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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA. TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS “ U. S. SAILORS NEW D JAPANESELAND MORE SOLDIERS IN FIGHT AREA Desperate Push Started Against Entire Chinese | Battle Line ARTILLERY, PLANES AND TANKS IN USE Casualties Are Reportedto| Be Heavy in Fight- | 1 | Seminar at Washington Smashing Blow at Bigotry National Conference of Jews, Catholics and Protestants to Be Held in Capital in March Marks New Era of Religious Tolerance. | | | | ing Today SHANGHAI March 1.— Japanese military officials | claim the entire Chinese line | 1 rom Chapei nurthwurd; through Kiangwan and to] Miao Changcen has been driv- ! en back in the most terrific | battle Shanghai has seen. Twelve thousand Japanese: soldiers were landed during the past 36 hours to reinforce | the troops fighting here for! | the past several weeks. | The Japanese used artillery, | planes and tanks. i The present drive is ex-| pected to defeat the Chinese‘ before the League of Nation’s peace proposals become ef-! tective. | Wounded Chinese are tax-| ing the hospitals and the Jap- anese casualties are also re-| ported heavy. ! )}.f Mies. 7" RoeerT L oo ? IreRie NewTon ARER TWO MINES EXPLODE \’ SHANGHAI, March 1.—Two mines | cxploded close to two Japanese warships early this morning. | Inhabitants of the International| Settlement rushed to the streets| screamin | 7 M & el Pror W. H. KILPATRICK. Evererr R. CLincuy, With tolerance and forebearance their watchwords, mutual respect anda admiration of cach other’s faith their guiding spirit, delegations from the three great religious groups in America, Protestant, Jewish and Catholie, will hold the first nation-wide seminar at Washington, D. C., for three days, beginning March 7. National figures such as Newton D, Baker, of Cleveland; Roger W. Straus, of New York; Professor W. H. Kilpatrick, of Columbia University (chairman of th seminar), and many other foremost molders of national opinion, prominent participants in the smashing blow at bi otry. Hoover has been invited to make the opening address. Many important talks will be given during the three-day session, some of which will be broadcast over a nation-wide radio network. Among those to whom credit is due for bringing about the conferen re Everett R. Clinchy, one of the directors of the seminur, and Mrs. Robert Imbrie, chairman the Japanese Government, of the Washington Committee of the National Conference of Jews and It is proposed that a conference | Chy ns. Washington selected for the momentous gathering for be held at Shanghai. it sons. First, because of the bi-centennial celebration of Wash- The Government also accepted the | ington's birth, and second, because of the first Pralideu,'l hope that proposal that heads of the Navy | tolerance and religious amity would prove the cornerstone of the new and War Departments attend the | Republic. confersnce which is expected to cov- a long period of time. ! ,——— PEACE PROPOSALS TOKYO, March 1.—Peace pro- pesals by Joseph Paul - Doncour, | French representative to the League | of Nations, have been accepted by | President | FLOOD WATERS ~“Lame Du CONGRESS WILL | ppE REGEQING ~ Session Is NOT LEGISLATE | ywaspiNgToN,AV'ish! BEAR RESERVE ... 1., Reche com |~ Apbrved by s | of Congress | munity [solated Since Last Thursday SEATTLE, March 1.—Flood wa ers are receding in various pari Congress will not enact any ]eg_‘oi the State although rain is stil | proval. islation creating a bear sanctuary |falling. 3 ’PTV)B“ e TR on Admiralty Island, or Admiralty| A Pack train has reached New he sig: is not and Chichagof Islands, this year,|Halen, Seattle L?ghv. D*partmem:nece .ax'y as the proposal goes ,0‘ according to information received (Workers' community, near wh‘crc‘thv’f”“ % wEE “) ‘chh~ ber of Commerce from four men were killed in a slide., The amendment permits Congress e \:\.;?:Ckersham | The pack train took in food. Thres to act two months after the xm—‘ De}l‘i’gatac;“iséd the Ohiiber thathundred persons at New Halen tional election instead of 13 months. | Senator Frederick Walcott, Chair-|have been on rations of canned e the ymmittee on 'food since last Thursday whm‘ p gAY . Gt o olfueh;;ix‘zhgg_ had indi.the place was isolated by aval-| 10 New Mail Routes cated no action would be taken 8nches Are Authorized for | Interior of Alaska| o B T et 5 RAVEN RETURNING Wanty Bupvop et ‘ : ar WASHINGTON, D.C. March 1.—| Two new mail services in Alaska| Before seeking extension of the| Mrs. R. S. Raven, called south Smith-Hughes Vocational Training recently owing to the serious ill- % hy p Act to Alaska, the value of which ness of her father, who is now re-|have becn ordered. SN the Delegate said he regarded as covering, is returning home to Ju-| The Post Office Depar “l:‘dpcnb - uncertain, Judge Wickersham will neau aboard the Northwestern cu(horl;efl vtne"SEp?rm:L‘:' e await an official survey to de- which sailed from Seattle this :ge Rmy“’:‘d-: ‘Z‘q-*r‘rlmfld‘g bt <oy g employ a carrier agency (Continiued on’ Page Four) - morning. mail routs from Nenana to Hot | Springs,” Tanana, Korines, by way | ,of Koyukuk, Nulato, Anviak, Holy| 1Cross and return weekly for $1,200 a round trip. Another service ordered is to France Silences W histles Of “40 and 8” Engineslfloly Cross via the Russian Mis- |sion, Fortuna Ledge, Andreafsky, St. ins i to Fortuna 'ARIS, March 1.—Those French |parture of French trains from the Michael and return . tives whistles that provided{m” country station is over. ! Lédge for $891 a round trip. Tecomotives Xusties l Following an anti-noise campaign' The two services arz to start May so many laughs for fen of the |, . “giaa rajlways installed loud- 15 and continue to October 15. A. E. F. have succumbed to the |speakers which warn people off the | - Delegate Informs Chamber No Congressional Ac- | tion Likely Now WASHINGTON, D. C., March 1 | —The House has adopted a revised constitutional amendment abolish- |ing the “lame duck” session and it | lis said the Senate will give ap-| tes. be among the | | The claim of ‘W. R. Tonkin, miner RIVE LAUNC MIGHTY FLEET IS MOBOLIZED, PACIFIC COAST Two Hundred and Two Fighting Vessels to Engage in Maneuvers TEN WARSHIPS SENT FROM ATLANTIC SIDE Sudden Orders Are Issued —Oriental Strife Is Not Motive WASHINGTON, D. C., March 1. A mighty American Navy is being mobilized on the Pacific under orders disclosed yesterday. Ten warships will pass througn the Panama Canal to join the pow- erful fleet which will soon hold maneuvers in defense of the Pacific Ceast. This will bring to 202 the American fighting ships west of the Panama Canal and only a on of a fleet will be left on the Atlantic. Naval officers, when asked if there was any relation between the den orders and the Far Bast tuation, which according to lat- st reports showing easing in ten- |slon, said the plan for such a movement has been “under consid- eration since the maneuvers were first announced a ye: ago last January.” Admi; Operati: I 1 Pratt, Chief of Naval , said the Atlantic ships, which will be included in the Pa-! fleet, will. defend the Pacifiy against invasion in mancuv- 0 be held this month. TODAY: MARKET DULL, HOWEVER {Pivotal Shares Hold Their| | Own but ‘Others Move Slightly NEW YORK, March 1. — Pivotal | stocks were steady today on t |Stock Exchange and other issues ranged narrowly either up or| | down. The market was dull. | | Johns-Manville sagged three | points on omission of the dividend. | | The Bendix Aviation dividend | was reduced and this stock sagged more than a point. | Auburn gained two points today | and Sinclair Oil rallied three points. | CL G PRICES TODAY | NEW YORK, March 1.—Clo: quotation of Alaska Juneau mir | |stock today is 13%, American Can | | 67%, Anaconda Copper 9%, Bethle- |hem Steel 21%, Curtiss-Wright 1%, |Fox Films 3%, General Motors 21, |International Harvester 231:, Ken- necott 9%, Packard Motors 3%, | United States Steel 46%, Bunker |Hill, no sale —— — MINER LOSES FIGHT TO GET | LARGE AMOUNT Claim of W._lij Tonkin for $15,000 Is Dismissed in B. C. Court VANCOUVER, B. C., March 1.— of South Worth, Washington, for $15000 of the estate of D: Lindeberg was dismissed in courts here yesterday. Tonkin claimed a quarter interest the proceeds of mineral claims which Lindeberg sold ten years ago for $60,000. The property is a part of the Big Missouri, near Hyder. Lindeberg’s representatives said the plaintiff' signed a release of | his interest in the property 201 years ago, The American meérchant ma event in early day fighting. NEW REPUBLIC Wet Bloc Chinese GOVCYHIHCIX! Wl“‘ Manchurian proclaimed formally {are in office and Japanese are the | advisors. nese’ government send a punitive experdition against the new state in hundred thousan: Manchuria will op) set up by the Japanese. Homesteaders Increase Homesteaders in Michigan incre ed from an ave: last year. | acres classified as homestead land | and 2,000 applicgnts for farms las year, only 89 were most of the land is u ing. improvements, we: homesteaders. | to seek homesteads, on which fam- | Yestreday sentenced by J. ilies are able to raisc en » | But the Government expe HED AT SHANG At the Melcy of Their Conquerors it (Hearst Metrotone-Fox Movietone) trols and were executed after a brief trial military court, but the majority of the prisoners gathered in were harmless non-comba ts who re- fused to leave the tude of the guards One of the pathetic scenes front shows a number of Chinese prisoners, who were rounded up by the Japs, being transported through the streets in motor trucks. Many of those rom the Shanghai war I e bayonets. shown were accused of sniping upon Japanese pa- ES DRAG PRISONER MARIN e Associated Press Photo in the Far East. according to Chinese charges, this was a typical | ANOTHER PEAK IS ERUPTING T0 WESTWARD Volcano on Island of Aleu- | tian Group Throws Out Smoke, Ashes DUTCH HARBOR, Alasga, March 1.—Capt. Nelson, of, Eupice arriving Smf: ay reported a Ano on Amukta Island wing out smoke and ashes. ikta Island is far out on the an group. D Japanese forces in Shan ghai arresting a Chinese civilian during the latest battle The Nippones e alleged the prisoner was a sniper while, Gets Vote in Hot ISPROCLAIMED IN MANCHURIA |Necessary Signatures Se- cured on State Liquor Control Bill WASHINGTON, D.C., March 1 —A. House vote on the state 7| control plan is assured The wet bloc hs necessary 145 signat sure away from Committee. It is possible the taken on March 14 Representative Mansfield, of ‘as. a cripple in a wheel chair | the last to sign the peti | | — e ‘ | Send Expcdilion | Against State MUKDEN, March Republ obtained th Chinese Brapypowalyeiot was TO FIGHT REPUBLIC NANKING, Ma 1.—The Chi- | ounces it will vote @ NELSON ENDS VISIT anchuria. One oldiers, now in > the regime oprietor of the Store in Juneau ou on business ng home western Ludwig Nelson Jewelry who has been and pleasure, aboard l |Cordova Fisherman | Fatally Injured in | Fight in Washington CATHLAMET, Wash., March 1 Michs: Lee McDonald, Ca truck m Lan " On Mlc}"gan Far L d driver, will be char man- ichig March 1. | Slaughter for y to LANSING, Michigan, arch | Rolff v, Carl as- | 5 ge of 20 to gg|With his brother 1 summers fishing nea Although the State has 1,250,000 | WS 8oing north s The coroner’s j MADRID, March 1 Donald for the t p oc- Hie's d to build no mor |curred during a d I Puget Island. — e — KETCHIKAN MAN SENTENCED TO JAIL AND TO PAY FINE M. M. Dunlap, Ketch Nelson - eee o steamer Merchant by fight- hipyard dozen: s of the nted beeaus a rm- Only abandoned farms, with turned over to| t Doctor Jose Giral of marine, has a program senger and supervision of Closing of factories caused many \ W. Harding to pay a fin $500 and to. serve six months > Federal jail there for e Prohibition by a | Note the menacing atti- | the motorship | Marine Pl(;nn ed pain to Aid Shipyard repub- PRICE TEN CENTS HAI RESIDENTS OF ISLAND CITY - LOGKING DOORS Fears Are Felt that Crime Wave Will Break Out Again \MAKING EFFORTS TO DELAY MURDER TRIAL {Defense Awaits Attorney | to Arrive from | Mainland HONOLULU, H. I, March ' 1—Sailors are patrolling the streets and deoors of houses lare locked, an unusual pro- \cedure in this pla yground lisland. Residents fear a repetition |of assaults on women, Two Orientals are held in connection with the assault |last Saturday made upon Mrs. | Kathleen Hope, wife of a ma- !chinist on a submarine now lenroute to San Diego. ; Five other Orientals were questioned but were released. | Meanwhile efforts are being made te postpone the trial of ‘r;cmnd degree murder, charg- |ed against Mps. Granville Fortesque, Lieut. Thomas H. ' Massie, E. J. Lord and Albert |Jones, accused of killing Jos- leph Kahahawai, one of five |suspected assailants of Mrs. {Massie. The trial has been |set for March 10. The defense |seeks time for the arrival of [Clarence Darrow or other prominent attorneys from the /mainland. ! DARROW ACCEPTS | CHICAGO, Ill, March 1.—Clar- ence Darrow this afternoon said he has decided to defend Mrs. For- tesque and the naval men at Hono- {lulu and will leave for the island November 15. ! ANOTHER ASSAULT | HONOLULU, March 1.—The Jap- anese maid employed by Harold Castle, prominent resident, was as- saulted last night according to a report made to the authorities this morning. - e ! FINLAND HAS TROUBLE WITH - FASCISTEROLP HELSINGFORS, Finland, March 1—Withdrawal from banks and | difficulty in securing foreign cur- rency are the notable results of Fascist revolt and encounter Government troops 25 miles from b sts demand the ousting of Co s and Soclalists from t Cabinet | empts of the Government to , i i-up the Fascist leaders have failed. reun: 'so far the port of Ferrol. Several destroy- ers will be launched soon at Cartd- gena, as will two 5,000 ton cruisers at Cadiz. When these ships slide down the Wi the old regime’s naval pro- gram will have been terminated. Scrapping of the veteran battie- ship “Espana,” will aid one naval shipyard to piece out a temporary existence. p The minister said other nations march of progress. right of way, and engineers were! A new station for the radio fan's law, a being put The tyeeting, chirping and twit-‘instrucbed to whistle only in cases list is Szekesvehery. It is located tering that once announced the de- 'of emergency. |in Hungary. ,{of the farms back on its hands as s00n as factory whistles begin to, 0 ¥ "blow for most of the land is poor. had a total of 25471 steam, mot and sailing vessels, canal boats, 2 barges at the close of 1931, might be invited to take advantage Canarias” [of the skilled Spanish naval con- being built at | struction industry. received by United 1 Albert White, on t 10,000 ton

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