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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL 38. No. 2. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JAN. 4, 1937_ Per Copy 15cts
Attempt Cut Off Escape 2 Suspects
Authentic Ransom Note Mentions Type of Money
TWO OF KIDNAPERS
APPEAR THREATEN
A MILL WATCHMAN
Two Men in Dark Coupe Instructed Mill Watchman To
Inform Dr. Mattson Kidnaped Bov Is Still
All Right, Then Drove Off.
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(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 3. — The Seat '
tie Post Intelligencer Saturday
night published under a copy- j
right, what it termed the auth
thentic ransom note left a week
ago Sunday by the kidnaper of
Charlies Mattson, aged 10, in
Tacoma.
Following is the text:
‘‘Get eighteen thousand doll
ars in five and ten dollar old
bills, the numbers not to run
consecutively.
“Get ten thousand dollars in
fifty dollar old bills, the num
bers not to run consecutively.
This amount will double each
week.
‘The boy is safe.
‘‘When you are ready, insert
in the personal column of the
Seattle Times ‘Mabel what is
your address,’ and
“Disregard any notes receiv
ed by you unless in this type and
in this color of ink, and signed
Tim.
“Use an old Ford car.
Signed: Tim”
The type and color of ink were
not disclosed by the newspaper
in the interest of the boy’s safe
ty
(Mv The Associated Dress>
TACOMA, Jan. 4, — Inspector
E. W. Wilson, of the State Police,
said he believed that the hun
dreds of armed men spread thru
out southwestern Washington,
had ‘‘cut off the escape” of two
kidnap case suspects.
Every automobile in the area
around Shelton, Washington, 50
miles southwest of here was be
ing stopped by blockading offic
ers, following the report Satur
day night by G. R. Grubbe, a
mill watchman, that two men had
driven into a private parking lot
?nd ordered him into the mill
office.
They instructed him to “tell
Dr. Mattson personally, every
thing is well”.
“I was standing near the offi
ce about 5:30 p.m., said Grubbe,
MUSIC, MARRIAGE MIX WELL
■ I ■! . u m.Li.- l -- -- ' T
Marriage and a musical career mix well, In the experience of Enid
8zantho, contralto of the Vienna State and Covent operas, who has
lust made her American debut in New York. Her husband, Laszlo
8tenza, whose profession Is national economy, neither sings nor plays,
but he attends all his wife's concerts. (Associated Press Photo)
DEAD BABY FOUND IN MAIL
The body of a baby apparently only a week old was found in a package
opened by clerk* at the San Francisco dead letter office. The package
was directed to “Frances Munger" at a non-existent San Francisco
hospital with a return address to Oakland, Calif. Police and postal
authorities opened an immediate investigation. Deputy Coroner Thomas
F Gavin is pictured holding a box containing the clothes and paper
in which the body was wrapped. (Associated Press Photo)
VESSEL
BEING
FIXED
Sailing Date Postponed
I
(Bv The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 4, — R. H.
Ummel, government purchasing
agent announced today that re
pair work on the ‘‘North Star”,
will delay her sailing for the
north until about January 20th.
It was originally scheduled to
sail on the sixth, but was damag
ed by a storm enroute to Seattle
from Nome, in the fall.
The General Gorgas will re
place her. It is due to arrive here
on the ninth, and will then stow
a full cargo of food and supplies
and return north about the 15th.
Passenger accomodations on the
Gorgas are numbered at 132.
The steamer Arctic is posted
to arrive here today and will
sail for San Francisco shortly.
Old Papers for Sale
Buy them by the bundle. Use
them for starting fires. For Sale
\t the Nome Nugget.
‘‘when I saw a coupe drive onto
the lot which has no parking
sign on it. I started out to order
them off. One of the men got
out. He had his hands shoved in
his pockets like he had two guns, j
He told me to get back into the
office,” declared Grubbe.
The watchman said it was so
dark he could not get a good
look at him, but said he wore a
roughneck sweater and had broad
nostrils.
Their car was a dark-colored
coupe.
At dawn today, heavily armed
forces were active over the area.
Governor Martin declared he
planned to assume personal dir
ection of the hunt.
Officers boarded a yacht and
planned to beat over the wild j
and sparcely settled Harstene
Island.
Spaniards Capture
Nazi Vessel
fBv The Associated Press)
j BAYONNE, France, Jan. 4, —
Reports are being circulated in
government circle declaring that
an armed patrolship of the Bas
que government, on the northern
coast of Spain, had “provision
ally” captured the fourteen hun
dred ton Nazi steamer Pluto.
U S. POSTAL AUTHORITIES
CARRYING ON CAMPAIGN TO
STOP LEWDNESS IN THE MAIL
WASHINGTON, DC., Jan. 4—
Encouraged by the 15-year fed
eral penitentiary sentence meted
out to Gayle R Cleveland of Pen
sacola, Florida, alias Miss Geor
gia Clayton and Miss Gayle Cieve
land, on charges of sending ob
scene matter through the mails
the Postal Inspection Service has
launched a nation-wide drive on
obscene correspondence clubs
conducted through the mails, it
was announced at the Post Office
Department.
Cleveland was the operator of
“The Letter Club Different”, one
of numerous obscene correspond
ing clubs, which have for their
purpose the mutual exchange of
obscene literature, photographs
and drawings, and which have
been uncovered by postal inspec
tors in various sections of the
country. The Pensacola ‘‘Letter
Club Different” of Cleveland,was
conducted in the same manner as
are the other obscene correspon
dence clubs which are now the
subject of a far flung roundup by
the Postal Inspection Service.
As operator of the “clubs”,
Cleveland would insert advertise
I
ments in the cheaper magazines
offering for a small fee, usually
ten cents, to put interested per
sons in touch with others of eith
er sex who were interested in the
exchange of literature and photo
graphs of an obscene nature.
Upon remitting the original fee
of ten cents the persons answer
ing the advertisement of ‘‘The
Letter Club Different” were then
forwarded an identification and
descriptive blank, which, when
properly filled out and returned
to ‘‘The Letter Club Different”
gave a minute description as to
the sender's age, weight, height,
features and physical measure
ments in addition to stating the
type and sex of the person with
whom they wished to correspond
on obscene, lewd and lascivious
subjects.
Following receipt of this infor
mation ‘‘The Letter Club Differ
ent” then assigned a file number
to the individual, who then was
required to forward two dollars
for a year's membership in the
“club”. Upon payment of the
annual dues, the member was
| then supplied with lengthy lists
Dramatically Accused
Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt, 60
year-old former officer, is pictured
as he sat at the inquest into the
death of his socially prominent
fiancee, Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor, 40,
just before he was unexpectedly
arrested and charged with shooting
her. Mrs. Taylor’s body was found
in a roadside ditch with Denhardt's
revolver nearby. He was released
on $25,000 bond. (Associated Press
Photo)
Bernard Stone
Alaska Editor
Died In Frisco
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 4, —
Bernard M. Stone. 62, for more
than thirty-years a newspaper
man in Alaska, died Sunday fol
lowing a severe il ness of the last
six months.
“Bernie” as he was known to
all, was born in New Zealand. He
went to Nome in 1902, and at
one time was editor and manag
er of the Nome Nugget, for a
short while.
Later he purchased the Sew
ard Gateway. Stone was also
associated with the Anchorage
Times, and for six years was
manager and editor of the Fair
banks News Miner.
Last June he came here to
rest, at the home of his sister
in law, Mrs. M. A. Malaby
Bernard Stone is survived by
his widow Mrs. Julia Stone, whc
was with him, here, and a sister
and two brothers in New Zea
and.
Funeral arrangements have no'
been completed, but burial wil
| take place here.
of both men and women, wit!
brief descriptions of each, whi
were identified by numbers rath
er than names. When the ‘‘club
member found a person, eithe
male or female, answering th
description of his desires, he the
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