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VOL. 37. No. 280. - NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 1936. Per Copy 15cta
Simmons Plane Fails to Find Brown
GERMANY, JAPAN, SOVIETS GET IN TANGLE
Little 3-year-old Girl Found Alive in Slide Succumbs
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STRIKERS ‘CAPTURE’ UNION OFFICE j
When officers of the International Seamen’s Union in New York opened
an office to “take recruits" to help thwart the strike of the seamen's
defense committee in sympathy with the Pacific Coast waterfront
walkout, these strikers balked the move by "capturing” the office and
filling it so no applicants could squeeze in. (Associated Press Photo)
Ships Chartered
Give Service To
Needy Alaskans
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 25 —
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Colonel O. F. Ohlson, manager of
the Alaska Railroad announced
late yesterday that striking mari
time unions had agreed verbally
to man and work vessels which
the railway chartered to relieve
food shortages in Alaska.
Ships Chartered
Ohlson said: “We will need five
ships”, he told newspapermen af
ter a conference with the strike
committee.
“One ship has already been ob_
tained from the Arctic Alaska
Paoking Company, and will prob
ably leave here for Seattle in
two days.” he said.
Charter Two in Seattle
Ohlson declared he would leave
San Francisco Thursday for Seat,
tie where he will charter two
more vessels, and two more will
be obtained later for the Alaska
trade.
McGrady Pleased
Assistant Secretary of Labor
McGrady said he was pleased ov
er the solution of the Alaska sit.
uation.
The spokesman for one of the
three employers groups—the
Shipowners Association of Paci
fic Operators and Coastwise
Freighters—said there might be
a negotiations meeting today with
unions, to handle about ten per
cent of the coast’s marine cargoes
in seventy.five smaller ships.
Telegraphic Briefs
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Nov. 25, —Nine
persons were killed and sixty
five are in the hospital today af_
ter an all-steel electric train
last night plowed into a wooden
elevated railroad car.
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK Nov. 25, — Fum.
es released by chemical ice are
blamed for the death last night
of five men who were suffocated
in a ship’s hold at the Brooklyn
terminus of the New York state
barge canal.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25,
—The Social Security Board an
nounced today that it will have
108 regional officers throughout
the nation to check up on wages
for pension purposes, as the regi_
mentation of twenty-six million
employees went full speed ahead
today. ,
The huge reserve fund avail,
able for pensions is expected to
have in the treasury ^ forty-sev.
en billion dollars by 1980.
PILOT
BROWN
MISSING
Simmons To Go Searching
For Brown Tommorow
When Fog Lifts
Bulletin
Radio reports last even
ing declared that Pilot Chet
Brown in the tri-motored
Ford plane of the Arctic
Airways, with a full load
of passengers had not re
ported in at Juneau, where
he was to arrive yesterday
after taking off from Cor
dova.
»Bv The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, 9:46 a.m. Nov. 25, —
Pilot Sheldon Simmons took off
at 9:45 this morning to search
for missing Chet Brown and 12
passengers and a mechanic, en_
route from Cordova to Juneau.
A fisherman last night report
ed a large plane was sighted at
what is believed to be Gold Cove
on Mud Bay, between Hoonah
and Tenakee.
Simmons is going there first to
check that report. A dense fog
has been being over the Juneau
area although the weather is
clear elsewhere.
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* SHELDON SIMMONS *
* REPORTS *!
* _ *
* Juneau, 3:47 p.m. Nov. 25, *
* —Simmond returned here at *
* three o’clock today, report- *
* ing he made as extensive a *
* search as possible owing to *
* foggy conditions. He report- *
* he found no trace of the miss *
* ing Chet Brown plane. He *
* went as far as Yakutat, scout *
* ing along the beach and then *
* over Icy Cape glaciers. *
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Weather Bureau Gives Informa,
tion Missing Plane.
y In connection with the missing
plane of Chester Brown the Un
ited States Weather Bureau at
Nome received the following in.
formation from the Juneau Wea
ther Bureau:
At 9:55 p.m. Nov. 24—Airway
weather observer at Yukutat stat
ed large plane with wheels at.
tached passed over this station at
Noon yesterday moving south.
We are advising local pilots and'
Coast Guard CutteT Morris, now
(Continued on Page Four)
ROSE BOWL HOPES MAY LIE IN THESE HANDS
THREE YEAR OLD GIRL
BECOMES SI > EMU
- VICTIM SLIDES
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Nov. 25, — Entombed in the wreckage
of an apartment house since Sunday’s landslides, three
year old Lorraine Vanali, was found last night appar
ently uninjured, as rescue crews drove into the mass
of earth and broken wood. Her mother and father are
still listed as missing.
The Vanali girl died shortly after being rushed to
the hospital, becoming the seventh fatality resulting
from the Sunday landslides.
She spoke frequently of the muddy men who toiled
for hours before reaching her where she was covered
by timbers. One of her hands was crushed under a
heavy truck.
“I can see the light now. I’ve been here a long time.
You’re hurting me. It’s awfully cold. Where’s mother.
I’m hungry. No I won’t cry”, she said to Dr. W. P. Blan
ton in the ambulance enroute to the hospital.
She was given warm milk and a bath, then delirium
came, and two hours later she died. She was never
told that her mother’s broken body had been identified
nor that her father Joe Vanali might be in the ruins
among nine other persons still missing for the past for
ty-eight hours.
City officials estimated that between twenty and
twenty-five thousand dollars were needed to clear aw
ay the slide debris.
Contributions are being received daily. Archie
Shiels, representing Alaska Packers Association don
ated one thousand dollars.
Experienced muckers from the Alaska Juneau
mine replaced the citizens crew which released the girl.
The known dead now are the Vanali girl, her moth
er Mrs. Joe Vanali, Mr. and Mrs. James Hoag and her
son Forest Beaudin, Mrs. Gus Erickson a negress, an
unidentified girl of fourteen in a red dress. The missing
are Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Peterson, Mrs. Fred Matson,
Oscar Laito of Sitka, Pete Battelo, Joe Vanali, Mrs.
Lena Peterson and Mrs. George Lee.
11 re are the lads who will play
in tomorrows g: n e for W ;ng
ton against Wash. State, and it is
in their hands whether Washing
ton will end the season undefeat
ed. Their names are D avie Davis
left, Jim Cain right, and Max
Starcevach. —(AP Photo)
Germany, Soviet
Russia Arguing
By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Nov. 25. — Germany
and Japan late yesterday signed
an agreement directed against the
Communist Internationale agree,
ing to inform each other of com
munist activities and combat
communism.
The agreement becomes effective
today and will last for five years.
Russia contended that the agree
ment was a military alliance ag.
ainst the Soviets, and Saturday
refused to sign an agreement al
lowing Japan to fish eastern Siber
ian waters. The present fish ag.
reement expires December 31st.
The new agreement, if signed,
would have run for a period of
eight years.
It was also reliably reported
from semi-official sources in Ber_
lin that the Reich would break
off diplomatic relations with Sov
iet Russia, if the German engin.
eer, arrested and charged w'ith
sabotage in Moscow^ is put to
death, as is intended by the high
Soviet officials, following his con
viction of complicity in the char.
ge.
To this report, no word has
as yet been forthcoming from the
Soviet government.