The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 28, 1932, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28, PRE-INVENTORY Coat Sale An Event of Importance to Every Woman Who Needs New Coat Cne needs only to see these splendidly styled coats to realize that they were made to sell at much high- er The beautiful fabrics — the tailoring — the smart models and fine fur trimmings are features €s. that make every coat an exceptional bargain value. No woman who has been wanting a new coat can afford to overlook these offerings. 7 $15.00 B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. Juneau’s Leading Department Store J. 8 DEPAR' 4 Forecast for Juneau and v TMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU The Weather By { Rain or snew toui LOCAL the U. DATA 8. Weather Bureaw) inning at 4 pam., Dec. 28: lerate southeasterly winds. v Time Barometer Temp. Hui ty Wind Veiocity = Weather ! 4 pm. yest'y 29.92 34 Calm 0 Snow 4 am. today ... 2087 6 91 w 5 Rain Noon today -29.77 35 95 SW 3 Mist CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS YES'!’ERDAY | TO AY anhcst 4pm. | Lowest4am. d4am. P . 4am. Station temp. temp. | temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Weather Barrow -12 -14 | =14 « 12 10 0 Cldy Nome 0 0 0 6 6 0 Clear Bethel 8 8 4 8 16 0 Pi. Cldy Fort Yukon -48 -48 -52 -52 0 0 Clear Tanana -36 -36 -44 -4 0 0 Clear Fairbanks -34 -36 -40 -38 4 0 Clear Eagle -32 -40 -42 -40 0 0 Clear St. Paul 34 34 34 36 26 46 Rain Dutch Harbor 42 42 32 38 22 68 Rain Kodiak 36 34 30 30 0 0 Cldy Cordova 28 16 12 24 4 .26 Snow Juncau 35 34 34 36 55 a2 Rain Sitka 38 — 33 - 0 .50 Cldy Katchikan 42 40 36 26 4 18 Rain Prince Rupert 38 38 34 38 4 .50 Rain Edmonton 22 22 14 16 4 0 Pt. Cldy Seattle 46 42 38 40 4 Trace Cldy Portland 52 42 42 4« 4 34 Cldy San Francisco 52 46 42 42 6 0 Clea: moderately le“iar The Pribilof Islands and Before the ,Fans Took a Hand The barometric pressure is low throughout Southern Alaska,and low:st in the viclnity of the Alaska, with rain or snow in southern Bering Sea and from the rastern portion of the Gulf of Alaska to Oregon. high. with clear in the Gulf of The pressure is and s'ightly colder weather in the In- u‘mpevflu‘ es have ri“‘n in Western Alaska. TMYSTERY HANGS OVER ATTEMPT T0 KILL WOMAN Staltman Reieased on Alibi| —No Other Arrests in Thompson Case | a | (Continued fionn Page One) 7 of consequence to the swry! e had told earlier in the morn- |ing. From the time she parted| |from Fred « Lasarde, her dinner | companion, at the post office be-) tween 6:30 and 7 p. m. Manday, ! until she was assalled and forced [ |into a “big black car,” less than two blocks . distant on. Fourth | Street, she saw no one whpm she | knew. | Didn’t Know Driver She still maintains she didn't know the driver of the car and the black cloth used as a mask| to cover his lower face, she said, prevented her from getting a good look at the man who .actually ts:ougm to kill her. She went over the story agzain| | for officers late yesierday without ! revealing anything that tended t6 1clc\ar up the mystery of the attack. |She said she received a telephone {call just before she started out (for dinner with Lasarde, asking (her to come to ‘the CIliff Apart- |ments to learn something of im- | portance. She didn’t know who was calling and wasn't informed by the man, After talking it over {with Lasarde she decided to go. And while .on her way to keep the |appointment she was attacked. Purse is Returned | she told ofiicers she thought it was probably about a purse she |had lost the night before. The qurse re-appeared yesterday in just as mysterious a manner as its owner had been attacked. | 1t was found lying on a show- case in the lobby of the Berg- | mann Hotel, where Mrs. Thompson |has a room. Deputy Marshal Tom Newcombe was called there yesterday 'and the purse was turn- ed over to him by D. G. Irwin, husband of the manager of the { hotel. { Mr. Irwin said he had found it {on the case. When it had been |put there or by whom he was un- uh!v to say. He hadn’t seen it | lef There had been a number u)f people in and out the room |and he had not mnoticed any of them in particular and couldn't |say who they were. Letters Are Missing Letters which Mrs. Thompson |had told the officers were in the |purse when it was lost were miss- |ing when it was returned. There were only a few cents in it. She reported she had $1.985 in it when lost. Authorities were somewhat mys-~ |tified by the manner of its return. |If somebody unconnected with the affair had found it and wanted |to return it they couldn’t under- !stand why it should be left in the |lobby surreptitiously. Yet they| | | | were loath to beliéve that anyone | implicated in- the ®attack would | have returned it. Staltman Alibi Clear Cut Staltman, held‘yesterday, estab- |lished what officials believe to be a clearcut alibi,- He proved he was at Mrs. Thompson's room in the | Bergmann from 6 o'clock to almost |7 oclock, and after she did nof each other with ham-like fists, Ed (Strangler) Lewis y Steele are shown in the wrestling fiasco for the ch ‘turned into a real boxing mauhngvhen :h:;fiefn for foul tactics. The fans, bored by the lack of action! y joined in fisticuff opera that followed and fi return to keep @& date with him, left and went to the Imperial Pool Hall where he remained until af. ter 8 o'clock. He then, returtiefl ‘to his apart- ment in the CHIf where he and ihls sister, Miss Jean Staltman re- side. After checking up on his statements, Federal authorities re- letsed him. from: wstody ONE INDUSTRY IN GOOD SHAPE Copper Producnon Meet- ing Demands— No | Boncour, Revamped Fre: Defense ol Bord(’rs, Ciuef Aim of Boncour By JOSEPH E. SHARKEY PARIS, Dec. 28—Joseph. Pau nch Premier, wants reprgan: French army that it may be more mighty in a fending . the country's fromtic against attack. % He indicated that he 18 goir to do this irrespective of the fat | of the French plan of disarmam:s: |at the "Geneva conference. Emphasizes ‘Defente’ “We French,” said the Prémie “wish to live in an atmosphere national security and to feel at a (times that our borders are proc against assault. “We have no aggrassive design but I have become convinced after conferences with high military of- \fairs, that we must fortify our d-- | fensive strength. And,” he ‘added emphatically “I want to emphasiz the word ‘defensive’.” M. Paul-Boncour already ha convoked several sessions of th superior council of war to study the . reorganization plans. Man Power Decreasing He is thinking too of 1935 when France will have fewer young m: to call to the ranks. In that year the boys born during the world war are due to perform their military service of one year. The full effec of the great war upon the ‘birth rate of France will be in evidence when that call comes, ‘The Premier is convinced that h: can reorganize the army without increasing either the number of soldiers or the cost of maintain- ing the big military machine. “In fact” he said, “we may pro- duce an organization - essentially defensive with fewer soldiers and at less cost. “What I am aiming at is a cov- ering army which would assure the inviolability of our national bor- ders. A short-term army furnished with. automatic weapons of a pow- er. unkonwn in the great war, would be immensely powerful in protecting France against attack.” ‘Beyond emphasizir.y the signifi- cance of automatic quick-firing weapons the Premier said he was not yet in a position to reveal the | But hel scheme of organization. went as far as this: “I believe defending our country by mobili- zing our mnational army in entirety, “This .system implies, however, al thorough instruction both of con- scripts and reservists. “It means minute attention’ p the - problem of mobilization be- cause necessarily the period of mobllization will be longer under | a_ system of short term conscnpt service.” Bert Wheeler Will Rewed Former Wife NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Broadway hearts that Bert Wheeler, tan; and Betty Wheeler, who were | divorced six years ago, are to be | remarried. “Betty, ed ‘a divorce on December 5 from | Liohel Keye, her third trouper husband. As soon as the divorce | was granted, she left town en route acobrding to friends, to Hollywood where Wheeler lives. Detroit Jobless to Live in Big Mansion DETROIT, Mich.,, Dec. 28.—De- troit’s most exclusive welfare lodg- ings are located in the palatial home of Harry S. Ayres, million- aire coal man, who turned it over’ 't unemployed families for a year while he is visiting in California. The welfare department w choose the ‘cream” of the c “new poor’—once wealthy families of prefessional and businessmen— to avoid offending the socially prominent neighbors. —————— OWL TAKES SPECTACLI At Wimbledon, Eng., an owl at-' tacked Sidney E. Enugden and flew away with his spectacles. Further Decrease Pl 24 OGDEN, Utah, Dec. 28. United States copper industry is in a “fairly satisfactory state,” Louis Cates, President of Phelps- Dodge said here today. He said further: “The tariff is acting te advan. tage ‘of United States producers. Domestic production is being kept at.a high enough level to mest the demand. Overproduction prob- Jems, seem to have been solved. I expect no further decrease in production and look for the in- — The. feel " the' upturn.” duslrymbemmnxtheflrstto 1’4‘%!??4 Gorespondent Garden, New York, was the scene of ® lively free-for-all, | persons lin the chair and he said that without too. muca halr 345§ to come off were paying as lttle % "Dec. 28. ;m.sadxme Hanna Hume, grand-daughter of. the late Mark Hanna, Ohio Re- publican leader, has . filed suit ‘!’hcymn- "dy flM {above), movie script 9irli"was named by Elcanor Board. man as corespondent in her divorce cult against King Vidor, movie di. (Associated Press Photo) | in the possibility of‘ its | comed- 1 it was learned was grant- | _1932. ch Army Sought to Stiffen Joseph Paul-Boncour, new French Premier, is werking on plans ary defense effectivencs: of France’s armies. n as he watched recent field maneuvers shcwn marching took part. {o increase the bsun This- photcgraph was tak in which “pm]u\ of the type Begum A gu Khan Awfizl Heir | NG O l \ The Aga Khan, ncted in Eurcpe as a turfman and in India as the religious head of a numerous Mchammedan sect, and his young French wife are expectant parents. The wealthy potentate has a 26-year-eld heir by a fermer marriage. | | | | i | | By ADELAIDE KERR i i PARIS, Dec. 28.—In therose bro- caded suite of a luxurious hotel here the Begum Aga Khan, young and beautiful French wife of the ! wealthy East Indian sportsman w beads millions of Mohammedans of India, is awaiting the birth of their first child. The fair-haired, dark-eyed wo- man, who was born of a bourgeois family in t French Provinces and whose marriage to the 57-year-' old Oriental prince three years ago Plant Being Operated Full Time for First CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia., Two hundred men have been em: ployed in the past two weeks a the local plant of the Quaker Oat: Company, years. Time in Past 2 Years Dec. 28— t s whaich is operating on, full time for the first time in iwo ———————— Make Millions Thina—and Buy! caused wide comment, will reside in the hotel until the end of Janu- ary, when she will go to a nearby | nursing home. | “I am very happy,” she said. l “And so is the Prince. There seems to be an idea that we should go to England for this event because ths Printe is,a British subject. |But we shall stay here. “We hadiexpected to go to India | this year, for I have long wanted § {to see the. Prince’s country. But now we must postpone the trip until nzxt year.” The Begum Aga Khan, who was born Andree Carron in the little {town of Chamberry and who spent ————— Elks’ New Year’s Eve Hi Jinks Saturday Night ELKS’ HALL .jall her life there until her mar- !riage has become a familiar figure in the social world of European capitals. Her luxurious wardrobe and rare jewels have attracted much attention. The Princess, who denied reports that she was a candy salesgirl be- fore h:ir marriage, has shunned | publicity. She has not adopted the !Mohnmmcdzm religion, but has re- tained the Catholic faith to which she was born, The Aga Khan III, who is 48th| in direct descent from Moham-| med’s daughier, Fatima, and her husband, Al is on: of the must pieturesque fizures in Europe. 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