. OUTSTANDING IN DEPENDABILITY
N. A. T.
AN ACHIEVEMENT IN SAFETY !
N. A. T. Has Flown Over a Million Miles—Carried
Over 5.000 Passengers, without Single Injury to
Passengers or Personnel. A Safety Record Un
surpassed in the History of Alaska Air Transport
Operation.
NOME _ALASKA
Airplane Aelivilies
Pilot Chester Brown of the NAT
returned from Ruby last evening
after contacting another NAT plane
at that point He had as a passen
ger for Nome Carl Johnson, also
mail and express. The plane ex
pects to leave for Candle tomor
row morning with Messrs. Johnson
and Dreutzer.
Pilot Noel Wien returned to Nome
last night from extensive flying in
northern sections with Manager of
the NAT Vic Ross, Mrs. Ruth Ifell
erich, Sigurd Wien and J. C. Mc
Crarey as passengers.
Leaving Nome two days ago the
plane flew to Deering. Art Chamber
Iain was a passenger from there to
Keewalik and Ed Jones from Deer
ing to Kotzebue.
Dewey Goodrich was a passenger
from Candle to Keewalik and J J
Keenan from Keewalik to Candle.
Mr. and Mrs A C Ripley were
passengers on the plane from Bald
win to Kotzebue, and Don Osborne
from Kotzebue to Deering. J C Mc
Crarey flew with the plane from
Kotzebue to Nome.
Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mirow
Air Service took off from Nome for
White Camp in the Kougarok, Deer
ing, Candle, Baldwin and Kotzebue.
A native girl was a passenger north
to Kotzebue, name unknown. Mrs
R B Julian will be a passenger to
Nome from Baldwin.. The plane is
due to return tonight.
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LOCAL NEWS
Archie McDonald is recuperating
at the hospital after a slight indis
position.
The Nome Motor Company is send
ing a truck load of supplies this af
ternoon to the Greenstone Mines Inc.
which is operating a dredge suc
cessfully on Osborne Creek.
The Steamer Arthur J Badwin of
the Arctic Transport Company,
which was scheduled to sail from
Seattle for Nome Aug. 7th, was de
layed in sailing until tonight, due
to the lateness of cargo shipments
at Seattle.
Mr. Wolf the well known miner
and prospector is taking a load of
supplies out to Gold Bottom where
he expects to do considerable pro
specting and mining between now
and the freezeup. Mr. Wolf is on
the ground formerly known as the
Phillip De Fontville placer proper
ty and which always was known for
a fair-sized cleanup.
A native known as “Big Mike”,
and Harry Neibling> another native
pleaded guilty Thursday before U.S.
District Court Judge J. H S Morison,
and were sentenced to serve sixty
days in the local jail, for being
in an intoxicated condition on the
public streets of Nome.
ARCTIC TRANSPORT CO.
ANNOUNCES
S. S. ARTHUR J. BALDWIN
SAILS FROM SEATTLE
AUC. 9, 1935.
CALLING AT ALL PORTS FROM
ST. MICHAEL TO KOTZEBUE
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YOUR FREIGHT OFFERINGS
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ARCTIC TRANSPORT CO.
Small Tidal Wave
Said To Have Hit
Keewalik Lately
J. L. McCrarey, representing
“real silk” returned last night to
Nome from a trip to Deering, Cand
le and Kotzebue, and besides run
ning out of order blanks, we learn |
that a sort of tidal wave visited
Keewalik and Baldwin
He was a returning passenger with
Pilot Noel Wien and reports that
at Keewalik the water from the
Kotzebue Sound rose to a consider
able height and caused damage
amounting approximately to $2,000
to Magids Stores in the loss of lum- 1
ber, coal and gasoline which was j
washed away. At Baldwin there
was 18 inches of water in the mess
house, but no damage is reported.
Mr. McCrarey reports that Don
Osborne, magazine representative is i
still at Deering but will probably
return to Nome Sunday. Mr. Me- ;
Crarey expects to leave Nome on
Saturday’s PAA Electra, but may
have to wait over several days on j
account of business.
Carl Johnson Eng.
For Diesels Back
To Go To Candle
Car] Johnson, field representative
for Fairbanks Morse Co., who re- j
eently completed the installation of J
two new diesel engines for the j
Hammon Consolidated Gold Fields
at Nome, and who left via plane'
for the outside nearly two weeks
ago, was headed off just about the ■
tinije of his arrival at Seattle and
sent back to Alaska.
He arrived at Nome last night
via NAT plane and wrill leave for
Candle tomorrow to look over the
installation of the new diesel en
gines which supply power for the
Arctic Circle Exploration Inc., who
recenty installed steel dredges in
that section. Accompanying him to
Candle will be Attorney Carl Dreut
zer of Chicago, who has been in
Nome representing Percy A. Rob
bins of that city.
Agree Provisions
Alaska Air Mail
Bill In Conference
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, — House
and Senate conferees on the Alaska
Airmail bill agreed Thursday to pro
visions which would permit the con
tracting for carrying of mail by air
in the Territory without advertis
ing.
Under the provisions of the meas
ure which now must be approved
by both houses, emergency mail ser
vice by air may be given the Ter
ritory without advertising for bids,
but the cost of such service cannot
exceed twenty-fwe thousand dollars
a year, said the clause in the bill.
NOTICE
Eastern Stars, their escort, Mas
ons and their families or lady friend
also visiting Stars and Masons are
cordially invited to attend a recep
tion and dance at Pioneer Hall,
given in honor of the M. W. G. M.,
Frances Haun, Sat. Aug. 10, at 9
P. M. Sharp.
Miss Phyllis Turner
Beauty Parlor Operator
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$2.00
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