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VOL. 38. No. 302 NOME. ALASKA, Tuesday. October 19, 1937. Per 10cts
G-Men Start Search For Kidnapers
19 PLANE VICTIMS BEING BROUGHT OUT
Japanese Forced Back Original Positions in China
COUNTERING
MOVE MADE
BY CHINESE
SHANGHAI, Oct. 19, —
Chinese forces continued to
repel the Japanese invaders
sis they forced Jap forces to
retreat to their original posi
tions after failing to crack
the Chinese lines about Shan
ghai, after more than six
weeks of continuous fighting.
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Oct. 19, — Chin
ese troops struck back at the
Japanese in a sharp counter off
ensive near Tazang, nerve cen
ter of the Chinese supply lines
on the Shanghai front.
Japanese Loose
Chinese authorities sent back
word the Japanese had lost their
halif-mile gain made yesterday-.
At noon today the Chinese an
nounced the Nipponese had re
treated to their original position
three miles east of the village
which liss about five miles north
of Shanghai, after failing in suc
cessive attempts to crack the
Chinese Shanghai lines.
To Be More Bombings
The Japanese military served no
tice that all Chinese railway
trains, stations, warehouses and
equipment would be considered
military objectives subject to
bombardment, because military
supplies were being moved by
rail.
Ar Raids Made
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to indignant action by the sinking of a merchantman and ordered reenforcements to rush immediately to the scene of recent inci
dents which theatened a new European crisis.
New air raids were made on
Tientsin. Pukow, Peiping and
Hankow, and railways in north
China.
One of the heaviest engage
ments in the Shanghai area cen
tered around Tumvuchsh Temp
le, which had changed hands
three different times in the last
few weeks.
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a^auaban, a leader of the south’s revival of backyard croquet tour
maments. Young and old are joining the mallet “swing” movement
back to “pedestrian polo.”
CRIME PREVENTION
AGENCIES HUNTING
KIDNAPERS ROSS
CHICAGO, Oct. 19, —Fed
eral agents today began the
intensive search to ferrit out
intensive search to ferrit out
the kidnapers of Charles
Ross, Chicago business man.
who disappeared twenty-four
days ago.
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO. Oct. 19, — Federal
Agents and all of the state's crime
fighting agencies unleashed their
forces today in an intensive search
for the kidnapers of Charles Ross
when his abductors ignored the
final appeal for the return of
their wealthy victim.
Lifted Restrictions
The wife of the 72-year-old
retired Chicago manufacturer to
day, lifted all restrictions which
she had imposed on the investi
gation in the hope that the kid
j napers would discuss terms more
readily. Ross was kidnaped 24
days ago.
Ransom Was Paid
Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion agents announced that a
$40,000 ransom had been paid for
the release of Ross, aged 72, but
that he abductors had failed to
free their aged victim.
Deadline Passed
The official announcement came
after the passing of the deadline
set for his return—8 A. M. this
morning—.which brought no
word of the retired manufactur
er’s whereabouts.
Swing Into Search
The corps of government ag-;
ents, states attorneys arud .police
swung into the intensive hunt
for the abductors.
He May Have Died
The snatch gang's failure to
free Ross after twenty four days’
captivity, confirmed theories that
the family had been double-cross
ed, and increased fears that he
may have died at the hands of
his captors.
In Justice Department circles
it was said the ransom consisted
of $5, $10, and $20 denominations.
Directed Verdict
In Rape Case Was
Handed Down
Walter Watt, convicted of rob
bing a sluice box at Clery creek
on the Kobuk River, was senten
ced by Judge J. H. S. Morison of
the U. S. District Court, this
morning, to three years at the
McNeil Island Penitentiary .Wash.
The jury in the case of the U.
S. vs Arne Neimi was obtained
in the District Court this morn
ing, which recessed to 2 P.M.
At that time the trial commen
ced. For lack of sufficient evi
dence, and reticence on the part
of the principle witness, the char
ges of rape lodged against Mr.
Niemi fell through, and Judge
Morison instructed the jury to re
turn a verdict of Not Guilty. Mr.
Neimi, who was held in jail ail
summer was given his freedom.
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New York Stock
Market Today
—
(By The Associated Press)
j NEW YORK. Oct. 19—In a val
i iant recovery after hours of the
j heavies selling in years, the Stock
: Market regained some of its equi
j librium when leading shares wip
led out a portion or in some cases
| all. Earlier losses were in the
j neighborhood of seven and a half
million shares which were traded
| in an excited session and one of
the most rapid fire since July '33.
Some stocks lost as much as $15
at one time, but the final hour
rally was most surprising in its
breadth, and punched the closing
prices higher of some utility,
metal and oil shares, which finish;
ed with fair'gains for the day.
All day long' the ticker tape
lagged behind floor-trading brok-!
ers who had great difficulty in
executing orders, so great was
the confusion. Corporate bonds,
likewise, rallied after a heavy
break of secondary issues.
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BRINGING OUT
19 BODIES OF
CRASH HILLS
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 19.
—All nineteen persons aboard
the wrecked United Air Lin
es plane which disappeared
Sunday, were discovered to
have been killed when the
liner crashed, according to
reports from the rescuers.
(By The Associated Press)
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 19, —*
Exhausted workmen started tht>
| task today of bringing back to
| civilization, the bodies of the 19
victims in* the nation's most ter«
rible airplane tragedy.
Bodies Strewn About
The bodies,, some of them bad
ly mangled, were strewn about
j the wreckage of the once magni
I ficent airliner, which struck a
! ridge 80 miles east of here lata
j Sunday. They were found by a
| searching party headed by pilot
Ralph Johnson of the United Air
; Lines, after his fellow pilot Boo
iBergesen had sighted the wreck
age from the air yesterday.
An Expectant Mother
Included among the four wo
men and fifteen men killed, waa
an expectant mother, a noted
orthologist, two newsreel men
, rnakng a picture on “Safety ir*
'Trans-continental Flying”.
Hurled From Plane
“The front part of the plana
had been burned as though the
gasoline tanks had exploded.
Several bodies apparently shot
out through the nose of the ship.
Some of them were buried in
the deep snow about the ship,”
said Johnson, in a radio report
to the main office of United.
Marion Swenson
Nome Girl Is To
Wed In Seattle
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE. Oct. 19th—Mar on
Swenson, daughter of Olaf and
Mrs. Swenson, announced her be
trothal to Thomas Ferguson, son
of Mrs. Thomas Ferguson, Seattle
pione-rs. At the announcem nt
party she wore a cape of the rich
est silver fox furs from her fath
er’s vaults.
INDEPENDENT WINS SEAT OF
LATE JOSEPH T. ROBINSON
(By The Associated Press)
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Oct. 19, — A democratic
congressman who campaigned as an independent, as
sumed the toga of the late Joseph T. Robinson, through
a precedent-breaking defeat of a New Deal democrat.
Representative John E. Miller yesterday became the
first independent candidate to win a major Arkansas
office in seventy-seven years, when he was elected ov
er Governor arl E. Bailey, democrat, in a special el
ection held Monday.