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VOL. 37. No. 193. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUG. 14, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
Soviet Fliers Forced Return Teller
SEATTI E P-1. FORCED SUSPEND DUE STRIKE
University of Washington Wins Olympic Classic
SOVIET PLANE
HOPS OFF FOR
SIBERIA TODAY
In the start of maneuvering tor
position in which to taxi down
Safety Lagoon, the wind blew
the plane up onto another sand
bar, but fortunately Pilot Levan
evsky did not give it full throttle
and a row boat put out from the
shore and managed to pull the
plane sideways so that the motor
could be used to get it into deep
water. The ship then taxied
down the lagoon for about a mile
and at 1:57 P.M. took the air in
front of the roadhouse at Safety,
where Mayor Chas. Dalquist had
been playing host to many Nome
ites and the Soviet airmen for
the past thirty-six hours.
About ten minutes after leav
ing Safety they flashed past Nome
headed up the coast for Teller,
Wales, East Cape and Uelen.
Exceptionally fine services were
rendered by the U. S. Weather
Bureau at Nome, and the U. S.
Signal Corps here, in securing all
available weather reports and
conditions for transmission to
the fliers at Safety. Long hours
were spent yesterday, last night
and this morning, contacting Si
berian stations and keeping a
close check on the weather devel
opments.
Services were also rendered by
numerous individuals at Safety
during the time when they ex
perienced difficulties over ground
ing on the sandbar. Two hundred
gallons of gasoline were taken
aboard at Safety, supplied by the
Lomen Commercial Co., agents at
Nome for Standard Oil Company.
Many pictures of the plane and
the Soviet pilots were snapped
by photographic “hounds” and
may be seen on display and for
sale at local photographic shops.
’ NOTICE
Sealed bids will be received at
the office of the City Clerk up to
5 o’clock P.M. on Monday, Aug
ust 17th, for dismantling City
warehouse according to form of
specifications obtainable at City
Clerk’s office.
City reserves the right to re
ject any and all bids.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL.
By M. J. Walsh, City Clerk.
Pub. 14, 15
Vital statistics, Regardless of
your family record for longevity
an automobile accident is a seri
ous affair.
SOVIET PLANE
STRIKES FOG
LANDS TELLER
BULLETIN
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The Soviet fliers encountered a
dense fog over Bering Straits
and returned to Teller, where
they landed at 3:30 this afternoon.
RUSSIA DENIES
JAPAN RIGHT
OF PROTEST
(By The Associated Press)
1 MOSCOW, Russia, Aug. 14. —
j Russia formally rejected late yes
terday the Japanese protest again
st Russian detention last July of
four Japanese fishing boats for
; fishing without permission in
Russian waters of! Kamchatka,
j B. S. Stomaniakoff, vice com
jmissar of foreign affairs for Rus
jsia. warned Japan that such pro
tests only caused useless and un
desirable complications between
Russia and Japan. ,
The captains of the four Japan
ese boats were fined at Petropau
olvsk for poaching in Russian wa
ters. The Japanese claim the
seizures were illegal.
SOUVENIR
HUNTERS RIP
OFF HOOD
(By The Associated Press)
OWENSBORO, Kentucky, Aug.
14—Souvenier hunters ripped the
hangman’s hood from the face of
Rainey Bethea, immediately af
ter the negro, aged 22, was hang
ed, before a huge throng estimat
ed to number ten thousand, for
the assault upon a white woman
aged 70.
Bethea still breathed when a
few persons rushed thru the four
foot wire enclosure about the
scaffold and scrambled for frag
ments as mementos of the spect
acle.
Mrs. Florence Thompson, the
sheriff, who directed the hanging
preparations, left to Arthur Hash
a former Louisville policeman,
the throwing of the trigger which
dropped the negro to his death.
She did not appear publicly.
The trouble with many good
books is that not enough people
read them.
MARY ASTOR
QUIZZED HARD
(By The Associated Press)
Los Angeles, Aug. 14—Superior
judge Knight approved the set
tlement agreement in the Senator
ial Child Custody fight between
Mary Astor and her former hus
band Franklyn Thorpe, dividing
the custody of their daughter
Marylyn aged four years. Coun
sel said that Mary Astor won't
regain posession of her hot diary
ar.d that even the judge wont
know where it is.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13. —
Mary Astor, famous motion pic
ture star, when questioned late
yesterday in court here in her
suit against her husband, Dr.
Franklyn Thorps, Hollywood phy
sician, for custody of their 4-year
old daughter, Marylyn, about her
relations with George S. Kauf
man, prominent playwright of
New York City, answered that
this relationship had been con
doned by her husband.
Judge Knight, before whom the
case is on trial, issued a bench
warrant for Kaufman, who was
subpoenaed by attorneys for Dr.
Thorpe.
Cerf and Barrymore
While most of the session of
the court was taken up by attor
neys for Dr. Thorps in question
ing Miss Astor about her relations
with Kaufman, some time was
spent by them in quizzing her
about her acquaintance with Ben
nett Cerf, wealthy New York
publisher, the former husband of
Sylvia Sydney, famous film act
ress, and John Barrymore, cele
brated stage and screen actor.
Miss Astor said she had gone
out several times in New York
with Cerf. She declared that he
and she were friends and that
there was nothing serious be
tween them. ,
Told Her His Troubles
With regard to Barrymore. Miss
Astor testified that he had poured
out his troubles to her in Los An
geles “after that famous trans
continental trip of his.” She re
ferred to the time Barrymore
hastened from New York to Los
Angeles after he had quarreled
ivith Miss Barrie, his young pro
tege, whom, it was reported, he
was engaged to marry, following
the divorce obtained from him by
Dolores Costello.
Miss Barrie is 18 years old and I
Barrymore is 54. Their romance,
vas referred to as an “Ariel and j
Daliban episode.” Miss Astor,
said Barrymore had visited her |
U OF W WINS
EIGHT OARED
OLYMPIC RACE
CRy The Associated Press)
GRUNAU, Germany, August 14
- Coming from behind in the Iasi
five hundred meters, the Univer
sity of Washington won the Oly
mpic eight oared rowing cham
pionship after Italy hud main
tained the lead from the start tc
the fifteen hundred meter mark
The Huskies came through wit!
a brilliant spurt to win the title
and to keep unbroken the Amer
jican domination of the eight oar
ed competition won by a lengtl
from Italy in 1932.
I Runner-up went to Californic
Germany was third, Great Brit
| ain fourth, Hungary fifth am
i Swiss sixth.
Washington team’s time was
!
minutes 25.4 seconds, far behim
j the course and Olympic record o
6:00.8. The Huskies set Wednes
| day for trials, but the water an<
[weather conditions are bad toda:
J however.
ARMY PLANE
CRASHES IN
SOUTHLAND
(By The Associated Press)
New Kent Courthouse, Virginia
August 14—-An army plane afire
while flying crashed on a farm
near here last nite, killing three
of the crew of four. The fourth
man, private N. D. Flynn, aged
21, jumped to safety by the use
of a parachute.
The bodies were burned be
yond recognition; one of the
fliers was thrown clear for twen
ty feet from the wreck.
The cause of the fire and wreck
is undetermined at this time.
twice in Los Angeles.
Were Married in 1931
Miss Astor and Dr. Thorpe
were married in 1931. Last spr
ing he obtained without contest
a divorce from her and full cus
tody of their daughter. In Miss
Astor’s present suit, she asks for
annulment of her marriage to Dr.
Thorpe and for full custody of
their daughter. The actress de
clares that at the time Dr. Thorpe
obtained his divorce she was ill
and that he threatened to ruin
the reputation of herself and
many of her friends if she should
contest his divorce suit.
Subscribe (or the Nugget
MISS FAIRBANKS
VISIT HOME
OF ANCESTORS
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, August 14 th—Lulu
M. Fairbanks, of Seattle, associat
ed with the Alaska Weekly, lof;
here via plane on a journey whi
ch will take her back in history
three hundred years. She is a
niece of former Vice-President
Charles W. Fairbanks for whom
the city of Fairbanks was named.
1 She is going to Massachusetts ter
centenary celebration. The build
■ ing which embraces the Fair
' banks family home at Dedham, is
the oldest frame building in the
i j United States.
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j The Fairbanks News-Miner has
i the following to say regarding
, the Soviet fliers visit to Fair
banks, in the Wednesday, August
12th, issue,
Russians Guests ol Chamber
Honoring the notable Russian
I long (light aces Sigismund A. Lev
j anesky and Victor L. Levchenko,
here on their great international
journey from San Diego to Mos
' cow, the Fairbanks Chamber of
Commerce held one of the largest
and most representative gather
ings of its career at noon in the
banquet hall of the Pioneer. The
visitors were acclaimed by Presi
jdent Robert J. McKenna of the
(chamber at the meeting and then
were introduced by Mayor E. B.
Collins amidst plaudits of the
large assembly of members and
other guests, including many la
dies. ,
Greetings and exchange of ex
pressions of. good will and con
tinued friendship between the two
great nations represented were
expressed on both sides in re
marks that followed the dinner.
Other notable guests also pres
ent who were presented to the ga
thering by the mayor included B.
D. Stewart, director of the terri
torial mining bureau, and Mrs.
Stewart, here from Juneau; Fos
ter I. McGovern, manager of the
Alaska Department of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce; Hugh
Brewster, aeronautic inspector
for Alaska; John C. Ward, Epis
copal bishop of the diocese of
Erie, Pa.; Alex. Malcolm (Sandy)
Smith; Henry Roden Ollie A.
(Continued on Page Two)
NEWSPAPER
STRIKE CALLED
fBv The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, August 13th—The
Seattle Chapter of the American
Newspaper Guild called a strike
in the news rooms of the Post
Intelligencer office, Thursday.
Newspaper executives said that
the publication of the paper will
not bo interrupted. Charles W.
Hope, Regional D.rei'.r ot me
National Relation B ; rd . aid, lie
was filing a complaint t n behalf
of the Guild against the* P>st-In
telligencer and its management,
Ssetting the hearing for Septem
ber 8!h.
The complaina charged that the
paper discharged two employees
because of Guild activities and
j asserted that it thereby inlerfer
1 od with the right of empi yees to
i exercise the right to bargain col
lectively. * ' J ~ ..
Pickets patrolled streets aro
und the newspaper building. No
statement was immediately avail
able from Guild < fficers.
SEATTLE, August 13—Execu
tives of the Scuttle Post-Intelli
gencer announced that there
would be no editions of the Fri
day morning paper app r on ac
count of the strike culled by the
Seattle Chapter of ‘lie Newspa
per Guild Union including the
mechanical department prohibit
ing the employees to puss the
picket lines, thereby paralyzing
the newspaper pint.
Whether attempts will be made
to publish the Saturday editions
is undecided.
Baseball Scores
(By The Associated Press)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 4, Pittsburgh 5
Philadelphia 4, New York 6.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 0, Cleveland 8
St. Louis 7, Chicago 3
COAST LEAGUE
San Diego 10, Missions 9
San Francisco 3, Los Angeles 4
Seattle 1, Sacramento 7.
Portland 3, Oakland 1
NOTICE TO PUBLIC
The Alaska Distributors Inc.,
with offices in the Martime build
ing, Seattle, have been appointed
distributors for SCHLITZ BEER,
and that J. J. Meherin, special
representative for the Alaska
Distributors, will reach Nome on
August 20th.