The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1934, Page 8

v e B T AT T S £ R £ i 8 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1934. CHAMBER IS TO CORDOVA FEARS TALK DAYLIGHT STRIKE UNREST SAVING SCHEME, MAY GET WORSE, lOutside Contract Fisher- men Join in Strike and Are Put on Town May Recommend its In- auguration for Summer to City Council Discussion of daylight saving ime for the community this Sum- n will 1e main topics ymorrow at the Fears of disorder growing out of the extended strike of Copper River fishermen are reported io be felt by Cordova municipal authori- advices received today by for consideration weekly meeting of the |ties in Chamber local headquarters of the United Caf States Bureau of Fisheries. Consid- Curtis G ttuck S ‘orable unrest was reported to exist |among the strikers. While Gov. Jonn W. Troy had been advised earlier this week that employing companies had dumped d out C. Arnold, prominent Ketchi- kan attorney, here on a brief visit imported fishermen, who had join- on legal business, will be a guest | o4 tne Jocal fishermen in the tieup, i in the town of Cordova, nothing rd of Directors will sub-| .o <aiq then regarding any likeli- 1 report on its recent |, .ot o bte ard to the g from the lo The Governor is mvestigating the situation by telegraph. In a re- If there are 1ts, additional action may | sponse to his request for an ex- b n by the Chamber st the |planation of their alleged action, meeting four canning companies—Shepard e e — Point Packing Company, New Eng- land Fish Company, Pioneer Can-| neries, Inc., and Pioneer Sea Foods Mining Tocatron Notices at Em- pire office. Carved Refectory DINING ROOM SUITES Good taste, refinement, and every other quality you have determined must be a part of your next dining room suite are here brought to their best expressions —at a remarkably low price. Here is an exceptional value—TEN-PIECE SUITE— including Buf fet, 8-foot Refectory Table, China Closet, Server (not shown) and six chairs. Walnut finish, avartered oak— BEAUTIFUL DISHES makes entertaining a pleasure. Our stock of open patterns in din- ner ware includes a number of ex- cellent patterns—imported English semi-porcelain, domestic and the popular white glassware. Complete sets or individual pieces. We are showing a particularly fine assortment of AXMINSTER AND WILTON RUGS in all popular sizes—9x12, 8.3x10.6. 7.6x9, 6x9, 36x63 and 27x54 Let us show you the new patterns You will find suitable patterns in inlaid and feit base for any room in your home. Various colors and designs. Priced from 45¢ lineal foot, 6 ft. wide INSIST ON HAVING ARMSTRONGS WHITE KING WASHING POWDER Large packages—34 cents At GARNICK’S, Phone 174 | !men, they said, had been hired m‘ | | | In this great lagoon amphithe.| World's Fair. iater, Swift and Company will pre- | many new free features which will sent the Chicago Symphony orches- [ make the visitor’s dollar buy more This is but one of tra in ten weeks of free daily con- |t \certs starting July 1, in the new summer. The Fair opens in | Chicago May 26. FARM PRODUCTS WILL ARRIVE ABOARD NORAH |Sanitary Grocery Has Ship- | ment Coming from Canadian Points Company—declared they dismissed | the men only after they had de- clined to live up to the terms of their employment contract. The Seattle on a contract specifying a price of 12% cents for red salmon. On their arrival at Cordova, they were induced to join the local fish- ermen in a strike for higher prices. ‘The canners reported that they had raised their prices to 25 cents, based on a price of $7 per case, currently quoted, and promised to raise it to 30 cents when and if| the price went to $8. These terms, they claimed, were rejected by the fishermen who refused to work. They were then landed in Cordova. SRV T T JOHNSON-NURMI The first order of farm produce to come out of British Columb:a will arrive in Juneau Friday on the Princess Norah, consigned to the In the office of United States|Sanitary Grocery. The shipment is Commissioner, Mrs. Tillie John-|& Small one largely composed of son yesterday afternoon became the}le“"m and green x'oqg!ubles. to the high tariff on farm bride of Mr. Gus Nurmi. The cere-| Due mony was performed by Judge J. produce, orders by local merchants F. Mullen in the presence of Mrs, | &re being confined to American A. Koskey and Mrs. Albert Carlson“Dl‘Od\lce for the most part until it Mrs. Nurmi formerly resided at|Pecomes absoluiely necessary to or- Douglas and has lived on Gasti-|d€r out of Vancouver to supply the neau Channel for many years. Mr, | demand. Nurmi is a carpenter in the employ The tariff on lettuce and other of the ‘Alaska Junead; garden stuff ranges around three 758 R R Ty }cems per pound, which is not pro- | ANCHORAGE TENNIS STARTS |nibitive, but eggs are taxed 10 | “The Anchorage Tennis Club re- | C€Nts per dozen and butter 14 cents cently got under way for the sea»!per et son. Officers of the year are John| Andresen, president, and May Tee- land, treasurer. i = RSt - i SEWARD REBEKAH SOUTH Mrs. Torwald Osbo and her two i CORDOVA GRADUATES (children, of Seward, are passen- | Five seniors were recently grad-|8ers for Seattle on the Yukon luated from the Cordova High Where Mrs. Osbo will attend the | School, Barbara Nafsted, Roberta|Rebekah convention as a delegate. Mosser, Aune Eloranta, Richard|She also plane to visit with her Downing, and John Foode. (family in Glendale, California, be- PR O S SRR fore returning to her home. > Daily Empire Want Ads Pay In 1935 Easter will fall on Aprll“ 21, © 1934, LicceTr & Myass Tosacco Co, For Free Concerts at New Fair, GRADUATION AND e s END OF SCHOOL 1S APPROACHING ® program will take place when thel| Twenty-nine Seniors Pre- pare for Final Events and Make Plans for Future With the closing of the Juneau High School less than two weeksl‘ away, members of the Senior class are busily winding up their four vears’ work and preparing for the final events of their high school career. In addition, most of them are already making plans for the summer and next fall. Out of the 29 members of the graduating class, 13 are planning to attend some college or university next year, three expect to take| post-graduate work in the Juneau High School, two will take nurses’| training courses, six expect to wm'k‘i and the remainder are still indefi- nite regarding their future plans.‘ First Event Next Sunday evening at 8 o'clock the first event in the graduation | Baccalaureate Exercises are held in| the Northern Light Presbyterian | Church. These are open to the pub-' was 100 days old. This picture of the future ruler of Crown Prince Akihito of Japan, born to the Mikado and his | Empress. Picture was taken April 1, in Tokyo, when the infant ~ S = o~ ~ ! [\ = & ) o™ k= e £ Sy = L = 2 - ac =) & 1) P 1 A & . *a’(\' ~¢~4‘~.‘ of Japan is the first photcgraph lic and the Rev. C. E. Rice will be 3 = the speaker. istein and Duncan Robertson, and On Monday and Tuesday of next| alaska College, Rosellen Monagle. week, final examinations will take| Rhoda Minzgohr and Lillian An- place. Wednesday is a holiday and | gerson both expect to take nurses' on Thursday night will be the main training course. Elspeth Douglas, »vent of their high school life,| Marie Bussinger and Malvina Wildt graduation. ! will take post-graduate courses in Commencement Exercises | the Juneau High School. Elsie Commencement exercises will be Schmitz expects to goto Enumclaw, held at 8 o'clock Thursday evening | Washington; Hilding Haglund, n the High School gymnasium at ! Theodore Kukkola, Paul Hansen, which time honors and diplomas| Robert Rossiter, Jim Cole and will be distributed to those who are | George Danner plan to work and to be graduated. The program will| Joyce Mcrris, George Whyte, Vieno | include music by the school or- Lahikainen and Edward Schaefer | chestras and glee clubs and an are still indefinite about their plans innovation in that talks will be! for the future. given by student speakers in the' place of a commencement address“BARANOF BUSY Wlm Those chosen to speak are Duncan The public is also invited to attend the commencement exercises. | In order to speed the delivery of after its arrival from the On Friday of next week, school will officially close and final grades mail, and report cards will be distribut- south on the Victoria, the seaplane ed. i Baranof, pilot Gene Meyring, Lloyd Graduates and Plans Jarman, made a special trip today Of those who plan to attend col- | to lighten the passenger load. lege next fall, four have chosen; The Baranof took off at 1 o'clock the University of Washington; two with passengers for Port Althorp, University of California; two, Uni- Funter Bay and Hawk Inlet. Pas- versity of Idaho; two Stanford;! sengers for Port Althorp were two College of Idaho and one Alas- | Theodore Munkner and J. Faneuf, ka Agricultural College and School who will be employed in the can- of Mines. | nery there. Other passengers to Those who plan to attend the leave Juneau were Harold Jacobsen University of Washington are, Eliz- and Elmer Logan for Hawk Inlet. abeth Terhune, Barbara Winn, Ar- At Funter Bay, the Baranof is to thur Ficken and Barbara Simp-!'pick up W. 8. Pekovich who will kins; Unjversity of California continue to Hawk Inlet with Mr. Ralph Merrill and Grace Nelson; | Jacobsen and Mr. Logan. The lat- HEART ATTACK | " CAUSES DEATH | ' OFJ.M.DIXON . | |[Former Assistant Secretary, of Interior Passes | Away in Montana i MISSOULA. Mont., May 23.—! | Benaix Aviation 15%, | Joseph M. Dixon, former Governor, |United States Senator and also| | Assistant Secretary of Interior, died here today as the result of an; attack of the heart. He had been (il for more than a vear. | Dixon was 67 years oid. His death was hastened by his arduous poli- | tical campaign and refusal to leave (the public service despite his fail- |ing health. i Heart trouble was aggravated by | | overwork. > | Dixon attracted national atten- tion in 1912 as the Chairman of | the National Progressive Commit- | tee that furthered Theodcre Roose- {velt in his campaign for a third | term as President. | Meyring, will leave with first class| mail for Hawk Inlet, Hoonah, Ex- cursion Inlet, Port Althorp, Chi- ' chagof, Tenakee, Todd and Hood STOCK PRICES DRIFT LOWER; TRADING DULL Market Closes Heavy— No Inflationary Stimulus from Silver Message NEW YORK, May 23. — Siock prices, drifted lower today in ex- ceptionally dull trading. Steels were particularly soft on reports of further drops in production. Only a few specialties were steady |to firm. The close was rather heavy. Speculative circles could discover no immediate inflationary stimulus in President Roosevelt's silver mes- sage. ‘Wheat jumped two points then pared gains. Cotton drooped. Bonds were irregular. A. T. and T. Drops American Telephone and Tele- graph lost two points, and United States Steel reached a new low for the year with a drop of more than a point. Bethlehem Steel also touched a new low off two points. Other losers of a fraction to one or more points were Allied Chemical, American Can, Chrysler, General Motors, Montgomery Ward, Howe Sound, Depasco and Sears- Roebuck. United States Smelting was fair- ly steady. American Commercial Alcohol, Otis Elevator and Brooklyn-Man- hattan Transit were up fractionally to a point. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, May 23. — Closing {quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 18%, American Can 92%, American Power and Light 7. Anaconda 14%, Armour B 3, Bethlehem Steel 32, Briggs Manufacturing 16%, Calumet and Hecla 4%, Chrysler 38, Curtiss-Wright 3%, Fox Films 14, Ceneral Motors 31%, Interna- tional Harvester 31%, Kennecott 19, Seneca Copper 1%, 1, 1%; Standard Oil of California 32, Ulen Com- pany, no sale; United Aircraft 20%, United States Steel 39%, Warn Pictures 5%, Pound $5.09%, besna bid 101, ask 1.04. e —,——— FATHER M'MILLAN SOUTH Rev. William MecMilian, 5. J, Chaplain of the St. Joseph Hospital at Fairbanks, recently went south on his way to Spokane, where he formerly held a professorship at Gonzaga University. .- MT. HAYES UNCLIMBED James Rowen and Fremont University of Idaho, Earl Beistline ter two will be employed at Mr. Bay. If possible, the plane will re- | Tromble, amateur mountain climb- and Gene Carlson; College of lda-:Pekovich's property at Hawk Inlet. ho, Esther Niemi and Margaret| After the arrival of the Victoria Hanson; Stanford, Aline Ann Gold- | this afternoon, the Baranof, pilot __that Chesterficlds are Milder ——that Chesterfields Taste Better We state it quality—and belief that the tobaccos used in Chesterfield are of finer turn here this evening. | QISR *A S35 S, ' Daily Empire Want Ads Pay as our honest hence of bet- ter taste—than in any other cigarette at the price. « Liccerr & Myzas Tosacco Co. ers, recently reached the 9,000-foot elevation on an attempted scaling of Mt. Hayes,.of the Alaska Range. R —— s R 4