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VOL 37. No. 201. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUG. 24, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
16 Soviet Plotters To Be Executed
SPANISH REBELS EXECUTE 5 FRENCH MEN
Japanese Report 9 Alleged Soviet Citizens Executed
FIVE NATIONALS OF
FRANCE EXECUTED
SPAIN’S CIVIL WAR
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 24, — Spanish rebel officers at
Pamplona reported today, the execution of five French
men, fighting for the Loyalists, and warned that other
French nationals who join in the civil war may ex
pect the same fate.
Asserting that the five French volunteers captured
near Oyarzun in a battle were put to death despite
French denials, rebels insisted that a fleet of fifteen
French airplanes bombed Naval Pral and that other
warcraft crossed the Pyrennes on the northern border
and bombed Oyarzun and Tolosa, the ships then return
ing to France. _ , _ ,
Germany informed France that she would immed
iately decline the embargo on arms and airplane ship
ments to Spain, and in spite of the recent tension over
the search of a German ship by the Spanish govern
ment naval forces and other incidents, which Germany
considered anti-German, indicating that she feels vol
unteers should be kept at home. She felt that popular
French opinion was largely sym
pathetic with the Madrid govern
ment and that it might react
disastrously to the execution of
such an embargo.
A report was obtained today
that new rebel planes bombed
Irun and that fierce fighting rag
ed on other fronts also.
The British merchant ship Gib
elzerjon was stopped by a Span
ish government cruiser off Melil
la, Spanish Morocco, it was de
clared. When two British war
ships and destroyers sped to her
aid, they obtained an apology
from the Spanish loyalists com
mander, and the Gibelgerjon was
permitted to proceed.
The British government in
structed her men of war hence
forth to prevent such occurrences.
Bare Fist Boxing
(By The Associated Press!
BATHURST, New South Wales,
Aug. — Secretly organized bare
knuckle prizefighting has return
ed to Australia in startling fash
ion.
In a secluded clearing near here
800 tense spectators gathered t o
watch a visiting boxer and a
woodsman fight a “grudge” battle
that lasted only two rounds.
At the end of six minutes, the
woodsman quit with his face
slashed, several teeth missing, his
nose flattened, and his jaw badly
injured. He was completely lost
against his more scientific oppon
ent.
The fight was announced by
underground methods and feeling
ran so high that supporters and
betting men came as far as 100
miles distant.
Baseball Scores
(By The Associated Press)
NATIONAL
Saturday Games
Cincinnati 6, Chicago 4
Philadelphia 3, Brooklyn 12
Pittsburgh 3, St. Louis 4
New York and Boston game
postponed account of rain.
AMERICAN
Boston 2, New York 3
Thirteen innings.
St. Louis 0, Cleveland 6
Washington 12-6, Phila. 8-7
Chicago 9, Detroit 3.
COAST
Portland 12, Los Angeles 5
Missions 6, Oakland 0
Seattle 7-3, San Francisco 0-1.
Sunday Games
COAST LEAGUE
Missions 3-3 Oakland 2-2
Seattle 2 San Francisco 7
Portland 9-3 Los Angeles 5-4
San Diego 3-5 Sacramento 7-0
AMERICAN
Boston 3-6 New Pork 5-3
St. Louis 1 Cleveland 4
Washington 9-9 Phila 3-6
Chicago 4 Detroit 2
NATIONAL
Pittsburgh 3-6 St. Louis 7-6
(2nd game called on account
of darkness in 10th inning.)
Cincinnati 0 Chicago 7
New York 3-6 Boston 2-1
Philadelphia 5-5 Brooklyn 6-3
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Dean Landes Of
U. of W. Died
Seattle Today
| (By The Associated Press')
I SEATTLE, Aug. 24, — Dean
Henry Landes, aged 68, the old
1 est member of the faculty of
the University of Washington, in
i point of service, died here Sun
day of pneumonia.
He and his wife, Mrs. Bertha
K. Landes, former mayor of Seat
tle. had returned last Wednes
day to Seattle, after conducting
a travel tour in China.
The Dean caught cold in Shang
hai, which developed into pneu
monia, and was ill most of the
ocean voyage back. ,
In addition to his widow, his
son Kenneth of the faculty of the
University of Kansas, and a
daughter Mrs. Violet Peaches of j
Seattle survive him. Landes was j
widely recognized for his ability J
as a geologist.
Floyd B. Olson
Gov. Minnesota
Died Saturday
(By The Associated Press)
ROCHESTER, Aug. 24, — Floyd
B. Olson Farmer-Labor Gover-1
nor of Minnesota, long promin-;
ent in state and national politic
al circles, died Saturday night, j
He was only forty-four years
old and was a staunch supporter
of the Roosevelt administration.
_
Asked For It
Most of the Jones’ Sunday mo
tor trip had been marred by a
violent quarrel. On their home
ward journey they passed a pas
ture field just as a donkey bray
ed long and loud.
“Is that a relative of yours?”
he asked spitefully.
“Only by marriage, dear,” she
replied sweetly.
DANGER AND THRILLS ARE
HEADED IN STARHEMBERG S
PATROL AUSTRIAN POLITICS(
(By The Associated Press)
VIENNA, Aug. — Prince Ernst
Ruediger von Starhemberg, mus
cular 36 year old storm center of
Austrian politics, gets a kick out
of living dangerously.
He borrowed his fascism from
Mussolini but his physical cour
age and zest for dangerous situ
ations is his own. His spectacular
career in wars, rebellions and pol
itics gives proof of his fearless
ness.
The Russians shot at him on
the eastern front, The Italians
shot at him on the Piave. The
Poles shot at him in Silesia.
He risked his neck with Adolf
Hitler in his beer hall putsch in
Munich. ,
Assassination Plots Foiled
In August, 1933, two Nazis bent
on assassination were arrested as
they crept up on Starhemberg.
By April, 1934, a horde of Aus
trian socialists with thousands of
guns had proclaimed him special
enemy No. 1 and indicated how
they felt about it by floating a
coffin bearing Starhemberg’s
name down the Danube River.
Two months later a huge bomb,
ready to blast the building from
its foundations, was found in a
room above his offices in Ballhaus
Platz.
This succession of events indi
cated that enemies of the fascist
prince would go to almost any
Mength to eliminate him as a po
litical force.
Almost every day some sinister
incident brought new evidence
that many persons would have
regarded it an act of high patriot
ism to stop Starhemberg with a
bullet.,
The opposition wrhich he en
countered actually contributed
to Starhemberg’s rise, for it
prompted him to take over and
strengthen Austria’s largest pri
vate army, the heimwehr. He
used it to smash the socialists,
and to chase the Nazis to cover
after the putsch in which Chan
cellor Dollfuss was assassinated.
Called ‘Prince Big Mouth’
While physical courage is per
haps the outstanding characteris
tics of the prince, his other quali
ties make him a colorful public
figure. He is a forceful orator
with a platform personality that
commands attention.
Rarely does he write out an ad
dress in advance. He prepares
an outline, and then hammers
home his ideas with simple, di
rect words. He has a flair for
sensational statements.
Early in his political career his
foes tried to call Starhemberg’s
speeches bluff and bombast. His
bolder opponents sometimes call
ed him “Prince Big Mouth.”
But it soon became apparent that
(Continued on Page Three)
!6 MEN WHO PLEADED GUILTY
CONSPIRACY AGAINST SOYIETS
SENTENCED TO BE EXECUTED
A World Minus
Males Is Viewed
By The Scientist
(By The Associated Press)
ST. LOUIS, Aug. — Well, boys,
you can start checking in your
masculinity any time now—the
biologists are predicting a male
less world.
Dr. David Causey of the Uni
versity of Kansas waited until
leap year, with the girls toeing
the marks for their quadrennial
matrimonial offensive, to forecase
a total eclipse of the male.
He offers one consolation—the
disappearance of the “stronger"
sex is apparently confined as yet
to the animal world. But he hints
that the twilight of human mas
culinity is possibly just a couple '
of eons beyond the limbo, where
dwells that well-known bird, the
dodo.
Dr. Causey, here for the recent
annual convention of the Ameri
can Association for the Advance
ment of Science, said that sexual
reproduction appears to be an
afterthought of nature which she
is slowly trying to forget. Some
species, he declared, already show
evidence of swinging back to the
time when life was perpetuated
without benefit of masculine sup
port.
In certain types of fishes, he ex
plained. the care of the young, a
traditional female function, is be
ing shunted onto the male. The
male in these species carries the
fertilized eggs in his mouth until
they hatch.
The biologist pointed to chang
es in the relative sizes of the two
sexes as another “line of decad
ence.”
Among mammals the male is
scarcely holding his own in su
periority of size, and among
some termites the male has be
come “e(ntirely dwarfed beside
the female,” he said.
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After September 1st, 1936, a
penalty of $3.00 will be added to
all unpaid school taxes and col
lection of same will be enforced.
M. J. WALSH,
3t School Tax Collector.
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(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Aug. 24, — The six
teen men who pleaded guilty of
plotting to overthrow the Soviet
government and kill Joseph Stal
in, were sentenced today to be
shot.
The sentences can be carried
out anytime within seventy-two
hours after conviction.
Their only appeal is to the
Presidium of the Central Execu
tive Committee of the Communist
Party.
The case against the men charg
ed with collaborating with Leon.
Trotzsky, former Bolhevik lead
er now in exile in Norway, in an
anti-government conspiracy, went
to the judges last night. '
Japanese Report
Nine Sovietists
Were
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, Aug. 24, — The Jap
anese general army headquarters
m Hsinking, Manchoukuo, an
nounced this morning that nine
alleged Soviet citizens had been
executed on the outskirts of Hil
ar, last Friday, and that twenty
eight others had been sentenced
to prison for terms of from five
to twenty years.
The dispatch from Hsingking
asserted that the condemned Rus
sians are the “remnants of the
secret delegation which the Sov
iets sent to Manchoukuo twelve
years ago, charged with Sovietiz
ing the three-rivers district,”
seventy-five miles north of Hail
ar near the Argun river on the
Siberian border.
Schooner Holmes
Said Ice Pack Now
Near Pt. Barrow
(By The Associated Press)
POINT BARROW, Aug. 24, —
The schooner C. S Holmes, reach
ing Barrow today from Kotze
bue, reported high winds and
that the Arctic ice pack was not
far off.
Captain Backland said that the
Patterson, a smaller trading ves
sel enroute to the far Eastern
waters of Coronation Gulf, was
fast in the ice and can’t reach
Herschell Island.