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...Astoria, Ore., States Steamship's freighter San Anselmo was held in port by striking longshoremen...
...Berkeley, Calif., longshoremen refused to unload a cargo of copra from Portland California Steamship's freighter Admiral Nulton because they would have to pass through the picket lines of the striking Warehousemen's Union to reach...
Meantime a highly emotional fuse was stuck in an already explosive situation with the development of a sensational waterfront murder case. For the killing of a freighter engineer in San Francisco last April, police last week arraigned four suspects, announced that one of them had confessed committing the crime on Union orders. To the defendants' defense rushed the I. L. A., trumpeting: 'There shall not be another . . . frame-up like the case of Mooney and Billings...
Into the middle of the James River near Lee Hall, Va., last week tugs towed from her anchorage the dirty, 389-ft. freighter Nantasket, built in 1918 for the Wartime Emergency fleet. Aboard were experts appointed by the U. S. Senate's Commerce Committee to find ways of preventing future fires at sea as fatal as the Morro Castle disaster. While spectators lined the nearby shores, the experts proceeded to do their best to burn up the Nantasket...
...bleak little port of Churchill, Manitoba, on the west side of Hudson Bay last week churned the freighter Firby, bound for England with six passengers, a cargo of wheat, flour, timber. The first ship to clear Churchill this year, the Firby was also the first to carry passengers to Europe under an organized booking service. In the past, passengers have occasionally been taken, usually listed as crew. The new arrangement is the latest Canadian effort to make a paying proposition out of Churchill, which was developed as a port five years ago at tremendous cost, has so far proved...