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VOL. 38. No. 316. NOME. ALASKA. Thursday. NOV. 4th. 1937. Per Copy 10ct»
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Another dr Attack is Made Madrid
:hinks m ay witf draw from shanghai
Director Air Bureau "o Ask Congressional Funds
WILL SEEK FUNDS
IMPROVE AIRWAYS
3 THRUOUT ALASKA
DEF ITE PROGRAM
K. SAID PROGRESS
PROP* S TO DIVIDE THE
SIX MILLION DOLLAR
FI SD FOR AIRWAYS
WASHIN*
4, (JP) _ Offi
cated an attempt would be
made to ask congress for suffi
cient funds to carry forward
a comprehensive program of
aids to aerial navigation in
Alaska.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, —The
Bureau of Air Commerce today
announced it would submit to
the Bureau of the Budget, a re
quest for a six million dollar con
gressional appropriation for nav
igational aids to aviation in Al
aska and the Hawaiian Islands.
Reports Progress
Director Fred D. Fagg Jr., re
ported progress on the plan for
^ aeronautical development in Al
aska, and said he hoped a simi
lar program would be outlined
for Hawaii.
Funds Be Divided
He declared that the six mill
ion dollars sought from congress,
would be divided, three million
% dollars for airway aids in both
Territories, and the remaining
three million be devoted to air
orts, also in both Alaska and Haw
aii.
Reich Backed
Italy Refusal to
Attend Parley
Semi-Official Source Claims The
Questions Go Beyond Scope
Of 3-Power Plan
< By The Associated Press)
BERLIN. Nov.— The German
» Government naturally supports
wholeheartedly the negative It
alian reply to the Anglo-French
invitation to a tripartite confer
ence.
The Foreign Office’s semi-offi
cial voice, the Dpilomatische Kor
respondenz, said:
“All of these quesitons obvious
ly extend beyond the scope of the
0 three-power conference proposed
by London and Paris.
“If. therefore, the two western
powers, are'really influenced on
ly by those considerations, they
would do well to bring the mat
ter where it can be considered
1 fully by all the powers interested
in the pacification of Spain. Every
p other effort would only carry the
stamp of a forced decision or of
certain secondary considerations.”
German semi-official comment
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China Rumored
May Withdraw
From Shanghai
RUMOR PERSISTS
MAY BACK OUT
CHINESE ARTILLERY WIPED
OUT BRIDGES AS FAST
AS THEY BUILT
SHANGHAI. Nov. 4. (/Pi
Reports are persistent here
that the Chinese are contem
plating withdrawing from the
entire Shanghai peninsula.
However, no confirmation has
been received.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 4. — Japan
ese forces trying to drive the,
Chinese south of their Soochow
Creek positions, today bombard
ed the Jess Field Park area near
British army outposts, whole air-j
planes took to the air to drop a
number of small bombs on the
right flank of the Chinese lines,
extending westward from Shang
hai.
Japs Suffered Setback
The Japanese drive suffered a
setback, a Chinese spokesman de
clared, when Chinese artillery
destroyed two or three bridges
which the Japanese engineers
threw over Soochow Creek. Sev
ere fighting took place on the
south batik beyond Rubicon vill-,
age, as persistent reports were J
rumored that the Chinese were
on the v rge of withdrawing from i
the entire Shanghai Peninsula. j
WAR'S MISERY is re
flected in the face of this Shang
hai mother who, hungry herself,
tries to sustain life in her tiny
infant.
TO BE A SAILOR. HE SAW A TAILOR and had this jacket fashioned,
making possible “aerodynamic skiing." The sail-like coat, designed by a Viennese inventor, is of spe
cial design, reaching from shoulders to feet. Going before the wind, it acts as sail, driving the skier
over the snow at high speed. When used in downhill sliding, the expansive cloth balloons backward,
acting as a brake as this sportsman demonstrates when he rounds a curve.
Small Attendance
At Volunteer
Meeting
The first regular monthly meet
ing of the Nome Volunteer Fire
Department convened last even
ing at 8 p.m. and proceeded to
regular order of business. A num
ber of citizens were present in
reply to the invitation broadcast
during the past three days, to the
public, to attend.
Reports of committees were
heard, including the Benefit Dan
ce committee, which declared it
was working out plans for en
tertainment and the staging of a
big affair, the night before Thanks
giving Day. Admission tickets
had been printed and were dis
tributed to all members who are
to proceed with the work of see
ing that everyone in town gets
a chance to purchase at least one.
The report of the committee on
an all-night telephone service
was submitted and discussion
took place concerning it.
It was learned that for the
monthly payment of $100. an ex
tra telephone operator would be
put on the by Alaska Tel. and
Tel. Co. to serve during the night
between midnight and eight o’
clock in the morning. The value
of such service would be great,
it was said, as when fires break
out at night, the operator could
call the volunteers as well as
the department, and everyone
who had a telephone would be
able to give an alarm at any
time of the night.
The committee was asked to
continue working on this subject
and possibly take it up with the
C:ty Council.
The Volunteers passed a motion
that the payment for their last
call and drill be donated toward
making the meeting room in the
fire station more comfortable by
the purchase of several house
hold articles.
Before adjourning President
Liwis thanked those who had at
tended, hoping that they would
always be interested in the pro
motion of the welfare of the De
I
partment.
Sc\ crai m mbers afterward
commented on the fact that out
of nearly thirty business people
ar.d merchants, only two or three
had attended the me ting, in re
sponse to a publ c invitation. The
general attitude of the members
appeared to be that Nome's mer
chants for some reason, didn’t
care to recognize the newly form
ed department, otherwise they
would probably have been glad
to attend. However, the Nome
(Continued on Page Four)
THREE ON A MATCH seems to hold no terrors for these
British marines and American naval officers in Shanghai’s Interna
tional Settlement. The representatives of two nations are conferring
near a sandbag barricade as they carry out their duty to protect lives
and property of thousands of foreign citizens.
250 Known Dead
Many Injured
In Wed.'s Raid
WAS WORST ATTACK
OF CIVIL WARFARE
ANOTHER AERIAL ATTACK IS
MADE ON CATALANIAN
CITY—80 DEAD
MADRID. Nov. 4, <7P) —
A checkup on those killed and
injured in yesterday's air
raid revealed that '150 were
killed and more than 100 in
jured.
MADRID. Nov. 4. - An official
announcement today placed th«
toll of yeste'iiay a air bombing of
Lerida, at two hundred and fifty
dead and more than seven hun
dred injured
Another Attack Made
A similar attack was made to
day on Barbastro. another Catai
anian city, which reported eighty
killed.
The two attacks were ranked
by a Madrid newspaper as am
ong the worst attacks on govern
ment territory since the beginning
of the civil war.
Three persons were killed in
Madrid today by one shelL and
a dozen injured during a pro
longed insurgent shelling of the
city.
A New V oleanie
Island Is Found
Aleutian Chain
SEATTLE. Nov. 4 —
Discovery of another live vol
cano on the Aleutian Islands
is believed to have been made
by the Office of Indian Affairs
vessel Boxer, which wireless
ed witnessing an eruption
yesterday.
SEATTLE. Nov 4. The U.
S. Weather Bureau here said this
morning it had received a radio
gram from the Office of Indian
Affairs ship “Boxer". describing
a violent volcanic eruption on
Yunaska Island, in the Aleutian
chain, west of Unalaska Island.
Passed Nearby
The Boxer passed fifteen miles
to the northwest of Yunaska Is
land the message said.
The eruption cover.d the en
tire island with flames. The dis
turbance was most violent in the
center of the island diminishing
at the East and West ends.
Yunaska Island si believed to
be unpopulated, as it has no sour
ce of fresh water.
Establishment of army air ser
vice between Seattle and Alaska
by the Postoffice Department “not
later than the spring of 193fi,’’
was asked recently in a resolu
tion adopted by the Seattle Cham
her of Commerce.