Epidemic Conditions in Matanuska Spur Senate Inquiry
The Senate will request reports on the Matanuska project food and health conditions after telegrams from colonists alleged lack of housing roads and medicine. Hopkins Ferr and aides promised prompt delivery of the requested report while others blamed failed lumber shipments for the troubles. An investigator visit was not confirmed but complainants awaited action.
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Washington
Senate
Matanuska
Hopkins Ferr
Hopkins
Eugene Carr
Palmer
Vandenberg
Lawrence Westbrook
Commerce Chief Copeland Defends Roper Aide Vindicates Agency
Senate commerce committee Chairman Copeland stated the Department of Commerce was vindicated of corruption charges raised by ousted assistant secretary Ewing Y Mitchell. He said Mitchell’s accusations faded after Secretary Roper’s prosecution and the committee hearing, calling Mitchell a meddler and noting charges were merely inferences.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Commerce
Ewing Y. Mitchell
Copeland
Senate Commerce Committee
Roper
Mitchell
Tam Frank
Court Tests Will Be Made of The Social Security
Court tests on all principal New Deal labor measures are in the making. Steel, auto, and coal industries plan to carry the Wagner labor disputes bill to the courts. Southern producers are expected to challenge the Gacey coal bill to test social security legislation already in line.
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Associated Press
Washington
Steel
Midnight Sun Flights Ring for Special Roost Airways Passes
Roast Airways announces special Midnight Sun airplane trips on June 20 to 23. Rates are $5.00 per passenger and callers may contact the company office for information.
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Midnight Sun
The
Roast Airways
G Man Reveals Kidnapping Plot Details and Death
A government agent recounts the planned kidnapping case from start to execution noting the lack of a named victim until the death of Elder Weyer Hauser in Tacoma. The story details investigative steps and key turning points.
Planned March plans in Salt Lake linked to Weyerhaeuser kidnap
AP dispatch from Tacoma reports Justice agent E J Connelley detailing the hour by hour sequence of the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping. Harmon Waley and William Dainard discussed the abduction in Salt Lake City, then moved the boy through Washington, Oregon, Idaho and back to a Seattle area hideout before the May 25 26 moves.
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Associated Press
Tacoma
E. J. Connelley
Department of Justice
Chicago
Weyerhaeuser
Little George
Waleys
Harmon Waley
William Dainard
Lias William Davis
William Mahan
Justie
Salt Lake City
of Washington
John P. Weyerhaeuser Sr
Washington
Hoquiam
Waley
Seattle
George
Annie Wright Seminary
Issaquah
Connelley
Dainard
Spokane
Idaho Hills
Spa
Waleys Parted and Husband Sent Off to McNeil Island
In Tacoma on June 21 Judge Cushman accepted guilty pleas from Waley and his wife in the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping case. Waley received forty five years for kidnapping and extortion. his wife’s guilty plea on one charge was set aside. She claimed she joined only after the crime began and rented the hideout house in Spokane. The government dismissed the second ransom note charge and postponed other indictments until October.
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Tacoma
Cushman
Waleys
Waley
Spokane
George Weyerhaeuser
McNeil Island
Weyerhaeuser
Olympia
Mahan
Dainard
George
Long Is Pressing Immediate Action Tax rich Proposal
The House approved a second deficit bill totaling fifty eight million dollars for public buildings outside DC and sent it to the Senate. Alaska projects include Anchorage post office and customs house four hundred seventy five thousand dollars and Ketchikan post office and customs house one hundred thousand. This adds to three hundred thousand already appropriated for Nome Sitka and Wrangell.
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Long
Associated Press
Washington
House
District of Columbia
Senate
Alaska—Anchorage
Customs House
Ketchikan
Nome
Sitka
I Wrangell
Huey Long Pushes Immediate Tax on the Rich
Huey Long mounts a new challenge to force immediate tax on the rich, invoking echoes of the French Revolution as he seeks rapid passage of his proposed levy despite opposition and ongoing Senate debate.
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Associated Press
Washington
Huey Long
President approves Alaska highway plan with funds proposed
Delegate Dimond says Roosevelt supports the international highway and offered changes to the bill now in the House committee. The president urged two million dollars for Alaska construction and one hundred thousand for Canada negotiations, with possible Public Works funding if construction starts soon. Dimond expects swift committee approval and House passage this session.
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Associated Press
Washington
Dimond
Roosevelt
Committee of the House
Senate
Alaska
Canada
Yale and Harvard Regatta Held in New London
In New London Connecticut Yale junior varsity won the second race from Harvard after Yale freshman took the first event in their annual regatta. Franklin D Jr rowed in Yale's junior varsity crew. The varsity race occurred late with President Roosevelt watching both races.
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Associated Press
New London
Conn
Yale
Harvard
Franklin D. Jr
Roosevelt
For Sale Bulkhead and Timbers at Nome Machine Shop
Bulkhead and foundation timbers, heavy planking, and firewood advertised for sale at Nome Machine Shop. Contact Black at the listed phone number.
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Nome Machine Shop
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