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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 38 No. 224 NOME. ALASKA. THURSDAY JULY 29 1937 Per Copy lOcta
Food Strike In Buffalo Is Settled
19 LARGEST S. F. HOTELS BEGIN BUSINESS
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TWOSOME.
Chroniclers of the match have called it the 1937 version of Romeo and Juliet, but in this romance love
does not consider family political differences so seriously ... no lattice and a balcony, just some golf
clubs and a links.
BUFFALO GROCERS TO
RECEIVE FOOD STUFFS
T. B. Wilson of
Alaska S. S. Co.
Retires Aug. 1st
(By The Associated Press 1
SEATTLE, July 29, —Thomas
B Wilson, vice president and
General Manager of the Alaska
Steamship Company, announced
his retirement effective August
1st. He has been recovering from
a recent illness.
Mr. Wilson said he would con
tinue as vice president on leave
of absence. He plans to recuper
ate at his ranch at Carmel, Calif
ornia.
Charles Bocking of New York,
associated with the Kennecott
Copper Corporation will succeed
Wilson as general manager, it
was made known.
During the last maritime strike
Wilson was a member of the
coast committee of operators, re
presenting the Pacific Northwest.
Spectacles have been invented
for automobile drivers having the
upper portions made of an opa
que plastic material that shields
the eyes from approaching head
lights without interfering with
driving.
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fBv The Associated Press)
BUFFALO. July 20. — Whole-;
sale food merchants opened their j
warehouses here in defiance of a I
thousand striking dleivery truck!
drivers, but union men seeking a
closed shop and increased wages,
tightened their picket lines and
stopped food movements before
the dwindling stocks in retail
stores could be replenished last
night.
As a surprise this morning, the
retail grocers decided to capitu
late to union demands.
Grocers may now fill the
shelves in their empty stores as
a thousand truck drivers ended
their eight day strike, and return
ed to work at higher wages and
closed shops. The butchers strike I
however continues.
Hotels in Frisco
Resume Normal
Service Future
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 29, —
The largest hotels in the city,
closed by the three-months' strike
will open today, and it is believ
ed, will be back on normal opera
tion by the week end. as strikers
agreed to arbitration of their
higher wages, forty hour week,
and closed shop demands.
Nineteen of the city’s best ho
tels were affected by the strike.
JUNEAU, July 29, — Mrs. Earl
Watkins, 44, a resident of Jun
eau for twenty years, died sudd
enly yesterday at the hospital
following an undisclosed illness.
Her husband, the operator of
the Thane power plant for the
Alaska Juneau mine, survives her.
GOES SIX DAYS WITHOUT FOOD
ON AN OVERLAND TRIP
After walking more than three!
hundred miles, being lost in a j
fog at the head waters of the
Good Hope River, going for six,
days without food and nearly
drowning in the Arctic Ocean,
Gene Comer was brought to
Nome late yesterday by plane
from Shismaref, where he had
been waiting since July 16th for
a boat to pick him up.
He left Deering July 5th in
tending to walk across country
to Taylor Creek in the Kougarok
section. Approaching the divide
which separates the north and
south sides of Seward Peninsula
he became confused when fog set
in, and without a compass, found
it almost impossible to tell where
he was.
(Continued on Page Four)
3 CHINESE ARMIES
CUT LOOSE JAPS
DANGER WHITES
(By The Associated Press >
UNDATED. July 29, —The liv- i
es of Tientsins and many Ameri-:
cans, were imperilled by a literal
death struggle of the Japanese
army in its desperate effort to
route the Chinese forces, in an
attack that threatened to drive
it from Tientsin.
They loosed a devastating aer
ial bombardment which has im
perilled all residents of the city.
Japanese officers oaid they .v-oro
forced to ignore “earlier assur
ances that they would not ex
pose the city’s foreign residents
to peril".
Wave upon wave of bombing
squadrons set the principal build
ings afire, as bombs rained down
on the densely populated Chinese
quarter.
Both there and at Peiping, for
eigners swarmed to embassy com
pounds for protection.
Three Chinese armies attacked
together suddenly, after two arm
ies had suddenly and mysterious
lp withdrew from Peiping.
Chinese shore forces shelled
Japanese destroyers which had
shelled Tangku. Tientsin's water
port.
Last available information said
the Japanese were rushmg rein
forcement to China, as they re
cognized the concerted action of
Chinese forces, as a real threat.
War Department
OK s Funds Nome
(By The Associated Press 1
WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 29
—The War Department announc
ed that Secretary of War Harry
Woodring had approved of twen
ty five million, nine hundred and
fifty one thousand dollars annual
maintenance allotments for sev
eral hundred rivers and harbor
projects. No new ones were in
cluded in the program.
The Nome harbor is to receive
thirteen thousand dollars.
Russian tilled
Htadiie Force
^ad/id Defense
• t
'ByThe Associated Press)
HEIOAYE. Spam, July 29, —
Insurgnts said today "that a Rua
sian cmmander" of an interna
tional brigade, had been killed,
defending Madrid
Irtsir gents off the west side of
Madrii said a new offensive ag
ainst the government-held San
tander. was imminent.
General Franco's eastern army
was reported to have been driver*
across the Teruel-Guenca river,
with loyalists protecting the Val
enicia-Mad-td lifeline, at the Mad
rid battle lapsed to a deathlike
lull
Want To Ip Taxes
(Rv The Associated Press!
WASHINGTON. D C., Juiy 29
— Members of :he senate and
house tux committee are consid
ering boosting the tax and sur
taxes on personal holding com
panies. as high as seventy per
cent. to restrict alleged use of
tax-avoiding purposes, at pres
ent which vary from eight to for
ty eight percent
THE WEDDING OF 1937 IN U. S.
JAYVEE.
Up at Harvard, young Roosevelt
studied and held down an oar
i on the Junior varsity. Hefty
groom, this.
FORMER ETHEL DuPONT—NOW MRS. F. D. ROOSEVELT. JR.