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VOL. 38 No. 350 NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY. DEC. 16 1937 Per Copy lOctj
Jap Admiral Relieved Due Bombing
Panay Was Gunned by Vessel After Being Bombed
Morgan Brings
Radio Barrow
Gillam Plane
(By The Associated Press)
BARROW, Alaska, Dec. 15th—
U. S. Signal Corps Sargeant Stan
ley Morgan returned here after
?i difficult snow-mobile trip to
the scene of Pilot Gillam’s crash
near Cape Hackett on the Arctic
Ocean shore-s. Morgan said Gil
lam was unable to takeoff but
with temporary repairs made, he
may soon make the attempt.
Mlorgan brought most of the
load of Gillam’s plane to Barrow.
Morgan struck a blizzard and
rough ice, he froze his chin from
having to drive with his head out
the window.
Sir Hubert Wilkins says that he
probable will make his Polar
flight from Barrow instead of Ak
lavik as soon as weather permits.
Sir Hubert also said: “few peo
ple realize that one Polar flight
is equal in distance to a trip a
vross the A/tlantic ocean, with
many more hazards.”
Released Facts
Cunning Panay
True Reports
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—Sec
retary of Staite Cordell Hull an
nounced today that official re
ports confirmed the statements
that Japanese surface vessels ma
chine-gunned the U. S. Gunboat
Panay after it had been bombed
from the air by Japanese naval
fliers.
Hull said the information had
. oeen transmitted to the American
Ambassador a.t Tokyo for presen
tation to the Japanese Foreign
Office in the form of representa
tions to supplement the facts al
ready set forth in the govern
ment’s formal note of protest.
Secretary Hull gave no com
plete details concerning the in
formation received regarding the
attacks.
Urging Britain
Send More Ships
Oriental Coast
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Dec. 16, —A move
ment to urge Great Britain to
send more warships to China wat
ers in an attempt to rehabilitate
British prestige, was reported
under in the House of Commons.
A plea was expected to be
voiced next Tuesday at the for
eign affairs debate, unless the
situation meanwhile has eased
considerably.
Advocates contended that a
reinforcement- of the fleet would
put “a quick stop to attack on
British ships.”
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The Supremo Court—Informal Poses Of The .Tiistiees
Six Persons
Are Missing
2 Airplanes
<Bv The Associated Press'*
MANILA, P. I., Dec. 15, (A>)~
All available air, sea and land
forces of the governments of the
United States and the Philippine
commonwealth in the Islands
have been marshaled to search
for Mayor Paulino Santos of Ma
nila. who is the Philippine army’s
chief of staff; four other Philip
pine army officers, and one Am
erican, Lieut. William Lee. Fears
are expressed that the men flying
two planes,one laden with bombs,
were caught in the SLsayan Island
| typhoon and crashed in the rugg
ed Sierra Madre mountains or
the Pacific Ocean
FARM BILL HAS
FAVORED VOTE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—By a
vote of 51 to 25, the Senate re
jected an amendment offered by
Senator Charles L. McNary of
Oregon, republican floor leader,
to limit the operation of a farm
bill to three years, namely, from
1938 to 1940. inclusive.
Friends of the measure regard
ed the vote slightly favorable as
a test of the bill’s strength in the
Senate.
NOTICE
The Common Council, sitting as
a Board of Equalization will meet
on December 15th and 16th, 1937,
| at 7 o’clock P. M.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
By M. J. WALSH,
13-16th City Cleric
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Washington
| Once more Congress, that never
I failing source of comment, is in
| session. Although called specific
. ally to attend to emergency leg
islation, the Senate starts bus'i
; ness by a deadlock on the anti
j lynching bill. The end sought to
i be accomplished is commendable,
| but in no sense represents an em
ergency. Without attempting to
I defend lynching under any cir
cumstances, it is to be observed
that benign measures generally
! are used to strengthen the central
i government and to detract from
i the rights of the states. How far
; state’s are to be protected throws
! us back to a discussion that raged
! years ago, and so it appears that
legislation, like almost every
thing else,goes around and around
in a circle, with little involved
that Ls new essentially and in
principle.
The President's message called
for action tending to help the far
mer, for tax revision, especially
as to small business, for crop con
trol, for regulation of wages, and
for the familiar activity which is
designated by the somewhat elas
tic title of reorganizating the
government, any one of which, to
say nothing of all taken together,
is enough to start a general scra
tching of Congressional heads,
and it appears that if Congress
Quits at the end of the session
with a clean slate there will be
plenty to do in the meantime.
Conforming to precedent, the
Senate recessed to notify the Chief
Executive that Congress was in
session. He may have suspected
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Mexican Gov’t.
Is Thinking Of
Underprivilegc
(By Preston Grover)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Mex
ican government, in bringing the
abundant life to that country’s
underprivileged 90 per cent, is
employing methods which provide
our state department with round
the-clock nightmares.
Mexican laws authorize the gov
ernment to make little farms out
of big ones and it so happens that
some of the very biggest farms
are owned by wealthy Americans.
Rich Americans have been the
target of recent share-the-wealth
drives in this country but hardly
in the direct approach adopted by
President Cardenas.
Under the law. Cardenas may
limit the size of any farm to 150
acres of irrigated land. Measured
by American farm standards that
is still a sizeable acreage, but it is
still a sizeable ac.reage, but a a
merely a chicken-run compared
to some of the foreign-owned es
tates Cardenas is cutting uip waf
fle fashion for distribution among
the landless peons.
As an example, the 272,000-acre i
estate of William Jenkins in thej
state of Puebla has been “nation
alized." It will be split up into
cow pasture sizes to be fanned
by peons who never before own
ed the shadow under their own
sombreros. Similarly large tracts
are owned in Sonora by Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney and the John
Hays Hammond estates.
A Lesson in Valuation
This business of putting the
Farm laborer on a place of his
own has been one of the theme
songs of the present administra-'
tion in the United States and nat
urally this country can’t foam j
Simpsons Have
Decided to Live
Lives Abroad
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Dec. 15—Ernest
A. Simpson, former husband of
the Duchess of Windsor, and his
bride, the former Mrs. Mary Kirk.
Raffray, are in New York after a
honeymoon in New England, fol
lowing their marriage in Fair
field, Conn. They plan to sail in
a few days for England, where
they will make their home.
Divorced Last June
Simpson was divorced in Lon
don last June by the present
Duchess of Windsor for love of
whom the Duke, former King Ed
ward VIII surrendered the Bri
tish throne. The present Mrs.
Simpson was a girlhood friend of
the Duchess when the latter liv
ed in Baltimore, md,
Mrs. Simpson recently obtained
her divorce in Reno, Nev.
Simpson was born in New York,
but has lived in London many
years, and is a naturalized Brit
ish subject. He is in the ship
brokerage business and maintains
offices in New York and London.
with wrath when Mexico decides
that what is good for the share
cropper north of the Rio Grande
also is good for the peon below.
Little in the U. S. farm tenant
bill, however, parallels the do-it
now purpose of the Cardenas
plan.
The state department, whose job
it is to fret over these things,
does not dispute the virtue of the
Mexican objectives but decries
the method.
It seems that the Mexican gov
ernment is frying foreign land
owners in a grease of their own
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Penalty Meted
Out As Result
Panay Affair
w
(By The Associated Press)
SHONGHAI, Dec. 16th—Rear
Admira! Teizo Mitsunami. chief
of the Japanese Naval aerial op
erations. has been relieved of his
post as a result of bombing of the
U. S. gunboat Panay,
The Domei Japanese news ag
ency which carried the announce
ment of his removal, said: the
government is acting swiftly to
carry out its pledge to Americans
to punish the officers responsible
for the attack, and further ex
plained that Admiral Mitsunami
was also recalled because most of
the bombardments in China were
carried out by Naval planes.
Foreign observers said they be
lieved that the Panay bombing
and other attacks may have been
made by young officers who dis
regarded the efforts of thier com
manders to control their actions
Japanese forces have planned
their formal triumphal entry into
the fallen city of Nanking, to
morrow afternoon, while other
Japanese columns continued to
push further into the interior.
Seek Action On
j Wage and Hour
Bills At Once
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D. C., Dec. 16
—Administration leaders in Con
gress tried hard to complete in
written form, the wages; and
, hours bills, but Speaker Bank
! head said there was little chance
for it to reach the White House
before the special session ends
next week.
The Speaker said he was in
formed that the senate hoped to
pass its crop control bill within
the next few days.
Meanwhile the House is strug
gling over the wages and hours
measure in a new attempt to dis
card the administration-backed
wage and hour bill, in favor of an
entirely different measure to em
power the federal trade commis
sion the employment of workers
under “sub-standard" labor con
ditions, unfair method of compe
tition. It was sent to the house
where heated debate is now goin^
on.
Better Feeling
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, Dec. 16—Foreign Mir;
ister Koki Hirota announced to
the Japanese cabinet that the
Counsel of Foreign Mmisitry was
trying to devise a “satisfactory
settlement" of the U. S. G-unbo.it
Panay bombing incident. He al
so said that “both United States
and Britain were apparently
showing more signs of under
standing the unhappy incident
than previously. Likewise, pub
lic opinion in the respective coun
tries seams more favorable to
ward the Japanese.”
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