The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 5, 1935, Page 8

FIREARMS BILL WINS APPROVAL OF LEGISLATURE |House Endorses Senate Bill Fixing Penalty for w Careless Shooting PRESIDENT OF | DRAMATIC GLUB ‘Little Theatre Movement1 Gets Start Here'wilh | Meeting Last Night J. F. Mullen, United States Dis- Striking at hunting accidents in trict Commissioner, was elected tc which persons are wounded or kill- the presidency of the newly organ- ed by careless hunters, the Terri- jzed Juneau Dramatic Club last torial House this afternoon passed b The election of officers was the Walker firearms bill which is [¢ of the features of the first aimed to tighten up regulations {and impose heavier penalties. ThL¢ | measure had previously passed the !Senate without opposition. ! Under the act any person who ng of a group of Juneauites promoting a “little The ses- in theatre” movement here. was held in the mathematics | sion e room of Juneau High School points or discharges any firearm More than 25 citizens attended {at or toward any persoqs or umcr: the meeting, although invitations |without knowing the identity of such object and thereby injures a {human being would be guilty of |carelcssness and upon conviction had been extended to 40 persons. The extremely cold and windy weather undoubtedly prevented more from attending. would be subject to a fine of not Harry Sperling of the Forest ‘e than $1,000 or a year's im- Service was elected Vice-President. sonment. If death resulted from Other officers include Mrs. Ted he injury, the person discharging Brown as Secretary, and Mrs. |the firearm could be charged with Muriel Ferguson as Treasurer. Phe return of the Byrd expedition means much to this young mother and Everett Erickson, head of the Eng- (D0 0Py corh " (Chubby) Pelter, Jr., shown with his mother at their Five Other Bills lish Department and dramatic Five other Senate measures Pacced Pensacola, Fla., home will be seeing his father for the first time. Pelter, I coach at the high school, acted shief photographer of the expedition, left for the Antarctic two months | g as temporary chairman last night. before little Joe was born. He received the news by radio but has not |the approval of the House Other than the election of of- even yet seen a picture of his baby. |afternoon, thus giving them dorsement of the Twelfth Legisia- s he appointment of a| —— - s 5 il S ! ix{r:r:l:‘x::lx Lc;mnf:?ten nothing |ture, although some carry minor defiffite was done toward further- D S HATZELL IREMODELING WORK {amendments that will have to be “little theatr ment adjusted, but not changing the 7 ol “‘1 jon g 2 | Now STARTED ON ‘L‘;;‘\l'je(xt of the bills apzreiiab'\‘ Howe much informa! discussion , | cont L 7 held on the possibility of BURFORD S CORNER The measures include: g the latent interest in f 3 | S. B. 8 providing that a person atics here. Work has started on tne remod- must have voted in three cons: he next meeting of the organi- I eling of the old First National tive primary elections on the same zation will be held at 7:30 o'clock i f Bank Building, formerly occupmd!:ickez before e can become 2 next Tuesday night in the high s ‘by Burford’s Corner and Yurman,| candidate of the party on that school. It was announced today _ the Farrier. | ticket. = The - act- ic aimed to that Ted Danielson will give a . When comleted, the remodecled cirengthen party lines and guard reading then, and that Everett New APPOH“CC Of U S space will be used as a recreation, against switching in order to be Erickson will give a talk on make- Buyreau of Indian Affairs |automobile bus, taxi and airplanc with the prevailing party. up. . . - Absentee Voting Appointed on the constitution Arrives with Famlly the S. B. 19, liberalizing the regul committee are: Mrs. Grover C o Winn, Mrs. H. R. Webster, Dan-| To assume the newly S. B. 36, eliminating the com- of the building. |munity property right of husband s or wife in the case of inheritance CONTROVERSIAL 8 PASSENGERS BILLS KILLED BY ABOARD NORCO HOUSE MEMBERS FOR THIS PORT Syndicalism and Sedition SEATTLE March 5—Motorship 5 Norco sailed for Juneau and way Mea.sures Are Indefin- ports at midnight last night with itely Postponed 15 passengers, the following booked for Juneau: Mr, and Mrs. B. Melvin, Mr. and Mrs. C. Shafer, D. L. Dutton, Buzz Pemmer, Carl Graves and Ray | Race. Working rapidly to clear the cal- endar and send all its bills over| to the Senate on the 50th day, the Territorial House eliminated con- siderable proposed legislation late| yesterday through indefinite post- ponement. Among the bills falling vy the wayside were the measure of A. P. Walker to repeal the, criminal syndicalism laws, and the! Chamberlin sedition bill. Indica-! tions that both sides were ready for a long verbal battle and threats £ $ f two-hour orations in connection | d . After O ‘igixnet;:;?i”]fim?c‘;s“’}f“;‘fi:?&ce‘?.;f: with the measures led to the ac- her first husband whom she believed | tion. dead, reappeared and obtained a “I don’t want to listen to’any divorce. Florence later sought an |two-hour speeches on these or any L or_lfzrotund 820 h-%wed bills before this House and I doR't im while wife of another. Gourt |4} any of the other members id h; i fioo o ey Simy Hed, Bat do,” said A. H. Ziegler as he moved that neither can be released from | 3 S their marital ties. They have twc ,for indefinite postponement. The majority of the members were of shildren. - the same opinion. Five other* bills died via the MISS M'FADDEN’S tsame route, before the House con- CONDITION GOOD ciuded its long session which had Miss Margaret McFadden, grade °°¢0 the members at work day qnd school instructor, was reported as Dight for the past three days, in- in a satisfactory condition this cluding a Sunday afternoon com- afternoon by attaches at St. Ann’s Mittee session on the mining bill. | Hospital teday. ol ATTORNEYS LEAVE W. L. YAW ARRIVES TO SPEND SEVERAL DAYS IN JUNEAU To spend, a few days in Juneau on business in connection with his school, W.'L. Yaw, superintendent of the Sheldon Jackson School in Sitka, arrived here -on thé motor- ship Northland from the Baranof Island city. Affairs at the school are normal and following the conclusion of a serious influenza epidemic which swept the institution during the er months, the general health (31 students and faculty is now ex- cellent, he said. e new recreational building, buil, by the Warrack Construction Ccmflgny last summer has formed 4 nevA center of interest. Among the rea.qxres of the building which havs cohtributed to the pleasure of thoxe gt the school and towns- | pcopie as wrell is the 90 by 56 foot maple flook of the gymnasium on Gloria Florence, New York model, by either. S. B. 33, requiring the posting of notices by mining property owners within 10 days of non- responsibility in cases where prop- erty is being worked under lease or contraet with the purpose of protecting the workmen hired on Miss McFadden underwent an the job. appendectemy this morning, and which h 3 r y THLAN!| ch have - S. B. 34, making a property not yesterday afternoon, as was ON NOR L D FOR ketball gnmg:egypi)a,?dei;im;efi:; »wner responsible for the payment crreneously reportad. Miss McFad- | KETCHIKAN RETURN :: the ‘sitka, Basketball Lea i of any claims contracted by an den was taken to the hospital yes-| ’vir Yaw sai Of these tegm; genl against the property. L:q:day afternoon. Lester O. Gore and H. G. McCain, three are comppsed of students of e I s 2 SRR two Ketchikan attorneys who ap- the Sheldon Jackson School and MINER VISITS RELATIVES BARKER GOES SOUTH peared in the Federal Court here five of residents lof the town. C. Valdemier, an employee of Connected with the Market Bas-jlast week in connection with the The school, which includes grades the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining ket here, Joe Barker is bound on|Ketchikan injunction suit, left for from the sixth to the twelfth, with Company, is bound for Seattle on a round trip voyage to Seattle as|t.he First City on the Northland. some special courzes fo~ students e Northland to visit relatives. d passenger on the Northland. He; While here, Mr. Gore; former beyond high school, now has an ecently, Valdemier injured one will spend a few days in Seattle Federal Judge of the Second Ju- enrollment of 111 students, he said f his hands, causing it to be placed attending to business details be- dicial Division, spoke before the - > in a cast to heal. fore making his re i Juneau Chamber of Commerce. + SHOP IN JUNEAU F jelson, Erickson, and A. B. Phil- Position of Supervisor of Social — ice, in the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, Donald S. Hart- QUICK Victoria from the south. ENABLES PASSENGERS| " u:. martzeit comes from Oak- siderable experience w the Unit- ed States Children’s Bureau of the lips, Superintendent of Schools Welfare of the Alaska School Serv- “FOOT - WORK?”|zell arrived here on the steamer TO BOARD NORTHLAND 12nd. California, and has had con- tment of Labor Travelling with round-trip tick- as field rep- ets to Seattle on the Northland with headquarters in today are Mr. and Mrs. V. Soboleff gton, D. C. He specialized —but only some quick *“foot-work’ ype of work enabled them to board that vessel. e School of Social . It seems that Mr. and Mrs. Sobo- tion at the University of leff operatd a trading post at Kootz- nahoo, near Kiliisnoo. They de- sired to board the Northland when that vessel came through Chatham Siraits yesterday on her way from Sika to Juneau. gl The w. was very rough. 8o, ¢ it wasn't at all surprising that the ¢ Soboleff's little skiff, in which they were being rcwed out to the Northland, began to fill with water and sink, However, the Soboleff's two at- tendants quickly took off hip boots —and, literally, with good “foot- work,” bailed enough to keep the craft afloat. R M. D. WILLIAMS LEAVES ON NORTHLAND FOR THE SOUTH Chicago and has continued in it since. On the vicited the north Mr. Hartzel an scheols in Ket- an and while the ia was in Wrange! ) e Wrang mpanie Hartzell and t Though his he in Junecau, M | charge of the ssc are de- |partment of the Bureau throughout Alaska under the direction of the office in Juneau. Members of this | department cof the bureau at the present time include Mrs. Martha B. Refsland and George Dale. He expects ‘o remain in Juneau for |the present to acquaint himself !with the conditions and policies of M. D. Williams, District Engi- | the bureau, Mr. Hartzell said today. neer for the United States Bureau = D of Public Roads, left for the south SAILOR LEAVES on the motorship Northland. He will be in Ketchikan for a short time making inspections of the Bureau work in that vicinity and will continue from there to Seattle in connection with the rebuilding of the Bureau motorship Highway which was recently authorized. he ca son, John. uarters will be A sailor off the United States Ccast Guard cutter Tallapoosa, G L. Cudney, accompanied by his wife, took southbound passage on the Northland for Seattle. SHOP IN JU LEMON HART AND SON ROYAL NAVY RUM “A fine old deliclous demerara rum yowll enjoy! STOCKED BY YOUR FAVORITE DEALER W. J. LAKE & CO., SEATTLE, DISTRIBUTORS center. A. 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