The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 12, 1937, Page 8

DAMAGE DONE NOME STORM RED CROSS Gale Subsides as Workmen Start Work Repairing Properl,\' Loss NOME, Alaska, Nov. 12.—Ap- proximately $200,000 is the property damage that resulted from the storm of Tuesday and Wednesday §200,000 1S GRIFFIN URGES SUPPORT FOR 5.7 " ITY SUPPORT Acting Governor Calls At- tention to What Organiza- tion Has Done for North Urging full support to the Red Cross drive now under way, W. Griffin the following statement: THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, NOV. 12, 1937 beach, leaving many people home- | [ less, as evidenced by the following MAYUR URGES New Navy Gra't telegram | an Francisco, California. “Have offered assistance Na- | tional Red Cross to Red Cross | | " Crapter Nome following upon | & BOS;;’:;[::Sz !Nav-orldzvr;'i 'IJ:E torm reports. Will a rec- | avy nt has G o1 1 ¢ transfer of five new destroyers and ate any information you may have and assure you fullest cooperation National Red Cross A. C. SHAFFER.” Let’s do our bit! WOMAN IS _|the Boston Navy Yard to the Pa- Past Year Is Empha |cific Coast by January | sized by Judson | ( - | | ( "I would like to urge every fam- Hunter, Lucas ily and business establisment in Juneau to join the Red Cross be- Take Deer at fore Thanksgiving Da aid May- Barlow Cove or Thomas Judson today | £ He explained that the Red Cross| Acting issued today Karle Hunter says il weighed a PARTY FAVORS Comes fo Coast LEGISLATURE OF flfi HOUSE | Assistance to City During'the new cruiser Vincennes from ty g the new cruiser Vincennes [All Alaskan Labor Confer. ence Passes Resolu- tion Today l The All-Alaska Labor Party con- |ference passed a resolution favor- ing a one house legislature for the | Territory of Alaska this afternoon {meeting in convention session here |at Union Hall. commercial salmon fishing and bail‘ fixed at $500. Tomorrow will be totion day in court and the jury panel is called to convene again Monday morning | at 10 o'clock. Try The Empire classifieds for ' results. |again f ® this morning on charge of 1llegnl'MANY ENJOY SKATING AT BALL PARK RINK A large crowd was on hand last night for the opening of the city's baseball park ice skating rink, scores - e { |enjoying the evening on the ice, Mayor Tom Judson reported the ice in good shape but said it probably | would be necessary to flood the aré YOUR GIFTS N!g‘_‘ll“'i“;:‘\“'”"‘l"‘;*‘m B o i Red Oross auve s on; let has been a tremendous help to th i .&oull‘; bmk- ot Pront 8 ot Belch us contribute genercusly according city administration during the past . e e Sy e s to our means in this so worthy cause, year, lifting a burden from the city two fons. the Lomen docks on Bering Sea, Was ..jempering how quickly aid has| CHICAGO, I, Nov. i2—Fright- by assisting destitute and needy per- | wiped and a wards washed away partially or wholly. and Do ;rm ”}’1}1'3"“1’;“ “rg -‘\““ ”"“‘\:“‘” x::(\\' and now stands by to assist once having been caused by a ng righted an et up again in repairing the great damage wound. The police were called and the expenditures during the foundations, done e :(::"‘]"-"&ZK::;‘;"K“MW ¢ the beach at Nome in the five-day man had been strangled and then cause of the large amount conirib- tyict s SR terrific storm and high mountain- shot. There are no clues to the uted at the time of the recent land-| Wiecked the light plant or L dogks, igus danger. STRANGLED out, the street washed out . dozen buildings tipped back as the foundations we 1w in Alaska, namely, Nome, Juneau 'a widow, in her barely n slide ous waves that swept in on the slayer both of which were in ton and Harry Lucas estimated the| {weight the last 500 feet as close to| s is by way been extended through this ened neighbors found the strangled sons who would otherwise bvcnmomgfl:’m:: g b rganization to three of our towns body of Mrs. Bertha Demeyer, 70, charges upon the public, and that tjonal Bank and furnished the Red Cross needs the support|shot a buck on s, in the past three years, room on the northeast side, death of every Juneau worker to rcplomshfw,tmfl.{‘_‘.. and successfully carried that laws once ruled will remain bullet its treasury in view of the fact that|jt 1o the beach after considerable Passed or rejected.” past |effort | to Front Street, adjacent to after an investigation said the wo- year have been extremely heavy be-|deer takén in the Barlow Cove dis-|tatives in the legislature will have “In regard to a one house legis- |lature for Alaska,” stated E. R of reporting that|Schulz, chairman, “the saving of of the First Na-|money by this means is secondary. City Clerk Lucas|The main feature is that the ma- Barlow mountain|jority of Alaskans will benefit in ier as SHOULD BE MAILED SOON If you are planning to remember some one “out- side” on Christmas, it would be well for you to It was reported as the only| hen,” he continued, “represen- to vote according to instructions from home, and will not be able to| pass the buck.” | Five members of the Unemploy-| . = | ment Compensation Commission but ngs of the Mornmg yesterday. Wings of love may win them gther buildings further up Front Street were undermined of foun- dafions but did not collapse, how- ever their basements are flooded afid in some cases stocks have been | dsgroyad by the water » Repair Work Today work is going pairing foundations, bulkheads and piimping w out of basements. «No direct relief is needed by any | of those whose homes were wrecked by the waves as they are usua renters The mostly of wrecked foundations and sto¢k of merchants. The cost of répaiving mounts high No Privation There is no privation nor short- age of winter supplies. “sFhe harbor jetties are practically wkgcked as they stuck out feet into the sea Everything here has returned to nermal and efforts are already un- der way for plans for a sea wall the property damage consists lentgh of Front Street parallel to . i Beéring Sea to be constructed next ; year. It is badly nceded as the storm destroyed the sloping beach an@ the town will be in great danger should another storm strike efther this year or next < Bulkheads of nearly wisiness houses have ed,” necessitating extensive repairs, all of the .uwever the mndviduals are making | the most of it o --— ey | STOCK QUOTATIONS I NEW YORK, Nov. 12. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11%, American Can 90%, American Light and Power 8, Anaconda 30%, Bethlehem Steel 5312, Calumet 9%, Curtiss Wright 3%, General Motors 40, Internation- al Harvester 70, Kennecott 30%, New York Central 20%, Southern Pacific 21%, United States Steel 594, Cities Service 2%, Pound $4.98%, Brem- ner bid 1 asked 3, Republic Steel 19%, Commonwealth and Southern 2%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today'’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 133.09, rails 33.97, utilities 23.28. e ODUNA CHARTERED FOR PERU VOYAGE SEATTLE, Nov. 12—The Alaska Eteamship Company’s freighter Od- una will be delivered to the Conti- nental Grain Company tomorrow to load at Vancouver, hington, wheat and lumber for Callao, Peru Capt Carl Nielsen Is to command the Oduna on the trip. BERT’S CASH GROCERY Phone 105 COFFE ING DISH—Value ALL FOR ONLY $7 .69 Softasilk Cake Flour 39c GRAPEFRUIT— ARIZONA—SEEDLESS—SWEET 4 Ib. pkg. 59c Pure Vegetable FLUFFO SHORTENING FRESHEST—LARGEST BROWN—WHITE : 2 dozen 89c ahead re- 1,000 | been destroy- | g —Red & White— 3 Ib. jar—Value ONE PYREX DOUBLE DUTY BAK- VALUE The shuttler Silver Wave left Ju- neau this morning with no passen- gers and a small load of freitht for Lynn Canal ports. 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