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HEAVY CARGO MOVEMENTS TO ALASKA
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CHICAGO, Au& 26, (IP)—Re- 1
newing the efforts\to indict Sam- i
■uel Insull, the deposed utility mag j
■nate, the government formally
asked for his arrest and extra
dition Friday. The Greek gov
ernment. to which he fled, re
fused to extradite him on charges
of larceny and embezzlement. The
new indictment seeks his return
on a charge of violating the Nat
ional Bankruptcy Act, by trans
ferring assets of the corporation in
anticipation of its collapse, which
officials say is an extradltional of
fense under the treaty between
the United States and Greece. It
is said that an effort will also be
made by the officials to bring
Insull’s brother, Martin, back
from Canada.
NATIONS SIGN
WHEAT AGREEMENT
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LONDON, Aug. 2 6, (/P)-^Twenty
one nations Friday night signed
the internatioal wheat pact aimed
to adjust the supply of wheat to
the world’s demands, and raise
and stabilize prices at a level re
numerative to the farmer- and fair
to th£ consumers The agreement
involving exporting and importlag
nations, provides that when the
prices remain at sixty-three and
two hundredths cents in U. S.
gold currency, of eighty nine cents
a bushel for four months, the im
porting nations will lower their
tariffs. The acceptance of the ag- j
reement made possible the carrying j
out o,f the program among the four!
(big exporters. United Stales, Can-1
^___ada, Argentine and Australia, to
reduce the production flfteen per,
cent.
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SWIMMER MAKES GOOD TIME
TORONTO, Aug. 26, (JP)—Ruth
Tower Corsan., of Toronto, eaptur-'
ed the Canadian National profess
ional ten mile swim in five hours,
thirty-eight minutes, and ten sec
onds, winning the three thousand
cash prize. Mrs. Evelyn Arm
strong. of Detroit, was three min
utes behind her, and was award
ed fifteen hundred. „
STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
DOING BUSINESS
9KATTIJE, Aug. 26. (JP)—With
the continuing heavy movements
of cargo to Alaska, and also the
-amount of tonnage returning frbm
Alaska, the, Alaska Steamship Com
pany is sending the Aleutian,
Tanana and Denali north Saturday.
Canned salmon and other northern
products are moving South stead
ily. _
fur market brisk
TACOtMA, Aug. 26, 0<P)—The
August sales of the Weat Coast
Fur Sales totalled twenty-seven
thousand, with buyers from the
principal centers bidding freely.
The prices held up well with to*
and martin in the strongest de
mand The shipment of small
muskrats, belg only 60 per cent
normal, was a^tiUbutefd1 to the
early freezeup in Alaska last sea
son.
For other airplane activities look
under the Telegraph Bulletin days
of the wtuk.
SURVEY BOATS RETURN
FROM. ALEl'flMANS
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SAiN 1MEGO, Aug. 26, -(/P)—Com
pleting a five months survey of the
Aleutians, the U.S.S. Gannett and
Kingfisher returned Friday night.
The Argonne, carrying two planes,
w&% used on the survey. The
Swallow, a tender ship, is enroute
to Mare Island. The Gannet and
Kingfisher came direct from the
survey area. The officers told of
surveying and sounding thousands
of miles, making innumerable
deep water soundings. They said
that the islands visited bore no
signs of civilization. The chief
animal life on the islands is foxes.
CRIME COSTING
NATION PLENTY
WASHINGTON, 'Aug. 2fi. (IP)—
Crime Is costing the matk>,n thir
teen billion annually, says the
national council of seventy-six,
formed' July fourth, by private
0itizens, seeking to arouse' the
public to the menace of orgaanized
crime.
Each year twelve' thousand per
sons are murdered, three thousand
kidnapped, a hundred thousand as
saulted, fifty thousand robbed, for
ty thousand homes and other plac
es burglarized-. More than a hun
dred million is lost through Incen
diary fires, the report said.
STOCKS CLOSK STRONG
NEW YORK. Aug. 25. (/P) —
Stocks swept forward vigorously.
The advance was based largely on
the inflationory implications at
tached to the increased credit ex
pension activities of the {Federal
Reserve System. Gains of one of
more are recorded. It w'as the
most active trading in the past
several weeks. 4,
' 111); Storin At Baldwin
R. B. Julian, in charge of the
btwnen Commercial Company’s act
ivities at Ba’dwin, Alaska, advises
by wire from Candle that the re
cent storm was the worst they
have ever experienced there. Due
to the very high tide caus'd by
tie slorm, the entire point was
covered by w'ater ig less than two
hours, carrying away all his out
door lumber stock, damaging some
cabins and floating others some
distance away. The car tracks
leading from the beach to the
cold storage were wrecked. A
foot of water stood in his store
end warehouse, and considerable
damage was done to the chilling
house.
He reports that they saved all
their boats and scows, with the ex
ception of two dories and some of
the native boats which went a
drift. The natives lost their en
tire catch of dog fish which they
had put up this summer.
Mr. Julian advises that thp nat
ives are now living at the com
pany’s large messhouse at Baldwin
and that he Is affording them every
comfort possible.
Northland Towing Good Hope
The cutler Northland left Teller
this week for Kotzebue Sound bo
pick up and tow the disabled
motorship “Good Hope back to
Nome. Engine trouble Is said to
be responsible for the mail boat’s
trouble.
Teller
(Special Nugget Correspondence)
August 21
There has been a good deal of
mining activity in the Teller sec
tion this summer. The Tweet boys
have built a dam on Deese Creek,
floated their dredge and are now
busy installing machinery Win.
McAdams with Harry Bourn and
Clarence Metcalf hive a cut on the
Bluestone in which they have been*
prospecting. Mr. McAdams has
leased two claims, on Gold Run
where he plans to have a crew of
men this winter and take out a
winter dump.
On the right fork of the Blue
Shone. J. J. O’Leary and his son,
Charles have 'been busy all sum
mer. Ou Igloo Creek, a tributary
of the Bluestone, Is Sam Date
He has been busy since early in
the spring. Ole Martinson, Hans
Thorson and Martin Corliss have
all had a good summer On Gold
Run but are waiting for rain at
the present time. Across the har
bor, the Alaska Teller Mining Com
pany, with a crew of about a doz
en men are going full force again.
They were closed down for sev
eral days repay ring some of the
machinery. Frank and Coleman
Rice are working on their prop
erty. Webb and Webster are
working with Fisher in the Fisher
Baldrich property. Wm Thomp
son has installed some new mach
inery this year and has a crew of
men at work on his property.
Frank Miller and his son, George,
Jomes Lalpiernp, John and Joe
Lewis, and a number of natives
have been prospecting in different
parts of the country. Some of
them report very good prospects.
One of the natives, Joe Hanika,
struck a place on Right Fork
where he is taking out ten cent
pans. Wm. Guisler, with one man
is continuing operations on Ofleld
Creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Burklier
and their son Gordon, who have
been spending the summer in Tel
ler. expect to return to Igloo soon.
Mrs. A V. Peterson returned
Sunday after spending several days
in Nome.
Mrs. J. I. Anderson and Miss
Edith Thompson are spending a
few days at Behring.
The Alaska Road Commission
have finished work on the road
for this year. This road goes by
way of Deeee Creek, the Blue
stone, Gold Run. There Is a good
automobile road now as far as
Deese Creek and we are in ho per
that it will eventually be contin
ued to Nome. j
Carl L«oniMj and Clinton Austin
spent several days here on busi
ess.
The Misses Ethel Marx and Ad
ella Vollmers have been camping
and picking berries on the Tuk
suk during the past week.
The people of Teller were pleas
ed to get definite word that the
“Baldwin" would make its Oct
ober trip as far North as Teller.
This late boat makes It more con
venient to ship tn meats and late
perishable goods.
Miss Helen Frost visited in Tel
ler on Sun day.
Mr. and Mrs. Jennie Olson of
the Mission have been spending the
summer in Teller.
Frederick Muller, ybtingest son
of H. Muller, passed away peace
fully during his sleep last Wednes
day night. Frederick was twelve
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years of age and seemed to*- tje In
tin- Rest of health^'when he went
to bed. He was a lively little
fellow and well liked by all who
knew' him. Besides his father,
the deceased leaves two brothers
and four sisters.
IM.AXK BRINGS MAID TODAY
Pilot Hans Mirow of the NAT/
flying a pontoon plane arrived
about 8:30 this morning front
Fairbanks via Nulato. He took
passengers from Fairbanks to
Ruby; one passenger to Kaltag,
and front Nulato he brought Bib
Dahlquist to the local hospital.
Mrs. John Fagerstrom was a pass
enger front Golovirj to Nome. Dr.
Rex F. Swartz was a returnin'
passenger to Nome front the state*
via Fairbanks. The plane also
brought 9S pounds of mail.
... Itiilihviii ri'xuliiiK at Kgavik
Due to the southeaster prevail
ing for the past several days, the
S. S. Arthur J. Baldwin has been
unable to discharge at Nome, and
to expedite delivery of her cargo
she preceeded to St. Michael, where
she has already unloaded the up
river cargo.
As the season will soon be clos
ing on the Yukon, this early de
livery of their goods at St Mich
ael will be more than appreciat
ed by the shippers in the interior,
who are reseivi.ng ’in excess of
200 tons of freight on this sailing
of the Baldwin.'^
The vessel is now discharging
at Kgavik and will then proceed
to Golovin and Bluff, arriving at
Nome Monday morning.
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Nome Girl Knroute Washington j
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Miss Kristie Sather. charming j
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Sather of Nome, and who paid
her parents a visit last winter, is
now en route to Washington. D.C.,
where she is going in connection
with her work in the office of In- J
dian Affairs. Miss Sather will
visit hes brother Lieutenant Peter
Sather at Fort Lewis, Wash., af
ter which she will continue on to
Washington, reaching there about
September 11th. Miss 'Sather has
been associated with the Office of
Indian Affairs at Juneau for the
past few years
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RKl'ORTK REINDEER TREK OK
Dr. Urquhart, Dominion Gov
ernment Representative at Aklavik,
wiped this week from Herschell
Island that he contacted Andrew
Bahr a few days previously. He
reports that everything Is satis
factory with the reindeer . herd
travelling from Alaska to Can
ada. This herd has now been on
the trail almost four years. De
livery i« assured next December.
Two of the Alaska Eskimo herders
are at Herschell Island and will
be returned to their homes at Kot
zebue. Alaska, on the first ship
sailing. This Is the first definite
word from the Canadian Drive
since last May.
Doctor Fellows of the Office of
Indian Affairs, Is making his sum
mer pilgrimage among the native
aettleraents on a trip of inspection.
He returned to Nome from Kotze
bue via plane Monday.
AN EMERGENCY TRII*
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A remarkable' example of the
groat value of the airplane to the
business interests of Alaska occ
urred recently when a broken pis
ton abruptly stopped mining oper
ations at the camp of the Alaska
Teller Mining Company. Mr. Carl
Loinen was at Teller the time
jaad awaiting an NAT plane to re
turn to Nome. He offered his ass
istance and arranged for the brok
en engine parts. Nome was reach
ed 111 forty minutes, and Gus John
son, the Lomen Commercial Com
pany’s chief machanic, was assign
ed to locate the duplicate parts,
Johnson was back In Nome by ten
o’clock that same night, having
secured the piston on one of the
nearby creeks. Again the NAT
Company responded promptly ;o
an emergency call. Early the next
morning Mr. Alfred Gomen left by
plane for Teller, and an hour later
delivered the precious engine spans
to a representative of the Alaska
Teller Mining Company. ,
Much valuable time was thus
saved, and this service was made
possible only by the airplane.
1*OIjAK YKAR AT
PT. BARROW.. ALASKA
Mr. C J. McGregor ■ ^»'ta“.
lished the 17. S. weather ftureau at
Nome some two or three years ago
and who was sent by the U. S.
government to esablish and op
erate the International Polar Year
Station at Pt. Barrow. Alaska, last
August, was a returning passen
ger to Nome via plane from
zebue last Monday.. We hope to
see Mr. McGregor stationed per
manently at Nome again.
The International Polar year
Station at Pt. Barrow was closed
August 12. 1933. The equipment
was packed and put aboard the
Cutter Northland for transportat
ion to San Francisci where Ad
miral Byrd \viif’“p’fc k Tip the Mag
netograph and Magnetic - instru
ments for use in the Antarctic this
coming year.
Following is a summary of
weather observation^1 made by him
during the polar year from August
1932 to August 1933:
Weather observations were made
every three hours. Balloon ob
servations were made every six
hours when weather permitted.
Five hundred Hnd eighty-five ball
oon observations were made. Over
foifr thousand pictures of the au
rora were made. During the win
ter the weather remained clear
for several weeks thus permitting
an excellent opportunity for > photo
graphing. Over sixty-five hun
dred measurements were made of
the aurora, and about four draw
ings. Several simultaneous pic
tures of the aurora were made
with Fairbanks and Nome.
A full set of magnetic instru
ments were maintained through the
year. These recorded declination,
inclination and horizontal intensity.
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Big league base ball players find
that they can bat the ball further
in the thin atmosphere of high al
titudes, but that there is less curve
to the pitched 'ball and that the
base runners are winded sooner.
The World War losses of France
included 1,364,000 men killed And
3„000,000 wounded. The nation
carries 700,000 permanently disab
led soldiers on her pension roils.