MONDAY
■ Fuun i l/ .i.y Bulletin. it
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MATTER!* EEUEF PLANE
KNROUT NOMK TODAY
VIA FAIRBANKS
JUNEAU, July 9, (/P)—The Mat
term relief plane with Alexander in
charge will, hop off at three o’clock
Monday morning for Fairbanks
where it will refuel and take off
for Nome enroute to Anadyr.
SOVIET SEAPLANE MAY
BRING MATTKRN TO NOME
FROM KHABAROVSK
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WASHINGTON. July 10. (>P) - j
Arrangements are in the making
to have the Soviet government!
send Mattern to Nome front where
he cOuld continue homeward in an
American plane. A seaplane now
at Khabarovsk would go to Anadyr 1
and transfer the world flier to
Nome. The American plane is
supposed to be the one Alexander
will take to Nome to meet Mat
tern. in the event‘‘"that the Soviet
plane brings him to Nome.
RELIEF PLANE LEFT JUNEAU
It is learned thru private ad
vicas to the Publisher of the Nug
get that Alexander and his relieff
party left Juneau this morning for
Nome via Fairbanks.
MATTERX ASKS *X>R
RESCUE PLANE
SEATTLE, July 10, (A3)—Mat
tel n asked that the rescue plane
be sent to him The Alexander
plane is proceeding for him.
TRYING TO KEEP
CONFERENCE AT WORK
LONDON, July 10. (A3)—? The
winding up of the present phase
of the World Economic Conference
was tenatively set for July 26- by
the Steering Committee. It is
understood from a unusually well
informed source, that the parley is
still deadlocked over currency sta
bilization. Leading delegates
frailly asserted ^that its contin
uance under the present circum
stances was useless. Tile Amer
icans. however, are lighting stren
uously to keep the conclave at
work.
RELIEF FLANK ARRIVES
The Matterli relief plane arrived
over Nome about 5:30 pm this
afternoon. Just as we were going
to press.
TRAIN COLLIDES WITH AUTO
EVERETT, July 10. (A3)—Mrs.
J. T. Hess, and her live year old
son, John were killed when a train
hjt their auto. HeV six’ year old
son is in a critical condition. The
accident occurred near Mukilleo.
TEXTILE WORKERS
COMMENCE TODAY
WASH IN GTQN^-^Iuly Itfr^TA3)—
Upwards of . fpur hundred thou
sand rormer employees will start
work today with approval by
Roostevelt textile code.
ARMADA STILL AT ICELAND
,, UNDATED, July 10, (JP)—Wi
ther still held the Italian armada
at Reykjavik, Iceland.
POST READY TO TAKE OFF
NEW YORK, July 10, (JP)—
Post is ready to take off on a solo
world flight as soon as weather
permits.
PRIEST MAKES SAFE ASCENT
FALSE PASS, July 10, (JP)—
Father Hubbard, the Glacier Priest
ascended Shlshaldln, during which
winds were oold and almost wiped
out the erpedition. All are
safe and some are euroute to the
states now.
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OFFER TO ASSIST MATTERN
NEW YORK, July 10, (JP)—Two
Frenchmen proposed a long di3
r
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tance/ flight from New York to
Soviet Russia. They ordered a
plane to take off today to Khabar
ovsk to bring Mattern anything be
needs, and take him back to Am
erican territory.
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WANTS FOREIGNERS TO
TAKE THEIR GOLD
NEW YORK, July 10. The
depreciation of the American dol
lar to around seventy percent of
its gold standard parity, is the
principal reason why the bankers
of this state told the foreign coun
tries to call home the balance of
their earmarked gold.
WASHINGTON WINS
IN REGATTA
LONG BEACH, July 10, (JP)—
In a wild driving finish Washing
ton won the National Inter-Col
legiate sipriint rowing regattat,
Saturday finishing six feet ahead of
Yale. Cornell was third and Har
vard fourth. The winners time
was six minutes thirty-eight and
four-fifths seconds, or den seconds j
slower than the"^ course record.
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BOAT MOVEMENTS
The M. S. Goodhope of the Lvng j
Nav, Co., sailed for Kotzebue and
way ports with mail, freight and
eight passengess, at 4:30 F. AL,
today.
The Victoria of the Alaska Line,!
is scheduled to arrive Nome July
17th.
Jhe Baldwin of the Arctic Trans
port Co., completed discharging
cargo at Shismaref and is now en
ronte to Kotzebue.
Tfie freighter Derblay of the
Alaska Line, lefj Shisunaref Sat -
tirday night after discharging car
go, and is enroute to Deering and
Kotzebue, A wire from the ves
sel states she is in heavy ice off
Cape Espenberg.
TUESDAY
I From Nugget Daily Bulletin.)
MATTHRX BEAK
ROBINSON CRUSOE
UNDATED. July 11. (/P)—Mat
tern is a real Robinson Crusoe,
lie lived sixteen days in Northern
Siberia. The .Moscow reports said
that he suffered cuts and bruises
when he crashed. He shot small
game while awaiting for a boat or
rescue party. He partly built a
crude but against, the winds. He
was only ' fourteen hours out of
Khabarovsk when motor trouble
began. Finally It failed and there
was no place to land and he craslv
ed. His food gave out in three
days, and he turned to fishing, and
hunting. He hailed some fisher
men who took him near Anadyr,
where Soviet guards picked him un.
'five EXPEDITION'S TIED -UP
UNDATED, July II; f/Pl^FIre
air expeditions are awaiting the
pleasure of the elements before
proceeding, Lindberg Is at New
Haven, Maine, enroute to Halifax,
and thehce by way of Greenland
to Europe, on a mapping exped
ition. General Italo Balbo, Italy'*
aviation minister. Is still at Rey
kjavik Post is still poised for a
world flight at New York. The
Frenchmen are also at New York
ready for a distant flight. Alex
ander is at Nome.
MATTER.V RELIEF PLANE
AWAITING MATTERN'S RETURN
Pilot Bill Alexander, leader of
■the Mattern relief expedition which
started out front New York to
hunt for Jimmy Mattern, world
solo flight ace, arrived Nome yes
terday from Juneau in 12 hours.
Accompanying him were Fred Fet
terman and Thomas Abby of the
expedition; Harold Person another,
member of the expedition wag left
with the flight plane in British
Columbia, the plane being on
wheels.
Pilot Bob Kills and Machandcian
M.W. Sasseen. is the first pilot to
lancl a pontoon plane down in
Nome from Juneau thus establish
ing a record flight between Nome
and the capital of the territory of
Alaska, the plane being used is a
high wing Ig>ckheed Vega. The
plane also brat copies of the Jun
eau Empire dated Saturday. July
8 th. .. ■’ * ■ ’
Naturally the members Of the
American relief . expedition feel'
disappointed In not being able to
continue across to Anadyr to bring
Mattern back, now that they are
within such Close proximity, but
they will await him here and fly
back to New York The Soviet
plane, will probably take three duvs
at least to reach Nome under the
most favorable weather conditions.
Credit is also due the Soviet
Government and its aviation ser
vice in showing their sportman
shllp and friendly attitude to give
help to Matrtem in their willing
ness to return him to American
territory at Nome.
SOVIKT AVIATOR BRINGING
MATTKRX TO NOMK
WASHINGTON. July 11. (JP)—A
dispatch said that Mattern would
be flown to Nome by Soviet avia
tor Levsanetsky who left Khabar
ovsk today for Anadyr and Nome.
AIRPKANK XI'UVS
Pilot Hans Mirow af the NAT,
happed off this morning for Fair
banks with a heavy first class mail
and the following passengers:
Fred Tracey, Mr. Rogers, John
Golovin Dexter and .Manager Hili
Oliver . Mr. Tracey is travelling
representative of the Alaska S S.
Go.; Mr. Rogers is an inspector of
records for the Department of Jus'
tice; Mr. Dexter is a former Resi
dent of Golovin whlT recently made
a trip there to visit his mother.
Manager Oliver df the Northern
Air Transport is making a busi
ness trip to Fairbanks.
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Pilot Chester Brown of the NAT
left this morning on an emergency
flight to Candle. The message
came from George Mioriini but
gave no detail's. It is presumed
the plane headed for the Kotzebue
hospital with .some patient,
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Brown is scheduled for a trij)
to White Mountain as soon as lie
returns from the north.
An NAT plane is scheduled to
hop off for Fairbanks Tuesday,
with Mrs. W. H. S Woods whose
mother is very U1 in the states,
two other passengers may also
make the trip.
Roy Nash, Field Representative
for the Reindeer Service, under
the Department of Justice, was an
arrival in Nome yesterday on the
Southern Alaska Airways pontoon
plane of .tulieau. svhich also brot
tjie members of the Maititern re
lief expedition headed by Win.
Alexander.
-—Dir-g©eley arid Mr/ Valley re-. |
turned to Nome from Kotzebue
and northerp; points, yesterday
afternoon: Dr. Seeley is making .a
trip thru Alaska wLth his own.
plane, doing dental, work at all
camps where it is possible for the
plane to land. They wjll return
to their Anchorage base soon.
WEDNESDAY
(From Nugget Daily Bulletin.)
MATTKRN MAY
COMPLKTK TRIP
CHICAGO, July 12, (A3)—H. B.
Jameson,.onto of the backers of
Mattern’s flight, said that the Pan
Americam Airways agreed to send
a seaplane for Mattern to fly to
America and complete his trip.
He said he received a message
stating that a seaplane with suf
ficient cruising range and a radio
could he obtained at Fairbanks as
soon as permission to make the
flight is obtained. Jameson leaves
today for New York to complete
arrangements.
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WAITING FOB SOVIET PLANS
CHICAGO. July 12. (/P)—•'The
Mattera flight backers aro await
ing news of the Soviet plans. If
they fail to materialize, the plan
is to send a Fairbanks seaplane to
Nome, which, with Alexander, will
fly to Anadyr, and. let Mattera fly
one of the plane bark to continue
his solo flight. . - ■ . . *
HALIFAX. July 12. (£>)—*Th ■*
Lindberghs bopped off fpr St.
.Johns today.
ITALIAN ARMADA
LEAVES ICELAND
RWYKAJAVIK. July 12. |yp)—
Twenty-four Italian seaplanes left
on. their fifteen hundred mile trip
to Cartwright. Labrador, enroute
to Chicago. . - ...—.—----—
BOAT MOVEMENTS
The steamer Victoria of the Ala
ska. Line, is due to go thru the
l’uss tonight. The vessel lias sev
eral calls to make at canneries in
that section, thus delaying her ar
rival at Nome until about July 17.
The freighter Derblay reported
•today- that she was four miles off
shore from Cape Esipenberg and
in heavy ice.
The steamer Baldwin of the
Arctic Transport .Co., is five miles
off Cape Espenberg in heavy ice.
iUKTY CARLOADS JtK KR
TIED Ul*
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 12, (/P)
—The state ordered beer held up
until Governor Murray will take
out. the bung with a mailed fist.
Martial lfaw, backed up by eighty
gitai'ds, prevenfed the u n 1 oad ing of
fifty carlo-ads of beer on sidings
for diversion orders until the gov
ernor issued a proclamation a* tn,
resutV of yesterday's election. The
governor declined to say wlieu he
would issue the proclamation. He
said his action was to prevent
them milking a joke out of law.
EDWIN GOULD DEAD
OYSTEK , BAY. N Y.. July 12,
(/P>—Ed-wiu Gould, aged sixtv-se
veu, a son of the late Jay Gould,
the pioneer railroad magnate, died
at his country home from a heart
attack.
KIDNAPPI N<; BECOMING
LURKING MENACE
UNDATED. July It, (/!*) —A , flit-.'
iraught. nation is looking for gov
ernment protection against the
lurking menace of kidnapping. I t
four different setions of the Unit
ed Slates, persons were lifted from
the midst of their fellows by ab
ducors. Several days ago. John
J. (Butch) O’Connell, of Albany,
Now York, aged twenty-four, an
athlete and a nephew of Edward
and Daniel O'Connell, dominant
figures in upstate Democratic ^ pol
itic.s. was., abducted, and a quarter
pf a million demanded’for his tfafe
return: ’ In Alton, Illinois, two
men entered the home of August
Duer, ■ *'a seventy-eight years old
banker and semi-invalid, knocked
hie wife down when she attempted
to ward them off, and drove away
in a car with him.
At Crawfordsvtlle. Georgia, a
mail carrier. J.C. Gyle, was kid
napped and released later by three
escaped Convicts. The federals are
searching for Factor at Newport
Newe, Virginia.
BAN FRANCISCO, July 11,(/P)—
A detailed report shows that the
retail trade in the far west was
about the same as a year ago.
CONTACT MADE
WITH KIDNAPPERS
AJUBANY. July 12 ,<yp>—‘The O’
Connell family expeot the release
of young John, Junior, from the
kidnappers within twelve hours.
It is understood that a large sqm,
approaching ^six figures, will 'be
ipaid the aibduetors, the exact
amount is unknown. None of the
family will comment, but the press
said that contact had been ©stab
. •
lished and that. ransom negotiat
ion* are in progresss.
BININKSS IS IMPROVING
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, {/P)
—For the first time since the de
pression, the bank status for Juno
indicated a higher level in general
business than the , same months 1
last year,
AIKPRANK SKWS
Pilot Chester Brown of the NAT
took off this afternoon for Baby
where he will contact Pilot Mirofr
01 the same company. Passengers
enroute to Fairbanks were J. G.
flange, auditor for the Hammon
Co.. Airs. W.H.S. Woods, wife of
Sgt. Woods of the U.S* radio sta
tion; Gussie Beckman and Marian
Lycette. The plane also carried
mail. On the return trip to Nome
late tonight it is expected that
Brown will have the late incom
ing, mail from the states.
Pilot Percy Hubard arrived Nome
last evening from Fairbanks and
other places enroute yviili Mr.
Franklyn, representative of the
West Coast Grocery Co., and other
firms They intend to remain sev"
eral days. ,
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Everything is at a standstill
with the Mattern relief expedition
at Nome base until further ad
vices or until the Russian plane at4
rives here with Mattern. It is our
hunch that the Soviet government
will not permit an American plane
to touch the Siberian coast, and
t
that they w.ill take the honors of
bringing Mattern to Nome.
—^ ' young lady entered a station
ay store tit other du.v and ^askea
for a pound of flour wax.
“ I'm sorry, miss," replied the
assistant! "VV<e sell only seh'in'g
"Don't be silly,” she remarked.
"Why would anyone want to wax
their ceiling?”
' f a
> . ' V
Thompson propounded the fol
lowing problem to his friend Joues
in the train oue morning.
‘‘A train was approaching a
crossing at sixty miles an hour
and a man in a cat' was nearing
the crossing at forty miles an
hour. How did he get across.
"Nothing to do with time or
distance?” queried Jones:
“N,o;” was the reply.
"Well, did he get across?" Jones
insisted
“He did,” his friend replied.
“His widow bought him one.”
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