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VOL. 38 No. 223 NOME. ALASKA, Wednesday, JULY 28,1937. Per Copy lOcts
Fresh Outbreak In Sino-Jap War
15 BURNED TO DEATH IN AIRLINER CRASH
U.S. Ambassador Fears For Safety 1300 Americans
j THE PALL OP A CITT.A solitary man gropes through smoke and wreckage; a nouse Diazes
I like a white-hot inferno; buildings crumble. This is a scene of the fall of Bilbao, Basque capital
| in Spain, as insurgent troops were entering the city in the wake of heavy shell-fire and bombings.
THREE AMERICANS DIE
IN AIRLINER CRASH
(By The Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM-. Holland, July 28, — Fifteen per
sons, three of them identified by airline attaches as Am
ericans, died in the flames of a plane, following the plun
ge to earth of a Netherlands airline at Hal, Belgium.
The Americans’ names were given as Whitehouse,
Canton, and Goldbloom.
The plane had landed at Brussels, and taken off
again, headed for Paris. Airport employees reported
they had heard “queer engine noises”, as the plane
took the air.
House Approved Proposal Allow
President To Appoint 6 Assistants
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 28, — The Senate to
day received the House-approved bill to let the Presi
dent appoint six administrative assistants. This is one
part of the government’s reorganization program which
is given a chance for enactment this session.
Other features of the program include the exten
sion of civil service, and re-arrangement of government
departments and agencies.
House democrats in voting to approve this part of
the program, insisted, it was needed at this time be
cause the President is overworked, and has only three
secretaries.
The Republicans called the President’s secretaries,
and those to be appointed “errand boys and flunkies.”
KELLOG, Idaho, July 28, — Accusing the company
of intimidation and coercion, the Wallace and Kellog
locals of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smel
ter Workers, advised the Sunshine Mining Company
officials, that a referendum strike vote would be taken
on July 30th.
Aviation Editor
Colliers V isitcd
In Nome Today
•
Wm. B. Courtney, aviation edi
tor for ‘‘Collier’s” magazine, made
a flying visit to Nome today on
the PAA Electra, returning to
Fairbanks this afternoon.
Scribe Courtney, who has been
furnishing articles on aviation for
Collier’s for some time past, just
returned from a tour of Spain
where he covered the aviation
angle on the civil war raging
there for the past year. At present
he is covering a subject on Alask
an aviation and what it is doing
Tor the Territory. He paid a vis
jit to th eNome Daily Nugget and
received some diata on Nome and
i
I this section of Alaska, to be in
cluded in his article.
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S (By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON D. C. July -
The third son born to Col. and
Mrs. Chas. A. Lindbergh automat-,
ically inherits the American cit
izenship of his father, according
to United States citizenship laws,'
State department officials explain
ed. even though the child was
born in England.
The State department presumed ;
that Lindbergh would soon regis-'
ter the baby’s name with an Am
erican consulate in England.
This customarily is done by Am
erieans living abroad to protect
the child’s citizenship by making
a formal record.
CHINESE CLAIM HAVE
DEFEATED JAPS AT
PEIPING SECTOR
(By The Associated Press')
UNDATED, July 23. — The Chinese 29th Army re
ported this morning it had smashed the Japanese Peip
ing offensive, in the first major battle of the North
China informal war.
The Japanese attacked at dawn today after the
expiration of the ultimatum demanding evacuation of
the Chinese forces from the Peiping area, with a with
ering aerial offensive which shattered Chinese lines.
Chinese commanders declared their troops recov
ered jnd then captured Fengtai, the Japanese field head
quarters, and the town of Langfang, an important rail
way junction for Japanese communications in the bat
tle area, which they said iiad been severed.
The Japanese officials denied the reports, declaring
that the Chinese forces had been hurled back. Both As
iatic capitals made declarations of hostile nature.
Chinese dispatches told of an American soldier be
ing wounded at Peiping in the crossfire, while news
from Tokyo said that Japanese legislators had approv
ed of a thirty million dollar appropriation, by a unani
mous vote of the Diet.
American Ambassador Grew, at Tokyo, alarmed
at the peril of thirteen hundred Americans at Peiping,
appealed to Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota. to pre
vent the spread of the undeclared warfare.
We read that the "'chest man in the world is not an American,
but a Hindu who i-w-rs gold bars worth 260 million dollars. He
ought to stlart a newspaper and lose some if that dough.
Current Comments
Written From
Washington
c
Harping on the past is a poor
business, but now arid then it
does no harm to take a brief back
ward look. Ten years ago there
was much hand clapping and med
al giving because Col Lindbergh
had managed to get across the At
lantic by air. AH honor to him
for that, but nowadays anyone
can do as much who has the price
of a ticket Drop back an even
century and the ancient tars were
'shaking their heads because some
vessels made of iron had been
launched. In 1737 it was just be
coming settled h‘at a newspaper
could speak its mind regarding
pol i< s. Sk • about a hun
dred '.ears more and England is
found to be of • : ? mind that the
only way to get d f an. unpop
ular king is to chop off his head.
In 1537 there were witches about,
to make trouble for folks on the
other side of th • water, but a
quietus was put n difficulties of
that kind by using witches as
torches. All is not peace and sere
nity in 1937. but we have moved
ahead considerable, nevertheless.
(Continued on Page Two>
YACHT RACE FOR AMERICA S CUP WILL BE HIGH POINT INTEREST NOW
I i if ill i i I «" I
HAROLD S. VANDERBILT—The
American millionairrc who will
probably defencl the America’s
Cup against the English challeng
er, with his newest racing pride
and joy, the “Ranger”, in the cel
ebrated yachting classic the last
of this month.
MILLIONS FOR MUG.
For a S500 battered trophy dating back to 18*0 and known as the
America’s cup, wealthy yachtsmen have spent millions. It has never
left these shores, but T. O. M. Sopwith (above), wealthy British
plane builder, this year is challenging for the Royal Yacht Squadron.