The Nome daily nugget. [volume], August 26, 1937, Page THREE, Image 3

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FARR, LOUIS
BOUT COES
OVER MON.
(Bv The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, August 26—The
heavyweight championship fight
between Joe Louis and Tommy
Farr has been postponed until
Monday because of rain. The
Welch challenger weighed 207,
and Louis 198, but they will be
reweighed again Monday.
Vartanian Has
Not Arrived At
Nome As Yet
Following is the reply sent to
Soviet agent Vartanian by Alfred
J. Lomen, Nome manager of the
Lomen Commercial Co., in re
sponse to a query as to the am
ount of gasoline available for use
in the search for the missing
Soviet fliers.
Nome, Aug. 24, 1937.
Vartanian Fairbanks.
*
Nome can spare fifty barrels
73 and forty barrels 87 octane.
one thousand gallons Stanavo
aviation engine oil, possibly more
if required. Suggest you wire Fer
guson Brothers Kotzebue and
Gagids Brothers Deering relative
gas supplies Kotzebue.
Captain Aarnout Castel schoon
er Nanuk ready leave for Barrow
immediately offers carry forty
barrels and two hundred cases
which measure twenty tons.
U. S. Bureau Indian Affairs
schooner North Star due Nome
few' days then proceeding Barr
ow. Confident you can secure per
mil for her carry additional gas
to Barrow. Schooner
to Barrow. Suggest you contact
Bob Douglas Standard Oil Alas
I’LL beat’ LOUIS.’^d.. r
Over the tea cups, this fighting young Welshman iinsmilingly asserted, ‘‘I'M bent Louis because I neve*
have been knocked out . .. and am not afraid of anyone h::i C od.” Lighter I'iirr further elaborated, “If
I didn't expect to lick him I wouldn’t be here. All Louis has to do is stick his chin out once and he'll
be gone.”
ka Representative now in Fair
banks. He familiar with condi
tions here.
Alfred J. Lomen
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No further word was received
last night or today concerning
the departure of Soviet Repre
sentative Vartanian from Fair
banks for Nome. He was ex
pected to come yesterday, but
no local plane companies knew
of any ship headed this way.
When he does arrive, it is be
lieved definite and organized
plans will be concluded for the
transportation of fuel to Barrow
for use by the airplane taking
oart in the search for Pilot Lev
anefsky and his five companions
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\ S. Latouche
Went Aground
Good News Ba1
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(By Tne Associated Press'
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24
he Mackay Radio reported th;
be passenger and freight vess<
.atouche had gone aground *
loodnews Bay in the Bering Se;
lackay operators said they rt
eived the report from anothe
,’askan ship and had been un
ble to obtain any further de
lils. The Latouche left Sa:
rancisco more than three week
go for Alaska. She is listed a
vessel of about fourteen hun
red net tons.
Big Parade Held
(By The Associated Press)
FORT LEWIS, Wash., Aug. 2
ourteen thousand troops march
I before ten thousand spectator,
i the largest military review or
le Pacific Coast since the work
ar. War planes zoomed ovei
le heads of the National Guard
ien and Regular soldiers frorr
/e western states in the ftna
aneuvers of the Fourth Army’:
rar Games. More than a thou
md trucks of motorized equip
.ent rumbled past the review in |
and where the governors of •'
ates and nine ranking armj
merals were assembled.
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Accused Murder
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25—Pol
ce today booked Robert Mata, ’
V 23, Filipino, on suspicion of mur
der in connection with the shoot
ing of Carlos Franco known also
- as Carling Martinez, 26-year old
t Filipino. Police said Mata ad
1 mitted shooting Franco supposed
t ly to avenge a beating the latter
administered to him because of a :
- woman. Franco is said to be a
r nephew of Vice President Sergio
- Osmena and is survived by a
- .'ister and a brother who are said
i to be in Manila.
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