Didn't Attempt
Northwest Passage
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SEATTLE, (/P) — The powerful
6,900-ton coast guard ice-breake:
Northwind did not attempt last
summer to traverse the famed
northwest water passage atop the
North American continent because
of “other orders” but the cutter’s
skipper is confident the voyage
could have been made successfully.
Capt. Richard M. Hoyle, coast
guard district operations officer
who commanded the Northwind
on a North Atlantic scientific
cruise last summer, disclosed yes
terday that the cutter went as far
west as Melville Island, only 750
miles from Point Barrow, Alaska.
Hoyle said scout planes report
ed heavy ice for about 100 miles
from this point but “I am certain
the Northwind or a ship like her
could smash through the toughest
part in a week.”
Hoyle’s report on the cutter's
peneration of far northern waters
was made just before the North
wind’s scheduled return to Seattle
last Sunday from a voyage to the
Antarctic with the Byrd expedi
tion.
On its north Atlantic cruise the
vessel went as far north as Thank
God Harbor on the northern tip of
Greenland, scene of the Polaris ex
pedition winter camp. It also pass
ed Peary’s winter camp at Discov
ery Bay.
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Tornado Rips ,
Tlirou crJi Texas,
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Okla; Many Dead
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• By The Associated Press)
An estimated 152 persons were
killed, over a thousand injured,;
and millions of dollars in property
damage was caused by a tornado
that ripped the northeastern Texas
Panhandle and northwestern Okla
homa Wednesday night.
The toll by towns:
Woodward, Okla. — 100 killed,
000 injured, guards set up to pre
vent looting. Fire followed torna
do. but torrential rains helped fire
men extinguish flames. Power.,1
light failed, and emergency gen-;
orators used. Red Cross mobilized.
•Streets of town ‘pop. 5,500) litter-’
ed by debris. One third of town
levelled. j
Higgins, Tex.—24 killed, 150 in-!
jured. Town (750 pop.' levelled'
except for telephone exchange,;
bank and school building, all1
brick. Two blocks of business dis- j
trict destroyed by fire controlled
early Thursday. Rubble blocks
traffic. I
Glazier, Tex.—8 killed 40 in
jured in village ‘200 pop.) only one
building left standing. Injured be
ing treated at Canadian. Vigilantes
formed.
Gage, Okla.—2 dead, 3 injured.
White Deer and Coburn, Tex.
also hit, but no death toll.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
“But, Mr. Abercrombie, thafs really not necessary.
Clipper service even includes disposable diapers."
Alaska’s family airline 1 That’s Pan American ... the
System of the Flying Clippers. For one out of every 13
passengers is under 12 years of age. That’s why Flying
Clippers carry complete stocks of special food and equip
ment for children . . . everything from fresh milk to
disposable diapers.The stewardess has a way with children,
too. Which means that papa, mama and the whole family
can relax when traveling by Clipper.
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Would Open
Kodiak Island
To Settlement
<<7P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, (TP)—'The inte
rior department has been asked
by Jack McCord of McCord, Alas
ka, to take one of Alaska’s garden
spots away from the brown bears
and give it to settlers.
McCord told a reporter today he
had placed before Warner Gard
ner, assistant secretary of the in
teror, and the fish and wildlife
service a proposal that Kodiak Is
land be opened to settlement. It
was withdrawn from settlement in
1041 and made a refuge for brown
bears, except a strip along the
coasts.
“Kodiak is one of the garden
spots of Alaska,” McCord said. “It
is affected by the Japanese current
and the temperature in winter does
not get below freezing. It is an
ideally located grazing spot and
will make a good place for settle
ment by veterans and others in
terested in getting homesteads in
the Territory.”
McCord said a navy air base al
ready is established there, along
with theaters, and stores, and it is
visited three times a week by large
airliners.
“I have discussed the plan with
interior department officials and I
am encouraged by their attitude
that ultimately the island may be
opened to settlement,” McCord
said. “I have received no direct
promise it will be done by they
have listened to my arguments in
a most co-operative manner.”
The island comprises about two
million acres of land.
“If the government wants to cre
ate a brown bear refuge it should
be on the Bering Sea,” McCord
said. “It is a climate better suited
to the bears and would be far re
moved from settlers.”
Gardner said he had listened to
McCord’s proposal and would look
into it. Generally, he said, there
are valid reasons why such propos
als can not be granted but he did
not know in this case and will not
until he had gone into the subject.
WASHINGTON, (/P>—An Alas-'
kan has urged a House public j
lands sub-committee to approve
legislation to open huge national
forest reserves to homesteading by
veterans.
Alvan J. Hannah, a cabinet
maker, boat owner and teacher
from Ketchikan, said that southern
Alaska and the fringing islands
are rich with timber, game and
fish, and contains much good agri
cultural land.
“Right now, however, there are
more bears than voters in Alaska,”
he said.
Hannah testified on a bill by
Reps. Lemke (R.-N. D.), and Peden
(D.-Okla.), which would open vir
tually all lands, including forests,
in southern Alaska to veteran
homesteaders. The bill would cre
ate a new type of homestead to be
known as a fur-farming claim.
AGNES GALVIN TO STATES
ON BUSINESS TRIP
Agnes of the Nome
Hadware ^u., lc/t on a business
trip to the States on Wednesday.
ERNEST BERRY IN TOWN
ON BUYING TRIP
Ernest Berry, manager of the
Unalakleet Co-op Store for the
ANS arrived Wednesday and is
buying merchandise for that store.
He states that they have had trou
ble in that area with wolverine
bothering the deer.
PIONEERS HELD LAST GAME
OF SERIES
The Pioneers oi Alaska held the
last of their series of card parties
last evening with a large crowd in
attendance. Winners of the grand
prizes for the series were awarded
by Chas. Pennycook, chairman of
the parties, assisted by Ann Walsh.
Winners for the women were Car
rie McLain, who has been con
sistently high all through the se
ries: Mrs. A. Rydeen and Mrs. Ole
Hay, who were recipients of lovely
pieces of nugget jewelry. The tro
phy winners for the men were S.
David Mazen, Capt. Gammon and
Curtis Jacobs, Jr., who all re
ceived handsome gold nuggets
from the Kougarok in ingenious
metal cases made by Chas. Penny
cook.
Winners of the evening’s games
were Mrs. Ben Gillette, Mrs. Gus
Bjornstad, Bertha Bjornstad and
Mrs. Gammon for the women.
Winners of the men’s prizes were
REBEKAHS HELD
(REGULAR MEETING
The Midnight Sun Kebekah
lodge held their regular meeting
on Wednesday and enjoyed a se
ries of card games. Winners of
the games were Mrs. Ole Hay, Mrs.
Christie Waldheim an<3 Mrs. W.
McDonald. A special prize went to
Mrs. L. Dunbar.
The beautiful hand-made rug
which was to have been raffled at
the meeting will not be raffled for
another two weeks as many people
had expressed their desire to take
a chance on it, but had not been
able to do so. It has been on dis
play at the Service Barber Shop
and Polet’s Store and will now be
placed in Vi’s Shop for a while, it
was announced.
[
i Ole Hay, E. H. Mahan and Louis
Nashenwing.
The door prize of $5.00 was won
; by Bertha Bjornstad.’
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