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Oldest Newspaper In Alaska. "The News of the Day In Pictures’' Member of The Associated Press. -- - 9/ _ _ DEVOTEDTOTHE BUILDING OF A BETTED NOME AND THE SECOND DIVISION. NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR B.ASE— ESPECI ALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY ' VIATION THE NOME DAILY NUGGET VOL. 38. No. 220 NOME. ALASKA. SATURDAY. July 24, 1937 Per Copy lOcta D Duce Talks of Reality and War DEPT. STORE STRIKES CALLED IN TACOMA Chicago 1st City To Ask Citizens Test For Syphilis Mussolini’s Newspapers Carry Ultra Modern Type Editorials Predicting Outcome Spanish War, Other Things (By The Associated Press) MILAN, July 24, — II Popolo D'ltalia, government mouthpiece for Benito Mussolini, the Italian Dictator, declared today: “Reality”, some day will overwhelm international “make believe.” Well informed sources said this reality was a war editorial attributed to Mussolini. Cited as one item were a group of ‘fictions —the belief that some day the war debis to the United Stat es would be paid. Another was the belief that \ alencia would be the real seat of the Spanish government. The editorial continued: “One day all their card castles will be overwhelmed by reality, which is time has had a single grave (unsubstitutable name.) The word “war” was not used throughout the editorial. Surcharge Air Mail In Alaska Bill is Approved (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, July 21, — Approval of the bill providing a surcharge for airmail carried in Alaska was approved today by the House Committee on Post offi ces and Postroads. The measure which was intro duced by Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, authorized the Postmast er General, in his discretion, to fix the postage on mails carried to or within Alaska at not to exceed 30 cents an ounce or 15 cents a half ounce. The Phyllis Beauty Shoppe has been moved from its former loca tion to a shop on the second story of the building occupied by the Polet Branch Store, and is again actively engaged in fulfilling the beauty requirements of Nomeites. Two Farmers Shot Bandits After Abducted (By Trie Associated Press' BOWELL, Oklahoma. July 22, — Fred Tindiol, escaped Texas convict was shot to death and his companion Pete Traxier was ser iously wounded by farmers they were holding as hostages while an automobile in which they were attempting to escape, was stalled with a flat tire. The farmers, Frank Trimmer and J. E. Benton, grabbed the guns from their captors and shot them. Traxier was shot above the right lung. The farmers brought the two convicts here. Natives of Northern Rhodesia make clothing from the bark of a tree .that is said to be as soft as a fluffy wool blanket and ex^ ceptionally strong and durable. Subscribe For The Nugget IT'S COMING, GiftLS. Parisian hair stylists permitted this week at the new low-necked hairdress. The roll at back turns under instead of over. The front is brought forward and curled in a hat movement, somewhat like bangs. i NEW SUBMARINE LAUNCHED The newest United States navy submarine, the Pompano, was launched recently at the Mare Island, Calif., navy yard. The submarine, one of •lx of similar design, is expected to be fully commissioned by August 13, (Associated Press Photo) i Negress Failed In Long Quest Find A Husband (Bv The Associated Press' NEW YORK, July 21, — George anna Lee, 'plump negress, who owns a restaurant and beauty parlor in Ketchikan, and who so! out a few months ago on a world tour to cure herself of an infer iority complex, and to get a tall, thin husband, is in New York with neither, after voyages to several European countries. But J she is having a pleasant time, and sfill owns her business in Ketch ikan. After a brief stay in New i York she will resume her globe jaunt with Russia and Australia her immediate prospective goals. Hopes to Find Gold When she concludes her globe wandering for a husband and a feeling of superiority, she looks ahead to opening some mining claims she owns in the North jland and hopes to find gold. Miss | Lee is 37 years old. She is a grad | uate of Wilberforce college in Ohio. She lived in Detroit and Chicago before going to Alaska five years ago. Doesn't Want Dumb Man “I’d like a man about 42 years old, tall and thin. He would have to have at least half as much ex perience as I've had. I don’t want a real dumb man, and he ought to have some money; not much though.” Miss Lee declared she had ad ) 1 >r . ishand without ft alts. One pi ic'n . r, S3 re?p mf .. id a young 2’ years old. Gets A New Plane (By The Associated Press 1 LONDON. July—A new plane with accomodations far ,-ix has been ordered for the royal fam ily. Members of the British royal family have used airplanes in creasingly, but the king and the queen have not been up s'oce their accession to the throne. May Succeed Frank Clarence A. Dykstra (above), city manager of Cincinnati, was re ported to have been agreed upon as successor to Dr. Glenn Frank as president of the University of Wis consin. (Associated Press Photo) - . » “* -t* ]!•*•"• r 4 , 3 & A HALF MILLION PEOPLE ASKED TAKE TESTS AT CHICAGO (By The Associated Press' CHICAGO, 111., July 24. — This city today asked its three and a half million residents to submit to free, voluntary secret blood test for syphilis. The govern ment has supplied two million franked envelopes with which reports may be mailed. It's action today marked Chicago as one of the very first cities in the nation to take up the fight against this disease, a battle which has recently come out into the open and is no longer hiding behind the prim counten ance qf politeness, but which is devoted to placing be fore the public intelligent arguments as to why it should fought, and how syphilis may be overcome. Pickets Prevent Department Stores Tacoma. W ashington From Opening As Clerks* Strike Spreads In Town (Bv Ti-.e Associated Pre^s TACOMA, July 24. —Pickets patrolled the city’s largest department stores which were closed by a clerk s' strike which spread rapidly. One store did not open Friday morning. More than seven hundred persons are out on strike. Rumors are circulating that groceries and other establishments will follow. The cause of the strike has not been announced. A working agreement expired at the end of June, although this is not believed to be at the eat of the trouble. M. J. Muckev, director of the Tacoma industrial conference hinted that the merchants were expected to be tied up for several weeks, maybe. SIEGE AGAIN IN FORCE MADRID (By The Associated Press MADRID. July 24. — Wth insurgent pressure on his hanks, General Miaja, western front salient was weakening today, with the government, however, still holding its two-weeks’ old position, despite five days of 'furious counter thrusts. General Franco’s army is said to have suffered i heavy losses in a desperate effort to hold the siege. At Hendaye, General Franco claimed ‘"a brilliant ] victory” on the western front when he insisted he had | won the counter drive to the Brunete sector, capturing guns and other war supplies. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS (By The Associated Press) TIENTSIN, China, July 24, — War tension in Nor th China was apparently eased today, though the influx of Japanese war supplies continues. Observers said that friction might renew the war like dispute in some places, despite the fact that China : has met the first Japanese condition of withdrawing her 37th division from the Peiping area. DECATR, Alabama, July 24, — The first Scotts | boro case, guilty plea, was entered today by Ozzie Pow ell, one of the nine negroes accused of raping two white i girls. He pleaded guilty of assault with intent to murder. ' Rape charge againt five of the defendants were dropped.