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Commander of Norge Now At Nome

Nobile Reaches Northern City with Five Members of Crew, Dirigible.

NOME. Alaska, June 2. — The motorship Hazel has arrived here with Commander Nobile and five other Italian members of the crew of the dirigible Norge which recently completed a flight across the Arctic regions. Other members of the crew will be brought to Nome on the Silver Wave.

Commander Nobile said he was glad to reach here as it was lonesome at Teller. He said the framework of the Norge was packed and ready for shipment south.

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Onlooker Group Resent “Blackshirts” In New York Parade

New York, May 31.-(AP)—Jeers, catcalls and shouts of “down with Mussolini,” caused by the presence of 200 Fascisti marchers, created a disturbance in New York’s Memorial Day parade. Mounted police charged and dispersed the disturbers whose ardor, undampened by the soft rain which fell on ceremonies throughout the east, at first threatened serious trouble.

Attired in black overseas caps with black tassels, black puttees, black breeches and shoes and the symbolic black shirts, the Fascisti gathering fell in behind a band of boy scouts.

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Working Toward Completion Of Spanish Trail

STATE ROAD NO 1 CAN NOW BE COVERED IN COURSE OF TWELVE HOURS, IT IS ANNOUNCED

JACKSONVILLE, May 29.

State Road No. 1, the Old Spanish Trail, is so well advanced toward completion between Jacksonville and Pensacola that the run of nearly 400 miles can now be made comfortably in twelve hours according to the Florida State Chamber of Commerce. An attache of the Chamber, in a motor trip from Pensacola to Jacksonville this week, driving at night, made the run from the ferry landing at Mulat, to Jacksonville in eleven hours and ten minutes with one hour and eleven minutes devoted to stops along the route. His running time was 9 hours 59 minutes for the 373 miles. The ferry trip across Escambia Bay requires about fifty minutes while the distance from the ferry landing to Pensacola is nine miles.

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Krim Surrenders To French After Freeing Captives

Anti-colonial insurgent Abd el-Krim boarding a Fez-Tangier train in 1926 on his way to exile to the Indian Ocean island of Réunion. Contemporary postcard.

Chief Puts Himself, Family and Property Under Their Protection.

WILL BE TAKEN TO TAZA TO AWAIT INSTRUCTIONS

Capitulation Follows Setbacks on All Sides and Desertions by His Followers.

By the Associated Press.

FEZ. French Morocco. May 26.—It was officially announced this afternoon that Abd-el-Krim. the Riffian chief, was coming into the French lines.

Krlm will be taken to Taza, where the instructions of the French resident general, Jules Steeg, are awaited. Krim, it is announced, puts himself, his family and property under the protection of France.

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Cow Puncher Will Hunt Arctic Game

Carl Dunrud to Exchange Ten Gallon Hat For Parkha; To Lasso Musk Oxen

NEW YORK, May 22.-(AP)-Carl Dunrud, famous Yellowstone national park ranger, is going to exchange his ten gallon hat for a fur parkha, his Mexican heeled boots for snowshoes and Invade the sub-Polar regions to try to lasso musk oxen and walrus.

The cowpuncher who has a national reputation for throwing and tying steers, will sail with the American Museum of National History Greenland expedition early in June.

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“Sea Flea” Begins Its Hop to Spain Preliminary to Trip Across Atlantic

Illustration of the Sea Flea from popular Mechanics magazine 1928, captioned "It Won't Sink If It Lands on Water: the "Sea Flea" for Transatlantic Flights"

By the Associated Press.

MARSEILLE, France, May 13.

M. de Gasenko, French aviator, accompanied by Mechanician Bion, left Marseille at 9 o’clock this morning in his water glider, the Sea Flea, for Barcelona, Spain, and Oran, Algeria. The weather was unfavorable but the apparatus worked satisfactorily.

If the voyage is successful, de Gasenko will continue to Dakar, West Africa, and then across the South Atlantic to Buenos Aires. The aviators hoped to arrive at Barcelona within two hours and to reach Oran this evening.