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VOL. 38. No. 119. NOME, ALASKA, Saturday, May, 22, 1937. Per Copy lOcts
Soviet Plane Lands At North Pole
HUGE RELIEF MEASURE PASSED BY HOUSE
Guns Loosed Texas Family Dispute Four Mudered
House Backs President’s Relief Bill.
Other Week End News Washington
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 22—The House stood
by President Roosevelt and approved tentatively the
trillion and a half dollars relief appropriation for the
fiscal year July first, voting two hundred and ten to
one hundred and twenty-eight.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 22—Congressmen close
ly in touch with labor matters, predicted that the ad
ministrations general labor legislation will seek to es
tablish the forty hour week with a basic minimum wage
of forty cents per hour. The bill which is to be recom
mended by President Roosevelt in a special message to
Congress, will be introduced by Chairman Connery of
the House Labor Committee.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 22nd—Administration
ieaders of Congress set to work on a three fold econo
mic program which had been shunted aside for three
months by the Supreme Court reorganization dispute.
Although the judiciary battle is far from being settled,
the President and his lieutenants outlined the follow
ing legislative proposals, the first of which is the estab
lishment of a forty hour week with a forty cents per
hour minimum wage for interstate industries. Second,
the stablization of farm production and prices based or
the bill offered by major farm groups. Third, re; ional
planning program, dealing with Hood ccntro’. p wer,
navigation, irrigation and soil erosion control.
BODY OF THIRD SLIDE VICTIM FOI \D
SEWARD. Alaska, May 22—The body cf the third
slide victim, Einar Pedersen of Norway, was found at
Lynx Creek. Burial will be at Anchorage.
Elected to Visit S. F.
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Elected by the club-swinging Ore
gon cavemen, who wear furs and
skins or less near Grants Pass,
Helen Carlson will lead the tribe
to the dedication of the Golden
Gate bridge in San Francisco this
spring and to the Seattle potlatch
later in the year.
Woman Accused in
1 Illegal Operation
Mrs. Laura Miner (above), 38,
faced a slaying charge in San
Diego as result of the death of
Mrs. Lauretta Hazel Reese, *1,
following an illegal operation.
Her bail was set at $3,000.
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SOVIET AVIATORS ESTABLISH
FIRST PLANE BASE NORTH POLE
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW. May 22—Soviet Aviators carried the
first aerial landing party of the North Pole Expedition
of eleven men, when they flew over the Pole and
landed safely on an ice floe, twenty kilometers from the
top of the world.
MOSCOW, May 22—Soviet explorers established
its first permanent base at the North Pole, preliminary
to the proposed Moscow to San Francisco air route over
the top of the world.
The eleven men landed in an airplane on an ice floe
thirteen miles from the Pole yesterday, successfully
concluding plans worked out secretly for moi'e than two
years by Dr. Otto J. Schmidt, director of the Soviet
Northern Sea Route, who headed the party which hop
ped from Rudolf Island at dawn yesterday. Six hours
and ten minutes later Pilot M. V. Vodopyanoff. set his
h javilv loaded, four motored craft on the ice.
Messages indicated that the thrilling landing was
achieved without incident, except temporary damage
to the radio sending apparatus. In the first message
Dr. Schmidt said, it is possible to bring other planes
here to establish a Polar Station, “We send you through
Dickson Island radio station, greetings from the North
Pole.”
The red flag, with its hammer and sickle, was unfurl
ed and the expedition set to work preparing for the
plane loads of equipment and supplies to be flown from
Rudolf Island. Four air craft are now at new Rudolf
airfield, five hundred and sixty miles from the Pole and
are being loaded with supplies and instruments for an
air base and weather observatory, which is essential to
working out of the Polar Air Line from Russia to the
United States.
Seventeen men spent the winter at Rudolf Island,
82 degrees North, 60 East. Four men will remain
permanently at the Pole base for a year studying con
ditions of the polar birthplace of weather. Those who
wiil make up this party are: Ivan Papanin in command,
Ernest Krenkel, radio operator; Pyotr Shirsoc, hydro
biologist; and Eugene Federov, Magnetologist.
ALASKA’S MATERNAL AND
INFANT DEATH RATE HIGH
Compared With The Death Rate
For the United States AS
A Whole.
The United States occupies the
14th place among other nations
in the maternal death rate. 12,
544 mothers died in the United
States from childbirth during the
year 1935. Statistics for 1936 are
not yet available. This gives an
average of 5.8 maternal deaths
for every 1,000 live-births.
Alaska stands out very dark ex
en when compared with the high
maternal mortality rate of the U.
S. A. The maternal death rate in
Alaska is almost twice as high
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as that in the States.
The Maternal and Child Health
Division of the Territorial De
partment of Health has recently
compiled statistics of maternal
and infant deaths throughout the
Territory for the past six years.
From 1930-1935, inclusive, there
have been seventy-one deaths re
ported, of women who died from
causes connected with childbirth.
For the same period, there have
been 7,091 births reported in the
Territory. For the year 1936,
there have been 12 maternal dea
ths reported throughout the ter
ritory.
The infant mortality rate is ex
ceedingly high in Alaska, num
bering 1125 infant deaths for the
above mentioned 7091 births, giv
ing an average of 158.8 per thou
sand live births. This is almost
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Four Bead, One Injured In Shooting
Affair at Texas Farm Homes
(By Tiie Associated Press)
KNIPPA, Texas, May 22—Four persons are dead
and one wounded, in a shooting which took place three
miles north of here last night. The victims are: Jarrei
Sampler, an Uvalle auto mechanic and his wife; Mrs.
William Helbig Sr., his mother-in-law; Louie Helbig
his brother-in-law; and wounded Mrs. William Helbig
The slaying suspect now being sought, is believed to
be armed with a rifle and pistol.
German Plane Raided French Town
(By The Associated Press)
CERBERE, Franco Spanish Frontier, May 22—One
of the Spanish Insurgent planes machine-gunned the
si reels of Urs French village during a raid on Spanish
Portbou, just across the border, scattering townsfolk
and injuring a small boy. Spanish 1) .rder officials said
tin p'tines were “German.” The French government
began an immediate investigation.
MADRID. May 22 -Three hours oi intense Insurgent
cannon sling killed at least thirty persons aid wounded
more than on” hurdled. and ripped private dwellings
an: irt.
POPE SPEAKS TO PILGRIMS
Pope Pius, shown seated on his throne, received 4000 pilgrims at
the feast of St. Teresa of the Child Jesus recently. Save for hi»
i reception of a group of honeymooners, it was his first general
1 audience since his illness.—Associated Press Photo.