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VOL. 38. No. 208. • ' NOME, ALASKA. Thursday, Sept. 9, 1937 Per Copy 10ct»
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Japs Protest Seizure Of 27 Vessels
SHELLS EXPLODE FRONT AM. CONSULATE
Germany Sides With Italy Mediterranean Situation
GERMANY ALLIES SELF WITH
ITALY TO REJECT PLANS FOR
ANTI - PIRACY CONFERENCE
, (By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Sept. 9 —Germany
lined up with Italy to reject the
■Anglo-French invitation to to
tmorrow's Mediterranean anti
piracy conference in Switzerland.
■She also refused to sit at the
same table with the Soviet Rus
sia accusers of the Italians. She
drafted in full collaboration with
Italy, the German reply and sug
gested that the question of at
tacks in neutral shipping in the
Mediterranean be refer 1 ad to the
European non-intervention com
mittee.
She expressed polite willing
ness to continue in the collabor
ation with other powers but
charged that the provocative ac
tion of the Soviet union in telling
iltaly that she must pay for “It
alian submarine attacks” in Rus
sian freighters, dampened any
hope that Friday’s conference
could succeed.
ANIMALS AT NORTH POLE
MOSCOW, (AP) —The Soviet
polar campers reported yester
day that they found a female
■bear and cubs, seal, sea gulls,
guillemots and jellyfish.
QUINTUPLETS MISBEHAVE
CALLANDER, (AP)—'Die Di
onne quintuplets are little ladies,
•but they have learned to pull
hair, Dr. Allan Dafoe says. They
were separated as much as poss
ible this week because of a sud
den development of outbursts of
quarreling. He believes that their
colds are responsible for their
unlady-like actons.
FAIRBANKS YOUTH
RANKS HIGH
FAIRBANKS—E. J. Warm, Jr.,
graduate of the local high school
who is now attending the naval
academy at Annapolis ranks high
among the 616 midshipmen in his
class, it was learned by the local
school board
His grades in all subjects ex
cept one are marks of ‘with dis
tinction,” the highest classifica
tion of the academy. On the one
subject he was given the second
highest classification, “with cred
it.” He stands fifty-ninth in the
class.
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Three Chinese
Shells Explode
Am. Consulate
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Sept. A- Three
one pounder shells crashed di
rectly in front of the American
consulate general, seriously in
juring three Chinese civilians
hand or.e British Sikh policeman.
The shells were fired from Chin
: ese guns just north of the Inter -
• .national settlement border, ap
parently at. four low-flying Jap
anese bombers.
Just previously, one hundred
i additional marines were landed
|,frotn Admiral Yarnell’s yacht
Isabel after a hurried trip from
.Tsingtao, swelling the land force
,to thirteen hundred marines.
Chinese troops clung ten
aciously to main lines on all
fronts in the face of incessant
sustained attacks from the com
.bined Japanese army, navy and
air force.
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HOT FEET. Their prospective trip to France, where they will present a review at Cannes,
seemed to have pat too much gusto into the rehearsals of this chorus at New York. At any rate,
George Hale, the dance director, called in the emergency Are apparatus and cooled down the ‘smoui
" dering” doggies. The show must go on!
Announce End
Million Dollar
"‘Baker" Fraud
Pos*master General James A.
Farley, announced last night that,
through the efforts of the Post
Office Department, another gi
gantic swindle carried on thru
the use of the United States
mails, which netted its operators
approximately one million dol
lars and numbered among its vic
tims individuals in every state of
the Union, Canada, Mexico, and
Cuba, has been stamped out. It
was also pointed out that twenty
four members of various groups
engaged in this fraud against the
public have been brought to trial
and convicted.
This latest swindle to receive
the attention of postal inspectors
involved the promotion of the
mythical "Baker” or "Becker"
estates in the State of Pennsyl
vania. particularly in the city and
county of Philadelphia. The pro
moters of this racket represent
ed to their victims that they had
indisputable proof of the exist
ence of these estates, which in
cluded properties in the very
heart of Philadelphia, worth ap
proximately sixty million dollars.
In addittion, Independence Hall.
Franklin Square and the grave
of Benjamin Franklin itself, as
well as the Post Office and the
United States Mint in Philadel
phia were included by these pro
moters as being "Baker property.
Broad Street Station of the Penn
sylvania Railroad and the abute
mants on the Philadelphia side of
the Delaware River Bridge, were,
likewise, given as part of the
"Baker” estate. Then, to make
the proposition more attractive
to the intended victims, there
were added to the Baker estate
eleven thousand acres of valuable
coal, lead and zinc lands through
out the state of Pennsylvania.
A so-called will, dated Dec
ember 27, 1839, and claimed to
have been executed by one Jacob
Baker, was used by the promot
ers of this swindle to obtain
money from their victims. The
will purported to dispose of the
valuable property mentioned in
the City of Philadelphia and the
mineral lands throughout the
state to so-called heirs of Baker.
The scheme of some of the groups
carrying on the racket was to
solicit money through the mails
and otherwise for the pretended
purpose of probating the alleged
will. If the person solicited was
not a Baker or Beckrex descend
ent, then he was sold a share in
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JAPANESE GOVT. PROTESTS
AGAINST RUSSIAN SEIZURE
OF 27 FISHING ANI) GUN BOATS
(By The Associated Presst
TOKYO, Sept. 9 —The Japan
ese government sent an urg'ent
dual protest to Soviet author
ities against the seizure of twen
ty seven vessels including the
Korean gunboat. Asakaze Maru.
.The protest urges the immediate
release of these vessels and was
sent to both Moscow and Vlad
ivostock.
The Japanese vessels are most
ly fishermen reported to have
been detained at various times
during the last few weeks while
fishing off the Korean and Siber
ian Coast.
MAN SUICIDES AT SEWARD
SEWARD, (APt—N. H. Neal.
137, killed himself yesterday by
sending a bullet into his head
(shortly after arriving on a train
from Anchorage where he was
(employed by the Alaska railroad.
No motive is known here for his
■ act. NeaL, who was bom in Iowa
and lived for a time at Hope,
Idaho, was a member of the Vet
| erans of Foreign Wars
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Gossip Suspect
Publicly Flogged
By Young Girl
NEW ORLEANS, (AP>— Pret
ty Eloise WilLs, 17. publicly Hug
ged Oscar Kay, 47, after her rel
atives tied him to a tree. More
than 100 persons watched the girl
beat Kay whom she insists cir
culate*! “false tales" after she
went to a hospital for an appen
dectomy. Kay said that he may
swear to a warrant for her arrest.
It has been seriously suggested
that ail American public holi
days should be held on Monday,
which would provide at least six
long week-end vacations in the
year. It won't be done, because
it is too logical. If there is no
sense to a custom or tradition, it
is nearly impossible to change it.
KANGAROO-LAND. Down in Australia, where in cer
tain localities the kangaroos also hop about, they get their winter
in the summer time. Here’s E. Shlels skimming spectacularly over
the snow-covered ground at Kosciusko, N.S.W., during the ski ;
season. I