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Soviets Off Long Flight to Moscow
SOVIET PILOTS
OFF ON FLIGHT
NOME, MOSCOW
Stop at Frisco, Seattle, Jun
eau, Fairbanks, Nome,
Then To Siberia
THEY’RE OFF
Will Change Retractable
Landing Gear Siberia
For Moscow Flight
(By The Associated Press)
SAN PEDRO, Calif.. Aug. 5—
Soviet Pilots Levanevsky and
Levchenko, hopped off •from here
at 11:30 A.M. Pacific Standard
Time, enroute to Moscow via Al
aska. Their first scheduled stop
will be Frisco Bay. They expect
to refuel at Seattle, add from
there the route will lead to Jun
eau, Fairbanks and Nome; thence
across Bering Straits to Siberia.
After leaving Wrangell Island
they will turn inland somewhere
along the Siberian Arctic coast
and head for Moscow.
Testing of the powerful single
motored Vultee monoplane was
completed yesterday. It is equip
ped with a new type of pontoons
which can be disconnected in 15
minutes, a feat impossible at pres
ent on any other plane. They
will use these until they reach
Siberia, where they will attach
retractable landing wheels,which
were shipped ahead weeks ago.
The blue and red ship was de
signed and built at Downey near
Los Angeles by Gerard Vultee,
one of the world’s leading air
craft designers under a Soviet
commission, and is equipped with
the latest devices adapted to fly
ing in the Polar regions, includ
ing a deicing apparatus for the
wings. The plane is equipped
wth a three bladed propeller.
WASHINGTON
CURRENT
' COMMENT
The quiet days of Autumn have
settled on Washington, but the
Capital City rests amid a still
ness that cannot be charged to
the weather or the season of the
year. The average resident of
Washington sees the President
seldom, yet the White House is
just a building if it is known
that the Chief Executive is not
under its roof. Few places are
more dismal than the halls of
Congress when they no longer
echo the rap of the presiding of
ficer’s gavel.
Washington at present is merely
a large and well ordered city, &
is deprived of its usual preroga
tive of having something unusual
to tell the world. To be sure,
the Department of State is busy,
and worried over problems aris
MOTHER DROWNS HER INFANT SON
35,000 Estimated Killed In Spain
Delegate Dimond
Spoke Little tr.
Last Evening
Holding a meeting at Little Ck.
last evening, Delegate Anthony
J. Dimond, O. D. Cochran, demo
cratic candidate for senator, and
Leonard Smith, democratic can
didate for representative, were
present while the Delegate spoke
at some length on subjects affect
ing Alaska as a whole and items
particularly important to the Sec
ond Division.
O. D. Cochran introduced the
Delegate, and candidate Smith
was present also as nn introduc
tory personage. At least a hun
dred to a hundred and fifty of
the men working at Little Creek
heard the Delegate deliver a pros
pectus of the democratic admin
istration at Washington and the
beneficent results acquired by A1
aska under that administration.
Delegate Dimond is awaitng
the arrival of a pontoon plane
from Fairbanks so that he may
take passage for Fairbanks via
the Lower Yukon River points,
as soon as the plane arrives here.
ing out of the African War, the
Treasury issues ils reports, foot
ed up in debits and credits so
large as to be without meaning
to the ordinary reader, and the
NRA, still groggy from the blow
administered by the Supreme
Court, is occupied in finding
some way in which it can be of
use. That being granted, the
oven nevertheless is cold and the
dough lacks the quickening leav
en of politics. Politicians come
in for some hard words, yet all
will agree that without their pres
ence there exists an aching void.
Secretly if not openly, everyone
enjoys the excitement that goes
with party contention.
Mark Twain once said that for
eigners did not know how to
spell. One of the bad things
about a foreign war is that it is
sure to sprinkle the newspaper
page with weird looking words.
The Republic of Panama has
notified a New York bank that
it will have to be excused for
the time being from paying some
money that it owes. One of the
difficulties that face an organiza
tion of public international scope,
such as the League of Nations or
the World Court, is to find a com
mon bond that will hold it to
gether. Indebtedness to the Un
ited States should be a tie strong
enough to answer the purpose,
and perhaps Panama has quali
35,000 ESTIMATED
DEAD AN1) 100,000
HAVE BEEN HURT
ESTIMATES COMPILED BY THE RED CROSS IN
SPAIN'S MOST SAVAGE POLITICAL
REVOLUTION IN HISTORY
fBv The Associated Press')
UNDATED, Aug. 5—Reports of
fresh Liberal successes punctuat
ed the Spanish civil war as Red
.Cross officials estimated that 35,
000 persons have been killed to
date in the most savage political
and military upheaval in Spanish
history.
Inspired by military successes
in the Guadarrama Mountains,
the government insisted it had
inflicted decisive defeat on the
Rebel column near Avila.
The Red Cross also estimated
the number wounded in the war
exceeded one hundred thousand.
More than six hundred Fascists
and monarchists were arrested in
Madrid during a police roundup.
Spanish Fascists walked the
streets of Tetuan, Spanish Moro
cco, wearing Swastika arm-bands
given them by officers of two Ger
I man warships which were pay
ing tiie North African coast cour
tesy calls.
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The Treasury is waiting for a
considerable number of ten thou
sand dollar bills of a retired issue
to be turned in. Now is the time
for ail good citizens to search the
pockets of their old clothes.
Martial Law Is
Declared Force
Thruout Greece
(By The Associated Press)
ATHENS, Aug. 5—Confronted
by a reputed Communist plot,
the government dissolved the
Chamber and proclaimed martial
law, after the Leftist trade un
ions called a twenty-four hour
strike in protest of a new law
fixing minimum wage scales sub
jecting workers claims to obliga
tory arbitration.
If reports respecting mass de
sertions from both armies in the
African trouble are true, it is
hard to understand how either
j combatant can do any shooting
without mowing down newly
made friends, approaching for a
! first visit.
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fied for a now and higher seat in
international conferences. On
Main Street.the butcher,the bak
er and the candle-stick maker
turn a cold and glassy eye on the
village dead-beat, but such con
duct is small and provincial. It
seams that there has bean estab
lished a new Order of the Guide:.
Fleece, having honors to be con
ferred on anyone able to fleece
Uncle Sam.
A writer describes a well known
public character as being ‘unus
ual” because the person referred
to never annoys anyone. Unus
ual is too mild a word. Of such
is the Kingdom of Heaven.
The Secretary of War speaks
in the presence of the Emperor j
at a dinner in Japan, and the re- j
port of the affair contains no in
timation that the Secretary was
in any wise disturbed. The pop
ulation of the world includes a
noble company of martyrs who
have fidgeted through a meal of
victuals oppressed by the thought
that they had a speech to make
afterward. It must be great to
be Secretary of War, but most of
us would be satisfied with that
equanimity wherein the prospect i
of having to put on an after-din
ner talk holds no terror.
GEORGE ANDERSON
Is Now in Nome.
At Lincoln Hotel
Expert Piano Tuner
Kohler, Brumback Pianos; Grand
and Upright for Sale and rent.
Rebuilt Pianos, New Tom Thumb
and Grands.
NOME & SEWARD PENINSULA
SECOND GOLD PRODUCTION
AND ONLY TIN PRODUCER
The following article on Mining
in Alaska for the year 1935 issued
, for release July 15, 1936, by the
Department of the Interior, and
received via mail by the Nome
Daily Nugget, follows:
Mines in Alaska produced min
erals worth $18,312,000 in 1935, as
against $16,721,000 in 1934, accord
ing to an announcement made by
the Interior Department through
the Geological Survey. The to
tal value of the mineral output
of the Territory since 1880 is
$698,628,000. Alaska was pur
chased from Russia in 1867 for
$7,200,000.
The following table shows in
summary form the mineral out
put of Alaska for 1935 and, for
comparison, the production of
the same minerals in 1934:
Value of Mineral Output of
Alaska in 1935 and 1934.
1935 1934
Gold.$15,940,000 $16,007,000
Silver. 206,000 100,000
Copper 1,249,700 9,700
Lead. 65,200 62,100
Coal . 501,600 451,500
Miscellaneous mineral
products,including pla
tinum metals, tin etc.
$18,312,000 $16,721,000
In all the computations of value
the average selling prices for the
year have been used rather than
the prices actually received by
the producers. Furthermore, the (
! statements as to quantity in the
j accompanying notes relate to pro
j duction and not to sales, ship
ments, or some other perhaps
equally significant basis by which
the industry might be gaged.
As is evident from the fore-'
going table, the mining industry,
of the Territory enjoyed a pros- ;
perous year, the value of the out |
put of practically every mineral
except gold showing a notable in
crease, and the value of the gold
output showing a decline of much
less than one-half of 1 per cent
from that of the preceding year.
The resumption of copper pro
duction by the large copper
mines that had been idle for
nearly 3 years, the attendant in
crease in the output of silver, &
a great increase in the produc
tion of platinum metals and of
Tin all contributed their share to
making the value of the mineral
production in 1935 larger than
that of any other year since 1923.
The output of gold from Alaska
come from both lode (hard rock)
and placer imines. In 1935 this
output was distributed between
these types of mines in the pro
portion of about 39 to 61—$6,237,
000 from lodes & $9,703,000 from \
placers. The corresponding pro
portion for the entire period that
gold mining has been in progress
in Alaska has been about 35 to
65.
DROWNS BABY
IN A W ASHING
MACHINE TUB
2(i-Year-01d Mother Placed
Son Under Water Until
Me had Drowned
DIDN’T KNOW WHY
Authorities Will Itmploy an
Alienist To Test Her
Sanity Before Court
(By The Associated Press)
NIAGARA FALLS, N Y„ Aug.
5—Mrs. Susie Stephenson, aged
26, a mother whom district attor
ney Raymond Knowles, said, ad
mitted she drowned her infant
son in a washing machine is held
for further questioning. She put
her eighteen months old son Dav
id Eugene, in the machine and
held him under water several
minutes, Knowles said.
The young mother displayed
no emotion and could not give
any reason for her act. Knowles
said he would have an alienist
idetermine her mental condition.
Skunk Walked
(Bv The Associated Press)
CHATAUQUA, N. Y„ Aug. 5—
While seven thousand persons
listened to George Britton, opera
tic singer last night, a skunk
walked unto the stage of in open
air auditorium. Britton who was
singing at the time, suddenly
stopped, then hr k ■ into “1 got
plenty Nothin’, and the skunk
scurried for the woods.
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The producing gold lodes are
widely distributed through the
Territory, but nearly 75 percent
of the output in 1935 came from
lodes in southeastern Alaska,
where accessibility to deep-water
routes of c'junmunication and oth
er favorable conditions have per
mitted the successful mining of
immense tonnages of low-grade
gold ore.
The other lode-gold producing
districts of Alaska were the Wil
low Creek district, in the Cook
[nlet-Susitna region; the Fair
banks district and scattered mines
in the Nabesna and Iditarod dis
tricts; in the Yukon region; near
Valdez and in adjacent parts of
the Prince William Sound region,
the Kenai Peninsula district; the
Nixon Fork district in the Kus
kokwim regio;n and the Bremner
district, in the Copper River re
gion.
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