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VOL. 38. No. 319. NOME, ALASKA, Monday. November 8. 1937 Per Copy 10ct«
John Bogan Was Stabbed To Death
CHINESE START COUNTER OFFENSIVE-JAPS
200 Killed When Japs Bomb Chinese R. R. Train
JOHN BOGAN STABBED
DEATH LAST NIGHT: 3
IN JAIL ON SUSPICION
'JOHNNY^ BEAU' is
what marines call courtly, but
iron-willed Brig. Gen. John C.
Beaumont, commander of U. S.
land forces in the Shanghai
area. Only recently he landed
there on the transport Chau
mont with fresh forces to bolster
V. S. marines already on guard.
Football Scores
(By The Associated Press)
Kansas 13 Nebraska 13
Minnesota 35 Iowa 10
Stanford 7 So. California 6
'Wash. Stated Oregon 10
Washington 0 California 0
Wo. State Froah 0 Wn. Froah 13
Brown 0 Yale 19
Ahbama 9 Tulane 6
Gonzaga 0 Montana 23
WiUlamette 0 Oregon State 20
Coroner’s Jury
Names Beery As
Knife Wielder
After what was described gen
erally as a drunken party, accom
panied by disorder, one man was
dead and three others were held
in jail under the suspicion of mur
der, early, this morning.
John Bogan, about 45 years of
age was said to have been stabb
ed to death, and those now held
in jail are Lou Berry, Gene Doyle
and an Eskimo, Hariod Charles.
The alleged murder was report
ed to have occurred somewhere
around midnight last night or 1
A M. today, in the cabin of Gene
Doyle located', several hundred
feet back of the public school
house, near B Street.
The original alarm of the death
of Bogan, who is survived by a
wife and two children, was given
by two native girls, said reports,
to City Chief of Police W. W.
Laws, who immediately called U.
S. Commissioner C. C. Tanner,
and repaired to the scone, where
a guard was established about
the house to prevent anything
being touched.
Th ebody of Bogan was moved
to the morgue this morning. Com
missioner Tanner impaneled a
coron:rs jury about 10 A. M. to
day and went and viewed the,
corpse,after Which they stood ad
journed until 3 P. M. today, when
Dr. Thomas Morcom could be in
attendance at the morgue and the
investigation oould be continued.
Details of how the death occur
red were being withheld until the
meeting of the coroner’s Jury. ■
Prom all that oould be learned!
it appeared that Lou Berry auyer!
ed a minor scalp wound during
the ayray last night, which some
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WHAT MILADY WILL WEAR in gasmasks this sea
son is shown by two little German girls in the Sandau district near
'Berlin. The weird-looking headgear is being distributed by Nails to
all residents of areas likely to be targets for air attacks in event
Spain's warfare should spread to the rest of Europe. Nazi residents
of metropolitan areas are trained in air raid defense at regular inter
vals, much as fire-drills are held in American schools.
THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT was a far cry from the houses that 812,000,000 of
Resettlement Administration funds have constructed at Greenbelt, just across the Maryland state
Une froqt toe District of Columbia. Designed to eliminate slums, they are ultra-modern. Counter
olSbkwue around the outer circle are residential blocks A, B, C, D and E. In the center is a school,
above it a parking lot, and above that the business district.
FRANCE DEEMS SITUATION
UNABLE GET OUTSIDERS TO
WITHDRAW FROM WARFARE
PARIS, November —The reply
of Premier Mussolini of Italy to
the Franco-British note on Spain
and the Mediterranean has caus
ed in official cirdles in Paris an
increasing realization of the grav
ity oif the situation that is fast
developing.
It was realized that Mussolini
could not easily withdraw from
the position in which he had plac
ed himself as a result of having
sent 70,000 soldiers to Spain, of
who-m 1.5,000 have be;n killed,
wounded or made prisoner. It
was understood that it would be
difficult for him to explain to j
those who had lost soris and hus
bands in Spain that their losses
had been useless.
For that reason London and
Paris have tried sincerely to
make the road of retreat easy.
Here Italy was admitted a share
in the Mediterranean anti-pir
cy patrol. In England Prime Min
ister Neville Chamberlain once
more leaned backward in his
efforts toward conciliation.
But when Mussolini’s reply
was read at the French Foreign
Office, it was with the painful
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Governor Troy
Goes Outside to
Take Vacation
With Governor John W. Troy
aboard as a through passenger'
.■nrouta south to the States for a
vacation and rest, the steamer:
Alaska was in port two hours re-1
certtly loading fish at the Ketchi
kan Cold Storage dock, states the
Ketchikan Chronicle.
Governor Troy is accompanied
on his trip by his daughter, Mrs.
Robert Bender. He said while
here: “I’m .going to Seattle for a
rest. Probably I'll continue south
from there but where I go or how
long I will be away is entirely
indefinite.”
He did not leave the Alaska
while it was here. However, Mrs.
Bender said after returning to
the ship from an escorted motor
trip through town, “I saw parts
of Ketchikan that I had never
seen before in all my visits here."
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FORMER ALASKAN
FINDS OLD MINE
CINCINNATI, (.+>)—The redis
covery of a fabled lost gold mine
in southeastern Kentucky was
claimed by I. H. Kopf, a former j
Alaskan, who announced that he>
is filing a lease for mineral rights
on 63+8 acres near Campton.Ken
tucky.
Kopf said that the gray silt-like
earth gave him the clue.
‘‘I recognized it as similar to
pay dirt I had seen in Alaska,"
he said,.
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WINTER ATHLETICS
TO GET UNDER WAY
j
A meeting of al! individuals in- j
tirested in baseball, basketball or,
athletics in general has been call-!
ed for 8 o'clock Monday evening
at the High School. The question;
of a benefit game for the Christ-j
mas Fund and the formation and:
make-up of a baseball league for|
the winter season will be special
matters for discussion. Then, o^
course, the problem of the proper
place for basketball in the athle-i
tic schedule Is bound to come up.;
Ambitious team members are
already discussing chances of lift
ing the big Grant Jackson Base
ball Trophy from the Hammon
boys. Just what teams may com
pete is yet to be decided but it is
certain that several closely match
ed teams will be organized.
Launch Counter
Offensive Order
Protect Lines
SHANGHAI. Nov. 8, (flp) —
The Japanese tri-point attack
on Shanghai, drew separate
cordons of defense into three
sections of the Shanghai area
today, to stem the Japanese
advance.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 8. — Chinese
authorities declared tonight they
had launched a counter offensive
'o isolate a Japanese force south
of Shanghai estimated at twenty
five thousand men, from its land
ing base on the seacoast.
Severe Fighting Other Sections
Severe fighting broke out both
southwest of Shanghai in Che
kiang province, and to the south.
The Chinese declared they had
repulsed a surprise Japanese
thrust toward Shanghai from Han
gchow Bay area.
Advances Are Reported
Meanwhile, the Japanese re
ported advances south of Soochow
Creek, on the western edge of
the international settlement.
Chinese reinforcements have
been rushed to Suncking, a vital
point in the Chtnese defense
scheme, against which one of
three Japanese columns is strik
ing from the south.
Japs Bombed A
Railroad Train
Kill More 200
NANKING, Nov. 8. (JP) —
Another terrifying Japanese
airraid took place Sunday in
which many were killed and
injured, with the bombing of
a railroad train.
NANKING, Nov. 8. — More
than two hundred passengers
were killed when six Japanese
airplanes bombed the southbound
Tsinan Pukrvw Railroad express,
destroying seven coaches.
Bombed At Station
The train was standing at the
Sishihpo station, Honan Province
when the bombing planes came
over, dropping their cargo of
death. The attack appi ared to
have been well planned, and was
executed perfectly.
No Troops On Board
The Chinese Minister of Rail
ways declared that the train
carried no troops. No statement
was forthcoming from Japanese
sources, concerning the successful
completion of the attack.
Courtesy is not dead as long
as Paris and Hollywood will ar
gue about the proper form of a
dress.
Brooklyn Bridge, from which
Steve Brodie is reputed to have
jumoed into the Hast river, was
dedicated May 24, 1883.