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VOL. 37. No. 114 NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 14 1936 Per Copy Ten Cents
Mechanic Dead Pilot Seriously Hurt
THIRTEEN CONVICTS MAKE PRISON BREAK
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Sen. Borah Loses Ohio Delegation Primary Race
Borah Lost Ohio
To Favorite Son
By Big Majority
BORAH SAYS PARTY OFFI
CIALS CARE NOTHING FOR
STATES’ RIGHTS OR INTEG
RITY OF NATION.
'(By Tne Associated Press>
UNDATED, May 14, — Borah
lost Ohio to Robert Taft, “the
favorite son” candidate, taking
only six of the state’s sixty-two
delegates to the national conven
tion.
Roosevelt piled up a big lead
over Brenckenridge.
West Virginia early returns
showed Roosevelt well ahead of
Landon leaving vote for repub
lican delegates. Delaware, six
democratic votes were pledged
for Roosevelt, and Vermont nine.
Uninstructed delegates were
described as “leading” Landon in
North Dakota, where eight in
structed delegates went to Roose
velt.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14,
—Borah, commenting on his de
feat in the Ohio primary said:
“The men who control the par
ty have already demonstrated
they care nothing for constitu
tional integrity and preservation
of states’ right.”.
He said that negro voters had
been told that the party will pass
an anti-lynching bill, which op
poses as unconstitutional.
John Lichtenberg
Tells Oldtimers
Seen on Outside
John Lichtenberg, pioneer Nome
hardware merchant, who return
ed by plane from a visit to the
states had some interesting ev
ents to talk about, after having
met numerous old-timers in Seat
tle.
He met and visited with Martin
Moran, one-time commissioner on
the Kobuk River, at Shungnak,
and later at Marshall.
He said he conversed with C.W
Lewis and wife in Seattle, after
they returned from Mayo Bro
thers and that Charley is in fairly
good health now. They do not
intend to return to Nome for
some time, he stated.
Chas. Milot, connected with the
Seattle office of the Lomen Com
mercial Co., is still the same as
ever and always glad to see his
many friends from Nome when
they are in the States.
Mr. Lichtenberg spent a month
in San Francisco, he stated, but
did not run into any old-time
Alaskans there.
While in Seattle, before taking
the boat for Alaska, he met Hans
M. Hansen and wife, prominent
Council miner, and they are
to make a trip to Denmark this
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WRECKAGE OF PLANE
DISCOVERED RESCUE j
PARTY ARE ENROUTE
Pilot Peterson Sighted Wreckage Near
Canyon. Miner Nolilies CCC Camp,
Mechanic Dead and 1*1101 Injured
(By The Associated Press')
SEATTLE, May 14, — Pilot Peterson early yester
day sighted the wreckage of the plane of Pilot Graybill
in a canyon near the mine he was enroute to. After
flying over the mine site they signalled the miners the
plane had been sighted and that they would land else
where and return. They received an answer when the,
miners waved one blanket. Peterson did not know if1
the fliers were alive or had been killed.
They landed some distance away and he and Mrs.
Graybill started on horseback for the scene of the ac
cident.
NORTHBEND, Wn., May 14, — Hiking thirteen
miles out of the isolated Bear Lake basin area, a miner
telephoned a CCC camp that mechanic Arne Wells, 22,
had been killed and pilot Jay Graybill had been serious
ly injured, when their food laden plane had crashed
near a blind canyon near the Cascade mine. Members
of the CCC are on their way there, but no details have
been received yet.
Mechanic Wells was to have been married the lat
ter part of this week. The pair left Seattle Tuesday to
circle over the mine and drop food and supplies.
Pilot Peterson sighted the wreckage and dropped
instructions but was not able to establish a system of
blanket signals to guide the search.
G. H. Edmunes,
General Mgr. Of
Alaska Sunset
G. H. Edmunes, general mana
ger of the Alaska Sunset Mines,
arrived by plane yesterday from
Fairbanks and immediately pre
pared to go to Sunset and super
intend spring work in prepara
tion for this season’s dredging op
erations, of the dredge on Sunset
Creek.
Mr. Edmunes was here in 1930,
and this is his first trip back to
Nome since then. He explained
that he was taking W. A. Castle
ton’s place this spring due to the
fact that he could not come to
Nome at this time, and possibly
not until late in the season.
Installation of new equipment
in the power house and other
dredge repairs are practically
completed, and Chester Milligan
dredgemaster and field superin
tendent, stated he expected that
the dredge would possibly com
mence operations on the rich
ground in that section, about
June first.
Both Mr. Edmunes and Mr.
Milligan expect a long and sucess
ful season this year, they stated
yesterday.
Airplane News
Nome Airport
Pilot Jack Hermann of the
Northern Air Transport made a
flight to White’s Camp in the
Kougarok and Iron Creek with a
load of freight today. He is
scheduled for a flight to Fair
banks tomorrow, if the present
fair weather persists.
A telegram to the Mirow Air
Service today announced that
Pilot-Manager Hans Mirow in
San Francisco, had taken deliv
ery today of a new Stinson air
plane which he would fly into
Nome as soon as weather per
mits.
Pilot Hans wired he was leav
ing San Francisco as soon as the
weather would permit for Seatt
le and Alaska.
Pilot Hall of the Mirow Air Ser
vice, flying for the time being for
the Ferguson Airways of Kotze
bue while Maurice King pilot, is
in the states purchasing another
Knox In Seattle
Address Vient
Strong Alaska
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WOULD LIKE SEE ALASKA BE
49th STATE. CRITICIZES THE
ADMINISTRATION FOR IN
TERFERENCE: TERRITORY
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Wn, May 14, —
Colonel Frank Knox, Chicago
publisher, and candidate for the
republican nomination for the
presidency of the United States,
speaking before a Republican
Rally here last night, said he
v.'ould be happy, if “in my life
time, Alaska should so far devel
op as to attain its place on the
Flag, as the Forty-ninth Star.”
He said he favors all the home
rule it is possible to give the Ter
ritory dining its development per
iod.
Knox referred to Seattle as
the Gateway to Alaska. He said:
"Alaska is the greatest Terri
tory we have, and will be a self
sustaining unit in itself, when
fully developed."
The Chicago publisher assailed
the New Deal for “intervening in
Alaska. No doubt the Northwest
lias felt its repercussions.
"Seattle is a symbol of what
American enterprise has initiat
ed.-’
He told Marion Zioneheck's
home-town folks that the con
m essmean's “gyratiins have been
::o more fantastic than those of
Hopkins, Tugwell and other lights
of the New Deal, as one of the
outstanding contributions made to
the brain trust.”
plane, and while the Mirow Air
Service plane now waiting at
Fairbanks for the arrival of a
new motor, arrived Nome today
with three passengers from Kot
zebue—Miss Bertha Rambow, the
school teacher there, Miss Dane,
nurse at the Kotzebue Hospital,
iid Fred Swanson of Dime Cr.
Pilot Hall flew to Dime with
Mr. Swanson and returned and
took off for Igloo and Kotzebue.
He is to return to Nome tomor
row and fly to Fairbanks
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13 CONVICTS MAKE
BREAK OKLAHOMA
PRISON YESTERDAY
Prison Official and Convict killer. Two
Cuards Wounded Held as Hostages.
Six Convicts Captured Quickly.
(By The Associated Press')
McALlSTER, Oklahoma, May 14. — A prison
brickyard foreman, A. Powell was slain and tossed from
a speeding automobile, convict Robert Dunningham was
killed, a guard was wounded and another held as hostag
es, when thirteen convicts made a break from the state
penitentiary here.
Six of the convicts were quickly recaptured while
trying to commandeer a car.
Powell was seized, forced into an automobile, and
then shot in the head and dumped out in the middle
of the business section, a mile from the prison.
Prison warden Roy Kenny, is directing the search.
Undersheriff Merrill said this morning that five convicts
fleeing from the authorities, with two wounded guards,
abducted William Doaks. a Pittsburgh farmer, who was
traveling through the country, 25 miles southwest of
here today, after forcing his wife to prepare breakfast
for the gang.
North Sea Ground
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141} Passengers On
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SEATTLE.1 \Vn„ May 14. — The
North Sea, aground with 140
passengers at Point Marsh near
Dixon Entrance, was refloated,
rodioed Captain A. W. Nicker
son at G:27 A. M. today to As
sistant Manager W. J. Manahan
of the Northland Transportation
Company, and was proceeding
slowly toward Ketchikan.
The Coast Guard Cutter Alert,
which put out of Ketchikan at 4
A. M. expected to reach her short
lv. The vessel is leaking some
what, although nut badly.
Coast Guard headquarters at
San Francisco said the first dis
tress call came through at 5:15,
and that all were ready to aban
don ship. Manahan said he did
not know of any such message.
Tax Collector Is
Pursuing 2 Men
(By The Associated Press)
HAMMOND, Indiana, May 14,
—John Foster, Marion Indiana al
cohol tax unit collector of the in
terna) revenue bureau was shot
and killed, as he and Guy Good
in, another agent, pursued two
men in a black coupe.
They were pursuing them to
“see who they were.”
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WASHINGTON. D C . Mv. 14,
Nn t: oi{ ' ional ap
proval of the K.'az -Lcmke bill,
D> legate Sam King of Hawaii
prepared an amend?: eat for in
troduction in tlic House of Repre
sentatives to extend die provi
sions of the bill to Hawaii and
Alaska.
Backers of the bill claimed an
other victory today in the house,
when the measure reached the
amendment stage.
(By The Associated Press)
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