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United States Stand Pat On Neutrality
FRANCE NOTIFIES UAGUE FAVC>R SANCTIONS
Big Italian Push Under Way Central Ethiopia Fronts
France Notifies
League That She
Accepts Sanctions
(By The Associated Press)
Geneva, Oct. 28, —France
notified the League of Na
tions today that she had ac
cepted the economic sanctions
against Italy, and was joining
Great Britain and other na
tions in their drive to isolate
Benito Mussolini because he
had made war in Ethiopia.
The League’s general staff
meets Thursday to fix the
date for the application of
the sanctions.
McSwain Sees Need
Anti-Aircraft Wing
(By The Associated Press)
Los Angeles. Oct. 28, —
Chairman John J. McSwain,
and members of the House
Committee on Military Aff
airs stressed the need of an
augmented anti-aircraft de
fense along the West Coast.
McSwain said the most
pressing defense need on the
West Coast at the present
time was the establishment
of fifty completely equipped
anti-aircraft regiments.
SECRETARY STATE HULL ISSUES
STATEMENT TO LEAGUE ABOUT
AMERICAN NEUTRALITY POLICY
Stand Pat Policy of United States Over
J
Neutrality Is Voiced By Secretary Hull
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Oct. 28, —
Standing pat on its isolation
ist policy toward foreign dis
putes, the United States was
disclosed, in a'communica
tion which Secretary of State
Hull sent to the League of
Nations Saturday, to have
based its neutrality stand on
two fundamental principles,
both decided upon before the
Italo-Ethiopian hostilities be
gan.
The first is the preservation
of peace and the second is the
determination to keep out of
war once it starts.
Other considerations which
played a part in the phrasing
of the American reply to the
League query, an official
spokesman said, were the pur
suit of a consistent policy by
this government of acting in
any and all circumstances on
its own initiative, and to fol
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American Liberty League Strikes Out
At The Matanuska Colonization Project
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Oct. 28, —The
Relief Administration report
ed that all was quiet on the
Alaskan front, where eight
hundred and fifty colonists
are settled in the Matanuska
Valley, with federal aid.
Administrator Harry H.
Hopkins said he had been ad
vised by radio “that unreas
onable requests had ceased,
and that the colonists were
working in full cooperation
with the administrative offi
cials.”
But even as Hopkins made
public the latest reports from
Lieut. Colonel L. P. Hunt, the
Marine Corps officer who was
placed in charge of the col
ony last summer, the Amer
ican Liberty League declared
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Union Pacific R. R.
Official Shot Death
(By The Associated Press)
Cheyenne, Wy., Oct. 28, —
C. C. Barnard, Union Pacific
Railroad official was shot to
death before the eyes of a
score of spectators at the
Cheyenne depot yesterday.
P. H. Carroll, a discharged
employee assertedly fired the
shot. He is under police guard
in the hospital here where he
is recovering Trom self inflict
ed bullet-wounds.
Two Killed Auto
Accidents Weekend
(By The Associated Press)
Seattle, Oct. 28, —Two per
sons were killed in auto acci
dents over the week-end.
Lucille Powell, 15, was kill
ed and three others were in
jured when her auto struck a
hayrack on the highway.
R. L. Gust of Edmonds died
after his auto had collided |
with another machine. J
Navy Day Today
Wireless Messages
Go Many Districts
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Oct. 28, —
Navy communications flashed
through the air to such wide
ly spread points as Guam,
Samoa, the Philippines, Alas
ka, Atlantic seaboard and na
val ships far at sea, that the
nation would take cognizance
of Navy Day celebrations to
day. Various activities will
be broadcast beginning at 2
P. M. Eastern Standard Time
Monday.
Murder, Suicide
Discovered Both
Former Sailors
(By The Associated Press)
Riverside, Calif., Oct. 28,
—Death to two men in fires,
in the Woodcrest area, settle
ment southwest of here, was
claimed to be murder and
suicide.
The victims are Fred Leon
ard and Killis W. Snyder,
former sea captains.
Sheriff Carl Rayburn be
lieves the motive for the slay
ing concerned some feud be
tween the pair when they,
were sailing.
A note was found at Sny
der’s home admitting the
slaying and stating he was
going to kill himself.
St. Marys Defeats
U. San Francisco
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(By The Associated Press)
San Francisco, Oct. 28, —
The Gaels of St. Marys de
feated the University of San
Francisco Saturday 13 to 0,
in their annual gridiron battle
before 30,000 spectators.
Outplayed in the first half
the Gaels came back in the
second half, making two field
goals and a touchdown.
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Big Push Is Under
Way By Italians
Central Ethiopia
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Oct. 28. —Italian
troops pushed forward into
the interior of Ethiopia both
on the northern and southern
fronts, as the big push got
underway toward Harrar.
On the northern front three
columns marched on Makale
the strategic mountain pass
gateway to the interior. The
central column occupied the
Feresmai Valley south of Ad
uwa, and is advancing due
south of Adigrat.
To the East the main army
engineering corps is build
ing a road straight toward
Makale, at the rate of three
miles daily.
Ili.vl. s. Johnson
States Jobs Not
Up To Recovery
(By The Associated Press)
Washington. Oct. 28, —Gen
oral Hugh S Johnson, form
er chief of the NRA said to
day that at the present rate
of re-employment, there
might still be six million job
less when business returns
to normal.
“You can see at a glance,
that the figures of re-employ
ment are not keeping pace
with recovery. I don’t deny
that employment is increas
ing,” he said.
He stated that one of the
reasons employment is not in
creasing as fast as business is
improving, is because of the
lengthened work hours, thru
departure from code stand
ards. There would be hun
dreds of additional jobs if the
hours had not been lengthen
ed.
AAA Is Delighted
Referendum Vote
On Farm Program
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Oct. 28, —AA
A officials are expressing de
light ot the overwhelming en
dorsement of the 1936 corn
and hog control program se
cured by a nation-wide farm
referendum.
The AAA made plans to in
crease the pork production
for the next year and indicat
ed there would be an increase
of twenty-five to thirty per
cent over this year.
JAPANESE ADDRESS MANDATE
COMMISSION REVEALS STAND
SHE WILL TAKE EMBARGOES
Japanese Will Not Be Discriminated
Against In Question of Mandates
2.000 Are Dead Or
Missing as Result
c
llur rieane. Flood
(By The Associated Press)
Port Au Prince, Haiti, Oct.
28, —At least two thousand
persons are dead and missing
in the storm which ravaged
the southern peninsula.
Most of the casualties were
caused by floods following
the hurricane a week ago.
Thousands are homeless
and hungry. The populations
of valley villages are believ
ed to be wiped out, and the
bodies of most of the victims
swept to sea.
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(By '’'lie Associated Press)
Geneva, Oct. 28, — Japan
warned the League of Nations
that she will accept no treat
ment discrimination, and will
insist on equal opportunities
for trade in the vast regions
under mandate.
At a former meeting of the
League Mandate Commission
the Belgian member said that
by resigning from the Leag
ue, Japan had lost her right
for economic equality in the
mandated district.
In an address to the Man
date Commission, the Japan
ese Representative said that
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I)r. Townsend Convention In Chicago
I nds % ith Two Courses To Be Followed
SJ. & M. Bank Is
Doing Business In
Its New Building
The Miners and Merchants
Bank of Alaska, at Nome to
day opened its doors for the
first time in its new struct
ure, since the big fire of Sep
tember 17, 1934, when its
former building was destroy
ed by flames, which consum
ed the entire business district
of Nome, at a total loss of an
estimated $2,000,000.
Moving of banking equip
ment and fixtures, and the
installment of new furniture
and etc., took place Satur
day and Sunday. The new
home of the Miners and Mer
chants Bank, G. R. Jackson,
President, was constructed
this summer by the Cork In
sulation Inc., embodying the
latest and most modern types
of features in home and bus
iness structures.
R. E. Eckberg was construe
tion engineer on the job, and
left here some time ago.
FOR SALE
An ABC Spinner Washing
machine, wash tubs, a three
Townsend Laying
Plans To Put Over
His Pension Issue
(By The Associated Press)
Chicago, Oct. 28, — Dr.
Francis E. Townsend closed
his first national convention
of his disciples Sunday, with
a plea for the enactment of
the plan which would provide
$200 a month to citizens of
sixty years of age and over,
with the provision that they
spend it all.
Officials said they estimat
ed that a crowd of ten thous
and attended the fall session
of whom six thousand were
delegates.
The convention settled up
on two goals—first, to secure
the enactment of the plan at
the next session of congress,
or, failing in that, to mobilize
enough voting strength in 19
36 to assure its passage in
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