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VOL. 38. No. 254. NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY. AUG. 23, 1937. Per Copy 10ct«
Wilkins Is Making First Hop Arctic
SHELL EXPLQDES--400 KILLED 1000 INJURED
3 Giant Planes To Fly From Moscow Aid In Search
EX-CHAMP SHADDOCK—In lighting pose, as rumors becami
more insistent that he was contemplating a comeback.
Erroneous Report
Jap Plane Due
Arrive Nome
k _
We thought we had a Japanese
flier over Alaska yesterday, and
due at noon, according to tele
grams received early Sunday.
However, after checking available
sources, it was believed that the
telegrams were a case of mistak
en identity and also that the air
plane referred to, was not due
for several days. Following are
the telegrams:
NUUGET, Nome, Alaska.
Please Check all sources quick
ly. Anchorage reports radiogram
from Nome stating Japanese flyer
somewhere over Alaska flying
around world. Anchorage airport
posting flares to guide him. Please
report fastest possible.
The Associated Press
JUNEAU, Aug. 22,
NUGGET, Nome, Alaska.
Pacific Alaska Airways announc
ed it would start broadcasting
eight thirty hundred Sunday a.m.
in an attempt to contact Japan
ese flier, understood here one
making flight, was expected over
Nome today.
The Associated Press
Fairbanks, Aug. 22.
NUGGET, Nome, Alaska.
Reported here Jap round world
flight coming your way probab
ably due or now over Alaska.
Rush whether true or anything
on matter.
Fairbanks News Miner
The Nugget wired the AP and
the Fairbanks News-Miner, after
checking leads in Nome and fine
ing nothing about the alleged Jaf
flight, that no sources in Nomi
knew of such a flight. Also, tha1
it was believed they had confus
ed the proposed flight of Prince
Cantacuzino, with the Japanese.
Last night, it was learned thai
the Mirow Air Service, represent
ativas of the Prince, had wired
the Anchorage Chamber of Coir
merce Saturday requesting that
a local airplane company be pr<
pared to send up flares, and alsc
to have a lighted “T” on the field
in case Prince Catancuzino should
decide to land at Anchorage, or
account of any bad weathei
which might occur, when he si
expected over Alaska, in the next
several days.
Evidently, Anchorage miscon
strued the telegram and got bus.v
in a hurry.
Several months ago a fligh'
from the United States to Tokyo
by a Japanese flier, via Nome
was announced, but nothing de
finite has been heard lately re
garding this trip.
Prince Tested
His Plane Today
At Paris Field
(By The Associated Press)
| LE BOURGET FIELD, Paris
Aug. 23, — Prince Constantin
| Cantacuzino of Rumania, toda;
tested his plane for a projectei
jsolo flight around the world.
No date for the hopoff has bei
;set, it was learned.
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:mcee planes join search to
FIND MISSING RUSSIANS.
! OTHERS BE ADDED
Moscow Radio Reports Hearing Signals on Levanefsky’s
Wave Length. Noted Fliers Participating
Greatest Aerial Hunt in History
(By The Associated Press*
MOSCOW. Aug. 22. — Moscow
radio reports radio signals on
Levanefsky's w-ave length were
heard today. Radio stations have
been requested to broadcast the
plans for the aerial search, in
: the hope that the fliers will' be
reached.
Three more large planes were
outfitted here for long range fly
ing and are being fuel for a hop
toward RudoLph Island Monday.
Meanwhile in Fairbanks, Joe
Crosson of the Pacific Alaska Air
ways, arid other planes were
grounded due to dense fog.
Garland Lincoln's Ford tri
motor, to pack gas for Jimmy
Matter;1., which cracked up Sut
, urday, had its front engine and
gas tank torn off, and the khip
probably cannoted be used again.
! MOSCOW, Aug.23—Three huge
Polar planes warmed up here to
I go in search of the missing So
viet fl ers. They are command
ed by three of Russia's most fam
I ous veterans of Arctic flying,
I namely: Mihail Vodapyanoff.
Vasily Molikoff and Anatoli Alex
| ieff.. They are wating for fav
[orable weather for their take off
Ion the first leg of the flight to
I Rudolf Island in the Arctic, then
I nonstop flight to Alaska. They
i will fly from 12 to 15 miles apart
| scanning a stretch of about 1300
I miles, virtually unexplored ice
land water within the Arctic Cir
jcle. The three planes are equip
—
(By The Associated Press)
pud with modern radios and nav
ig.diua instruments.
POINT BARROW. Aug. 22nd—
| Pilot Jimmy Mattern and the
Russian planes, are both weather
' bound here today.
| COPPERMINE, Northwest Ter
jsdory, Aug. 22—Sir Hubert. WR-.
kins hopped at 5 A. M. Pacific
, time, to search for the Russians.
He carried gas for a four thous
and mile flight out over the Arc
tic Ocean.
NEW YORK. Aug. 22nd—Pilot
Roger Q. Williams announced
here that he will hop to Fair
banks with Co-piiot Chas. West,
to aid in the search for the Rus
sian polar fliers.
He intends to make stops at
Cleveland, Edmonton, Alberta,
and Skagway enroute in a cabin
monoplane which has been char
tered by the Russian government.
Pilot Williams it will be recall
ed made a nonstop Atlantic flight
m 1929.
PITTSBURGH. Pa.. Aug. 23—
M.L. Benedum. Jimmy Mattern's
financial backer, authorized the
aviator to "use his own judgment
regarding the possible purchase
of a refueling plane, to enable
him to carry on search activities
for the Russian polar fliers.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Aug. 23
He isu’t an Indian, He's a White Man—An annual custom in
southwest which promotes preservance of Indian Customs.
—Constantine Oumansky, Con
suellor of the Russian Embassy,
said he advised searchers for the
trans-Polar fliers that they may
have landed near the 148th Meri
dian. between 82nd and 83rd Lat.
itudes, in an area between Alas
ka and the North Pole. His con
jecture was based, probably, on
flight directions.
Earthquake Shock
Felt Fairbanks
(By The Associated ’’ressl
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 23. —Earth
shocks were felt here at 8:08 a.m.
Pacifiic Standard Time Sunday.
No damage was done. The Uni
versity of Alaska’s seismograph
registered another quake at 3:00
p.m. PST. located about 500 mil
es southwesterly frm Fairbanks.
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N AG GIN G Even a horse’s life isn’t always a bed of straw. This bit of grimacing stable talk among
two thoroughbreds at Smallborough, Eng., doesn’t seem to be pleasing to either party.
Shell Exploded In
Dept. Store Area
(Bv Tne Associated Press)
SHANGHAI. Aug. 23, — It wav
estimated that four hundred per
sons were kiKed and perhaps a
thousand wounded, including
three Americans, by a heavy ar
tillery shell, when it crashed in
to the crowded department store
section of the international set
tlement today.
Scores of Americans narrowly
escaped death when a second pro
jectile pierced the sixth story of
a U. S. naval warehouse and crash
ed through to the bottom, but fail
ed to explode.
The wounded Americans in
cluded Anthony Billingham, staff
correspondent of the New York
Times; Hallet Abend chief of
the Times staff in China, and
B'anche Tenney, of Shanghai,
Am erican-born.
Children Seared
(By The Associated Press)
MANILA, Aug. 23, — Child re
fugees screamed in terror as wel
coming airplanes swooped low
over the liner President Hoover,
bearing 871 persons fleeing from
the Shanghai war zone.
The vessel was held for sever
al hours at the breakwater while
passengers were innoculated ag
ainst cholera, smallpox and ty
phoid.
The children, memory-ridden
by experiences at Shanghai when
roaring planes east death among
them, were frightened by the
welcoming fliers.
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