Air fields sought for 53 Alaskan towns and camps
The Interior Department asked 371000 dollars for emergency landing fields in 53 Alaskan villages and mining camps. Alaska Road Commission to oversee grading drainage surfacing and equipment. Sites include Bear Creek Betties River Bremner Cache Creek Candle Chandalar Chena Springs Chicken Circle Springs Homer Kenai Kasilof Kotebue Livengood Ninilchik Palmer Creek Pilot Springs and Valdez Creek among others.
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Washington
Works Progress
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Applications Division
Interior Department
Alaska Road Commission
Bear Creek
Betties River
Bremner
Cache Creek
Candle
Chandalar
Chena Springs
Chicken
Clara Phillips Freed After 12 Years In Tehachapi Prison
Tehachapi Cal June 17 gates of the women’s prison open today allowing Clare Phillips notorious hammer slayer from Mrs Alberta Meadows to leave after 12 years’ imprisonment free. “All I want is people to leave me alone and give me a break.”
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Tehachapi
Cal
Clare Phillips
Alberta Meadows
Worran
Movie Theatres in Britain Decline by 199 Since 1930
London reports a census showing motion picture theatres in the British Isles have fallen by 199 since 1930. The count reflects a trend of closures impacting urban cinema access across regions.
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London
British Isles
Roosevelt Limits Work Relief Contributions in PWA Projects
Washington report states President Roosevelt limits state and municipal PWA project work relief contributions to 45 percent with 55 percent from private financing or revolv ing fund. Hopkins' progress administration likely to carry about two billion dollars of the program. Har ild L Ickes praises PWA for stabilizing construction as Sitka visit notes Johnson returns from Sitka aboard the North Sea.
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Washington
Roosevelt
PWA
Harry L. Hopkins
Progress Administration
Public Works Administration
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Are You Going to Live for 150 Years
Soviet scientist Peter Lasareff of the Academy of Sciences argues normal human life could exceed 150 years. He claims to have extended Daphnia lifespans fourfold and plans an expedition to the Georgian Soviet Republic to study longevity in inhabitants, though he says humans will not be subjected to experiments yet.
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Moscow
Peter Lasareff
Soviet ‘Academy of Science
Daphnia
Georgian Soviet Republic
Lasaver Taid
Hoover warns freedom essential to social security at Stanford
Herbert Hoover tells Stanford graduates that freedom in worship, thought and speech is the first of social securities. He urges vigilance to guard freedom as the basis for individuals directing energies to develop talents and reap rewards.
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Stanford University
Cal
Stanford
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Girls Admit Spying Face Possible Death in China
Chinese authorities report fifteen young women confessed to Communist espionage. The death penalty or execution by axe or firing squad are possible outcomes, though officials warned beauty and youth may alter sentences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foochow
China
Pan American clipper lands at Midway completes Hawaii flight
The Pan-American clipper plane landed at Midway Island at 2:40 PM last Saturday, finishing a 1323 mile flight from Pearl Harbor in five hours thirteen minutes. It marks the first commercial air venture west of Hawaii, following a prior naval flight. The pilot reported reliance on instruments for navigation. Mrs Armour travels to Ketchikan with her husband, president of Piggly-Wiggly Alaska Co.
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Alameda
Cal
Midway Island
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Armour
Ketchikan
Dom Armour
Piggly-Wiggly Alaska Company
North Sea
Belly
Japan plans big conquest taking China
Moscow June 11 Pravda the Communist Party organ charges Japan plans a large conquest, forming Manchoukuo and occupying North China and Inner Mongolia as a base for further moves. The program allegedly unfolds in three stages: occupation of Manchuria, then North and Inner China, then Central China.
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Moscow
Pravda
Ommunist Party
Japan
Manchoukuo
North China
Inner Mongolia
Sorte
China
Central
Prazda
Chinese gen must quit as big chief in Hsinking area
TOKYO June 17 A Renga Agency dispatch says the High Military Council ordered Gen Sung Chey Yuan governor of Charar Province to resign. If the Chinese National Army and Government do not remove him the Japanese army may act. The report hints Japan will dictate Chinese officials and troops for Charar and Hapei Provinces. London reports Britain seeks clarifications from Japan and China on Beijing control in North China, signaling grave concern.
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Tokyo
Renga’ Agency
Hsinking
High Military Council
Sung Chey Yuan
Charar Province
China
Garris
Son Chahar
I¢ Hapei
London
Great Britain
Japan
Britain to regulate size of British and German navies
A reliable authority reports Great Britain alone will regulate the actual size of both navies under secret terms of their 10 to 35 ratio. The move gives Britain virtual dictator power over the Nazi fleet, with implications that Hitler favors British backing to gain support.
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London
Great Britain
Hitler
Parowan High School Graduation Contains Father Son Duo
Jay W. Moore attended Parowan high school 1935 graduation where his son and the son's bride of a week earned diplomas. Sisters Mary Thedla and Mary Alfreda arrived from Skagway aboard the Alaska as passengers.
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Parowan
Utah
Jay W. Moore
Parowan High School
Mary Thedla
Sistr
Mary Alfreda
Skagway
Alaska
Death claims John H Cann ex Juneau man
John Hartley Cann a former Juneau merchant and mine operator died Saturday evening at St. Ann’s hospital after a throat ailment. Widely known in Alaska he once ran a furniture store here and later owned Apex El Nido mine at Listanszi. He was an active Elks member since 1915 and will receive ritualistic services at the Biks Temple with Dean C. E. Rice delivering the eulogy. Burial will be south by the W. Carter Mortuary with pallbearers including former Gov. Geo. A. Parks and other officials. He leaves wife Jennie Bruce Cann and nephew John Hartley Bowen, both in Juneau.
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John Hartley Cann
Cpal
Listanszi
St. N'S Hospital
Alaska
Valdes
Mr. Cann
Juneau
Biks Temple
Dean C. E. Rice
George P. Alexander
Martin Jorgensen
John W
Troy
Geo. A. Parks
Faulkner
Ray H. Stevens
Harry Lucas
Wallis
George
Simpson MacKinnon
Cann
Jennie Bruce Cann
John Hartley Bowen
Lisianski
Financial Entente Discussed by Bankers Meeting
June 17 bankers at a Bank of International Settlements gathering discussed a financial entente among the United States England and France to stabilize world currencies. Financiers expect Japan may join and believe the entente could stabilize world monies.
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Babel
United States
England
France
Bank of International Settlements
Japan
O Neill Named Chief of New NRA Division
Roosevelt names James O Neill Acting Administrator and establishes the division of business cooperation to promote fair practices and voluntary standards. Princiss L Coonley named director. George L Berry named labor representative. six advisory council members named.
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Washington
Apegap
NRA
Roosevelt Sunday
James ‘O'Neill
Princiss L. Coonley
Coonley
O'Neill
Guaranty Trust Company of New York
NEA
George L. Berry
International Pressmen's Union
Berry
Roosevelt
Counci
Heard Charged With Libel In Justice Court
Neil L Heard secretary of the Alaska Mine Workers Union and editor of the Alaska Labor Dispatch was charged with libel in U S Commissioner's court after an editorial accusing Mayor Tsa dore Goldstein. He faced arraignment with bond set at 500 dollars and released on recognizance pending tomorrow. The complaint includes the disputed editorial paragraph about payments for votes and other alleged sub stantive defamations under the state libel statute.
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U. S. Commissioner's Court Today
Neil L. Heard
Alaska Mine Workers Union
Alaska Labor Dispatch
Dispatch
Tsadore Goldstein
Heard
J. F P. Mullen
Kidnapers Feud Over Lindbergh Law Reference
Tacoma reports tied to the Weyerhaeuser kidnapping center on Mrs Harmon Waley who is jailed with her husband as abductors and expected to become a mother in about four months. Authorities note sentences under the Lindbergh law apply regardless and one official said they avoid state hanging penalties. A New York bureau confirms investigators tracked William Mahan to a New London hotel in a mistaken identity tip. In Seattle four Justice agents flew from Boeing Field on a secret mission possibly toward Lewiston Idaho to locate Mahan.
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Tacoma
Wash
Weyerhaeuser
Olympia
Harmon M. Waley
New York
Department of Justice
New London
Conn
William Mahan
Seattle
Boeing Pivid
Lewiston
Idaho
Chet
Eugene Gasser
Miners' Union Votes Discussed By Federal Mediator Knight
Dewey Knight, U S Labor Department mediator, held an informal session with about seventy Evergreen miners to discuss a company election and union actions. He said the election results will be in a Department of Labor report and he is willing to meet any workers or committees to aid a settlement. The mass meeting aims to push concrete results to end the deadlock. Rev Kashevaroff sails on Alaska for lecture tour with Seattle Chamber of Commerce goodwill party aboard.
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Empire
Dewey Federal
Department of Labor
Thura
Cay
Knight
Se Union
Board of Trustees
Aluala Bureau
Evergreen Bowl
Grup
Hexas
Kashevaroff
A. P. Kashevaroff
Alaska
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
MISS BOURGETTE TRAVELS
Miss Violet Bourgette, former Juneau instructor and Anchorage school system teacher last year, continued her journey to Bealle on the Alaska after visiting here with friends last week. Ross A. Gridley, Territorial Engineer-Inspector with the Public Works Administration, returned to Jorean from Skagway. Olaf Swanson, part owner of Swanson Brothers Grocery, took passage on the North Sea for Seaton on a three week yard tow and business trip.
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Bourgette
Violet Bourgette
Juneau
Anchorage
Gridley
Ross A. Gridley
The
Public Works Administration
Jorean
Skagway
Te Tte
al- Aska
Swanson
Thif
Olaf Swanson
Swanson ‘Brothers
Parvage
North Sea
Ultimatum Issued in Street Car Strike in Omaha
In Omaha Nebraska on June 17 Governor Cochran issued a six point program with a one hour deadline for street railway employees and company representatives to accept arbitration terms. Arbitration must conclude by Thursday or parties face military responsibility for any refusal. No feeling permitted in the ultimatum.
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Omaha
Nebraska
C. Cochran
Jboth Ne
Cockiran
Anat Laose
Hhe
Anuat
Thuis
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Hammer Slayer
Supreme Court
Nickonovichs
John Nickonovich
Roger Nickanovich
Juneail
Sitka
Nickonovich
Johnson
National Grocery
Midway
Communists
John H. Cann
U. S
New
Ceca
Petersburg
A. M.eachran
Schwabacher Brothers Company
Peterstri
Ube North Sea
Helen Maxkin
McClelland Barclay
Liue
Gregg Toland
Hollywood
Barclay
Justice Court
Goldstein
Ming Workers
Avery Vole Cas
Dewey Knight
Miners’ Union
Evergreen Row
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