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VOL. 38 No. 205 NOME, ALASKA. Wednesday. JULY 7, 1937 Per Copy lOcts
Navy In The Air In Search Amelia
AIRLINE THRU NOME IS NOW ADVOCATED
# Wireless Telephone Service Connect Alaska--U. S.
MRS. WASHBURN THANKS CROWD
_
Mrs. Lester Washburn, one of eight pickets whose arrest resulted
_ in a “Labor Holidav” in Lansing, Michigan, thanked the demon
strators after her release pending trial. Mrs. Washburn (left) is
shown with her husband (center) who is president of the United
Automobile Workers' local there.
► CHICAGO TO SHANGHAI
AIR ROUTE PLANNED
(By The Associated Press)
WHITEHORSE, Y. T„ July 7, — Air service offi
cials conferring here, after the completion of a 1,200
mile trail-blazing flight from Edmonton, planned an air
service which woultf eventually link the United States
with Shanghai, via northern Canada.
They said plans would go forward immediately to
extend the present service from here to Fairbanks, then
% ce to Nome and over Bering Straits, which would make
a Chicago-Shanghai route 4000 miles shorter than at
present by way of Hawaii.
Will Remain Ten Days in Seattle
(By The Associated Press)
H SEATTLE, July 6, —Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mir
ow Air Service arrived here at 5:30 p.m. from Prince
George, British Columbia, enroute thru from Nome.
W A Batholomae and Jseph Bien cntinued south via a
United Airlines plane.
Mirow said his flying time from Nome was 15 hours
and 30 minutes. He started Sunday morning, stopped
at Fairbanks overnight, continued Tuesday, stopping
at Hazelton and Prince George. He said he would re
* main in Seattle about 10 days before returning to the
northern city, on Seward Peninsula.
Fitts Calls Special Session Grand Jury
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, July 7, —District Attorney Fitts
called for a special session of the county grand jury
last night to act on the case of Albert Dyer, accused
of slaying three little girls here. He said he intends to
ask for the death penalty.
Passenger List
Arctic Cruisers
On Vic Due Mon
1 Following is the list of “Arctl
.Cruisers" aboard the S S Victor
j ia due to arrive Nome Monday
; Further details Cruise Thursday
N. E. Ayer
Mrs. N. E. Ayer
Miss Mary T. Abele
Ta'bert Anderson
Mrs. Elsie Brown
Keith Birlem
Miss Amanda Bell
Mrs. Annie Bohn
Fred H. Brown
Miss Mary Burch
Allen Bliss
Lionel Bearchamp
Miss Adelaide Clapp
R, O. Case
C. T. Cockburn
Mrs. C. T. Cockburn
Miss Marguerite Copeland
Jesse Cowles
Mrs. Chas. M. Cowles
Fred N. Crosser
Miss Jane Dagg
Mrs. D. B. Dagg
Rev. Dedara
Allan Durand
Mrs. Sarah Durand
Miss B. Enley
Ralph W. Erickeson
Mrs. Raph W. Erickeson
Miss Margaret E. Gaver
F. A Greenwood
Miss Bernice Gauge
Mrs. J H. Hallenberger
Miss Edith C. Halil
Miss Sally Hughes
Mrs. Eugena Hale
Miss Viola A. Jacobs
Dr. A. M. Kepitan
Mrs. A. M. Kepitan
Miss Edith Draeft
Miss Dora Lantrys
Miss Margaret Layton
L. D. Meyer
Mrs. Lee D. Meyer
Chester Oathout
Mrs. Chester Oathout
Joseph O’Gorman
Frank R. Pierce
Clyde Quick
Mrs. G. G. Senn
Masiter A. E. Senn
Mrs. Eybil Kent Stone
Miss Anne Sethers
Miss Dorothy Schwartz
Miss Rita Seneker
Wm. Smith
Mrs Ethel Smith
Miss Julia Twarowski
Miss Marjorie Van Horne
Charles S. Webb
Miss Weinberg
Bayne Wilson
Mrs. Benny Wilson
Miss Florence Wilcox
Mrs. M. Yorkey
Miss Sarah H. Young.
TELEPHONE SERVICE
JLNEAU TO SEATTLE
START TOMORROW
(By The Associated Press >
SEATTLE. Julv 7.—Government-commercial tele
• I to'
i phone service between Seattle and Juneau will be in
augurated Thursday with conversations between th(
national and territorial capital at 10 a.m. Juneau time
|which will be the formal opening of a new radio-tele
phone channel linking trans-continental phone wire ser
(vice with a new channel to the north.
”The service will be available to anyone with tele
phone connections in the United States’', said Colone
George E. Kumpe, in charge of the Signal Corps here.
German Paper Objeeted To Address
(By Tlie Associated Press)
BERLIN. July 7, —Duetsche Allegemeine Zeitum
a Hitler newspaper organ, criticized the London Inde
pendence Day speech of Ambassador Dingham as “agi
1 tative criticism of other European peoples.”
Dingham, addressing the American Society, said de.s
pots of Europe had forced America and England to un
dertake rearmament.
NEWSBOY SUBJECT TO OLD AGE TAXES
Internal revenue agents have ruled that Elmer E. Taylor (right) o
Greenfield, >Iass., was subject to old age taxes under the Socia
Security Act. Taylor was fined one cent for failing to register Stan
ley Lacount (left), helper, who gets $1.50 weekly.
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Search liar hart
Plane Is Turned
Another Area
LACK OF REPORTS CAUSES
HOPES TO WAIN IN THE
HUNT FOR AMELIA
(By The Associated Press)
HONOLULU. July 7 —U S.Navy
ships and planes are coordinating
in the efforts of the vast Earhart
hunt, aimed at a new region in
tiie South Pacific wastes where
there is a growing belief that
some facts indicated the missing
Aviatrix is perhaps marooned,
after five discouraging days of
scanning an immense area north,
northeast of Howtland Island,
, where Earhart missed last Fri
day. and have turned the search
in a corresponding area, centered
to southeast of Howland Tsland,
where for two hundred and eigh
ty miles away, to the center of
Phoenix Islands, the U. S. Cutter
Itasca and the U. S Navy mine
sweeper Swan searched more
than one hundred and four thou
sand square land miles to north
of Howland Island, without see
mg any sight of tiie piane.
The U S. battles!)ip Colorado
which has been steaming towards
a given course, planned to release
her deck planes late today to
make observations over the ocean
area, position not given.
Japanese Claim
Defeated Force
Soviets on Amur
DAY-LONG BATTLE IS SAID
ENDED VICTORIOUS FOR
COMBINED FORCES
(By The Associated Press)
HSINKING, Manchoukuo. July
6. — The Japanese army declared
it had defeated a sizeable detach
ment of Russian troops after a
day-long battle n the disputed
eastern frontier of Manchoukuo
and Siberia.
Soviet troops, the army charged
launched two attacks against the
combined Japanese Manchoukuo
an border guards near the little
frontier town of Ghieushaw.
Throughout the day the Soviet
'troops brought up heavy artill
ery, and in the evening started
f a bombardment of the Manchou
I kuoan shore with their heavy
cannon.
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