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■ VOL 37 NoTm NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1936.___Per Copy 15cts
France Fears Italian Fascist Party
F. KNOX ATTACKS NEW DEAL MEASURES
U S EMBASSY WIRES GRAVITY WAR
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French Fearing j
Italian Help To
Fascists in Spain
(By The-Associated. Press)
PARIS, July 31, — French rad
ical socialists alarmed by the al
leged Italian intervention in the
Spanish rebellion, proposed a
three-power attempt to settle the
civil war.
This suggestion came on the
heels of a move for an investiga-1
tion of the crash of an Italian |
seaplane and the forced landing:
of another plane in French North
Africa. The planes were declar
ed to be carrying munitions to
Spanish rebels.
The Italian fascist government
is believed to be favoring the
Spanish rebels who are fascists.
The present French regime is
similar to the Spanish leftists,
the present incumbents.
Comments Case
McMahon Costs
Fines to Papers
(By The Associated press 1
LONDON, July 31, — Com
ments on George Andrew McMa
hon, awaiting trial on a charge
of menacing King Edward with a
pistol, cost two London newspap
ers five thousand dollars each to
day.
The King’s Bench division of
the High Court assessed the edi
tor and owner of the Evening
News $2,500 each, and the editor
and publisher of the Evening
Express $2,500 each.
In both cases costs were assess
ed against the defendants, charg
fd with contempt of court.
British laws are most rigid in
their restrictions of comment
which a newspaper may make
on a pending legal case, in order
that the trial may not be pre
judiced.
Nothing Said
k __________
(By The Associated Press)
CASTEL GADOLFO, Italy,
July 31, —Bishop Michael Gall
agher of Detroit said that Cough
lins political activity was not
“brought up or discussed” dur
ing his audience with the Pope.
PORTLAND, July 31—An early
morning burglar stole one thing
before he was frightened away,
Mrs. Charles H. Kenneth report
ed to police. That theft was a
kiss.
REFUSED GRANT FREE
PASSAGE FOR U. S.
CITIZENS SPAIN
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, July 31, — Grav
ity of the situation in revolt
twisted Spain and the uncertain
ty of government control even in
areas normally under its juris
diction was revealed Thursday
in Madrid dispatches from the
U. S. Embassy to the State De
partment in Washington.
The Embassy reported that the
Red popular front government
refused to provide a special train
and armed escorts to convey Am
ericans marooned in Madrid to
the seacoast.
Coincidentally rebel radio dis
patches reported that the in
surgents have won control in
Valencia the only Spanish port
with which Madrid has railway
connection, and to which an in
ternational refugee train would
have to travel.
The Madrid Embassy also ad
vised the state department that
the Spanish government has tak
en over control of all banking
facilities and has imposed rigid
restrictions on withdrawals. Oth
er major developments on the
Spanish scene included—
Perpigran dispatches reported
a rebel ambush of Catalan forc
es advancing to the attack on the
rebel stronghold at Zaragonza.
It was reported 2,000 were kill
ed. ?
Renewal of fighting between
mountain passes north of Mad
rid where the newspaper ABC
ignoring loyalist casualties, esti
mated 800 rebel dead.
A Spanish submarine off Gib
(Continued on Page Three)
Seizure Motor
Plants Reported
At Barcelona
(By The Associated Press)
MARSEILLE, July 31, Seizure
of the Ford Motor Company and
General Motors plants in Barce
lona by Spanish loyalists was re
ported Thursday by refugees ar
riving here.
Shortly after the reports were
made public the Catalan govern
ment denied that such a seizure
had taken place, though the re
ports said American automobiles
had been oonscripted to aid the
leftist campaign.
Committed For
Criminal Trial
This Autumn
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, July 31, — George
Andrew McMahon was commit
ted for criminal trial after sob
bingly testifying that he “slith
ered” a revolver at King Ed
ward VIII, two weeks ago.
He testified he had planned to
shoot himself but decided instead
to toss the revolver in the road
way in protest against “wrongful
I imprisonment”. He will be tried
this autumn.
Baldwin Says
World Will
Deserve Fate
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, July 31, — If Europe
and the world can find no other
way of settling disputes than
war now, when we are still find
ing and burying bodies of those
who fell twenty years ago, the
world deserves to perish, Prime
Minister Stanley Baldwin said
emotionally today in a speech to
four thousand Canadian pilgrims
to last Sunday’s unveiling of a
monument to war dead at Vimy
Ridge.
Russia Entering
Naval Arms Race
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, July 31, — Russia
signified her entry into the ex
panding naval armaments race
Thursday by reaching an accord
with Great Britain which sets no
limit on naval tonnage.
Other evidence of the naval
race came from Tokyo where it
was predicted Japan will start
replacing four capital ships with
in the year.
Buy them by the bundle. Use
them for starting fires. For Sale
At the Nome Nugget.
Three Hops Trans
Atlantic Planned
Take Place Soon
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK. July 31—Prepar
ations for three trans-Atlantic air
plane flights were being made
here today. All are scheduled to
start within a month. Joseph
Costa, of Corning, N. Y„ accom
panied by his father John, will
fly non-stop to Portugal from
Harbor Grffce, Newfoundland.
Two Swedish pilots, Kurt Bjor
kvall and Baroness Eva Blixen
iinecke, will fly from Floyd Ben
nett Field here non-stop to Stock
^ holm.
Clyde Pangborn will fly from
I New York to Paris.
I
German War Ace
Narrow Escape
Plane Crumbles
(By The Associated Press)
WARNENMUENDE, Germany,
July 30—Col. Ernst Udet, famed
German war ace, escaped death
when his plane collapsed in mid
air before the eyes of Col. Chas.
Lindbergh. The flyer bailed out
and promptly pulled the rip cord
on his parachute and drifted
down to safety, just as Colonel
Lindbergh has done on several
occasions. Lindbergh in company
with Lieutenant Commander Ma
de Jr., assistant U. S. attache for
aviation, visited the Heinkel
works, where fast military and
commercial craft are made and
the.accident occurred during a
test flight at the plant.
Telegraph Briefs
(By The Associated Press)
STONINGTON, Conn., July 30
—This normally democratic com
munity went overwhelmingly re
publican for the second time in
fifty years in the 130th annual
election held here. William Ed
gar was reelected warden over
Christopher Ledwith.
LOS ANGELES, July 30th—
Lighting of the Olympic torch at
Berlin, Saturday, to launch the
games of the eleventh Olympiad
before an international multitude
will be the occasion for a similar
ceremony here. The torch atop
the peristyle of the Los Angeles
Memorial Coliseum, scene of the
games four years ago, will burst
into flames simultaneously with
the one in Berlin.
Protest Seizure
_______
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, July 31, — Great
Britain with 37 warships concen
trated in Spanish waters Thurs
day was said to be drafting a
stern protest against the report
ed seizure of British banks and
factories.
Goods News For
Oil Consumers In
Nome Announced
I he people ot iNome wno are
I using oil for heating their homes
: and business houses will be pleas
ed to learn that arrangements
have been completed whereby
burner oil 27 plus and stove oil
34 plus are now to be available
in returnable barrels, thus saving
the consumer the previous ex
pense of $2 each for containers
which were not returnable.
These arrangements have been
made through Mr. R. M. Douglas,
Alaska Sales Superintendent for
the Standard Oil Company of
California,who has been in Nome
for the past week.
This oil will be packaged in
Seattle and will reach the con
sumer in the original package,
thus insuring not only the high
e-t quality of product but also
eliminating all possibility of dirt
or water in the oil.
The fact that the containers are
returnable, being the property of
the Standard Oil Company,means
that from now on customers will
save the $2 for each container
which they formerly had to pay,
and also that the City will not
be cluttered up with empty oil
barrels, since the barrels are to
be returned promptly after being
emptied.
And all this at no raise in price.
Today’s ad of the Lomen Com
mercial Company announces this
splendid offer as being made
available to Nome customers.
4 Planes Grounded
(By The Associated Press)
BORDEAUX, France, July 30—
Four British airliners were grou
nded here because authorities
feared they were intended to fly
Moroccan reinforcement to Span
ish Rebels across the Mediterran
ean. The airliners were enroute
to Lisbon, Portugal. It was re
ported they were purchased by
Juan March, a Spanish million
1 aire, accused of financing the re
i volt.
Knox Accepted
Nomination And
Attacked Demos
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, July 31, — Colonel
Frank Knox in accepting the re
publican nomination for vice
president held up "the preserva
tion of free enterprise” as the
fundamental issue of the 1936
campaign.
In formally taking the post as
the running mate of the party’s
presidental nomination of Gover
nor Alf M. Landon of Kansas,
the publisher of the Chicago
Daily News struck out at what
he called the “hysterical experi
ments’’ of the Roosevelt admini
stration and declared that Am
erica had once more reached
“the point where blazes along
the trail run out in to ways ahead
, of the United States. _
“One lies along the apparent
ly easy valleys of regimented so
ciety maintained by a paternal
istic government which falsely
promises to provide its subjects
with security that men were*
wont to purchase in the past by
their own efforts.
“The other way lies along the
rugged heighths of self-support,
self-government, and self respect.
“Which will we choose? The
answer is in your hands. I know
what it will be in November.
You will choose the American
way”.
Knox attacked various New
Deal measures in the course of
his address.
Landon States
Favor of Ri^ht
Of Labor Unions
(By The Associated Press)
TOPEKA, July 31, — Republi
can nominee for president Alf
M. Landon, wrote Norman Thom
as, socialist candidate for presi
dent, that labor unions have the
rights “to promote by lawful and
proper means, the organization of
an unorganized industry which
includes the right to send in an
organizer”, in replying to a re
quest for an elaboration of the
labor section in his acceptance
speech.
Landon declared he was oppos
ed to any infringement of the
right of free speech or free as
sembly. He referred to his stand
during the tri-state strike of the
smelter and mine workers in
July of last year.
PARIS, July 30—A Spanish tri
motored plane arrived at LaBour
get field from Madr.d, with one
and one quarter tons of gold.