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VOL 37. No. 271 NOMH, ALASKA, SATURDAY NOV. 14 1936 Per Copy 15cts
Warehouse Strike Is Settled Today
BODY OF MURDERED WOMAN IS EXAMINED
First Soup Kitchen is Opened on Seattle Waterfront
This aerial view of the San Francisco waterfront, focal point of the Pacific Coast strike of 37,000 marl
| time workers, shows Idle ships tied up at their docks as federal agencies sought a settlement. This photo,
looking north, pictures the deserted waterfront with a section of the San Francisco-Oakland bay bridge.
( (Associated Press Photo) _
PARTIAL SETTLEMENT
MADE IN WAREHOUSE
STRIKE AT BAY CITY
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(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14, —
Warehousemen and wholesale gro
ceries are believed to have settled
their differnces, in part at least,
last Friday night, ending the
strife which tied up twenty five
million dollars worth of grocer
ies in the Bay district.
The warehousemen, affiliated
Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Fair skies with ceiling and vis
ibility unlimited continue over
central, western and northern A1
aska today. Overcast was report
ed at Fairbanks with ceiling
good.
Barometer readings are high
over western Alaska and the Ber
ing Sea district.
Last night’s temperatures were
lower somewhat in the interior.
Nuliato recorded minus 36 at
7 a.m. Kaltag 35 below; Unala.
kleet 20 below, Fairbanks 5 be
low, Ruby minus 31, Tanana min
us 28 Deering minus 26 and Coun
cil 15 below.
Fair skies with not much tern
perature change is indicated for
Nome and vicinity for the next
24 hours. Light northeast winds
are likely. The lowest tempera,
ture at Nome last night was min
us 5 at 9 a.m. which is the low.
est recorded since March 25, the
highest yesterday was 10 above.
with the longshoremen, struck on
their own account at the begin,
ing of the maritime strike.
The agreement reached calls for
an increase from 62 and a half
cents to seventy cents per hour,
preferential employment for un
ion men, and 8 hour day, 44 hour
week, time and a half for over,
time, and vacation with pay each
year.
The agreement becomes effect
ive immediately and terminates
December 31st 1937.
About five hundred of the four,
teen hundred on strike voted ten
to one in favor of a settlement
offer.
Cold storage and milling plant
workers however voted against
>
the truce under which they would
have to return to work pending
the arbitration demand.
NOTICE
The Northwestern Alaska Cham
her of Commerce is now engaged
in formulating a program of the
needs of our Division to be sub
mitted at the coming session of
the Territorial Legislature. Any
person having suggestions for
proposed legislation may submit
same in writing to the secretary
or may present same at the lunch
eon to be held Friday, November
20th, at 12:30 P.M.( at the Cavey
Bakery. Committee,
A. Polet 8c O. S. Weaver
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Promised Workers
Will Take Further
Action Time Comes
fliv The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14, —
Harry Bridges, longshoremen
1 ader said that striking marine
workers would take new action
against employers unless the
strike is settled soon.
Business men, saying that the
strike is costing them seven mil i
lion dollars dai 1'y^ demanded a
quick peace, but Bridges said the
unions “would do something” un
1 less the deadlocked peace nego_
tiations are resumed in three or
four days.
He said he understood that the
shipowners are prepared to hold
out for two or three months, but
“when it becomes necessary to
move we are going to call on the
East and Gulf Coast workers to
help,” he said.
Assistant Secretary of Labor,
Edward F. MoGrady, continued
to help bring the matter to a
head, and has been untiring in
his efforts to bring about a re
sumption of negotiations.
Celebrate Bridge
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. H —
This city climaxes its bridge op_
ening celebration tonight with an
enormous electrical display and
parade.
One hundred and fifty thousand
automobiles crossed the new 77
million dollaT bridge during the
first 36 hours of its opening. j
Received Pleas
To Incorporate
Army and Navy
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 14, j
—'Congressional experts, working
on surveys for a possible revision
in the government, said they had
received many requests agitating
the creation of a Department of j
National Defense, replacing the
Dept, of War and Dept, of Navy.
Many bills proposing a consoli
dation of the war and navy de_
parturients, lie dormant in con
gressional files.
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Body Murdered
Widow Exhumed
And Examined
(By The Associated Press)
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, Nov.
14, —Investigators into the mys
terious death of Mrs. Verna Garr
Taylor, 40 year old socially pro
minent La Grange widow, whose
bullet pierced body was found
in a Henry County roadsade
ditch, exhumed the body Friday
night for a re.examination of the
wounds.
The exhuming was done quiet
ly, and no comment is forthcom
ing from authorities on their
findings.
Mrs. Taylor’s companion on
the night she died was Brigadier
General Henry H Denhardt, who
has charged her murder to E. S.
Garr, brother of the victim.
The woman’s body was return
ed to the grave shortly after the i
examination.
A Bargain Night Dance is sched
uied for this Saturday evening at
the Nome Amusement Co., with
an orchestra a ventriloquist act,
a ticket prize, and lots of fun.
NOTICE
The COMMON COUNCIL has
DESIGNATED NOVEMBER 10th
to 20th as a period to conduct a
fire prevention campaign. The
Chief of the Fire Department has
already begun an investigation of
the smoke stacks and other lire
hazards and you are requested to
cooperate with him in this work,
insofar as complying with certain
regulations of our Fire Ordinance
is concerned, as will be explain
ed to you by Chief Laws.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
By M. J. WALSH.
City Clerk.
WATCHING THE ENEMY PLANES
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A study of a Spanish government soldier watching intently as a
squadron of Fascist planes passed over the front near Madrid. (AP)
Seattle Workers
Settle Down To
A Long Seige
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Nov. 14, — Strik
ing maritime workers settled
down for a long seige, as the first
soup kitchen was opened on the
waterfront today. It is enpecte 1
to feed two thousand union mem
bers daily.
NOTICE
Chamber of Commerce Lunch,
eon, Friday, Nov. 20th at 12:.'10
P.M. All interested in the devel
opment of the Second Division &
its industries, are cordially invit.
ed. Make your reservation with
the Committee.
A. Polet and O. S. Weaver.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express our thanks
and gratitude to the many friends
and others who so kindly offered
their sympathy and assistance
during our recent bereavement
over the death of our baby girl,
Emma Jean, and also wish to
thank those who tendered the
many beautiful floral offerings,
and everyone who assisted in
anyway with the funeral servic.
es.
Mr. and Mn. Lloyd B. Heberlee.
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First School Dance
Attended by Many
On Friday Evening
The first public school activity
of the social season, the dance
g ven last evening bv ti e Junior
Class of the Nome II Ji School,
at the new gymnasium and audi_
torium, attric'ed ‘bo alt ntion of
nearly tv.,, .hi ndi 1 :. fifty ot
ter- % guests.
Orchestra mu.-; A a : r. nment
and danc'r • c .V.ini.ed fr< m 0
P. M. until 1 A. M.
Spo. ialty dances by s me of
the students of Mrs. Nova \Vhal_
eys dancing class, and s nging
drew much applause from the
large audience. Punch was serv
ed during the course of the dance,
and decorations, spot lights and
colored auroras gave a festive
spirit to the entertainment.
The large hall, constructed this
summer, saw its first dance since
completion. The floor was pol
ished to perfection and the at_
tending townspeople, upon leav
ing expressed their appreciation
in glowing terms.
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY
(By The Associated Press)
MANILA, Nov. 14, — The first
anniversary of the Philippine
Commonwealth will be celebrat
ed Monday, in a national double
holiday, it was announced by
authorities today.