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Died. Gudbrand J. Lomen, 80. Mayor (1917-19) of Nome, Alaska, federal judge (1921-32) of the Second Judicial Division of Alaska, father of five sons who on his advice founded Lomen Reindeer Corp.; of paralysis; in Seattle...
...valuable than any ten of his villagers. Direct from the Kremlin came the radio word: "Professor Schmidt will take the next rescue plane to land." Obediently the professor flew away in Pilot Slepnev's plane, riding in the cabin with his village doctor. They took the patient to Nome, whence he was to be transferred to the hospital at Fairbanks...
After the Chicago performance she seemed almost excited about being back in opera. The audience was almost excited too. It had not expected as much as the New Yorkers did eight years ago and it got more. The light, appealing voice seemed better controlled. The Caro Nome with its trills and top was expertly sung. The acting had some meaning. When newsmen asked Marion Talley to explain the change she answered: "Madame Schumann-Heink used to tell me I needed to live and to suffer. Well, maybe I have. That was seven years...
...Safe, Gemmie." On June 14 Pilot Jimmie Mattern, flying around the world, took off from Khabarovsk, Southeastern Siberia, for Nome (TIME, June 19). He never arrived. For 23 days no word was heard of him. Last week Mattern's backers in Chicago received an electrifying radiogram from Anadir, trading post on the bleak peninsula which forms the northeasternmost tip of Siberia. It read: "Safe . . . Gemmie." Further despatches indicated that Mattern had made a forced landing 50 mi. from there, damaging his plane Century of Progress; had subsisted for days on game shot with a rifle given him by admiring...
...sturdy old Bellanca which Pangborn & Herndon flew around the world. Off to Alaska went the rescue party, headed by Pilots William Alexander & Fred Fetterman. Ther. Mattern turned up in Siberia. A U. S. plane could not fly there without Soviet permission, nor could a Russian plane take Mattern to Nome without U. S. permission. But Mos cow and Washington are not on speaking terms. Thus began a long and devious exchange of messages between the capitals through the office of Brewer Friedman, Struggling with unpronounceable Russian names, he took Moscow cablegrams from Boris Skvirsky, unofficial Soviet representative in Washington, relayed...