DEVOTED TO THE BUILDING OF A BETTER NOME AND THE SECON D DIVISION.
NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE—ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY AVIA'S ION
THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 37. No. 161 NOME, ALASKA, WED., JULY 8, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
Alaska Clipper Service Has Begun
HEAT WAVE SIZZLING MID-WEST STATES
Ban On Sales From 1 to 7 A. M. Each Morning
CLIPPER SERVICE TO
SOUTHEAST ALASKA
COMMENCED TODAY
Four Passengers Two Pilots In A Bi
Motored Amphibian Making Hop To
Juneau In Start Of Alaska Service
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Washington, July 8, — Commercial air
service between Seattle and Alaska started at 7:45 A.
M. today when the Alaska Air Express Inc., began its
first flight with passengers mail and express.
J. S. Chaldbick, traffic manager, said “the flight will
be made according to weather conditions in the ten
passengers plane manned by a pilot and co-pilot, stop
ping at Vancouver, B. C., Ketchikan and Juneau, the
latter being the northern terminal.
The plan is to make the Juneau trip and back, first
with one plane, the Alaska Clipper, and later they hope
to add a second ship.” The Clipper is a twin-Wasp
Making Cruise
(By The Associated Pr°ss)
SEATTLE, July 8, — One hun
dred and thirty-six mid-western
farm people sailed today aboard
the S S Victoria of the Alaska
Line for an Alaskan vacation
trip sponsored by the Prairie
Farmer Chicago Agriculturia, as
fgr north as Skagway and return.
motored amphibian with a 72
foot wing-spread, with room for
ten passengers and three hundred
pounds of express. The boatlike
cabin and fuselage serves in
stead of pontoons. It will fly the
inside passage route.
Seattle, July 8,—The Clipper
took off at 8:30 A. M. with four
passengers, mail and express.
Aboard are King Baird pilot,
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PETER ESCH DESCRIBED PLANS
MINING IRON NEAR SINROCK
- A MILLION TONS YEAR
I
Peter Esch, 76 years old, who
mined and prospected the Nome
section in the early days of the
gold rush, and who returned to
Nome on the first boat this spring
with his son Charles H. Esch and
Lloyd Kinder and Jas. Holland,
recently commented on his old
patented iron deposit claims lo
cated between Sinrock river and
Washington creek, about 14 miles
up the river and about 30 miles
from Nome.
Mr. Esch, a mining engineer for
nearly fifty years, declared he
owns twelve claims containing
about 240 acres, which show, so
he said, about thirty million tons
of iron ore, at the present time.
He declared that it has been as
sayed and described to be of the
finest content of iron ore in the
world, having no detrimentals &
being of brown hemotyte.
At present plans are to arrange
for equipment,supplies and other
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Air Flivver Not
Be Allowed To
Hop To Seattle
(By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8,
—The Bureau of Air Commerce
said it refused a permit for the
non-stop flight from Anchorage
to Seattle because neither the air
plane nor the pilot were licensed.
Under the reciprocal treaty j
with Canada, this country had
agreed that permits to fly over
Canadian territory would not be
issued to non-licensed airmen or
ships.
The department said that Rus
sel Owen formerly held a license
but had had it taken away from
him two years ago. They said
he had acquired an automobile
engined plane and shipped it to
Alaska without attempting to
obtain a federal license for it.
National League
Wins Came In
, Star Series
(By Tne Associated Press)
BOSTON, July 8, — The Na
tional League emerged today
with the first triumph in four all
star games with the American
League, winning four to three
before the smallest crowd yet to
witness the classic.
Warneke's pitching saved the
day for the Nationals, after Diz
zy Dean and Carl Hubbell held
the Americans runless for the
first six innings.
Dean who was in top form,
faced nine batters in three in
1 nings. He is credited with the
! victory and Lefty Grove charged
with defeat.
Joe Dimaggio, Yankee rookie, [
was the sensational goat of the
game. In the second inning he
j let Hartnett’s drive go through
his legs for a triple, scoring De
imarce. Hartnett scored on Whit
ney's fly to center in the fifth.
Galan hit the right field flag1
pole on the foul line, the ball
bounding into the stands, for a
home run. Billy Herman singl
ed and went to second on Dimag
gio’s fumble, and scored on an
other hit.
The Americans scored three
runs in the 7th, Gehrig hitting a
I homer with two out.
Goslin singled to the infield &
Selkirk walked. Applying singl
ed and two runs came in. War
neke was replaced. Davis walk
ed and Gehringer got by Dimag
gio on a liner to Durocher
Baseball Scores
(By The Associated Press)
COAST LEAGUE
San Diego 0 Oakland 2
Missions 5 Sacramento 9
Portland 8 San Francisco 4
Seattle 5 Los Angeles 3
Unfair Business Is
Charge Made
(By The Associated Press 1
WASHINGTON, D. C:„ July 8,
—The Federal Trade Commis
sion reported receipt of a com
plaint which charged Sohwa
bacher Brothers & Co., Seattle
Candy manufacturers, with un
fair trade practices.
It accused them of having sold
products in the state of Wash
ington and Alaska through a lot
tery system, employing punch
board devices.
Italian Planes
Inflict Reprisal
Insurgent Army
”
(By The Associated Press)
ROME, July 8, — Italian mili
tary planes were reported sent
out to make mass reprisals again
st the Ethiopian district where
at least four Italian flyers were
slain June 26th, among them be
ing Major Antonio Locatalli, a
member of the Balbo mass flight
to the United States in 1933.
The victims were occupying
three planes making an observa
tion flight over the Wallega ar
ea. They landed in a district
frequented by fierce hostile tribes
men. The planes were destroy
ed in the attack.
A priest, Rev. Father Barollo,
a passenger, escaped and brought
the news to Addis Ababa.
An official communique did
not explain what their fate was,
other than it described the at
tackers as irregular Ethiopian
soldiers.
Terri. Roard
Says INo Sale
Certain ilrs.
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, July 8, — The
Territorial I.iquor Board to
day ordered a ban on the sale
of beer and liquor through
out the Territory between the
hours of 1 and 7 A. M. each
morning, effective July 15th.
_
J. D. Rockefeller
Is 97 Years Old
(By The Associated Press)
LAKEWOOD, N. J., July 8,,
— Ninety-seven candles were
placed on John D. Rockefeller’s
birthday cake today, one of them
marked reserved for him.
“Of course he’ll eat some,
rhere’s no reason why he won’t
sat cake; because he eats every-,
thing he wants”, said members
af his household.
The multimillionaire issued a
statement: “My good condition of
health is simply a miracle to
me.” His goal is one hundred
years when “he’ll really begin
to live.”
His fortune is estimated, al
though he denies it, at $2,200,000,
000.00. In the last 85 years he
has given away more than a
half billion dollars.
120 DEGREE TEMPERATURES
CHICAGO SECTION CLAIMED
50 LIVES RECORD HEAT WAVE
Heat and Drought Throughout Middle
And Western Stales Causing Deaths
Enormous Properly Damages
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, July 8, — Searing
heat in this section claimed 50
lives during the past few days.
The hottest report was a 120
degrees at Wishek, North Dakota.
Weather forecasts held little
hope for a substantial relief
w.thin the next thirty-six hours
from the record heat and prolon
ged aridity which is blanketing
t.he midwest.
At least 74 deaths have result
ed from the six-day heat extend
! ing from the rich Illinois corn
I belt to the Kansas wheat fields.
| and the Wyoming and Montana
| cattle ranges.
Damages caused by the heat
are estimated at three hundred
million dollars, as grain pr.e s
resumed their upward swing.
Deputy WPA Administrator
Aubrey Williams announced that
55,000 destitute farmers in five
mid-American states will be em
ployed by the WPA within a
weak or ten days at the m >st.
\laskan jailed
Writing Bogus
Check Kodiak
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8, —
Alfred Whittell, Jr., mining op
erator, was jailed without bail,
on a federal warrant sworn to
by W. J. Erskine Company of
Kodiak charging he had issued
eight hundred and seventy-two
dollars in fraudulent cheeks.
Whittell, later today, obtained
his liberty on habeas corpus an !
bail was sot at two thousand dol
lars. although U S M ’ h i Vi
said he did not hcii >ve tout un
der the charge, bail could be sc..
A hearing is se‘ for Friday.
Vice said “Whittell said 1-n
-topped payment on the check be
-■ause of a misunderstanding with
he W .J Erskine Company of K >
iiak, over mining supplies.
CARL HALLBERG RELATES WORK
OF TR ANSPORTING DREDGE
MACHINERY TO TAYLOR
Carl Hnllberg, field manager
of the Kougarok Consolidated
Placers Inc., which is construct
ing a dredge at Taylor in the
Kougarok section, who was in
town Monday from Davidson’s
Landing and Taylor, reported
that the work of freighting the
heavy dredge machinery and
supplies from Teller up the Tuk
suk river through Salt Lake to
Davidson’s Landing, about forty
miles from Taylor, was progress
ing very well.
He stated that all of the dredge
machinery and construction ma
terials, with the exception of
about 17,000 feet of lumber and
four hundred drums of oil, had
been freighted by the Lomen
Commercial Company tug-boat
from Teller to Davidson’s Land
ing.
Heavy duty caterpillars, trail
ers and other special gear is now
being employed to haul the died
ge materials and other cairn
equipment, the 40 miles into T •
lor, where the dredge is to bo
constructed.
On the Fourth of July, said Mr
Hallberg, there were about fif- ■
men at Davidson's Landing in
cluding several independent m i
ing operators with “cats" an t
hauling equipment, picking i >
their freight for the summers
mining season.
Two loads of about ten to’ s
have already been freighted ove -
the tundra to Taylor, report 1
Mr. Hallberg, and the rest of t.
freight is being held up by t) a
non-appearance of several pieca;
of connecting equipment for hi!
caterpillar trailers, before the re
mainder will be taken to th ?
point of construction.
“About thirty men are bein-'
employed at the present time in
freighting and other work in c 1
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