Army Dog Mushers Order Abandonment Of Expedition
General Buckner announces stopping the Army Dog marching Expedition from Chilkoot Barracks to Fairbanks due to distemper and deaths among most of the dogs. Major Hart reports the relay route will continue by bomber support with only a fraction of dogs remaining usable.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
B. Buckner
Port Richardson
Burwash Landing
Yukon Territory
Chilkoot Barracks
Charles S. Hart, Jr
Hart
America First Committee builds quiet nationwide influence
Washington reports that the America First Committee has expanded with influence across radio, clergy, and antiwar groups. Its leaders include Alice Longworth and General Hugh Johnson, while its members operate largely behind the scenes. A staff member circulated speeches to radio managers noting funds and locations remain undisclosed.
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Washington
United States
America First Committee
America First
Alice Longworth
Burton K. Wheeler
Hanford McNider
Coolidge
William R. Castle
Hoover
Bennett Clark
Hugh Johnson
Irvin
Nye
Wheeler
Alf Landon
Williams
Ketchikan Man Admits Burglaries
Richard Thomas, a 17 year old Indian, confessed to beating Mrs. Annie Hildinger with a flashlight and attempting to choke her during a string of burglaries in Ketchikan Alaska. He admitted a spree that troubled the town for two weeks and said loot from three recent burglaries is believed recovered.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
Richard Thomas
Annie Hildinger
Hildinger
Thomas
Seattle
Wrangel
Clarence Olson Delivers 1941 Alaska Fisheries Regulations
Clarence Olson Fisheries Management Supervisor returns from the Beattie office aboard the Mt. McKinley with a codified copy of the 1941 Alaska fisheries regulations, first to reach Juneau. The report notes Alaska’s vast coast and sparse population compared with Europe, and touches on territorial scope.
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Clarence Olson
Mt. McKinley
Beattle
Fish and Wildlife Service
Olson
Juneau
South America
Europe
McNamara Dies in San Quentin Prison
James B. McNamara, 59, once condemned for the 1910 Los Angeles Times Building bombing that killed 21, died today at San Quentin after long service in the life sentence and recent intestinal cancer surgeries. He had been moved from Folsom to finish his term and told Warden Duffy he returned to die. No relatives are known.
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San Quentin
Cal
James B. McNamra
Los Angeles Times
San Quentin Prison
McNamra
Folsom Prison
Clinton Duffy
Commissioner Investigates Starvation on Price Island Fox Farm
Oscar Larsen, Gambier Bay fox farmer on Price Island, dies of starvation. U S Commissioner Felix Gray sails on the M S Dart to investigate and arrange burial and estate disposal. Larsen, reportedly starving on his farm, had supplies sent by Gray who stopped to aid him and later left to return supplies. He has no known relatives.
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Oscar Larsen
Price Island
Gambier Bay
U. S
Felix Gray
Larsen
Dart
Commissioner Gray
Gray
Union Votes for 56 Hour Work Week at Midvale Steel
Philadelphia March 8 employees of the Midvale Steel Company's plant voted to work a seven day fifty six hour week for the National Defense emergency. Edward King secretary of the Federal Labor Union local affiliated with APL said about 4000 workers voted two to one in favor. This action is described as the first of its kind in any manufacturing plant in the country. The company has a 32 million dollar order for antiaircraft guns and defense equipment for the army and navy.
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Philadelphia
Midvale Steel Company
Edward King
Federal
Labor’ Union
APL
Army
Navy
Indian Team Leads Dog Derby Across Alaska Race
Jacob Butler drives a seven-dog team in the all Alaska Dog Derby, the 160 mile event offering a 3000 dollar prize. Butler’s squad led 13 contestants at Livengood after 9 hours 37 minutes amid storms and slush, with Woods Skaug and Buzby close behind in 9 hours 43 minutes. A total of 311 dogs entered. teams expected to return to Fairbanks today.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Jacob Butler
Livengood
Butler
Busby
Woods
Huntington
Skaug
Alexander
Moses
Jones
Hanson
Stickman
Kokrines
Dayo
Agbaba
Buzby
Coast Flight Brings 15 Passengers to Region
Pilot Alex Holden left Gastineau Channel with five passengers bound for the Coast and plans to return this afternoon with four from Hirst and one from Sitka. Other travelers include Joel Mustonen Lewis McClellan Robert Cunningham Eaf Parke to Hirst and H Anderson to Sitka. Earlier Shell Simmons hurried down the Channel to meet the northbound Mount McKinley with three waiting passengers but rough Channel conditions forced a return trip without landing.
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Alex Holden
Gastineau Channel
Hirst
Sitka
Joel Mustonen
Lewis McClellan
Robert Cunningham
Eaf Parke
H. Anderson
Shell Simmons
Mount McKinley
Mrs Sig Whig Flies Through Juneau to Ruby Visit
Mrs. Sig Whig of Ruby passed through Juneau today on the northbound Mount McKinley and immediately boarded the PAA road DO-3 for Fairbanks. The Interior mining town trip follows a period outside.
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Sig Whig
Ruby
Juneau
Whig
Mount McKinley
Real General Becomes Army Press Agent With Plain Spokesman
Washington dispatch notes Major General Richardson, long a mechanization pioneer, named the Army's chief press information officer. The veteran West Point graduate, formerly commanding the First Cavalry at Fort Bliss, is praised for honesty and clear answers during a press tour.
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Army
Washington
Capital
United States Army
Lyon
Roberts
Richardson
Ike
First Cavalry
Fort Bliss
Texas
Blackout in Seattle is success
Seattle observed a 15 minute blackout last night from 10 45 to 10 55 o clock in the first defensive test across a major American city Thousands joined parades downtown shouting and whistling no traffic incidents occurred and only a few isolated lights remained navigation beacons harbor aircraft beacons moving trains and Boeing Aircraft plant on Harbor Island showed defense work underway
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Seattle
Boeing Aircraft
Harbor Island
Alabama Would Let Bars Down for Tribesmen
Territorial Senate members introduced eleven bills including Sen. LaBoyteux’s measure to exempt Indians Aleuts and Eskimos from polygamy adultery and cohabitation prosecutions when tribal ties and customs are shown. Livengood offered a coin operated device tax bill and a filing of instruments bill due to a vacancy in the recorder’s office.
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Alabam
LaBoyteux
Territorial Senate
LaBoyteaux
Livengood
Recorders Office
Measures of Defense Continue on Albanian Front
Turkey maintains urgent defense preparations as German troops mass on Bulgarian borders. Authorities order storage of ide and other inflammables underground. Greek papers call for resistance to Axis pressure and one Athens open letter to Hitler vows Greece will fight to the death if Italy stays in Albania.
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Turkey
Germany
Yugosla
Athens
Hitler
Mathimerini
Greece
Albania
Italy
Japan Axis Partners to Meet in Berlin Deliberations
The German government announced that Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka will travel from Tokyo to Berlin for personal deliberations on questions arising from cooperation under the three Power pact, signaling deepening Axis ties with Germany and other European partners.
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Associated Press
Japan
Mitsuoka
Berlin
Tokyo
Frisco Police Suspended for Beating Youths
Two veteran Frisco officers Joseph Greene and John Desmond were suspended after a slum expedition on Skid Road led to a beating of Stanford Freshmen Don Allan who suffered a broken nose and Carter Barber hospitalized. Formal complaints for unprovoked assault were to be filed, both officers denying the accusations.
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San Francisco
Stanford
Joseph Greene
John Desmond
Don Allan
Carter Barber
Allan
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I Duce
Iinea
Tha T Housenda
Santa Monica
Calif
Jack Stinnett
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