Communistic Plot Unfolds on Coast Two Arrests Made
District Attorney Burton Fitts reports a 22 month probe into Southern California Communist activities has yielded two arrests and a large trove of evidence. Brittain Webster, jailed over John Riley’s five year old San Pedro slaying, and Clyde Champion arrested in Bakersfield are named. Grand jury to hear mass evidence on efforts to influence Hollywood and crush unions. red leaders sought in San Francisco Portland and Seattle.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Burton Fitts
California
Brittain Webster
John Riley
San Pedro
Clyde Champion
San Joaquin
Halibut Prices Reported From Seattle Buying
Seattle August 5 Halibuters arriving and selling include Electra 40 000 pounds at 12 7/8 to 12 cents per pound and President 25 000 pounds at 15 and 13 1/2 cents. Local banks offer Forward 2 000 pounds at 14 cents straight. Opal More of Ketchikan registered as Baranof Hotel.
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Seattle
Electra
Ketchikan
Opal More
Baranof Hotel
Wheeler isolationists plot to filibuster draft act
Senator Wheeler and fellow Isolationists plan a secret filibuster to block a draft bill. They rely on political fear to stall until after November, wagering a spring passage could still be avoided. They call Roosevelt's war warning a phony conflict while gambling with national security.
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Washington
Wheeler
Senate
Roosevelt
Dr. Frederick A. Cook Arctic Explorer Dies in New York
Dr. Frederick A. Cook, once a controversial Arctic explorer, died at Larchmont New York after months of illness. President Roosevelt granted him a full pardon during his illness. Cook rose to fame in 1909 for claiming discovery of the North Pole, a claim later challenged by Admiral Peary whose findings were accepted by the National Geographic Society. Cook’s career included expeditions in Greenland Alaska and Antarctica and later a mail fraud conviction with a 14 year sentence at Fort Leavenworth.
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Larchmont
N. Y
Frederick A. Cook
Roosevelt
Dr. Cook
North Pole
Cook
Robert E. Peary
Arctic
Denmark
Admiral Peary
Indian Harbor
Labrador
Pole
National Geographical Society
North Polar
Greenland
Alaska
Fort Worth
Texas
Port Leavenworth
Kansas
Juneau airport plan outlines contested construction
Army airfield plans at Mendenhall hover on which government arm will fund and build. Major Dale Gaffney and Col B C Dunn led site reviews with CAA official Rosto and Maj John Paul Dean. Surveys by CAA and Territorial engineers note two to three mile runways using Pacific Alaska Airways as base. Army needs congressional approval in Rivers and Harbors funds.
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Mendenhall
Dale Gaffney
Ladd Field Air Force
Fairbanks
B. C. Dunn
United States Engineers Office
Seattle
West Point
John Paul Dean
Baranof
Annette Island Air Field
C. A. Rosto
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Gaffney
U. S
Army
Pacific Alaska Airways
CAA
Resto
Juneau
Metlakatla
Yakutat
Military Training Up Vote Clears Path for Senate Action
The Military Affairs Committee voted 12 to 3 to send Burke-Wadsworth Compulsory Military Training Bill to the Senate floor. The plan requires about 12 million men aged 21 to 30 to register, clearing the way for Senate debate this week alongside a presidential authority measure for National Guard activation amid anticipated floor opposition.
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Washington
Senate
National Guard
Conditions Favor Invasion Strike Across British Isles
Associated Press reports propitious weather and tides for a Nazi invasion of the British Isles with no fixed time. British Air Force notes Germans busy at French ports and in Norway. RAF bombs continental targets, while both sides claim aircraft losses and limited civilian damage in southern England.
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Associated Press
British Isles
British
French
Norway
War Ministry
Royal Air Force
Saults
Engand
Berlin
England
Germany
Hhat
Plans to Build Pacific Coast Steel Plant for Defense
SAN FRANCISCO August 5 The nation weighs a proposal to erect a vast steel plant on the Pacific coast akin to Pittsburgh and Gary The move follows a nationwide broadcast in which Stephen Early secretary to President Roosevelt described a concerted effort to make America invulnerable and urged Democratic unity and procedures Barry in Los Angeles said the President favors the project as the National Defense Advisory Committee endorses it and pushes the plan forward.
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San Francisco
Cal
Stephen Early
Roosevelt
America
Barry
Los Angeles
Pittsburgh
Gary
Pacific Court
National Defense Advisory Committee
Attack on Gibraltar Disastrous Raid Reported
Aug 5 reports describe thunderous explosions and smoke as raiding planes strike Gibraltar opposite here. The ammunition dump is said to have been blown up before anti air guns could fire. on a second raid the guns responded and the raiders appeared.
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Algeciras
Gibraltar
Willkie Quizzed On Issues By Farm Belt Leaders
Des Moines Aug 5 Wendell L Willkie sat down with governors from Iowa Minnesota Colorado and South Dakota and about 44 farm belt leaders to discuss farm problems and to hear his views on the Republican platform plank and the Democratic administration agricultural program.
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Des Moines
Wendell L. Willkie
Minnesota
Colorado
South Dakota
Train Wreck Near Calcutta Suspected Sabotage
CALCUTTA Aug 6 Thirty Indians killed and 70 injured when Dacca Calcutta mail train was wrecked early this morning about 75 miles from here. Authorities say sabotage is suspected.
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Calcutta
Dacca
UAW backs Roosevelt for third term in vote
The United Automobile Workers CIO, the second largest union in the United States, has endorsed President Roosevelt for a third term. The endorsement occurred in a vote reported as 507 to 40.
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U. S
ST. Louis
United Automobile Workers, Cio
United States
Roosevelt
Stephen Chadwick Announces He Will Run for U.S. Senate
Seattle news reports former American Legion National Commander Stephen Chadwick has filed to run for the U S Senate as a Republican. Though a lifelong Democrat he aligned with Willkie in the presidential race and has recently endorsed him. Mrs Simon Hellenthal accompanied her husband to Valdez aboard the Baranof.
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Stephen Chadwick
U.S. Senate
Seattle
Wash
American Legion
U. S. Senate
Chadwick
Wendell L. Willkie
Simon Hellenthal
Judge Hellenthal
Third Judicial Division
Valdez
Baranof
Fire hits Alaska cannery at Port Althorp
British and Japanese workers face crisis as a midnight blaze razes the Port Althorp cannery and main warehouses of the Alaska Pacific Salmon Company. The fire destroys the cannery loft, stores, carpentry shop, and living quarters above the company store while several buildings survive. The scale of loss is unclear though 6000 to 7000 cans may be burned. operations may shift to Kake with APS plants.
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Port Althorp
Alaska Pacific Salmon Company
Oscar Larson
August Buschmann
Buschmann
Kake
APS
Shell Simmons
Tokyo warns of possible British break in ties
Berlin reports a Tokyo paper Vieni Nichi says Ja wah will break off diplomatic relations with England if Japan fails to obtain satisfaction over arrests of prominent Japanese nationals in British territory. London announces Japan drafting a third protest over Nipponese arrests in England. Tokyo withholds decision on reciprocal arrests by Britain.
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Berlin
Tor
Tokyo
Vieni Nichi
Jawah
England
London
Foreign Office
Japan
Tuna Price Soaring Up in Astora This Season
In Astora Oregon on August 5 the price war between California buyers and local buyers pushed Albacore tuna to 140 dollars per ton, the highest price yet. The rate rose fifteen dollars per ton since the season opened three weeks ago.
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California
Astoria
Astora
Oregon
Stock Quotations and Dow Jones Averages Report
Stock quotes from New York on August 5 show Alaska Juneau mine up 4 percent and other leaders including American Can 8 percent Anaconda 20 Commonwealth and Southern 6 Curtiss Wright 6 General Motors 25 74 International Harvester 4 Kennecott 2634 New York Central 114 Northern Pacific United States Steel 53 and Pound at 3 88 Dow Jones averages list Industrials 12644 Rails 2688 Utilities 2272 reflecting a strong overall trading day.
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Alaska
Juneau
American Can
Anaconda
Bethlehem Steel
Commonwealth and Southern
Curtiss Wright
General Motors
International Harvester
Kennecott
New York Central
Northern Pacific
United States Steel
Pound
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