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VOL. 37. No. 103. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
Enemy No. 1, Alvin Karpis Captured
Tens of Thousands Observe May Day Celebrations
ELEVEN KILLED IN CRASH GERMAN PLANE
AIRPLANE DESIGNER IGOR
SIKORSKY ANNOUNCED TO
DAY NEW CLIPPERS BUILT
Plans For New Ocean Airplanes Will
Provide Means For Comfort Over
Long Flights Foreign Nations
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(By The Associated Press)
New York "May 1, —Ig
or Sikorsky, designer and
building of airplane flying
boats, announced today his
organization was prepared
to produce giant airliners
to meet every demand of oc
ean flying.
“We believe they must
be a flying boat of from 4
to 6 engines, probably twin
deck, with a reasonable
speed of from one hundred
and sixty to one hundred
and eighty miles an hour,”
he said in his address to the
Institute of Aeronautical
Science.
Continuing, Sikorsky de'
dared: “The ship will
have excellent interior liv
ing quarters, fully compar
able with the accommoda
tions aboard a small steam
ship; comfortable state
rooms which will have nice
sleeping accommodations—
a large dining room which
would also be used as a
lounge, and for dancing.”
It was expected that the
boats would carry at least
30 passengers and a crew
of eight or ten men. They
would be about twice the
size of the Clipper planes,
now in service on the Paci
fic Ocean flight schedules to
the Orient.
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Mecy Flight To
Save Man’s Life
Fails by 45 Min.
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(By The Associated Press)
Anchorage, April 30, —
A mercy flight yesterday of
four hundred miles to the
westward from Anchorage
to Kanakanak, was too late
to save the life of the man
reported dying, but pilot
Oscar Winchell, for whose
safety, some fears 'were felt
returned here safely with
the son, 11, of Jan Ander
son, who died forty-five min
utes before Winchell arriv
ed yesterday afternoon.
Anderson died as a result
of a head injury suffered
when hit by a wrench yes
terday morning.
Winchell was asked by
radio to fly him to the hos
pital at Seward.
NOTICE TO BICYCLISTS
Bicycle riders are warned
to keep oil sidewalks. By
order of
Chief of Police.
Eleven Persons
Killed In Crash
German Plane
(By The Associated Press)
Neuulm, Bavaria, Ger
many, May 1, —A military
plane crashed here during
night maneuvers last night,
killing eleven persons, in
cluding the crew.
The plane was one of a
squadron soaring over the
district along the Bavarian
and Wurtenburg province
borders, where combined
protection maneuvers for
the population and anti-air
craft detachments have
been going on since the
night of April 23th.
Booked in Advance
(By The Associated Press 1
Lagrange, Georgia, — A
far-sighted burglar broke
into the new municipal
swimming office, closed for
the winter season, and stole
several rolls of swim tick
ets.
Two Partners &
One Company In
On Nenana Pool
(fiy The Associated Press)
Nenana, May 1, — The
Tanana River ice breakup.
brought wealth to Enom
Blondie Miller and Oscar
Neil son, both of Anchorage
and to John L. Covich of
Juneau and his associates,
at exactly 12:58 P. M. yes
terday.
The MillerNeilson tick
et and that of Covich and
Co., were the only ones of
the seventy-two thousand
guesses which hit the exact
moment of the breakup.
Last year’s winner was
W. M. Berrigan of Fair
banks who took a sightsee
ing trip with the prize mon
ey. The ice broke last year
at 1:32 P M May 15th. the
latest date in the history of
the contest which is now in
its 19th year. The earliest
it has ever gone out was Ap
ril 26, 1926.
Gov. Troy Accepts
Imitation Alaska
University
<Hv The Associated Press)
Junc-au, April 30—Cover
nor John W. Troy has ac
cepted the invitation of Dr.
Charles Bunnell, President
of the University of Alaska,
to attend Commencement
exercises of the University,
May 18th.
’Fife governor will leave
he -e May 12th with Dr.
Ert ^sv.Cruening, head of
the division of territories,
who will be the commence
ment speaker. Ike Taylor,
chief engineer of the Alas
ka Road Commission, will
also accompany the party.
It is elso expected that a
meeting of the Alaska Re
habilitation Corpora t i o n
Board will be called for at
Palmer, the Matanuska col
ony. for May 16th.
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Mayor Of City Of Pittsburgh Was In
Jail For One Hour Charged
With Embezzlement
(By The Associated Press)
Mayor McNair, Recently
Elected, Eats Apple
Behind Bars
(By The Associated Press)
Pittsburgh, April —May
or William McNair, recent
ly re-elected head of the
city government, was re"
leased on a writ of habeas
corpus today after spend
ing more than an hour in
jail on a charge embezzle
ment.
Judge Thomas Marshall
signed the writ after a pri
vate hearing and ordered
Mayor McNair to appear
Monday. The release came
after an exciting episode of
more than an hour during
which the mayor accompan
ied a constable to jail, ate
an apple and then signed
the petition for the writ.
Charges of embezzle"
ment and nonfeasance in of
fice were brought against
the mayor by Attorney War
ren H Vankirk in behalf of
Sam Collinger. McNair
previously had refused to
sign a warrant to refund a
$100 fine to Collinger after
being ordered to do so by
the court.
Collinger was accused of
operating a ‘‘numbers”
game.
Alvin Karp is No.
1 Public Enemy
Been Cantered
2
(By The Associated Press)
Seattle, May 1—FLASH
New Orleans Federal Bur
eau of Investigation, annou
need the capture of Alvin
Karpis. Public Enemy No.
One.
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MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS SHOW
SPIRIT MILITARISM IN MANY
COUNTRIES CONTINENT
Germans, French, Soviets And
Olliers Put On Parades Tending
Display Their Military Powers
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, May 1, — The
tramping of tens of thous
ands of soldiers in Moscow’s
Red Square, a plea for
peace by Adolph Hitler, a
long communist and social*
ist parade in New York,
were the highlights of the
observance of May Day—
labor’s international holi
day.
Workmen paraded in sev
eral countries, and in many
countries, and in several
European states, soldiers
marched in the demonstra*
tions.
Soviet Russia’s military
power tanks and armored
cars rolled past the Tomb
of Lenin as a fleet of 750
war planes droned over the
columns of troops and pol
ice, estimated at three hun
dred thousand men. i »
In New York a parade
took place where for the
first time communists and
left wing socialists joined
forces.
Germany’s May Day was
a ‘‘Joy Day”, thanks to Hit
ler, who told a youth rally
‘‘we cannot use a genera'
tion of mama’s boys.”
Great festivals of work
ers took place in industrial
cities in France,
Chancellor Sehussnig f
Austria said that fir‘ 1
thousand of the you'
the class of 1915 wou
called for compusory 1 r
al service—partly civil ; 1
partly of a military charac*
ter in October of this year.
Nationalization
Is Announced
Majority Report
Senate Munitions Commit
tee Makes Radical
Recoin mendat'ons
(By The A sedated Press)
Washington, May 1, —
The Senate Munitions Com
mittee has recommended,
in a majority report, nation
alization of enough indust
rial plants to produce war
ships, guns and powder for
peacetime needs of the Ar
my and Navy.
A minority report pro
tested that nationalization
was not desirable.
The majority report said:
“We recommend govern
ment ownership of all facil
ities adequate for construe
tion of all warships by the
Navy Department, also gun
forgings, projectiles, armor
plate necessary for the War
Department including facil
ities for the production of
Official V; imiers
Fairbanks, May 1st—The
Nanana management of the
Nenana Ice pool officially
confirms the information
that the ice broke there
yesterday at twelve fifty
eight in the afternoon.
It is also officially stated
that there were over seven
ty-one thousand tickets yvhi
ch will net about sixty-four
thousand dollars to the luc
ky holders. There were 2
winning tickets, one held
by Oscar Nielsen and E.
Miller of Anchorage, the
other by John L. Covich &
associates of Juneau.
The ice in the river ran
for an hour and a half and
then jammed.
poyvder, rifles, pistols and
machine guns for the same
department.
“We believe the War and
Navy Departments can pro
duce from their own ranks
or employ sufficient able
technicians to operate such
plants successfully.”