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VOL. 41. No.111. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY. SEPT. 23. 1938 Single Copy 25cta.
Worst Hurricane In Years Hits U.S.
Chamberlain Calls off Meeting With Hitler Tonight
Election Results Nome, Fairbanks, Juneau Divisions
Official And Chamberlain
Unofficial Votes Wants Assurance
Election Todate Europe’s Peace
URGE TO PURGE -
With the receipt of the unoffic
ial returns from Utica and Hay
cock. in the general election held
Tuesday, Sept. 13th. all precincts
have now reported. A week
from the receipt of the official
returns from all precincts, an
official count will be made of the
absentee ballots cast throughout
the Second Division.
Democratic candidates Howard
Lyng, Garnet Martin, Walter J.
Dowd and Wallace Porter are
definitely elected to the House of
Representatives.
RapubLcian candidate Leroy M.
Sullivan is now 24 votes in the
lead of democratic candidate Geo
Laiblin for Senator.
At present twenty-six Absentee
Ballots have been received by
the Clerk of the Court, aftd it
appears now that Laiblin cannot
overcome Sullivan’s lead with
perhaps only 26 votes left to,
count. . _ j
Following are the totals front'
all Precincts, official or unofficial
todate, including Utica and Hay
cock, the last two precincts to ar
rive, of the Second Division:
For Delegate—Dimond 750;
Grigsby 158; White 171.
For Treasurer—Chase 324; Ol
son 635.
For Senator—Laiblin 533: L.M.
Sullivan 557.
For Representatives
Anderson, ind. ..196
(Continued on Page Two)
GODESBERG, Sept. 23. {/P» -
British Premier Chamberlain
sent Sir Nevile Henderson, Am
bassador to Germany, across the
Rhine, to confer with Hitler’s
Lieutenant, Foreign Minister
Von Ribbentrop, but the two
principles suspended the Godes
berg Conference, and remained
apart.
The Envoys are to consult on
future negotiations which are to
assure peace in Europe. Hender
son said he didn’t know whether
the postponed meeting between
Chamberlain and Hitler would
occur tc night.
Negotiai ions t inued in a
state of t.nsc sc_*.ense half an
hour before he was to meet Hit
ler at the Hotel Dressen, which
are designated as the headquar
ters, whep Chamberlain sent a
letter calling off the meeting.
Authoritative sources said that
Chamberlain made up his mind
not to go any farther to appease
Germany and her Sudeten Ger
man friends until he was assur- j
ed that the German troops and
the Sudeten free-oorps, would i
keep the peace.
News, to the Free-Corps and
Czechoslovakia, was drawn • up ;
on war-like lines on the border
to give urgency to Chamberlain’s
Jetter.
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W An w A m e , "Carrying the Airplane,” delights scampering
Princess Yorinomiya (right), youngest daughter of Japan’s em
peror, who plays with other children at the Peeress’ school In
Tokyo. Chinese war inspired the new sport.
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BLESSING OF FDR., bestowed on senatorial nomine
tlon candidacy of Lawrence Camp (left), was accepted as a chal
lenge by Walter r. George (right), conservative New Deal1 foe and
Georgia's senior senator whose defeat was bluntly asked by tbe
President U Barnesville, Ga
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First Reports of
Dead-Damage
From Hurricane
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UNDATED, Sept. 22, (^P)—At
least 24.3 persons lay dead in the
twisted ruins of a Tropical hur
rican that sideswiped the North
Atlantic seaboard with devastat
ing force.
T’be loss from smashed homes
wrecked boats and crippled com
munication and transportation
lines, including other property
ran into the millions.
Fears increased as the death
toil mounted steadily as hun
dreds of persons remained unac
counted for. Both at sea and on
shore—fire and flood added to
the terror of thousands left home
less by the storm, which is con
sidered the worst that has hit the
Northeast Coast in the past cen
-tury.
The known dead by States fol
lows: Massachusetts 51; Connec
ticut 22; Rhode. Island 32; New
York 20: New Hampshire 7; New
Jersey 1.
After hours of silence concern
ing the fate of Cape Cod inhabit
ants, the U. S. Coast Guard re
ported that it had received word
that eight persons perished near
Buzzards Bay arid six others at
. or near Woods Hole.
Swilling up from the South the
hurrican swept in from the sea
late yesterday, smashing shipp*
ing and shore resorts with waves
lashed to tidal power, then roar-1
ed on into Canada.
The hundred miles per hour!
gale dealt its most tragic blows
along the islands of the fashion-j
able South shore, where at least
eighteen persons are dead and
one hundred missing. .!
- In the flood which hit Connec
ticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land,. it left its mark also on
New Cersey, Vermont, and New
iHampshire. The storm flooded
hundreds of miles of rich farm
lands, ripped out bridges, rail
roads and highways, demolished
buildings, sank boats, destroyed
lives, took and tore down tele
phone and light wires, and left.
9pores of communities isolated in
chaos Wd &**-•’"
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Prague Gov’t
Reorganizing Its
New Officials
PRAGUE. Sept. 22, f/b—Gen
eral Jan Syrovy, aged 50, inspec
tor general of the army, emerged
almost certain for president,
Benes, head of the new military
government, is replacing that of
Premier Hodga, resigned.
Syrovy emerged as the strong
man of the Republic after Hodza
stepped out in the face of rising
indignation over capitulation of
the angry French proposal to
cede Sudeteruland to Germany.
Kin» Islanders to
Vote, Home Rule
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sopt. 22
UP)—The Indian Bureau disclos
ed today that Secretary of the
Interior ijckes has approved of a
form of Charter which may be
used by the Kmg Island Eskimos
in establishing home rule on the
island. A vote on the Charter
is to be taken before October 15
with balloting on the mainland.
Second Reports
From Hurricane
Most Horrible
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UNDATED, Sept. 23. (A*)—!The
northeastern corner of the Unit- .
ed States counted nearly four
hundred and fifty dead as the
toll of Wednesday’s savage hur
ricane, while rescue workers
tackled the double task of succor
inig the living and raising bul
warks against new flood terrors.
In seven stricken states, dread
triokile reports seeping through
waits of silence, imposed by the
shattered communications sys
tems, swelled the roll of victims
until now the disaster stands as
the worst hurricane in the Un.t
ed States since 1928, when a
storm from the Carribean Sea
scourged the State of Florida
with a loss of two thousand lives.
Damage running high into the
millions is mounting under the
depredation of streams which
are spilling out of bounds by the
unceasing rains, even as rescue
workers rallied under the im
petus and dir ct orders from
President Roosevelt,which threw
all government agencies into the
fight against post.tourricaine men
aces from famine, and disease,
Rivers in New' England, New
York and New Jersey, inched to
wards the devastating peak of
1936 floods
The flood threat is partieularly
acute in Hartford, Conn., with
ten percent of the city’s twelve
.hundred acres already under
water.
Seward (jets Funds
For Fire System
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, (IP)—
The PWA approved the alloca
tion of a Seventeen thousand dol
lar loan, and thirteen thousand
nine naught nine dollars grint
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after tagging Bus Mills of the St. Louis Browns. This was In first of a doubleheader In New York. Yanks won, 7-3 and 10-5.