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VOL 38 No. 231 NOME. ALASKA. FRIDAY. AUG. 6, 1937. Per Copy lOcta
Chinese Armies Forming For Scrap
UNITED STATES-RUSSIA SIGN NEW TREATY
Aerial ‘Hobo’ Earns Expense Money Enroute Nome
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N. Y. AVIATOR IS
LOS ANGELES
WAY NOME
Has To Earn Enough to Put
In Larger Gasoline
Tanks in Plane
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Au.g. 6, —
.Major Merrill Riddick, describ
ing himself as an aerial hobo,
stopped over here enroute to Bom .
bay, India.
Leaving Homell, New York, a
month ago in his small yellow
monoplane, with two dollars in.
his pocket, he arrived here w'ith
a treasury of $68 which he said
he earned giving passengers rid
es on the way ot the Pacific coast.
He expects to fly to Alaska soon
and then over Bering Straits from.
Nome, to Asia. But he admitted
he must earn enough between
here and Seattle to install extra
fuel tanks.
17 Miners Injured
(By The Associated Press)
PRINCETON. British Columbia.
Aug. 6, — Seventeen miners lay
in the hospital here, three of
them in a critical condition, as
the Dominion mines inspector
sought the cause of a machinery
breakdown which plummeted the
hoist cage, down four hundred
feet in the shaft at the Copper
Mountain mine yesterday. Harold
Hart, one of the men, has a brok
en back and is in a serious con
dition.
FORD GRAN DSON.
Far from the strike threats and
labor troubles in his grandfa
ther’s automobile piants, Henry
Foul II. son of Kdsel Ford and
grandson of Henry Ford, is
shown h**ndinij for the tennis
rcurts at White Sulphur Springs,
Vi.
Could Not Agree
LONDON. Aug. 6. — The non
intervention committee, represent
ing twenty-seven nations, was un
able to break the deadlock over
plans to isolate the Spanish civ
il war, and adjourned for an “in
definite period.”
REVIEW FOR TWO. Field Marshal Von Blomberg, German
- war minister, paid a diplomatic visit to Premier Mussolini, a new
demonstration of Italian-German friendship. Here are the two
watching troops parade in honor of Von Blomberg.
CHINESE WARLORDS
DETERMINED EIGHT
TO THE BITTER END
(Bv Tne Associated Press'
SHANGHAI, Aug. 6. — U. S.
Consular officials all over China
organized the entire American
population for evacuation, while
Dictator Chiang Kai-Shek pro
claimed: “We will fight to the
death".
By nightfall the mcnth-old un
declared war had brought thece
developments:
Motorized column*; of Japanese
troops rolled northward to halt
the Chinese advance from behind
the Great Wall; Kai-Chev flew to
Kuling tcj tell the nation's chief
educators that China will resist
the Japanese advance “even thol
it means fighting with inadequate
ly equipped and unprepared forc
es, and to the death"; American
missionaries feared that a Japan
ese conquest in the north would
mean a wiping out of missionary
and education work representing
jniillions of dollars in American
investments and years of toil.
The Japanese war minister told
the Diet “we are preparing furth
er punitive measures against the
Chinese", and warned the parlia
ment to be prepared for an emer
gency session to provide funds for
carrying on the campaign.
The Chinese-Japanese undeclar
ed war approcahed a possible zero
hour before widespread hostilities
were begun between opposing tore
es along the Hankow railroad,
as a collision seemed imminent.
To the north of Peiping a clash
was considered near, as the threat
of conflict spread to Hankow, and
American were reported fleeing
across the Yellow river to safe
ty in the south.
Japan poured men and muni
tions steadily into China, as the
Chinese continued to rush their
central army into the north.
Japan evacuated twenty five
hundred nationals from the Han
kow area. Only five hundred civ
ilian males, three hundred of them
comprising a garrison, are left.
Potatoes Grow
(By Tne Associated Press'
SEWARD, Aug. 6, — Captain
Pete Wold, of the motorship Fern
said that the Good News Bay plat
inum stampede, had shifted to an
area thirty miles north, where
two thousand claims have already
been staked out.
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Three Killed When
Train Wrecked
The Associated Press'
EUREKA. Calif., Aug. 6. — En
gin-.er Edward Weatherby 53,
Areata n Carlton Bartlett 50, and
head brakeman G. Still Jr., all
of Eureka, were killed when a
locomotive and several cars load
ed u, ith lumber plunged through
a burning trestle at Shively. 36
miles north of here. The men
were trapped in the flaming
wreckage and unable to escape
Seek Jewel Thieves
f B1' The Associate! '
PARIS, Aug. 6. — Authorities
combed the city fur a band of in
ternational jewel thieves who
raided hotel rooms and got one
hundred and fifty thousand d >11
ars from American tourists since
Last Wednesday. Yesterday they
obtained thirty thousand dollars
after scaling walls and entc ring
rooms by way of balconies.
New Commercial
Agreement ^Sith l
Russia is Signed
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i Bv Tne Associated nr“ss) i
WASHINGTON. D. C . Aug. 6.
—President Roosevelt today pro
claimed a new commercial agree
ment with Soviet Russia by which
that country would purchase at
least forty million dollars worth:
of American products during hte|
next year. This is an increase of!
ten million dollars over the am
ount of goods’ Russia obligated
herself to buy by a similar agree
ment which exvirod July 12th.
In return the United States was
granted unconditionally the most
favorable nation commercial treat
ment by Russia for the first time
in its new history. It means that
this nation gets the benefit not
only 'f all tariff concessions, bu‘
al. 'ther commercial privelegas
and advantages which it accords
to either eountrias.
2000 CLAIMS ST AKED
B\ t'he Associated Press'
SEWARD, Aug 6, — Alex Bol
am. a farmer here reported a
cress potato? combination consist
ing of an Irish and sweet potatoe.
which is flourishing. He expects a
good harvets. He said his apple
and cherry trees were loaded.
NAZIS PROTEST ‘INSULTS’ 1
This picture la one at the lateat oI Adolf Hitler to arrive In the United
States aince Mayor LaQuardla of New York suggested a "hall of hoi*
rora" at the 1939 World’s Fair Include "that brownahlrted fanatic."
German newspapers assailed LaQuardla and the United 8tates for per*
mlttlng such "Insults” to Hitler. In Washington Secretary of 8tate
Hull formally expressed hie regret to the German embassy. Hitler Is
shown with Preft Albert Speer Inspecting Berlin rebuilding plans,
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3 ONE-HALF LB.
| BABY CHANCE
TO LIVE
Temperature 109 At Birth:
Lowered to 102 Noon
Chance Recover
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(By The Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 6, — „
Out of death came Life in a stirr
ing drama of modern surgery,
when a three and a haJf pound
| baby girl was delivered last night
with a faintly dickering heart and
a temperature of 109 degrees, one
minute after the disease-doomed
■ mother Mrs. Mary Baccassini, 28,
died.
| Physicians struggled to keep
| the infant alive, and despite the
raging fever, gave her a slim
I
j chance to survive
The baby’s temperature was
lowered to 102 at noon today. “Ev
jeiy minute she lives increases her
! chance" said Dr. John Conbit,
, who performed the operation on
the mother, aged 27, who died of
tuberculosis and meningitis. The
father is a laborer, and has been
constantly at the hospital.
Bragaw Reports
Activity Jobless
Comm, of Alaska
Anchorage is to become one
‘he four key cities in the admini
stration of the affairs of the Un
employment Compensation Com
mission. and wild have an em
p jyment office when they are es
abiished on or about October 1st,
R. S. Bragaw. a member of the
commission stated upon his return
.0 Anchorage from a meeting o£
h ■ board in Juneau, says an art
icle in the Anchorage Times.
The other cities in which main
offices will be established will
probably be Juneau. Fairbanks,
and Ketchikan It is also poss
ible that an office will be esta
blished in Cordova he said.
“Unemployment compensation
is a step forward in social science
insofar as Alaska is concerned,’*
he stated. “It is, however, not a
now thing for England has had a
form of it since 1911. It is esta
blished primarily as a protection
for the worker and the employ
ler during the periods When work
lor need of employment is lax. It
is to prevent the need for heavy
| relief roles and depression per
, iods. The insurance drawn by
' men unemployed will aid in the
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