The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 12, 1934, Page 2

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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY APRIL 12 1934. SAT PAJAMA BAGS SILK PILLOWS TABLE CLOTHS LUNCHEON CLOTHS RAYON BLOOMERS, COTTON SLIPS, WOMEN'S SILK H( TROPICAL LACE COLLARS, 2 SILK SCARFS FABRIC GLOVES TUCK-STITCH VES MEN’S DRESS SHIRTS SS HOSE, 3 pair MEN’S DRE MEN’S HEAVY WO MONKEY-FACE GL HANDKERCHIEFS, 1 TABLE VASES, I VISIT OUR 10-CENT Departm Many useful e be fc B. M. Behrends PILLOWS, JEWEL 2 for CRETONNES, 5 yards DRESS PRINTS, 5, yards CURTAIN GRENADINES, 5 yds. . SILK. PRINTS,:yard \ s54<5- 50 in. DRAPERY. DAMASK, yard Part-Linen ,TOWELING, 7, yards . COTTON. PRINTS; 8 yards . CHEESECLOTH, 10-yard pkg. SANITARY NAPKINS, ) for )SE, 2 pair .. RY for HUCK, TOWELS; T and PANTS OL SOX, 3 pair.... OVES, 10 for ’LATES, each 5 pair 1.00 1.00 ent Upstairs very-day articles to yund there Co., Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” fOlj tur TURKISH, TOWELS; 5 for BATH TOWELS, 3, for. . KAPOK, 3 Ib. packages BOYS’ CAPS; rubberyvisonc............... 1.00, WOMEN'S FELT. SLIPPERS .. WOMEN’S HOUSE; FROCKS COTTAGE CURTAIN SETS BISHOP CANNON KEPT STRANGE ACCOUNT BOOK ‘CovernmenEeks to Un- ravel Odd Campaign Fund System | WASP!NGTON Aplll 12. — The |Government sought today to un- ravel in_the Criminal Court what |the attorneys called a “devious |and . complicated and entangled system of bank accounts” set up by Bishop Cannon, Jr., who with his secretary, Ada Burroughs, is on trial for conspiracy to violate the Federal election laws. Bank officials have been sum- moned to tell of accounts created |by the committee which fought |Al E. Smith in the South in 1928 |and also of bank accounts carrying lhe churchman’s own name. .- MELODY HOUSE BEGINS MOVING TO NEW FRONT STREET LOCATION TODAY Moving operations of the Juneau |Melody House to its new location on Triangle Place began today Mrs. Lena Pigg, proprietor said 1The shop is expected to be fully | settled within a short time, in the | Gastineau Building recently vacat- :,(Ad by the Smith Electric Shop. — e 5 pkegs. . . J. YURMAN RETURNS NEXT WEEK FROM WEST H. J. Yurman, furrier, who has been in the Interior and Westward |districts on an extensive fur buying trip, .expects to return here on the |next steamer from the Westward |after a most successful trip. | CANADIAN CUSTOMS MAN GOES OUTSIDE ON TRIP Sam Coulter, connected with the | Canadian Customs Service, passed through Juneau aboard the Prin- |cess Norah bound outside on a i short vacation. | B | WHITE PASS OFFICIAL | RETURNS TO WHITEHORSE AFTER WINTER IN SOUTH ! James Redpath, ‘port steward ‘for the White Pass and Yukon | Route, came north on the Prin- cess Norah on his y to his head- quutexs in Whitehorse. Mr. Red- path has spent the winter months |in Seattle and Vancouver, B. C. A VA e | A, L. HANOT RETURNS TO INTERIOR DISTRICT A. L. Hanot, mining man from the Fairbanks district, is a west~ | bound passenger on the Alaska on | his way to the Interior. - Daily Emlnfl: ¥rant Ads Pay Remember When—? Roberts Where are the front finge headlm- ers of yesteryear? ere’s one of them. Marion (“Kiki”) Roberts, who achieved fame through her connec- tion with the late “Legs” Diamond, slain gangster. She is now a tour- ing fan-dancer and is here shown at Washington, MRS. ARDELLE CLEVELAND LEAVES FOR VISIT IN SEATTLE AND EVERETT| For Seattle a two months’ and Everett, vacation Mrs, Ardelle Cleveland, proprietor of the Needle- | craft Shop left for the south on the Yukon. Mrs. Cleveland expects to spend the greater part of her vacation visiting her son, Howard B. Cleveland, in Everett. During her absence, Mrs. Earl Cleveland will have c! ge of her shop. B SN PRI in| | | | | | | | | | MRS. FRANK A. BOYLE LEAVES| FOR TWO-MONTH TRIP SOUTH| Mrs. Frank A. Boyle left this week for the south and will visit friends and relatives in Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver, for several | months. Mr. Boyle, Territorial Aud- itor, exr to join her in the south the latter part of May and visit a short time before they re- | turn tog er in June. e e AN EVENING OF F! THRILLS AN B. and P. W. Dance. Saturday, darin Ball Room. students 50 cents. D C. URPRISES Scholership Admission $1.00, | | i Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—CHILDREN'S READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street Near Thl.rd i | i MURDERS FIVE, THEN SUICIDES " fioney Worries Blamed for Deed of Crazed Min- neapolis Broker MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, April 12 —Money worries is blamed for a, tragedy in which a crazed insur-j ance broker, A. J. Freunderfeld, killed his wife, three children and his mother-in-law and then sui- cided. All six were found dead in beds, bullet holes in their heads. The children killed were Janet, aged 14, Carol aged 11, and Rich- ard, aged 8 years, The mother-in- law was Mrs. Cora DeHaven. A pistol was found beside Fre- undenfeld. RIS SR IDEAL PAINT SiURE BEING REDECORATED THROUGHOUT The crew of the Ideal Paint} Store is busily cleaning and re- decorating the store following the| fire. They are rushing the work; to completion. e ERNEST GRIFFIN TO BE LOCATED WITH ‘BIG VAN’ ON SEWARD TEMPORARILY Until a permanent location can be secured, Ernest Griffin, of the Garden Patch, will be located with Big Van on Seward Street near; Becond. e OH!—WHAT FUN! Business and Frofessional Wom- en’s Annual Ball is here again. Mandarin Ball April 14 Admission $1.00, Students 50 cents. —adv. .- HOME LEAGUE SALE Of work at the Salvation Army Hall, Thursday, April 12. Refresh- menfs served. aume cooking and ¢andy for sale. Oommeneu at 3 Room, Saturday, | ments, President Roosevelt abrupt- ly annulled air mail contracts and ordered the army to carry the mail. After 19 days in which 10 army mail fliers lost their lives, the, air mail was curtailed. | | Famous aviation figures testi- | (Continued fromn Pafigeitr)ne)r ,,‘fleld in the air majl inguiry; Col. Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Ricken- frenzied finance in the 1920's and packer, Clarence Chamberlin, Bri- i'305- gadier General William Mitchell Investigators discovered J. P. and others. New air mail legis- ‘Morgnn paid no income tax in a lation was proposed. {couple of depression years and The ocean mail investigation |they revealed how the Van Swer- drew less attention, although tes- ingens built a railroad empire timony indicated misuse of the in- from a “shoestring” of $1,000000. direct shipping subsidies -provided Wiggin's Wages ’by mail contracts. Outright sub- They brought to the stand Al- gidy may result from the findings, bert H. Wiggin, former chairman Amazed by allegations of huge of the Board of the Chase Na-!profits made by builders of navy tional Bank, and learned about planes, a House Naval Affairs the $250,000 annual salary he re- sub-committee started an investi- ceived in retirement. gation, but returned a report find- They listened to comments of ing “profits reasonable.” Edsel Ford and others on the De- Still Others Pflw‘ : troit bank failures. | A similar injuiry into army avia- A Congressional dragnet brought tion was made by anothnr House information that 20 large corpora-| Gommiftee. It dhwvered that al- tions had poured $20,000,000000 though a law of 1908 prescribed into the stock market as brokers'| competitive bidding, most contracts Hoans in 1929. re negotiated throi vloepmles Spurred by such findings, Con- —h= , M g | gress passed the Securities Act of [ [House Inquiry of ! “Brain Trust” Is Last for Probers 1933 despite complaints of finan- ({ {ciers, framed more drastic bank- | ing laws, shaped legislation to plug income tax loopholes and prepared !a more rigid law for regulation of the stock market. \ With his trunkful of evidence tand his slashing questions, Fer- dinand Pecora stood out promi- nently as the committee’s coun- sel. Germania Herb Tea $1.00 ® Butler M. auro Drug Co. “Express Money Orders Anytime” ‘ Missing Records The Senate investigation of ocean and air mail droned along in rela- tive obscurity until the committee headed by Senator Hugo Black learned that certain air mail rec- ords in the office of former Post- master General Walter Brown had been destroyed just before the Roosevelt Administration moved in. Brown, prominent Republican, appeared before the committee. | Postmaster General James A. Far- {ley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, also took the stand and denied that he had called Chairman Black “a publicity hound,” as Brown had claimed. Army Gets the Mail After several dramatic develop- ~ TR T "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIHHH" in the law. Harry Woodring, As- alsunt Secretary of War, figured in that inquiry. The committee will review evi- dence, submitted to a District. of Columbia grand jury which re- turned no, indictments after in- vestigating storles of attempted influence in the warding of army % PEP EVERYWHE FINEST PERMINT RE contracts for motor trucks and other equipment. | i g NEW SLI Tailored . . ,CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank my many friends for the many expressions of sym- pathy and offers of assistance ex- tended over the loss of Fred L. Knowles., Also for the many beau- tiful floral offerings, also particular thanks ds, extended to Eladio Belarde ,and the, pallbearers offic- iating at the funeral. Leader Depa PS $1.25 . Bias Cut rtment Store adv. MRS. BEATRICE HONOLD. George Bros —_r g Baily Empire Want Ads Pay ad N DANCE Moose Hall Saturday Night - NEW. American-Scandinavian Music by FRED LEHTO'S Hollywood Orchestra on Seward Street! Vegeialiles Gcmlemen T5¢ Ladies Dancing 9:30 Free FREE DELIVERY GARDEN PATCH REOPENS! @ Temporary location with BIG VAN Fruits I Eggs PHONE 342 April 14, Man-| —adv, | b 8 — U. 8. DEPARTNIENT(OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU The Weather (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., April 12: Fair tonight, Fridaygfair and warmer; *gentle variable winds. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ‘Weather « 4 pam. yest'y 29.86 37 95 SE 8 Rain 4 am. today 3002 36 89 sw 2 Cldy Noon today 30.18 43 58 SW 4 Cldy CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS % 3 bl YESTERDAY | TODAY Highest 4p.m. Lowest 4a.m. 4a.m. Precip. 4a.m. Station temp. temp. temp. temp. velocity 24hfs, Weather Barrow -14 -14 -22 -22 8 [ Clear Nome 28 28 22 21 6 0 Clear Bethel 32 % 24 24 10 06 Snow+ Fairbanks 40 36 10 10 4 0 Clear Dawson 36 36 2 = 16 0 Clear St. Paul 26 26 24 24 32 04 Snow Dutch Harbor 38 38 3 38 20 30 Rain Kodiak 40 38 [0 e 0 02 Clear Cordova 38 34 32 34 4 10 Clear Juneau . 39 37 | 8. % 2 101 Cldy Sitka ... 45 — 32 — 0 22 Pt.Cldy Ketchikan 48 46 [l @ 8 204 Rain Prince Rupert ... 54 52 | 44 48 18 .28 Rain Edmonton 54 54 | 3% ‘88 6 0 Clear Seattle 64 64 | 48 48 0 0 Clear Portland 82 80 | 86 86 4 0 Clear San Francisco ... 64 58 i 80 SER 6 0 Cldy A storm of consxderable energy is central ln southern Bering Sea with gales south of the Aleutian Islands and rain or snow in Southwestern Alaska, followed by clearing in the Gulf of Alaska. The pressure is slightly below normal in the western portion of Interior Canada with heavy rain over Southeast Alaska. The pressure is mod- erately high in the Gulf and on the Arctic coast with clear weather in the Interior and Northwest. Temperatures have risen over most of the Territory. ATTENTION CARPENTERS UNION ® A mecting will be held in the City Chambers SATUR- DAY EVENING AT ‘8 O’CLOCK. Counecil ® All carpenters in favor of signing the N. R.‘ A. agreement are asked to attend. ALASKA AIR EXPRESS FOR CHARTER Lockheed 6-Passenger Seaplane TELEPHONE 22 J. V. HICKEY l ——d UNITED FOOD Co. CASH GROCERS . Phone 16 We Deliver Meats—Phone 16 Get Your Block Wood ind KINDLING ‘NO' W W hile It Lasts PHONE 358 GENE SOMERS DELIVERY. -] Juneau Lumber Mills [USSSS e e . Juneau Cash Grocery CASH GROCERS Corner Second and Seward Free Delivery o WINDOW CLEANING PHONE 485 Phone 68 FOR INSURANCE See H. R. SHEPARD & SON s “Telephatic 409 B. M. Behrends Bank Bldg. P . P PP Y

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