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VOL 41 No 98 NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday. Aug. 24. 1938 Single Codv 25ct*
Welcome to Nome Arctic Cruisers
Olaf Swenson, Fur Dealer, Found Dead At Seattle
Col. Johnson Is Enthusiastic Over Alaska’s Scenery
MAIDEN’S PRAYER finds answer in "beautiful’ Bob
Taylor of the films, seen in New York’s Versailles restaurant ex
changing pointers on the manly art of fisticuffs with young Jimmy
Bogglano. Taylor’s dinner companion at the club was Jimmy Brod
erick, New York detective, who’s reported to have been showing
movie Idol tricks about self-defense
Heavy Fighting
HENDAYE, Spain. Aug. 23, /P;
The general Insurgent otfens.ve
appeared blocked on the key-sec
tor of Fero Rr.v r from. altho
in Central Sp.'.n ator.g h ■ T.-r.:.
River, the government troops are
g.ving grouiftl. Observers con
sidered the fighting on .he .re
front- pertr-ms. '.he hesvies' .r
the 25 months’ old Civil War.
with art.ill ry, tanks and airplia
nes used by both sides on a scale
scarcely approached before
SHANGHAI, Aug. 23. (JP—One
million soldiers and two hundred
thoai-a-nd c'vilians are reported
mobilized to protect the Hankow
area should th Japanese break
th - deadlock that has kept them
one hundred and ten miles from
the Provisional capital for nearly
a momh. Civilians are bci: a
trained in many, beh;nd the line
duties in the Hankow district.
Women are given important roles
as nurses and military aides.
Resume World
War Activities
Japs Stalled
UNDATED. -Vug. 24. !JP)—Jap
anese txnired reinforcements into
their drive up the south bank of
the Yangtze river; wJhile ir. Spain
the Insurgents made gains on
two fronts.
Intensification of the south
bank offensive came from Chin
ese imports, which sa id the Jap
anese gave it up as a bad job af
ter their attempts to reach Han
kow- along the North bank failed.
The Japanese withdrew from
Hwangnnei, 25 miles.north of Kiu
•Wang for their first major ob
jective which has been reinforc
ed for a drive on J.uichang. 25
miles west of Kiuikianig and a
little more than one hundred
miles southeast of Hankow.
. . Spa - he government lines
slowly gave way before vigorous
Insurgent thrusts on the Ebro
River front. In Eastern Spain,
■ along the Tagus River and in the
Former Nomeite
Found Dead From
Shot In Chest
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SEATTLE. Aug. 24, l^Pi—Olaf
Swenson, a fur merchant, was
found dead in the office of his
fur store, a rifle nearby. Detec
tives sa d. it appeared that the
rifle might haw been discharged
aocden'ly while Swenson was
cleaning it.
SEATTLE, Aug. 24. i.-Pi—Later.
A bulle- hole was found in Swen
son’s chest. He was aged 55. The
Coroner’s deputy, Carl Hartwig
said, the weapon was a .405 Ele
phant rifle which Mr. Swenson
bought recently for big game
hunting, and said he was prob
ably cleaning the equipment on
his desk.
The body was discovered by
Swenson's partner Lan Ketchum,
when he arrived at the office this
morning. Swenson was dead for
at least 12 hours. '*f
Hartwig said that Ketchum told
him that he left Swenson early
in the evening. The latter remain
ed to work on the firm’s accounts.
Besides .h.s daughter Marion
Swenson Ferguson, he is surviv
ed by his widow.
west on the Tagus front, Insur
•gents are reported as conquering
three hundred nine square miles
in the past three days.
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1 CLEVELAND. Ohio, Aug. 22.
(&)—Detectives today found arm
Teg and rib bones on Cleveland’s
waterfront garbage dump,
i Coroner Samuel Gerber said
they were parts of the body \f
the twelfth victim of the city’s
"mad murder killer.”
The bones, which Gerber said
matched a skull found last night,
are those of a man.
; The heed and upper torso of a
woman, the eleventh victim of
the killer, were found on the
dump yesterday.
| Gerber said tihe same method
of disarticulate surgery perform
ed on all bodies since the first
was found in September, l!ft5,
fshowed th "mad killer" is guilty
of all 12 deaths.
.L E HOLD ON YELLOW RIVER had rope dikes. When the river overflowed la
it. i ^rovlaco. Japan's mmAuM tney was bedded dowa; Japaa aeeuoed China ol breaking dikes.
^ eIconic to Nome
Arctic Cruisers
on S. S. Denali
The S. S. Denali of the Alaska
Line, will reach Nome at seven
a.m. Thursday, according to the
latest reports received by agen
J >e Harnish. The early arrival
h ur will make it possible to fol
low through the program for the
entertainment of the Arctic Cru
is exactly as planned. The re
ception committee will go out to
the boat at 9 a.m. and the tour
ist will come ashore at about 10.
A number of cars have been
placed at the disposal of the vis
itors, for the sight-seeing trip to
th. near’ y mining operations, as
weli as a ‘rip t Dexter and
Nome Rive • valley where it may
be possible to view a herd of
reindeer- in that vicinity.
Native sports and dancing wilt
take place at the King Island
Village at 2 p.m., and the tourists
rhave been invited to visit the fur
'room of the Lomen Commercial
Company. Polet’s Stores are al
so displaying Native Curios, and
fur products.
A* 9 pun. the Welcome Dance
will begin at the school auditor
duim. The dance is sponsored by
the Chamber of Commerce, and
jno admission charges will bet
made. The Denali's orchestra
have agreed to play, and a good
time is in store for - everyone!
Says Planes Are
Answer to Trans
portation Alaska
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug. 24,
(#*)—Colonel Louis Johnson said
“much surveying” would be re
quired' before construction of the:
International highway to Fair-f
banks. A choice must be made
he said, between an alternate j
route across British Columbia
and between Seattle and Fair
banks.
He was non-committal as to
whether he favored construction
of an army air base at Fairbanks
or other sites, and said he will
report to President Roosevelt on
both projects.
He further said: “Planes are
the answer to the transportation
problems in Alaska; there are 30
|at Fairbanks alone. No greater
service could be done the Terri
tory than to develop air fields”.
He is enthusiastic over the In
ternational road, saying: “some
jof the Alaskan scenery is more
gorgeous than any he saw on
jhis long tour of Switzerland—
J either by air or road many more
tourists are sure to go to Alaska
|in the future, which will mean
an economic benefit to the terri
tory.”
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Write to your friends and rela
; tives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
i kick out of it
; EAST END GRILL
—BEST BY COMPARISON—
Mr*. Wiley Post. Wife of the Famous Round the World Flier, Who
L-> Now in Nome and Enroute to Pt. Harrow. Pilot Joe Crossoa
and Mrs. Post Photographed at the Fairbanks Airport Recently.
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Kellems Party
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Recommends
Further Search
BARROW. Aug. 24. </P)—The
Kellems pary, returned from 01
iktuk, where they dragged the
waters of the Arctic ocean unsuc
eessfully in a search for the Rus
sian plane. K >wever, they inter
viewed the Eskimos who claimed
they saw the plane Iisappear last
year. Th y are convinced their
story is “air tight" and recom
mended further search.
ATTENTION PIONEERS
There will he a Special Meet
dag of Pioneer Lodge Igloo No. 1,
TONIGHT (Wednesday) 8:30 pm.
All men and Women Pioneers’
'Ipreurgently requested to be pre
sent. Fathers’ Hubbard and La
Fortune and others are to be
initiated. Refreshments follow.
Dave Gray, Secretary.
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POST-g&GFJtS MEMORIAL
PARTY TO MAKE SEARCH
FOR LOST SOVIET PLANE
BARROW, Aug. 20 UP)—Mem
bers otf the party, headed by Dr.
Homer F. Ketl.ms. clergyman of
Oklahoma, who came to Barrow
to dedicate at Walakpi the Post
Rogers memorial, have loft for
Oliktuk, which is near *he mouth
of the Coilvill: Rivrer, to search
for the plane that was lost a year
ago in an attempt to fly from
Moscow to the West Coast of the
'United States via the North Pole.
Natives at Oluktuk reported
the mi3sinig Russian plane with
jits personnel of six men might
have fallen into the Arctic ocean
the mouth of CoLvilLe river.
The members, of the Kellems
party will skirt the north coast
; of Alaska between Barrcrw and
Oliktuk in the 38-foot motor ves
sel in which they came from
California Barrow
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