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VOl73L No. 219. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 14, 1936 Per Copy 15cts
Flyers Had Land New Foundland
ANCHORAGE PILOT KILLED PLANE CRASH
North Star Out Arctic Ice Pack — In No Danger
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NORH STAR REPORTED HER
POSITION AT CAPE THOMPSON
AND ALL SAFE THIS MORNING
NORTH STAR REPORTED BENT ONE BLADE OF
PROPELLOR IN ICE AT BARROW AFTER
UNLOADING 450 TONS SUPPLIES
(By The Associated Press)
U. S. S. NORTH STAR, Off
Cape Thompson, Sept. 14, — Af
ter battling the incoming Arctic
Ice Pack for more than four hun
dred miles down the Arctic coast
from Point Barrow, this Office of
Indian Affairs vessel is now safe
here.
Fears were felt that the ship
might be trapped and marooned
in the ice for the winter on the
bleak northern coast. These fears
were not allayed until the vess
el reached Cape Thompson.
One blade of the propellor was
bent when the ship bucked ice
fields at Barrow, where 450 tons
of supplies were left for “desti
tute Eskimos living East of Point
Barrow.” The ice pack was des
cribed as closing in much earlier
than usual.
Tri-Motor Ford
Plane Returned
Kotzebue Sun.
News this morning said that
pilot Chester Brown of the Arc
tic Airways, tri-motored Ford
airplane, accompanied by Mech.
Hank Miller, Father Cunningham,
Deputy Marshal A. O. Brown,
and Geo. Maynard, which hopp
ed off early Sunday morning for
a flight to Point Barrow, had
concluded its flight to Wain
wright and then returned to Kot
zebue yesterday, spending the
night there.
Pilot King of the Ferguson Air
ways declared the plane was just
preparing to get away from Kot
zebue for Deering and Candle,
when he left the northern city
this morning. It is expected that
the present adverse weather is
detaining the plane at Deering.
It was reported that an Eskimo
prisoner was to be brought to
Nome from Wainwright.
McMahon convicted
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Sept. 14, — George
Andrew McMahon was found
guilty of producing a revolver
near King Edward VIII with in
tent to alarm his majesty, and
was sentenced to serve a year
in prison at hard labor.
Pope Over Radio
Urg es Nations To
Fight Communist
(By The Associated Press)
CASTEL, Gondolfo, Italy, Sept
14, — Pope Pius gave his bless
ings to the militant defense ag
ainst the mad forces of commun
ism, in a world-wide radio ad
dress this morning, declaring
that these forces were menaces in
Spain and elsewhere, to the “very
foundations of all order, culture,
and civilization.”
He pardoned the killers of
Bishops and Priests, and called
upon authorities of all nations to
“oppose these great evils with
every remedy and barrier possi
ble. I foresee utter chaos if those
who duty it is, don’t hasten to re
pair the breach, if, indeed, it is
not already too late.”
Pacific Coast’s
Baseball Season
Comes To End
fBy The Associated Press i
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, —
The regular season of Pacific
Coast baseball was ended Sunday
with Portland leading, Oakland
second, San Diego third and Sea
ttle fourth.
Portland, Seattle, San Diego
and Oakland will now play a sev
en game series each, and the
winners of these series will meet
finally in a series for the cham
pionship of the coast.
1700 Britishers
Way Palestine
To Keep Order
(By The Associated Press)
SOUTHAMPTON, England Sept
12, — A detachment of seventeen
hundred British troops sailed
aboard the troopship Dorsetshire
today for Palestine, in possibly
the first move toward clamping
a strict martial law on the dis
orderly Holy Land.
Richman, Merrill
Successful Flight
London America
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, — The
Canadian Press said that Ameri
can fliers Richman and Merrill,
flying on a return flight from
London to New York, were forc
ed down at 1:20 P. M. EST on the
Northeast coast of New Found
land.
Floyd Bennett field officials at
New York, said they had no con
firmation of word whether either
was hurt, saying it had not been
determined.
The forced landing was report
ed at Marsh, three miles from
Musgrave Harbor, N. F.
LIVERPOOL, Eng., Sept. 12, —
Heavy rain and strong westerly
winds caused Richman and Mer
rill, trans-Atlantic flyers, to post
pone their return flight to New
York today.
They have tentatively set their
takeoff time at dawn Sunday.
DENVER, Colo., Sept. 10.—Don
ald Gretzeq, 27, maintained his
innocence of robbery charges for
hours, then told Captain James
Childers “Fix it up so I can mar
ry my girl right away and I will
confess.:” He signed a confession
and married Rose Holefarex, 20,
last night.
GERMAN ARMY AND AIR
FORCE PARADED HITLER
CITY NURNBERG TODAY
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400 WARPLANES FLEW OVERHEAD WHILE THE
ARTILLERY AND MOBILE UNITS GERMAN
ARMY PLAYED AT WAR
1 ti -
(By The Associated Press')
NURNBERG, Germany, Sept.
14, — Germany’s new compulsory
service army, staged its first
display of strength today, with
steel and motorized equipment,
for the benefit of Adolph Hitler.
So realistic was the mimic war
fare, that the Nurnberg fire de
partment was called out to quen
ch an unscheduled blaze created
Soviet Aviators
Arrived Moscow
From The U. S.
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Sept. 14, — Soviet
fliers Levanevsky and Levchen
ko, who left San Pedro, Calif
ornia August 5th, on a six thou
sand mile flight toRussia via A1
aska, landed here Sunday, to be
greeted by thousands of their
countrymen who lined the streets
to cheer them.
They landed at 4:15 P. M. Sun
day Russian time.
when an armed motorcycle and
sidecar were theoretically destroy ,
ed by enemy gunfire, and burst
into flames.
Meadows surrounding this
city echoed to the rifle, machine
gun and artillery fire, while four
hundred of Hitler’s warplanes
thundered overhead, and a hun
dred tanks crashed through bar
bed wire barricades.
The total strength of Hitler’s
new air force was not disclosed,
but this morning's parade was a
broad hint tiiat thousands of oth
er warplanes were quietly waiting
at their air bases in other parts
of Germany.
Irving Thai berg
Died Suddenly
(By The Associated Press>
; HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 14, — Irv
ing Thalberg, movie producer,
and husband to Norma Shearer,
died here this morning suddenly.
Death was caused, said the re
port by lobar pneumonia.
Roy Carlson,
Anchorage Pilot
Killed Crash
(By The Associated Press)
BETHEL, Sept. 14, —Pilot Bob
Carlson of Anchorage crashed
Saturday said word from the
Good News Bay Mining Company
and was seriously injured.
Pilot Oscar Winchell of the
Star Air Service is leaving here
today with a doctor for Good
News Bay.
A correction received late to
day said that P.lot Bob Carlson,
of Anchorage crashed at Good
News Bay and was killed in
stantly, and that Jay Johnston
his passenger, manager of the
Good News Bay Mining Co., was
severely injured.
Shungnak And
Haycock Votes *
Received Here
Official returns from Hay
cock and Shungnak, of the re
cent election, held Tuesday,
Sept. 8th„ were received Iiy
the U. S. Clerk of Court at
Nome today. The results of
the elections held at those two
places, appear in the tabulated
table on page one.
Second Division Returns, General Election’ September fttli, 19.‘>6
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CITY OF NOME . 384 144 115 192 201 284 155 27 316 146 328 197 115 68 184 248 275 72 191 154 286 180 165
LITTLE CREEK . 54 8 3 21 39 12 12 4 47 9 45 17 10 15 6 34 42 14 28 16 53 14 1 3
GOLOVIN . 25 5 6 19 1 20 7 0 11 11 23 7 25 15 5 18 7 1 18 1 3 15 3
BLUFF . 14 119678 15 10 88060 8 10 7785 10 O
KOTZEBUE . 43 36 33 10 35 38 35 4 38 37 44 35 6 1 32 35 40 2 5 37 39 35 38
FORTUNA LEDGE . 33 4 0 9 28 32 4 1 34 1 37 0 2 0 0 28 30 1 0 35 37 3 4
DEERING . 30 1 0 27 4 23 2 1 6 9 27 2 3 0 1 30 22 4 13 24 20 0 O
MT. VILLAGE . 811077106390010 7601770 1
CANDLE . 56 34 29 18 40 47 33 5 53 34 60 29 12 3 29 43 52 24 14 38 47 26 39
TAYLOR . 25 5 3 11 18 24 5 3 29 2 16 17 0 2 23 22 29 6 4 5 22 7 6
COUNCIL. 11 6555 15 4 4 13 6 13 7564 5539499 10
SOLOMON .-.. 26 2 3 4 4 18 7 2 17 8 13 14 4 3 10 8 18 21 6 8 10 12 6
TELLER . 23 5 9 5 13 11 10 7 5 21 15 11 5 2 16 8 13 4 4 5 10 18 13
ST. MICHAEL . 6451554 15382201 68017634
SHUNGNAK. 11 124683 0 12 0 10 2202 99019382
HAYCOCK . 21 4 1 5 17 15 7 1 17 5 18 6 4 7 5 14 16 9 3 13 11 3 8
UTICA .
UNALAKLEET .
KIANA .
STUYAHOK .
~~ TOTAL . 770 261 216 340 429 566 297 61 625 305 674 354 195 129 318 523 580 168 305 371 568 343 312