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Subscribe For The Nome Nu^et Now
DUE TO THE TREMENDOUS DEMANDS
of the
I National Defense Program
Deliveries of equipment and supplies for
commercial use are increasingly uncertain. Price
advances appear inevitable.
It is just GOOD BUSINESS PROTECTION
to place orders NOW for your 1941 season re
quirements.
Full descriptive information and prices now
available.
LUMEN CUMMERCIAL CU
Alaska 1 lier
Is Killed
In Crash
BIG BOMBER DIVES INTO
NEVADA MOUNTAIN
BULLETIN — Lovelock, Nev.
Feb. fi — All eight men in the
Army borr.brr were ki led when
the b:g plane crashed into th
mountain.
The plane was commanded by
Capt. Richard S. Freeman, of
Ladd F eld, Fairbanks, Alaska.
A CCC party has found the
wreckage strewn along the slope.
LOVELOCK. Nevada, Feb. 6—
A big Army plane crash.d into
the side of the ragged Tops Moun
tain near here this afternoon and
Army officials feared it is a four
motored experimental bomber
carrying two officers and a crew
of six.
A Sacram nto-Denver Rail
road section worker saw the
plane strike the mountain side
with a tremendous crash and
clouds of iblack smoke quickly
billowed to the sky.
The section worker ran to a
telephone and no tiff d the author
ities.
The bomber is said to have
been in charge of Capt. R. S.
Freeman, listed in the latest
Army Register as commanding
officer at Ladd Fi d, Fairbanks,
Alaska.
FOUR PLANES DAMAGED
AS GALE BLOWS
A viscious 56 mile an hour
wind whirled up Gastineau Chan
nel the other night swelling to
a gale at the Pan American air
port to demolish the hangar and
three training planes b longing
to the Alaska School of Aero
nautics and to snap the port
wing cable anchoring the PAA
Douglas airliner during an 80
mile gust that tipped’ the giant
plane on its left wing, moved it
eight feet and damaged one wing
The miniature hurricane ripped
| the roof from the training school
| hanger adjacent to the PAA air
I port and dropped its rafters on
| the three single motor:d ships
hangared there. In the morning
J only one wall of the hangar was
' left standing and the three train
; ing planes were buried and mash
d together under heavy beams
and rafters.
Pilot Instructor Clarence Wal
ters of the aviation school esti
! mate damage done to planes and
hangar at $7,500 and said all des
truction was completely covered
by insurance. He said that it was
: possible to salva^a- alL of the
planes but that tremendous dam
age had been done. The hangar
was of the open front type which
caught and pocketed the wind.
Two PAA Electras which were
at the airport during the 80 mile
an hour gusts were unharmed in
the gale because of smaller wing
spread and less attack area pre
sent: d to the wind.
Sections of the corrugated iron
roof of the training school han
I gar were scattered for blocks,
around and one section of the
roof, beams and bracing intact,
was carried over 300 feet away.
Pan American officials in Jun
eau were awaiting for a wire
from their Seattle office sending
instructions.
1 Juneauwind velocity was re
j ported by the Weather Bureau as
156 miles per hour at 5:25 a.m.
j and was highest during the hour
between five and six a.m., being
| caused by a low pressure area in
| the extreme southern portion of
| the Gulf of Alaska.
Temperature conditions were
I unusually high during the gale,
being 55.1 hegrees, the highest
j ever recorded in February with
{one exception, in 1928 when the
thermometer went to 57.
LOT FOR SALE
Bids for purchase of Moose lot
on Front Street will be accepted
up to 5 p.m. February 17, 1941.
We reserve the right to reject
any or all bids. For full informa
tion see Julius Patterson.
Funeral services for John W.
Horen will be held at the Feder
ated Church Wed. Feb. 12, 2 p.m.
Attendance appreciated.
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NEWS ITEMS
The PAA mail plane piloted by
jlf rm -Joslyn arrived and d part
! t d Nemo today. No passenger"
J were carried.
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Just before going to press to
day word was received from the
] hospital of the death of Mrs.
Anna Feymey r, at 4:30 this af
ternoon.
Chamber of Commerce
Entertains Army Air
Corps Officials.
The B-17 Army Air Corps Fly
ing Fortress arrived sin Nome
this morning from Fairbanks, in l
command of Major Dale Gaffney,
commanding officer at Ladd Field
who was assist.d on the flight
by Major H. R. Carr, Captain J.
R. Copenhaver, Lt. A. D. Rager,
and Lt. Jack Marks. Mr. O. K.
Anderson, in charge of the Wea
ther Bureau Station at Fair
banks was a round trip passen
ger and made contact with the
Weather Bureau Office during
th brief stay here.
The Army Air Corps officials!
were entertained at luncheon to-;
day by the Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce at the
North Po e Bakery. Major Gaff
ney, in behalf of his p rsonnel,
expressed appreciation for the
luncheon and said that it was
the r intention to make mors fre
quent trips to Nome with longer
. t povers as soon as general wea
th r conditions become milder,
duo to difficulty in warming up
the big four-motored ship.
On the return flight to Fair
ly nk Bud Slack was taken as a
pas erger aboard the bomber.
Young Slack was one of the first
to take advantage of thp call for
operators and after having be:n
enl sted this morning will be at
tached to the Signal Corps Sta
tion in Fairbanks.
Six hundred pounds of Eskimo
made garments for the defense
forces was transported on the
plan:.
LUNCHEON HONORS
MRS HANS MIROW
For Mrs. Hans Mirow, of Nome
who with her daughter Joyce,
•has been the house guests of Mrs.
V. R. Farrell, Mrs. Russell G.
Maynard entertained recently in
Jun au, at her home at the Hill
crest. Places were set for seven.
Mrs. Mirow sailed on the Bara
nof enroute to Berkeley, Calif-1
ornia. While in Juneau she had:
b en entertained with several in
formal affairs at the homes of
former Nome residents.
PAA GROUNDS
DOUGLAS INDEFINITELY
The Douglas Airliner D-3 on
the Seattle-Juneau run will be
grounded indefinitely as a result
of damage to the left wing of
the ship, during a recent gale the
Juneau office of the company an
nounces. * ]
Officials said that the ship was
awaiting repair parts from the
Douglas factory in Santa Monica,
California, and that they were
expected to arrive in a week or !
ten days.
In the meantime air mail ser-1
vice to the States will be indefin
! itely postponed. However, Air-I
port Manager Clark Bassett said!
that there is a good possibility of
one of the awaited Lodestars be
ing put on the run before the
Douglas is back in the air.
PAA has contracted with the
Lockheed company for several
Lockheed Lodestars to replace
the Douglas on the Seattle run
and is expecting delivery of them I
[almost momentarily. Bassett saidj
! that the first ship for PAA to j
come off the Lockheed assembly
^ line would be put into Alaskan
{service.
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PIONEER CARD PARTY
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Thursday, Feb. 13th, 9 p.m. I
i Admission 50o. First game of
! series open to the public. IOOF
Hall.
| NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS
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The annual dinner and busi
ness meeting of the Arctic Club
will be held at the Nevada Grill
Monday, Feb. 10. Dinner at 6:30
and business meeting at 8 p.m.
Please make reservations with
secretary, Mildred Maynard.
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SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA ROUTE
SHIP Lv Seattle Lv Seward Lv Juneau
McKJNLEY . Wed. Feb 5 Feb 11 Feb 14
YUKON . Sat. Feb 8 Feb 14 Feb 1«
BARANOF . — Wed. Feb 12 Feb 18 Feb 20
ALASKA ... Sat. Feb 15 Feb 20 Feb 23
McKINLEY__Wed. Feb 19 Feb 25 Feb 2*
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YUKON - Sat. Feb 22 Feb 28 Mar 2 4
BARANOF _ Wed. Feb 26 Mar 3 Mar 6
(Note: All sailings subject to change without notice.)
M. J. WILCOX, Agent