Gridley Talks On PWA At Nome Luncheon
R T Gridley assistant PWA administrator for Alaska arrived in Nome from Fairbanks to push PWA loan and grant plans for the city. He urged rapid engineering survey and planning to meet congressional approval and to start work promptly. He noted plans for a new Nome federal building await Washington approval and called for a permanent PWA representative in Nome during construction.
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R. T. Gridley
Alaska
Nome
Fairbanks
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
North Pole
Public Works Administration
Congress
Gridley
PWA
Juneau
Nome Public
Nome Federal
Washington
Northern Air Transport
Anchorage
Seward
Hope for speedy settlement in Pacific Northwest lumber strike
The Northwest Council of Sawmill and Timber Workers Union modified wage demands to a fifty cent minimum raise and a forty hour week, open to those who join collective bargaining. The plan drops a closed shop and seeks union recognition in bargaining, aiming to speed settlement of the lumber strike in Portland and the region.
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Associated Press
Portland
Northwest Council of Sawmill and Timber Workers Union
Japan Sees Self as Target of U S Navy Expansion
A Navy Propaganda Bureau pamphlet issued for Navy Memorial Day marks Japan as a target of the United States seapower. The document notes a rising power expanding its navy and suggests Japan faces that growing threat, though the United States is not named.
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Japan
SELF
United States Navy
Associated Press
Tokyo
United States
Navy Propaganda Bureau
Flu Epidemic in Barrow Declares Near Over
May 27 report from Dr. Grief? Griest notes Barrow flu outbreak is practically over with only a few skimpy cases among recent arrivals for the whaling season. No serious illnesses. last deaths were two children, one infant from tuberculosis. Relapses blamed on convalescents over eating after discharge.
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Associated Press
Point Barrow
DoJ captures suspect in 72000 extortion case in Pasadena
DoJ agents and police wounded and captured a suspect in a 72000 dollar extortion plot aimed at Herbert D. Ivey bank president and head of the Los Angeles clearing house association. In the gun battle Jack Williams, 35, was shot in the chest but saved by his badge while an officer substituted a decoy for Ivey.
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Associated Press
Pasadena
Department of Justice
Herbert D. Ivey
Los Angeles Clearing House Association
Ivey
Jack Williams
Ransom Note Warns Family Kidnappers Not To Fool
A Seattle Post-Intelligencer excerpt prints the Tacoma kidnapping note to the Weyerhaeuser family. The letter demands two hundred thousand dollars in unmarked bills and warns against notifying police, with five days to deliver. It is signed Percy and Minnie, with the codename Egeist.
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Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
Weyerhaeuser
Tacoma
Federal Reserve
Department of Justice
Tt South
Percy
Minnie
Abduction Probe Focuses on Tan Sedan In California Plate Case
Authorities press on in a kidnapping investigation centering on a tan sedan with a California license plate. Detectives monitor the Lowell school area after days of three men watching the site and watch for any special delivery notes to the family. Two federal men guide action based on incoming tips as the search continues.
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Tacoma
California
Lowell
Luck Plays Role in Abduction of Tacoma Boy
May 27 report states luck influenced the abduction of a Tacoma boy. Normally his first cousin Erskine Ingram walked with him from Lowell School to Annie Wright Seminary, a girl’s school attended by Amneh his sister. On Friday Erskine’s lunch kept him at school, leaving George alone on the final block of his walk.
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Tacoma
Erskine Ingram
George
Lowell
Annie Wright Seminary
Amne
Erskine
Weyerhaeuser Adverts Signal Readiness in Tacoma
In late May, a ransom note declared readiness for Monday and sought a new contact method. Percy and Minnie signed the plea, referencing mediation with kidnapers amid public pressure.
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R T Gridley
Pacific Northwest
The
Weyerhaeusers
Wyerhaeuser’s
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