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^QL 37 no 175 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
Alf Landon Opens His Campaign
JUNEAU UNION IS UPHELD LABOR BOARD
American Captain Tells Of Conditions In Spain
U. S. SHIP SUBJECTED
BOMBS; CAPTAIN HAD
EXPERIENCE ASHORE
Available Reports Indicate Rebels Are
On Top Although Gruesome Job Of
Slaughter Still Reigns Unchecked
(By The Associated Press)
CASA BLANCA, French Morocco, July 24, — Cap
tain Gistaf Berg of the American liner “Exmouth”, to
day told how a Spanish airplane had tried to bomb his
vessel; how revolutionaries threatened to burn it at Mai
aga; and how he saw bodies of men, shot in the streets
for failing to give the leftist’s salute.
“I was aboard the ship at Barcelona when the
strike mace all unloading impossible. I then sailed to
Valencia where again were unable to work. We then
made for Malaga. The pilot told me I could put in there
even though there was trouble brewing, but that there
would be no danger to foreigners.
“After we had docked, I walked up to the Ameri
can consulate. Enroute I found three bodies lying in de
serted streets. I started to turn a corner when some
rebels in an automobile flying a red flag, passed near
and fired a machine gun. Then I learned that all who
failed to raise their fists in a salute when red flaggea
automobiles passed, were killed with machine guns. I
saw people pushing automobiles
of! of the dock into the water.
When I started to go aboard my
vessel I heard a revolutionary
say: “Suppose we fire this boat.
“We lifted anchor for Casa
Blanca, and while passing through j
the Straits of Gibraltar we saw
a Spanish plane coming toward
us. After making three big cir
cles the plane dropped three
bombs which fell about a hun
dred yards ahead of the steam
er’s bow. We reported the mat
ter immediately by radio to the
American consulates at Gibral
tar, Tangier and Casa Blanca,’
said the captain.
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, July 24, — Span
ish fascists and leftists battled
twenty-six miles northwest of
Madrid for the possession of the
capital city, re-newing the attack
which was blocked yesterday by
liberal artillery and infantry.
Fascists fought for control of
the Pass of Guadarrama the
gateway to Madrid, while six
thousand men defended the pass.
Reinforcements have been dis
patched to help the defenders.
Reports indicated that neither
was gaining an advantage.
Diplomatic dispatches receiv
ed in Paris from Madrid said the
rebels were apparently “on top.”
Trim. Snain reDorted that in
Sebastian where U. S. Ambass
ador Bowers is “holed up", the
communists have threatened to
kill five hundred Spanish aristo
crats unless rebel planes ceased
bombing the town.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 24 — Re
gular artillery fire in the direc
tion of the San Sebastian sum
mer home of U. S. Ambassador
Bowers, was reported this morn
ing to the State Department by
Vice Consul Cusians from the
Franco-Spanish border.
He further declared: “All roads
leading to the foreign frontier
are barricaded by Spanish govern
ment troops and irregulars.”
Bowers reported he had been
cut off from his own office.
Grand Jury Dist.
Col. Indicts Man
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 24, -As
sistant District Attorney Samuel
Beach said that the District of
Columbia grand jury had indict- ,
ed John S. Farnsworth, former |
U. S. Navy lieutenant command1
er, on a charge of communicat
ing confidential information con
cerning national defense to a
Japanese agent.
Austria Attempt
Remain Neutral
Political Powers
(By The Associated Press)
VIENNA, July 23— Chancellor
Kurt Schuschnigg said that Aus
tria will not enter any war-like
combination of States despite her
newly created Entente with Ger
many. When asked if Austria’s
foreign policy henceforth will be
subordinated to that of Germany
the Austrian dictator said, that
his country will remain entirely
ind. pendent and peaceful, but
will take into account tire com
mon ties of language and mutual
interest which unite the twro
countries.
He further said the question of
restoring the Imperial House of
the Hapsburgs to Austria has not
been side-tracked by the new
Augtro-German peace pact, but
remains “just where it was.” The
restoration is an internal problem
and Germany has promised to
maintain a hands-olT policy in all
affairs which concern Austria on
ly, Schuschnigg pointed out.
The Chancellor added that, the
H 'p.-burgs would be restored l <
the throne of their fnthe:s only
a result of a plebesite and not
[by force. He did not consider
ithe present time, however,
suitable for putting the quest nj
to the people, as it might endan
ger the peace of Europe.
Schu.-chnigg recalled that cer
tain members of the Little En
itente had threatened to go to
war to prevent recreation of the
imperial House of Austria.
Business Leader
Robbed his Home
Town Bank Ohio
CP.y The Associated Press)
CINCINNATI July 24, — A
business leader, aged 30. and a
scion of one of the oldest Harri
son, Ohio families, who blamed
stock market losses and pending
debts was accused of robbing
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his home town bank, by authori
ties today.
“I did it after I was unable to
And a revolver with which to
end my life”, Marshal Dave
Pugh quoted Milton Turrell pres
ident of the Harrison Business
Men’s Association and a leading
dry goods merchant, as he sobb
ed in his jail cell after his ar
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rest.
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LANDON FORMALLY ACCEPTS
REPUBLICAN NOMINATION AT
CEREMONY CAPITOL KANSAS
Ijciiiflon Proposes Initial Stops Isi GOI*
Campaign To Swing Country Against
New Deal an 1 Install Republicans
(By The Associated Press)
TOPEKA, Kansas, July 24, — A pledge to “Restore
our government to an efficient as well as a constitution
al basis”, was given the country by Alt' M. London,
j Republican candidate for President of The United Stat
es, last night, in his solemn acceptance of the Republi
can presidential nomination, bofore massed thousands
ont he lawn of the capitol.
“The time has come to stop this fumbling with
recovery. The time is gone when it was necessary to
unshackle initiative and free spirit of American enter
prise,” Landon said.
The Republican nominee spoke from the south
steps of the state capitol. He proposed a farm plan with
cash benefit payments and promised to put “our finan
cial house in order.” Landon pledged federal relief to
the needy and promised “to maintain the constitution
al balance of power between the states and the federal
government.” A demonstration lasting nearly ten min
National Labor
Board Upholds
Juneau Union
Board Directed Alaska Jun
eau Mine Disregard Its
Co. Union And Not
To Discriminate ’
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 24, —
The National Labor Relations
Board, upholding the union em
ployees in their controversy with
the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining
Company ruled that the strik
es were called to win the esta
blishment of a closed shop, and
were legal under the Labor Re
lations Act.
The company is the operator of
one of the world’s largest gold
mining enterprises, at Juneau,
and has been beset with labor
troubles for more than a year,
with the strike for a closed shop
technically still in progress, the
board said.
The Board, in announcing its
findings, accused Juneau City At
torney H. L. Faulkner with sid
ing with the company, after it
had been found that it had violat
ed the 1935 labor act, “through
interference in the affairs of the
International Union of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers.”
The board found also the com
utes followed his introduction to
the crowd which some authorit
ies estimated at one hundred
thousand,
Landon stepped forward and
su :d:
“I accept the nomination of the
Republican Party.” He was in
to rupted by applause, but con
ti .ued with; “for the Presidency I
of The United States. I crave:
the gift in a simple straightfor-,
ward speech.”
In addition to cash farm bene-:
fits he included declarations for j
the relief of needy; frugality of
conducting public business with
freedom from “excessive expen
ditures and crippling taxation.”
In the matter of the Constitu
tion he declared that the consti
tution was not above change but
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that it must be changed by the
people.
He said he believed in the
right of labor to organize as it
desired with “entire freedom
from coercion or intimidation by
employer.by any fellow employe,
or any other person.”
pany at fault through “the pro-1
motion of the company-dominat
ed Juneau Mine Workers Asso
ciation and through the discrim
inatory discharge of more than a
hundred miners.’’
The Board ordered the A. J.
Co. to end coercion of its em
ployees and withdraw all recog
nition from the Juneau Mine
Workers Association.
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GOP Candidate
Delegate Arrived
V • rs'
Gampaign lour
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Former judge of the U. S Dis
trict Court, at Nome, Lester O.
Gore, arrived in Nome last even
ing on an NAT plane from Fair
banks. Judge Core is making a
tour of the Terrib ly in the in
terest of his candidacy for dele
gate to Congress from Alaska on
the republican ticket.
Leaving Ketchikan, his home
town, where he enjoys a lucra
tive practice, July 13th, he went
via steamer t Cordova where he
contacted republican club leaders
and th cj.‘vens n general. He
then went over the Copper River
.Railroad to Chiuna, McCarty*
and Kennicott, contacting the
people individually, and states
he was well received at all places
he visited. At Ken:. ■ r th e
are some 200 men working in the
copper mines, and at Cb . a cl
McCarthy there apparently
plenty of work for the men in
those places working at mining.
lie took the stage from Chi; na
and wont over the Richard on
highway, visiting the roadhouses
enroute to Fa.rb.,. !; •. Due to
unfavorable flying v her ire
was delayed in leuv ■ banks
for Nome until yest;.: I when
the plane travelled thru much
foggy weather, stopping at Ruby
for lunch.
Judge Gi re is t day cm'.acting
the citizens of Nome and : ie re
publican leader . I; -• his in
tention to contact as many of the
outlying sections on Seward Pen
insula as possible, or as flying
weather will permit, during his
stay here.
He states that arrangements have
been made for a meeting of re
publicans to be held at Fairbanks
next Monday, which he will at
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Attacker of King
Is Held Fwr*.her
Hearing Matter
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, July 24 — George
Andrew McMahon bald Briton
who drew a revelv r at the
King’s military parade^ was re
manded to jail for a week after
a hearing today on the charge of
producing a weapon “with intent
to alarm his Majesty.”
Counsel for the defense an
nounced that Mc’.Iaho: wished to
testify himself and to call wit
nesses.