VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 108
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12. 1936.
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AT 4 O'CLOCK: NOME IS DEST1TI1
ONE HUNDRED MEN AT NOME TO ASSIST LOW
ERINC AIR LINER TO FIELD—NORGE WILL BE
DEFL TED AFTER ARRIVAL AND SHIPPED TO
SEAT LE AS SO MUCH FREIGHT.
NI YORK, May 12. (AP).—The dirigible Norge
is en r to Nome today, which is the 45th birthday of
Lined worth, partner of Amundsen. The Norge left
Spitzb 1 at orie o’clock yesterday morning, Pacific
Coast and sailed over the Pole at 4 o’clock in the af
ternoo- acific Coast Time. News reached the New York
Times l the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, in the first ra
dio messa 3 ever received from the Pole.
Lieut. Byrd saw the Norge off, but remained at
Kings Bay to prepare, in the words of Lieut. Alton Park
r er, a member of Byrd’s party, “to investigate every foot
of real estate near the pole for Uncle Sam/’
Twenty-five men have now seen the Pole: six from
the Peary expedition; Lieut. Byrd and Pilot Bennett and
the eighteen men on the dirigible Norge.
The Norge traveled approximately 50 miles an hour,
and expected at this speed, to reach Point Barrow at 7
o’clock tonight, Pacific Coast time. The Norge is 348 feet
long; is inflated with 18,000 cubic meters of hydrogen; its
speed is 62 miles an hour, and has a metal keel. The Norge
is called “the blimp with a backbone.” On the keel which
runs from stem to stern is an 18-inch runway called the
cat walk. The control cabin is under the keel just forward
of midships ;it has three motors and is steered by a wheel
like other ships; sun compasses like Byrd’s are in the con
trol cabin, and are used to check against the magnetic
compasses which are apt to be misleading near the mag
netic Pole- The Norge is equipped with sleds and tents
and other essentials for lighting on ice. It carried the
Italian flag at the stern besides that of Norway. Amund
sen’s nephew is one of the navy helmsman on the Norge.
NOME, May 12. (AP).—Ralph Lomen, Norwegian
vice consul received a telegram from Amundsen asking
him to. have a hundred men ready to lower the Norge.
Amundsen said he would keep Nome advised by radio as
to the time of his arrival. A four-anchorage, known as
dead men, to which a circular cable is attached, has been
placed around the landing field to hold the dirigible.
Amundsen said he would deflate the Norge here and
ship it to the States by boat.
The New York Times and St. Louis Globe-Democrat
announced last night a massage from the Norge said:
“Making steady progress.” The voyage is expected to
take 56 hours. She will proceed to Nome, via Point Bar
row. The ship was ready to sail at one o’clock Norwe
gian time, but local wind squalls delayed her until ten.
BREMERTON, Wn, May 12. ((£>)— I
Rear Admiral Chase, commandant of
the Puget Sound navy yard, received
a message from the Bureau of Opera
tion at Washington in which it was
stated the Norwegian ministry re
quested all naval vessels in Northern
waters to stand by to aid Amundsen.
The message from President Coolidge
transmitted thru here, wished Ells
worth good luck.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12. (£>)
—Weather reports indicated fair
weather continued with light wind
along the course of the Norge. Some
cloudiness is expected near Barrow,
but no storms or high winds are indi
cated.
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Don’t overlook the Liberty The
ater for tonight.
KETCHIKAN BAKES KILLS
SELF WITH SHOT ESN
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KETCHIKAN, May 12. (&)—Gus
Morgan, proprietor of a bakery here,
suicided as a result of despondency
over business. He placed a shotgun
muzzle in his mouth and pulled the
trigger with both hands. He is sur
vived by a wife and four children. He
came to Alaska 14 ysars ago after
working in coast cities.
WATER SHUT OFF NOTICE
Water will be shut off tomorrow af
ternoon at 3 o’clock for a few min
utes on Broadway between Adams
and Jefferson streets, and including
the federal building.
New America nWing
%>bert W. de forest m ^
NEW YORE (Special):—A new
American Wine to the Metropob
t&c Museum of Art, tontaming
some cf the greatest collection* of
early American art anc architec
ture in the world, has iust oeen
presented te the museum by its
President, Hon. Eobe- W. de
Forest, and Mrs. de F -est. The
winp contains fifteen So »ms wtncfc
are replicas of ebaraefce: «*»c rooms
from the time of the PStarims on
ward. They have bee® installed
with the identical woodwork, walla,
ceilings, window casings, and even
old bricks taken from the origins,
rooms. Each of the rooms »
furnished as in older time, anc
the visitor will he able tc walk
right through them, for the du*
pl:. 3 are not set in glass cases.
There are wonderful exhibits of
early American architecture, fur
niture. fireplaces, silver, class,
pottery, textiles, as weL as Paint
ings in appropriate settings.
METAL DIRIGIBLE9EK
CONSTHUCTED III CtLIF.
TO FLY DlflECT TO Bll
LOS ANGELES. Ma 12, <*»».—
Thomas B. Slade, an Ae o Engineer
has signed a contract to on struct an
all metal dirigible capable of flying to
the North Pole and return •without a
| stop. The ship will be "eady -within
four months, men and machinery are
arriving on the ground to start -work
at once. The craft 'wifi be 220 fee;
long, 70 feet wide and will carry £
crew of 20 men.
GAWE WARDEN RECOVERING
Claude Denny, former game warder
in the Fairbanks district, "who has
been in a Seattle hospital for many
months past, is recover ng fast, Sat
urday arrivals in Seward report, anc
j he expects to leave soon for the
| north. He is well known in Seward.
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ERECTING BRIDGE. MONTANA
McGill’s gang is now at work a;
Montana creek, recent Seward arrlv
als report, where they are at construe
ting the big bridge at Mile 211. The
erection of this bridge is said to be the
largest project to be csrrec out by
the Alaska Railroad this summer.
TODAY’S FISH PRICES
Ketchikan prices weTe Quoted to
day on halibut as 15 and 5 cents; sa:
mon was Quoted at IS, 14 and € cents
COSTAE FH10RME DISCOi'tPT Of
PUNS ESTABLISHMENT DICTATORSHIP
HOMES RAIDED REVEAL DOCUMENTS BEEN EX
CHANGED RETWTX KAISER AND BAVARIAN RE
ACTIONARIES—SAID IN EFFECT PARLIAMEN
TARY SYSTEM HAD BROKEN DOWN
BERLIN. May 11 (AP).—Chancellor Luther's cahi
net resigned from the Reichstag which has ;us: voted 176
to 146 to adopt a no confidence motion introduced by the
democrats, against the Luther police, who. it was an
nounced disclosed the discovery of plans for the estab
lishment of a German Fascist dictatorship. with the view
of the ^^restoration of the HohenzoUem Empire/'
The police today seized documents containing plans
calling for a forcible resignation of President von Hin
der burg; the overthrow of the Federal and State con
stitutions by armed force, if necessary: the dissolution
of all parliaments: the execution, without trial of all
strikers and other opponents, and the expulsion of all
Jews from Germany with the confiscation of their prop
erty*.
j - Tiie documents revea ec the nngieaaers of the con
spiracy maintained a steady corresxvnderce with the for
mer Kaiser and with Bararian reactionaries like Adolph
Hitler. One seized letter. addresser, to the Kaiser said:
“Your faithful followers are OBmrnng in their deter
mination to reenact in renewed splendor the Hohenzot
lem Empire in a regenerated and liberated Germany."
The Raiser rewarded the writer of the letter with an au
tographed photograph of himself, containing closing
praise and his plans.
Homes of police were mi ded. indadfd those of Ad
miral von Sdrader, Ma;or Hans vor. C^sensrem. editor
of the Fascist Deutsche Zeitimg; Doctor Heinrick Class*
chairman of the I kan-American League. A letter found
in the Class home was addressed to Major vor H nden
burg. son of the President of Germany, and said the 'par
liamentary si’stem had broker. do wn and that dictator
ship was Germany's only salvation.
' The police said the execution of the plot was held
back for an opportune moment. such as the present cabi
net crisis, which created or threatened the confiscation of
the property of Germany's former rulers.
Luther's defeat came after the Socialists rejected a
similar motion by a vote 17S to 144 that the democrats'
motion be bracketed. The rebuke of the Chancellor met
with the approval of President von Hindenburc in the
course of the controversy, which was precipitated with
the Chancellor's decree that the Merchant flag, consist
ing of the old Monarchist colors be fk>wn side by side
n the ftfrifioa flag <m Omni kt—and oon
sulates. The President suggested a new national banner
in which the colors of the old and new flags be retained
80E1 SHE I EM CALLED OFF IT
LOX.OX, Mar 12 (AP).—Leaders of the Trades
Union Congress visited Premier Baldwin and his caVi
ne: ministers and announced the *?ener&l strike v-a$ over.
Chairman Arthur Pugh said the action taken will enable
resumption of negotiations t» settle the miner?' criev
ances which negotiations the ptmamt declared v^yiid
not be resumed while the general strike lasted The
Tracks Union Congress in telegrams sent thruout the
country announced the strike was ever. Individual un
ions before acting sms: await definite instructions from
the Executive Councils of the Trades Union Congress.
The instructions are expected to have a cuick effect and
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