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VOL. 38. No. 305. NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY. DEC. 28. 1937 Per Copy 10ct»
Pacif ic N.W.Suffers From Big Storm
Low Bidders on Alaska Mail Routes Announced
U.S. Gunboat Leaves Tsingtao With 280 Refugees
Wind, & Water
Played Havoc
In Northwest
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Dec. 21—Wind and
water pLayed havoc in the Pacifi
Northwest travel conumunicatod
Northwest, travel and communi
cations as death and destruction
center moved from northwestern
Oregon to Northwestern Washing
ton.
Fireman Elwood Tucker is miss
uig, and is apparently drowned;
Engineer Mark McLean was sev
erely injured when a mud-slide
sent the West-bound Great Nor
thern mail train, consisting of the
locomotive, express cab and two
coaches tumbling into the raging
Kkykamish River near Monroe.
Charles Mock, a war voteran,
.prevented a possible second Great
Northern train wreck, when he
successfully flagged the South
bound passenger train just before
it reached the hundred foot mud
slide, at North Beach, just beyond
Seattle and north of the city lim
its.
The eighty-four passengers,
mostly from British Columbia,
were taken to Seattle in busses.
One eldsTly woman remained in
the train rather than submit to
a drenching rain.
Telephone, telegraph, radio and
power and light services are dis
rupted. Airplanes are grounded.
Many basements are flooded and
sewers overflowing as the down
pour continued. Seattle, batter
ed by windy rain, aggregating4.55
.hundredths inches since Saturday
with many streets blocked by
mud slides. There was twelve
inches of water in the fire room
of the Virginia Mason Hospital.
Sixty Kelso residences are now
threatened with flood waters.
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iU. S. Destroyer
Refugees Aboard
Leaves Tsingtao
i (By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Dec. 28—The Un
ited Slates gunboat Sacramento
steamed out cxf Tsingtao Harbor,
carrying American refugees from
the rich Shangtung Province and
s.aport, which is isolated by the
advancing Japanese armies.
Dispatches from the threatened
city said that two hundred and
eighty Americans evacuated, that
many of them are on the gunboat
Sacramento, which is due at
Shanghai, some four hundred
miles to the south, Thursday.
The fa’l of Tsingtao seemed
immenent. Thinan, the Provin
cial capital, two hundred miles to
the west, is in Japanese hands,
while other Japanese columns
raised the Rising Sun flag over
Wiihusin, a railway point, less
than one hundred miles west of
Tsingtao.
Tribute is Paid
To Memory Of
Newton Baker
(By The Associated Press)
CLEVELAND. Dec. 28—States
men, military leaders, political
figures, jurists and jurists of the
world war veterans, assembled
on the Main street here to pay,
final tribute today to Newton D.
Baker, former secretary of war,
under the Wilson administration,
who passed away Saturday after
noon. Cleveland throngs viewed
the body at Trinity Episcopal
Cathedral; Bishop Warren Lin
coln Rogers was in charge of the
services. Messages received, in
cluded one from President and
Mrs. Roosevelt, conveying con
dolences.
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PltlO.V FIGHT FOR FEATHERWEIGHT CHAMP Henry Armstrong was his
non tide bout with Joey Brown in Buffalo N. Y. Kor the dusky champion's Syracuse foe could well
have used a softer heat, rest than the rope shown supporting him here after Armstron- put him to
sleep with a knockout blow in the second round, hour nights previous the Californian had successfully
detended Mt'iitlti against Billy Beauliuld in New York City.
Govt. Forces Are
Reported To Be
Making Headway
(By The Associated Press)
HEN DA YE, Spain, Dec. 28th—
General Miquel Aranda's relief
column is reported to have driven
through the Spanish government
outposts northwest of Teruel, in
a fierce counter action, to deliver
six thousand men, women and
children who are besieged within
the fallen city.
Insurgent sources declared that
General Aranda’s guard might
soon reach the seminary, fortress,
Bank of Spain Building, and the
Civil Governor’s palace, where
three thousand insurgent officers
and soldiers and about that many
civilians fought hunger and thirst,
during the blasting siege of Bar
celona.
Dispatches said the opposing
patrol is still fighting insidejthftl
city, with government forceCpp
parently controlling the grSter
part of the territory.
Canada And U.
S. Representa
tives To Confab
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Dec 28
:—Representatives of the United
States and Canada will meet here
January tenth to discuss their
mutual and civil aviation prob
lems. One official said he doubt
ed whether the conference would
consider the ‘recent agitation” of
an air route linking the United
States with Alaska via Canada,
as no companies have officially
served notice that they consider
ed such a program .
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No Hope Held
For Return Of
Missing Wife
HUNDREDS SEARCH IN VAIN
FOR MRS. MARTIN
FLAVIN
MONTEREY. Calif. Dec. 28,(JP,
Hundreds of persons have search
ed in the past two weeks for Mrs.
Martin Flavin, 54 years old. who
disappeared while taking photo
graphs on a promotory near the
Flavin home not far from Monte
rey. A canvas shoe identified as
hers was found in the surf.
Mr. Flavin, Broadway play
wright and a Pulitzer prize win
ner, declared he had almost giv
en up hope of finding his wife
alive. Heretofore, he said, he be
lieved she was a victim of tmne
sia and thought trace of her
wgyjd be discovered.
Japanese Spies
Are Numerous
In United States
UNITED STATES AGENTS ARE
SAID TO BE ACTIVE
IN NIPPON.
MOSCOW, Dec. 28,i/P)—"Amer
ica is overrun with Japanese spies
and Japan in its turn seems to be
an arena for American intellig
ence service,” high Russian offic
ials declared in Moscow.
Statement In Pravda
M. P. Frinocsky. vice-commissar
of Internal Affairs and vice-chief
of the Russian secret political
police, made reference to the ac
tivities of American and Japan
ese spies in each other’s country,
in discussing in an article in yes
terday’s issue of the Pravda, a
newspaper published in Moscow,
the execution of eight, once high
ranking Russian communists, for
Navy Is Using
Alaska Proving
Ground Winter
•
(By Tne Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D. C., Dec. 28
—The U. S. Navy Department is
using Alaska as a proving ground
for winter aviation, the varying
weather conditions provide an;
excellent opportunity to acquaint',
pilots with winter flying and to
experiment with various motors
and handling planes under differ
ent temperatures and hazards.
Navy officials explained that
the Navy wanted to give as
many pilots as possible, Alaska
training, by the rotation policy so.
that a large number of fliers
would receive conditioning dur-.
ing the winter training.
The program consists largely of
flying the Navy’s big patrol boats
between Seattle and the northern
base; de-icers and other special
weather equipment will be given
every conceivable test to deter
mine feasibility, officials said.
telling Russian secrets to “fascist"
spies.
Frinocsky’s article says:
Many on Pacific Coast
"America, particularly the Pa
cific Coast part of the country &
the Panama Canal, are overrun
with Japanese spies."
Frinovsky added:
“Russia will continue to destroy
spies, terrorists, wreckers, revo
lutionary plotters and counter
revolutionaries of all shades."
This indicates the end of the
spy purge in Russia is not yet
ended. •
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Low Bidders On
Mail Contracts
Are Announced
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D, C„ Dec. 27
—Delegate Anthony J. Dimond
said that Postoffi.ce officials ad
vised that the following concerns
submitted low bids in the vicinity
of the Fairbanks mail route con
tracts:
Fairbanks to Meehan, Thomas
Nemo, $1600 per year.
Fairbanks to Livengood, Frank
Pollack, rate 48tacts per pound
for round trip.
Fairbanks to Chandlar, Wien
Alaska Aairlines, 85cts per pound
for round trip.
Fairbanks-Bethel. Harold Gill
am, $720.00 round trip.
Fairbanks-Big Delta, Edmund
Lund, $85.00 round trip.
Fairbanks-Tetlin, Frank Pollack
$169.50 for round trip.
Fairbanks-Wiseman, Wien Al
aska Airlines, $140 for round trip.
Fairbanks-Nome, Pacific Alas
ka Airways, $457.00. round trip.
Delegate Dimond said that the
routes were not designated offic
ially as “airmail", but virtually
all bids came from flying firms
He added, it will be some time
yet before the contracts are
awarded, and that in some instan
ees wild not go to the low bidder.
License Issued
(By The Associated Press)
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Dec. 28
—Marriage license was issued to
Walter Joyce, of Nome, and. Jose
phine Maxwell of Oakland, Cali
fornia, yesterday.
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SHE TURNED CRITIC
to censure behavior of her audi
ences. Actress Helen Ha.ves sug
gested a university chair to
teach proper . induct in theaters.