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VOL 38 No. 274. NOME. ALASKA. Thursday, Sept. 16, 1937 Per Copy lOcte
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Epidemic Cholera Sweeps Shanghai
FLARES CAUSE ANOTHER FUTILE SEARCH
Chinese With 300,000 Troops Repulse Japanese
CHOLERA EPIDEMIC SWEEPS
SHANGHAI WHILE CHINESE
ROUTE JAPANESE ARMIES
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Sept. 16—A chol
era epidemic reaching grave pro
portions spread through the for
eign sections striking down more
than a hundred additional vic
tims in its overnight sweep. TheJ
dread plague raised the number
o' cases in the international set
tlement and French concession
alone, to 740 with an additional
1400 suspected cases. In two
areas of the Chinese section, the
number of cases was beheved to
be in the thousands.
The Chinese counterattacked
in force from the center of their
strong Shanghai defense line and
• drove the Japanese from Lotien,
tltteen miles nortnwest or the in
ternational settlement. Despite a
heavy downpour of rain the Chin
ese troops are said to have brok
en the mechanized Japanese at
tack. Countercharging, they drove
out Japanese who had entered
the town with armoured cams and
tanks.
Japanese spokesmen said that
the Chinese now have twenty
nine divisions or 300,000 men in
the Shanghai and Sooehow areas
with thirteen divisions massed in
the immediate Shanghai area.
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Chinese Armies |
Overwhelm All i
Advances
(By J'he Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Sept. 14 — The!
Japanese army changed its tac
tics abruptly after capturing and
losing the village of Yangchang.
The Shanghai suburb was taken
at a tremendous cost of men in
one of the bitterest fights of the
war. But the Japanese could not
hold the village. Immediately af
ter withdrawing, the Chinese re
formed ranks and stormed the
town. The see-saw battle for the
village resulted in the Japanese
ordering the artillery to carry on
the attack. Shells then Laid low
virtually every building in the
village. Even unc(er the heavy bar
rage, th. Chinese moved up and
■a dawn they were locked in a
bitter fight along the waterfront.
Chinese airmen pierced a cur
tain of fire to bomb a Japanese
destroyer which ran aground.
Chinese planes also dropped
bombs around the entire Japan
ese fleet off Shanghai.
Communists Join
Govt. Fight Japs
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Sept. 14— China's
communist army, numbering up
wars of 100,000 veteran troops
liss thrown its red banners away
arid gone to the government's
aid in its extremity it was learn
ed. This news, one of the biggest
developments since the start of
tiie Japanese aggresion, reached
the Shanghai battle lines as
Chinese troops withstood for the
fourth consecutive day a Japan
ese offensive of world war scale.
The communist army under
General Chu Teh is marching
through northwest China toward
Peiping and is reported already
engaged with Japanese north and
west of there.
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Insurgents Shell
i Madrid Inflict
Little Damage
(By The Associated Press)
MADRID, Sept. 16 —Insurgent
i shells pounded central Madrid at
'five minute intervals, killing sev
eral persons. The bombardment
came after two week’s artillery
inactivity and began at about 11
a.nv Some casualties were in
flicted before the people in the
downtown district could take
cover.
(By The Associated Press)
NURENBERG, Germany, Sept.
14—Chancellor AdoLf Hitler pre
dicted that Europe would not
“settle down” until the colonial
question is solved. “Germany
wants her old colonies back and
no more” he told foreign cores
pondents in an interview at Burg
Castle shortly after reviewing
100.000 storm troops.
Electrocutes Self
In Home Made
Electric Chair
(Bv Tne Associated Press'
CHICAGO, Sept. 14— Bertram
B Braueher, 27. an engineering
student executed himseLf in a
home-made electric chair, police
said. Braueher was found dead on
a bed in his home with his wrists
wired to a transformer on which
wa» propped a sign “danger,
higli voltage.” At the light socket
where the transformer was con
nected was another sign “pull
out this socket before touching
me."
Officers said the youth's par
ents told them the youth had
been worrying over failure to ob
tain a job to finance his engin
eering and air conditioning stud
ies at a Chicago Technical Col
lege.
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BUOY, WAS HE SCARED! Thirteen - year - old Paul
Tugend was somewhat worried — even downright scared — when
coastguards pulled him In a breeches buoy from an bland near
Buffalo, N. Y. He was marooned with two other lads by a stream,
Hooded from a broken dam. He managed to bring part of his model
s airplane with Una in the rescue.
RUMORED FLARES CAUSE
ANOTHER FUTILE SEARCH
FOR LOST POLAR FLIERS
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(By The Associated Press)
POINT 3ARROW, Sept. 16 —
Rumors that Eskimos saw mys
terious Mures along the Arctic
coast sent Russian pilot Alexsei
Gratciansky on a search extend
ing from Icy Cape to Barrow, a
hundred miles to the southwest,
yesterday. The Russians said the
search failed to uncover any
trace of the missing Soviet fliers.
Sir Hubert Wilkin's Pilot Gol
ovin continued the hunt, but Gol
ovin's position was not given.
Wilkins said he must be in the
Aklavik area in Northwest Ter
ritory.
On the Russian side of the pole
four plar.eis continued the hunt.
Mystery Sub Is
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Reported Hurt
Unable Ascend
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CARTAGENA, Spain, Sept. 14
—The pirate submarine of the
Mediterranean was reported to be
; drifting badly damaged just be
jlow the surface of the water.
Divers send down in the Med
iterranean just off Cartagena by
ihe loyalist government reported
I that the submarine apparently is
unable to rise to the surface. The
jdivers said that they tapped mes
sages to the trapped men but
| got only feeble replies. Two ex
planations were advanced for the
'fact that the submarine is dam
iflged. One was that she had been
hit by a depth bomb after the at
tack on the British destroyer.
Havock, more than a week ago.
But naval men said it would be
almost impossible for the crew o
any number of it to remain al. e
that length of time. The second
theory was tha* the submarine
was struck Friday when Loyal
ist vessels fought a battle with a
U boat off Cartagena.
The identity of the submarine
was not established by the divers.
They reported that the name of
the vessel was paunted out.
“Andy* Of Amos
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an’ Andy Married
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GLENDALE. Calif., Sept. 14—
Charles Gorrell the “Andy" of
the Amos and Andy radio team
for whom matrimony has pro
vided many a blackface jest on
the radio said in a solemn basso
profundi) “I do" in a ceremony
witnessed by or.e hundred per
son.- many of them famous in the
tilir. > and radio. Gorrel became
♦i-n hn-hrr.d -.f A c: Mercedes
McLaughlin, featured stage dan
cer.
OFF THE RECORD. While Princess Juliana of Holland
was posing for the court photographer, her husband. Prince Bern
hard, sneaked this candid camera study of the attractive heirea to
the throne in the land of windmills and dykes.