Oldest Newspaper In Alaska. “The News of the Day In Pictures” Member of The Associated Press.
DEVOTED TO THE BUILDING OF A BETTER NOME AND THE SECOND DIVISION.
NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASF—ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY /VIATION
[W! THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
Slightly Warmer.
VOL. 38 to. 339 NOME. ALASKA. FRIDAY. DEC. 3, 1937. Per Copy 10ct«
Jr >s Ordered Out Of Settlement
E 4BING INCIDENT CREATES TENSENESS
Japanese Yield to Demands American Commander
•
DEATH COMES DOWN IN A PERFECT LANDING although this Chinese plane was in flames and its pilot
dying following an aerial battle with Japanese fliers. Mortally wounded, .he aviator brought his ship to earth, damaging only its nose,
before flames devoured it near Shanghai. With the toll rising daily in Sino-Japanese aerial conflict, Mme. Chian* Kai-Shek, leader
of China’s air forces, warned that Japanese were massing a new force of 500 warplanes for a large-scale bombing raid on Shanghai.
Already many sections of that city are in ruins.
y'
Head Electric
Concern Agrees
Pres. Roosevell
(By The Associated Press!
WASHINGTON, D:c. 2. -
Floyd Carlisle, chairman of thi
Board of Directors of the EdLsor
Consolidated Company, reporter
today, after a conference at tlx
White House, that he was in sub
stantial agreement with Pr_si
dent Roosevelt’s power views.
Carlisle declared his companj
would cooperate with a new con
struct ion program by spending
$100,000,000 in the next two years
I
H added that there were indi
cations of progress toward succ- j
ess in the President's efforts to j
effect expansion in the power in-j
dustry so as to help the general
business situation. Carlisle assert
' ed:
“I think the fears of govern
ment competition with respect to
i power have been very much less
. ened by the discussions that have
. taken place at the White House."
He said he was in dissent with
[ the President’s general views
. with reference to the basis of
. rate making.
. i - — -. ■■
In Reverse
“I knew her when she was five
! going on six.’
“Well, now she’s twenty-four
' going on twenty-three."
ITALY’S PRESS AGAIN COMES OUT
BITTER EDITORIAL AGAINST
BRITAIN, FRANCE, U. S.
UNDATED, Dec. 3, —The
Italian press once more be
gan an attack on the “Big
Three” democracies—Britain,
France and the United States
(By The Associated Press»
UNDATED, Dec. 3, — British
and French moves toward increas
ed military strength, were new
factors which troubled the sear
ch for European security, accord
ing to a hitter editorial in the “II
Po-polo Di Italia," Mussolini's
Milan newspaper, which accused
the three democracies of plann
ing “an economic strangulation”
of “hdve not” nations.
Three Others Resent It
'Presumably, said the paper, the
French-American-British moves
are directed against Italy, Ger
many and Japan.
The Italian newspaper attack
seemed directed at pending ne
gotiations between Great Britain
and the United States for a- recip
rocal trade agreement.
Streamlining Its Army
Great Britain, said the Italian
editorial, is drastically streamlin
ing its army organization, plac
ing younger men at the top, to
keep step with modem develop
ments in warfare.
Three of the four members of
the powerful British army coun
cil resigned and were replaced
by youngeT men, said the paper.
French Are Active
French foreign minister Yvon
Delbos, on a seventeen-day tour
of PoKsh, Czechoslovakian, Ru
manian and Yugoslavakian capi
tals, bore out the decision by
France to assist Britain in not
giving Germany a free hand in
central Europe.
I
Shipping Gets
Some Tough
Sandbagging
/By Tne Associated Press1
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1, — In,
ail the hullabaloo over the mar-;
ine labor unions’ blast at Joe Ken
nedy, chairman of the maritime
commission, for his tirade against
poor discipline aboard ship, it is
almost overlooked that American
shipping is g:tting the worst pub
lic sandbagging it has had in
many a day.
The whole thing was set off by
the uprising of the crew of the i
government-owned freighter “Al
gic” in Montivideo. In that South!
American port the crew for a!
time refused to handle the ship’s j
cargo on the grounds that it j
would be delivered to a crew of!
strikebreakers hired during a
Uruguayan longshoremen’s strike.
Kennedy who is no sweetie- j
pie executive, directed the ship,
captain to put the men in irons |
if they refused to work. It was a
foreign port, and in such circum
stances, in Kennedy’s view, a'
strike amounted to mutiny.
wmauci urmcizea
Well, the men went to work,>
the ship returned to Baltimore,.
its home port, and then was pub- j
lisbed the whole sorry business j
of disputes between the crew and.
the officers, latter asserted!} were
not members of any sea-going
union.
Kennedy accompanied the home
coming with a public criticism of
the conduct of some American
seamen at sea. Disobedience, in
discipline, lack of training, all
contributed, he said, to a very
unsatisfactory pciture of the Yan
kee sailor afloat.
Following that, writers hunted
out consular reports and other
(Continued on Page Hum)
Bombing During
Victory Parade
5,000 Japanese
11
SHANGHAI, Dec. 3, —
Japanese troops appeared un
usually eager to step in and
inaugurate Military Rule ov
er all sections of Shanghai
following a bombing during a
parade here today.
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Dec. 3, —The ex
plosion of a bomb, tossed at a
Victory Parade of five thousand
Japanese troops, precipitated a ;
brief panic in Shanghai, which
stirred new tension.
Held Over Protest
The Japanese held the parade
over the protests of American
and other foreign officials, in
cluding Shanghai’s municipal auth
orities, who feared an outbreak
from the city’s three million
Chinese residents.
Took Charge of Area
As an aftermath of the explo- ,
sion in which three Japanese
soldiers and one British citizen1
were wounded, the Japanese for- j
ces took charge of the area where
it occurred.
Committed Suicide
The police reported that a pat- i
riotically inspired Chinese toss- |
ed the bomb and then jumped to
his death from the roof of a new ,
world amusement building.
ASKS PROBE OF
HIGH LIVING COSTS
WASHINGTON. D. C„ (IP)— j
President Roosevelt recently ask- i
ed the Federal Trade Commission i
to investigate and report as soon ;
as possible the reports that a
marked increase in living costs
is attributable to “monopolistic
practices and other unwholesome i
methods of competition.” 1
SHANGHAI BOMBING
HAS REPERCUSSIONS
AND JAPS B ACKED UP
SHANGHAI, Dec. 3, —
Tenseness increased here fol
lowing a bombing which oc
curred while Japanese tropps
were parading thru the city.
Invasion of the American
section also threatened a
grave crisis.
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Dec. 3, — Obsen
ers believed that a damgerou
situation has been preventer
when Japanese troops yielded U
the demands of Colonel Charle
Price, the U. S. Marine Corp
ommander, that they withdrav
From a portion of the Americai
iefended section of the Interna
tional Settlement.
Action Followed Bombing
The Japanese encroached afte:
3 bomb had been thrown durinj
3 Japanese parade.
The bomb thrower was killer
by a Chinese constable. A seconc
parade planned for tomorrow
was called off.
Added Incidents
A British lawyer, E. T. Mait
land, formerly advocate of the
Shanghai municipal police, addec
to the tension by breaking the
staff of a Japanese flag across hi'
I
knee. He said the Japanese
troops molested him. The British
police took him under guard.
An American business man,
i Vincent Read was injured in the
j face by a group of Japanese offi
cers, who punched him because
| he refused to move.
City Is Very Tense
| The city was dangerously ten
i se tonight.
Commander Price reminded
. the Japanese commander that the
[, presence of his troops could not
, be tolerated, in a spirited inter
5! view of the Japanese office, which
., later assured Price t'hait it was
.! unaware -tire Japw^e forces had
^marched into the American sect
or.
3HEALY RIVER TO PRODUCE
COAL FOR ANCHORAGE
; Coal for use in Anchorage is
being moved in from Healy over
11 the Alaska Railroad, it was dis
11 closed by the Healy River Coal
,! Corporation.
| The mine is producing 9,000 tons
j monthly and will be able to meet
: the entire demand in Anchorage,
■, officials sad. It is planned to
i keep a string of loaded cars in
■:the railroad yards here ready for
; delivery on short notice.
'
FLORIDA GETS READY for what may be a recard win
ter season with new buildings to house hordes of northerners who
soon will begin their annual trek to the southland. Typical of prep
aration in Miami is this study of a steel worker against the sky as a
new building rises.