City Council Votes to Hold Mine Workers Poll
In Juneau the City Council, with one dissenting vote, voted to hold a secret ballot election next Thursday to gauge how many Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company workers want to return to work. Mayor Isadore Goldstein set the hours 9 am to 7 pm and appointed a committee to conduct the poll. The decision follows concern over the impact of the walkout on city revenue and rock supply, with no union representatives present at the meeting.
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Alaska Juneau
Henry Messerschmidt
Isadore Goldstein
James J. Connors
Allen Shattuck
John Jones
The
Juneau Young Hardware
Juneau
Council Chamber
Alaska Mine Workers Union
Goldstein
Beistline
Beck
Messerschmidt
Grass Roots Delegates Urge Roosevelt Budget Action
Springfield Til Jimes De mandates that the Republicans quit pussyfooting in attacks on President Roosevelt. Delegates at the Grass Roots convention, chaired by Harrison Spangler of Town, summarize submissions showing they will hold the President responsible for broken promises. They criticize budget balance and payroll promises amid 120000 hires.
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Springfield
Til
Jimes
Roosevelt
Harrison Spangler
Believed abducted boy missing from Stilton Place
New York police seek 5 year old John Paul who vanished from Stilton Place Thursday night. Initial report of drowning reevaluated as possible kidnapping. Authorities urge public help to locate him and assess the risk to his safety.
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New York
John Paul
Stilton Place
Absentee Vote Possible in Walkout Poll
Workers at the Alaska JSuheau may cast an absentee vote if they will be away from town on the walkout vote day Thursday June 13. J Z Connors chairman of the Citizens Committee said the Collector of Customs office in the Federal Building will be open from 7 to 3 on Sunday and from 9 to 3 30 on other days for absentee voting for those absent on Thursday.
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Alaska Jsuheau
J. Z. Connors
Citizens Committee
I. Goldstein
Connors
Collector of Customs Office
Federal Building
Workers' Group Praises City Vote On Alaska Mine Walkout
A city council vote among Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company workers was praised as a move to break a seventeen day walkout. Union leaders warn any voter seen as crossing the picket line is a scab and say they will deal only with a federal mediator appointed by the Labor Secretary.
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Cownell
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company
Alaska Mine Workers Union
al Nygren
Neil Heard
Alaska Mine Workers’ Union
Laval Wins Emergency Powers To Stabilize Franc
Paris reports Premier Pierre Laval secured emergency financial powers in the Chamber of Deputies by a 326 to 161 vote to combat franc devaluation. The Senate then overwhelmingly approved Laval’s decree to protect the franc. ANOTHER APPROVAL. A.B. Hayes, traffic representative of PAA, left by plane for Ketchikan to meet the Seattle Chamber of Commerce party and return to Juneau aboard the Aleutian.
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Paris
Pierre Laval
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Premier Laval
A.B. Hayes
PAA
Ketchikan
Seatle Chamber of Commerce
Juneau
Aleutian
Timber Strike Tension Triggers State Patrol Action
State police guard Northwest lumber strike as unions clash over leadership and strategy. A. M. Muir, vice president of the International Carpenters and Joiners Union, faces efforts to expel local unions amid accusations of communism. Longview crowd control tightens with patrols ordered to stop picketing and hinder traffic to mills.
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Seattle
Northwest Lumber
Sawmill and Timber Workers Union
A. M. Muir
Internation Carpenters and Joiners Union
Northwest Council
Longview
State Patrol
Aviators Land Big Hasselborg Trout Fly In Alaska
Verne Gorst of Gorst Air Transport and Fred Soberg, a student aviator, bagged sixty nine trout at Hasselborg Lake near Juneau. The catch, highlighted by the season’s largest 23 inch trout, was displayed at Gastineau Cafe window. They flew there in a Skylark Thursday night and fished Friday. Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa under Lt. Miles will be away from Juneau to Yakutat, Sitka, Moonah and other southeast ports until late next week.
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Juneau
Verne Gorst
Gorst Air Transport Company
Fred Soberg
Gorst
Soberg
Skylark
PAA
United States Coast Guard
Tallapoosa
Miles
Iming
C. G
Yakutat
Sitka
Moonah
Alaska
Boyle to Ketchikan by plane with Chamber party
James E. Boyle, Union OTL representative, departs by plane today for Ketchikan. He will join the Seattle Chamber of Commerce party aboard the Aleutian and return on the same steamer.
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James E. Boyle
UNION
OTL
Ketchikan
Union O11 Company
Seattle
Chanmibar of Commerce
Aleutian
Commander of 1st Corps Area Visits Juneau
General Paul B. Malone and party arrived in Juneau after touring Mendenhall Glacier and local Signal Corps sites. They were greeted by Acting Governor Watson and toured glacier, airport, and Signal Corps stations with Chamber of Commerce escort. The group planned further visits to Chilkoot Barracks, Seward, and Fairbanks before returning to the states.
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STH Corps
Juneau
America
Alaska
Paul B. Malone
9Th Corps
Ken
Mendenhall Glacier
Pacific Alaska Airways
Ins
Glacier Highway
Malone
Signal Corps
Gold Crick Bridge
Griffin
Ma~line
Lockwood
Glacier, Airport and
Signal Corps Station
Chamber of ‘Commerce
R. B. Robertson
M. 8. Whittier
A. B. Hayes
Rober Bender
Federal
Territorial Museum
A. P. Kashevaroft
Mys
Chilkoot Barracks
Sea Scout Meeting Planned at City Hall Monday
Sea Scout leaders in Juneau, led by Robert Hall, urge youths fifteen and older to attend a 7 30 p m meeting at Juneau City Hall to organize a Juneau Sea Scout Ship. The gathering follows a Sea Scout Council lunch where support for local Scouting revival was decided.
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Sea Scout Movement
Juneau
Juneau City Hall
Robert Hall
Chicago Sea Scout
Sea Scout Council
Organization of Sea Scouting
Wakefields
Saltery
Port Wakefield
Iry Straits
Kodiak
City Hall
Tron Creek
Officers Wait Single Move By Boy Kidnappers Tacoma
June 8 reports say the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping search continues with police awaiting the abductors' move. Suspect Pat Kelly was released after questioning. Federal and local authorities chase a man and woman known as Percy and Minnie and seek ransom cash linked to twenty bills found in a Salt Lake City deposit. A light blanket matching the victim’s wrappings was found near Issaquah as a broader search stretches toward Seattle and Grangeville. An ex convict connected to the case is being examined after a prison photo surfaced.
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Tacoma
George Weyerhaeuser
Pat Kelly
Salt Lake City
Weyerhaeuser
Wat
EB. J. Connelly
Department of Jus Wce
Utah
Seattle Hovel
Nathan
Charehart
Grangeville
Idaho
Fair
Seattle
Percy
Minnie
Tisaquah
Sonnger
Sea%iue
Vine
Leavenworth
McNeil Island
Less Meat But More Fish Being Eaten in Nation
Washington reports government figures show rising fish consumption and falling beef and pork intake in the first quarters of 1934 and 1935. National per capita fish intake remains low despite growth, while dock prices for fishermen edge downward with higher landed pounds.
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Washington
America
New England
Bureau of Fisheries
United States
Japan
Volney Davis Gets Life For Bremner Kidnap
Volney Davis, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the $200000 Bremner kidnapping, was sentenced to life in federal court in St Paul. Co‑conspirators McLaughlin, Alderton, Palmer, and Wilson received five to twenty year terms. Barker and Berg were already given life sentences. All will serve at Leavenworth. In Alaska, officials returned from Juneau to report beaver dam damage on the Taku River, requiring dam removal to restore channels and food supply.
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ST Paulo Minn
Volney Davis
Edward G. Bremner
Chicago
John J
McLaughlin
Marold Alderton
Benseville
Unois
Bremner
Edwin Palmer
Alderton
Arthur
Doc) Barker
Oliver Berg
Leavenworth
James J. Wilson
Northwestern University
Chillicothe
Chin
Frank Vultesne
Jasisjanl
Alaska Game Commission
Wellman ‘Holbrook
Jewell
Juneau
Taku River
Gorst Plane Charter Leaves for Craig Trip
Tomorrow morning the Gorst Plane will depart Gorst Air Transport on a charter flight to Craig. Pilot Frank Knight and fight mechanic Eric Schutte will operate the Boeing craft from Junemi with return to Juhedu base indefinite. The prior steel shipment from Government Dock to the Dourt Tas Bridge was transported today aboard the motorship Wanderer under Captain Caz Laren.
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Gorst Air Transport
Boeing
Frank Knight
Eric Schutte
Junemi
Craig
Juhedu
Walter Fron
Dourt Tas
Wanderer
Caz Laren
Honeymoon travelers sail on Northwestern from Seattle
On honeymoon, Mr and Mrs OP Young travel as round trip passengers on the Northwestern from Seattle. Young is a ticket agent in San Francisco for the Pacific Steamship Company.
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OP Young
Seattle
Young
San Francisco
Parific Steamship Company
Army Ordered to Be Ready for Action
Tokyo dispatches report Japan's war machine in Manchukuo ordered to prep for invasion of China. China submits to Tokyo's demand by next Tuesday, signaling Manchukuo recognition. Peiping notes Japan insists on Chinese military removals from Hopei province as tensions rise near Tientsin. Thirty-Third Army moves toward Tientsin as the Fifty-first Army evacuates to Saotingu.
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Manchukuo
China
Tokyo
Manchuokuo
Caina
Manetakuo
Rengo
Usinring
Manchnakuo
Min- Muria
Acros
Great Wall
Ufti Navi
Taaba
Peiping
Hopei
Yienchuokuo
Japan
Associated
Tientein
Shang Chen
Yu Heweh Chung
Tentsin
Saotingu
Pinping
Mussolini Threatens Britain as Italian Troops Depart for Africa
Cagliari June 8 Italian Premier Benito Mussolini told Thalian soldiers departing for Africa that Italy has an old and a new account to settle with Ethiopia and that Britain will be watched and judged by how it responds. He urged obedience and discipline, praising imperial defense and accusing Britain of fomenting opposition. The press highlights Attlee’s warning to close Britain’s doors to Italians if Italy uses force in East Africa.
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Cagliari
Sardina
Ian
Benito Mussolini
Avion
Great Britain
Italy
Africa
Toe Duce
Wil Khrow Tray
England
Thyllion
Phoe
Kayglane
Clemente R. Attlee
House of Commons
London
Ttaly
East Africa
U S Fish Bureau Executive on Alaska Inspection Trip
Assistant Commissioner Charles E. Jackson arrives in Alaska aboard the Brant for an inspection tour. He will review shrimp and crab packing plants salmon canneries and a Pribilof Islands byproduct oil and meal plant, with plans to visit western stations and headquarters in Washington.
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United States Bureau of Fisheries
Jong
Bureau
Mr. Jackson
Great Lakes
Washington, D. C
Alaska
Mike Aig
Priblot Itlands
Jackson
Secretary of Commerce
Daniel C. Ropers
Brant
Senate Critics Debate NRA Plan in Halted Study
Washington June 8 Senatorial critics of NRA today began a minute study of the stopgap plan skeletonized NRA by the House yesterday. Some fear the extension of the midget NRA agency for nine and a half months would grant more authority to ease anti trust laws than first believed. Other Senators are softened in proportion to the Recovery Administration with the resignation of NRA chief Donald R Richenberg.
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Washington
NRA
House
Recovery Administration
Donald R. Richreberg
Juneau Police Acquire New Patrol Car from Seattle Vendor
Juneau officials announced the purchase of a new black patrol car, approved at four recent City Council meetings. The car, delivered from Seattle, was bought through the Juneau Motors Company Ford dealer, and is expected to enhance protection over a larger area.
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Juneau
Seattle
Juneau Motors Company
Returns From Vacation By Agnes Adsit at Trett Oria
Agnes Adsit returns from a long vacation in the United States, including time spent in Partinne, and resumes duties with the Trett oria auditors Gifine. She arrived back in Tuned Jeet last night after months away.
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Min
Agnes Adsit
Trettoria
Auditors Gifine
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Lemma Smith
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Carl Fleiachmann
Emma Smith
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Beaver
Gorst Plane
Mussolini
Hopei Province
Ethiopia
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