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VOL. 37 No. 231 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 28, 1936 Per Copy 15ct»
Fascists Conquer Toledo Sunday
S. S. VICTORIA SAILS FOR NOME 9 P.M.TUES.
Forest Fires Did Damage Coast Over Week-End
FASCISTS OCCUPING
TOLEDO, ENTERED
SUN. AFTERNOON
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Sept. 28, — The Spanish Fascist Army I
8,000 strong commanded Toledo today after routing j
government defenders and freeing an unknown num- j
ber of their comrades from the Alcazar. ;
The government troops fled south and east. The
path to Madrid was blocked by insurgents.
Fascist smashed their way into Toledo Sunday af-;
ternoon. Madrid ordered reinforcements for a cold
steel charge in a counter-attack on the Toledo sector.
Throughout the night troop-laden lorries, escorted by
warplanes rumbled up from the south.
Spanish warboats at Bilbao, on the Bay of Biscay
coast gave the city a respite from the Fascists’ attack,
with a naval bombardment, as they convoyed food sup
nlips into the harbor.
Coast Guard Has
Defeated System
Of Rum-runnin<]
By Sigrid Arne
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, -
Two sails shot up the masts of i
schooner in the azure-blue har
bor of a little Mexican Island
Wind bellied her sails and shi
nosed north.
That afternoon coast guard heat
t quarters in Washington wer<
messaged that the “George ant
Earl” was headed toward Amer
can ports. And the “George ant
Earl” was on the coast guard’
black list of rum-runners.
For days messages came it
from coast guard cutters ant
planes that she had been sightei
still going north. Then she wa,
lost.
Finally the New York coas
guard was warned she was heat
ed into that harbor. They searcl
ed the miles of New York whar
ves, and finally custom agent
spotted her sliding up the Eas
River. She was boarded ant
seized. She held 32,000 gallon
of alcohol.
Coast guard intelligence heri
again marked another boat of
their list of suspects.
Gone With Speak-Easy
W At times during the prohibitioi
era as many as a hundred sucl
boats have been reported in i
single day lying in “Rum row’
outside the 12-mile limit. But foi
several weeks now no such boa
has been reported. Rum rov
seems to have gone the way o
the speak-easy.
In 1924 Rum row was in it:
1 hey-day. From the Canadian bo:
der to the Virginia Capes there
idled schooners and small, en
gined craft waiting for American
speed boats to relieve them of
(Continued on Page Three)
British Woman
Does Portraits
By “Intuition”
1 Draftswoman During the War
Now Devotes Her Time
To Odd Paintings
1
' (By The Associated Press)
I LONDON, Sept. 23, —A woman
> artist, E. K. Redaer, who recent
ly held an exhibition in Lon
i don, specializes in “intuitional”
l portraits. Frequently she never
l sees her “sitters.”
> For instance, she “tuned in” to
a New York lecturer, warned
- him to stand by at a certain
L hour, and when the time came
i they both concentrated mentally.
• Between them they “evolved” a
> picture, he radiating the ideas,
: she transferring them through
l the brush.
i Miss Reader was a draftswom
an at Woolwich arsenal for two
■ years during the war. Subsequent
■ ly she studied art. Her most un
usual efforts, she says, are evolv
ed by putting water and paint
i on paper and letting the mix
i ture run. By turning the paper
i about, she discovers an accident
’ al design, in which she sees a
■ spiritual meaning. She brings
; this out by painting a few more
’ lines, and the result is a “wat
! er-mark" picture.
Miss Reader also asserts she
i can record anybody’s dream or
■ “vision."
Thousands Are
Homeless Texas
Result of Floods
(By The Associated Press)
WACO, Texas, Sept. 28, —
Thousands are homeless in cen
tral Texas, and at least four are
dead, with property damage
amounting into the millions, as
the Little River, rolled at re
cord-breaking flood stages, ovei
the countryside.
The Brazos River started reced
ing here today, as twenty-five
hundred homeless sought emer
gency relief.
Seventeen towns below her<
were without gas when the com
panj s suspension bridge wa
washed out over the Brazos.
Rains were general again to
day over northern, central, anc
southwestern parts of Texas.
Expenditures
In Alaska Are
Listed Council
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, -
The National Emergency Counci
announced that expeditures ii
Alaska under the Emergency Re
lief Act of 1935, had amountet
to $3,960,904, through June 30tl
1936, leaving an unexpended ba
ance of $778,837 of the funds al
lotted to the Territory.
Expenditures included direc
relief $2,729,506; highways, road
and streets $563,899; public built
ings $23,185; conservation worl
$585,812; electricity, water ant
sewer systems $8,500; miscellan
eous projects $988; administrativi
expenses $49,103.
Forest Fires In
Oregon, Calif.
Cause 7 Deaths
Towns wiped out by Fires
which raced through
Forest Unchecked
Over Weekend
(By The Associated Press)
BULLETIN, Bandon, Oregon
Sept. 28, Seven persons died in
a fire which swept over this
city last night.
I BANDON, Oregon, Sept. 28, —
I
> j Seven are known to be dead fol
■1 owing a forest fire which swept
s over the town of Bandon virtual
ly destroying it, late Saturdaj
night and early Sunday.
1 The dead are John Ricder, Mrs
Ida Hill, Daniel Koontz,70, Mrs
Charles McCullock 65, a sister tc
Koontz, George Williams Mrs
George Williams, and Jack Bail
ey.
MARSHFIELD, Ore., Sept. 28
—The fire embattled coasts oi
southern Oregon and northern
California smoked today like £
- battlefield while thousands were
I fighting to save what they could
All of them worked through
■ a day and a night to prevent a
I repition of the Bandon disaster
i and at other points.
I Mrytle Point citizens worked tc
build a firewall to save the town
and prevent what occurred at
Bandon, where fifteen hundred
; residents lost everything they
l owned when the town burned.
A reverse wind is feared, which
I would threaten several more
■ towns. At Bandon the loss was
; estimated at one million and a
half dollars.|
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Owen Off Nonstop
Flight To Seattle
From Anchorage
—
(By The Associated Press)
Anchorage, Sept. 28, — Pilot
Russell Owen quietly left here at
9:15 a m. this morning in the
, “Flying Automobile” plane on an
assertedly non-sto\) flight to Sea
: ttle. It is believed he will stop
at Juneau, however, for more
j gas.
It took two men to push him
into the small space he will oc
cupy for the trip.
He was escorted by Pilot Chest
er Brown of the Arctic Airways
of Nome, in another plane, thru
: the treacherous Portage Pass, to
Prince William Sound. .
j Owen has been here for weeks
| arranging for a new try for the
flight. He obtained financial sup
' port from local persons.
A federal seal forbidding the
i ship to leave the ground, was
removed when Owen produced
papers showing proper title to
the ship, which is not licensed,
and unidentified. Owen was al
so unlicensed. A rumor here that
Owen may be fined when he
lands at Seattle, was unconfirmed.
f
Tear Gas Used
To Quell Riot
Hi School Stud.
i —
(By The Associated Press)
CAMPBELL, Ohio, Sept. 28, —
; Police Chief Frank Cunningham
! discharged two tear gas bombs
i among a crowd of striking high
i school students to disperse a
! demonstration in front of Mem
J orial High School,
j The students fled to the hill
j away from the school, sneezing
and coughing.
Classes were suspended Friday
when all but a hundred of the
one thousand students, refused
to enter the building, protesting
against the transfer of Michael
Graban, popular instructor, to
a grade school.
“The hostess was furious when
I upset a bottle of liquor on her
rug.”
“Was it her best rug ”
1 “No, her best liquor.”
fBy The Associated Press)
BERLIN. Sept. 28, — Lawrence
Simpson, Kirkland, Washington,
seaman, convicted of sedition by
.he Peoples’ Court, was sentenc
3d to three years in prison, min
us fourteen months which he al
ready served, while awaiting trial.
Slightly deaf, he told how he
and three other communists had
tried to launch a popular front
government in Germany with
three small balloons and a few
packages of anti-Fascist propo
ganda.
He said the venture failed be
cause of the quartet was a pol
ice spy. lie admitted freely that
he smuggled propaganda into
Germany aboard the S. S. Man
hattan.
The balloons were equipped
with a fireworks contripn .n for
releasing the handbills from the
ait'.
Helmuth Kionka, 31, of Breslau
convicted of high treason, was
executed here yesterday. Details
were withheld.
Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Low clouds and fog conditions
restricted ceiling and visibility
over the central Yukon Valley
and western Alaska early this
morning. P r.ly clot ly kies were
rep.red over the Tar.ana Vall
ey ,i.ie rainy and unsettled
weather continues over so theast
ern Alaska. Fair wea.her obtains
throughout the Pit >_. i 1' 2 Coast
H'.-tes.
Abnormal temperatures are re
ported from the Pacific Northwest
Portland recorded a maximum
of 82 degrees yesterday while
Seattle observed 78. Mild tem
peratures continue in all sections
of Alaska and no important chan
ges were registered during the
past 24 hours.
An intense area of low baro
metric pressure is observed near
Atka on the Aleutians where a
reading of 28.90 is reported. If
this storm develops to greater
extent and moves across the Ber
ing Sea, Nome will likely exper
ience a severe storm.
The lowest temperature at
Nome last night was 40 and the
highest yesterday 44. Rainfall
for 24 hours ending at 6 a.m. was
.01 inch.
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