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VOL. 37 No. Ill * NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
GOPs Battle It Out State Primaries
ITALY PROCLAIMS ANNEXATION ETHIOPIA
Dirigible Hindenburg To Start Return Trip Tonite
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WASHINGTON GOES
UNINSTRUCTED AS
FISTS FLY SPOKANE
Washington State Convention Was Near
Disruption When Two Men Hail
Blows On Floor Over Laiitlon
(By The Associated Press)
SPOKANE, Washington, May 11, — The Republi
cans elected an uninstructed delegation to the national
convention after an attempt to win endorsement for
Landon had been beaten on the floor by a chorus of
“Noes”.
They adopted a platform of stinging rebuke to the
national and state democratic administrations. Their
platform preamble denounced the “supine and cringing
congress and the erratic irresponsibility of the legisla
tive majority.”
A fist fight nearly disrupted the caucus when Ar
thur Vareo of King County and William Weaver of
Pierce County clashed on the floor after a bitter ex
change of words. Weaver was knocked to the floor,
and immediately others parted them, stopping the fight.
MOSCOW, May 11, — The Idaho Republican con
vention here elected delegates to the national conven
tion giving Borah their full support in his campaign
for the presidency. Although absent Borah dominated
the convention, where speakers pictured him as the
party’s only hope of salvation._
Reorganization
Bureau Air Com.
Been Proposed
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 11, —
Reorganization of the Bureau of
Air Commerce of the Department
of Commerce was advocated yes
terday afternoon before the Sen
ate Committee on Air Safety by
J. M. Johnson, assistant secretary
of commerce. He said:
“I think the Bureau of Air
Commerce is improperly organi
zed. Its reformation in general
should be in two divisions. One
division should give attention to
construction and to maintenance
facilities.
Duties of Other Division
“The other division should con
cern itself with enforcement of
regulations, with communications,
with radio beams and with tele-,
types.”
Mr. Johnson declared that the
United States leads the world in
air safety. He asserted that avia
tion men generally are young and
that as a consequence their ac
tions “often are impetous rather
than deliberate.”
Taking of Testimony Resumed
The committee yesterday resum
ed the taking of testimony in
connection with the air crash
which resulted in the death last
year in Missouri of Senator Bron
son Cutting of New Mexico.
William Mahan
Is Very Nervous
McNeil Island
(Bv The Associated Press)
TACOMA, Wn., May 11, — Wil
liam Mahan, the man of 15 alias
es, and one-time Public Enemy
No. 1, looked worried today as
he looked from the walls of Mc
Neil Island Penitentiary, where
he is under sentence for 60 years
for the.kidnaping of George Wey
erhauser.
VISITS TELLER
Thomas Hayward, meteorologist
of the U. S. Weather Bureau at
Nome, yesterday, made a flight
to Teller with Pilot Hermann of
the Northern Air Transport and
visited the Airway weather re
porting station at that point. It
was also learned that a radio tele
phone service for Teller is expect
ed to arrive on the first steamers
and the equipment will be placed
in operation there.
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And Lode
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Baseball Scores
(By The Associated Press!
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Saturday Games
St. Louis 4 Chicago 2
Brooklyn 2 Boston 0
New York 3 Philadelphia 5
Cincinnati 6 Pittsburgh 10
The Cardinals dropped Chic
ago another notch in the stand
ings, in a ten inning victory.
King's tripple and Martin Med
wick’s single sunk the relief pit
ching of Charley Root. The win
marked Roy Parmalees eight de
cision over the Cubs in ten starts
since he has been in the league.
The Cubs are now in third place.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Saturday Games
Cleveland 3 Detroit 4
Boston 9 Washington 5
Philadelphia 2 New York 5
Chicago 7 St. Louis 3
COAST LEAGUE
Saturday Games
Sacramento 3 Oakland 5
Missions 3 San Diego 11
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Sunday Games
Cincinnati 6 Pittsburgh 0
New York 6 Philadelphia 2
St. Louis 5 Chicago 1
Boston which has been climb
ing from the league cellar to six
th place defeated Brooklyn 5 to 4
in a twelve inning game.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Sunday Games
Chicago vs St. Louis, rain.
Boston 0 Washington 4
Cleveland 9 Detroit 7
New York Yankees defeated
Philadelphia 7 to 2 before the sec
ond largest crowd of the season
—over thirty-two thousand. The
Tigers and Indians went fifteen
innings.
COAST LEAGUE
Sunday Games
Seattle 3-2 Portland 4-3, double
header. Los Angeles 5-2 San Fran
cisco 10-10; Sacramento 3-2 Oak
land 6-0; Missions 4-4 San Diego
2-5.
Last night's games—Seattle 2.
Portland 0; San Diego 11 Mis
sions 3; Los Angeles 12 San Fran
cisco 5; Oakland 5 Sacramento 3.
(Continued on Page Two)
Spring Fever Is
Felt in Chicago
Warmth Nation
(By The Associated Press) ,
CHICAGO, 111., May 11, Spring
fever developd into summer
heat over most of the nation. i
Warm winds from the south
bucked a cold wet spell in the
Hudson Bay area.
It was considerably warmer
than normal from coast to coast.
Sunny skies drew 350,000 to
Coney Island in New York City,
where the temperature was above
the 60s.
OHIO BATTLEGROUND
FOR EASTERN G 0 P IN
STATE PRI ELECTIONS
Subject Fraud Illinois Primary \\ as Not
Brot Attention Knox Because He
“Too Fine A Man*’
i, (By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11, — Ohio’s Primary
is the battleground which may give possible indications
of the Middlewestern voting trend.
It is being watched closely today, on the eve of
what state officials expect to be record balloting tomor
i row.
Borah is in the contest opposed by Robert A. Taft,
the favorite son, who is backed by the republican state
organization, for the delegates to the national conven
tion. Colonel Henry Breckenridge of New York, is op
posing Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Addressing a rally last night. Father Coughlin said
congressional candidates who arc endorsed by the un
ion will “take half the state”, as Borah wound up his
campaign.
Edgar J. Cook, manager of the Illinois primary
this month, said he had talked with Governor Henry
Horner regarding charges of fraud in the Illinois vote.
Cook said he turned information over to the prose
cutors, and added that “Knox was too fine a man” to
have any knowledge of the alleged frauds. Factional
struggles will feature tomorrow, West Virginia’s pri
mary elections.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 11, — Senator Borah
asserted that a segment of the Republican leadership
was fostering a monopolistic system bringing “scanty
and meagre leaving for the vast majority, and almost
incaluculable wealth for a few,” in an appeal for support
from the Ohio electorate, in a radio address Saturday,
seeking the votes in Tuesday’s G. O. P. primary.
He said “the Republican organization and men are
making every effort to seize control of the Cleveland
convention. The oil companies, utility magnates, the
Duponts and Browns of Ohio, believe in the monopolist
ic system and defend it.”
Annexation Of
Ethiopia Was
Proclaimed
(By The Associated Press)
ROME, Itayl, May 10, — Prem
ier of Italy, Benito Mussolini,
proclaimed Saturday night, after
fifteen centuries, the restoration
I of the Roman Empire of the days
of the historic Caesars, decreeing
! total Italian sovereignty over con
!quered Ethiopia, and proclaiming
i '/ictor Emmanuel, his King, to be
Emperor.
From a balcony, standing in the
laming light of searchlights and
•lares, Mussolini shouted “The It
Uian people have created an em
pire with their own blood; they
will fertilize it with their work,
and defend it against anyone with
their men.
Quadruplets Are
Born To Couple
In Passaic, N. J.
(By The Associated Press)
PASSAIC, New Jersey, May 11,
—Quadruplets were born Satur
day to Mr. and Mrs. Emil Kasper
and are in splendid condition—
one girl and three boys.
The mother, is the 36-year-old
wife of a $20-a-week railroad
roundhouse worker.
The tiny infants were named
Frances, Frank, Ferdinand & Fel
ix.
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Hindenburg Near
Heady For Return
Flight to Germany
03v The Associated Press)
LAKEHURST, New Jersey, May
11, Dr. Hugo Eckner and Cup
t.iin Ernest Lehmann went to
Washington, D. C. to return offi
cial greeting, at the completion of
the German zeppelin Hinden
burg's ocean flight, leaving their
subordinates to finish grooming
the craft for her return to Ger
many tonight.
Haile Selassie
Objects Italians
Taking Ethiopia
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I fBv The Associated Press)
GENEVA, Switzerland, M.iv 11,
Emperor Haile Selassie b.tterly
protested against M i olini's an
nexation of Eth'opia, to the Leag
ne of Nations, as the ses.-ion op
ened.
A direct com' in n !' urn
the exile from hi - ,t at Jerusa
lem, protested Italy's Satinalav
night decrees, cf s r ire
ed the League tn -t !
At Rome, Mussol: ■ I i
partial domobili/.at1 ..!'
oipal classes he called to
ors, for war.
Efforts Going
On Raise Army
Air Goi%)s l. S.
A.
'P.V The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D. A. May 11,
Fresh efforts were started today
Mr the securing of uatl'rir.z tiorx
for an army air fleet of four
thousand plates. The >72.000,
000 War Departmer, 'oil aw its
the President’s approval.
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Smiling lakes
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Place Between
[?e!)e!s & Govt.
fB.v The Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, May 11, — A'
fierce five-hour battle between
rebels & governmental troops in
which thirteen rebels and eight
soldiers were killed, was reported
in dispatches from Guadalajara.
Army headquarters reported
that troops had engaged fifty re
bels headed by Macedonio Al
torre, and routed them after
sharp bursts of fighting.
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