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VOL 38 No 132 NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, JUNE 9, 1937. Per Copy lOcts
MOSCOWTOFRISCO HOP EXPECTED SOON
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Brief, Impressive Funeral Held Today Jean Harlow
FUNERAL OF JEAN HARLOW
WAS SOLEMNIZED GLENDALE
CALIFORNIA THIS MORNING
(By The Associated Press)
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 8—Jean Harlow’s do e
friends estimated today that she had left a million dol
lar estate, accumulated from her $3,000 to $5,000 week
ly wages for playing the movie roles of a voluptuary.
The actress was dressed for her funeral, today in whb.e,
which she usually wore on the screen as best suited o
tier fair complexion and shapely figure. Her mother,
who is ill, sent to the mortuary a gown of clinging
straight lines. She asked that her daughters hair be
dressed back from the forenead«and pufiod over t '
ears in the style most familiar to *’ ' -millions that com
prised her movie audiences throc0 — the world.
The mother, Mrs. Jean Bello, insisted upon a strictly
pi ivate funeral. None of the hurly burly of Hollywood
will be accomodated at the Wee Kirk of the Heather
Chapel where last rites will be conducted Wednesday
morning The chapel seats only 200 persons.
After the funeral, Miss Harlow’s body will go into a
crypt at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Other nob bles
from t» vim colony lie there, including Rudolph Val
^ mother star who died unexpected’v \yben he
was the idolized star of'the “Jazz Age.”
It was believed that Mrs. Bello would inherit the
star’s estate. The close companionship between Miss
Harlow and her mother was considered one of the most
stabilizing influences in the star’s life.
GLENDALE, Calif., June 9, — Brief, impressive,
and comparatively simple funeral services were held
for Jean Harlow which lasted less than twenty minutes,
this morning. Many screen stars attended the Christian
Science service read by Mrs. Genevieve Smith.
HOSPICE, St. Bernard, Switzerland, June 9—Be
cause of the thousand year record of service to lost way
farers in the Alps, the Commandant of the Swiss gen
darmes, ruled that the St. Bernard strain of dogs are
not to be exterminated, although one dog killed a girl
of ten years, recently, the cause being given as “unnat
ural viciousness attributed due to the mating season.”
' ‘AMERICAN MOTHER’ C.ETS MEDAL
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Mrs. Carl Gray, ot Omaha, Neb., who would “rather be a good
wife and mother than anything else in the world,” received a silver
medal in New Cork symbolizing her selection by the Golden Rule
Foundation as the “American Mother of 1937.” It was preseated
by Charles V. Vickery, nresideat of the Foundation.
Flight of Soviets i
Moscow-Frisco \
To Be Soon
The Nome Daily Nugget is n
r ,-c'n* f a special message fron
; >e As’ocDiitd Press, Seattle, tell
irt'g of the prop red flight of a
Soviet airpl ane from Moscow jk>
S»n Francisco. Following is the
information:
“In connection with flight of
S>v:-.t plane from Moscow to San
I'.--:! .'.-co which may be attempt
i . n. please do utmost to pick
ip sir. information you can get.
"It appears likely that flight, if
■ r. aterializes, will be a'ong the
’."rd meridian, considerably East
Alaska, bu! your radio opera
' :s may intercept something
rn Canadian stations or flier
iay gel otT his course.
"No definite information here
but it is expected the flier will
he Sigisaniund Levanefnky. Has
anyone in your vicinity heard sis;'
nats from Soviet pola- base?”
Signed: Associated Press.
Additional reports from other
sources indicate that two Soviet
planes may possibly maike the
flight, instead of only one.
A year ago, a North Pofe, Mos
cow to San Francisco flight was
begun, but due to trouble with
the motor, the plane returned to
its base at Moscow after having
approached within a few miles
of the North Pole.
It is believed that government
wireless stations in Alaska have
been requested to listen in on the
air for any word from the Soviet
flight when it takes place soon,
and to assist in the transmission
of weather and other information.
Northland Returns
Account of lee
Conditions
The U. S. Cutter Northland
.which was reported enroute to!
the vicinity of the lower Yukon
flats and Nunivak Island, when;
it sailed from Nome Tuesday, re
turned last night after being ab
sent from the roadstead only'
about ten hours.
The government vessel was re
ported to have encountered such;
a formidable wall of ice inter
vening between the southern;
shore of Norton Sound and Nome,;
that it was forced to beat its wayj
back to the Nome roadstead, af
ter trying in vain for several1
hours, to find a lead through the
ice pack.
Generals Direel Mar Games of \ir
These four high-ranking officers of the United Slates army are shown at the control lower at March
Field, Calif., to follow progress of the niimic war of the GHQ air force over Southern California.
Left to right: Maj. Gen. George S. Siniond. commandant of the Ninth Corps area; Maj.^X*®®
Oscar Westover, chief of the army air corps; Maj. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, commander of tin
GHQ air force, and Brig. Gen. Delos Ummons of .March Field.
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New Man Arrives
For Weather Bur.
Mr. R. V. Dobbs U. S. weather
observe.', at Ithaca, N. Y., for the
past year arrived on the Ccast
Guard Cutter Northland and will
be assigned to the Nome Station
for the next few years. Mr. Dobbs
has had previous experience at
the Boston Mass., Airport, Wea
ther and Balloon Station.
Susnprt f’^movrd
J. Turner Watson (above), 26
year-old former Denver Univer
sity law student, was taken from
the intereoastal liner Santa Rosa
when it docked at San Pedro. He
was arrested on charges of steal
ing $200,000 in cash and bonds
Irom his aunt, Mrs. Martha
Blous. Denver widow.
Party Sixteen Men Who Observed The
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Total Eelipse Leave For States
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., June f)—Astronomers pack
ed their cargo of Solar Eclipse photographs and prepar
ed to depart from the tiny Canton Island for the States.
Their study will not end until after months of painstak
ing research into one hundred photographs which six
teen men snapped during the total eclipse yesterday.
Students Attempt Halt Demonstration
(By The Associated Press)
LANCING, Mich., June 9—Violence broke out in
East Lansing when Michigan State College students at
tempted to prevent the spread of a labor holiday which
paralyzed business and transportation in this city.
Capt. Laurence A. Lyon of the East Lansing state police
barracks, said, a crowd of students attacked union or
ganizers who were attempting to close business houses
and threw three of them into the Red Cedar River.
Several automobiles were overturned.
The East Lansing outbreak was shortlived and no
one was reported injured in the brief fighting between
students and union members. Strike leaders were ad
dressing a jubilant crowd on the Capitol lawn in cele
bration of the release from jail of five union pickets
when the East Lansing disturbance occurred. The
labor holiday was called because of the pickets arrest
and their release had been looked upon as paving the
way for an end of the trouble.
LOS ANGELES, June 9—Dave Ross, film theatre
manager, was eliminated from the investigation of the
Haymow party at which Patricia Douglas, screen extra,
charged she had been attacked. Ross was called to the
district attorney’s office when Miss Douglas said a man
of that name had attacked her. Following his elimina
tion from the case, investigators now are seeking two
other men named Dave Ross._
“Cheechacco Ball” Sat June 12th, 9:30 p.m.
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