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VOL. 38. No. 264. NOME, ALASKA. Friday, September 3, 1937. Per Copy 10ct«
Mysterious Sinkings Worry Nations
Japs Threaten Bombardment In Front of U.S. Ships
CCC Survey and Organization Completed In North
Mystery Submarine, Sinking V essels
In The Mediterranean Precipitates
Most Puzzling Crisis History Europe
(By The Associated Press)
ATHENS, Greece Sept. 3—The
submarine menace of the Medit
erranean, the dreaded mystery
.submarine, sent another vessel
to the bottom last night and brot
Europe to the verge of a new
crisis. The ship to fall victim to
the mystery sub's attack was the
freighter MolangovefT. The freight
er, was carrying coal to France.
What power operated that sub
marine, who objective that sub
marine’s commander had in sink
ing Mediterranean shipping indis
eriminately, those are the ques
tions that will be taken up next
week at Geneva when Britain,
France, Russia. Italy, Greece and
Turkey meet, in an emergency
conference.
New York Mob
Tries Lyncii Man
Subway Station
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. L—A mob
of one thousand persons tried to
lynch a fifty-one year old Queens
laborer in the Fourteenth Street
subway station, when a womian
screamed he’s a masher and sex
maniac. Police had to fight thru
a frenzied throng to rescue the
man who was badly beaten. He
was charged with disorderly con
duct. The woman carried a baby
in her arms.
Today's sinking of the British
tanker, Woodford, yesterday’s sub
marine attack on the British des
troyer Havock, the recent tor
pedoing of a dozen foreign ves
sels in the Mediterranean waters
i have brought Europe face to face
■ with one of the most puzzling
i crisises in history.
No nation admits responsibility
j for the sub and yet it stands to
j reason that the undersea boat is
not acting independently. The
Geneva conference will attempt
to find out what power is giving
[that submarine or submarines or
ders and why.
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Campbell Sets
Two New Boat
Speed Records
(By The Associated Press)
LOCARNO, Switzerland. Sept.,
3—For the second time in two
days. Sir Malcolm Campbell, j
smashed the world record for un
limited hydroplanes, Thursday,
averaging 129.4164 miles an hour.
Wednesday, the 52 year old Brit
on had smashed Gar Wood’s mark
by averaging 125.7959 miles per
hour. Sir Malcom also holds the
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automobile speed record.
VIRGINIA AND EARL. Virginia Cherrill, who became
famous as the blind flower girl in the Chaplin picture, “City Lights,
noon will become the bride of the Earl of Jersey, with whom she is
shown. The pnp is Miss Cherrill’s Sealyham, “Junior.”
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Government And
Rebels Both Claim
Another Victory
(By The Associated Press)
H END A YE, Sept. 3—Both the1
Spanish government and insur
gents laid claim to a victory in a
major battle in the struggle for
the domination of the Aragon
front. Together, their contradic
tory reports filed, made a graphic
picture of the combat, centered
on a huge circular battlefield in
a region of dry lakes, about twel
ve miles south of Zaragoza, mid-1
way between the insurgent
stronghold, and government be
leaguered Belchite.
I
Japan’s New W ar
Budget Amounts
Near 800 Million
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO. Sept. 3—The Japan
ese cabinet today approved an
emergency war budget of six
hundred million dollars to push
their undeclared war against
China. This huge appropriation
amounted to more than Japan
spent on the last Sino-Japanese
and Russo-Japanese wars com
bined.
Thirty supplementary budgets
were also approved which raised
the war total to seven hundred
sixty two million six hundred
thousand dollars.
Burdick Gives Details Of CCC
Survey From Kotzebue to Barrow
Organization Completed, Working
Charles G. Burdick, who re
turned to Nome September 1st,
via plane from Kotzebue and
Barrow, in an interview given
the Nome Daily Nugget, reported
a most satisfactory trip with all
conditions pointing toward a
very successful CCC program for
the Arctic section of Northwest
ern Alaska, and that construction
of range improvements on rein
deer ranges and predatory ani
mal control will be the main
points in the program.
Makes 9 Day Survey
Mr. Burdick left Nome, Aug
ust Uth via plane for the North
country and after spending a few
days at Kotzebue perfecting the
organizational set-up there, he
left with Dr. Wagner in a Fer
guson Airways plane piloted by
Morris King on a nine day sur
vey trip as far as Barow. to con
tact and discuss the program with
the white traders, Office of In
dian Affairs teachers, and local
Eskimos. Stops were made at ev
ery Eskimo village and local con
ditions discussed with leading
local persons.
Pt. Hope Air Field
Mr. Burdick said that a 5000
foot runway emergency landing
field is planned for the Pt. Hope
settlement. This can be complet
ed with very little labor and no
machinery. The location of the
field is on the gravel bars at the
edge of the village. Small planes
can now land there but a small
amount of work will make an
emergency field for any size
plane.
To Build Shelter Cabins
Shelter cabins for reindeer
herders will be built along the
north boundary of the Kivalina
reindeer range. Throughout the;
non-timberland area there will
be sod igloos built. Log cabins
are planned for the Eastern end
otf the line on the Noatak River
where the most northern stand of
timber is found. Other improve
ments such as corrals and hand
ling pens are planned at strateg
ic points, stated Mr. Burdick.
25 Men Be Employed On
Predatory Animal
Control Work
Twenty five men will be em
ployed under Logan Varnell on
predatory animal control work.
Wolves were present on the
range last winter in considerable
numbers and a determined effort
is to be made this winter to clean
them out. If sucessiful in this sec- ■
tion, the program will be vigor
ously pushed farther inland on
the caribou range, next summer,
he said.
Inspects Coal Deposits
At Wain wright
Mr. Burdick reports a most in
teresting time spent at Wain
wright where conditions were dis
cussed with the traders there.
Dick Hall furnished a boat which
made it possible to inspect the
coal deposits on the Kuk River,
where a few hundred sacks of
coal are sacked annually by the
Eskimos. Mr. Hall runs a good
roadhouse and can fry a fine rein
deer steak with all the trimm
(Continued on Page Three)
Japanese Threaten To Start
Bombardment Directly In Front
Of L.S., Other Foreign ^ arships
(By Tiie Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Sept. 3—The Jap
anese navy threatened to open a
heavy bombardment from battle
positions directly in front of Am
erican and other foreign war
ships. bringing them squarely in
to the line of fire. The Japanese
naval spokesman said that the
fleet, rather than continue to take
a heavy pounding from Chinese
land batteries, would shift into
positions where it could reply ad
equate!*-, regardless of the dan
ger to which it exposed foreign
warships.
The spokesman charged the
Chinese with using trench mor
tars and field artillery to bomb
ard the Japanese and occupied
H. ngkaw without warning, kill
ing many Japanese civilians and
wounding two consular officials.
This, he said demanded definite
Japanese retribut.on.
Denies Shooting
Movie Director
—— —
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES. Sept 1—Mrs.
Charlotte Shelby testifying in de
fense of a civil suit made a point
blank denial today that she shot,
to death William Desmond Tay
lor, famed movie director who
had guided her daughter Mary
Miles Minter to screen fame. Mrs.
Shelby was testifying against the
$48,750 recovery suit of her sec
ond daughter, Mrs. Margaret Fill
more. who contended she once
accepted $13,300 from her parent
as compensation for protecting
her in the Taylor case.
67 lb. Midget Gi\ es
fFv ThP Associated Press!
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 1—Birth
of a normal 5 pound girl to a mid
get mother weighing 67 pounds
was reported. The infant, deliv
ered through a Caesarian opera
tion was well. The mother, Mrs.
Frank Delfino was reported do
ing well at Abott hospital, where
*he birth reportedly occurred last
Tuesday.
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SO SHE TOOK THE PUP. Faced with the choice of a
home with her wealthy grandmother or witli her mother and a new
puppy, with which she is shown, Elaine Hartnett, 9-year-old Chi
cago girl, picked the pup and the joys of simple living with her
parent. . *