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VOL. 38 No. 260 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUG. 30, 1937. Per Copy 10ct*
Joe Louis Wins on Points-15 Rounds
CHINESE DROP BOMBS ON LINER HOOVER
Tommy Farr Put Up Great Fight With the Bomber
TOMMY FARR—WHO LASTED 15 ROUNDS TODAY
Mother Takes
Lives Of Her
Six Children
(By The Associated Press')
DENISON, Iowa, Aug. 30th—
Seven bodies—a mother and six
children lay in a funeral home
here, victims of a farm home tra
gedy, Coroner John Gotzberg
said it was suicide.
The dead are: Elise Nollen, 34;
Leona) 4; Viola, 2; Orvin, ll;Wil
burt, 10; Pauline, 7; Earl, 6.
Leaving a suicide note which
told of maritial unhappiness, the
mother took the liveE of the
children and herself by sending
deadly automobile exhaust gas
from the family car into the bed
room window of the home. The
huband, Albert, found the bodies
when he returned home.
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Aviators Montana
BILLINGS, Mont., Aug. 29th—
Two aviators, hopeful that the 6
Russian fliers forced down Aug*
ust lath are still alive, refueled
their big twin-motored ship and
set Seattle as the next 9top on
their rescue flight to Skagway,
Alaska. The fliers are Roger C.
Williams who flew non stop from
New York to Rome in 1929, and
his copilot Charles (Slim) West,
of New Berndix, New Jersey.
The pair expected to arrive in
Seattle late Saturday night.
Krassin Arrived
Point Barrow
Act In Search
'
(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, August 28— The
Soviet ’icebreaker Krassin won
through Arctic ice and adverse
winds to Barrow to become the
pivot in a search for the six miss
ing Soviet trans-Polar fliers.
CALLENDER, Out., Aug. 30—
One case of infantile paralysis
was reported near Callander not
far from the hospital home of
the Dionne quintuplets. It was
the first case reported in this part
of Northern Ontario, although
the disease is epidemic elsewhere
in the Province.
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 30th—Two
United States navy ships, a cruis
er and transports, are on the high
seas, carrying thirteen hundred
marines to Shanghai. Thousands
cheered and bands played as the
transport Chaumont and cruiser
Marblehead weighed anchor yes
terday.
The Cutter Northland, Captain
Zeusler in command arrived from
the north late Saturday and yes
terday sailed for Norton Sound
ports.
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Three British
Ships Bombed
Bay Of Biscay
(By The Associated Press)
SATNT JEAN De LUZ Aug. 30
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Three British merchant ships
were bombed and damaged by
Spanish war planes off the Astur
ian port of Gijon on the Biscay
coast.
British Consular officials an
nounced the British ships were
attacked less than twenty-four
hours after Great Britain served;
a stern warning on the Spanish
nationalists that attacks on Bri
tish shipping must cease immedi
ately or the admiralty would take
sech action as the occasion de
mands. One of the attacked
ships was the Marion Moller, a
3,&27 ton freighter out of Shan
ghai.
An attache of the British Em
bassy at Madrid, now at Saint
Jean De Luz, was unable to iden
tify the other two British ships,
but said all three were struck by
aerial bombs. The ships were
not seriously damaged, he said,
and are enroute to a French port.
PIONEER MEETING
Pioneers of Alaska to meet at
8 P. M., Wednesday, September
1st, at the office of Aimer Rydeen
Dave Gray, Secretary
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JOE LOUIS WINS
FROM FARR
BY POINTS
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK. Aug. 30. — Joe
Louis, the Brown Bomber, tonight
was only able to gain a decision
over English Tommy Farr, in one
of the biggast surprises in heavy
weight history.
Tile fight went the full 15
rounds with Farr still fresh at
the end. Louis was unable to get
fn a deciding blow thruout the
bout, due, it is reported to the
peculiar and elusive style of the
Englishman,
Father Hubbard
Tells Experience
While in Arctic
•After a month's cruise within
the Arctic Circle on the Cutter
Northland, in command of Cap
tain Frederick A. Zeusler, the
Father Hubbard party returned
to Nome where they are com
pleting preparations for the
year's stay on King Island in the
interest of ethnological study.
Interrogated about the current
international interest centering
around Point Barrow, the Glacier
Priest in an exclusive interview
to the Nome Nugget and Asso
ciated Press stated: “In spite of
reports of radio signals presum
ably emanating from the lost
Russian trans-Polar fliers, it is
the opinion of most of the really
experienced people in the Arctic
that there is very little probabil
ity of any of the men being
found alive.
‘The Arctic Ocean does not
freeze like Central Park, New
York, but is a chaos of broken
turreted pressure ridges and raft
ed ice cakes that makes a forced
landing in a storm certain to be
a tragedy.
“What puzzles me most is the
strange policy and lack of sound
common sense in the rescue plans
thus far employed. The first ser
ious mistake was making Barrow
the base for rescue work. Much
gasoline is needed for plane re
connoitering and Barrow had
none to spare, as up to the time
of the airplane tragedy and the
few weeks following, no vessel
of deep draught had been able to
get through.
“Even the much publicized Rus
sian ice-breaker Krassin found
that the ice around North Amer
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JOE LOUIS—WHO RETAINED CHAMPIONSHIP
Liner President
Hoover Bombed
Off China Coast
(Bv The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Aug. 30th— Four
war planes, apparently Chinese,
dumped, bombs on the Dollar
Liner President Hoover on high
seas off the China coast. The
President Hoover is one of the
mercy fleet which has been en
gaged in evacuating hundreds of
Americans from Shanghai, was
attacked twenty miles from the
coast and about 50 miles from
Woosung, a point where the Yan
gtze River meets the Whangpoo
city’s harbor waterway.
Seven members of the Presi
dent Hoover’s crew were wound
ed and three passengers suffered
shell shock.
Is On His Last Lap
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 30th—
Captain W.A.Crowell, lone mar
iner in a 23-foot ketch, the Queen
Mary, was en.route from San
Francisco to Vancouver, B. C., on
the last lap of his 20,000 mile
voyage from Nova Scotia. He
was accompanied only by a black
Spaniel dog. He left Halifax on
July 16th, 1936. He plans to reach
his destination by October.
He said he paid one dollar and
a half fee to go through the Pa
nama Canal before arriving here.
This was the lowest fee paid
since Richard Halliburton swam
through and paid fifty cent toll.
Great Britain
Anxious Over
Effects of War
{Bv The Associated Press'
LONDON, Aug. 30—Great Bri
tain alarmed by the threat to her
enormous interests in Shanghai,
joined the United States in a for
mal appeal for an immediate end
to the Sino Japanese warfare.
The appeal announced in a com
munique after a day-long em
ergency consultation among Pri
me Minister Veville Chamberlain
and cabinet leaders, said: “The
British governmnt shares the
anieties of the United States gov
ernment regarding the damage to
the Far East in general from the
present fighting and welcomes the
appeal made by the United States
Secretary of State for both sides
to cease thoir hostilities.”
There is no trutli to the report
that the British govrnment pro
poses to persist in its efforts to
secure the exclusion of Shanghai
from the area of hostilities.
Concerned with the Spanish
war as well, the Ministers decid
ed according to the communique
that the government would
“maintain continuously for the
present, a force of at least one
flotilla of destroyers and two
heavier ships in the Western bas
in of the Mediterranean for the
protection of British shipping.”
This would amount to eleven
ships in all in addition to other
British war ships in passage thru
the Medeterranean.
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