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BER IN STOCK TO BUILI) MANY LARGE
BUILDINGS AND HOMES. TAKE ADVAN
TAGE OF THE SEASON AND BUILD NOW.
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INSPECT OUR MATERIALS
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ERNEST M. ATTEBERY
BUILDING CONTRACTOR
ESTIMATES, PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS
PREPARED
Alterations and Repairs 411 Second Avenue
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CHEVROLET
Half-Ton and l1* Ton Trucks
Mr. Business .Man-I.ook over your delivery equipment
and ask yourself if you'd be proud of your trucks if they
were parked in front of your home. If the least in doubt,
whether they create a favorable impression, drop in at the
NOME MOTOR CO.
.Main Street, and look over the complete line of Chevrolet
Trucks and Commercial Cars-you'll find the type that
suits your business perfectly. You'll find. too. that Chev
rolet Trucks are as practical, inexpensive and economical, as
they are good looking. j
P H ON E
LARRY GALVIN
FOR
PLUMBING, HEATING.
AND ELECTRICAL WORK
THIRD AVENUE. NOME. ALASKA
LOCAL NEWS
At the hearing this afternoon of
Fritz Gotthard Carlson charged with
assault with a dangerous weapon,
the U. S. Commissioner bound the
defendant over to the Grand Jury.
Bail which was set at $1500 pre
viously was reduced to $750
A Star Air Service plane, piloted
by Johnny Moore, arrived from An
chorage last night with five passen
gers, and took off again this morn
ing on a return flight. It was im
possible to obtain the names of the
passengers, as the pilot himself did
not know all of them.
Gus Peterson, known familiarly
as “Pavstreak Gus,” is doing beach
mining alongside the former loca
tion of the steam heating plant in
Nome, before the fire. Lower down
is Oscar Margnaff also doing beach
mining in a small way. Some of
the dirt being tested is being dug
out from under the boards of where
Front Street was before the fire, and
reputed never to have been mined
before.
The Polarites have secured per
mission from Superintendent W. H.
Bloom of the Nome Public School
to use the school gymnasium this
evening at 7:30 PM for their athletic
work-out including volley ball and
Badminton. Mr. Bloom has been
kind enough to allow them the use
of the gymn once a week during the
remainder of the school term, and
the Polarites as a a club w'ishes to
express their appreciation..
Pilot Jack Hermann of the NAT,
returned from a round trip flight to
Ruby last evening. He had as pas
sengers Miss Mary Walsh from
Ruby, the daughter of Mr and Mrs
M. J. Walsh, who has been teaching
at the government school there all
winter. The school term just ended
and she has returned to Nome for
her vacation and to visit her parents
Mrs Frank Ryan and a young man
by the name of Bill Dickson were
also passengers, from Unalakleet.
The plane is scheduled for another
flight to Unalakleet as soon as wea
ther permits.
ARCTIC TRANSPORT CO.
ANNOUNCES
S. S. NORTHWIND
SAILS FROM SEATTLE
MAY 25TH
CALLING AT ALL PORTS FROM
ST. MICHAEL TO KOTZEBUE
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Luther Ookirut a native, and a
party of hunters, who returned to
Nome Monday following a hunting
trip out into Bering Sea, reported
that there was no sign of the huge
ice pack which lay on the Nome
shores all winter..
They were out about 75 miles from
Nome hunting seal and walrus and
in no direction could they sec any
sign of the large ice pack. Numer
ous other panties of hunters, report
the same story, upon their return to
Nome.
S. W. Taggart, maanager of the
Nome Lumber Company, is in re
ceipt of a letter from his son George
Taggart describing his position with
the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie
expedition to Motu Uta, in the South
Seas, where they are filming the
stories: “Mutiny on the Bounty," |
and “Typee.”
He is acting as an interpreter for j
the company in their dealings with j
the natives and is also taking a part j
in the play itself. He stated the 1
company was spending about $2,000,
000 on the two pictures.
George expects to be through with !
his job and in Singapore October 1,
to meet two of his friends, where
the three of them will continue on
a world cruise in their own boat.
Two Are Killed
Trying Qualify
For Speed Race
fBy The Associated Press)
INDIANAPOLIS, May 22—H, W.
Stubblefield and his riding mechanic
Leo Whi'ttacker, boith of Los Angeles j
were killed when the racing car in |
which they were attempting to qual1
ify for the five hundred mile race,\
hurled over the wall on the south-1
west turn of the speedway here. |
Whittacker died in the ambulance ;
enroute to the hospital and Stub
blefield was killed instantly.
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To Call A. F. Of L.
Leaders Meeting
On Wage Slashes
To Call Meeting of Leaders of
American Federation Of
Labor On Wage Cuts
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 21— Ass
erting that he feared social unrest
would spring from work relief wage
rates which Roosevelt has fixed,!
Green said he would call American
Federation of Labor leaders to a
session to decide on a course of ac
tion, Inequitable and unsound, were
two of the adjectives which Green
flung at the wage setting in the re
lief program.
Jane Addams Dead
Hospital Chicago;
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, May 22—Jane Addams
internationally known social worker
and a champion of world peace, died
at the Passavant Hospital here,
where she had gone for a major op
eration several days ago.
RESTAURANT
L. A. GRANT, Prop.
Open For Business
Private Dining Room In Connection
Special Dinners Cooked To Order
(Next Door to Board of Trade)
Dream, Theatre
TWOSHOWS FRIDAY7;i5and9P.M.
ADULTS .55 Cents—CHILDREN .25 Cents
KING OF THE JUNGLE
WITH THE LION MAN
BUSTER CRABBE
AND'
FRANCIS DEE
HIE STRANGEST ADVENTURES EVER
THE MIND EVER CONCEIVED
ALSO
THE BARBER SHOP
AND
BETTY BOOP’S MUSEUM
ADULTS 55 Cents—CHILDREN 25 Cents
TWO SHOWS 7:15 AND 9 P.M.
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NOW ON SALE
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SELECTION
OF
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ON DISPLAY
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