hjrities have denied reports that any
in. e prints other than those of the
irdbergh family or member* of their
h usehold were found in the nursery.
HOPEWELL, H. J.—Hopes that a
^aby carried into Tennessee under (
.. sp cious circumstances was the kid-!
aped son of Colone'Charles A. Lind
„.gh collapsed tonight when com
,(;.r scn of the children revealed glar
g discrepancies. A telephone de
scription of the child held at Cross
Tcr.n., faied to tally with the
age, measurements and other distin
guishing characters of Charles A.
Lindbergh, Jr. Tennessee officers had
been hopeful almost to the point of i
b at ion over the discovery of the \
,;y. which was accompanied by two;
p. s who temporarily were unable,
a ve lucid stories regarding their
. ..js.s.on of the infant.
HOPEWELL, N. J. — Alternate
waves of hope and despair surged
through the Lindbergh kidnapping
drama tonight. False reports that
their son had been found alive and
that he had come to harm back in
the Sourland Hiils tore cruelly at the
earts of the anguished parents, j
an an : ous and sympathetic public j
s ized all too eagerly on the most
fantastic rumor. But at the end of
l.e eighth day since 20-months-old
Alaska Interests At
The Nation’s Capital
(By W. A. S.
W ASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—'The. bill
intro,.ced in the House by Delegate
Wkkeiham to repeal the Alaska
Bone Dry Law, which conflicts with
i the Vo.stead Act, was given its sec
ond hearing before the Committee on
' Territories on February 2. A few
< days previous the attorney for Bishop
Cannon prepared a statement and had
it filed with the committee, giving his
objections to the bll of repeal. These
were replied to in detail by the Dele
gate at the meeting, which was at
tended by Mrs. Ella A. Boole, presi
« dent of the National Woman’s Chris
tian Temperance Union, and who
spoke in opposition to the bill, as did
also the attorney, requirng further
explanation, and argument by the
Delegate. As some of the members
of the committee could not be present
. at the next meeting, on February 9,
it was decided to authorize the chair
man to call a special meeting at an
opportune time, when a vote would be
taken on approval or disapproval of
( the bill.
There has been considerable contro
versy over the office of postmaster at
Fairbanks during the past year, but 1
the general desire for the reinstate
ment of William T. Pinkerton has
been so convincing that the Depart
ment has decided to send his name to '
the Senate for confirmation, with the j
next batch of postmasters. |,
• only delegate present from Alaska. 1
Walter Schaffer, who was assistant '
to James A. Smiser, United States j
Attorney at Juneau in 1921, and who 1
I .has been in tha service of. the. United,
States Shippng Board, located at New
xoik, recently resigned his position
ind is r ow in the general practice of
aw in the city of Washington.
Attending the seventh Women’s
Patriotic Conference on National De
fense, wheh ended in Washington on
February 3, was Mrs. Andrew John
son of Petersburg, representing the
American Legion Auxiliary, and the
The Delegate expects to introduce
a bill in Congress t oantend the provi- j
s ons of the retirement act of May 22,!
1920, as amended, to employes of the
Alaska Railroad, who are citizens of
the United States, and whose employ
ment has not been intermittent nor of
uncertain duration. The bill would
provide that al aborers, mechanics
and trainmen would be eligible at 65
and others at 70 years of age, provid
ed they had rendered fifteen years of
service. The age divsion of 449 em-j
ployes on roll on Nov. 30, 1931, and
also 42 train §nd enginemen on leave,
would be as follows: Under 20 years
>f age, 3; 4 to 29 years of age, 44;
JO to 39, 100; 40 to 49, 180; 50 to 59,
115; 60 to 69, 43; 70 to 79, 5; 80 to
19, 1.
Ernest Walker Sawyer, represent -
ng the Interior Department, has
about completed arrangements with
he University Travel Association for
.he Floating University Around the
World Cruise to include Alaska in
heir next tour. The sailing of nearly
>00 graduates and under graduates,
iccompanied by many jfcnSessors, will
>e from New York in^Decamber, 1932. J
(Continued- oa fae* &)
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Charles Augustus, Jr., -was jmater»<;‘4
rom his crib, the latest /develorpmenrs
vrre that officials stationed at .eSPe
jindhergh home an .Sourland Mour -
ain reiterated their assertion Jth^t
he .hunt for their missing baby was
nnking progress; .that Colonel ttfnd
Wre. Lindbergh, .although reraaiuing
lopeful, authorized a flat police an
louncement that their infant had -not
jeen returned to either their parents
it Hopewell or to the home of his
grandmother, Mre. Dwight Mornow,
it Englewood. Mrs. Lindbergh, re
torted near the breaking point sev
iral days ago, was being guarded
ilosely agains* every unnecessary
worry, but it was difficult to shield
ter from the food of rumors that
vere certain to put an almost unbear
able 'burden on her emotions. She
walked briefly on the terrace of her
lome during the day, which was
aright but cold. Her husband is re
naining close to his: private telephone
ine in the house, hoping.against hope
hat some word 'will come from the
kidnapers, either directly or through
Salfy Spitale, the Manhattan undcr
.vor d character he named as a go
t .ween. State troopers and police
.onunued their exhaustive search of
he Sourlands district, through a
mi-wild zone, whose inhabitants
ive in comparative isolation and who
■ sent the world’s interference in
nair lives.
Mrs. Anita fholows, who was inter
/.ewed early in the hunt by the police,
and who said she feared one of the
.rungs operating in the Sourlands as
hieves might have stolen the baby,
accompanied one group of searchers.
It was nnderstood that Mrs. Cho
owski was taken along as a guide-be
cause of her knowledge of the coun
try.
One of the most cruel of the re
ports circulated during the day was
attributed erroneously to Mayor J. H.
Curley of Boston. It was said that
Curley had known the baby was safe
at home. The mayor, in a public
statement after the report became
current, denied having made any such
declaration, admitting that he had re
peated purely as hearsay what some
one else had told him.
Out of the day’s developments, one
official statement .added a note of op
timism to the situation. Colonel A.
Norman Schwartzkopf, head of the
State police quartered at .the Lind
bergh home, reported progress in
these words: “We are doing every
thing possible to recover the Lind
bergh baby and we hope to recover it
soon.”
TJ. S. Commissioner W. T. Vander
pool was a yesterday arrival here on
matters of business, '.being accompa
nied by his son Robert. They re
turned to their heme at McGratdi this
afternoon, accompanied by J. P. Tay
lor, operator in charge of the Takotna
wireless station, who is taking a few
days’ vacation, and who is scheduled
to return here on Friday.
Returning here from Fairbanks
during the past few days were the
following: Chester Brink, Frank J.
Guskey, George W. Clyde and Ralph
Anderson. Among those returning to
McGrath were Deputy U. S. Marshal
Stanley J. Nichols, U. S. Commis
sioner W. T. Vanderpool, Oddie Hall
ion ^Dd Albert Ivey.
Charles Goebel returned here a
:ouple of days age front a visit at
McGrath, and is scheduled to leave
ilmost immediately for his headquar
ers at Ganes.
John Krieger departed early in the
veek for Ophiri headed for the Tols
;oi section.
Items of Importance
In Reecnt News Events
4> KU.LED, 50 INJURED, AS
3,000. SEEK AUTO JOBS AT
FORI* MOTOR CO. WORKS.
DETROIT.—Three thousand unem
ployed automobile workers, who came
here from the employment office of
the Rouge river plant of the Ford
Motor. Company, were prevented by
the police from entering Dearborn,
but not/until a score or more of the
policemen had been roughly used. It
was necesgarv to send seven of the
policemen to the hospital after the
encounter.
The men w:ere headed for the Ford
office in - Dearborn to make applica
tions .for jobs and were met by a
squad of 30 .policemen, barring the
way. A battle ensued, the unem
ployed using rocks.and other missiles,
while the police resorted to tear gas
bombs .and clubs,. finally bringing a
fire hose into action.
Fuur persons wete killed and fifty
injured. The police placed 31 persons
under arrest, and they are now
searching for five communist leaders
who are charged with responsibility
for the march on Dearborn.
MADE DRUNKARD OF HUSBARI),
WIFE RECOVERS $20,000.
LOS ANGELES. — Mrs. . Ruth
Wheeler, who sued the Shell Oil Com
pany for $250,000.. charging that her
husband, .had been made a. drunkard
py the company and then discharged,
has ayreed to a settement of the ac
tion for $20,000, according to an an
nouncement made today.
Mrs. Wheeler charged that her .hus
band. Joseph P. Wheeler, .was-forced
by the company to entertain custom
ers with liquor and that he became
addicted to drinking as a result of
that policy. She charged further that
the company refused to aid Wheeler
in a civil .action growing out of an
automobile action and that later the
company .discharged him.
JOHN P. SOUSA, FAMOUS
BANDMASTER. PASSES ON.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—John Philip
Sousa, march king, died at Reading,
Pa... early yesterday -morning and his
body is being brought to his home
here to await interment.
The bandmaster went to Reading to
attend a banquet given in his honor
Saturday night, with many notables
present. He became ill after he had
retired for the night.
Sousa had a career 6f more than
fifty years before the public, during
which he had composed more than
300 works and had directed his fam
ous band in all the principal cities of
the world.
NICELY FOUND GUILTY
OF EMBEZZLING .FUNDS.
SEATTLE.—W. L. Nicely, former
State supervisor of savings and loan
associations, was found guilty yester
day o fembezzling iunds erf the de
funct Puget Sound Savings and Loan
Association. He is a former presi
dent of the association and is the
fourth official to> beenonvictad as the
result of the failure of the institution.
MAX SCHMELLING/SO LEAVE
FOR AMERICA ON MARCH 23.
NE VVYORK. — Max Schmelling,
world heavyweight hoxing champion,
will leave Germany for America on
March 23, to begin preparations for
his June title bout with Jack Shar
key. of Boston.
l i KILLED IN GAS TANX
EXPLOSION, CAMDEN, N. J.
CAMDEN, N. J.—Fourteen men
were killed and four others seriously
injured today when -a gas tank in
which they were working exploded
with a roar heard throughout the city.
Six of the men were regular em
ployes of the Public Service Electric
& Gas Company of the city. The
others had been chosen from the
city’s rolls of unemployed fathers of
Camden, happy to get a day’s work.
One of the nineteen men engaged
in lxing the big tank saw a blue flame
Creeping along the metal side of the
tank and ran away. He was about
one hundred yards from the tank
when the blast came, knocking him to
the ground. He was the only one to
escape. The four injured men were
on top of the tank.
PLAN TO LEGALIZE BEER BY
AMENDING REVENUE BILL.
WASHINGTON. — Representatives
Sullivan and Cullen of New York and
McCormack, of Boston, all Democrats,
have announced that they will make
a formal attempt to bring about ac
tio on -a proposal to legalize the man
ufacture and sale of beer, with a view
to pacing a tax on the beverage for
revenue purposes. Their plan is to
I amend the revenue hill.
It is contended \/ the Congressmen
sponsoring the move that such a tax
as they propose will bring in $350,
000,000 in much needed revenue an
j nually and enable Congress to elimi
' nate amusement and communications
taxes and reduce manufacturers' ex
cise taxes. . The legalizing of beer,
they contend, also would materially
relieve the unempoyment situation.
The proposal of Congress to tax
grape concentrates and malt is at
tacked as a formal recognition of an
illegal business.
j Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, of Chi
cago, has introduced a resolution
which, if acted upon, will place the
Senate on record as favoring or op
posing repeal or modification of the
Eighteenth Amendment hy ..placing
liquor contro in the hands of the vari
ous States.
BANKHEAD DISQQUALIF1ED
TO HOLD ALABAMA SEAT.
. WASHINGTON.—The Senate elec
tions subcommittee found that Sen
i ator Bankhead of Alabama was ille
gally elected in 1930 and decared his
seat vacant.
The contest was brought bj Bank
head’s predecessor, ex-Senator T. J
Heflin. The committee was divided
! on party lines. Democrats are to
submit a minority report. The ma
jority reported a fraudulent election
return.
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HOOVER ASKS CONGRESS
TO MAKE CAPITAL DRY.
WASHINGTON—President Hoover
sent a special message to Congress
today, urging the lawmakers to
strengthen prohibition enforcement ir
Washington so that the Capital might
stand out as a model for the rest of
the country. The message <is the first
to contain any mention of the dry
law since the Wickersham report.
WASHINGTON. — Benjamin Car
doza, chief justice of the New York
State Supreme Court, has been con
firmed as successor tomfw mfw mfw
firmed as a member of the Suproir*
Court of tre United.. Statas