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VOL. 37. No. 253 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCT. 23rd. 1936. Per Copy 15cta
Insurgents Now Insight Of Madrid
SMITH CONTINUES ATTACK ON NEW DEAL
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Canada’s Stork Derby Race Will End October 31 st
ALFRED E. SMITH IN THIRD
SPEECH CAMPAIGN FLAYED
DEMO’S. ADMINISTRATION
Smith Advocated A Sane
And Orderly Gov’t.
Thru Landon
MOANS ON BUREAUS
UNDER THE DEMOS.
Refers To Demo Promise
To End Unnecessary
Centralizing
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Oct. 23, — Alfred E
Smith, former Democratic candi
date for president in 1928, Thurs
day night continuing his attack
against the New Deal urged vot
ers to cast their vote in a manner
“that will give the United Stat
es a sane and orderly govern
ment which can be had under
Gov. Landon of Kansas.”
Smith’s attack on the Roosevelt
administration was directed chief
ly at the president’s fiscal poli
cies. He also struck at the cen
tralization of powers under the
federal government since 1933,
and the “growth of bureaucracy”
under the leadership of Roose
velt.
This was Smith’s third speech
of the present campaign.
Science Notes
A flashlight camera has beer
invented for making close up
pictures that can be used only
two inches from a subject’s face
An ambulance airplane has
been built in Russia that carries
ill or injured persons in litters
beneath its fuselage or wings.
The Chinese government will
institute a rigid inspection of raw
silk exports at Shanghai in ar
effort to prevent adulteration
A Nebraska state official air
conditions his office with an ole
automobile radiator through whi
ch water runs from a cold watei
faucet.
Alaska Lacking
In The Fair Sex
Says Gruening
■ i
Two and One-Half White Men
For Each Woman is The
Ratio Thru Territory.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The U.
S. Division of Territories and In
sular possessions today described
Alaska as the land of opportunity
for the fair sex, who, perchance,
j might be looking for mere hus
bands.
Dr. Ernest H. Gruening, direc
tor of the division, in a report on
' the ratio of white men to white
women said, “there still are two
and one-half times as many white
' men as white women in the Ter
ritory.”
This figure is as nothing com
pared to conditions at the turn of
the century when thousands of
miners joining the gold rush in
vaded the territory. Then the
comparable ratio. Nevada ranks
second to Alaska with a ratio of
ratio of men to women was nine
| to one.
Population 59,278
I 1N(* Slate ill me iianuu uaa a
; 140.3 males per 100 females.
“In direct opposition to this
situation is that of the District of
Columbia which has 90 males to
every 100 females.”
Dr. Gruening set the popula
tion of Alaska at 59,278, or less
j than one inhabitant to each ten
square miles. The United States
as a whole has a density of 400
persons for each ten square miles.
Rhode Island is the most thickly
Continued on Page Four
Major L. S. Soper, army sur
geon at Haines, Alaska, flew to
Whitehorse on the White Pass
plane recently. He will rejoin
his wife there. Major Soper was
jone of the doctors in attendance
! to the late Dr. H. J. Nunn of Daw
I
| son, Y. T.
FIRST WINTER DANCE
“Let’s Get Together And Have a Party”
SATURDAY, OCT. 24th, — 10 P. M.
ORCHESTRA — NOVELTIES
WHITES ONLY LADIES FREE
Many of Voters
May Not be Able
Vote At Election
Did Not Register Because
Afraid Be Challenged
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 23,
—Chairman Loergan, of the spec
ial senate campaign expenditures
committee said that its agents in
Maine had reported that “thou
sands of votes were threatened
with disqualification as voters,
because of their status on the re
lief roils. Many voters failed to
appear to register their vote be
cause they had been told they
would be challenged”, he quoted
the investigators as saying.
Queer Ways In
History Which
Men Elected
Great Political Crisis 1896
Tilden And Hayes
For President
BATTLED FOR 29 DAYS
Special Electoral Commis
sion Elected Hayes
By One Vote
(By Herbert Plummer)
WASHINGTON. Sept. 23—One
of the greatest political crises in
American history followed the
Presidential election of 187C.
The contestants for the Presi
dency were Sammuol J. Tilden,
a Democrat, and Rutherford B.
Hayes, a Republican.
The election called for the choice
of 369 electors, of whom 185
would constitute a majority. The
votes of all but four states were
beyond dispute and gave Tilden
184 to Hayes’ 165.
Twenty Votes in Doubt
From the four states of Florida,
Louisiana, Oregon and South Car
oJina, however, came duplicate
sets of electoral votes certified
by conflicting state authorities.
Twenty votes were thus in doubt,
of which the Democrats needed
but one to elect and the Republi
cans needed all.
Who was to decide on the val
idity of these 20 doubtful votes?
The situation was further com
plicated by the fact that the Dem
ocrats controlled the House and
the Repubicans the Senate.
Both parties finally agreed to
set up an emergency electoral
commission composed of five Rep
TORONTO MOTHER
DOESN’T CARE FOR
BIG PRIZE MONEY
(By The Associated Press)
TORONTO Oct. 23, —Red-hair
ed Mrs. Pauline Clarke doesn’t
care whether she receives the
stork derby fortune left by Char
les Millar in an ironic will that
bequested his brewery stock to
prohibitionists and his Jockey's
Club shares to haters of horse
races.
“I am a mother because I want
ed to be one”, she said.
In reviewing the claims to the
prize Millar allotted for the Tor
onto mother bearing the most
children in ten years, following
his death in 1926, Mrs. Clarke’s
position is perhaps the most diffi
cult of all.
Five of her ten children have
been born in the five years since
her husband left her.
The children, though fatherless
in the eyes of the law arc all pro
perly registered. The extra-leg
al circumstances of their birth
doesn’t decrease their values as
proper entries.
There Is no other Toronto
mother except Mrs. Lily Kenny
who claims to have borne twelve
children, with more babies than
Pauline Clarke, in the last ten
years. Should Mrs. Kenny fail
to prove her claim Mrs. Clarke
will stand an equal chance with
j two other mothers of ten children
! and with a third mother who ex
pects the tenth before Octobei
31st, the “zero hour.”
Mrs. Clarke, only twenty-foui
years old, talks candidly about
when her husband left her anc
she fell in love with another man
and began to live with him, say
mg she will marry him as soon
as she is free, but her husband
has not divorced her. She says
I she will have more babies.
One wonders what Millar who
could spend a half million dollars
on a joke for a ghost to chuckle
over, woud sav to that.
i
resentatives, five Senators and 5
members of the Supreme Court.
The Commission’s decisions were
to stand as final unless both
Houses of Congress should re
verse them.
The Commission met for the
first time in the Supreme Court
Chamber of the Capitol on Jan
uary 30, 1877. Intense excite
ment prevailed in Washington.
The New York Times reported:
Republicans Held Majority
“The city is crowded with dis
tinguished persons from all parts
of the Union. Tickets are dis
tributed as on inauguration day
for the 200 seats in the Supreme
Court Chamber. At least 500
able bodied men were anxious
applicants for the positions of 50
additional policemen authorized.”
When the Commission perfect
ed its organization the political
lineup stood at 8 Republicans and
7 Democrats. For 29 days the
battle progressed amid scenes of
bitterness and intense partisan
ship.
“I have noticed,” one newspa
perman observed, "that the Dem
ocratic orators make many and
awful scriptural comparisons and
freely invoke upon their oppon
ents woes and maledictions,death
and judgment. One would think
from their talk they were the
chosen people of God and the
(Continued on Page Three)
Earthquake At
Anchorage Last
Night At 8 P. M.
People Run Into Streets To
Watch Tlu* Buildings
Weaving
VERY LITTLE DAMAGE
Window In Time Offices Is
Broken. Plaster Chips
Otherwise None
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 23, — An
earthquake described by oldtim
ers as the worst in many years,
shook this city at 8:26 p.m. Thurs
day, arid lasted for several sec
onds.
Many people ran from down
town stores and stood in the street
watching buildings rock.
Little damage was reported. A
large window in the Anchorage
Times office broke and plaster
chipped off from the walls. Oth
er than that there was slight
damage. The quake ran East
and West.
A new card table is equipped
with a horizontal electric light
that extends over its surfact
without interfering with players
Planes Threaten
Bombing Unless
City Surrenders
—
Terrified Women Rushed
From Homes When
Planes Came
THREATENED BOMBING
Defense Placed In Hands
Of New Man Who Is
Changing Policy
(By The Associated Press)
MADRID, Oct. 23 — Terrified
women and householders raced
into Madrid streets today as two
[Fascist airplanes droned over
i head dropping thousands of leaf
■ lets threatening bombing unless
the city surrendered.
Anti-aircraft guns mounted on
j rooftops unleashed volleys of
shells, but apparently the planes
I were not touched.
The leaflets did not specify any
time limit for the surrender.
MADRID, Oct. 23 — The gov
ernment placed the defense of
Madrid in the hands, last night
of a new supreme chief who sent
a workers army of one hundred
thousand to all fronts around the
capital announcing a shift from
a defensive policy to an ulfensive,
to prevent the invasion of Mad
rid.
The government removed Gen
eral Jose Ascnsio from command
and named General Sebastian Pos
as aged CO. a f ."nor n nister of
the interi A . ,o was made
unciei eerctary of war.
Po ■ s is reg: reed . s one of the
fortune t tactical experts in the
army, in the new proletar
ian reserve corps, which will re
lieve the battle weary m.litia
i men, and will serve as the gov
ernment’s shock forces in the play
to carry the battle to the enemy
who are now in sight of Madrid.
Severe Quake
South America
Been Recorded
(Bv The Associated Press)
; WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, — A
; severe earthquake on the Pacific
j side of South America early this
j morning was reported by the
Georgetown University Observa
tory, indicating that it took place
3300 miles southwest of here.
Starting at 1:33 a.m. it reached
its maximum at 2 a.m. and ceas
j ed at 4 a.m.