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VOLUME XIX. ^NO. 70. j NOME, ALASKA FRIDAY OCTOBER 10. 1919. TELEPHONE MAIN m
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RED SOX WIN WORLD SERIES
GOV’T TO TRY ALASKA WINTER PLANE RIGHTS
emCINMATI WINS WORLD SERIES RY
CAPTURI0I6 EIGHTH GAME FROM SOX
Special to Tl.e 3'Iome Nugget by Tlie Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Oct. 9—The twin victories of the White Sox have caused the
wildest elation among Chicago baseball fans and a. record attendance is ex
pected when the teams clash in the eighth ganue oa the local field today. Odds
ere even on today's game, with money plentiful on l>oth sides. The weather
is cloudy today for the first time since tlie world series games commenced hero.
CINCINNATI WINS IN BRILLIANT CONTEST.
CHICAGO. Oct. 9—In one of the most sensational games of the 191')
world series at Comiskey Park tdday, the Cincinnati Pc i's won the world’s
baseball championship.after beating the White Sox two to one.
The final score was Cincinnati 10; Chicago T». ’ •
The Red’s knocked* Williams and .James, the two Chicago pitchers,
from the box one after another, rolling up a load early in the game which the
White Sox were unable to overcome during the remaining innings Chicago
staged a brilliant rally in the eighth inning by hitting Kller hard and rounded
up four runs, with the assistance of Neale, the Cincinnati rigid fielder, wh >
lost the ball in the sun and allowed several of the Chicago runs.
The Red’s scored four in the first inning, one in the second, one in
the fifth, three irt the sixth and one in the eighth. Chicago failed to land a
run tirA.il tho third time at hat hut wus rl*tired after landing one. In the f<>uiJ
succeeding innings the White Sox were retired scoreless hut gained an addi
tional four runs in the eighth by desperate stick work in which Rller was hit
four times almost in succession.
Both teams played brilliant ball and there were few dull moments dur
ing the contest. The game lasted two hours and twenty seven minutes, the
longest of the series.
Butteries—Red's. Rller, Rarlden. White Sox—Williams, .lames, Wil
kinson, Schalk.
SUMMARY
CINCINNATI—10 runs. 1C lilts 2 errors.
CHICAGO— 5 runs. 10 hits. 1 error.
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GOVERNMENT CONTEMPLATING ESTABLISHMENT
-OF ALASKA AIR ROGTES; TESTS THIS WINTER
Special to the Nome Nugget hy The Associated Press:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10—That’' the* government intends to conduct a
series of winter aeroplane flights for the pu*>osc of testing the possibilities of
establishing permanent aerial routes in Alaska was the prominent feature of
a statement made to the Military Committee of the House by Itrigadier General
Mitchell, of the army air service, today.
General Mitchell told the committee that the War DeiKkrtmcnt is plan
ning a three days flight to Alaska across Canada during the coming winter for
the purpose of testing out the possibilities of winter aerial communication in
»• the northern territory and also to prove the feasibility of later establishing
aerial communication with Europe via Asia.
Mitchell said if the contemplated cold weather flying provecj successful,
the department plans to establish a regular air route to Alaska. loiter on
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Inc department contemplates extending the Vlaska route to Asia, probably
{•cross.Bering Straits, thereby laying a direct line of communication across
Ajaska.
fjencrai Mitchell informed the committee that the navy department is
also prtfparing to assist the proposal and is already building a large number
of aeroplane motors of the Liberty type, some of which will be used in con
structing planes for the Alaska route if the contemplated tests prove satis
factory, The committee was also informed that the War Department intends
to build two hundred Martin bombing planes for the army and also an c«nia!
number of experimental pursuit planes.
PLACER LOCATION NOT CES
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RUSSIANS ASKED
. WITHDRAW FORCES
EDOM VLADIVOSTOK
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Special to the Nome Nugget by The Associated Prens:
OMSK, Siberia, Oct. 10-r-Advices have been received by the Omsl
government stating that the Allies recently requested the Russian forces li
Vladivostok to withdraw from the city after a Russian officer shot and kllloc
an American soldier attached to the American forces stationed In the chy.
An official statement has been issued by the Omsk government detailiiq
the action pf the Allies and declaring that the Russians are remaining ir
Vladivostok as a result of a vigorous protest mode by the Omsk government.
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WESTERN FLYER
REACHES ILLINOIS
BpecAal to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
ROCK ISLAND, Oct. 10—Lieutenant E. C. KeJI, the Army avlatloi
uervlce, who le one of the western entrants in the American Plying Club*
Uanscontlnsntal air race, arrived here today flying eastward. ^
Aviator ftaklttv, who was reported at Salt lake eady yesterday, is ala
believed lo be seiitiewhere in this locality. Owing to the absence\of Informa
||dn regarding Smith, It is uncertain if he or Kiel is ahead in the race.
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M’PHERSON TALKS
ON ALASKA’S FUTURE
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I'peclal to Ti e Nugget by The Associated Press.
\ S TATTLE, Oct. 10—.1 I, McPherson, manager of the Alaska Bureau of
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the man generally conceded t » have
been primarily responsible for tho passage of the seventeen millron dollar
appropriation for tho completion of the Alaska government railroad, expec.tfl
in return to Washington soon to report to the Interior Department i.n the
light made to send the railroad bill through the House Appropriation committee.
9 McJ’herson was the guest of honor at a luncheon given by S*.,itle
business men yesterday* and prophesied an Immense future develops ri in
both Alaska an<l Seattle when , the government railroad is completed and in
• active operation.
Mr. McPherson said Seattle will rival New York when Alaska Is fully
developed and settled. Alaska, he declared, is larger than the combined
Scandinavian countries and will become tho source of immense wealth produc
• tlon and the home of millions of people, as its potentialities are* far greater
than the Scandinavian lands.
Discussing the .railroad appropriation, McPherson said Senator’s Jones
and Poindexter were the most influential instruments In securing Its enactment
and both worked hard on .the bill during its progress through congress.
GERMAN FOOD DEFICIT S»/2 MILLION TONS
i Special to The Nugget by ‘The Associated Press.
BERLIN, (By Mail)—.The German deficit in food, the difference he-'
• ween the amount produced in Gepnany and Germany’s normal needs, amounts
to 3,000,000 tons of. wheat, one million tons of meat and one million tons of
fats, says the Imperial Food Ministry.
Immediate 'payment for these necessary foodstuffs with inland re
sources is unthinkable, the Ministry assert*. Only long term credits can lu-lp
; and thp acceptance of such credit* is only tpOHsible if'Germany works, for only
, then ran the creditors have confidence iiv p^Ying* ability of-Germany. Im
mediate decisive effect of the removal of ’thp blockade on the German food
, »e ket Is not expected by the Ministry but rather a long slow continuation
‘ kt improvement which already make* itself felt. It declare* Jhat control
Of export must remain until the. average botweeh, import and export has been
estnVH^hed. Germany must make up ftspdnd to do without coffee very
Krgely in the future, say* the Imperial 'GAmmltifalonei- for colonial goods.
Authorities say. Germany must sharply, restrict her Imports of chocolate be
btusi of tho low value of tho mark and must try to rely on her own choco
la‘v the first production of which ie expected soon.
CAPITAL GROUP
OPPOSING METHODS
OFJNION LABOR
Ppecl.'il to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Press,
PRES. WILSON STILL
CONFINED TO ROOM
Special to The Nome Ntiggct l»v The Associated P/ese.
WASIIINCiTOX. O. i. I" I- aring that undue exertion i.
his steady progress toward recovery. President Wilson's i. y.-i
Dr. ti ray son. states that Mi Wilson's vendition is itnu ..\mg r..pillv
and lie will soon he able to resume- Ids duties, providin'. . . :,,,-ks ... ur,
day?1 and is rapidl.v regaining his former vigor.
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