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VOL. 37. No. 133 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY. JUNE 5 1935 D „
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Southern Chinese Want Coalition With
Nanking Goverment Fight Japanese
Ai^fressioif North China Districts
(By The Associated Press')
HONG KONG, China, June 5, — Provincial arm
ies in southern Cuina demanded they be sent to light
the Japanese, said petitions from Kwangtung and
Kwangsi military authorities, addressed to the south
western political council, and published here along
with similar urgings from numerous Canton public
organizations. They sought to press for resistance to
Japan by the northern Nanking government.
Despite official denials, there was a confirmation of
Japanese reports that Canton troops had actually cross
ed the border of Hunan province to the north, and have
occupied several of the towns. >
At Canton. Japanese are not perturbed by mani
festoes urging Chiang Kai Shek, Nanking Dictator to
fight Japan since they recognized that these urgings are
intended to embarrass the northern war lord politically,
HONG KONG, June 5, — An independent declar
ation of war against Japan was issued by the Canton
South Chinese government at Kuomin Tang, when the
national party and the southwest political council or
dered troops to march northward and resist "Japanese
aggression.”
The declaration was considered as an attempt to
force a united Chinese front against the Japanese by a
coalition of the Canton and Nanking Chinese govern
ments. It was 'ordered that the troops be called the
“Anti-Japanese Salvation Army”.
Food prices in Canton soared, rising in some cases
30 percent, within the last few days. People are hur
riedly storing up rice in anticipation of the approach
ing crisis.
Landon & Borah
Leaders Involved
Talk-fest Fijrhi
(By The Associated Press)
CLEVELAND, June 5, — Talk
of a “Stop Landon” push per
sisted, following a blast from
the Borah camp, at the Kansas
Governor’s record.
Carl Brachmann, chairman of
the Borah committee said:
“He is the avowed friend of
the New Deal, and up to a few
months ago, supported it orally,
and, in writing, complimented
President Roosevelt on its con
structive character.”
John Hamilton, leader of the
Landon forces, in replying, said
he had no fault to find with Re
publicans, who during the first
two years of the New Deal, sup
ported it out of patriotic consid
erations, and efforts to care for
the needy. “If I had the time I
could take the Bible, and by the
liberal use of asterisks, make the
devil a Saint!”
Socialist Premier
Broadcasts Over
Radio to Strikers
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, France, June 5, — So
cialist Premier Brun broadcast a
radio appeal last night from his
apartment to a half million work
ers who are out on strike, to
avoid disorders, and promising to
try and pass a forty-hour week
law.
He also promised to ask par
liament to vote authorization of
collective CQntracts, and paid
vacations, three of the workers’
biggest demands.
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Richberg Slams
Supreme Court
A
Exercise Power
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 5.
—Donald R. Richberg, former
NRA chieftain, and still counsel
ler to President Roosevelt, today
called on both political parties to
condemn what is termed as the
Sonreme Court’s “unconstitution
al exercise of judicial power”.
In h’s statement, Richberg said
“the Amercian people are being
rapidly roc r-d. an answer to* a
question as to whether they can
preserve self government in the
face of unprecedented exercise
of power by the Supreme Court."
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Arc
. Present in House
Funeral Cyrus
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 5,
—L'-'d by President Roosevelt,
high dignitaries of the United
States and foreign nations today
converged in the flower-scented
House chamber in tribute to the
late Speaker Joseph W. Byrns. 1
who se body was placed amid flow
ers, before the rostrum where he
stood only forty-eight hours be
fo.„‘ _ A the gavel in his hand.
The ceremony is unprecedent
ed in the history of law making
in the United States, never be
fore, a Speaker having died while
! Congress was in session.
CONGRESSIONAL INDEPENDENCE HINTS
PASSIVENESS MAY END IF ROOSEVELT
IS RE-ELECTED IN FALL ELECTION
__
By Byron Price
(Chief of Bureau, The Associated
Press, Washington)
The closing days of th^iongres
sional session are deve' Aifjg sorne
interesting signs of Nug<j^P^ent
thinking on Capitth f.rli can
not be said that President Roose
velt's leadershp has disappeared,
nor does it ever appear that he
will lose many, if any.g Vthc re
maining major legisfenVSljat ties
of the session.
What has happened with re
spect to the tax bill a&d othe
things is notable chiefly .tpr what
it may mean in the more distant
future, should Mr. Roosevelt be
re-elected.
A President serving a first term
and one serving a second term
are two entirely different figur
es in politics. It is not uncom
jmon for Congress to take the
, ball away from a Chief Execu
tive it knows will not come up
again as a candidate. That happ
ened to Theodore Roosevelt and
, to Woodrow Wilson.
A tendency toward Congres
sional initiative is apparent in
the Byrd survey of the pos ibili
tes of governmental reorganisa
tion; one outcome might be a
wholesale scaling down of the
alphabetical agencies. On the
heels of this move comes a House
proposal to make all of trie ne’id
ing agencies answerable <•, Con
gress in detail, afte the r . uile
of 1937.
The whole future of h story
making at Washington may de
pend on the extent and ;
ency of this tendency in the C m
gressional session which 1 .lows
this year’s election.
Landon Withholds Fire
Word comes from the Landon
, camp that the Governor o£ Kan
sas has said all he intends to
(say before the Cleveland conven
i tion except perhaps for one short
speech touching lightly on poli
tical issues.
Nevertheless it is the view of
some of his friends 1hat the quiet
ude of his campaign thus far hard
ly forecasts what he will do if
nominated.
Some who know him best be
lieve he would be a highly voc
al nominee. They argue that,
not having declared himself an
active candidate, he has felt no
responsibility fo" speaking out.
Should he formally be declared
,o spokesman of the Republican
Party, however, he would as
sume new o lig t n and find
himself in an entirely .different
role.
Of course none of these friends
assume to speak with the author
ity of the Gove, nor himself.
They merely venture the opinion
that. 1936 being wlv. t it is, he
would not sit down at Topeka
and hope that the Presidency,
would come his way. They fore
see him staking everything on an ,
active campaign.
They acknowledge that such a
course might expose him to ex
periences quite new to him, b it
they figure that’s what will hap
pen—if and when the opportunity
presents itself.
If the demand Im, national con
vention seats mean anything—
and it usually does- -political in
terest is running extremely i..gh
this year in both parties.
Those who allot places in the
press galleries are smothered un
der an outpouring of applications
numbering many hundreds more
than there are seats available.
The crush for spectators’ tick
ets likewise is overwhelming,
many of the applicants are will
ing to spend hundred of doPars
of their own money journeying
from far points to see the show.
Even at Philadelphia where tin
Democratic proceedings a re ex
pected universally to follow a
pattern well-undersU d in ad
vance, the demand already is
heavy and insistent.
Evidently the country is going
to have one grand time over its
politics in 1936.
FLOODS ARE CAt bird;
DIKES NEAR BREAK
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i*ast‘r Sear Bursting Bounds.
Breaking 5likes \\ ill rhreaten Farm
Lands. Farmers Are Mov'r.i« Out
• e
(By The Associated Press’)
VANCOUVER, June 5, —Scores o£ volunteer work
ers with hands blistered from hours of incessant labor,
fought an almost certain losing battle with the Fraser
I river flood waters, in an attempt to r.,ve the dike- guard
ing rich farm lands in southeastern provinces ot B;;t;sh
Columbia.
The dikes on the Hammerslev prairie, 60 .miles up
the Chilliwack river are giving way. Farmers mov d
their livestock and other belongings which they couid,
out of the area guaged to be inundated.
A rise of 22.34 feet, and eight inches more last night
has been registered. Another rise of three or four
inches will take out the dike at Hammersley and inun
date 1,200 acres. The Columbia is rising slightly. The
Skeena river and others in the northern part of the pro
vince are receding.
President Signed
Navy Supply Rill
j i« j
,'Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 5.
-—More than a billion dollars for
national defense for the fiscal
year beginning J :ly 1st, vis mode
available with Romeve’t's sign
ing of the $528,000 000 naval sup
ply bill. He has air ady signe 1
the War Department me: sure.
Sentenced Prison
(By The Associated )' es-';
BATTLEFORD, Sa.kah-I.: "an,
lohn Harms
was sentenced to -e:ve fiftee
years in the peniientia:y fer th
slaying of Johnny Anthony, h.
partner, last Noven ber. on th 1
shores of Lake Athaba tea.
I
Five Planes, Score of Pari-hutes
Other Supplies l-urn d
KANSAS CITY. June 5, —l ire
swept the U. S. Army hangar at
the city airport here causing an
estimated loss of $300,009. Five
planes, a score of p rue hides, also
a large supply of parts and eq
uipment were destroyed
Mechanics said the fire appar
ently originated at the tail of a
plane parked near the hangar
, door.
J6 \ ear Old Co-ed
U. oi W. Released
jail 021 Peace Bond
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SKATTLK. June 5, King
Countv !vr 'ios released Miss
Ruth N - iyhton. 36. University of
n her fath
. . Wash
ingti.m -iip 'intend, nt, posted a
$7:30 prove b- nd.
She was a> rested Tuesday p.m.
and charged with threatening to
send dynamite to four professors.
She den oi having threatened to
iiill anyone.
Baseball ocores
(Bv The A ocialod Press)
COAST LEAGUE
Oakland 13 Portland 3
Sac smento 2-3 Seattle 8-6
Los Angeles 11 San Diego 2
San Francisco 4 Missions 6
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 4 St. Louis 3
New York 5 Chic. ;o 8
Boston 5 Pittsburgh 7
Philadelphia 3 Cincinnati 5
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 16 New York 3
Cleveland 3 Boston 4
Detroit 18 Philadelphia W
St. Louis 6 Washington 2
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