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DEVOTED TO THE BUILDING OF A BETTER NOME AND THE SECOND DIVISION.
NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE—ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY t VIATION
THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
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VOL. 38 No. 306 NOME, ALASKA, SATURDAY OCT. 23 1937 Per Copy lOcti
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Streamline Train Crashes Into Bus
BIDS CALLED FOR AIRMAIL IN TERRITORY
Seventy-Two Hour Battle Goes Against Nippon
CHINESE HALT THREAT
JAPANESE CAPTURE OF
NORTHERN SHANGHAI
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(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Oct. 23, —The
Chinese are reported to have
checked the threat of capture
by the Japanese, after more
than seventy two hours of
continuous fighting.
(Bv The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Oct. 23. — A great
with Shanghai as the stake, sway
ed madly back and forth in the
moonlight last night among a
maze of small creeks and mean
dering canals, north of Tazang.
Admitted Lmmd
Both sides admitted severe loss
as, as the Japanese fought des
perately in small lines to open a
way to Nanking.
The loss of Tazand would com
pel the Chinese to retreat to
Qhapei and Kiangwan.
Forces Halted
A Chinese army spokesman de
clared the Chinese had definitely
check the Japanese threat of such
a capture, after seventy two hours
of fighting.
Slowly Pushing Chinese
A Japanese spokesman said
■’hat details did not matter, as
tney were slowly but surely push
ing the Chinese back, gaining
general objectives.
tide.y attire.
This beach ensemble Is of print*
ed linen with black ground and
red, yellow and green pattern.
Football Scores
(By The Associated Press)
Pittsburg 21, Wisconsin 0
Princeton 6, Rutgers 0
Yale 9, Cornell 0
Brown 7, Columbia 6
Fordham 7, Texas Christians 6
Ohio State 7, Nortihwestern 0
Holy Cross 6. W. Maryland 0.
Acquitted Charge
Of Murdering
Cen. Denhart
fBv The Associated Press) !
SHELBYVILLE, Kentucky. Oct.
23,—Roy Garr, was acquitted last j
night by a jury of twelve farm
ers, of a charge of murdering
Brigadier General Henry H. Den-!
hardt.
His acquittal followed several
hours after that of his younger
brother Jack, who was freed
when the judge dismissed the
charges against him. A third j
brother remains yet to be tried,
and his case has been continued
until next February.
Weather Services
Progressed Here
With five new airway weather,
stations established in the past \
two years the Nome division of,
the U. S. Weather Bureau has
made outstanding progress in this
field. The new stations are Deer
ing, Council, Egavik, Elim and
Pilgrim Springs and are supplied
with modern meteorological in
struments.
This makes a total of 15 paid
observers in the Nome section,
covering the country over west
ern Alaska between Marshall and
Pt. Barrow as far east as Ruby.;
The stations listed at present
in addition to the above are: Nu
lato, Kaltag, Unalakleet, Wales
(Tin City), Kotzebue, Candle,
Solomon. Golovin and Teller.
Other reports on airway weather
conditions are available from sta
tions at Shishmaref, Selawik,
Taylor, Shungnak. Marshall, St.
Michael, White Mountain, Bluff
and Hamilton on request.
In addition to the airway work
regular climatologicaJ stations
have been established for obser
ving weather, temperature and
precipitation conditions at King
Island, Diomede Island. Cambell,
Deering and Council.
With this very rapid progress
the Nome airway district has
grown to one of the largest sub
districts of the whole system. In
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MAh OVERBOARD. Helen Wills Moody (right), former
tennis queen, enjoys boating near Glen brook, Nevada, where she is
living to establish residence pending divorce action. Shown with her
on Lake Tahoe is ftfise Florence Loomis.
CALLED FOR BIDS AIRMAIL
ROUTE FAIRBANKS-JUNEAU
RETURNABLE DECEMBER 15
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<Bv The Associated Pi ess 1
WASHINGTON. D. C„ Oct. 23,
—Calls for bids for the carrying
of mail by airplanes between Fair
banks and Juneau by way of
Whitehorse, Yukon Terrtory, were
ssued today by the Postoffice de
partment. The tenders must be
submitted not later than Dec
ember 15th, and operation of the
service, which will be weekly,
must begin not later than six
months after the awarding of the
contract.
To Connect With Steamships
Under the present plan of the
Post Office Department, the on
ce a week, round-trip schedules
will connect at Juneau with mali
passenger steamships operating be
tween Juneau and Seattle. The
route will be the first leg of a
trunk airmail line between Fair
banks and the States. Within a
year or two. postal authorities
said, am airmail service from
some point in the states will be
established to connect either at
Juneau or Whitehorse with the
Juneau-Fairbanks service.
Connect With Nome
With the inauguration of the
Fairbanks-Juneau airmail, Nome
will be on a weekly schedule to
receive mail thru from Juneau
the year-round. As it is now, on
ly during the winter does Nome
receive a really scheduled mail
service, including first and sec
ond class mail matter. During
the summer, only first class letter
mail is carried by plane, and that
only to and from Fairbanks.
Two Airmail Routes
Under the calls for bids issued
tenders are requested for two air
mail routes. These routes are:
1— Fairbanks to Whitehorse,
492 miles.
2— Juneau to Whitehorse, 168
miles.
The contract awards will be for
a period of three years.
James A. Farley
Favors Airmail
Alaska to States
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Oct. 23—"I am for
airmail between the States and
Alaska and throughout various
parts of the northern Territory,”
James A. Farley, postmaster gen
eral, declared as he bieezed thru
Seattle on a brief visit. He add
ed, however, that "extension of
airmail facilities to Alaska de
pends on congressional appropri-1
ations.”
Predicts Democratic Success
In speaking of the political pros- j
pects of the Democratic party,
Mr. Farley, who is chairman of
the National Democratic Commit
tee and of the New York State
Democratic committee, said:
‘The Democrats will be just as
strongly entrenched after 1938'
congressional elections as they
are now, and in 1940 the Demo
cratic presidential candidate will
be elected by a substantial mar
gin.”
Dedicates Branch Postoffice
The postmaster general's visit
to Seattle was to dedicate a bran
ch postoffice in the University of
Washington district of Seattle.
He delivered two short public ad
dresses. His statements relative
to airmail for Alaska and Demo
cratic prospects were made at a
conference with newspaper men.
RUSSIA HAS AIR INFANTRY
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Oct. 23—Air infan
try—soldiers descending behind
the enemy’s lines by means of
parachutes—is a development of
the Soviet army strategists.
TEN SCHOOL CHILDREN WERE
KILLED, EIGHTEEN INJURED
IN A TRAIN-BUS ACCIDENT
(By The Associated Press)
MASON CITY. Iowa, Oct.
23, —A terrible train and bus
accident today took the lives
of ten persons, mostly high
school children.
MASON CITY, Iowa, Oct. 23,—
A new streamlined Rock Island
rocket train crashed into a bus
this morning loaded with high
school students, killing ten per
sons and injuring at least eight
I een others.
Took Place at Crossing
The Streamlined train struck
the bus at a crossing near here.
The students had been touring
the city's industrial plants, and
were from Renwick. Iowa High
School.
They were preparing to visit
| a brick plant when the accident
occurred.
Scattered Children
1 The train scattered the but and
! its load of children for a distance
of two blocks. No one aboard the
itrain was hurt. Several of the
injured children are in critical
: condition.
Sir Wilkins Flew
Over Minneapol
is on W ay Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 23rd—Sir
Hubert Wilkins enroute to Alas
ka, flew over here at 1:15 P. M.
today, headed for Fargo, North
Dakota. He was informed by the
Department of Commerce radio
station that good weather ahead
will permit him to continue on.
He left Cleveland this morning.
Wilkins, the noted explorer, is
returning to the Arctic Ocean,
with another airplane more suit
ed for winter flying, in an effort
to assist in the search for the lost
Soviet fliers, presumably down
near the North Pole.
Editor Saturday
Evening Post Of
Old Days, Died
(Bv The Associated Press I
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23.
George Horace Lorimer, the
Editor who guided the Sat
urday Evening Post in its rise
from a little-known magazine
died last night at the age of
69. He retired last January.
He had been ill following an
attack of pneumonia, since
last Thursday.
Axel Johnson, Carl Hailberg,
and Dan Kelly were returning
passengers today from Taylor via
the Wien Alaska Airlines.
Train Rates Upped
(By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, -~Ex
eutives of the nation’s class one
railroads, were granted a forty*
seven million, five hundred thou
sand dollar freight rate increase,
higher than for many years.
It was said that higher operat
ing costs, including wage increas
es were responsible for the in
creased rates.
TONGUE TWISTERS.
If you st-st-stutter and c-c-can't
say “alfalfa” or “Eunice” or
“potatoes,” just study these
faces of trouble tongue twisters
who met at the Arkansas stut
terers’ convention to discuss
their various t-t-trou-trou—dlf-,
Acuities. Men were in the ma
jority at the meeting where it
wu estimated that a million
persons in the United States,
most of them men, stutter.