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— THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
V0L on No 216. NOME. ALASKA, TUE VY. JULY 20, 1937 r :opy lOct®
“Flying Hotel” Arrives Seattle Enroute To Nome
Spirited Fi«jiihig
Japanese? Chinese
Still Co-itinuing
c
(By The* A~snr?ated Pres** *
SHANGHAI. July 20 — The
Chin--? arsenal at the barracks
at Wangpingshia burst into flam
es under a punitive Japanese ar
11< ry shelling. I- is reli: bly .re*
ported that fighting hr u 1:e out
there and other posit; >n.s vest of
Peiping at 2:30 this m rn ng. two
and a half hours after the ulti
matum demanding Chinese eva
cuation of the area had expired.
The fire was still raging tour
hours later.
Japanese officials said their
uoops were- retaliating tha “un
provoked and intermittent Chin
e-e firing against the Japanese
Ji.ie.” Chinese field gun fire met
tiie Jap advance, but the Jap's
returned the fire and s.lev.ced the
Chinese activities.
House Passed Bill
Provide for Vote
New Legislature
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 20
—The House passed and sent to
the Senate, Delegate Dimond's
bill, providing for a referendum
to be taken in Alaska for the es
tablishment of a one house legis
lature, in place of the present
Senate and House legislature.
NAVIGATOR.
Flight Lieut. James Scarlett ar
rived at New York ready to
navigate Endeavour II, British
yacht entry for the America’s
cup. .. ..
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WAR ON BROADWAY. Here’s Madrid’s “Broadway cafe," homelike night spot for American
tourists in peacetime, but now a place where whoopee, if any. must be pursued quietly behind a grim
exterior of sandbags. Bursting bombs from Insurgent planes have damaged the building extensively.
Lightning is Cause
Of Forest Fires
Northwest
(By The Associated Press'
SEATTLE, July 20—Lightning
set forest fires raging and plagued
hundreds of fire fighters in Wash
ington, and Oregon today. Satur
day and Sunday lightning spray
ed fifteen fires in eastern Pierce,
and Lewis counties, Washington;
seven in Snoqualmie National
forest, fifty along the Columbia,
and more than a hundred in
Mount Hood National forest, Ore
gon. Most of the fires were con
trolled before they reached green
timber.
Telegraphic Briefs
CBy The Associated Press)
PORTLAND, Ore., July 20—An
armless and headless torso, poss
ibly that of a woman who was
slain and dismembered about a
year ago, was found in a small
river near St. Helens.
VERDEN, Okalhoma, July 20
While G-men and state and county
officers hunted him, Roy Traxler,
a fugitive of a Texas prison farm
drove boldly into Verden at dawn
picked up his wife and heavy
luggage and fled with her in a
car, while officers and acquaint
ances stood flatfooted.
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Irving McK. Reed
Appointed Cheek
Mining Alaska
FAIRBANKS MAN IS AP
POINTED ASSOCIATE MINING
ENGINEER FOR TERRITORY
OF ALASKA
Appointment of Irving McK
Reed as associate mining engi
neer and ex-officio inspector of
mines for the territory has heen
announced by Ben D. Stewart,
territorial commissioner of mines.
Mr. Reed’s duties are three-fold:
First—to get data on mining
now going on, number of men
employed, wages, methods, water
supply, transportation and costs
To Obtain Data
Second—to obtain information
on each good creek in Alaska so
that this information can be giv
en to prospectors who need to
know what work has already
been done, and to know what
creeks are the most promising
Three—to get data for capital
investment in mining properties,
these data to be supplied to Alas
kans as well as to business men
Outside.
Experienced Engineer
An experienced mining engi
neer in the Fairbanks district,
Mr. Reed also has had 23 years
of mining experience on the Se
ward peninsula, and has served
the territorial mines commission
on the platinum and gold in the
(Continued on Page Three)
Marconi, Inventor
Radio Died At
Rome Today
—
(By The Associated r’ress)
ROME. July 20 — Goglielmo.
Marconi, wireless telegraphy in
ventor, died unexpectedly of heart
paralysis at the age of 63. Up to
yesterday he worked on experi
ments in an endeavor to adapt a
micro-wave to long distance trans
mission and on television.
Marconi Company officers said
he reached the stage where it was
practically' impossible for him to
continue the work of invention.
Steamer Stopped
Check On Cargo
Money, Jewels
(By The Associated Press')
AMSTERDAM, July 19- The
freighter Thorpehall, flying a
British flag was held for a court
ruling on the ownership of her
cargo of money and jewejry from j
insurgents captured by Bilbao in
Spain. The ship was detained at
Flughing on request of a French
lawyer. He claimed to represent
Bilbao Banks whence the cargo
allegedly came. Two others of a
trio of steamers supposedly trans
porting valuables from the Basque
capital have been held at La
Rochelle, France.
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flyim; boat to be i sed
ON \ NO TIE TO SEATTLE
BIN READY BEGIN iSOS’S
Had Misfortunes oh Flight
North to Seattle. Will
Leave Soon for \oRfh
(By The Assoc: it :d Pr-.ol
SEATTLE. ,1 ' 20 After n
thre u e tks trip s ■ Dleg >,
d j due t ‘ ard other
things. T ■ ?..•*• v. ■ r> loted
the "F v ng Hot - M ■.
etti. here > ste. . y i . being
servict i t ti:e Lai t'i tea
pl m term in il iday. ratory
to lea. :aa ii the rxt • a lays
(or Southeastern Alaska*, Alech
an.cs T. O. Hansen ,V.-d James
MulUn will accompany .. a.
The plane is a 22 pa»e.i«er af
fair capable of carrying _• four
Lor. payload. Two ~i pilot
Schwamms ribs were crocked
when bruised them on his
flight north while n. iking W slid
ing in twelve foot breakers.
The plane is ti.e same ty pe as
General Balboa flew from Italy to
the Chicago world’s fair. Soh
•wamm said there was only about
three men in this country that
.•ver handled this type of pi are.
NOTICE
The Nome Daily Nugget eur:ie
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and dr.ll repotts
Mining Deeds, Placer and L'di
Location Notices. Vouchers,
UP PROM UNDER.
Beauty queen of all Australian
states, Sheila Martin, 21, of
Wagga N. S. VV„ arrived in New
Vork after attending the corona
tion. She was presented at court
Tn o Negroes Hung
'Hv The -■> Press 1
TALLAHASSEE. ' 20 -
A - stan: P- ce C-le: W L.
Pratt r ^ i that t t two yo®ng
negroes who were charged with
stabbing a Tallahassee policeman,
were lynched b y ar unidentified
mob this morning
IN TfiiS CORNER. Yeah. It’s Maxie and a hunk of toast in
London. Although he once mastered Heavyweight Champion Joe
Louis, it looked like Schmelinj would have to do it again to regain
the title. Europe hoped he would take on England s champ, Tom r an.