10 Sep 1937
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Newspaper
The Nome Daily Nugget
Location
Nome, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1937
Page
1
The Grand Army of the Republic votes to join Confederate veterans for the seventy fifth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg Penn next summer with only the flag of the United States in view as the visible emblem.
Herbert Mendelsohn steered the Notre Dame white-hulled speed boat to victory on the Detroit River. He won the first heat, placed behind Italian Count Theo Alagi in heat two, then beat Alagi by three quarters of a mile in the final thirty-mile heat. The Notre Dame set a new 68.6 mph record in the final heat.
NOETSCH Austria Sept 9 The honeymoon ended Tuesday and the Duke and Duchess became wandering Windsors without a home. They strained at Villach and moved toward Borsodivanka castle near Budapest Hungary. The Duchess reportedly longed for more social life.
MOSCOW Sept 3 The Soviet purge halted six city officials in Tashkent capital of the Uzbek Republic amid charges of squandering city funds on wild drinking and sexual excess with residents from a rest home. The Communist party organ Prsydo reported the actions in the central Asian city.
NOW YORK Sept. William Powell, appearing tired yet glad to get away from it all, urged officials about nationalist tensions and the Holland American liner Sta. He accused authorities of slaughter and hinted at municipal forces in Teevieton. The six were said to be eliminated in Hungary before returning to the United States.
Japan’s war machine attacked Chinese defenses and South China ports, sending Americans and other foreigners into danger. Marines guard Shanghai’s international settlement as shells hit the area. civilians suffer casualties while shrapnel hits near British and French assets. Americans take to ships like the gunboat Asheville as hundreds flee Hankow toward Canton.
London reports American dancer Della Carroll says there is an understanding with Clark Gable but declines to confirm an engagement. She recalled traveling with Gable on a South American voyage and hinted romance began aboard. She wore an aquamarine ring on her engagement finger but did not confirm its source.
Fully furnished house with electric refrigeration hot water heat oil range fuel oil supply and an electric washing machine with rotary iron plus all wave combination radio phonograph. Car in fine shape with new rubber. Inquire at Nugget Office.
Los Angeles report says actor Wallace Beery secured a deputy sheriff's commission and pistol permit after receiving a letter two weeks earlier threatening death to his eight year old adopted daughter Carol unless ten thousand dollars was paid. Police investigated and no arrest announced.
German air force officials greeted the arrival of a squadron of Italian fighting planes in Nuremberg as a courtesy to the annual Nazi congress. Commanded by General Porro, the squadron appeared over the city flying in formation.
London dispatch reports the British tanker Harpa of three thousand tons was attacked Tuesday night by an unknown battleship off the coast of North Africa but reached port at Tunis safely, according to a Lloyd's agent.
San Francisco reports infantile paralysis increasing in California but not yet an epidemic. State health director Walter M. Dickee noted thirty four cases in June eighty nine in July and one in August. Oklahoma mountains girls reportedly bleach hair with broomweed elder bark egg yolks and saffron, a practice under conservation jurisdiction.
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