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VOL. 37. No. 196. NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUG. 18, 1936. ' Per Copy 15cts
Joe Louis K.O. Sharkey 3rd Round
BLOODY BATTLE ON TO FORCE BLOCKADE
Three Large Airliners Ready Flight If Capital Falls
Sharkey Knocked
Out Early in
Third Round
—BULLETIN—
According to direct information
from the ringside at the Yankee
Stadium at 3:30 P.M. today heard
via short wave radio, Joe Louis
knocked out Jack Sharkey in the
early stages of the third round.
Joe Louis Was
Favorite at ,
Seven to Five
<By The Associated Press i
NEW YORK, Aug. 18. — Joe
Louis, knocked out "by Max Sch
meling recently, is a seven to five
favorite to whip Jack Sharkey,
the ageing Boston tavern keeper,
in a-ten round bout at the Yan
kee Stadium tonight
Louis enjoys a two and one
half pound edge on the weight.
He scales 199 and three-quarter
pounds, and Sharkey 197 and one
fourth pounds.
Experts are wondering if the
Brown Bomber will be punch
• shy after being kayoed by the
German heavyweight this spring,
but he is no shyer than experts
who made Louis a ten to one fa
vorite over Schmeling.
Sharkey, swaggering with con
fidence, said he thinks Louis is a
bum, and points out that he
Sharkey has never lost to a ne
gro fighter in all the years he has
been in the game.
Pickets Use Stones
(By The Associated Press)
PITTSBURG, Aug. 18. —Pick
ets stoned two trucks leaving
this morning from the Standard
Steel Spring Company’s plant,
where a strike had been effective
since yesterday. Nobody was in
jured, it was reported.
Altitude Record
(By The Associated Press)
VILLA COUBLAY, France
Aug. 18. — Army Lieutenant Geo
rges Detra today claimed a new
airplane altitude record of 14,488
meters, or 48,677 feet which he
made Friday.
The old record was 14,433 me
ters.
QnHc/’riHo fnr t.hp Niltfjfet
James Braddock
Max Schmeling
Fight Is Off
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK Aug. 18. — Joie,
Gould manager of World Cham
pion James J. Braddock, announ
ced that the scheduled title bout
between Braddock and Max Sch
meling, victor of the Schmeling
Louis bout, was “definitely off”
He said that Braddock is facing
an operation to be made on his
little finger which paralyzes his
arm up to his elbow when he
clenches his fist.
Schmeling’s manager, Joe Ja
cobs, said it was news to him.
He refused to allow Sc'nmelling
to fight the winner of the Louis
Sliarkey fight.
“No substitutes for us,” he is
quoted as saying. “We want a
crack at the title; and Max is
certainly entitled to it after dis
posing of the Brown Bomber
from Detroit, who was rated as
the strongest championship con
tender in this country before the
German came across and licked
him,” Jacobs declared. ,
Airbase Dope
(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 18. — The
Fairbanks News-Miner quoted
Lieutenant Colonel Wilmot A.
Danielson chairman of the U. S.
Army air base board, as saying
that the Territory’s main base i
would be within ten miles of
Fairbanks and within view of the
city.
Similar information was given
to Mayor E. B. Collins it was
further stated.
The official party is to sail from
Seward August 21st for the sta
tes. Lieut. Col. Danielson said
that the construction of the base
depends on congressional appro
priation. He declared that he
had negotiated for several sites
near Fairbanks and that the se
lection would be made later.
Coffins Unloaded
(By The Associated Press)
CORDOVA, Aug. 18. — The
first shipment of freight unloaded
here since the railwaystrike tied
up all traffic through this port
was discharged Monday.
It was a load of coffins for the
local undertaking company re
leased through special concessions
by the strike committe.
Bloody Battle
To Force Rebel
Blockade On
fBy The Associated Press)
MADRID, Aug. 18. J— A bloody
battle in Estremadura Province,
with twenty thousand troops try
ing to break the rebel blockade
along the Portuguese frontier,
was reported this morning.
Fierce fighting ensued with
bayonets, in which no quarter
was shown by either side.
Reports were received that the
rebels in taking Badajoz, execut
ed fifteen hundred government
adherents, spurring the govern
ment forces into a merciless drive
to ‘completely exterminat j’a inf
rebels in the west, authorities de
clared this afternoon.
John Reimer Gets
Bid To Tear Down
City’s Warehouse
The City Council in special
meeting last night in the City
Clerk’s office received and open
ed bids from the following, for
the tearing down of the old city
warehouse and dock located on
Snake River:
Geo. Marshall $500; Victor Lind
$300; Bob Oomak $500; Herman
Hoop $165; John Reimer $148;
B. B. Wales and Geo. Jones $1,065;
R. W. Silver $125 plus piling
caps; H. E. Reimer $190; J. A.
Bell $285.
After discussion and vote, John
Reimer was awarded the con
tract for tearing down the build
ing, the material of which is to
be moved to the lot directly be
low the former location of the
Wilfred Boucher home on First
Ave. and D Street. According
to the contract, everything is to
be torn down and moved by Sep
tember 15th.
Another matter brought up as
a special was an alleged “speak
easy” condition which should be
investigated in the former Finn
Alley Cafe. Councilman Gross
brought the matter to the atten
tion of the council, and the may
or directed the police committee
to cooperate with the city attor
ney, Leroy Sullivan, and Chief
of Police W. W. Laws in halting
any such situation if one should
arise. The city attorney declar
ed and reminded the councilmen
that positive evidence must be se
cured before any proceeding
could be undertaken.
Seeming of great importance,
500 Prisoners
Held as Hostages
Burned Alive
(By The Associated Press)
SAINT JEAN DE LUZ, France.
Aug. 18. — German sailors land
ing here reported that 500 prison
ers being held as hostages by the
government forces at Bilboa were
burned alive when rebel shells,
set fire to their warehouse-prison.
The fire also injured several
hundred more as it spread to the
port’s docks. The steamer Seed
ier rushed medical supplies to
i shore immediately. -
Behrends Died
At Cordova It
Is Reported
(By The Associated Press')
SEATTLE, Aug. 18. — A note
to the Anchorage Times evident
ly in answer to a query by them
|said that Behrends died at Cor
dova August 12th, in the hospital
there following an attack of pleu
risy which developed into pneu
monia.
The telegram did not include
Behrend’s initials but it is sup
posed that the person referred to
is B. M. Behrends, owner of Beh
rend’s Bank in Juneau. How
ever, no definite information
has been received that it is B. M.
Behrends of Juneau.
was another subject dealing with
Nome's curfew hour. It was de
cided to instruct Chief Laws to
direct one of his men to ring the
old school bell at 10 P.M. each
evening as the town’s curfew, un
til school takes up in the new
building, at which time the bell
will be transferred to the city
building, wher it will be more
convenient.
It must have been really im
portant because various members
of the council wanted The Nug
get to advise everyone through
notices in the press (free of
charge) that the curfew would
be rung, otherwise they might
post the notices so as not to have
to pay for them. The matter is
taken care of and all little child
ren are warned to listen for the
peal of the old school bell at 10
P.,M. each night. Nothing was
said that they would have to be
off the streets of the city at that
hour or accompanied by parents,
but it is believed that this was
the intention of the council.
New Steamship
Line Is Chartered
N. Aleutian Isles
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—The
Coast and Geodetic Survey anno
unced today that it was charting
a new steamship lane to the Ori
ent, north of the Aleutian Is
lands, shortening the distance
between Yokohama and Portland
and Seattle on the Pacific Coast
and reducing fuel consumption by
providing quieter waters in Ber
ing Sea. The route will run
through Unimak Pass going north
into Bering Sea. No mention of
where the vessels will emerge
into the Pacific Ocean again was
made.
Many Sourdough ‘
Memories Are
Brought To Light
Sourdough memories may be a
j bit weak on names, but the boys
;who whooped it up at the Mala
|mute saloon have plenty of rem
liniscenses of the girls who reign
ed in the gold rush towns—what
ever their names may have been.
Not long ago a press report
that “Diamond Tooth Lil," famed
I entertainer of Klondike days,
was ill in Seattle, brought to the
Anchorage Times a story of her
exploits, written by U. G. Crock
er of that city—but the name, he
said, was "Diamond Tooth Nell.”
Comes now Alex McComber,
who assures the Times that ‘Dia
mond Toot Gertie” was the name
and he proceeds to outline the
story.
. Apropos oi inose so cauea
dance queens of the early Klon
dike days who have been so much
in the limelight lately, I wish to
say that the names mentioned so
far are incorrect and that there
never was a ‘Diamond Tooth
Lil’ or ‘Nel’ in Dawson at any
time. Not that it matters very
much now what the right names
of those women were, but here are
the facts:
“In the summer of 1897 a rath
er attractive young woman by the
name of Gertrude Lovejoy, who
had a small diamond set in her
left front tooth, came to Daw
son. She soon became widely
known as ‘Diamond Tooth Ger
tie.’ She had been in Spokane
and Missoula, Mont., before.
“Boston born and bred, she was
a highly educated, cultured and
(Continued on Page Two)
Spanish Heads
To Flee By Plane
If Capital Falls
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED. Aug. 18. — Heads
of the beleaguered Madrid gov
ernment were reported in uncen
sored dispatches reaching Gibral
tar this morning, to have three
large airliners ready for flight in
the event that the capital falls.
Other advices said the rebels,
firmly entrenched in the Guad
arrama Mountains to the north
of Madrid had only to await rein
forcements from the other side of
the capital, before launching what
was said would likely be a suc
cessful attack.
Apparently the government
does not expect a quick victory in
the civil war which has been
‘raging for the last month as au
i
thorities urged the women of the
, nation to make ammunition and
i ,
< winter clothing'. “ J * «
Officials have also called for
I volunteers to form a new “But
jtalion of Red Lions."
In the north, two big rebel
warships resumed their fierce
gun duel with the government
shore batteries at F rt Guade
lupe, which is defending the city
of Irun and also the San Sebas
tian sector where it appeared that
the naval shells were finding
their marks.
I Worried French officials set up
a rigid border patrol in view of
'the figiiting which is going on
just across the international line.
First charges that either side
Was using gas came from Burg
oes, a rebel headquarters which
contended that the government
air force was dropping gas bombs.
France today was pushing its
neutrality negotiations seeking to
overcome two German conditions
—one that the pact signed must
be applied by all powers produc
ing or exporting arms, and two—
that differences with the Spanish
government over the seizure of a
German airplane must be settled
satisfactorily.
(By The Associated Press)
Guadalajara Jalisco Mexico
Aug. 18. — Bandits this morning
robbed an express bus only a
few blocks from the business dis
tric of this city and escaped with
a $4155 payroll.
FUNERAL NOTICE
Funeral services for Elizabeth
Ramsay, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Ramsay, will be held
Wednesday at 2 P.M. at the Na
tive Methodist Church, with Rev.
Vincent C. Widney officiating.