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NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE—ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY * VIATION
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VOL. 38. No. 228. NOME. ALASKA. Tuesday. August 3, 1937. Per Copy lOcts
10 Pass. Crew of 3 Believed Killed
INSURGENTS SURGE FORWARD IN DRIVES
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Bitter Fighting Characterizes China-Jap Warfare
Insurgents Start
Bombardment
Break Defenses
(By The Associated Press)
HENDAYE, Aug. 3, —Insur
gents opened an artillery bomb
ardment on Madrid’s outer de
fenses, after driving a spearhead
into the government lines west
of the capital, as battles were
fought on three other fronts to
day. %
Loyalists were defeated in an
• attempt to break the lines at Ov
iedo. Insurgents reported the loy
alists lost a thousand men.
Hendaye. Spain, Aug. 3. —Two
insurgent brigades are reported
to have driven Madrid and Val
encia troops from their principal
mountain fortification at Teruel,
in a front cut to the main com
munications artery.
Madrid charged that Franco’s
Teruel army was recently rein
forced by Italian troops from Ca
diz.
Woodchoppers For
Joining The CIO
(By Trie Associated Pressi
TACOMA, July 31—Delegates
to the Federation of Woodwork
ers convention in Tacoma, voted
six to one to affiliate with the
CIO. The federation represents a
hundred thousand workers in the
lumber industry of six western
states.
The vote was taken after two
days of debate. Officers said they
would dispatch an immediate tele
gram to John L. Lewis for a CIO
charter. The convention will al
so consider the ratification of the
Woodworkers new constitution
and election of officers.
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THANKS, FOLK5. One of eight pickets whose arrest caused
the “labor holiday” at Lansing, Mich., Mrs. Lester Washburn is
shown as she thanked demonstrators after her release, tier husband
(center) is a labor leader. _ _
Newliweds Arc
Enroute Calif.
From Honolulu
(By Trip Associated Press)
HOLLYWOOD, July 31—Buddy'
Rogers and Mary Pickford wing
ed their way home from a Ha-1
waiian honeymoon aboard the
Philippine Clipper. A crowd of
500 bid farawell to the screen
newlyweds. Two of the excited
spectators plunged into Pearl Har
bor to retrieve the flower leis
which Rogers throw overboard as
the Clipper lifted from the water.
ROME, Aug. 1—Premier Benito
Mussolini after imposing a press
agency boycott against Great Bri
tain for months has decided to
restore relations. An official an
nouncement was made that begin
ning August 1st the Stefani News
Agency would reopen its ’offices
in London.
MISSING AIRPLANE
FOUND SUBMERGED
IN SEA OFF PANAMA
< By The Associated Press)
BALBAO, Aug. 3, — Twenty
two navy planes fanned out over
the Isthmus of Panama and along
the coast line, in search of a Pan
American Grace Airways flying
boat with eleven passengers and a
craw of three which is missing.
Two squadrons from the Navy
air base at Coco Solo combed the
area south of here. The plane was
last heard from at 7:15 p.m last
night, when, it messaged it was
in bad weather. The radio indi
cated. it was over Cristobal on the
Pacific sid eof the Canal.
BALBAO, Canal Zone, Aug. 3—
The destroyers Rabbit and Tay
lor steamed at top speed to a
point 20 miles of! Colon Break
water where airplane observers
reported the submerged luxury
amphibian Santa Maria was seen
in the sea.
Pan-American Grace Airline
spokesman said, there was no in
dication as to whether any of the
ten passengers and crew of three
men survived.
Reports to the War Department
at Washington, from the search
ing air armada of 65 army and
navy planes, described sighting
the plane’s wreckage as “totally
under water and no sign of life”.
The plane was enroute from
Guyaqual with passengers from
Lima, and apparently overshot
the Cristobal port in a cloudy sky
at dusk last night, when Pilot
Stephen Dunn messaged that he
was trying to find an opening in
the clouds.
Officials of the airline stated
that the plane carried an ample
supply of rubber rafts.
Gov. Lehmann of
N. Y. Opposed
To Court Bill
(By The Associated Press)
ALBANY, N. Y„ Aug. 1—Gover
nor Herbert Lehman, who Presi
dent Roosevelt once termed "that
good right arm of mine”, joined
opponents of the administration
Supreme Court reorganization
bill. Lehman declared the bill
was contrary to the people’s best
interests. He ordered Senator
Robert F. Wagner to vote against
it.
New York’s other senator Royal
S. Copeland is in the fore front
of the court bill opposition. His
declaration of opposition to the
court bill came as the closely di
vided forces contending on the
measure in the Senate were man
euvering for a show down deci
sion.
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 3, —Anch
orage canners set the season’s fish
pack at 56,000, considerably be
low the average for last year of
90,000, an all time record.
Votes On l air
Include Items of
Interest To \II
—
Visitors at the Fair build ng
luring Fair Week August 19. 20.
uid 21, will find full provision
nude for their needs and com
ort. Lunches will be served in
he Homemaking room of the
High School under the capable
directum of Mrs. Helen Bookman
during the full time of the Fair.
Tim weary w<n k :r v.> net i • •
cup of coffee during the assem
bling of the rimer us exh b ts
will fir d the cheery lunchroom
open for the “pause that refresh
es"- _
Trie Camp Fire Girls are deeply
eng: - ssed in their pi. ns for the
sale of punch and candy at them
refreshment booth on the main
floor. Mary H -id Chapmar: is in
charge of arrangements.
Tit, Xome Trier.tonal School
exhibit wil call the attention of
out-of-town vis.tors to the excel,
ence of the school work being
done here and to the standing of
our school in the front rank with,
other A askan city systems.
T n lin displ iy bo th i f the
Camp Fire Girl- promises be
both rolorful ind educati ml
The a ms and achievements of
this worthwhile group of girl'
and their leaders will be a'trac
tively presented. Displays of
cererr. nial rega'ia, and camples
of distinctive headbands made by
the girls themselves will be only
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Description Of
Terrific Dottle
Chinese & japs
(By The Associated Press)
PEIPING. July b)— The follow
:ng delayed news of 'he recent
hat le between hie Ch.r.ese and
J ipam.-e at P 4 .s herewith
published): The Chinese 20 th
h.-ir.pcrei b; a revolt,
ajht dsspery against a
crushing Japan.-e J-.ance on
side ■ • led city.
Thousands of C:..n se were slau
,:..ercd ov-.r a 2)-.i le front in
Llovdi s: fighting at Peiping
\ ' 3 w iund
ed bv ,t sli’-iy j.. a. -, a detach
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THE VOSMIKS ARE SAD
Joe Vosmlk, Mrs. Vosmik, and their dog, “Ginger,” were Just a little
sad when this photograph was taken because Vosmik, who used to play
with the Cleveland Indians, was geting ready to leave to Join the 8t.
Louis Browns. The Vosmik home Is In Cleveland. (Associated Press
Photo) ,