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VOL. 38 No. 297 NOME. ALASKA FRIDAY. DEC. 17. 1937. Per Copy 10ct*
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Japanese fare to Spread S >uth
Soviets are ith liiliuman Action by Japs
Dimond Strong
Air Base Terri.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON*, Dec. 17, —Del
♦■gate Anthony J. Dimond said
he would use the Sino-Japanese
undeclared war as a new argu
ment in efforts to get the ten
million dollar Army Air Base
established in Alaska.
"The Army high command fav
ors the move, he asserted, but the
administration’s economy program
presents the difficulty in the con
struction of the Alaskan base
near Fairbanks, one of six auth
orized by the 1935 Wilcox Act.
Dimond has thus far sought in
vain to get the necessary money.
"There is no reason to wait
longer," he said. “If the Rhine
becomes England’s frontier, the
American defense line in the
Pacific as certainly extends from
the Panama Canal to Hawaii
and thence north to Alaska and
the Aleutians.”
He contended that the attack
in a future war will inevitably
come from the north, because on
the Orient to the United States
route, that is shorter than by way
of Hawaii.
“Alaska nonv could be taken
almost overnight. Once there, sub
marines, airplanes and the cost
d many lives and billions of doll
ars would be necessary before
*he enemy could be dislodged,”
he declared.
Wilkins To Make
Flight Saturday
(By The Associated Prate)
POINT BARROW, Dec. 17, —
Sir Hubert Wilkins cancelled his
proposed search flight today be
cause of loudy weafher.
He said he hoped there would
be better conditions Saturday.
Harold Gillam afrived here in
his plane in which he had a fore
ed landing the first of the week,
after patching a broken wing
with canvas and replacing a brok
en strut with a pipe from an old
.shipwreck, which he obtained at
Cape Halkett.
Snow prevented the lighting of
flares so men formed in a line to
indicate smooth ice for Gillam’s
landing.
G-iHam said he would return
to Fairbanks tomorrow weather
permitting.
NOTICE
The Common Council, sitting
as a Board of Equalization, will
meet on Saturday, December 18,
at 9 A. M.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
by M. J. W/ttSS,
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by Preston Grover
(By Preston Grover)
WASHINGTON, D C„ Dec. —
It seems only fair to let people
know that the Rev. Gerald L. K.
Smith is planning to come back
into the public eye after a period
of 12 months or so during which
not a great dal was heard of
him.
He signaled his return tc the,
fighting political and social front
by tentatively sticking his thumb
into the New York City election
arena a da or so before the votes
were to be counted, and then
swung southward to Washington.
Here he called the press to his
elbow to announce his message.
Mr. Smith used to be one of the
many right hand men of Huey
Long in Louisiana. After Long's
death, he fought with millions of
spoken words during the last cam
paign on behalf of “social justice”
and pointed out the dangers he
felt would arise from the re-elec
tion of Pr sident Roosevelt.
There is nothing- pretentious
h ^ JTa
about Mr. Smith. He is of med
ium height, physically active,and
no heavier than his 40-odci years
would justify. His hair is brown,
his eyes smoky blue and his nose
c.r the out-thrust cantilever con
struction.
He did not welcome the news
paper reporters in pajamas and
blue silk dressing gown as Huey
Lorg did on occasion, but instead
wore the dark suit and “sensible”
oxfords suitable to his ministerial
calling.
A Large-Scale Budget
He told the half dozen reporters
who sat on the bed and chairs of
his room that when Father Cou-i
ghlin of Detroit abandoned his;
radio speaking on request of high
er authority an opportunity had
come to him for a great social
evangelism. .Mr, Smith has sign
ed up the 40 or more stations he
said once made up the Father
Coughlin chain and plans to de
liver 26 Sunday afternoon lec
tures.
He has no “angel” to finance
him in the undertaking, but ex
pects public contributions to sup
port it and him and the staff nec
essary to carry on. The contract
for the Coughlin radio system, he
said, called for a payment of
$96,000 during the 26-week speak
ing program.
Now $96,000 would be a fair
budget for the year’s work of a
good-sized urban church, but Mr.
Smith has for years operated on
considerably larger than a parish
scale. Only occasionally is he oc
cupied tvitr such tasks as Christ-,
er-.ing babies and calling on the'
“fleck!" His mission now is to i
step the course of the Roosevelt >
administration and put an end to
the advance of John L. Lewis
and the C. T. O.
Feels Masses Oppose
He announced a program of op
position to concentration of pow
er in the presidency and to in
dustrial dictatorship, this latter
aimed at Lewis. He will oppose
the “nazification” of agriculture,
the invasion of state rights, and'
such proposals as the wage-hour
bill.
He said he hoped to “articulate"
the opposition he feels is rising
from the masses against Presi
dent Roosevelt. When it was
suggested by a reporter that on
his recent western tour the Pres
ident did not find the masses so
terribly set against him.Mr.Smith
flashed back that he came from a
line of four generations of mis
sionaries: they had not hesitated
to be on the unpopular side.
When he was asked abruptly
how he distinguished his program,
from that of the United States
chamber of Commerce, Mr. Smith
was momentarily at a loss fori
reply. Presently he exclaimed:
"I consider William Green the
(AFL president) one of the most,
admirable statesmen in America.'
Does that answer your qutstion?”.
Mr. Smith seemed satisfied that t
it did.
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| War Threatens
Spread To South
, China, Canton
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Dec. 17, —Chin
ese and Japanese warfare threat
ened to spread to the south China
coast in far-flung attacks, as it
became apparent the Japanese
forces were not satisfied with
the capture of Nanking.
A Japanese communique pro
claiming the triumphal entry in
to the fallen capital, declared:
"Armed forces of the Empire
are determined, in an endeavor
to carry on to a conclusion the
purposes of the present expedi
tion. to bring about the establish
ment of a lasitng peace in the
Orient."
Chinese sources said they ex
pected the Japanese to invade
the southern Kwantung Province,
and attack the city of Canton,
sixty mile.-, northwest of the Brit
ish Crown colony of Hong Kong.
Chiang Kai Shek declared in
a radio broadcast appeal to the
Chinese pe'ople, to continue the
fight against the invaders on the
basis of China’s future suoeess.
In resisting Japan, he said, it
will not be in the cities but in
“the villages all over China."
Japan May Not
Reply U. S. Note
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, Dec. 17, — Japan may
refrain from a direct reply to
the United States' protest in the
Panay incident, a foreign office
spokesman indicated today.
Such a decision would be based
he declared, on the ground that
the Japanese government had ap
ologized before the American
note was delivered. He said the
question was still being weigh
ed.
MAtANtJSKA FARMERS
HAPPY AND DOING WELL
SAYS FATHER SULZMAN
JUNEAU, Dec. OP)—Colonists
on the government agricultural
project in the Matanuska Valley1
are doing all right, Rev. F. M.1
Sulzman, pastor of the Catholic'
Church in the colony, declared
recently in Juneau. He is en
route to the States on a prospect-!
ing trip for funds for his new
church.
“There are all sorts of rumors
about discontent in the Matanus
ka Valley, but most of the set-1
tiers are making a little money
and are generally happy,” Father
Sulzman said. "The Matanuska
has a wonderful future.” I
Japan Formally
Charges Soviet
Inhuman Action
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, Dec. 17. —The Jap
anese Foreign Office today for
mally charged the Soviet Union
of acting in a matten ‘‘utterly un
thinkable for any civilized coun
try”, in connection with the ar
rests of Japanese citizens in Rus
sia.
The Foreign Office protested
to the Soviet Embassy citing what
Japan called numerous cases in
which Soviet authorities had ar
rested Japanese ar.d held them
without trial.
The Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri
charged that Russia was contin
uing to strengthen its military
forces at Vladivostok, and that
Russia was sending two cruisers,
eighteen submarines and six de
stroyers to that port next week.
The paper said also that Mos
cow had moved six hundred pil
ots and a hundred and ten plan
es to Vladivostok during the past
week.
Reindeer Lessen
In Kobuk Region
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(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE. Dec. 17. —Har
lan A. Gubser of the U. S. Bio
logical Survey returned here to
day from a three- and a half
month's trip in the Arctic Circle.
He reported that the reindeer
herds of the Eskimos in the Noa
tak and Kobuk river districts
will disappeare within three
years unless the present rate of
extermination is halted.
He blamed wolves and cari
bou. He said the caribou were
drifting south and absorb the
reindeer into the wild herds.
Jack Leger, flying machinery
salesman who arrived here' today
predicted a banner mining year
ahead. He said he was flooded
with orders. There was no slump
this winter for the first time in
history.
Aviation Year In Mexico
MEXICO CITY, Mex., Dec.
President Lazaro Cardenas, de
creeing 1937 "aviation year” in
Mexico,announced 1,000,000 pesos
$277,000 U.S.) will be expended
for new fighting planes.
Soldiers Pay Raised
MEXICO CITY. Mex.. Dec. (/!>)
Mexico's 1937 war budget of $22 -
222,000, the largest in five years,
provides for a 10 per cent pay in
crease for all soldiers.
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