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VOL 38. No. 312. NOME, ALASKA. Saturday. October 30. 1937 j Per ^PY
More Soviet Planes in Arctic Search
RELIEF PLANESQUADRON HEADS NORTH
Governor Troy Favors Seattle To Juneau Route
JAPS CONCENTRATE
HEAVY GUN ON LOST
CHINESE BATTALION
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SURRENDER OR DIE
STATE JAPANESE
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BOMBARDMENT COMMENCED
AGAINST THE CHINESE
LOST BATTALION
SHANGHAI, Oct 30, —The
Japanese are determined to
blast the Chinese lost battal
ion from its place of vantage
in a warehouse, as evidenced
by an ultimatum issued to
day.
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, ct. 30, —The Jap
anese today began a methodical
bombardmen of the warehouse
in which China's “lost battalion
still held out, in the blackened
Chapei area, as a prelude to an
assault on the defiant citadel.
Will Blow It Apart
With four seventy-five milli
n';.ter guns mounted a hundred
yards away, Japanese artillery
slowly fired shells in an attempt
to batter holes in the rear of the
warehouse, through a hand gren
ade charge would be possible.
Ultimatum Issued
The bombardment began aifter
Rear Admiral Tadao Honda is
sued an ultimatum to the battal
ion of “Surrender or Die.”
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Favor Coast Route
(By Tire Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Oct. 30. — Gov
ernor John W. Troy today
said he favored making Seat
tle and Juneau, terminals on
the proposed air mail route
to connect Alaska with the
United States.
He said he believed the coast
route was the most logical,
although the inland route
“would be better than none
at all.”
Flood Takes 1000
Lives Damascus
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, Oct. 30. — The Havar
News Agency reported today
from Damascus, Syria, that more
than one thousand persons were
drowned in floods northeast of
Damascus, and that ten thousand
were homeless. Several villages
were wiped away by the great
flood caus.d by a cloudburst
yesterday.
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FOOTBALLS ARE FLYING through the air as the
Green Bay Packers, national professional champions, prepare for
their game in Chicago Sept. 1 with collegiate all-stars. Here is Arnie
Berber, Packer passer, loosening up his tossing arm for the pigskin t
curtain-raiser.
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Soviet Held War
Carnes Far East
Display Power
Vladivostok Is Darkened to Aid
In ‘Defense' of City—Air
‘Attack* Beaten Off.
HARBOR DEFENSES HOLD
Destroyers Fail to Damage City's
Fortifications—Report of Change
In Mongolia Is Denied.
MOSCOW, Oct. The latest
edition of a Khabarovsk paper,
received here recently, describes
the combined Red army and fleet
manoeuvres at Vladivostok on
Sept. 27 and 28th.
The whole city was darkened
against a Blue “air attack.” The
report declares that “not only
were ‘Red’ troops participating in
th? defense operations but the
majority of the city’s inhabitants
wore gas masks.”
The air attack was considered
by judges to have been beaten off
by anti-aircraft batteries which
have been brought to a state of
remarkable efficiency by the Red
army and navy. At the recent
manoeuvres of the Baltic fleet it
may be pointed out Marshal Kle
menty E. Voroshiloff, Commissar
of War and Navy, expressed par
ticular gratification over the anti
aircraft work. A further interest
ing feature of the Vladivostok
manoeuvres was the attempt of
the Blue destroyers to rush the
harbors defenses by a surprise
attack. This, it is to be remem
bered, was the opening of the
Russo-Japanese war in 1904 when
Japanese destroyers succeeded in
sinking the Russian warships at
Port Arthur.
Then, as lately in China. Japan
began hostilities without a formal
declaration of war and that the
destroyer attack was the first
blow.
The “Blues" were beaten off at
Vladivostok but there was no
mention of the “Red" submarine
counter action.although it is gen
erally known that the Soviet has
a strong force of small submar
ines in Far Eastern waters as well
as mine layers and other light
warcraft.
Report Is Denied
Officials here are mute about a
report published in New York
papers two weeks ago from Jap
anese sources that the Soviet ar
my on the Manchurian border
had been considerably reinforced
and on another report published
in The Times of London a week
ago that the headquarters of the
Far Eastern army had been trans
ferred from Khabarovsk to Irku
tsk in order to be in closer touch
with Outer Mongolia. • This cor
respondent is able to say, how
ever, that both are false.
To begin with, the Far Eastern
army, as repeatedly stated by the
highest military leaders here, is
already ‘on a war footing" and is
thoroughly ready to resist any
sign of aggression. Secondly, it
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THINGS TO COME within a year, predicts Manager Mickey Cochrane, will include Rudy
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record established by the mighty Babe Ruth.
New Squadron
Soviet Airplanes
Take up Search
MOSCOW, Oct 30, —An
other Soviet plane expedi
tion has been commissioned
to proceed to North to re
lieve the squadron which has
been searching for the miss
ing Levanefsky party.
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCIW, Oct. 30. —Four lar
ge planes equipped for flying in
the polar night, have been en
trusted to search for the missing
Soviet Levanefsky party, in
charge of Ivan Chukskofsky, vet
teran aviator.
Relieves Squadron
Chukskofsky and his new ex
pedition will relieve that one
headed by Pilot Shevelef. which
has been searching since Septem
ber 10th, for Pilot Levanefsky and
his five companions who disap
peared August 13th. on a flight
across the North Pole from Mos
cow to the United States.
Will Lend Assistance
The four planes commanded
by Pilot Shevelef have been re
called but he will remain at Ru
dolph Island to cooperate with
Chukskofsky.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30 (JP)
—The Supreme Court has denied
Thomas J. Mo-oney’s plea for
freedom on a writ of habeas cor
pus by a five to four decision.
Chief Justice Waste said, that
the court “concluded that Mooney
failed to establish by substantial
and credible evidence his convic
tion, as a result of perjury on the
part of prosecution witnesses.
Goes On Vacation
PARIS. Oct. 30th t/Pt—Italian
sources said Vittorio Cerruti, the
Italian Ambassador to France,
would go on a leave of absence
tomorrow night, and diplomatic
circles expressed the belief that
his going meant a more serious
turn in the already strained
Franco-Italian relations.
Italian said the Ambassador
was going for a holiday of “more
or less long duration” and that
the minor diplomat’s going home,
was because France unsupplied
an ambassador at Rome, and pro
bably left his Charge d’Affairs
rather than recognize the Ethio
pian conquest.
Football Scores
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Oct. 30 (/P)—Fol
lowing are football scores:
Harvard 34, Princeton 6
Cornell 14. Columbia 0
Pennsylvania 14, Navy 7
Michigan State 16, Kansas 0
Yale 9, Dartmouth 9—tie.
Pittsburgh 25, Carnegie Tech. 14.
Northwestern 14, Wisconsin 6
Syracuse 19. Penn State 1'3
Notre Dame 7, Minnesota 6
Fordham 14, North Carolina 0
Santa Clara 38, Marquette 0
SEATTLE. Oct. 30 (IP)—Idaho
took a seven to two lead over
Washington’s second string team
late in the first quarter by Knap,
left end, circling right end from a
ten yard line for a touchdown.
Washington scored earlier on a
safety of Downing, an Idaho man
behind his own goal line.
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Russian Plane
Landed at Fair
banks Saturday
(By The Associated Press)
BARROW. Alaska, Oct. 30—</P)
With a clear sky and the thermo
meter at zero the Russian planes
set out on their fifth attempt to
reach Fairbanks in order to get
a mechanical overhaul. They
planned to fly at an altitude at
twenty thousand feet over the
Endicott range to avoid sleet and
fog.
At six A. M. today the mechan
ics while on their way to the field
to warm up the engines, they
were chased by four wolves. The
men rushed back to get guns, but
the wolves disappeared.
Last minute news received just
before going to press declared that
the Sirkorsky S-43 Amphibian
plane, operated by the Soviets in
search of the missing Russian air
men in the Arctic, based at Bar
row, had landed this afternoon
at Fairbanks, after a flight from
the northern promintory.
It was understood that the Rus
sians have been anxious to fly to
Fairbanks for the past several
days to have their plane serviced
and equipped for winter flying.
Bad weather halted their hop un
til today.
The plane was originally flown
from the Siberian coast to Point
Barrow, soon after the disappear
ance of Pilot Levanefsky and his
five companions, August 13th. It
has been operating out of Barrow
for some time now.
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