The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 23, 1937, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1937. Juneau” ROTARIANS AFTER CONVENTION HERE; NAME COMMITTEE Pushihg the movement to get the Distriet convention of Rotary here next year, the Juneau Rotary Club &t its noon luncheon today named a committee of Harry Lucas, chair- man: the Rev. O. L. Kendall and Charles W. Carter to handle ar- Hopkins and Col. Westbrook is com- |south because of the recent death | rangements and contact other local organizations in an effort to get their support. Vancouver, it was re- ported, already is back of the plan to b the Rotarians to Alaska in 1938. Juneau High declamatien winners and their coach were guests of the club. They are Bernice Lovejoy, Archie Gubser and Charles Jenne. Everett R. Erickson is coach. e MATANUSKA FARMER RETURNS SATISFIED WITH FARM COLONY| Cherles E. Ruddell, the Matanuska Colenist who went to Washington with alleged complaints about the Alaska Rural itation Cor- What gives so much and costs so little as fragrant Schilling Coffee! | Schilling Coffee | One for Percolator THIS SPRING YOU SIMPLY HAVE A SUIT! 1937’s smartest version— the topcoat suit of tweed Almost a wardrobe in itself 1s | the topcoat suit of fine import- | ed tweed. The topcoat may be worn - with' your: drésses: “and ! sweaters and skirts, while ‘the suit itself. becomes a'smattly correct eostume for. town: ‘or country by ithe addition of ap- propriate blouses or pullovers. A most- practical choice for spring at Moderate Prices s Leading Dep&rfinem Stire poration, is in Juneau today aboard the Victoria on his way back to his| Matanuska farm. ‘ He is going back satisfied—satis- fied that Matanuska is going to be a success. Satisfied that Harry L." A Hopkins and Col. Westbrook :are‘mi't zttgzzr'mu?:::d’r:g:sl)gi:‘ doing right by the colonists. P . Furthermore, the h;l:ws})a]]aers :le}{ahl: ‘;"‘;;‘:’:u‘se’ “b;’“;‘; t:; ‘v’::;' greatly exaggerated éeling d today, about the colony, Mr. Ruddell said. |PAck to his headquarters in Valdez. “My understanding with Harry L.| Mr. and Mrs. Kehoe were called ol DISTRICT m'omv | THIRD DIVISION HERE ABOARD. . VIC. TODAY plete. I am sure the Matanuska project will turn out all right,” he said. He will be back on his farm in time for spring and is looking for-! ward to his return to the vailey. ———.e— SCHONACKER ARRIVES ON VICTORIA FROM KETCHIKAN i C. A. Schonacker, salesman who has covered Alaska for many years, arrived in Juneau aboard the Vie- | 'District Attorney at their home at {of Mr. Kehoe's mother in the States. | Mrs. Kehoe is remaining at Port- land for a time before joining the| |the Westward. A former member of the Terri-| Juneau, Mr. Kehoe spent the day| e Seven Thousand Clerks | Return After Day Strike toria, a passenger irom Ketchikan. | —— ON WAY TO PORTLOCK A. N. Nilson, foremost business man, and canneryman, of Portlock, | enroute to his home City after a trip Outside, is a passenger aboard the steamer Victoria. PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, {March 23—Return to work of 7,000 | clerks in shops here after a one-| day strike, brought forecasts of new union drives to organize ail New England Clerks and textile workers /in all areas. (al | PSR T, 8.8. INSPECTORS BACK | Capt. John M. Ciark and Chief |John Newmatker, inspectors in Al-| aska for the U. S. Bureau of Navi-| gation and Steamship Inspection, | returned to their Juneau office rran" Ketchikan aboard the steamer Vic- toria, They went to Ketchikan. the first of this week 'aboard the Al- aska, on an inspection trip. | - e | MR. AND MRS. COLE RETURN | Mr. and Mrs. Dan Cole, who have been visiting-in and around Seattle for several months, réturned to Ju- Ineau on the Northland this morn- ing. .- MRS. RODEN RETURNS Mrs. Henry Roden, wife of Sena- | tor Roden, who has been south on :buxiness for the last two months, |returned to Juneau on the North- | {land. Another oné for Drip CLOSED for ALTERATIONS JUNEAU ICE CREAM PARLORS WATCH THESE PAGES FOR |bound passengers from Seattle OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT! PERCY’S JUNEAU ICE CREAM PARLORS JUNEAU LIQUOR STORE BOOKKEEPING SERVICE TRAINED AC%OUNTANTS Tax and System Service JAMES C. COOPER COMPANY CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS Phone 182 Juneau, —————— I ON WAY HOME | Returning to her home from a winter's trip to the States, Mrs. A. | W. Lipke, wife of the radio opera- |tor at Seldovia, is among the west- ‘abonrd the steamer Victoria. B R R TO PORCUPINE CREEK On his way Inside to organize op- erations of the: eempany for the ’,summer season, Paul Menzel, of the | Poreupine Mining Company, is a | passenger .to Seward, aboard the |steamer Victoria. ———————— DE LEO HERE R. J. DeLeo, of the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad, at Cor- dova, is visiting his daughter Gret- ,chen here today while the steamer Victoria is in port. Mr. DeLeo is enroute to Cordova from Seattle. He |recently spent two weeks in Juneau ‘whue enroute South. Miss DeLeo |is an employee here in the Terri- Alaska 205 Seward Soft- Spoken Miner’s Son Is Now | | Bending Steel to CIO’s M ethods PHIDIP MURRAY: He Steaks For cxo, calmly But Effectively By JAMES A. BAUBIE PITTSBURGH; March 23.—A tall, lean youth fresh from' Scotland lost his temper one day in 1904 and knocked down the check-weighman at a coal mine in Westmareland county, Pennsylvania, The miners' strike that followed |was . ended by hunger four weeks later and young Phiiip Murray was {railroaded out of town. When he got off the train at Pittsburgh, he had determined on his career as a labor leader. Like a School Teacher. That career has made him ace or- ganizer for the Committee for In- dustrial Organization—it was Mur- ray who was able to announce un- ion recognition by the giant Car- negie-Illinois Steel Company. And jahead lie such huge objectives as the coal miners' wage conference and the organization of the na- tion’s. industrial workers. His ambition, he says, is to see every worker in mass production industry organized into industrial unions; that is, one big union for all workers of each industry. He has approached his task by methods directly opposite from those of his chief, John L. Lewis. Lewis charges at capital bellig- erently. Murray, resembling a quiet, gray-haired school teacher, pre- vails with calm logie. Took Correspondence Course Born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, ‘he récalls the day in his sixth year that his father came home from {the mine and announced a strike had been settled. The men had been |granted a 12 cents a day increase {which brought their daily wage to 1$1.65. Ten years later William Francis Murray brought his family of 10 children to America, to begin a n: life in a coal mining community near Irwin, Pa. While young Phil worked in the, mines, he took a correspondence course, cramming his head with |mathematics, economics, mining, |grammar and labor relations. Then came the fight. Murray talks about these things/ in careful English, his soft voice; | ich y a scottish burr. [torial Legislature, and_resident of Md® richer by a s ‘ Escapes Worker< Wrath He started work again in Brough- ton and within a year was elected President of the United Mine Workers’ local union in Washing- ton county. In 1912 he was elected a membe of the union’s international execu- tive board and turned down an of-| fer of $5000 a year to become sistant manager of a coal com- pany. ‘While thus definitely casting his lot with organized labor, he man-| aged to escape the condemnation of the miners when his efforts on; their part ended disastrously. He explains it in this way: {so hard. If the union men want to know why I have acted in a certain jway, I just tell them what it was possible to do and what it was impossible to do. Then they can| make up their own minds about| Summoned by Presidents ers’ enmity so successfully. Loyal to Lewis, Murray has won the UMWA President’s confidence increasingly since his own election in 1920 as vice president of the international union. Murray's activity has not been confined to his union. President Wilson summoned him to Washing- ton as a member of the National Coal Production committee in 1917- 11918, When he also served on the National War Labor Board President Harding asked him to intercede in 1921 when West Vir- ginia was embattled over a coal dispute. He invited representatives of opposing sides to meet across his desk and a few hours later left the meeting with a peace settlement. Declined Pay Raise Murray also assisted in the prep- aration of the original Davis-Kelly coal bill in 1930 ‘(for regulation of the bituminous coal industry) and in the NRA legislation and Guffey- Snyder ceal bill of 1934, He has been on the Pittshurgh |Board of Education continuously singé 1919. He lives quietly with his wife and one son in a comfort- {able middle class home in Pitts- |burgh's South Hills section. | He works because he likes his job and turned down the mine un- ion’s recent vote to double his $9,- 000 yearly salary. > NOTICE Por special fresh dresscd chickens, |torial Treasurer's office. call Femmer, phone 114. ady. !and three for Kodiak. |Jiencke, J. Larenger, “Maybe it's because I don’t push| Lewis has not escaped the work-| ] VICTORIA HERE WITH MANY FOR THROUGH PORTS Steamer Bnngs Easter Lilies| to Alaska—Cannery Crews Aboard Arriving in Juneau right on sched- ule from Seattle, the Alaska Line steamer Victoria warped into the Pacific Coast Dock at fifteen min- utes past noon today, bringing to Juneau 37 passengers from Seattle and 15 from other Southeast Al- aska ports. The steamer is scheduled to shift her berth this afternoon at 5:30 o'- clock to the Juneau Lumber Mills where she will load lumber for the Westward for an hour and a half,| theh shift again to the Alaska-Ju- neau dock, from where she is sched- | uled to sail for Haines and Skag- way at 8 o'clock this evening. She is due back in Juneau rmm! the Westward the middle of next| week. Two hundred and seveniy-eight| Alaska bound passengers were on| board the Victoria when Capt. J. Ramsauer headed her out of Seat- tle.. Besides those for Juneau were: | Forty-five for Ketchikan, two for Wrangell, three for Petersburg, two| for Haines, three for Skagway, 30 for Cordova, one for Valdez, 127 for| Seward, and 28 to transfer at Sew-| ard to the steamer Curacao. In the% (transfers to the Curacao one is| bound for Portlock, six for Uzinkie, 9 for Seldovia, 10 for Snug Harbor, The ten passengers bound for| Snug Harbor are members of the| cannery crew for the Snug Harbor | Packing Company. The Victoria, enroute from Seattle to Juneau, put {into Taku Harbor to discharge sup- plies for the Libby cannery there. For Juneau Passengers booked for Juneau onf Purser Lee Runge’s list were: From| Seattle—E. F. Bauer, L. W. Bunger, |Howard H. Dilg, Merle H. Guise, K L. Hall, Elmer Jakeway, Mrs. Fred Mrs. A. Math- ieson, Mrs. G. S. Maynard, Miss Mildred K. Maynard, Frank Mc- Garvy, Gilbert Moi, Jack Mulky, J. H. Neudecker, Charles Otteson, Harry Palo, Dorothy Parkhurst, Jo2 | Romunseth, Miss A. Spangler, Hal ‘Windsor. Frank Allman, N. C. Angell, C. S. | Baker, Harry Davidson, Walter Da- vidson, Norman Dougan, R. C. Fitts, | Carl O. Hedberg, Louis Hilson, Wal- ter Jewell, Earl Johnson, George | Kesak, N. B. Kimelia, T. Koshotoff, George Scharf, M. Shelbin. From S. E. Alaska ! From Ketchik: Walter B. Heisel, Howard D. Stabler, J. J. Far- gher, Edwin Sutton, Mr. and Mrs, George B. Grigsby, Capt. J. M.| | Clark, Chief John Newmarker, John| 'F Chamberlin, Mrs. F. M. Saffold, |C. A. Scheonacker. From Wran- gell—Mrs. Sophie Brown. From Pet- ersburg—Lillian Anderson. Mrs. M. Monagle, and R. D. Russell. Included in the cargo aboard the Victoria is a large assortment of | Easter lillies, for Alaska’s Easter- | tide. ! 'MRS. DAN RUSSELL IS | BACK WITH EASTER. MERCHANDISE, STORE Mrs. Dan Russell, her trunks| Ibux-sung with new Easter merchan- | dise for patrons of her Juneau Sam- ple Shop, returned to Juneau today aboard the Northland after a buy- ing trip to Seattle. Business is good in the south, Mrs, Russell said. Stores are crowded with Easter shoppers and shop windows display- ing Easter merchandise were never more lovely. — e FIRE CALL TODAY An alarm turned.in at 11:20 o- clock this morning by the owner, called the Juneau Fire Department to the Johnson Apartments on Gas- tineau Avenue, where a small blaze, traceable to an overheated stove pipe was burning into one wall of an apartment. The flame was ex- tinguished in about fifteen minutes, the damages amounting to only about ten dollars, to the wall just behind the stove. | Jaeger, |G. NORTHLAND HAS 34 FOR JUNEAU Motorshlp Calls at Douglas Before Sailing for Sit- ka This Afternoon With thirty passengers for Juneau from Seattle and four from local ports, the motorship Northland decked here this morning at 10:30 o'clock. At 2:30 o'clock this after- noon she shifted to Douglas, from where she was to sail for Sitka an hour later. The Northland is expected back here from Sitka Thursday noon, and is due to sail southbound from here Thursday evening, after load- ing fish. Passengers coming to Juneau from Seattle aboard the Northland were: Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ronning, J. R. Miss Grace Neville, E. J. Dunnigan, O. H. Torkelson, Frank ave, Mrs. Henry Roden, Mr. and {Mrs. Dan Cole, R. Conners, Paul Whiteside, G. Kennedy, C. L. Keller, O. L. Harkey, Mr. and Mrs. C. Horn- |um, Ed Aries, .Willilam G. Rohr- hach Julius Peterson, Leotta Rus- sell, T. D. Gillis, Miss B. Hughes, Miss Barbara Hughes, C. Rinker, |S. Dan Murphy, D. A. Shannon, H. | McGowan, H. Cooper, J. H. Meeker. Coming to Juneau from Ketchi- kan were: N. A. McEachran and Tom Sands, Thomas Scott; from Wrangell, Miss A. J. Sturgis. Passengers booked through from Seattle to Sitka with Purser E. P. Winch are: Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Ya- den, Adam Feldisis, Mr. and Mrs. {S8am Morris, Dick Dalziel, Harold Mason, Joe M. Ponton, Jim Dunni- 2an From Keterikan to Sitka is B. Phillips. Passengers leaving Juneau for a on the Northland when she ailed this afternoon were: Ben L. Grimles, Lini Martini, S. S. An- derson, Robert C. Wakelin, J. R. Ha nd, J. G. Shepard, Irene S. White. —_——e CANNERYMAN THROUGH ©O. L. Grimes, accompanied by | Mrs. Grimes and E. L. Grimes, is in Juneau briefly today while the steamer Victoria is ih port. Mr. Grimes, head of the Grimes Pack- ing Company at Uzinkie, is enroute with his family to his cannery from Seattle for the coming season’s fish- ing. L News Today—Empire. | —— e Empire ads are read. ? From petersburg, AT JUNEAU BRINGS Richness U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHKR BUREZAT THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau; Yorecast for Juncau and vicinily, beginning at 4 p.m., Mar. 23. Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Wednesday, moderate easterly winds. LOCAL DATA sarometer Temi. Humidity Wind Velocity ~Weatheér 29,76 40 32 SE 3 Cloudy 20.58 31 4 s 2 Cloudy 29.75 49 46 L 4 Cloudy CABLE AND BADIG REPORTS YESTERDAY FODAY Highest 4p.m. Lowestdam. 4am. Praeip. 4am. temp. ' temp. temp. temp. veloeity 24hrs, Weather 38 38 |'% 36 38 30 Rain 32 21 — = -12 -24 -2 10 20 3 2 16 0 0 20 -2 20 44 36 44 42 .41 43 . 52 12 noon to " ay Station Atka Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor . Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Franeisco ... New York ‘Washington -14 Clear Clear Pt. Cldy PL. Cldy Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy Bow e w 9 6 28 * 32 28 28 31 32 28 32 24 38 %2 46 34 54 38 WEATHED, CONDITION AT 8 A. M. TODAY Seattle (airport), foggy, temperature 31; Blaine, cloudy, 38; Vic- toria, cloudy, 41; Alert Bay, cldudy, 40; Digby, partly cloudy, 34; Bull Harbor, cloudy, 36; Triple Island, partly cloudy; Langara Island, clear, 35; Ketchikan, clear, 33; Craig, clear, 35; Wrangell, clear, 32; Petersburg, clear, 32; Sitka, cloudy, 32; Radioville, cloudy, 37; Soap- stone Point, cloudy, 36; Juneau, cloudy, 34; Skagway, cloudy, 34; St. Elias, cloudy, 34; Cordova, partly cloudy, 32; Copper River, partly cloudy; Chi=fia, partly cloudy, 14; Anchorage, cloudy, 23; Fairbanks, partly cloudy, -4; Nenana, clear, 4: Hot Springs, partly cloudy, 4; Tanana, cloudy, 2; Ruby. cloudy, 9; Nulato, partly cloudy, 6; Kaltag, cloudy, 5; Unalakleet, partly cloudy, -2; Flat, snowing, 0; Ohogamute, clear, 0; Savoonga, cloudy, 0. . WEATHER SYNOPSIS Low barometric pressure prevailed this morning from Kamchatka eastward to the Gulf of Alaska, thence southward to Oregon, there being two storm areas, one a short distance west of the Prince of ‘Wales Island, where a reading of 2930 inches prevailed and the sec- ond storm over the North Pacific Ocean at latitude 48 degrees and east longitude 164 degrees, where a pressure of 28.30 inches was reported. High pressure continued over the Alaskan Arctic cotst and over north- western Canada. This general pressure distribution has been attended by precipitation over the West Coast States and over the far western Aleutians and by fair weather over the remainder of the field of ob- servation. - Clearing weather was reported at Seattle. It was cooler last night over the interior of Alaska and over the Puget Sound region. A temperature of 31 degrees was reported at 7 am, P.S.T. at the Seattle Airport today. FIRST HALIBUT SOLD lonooa " Clear Clear Cloudy Clear Rain Cloudy Clear Cloudy cRB88csccecHB8coHocccH NI O S 0 boat and catch for the Petersburg market. .- STEAMSHIP OFFICIALS HERE Two executives of the Alaska Steamship Company, P. 8. Truckey, general freight agent, and W. P. McCarthy, travelling auditor, are in Juneau today for a brief stop while the steamer Victoria is in port. They are both booked for Seward LOW PRICES TODAY Juneau'’s first fresh halibut auc- tion of the season, opening this noon at the Juneau Cold Storage, found three companies bidding. and the maximum price offered was 5.30 and 3.25 cents. Three boats were sold at that price, the Ida II and the Ford to the Sebastian-Stuart Fish Company; and the Tern to the New England Fish Company. Two other boats sold also: The Elfin, receiving 5.25 and 3.25 cents from the Alaska Coast. Fisheries for its 6,500 pounds; and the Helen, Capt. John Willis, getting 5.15 and 3.20 cents from the same company for her 8,000 pounds. The catch of the Ida II, Capt. John Sonderland, amounted to 7,000 pounds, that of the Ford, Capt. Ole Brensdal, and the | from Seattle. Mr. McCarthy is com- mencing a regular check of AS.S. offices, and Mr. Truckey is bound for Seward. He may return from Seward immediately on the Vic- toria, or may wait over there for the southbound trip «f -the steamer Yukon. e —.——— GRIGSBYS RETURN FROM KETCHIKAN BUSINESS TRIP George B. Grigsby, local attornay, and Mrs. Grigsby were passengers ‘aboard the Victoria, arriving in Ju- | neau from Ketchikan where he had 10,300 pounds, Tern, Capt. A. Rosness, 9,000 pounds. ' business. Capt. Emil Samuelson, of the boat | S e Dixon, the first in from the banks | John F. Chamberlin, dean of Al- this year, refused to sell his more aska’s merchandise brokers, arrived than 10,000 pounds at the prevail- in Juneau from his Ketchikan head- ing prices, and cast off with his quarters on the Victoria. 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