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VOL. 41. No. 85. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1939 Price per copy 154
Nazi Army Trucks Enter Danzing
' Army Engineers Arrive And Depart From Nome
Attempting 6 Hour Flight Seattle to Anchorage
> Flying From Seat
tle to Anchorage
In Six Hours
SEATTLE, July 17 (/P> — Ken
neth Neese, Aaskan flier, left Boe
ing Field at 7:11 a.m. on a pro
jected six hour flight to Anchor
* age in a new plane bought from
the Los Angeles Commercial Ser
vice.
He is accompanied by Mrs.
Neese, his daughter Betty, aged
12, and his wife’s sister, Mrs. Dor
othy Hummerstein of Santa Ana,
California.
They flew north from Los An
geles yesterday in 6 hours 35
minutes with a cargo including
corn on the cob, celery. Persian
melons, and green beans.
Anchorage is to welcome Neese
with a special air show. All
planes will fly in formation while
the Neeses in their new machine,
a Beechcraft will fly in circles
about them.
( JUNEAU, July 17 UP) — The
Neeses landed here at 3.30 today
and after gassing up resumed
their flight. They expect to
reach Anchorage tonight. They
made one stop, at Prince George,
while en route.
Pioneer Dies
MIAMI BEACH, July 15 UP)—
Carl G. Fisher, aged 65, pioneer
developer of Miami Beach and
one of the original promoters of
the Indianapolis Speedway, died
here. He also became an auto
mobile race driver when he organ
ized the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway as the American prov
! ing ground.
Mysterious Nazi
Military Trucks
Enter Danzig
DANZIG. July 17 (JP) — Forty
military supply trucks from East
(Prussia entered Danzig tonight
dispersing with unknown destin
ations and with contents un
known.
Their arrival coincides with
the return from Germany of
Albert Forster, Nazi district lead
er who hurr.ed to his residence
without commenting on the re
ports that he received from Hit
ler a definite plan for the an
nexation to Germany.
Soviet Planes
Bombing Raids
SHINNING, Manchoukuo, July
17 <P)—Eight Soviet war planes
attacked the railway center of
Halunarshan, the fourth such a
raid within a week.
The invading planes dropped
several dozen bombs, destroying
four railway cars and the post
office building, wounding four
persons. Halunarshan is in north
western Manchoukuo, about 125
miles from the outer Mongolian
border.
Mine Disaster
PROVIDENCE, Ny„ July 17
(P) —The bodies of nine men
were found deep in the Duvne
coal mine by a rescue crew, rais
ing to 28 the death toll from the
explosion Friday night. The
bodies of other victims were
found Saturday.
Polar Explorer
Voices Need For
Alaska Defense
WASHINGTON, July 15 OP) —
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic ex
plorer said the United States
should strengthen its defenses in
the far north. He said: “It is very
important that we hasten the de
velopment of Alaska in case of
an attack on the United States.
Alaska will be of vital import
ance as a base for counter-attack.
Secretary Seward knew it in ’67
when we bought Alaska. He said
it would dominate the Pacific but
apparently we’ve forgotten."
Stefansson is here conferring
with government officials on Al
aska problems.
Eng. Conscripts
34.000 Youths in
First Draft
LONDON. July 15 (IP) — 34
thousand militiamen, handled as
carefully as boys making their
first trip to summer camps, re
ported for service in the first
peace-time conscription in Brit
ain in modern history.
Some came to camp in lim
ousines and more on bicycles.
All are aged 21, and represent
the first group of more than
260.000 men who will learn to
shouder arms by the end of the
year. They were hailed as Brit
ain’s insurance against war.
Queen Mother Mary inspected
the first arrivals.
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Army Planes
Arrive Sunday
Depart Today
Two army amphibian planes,
R-10 and R-71, under command
of Colonel John C H. Lee of the
Engineering Corps arrived Nome
about 2:00 p.m. Sunday from
| Bethel, on the Kuskokwim River.
The planes were met at the air
port by a large number of auto
mobiles, and the fifteen men
aboard brought to town. Early
plans called for a return to Fair
banks late Sunday, but changes
were made and the officers de
cided to remain over at Nome,
carrying out various survey
works.
On the flight with Col. Lee on
leaving Seattle were Major P. M.
Connell, crack Mitchell Field pi
lot who piloted the two Colonel
Johnsons of the Department of
War and Commerce to Alaska
last year, Lt. H. L. Smith, met
eorologist ; Capt. W. A. Merrick,
navigator, who was also aboard
the Col. Johnson plane; Cadet
John Lee. Jr., son of Col. Lee,
who is on furlough from West
Point Academy and serving as
recorder; Crew Chief Sergent W.
Lispcomb, and Private John W.
Fox, radio operator.
Aboard the second plane was
Commanding Officer Major New
ton Longfellow, from Hamilton
Field, San Francisco; Major Dale
Gaffney, Major E. M. George,
Capt. C. W. Gibson, photograpli
ic survey officer and Lt. T. T.
Handy. Also 2nd Lt. Allan Horn
ing. Staff Sergeant Alford, Ser
geant Mitson and Corporal
Krause.
One ship is from the East
Coast and the other ship is from
Hamilton field, the only Army
amphibian on the Pacific Coast.
The flight from Ketchikan to
Seattle was made in approximat
ely four hours, and the flight
from Ketchikan to Juneau in
about two hours.
The itinerary of the Army En
gineeers’ flight included survey
of War Department work, prin
cipally in harbor work and flood
control projects at Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Wrangell Narrows, Ju
neau small boat harbor and Gas
tineau Channel project, Sii'tka
harbor work, Valdez boat harbor
Seward flood control work on
Lowell Creek, Kodiak harbor im
provement, Unalaska harbor
work at Iliuluk, Bethel flood lon
trol work at request of Governor
Troy; Nome jetty project and
Fairbanks flood control and air
base survey.
The planes have already com
pleted flights from Anchorage to
the westward along the Aleut
ian Islands, Bristol Bay, into Fair
banks, and a tour down the Kus
kokwim River to Bethel and into
Nome.
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MUSIC SHE CANNOT HEAR dominates the life of
pretty Margaret Masselli, 17, who’s the drum major of a 180-piece
band and drum corps of Roosevelt high school in San Jose, CaL
Born a deaf mute and still unable to hear, she has developed a
sense of sound perception through which she memorizes the melo*
dies hv vibrations She is gradually learning to speak.
Alaska Minerals
Last Year W orth
Over 28 Million
1 WASHINGTON. July 16 (JP) —
Alaska produced $28,607,000
j worth of minerals last year,
bringing its total metal produc
tion since 1880 to $7,707,818,000,
or more than 100 times the
, $7,200,000 the United States paid
| Russia for the rich territory.
The 1038 total was one million
six hundred and eighteen thou
sand dollars more than that pro
duced in 1937.
Platinum production was
more than 88 percent of the to
tal production of that metal in
all preceding years. The figures
were reported by the geological
survey of the Interior Depart
ment.
Major George
Made Q M For
Army Const rution
j
FAIRBANKS, July 14 </P) —
Major E. M. George, of the Unit
ed States Quartermaster staff at
Washington said he received
word of his appointment as con
struction quartermaster for the
army air construction works in
Alaska.
He will have charge of install
ing the experimental army air sta
tion here, surveys for which, are
to begin next month.
Major George came here with
the party now touring Alaska
under Colonel John C. H. Lee.
He will return to Washington
with the party after a survey
trip to Bethel and Nome, expect
ing to return here in August.
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONER*
At Nugget Office
Foreign Policy
UNDATED, Juiy 17 (TP) —Brit
ain and France, ' coordinating
their military forces against the
eventuality of a European war,
extended their army stdiT talks
to their two allies, Poland and
Turkey.
The new inspector general of
British overseas forces, Major
General Sir Edmunds Ironside,
left London for Warsaw for dis
cussions with Polish authorities.
French staff officers arranged;
talks with Turkish military ex
perts at Ankara for defense plans
under the French-Turkish pact..
At the same time Secretary of
War Hore Belisha and a number
of high British officers started a
tour of anti-aircraft defenses in
northeast Engand in preparation
for a mock raid by a hundred
French planes, probably tomor
row. Air defenses were manned
in numerous sectors.
While Britain looked to its
home defenses, informed Tokyo
sources are unanimous in pre
dicting the failure cf the British
and Japanese conferences on far
eastern questions which embit
tered the relations between the
two powers. Talks scheduled for
today were postponed until Wed
nesday to permit London time to
reply to reports sent by British
Ambassador Craigie on the first
session Saturday.
Premier Chamberlain told the
House of Commons that Britain
“would not and could not” re
verse her foreign policy in the
far East at “the demand of an
other power.” The statement re
ferred to reports that Japan
made such demands a condition
at the opening of formal nego
tiations concerning the Japanese
blockade of the British conces
sion at Tientsin.
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