AIRLINES
Pan American Airways
Arriving Wednesday evening on
the PA A from Fairbanks were
Esther Magill, William Cole and
William Lannon.
Departing passengers were Mrs.
G. Craddick, Louise Miller and
John Wieringen.
Thursday there was a special
flight for the Pan Pacific Good
Neighbors Tours.
Arriving on the Pan American
last Wednesday evening were
two new employees for the Nor
thern Commercial Co., William
Cole and William Lannon.
Wien Alaska Airlines
Round trip passengers on the
Boeing from Fairbanks yesterday
were Mrs. Larrick, Rev. Richard
Jones, Mrs. Wm. Ducey, John Du
cey and Catherine Sullivan.
Passengers to Nome were Mrs.
Wilmer Skaggs. Edith Harrington.
Mrs. George Brown, Mrs. Ruth
Dougal, and for Candle Matt Lar
son.
SOME PLUG
They tell us that folks who
worked in the atomic bomb pro
jects were so in the dark about
it themselves, for a time they
thought they were making the
front ends of horses, that were
to be shipped to congress for
final assemblage.
PAN PACIFIC GOOD NEIGHBOR
TOUR ARRIVED THURSDAY
The .'fc-ennd group ol' Pan Facif c
Good Neighbor tourist arrived
yesterday to spend four days in
Nome. The cunpF
guests is as follows: Mr. and Mrs.
trank Stubbeman and two sons
from Midland, Texas, Mrs. Ruth
Dot.J»al of Schenectady, N.Y., Mrs.
George Browne of Oakland, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry C. Crawl and four
children of Council Bluffs, Iowa,
Mr, and Mrs. J. J. Barton of Santa
Monica, Cal., Mrs. Sue Wherry
of Liltte Rock. Ark., Mrs. J. M.
Walker ol' Memphis, Tenn., Mrs.
Willa Skaggs and Mrs. Edith M.
Harrington of Oakland. Mrs. Ben
Newhouse. Minneapolis.
In charge of the tour are host
ess Mrs. L. J. Fer el of Everet*.
Wash., who is a member of the
Board of Directors of the Good
Neighbor Tours, and host is Lloyd
Olson, secretary-treasurer of the
company, who is a former Alas- j
kan.
Mr. Olson states that the Pan
Pacif'c Tours gets its name from
the fact that thev organize trios!
to Mexico, Columbia. Hawaii and
Guatemala and that this is the
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first year they have made trips
to Alaska. I
Their trip in the Nome area in
cludes an outing in the Kougarok
Railroad, with C. C. Kammerer; a
tr;o through one of the dredges
owned by the U.S.S.Refining and
Mining Company; an oomiak fskin
boats> with the King Islanders;
and gold panning on the beach.
Phone Local News to Main 125
At The Hotels
Wallace Hotel
Guests registered today at the
Wallace Hotel are. W. H. Carlisle,
John Kessler, C. H. Pearson, Wm.
Cole, W. A. Lammun, Seattle;
Leon Bagley, Fairbanks; Edith
Harrington and Willa Scaggs, of
Oakland; Ruth Dugal, Schenec
tady, N.Y.; Myra Browne, Oak
land; L. J. Farrel, Everett, Wash.;
Mrs. Ben Newhouse, Minneapolis;
G. C. Boyd. Council.
Paterson Hotel
Registered at the Paterson Hotel
today are, Mrs. Grace Craddock,
Shelton. Wash.; Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Stubbeman, and two sons.
Midland. Texas; Sue K. Wherry,
Little Roc'c, Ai k.; Mrs. J. M. Wal
ker, Memphis, Tenn.; Mr. and Mrs.
J. J. Barlow. Long Beach, Calif.:
Lloyd C. Olson, Seattle.
MRS. MAGILL TO VISIT
MRS. L. E. OST IN COUNCIL
Mrs. Esther Magill, from Red
Wing, Minn., is enjoying a few
days visit with Mrs. Earl Towner.
She is enroute to Council, where
she will visit with her cousin.
Mrs. L. E. Ost and family for a
few days before returning to her
home in Minn.
Hospital Notes
New patients at the hospital:
Paul Omiak, John Kapari and
Mattie Larson.
CERTIFICATED ROUTES OPERATING
Sunday Flight • Nome • Unalakleett • Fairbanks
Thursday Flight - Nome • Kotzebue • Fairbanks
Daily Service Throughout Seward Peninsula
CONTACT WIEN-ALASKA’S TRAFFIC OFFICE
For Information and Reservations
NOME—ALASKA
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
HAS INTERESTING MEETING
Honoring the guests of the Pan
Pacific Tours, the Chamber of
Commerce held a special luncheon
today noon at the Nevada. There
were 60 guests present.
After a welcome by President
Duke Mitrovitch, several of the
guests w ere called upon for a few
remarks.
First to respond was J. Barton,
a former Nomeite, who stated that
he found Nome much changed
j from the early stampede days in
the tent city wallowing in mud.
He further stated that he has been
i in all parts of the world and no
place on earth has he found the
high calibre of people who are the
real Alaskans, and he hopes the
Territory will soon become the
49th State.
Mr. Frank Stubbeman. lawyer
from Texas, was highly enthus
astic over his trio to Alaska, but
says that he finds it difficult to
discover iust what kj»H o* Alas
ka Alaskans reallv want. H*> pre
dicted that the first twenty-five
years following Alaska’s admis
sion to the Union would see more
actual progress than the total in
her history to that time. In this
period he expects as remarkable
a spiritual growth as that in the
material sense.
Mr. Harry Crowl, real estate
man from Iowa, was appreciat
ive of the warmth and generosity
of Alaskans everywhere.
Chaplain John Chalker spoke
briefly about his trip to Nome and
his plans for the coming years to
be spent in Alaska.
Miss J. Schoening of the Wel
fare department told of the pro
gram planned for the Second Di
Smoke and Fire
Routs Thirty
Undressed Ladies
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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2, -(/Pi
Thirty ladies, many undressed ex
cept for a thin sheet wrapped
around their wet bodies, fled
smoke and flames which envel
oped the steam rooms of the Pine
Baths in west Philadelphia ye^
terday in a fire that destroyed
two buildings housing the estab
lishment.
FORMER NOMEITE ON
PAN-PACIFIC TOUR
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J. J. Barton, a former Nomeite,
! is here revisiting the places he
knew in the early days—1899 to
1906.
I Mr. Barton was a miner on the
Nome beach until 1906. also own
er of the Palace Cafe. He has
! planned for many years to returffA
1 with his wife to pay Nome a visit.
FUEL OIL PRICE UPPED
P/4 CENTS BY STD OIL CO.
It was learned here today that
effective August 1, the price of
fuel oil would be increased one
and three-quarters cents per gal
lon. 4
This increase is in addition to
the raise in price last April.
vision and how it will cover ev
ery town and village.
Mrs. L. J. Ferrel and Mr.
Lloyd Olson, hostess and host of
the tour explained their reason
for considering Nome the high
, light of the entire trip through
the territory.
NORTHERN
LIGHT & POWER CO.
“BETTER LIGHT . . . BETTER SIGHT”
G.-E. Mazda Lamps Refrigerators
Elecrtical Appliances Washing Machines
Wiring Material
Phone MAIN 105
ANNOUNCING
M. S. SQUARE KNOT
Will sail from Seattle
JULY 31st
For Nome, Teller, Shishmaref
and Kotzebue Sound
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
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Thomas J. Keating, Nome Agent