War Department Plans Alaska Harbor Upgrades
Engineers urge Congress to appropriate 179000 for Sitka and Kodiak harbor improvements in Alaska. Sitka would get 109000 for rubble mound breakwaters between Japonski Island and the Aleutians, replacing the small boat harbor. Kodiak Harbor calls for 70000 to dig a 22 foot deep channel 200 feet wide near Kodiak and Near Islands. Navy to build air bases at Sitka and Kodiak.
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Washington
War Department
Congress
Sitka
Kodiak
Alaska
Japonski Island
Aleutki Islands
Kodiak Harbor
Kodiak Island
Navy Department
Landon predicts Roosevelt will not run in 1940
In Boston on June 13, Alf Landon forecast President Roosevelt would decline a third term. He criticized New Deal economics and those urging a 1940 run, calling current policy a six year spree of heavy spending with chronic discouragement and rising unemployment.
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Boston
Mass
Alt. Landon
Roosevelt
Business and Professional Women’s Club of
Massachusetts
Nome Pioneer Anton Olsen Dies in Portland at 70
Former Nome resident Anton Olsen, age 70, who went to Nome in 1900 and became associated with Cyrus Noble in the Diamond L mining claims, died in Portland, Oregon, on a Sunday June 13.
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Portland
Ore
Anton Olsen
Nome
Alaska
Cyrus Noble
Diamond L
British Royalty Shooting Charge Stuns London Court
Ledwedge Vincent Lawlor an eccentric Australian steel worker is held for trial on charges of firing shots near the Duchess of Kent and into the Princess Royal residence. No one injured prosecutors say he rode a bicycle with a sawed off rifle and fired twice. Lawlor claims no harm intended but motive remains unclear.
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London
Repeal of Arms Embargo Sought by Secretary Hull
Secretary Hull urges Congress to repeal the arms embargo in a latest memo. The memorandum outlines diplomatic aims and potential shifts in foreign policy and trade, signaling a move toward easing restrictions on weapons sales.
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Hull
Congress
Nome Boats Caught Out At Sea In Dense Fog
Bulletin from Nome Alaska notes the steamer Columbia 93 miles from Nome anchored in fog with the Sutherland 35 miles behind. Miron Air Service plans to send an airplane to assist through ice. Four steamers remain en route to Nome as radio reports details and pilots prepare to map ice conditions from the air.
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Nome
Alaska
Columbia
Miron Air Service
Washington
Hull
Congress
United States
Bill Winn
Sam
William
Bill
Winn
America
Princess Charlotte Nome
Grover C
Sevenversity
Nemettes
Columbia and
Sutherland
Alaska Steamship Company
Yukon River
Jack Jefford
Mirow Air Service
Ambassador Guarded in China Plot Sparks Tensions
In Shanghai on June 13 14 heavy police guard the home of British Ambassador Sir Archibald Kerr after a plot against his life emerged amid rising British Japanese tension. Embassy offices also guarded as Japanese troops move to isolate concessions at Tientsin and press for surrender of four Chinese accused in a Japanese official's murder. Britain proposes a British Japanese commission with a neutral chairman to decide on handing over the four Chinese in British custody.
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Shanghai
Great Britain
Japan
Tientain
London
Tientsin
Roland Denny Pioneer of Puget Sound Dies at 85
Seattle notice reports Roland Herschel Denny 85 last of the pioneer group who landed in Elliott Bay in 1840 to found Seattle. He was an infant when his parents arrived in the Oregon Territory and Puget Sound.
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Seattle
Roland Herschel Denny
Elliott Bay
Denny
Portland
Oregon Territory
Puget Sound
Prison Coal Miners Mutiny Demands Silk Underwear
Freedom Bulletin reports a mutiny at the Kansas Penitentiary mine as 229 prisoners refuse to mine coal over denied silk underwear snacks and freedom. Warden Armline orders 20 plus guards with machine guns and tear gas to end the uprising after 22 prisoners surface to file reports.
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Lansing
Robert Murray
Murray
Kansas
M. F. Armline
Kansas Penitentiary
M Mine
Neutrality laws of U S brought to front in switch back request
The article outlines a House Tax Committee outline and recalls the U S shift from neutrality policy after World War I. It traces efforts from the League of Nations to later pacts aimed at preventing war, noting Nye committee findings and Kellogg reforms as context for renewed calls to neutrality.
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U. S
Washington
Hull
Europe
League of Nations
Senate
Harding
China
Japan
United States
Hawaii
Paris
Nye Committee
Denali departs with 146 aboard bound for Alaska
The Denali sailed from Seattle at 11 this forenoon on the Totemland Cruise to Southeast Alaska with 106 first class and 40 steerage passengers. Names listed include Mrs. Dusenberry A V Cordovado O H Cochran Gus Carlson and others bound for Juneau.
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Seattle
Denali
Alaska
Juneau
Dusenberry
A. V. Cordovado
O. H. Cochran
Gus Carlson
A. Johnson
William V. Johnson
Pawl Jones
Jim Spencer
Kathleen Carlson
Helen Beistline
Helen Ricketts
T. B. Tucker
Velma Aieling
NEA
F. Wright, Jr
Two Japanese Boats Reported North of Sitka
Bureau of Fisheries Warden Don Haley investigated reports of Japanese fishing and soundings in Kalinen Bay near Kruzof Island Salisbury Sound 25 miles northwest of Sitka. He saw many vessels but could not land due to a northwest gale and was awaiting a Fisheries vessel for a thorough follow up.
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Kalinen Bay
Kruzof Island
Salisbury Sound
Sitka
Bureau of Fisheries
Don Haley
Alex Holden
Haley
U.S
Henry Bahr
Allis Chalmers Plant Scene of Riot Fights
Rioting broke out at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing plant in West Allis near Milwaukee injuring at least 13 people. Eight policemen and deputy sheriffs were beaten and stoned, with several requiring hospital treatment. five pickets were also hospitalized amid a CIO United Auto Workers strike over a labor contract after an 18 day holiday.
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Milwaukee
Wis
West Allis
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Wisconsin
United Auto Workers, Cio
Rotarians Dine As Summer Gathers At Percy's Cafe
At today's luncheon the Rotarians gathered at Percy's Cafe to mark the approaching summer. Members enjoyed cold meats potato salad olives rye bread beer apple pie and cheese in a casual setting.
First Witness Describes Alaska Purses Seiner Strike Background
W C Arnold, attorney for the canned salmon industry and several shipping firms, testifies in district court about events leading to a restraining order petition against ASPSU and its officers. The hearing covers picketing of vessels at Ketchikan Waterfall and Craig and ongoing cross examination.
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Steamship Lines
Alaska Salmon
W. C. Arnold
Northland Transportation Company
North Sea
Ketehi~kan
Arnold
A. F. Ziegler
HL. Paulkner
R. E. Robertson
Pacific American
Joe Stearns
Ziegler
Ketchkan
Waterfall
Craig
Editors on Way North on Aleutian
Two hundred thirty six newspaper editors and families left Seattle for the Fifty Fourth National Editorial Association trip to Alaska aboard the Aleutian. The 22 day tour will sample cities to Fairbanks with stops in Juneau and other locales. Leaders include NEA President Will H. Conrad of Medford Wisconsin and a list of editors and spouses from California Connecticut District of Columbia Georgia and more.
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Seattle
Aleutian
Navnal Editorial Association
Alaska
Chicago
Fair
Banks
Juneau
NEA
Will H. Conrad
Medford
Wis
Cousit
California
Fred M. Rolens
South Pasadena
Louis Meyer
Oakdale
Sabine
Helen M. Stevens
Vista
Dan L. Beebe
Mercury Register
Oroville
Dan L. Beebe, Jr
Bertha Phelps
Sausalito
D. C. Kennedy
Compton
Connecticut
Howard W. Palmer
Press
Greenwich
Walter Grannan
Western News
Canaan
District of Columbia
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