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VOL. 41. No. 76. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1939 Price Per
I Chamberlain Hopes For Settlement
Jap and Soviet Planes In Air Fights Over Mongolia
2 Army Planes Enroute Engineers Survey Alaska
Japanese And
Russian Planes
Engage in Battles
TOKYO. June 24, </P)—A new
am battle between Japanese and
Mongolians, in continuation of
the border fighting between Man
choukuo and Soviet Russia, dom
inated outer Mongolia.
Sixty Mongolian planes were
reported in a fierce mid-air en
counter over Khalah with an un
identified number of Japanese
planes.
Twelve Russian craft were
downed bringing the number to
61, the Japanese said were shot
down since Thursday.
The war office said they ex
pected a new attack and ground
forces were held in readiness.
Start of PAA
Air Service To
Alaska Indefinite
•SEATTLE, June 26 UP) — Ro
bert Bullwinkel, PAA head, said
it would be some time before
service would be started to Al
aska. The time is very indefinite
because they ars having trouble
in lining up equipment and get
ting a four-engined plane which
is necessary for such service.
The Atlantic service is currently
taking all equipment, despite its
having only two schedules.
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ABSOLUTE RULER
of her social world, Mrs. Cor
nelius Vandsrbilt varied her ija
tronage of tire arts with a •
attendance at the race track ui
Belmont Park. N. Y.
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
Chamberlain Hope
For Settlement
Far East Dispute
UNDATED. June 26 (JP)—Pre
mier Chamberlain, speaking be
fore the House of Commons, af
ter British charges of a new
stripping incident at Tientsin, de
dared that he “had some reason
to hope” that discussions with
Tokyo would lead to a settle
ment of the far eastern dispute
with Japan. Because he held this
| hope he said he didn’t want to
j make any statement which
j might prejudice the prospects” of
i a satisfactory settlement of the
| crisis in China.
Chamberlain spoke after the
| foreign affairs committee and the
cabinet d scussed the far eastern
situation and highlighted the
case of the British subject and
his wife who said they were fore
ed by Japanese sentries to un
dress t the entrance to the for
eign area at Tientsin, now in its
13th day of blockade.
The British consul, Major Her
bert at Tientsin announced that
a Briton. D. A. Finlay w'as forc
ed strip naked and his wife to
undress down to her girdle be
| fore a Japanese sentry, but the
j Japanese spokesman at Tientsin
| said that Japan would not in
vestigate the case because the
| “principle of such a case couldn't
happen.”
The iFinlays are employed in
the International Country Club
in Japanese controlled territory.
FRESH BAKERY GOODS AT
| NORTH POLE BAKERY
GIRL, 5, IS MOTHER OF SIX POUND BABY BOY
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Lina Medina, five-year-old Peru vian Indian child, became the m other of a 5.96 pound baby boy
by a Caesarean operation in the presence of 60 doctors at Lima, Peru, Maternity hospital. Dr. Hip
olito Larrabure, chief surgeon o f the hospital, termed at one o f the strangest gyneological ev
ents ever known. He said the g il l’s age was corroborated by the fact she still had her first teeth
and was three feet tall. This ex elusive picture of the child-mot her in bed with a nurse holding
the baby was sent by air from Lima to N ew York.
Columbia Arrives
Seattle After
Voyage 8 Days
SEATTLE. June 24 UP) — The
Steamer Columbia of the Alaska
Line arrived here, eight days af
ter leaving Nome, despite push
ing through 100 miles of ice floes
while enroute.
George S. Maynard, publisher
of the Nome Nugget was aboard,
and is going to the Golden Gate
International Exposition at San
Francisco.
Station W6XBE
Broadcast Nightly
6 To() Nome Time
SAN FRANCISCO. June 26 UP)
-Radio programs nightly at 9
p.rn. to midnight Pacific Stand
ard Time or from 6 to 9 p.m.
Nome time.
These programs intended part
icularly for Alaska and Ha
waiian and Phillipine Island re
ception will be broadcast from
the General Electric Internation
al Shortwave Station on Trea
sure Island, the site of the Gold
den Gate Exposition, with official
numbers originating at Exposi
tion Station W6XBE on 95.30
megacycles or 31.48 meters.
Fourth of July
Committees Are
Appointed
Plans for the Fourth of July
got under way Saturday evening
with Chairman Gerry Harney an
nouneing the appointment of
committees and outlining of a
tentative program for that day.
Literary exercises, sports for
young and old, and possibly a
big dance to top off the day are
among the plans. A telegram was
sent by Mayor Fred Kubon to
the Commander of the Bering
Sea Patrol, of the U. S. Coast
Guard, inviting attendance at
the exercises and celebration, of
any of his Cutters which may be
in the vicinity of Nome about
that time. Folowing is the list of
committees as announced by
Chairman Harney:
The first named is chairman of
each committee.
Program Committee
Tom Givan
Russell Maynard
Publicity Committee
Russell Maynard
Chas. Code
Finance Committee
iChas. Code
Mrs. W. F. Barber
iChief W. W. Laws
Decorations Committee
Mrs. W. F. Barber
Bob Jackson
Sports Committee
Chief W. W. Laws
Bob Jackson
Gerry Harney
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HEARSAY talk about U. S.
defenses wasn’t enough for Rep.
J. Buell Snyder (D.-Fa), who
with other members of the house
military committee vistteu Fort
Story, Va„ to see and hear the
big coast guns in action. Cotton
car plugs helped.
The schooner S. C. Holmes,
Captain John Backhand, has de
cided this year to make his sea
sonal trading expedition to Point
Barrow via way points.
More than $23,000,000,000 has
been expended by the United
States since 1776 in pensions to
veterans. And the recent World
War isn’t paid for yet.
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Two US. Army
Amphibian Planes
Enroute Alaska
SEATTLE, June 24 UP) —Two
United States army amphibian
planes are to leave tomorrow,
weather permitting on an exten
sive flight survey of army en
gineering projects in Alaska.
Colonel H. J. Wild said the
flght would touch projects in the
territory with stops at Ketchi
kan, Juneau, Sitka, Anchorage,
Palmer, Kodiak, Bethel, Unalas
ka, Nome and Fairbanks.
The two-engined planes carry
ing a total of ten officers and
four enlisted men with Colonel
John C. H. Lee of the Army en
gineers Corps at Portland in
command of the flight, is the
most extensive ever made by the
army in Alaska.
Dowd Appointed
Deputy Marshal
Walter J. Dowd, was sworn in
Sautrday afternoon, as a U. $.
Deputy Marshal, stationed at
Nome, by U. S. Marshal B. B Mo,
zee. Mr. Dowd, arrived Satur
day from Kotzebue.
He was a Democratic Repre
sentative to the Alaska Legisla
utre at the past session. Prior to
that he had served as U. S. Com
missioner at Kotzebue, for the
Kobuk Precinct, under .appoint
ment of Judge J. H. S. Morisop.
Mr. Dowd entered on his duties
immediately.
BERGDOLL RETURNS; HELD BY ARMY
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Groveif Cleveland Bergdoll (hatless, facing camera), World War
draft-dodger, wiho faces a five-year sentence as a “slacker" was
turned over to U. S. Military authorities on his return to this
Country after an exile of two decades in Germany. He is shown
with immigration officers (left), and newspaper man (right), at
New York just before army men took him into custody and held
him incommunicado in the disciplinary barracks at Fort Jay as
an escaped prisoner.