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VOL. 37. No. 297. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
Former King May Answer Archbishop’s Broadcast
No Sympathy Strike by Eastern I.L. A. Said President
BRIDGES
LOST HIS
JOB I.L.A.
Lundberg Said A Sort Of
An Agreement Was
Reached
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16th—
Negotiators of offshore shippers
and sea-going unions are report
ing tentative accord on major is
sues including the hiring halls,
also penalties for violating work
ing agreements; attacked prob
lems of wages and working con
ditions.
Harry Lundberg, head of the
Sailors Union, announced an ag
reement last night after hours of
conferences. He said the sailors
demand for cash for overtime
v/as granted. He declined to
talk of other details.
T. P. Plant, spokesman for the
shippers, said, that there is no
prospect o' an immediate strike
settlement, because there are
several matters that remain to be
adjusted.”
Strike leaders here, rallied to
the defense of Harry Bridges, the
Pacific Coast International Long
shoremen’s Association president.
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Searching on Foot;
Missing Plane
(By The Associated Press)
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 16th—
While searching planes droned
overhead, land parties combed
the snow-drifted mountain wilds
in the vicinity of Alpine, twenty
five miles southeast of here, seek
ing the lost big airliner. A driz
zling rain continued all night.
Early risers of Alpine yesterday, j
reported hearing a plane whose
motors appeared to be missing. 1
who was ousted by the Interna
tional Longeshoremen’s Associa
tion executive Board, yesterday.
Joseph Ryan president of the
International L. A., latter declar- j
ed there will be no sympathy
strike by Eastern I.L.A. workers.
Ryan said he would stop Or
ganizer Bridges’ $75.00 weekly
salary, and appointed William
Kraft of Seattle, who is now in
Hawaii, as Bridges successor.
Leaders on the Pacific Coast j
said that Bridges’ position as
Coast president will not be af
fected, as he was duly elected by
the coast body.
Organizer Bridges is address
ing a mass meeting at New York
In the Madison Square Garden
tonight.
HUNTER RESCUED FROM I rr>r,E
• Trapped with a fractured leg on a ledge 1,000 feet above the canyon
floor of the Wasatch mountains near Salt Lake City, Lloyd Rawaon, 21
•- year-old deer hunter, la shown aa he waa lowered by reecuera from his
dangerous perch. Hla feet were tied together as the descent was made.
Rawson’s leg waa broken when a portion of the ledge gave way. (Aaso
' elated Presa Photo)
!
Former King Is
Furious Attack
Of Archbishop
Criticism Over Speech Is
Received In Commons
_
(B" The Associated Press 1
ENZESFELD, Austria, Dec. 16
—Furious, despite his mental an
guish and despondency, former
king Edward may talk back at
Archbishop Canterbury, it was
reliably reported by Baron Eu
gene de Rothchild, at whose Cas
tle he is staying.
The Baron disclosed that Ed
ward was deeply stirred over the
radio broadcast in which the
spiritual leader of the British
empire rebuked him and his
friends. It was also said that
Edward might make a fiery an
swer at the London members of
the House of Commons, which is
deluged with letters protesting
against the archbishop’s broad
cast.
Harry Brunette
Somewhere In
Jail New Jersey
(By The Associated Press*
NEW YORK, Dec. 16th—Harry
Brunette, who is held in an un
disclosed New Jersey jail, await
ing prosecution under the Lind
bergh Kidnapping Law, was tak
en to Trenton, N. J., last night
under a heavy guard. Judge Sam
uel Mandelbaum set his bail at
one hundred thousand dollars, j
yesterday, on a charge, also a
new federal statute, providing
for a ten years jail sentence for
assaulting a federal officer in yes
terday’s gun battle. ,
—
To Institute A
Campaign
Back General
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Dec. 16th—Army
officials have begun a campaign
to rescue Premier Chiang Kai
Shek if alive, and to avenge him
if dead, it was reported and vot
ed by the executive Yuan Govern
ing Committee of the Chinese
government at Nanking.
Yesterday’s broadcast by Mar
shal Chang at Sianfu, of his as
sassination, together with other
leaders, was ignored or denied
today by Chinese officials.
Eight or ten Chinese divisions
ire now moving into the Shenshi
Province.
WERE FIRST TO CROSS NEW SAN FRANCISCO BRIDGE AT OPENING
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The first official traffic across the huge San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge at the opening cere
monies, was the procession of cars of Governor Frank F. Merr-am and his party. They are
shown here traveling along the upper deck of the suspension span west of \ erba Buena Is
land, whose tunnel may be seen in the background. (AssociatedPress Photo),
CCC Man Reparts
Seeing Trees Cut,
Marks in the Snow
fBv The Associated Press i
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec, 16—
John Hess, a CCC camp foreman,
reported what he believed to be
the ‘‘tracks" of the lost plane on
the snow drifted ridge Northwest
of A'lpine village, where early
risers had reported hearing a
plane in distress yesterday, said
he found a place where a tree
had been split and further on an
other tree broken off, seven hun
dred yards up the slope earth and
shale had been dug up as if the
wheels of the plane had struck”
at that point.
He said that further progress
in the direction indicated, was
impossible, and was forced to re
turn by a roundabout route to
get over to the side of the ridge.
Alpine village is twenty-five
miles southeast of here.
A NIGHTMARE FOR HIM
Princess Anne, Md., Dec. 16, —
Busily engaged in washing a car,
an unidentified Negro looked up
to see a group of men, brandish
ing knives, surrounding him.
He recovered from his fright
when he learned that, unknown
to him, a rat had crawled up to
his shoulder and the men want
ed to kill the rat.
Dividend Checks
Bein<* Rushed to
The Stockholders
i
(Bv T he Associated °ressi
NEW YORK, Dec. 16—Postmen
throughout the nation, hurried
checks today, representing one
hundred and fifty rrfllion dollars.
The advance guard is on the
greatest seven day dividend dis
tributions in the history of Amer
ican industry, and within a week
in the form of extra increased
regular dividend checks, half a
billion dollars will be on its way,
representing about half or near
a billion for the year end divi
dend disbursement.
(By The Associated Press)
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 16—The
United States’ proposal for con
sultation by American Republics,
if American peace is menaced
from within or without, won
final approval of the full Inter
American Peace Conference al
ong with eight other projects.
Secretary Hull described as
epochal, his resolution, urging all
American Republics complete
ratification of the five existing
American peace treaties, which
were also quickly approved.
is rack ii mi;
l H\ The Associated Pv'-m
WASHINGTON. D. C. Dec. 15
—President Roosevelt returned
Tuesday night to the Capital.
The scene is already quickening
to the tempo of h;s second term.
The President arr.ved via train
from Charleston, South Carolina,
where he landed in the morning
after a trip to the Beunos Aires
Peace Conference.
A heavy accumulation of con
gressional preparatory work is
awaiting the attention of the
pro ident, among them the huge
task of pr parirg the budget.
Double-Header Baseball Games, Wed. Dec. 16th
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