THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager
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AIRPORT ACTIVITY CALLS FOR
MODERN SERVICE
The busiest transport center in Fairbanks is the
municipal airport. And that means the busiest traffic
spot in all Interior Alaska.
With a score of planes buzzing in and out of the port
on such a day as this—when planes took off for nearly
every Alaska mining camp and major interior town—
the place fairly hummed with the going and coming of
taxis, and the movements of travelers.
It is obvious to any observer that passengers need
conveniences at an airport quite as much as they do at
a railroad station. Every reason, therefore, why Fair
banks should have a municipal air depot building, with
waiting rooms and comfort rooms. The day is past
when the numerous travelers coming here to spend
their money and enrich the city should be left to shiver
in the cold while planes warm up and they await con
nections.
The time is here to plan conveniences to serve all
established and itinerant planes.—Fairbanks News
Miner.
TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION
Misfortune has overtaken Amelia Earhart Putnam
on her projected world flight after setting a record from
Oakland to Honolulu- a distance she spanned in 15 hours
and 51 minutes. An accident at the take-off in the Ha
waiian city and the equitorial globe-girdling venture is
off at least until repairs have been made. The plucky
little flier says it is merely postponment, not cancella
tion.
But in this flight, as has been revealed in mnay oth
ers, the important thing is not the time she made in the
best plane money can buy across the Pacific, or what
may be learned from the causes of the crackup itself.
Rather one little line in the news dispatch telling of her
safe arrival in Honolulu carried a world of information.
It read:
“Throughout the night, she radioed occasional posi
tions and gave frequent assurances that all was well.”
In those words can be found the life blood of com
mercial aviation, aside from the airplane itself—two
way radio communication. That is today one of the
major safeguards to air Passengers and the pilots. Par
ticularly in Alaska can we realize its value when every
now and then we get the report that this pilot and that
is overdue. With but rare exceptions the pilots and their
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‘passengers are usually all right, having been forced
down temporarily by weather, but without radio com
munication to inform the world, there naturally is anx
iety. Often searching partigs are sent out before it is
definitely learned that “all is well.”
An example close at hand occurred recently near
Juneau. Sheldon Simmons, Juneau pilot, was held up
at Chichagof with the result that he was overdue at his
base here. There was no means of radio communica
; tion. The hangar crew was warming up another plane
to begin a search when the overdue pilot was sighted
over the Douglas hills.
There are innumerable similar instances almost
daily over the entire Territory. The solution- of course,
is two-way radio communication, a radio transmitter
and receiver on the Plane and ground stations which
can be contacted at all times, instead of certain desig
nated times as at present.
The regular session of the Legislature enacted into
law what was known as the Ross bill, aimed to that
end. If it is carried out to the letter, with emphasis
on the radio features which are incorporated in the bill,
it will be one of the greatest boons to air travel that
Alaska has ever enjoyed.
Most of us recall the first oceanic hops. Many start
1 ed out and never were heard of again. Some succeed
ed to win flying fame. Now Miss Earhart, one of those
pioneers herself, wings across the Pacific and during
the entire flight is in touch with ground stations. Es
tablished air passenger liners operate on the same prin
cipal. Every airplane which carries a passenger should
, be so equipped.—Juneau Daily EmPire.
MASQUERADE
The public spirited lady met the little boy on the
street, and the following conversation took place:
“Little boy, have you a home? ’ »
“Yes ma’am.”
“And loving parents?”
“Yes’m.”
“Will you ask your mother to come and hear m? talk
on ‘When Does a Mother’s Duty to Her Child Begin?’
next Monday afternoon?”
“What’s the matter with you, Maw! Don’t you
know your little boy!”
Now that Mae West is collecting diamonds, she pro
bably is more particular in her invitations to “Come
up and see me sometime.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
After 70, take it from the New Dealers, you’re just
a venerable egg.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.—but that
does not hold good in Alaska, because that is just when
they are getting good.—Nome Nug'get.
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st the Northwestern Alaska Fair
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sent them to the Secretary as
soon as possible.
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may exchange their check for a
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tracted in connection with the
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this year, are requested to sub
mit them as soon as possible to
Secretary-Treasurer Cappy Mc
Dougall, for presentation to the
Board of Directors and approval
for payment.
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ESKIMO ART TO BE
STUDIED BY SCIENTIST
Ethnologist From Germany Is In
Fairbanks Enroute To North
West Coast and Pt. Barrow
Ethnologist Hans HimmeLhebe."
of Karlsruhe, Germany, arrived
in Fairbanks last Thursday, on
his mission to the land of the
Eskimo, there to gather material
for a book on native art, states
the Fairbanks News Miner in its
issue of April 2nd.
The doctor represents Geneva
and Basil museums in Switzer
land. Recently he spent 5 mon
ths on Nunivak Island, writing a
monograph on the Nunivak cul
ture.
“The Alaska Eskimo is the only
Eskimo that developed a distinc
tive art”, Himmelheber said. Af
ter a tour to the west and north
west coast tribes, he will go to
Point Barrow to determine whe
ther there is anything left of Es
kimo art there since the white
mans ways and trade goods en
tered the region.
Himmelheber is the author of
a book on Negro art in West Af
rica.
The undersigned would like
your assistance in helping to lo
cate a gentleman, known to his
friends as “Happy” Wright
Would like him to correspond
with either Alberta Fahnholz, at
3012, 4th ave. N„ Billings, Mont.,
or write me.
Gertrude Stevenson
1581, Madison Street, Apt. 33,
Oakland, Calif.
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SOME DETAILS REINDEER BILL
CONTAINED IN LETTER
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Delegate IXmcnd introduced in
the House on February 25 a bill
looking toward the settlement of
sure of the problems concerning
tne ownership and use of rein
deer by the natives of Alaska,
particular.y those of Seward pen
insu a. In some respects the bill
follows a similar bill which he
introduced in the last Congress
but in other respects it differs
widely from the former bill to
bring the proDoecd legis lation in
nannony wun tne views 01 tne
natives interested.
Provision i; made lor the pur
chase of ii.l re.nd er and reindeer
range equipir.cn now owned in
Alaska be o;Uz>is than natives,
and the bill contains a provision
which is d-nigr ed to forever pre
vent anyone but a native from
swn'ng live reindeer in Alaska,
excup. for a very short interval
of time which might intervene
between t e purchase of reindeer
and the time it is converted into
food products. The part of the
bill concerning purchase of deer
owned by others than natives
provides that the Secretary of
the In'erlor may purchase either
direct or through exercise of the
power of eminent domain but in
case of direct sale the Secretary
is not permitted to pay more than
$f, per head for 'ha deer purchas
ed and in case tire deer are pur
chased through eminent domain
proceedings the price to be paid
will necessarily be fixed by the
court and the Secretary will have
no control over the price. Provi
sion is further made that the doer
purchased mu.4 be actually count
ed in eorra's or through chutes
or in some other effective man
ner so as to guard against pur
chase of deer not owned or not
exis’ing.
Under the bill the Secretary is
authorized and directed to organ,
ize and manage the reindeer in
dustry including butchering, stor
age, and marketing, either direct
ly or through native cooperative
associations, but not otherwise’
so that no outsider could ever
secure any monopoly of the sale
of reindeer products. Th,e Secre
tary is authorized to distribute
the reindeer and other property
so purchased by the United Sta
tes among the Eskimos or other
natives of Alaska, either in the
form of gifts or under certain
conditions to be prescribed by
the Secretary,or to hold the same
in trust for the use and benefit
of the natives. All profits earn
ed shall eventually be distributed
among the natives.
Under the bill power is given
to the natives to draw up and
adopt range rules and regulations
for the r own districts, the dis
tricts to be designated by the
Secretary. These rules and regu
lations when so adopted must be
submitted to the Secretary and
when approved by him shall have
the force and effect of law within
the district to which applicable
This gives much authority to the
natives in formulating rules and
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YEARNS FOR AMATEUR STATUS
Forlornly pulling grass, Mildred (Babe) Oidrikson, who turned pro to
cash in on her fame but who now wanta to be an amateur again, sat
on the sidelines as her simon-pure sisters began play In the annual
women’s invitation golf tournament at Palm Beach, Fla. (Associated
Press Photo) _
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