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COMMUNISTS PUN
TO MID THE DU
OF SPAIN FAILED
REPUBLIC WILL SEEK EXTRA
DITION OF ALFONSO
FROM FRANCE
MADRID, May 13. (-■?)—On re
ports that Communists had
planned to raid the Bank of Spain,
the government mobilized troops
and posted them about the bank
building in the strongest display
of military power Madrid has seen
in years.
The unconfirmed reports said
Communists had organized for a
demonstration and planned to raid<
the bank while the main body of
the crowd engaged the police.
Light artillery, machine gun
crews, tanks and armored cars
were sent to protect the bank.
The strong display halted the j
crowd and no disorder took place
and in 15 minutes demonstrations
began to leave.
Troops have been recalled from
other parts of Spain as disorders
are subsiding. Provincial govern
ors maintained martial law in Va
lencia. Smoke is still rising from
14 burned or burning Catholic
buildings and soldiers with fixed
bayonets guarded the ruins.
There was looting in the night |
but troops were under orders to'
shoot to kill. Today the streets!
are quiet. The damage there is!
estimated at $500,000.
Mobs at Cordova raided ammu
nition stores and fought guards;
four rioters were killed and 25
wounded seriously. The convent
was saved.
Attorney General Galarza an
nounced the government will issue j
indictments against prominent
monarchists including Alfonso
charging them with plotting and j
provoking disorders and attempt-:
ing to embarrass the republic.!
They said extradition of Alfonso I
will be sought in Paris.
WATSON SAILS NORTH
SEATTLE, May 13. <£>)—'The SS i
Admiral Watson, of the P. S. S. |
Co., sailed at 10 a. m. today and!
carried 84 passengers of which j
eight are for Seward: Edward
Donelly, James Agostina, Mr. and
Mrs. J. V. Miller, J. Kukulis and
three steerage.
FOUR FUMES MUST
UHUO CHANGES
WASHINGTON, May 13, {&)—
The Department of Commerce of
ifciaLs agreed to permit return
of Fokker passenger airplanes to
commercial flying service after
certain changes in construction of
machines are made.
One of the changes will be to
wing construction as previously
announced.
STARR DUE AT 3 P. M.
Prior to going to press at noon
word was received that the SS
Starr would arrive from the
South at 3 o’clock this afternoon
and leave at 4 p. m. for Uganik,
returning here before making its
first trip of the season to Bristol
Bay.
YUKON ICE MOVING
DAWSON, May 13, {IP)—Yukon
ice is moving seaward after break
ing at 8:23 Monday night. Navi
gation is expected to be open
in a week.
OLMSTED COMPLETES
FOUR YEAR SENTENCE
SEATTLE, May 13, <#)— Roy
Olmstead, central figure in the
famous Olmstead liquor conspira
cy case, stepped free from Me
iNeill Island prison after serving
(four years.
[ He said “I am through with
bootlegging and am starting fresh.
I bear no grudges. I do not know
what I’ll do. I am going home to
stay in privacy for awhile.”
1 m T
PASS RESOLUTION
LONDON, May 12. (A>)—The
House of Commons passed the
resolution of Philip Snowden,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, au
thorizing imposition of a land tax
I of a penny a pound.
SP15H FOREIGN LEGION
REPORTED BE REVOLTING
DEMOCRATIC PRINCE
i LONDON, May 13, (IP)—A Reut
jer’s dispatch from Tangiers said
| that it was rumored troops of
j the Spanish foreign legion at
j Souk El Arba were in revolt.
| It was said that the artillery
I in the central part of Tetuan had
i been trained on the native quar
jter as a precaution in case of a
conflict.
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LLOYD GEORGE OPPOSES TAX
! LONDON, May 13. (IP) — David
Lloyd George came out in opposi
tion of Chancellor Snowden’s plan
| to impose a oenny a pound tax on
i land declarin that it had already
! proven ts merit in some of the
(largest cities of dominions.
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PACIFIC BY.
SMALL DIVIDEND
MONTREAL, May 13, (/P)—'The
Canadian Pacific Railway Com
pany declared a dividend of 1*4
per cent instead of the usual quar
terly payment of 2l/2 per cent.
Official announcement said re
duction was decided in view of
the fact that prospective earnings
cannot be estimated with any de
gree of accuracy.
i LONDON, May 13, (/P)—There is
j perturbation in the high hat
! trade in Great Britain as a re
jsult of the Prince of Wales ex
pressed wish that toppers and
morning coats not be worn by
1,800 members of the Manchester
Chamber of Commerce when he
makes his trade boosting speech.
SOMETHING MUST BE DONE
BERLIN, May 13, (JP)—Accord
ing to a story published in Tag
eblatt, Germany will ask for re
credit from nations and revision
of the Young plan payments, be
fore the end of the summer, ow
ing to reduced revenues and in
creased financial burdens.
mm HDDS FOR
VERSAILLES, May 13, (A*)—
Deputies and senators of the
French parliament gathered in
Congress in the Versailles palace
to elect a 13th president for the
Republic of France.
The Congress came to order at
8 in the mornng; the national
assembly, as a joint body, called
for secret votes being put in the
urn of Briand and Doumer, lead
ing candidates .
The second ballot on which
election is expected is not looked
for before 8:30 tonight. Soldiers
guarded the palace. Doumer led
on the first ballot.
POWER OF SHIER
IS DOMINONT ISSUE
LOS ANGELES, May 12. (>P)—
The restoration of the purchasing
power of silver is the dominent
issue of the world today.
“The chief cause of depression
of silver is the policy of Great
Britain in India in melting the
silver rupee coin and dumping the
silver bullion on the markets of
the world,” United States Senator
Pittman of Nevada, the apostle
of silver in the Senate, declared.
Pittman is on his way to China
to investigate what China pro
poses to do with a proposed loan
of silver.
MEUSE
PIECES SIT SCIENTIST
MT. WILSON OBSERVATORY.
May 12. (J-P)—The world’s most
daring thinker about what’s going
on in the Universe came up t-o
the earth’s best w i n d o vv from
which one may gaze out upon
the mysteries of the skies.
Sir James Hopewell Jeans, dis
i tinguished British astronomer, had
a seat reserved for him on the
turret of the 10-inch mirror tele
scope to watch wrhat he says is
the “universe going to pieces.”
MIS BETWEEN
2 NOTION'S EXCELLENT
i TORONTO, May 13, (^—Rela
tions between Great Britain and
the United States are so good,
that the British ambassador at
Washington sleeps on both 'ears.
This was the statement of Sir
Ronald Lndsay, British Ambas
sador, who arrived here.
He described current difficulties
as an indigestion of commerce,
but regarded the future with an
optimistic* eye.
MAY FORCE HAND
PARIS, May 13, (/P)—Simulta
neously with the return to Lon
don of Rene Massigli, head of the
French naval delegation, the Nav
al Affairs committee of the cham
ber of deputies took action which
may force the government’s hand
in naval negotiations.
THE FIRST OF ITS KIND
NEW YORK, May 13, (/P)—The
first train entirely air conditioned
and cooled, a new step in rail*
loading,' was announced by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
HENCE ST1PEDED
IND SIXTEEN DIED
TOKYO, May 13, (£>)—Sixteen
people were burned to death and
30 injured in a fire during a
movie show in a temporary shack
in Shimamaki village on the Is
land of Hokkiando.
The film burst into flames ter
rorizing the audience which stam
peded, the fire overtaknig some
of them.
Sixteen houses in the vicinity
were destroyed.
MRS. COOLIDGE AHONORED
NEW YORK, May 12. (&)—Mrs.
Calvin Coolidge was honored for
extending a helping hand to the
deaf by award of the gold medal
of the National Institute of Social
Science.
Mill THIEVES TELl
POLICE HE TO LOOK
NEW YORK, May 13, (^—Pos
tal authorities here and in Great
Britain are cooperating in the
investigation of a series of in
ternational mail robberies the
extent of which remains to be de
termined.
A dispatch from Belfast, Ire
land says that people there had
received empty envelopes rubber
stamped “rifled in New York.”
CARDINAL RETURNING HOME
ROME, May 12. {£>)—Cardinal
Mundelein of Chicago left for
Paris on the way home. He is
sailing May 16 for New York on
the Aquatania.
SIX ARRESTED FOR
! TRAPPING; NO LICENSE
KODIAK, May 13, Special to
The Gateway—Game Warden H.
Jewell brought in four ^on-resi
s dents before the U. S. Commis
Isioner here and filed complaints
charging them with trapping fur
bearing animals without non-res
ident trapping icenses.
They all pleaded guilty and
were fined $100 each.
About $600 worth of skins were
confiscated.
HALIBUT QUOTATIONS
PRINCE RUPERT, May 12, (/P)—
Two hundred and 23,000 pounds
of American halibut sold for 5c
to 9c, and Canadian sold for 5c
to 8c. In Seattle seven vessels
with 67,500 pounds of fish sold
for 9*720 to 6c.
Within the near future the Al
askan Airways will equip its en
tire fleet of airplanes with radio
sending and receiving apparatus,
according to announcement made
by General Manager Arthur W.
Johnson, in the Faibanks News
Miner.
FEMES KNOW 10
BIG “CHEESES" ME BBT
THEE m LIBERTY
ALBANY, N. Y., May 13. (JP)—
j Evidence of a nation-wide com
| bine of .racketeers engaged in beer
{and liquor business has been un
earthed in a drive of State and
Federal authorities to rid Catskill
Mountain section of gangsters, it
was disclosed.
The system is believed to main
tain a wide-spread chain of dis
tribution stations for its contra
band products to carry numerous
officer*. to uphold tl.
on its payrolls.
Jack “Legs” Diamond of New
| York underworld, is on the in
j vestigators lists as the Eastern
| manager of the system with Scar
! face A1 Capone directing the op
jerations in the West.
COMMUNISTIC 1UICE
FORMED HERR TOKYO
TOKYO. May 13. (^—Japan’s
first communistic village has been
[organized in the suburb of Tsu
jchiura, Ibaraki prefecture. It em
! braces 14 families, or 70 persons
| in all.
| The community members have
; decided to move into one large
house of the apartment type so
as to lead a thoroughly coopera
tvie life.
They will hold their fields as
common property, work them to
gether and divide equally the pro
i ceeds from the rice and other
j crops.
STUNS ARE
WARNED, LOTTERIES
WASHINGTON, May 13. (#)—
Although refusing the request of
the American Newspaper Publish
ers’ Association for a general or
der to forbid broadcasting of lot
teries, the Federal Radio Commis
sion warned radio stations that
if complaints are received against
such broadcasting, stations’ broad
casting license may be jeopardiz
ed.
NEW YORK CLIMATE
NEW YORK, May 13, </P)—Tem
peratures, maximum 62, minimum
55. Weather cloudy.
HEP. THURSTON SEES
CHHN9E COMING ISLANDS
WASHINGTON, May 13, (PP)—A
move to obtain legislation to
grant independence to the Phil
ippine Islands was initiated by
Representative Thurston of la.
ranking Republican o n the
House Insular affairs committee,
he said the sentiment for Phil
ippine independence was growing
in Congress.
DOUMER IS PRESIDENT
PARIS, May 13. Paul Dou
mer, 74, president of the Senate,
was elected the 13th president of
the French republic.