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SCION OF WEALTHY FAMILY MISSING SAT.
* Roper Prepared Do Something About Japanese
WEALTHY MAN
IS BELIEVED
KIDNAPED
*• _
WHITE PLAINS N. Y. Dec.
6,—Federal Bureau of In
vestigation agents today went
to work to crack the disap
pearance of Arthur Fried, a
wealthy young man of this
state, who has been missing
since Saturday.
<By The Associated Press)
fr WHITE PLAINS, New York.
Dec. 6 —•Reports that Arthur
Pried, aged 32, a member of the
wealthy sand a gravel family,
had been kidnapped and was be
ing held for one hundred thous
and dollars ransom, brought Fed
eral agents here todajC
Fried was said to have vanish
W" c-d from sight Saturday.
May Be Negotiations On
Reports further said that Fried’s
five brothers were in contact with
the gang believed holding the
tnan, and that they were trying
to argue them into reducing the
amount of the ransom.
Was Last Seen Saturday ...
Fried attended a show Saturday
r*ight with his wife and broth
' er in law and the latter's wife.
On their way home, they drop
ped him off at his mother’s house
to get his car which he had park
t-d there. The others went on to
a friends apartment. i
His relatives waited for him.
for some time and then at 3:301
* A. M. they flashed the alarm he
was missing.
Two hours later his car was
found at Rosedale Gardens on
the edge of the city.
He is the son of Joseph Fried,
the late founder of the Empire
Sand and Gravel Company.
- Won A Title
SEATTLE, Dec. 6 — Miss Sig
rid SeppaLa, 21-year-old daught
er of Leonard and Mrs. Seppala
former Nomeites, was crowned
Miss Alaska at the Alaska Yu
kon Pioneers Exposition here.
RUDOLPH ISLAND. Dec. 6, —
i Aviator Ivan Mazuruk, today was
ordered to fly twenty women and
children back to the mainland
from three Levanefsky-search |
shins frozen in the polar ice.
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
ASKS AUTHORITY TO BEAU
WITH JAPANESE INVASION!
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6,—
The Secretary of Commerce
today recommended to cong
ress that a special fisheries
research vessel be built to
explore the North Pacific and
Bering Sea waters, as a means
toward ousting Japanese float
ing canneries, which are aileg
ed to be encroaching in Al
askan waters.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, — Sec
retary Daniel C. Roper of the
Department of Commerce asked
Congress in his annual report,
Eor authority to deal with the
‘increasingly acute” situation in
the North Pacific “resulting from
the threatened exploitation of A1
aska’s fisheries by foreign na
tions.
Construct New Ship
‘•Authority is desired to coi
: struct for the Bureau of Fishe
ies, a research vessel capable
exploring the fisheries of tl
high seas in the North Pacil
Ocean and Bering Sea, with ti
purpose of acquiring scientil
aid in solving the problems no
confronting the industry.”
Referred to Japanese
His report referred to the ev
donee of Japanese fishing in Bri
| ol Bay.
Secretary Roper said that ti
j fur seal herd on the Pribilof I
; lands totalled one million, s:
! hundred and ninety thousar
| animals, an increase of 8.95 pe
|cet for the year.
During the past season 52,4'
■pelts were taken, he said
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You can save $2.00 b
vance for the Nome Pail
Tommy Farr w ho went the lim-!
it with Champion Joe Louis, in a
t;-.!e match last spring, is anxious
Ly awaiting the chance to climb
once more to the top-ranking
ij challenging position. Ahead of
him is Max Schnneling who has
already knocked Louis out once.
| although not in a title bout.
,f GOLD GOES INTO
0 ROAD IN MONTANA
ic -
ie HELENA, Mont., <#■)—Gold-.
bearing gravel will be used in
A' paving seven miles of a section
of a highway, it was revealed here
recently when Henry M. Lancas
i-: ter, mining engineer, said tests
st | made in a pit which will supply 1
the gravel showed values of about
ie | 60 cents to the cubic yard.
5-1 Lanaster said there is not suffi
x cient water in the vicinity to pay
d far dredging or other placer op
r-; orations.
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge ;
Logs, thawing and drill reports,
V Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
V 1 Location Notices. Vouchers.
ENGLEWOOD, N. J. Dec.
e,—The Lindbergh family re
turned to their American
home after nearly two years
spent abroad, seeking seclu
sion following the kidnaping
and death of their first child.
(By The Associated Press)
ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey
Dee. 6. —Colonel and Mrs. Char
les A. Lindbergh came home to
day from a two-year exile ab
road, but the guarded acres o
the Dwight W. Morrow estat
close by the rim of the Hudso
River’ sPalteadesr holds the sc
cret of why they came, and ho\
long they expect to stay.
Travelled Incognito
They pair slipped unheraldei
into New York today aboard th
liner President Harding whic!
sailed from Southampton Nov
ember 27th,under the incognito o
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory, for thei
first trip to their native land sin
ce they went to England in ;
desperate search of seclusion the;
felt they could not find here, jus
sixteen days short of two years
Went Direct to Mother
A waiting car whisked their
from a Manhattan dock to th<
fifty-two acre estate of Mrs
Dwight Morrow, mother of Mrs
Lindbergh.
The only authoritative wore
came from a ship's officer wht
said “their visit will be brief
They plan to return abroad im
mediately after Christmas.”
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Dec. 6, — Charlei
Nve, aged 83 owner fo the pow
er plant at Skagway died o:
heart disease at the home of hi:
relatives here. He went to Skag
way in 1898.
Football Scores
(Bv The Associated Pre3S)
Gonzaga 8 Loyola 13
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give you the Nome Dailj
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saving of $2,00, Do it now
TIGHT ON DECK to
meet tlie Duke and Duchess of
l W i n ds or, Pro toco I Division
Chief (!et»r»,eT. Summerlin wai
J/signaled official greeter.
Won Supreme
court Decision
i
■ ______
(By Tne Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Dec. 6, —The
government ivon in its Supreni *
Court effort, to continue anti
trust proceedings in a southern
1 New York federal district court,
seeking a dissolution of the Al
uminum Company of America.
The decision of three judges of
the circuit court of Philadelphia,
permitting the Department of
Justice to go ahead with the lit
igation. was affirmed by the U. S.
Supreme Court, in an opinion
handed down by Justice McRey
nolds and Chief Justice Hughes
Justice Stone was the only or
J who did not participate in the
' case.
I The Aluminum Company cor.
1 tended the litigation, if any was
. | needed, should have been brought
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