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' THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL 38 No 271. NO]ME, ALASKA, MONDAY, Sept. 13, 1937 Per Copy 10ct»
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Soviet Rescue Pilot Reported Down
CHINESE RETIRE TO SECOND LINE DEFENSE
, Quartz Mine At Bluff To Operate Year Around
« Soviet Rescue
Pilot Reported
Cracked Up
»
(By The Associated Press)
9 PT. BARROW, Sept. 12—It was
reported here that Plot Zadkoff
crashed in the Arctic north oi
Barrow and that his plane sunk
but Zadkoff was safe. He hopped
from tire Krassin yesterday to
continue his search for the miss
ing Soviet fliers. No details of
the crash were received.
Finds Mother,
Two Sister and
Brother Dead
PITTSBURGH, (AP) — Frank
Gregor found the bullet-pierced
bodies of his mother, two sisters
and a brother in the bedroom of
their home.
' Homicide detectives said they
found a note signed by Benard
Gregor, 20, reading, “If there was
some way other than this out of
our misery. At one time or other
■ ^ I’ve heard all these -say something
exactly like they wished, they
weire dead.”
Bernard lay near the bed with
a rifle beside him. The sisters,
Marion, 13; Betty. 17, lay in their
night clothing sprawled together
with bullet wounds in their head -
One Killed In
Military Plane
j
Puget Sound
(By The Associated Press)
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash.,
Sept. 12 — Technical Sergeant
John F. BillSborrow of Seattle
was kilLed when a marine corps
reserve scouting plane caught
fire and exploded in mid-air dur
ing maneuvers over Puget Sound.
Captain Joseph P. Adams bailed
out safely.
Russians Active
On Search For
The Lost Fliers
Information has hem received
from Fairbanks by the Nome
Office of the U. 3. Weather Bu
reau that planes have been act
ive in contmuemg the search for
the lost Soviet plane. Wien Air
linos and Glllam Airways have
carried gasoline from. Fairbanks
to Aklavik for the Russian Gov*
eminent to continue operations.
and ’..(-dies. The mother, Mrs. An
na Gregor was crumple at the
foo<t of the bed.
Herman Schutte, ' a neighbor,
said he heard shots about 5 a.m.
ft •
LORD RAZZBRRRY. The annual cricket'match between
Eton and Harrow schools is as orach a social event of the London
season as the game itself. Here Is one of the young students at the
gates being interviewed by some of London’s native youngsters.
After Heavy Fighting At Shanghai
And Peiping Chinese Retire To
Their Strong Second Line Defense
(By The Associated Presst
SHANGHAI. Sept. 13— Under
heavy fire from Japanese land
and sea batteries, the Chinese
abandoned the hotly fought sai
inet north of Shanghai and with
drew all her forces to the pow
erfully fortified second line of de
fense, a network of trenches
stretching from Shanghai, twenty
five miles to the northwest. The
Chinese retreat, which was or
derly and strategic, to prepared
positions which they had expect
ed to fall back on as the full
force of Japan’s mechanized ad
vance surged against them. The
Japanese followed hard on the
heels of the retreating Chinese
and quickly occupied the far
eastern race course, now com
pletely ruined, and Kiangwan. !
civic center. The Chinese had
held this area for a full month
against the fiercest Japanese as
sauts.
PEIPLNG, Sept. 13 — Heavy
fighting was reported between
the Chinese and Japanese armies
pitted on the important Peiping
J Hankow railway, thirty miles
south of this ancient capitol.
Japanese officials said Chinese
troops, flanking the railway had
broken through the Japanese
lines yesterday but were later
surrounded and annhilated. Jap
anese planers dropped bombs on
Chinese irregulars in all sides of
Peiping.
Bluff Quartz
Mine Operate
Year Around
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A start Is to be made by Jerry
Galvin in opening up the Bluff
; quartz properties, taken over by
him a year ago, by modem mach
inery some of which is already
on the ground, having arrived
aboard the S. S. Derblay, a few
days ago.
This is th former property of
Meegan, Olson and Sunneville,
which has been operated, from
time to time for the past 20 years,
on a small scale.
Mr. Galvin arrived by plane
last week from New York, and
is leaving immediately for Bluff.
It is his intention to use the new
bulldozer in stripping the over
burden from the ore bodies this
season and carry on development
work throughout the winter per
iod.
The ore bodies are oxidized,
and therefore he believes he will
be able to bulldoze ore to a depth
of eight to ten feet, thus getting
a great quantity of ore ready for
the installation of a new 500 ton
capacity mill to be placed in op
eration next summer.
How Mining Claims can be
Staked in Alaska, length, Bread
th, how many, and the Associa
tion Claim, described in detail, in
pamphlet form, for sale at The
Nugget Office, for 10 cents.
“Heinie." or
Henry Emmett
Manush at 36 is
a rookie in
the National
League this
season after
fourteen years
with four
American
League teams.
His bat clicked
an average of
.331 with the
Americans and
he topped that
■eague in 1926.
Now fielder
for the Dodgers
Heinie's bat
is still busy
doing .335.
Revenge Player
Out
Million Dollars
(By The Associated Press)
BIARRITZ, France. Sept. 10—
Amleto Battisti, the revenge
player out to recoup one million
dollars he lost at the baccarat
table in 1929, watched his mon
ey go Wednesday. More than five
million of Battisti's francs went
to a woman. Senora Peretiha Cor
tina Solzetra of Argentina. Batt
isti estimated his losses so far
at about eight million francs.
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
That unique and humorous,
and typical Alaskan stationery—
“Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes”, have been
brought strictly uptodate, and are
now available at the Nugget offi
ce.
Write to your friends and rela
tives on the 'Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
kick out of it.
Miners Report
Clean-ups Are
Satisfactory
Sam Godfrey is a visitor in
Nome today from the Kougarok.
Mr. Godfrey states that the Kou
garok section suffered immense
ly from a scarcity of water, but
the last two weeks rainfall has
furnished sufficient water supply
for everybody, and if the wea
ther will only hold out consid
erable gold will still be cleaned
up.
Mr. Godfrey is operating a drag
line on Mertht Gilicsh and reports.
things as satisfactory.
Barney Rolando. American
Creek mining man is an arrival
in Nome an business matters.
Chester Milligan is an arrival
in Nome from the Solomon river
section, where he is operating on
Hurrah Creek benches. He re
ports everything as being satis
factory from a mining stand
point.
HELLO PLEASE. Anna May Wong, Chinese movie star who
was born in Los Angeles, came back home from a European jaunt
on the big ship Normandie. Her “native" costume, plus high heels
and gloves, are shown with this greeting from Anna May.