Northwest Lumber Strike Spreads to Seattle Mills
The Puget Sound lumber strike reaches Seattle as 10 more mills close, bringing total mills and camps shut to 35 and 12,600 workers idled. Travel ing pickets from Tacoma, Everett and Snoqualmie halt seven mills, while Fort Lewis cantonment work faces delays and a mild influenza outbreak limits training. The AFL Puget Sound council seeks wage gains and benefits amid the disruption.
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Seattle
Puget Sound
Tacoma
Fort Lewis
Sound Construction Company
41St Division
A.F.L. Puget Sound
Everett
Snoqualmie
Shell Oil cuts tank wagon gasoline price in Texas
In Houston on December 6 Shell Oil announces a one cent a gallon cut to tank wagon gasoline, restoring prices to pre squeeze levels after a Thursday raise. The move follows other majors, save Gulf, who kept higher prices after a Monday increase.
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Houston
Texas
Shell Oil Company
Shell
Texas Company
Pioneer businessman and politician B Connelly dies in Seattle
B Connelly, 73, prominent Billings and Montana figure since 1885, died in a Seattle hospital after months of illness. He led Montanans Inc and served in the Montana House and Senate from 1909 to 1911 and 1919 to 1922. He was a Taft delegate in 1903 and a Republican candidate for electors in 1922. Funeral services are at the First Congregational Church in Billings with burial at Mountain View Cemetery.
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Billings
I. B. Connelly
Montana
Seattle
Wash
F. B. Connelly Company
Great Falls
Frank G. Connelly
Kenneth Amor Connelly
Origen Dean Connelly
Beattie
Glenn Hart Connelly
Portland
Lehore Mills
Connelly
Montanans, Inc
State House of Representatives
Yellowstone County
State Senate
William Howard Taft
al Bedoo
Shrine Temple
Billings Commercial Club
Rotary International
First Congregational Church
Mountainview Cemetery
Judging Complete At Big Svestoge Show At Chicago
Chicago dispatch reports the 41st International Livestock exposition closed judging with experts tallying 11 548 livestock from 32 states and Canada. William Whisler of Aurora Illinois won the champion sheep shearer title with a perfect nine minute performance earning 150 dollars. Second and third prizes went to Roland Burkhardt Pandora Ohio and George Ovien Stone Park Illinois. Fourth place went to Lee Hester Arlington Nebraska who previously won 100 dollars in the state farm flock contest. Prices paid included up to 62% cents a pound for baby beeves at a 4 H club auction.
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Chicago
States
Canada
William Whisler
Aurora
United States
Whisler
Roland Burkhardt
Pandora
Ohio
George Ovien
Stone Park
Lee Hester
Arlington
Neb
Hester
Burkhardt
Orlen
Barrow
Purdue
Chester White
Purdue University
LaFayette
Ind
Wilson and Company
Flu Epidemic Recedes in California Persists in Northwest
California reports 665 new influenza cases and ten pneumonia deaths as trend leans toward recession there, while Oregon and Washington show mixed signals with some schools closed and large student absences but no statewide epidemic. Fort Lewis and Camp Murray report 1,900 ill soldiers. Spokane notes epidemic not yet underway.
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San Francisco
California
Oregon
Washington
Los Angeles
Ralph Hendricks
Spokane
Washington State
Fort Lewis
Camp Murray
Mt. Vernon
Omak
Ellensburg
Thorp and
Kenwick
University of Oregon
Portland
Ralph Dugdale
Salem
Garner to Return for Inauguration in January
Avalde Texas December 6 Vice President Garner announced he would go to Washington for the January 20 inauguration of President Roosevelt and Vice President Wallace. He plans to arrive around January 1, saying the house and senate in session three days weekly makes earlier travel unnecessary. Garner has been in California since October. A windstorm in 1938 at Mecca moved a truck that could have been crushed by a falling tree on the Hammon ranch. The weather incident is noted as context.
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Avalde
Texas
Garner
Washington
Roosevelt
Led Wat-lace
House
Senate
Hammon Ranch
Mecca
Calif
National Beet Growers elects officers amid growth drive
Salt Lake City December reports that the National Beet Growers association executive committee issued a statement after electing officers. Charles M. Kearney of Morrill Nebraska was reelected president by 22 directors. vote details remained undisclosed beyond a majority for Kearney.
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Salt Lake City
National
Best Growers’ Association
Beet Growers Association
Mountain State Association
Charles M. Kearney
Morrill, Neb
Kearney
GOTTON GROWERS VOTE ON MARKETING QUOTAS
Washington December 6 growers to vote on an Agriculture Department plan to continue strict marketing controls for cotton next year. Each grower would be told how much cotton he may sell without a penalty of 3 cents per pound. The program began in 1938 and has been approved yearly by growers in referenda. The note about the University of Padua appears in the source but not relevant to the cotton vote.
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Washington
South
Dark orange flame lights wrecked oil rig near Bay City
In Bay City Michigan on December 6 a large dark orange flame from a test oil well north of the city towered over twisted wreckage and a steel derrick, painting the scene with a lurid glow as evening menaced.
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Bay City
Mich
Heveling
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