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Nome is the strategic Air Base for the United States and Europe via the North Poie
THE NOME NUGGET
No. seven. NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 1«, 1024. Oelivarad by Carrier or Ma.led $1.00 per Mo.ith
AEROPLANE WILL SOON FLY NOME
SHLSATIMiAL DEKLOPMENTS M ML SCANDAL
ADVANCE GUARD POLAR FLIGHT WILL FLY TO
NOME FROM NENANA SOON, SIX MEN ;
COMING OVER TRAIL TO SELECT
A LANDING FIELD
Lieutenant Wyatt will come to Nome and after select
ing a landing field will return to Nenana and
fly to Nome in a DeHaviland plane
(Special I4» Nome Nugget)
SEATTLE. Feb. 16—About Mar<Jh lat., a party will leave Nenana on
dog sleds for Nome. A Na *>**>.:HaviUtuti aeroplane, which will b** used
in reconnaisance duty around Nome, arrived in Seattle, as well as five
crates of aeronautical equipment. This plane, according to present plans,
will be flown from Nenana or Fairbanks across to Nome by Lieut. B. H.
Wyatt, wtoo, however, will accompany the dog sled party on its first trip
out from Nenana to ascertain landing facilities and to lay out supply sta
tions, gasoline and food. He will then return to Nenana, and with two
machinists, set up the plane and fly across to Nome.
SEATTLE, Feb. 16—The advance guard of the Navy’s D rigible Arc
tic Expedition composed of Lieut. B. H. Wyatt in command, L.eut. C. It.
Hewes, Civilian Engineer Corps Senior Inspector A. B. Jack, Aviation Chief
Machinist First Class Albert A. Francis and Rigger II. A. Anderson, ar
rived in Seattle last Thursday from Washington. The party will sail
today for Seward on. the liner Alaska and will use steamship, railroad and
dog sled and aeroplane to reach Nome, and will carry equipment for the
establishment of an aeronautical station In the Arctic where weather con
ditions will be studied and reported in preparation for operations of Nava,
aircraft over .the Arctic during the coming Summer. The party plans
to reach Nome in the latter part of March and will there select a landing
field for the one-hundred foot mast to which the Shenandoah will be
moored.
SEATTLE. Feb. 16— Reports arriving in Seattle state that repairs
to the Shenandoah will be completed in thirty days and nothing but an act j
of Congress will prevent the Dirigible from making the Arctic flight this
Summer. The above announcement, was made by Lieut. Wyatt, who is
in command of tile advance Arctic <-xpedition. Wyatt stated that the
giant craft is scheduled to arrive at Camp Lewis on June 12th.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16-—Plans for the Amundsen airship flight this
Spring from Spitzbergen to Alaska via the North Pole were laid before
Secretary of the Navy Denby yesterday by H. S. Hammer, Captain Am and- j
sen’s representative It is regarded as certain that the Amundsen expo- !
dition will have the best chance at priority in flying across the l’jlar i
VAHDERUP AND OTHERS MAKE SENSATIONAL
CHARGES REGARDS SALE OF :
MARION STAR ~ I
OSSINING, N. Y., Feb. 16—In the course of arraignment of public
officials, Frank A. Vanderlip, in an address said: “A certain person sold
a newspaper for $650,000 when it was well known to everyone that it was
not worth half that sum. Two young men of no financial standing pur
chased it. Everybody in Washington, including newspaper correspond
ents knows this, but no one wants to look under the edge of the shroud.
Where did the money come from? Where did it go? The last Admin
isthatlon stands challenged.”
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—As a result of his speech at Ossining, in
which he Intimated the sale by Harding of the Marion Star for half a mil
lion dollars, which should be Investigated as to the source of the money
paid for the paper, Prank Vanderlip has been subpoenaed to appear be
fore the Senate Committee. It Is also reported that the Committee has
information, that a million dollar slash fund was sent to the Capital by
the Sinclair oil Interests for influencing persons high in councils, both
major and political.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 16—Louis D. Brush with Ray D. Moore, the pur
chasers of the 'Marlon Star, in replying to Vanderllp’s insinuations in the
Qraialng speech, aaid: “The purchase price 6f the Marlon Star was $370.
000. A contract was signed with Harding two days before he left for
Alaeka. upon payment by us of $60,000 in cash of the $381,000 which
HMlng was to receive. $368,000 we were to pay the President. $163,
•00 in cash including the $60,000 as first payment, and then turn over to
,a ^m***l"* jfeVdtt* Publishing Company,
dmonntfto * V-. ’ >•'. *■
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—Vanderlip appeared before the Senate Oil
Investigation Committee yesterday. John C. Shaffer, Publisher of the
Chicago Evening Post and other papers testified that he had obtained some
acreage at the Teapot Dome from Sinclair by arrangements of Secretary
Fall, and that he afterward sold his interest for which he had not paid
any money.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—Vanderlip told the Senate Committee today
that he had no facts whatever to go on when he brought the name or
Harding into the oil scandal in his Ossining speech last Tuesday night, ask
ing for an inquiry into the crc uni stances surroundng the sale of Harding’s
paper, the Marion Star. He said he made the statement because he
thought it a public duty to call attention to current rumors, so as to stop
them. ‘I don’t even know the price the paper was sold at,” Vanderlip
said, “but the current story was $550,000.” '
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16-—Senator Dill’s resolution calling on Secre
tany Hughes for information as to the $25,000,000 paid the Colombian
Government by this country on a treaty, and the course of American di
plomacy with reference to oil ventures Hi Mesopotamia, Czechoslovakia
and Mexico, was adopted by the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—Finney, Assistant Secretary of the Inter
ior wan quoted yesterday before the Oil Committee as saying that Fall con
sidered it unnecessary to have Attorney Gaper*! Daugherty peas or the
validity of the oil leases, before any other-testimony was given by Oscar
Sutro, counsel for the Standard Oil Company of California.
PUBLISHER ADMITS
GOT RAKE OFF
FROM SINCLAIR
WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 The Senate Committee investigating for
mer Secretary of the Interior Fall, issued subpoenaes for Edward B. Mc
Lean, an intimate friend of the late President Harding, and Otto H. Kahn,
a New York banker, and Harry Payne Whitney, who is an associate of
Sinclair’s in many enterprises. Publisher John C. Shaffer further testi
fied that in addition to the $'J2,500 rake-off he got from the Standard
Oil Company, he also hoped to obtain from Sinclair one half a share in
two hundred acres of Teapot Dome reserves, as the result of a triangular
understanding between the two and former Secretary of the Interior Fall.
Shaffer admitted that a year before signing the Teapot Dome lease Fall
told him of negotiations with Sinclair and had promised that he (Shaffer)
would ' be taken care of." The Standard Oil Company sold the holdings
acquired from 'Shaffer to the Sinclair interests for one million dollars,
Shaffer told the Committee., .,»*•<
WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 Edward B.
► esterday to testify before the Senate Com
-vit.h former Secretary of the Interior Fall.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16
lenged President Coolldge to
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Congress to investigate
lands in Idaho. Montan
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the aquisition of three million acres of Government
t and Washington by the Northern Pacific Railroad,
>m getting any more land until the present inquiry
WASHINGTON, Fel
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committee in the oi
> the Senate that he
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WASHINGTON. Feb. 16-—President Coolidge appointed Owe-n J. Rob
ot Philadelphia as Special Counsel in the Oil Investigation east, in
e of Sfrawn, whose name was recently withdrawn
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—Louis I). Druss. one of the owners of the
Marion Star, told the Committee that Ohio Banks had supplied only a por
tion of the money used in the purchase of the paper.
B ISM ARK, N. J., Fob. 16—The Republican State Convention of New
Jersey passed a resolution declaring unbounded faith in President Coo
IKV 'III,MON DOLLARS KELIKP FINDS RAISED
CHICAGO, Feb. 16—Funds for a ten million dollar relief corporation
was over-subscribed when bankers met with Secretary Hoover yesterday
PRESIDENT BRATTLE HARDWARE COMPANY DEAD
SEATTLE, Feb. 16—C. A. Black. President of the Seattle Hardware
Company, is dead in Seattle, according to a dispatch received.
WILL NOT OPEN TOMB OF KING TUT
LUXOR, Feb. 16—It hns developed that Howard Carter shut down
operations because Uhe Egyptian Government deelinde to lev him. take fifty
per cent. of the immense treasure found in the Tutankhamen tomb.
LUXOR. Feb. 16—Howard Carter presented himself at the tomb of"
King Tut yesterday, and was refused admission by the Chief of Police,
who presented a written order from the Government. Carter then re
tired and he refused to give up the keys to the tomb. The arrival of Lord
Alenby on February 20th., is likely to create act extraordinary situation,
for as Hlfffc Commissioner, he desires-to visit the* tomb.
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