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VOL. 38 No. 249 NOME. ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUG. 17, 1937 Per Copy 10ct»
Canadian Pilot Is Hunting Russians
SHANGHAI BURNING-BUSINESS STANDSTILL
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Mattem’s Refueling Plane Ready To Leave Seattle
100,000 SOLDIERS
FIGHT SCRAP
SHANGHAI
Slaughter of Thousands Is
Still Going on Shanghai
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Aug. 17, —Shell
splinters sprayed peaceful for
eign home areas with death as
.great guns roared out terror in
the Chinese Japanese battlefield
at Shanghai, where a hundred
thousand men with guns and
bobmbs fought on to a goal none
could forsee.
Fires ringed the city as Japan
ese big guns boomed after dark,
in a renewal of the duel which
earlier caused three shell frag
ments to fall in the French con
cession where most of the Am
ericans are living at present.
Business has utterly collapsed.
Unconfirmed reports said Chin
ese troops pressed hard against
Japanese positions along lines
northeast of Shanghai and fac
ing the Whangpoo river, beyond
the international settlement, in
some places believed to have pen
etrated Japanese advance posi-1
tions.
Darkness last night also dis
closed three huge fires started by
Chinese bombs and shells with
in the Japanese lines. One rageij
at Chapei across the Soochow
river from the international set
tlement. The other two roared
skyward uncontrolled in the mill
district northeast of Shanghai.
It is believed this latest major
engagement between the two Or
iental forces has resulted in many
more dead added to the thousands
already killed*
TOKYO, Aug. 17, — The Jap
anese cabinet decided to ask for
an extraordinary session of Par
liament September 3rd, to con
sider placing Japan’s economic
structure on a wartime basis and
to make appropriations and en
act other kindred measures for
the prosecution of the undeclar
ed war in China.
The cabinet proposed a five day
session, bringing the diet togeth
er for the third time within ten
months, establishing a parlia
mentary precedent.
A request to attend will be ten
dered Emperor Hirohirito, a for
eign office spokesman said.
Consular General Suemasa Ok
amoto at Shanghai forwarded re
ports this morning that mutiny
had broken out at Nanking am
ong the personal troops of Chiang
Kia Shek, Chinese Premier and
Army Commander.
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® ofhMfe-ierattons^used to’sing about boots and saddles, but the 1937 model youth yells “Contact!” and goes the way of the swallow. Here
is a low-winging group of new Kelly Field graduates as they flew past the reviewing stand on their last rides as students. There were
sixty-tour birtlmen in this class.
Reindeer Bill
Given Right of
W ay on Floor
J
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D C., Aug. 17,
—The House Rules Committee to
day gave right of way on the floor
to the bill designed to establish
the Eskimos and natives of Al-1
aska, on a seif supporting basis,
and the building up of a reindeer
industry.
The measure has the approval
of the senate, authorize a million
dollar appropriation.
(Editor’s Note: It is believed
the bill referred to above, is the
one passed some time ago by the
Senate which approved of an ap
propriation of two million dollars
to carry out the provisions of the
measure. The above telegram did
not say two million, but it is be
lieved that the word two was'
inadvertantly omitted.)
Last Offensive
(By The Associated Press)
HENDAYE, Spain, Aug. 17, —
General Franco’s legions plunged
against the tottering defenses of
Santander today from five direc
tions, while insurgent tacticians
predicted the fall of the Biscay
an capital within the week.
One powerful insurgent column
routed government troops from
Esoudo Pass, Santander’s last
' mountain stronghold on the south
and was reported within thirty
miles of their coastal objective.
MINES AND MINERALS NOME AND
SEWARD PEN. IS SUBJECT
INTERESTING ARTICLE
(BY PETER ESCH)
The Nome district,and outlying
sections, has up to the present
time, produced upwards of $100.
000.000 in gold.
Ask the average man what per
centage of the whole he thinks
that amount represents and if he
does not reply "bla bla" or its
equivalent, he will be likely to
place the percentage anywhere
from sixty to ninety percent.
Should a man have fhe hardi
hood to suggest that it represent
ed only twenty five percent of
the gold alone that will be pro
duced in this district, he would
most likely be regarded as a hope
less optimistic theorist. I want to
say here the man who never ad
vances a theory never adds to
the progress of the world as he
generally is a thought parasite.
The man who advances a tneoip
and then rests on his oars may
add to the world's progress by
giving someone else a theory to
prove, but the man who advanc
es a theory and then goes ahead
and proves it, is the man who is
really worthwhile, as he has both
perspective and courage, but at
the present time there is an ap
parent dirth of just such individ
uals. Every year adds a few more
of those who are willing to back
their judgment with substantial
investments in both land and eq
uipment of the latest design. You
may ask: Is there room for many
more?
A merchant is never sure of his
stock in trade until he takes an
inventory. Suppose we take an
inventory of our stock of visible
possibilities.
Let us start in with our shelf
goods and leave the warehouse
for the last.
It is estimated that our pres
ent beach at Nome has yielded
over $3,000,000, and is still pro
ducing, and what is there to hin
der working over the sands on a
very large scale and save the fine
gold by the flotation process and
the coarse by sluicing. Think it
over. The values are still there.
All this gold came from the
hills by numerous channels ov
er an average stretch of five mil
es, with a latteral stretch of 20
miles, giving us 100 square miles
of potential dredging ground
with not to exceed 10 percent
drilled and proven.
This area contains the present
Beach Line, the Submarine Beach,
The Second Beach Line and the
famous Third Beach Line, all of
i
which received their enrichment
from the numerous streams em
inatng from the rolling hills of,
the back country, such as Nome j
River with its numerous produc
ing tributaries such as Osborne
Creek, Dexter and numerous oth- j
ers that have been worked in a
crude way with pick and shovel
down to where the ground was
too deep to work by this method,
leaving large flat areas where
these streams converge with
Nome river, leaving many square
miles of potential dredging ground
untouched.
Following along the foot of the
lulls going west we cross a num
ber of the most productive creeks
in the district such as Newton
Gulch. Dry Creek. Bourbon Creek
Saturday Creek, Cooper Gulch,
Center Creek, Moonlight Creek
and the famous Anvil Creek
where the first gold of the dist
rict was discovered, and is cred
ited with having contributed
close to So0.000.000 in gold
Next we come to Snake river
with its eighteen tributaries that
have all shed their quota of the
precious metal, leaving deep
ground on their lower reaches
and deltas where they converge
with Snake river.
Common sense will tell any
practical man that there are
dredging possibilities not only at
those points but along the en
tire length of Snake River, for
a distance of 25 miles. The only
tributary on thus stream that has
a dredge installed on its deep
ground at the mouth is Sunset
Creek, and it has just been re
ported to me that a ten day run
of the dredge has yielded in the
neighborhood of $36,000, and the
creek has by no means been one
of the best producers. Then why
not some of the others.
Next we come to Penny River
which has received but little ex
ploration work and consequently
has a low production to its credit.
Cripple river has also a low
(Continued on Page Two)
CANADIAN NOW
FLYING FOR
SOVIETS
Canadian Plane Is Flying
Rim of Arctic Today
Search Soviets
(By The Associated Press!
POINT BARROW. Aug. 17, —. .
Wireless messages today said Bob
Randall, a Canadian pilot, brav
ed doubtful weather and took off
in a plane chartered by the Sov
iet government, from Aklavik,
to search for the lost Soviet air
plane.
Randall swept along the Arc
tic coast and landed at Demarca
tion Point and Hersehel Island.
He intended to question the Es
kimos as to whether they had
seen or heard of a plane in that
vicinity Friday night.
SEATTLE. Aug. 17, — Jimmy
Mattern’s refueling plane arrived
here today from Sacramento at
10:47 a.m., with Garland Lincoln,
Hollywood flier and three com
panions aboard.
Preparations were made immed
lately for a resumption of the
flight to Fairbanks. Alaska and
the Arctic regions.
At Nome Meteorologist Tom
Hayward of the U. S. Weather
Bureau indicated that weather
reports were still going forward
every six hours to the missing
Soviet plane, containing six fliers,
which has been missing since last
Friday.
Beyond that, little activity was
apparent today, as plans were re
ported being made in Fairbanks
to launch a giant aerial search
for the missing plane. Weather in
the Fairbanks section held search
ing planes to the ground it was
reported
Liner V ictoria
Arrived Nome
The S. S. Victoria of the Alas
ka Line arrived in the roadstead
at Nome early this morning, on
its second "Arctic Cruise" of the
1937 season.
Rough weather here has pre
vented any contact with the ves
sel since her arrival.
It is expected^by Agent Harnish
and the lighterage company, that
with evening a tug will go out ta
the Victoria, when the seas mod
erate.
It is for this reason that The
i Nugget is unable to print the In
coming passenger list in today’s
j issue.