Bridges Loses Job Amid Coast Longshore Row
Union conflict erupts as Pacific Coast ILWU leader Harry Bridges is ousted by the ILA executive board amid wage and working condition talks. Bridges vows mass meeting in New York while Eastern IL A workers vow no sympathy strike. Joseph Ryan announces Bridges' $75 weekly pay will be stopped and William Kraft named Bridges successor in Seattle.
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Harry Lundberg
Sailors Union
T. P. Plant
Harty Bridges
Pacific Coast International Longshoremen’s Association
Ll.a
Ryan
Bridges
William Kraft
Seattle
Hawaii
Pacific Coast
Searching on Foot Former King Is Missing Plane
In Alpine near Salt Lake City planes hunted the missing airliner as drizzling rain soaked the area. Alpine residents heard a plane with engines as if failing. The search continued through the night with land parties combing snowy mountains.
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Associated Press
Salt Lake City
Alpine
Here
Harry Brunette Held in New Jersey Jail
New York dispatch reports Harry Brunette held in an undisclosed New Jersey jail awaiting prosecution under the Lindbergh Kidnapping Law. He was taken to Trenton under heavy guard after Judge Samuel Mandelbaum set bail at $100000 on a charge tied to yesterday's gun battle and a federal assault statute.
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Brunette
New Jersey
Trenton
N. J
Samuel Mandelbaum
Campaign to rescue Chiang Kai Shek launched in China
Army officials in Shanghai report a campaign to rescue Premier Chiang Kai Shek if alive and to avenge him if dead. The Executive Yuan in Nanking approved the plan. Marshal Chang’s broadcast of Chiang’s assassination was denied by officials. Eight or ten Chinese divisions move into Shenshi Province.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Chiang Kai Shek
Executive Yuan
Nanking
Marshal Chang
Lianfu
Shenshi Province
CCC Foreman Reports Possible Plane Tracks in Alpine Ridge
John Hess, CCC camp foreman, says he found split tree and dug earth indicating a plane crash site northwest of Alpine village, about 25 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. He reports a plane in distress heard by locals yesterday and notes he could not proceed further up the ridge. Meanwhile postmen nationwide deliver about 150 million dollars in early dividend checks as part of a record year end distribution.
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John Hess
CCC
Alpine Village
Nightclub confrontation ends with rat scare
An unidentified Black man washing a car in Princess Anne Maryland on December 16 was surrounded by men wielding knives. He fled when he learned their intent was to kill a rat that had crawled to his shoulder, not him.
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Princess Anne, Md
United States Peace Proposals Win Final Conference Approval
The Inter-American Peace Conference approves the U S consultation proposal to safeguard peace in the Americas. Secretary Hull calls the agenda epochal urging full ratification of five existing peace treaties, all quickly approved along with eight other projects.
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Associated Press
Buenos Aires
United States
Hull
President Kewlevelt Returns to Washington by Train
A garbled report notes President Kewlevelt returned Tuesday to the Capital from Charleston South Carolina. The scene suggested the prospect of a second term as he arrived amid heavy press coverage and a large security presence during the journey.
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Washington, SC
Dew
Kewlevelt
Charleston
Sauit Carolina
Bourne Aires Peaey
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