Mobilization Plans Stir Senate Probers and Opinions
Washington December 18 The Senate Munitions Investigating Committee questions the Army plan to keep the long secret war mobilization scheme from Congress until war arrives. The plan includes a six percent profits cap and voluntary press censorship in war. Senator Bennett Champ Clark Missouri urges eight bills codifying the mobilization scheme be rushed to Congress, while witnesses defend wartime legality and peacetime testing.
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Senate
Congress
United States
Bennett Champ Clark
Missouri
Spur
Ake Wae
New freedom in bank credit urged by Morgenthau plan
Secretary Morgenthau backs a national lending network and continued federal loans to industry. A report on Chicago’s Seventh Federal Reserve District urges centralizing Federal Loan practice in the RFC or a new intermediate system to ease credit while noting banks tightened cash advances and demand was not as large as feared.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Treasury
Chicago
Federal Reserve District
RFC
Paris Inn Closed by U S Marshals Arrests Made
Deputy U S Marshals closed the Paris Inn on the Glacier Highway at 3 this morning and arrested Curley Fraser Harry Bunger and Holly Evans on charges of selling intoxicating liquor and operating an unlicensed establishment. The U S Attorney filed the information in district court. Attorney Grover C Winn, a Seattle passenger aboard the Alaska, expects to return after year’s start.
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United States
Nate Hardy
John McCormick
Walter G. Hellan
Paris Inn
Glacier Highway
Curley Fraser
Harry Bunger
Holly Evans
United States District Court
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Seattle
Alaska
Roosevelt Power Policy Faces Supreme Court Test
Washington reports growing war clouds over power policy as the Roosevelt administration rejects cooperation in enforcing power plans. A quick Supreme Court test may follow. Edison Institute head Thomas Mc Arthur warned that government experiments could force rate cuts, claiming private enterprise is being strangled.
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Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Thomas McC Arthur
Edison,Electric Institute
White House
Salmon broker and packer Byron F. Stone dies at 88
Byron F. Stone, 88, longtime salmon broker and cannery pioneer, dies at his Astoria home. Born in New York in 1848, he helped establish the first Sacramento River cannery with George Hume, then joined the Astoria scene in 1886 with Hume’s Columbia River cannery. He served 16 years as president of the Port of Astoria Commission and is survived by two sons and two daughters.
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Oregon
Byron F. Stone
Pacific Coast
Stone
New York State
Plains
California
George Hume
Sacramento River
Hume
Columbia River
Port of
Fairbanks to Get City Hall
The Public Works Administration announced an allotment of 50000 dollars loan and grant to the city of Fairbanks Alaska for a new city hall.
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Fairbanks
Washington
Public Works Administration
Alaska
Bremerton Boxer Surrenders After Fatal Beer Parlor Fight
Seattle December 18 Kenneth Kinney a 20 year old Bremerton mechanic and boxer confessed to striking 38 year old C D Lewin in a beer parlor fight. Lewin died Sunday from injuries Kinney surrendered after reading newspaper accounts of the death.
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Seattle
Kenneth Kinney
Bremerton
C.D. Lewin
Kinney
Lewis
French arms policy endorsed by deputies in Paris
In Paris on December 18 the Chamber of Deputies overwhelmingly endorsed a strong French arms policy. Deputies approved about 52 million dollars in appropriations to reinforce France’s fighting capacity against potential German attacks. Navy building was urged to compete with Italy.
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Chamber of Deputies
France
Germany
Italy
Justice William H. Sawtelle Dies At 66
San Francisco reports the death of Justice William H. Sawtelle, 66, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals member. He fell at home, fractured his skull, and died after noting flu-like symptoms following work. Won appointment in 1931 by Hoover.
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San Francisco
Cal
William H. Sawtelle
Ninth United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Sawtelle
Justice Sawtelle
Circuit Court of Appeals
Hoover
Welcome Santa Claus Plans Disrupted by Yukon Delay
Schools dismiss at 11 30 for Santa visit as Juneau hosts a welcome to Santa Claus. Superintendent Phillips stated the Alaska Steamship Company officials explained the late Yukon arrival and a Pacific Coast trip is rescheduled. The event mirrors similar programs in other Southeast Alaska ports.
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Juneau
Yukon
Santa Claus
Pacific Coast
Phillips
Alaska Steamship Company
Alaska
Senator Long Plans Another Dictator Move
Baton Rouge, La. Fifteen thousand teachers would fall under Senator Long's control if 33 bills are enacted at the special session. A joker provision would place teachers' jobs at the whim of Long and a controlled board, unnoticed in the session's first days. The Senate will refer these bills to a committee before action, with House concurrence expected today.
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United States
Long
State House
House
Senate
Former Juneau Resident Dies in Ketchikan
George E. Brown 58 died in Ketchikan from paralysis after years of illness. A carpenter who arrived in 1899, he worked in northern mining camps and later lived in Juneau and Douglas before moving to Ketchikan. Survived by widow, brother Fred in Ketchikan, and three sisters in Seattle and Canada. Born in Ontario.
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Alaska
George E. Brown
Brown
Juneau
Douglas
Fred
Seattle
Canada
Ontario
Army Inland Waterways Projects Underway
Washington December 18 announced by Secretary of War Dern that the Army Engineer Corps is spending 343 million dollars on inland waterways with plans to spend eight billion more if approved. There are now 126 projects in progress and 1 600 others are planned.
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Washington
United States
Dern
Army Engineer Corps
Townsend Plan Leader Threatens Congress Over Pension Plan
Dr. F. E. Townsend arrived in Washington and warned he will “lick the hide off Congress and send ’em home for good” if his age pension proposal is not adopted. The remark accompanies his push to enact the Townsend plan.
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Washington
F. E. Townsend
Congress
Stocks Dull as Major Carruthers Tours Alaska
Stocks were sleepy with two trends in dull trading led by minor gains in merchandising issues and scattered specialties. Major W. J. Carruthers of the Salvation Army inspected Alaska stations at Angoon Tenakee and Wrangell before leaving for Seattle with a Ranger visit noted in the report.
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New York
W. J. Carruthers
Salvation Army
Alaska
Kenai
Wrangell
Former Alaska Governor Parks Heads South for Christmas
George A. Parks, former Governor of Alaska, is a southbound passenger on the Alaska bound for Denver to spend Christmas with relatives. The Gastineau Hotel lobby is undergoing a complete renovation including wall cleaning and repainting.
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George A. Parks
Alaska
Denver
Gastineau Hotel
Gas Station Operator Shot and Killed in Washington
William Walker 36, a service station operator two miles north of PeEll, Wash., was shot and killed during a midnight confrontation with two men who allegedly refused to pay for gasoline. A suspect is hospitalized with a chest wound in Chehalis after questioning. Walker is survived by his widow and one child. His father reported hearing shots after responding to the station call.
Expert Operator Joins Staff Of J. B. Burford Co
L A Shenk an expert service operator formerly with L A Smith and Bros Seattle has joined J B Burford and Company Juneau as head of the repair department. He is accompanied by his wife and will make their home here. August Pritsche, a Porcupine district mining man near Haines, travels southbound Alaska to attend court in Seattle to protect his interests.
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L. A. Smith and Bros
Seattle
J. B. Burford and Company
Shenk
Juneau
August Pritsche
Porcupine District
Haines
Alaska
President Hitler Hit by Revolver Shot in Austria
Local papers report Adolf Hitler was wounded by a revolver shot fired from a taxi by a girl claimed to be the daughter of Brueckner of the Silesian Provincial Nazi Party. The girl and taxi driver were reportedly killed by Hitler's guards after the attack.
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Linz
Austria
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Hitler
Brueckner
Berlin
Nome Residents Rebuild Quarters and Shops After Nome Fire
Nome residents report rapid rehabilitation since the September 17 blaze. B D Stewart notes new permanent establishments include Lehmann Department Store Seidenberg & Son Jack Seidenberg Clothing Ira Rank Lichtenberg Hardware Harper and Allyn Garage North Pole Bakery and Carey’s with two bakeries opening soon. A new motion picture theater with sound and an amusement hall reopen, while bread shortages ease as stores relocate from burned facilities.
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B. D. Stewart
Federal Inspector of Mines
Juneau
Alaska
Stewart
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
PWA
Princi ‘Pal
Henry Burgh
R. Stewart
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