Radio-Beam
Equipment For
Nome Airport
Chief Aeronautics Inspector foT
Alaska I. K. McWillians, accom
panied by G. S. McLean arrived
Nome in a government plane Sat
urday morning, for the purpose
of making a preliminary survey
toward the establishing of radio
beam equipment for the Nome
airport.
Mr. McLean, civil engineer for
the Civil Aeronautics Authority
handles the setting up of radio
beam equipment. Inspector Mc
Williams in an interview ex
plained that the Federal govern
ment expects in the near future
to set up such a system of flight
control at Nome.
The most modern equipment
will be utilized, he said. The in
stallation of such equipment on
■the Nome airport, will be one!
more step forward in the devel
opment of aviation in Alaska.
Similar equipment will be in-]
stalled at Fairbanks, Anchorage, |
Juneau, and other key cities in j
the territory, he declared. Date;
when the equipment will be in
stalled is as yet unknown.
Such equipment at Nome will
make it possible for airplanes fly
• ng into Nome to ride the radio
beam in fouil weather when vis
ibility and weather conditions are
adverse. In the States the dev
! eloprnent of radio-beam flying
j has been rap d, and in vogue
now for some time past, making
it passible for huge airliners to
fly across the continent stopping
at cities and airports on regular
schedule with the greatest de
gree of safety possible.
With the installation of such
type of flying in Alaska, airfield
management and development
will assume a new role. The terri
torial Aeronautics Commission
now maintains special weather
service by radio for planes in
(light, and with the inauguration
of beam flying the ultimate in
aviation safety willl be here. The
federal men expect to leave as
soon as weather permits, for Fair
banks.
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Child's Crib, Radio, Dishes,
Coleman Gas Plate, 5 ft. Skiis,
Water Pump, etc.
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THERE WEREN’T ANY BLUES along Beale street
In Memphis when spring weather brought out a display of new
finery and started young and old residents on a fashion parade
down the street famed in song. More than usually serious in their
new outfits are Willis and Bettyjene Brazzcll, who regarded the
wearing of a new suit and dress as a grave responsibility.
WHEN DUTY CALLS England’s soldiers to assignments
away from home, their wives and children often follow them.
Here’s Gordon Forward, 16-months old, getting busy with a broom
v on the troopship Nevassa as she left Southampton for Malta.
Army Buys
150 “World’s
Best Bomber”
WASHINGTON, May 20 UP) —
The army placed a fifteen mil
lion dollar order for a new model
attack bomber, described as the
world’s best. They will be built
by the Douglass Aircraft Com
pany at Santa Monica, California.!
More than a hundred fifty of
the planes will be constructed.
Major General Henry H. Ar
nold Air Corps chief said the
plane had a better performance
than any comparative airplane in
production or service anywhere!
in the world today. The plane
will be an all-metal monoplane
with speed in excess of 350 miles
per hour.
Dredged Hauled to
| California Creek
| Distance 50 Miles
The work of hauling the Slack
and Mahan dredge from the east
| end of Nome, over the snow to its
: new locaton on California Creek,
ja distance of 50 miles, was com
! pletcd a few days ago and the
! "cats” and co’ws returned to
j Nome Saturday.
Six “cats” were employed in
(the hauling job, over the tundra,
up and down ravines and even
up and down divides. One of the
longest hauls without stopping
j was about 20 miles. In many
places the staked trail was found
to have as much as from four to
six feet of new snow, and this
was one of the biggest problems
found in the moving, due to the
extreme weather which contin
ued for months and days this
spring.
The dredge itself weighed ap
proximately 50 tons, after much
of the machinery had been dis
mantled and hauled separately,
previous to moving the dredge.
Everything is now ready at Cal
iforna Creek, the dredge is ready
for recalking and the task of re
assembling the machinery, buck
| etline and other equipment will
proceed immediately. Some new
machinery is expected to arrive j
ion 1 of the 1st boats and no time
will be lost in transporting it to
California Creek to be installed,
and the dredge placed in opera
tion.
The dredge is equipped with
11!* cubic foot close connected
buckets and is estimated to be
able to handle about 800 yards
per day. The pay dirt is in shal
low diggings and the small
dredge will have no difficulty in
its digging operations. Samples
of gold pannings on a four foot
face shew a well defined pay
streak with good averages, the
gold being dark and flakey with
large pieces of nuggety gold in
eluded.
California creek is at the head
of Topkok River, about four mil
es inland from the ocean and
about seven miles west of Bluff,
the famous gold camp of Joe
Sullivan and others.
Mr. Mahan and crew will pro
ceed shortly to the scene of the |
new camp to carry on the work
of completing the installation of
the machinery. Mr. Slack will re
main in Nome to attend to the
spring rush of business in his
machine shop and care for the
wants of this and other commun
ities. Mr. Slack states that thru
the combined operation of the
crew and drivers of the “cats”
it was possible to successfully
complete this unusual transport
ation problem, which was aocom
pllished under the most unfavor-;
able winter conditions existing,
here for many years.
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That unique and humorous,
and typical Alaskan stationery—
“Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes”, have been
brought strictly uptodate, and are
now available at the Nugget ofB- j
ce.
More Jobs for Alaskans
IT'S A FACT that the Canned Salmon Industry provides more jobs for
Alaskans during the fishing season than any other industry does. It’s also
a faet that the packers hang out the "Help Wanted"' sign at other times
of the year. Each fall and spring, hundreds of men are employed in the
maintenance oi canneries and other equipment; furnishing construction
and box shook materials, wire netting, supplies the Industry needs to
operate. That's why good times for the Salmon Industry mean good times
throughout Alaska.
BUSINESSMEN TALK SHOP and Joseph Campo (left) lias a stake in newspaper work,
for lie's mayor of Boston's “newsboyville.” He's shown as he met Robert McLean (centir), president
of the Associated Press, in observance of Massachusetts' “newsboy wet k." McLean was Kiiest at tnfcet
In*’ of New Eiu-Uud \P members whose eho>rman i« John A. O'Hearn (rieht) of Lawrence.
| MODEL PLANE LIVES UP TO ITS NAME, giving a model performance at Essen* 1
don. Australia. It’s capable of rising 2,000 feet and can cruise for 5 to 10 minutes before landing.