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THE NOME DAILY”NUGGET
VOL 38 No. 131 NOME. ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1937. Per Copy lOcts
TWO BIDS OPENED NOME FEDERAL BLD’G
Insurgents Plan Gigantic Tjhrust on Bilbao & Madrid
NOME
BIDS
ARE IN
McDonald construction
LOWEST BIDDER. ONLY ONE
OTHER BID RECEIVED.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 8,
—Things looked brighter
today than ever before in
the long campaign to bring
about the construction of a
new Federal Building at
Nome, with receipt of in
formation thru Associated
Press dispatches received by the
Nome Daily Nugget today, in
which the return of bids became
known.
The MacDonald Construction
Compamy of St. Louis, Missouri
,'iibmitted a bid of $352,000 for
\he construction of the post offi
ce and federal building at Nome.
The onilyoth^ bid.received was
from James Barnes of Springfiefld,
Missouri, which w-as higher than
five opposing bid. The Barnes bid
was in the sum of $361,000.
Modern Village
To Be Erected
On King Island
Father Bernard Hubbard. “The
Glacier Priest”, as he is known
throughout the United States and
elsewhere, is busy in Nome to
day, and will be for some time
perfecting plans for his latest ex
pedition which is taking him to
King Island where he expects to
remain fo" the next 12 months.
In company with Father Hub
hard are Ken Chisholm and Ed
gar Levin who have been on oth
er expeditions with this modern
day explorer of peoples and coun
tries.
Will Write History
Of primary importance, the ex
pedition will spend a major part
of its time going back into the
dim past and tracing the history
of the King Island Eskimos up
todate. Their lifie, characteristics,
culture, industry, etc. will be a
few of the prime subjects of in
vestigation, said Father Hubbard.
While here he is conferring
with Father LaFoortune of the
Catholic Church of Nome, who
is undoubtedly the best informed
man today on the Eskimos of
Northern Alaska and King Is
land.
Supplies Coming in
Aboard the S. S. Derblay of
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14,000 Troops Cross Straits of Gibraltar
For A Final Assault On Bilbao
(By The Associated Press)
HENDAYE, France, Spanish Frontier, June 3—In
surgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco, last night,
rushed 14,000 new troops across the Straits of Gibraltar
from Spanish Morocco, for a supreme effort to win the
war with an assault on Bilbao and Madrid. The fresh
battalions including a 1500 foreign volunteer company
and a nondescript collection of youths in their teens,
will be thrown against Bilbao’s “Iron Ring” of defenses
on the northern Basque front.
If the costly Basque campaign that appeared near
victory when Franco's right hand strategist, Emilio
Mola was killed last week, can be ended with the fall
of Bilbao, the new troops will be transferred to the
Madrid front. Franco is anxious, according to frontier
reports, to isolate the torn and bleeding capital, cutting
it off from the rest of Loyalist Spain. General Joes
Fidel Davilla who stepped from a technical post into
Mola’s shoes on the Basque front, received Franco’s tri
butes last night for his first assault the capture of stra
tegic Lemona Mountain, six and one half miles south
east of Bilbao.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
(By The Associated Press')
DAKAR, French Senegal, June 8—Amelia Earhart
landed at St. Louis, Senegal,Monday night on her round
the world flight. She made the 1900 mile flight across
the South Atlantic to the West African Coastal town
in 13 hours, 19 minutes.
RICHMOND, Calif., June 8—The gates of the big
Ford Assembly Plant, here, which were closed for 12
days by a strike, were reopened to returning workmen
today.
LONDON, June 8—Osteopaths treating Helen Jacobs
for a strained shoulder said, they doubted whether the
Berkeley, California, tennis star would recover before
June 21 to defend her Wimbledon singles tennis cham
pionship.
MADRID, June 8—There were no shots fired, none
killed and none wounded yesterday. Thirty-three miles
to the north, however, in the LaGranju Sector, govern
ment and insurgent troops skirmished in the woods.
BERLIN, June 8—An invitation to other nations to
make a move toward disarmament was read by diplo
mats yesterday into a speech by Fuehrer Adolf Hitler
to 150,000 Nazis at Regensburg. Hitler said that Ger
many rearmed because other nations rearmed. Pre
viously he said, “Germany disarmed first, but this time
others must disarm first, because we have become sus
picious”.
LOS ANGELES, June 8—Jean Harlow, platinum
blonde, film actress* died at 11:36 yesterday morning at
the Good Samaritan hospital. Dr. Fishbaugh, the 26
year-old actress’ physician, said she never regained
consciousness after falling into a coma in the morning.
She was stricken with uremic poisoning that spread to
her brain. Beside her when she died was Mrs. Jean
Bello, her mother, and William Powell, sauve screen
actor. A week ago she went to the hospital for what
her studio said was treatment for a cold and gall blad
der infection.
Subacribe for The Nome Daily Nugget By Carrier
Film Daddies Trv Tlieir Skill with Safety Pins
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There were no holds barred when these three proud papas, all well known to film fans, held an
impromptu “diaper derby” at a get-together at the home of Actor Alan Dinehart. This pieture was
snapped at the height of the contest and shows (left to right) Sally Blane Foster, Director Norman
Foster with Gretchen Foster; Moselle Britton Dinehart, Alan Dinehart and Mason Alan Dinehart
and Actor John Carradiae. his wife, and Joan Arthur Carradino. j
Plans Under Way
For Cheechacco
Ball This Sat. PM
Members of the Council com
mittee appointed by Mayor Seid
cnverg to stage a Cheechacco
Ball. Bassett and Taggart, met
last evening with the Mayor, Mrs
Curtis Jacobs, Mrs. Ernie I.otts
feldt, Mrs. Calvin Pool, to discuss
plans to welcome the incoming
passengers on the steamer Vic
toria.
The dance is to be given for the
benefit of the Fire Department
Equipment Fund, which is to be
raised to defray part of the ex
pense of the motorized fire truck
ordered to be brought to Nome
on the July sailing.
The dance is to be given at the
School Auditorium Saturday June
12th, commencing at 9:30 P.M.
Admission charge was set at $1.00
per person. A wireless message
was prepared last night by the
combined committee and was
sent today to the Ship’s Orches
tra advising the ship that a big
time was to be staged following
the vessel's arrival at Nome, and
requesting the services of the or
chestra. An answer is expected
as soon as the Vic arrives at
Dutch Harbor.
It has been customary in Nome
for many years to stage a Chee
chaooo Ball to welcome the new
comers, but since the fire of 1934
which destroyed all of Nome’s
public halls, no welcoming af
fair has been staged.
This will be the first time since
1934 that such a dance has been
staged. It is only possible due to
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CIO Scores First Victory Pacific Coast
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(By The Associated
PORTLAND, Ore., June 8—The Committee for In
dustrial organization scored its first victors in a drive
for domination of organized labor on the Pacific Coast
here yesterday, when the executive committee of the
'inland boatmen’s union of the Pacific went on record
favoring affiliation with the C.I.O. The union has a
membership of two thousand and threw open arms to
the one hundred and twenty thousand wood workers,
the maritime employes, including Harry Bridges, head
of the longshoremen’s association on the Pacific coast.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. June 8—The National Labe
Relations Board after consideration ot a request fcm
steel unions for intervention in the current strike, late
yesterday, issued a formal statement pointing out that
no formal action has been instituted before the Board
in connection with the strike. The Board's statement
was issued after consideration was given to the inter
vention request at a sectional Board meeting.
NEW YORK, June 8—A break in commodity price*
unsettled the stock market yesterday after early firm
ness. The trading volume was small. United States
Steel broke below par to lead the downturn. Other
steels made small declines except Inland, which regis
tered a gain. Railroad issues slipped back and most
utilities showed losses. Oils were depressed, rubber
had losses ranging to a point. Non-ferrous metal shar
res, including mercantiles, farm implements and chem
icals, were lower. The Masonite Corporation listed
one and a half points to a new low at fifty. Homestake
mining was down two at 383. There were a few gain
ers, including American Telephone, Western Union,
Canada Dry, Dome Mines, Interstate Department sto
res, Newport industries and American international.
Several Corn positions broke the foyr cent limit.
Heavy foreign and Wall Street selling forced Cotton
futures down more than a dollar a bale. Rubber futures
were weak. Business news from all, except strike
areas, continued good. Woolworth sales for May Jump
ed 8.6 percent in contrast with a decline of 3.3 percent
in April. The market for United States government
bonds was irregular. Other bonds were irregularly
higher with leading issues up small amounts. Curb
i stocks were irregular. _
“Cheechacco Ball” Sat. June 12th, 9:30 p.m.
GENERAL ADMISSION $1.00—SCHOOL AUDITORIUM—BENEFIT OF FIRE DEPT. EQUIPMENT FUND