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VOL. 37. No. 37. NOME, ALASKA, Thursday, FEB. 13, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
Number Japs Killed Border Battle
EX-PRESIDENT HOOVER RAPS <7NEW DEAL”
It Is Said That Oil Embargo Against Italy Unlikely
FRANK KNOX AND SENATOR
BORAH FILED THE ILLINOIS
PRIMARIES YESTERDAY, 12th
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Hoover Jumps
New Deal In His
Address Wed.
(By The Associated Pr°ss)
Portland, Oregon, Feb.
13, —Former President of
the U. S., Herbert Hoover,
charging “today’s budget is
the worst unbalanced one
in history”, launched a
scathing attack on the New
Deal, at a Lincoln Day
Banquet, when he chose as
his subject—“The Confus
ed State ol the Union”.
Hoover’s address was
one of many given thru
out the nation in which
both Republicans and Dem
ocrats observed Lincoln’s
Birthday.
Republican speakers de
voted most of their address
es to a criticism of the New
Second Newsy
Letter Received
On Unalakleet
(Special Correspondence)
January 10-26, 1936.
Mrs. Clara Gaddie re
turned from St. Michael on
January 11. She reports
that the epidemic was con
fined to two families. Nine
members of the families
had been ill of which 5 had
died.
The epidemic of mump,s
has almost run its coarse at
Unalakleet. Almost the en
tire population has been
afflicted at one time or an
other since the last week
in November when the ep
idemic first broke out. Ac
cording to reports, Kaltag,
Egavick, Shaktoolik and
Koyuk are afflicted like
wise.
On Jan. 10, the Ladies
Sewing Circle of Unalakleet
consisting of twelve mem
bers, met at the home eco
nomics room of the school
house. The purpose of the
club is to give the women
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Deal while the Democrats
held more to the eulogy of
the Emancipator.
Lincoln Day also saw
Frank B. Knox, Chicago
publisher, and Senator
Borah of Idaho, file in the
presidential primaries in
Illinois, in a drive for that
state’s delegation to thfe
national convention to be
held at Cleveland.
Hoover was particularly
emphatic in declaring that
“unbalanced budgets, and
unstable currency are re
tarding recovery.”
His talk was a direct re
ply to President Roosevelt’s
recent address to the U. S.
Congress on the state of
the Union._
Southern California Yesterday Struck
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flv Tornado, Flood, And a !re.
J 7 j
No Deaths \\ ere Reported
(Bv The Associated Press)
Los Angeles, Feb. 13, —
Tornado, Hood and fire,
leaving in its wake, injury
to six persons and property
damage which may exceed
one hundred thousand dol
lars, yesterday wrote a new
chapter in southern Calif
ornia weather records.
Wednesday night, roar
ing twisters swept through
Long Beach, Alhambra,
South Pasadena, and Torr
ance, unroofing houses and
uprooting trees, toppling
oil derricks and starting
fires
A tornado at Long
Bc ch which originated ov
er the ocean, swept a wat
erspout onto the beach
front, and thoroughly drcn
died the vicinity with salt
water.
All of the injured were
in the Long Beach area.
Dorothy Compson, aged
11, was the most seriously
injured—both legs having
been fractured when struck
with flying timbers from an
unroofed house.
Mildred Scott,
Announces Big
Drive Red Cross
Miss Mildred Scott, Chair
man of the 1936 Red Cross
Drive in Nome, comment
ing on the current drive to
commence Saturday morn
ing, had the following re
marks to make regarding
its purpose and scope:
“Among the annual events
we now have the Red Cross
Drive. During the past
years, the people of Nome
have been very generous
in their donations to the
Red Cross Fund. That
spirit of generosity has not
been in vain. When we
faced needs during the
Flood of 1913, during the
World War, and again last
year after the fire, the Red
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French Airliner
Still Long ()\ er
Due On Flight
(Bv The Associated Press)
Buenos Aires, Feb. 12, —
The French airline “Airj
France” announced today
that they were still with
out word concerning the
fate of the airliner “Ville de
Buenos Aires”, long over
due on its flight across the
South Atlantic with a crew ■
of five and one passenger, i
Airplanes and ships have
searched off the coast of
Brazil but have found no
trace of the plane.
FUNERAL NOTICE
Funeral services for the
late Martin Strand will be
at the Federated church at.
2 P.M. Friday, Feb. 14th.
Fires, Explosion
Claimed 22 Lives
North America
fast Day’s Result Of Fires
Not Equalled Many
Some Time Past
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Feb. 13, — 22
deaths, and 71 injured,
many of them seriously,
were listed as a result of
three fires and an explo
sion.
A fire that turned a mer
ry- making throng in a New
York restaurant, into a
fear-maddened mob, result
ed»in 5 dead and 41 injured
before they were brought
under control..
An official count of the
de Uhs at a Lakewood, New
J. rsey hotel fire, reached
15.
Two worknrr n were kill
ed and seven others injur
ed in an explosion that
wrecked a portion of a tun
nel being dug for a new
sewer in Chicago. Three
nuns w Te burned to death
as fire swept a Montreal
convent.
All Army Planes
Radio Equipped
Now, Is Report
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Feb. 13. —
U. S. Signal Corps officers
reported today that the U.
S. Army’s 1,150 war planes
are now fully equipped
for radio communications,
plus the utmost in military
navigation devices.
The program to “radio
ize” the Army, also dis
closed the development of
a miniature set designed to
be carried on the backs of
infantrymen, with a talk
ing range of one mile.
A compact equipment has
also been developed for
the artillery, and all other
army units. _
The equipment for the
Army planes meets one of
the chief criticisms of the
Air Corps Board following
the investigation into the
carrying of mail by army
planes two years ago when
commercial contracts were
cancelled.
JAPANESE, SIANCIIOUkUOAN
SOLDIERS REPORTED WERE
KILLED DUE THE SOVIETS
Body Of Army
Flier Is Found:
Missing In Dec.
(By The Associated Press)
San Francisco, Feb. 13,
—The broken body of Lieut
enant John T. Helms, 27
year-old Army aviator who
vanished on a routine hop
on December 20th, was
found Wednesday at the
foot of a towering cliff in
the San Bernandino Nation
al Forest, a mile from the
spot where his plane crash
ed.
Ai my officers f rom Mar
sh Field. Riverside, where
Helms was station®:! said
they believed he met death
when struggling homeward
on foot, and fell over the
cliff in the darkness of the
night.
The officials said that an
examination of the wreck
ed plane indicated that
Helms wss not seriously in
jured in the actual crash.
(Sy The Associated Press)
Undated, Feb. 13. —Ob
servers at Geneva today
said they believed that an
embargo by the League of
Nations against oil ship
ments was unlikely in view
of the improbability that
the United States would
take part in such an em
bargo.
League experts, investi
gating as to whether such
a new sanction would ser
ve to interfere with Italy’s
campaign against Ethiopia,
decided that the success of
the embargo would depend
on American action.
The Ethiopian govern
ment reiterated its former
statement, that her forces
had captured Kora Ali, in
southern Ethiopia.
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Japan Charges
Bloody Battle
Soviet Forces
(By The Associated Press)
Tokyo, Feb. 13, — The
Japanese general headquar
ters at Hsingking, Man
choukuo, announced today
that one Japanese officer,
and seven Japanese sol
diers had been killed in the
bloodiest en oun'er in the
/ear-ton g Russe-J apa nese
friction on the border be
tween Manvhoukuo and out
er Mongolia.
Domei, hipumwe news
agency, said that the gen
eral headme n n s announ
cement state d that the Mon
gols apparen y had suffer
ed many eauiailies in the
conflict yeste ’d y in which
a Japani . e-M v ' oukuon
column recapuued Ike city
of Oaihudka.
The newspaper Asahi re
ported that two Soviet air
planes flew over Manchou
kuoan territory during the
battle and bombed Japan
ese and Manchoukuoan
soldiers, but that there
were no casualties from ihis
attack.
Other attacks however,
did not mention the aerial
attack.
Strike Of Dress
Makers Is Off
as \iinouneed
(By The Associated Press)
New York, Feb. 13, —
A threatened strike of a
hundred and five thousand
dressmakers, was averted
today, said an announce
ment from a joint board of
the dressmakers union, fol
lowing an all-night confer
ence between representa
tives of the union and em
ployers’ associations.
Julius Sockman, genera
manager of the joint board
and David Dubinsky, pres
ident in the internationa
leagues of garment maker
unions, jointly made the
agreement.