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VOL. 41. NO. 143. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1938. Price per copy
Germany & Franee Renounce War
German Condor Forced to Land In Manila Harbor
Many Dead Injured in Nova Scotia Mine Disaster
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ALL-AMERICAN tail
been centering on Bill Dwyer
(above), high-scoring, elusive j
halfback at the University of ;
New Mexico.
f Fishing Industry
Is Looking Up
SEATTLE, Dec. 6 (A1) — Thej
Salmon Packers and Bankers
were heartened by the rapid
movement of salmon slocks in
retail outlets as shown by the
Pacific Fisheries Association. It:
was rewealed that unsold stocks,
of canned salmon on November;
thirty amounted to two million
eight hundred fifty four thou
sand cases and showed that pack
trs were stronger in position by
■n million two hundred forty thou
sand cases than at the end of
November of last year.
Germany Will
Not Press Her
Col. Demands
UNDATED, D.iC. 7 (/P) — The
new friendship agreement be
tween the traditional enemies,
France and Germany, was stud
ied iby a world more accustomed
to news of the two cumint wars.
Foreign Ministers Von Ribben
trop of Germany and Georges
Bonnet of France talked over the
difference which might cause
them to violate th;ir new war re
■nunciation pact. It was under
stood that RLbbentrop indicated
that the Nazis would not press
any colonial demands at present
'nor back the Italian campaign in
Tunisa and Corsica. It was also
shown that Germany was luke
warm in aiding the Spanish in
surgents.
Informed sources said RLbben
trop in return for those assur
ances wanted a definite under
standing that the Franco-Soviet
mutual assistance pact be no long
er operative. With this done, Ger
many would feel she had a freer
hand pursuing her ambitions in
Eastern Europe, where a clash
might occur with tha Soviets.
Italian agitation in Tunisia and
Corsica was continued by an antt
French demonstration in Naples
and Florence where noisy bands
of University students were turn
ed back by police from reaching
the French Consulate.
Tokyo newspapers reported
that Japan had formulated fur
ther exposition of her attitude
toward foreign economic rights,
in the conquered regions of
China, which it was expected,
would be communicated to U. S.
and British ambassadors tomor
row.
WANTED—To buy a medium
sized coal burning kitchen range
in good condition. Inquire at
Nugget Office.
German Plane
Forced Down
Manila Harbor
MANILA. Dec. 6 (A*)—Unable
to hold her altitude after one of
its four motors stalled, a big Ger
' man Condor monoplane made a
'(forced landing and sank in Man
1 ila harbor as it neared the end of
a nonstop flight from Tokyo.
The crew of five and one pass
enger were not injured as the
plane began settling in shallow
wat;ir about two hundred feet
off shore. The six men clambered
out on the wing and were rescu
ed by natives in small boats. The
plane flew from Tokyo in ten
hours and ten minutes. German
inter.sts said they would invest
igate the salvage possibilities as
the plane is resting on a sandy
bottom.
BODY OF QUEEN
MAUD IN NORWAY
OSLO, — The body of Queen
Maud who died suddenly last
week in London arrived escorted
by Norwiegan and British war
ships.
CZECHS FOLLOWING
LEAD OF GERMANY
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I PRAGUE, — The Czech gov- J
Imminent has forbidden employ
! ment of Jaws and excluded Jew
ish doctors and dentists from
practice. ,
MRS. PEABODY
SEEKS DIVORCE
LOS ANGELES — Mrs. Eddie,
Peabody, wife of the banjo play-1
er, seeks a divorce from her
movie and stage star husband,
and asks possession of their
$100,000 orange grove.
—17 Days to Xmas—
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IT S A .0 N C V. AY TO THE THAMES from the family farm near Bridgeboro, N. J
where Oarsman .!oe Burk drives many a mile on a spray tiacior anil dreams of the Diamond Sculls,
England's famous one-man rowing race. Burk, who has rowed some 1,000 miles on the Rancocas (’reck
in training, plans to enter the Sculls. Walter Hoover, last Yankee to win event, did it in
WHAT IT TAKES, Miss
Brenda Duana Duff Frazier j
(above) has—to be ranked the
No. 1 “glamor girl” among this:
season’s crop of debutantes in'
New York. So say observers of1
the social ebb and flow. Her
mother is Mrs. Frederic Watriss.
U. S. C. NAMED REPRE
SENT FAR WEST IN BOWL
LOS ANGELES — Southern
California was officially named
to represent the Far West at the
Roso Bowl. January 2, Hugh Wil
let, president of the Pacific Coast
Conference announced. The de
cision was voted by the 10 con
ference members.
The -University of California
was the other candidate for tre
honor, the Golden Bears having
tied U. S. C. for the Conference
title, both having won six and
lost one conference game. U. S.
C. defeated California 13 to 7 but
lost to Washington.
It will be the fifth trip to the
Bowl for the Trojans who have
never been defeated at Pasa
dena’s famous post season game.
They have defeated Pittsburgh
twdce and Penn State and Tu
lane one each.
Good Baseball
Games Promised
.. .Practice is now going on by
four teams of baseball enthus
iasts for the benfit games for the
Christmas Tree Fund. Double
header games will be played be
tween the teams known as: Ham
mon vs. Alaskans. Commercials
vs. Nome. The players are prac
ticing regular and getting lh
form and good snappy games can
toe expected. Thursday night,
Dec. 15th at 8 o’clock has toeen
selected as the night & the place
will be the Nome High School
Gym. Popular admission prices
of 50 cents for adults and 25
cents for children will prevail.
Two hours of clean fun and ex
citement is awaiting you—don’t
fail to see this favorite game.
Fourteen Dead
Mine Disaster
SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Dec. 6
<tV)—.Fourteen men are known to
bo dead and many oth'Ts serious
ly injured in Nova Scotia’s worst
mine disaster in twenty years.
The fourteen bodies were brot to
the surface two hours after a
string of twenty six mine cars,
carrying two hundred and fifty
min workers broke loose and
plunged out of control down a
mile long incline into a solid
wall. It was feared that other
bodies remained in the wreck
age.
The tragedy occurred in the
Princess Colliery of the Nova
Scotia M;n Company as a shift
was riding to work, and the haul
age cable snapped as a string of I
cars, known as riding the rake,
was going down a ten percent
grade.
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TAKES GAME SPOILS
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HARRSBURG. Pa. — Walking
through a special train, transport
ing 1,400 football players and
football fans from a vame, Det-|
eetive John Abrams announced.
“If any of you took anything
that didn't belong to you from
any place in Harrisburg, just lay
it beside you on tha, seat and I’ll
be back i:i about five minutes.".
He recovered beer mugs, salt and
pepper shakers, false faces, wo
men's underwear, glu:, red ink,
and various other miscellaneous:
articles.
Germany And
France Signed
Peace Pact
PARIS, Dec. 6 <7Pi—Prance and
Germany signed a pact pledging
them to seek the settlement of
future disputes by negotiation is
stead of by war.
Joachim Von Ribbentrop and
Georges Bonnet, foreign min
isters for Germany and France
put their signatures on 2 cream
colored sheets of vellum; one in
scribed in French and the other
in German, concluding the neg
otiations for a good neighbor and
accord with Germany.
The ceremony took plaoe in
the same room where ten years
ago the Kellog-Briand Pact out
lawing war was signed, the fam
ous clock room of the foreign of
fice.
BABY CHEWS CORD; DIES
ST. LOUIS, — Left in a room
by himself for a few minutes.
Warden Robert Smith, 18-months
old, began chewing on the cord
of his mother's bridge lamp.
When the mother returned, the
baby was dead of electric shock.
BROUGHT Si,3d0.000
GIIT TO CHURCH
VATICAN CITY. — Cardinal
Mundelein of Chicago, wrho brot
a million dollars’ gift to the
church is enroute back to the
United States. Th money was
collected from Chicago Catholics
over an undetermined period.
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MElfcT ‘E.P.K. CHARLES DEE for whom Coach
Jimmy Conzelman of Washington University, St. Louis, has in
vented a football degree—”e?:tra point kicker.” Recently Dee.
seen booting one from Jack Gross, made 28 out of 30 attempts.
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