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VOL. 38. No. 279. NOME, ALASKA, Wedne iy, Sept. 22, 1937 Per Copy 10ct»
Jap Aerial Bomba *dment Is Begun
WILKINS LEAVES AKU VIKTORNEWYORK
Civilians Are Endangered 1 v Bombing of Nanking
MIRRORS IN THE EAST. Conflicting emotions grip
Chinese today and these faces reflect the thoughts of thousands in
the country where antiquity rubs elbows with modernity. Upper
left, a Chinese soldier, his grim face in smiles. Upper right, a calm,
military young man who boasts he slew six Japanese single-handed.
Lower left, an earnest young trooper under training. Lower right, a
patriarch, opposed to war, wedded to a philosophy of peace and
opium pipes.
JAPAN IGNORES BRITISH AND
U.S. PROTESTS AND BOMBS
CIVIL POPULATION NANKING
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(By The Associated Press)
NANKING, Sept. 22nd—Japan
ignored the American and British
protests against unrestricted bom
bardment of the capital’s civilian
population, when her massed war
planes bombed the city for hours
in an ineffectual effort to carry,
out its threatened destruction.
Daring Chinese pilots in fast
American pursuit planes fought
off three separate Japanese air
fleets numbering some hundred
planes, and at least four Japan
ese bombers were sent crashing
to earth.
The lives of twenty Americans,
including seven women, were en
dangered by bombardment, re
sultant from fire of Chinese anti
aircraft batteries, one Chinese
shell, aimed at war planes, just
missed the American Embassy
building and blasted a gaping
hole nearby.
Although more than one hun
dred bombs were dropped, the
loss of life and damage to pro
perty is relatively small, and cas
ualties are believed to be not
more than forty Chinese civilians
killed and wounded.
All government buildings came
through the ordeal virtually un
scathed.
Two Alaskans
In IVY Attend
Legion Parade
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 22—During
a wild gigantic Legion Parade
here, J. Comer of Nome announ
ced to everyone on Fifth Avenue
that he was a “long way from
Nome, but there’s no place like
Nome.’’
J. Thomas of Sitka, said after
the parade: “my dogs hurt but
that’s because the principal way
of getting around in Alaska is
by our ‘dogs’ ha, ha.”
THREE HUNDRED t ILIANS
KILLED BY JAPS AERIAL
BOMBARDMENT ONGKONG
Ellsworth To
Join Search for
Russian Fliers
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22, —
When Lincoln Ellsworth, famous
Arctic explorer, left here a few
days ago, he stated he plans to
search for the missing Russian
(plane that took off from Moscow
j last month on a flight to the Un
ited States by way of the North
Pole.
He flew to New York to seek
the aid of Jacqueline Cochrane,
aviatrix, and her husband Floyd
B. Odium, New York capitalist
“I plan to obtain, if possible.
Miss Cochrane’s powerful, fast,
Northrup plane to use in the
search.
Interior Alaska Base
“I would establish a base in the
Interior of Alaska, and operate
systematically and scientifically
in combing the Arctic wilderness.
I am convinced the missing Rus
sian aviators are alive, or I
: would not be embarking on such
| a venture.”
Notable Arctic Flights
Ellsworth, who is 57 years old,
: was co-leader with Capt. Roald
I Amundsen and Gen. Umberto No
I bile in a flight in May, 1926. from
Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, Norway,
over the North Pole, to Teller,
Alaska; navigator of the N-24 on
the Amundsen-Ellsworth flying
expedition that reached 88 de
grees North latitude, and repre
sented the American Geograph
ical Society on the Graf Zeppel
in Arctic flight in 1931.
Known in Nome
Ellsworth is known in Nome
by many citizens who became ac
quainted with him, when the fir
st dirigible party came here from
Teller, after making the success
ful flight across the North Pole
to Teller.
OMAHA, Neb., Sept. —Muni
cipal Judge Lester Palmer was
chief witness and judge when
Helen Sternberg appeared in
court on reckless driving charg
es. Her car struck a man.
Palmer, the witness who saw
the accident, said: “It was a case
of extreme negligence.”
Palmer, the Judge, said: “Twen
ty-five dollars and costs.”
The defendant appealed to a
higher court.
(By Ttie dissociated Press)
HONGKONG, Sept. 22—Three
hundred lives are feared lost at
i Canton in a series of devastating
raids by Japanese planes, a four
th attack of a day of six raids
within twenty-four hours, which
came in mid-afternoon.
Estimates of total lives and pro
! perty damage are all unofficial,
, and mounted hourly.
| F'oreign observers told of piles
of bodies, most of them civilians,
in Che streets of a southern Chin
ese metropolis.
Fire Department
To Get $3400 Cat
On the Last Boat
Investing in a $3400 Allis-Chal
mers tractor, equipped with elec
tric starting, headlights and oth
er winter accessories, the Nome
City Council, at a special meet
ing last night, took the final step
to completely modernize the Fire
Department.
The initial movement to mod
ernize, (do away with the anti
quated system of horse-drawn
fire equipment), was begun some
years ago, but it was not until
this spring that councilmanic ac
tion resulted in a new fire truck
being purchased and received by
the city this summer.
Councilmen Anderson, O’Con
nor, Polet, Rude and Taggart
were present last night to take
action on the several bids receiv
ed from various tractor agents in ’
Nome.
Discussion and explanation of
specifications, power, etc., occu
pied sometime last evening at
the meeting, and upon motion by
Rude, seconded by Polet, it was
put to a vote to purchase an Allis
-Chalmers machine, from local
agents. The Lomen Commercial
company. Other representatives
were present and spoke on the
various types of equipment offer
ed. The vote was four to 1, O'
Connor voting No.
The new machine is to be order
od immediately to come in on the
last boat sailing from Seattle, on
October 9th. It is an Allis^Chal
mers WK model. When landed
here the machine will cost $3700.
A special radiator guard or bum
per was also ordered.
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New Charges
Filed Against
The Seattle PI
Guild Charges P. I. Firing
Two Employees On
Account Belong
CBv The Associated Press>
SEATTLE, Sept. 22, — New
charges against the Seattle Post
Intelligencer. morning newspap
er of which Wrn. Randolph Hear
st is owner and John Boettiger,
son-in-law of President and Mrs.
Roosevelt, is editor, have been
filed by the Seattle Chapter of
the American Newspaper Guild,
Ct *'■
with the National Labor Rela
tions Board, the Seattle office of
the board announced.
Director of Board Absent
In the absence from the city
if Charles Hope, director of the
Board, his aides declined to dis
close the nature of the charges.
Officers of the Guild declared
their action in filing charges fol
lowed the recent dismissals of
Mrs. Ruth Givan and Ray Grif
fiths from the classified advertise
ment department of the paper.
Charges Made by Guild
The Guild claims the dismissals
Wilkins Gives
Up Search and
Leaves For NY
(By The Associated Press)
EDMONTON. B. C.. Sept. 22nd
—Major G. E. Genet of the Royal
Canadian Signal Corps, said: Sir
Hubert Wilkins is leaving Akla
vik tomorrow for New York, thus
ending his part of the search for
the lost Soviet Polar fliers.
NAZIS LIKE CHAMPAGNE
BERLIN, Sept. 22, — If cham
pagne consumption is any index
of national gladness, Germany is
~a— tn*^ -»nan Hr-uwth-to—be.
Statistics show that 14,500,000 bot
ties of champagne were emptied
in 1936, an increase of 19 percent
over 1935
were due to membership in the
Guild of Mrs. Givan and Griffith,
and were for the purpose of in
timidating Guild members and
discriminating against them.
Editor Boettiger was unavail
able for comment. Mrs. Boettiger
who is in charge of th,e women’s
department of the paper, is the
daughter of President and Mrs.
Roosevelt.
SWEET NOTES FOR SINGER. Marion Talley, oper
atic soprano, convalescing in Los Angeles from a recent appendec
tomy, reads the wishes of some of her fans for a speedy recovery.
She planned to go to her Kansas farm to recover fully before resum
ing her broadcast work in Hollywood. (