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VOL. 41 NO. 121, NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY. Oct. 17. 1938. Price per Copy During Queen Contest—10 cen
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Last Boat Sailed:—Enroute Nome
GERMAN SPIES CLAIMED TO BE FRAMEE
RUBY O’FARRELL Queen O This Year’s FAIF
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PROTEST by American
Federation of Labor failed t;>
prevent reappointment of Don
ald VV. Smith (above), Pennsyl
vania, to National Labor Rela
tions Board for 5-year term.
Japs Report
Closing in On
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SHANGHAI. Oct. 17 <&)—!The
Japanese reported that they have
pierced the so-called secondary
defense of Hankow and are clos
ing in on the provisional capital
rapidly from three directions.
They said the occupation of
Hwanshihkang, fifty-five miles
by air from Hankow was im
minent.
But the Chinese are making a
determined stand despite the
combined land, air, and naval at
tack. Further to the south, Jap
anese forces are within a mile
of the Yangsin, where a heavy
artillery duel is in progress.
Northeast of Hankow, another
column is said to be advancing
down the highway toward the.
capital.
Passenger List
S. S. McKinley
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Season’s Last
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SEATTLE. Oct. 15, (£•>— The i
S. S. Mount McKinley, sailed on
its last trip from Seattle for
Nome this season, at 10 o’clock
Saturday morning, carrying for
ty one cabin and four steerage
passengers, as follows:
Chas. Levien
Mrs Ralph Kitzmiller
Mrs. Geo. S. Maynard
Mrs. Russel G. Maynard
Mrs. P. C. Sthay, infant
Mrs. Chris O'Leary, infant
Miss Patty Frazier
Mrs. Floyd Frazie"
Marjorie Brodt
Virginia Roberts
Mrs. A J O'Leary, daughter
Mrs. A. H Lobley
Everett P. Woods
Mrs. Henry M. Xavier
Robert M. Barnett
Mrs. Victor B. Novak and
daughter
Mrs. C O Glass
Mrs. Maloney, and child
Mat Parvin
Emily Pederson
Myrtle Fagerstrom
Mrs. A Brunell
Mary Cerruti
E. W. Miller
Mrs. Carl Anderson
Mrs. Nels Swanberg, and 2
children
JUNEAU, — Bids were opened
in Juneau in Commissioner of
Education A. E. Karnes’ office
on construction of territorial
schools at Aleknagik, Hope, and
Tacotna. Bids have not yet been
awarded, but Boyer and Jensen
Construction Company of Jun-j
eau. bid low on all three projects,
bidding $12,670 on the Aleknag
ik school, $20,106 on the Takot
na school and $12,032 on the one
at Hope. Other bidders were
James Berry, James Larson and
Peterman Construction Company.
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German Spies
Claim Their
Innocence
NEW YORK, Oct, 17 (JP) —
Attorneys for the three alleged
German spies, described their
clients as framed and innocent,
after U.S. Attorney Lamar Hardy
told the Federal Court jury that
they had penetrated some of the
innermost secrets of this coun
try’s military defense. The pro
secutor took an hour and twenty
minutes to out-line the govern
ment’s case against Johanna
Hoffman, Otto Herman Voss, and
Erich Glaser.
Glaser's attorney said he was a
hard-working boy, and he assert
ed that the secret aviation code
he was accused of stealing was
something one might buy in a
news-stand.
The girl’s attorney said she
was an innocent dupe who was
framed. Counsel Stoss asserted,
“There is absolutely no connec
tion between my client and the
other defendants as far as this
conspiracy is concerned.
Hardy aserted that the defend
ants, with fourteen others, who
are now fugitives, are members
of a German spy ring which sent
to Berlin, data on American ar
tillery forces in the Panama Can
al one fortifications, two U. S.
aircraft carriers, and information
concerning the strength of the
American Navy on the East
coast.
Moled Arbiter Dies
BELLOWS FALLS, Vermont,
Oct. 17 (JP)—Dr. John Barretts,
aged seventy-one, noted arbiter
of international economics dis
putes, and former director gen
eral of the Pan American Union,
died of pneumonia.
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Ruby O’Farrell
Elected Queen
FINAL COUNT
QUEEN CONTEST
5th Annual N. W. Alaska Fair
iRubv O’Farrell. 72,400
Charlotte Jane Scott 70,900
Bertha Bjomstad. 34,300
Moreen Walsh. . 29,300
Georgia Slack. 10,000
Mae Castell. 6.300
Elizabeth Rude. 2.100
The big suspense is over—the
voice of the ballot again speaks
and little Mis^ Ruby O’Farrell
emerges as Queen of the N. W.
Alaska Fifth. Annual Fair and
Festival. Ruby is, you might say,
a true chip off th. parental tree,
for her gracious mother, one of
Nome’s pioneer ladies, as Miss
Jennie Martin reigned over
Nome’s winter festival away
back in 1913. The present Queen
race was hotly contested and a
great deal of enthusiasm aroused
not only on the part of the young
sters but also in hte ranks of
Nome’s older generation.
The Queen will be crowned
; next Friday evening at the Fair
Building, following the children’s
I parade.
1 All votes cast in the Queen con
■ test from the opening day until
2:00 p.m. today were counted
and checked by Mrs. Wm. Bar
ber, Supt. of the Fairs’ Child
'Division, Mrs. Isadore Fix and
Mr. Arthur Wright.
The boxes were colected and
'unlocked in the presence of
these three, as well as the locked
box containing all the votes
placed in the uptown boxes prior
to last Friday.
Little Miss Mae Castell sent in
a notice of withdrawal Saturday,
asking that her votes to date, be
transferred to one of the other
contestants. This however, could
not be done as once a name is
written in and placed in a ballot
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Wage Hour Law
Applies Terr.
& Possesssions
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WASHINGTON. Oct. 17 (A1)—
Administrator Andrews said the
i new wage hour law applies to
j employees of the territories and ■
j possessions of the U. S. just as it
! does to the workers of the forty;
eighr states, but it doesn’t cover
the Philippine Islands.
He said “Congress might have
extended the act to purely local
commerce within the District of j
Columbia or within a territory or
possession in virtue of national j
legislative powers over such pol
| itical units, but Congi es did not |
do so. However, employees must:
I be engaged in commerce or pro-!
! duction goods for commerce, and
! commerce is defined as meaning i
trade, commerce, transportation, i
j transmission and communication j
among several states or from any'
j state to any place outside there-1
of. A state is defined as meaning I
any state of the U. S. or District
of Columbia or any territory or
possession.”
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S30-A W£EKp*nslon
plan ot which he is an advocate
helped give Sheridan Downer
(above) the Democratic Sena
torial nomination in California.
Avowedly an enthusiast for the
New Deal, Downey defeated
veteran Sen. William G. McAdoo.
Fiancee Of
G. R. Whaley
On McKinley
SEATTLE, Oct. 15, (/P)—'When
Miss Marjorie Brodt, former Seat
tie radio singer, and a member
of the orchestras of Alaska Line
stamers a few years ago. played
her way into the heart of Geor
ge R. Whaley, Nome miner, she
had little idea it would climax
in her sailing for a new home in,
Nome. She is a passenger aboard
the S S Mount McKinley which
sailed from here Saturday fori
Nome, where she will become
the bride of Mr. Whaley.
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Hungarians
Raise Array
420.000 Her
BUDAPEST, Oct. 16, (/P)_Thi
! government of Hungary starts
1 doubling its army to an estimat
ed four hundred and twentj
thousand men, in what official;
said with a peace—not a war
mobilization.
Five classes totalling two hun
dred thousand were called as a
measure, necessary for Hungar
ian security, now endangered by
continued mobilization of the
Czech army, plus the collapse of
negotiations over Hungarian de
mands for parts of Czechoslavak
ia.
Surprise was occasioned by the
disclosure that the army number
ed about two hundred and twen
ty thousand, as the post-war Tria
non Treaty, limited the *e*ce to
thirty-rive thousand.
The call to colors was decided
upon at a cabinet meeting, and
formally decreed by the War Mitt
istry.
Japs take ^ aichow
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HONGKONG. Oct. 16, Japan
ese troops were reported to have
captured Waichow, 70 miles east
of Canton, after smashing through
more than eighty villages, in the
new south-China drive.
The thirty miles drive from
Bias Bay to Waichow was pre-"~
ceded by the heaviest and most
destructive air attack ever seen
in this area, which left scores of
villages and hamlets in ruins. Air
raid casualties were numbered
at one thousand. i
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PAYING THE BILL for her Bill’s playfulness, 3,900
pnund Hilda is hoisted out of concrete moat surrounding elephant
yard at Brooklyn zoo. Bill pushed Hilda over; it took a derrick
truck and block and tackle to get her out. Veterinarians believed
Hilda would die of her injuries.
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