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VOL. 38. No. 90. NOME, ALASKA, Monday, APRIL 19, 1937. Per Copy 15cts
STAMPEDING GOOD NEWS BAY IS BEGUN
Washington Crews Swept Estuary Second Year
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Tent City Grows
Up Prospectors
Arriving Early
(By The Associated Press)
BETHEL, April 19, —Stamped
ers and prospeators are moving
into the Good News Bay country
by plane during the past week,
•and a tent ciity is springing up.
Food is shoft, however, with
no potatoes, flour, sugar or beans
and no place left to house the
men, unless they bring their own
tents and supplies. A supply
boat does not arrive until the
middle of May.
Everything is at a standstill
> until then. All predictions are
based on t-he original strike last
fall which showed values up to
three dollars per yard in the plat
mum and gold bearing area nor
th of Good News Bay. and twen
ty to thirty miles in the Wata
nloose and Arolic districts.
According to the results re
ported so far, it looks like big
development and extensive pro
specting will be done.
Several large outfits, one with
a forty thousand dollar prospect
ing program, expect to carry on
development this spring on trie
strength of last year’s results.
Governors States
Object Reduced
Relief Monies
I By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO. April 19, — State
governors presented a solid front
against any reduction in federal
expenditures, if this means the
placing of a greater burden on
the states, an Associated Press
poll showed today.
State executives want the con
tinuation of relief on the two
. million dollars annual scale.
Governor Richard C. McMull
en, democrat of Delaware, and
Governor George D. Aiken of
Vermont, a republican, were the
on% ones favoring the states as
suming the burden.
GOOFY HABITS & SAYINGS
Why do so many restaurants print
their menus in French, when the
American language contains more
than a million words, and the
average person can properly place
less than three thousand?
Why do people frown, thereby
bringing into use 73 facial mus
cles, when it requires only 13
muscles to produce a smile?
VETERAN BALL CLUB M4NAGER FIGHTS INJURY
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Connie Mack, veteian manage' oi the rhihaUcipi.ia Sihietus ut the imei u.n .djuc ,s shown oemy
rushed to a San Antonio Tex., hospital tor treatment of an infected leg which was injured at the Mexico
City training camp of the ball club. (Associated Press Photo)
STRIKE MAY SPREAD
TO UNITED STATES
''By The Associated Press)
OSHAWA, Ontario, Aprill 19.—
United Automobile Workers un
ion leaders expect to spread the
General Motors strike to the Un
ited States wvtlfTn a few days, as
Premier M'tchel Hepburn ask
ed for orastic action to curb the
invasion of the Committee for In
dustrial Organization.
Ontario officials, said they ex
pected to here of the older for
the walkout in the United Stat
es. soon, unless th rty seven hun
of the General Motors corporation
dred workers in the Qshawa plant
return to work at once.
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Baseball Scores
fBv The Associated Press)
Saturday Games
Missions 5 Seattle 2
Los Angeles 6 Portland 4
Oakland 10 San Diego 8
San Francisco 6 Sacramento 4
COAST BASEBALL SCORES
Sunday Games
Sail Diego 2-8 Oakland 1-5
Portland 4-4 Los Angeles 11-7
Seattle 15-4 Missions 3-3
Frisco 4-5 Sacramento 7-4
PRINTING BLANKS CARRIKD
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and drill reports,
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
Location Notices. Vouchers.
Return* To l J. S.
David H. Ciai k. .... ...a< et . on ,
ty district attorney of Los Angoies, ',
is shown here as he arrived In Bos
ton on the S. S. Excambion from
France. Clark disappeared mysteri .
ously two months ago He refused
to comment on the cause for h.s
French visit. (Associated Press ,
Photo)
U of W Jayvee
Sets New Record
Three mile Race
(By The Associated Press)
OAKLAND, April 19, — The
University of Washington won
ill three races from California
>n the Oakland estuary Saturday
iftemoon.
The Washington crews won the
/arsity race of three miles, by
:hree and a half lengths; the
layvees won their three mile race
jy ten lengths, and the Frosh a
;wo mile race by two lengths.
Time for the varsity was 15
ninutes 55 and one-fifth seconds.
Hie Frosh set a course record of
) minutes and 41 and one-half
seconds.
Official Correction- -Washing
on varsity 14 minutes 55 sec
>nds. California varsity 15 min
ites 14 seconds.
The Jayvees victors rowed siix
leconds faster than the Washing
on varsity—14 minutes 49 sec
>nds, setting a new estuary re
cord.
The old mark was 14 minutes
>3 and three-fourths seconds,
vhich was set by Washington in
931.
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FATHER MATTSON BOY
ISSUES 1st INTERVIEW
Tacoma Said Have Most
Undermanned Police
Force on Coast
(By The Associated r,ress)
TACOMA, April 19, — Dr. W
W. Mattson, father of the kid
naped and slain Charles Mattson,
revealed today that the lives of
members of his family had been
threatened.
Confident that his son's slayer
wiSi eventually be captured, he
believes the threats were written
by cranks to worry Mrs. Matt
son.
Each threatening letter has
been examined by more than 4U
G-Men staitoned here. Dr. Matt
son is certain that more than one
person was involved in the kid
: naping of his son.
He blames easy paroles, he said
and the lack of police protec
tion, as being responsible for his
son’s selection as a kidnap vict
! im.
The embittered father believ
es the kidnapers watched his
home for more than a week, and
then after “snatching the boy,
made their escape from his home
down the bluff toward Puget
Sound.
Mrs. Mattson is recovering sat
isfactorily from the shock of her
son’s kidnaping and murder, but
is still acutely nervous. Dr. Matt
son plunged into his practice with
renewed vigor, trying to forget.
He said: ‘‘If the officers had
been able to isolate the penin
sula where his home is situated,
within a few minutes after the
kidnaping, they might have sav
ed Charley, but what can you
do with four prowler cars?
“The criminals know the Taco
ma police force is the most un
dermanned on the coast. Thiaith
why this town has been the site
of two major kidnapings."
This interview is the first he
has given out since Charlie.-;'
body was found near Everett,
January 11th.
Miss Fairbanks
Arrived Seattle
Trip New York
rRv The Associated Press!
SEATTLE. April 1!). - Miss
Ruth Joy, who represented Fair
banks at the March Ice Carnival
arrived here Thursday on her first
trip outside since she was a child
“It's so fascinating: the wind
ows of the buildings impress me
the most”, she said
She arrived aboard the S S
Yukon, and after sight-seeing she
left for Portland. From there she
will leave by boat, go through
the Panama Canal to New York
City, and expects to return to
Fairbanks by July.
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OUSTED SHERIFF HOF DS OFFICE
tua LVdns, Pottawatomie county (Okie,) sheriff, is shown nere re
clining comfortably on a cot in his office after he announced he would
not surrender his badge although a grand jury had declared hit recent
appointment void and had Indicted him on a charge of forgery. The
slot machines and whisky were taken In recent raids. (Associated
Press Photo)
Basketball games Tonight School Gym 8 pm
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