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VOL. 38. No. 266. NOME. ALASKA. TUESDAY. Sept. 7, 1937 Per Copy 10ct»
China To Make Appeal To League
S. S. VICTORIA WENT AGROUND THIS A.M.
Truckers Strike Is Stiffling W erfront Industry
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TEAMSTERS STRIKE THREATENS
TO SPREAD TO ALL WEST
COAST HARBORS
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7—All
teamsters are slowly stifling
waterfront activity in the union
jurisdictional fight. They were
wrarned by their CIO opponents
against spreading the dispute to
other coast ports. They made
plans to refuse to handle dock
cargoes'in Oakland, Wednesday,
followed by threats to extend the
embargo to all west coast har
bors.
Last Wednesday, the teamsters
began their fight to the finish
against CIO longshoremen and
warehousemen. The warning was
issued by Harry Bridges, West
coast CIO organizer and head of
the longshoremen and warehouse
men.
Pres. May Take
New Deal’s Case
To The Country
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(By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, Sept. G
President Roosevelt, will decide
in thirty days whether he will
take the New Deal's case to the
country during the Congressional
recess in a limited number of
carefully spotted speeches. His
poltical advisors agreed it would
be a vital decision. If he takes
to the road again, he will be ap
pealing to the 27 million voters
who reelected him last Novem
ber in direct opposition to the
alliance of Democratic Sena. iv
and Congressmen that blocked
the bulk of his program in the
session just passed.
British Police In
Shanghai Want
Smokes, Drinks
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Sept. 6— British
police forces manning substations
in British commercial houses in
various parts of the city laughed
at the idea they were in danger
but complained they lacked cig
arettes. beer and tea. The forces
composed of about 50 men were
guarding the Shanghai water
works, the China Soap Company,
the Jardine Matson firm, the
China Import and Export Lum
ber Company, the Border. Com
j.uy in the Yangtze and Whang
poa area and the Hongkew wharf
n 1 the Embaiment building near
Soochow Creek.
China To Make
Formal Appeal
League Nations
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(By The Associated Press)
NANKING, Sept. 6 — China
decided to make a formal appeal
to the League of Nations against
the Japanese “aggression” the
foreign office spokesman announ
ced. He said China believed that
the League would give her unre
served ,-upport. The League coun
cil meets September 10 and the
assembly three days later.
Japan’s Sole Aim
Is To Destroy
Nanking Regime
(Bv The Associated Press)
TOKYO, Sept. 3—Foreign Min
ister Koki Hirota declared tha
Japan's main objective in her un
declared war with China was
limination of the anti-Japanes
elements that dominate the pro
ent Chinese government and es
tablishment of cooperation be
tween China and Japan. He told
foreign newspapermen that Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai Shek, pre
mier of tlie Chinese armies is tlie
'. ea’er of the anti-Japan move
ment and indicated Japan want
ed t ■ destroy his Nanking re
g i m e.
AT PEIPING'S GATES.
Ponring through China’s Great Wall, Japanese troops, tanks and armored cars hastened to bolster
heavy garrisons maintained In Peiping area to insure Japanese outlet to the sea. While fighting grew
more intense, diplomats were striving to find a way to heal the breach between the two nations.
S. S. \ictoria Is
Aground Expect
Float With Tide
(Bv The Associated Pressl
SEATTLE, Sept. 7—The steam |
ship Victoria of the Alaska Line
went aground on Headington Is- ;
land n Queen Charlotte Sound
at .- ven this morning. The rising
tide is expected to float the ves
sel - i The cutter Haida is
stun ting by.
British Steamer
Is Fired On Bv
Japan
(By The Associated Press)
HONGKONG, S pt. 6 The
British passenger steamer Tia
Itan was confronted by a Japan
• se cruiser and was forced to
urn back to port when the war
lip began dropping shells near
by.
The river steamer is the first
which sailed for Canton from
Hongkong last night. She was
met by the cruiser which played
searchlight over the vessel.
Captain Pritchard turned back to
Hongkong for instructions from
British admiralty authorities. He
-ta>'ted the voyage again and
igain was met by the cruiser,
■ liich began dr< pping live shells
rocks hard by th. boat. Priteh
:d ran for safety.
SUGirAMA.
Gen. Gen Sugiyama, Japanese
minister of war, acted in the
North China crisis while diplo
mat£ sought a peaceful climax.
CHINESE ABANDON DEFENSIVE
SPLIT JAPANESE FRONT AND
RETAKE MUCH LOST GROUND
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Sept 7 — The,
Chinese Army abandoned the tie- J
fensive and countercharged with \
desperate fury at the Japanese
lines on the Yangtze and Whang-i
poo Rivers on the Northern
Shanghai battlefron*
Mayor O. K. Yu; of Shanghai,
said that Me sudden Chinese
thrust drov the Japanes • from
the Jukong .vharf district n.;d
way betWft.-n the Shanghai con
iluence of the two rivers, split
ting the Japanese front. Twelve
miles to the north he declared
Chinese recaptured much lost
ground around Woosung and Pau
shan and threatened Japanese
forces within Paoshan’s walLs.
Others reports fr :n Chinese
sources said Paoshan had fallen.
Still further up the Yangtze,
•lap tnese destroj md a
Japanese cruiser, guarding troop
ittempting t land rein»
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Three Girls
Burn to Death
In Explosion
(Bv The Associated Press)
SAN PEDRO. Sept. 4 - Three
girls aged eight to fourteen years
were burned to death in an ex
plosion of a forty-five foot cabin
criuser enroute to Catalina Is
land. S:x adults were rescued.
The d id are Vivian and Vi da
Timberlake. sisters, and Alice
T.:;g who was asleep below deck.
Polish Jews liaise
$100.0001 or Jews
Relief Palestine
(By The Associated Press)
WARSAW, S, < —Abraham
‘he
second . fo > . ■ nf the World
Sun
day that his - ’ i had raised
$100,00 ■ -(active relief of
Palestine Kan
the Fed
eration in t:i l'r.ted States.
DOUBLE TROUBLE.
Prince and Premier are the titles of Japan’s Fumimaro Konoye, who
has introduced many informalities including radio talks to Japanese
' public affairs. Just now he rests uneasily between warlike episodes
on both Soviet and Chinese frontiers.