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VOL. 38 No. 38 NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY FEB. 16. 1937 Per Copy 15cts
Queen Preview Takes Place Tonight At Dream
Alaska S.S. Zapora Wrecked-Passengers Are Safe
Former Seattle
People Aboard
Ship “Zapora”
(By The Associated Pressi
SEATTLE Feb. 16 — Mrs.
Ketchamn, wife of one of the pass
engers aboard the ill-fated Zap
ora said “my husband who is a
partner of Olaf Swensen of the
fur company, has been going to
Alaska every year for the past
twenty five or thirty years. This
is the first time he has ever been
in such danger”. She has two
daughters Virginia 18 who is a
University student and Kather
ine f6. She is awaiting direct
word from him.
J. S. Jeffrey, 35 and w.ife are
former residents here but at pres
ent he is the representative of
M. Seller and Company whole
sale houseware dealers, according
to Henry Morris manager of the
firm’s Seattle territory.
The crew list of the Zapora as
given out here were Captain El
dred Hansen, Larry Parks first
officer, Sidney Hooper second offi
cer Gus Osmundsen third officer,
James Larson chief engineer,
Robert Gray first assistant engin
eer, P. A. Simmons second assist
ant engineer, George Davis pur
ser, Gene Hundley Daniel Ethier
Olaf Jensen, Juan Oyarzo Law
rence Millard, Magnus Likness,
A Firkinstead all able seamen.
Tom Coiling steward, Arthur Dav
is waiter, Glen Latham galleyman
Wilbert Higginson night man and
Dave Collier oiler.
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MOTORSHIP “ZAPORA”
WAS WRECKED ON
ROCKY POINT
Passengers Escaped in lifeboats. Captain and part of
crew remained on beach near ship. Vessel was
not reported arriving Petersburg.
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Fab. Id, — The 155
foot motorship Zapora of the
Northland Transportation Com
pany with at least nineteen per
sons aboard piled on to a rocky
point 15 miles south of Angoon
at 2:40 a.m. Sunday morning, but
all on board escaped in the life
boats, a dispatch from Angoon
said.
Sailing from here early Satur
day for Hoonah and Petersburg,
the Zapora ran into a blinding
snowstorm and gale.
She struck the rocks while try
ing to negotiate a difficult pass
age.
Reports indicated the ship was
a total loss. Captain Eldred Han
sen and several of the crew re
mained on the beach near the
vessel while the rest of the crew
and passengers went to Angoon.
The Coast Guard Cutter Talla
poosa today is preparing to leave
for Angoon.
Pilot Sheldon Simmons in an
airplane wiith D. M. Summer, ag
ent for the shipping company re
turned from Rocky Point early
today and said there appeared
no probability that the ship could
be salvaged.
A search for the vessel started
WINDSOR GOLFS WITH HOSTESS
•9
T <ke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII of Great Britain,
is i -ured golfing with his hostess, Baroness Kitty Rothschild, at the
sr i Hed Rothschild estate at Enzesfeld, Austria. (Associated Prese
Photo)___
when the company in Seattle
learned that the steamer had not
reported at Petersburg where it
was due Sunday.
The Zapora sailed from Seattle
February 7th with a mixed cargo.
It was the first vessel to clear
port for Alaska after the strike
was ended. Her gross tonnage
is 500 tons. She was launched
in 1906 at the Crewford Reed
yards in Tacoma, and has been
in the Alaska trade for about 15
years. *
Passengers aboard the wrecked
ship included Mrs. A. Taroff and
daughter, Mrs. D. W. Patrick,
Joseph Akagi bound for Seattle,
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Jeffrey repre- j
sentative of M Seller & Company
of Seattle, Leander Ketcham who
was bound for Petersburg.
Included in the cargo was ten
thousand pounds of dressed silver
salmon for the Alaska Trollers
Cooperative Association in Seat
tle and fifty three thousand lbs.
of frozen sable, a shipment for
the East via Prince Rupert.
The ship had only a radio tele
phone aboard and was unable to
give notification of the WTeck
earlier.
Doings Legislature
(Special to the Nugget)
JUNEAU Feb. 16, — By a un
animous vote the senate endorsed
the memorial by Brunnelle en
dorsing the administration of Gov
ernor Troy. It was addressed to
President Roosevelt and Secre
tary Harold Ickes of the Interior
Department, and asks for his re
appointment. The measure was
immediately transmitted to the
house for action in that body.
Commissioner of Education An
thony E. Karnes was reappointed
for another term by the Territor
ial Board of Education today.
The House yesterday afternoon
was to have taken a vote on the
measure to abolish the fish traps,
but owing to the illness of Nell
Scott, the measure was to be tak
en up today. Many speakers, it
was indicated, would appear to
oppose the bill.
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‘MYSTERY’ CAR LEAVES ON KIDNAP ERRAND
A gray-haired "stranger** it pictured leaving the Mattson home at Tacoma, scene of the kidnaping of
Charles Mattson, 10, In a "mystery*' ear believed possibly to have been the machine designated by the
abductor to be used In any negotiation contacts. (Associated Press Photo)
Green is Fighting
A Union Order
(By The Associated Press) ' \
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 16,
—William Green President of the
American Federation of Labor,
today assailed as “Hitlerism” the
expulsion order from the United
Mine Workers.
■
Green said he would fight the
order. He previously criticized
the General Motors strike of the j
United Automobile Workers of
America sponsored by John L.
Lewis head of the committee for
industrial organization, and pres
ident of the United Mine Workers.
Directs G-Men
C. C. Spears (above), agent of the
federal bureau of investigation at
Portland, Ore., was in charge of the
federal agents at Tacoma, Wash., in
the k'rinaping of 10-year-old Charlet
Mattson. (Associated Press Photo)
Measurements of
“Queens” Open
To Inspection
Following are the measure
ments of the various candidates
in the Queen Contest, for the t:t- 1
le of "Miss Nome”. From this
one young lady will be selected
and crowned the night of Satur
day, March 6th, also winning a
round trip to Fairbanks by air
plane where she will compete in
the contest for the selection of a
Miss Alaska.
ADA BALDWIN—Neck 13 in
ches, Bust 33 Vi Arm 9Vi Waist 27
Hips 38 Weight 124 lbs. Thigh
21% Height 5 ft. 8 Calf 14 Angle9
DOROTHY NELSON—Neck 12
% inches Bust 36 Arm 9'% Waist
26>4 Hips 36% Weight 126 lbs.
Thigh 22 Height 5 ft 4 Calf 14 An
kle 8%.
GERTRUDE JOHANSEN—
Neck 12% Bust 35 Arm 10 Waist
26 Hips 36 Weight 114 lbs. Thigh
19 Height 5 ft. 4% Calf 13% An
kle 8%.
JEANNE MOZEE—Neck 12%
inches Bust 33% Arm 10% Waist
26% Hips 41% Weight 131 lbs.
Thigh 23 Height 5 ft. 4% Caif 13%
Angle 8%.
GERALDINE RUDE—Neck 13
inches Bust 36 Arm 10% Waist 28
Hips 37 Weight 132 Thigh 23
Height 5 ft. 2% Calf 14 Angle 8%.
RITA O'LEARY—Neck 13 in
ches Bust 34% Arm 9% Waist 26
Hips 36 Weight 118 Thigh 20
Height 5 ft. 2 OaLf 13 Angle 8%.
BORGNY ULRICKSEN—>Neek
11% Bust 34 Arm 9 Waist 24%
Hips 35 Weight 105 Thigh 18%
He ght 5 ft. 3% Calf 13 Angie 8*/4
MARGUERITE LEE - Neck 12
Bust 33 Arm 10 Waist 25% Hips
37% Weight 120 ThVh 21V4
Height 5 ft. 5% Calf 14 Ankle 8%
EILEEN STANG RO OM—Neck
13 Bust 3214 Arm 3% Waist 26%
II ps 35% Weight 117 Thigh 18%
Height 5 ft. 5% Ca f 12% Ankle
8’/4.
Sulwribe for the
His Son Threatened
The young (on of George Franklin
(above), wealthy Tacoma, Waih.,
grocer and neighbor of Dr. W. W.
Mattson, father of the kidnaped
Charles Mattson, was reported as
twice threatened with abduction re
cently. (Associated Press Photo)
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