31 Jul 1937
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Newspaper
The Nome Daily Nugget
Location
Nome, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1937
Page
1
Mrs Bruno Hauptmann sails aboard the Bremen returning to the United States to push efforts to clear her husband’s name after his execution for the Lindbergh baby murder. The liner is due in New York on Monday.
Sir Hubert Wilkins, noted polar explorer, says a submarine is under construction secretly in a British shipyard. He hopes to cruise under polar ice. The fully outfitted craft will cost about 150.
Today in western and central Alaska the weather is cloudy and unsettled with fog near Nulato and rain at Kodiak Island. Central and northern Alaska show fair skies while western Alaska stays milder. a low pressure area near St Paul Island causes ongoing unsettled conditions with possible rain tonight and Sunday. Nome minimum last night reached 50 above and highs yesterday 60. rainfall at 1 a.m. was 0.54 inch.
The million-dollar yacht duel for the America's Cup is set to resume in Newport with two top J-class sloops, Ranger skippered by Harold Vanderbilt and Endeavour skippered by Thomas Sop hy, racing wind permitting.
Dr Victor E. Levine and Delbert C. Foord arrive in Nome aboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Ithland from Dutch Harbor to begin a year long Eskimo health survey in Barrow under the Public Health Service. They bring $20 000 of equipment including an X ray machine for field research.
Telegraphic briefs report Japanese forces shelling retreating Chinese troops west of Peiping with encirclement near Shin ya and two thousand Japanese pinned against division 29 of the Chinese army Hendaye. Other items note revolt spreading toward Franco forces on the southern coast and polar flight planning for Mattern with surveys in Alaska. Roy Ward, a former jockey, is held on murder suspicions after admitting he fired the 1930 Wingle killing, with detectives noting inconsistencies.
Two Soviet technicians worked secretly on an air fueling base in Fairbanks preparing a four motor passenger plane for a possible Moscow to United States transpolar flight. Sigismund Levanevsky was reported to be at the controls with Les Chvat, Moscow Pravda correspondent, recently chartered to Seattle and Fairbanks for reporting this potential third Soviet air mission.
Father Hubbard the Graeler priest aboard Cutter Northland travels to Point Barrow with aides Kenneth Chisholm and Edgar Levan aboard Were. Victor E. Levien and Delbert C. Foord accompany for medical research for Public Health Service, Nurse Mildred Keaton joins for ward inspection. Hubbard states King Island expedition has 300000 feet of motion picture film and 10000 negatives. rumor of Wrangell Island visit addressed.
Philadelphia on July 31 sees Sie guards escorting Grew Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company produce trucks attacked by about forty men. Four guards were seriously injured with skull fractures as they were dragged from their vehicle and beaten with baseball bats near a gasoline service station.
Five thousand men and women picketed WPA headquarters in New York on July 31 in protest of recent WPA dismissals.
After the North Maud and Father Hubbard parties return, they will stay briefly in Nome before heading to King Island for a year and a half. Kenneth Bernard joins the group on this final 1938 voyage, with provisions deposited in advance to sustain the expedition and study King Island Eskimo life.
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