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VOL. 37. No. 57. . —• NOME, ALASKA, Saturday, March 7. 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
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Europe Faces Grave Political Crisis
RUBY DOG TEAM WINS 1st HEAT FAIRBANKS
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Women To Rule Nome For 1 Day—Sunday Races
John Allen, Ruby
Wins First Heat
Of Dog Derby
(By The Associated Press)
Fairbanks, March 6\h —
John Allen of Ruby won
the first thirty mile heat in
the Dog Derby in two hours
six minutes thirty seconds.
Bergman Kokrines of Nu
lato, was second with two
hours, fourteen minutes
fifty three seconds.
Harold Woods of Ram
part was . third with two
hours fifteen minutes eight
een seconds. Two more
heats will be run Saturday
and Sunday.
The Anchorage-Palmer
combination hockey team
defeated the Fairbanks
team four to two.
Hop es To Form
A New Cabinet
Stalemated
(By The Associated Press)
Tokyo, March 7 — Koki
Hirotas’ hopes of forming a
new national cabinet were
stalemated by the army in
fluenced court. Juichi T^r
auchi proposed that the
war minister withdraw but
indicated that no other gen
eral be permitted to join
.the ministry unless his
terms are met by the gov
ernor of Tokyo. The stock
exchange announced its re
opening tomorrow, then
withdrew the announce
ment due to political clouds
An increase in police
guarding foreign ministers
and official residents caus
ed great tension.
Nine Killed In
Italian Motor
Factory Blast
(By The Associated Press)
Milan, Italy, March ?th—
Nine persons were killed
and several injured in an
automobile and airplane
motor factory explosion.
Fire broke out and exten
sively damaged the plant.
Many windows in the sur
► rounding country were
| shattered.
British Plan A
Strong Protest
Italy Bombing
(By The Associated Press)
London, March 7th—Au
thoritative sources said that
the British planned a strong
protest to Italy over the
bombing of a British am
bulance unit in Ethiopia.
They further said that the
British flag was spread on
the ground but was ignor
ed.
Primo Camera
Wins Tech. KO
Over Spanierd
(By The Associated Press)
New York, March 7th —
Ponderous Primo Camera,
Italy’s fisitic foghorn, blast
ed out a five round victory
over Izzy Gastanaga of
Spain, Friday night. Tf%?
huge Italian tipped the
scales at two hundred six
ty eight pounds and was
awarded a technical knock
out when referee Arthur
Donovan stopped the fight
because of the condition of
Gastanagas damaged left
eye. The Spaniard weigh
ed in at two hundred eight
pounds.
2 Picketers Killed
Another Injured
By Company Men
(By The Associated Press)
Astoria, Oregon, March 7
—Two men were killed and
another critically injured
when Crown Willamette
Logging Company workers
repulsed an attack of rock
throwing, club wedding
pickets. James Ray, about
thirty-five and William
Blackwood, about forty, of
Seaside and both of the in
vading group were shot to
death. William Weedel al
so of the picketing band
was injured and rushed to
an Aatoria hospital.
Peace officers sent to the
mill to preserve peace ar
rived too late to avert the
bloodshed but just in time
to keep it from becoming
more bloody.
HITLER RE MILITARIZES RHINE
| ITALY ACCEPTS PEACE APPEAL
FRANCE CANCELS ARMY LEAVES
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Hitler’s Action Precipitates A Grave
Political C risis Pains Etheopiasi Fuss
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Berlin, March 7—Hitler
re-militarizes the Rhine
land territory by denounc
ing the Locarno Pact and
proposed the German re
entrance to the League of
Nations if a non-aggression
paci is approved. He also
ordered new election which
will dissolve the Reichstag.
Rome: Mussolini accept
ed the League appeal for
African peace on “general
I principles.”
In Paris the government
is going to submit the Ger
man Locarno denunciation
to the League Council. All
army leaves will probably
be cancelled tonight.
And in London, high of
ficials hast ily confer on Hit
ler’s proposals.
Geneva, March 7 —Hit
ler’s action was regarded as
precipitating a grave polit
ical crisis, paling the Eth
eapian fuss into insignifi
cance. An early extraor
dinary session of the Lea
gue Council was planned.
Yugoslavian
Premier & U. S.
Minister Shot At
(By The Associated Press)
Belgrade, Yugoslavia,
March7— Assassin Damian
Arnantovich fired wildly at
Premier Milan Stoyadino
vich in the Chamber of De
puties and narrowly miss
ed Charles B. Wilson, Unit
ed States Minister to Yug
oslavia. Opposition depu
ties refused to sit in the
chamber but sat in the gal
lery where Wilson was.
Arnantovich was offered
the floor and he spoke but
became abusive and when
gendarmes closed in on him
he whipped out a pistol.
Wilson remained seated
while the others scattered.
Arnantovich was arrested.
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18 Year Old Jail
Deliverer Cause
3 Dead 2 injured
(By The Associated Press)
Sioux Falls, S. D., March
7— The hitch hiking Kan
sas gunman who sought to
release a brother in the pen
itentiary brought death to
three persons and wounds
to three others. Warden
Eugene Reilly, aged seven
ty two and Phil Ray, a St.
Paul desperado, serving
thirty years for a bank rob
bery were killed in a run
ning gun fight with a posse.
Berlan Moisei of Webster
died in the hospital of
wounds suffered when he
and his fiancee, Miss Freda
Rausch also of Webster
were ordered from their
car by the fleeing bandits.
Miss Rausch was also light
ly wounded.
• Claude Carrier, age eight
een, a Kansan, who engin
eered the escape was critic
ally wounded and George
Collins, a deputy sheriff al
so suffered gunshot wounds
Harold Carrier, whom Car
rier attempted to release
was recaptured uninjured.
The riot occurred at two
thirty p.m. and in less than
an hour it was all over with
the escapees back in prison
and Reilly and Ray dead
and Meisel mortally wound
ed. Reilly was kidnapped
as hostage and was found
dead in the bandit’s car.
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Former Attorney
General Is Dead
(By The Associated Press)
Olympia, March 6—John
H. Dunbar, State Attorney
General under the Hart
Harley administration died
here of a liver ailment to
day.
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Great Interest
In Ladies Sport i
Races Sunday
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—
The big Ladies sports day
under the auspices of the
Nome Kennel Club is at
tracting attention far and
wide.
One report is that there
will be a last minute entry
from the Ice Carnival at
Fairbanks, the teqm and
driver to arrive by plane.
The local lady drivers will
have to get going and see
that no intruder walks
away with the prizes.
Marshall oi the Day
Miss Gretchen Young,
assisited by 25 deputies has
full authority and will be
in complete charge of the
city during the events. Just
a word of warning to the
men of Nome: watch your
self on Ladies Day.
Events are as follows:
Main Event: 5 dogs and
sled over a 4 mile course
smarting at the Miners and
Merchants Bank and run
(Continued on Page Three.
Officials Waive
Law--Doug and
Sylvia Married
(By The Associated Press'
Paris, March 7—Douglas
Fairbanks and Lady Ash
ley were married in the
gold-leafed marriage salon
in the eighth ward of the
City.Hall under a ceiling of
floating pink-deshed eupids
Officials waived the French
laws requiring thirty days
residence and eleven days
banns.
Italian Bombs
Kill Brit. Red
Cross Worker
(By The Associated Press)
Addis Ababa, March 7—
A government communique
said that a British Red
Cross worker, Major G. A.
Burgoyne was killed by an
Italian plane which was
bombing an Etheopian sec
tor which was in the act of
withdrawing back of the
northern front. He died
Sailors Union Of
Pat*, to Fight New
Union !n Courts
(By The Associated Press)
San Francisco, March 7th
—Harry Lundeberg, secre
tary and treasurer of the
Charterless Sailors Union
of the Pacific and attorney
Aaron Sapiro of New Yojk
planned a coastwise tour to
make sure” that the propos
ed successor union ‘doesn’t
get started.”
Sapiro said “We will fight
the new union in the courts
and if we lose there we will
fight them on- the ships.”
He asked longshoremen
delegates present and other
maritime crafts to help end
up with only the Sailors
Union on the Pacific. The
sailors lost their charter
two months ago by action
of the International Sea
mans’ Union, the parent or
ganization in a convention
at Washington D. C.
Conference To
Decide Sum Of
Relief Nexl \ ear
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, March 6 —
F^resident Roosevelt said
that another conference
concerning next year’s re
lief will be up-coming be
fore deciding the amount
of the sum. Chairman Bu
chanan, Democrat from
Texas on the House Appro
priations Committee de
manded that a bi'lion lim
it be placed on expenditur
es.
Senator Vandenberg, Re
publican from Michigan
urged the investigation of
reports that politician's
were collecting campaign
funds from workers on re
lief and alleged that the
Pennsylvania Democratic
County Committee asked
WPA workers to contrib
ute. He cited Senator Rush
Holt’s charges that politics
are rife in West Virginia re
lief affairs.
Attention Odd Fellows
Special meeting Monday
night March 9th, at V
o’clock, business of import
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