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VOL. 38. No. 278. NOME. ALASKA. TUESDAY, Sept. 21, 1937 Per Copy lOcts
Rebels Win Part of Gijon Defenses
MURDER DEFENDANT KILLED EVE OF TRIAL
Former Fairbanksans In All-Sourdough Wedding
SEVENTEEN VILLAGE DEFENSES
AROUND GIJON FALL TO GEN.
FRANCOS INSURGENT ARMY
(By The Associated Press)
HENDAYE, Sept. 21 —Seven
teen villages, east of Riva de Sel
la, on Gijon’s iron ring of moun
tain and defenses were reported
to have fallen to the hammer
blows of Francos’ besieging army
of insurgents. It was said that
the Asturians, the backbone of
the government army defending
Valencies last foothold in north
western Spain put up stift resist
ance but a torrential rain storm
forced them to retire before the
coordinated infantry drives.
Annihilation of two insurgent
battalions was reported from the
far southern front midway be
tween Cordova and Badajo w’here
the government forces thrust for
ward in important gains.
Liner to Replace
Leviathan to Cost
Over 17 Million
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19—The
Newport News Shipbuilding and
Drydock Corporation submitted
the low bid of the fixed sum of
seventeen and one half million
dollars or an adjusted price of
fifteen million, seven hundred
fifty thousand dollars for the con
struction of trans-Atlantic liner
to replace the Leviathan.
Bids for the new liner were invit
ed on both a fixed price basis
and an adjusted price basis. The
latter would be subject to adjust
ment on the basis of changes in
the cost of labor and materials
providing any resultant increase
or decrease did not exceed fifteen
percent.
Come and Get ’Em
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NUGGET OFFICE
Dollar Balks At
Union Demand
For $100 Bonus
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Sept. 19—R. Stanley
Dollar, president of the American
Mail Line said the line’s entire
fleet will be tied up unless the
unions recede from their demand
i of a hundred dollar war bonus
for each craw member going to
i the Orient. The President Jeffer
son has been tied up for two days.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — A
i delicate question confronted the
! government, should any barrier
! be placed in the way of exports
i of cotton to China and Japan,
j The question arose after Presi
dent Roosevelt had forbidden
j government owned ships to carry
| amis, munitions, and implements
i of war to the fighting nations.
Cotton though, one of its uses is
the manufacture of munitions,
has not yet been included in the
list of goods affected by the or
der.
Mount Pavlof
Demonstrates
Is Still Active
Mount Pavlof, one of Alaska's
highest volcanoes, on July 25
strikingly demonstrated that it is
still active by showering the land
and sea for a distance of 50 miies
around with a thin layer of ash.
This mountain, only 7 miles from
the Pacific Ocean, rises to an al
titude of 8.900 feet, more than
twice the height of its famous
cousin Vesuvius, on the other
side of the world, which is about
4.300 feet high. Pavlof stands
near the southwest end of the"Al
aska Peninsula, not far from the
center of the great arc of vol
canic mountains that stretches
from Cook Inlet to the tip of the
Aleutian chain of islands. Hun
dreds of miles of this stretch
have naver been mapped in de
tail. but a topographic map of
the Pavlof district, covering the
Alaska Peninsula from Port Mol
ler to Deer Passage and the ad
adjacent islands on the south, can
be purchased from the Geolog
ical Survey, United States De
partment of the Interior, Wash
ington, D. C., for 25 cents. The
scale of the map is about 4 miles
to the inch. It was prepared by
the Geological Survey in coop
eration with the National Geo
graphic Socety and has just been
reissued, incorporating addition
al information.
This area is one of striking con
trasts and stern scenic beauty.
The imposing mountain masses
of which, the active Pavlof Vol
cano is a part contains also a
northern cone called Pavlof Sis
ter and the Aghileen Pinnacles,
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Lake daring the Utah summer. Swimmers there know a lot of smart*
hat, because no one has to worry about sinking in this salty ..ea.
Der Furher Tells
German Women
To Be Beautiful
(By The Associated Press)
NUREMBERG. Bavaria. Sept.
14—-Fuher Adolf Hitler, the bach
elor dictator appeared before ten
thousand women at the Nazi
party congress and lectured them
on feminine attractiveness and
how to make a success of mar
riage. “You women should em
body the eternal feminine be
cause that never fails to attract
the men,"' der Fuher said. A roar
of Hils shook the swastika-drap
ed convention hall. “We'll leave
the problem of how men and wo
men get along together to na
ture.” he added.
Der Fuher drew loud cheers
from the fraus and frauliens when
he predicted that the next gen
eration of men and women would
be superior to the present one
and he sarcastically attacked
what he said was a false idea en
tertained abroad regarding Nazi
women. Many people abroad es
pecially foreign women think our
German women are enslaved and
that their only task is to please
the will of barbarous men, he
said, then paused to chuckle.
CHAMPAIGN, 111, Sept. 19 —
The city council urged Secretary
of State Cordell Hull to make ev
ery effort to gain the release of
Harold E. Dahl, 28 year old Cham
paign aviator, who was reported
facing execution at the hands of
Spanish rebels. Previously Dahl's
mother requested Hull to do any
thing he could to secure his re
lease. Dahl had been flying for
the Spanish government when
1 he was forced down and captured
by the rebels.
FORMER LIEUT. - GOV ERNOR
KENTUCKY SHOT TO DEATH
EYE HIS TRIAL FOR MURDER
Q
(By Tne Associated Press!
SHELBYVILLE. Ky.. Sept. 21
— Brigadier General Henry H.
Denhart who was due to go on
trial again today on charges of
murdering his fiance was shot to.
death last night by the three bro
thers of Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor,
whom the former Kentucky Lieu
tenant-Governor was alleged to
have slain.
The trio surrendered immed
iately after the shooting which
occurred on Main Street. Patrol
man Jeptha Tracey said Roy
Garr admitted firing the fatal
shot. He was jailed without
charges along with his brothers.
Dr. E. S. Garr and Jack Garr.
The first two shots missed but
another struck the general as he
ran toward his hotel.
Govt. Vessel Is
Bound China
20 Warplanes
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Sept. 19— The
steamer Wichita, eased to private
operators, is bound for China with
a cargo of barbed wire and 20
Belanca monopanes capable of fly
ing 15QO mies with a full load of
bombs.
HOW TO STAKE CLAIMS.
How Mining Claims can be
Staked in Alaska, length, Bread
th. how many, and the Associa
tion Claim, described in detail, ir
pamphlet form, for sale at The
N iguet Office for Id cents
School Mates of
30 yrs. Ago in All
S’dough Wedding
(By The Associated Press)
DAVENPORT. Wash., Sept 21
—In. an all-sourdough wedding,
Roy E. Mathews and Mrs Lucia
B. Wyatt, both of Seattle were
married here Sunday by Justice
George E Herring. The trio, along
with two members of the wedd
ing party, Mrs. George R Brown,
sister of the bride, and Fred Frey,
both of Seattle, attended school
together in Fairbanks, thirty
years ago.
Japan Will Ignore
Any League Inter
J c
ference Far East
(Bv The Associated Press)
GENEVA. Sep’. 19—Japan will
refuse and ignore even friendly
| mediation by the League of Na
tions in the Sinio-Japanese eon
| diet, the Japanese minister to
Switzerland disclosed. The Japan
ese envoy Eiji Amau told the
; Associated Press that Japan
I would brook no interference in
I the far eastern crisis. His state
l ment, came as the League pon
dered what if any action to take
; on China’s bk.'U r.ng indictment
of Japanese agression and her de
n and for . Leagu: denunciation
of the Japanese military cam
paign.
GERMANY'S ATLANTIC LINER. Here Is the German flying boat Nordmeer which ;
was scheduled to enter the race to establish trans-Atlantic air service with ei*{>‘s“^*y,
i New York. The 17-ton flying boat, powered by four giant diesel motors, is launched from a catapult I
ship. A twin seaplane, the Nurd wind, also will participate in the tent trips across the sea. • ^