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VOL. 38 No. 210 NOME. ALASKA. TUESDAY JULY 13, 1937.Per Copy lOcts
Greatest Air Hunt in History Still On
Moscow-San Francisco Fliers Nearing End of Goal
tu"!TfSvfftK!v5r5lane Now Approaching San Fran- cisco alter Making a Flight From Moscow Across The North Pole
RADIO REPORTS SHIP
OVER PUGET SOUND
EARLY HOUR TODAY
(By The Associated Press'
SETTLE, July 13—The Alaska
Communications system reported
having received a message from
the Soviet flyers, which indicated,
that they were one thousand
rr les this side of the North Pole.
The message received at 11:53
F M. last night, stated. “My pos
ition is Strait of Melville, every
thing ali right, signed Danilin."
SEATTLE, July 13, — The U.
S. Army Signal Corps received
its first direct message from the
Russian trans-Polar fliers at 8:35
a.m. today.
The plane reported itself over
latitude 58 degrees 30 minutes
longitude 130 degrees, indicating
the plane had reached northern
British Columbia between Fort
Nekor. and Hudson’s Hope.
They should arrive over Puget
Sound at 3:30 p.m. and at San
Francisco at midnight tonight P
ST. Army officers said the skies
showed high clouds overhead in
the flying area yet to be tranvers
ed.
Edmonton, July 13, — The Can
adian National Telegraph Opera
tors at Usk, B. C„ one hundred
miles east of Prince Rupert tele
graphed they saw an airplane be
lieved to be th trans-Polar Russ
ian machine flying south at 1:00
p.m. PST.
Here are some of the photo
graphs of the Soviet plane, due
to arrive at San Francisco from
Moscow, at midnight. Owners of
short wave radios, and long wave
Map of Polar Regioas Showing Route Soviet Frisco Flight
too, in Nome, are urged to listen
in this evening, as the news of
rheir landing will probably be
broadcast by radio from man>
points. Farr weather indicates the
plane will probably be able to
fly through to Frisco.
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Alexander A. Troyanovsky flew to Vancouver, Wn., to welcome the first Soviet polar fliers. Shown
left to right they are A. Beliakoff navigator, Troyanovsky, Gen. Marshall, Chekaloff, and Baidukoff'
Plans Are Made
Open Steel Plant
Cincinnati Area
(By The Associated Press!
CLEVELAND, July 13—Plans
are going forward for reopening
of several remaining strike closed
steel plants while the Committee
for Industrial Organization’s suit
to enjoin the use of National
Guardsmen in the Ohio strike
territory, neared a showdown in
the federal district court at Col
umbus, Ohio.
The Indiana plants of Youngs
town Sheet and Tube Company
are the major units yet to be op
ened in the movement which has
sent thousands of operatives back
to the open hearths and finishing
works of four companies involved
in a dispute with the CIO over
signed contracts.
The companies, Sheet and Tube,
Republic Steel Corporation, In
land Steel and Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, have contended that
no signed contract with a union
was necessary under the Wagner
Act bargaining procedure. The
CIO insisting that written con
tracts were essential, called the
strike.
MORE PLANES TAKE
AIR SE ARCH AMELIA
(By The Assoeiaied Press'*
ABOARD AIRPLANE CAR
RIER USS LEXINGTON, July 13
—Sixty planes roared from the
deck of the Lexington in a last
mighty effort to locate Amelia
Eai'hart and Capt. Noonan, her
navigator, lost at sea one week
| ago last Friday. It is described
as the greatest air search in the
! U. S. Navy's history. The pLanes
| were ordered to scan an area of
■thirty-six thousand square miles
of the Pacific ocean centering
Howland Island.
HONOLULU, July 13, — 300
' navy flyers aboard the carrier
Lexington prepared for a spect
acular effort in the search for
Amelia Earhart while aviators
1 from the battleship Colorado ab
I andoned hope after four days of
| scanning the Phoenix Islands ar
ea.
Heading in the approximate dir
ection of Howland Island, but
with its exact destination undet
ermined. the Lexington’s officers
and men concentrated immediate
energies on details and plans for
a high »peed two hundred thous
and square miles siweep of the
equatorial Pacific
The ship has sixty two planes
The Colorado’s flyers confesses!
they had lost hope after the Phae
nix Islands survey with their 3
catapult planes.
Rear Admiral Orm G. Murfin,
commandant of the Fourteenth
Naval District told newsmen to
day the navy will swing its sear
ch to the Gilber Islands for Am
elia Earhart and her navigator,
Fred Noonan, lost in their plane
in the south seas for over a week.
Miss Earhart’s course crossed
this group of islands, and they
offer a possibility which cannot
be overlooked. Admiral Murfin
said
He emphasized the navy would
push the hunt to the utmost re
gardless of opinion-, beliefs and
the fact that nothing definite has
been heard from the pair sin -e
they failed to make Howland Is
land July 2nd. on a hop from
Lae, New Guinea, enroute around
the world.
Palestine be Split
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, July 10, —A roya'l
commission report recommending
that troubled Palestine be split
into three states, was issued to
day with British government ap
proval and a stern official warn
ing against new Jew-Arab strife.
The four hundred page report
likely to stir bitter feelings in
the British mandated Holy Land
would set up Jewish-Arab per
manent mandated territories sub
ject to the League of Nations.
A special meeting of the Leag
ue’s permanent mandates com
mission will consider the report
i on July 30th in Geneva.
Suffocated Death
(By Tiie Associated Press)
JOHNSTOWN, Pa , July 10, —
One man died of sutfocation and
several others were overcome by
smoke when five broke out late
today in the fan house of the
Black Diamond mine of the Min
eral Point Coal Company, forc
ing black clouds of smoke into
the underground passageways
At least thirty men were inside
the mine, which is situated on
a mountainside at BrookdaLe, sev
en miles eats of here, when the
fire broke out.
Those overcome were carried to
; the surface by rescue crews from
I
I nearby mines.
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