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VOL. 38 No. 291 NOME. ALASKA, Wednesday. OCT. 6th 1937 Per Copy 10ct«
Yanks Win 1 st Game World Series
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4 Big Planes 36 Men Left Moscow Hunt Lost Fliers
FOUR BIG PLANES HOPPED
OFF FROM MOSCOW WITH
36 MEN HUNT LEVANEFSKY
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Oct. 6, — Four gi
gantic planes, with thirty-six or
more searchers, in command of
Ivan Chuknovsky, took off from
the Moscow airport this morning
to search for Soviet air ace Lev
anefsky and his five companions,
missing in the Arctic wastes sin
ce August 13th.
Their Route
The planes will fly directly to
Rudolf Island, via Archangel.
Commander Papanin this morn
ing from the Soviet Polar camp,
located on the Arctic ice floes,
that the polar night had begun,
necessitating a search by moon
tight or with, ♦b» tn-jp of flares
dropped from planes.
Members of the Arctic division
of the government estimated that
Levanefsky’s food supply should
last until about November fift
eenth.
A Travel Record
(Bv The Associated Pressi
NEW YORK. Oct. 6. — The A1
askan and Canadian claim to
a long distance traveling record
to attend the World Series base
ball games between the New
York Giants and the N. Y. Yank
ees, was made by Lawrence Kub
ley, theatre manager at Ketchi
kan and Juneau, and his travel
ing companion Stan Moran, cafe
owner at Prince Rupert.
They started for the series Sep
tember 16th from Prince Rupert.
H.L Stull Tells
Mining Activity
Northern Parts
H. L. Stull who arrived from
the Inmachuk River section Mon
day. with ' Pilot John Cross,
reports that his lava mining pro
perty continues to show up good
values, and that this summer the
mining in general done in the In
■maehuk section shows a big in
crease in activities as well as out
I
put, and shows conclusively that
the Inmachuk has staged a come
I
back with the aid of more mod
ern machiner-v and modej'n wavs
| of mining.
Stull Develops Paystreak
Mr. Stull speaking of his own
mining activities, states he has
d veloped a 30 foot face of 4 feet
of pay gravel under the lava beds
i
which will average 8 cents to the
pan. His working shaft is fifty
feet in depth.
Stull further says he has locat
ed the pay at three different
points on the paystreak covering
300 feet. He has a 25 horsepow
er oil burner and a 12 hp. steam
hoist, self-dumping outfit, and all
i in place ready to hoist the pay,
[the dead work all being done.
Owing to the state of his health
he told the Nome Nugget that he
j is willing to lease the property
for the winter to some reliable
person or persons at very good
1 terms.
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SIMPLY SHOCKING, well, electrifying to say the least,
is the costume worn by magnetic Miss Elmina Humphreys, selected
to preside as Radio Queen at an English exposition of radio and
modern electrical devices. Radiolympia Is the name of the elaborate
overseas uiow. ,
PLAY BALL—OPENING GAME OF SERIES
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joe McCarthy, mgr. calls on yanks to win ist game
FIRST GAME WORLD SERIES WON
BY YANKEES IN HAMMER
AND TONGS AFFAIR
(By The Associated Press)
FEAST!—Yankees win 8 to 1.
YANKEE STADIUM. New York,
October 6—Concentrating their
heavy fire in one big seven run
inning,the Yankees whipped Carl
Hubbell and the Giants eight to
one in the first game of the World
Series.
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Short Score
Giants—1 run, (i hits, 2 errors.
Yankees—8 runs, 7 hits.no errors.
Batteries—For Giants, Hubbell,,
Gunubert, Coffman, Smith and
Mansuco. For Yankees, Gomez
and Dickey.
NEW YORK, Oct. 6—After be
ing handicuffed with one hit thru
the first five innings, the Ameri
can League champions broke
loose in the sixth inning with a
barrage of five hits which drove
Hubbell from the mound, and
continued against Harry Gum
bert and Dick Coffman.
Four walks and a pair of Giant
errors helped in scoring. Mean
time the Yankee's southpaw ace,
Lefty Gomez survived one bad
inning in the fifth when the
Giants scored their only run. He
then went on to win with a six
hit performance—his first assign
ment as the opening day pitcher.
The final count showed the
Giants with six hits to the Yanks
seven, but in only one frame did
Gomez allow more than one hit,:
and that was in th - fifth when
consecutive singles by Jim Rip
ple. Johnny McCarthy, and a
grounder by Mancuso brought in
the Giants only run. Leiber fol
lowed with a two bagger in the
same frame but was left stranded
wh:n Whithead grounded out to
DeMaggio.
Playing their second straight
World’s Series, the Yankees led
the attack with the opening day
win. The victory was Gomez's
fourth in series competition.
Official attendance was sixty
thousand five hundred and sev-1
enty-three. Gross receipts were
$234,000. The play’ers will share
in $119.000.
Melton will pitch for the Giants ]
tomorrojv, and Ruffing for the i
Yankees.
Funds Are Granted
(By The Associated Press*
WASHINGTON. D. C. Oct. 6,
—The Federal Social Security
Board announced today that a
grant of $31,000 had been made
to the Alaska aged, for the last
quarter of the year.
This is in conformity with the
cooperative plan of federal parti
cipation in the Alaska old age
assistance plan, whereby the fed
eral government pays dollar for
dollar with the territory, up to
the sum of $15, on old age allow
ances, granted by the Territorial
Department of Welfare.
JAPAN TOOK EXCEPTION TO
ADDRESS ROOSEVELT WHEN
CLASSED AS AN AGGRESSOR.
Japanese Say They Entitled
Expand Bring Happiness.
Freedom of Movement to
Their Peoples.
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, Oct. li. — Officials of
the Japanese war and foreign
office answered today. President
Roosevelts condemnation of ag
gressor nation with the warning:
“Peace will be difficult to
maintain if the demands of
nations who have not been
aggressors, are refused.
Right Not Always Right
The foreign office spokesman
said: “The ideals of right as con
ceived by western peopies, are
not always compatible with that
of the Orient.”
Right to Populate
"Japan demands that her
people be permitted to enjoy
the freedom of movement
and happiness which is right
fully theirs.
The Japanese population has
doubled in the last fifty years,
and is in a limited area. What
they want is to send their people
elsewhere, but an outlet is den
ied by countries everywhere,
said the spokesman.
While denying that Japan is
making a demand as a nation
that is not an agressor. he said
that if it has, it will refuse to
concede its rightful demands, al
so that peace is necessarily diffi
cult at the best.
Special Session
May Be Called
Early November
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D C.. Oct. 6,
—President Roosevelt indicated
today he would call a special
session between November 8th.
and 16th.
He stated he would reserve his
decision until after the confer
ences in Washington, D. C. this
week.
Neither In Nor Out
It is a little premature to say
if the Supreme Court reorgani
zation plan will be included in
his program, neither in nor out,
it was made known.
Roosevelt said he had placed at
the top of his program, wages
and hours, surplus crop control,
government reorganization, and
regional planning legislation.
League Assembly
\\ arned Japanese
(Rv Tne Associated Press)
GENEVA. Oct, 6. —The Leag
ue Assembly today warned Jap
an of the possibility of interna
tional action unless she agrees
to a peaceful nine power settle
ment of the Chinese conflict.
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CHINA'S WALL in modern times is not of stone, but
barbed wire, as constructed by the Japanese. These Nipponese sol
diers, stripped to the waist under a blazing North China sun, fence
a cornfield. But it’s wire for war and not to keep cattle from going
astray in the fields.
8 Tonight—Swanee River Minstrels at Fed. Church