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Japanese Bomb Two British Ships
76th U. S. Congress Adjourned Saturday Night
$720,000 Reindeer Appropriation Bill Is Passed
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Japanese Bomb
Two British
River Steamers
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SHANGHAI. A'.'ig. 6 UP\—Jap-i
4| anese air raiders destroyed two \
British Yangtze River steamers
Sunday.
British r.aval reports said one
Briton was injured and property!
of the Asiatic Petroleum Com
pamy was damaged by two air
raids near Ichang.
The steamers Chia Wo and
Kiang Wo were reduced to burnt
• hulks. The British gunboat Gan
net is standing by the hulks and
Petroleum property.
An American missionary re
ported fresh outbreaks of anti
American agitation in North:
China where demonstrators pa-:
raded the streets of Shihchiach
wang shouting slogans of protest
against the United States denun
ciation of her trade treaty with
Japan.
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ALIEN CUSTODIAN DIES
OWNESBORO. Ky„ Aug 7
—Urey Woodson, aged 79, former
Owensboro newspaper publisher
and who resigned recently as the
Foreign and Alien Property Cus
todian, died a.t his home from
0 heart disease. He would have
been 80 years old on August 16.
Permanent
Headquarters
Are Undecided
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 5 UP) — (
Though beseiged by communica
tions from both cities the Coast
Guard sa:,d they would not de- ■
cide for two weeks whether I
Ketchikan or Juneau would be!
the permanent headquarters for
the consolidated Coast Guard
and Lighth ruse service.
Roar Adrr rat Waesche said'
the decision would be based <
largely on Commander W. K.
TSi nnpson's recommendations. He
had gone temporarily to Ketchi
kan because Juneau facilities
were inadequate.
Delegate Dimond sa:d Admiral
Waesche assured him that Ketchi
kan would retain the lighthouse
facilities though the Superintend
ent and assistants might go to
Juneau for their headquarters.
ATTENTION MASONS
Anvil Lodge No 110 will con
vene at 1 p.m. Tuesday, August
8th to conduct the funeral of our
Worshipful Brother Edward
Johnson.
Andrew Sather, Master
For Meals Bring Your Friends
fo The NORTH POLE BAKERY
WIFE’ MEETS IMPERSONATOR
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9 Minerva Phipps (left), who masqueraded for 23 years as a man,
was confronted by her “wife,” Mrs Mabel Eagan Radcliffe (left),!
shortly after Mrs. Radcliffe signed a complaint at Psadena, Calif.,
charging Mrs. Phipps with “impersonating another and pretending
^ to sustain a marriage relationship.” Mrs. Phipps is wearing the
chauffeur’s clothes which were part of her masquerade.
John F. Devine
Nome Man
Dies Portland
SEATTLE, Aug. 5 (/P) —John
F. Devine, aged 56, prominent in
Nome business, mining and pol
itics for 35 years died Friday at
Portland. He owned the only
hotel in Nome and was active in
mining operations for many
years. He represented Nome as
senator to the territorial legisla
ture.
Funeral services will be hold
at the Butterworth Chapel here
Tuesday, Besides his widow, two
sisters survive him, in Pennsyl
vania.
Freighter Depere
Runs Aground
Near Petersburg
KETCHIKAN, Aug. 6 (4*) —
Caught in the 'treacherous Wran
gell Narrows in a thick fog and
a strong aft tide, the Alaska
Steamship Company's freighter
Depere ran aground at 6.30 a.m.
Sunday at the lighthouse beacon
marking Prowly Rock. Shortly af
terwards Cap'ain Burns beached
the ship to prevent its sinking.
The Captain reported ten feet
of water in the hold, and none of
the crew of 31 injured.
The Depere was calling on can
nery ports and was to have touch
ed at Cordova and Seward with a
general cargo and lumber, but
no passengers.
The Coast Guard Cutter Cyane
left this afternoon for an inspec
tion of the wreck and is expect
ed to reach the siite some time to
night.
KETCHIKAN, Aug. 7 (4’)
With the hull split wide open but
the crew safe the Depere is high
and dry on the beach a mile
north of Petersburg, after losing
out in an attempt to run the
treacherous Wrangell Narrows in
a blinding fog last night.
The Alaska Transportation
Company’s Teku struck the Ken
more, a salmon packer, while
berthing here, damaging the Ken
more's stern and smashing the
afterguard. The packer will go
on the ways for a damage sur
vey today.
Captain Jennings, marine sur
veyor said special permission
from Washington, D. C. would
be granted for a foreign vessel j
to do salvage work. The Can-1
adian salvage tug. Salvage King,
will leave Victoria to assist the
Depere. It is said that the Sal
vage King is the largest craft of
its kind on the West Coast and ;
tire only one capable of handling
the throe or four hundred ton j
freighter and her cargo.
Captain Jennings planned to
fly to the wreck today Shipping,
men said the water in the De
pere’s hold may not seriously
damage the lumber. The local
agent also said the Depere car
ried some dynamite.
Subscribe for The Nome Nugget
76th Congress
Adjourned Sat.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 5 (VP) —
The 7'itii Congress adjourned
sine die a'. 6:2G p.m. tonight,
Eastern standard time.
Lighten Social
Security Tax
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 UP) —
Congr ;s passed the bill liberaliz
ing benefits and lighten.ng the
social security tax schedule and
it was sent to the President for
his signature.
The bil: was a compromise be
tween the House and Senate mea
sures which were long deadlock
ed until the conference commit
tee eliminated most of 'the con
' troversial provision*. The Con
i nally amendment increasing fed
, eral grants to the aged and needy
! lead Congress and the House to
approve of the appropriations in
the compromise bill.
Agree On Bill for
Appropriations
; WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (/Pi —
The way was cleared for prompt
adjournment today when the Sen
last major measure. They agreed
on the terms for the $185,000,000
appropriations bill, the session’s
last major measure, uhey agreed
to retain $119,000,000 for the com
modiity credit corporation to bol
stcr farm prices. As originally
passed by the House the defic
iency measure totalled but fifty
four million but the Senate in
serted items until it aggregated
$119,000,000 which the joint coni
mittee trimmed by four million.
Approve $720,000
For Reindeer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 </P) —
Conferees on the third deficiency
bill in Congress approved of the
$720,000 expenditure to buy Al
aska reindeer.
No Munitions for
Latin Americas
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 </P) —
Opposition by Senator Vanden
berg blocked Senate action on
the bill ito permit the govern
ment to contract for the con
struction of warships, naval arm
ament, and anti-aircraft guns
and ammunition, for Latin Am
erican countries. The bill was put
over until the next session.
NOTICE
George Anderson, expert Piano
tuner with Pianos for sate or
rent will be in Nome about Aug
ust 15th.
NOT IN THE SCRIP T—The arrival of William Powell
on a Hollywood movie lot, after an absence of a year and a ha f
because of illness, called for this welcome from Myrna l.oy. Man
with sour “puss” is envious Director \Y. S. Van Dyke.
Danzig Nazis
To Negotiate
UNDATED, Aug. 7 f/P)—EuTOp
ran war machines were geared
to a swifter pace for August man
euvers but the continent’s calm
surface remained unruffled. The
Danzig-Polish quarrel, one of the
most closely watched hot spots,
seemed somewhat eased by War
saw reports that Nazi authorit
ies of the Free City agreed to
negoiiate the customs dispute.
That dispute is the most recent
irri'.ation in the relations be
tween Poland and Danzig, her
principal outlet to the sea. Word
of the agreement came from
Krakow after a patriotic dmeon
stration yesterday at which Mar
shal Edward Smigey Rydz, com
mander in chief of the Polish
army replied to German de
mands for the return of the
Free City by saying Danzig “is
the lungs” of Poland's economic
life “and eutr conduct as re
gards Danzig will be adjusted to
the conduct on the other side.”
The London press hailed his
speech as “commendably restrain
ed bu' firm.”
Britain is keeping an alert eye
however, on the German and
Italian military operations while
she sent her own land, sea, and
air forces on an unprecedented!
two months peacetime maneuv
ers. London ciivies displayed a
particular interest in German |
army movements in Pomerania,!
Silesia and Moravia, which bor-,
der on Poland, as well as the,
Italian war games in Piedmont
and Lombardy near the French1
and Swiss frontier.
FUNERAL NOTICE
Funeral services for Edward
Johnsen will be held at the Fed
erated Church, Tuesday August
8th at 2 p.m.
Ex-Gov. Lcche !;
Of Louisiana
Is Indicted
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 7 f/P)—
Former Governor Richard Lecha
who left office just six weeks ago
was indicted by a Federal Grand
Jury along with Seymour Weiss
hotel owner and powerful pol
itical figure on charges of vio
lating the Connally “hot oil” act
by a transaction in which each
are allegedly to have received
$67,000.
Named with Leche and Weiss
in the indictment which attor
ney Gen. Murphy studied yes
terday in Washington, was Free
man Burford, wealthy independ
ent Dallas. Texas, oil operator of
the East Texas Refining Com
pany.
Additionally Weiss was charg
ed in another indictment of evad
ing payment of income taxes itx
1936. He and Louis Lesage, sus
pended assistant president of the
Standard Oil Company of Louis
iana was named in the third in
dictment of conspiring /together
to violate income tax laws. Weiss
and Lesage had previously been
indicted on mail fraud charges.
Air Corps Officer
At Head of Army
WASHINGTON. Aug 5 f/P) —
Recognizing the new importune*
of air power, the war department
announced that Brigadier Gener
al Frank M. Andrews of the Air
Corps has been put in charge o#
all the army’s operations and
braining. As assistant chief ol
staff he becomes the first air
force operator to hold such a
high command und succeeds Ma
jor General Robert Beck, Junior^
who is retiring.