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The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24
l6 MEN WHO PLEADED GUILTY CONSPIRACY AGAINST SOYIETS
 SENTENCED TO BE EXECUTED
(By The Associated Press)

MOSCOW, Aug. 24, = The six teen men who pleaded guilty of plotting to overthrow the Soviet government and kill Joseph Stall in, were sentenced today to be shot.
 The sentences can be carried out anytime within seventy-two hours after conviction.
 Their only appeal is to the Presidium of the Central Execu- tive Committee of the Communist Party.
 The case against the men charg ed with collaborating with Leon Trotzsky, former Bolhevik lead- CT now in exile in Norway, in an antigovernment conspiracy, went to the judges last night.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24
Japanese Report
 Nr. -. Nine Soyielists
 Were Executed
(By The Associated Press1

TOKYO, Aug. 24, = The Jap- anese general army headquarters in Hsinking, Manchoukuo, an- nounced this morning that nine alleged Soviet citizens had been executed on the outskirts of Hil- ar, last Friday, and that twenty eight others had been sentenced to prison for terms of from five to twenty years.
 The dispatch from Hsingking asserted that the condemned Rus slans are the remnants of the secret delegation which the Sov- tets sent to Manchoukuo twelve years ago, charged with Sovietiz ing the three-rivers district" seventy-five miles north of Hail. ar near the Argun river on the Siberian border.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24

French opinion was largely sym- pathetic with the Madrid govern ment and that it might react disastrously to the execution of such an embargo.
 A report was obtained today that new rebel planes bombed Irun and that fierce fighting rag ed on other fronts also.
 The British merchant ship Glb- elzerjon was stopped by a Span- ish government cruiser off Melil la, Spanish Morocco, it was de- clared. When two British war ships and destroyers sped to her aid, they obtained an apology from the Spanish loyalists com mander, and the Gibelgerjon was permitted to proceed.
 The British government in- structed her men of war hence- forth to prevent such occurrences.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24
Japanese Report Alleged Soviet Citizens Executed
Dean Landes Of U. of W. Died
 Seattle Today
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
 SEATTLE, Aug. "A, - Dean Henry Landes, aged 68, the old est member of the faculty of the University of Washington, in point of service, died here Sun day of pneumonia.
 He and his wife, Mrs. Bertha K. Landes, former mayor of Seat tie. had returned last Wednes- day to Seattle, after conducting a travel tour in China.
 The Dean caught cold in Shang hai, which developed into pneu- monia, and was ill most of the ocean voyage back.
 In addition to his widow, his son Kenneth of the faculty of the University of Kansas, and a daughter Mrs. Violet Peaches of Seattle survive him. Landes was widely recognized for his ability as a geologist.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24
A World Minus
 Males Is Viewed
 By The Scientist
(By The Assoc1ated Press)

NDy IlC ASSoSldtCb 'SooI
 ST. LOUIS, Aug. - Well, boys, you can start checking in your masculinity any time noW-the biologists are predicting male less world.
 Dr. David Causey of the Uni versity of Kansas waited until leap year, with the girls toeing the marks for their quadrennial matrimonial offensive, to forecase a total eclipse of the male.
 He offers one consolation-the disappearance of the stronger" sex is apparently confined as yet to the animal world. But he hints that the twilight of human mas culinity is possibly just couple of cons beyond the limbo, where dWells that Well-knoWn bird, the dodo.
 Dr. CauSey, here for the recent annual convention of the Ameri- can Association for the Advance ment of Science, said that sexual reproduction appears to be an afterthought of nature which she is slowly trying to forget. Some species, he declared, already show evidence of swinging back to the time when life was perpetuated without benefit of masculine sup port.
 In certain types of fishes, he ex- plained, the care of the young, a traditional female function, is be- ing shunted onto the male. The male in these species carries the fertilized eggs in his mouth until they hatch.
 The biologist pointed to chang es in the relative sizes of the two sexes as another line of decad- ence."
 Among mammals the male is scarcely holding his own in su- periority of size, and among some termites the male has be- come "antirely dwarfed beside the female" he said.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24
Bare Fist Boxing
(By The Associated PreSs1

(By The Associated Press)
 BATHURST, New South Wales, Aug. - Secretly organized bare knuckle prizefghting has return ed to Australia in startling fash ion.
 In a secluded clearing near here 800 tense spectators gathered t o watch a visiting boxer and a woodsman fight a "grudge" battle that lasted only two rounds.
 At the end of six minutes, the woodsman quit with his face slashed, several teeth missing, his nose fiattened, and his jaw badly injured. He was completely lost against his more scientific oppon- ent..
 The fight was announced by underground methods and feeling ran so high that supporters and betting men came as far as 100 miles distant.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24
FIVE NATIONALS OF
 FRANCE EXECUTED
 STAINS CIVIL WAR
(Bv The Associated PreSS)

UNDATED, Aug "A, - Spanish rebel officers at Pampona reported today, the execution of five French men, fighting for the Loyaists and warned that other French nationals who join in the civil war may ex- pect the same fate.
 Asserting that the five French volunteers captured near Oyarzun in battle were put to death despite French denals rebels insisted that fleet of fifteen French airplanes bombed Naval Pral and that other warcra crossed the Pyrennes the northern border and bombed Oyarzn and Tolosa the ships then return ing to France.
 Germany informed France that she would immed- lately decline the embargo and airplane ship ments to Span and in spite of the recent tension over the search of a German ship by the Spanish govern ment naval forces and other incidents which Germany considered antGerman, indicating that she feels vol unteers should be kept at home She felt that popular
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24
DANGER AND THRILLS ARE
 HEADED IN STARHEMBERC'S
 PATROL AUSTRIAN POLITICS

length to eliminate him as DO. litical force.
 Almost every day some sinister incident brought new evidence that many persons would have regarded it an act of high patriot ism to stop Starhemberg with a bullet,
 The opposition which he en- countered actually contributed to Starhemberg's rise, for it prompted him to take over and strengthen Austria's largest pri- vate army, the heimwehr. He used it to smash the socialists, and to chase the Nazis to cover after the putsch in which Chan cellor Dollfuss was assassinated.
 Called Prince Big Mouth
 While physical courage is per- haps the outstanding characteris- tics of the prince, his other quail ties make him a colorful public figure. He is a forceful orator with a platform personality that commands attention.
 Rarely does he write out an ad- dress in advance. He prepares an outline, and then hammers home his ideas with simple, di- rect words. He has a flair for sensational statements.
 Early in his political career his foes tried to call Starhemberg's speeches bluff and bombaSt. His bolder opponents sometimes call
 ed him Prince Big Mouth" But it soon became apparent that
 (Continued on Page Three)
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24
(By The Associated Press)


 VIENNA, Aug. - Prince Erns+ Ruediger von Starhemberg, mus cular 36 year old storm center O! Austrian politics, gets kick out of living dangerously.
 He borrowed his fascism from Mussolini but his physical cour- age and zest for dangerous situ- ations is his own. His spectacular career in wars, rebellions and pol itics gives proof of his fearless ness.
 The Russians shot at him on the eastern front, The Italians shot at him on the Piave. The Poles shot at him in Silesia. He risked his neck with Adolf Hitler in his beer hall putsch in Munich.
 Assassination Plots Rolled
 In August, 1883, two Nazis bent on assassination were arrested as they crept up on Starhemberg.
 By April, 1884, a horde of Aus trian socialists with thousands of guns had proclaimed him special enemy No. l and indicated how they felt about it by floating a coffin bearing Starhemberg's name down the Danube River. Two months later huge bomb, ready to blast the building from it's foundations, was found in a room above his offices in Ballhaus Platz.
 This succession of events indi- cated that enemies of the fascist prince would go to almost any
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24
Asked For It

Most of the Jones' Sunday mo- tor trip had been marred by violent quarrel. On their home. ward journey they passed pas. ture field just as donkey bray. ed long and loud.
 'Is that relative of yours?" he asked spitefully.
 "Only by marriage, dear," she replied sWeetly.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24

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The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24
Baseball Scores (By The Associated PreSs)
NATIONAL Saturday Games

Cincinnati 6, Chicago 4 Philadelphia 3, Brooklyn 12 Pittsburgh 3, St. Louis 4 New York and Boston game postponed account of rain.
 AMERICAN Boston 2, New York 3 Thirteen innings. St. Louis 0, Cleveland 6 Washington 12-6, Phila. 8-7 Chicago g, Detroit 3.
 COAST Portland 12, Los Angeles 5 Missions 6, Oakland 0 Seattle 7-3, San Francisco 0-1.
 Sunday Games
 COAST LEAGUE Missions 3-3 Oakland 2-2 Seattle 2 San Francisco 2 Portland 9-3 Los Angeles 5-4 San Diego 3-5 Sacramento 70
 AMERICAN Boston 3-6 New Pork 5-3 St. Louis 1 Cleveland 4 Washington 9-9 Phila 3-6 Chicago 4 Detroit 2
 NATIONAL Pittsburgh 3-6 St. Louis 7-6 (2nd game called on account of darkness in 10th inning.) Cincinnati 0 Chicago 2 New York 3-6 Boston 2-1 Philadelphia 5-5 Brooklyn 6-3
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24
Schooner Holmes Said Ice Pack Now
 Near Pt. Barrow
(By The Associated Press)

POINT BARROW, Aug. 24, - The schooner c. S Holmes, reach- ing Barrow today from Kotze- bue, reported high winds and that the Arctic ice pack was not far off.
 Captain Backland said that the Patterson, smaller trading ves- Sel enroute to the far Eastern waters of Coronation Gulf, was fast in the ice and can't reach Herschell Island.
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24
Floyd B. Olson
 Coy. Minnesota
 Died Saturday
(By The Associated Press)

NBy IHt ASSUCIdIeu fIeoSI
 ROCHESTER, Aug. "A, - Floyd B. Olson Farmer-Labor Cover nor of Minnesota, long promin- ent in state and national polite al circles, died Saturday night.
 He was only forty-four years old and was a staunch supporter of the Roosevelt administration
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24

FOR SALE - Household goods including oil-burner, reasonably priced. Inquire c. L. DOdd, 3 cabins east of hospital on Third avenue. 3t
The Nome daily nugget., 1936-08-24
LAST NOTICE TO
 PAY SCHOOL TAX

After September Ist, 1886, a penalty of S2.OO will be added to all unpaid school taxes and col lection of same will be enforced.
 M. J. WALSH, 3t School Tax Collector.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-04
TOWNSENDITES
TO HOLD MASS
MEETING HERE

Ell Centre Townsend club No. l
has called a mass meeting in the
city park for Tuesday night at 1880
o'clock to welcome the Townsend
motorcade which is enroute to
Washington, d. C. bearing 10000
coo signatures endorsing the Town
send plan.
The Ell Centro meeting is to be
the first important stop in the mot
orcade's Journey cars filled with
enthusiastic Townsendites being eX-
pected to join the cavalcade at each
community.
The motorcade Will leave Los An
geles Tuesday at 10 a. NJ, going
through Cotton. RedlandS. Beau
mont and Banning to Ell Centro.
The motorcade is in response to
the demands of the Townsend plan
congressional investigation commit
tee, members of which have order
ed the names of those supporting
the movement to be delivered to
Washington.
AT the program in FL Centre, in
addition to talks by the visitors
music by a local band will be sup
piled, The meeting is open to the
public,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-04
COP FIGHT MARKS
PRIMARY VOTING

SAN FRANCISCO, May 4. U.R)-
A last minute drive for votes was
made today as campaign managers
tried to stir up tagging interest
in CALIFORNIA; presidential pri-
mary.
The electorate will decide tomor-
row whether President Roosevelt
will have the whole hearted sup
port of this states deleation at
the Democratic National conven-
ton, or whether Upton Sinclair
should be given an opportunity
to carHy his production-for-use
plan to the national assembly,
Republicans will end the long
and bitterly contested fight be-
tween supporters of ALT M. Lam
don sand those favoring an unin-
structed delegation.
Sinclair'S original plan was
merely to head a delegation pied
ged to the President on the con-
dition that the convention ap-
prove production -for-uSe as
plank in the party's platform Be
cause of the technicalities involV-
ed, however, he made himself the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-04
he Der MAN
chosen HEAD
OF PIONEERS.
Over Three Hundred
Early Settlers Go
To Picnic

Roy E. Breedlove of He
ber was elected president of
the Imperial Valley Pio-
neers association at the
eighth annual meeting held
at county fair grounds Saturday
afternoon following the picnic din
ner which attracted more than 300
pioneer residents and their families.
Breedlove has been a resident of
Imperial Valley for 90 years.
The board of directors elected
during the afternoon was as fol-
lows: H. A. Hastain of Brawley,
first vice president; j. D. Huston
of Imperial, second vice president;
Dan GrumbleS of Ell Centro, third
vice president; A. Y. Preble of
Imperial; Dan West of BraWley;
George B. Biles of Westmorland;
Elmer Forester of Ell Centre; 1.
Schlatter of CaleXico; and j. v.
Taggart of Holtville. Other Of
ficers will be elected at the first
meeting of the new board of di-
rectorS.
Membership in the organization
is closed to those who have been
residents of Imperial Valley less
than 20 years. This amendment
was written into the constitution
and bylaws by vote of the mem
bers present at the Saturday meet
ing.
The date for the annual picnic
was changed from the first Sat
urday in May to the second Sat
urday in April.
The treasury of the association
contains $500 to be used in compil-
ing the history of the pioneers of
the valley, it was reported.
Mccall said Monday that he
deeply regretted that the program
arranged for Saturday afternoon
did not go forward as scheduled.
He said he was sorry the fiddling
and dancing contests did not take
place as announced prior to the pic
mic. The best laid plans of mice
and men, Gang aft agley," he quot
ed in explanation.
In the future, any change in the
bylaws of the organization will
be impossible without a written
resolution which at least six mem
bers of the board of directors
have voted approval, it was decided
Tribute Paid
Silent tribute was accorded the
memory of eight pioneers who died
during the last year The tribute
was accorded: Frank Weed, Frank
McClelland, B. F. Steindorf, E. E.
Forester, j. E. Brandenburg, ID.
l.. Russell, Lewis E. Cooley and
M II. Gavin.
After reports of the history COM
mittee, the board of directors and
other announcements, flag was
presented TO the organization by
ID. Chambers. Chambers brought
the flag to the organization from
Washington and later in the after
noon spoke briefly concerning his
experiences as a pioneer in Wash
ington.
T. D. Mccall, retiring president,
announced that he had an old
time piano which he would give
the association as soon as a suit
able place to keep it was avail
able.
Buick Underwood Buehner, who
has lived all her life in Imperial
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-04
LEGATION IN
Adds ABABA
UNDER SIEGE
PiHaging Natiues Kill
American Woman
In Battle

Adds ABABA, May 4.
(UP)-Pillaging natives, in
famed by impending Italian
occupation of Adds Ababa,
attacked the American and
other foreign legations today.
Many white persons were killed or
wounded as they stood off the
crazed natives.
A stalvart little band of Ameri-
cans in the United States legation
compound fought off one attack by
looting Ethiopians but was so hard
pressed that an appeal had to be
made to the British for a machine
gun and soldiers.
Two native women in the Amer
ican quarters were wounded. Pre-
viously Mrs. A. r. Stadin, of Iona
Linda, Cal, wife Of an American
missionary doctor, had been killed
by stray bullet.
All regular communications had
failed long ago as Emperor Halle
Selassie fled from his capital for
Jerusalem and the natives pillaged
and burned much of the city. The
story OF bloodshed rioting and
chaos in the capital was pieced to-
gether from terse dispatches sent
over United States, British and
French diplomatic wireless stations.
including the accounts of Ben Ames
and James L. Rohrbaugh of the
United Press, only American cor
respondents in Adds Ababa.
Troops Camp Nearby
Restoration OF order awaited ar
rival of the triumphant Italians.
Native contingents already were
encamped on the outskirts of the
city. They waited there for the
main column. headed by Marshal
Pietro Badoglio himself. Latest
announcements in Rome said this
force was 81 miles away.
Ethiopian bandits attacked the
American legation at am. All the
women except the us Envoy's wife
had been taken to the fortified
British compound previously. She
was in the garden when the ma
tives opened fire. Some-of the men
had gone to aid hospital. Ames
and Rohrbaugh were out to get
first-hand news of the Italians.
At about the same time, the
French minister wirelessed Paris
that the natives were attacking his
legation. Several persons inside
were wounded, but the minister
said the French and British would
be able to stand off the attacks un-
till the Italians arrived.
The vanquished Halle Selassie,
meantime boarded the British
cruiser Enterprise at Djibouti,
French Somaliland. The cruiser
will take him to Palestine. There
it was expected he would tarry a
while. praying in the ancient Coptic
church, and later probably pro-
ceed to London.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-04

Hardly had the cracking Wire
less spelled out the request for aid
than Engert reported the legation
after beating off one assault was
again under intermittent fire by
marauding natives.
Despite the new danger, Engert
believed he could hold his little
fort if given a small number of
reinforcements.
Unable to communicate with the
British legation four miles away
through streets streaming with riot
ing, pillage-mad natives, Engert
sent his message for reinforcements
over a sputtering portable radio
direct to Washington.
When radio technicians received
the message at the huge naval
wireless station at Arlington, Va,
the state department telephoned
British authorities in London, ask
ing them to wireless the plea back
to Adds Ababa, TO the British
minister
Although appealing for aid, En-
CERT and his motley little band of
defenders had repulsed at least one
attack by the African marauders
who stormed through the streets
of the wrecked and looted Ethio-
plan capital
Engert calmly communicating in
the formal language of diplomatic
etiquette made plain that he was
prepared to defend the American
legation quarters so long as the
odds did not become Overwhelming.
Two messengers" he explained
in his wireless dispatch to Wash
ington, "sent to British legation to-
day could not get through"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-04
ATTACK MADE.
UPON chill D.
NEAR VERDE.
Wine Forced Down
Throat of Girl;
Indian Held

A criminal attack upon a
seven-year-old Mexican girl
Saturday night resulted in
the arrest of Jesus Nunez
36-year-old Yaqui Indian.
The attack took place at MeXi-
can camp on the SaWdey- Hunt
ranch near Verde. Nunez later
confessed to officers and signed
the statement taken in the pres
ence of witnesses.
The mother of the little girl
rescued her daughter from Nunez,
officers said, after a 12-year-old
friend of the victim summoned
her to the scene.
Nunez had drugged the child
into Semi-conSciouSneSS by fore
ing her to drink large quantities OF
wine, the officers said, and when
rescued by her mother, she was
only partly conscious.
Nunez ran from the camp but
was pursued by half dozen MeXi-
cans who vowed to kill him on
sight, they told officers. The In
dian disappeared, however, and
his pursuers could not find him.
Constable j. T. Peck Of Holtville
was summoned and after taking
the child to a Holtville physician,
communicated with the Imperial
county sheriff's department.
Traced to Home
Sheriff Robert w. Ware, Peck,
T. M. Sharp, chief criminal inves-
tigator for the sheriff's office, and
Deputy Sheriff Park Burritt traced
Nunez to the home of a sister
near Bonds Corner, about half a
mile from the Mexican border.
Occupants of the house told the
officers Nunez was not their but
when Sharp told them Nunez was
known to be on the premises, the
Indian walked out of a bedroom
and surrendered to arrest.
In little more than two hours,
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-04
JURY SELECTED
TO TRY FARM
VIOLATION CASE

Jury for the trial of Charles
Greco and j. d. Fewer for viola
tion of the state agricultural code,
was selected in Judge Vaughn N.
Thompson's court Monday morning
and two witnesses had been placed
on the stand prior 20 the MONDAY
recess.
Ret1ial of Mason Todd on charges
of numbering Simon Guzman near
Brawley in February, was sched-
uled for Monday but was continued
to May 10, at the request of the
defense The first trial held for
Todd resulted in a hung jury.
Trial for John Riddle. charged
with a statutory offense against his
11-year-old stepdaughter, was con-
tinued until Wednesday. Riddle
recently pleaded guilty to the
charge but later changed his plea.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-04
COUNTY TO BALLOT IN
PRIMARIES TUESDAY
PETITIONS OUT
OVER LIQUOR
CONTROL UNIT

Petitions are. being drawn to
place Cn the November general
election ballet proposition call
ing fer creation Of g separate
gCvernme ntal unit in California
to handle liquor control, Ray
Edgar. southern California mem
ber Of the state board CT equal
iZatiOn, announced Monday.
The petitions probably will be
circulated in Los Angeles first.
Strong support is pledged from
northern California, Edgar said.
Under the present program
The equalization board cares for
HQuOr control as well as tax
matters.
Edgar was the first member of
he state board declare in favor
Of separate boards, one liquor
cCrtrCl board and enc the board
Of equalization.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-04

New York KarpiS would be tried
for his part in the 100000 Hamm
abduction. The maximum penalty
is life Imprisonment. Later, he
may be turned over to Missouri
authorities who would like to con-
vict him and sentence him to death
for the murder of Sheriff c. r.
Kelly of West Plains.
Karpis has been indicted in the
Hamm and Kelly cases and in the
100000 kidnapping of Edward c..
Bremen, st. Paul banker.
Agents questioning Karpis con-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-04
SUPREME COURT
AGAIN FAILS TO
DECIDE ON TEST

WASHINGTON, May 4. U.p-The
supreme court today made certain
a new record for consideration of
New Deal test cases by falling to
hand down its decision in the Cuff
fey coal act test.
Failure to decide the Guffey case
today means that the decision can
not be presented before May IL as
the court takes a two weeks recess
after today
BY May 18 the court will have
had the case before It for 81 days.
The previous record was the GO day
period required for the court to
hand down its opinion in tne iva
test.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-04

nominal choice of his own delega-
ton with the understanding he
would release all "A votes to
Roosevelt after one compliment
ary ballot for himself.
Congressman John Steven Nc
Groarty was in the Democratic
race under a somewhat similar
plan, but observers believed he
would run a poor third. He enter
ed a ticket in an effort to further
the interests of the Townsend
Pension Plan, and said he would
release the delegates to support
the president after one compH-
mentary vote for himself should
he win the primary.
Actually, therefore, a vote for
any one of the three tickets on
the Democratic ballot would mean
a vote for President Roosevelt,
either with or without reservation.