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VOL. 38. No. 277 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 20, 1937 Per Copy 10ct»
Believed Wilkins Crashed In Arctic
Ice-Breaker Needed Move Polar Weather Camp
U. S. Embassy Flees Nanking Face of Aerial Raid
NORTH POLK CAMP DRIFTED
SO FAR FROM POLE, THAT ICE
BREAKER NEEDED MOVE IT
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Sept. 20, — Com
mander Papanin, of the Soviet
North Pole Expedition radioed
that the North Pole camp on the
Arctic ice had drifted so far
to the south, from the position
in which it was originally set up,
that the expedition wouid have
to be taken off the floe by an
ice breaker, inst.ad of by plane,
as was at first planned.
The camp has drifted past the
86th parallel.
The commander ’ wirelessed
the expedition hud erected “av
enues and buildings fashiond out
of ice.”
The temperature at the Arctic
comp today was five degrees be
;ow zero, said the message.
Commander Papanin declared
•ney had determined to suend the
winter on the ice. to continue a
study of tile North Pole condi
tions.
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William Lock
Former Secty.,
T. R. Died N. Y.
(By The Associated Press)
GLENCOVE, N. Y., Sept. 20, -
William Loeb, aged 70, who rose
from a professional stenograph
er to a business executive and
vice-president of American
Smelting, died here following an
attack of pneumonia.
He was best known as the sec
retary of President Theodore
Roosevelt.
A widow and a son survive
him, both living here.
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Trotsky Says
Russian Cannot
Fiahl with Italy
(By The Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY'. Sept. 16—Rus
sia cannot afford to engage in a
war with Italy or any other for
eign power because of her press
ing internal problems, Leon Trot
sky said. “I firmly do not believe
an Italo-Russian war is immin
ent,” he said. It is barely incon
ceivable except as a complement
to a Russo-German war. I don’t
believe Stalin wishes to embar
rass European capitalists nations,
on the contrary, he seeks to con
vince them by all means that he
is a firm pillar of the status quo
Assembly of the League of Nations
4
' ?ued Down the Request of Spanish
C-overnment Seat League (Council
O
fRv 'I ie Associated Press.
GENEVA. Sept, 20. — The A
sembly of th= League of Nation •
tod v 'ed down tire Span!
g. .■jit. ant’s request for re-ele ■
■•I a.; a m mber of the Leago
Council.
The country was removed from
th council seat, which she k ;
hei.i for years, by nine votes.
A two-thirds majority of the
hallo's cast, is nece.-sary to de
c! 're i member state eligible fur
a seat.
None of the council seats are
permanent. Fifty two stated "vot
ed on the request that Sp :i be
d.-ciared re-eligible for ■ er
thro: year term.
F vj ballots were thrown out
a.-, defective or blank. Twenty- j
three favored Spain, but thirty
two votes were necessary.
It was understood that S ruth
American delegates opposed the
Spanish request for reinstate
ment.
arid of established order.
Russian intervention in the
Spanish civil war is in the form
of "police” duty he said and that
it has the tactic approval of
France and Great Britain. The
exiled former Russian dictator
also said he did not believe Rus
sia would interfere in the conflict
between China and Japan, al
though ne had heard of reports
that Russian airplanes were be
ing shipped to Shanghai.
!
{. S. Embassy
Nanking Moved
From Attacks
fBy The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Sept. 20, — The
American Embassy fled Nanking
' might in the face of a Japan
ese threat to lay waste, the Chin
ese capital, which was emphasiz
ed today by a morning aerial
raid in which forty civilians were
killed and more than forty hom
es were destroyed.
U. S. Ambasasdor Johnson and
his aides boarded the American
patrol boat Luzon stationed in tire
Yangtze river, and proceeded up
stream where they planned to
withdraw to Wuliu. 30 miles from
Nanking, thereby observing the
demand of the Japanese naval
force.
The Japanese warned all for
eigners they face death from the
air, beginning noon Tuesday,
The Japanese officials declared
that Japan would not be respon
sible for the loss of foreign life
after that hour.
No Statements
Addresses to Be
Given By Pres.
n>
(By The Associated Press)
HYDE PARK, Sept. 20. — No
definite speaking engagements
were placed on President Roose
velt’s West Coast itinerary, ex
cept Bonneville Dam.
At Chicago, his secretary Mr.
McIntyre said that the date for
his address at Bonneville, had not
yet been selected. He said the
speech would probably be only
a formal one.
He also declared it was poss- j
ible that others might be made
enroute to Seattle, where the
President will visit his only I
daughter, Mrs. Boettiger.
It such speech are made, they
will be of the rear-platform and
extemporaneous variety, 9aid Se
cretary McIntyre.
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ONE GUARD, TWO CONVICTS
KILLED ATTEMPTED PRISON
BREAK SUNDAY AT FOLSOM
(By The Associated Press)
FOLSOM. Calif.. Sept. 20, —
A Folsom S te Prison guard and
two convicts arc dead, and eight
others, including Warden Clar
ence Larkin are wounded follow
ing a bri f but deadly, unsuccess
ful atte . ' o , pri ■ i
Sunday.
The warder is in the hospital
with twelve -'.jo wounds in his
body.
Two guards and five convicts
were vyounded in the nr lee in
which knives flashed and clubs
swung freely.
The disorder followed the war
den's usual Sunday interview
vVi li the inmates.
Twenty minutes of furious fight
:ng followed, which began when
seven long-term inmates stepped
out of line and rushed Warden
Larkin into an office of the Cap
tain of the Guards.
The riot ended with all con
victs badly beaten and prostrate.
Guard H. E. Martin was stabb
ed to death, and convicts Clyde
Stevens and Benny Kucharski
were killed in the lighting
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FEAR WILKINS
CRASHED IN A
BLIND LAPPING
(By The Associated Press)
EDMONTON. Sept, 20. — The
Hubert Wh
in the big
Con olidated (lying boat, had
nding r
Aklavik, was *n by Captain
M Canadian Airways district
per.ntendent, tod ay, after re
i rad gram fr an pilot
it Aklav
..lying • .;it W.i . radio had
faded out just after the explorer
flier, said he was going to try
• landing somewhere on the Mac
Kenzie Delta.
He has been missing since yes
terday afternoon.
Capt. May telegraphed Sbef
ansson in New York, offering to
send Rankin to search for Wil
kins. after the weather clears.
The other nearest airplane av
ailable for a search, is three hun
dred miles away.
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F.ft.R.'S SURPRIS K. President Roosevelt suryrbed the
nub by oirntnanat me of He ewa members, But o L. Bloek of
Alabama, to the supreme eoort. Here b tbo wiry senator at hb desk
In tbo role fee whieli he b tamed—a vigorous examiner of witnesses.
Be begam hb oaroar uaonnll towa lawyer, later cole* to Birming
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