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VOL. 37. No. 242 NOME, ALASKA, SATURDAY OCT 10 1936 Per Copy 15cts
Soviet Protest Is Being Investigated
LANDON TO BALANCE BUDGET IN 4 YEARS
Roosevelt Said Peace Means Money for Everybody’
SOVIET ATTACK ON
BREAK OF FAITH IS
PUZZLE TO NATIONS
- (By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Oct. 10, — Spain’s fascist command
announced today that it had snapped the last rail line
running to the East coast, while three European fascist
states, some sources said, pondered out a formal pro
test to Moscow’s charges of a grave breach of inter
national faith.
Entering its 13th week, the Spanish conflict was
divided into two parts—domestic and international.
On the heels of a stormy unparalleled internation
al intervention committee session which in some re
spects has not been equalled in contemporary diplomat
ic history, Italy, Germany and Portugal are understood
to be pondering a direct Moscow protest for its charg
es of fascist aid to the insurgents, and its own threat
to help Madrid.
Count Dino Grandi, Italian envoy called the Soviet
representative a liar, and made counter charges to the
effect that Russia had already sent arms to Madrid.
Portugal’s delegate walked out, and the German
delegate flatly denied the charges made by Moscow.
The charges were four-fold—1. Russia will remain
for the time being in accord. 2. The committee will
await the Portugese reply to the Soviet proposal for an
inquiry commission to determine whether Portugal was
a port of entry for foreign arms shipment. 3. Italy, Ger
many and Portugal will have time to answer Spanish
and Russian charges. 4. The committee speedly, will
put Madrid charges to “a most searching probe”.
Lighting dynamite fuses from cigarettes, Asturian
miners pushed fascist defenders to the center of long
besieged Oviedo. In the north section of the city, the
streets were strewn with bodies. '_
Spanish Charge
Italian Troops
Helped Capture
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Oct. 10, — The Span
ish embassy, coincident with crit
ical sessions of the International
Committee on neutrality, charged
that seven hundred Italian troops
had participated with Spanish
fascists in the capture of Baleric
Island, off Ivza, September 20th.
The communication gave de
tails of the alleged participation
of Italian troops said to have
been commanded by one, Count
Dirossi. It contended that the
troops had been taken to the is
'land on the steamer Cuidad de
Palma, which allegedly, also bore
two Italian planes, with the It
alian flag painted on their sides.
The document also charged these
planes also participated in the cap
ture.
Deposits High
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 10
—The Federal Reserve Board an
nounced that the nation’s bank de
posits had climbed to $51,335,000,
000.00, the highest since June,
1931.
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CELEBRATING THE ARRIVAL OF THE S. S. VIC
MONDAY, OCT. 12th, 10 P. M.
EVERYONE WELCOME LADIES FREE
The $5.00 Door Prize Contest For Name Will Continue
All This Week.
Animal Which
Washed Ashore
Was Examined
Can See No Reasons Why
Animal Cannot Be A
Whale, He Says.
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Following is a special inter
view with Dr. Hans Himmheber,
who has been in and around
Nome during the past summer,
in reference to the animal wash
ed ashore last week, about three
miles up the beach of Bering Sea.
“My name was mentioned in
your newspaper recently in con
nection with the animal washed
ashore near last Saturday. I
have no authority to speak on
this subject since ! am an anthro
pologist, not a pa.oantologist.
“But, since my friends in Nome
seem to expect me to tell my op
inion about it, I do not want
them to think that I am not in
terested in the subject, which
has been so widely discussed.
“I shall only give my opin
ion ah to the question —“whale,
or not whale.’ ”
“It has been said the animal
could not be a whale because it’s
body was shaped like a reptile;
that is to say—the upper line of
the body, head to the tail, being
in one straight line. Whereas, a
|
whale’s upper line is convex, j
or arched and not in a straight
line.
"Secondly, it was said that the :
animal had a neck. Thirdly, that
it had coarse hair or fur. Four-1
thly and lastly, it had a tail.
“As regards the body—It must
not be overlooked that this ani
mal is not lying on its side but is
twisted, in such way that it lies
partly facing downward making it
appear somewhat different. In
reality the spine is well up on ■
the carcass and it is possible to i
see beyond it, a great part of the
‘underside’ of the animal.
“Also the body has sunk down
by its weight in relation to its j
‘tail’. Thus it appears that the
so-called tail is in the same line.
“As to the question of the neck,
it seems to me that the body be
hind the jaw has been broken off
making it appear that there was
a visible separation between the
head and the body, which, in
reality, may not have existed.
“It seems to me that what ap
pears to be hair, is nothing more
than decomposed tissue, I have
cut the skin and have seen strong
fibres running through the white
layer underneath. These fibres,
in a state of decomposition of the
body, will yield the apparent re
Landon Promised
Balanced Budget
In Four Years
fBy The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Oct. 10. — Gover-!
nor All M. Landon, Republican
nominee for president, promised
last night to balance the feder
al budget within four years, if el
ected by “an efficient administra
tion,” by ending"wholesale waste
and extravagance”.
Sounding a demand to voters
to “put the spenders out”, the
Republican nominee told his aud
ience in the Chicago stadium, in
a radio address:
“If I am elected, the budget
is going to be balanced, not by
depriving our needy of relief,
not by refusing necessary aid to
our farmers. The budget is go
ing to be balanced by cutting
out waste and extravagance—by
putting an end to the use of pol
lic funds for political purposes—
by restoring a hard-working, pain
staking common sense administ
ration.”
Prosecutor Was
Charged Being
One of Members
CBv The Associated Press)
DETROIT, Oct. 10, — Harvey
Davis, Black Legion colonel, told
the judge sentencing him and
;ix fellow members to life im
prisonment for murder, that Dun
:an McCrea, Wayne County pro
secutor was a member of the
looded order.
special Power of Attorney forms,
now on sale at
The Nugget Office.
;ult of hair or fur. If torn out,
;he individual fibre does not have
t root like hair but, runs for sev
;ral inches almost parallel to the
iurface of the body.
“Regarding the subject of the
tail’. The end of the vertebra
las been pronounced as being un
tble to carry flukes, because they
vere partly covered with hair or
’ur. Upon investigation, it was
ietermined that this so-called
lair or fur also exists between
;he vertebra, which I thipk shows
igain that it is just decomposed
;issue.
“The hind part of the body has
aroken away, similar to what has
;aken place under the lower jaw,
fhus making it appear that it is a
fail. That no flukes at all are
(Continued on Page Three)
ROOSEVELT SPOKE ISSUES
PUT FORWARD PRESENT
POWER ADMINISTRATION
(By The Associated Press)
ST. PAUL, Oct. 10, — Presi- it for dictatorship or for war.”
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke Roosevelt, like Landon, is mak
out last night for the administra- ing a swing around the central
tion's reciprocal tariff program, states.
contending that it had brought Bringing up the idea of peace,
benefits and increased trade to Roosevelt said “peace saves mon
industry a”d agriculture, and ey for everybody". In his first
“growing consumption and better comment on the monetary agree
farm prices, prove it.” , ment between the United States
T ,, .'Great Britain and France, the
Into his address the President
President said “within the past
injected his first public referen- . . . ... .
two weeks splendid progress has
ce to the now tri-power monetary been made jn giving a greater
understanding. (stability to foreign exchange.
He mentioned “the frenzied fin- “Within that same time, there
ance" between 1920 and 1930. He have been, lifted, many quotas
talked of peace as a force for and embargoes, including those
making money—“a prosperous on important American agricul
world has no permanent room in tural products."
La I ter Ray Saints
Drive Successful
(Bv The Associated Press!
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 9, —
President Hebert Grant of the
Latter Day Saints Church de
clared as a success today the
church's world-wide drive to take
all its needy members "cif re
lief” by October 1st.
Six months ago the church
which opposes any “pay without
work” for its 750,000 members,
launched the program aimed at
making every able bodied mem
ber self-supporting. Mr. Grant
reported that scattered storehous
es now contain supplies which
have been laid up in generous
quantities for distribution among
the needy who helped produce
them.
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Lomen Store At
Teller is Burned
A telegram from the Cutter
Northland today to the U. S.
Coast Guard Station at Nome,
conveyed the information that
the Lomen Commercial Co. store
at Teller, had been destroyed by
fire, including the radio and wea
ther stations there.
Ralph and Alfred Lomen, heads
of tiie concern have bee:; endea
voring to fly to Teller all day to
look over th'- dam ige, but ad
verse wo .-i ; has pre
ver • : the plane i cm lying to
that town.
Honeymooners Return
The Associated Pre.-s)
NEW YORK, Oct. 9, — Joan
Blondel! and Dick Powell, film
stars arrived on the Santa Paula
today on their honeymoon cruise
and received the Hollywood idea
of a fitting reception for newly
weds.
The props consisted of an air
plane which trailed a streamer
marked “Welcome Dick and
Joan”, three press agents and 13
tugboats, which pulled alongside
the Santa Paula and tooted their
whistles.
A crowd of movie fans, gath
ered at the dock, almost over
whelmed a police cordon.
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