Alaska Air Mail Bill Passed by Roosevelt in 1940
President Roosevelt signed the Alaska air mail bill as Congress approved measures restoring the Reindeer Industry to Natives and allowing Ketchikan to issue bonds. The air mail bill authorizes emergency service up to 25,000 dollars annually and sets rates up to 30 cents per ounce. Pilot Ray Crawford, arriving from Fairbanks, spoke with Soviet agent Smirnov about an aerial search and the possible crash location north of Point Barrow, with the Russians believing the plane went down five to six hundred miles north of Barrow.
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Ident Roosevelt
Congress
Ketchikan
James Farley
Territory
Alaska
Associated Press
Ray Crawford
Mirow Air Service
Fairbanks
Smirnov
Nome
Pt. Barrow
Mizow
Crawford
Point Barrow
Alaska Tin Co Incorporated by Associated Press
Olympia Washington August 21 The Alaska Tin Company of Seattle is incorporated with a capital stock of one million five hundred thousand dollars according to the Associated Press report. The filing marks the formal establishment of the firm in the mining industry.
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Alaska Tin Co. Is Incorporated
Olympia
Wash
The
Alaska Tin Company of
Seattle
Associated Prassy
London
Great Britain
Rapist At Large After Attack In Chicago Hospital
An attack last night left Anna Kuketa dead at a Chicago hospital after a man described as a rapist stole in. The assailant fled the scene as authorities investigated. The report notes a $1000 reference and mentions connections to a mining business near Tin City and individuals Gord Kennedy and Jay Leslie Roe.
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Tin City
Associated Press
Nome
Chicago
Jack McIntyre
Seattle
South Company
Gord Kennedy & Side Hospital
Jay Leslie Roe
Anna Kuketa
Search Under Way For Missing Soviet Fliers Arctic Route
Barrow Alaska Aug 21 The Associated Press reports Jimmy Mattern flew 400 miles over the Arctic to locate the missing Soviet trans polar plane and its crew but found landing conditions impossible He returned to Barrow gas near empty Soviet pilot Zadkov and Canadian and Soviet crews prepare for extended search from Barrow to lagoons and ice pack with plan to use icebreakers and base near the 148th meridian for aerial sweeps toward the pole.
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Jimmy Mattern
Arctic Ocean
Barrow Ready Search
Barrow
Welland
Siberia
Levanefsky
Zadkov
Arctic
Alaska
148Th Meridian
Fairbanks
Ford
Arctic Coast
Lockheed
How to Stake Claims in Alaska Pamphlet Style
A pamphlet describes staking mining claims in Alaska including length and breadth, claim quantity, and Assciation Claim details. For sale at The Nugget Office for 10 cents.
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Alaska
Association
Cantacuzino En Route Nome on World Flight
Prince Constantine Cantacu zino of Roumania begins a world flight from Paris with the United States Weather Bureau in Nome supplying airway observations. Weather officials caution unsettled Alaska conditions. Signal Corps stations at Fairbanks Juneau Anchorage and Cordova stand by to assist the mission.
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Alaska
Airway
Signal Corps
Fairbanks
Juneau
Anchorage
Cordova
West
Farr Favored In Bout With Bomber Louis
A garbled London report suggests British bettors prefer Tommy Farr to upset Joe Louis in the New York championship bout on August 26. The piece notes the potential impact on boxing if Farr loses or wins and reflects British sports writers’ leanings toward Louis.
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Joe Louis
New York
Louis
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Alaska Air Mail
Washington
T. O. M. Sopwith
Viva
Newport
R. L
Pole
Bob Randall
Edmonton
Zadkoff
Nur
Ses Slayer
Ice Breaker's
Krass
U.S. Signal Corps
Mattern
Col. M. le. Bestedum
iPytsuutgh
Pennsylvania
Bengdun
Mr. Matinn
Dire Jeter
Bevedum
Paris
United States Weather
Bureau
Prince Constantine Cantacu
Zino
Roumanian
Weather Bureau
Farr
Bomber
Tommy Farr
Texas
Iva EC Dsianelle
Charles Kallman
Wey Goodrich
Dallas
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