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VOL. 38 No. 333 NOME. ALASKA. FRIDAY. NOV. 26. 1937 Per Copy 10ct«
Last of “Purple Gang” Leaders Shot
RUSSO-JAP RELATIONS AT CRITICAL POINT
Madrid’s Most Strenuous Bombing Was Yesterday
GANGLAND
KILLING AT
NIGHTSPOT
DETROIT, Nov. 25, —Ex
ecutioners for gangland step
ped into the limelight, in a
shooting which took place on
Thanksgiving Eve, at a night
club.
(By The Associated Press'
DETROIT. Nov. 25, —Gangland
executioners invaded a restaurant
and cocktail bar Thanksgiving
3ve. crowded with merrymakers,
,.nd at 1 a.m. killed Harry Mill
man. described as the “last of the
purple gang leaders'’, and wound
ed four other men.
Bystanders Injured **
Harry Gross and Harry Coup
er, identified as employees of the
Millman horse race handbook,
and Harry Shulak a Toledo, Ohio
furrier and Abe Rutensky, a lin
oleum salesman were wounded
by flying buLlets.
Escaped Death Before
Millman escaped death last
August when a dynamite bomb
exploding beneath the hood of his
car, killed a night club doorman,
who Millman had sent to bring
his car from the parking lot.
Negligence Was
Cause Of Break
Three Convicts
(By The Associated Press)
ALBANY. New York, Nov. 26.
—The New York State Correction
Commission reported “laxity of
regulation and control in the On
ondaga County penitentiary at
Jamesville, N. Y., where the three
convicted O’Connel kidnapers es
caped November 16th, was respon
sbile for the break.
“Members of the guard were
unanimous in stating that at no
time had they received any in
structions as to searching cells
for contraband, and at no time
had they made such examina
tion,” the report said.
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THE SUN ALSO RISES in London, but you'd scarcely guess it from this picture taken
during a recent severe fog, one of the worst in years, which disrupted sea, land and street traffic com
pletely. Old Sol may be discerned at the left through a blanket ot mist, while in the background is the
hazy outline of Big Ben, famed clock on Parliament. In the foreground is the statue of Boadieea, re
nowned Queen of Britain.
INSURGENTS LOOSE FIERY
BOMBARDMENT WHICH HAD
MADRID TERRIFIED HOURS
(By The Associated Press)
MADRID, Nov. 26, — Mad
rid yesterday and last night
received the full force of one
of the most severe bombings
yet to occur in the Spanish
Civil War, as General Fran
co’s forces sought to beat the
city into submission.
MADRID, Nov. 26, — Stricken
Madrid awake from another night
of terror to count its dead and
take stock of- the material dam
age inflicted by one of the heav
iest shellings of the Spanish war.
Hits Residential District
Like a gusty rainstorm, the
bombardment swept back and
forth across the city last night,
from its center to outlying resi
dential sections.
Three times Madrid residents
though the shelling had ended,
but insurgent and government
batteries did not fall silent fin
ally until midnight.
Score Killed, Many Hurt
First reports of rescue work
ers said about a score of persons
were killed in Madrid and many
others injured, as the usually
thickly settled chambers Cuati'o
Caminos, residential districts
caught the distant attack.
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Football Scores
(By Tne Associated Press)
Following are scores of football'
games held on Thanksgiving Day:)
Brown 7 Rutgers 6
Cornell 34 Pennsylvania 20 . |
Duquesne 14 Detroit 7
Missouri 0 Kansas 0
Alabama 9 Vanderbilt 7
Tennessee 13 Kentucky 0
Williaimnette 41 Nevada 7
Colorado 34 Denver U 7
North Carolina 40 Virginia 0
China Refugees
Fight Get Food
Steamer Docked
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Nov. 26. — Mobs
of hungry, war-stricken Chinese
stormed Shanghai rice shops in
a Thanksgiving Day effort to buy
or beg something to eat.
Food Is Guarded
A Shanghai volunteer corps
guarded the docks with fixed
bayonets when a British steamer
unloaded a cargo of rice. In the
Bund other guards protected rice
laden trucks from attacks by starv
ing refugees.
Cold Weather Hardship
With the advent of cold weath
er, two million Chinese refugees
suffered acutely.
On the war front to the west,
Chinese reinforcements rushed
forward to meet the threatened
grand offensive aimed at Nanking.
Meanwhile Japanese planes
bombed troop concentrations al
ong the Wusih-Kiantgyin line.
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Destruction Cities
By Japanese Is
Horrible
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(Bv The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, (/P)—China’s Cit
ies go back to nature, as bombs
wreck buildings and drive the
populace to refuge. Here is the
Kiangwan civic center, which has
been turned into a pasture for
Japanese army horses following
its being wrecked by shell Are.
The building in the background
is the museum of the once pala
tial center.
INTENSE FEELING NOW
FELT JAPANESE AND
SOVIETS: ISLAND
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO. Nov. 26, — The
Russo-Japanese situation took
a bad slump as reports were
received causing officials to
warn their outposts to prevent
any acts which might tend to
lower Japanese prestige.
TOKYO, Nov. 26, —Reports of
friction between Japanese and
Soviet Russians on the Island of
Sakhalin, off the coast of Siberia,
reachtd Tokyo today.
The Domei, Japanese news ag
ency 'dispatch from Toyohara, on
the Japanese-owned portion of
the island, said that Japanese po
lice had decided to adopt a more
sever attitude toward the Russ
ians.
Some In Prison
Several Japanese residents were
sentenced to serve thirty years in
Soviet prisons, without cause said
the Domei, which also related that
Soviet officials had halted Japan
ese boats.
Instructed Be Severe
Japanese border guards have
been instructed “to maintain the
strictest possible lookout for the
protection of Japanese, and the
maintenance of Japanese prest
ige.
Soviet Planes Massed
The newspaper Hochi Shimbun
published a dispatch from Thur
guga which asserted that fifteen
hundred Soviet airplanes had
been massed in the maritime pro
vinices in that part of Siberia
nearest Japan.
Planes Going Into China
The same source reported that
a thousand Russian bombing plan
es were entering China by way
' of Siamfu, capital of western Shen
I si province, presumably to butt
j ress China's resistance to Japan
The newspaper also said that
: the Russians were rushing sub
i marine arts to Vladivostok where
( subs are to be assembled.
Transportation facilities over
the Trans-Siberian railroad, the
main source of supply for the
Soviet foeefe in the Far East, are
reported to have been increased.
PRINTING BLANKS CARRIED
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for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and drill reports.
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
Location Notices. Vouchers.
A SWEET DISPOSITION on the port o' thi bees or
'.kill in handling the swarm enables Henry Brown of Cape May
lurthouse. N. J., to become a walking apiary w’thoat fear of being
;ng. Here he is demonstrating at the international beekeepers*
convention in Washington. 1>. C. j