Italy and Germany forge axis military pact a clash of aims
Germany and Italy sign a formal military political alliance as peace hopes in Europe rise and Berlin Rome face opposing consent with Paris London. Nazis hail accord as a bulwark while Mussolini seeks to avoid Eastern European war and Britain and France seek to coordinate with the Soviet Union.
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Associated Press
Italy
Germany
Rome
Berlin
Paris
London
Mussolini
Poland
Great Britain
Russia
Soviet Union
Price Offer Turned Down at Meetings in Alaska
Negotiations between Southeast Alaska salmon packers and Salmon Purse Seiners ended as the seiners rejected the full price offer. Packers and Seiners committees disband and return home with no further talks scheduled. Final offer remains, but sellers hold the move. Seattle shuttle dispatch notes one agreement signed and another arranged, with two companies placed on the unfair list as Alaska labor talks progress.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
May
Packers
Seiners
W. G. Arnold
Seattle
Copper River
Prince William Sound
Uons
Bristol Bay
Cannery Workers Union
Chitung Lagoon Packie Company
W. R. Gilbert Company
Duke Pleads For No More World Wars
From Verdun the Duke of Windsor appeals to world leaders to avert a new global conflict. Speaking as a veteran and soldier of the last war, he urges resolute leadership and appeals to the living and to the youth to spare mankind from destructive war. The broadcast, via NBC, reaches the United States as he tours World War battlefields with the Duchess.
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Verdun
France
Duke of Windsor
Criel
United States
National Broadcasting Company
Atlantic
America
England
Strasbourg
Nominations Approved for Alaska U.S. Attorney and Judge Hellenthal
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nominations of Judge Simon Hellenthal for the Third Judicial Division and Charles J. Clasby for United States Attorney of the Second Judicial Division with Nome headquarters. In San Francisco thousands of General Federation of Women’s Club members gather for a council meeting ending next Saturday presenting leaders to speak on national issues. Key speakers include Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur and Dorothy Thompson with plans for Junior Night and public welfare discussions as part of the convention program.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Simon Hellenthal
President Roosevelt
Charles J. Clasby
United States
Nome
San Francisco
Cal
General Federation of Women's Club
America
Saidie Orr Dunbar
Portland
Oregon
John L. White
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Stanford University
Homer Folks
State Charities Aid Association of New York
Henry F. Grady
United States Tarriff Commission
Monroe E. Leutsch
University of California At Berkeley
Dorothy Thompson
Hime
Kathleen Norris
David 8. Long
Missouri
Department of Public Welfare
Edwin Bevens
Arkansas
Hunting party departs for Alaska trip aboard Westward
In Ketchikan Alaska on May 8 L Iverson president of Mesta Steel Pittsburgh and Mrs Iverson join Henry Romer president of Pittsburgh Stel on the yacht Westward for a big game hunting and fishing expedition. The group plans a leisurely cruise reaching Juneau around June 4 then will fly to Pittsburgh aboard Iversons Lockheed plane.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
L. Iverson
Mesta Steel Company
Pittsburgh
Iverson
Henry Romer
Pittsburgh Stel Company
Juneau
Lockheed
Indictments Against Washington Officials Named
A grand jury in Olympia indicts William Cole former Chief of the Washington State Patrol and E Pat Kelly State Director of Labor and Industries charging grand larceny in the conduct of their offices. Cole resigned January 14 after 13 years service.
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Olympia
Wash
William Cole
E. Pat Kelly
Cole
Washington State Patrol
Kelly
Wolves and Ice Ravage Deer Herds in Alaska
May 8 report from Fairbanks describes mass reindeer losses in Northwest Alaska. Pilot Maurice King cites wolves driving thousands of deer onto ice floes near Kivalina and Shishmaref, with hundreds killed during the feeding frenzy. He notes marooned whites and Eskimos, drifting floes, and many carcasses observed from the air.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Lee Noes
Maurice King
King
Robert Gallhorn
Kivalina
Shishmaref
Kotzebue
Youth charged with slaying of two salesmen
Robert M. Burgunder Jr. 22, a Seattle-born college student and son of a former prose attorney, is jailed in Knoxville awaiting extradition to Phoenix to face charges of killing two automobile salesmen whose bodies were found near a wash after a sales demonstration. He refused to discuss the case, claiming innocence. Burgunder was arrested in Johnson City after leaving a church, and is a former inmate of a Washington State reformatory.
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Burgunder
Johnson City
Earl Sell
Washington State Reformatory
Plane crash near Seattle claims Oregon family in Cascade wreck
May 8 Seattle reports the bodies of Cecil Olinger his wife and seven year old Dixie Lee recovered from a derelict red monoplane found high in the Cascades. The craft was sighted 800 feet above the west entrance to the Milwaukee Railroad tunnel two miles southwest of Snoqualmie after missing since Saturday en route from Walla Walla.
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Cecil Olinger
Milton
Oregon
Dixie Lee
Cascades
Northwest Airlines
Milwaukee Railroad
Snoqualmie
Olinger
Ellensburg
Walla Walla
President Roosevelt Faces Bright Lights Before Pan American Speech
Cameramen endure eyestrain as President Roosevelt delivers a speech at the Hall of the Americas, the stage crowded with news cameras and powerful lights aimed at the president and diplomats. The White House event, funded by Cartekio money, spotlights economic aid to South American nations amid Cold War pressures.
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Preston Grover Washington
Brited
Reading
Mhotiaa
Wordie Daily
Roosevelt
Pan-American Union
Jan
Hopkins Says Chamber Of Commerce Optimistic Outlook
Secretary of Commerce Harry J. Hopkins told reporters at a news conference that pessimism among the United States Chamber of Commerce is unwarranted. He predicted a steady but modest rise in business through the year and warned that chamber views did not represent all businessmen nationwide.
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Washington
Walstein G Smith Returns Home After Hospital Stay
Walstein G Smith has been discharged from St Ann's Hospital after several days of medical supervision. He is reported much improved and has returned to his home.
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Walstein Smith
St Ann's Hospital
Whlstein G. Smith
Roosevelts Talks on Congress Meet in Washington
President Roosevelt and party leaders reviewed the legislative outlook in Washington and discussed measures possibly to be enacted before adjournment. No date was set for winding up the session. Senator Barkley noted the coal strike situation but said no specific administration action was taken. The Senate briefly interrupted consideration of the Agriculture Department appropriation to hear President Bonzym, of Nicaragua.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Con
Barkley
Senate
Agriculture Department
UMS
Bomozm
Nicaragua
House Passes Navy Measure in Peacetime Appropriation
Washington May 18 The House has passed and sent to the Senate the peacetime Naval appropriation bill totaling 773 million dollars. The measure covers funding for naval operations ships and related defense programs pending Senate action.
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Washington
House
Senate
New Clues Sought In Poisoning Murder Probe
Philadelphia detectives review Delaware and Schuylkill River drownings to link potential murder for insurance. Nine bodies exhumed show poison and one death attributed to deliberate car ramming. Twenty one people held. another woman sought as fugitive from justice.
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Philadelphia
May
Delaware
Schuykit
Birth of Baby Boy to Mrs Victor of Anchorage
Former Juneau nurse and mother Alice Mortin Victor, now Mrs Daniel Victor of Anchorage, welcomes a baby boy born weighing 8% pounds. Mrs Victor formerly worked on the nursing staff at St. Ann's Hospital in Juneau.
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Juneau
Daniel Victor
Anchorage
Victor
Alice Mortin
St. Ann's Hospital
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