Alaska Fish Dispute Ends Union Wins All Points
In San Francisco on May 20, A K Tichenor announced a settlement on all points of the Alaska fish dispute after a conference with cannery workers and union representatives. The deal grants Alaska Cannery Workers Union recognition, full unionization of canneries, $65 monthly wages plus overtime bonus, and hiring hall provisions. Foremen may remain in some posts under the agreement. The De La Ruf fishing boat sailed within an hour. two freighters Iowan and Columbian remain tied up with unrelated crew troubles.
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San Francisco
A. K. Tichenor
Alaska Packers
de la Rof
Alaska Cannery Workers Union
Alaska Packers de la Ruf
Copper Dividends Rise at Kennecott and Utah Copper
Kennecott Copper Company directors raise the common share dividend to thirty cents, from twenty-five cents, marking the third increase since payments resumed in 1934. Utah Copper, majority owned by Kennecott, sets a sixty-five cent dividend payable June 30 to stockholders of record May 29.
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New York
Kennecott Copper Company
Utah Copper
Kennecott
Townsend Calls Administration a Hostile Force in Hearing
Dr. Townsend told the House Investigating Committee that the present administration is a hostile force behind the movement investigating the plan. He spoke before a packed room, denying he started the Townsend Old Age Pension drive for profit and claiming his goal was not personal gain.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Townsend
House
Townsend Old Age
Hindenburg Ready for Return Flight to Germany
The dirigible Hindenburg landed at Lakehurst, New Jersey, at 6:03 A M Eastern Standard Time completing its second commercial westward Atlantic crossing in 78 hours 27 minutes. The grounding drew only a few hundred spectators as officials planned a return flight to Germany tonight.
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Associated Press
Lakehurst
N. J
Atlantic Ocean
United States
Germany
Landon Leads Borah In New Jersey Primary
Alf Landon leads Borah in the New Jersey primaries with about half the votes counted. He sits well ahead at better than three and a half to one and is assured of four district delegates plus most of the 28 district delegates, with 22 pledged to Landon and possible two more of New Jersey’s 32 votes. The Democratic slate of 56 delegates and eight at large delegates is pledged to Roosevelt.
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Associated Press
Newark
N. J
Alf Landon
Kansas
Borah
Landon
Republican
Cleveland
Roosevelt
Widow Eugene Field Appeals Friends Loan
The 80 year old widow of Eugene Fields the poet asks friends and admirers to loan her three thousand dollars to save her Wisconsin farm from foreclosure. She plans to take a letter from her son Breene I to Jesse Henry a leading collector of Fields writings.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Eugene Fields
Little Boy Blue
Wisconsin
Breene I
Jesse Henry
Fields
Heaford Junction
Judge Overrules Motion to Dismiss $25,000 Suit
Mount Vernon Ohio May. Judge Phillip Wilkins overrules a motion to dismiss a $25,000 alienation of affections suit against Dill.
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Associated Press
Mount Vernon
Ohio
Phillip Wilkins
Dill
Nome cleanup drive announced for May 19 to June 1
The City of Nome declares a cleanup period from May 19 through June 1 directing residents and property owners to clean their property and beach areas behind buildings. The city track will collect debris piled along the street and remove it. Health and Relief Committee publishes notice on May 18 19 20 21.
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Nome
Health and Relief Committee
Baseball scores and league results from coast to league play
The record lists multiple American League games with New York beating Cleveland 10 to 4 and Washington defeating Detroit 4 to 2. In the National League action St. Louis won over Boston 8 to 4 while Chicago fell 2 to 4 and other matchups show Brooklyn and Cincinnati involved with various scores. Coast League results include Missions 5 Oakland 0 Seattle 1 Los Angeles 2 Portland 2 San Francisco 4 San Diego 3 Sacramento 6.
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Boston
Chicago
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
New York
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Iain
Cleveland
Washington
Detroit
Missions
Oakland
Seattle
Los Angeles
Portland
San Francisco
San Diego
Sacramento
Negotiations Continue Over Salmon Boat Dispute in San Francisco
Negotiations in San Francisco over the salmon fishing boat dispute continued today. Four boats remain tied up while two new vessels, the Delaroff and Chirikoff, join the standby fleet of pickets and enforceable actions.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Delaroff
Chirikoff
Alaska Aims Highlight Division At Noon Chamber Event
Dr. Ernest Gruening, head of the Interior Department Division of Territories and Insular Possessions, spoke at a Northwestern Alaska Chamber luncheon in Nome. He outlined federal aims for Alaska, including native training, education, health, and relief, and discussed the airmail bill and needs for a federal building.
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Ernest H. Gruening
Division of Territorial and Island Possessions
Northwestern
Alaska
Dr. Gruening
Harry G. Watson
John W. Troy
Fairbanks
Chamber
North Pole
Thos. D. Jensen
Alasia
Interior Department
Jensen
J.D. Harlan
W. R. Fariel
L. B. Rynning
Gaffney
U.S
G Fruening
Mr. Watson
Congress
Gruening
Nome
Roosevelt
United States
Congress of the
Insular
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Alaska Fisheries Dispute
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New Jersey
Eugene Field
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