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VOL. 38. No. 220 NOME. ALASKA. SATURDAY. July 24, 1937 Per Copy lOcta
D Duce Talks of Reality and War
DEPT. STORE STRIKES CALLED IN TACOMA
Chicago 1st City To Ask Citizens Test For Syphilis
Mussolini’s Newspapers Carry Ultra
Modern Type Editorials Predicting
Outcome Spanish War, Other Things
(By The Associated Press)
MILAN, July 24, — II Popolo D'ltalia, government
mouthpiece for Benito Mussolini, the Italian Dictator,
declared today: “Reality”, some day will overwhelm
international “make believe.”
Well informed sources said this reality was a war
editorial attributed to Mussolini.
Cited as one item were a group of ‘fictions —the
belief that some day the war debis to the United Stat
es would be paid. Another was the belief that \ alencia
would be the real seat of the Spanish government.
The editorial continued: “One day all their card
castles will be overwhelmed by reality, which is time
has had a single grave (unsubstitutable name.) The
word “war” was not used throughout the editorial.
Surcharge Air
Mail In Alaska
Bill is Approved
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 21, —
Approval of the bill providing a
surcharge for airmail carried in
Alaska was approved today by
the House Committee on Post offi
ces and Postroads.
The measure which was intro
duced by Delegate Anthony J.
Dimond, authorized the Postmast
er General, in his discretion, to
fix the postage on mails carried to
or within Alaska at not to exceed
30 cents an ounce or 15 cents a
half ounce.
The Phyllis Beauty Shoppe has
been moved from its former loca
tion to a shop on the second story
of the building occupied by the
Polet Branch Store, and is again
actively engaged in fulfilling the
beauty requirements of Nomeites.
Two Farmers Shot
Bandits After
Abducted
(By Trie Associated Press'
BOWELL, Oklahoma. July 22,
— Fred Tindiol, escaped Texas
convict was shot to death and his
companion Pete Traxier was ser
iously wounded by farmers they
were holding as hostages while
an automobile in which they were
attempting to escape, was stalled
with a flat tire.
The farmers, Frank Trimmer
and J. E. Benton, grabbed the
guns from their captors and shot
them. Traxier was shot above the
right lung. The farmers brought
the two convicts here.
Natives of Northern Rhodesia
make clothing from the bark of
a tree .that is said to be as soft
as a fluffy wool blanket and ex^
ceptionally strong and durable.
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IT'S COMING, GiftLS. Parisian hair stylists permitted this
week at the new low-necked hairdress. The roll at back turns under
instead of over. The front is brought forward and curled in a hat
movement, somewhat like bangs.
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NEW SUBMARINE LAUNCHED
The newest United States navy submarine, the Pompano, was launched
recently at the Mare Island, Calif., navy yard. The submarine, one of
•lx of similar design, is expected to be fully commissioned by August 13,
(Associated Press Photo) i
Negress Failed
In Long Quest
Find A Husband
(Bv The Associated Press'
NEW YORK, July 21, — George
anna Lee, 'plump negress, who
owns a restaurant and beauty
parlor in Ketchikan, and who so!
out a few months ago on a world
tour to cure herself of an infer
iority complex, and to get a tall,
thin husband, is in New York
with neither, after voyages to
several European countries. But
J she is having a pleasant time, and
sfill owns her business in Ketch
ikan. After a brief stay in New
i York she will resume her globe
jaunt with Russia and Australia
her immediate prospective goals.
Hopes to Find Gold
When she concludes her globe
wandering for a husband and a
feeling of superiority, she looks
ahead to opening some mining
claims she owns in the North
jland and hopes to find gold. Miss
| Lee is 37 years old. She is a grad
| uate of Wilberforce college in
Ohio. She lived in Detroit and
Chicago before going to Alaska
five years ago.
Doesn't Want Dumb Man
“I’d like a man about 42 years
old, tall and thin. He would have
to have at least half as much ex
perience as I've had. I don’t want
a real dumb man, and he ought
to have some money; not much
though.”
Miss Lee declared she had ad
) 1 >r . ishand without
ft alts. One pi ic'n
. r, S3 re?p mf .. id a young
2’ years old.
Gets A New Plane
(By The Associated Press 1
LONDON. July—A new plane
with accomodations far ,-ix has
been ordered for the royal fam
ily.
Members of the British royal
family have used airplanes in
creasingly, but the king and the
queen have not been up s'oce
their accession to the throne.
May Succeed Frank
Clarence A. Dykstra (above), city
manager of Cincinnati, was re
ported to have been agreed upon as
successor to Dr. Glenn Frank as
president of the University of Wis
consin. (Associated Press Photo)
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3 & A HALF MILLION
PEOPLE ASKED TAKE
TESTS AT CHICAGO
(By The Associated Press'
CHICAGO, 111., July 24. — This city today asked
its three and a half million residents to submit to free,
voluntary secret blood test for syphilis. The govern
ment has supplied two million franked envelopes with
which reports may be mailed.
It's action today marked Chicago as one of the very
first cities in the nation to take up the fight against this
disease, a battle which has recently come out into the
open and is no longer hiding behind the prim counten
ance qf politeness, but which is devoted to placing be
fore the public intelligent arguments as to why it should
fought, and how syphilis may be overcome.
Pickets Prevent Department Stores
Tacoma. W ashington From Opening
As Clerks* Strike Spreads In Town
(Bv Ti-.e Associated Pre^s
TACOMA, July 24. —Pickets patrolled the city’s
largest department stores which were closed by a clerk
s' strike which spread rapidly. One store did not open
Friday morning. More than seven hundred persons are
out on strike.
Rumors are circulating that groceries and other
establishments will follow. The cause of the strike has
not been announced. A working agreement expired at
the end of June, although this is not believed to be at
the eat of the trouble.
M. J. Muckev, director of the Tacoma industrial
conference hinted that the merchants were expected to
be tied up for several weeks, maybe.
SIEGE AGAIN IN FORCE MADRID
(By The Associated Press
MADRID. July 24. — Wth insurgent pressure on
his hanks, General Miaja, western front salient was
weakening today, with the government, however, still
holding its two-weeks’ old position, despite five days of
'furious counter thrusts.
General Franco’s army is said to have suffered
i heavy losses in a desperate effort to hold the siege.
At Hendaye, General Franco claimed ‘"a brilliant
] victory” on the western front when he insisted he had
| won the counter drive to the Brunete sector, capturing
guns and other war supplies.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
(By The Associated Press)
TIENTSIN, China, July 24, — War tension in Nor
th China was apparently eased today, though the influx
of Japanese war supplies continues.
Observers said that friction might renew the war
like dispute in some places, despite the fact that China
: has met the first Japanese condition of withdrawing her
37th division from the Peiping area.
DECATR, Alabama, July 24, — The first Scotts
| boro case, guilty plea, was entered today by Ozzie Pow
ell, one of the nine negroes accused of raping two white
i girls.
He pleaded guilty of assault with intent to murder.
' Rape charge againt five of the defendants were dropped.