THE NOME NUGGET
OEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
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Deer Chased on Ice By
Wolves Float Hundreds
Of Miles on Arctic Floe
More than 1,000 reindeer, chas
ed from their grazing ground on
to the ice of the Arctic ocean by
■wolves floated with some of the
predators on a huge floe, which
broke off from the shore, more
than 200 miles before they reach
■ed land again.
The floe with its great burden
of animals voyaged from Shish
maref to Kivalina on the north
west coast of Alaska.
Wolves are plentiful in that re
gion, report aviators, some of
whom have killed the animals
from aircraft.
“There may have been as
many as 2,000 deer chased on the
ice at Shishmaref, and all that
did not reach shore at Kivalina
were drowned, for as in all prob
ability the floe did not remain in
tact on its Jong voyage in the
rough waters of the Arctic,”
Maurice King, pilot for the Fer
guson Airways, which bases at
Kotzebue, 9aid upon his recent ar
rival at Fairbanks.
“On the mammoth cake of ice
that reached Kivalina natives
there saw six wolves and killed
four of them. Two of the maraud
«rs got ashore in safety. There
were many dead deer, which had
been killed on the floe.
The huge cake of ice reached
Kivalina about a week ago, and
it must have required at least
six days to traverse the distance
from Shishmaref. The floe start
ed from the Shishmaref neigh
borhood because all the deer
bore the brand of the Shishmar
ef herd.
“Shortly afterwards three nat
ives drifted on a floe from Kot
zebue to Kivalina, and they were
afloat three days. One of the nat
ites was Robert Galahorn.of Kot
zebue. The two others were from
Kivalina. They were hunting seal
on the frozen surface of the Arc
tic when the ice under them
broke off from shore.
'Kotzebue is about half way be
tween Shishmaref and Kivalina
so the journey of the deer took
twice as long as the trip of the
natives.
“Wolves are plentiful in the
northwest coast area. They lurk
around every herd of deer. The
deer are herded by natives, but
the herders have difficultp in giv
ing full protection to their charg
es. Some of the herds are com
prised of 2,000 or 3,000 animals,
spread out, feeding, over several
square miles. Wolves will attack
those parts of the herd distant
from the herders.”
Just recently, while flying
from Kotzebue to Fairbanks,
Aviator King killed a wolf not
far from Kotzebue.
“I often have killed wolves
from an airplane,” he explained.
“After seeing a wolf, I fly low,
about 30 feet over the animal,
and shot at him with a shotgun
loaded with buckshot.
“The wolf I killed recently,
I almost literally filled with lead.
I shot him 15 times, none of the
shots, except the last, striking
him in a vital spot.
“Wolves are smart. When I
first began shooting at the ani
mal I killed Wednesday, he tried
to run away from the plane. Af
ter he had been wounded a few
times, he lay down as if dead.
He played this possum trick
twice. I landed the plane twice,
and on those occassions when I
walked to within a close distance
of him he would jump up and
run from me. He knewr that he
! could outrun me but that he
\ could not outrun the plane. I fin
j ally killed him when one of the
: buckshot fired by me when the
! plane was in flight struck him
squarely on the head.”
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Congress Asked to Establish
Annual Sessions Alaska Legis.
Legislation for the two-fold
i purpose of changing the present
; biennial sessions of the Alaska
Territorial Legislature to annua]
. sessions, and to set the date for
convening the Legislature back,
from the second Monday in Jan
uary, to the fourth Monday in
January, was introduced in the
House on March 6 by Delegate
Dimond.
Enactment of the bill will pro
i vide for continuance of the pres
ent 60-day sessoin that is held
on each odd-numbered year as at
present, and will establish in ad
dition a 30-day session to be con
vened on the even-numbered
i years. The Delegate introduced
and is seeking passage of the
measure in line with requests
made in two House joint mem
orials approved by the Alaska
Territorial Legislature during
FAIRBANKS TO WED SOCIALITE
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., screen player, and Mary Lee Epling Hart
ford, New York and Palm Beach socialite, are shown in Hollywood
when they announced they would be married there within a week.
The couple said they met at a Hollywood party a year and a half
ago. Both have been married before.
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i the session recently adjourned.
Reasons for the proposed leg
islation, as given in the memor
ials. show that because of advanc
es in development of natural re
sources and conditions affecting
such development and problems
arising from the conservation of
natural resources, and because of
the need for a more active asso
ciation between the Federal Gov
ernment and the Territorial Gov
ernment, the 30-day session in
the even-numbered years will be
of much value to the Territory.
Request was made for setting
the date of convening each ses
son back to the fourth Monday
in January because the addtion
al two weeks thus provided will
be of much value to Territorial
offices, whose records and ac
counts are closed as of December
: 31 each year, in preparing their
i reports for the Legislature. The
I'iater date is also sought because,
as pointed out in the memorial,
many of the members of the Leg
islature are business men who
i fird it difficult to properly close
their personal business accounts
following the end of the calen
dar year and arrive in Juneau
before the second Monday in Jan
i'uary as is now necessary.
MAY 1939
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A C I N C gracefully. Queen
Mother Mary of England ac
knowledges the cheers of Britons
in this recent photo. She is 72.
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lished for the benefit of those
; desiring direct personal contact
with friends or business associate
! es in outlying localities by means
j of radiophone.
Radiophone conversation rate
j bet ween signal corps stations or
between a signal corps station
and a commercial station for
three (3) minutes or less is three
times the minimum message rate;
for each additional minute or frac
1 tion add one third of the initial
rate.
For example—the day rate
from Nome to Kotzebue is 50c;
a three minute conversation to
Kotzebue would cost three times
the day rate or $1.50 and each
additional minute or fraction
thereof would cost 50<*. (Federal
tax of 5% is charged on all total
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Anyone desiring radiophone
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quest for such service to the op
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tion.
For most satisfactory contacts
requests for radiophone conver
sation should be made sufficient
ly in advance to allow arrange
ments to be made for the special
schedule during normal office
hours.
The following is a list of ra
diophone stations with whom
the Nome radio station is in daily
I contact.
Station Day Rate
Teller . $1.00
Elm . .50
Selawik . 1.00
Savoonga . 50
Ungalik . 1.00
[Anchorage . 1.50
Kotzebue .50
Pilgrim Springs 1.00
C die .. 1.50
Gambell . .50
St. Michael . 1.50
Unalakleet .50
Fairbanks .. .70
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Lyons & Orton
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Indicative of the force of tornadoes which ripped into four south
ern states and killed at least 4’ persons is this picture of 2x4, driven
through a steel water tank at Pipe Creek, Tex. The water tank
was constructed of steel a quarter of an inch thick. More than 170
persons were injured and property damage an into millions.
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