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VOL. 38 No. 231 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPT. 24, 1937. Per Copy lOctf
Paotingfu Falls To Japanese Army
JAPS AGAIN WARN FOREIGNERS DANGER
Cholera Epidemic Killing Jap and Chink Soldiers
IN A SWELL SHAPE. This terrific torso doesn't belong to
the comely countenance. It really is the property of someone at a
Chicago convention. Grace Bradley stood behind in order to animate
the chubby gentleman for a little harmless flirtation with her two
pretty friends.
MASS CONVENTION CALL IS
ISSUED TO REPUBLICANS
GIRD SELVES ’38 ELECTION
(|l The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Sept. 24—Elton Eng
strono, territorial republican Cen
tral Committee Chairman, has is
sued a call for a territorial mass
convention to be held here Jan
uary 15th. The object, he said,
is to adopt a party platform for
the 1938 campaign to elect a ter
ritorial delegate to congress, a ter
ritorial treasure, and division
senators and representatives.
Columbia River
Salmon Pack 40
Percent Higher
(By The Associated Press)
ASTORIA, Oregon, Sept. 24—
The Columbia River spring-sum
mer salmon pack is estimated at
two hundred fifty nine thou-sand
nine hundred and thirty-six cases
making an increase of forty per
cent over last year’s pack.
Mish Asks Nome
Mail Be Flown
Catch Steamer
Postmaster Guy E. Mish today
declared he was sending a special
note to Postmaster Robert Shel- ■
don at Fairbanks, requesting him
to dispatch the Nome mail destin
ed for Seattle, via Gillam plane
leaving Fairbanks for Valdez to
morrow morning, to connect with
the southbound £». S. Yukon sail
ing from Seward possibly early
Sunday.
This special courtesy Is being
asked in the interest of merch
ants and others in this section
who a#e sending outside for their
last minute orders to connect!
with the last boat sailing from
Seattle, for Nome, October 9th.
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CONSIDER CHINESE DEFENSE
NORTH CHINA BROKEN WITH
CAPTURE PAOTINCFU P»Y J VPS
Current Comments
Written From
Washington
With the President at Hyde
Park, and ongress scattered to
the four winds, like the spirits in
Plato's fable, Washington has
little to do save to repeat the
early Civil War report: “All
quiet along the Potomac.” Rum
ors still persist that an extra ses
sion will be called, and in that
event the capital city again wul
take on the activity for which it
is noted. In the meantime, the
President is planning a little fish
ing. which no one will begrudge
him, and is saying Little that goes
beyond the ordinary courtesies
extended to the press.
Putting Mr. Roosevelt aside for
the time being, as a source of
news, it comes from the appropri
ations Committee of the House
that the budget will be balanced,
in substance, by the first of next
July. It is pointed out that dur- ,
ing the last session appropria
tions were about a hundred mill
ion dollars less than was asked
for ccrrent expenses, and that if
the national debt had increased
somewhat, the increase had re
sulted from federal activities en
tirely outside that troublesome
thing known as the budget.
Although the President may be
taking a few days off, light still
burns late in the State Depart
ment, on account of the situation
in the far East. It is too early in
the conflict to suggest any plan
whereby the Japanese and the
Chinese may heal the difficulties
that ex'ist between them, and
about all that the Department of
State can do along that line at
present is nothing at all: simply
wait until the warring parties
have battered each other until
they are out of breath and the
gong sounds for the end of the
first round.
In the meantime, American in
terests in the Orient must be pro
tected and American lives safe
guarded. That would be com
paratively easy if the only dan
ger came from pike and spear,
hut cholera has made an appear
ance in Shanghai, and a war
against disease is more difficult to
(Continued on Page Two)
(By The Associated Press)
PEIPING, Sept. 24—The Japan
ese army has completely surro
unded the strategic Chinese base
a'. Paotigfu, eighty miles south of
the west gates in fierce hand to
hand fighting.
The Japanese are said to have
:.dcen over three gates command
ing entx-y to the city just fifteen
miftutes after they began pushing
it through the first breach in the
walls. Japanese forces are bring
mg up tanks and heavy artillery
to support their infantry attack.
Hie fall of Puotingfu, the capi
tal of Hopes’ province, is consid
ered by observers as likely to
mean that the Chinese resistance
of North China is broken and
will be probably the signal for
a Japanese controlled adminis
tration for the whole region and
the city’s hundred thousand pop
ulation.
Warden Larkin
Folsom Prison,
Dies of Wound
(Bv The Associated Press)
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 24
—Warden C. A. Larkin aged 46,
of Folsom prison, died as a re
sult of infection from a stab
wound received in last Sunday’s
prison riot. A sixth blood trans
fusion failed to prevent his un
timely death.
BORED WITH IT.
James Cromwell, husband of to
bacco heiress Doris Duke, told
senators he was “tired of regi
mentation” following an Euro
pean tour.
Baranof h Due
Saturday At 3
P. M. Says Wire
Late advices today to Agent
Joe Harnish of the Alaska Line,
from Commander Joe Ramsauer
of the S. S. Baranof declared the
liner was due to arive at Nome
Saturday afternoon about 3 p.m.
The S. S. Derblay, also of the
Alaska Line, was reported to be
at Deering today discharging car
go. and is scheduled to arrive at
Nome southbound, about the fir
st of the week.
From all available reports,
there will bo about eighty or
ninety outgoing passengers aboard
the Baranof. No tentative sailing
date for the vessel could be set
at this time.
Old papers for sale at the
Nome Dally Nugget Office at 25f
a bundle.
I
Naval Officials
Warn Foreigners
Away Centers
m
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Sept. 24--Japan
ese Naval authorities again warn
ed ail Americans and other for
eigners in Nanking to stay clear
of military objectives which they
said Japanese war planes would
continue to bomb. The Japanese
general staff have decided that
the bombardment of Nanking is
the quickest way to end hostili
ties.
The worst Cholera epidemic in
Shanghai’s history is reported to
have struck the Japanese army
now advancing against the Chin
1 ese defense lines northwest of
the city. Two hundred soldiers
are dead today from cholera.
Fights Last Night
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(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK. Sept. 24—Follow
ing are the winners of fight bouts
held here last night.
Fred Apostoli of New York,
stopped Marcel Thie, the French
holder of the European middle
weight championship, in the ten
th round of a non-title fifteen
1 round fight.
Carnival champions last night
were: Harry Jeffra who won the
world's bantam-weight title from
: “Sixty” Escobar.
Barney Ross, welterweight
champion, beat Ceferino of Gar
cia.
Lou Ambers, lightweight cham
pion, beat Pedro Montages of
Puerto Rico
HAMBLETONIAN HARBINGER. I)e Sota. bay cult owned by Paul Buwset and driven
|IV Tom Berry, won the American Stake to become one of the chief threats in the Grand Circuit llam
Llctonian at Goshen, N. Y. In two straight heats with driving finishes, the trutter won the three-year
old propping event for the harness classic.
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