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VOL. 38. No. 3 NOME, ALASKA, Tuesday, JAN. 5th, 1937 Per Copy 15cts
Sam Rayburn Chosen House Leader
Feels Certain That Contact Made With Kidnapers
♦HINTS MADE CONTACT
ESTABLISHED WITH
THE KIDNAPERS
High Official Sources Make Strong Hints Conditions
Looking Favorable Either for Payment of
Random or Return of Child
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(By The Associated Press)
TAOOMA, Jan. 5, — Sources
close to the Mat'.son family inti
mated strongly, that definite pro
gress toward winning the kid
naped boy’s release, had been
made, and strongly hinted they
were expecting an important de
ve opment soon, whether the pay
ment of the ransom or the child’s
actual release, it was not made
public.
In guarded words, certain offic
ial sources gave the same impres
sion, though the same persons a
few days ago expressed grave
fears.
The prevailing opinion that sat
isfactory contact had been made
appeared certain, as the father
is definitely relieved, following
the quick response to his p ea yes
terday that law enforcement ag
encies cease work on the case
until his son’s safety has been
assured.
Mrs. Gus Appelman, wife of
the man who is the possible in
termediary, sat in their car while
her husband was inside the Mat
tson house today. She said:
4‘I am the Mattson boy’s teach
er and have had to mark him
absent from class. Of course I
miss him. I don’t know when
there will be a break in the case.”
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Borah Kin Candidate
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Ben Buah (above) of Moeeow,
Idaho, brothar-ln-law of U. 8. Sen
ator William E. Borah, waa a can
didate for the Idaho atate aenate on
the Republican ticket. Bueh, former
atate foreeter, la married to Borah’a
elater. (Aaaoclated Preaa Photo)
Report of Army
Engineers Read
Refers Alaska
The rt'-'sociatPd '-'resst
WASHINGTON, D C. Jan. 5,—
Major General E. M Markham,
Chief of the Army Engineers said
in his annual report to congress,
that a total of $15,863,250 be pro
fitably expended on river, harbor
and flood control projects in
Washington. Oregon and Alaska
during the fiscal year 1937 and
1938.
Of the total $4,576,250 would
go to regular rivers and habor
maintenance, and the remainder
to new construction.
Included in the projects start
ed would be $35,000 for Nome,
Alaska, twenty-five hundred dol
!ars of which would be local
contribution, for dredging and
making a turning basin 250 feet
wide by four hundred feet long,
eight feet deep, and repairing
jetties and revetments.
The Major in his report said
the following suims could be pro
fltatoly expended in Alaska—
Ketchikan $8,000, Dry Pass $79
000 for new work and complet
ing of project by dredging chan
nel 60 feet wide, 6 feet deep thru
five shoals waterway between El
Cap tan passage and Shakan
Strait. Wrangell Narrows $25,
000 maintenance and dredging,
Cordova $180,000 for construc
tion of breakwaters, Lowell Cr.
$1,000 dredging, Salmon River a
thousand dollars for flood con
trol.
German Wire To
Spaniards Says
Until 8 Friday
fBy The Associated Press i
BERLIN, Jan. 5, — The Ger
man cruiser Koenigsberg today
wirelessed a curt ultimatum dir
ect to the Spanish socialist gov
ernment threaten to turn the two
seized Spanish ships over to the
fascist insurgents unless the Naz
i’s get back sequestered German
cargo by 8 a.m. Friday.
TRAIN P^"M» *T> BY LANDS! IDE
The locomotive and several cars of a New York Central freight train
were derailed by a landslide near Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Two trainmen
were injured, and traffic over the line was blocked for several hours.
This air view shows how several cars were toppled into the Hudson
river. (Associated Press Photoj
INDOOR BASEBALL
SEASON TO START
TOMORROW NIGHT
Tomorrow night sees the beginn
ing of the regular Indoor Base
ball Season, with four teams
playing double-headers once a
week for the next six weeks..
The Alaskans, Commercials,
Hammon and Huskies meet in
two games tomorrow evening at
the new public school gymnas
ium. The first game is between !
the Hammon and Huskies, and
the second between the Alaskans
and Commercials.
The game commences sharply
at 8 pun. Umpires will be Norvin
W. Lewis and Guy Boyd.
Doors will be open at 7:15 p.m.
Entrance to the big building
will be by way of the main en
trance to the school, on the west
end of the building. Players on
ly, will use the gymnasium en
j trance. Admission is 50 cents for
adults and 25cts for school child
: ren.
Bleachers on the stage have
been undercourse of construction
for the past few days and will
undoubtedly be ready for use to
morrow night.
The public is requested, when
entering the galtlery to the gym
to use the several doors along
the sides and not try to all crowd
in one entrance and thereby
cause confusion and a jamming
of that entrance. The door on
the west end of the gallery, said
Supt. Pool must be kept entirely
clear of people, due to the fact
that the entire north side of the
gallery spectators must enter and
leave by this only means. This
is important, in the event of fire
or any other accident, and the
public will be carefully instruct
ed to see that this entrance is
clear at all times.
(Continued on Page Two)
SWEEPS’ WIN MEANS MARRIAGE
A ticket on the Irish sweepstakes means wedding bells lor Marjorie
Wood, 23-year-old Los Angeles ice cream factory employe, and Norbert
Jannssen, painter. They bought the ticket in the hope It would provide
the necessary funds for marriage. They drew Laureate It, which fin
ished second to bring them $50,000. (Associated Press Photo)
CONGRESS
READY TO
GO AHEAD
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Man from Texas To Direct
Unprecedent Majority
Democratic House
(Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5, — Sam
Rayburn of Texas was chosen
as floor leader of the national
house of representatives with an
unprecedented Democraitc maj
ority in that branch of the fed
eral government, pledged to one
hundred percent cooperation in
Roosevelt’s legislative program.
The stocky, bald, lawyer and
cattleman, who will be 53 years
old tomorrow, won the post from
John J. O’Connor of New York
by a vote 184 to 127, in a closed
caucus
Rayburn, starting his twenty
fifth year in Congress will shep
herd the party's three hundred
and thirtytwo members, but said
he expected no difficulty, as “all
our Democrats will act just like
Democrats. By that I mean that
practically all of them will go
along with the program”.
Rayburn said he expected the
session to last for about five
months.
O'Connor retains the chairman
ship of the rules committee and
Representative Lea of Californ
ia will succeed Rayburn as chair
man of the interstate commerce
committee.
Lost Boy Found
t
Nine-yearold Murray Walkup Mil
ler, lost for five days in the rugged
Sapphire mountains of western
Montana, is shown after he was
found by two forestry officials
lying beside a creek weak from
hunger. His hands and feet were
frost-bitten, but he was expected to
recover rapidly. (Associated Press
Photo)
STRIKE IN
G. E. AUTO
INDUSTRY
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Jan. 4, — The Un
ited Automobile Workers of Am
erica reported that strikes were
in progress in the following Gen
eral Motors plants: Atlanta 700
employees, Kansas City 1320,
Cleveland 7000, Flint with two
plants 8200.
All of the above are affiliated
with the Fisher body plants at
Norwood, Ohio. Fisher also affil
iated with Chevrolet plants 2200.
At Anderson, Ind.ana, the Guide
Lamp Co. is also subjected to
strikes of 2800.
It was also announced that the
following General Motors units
were closed in full or part be
cause of shortages of materials
attributed to strikes:
At Anderson, Ind., seven Del
co-Remy plants with nine thous
and idle. Atlanta Chevrolet with
800. Kansas City Chevrolet 1100,
Flint Chevrolet and Buick plants
6800.
The board of strategy of the
union, which was authorized to
call the general strike in Gener
al Motors’ 69 plants in fourteen
states, convenes at Detroit again
today.
In nineteen of the plants which
are completely closed, at least
39,000 workers are idle.
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Wed., Jan. 6th, First Indoor Baseball Games Season
? HAMMON VS HUSKIES COMMERCIALS VS ALASKANS—Public School Gym—8 P. M.—Admission Adults 50cts School Children 25cts—Doors Open 7:15