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VOL. 37 No. 143 NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, JUNE 17, 1936 Per Copy 15cts
S.S.Victoria Is In Ice Off King Island
HOT WAVE OF 108 DEGREES HITS ALASKA
Troops Mobilized to Prevent Disorders In Belgium
VICTORIA IS IN FOG
AND ICE ENROUTE
NOME TO TELLER
Alaska Line Victoria Sailed From Nome
10:30 O’Clock Last Night; Still Stuck
In Ice Off King Island Late Today
The S. S Victoria of the Alaska
Line sailed from Nome at 10:30
PM last night for Seattle via
Teller. The vessel carried about
84 outgoing passengers from here
This morning advices were re
ceived that the Victoria was fog
bound in ice off King Isiand and
had been since a few hours after
leaving Nome. Other advices
from Coast Guard authorities
Stated they believed the westerly
winds for the past few days had
been driving the ice out from
the Siberian Coast and over to
the Alaskan Coast.
Following, is the passenger list:
Passenger for Seattle:
V R Farrell and wife
Miss Lorene Hagen
Mrs A Stangroom
Miss Helen Frederickson
Mrs G. Kassen
Mrs W F Lehmann
Miss Aleda Brinkefhoff
J. Lloyd Ripley
Master Jimmie Harper
: S. L Stangroom
< Mrs W H Hemsing
W H Hemsing
• S P Troutman and wife :
Master Marvin Troutman :
John W Noehl
l L W Stahlcup
Harry Mebling
Edgar Brown
• Moxie Wasky
i Jimmie Richards
i Geo Mm. Herbert
. B B Mozee
Jack Hermann
Mrs E K Johansen
Miss Joan Johansen
J Doyle
Frank Nerderyer
Peter Hestner
Baseball Scores
(By The Associatea Press)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 4. Cleveland 8.
Washington 9, Detroit 8
Boston 2, Chicago 4
Philadelphia 9, St. Louis 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 4, Boston 10
Cincinnati 2. New York 5
Pittsburg 9. Brooklyn 2
Chicago 4, Philadelphia 1
COAST LEAGUE
Oakland 0, San Diego 16
Sacramento 6, Missions 7
Los Angeles 1, Seattle 2
San Francisco 12. Portland 13.
Lasted fourteen innings.
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Ray Sturey
Kermit L House
L O Beard
Oscar Johnson
Nels Peterson
Albert Bosledt
Alfred Carlson
Werner Johnson
N L Smith and wife
Miss Virginia Smith
Mrs J E Larson
Miss Isobel M Brown
E. Carlson
Mr and Mrs Leon Harper
Miss Dorothy Harper
Miss Joan Hemsing
Miss Geraldine Rude
Miss Eileen Stangroom
Miss Evelyn Wallace
Miss Miriam Troutman
Miss Avice L Laister
Chris Siemon
Mrs Chester Milligan
Rev. Norman McCay
Mrs. Norman McCay
Mrs Jack Hermann
Jack Castello
Johnny Thomas
Morris Thomas
Chas Olson
Mrs. Bob Stewart
Master Robert Stewart |
Verne Bowman
Ernest Williams
Harry Lundquist
George Nelson
John Nelson
A1 Englorth
Fred Eilmann
Passengers lor lelier:
Lars Tjernagel
Mrs Ralph Ulrickson
Ralph Ulrickson
Roland Steele
Frank Rice
John Berg
Mrs Lars Tjernagel
Harry Dobson
C J. Newlin
Ross J Kenney
John Hegness
M J Webster .
Charles F Rice
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NOTICE
All taxes real and personal due
City of Nome for year 1935 are
due and on July 15, 1936, penalty
and interest on those unpaid will
be calculated, and the delin
quent tax roll will be prepared,
j advertised, and the property sold
i according to law.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
M. J. WALSH
City Clerk
! Publish June 13, 15 16, 17, 18, 19,
and 20, 1936.
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Weather Alaska
Extremely Hot
Past Ten Days
(By Tne Associated Press)
SEWARD, June 17—Two per
sons were prostrated temporarily
here when the thermometer ran
up to 108 degress heat yesterday.
UNDATED. June 17,' — Alas
ka weather in its tenth day of a
hot spell, experienced the mer
cury rising to 108 degrees Tues
day, as the dry weather and for
est fires menaced various Alaska
points.
Land office officials at Anchor
age received a me-sage from
Seldovia that forest fires covered
two squa e miles in the vicinity
of Homer, and was threatening
the town. F>e fighting crews of
nearby towns asked aid for Horn
er immediately.
Fires have already done con
siderable damage to homesteads,
and game.
Elsewhere in Alaska tem
peratures were up. Fairbanks
registered 84; Bethel 70; Juneau
72; Ketchikan and Cordova 74
Although weather officials
said the temperature of 99 reg
istered in the interior several
years ago, was a record, they
added few dry spells were of
such long duration as has been
recorded this year in the terri
tory.
Henry Walthall
Of Screen Fame
Died Hollywood
(By The Associated Press')
HOLLYWOOD, June 17,
Henry B. Walthall. 55, the Little
Colonel of the film Birth of a
Nation, and Madero in Viva Vil
la, died in a sanitarium here af
ter treatment for a chronic ail
ment.
He had collapsed after complet
ing a role as an airplane inven
tor, in “China Clipper” which
has not been released yet.
He began his career on the
screen in 1910, gained stardom,
and then faded. He came back
with the talkies. A wddow and a
daughter aged 18 survive him.
In his last screen part he por
trays an inventor who dies before
his life-long dream of a plane to
span the Pacific was realized.
The picture is in the cutting
room now, and he died, never
having seen it in its entirety.
Henry Ford Gets
Degree at College
(By The Associated Press)
EAST LANSING, Michigan.
June 17, The state college here
gave Henry Ford a degree of
Doctor of Engineering for his
work in developing industrial
uses for agricultural products.
^ inners Nenana
lee Pool Going
On Excursions
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, June 17. —Os
ca C. Nielsen, and Mr. and Mrs.
Miller will leave here today to
spend their Nenana ice pool win
nings they announced.
Not all of the money has been
paid yet, but enough to finance
trips.
Nielsen will board a plane in
Seattle and fly to Lakehurst, N.
J. and there board the dirigible
Hindenburg for a flight to Ger
many. and will visit the 1936
Olympic Games, and then travel
about Europe.
He was employed by the A1
aska Railroad in their shops.
The Millers will go to southern
California, thence to Rockford,
Illinois. Mrs. Miller’s home town,
and return here in three months.
They have purchased a lot and
will build a home.
Senate Passed
Bill Alaska R R
Retirement Act
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 17, —
The Senate today passed the bill
granting Alaska Railroad employ
ees who are U. S. citizens, retire
ment benefits.
The measure closely follows the
Act providing for the retirement
system for employees of the Pan
ama Canal and railroad compan
ion measures in the house.
Valdez Highway
Open Again After
Being Repaired j
—
(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, June 17, — The;
Valdez Highway between Fair-'
banks and Valdez was officially
declared to be open by the Road
Commission. Owing to floods
and washouts in a number of
places, it has been impassable for
several days. Buses and cars are
now giving regular through ser
vice, and have been handling
business for several days by trans
ferring at points of interruption.
Notice To The
Public
The Pioneer Drug Store has
been purchased by Mr.C.J. New
lin of Fairbanks. All bills due
the Pioneer Drug Store up to and
including June 15th, will be col
lected by me personally at my
new Studio and Art Shop, two
doors East of that building.
Signed: Charlotte B. Potter
LABOR RUCTIONS IN
EUROPE IS CAUSE OF
BELGIAN MOBILIZING
Ilel^inm Mobilized Troops Prevent \ny
Further Labor Distiirbanees. Fears
Spread Denionslralions in Frame
House Passed
Substitute Bill
Guffy Coal aet
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. June 17th
By a vote of 161 to 90 the House
passed the Guffey-Vinson price
fixing substitute bill for the out
lawed Guffey Coal Control Bill.
At his first press conference
since returning from the South.
President Roosevelt said he had
no campaign plans at present.
He said he planned to go to
Hyde Park after the Democratic
Convention next week.
Roosevelt said he took off his
hat to Finland, the only nation
paying on its war debt.
Sister Superior
Fairbanks Hosp.
Ceen Suceeeded
(Bv The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS. June IV. -Sist
er Suerior Romauld of the St.
Joseph’s Hospital here was suc
ceeded today by Sister Bernard
of the local staff.
Sister Romauld came here
from the Providence Hospital in
Seattle, where she is returning
for another assignment. She also
served at Nome, and built the
hospital here.
Weather Flights
To Be Made Over
(B.v The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, June 17, — C. R.
Kallquist, Boeing Field Weather
Station head said that bids for
airplane weather observation at
Fairbanks from September 1st
to February 18. 1937, will be op
ened by the Fairbanks office July !
20th.
The flyer who is awarded the
contract will make observations'
twice daily at sixteen thousand, i
five hundred feet.
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(By The Associated Press)
Undated. June 17 Belgium
mobilized troops to protect pub
lic services, as the nation's m
dust ies w re crippl-. d by the
strike of two hundred thousand
workers.
Many were inured during the
night in strike d.s > dors, and the
government is seeking to prevent
the spread of France's wide
spread strikes which were pract c
ally ended as employes gener
ally at eded to the strikers' de
1 mands
Blum’s government sought .to
maintain peace by actum against
“a:med political leagues" and
extreme leftists of Spain's l.abot
and political situation, which, ha
claimed five more lives.
Tlu> Madrid government cih
ered special labor tribunals to
arbitrate strikers' demands
The production of the Lake
Maracaibo oil fields has bee
cu tailed in Venezuela, serious),
by the strike originating from
the labor protest against the
' publ ■ order” lav, dee eed by
the Caracas government.
Soldier detachments parade 1
in Maracaibo gua ding again*
di iorders. In Montevideo, Uru
guay. ni,s company employees
struck today for higher wages.
Anti-Democrat
Group Glaimed
20 Million A otes
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO. J ,e 17. Ri
Gerald K Smith, former aide to
Huey Long said that a loose
working agreement had bee i
made for a political fusion of t ■
Townsendites, share the wealt'
ers, Coughlin's National Unit i
for social justice, and followe
of Representative William Le- ,
ke, and said that the fusion won! 1
control twenty million votes
“We’re against Farleyism. d -
tatorship, and communism. We
are endorsing both the Republ -
can and anti-democratic force:;"
he stated.
(By The Associated Press)
JERUSALEM, June 17, — Ter
rorists fired on the childret
home of the American colon v
today on the plain of Sharon,
but the inhabitants escaped un
hurt.