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THE NOMeTDAILY NUGGET
VOL. 37. No. 56. NOME, ALASKA, Friday, March 6, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
Communist Radio Talk Is Criticised
THREE NOME EMERGENCY AIRPLANE CALLS
Virginia Berg of Palmer is Chosen as “Miss Alaska”
BABY PAULINE BALL, AGE 7
DIES IN AIRPLANE WHILE
ENROUTE TO THE HOSPITAL
Pilot Brown Intercepts 2nd Emergency
Call And Brings Native Woman Nome
Two emergency airplane
trips were made yesterday
by Pilot Chester Brown of
the Northern Air Transport
of Nome. The first call
came from St. Michael
where little Pauline Mar
tha Ball, was very ill and
near death.
The second call was re
ceived by Pilot Brown
while on the return trip
from St. Michael to Nome,
when he picked up the em
ergency call of Radiophone
operator Webb of the Nome
radio station, telling him
to stop at Shaktoolik and
pick up a sick native wo
man and bring her to the
hospital at Nome.
The first emergency trip
ended in death to Pauline
Martha Ball, age 7 years,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Rollin Ball, teachers of the
government school at St.
Michael, and former resi
dents of Nome.
Pilot Brown took off for
St. Michael yesterday and
after picking up Mrs. Ball
and the child they decided
to fly to the nearest hospit
al which was Mountain Vil
lage, a distance of about 125
miles. Upon arrival at the
hospital and after examin
ation made by the Doctor
Corthell, the child was pro
nounced dead, much to the
sorrow and grief of the mo
ther and the pilot who did
everything possible to
reach medical aid.
It was then decided to re
turn to St. Michael at once
with the mother and her
loved one, where funeral
services will be conducted.
Little Pauline was known
as the “airplane baby” and
received considerable pub
licity in the States a short
time ago. Pauline was
born in Nome, February 3,
1929. The Ball family at
that time were living at
Mary’s Igloo, and Pilot No
el Wien was called on to
make an emergency flight
to bring Mrs. Ball to the
Nome hospital and soon af
ter arrival Paluine was
born. After a short stay at
the hospital mother and
child were flown back to
Mary’s Igloo. This was one
of the first occasons where
airplanes were used in Al
aska to transport the ex
pectant mother to the local
hospital.
The Ball family resided
in Nome during the years
1930 and 1932. They made
a trip outside and resided
in Seattle until last fall,
when the family again re
turned north to St. Michael.
The mother, Mrs. Ruth
Ball, formerly was Miss
Ruth Cheney of Tacoma,
Wash. Mr. Ball was at one
time connected with the
Alaska Road Commission
activities in the Second Div
ision.
Pauline Martha Ball, who
succumbed on the plane
trip to the hospital, is said
to have been an exception
ally bright child and at the
age of seven, was a strong
third grade pupil. Nome
friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ball
extend their sympathy in
this their hour of sorrow.
It is learned thru Nome
friends that Mr. and Mrs.
Ball received word from
the States of the sad news
of the deaths of both their
mothers in February.
Second Emergency Call
Pilot Brown who picked
up the radio-phone call of
Operator Webb at Nome,
while enroute to Nome
from St. Michael landed at
i Shaktoolik and picked up a
sick native woman who had
been ill for two weeks and
brought her to the hospital
at Nome where she is now
a medical case under Dr.
Charteris. Another emer
gency call it is learned
came from St. Lawrence
Island yesterday but re
ports this morning state
that the patient is some bet
ter and the flight has been
delayed.
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Mary Joyce Flies |
Ice Carnival But |
Return By Dog
(By The Associated Press)
Fairbanks, March 6th—
Mary Joyce,the Taku Hunt
ing Lodge proprietress, ar
rived here Thursday night
by plane from Tanana cross!
ing to attend the Ice Carni-I
val. She was flown here j
by Pilot Herman Lerdahl,;
and intends returning to
the Crossing after the Cor
nival to complete the re
mainder of her dog team
trip.
Miss Joyce announced she
would not enter the beauty
contest as Miss Juneau, but
would join the Queen’s at
tendants Friday at the time
of the coronation ceremon
ies. A large number of
Dawsonites arrived Thurs
day by plane.
I
"‘Honeymoon Air
Express” Arrives
Fairbanks S’nite
Nugget, Nome.
Fairbanks, March 6th—
Cupid arrived at the Carni
val last night in person via
the Mirrow Air Service
“Honeymoon Air Express”
Russell G. Maynard and
bride, the former Miss Phy
llis Turner, who were just
married at Nome yesterday
morning. Nome friends of
the couple here were com
pletely surprised at the fast
work of “Scoop”. They will
honeymoon at the Ice Car
nival then return to Nome.
It is reported here that
the wedding was a big
scoop on Nomeites.
Virginia Berg, aged 21, of
Palmer,was selected Queen
of Alaska.
Daily News-Miner
Street Foreman
Dead In Juneau
(By The Associated Press)
Juneau, March 3, — 01
!af Torkelsen, 46, street fore
man here for the past twel
ve years, died today follow
ing a stomach ailment.
He is survived by his
widow and three daughters,
all of Juneau.
Ickes Reply To
Prospector Army
For All Alaska
■
Nome, Alaska, March 5
The following commun
ication is copy of Secretary
of the Interior, Harold
Ickes reply to the proposed
“Prospecting Aimy” pub
lished in detail in the Nome
Daily Nugget last Friday,
Feb. 28th. The letter is ad
dressed to Professor Albert
Seaman of the department
of Geology and Geography,
j University of Washington,
' one of the men who were
| instrumental in presenting
i the plan to Washington, D.
C. Note the date 1933 and
the last paragraph should
be particularly interesting.
Mr. Albert L. Seeman,
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Mv dear Mr. Seeman:
Your letter of April 7
reached me in due course,
and the delay in writing
you has been caused by my
desire to give full consider
ation to your proposal to
have the Government or
ganize a prospecting unit
for Alaska. The staff of the
Geological Survey, famil
iar with physical and min
eral conditions in the Terri
tory, has carefully- studied
the program you outline,
but the conclusion reached
makes me hesitate to ap
prove a large-scale under
taking of this nature, as
much as I desire to encou
rage the development of
the Territory and contrib
ute to the relief of unem
ployment.
Some of the obstacles that
I consider as unsurmount
able may be stated briefly
as follows: (1) the remote
ness of Alaska, both as to
distance from the States
and between isolated sec
tions, which increases the
expense of transportation
of men and equipment. (2)
the geographic and other
physical conditions, which
involve great hazard to life
and a concomitant respon
sibility on the part of the
Government to provide for
the welfare of the men un
der rigorous and dangerous
circumstances; (3) the un
liklihood of securing miner
al production either present
or prospective in a favor
( Continued On Page Pour)
COMMUNIST PARTY URGES
MIDDLE CLASS UNITE INTO
THIRD PARTY SOLVE CRISIS
“Yankee Network" Refused To Relay
The Speech Made 0\ er CBS
Virginia Berg Of
Palmer Chosen
As Miss Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
Fairbanks, March 6th —
Virginia Berg, eighteen o
Palmer was chosen Mis:
Alaska at the annual three
day ice carnival.
Sigrid Seppala. daughter
of musher Leonard Seppala
was second. Mary Joyce of
Taku withdrew from the
race at the last minute af
ter flying here from Tan
ana Crossing.
The winner, Virginia
Berg, works in the govern
ment architects office. She
was born at Curry, Alaska,
and is a graduate of the An
chorage High School. She
is five feet seven inches tall,
has medium brown hair,
blue eyes and weighs one
hundred and thirty-five
pounds.
The dog derby field was
cut to fourteen with the
withdrawal of two entries.
Silas Gudrum of Circle City
mushed a hundred miles to
here to follow Seppala i^i
the race slated for today.
The town is colorful with
festive trappings.
Mary Joyce congratulat
ed the winner and said she
planned to return to Tan
ana and complete her mush.
She related seeing a herd
of buffalo near Big Delta
and four moose near Rich
ardson.
George Johnson, proprie
tor of a fox farm on Beard
sley Island, Glacier Bay,
near Juneau, pelted 150
blue foxes recently, shipp
ing to a fur house in Lon.
don. The skins sold last
year brought $17 each,, but
the prices are slightly high
er this year.
Save $2 by paying in ad
vance for your subscription
(By The Associated Press)
New York, March 6—In
a radio speech tonight by
Earl Browder, secretary of
the Communist Party in
America, urging farmers,
laborers and the “middle
class,, to unite into a Third
Party, aroused protests
p from many sources.
Twenty-five members of
, the National Americaniza
tion League were picketed
around the Columbia Broad
casting Company’s offices
during the address.
The “Yankee Network,”
composed of six radio sta
tions affiliated with C.B.S.
in New England, announc
ed that they wouldn’t relay
the speech.
Protest were also made
against it in the House of
Representatives and the
American Commonwealth
Federation issued a state
ment saying Browder’s ac
tion hinders a third party
movement instead of help
ing it.
Browder said that every
crisis in American history
required a new political
party to solve it. The rad
io time was granted free as
a part of the CBS polie
y in
sponsoring -discussion o‘‘
public problems by all poll
tical parties. CBS issued ;
statement saying they had.
forbidden Browder to ad
vocate the overthrow o
government by force or vie
lence.
Representative Hamilton
Fish of New York, a repub
lican,has been allotted time
to answer Browder Friday
night over CBS.
ATTENTION LADIES
Registration for the Lad
ies Races, to be held Sun
day under the auspices c
the Nome Kennel Clul?
closes Saturday night at
nine o’clock, at the Norm
Drug Store.
“Cappy” McDougal, Sectj.
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