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VOL. 38 No. 286 NOME. ALASKA. THURSDAY SEPT 30 1937 Per Copy 10ct»
Jap-Push Halted After 24-hr. Scrap
BLACK SPEAKS NATION TOMORROW P. M.
Aerial Bombing Horrors to Continue Says Tokyo
SPORTS ACE.
Clarence "Ace” Parker, 1936
all-America football back with
Duke, is now a shortstop with
the Philadelphia Athletics.
Tokyo Replies
Aerial Attacks
Are Necessary
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(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO. Sept. 30. — The Jap
anese government countered the
firm American protest against
the unwarranted bombardment
of Nanking, with the declaration
that the air raids to destroy the
base of resistance in the Chinese
capital were strategically neces
sary.
Others Receive Reply
The short Japanese reply to
the American note was present
ed to U. S. Ambassador Joseph
Grew at his foreign office.
He said that identical copies
of the reply had been handed to
the British and French repre
sentatives in Tokyo.
Win On Points
Diplomatically, the Japanese
Foreign Office has scored every
point in the game. However, sin
ce the beginning of active hostil
ities, Japanese financial back
grounds have weakened percept
ibly.
President Left
Via Destroyer
Visit Victoria
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Sept. 30, — Presi
dent Roosevelt left here at 9:40
a.m. aboard the U. S. Destroyer
Phelps, for a several hours'
“good-will” visit to Victoria, Bril
ish Columbia.
The government boat sailed
from Seattle in a pelting rain. He
will return to the United States
at Port Angeles, for night fall.
FOR SALE—Model A, 193<
Ford Pickup, and Bicycle. In
quire at Nugget Office. 10-1
Liner Baranof Of Alaska S. S. Co.
Sailed Late Today Enroute Seattle
4/
Nearly Hundred Outgoing
Passengers: Rough
Weather
The S. S. Baranof of the Al
aska Line arrived in the road
stead here late this morning from
Golovin and immediately started1
loading baggage and passengers.
Southerly winds and a raising
s a prevented any passengers be
ing taken aboard until about 2
p.m.—and then only by tug
boats, as it was too rough to
take them out to the ship by
barges.
Tugs .continued the perilgu/*;
■
job of taking passengers out to
the Baranof. all afternoon, and
the ship was still in port, at the
hour of going to press.
Following is the list of the out
going passengers on this boat:
E. F. Patterson
Lee T. Parker
John Eberle
Mrs. Mabel L. Clarence
C. Z. Shallit
Miss Eleanor W. Sullivan
Miss Dorothy M. Russell
C. E. Anderson
Mrs. G M Aldrich
Mrs. A Brunell
Mrs. John Hurley
Mrs. Annie G. West
A E Becker
Mrs A E Becker
Mrs J M Anderson
Alfred Lomen Jr.
Orasuk (insane patient)
Rose Ray (insane patient)
Mrs Ruby Stormfeltz
I
Hugh O’Farrell
Mrs Esther Wallace
Florence Blatchford
Mrs. Ed. Seidenverg
Miss Elean Seidenverg
Master Jerry Seidenverg
Paul Tornensin
Carl Tornensin
V P Harmon
Mrs. Ralph Lumen
Sterling Montague
P J Kennedy
Frank E. Ohman
Miss Elaine Allen
Harry Dobson
W. Russell
. -a ,
A E Stewart
Everette Jones
C J Tjernagel
Gunnar Gustafson
Jack Read
A G Lekos
John Brom
A1 Lamoureux
Paul L Steiner
H M Swensen
Claude Brown
Guy F Graham
Leo E McGreanor
Donald Mclver
C. T. Shaw
George Wiegert
Albert Olsen
Hjalmer Johnson
Peter Bowlan
James B. Wild
William Bourga't
G torge Sands
Fred Bollinger
Arnold Mills
(Continued on Page Two)
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, eat at the wheel of hla automobile la a buay etreet of the famed1“f
teruatioaal Settlement. la the rear aoat are the maacled "““J®*®}
I th paaooafora, a few of the hundred! hilled la aa alt raid. They paid
u a fhaatly price for peace. _
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PICTURES SUCH AS
ABOVE BRING WAR
CLOSER TO HOME
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Sept. 30. — Tins
is the glory of war. But the
drums are silenced, the Hags are
furled forever for these child
ren found lying close together in
a Shanghai gutter, struck down
by an aerial bomb.
For those who survive there
lay ahead bitter fighting, suffer
ing, starvation, disease, and af
ter that untold years of recon
struction. But fate spared, these
two from that, giving them in
stead horrible death and unmark
ed graves at journey’s end.
Justice Black To
Talk Over NBC
Friday Evening
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 30,
—Kenneth Berkley, general man
ager of the National Broadcast
ing Company here, announced
that Justice Hugo Black would
speak from the nation’s capital
over the nationwide facilities ot
of NBC Friday night at 6:37 p.m,
Pacific Standard Time.
The announcement was made
after Berkley talked to Clifford
Burr, Reconstruction Finance
Corporation attorney, a brother
in-law of Mrs. Black.
May Speak Klan Issue
While the subject of the speech
was not announced, broadcasting
officials said they assumed il
would deal with the allegations
that Hugo Black had once beer
a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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COMMANDER CHIEF OF SOVIET
FAR EAST ARMY REPORTED
BE DIRECTING CHINESE
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Sept. 30. — Jap
anese official sources declared
today they had information in
dicating that the Comtmander in
Chief of the Russian Array in the
Far East, Marshall Galents Bleu
cher. was actively directing the
Chinese military strategy against
Japan.
Big Push Halted
The Japanese big push against
the Chinese defense lines north
west of Shanghai, was fought to
a standstill.
The Japanese warlords hurled
every weapon they could must
er againstly the strogmly forti
jfied Chinese positions, but were
unabie to smash at mid-day. af
jter more than twenty four hours,
of desperate fighting. Tlie Japan
ese spokesman admitted they had
[made only minor gams.
Directs From Siberia
Domei, the Japanese news ag
ency, reported this morning from
Nanking, that Marshall Galents
Bluechers was directing the Chin
ese resistance by telephone from
his Siberian headquarters. Check
on other sources of information
failed to bring to light any oth
er evidence to support the Jap
anese allegation.
' INNOCENCE IN WAK- These children are Seeing its horrors*