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VOL. 37. No. 200. NOME, ALASKA, Saturday, AUG. 22, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
Madrid Makes Peace with Germany
GOV. LANDON IN SPEECH PROMISES MUCH
Rogers-Post Memorial Flight to Barrow Postponed
WAY IS PAVED FOR GERMAN
ENTRANCE IN NEUTRALITY
PACT WITH REST EUROPE
X ____
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, August. 22—The
way for Germany’s entrance into
European neutrality agreement
was opened by Madrid’s willing
ness to settle immediately the
Kamerun incident, Augusto Bar
cia, Spanish Minister of State de
clared, as well as the Nazi pro
tests of the reported Spanish
search of a German steamer, will
also be settled quickly to the sat-,
isfaction of both governments.
Rebels Pressing Push
The Rebels pressed their big
push on Madrid with the van
guard driving toward Toledo, 30
miles south of the Capital. Fran
co said the advance will not be
precipitous. The Rebels have
shifted their headquarters south
from Burgos to Valladolid.
Aiding Rebellion
In Madrid the Catholic church
alliance with the Rebels is' out
spokenly opposed by Socialist
Priest Father Juean Garcia Mor
alis, a former member of the
Spanish Chamber of Deputies,
who charged many priests with
aiding the rebellion while enrich
ing themselves.
Second Line Defense
At Hendaye, France, barged,
wire entanglements were stuck
across all roads leading from the
frontier as a second line of de
fense against fighting, which it
was feared, might spread into
France. ,
German-Spanish Riots in
New York
In New York, a steel-clad atti
tude of Germans against Spanish
socialists, found expression in
riots. Aboard the German liner
Bremen, twelve of the crew were
arrested for disorderly conduct
after demonstrations which were
protested pugilistically against
Nazis ultimatums to Spanish loy
alists.
Severe Quakes In
Island of Formosa
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, August 2!—A fairly
severe earthquake shook the en
tire island of Formosa, was re
ported by the Domi News Agency
from the city of Taihoku on the
northern tip of the island.
There were no casualties but
several houses collapsed end the
Taibu communications lines were
disrupted.
Barrow Eskimos
Report Finding
Meat, Gasoline
'(By The Associated Press)
POINT BARROW, Aug. 22nd—
Nptives report the finding of
drepsed beef, with crates of fruit
and tins of gasoline, washed
ashore along the coast Thursday
night, but no wreckage of any
ship has been found.
Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
A total of 0.81 inch of rain has
fallen during this latest storm.
This makes a total of 5.36 inches
since July 1st and is about the
average rainfall for Nome for
this.period during 31 years of re
cordng.
Rainy weather has been gen
eral over the territory, except in
the southeastern district, during
the past 24 hours.
This latest disturbance, like
most of the storms that have af
fected Alaskan weather during
the past month, came out of the
Arctic region. Pressure is high
over Bering Sea and Central
Gulf regons.
The highest temperature in
Nome yesterday was 52 and the
lowest last night was 49.
Thirty-Two Japs
Slain by Bandits
In Reign Terror
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, Aug. 22—One thous
and bandits killed thirty-two
Japanese subjects and two Man
choukans in a rain of terror on
the walled town of Fusung, when
they razed more than two thirds
of the buildings and carried off
hostages before several Japanese
army bombing planes forced the
bandits to retreat.
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Heavy Cargoes of
Canned Salmon Is
Cause of Changes
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Aug. 22—Changes
in the Alaska Steamship Com
pany schedules as a result of de
lays caused by the heavy cargo
offerings of canned salmon were
announced as follows:
S.S. Mount McKinley sailing at
nine A.M. Sunday, for Seward
via Flattery.
S. S. Yukon sails at noon Sun
day instead of at nine A.M. Sat
urday.
S.S. Northwestern sails Thurs
day at nine A.M. for Southeast
ern Alaska.
S. S. Aleutian sails Friday nine
A.M. and the SS. Alaska sails a
nine AM next Saturday for south
eastern and Southwestern Alas
ka.
The S.S. Yukon arrived here)
i
this morning with four hundred |
passengers and a big cargo of
canned salmon and other freight. J
A. F. of L. Joins
Asking Whyfors
Of P. L Strike
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, August 22—Organ
ized labor ranks vibrated with
the Post-Intelligencer newspaper
strike as the American Federa
tion of Labor representative
pressed the probe of the Central
Labor Council’s actions declaring
the newspaper unfair.
Rowland Watson, American
Federation of Labor district rep
resentative, said that the A.F.L.
President Green has asked for a
full report at once of the circum
stances surrounding the strike.,
It is not expected that Watson’s
report will be published here.
MINERS AND DREDGE MEN
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and drill reports,
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
Location Notices. Vouchers, and
Special Power of Attorney forms.
Wishful Thinking Politicians
Persist In Tallying Chickens
Before Eggs Are Laid
(By Byron Price, Chief of Bu
reau. The Associated Press,
Washington.)
Long before the naton-wide
campaign gets well under way,
the prognosticators are busy in
forming the public who will win.
It is possible to read daily that
Chairman Whosis has announced
the glorious and overwhelming
triumph of his candidate, or that
Senator Whatsit has conducted a
survey and finds his state safe
for fhe ticket beyond the pread
venture of a doubt.
Some political managers even
are hauling out the adding ma
chines and counting with great
exactitude the chickens from
eggs not yet laid.
The reasons for this strange
performance are something of a
mystery. Perhaps the best ex
planation is that the practice of
long range political forecasting
persists because no one has stop
ped to consider how foolish most
of it appears under present day
conditions.
In bygone times, there probably
was a psychological advantage in
claiming everything in sight. On
many occasions, too, it probably
was possible to get a rather defi
nite line on the result, well in ad
vance.
It is a disputed point how far
either of these possibilities ap
plies in these days of rapidly chan
ging public opinion and wide
spread independent voting.
Damage of Over-Confidence
The theory of the extravagant
political claim is, of course, that
it helps the morale of party
workers, throws' fear into the
ranks of the enemy and encourag
es doubters to leap for the band
wagon. But does it?
If party workers took the pre
mature claims of their leaders
seriously at all, wouldn't the re
sult be over-confidence, leading
to a slackening of effort.
Conversely, it may be disputed
whether such claims damage the
political opposition. Certainly
there have been cases where the
reverse was true—Jwhr too much
arrogance on one side has anger
ed and stimulated the other side,
and has aroused a more desperate
resistance.
So far as the bandwagon is con
cerned, the strength of its pull in
national politics nowadays is op
en to serious question. Each read
er can calculate for himself how
many voters there are among his
personal acquaintances who will
b impelled on election day en
(Continued on Page Three)
LANDON FLAYS DEMOCRATS
AND WAY THEY DEPRECATE
AMERICAN POLICIES LIV ING
Wreckage Army
Airplane Being
Looked Into
(By The Associated Press 1
OAKLAND, August 22—Wreck
age of an Army airplane was
sighted near Livermore. Obser
jvers believed that one or two of
the flyers may have been killed
« the crash. w.hich is now being
ihves gated.
Baseball Scores
(By The Associated Press)
AMERICANS
Chicago 6, Detroit 8
St. Louis 2, Cleveland 4
Washington 2, Philadelphia 3
Boston 1. New York 4
NATIONAL
New York 3, Boston 2
Cincinnati 2, Chicago 7
Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 4
Only games scheduled.
COAST LEAGUE
Portland 2-5, Los Angeles 8-3
Seattle 18, San Francisco 0
Missions 4, Oakland 6
San Diego 10. Sacramento 0
THE GOLDEN
KLONDIKE DAYS
(By James R. Little)
I paid svcn dollars for a meal
in Dawson in ’97 and $98. Pota
toes in ’97 cost a. dollar each.
Only three potatoes could be pur
chased at that time, since they
were extremely scarce and were
the best preventative available
for the dread disease scurvy.
They were eaten raw to obtain
the best results.
I have seen three million dol
lars in gold dust in the fall of ’99
piled like cordwood on the docks
of Dawson City. I have paid $1
to stand among hundreds of min
ers and prospectors and hear an
issue of a newspaper read aloud
by the lucky owner. The article
he read was when Dewey captur
ed Manila Bay. I saw Dawson’s
disastrous fire of ’99. I remember
well the pile of gold dust with the
canvas sacks which contained it,
when they burned off, that lay
where once had been a busy
bank. Northwest Mounted Po
(Contdnued on Page Thr*e)
(By The Associated Press)
MIDDLESEX, Penna., Aug. 22
—Governor Alf Landon, repub
lican presidential nominee, in a
speech here, asserted that tha
presidential campaign of the pres
ident was a “choice between a
pig in a poke policies of the New
Deal and American freedom of
enterprise, and pledged himself
as far as within my power, to
protect for America, our heritage
from the apparent” topic, the
American w^v of life.“
Hignlights jMIs speech were:
“American remedy for unemploy
ment was real work at good
wages;, remedy for monopoly and
special privilege, is to do away
with them now. In many parts
of the world democracy is in r. -
treat and dictatorships ere ad
vancing—some are trying to sup
pant our institutions by others
from abroad. Freedom of enter
prise has benefited every Ameri
can; Let us not forget that a fair
distribution of economic ar.d soc
ia benefits are yet to be brought
about. Government power must
always be used unflinchingly to
correct abuses and inequalities,
which admittedly exi.-'s. and so
far as possible this should be
done by individual States or by
compacts among States.”
Memorial Flight
(By The Associated Press?
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 22. — The
Will Rogers-Wiley Post memorial
flight to the Barrow section has
been postponed until next year,
leaders of the expedition announc
ed this morning, after an hour’s
conference.
The reason, they said, was the
persistent bad weather, and no
prospects of any immediate im
provement. Besides, the season is
getting late.
Iron crosses, which were to be
erected, will be stored here. The
expedition will leave next August
in time to reach Barrow on the
anniversary date, August 15th, of
the fatal crash, in which both
men were killed.
Mrs. Wiley Post, who was to
go this year with the expedition,
expects to remain in Fairbanks
for a time visiting the Joe Cros