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VOL 38. No. 330. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY. NOV. 22. 1937. Per Copy 10ct»
STRIKE TO AFFECT U.S. MAIL
MESSAGE DROPPED NANKING BY PLANE
Little Hope For
Christmas Mail
For Alaskans
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Nov. 22, UP)—Postal
officials expressed doubt if some
Alaskans get their Christmas pac
kages on time, because of the tie
up controversy between the op
erators of steamships and the
Cooks and Stewards Union. The
postal officials stated that the
steamship lines cancelled i. )
wcnger sailings because the Union
demanded that the 'Cooks and
Stewards rotate their jobs.
Officials of the postofRce depart
ment further said that tome Al
askan mail will be send North to
morrow aboard a Canadian ves
sel out of Vancouver, if the con
troversy was not settled by that
time.
The telegram said that there
were no developments today In
the strike situation.,
Football Scores
(By The Associated Press)
Wash. State 7 Oregon State 0
California 13 Stanford 0
Montana 0 Idaho 6
Loyola 13 Baylor 27 ,
Kansas 7 Arizona 9
Oregon 0 U of W 14
Texas Tech 7 Centenary 2
Southern Methodist 26 UCLA 13
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JAPS ASKED CHINA TO
SURRENDER AND
END WAR
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Nov. 22, (A*)—
Japanese authorities today de
clared that a consciencious
effort had been made to con
vince China, her best move
was to surrender now, and
thereby bring the m>* war
(are to an end. Hon- ■ no
rotara message has been re
ceived from the high powers
of the Chinese defense.
SHAGHAI. Nov. 22, — Japan
urged General Chiang Kai Shek
to surrender, in a message drop
ped to him by a Japanese air
man today, making the first flight
over Nanking, since the Chinese
government announced its trans
fer of capital to Chungking,
nearly a thousand miles farther
inland.
No Bombs Dropped
No bombs were dropped—only
the message urging cessation of
hostilities. It was released from
an airplane flown by Lieutenant
Mochifumi Nango, one of Japan's
ace pilots.
Dogfights over Nanking
Chinese pursuit planes took to
the air and attacked the Japanese
fliers in spectacular dogfights ov
er Nanking. One unidentified air
plane crashed.
Cutting Defense to Pieces
The Japanese reported they had
captured the town of Wusih, one
of the last strongholds of the
Nanking defense.
Japanese land find air forces
began a concerted drive against
the Chinese who are entrenched
on a line north from Wusih to
Kiangyan, on he Yangtze river.
Japanese officials declared the
drive would bring their army to
the gates of Nanking.
Does
Little Work In
W eek’s Session
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 22
; —Congress is ready to almost get
jdown to work on Crop Control
! legislation. Both the Senate and
the House continued their same
wordy debate and produced no
action the first week of the special
;session; but the Senate had the
1 Farm bill to start work on to
! morrow.
i The woarv house sub-commit
i tee also wound up its discussions
over the Agriculture bill to es
tablish an ever normal granary,
to stabilize farm prices. The sen
ate drafted a measure which con
tained no revenue provisions, but
committee members said that they
complied with President Roose
velt’s demand not to increase
spending without compensating
taxes.
STOCKYARD FOR WHITE ELEPHANTS is the Kill van Hull at Statei Island.
N. V., where float rusting government ships turned out hastily during boom days of the World War
at a cost of $1,200,000 apiece. This aerial view shows the phantom fleet, now being sold for junk at
prices ranging from $14,000 to $50,000. To Joseph B. Kennedy, head of the II. S. maritime commis
sion. fall. the task of ridding the country of the relics.
ITALY'S IRON GUARD of cruisers stood ready In the Mediterranean for any eventuality
after Russia had accused Fascist submarines of sinking Soviet merchant ships and threatened use of
armed force to halt submarine raids, in the conference table failed, the Italian flc«t la the Medi
terranean has kept Increasing steadily since before the conquest of Ethiopia. «
MANIFESTO ISSUED BY THE
PRETENDER TO THE FRENCH
THRONE CAUSES FURORE
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS. Nov. 22. — Fear of
an uprising, and an attempt
to restore France to a mon
archy, today had official cir
cles in dithers, as investigat
ors. sought everywhere for
those now engaged in furth
ering the move being made
by the Due of Deguise.
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, Nov. 22. — The Due of
DeGuise, pretender to the throne
, of France, issued a manifesto
which was being distributed here
! today, announcing that he had
decided to “Reconquer the Throne
of My Fathers”.
:
No Doubt He Living
The five thousand word mani
festo left no doubt that the Pre
tender was now living in exile
in Belgium, and that he planned
a pacific conquest.
Intense Excitement
The announcement caused in
tense excitement among French
royalists. The manifesto was dist
ributed as the government agen
icies ferreted out what appeared
i to be a plot to overthrow the
Republic.
Also added to their duties was
the job of tracing the whereabouts
of the Count of Paris, the Duke's
son.
On Way Aklavik
(By The Associated Press)
EDMONTON, Nov. 21, — Sir
Hubert Wilkins and his Lockheed
plane piloted by Hollick Kenyon,
landed at Fort Resolution at 11:30
A. M. Saturday. Pacific Standard
Time, completing their first hop
on the flight to Aklavik from
this city, to engage in a further
search for the Soviet fliers who
disappeared August 13th on a |
nonstop flight across the North
Polar areas, from Moscow.
EDMONTON, Nov. 22nd. (/P)—
A message received here from F*t.
Resolution said, that Sir Hubert
Wilkins left there at 8 A.M.. PST. j
for Aklavik. The message also
said that Wilkins plane may stop i
at Fort Simpson and Fort Nor-1
man, enroute.
England Is Not
Favor Control
By Japanese
LONDON, Nov 22. (A’i—Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden indicat
ed in the House of Commons to
day, that Great Britain wouldn’t
grant Japan’s demands to virtual
control of Shanghai’s Interna
tional Settlement without the con
sent of the Chinese Government.
Japan notified authorities of the
International Settlement that they
wanted the control of the Chin
ese maritime, customs, postal tele
graph service, administrations
and courts. It is further under
stood that, the right to march
troops through the Settlement
will be demanded by Japan.
Cannery Destroy
ed By Fire At
Petersburg
P !
(By The Associated Press)
PETERSBURG. Alaska, Nov. 22
—Fire of undetermined origin
broke out on the Public Wharf,
destroyed the fish house of the
Trading Union, the wharf and
warehouse of the Kayler-Ostness
shrimp and crab cannery. Own
ers estimated their loss at two
hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars, which is partly insured.
Included in the loss, is $30,000
worth of halibut gear, which was
stored in the buildings by the
halibut fleet members and the
trading Union's stock of merchan
dise; the Kayler-Ostness mer
chandise, equipment and fish
boxes containing fifty thousand
pounds of black cod from the
schooner Mitkof, which was only
salted yesterday in the fish house.
The Volunteer fire department
equipped with an automobile en
gine. pumped salt water and ex
tinguished the flames from de
stroying the charred $80,000 near
by cold storage building, and the
halibutter Teddy J.of Petersburg,
one of three fishing boats tied
alongside the wharf.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
If a man makes himself a gad
fly, he must expect to get swatted.
Active minds are never morose;
busy hands seldom get into mis
chief.
In all walks of life it is a good
rule to do all that you are ex
pected to—-and then some!
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