Vic Due 6 A M The S S Victoria Northbound
Vic arrives by 6 AM aboard the S S Victoria of the Alaska Line. The vessel is inbound on its second Northbound voyage segment.
16 Aug 1937
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Newspaper
The Nome Daily Nugget
Location
Nome, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1937
Page
1
Vic arrives by 6 AM aboard the S S Victoria of the Alaska Line. The vessel is inbound on its second Northbound voyage segment.
In northern Spain General Praseo's Franco forces battled into Reinosa amid house to house fighting as government troops pull back toward Santander. The offensive, part of the broader push toward the port city, involved heavy machine gun and rifle fire on advancing insurgents. A separate note mentions an Arctic Cruise flight path near Dutch Harbor and Nome with 48 round trip passengers and 21 locals, unclear details.
Republican leader Snell announced that Alaska federal employees paid one hundred dollars each for Democratic Convention Books. Buyers listed include Joseph Kehoe of Seward William Mahoney of Juneau Chester Todd of Valdez and J J Connors of Juneau.
Aug 16 report says women and children safely pass through shellfire to begin official exodus from Shanghai. The tender carrying two hundred Americans and other refugees moved toward the homebound President McKinley while shell fragments struck the vessel. Forty three Chinese warplanes engaged in battles over the Whangpoo River.
Assistant prosecutor Frank J Gusweiler told a Cincinnati grand jury that evidence in more than one case prompted a wide ranging inquiry. A warrant was issued for Mrs. Ann Hahn 31 for the death of George Gseilman. Police probe eleven mysterious illness deaths and three recent elderly German descent fatalities. Further details were not released.
Former round-the-world flyer Jimmy Mattern arrives in Fairbanks after a nonstop flight from Oakland. He may assist in the Soviet Polar flight search for Chief Sigismund Levanefsky and crew. Weather reports and possible Anadyr sorties are discussed as Nome could serve as refueling base.
Soviet embassy in Washington says Irkutsk radio picked up weak signals possibly from pilot Levanevsky in the lost trans polar plane. Moscow heard faint signals on Levanevsky frequency as authorities seek confirmation from Alaska and Canada signals corps. Fairbanks observer Jam Mattern will join fresh Arctic search flights today amid favorable weather over Point Barrow ice pack and Herkefelds.
The Seattle Star operated with thirty six policemen guarding the press under orders from Mayor Dore as the four day truce between union printers and the newspaper guild ended.
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