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VOL. 38. No. 259. NOME, ALASKA. Saturday, AUG. 28, 1937 Per Copy 10ct«
Woman Found With Ice-pick In Skull
F. D. R. MAY MAKE CROSS-COUNTRY TRIP
Nome To Be on New Air Route Los Angeles-China
President Said
Be Considering
Trip Northwest
(By The Associated Press)
HYDEPARK, N. Y. Aug. 28—
Informed sources let it be known
that the chances were good for
President Roosevelt to make a
trip this fall, but would neither
confirm or deny the Post-Intelli
gencer's report that the president
was definitely planning a cross
country trip to obtain first hand
information on the New Deal’s
accomplishments in the North
west.
The last w'ord from President
Roosevelt, at last Friday’s Press
Conference, he said he had no
engagements beyond September
17th. when he will deliver an out
door Constitution address near
the White House.
Asked President
Execute Power
Save WPA Men
(By The Associated. Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 26
—Two thousand five hundred
men, women and children mem
bers of the Workers Alliance to
day wrote President Roosevelt
urging him to uSb executive pow
er to aid dismissed Works Pro
gress Administration employees
who have failed to secure private
jobs. The petitioners, who have
encamped on the mudflats near
here for the past two days,
marched toward the capitol wav
ing blue Alliance flags and sing
ing union songs. The parade
however, was in orderly forma
tion.
Franco Worried
By Lusty Drive
Of Government
(By The Associated Press)
HENDAYE, Aug. 27—General
Franco, worried by the govern
ment’s lusty drive near Zarozoa,
is reported by Insurgent sources,
to be speeding a motorized col
umn from conquered Santander
to the Arrozon front.
Forces will be thrown against
Madrid and Valencia and the
army in the northeast where Zar
azoa is being attacked from two
directions. Apparently the gov
ernment will attempt to make up
for the loss of Santander.
IVIL DOGS ON DUTY. * »*•' «
fr American forces were standng by with full war packs in Peiping, ready to defend the American concession if the Sino-Japanese H
r lighting carried into that city. At the request of the American consulate, American business men started drilling as a volunteer com- JBj
(JS pany. Here are U. S. Marines under the shadow of Peiping’s ancient walls in a dress parade at the barracks. __
Mrs. Wm. Brill
Is Bound For
Reno Divorce
fBv The \prow'
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26th—
The New York socialite Nan
Pierson Brooks Macy BriLl, paus
ed in San Francisco last night
and announced that she was Re
no bound to straighten out her
tangled romance with millionaire
William Brill. They eloped to
Yuma, Arizona, parted after a
few hours together, patched up
their romance, parted again and
went into court with annulment
suits and counter annulment
suits. She said she would try to
see the Governor of Nevada to
morrow to find out whether her
divorce from her previous hus
band George Macy was legal.
She said she might divorce Mr.
Brill and hinted that she might
then add still another section to
her name by marrying someone
else.
Cutter Northland
Due Here Tonite
Telegraphic information today
indicated that the Coast Guard
Cutter Northland, Captain Fred
erick A. Zeusler^ would probably
arrive at Nome this evening from
the Arctic.
TELLS SEATTLE IT’S “JUMPED”
ON NEW AERIAL ROUTE
ORIENT THRU NOME
Former Mayor Charles L. Smith Deplores Situation as
evidenced by interest attempting to extend
air routes to Orient from interior
SEATTLE—"Seattle should be
concerned over the announce
ment in the current issue of The
American Aviation magazine that
the long-planned air connection
between the United States and
Alaska is two-third’s completed
and that it leaves Seattle a thou
sand miles off the route,” Charles
L. Smith, former mayor, said re
cently. t
“The air route, as proposed,
crosses Canada from Lethbridge,
Alberta, to Whitehorse and then
ce to Fairbanks and Nome. South
ward from Lethbridge the air
way is by way of Great Falls,
Mont., and thence to Butte_ Salt
Lake City and Los Angeles. A
second route southward from
Great Falls, goes through Bi 11
ings, Cheyenne, Denver and El
Paso.
Land Planes Used
"Land planes, of course, are us
ed, and the route is said to cross
no mountain barriers. Mostly the
terrain is flat country and it
would be unnecessary fur flyers
to rise higher than 4,000 feet.
“The ramaining gap to be com
pleted is between Great Falls &
Lethbridge.
“This city, (Seattle), as the
natural gateway to Alaska, can
not overlook this important an
nouncement. Alaska is the most
air-minded country in the world,
and if the route is established,
passengers and freight will go by
the interior passage instead of
through Seattle.
'Seattle Beaten To Gun'
“I was particularly struck by
this paragraph in the magazine
American Aviation:
“There is little doubt that the
development of the Edmonton
White Horse airway is a real
coup of the advocates of the in
side route to the Orient. They
have beaten Seattle and other
Northwest interests to the gun in
actually getting the United States
-Alaska air way opened to traf
fic.’
"While the shorter route to the
northern region always will be
from Seattle, the rugged coast
line precludes the possibility of
building landing fields for land
planes. Our salvation appears to
lie in seaplanes.”
(Continued on Page Two)
Ghost Friendship
Japanese Gen. &
Chinese Is Gone
(By Tne Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Aug. 26th—The
Ghost of a long-dead friendship
between a Japanese idealist, Gen
eral Iwane Matsui and China’s
National Hero, Sun Yat Sen,
haunted this city of death today.
Twenty years ago Matsui and
Sun Yat Sen were close personal
friends seeking everlasting friend
ship between their nations. To
day Matsui was commander in
chief of a Japanese army threat
ening to sweep up from the Yang
-tze delta and strike a crushing
blow at the defenders of Shang
hai who revere Sun as the hero
of the Republic.
Elects President
Sourdough Union
(By The Associated Press)
TORONTO, Aug. 27th—M. A.
Mahoney, of Ottowa, was elected
President of the International
Sourdough Union; T. W. Buck
hold of Los Angeles, first vice
president; L. B. Loomis of Port
land, secretary-treasurer.
Portland was selected as the
next convention city.
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Nude Body Of
Young Woman
Is Found Dead
(Bv The Associated Press)
NEW YORK.Aiig.23—The body
of a comely young woman found
by a beach-comber with nine ice
pick stabs and a bullet in her
brain and the icepick imbedded
in her skull, and stuffed in a bar
rel, beside the East River, has
been identified as Mrs Essie Gor
don. widow of one-eyed Maxie
Gordon, a notorious narcotics
peddler, who was killed in an
automobile accident at El Paso
Texas last Juiv. .
*
Police Rtf^k they have no cMe,
slayer or motive for the tragedy.
Alaska Projects
Included River
and Harbor Bill
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON D. C„ Aug. 27
—The rivers and harbors bill as
signed by President Roosevelt in
cluded two Alaska projects—Sit
ka Harbor $160,000; Douglas and
Juneau Harbors, $232,000.
Projects for which surveys have
been authorized include Seldovia
Harbor.Tenankee Inlet, Port Fre
derick waterway. Wrangell Har
bor, Craig Harbor, Grantley Har
bor, Sinuk River, ELfin Cove,
Myers, Chuck and Unga Harbors.
Japanese Loose
Bombs from Air
Burn Shanghai
(Bv Tne Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Aug. 28—The Jap
anese loosed a deadly sky-fire on
the winding streets of Nantao,
Shanghai’s oldest Chinese quar
ter, when more than six hundred
died. Sixteen bombers partici
pated. Many of the deaths were
attributed to fires and infantry
and artillery gunnery. The bat
tlefront seemed to be about Woo
sung, twelve miles northwest of
Shanghai.
WRANGELL, Alaska, Aug. 28
—A fire which broke out in the
boys dormitory of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs vocational board
ing school, caused damage estim
ated at two thousand dollars. The
cause is undetermined. The fire
occurred in an unoccupied part
[of the dormitory.
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