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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 38. No. 225. NOME. ALASKA. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1937. Per Copy 10ct*
Fairbanks Agog Over World Hops
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5 AMERICANS MISSING IN SHELLING PEIPING
2 Youths’ Canoe Trip New York-Nome Nears End
FRENCH TOAST.
And why not? The Chateau de Cande will be a landmark of posterity because there came the sequel
to the romantic abdication of Edward VIII. AmonR the many townspeople who celebrated the wed
ding were the lodge-keeper and the towncrier of Monts, who are shown here drinking a toast to the '
newlyweds. .A.
CHINA CENTRAL ARMY
THROWN AGAINST JAP
More Funds Been
Alloted War Dpt.
<Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 30,
—Secretary of War Woodring
made allotments yesterday total
ing ninety four million, four hun
dred and seventy-eight thousand
dollars from this year’s rivers and
harbors appropriation for new
work.
They include Bonneville Dam
six million nine hundred and for
ty thousand dollars; Cordova har
bor two hundred and ninety five
thousand, Dry Pass seventy nine
thousand; Nome harbor ten thou
sand, Egegik river five thousand;
and the department also announc
ed allotments under the depart
ment appropriation act of 1936
to include Nome harbor seven
thousand dollars.
Steamship Burns
(By The Associated Press)
BALTIMORE, Md„ July 30, —
All but four of ninety six passen
gers and crew of the liner City
of Baltimore, reached land, as the
flaming ship was driven ashore
and burned to the waterline.
Two are known dead and two
are missing.
The vessel plied between Balti
more and Norfolk, carrying pass
engers and cargo.
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PEIPING, July 30, —Heavy ar
tillery fire today started a gener
al rush of American to Yenching
University south of here, as China
order fifty thousand of her crack
central army troops into action,
in an effort to drive the Japanese
out of North China.
Grave apprehension is felt for
five Americans, believed to be
two women and three men, who
are missing here.
Fighting is general about Peip
ing, with the Japs believed to be
cleaning up the remnants of the
Chinese 29th army, the main body
of which holds positions across
the river. In the meantime, all
comunciations with the university
have been severed.
The Japanese seemed to be
making huge preparations to meet
the central army push, with
troops, tanks and armored cars,
coming to the front.
At Tokyo, the Cabinet decided
on a series of“second steps”, as
officials said that Japan must at
tack if the Chinese army moved
into the so-called de-militarized
zone.
A new automobile accessory
controlled by a thermostat starts
the motor of a car parked in a
garage when the water tempera
ture drops below a certain point
and keeps the battery charged.
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Premium Booklet
For August Fair
Is Distributed
August 19, 20 and 21 are the
dates for the Fourth Fair at
Nome, at which will be represent
ed a host of exhibits depicting in
dustries, arts, culture, education
al matter and many other dis
plays both from Eskimos of North
western Alaska, Diomede Island
and King Island.
Catalouging the types of ex
hibits, and containing other val
uable information pertaining to
the August Fair and Mid-Summer
Festival, at Nome, the Premium
List booklet just completed in
the job department of the Nome
Daily Nugget is being distributed
today to the many business
houses and places of public inter
est.
With a vivid, orange-colored
cover, and containing 52 pages of
itemized classes and lots for ex
hibits, the booklet has already
attracted the attention of many
persons, who are interested in
putting up exhibits.
The Northwestern Alaska Fair
Association, A. Polet, secretary,
has been busily engaged during
the past month arranging for dis
tribution of the booklet. Already
from reports coming in, Secretary
Polet says that the number of
exhibits should far surpass the
sum at the Winter Fair held on
March 31, April 1, 2, and 3.
Those who are interested in
obtaining a booklet for the pur
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AROUND THE WORLD
FLIGHTS ARE TO STOP
FAIRBANKS. ALASKA
—
(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, July 30. —Ten thousand gallons of
aviation gasoline are now available here. It is estimated
the next Russian flight will probably take not over a
thousand gallons when they refuel here on their flight
over the North Pole enroute to the United States on
a third venture.
Prince Cantacuzino. Rumanian flier, who is ex
pected to fly around the world stopping here, soon,
has thirty barrels of gas and oil, recently shipped in via
the railroad. He also has a supply distributed at Nome
and Solomon, taken there during the past week via
Mirow Air Service, Pilot Hans Mirow, who left here
yesterday via Pacific Alaska Airways plane for Jun
eau, enroute to Seattle to get a new plane for his Alas
ka service.
Thirty barrels of gasoline and oil also arrived here
recently for Jimmy Mattern. to bo used by him when
he refuels over Fairbanks, on bis non-stop flight from
Oakland to Moscow over the North Pole,
i There is also a quantity of gas stationed here for
; some other round the world flie: whose name is being
withheld.
Beliakov Smirnov, advance agent fo rthe Soviets
is spending much time at the Fairbanks weather bur
eau, which has been asked to send thrice-hourlv re
ports to the Soviet plane as soon as the flight gets un
der wav.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
OFFICIALS ENROUTE JUNEAU
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE. July 30, — Officials
of the Federal Communications
system arrived here today en- *
route to Juneau to attend a con-;
I
ference called by Governor John
W. Troy on communications.
They include Edgar B. Calvert,
chief of the forecast division of
the U. S. Weather Bureau; E. K.
Jett, assistant chief of the engin-j
eering commission; John B. Rey
nolds assistant secretary to Eug
ene Sibley of the Bureau of Air
Commerce.
They will sail this evening on
board the Dorothy Alexander.
Accompanying them will be L. C.
Herndon, inspector in charge of
the Seattle office of the commis
sion.
Two New York university scien
tists have invented a camera that
contains a photoelectric cell that
makes it automatically adjust
itself to the correct exposure for
lighting conditions.
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niture needed for a 12-room house
the largest tractor-trailer type
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2 \$eeks Ahead
Their Schedule
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BETHEL. July JO, — Pope and
Taylor, two youths from the East,
who ar>‘ making a trip by small
canoe from Nav. Y irk to Nome,
passed Mountain Village on the
Yukon River July 22nd. two
weeks ahead of schedule.
They left New York in April
1JJ6 and spent the winter in Can
ads. continuing on their water
trio this spring
After they arrive j' Nome they
plan to fl; back to the United
States.
Thy are mak.ng the trip in a
canoe paddl.ng, and helped
by a sail. The name of their
craft is the ‘Muriel”.
Irving Berlin \nd
Family Cruise
To Alaska
MV 7 >v J\
SEATTLE. J-..I-. • - Irving
Berlin, wife and two children, in
a chartered yacht, will make a
cruise to Alaska, sorting Sun
day.
Berlin arrived here by plane
today and the others are coming
tomorrow. The details of the
cruise have not been announced.
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