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RELIEF PLANE HAS MISHAP
SECOND PUNE IEMIN N >W| SUNDAY
ItiAMiA tVftriWiOi awaiiinu
ROOSKVKLT’S SIGNATURE
(By The Associated Press)
WlAJSHUNGTON, March 27 —
Delegate Dimond introduced a
r<-solution to recall to the Senate
vnd House floors the Alaska Pro
to bit Lon Repeal “measure in order
to make M a constitutional bill.
It was not signed by the presi
dent because the,, clause giving
the governor of the territory the
right to pardon persons convicted
under the prohibition act was de
clared unconstitutional. While
Dimond hopes for immediate con
gresji.'onal action to rectify the er
ror. he did not expect the bill
would be signed by the president
until he returns from his fishing
trip to Florida which he leaves
today.
BILL ASKS LAND FOR
ALASKAN VETERANS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 27 —
A hill introduced by Delegate I>i
ruond contains provisions for giv- j
in? to each World War veteran
of Alaska or his widow or child
><-n a 'hundred and sixty acres of
land of their own choosing in °the
Territorj}-. The gifts are to be
1 mited those veterans or sur
vivors who were residents of Al
aska when they entered the ser
vice. Such persons will be enti
tled to receive a grant of land
f rwm the public lands of the Terr
itory, or one lode or placer min
ing claim is to be given immed
iately to the recipients, and they
shall not be required to settle, cul
Grate or work such property to
obtain such rights.
ROOSEVELT VETOES
INDEPENDENT OFFICES BILL
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 27 —
President Roosevelt vetoed the
Independent Offices Bill today be
cause it carried Increased allow
ances for veterans and govern
ment workers which exceeded his
budget..
. HOI’SK AND SENATE
OVERRIDE ROOSEVELT
• By The Aasociatsi? Press)
WASHINGTON. March 28 —•
Overriding the objection of 1 res
ident Roosevelt the Senate joined
the House late Wednesday In vot
ing to enact more liberal veter
an's federal pay legislation than
the chief executive was willing to
accept. By sixty-three to tweny
sevan. Just a little more than the
two-thirds margin necessary to
overthrow the recommendations of
the President, the Senate wound
up the long day in a "debate by
putting the legislation statute on
the books. The House voted yes
terday, three hundred ten to sev
enty^two, overriding the veto.
This means that between 900,
000 and a million dollar* will
be returned to World War and
Spanlsh-American War veterans
| annually without reviewing the
cases to determine whether dis
abilities were of war origin or
juot.. Also It means that govern
ment employees who bad their
salaries cut fifteen percent, get
back five peercent or twenty-<s1x
million dollars as of February
fim to July first. Another five
percent is to be returned next
fiscal year, or about a hundred
and twenty-six million dollars.
HITl/KK OBHCRKH
FRIKNDIjY RKJiATlON'S
(Copyright Associated Press >
ROMJfc. March 30 — Hitler told
jthe Associated Press that he wish
led he might have man-to-onan
i talks with the leaders of other
'nations, including President Roo
sevelt. By such personal conver
sations, he said, the pitfalls of
diplomacy might be avoided.
ItOOSUVRLT t 'OMFLUTHS
Al’TO LABOR BOARD
( By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Mar. 27—Pres
; dent Roosevcttt .completed the
|;th re e-mail I.abor Board for the
automobile industry in his selec
tion of Leo Wolman. Chairman of
the NRA Advisory Board as the
neutral member." The other mem
bers are Nicholas Kelley, attorney
tor the Chrysler Corporation, who
is represent ng Labor; and Ad
miral Richard L. Byrd of Pontiac,
Michigan, .representing labor.
HOI'HK OK A VS BOM'S BILL
(By The Associated Press'
W AlSHJNOTON, March 27 —
The Home of Representatives has
overridden the President’s veto on
the Bonus bill, but the Senate has
not acted as yet.
ATTRNTION MOOSK
There will be a regular meet
ling of the Loyal Order of Moose,
Month), April And, 8 p.m. Vom
Ination of oflteetv. Pull attend
ance requested.
W. H. Koch, Herty.
Wedding Bella To Ring
Tomorrow evening. April 1st, at
the Federated Church, the marr
iage of Miss Amelia Sophia Bru
nell and William Harrison Kel
sey will be performed by the Rev.
Norman McCay, in the presence of
a few Invited friends. Details nest
issue.
Large sin* envelopes, big en
ough to mall the Nome Weekly
Nugget and send via first clam
airplane mall, can now be bad •*
the Nugget edSoe. _____
RUSSIAN RK8CUKRH
j/ BUT PLANKS
(By The Associated t’reaa)
FAIRBANKS, March 24 — The
Russians purchased two PAA
nine-place Fleetstera after '-'tests
with Pilots Joe Crosson and Jerry
A
Jones today. The planes are to
be delivered in Fairbanks by the
PAA to the Russians after mak
ing changes in the instrument
boards. They expect to fly to
Nome Monday. • No one from the
PAA is going with the rescuers,
but they expect to take local
mechanics aJlomg.
MORK RRSt’UK PLANS
(By The Associated P* as)
FAIRBANKS. March 27 — The
Russian headquarters at New
York telegraphed the rescuers to
fly two planes to Nome, with Sig
mund Levon evski and George Ush
akoff and MecliSfhlc Clyde Armtk
ted in one. and Slepnev with ass
istant mechanic Bill Lavery in the
other. The latter two are to stay
in Nome to await orders from
the former who will fly to the ice
floeg sind look over conditions, for
flying the refugees back to Fair
banks for medical! attention after
'landing them to the nearest and
safest point of land ng. Levonev
ftkl is confident of success in the
venture. SJepnev is to wait in
Nome for orders. The rescuers
will leave Fairbanks at eleven
Tuesday morning.
TEXT OF LIQUOR PROVISION'S
(By The -Associated, Press) .
JUNEAU. March 27 —The sale
of-'beer, wines and liquors to per
sons under twenty-one is prohib
ited. All sales of same are to
cease from one to eight in the
mornings, and places selling these
beverages are restricted against
sale of same to Indians. These
regulations have been agreed on
by the Alaska Liquor Board and
will go into effect as soon as the
President signs the repeal bill.
Minors, even though accompanied
by parents or with parents’ con
he soJd under the existing beer— ,
wine or liquor. In order to keep ,
down the prices of legall liquor,
the license is to be fixed to one
hundred dollars. Beer, wines
and other distilled liquors are to
be sold under the existing beer,
wines licenses without additional1,
cost, but hard liquor is to be sold
only in original packages for con
sumption off the premises where
it is purchased.
ROOSEVELT RETURNS AIRMAIL
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 27 --
President Roosevelt returned the
airmail contracts to private com
panies today.
RUSSIAN RKSCUH
KXPROITION mOGRKSSdN G
On Tuesday, March 27. Protes
or George lishakoff, Pilot 90«
mund Levunevski and Pilot Mau
rice Slepnev with their American
mechanics, Clyde Armi3tead and.
William Luvery left Fairbanks in
two nine-place fleetstera heavily
loaded with equipment and head
ed for Nome. The first three have
come all the way from Moscow
via New York by direction of the
“Russian government to assist in
the efforts to rescue some S!>
Russians who are stranded on an
ice floe near Kolyuehin nay when
!heir scientific ship, the ‘‘Chely
uskin." sank the middle of last i
February
They got as far as N’ulato
where heavy weather set in, re
quiring them to wait there un
til the 'following day. Very little [
improvement in weather awarded j
their stay but- notwithstanding
they left Nulafn the following
day with prospects of its clear
ing up. Instead a light snow fell
before they had much more than
started and before' they were
half way to Nome they found it
necessary to fly within a few feet
of the telephone poles much of
the way in keeping t.hoir course.
They • nevertheless arrived in
Nome in exactly two hours, ar
riving at 12:15 p.m. in a light
snow.
After circling five times to loc
ate favorable landing on a new-,
ly prepared field on the Ice in.
front of 'town about a. mile from
shore, the first plane with Mau
rice Siepnev XJft.or.ge Ushakaff tend
William Lavery made a landing
about five minutes ahead of that
piloted, by Sigmund • Levenevski
and Clyde Armi stead. All the fly
ers were then welcomed by those
on the field thru the services of
an intrpreter, after which they tax
ied in' through a staked trail to
the shore opposite barrack Square
accompanied by dog team and
those who met them part way
while rushing to their welcome.
Official greetings by the Chamber
of Commerce were made, the
plameR anchored and placed un
der guard by the P. S. Coast
Guard, and the flyers ae<-ompan
ied to their hotel.
A luncheon was given them un
der the auspices of the Nome
Chamber of Comeree; and they
immediately prepured for the
take-ofT of one plane scheduled
for Thursday morning. Mean
while schedules had been arrang
ed with the Siberian station at
Vankaren hut due t.o severe sta
tic disturbances much difficulty
was encountered in making con
tacts. A small .radio hook-up at
Camp Schmidt on the ice advis
ed Vankaren of cloudy weather
|predominating at the, time. How
lever, Thursday morning with
faiir woatheu- reports received
! Trom Vankaren the first plane
took off for that point to deter
mine the needs of the pilot who
previously rescued the women
and children and then fly to the
marooned people on the ice floe.
This first plane with Georg*
Ushakoff was heard but not seen
ta it passed oyer Cape WeUea ou
the Biberlaj coast at It 15 that
afternoon. Friday it wee lee-reef’
(ha‘ t’sfhakoff's piano had been
forced down in a know storm
about forty miles from Vankaren
from where a dog team had been
dispa' hod to Vankarep to ad
vise of their safety. The weather
still remaining bad lb that sec
|tion, V«epnev's plane which had
bcoiv, A 'dored to proceed to Van
V-*v Wfy'pmr.pon xt to* fhsjf&mit d*’ utff
til Saturday morning and just as
it was being warmed up to take
off a wire to glepnov stated that
the first plane had cracked up.
slightly injuring Pilot I.evenevakl
Pilot Slepnev believer the prop
eller to be somewhat damaged but
further details are not available
as yet. Further clorflliing has been
requested and Pilot Slepnev is
a waiting for- further orders as to
what other equipment is required.
Their intentions are to fly Dr.
Schmidt in charge of the party &
other leaders with any who are in
need of medical attention direct
ly to the Siberian shore, probably
at Vanka.ren. When all the rest, txf
the refugees are safely landed on
•shore, it is planned to bring them
all to Nome to await the “break
up.'' when they will be returned
to their respective headquarters.
Professor UshiikofT has spent
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S0ih> lwge~TSn-s Travel over ohax
section of the country and as Sig
mund Levonevski and Maurice
Slepnev are also well acquainted
with its layout, they are fully con- *,
(itlent of success in their enter
prise. The two American mech
anics. Clyde Arralstead and Wil
liam Lavery both of Fairbanks
are. (vast masters in their work
also. Armistead having followed
his occupation as aviation mech- *..
anic ip the United .States Marine.
Corps, and chief line mechanic,
of the Travelair factory in Wichita
Kansas; and Lavery, after at
tending the Contie Wright School
at Oakland, has spent most of
his tiime since in aviatiou activit
les at Fairbanks. He also hold*
a private pilot's license.
The Russian flyers fully believe
that Alaska will soon be the
main connecting link between
their country and The United
States due to it’s direct-line prox
imity. Northern Alaska offers
rtven more advantages as to
clearer weather and central bas
ing for all northern expeditions.
A large amount, of dog feed is
being taken to the points of act
ivity due to a shortage, as
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