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NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE—ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY t VIATION
| THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 38 No. 340 NOME, ALASKA, SATURDAY. DEC. 4. 1937 Per Copy 10ct»
Change Airmail Bids Is Necessary
FRENCH HALTED ADVANCE OF JAPANESE
Ships Idle Despite Ultimatum of Association Head
SPECIFICATIONS AMENDED
ALASKA AIRMAIL ROUTES
BIDS CALLED FOR FEB. 1ST
(By The Associated Press)
‘ WASHINGTON. Dec. 4, — The
Post Office Department today re
vised the requirement on two
proposed Alaskan air mail rout
es and advanced the date for re
ceiving the bids for same from
December 15th, to February 1st.
The routes from Juneau to
Fairbanks via Whitehorse, the
Poet Office Department sadi, did
not have any airports which
would accomodate the types of
planes originally specified.
The amended specifications' will
permit the use of smaller aircraft.
MEETING SUNDAY -.
All members of the Community
Xmas Tree committees are urg
ently requested to be in attendan
^ m it a meeting to be held a(
the city hail Sunday 2:30 p.m
December 5th.
A. M. HARTFORD, Chnn
JUNEAU INSTALLS NEW
TYPE ALARM SYSTEM
JUNEAU, (A*)—As a precaution
ary step to maintain the high
standard of fire protection thru
out Juneau, the city council vot
ed to purchase a diaphone alarm
which will be installed in the city
,hall and will issue an alarm to
be heaTd within a radius of two
miles.
Acting Fire Chief William Nei
derhauser initiated discussion on
the matter by stating that under
the new telephone system there
is no infallible way of notifying
firemep when there is a fire. Un
der the old system, the men were
notified by six bells over the tele
phone.
Total cost of the purchase and
I installation is estimated at $2,000.
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SOCIETY HAS A FIELD DAT at the National Horae
> Show which, incidentally, opened New York’s gala winter social sea
i son. Attired in formal furs and fancy gowns, debutantes and dowa
gers alike flocked to the eyent. Here is Miss Betty Jane Ferguson ae
■n>. eompABicd by Irving HtePtoks, Jr. -^
Christinas Season
To Be Gala One
The Christmas Season is com
mencing with a creditable display
of enthusiasm and spirit. In con
nection with the business advan
tages to be observed almost ev
ery day in the pagss of the Nome
Daily Nugget, where you get
your greatest returns for money
spent, numerous entertainments,
dances, etc., are being planned
for every week from now until
December 25th.
To begin with, the Tuberculos
is Association is sponsoring a big
dance and entertainment for next
Saturday evening in connection
with the sale of Christmas Seals.!
The following Wednesday, Dec
ember 15th, will see the first ap
pearance of the indoor baseball
teams in benefit games in connec
tion with Nome’s Community
Xmas Tree Celebration which is
scheduled for December 22nd.
On Dec. 18th, the Pioneers of
Alaska are planning a Big Roof
Garden, as another feature of en
tertainment and pleasure during
the Christmas Season.
Xmas Day comes the following
week, December 25th, with the
customary moans of observance
in the homes and churches.
Tomorrow afternoon the mem
bers of the Community Xmas
Tree committees meet at the city
hall at 2:30 p.m. to discuss final
arrangements for the staging of
the mammoth celebration to take
place at the public auditorium.
And. it is understood the Vol
unteer Fire Department is plan- j
ning on staging a New Year’s
Eve Frolic, on the last evening of
the year.
On Monday, December 13th,
The Nome Daily Nugget will is
sue an attractive Christmas Edi
tion devoted to Christmas feature
stories, advertising from the en
terprising merchants of Nome
displaying their stocks of mer
chandise with attractive illust
rations, up to the minute Asso
ciated Press spot-news pictures,
and all designed to invite the
public to participate in Nome’s
1937 observance of the Christmas
[ Holidays.
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Labor Leader
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Lewis and Green .•]
Could not Agree
After Two Days
(By The Associated Press}
WASHINGTON. Dec. 4, — Ne-,
gotiations for a comlete re-un
ion of organized labor’s rival
factions, neared collapse today,
after John L. Lewis and Wm.
Green failed to reach an under
standing in two days’ of confer
ences.
Both announced that no agree- i
ment had been reached and they I
are not expected to meet again.
Suspended Rules
Regulations, For
Christmas Season
WASHINGTON,(/P>—Christmas j
stamps, seals and labels to aid
charitable objects may not be at- j
[ached to the address side of mail
under postal regulations. Maili
bearing such stamps must be sent'
to the dead letter offices or re-1
turned to senders under the rule.!
Harlee Branch, second assistant
postmaster general, recently in-,
formed postmasters, however, i
that as an exceptional measure1
these rules are suspended from
November 15 to January 15 this,
season, if through inadvertance,!
senders have affixed such stamps j
to the address side. In previous
years much Christmas mail bear
ing the stamps on the address
side has been held up.
An olditimer from Graehl, Louis
Smith, 77 years old, died at the
Fairbanks hospital last week. His
death was due to general debil
ity. He left no relatives, the lone
ly old fellow having lived in Al
aska 38 years. He was bom in
Pennsylvania, of German parent
age.
THREAT OF STRIKE
LUMBER SCH( ONERS
LOOMED UP TODAY
(By The Associated Press >
SAN PEDRO. Dec. 4. —A tie-j
up of the Pacific coast lumber;
schooner fleet of sixty ships was;
threatened as the sailors union1
af the Pacific and the marine;
Fireman’s union failed to heed
the ultimatum issued in San
Francisco by Ralph Meyers, head j
af the shipowners association of
the Pacific Coast, who demand
ed that the unions furnish a crew
for the steam schooner “James
G. Griffiths” of Seattle.
The ship has been tied up sin
ce last Monday because the op
erators refused- to pay a sailoT
for seven meals eaten ashore.
Football Scores
(Bv The Associated Pressi
Florida 6 Kentucky 0
Tennessee 32 Mississippi 0
■Duquesne 9 Miss. State 0
Kentucky State 7 La. Tech 7
Rice 15 So. Methodist 7
Texas A. and M. 42 Frisco 0
Oregon 6 Arizona 20
So. Calif. 19 UCLA 13
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French and Japs
Have Set-to Over
Extent Freedom
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Dec. 4. -^French
and Japanese came close to bat
tle today when French tanks and
infantrymen blocked five Jap
anese army trucks from the Fren -
ch concession, finally permitting
them to move supplies into the
French arts.
The Japanese demanded free
dom to enter the city’s interna
tional settlement at will.
They also demanded that the
settlement police prevent and re
petition of the attack on Japan
ese soldiers such as took place
during yesterday’s Victory Par
ade.
A heavy clap of thunder, in
fact two of them aroused Juneau
residents recently, many of whom
thought a heavy slide had occur
red in the Basin. It was the first
time in many years Juneau had
been visited by a thunder storm
and the experience was rather ex
citing.
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KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR. but with football nead
jear which might easily pass for that worn during days of the Round
Table, Louis Mark, veteran North Carolina State center, presents a
mental hazard to foes. His jaw broken in five places, his nose once, bo
has played nearly 60 minutes of every same. ^