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VOL. 38. No. 336. NOME. ALASKA. TUESDAY. NOV 30. 1937. Per Copy 10ct»
Nanking Defense Ready For Japs
Congress Admonished to Keep Budget In Balance
First Christmas Seal Sale Commenced 30 Years Ago
THIRTY YEARS
OF CHRISTMAS
SEAL SALE U.S.
By Elizabeth Cole
In 1907 the first Christinas Seal
sale was launched in Delaware
•by Miss Emily P. Bissell. She rais
•ed $3,000 to use toward building
a hospital for children ill with
tuberculosis. Much has been ac
complishid since then and here in
brief form are several important
links in the nation-wide chain of
tuberculosis control that Christ
mas Seal funds have helped to
build.
The National Tuberculosis As
sociation was founded in 1994 by
a group of distinguished tubercu
losis specialists and interested
laymen. Its aim was to study tu
berculosis in all its forms and to
disseminate knowledge on its
causes, treatment, and prevention.
From the first the nthe campaign
to fight tuberculosis, at that time
the leading cause of death, was
educational. To stimulate the pub
lie in a desire to secure better
health machinery was the object
and in only very few instances
have Christmas Seal funds ever
been us.d for relief work.
Movement Has Spread
The sixth International Cong
ress on Tuberculosis was held in
Washington, D. C. in 1908. This
meeting, at which world-famous
scientists were present, gyve im
petus to the whole tuberculosis
movement in our country. During
the next ten yeers tuberculosis
associations were formed in prac
tically every s'ate and there are
now 198! association affiliated
with the National Tuberculosis
Association.
In the belief that better health
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FRO SMOUSE TO OIL STATION went Diz
zy Dean v -luhle tongued Cardinal pitcher to open a lilting station
at Bradenton. Florida. Here is the talkative one in his new role of
proprietor and grease monkey.
Is On Sick Leave
NEW YORK. Nov. 30— Robert
W. Bingham. United States Am
bassador to Great Britain, arriv
ed in New York from Londan. He
is on sick leave. He said he
would go immediately to a hospi
tal in Baltimore, Md., for a medi
cal examination. Mr. Bingham
declared he suffered from malar
ia in England.
ELSEWHERE THE SHOW IS ON. but in England
there fa rehearsal for a drama of Man they hope will never be
produced. While fleets of bombers showered death on cities In China
! Spain, these, ambulance brigadiers of Brighton carried a ''vic
tim” from a house duriflg a mrick air raid. »
Abraham Simpson
Passes Away: Was
Formerly of Nome
Abraham Simson, pioneer mer
chant of Fairbanks, and formerly
I of Nome, died in Seattle Wednes
day, last, as reported in a mes
sage to his brother Lipman Sim
son, also a business man of Fair
banks.
Mr. Abe Simson, in business in
the North since '97, was the own
er of Abe Simson’s Store,523 First
i avenue, Fairbanks.
In ill health for the last five
years, he succumbed to a heart
ailment in Providence hospital,
Seattle. Mr. Simson left Fair
banks last June for the hospital
in Seattle.
Born in Haverstraw, N. Y., 69
years ago, he oame from New
York to the Klondike in '97, and
■entered, business in Dawson. In
1899 he started a store in Nome;
and in 1906 he established his
store in Fairbanks. Later he op
erated a store in Seattle, and one
in Nenana.
The Fairbanks business is man
aged by Leo Fox and W. S. Riley.
Surviving members of Mt. Sim
son’s family include two sisters
and two brothers in New York,
and a third brother in Fairbanks.
Lipman Simson, owner of the
Hollywood Shop.
Mr. Simson never married. He
was a member of the Pioneer;
Lodge, and a Mason. • j
The body will be sent to his old 1
home town, HaVerstraw, for bur
ial
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Congress Asked
Cut Government
Expense Down
I' i
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WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov.
30, — Congress was admon
ished to pay close attention to
; appropriations, in a determin
| ed effort to bring the budget
closer into balance.
_
(By The Associated Press)
I WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, Presi
dent Roosevelt aslccd congress to
reduce greatly the government’s
j immediate financial outlay for
I aiding state in the construction of
highways. asserting: “Definite
; steps are necessary at this time
I to balance the budget.”
Makes Proposals
Roosevelt proposed in a spec
ial message, following consulta
tion, that a two hundTed and four
! teen million dollar appropriation
be authorized for distribution
among the state during the 1939
fiscal year, spreading over the
next two fiscal years, a two hun
dred million dollar appropriation.
I He urged that the balance auth
■orized for the present fiscal year
, be limited to one hundred and
'twenty-five million annually oni
all public roads authorized for
and after 1940 fiscal year.
He also suggested a revision of1
the federal aid highway law, to
eliminate the requirement of the
federal government apportion to
various states, and have an an
nual amount instead, authorized
for appropriation.
Girl’s Slayer
Tries to Hang
Self In Jail
LOS LUNAS. New Mexico, Nov.
30—In a sltate of hysteria after an
attempted jail cell suicide by
hanging, W. B. Cassidy, business
man of Soccorro, N. Mexico.,who
is said to have confessed to the
love killing of Rose Garcia, 19
years old, was taken today to the
New Mexico penitentiary at San
ta Fe for safekeeping.
Cassidy was brought from So
corro to Los Lunas,to protect him
from possible volence. In the
Los Lunas jail last night his at
tempt to hang himself with a
chain from his cot was thwarted
by other prisoners.
The Garcia girl was killed last
Sunday. Her body was found
in a sand grave near Cassidy's
home lose to Isolado, 17 miles
from Soccorro. She had worked
as a housemaid in his home five
months. She was shot and stab
bed to death.
STAMPS BRING PROFITS
WINDHOEK, South AHca, Nov.
30—A profit of $260,000 has been
made by thi? Southwest Africa
postoffice on the sale of Corona
tion 9tarpps.., Thd film has been
credited 'to- extradorinary revenue
CHINESE FORCES AT
NANKING READY TO
MEET JAP WARRIOR
' SPOTLIGHT
I N POLITICS Anthony
litleii, British foreign secretary
took a leading role at the nine
power parley n Brussels ore
Sino-Japanese conRi *
JOHN PLOUDE FUNERAL
SERVICES HELD FAIRBANKS
Funeral services for John Plou
de of Salchat'.t were held last
week at the Ross Chapel, the Rev.
John E. Youel officiating. Burial
was in the Fairbanks cemetery.
Mr. Ploude, 70-year-old pros
pector. passed away in St. Joseph
Hospital at 10:15 last Wednesday.
Born in Latvia, he was a pros
pector in the Salcha district.
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SHANGHAI, Nov. 30, —
Great preparations progress
ed today for the big battle of
Nanking between Chinese do
fending forces, and the ad
vancing Japanese columns.
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Nov. 30 — Chin
ese defenders were reported to
be falling back to a line forty to
sixty miles East Southeast of
Nanking, with the Japanese col
umns in pursuit.
A Long Retreat
Japanese ^rep/rt* of their ar
my's'ad vance ' said the Chinese'
forces were under an intensive
aerial bombardment, and had re
tr.ated nearly to Chingkiang Tan
yang and Kint3n. and to the for
tified line close to the almost de
serted capital.
ihe Japanese gained ground
steadily on the central front and
held up all right at the northern
and svathern extremities.
Elaborate Defenses
In Nanking itself, the Chinese
made elaborate defense prepara
tions, apparently for a determin
d stand.
Eight of the city's gates have
been closed and a laige trench net
work constructed Their last line
of defense extended from the
city in semi-circular rings, end
ing at the Yangtze river.
That’s Nothing
Californian: "The great thing
about living where I do is the
climate. Why, I haven’t paid a
cent for coal in years.”
Eas.arr.tr: “1 just got a letter
from my e."d dealer reminding
me that I haven’ either.”
...NOTRE P AM E PIPES BACK with one of Knnte
Rockne’a Four Horsemen, Coach Elmer Layden (right) holding the
reins. Assisting the Irish mentor are Backfleld Coach Chet Grant
(left) and Line Coach Joe Boland (Renter). Slowly the star of other
yOars‘rebullds the, once mighty team.