Drug supplies barred from Seattle relief ships
Dec 11 Seattle policy blocks loading relief drugs from three Seattle wholesalers while two others were sent on the steamer Arctic. Gov Troy urged faster supplies, noting shortages in Sitka Pioneer Home and four Juneau drug stores. Protests spread to Sitka Ketchikan Petersburg Wrangell Cordova Seward Fairbanks Anchorage Kodiak as longshoremen refuse to load from strike targets Blumauer-Frank Stewart-Holmes West Coast Wholesale Drug.
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Seattle
Northwest Joint Strike Committee
Alaska
Arctic
John W. Troy
Otto F. Chizon
J. R. Ummel
Sitka
Juneau
Junneau
Ketchikan
Petersburg
Wrangell
Cordova
Seward
Feirbanks
Anchorage
Kodiak
Blumauer-Frank
Stewart- Holmes
Arctic Bound North Large Mixed Cargo
Beattle December 11 Arctic in Alaska Packers' Association service sails north with emergency food goods for Alaska under charter to the Alaska Railroad. Vessel heads to Ketchikan Wrangell Petersburg Juneau Cordova Valdez Seward, then Skagway. Large mixed cargo plus perishables.
Deaf mute couple obtains divorce in Seattle
Seattle December 11 a deaf mute pair Ed Martin and Lina Martin were granted divorce after testimony by interpreter Rev W A Westerman. The couple quarreled constantly and custody of their nine year old son, a student in a deaf and dumb school at Vancouver Washington, was awarded to the mother.
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Seattle
Ed Martin
Lina Martin
W. A. Westerman
Vancouver
Wash
Barr to Tulsequah Flight Delivers Miners and Mail
L. P. Barr piloted the North Canada Air Express Pilgrim from Juneau to Tulsequah this morning carrying mail and four miners bound for the Polaris Taku Mine.
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L. P. Barr
North Canada Air Express
Juneau
Tulsequah
East Coast longshoremen urged to strike in solidarity
In San Francisco on December 11 Pacific Coast stevedores seek to mobilize Eastern longshoremen to refuse cargoes from West Coast ships. Harry Bridges of the ILA Pacific Coast plans a Madison Square Garden appeal on December 14, while Joseph Ryan of the IL A warns no sympathy strike. An offshore operators’ peace offer discussed may include wage hikes and cash overtime for neutral hiring halls.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
ILA
Pacific Coast
New York
Joseph Ryan
International Longshoremen's Association
Bridges
Madison Square Garden
Air Uner
New Setup for Secret Service
Seattle is enlarging its Secret Service district to cover Washington Oregon Idaho Montana and Alaska. Capt W R Jarrell remains Seattle chief and supervising agent. Capt Thomas B Foster moves to supervise California Nevada and Hawaii with headquarters in San Francisco. Redistricting aims at greater efficiency in treasury law enforcement.
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Seattle
United States
Secret Service
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Alaska
W. R. Jarrell
Secretary of the ‘Treasury
Morgenthau
Jarrell
Thomas B. Foster
California
Nevada
Hawaii
San Francisco
Treasury Department
Glass Sat His Government Charters Ships to Send Food North
Pi lot Don Glass and co pilot Gordon McKennie with four passengers were guests of Katalla villagers after landing the amphibian plane on Katalla lagoon due to bad weather while en route from Juneau to Anchorage. The party included Mrs Erskine of Kodiak William Evans Wells of Anchorage and Lorraine Cozac of Juneau.
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Glass
Katalla Lagoon
Cordova
Alaska
Don Glass
Gordon McKennie
Katalla
Here
Juneau
Anchorage
Gordova
Katala
W. H. Erskine
Kodiak
William Evans
M. Wells
Lorraine Cozac
Modified NRA Being Sought Conference on Washington
In Washington on December 11 a drive for a modified NRA formed within the Council of Industrial Progress. Business leaders and labor heads met at the invitation of Industrial Coordinator George Berry to draft wage and hour recommendations and to propose a permanent Advisory Economic Council. The conference reported seven hundred new members, bringing total representation to over nine hundred groups.
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Washington
NRA
George Berry
Dancer Dies After Lion Attack in Chicago Theatre
Gladys Cote, a Chicago dancer, died in a Baltimore hospital this afternoon from infections after being bitten and clawed by a lion on stage in an animal act witnessed by the audience a week earlier.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Gladys Cote
Chicago
Black Slayer Executed in Raleigh Gas Chamber
Martin Moore, 22, a former bellhop described as Black, was executed today in Raleigh for the July 6 hotel room slaying of Helen Clemenger, an 18 year old New York University student. The case drew wide attention as officials confirmed the death sentence had been carried out.
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Raleigh
N. G
Martin Moore
Helen Clemenger
New York University
Stock Quotations From New York Closing Prices Dec 11
Closing quotes show Alaska Juneau mine at 14 percent American Can 114 percent American Power and Light 1154 Anaconda 60 percent Bethlehem Steel 73 percent Calumet and Hecla 13 percent Commonwealth and Southern 3 percent Curtiss Wright 674 General Motors 68 percent International Harvester 10014 Kennecott 69 New York Central 4 4 Southern Pacific 42 percent United States Steel 76 percent United Corporation 6 percent Cities Service 3 percent Brammer Bid .02 asked .04 percent Pound 94.905/16 Dow Jones averages industrials 181.10 rail 110, rails 4.06 down .54 utilities 36.17 down .94
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New York
Alaska
Juneau
American Can
American Power and Light
Anaconda
Bethlehem Steel
Calumet and Hecla
Commonwealth and Southern
Curtiss Wright
General Motors
International Harvester
Kennecott
New York Central
Southern Pacific
United States Steel
United Corporation
Cities Service
Brem~mer
Pound
McNamara backs from Mountain Leather probe on Lemesurier
Mining engineer J J McNamara returns to Juneau with several hundred mineral samples from Lemesurier Island after a ten day expedition delayed by heavy rain and snow. He traveled with Mrs McNamara and two crewmen aboard Capt Tom Smiths Yakobi and plans further work with J C Feeley of Los Angeles for a syndicate.
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Lemesuder Island
J. J. McNamara
Rex Beach
Juneau
Tom Smith
McNamara
Joe Iback
Semesurier Island
J. C. Feeley
Los Angeles
Lemesurier
Feeley
Fairbanks to Buenos Aires Highway Okayed
AN FRANCISCO Cal Dec 10 Delegates attending the American Association of State Highway Officials at the close of the convention last night endorsed the proposed inter American Highway linking Fairbanks Alaska with Buenos Aires Argentina The plan aims to improve road connections across North and South America and is viewed as a major transcontinental project by transportation officials.
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Francisco
Cal
American Association of State Highway Officials
Fan Palibatits
Alogka
Buenos
Mrs Tod Dies in Vancouver Funeral Tomorrow
Mrs Israel Janet Louise Tod died at her Vancouver home aged 47. Sister of Robert Service, famed Alaska poet, she was born in Glasgow and had lived in Canada 30 years, moving to British Columbia ten years ago. Funeral services will be held tomorrow.
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Vancouver
Israel Janet Louise Tod
Robert Service
Alaska
Tod
Glasgow
Canada
British Columbia
Dog's misadventure lands terrier in Orange Hospital
A seven month old terrier in Orange New Jersey wandered into Orange Memorial Hospital for treatment after injuring its foot. An intern bound the wound and the dog moved on. In Chester Pennsylvania a different incident saw a man killed and thirty six injured when a crowd gathered outside Meense Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock amid a strike.
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Orane
N. J
Heere
Orange Memorial Hospital
Chester
Alrioting
Meense
Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock
Bill moves to end Governor General post in Irish Free State
Dublin December 11 President Eamon de Valera introduces a bill to abolish the Governor General's office and drop the British King’s name from Irish Free State affairs. It recognizes King Edward abdication and the Duke of York as successor but ends British control over Irish foreign policy. The measure, the first challenge to dominion rule, is to be rushed through tomorrow.
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Dublin
Dall Eireann
Eamon de Valera
Edward
Duke of York
Inspectors Urge FHA Remedies for All Property
Boston inspectors urge use of the Modernization Credit Plan by the Federal Housing Administration to cover repairs for unhealthful or obnoxious conditions. Property owners may obtain funds from private lenders insured by the FHA with repayments in equal monthly installments up to three years. Building inspectors and visiting nurses offer to explain plan applications to residential improvements. The note adds a 1933 figure about North Carolina insurance premiums.
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Boston
Mass
Boston Heart Department
Federal Housing Administration
Housing Administration
Pope Helps Mass From Sick Room At Vatican
In Vatican City on December 11 the Pope attended a chapel mass while bedridden. He described the night as his worst since being stricken with partial paralysis of his lower body and led prayers from his sick room.
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Vatican City
Italy
Savoy Dynasty Granted Own Feastday in Rome
Rome archbishop Cardinal Maurizio Fassart has decreed October 5 as the annual feastday honoring the relics of identified Savoy blood members. The move formalizes a royal house religious observance within Italy's Catholic calendar.
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Rome
Italy
House of Savoy
Maurizio Fassart
Turin
Baldwin Pays First Visit To New King
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made his first official visit to the new king in London. He received tremendous cheers from the crowd outside the ruler’s Piccadilly residence.
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Baldwin
London
Stanley Baldwin
Piccadilly
Abdication of Edward Passed by Parliament
London dispatch reports Edward VIII abdicated the throne and his brother Albert Frederick Arthur George, the Duke of York, will become King George the Sixth. The Royal Commission act passed, confirming the abdication in hours and setting the herald proclamation for a medieval rite. Prime Minister Baldwin said allied dominions seek association with the new king.
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London
Edward
Albert Frederick Arthur George
House of Commons
House of Lords
Wallis Warfield Simp
Pacific Coast
Duke of York
King George the Sixth
King George the Smith
King George the Fifth
Stanley Baldwin
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Tribute Paid to Edward by Brit Premier
London dispatch reports Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin announcing in the House of Commons that the Royal Consent Act should recognize King Edward's abdication and the Duke of York's accession. Baldwin lauded Edward's royal service and expressed enduring gratitude for his years as Prince of Wales and brief reign.
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London
House of Commons
Stanley Baldwin
Edward
Duke of York
Baldwin
Prince of Wales
Former King Edward Windsor renounces throne and retires
Edward Windsor former King of England spoke to a worldwide audience on radio signaling his decision to renounce the throne. He explained he cannot bear the burden without the woman he loves and pledged allegiance to his brother as monarch. He said he would be ready to serve if needed and that return to Britain may take time.
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London
Edward Windsor
England
Juneau
Mr. Windsor
British Broadcasting Corporation
George V
Great Britain
Himeslf
Windsor
Stanley Baldwin
Mrs Simpson Expects Final Decree In Divorce Case
In Cannes Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson says she expects a final divorce decree without complications. She is not aware of moves to invalidate her temporary decree and will stay in Southern France for several weeks. A spokesman says she does not plan to meet former King Edward before the decree becomes final next April.
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Cannes
France
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Queen Mary Moves By Sympathy Memage From London
Queen Mary expresses deep gratitude for sympathy in a memage from London. The message thanks supporters and notes royal appreciation for the kindness shown during a period of mourning. Additional details indicate formal acknowledgement from the royal household.
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London
Dee, IL
Queen Mary
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