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NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE—ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY ' VIATION
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VOL. 38 No. 195 NOME. ALASKA. THURSDAY JUNE 24 1937 Per Copy lOcts
Will Fly Return Route To Moscow
TENSE CONDITIONS STILL EXIST IN STRIKE
Would Have To Refuel Airplane Over Fairbanks
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JIMMIE MATTERN IS TO
ATTEMPT FLIGHT
OVER POLE
(By The Associated Press)
OAKLAND, Calif., June 24—James Mattern, well,
f:nown round the world flier, announced plans for a non
-top i r,ieling flight from Oakland to Moscow, following
practically the same route as flown by the Soviet fliers,
in a new one hundred thousand dollar monoplane just
completed at Burbank, California.
It will be a hazardous flight, Mattern revealed, after
lunching with the Soviet fliers and Ambassador Troya
novsky, because the plane has a cruising range of only’
five thousand miles, thereby making it necessary to re
fuel while flying, probably over Fairbanks.
Pilot MaPern explained that the plane will be equip
ped with a “robot pilot”. Mattern further said'he was'
undecided as to whether he will take a navigator on the
six thousand mile journey. He will make the flight
to demonstrate the United States development in air
craft, and in appreciation of the Soviet fliers who saved
him after he crashed in Siberia 1933, Mattern said.
Mussolini Orders
Battleships to Be
Lookout Trouble
t DUCt BRISTLES. Italy’s
Due underwrote Gci many's
stern Spanish policy with a dip
lomatic Hank check.
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, June 24th—Italian
warships patrolled the coasts of
Spain today on their own initia
tive, their commanders acting in
apparent concert. The Italian
vessels are under orders to strike
back immediately at any “attack”
from the Spanish government.
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Jimmy Mattern, first visited
Nome in the summer of 1931,
when he piloted the tri-motored
Ford refueling plane for Reg
Robbins and C. Jones, who were
attempting a non-stop flight from
Seattle to Tokyo by way of Fair
banks and Nome in a Lockheed
plane.
In 1933 Mattern attempted a
round-the-world solo flight, in an ;
etTort to beat the time set by the
late Wiley Post. On this flight
he cracked-up his Lockheed Vega j
plane about 75 miles out of Ana
dyr, across Bering Sea from ;
N.ime, a distance of only about I
350 miles from here. For two
weeks no word was heard of him
until he walked into Anadyr and
the news of his safety was flashed
around the world.
He waited there another week,
and was then brought to Nome
by a Dornier-Wahl flying boat, j
piloted by the famous Soviet flier
Sigismund Levanefsky, who has 1
also visited Nome several times.
since.
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BORDEAUX, France, June 23— '
Basque Loyalists are fortifying i
the country west of Bilbao for1
another stand against the Nation- j
alists. They were expected to!
establish a line about 16 miles
west of Bilbao,running from Cas
tro-Urdiales on the coast, down
into the hills.
ATTENTION MOOSE
All members of Loyal Order of
Moose No. 1413 are requested to
attend the funeral of our latej
Brother W. H. Koch, at Z P. M.,!
Saturday, June 26th, at the Fed- j
erated Church.
JULIUS PATTERSON,
2t Dictator. '
FITTING ON TOP. three Soviet explorers (top) landed their plane, staked their country’s
>« and set up a weather station at the North Pole. Left to right: I. D. Papanin, Prof. O. J. Schmidt,
expedition leader, and M. V. Vodopyanov, pilot. Below is the polar plane.
CONFERENCES HAVE
BEEN ARRANGED IN
GRE AT LAKE STRIKE
(By The Associated Press)
CLEVELAND, June 24—Roosevelt’s Federal Medi
ation Board renewed efforts to arrange a settlement of
the Great Lakes steel strike. While the strike has par
alyzed the mills of Ohio and Mahoning Valley, they
watched hopefully under the surveleance of forty-four
hundred National Guardsmen.
Charles Taft, the federal chairman, has arranged for
conferences with executives of four strike involved in
dependent steel companies representing the repudiated
Bethlehem, Inland Steel, Youngstown Sheet Tube Cor
porations. President Roosevelt, himself, is keeping in
close communication by telephone.
The principals of the conference disclosed at a press
conference that quiet reigned along the valley mill
front, the tall mill stacks emitted only a thin whisk of
smoke as the strike entered its 28th day.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 24—Attorney General
Cummings disclosed the information that he had order
ed the arrest of six pickets for allegedly interferring as
U. S. mail trucks enroute to the Republic Steel plants
at Youngstown and Warrent, Ohio. The obstruction of
U. S. mails and interference can not be tolerated for a
moment, Attorney General Cummings said. He de
clined to reveal the names until the warrants had been
served.
Professor O. J. Schmidt, shown
above,was suffering from an
acute attack of pneumonia when
he was flown to Nome in 1934 by
Soviet Pilot Slipenov, from the
Arctic ice north of Siberia, where
the Russian steamer Cheluiskin
had been crushed and 100 men,
women and children forced to
live on floating ice floes.
At that time Professor Schmidt
was in charge of the colonization
expedition in the far north for
the Soviets, and his courage and
bravery were extolled to the ends
of the earth, as he remained in
charge until all of the shipwreck
ed expedition had been removed
by airplanes to the Siberian main
land.
It was the spring of 1934 when
Soviet Pilots Levanefsky and Slip
enov came through Nome, after
purchasing the speedy Fleetster
planes from the Pacific Alaska
Airways, with which to assist in
the aerial resuce of the hundred
persons stranded on the ice. They
used Nome as a base for medical
supplies, as well as the obtaining
of gasoline and oil to keep the
planes in the air until the rescue
was completed without the loss
of a single life.
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(Bv Tne Associated Press)
CLEVELAND. June 22—Presi
dent Roosevelt’s new steel media
tion board agreed that concilia
tion should precede any other
steps toward settling the seven
state steel strike Nearly one
hundred thousand men are idle
: in plants operated by Republic
Steel Corporation, the Youngs
town Sheet and Tube Co.. Beth
lehem Sfeel Corporation and the
Inland Steel Company
(By Tile Assoc!tited Press)
DETRIIT, June 22—A total of
eleven persons have been killed
in the 25 day old battle between
John L. Lewis' Committee for In
dustrial Organization and the 4
independent steel companies of
"Little Steel”, Bethlehem, Repub
lic, Inland Sheet and Tube, and
Youngstown Sheet and Tu!>e,ovei
the question of signed labor con
tracts. The other ten were killed
in a memorial day ri it at Repub
lic Steels Chicago plant. The re
cent bloody pitched battle was
between CIO pickets and Police
guarding the Republic plant.
W. H. Koch Dead
Last evening about 8 o’clock,
death removed from our midst a
well known and kindly fellow
citizen, in the person, of William
Henry Koch, af’e- a') extended
illness, passing away at the May
nard-Columbus hopsita!. where
everything possible was done f' r
him. Heart failure was attribut
ed to the cause of death
William Henry Koch was born
October 9, 1860, at St. Louis, Mis
souri. Came to Alaska in 1905,
i arriving at Nome. Later he be
came engaged in muung around
| Solomon where he resided for a
number of years, when he again
! moved into Nome, being connec -
ed with various mercantile con
cerns in Nome of late years.
He was a devote member of the
J Loyal Order of Moose and since
! 1918 has been secretary of the
local lodge No. 1413 In the 82
years residence here Mr. Koch
made two trips to the States.
He is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. Norvin W. Lewis, and four
grand-children, Norvin Jr., Char
les, Harry and Robert Lewis, all
| of whom have the sympathy of
J the entire community, in this sad
| hour of bereavement.
; Funeral services are to be held
! Saturday, June 26th, 2 P. M., at
I the Federated church. Interment
1 will be at Belmont Point ceme
ttery.