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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 38 No. 226 NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY JULY 31 1937 ^ Per Copy lOcta
America’s Cup Race Begins Today
SCIENTIFIC^ PARTIES LEAVE FOR BARROW
4-Motored Soviet Passenger Plane Ready For Hop
ENGLAND'S HOPE
The new Endeavour II is shown under sail off Newport, R. I. The
craft was built to the full “J” class limit. It represents Britain’s six
teenth challenge. Two years ago Endeavour I took two successive
^ races, later to be vanquished by Harold Vanderbilt’s Rainbow.
N A V I G A T O R .
Flight Lieut. James Scarlett ar
rived at New York ready to
navigate Endeavour n, British
yaeht entry for the America’!
cup.
Returning to U. S.
(Bv The Associated Press)
BERLIN, July 31—Mrs. Bruno
Hauptmann is on her way back
to the United States to continue
her efforts to clear the name of
her husband, executed for the
killing of Charles Augustus Lind
bergh Jr. She is aboard the liner
Bremen due in New York on
Monday.
Wilkins Announces
Submarine Under
Construction Now
fHv The Associated Press'
NEW YORK, July 31—Sir Hu
bert Wilkins, noted Polar explor
er, said construction has begun
secretly in a British shipyard on
a submarine which he hopes to
cruise under Polar ice. The cost
of the submarine fully outfitted
will be one hundred and fifty
(Continued on Page Four)
Weather today
(U S. Weather Bureau)
Cloudy and unsettled weather
continues over western and south
western Alaska this morning with
low clouds and fog in the vicinity
of Nulato. Rain was falling at
Kodiak Island and had fallen dur
ing the night in southeastern Al
aska. Fair skies are observed
over central and northern Alaska.
Temperatures remain above nor
mal over -western Alaska.
An extensive area of low baro
metric pressure still cavers the
Bering Sea and is centered near
9t. Paul Island. This condition
will likely be attended by unset
tled weather with occasional rain
tonight and Sunday and contin
ued mild temperature.
The lowest Nome temperature
last night was 50 above and the
highest yesterday 60. Rainfall .54
hundrelths of an inch at 1 a.m.
America s Cup Race
Being Run Off
Newport Now
VANDERBILT’S “RANGER” IS
MATCHED WITH SOPWITH’S
BOAT— “ENDEAVOR II”
(By The Associated Press)
NEW PORT. R. I., July 31—The
million dollar yacht racing duel
! for the world famed America's
; cup will be renewed ov this port
today (Saturday), wind and wea
ther permitting, with two of the
Keenest rivals in sailing history
handling two of the fastest J-class
sloops ever constructed.
Harold Vanderbilt No. 1 man
if America’s big boat skippers,
|will put his new Ranger against
Endeavour 2nd. owned and sailed
by Thomas Octave Murdoch Sop
..1.1’., the British airplane builder. J
Dr. Levine And
Dr. Foord ^ill
Do work Barrow
Arriving at Nome last evening
on the U. S Coast Guard Cutter
Northland, from Dutch Harbor,
was Dr. Victor E. Levine and
Delbert C. Foord. the latter is
from the University of California.
Dr. Levine who is well known in
Nome, having spent considerable
time in this section following the
big fire of 1934. studying health
conditions among the Eskimos,
is now enroute to Pt. Barrow, the
most northwesterly point of Un
cle Sam's possessions, where he
and Mr. Foord will carry on dur-j
ing the next year a general health
survey among the Eskimo of the
northland country under the aus
pices of the United States Public
Health Department.
They are taking with them on
the cutter Northland, leaving to
day for Barrow and intermediate
ports, $20,000 worth of equip
ment, including a modem X-ray
machine and numerous other
scientific apparatus with which to
carry on their scientific study of
the Eskimo’s health, past, present
and future.
It was first planned to station
Dr. Levine and his assistant on
King Island during the time of
Father Bernard Hubbard’s exped
ition’s stay on that island this
winter, and unless there is anoth
er change made in the next few
weeks, Dr. Levine will winter at
Point Barrow, where his work
will cover a larger field of en
deavor.
TRIAL SCENE.
Slim and graceful, the Ranger
appear here in a trial run off
Newport.
Telegraphic Briefs
(By The Associated Press)
PfiLPING. July 31—Japanese
machine guns sprayed destruc
tion in the ranks of retreating
Chinese troops West of Peiping as
the Japanese war machine vir
tually compelled an encirclement
of the ancient capital. A battle
is in prograss northwest of Shin
ya, where two thousand Japanese
locked with division 29 of the
Chinese army.
_
HENDAYE. July 31—Spanish
government sources asserted that
revolt is spreading thru the In
surgent rear guard, discontent
mushroomed into open fighting
with Franco forces on the south
ern coast.
WASHINGTON, July 31st-^J.
Monroe Johnson, Asst. Sec. Dept,
of Commerce, said that experts
will help Jimmy Mattern prepare,
a Polar flight next spring and to!
make preliminary surveys in Al
aska to locate possible ground,
bases.
LOS ANGELES, July 31—Roy
Ward, aged 38, a former jockey,
who is being held by police as a
fugitive from Chicago on a sus
picion of murder, after he told
Detective Lieut. Fred Trosper, he
fired the shot that killed Alfred
Jake Wingle, a Chicago newspa
per reporter in 1930.
Detective Trosper declared that
there were discrepancies in Roy
Ward’s story.
PLANS NEAR END FOR
THIRD SOVIET PLANE
MAKE FLIGHT TO U S
(By The Associated Presst
FAIRBANKS. July 31st—Two
Soviet technicians worked hur-,
riedly and secretly on an airplane
refueling base here yesterday,
presumably for another trans
Polar flight from Moscow to the
United States. It was reported
that a four motored passenger
plane was ready to take off from
Moscow with Sigismiund Levan
evsky. the famous Russian flier at
the controls.
JUNEAU, July 31—Leo Chvat,
aviation correspondent for the
Moscow Pravda, arrived here this
morning from Seattle via chart
iered plane, and leaves again this
afternoon on a Pacific Alaska Air
ways plane for Fairbanks, to re
j port the third Soviet Polar flight.
He has only been in the United
States 2d days and knew nothing
, of tlie flight until he arrived. Mr.
Chvat must return to Moscow by
August 25th it is learned, but the
route he will take was not given
out for publication at this time.
Father Hubbard
And Party Heads
For Pt. Barrow
Bather Bernard Hubbard, the
Glacier Priest, was aboard the
Cutter Northland today enroute
to Point Barrow on a visit of the
northern sections.
Also aboard the Coast Guard
vessel were Dr. Victor E. Levien
of Creighton University and Del
bert C. Foord, df the University
of California, who will carry on
medical research work, this win
ter at Point Barrow, for the Pub
lic Health Service.
In addition Government Nurse
Miss Mildred "Buster” Keaton, is
making the trip to Barrow, on an j
annual inspection of her wards in
that district.
At King Island Father Hubbard
will pick up his two aides, Ken
neth Chisholm and Edgar Levan.
They will accompany him to Bar
row and return.
Before leaving Father Hubbard
stated that his expedition for
King Island now has on hand 300,
000 feet of motion picture film
and 10,000 negatives for still pic
tures.
Father Hubbard, when ques
tioned regarding a rumor that he
might visit Wrangell Island, said:
BLONDYS BACK.
New York greeted Mrs. Beryl
Markham as "Blundy” when she
made a solo flight from England.
Now she's made her first ship
crossing to shop for a plane.
Trucking Strike
Philadelphia Is
Resulting Riot
(By Trie Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA. July 31—Six
guards, escorting trucks hauling
produce for the Great Atlantic
and Pacific Tea Company, were
injured, four seriously, m fresh
outbreaks of violence of the
truckdrivers strike. Their skulls
were fraotured.
The pair told police that they
were attacked by forty men, as
they drove to a gasoline service
station, and were dragged, from
the automobile and beaten with
baseball bats.
(Bv The Associated Pressi
NEW YORK. July 31st—Five
thousand men and women picket
ed WPA headquarters protesting
the recent WPA dismissals.
“I do not know of any plans to
visit there at this time.”
Following return of the North
land and the Father Hubbard
party, which also includes his
nephew Kenneth Bernard, they
will stop over at Nome for a cou
ple of weeks, and then leave for
King Island on their final trip
this year, remaining there until
the fall of 1938. Most of the pro
visions and supplies necessary for
the year and a half stay on the
island, during which the party
will observe the habits and life
of the King Island Eskimos, have
been deposited there.
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