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NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE—ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY t VTATION
THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 38 No. 305 NOME. ALASKA. FRIDAY OCT. 22. 1937. Per Copy lOcta
Chinese Forces Pushing Japs Back
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RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVE VISITS NOME
Loyalists Defenses Northwest Spain Have Collapsed
CHINESE AIRPLANES
KEEP JAP BATTERIES
BUSY BOMBARDING
SHANGHAI, Oct. 22, —
Chinese aerial attacks today
kept the Japanese anti-air
craft batteries in a constant
fit of firing, although little
damage resulted to the air
planes.
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Oct. 22, —Chinese
and Japanese troops were locked
m a heavy battle along the entire!
twenty five miles of the Shanghai
front, with both sides claiming
gains, |
In the confusion of attacks and
counter-attacks, foreign observers
were unable to determine exact
locations.
Shells Do Damage
Shells from the Chinese batt
eries at Pootung across the
Whangpoo river from Shanghai,
fell in the Japanese occupied
Hongken,v section of the interna
t onal settlement.
Strike British Building
Two projectiles struck a Brit
ish owned, unoccupied apartment
building.
The Japanese warships in the
Whangpoo joined in ,the barrag
es laid down by the Japanese
field pieces,
Repeated Air Attacks
Chinese repeated air raids k:pt
Japanese anti-aircraft guns in
constant action. Chinese incen
diary bombs started a heavy fire
in the eastern Pootung section.
Says Lack of Time
Meanwhile in Tokyo, a foreign
office spokesman indicated that
Japan would plead a lack of
time to make preparations, and
would ask for a postponement
of the Nine Power Conference.
Baranof Due Mon.
Agent Harnish of the Alaska
Line received wireless informa
tion today from the S. S. Baranof
that the vessel had sailed from
Sand Point, on the southern side
of the Aleutians, for Dutch Har
bor, enroute to Nome.
The wire further disclosed the
vessel expected to arrive here
early Monday morning.
It will discharge cargo at
Nome and proceed tu Golovin.
After completing discharging at
that point the Baranof will re
turn to Nome and sail for Seattle.
•‘The Baranof will probably
sail from Nome for Seattle, Thurs
day. October 28th, weather per
mitting" said Agent Harnish,
when interviewed today.
(TIEH.BJILL FILLS BILL. , . .
When folks at Treievant, Tenn., ordered someone to paint the town s
tall water tower, they expected to get a burly male steeplejack, but
won surprised to faso aloft and see daring Mario Galloway on the
Job and enjoying her work thoroughly;
PALS FOR SO YEARS. Barney Kelly, Ashland, Pa., an
anthracite miner, was a lad of 18 when he started playine the fiddle
he still plays today. Now, at 18, he’s one of the masters of old-time
tunes and minstrelsy and Is called upon frequently to perform.
SOVIETS PLANNING DISPATCHING
GASOLINE FROM NOME TO
BARROW —WILKINS
To discuss the transporta
tion of aviation gasoline to
Point Barrow. A. Vartanian
Soviet representative in Al
aska, who is in charge of the
search for Pilot Levanefsky
and his five companions, lost
on a trans-Polar flight Aug
ust 13th, made a flying trip
into Nome today to • confer
with the I-omen Commercial
Co., Standard Oil Co. repre
sentatives here.
According to information from
the company office here, a tenta
tive plan was develop to transport
about 15.000 gallons of gasoline
by boat to Point Hope, and have
planes fly it into Barrow, for use
by Sir Hubert Wilkins.
Left for Washington
After his discussion here to
day, Mr. Vartanian boarded the
PAA Elecira for Fairbanks, in
tending to fly from there back to
Washington, D. C.
Confer With Heads
At Washington, it is understood
he is to confer with Vilhjamer
Stefanson, and Sir Hubert Wil
kins at the Russian Embassy in
the national capital. His decision
on how to ship the gas to Bar
row will probably be wired to
the Lomen Company here. He ex
pects to be in Washington next
Tuesday.
Confident They Near Pole
While in Nome, Mr. Vartanian
is quoted as having stated he was
confident the missing Soviet air
plane was within 100 miles eith
er one side or the other of the
148 meridian, between the Al
askan coast and the North Pole.
He was reported to have said the
winter search would be carried
on with Aklavik and Point Bar
row as headquarters on this side
of the Pole.
Soviet Planes Searching
' Vartanian declared there were
eight four-motoTed Soviet long
distance planes based at Rudolph
Island in the Franz Joseph Group
and that they were searching the
area between that point and the
North Pole
Left Moscow Aug. 13th.
Pilot Levanefsky and five com
panions, including navigator Lev
chenko, hopped off from Moscow'
August 13th, in a four-motored
Soviet piane. on a non stop flight
to Fairbanks, where they intend
ed to refuel and fly to some point
:n the United States, as a dem
onstration of commercial air trav
el across the North Polar area.
They ware last heard of by!
radio, in difficulty, iceing up and
with one motor cut out. Their
position at that time has never
been definitely established, al
though it was believed they had
passed over the Pole. Since then j
two and a half months have el- ■
apsed and the Soviet government
is still determined to carry on the
search.
Weather Today
•j
(U S. Weather Bureau)
_
Generally fair weather contin
ues over western, central and nor
them Alaska while unsettled and
rainy weather is reported fronv
the Gulf and southeastern Alas-;
ka. Partly cloudy weather is the
rule over the Pacific Coast states
and western Canada.
Low pressure is centered east
of Dutch Harbor on the Aleutian j
Peninsula but the intensity has
diminished somewhat since yes- ’
terday. With the eastward move
ment of this disturbance cloudy
and unsettled weather is indicat-1
ed for Nome and Vicinity tonight
and Saturday with little change
jin temperature.
Temperatures are about normal
; in all sections of Alaska.
Running ice is reported in the!
'lower Yukon River.
THREE CORDOVANS LOST
LIVES WHEN A DELIVERY
TRUCK WENT OFF WHARF
CORDOVA, Oct. 22, — A
delivery truck ran off a dock
here last night, and the three
men in it were drowned.
(By The Associated Press)
CORDOVA. Oct. 22, — Three
men were drowned near midnight
last night when a light grocery
delivery truck plunged off the
city dock, overturning in about
five feet of water.
Names of Victims
The victims were Ernest Ever
son aged 55, superintendent of
the Alaska Glacier Sea Foods
Company, whose home is Astor
ia, Oregon.
James Dinneen, aged 22. whose
mother owned the grocery store.
And Gustav Blomgren, aged 45
formerly employed by the West
Coast Logging Company of Port
land, and recently employed by
a fish company here.
Bodies Recovered
The accident was discovered
within fifteen minutes and the
bodies quickly recovered.
The victims apparently injur
ed their heads, and were possibly
injured internally. Blomgren and
Dinneen were not married and
Everson had ben divorced.
Last Vestige Of
Govt. Rule N.W.
Spain Collapses
(By The Associated Press)
HENDAYE, Spain. Oct. 22,
The last vestige of government,
control in northwestern Spain,
vanished today as General Fran-,
co's victorious armies swept As-^
turias from end to end, and waa
even more complete than w-as thq^
j collapse of the Santander defense^
’ August 25th.
rorces Surrendered
The crumbling of the morale
of the savage, dynamite-slingingj
1 Asturian miners, who formed thqi
republican government's army,
marked the end for northwest
Spain. The Asturians were one*
the fiercest of all the government#
forces. They were falling over*
themselves to surrender.
Old papers for sale at tho
Nome Daily Nugget Office at 23<
a bundle.
NO. 1 RACQUETEERS. Alice Marble of San Francisco
national women’s tennis champion, and Donald Budge, men's sin
gles champion, met at the eastern grass court tournament and dis
cussed plans to defend their championships at Forest Hills, N. Y..
late in August.