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VOL. 41. No. 99. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY. AUG. 26. 1938 Single Coov 25ct*
Japs Shot Down American Airliner
Secty.Hull Expresses Emphatically U. S. Objections
Arctic Cruisers Dig In Over Night Like Sourdoughs
Objection Made
Bombing U. S.
China Airliner
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 26,
iJP)—.United States expressed to
Japan its “emphatic objection”
to the attack by a Japanese; war
plane on a Chinese Commercial
Airliner, Wednesday, when it
was reported shot down with a
loss of 14 lives.
Instruction of Secretary Hull
to Amerjcan Ambassador Grew’,
at Tokyo, presented same to the
Japanese government saying:
“My government wishes to ex
press its emphatic objection of
jeopardizing in this way the
lives of Americans as well as
other non-comlbatant occupants
of an unarmed civilian planes,
which are engaged clearly as
recognized and established com
mercial services over regularly
schedule air routes.”
Rioting Palestine
Cause Bombing
20 Deaths
JAFFA, Palestine, Aug. 26. <JP)
—A terrific bomb explosion in a
crowded Jaffa market place, kill
ed 20 Arabs, wounded 74 and in
jured 10 seriously. The bomb
was touched off by frenzied riot
ing and enraged Arabs who tried
to set fire to the Jewish-Anglo
Palestine Bank and other build
ings. Police and soldiers soon
4fot the situation under control.
Arctic Polar Bears Welcome Cruisers On the S. S. Denali
Larger Take of
Fur Seals On
Pribiloffs 1938
SAX FRANCISCO. Aug. 25, —
The Bureau of Foreign and Dom
estic Commerce reported that
seal hunters on the Pr.bilofY Is
lands took 58,364 furs, six per
cent more than in 1937, and the1
largest take in 49 years. i
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FROM LEFT TO RICHT: 125-pound Urpon which
fought an hour, 16 minutes, before being gaffed in St. Petersburg, j
Fla, waters; Jay A. Gaines of Evanston, III, the victor; a mere
Jl'pound fish, also caught by the Evanston sportsman. j
Lindberghs Get
! Soviet Award of
Flying. Moscow
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MOSCOW, Aug. 25, (.Pi—Col
onel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh were entertained today by
the Soviet Society for the Ad
van cement of Aviation. The Or
der of Heroes of the Soviet Un
■ion, a medal presented to out
standing figures in Russia was
presented to Colonel Lindbergh
!by the Society, inscribed with
the words—“To a great aviator”,
i The Lindberghs are leisurely
bopping about visiting various ,
European cities.
Japs Make Move
Forward: First
Since July 26th
—
SHANGHAI, Aug. 26,— The
final successful assault on Jui
chang, major objective in the Jap
anese drive toward the provin
cial aapital of Hankow, was re
ported in a Japanese army com
munique, today.
The victory was the first not
able Japanese advance since the
invaders’ occupation July 26th of
Kiukiang. Yangtze river port,
which occurred in the sweltering
heat of 140 degrees.
Japanese observers maintained
| the fall of the walled city put
the invaders in a ]<ksition to out
flank thirty Chinese divisions, de
ployed along ninety miles of rail
, way between Kiukiang and Nan
ichang, the Chinese airbase, an
| other objective in the Hankow
campaign.
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Japanese Gained
Ground Attack
In Lake Areas
HANKOW, Aug. 25. —The Jap
anese army gained ground today
after desperate fighting near
Lake Nyang Suuht of the Yang
tze River.
Chinese commanders said the
Japanese attacked with artillery,
tanks, airplanes and infantry.
The invaders collected regi
ments from areas where floods
were preventing operations, and
struck at the Celestial lines with
superior forces.
The Chinese front lines slow
ly gave ground under the smash
ing drive, but fought back bitter
ly. Heavy Japanese losses were
left on the field.
\, S. Airliner Shot
Down By Japs
In China
HONG KONG, Aug. 2.5, -Jap
anese warplanes shot down an
American airliner today, killing
or wounding at least fourteen
persos. The American pilot, H. L.
Woods charged that the killing
had b en done by machine gun
ning after the plane had been
forced down on a small river
ear Canton.
Woods headed for the Portu
guese colony of Macao when the
Japanese attacked.
He was not injured.
A Chinese passenger reached
Macao with a bullet wound in
his neck. The Chinese, named C.
M. Lou reported that he was the
only survivor.
Those believed dead included
several officials of the Tunese
government and prominent bank
ers. American interests owned
forty five percent of the corn
pay operating the plane. The
China National Aviation Com
pany is the operator.
Body Frank Hawk
Is Cremated
BUFFALO. New York, Aug. 25
(/P)—'The body of the former
spe-'d flyer Frank Hawks was
cremated today in Buffalo.
Hawks and a passenger were 1
killed in the crash of an experi-«
mental safety plane Sunday near
Buffalo.
The passenger was named J. 1
H. Campbell.
The flyer’s ashes will be taken
aboard his private plane and tak
en to Redding. Connecticutt. The
fiver will be Hawks' old friendi
and companion Mack R. Carlin.
EAST END (.RILL
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Runaway Truck
Is Responsible
Death 3 Men
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Aug. 26
up)—Thundering out of control
down a ridge route grade at a
mile per minute speed, a big
trailer truck killed three men
before overturning in a mass of
flaming wreckage. The dead are
H E Foster, James Marshall of
Fellows. Occupants of a light
truck, hit by the runaway vehi
cle were W A Miller of Bakers
field. and his passengers were C*
R. Dawson of Alabama and Le
roy Woofter, who escaped injury
Hitler Showed
Premier Horthy
Germany
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BERLIN, Aug. 25, f/P) — The
German capital gave Chancellor
Adolph Hitler and Regent Hor
thy of Hungary an enthusiastic
welcome tonight on their arrival
from reviewing the German Bal
tic Fleet.
The streets leading from the rail
road station to the presidential
palace were decorated lavishly in
honor of Horthy.
The reception was viewed by
foreign observers as Hitler’s fin
•al attempt to win Horthy away
^rom the French cohort of nations
to the Rome-Berlin axis.
The Nazi leader pointed out
that the friendship of the two na
tions had been consecrated on
the battlefield during the world
war. Said Hitler:
“I trust that during your so
ijourn in Germany you have felt
the homelike atmosphere."
Horthy’s reply was cool.
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fellow worker (left of the forks). In harvesting the wheat, binders tic the stalks into bundles, and
separators winnow out the grsin and blow the straw into great piles. __ '