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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 38. No. 204. NOME. ALASKA. TUESDAY. JULY 6. 1937. Per Copy lOcta
Murderer of Three Girls Confesses
U. S. AND ENGLAND FLY TRANS-ATLANTIC
Heat Lightning Mistaken for Flares Earhart Plane
A recent fire on the Seattle waterfront proved of interest to a passenger who took this photograph.
TRANS ATLANTIC HOPS
ARE PROLOGUE TO
NEW SERVICE
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS PLANE LANDS ON THIS
SIDE OF POND—PAN AMERICAN AIR
WAYS LANDS IN IRELAND
(By The Associated Pressl
BOTWOOD, New Foundland, July 6, —The Brit
ish Imperial Airways flying boat Caledonia swept in
Avith the dawn, after a North Atlantic test flight from
Foynes, Ireland. It landed at 2:06 a.m. Pacific Standard
Time, making the 1995 mile hop in 15 hours and 9 min
utes.
FOYNES, Irish Free State, July 6, — A Pan Amer
ican Airways Clipper plane landed here after a 1995
mile survey flight over the North Atlantic from Bot
wood, New Foundland, which took 12 hours and 40
minutes. The giant plane carrying Captain Harold Gray
and a crew of seven, alighted majestically on the River
Shannon at 10:50 a.m. British summer time.
—“————
Slayer of Three Los Angeles Girls
WPA Crossing Guard Arrested &
Confesses Details Horrible Crime
t _
1 (By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 5—Detective Lieuten- '
ant Leroy Sanderson said that Albert Dyer, aged 32, a!
WPA crossing guard who is employed to protect child- j
ren, confessed to attacking and murdering the three
little girls at Inglewood June 26th.
Dyer said the children left their toys in the park
and met him in the hills. He further said “I took Made
line down in the canyon, choked her with my hand, then
put a rope around her neck; Then I went back and took
Jeanette and choked her and did the same to Melba.”
“Dyer was one of the most frequent visitors to the
police with tips, later he came to the station and said,
I understand you want me. Police told him he was not
wanted at that minute, his movements were then sha
dowed and later was taken into custody, where, after a
long grilling, he admitted the crimes.
Celebration Mon.
Of Fourth Was A
Lot of Fun for All
The Fourth of July, and Fifth, j
the day of celebration passed ini
Nome with no deaths but lots of
excitement.
Commencing in the morning;
with a literary program which
tuok place at the school auditor- 1
ium. and continuing thru the day;
with sports and entertainment, j
the people of Nome had much to:
attract their attention.
Probably the most-enjoyed feat,
ure of the day, and the one which i
undoubtedly created the most1
hilarity, was the pillow fight pull!
ed off for all ages.
First the tiny tots had their in-1
nings. The contestants were plac
ed on an iron pole raised from the
ground by two stancheons, and
pillows placed in their hands. The
idea was to upset the other by
continued slapping with the pill-:
ows and thereby be the winner.
Racing of all kinds attracted
much interest and the Eskimo en
tertainment and sports held the
crowd’s attention in an enthusia
Stic manner.
The special Oomiak Race be
tween the Hammon and Commer
cial indoor baseball teams was
the crowning feature of the cele-1
bration, and developed into a race |
of four oomiaks filled with whit
es instead of only two.
Needless to say, the Hammon
team came in first with an inde
pendent boat second and the Com
mercials a close third, with the
other independent boat last. The
prize of a case of beer disappear
ed quickly and it looked as if
members of all boats helped in
emptying the case.
HOPE FADING FOR
EARHART AIRPLANE
SEARCH CONTINUES
(By The Associated Pressi
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 5—The Cutter Itasca
advised U. S. Coast Guard Headquarters that the How
land Island station had heard radio signals signed with
Amelia Earhart’s call letters
TOKYO, July 5—The Japanese government ordered
all naval and commercial vessels in the South Seas to
join in the search for Amelia.
HONOLULU, July 5—Mysterious radio messages,
presumably from Amelia in response by KGMB, Hono
lulu commercial station, spurred the search for the miss
ing aviatrix. Pan American radio station operators
I took a quadrant of signals and said, that if the message
was authentic, the plane would be roughly speaking, in
the vicinity of Gardner and McKean Islands in the
Phoenix group about 150 miles South of Howland Island
Aiding in the search was the aircraft carrier Lexington
with a full quota of planes, also one first line battleship
Colorado and four destroyers, with four thousand men.
HONOLULU, July 5—Definite radio signals on the
frequency assigned to the Earhart missing plane, was
reported by the Coast Guard tonight, after the Aviatrix
asked an answer to broadcast instructions.
The Coast Guard said that Pan-American listeners
reported four distinct breaks in the carrier wave on the
Earhart frequency as specified to broadcast a few minu
tes. Previously a wave was heard on 3105 kilocycles;
one of three wave lengths assigned, this is the only trace
since she disappeared.
HONOLULU, July 5—Navy officials said they had
received a garbled radio message purported to be sent
by Earhart, which indicated her plane was sinking. The
message was received by three Navy operators and
pieced together, read: “two eighty one Northland How
land call KHAQQ beyond north dont hold with us much
longer above water shut off.” Operators said the key
ing of the message was poor, they were only able to pick
fragments, which was received between 4:30 and 5:30
A.M. PST.
Officials took the message, if authentic, to mean that
the plane was about 281 miles North of Howland Island
by Earhart’s estimate, that the plane was sinking slow
ly forcing her to stop sending.
Earlier this morning cross-bearings were taken of
weak radio signals, believed to be Earhart’s, which fur
ther confused the weary Pan-American operators at
Howland and Wake Islands. Radio men said the bear
ing fixed the location of the mysterious transmitter
roughly four hundred miles Northeast of Howland Is.
HONOLULU, July 6. — The Cutter Itasca report
ed to the coast guard station here that it had sighted
flares from the Earhart plane, but explained it may
have been heat lightning or meteors. The vessel was
proceeding toward them.
HONOLULU, July 6, —Hopes for the rescue of
Amelia Earhart and her copilot Noonan skyrocketed,
and then fizzled out when the coast guard cutter Itasca
reported it had apparently mistaken a meteor for flar
es from the plane.
Despite severe disappointment, the search contin
jued, the center probably shifting southward five hun
dred miles from a point 28 miles north of Howland Is
land to the Phoenix Islands.
WORLD BEFORE HER.
Amelia Earhart lool-ed to new
triumphs in the air as she began
a world flight from Miami. Fla.
Mi row \rriv ed
Ft. ASH—Mi row piarte landed at
Seattle at 5:30 p.m. today front
Nome. Flying time 15 Hours. Tt:
tal elapsed time ': j days.
(By The A.v-xvi* 1 Press)
FAIRBANKS. J • 6. -PK.t
Halts Mi row of - • M row Air
Service left F at no* -i
yesterday for Witite: rse. where
lie will stay over n-ght. hoppi '
for Seat!! Tue.~ i y stopping en
route at Prince George.
HAZF.LTON. B C . Julv 6th -
Hans M.row of the Mirovv At
Service, of Nome. Landed here at
9:30 AM today, ar.d said he e: -
pectecl to reach Seattle tonight
Pilot Han.. Mirow, manager of
the Mirow Air Service, hopped ofF
in the Lockheed Vega plane Sur
day noon for Seattle via Fan. -
banks. Whitehorse. Huzelton,
Prince George
As passengers for Seattle were
W. A Bartholomae Jr. Joseph E.
Bien, S. W. Taggart, and M-;.
Mirow. B W Vallat was a pas
enger to Fairbanlcs
This is one of several flights
Mirow has made during the past
three years, and shows the read/
training and suitable equipment
which features aviation in tins see
tion of Alaska.
With fair weather all the way,
it looked very much us if he
would arrive at Seattle this ev
ening, according to Associated
l Press reports, which the Nome
Daily Nugget requested to be
! wired in. telling of his progress
! thru Canada.