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VOL. 41. NO. 124. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, Oct. 24, 1938. Price per copy is*
Fire Destroys Railroad Warehouses at Anchorage
Last Boat of Season to Arrive I%me Tomorrow
LEADER Fritz Kuhn heated
ly told Andover, N. J„ audience
“Bund will continue fight until
America is controlled by Amer
icans and not by . . . Russian
controlled Jews.”
Fire Lake Union
SEATTLE, Oct. 22 (/P)—A spec
tacular twenty five thousand dol
lar fire destroyed the Victor
Franck Boat Company on Lake
Union and swept through the ad
joining Edison Vocational School
and boat shop. Several boats
were burned and two firemen in
jured. Mrs. M. D. Stewart and
her two children were trapped
aboard a cruiser but she grabbed
them and pLunged into the water
■and was picked up later.
Be sure to leave your address
and subscription for The Nome
Nugget to be forwarded to you
this winter, so you can keep in
touch with the mining and soc
ial activities of Nome and out
lying sections.
Oil heater for sale. Good con
dition. See Leroy M. Sullivan.
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Japanese Bomb
Brit. Ship, Hold
US Dollar Liner
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SHANGHAI. Oct. 24 (/P)—The
Japanese aerial bombing of the
British warship Sandpiper, and a
customs dispute over an Ameri
can passenger liner added two
new incidents in the long list of
! international complications in
j the China war.
Bombs from six Japanese plan-]
I es fell about and damaged the;
| superstructure of the Sandpiper,)
British gunboat anchored at
| Chaengsha, about two hundred !
' miles southwest of Hankow.
There were no casualties.
British naval officials vigorous
! ly protested the bombing of the
] Sandpiper.
The customs dispute arose over
Japanese refusal to clear the
Dollar Liner President Coolidge
early this morning for Sam Fran
cisco, with a cargo of silver val
ued at more than four million
dollars, which the Japanese spon
sored government apparently
considered its own property. The
Dollar Line agreed to unload the
silver whereupon permission
was granted for them to sail on
Tuesday.
Japanese planes bombed Han
kow rail centers all day Sunday,
1 and today's twenty miie advance
j brought Japanese naval forces to
| within twenty air miles from the
i Chinese capitol. A small force of
i the Japanese captors of Canton,
j strove with dynamite to fight the
j fires which are sweeping the city,
i Canton dispatches said that thiev
j es were looting shops and thou
sands of Chinese fled the city.
MOTORSHIP PANDORA
TOWED TO SEATTLE
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SEATTLE, Oct. — The Coast!
! Guard Cutter Cyane is towing
the motorship Pandora to Seat-j
tie after the motor of the ship i
i failed.
The Liner North Coast was re-j
j floated with slight damage and
it is believed that the vessel will:
| proceed North.
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PAPA'S IRE hasn't erased
coronet from luggage of Valeria
Brooke Gregory whose father.
vritish Rajah of Sarawak, says
she is no longer "Princess Baba.”
That’s Bob Gregory, Baba's
wrestler-husband, under the
trunk at Hollywood.
Hankow Fall Soon
SHANGHAI, Oct. 22 {/P>—Jap
anese commanders said that the
fall of Hankow was imminent.
The Chinese are retreating. A
mass bombing of Hankow shat
tered the last of the Chinese re
sistance. Tt was foreseen and for
eign shipping was warned to get
out of the way.
The United States gunboats
Guam and Luzon are still at
Hankow. Canton is now complete
ly occupied. Chinese officials and
their families were ordered to
leave Hankow.
I Nome Fair
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Attended by
Big Crowd
The curtain has rung down on
the 5th Annual N. W. Alaska
Fair and one more very success
ful exposition of the cultural, in
dustrial and economic life of
Northwestern Alaska mas past
into history.
Hundreds of people thronged
the Fair building Thursday ar.d
Friday viewing the many booths
crowded with exhibits, enjoying
home movies, winding up both
evenings with dancing and light
i refreshments.
To all Division Superintend
: ents and others who gave so un
selfishly of their ' n; and effort
to make this Fair .-> i outstanding
ly successful, the Fair Associa
tion extends their heart-felt
thanks. Special mention and
thanks are also here given to
i Miss Anna Rylander and to Mr.
Larry Worth who took over the
booths of Mrs. Lars Rynning and
Mr. Aben Schallit respectively,
! when these latter two had to un
dergo emergency operations.
All Fair festivities were trans
ferred Saturday evening to the
large High School Auditorium
where, under the expert direc
tion of Mrs. Neva Whaley a
splendid amateur entertainment
consisting of seven excellent acts
entertained the large crowd until
dancing began at 10 o’clock.
Saturday evening’s program
was as follows: presentation of
Children’s Parade awards by
Queen Ruby. Address of Wel
come by Fair President A. Polet.
Act 1, songs by Eineer Ulrick
son accompanied by Mrs. J. Stan
groom. Act 2, monologue by Miss
Georgia Slack. Act 3, selections
on the piano accordian by Carl
Hansen. Act 4, Musical skit by
.George Madsen and Jack Jefford,
Act 5, humerous reading by
; Clara Johnson. Act 0. slight of
hand act by Ray Dailey. Military
dance by Kathleen Walsh and
Johnnie Hay. Swanee dance by a
group. Tap dance by Kathleen
Walsh. The Cowboy from Brook
lyn by Brownie Whaley. Tarzan
and her mate by Elizabeth Rude
and Johnnie Hay. Tarantella by
Mary Margaret Rauoll and Kath
leen Walsh. Let Yourself Go by
Dorothy Nelson and Geraldine
Wourenin. Acrobatic dance by
Helen Hartford, and the final
number of group of acrobatics.
Sourdoughs Meet
In Oakland 1939
The International Sourdoughs’
Reunion will be held at Oakland
in 1939 it was announced today
by William F. Rechel, chairman
I of the convention committee of
| the Oakland Chamber of Com
j merce. ,
i The reunion, to bring 150® del
egates from the United States ,
and Canada, will be observed in \
an Alaskan Day at the Golden i
Gate International Exposition.
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vance for your subscription
Alaska Railroad
Has Warehouse
1 ire Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 24 </Pj —
An ail-night fire was controlled
today ifter Colonel Ohlson es
timated that two hundred thou
sand dollars worth of damage
was done to a railroad ware
house, cold storage commissary
and contents, including a large
Thanksgiving Turkey shipment
and much canned goods. It is
said the fire started in a work
car between the main shops and
the warehouses and spread rapid
ly. Four firemen were overcome
by smoke, one badly burning his
hands.
A steam shovel is turning over
the burned debris today as Col.
Ohlson and his aides take an in
ventory. Firemen are still play
ing hoses on the embers.
Rail operation would not be
affected. Ohlson said that a con
gressional appropriation would
be asked to cover the loss, and
in the meanwhile the road would
use the Matanuska Colony cold
storage.
New Trade Routes
To Be Surveyed
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WASHINGTON, Oct. — The
Coast and Geodedic Survey has
received bids for construction of
a new ship for survey purposes
in the Aleutian Islands.
Officials said the survey may
open up a new trade route to the
Orient and assist defense plans
in the Aleutians,
The Commercial Iron Works of
Portland. Ore, and the Lake
Washington Shipyards of Hough
ton, Washington, are tied with a
low bid of $892,000. The ship will
be 198 feet long and of steel con
struction.
Officials said the only charts of
the Aleutians are outdated Rus
sian maps not sufficiently reli
able to permit commercial ves
sels to travel to Japan.
FOR SALE—Two room house.
Completely furnished. Inquire
at Nugget Office for information
ONCE AUSTRIAN but
now British, newly-naturalized
Baron Georg Franckenstein
>'•• > has been knighted by
King George of England. The
baron, who was Austrian minis
ter to London before the Nazi
annexation, lias become a British
subject.
General Motors
Reliiring 35,000
Its Employees
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i HYDE PARK. Oct. 22 (/P) —
President Roosevelt saw' recov
ery for business hailed in an of
ficial report of a general disposi
tion. To comply with the Feder
al wage hour law, General Mot
ors is rehiring thirty-five thou
sand of its employees. That, and
an Interior Department report
showing a gain of two hundred
fifty percent in the number of
visitors in National Parks were
regarded as good signs _ _
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CAME RA - CONSCIOUS James Beasley (left) sits with
mother, the former Mrs. Mercer Beasley, and her husband, Frankie
Parker, 22, tennis ace, at Spring Lake, N. J., tourney. Mercer
Beasley was Parker’s tennis coach and benefactor.
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FIT FOR A KING engineers pronounced above engine, stream-lined French style, which
will be used to haul England’s King George to Paris, when he makes state visit.