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P A A4 % JUNEAU MAN BLOWS OFF HIS HEAD IN TENAKEE Body of Louis C. Chirovich Is Brought Here for Interment Louis C. Chirovich, aged 37, a resident of Juneau and of this part of Alaska for 20 years, killed him-| self at Tenakee last Tue: y fore- noon by placing the muzzle of a 44-calibre rifle at the roof of his mouth and discharging the weapon, blowing off the top of his head His act of self-destruction is as- cribed to despondency over ill- health and to a moroseness over imagined impending trouble. | A verdict of suicide was retu by a coroner's jury after an quest at Tenakee. The remains were brought on the motorship Estebeth to Juneau last night and are at the Charles W. Carter Mor- tuary pending arrangements fc»rJ the funeral | Cousin In Los Angeles | The deceased is survived by a cousin in Los ‘Angeles, Cal., and by two sisters and a brother in Jugo Slavia, the birthplace of the dead man. Mr. Chirovicl, was widely and favorably known in this part of Alaska. He was a member of the Juneau lodge of Indépendent Or- der of Odd TFellows. He followed various occupations, He wi the machine department of Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- pany three years. He had been a table waiter in boarding houses, a carpenter and until a few nionths ago he was cook for the Admiralty Alaska Gold Mining Company at| Funter Bay. | Prespecting and Resting From Funter he went to Tenakee to prospect and to take the baths. | ‘During his sojourn there he had visited Juneau on two occasions for medical treatment and advice. His self-inflcted death took place in the cabin in which he was liv- ing at Tenakee. Immediately after | the tragedy, United States Com- | missioner Samuel N. Chamberlin ordere den inquest and the jury | ordered an inquest and the jury Hart, Jacob Farrar. George Sem-| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 11, 1932. ~ was westerly and then turned to- ward the northwest where at about 20,000 feet a 48-mile wind was blowing. The temperature range in the Territory today was 90 degrees. Tanana reported 60 degrees below zero for the coldest. St. Paul reg- istered in with 30 above for the warmest. | 7 ples, Arne Hensley and Herbert Lee. There was no delay in arriving at the verdict of suicide. | S . ‘ PUBLIC A Swedish scientist says began on earth in hot water. it's been in it ever since. MEN’S SWEATERS $2.25 COAT STYLE Popular New Shades Leader Department Store GEORGE BROS. \WILL 0BSERVE LINGOLN DAY Grades to Have Separate | Programs with Meets | in Auditorium Lincoln's birthday anniversary tomorrow will be observed in the Juneau public schools. e/ | In the Grade School in the af- 5-pound box, 70c; Phones 92—95 VALENTINE CANDIES FANCY CHOCOLATES GEORGE BROTHERS — s \ 'ternoon programs will be given in the several rooms by their respec- tive pupils. In the High School, beginning at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, exer- cises will be held in the Auditor- ium. Prof. R. S. Raven, superin- tendent of public schools, will pre- | side. The program will consists of se-| lections by the High School band; | the reading of Lincoln’s Gettesburg | address by an Eighth Grade pu- pil; vocal selections by the High! School Sextette, and a talk on| Lincoln by Miss Caroline Todd. | Miss Todd is a descendant of the 1-pound box. $1.25 Five Deliveries Daily GARNICK’S FLOUR Wholewheat, 10-pound bags Todd family of Kentucky of which | Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of| Lincoln, was a member. | ——t— MRS. ELDEMAR GOES HOME | Mrs. Eldemar today returned | home from St. Ann’s hocpital. She | .................... 42¢ ~-Phone 174 NEEEE JEEN 7/ a7/ | PR 11 T ARE SENTENGED T0 SERVE TIME |Three Given Heavy Sen- ' tences by Judge Des Armond for Slaughter Three persons, pleading gufltyi to killing deer in close season, W an aggregate of $1,100 in fines and 14 months imprisonment from United States Commissiorier R. . DeéArmond in Sitka yesterday, ac- cording to advices received today by H. W. Terhune, Executive Oufi- cer of the Alaska Game Commus- sion. Warden Frank Dufresne rep- resented the Commision in the Comissioner’s Court. The three men, Ernest Wagner, D. J. Hardin, and Carl Sater, en- tered pleas cof guilty. Wagner was fined $500 and given a six-months jail term, Harden $200 and four months and Sater $300 and four mouths. The case develope¢ from evi- {dence seized in a raid several days |ago by Federal officers under the Prohibition laws: In addition to ‘seizlng ‘two stills, liquor and ma- terlals for the manufacture of moonshine, they also found . 17 quarters of fresh deer meat and a entered the institution January 26. throughout the week DRESSES Unheard of values in “MARJONE” and other tailored FROCKS Values to $35.00—NOW $8.95 each NO APPROVALS = NO EXCHANGES “Juneaw’s Own Store” “Tomorrow’s Styles Today Final Clean Up on Midseason Apparel SALE NOW ON and continues large barrel of salted meat. 2 NO REFUNDS | Old papers at The Empire, . O ’ Daily Cross-word Puzzle T g fHis NEw Luw HERE i Hel:fil:oss Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle o Da::g'}’\;&:; " resorts 10. Scattered & pte PIEPRIERITTERIANIEN) I Liasd, | 16 N AL IAZZR |1 [NIGEZNIOINIE| 13. Protessional | THIs MURNING 18, Dosplaea DILISITIRIAIUIGIHITEZATIA| 21. One in efinite- i | 18 Large S|O|SERIEE R] 25, Tem pors | WOO S | €Ol | sy 057 [ 12, oRerennial Lil|EINZZBIE|D Y1 25 Cnual::ln Temperature of Seven| '™ %t EINOHE Clu D 26, Institition of 18. Rub out learni; Above Today Is Coldest |15 ‘grevalent = A “ SCT 7 g% '.IB> 21, an sodtate ¥ % . S E oshu: " 22. Sets in —{ 28. Old~ Registered n 2 Years “forr vo [BIOINIDPAETIARAS [P EID] 31 Moai“bait " [0 28 ARICHEAIS A0 E R " "t Juneau and environs today shiv- Measure SIOBBE X|TIRIAINIEIOU|S and herts ered under the coldest weather it | 5. Capital of | 32 Looks at e exporienced in - almost w0 ) 47, squrd., o [KINIOIWEBE V(T [LEBAIV(E] 3 Spiendor years. When the mercury tumbled vasteboard |S [O[R|E FER|E |L [YEZR|A|W| 36 Small fish | v ; 30. Confront = 37. Afresh | to seven degrees above zero at 8! 33 Glacial snow o 40, Prayers a. m., it was two degrees colder in| o E,p‘;e?‘!‘h. - Frinegae e 43, Enn# town than it had been since March | * =“Gyckoo family 69. Terminates 07, Mage e i 18 and 19, 1930, when two above was family 49. Wanders DOWN mourntul recorded, sccording to official rec- | 3% Femiaine B Brivs L. Outyide plece 18, Bropeliplaert ords of the local station of the|37. One devoted 55. Witness of a sawed 50, Peruses . to a habit 59, Lower part log bl United States Weather Bureau 1. g,f%‘.{w, oo ot tne o Kind of 8 ?l:",ggg"- | i - | 39, Earthly . Render rubber & g Subssro, Vetupreatiires Were. .To- {gr oM inusioal suitable 3. Indigo T | B ported from Glacier Highway set- note 83. Toward ths plant 54. Encourage | N tlements, At Mendenhall, one home- :f {mfi&e_fl team :Rflmm 4. Ck{f“y‘,’uy gg Eiu:gu c‘olnl | i steader, whose thermomenter is on | 45, Armed o4, Stato 5. Outbuilding O | q" | a porch facing the glacier, Teport- | (¢ g S0RCh. ) g5 sBiion RN hold 5% PatE ed a 20-below reading early this climbing 66, Musical . pf2d o1, p0IE course pepper u 5 ne £ morning. 47. Kind of 67. Devices for Nearito ‘mountain | The outlook for tomorrow was duck catching 8. Wish for 62. Head: Scotch | not definite enough for forecast as 7 | to temperature. The bureau pre- HHIW// //‘H | dicted clearing weather tonight and /% 7 % | Friday but did not include any| |A .% W | prediction as to the temperature. 7 | Between 8 a. m. and noon today, . % | the weather moderated perceptibly. | At 12 oclock it had risen to 12 i above. The sky was overcast and wind was in the southeast. | Balloon tests made by the bu- | reau showed, however, that the | southeast wind did not prevail ! » above the 3,000-foot level. Above that for a few thousand feet it Copr., 1932, The American Tobacco Co. THE QUEEN OF COLLEENS Theyscoured Ireland—the FOX flicker folks—for a winsome colleen to play opposite that great Irish tenor in “Song O' My Heart.” And whom should they find but Maureen O'Sulli- vanl She arrived dressed as & walf I —but her trunk was full of snappy Paris clothes. How's that for lrish blarney! She's now going over big in RKO PATHE'S “THE BIG SHOT.” It didn'tfake her long to pick LUCKIES, and she's been smoking them a year and a half. The enly reward for her statement was our friendly “Top o' the morning, Maureen1” there are the LUCKIES.” e “My reason for smoking I.UCKIS” “My reason for smoking LUCKIES is that they are so ’ mild and cause no irritation to my throat. Your new Cel- | lophane wrapper is marvelous. Just a pull of the tab and | i | And Moisture-Proof Cellophane Keeps that “Toasted” Flavor Ever Fresh TUNE IN ON LUCKY STRIKE—60 modern minutes with the world’s finest dance orchestras and Walter Winchell, whose gossip of today becomes the news of tomorrow, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evening over N.B.C. - N It’s toasted Your Throat Protection—against irritation—against cough Bt networks. WEATHER NOW ISRAEL WINS IS NOT S0 600D OVER M'ARDLE FOR FISHERMEN scatte Featherweight Gets SR | Decision Over Van- Winds Make Voyaging Dif-| couver Boxer ficult and Cold Would Freeze Gear SEATTLE, Feb. 11.—Abie Israel, Seattle featherweight, pounded his| way to an unpopular decision over For fishermen this ther is not | Ohwis McArdle, of Vancouver, B. C., in a whirlwind six round boxing | so good. They are delaying their ‘ first trips of the season fto. ths‘\bc“" here Jagt night. halibut banks in hope of @& oessa- Each man weighed 123 pounds. tion of strong winds and a moder- | x‘;’ vl ?Ckw McArdle with @ tior: § io. Tight to the jaw in the first round tiort in temperatures in SHEERER" |, s 'sent. him 10 his knees. He did boring waters. g n !the same thing in the third and ESTEBETH HAS ICE COVERING ON DECK AND HOUSE Motorship Arrives Here from Regular Weekly Voyage to Sitka 'With thin ice covering deck and house, the motorship ~Estebeth, Capt. Edward Bach and Purser Robert Coughlin, arrived in Ju-; neau at midnight last night from her regular weekly voyage to Sitka | and way ports. As the craft ap-| proached Juneau yesterday after-| noon cold winds lashed her super-, structure with spray and it froze.| Among the vessel's incoming pas- | sengers were: From Sitka—Joseph Littlefield. | From Chichagof—Ray McCor- mick. L From Hoonah—George Jones, A.. TIverson, Rudy Gomez. 1 From Tenakee — Charles J. Springer, Bart Kirby, S. N. Cham- berlin, Rado Covevich, Henry Mar- | mosen. { -, — PRINCESS MARY ——-——— Small boats could not mc‘fl!th iy Capt. ‘apt. John Lowell, which left here o at wiy ot it ke ed back to this port, and yesterday Temperatures are so low that ‘would be impracticablé to handle. | . Nearly all the Juneau hn}fl}uthd Strangler Lewis Uses ‘Tueseday morning, so they could BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 11.—Ed weather that will permit them to|threw Gino Garinbaldi, of Ttaly, in accounted for each fall, the first PACIFIC BACK IN PORT ————— much headway againet SNSERNBERE TS o qi drew distavor - fyom (Ahs Tuesday with the mail for SOGD-V‘M for hitting in breakaways. e i also failed in an attempt to start e o i 22 TOSSES ITALIAN gear, taken from the water after boats had - planned to be in Tey| Headlock to Throw start fishing .with the opening of taken ice and bait. Skppers still |Strangler Lewis, claimant of the get to the banks without further |two straight falls in the Boston in 34 minutes and 5 seconds and MONTANA COACH REVEALS of the last few days. The Fern, WIORN - vedione of s dhtrive e stone Radio Compass station, turn- today. Strat or Cross Sound early next B . 4 Garibaldi Twice the season, Some of the craft had hope for a favorable turn in the (world’s wrestling championship, delay. Gardens last night. The headlock the second in 45 seconds. GRID SYSTEM AS AUTHOR Having completed a voyage to Kake and Petersburg, the motor- ship Pacific, Capt. Paul Kegel, is at her berth in Juneau. She re- ports having encountered strong HELENA, Mont., M 11.—Ber- adverse winds, rough seas and coldfnm'd F. Oakes, University of Mon- temperatures. tana football coach, has no secrets | about his gridiron system. In fact, |he has written a book about it. Oakes says the book is to serve as a text in four-year-and summer school teaching courses and as a John Peterson, who entered Febru- |reference book for coaches and @ty 3, left the institution today for players. It contains 200 .photo- ‘homes. graphic illustrations, 10 pages of i R o action pictures of team play and —_————————— TWO . LEAVE . HOSPITAL Ludwig Baggen, Who entered St. Ann’s ‘hospital January 28, A DUE TOMORROW ‘Steamer Princess Mary of the Canadian Pacific, left Ketchikan( at 8 o'clock this morning for Ju- neau and is scheduled to arrve here early tomorrow afternoon ac-! cording to agent V. W. Mulvihill. ‘The following passengers are! aboard the Princess Mary for this| port: | Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Green, G. R.| Emery, Charles Sabin, H. Messer- schmidt, H. L. Faulkner. 1 .- WIN CAGE GAME BY 103 FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 11.—! Birdville defeated Kennedale in a; County School league basketball | mmmbhy-mozmeo; 3. One Birdville player tallied 42! Iolam_pm for sale at The Empire, % S e e SV USSPUISS PSSO § KRUSCHEN SALTS EMERALD OIL ALLENRU - > p— Butler Mauro Drug Co. - “When We Sell It —IT’S RIGHT” “EAST LYNNE” Starts Sunday COLISEUM ¥ SEE YURMAN | |, New Fur Garments in i 4 New Styles Cleaning, Repairing, Remodeling | | Yurman, the Furrier | | l Triangle Building Comin, [ FRONT PAGE | CAPITOL | . :