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VOL 38 No. 296. NOME. ALASKA. Tuesday, October 12, 1937. _Per Copy lOcf
U.S. Foreign Service Officer Is Shot
3 British Embassy Autos Machine-Gunned By Japs
A Fleet of 24 Japanese War Planes Bomb Nanking
1). S. CONSULAR GENERAL
TO SYRIA ASSASSINATED
BY MAN REFUSED A VISA
_A.
Jap Warplanes
Bombed Capital
Biggest Bombs
(By The Aaaociated Praaa)
NANKING, Oct, 12, — A fleet
of twenty-four Japanese war-!
planes boiribed the capital this |
morning. Two JapMgpe crafts
were brought dowN. One plane:
crashed headlong i«*» the center,
of the city after a epeateeuljrj
dogfight with a Chinese pursuit
piane.
Greeted by Anti-Aircraft j
The Japanese invaders were:
greeted by a terrific anti-aircraft
barrage as they swooped down on
an arsenal here, dropping the
heaviest bombs, yet used in Nan
king air raids.
After looking at some of those
t
Shanghai pictures one is glad to
be a resident of a country where
sand bags are used only to fight
high water.
New official instructions to Ger
man teachers order them to teach
their pupils that the Jews caused
the fall of the Roman Empire.—
Philadelphia Record.
(By The Associated Press)
BEIRUT, SjTia, Oct. 12. Jam
es Thcmdore Marriner, one of the
oast known American Foreign
Service officers was shot and kill
ed today by an Armenian, to
whom he refused a visa to en
ter the United 9tates.
The police said Marriner, who
is U. S. Consul General for Fren
ch mandated Syria, was shot
when he stepped from his auto
mobile.
His chauffeur captured the ass
assin. Authorities said that Marr
iner had refused the visa, on the
grounds that the Armenian fam
ily involved had a trace of in
sanity.
Marriner was on his way to
the Consulate from his mountain
home on the outskirts of Beirut,
when he was attacked. He was
45 years old.
Since Congress has knocked off
work, no longer need the com
mon, ordinary citizen puzzle his
tired brain as to whether we’re
going to get a New' Era or a New
Error.—Boston Herald.
Wife—“I’ve put your shirt on
the clothes horse, Jim.”
‘ What odds did you get?”
kA S THEY RI P, m shall he sew. Opening of football sea
son brought a flood of work to Major Smith, Georgia Teeh equip
ment expert. Gridiron togs were jht In readiness for months of
practice and competition as candidates reported to ell the cogs of
the "rambling wreck."
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QUEEN OF QUEENS is the title won by 18-year-old Miss
Gwen Smith (center) over 'Jt other Southern California “queens.”
MU'.i Cehlein (left) took second honors, and Claire James (right)
won third prize. So you see Hollywood doesn’t have a monopoly
on ( a nornia beautie--.
Morgn Daughter
To Be Married
Oct. Fifteenth
(By The Associated Press)
PASSAIC. N. J„ Oct. 12—Miss
Carolyn Flagler Morgan, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald He
ber Morgan of this city, has chos
' en Oct. 15th for her marriage tcf
Norman Brassier, son of Mrs.
Otto Brassier of Englewood and
the late Mr. Brassier. The cere
j mony will be performed in St.
John’s Episcopal Church here by
, the Rev. Donald Macadie, the rec
' tor. A reception will follow at
the Morgan home.
Miss Morgan is a graduate ofj
Passaic Collegiate School and I
Skidmore College. Mr. Brassled,
after attending Tarrytown Pre
paratory School and schools in
Germany and Switzerland, was
graduated in 1923 from Princeton
University, where he was a mem
ber of Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Later he attended the Graduate
School of New York University.
He is with the Chemical Bank &
Trust Company of New York and
is a member of the Key and Seal
at Princeton and the Englewood
Field Club.
Belgium Favors
Meeting Nations
(By The Associated Press)
BRUSSELS. Oct. 12, — The
Belgian government decided to
reply favorable to interested na
tions on the suggestion that a
conference among nine power
treaty signatories on the Sino
Japanese conflict be held in Brus
sels.
It was learned that the reply
suggested the last week in Oct-1
ober for the meeting.
The majority of the powers in
volved are seeking to end the
undeclared war and invoking the
pact which guaranteed China's
territorial integrity.
(Bv The Associated Press)
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 8. — Wars
have depressed the price of seal
skins. Twenty thousand pelts,
the federal government’s share
of the take from the Pribilof Is
lands in JSering Sea, Alaska, brot
an average price of $22 a skin
at the semi-annual sale today in
St. Louis. This figure is $7 less
thn the average price realized
at the sale in April.
The decline in price is blamed
on the war in Spain and China.
ENGLISH OFFICIALS ,
MACHINE GUNNED
BY JAP AIRPLANES
President Calls
Special Session
Nov. Fifteenth
(Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. , D. C., Oct. 12
—President Roosevelt called for
a Special Session of Congress,
November 15th, but gave no in
dication of the subjects to be cort
sidered;but the first business will
be farm legislation and surplus
crop control, as its principal pur
pose.
Gen. Weyrauch
Died Portland
(By The Associated Press)
PORTLAND, Oregon, October
12—General Paul Weyrauch, ag
ed 64, of Olympia, died at the
Veterans hospital after an extend
ed illness. He was a native of
Germany and came to the United
States forty-eight years ago, and
served in the United States army
as a colonel during the world war
(By The Associated Press'
SHANGHAI. Oct. 12, — Three
automobiles belonging to the
British Embassy, were machined
gunned this morning by two
squadrons of Japanese warplan
es.
None of the occupants were in
jured.
The staff cards in which S. S*
Murray, assistant air attache oi
the British Embassy was riding
with several other Englishmen,
were attacked by the Japanese
planes near Minhong, fourteen
miles south of Shanghai.
Although the cars carried the
British flag in conspicuous plac
es, afficials said the planes con
tinued to attack, even after the
occupants had jumped from the
cars and sought cover.
A1 Capone gets no commutation*
By and by the man will under
stand that the public just doesn't
want him around. j
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CASTING HIS LOT with other entrants in the national
halt and fly casting tournament at Buffalo, N. I, Walter Willman of
Kansas City, twice winner of the distance title with the H ounce
ping, still spits on his bait for luck.