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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 38. No. 301. NOME. ALASKA, Monday. October is, 1037 Per Copy 10cti
19 Reported Killed In Plane Crash
WRECKED TEN MILES EMERGENCY FIELD
Death Battalion Wiped Out A Force Of Japanese
THREE THOUSAND
JAPS WIPED OUT BY
VERY SMALL FORCE
SHANGHAI, Oct. 18, —
A force of three thousand
Japanese troops, were re
ported to have been wiped
out today in fighting which
lasted for more than thirty
hours, northwest of Shanghai.
(Bv The Associated Press!
SHANGHAI, Oct. 18, —Chinese
authorities this morning said that
a death battalion numbering
fourteen hundred Chinese troops
and more than three thousand
Japanese attackers, were killed
In a battle for the pc^sasioir cf
Tazang, about five miles north
west of Shanghai.
Heaviest Encounter
They described the engage
ment in which the Chinese were
forced to protect their supply
base, as the heaviest single en
counter in the Shanghai area,
sinie hostilities began..
Colonel Ching Wu, command
er of the Chinese force at Taz
ang, had declared they would
fight to the last man.
Force Wiped Out
After thirty hours of contin
uous battle against the Japanese
infantry which was supported by
planes and naval guns, Ching
was killed and the force wiped
out, although the Japanese at
tack had also been broken.
Other Bombings
j Resuming their bombing of civ
ilian areas outside of Shanghai,
Japanese planese are said to have
killed and wounded more than
. two hundred Chinese, mostly
: peasants.
Air Raid on Chenju
Chinese authorities estimated
that more than a hundred were
killed and injured in an air raid
on Chenju, where the American
installed million dollar Chinese
government radio station is lo
I cated.
Today, Oct. 18,
Is Alaska Day
J
—Thoughts on It
Today, October 18, 1937, brings
i to mind that it was on this day,
1887. that the United States ef
feced the purchase of Alaska
from Russia for the sum of $7,
200,000.
Fulfilling the dreams of many
prominent men of that era. Alas
ka has paid for itself many hun
dreds of times over in the past
seventy years.
Nome and the Second Division
alone has produced more than
$125,000,000 in gold. And as we
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PHYSIO’THERAPY Is the technical name
treatments of patients recovering from paralysis. At Warm Sp * •
On, famed center for combating the disease, this ch,,d ®Jow y
Cilns the am of his limbs, buoyed up by the W-degree water ot the
swimming pool.
BURNING UP THE WATER with speed, this Gold Cup racing boat of Count Theo Rossi
will compete with other foreign and American speed craft at Detroit’s Labor Day race The unique
craft with its motor occupying so much space the pilot seat hangs out over the stern, has traveled
90.97 miles an hour in tests. Rossi is also planning to enter an aluminum speed boat in the contest.
-Personals
j Newcomers to Nome on the S.
! S. Baranof, which left Seattle Oct
115th, will be Mrs. M. Kapelowit/.
j accompanied by her young son.
:Jack, to join Mr. Kalepowitz and
| make Nome their home. Mr. Ka
pelowitz is associated with the
Nome radio station as radio oper
J ator.
Mrs. E. J. Bundy is an incom
ing passenger to join her hus
; band, E. J. Bundy of the local U.
' S. Coast Guard Station, and make
Nome their home.
To make their home in Nome,
j is Mrs. Jack JeiTerd and infant,
j enroute here on the S. S. Baranof
| to join her pilot husband, Jack
Jellord, who is associated with
1 the Mi row Air Service.
|
I
Father John Concannon is re
turning to Nome after a few
years absence, an^l will assume
his old place as pastor of St.
Joseph’s Catholic church, here,
father Concannon is enroute to
Nome aboard the S.S.Baranof.
j Miss Bitty Bradshaw, who was
! associated with the hospital staff
j of the Maynard Columbus hospi
! tal last winter, and who made a
short trip to the States, is a re
turning passenger on the S.S.Bar
anof. Dame rumor has it that
Miss Bradshaw is to become the
i bride of a newly appointed ter
ritorial official, upon her arrival
j here.
Returning passengers to Nome
i on the S. S. Baranof, are Mrs.
Wilfred Boucher and son, after a
j summer spent in the States.
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JOSEPH F. GUFFEY TO MAKE
DECISION WHETHER TO RUN
FOR GOVERNOR STATE !’A.
By Preston Grover
WASHINGTON. D. C„ Oct. 13,
—.Senator Joseph F. Guffey, the
silent Democrat of Pennsylvania
is approaching a cross-roads.
Soon he may have to decide
whether to surrender his sena
torship for the governorship, a
job that pays more but is full of
turmoil and the small things of
life in contrast with the states
manly atmosphere that sometim
es prevails in he senate.
In 1938 Pennsylvania must el
ect another governor, and the
Democrats are hard put to find
a winning candidate. So are the
Republicans, for that matter, but
that is another story. Guffey, so
good sources have it, would like
the governorship to go to Dave
Lawrence, Pennsylvania’s secre
tary of the commonwealth and
Democratic state chairman.
But Guffey, like many another,
realls the religious bitterness en
| gendored during the A1 Smith
| campaign in 1928. and foi that
' reason hestilates at present tc
! advance Lawrence, a Catholic, as
1 his man. A like condition affects
I Tom Kennedy, lieutenant gover
nor and secretary-treasurer ol
the United Mine Workers.
Mr. Earle Makes Trouble
Gov. Geoge H. Earle, Democra
I who was Guffey’s choice from «
1 field of dark horses four yean
| ago, can’t succeed himself—anc
! besides has had tiffs with Guffey
| Earle maneuvered railroad labor
: full-crew bill through the legis
lature over Guffey’s protest.Righ
while Guffey was trying to pu
coal mining on a sounder footinj
through the Guffey coal bill, the
full-crew lull came along to threat
en higher coal freight rates.
It is to be remembered that un
der Guffey's generalship Pennsyl
vania Democrats took over the
state government for the first time
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PLANE CRASHED
NEAR SALT
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 18
—Sixteen passengers and a
crew of three in a United Air
lines transport plane are miss
ins today between Wyoming
and Utah.
(Rv The A >• • i* '1 Presst
SALT LAKE CITY. Oct. 18. —
One of pviafon's most modern
• ti ansports, carrying nineteen per
sons is lost today somewhere in
It'", vast, mouiv :n studded wild
i < rness between Rock Springs,
Wyoming, and Utah’s capital.
A Vast Search
At > oday a fleet of plan
es soared Tn-er the endless miles
of rugg d terrain in a hunt for
the United Air Lines trans-conti
nental airline: last reported over
Rock Springs 1 8:1 > p.m Moun
tain Standard Time I *n nigh'
iicporieu uiv
At that tin:" pilot E. W. Wood
'gerd of Salt Lake City, reported
[‘‘slightly rough; all OK.” Two
pilots flew ov r the aerial route
of the lost plane today, report
ing they did n >t sight the plane
carrying sixteen passengers and
a crew of three including the
'hostess, and 17-1 pounds of mail.
The pilot in his last report
said they were flying through
broken clouds at an altitude u£
ten thousand feet.
SALT LAKE C ITY. Oct. 18
1'nited Air l-ines officials said
later today that tlie lost air
lines had been sighted twelve
miles southwest of Evanston,
Wyoming.
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NOTHING IS TOO GOOD for Seabiscuit, Mrs. C. S.
; I Howard’s champion runner, rated the year's leading handicap horse.
The owner, with her pet Scottie under her arm, Is shown looking
j over the prize money winner at Saratoga Springs, N. V., wh$ye be
gets expert care.
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