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VOL 38 No 230 NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY AUG. 5, 1937 Per Copy lOcts
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SUCCESSOR TO JUDGE TO BE NAMED SOON
Britain’s Plan To Subdivide Palestine Is Criticised
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judge To Take
Place Van De
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Would Be Better Appoint
Successor Now Than
After Adjournment
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, £). C„ Aug. 5,
—The belief that President Roose
velt would nominate a successor
to Justice Van DeVanter before
congress adjourns, increased am
ong high administration support
ers.
Roosevelt, himself gave that
impression at his press conferen
ce this morning.
A recess appointment such as
Attorney General Cummings said
was permissable, would not go to
the Senate until next year.
Some of the President's advis
ors urged an immediate appoint
ment to the Supreme Court, so
that it would be in full strength
for the fall term, without under
going the tension of a recess ap
pointment.
Eskimo Burned
Death At Teller
Night August 2
Pilot Ray Crawford of the Mir- j
ow Air Service brought to Nome
today, the news of the burning to
death at Teller of George Eltook,
a native. Beyond bare details,
no further information was ob
tained, other than the news that
the cabin in which he was asleep,
caught fire about midnight, the
night of August 2nd, and that the
native was burned entirely, be
fore any efforts to put out the
fire could be made. Lyman Culver
and Morris Thompson put out the
fire, to discover later the charred
remains of the unfortunate man.
Object to Plan
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(Bv The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Aug. I—In violent
opposition to Great Britain’s pro
posed partition of Palestine, lead
ers of public opinion from coast
to coast demanded swift action by
the United States to save the Jew
ish national home. As protests
against cutting the Holy Land in
three parts lept to new heights,
inBuentialAmericans of all creeds
called for action under the 1934
English-American treaty, ratify
ing the league of nations’ man
date.
NINE BURN TO DEATH IN BUS WRECK—Nine persons, including the driver, bruned to death in this Greyhound Line passenger bus
when it crack up unaccountably 48 miles north of Redding. Calif. Boys from a nearby CCC Camp thru water on the flames with little
effect. The bus was enroute from Sacramento to Portland, Ore.
Sees Great Deal
Of Development
Good News Bay
(By The Associated Press)
PLATINUM. Alaska, Aug. 4—
Fast moving developments which
have quickly transformed the wet
and wind swept Goodnews Bay
region from an isolated native
community to a booming meoca
for prospectors led to optimistic
predictions it would become one
of the world's richest platinum
fields, E. A. Rasmunson, president
of the Bank of Alaska at Anchor
age, observed the stampede here
and forecast Alaska platinum pro
duction might upset the world
market by 19S8.
New King Egypt
(By The Associated Press)
CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 4—King
Farouk was invested as ruler of
Egpyt in a stripped ceremony of
elaborate ritual. Farouk in fact
will not be crowned at all but
will take an oath to launch his
active reign.
BITTER DEBATE IN
HOUSE LORDS OVER
SUBJECT PALESTINE
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(Bv Tno Associated Press)
LONDON, Aug. 1—The British
plan to sub-divide Palestine into
Jewish and Arab states was scath
ingly attacked as “a surgical op
eration more dangerous than the
disease” in a heated House of
Lords debate.
Important figures in Great Bri
tain colonial policy, incensed at
the Palestine Commission's report
recommending such Arab-Jewish
partioning. asked that the govern
ment refuse to approve the pro
posal. _
YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 2—Four
teen Filipinos were jailed and ar
rests of other Filipinos, whites
and Indians were said by author
ities to be impending as a result
of a drive aimed to end violations
of the State’s alien land laws
here. The arrests followed an at
tempt to bar Filipinos and other
Orientals from leasing land on
the Yakima Indian Reservation.
Derblay Sailing
Postponed From
Aug. 12 To 15th
Information by wire today to
Alaska Line Agent oJe Hamish
at Nome, from the Alaska Steam
ship Co. in Seattle, declared that
the S. S. Derblay, originally sched
•uled to sail from Seattle for Nome
and Kotzebue Sound ports on
August 12th, would not sail un
til August 15th.
With the sailng daite postpon
ed three days, northern merchants
and shippers will be able to wire
in last minute orders for the
coming winter.
PAPERS FOR SALE
Buy them by the boodle. Uee
them for starting fires. For Sale
At the Nome Nugget
King George VI
Make 1st Plane
Trip Since Dec.
(By The Associated bress)
LONDON, Aug. 13, — King
George VI flew from Windsor
Castle to Southwold, Suffolk, in
the royal family’s new red and
blue monoplane—the first flight
since he became king last Decem
ber.
He made the trip of one hun
dred and fifteen miles, in thirty
five minutes. The king did not
take the controls of the plane
whcih was flown by Flight Com
mander Fielden.
Signed Articles !
(By The #Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Aug. 4—Joe Louis
world’s heavyweight champion,
and his British challenger Tommy
Farr, signed contracts for their 15 j
round title match to be held in
the Yankee tadium August 26th.
Louis will receive 40 per cent of
the gate and Farr, the British
Empire titleholder, 20 per cent.
Path Is Cleared
For Jap March
Across N. China
Two Japanese Columns Are
Pushing Forward Into
Hopeh Province
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug 5, — With a
continuous aerial bombardment
in progress, Japanese authorities
denied they had routed the west
ern concentration point of the
Chinese army.
However, they claimed to have
cleared a path for the Japanese
march across north China.
Parellel columns of Japanese
soldiers pressed southward into
eastern and western Hopeh pro
vince. toward the border of Shan
tung, near where main Chinese
armier are believed centering
Peiping has quited down and
foreigners began returning to
their homes from embassy com
pounds, as Japan continued pour
ing troops into the area from
Manchoukuo, fuLly mechanized.
It is believed the ness- troops
will raise the total to twenty five
thousand men. Japan has in the
I field.
At Foochow, China, port auth
orities are reported to have ar
il ranged to sink ships in the
mouth of the Ming River as a
barricade to a feared Japanese
naval attack.
Federal Crimes
Draw Attention,
More Or less
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D C.. Aug 5,
—Counterfeiting and smuggling
are declining which check forg
ing is increasing. Treasury re
ports revealed today.
Treasury heads said that coun
terfeits turned over to the Sec
ret Service by innocent takers,
amounted to only four hundred
and eighty seven thousand doll
ars for the fiscal year ending July
1st, one-third the amount for the
previous year.
The Customs Bureau reported
only nine thousand eight hun
dred dollars in seizures of smug
gled goods, as compared to thir
teen thousand dollars for the cor
responding period last year.
Check forger arrests increased
from 879 in 1935-36 to 1002 for
the last fiscal year.
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