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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL 38 No. 275'. NQJflE, ALASKA, FRIDAY, Sept. 17, 1937 Per Copy lOcti
New Deal Candidate Wins Primary
JUSTICE BLACK ACCUSED AS MEMBER KKK
Interesting Details Nome Trading Vessel In Arctic
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE HUGO
BUCK CHARGED HAVING LIFE
MEMBERSHIP KLU KLUX KUN
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(By TV Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 1»—Senator
David J. Walsh, Massachusetts
Democrat, called on President
Roosevelt to set up an impartial
investigation committee to study
statements that Supreme Court
justice Hugo L. Black holds a
life membership in the Kiu Klux
Klan.
Amid a new storm of charges
in the controversy. Senator Cope
land asserted that Justice Black,
newly appointed to tine Nation’s
highest tribunal by the President
owes it to the president, the sen
ate a%i the country, to declare
publicly whether he is a mem
ber of the Klan. Justice Black,
himself, now' vacationing in Lon
don neither denied npr confirm
ed his alleged aflUiatii^i with the
white hooded order.
Birthday Benefit
Million Dollars
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 16—The un
numbered thousands who, in
great balLrooms and shabby little
•crossroads school houses celebrat
ed President Roosevelt's 1937
birthday, raised more than one
million dollars to fight infantile
paralysis, it was announced by
Edith Morgan, Treasurer of the
■committee in charge.
No More Strip
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16—
; Chief of Police William Quinn
! struck a blow’ at ostrich farms
and balloon makers today when
he set a “minimum dress law"
for strip-tease dancers. The danc
er must have at least a strip of
cloth a yard wide on her person
| at the end of the dance, he said.
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SOME*TALL CROONING. Molly O’Connor looks np to
William Oldlng as though she expects big things of the world’s &11
est crooner. Olding stands seven feet, six Inches, and should be able
toroaehtheeehlghnotes with ease. Both belong to a Londoa band. j
Nome Trading Vessel Has
Thrilling Experiences on Trip
To Point Barrow And Beyond
The motorship ‘Trader” owned
and operated by Ira Rank of the
IU. S. Mercantile Co. of Nome,
i left here Aug. 12th. with Capt.
PaLsson, Bill Bisncr as engineer,
[ and owner and trader Ira M.
i Rank aboard, with a full cargo
of supplies such as are needed in
northern settlements. The vessel
returned to Nome after a very
j successful voyage, Sept. 15th, af
! ter disposing of everything car
| ried on the trp, and with the in
! formation that they could have
i disposed of a great deal more if
! they had it, due to all the vill
ages and northern settlements be
ing short of supplies.
In an interview with Captain
Palsson, The Nome Nugget re
porter learned:
The vessel on leaving Nome ar
rived at Wainiwright in 74 hours.
Met the cutter Northland which
was just leaving Wainwright to
penetrated the ice enroute to Bar
row. After remaining four hours,
the Trader pulled out and headed
for Barrow but had to turn back
to Sea Horse islands due to heavy
ice conditions, there being no
leads and the ice was still coming
shoreward.
Three days later the Trader
left Sea Horses and got as far as
Cape Smith through .i lead, get
ting within three miles of Bar
row. Here the vessel remained
stuck in the ice for three days,
when a lead opened up due to a
strong northeast wind which al
lowed the Trader to reach Bar
row and dispose of a considerable
amount of cargo.
Barrow at this time was prac
tically short of everything—there
was no flour, tea, coffee or to
bacco, They remained at Barrow
three days before starting for
Barter Island and other points to
the Eastward and bucked ice for
90 miles, finally reaching open
water and clear sailing to Point
Humphrey, a short distance from
Demarkation Point (on the Boun
dary Line between the American
and Canadian Arctic territory.)
Here met an old friend and
Nomeite, John Olson, a relative
of Jafet Lindeberg, who now
luns a trading post at Pt. Humph
rey and is reported to be doing
well. Olson was all sold out of
supplies and his stock and shelv
es were filled from the Trader’s
cargo by Mr. Rank.
Olson’s trading post is now the
only place that far East, since
(Continued on Page Three)
Chinese Govt.
Protests U. S.
Anns Embargo^
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(Bv The Associated Press)
NANTONG, Slept. 17 - The'
Chinese government disclosed
having protested officially to the'
United States against the govern-:
mentis embargo on arms to the'
orient. Charging unfair treatment i
of China, Dr. C. T. Wang, embass
ad-or to Washington, is said to1
have conveyed the bitter reaction
of the Chinese government to the
state department.
The Japanese government
broke its long official siience
when the foreign office said “The
munitions embargo is interpret
ed as an effort by the United!
States to avoid entanglement in|
the far eastern situation and is
generally supposed will render
invocation of the neutrality act
unnecessary.
Charge Japs
Disgracing
Civilization
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fBv The Associated Press;
GENEVA, Sept. 14—China call
ed on the League of Nations to
formally indict Japan as a robber
nation. In a strong protest filed
with the League at Geneva, the
Chinese government charged that
Japan is disgracing civilization in
her undeclared war in China. The
Chinese statement called the Jap
anese military campaign a bald
attempt to steal territory from a ;
sovereign power in defiance of all
international law. The central
Chinese government also form
ally charged that Tokyo is break
ing the pact negotiated after the
Sino-Japanese conflict in 1932.
That pact guaranteed the terri
torial integrity of China.
Japan in its publicized explana
tions of the campaign in China
has charged the Chinese with
breaking the pact. China called
on the League to intervene and
bring peace to Asia. The note ex
pressed the hope that the United
States will act in concert with
other powers in restoring peace.
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NEW DEAL CANDIDATE IN NEW
YORK MAY ORALTY PRIMARY
BEATS TAMMANY HALL CAND.
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(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK. Sept. t7—Tam
many Hall, fighting for its life,
was set back on its heels in yes
terday’s primary election when
Senator Royal S Copeland, lost
the Demcrattc mayoralty nom
ination to Jeremiah T. Mahoney,
new deal candidate Copeland
was also swamped by Mayor F;o
rello LaGuardia in the Repub
lican primary. Copeland gained a
wide margin in Manhattan, tarn
many stronghold but was inun
dated by a tidal wave of ballots
from three other boroughs. They
ran neck and neck in the Bronx.
New Candy Trust’
(By The Associated Press)
OAKLAND. Cal., Sept. 15 —
The faith that moves mountains
is now selling candy. John Sut
ton. 32 year-old idealist, operates
a candy store here in which the
customer selects his sweets, pack
ages them, rings up the sale and
takes his own change from the
cash register. The store, he says,
is the openirg wedge for a new
social system of trust.
In the Sutton “Utopia” only
persons from 5 to 30 years old
would work, all older would act
as an "advisory council."
Lightning Humor
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(By The Associated Press)
IDAHO FALLS. Sept. 16 — A
vagrant lightning bolt entered
the front door of a farm house
near here, knocked Lorin Bur
rows unconscious and artistically
decorated his wife and Mrs. Ruth
Stralley with bums. The bolt left
a grape-vine burn on Mrs. Stral
ley's back, scorched an imprint of
Mrs. Burrows’ sweater on her
back and burned a reproduction
of her wrist watch on her arm.
Then it wandered out the back
door, taking the doorknob with
it.
OFF TO CONGRESS. Scorning comforts of a motor car
or even a raincoat, Gandhi Is shown trudging through mud and
tropical rain from his home village to *tt*nd a congress eonferonee
at Wardha, India. An assistant (right) holds the umbrella and car
at narau papers in an old oil can. _