OUTSTANDING IN DEPENDABILITY
N. A. T.
AN ACHIEVEMENT IN SAFETY !
N. A. T. Has Flown Over a Million Miles—Carried
Over 5,000 Passengers, without Single Injury to
Passengers or Personnel, A Safety Record Un
surpassed in the History of Alaska Air Transport
Operation.
FAIRBANKS NOME A L A SK A
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Will Seek Adjourn
Congress Saturday
It Was Announced
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, —A plan
to seek final action on group measur
es in a scurrying drive for adjourn
ment by next Saturday emerged
Sunday night from a White House
conference between Democratic lead
ers and the president.
Heading the list were the wealth
tax bills, proposals for breaking the
deadlock over the utilities bill and
other measures on which action is
sought include the Guffey coal stab
ilization bill, the ban against gold
clause suits, alcohol control, the
Frazier-Lemke farm bankruptcy
bill, TVA amendment, NRA labor
standard for government contracts,
rivers and harbors, the third defi
ciency bills, some types of oil leg
islation, the rail pension bill to sup
pant that declared unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court.
Weekly Report On
Construction Now
Coin" On Palmer
(By The Associated Press')
PALMER, Aug. 20, —Twenty-three
cabins have now been roofed out of
sixty-nine under construction, with
66 more remaining to be started on,
was the weekly construction report
at the Matanuska colony which
also showed Monday that 28 wells
had also been completed.
A branch of the National Ride As
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sociation has been organized and
plans arc under way to organize a
branch of the Alaska Game, Fish
Protective Association.
Rex Beach Enroute
Mat an uska To See
Colonization Area
fBv The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 20, —Rex
Beach left Fairbanks Monday for
Matanuska with Col. Ohlson, man
ager of the Alaska Railroad in a
special car, to visit and compare
that area with his truck garden
farm at Sebring, Florida.
Beach plans to visit the Healy Riv
er Cnal mines near Suntrana. Al
though there is nothing definite
about his itinerary, he plans to go
to Seward and take a boat for Cor
dova, thence returning to Fairbanks
via the Richardson Highway.
He said he hopes to spend some
time at Paxon Lake. He confided
to friends that he contemplated a
novel featuring aviation in Alaska.
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Major Bills Of The
President Program
Are Still Pending
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug, 20, — The
major measures of President Roose
velt's legislative program are still
awaiting final action, and include
the tax bill which is in conference;
the coal bill; the public utility hold
ing bill in conference; amendments
to broaden the Tennessee Valley
authority and scope; a bill to create
an alcohol control commission which
is in conference; a bill to prevent
law suits against the government,
growing out of the gold clause pol
icy.
Airplanes Flying
Into Or Out Of
The City Of Nome
Pilot Chester Brown of the North
ern Air Transport made a flight to
Teller this morning with Dr. Rex F.
Swartz as a passenger and return
ed with a native boy named Nor
man. whom Nurse Adaline Davick
had sewed up a cut foot for two
days before. The native boy was
brought to Nome and is in the May
nard Columbus hospital here re
ceiving care.
Pilot Brown took off again this
afternoon for White’s Camp, Peer
ing and Candle. As passengers were
J. J. Keenan and wife for Candle and
Professor Tabor; Bob Bowman was
the passenger to White’s Camp. Pil
ot Brown is scheduled to return to
night.
Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mirow
Air Service made a flight to Teller
and Tin City this morning return
ing with Ed Smith. He took off
again from here for Fairbanks with
Mrs. W. A. Castleton, wife of Man
ager W A. Castleton of the Al
aska Sunset Mines, operating a dred
ge in the Sunset section, and who
has been visiting her husband here
for the past month. Ed Smith was
a passenger to Fairbanks. Pilot Mir
ow is to return to Nome tomorrow.
The mail was also carried. R. C.
Lammers was a passenger with him
from Fairbanks to White's Camp
yesterday.
Returning from there last night,
was Bob Bowman, come to Nome
for dental treatment.
Graveling Of City
Streets Progress
ing Rapidly Daily
Graveling on the streets of the'
City of Nome, in connection with,
the PWA loan and grant agree-!
ment, has been going ahead stead
ily since Saturday morning last.
The work of widening B Street
which leads out of Nome to the
Bessie Road occupied a day or so,
and then the crew and equipment
of trucks and graders was moved
down to the corner of B Street and
Main Street where they started the
work of graveling, headed eastward.
The Right Reverend Bishop Crim
ont, of the Catholic diocese of Alas
ka, arrived in Nome on the motor
ship Meteor from St Michael. The'
Bishop is on his annual tour of in
spection of Alaska missions thruout
Alaska, and due to important busi
ness will return to Juneau also im-!
mediately.
Miss Phyllis Turner
Beauty Parlor Operator
Seiffert Flats
Telephone For Appointments:
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DR. REX F. SWARTZ
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office Hours 1—3 P. M.
Now Located In
Office Indian Affs. Bldg.
Nome, Alaska.
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