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VOL 38 No. 273. NOME. ALASKA, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1937 Per Copy 10ct»
U.S. Ships go Far East at Own Risk
ADMIRAL WARNS BELLIGERENTS 2ND TIME
Pictures Italy and Japan Joined Defensive Struggle
MARITIME COMMISSION WARNS
AMERICAN SHIPS AWAY FROM
PORTS FAR EASTERN WATERS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 —
Maritime Commission officials
worked swiftly to carry out a
partial embargo ordered by the
president on arms shipments to
China and Japan. The full com
mission was summoned into a
special session to consider wheth
er they will intercept the Ameri
can freighter Wichita, enroute
from Baltimore to China with a
cargo of nineteen airplanes.
As the first application of the
new rule. President Roosevelt is
sued orders late yesterday, for
biding Ships owned by the gov
ernment, but operated privately,
to transport munitions into the
far Eastern war zone. All other
American merchant vessels were
cautioned if they attempt to take
such cargoes to the Orient they
do so at their own risk.
MERLE COLBY WILL WRITE
GUIDE BOOK ON ALASKA
The Valdez Miner received a
letter on the last boat from Dr.
Erneat Gruening, director of in
sular affairs. Department of In
terior, informing us that Mr.
Merle Colby, who has been chos
en by the Writers’ Project Div
ision of the WPA to edit a guide
book of Alaska. would spend
some time in t'he Territory visit
ing points of public interest, con
sulting authorities on Alaskan
lore, securing contributed artic
les on special subjects and in
general laying a foundation for
the mass of writing and editing
he is engaged in.
Mr. Grucning states that it is
his belief that an Alaskan guide
book will be of great value to th?
Territory not only in attracting
tourists but also as a manual of
reference to the general public.
He says it is fortunate that Alas
ka is included among the areas
covered by the guide series.
Mr. Colby’s sojourn in Alaska
will be limited and he will be
forced to collect much of his data
from those acquainted with the
Territory.
PAY VISIT TO COLONY
Mayor and Mrs. V. G. Vance
returned to Cordova recently
from a trip to the Matanuska col
ony. They were greatly pleased
at the evidences of prosperity
shown by the colonists, and said
the creamery was operating and
; great number of eggs and chick
eas were or hand. Mayor Vance
believes the colony will be suc
.e.-'.sfu! and a great asset to Alas
ka.
SENATOR PAT. Senator Pat Harrison of Gulfport, Miss.,
rises to a new position of puty power In the senate through the
▼aeaney caused by the death of Senator Robinson of Arkansas. He
R** Seen to congress since 1910; In the senate since 1918, his tens
1 < explrtac in 19U. •
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
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^ WASHINGTON, D. C.. </P) —
The United States rejected Sat
urday a proposal by the Uragua
jyan government that it recognize
j the Spanish insurgent govern
ment headed by Generalissimo
I Franco Francisco.
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j WASHINGTON, D. C.. (JP) —
Six peace organizations carried
! to the American people their de
I mand that President Roosevelt
j immediately apply the neutrality
'act to the Sino-Japanese conflict.
I This action was taken after a
' high official declared the admin
! istration would not be stampeded
I into invocation of the law bar
' ring shipment of war materials
' and extension of loans to bell
J igererrts.
; ROME, t^P)—'During the bath
! ing season, ‘‘Hail, Mary, and
i Glorias'’ must be reqited daily
during mass as an act of repara
| tion for the evils committed by
i swimmers. Those instructions
! have been issued by Cardinal
Granito Di Belmonte, Dean of
Ostio, to the Spanish priest of
Ostio which is a favorite seaside
resort near Rome.
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NURNT&ERG, Germany, (/Pi —
HitLer pictured Italy and Japan
as joined in a defensive struggle
against Communism. In his an
nua! manifesto to the nation, de
livered at the Nazi Congress.
Hitler frankly voiced his readi
ness to stand by both Italy and
Japan in a defensive fight against
! bolshevism. Diplomats attending
i the congress speculated whether
Hitler, by referring a defensive
fight, was attempting to forestall
a Japanese call for active assist
ance on the basis of the German
I
Japanese Anti-Communist agree
ment, or was foreshadowing act
ive participation in the Asiatic
conflict.
TULSA, Oklahoma, (/P> —Two
i bucks, born in captivity, fought
j each other to death in the zoo
I today. They started their fight
last night. Keepers feared to in
tervene. Shortly their antlers
| were locked and the death duel
was on. After hours of battling,
on buck threw the other into the
exhausted itself trying to free its
antlers. Finally it too, collapsed
and died.
air and snapped its neck. Both
felil and the victorious animal
DALLAS, (flb—William Green,
president of The American Fed
eration of Labor declared that
labor must choose between Am
erican institutions and unAmer
ican subversive labor forces
which pave the way for a Fascist
dictatorship. The veteran leader
pledged the A F of L in standing
i now as it has always stood “A
harried to any advance which
communists may seek to make
; within the ranks of labor."
Academic subjects have been
east aside at the Eklutna voca
tional school and in the future
the native children will abandon
tatting, concocting fancy menus
and painting bridge score cards
and really learn how to help
themselves. Dog breeding, farm
ing, fishing, herding reindeer,
building cabins and keeping house
will be taught them. Up to the
present a native child turned out
of the Bureau School was about
as competent to make their own
living as a small baby.
I
Miss Anne |
Clarke «•
! often has been
escorted by
young John
Roosevelt, thus
winning the
attention of
speculative
romanticists i
who are
wondering,
since the nuptials
of F.D.R., Jr„
who will be
the next
Mrs. Roosevelt.
The debutante
daughter of Mrs.
H. Haven Clarke
of Boston |
was a gueot at
the Roosevelt*
DuReat wedding.
ADMIRAL YARNELL, U.S. NAVY
I WARNS JAPANESE AND CHINESE
ARMIES ON RECKLESS FIRING
(By The Associated Frees)
SHANGHAI. Sept. 15 — Ad
miral Harry Yarnell, commander
in chietf of the U. S. Asiatic fleet,
repeated a strong wanting to*
Japanese and Chinese armies to
cease their rackless firing over
foreign warcraft in the harbor,
that is endangering not only lives
aboard the warships but the dens
ely populated foreign settlements.
The warning came after a furious
1 battle alortg the northern bor
ders of the international settle
ment. Admirals of the British and
Fremch fleets and Italian and
Netherlands naval commandants
backed mo ifarneLTs rloWands
Vicious machine gun Are from
concrete nests in China's new de
fense line, northv. est of the city
mowed down the Japanese, who
were attacking in an effort to
crack the thirty-mile front.
JAMES E. MITCHELL, PIONEER
PASSES AWAY AT SEWARD
James E. Mitchell, pioneer
resident of Valdez, passed away
at the Seward hospital last
month, after an illness of about
two and a half years. Mr. Mit
chell was totatly paralyzed and
unable to talk or move any part
of his body.
For many years he was a part
ner of Senator James H. Patter
son. in a property at Gold Creek,
and up to the time of his illness
was in apparent good health. He
is believed to have come to Val
dez about 1897 and 1898. and had
at one time beem in practically'1
every camp in Alaska except1
Nome. Mr. Mitchell was U S.
Commissioner for one of the In
terior districts, and was a man of
good education and great ability.
He was a packer with Lieut.
W. P. Richardson (iater general),
at the tune Lieut. Richardson was
stationed on the Yukon in the
days of the gold rush.
So far as known the only rela
tives left by Mr. Mitchell were a
sister, Mrs. Spoon, and a nephew..
Mr. Mitchell was interred by
the side of his wife who proceed
ed him a few months ago.
OLD TIMER PASSES AWAT
Wm. Hoskins, a former resident
of Ketchikan, passed away in Se
attle recently as a result of an
operation for ulcers of the stom
ach. He is survived by a daugh
ter in Ketchikan, and a stepson,
now fishing. Hoskins operated a
seine boat out of Ketchikan for
many years.
GREY GHOST. Greyhound, American tratttiirelwaqMMk
who just clicked off a record mile of 1:MW. ™**tsl^u*n i ’
Aluscletone, in a challenge mile-and-a-half at Goshei^ N. Y. The
“grey ghost” of E. J. Baker, St. Charles, 01., handily won the 1935
Hambletonian. _ J