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VOL. 38. No. 12 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JAN. 15, 1937. Per Copy 15cts
Man and Woman Sought by G-Men
Governor Troy’s Message Delivered To Legislature
Alleged Strikers Halted Canadian Tug, Log-Tow
HALTING CANADIAN
TUGBOAT THREAT
PEACE THE COAST
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15, —I
Halting of a Canadian tugboat,
by allegedly 'American maritime
strikers brought demands from
the Dominion of Canada, and a
protest to the American govern
ment at Washington, D. C.
A threat of international com.
plications came from the stop
ping Wednesday of the tugboat
“Prospecutive", outbound from
Anacortes to Vancouver. B. C.,
with a tow of logs, from George
Astel, Whidby Island publisher
and residents of the island.
The crew of the tugboat re.
ported that a group of Everett
men stopped the vessel and re
fused to let it proceed unless it
dropped its tow.
Union headquarters in Seattle
denied any knowledge of the af_
fair.
F. E. Burke, President of the
Vancouver Merchants Exchange
in protesting the incident to Can
adian Prime Minister McKenzie
King, blamed “alleged strikers,
or men employed by them”.
He said the action was ‘‘tanta
mount to piracy”.
Messages fro m the Vancouver
owners of the Prospecutive said
she was boarded and halted while
tied up in American waters at
Deception Pass, awaiting favor,
able weather.
Offshore shipowners and long
shoremen planned another con.
ference today to continue discus
sions which originated at Port
land.
Speaking before a mass meeting
Harry Bridges said last night:
“We want the strike -ended to.
morrow if it can be done”, after
he urged Presidential interven
tion.
Parson of Air
Died After Two
Operations Cal.
fBv The Associated Press •
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 15, —Jo
siah Hopkins, 56, the Goose Creek
Parson in three years of nation,
al radio broadcasting, who is in
real life Rev. William Hogg,
died here following two major
operations.
Efforts At Rescue
I
IV 1 in- A<-.•<••!t.U-fl Press'
NANKING, Jan. 15, — U. S.
Ambassador Neiscn Johnson said
he had been informed that Willys
Peck, counsellor at the embassy,
had reached Sianfu, the walled
cap tal of Shenshi Province, and
the stronghold of Marshal Chang’s
communist-inclined armies.
Peck planned to rescue twen_
ty-one Americans trapped there
by warfare, by flying them to Lo_
yang.
Thousands of striking maritime workers paraded up San Francisco’s Market street in a demonstra.
tion for public support. Floats depicted their side of the walkout. Here Is one of them, a car
flying a ‘‘dollar*’ flag that bore a portly individual representing a “plutocrat” leading a seaman by
a noosed rope on foot behind. (Associated Press Photo)
!. HOW NEWEST BOMBER LANDED ON ITS NOSE
I
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Here’s the army’s new bomber, the 16*ton Boeing YB-17, just after it skidded and came to rest on its nose
when Its air brakes apparently locked on landing from a test flight at Seattle. Two of its crew we-e
•lightly injured. It was reported *that the damage to the plane wo'fSf^ be repaired shortly. (Associated
• Press Photo)
OFFICIALS SEARCHING MAN
AND WOMAN WHO LIVED ON
OUTSKIRTS CITY 2 MONTHS
(By The Associated Press'*
TACOMA, Jan. 15, — State po_
lice sought a man and woman
today, who disappeared from a
four-room house five miles north
of Seattle Wednesday, two days
after the body of the Mattson
boy had been found.
The man’s photograph was ten
tatively identified here, and also
at San Jose, California, as that
of Fred Haynes, exjconvict of
Folsom Prison, wanted for ques
tioning about the kidnaping.
Set Price For Non
Interference
iRv Th” Associated Press)
ROME, Jan. 15, — British ad
herence to a European anti_com
rnunlsm pact, it was reported in
informed fascist circles, as the
price set by Italian and Gor
man government for a strict,
non.intervention in the Spanish
Civil War.
Chief William Cole, of the Wash
ington State Police inspected the
house early today, on information
furnished by Mrs. Melvin Smith,
of San Jose who said she rent,
ed it two months ago to a man
she declared she was certain,
was Haynes. Mrs. Smith former
ly lived in Seattle.
Chief Cole said that according
to the information gathered, it
had caused him to believe the
man was ‘‘hot”, though not ne<
essarily Haynes, or that he was
involved in the kidnaping.
A barbeque pit of blue clay
! was found along a creek back of
| the house mentioned. Such blue
; clay is common in western Wash.
I ington. Particles of it were
found under the finger nails of
the dead Mattson boy.
It was also discovered that the
man and woman went under
three different names.
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TROY’S
MESSAGE
RECEIVED
1st Bill Is Introduced
(Special to the Nugget)
JUNEAU, Jan. 15, — In brief
remarks complimenting legisla.
tors on their excellent spirit of
harmony and urging a continued
spirit of forgetting Division lin
es in future legislation. Governor
of Alaska John W. Troy, present,
ed his biennial message to the
joint session of the Thirteenth
Alaska Legislature, late yester
lay afternoon, over which Sena.
:or Henry Roden of the First
Division presided.
The Governor did not read his
nessage but offered it to the law
nakers to peruse at their leisure,
the message itself being in print,
ed form.
The Senate, in a brief session
prior to the joint meeting of the
two bodies, saw the first bill
tossed into the hopper by Sena
tor Roden.
The measure would assess a
one dollar license tax on all com
mercial fishermen in Alaskan
waters. It aso requires that in
order to secure a license it will
be necessary for the applicant
to be a legal resident of the Ter_
ritory for a period of one year
prior to the application.
The bill is aimed at curbing
the interests of Alaska resident
fishermen, particularly in Brist
ol Bay.
COMEDIAN HAS COURT TROU3! E
The marital trouble* of Ollvor Hardy, the heftier half of the film team
of Laurel and Hardy, brought him Into court In Lo* Angeles In almost
the aamo fashion as his teammsto previously. Hardy and hla wife.
Myrtle Hardy, are pictured ae they appeared at a hearing of a suit
eho brought against the comedian for $2^00 monthly for separata
maintenance. (Associated Press Photos)