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NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE—ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY AVIATION
THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
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VOL. 38. No. 298. NOME. ALASKA, Thursday. October^#. 1937 Per Copy 10ct»
Last Boat of Season Sails For Nome
BATTLING CONTINUES N.W. OF SHANGHAI
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Byrd Opinion Soviet North Pole Route Impractical
2 OFFICIALS KILLED
AN ARAB UPRISING
NEAR JERUSELUM
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Intense Battle
Rages Shanghai zj
Before Attack
SHANGHAI, Oct. 15, —A
Chinese counterthrust is at
present attempting to halt the
threaened general a tack of
Japanese, according to reports
received today.
(By The Associated Pres*'
SHANGHAI, Oct. 15, —An in
tense battle raged in the Chapei
and Hongkew sectors, -where the
Chinese armies are making a bit
ter counter thrust to stave off
the long expected Japanese gen
eral attack, along the twenty five
miles battle front northwest of
Shanghai.
Three Civilians Killed
Three Japanese civilians were
Killed and three wounded during
the Chinese shelling of Hong
Kew. the Japanese occupied sect
or of the International Settle
ment.
One of the victims was Tomb
kato Iwagura, correspondent of
the newsppaer Hochi of Toyko.
He was a younger brother of
Prince Iwakura.
Forty Casualties
Spanish Bombing
(By The Associated Press i
MADRID, Oct. 15, — More
than forty casualties were re
ported from Gijon, as a result of
an insurgent areial attack on the
city. About fifty houses were de
stroyed in the bombardment this
morning.
JERUSELUM, Oct. 15, —
Arab uprisings near here
again broke out, this time
resulting in the deaths of two
British officials, which may
call for drastic returns.
—
(By The Associated Press')
JERUSELUM, Oct. 15, —Two
British Consulates were shot to
death in a spectacular skirmish
with a large band of armed Ar
abs near Bethlehem.
Party Ambushed
just before dawn the authori
ties learned of the concentration
of an armed gang on the main
road to Bethlehem, near Solo
mon’s Pool.
They rushed four carloads of,
police to the scene equipped with )
Lewis guns, and searchlights. j
Were Protected
Heavy rifle fire from both sid
es of the ancient highway greeted
them. The Arabs lay behind pro
tecting boulders on the hillsides
while the police were exposed
to their crossfire under the moon
light. The band took flight after
the first exchange.
If Black Resigns
Men Will Join
(By The Associated Press)
BOSTON, Oct. 15—Former U.
S. Representative Upshaw, aged
71, of Atlanta, in a birthday in
terview declared: “If Supreme
i Court Justice Hugo Black resigns
! the Court, one million men will
I join the Klu Klux Klan over
flight," and further asserted that
Black has as much right to be
long to the Klan as Senator
Walsh has to “belong to the sec
ret order of the Knights of Col
umbu;s.”
' Behind the war
front of
China.
directing the
destinies
of millions
in the bitter
conflict
with Japan
sits
Generalissimo
Cliiang
Kai-Shek, whose
word in civil
and military
affairs
is the law of
the land.
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Admiral Byrd
Sees No Future
Polar Commerce
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 16
—Admiral Byrd said he doubted
whether regular flights between,
Russia and the United States ov
er the route pioneered by Soviet'
airmen this year would be prac
ticable for “some years”. Byrd i
voiced this view after he and
other members of his second Ant.
Arctic Expedition received Spec- i
ial Congressional medals from!
Secretary Swanson of the Navy'
Department.
Admiral Byrd further said that
the "Russia-America route can be |
flown only half of the year even'
under otherwise favorable condi
tions; the problems of ice form
ing on the wings and the lack of
bases make it difficult,” and add-;
ed that he never considered prac'
ticable, floating air bases, such asj
the Russians have established at;
the North Pole.
Byrd minimized the military
strategic possibilities of a Polar
base, but said he believed that j
permanent weather observation,
stations should be maintained in j
the far North and South.
Barrow Is On
Upgrade States
Charles Brower
Chas. D. Brower, Veteran Arctic,
Trader, Says Aviation Has
Revived Our Northern
Outpost.
Point Barrow, one-time, centerj
of the Arctic whaling industry,'
is on the up-and-up again.
Although the whaling industry |
is only a memory, the fur trade;
is diminishing, and the fishing isi
insignificant, America’s farthest
north community has become a
point of interest on the world
map.
Charles D. Brower, resident oi
the Arctic since 1884, has seen
the rise and decline, and now the
new interest in Barrow that avia
tion has made possible.
So closely linked in Arctic his-1
tory are the names Brower and
Point Barrow, that they are al
most synonymous.
Went North in 1884
It was in 1884 that Brower made
his first trip to Barrow, driving a
dog team from Cape Lisburne.
Employed by the Pacific Steam
Whaling Company, he had been
looking over coal deposits for the
whaling fleet. The whaling com
pany is long since out of busi
ness, but Brower established a
firm which has gone on.
Brower and five others went
“pirating”, as he calls it, and sal
vaged two wrecked whalers. One
was on the beach at Point Bar
(Continued on Page Three)
Baranof Sailed
From Seattle For
Nome At 10 A.M.
(By Tiie Associated Press)
SEATTLE. Oct.15—The Alaska
Line steamer Baranof sailed from
here at 10 A. M. on her last voy
age of the 1937 season to Nome
carrying 35 first class passengers
and four steerage. There were
31 passengers for Nome as fol
lows:
Jack Kalowitz
Mrs. M. Kalowitz
Mrs. Rolando
Mrs. E J Bundy
E B Fisher and wife
Vernon Fisher
Everett Fisher
B C Baker
J Chapay
L J C Hedina, wife, infant.
Mrs Naomi Buchana
E B Fisher Jr.
Eve Rogers and child
Mrs Jack Jefford & infant.
Gard Kennedy
Father John Concannon
Florence Blatchford
Mrs. Esther Wallace
Mrs Alvin O’Berg
Betty Bradshaw
Gordon Gross
Wilfred Boucher Jr.
Mrs Wilfred Boucher
Mrs L. Meads
Dr. W. A. Rystrom
Mrs. W. A. Rystrom
George F. Madsin
Mrs Guy Boyd
Virgil Dickson
Hugh O’Farrell
Clifton T. Buchanan
.
Poet Is Dead
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK. Oct. 15th—Robert ;
Underwood Johnson, aged 84, a
poet, died yesterday following a;
lengthy seige of ill health.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the
Unemployment Compensa t i o n
Commission will hold a public'
hearing on the eighth day of Nov
ember 1937 in the office of the Un
employment Compensation Com
mission, Shattuck Building, Jun-;
eau; at which time the Unem
ployment Compensation Commis
sion will hear any objections to
any general or special rule that
may be adopted, amended or res
cinded by the Commission at
their meeting which convenes on
November 1, 1937.
E. L. BARTLETT
Chairman, Unemployment Com
pensation Commission.
Publish: Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22, 1937.
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NANKING, Oct. 15, —Sug
gestions were received today
from a United States Ambas
sador requesting that the LT.
S. take every peaceful effort
to stop the Japanese from
obtaining war materials.
(By The Associated Press)
NANKING, Oct. 15. —U. S.
Ambassador Nelson Johnson to
day forwarded to the State Do
parmtent a copy of protest from
the American comunity in Hzeeh
wan Provine against the Japan
ese aggression in China.
Withdraw Moral Support
The protests urges the United
States to use every peaceful
means to withdraw moral and
material support from Japan.
It declared that American scrap
iron becomes Japanese bombs
which civilians. Amercian cotton
makes Japanese explosives. Am
erican trucks transport Japanese
troops and American oil drives
their planes and tanks.
Bureau Fisheries
Reports Increase
In Fur Seal Herds
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Oct. 15,
The Fisheries Bureau reported,
that the herd of fur seals in Al
aska waters totaled 1,839,110 an
imals, according to the count on
August tenth, an increase of
1 more ;han eight percent in a
i year.
i The Bureau said the herd,
which contained only one hun
dred and thirty thousand seals
in 1910, was rapidly reaching a
state of complete restoration.
Since 1910 768,792 fur seal
skins have been taken from the
surplus male animals and sold t<*
the account of the government.
.' Z A YOUNG COWHANU. only 13 months old. but
i Jensen is a cowboy, every inch of him. The little buckaroo
...is by all odds the smallest at the annual Ellensburg, Wash., rodeo,
which drew performers from all sections of the Northwest. The
youngster is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Jensen of Ellensburg.