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VOL. 38. No. 124. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY. MAY 28, 1937 Per Copy lOcts
500 Death Toil Dam Break Mexico
NULATO INUNDATED BY FLOODING YUKON
Interior Sect’y Ickes Makes Alaska Mineral Report
500 Persons Believed Killed As
Result of Collapse of Dam, Mexico
(By The Associated Press)
Dam Collapsed, Buries Town, Many Deaths Result
MEXICO CITY, May 28—Residents of El Oro in
-he state of Mexicao, said in telephone messages that
about five hundred persons were believed killed when
collapsed dam buried the nearby town of Tlalpujahua
of Mexicaoan state, in mud and sand at three a.m. yes
terday. The dam held back deposits of mud, sand,
cyanide from metal processing operations which are
carried on by Dos Estrellas Mining Company. Twenty
nine bodies were recovered in the afternoon.
Actress and Actor Announce Nuptials
(By The Associated Press)
Father of Hoot Gibson, Passes Away
LOS ANGELES. May 28—Hiram J. Gibson, aged
73, father of Hoot Gibson the film cowboy, died at As
cadero, California, hospital.
Film Couple Announce Engagement
Grace Bradley, actress, and Bill Boyd, western ac
tor, announced their engagement, date of marriage is
indefinite. This will be Bradley’s first venture and the
second for Boyd, who is the ex-husband of Dorothy
Sebastina, actress.
FUNERAL SERVICE FOR FISHING BOAT CAPTAIN
SEATTLE, May 27—Funeral services are being ar
ranged for Arthur O’Reilly, aged 32, a former Alaska
fishing boat captain and a resident of Bellingham, who
died Tuesday night at the Marine hospital following an
illness of three years.
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J. A. Burgess, Washington policeman, and John Gray, IK, were
rescued from a tree 500 feet from the shore of the flooded Potomac
river after three hours of work. Gray and a friend, Herbert Buck
ley, had clung to the tree when their boat upset. Burgess rj^r.ei
Buckley and was returning for Gray when bis nv. •» iv>a' o / tied
and he, too, climbed into the tree. Rescuers rr . K’ .<ng
Buigett a hot drink tr.<J rubbing Gray's
Point Barrow Hospital Building
Appropriation Is Approved by House
(By The Associated Press')
Appropriation for Point Barrow Hospital Approved
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 28—The House approv
ed the one hundred thousand dollar appropriation for
the construction and equipment of the Point Barrow
hospital, which was included in the second deficiency
bill.
Secretary Ickes, Department Interior, Makes Report
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 28—The Interior De
partment estimated that Alaskan mines from 1880 to
1937, produced $722,222,000.00 dollars in minerals, and
is one hundred times more than the territory cost the
United States.
Gold led the 1936 production with $18,433,000, com
pared to $15,940,000.00, in 1935.
Copper was second with $3,720,000.00, compared to
$1,249,000.00.
The 1936 output was the largest of any single year’s
operation since 1918.
Delegate Dimond introduced a bill authorizing the
Interior Secretary to give the City of Ketchikan title
to the property described as the courthouse reserve, in
block 13, for school purposes.
Geologists to Survey Good News Bay District
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. May 28—Gerald Fitzgerald,
surveyor, and J. B. Mertie Jr., geologist, of the Geolo
gical Survey, left here to make a study and map the
Good News Bay region of Alaska, with special atten
tion being given to platinum and gold, the discoveries
of which it is said has swollen the population from 16
living there six years ago, to an unestimated number,
said territorial reports, which ascribed the first discov
eries in that area to an Eskimo named Walter Smith,
who announced that he had found "white gold" on the
south end of Red Mountain in 1926.
Three Old Time Alaskans Pass Away
At Anchorage General Hospital
(By The Associated Press)
Death Results From Being Pinned Under Tree
ANCHORAGE. May 28—Adolph Wendland, aged
60, died in the hospital here of chest injuries, sustained
by being pinned beneath a tree he had felled at Talkeet
na. He was rushed here by a special gas car on the Al
aska Railroad last night.
First Lady Bairber, Nome, Passes Away Anchorage
Bessie Carston, aged 54, formerly of Nome, Fair
banks and Seward, died here after a long illness. She
is said to have operated a Nome barber shop during the
stampede. No survivors.
Albert M. Murray Pases Aaway at Cache Creek
Albert M. Murray, aged 46, a prominent mine op
erator of Cache Creek, north of here, died Tuesday of
heart attack at his camp. His body was airplaned here
last night after a man walked 45 miles to telephone for
a plane.
Hugh Brewster Receives Commission
Hugh Brewster, aeronautics inspector, has been
commissioned to Captain, Marine Corps aviation re
serves.
Plane Passengers From Nome Report
Nulato Trading Post Under % ater
(By The Associated Press)
Housetops Sticking out of Water at Nulato
FAIRBANKS, May 27—•Passengers aboard the Pa
cific Alaska Airways Electra plane arriving here from
Nome, said the flood waters of the lower Yukon river
has covered all but the housetops at Nulato, a trading
post for the Koyukuk valley. Although there has been
no direct communication with Nulato for two days,
residents here said that the two hundred persons there
probably escaped in boats. Pilots of airplanes reported
that the river in the vicinity of Nulato resembled a
huge lake spreading over the low lands.
Convicted Hatchet Slaying Girl s Mama
(By The Associated Press)
Convicted of Second Degree Murder
JERSEY CITY, May 2tf—Gladys MacKnight and
Donald YVightman were convicted of second degres
murder, of the hatchet slaying of the ghTsmother.
Two Hundred Thousand Persons Surge
Across Golden Gate Bridge Opening
(By Tiic Associated Press >
SAN FRANCISCO. Calif., May 28tn—The world's
greatest suspension bridge, spanning f r mile wide
the Golden Gate, was opened today t<* th usands of
motorists after a preview by two hundre i thousand
pedestrains who surged aero.,.; t he stta . which
skeptics said couldn’t be built.
Five hundred naval planes roared overhead at noon,
and later forty-two warships of the United States fleet,
fresh from six weeks’ maneuvers began sweeping un
der the bridge in a ten mile procession and r.av il flight.
EMPRESS ENTERS GOLDEN GATE ,
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The Empress of Britain, great Canadian Pacific liner, was the
first large passenger ship to enter San Francisco Bay after t
last rivet had been driven In the Golden Gate bridge. Here isi the
huge ship, inbound from Honolulu on a world cruise, passing under
the bridge.