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VOL. 38. No. 203. NOME, ALASKA. Saturday. JULY 10, 1937. Per Copy lOcta
Unicameral Legislature Considered
Airplane Sees Salmon Caught By Japanese Boats
H. B. FRIELE
CIO Organizing
Committee is In
Some Trouble
(By The Associated Presst
.NEW YORK. July 10. —Joseph
P. Ryan, president of the Intema
t anal Longshoremen’s Associa
tion tonight said the seven mar
board appointed by John L. Lew
is to direct a nation wide drivt
to bring three hundred thousand
maritime workers into the Com
mittee for Industrial Organiza
tion, was a very poor selection
and that it will cause trouble.
Members of the committee in
clude Harry Bridges, a leader in
the 1934 and 1936 maritime strik
es on the Pacific Coast, and Mer
vyn Rathbone, president of the
American Radio Telegraphers.
Ryan and Bridges were at odds
in those strikes.
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FOUR BIG JAP BOATS
FISHING SALMON IN
BRISTOL BAY SECTOR
(By The Associated Press
KANAKANAK, July 10. — H. B. Friele, chairman
of the executive board of the Association of Pacific Fish
eries. Aubin Barthold of San Francisco, with the Alaska
Packers Association, Chester Carlson president of the
Copper River & Prince William Sound Fishermen’s Un
ion, Harry Stuhr organizer of the Alaska Fishermen’s
Union and Arthur Farlow of Seattle, while dying with
Pilot Jack Elliott sighted four Japanese boats Wednes
| day afternoon.
They said they left Nakeen and while skirting the
southern shore of Bristol Bay, sighted the Japanese ves
sels 28 miles off shore, southwest of the Ugashik River.
They climbed into the high clouds which hid the
plane from view, until they dropped down to within
fifty feet of the water, causing much scattering of the
Japanese aboard the vessels.
The Japanese mother ship Taiyo Maru, of about
6.000 tons, appeared to be half loaded judging from her
depth in the water. All the ships were painted a battle
ship gray.
The mother ship was covered with fishing nets and
I floating gear. The ‘"Tvee" one of the smaller ships, had
j its decks covered with freshly caught red salmon, esti
mated to number about 20,000.
The plane circled closely over the ships and the pass
Jengers witnessed the crew and other men busy prepar
| mg the salmon.
Alice Faye, Film
I Actress Injured
Fall down Stairs
(Bv The Associated Press)
HOLLYWOOD. July 10, —Al
ice Faye, 20th Century Fox play
er. fe'l down a flight of fourteen
steps on the “In Old Chicago" set
♦oday and was rushed unconscious
to the emergency hospital on the
lot.
As she struck the bottom step
she cried out that her back was
injured and lapsed into uncon
sciousness as an extra, John Roy”
rushed to her side and picked
her up
Roy and assistant director Rob
ert Webb hurried her to the em
ergency hospital where she re
gained consciousness.
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CHAMP JOE LOUIS
Championship Fite
Week Sept. 13
Is Announced
I
(Hy The Associated Press'
NEW YORK. July 10, -- f
I world's heavyweight champion
ship bout between Joe Louis, th<
title holder and Tommy Farr o
Wales, British Empire champion
in New York, during the weel
of September 13th, was approv
ed today by the New York Stati
Athletic Commission.
Mike Jacobs is the promoter.
No mention was made by an\
of those involved, as to how thi:
announcement would affect con
tender Max Schmelling. The fac
that the Louis-Braddock fight die
not gross as much as was expect
ed, and the fact Schmelling hac
been sidetracked by Braddock ir
favor of richer flight with Louis
apparently had nothing to dc
with the present setup.
However, it was believed ir
some quarters that a fall figh
between Schmelling and title-hole
er Louis would crash top rank:
for attendance.
Span. Governmenl
Troops in Push
(By The Associated Press)
HENDAYE, July 10, —Spanisl
government troops pushed aheac
in one of the heaviest offensive)
in the history of the civil war
to shatter insurgent lines on th<
western side of Madrid.
Military sources at Irun con
firmed government dispatches tha
insurgent lines in south Escoria
been broken in terrific flighting.
Government commanders threw
twenty five thousand men agains
General Franco’s forces in th*
vicinity of Naval Carnero.
Insurgents insisted, however
that Brunete, key town in thi
defense of Naval Carnero had no
been occupied by the government
APPROVAL GIVEN BY
\\ ASHHNGTON. D. C.. July 10. — The House Ter
ritories Committee today approved the Dimond bill
which would authorize a territorial referendum on the
subject of a one-house legislature.
Delegate Dimond said many Alaskans favor such a
change because it is “more business-like and less ex
pensive".
The committee also approved the Dimond bill
w’hich would transfer to the Governor of Alaska, the
cancelled seven million, two hundred thousand dollar
check with which the United States purchased Alaska
from Russia, and which is now held by the Treasury
| Department.
ANNOUNCED NEW POLICY TODAY
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(By The -Associated Pros)
WASHINGTON, D. July 10, — Secretary of the
I Treasury Morgenthau and Dr. H. H. Kung, Chinese
, Finance Minister, announced the conclusion of an agrfe
nient under which China will buy “a substantial
>. amount of this country’s gold.”
In a joint statement, the two fiscal heads said the
, United States would buy silver from China in addition
. to that already being acquired under the original Chin
ese silv er agreement effected in May. How much gold
■ will be purchased by China and how much silver will
be purchased by the U. S., was not disclosed
The purpose of the agreement, it was declared, was
to assist in stabilizing currency relationships, and aug
ment the gold reserve of the Chinese Central Bank.
(By The Associated Press)
PEIPING. July 10, — High Chinese officials de
clared that Japan began moving a portion of its Man
churian army toward the North China trouble zone, to
day. They said ten trainloads of Japanese regular troops
had left Mukden, and that two of them had already pass
ed the Great Wall at Shanhaikavan.
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Sections ot carburetors, oil screens and filters were converted into
cooking pots and spoons by these sit-down strikers in the Dodge plant
In Detroit. The men seemed to prefer their own cooking to the union
lunchroom. (Associated Press Photo)
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