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VOL. 38. No. 201. NOME, ALASKA, Thursday, July 1st, 1937 Per Copy lOcts
Japs-Sovlets Mix In Amur Section
ford mfcHARGED^wm^ Interference
Inland Steel Plant Re-Opened Today Under Truce
Fourth Will Be
Celebrated Mon.
Fifth of J y
With the Fourth of July Com
mittee going full .swing and .nany
plans for a fine celebration in
progress, Nome can look forward
to a week end of dancing, picnic
.'ig, and general observance of
the anniversary of Independence
Day.
A change in the plans made to
day now calls for the Literary
Program and Sports features to
be held Monday, July 5th. instead
of Sunday.
However, a Fourth of July
Dance will take place at the
i.chool auditorium, it was announ
veil, Saturday evening, Juty .«ru.'
and large crowds will undoubted
ly turn out.
The Mayor’s Proclamation ap
pears in today's issue setting aside
Monday, July 5th, as the day to
observe the Fourth of July.
Chief Laws has issued a warn
ing regarding the setting oft of
fireworks on sidewalks, wooden
platforms, inside of buildings and
(Continued on Page Four)
Agent Seized in
Narcotics Raid
Chris Hansen, federal narcotics
agent for Nevada, and eight
others were arrested in Reno by
federal agents sent In from the
outside to investigate a “dope
ring.” Hansen formerly was con
nected with the Los Angeles,
Portland, Spokane and Seattle
districts. Joyce McAllister, »of
Santa Barbara, Calif., was cred
ited with brilliant detective work
whieb led to the arrests.
LABOR RELATIONS
BOARD CITES FORD
MOTOR COMPANY
(By The Associated Press;
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 1—The National Labor
Relations Board issued a citation against the Ford Mo
tor Company, based on a complaint alleging violation of
the unfair labor practices section of the Wagner Labor
Act. A hearing on the charges was set for July 6th in
Detroit.
The United Automobile Workers Union cited three
alleged violations, viz:—Interference with employes in
the exercise of their rights to organize and bargain col
lectively, domination of an employe organization, dis
criminatory discharges of employes because of activi
ties in behalf of the United Automobile Workers Union.
THOUSANDS OF STEEL
WORKERS RETURN
JOBS IN CHICAGO
(By The Associated Press)
EAST CHICAGO, July 1st—The Inland Steel plant
was reopened peacefully under a truce announced by
Governor Townsend, and thousands of workers walked
through the gates in the first re-opening of a steel mill
without trouble since the strike was called May 26th.
At 10 a.m. today, Manager James H. Walsh estimated
that ninety-five hundred workers had checked in.
In Ohio the mills of Mahoning Valley, humed with
what company officials said was near capacity, but Na
tional Guardsmen are still on hand.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 30—Governor Martin L.
Davev revealed he had rejected a proposal of Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins that he order the Ohio Indus
trial Commission to subpeana Tom Girbler. chairman
of the Board of Republic Steel Corporation and Frank
Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and
hold them here until they signed an agreement with the
Committee for Industrial Organization; “In private life
that would be called kidnaping”, Governor Davey re
marked.
The governor told a committee of unionists which
came here to protest his use of National Guard troops in
reopening the struck Steel plants, that the proposal at
tributed to Secretary Perkins, “would in my judgement
be the exercise of the most autocratic, dictatorial power
ever undertaken in the country”. He said the sugges
tion was made by Miss Perkins in a telephone conser
vation after the Federal Mediation Board failed to ef
fect settlement of the steel strike.
He did say, however, that he would remain firm in
his intention to keep guardsmen in the strike area, en
force law and order and permit non-strikers to return
to work.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 30—Strike leaders
rallied union men against a back ground of smoke-wrea
thed mill chimneys with a challenge that the seven
State steel strike “must and will be won”. From the
Mahoning Valleys’ “little-Ruhr-’ and from Pennsylvan
ia’s “Conemaugh” valley, came the answer of non-strik
ers and company officials, the roar of newly stoked fur
naces, black smoke plumes across the sky and the march
of thousands of men back to their jobs after a month’s
idleness. The return was by no means unanimous, but
Bethlehem Steel reopened its Cambrai plant in Johns
town, Penn., while Republic and Youngstown Sheet &
Tube quickened operations in this vicinity.
Wedding Attended By More Than 300
(By The Associated Press)
WILMINGTON, Delaware, July 1—Miss Ethel Du
pont and Franklin Roosevelt Jr., were married yester
day before a distinguished group of more than three
hundred persons, including the President. Both the
Reverends Endicott Peabody,who has officiated at many
Roosevelt functions, and Rev. Frederick Ashton, pastor
of Christ Church, participated in the ceremony.
Immediately after the ceremony the young couple
and their guests went via auto to the Dupont estate’s
“Owls Nest”, where a reception was attended by over
thirteen hundred guests. Sometime during the recep
tion the newly weds slipped away, their honeymoon
destination being secret.
Pope Hopes For
Return of Peace
Spanish People
(By The Associated Press)
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy,
June 29—Pope Pius, expressed
hopes for the return of peace to
Spain. In giving formal approval
for canonization of Salvador Da
Orta, Spanish lay professor of the
Franciscan Brotherhood, the Pon
tiff said, we hope that the mirac
les of this new saint may inter
cede in Spain, which gave him
birth to help it to return to peace.
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PRISONERS CHOOSE SIMPLE FARE
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A meal which included everything "from chicken down" was
offered Lester Brockelhurst and Bernice Felton when they wera
placed in jail in Lonoke, Ark., to await trial for slaying Victor
Oates, but they chose simple fare. Brockelhurst took a hamburger
sandwich and Miss Felton ordered roast beef.
RUSSIAN GUNBOAT IS
SUNK IN AMUR RIVER
(By The Associated Press’!
HSINKING, Manchoukuou, July 1—Japanese and
Manchoukuoan artillery along the disputed Amur river
border reported to the Japanese army and news advices
state they sunk one of the “invading” Soviet Russian
gunboats, badly damaged another and forced a third a
flee; thus the Tong troubled Far East frontier relations
between Russia and Japanese who sponsored the State
of Manchuoukuo, reached a dramatic and dangerous
climax. Japanese officials said the Soviet vessels “in
vaded” the Manchoukuoan channel south of Sennufu
Island in the river, firing on Japanese forces guarding
the shore, and the latter’s guns returned their fire.
Later advices said the the Soviet Amur River fleet
consisting of more than a dozen gunboats and many
hydroplanes are being concentrated, and the gravest
view is taken of the situation. Japanese reinforcements
are being rushed to the river to prepare for any event
ualities.
TOKYO. Japan, July 1—The government instructed
its ambassador at Moscow to register a protest against
the alleged Russian invasion of Amur River area. The
number of casualties was not immediately ascertained.
MOSCOW, July 1—Japan’s ambassador to Moscow,
Mammoru Shigemitsu, pressed his empire’s demands
that Russian troops be immediately withdrawn from the
disputed Amur River islands. Both countries exchang
ed sharp protests after yesterday’s clash between Soviet
gunboats on the Amur River and Japanese land forces.
The ambassador said Japan intends to protect fully,
; Manchuokuo’s claim to the territory.
NOTICE FIREWORKS punished.
The setting off of Fireworks on W. W. LAWS,
sidewalks, wooden platforms, in- Chief of Police,
side of buildings, or in dry grass. Publish July 1. 2, 3, 1937.
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