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VOL. 41. NO. 129. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOV. 4, 1938. Price per copy 154
Will Rogers Memorial Museum Dedicated Today
Fourteen Perish In One Worst British Air Disasters
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CALLING OUT THE RESERVE officer corps, France
had war drill, using anti-aircraft machine guns (above).
British Airliner
Crashes Killing
All Passengers
ST. HERLIER ISLAND, Jersev
Nov. 4 UP) — Fourteen persons
v,’ere killed in ore of Britain’s
worst airplane disasters when an
airliner crashed in a field after
leaving for Southampton. The
victims were nine men, four wo
men and one child, and included
the pilot, Captain Cary, and the
wireless operator.
By a man working in the field
where the plane crashed, the air
liner was seen to be having di
fficulties. While flying over St.
i Peter, smoke and flames came
pouring out of one of her port
engines. She turned around ap
parently in an effort to return to
! the a:rport but suddenly hurtled
i to earth, narrowly missing a ho
' tel. The plane hit with a terrific
crash, toppled over, and burst
into flames, followed a few sec
onds later by a loud explosion.
.The plane was a four-motored
DeHaviland.
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The Will Rogers
Memorial Was
Dedicated Today
V
CLAREMORE, Oklahoma, Nov.
4. (A*) — Dedication of the Will
Rogers Memorial Museum ap
proached a climax this afternoon
with the unvieling of a large
bronze statue of the cowboy
philosopher. In the center of the
foyer. Governor Marland told
of Joe Davidson’s creation of the
statue and “I gratefully accept
it” in the name of the state. Then
Mary Rogers, beautiful daughter
of Will, pulled the cord that drop
ped the silken coverings from the
figure. She said not a word but
blinked her eyes and looked up
ward as the curtain settled down.
The sculptor said “This is a
labor of love and never before
had a statue such a beautiful
setting.”
President Roosevelt in a broad
cast from Hyde Park said “This
American nation to whose hearts
he brought gladness, will hold
him in everlasting remem
brance."
Champ Joe Louis
Signed to Fight
John If. Lewis
NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (/Pi — On
top ct everything else which has
happened to the boxing business
recently, heavyweight champion
Joe Louis agreed to meet John
Henry Lewis, light heavyweight
king in a title bout in Madison
Square Garden, January 27. This
will be the first all-negro heavy
weight championship contest
since Jack Johnson met Battling
Jim Johnson in Paris. France,
twenty five years ago.
FIELD OF BOYS stretches In precise pattern at Praha, where Ciechs annually stage great ath
. . __letlc exhibition, or Slet. For this year’s show, 170,000 spectators packed stadium._
“Playfield Jamboree,” Odd Fellows Hall, Nov. 12
POOR PRIZE DOORS OPEN 8 P. M. ADMISSION 25^ & 50^ DANCING
To Study
Politics
3n Relief
UNDATED, Nov. 3 (/Pi The
election campaign will be ver
Tuesday but from ir.dicat; ms its
echoes will fill the halls of Con
gress next winter.
The Senate Campaign Expendi
tures Committee warned senator
1 candidates in New Jersey that
any excessive political expenses
might lead to a contest over the
seating of the winner. After re
ceiving charges from George
Biehl, editor of the Hudson News
of Union City in Hudson C unty,
Jersey City employees are being
assessed a million dollars for the
Democratic Campaign Commit
tee. He is also studying com
plaints of WPA coercion among
voters in several states. This in
quiry brought a statement from
more than two 1:undred Repub
lican candidates for Senate and
II case seats that they would seek
unceasingly for c gressional in
vestigation of pu, . _s in relief.
"Playfield
Jamboree”
November 12
Another P'.ayfleld Jamboree
looms on the near horizon, Nov
meber 12, to be exact, an occas
sion when the whole community
gathers for an evening of fun
and at the same time swells the
fund for playground develop
ment.
The Jamboree was instituted
last January as a means of es
tablishing a well-equipped play
field for the children and the
young people of Nome. Through
the generous cooperation of the
townspeople, the Home Arts
Club, sponsors of the plan, rais
ed sufficient money to make a
good start. The site chosen was
the vacant lot to the east of the
Territorial School. One-third at
the ground has been filled and
leveled, and the children have
been playing there for some
time. Equipment from the small
playfield formerly used by the
younger children has been mov
ed to the new location and will
soon be set up.
School board, city council, and
private citizens, have assisted
with the work, and all are en
thusiastic about the possibilities
for the future.
The next step will be to gravel
the remainder of the large lot
next spring and have it ready for
new equipment which should
come on the first boat. The work
done so far has almost depleted
the treasury, and so every one
is looking forward to the Jam
boree next week to provide amp
ly for the completion of the pro
ject.
Further details will appear in
later issues of The Nugget. There
will be fun for every one. Watch
the papers.
Proof of Labor Blanks can now
be had at the ITame Nugget office.
COP COPPING degrees is
Boston Patrolman Edwin Fland
ers whose recent B.A. gives him
three: B.A. from Portia law
school: bachelor of oratory, Em
erson; LL.B. at Boston.
BASKET B A I, L
High School Huskies
vs
Nevada Nighthawks
Kenn’s Bakery
vs
Whaley's Whalers
MONDAY Night, SCHOOL GYM
8:00 o'clock Adm. 25c & 50c
King George
Praises Our
President
LONDON. Nov. 4 -TP) _ King
George terminated the present
session of parliament with the
prayerful hope that a "new era
way has opened up for Europe’*
Warm praise for President Roose
velt’s “timely action" to avert a
war time crisis.
In the speech, which was read
! in his absence, the monarch re
viewed the grave events of Sep
! tember, and declared “the cause
of peace was powerfully aided
1 by the timely action of the Presi
! dent of the United States, whose
desire that all people not be
drawn into a war with one an
other and whose manifest is sig
nificant everywhere by men and
women who share with me a feel
I ing of deep thanlcfullness for the
imminent peril thus averted.”
ULTIMATUM IS
GIVEN CZECHS
PRAGUE— Unofficial sources
said Hungary had delivered an
| ultimatum to the Prague govern
1 men* demanding, a :eptance of
i demands over disputed areas
populated with a minority of
| Hungarians.
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Lending Library, is located at
Polet’s Branch Store. Book rea
tal ten cents a week.
TANKS WOULD HALT at tortuous mountain passes
through which the soldiers of Switzerland are making their way.
Neutral Switzerland, u'ary of the war threats in Europe, drills its
infantry in troop movements through the Alps.