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^ VOL. 38. No. 239. NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY. AUG. 16, 1937 Per Copy lOct*
Hops Nonstop Oakland—Fairbanks
Waiting On Weather To Fly In Search of Soviets
IRKUTSK & MOSCOW HEARD LEVANEFSKY
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GAME LADY—Africa bound with
a group of 14 men to make mo
tion pictures of jungle life, Mrs.
Martin Johnson is shown as she
sailed from New York recently.
Vic Due 6 A. M.
The S. S. Victoria of the Alas
ka Line, coming North on its 2nd
"Arctic Cruise” of the year, left
Dutch Harbor and is scheduled
to arrive at Nome at 6 A. M. Tues
day, (tomorrow).
Aboard, said Agent Jo.e Harnish
at Nome, are 48 round trip pas
sengers and 21 local passengers
who will leave the ship in this
section.
Paid $100 Copy
Demo Book On
Last Convention
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug. 16,
—Republican leader Snell an
nounced he had learned that Al
askan who purchased Democratic
Convention Books had paid one
hundred dollars each. Those who
paid that amount included Jos
eph Kehoe of Seward, William
Mahoney of Juneau. Chester Todd
of Valdez and J. J. Connors of
Juneau, all federal employees.
Insurgents Occupy
Another City as
Govt. Loses
tBv Tne Associated Press)
HENDAYE, Spain, Aug. 16, —
G -neral Franco's troops pushed
into the northern city of Reinosa,
in a fierce battle with retreating
government troops.
Franco's men, heading for the
northern port of Santander, are
said to have fought their way in
to Reinosa only after fierce house
to house battling in the suburbs,
as government troops retreating,
pumped heavy machine gun and
rifle fire into the advancing insur
gents.
Franco's airplanes made a wide
swing over government lines
from Castra Uriales on the coast
east of Santander, to the Burgos
Santander highway.
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ANOTHER DU PONT TO WED. Mr. and Mrs. Lament dn
Pont of Wilmington, Del., announced the engagement of their daugh
ter, Alexandrine (above) to Howard Alfred Perkins, Jr. She is a
cousin of Ethel du Pont, fiancee of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
The wedding is expected to take place late this summer.
Exodus Shanghai
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Aug. 16, —Am
erican women and children pass
ed safely through shellfire today,
beginning the officially ordered
exodus from Shanghai of the first
of hundreds who must leave the
city in the next few days.
They sped through the heart
of the apanese and Chinese air,
land and sea battle along the
Whungpoo River.
Shell fragments tore the decks
and roof of the tender which car
ried two hundred Americans,
many of them refugees, to the
homebound liner President Mc
Kinley. They were missed by a
fleet of forty-three Chinese war
planes which were brought into
conflict in the heart of Shanghai
Queer Murders
(By The Associated Press)
CINCINNATI, Aug. 16, — A
grand jury here received from
Assistant Prosecutor Frank J
Gusweiler “evidence in more than
one case”, gathered in a far
reaching investigation resulting
in a warrant being issued charg
ing Mrs. Ann Hahn, 31, a former
German housemaid, with the poi
son-slaying of George Gseilman.
Police are inquiring into the
deaths of eleven persons, caused
by mysterious illnesses, and three
more which occurred recently of
mostly alderly persons of German
descent.
Gusweiler declined to say what
other fatalties would be consider
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JIMMY MATTEIIN IN
FAIRBANKS START
SEARCH RUSSIANS
Information received in Nome
today stated that former round
the-World flier Jimmy Mattern
landed at Fairbanks last evening
following a non-stop flight from
Oakland, California.
Details were meagre, and the
exact purpose of his flight is not
definitely known at this time.
However, it is believed he came
North to assist in the aerial sear
ch for the missing Soviet Polar
plane,containing Chief Sigismund
Levanefsky, and five members of
his crew.
Mattern had intended hopping
from Oakland to Moscow nonstop
next summer, as he considered
the weather at this time of the
year, to risky to chance such a
long flight. His action in flying
to Fairbanks with his big, new
trans-polar plane, is believed
prompted by the desire to aid in
the search.
Incidentally, it was Pilot Levan
efsky who flew across Russia and
Siberia to bring Mattern to Nome
in 1933, when he cracked up on a
round the world flight near Ana
dyr, Siberia.
The local station of the U. S.
Weather Bureau is now sending
weather reports every six hours
for broadcast to the Soviet plane,
believed down north of the Arctic
coast of Alaska.
Other reports in Nome today
indicated possibility that Soviet
authorities might soon dispatch a
number of airplanes from their
large base at Anadyr, out over
the Arctic Ocean in search of the
missing fliers.
With such a possibility uncer
tain at present, due to adverse
weather conditions in the Nome-’
Anadyr section, it might be ex
pected that they would use Nome
as a possible base for refueling,
and later pack gasoline and oil
to the Barrow section,from where
an active search of the area to
the north, might be carried on.
Little if no reports have been
received regarding the search in
stituted Saturday by Pacific Al
aska Airways planes, and no fur
ther search plans have been an
nounced publicly, as yet.
The Nugget has wired the Fair
banks News-Miner to keep us ad
vised of Soviet search activities
Exhibit palaces for the 1939
Golden Gate International Expos
ition on San Francisco Bay are
laid out on a "step-saving' ground
plan.
this morning.
More than $152,000,000 was ex
pended for the Golden Gate and
San Francisco-Oakland bay brid
ges and the 1909 Golden Gate In
ternational Exposition, which is
being created to celebrate the
completion of the two great struc
tures.
RADIO SIGNALS
FROM PLANK
RECEIVED
(By The Associated Press)
Radio Signals Heard
Washington, Aug. 16. — «
Soviets stations were re
ported to have intercepted
radio messages, purported
to have come from the lost
Soviet trans-Polar plane.
WASHINGTON'. D. C.. Aug. !6,
—The Soviet Embassy here today
announced that the government
radio station at Irkutsk. Siberia,
had picked up signals “of a weak
and irregularly working trans
mitter”. believed to be the em
ergency radio set of Pilot Levan
efsky, head of the Soviet plane
crew, mussing in the Arctic re
gums.
The signals were received at
3:23 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
The Embassy said that before
that, the Moscow radio station
had heard faint signals on Lev
anefsky's frequency—25 meters
—at 10:55 EST
"There is strong belief that the
signals actually came from the
missing plane", the Embassy
spokesman declared. The Soviet
officials are inquiring to see if
the Signals Corps in Alaska or
Canada heard the signals.
FAIRBANKS. Aug. 16. — Jam
es Mattern. who arrived here yes
terday after a non-stop flight
from Oakland, said he would
take olT to search for the Russian
fliers, as soon as he received
weather reports from Arctic sta
tions.
The weather at Point Barrow
was reported to be favorable for
a flight over the vast Arctic ice
pack. Three thousand foot ceiling,
and broken clouds was the report.
Matter intends to fly along the
148 meridian line.
Seattle Star Is
Printing Under
Guard of Poliee
(By Tile Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Aug. 16, —Guarded
by thirty-six policemen, under
orders from Mayor Dore, the
Seattle Star continued normal
i operations despite the end of a
1 four-day truce period agreed be
i tween union printers and the
■ newspaper guild
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