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VOLUME 35 No. 96 • NOME, 'ALASKA. \ FRIDAY. AUGUST S4. 1834 P*r Copy: |0<vnM.
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AMERICAN PILOTS
WILL COMPETE IN,
FOREIGN AIR DERBY
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AMERICAN CRACK PILOTS
WILL COMPETE IX
AIR CLASSIC
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Roscoe Turner^' holder of the
trans-continental air speed record,
announced Thursday that he and
Clyde Pangborn, the round the
world trans-Paciflc flier, would en
ter the London to Melbourne air
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derby in October, using a Boeing
multi-motored passenger transport
airplane.
Turner and Pangborn are now
en route to Washington, D. (!. to
makg diplomatic arrangements for
flyng over, foreign countries. The
new plane Is being built in Seat
tle. They intend to fly it to New
York and then ship it to London
where the flight is scheduled to
begin October 20th. They expect
to make the flight in sixty hours.
The present record is six days and
eighteen hours.
NAVY PLANKS EXROUTE TO
BANES IX- CALIFORNIA
(By The Associated Pressl
PRINCE 'RUPERT. Aug. 24. »
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Navy plane was forced down Tuej
d»y, one of the flight of twelve
planes, enro'ute from Sitka to
Prince Rupert.
The plane is in charge of the
Navy tender, Swan. It landed
some little distance north of here.
The other planes made the two
hundred and fifty mile hop with
out mishap. They are scheduled
to proceed southward Saturday
The plane was forced down off
Coronation Island.
BOMB MAN’S HOME NEW YORK
(By The Associated Press?
BROOKLYN. Aug. 2 4. The
home of F. Nathan Wolfe, secre
tary of the cloak and suit code
authority, was bombed in what
police interpreted as a warning to
Wolfe to cease his NBA prosecu
tions. W’olfe and his family were
out of town. The tenants on the
first floor of a double house were
showered with plaster but were
not injured.
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A passenger on the government
boat North Star, which came to
Nome yesterday and left shortly
■after noon to go to St. Michael,
Is Mrs. Nan Gallagher, govern
ment nnrse who will leave on the
Cotter Northland for Savoonga, St.
Lawrence Island.
Mrs. Gallagher has worked in
Alaska three years, both at the
hospital at Aklak on the Kus
kokwlm and at the Kotsefboe hos
pital. She has been on leave
since June 21, and spent a week
of her vacation in Seattle, galling
■north on August 5.
There is no hospital at St.
Lawrence Island, states Mrs. Gall
agher, bnt she will have a dis
pensary, and will work for the
natives of both Savoonga and
Gambell. Her work as a nurse
includes teaching health and giv
ing first aid Instructions to the
inhabitants of the island. She en
Joys her work in Alaska very
much, Mrs. Gallagher said, and
doe* not care If she never re
turns to Seattle.
When the. North Star stopped
at the Aleutian, Mrs. Gallagher
saw and visited with Mrs. Mae
Bunting, who is nursing* there
now, but was formerly* stationed
In Kotzebue. According to Mi>,
Galagher, Mrs. Bunting looks *
arftt Is enjoying her work.
NEW DEAL TO BE PUT
UNDER “LIBERTY LEAGUE”
IN REORGANIZATION
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NEW DEAL BE PIT I'.VDKK
"IJBKRTV LEAGUE"
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(By The Associated Press)
VASHINGTON. Auk. ,24. The
new deal is about to be put under
a bi-partisan microscopic orfeaniza
thin to he known as the “Ameri
can Liberty League," it was an
nounced late yesteVday,
Its founders will include two
| formpr presidential nominees. A1
j Smith aird John W. Davis, a form
;er republican senator, James W.
I Wadsworth, former republican kov
lernor of New' York': Nathan D.
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Miller and Irenee Dttpong who'coil
tribu.ted to botli the Smith and
Roosevelt campaign funds.
Roosevelt was informed of the !
plan a week ago, blit his attitude ]
is yet to be stated. However, it
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js assumed that lie will be sym
pathetic. The purpose was an
nounced of combatting “radical
ism” and the forming of public"
opinion on issues of the times. The
League's chairman will he Jouett
Shopse. former cahirman of the
Democratic National Executive (’em
mittee.
LOOKING WITH INTKKKST
TOtVA ISO WHITK HOUSE
(By Tlie Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. Every
one looked toward the Whit?
House to see how the President
would react to the American Lib
erty League.
Although tile new-born 'league
seemed to some people to lie a
fore-runner of shattered party
lines and a new alignment of
“rights" campaign against the
"lefts" is evoked also a demonstra
tion that party ties have the I
INCREASING STRONG '
WINDS ARE WHIPPING :
FOREST FIRES IN N.W.
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NEW IMPUTES GIVEN El,AMl]S
BY RISING WINDS
(By The Associated Press)
SPOKANE, Auk. 23, Wind*
gave new impetus to tires along
many fronts. Fighters were look
ing hopefully for a change in the
weathei as the only chance of
bringing the flames under control
soon-.
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WAITING HOPEFULLY FOR
CHANGE IN WEATHER"
(By The Associate 1 Press)
SPOKANE, Aug. 24, Despite
having lost- nine hundred^ miles
of '-Are lines in Idaho and Moa
tanft forests, foresters looked hope
fully at the clouds in the. skies
and the humidity records, as
flames again added two thousand
acres to the Avery sector.
A report from Butte said that
the fire in the Selway forest had
grown from forty-five thousand to
more than sixty thousand acres.
HOT DAY IN PORTLAND '£_
(By The Associated Press)
PORTLAND, Aug. 24, The sun
best down hot again, after a new
record of the year was made yes
terday when the mercury touched
95 degrees. Last year’s previous
record was 91 degrees.
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MA('OX LOOSES AI III* EWES
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(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE. Aug. 2:t. \Yh n the
Macon appeared over Elliott Bay |
yesterday morning she loosed five |
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planes. *T' 1 < * vf fl<» v about. tlip tno
tlier ship like sparrows around a:i
eagle. The M:f eon circled five:'
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Tacoma ami then headed directlv
for Portland, enroute bat^ to her
base al Sunnyvale. Valif*.
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NKGRO ATTACKS THHUK (ilKKsj
I’OSNK Klld.S HIM
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(By The Associated Pressl
BIRMINGHAM. Aug. 24, Citi
zens slew an' unidentified negro
who . attempted to attack. three
white Mtirls in I a park here. The’
posse came upon film as lie was
about to accomplish his aim. They
trapped him in an alley and shot
him to death.
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strength of five democratic sena
tors, whose names have beeh men
tioned in connection with the lea
gue.
The League made a public dec
laration of loyalty to the Roose
velt administration. Those mention
etl were Glass Hyrd of Virginia;
Gore of Oklahoma: Tvdings of
Maryland; Bailey of North Ga r->
lina: all” of whom denied any part
in the formation in the "Congress
hioc composed of republicans an8
democrats in opposition to the
new deal."
N lit.ROES ARj$t^ELE< -TROOCTKD
(By The Associated Press)
fODDYVILLE. Kentucky, Aug. 24
William Chaney of Lonseville, and
George Tincher. both negroes, wi re
electrocuted this morning. Both
were convicted murderers.
.STOCKS FLATTENED OFT
NEW YORK.- Ang. 24. Stocks
flattened out uiid"r moderate pro
fit taking by proponents for ad
vance. While still reasonably
bullish, the. market is less enthus
iastic;* despite tJie continuance of
a slightlv' inflationary psychology
to which the recent “advance" was
partly attributed. -^Tlie close wa.^
irregular. Sales were three quas
a^l's of -a ijiilliou.
NOTHING- DEVlMTE ON ‘
RORBANDT SCSPENSION
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 2 1. The
Department nf Commerce declared
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the;, diil not have a.fiy information
other than the word from Aero
nautics Inspector ,11a 11 at Anchor
age that he had ordered Dorhandt
grounded and ..that he was for
warding particulars.
MRS. SARAH BOYNTON
PASSES AWAY ANCH0RA6E
NOMEITE
SOURDOUGH WOMAN OF
ANCHORAGE AND NOME
(8 DEAD
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 24, Mrs.
Sarah Boynton, aged eighty-flve( a
long-time resident of Seattle, but
formerly a pioneer of Anchorage
and Nome, died here Thursday fol
lowing a brief illness. The fun
eral will probably be held Sunday.
Her daughter, Mrs. Frank Reed,
Republican National Committee
woman for Alaska, for several
years, died In Seattle early this
summer.
PUBLISHER OP JUNEAU
EMPIRE IN SEATTLE
(By The Associated Preas)
SEATTLE, Aug. 24, Robert
Bender, publisher of the Juneau
Empire, and Nick Bez, president
of the Alaska Southern Airways,
arrived here Wednesday night in
a plane from Juneau. ^ The flight
was made In little more than five
hours elapsed time.
CLlasses in weaving, register
now to get orders for looms and
supplies on last boat. Other hand
lcrafts If desired. Mrs. R. W.
Rest.
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SHOW DOWN MAY BE NEAR
SOVIET AM) JAPAN
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MOSCOW, Aug. 24, Years *8
differences between Russian and
Japen over the pj^inese Eastern
R. R., the key to a great slice of
the Orient, came close to a show
down in'the eyes ot Soviet For
eign Embassies here, which are
intently following incidents taking
place from Tokyo, to which Mos
cow addressed a blunt protest tor
the arrest ot scores of Soviet cit
izens along the railway.