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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 37. No. 214 NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
Polls Close 7 pm.-Have You Voted ?
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ICE ENDANGERS GOVT VESSEL NORTH STAR
REBELS SKEPTICAL OF OFFER
BY GOVERNOR OF SURRENDER
OF CITY OF SAN SEBASTIAN
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(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Sept. 8, — Fascists
moving in four columns on San
Sebastian, looked skeptically and
with little interest on the offer
of the city’s surrender, made by
the governor, without the know
ledge of the anarchists who
have threatened to fire the city
rather than let it fall to the fas
cists.
The offer was made in an at
tempt to gain amnesty for gov
ernment defenders, and prevent
the city’s destruction.
San Sebastian is reported to
be the scene of dissension among
defending forces/with mobs re
ported pillaging amid food short
ages and other crises. The rebels
doubted the governor could con
trol the anarchists.
New Asturian miners battal
ions encircled the city of Oviedo
on the northern front, while gov
ernment artillery and planes
bombarded rebel strongholds.
In Madrid new armed militia
divisions were organized hurried
ly by the three-day-old Caball
ero government.
Epidemic on Ship
Cut Crew in Half
Unknown Cause
(By The Associated Press)
DUNKERQUE, France, Sept. 8
—An epidemic cut the twenty
four man crew of the English
freighter Sea Ramblers, in half,
during the voyage from Dakar.
Survivors told how seven of the
men dropped dead before their
comrade’s eyes, while working.
It was apparent that health
officers were unable to account
for the strange malady. Water,
food and cargo were uncontam
inated, and there were no fev
er cases found aboard.
Mount McKinley |
Sailed lor Nome
32 Passengers
fBv The Associated Press I
SEATTLE, Sept. 8, — The S.
S. Mount McKinley, new vessel
recently placed in service by the
Alaska Steamship Company sail
ed from Seattle Sunday, carrying
forty-seven passengers, thirty
two for Nome:
Miss E Kongsbach
Miss C Bonstrom
Margaret Miller
J L Rychey, wife & infant
C E Poole
N Boulanger, baby Eleanor
Boulanger
Mrs. Joe Wallace
Mrs. Gunnar Kassan
Mrs. Billy Lehmann
S L Stangroom & wife
S P Troutman, wife and 2
children
Mrs A Watkins
Mrs. C B Smith
Mildred Scott
G L Swenson, wife & son
S H Fairbanks
A T Walden
Ralph Lomen
Elmer Tvetter
Elma Galvin
Mrs. A H Lobley
The management of the Nugget
has arranged to receive election
returns from the following cities:
Juneau, Ketchikan,Cordova, Val
dez, Seward, Anchorage and Fair
banks, giving the results of the
election of Territorial Offices.
Total election results by divisions
will follow from time to time as
they are received and checked.
The Nome Nugget has been re
quested by the newspapers in the
above named cities to furnish the
election results of Nome and the
Second Division as well as to the
Associated Press at Seattle.
325 VOTES CAST AT HOUR OF
GO PRESS-WILL BE BIG VOTE
With more than 300 vot
es cast at 3 P. M. today, Nome is
looking forward to one of its
largest votes of recent years.
Cold winds and September tern
peratures have caused some re
luctance about getting down to
the polls, but numerous cars are
all over the city calling on the
voters and transporting them to
and from the city hall, where
the votes are being cast.
The government Radio station
will remain open until 11 P. M.
today, and will receive messages
for transmission until that hour.
This will allow of many tele
grams containing election results
to be received and sent through
out the territory.
Ice Forced The
North Star East
Point at Barrow
(By The Associated Press)
POINT BARROW, Sept. 8, —
The Arctic Ice pack closed in
here late Sunday night and fore
ed the Office of Indian Affairs
vessel North Star to seek pro
tection east of the point.
Indications point to an early
freezeup with the ever-present
possibility of the vessel becom
ing frozen in if westerly winds
continue.
Some claim that conditions are
similar to the year when the
Hudson Bay trading steamer Bay
chimo was lost in the ice.
The N. Star attempted to reach
the village this morning but was
unable to do so. The vessel ar
BE SURE TO CAST
YOUR BALLOT AT
THE POLLS TODAY
HELP SWELL NOME’S
VOTE TO A NEW
RECORD HIGH . . .
rived here the morning of the
fifth, encountering heavy ice dur
ing the last two hundred miles.
It discharged a quantity of re
lief supplies for “starving” na
tive to the eastward.
The*hospital here was officially
turned over to the Bureau of In
dian Affairs, and farewell chur
ch services were held Monday
when Dr. Henry Greist introduc
ed the Reverend Klerkoper and
wife, who arrived on the North
Star.
VOTE THE
DEMOCRATIC
TICKET
STRAIGHT
DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
ANTHONY J. DiMOND
ATTORNEY GENERAL
JAMES S. TRUITT
"auditor
FRANK A. BOYLE
HIGHWAY ENGINEER
WM. A. HESSE
SENATOR
0. P. COCHRAN
Territorial Representatives
GEORGE F. LAIBLIN
JOHN LICHTENBERG
TOLBERT P. SCOTT
W. LEONARD SMITH
Current Comments
Written From
Washington
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler,
college president and head of
the Carnegie Endowment for In
ternational Peace, takes a gloomy
view of the prospect for the
tranquility which his institution
represents. The world has too
many dictators he says, dictators
thrive on an emotional appeal to
their constituencies, and emotion
ally moved constituencies are
prone to break out in armed con
flict.
Europe seems to be heading
toward a fulfillment of Dr. But
ler’s prophecy. With the Ethio
pian war far from a closed inci
dent, the Austrian situation un
settled, the Nazi movement act
ive and the League of Nations
under condemnation for failure
to deliver the goods, civil war in
Spain constitutes a good sized
load of fuel added to a crack
ling and lively fire. It will re
main for future historians to de
termine the cause of the present
Spanish trouble. The most plaus
ible explanation is that the peo
ple have risen in arms against
a government having tendencies
that are too radical.
The Reds are said to be keep
ing a sharp eye on what is going
on in Spain. Offhand, it seems as
though Communism thrived on
disaster. Its methods resemble
those of the group that pick the
pockets of the dead cast up by
the sea after a wreck. The att-!
ention that the Reds are giving
to Spain throws one back upon
the Old Testament for an apt
quotation: “Where the carcass is,
there will the eagles be gathered
together.”
It is promised that the latest
European war will be a fight to
a finish. That appears likely, sin
ce the fatalities already amount
to about thirty thousand. Life is
cheap in some quarters, but not
in Hollywood. A four million dol
lar lawsuit is in progress there
arising out of the alleged theft
of the services of Mr. Gary Coop
er, the motion picture actor. Com
mon Spanish soldiers come cheap
er.
A person would think that
the United States could get enter
tainment enough by occupying a
quiet grandstand seat and watch
ing what is going on across the
(Continued on Page Three)
Naval Revolt
Portugal Been
Stopped Today
(By The Associated Press)
LISBON, Sept. 8, — The alert
Portugese government gunners,
pounding two mutinous warship3
with shells, crushed today the
brief naval rebellion in the Tag
us River harbor off Lisbon, dis
abled them by a stream of fire
from the land batteries.
The vessels, manned by rebel
ious crews which planned to
steam from Lisbon for an undis
closed destination, were towed to
the beach and the seamen thrown
into chains.
Two British steamers, the Ast
urias and the Strathmore were
close witnesses of the bombard
ment.
As indicated by the messages,
censorship is delaying the details
of the short-lived Insurrection.
Hitler Quoted
Like Caesars Of
Ancient Days
(By The Associated Press)
NURNBERG. Germany, Sept. 8
—Adolph Hitler, like the Caesars
of old, entered this c.ty of eight
hundred thousand Nazis, to the
hysteric enthusiasm of all. The
city was plastered with posters
proclaiming that Bolshevism was
world enemy number one. The
occasion is the holding of the
fourth annual party convention.
Royal Marriage
Announced At
Ha^ue Today
(By The Associated Press)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands,
Sept. 8, — A holiday romance in
Switzerland was climaxed today
by a royal court announcement
that plump and jolly Juliana,
heiress to the throne of the Neth
erlands will wed German prince
Bernhard Zu Lippe-Biesterfed.
She is 27 years old and the
prince is 25.
CALL FOR BIDS
Bids will be accepted by tbe
Nevada up to 5 P.M. Sept. 15 to
furnish water by the month for
the winter months. Inquire at
The Nevada.
Tom Cloninger.
Vote for Ben Gillette, Candidate for Renresentative