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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL 38 No. 310 NOME. ALASKA, THURSDAY. OCT 28 1937 _Per Copy 10ct»
12 Known Dead In Mine Explosion
GOLD PRODUCTION NEAR $4,000,000 MARK.
Mine Officials Praised Work Of Rescue Squads
CHINESE RETREATED
FROM CHAPEI AREA
AS NIPPON ADVANCES
f
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Oct 28. —
The Chinese defenses in the
Shanghai area were more
completely crumbled today
following intensives drives by
the Japanese forces.
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Oct. 28. —A sin
gle defiant flag, doomed, but yet
waving over the fighting Chin- j
ese battalion, still fluttered over
Chapei, in the midst of scores of
Japanese Rising Sun banners.
Scene Battle Shifted
While the main battleground
had shifted to Shanghai’s west
ern environs, with the Chinese
retreat from Chapei yesterday, a
ione Chinese forces held out to
night in warehouses along Soo
chow Creek, adjoining the inter
national settlement’s northern
Oorder.
Doom Is Certain
At a late hour, the doom of the
battalion at hand seemed cer
tain, when a Japanese naval
spokesman said that Nippon's
bluejackets would mop up all
scattered Chinese units in Chapei,
designating the Chinese detach
ment as stragglers, and predict
ing they would soon be killed.
Scottsboro Negro
Will Serve Term j
Federal Prison
Supreme Court Uphold State
Tribunal in Trial of Attacker
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 28
—Haywood Patterson, one of the
nine negroes involved in the fam
ous Scottsboro case lost Monday
in the Supreme Court his effort
to escape a 75-year sentence in
prison, imposed upon him by the
Alabama courts for his alleged
attack on a white woman.
Associate Justice Hugo Black
took no part in the consideration
or the decision, thus removing
any possibility of a challenge to
Black’s position on the bench on
the grounds that he is a former
KXK member.
Before adjourning for two
weeks the court has agreed to re
view the appeal of the Duke
Power Company in attacking the
constitutionality of PWA loans &
grants to publicly owned hydro
electric plants.
C O 15 tJ 1 r: TROUBLE can hold no terrors tor this wearer of
the “Man from Mars” headgear. Ilis aviator's helmet pro.? ^ liim
high above the earth, while his mask safeguards him if he 1 - in
an area under gas attack. Austrian engineers develop.! t ...m
bination.
S. S. Baranof
Sailing Today
Way Seattle
With close to $1,000,000 in gold
bullion aboard, the S. S. Baranof
Ls sailing from Nome late this
evening for the states, carrying
more than 300 passengers, the nam
es of whom, appear below., The
vessel returned from Golovin to
day noon. Smooth seas and fair
weather attended her discharging
operations at both Nome and
Golovin.
Nearly three million dollars in
gold was shipped from Nome in
1936. On the September boat this
year, reliable sources said the
gold shipped at that time was
i $300,00 in excess of the entire
: 1936 season.
j And rrorw nearly a million more
1 is going out, bringing the pro
bably production for 1937 to about
$4,000,000 or more for this sum
1 mer.
!
Nels Swanberg Sr.
Mrs. Nels Swanberg Sr.
Mrs. M Waldheim
Alvo Albensleben
Isadore Fix
Mrs. Isadore Fix
G L Bain
Geo. Waldheim
N B Tweet
Mrs N B Tweet
Norman Tweet
Harold Tweet
WiLbur Tweet
Otto R. Irrgang
Wm. Ptdruini
P L Reader
Mrs. P L Reader
Kelly McKinnon
Ralph Lister
Mrs. Ralph Lister
J L Fritch
Homer Johnson
L H McCloy
Knute Drange
J A Beil
John Emmingham
Chas. H Esch
C L Dempsey
Mrs C L Dempsey
Ada Amuktoolik
Joseph Bellewiew
Ray Venning
Allen Pearson
W A Jones
Uust bundquist
Axel Johnson
A A Dane
Wm. Cox
Mrs. E N Lindsley
D E Derrick
Master Donald Pearson
C H Pearson
Mrs. C H Pearson
MLss Ruth Johansen
Glen Adams
John Anderson
Mrs Martha Olson
Hilman Lee
Fay C Morrow
Mrs John Kanari
John Kanari
Arnold Undem
Mrs Arnold Undem
John Norberg
Thomas B. Hayward
/ J K Moore
Harry Egbert
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MORE BODIES ARE TAKEN FROM
ANCHORAGE MINE: TWO
STILL MISSING
(By The Associated Press) !
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 28.—
With the recovery of one
more body late yesterday, the
total dead in the Evans- Jon
es coal mine explosion was
raised to 12.
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 28, —Res
cue crews late last night recov
ered one more body, making 12
known dead, as the search con
tinued for two more miners.
How They Escaped
Foreman Vic Rade was brought
out of the damaged mine, badly
burned. Carl Edman. Jacob An
geli and Jacob Jvllha escaped
through the main draft tunnel
when they felt the heavy con
cussion and saw clouds of dust
boiling through the shaft. Elmer
Hausar climbed through a ven
tilator in another part of the
: mine, but his partner Otto Mik
kali was overcome and died when
onlv six feet from the surface.
All Bachelors But One
Mine officials said that all of
the dead except one, were bach
elors, former homes unlisted.
Names of Dead
The known dead are:
Robert Nakki
Frank Melznik
Axel Huettla
Leslie Lampson
Pete Ferrini
John Mattson
Joe Cernick
Paul Williams
Jack Saarela
Abel Asikainen
Augustin Urbich
| The two men still missing are:
Pete Olson and Joe Lucas.
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 28, —
Tile foreman in charge of the
mine Vic Raide, described to
the searching parties, while |
he still lay in pain from his
injuries, the exact location of
every man in the mine.
(By The Associated Press)
Anchorage. Oct. 28. —Victory
Raide, foreman in the Evan Jon
es coal mine was praised for aid
ing in the search for the victims
of the mysterious explosion yes
terday.
Lay Near Death
While he lay near death from
severe body burns, a broken leg
and crushed ribs. Raide gave the
exact location of every man in
the mine, which enabled the res
cue crews to speed their remov
al.
Human Sacrifice
Hjulmar Houeser told how Mik
koia died within a few feet of
safety, after a futile attempt to
save his comrades.
Houeser said that he and Mik
kola had been working together.
When the explosion came they
dashed for the ventilation shaft.
Mikkola said they should return
and s ek Yerbicih. Both went
back but the fumes forced them
to abandon iheir hunt. Mikkola
was overcome near the surface
and Houeser was unable to carry
him out.
Information on Dead
Th Evans Jones Company re
cord- give the following informa
tion on the mine blast victims:
I'runk Joseph Melznik, aged 31
of Chicago. Previously worked at
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A BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY holds no appeal (or Shirley
Temple, who registers annoyance for the cameramen dogging her
* footsteps in Hawaii.
Bolshevism Must
Co Says II Duce
Preserve Peace
(By The Associated Press)
ROME. Oct. 28. — Premier*
Benito Mussolini, celebrating th%
15th Anniversary of the Fascist
March on Rome, declared:
“It is necessary that Ger
many be restored to her
place in the African sun.”
II Duce thus voiced his support
for Germany’s desire for the re
turn of her colonies, lost after tbei
war.
Down With Bolshevism
He told massed crowds, num
bering over one hundred thous
and Fascist: “For a durable and!
fruitful peace, it is necessary that
Bolshevism be eliminated in Eut*
ope.”
Ross Kidnap Trail
Grows Warmer
W ith 2nd Note
Ten Dollar Bill Given to G-Me-*
By A Chicago Worker.
CHICAGO. Oct 28—The Even
ing American said today that the
second Charles Ross ransom bill
was found. It was a $10 bill, the
paper said, and was a part of the
$50,000 in currency paid the kid
napers.
The second note was turned
over to federal agents by Franlc
Stremmel. an employe of the As
sociation of American Railroads,
who said he received it when he
cashed a check in a Loop district
department store.
The American also said Mrs.
Clara Ludwig who a week ago
turned in the first ransom bill to
the federal men, received a letter
threatening her abduction if she
did not stay silent.
Charles Ross, retired Chicago
manufacturer, was spirited fr< n
his auto whip driving near C i
cago during the last month.
NURSES DISLIKE
PETTICOAT PARADE
SYDNEY. Australian—Night
ly “petticoat parades” have brot
objections from Sydney nurses.
Although not part of their ut; -
form, 20 nurses at the Nightin
gale home must “show petticoats’’
to a senior staff member each
night before going on duty. They
were described as “cumbersome,
Grundy things” by one nurse,
who added:
"I wonder if Florence Nightin
gale wore one.”
STUDENT IS SLAIN.
COLUMBIA, Mo., (Ah— Albert
R. Waters Jr., University of Mis
souri sophomore, was found shot
to death in his fraternity hr use
bed. Police said that he had ex
pressed a desire for “Communion
with God.”