AIRPLANE WEATHER FLIGHTS
TO COMMENCE AT FAIRBANKS
TOMORROW GILLAM AIRWAYS
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FLIGHTS TO BE MADE TWICE DAILY TO AN
ALTITUDE 16,500 FEET TO GET RECORDS
FOR CHARTING COLD WAVES
A contract has been let by the
United States Weather Bureau to
Crillam Airways of Cordova, Al
aska, for making airplane-weath
er flights twice daily from Sep
tember 15, 1936, to March 15th,
1937, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
The purpose of the flights are
to obtain data for assisting fore
casters in the United States in
determining the movement of
cold-waves. It is merely an ex
periment authorized under the
Bankhead-Jones Act of Congress
lor Scientific Research. The pro
ject at Fairbanks is estimated to
cost between thirty and forty
thousand dollars. A similar pro
ject is located at Sault Ste. Mar
ie Michigan. An unsuccessful at
tempt was made last winter to
establish a project at Fort Smith,
McKenzie Province in Canada. If
the work is beneficial it is very
likely that it will be made per
manent.
The work is under the direc
tion of W. B. Drawbaugh, meteor
ologist, from the airway division
in Washington, D. C., and efforts
were made to secure the services
of Thomas Hayward, Nome Meteo
rologist during the 6 months per
iod.
The contract calls for the plane
to attain a height of 16,500 feet.
If the ceiling is 1200 feet or over,
the pilot must take off and attem
pt to reach the maximum alti
tude. Deductions are made in
pay if the desired altitude is not
reached. Self recording instru
ments are attached and record
barometric pressure, humidity
and temperature. The data ob
tained is telegraphed to outside
stations.
Scientific data observed will
also prove helpful for airway
service in Alaska.
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German Airline
Is Flying Boats
By Way Azores
(By Tne Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, —Seek
ing to make the second East to
West trans-Atlantic flight, Mark
Awolus flying a boat of the Ger
man International Airline, “Luf
thansa,” reported at the half-way
point of its flight from the Azores
to Bermuda at 8:30 A. M., EST.
this morning.
The ten ton sister ship Zephyr
landed at Port Washington, New
York, last night completing its
first non-stop flight from the Az
ores to the United States. Both
planes were catapulted from the
base ship Schwabenland, off the
1 Azore Islands.
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Schools Through
Taxes Paid
The present high academic sta
nding of Alaska’s schools is large
ly due to adequate financial sup
port from the territorial treasury,
Anthony E. Karnes, Commissioner
of Education, declared in an in
terview. He pointed out that ap
proximately three quarters of
the school income is derived from
taxes paid by the canned salmon
industry.
“That excellent work is being
done in the schools of the Terri
tory is demonstrated by the fact
that graduates of our high schools
are admitted to leading state uni
versities in the United States with
out examination,” Karnes said.
“This gives definite proof of the
high caliber of the teaching and
equipment of Alaska’s schools.
“Another indication of the qual
ity of Alaskan education is the
fact that it is now possible to
hire an increasing number of tea
chers for our schools whose pre
liminary education was in the Ter
ritory.
“Teachers, schools, and acade
mic work in general, however,
are very definitely dependent up
on adequate financial support.
While Mark Hopkins may have
I been correct when he said the
ideal school was a log with a good
teacher at one end and an eager
student at the other, neverthe
less it is necessary under present
day conditions to supply some
what more expensive facilities in
the form of classrooms, laborator
its, books, and so on, to give our
children adequate educational
training.
“The people of Alaska should
rcalire that the schools of the Ter
ritory are dependent to a very
great extent upon taxes paid into
the Territorial Treasury by the
canned salmon industry. About
three quarters of the income of
the schools in the incorporated
towns comes from these taxes, and
without this support the schools
of Alaska could not maintain
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BERING SEA ROUTE SAILING SCHEDULE
Leave Seattle
S. S. VICTORIA . Oct. 7
(NOTE: All sailings subject to change without notice.)
Sailing Schedule for Southeastern & Southwestern Alaska Ports
Northbound Southbound
Leave Arrive Arrive Leave Leave Leave
Seattle Juneau Seward Seward Juneau Cordova
S S Yukon Sept. 5 Sept. 8 Sept. 11 Sept. 11 Sept. 14
S S Alaska Sept. 12 Sept. 15 Sept. 18 Sept. 18 Sept. 21
S S Yukon Sept. 19 Sept. 22 Sept. 25 Sept. 25 Sept. 28
S S Alaska Sept. 26 Sept. 29 Oct. 2 Oct. 2 Oct. 5
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Father Coughlin
Tells Christian
ity Is Crucified
(By The Associated Press)
RIVERSIDE PARK, Chicago,
3ept. 10. — Christianity is being
crucified between the two thieves
jf Communism and modern capi
talism, Father Charles Coughlin,
political minded priest, told a
crowd of 80,000 persons here. De
nial of press reports that the Va
tican had asked him to moderate
his political activity almost par
ticipated a mob attack on the re
porters present, but after making
the denial the priest restrained
the crowd, which had advanced
menacingly toward the press box.
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Telegraphic Briefs
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, Sept. 12, — Premier
Blum was told by a delegation
that the Leftists were working
a plane in the Renault auto fact
ory outside of Paris, for an ex
periment in industrial Sovietism.
MARSHFIELD, Ore., Sept. 100.
—W. E. Marrion tapped a natural
gas deposit at a depth of 1113 feet
in the Coquille Valley. The out
put is estimated at 1,000,000 cub
ic feet daily.
NEWPORT, N. J„ Sept. 10. —
Ann Holmes Hamilton, who was
born in 1331. celebrated her 105th
birthday with a dinner of tea
and bacon. Her great ambition,
sh? said, was to own one of those
electric ice boxes.
CHICASAW, Sept. 10. — Eigh
teen year old Louis Pinion whose
automobile killed two young girls
last winter, was killed when he
leaped from a moving truck and
fell under it.
:heir present high academic stan
dards,"Karnes said. “The fact that
the opening of schools follows the
close of the packing season has
more significance than merely the
passage of time. Without the fi
; uncial support from the fishing
and packing of Alaska’s salmon,
e schools would not be the high
ranking educational institutions
they are today.
Not only that, but many fami
lies would be unable to keep
1 heir children in attendance. I
personally know of many families
.l ing the coast from Ketchikan
to Anchorage who are able to
keep their children in school be
cause of the opportunity for work
in the canneries and in fishing
during the salmon run.”
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