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VOL. 37. No. 306. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DEC. 28, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
12 Souls Missing-Another Airliner
Another 10 yr. Old Tacoma Boy Kidnaped Sunday
CHARLES MATTSON
AGED 10 KIDNAPED
HOME IN TACOMA
Kidnaper Originally Came for Money, Changed Idea,
Said He Would Take Boy: “Better than Money”.
Brother, Sister, House Guest Saw Act.
(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA, Wn. Dec. 28, — Planning a foot by foot
search, Department of Justice agents and city police at
dawn today concentrated on a mile-long wooded ravine
in an attempt to find Charles Mattson, aged 10. kid
naped from the home of his family at 8:45 p.m. last
night.
The ravine is covered with scrub timber and un
derbrush, begins a few feet from Dr. W. W. Mattson’s
five acre city estate overlooking Puget Sound. The
ravine search followed last
night’s widespread search by po
lice cars, which patrolled the
highways and side roads, while
privately owned boats scouted
through inlets on the sound.
Abductor Was Seen
A lone, middle-aged man, arm
ed with a pistol invaded the
Mattson home through a French
window and grabbed young Char
les before the very eyes of his
‘brother William aged 16, and his
sister Muriel aged 14. and Vir
ginia Chatfield of Seattle, a
house guest.
Searched for Money
The intruder threatened them in
his search for money, then shout
ed: “this is something better
than money”, grabbying the boy.
He left a roughly lettered ran
som not demanding an amount
variously reported to be either
eighteen or twenty-eight thous
and dollars.
G-Men On the Job
Washington, D. C., Dec. 28, —
J. Edgar Hoover chief of the U.
S. Department of Justice Bureau
of Investigation said his agents
would “cooperate fully” with the
Tacoma authorities. He declared
the report of the case had been
received from his agents who
were on the scene, but declined
to discuss any details.
Objection Made
Marine Unions
■By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 28, —
Protests of union leaders again
st the new federal law affecting
seamen, threatened to compli-!
cate the sixty day strike, accord
ing to the interpretation of the!
shipowners committee, of at least
one of the protests against the
Copeland Bill, passed by the
last session of Congress, which
would require seamen to carry
“discharge books” showing com
plete records of their employ
ment after January 20th.
It was suggested in telegrams
to President Roosevelt and oth
er officials, that the government
take action. C. H. Jordan, of the
San Pedro strike committee de
clared “no settlement of the
strike is possible under the terms
of this bill.”
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Eseo Richardson shown with Bessie Keckler, both, communist
candidates, as they reached Los Angeles after they had been pre
vented from speaking at El Centro, California. Force was used
on Richardson who plainly shows some of the treatment AP Photo
ROOSTER BEATS ALARM CLOCK
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•'; i. • '-mister win*," shouted Julia Fielder, holding an alarm clock
whicli 'eg stered 63 decibel* of noise, and General, Connecticut State
College fowl, which registered 93 decibels in a contest at the Poultry
Industries Exoosition at New York. (Associated Press Photo)
High Tides On
Snake River Are
Cause Trouble
The high winds, tide and
storms of Saturday and Sunday
played the very dickens with
the airplane services operating
cut of Nome. Four airplanes,
“bedded-dov.n” on the ice cf
Snake River about three and a
half miles up from Nome, were
d.scovered to be about 3 and a
half feet in water Sunday morn
ing, after the tide had raised and
the water had overflowed on top
of the ice.
Four Companies Affected
The planes were—Pilgrim mail
plane of the Pacific Alaska Air
ways, Stinson plane of the Mirow
Air Service, and two planes of
the Wien Alaska Airlines, a
Stinson and Bellanca. One of the
Wien planes was not as serious
ly affected as the other three, it
was declared. No very serious
damage was done to any of the
planes, observers declared.
Planes Hauled to Bank
Members of all organizations
went up the river on foot Sun
day morning to investigate and
then arranged for a tractor from
the Nome Motor Company and
one from the Road Commission
to go up and pull the planes over
onto the bank of the river. All
four planes were finely placed
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Georgia Tech Is
Winner Over
Calif. 13 To 7
(By The Associated Press)
ATLANTA, Ga„ Dec. 26, —
Georgia Tech with its razz'.e daz
zle football beat the California
Golden Dears 13 to 7 before a
crowd of 13 000.
Georg a Teeji scored in the
third and fourt.i quar ers and
California scored in the last four
minutes of play.
AIRPLANE
FOUND, IS
WRECKED
Some U. S. Mail Burned
f3v The Associated Press I
KELLOGG, Idaho, Dec. 26, —
Two snowshoe parties trudged in
to the mountains sou'h of here
late Saturday to seek in the
twisted wreckage of a Northwest
Airlines transport plane, the bod
:es of two pilots and nearly five
hundred pounds of Christmas
mail.
A wiry woodsman, Fred Cun
ningham, hiked fif een miles out
of the St. Joe National Forest
with the first word that a ground
party had located the crumpled
remains of the plane which crash
ed last Friday.
Pilots were Joe Livermore of
Spokane and Arthur D. A. Ha d
of Seattle.
Cunningham said he d dn’t dig
into the wreckage to examine it
or to look for bodies, leaving
that task for the postal inspect
ors.
SPOKANE, Dec. 27, — A ra
dia message from the Idaho
mountains where the Northwest
A rlines plane was wrecked,
said that the bod es of pilots Joe
Livermore and Arthur Ha d had
been found, thrown clear of the
wreckage. Seven pouches of
mail were recovered and nine
.t crs were apparently burned.
Two rescue parties with tobog
gans. battled a bLizzard in an eff
ort to reach the scene and bring
out the bodies and mail.
.Jeg.n the- N w Year Right
'■'* u r *r*'- -NT,,
AIRLINER
IS MISSING
WITH 12
12 Passengers Aboard
(By The Associated Press)
BURBANK, Calif., Dec. 28, —
Three sister ships of the United
Air Lines (lew northward into
torm-threatening skies, hunting
for a transport airplane with
four women and eight men on
board which van shed last night
a few miles from Union A.r Ter
minal here.
Due Early, Did Not Arrive
The plane was due at 7:37 p m.
The Ship’s piiot, Edward Blom.
radioed a few minutes ahead of
time for the radio beam to dir
ect him to the field. The plane
was then believed to be only
about 15 miles away.
An automobile party this morn
ing is out investigating a report
of power failure at Simit, last
night, at about the time the air
plane did not show up, voicing
[he fear that the plane accident
: ally hit the lines.
Names of those On Board
Occupants of the missing air
plane were A. L. Markwell of
Los Angeles, Dr. and Mrs. Ed
ward T. Ford Jr. of San Marino,
John Korn, H. S. Teague of Los
Angeles, Mrs. W. A. Newton, M
P Hare, A. Novak, Miss E. Val
ance, copilot Robert McLean of
Oakland and Stewardess Yvonne
Trego of Alameda.
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station. None of its passengers, however, was injured. (Associa ted Press Photo)
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