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THE NOME NUGGET
Published Every
MONDAY.
WEDNESDAY,
FRIDAY
VOL. 39.
No. 2.
NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday. Jan. 5, 1938.
Single Copy 25cts.
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RESIGNED JOB
Japanese Raided Chinese Air Base At Hangkow
Just. Sutherland
Retiring Jan. 18
Active Service
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5th
(&)—Justice George Sutherland
of the Supreme Court, notified
President Roosevelt that he would
retire from active service from
that Bench. January 18th. In his
letter to the President, he pointed
out that he was more than 75
year old, and had served fifteen
years on the Bench, and was elig
ible for retirement under the
Sumner’s Act.
Cave Old Age
As his Reason
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5,
UP)—The retirement of Justice
Sutherland from the Supreme1
^ Court gives President Roosevelt!
h'is second opportunity to make1
appointment to the court. The
first came when Justice Vande
Vanter retired last spring, and
Senator Black was named.
Sutherland refused to c^ram^nt
on his retirement, but friends of
his said that the action was bas-:
ed largely on account of his age,
and that there was no serious
ailment, but had reached the per
iod in life when he feels he can
hot do his full share of the Court
#ork, without too much strain,
and is not willing to remain on
the Bench when he feeds that he
cannot carry his full burden of
^ the work.
Justice Sutherland expects to
remain in Washington indefinite
ly and will be available for work
in lower federal courts, as chief
justices may be assigned. Form
er Supreme Court Justice Van
devanter is now serving as a New
York federal court jurist.
Justice Sutherland was bom
New Election Is
Urged: Results
Were Too Close
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 5—The Execu
tive Committee of the Deep Sea
Fishermen’s Union recommended
yesterday that a new election be
held and to name a secretary. A-s
the counting of ballots ended to
day was so close and several Al
aska ballots were held question
able, the committee said that the
Alaskan ballots could swing the
election either way; therefore it
was deemed advisable to call
another election.
Dan Arbuckle, was certified by
the committee as the winner in
the vote for Seattle Business
Agent, and Helge Peterson was
declared elected to a similar post
in Ketchikan.
Weather Today
(U S. Weather Bureau)
Low pressure of great intensity
centered in the Pacific Ocean a
bout 200 miles southwest of Kod
iak Island has caused rain a gift
snow from the Aleutians along
the entire coast to British Colum
bia. It has also caused cloudy &
much warmer weather over north
western Alaska. High pressure
overlies all of the interior of Can
ada and the west coast States
with fair and continued cold wea
ther predominating.
The highest Nome temperature
during the past twenty four hours
was 2 above and the lowest 24
below zero.
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on foreign soil of alien parents, at
Buckingham, England, 1862, and
came to this country when he
was 15 months old.
Long Range Plan
Develop Alaska
Is Submitted
i WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4
(/P)—Delegate Anthony J Dimond
of Alaska, said the National Re
source Committee have trans
mitted its longe range plan for
orderly development of the Ter
ritory. President Roosevelt's
committee was directed in a res
olution proposed by Del gate Di
mond to draft the proposed pro
gram “for the guidance of Con
i gress".
Delegate D'imond further said
I that the lan should be in the
hands of Congress within a cou
ple of weeks.
Warfare Goes
On In Streets
City of Teruel
; HENDAYE. Spain, Jan. 4, (/P)
—The beleaguered Insurgents &
the Spanish government troops
ifought at rifle ra’-ge through the
ice crusted streets of the city of
Teruel, in gu. rilla warfare, that
may determine the tide of the
civil confPct.
i Snow checked the mass offen
sives by two hundred thousand
! troops of the two armies which
I are on a front encircling Teruel.
A sleet stor.m grounded the air
planes, bogged motorized units in
■ the mountainous terrain.and with
in the city itself the crackle of
rlflt fire and fighting at c*lose
range continued.
Both sides claimed control of
the Provincial capital.
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# C H I N G r OR WARD TO TURN TIME BACK 150 years, these pioneers
of 1937 are re-enacting an expedition of 1787 when bay staters left Ipswich, Mass., to push west
ward to the Ohio country. Leaving the New England town December 1, they are due at Marietta, Ohio,
next spring. Taking the ro’es of colonists in the new trek are college men from far-flung sections of
the country, shown here clad in buckskins as they set out beside an ox-drawn covered wagon.
Services arc Held
fBv The Assoc;ated Press)
SEATTLE. Jan. 4. (/P)—Funer
al servic e were held for the late
Reboot W. Bender, lormerly con
nected with the Juneau Daily
Empire, Tuesday af'.ernoon and
was buried at Tacoma. His wi
dow. Mrs. Helen Bender, daugh
ter of Governor John W. Troy,
arrived hire Monday from Alas
ka to attend the funeral.
It wi!1! be recalled by readers
of the Nuc^et that he was found
dead in his room in a Tuscon
hotel, December 2dth, that it was
first thought he had fallen and
struck his head, but an autopsy
shownd that death was due to
natural causes.
rius is me nrsi group pnoiograpn to De made of tne united States Supreme Court since the appointment of Associate Justice Hugo
L. Black. Front row, left to rifht: Asso. Justices Sutherland, McReynolds, Chief Justice Hughes, Asso. Justices Brandeis, Butler.
Back Bow, left to right: Justices Cardozo, Stone, Roberts Black.
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Japan's Planes
Fly Deep Into
Interior China
SHANGHAI, Jan. 4, (^-Jap
anese warplanes struck far into
China’s interior, in a raid which
Japanese Navy spokesmen declar
ed, was intended to “crush Chi
na’s reorganized air force, consist
ing of a large number of Soviet
planes.’’
Forty Japanese bombers flew
the four hundred miles west of
their bases, near Shanghai, and
after delivering a crushing attack
on the Chinese airbase at Hang-j
kow, they returned without a1
single loss to the 40-plane fleet. |
A spokesman reported that the'
air offensive came just as the
Japanese and Chinese forces bat-1
tied, hand-to-hand, for the con
trol of the main railway' line whi
ch runs through the Province. I
Chinese asserted their casual- j
ties were five thousand in the
eight engagements along Tient- ’
sin, Pukow and Shantung lines,
and added that the Japanese loses
were likewise heavy in forays in
the northern Provinces.
Japanese bombers also attacked;
Hsuchow in Honan Province with
considerable military damage be
ing done.
JAPS HAVE TAKEN OVER
ALL CHINESE GOV’T FUNC
TION IN INT’NL. CITY
SHANGHAI, Jan. 5, <7P)_Jap
anese authorities announced that
they have taken over all Chinese
government functions in the In
ternational City of Shanghai and,
other territory, occupied by Jap
anese armies until conclusion of
Japans drive for dominance is,
completed. The censorship of
news dispatches is also expected, i
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Case is Returned
District Courts by
The Supre. Court
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4,
(/P)—The Supreme Court return
ed to the three-judge Federal
Court of California, litigation the
Roosevelt administration used as
a basis for advocating a change
in the method of valuing public
utilities rate making purposes.
This was postponed indefinitely
for a final ruling of the Admin
istration’s contentions as to a
“prudent investment" to be used
as a basis of valuation, reproduc
tion and cost need not be con
sidered in the litigation involved
in the order of the California
Railroad Commission, directing
the Pacific Gas and Electric Com
pany to reduce gas rates to the
amount of one million seven hun
dred thousand dollars per year.
The enforcement order was en
joined by the three-judge Federal
Court on the ground that “pro
per evidence and cost of repro
duction" was not considered. The
Supreme Court said the main is
sue as to whether the rates fixed
were confiscatory, the district
ourt didn’t determine the issue,
and Should do so.
AIRPLANE NEWS
Pilot Jeff rd of the Mirow Air
Service hopped off for Fox Bar
yesterday with A. G. Thcmmen
and Curly Ballinger as passen
gers, thence flew to Council, re
maining over night there, and re
turned to th. Nome base today.
Pilot Sig Wien who made a trip
to Council yesterday, i-, expected
to return to his Nome base, prob
ably tomorrow.
The Pacific Alaska Airways
mail plane is due to arrive Nome
Friday from Fairbanks.
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Baseball Doubleheader—School Gymnasium, 8 P. M. Wednesday, Jan. 5
Hammons vs. Federals—-Commercials vs. Alaskans Admission 50cts. and 25cts.