Trans Atlantic Air Planes Active From Botwood
Pan American Airways Clipper plane 3rd landed at 7 52 a m in Botwood after a 16 hour 27 minute flight from Foynes Irish Free State crossing the Atlantic from the east. At the same time the British flying boat Caledonian landed in the River Shannon after a 12 hour 7 minute flight.
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Botwood
New Foundland
Pan-American Airways
Foynes
Irish Free State
Caledonian
Shannon
Doukhobor Family Drowned Crossing Columbia River
A Doukhobor family from Nelson B C 29 year old rancher his wife and three children aged eight and younger drowned when their boat capsized while crossing the Columbia river to pick berries.
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Nelson
B. C
Stoopnikoff
Columbia River
Patrol Squadrons Launch From Seattle Bound for Alaska
A patrol squadron of VP 7 led by Lieut. Commander C L Fuller left Seattle at 7 05 a m bound north along the outside passage toward Kodiak, followed forty five minutes later by VP 9 under Lieut. Commander W G Tomlinson. They expect a ten hour flight. VP 12 with eleven aircraft turned back after an earlier start and took off again at 8 30 a m for Sitka.
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Associated Press
Seattle
V-P 7
C. L. Fuller
W. G. Tomlinson
Gulf of Alaska
Kodiak
VP 12
Sitka
Richmond Bicentennial Wooden Nickels Go Lawful Tender
In Richmond on July 16 the warning dont take any wooden nickels becomes effective. Wooden nickels and wooden tent and twenty five cent places become legal tender until September 25, the rectangular souvenirs distributed to 50 000 merchants. They will be given in change to customers on request and may be redeemed before the celebration ends this fall.
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Richmond
Xennecott to Build $5 Million Smelter in Hurley or Chino
New York July 16 Xennecott Copper Corporation plans a five million dollar smelter at Hurley New Mexico or on its Nevada Consolidated and Chino properties officials announced today.
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Associated Press
New York
Xennecott Copper Corporation
Hurley
New Mexico
Nevada Consolidated and Chino
Weekly Air Service Alaska To Start Saturday
The Alaska Clipper Air Express Inc announces a weekly air service to Alaska beginning Saturday morning. One twin‑meter amphibian leaves Boeing Field at 9 am, stops at Alert Bay, then reaches Ketchikan in the afternoon after a two hour layover. A regular weekly service to Juneau is planned the following week.
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Seattle
Alaska
Alaska Clipper Air Express Inc
Boeing
Ketchikan
Alert Bay
Juneau
Fisheries Bureau Reports Alaska Earnings From Last Year
The Fisheries Bureau reported Alaska fishing earnings totaling about 117 million with salmon the major sales in fishermen earnings of 11.8 million and total catch value around 152 million. Canneries and processors earned 46.481 million dollars and the industry employed 11,722 fishermen along with 16,597 wholesale and manufacturing workers and 2,064 transport personnel.
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Fisheries Bureau
Alaska
Washington
B.C
Bank Robbers Caught Near Washington After Escape
Three bank robbers led a Grant County bank holdup and fled toward Washington. Floyd Russell of Columbus Ohio and Par Bustriat a Uma Indian were captured near Bickleton Washington yesterday. Jack Davis remained missing after being shot or wounded during the escape. The bandits fled with about four hundred twenty dollars, their car wrecked during the getaway.
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Johnday
Grant County Bank & Mounday
Floyd Russel
Columbus
Ohio
Bickleton
Washington
Jack Davis
Michigan
Herquistes Hospital
Striking Paris Workers Close Major Hotels and Cafes
Roving squads of strikers in Paris aimed to close hotels that refused a five day week, triggering sporadic violence and walkouts. About a dozen large hotels and around one hundred cafes and restaurants were shut yesterday.
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Associated Press
Paris
Sailors Killed and Injured in Naval Boiler Explosion
Three sailors were killed and three critically injured in an explosion aboard the destroyer Almirante Villar in Callao Bay. The incident occurred in the boiler rooms of the vessel while at port in Lima.
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Lima
Peru
Petaylen
Almirante Villar
Callao
Bas
Explosions at Sveaborg Castle Kill Ten. Injure Twenty
In Sveaborg Castle near Helsingfors ten people died after night long blasts at ammunition stores. Police reported twenty injuries and sixteen buildings destroyed in the incident.
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Helsingfors
Finland
Sveaborg
Belgian Rexist Leader Fined for Slandering Minister
Len Dewrelle a Belgian Rexist leader received a 25 dollar fine and a four month suspended prison sentence for slandering a cabinet minister in Brussels on July 16.
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Brussels
Len Dewrelle
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