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VOL. 37. No. 191. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday. AUG. 12, 1936 Per Copy 15cts
Soviets to Arrive Nome In Morning
2 JAPS MENTIONED IN NAVY INDICTMENT
Spanish Men and Women Fighting Side By Side
RUSSIAN FLIERS A! I
STAYING TODAY AT
FAIRBANKS ALASKA
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SOVIET AIRMEN MAKE FAST TIME IN FLIGHT
TO FAIRBANKS FROM JUNEAU. THEY WILL
COME TO NOME TOMORROW AND PREPARE
FOR THEIR HOP TO SIBERIA AND MOSCOW.
—BULLETIN—
Fairbanks, Aug. 12, —
The Soviet fliers arrived
here Tuesday afternoon
and will remain over un
til Thursday, hopping off
on that day for Nome,
where they will prepare
for their Siberian flight.
(By The Associated Press)
Fairbanks, Aug. 12. — Sigis
mund Levanefsky and Victor
Levchenko, in their American
built Vultee plane arrived at 3:10
P. M. Tuesday, local time at
Harding Lake, from Juneau.
They left Juneau at 1:06 P. M.
Pacific Standard Time, on their
600 mile flight.
They were met by a big dele
gation of Fairbanksans, at the
lake which is 50 miles from Fair
banks.
Joe Crosson, ace pilot and
manager of the Pacific Alaska
Airways at Fairbanks, flew to
the lake in a pontoon-equipped
light plane to ferry to Russian
fliers to the city where the Chena
river affords suitable facilities
for the landing of light planes,
but not sufficient for the fast
speed ship which the Soviets are
flying, with its heavy load.
Thomas Promised
• Legislation Curb
Sales Of Liquor
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12, —
Legislation to curb sale of liquor
to Alaska Indians and Eskimos,
was promised by Senator Elmer
Thomas of Oklahoma, who said,
upon his arrival here today:
“In one northern district eighty
percent of the Indians have tub
erculosis. In the opinion of a
great many it is largely the result
of indulgence in liquor”.
He returned here in company
with Senator Lynn Frazier of
North Dakota. They intend hold
ing hearings in New Mexico on
boudary disputes between the
Indians and Whites.
Soviets to Leave
For Nome At 10
A.M. Tomorrow
BULLETIN
Information secured through
the local U. S. Signal Corps Sta
tion at Nome, Victor S. Cage, Of
ficer in Charge, says that the So
viet Vultce plane expects to hop
off from Fairbanks for Nome at
10 A.M. Fairbanks time. (This
corresponds to 9 A.M. Nome
time.)
Soviet airmen Levancfsky ar.d
Levchenko ^nroute from Califor
nia to Siberia and Moscow via
Alaskan points, including Nome,
landed at Fairbanks yesterday af
ternoon, said advices this morn
ing here.
They stated they would remain
there until tomorrow, visiting old
1 friends and former acquaintances,
including Bill Lavery and Clyde
Armistad of that city, who ac
companied Pilots Levanefsk and
Slipnev in their planes when they
were based out of Nome to help
bring about the rescue of the 101
Russians marooned on the ice
floes north of Siberia when the
steamer Cheluskin sank during
the spring of 1934. and when Dr.
Henry Schmidt, the director of
the party was brought to Nome
suffering from pneumonia,
It is expected that the two So
viet pilots will arrive in Nome to
morrow and stay over here for a
day or two arranging for the re
ceipt of weather reports from
Siberian radio stations, before
happing on their long Arctic flight
to the Lena River, up that stream
and back to Moscow.
We will learn immediately of
their take-off time tomorrow and
so be able to estimate when they
will arrive here. Nome, as it has
in the past, has played host to
many international visitors' and
its renown as the Alaskan City
of Hospitality has traveled around
the world.
Nome should not pass up the
opportunity of preparing a recep
Government In
Spain is Making
Ranid Progress
I o
Northern Seaboard Spain
Established Battlefield
In Spansh Civil War
FIGHT FOR MADRID
Rebels Attempting Seize
Capital But Loyalists
Battling Hard
TBy The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 12, — Spain’s
northern seaboard is the focal
point for the government’s drive
to crush the fascist revolution,
in the face of a smashing rebel at
tack to break through to the sea.
Madrid expected the capture of
Oviedo, with following attacks o’:
Cordoba and Granada. It w; s
'said that Cordoba, Granada and
Seville rebels have been without
! electricity or water for twenty
jfour days.
Men and women, sympathetic
I with the Madrid government.
: fought side by side defending
Irun against the fascist advance.
Rebel artillery shells poured
i into Fuente Rubella, an effort to
capture the city as a stepping
stone to the possession of San
Sebastian. The rebels are wi
in three miles of Irun, newspap
ers sympathetic to the govern
ment reported.
Thirty-two sailors from the re
bel gunboat Dato which was sunk
at Algeciras by the government
warship Jaime Primero, arrived
at Malago, offering to enlist ag
aginst the fascists.
__ _
Equipment and service of hos-,
pitals in Alaska are excellent, in
the opinion of Dr. Horace J. Whi
tacre of Tacoma, who is governor
of the American College of Sur
geons. He said several hospitals
in Alaska need only a little more
equipment in them to be Class A
grade.
tion in honor of the two distin
guished Soviets. The Chamber
of Commerce should be on its
toes and arrange for some fea
tures of entertainment while they
are in Nome. They are, accord
ing to the announcement from
the Soviet Embassy in Washing
ton, D. C., attempting to prove a
feasible route between Moscow
and the United States, and that
route will beyond a doubt pass
directly through Nome—so Nome
should not be backward in bring
ing forward its advantages for a
great international air base on
the route to Asia.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
BREAKS ALL OLYMPIC MARKS
EIGHT OARED CREW RACES
_ '
Baseball Scores
(By The Associated Press)
National
i Cincinnati 3-7 Pittsburgh G-3
i New York 8 Brooklyn 3
B >ston 5 Philadelphia 4
Chicago 6 St. Louts 4
American
Detroit 5 Cleveland fi
Washington 7 New York 3
Si. Louis 7 Chicago 2
Philadelphia 1 Boston 4
Coast
I San Diego 2 Missions 0
Seattle 4 Sacramento 2
Portland 5 Oakland 3
San Francisco 4 Los Angeles t
Oldtime Hudson
Bay Man Went
Thru Lots Times
Mike Larson, oldtimer of the
far North, who was retired in
1933 after 25 years with the Hud
son Bay service, returned to
Wrangell recently. Mr. Larson
went into the Cassiar in 1898, and
prospected for 10 years. He then
entered the employ of the Hud
son Bay Company and was sta
tioned at McDames, the Laird
and Dease posts. In 1924 Mr.
Larson went to Vancouver to out
fit for a post at Bailey Bay, in
the Arctic ocean, 500 miles east of
Point Barrow. Two vessels, the
Fort McPherson and the schooner
Ruby of Seattle set out from Van
eouver. They were stopped by
an early ice barrier at Point Bar
row. The Ruby went back to Se
attle, but the Fort McPherson
wintered at Teller, north of
Nome. The next year the trip
was made and the post estab
lished, it still being maintained
by the company. Following his
retirement he bought the hold
ings of Red Latimer at Shakes
meek. Here he hunts and traps
n the winter. He says there are
out few Indians in the Cassi.ar as
compared to the early days. Coy
otes are increasing rapidly, as are
wolves. They destroy many of
:he moose calves.
Marie Olson and Kenneth Wes
;enbarger were married in An
:horage recently. Mr. Westen
oarger is the son of Mrs.'Cora B.
Legault, and is employed on the
Alaska railway. The brides par
ents live at Wasilla.
(By The Associated Press)
GRUNAU, Germany. Aug. 12.
Taken unawares by a str< rg Bri
tish challenge, the University 1 f
Washington crew turned 1 se all
its powers and cracked all Olym
pic records, winning the first heat
in the eight oared rowing c mpe
tition.
Trailing, after, a slow start, the
Huskies flashed a sensational
spurt and overhauled the British
.boat, and then in the last few
strokes won by a scant half length
hr W minutes and eight-tenths
second, smashing the course rec
ord'd 'i:U9 set by the Hungarians,
as well ns the former Olympic
standard of 6:03.2 set by Califor
nia i" Amsterdam in 1928.
Seawall at ^ome
i ut l p To Col.
Wild, l.S.Eng.
i _
Lieutenant C donel H. J. Wild,
of the U. S. Engineers, accompa
| nied by James Truitt, junior en
Igineer for Alaska, has bean in
spee'.ing the work being dune at
N one by the Engineers Corps of
the War Department.
Dredging and general mainte-1
nance work has been going on.;
Colonel Wild was also approach- j
ed by directors of the Nome
Chamber of Commerce regarding
possibilities of a revertment or:
| sea-wall being constructed at
Nome, along the south side of
Front street, in the rear of busi
ness houses erected since the fire
jin 1994.
A preliminary survey complet
ed by City Engineer Robert E.!
Lyle, was presented to the Col
jonel by Mr. Lyle and Chamber
and city officials, demonstrating
I the necessity of such a sea-wall
.and attempting to bring this pro
ject within the scope of the U.
S. Engineers.
Such a revertment has repeat
edly been proven necessary. Last
fall a severe storm threatened to
wipe out any number of business
concerns whose buildings are
erected on the south side of
! Front street, nearest Bering Sea.
In addition to that the action of
the sea in bringing about erosion
of the coast line, where the busi
ness interests of the city are cen
tered, has been noticeable in a
material way during the past few
iVo Japanese
jNamcd h\ Jury
In Plotting: (ase
C
Japanese Olficers .Mention
ed in Indictment Said
Have Left Country
IS INDICTED
Former Lieut. Commander
U. S. Navy Charged
With Betrayal
<Hy 'l'he Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug 12, —
di
cers as conspirators, a federal
grand jury here today indicted
former L. nit. Comm me! John
, S. Faro/worth for v] ' S to
betray An. can mfi.tary - er 's.
Assistant U. S. A:Arne .'-an
uel F. Beach s .id he had ■ •
sought the indictment f ' J p
anese officers You.-yuk: i Yam
tiki because they wre j:
by diplon. die immunity.
In a previc us indictment Farns
worth had bun t barged with
delivering a confidential naval
publication to an unn .m.d Jap
anese agent Beach said he be
lieved the Japan o.- i. i ft. the
United States s me tim ago.
Seattle \oiiih
ins Swlmna;i«;
|H> 1 Al
Jkccor i < n»>.e
(By The Avowed Press)
BERLIN. Aag. 12. Jack Med
ica of Seattle w n the 40U meter
free-style swimming champion
ship in four minutes, 44.3 seconds
coming from behind i. .nrtake
Japan’s Shumpie Uto in the last
twenty meter.-, and dilating one
second from the former Olym
pic mark held by Uto in the pre
liminary trials.
Shozi Makino who raced Med
ica to a dead heat yesterday, was
third and Ralph Flanigan of the
United States was fourth.
Medica holds the vw Id rec
ord in the event 4:38.7, made two
years ago.
Subscribe for ihe Nugget
years.
Colonel Wild and Mr. Truitt
expect to take-off tomorrow on
their trip to Anchorage by way
of numerous points, where they
will investigate other river and
harbor projects being carried on
in the Territory by the U. S. En
gineers.