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VOL. 38. No. 229. NOME. ALASKA. Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1937 Per Copy lOcta
Real Parents Abduct Own Child
BREAK WITH ROOSEVELT ADM. HINTED
Japanese Forces Control Peiping-Fight Increases
American Labor
Party Is Headed
John L. Lewis
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug. 4—
John L. Lewis through the Com
mittee for Industrial Organiza
t on. assumed control of Labors’
jrion-Partisan League, in a move
pointing to new political align
ments and suggesting a break
witih the Roosevelt administra
tion. There were hints of a third
party move.
Authoritative sources said the
fi st objective of the league in its
new form may be expected in
the New York City mayoralty
campaign. It has been reported
that- Mayor Fiorello Laguardia
rr ight run for re-election as the
candidate of the American Labor
Party, alone, without either the
democratic or republican nomin
ation.
The American Labor Party is
the New York State affiliate of
Labors non-Partisan League.Thus
a first test of the League's stren
gth might be had before the 1933
Congressional campaigns if May
or Laguardia should decide ao run
without formal sponsorship of
either major party.
It was learned that Lewis has,
in effect, purged the League of
botli democratic and American
Federation of Labor influences.
Friends say he conceived this or
ganization now as merely the
political arm of his CIO.
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BOMBER OVER THE TOP. Droning over a carpet of clouds and the rugged crags of Mount
Rainier, 14,363 feet above sea level, this picture shows the l’. S. army’s new “flying fortress,” pos
sibly the largest and most powerful of war aircraft in the world. It was being tested at high altitude.
Duke and Duchess
Continue Visits
(Bv The Associated Rress)
NOETSCH, Austria. Aug. 3rd
The Duke of Windsor known here
as the "Restless Square”, prepar
ed to take his American born
bride to romantic Venice. The
former King and his duchess
were expected to motor from
their honeymoon retreat at Was
serleonburg Castle, to the Italian
city.
A TICK FOR TEXAS. Prof. Albert Einstein is shown at Prince
ton, N. I., as he ticked off the telegraphic impulse to open officially
the greater Texas and Pan-American Exposition at Dallas.
Advance of Japs
China Continues
In Steady Force
fBy The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 3, —Japanese
infantry, pressing southward from
Tientsin, came close to the line
of northward moving Chinese
government troops enroute to
the Techow border, of Hopeh and
Shantung provinces.
Japanese planese bombed the
vanguard of advancing Chinese
of the 29th army. The Japanese
march is going almost unresist
ed by the Chinese. It is report
ed that another Jap column is
marching behind a screen of aer
ial bombardment, toward Pao
tingfu, the capital of Hopeh pro
vince, southwest of Peiping.
At Moscow the newspaper Iz
vestia, official organ of the Sov
iet government, charged that the
Japanese were trying “to pro
voke a conflict with the U. S. S. R.
by any means possible”.
Moscow- protested at Toyko, of
the raid on the Soviet consulate
at Tientsin by White Russians,
declaring they were inspired by
the Japanese. The Foreign offi
ce officials denied the charge.
PEIPING, Aug. 3, — The Jap-1
anese forces now completely con
trol the capital and have closed
the gates of Peiping, virtually im
prisoning Americans and other
foreigners, as squadrons of plan
es blasted a path in a deep thrust
into China.
Japanese authorities said the
planes have been bombing Chin
ese concentrations at Paotinfao.
S5 miles southwest of here, for
the last twenty four hours.
A United States Army officer
and missionary were halted at
the Peiping gates and refused
permission to go on a mercy er
rand to Tugchow.
The Japanese have erected
heavy fortifications east and south
of the gates. The Jap army, heav
ily reinforced, is penetrating rap
idly, south along the railway to
Hankow
Telegraphic Briefs
(Bv The Associated Press>
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4—Unit
ed Airlines placed a $1,100,000
order with the Qouglas Aircraft
Company for ten sleeper and
lounge transport planes which
will increase their sky fleet to 40
ships.
ORIZABA, Vera Cruz, Mexico,
August 4th—Discovery of more
bodies boosted to thiry-four the
number killed in a disasterous
earthquake in Vera Cruz and
Puebla states, Sunday night.
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SEATTLE, Augu. 4—Abolition
of the Cadet Officer System, more
space and ventilation and separa-1
tion of the watches in the fore
castle were urged on the Federal
Maritime Commission at a hear
ng here.
KIDNAP MYSTERY IS
A CASE OF MISTAKEN
PARENTS IN CHICAGO
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO. Aug. 4. — Two men
and a woman kidnaped Donald
Horst, two and a half years old.
from the back yard of his home
last night. Five minutes later
they telegraphed his rich mother
demanding five thousand dollars
ransom.
One of the men and the woman
fotffcht fiercely with the mother,
Mrs. Otto Horst, 30, wife of a
hotel owner, and her maid, car
rying the bewildered child from
the yard to the automobile in
.which the other man was wait
ing.
Federal agents were immediate
ly called to assist city, county,
and state police in spreading the
search for the kidnapers.
Assistant United States Attorn
ey Wilbert Crowley announced
that the Horst child had been
found and was safe this morning
in his office.
He said John Regan and his
wife Lydia Regan, had the child.
They told him they were his nat
ural parents. The Regans are now
undergoing a severe questioning.
The Regans said their car was
drives by Fred Ewert, a former
convict, for whom a wide search
has been launched.
The birth certificate filed with
the Board of Health showed that
Donald Otto Horst was born Jan
uary 4th, 1935, and that his fath
er was Otto Horst ar.d his moth
er Mrs. Martha Szyhzki Horst.
The attending physician was £)r
John. Rose.
Chicago. Aug 4. —The Horst
child was found at the Regan’s
home, after the Regans came to
Asst. U. S Attorney Crowley’s of
fice voluntarily, when they saw
the news in the newspapers.
They admitted ’aking the child.
Doth .said the child was born to
them January 6th, 1935, when
thov were not married, and the
attending physician was Dr. Rose.
The doctor told them he knew
“a wealthy man vh. wanted a
ch Id".
Mr- Regan agreed to let him
arrange for the child's care, but
said today she signed no papers.
The baby was taken from Mrs.
Regan after its birth which oc
curred at the Ewert home, and
then turned over to the Horsts.
The birth certificate was filled
out with the Horsts as the real
parently.
Recently Everts, an ex-convict
told the Regans where the child
was. They decided to take him
the first chance they could.
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VENETIAN IDUL. It was a stop (or tea at Venice on the wed
ding trip of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to Austria. Here are
the world-famed lovers in a motor boat on one of the Venice canals
en route from the railway station to a hotel.