The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 20, 1935, Page 8

FIREMEN WAGE 85-MINUTE FIGHT AGAINST FLAMES Worst Blaze of Winter Is Checked in Jones’ Gar- age This Morning ‘ Fire, which completely guited the half-basement apartment of a gar- age on Gastineau Avenue near Sec- ond Street early this morning, was extinguist nly after Juneau’s Volunteer epartment battled the flames for 45 minutes. Fire C J. L. Gray sald ‘the fire was the city's worst blaze of the w Called 2:30 o'clock this morn- ing, firemen arrived at the garage, owned by E. M. Jones, to find the half-basement furnished apartment fully ablaze. The flames had burn- er up through the floor of the garage second story, which opens onto Gastineau Avenue. | Cars Drazg d O:ut Two automobiles, both so hot from the flames that firemen could not touch them with bare hands, were dragged from the garage, after the building's lock was broken. The apartment, in which no one was residing, is almost a total loss. However, it is sald that the build- ing is covered by insurance The automobiles,” apparently stor- ed for the winter, have 1934 li- censes issued to Steve Ward and J. J. Costello. The automobile bear- ing Ward's license number is a| Buick sedan, while Costello’s li-| cense is for a Chandler sedan.| Both automobiles were damaged | | by smoke .and the excessive heat, but otherwise seemed unhurt. | No Estimate | No estimates of damage to auto- mobiles or building were made. ! In the rear of the garage were| several empty casks or barrels. Outside of harm from smoke, these also seemed not damaged. Jones, owner of the garage, was attending a motion picture “pre- view” at the time of the fire. The garage is located between the residence of Jones, on the north, and that of Charles Miller, on the south. SMALL FIRE CHECKED The next time Fire Chief Gray tells Judge George F. Alexander ihat his house is on fire, the Judge probably will believe him. The Judge thought that Gray was “kid-| ding” him in the Elks' Hall social room late yesterday afternoon, but when he arrived home he found that firemen had, indeed, been there and had extinguished a small blaze in the basement. FLAT PAYROLL TAX ADVOCATED House Ways and Means| Committee Makes De- | Message for Spy? When Lillian Welch, Boston, acei< dently broke open German doll given'' her 20 years ago, she found it con- cealed mngnifymfi lasses inscribed with minute etcl figures which authorities suspect were messages intended for spy. Thus another method of secret communication used during war has come to_light, AT MEETING OF CHURCH GROUP Notlitemen Hosts to Leg- islators, Educators Last Night Attended by members of the Ter- ritorial Legislature and Territorial Board of Education as guests, and with Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, Presi- dent of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, as the principal speaker, the regular monthly dinner-meeting of the Norlitemen was held in the parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church last night. More than 100 members and guests ' were present’'at the dinner, E by many to be one of the mest successful meetings of its kind yheld recently. In addition to Dr. Bunnell's ad- dress, Grover C. Winn's witly in- troduction of the visiting legislators was a highlight of the program There were but few abs among the total number of 24 leg- islators A quartet composed of Homer | Nordling, Jask Fargher, E. M. Pol- ley and John J. Keyser, also re- ceived favorable comment. Mrs. G E. Krause accompanied these sing- cision Public Today ! ers, Ted Danielson gave two humcr- WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. — The OUS recitals House Ways and Means Committee | has decided to impose a flat Fed- eral payroll tax for unemployment insurance instead of basing the levy | on business conditions. The committee decided that a fluctuating tax would cause busi- ness uncertainty. [ — e - W ashington State Income Tax. Appears Again Among Bills OLYMPIA, Wash,, Feb. 20.—De- spite the Supreme Court's dec- laration the state income tax is unconstitutional, a new income tax measure, signed by 57 membe and sponsored by the State Tax Commission, has been offered in DELICIOUS, TOO! For an in-between snack for the chil- dren there is nothing than our toasted bread— TRY IT! PEERLESS BREAD AT ALL | 'GROCERS more delicious FHA FEATURE REEL IS BEING SHOWN AT LOCAL THEATRES ntees | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 1935. . BY NOON TODAY Appealed from U. S. Com- missioner’s Court, Trial Started This A. M. The case of the United States vs. Jack McCord opened this morning in the United States District Court when it convened at 10 o'clock with Judge George F. Alexander presid- ing. Shortly before court adjourned at noon the jury for the case was completed and the case was con- tinued this afternoon. Jurors serv- ing on the case are Mrs. C. F. Brown, Pete Hildre, Marvel M. Nostrand, Kenneth Cole, Mae Sabin, Lena Pigg, Frank Meier, Felix Gray, Joe Nello, Mrs. George Os- borne, Mrs. H. R. VanderLeest, Mrs. Jeanette Shepard. McCord, who is charged with is- suing worthless checks, is repre- sented by Frank H. Foster and Assistant Uniled States Attorney George W. Folta is handling the case Zor the Government. The case is appealed from the U. S. Com- missioner’'s Court where McCord was convicted of the charge last fall. ., — LOCAL NRA OFFICIAL, DIES OF HEART ATTACK C. E. Morgan, aide to the De- puty Administrator of NRA for Alaska received word on Monday morning that his father, E. A Morgan, had passed away the prev- icus evening at the Greeley Hos- pital, Greeley, Colorado. Mr. Mor- gan, who had been ill for two weeks as the result of a heart at- tack, was 64 years of age at the time of his death and for many years’ had engaged in the real es- tate business in Greeley. While Mr. Morgan had been ill for two weeKs, it was not felt that his condition was critical until last Sunday and word of his sudden death came as a shock. - Dots Splash Prints PARIS—Dots of all sizes splash some of the new prints for spring frocks. Some are peppered in pin points, others splashed with quar- tersized circles and still others patterned in dots of various sizes. Light dots appear on dark grounds and deep colors on white. | Depicting the advantages offered through the Federal Housing Ad- ministration to home owners de- siring’ to improve their dwellings, a 7T0-foot feature reel was shown at the Capitol Theatre last week- end, The special feature will be pre- tented on the regular program at the Coliseum Theatre next Sun- day, Monday and Tuesday and on the following weekend wlil be seen s at the Uptown Theatre, J. J. Con- nors, chairman of the Better Hous- ing Committee for Juneau, said Peerless Bakery f JURORS CHOSEN | INMCORD CASE Oscar H. Robson, charged by the federal government with sending extortion notes i1 the June Robles kidnaping case at Tucson, Ariz., leav- ing the Phoenix jail with Mrs. Robson after posting $5000 bond. His bond was lowered from $50,000. (Associated Press Photo) BARNEY SIMON PASSES AWAY E. A. MORGAN, FATHER A, ., Pi;eer of Fair- banks, Iditarod, Dies in Yakima SEATTLE, Feb. Z0.—Barney Si- men, aged 59 years, pioneer of Fairbanks and Iditarod, merchant and trader, died at Yakima where he operated a furniture store for the past 12 years. A native of Russia, Simon came to the United States from Eng land 35 years ago and located here He then went to Alaska. The fu- neral services will be held here today. Survivors are his widow two daughters, Muriel ond lind. and Rosa- b 2k Freight Movement Up WASHINGTON—Class roads averazed 630,500 freight per wegk in October, 1934. That was 5,500 cars per week more than September, but 18,000 cars than in October, 1933, the reau cf Labor Sta - - The city of Norfolk, Va., began the New Year clear of debf, hav- ing paid $2,500,000 in current in- B SEWARD BILL IS APPROVED House Committee Sanctions Bonds for Electric Light Plant WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. —The House Territories Committee has approved Alaska Delegate Dimond's bill authorizing the city of Sew- ard to issue $118,000 in bonds to construct an electric light plant. Mayor Carlos Brownell explained the plans to the committee. P il P P Uncle Sam Goes After Tobacco Crop Chiselers HOPKINSVILLE, Iy Unc’e Sam is reaching out the long arm of his Internal Revenue Bursau after the pin hookers. Pin hookers are unlicensed deal- ers ‘who - engage in small time speculation by purchasing tobacco from farmers to resell at the li- cenced warehouses. Now revenue agents are checking reccrds of the Agricultural Adjust- ment Administration showing the acreage and production of each to- bacco grower, and records of bene- {it payments to farmers who con- debtedness since January 1, 1934. fracted to reduce their production. ATTEND CLUB EVENT HERE Past President’s Tea, Ju- neau Woman’s Club, Given Yesterday ® With two special speakers, rep- resenting widely different parts of. the Territory, each of whom is a past president of a woman's club in her own home town, the annual Past President's tea of the Ju- neau Woman's Club, was a very delightful event held yesterday af- ternoon at the home of Mrs. J. P. Wi'liams in the Seatter tract. Mrs. H. H. Hermann and Mrs. A. M. Geyer, who with Mrs. Williams are the only past presidents of the Juneau Woman's Ciub now active- ly engaged in club work in Ju- neau, were assistant hosesses for the afternoon. Mr:. Heos Sveaks Mrs. Luther C. Hess of Fair- hanks was the first speaker of the afternoon and she gave a very in- teresting account of her home own in the interior, telling brief- ‘v of its early history and then iiscussing in greater detail its nresent characteristics as the min- ‘ng and commercial center of the North and the home of Alaska's *nly college, An enthusiastic booster for her home town, she presented an interesting and glow- ing pieture of life there, especially delighting her audience with her account of some of the trials and joys of the housewife in her job WALK - UPPER HOUSE ‘Measure Would Appro- | priate $30,000 for Relief —Now Goes to House Approval of the Territorial Sen- ate was ;given this afternoon to: the Walker relief bill which would appropriate from the - Territory's funds $30,000 for the -relief “of destitutions; It now goes to the House. . NSk ok Introduced by Senalor WN. R Walker,“the measure is proposed as being in line with the request of Harry Hopkins, Federal Relief Administrator, that states and ter- ritories contribute a 50 per cent share with the Federal government for relief work. Another relief plan now being considered by the Legislature, cer- tain House members being hopeful of drafting all road projects into an omnibus bill and asking an ap- propriation which, on grounds of relief, would be submitted to na- tional relief setup with the aim of getting a similar amount and thus being able to provide more em- ployment. The House law revision bill, re- lating (o perjury testimony, was defeated i the Senate and the mining claims measure was con- tinued in third reading umtil Sat- urday. % — - SPEND BUSY WINTER of homemaking North of Fifty- Four, Tells of Kodiak t Mrs. W. J. Erskine, of Kodiak,. who is one of the local club’s' associate members, spoke briefly of Kodiak and the old Russian house which is the Erskine home there, which she said was built in 1804 and is possibly the oldest house on the Pacific coast with the exception of the adobe houses in California built during the Mex- ican era. A resident of Kodiak for more than twenty-five years, Mrs. Erskine has been an enthus- iastic student of Ru: n occupa- tion there, and her brief histori- cal sketch of the town was a de- lightful feature of the afternoon. Soios by imrs. Heisel Musical numbers of unusual ex- cellence completed the afternoon’s program. Mrs. Walter B. Heisel delighted with the rendition cf two vocal solos which were a real treat to those present, and Mrs. Hazel James Ferguson contributed Capt. John Mamuun and Sam {Nekeferoff have spent a busy winter rear Seward, Malutin_ putting in a good stock of bbat-knees and Nek- eferoff trapping. It has not been an especially profitable winter, they told the Seward Gateway, but better “than sticking around Sew- ard in the capacity of chair- warmers.” two piano numbers which were enthusiastically received. During the social hour which followed Mrs. A. M. Geyer ana Mrs. J. Lindley Green, a past presi- dent of the Anchorage Women's Club poured at a beautifully ap- pointed tea table, which carried out a color motif of yellow and white. Assisting with the serving were Mrs. Neil L. Heard, Mis. John Martin and Mrs. Ji M. Clark. Approximately 35 women atlended this delightful affair,’ which, because 'of lack of guar-| ters, had to be limited to the club membership. | ILL PASSED BY | o Wilson @. Sarig of Temple is the = rst Democratic s coker the lower of the P.nnsyivania legislas, *ure has had in 50 years, SHOP IN JUNEAU FIRS SHRINE DANCE INVITATIONAL FRIDAY February 22 Masonic Temple ‘Dam‘ing 9:30 P. M. SELURS SIS SO S SR They won't help you catch rivets — they wortk cause any ils or cure any atlments . . . when anything satisfies it'’s got to =~ be right . , . no “ifs” or “buts” about it. Chesterfields satisfy because, first of all, _ they’re made of the right kinds of mild ripe tobaccos. These tobaccos are thoroughly aged and then blended and cross-blended. It takes time and it takes money, but Iy whatever it costs in time or money we do it in order to give you a cigarette that'’s milder, a cigarette that tastes better. oot