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VOL. 38 No. 213 NOME. ALASKA. FRIDAY. JULY 16, 1937. Per Copy lOcta
Air Clippers Are Flying Atlantic
SEARCH BEGUN WOUNDED BANK ROBBER
Alaska Clipper Air Express Inc. To Fly To Alaska
FIRST TRANSATLANTIC AIR BAQE TAKES SHAPE
The British Isles' first transatlantic air base, now under construction at the mouth of the river Shannon
at Foynes, Limerick, Ireland, will be one of the best airports In the world when completed Almost $10,
000,000 Is being spent on the project, takeoff spot for proposed regular flights to the United States A
view of the field, hangars, harbor and the village of Foynes is shown at the top, while below Is the
Cambria, the Imperial Airways' long-range giant seaplane, which is being used In trial flights over the
Atlantic ocean off the west coast of Ireland. (Associated Press Photos)
TRANS ATLANTIC AIR
PL4NES ARE ACTIVE
(By The Associated Press)
BOTWOOD, New Foundland July 16, — The Pan Am
erican Airways Clipper plane 3rd landed here at 7:52
a.m. today after a flight of 16 hours and 27 minutes from
Foynes, Irish Free State, crossing the Altantic from the
East.
At the same time, from here the British flying boat
Caledonian, landed in the River Shannon after a flight
of twelve hours and seven minutes.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
(By The Associated Press)
NELSON, B. C., July 16, — The Doukhobor family
named Stoopnikoff, a twenty-nine-year old rancher, his
wife and three children the oldest of whom was eight,
were drowned in the Columbia river while crossing the
river to pick berries, when their boat upset.
(By The Associated Press!
SEATTLE, July 16, —A patrol squadron of V-P 7’s
under Lieut. Commander C. L. Fuller took the air at 7:
05 a.m. bound north, followed in forty five minutes by
V-P 9’s under Lieut. Commander W. G. Tomlinson.
Both patrols are flying along the outside passage,
across the Gulf of Alaska to Kodiak, expecting to make
the flight in about ten hours.
The squadron of V-P 12’s, consisting of eleven air
planes, which was compelled to turn back after stag
ing north yesterday, took off at 8:30 a.m. headed for
Sitka.
Don! Take Wood
Money Does Not
Apply Richmond
(By The Associated Press)
RICHMOND, Va„ July 16.
The warning “Don’t take any
wooden nickels becomes effective
:n Richmond today.”
Wooden nickels and wooden
ten and twenty five cent pieces
' become legal tender for a period
ending Septnibr 25th.
The wooden “coins” are rectan
gular souvenirs of Richmond's
bicentennial celebration.
Fifty thousand of them have
been distributed to merchants,
and will be given in change to
customers on request. They may
be redeemed at any time before
the close of the celebration this
fall.
To Build Smelter
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, July 16 — The
Kennecott Copper Corporation
will build a five million dollar
smelter at Hurley, New Mexico
for its Nevada Consolidated and
Chino property, officials announc
ed today.
WEEKLY AIR SERVICE
ALASKA TO 3EGIN
SATURDAY
(By The Associated Press'*
SEATTLE. July 1G. — The inauguration of a week
ly air service to Alaska, starting Saturday morning,
was announced today by the Alaska Clipper Air Express
One of the firm's twin-motored Sikorsky amphib
ian planes will be leaving Boeing Field at 8 a.m. Sat
urday, reaching Ketchikan in the afternoon following
a two hour stop at Alert Bay. The following week a reg
ular service to Juneau will start. with one round trip
.weekly
Fisheries Bureau Reported On
Earnings Fishermen. (tanneries
Wholesalers Alaska Last \ear
; B. The Associated Pres-;
WASHINGTON. D. C. July If. — Tr Fisheries
Bureau reported that Alaska fishermen received thir
teen million, eight hundred .me : '.e.y one thousand,
four hundred end twelve doilaA for their catches hst
year, which ultimately had a wholesale or processed val
ue of fifty million, four hundred and fifty-five thousand,
two hundred and seventy two dollars.
Salmon was the bulk of the catch with a value of
eleven million eight hundred and fifty six million, five
hundred and forty one dollars to fishermen, gross. Can
neries and other processors received a total of forty six
million, four hundred and eighty one thousand, two hun
dred and twenty two dollars on the saint m pack.
Engaged in the fisheries were eleven thousand, sev
en hundred and twenty-two fishermen. Sixteen thous
and. five hundred and ninety seven wholesaler and man
ufacturer employees and two thousand and sixty-four
transoortation workers were engaged.
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Total Eclipse of the Sun—At top a time lapse photo from first to
’ lgst, Below is a picture of the total eclipse, taken in Peru.
Two Of Three
Bank Robbers
Caught Oregon
r r
(By Tne Associated Press)
JOHNDAY. Oregon. July 16 —
State police searched fruitlessly
through the timber and sagebrush
'■rca near here f-r the third mem
r, dead or alive, of a robber
gang which raided the Grant
County Bank here M onday.
Floyd Russell of Columbus,
Ohio, and Pat Bushman a Uma
tilla Indian who were captured
near Bickleton. Washington, yes
, •» day told officers they left Jack
Davis, aged thirty-five, who was
shot and injured m their escape,
either dead or critically wound
ed near the highway. The two ad
mitted to the holdup
Reginald Bo.-- a University of
Michigan student w - was shot
by state officer.-, early yesterday
when his car was mistaken for
»:■-» in which it was reported the
bandits were escaping. improv
ing at the Hermoiston Hospital.
The bandits took thirty-five
hundred dollars in the holdup but
lost all but four hundred and
twenty dollars when their car
overturned and was wrecked,
when escaping.
Telegraphic Briefs
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS. July 16. — Roving
squads of strikers trying to close
all Paris hotels that have not ag
reed to a flat five day week led
to sporadic violence in a walkout
yesterday. A dozen of the biggest
hotels and about one hundred
cafes and restaurants were closes!.
LIMA. Peru. July 16. —Three
sailors were killed and three crit
ically injured in an explosion in
the boiler room of the Peruvian
destroyer Almirante Villar, at
Callao Bay.
HELSINGFORS, Finland July
16. —Ten deaths were caused in
night-long explosions in ammuni
tion stores in Sveaborg Castle just
outside Helsingfors, police announ
ced today.
Twenty persons were injured
and sixteen buildings were de
stroyed.
BRUSSELS, July 16. — Leon
Degrelle, Belgian Rexist leader,
was fined twenty five dollars and
given a four months suspended
prison sentence for slandering a
cabinet minister.
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