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NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE—ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY AVIATION
THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 38 Vo. 284 NOME. ALASKA;- 'TUESDAY SEPT. 28 1937 i. ’ ' * Per Copy 10ct»
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Japan Fears Attacks From Soviets
P.W.A. PROJECTS OF MORE WORTH ARMS
On Way Home Discuss Russian Position In China
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UP CALL FI
(By The Aaso
NANKING, Sept. 28—Dimitri
Bogomoloff, Soviet Ambassador
to China, left suddenly for Mos
cow by plane on what is believed
to be a vital mission affecting
the Russian position in the Sino
Japanese war.
Ambassador Bogomoloff left af
ter Japanese raiding planes had
been driven off by Chinese pur
suit planes, and before they could
inflict damage to military objec
tives.
A fleet of thirty Japanese planes
borrtbed the military airdrome
on the outskirts of Nanking for
| ten minutes before the Chinese
Japan To Have Army Six Hundred
Thousand Men In North China In
Case Of A Clash With Soviet Russia
—
(By The Associated P-ess’
SHANGHAI. Sept. 28—The Jap
anese, it is estimated by foreign
military observers in North Chi
na,will1 be mobilizing six hundred
thousand troops for a possible
clash with Russia.
As the Japanese armies claimed
advances on all Chinese fronts,
the French army authorities in
Tientsin, headquarters for the
North China Japanese Epedition
ary Forces, reported that the full
strengths of the Japanese in Kor
ea and Manchoukou on the Soviet
border, were being placed on a
war footing, in the even that the
Russians become embroiled in
war.
Tokyo dispatches said that the
war office has issued orders, af
fecting virtually every able bod
ied man in Japan, and prolonging
military service indefinitely for
all officers and men. on both, ac
tive and reserve lists.
Small Boat Was
Towed To Nome
Receiving word from A. D.
Stormfeltz yesterday that a small
boat was drifting helplessly in
Bering Sea near the mouth of
Hastings Crk, Officer in Charge
Sprenger and his men of the U.
S. oast Guard proceeded down
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FULL SPEED AHEAD. Although a few pounds heavier.
Martha Norellua still has Just as much pep as she had in the period
from 1924 to 1929 when she won 1,000 consecutive races. So the
aquatic star Umbered up for an appearance in Lake Erie, using a
mechanical swimming machine.
iADOR CHINA IS
COW: HURRY
SOM HEAD
dated Press)
craft rose to attack them. Thte
Japanese attack was apparently
a reaction to foreign protests
against the bombardment of civ
ilians. The Japanese, however,
avoided thickly populated area£.
Twelve Chinese craft were suc
cessful in cutting out an equal
number of Japanese planes, and
for more than an hour they fought
a series of dog fights high in the
| skies, before the battle ended in
a draw.
Volunteer Fire
Dept. Is Aim Of
Nome Council
Swinging into action with a
new motorized fire department,
the Nome City Council last even
ing took steps to arrange for the
remode-ling of the Fire Station in
order to house both summer and
winter equipment. The Fire Com
mittee was given authority to pro
ceed immediately with the work
and to have everything ready in
time for the arrival of the winter
equipment, coming in on the last
boat from Seattle.
In addition the subject of form
ing a Volunteer Fire Department
received an enthusiastic boost
last night, when the council ap
pointed a committee to work
, with Chief Laws in planning de
! tails and making arrangements
for public support, for this vital
organization in Nome.
The reviving of a “Firemen’s
Ball” was suggested and the com
mittee is to make arrangements
for securing the best date possi
ble this fall just before the last
boat sails from Nome.
With motorized equipment and
fire fighting apparatus which has
been brought uptodiate under ap
proval of the Board of Fire Un
derwriters, Nome can, with an
active and well trained Volunteer
Department, expect some reduc
tion in fire insurance rates, it was
stated. It was expected that fur
ther details would be made pub
lic as the plans for the formation
of a Volunteer Department are
completed.
Under unfinished business (and
the subject has been in that class
ification for many years), the city
council took action to sell the old
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IGNORANT GENIUS.
Five-year-old Barbara Shirley
of Seattle doesn’t know she has
a mental age of nine years, as
shown by intelligence tests.
Last Sailing For
Nome Set Oct.
15 From Seattle
Nome Agent Joe Harmsh of the
Alaska Steamship Co., today re
ceived a wire from the Seattle
office advising him that the sail
ing of the S. S. Baranof from
Seattle for, on the last voyage to
Bering Sea for 1937, had been set
ahead to 10 A.M. October 15th.
The original schedule called for
October 9th. This advance in
sailing will allow merchants and
others in this northern section
full opportunity for ordering of
last minute necessities.
The Baranof, said reports to
Agent Harnish today, was now at
Egavik loading reindeer, having
completed discharging of cargo
at St. Michael.
The S. S. Derblay which has
been in Kotzebue Sound for some
time, contacting various ports, is
expected to arrive at Nome this
evening.
Soviets Continue
Search
Russian Fliers
The U. S. Weather Bureau at
Nome was informed by Fairbanks
weather officials that activity will
continue during the next month
at least in search for the lost So
viet fliers. Three hourly reports
from the Nome and Pt. Barrow
airway stations will be required
during this period from 6 a m. to
6 p.m. and special observation at
Midnight.
President Roosevelt Makes First
Formal Speech On The W est Coast
(By The Associated Press)
BONNEVILLE DAM, Oregon,
Sept. 28th—'President Roosevelt
stood on this great federal power
and navigation project and as
serted that its cost would be re
turned many times over, through
improved navigation, cheaper el
ectricity and its distribution of
power to “hundreds of small com
munities within a great radius’’.
This was the president’s first
formal address on his west coast
trip. He tied in this fifty-one
| million Columbia Basin under
i taking with his program of Re
gional Nrtional Planning, and
declared, that Instead of spend
ing half of its income on arma
ments, as some nations do, Amer
ica was wiser in building such
projects, to give “more wealth,
better living and greater happi
ness ti our children’’.
The president also predicted
that through a broader use of
electric power, a “wider geogra
phical distribution of population”
was possible through the build
ing up of small communities, and
thus prevent undue expansion of
‘overlarge” cities, and their high
living costs and other disadvan
tages.
President Roosevelt promised
"definitely a balanced” budget on
the next fiscal year, July 1. 1938.
Post Office Dep’t.
To Issue Alaska
Stamp Series
(Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D. C., Sept. 28
—Roy North, third assistant post
master, said that the Department
will issue an Alaskan three cent
stamp early in November, depict*
ing the transition of the Territory
from an undeveloped to a devel
oped state. He said there was
some talk of placing Totem Pole
stamps on thcji-nn. but the sug
gestion was discarded. “We want
to show Alaska as a modern ter
ritory, appealing to the citizens
of today,” he said.
Bishop Crimont In
Audience Pope
fBv The Associated Press'
CASTLE GANDOLFO, Sept. 28
—Pope Pius held a private audi
ence with Bishop Crimont of Al
aska, who held a long cordial
conversation, during which the
bishop reported on the religious
and educational conditions exist
ing in Alaska.
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FLIPPER FEELS FINE. The Cleveland Indians’ “problem
child,” Bob Feller, hopes his troubles are over (or a while. With his
ami back in shape. Manager Steve O’Neill hopes to send the (arm
boy to the mound every live days 1( the arm will stand it.