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VOL. 38. No. 222 NOME. ALASKA. TUESDAY. JULY 27, 1937. Per Copy lOcta
Large Loss Life In New Campaign
19 HOTELS STILL CLOSED SAN FRANCISCO
To Investigate Lignite Coal Fields At Wainwright
TIMEKEEPER.
Mrs. Sopwidi, wife of die owner
of the Endeavour II, Is «ho\> n . t
the wheel. She Is the orrui., I
timekeeper,
Considers Winter
Equipment Fire
Dept, at Meeting
The Nome City Council meet
ing last night, discussed the pro
blem of winter equipment for the
fire department. The proposal of
tearing down the old horse stalls
thereby removing the source of
an offensive odor which has clung
to the building since its erection,
was disposed of when motion was
passed ordering the stalls to be
removed.
Couneilmen were directed to im
mediately inquire into the details
of a tractor to serve as automo
tive equipment this winter in the
fire department.
Offers for two lots in the out
lying sections of town were ac
cepted by the council.
A letter from the Lomen Com-|
mefrcial Co. complimenting the
city on the purchase of its new
fire truck was read, in which it
was learned that the lighterage
from ship to shore had been dead
headed by the Lomen Co. Anoth
er communication revealed that
the only cost to the city in bring
ing the fire truck in on the boat
was $50. The Alaska Line was
commended in charging such a
low rate for the ocean traffic.
City attorney Sullivan urged
that the city appoint a committee
to confer with Ernest Balsiger
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FLYING SOUTH. Three new giant, twin-motored navy patrol planes are shown in dig... aoin the
San Diego air base, where they were among twelve that took olT on the l!.025-mile non-stop flight
to Coco Solo Canal Zone. It was the 1'ngest mass flight the navy ever tried.
2 LOYALIST FORCES
WIPED OUT MADRID
(By The As-oc^'.ed Press)
H END AYE. Spain. July 27—Insurgent headgut
ters reported that two Loyalist brigades had been ’'des
troyed” west of Madrid. The;- gave no details but sal 1
special burial squads had to be organized to dispose 1
“such a large number of bodies.”
Territorial Banks Had Deposits
$14,775,000 End Oi June This Year
More Than Million More 1936
(Bv The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, July 27—Territorial Federal bank de
posits in Alaska amounts '.o virtually a million dollars
more at the end of June, this year than June, last year,
reported Territorial Treasurer Olson.
This years deposits were 314.775.000, while last
year’s was $13,787,000. The territory’s deposits at the
end of June was $1.170,969.
s It A Public
liiiity or Not?
Couiscil Probes
Of interest at last night'.- coun
cil meeting was the argument
between councilman O'Connor
and City attorney Sullivan as to
whether the Lumen Commercial
Co. was a public utility.
A communication had been ad
dressed to the Lumen Co. advising
them that as a public utility they
were required by law to render
i statement to the city govern
ment, regarding their rates and
volume of business etc.
A rep y to this action, authoriz
ed a an earlier meeting of the
oounc:!. was read last night, in
which the Lumen Co. denied be
ing classified as a public utility.
Councilman O'Connor contend
ed that the operation of their
lighterage plant constituted a
(Continued on Page Two*
THREE KINGS. Monarchs of peaceful Scandinavian countries had a great time at the silver jubilee ]
i of King Christian of Denmark. Here they acknowledge the ovation of crowds at Amalienburg castle,
Bii^«cas«^leftto rtfht, Uaakon of Norway, Gustav of Sweden and Christian. . ,,
CCC WORK BE DONE
NEAR KOTZEBUE IS
REPORT SENT OUT
(By The Associated Press1
JUNEAU, July 26th—Charles Burdick who is in
charge of CCC work of the Forest Service, announced
a program for the current fiscal year, which provides
for an investigation of the possible development of the
Lignite coal mines near Wainwright, located between
Nome and Ft. Barrow.
The program also provides work for a maximum of
two hundred Eskimos of the Kotzebue Sound -section,
consisting of predatory animal control, the construction
of corrals, and shelter cabins for the reindeer herders.
Brigade of Eight Hundred Chinese
Said To Have Been Annihilated In
Clash Today With Japanese Forces
(By The Associated Press)
TIENTSIN’, July 27. — A regiment .-£ eight hund
red Chinese, reportedly conquerors of a Japanese force,
were ‘'virtually annihaliated” in a battle with the Jap
anese east of Peiping, a military communique said early
today.
The clash lasted several hours before the Chinese
force tied. It was provoked when the Chinese resisted
a disarming encounter, said Japanese neutral observers,
although they said it was entirely due to Chinese stub
bornness.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
(By The Associated Press1
BUFFALO, July 27—Retail food merchants ration
ed out supplies to harassed housewives as the striking
truckers for the meat packers planned to finish their
fight for closed shop. They are strengthening picket
lines around forty-four wholesale houses. Butchers es
timated that there is enough supplies to last three days.
Food prices are skyrocketing.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27—Striking hotel work
ers who voted heavily for acceptance of the compromise
settlement plan returned to their picket lines as new
labor difficulties kept nineteen hotels closed for the
eighty-eighth day. Engineers, laundry workers and hotel
operators were unable to negotiate new contracts so
the rest said there was no use returning to work to face
possible new strikes.
CLEVELAND. July 27—Republic Steel Corpora
tion workers and striking pickets clashed last night in x
bloody battle, cracking heads with clubs and pickaxes.
Casualties were one dead, hundred wounded and sixty
in hospitals. The police reported the situation was under
control but early this morning four hundred police were
moved there to prevent a recurrence of the rioting.
JUNEAU, July 27—P. F. Lavin, retired, of Wor
cester, Mass., who left Juneau, July 20 and made a
flight to Nome and interior points returned Sunday and
left Alaska this morning.
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