The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 27, 1932, Page 8

8 STOCK PRICES AGAIN-DRIFT, SLOW TRADING Some Iesues Make Slight | Advances While Others Sag ‘W YORK, Dec found no to take ading and prices dr in slow trading trend was mixed with issues advancing a point| while others sagged. * Tobaccos were rather heavy Some chemicals and industrials| were firm. Rails were about steady. Brokers reported further switching for tax purposes On the whole traders were apa- thetic. American Tobacco B. lost more than one point. Reynolds B and| 't and Myers B. also Lorillard | 2d fractionally. Qilz held up early but Standards of California and New Jersey eased off. | CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Dec. ETvCIOsinn quotations of Alaska Juneau min ctock today is 127, American Can 50%, American Pouer and th' . Anaconda 5%, Bethlehem St Calumet and Hecla ler 15%, Colorado Fuel and‘ [ron 4%, Columbian Carbon 26%, \ Continental 6%, | | r l 7—The ~tock stimulus it out Ma adequate n of selling, *and their two daughters are show, SERENADE GIVEN BY JUNEAU BAND » SATURDAY NIGHT Christmas (,alols Are Play- ed by 14 Local Musicians Something cau City Band, the 14 mu- city last playing Christmas ctions. Starting out at 9:30 o'clock, the band first gave five selections on Twelfth Street, in front of the home of the father, mother and daughter of the band, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Garnick, and Miss Anita Garnick. 1 members were then invited in cake, candy, cigars and New and Different! DANCE Wednesday Ni ght carols in vario hen elections given near Gov on Court House Hill, Seventh and Seward, St. '‘Ann's Hospital and |the last out-door function ending |at midnight at the Christmas tree jon Triangle Place. Mr. and Mrs. J. Latimer Gray also officiated at a repast for the bandsmen dur- ing the evening as did Mr. and Mrs., Peter Schmidt shortly after midnight. At all stops there were always a large number of listeners |enjoyed the brief concerts. {band last year serenaded Juneau |from 1:30 until 4 o'clock, but | switched the hour this year. were nor’s mansion In a New Ballroom Amid New Surroundings to the Music Wright 1% motors 13, 20, Kenn 2%, Safe Brands 1 25%. Fox Films Genes at! nternational Harvester t 7%, Packard Motors Stores 39%, Stand. United States < — . MR. AND MRS. BLACK HERE FROM HOONAH ENROUTE TO STATES Neb., of a 4 New Dance Band Enroute and Mrs, in the Indian Service School at Hoonah, arrived: here yesterday. | They will proceed south on the |first steamship sailing. They are called there by the {ious injury in an automobile |cident of Mrs. Black’'s mother. Mr. and Mrs, Black have been teaching |at Hoonah since last September. | e MRS. SEAVERS ILL to Lincoln, Mr., Playing the latest ser- dance hits The New Ballroom Mrs. Reed Seavers is seriously ill —the entire at her home on Gastineau Avenue. second floor Read the classified ams. of the Goldstein Puilding ADMISSI $1.00 LADIES FREE DANCE Wednesday Night Pro erly attired for the eecasior monl;r Edward P. Mulrooney, of New York, his wife who '} The ' d | Steel | Carol E. Black, teachers | | ac- THE DAIL 'I"ol\ce Commis- |nf the Vatican jus \I ope Pius. In giv n in the Ducal Hall | one for the police A ASK Y ALAZKA E’MP!RE, W altmg for Papal Blessz g + before their private audience with ing his blessing the Pontiff included department. Christmas 'llnkes No Difference In Diet of John D. ORMOND BEACH, Fla., Dec. 27.—Christmas makes no dif- ference in the diet of John D. Rockefelier. He ate his or- dinary every day meal Sun- day and had altogether a quiet Yuletide. He atiended church in the forencon and played two holes of golf in the after- noon. B I.IUUUR CAUSE OF 7 DEATHS Son Kills Falherfionlhexw Kills Another in Chicago CHICAC D 7 aths, both e to liquo: family Christmas here. Donald Vernon, aged 17, killed his father Carl, aged 35, because the latter was beating the mother. The father was drunken frenzy. Herbert Polohow, aged 16, his brother Charles, aged 32, invaded the family-owned dance a1l with a shotgun, in search of brother. Both of the young high school students n.u\ kxlm'l were drunk. R.F. C. MAKES - XMAS PRESENT | WASHINGTON, Dec | Reconstruction Finance Corpora- {nancial institutions, borrowing to banks, railroads and other fi- Inancial institutions, borrdowing from it, in the form of a reduced interest rate on loans from five {and one half to five per cent. - HOONAH TEACHER HAS APPENDICITIS OPERATION marred lebrations in killed who another slayers are and both 27 Tikhon Lavrischeff, head of the | Indian Service School at Hoonah, | was yesterday operated on for ap- | pendigitis at the local Government Hospital and is recovering nicely. | Mrs. Lavrischeff, who is spending | ner Christmas vacation here, will | remain with him until he is able| to return to Hoonah. ‘.\1 aly — The|. jALLEN P. LAURIE SUCCUMBS ON CHRISTMAS DAY |Funeral Servxces Will Be Held Tomorrow at Carter Mortuary 40 years in St Allen Parker Laurie old, died ~Christmas day Ann’s Hospital, tnis city. been in failing health summer when he underwent a sur- glcal operation for appendicitis, af- ter the ailment had reached an advanced stage. Funeral services, conducted by Rev. C. E. Rice, dean | of Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathed- will be held at 2 o'clock to- ow afternoon in the chapel Charles E. Carter Mortuary. rment will be in Evergreen Ty. r. Laurie was born in Sutton, He me to Juneau eight ago. He was employed by a Road Commission, and 'man for the Commission last summer when he 1. Immediate surviving ives are Mrs. Parker, the wi- five broth John Laurie and James Laurie of Juneau, Les- ter Laurie and Cameron Laurie of Republic, Wash, and Melvin Laurie, Wauconda, Wash,, and three s s, Mrs. Helen Jewett of Juneau, Mrs. Margaret Kurtz of Wauconda; Mrs. Jean Yorz of Tonasket, Wash. mo) Neb. years COL. HOOKER DROPS DEAD SHANGHAIL, China, Dec, 27. Col. Richard Hooker, formerly sta- tioned at Bremerton, Wash., Com- mander of the Fourth Regiment, United States Marines, and sta- tioned in the Shanghai Interna- tional Settlement, dropped dead of heart failure. e ——— FUNERAL RITES THURSDAY FOR LATE JACOB S. HARRIS Funeral services will be held at o'clock Thursday afternoon in the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall on Willoughby Avenue for the late Jacob S. Harris. Rev. Samuel G. Johnson conduct the rites. 2 will Use Type and Ink—and Why? Interment will be in Evergreen cemetery. WARFARE RENEWED- lN NORTHERN MANCHURIA He h‘m‘ since last | TUECT:AY DEC. 27 1932 THIRTY - NINE MINERS DEAD IN DISASTER Death Toll Expected to. Reach 54—Rock Slide and Fire Damp MOWEAQUA, Tllinois, Dec. 27.— Iwenty-seven miners have been ind dead in the South wing of Co-operative mine, making a 1 known toll of death of 39 { a fire damp had finished its caring blast which killed twelve miners in the north wing. | A rock shale slide first trapped he men, 700 feet under ground,| Saturday. ! Driven Out by Gas | Rescue squads were driven out gas but later returned after »nning gas masks. | An emergency morgue Was pre- ared in a vacant store and al )spitals were prepared to sav any of the miners, if found alive. The bodies of 12 were brought 1t Sunday morning and the res- 1e squads continued their work Fi four men were in the min2 ast lamp explosion. ——— Facing Execution for Murder, W oman Refuses Allow Son’s Adoption COLUMBIA, N. C., Dec. 27.—Al |though she has received many of. fers to adopt her 7-year-old son, Mrs. Beatrice Snipes, condemncd “;r execution for the killing of a |rural policeman, has refused all |She will turn her child over to an uncle, meanwhile expecting a sec- loncl child in the penitentiary. | ——————— | BABE SIGNS 3 CONTRACTS i“One Girl Track Team” Make Movie Shorts, Talk Over Radio ‘ to CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 27.—Babe Didrickson, known as the “one girl |track team” at the Olympics, from | | Texas, announced she has signed contracts for three ventures, to| make athletic shorts for the mov- | ies, do a bit of radio work and | also write for a syndicate. “So far I have three jobs, all| good ones and all dignified,” said ) the girl athlete. Miss Didrickson was recently barred by the A. A. U. for having had her picture taken posed with| a new automobile, alleged to be for advertising purposes. She im-| mediately announced she would turn professional. The other day| she was informed she had been| reinstated following an explanation | of her side of the affair. —— e MUSTC CALLS TURKS TO PRAY ANGORA 1ue muezzins 011 Turkey, under a new Government| order, must all take singing lessons and cease using harsh natural voices for calls to prayer from the minarets of the modernized re- public. i !Joan Blondell, time of the slide and fire- " | “time [ | from demand deposits, beautiful screen player,isshown with George Barnes, movie cameraman, as they hold a little tete-a-tete at Palm Springs, Cal., where they are vacationing. Hollywood gossips confidently pre- lict that the pair will soon trip to the altar, but no engagement been announced as yet. TIME DEPOSIT INSURANCE IS ADVANCED NOW Senator Vandenberg Pro- poses Regulation— Many Reasons WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Leg- islation 10 regulate and insure deposits” in banks is ad- vanced by United States Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, of Michi- gan, as a means of preventing of homdmu creation of confidence nd relaxing credit. Senator Vandenberg proposed a gigantic fund for protection of | time deposits and distinguish them define time deposits as those turn- ed over to a bank for at least 90 |days and insure them up to 75 per cent through a Federal “time de- posit insurance fund.” The fund would be created by an appropriation of $125,000,000 from the Treasury and addition of one fourth of the annual surplus of the Federal Reserve System and annual tax of one-eighth of one per cent on all time deposits in !member banks to be used to re- imburse the 75 per cent on any time deposit in a closed member ban. —— e et e L d il AT THE HOTELS . Gastineau C. Edmundson, Dr. Anderson, | Roy Johnson, Juneau L. Engstrom, ‘Wrangell. Alaskan S. Penfgcam, Lons Olson, George B. Spaulding, E. A. Short, James Giblicoff, Juneau; S. Larson, Chi- chagof; John Davis, Douglas. Zynda Rev. and Mrs. Lavirsheff, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Black, Hoonah; | Walter McDevitt and A. Ross, Ju- neau. GEORGE BROTHERS 5 Fast Deliveries—10, 11, 2, 3:30, 4:30 | FREE A Beautiful B FREE Buy 3 packages of Linit Starch for 45 cents and receive athmat FREE At GARNICK’S, Phone 174 Troops of the recently created state of Manchoukuo (shown in the trenches) cooperated with the Japanese in some phases of the recent Japanese drive against Chinese under Ge General Su Ping-Wen, _This picture was taken near Fulaerchi on the Chinese Eastern rallway. (Associated Press Photo) Resistant and CERTAIN-TEED MINERAL-SURFACED SHINGLES For New Homes and Over Old Roofs COLORS ARE PERMANENT Protective — Permanent — re Economical May be had in any type, design, colors, or color combination -Thomas Hardware Co. He would | BALL ROOM TO BE OPENED IN Dance Will g’le]d at For- mer Golf Course Wed- nesday Evening During - the Christmas holiday | season a new’ ball room will be opened in Juneau with a restive and decorative arrangement fun, favors and fine music. The new amusement place will be in- troduced to the public Wednesday night on the seeond floor of the Goldstein Building.” " The new hall replaces the Midget Golf Course and will be under the management of Fred T. Adams, formerly in charge of the golf course. The entire golfing facili- ties have been removed and the floor space sanded and waxed. Five Piece Band Louis Anderson’s five-piece dance band, a new group of Juneau mel- ody makers, will be featured. Usu- |al admission charges will be made and the first twenty couples to arrive will be admitted at half ~|price. Dancing will begin promptly at 9:30 p. m. Decorated for Opening The hall has been specially dec- 1933 TIDE TABLES BUTLER MAURO DRUG CO. EXPRESS MONEY ORDERS ANY TIME GOLDSTEIN BLDG. of | !mied in seasonal colors for the grand opening. At a later date provision will be made for serving light lunches and soft drinks, Choice of e name for the new ball room will be left to vote of the patrons Wednesday. Steam Hammers Used To Destroy Carloads Of Seized Liquors OGDEN, Utah, Dec. 27.—Equip- ped with a steam hammer, Prohi- | bition agents destroyed two car {loads of assorted wines and liquors | seized enroute from California to st Louis, Missouri and Racine, | Wisconsin. It is believed the liquor origin- ally came from British Columbia. e ———— ‘Old Papers for sale at Empire. Elks’ New Year’s Eve Hi Jinks Saturday Night ELKS’ HALL Serenaders $1.50 with tax FAVORS JUN mail to Secretary as soon EAU CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE IS NOW ON We respectfully request all who received renewal let- ters, with pledge cards enclosed, to fill in card and as convenient. FINANCE COMMITTEE, Chamber of Commerce. “TOMORROW’S C “JUNEAU’S STYLES TODAY” Pre-Inventory S pecials COST VALUES RACK DRESSES for Final Clearance— ONLY $6.95 ONE SPECIAL RACK AT $1.00 EACH MILLINERY CLEAN SWEEP Real Bargains at $1.50 each OWN STORE” Toilet (Standard New GET OUR PRICE BY THE JOB— Not by the Hour 30 Gallon Range Boiler $9. 50 $15.00 Pattern Bowl) "RICE & AHLERS CO. PLUMBING HEATING SHEET METAL “Wonuyouinadmwbd&wmmf' 1