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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 38 No. 207 NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY. JULY 9, 1937. Per Copy lOcts
Buenos Aires-Nome Route--7 Days
SEATTLE—-NOME PLANE LANDS OREGON
Belief Is Voiced Amelia Landed On Small Island
SEATTLE TO NOME
PLANE IS DAMAGED
(By The Associated Press)
MARSHFIELD, Oregon, July 9, — The twelve
passenger flying boat owned by Tony Schwamm. whoj
is pilot, damaged its left wing when it struck the pil-j
mg of the oil company’s dock at Coos Bay today.
The Savoia-Marchetti flying boat to be entered in
Seattle to Nome, Alaska flying route, will remain there
for a few days w'hile repairs are made, before continu
ing on to Seattle. The Alaska Airways, operator of the
proposed new air service to Nome, expects to take de
livery on another Italian plane soon.
Fish Charge Mrs. F.D.R. “Loopholing”
* (By The Associated Frees)
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9. — Representative
Hamilton Fish of New York told the congressional in
vestigation committee that Mrs. Franklin D. Roose
velt had availed herself of a tax loophole, when he read
what he declared was a photostatic copy of a contract
she signed two years ago in connection with her radio
broadcasts.
He said that it stipulated that after each of ten
programs, the sponsors were to pay three thousand dol
lars to the American Friends Service Committee of
Philadelphia.
“If she can avail herself of a loophole such as this,
then anybody else in America can do the same thing”,
shouted Fish.
KANAKANAK, July 0, — The total Bristol Bay pack
* for this week now in cases is as follows: Kings—4,641,!
Reds—264,599, Chums—6,019. The Nushagak area is
having the best run in several years. The peninsula ar
ea is slow in producing, although Naknek and Kvichak
are improving.
FIVE-YEAR SILENCE ENDS FOR BILLY
A new world is opening to chubby, five-year-old Billy Payne of
Knoxville, Tenn. He Is learning to talk after spending the first
live years of his life in silence with his deaf and mute parents.
By accident it was discovered that the lad was not afflicted. Billy
L is shows above with his mother, Mrs. Sam Payne.
Radio Signals Still
Come In From
Lost Plane
(By The Associated ihess'
HONOLULU, July 9—Th* con
tinuing of signals trickled in re
viving the belief that Amelia Ear
hart and Capt. Noonan were still
above water trying desperately to
guide rescurers to their plane, the
raw direction of the search is one
of the most remote areas in the
Pacific.
Belief that the big twin engin
ed Lockheed Elect ra was forced
down, on an island along Winslow
Bank which rims the northern
edge of the Phoenix group, was
strengthened by a statement from
the airplane manufacturer that
the plane's radio would not work
if it were in water.
Charles S. Miguel, an Oakland,
California, amateur radio opera
tor, who yesterday reported re
ceiving a fading human voice and
the phrase 281 North Howland,
which originally sent the Cut.er
Itasca speeding, northward, today,
reported hearing a new signal on
Earhart.
The U. S. Navy has taken full
charge of the search for Amelia
Earhart and Captain Noonan, arid
have launched planes over the
treacherous shores and reefs south
uf Howland Island, where it is
now believed the flier and her
navigator were forced down last
Friday. The six day old sea hunt
A'as centered in the desolate
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VIeclianic Said
Lack Fuel W as
Cause Landing
(By The Associated Press)
VANCOUVER, Washington,July
I—A lack of fuel rather than,
joor flying weather, caused the
hree Russian fliers to terminate
heir Moscow-San Francisco non
;top flight here,six hundred miles
ihort of their goal, Sassily Berd
lick, Soviet mechanic, who start
ed dismantling the plane, reveal
'd yesterday.
Berdnick found that the filers
lad only ten and three quarters
Gallons of gasoline in their tanks
when they landed here June 20th
ifter doubling back from Eugene,
Dregon, nearly 200 miles south of
:his army air field. It would have
seen impossible for them to have
lown the distance to San Fran
cisco on such a scant fuel supply.
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SEVEN DAYS BUENOS
AIRES TO NOME VIA
SCHEDULED AIRLINE
_
(By The Associated Press;
EDMONTON, July 9, — Complimenting the first
* round trip flight of the Edmonton to Whitehorse Air,
Service, a United Air Lines transport returned here
! last night following a dawn to dusk flight from Daw
I son, 1600 miles in 19 hours. The plane made four stops
,—Whitehorse, Lower Post, Fort Nelson, and Fort St.;
John in British Columbia. It landed at the seaplane
; base of the MacKenzie Air Service here, and will be-.
gin a weekly schedule today to Great Falls. Montana, j
Henceforth it wall be possible to travel to Nome,'
Alaska from Buenos Aires, in South America, in sev-j
;en days, via regular airlines.
New Cold and Platinum Stampede On
(By The Associated Press)
GOOD NEWS BAY. July 9. —A new gold and plat
inum stampede is on to Cape Pierce, with stampeders
; chartering airplanes and boats to go to the new area.
! Almost half the population of the community of
Platinum has gone there. John Beaton, veteran min
er has chartered the motorship Fern. Recording offices
at Bethel and in Bristol Bav are doing big business.
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Scout Jamboree On At Washington D.C.
i "
(Bv The Assoc iated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 9. — Indians’ wai whoops
echoed in the capitol while pioneers with crackling
guns repulsed the savages, in a re-enactment oi the Lew
is and Clarke expedition to the Pacific Northwest, by
Boy Scouts of America gathered here for their Scout
Jamboree. Scouts from Alaska also joined in the dis
nlav.
THREE KITTED IN RACING CRASH
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Three spectators were killed at the Langhorne race track at Lang
horne, Pa., when a racing car driven by Frank Bailey, of New
Brunswick, N. J„ crashed into a fence. Here Is one of the victims
being lifted aboard a fire truck. A second one is barely visible
atop the truck. _ i
2 Planes Collide Ira
Air at Pensacola
Pilots Killed
(By The Associated .Tess)
PENSACOLA, Florida. July 9—
Two Navy aviators were killed
yesterday when, an observation
plane and a fast pursuit ship col
lided over Bayou Chico and crash
ed. the Naval air station announ
ced. The bodies were so mangi
ed that identification was imposs
ible, attaches at the oir station
said.
The pilot of the pursuit ship
attempted to save himself by
jumping with his parachute. He
was caught in the plane’s pro
pelior and mangled, a witness
said. Both the pilot and plane
fell into the waters of the Bayou
The pilot of the other plane re
tnained with his craft as it crash
ed on the shore and burned. His
charred body was found in the
ship's cockpit.
Social Security
m
Bookkeeping Is
By Big Machine
BUT THERE ISN’T A BOOK
KEEPER AT HEADQUART
ERS— ALL MACHINES
(Hv The Associated Press)
BALTIMORE. July—While the
social security act runs the guart
let of court attacks on its constitu
tionality. the social security or
ganization is conducting here the
world's bigges* bookkeeping job.
And there isn't a bookkeeper on
the place
In an old warehouse facing
Baltimore's historic waterfront,
433 “mechanical brains" manne i
and checked bf- 2400 operators,
and clerks, are compiling th >
largest volume of data ever col
ected on American wage earners.
Th:s information covers more
than 26.000,000 persons under the
old age pension provision of the
social security law 3lone.
Alas* Production System
There are, besides, an estimat
ed 18,520.000 workers covered by
.ts unemployment compensation
section and 1,600,000 receiving
Federal aid to the aged, t,he blind,
and dependent children.
Tabulation of information on
potential pensioners :s handled in
4 major operations in a “straight
line" mass production system like
that used by big industries.
A master card for each of the
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