Earhart Takes Off To World Flight Attempt From Miami
Amelia Earhart begins a global flight from Miami at 5 57 am EST aiming to San Juan Puerto Rico as the first leg in a planned round the world trip. The route includes Natal Dakar Aden Karachi Port Darwin New Guinea and Hawaii with Capt F J Noonan as co pilot and a prior Honolulu crash noted.
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India
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New
FilmGrafts May Return to Studios in Hollywood
Hollywood Cal June 1. Members of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts vote tonight on ending the month old strike and returning to work while negotiations for union recognition and pay increases proceed.
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Hollywood
Cal
Federated Motion Picture Crafts
Senate OKs Six Naval Auxiliary Vessels Plan
Washington June 1 The Senate has passed without debate the bill authorizing construction of six naval auxiliary vessels estimated to cost 48000000 dollars. The bill now goes to the House.
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Washington
Senate
House
Pulp Workers End Troubles in Seattle
June 1 report by Pacific Coast Pulp and Paper Workers notes approval by more than two to one. The proposal grants a ten cent an hour wage hike for both men and women, boosting annual payroll by about four million dollars.
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Seattle
Pacific Coast Pulp and Paper Workers
Mrs Lucas Sails to Visit Son in Portland
Mrs H J Lucas wife of City Clerk Lucas sailed for the south on the Aleutian en route to Portland Oregon where she will see their son Lee before he goes east for the Boy Scout jamboree in Washington DC She expects to be gone about three weeks. Mrs Turoff to Westward L W Turoff and son Jack sailed for Seward on the Yukon to join her husband who is in charge of road work for the Burak ot Fur Seem Ae Mpenee Pass.
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Lucas
Portland
Ore
Lee
Washington, D. C
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Jack
Seward
Yukon
Van Devanter Move Scrutinized as Liberal Target in Retirement
Washington June 1 veteran Justice Van Devanter faces liberal criticism as he nears retirement after fifty years in public life. The piece notes his Interior Department years, coal land scandals, and proposed court-packing backlash, while detailing his Maryland farm and $20 000 retirement pay.
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Everybody's
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Hotel strike to spread in San Francisco
San Francisco leaders of the hotel strike consider expanding the current walkout from sixteen major hotels to include several hundred smaller properties in clubs apartments night spots bars and cafes not yet involved in the walkout. The move aims to broaden pressure across the city as workers in numerous hospitality venues weigh participation.
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San Francisco
Cal
Eleven Soviet Executions for Railway Sabotage
Moscow reports 111 more Soviets shot for railway sabotage under a Japanese intelligence charge at Khabaysk. This raises total executions to 66, all former railway officials, by firing squads.
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Moscow
Khabaysk
Insane Patients Escape Guard Beatens at Providence Hospital
Four criminally insane patients who fled last night after assaulting a guard were recaptured by State police and returned to the Providence hospital. One man was shot in the arm during the capture.
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Providence
Rhode Island
Gander Tries Egg Hatching in Homes Near Calgary
In Youngstown Alta a gander owned by H Parsons near Calgary tried to share a nest under the setting hen Woose. A special setting was arranged to hatch the eggs, reflecting an unusual poultry incident.
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Alta
H. Parsons
Calgary
Woose
Legislation to Catch Dodgers of Income Tax
Senate approves a joint Congressional committee of twelve to probe income tax evasion and report by February with a plan to tighten the tax. President Roosevelt urges Congress to stop tax dodging by the wealthy and to make the tax structure evasion proof, citing widespread avoidance through asset transfers foreign holdings and manipulations of deductions.
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Senate
House
Roosevelt
Congress
Treasury Department
Five Men Dead in Rigt at Steel Factory Riot
Chicago June 1 five men died in a clash between police and workers near Republic Steel in South Chicago. An inquest was ordered as 67 men were held for arraignment on charges of criminal acts. Union leadership vowed to continue picketing Inland Steel Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube despite the violence. The widow of victim Joseph Rothmund testified he was a WPA worker and not employed by a steel company. Heavy guard surrounded the morgue as authorities reviewed a possible new assault plan on the Republic Steel plant.
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Republic Steel
Thomas Kilroy
Crnmanel
Toricket
van Rittner
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Inland Steel
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Corporation
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Warren
Ohio
Mate
Fil
Margaret Rothmund
Joseph Rothmund
WPA
Matanuska Boost Hinges on Farming Efforts
In Lincoln Nebraska on June 1 Charles E. Bunnell president of the University of Alaska urged interest in Matanuska farming. He noted Alaskans share the same media and news as mainland residents and believed the Matanuska colony would succeed with time as home economists from Alaska University work locally.
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Jincoln
Charles E. Bunnell
University of Alaska
Matanuska
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Bunnell
Alaska University
Drills Arrive at Goodnews Bay with Passengers and Cargo
The motorship Fern arrived from Anchorage at Goodnews Bay Alaska with eleven passengers three drills and 30 tons of regular cargo. Captain Wold said he will stay until the steamer Tupper arrives due about Wednesday. The drills belong to H Wilson Dave Strawberg and Beaton and Shonbeck veterans.
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Fern
Anchorage
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Tupper
H. Wilson
Dave Strawberg
Beaton
Shonbeck
Sommers and Son Return Here by Plane from Ketchikan
R J Sommers and his son Bobby traveled from Ketchikan to Juneau aboard Intercoastal Airways Stinson Seaplane. Pilot Ray Renshaw arrived yesterday afternoon, then returned on the 3:30 pm flight. Dick Fox also rode the plane from Ketchikan. Sommers plans a return voyage to Ostrich to New York for a summer capes and gowns project via his construction firm in Ketchikan.
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Ray Renshaw
Intercoastal Airways
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Agai
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Ket
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New York — Capes
Hig
Colby Nisson
Berry growers on Puget Sound face ferry strike
Puget Sound berry growers, especially strawberry producers, warn the current crop is threatened by a ferry workers strike that has tied up 25 boats and idled 500 workers. A four day deadlock persists as workers seek higher pay, union recognition, and hiring hall privileges, hampering island to mainland transport.
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Seattle
Puget Sound
Burns and Foster Elope in Las Vegas Wedding
Hollywood, June 1. Bob Burns, bazooka player and actor, secretly married his secretary Madella Foster 28 in Las Vegas after eloping. The couple reportedly honeymooned following the ceremony.
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Hollywood
Cal
Madella Foster
Las Vegas
Singing group in Pueblo loses 36 canaries in park theft
Pueblo police commissioner George J. Stumpy investigates after burglars break into the city park bird house and steal 36 canaries, leaving six behind. The incident disrupts a popular local singing group relying on the birds.
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Pueblo, Colo
Pueblo
George J. Stumpy
Supreme Court to review DC appeals ruling on emergency relief funds
The Supreme Court will examine the DC Circuit Court of Appeals decision that refused to allow government funding of power plants and public works with emergency relief funds, a major issue in federal finance policy.
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Washington
United States Circuit Court of Appeals of
District of Columbia
Bus Collision Kills One, Injures Fifteen in San Diego
A bus carrying 33 men collided with an oil truck on a highway in San Diego late last night and plunged 155 feet off the road. One man was killed and fifteen others were seriously injured.
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San Diego
Cal
Gun sale opens as crowd gathers at Federal Building
A large crowd packed the Alaska Federal Building furnace room as the Alaska Game Commission opened a gun sale. Auctioneer William Garster quickly began the bidding on the first firearm and sold many guns offered from firearm violator cases, with strong demand expected to continue for all items.
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Federal Building
Alaska Game Commission
William Garster
Ftst
Commission
Spanish Ship Torpedoed With 275 Lost Report
Bulletin from Rome and Tarragona report a Spanish steamer City of Barcelona torpedoed with 25 of 800 aboard saved. Submarine attack tears 214-ton sailboat. wounded sailors describe the incident. Britain protests to Spain over violence against neutrals as fear grows of wider war. Hull hopes for peaceable resolution with Germany over bombing incidents.
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Spain
Bes
City of
Barcelona
Strict Enforcement of U S Neutrality Law Is Urged
Senator Borah urged applying the American Neutrality Law to all participants in the bombing of Port Almeria by German warships in reprisal for Spanish planes. Senator McKellar called it war and urged invoking neutrality law to keep the U S out, while Senator Mose Allin declared America will stay out.
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Kenneth McKellar
America
Mo Sellar
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