THE NOME NUGGET
NO IS O M R , ALASKA. SATI'HIlAY. DRCCMIIKK 39. 1938. DH.ver.d by Cn«-r,r or Maita-d $1 00 p.-r Mo ir*
AERIAL BASE ASSURED FOB NOME
FRAME FIRES FIRST GUN TERRITORIAL POLITICS
NAVAL TAMERS AND THREE AEROPLANES BE
ASSIRNEO NOME, HU6H MOORIN6 MASTS
OE ERECTED NOME FOR DIRIGIBLE
SHENANDOAH THIS SOMMER
WASHINGTON, Deo. 27—A recommendation that the Navy’s
North Pole flight be attempted this coming summer with the dirigible
Shenandoah, and using Nonce as a main operating base, was carried in a
report of the Board of Naval Officers which is headed by Admiral Moffat,
Chief of the Naval Operations. The report was made public this week
by Secretary Denby, who has approved me report. The Board empha
sizes that the mission of the expedition should be the exploration of the
North Pole regions, rather than a dash for the Pole, to establish the
transfer air route from Europe to Japan over the top of the world.
It has been recommended that two tankers, equipped with moor
ing masts, be stationed at Nome, and six planes, equipped with landing
apparatus for both ice and water. A permanent nlOoring ma«t should be
erected at Nome, and mooring facilities at other Northern points erected,
"wo ships, with three planes each, are to go to Nome and Spitsbergen,
where preliminary flights for aerological observations will be made.
The report said that when all is ready, tin- Shenandoah will fly to Nome
by th- way of the mooring masts which are located at For. Worth. San
bit«u, me Puget Sound aim Nome, ami tlw.iec No.th'.. The uJour-1
also recommends that the ZR-3 Zeppelin, which1 is now b‘*.:n? built in
Germany for the American Navy, stand by at Lakehurst. New Jersey in
reserve*, and that advance parties he sent for aerological work to Seward
and other Alaska points as soon as possible.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—Secretary Denby has approved of the
recommendations of the Navy flight to the North Pole to be made with
the dirigible Shenandoah next summer with Nome as a base of the ex
ploratio-n. The trip will be for the purpose of exploring polar regions
rather than a straight dash for tjle. pole. It has been decided that the
Shenandoah will fly to Nome l»v tSte way of Fort Worth. San Diego, Cali
fornia, and Seattle, Washington, miere moorina masts will be erected for
the giant dirigible's use. One of the objects of the expedition is to es
tablish the practicability of a polar air rout*- to Japan. Three planes
will he sent to Nome. The Cutter Hear will stationed at Point Harrow
during the flight. Nome has been selected herause of ‘he ic<- conditions
which will make it available for a base the first week in June. A tanker
with a mooring mast is going to Spitsbergen to be ready in case strong
winds force the Shenandoah to turn back at th-- pole. Two such vessels
are going to Nome. As many men as possible will be taken from the
Nome base and stationed on the Cutter lb tr it Harrow, for the purpose
of hauling the Shenandoah down for refueling, should the need arise for
such action.
LAKKHl'RST. Dec. 29—g«xy>mander Weyebacher. the construc
tion manager, and Anton Heinan. Consulting Kngineer, and Captain F. It.
Me It ay of the dirigible Shenandoah will confer in Washington W dn* s
day with the Navy Department officials relative t«. the North Pole flight.
CHICAGO, Dec. 29—Admiral Moffatt, Chief of Naval Aeronautic*,
said today that the trip of the Shenandoah to the Pole will b*- the most
carefully planned air voyage ever taken.
COOLIDGE ASKED
TO BREAK UP
KU KLUX KLAN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—The Ku Klux Klan is now a national
iwue and has been laid on the doorstep of th«* White House in an open
letter to President Coolidge by Edward Young Clark, the former head
of the Klan in the United States. Clark declared that the organization
Which he was instrumental in founding, is brazenly supercedirg the au
thority of American Courts, and he concluded his letter with an appeal
to the President to take the lead in an additional effort to stamp out the
hooded terrorism, or else force Ae Klan to disband. Clarke' - letter cre
ated a sensation in the Capital.
HALL BE CHAIRMAN INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—Henry C. Hall will be Chairman of thej
Interstate Commerce Commission on January 1st., according to word re
ceived from Washington.
REQUESTS IMMEDIATE APPLICATION COASTWISE LAWS TO j
PHILIPPINES
WASHINGTON, Dec.‘29—Senator Jo-nes. Chairman of the Senate |
Commerce Committee and the author of the Merchant Marine Act. re
quested President Coolidge yesterday afternoon to immediately issue ;n
executive order applying coastwise shipping laws to the Philippines.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—In addition to the recommendations of j
the extension of American Coastwise Shipping laws t<> the Philippines,;
Senator Jones. Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee today fur-!
ther recommended to President Coolidge. the separation of the Fleet Cot j
poratlon from the Shipping Board and compel cooperation between Am
erican Rnilroads and shipping interests, and survey the needs for a per- !
manent Merchant Marine. j
MAKE TEN WKKK AIK >1 All. TKST IN AI.ASKA
SEATTLE. Dec. 29—The a.r.al mail carrying tests over Alaskan
j reaches to be attempted by the Department will b< a thorough one. Van
(lervoort, the Superintendent of the Railway Mail Srvioe. declared last
night. He said that the flights were to be certainly commenced in Feh
| ruary on a weekly schedule and would continue at least ten weeks be
! tween Nenana and McGrath, this would be long enough to demonstrate
| the practicability of such service.
SHOTS KlltEB AT I'ltiVCK |{EGENT
TOKYO. Dec. 2S—An unknown person took two wild shots at
Prince Regent Hirohito yesterday morning while the Prince was on his
way to the Diet Building.
TOKYO. Dec. 29—An official announcement regarding the at
tempted assassination of Prince Regent Hirohito states that one bullet
struck the car in which the Prince was driving to the I).*u Building to ad
dress Parliament. The Prince was not injured Viscount Iriye anti Lord
Chamberlain were slightly injured by glass which the bullet shattered.
Daisuke Naha. 24 years of age and declared to be a socialist was '.nested
together with two alleged accomplices and were charged with the shooting
EXPRESSES GRATIFICATION ON ESCAPE PRINCE REGENT
WASHINGTON. Dec. 29—Secretary Hughes cabled the Japanese
government, through Ambassador Woods, his gratification of the escape
of the Prince Regent from an assassin's bullet.
JAPANESE CABINET RESIGNS
TOKYO. Dec. 29—The Japanese Cabinet resigned today as a re
sult of the attempted assassination of Prince Regent Hirohito. All news
papers in Tokyo that were carrying reports of the attempted assassina
tion, were suppressed. The Metropolitan Chief of Police, assuming the
responsibility of having allowed the attempted assassination to occur, has
also resigned.
TOKYO. Dec. 29—Home Minister Goto has resigned and assumed
the responsibility as Home Minister for the attempted assassination yes
terday of the Prince Regent, by a 20-year old youth, who is now under
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FiVAME FILES FOR
TER. NAT’L. COM.
ANCHORAGE. Dec. U9 Arthur Frame, a member of the lHi'1
Territorial Legislature, will file for National Committeeman ou the Re
publican ticket. A full legislative ticket will be filed in th• Third Div
ision. according to a dispatch from Anchorage.
FALL WRITES LETTER TO SENATE (OMAIITTEE
WASHINGTON. Dec. -Former Secretary of the Interior. A. B.
Fall, m a letter to the Senate Cornmiittee investigating the leasing of
naval <• il reserves to private in’erests. sa.d. "1 never received any money
bv loan «.r gift from Harry Si clair, or E. L. Doheny." Fall declared,
however, that he was advanced one hundred thousand dollars s»by E« I -
ward B. McLean, a Washington newspaper publisher, to assist in buying
WAR DEPARTMENT
WANTS TO KNOW
WOOD'S SYSTEM
nsentatives in Washington of th<
Philippine Government. charge that
Osborne Wood, son of the Governor
General of the Philippine Islands ad
vent into high finance dates from
the period of his father's campaign
for the Republican nomination for
tain American financial interests
during the preconvention period car
ried Osborne Wood on a deal for
for $300,000 of oil stocks. from
which the profits gave him a start
for - future speculations. Congress
immediately alter the holiday re- ,
admitted that he was officially oblig
ed to clock up 'he financial opera-]
tions of Lieut. Osborne (3. Wood, the '
General Wood of the Philippine In
lands, who is reputed t.. have amass
ed a fortune of on(. million dollars
in fourteen months.
New Volk. Dec. 28 The financial
Wood, who is reported to have ac
cumulated a fortune in Wall Street,
were made the subject of a War De
Wood is now in .Manila action as his
Washington, Dec. 2.\ -The War
• n the financial operations of Lieut.
Osborne G. Wood, ti •« son and mili
of the Philippine Islands.
NEWTON. Mass .. I).-.-, 29 Secretary Weeks who has been spend
ng the holidays at his home m NVwton. Mass., admitted that he had
a ken official notice of Lieut. Wood's speculations, and -aid that some
nonihs ago he had learned of lame checks coming through the Ameri
can banks to th»* credit of Wood. Weeks added that the amounts in
volved appeared to be beyond the probable financial responsibilities of
an army officer, and so he direct,-d his (Wood’si operations l<» < ■ aso.
which order, according to Weeks, was promptly complied with. Weeks
said that "the financial operations were entirely personal with Lieut.
Wood and 1 do not think the subject warrants Department action."
NKW YORK. Dec. 29—Alfred T. Moore who is supposed to be
it the head of the Wall Street Tips er," service disclosed that Lieuten
int Wood had made a fortune as a result of information sent him thru
lightly cablegrams. Moore exhibited hundreds of messages which were
tent Wood urging him to buy and sell and giving the analyses and in
formation of the Market. The cablegrams ranged from three to several
lundred words and were written in plain English with no code words.
Moore said that he had never met Wood but that he had learned author
tatively that Wood owned thirty five thousand Long shares last July
mil August which would probably require a margin of half million dollars.
The Stocks included Baldwin. Mack Trucks. Steel and several
>thers. i-n less than five weeks later Woods was short thirty seven thou
tand shares, having disposed of his Long Stock with a profit of seventy
Ive thousand dollars in one big killing.
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