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MATTERN SAFE BUT PLANE WRECKED
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MATTE TIN'S PLANE WKWKKl)
Accurtlln? to a -inesSilgg picked
up in Nome last night by an ama
teur it is learned that the Anadyr
radio station sent out a message
which was broadcasted in the hopes
tbs't the Nome station migt pick it
arp. The information was to the
effect that Mattern's plane was
wrecked about 80 mile? from Ana
dyr and that he was found July
5th' and taken to Anadyr where h
annouced to the world tat he was
safe. The message also said that
h*= was uninjured.
RKLIKF PLANS V VDKKWAY
From' advices received today it
is learned that the relief plane is
still in British Columbia' awaiting
orders from Mattern. t An NAT
pontoon plane may be sent from
Nome to Anadyer to bring Mat
tf rn here. Providing a plane does
not. make the trip it is likely that
the cutter Northland may he re
qli esfed f 6 bring Maft ern to No in e.
Now that Mattern is safe plans
are going slowly ahead to finally
bring him back.
NORTHIiANB MAY SAJI.
FOR ANADYR
WASHINGTON. July 8, (£»)—
The Coast Guard headquarters
said Friday night tha- definite ad
viies were awaited from Mattern
as to wether he needed immediate
a.ssistanie, before negotiations
would be started through diplo
ma tii channels for sending the
cutter Northland to Anadyr. They
-,said, however, that the Northland
■would be sent, sould need arise.
ALASKAN WILL WED
MONTANA (URL
TACOMA, July 7. t/P)—A mar
riage license was issued to Elmer
J. Cat on of Anchorage, to wed
Mary K. Fox. of Forsythe. Mon
tana .
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STOCK! pKSSION BUOYANT
NEW YOHK, July 7, (/P) Pro
fit taking stemmed one of the most
bpoyant stock sessions of the year.
The leading issues, afier cancel
ling the earlier profits of one to
four, or more, turned around' in
the last few minutes and gained
some of the yielded territory.
They closed moderately irregular.
<»OIjD Bl.OP JAtSKS FIGHT
LONDON. July 7. (ff) —The
European gold bloc lost the fight
for the inclusion of monetary
questions in the renovated agenda
of the World Economic Conferen
ce, when the sub-committee on im
mediate measures for financial re
construction voted to discontinue
the discussion of monetary pro
blems. It will be threshed out by
the steering committee. The
French fear that Britain is on the
verge of breaking openly with the
gold bloc and casting its lot with
the American inflation program.
The British deserted the French
yesterday on the question of ad
journment. The French today
found the pound falling, the first
time in .months.
For other airplane aetleltlee loofc1
tinder tld Telegraph Bulletin day*
- of the wsek.
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'VICTORIA NAI liKI> FOR
\O.Mi: THURSDAY KVKNINli
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I* SKATTL.K, July 7, (/Pi The
IS. S. Victoria of tlie Alaska I/ine,
I sailed from here for Nort hern
points at five P.M yesterday with
I 44 passengers. The vessel will
'call at Sand Point. Dutch Harbor,
! Nakeen, Nome St Michael ami
Golovin. The trip is expected to
Make ten days. Following ur<> the
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i 32 Nome passengers.
Oh as I) Brower
Jennie ..Brower
Marie Brower
George L Davis
Andrew Nyland
M rs M P(*wel 1
M P Selivanoff
James Keenan & wife
Ira I). Orton
Mrs G K Jackson
T K (’hang
S W Taggert
Mrs O (’ochran
Miss ('cirdley
L . -Mrs- Joe Wallace -— -
Miss Evelyn Wallace
A G Blake
Mrs. W Haerring
Miss Mae Wilder
August Romtoerger
Mrs. Emma Korsgreu
J Bain
N Delauro
W W Nurf
R W Rasmussen
W, L Slack
J Fitzgerald
J Galvin j
Sister Mary Louise
Sis'ter Lattrentine
There is one name missing in i
the list.jt. ,
P.OTKKEELLER TO
( El/ERUATE RIRTHDA V
TARRYTOWN. N. Y.. July S.
•(/P)—A dinner party today, with j
'three generations of the family
present, will lie John I). Rocke
feller’s only departure from liisj
routine. This is the ninety-fourth
anniversary of his birth, and its
observance will he even simpler
than in reecnt >;ears.
OLD SKIPPER
NEARLY DROW.VKI)
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““Tacoma. July 8. </pi—.1.
jO'Brien, aged severity-five.- a San
Fraacisean whi narrowly, escaped
(from drowning Tuesday, when he
fell off the dock, identified himself
Friday as the captain of tire Puget
Sound Alaska Service of eaTl.y
days He said he was master of
the City of Seattle and five years
later commanded the old Dolphin.
He was paid off here this week
as second officer of the freighter
West Ira. He was released from
the hospital Friday to go home to
friends in Seattle.
BANDITS USH «IRUS
AH BUliLKT HHIKLDS
ClilNTON. Okla.. July 6. (/P)
Having obtained more than $11,
000 in cash and $2,000 In bonds
in a raid on the First National
Bank of Clinton, five robbers ab
ducted two girl clerks of the in
stitution. (Georgia boving and
Thelma Sneelefreed. and used them
as shields against the gunfire of
police officers After releasing
>the girls several blocks from the
ibank. the robbers effected their
escape.
RAISE IN l*KI(IS I’UUKKTEIt
IVONTXXS'. July S t/P) A raise'
in prices in both the British pound
sterling and the American dollar,
by experts, as Great Britain for
sook the gold Ibior and stood by
the American program »it.i the
World Economic Conference. Even
high ■gold hide authorities admitt
ed that this may he the c.onsdqne
nces of te' latest battle over the
continuation of the full confer
ence agenda.
t'01*l*Klt HIGH KMT
|N TWO YEA Its
N'KW YORK, July s. i/p)—.Dom
estic copper sold for nine cents, up
half a . cent from Thursday. It is.
the highest in two years.
ROOSEVKI/r IHtAT'TS
<N»NFBRKNrE MESSAGE
WASHINGTON, July S. (4b A
message outlining the plan of this
govern mehf for an •*Tiit**u vbr to
raise world prices as an immediate
objective for the World Economic
Conference, was drafted Friday
night by Roosevelt, for dispatch to
the American delegation. Detail of
the plan "'ill he made public from
London.
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CAPTAIN MURRAY'S
FUNERAL TODAY’
SEATTLE, July 7. (4b -The
funeral of Captain John Murray,
aged sixty-three, who died June
25 while operating the steaiyer
Keno, on the Stewart River, will
be held here today. The body
arrived from Dawson last nigh’,
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MAYOR OF NOME DEAD
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PITTSBURGH. July 5. (4b— !
Harry Campbell, aged seventy-two,]
reported to be the first mayor of
Nome, died aftei a short illness. ]
He was a resident of his birth
place, Morgantown, West Virgin
ia, where he will be buried.
In the early days of the Klon
dvke gold rush. Campbell went
North to seek his fortune. The
prospectors and traders of Nome
elected him ak its first mayor.
-He ret tinted home after- the rush
and was employed by the Morgan
town Glass Company for about
forty years.. A widow and five
children survive him.
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AMERICA WILL
MAKE PROPOSALS
LONDON. July 7. Aine-iesi a
first big contr liuflon to the re
vived World Economic Conference,
which her del gates saved from
death, is exneced to he a .sen
sational proposal for world wide
action shortening the hours ■. of
labor, increasing wages and rais
ing agricultural prices. The dele
gatest, are working on a drafc-o* the
proposal. While the entire group
have not approved it yet. its spon
sors said that they (believed it
would be presented to the confer
ence shortly.
The conference radiated an at
titude of purposeful adivity, which
has been lacking in the past few
days.
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ATLANTA. July 7. |,P) rJ;itm'<
|j’' vni Hiiwen. ti mariners son and a
[high school boy- who helped to
I kidnap John Ottley. a sixtv-five
yea’ old hanker and' sportsman,
said that .lie did it so that he
could vain the victims gratitude
4>y helping him escape. He offered
to help hunt for his companion in
tlie a.lxliicMon, The youth told the
officers that the older man engineer"
ed |he plot. The banker was hail
ed by a fruit peddler as be drove
to work, who poked a gun in his
ribs. Ife was driven to the woods
near Suwanee and forced to write
a forty thousand ransom note to
libi wife. The peddler . left with
r a*
the. note. Oft ley talked the hoy
into letting him loose.
(OMPTKOM.lin ISSI'KS <’.\IX
WASH IXHTOX. July 7. f/P)-•
The Comptsnljer of P'trreiicy issued,
a call conditional that all National
blinks close business Friday. June
noth.
KAKLKY FALLS S.VLLI.
ATTAFK MKRK l>ll»
' A SI f l N (! TON .Inly U. ,/!>)—
‘ .iuk*. a ni Moss. reckless exhibi
tion of petty, partisan politics" ;
was the way Postmaster General.
James A. Farley today character-;
ized the criticism of the admin
istration made a week ago by Hep- 1
reseritat i ve II Snell of New York,
Republican", leader iu the House. i
The I ’o.Umaster- General declar-i
ed 'the country as a whole was I
marching solidly behind -President j
Roosevelt and was rejoicing in the]
generous and continuous revival .of j
business.
Mr. Fat ley said the attack pro-j
sumalbly wn.- Intended yis the op j
ening gun of -the next Coiigiv
o i
siona.l campaign. He .called if a j
dud. i
lie assorted the people wou'lj
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not countenance olwt.,rucition,s in J
the Administration's policies. He i
declared Ire felt no need jo'answi'j I
Representative Snell's attack ip de
tail. contending it yvrrs' being an
swered daily “by reports of steady
Lises -in commodity--urricesr -reopen
ing of factories, increases in em
ployment and wages and hi the
^rebterruen t of railroad business,
the improvement of retail trade
and advaiK es iu quotations on se
curities."
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I’OHT IS KKAJIV IN>U
HIS SOLO WOHI.lt PIIGHT j
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NEW YORK, July 6, i/Pl Wiley,
Post, famous aviator, and his
Hockhead Vega monoplane “Winnie
Mae,” are im Yew York ready 10
start en his solo flight around the
world as soon as he makes'minor
compass adjustments and as soon
as the weather is favorable.
The route of the flight will be
virtually the samtt as Post and
Gatby took in 1931. when they
circled the globe in the record time
of 8 days. 15 hours and 51 min
utes,, namely, from New York to
Europe, thence- to Siberia^ Alaska,
Canada and the States Mck to
New York.
Two stops are scheduled in Al
aska, Nome r.nd Fairbanks.
SOURDOUGH.. STATIONERY FOR
SALE AT THE NUGGET OFFIOH.
1.1SS|,\\S \\ Hill TONS
agiu;i; to Titvih: again
MOSCOW, July fi. (/P)—.With th •
u.-f from a soviet prison of the
two British r electrical engineer?,
1- C, Thorgton and W.L. AfacDoio ,
i hi who had bee,, convicted of
sabotage, trade relations have befen
.resumed between Russia and Great
Britain.
The two Britons, who were
ftmird guilty by a Russian court of
having cqnnnitted sabotage in a
Moscow factory, which was engag
'd on government work, were re
leased before the expiration of the
terms fixed by .the court.
At the time of the passing of
the sentences on the two Britons,
Kngland, which claimed the char
ges were unwarranted and the
trial unfair, broke off trade with
the Russians and declared they
would not he resumed until th“
two prisoners were restored to
liberty.
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KX-A li.XSKA X D1KS
SKATTLK. July t>. (/{*)—Kugone
AR Blackwell, Ml years aid. died
Monday in Seattle of ailyfiit- ia
* dent to advanced age tHig fu ,~
,^rai was held toduN. ^Mr.*' Black
well was a pioneer of the North.
For a long tinie tie was engaged iu
the dttrio business in Alaska. He
is survived hv three sisters and
four gra iidchildren.
HOOT GlltNOV IS liAOl.V
Hl'RT IN A Kltl A I, HACK
LOS ANGKLHK. July 6. (A5) -
Hoot (ilhsou who rode to fame in
motion pietiire^ on a*- horse and
tpok ui> flying as a -pastime, was
seriously injured in 'a match air
race late Monday against Ken May
nard. another screen actor-, who is
an aviation enthusiast. The two
were competing .for a . trophy don
ated by Will Rogers, t inema star
and bnmorisf , •
Gibson suffered a i incursion of
the brain, spyere cuts and- font us- .
ions. He is report efl by at ten d
ing physirmu- to to- I'l-ding easily.
NKW OKKH’KK To
RATTI.K G A SGI,AND
WASHINGTON. July f>. (IP)—
Joseph H. Keenan, law vet* of Cleve
land, was appointed Monday to be
assistant attorney general. He
will lead the government's efforts
to quell the activities of organiz
ed crime. He declared he would
go after gangland's leadership first..
Attorney General Homer S. Cum
mings promised that the drive
against gangsters would he thor
ough and intensive evert if it should
not he spectacular.
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CliOSK TO *150,000,000
WASHINGTON, July, 6, (£>)—
In tiha revived beer business, now
some three months, old, Uncle Bam
has his fourth largest source of in
come. From the beverage, the
monthly revenue receipts are av
eraging cloRe to the annual yield
of *125,000,000 to *150,000,000
that was estimated by federal of
ficials when legalization of the
ibrew was under consideration by
Congress.
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