Oldest Newspaper In Alaska._-The News Of The Day In Pictured Memher of The Associated Press.
I N„„r. Weather For«a.,t. HPT TT? \TY^ \ /f T7 '\TT T I I
i Raina„"?“8ht ! ltlb JNUMl IN UvjuL 1 i wesay’ I
| Wanner | -
VOL 41 No 120 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY. October 14. 1938 Price per Copy During Queen Contest-10 cent*
Case German Spies In U.S. Now On
Husband Kills Wife’s Lover In Juneau After Scrap
Chinese Rushing Troops to Stem Japanese Advance
Going Hunting,
Stays Home and
Kills Adulterer
• -
i
JUNEAU, Alaska, Oct. 14, (IP)
—Forest B. Smith, an Alaska-j
Juneau painter, aged 44. was ar-;
raigned on a manslaughter char
ge after a Coroner’s jury found
that he shot Oliver Colling, 44,
a Seattle-Alaska ship’s steward, j
fatally, Wednesday. Bail was 9et
at ten thousand dollars.
Smith contended that he shot
in self defence when he found
his wife and Colling in a com- J
promising situation. He further |
said that he told his wife he was
going hunting, but hid in the
bouse until Cooling arrived.
Mrs. Smith recently made the
Toundtrip between here and Se
attle aboard the Colling ship.
The steward said he called to
show her how to make salad
dressing.
Marshal HelLan said he found
a letter that Mrs. Smith had
written Colling, telling him that
her husband had gone hunting
and for him to come as soon as
he could.
Smith said he did not intend
to kill Colling's. but the latter
came at him like a “rruad foot
ball player”, and as Cooling seiz
ed him he fired a 22 calibre pis
tol, after which Colling bled to
death.
Mrs. Smith said calmly, that
she was the former Thelma Arch
amibault of Seattle, and was wed
to Smith five years ago, and has
a daughter 18 months old.
Colling’s is survived by a wid
ow and a daughter aged 13, who
are trying to raise funds for a
suitable burial.
1
Reinforcements
Near Hong Kong
Nearing Battle
HONGKONG, Oct. 14, —Heavy
Chinese reinforcements rushed
from the East River district to
the Bias Bay area near here
with indications they might soon
come to grips with a large Jap
anese expeditionary force.
The roads from Waichow, 80
miles east of Canton, garrison for
the city, and nearest Bias bay,
were choked with commandeer
ed red trucks and busses filled
with Chinese soldiers.
Waichow is believed to be one
of the first objectives of the Jap
anese contingent, an estimated
number of more than thirty-five
thousand troops, which landed
yesterday at Bias Bay, which is
connected with the south China
metropolis of Canton by a good
highway.
The Japanese appeared to be
pushing steadily inland towards
Tamshui, a town ten miles from
the coast. From there the invad- j
ers have twenty-five miles to go
across comparatively flat count
ry to reach the vital Kowloon
Canton railway, at a point about
thirty miles from the Hongkong
Iron tier.
FEDERATED CHURCH
Rev. Vincent Widney, pastor.
(Services for Sunday Oct. 16)
Church school, 11 o'clock.
Worship service, 7:45.
Every one cordially invited to
attend all our services.
Native Methodist Church
Service, 5 P. M.
*MNCH MANIIUVIKI 8wU< hlnl„ ,
have placed Iheir artillery not too far distant from tu<* 1 ,
German border and the German fortifications at Held, oiv^i
Strasbourg, France, so recently inspected by Hitler. I
1
(Getting Training
How To Defend
Themselves
FORT BRAGG, O*. 14, VP)—
' ne million Americans received
their first lesson last night in
how to defend themselves again
st hostile bombing airplanes.
The residents of approximately
15,000 square miles, including
sixty-seven towns in 21 eastern
North Carolina counties turned
oil their home, factory and store
lights as the big Army flying
fortresses and accompanying
planes flew at high altitude to
ward Fort Bragg.
Commanding officers said the
greatest difficulty of ground for
ces was caused by automobiles
on highways. They said the pil
ots could follow a stream of
headlights to where there was
all darkness, indicating blacked
out towns.
Kig Attendance
Took in Showing
Of ‘"Scoundrel”
i
And so “Scoundrel” has be
come a memory—but what a hap
py one for the large audience
that witnessed .the play last night
at the Federated Church. For a
I few brief moments the spectators
| were transported to a beautiful
rocky glen in the land of Fancy,
where they witnessed the strik
ingly human activities of the
characters who were really not
human at all. The glen was in
habited by such whimsical spirits
as Jir and Pir who amused the :
audience with their puns and
friendly banter. There too, were
Wings and Blossom, very much
in love with Jir and Pir. But
Jir and Pir did not want Wings
and Blossom for they were both
in love with Arian. But it turn-1
ed out that Arian was in love
with Gardner,
The audience was no doubt
surprised to discover that among
such quaint unhuman creatures I
there could be any such human
faults as scandal and gossip. But
alas! It was too true. Euphon
ious. their pet bird had disap
peared. Jir, Pir, Blossom at
once jumped at the conclusion
that the bird was stolen. But1
who stole the bird? Why, of
course, it must have been Gard- i
ner. And so the innocent Gard
ner, lover of flowers, so gentle
and sensitive to beauty, became
to them a Scoundrel. (Ah, how
tragic that these delightful crea
tures should possess the faults of!
mere people).
It remained for Arian to strai
ghten everything out by showing
that the Scoundrel was not Gard
ner but a creation of their own
imaginations (just like scandals
in the human world). The play
ended happily when Arian’s love 1
for Gardner was revealed.
Lest anyone think that the pro
pram was too brief, let it be re- i
mormbered that a great deal of
beauty can be packed into a lit-!
tie time. One cannot always
measure value by the number of
minutes. However, the evening
i rial New York
German Spies Is
Going Ahead
NEW YORK. October 14,
In the trial now on in New York
in connection with German spies
and their activities in the United
States, the jury composed of 10
men and two women was chosen
in an hour and a halif. Judge
Knox told the veniremen that
they should exercise the “same
fair judgment for the defendants
as for Americans. Other people
may become excited, but jurors’
must remain detached.
Oo-deferdants are: Johanna
Hoffman, ; J 20. a former hair
dresser on the liner Europa;
Otto Herman Voss, aged 36,
naturalized Gc an, formerly
employed in the S.versky plant;
Eric Glaser, aged 28, another
naturalized German and former
U. S. Army private, attached to
Mitchell Field, aviation division.
Pacific Alaska Airways
The PAA Electra arrived at
11 a.m. today. Pilots Stewart
and Meyering, with 200 pounds
of mall matter and no incoming
passenger's.
The plane took off for Fair
banks at 1:30 p.m.with 65 pounds
of outgoing mail and the follow
ing passengers:
Mr. and Mrs. M. Bird
Anthony E. Karnes
A. Tetrault
Jack Kelly
Harry Gavin
Proof of Labor Blanks can row
be had at the ITrme Nugget office.
was briefer than the Drama Club
had planned. At a very late
hour it was discovered that both
of the musicians who had been
invited to participate were un
able to perform due to physical
disability. This handicap was
largely overcome, nevertheless,
by the splendid quality of the
humerous readings done by Mrs.
Clara Johnson.
The Drama Club desires to
thank the public for their patron
age, and all who cooperated to
make the evening a success. Par
ticular credit is due the cast and
their coach, Mrs. Shirlie Forres
ter.
TO THIS SHIP England's Elizabeth has lent her royal
name, and when the “Queen Elizabeth” Ls christened at Clyde
bank the wife of King George will preside. The Elizabeth la
1,030 feet long—10 feet longer than the Queen Mary. She'll hav«
11 decks, gross tonnage of 85.000.
.v
Is To Investigate
RUSTON, La., Oct. 14th, (&)—
District Judge E. L. Walker said
he would call a special grand
jury session to investigate into
the lynching yesterday of R. C.
Williams, aged 19. a Negro.
A mob of several hundred men
caught the Negro and marched
him to the spot, where they said
he killed R.M. Blair, aged thirty,
a Jonesboro papermill foreman,
Tuesday, and slugged his woman
companion. The mob hanged
the Negro’s body from a tree be
fore riddling his body with bul
lets.
MEN FIND THEY WOOED
SAME GIRL BACK IN *8*
SOUTH GATE, Calif, OcUJP)—.
An accidental meeting on a park:
bench revealed to J. R Smith,
68, and Allan G. McGee, 70, that
they had wooed and lost the
same girl 50 years ago.
The two men recalled that each
had proposed to the same girl iiv
Odessa. Mo., in 1888. She turned
a deaf ear to Smith’s marriage
proposal and later broke her en->
gagament to McGee just before
they were to be married.
Subscribe for tbc Nugget
| RAIN ON THE RANGE couldn’t keep Betty Jane Moore of El Paso, Te«... from firing a few
rounds at Camp Perry, Ohio, where the small arms firing school has been in progress. She's the '
daughter of Jack Moore, captain of the Texas civilian team and an expert shot; Miss Moore iterse»f
__took third last year in sitting and kneeling division of junior matches. 1