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VOL. 38 No. 252 NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY. AUG. 20, 1937 Per Copy lOcts
Flying Over Arctic Search Flyers
HOUSE PASSES $2,000,000 REINDEER BILL
Russian Ice Breaker Crassin Reported Near Barrow
ICEBREAKER i
IS NEARING |
PT. BARROW
—
(By The Associated "ress)
BARROW, Aug. 20, — A Sov- j
iet hydroplane with a crew of |
four men arrived here last night!
to join the search for the missing |
Russian trans-polar plane with
six men aboard.
The icebreaker Krassin was re
ported to be nearing Point Bar
through the icepack from the
Siberian coast.
The Soviet plane planned to
hop eastward to Aklavik as soon
as weather permits.
Bob Randall, Canadian pilot is
also held at Barrow by weather.
Krassin in Nome 1934
The Icebreaker Krassin, most
noted of Soviet northern craft,
arrived at Nome May 20th 1934
after having sailed around the
globe from the Baltic Sea, up thru
Bering Sea to St. Lawrence Bay,
through Bering Straits to Uelen,
Siberia and back down on the A1
askan side to pick up Soviet pil
ot Maurice Slipenev and his air
plane whioh was caught here by
the breakup.
The occasion was the rescue of
the 101 Russians left stranded on
an Arctic ice floe off Uelen, by
the sinking of the transport Chel
uiskin. Professor Otto J. Schmidt
now head of the North Pole ex
pedition, was in charge of the
expedition at the time the steamer
was crushed by the grinding ice
floes.
He was flown to Nome by pilot
Slipenev after he had contracted
pneumonia.
Paradoxically, Piot Sigismund
Levanefsky, who also flew in the
rescue of the 101 Russians from
the ice in 1934, is now lost some
where in the Arctic region, and
the Krassin is enroute to that
area to serve as a base for the
gigantic aerial search now being
planned.
The Krassin, without doubt the
most powerful ship afloat for cruis
ing in Arctic regions, was the
object of interested Nomeites in
1934. From that experience came
more vigorous demands that the
United States construct such an
ice-breaker for use along the
Alaska Arctic coast.
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SAILING STAR.
Simone Simon, French actress,
lodged autograph fans, and
lucked herself in her cabin but
otherwise was happy on her sail
ng from New Fork for a Paris
visit with her mother.
Storm Prevents
Tourists Attend.
A storm springing up today
caused Arctic Cruisers to be call
ed back to the Victoria, alter they
had come ashore this morning
and were taking in events of the
fair, following their return from
St. Michael.
Much disappointment was ex
pressed at being unable to attend
this evening’s functions. The Vic
sailed for Teller and East Cape.
MATTERN HOPS
FIRST SEARCH
RUSSIANS
Will Cruise Out Over The
Arctic Oc.: Expected
Return Tonight
(Bv The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 20—(Special
to the Nome Nugget)—Mattern
and Jones and radio man John
Stump left here at 11:10 a.m. to
day to fly to the Arctic Coast,
thence several hundred miles ov
er the Arctic Ocean. They expect
to return to Fairbanks tonight.
Smirnov, the Russian agent,
.leaves here tomorrow to fly to
AklavMk, where he will establish
a radio base.
Fairbanks News-Miner.
Insurgent Troops
Destroy Defenses
(By The Associated Press)
HENDAYE, Spain, Aug. 20, —
General Franco’s legions slogged
through the mud of the Biscay
an hill country toward apparent
ly doomed Santander.
The drive was confined to in
fantry attacks against the last
strands of the government de
fensive.
Thick fog and a driving rain
throughout the southern sector
grounded the insurgent aerial ar
mada, while Franco’s field pieces
were useless in the low visibility.
FAIR OPENS:
BOOTHS ARE
ATTRACTION
The Northwestern Alaska Fair
and Mid-Summer Festival grand
opening occurred last evening,
following a unique and spectac
ular outdoor parade in which nu
merous floats and native groups
participated.
Promptly at nine p.m.. Presi
dent L. E. Rynning of the North
western Alaska Fair Association,
on behalf of the directors bid
welcome to a fair sized audience,
I and told of the purposes of the
! f air and the financial assistance
given by tihe territory to help
make fairs held in each of the
four divisions of Alaska possible.
President Rynning then announc
ed the following program:
1.—Demonstration of Camp Fire
Council by a group of the local
chapter of Camp Fire Girls.
2— Reading, a monologue, by
Georgia Slack, entitled “Epandi
mondas.'’
3— Skit, by five young ladies,
entitled, “Abdul Abulbul Amear.'1
4— Introducing the "auto-glide"
to a Nome audience.
All of which was greatly enjoy
ed by those present.
The announcement that a live
porcupine caught yesterday after
noone and placed on exhibition
at the rear of the hall, caused a
grand rush to the glass case, by
young and old. After clearing
away the chirs from the center of
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Earthquake Hits
Manila: Terror
Damage Result
(By Tne Associated Press)
MANILA. P. I. Aug. 20. — A
sharp earthquake swayed Manila
late tonght, shortly after Ameri
can refugees from Shanghai had
anded in the city from the Pres
ident Jefferson.
Residents fled their homes and
hotels into darkened streets, on
many of which light wiles lay in
a tangled mess.
Many fires started throughout
the city. The shocks were the
worst felt in forty years, which
added to the panic.
Several Large buildings and a
number of churches were dam
aged. Other major structures
swayed noticeably.
There were many injured per
sons, but no deaths have been
reported in the confusion follow
ing the first shock, which was at
8:00 p.m. The second tremor add
ed new' terror. Twenty minutes
later shocks were felt at least
two hundred miles away.
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HOUSE PASSES
REINDEER BILL
MUCH DEBATE
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D. C., Aug. 20,
—-The House approved, after
more than three hours debate, the
Senate bill, which advocates said
'would have the effect of “giving
! Alaska’s reindeer back to the na
J tives".
^ The measure, offered by Sen
ator Schwellenbach in the senate
[and by Delegate Dimond in the
'House, met with strong Republi
can opposition, on the grounds it
would put the government into
the reindeer business.
The bill will give to the Sec
retary of the Interior, authority
to purchase and acquire the pow
er of public domain of the rein
deer. rang eequipment and other
property necessary to carry on
the reindeer industry. These in
turn will be passed on eventual
ly to the natives of Alaska.
The measure was returned to
the Senate for action on minor
amendments. It carries a two mil
lion dollar appropriation, to car
ry out the provisions of the act.
Shell Landed on
Deck of Augusta
Kills One Cob
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Aug. 20, — One
U. S. sailor, Freddie Falgout, of
Raceleed. Florida, was killed and
eighteen injured, not seriously,
when an anti-aircraft shell of un
determined origin struck on the
after-well deck of the cruiser
Augusta, flagship of the Asiatic
Fleet.
The Augusta was lying in the
Whangpoo river, a little down
stream from the heart of the in
ternational settlement, covering
the evacuation of American re
fugees.
The shell plunged from a high
angle. Both Japanese and Chinese
artillery and anti-aircraft batter
ies were firing furiousy at the
time.
The shel struck at 6:40 p.m.,
shortly before three other big
shells believed to have oome from
Chinese guns concealed on roof
tops in the northern Chapei ar
ea, plunger into the river clom
to the cruiser.
The crew of eight hundred goba
were ordered to shelter below
decks.
At least one-fourth of the city
of Shanghai is beliveed afire.