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VOL. 37. No. 89. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, April 15, 1936 Per Copy Ten Cents
Knox Leads Borah For President
70 JAPANESE WARSHIPS TO VISIT AMOY
Peace Between Italy and Ethiopia to be Attempted
DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS FOR j
PEACE IN ETHIOPIAN WAR j
THROUGH LEAGUE AFFAIRS
European Countries Anxious To Attain
Peace Then Take Oilier Problems
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, April 15, The
League ol Nations attempt
ed through direct negotia
tions to determine the im
mediate prospect ol' peace
between Italy and Ethiopia.
Salvador de Madariaga of
Spain, president of the
League’s Committee of Thir
teen, discussed the prospect
with the Ethiopian envoy,
while Italy’s representative
traveled from Rome.
The British sought to
make a settlement of the
Ethiopian conflict and ad
vance a guard campaign
for the establishment of a
new European security sy
stem, while the French are
equally determined to make
a settlement of the Rhine
land crisis with German, as
number one on its list of
things which must be done
in Europe.
Diplomatic sources in
Paris said that France had
reached a point where she
must choose between italv
and Great Britain as her
best friend.
Notwithstanding, Italy
continued to move ahead
in Ethiopia, tightening her
grip on the whole northern
area, while planes spread
terror in the inierior.
Senate Investigate
Political Expenses
Of 1936 Candidates
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, April 15, —
Facing a bigger task than
usual the senate investiga
tion into campaign expen
ditures is about ready to
get under way.
It has authority to inquire
into charges in connection
with politics and in the
spending of relief funds.
Vice President Garner
appointed a committee in
cluding Lonergan of Con
necticutt, Minton, Schwell
enbach, LaFollette and Aus
tin.
WPA’er Resigned
(By The Associated Press)
Tacoma, April 15. —Geo
rge H. Gannon announced
his resignation last night as
state WPA administrator,
effective June 1st.
He defended the WPA,
(Works Progress Admini
stration) in principle but
regretted the shortage of
funds and the consequent
necessity of laying off men.
Major Leagues
Ready Begin
1936 Season
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, April 15, —
With his right arm in fine
pitching form, President F.
D. Roosevelt is to throw the
first ball, officially opening
the major league season to
day.
Sixteen teams are ready
in eight cities. Two hund
red thousand are expected
to see the opening games.
There are many changes in
the teams and lineups.
YOUTH WEEK WILL
BE OBSERVED IN
APRIL BY CLUBS
Miss Chari Ormond Will
iams of Washington, D. C.,
president of the National
Federation of Business and
ProfessionalWomen’s clubs
Inc., is a member of the Na
tional Boys’ and Girls’
Week Committee for the
United States. She anno
unces that the committee is
planning an observance of
Youth Week late in April.
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Lanrion Write In
(By Tho Associated Press)
Lincoln. Nebraska, April
15,—Write in votes for
Governor A!f 31. London,
who was not entered as a
candidate for tho republi
can presidential nomina
tion, attained appreciable
proportion as returns from
Nebraska’s primary elec
tion were counted slowly
today.
In eight hundr 1 and
twenty of the two thousand
twenty-five precincts, Lon
don received 5,382 write in
votes. Borah was the only
candidate filed.
Knox received 99 write
in votes and Herbert Hoov
er 97. Roosevelt polled 46,
209. All fourteen of Ne
braska’s delegates will go
to the convention unin
structed.
Quintuplets Are
Born In Romania
Newspaper Says
(By 1 he Associated Press)
Bucharest, April 15, —
Rumania officially was un
able to verify reports that
quintuplets had been born
to a gypsy woman on a
farm near Hodos Bjor, a
district of Transylvania.
A newspaper report
vouched for the circum
stances saying that two
boys and three girls were
born to Mrs Marie Ljng
uara, aged 25, shortly after
she went to work in a field.
No doctor was available,
and her husband assisted in
the delivery of the babies.
RUSSIANS REPORTED
LOSING VODKA THIRST
Moscow, April—“The vod
ka industry is the only bus
iness in the Soviet Union
which is going backward,”
says a report by the Food
Industry Department, not
ing that consumption of the
potent liquor in 1935 drop
ped by 13 per cent as com
pared with 1931 and was
only 56 per cent of the am
ount imbibed in Czarist
Russia.
KNOX INCREASING l!IS LEAD
OVER BORAH IN ILLINOIS
PRIMARIES AS PEOPLE VOTE
Primary Elections In Middle Stales Are
Perplexing Political Standpoint
(By The Associated Press')
Chicago, April 15, —
Knox lengthened his Jr id
over Borah in the first nr.n
to man test of republican
presidential aspirants, with
more than half of the Illin
ois precincts reported, in
yesterday’s primary.
Knox has increased his
margin over Borah to 67,
000 votes.
Returns from 4,108 of the
state’s 7,426 precincts gave
Knox two hundred and 53
thousand, seven hundred
seventy-nine, against the
hundred and eighty-seven
thousand, one hundred and
thirty-eight for Borah.
Knox gained a big mar
gin in Cook Countv, Chi
cago. 3.200 of the' 3,677
_,avc him one hundred and
sixty-seven thousand, five
hundred and eighty-tvro to
ninety thousand, lwo hun
dred and twenty two for
Borah.
Indicating that the demo
crats outvoted the Republi
cans 2 to 1 in the Cook coun
ty returns where the only
comparison was available,
resulting in the statement
that Roosevelt outpolled
Borah and Knox combined
by a 3 to 1 margin.
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Japanese Forces
Preparing War
(By The Associated Press)
Kalgan, Inter Mongolia,
April 15, — The Japanese
have installed modern mili
tary equipment at strategic
points thruout this district,
informed sources said today
which includes landing
fields and wireless stations.
The utmost secrecy sur
rounds her activities in
western Manchoukuo near
the Russian border.
Reports say Japan is mak
ing ready for the concen
tration of a large body of
troops and many believe
it is the first step in ap
proaching hostilities.
BAD PROSPECTS
SEEN FOR FURS
Washington, April 15th—
Eventual destruction of the
American fur industry thru
alleged Russian dumping
was forecast by proponents
of a resolution introduced
by Senator James P. Pope
of Idaho, in asking for a
Federal Tariff Commission
investigation.
Conference Of
Powers insure
Peace Europe
: Hv The ncii’.scrt Press)
Undated, April 15, — A
conference of the general
staffs of Britain, France and
Belgium was begun in Lon
don today, 'simultaneously
with the start of negotia
tions for a settlement of the
Ethiopian war, to decide
measures to insure against
any unprovoked aggression.
The British government
assured the public that no
new political affiliations
would arise from the con
ference.
BLIND MAY HAVE
VENDING STANDS
IN FED. BUILDINGS
Washington, D. C., April.
A bill permitting the blind
to establish vending stands
in Federal buildings thru
out the country has been
passed by the House and
sent to the Senate.
Heretofore no stands of
any kinds have been per
mitted in Federal buildings
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(Chinese Province
is Feared Will
State Freedom
(Bv The Associated Press)
Hongkong, April 15. —
Informed Chinese sources
linked the report that sev
enty Japanese warships
wimld visit Amoy about
M.i.v 5th, with ! ars that
Fuki -n Province would de
ed re s ./.t an independent
•* lie ‘ ' i \ i i c (' s r 11 ■ ] i I r u t i i n G
df . isia.ti n of -nd p nden
ce would b ■ m ale ?.I , • 5th
to coincide with the m rival
of the Japanese fleet, with
tiiirtv thousand men on
board.
A'arm increased be* ause
of the continuous informa
tion that illicit arms and
an influx of persons from
the Japanese island of For
mosa, had been going on.
About one hundred thou
sand Formosans are report
ed to be in the Fukien ch
ics of Amov, Changchnw
and Chuanchow.
General Chang Fa I
sent delegates to Canto. >
ask for military coope: -
lion from the Canton go- -
ernment, if it becomes nec
essary.
Six Mongol s Arc
c
(Bv The Associated Press)
Tokyo, April 1.1 —Jap
anese army uuthorit: ; said
six Mongol officials had
been seized and were in
volved in a plot apparently
instigated by Soviet agents.
Military headquarters to
day said that Russian and
Japanese patrols clashed on
the Ussuri River Sa urday.
Headquarters stated that
the Soviets fired first. No
casualties were mentioned
in the dispatches reporting
the affair.
WIFE LOSES PATIENCE.
Bloomington, 111., April—
Mrs. Alice R. Gibson wait
ed 12 years. Then she filed
suit for divorce on a deser
tion charge against Roy E.
Gibson. She charged that
he left her the day after
their wedding on March 14,
1924.