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VOL. 37. No. 298. NOME, ALASKA, Thursday, DEC. 17, 1936. Per Copy 15ct»
Four Alarm Fire At San Francisco
STILL UNABLE LOCATE MISSING AIRPLANE
Attempted Get Support Eastern Longshoremen
CALLS FOR UNIFIED
STAND OF UNIONS IN
PAC. COAST STRIKE
Harry Bridges Addressed Sixteen Thousand Persons
In Audience at Madison Square Garden, Subject
ILA Coming Into Line to Aid Coast Strike
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Dec. 17—Striking
seamen watched the reaction of
the non-striking East Coast Long
shoremen and the appeal of Har
ry Bridges last night at a mass
meeting at Madison Square Gar
den before an officially estimated
audience of sixteen thousand peo
pie, when Bridges asked for a
unified front of all marine work
ers, and promised West Coast aid
to the Eastern strike if the strik
ers get the “unity that they are
entitled to.”
The meeting sponsored a na
tonal maritime federation. In re
gards to President Ryan ousting
him, as the ILA leader of the
West Coast, Bridges said, ‘‘Ryan
can’t fire me, there are twenty
thousand men on the Pacific
Coast which have something to
say about that.”
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17th—
Shipowners and striking seagoing
unions called new meetings today
to negotiate wages and hours,
while plans neared completion
for unprecedented discussion cf
the issues before a nationwide
audience over Columbia Broad
casting system, Saturday, at 10:45
A. M. Pacific Coast time. Fifteen
minutes will be allotted to both
the shippers and the strikers.
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Thrills, excitement, accidents,
and real competition and sports
manship featured the initial in
door baseball games played last
evening at the new school gym.,
for the benefit of the Community
Xmas Tree Fund.
Total receipts were $150.59, &
the matter of a few expenses are
to be taken out, which have not
yet been determined. The sale
of tickets was handled by the
Camp Fre Girls under the direc
tion of Mrs. Irene Steffen. Girls
participating included: Connie
Allen, Judith Bockman, Virginia
Calkins, Emma Hebert, Joanne
Johansen, Marianne Mish, Jane
Nelson, Blanche O’Connor, Grace
O’Connor, Vesta Poison, Mary M.
Raell, Gretchen Steffen, Ruth Ul
ricksen, Anne Walsh, Kathleen
Walsh and Kathleen Yenney.
More than three hundred per
sons were at the games last night
including children. Enthusiasm
and spirited rivalry among the
spectators kept the teams on edge
throughout the games, making
for much hard, fast playing.
The first game between the
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WILL THERE BE A HONEYMOON?
Delmar Daves, scenario writer, was at the airport to bid goodbye to
Kay Francis, screen actress, when she left by plane for the East and
a trip to Europe. The word in Hollywood was that Daves would follow
and that they might make It a honeymoon trip. (Associated Press
Photo)
., V ,15 FASCIST COLUMN IN MARCH ON MADRID
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Marching In broken ranks with the Insurgent flag at the head of the column, these Fascists are shown
on a road leading to Madrid and further battle with the government forces defending the Spanish capital.
I (Associated Press-Paramount News Photo) i
Will Investigate
Cause Of Four
Alarm Fire S. F.
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17th—
I An investigation is pressing into
| the cause of a spectacular four
alarm fire which nearly consum
ed the nine hundred foot-long
pier Forty-six, State Terminal
shipping shed last night.
The loss is estimated by fire
officials at three quarters of a
million dollars. Three fireboats,
a dozen fire engines and several
water towers, manned by firemen
from sixteen stations, controlled
the blaze after a two hour fight.
/
Only the new concrete face of
the structure and charred floor
ing remained. No ships were
docked there and no cargo was
on the wharf. The President Lin
coin was docked sixty feet away
at an opposite wharf and was un
harmed.
The terminal was used chiefly
by the Panama Mail and Panama
Pacific ships. Four firemen were
injured. The fire spread “like a
trail of powder.”
CBy The Associated Press)
NANKING, Dec. 17—Marshal
Chang’s mountain stronghold was
surrounded and cut off from get
ting aid, and negotiatoins were
opened to end China’s civil war
and release Premier Chiang Kai
Shek, who is alive, authorities
learned. It was announced he
had released General Ting Wen,
the trusted lieutenant of Chiang,
to convey a personal message.
Speed and Safety
Aims of Present
Flying Industry
(By The Associated Press)
NEWARK, Dec. 16, — Jack
Herlihy used to chase horses
and cows out of pastures before
he could ‘‘set down” his biplane.
In 1928, Long before he had ap
proached his present record of
1,000,000 miles of flying, he was
surveying possible airports.
Herlihy had vision, but some of
the great flying fields he helped
select will be too small for the
ships which the great air trans
port companies of the United
States will be flying in 1938.
The passenger capacity of to
day’s airliners will be doubled in
about 18 months when 40-sea air
liners are expected to go into ser
vice.
Big Airports Aid Safety
Big airports assist the aero
nautical engineers in attaining
their principal objectives—in
creased safety and also greater
speeds. They seek greater econ
omies of operation.
In the field of safety, the auto
matic pilot is the flier’s right bow
er. The human pilot guides his
great machine aloft, then twists
a knob on the instrument panel
and releases the manual control.
The plane now is in the hands
of “the machine that thinks”,
the gyro-pilot.
Take a peek at its mechanism:
There are two small gyros, act
uated by air streams. One is for
lateral control, the other for ver
tical flight. The gyros respond
to the movements of a number of !
oil plungers which transmit to it |
variations in air currents. Thru [
‘‘boosters” to increase the streng- j
th of its commands, a gyro ac-1
commodates the airplane to any
air conditions, to wind drift to a
shift in the load in the fuselage.
Augmenting the gyro as a 9afe
ty devise are dozens of instru
ments, better airports and ground
crews in constant radio commun- j
ication with the plane. Plane de-!
s gn itself has contributed a lar-1
ge safety factor in a decade of1
. . . I
air engineering.
Ice on propellers and wings is
no longer a problem; skeins of
oil and flexing rubber shields on
the leading edges of the wings
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SNOW HAS
DETAINED
SEARCH
Officials Fear Inability To
Locate Missing Plane
May be Serious
(By The Associated Press)
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 17
Searchers fearful of the heavy
snows which cover the only re
ported clues of the airliner hunt,
struggled toward the scene on
horseback, snowshoes and skiis,
as fifteen planes made ready to
take to the air with clearing skies
The blizzard which turned back
Hess yesterday, is abating, but
the show in the area is from two
feet to waist deep.
One official, who declined to be
quoted, said, ‘’there is consider
able skepticism” of the Hess re^
port, saying there should have
been some metal lying about if
the plane scraped the ground or
sheared off a tree.
Over A Million :
.
& Half Dollars
Alimony Award
CRv The Associated Press)
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 17—Mrs.Emily
Lambert was granted a divorce
here with a gross alimony of one
m'llion, six hundred thousand
dollars and the custody of two
minor children from J. D. Woos
ter Lambert, the multi-million
aire, and treasurer of the Lam
bert Pharmaca! Company.
‘AND WHEN I SMASH LOUIS*
King Jimmy Braddock, top man of the heavyweights, boasted on a
visit to Dallas he’d take Joe Louis “like Grant took Richmond” when
and If he goes into the squared ring with the Brown Bomber from
Detroit. After this display of talkativeness, Champion Jim went to the 1
racetrack for an afternoon of sport. (Associated Press Photo) j