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NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE—ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY STATION
THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL 38 No. 257 NOME. ALASKA. THURSDAY AUG. 26 1937 Per Copy 10ct»
Is Preparing To Fly Back to States
WQUNDINCToF AMBASSADOR IS SERIOUS
World Ffight Through Nome Postponed To 1938
BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO
CHINA SERIOUSLY HURT
SHELLS JAP WAR PLANES
Situation becomes more tense with wounding British
official. Japanese consider American and
British efforts little importance
(By The Associated Press'
SHANGHAI, Aug.26—The Siao
Japanese situation took a grave
international turn when Sir
Hugh KnatchbuJl Hugess, British
Ambassador to China, was seri
ously wounded by an attack from
Japanese warplanes. The auto
mobile in which the Ambassador
was riding from Nanking to
Shanghai he was seriously woun
ded by spraying machine gun
bullets, and was rushed to Shan
ghai for hospital treatment.
Earlier the Japanese naval au
thorities threatened to include
American and other foreign ship
ping in an eight hundred mile
blockade which has been estab
lished along China’s coast to bol
ster their hard pressed attack of
land forces in a drive against
Shanghai.
In Tokyo, Premier Fumimaro
declared Japan considered the
British and American efforts to
halt fighting in the Shanghai area
as of little importance.
PEIPING, Aug. 24—Intermitt
ent rifle and machine gun fire
accompanied by some bombing
and artillery Are was audible
within a close radius north and
southwest of Peiping today, in
dicating guerrilla warfare has
developed in the vicinity of Pei
ping. Chinese sources believed
the Chinese participating in the
fighting included the 29th Route
Army the Tungchow Peace Pre
servation Forces and volunteers
who have been quietly organiz
ing during recent weeks.
Heavy Guns Rain
Shells On Madrid
< Rv The A donated Press'
HENDAYE, Franco—Spanish
Frontier, Aug. 26th—Insurgent
siege guns across the Manzanares
River, rained death and destruc
tion into war torn Madrid today
while simultaneously at least 3
Nationalist columns were converg
mg toward Santander in the Nor
them Front.
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CHINESE PUZZLER. Grim-faced Generalissimo Chiang Kal
■hek, for many months known to be training troops and buying war
planes for his “new China,” was the International puzzle in the
Slno-Japaneae crisis. The “iron man” still may be unwilling to battle
Japan.
FLIER NOW AT FAIRBANKS—PLANS ON LEAVING FOR THE STATES
Current Comments
Written From
Washington
(Special Nugget Service)
At this writing, the Senate is
slated to receive from its Judic
iary Committee a program for
court reform through constitu
tional amendment, which, its
sponsors predictf will win the ap
proval thus far denied the Logan
substitute bill which kept the
Senate in a dither last week. The
death of Senator Robinson will
deprive the Administration bill
of one strong supporter. Many
will believe that the fight he
made on behalf of the measure,
in the midst of mid-summer heat,
contributed to his death.
Harsh things were said about
the Logan bill when trustful sen
ators discovered they were being
beguiled by the Administration’s
sugar-coated pill, which camou
flaged the same old bitter medi
cine underneath. Efforts to check
a filibuster by the opposition
have had recourse to the Senate
rule book, allowing a Senator to
speak only twice in one day on
a given subject, and making a
“legislative day” just “one day"
though it may run over a long
list of calendar days. Thus, July!
6th, day of the Logan bill’s intro- j
duction, may turn out to be one
of the longest “legislative days”
in history. Meanwhile, the pro
visions of the new court reform
by constitutional amendment, of
fered by Senators Burke and An
drews, democrats, with hopes of
rallying those opposed to revi
sion by legislation, call for one
(Continued on Page Two)
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JIM MATTERN IS
THRU SEARCH
FOR PLANE
No Reasons Given Why
Mattern Withdrawn
Soviet Search
(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS. Aug. 2S—Jimmy
Mattern withdraws from search
after deciding in a conference
with Soviet representative Var
tanian, that the former “had
done everything possible".
Aviator Mattern said he is send
ing the refuel crew back to the
States tomorrow' and will follow
soon with my plane. Mattern
said wre “were closer to an esti
mated position of the lost plane
than anyone else; at times we
Hew blind hoping to hear Pilot
Le^anefsky’s radio. If he had
been sending we W'ould have
heard him. There are no landing
facilities for thousands of miles."
Soviet representative Vartanian
thanked Mr. Mattern for his ex
pert aid.
—
COPPERMINE, Northwest Ter
ritory, Aug. 26—Sir Hubert Wil
kins who returned from an un
successful search over Beaiort
Sea,estimated that the fliers were
down about five hundred miles
south of the North Pole. Wilkins
plans another flight after refuel
ing and weather improves.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26
Lack of radio signals from the
Soviet fliers might indicate that
the plane came down in some
deep canyon in an unexplored
Arctic mountain range, Lieuten-;
Insurgents Ride In
To Santander
Victorious
(By The Associated Press)
HENDAYE, Aug 26-Jnsurgent
columns rode proudly into San
tander and took formal occupa
tion of the government's last im
portant city of the Spanish gov
ernment’s northwest coastal ran
ge. The streets wre jammed by
cheering people. Tales of anar
chists, horror, thirst, hunger, pil
lage and shooting in the streets
reached here of anarchists ter
)
rorists, crazy for revenge, shot
doctors, lawyers and their fam
ilies.
HENDAYE. Franco-Spanish
Frontier, Aug. 25th—Dispatches
from Madrid yesterday charged
that Rebel planes directed mach
ine gun fire on fleeting civilian
refugees along Reinosa Road
near Santander. It was reported
many refugees were killed. Mean
while reports from Salamanca in
dicated Insurgents captured the
town of Castro Urdiales, north
west of Bilbao.
TOKYO, Aug. 26—Five persons
died of sleeping sickness in Jap
an since August first. The police
board announced that one hun
dred and twenty-five persons are
ill of the same complaint
ant Frank Johnson of the United
Sjltates Coast Guard radio expert,
said: “The mountains would
wall-in the radio calls if the men
were down on land trying to
send on any except lower fre
quencies”. Lieutenant Johnson
has been in Alaska many times.
—
CANTACLZINO
FLIGHT IS OFF
FOR 1937 HOP
Speed Dash Around World
Postponed 1938 On
Account Weather
(By Ttie Associated Press)
Telegraphic information re
ceived this morning in Nome by
the Mi row Air Service and by
the U S. Weather Bureau, de
clared that the proposed flight
of Roumanian Prince Constan
tine Cantacuzino, had been can
celled for this year,
i It was pearly announced he had
| planned to make a speed dash
around the globe, in an effort to
shorten the record set by the late
Wiley Post.
Reason for the cancelling of the
flight this year was given as “the
i lateness of the season and the
I predominating adverse weather
I along the proposed route."
Mirow Air Service at Nome
was the agents for the Prince,
■ having transported considerable
gasoline to various localities, for
^him.
■
Woman Has Been
\ awnincr Nnyv
'
(By The Associated Press)
SAN' RAFAEL. Calif., Aug. 25
—A San Rafael woman ended
her seventeenth consecutive day
of yawning yesterday as doctors
puzzled over how to stop the at
tacks. She is Mrs. Rita O’Con
nor. Three physicians have al
ready applied themselves to the
problem. Doctors said Mrs. O’
Connor sometimes yawns several
times a minute and that the at
tacks have interferred with her
sleep.
Mrs. O’Connor has been yawn
ing almost continuously for 19
! days.
Hop For Alaska
SEATTLE, Aug. 26—Six patrol
planes of squadron 16 under the
command of Lieut. Commander
G. R. Champion, left Seattle at
seven a.m. for Sitka, Alaska.
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