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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
Vol 38 no 33 NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, FEB 10, 1937. Per Copy 15cts
"DEAD RINGER” OF KIDNAPER IN CUSTODY
Eleven Lost Lives in Plane Crash San Francisco Bay
UNITED AIRLINES SHIP
CRASHED IN BAY
ALL KILLED
Plane was coming in for landing, overshot first time,
and was circling for another try when it
fell into water and disappeared
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, —
A big United Airlines plane fly
ing eleven passenger from south
ern California to this city, crash
ed in San Francisco Bay last nite
and disappeared beneath its inky
> -waters, which were scoured in
vain, within an hour, by search
ers.
The twin-motored craft fell a
quarter or half mile off shore
from the airport, which was its
destination, said eye witnesses.
Airline officials said the plane
was piloted by Tommy Thomp
son.
The officials declared the pane
had received landing instruct;ons
by radio at 8:44 p.m. The ship
carre ir. a little too high, the
spokesman said, and then circled
back to try it again, when it fell
into the water.
Copilot was Joe cle Cassaro and
stewardess Ruth Kiumel. Others
were the passengers, residents of
California or the East.
The water was comparatively
shallow where the plane fell. No
trace of either the plane or the
occupants had been found up to
a late hour last night.
Shifting tides sucked the wreck
age oi me an transport cumpieie
ly under the murky water early
today.
At 2:30 a.m. today, the tail of
the craft was sighted protruding
from the water off the south San
Francisco shore, about one and
a quarter miles from Mills Field
jnd the Municipal Airport, where
it was due to land.
It sank from sight after low
ide at 5:15 a.m. as a marine der
rick and deep sea diver prepar
ed to go to the spot.
B. M. Doolin, airport manager
said “it is not possible that any
one on beard is aldve”.
Names of the passengers were:
Mark Fontana, Michael Gilmore,
hma Margaroni, all of San Fran
Javn Grennan, Sr., and his
laughter Gertrude of Berkeley,
T. Large. R. B. Freedlander bo’h
if Los Angeles, Rodgers Meyer of
Ridgewood, New Jersey.
SPECIAL NOTICE
All persons interested in box
in? or wrestling are requested to
report tonight between the hours
of 6:30 and 7:30 at the Nome At
hletic Club House.
J. P. Hannon, Chief
Clerk of House
Resigned
fSnacial to the Nugget)
JUNEAU, Feb. 9, — The re
signation of J. P. Hannon, chief
clerk of the house, was accepted,
and Mrs. Margaret Grisham, his
successor, will be named by the
read.ng clerk, which is an inno
vation in the legislature, as none
have been previously employed.
Andrew Norland introduced a
bill to repeal the law giving first
locators prior rights on water
and mining claims. It came up
for d'scussion, and strong oppo
sition is expected tomorrow.
Ti e house discussed the memor
ial to eliminate fish traps. Brun
n pile's mining tax t. came up
in the senate for amendment,
one of which adopted would
raise the license tax on net in
mes on mining properties ex-4
cept gild and platinum, at grad
uated scales from two and a half
percent on a hundred thousand
to e;ght percent cm a million or
over. The levy on gold and p’at
inum was left at the original fig
.-re—three percent of the gross
production, although the start of
taxation would be fixed at ten
thousand instead of twenty.
The measure will come up for
final passage probably tomorrow
A sim'lar mining bill was off
ered in the house except that it
included gold and platinum un
der the net income provision, but
raising the levy slightly over the
I existing law.
AUTO STRIKERS BATTLE POLICE AMID TEAR GAS
. *
This action picture taken at the height of the riot between strikers and police at one of the Fisher Body
plants at Flint, Mich., showa strikers defying clouds of tear gas to hurl missiles at the officers. National
guardsmen were ordered out by Gov. Frank Murphy as a result of the battle, In which 14 were shot, one
t seriously. (Associated Press Photo)
JEANNE MOZEE
LEADS QUEEN
RACE TODATE
In spite of the fact that the
names of “Queen Contest” candi
dates were not officially announc
ed until today, many votes have
already been cast. This would
indicate that everyone is enthus
iastic about the contest, all of
which proves that it will develop
into an exciting race.
This is justifiable considering
the fact that most of the “Beau
ties” of Nome have already regis
tered and the contest has just
started. Several other very pro
mising girls are still hoping and
waiting for some friend to spon
sor them and by tomorrow it is
expected more candidates will
have enered the race.
Due to electrical and mechani
cal difficulties, no newspaper was
‘published, yesterday and the
count as shown below is the total
vole for Miss Nome up to 1 p.m.
today:
•Jeanne Mozee 6060
Gertrude Johansen 4860
Geraldine Rude.2400
Rita O’Leary 1340
Marguerite Lee.780
Dorothy Nelson-. 620
Ada Baldwin .500
Ollie Weaver is all puffed up
because all three of his telephone
operators are in the Queen Con
test. This automatically sets him
up as an authority on feminine
charm. Consequently it has been
suggested that the Kennel Club
start a “ON TO FAIRBANKS”
campaign and send Oilie over to
act as judge. Several persons
have referred to “Weaver’s Har
(Continued on Page Four)
‘G-CHIEFS’ PUSH KIDNAP HUNT
Force* of the federal bureau of Investigation were engaged In an in
tense and widespread hunt for the kidnaper who killed little 10-year
old Charles Mattson of Tacoma in brutal fashion—a search In which
no clue was overlooked. Directing the FBI army were Harold Nathan
(right), assistant to J. Edgar Hoover, and Earl J. Connelley (left),
agent in charge of field forces. (Associated Press Photos)
LOYALISTS DENIED
CAPTURE HIGHWAY
(By The Associated Press)
MADRID, Feb. 10, —Heavily
censored dispatches today quot
ed military commander? as say
ing that insurgents and Fascists
“had not succeeded up to last
night in cutting the road to the
vital Valencia highway.
SOVIET PLANE ON BIG FLIGHT
(Bv The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R Feb. 9, — Chief Pilot F. B
Fahrig, Russia’s most experienced Arctic flier, took
off on a projected twelve thousand five hundred mile
ight to explore a trans-Polar route between Moscow
and Alaska.
With a crew of five and three passengers, Fahrig
lifted the huge plane marked U S S R-N120, from cen
tral airport, for the start of the first complete circuit
of far northern Russia ever undetaken in winter.
He will test the new plane under many severe con
ditions and inspect conditions at winter settlements in
the Arctic, and deliver mail and supplies.
The flight is sponsored by the government avia
tion office which is planning a north polar route to Alas
ka. The plane will fly via Novosibirisk, Irkutsk, Yak
utsk, and Anadyr, to within a few miles of Alaska, then
turning back, return by way of Wrangell Island, Tixie
Bay, Chelyuskin and Dickson Island and Archangel. It
is euipped with two 715 hoi’sepower engines, and wheel
and skii landing gears.__
Ex-Convict Seattle
Questioned Over
Mattson Case
1 r
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Feb. 10, — An ex
convict was questioned by state
and city police and federal agents
for ten hours last night in con
nection with the Mattson boy kid
naping and murder case.
He will be confronted today by
William and Muriel Mattson, ag
ed sixteen and fourteen, the broth
er and sister of the slain young
ster, who witnessed the abduc
tion.
High police officials who de
clined to be quoted so d that Vir
ginia Ci. at field aged 1G. a third
witness to the kidnaping, would
also view him in the police line
up.
The officials said the man, who
gave his name as H. A. Post, 32,
when booked for questioning,
was a “dead ringer” for the kid
naper, and that he was definitely
in Tacoma from December 21st
to December 26th, although he
claimed he was in three differ
ent places at the time of the ab
duction on December 27th.
Double Header Baseball Games Wed. Feb. 10
* HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS VS BLAZERS—HUSKIES VS COMMERCIALS—SPECIAL GAMES FOR WED.— ADM. ADULTS 50cts SCHOOL CHILDREN 25cts