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Possible Commission Handle Strike
i BESEIGED REBELS DRIVEN UNDERGROUND
Adolph Hitler May Resign As Nazi’s Chancellor
LOYALISTS DIGGING IN FOR
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE EIGHT
MILES BACK OF MAQUEDA
Insurgents Were Forced to Take Refuge in the Cellars
Of Ancient Alcatraz, When Last Tower Was
Blown up By The Loyalists
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Sept. 22, — Government troops dug
in for a counter-offensive eight miles behind Maqueda,
the key town on the highway into Madrid, as insur
gents drove steadily toward the capital.
Fugitives from Madrid who crossed the French bor
der said the capital was on the edge of war as insur
gents forced the defenses to operate in the dark, thru
the staging of repeated air raids. Precautions, it was
said, have been taken against gas attacks.
In Madrid the newspaper La Voz, charged that
Mallorco has been made an Italian colony, declaring
that Italian troops were landing on the island, which is
the largest of the Balearic group, as if it were a real
occupation. The paper asserted that the island’s civil
governor had been removed, and a virtual Italian mili
tary dictatorship set up to rule.
Besieged insurgents in the Alcatraz were all driven
underground in a steel hail of shell and bullet fire, af
ter loyalist artillery had levelled the last tower.
In Moscow, Russia, the Communist Party announ
ced that over a million dollars had been raised to buy
food for Spanish war victims.
Uruguay is determined, says reports, to make strong
protests to Madrid and the League of Nations, over the
reported execution of Dolores and Maria Aguilar, sist
ers of the Uruguayan vice-consul at Madrid. _
Big Money Is
Being Spent For
Airplane Fields
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON,* Sept. 22, —
Intention to complete the Works
Progress Administration’s 506 air
port projects in 438 localities
was announced by Aubrey Wil
liams, deputy administrator. The
estimated cost is $75,540,999 of
which the WPA is to supply $40,
660,290, the remaining funds be
ing furnished by local sponsors.
The airport work includes a to
tal expenditure in New York
City of $2,081,040 of which $986,
467 is to go to Floyd Bennett
Field and $94,583 to Miller Field.
In New York State, outside of
the metropolitan area, sixteen
^ projects were listed, to cost $1,
162,859.
New Jersey will have six pro
jects to cost $1,401,690 and Con
necticut eleven projects, aggre
gating $992,771.
While some of the funds are
being spent on news airports and
on air-marking towns and cities
in thirty states, most of the mon
ey will go toward modernizing
existing airport facilities to make
thelh adequate to handle pres
ent day commercial airplanes,
with their high landing and take
off speeds, requiring greater
ground space for safe operation.
Increase of Participation
The Federal Government's be
lief in the utility of these pro
jects is shown by the increased
percentage of WPA money being
put into them. On Feb. 13 the
WPA contributed 37.5 percent of
the cost of projects then author
ized. This figure rose to 39 per
cent by March 31 and is now
56.9 percent.
The Bureau of Air Commerce
is cooperating in the venture to
the extent of providing specifka
tions and approving plans for
airport construction. Its techni
cal advisers also consult with
local sponsors and WPA officials
in the “practical objective of de
veloping these ground facilities
to a par with the present flying
equipment.”
Of the projects under way, 52
were reported completed, includ
ing four seaplane bases. It was
explained that many of the pro
jects embraced only specified un
its of construction.
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Submarines Be
Stationed Vlad
ivostok Soviets
(Bv The Associated Press)
VLADIVOSTOK, Siberia, U. S.
S. R., Sept. 22, —Copyright—
The concentrating of a new, se
cret submarine flotilla here, was
disclosed by reliable sources to
day, to guard against any possi
ble attack from Japan.
The submarines will be fhe
“mystery fleet” of the Pacific.
They are not listed in regular
i naval manuals. No prying eyes
| were permitted to fathom their
design.
Soviet officials, while admitt
I ing the organization of such a
flotilla, would give no specific
number to be stationed here.
Informed sources estimate that
| between forty and fifty of the
undersea craft will be organized.
Japanese sources state there
I are eight of them in the Vladivos
j tok area at present.
The submarines are new, small,
and easy to conceal. They are
capable of quick maneuvers—
this much is known.
Observers say they believe the
subs are intended chiefly for de
fensive purposes.
Because of their small size they 1
are subject to no restrictions or
treaties, because the Soviets have
retained a free hand on construe-1
Hitler May Step
Aside Be Moral
Voice Germany
(Bv The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Sept. 22, — Ponder
ed widely today, was the circu
lated report that Adolph Hitler
may resign as Nazi Chancellor,
and retain the simple title of
“Der Fuehrer”—The Leader.
The same report mentioned
Colonel General Hermann Wil
helm Goering as Hitler’s possible
successor.
Observers felt that in case of
a change Hitler would be the na- j
tion’s moral voice and Goering
;ts executive administrator.
This arrangement is believed
under consideration as a measure
to free Hitler from the routine
duties of state, and offer him an
opportunity to formulate, unhind
ered, policies, which Goering in
his part would undertake to make
effective.
UTICA RETURNS
The official returns from the
voting precinct of Utica were re
ceived in the mail late today
via plane from Deering.
tion in the Pacific.
The observers say the subs
were manufactured in European
Russia and shipped knocked
down. They were assembled in
secret in a shipyard here.
WEAVER SI
COMMISSS
AVERT M
Sailors Union Is
Ready to Contract
(By The Associated Press>
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22, —
The Sailor’s Union of the Pacific
notified the shipowners that it
was ready to make another con
tract before the award expires
September 30th, but accused the
employers of “shifting from one
ground to another in order to
find an excuse to bring about a
lockout.”
* X X :!: * * X X X X
* ABSENTEE VOTES *
* COUNTED TODAY *
•i" _
* V'otes cast under the pro- *
* visions of the Absentee Vot *
* ing law passed by the last *
X legislature, in the recent gen *
••!= eral election were counted *
* at the Clerk of the Court’s *
* office today. 27 votes were X
X including those at Nome, *
* Kotzebue, Teller and St. *
X Michael. The votes as cast *
X appear in the tabulated tab- X
* lc below. *
f* X -N X H* .!■ •1' *t- si- *i*
JGGESTS
ION MOVE
AR. STRIKE
Only Way to Avert Strike
Oct. 1st Says Director,
Is Appoint Commis
sion Handle Affairs
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, —
Joseph B. Weaver, Director of
the Bureau of Navigation and
Steamboat Inspection, said to
day that the only sure way to
avert a lockout or strike of mari
time unions on the Pacific Coast
October 1st, would be the appoint
ment of a Maritime Commission
before that time.
The White House this afternoon
indicated that members of the
Commission would be appointed
I .
by President Roosevelt v. thin a
few days.
Explains Maritime Act
Weaver explained that the Mari
time Act gives the Commission
the control over subsidies to ship
owners and authority therefore
to establish minimum wages and
working conditions for maritime
workers.
Bridges Has Conference
Harry Bridges, the militant
president of the Pacific branch
(Continued on Page Three)
Second Division Returns, General Election* September Dili, 1936
l Dele. Atty. Gen. Auditor Engin. Senator Representatives
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CITY OF NOME . 384 144 115 192 201 284 155 27 316 146 328 197 115 68 184 248 275 72 191 154 286 180 165
LITTLE CREEK . 54 8 3 21 39 12 12 4 47 9 45 17 10 15 6 34 42 14 28 16 53 14 13
GOLOVIN 25 5 6 19 1 20 7 0 11 11 23 7 25 15 5 18 7 1 18 1 3 15 3
BLUFF . 14 119678 15 10 88060 8 10 7 785 10 0
KOTZEBUE 43 36 33 10 35 38 35 4 38 37 44 35 6 1 32 35 40 2 5 37 39 35 38
FORTUNA LEDGE . 33 4 0 9 28 32 4 1 34 1 37 0 2 0 0 28 30 1 0 35 37 3 4
DEERING . 30 1 0 27 4 23 2 1 6 9 27 2 3 0 1 30 22 4 13 24 20 0 0
MT. VILLAGE .-. 8110771 0639 0 010 760 177 01
CANDLE . 56 34 29 18 40 47 33 5 53 34 60 29 12 3 29 43 52 24 14 38 47 26 39
TAYLOR . 25 5 3 11 18 24 5 3 29 2 16 17 0 2 23 22 29 6 4 5 22 7 6
COUNCIL . 11 6555 15 4 4 13 6 13 7564 553 949 9 10
Solomon :::::::::. 26 2 3 4 4 18 7 2 17 8 13 14 4 3 10 8 is 21 6 8 10 12 6
TELLER ..".-. 23 5 9 5 13 11 10 7 5 21 15 11 5 2 16 8 13 4 4 5 10 18 13
ST. MICHAEL . 6451554 15382201 680 17634
SHUNGNAK. 11 124683 0 12 0 10 2202 990 19382
HAYCOCK . 21 4 1 5 17 15 7 1 17 5 18 6 4 7 5 14 16 9 3 13 11 3 8
KIANA . 14 583666 597 10 9 15 10 7 542 12 1278
UNALAKLEET ..•..25 21 9 20 20 40 6 2 45 2 44 5 13 21 0 10 22 21 4 12 36 22 4
UTICA . 20 1 1 10 7 13 1 2 7 10 14 3 5 2 3 15 8 6 9 9 6 0 3
ABSENTEE VOTES . 15 10 7 5 12 16 8 0 13 11 13 11 2 0 6 14 12 3 8 13 8 10 11
TOTAL . 844 298 241 378 474 641 318 70 699 335 755 382 230 162 334 567 626 200 338 406 620 382 338