NORTH TRIP IS
PLANNED BY WILKINS
Sir Hubert Wilkins. Arctic and
Antarctic explorer, who on two
<rf his Arctic expeditions, was in
Fairbanks, has arrived in New'
York with plans for a submarine
voyage of 2.200 miles from Spits
bergen, Norway, through the
Northwest Passage to a point in
the Bering Sea off Alaska, accord
ing to mail advices received in
Fairbanks.
The purpose of the expedition
would be to study weather condi
tions. Wilkins says he has appli
cations from about 5,000 per
sons, 800 of them women, seek
ing to accompany him.
As yet he has no submarine.
The explorer plans to arrange
for construction of the submar
ine in the United States this sum
mer and to undertake h:s voyage
next year.
Unsettled conditions generally
in Europe, and the Squalus and
Thetis submarine disasters, part
icularly, caused three shipbuild
ing concerns, in England to can
cel negotiations for construction
of an underwater craft for W.l
kins. Having exhausted the pos
sibilities of shipyards in Europe,
Wilkins has come to the United
States to get the kind of vessel
he wants.
Wilkins recently accompanied
Lincoln Ellsworth on steamship
Wyatt Earp on an Antarctic ex
pedition to Princess Elizabeth
Land.
The first time Wilkins was in
Fairbanks, he failed to make a
flight from Alaska to Spitsberg
en over Polar seas. The next time
which was in the spring of 1928,
he made the crossing from Bar
row to Spitsbergen, reaching on
the flight as far north as 84 de
grees.
In the winter of 1937-38, Wil
kins flew as far north as 88 de
grees, in his search for the lost
Russian fliers.
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Former Students of F. of A.
Married At Palmer Recently
Roland Snodgrass and Alice
Mikami, both of Palmer and well
known in Anchorage were mar
ried recently. They are honey
mooning at their home in Palm
er reports the Anchorage Times.
Vivian Stoddard and Bob Laurie
attended the couple at a quiet
ceremony. The bride is the dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. George Mi
j kami of Anchorage. She is a
graduate of the Anchorage high
school and has many friends.
She is also a graduate of the
; University of Alaska.
Mr. Snodgrass also graduated
from the Anchorage high school
; and the University of Alaska and
attended the Cornell graduate
j school.
Mr. and Mrs. Snodgrass have
been employed by the Alaska
rural Rehabilitation Corporation
at Palmer and he recently be
came field man for the Farmers
Cooperating Association. Mrs.
Snodgrass has been employed at
Palmer since the colony started.
V. Richmond Is In
Bethel Flood Area
Volney Richmond, Jr., vice
president of the Northern Com
mercial Company with headquar
ters in Seattle, is at Bethel
where tidal waters in the Kus
kokwim river is endangering the
stream's bank along which the
business district of the commun
ity is located.
Merchants are moving stocks
of goods to higher ground.
Mr. Richmond has been mak
ng business visits to Northern
Commercial posts in the lower
Yukon and Kuskokwim coun
tries. -
He is expected to return to Fair
banks before going back to the
States.
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| IT WAS A HAPPY LANDING for everyone but the
i fish when two “compleat angl*r-s“ joined forces getting this 40
| pound channel bass into a boat off Ocracoke Island, N. C. Channel (
^ I bass annually lure thousands to North Carolina waters. i
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SEALED BIDS will be receiv
ed until 5 o’clock p.m. July 26th,
1939. at the office of the City
| Clerk, Nome. Alaska, and then
publicly opened, for furnishing
| all work and materials for the
' erection of the addition to the
NOME SCHOOL BUILDING in
; strict accordance with the plans
; and specifications as prepared by
A. B Shallit of the Territorial
Department of Mines, Nome. Al
I aska.
| Each bid must be accompanied
by a certified check for five (5%)
percent of the amount bid, pay
able to the City of Nome.
1 The right is reserved to reject
any and all bids.
Bv: City Council of Nome, Alaska
I Acting for: Anthony E. Karnes
Commissioner of Education.
Publish July 17, 19. 21, 1939.
FOR SALE
A brand new Frisco Standard,
10 h.p. heavy duty, marine en
gine. Inquire St, Joseph's Cath
olic Church.
FRATERNAL ORDERS
I O. O. F.
NOME LODGE NO. A-5
Meets second and fourth
Friday of each month 8 p.m.
Odd Fellows Building
L. O. O. M.
No. 1413
Meets *h:rd Monday
of each month
Odd Fellows Hall, 8 p. m.
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Lyons & Orton
Attorneys At Law
Rooms 918-921 Alaska Building
Seattle, Washington
Thos. R. Lyons Ira D. Ortor
“CHAS. CAVEY
Has Opened A Liquor Start
Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors, Win
es, and Beers.
FRONT ST. NOME
Pioneer Water Co.
Water Delivery During Summer
Months — Tuesdays and Fridays.
Hauling Gravel, Oil, Etc.
ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE
NELSON and BULLOCK
Phone Black 44
U & I DANCE U & 1
The U & I Dance Hall and Cafe
is run for the better class of
Eskimo trade but Whites are
welcome to attend—Open every
night 7 p.m. to 3 a.m.
NO DRUNKS ALLOWED
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THE MEN ON THE MOUNTAI N—On the lofty brow of South Dakota's 6.200-foot Mount ;
Rushmnre, a fourth face, that of President Theodore Roosevelt, has made its appearance, joining those
of Washington, Jefferson (second from left) and Lincoln (right). The faces are being carved in the }
granite by Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who started monument in August, 1927.
MASS ’FLIGHT INTO THE SUNSE T—Some Idea of the siae of tbo navy a patrol boabere la trained from view of one of }
1 Ultra, taken at San Diego before the reoent nonstop mass flight of 15 sock planes to Pearl Harbor, the nation's Pacific "Gibraltar. j
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