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VOL 36. No. 265. NOME, ALASKA, Tuesday, November 12, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Stratosphere Balloon Ascends 13 Miles
CHINA CLIPPER COMPLETES FLIGHT TO CALIF.
El Duce Warns All Nations Involved League Sanctions
PAN AMERICAN CLIPPER
PLANE ARRIVED AT NEW
BASE PREPARE SERVICE
China Clipper Talks Stratosphere Enroute
Miami, And Mexico, To California
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(By The Associated Press)
San Diego, Nov. 12, —Pan
American Airways’ twenty
five ton China Clipper landed
at San Diego Bay at 4:36 P.
M. Pacific Standard Time Sat
urday, completing a hop from
Miami, Florida via Acapul
co, Mexico.
The big Clipper plane is
enroute to Alameda from
where it will be placed in the
new trans-Pacific service to
be started soon.
Alameda, Nov. 12, — The
China Clipper, Pan Ameri
can seaplane, arrived here
from Miami via San Diego,
yesterday, ready to carry pass
engers, mail, express and
packages eight thousand mil
es along the Oriental route,
starting November 22nd.
Enroute, the big ship help
ed to search for a plane re
ported down off the Californ
ia coast. It also talked via ra
dio with the stratosphere bal
loon party.
Alameda, Nov. 12, —Hav
ing completed the long flight
from Miami by way of Mex
ico, the China Clipper is be
ing groomed here for her 1st
trans-Pacific hop, scheduled
to take place November 22.
Only mail will be carried
on the first flight. Passenger
service is to start in about
three weeks, it was made
known today.
Manchinegunners
Raid Mail Train
Escape With Mail
(By The Associated Press)
Garrettsville, Ohio, Nov. 8
—A gang of five machine gun
robbers raided an Erie Rail
road passenger and mail train
and held at bay, a dozen
startler spectators, later es
caping with mail pouches,
whih officials said probably
contained at least forty thou
sand dollars.
The gang waited here until
the Cleveland to Pittsburgh
train stopped and then raided j
the mail car, piled the pouch-1
es into an auto and escaped.
Fiancee Admits To
Killing Of Doctor
(By The Associated Press)
New York, Nov. 12, —Dr.
Fritz Gebhardt was shot to
death last night in a skyscrap
er hotel.
Police rushing to cut off the
slayer’s escape, seized his as
serted fiancee Miss Vera
Stretz, who admitted the slay
ing. However, she refuses to
give any motive for the kill
ing.
Sourdoughs Have
Big Reunion San
Diego Exposition
(By The Associated Press)
San Diego, Calif., Nov. 11
Basking in the warm sunshine
of California at the Pacific In
ternational Exposition, Alas
ka Sourdoughs held their re
union today. The principle
topic was the new interest in
the proposed International
highway. Godfrey Cheland
er, a past recorder of the Arc
tic Brotherhood, was chair
man of the day; he forecast
completion of the highway
within five years. Among
those present were Jack Rob
erts of Montana and Deering;
N W Hindle,George Apple of
Nome; Bud Courtemanche,
Mrs. Martha Goodfellow and
Mrs Irene Kerler of Bering
house
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II Duce Warns All Nations Involved
In Connection With League Sanctions
(By The Associated Press)
Undated Nov. 12, — II
Duce warned against the
League’s sanctions today, and
the gravity of the consequen
ces of an economic boycott
against Italy. At the same
time he declared Italy’s eco
nomic independence from
these nations by official de
cree.
The Italian government to
day placed an embargo on the
importation of 197 products,
except under strict govern
ment supervising. The embar
go becomes effective the day
the League’s boycott becom
es operative.
Mussolini’s warning was
contained in a not to all coun
tries concerned in the threat
of further reprisals, and chal
lenged the authority of the
League’s coordination com
mittee to impose sanctions."
Italy’s southern army is
consolidating in the area oc
cupied between Italian Som
aliland and Sas Baneh.
Italian scouts reported one
hundred and seventy-seven
thousand Ethiopian warriors
massed in the mountains due
south of Makale. Addis Ab
aba expects a major battle
near Makale to be waged this
week-end.
Undated Nov. 12, — Italy’s
southern army pushed men
acingly toward the Ethiopian
lifeline railroad between Ad
dis Ababa and Djibouti.
Forces occupied Sasa Ban
es over the week-end, and ad
vance patrols held Daggah
Bur.
The Italians have crossed
more than half the desert re
gion lying between Italian
Somaliland and the provincial
capital of Harar.
Addis Ababa reports said
Ras Kassa was joining Ras
Seyoum, governor of Tigre
province with a hundred thou
sand warriors. Other reports
indicated that troops were be
ing concentrated behind the
Kingdonmirt range of moun
tains south of Makale.
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U. S. Army Fliers Set
Record Stratosphere Flight
World’s Largest Balloon
Stratosphere Balloon “Explorer"
Ascends To Height Of Thirteen
Miles Above Surface Of Earth
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(By The Associated Press)
Rapid City, South Dakota.
Nov. 10, —Inflation of the
new stratosphere balloon in
preparation lor a take-off
about 3 A. M. Mountain Stan
dard Time Monday, began
| Sunday night.
Captains Albert W Stevens
and Orvill A. Anderson be
lieve the craft will probably
reach a record height of four
teen miles.
Rapid City, Nov. 11, “Ex
plorer”, the world’s largest
balloon, took of! at 7 A. M.
Mountain Time on its long
awaited journey into the
stratosphere, on a scientific
; exploration.
The big bag rose in almost
quiet air after all night pre
parations. A tear in the low
er part about midnight caus
ed some delay in inflation. It
was repaired with a triple
patch without loss of gas.
Captain Orvil Anderson,
the pilot, estimated the bag
contained two hundred and
thirty-five thousand cubic
feet of helium.
Rapid City, Nov. 11, —Cap
Anti-Japanese Sentiment Mares Anew
In Shanghai As Japanese Marines Land
I--!
(By The Associated Press)
Shanghai. Nov. 12, —Anti
Japanese terrorism flared out
anew when groups of Chinese
threw bricks and bottles thru
plat glass windows of a Jap
anese-owned store, just after
five hundred Japanese marin
es had disembarked, the land
ing party strength thereby
being increased to more than
two thousand.
Although Japanese naval
officers asserted that they
were merely replacements,
the situation arising from the
unsolved slaying of a Japan
ese marine, is considered in
creasingly threatening in
' view of the new outbreak of
terrorism.
Tokyo, Nov. 12, —Japan
ese authorities gave indica
tions at least in some sections
of Tokyo, that the govern
ment envisioned the possibil
ity of armed pressure on
China, as a result of the anti
Japanese incidents at Shang
hai.
Police today circulated an
order forbidding newspapers
and news agencies from pub
lishing anything concerning
naval air forces which may
go to China, except by official
communications. Shanghai
dispatches reported increas
ing tensiort today.
tain Albert Stevens and Or
; vil Anderson, explorers, char
tered their position in space
and sailed earthward, after
having attained a height
above earth never before ven
tured to by man.
The two Army fliers in the
soaring balloon reached an
aerial outpost estimated by
the ground crew to be beyond
74,000, after two hours, in G7
degrees below zero strato
sphere.
At 1:05 P. M. Central Time
they radioed they were start
ing down and reported later
that the balloon had descend
ed to forty thousand feet. The
message said they were tak
ing pictures and estimated
they were 75 miles east of
Valentine, Nebraska.
White Lake, South Dakota,
Nov. 11, — The stratosphere
party landed on a farm near
here at 4:14 P. M. Central
Standard Time Monday.
The descent was so fast
that at a thousand feet alti
tude, the balloonists climbed
out of the gondola and dump
ed their scientific instru
ments.
White Lake, South Dakota,
Nov. 12, —An examination of
the rarified air in sealed tub
es, records of delicate instru
ments and photographic plat
es obtained by the strato
sphere fliers thirteen miles
above the earth, is anxiously
awaited by the world of scien
ce.
The data gathered by Cap
tains Orvill Anderson and Al
bert Stevens in their record
breaking flight yesterday,
have been packed for ship
ment to Washington, D. C. to
the officials of the National
Geographic Society, under
whose sponsorship the flight
was made. It ended at 4:14
P. M. yesterday.
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Search Continues Unavailing By Royal
C J J
Air Force For Sir kings ford Smith
(By The Associated Press)
Singapore, Nov. 12, —An
other fleet of Royal Air Force
bombers soared into the air
yesterday, resuming the fran
tic search for Sir Kingsford
Smith and his co-pilot.
They carried instructions
to skim low over every island
along the coast line of the
western Malay Peninsula and
a wide strip of the Bay of
Bengal between Rangoon and
south of Burma. The belief
was expressed that they may
have glided to an uninhabit
ed island, and made a land
ing in the moonlight.
Rangoon, Burma, Nov. 12,
—Crews of planes seeking Sir
Kingsford Smith and his co
pilot, reported today that the
search was virtually hopeless.
Two Royal Air Force flying
boats arrived here from Sin
gapore, Straits Settlement, af
ter a fruitless search over a
wide area off the coast and
over the Bay of Bengal. The
search is still continuing.
Three Freighters
llnahle Load Cargo
r
(By The Associated Press)
San Pedro, Nov. 12, —Un
able to load hot cargo, three
freighters are tied up here as
a result of the longshoremen’s
refusal to handle shipments
taken on for gulf ports.
Ship owners will go before
the local joint labor relations
committee today, requesting
disciplinary action over the
registration of five hundred
additional longshoremen.
The vessels affected are the
Katrina Luckenbach, Point
Montara and the Matthew
Luckenbach.
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Nov. 12, —
Locked controls were blamed
by the War Department for
the crash of the big Boeing
bombing plane at Dayton,
Ohio, October 30lh.