“Wieky“ Begins
Journey Home to
Owner St. Louis
It’s just a hat, to be sure—but
a certain dark green top-piec6
which arrived at Nome last Fri
day can boast of having beer
more places and seen more things
than perhaps any other fedorE
in the world, as it prepares foi
its homeward journey tomorrow
After being doffed to the Es
kimos at Nome, “Wicky” hac
seen nearly every race, countrj
and climate in the world. As £
hat Eskimos didn’t know what tc
think of it, as they wear only £
hood of their “parkas” over theii
heads in winter, and they reallj
didn’t now what the big idea wai
about, although they were told i
was quite priceless.
Its owner is O. C. Wickersham
a retired Railway Express Com
pany employee, whose home i:
St. Louis. It started on its work
adventures April 30th this year
Virtually buried by trave
labels in every color and lang
uage, the globe-trotting felt came
for a gimpse of the North aboarc
the Alaska Steamship Company’s
steamer Yukon. At Juneau it was
placed aboard a Pacific Alaskc
Airways plane for Fairbanks anc
Nome.
The most Northwesterly Pacific
Alaska Airways station, situatec
here in Nome had the “distin
guished passenger” as a visitoi
at their headquarters for nearlj
a week, and it was inspected b>
several hundred persons, before
starting its return flight to Fair
banks, thence to Juneau, and bj
boat to Seattle, and air again tc
its owner in St. Louis.
The story is that Wickersham
unable to make a long, dreame;
of air trip around the world, de
cided to send his hat instead. Ai
line officials took up the idea, anc
“Wicky” as it was baptized fo
its owner, has been traveling ev
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er since.
It crossed the Atlantic on the
dirigible Hindenburg, flew to Af
frica and to South America, re
turned to Europe, flew into Fren
ch Indo-China, took in the Or
ient, crossed the Pacific Ocean
via Pan American Airways’ Clip
per, flew up the Pacific Coast via
United Air Lines, and joined the
steamer Yukon at Seattle.
All in all, it has traveled about
70,000 miles, gathering an amaz
1 ing festoon of cards, stickers,
i labels and pamphlets enroute.
Pacific Alaska Airways pilots
have been instructed to take good
care of “Wicky” and to show it
as much of the Territory of Al
aska as possible before it starts
south again.
"THE SILVER CANDLE STICKS
; a play given by the dramatic
group of the Federated Church,
also a Silver Offering, will take
place Sunday Night at the fed
erated Church at 7:45 P. M.
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Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Generally cloudy and mild
weather prevailed early this
'morning throughout interior Al
aska. A few light scattered show
ers were reported over the cen
tral Yukon district. General rain
was observed over southeastern
Alaska. Mostly fair skies obtain
in the Pacific Coast States.
Temperatures are near the seas
onal average and no important
! changes occurred during the past
24 hours.
Barometric pressure continues
relatively low over Alaska and
the North Pacific Ocean.
The lowest temperature at
Nome last night was 36 and the
highest yesterday 51. A trace of
. rainfall was recorded.
Letter Tells Of
Death of Frank
McCoy at Sitka
Thos. Gaffney, U. S. Marshal
for the Second Division received
a letter from Eiler Hansen, Sup
erintendent of the Pioneers Home
at Sitka, recently, telling of the
death of Frank McCoy, former
Nomeite and well known Dime
Creek miner.
Mr. McCoy died September 9,
said the letter. He had left the
Home of his own accord March
31st and later on July 19th 1936
had re-entered it.
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Airplane News
Nome Airport
Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mirow
Air Service arrived today from
Fairbanks with Lee Matterson,
who will be connected with the
Pioneer Drug Store. Mail was
also carried on the plane.
The PAA Electra plane is to
leave Juneau at 8 A.M. tomor
row morning for Fairbanks and
Nome and will probably arrive
here Thursday evening. The boat
was late in arriving at Juneau,
which caused a postponement of
yesterday’s flight.
Pilot Jimmy Dodson of the
j Northern Air Transport hopped
| off today with Alfred J. Lomen
| and Jack Anderson of the Lomen
1 Commercial Company and Joe
Harnish, agent for the Alaska
; Steamship Company, for Golovin,
Egavik and Unalakleet in search
of the tug Nohalico and barge
which have not been reported
in that section. As a result, it
is said, the sailing of the Steam
er Mount McKinley will probab
ly be delayed.
Pilot Chet Brown of the Arctic
Airways reported by telegram to
day that he arrived safely at
Anchorage from Kotzebue at 6:30
P.M. yesterday with 12 school
children for the Sheldon Jack
son school in Seward. He de
clared he might wait until Sun
day before returning to Nome,
in the tri-motored Ford plane in
w'hich he made the flight.
Pilot HalJ of the Mirow Air
Service made a flight to Nugget
Gulch and Taylor today return
! ing with Mr. Clough and Glen
Adams. He hopped off again this
afternoon for Taylor with Mr.
Clough and is to return with two
passengers.
! Earlier he made a flight to Tellei
I returning with Mr. and Mrs. Lar;
Tjernagel and John Jack as pass
engers.
—
| Pilot Jimmy Dodson of the
j NAT returned from a flight yes-;
| terday to Council and Golovin. |
Tommy Givan, Nome agent for;
NAT was a round-tripper. Sid
ney Rood of the Reindeer Ser- j
vice was a passenger to Golovin
and Chas. Shaw, P. A. Peterson
and John Stafford were return
_ ning passengers from Council.
FOR SALE—Two-story house
next door to Nugget office. In-1
quire Mrs. C. L. Calkins.
FOR SALE—Dodge %-tonl
truck and extras for sale. $90
cash. Inquire R. O. Fritch resi
dence or at Nugget Office.
NOTICE OF BIDS
Sealed bids will be received at
the office of the City Clerk until
12 o’clock noon Thursday, Sep
tember 24th, 1936, for hauling of
school equipment from Lomen
Commercial Company’s dock to
the new school building on 3rd
Ave. and B Street. Bidder must
state rate per ton based on the
Steamship Company’s tonnage on
said equipment.
Delivery must be made only as,
and when requested by repre
sentative of the city in charge of
assembling said equipment at
school building.
City reserves the right to re
ject any or all bids.
Bids will be opened on Thurs
day, September 24th at 1 o’clock
P. M.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
By M. J. WALSH,
City Clerk.
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