Alaska Airmail Bill Seeks Year Round Service
Senator Copeland of New York will urge the Senate Appropriations Committee to include 250000 dollars in the first Deficiency appropriation bill for year round air mail between Ketchikan Juneau Tanana Crossing Fairbanks via Whitehorse. He argues lack of funds would jeopardize airways rights across southeastern to northern Alaska. Delegate Dimond says the item was in the postal budget but was struck out and hopes the deficiency bill will include it. the funding would also enable a Tanana Crossing to Cordova Valdez and Anchorage branch line.
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Associated Press
Washington
Copeland
New York
Senate
Ketchikan
Juneau
Tanana Crossing
Fairbanks
Whitehorse
Canada
Alaska
Anthony J. Dimond
Budget Bureau
Post Office Department
Jury Convicts Man in Seattle Slaying of Mother
A Seattle jury convicted Barney Wold, 49, a longshoreman, of manslaughter for killing his 88 year old mother last February by throwing her to the floor and breaking her hip. The jury deliberated five hours and gave no clemency recommendation. the maximum penalty is twenty years.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Barney Wold
Study of China Situation Drives Japan Arming
Peiping May 16 United States and other foreign diplomats began a study today of the serious situation arising from Japan's strengthening of North China garrisons. Nanking has protested to Tokyo. 7 600 additional troops arrived yesterday making ten thousand in all sufficient to occupy strategic air fields railroad stations and the passes through the Great Wall.
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Associated Press
Peiping
China
United States
Japan
North China
Nanking
Tokyo
Great Wall
Price Sets 12 And Half Cents For Alaska Red Sal
San Francisco May 16 Alaska fishermen accept twelve and a half cents per red salmon after six weeks of talks with Alaska Packers Association. Union officials report 161 of voters approved the lower price on roughly a thousand boats and crews begin signing as boats sail next week.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Alaska Fishermen's
Alaska Packers Association
Passenger List of SS Yukon North Today
The Yukon Northbound from Seattle carried 182 first class and 156 steerage passengers with 75 booked for Seward. Names listed include F Coleman Allan MacLean John Lea Mister Ramstead and wife W R Wessenham Mrs E Dolby Charles Tecklenburg CS Richardson and wife and many others.
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Seattle
Yukon
Alaska
Lert
Gvessel
Seward
F. Coleman
Allan MacLean
John Lea
Mister Ramstead
W R Wessenham
E Dolby
Charles A Tecklenburg
CS Richardson
Peter Sather
Bartel Stromberg
Chris Thompson
C D Cummins Jr
George H Gustafson
Fred Ciscera
Donald Teed
Horace Teed
Leo Erickson
Roger Eliassion
E J Johanson
David Strandberg
Z W Beckhorn
Earl Ridgeway
William Greig
John Simpson
A LaVergne
James McDonald
Carl Hemrick
John Mihalcik
Roy McPhie
Carl Carlson
Lionel Destaffany
James Murphy
I R Heaton
Sidney Lawrence
Judge Millen
A Hanson
Byron O'Brien
Jessie Curl
Jenny Bolland
E. Brainerd
C D Hans
T Roman
Mister Thorsen
Don Waring
D G Davis
Jack Hollick
Charles Williams
Chas Clements
Emma Davis
L C Derington
L E Derington
Mister Johnson
Yale awards Fellowship Scholarship to Robert A. Dahl
The Yale Graduate School awarded a Fellowship Scholarship to Robert Alan Dahl of Skagway Alaska today. The announcement highlights his selection for the merit based fellowship and honors his academic potential at Yale.
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Associated Press
New Haven, Conn
Yale Graduate School
Robert Alan Dahl
Skagway
Alaska
North Sea Docked at Ketchikan After Grounding
Captain Nickerson and 29 passengers remained aboard the North Sea after it ran aground near Ketchikan. The vessel had been stuck 47 hours in fog before docking at 2 AM. Some passengers were taken by the Victoria or landed by Cutter Alert at Dall Island. Temporary repairs planned.
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Nickerson
North Sea
S. S. Victoria
Alert
Dall Island
Victoria
Hunter Bay
Hemself
Newlyweds Escape Jailed Surprise Amusing Nome Crowd
Miss Marjory Dane and Wm. F. Barber wed at the Mirow home in Nome. A chivaree formed as friends escorted the couple to the Mirow Air Service after a jail escape, with a wedding supper planned for close friends. Barber remains with the Mirow Air Service and will base in Nome.
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Nome
Kotzebue
Marjory Dane
Wm. F. Barber
Hans Mirow
Norman McCay
Madeleine Mirow
Emerson Bassett
Ed. Steffen
Miss Dane
Kotzebue Hospital
R. E. Smith
Mirow Air Service
Barber
W. F. Barber
First Lady Hosts Delinquent Girls At White House
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt broke precedent inviting sixty inmates of the National Training School for Girls to a White House party. She described the institution as medieval and barbarous. forty nine of the girls are Black.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Naional Training School For
White House
Natives Aid Search for Escaped Convicts in Okla
At Antlers Oklahoma natives aided a manhunt for five convicts still at large after escaping the state penitentiary. A tip led to the capture of Kinde Pugh while others remained free and a prison officer credited the locals for assisting in the search and return of two inmates alive.
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Associated Preseantlers
Oklahoma
Kimichi
State Penitentiary
Kinde Pugh
Pirates beat Brooklyn 6 to 2 as Mungo falls again
Pittsburgh and Brooklyn split a game with the Pirates scoring three in the seventh to chase Lingo van Mungo after six innings. Jim W. added four hits allowed by the Pirates to total nine in the win.
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Pitsburgh
Brooklyn
Lingo van Mungo
Pirates
Mungo
Jim Wor
Pittsburgh
New York
Cincinnati
Boston
Leroy Parmelee
St. Louis
Chicago
Philadelphia
Coast League clash ends in goalless draw in Portland
In a quiet winter scene Portland hosts San Diego as the Coast League match finishes 0 0. The town’s stillness lets notes echo past the bank as both sides fail to score.
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Portland
San Diego
Pilot and body mechanic rescued after mountain crash
In NORTH BEND on May 1 rescue teams carried Pilot Braybill and body mechanic Wells from a mountain crash scene. An improvised stretcher formed from a broken wing aided the extraction as Paul O’Neil reported Braybill described a downcurrent causing the crash and Wells was up front with supplies. In SEATTLE on May 16 Wells’s body was brought to the orgie Lele.
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North Bend
Grayvbull
Partes
Paul O'Neil
Puot Braybill
Wells
Seattle
Game Commission Official in Alaska To Be Transferred
An Alaska game commission official will be transferred to a different post. The move comes amid routine personnel changes and will affect oversight of wildlife management and hunting regulations.
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Game Commission
Alaska
Nome Alaska Flight Operations Report Mixed Destinations
Airplane activity at Nome Airport includes Hermann leading a freight flight to Chums today returning to Nome with a dredge crew. Mehl and Taylor with AB Peter to Lake Tipupuk. Walter Hall of Mirow Air Service flew Ferguson to Kotzebue for a marriage ceremony and returned to Deering and Nome. Hall plans to fly to Fairbanks with Bertha Rainbow tomorrow.
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Walter Hall
Mirow Air Service
Ferguson
Frank Ziminsky
Elizabeth Pattee
Deering
Kotzebue
Walter Dowd
Hall
Nome
Pilot Hall
Fairbanks
Bertha Rainbow
Bill Collector Returns Trouble With Desk Pile
A speaker taunts a bill collector urging him to take a large pile from the desk. The line captures a tense moment of confrontation and implied refusal to accept more debt. The scene centers on the debtor and the persistent collector.
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