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VOLUME 35. No. 10«. NOME, ALASKA. THURSDAY. Srphmbir «. I*M ■ <^n p" <*nPi «® «*»*•
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TERRIFIC STORM AT LONG BEACH
NEAR COMPLETE SHUT-DOWN TEXTILE STRIKE
15 YEAR OLD BOY SUFFUCATES TWO SISTERS
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LONG BEACH SUFFERS
FROM TERRIFIC STORM
ON THE PACIFIC OCEAN
DI8ABTEROUH STORM AT
1OYG REACH DOES
TERRIFIC DAMAGE
(By The Associated Press)
lONO BEACH .Sep*, fi Whipped
into a frensy by a >n/steriou*
disturbance, *he Pacific Ocean hurl
■ ed Huge swells agalndt the Cal- j
Ifornla coast line last night.
The one hundred thousand dol-i
lar Hong Beach pier was battered
to pieces. Seaside homes were
wrecked and as yet no estimate
of the damages has been mud.'.
Three children were marooned in a
beach home.
Scientists are baffled by the or
iginal wares, which sometimes tow
ered above the tide, breaking more
than a thousand feet ofT shore. Gi
gantiv swells buffeted thP Pine
Avenue Pier until it almost coll
apsed.
j Sections of the beach are covered
with debris which resembled the
wake of a midwest tornado. Old
time seamen said they had never
seen anything like it All bathers
are barred at Santa Monica, where
the sea charged <t£p over the
rocks and earth embankment and
spread across the Roosevelt High
way.
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SHUT-DOWN IN TEXTILE
INDUSTRIES VERY NEAR
REING COMPLETE TODAY
V .
VIRTUALLY COMPLETE SHUT
DOWN DUE TO TEXTILE
STRIKE
' (By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Sept, Various
textile mills which were operat
ing yesterday are closed down to
day . because of the textile strike
making it a virtually complete
shutdown.
The great textile centers at New
Bedford and Fall Fiver, Massa
chussett’s are entirely quiet to
day. President Roosevelt announ
ced that he would name a board
to mediate the strike. The num
ber of idle workers today was
placed at three hundred thousand.
Heads of silk, wool and cotton
industrial organizations decided
they would obtain all protection
possible for the textile workers
who wish to remain at their looms.
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In New England, reports indicat
ed that mills which remained
open yesterday were being olosed
by their owners today “to pro
tect our workbrs”
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The shut down throughout the
South ,has increased both because
of individual mill owner’s action
and also the action of the “flying
squadrons” of strikers who are
continually forcing shutdowns
FRANCE AND ITALY
ARE JOINED AGAINST
GERMAN ARMAMENT
FRANCK AND ITALY JOIN
KEEP GERMANY DOWN
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(By The Associated Press'
BARI, Italy, Sept 6, France anc
Italy today reached accord „ tn a
common action, to prevent the re
armament of Germany
The French delegates Levantine
and Fair said eo, that llie stated
nations Nad come to an agreement
on the Question of Austrian fnde
pendence. They said the nations
had pledged themselves to take
common action against the Nasi.
Another phase of the agreement
was that Italy renounced her • re
armament policy, and that Italy
was to Join Frawe 1® her efforts
to keep German armament at the
level prescribed by the Treaty of
Versailles. - '
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STREET CAR SERVICE IS
RESUMED IN SPOKANE
(By The Associated Press)
SPOKAiNE Sept. 8, Under the
protection ot the guns of the po
lice, street car and bus service
was resumed on certain restrict
ed basis.
Although operators ot the ve
hicles were hooted and Jeered by
pickets at the car barns, and in
down town dispatching centers,
the resumption of service was not
accompanied by violence. Only a
traction of the normal cars and
buses are in operation today.
RECEIVES lilTTUS BENEFIT
•liy The Associate 1 Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 8, The stock
market as applied, received little
benefit from the Labor Day recess.
Prices were generally lower. Tran*
fers were about three hundred
BRIBERY IS HINTED AT
CONCERNING THE SALE OF
SDBMARINES TO S. A.
TALK OK BRIBER V CONCERN
ING SALE OF SUBMARINES
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. C, Talk
of bribery in the sale of submar- j
ines to South America, was min-j
j gled with the evidence of the Per- ,
iitvian salesman of the submarines
that he sought to serve as a dele
gate in the 1025 disarmament
conferi nee. His testimony was
brought before the senate mun
itions committee. e
Officials of the Electric Boat
Company said they paid commis
sions for the South American bus.
ness but didn’t think it could
be ca'led bribery.
Letters dsclosed that Command
/
er Louis Aubry, Peruvian sales
man for the company had pro
posed to get himself appointed a
delegate to. the conference. How
ever the company refused to pa/
his expenses so he didn't go thra
with his efforts.
The company was to have Peru
grant oil concessions in 1920 to
an American concern which was
in return to finance a twelve mil
lion dollars warship program.
This was also described in the
letters.
HUBSCIR1BE FOR THF. NUGGET
YOUNG BOY SUFFOCATES —
TWO SISTERS RY PUTTING
THEM IN AN ICE-BOX
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PUTS SIHTKRK IN ICK BOX
(By The Associated Press)
SAORAMBNTO. Sfept. 6, Cerivin
Paiva, aged fifteen, was lodged In
the County jail, and is to he
charged under orders from Dis
trict Attorney Neil McAllister,
with murder, for having placed
his two younger sisters in an ice
box last Saturday night, where
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they suffocated.
He confessed to putting the girts
in the ice 1k>x after his younger
brother Janies Paiva. twelve, hai
said: “Brother, put the girls in
the ice box."
Cerivin Paivo repeated an earl
ier confession, admi'.t'ng that he
had criminally attacked his site,
ters, six and seven years old res
pectively, one the day - h( was
found dead, and tit > error some
weeks before.
NOTICE
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ment must be In the Nugget office
not later than 4:90 p.m. of the
day preceding Insertion, otherwise
the change of copy will necessar
ily be held over one day.
and ten thousand shares. The
affects of the textile strike, are of
a generally depressing nature.
JURY SAII) COLUMBO
DEATH ACCIDENTAL
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANOHLES S.-pt. ), Tho
death of Russ Co'unibo by a b.tl
let from an ancient duelling pis
tol was declared accidental by a
corono‘,'.'» jury here today, thus
exonerating Lansing Brown, Hol.y
wood photographer, in whose home
tho accident occurred.
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STAGES QUIET RECOVERY
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(By The Associated Press) i
NBW YORK, Sept. 6, Stock?
staged a quiet recovery coincid
ent with brisk ra lies in wheat
and cotton. Metal Issues led the
upturn. Transfers were live hun
dred and twenty five thousand
s hates.
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PRIVATE YACHT IS
WRECKED STORM
ISLAND CORSICA
IS SHIP*WRECKED ON i
ISLAND OF CORSICA
(By The Associated Press)
ILE ROUSSE, Corsica, Sept. H,
Nathan Howard, British actor and
playwright, wag stranded last
night on this island, by the wreck
Ing of his ya'^h “Maire,” which
he had chartered for a cruise.
Howard was on shore when »
sudden storof drove the little ves*
sel on the rocks. All of Howard's
clothing, money and papers which
were aboard the vessel were lost.
He walked along the coast for
twenty miles until eh came to this
community, where he cabled to
London for money.
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE NEAR
MEDFORD, OREGON
(By The Associated Press)
MEDFORD, Ore., Sept. 5, Six
hundred men fought the most des
tructive Are In the history of Jack
son County, during more than n
score of years. Four homes have
already been consumed, besides
several cabins and prospecting
camps. Crops and livestock also
suffered. The flames extended
over a circling sixteen mile front.