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VOL. 41. NO. 130. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, NOV. 7, 1938. Price per copy 13*
Record Off-Year Vote Expected For Tomorrow
Fate of Pension Proposals Be Decided In Six States
40 Million Are
Expected Vote
Election Tues.
UNDATED. Nov. 7 (TP)—Orat
ory blaring in the exciting elec
tion campaign faded into the
background while party workers
took over the vital task of get
ting out votes. They wanted to
obtain a record off-year vote,
and expect to turn out tomorrow
forty million American men and
women. Good weather is expect
ed to aid them altho a cold snap
ns moving east. A clear day is
forecast and much of the nation
is amid valedictories which end
ed months of political turbulence
The belief prevailed, that of
the two major parties, the Repub
jicans will make Congressional
^ gains for the first time since the
^ 1928 election.
Voters will select 35 U. S. Sen
ators, -1-32 House members, and
32 governors. ,
The present Senate consists of
76 Democrats, 15 Republicans,
2 Farmer Laborites, 1 Progres
sive. 1 Independent Republican,
and one seat vacant.
The House consists of 328 Dem
carats, 88 Republicans. 7 Pro
grf4siv°s,- 5 Fawner Laborites
and 7 seats vacant.
Registrations are estimated at
o4 million, compared to 47 mil
31 on of four years ago and 55 mil
lion of two years ago.
The Pacific Alaska Airways
Monday mail plane enroute to
Nome from Fairbanks today, due
to unfavorable weather and a
late s.a.k reached Nulato where
jk the plane will remain over mght,
Proceeding to Nome tomorrow
^ morning early. It is expected
that the plane will arrive Nome
early and take off on its return
trip about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
FASHIONABLY NAMED •Panda," a cat owned b.v
Norris Johnston of Los Angeles has adopted a rabbit and puts a
nrotective paw over orphan The rare Tibetan panda .or winch
'cat is named is furrv and resembles both the bear and raccoon.
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Government Is
Reopening Old
Munition Plants
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 </P) —
The magnitude of the United
S'ate’s efforts to rearm swiftly in
this troubled world was emphas
ized with the disclosures that
unused army plants will be re
onened. The steps were taken to
cu* down delays in the construc
tion of warships.
President Roosevelt announced
that the twenty two million dol
lar ordinance plant at Charles
ton. West Virginia, will be re
opened and devoted to a secret
purpose. A New Orleans navy
yard which has been inoperative
since 1921 was reopened as part
of the general program utilizing
government property, resulting
in a large saving of. money.
Two Kinds of Claims
.. It is very important to distin
guish between a lode and a pla
cer deposit... If a deposit is lode,
it should be staked as a lode
claim: If it is placer, it should be
staked as a placer claim... If both
a lode and a placer deposit are
found in the same area, it should
be located as both a placer and
a lode claim.
WITH A NIW COIFFURE. the Ducheu of Windsor started second year as wife of Ed
ward, with whom oho poses near Antibes. France. The waves are softer, nearer the part.
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“Playfield Jamboree,” Odd Fellows Hall, Nov. 12
DOOR PRIZE DOORS OPEN 8 P. M. ADMISSION 25^ & 50^ DANCING
\oters 6 States
h ill Decide (hi
Pension Plans
UNDATED, Nov. 7 (Pi — The
voters ;n six states will decide on
old age pension proposals in to
morrow's election
California will vote on the
thirty dollars every Thursday
plan, to be made in script pay
ments.
Oregon will decide the refer
endum on asking Congress to
adopt the Townsend plan.
Colorado returns will decide
the return of pension payment
control to the legislature by
knocking the forty five dollar
a month plan out of the consti
tution.
North Dakota will vote on its
forty dollars monthly payments.
Missouri, on the reduction of
minimum pension plan age from
70 to 65 years with provisior ; for
liberal payments to all above the
age.
New York will v ;‘e on the au
thorization of U. S. state funds
for pensions and unemployment
Insurance.
Loyalists Lose
Another Salient
HENDAYE, France, Nov. 7 (/Pi
— Spanish insurgent dispatches
reported that General Franco’s
forces had encircled the Mora
de Ebro government salient on
the west bank of the Ebro R ver.
The town having already been
reduced to a heap of smoking
ruins. The capture of the town
by the insurgents would wipe
out the last of the gains made
by the government armies in
their offensive of July 25, on the
important Ebro front.
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in n ArritR DAYS, Countess Haugwitz-Reventlovv. the
former Barbara Hutton, dime store heiress, posed with her Danish
husband from whom she's estranged. Their quarrel Ls said to cen
ter partly on upbringing of son. Lance. Divorce—if there is one—
would be handled by Danish courts since both are Danes; Barbara
became one in renouncing American citizenship last year.
Earthquake Hits
Tokio no Damage
LONDON. Nov. 5 (/Pi—A pro
longed earthquake followed by
frequent after shocks sent Tok
yo citizens into the streets short
ly after midnight, Pacific time.
Reuters, a Brit, h news agency,
reported in a dispatch and said
no damage was done in Tokyo
but the epicenter of the quake
is believed to he in northern
China. The Central Meterological
observatory in Japan said that
landslides and tidal waves were
feared in Miyagi and Fukushima
prefectures. Communications to
the scenes were disrupted by the
shocks.
3 R A F Bombers
Attempt Set New
Distance Record
ISMAILA, Egypt, Nov. 5 (/P)—
Three Royal Air Force bombers
took off in an attempt to break
the world's non-stop distance
mark by a flight to Port Darwin
Australia. The nine airmen in
especially equipped Vickers Well
esley planes hope to beat the
6,306 mile mark set by the Soviet
pole fliers.
WATCH FOR THE
ELECTION
RETCRNS
In Wednesday’s Nugget
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5HE’S A LITTLE YOUNG YET to understand her father’s bragging about American
League standing of the Boston Red Sox, but wait until two-year-old Julia Yawkey gets old enough to
want a pennant as much as papa does. This is scene in the Fenway park, Boston, office of Tom Yaw
I key, millionaire owner of the Red Sox, as his wife and daughter paid him a call.