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FRIDAY, NOV. 25, 1938. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOV. 25, 1938. Price per copy 1W
Blizzards In States Take 34 Lives
Pope Pius Stricken With Another Heart Attack
, Poland Warned Against Invasion Czechoslovakia
IT’S A CAMPAIGN YEAR, and that “Grade A”
smacker Georse D. O’Brien, jr., of Detroit sot from Speaker Wil
iam H. Bankhead previews what the latS's crop of kisses may be.
Poland Massing
Troops Border
Czechoslovakia
.
PARIS, Nov. 25 (TP)—The Pre-1
miers of France and Britain,
warned Poland against the invad
ing of Czechoslovakia’s eastern
territory. Their alarm was caus
ed by reports from their ambassa
dors to Poland. Chamberlain
and Daladier instructed their
representatives in Warsaw to
caution the Polish government j
against “the danger of such ac
tion,” because France and Eng
land along with Germany and It
aly had agreed in the Munich
Pact to gaurantee the new front
iers. The reports contained the
information that Poland had
massed twelve divisions of
troops along the frontier of Ruth
enia and Czechoslovakia, and
sending heavy reinforcements to
the eastern provinces.
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NEWS ITEMS
Bill Schroeder, better known
as “'Cayuse Bill" is another re
turning Nomeite in several days,
from the upper Kougarok, where
he has been employed since last
April by the Keenan interests.
Bill is on his way to the great
outside to spend the remainder
of the winter expecting to re
turn to his old stamping grounds
early in the spring.
Joe Crabtree, old time Nome
mining man and of late years lo
cated at Bluff, came up to town
several days ago for a short vis
it before leaving for the States
on a two months vacation. Joe
and partner Mort Sullivan mined
on Daniels Creek during the past
summer with very' satisfactory
results. Joe reports that the Joe
Sullivan mining operation thru
the ice off the Bluff beach will
begin next February with both
himself and Mort lending a hand
until the breakup after which
they will rasume their own min
ing activities on Daniels Creek.
THEY'RE REAL, but even a photographer's visit didn’t
disturb these sleeping flamingos at Vienna zoo. ]
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34 Dead In
Worst Storms
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In Years
UNDATED, Nov. 25 UP)—Forty
mile winds piling up snow and
sleet over an area already ser
iously crippled by the worst
Thanksgiving storm in years
threatened additional distress
for transportation facilities in
many parts of the nation. Icy
winds struck sections of the
north Atlantic coast soon after
midnight last night, accompanied
by severe freakish thunder and
lightening disturbances in New
York and New Jersey. The Coast
Guard said sections of Long Is
land were battered by high seas
but no serious damage to ship-.
ping was reported.
At least thirty four deaths
were attributed to the winter’s
first real onslaught. In most sec
tions of New England, they re
ported the highest holiday death
toll with ten auto fatalities. Icy
highways accounted for five of
the deaths. In South Ohio, four
were reported dead from traffic
accidents; Pennsylvania, three.
New York reported five storm
deaths. Michigan and Indiana,
two each. While Nebraska, Miss
ouri, and Maryland counted one
each.
Mirow Air
Service Builds
New Hangar
In an interview with Pilot
Manager Hans Mirow of the Mi
row Air Service of Nome, the
following interesting story was
obtained in connection with the
construction of a large and mod
ern airport hangar at the Nome
airport.
Starting about two weeks be
fore the last boat arrived in
Nome this fall the Alaska Road
Commission hauled 445 loads of
dirt and gravel, to fill in the sel
ected site of the Mirow Air Ser
vice Hangar. Working for two1
days, with three trucks and a :
shovel, the work was finished in;
fine shape, and Joe Skorik took I
a contract for the laying of the
foundation.
In order to prevent any settl
ing, the pilings were placed eight
feet into the permanent frost,
and extending through the fill,
up to one foot in order to raise
the base of the building above
the surrounding terrain.
Immediately upon arrival of
the boat, work was begun, haul
ing the lumber and material out :
to the airport. Under the able
supervision of Elmer Anderson.)
construction engineer, the build- j
ing rapidly took fonn. As it is a
"Patent” hangar, able to with-1
stand a gale over sixty miles per
hour, no time was lost in fitting
the beams .together, although
there was a slight error in man
ufacture. The base foundations
and walls having been placed,
the Lomen Commercial Co. crane
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Pope Pius Is
Suffering From
Heart Attack
VATICAN CITY, Rome, Nov.
25 '(A'i Pope Pius suffered a
heart attack this morning, and a
trustworthy Vatican informant
said he was placed in an oxygen
tent. The Vatican announced of
ficially that his condition was im
proving this afternoon.
The Pontiff, aged eighty one,
was stricken suddenly as he was
about to leave his private apart
ment for the official ante-cham
ber on his daily round of private
audiences T ie Vatican medical
bulletin described his illness as
cardiac asthma. Another inform
ant said that it th^ inflammation
of the muscular ; t of the heart
wall.
The Pope’s sister, Donna Camil
la Ratti was informed of the at
tack and hurried to the Vatican
where, she handed attendants a
letter to her brother.
U. S. Navigation Board Acts
Against Skipper Who Donned
Garments As Ship Grounded
SEATTLE — Captain Andrew
Borkland of the S, S North
Coast sleeps in his underwear.
That’s w'hy it took him nine
minutes to get up on the bridge
when his ship wrent aground in a
fog near Cape Mudge off Van
couver Island on October 8, he
testified before the Investigating
Board of the United States Bur
eau of Marine Inspection and
Navigation.
“At times,’’ Captain Borkland
said, “I have come out in my
underwear, but that isn’t very
nice in front of passengers."
Captain William Fisher, chief
of the examining board, thought
that whether the master of the
ship sleipt in his pajamas, in a
nightgown, or in his underwear,
nine minutes was a “pretty long"
time to dress and get on the
bridge when his ship is in dan
ger.
The board preferred charges
of “negligence and inattention of
duties” against Captain Borkland
and Pilot O. E. Monaas.
POPE PIUS XI
5 Million Dollar
Fii •e Razes Santa
Monica Hills’
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 25 [&)— I
Damage estimates climbed to
ward the five million dollar
mark as thousands of exhausted
fire fighters apparently neared
'success in the two day battle
against brush ani timber blazes
in four counties, two of them
among the most disastrous in
southern California history.
Although scores were treated
for burns, no deaths were direct
ly attributed to the canflagra
tions. Watersheds. some three
hundred cabins, homes, a resort
hotel, and scores of stores lay
in waste in the Santa Monica
Mountains, bordering the Pacific
to the west San Bernardino
Mountains. i
The highly developed recrea
tional area *o the east and other
fires in Ventura and Santa Bar
bara counties caused ess serious
damage. The estimated damage
to improved property ran to near
the two million dollar mark. The
chief item of which ls the burn
ing of Arrowhead Springs above
the San Bernardino Spa, noted as
a favorite rest spot for film celeb
rities.
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CRUMBLINC OF CHINESE DEFENSES NEAR HANKOW shattered the
peace of Chinese Gen. Chian* Kai-Shek and his American-educated wife. They’ve fled Hankow.