SMALL BOY DROWNS
IN CHENA RIVER
FAIRBANKS, {&) — The four
year-old son of a river skipper
who was left at home because his
parents were fearful of his safety
aboard a boat plying the Yukon
River, drowned Monday while
playing in a rowboat with his
nephew.
The latter, Dick Spellacy, Jr.,
4, was rescued after clinging to
the boat as it drifted 500 yards
down the Chena River from
Graehl, across the river from
Fairbanks.
William Robinson, Graehl, res
cued the youngster after hearing
his screams.
The youthful victim was Tom
•
my Peterson, son of Capt. and
Mrs. Don Peterson. They were ad
vised of the tragedy by radio on
their sternwheeler en route to
Galena. Captain Peterson is the
grandfather of the Spellacy boy.
The boy said they were play
ing .in the boat when it suddenly
drifted out into the water. Young
Peterson was drowned when he
attempted to make his way back
to shore.
SCOUTS BREAK UP
SUMMER CAMP
The summer camp at Dexter is
today a scene of inactivity as the
Boy Scouts who have been enjoy
ing their summer outing the past
ten days in spite of the inclement
weather, packed up last night and
came to town.
Scoutmaster Perry Pew, said
j today that the boys will make the
trip up the railroad at a later date
| following a break in the weather.
| The plan originally was to make
i the rail to Salmon Lake trip the
second week of the summer out
| ing, but the interfering weather
changed the plan, and the boys
will make the trip as soon as
weather will permit full enjoy
ment of the outing.
Although the term of the camp
outing was during continuously
rainy weather with the exception
of one fair day, the boys seemed
to be having a grand time under
guidance of Scoutmaster Pew and
Scout Representative Russ Apple
from Fairbanks, and last but by
no means least, the delicious
meals served by Mrs. Christy
Waldheim, the camp cook.
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SHIP “YUKON”
TO BE AUCTIONED
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—1The gaudy
old stern wheeler Yukon, once
queen of the river whose name
she bears, is going on the auction
block.
I The Alaska Railroad, present
owner of the 651-ton vessel, call
ed yesterday for bids to be open
ed Aug. 10 at Anchorage.
The bid call stipulates that the
vessel must be removed to dry i
land and be used only for reason- j
ably priced living quarters.
The steamer has 45 staterooms
with accommodations, including
quarters, for 114 persons.
The broad, flat-bottomed pack
et, now unseaworthy, is at Ne
nana, where she was built in 1913
as a luxury cruiser for the Cana- ;
dian-White Pass-Yukon fleet. She
carried thousands of gold seekers
and later tourists between Ne- j
nana on the Tanana River and
Whitehorse before being sold to
the Alaska Railroad during the
war.
Two years ago, while hauling
freight and passengers to Yukon
downriver points the steamer was
hung high and dry on a sand bar
and caught in the early freeze. J
The ice tore a gash in her hull.
Giant Crowd Sees
Yanks Win
By T*d Smiti
Olympic Stadium, Wembley,
England, (£>) — Bill Porter of
Northwestern won the 110-meter
high hurdles in the Olympic I
games today as athletes from the
United States placed 1-2-3 to
score their second sweep of a
track and field event. .
Porter skimmed over the high
sticks in 13.9 seconds for a new
Olympic record, subject to a rati
fication, chopping two-tenths of a
second off the previous mark of
14.1 set by another American,
Forrest Spec Towns, at Berlin in
1936.
Clyde (Smackover) Scott, Uni
versity of Arkansas football star,
finished second and Craig Dixon
of the University of California at
Los Angeles was third. Both
were timed in 14.1, equalling the
old record.
A crowd of more than 70,000,
including the King and Queen of
England, saw the Americans
hand up their second sweep in
two days. The first was achieved
yesterday in the shot put.
Porter’s victory was the eighth
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for the United States in 16 men’s
events completed to date and it
was the seventh record to fall to
the male athletes in track and
field.
The American domination of
the hurdlers -came after the stars
and stripes had been shunted
temporarily out of the spotlight
by Mrs. Fanny Blankers-Koen of
Holland and Kaj Routavaar of
Finland.
Mrs. Blankers-Koen bettered
her own world record in winning
the women’s 80-meter hurdles in
11.2 seconds. Routavaar captured
the men’s javelin throw with a
toss of 228 feet, 19Vfe inches.
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