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VOL. 38 No. 215. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY. JULY 19, 1937 Per Copy lOcta
Search Amelia Earhart Abandoned
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Ultimatum To Chinese Army Takes Effect Tonight
Halibut Schooner Collides With Cruiser Louisville
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Survey For Alaska Nickel Fields Made
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, July 18—Commencing the first thorough)
survey for potential nickel fields in Alaska, A. B. Yates)
and H. R. Elves, geologists from Sundsburg. Ontario,
representing the International Nickel Company, left,
yesterday afternoon by plane for the Admiralty, Chich-;
.agoft and Baranoff Islands to investigate possible nickel
deposits.
Admiral Ernest J. King arrived yesterday, accom-,
panied by three naval seaplanes from Sitka, and paid
his official respects to Gov. John W. Troy, then returned.
The cruiser Chicago is leaving today after a two
days stay and is to proceed direct to Bremerton to re
pair one of her screws which was slightly damaged
when a log clogged it while enroute from Yakutat.
Big Battle In Spanish War Now Raging
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(By The Associated Press')
MADRRID, July 19—The heaviest battle of the!
civil- war rages west of Madrid as Insurgents launched,
a fierce drive to hurl the Loyalists back to the capital.
There was one hundred and six war planes, the greatest
number ever used in a mass battel over the west Mad
rid front, and eighty-seven Insurgent planes ip action.
The government claimed it downed eighteen planes and
lost four of its own.
W. B. Bennett Anchorage Pioneer Dies
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, July 19—William B. Bennett, aged
seventy-two, a member of the Pioneers of Alaska and
a pensioned railroader, died Saturday, following a two
months illness. He mined in the early days of Willow
Creek and was employed by the railroad since 1920.
Drillers Chinitna Bay Down 3100 Feet
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, July 19—The New York spokes
man for the Iniskine Drilling Company at Chinitna Bay
said that their bit was down thirty one hundred feet,
penetrating at the rate of about forty-five feet daily. A
favorable change of formation is expected at five thou
sand feet. The men are working two twelve hour shifts, j
Japs Machine-Gun Chinese Troop Train
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(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, July 19—The Chinese government pro
tested vigorously to the Japanese government, that
Japanese scouting planes had machine-gunned Chin-;
ese troop supply trains in Hopeh Province, thereby vio- ’
lating sovereignity.
PEIPING, July 16, — The death of two Japanese!
soldiers in a new clash with Chinese troops, raised the
total of recent Japanese casualties in North China, to
twenty dead and sixty wounded, said late advices today.
TOKYO, July 16, —The Japanese War Office, mo-j
bilizing for war on a national scale, announced reports |
that the main force of the Chinese army was advancing;
on both Peiping and Tsientsin.
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AMELIA EARHART AND CAPT.
NOONAN GIVEN UP FOR DEAD
AS NAVY ABANDONS SEARCH
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. HON’ /LULU, July 1V)—The U. S. Navy has decid
ed ti’.at Ame’ia Earhart Putnam, aviatrix, and Capt.
Fred Noonan her navigator, on her round the world
flight, are dc.d, and called off further search, after
several n val vessels and fifteen hundred men and scor
es of p* nos -coined two hundred and fifty thousand
squab: miles in the region of tiny Howland Island in
the south Pacific Ocean, without even a trace of the
piano or bs occupants being found, or no word since
she A. shed her position July second.
The cost of the search is unestimated but was set
at several hundred thousand dollars.
WORLD BEFORE HER.
Amelia Earhart looked to new
triumphs in the air as she began
a world flight from Miami, Fla.
Japs Deliver
Ultimatum To
Chinese Army
(By Tfie Associated Press)
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* TIENTSIEN, July 19—Jap- *
* anese headquarters tonight
* issued an ultimatum giving
* the Chinese 29th Army Unit *
* until noon tomorrow (which *
* means tonight Pacific Stand
* ard Time) to cease its alleg
* ed attacks on Japanese pat
* rols, also to fulliill yester- *
* day’s verbal agreements to *
* withdraw troops from the dis- "
* armed area west of Peiping. *
Nome on Route
Of California to
Tokyo Flight
Nome is once again to be on
the front page of papers in the
States, for low and behold, one,
Prince Cantacusino is due to ar
rive at Nome on a flight (pre
sumed to be headed for Japan
from California, about July 26).
The Mirow Air Service has re
ceived instructions from its Man
ager Hans Mirow who is now in
Seattle, to ferry a large quantity
of Shell Gasoline from Fairbanks
to Nome for the hop from Nome
across the Bering Sea to Japan
via East Cape, Siberia.
Pilot Ray Crawford of the
Mirow Air Service left here Sun
day for Fairbanks in the Bach
plane to freight a capacity load
of Shell gas to Nome for this part
icular flight, and is due to arrive
Nome today on his return trip.
Further details are expected
upon manager Mirow’s return to
Nome from Seattle.
Alaska Line
S. S. Victoria
Sailed Seattle
The Alaska Line steamer Vic
toria with the Arctic Cruisers
aboard returned to the Nome
roadstead early Saturday, from
Arctic Ocean and East Cape, Si
beria, points, but due to stormy
weather on the ocean beach no
passengers were able to come
ashore to make one more last
visit here before departing. The
surf quieted down to some extent
and about 11 p.m. outgoing pass
engers (names which were print
ed in Saturday’s issue) were tak
en aboard, as well as some out
going freight, baggage and a
quantity of gold bullion listed as
express, estimated to be about,
one quarter of a million dollars.
The Victoria will, after making
several calls at Bristol Bay and
Aleutian Island ports, sail direct
ly for Juneau, thence to Seattle
via the inside passage.
Halibut Schooner Alten Collides
U. S. S. Louisville at Ketchikan
(By The Associated Press)
KETCHIKAN. July 18 — The Seattle halibut
schooner Alten, outbound to the fishing banks, collided
at noon Saturday, with the heavy cruiser Louisville,
which was enroute to the Narrows fronting the city.
The ten members of the crew of the Alter, were taken
safely into the cruiser Louisville’s launch.
The crew put a line around the sinking schooner
but in transferring it to the Cutter Cyane, the line
was lost and the boat sank in shallow water. The
cruiser barely had headway and was preparing to an
chor. but the schooner was going full speed ahead.
Apparently there was confusion of signals preceeding
the collision.
KETCHIKAN. July 19—'Two separate investig
ations are under way concerning the collision between
the sLhuoner Alton and the heavy cruiser Louisville,
one by attorneys representing Captain Dave Hassel of
Seattle, the other by the Navy.
The Alten’s crew of ten were saved and were sent
to their homes at Seattle on the Steamer Northwestern.
Captain Hassel remained here for the investigation, and
also for possible salvage operations
Territorial Assayer Is Appointed
(B;. The .V-Bocia'.ed Press
KETCHIKAN. July 19—B. D. Stewart Territorial
Mining Commissioner, announced today the appoint
ment of Nollie Johanssen. formerly of Arch- rage and
Kennecott. as assayer, for the territorial assay office
which is opening here in a few weeks. Johanssen is
now in Seattle.
NW Heat Wave kills 17 Ov er eek-End
(By The Associated Press')
SEATTLE. July 19—Seventeen persons died vio
lently in the Northwest over the week-end; nine were
drowned while seeking relief from the record breaking
heat wave. Four in a party of ten were rescued when
their boat upset on Fernan Lake, in north Idaho.
Britain Intends
Compel Respeet
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, July 19—Prime min
ister Neville Chamberlain and
foreign secretary Anthony Eden
reminded a tense Europe that
Britain is going to compel respect
for her rights and will not tol
erate violation of Spain's integ
rity. Their words were believed
pointed towards Rome and Ber
lin. Chamberlain said he would
make Britain so strong “Nobody
dare treat her with anything but
respect." Eden warned that the
empire is determined “to main
tain the territorial integrity of
Spain and keep the Mediteran
ean open as a mam artery road.”
90 Million Smallest
Surplus Sinee 191^
KANSAS CITY, July 19—Mil
lions of bushels of wheat repres
enting welcome dollars for farm
ers and food for city dwellers
are pouring into bins This har
vest replenishing dwindling sup
plies of four seocessive lean years.
Belief was e.xpresged that six hun
dred and fifty million bushels of
winter wheat and two hundred
million of spring wheat will sup
plement ninety million bushels
now in bins, the smallest carry
over since 1919.
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