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VOL. 37. No. 208 NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1936 Per Copy 15cts
Rebels Continue Thrust To Madrid
PRES. F. D. ROOSEVELT MOVES WESTWARD
New England Section Only Battleground Says Jim
SITUATION TIGHTENS
AROUND LOYALISTS
SPANISH CIVIL WAR
REBELS WARNED DEFENDERS IRUN UNLESS
CITY SURRENDERS WILL BEGIN
INTENSIVE BOMBARDMENT
(By The Associated Press)
LISBON Sept. 1—Rebels con
tinued their thrusts today from
the south in an attempt to open
the main highway to Madrid and
bring about a decisive battle in
Spains civil war.
. Sixty-five miles from Madrid,
the closest advance of rebels to
date, a battle was raging in the
Talavera de la Reina region.
Loyalists claimed victory in the
encounter. The attack on Irun
suffered a lull after a rebel plane
had dropped six bombs on the
loyalist defenders. If the city
does not surrender today Rebels
have warned that an intensive
bombardment from planes, ships
and land batteries will commence.
Loyalists have taken up the
rebel challenge and women and
non combatants were sent out of
the city today to- safety across
the French frontier, while the de
fenders made ready for a desper
ate resistance.
Foster Son Of
Secretary Ickes
Found Killed
fBy The Associated Press)
CHICAGO. August 31st—Wil
marth Ickes aged 37 a foster son
of Secretary of the Interior Har
old L. Ickes was found shot to
death in the Ickes home in subur
ban Winnetka.
Sergeant Harold Lewis of the
Winnetka police station said it
was unquestionably suicide.
Erick Magnuson caretaker for
the Ickes family for the past 20
years found the body which had
one bullet wound through the
head. A 38 calibre pistol lay on
the body on the bed in the first
floor room. The body was paja
ma clad when found by Magnu
son when he brought his break
fast.
Wilmarth Ickes was treasurer
and principal owner of the Gen
eral Printing Company of Chica
go. Secretary of the Interior
Ickes took a plane from Washing
ton, D. C. and expected to arrive
in the afternoon.
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The Madrid war ministry as
serted that Loyalists killed 135
rebels, captured 35 men and 15
guns in a fierce battle in the Gua
darrama mountains. The govern
ment also claimed that its troops
were making progress in the sou
th and had encircled Granada.
| Atrocity charges continued.
[ In Madrid the Febus News
Agency said that rebels had been
accused of executing more than
3000 workers and left republi
cans after the capture of Cordo
ba.
At Rome the Vatican newspa
per observatore Romano claimed
that Loyalists had slaughtered 5
dominican priests in Barcelona.
There was no news from the
'800 other dominicans still in
Spain. It was believed they tak
en refuge with friends in Spanish
cities.
Defenders Irun
Hard Pressed
Seeking Relief
(By The Associated Press)
IRUN, Spain, Sept. 1—The sor
did pressed government defend
ers of Irun, yesterday sent their
own loved ones across the French
frontier and swore they would
expose rebel prisoners as hapless
targets for aerial bombs of their
own comrades. The prisoners
were trucked into the battered
and besieged city from nearby
fort Guadalupe. They will be
placed in exposed places of the
city and government leaders said
the minute the next rebel bomb
should wine toward the city it
will take its toll.
While packing women, sweet
hearts, children and old men off
towards the French frontier, the
government defenders forced the
families of all suspected rebel
sympathizers to stay in the city
to suffer themselves the ravages
of a renewed bombardment by
the rebels.
A combined land, sea and air
attack, the government leaders
feared would be launched any
moment in a final effort by the
rebel high command to make
good their threat to “reduce the
city to ashes.” "
Supreme Court
Refused Reopen
Ann Hewitt Case
CBy The Associated Press')
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1—The
State Supreme Court today refus
ed to reopen the Ann Cooper
Hewitt sterilization case when it
denied writs of mandamus and
certiorari to August Fourtner,
Assistant District Attorney.
Fourtner charging that dismis
sal of the Mayheim charges again
st doctors Tilton E. Tillman and
Samuel Boyd by the Superior
Court was illegal, carried the
fight to the State Supreme Court
after the District Court of Ap
peals denied his appeal.
New England Is
Only Battlefield
Declares Farley
(Bv The Associated Press!
NEW YORK, Sept. 1st—New
England is the only section that
in any way can be considered a
battleground in the presidential
election, James A. Farley, demo
cratic national chairman, said to
day, after reviewing reports from
party leaders in 41 States.
He said the democrats expected
to carry more States than in 1932,
when all but 6 States cast their j
electorial votes for president F.D.
Roosevelt, because Governor Alf
Landon’s campaign has left the
great mass of voters unimpressed.
KING EDWARD WAS ON THE
BRIDGE OF IIIS YACHT AS
IT CRASHED INTO BRIDGE
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(By The Associated Press)
ATHENS, August 31st—With
King Edward VIII on the deck of
the yacht Nahlin when it smash
ed into the bridge in the strait i (I
Chalkis on Aegan Island ofEubo
ea, on a holiday trip, carrying
the Monarch, in the Adriatic and
Aegean seas, the yacht was ap
parently not seriously damaged
and proceeded on its cruise after
a brief inspection.
The King unperturbed waved
his hand to the cheering crowd
after the collision in which the
motorboat on board the yacht
was crushed and the bridge sligh
tly damaged.
Reports indicated that the
bridge had already swung open
to permit the yacht Nahlins to
pass through. The water was
said to be very choppy when the
crash occurred.
_
ATHENS, Sept. 1—The yacht
Nahlin, carrying King Edward
VIII on a Mediterranean cruise
which struck a bridge yesterday
connecting the island of Eubuea
with the mainland, it was learned
that two sailors aboard the yacht
were injured. Two destroyers
sped to the side of the Nahlin but
their assistance was not needed.
Wanted For The
Murder of Three
Men In Calif.
(By The Associated Press)
YREKA, Calif., Sept. 1—A sher
iffs posse today had lost the trail
of Coke and John Bright, wanted
for the murder of three men near
here yesterday. Tracking dogs
had followed the brothers trail
through dense brush and forest
only to lose it on an outcropping
of shale.
Possemen were circling the re
gion where the trail was lost hop
ing to surround their quarry.
Another posse headed by Ore
gon officials worked its way down
the valley of the Little Apple
Gate river, hoping to close the
main gate into the crater Nation
al Forest believed to be the hav
en sought by the fugitives.
A third group of searchers con
centrated around a small cabin
near Yreka, where Mr. and Mrs.
Archie Bright, parents of the sus
pects, lived.
It was believed that the men
might try to pay a farewell visit
to their parents before continu
ing their flight. The father of
the fugitives declared that his
sons were justified in slaying
the two deputy sheriffs, Martin
Lange and Joseph Clark, both of
Yreka and Fred Seaborn of Val
lejo, Calif., deer hunter.
HOLYOKE, Mass., Sept. 1st—
William Fairfield Whiting, aged
72, secretary of Commerce in the
cabinet of the late president Cal
vin Coolidge, died at his home
early today. He had been ill for
some time.
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DROUGHT, INTERNATIONAL
AFFAIRS OCCUPIED FIRST
MAN NATION ON HIS TRIP
Cruiser Kane Was
Believed To Have
Been Span. Boat
(By The Associated Press)
GIBRALTAR, Sept. 1st—The
American destroyed Kane, bomb
ed off the Spanish coast, was be
loved to have been mistaken by
a rebel plane for a Loyalist war
ship, one involved in a fight off
Huelva. The Loyalist cruisers
j Migule de Cervantes and Liber
tad have been bombarding rebels
forts on the European and Afri
can side the straits, and rebels
have been replying from shore
batteries and with airplane bom
bardment: . - .
Spanish Gov’t.
Denied Charge
Made by U. S.
(By The Associated Press)
MADRID, Spain, Sept. 1st—
The Spanish government denied
that it was a government plane
that bombed the United States
destroyer Kane inSpanish waters,
and stated that no government
planes were in the area where
the Kane was fired upon, and
that the plane used was not the
type of plane employed by the
government.
Women Pilots
Assemble Race
To Start Friday
(By Tne Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 1—Amelia
Earhart Putnam landed her big
monoplane at Floyd Bennitt
field today, the first of the con
testants to arrive here for the
start of the Trans-Continental
Bendix air race to take place on
Friday. She flew here from the
Cleveland air port.
Laura Too
Union Air Terminal, Burbank,
Calif., Sept. 1—Tiny Laura In
galls, noted aviatrix, took off at
5:55 am today for New York air
port for the start of the Bendix
trans-continental race.
(By The Associated Press)
Aboard Roosevelt Special, Aug
31—President Roosevelt tonight
moved westward into the moun
tain country of Wyoming and
Utah after a day given to consid
eration of two widely separated
problems—drough and Interna
tional affairs.
At Sidney, Nebraska, thousands
of farmers turned out to welcome
the President but his reception
was tempered by the fact that on
a siding near the presidential
special was the train that wras
carrying the body of the late
Secretary of War George Dorn to
Salt Lake City for burial. Mr.
Roosevelt spoke briefly to the
crowd, As you know I am here
on a sad mission, J an: on my
way to attend the funeral of a
very distinguished Ante: r u, -he
Secretary of War. George Darn.
Because of my mission I cannot
with propriety make a long talk
to you. I am, h wcv r he added
taking this opp :' .in.ty to look
into the problems of Nebraska, I
want particularly to i o.rn at first
hand what you have done in sum
mer fallowing., I unde; tand that
you have taken the lead in ths
particular field and have obtain
ed as a result at least 2U percent
crops.
American Speed
Kinj; Set For
Attempt Record
(By The Associated Press)
BONEVILLE, Sail Flats, Utah,
Sept. 1—B. B. Jenkins American
automobile speed dare devil, will
open his 48 hour attack on speed
records starting tomorrow if the
Salt Flat Speedway dries.
Showers that made the salt soft
and dangerous for highspeed driv
ing forced postponement late last
night.
Typhoon and Flood
Damage is Great
(By The Associated Press)
TOKIO, Sept. 1—Late reports
of casualties in a typhoon and
floods in Korea left no doubt that
the catastrophe was a great one.
Official casuality lists put the
dead at 1039, with 1,755 injured
and 924 missing.