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VOL. 38 No. 212 NOME, ALASKA. THURSDAY JULY 15 1937 Per G>py lOcta
Polar Fliers Be Feted Los Angeles
Senator Robinson’s Death Brings Much Confusion
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! Demo. Leader Robinson (left/ Speaker Bankhead (right
FUNERAL SERVICES
SENATOR ROBINSON
BE AFFAIRS STATE
(By The Associated Press'
WASHINGTON, July 15, —The
s’Hiden death of Democratic Sen
ate leader Joseph T. Robinson yes
terday comepletely upset the ad
ministration drive to enact a sub
stitute court bill.
He had been given a free hand
by President Roosevelt to get a
bill passed by the senate.
Senator Wheeler, after express
ing his regret at the untimely
‘■passing of a political and per
sonal friend”, predicted that the
court controversy might termin
ate suddenly as a result of the
democratic leader’s death.
‘‘I beseach the President to drop
this court fight, let he appear to
fight against God”, Wheeler said
shortly before the Senate adjourn
ed, in memory of Senator Robin
son.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15
—Greiving senators will join in
tomorrow, in the State funeral
for the late Senator J. Robinson,
which will be the fourteenth of
its kind in seventy years in the
g°!d and marble Senate Chamber.
Forty-five senators and twenty-j
three representatives will accom
pany the body on a special train
"to Little Rock, Arkansas, where
another funeral service will be
held before burial on Sunday. |
President Roosevelt and his cab-!
inert, Supreme Court Justices, and
high officials of the army and
navy will attend tomorrow's rites.
Telegraphic Briefs
(Bv The Associated Press)
PORTLAND, Ore., July .15, —
Former Governor of Oregon Jul
ius Meier, died early this morn
ing. He had been in ill health
for some time.
PADMER, July 15, —Certain
offices are to be curtailed because
of the limited budget, officials
said today. The purchasing and
legla department have been clos
ed and the agricultural depart
ment curtailed.
Federal Bldg. Men
Be Enrollte To
Nome Sat.
Accordmg to te'egruphic infor
mation today two gentlemen by
the name of MacDonald and An
derson expect to leave Seattle on
Saturday via plane for Nome.
The wire from the states indi
cated they represented the Mac
Donald Construction Co., of St.
Louis, and requested information
concerning winter work, in con
nection with the building of the
new Nome Federal Building.
It was presumed they would be
passengers with Pilot Hans Mir
ow in his Lockheed Vega plane,
of the Mirow Air Service, who
recently made a through trip
from Nome to Seattle in two and
a half day's.
The telegraphic inquiry regard
ing winter conditions for work
ing and storing of materials, give
rise to the logical belief that ac
tive work on the Federal Build
ing here will be commenced soon
and continue during the coming
winter, a state of construction
long sought by interest in Nome.
Although, definite details are
lacking, the general supposition
is that construction work will get
under way before the end of the
month and. if conditions warrant,
continue during the winter mon
ths, until completed, augmenting
general winter work in Nome
during that period.
Government Men
Occupy Town 01
V illaNueva Spain
(Hv The Associated Press1
MADRID. July 13. — The Span
ish government defense ministry
reported yesterday that its troops
had occupied the village of Villa
Nueva del Pardillo, fifteen miles
west of Madrid and captured six
hundred insurgent prisoners in
cluding seven officers.
An announcement said the new
est push in the victorious advan
ce also resulted in the seizure of
a large quantity of rifles, two an
ti-tank cannon, seven machine
guns, four automatic rifles, a ra
dio station and food supplies.
Insurgent advices received at
Hendaye on the border, said gov
eminent troops had been defeat
ed everywhere ailong the Madrid
front with four thousand govern
ment soldiers killed in fighting
around Villa Nueva del Pardillo
and Darrio Lugers.
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A Barnstorming
Pilot Plans Fly
India via Nome
(By Trie Associated Press)
BLASDELL, Now York. July IS
-Merrill Riddick, a barnstorm
ing air pilot left here yesterday
on ,i projected thirty five thousand
mile ‘hobo" flight to Bombay. In
dia
The flier’s ship weight only be
tween five and six hundred
pounds. “My route will take me
to San Francisco thence north to
Alaska, crossing Bering Strait
front Nome, into Asia, and south
to Bombay,” he said.
Helium Gas May
Be Released For
Use in Germany
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D, C„ July 8—
Secretary Roper of the depart
ment ■! commerce expressed be
lief that r “well guarded plan”
will be worked out to make hel
ium gas available to other na
t ons for commercial aircraft use.
The United States, which pro
dace^ most of the world’s supply
now, restricts exports of the gas.
Legislation is pending before the
house military committee which
would permit gas exports for
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SOVIETS ENTERTAINED
ROYALLY SAN DIEGO
] I Planes hop Sitka
fBv The Associated Press)
SEATTLE. July 15, — El!even
planes ,n a squadron of 4-P 12
tooks off at 2:40 p.m. headed for
Sitka. They planned to make the
flight in five and a half hours.
One plane was out of commis
sion due to a damaged wing
float, and was unable to make the
flight. Lieut Commander Thom
as A. Gray is in command of the
squadron. Bad weather reports
in he north had delayed the hop
for several days.
A squadron of VP-7 and a squad
ron of VP-9, six planes each, are
to take off for Kodiak later, if
the weather improves. Their hop
has also been delayed by bad
weather
Gershwin Died
CB’. The Associated Press'
HOLLYWOOD, July 13, — Geo
rge Gershwin, 38. noted compos
er i modern music, died at a
hospital here Sunday after ur. op
eration for a brain tumor.
Gershwin, composer of "Rhap
sody in Blue’’ came here recently
front New York to write the mus
ic for a motion picture. He col
lopsed it a studio.
( R‘ Tno Assoc iU-1 Press’
SAN DIEGO. Calif , July 15 —
Tlie Russian fliers started out to
inspect American airplane factor
ies. also to attend a Hollywood
civic luncheon, 'nan a big wel
come when they will motor to
Los Angeles.
Last night the fliers sent greet
ings to their countrymen at Mos
cow via short wave broadcast
Claude Ryan, builder of Colonel
Charles A Lindbergh's ‘ Spirit of
St. Louis" plane examined the
Soviet ship and pror. >unced it a
a marvel of compact efficiency.
The fliers crouched in a slender
fuselage compartment, four feet
long and less than three feet wide
The flying time was definitely
established as sixty-two hours,
seventeen minutes, f >r a straight
line distance flight of sixty-two
hundred and sixty-two miles.
Massing Troops
H* I'u- A '■ t r ■ ■ SS
PEIPING. Juu 15 -- Foreign
Military a'tac-' ?s . ; today
that Japan was cone .-titrating a
fence of more than 6.000 men at
Fengta:, which they belie veil
would be used to afecr.pt to oc
cupy Peiping in the next two
days. Japm is is now believed to
have a full d;v;s war stren
gth—16.000 men—.r N -r,-r. China.
This is how Joe Louis and his managers and trainers appeared af-ter the Detroit Negro knocked oat
Jim Braddock. Louis center, Jack Blackburn left and co-managers Black & J Rnxborough right
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