Millworkers Walkout
Seven hundred sawmill workers
walked out at Bellingham in sup
port of the request for a six-hour
day and a 30-hour week and an
increase in wages from 45 to 75
cents an hoijr minimum pay.
The collapse of the oil tanker
negotiations was followed by a re
port that the Maritime Federation
of the Pacific, at Seattle, pledged
complete support of the tanker
strike.
Sailors, it is reported, are con
sidering a strike vote.
MASKS ORDERED
fOR RESIDENTS
OF DUST AREAS
LIBERAL. Kansas, April 27.—The
Red Cross has ordered 10,000 sur
gical masks distributed to protect
'the health of residents in the
southwest dust bowl. Doctors said
the dust storms are causing much
illness and unless the people do
something to protect themselves
the situation may become even
more critical.
The death rate from pneumonia
and other respiratory diseases has
increased tremendously in the past
two weeks.
Silt continued to mask the south
west plains country, moving as far
as Kansas City.
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VESPER SERVICE AT
TRINITY CATHEDRAL
Tomorrow evening Vesper service
will be held in Holy Trinity Cathe
dral at eight o'clock, sung by
vested choir of thirty voioss. Easter
hymns and anthem will be sung,
and Dean C. E. Rice will preach
a sermon appropriate to the Easter
season. The eleven o’clock service
will be held in St. Luke's Church,
Douglas. Members of the Northern
Light Rebekah Lodge will attend
this service. The public is always
welcome at all services.
BRUSH FIRE CALLS OUT
FIRE DEPARTMENT TODAY
A fire in the brush along the
old trail near the Seatter Tract
addition called out the Juneau
Fire Department shortly before 4
o’clock this afternoon. The blaze
at that time was spreading rapidly
but was being brought under con
trol at press time.
