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VOLUME 85 No. 108. ' > NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY, 'September 8. I!»:*l ,v' « *'P>: 10 cent*.
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PASSENGER SHIP AFIRE, 231 UNACCOUNTED FOB
ITALY CONCERNED OVEB JAP’S INTERVENTION
HUGE OCEAN LINER BURNS AT
SEA MANY UNACCOUNTED FOR
DOCTOR TELLS STORY
OE TRAGIC BURNING
OF SHIP AT SEA
EIRE SWEPT PASSENGER
LINER AT SEA: 800
PA8SIJN GKRS ACCOUNTED FOB
(By The Associated Press).,
SPRf.NGL.AKE, X. J„ Sept. 8,1
Fire, .be terror of the sea swept
the passenger liner Morro ('asil i
In a storm shrouded by .larkne
At oa vn the vessel wras els?at |
miles off shore from Ashbury
Park.' An hour and a half later
more than three hundred of the
five hundred and fifty eight pass
engers and crew were accounted
for.
The first frantic SOS that the
"Morro Costle was afire off Scot
land light,” was pifcked up af
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3:23 a.m., eastern standard time.
So swiftly did the rolling flame*
envelope the ship with three hun.
fired and eighteen passengers who
wwre enroute home to New York
after * a seven day excursion trip
to Havana, the ship was soon
aflame from stem to stern.
Bodies were visible in the water
off the beach at Sandy Hook,
when shrfhoats in the hands oi
the Coast Guard pushed their
way through heavy seas to search
for survivors.
The blaze started, apparenty, in
the library section, some mem
bers of the crew reaching shore
said, and spread to the great
'ants of fuel oil and the:* en
veloped the eleven thousand ton
liner. A pillar of flames was vis
ible along the Jersey coast.
ITALY IS CONCERNED
OVER INTERVENTION j
BY JAPANESE 60VT.
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CONCERN 18 FEW BY ITALY
JAPANESE PENETRATION
OF ABYSSINIA
(By The Associated Press)
ROME, Sept. 8, The Japanese
penetration of Abyssinia is causing
considerable concern in Italy, It
was stated in informed quarters
today, after it became known that
troops and munitions had been
sent to Italian colonies
In Eastern Africa a sense of
uneasiness because of Japanese
activity, increased, it 'is said, be
cause of growing militaristic ag
itation in the Btbeopian empire of
Abyssinia.
Soldiers and supplies were con
sequently dispatched to Eritrea,
Italy’s colony in the Red Sea, and
also to Somaliland.
An official spokesmen said that
the extension of Japanese trade to
Abyssinia also fav#P Emperor Haile
Selassie who besought that the
Japanese “should save warning to
the Asiatic people that they are
establishing a foothold near the
doors ofi Europe.”
AMERICAN MECHANIC'S ARRIVE
lU SHIA FOR DECORATIONS
(By The Associated Press)
LENINGRAD. Sept. 9. <-lyd»
Ar'isted and WiUhm I.avcry. of
F* rbanks, botx avUt'On merhan
ic! were todav awarded the Order
of Lenin for ajslsting in the res
cue of Professor O'to Schmidt and
the «rew of the icebreaker Chel
luskin. They arrived In Leningrad
Tuesday and will proceed to Mos
cow next week, where President
Kalinin will confer on them fur
ther decorations.
I>r. Chas. Cochran of Brooklyn,
came ashore among other surviv
ors and gave a graphic discretion
of the scene which greeted his
eyds, who said, “the front part of
the -hip wa:, all allapte hut I Jj!
not think that any p.is.-i ngers got1
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caught in the hold or ea > t and i
that any body. . r• • m mv point '<<
the ship beyond the tii.rary had a
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ail V vVccot’NTKn Voit
(ny The Assorlatj.1 Pret-i)
SIMUNGGAKK. Sept S. latter,
Naval headquarters estimated that
one hundred and eighty live sur
vivors were either landed or wasit
ed ashore on Jersey benches, and
that two hundred and titty-one
passengers were still unaccounted
for.
WOMEN ENTERTAINERS AIIK
MIXED IN SCANDAI.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept S, The' use
of women and American warships
in the sales of armament to for
eign nations, were two* phases i*i
a wide range of testimony gleaned
by the munitions committee.
Louis Briggs. American Ordin
ance maker was a witness as a
series of documents and letters
went, on record. Among other,
things they said that Vickers Lim
ited, English ally of the Electric
Boat Company had used women
entertainers in efforts to promote
sales in Turkey.
An American warship stopped at
Turkey in 19 29 to ’show Briggs
made guns to Turkish officials.
The King of England intervened
through the Polish Ambassador in
London to hinder the sale of guns
by the American concern to Po
land. American naval of Peers dr&w
up the plans of defense for Col
ombian ports during the dispute
with Peru over Leticia. All of
these and several more startling
revelations were disclosed.
BUSINESS MAN STATES HIS
OPINION OF HUEY LONG
(By The Associated Press)
BATON ROUGE, Sept. 8. Alfred
Stamannt, business man, (said that
he had wired Senator Huey Long
here: “Personally I would kill
you as I would any other mn«I
dog,” If any harm befell his son
who la a member of the Natlonul
Guard, which was called Into ac
tion as the result of the primary
election mobilization.
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WASHINGTON
CLRRRINT
COMMENT
According to a column head
ing, Japan pledges fresh friend
ship with the I'nited States. The
friendship will bB welcome,' hut it
should not lie too fresh.
A Washington radio announcer
who stated through the micro
phone'that the place where he was
wo.'king was dreadful hot. re*eH
cd a telephone call In which In*
was asked to change t!»,. suh.iiil
since the psych* logical effect of
hik remark was had Psychology
has come into prominence of l it \
and no doubt is entitle*} to tin* im
portaiice that it attache*} * to it,
hut not even psychology should lie
permitted to kill so import .ul a
topic of conversation as th- wea
ther. Climatic conditions have
bridged over many a" wide chasm
at a dinner tahle-and elsewhere.
Not everyone is a- diplomat or :l
good conversationalist. Our light
to talk about the weather now and
then may not tie guaranteed by the
Constitution, hut it should not he
ctfhalled or infringed
Out in Arizona, a nineteen year
old liny who had committed mur
der was led to tlte gas chamber,
and passed from Here to There
in a few seconds. Executioners
make better time titan they used
to. It took several days now and
then to put a man out of busi
ness on tile rack. Hunting at the
stake occupied an hour or two. If.
the wood was green or if it happ
ened to rain. Regardless of whe
ther criminals are dispatched
rough-lianded or humanly. the
workmen perish but th,, work goes
370,000 PERSONS IDLE
AS THE RESULT OF
BIG TEXTILE STRIKE
ft
TKXTII.K STIilkK (OMHTIOVS
INCH WdKII: AKK AI1A.MAVT |
(Ilv The Associated Press/
I'.VDATKI). Sept 8. Chairman
(li/rman of- the Textile Strike Com
til iff f A fiftoc o miifo»oir/»n ii' i i h
the strikf situation \va> uneiiMig
< (j
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j Iri* said- the strike committ-.
would return for another confe
e/'ce tom rrow.
Au (jl.lepeiHient survey piaceii
thi nil fuller of idle at tlir e Inn
died and seventy thousand S c
reta.ry f’erkins, after a conference
with the mediation hoard, express
'd confidence that thP hoard wan'd
tie aide to arrange a sett] ^meut
tver the walkout
State’ ''troopi rs were” called InH
’ ^ t
aeyioti iu sylvan la. v i *n
persons* were injwrc.l '
■ ister <' .niity
(ierniae i«sne.d an order caling
for, concentration of ail '.‘weak
spots" , in the textile areas, de
elarinsr “We ,st» i! 1 - badge, an
iio li in .out ;i.& i.ih.n.. . tku -itrit-s
ft) list end in victory.*'
!on. Just ind'fgnat.ion occasionally
l prompts one to wish that erucif
jlrathui wer,« hack ■ u the statute
hooks. When’ cool yea son resum
es control and prompts a eandid
survey, the thinker may arrive al
tli,, eonelusipn that capital punish
ment has nor made out jits case.
Russia is said to have an auto
which can lie operated on land or
on water. If a vehicle of that
kind comes Into use, both sailors
and motorists "ill have to learn a
new language. The left-turn sign
on the highway may become:
"Sheer off to port." Who would
I . r
frel at home with a sea story ia
Which (lie skipper's voice rose
above thf. tempest in ait order t :*
pump up the !ir>s? Such; histor
ical and rimtiiiK messages as:
"We have met tile enemy am).the/
0
tire ours," sir "Kiigland expects
I every man to do his duty." will
i degenerate into: "Our. opponent
ran out of tras at four o'clock tufcl
we hent his front fender slinrS
!y thereafter."- Soviet commun
ism may have to lie accepted', hut
the first work of the ('onnresij
that convenes in the fall should .be
to put a definite stop to the in
troduction of tlln amphibious Sov
iet automobile.
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PETITION URGES INCREASE
PRICE OF GOLD TO $41.43
URGES GOi.lt UK INCREASED
ro *41.43 AN OUNCE
(By The Associated Press'
NEW YOKE, Sept .8. A peti
tion signed by farm lenders and
business men urged the immediate
Increase in the price of gold, was
banded to President Kooseve.lt r
Hyde Purk, by Dr Irving Fisher
if Yale University Committee for
national finance.
This was announced last night
and the petition held that the ln
eease in the gold price would in
cease the prices which fame
and other basis producers would
receive for their commodities,
while causing only a small In
jrease in the ooet of living.
The petition sought that the
jold prices be raised from $36.00
to $41.43 ah ounce, the maxi
mum authorized by Congress.
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FIGIIT POSTPONED 8KD TIME
(Hy The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. S. Later,
forced into it third postponement
on account of rain, the Ross
MoLarnin fight has been set for
Sept 15th. Both fighters will go
back into active training again.
CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT IS
POSTPONED ACCOUNT RAIN
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 8. The Roae
MoLarnln welterweight champion
ship bout was postponed on ac
countof rain. It will be fough:
Saturday night if the weather
permits, otherwise it will be post
poned ag^ln to Tuesday night.
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SCIENTISTS REPORT ON
CONDITIONS ESKIMO
CORDOVA, Sept. N, Ravages '>r
Ihe white map's diseases, and li
quor, combined with the scarcity
of natural food supplies, is fast
f
depopulating the Eskimo race, say*
Dr. V E. Devine and Professor C.
W. Bauer, of Creighton University,
Omaha, upon the completion of
their first series of medical re
searches among the natives of the
far north .
The two spent the summer near
Nome making tests. They found
the native’s sensibility to tubercuf
osis and other diseases higher than
any other place In the world.
They calculated the Eskimo’s span
of life about twenty years. Th®
birth-rate they said was exception
ally low.