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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 38 No. 218 NOME. ALASKA, THURSDAY JULY 22 1937 Per Copy lOcts
Plane Flights Thru Nome Pending
THIRD SOVIET HOP TO STOP IN ALASKA
Earthquake Shocks In Fairbanks Inflict Damage
KNIGHTS AND LADY.
Queen Mother Mary and her sons, the Duke of Gloucester (left) anti the Duke of Kent, were next to the King and Queen the highest
ranking members of the order participating in the tiOO-year-old ceremony. An absent knight companion was the Duke of Windsor,
honeymooning in Austria with his American-born duchess.
Refueling Plane
To Go Fairbanks
Mattern Flight
c<
^ (By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, July 22, — A
twin-motored plane which Matt
ern may use to refuel him over
Fairbanks on his projected San
Diego to Moscow hop. is being
outfitted with nine hundred gal
lon capacity tanks.
Reg Robbins and Nick Green
er, two pals of Jimmy Mattern’s
have been brought to Los Angel
es from Kansas City, and will take
tfte refueling plane to Alaska, if
Mattern’s flight materializes.
Were In Nome In 1931
Reg Rabbins, referred to as
one of those to bring the refuel
i-.g plane to Alaska, was in Nome
in 1931 in company with Howard
Jones, when they attempted a
non-stop flight from Seattle to
p Tokyo, in a Lockheed Vega air
plane. Unfortunately fog and the
inability to take aboard enough
gasoline in the air caused the
flight to end here.
At that time Jimmy Mattern
and Nick Greener flew the tri
motored Ford refueling plane.
Now it is Robbins and Greener
•who will refuel Mattern if the
Moscow hop materializes.
WASHINGTON, July 22, —
President Roosevelt today sent
to the senate the name of Ralph
Rivers of Fairbanks, for reappoint
ment as United States Attorney
for the Fourth Division of Alaska,
recommending favorable action.
NEOPHYTE.
Karl Baldwin of Bewdley, until
recently Prime Minister of the
National government, was the
order’s newest member.
Hunting 2 Killers
(By The Associated Press)
REDONDO, Calif., July 22, —
Two men,who police said were
paid assassins from Reno, are
being hunted for the wounding
of Les Bruneman, bookmaker and
and night club operator.
It was learned they said, the
men had been hired to get Brune
man, who was shot in the back
last night, and whose condition
today it was reported, was criti
cal.
BISHOP ROWE ON WAY BARROW
Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe, of
whom everyone in the North'and
is familiar, paid Nome a short vi
it today, hopping ofT this after
noon enroute to Point Barrow, by'
Wien Alaska Airlines plane, pi!
ot Walt Hall.
Bishop Rowe is on a regular
trip of inspection through the
North. He will stop at Kivalina.
Point Hope, Point Lay, Wain
wright and Point Barrow.
It is expected the plane will re
turn to Nome with Bishop Rowe
and Archdeacon Goodman from
Point Hope. Beyond these chang
es in plans, the following story
which appeared in a southeastern
Alaska paper, explains fully his
trip to Alaska.
While stopping over in Wrang
ell for a few days on his way
north recently. Bishop Rowe was
quoted in an interview as laugh
ingly remarking to the effect that
he was “all right, but the house
I’m living in is beginnig to feel
the weather."
Plane Trip Contemplated
The trip he is contemplating af
ter arriving at Fairbanks, al
though he may not be able to
make it. is a plane trip to Anvik,
Barrow', Demarkation Point and
the Mackenzie River.
On the Fourth of July Anvik
will celebrate its fiftieth anniver
sary of the opening of the mis
sion by Octavius Barker who
made the long trip from Califor
nia. The mission has never been
ciiosed.
Anvik. stated the bishop, is
different from other Indian vill
age? in that it was the last line of
Eskimos and the natives, while
Indian, are different from other
Indians and have many Eskimo
characteristics.
The framework of their per
manent sod homes utilized bones
of whale, although they salvag
ed timbers from shipwrecks float
ing on the river. At the time the
white man arrived they were cut
ting the sod with tools made of
flint, ja.dc and whalebone and
used whalebone to cut sr.ow for
building temporary igloos for
the night, a form of shelter fre
quently built by Bishop Rowe in
the early days of his missionary
work in the Arctic, when caught
on the trail by winter storms
Archdeacon Out on Leave
On his flight to Point Barrow
the Bishop will visit Kivalina,
Point Lay and 8igara, at which
point Archdeacon Godman will
be picked up and taken across the
width of Alaska to Mackenzie
River on his way to Edmonton
and a year’s leave outside grant
ed after spending twelve years at
the bleak mission of Tigara south
of Barrow.
On the way to the Mackenzie a
stop wil be made at Demarcation
Point, 300 miles from Macken
zie on the Alaska side. The Eski
mos at this point live in almost
complete isolation and what
Christianity they have has come
through the Church of England
Mission at Shingle Point in Can
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS
FAIRBANKS THIS A M
WERE VERY SHARP
Mrs. Roosevelt
On Motherhood
fBv The Associated P'-nssl
WASHINGTON. D C.. July 21.
—An agreement with movie pro
ducers led Mrs. Franklin Delano
Roosetc'.t into a six field of paid
employment, which she has un
dertaken for charity since coming
to the White House.
She is to write a two hundred
word article on motherhood for
Samuel Goldwyn, to be used to
promote a forthcoming movie
The amount she is to paid was
not made public.
Her other activities include the
radio broadcasts, lectures, maga
z.no and book wi’ing, furniture
making and magazine editing.
Gas And Oil At
Edmonton For A
W orld’s Flight
c
(Bv Tfte Associated Press)
EDMONTON. July 22. — Plans
for a secret round the world
flight, possibly starting from Ger
many and refueling here, were
made known upon the arrival of
gas and oil at the Edmonton mun
icipal airport.
Officials admitted the receipt of
consignments of more than 600 gal
Ions of high test gasoline and for
ty-five gallons of special, from Ger
many and San Francisco, to be
used.
Officials declined to reveal the
identity of the flier or his point
of departure, although it is rum
ored the takeoff is planned late
this month.
It was also reported, there was
a possibility that Jimmie Mattern
might use the airport here, if den
ied permission by the United Stat
es to make the Moscow flight ac
ross the North Pole.
ada, a distance too far under
transportation difficulties to ad
mit contact between the two vill
ages except at long intervals.
The air trip contemplated by
the bishop will take a week il
good weather is encountered and
the plane is not grounded by fogs
Without the plane two yean
, would be required to traversr
j the vast distances between thest
1 points.
Pilot Hall of the Wien Airlines
arriving this morning from Fair
banks told of the unusually sev
ere earthquake which occurred
at that city this morning, result
ing in damage to windows and
merchandise o" shelves thruout
the interior city.
Walt said that the first shock,
which was extremely sharp, oc
curred about 7:1.3 a.m.. and that
it seemed of greater intensity
than the quake wh;:h occurred
at Long Beach, Calif., a few years
ago. Instead of being wavy and
shimmering, the shock and Fair
banks was abrupt and physically
definite.
Trent - hngs con
tir.ued for the next thirty to for
ty minutes in Fairbanks, although
no add:-.i n.ul damage was done,
said Pilot Hall.
B.snop Rj-.vo in describing the
quake at Fairbanks ieeiared, that
while he had often experienced
earth tremor: rtgs, this morning’s
rumbling.-, were the greatest he
had felt.
PiLot Hall said that during the
niinute's duration of the first
severe shock, people had difficul
ty retaining their footing, as the
ground was shaking and shift
j ing with a violent vibration, very
■strange to account for
Merchandise on shelves tumbl
ed to the floor in nearly every
store, it was reported, arid Pilot
Hall said that the greatest dam
, ages occurred in liquor stores
when bottles were shaken from
the shelves. He declared that one
oldtimer sadly sighed, saying
“My what a loss "
Third Sov iet Hop
Be In Passenger
Plane stop Alaska
(Bv The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 22, —
Another daring flight by way of
the North Pole from Russia to
the west coast of the United Stat
es will be undertaken this mon
th. Col. Michael GormofT, who
piloted the soviet aircraft that re
cently flew from Moscow to San
Jacinto. Calif., revealed in San
Francisco.
He revealed that the next hop
from Russia to the United States
was planned to start at Moscow
July 23, and that its destination
would be San Diego However,
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