The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1935, Page 8

INQUIRY INTOMANY ISSUES GIRL'S MYSTERY HIT TODAY BY DEATHUNDERWAY Coroner’s Jury Hears Wit-|Metals and Aircraft Shares nesses Tell of Circum- | Keep in Favor—Early stances Before Tragedy " Gains Are Held NEW YORK, April 24—Stocks encountered some, profit taking in !the final hour today which-unsettled waters off the Cold Storage Dock rails and key industrials but metals Festerday morning, were being in-|and aircraft shares continued in westigated by a coroner’s jury this|favor and held a portion of the afterncon in the court of Com-|early gains. missioner J. . Mullen with Dis-| Today's close was slightly irregu- trict Attorney William A, Holz- [lar. heimer directing the inquiry. | ‘Witnesses called were Mrs. Don | CLOSING PRIC TODAY Parson, sister of the dead girl;| NEW YORK, April 24.—Closing | James T. Effler, who last saw her |quotation today of Alaska Juneau alive; Chief of Police Roy Hoffman |mine stock is 16%, American Can | end William J. Markle, assistant|120, American Power and Light 3%, Chief. Recess was taken late this|Anaconda 11%, Armour N 3%, afternoon while officers went to | Bethlehem Steel 26%, Calumet and bring H. E. Gath to testify, ‘Hv"la 3, General Motors 30%, In- name having been brought imw::rrnauonal Harvester 39%, Kcnnv- the case by witnesses. |cott 17, United States Steel 32:, Dr. W. W. Council, Pound $4.83%, cer, the jury when it viewed the bocly at the C. W. Carter mortuary tha the girl's lungs were full of water and that she had one small wound on her body which the doctor said | could not have caused death but could have been suffered if she hit | something in the water. ! Girl Broods i The name of H. E. Gath, a mine Circumstances death of Vera when her body leading to the Inez Bayers, 21, was found in the Health Offi- JOBS ARE OPEN The United States Civil Service worker, was brought before the Commission has arnounced open jury by Mrs. Parson when she|Competitive e minations as fol- testified that Miss Bayers had been | 10W brooding over the report that Gath,| Junior aquatic biologist, $2,000 a whom she admired, uiad been mar- |Year : B:"g’“ of Fisheries, ried. | ment of Commerce. Mrs. Parson sald her sister cam:-‘ Associate aquatic blologist, $3200 to her apartment in the Cliff|3 year, assistant aquatic b_lologist. Apartments Monday evening about gsmba y":’ B(‘:“\““ of Fisheries, 5:30 oclock and said something |Department of Commerce. about “I don't see how he would| "“50:3‘“‘0% engineer ‘Smlxbtm‘»’fhm- do that.” Mrs, Parson said she i B year, RAMAR, CHE questioned her and iound that the|8ineer (soils mechanics), $2,600 a irl meant the i) :'Znamed Ml:ssreé):;zer:r ;}:thcl:;*::z‘ Medical guard-attendant, $1,620 a and apparently in an unhappy ‘3;‘;“[; ELP;;&E:N]H;:?:M Service, for mood, Mrs. Parson said. A ? Suddenly Leaves Immigration patrol inspector, $1,- Effler, who was at the Parson|800 & year, Department of Labor. home, left with the girl about 6:30|APPlications must be on file not to go down town, he told the jury 1“;’;"3‘:";;‘:;‘10:; R R and said that she mentioned to atory T , $1,- him Gath’s name and apparently ‘0120 a zoux'. 12Rm'mm of application was feeling badly about something. C¢loses June 12. He said he and Miss Bayers wcnti Further information may be ob- to the City Cale where they had tained at Room 311, F 1 and coffee. Effler said that suddenly,|Territorial Building, Juneau shortly before 8 c'clock Monday - evening, his companion got up m‘d‘EFFORTs MADE TO walked out without saying a word OF FRANK M KINLEY ne trace of her went back Tarson apartmen:, might have gene not returned there, ho Mrs. Parcon said nd huzband began 2 lowntowan but that they fcund no trace of| her and saw nothing of her until| the body was fcund the next morn- ing. to the| thinking she {hete, S 152 thece. S had Peladivon 66, whe w in his cebin near e cvernment Hospital cn Willoug) \by Avenue yest is being made by the Mars] s office. He is be-| lieved to have a sister, Hattie Mc- Clellan, in Seattle, but effo to| { notify her have not yet proved suc- cessful. It is also reported to the Mar: s2are! Oificers Tostify Officers Hoffman and Markle told of keing called to the cold storage plant by Oscar Oberg, who found the body, and of taking the| body to the mortuary. They con- ducted an investigation but said they had not been able to trace the girl after she left the City Cafe. Mrs. Parson on re-examination | by the District Attorney told the jury that Monday night while she and her husband were looking for her sister they met Gath on Wil- ;’:s::g t‘:c‘:“l‘::r °“ga‘t‘;k°t‘:w};";‘m;‘ Authorities are of the opinion this d = £ '|sirl may possibly be McKinley's eclared he had not. Mrs. Parson | ;o ohter. He also is ‘reported to €ald Gath and her sister had not |y, "o, o St hs ‘hod & been going together recently and | 4o onter % 5 ey when she congratulated Gath Mon- | MeK :)iey Was ia | mpinber of the ¢ay night on being married he sald |ynyo nagiona) Longshoremen's As- there was nothing to it and it was sociation and had been working on simply a rumor. Bringing of his|ppp, projects. He was a native name into the case caused District| Montana. The body at the Attorney Holzheimer to ask that . d he be summoned as a witness. He had not previously been questioned, it was revealed. Jurors hearing the case are John McLaughlin, Geerge A. Schumach- er, Lockie M. MacKinnon, Charles Bohm, James Brennan and John| McCleskey. s LA R IR 3 ; I Opening of Chicago | Weshington State College in Pull- .. . |man, by her initiaticn into the Board of Trade Again |sigma Kappa scrority. Miss Whit- Postponed for 1 I)(w tier is a Freshman and entc a daughter and a newspaper clip- ping found among his effects by Deputy Marshal W. G. Hellan re- lated the story of Nena McKinley, 12-year-old Copper River girl, who mushed 22 miles on snowshoes at night to Copper Center to get an air plane to rescue Don Fluery, a en. The clipping was from the Anchorage Times of January 19. -eo |JUNEAU GIRL GIVEN HONORS AT COLLEGE - |Miss Mary Jeannette Whittier will \be pleased to learn of the honors Bremner bid 60 |the Matanuska Valley project from who examined the body, told|asked 65, Nabcsna bid €0 asked 75.|J, B. ‘Ummel, genersl purchasing BY GOVERNMENT - Depart- | of : cording |shals office that the dead man has |y trapper whose feet had been froz-| Juneau-Young Undertaking parlors. | The many fnenua in Juneau of| bestowed upon her last week at the | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1935 Matanuska . Workers on North Star Sails from San Francisco Bound for Juneau SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 24. —Men and equipment are on the high seas enroute to the Matanuska colonization project. Matanuska Valley. visions, tools, machinery and sup- plies for the six months' ground work program. There are also trucks, tractors and building equip- ment aboard the motorship. MORE BIDS CALLED laska mills have received re- quests by mail for bids on lumber in excess of a half million feet for |agent for the Department of the | Interior at Seattle, replies to be made by wire as the bids are to be opened in Seaftle tomorrow. They call for vertical cut, kiln dried spruce. Delivery "is to be made ay 12 at Alaska docks. | Two contracts for lumber for the| project have previously been let by {the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation here, one to the Ju- neau Lumber Mills and the other to the Ketchikan Spruce Mills. The lumber is expected to be picked up by the North Star which left San { Francisco yesterday, carrying a van- guard of the workers who will start | clearing the project. H - o 1 PLANE STOPS IN WHITEHORSE LAST EVENING PAA Lockheed Electra Continued to Fair- banks Today Encountering thick weather over | White Pass yesterday afternoon, the Paeific Alaska Airways Lock-| {hecd Electra returned to the Ju-| {neau PAA Airport and took off | | again at 5 o'clozk to make the trip | the Interior by way yand Lake Atlin. It Whitehcrse last evening jcontinue to Fulrbanks today ac to A. B. Hayes, Traffic| | Repicoentative here. Abocard the big pl cekly trip to Fairbar | neau, are Mr. and Mrs nelley, of Flat; F. A. Burgy, Chn'lv», Hun'lcy and Paul Brewe: | last three passengers are bound Io | \Zynbam.‘ and the Donn | \cnmmuc to Flat by plane from the Golden Heart city. Joseph Ba |rows, Acting Divisional Engineer \for PAA is pilot of the plane an | Murray Stewart is co-pilot. —————— FIVE AUTOMOBILES BROUGHT BY BANDON Juneau's automobile population | continues to grow. Five more ve-|( hicles were added to the v\heelcch ranks this morning with the ar- {rival of the Bandon from Seatt! Two Ford automobiles were de- on is| from Ju- | ara PROFITTAKING , < Mort | SHOP IN JUNEAU | livered to the Juneau Mctors Com- pany; one Chevrolet went to the | Connors Motor Company; one Olds- mobile to the Service Motor Com- | | pan: and one Pl to McCaul, Motor Company - e ELSTED LEAVES Bert Elsted, incurance man, left| {cn the Vietoria for Petersburg via | | Sitka. | —— || The Florence wp ! | Permanent Waving a Specialty i Florence Holmguist, Prop | PHONE 421 I | ®ehrends Bank Bullding | & ——e -n HELLO SEATTLE, AND JUNEAU MEN : TALK OVER AIR BACK TO NOME John Kanery is returning to his Y or George L. Barton left Ju- | independent mining property near neau on the Princess Norah for |Nome. He is a passenger on the Yu- Vancouver, B. C. From that city|kon for Seward. he will travel inland to Edmonton, | T e Alberta. There he will visit with| Louis Nashenweng, Nome resident a daughter for a month before re- | and mining operator there, is bound turning here. for Seward on the Yukon. TO VISIT DAUGHTER I MISS MARY JANE GANTY GREETS GRANDPARENTS IN SITKA ON EASTER ]parents of Mrs. Ganty, arrived of the North Sea to visit them, andk their new granddaughter who has been named Mary Jane, and their young grandson, Wallace, a name- sake of Mr. Jessup. A I AR SHOP IN JUNEAU FIRST! It was a happy Easicr in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Prosper Ganty, of Sitka, this year. A daughter was born to them Saturday night, and on Easter Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Jessup, Perfect Conversahon Is Heard — 100 Coming on Cruise to Alaska ! Through arrangements made by One hundred and twenty men|Chas. E. Smith, operator-in-charge are aboard the North Star, Indian|0f the U. S. Signal Corps, Acting Affairs motorship, going to Juneau|CGovernor E. W. Griffin, Harry G then to Seward from which port|Watson and Robert Bender talked they will board a train for the|OoVer the radio telephone, to Seattle, with Capt. Frank E. Stoner, and Aboard the North Star are pro-|{Foster L. McGovern, secretary of Plumbing the Alaska Committee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Mr. than 100 reservations had beer made for the Seattle Chamber o Commerce cruise to Alaska thi summer. He also stated that Seattle Chamber of Commerce com- mittee was working on a plan < aid the Territory in having an ex- hibit at the World's Diego this year. The conversations came through ness today, Seattle was equally satisfactory cording to those using the radi phone. Fajir in San from Sea with perfect cl D Itelian Soldiers Can Radio Folks for Lower Rates and the reception in WE HANDLE HOT WATER . STEAM . ‘Standard’ VABOR ; ‘Kohler’ . Montag AIR -CONDITION PLANTS y Plant Guaranteed McGovern said that more PLUMBING FIXTURES PIPE AND £ " FITTINGS Ever Highes Quallty ROME, April 24—Premier Mu»w- lini has made special postal telegraphic arrangements to 1p his soldiers and militiamen en route for service in East Africa overcom: twinges of homesickness. Soldiers in convoys through the Mediterranean and Red seas can receive radiograms plowing from home at the rate of less than 50 cents for 11 words. $1.50. Similar advantages ior cabl radio communication from fclks to troops in Eritrea and Somz- So stamp liland are under consideration. is the question of keeping expenditures to a minimum. e FIRST! in the lled | etarial and Music Di If It's Paint We Have It! ] IDEAL PAINT SHOP || e- Such messages cost the ordinary sender more than fi’hmw 34 Tanks DOWN SPOUTS GUTTERS PIPE FLASHINGS MARQUEES Everything-in Sheet Metal Braden Both Full Automatic Last year we sold 36 Braden Burners. Ask for list of satisfied owners. Guaranteed Work ESTIMATES FREE _RICE & AHLERS CO. “WE TELL YOU IN ADVANCE WHAT JOB WILL COST”? Phone 34 I'n sometimes cz‘garettes vii cmdj belzm Mild Ripe Tobacco... Aged 2 years or mare... —the farmer who grows the * tobacco . . ¢ —the warebouseman who sells it at auction to the hlgheu bidder .. § —every man who knows about leaf tobacco—will tell you that - it takes mild, ripe tobacco to make a good cigarette; and this is the kind we buy for CHEST- ERFIELD Cigarettes. All of the tobacco used in CHESTERFIELD Cigarettes is aged for two years or mbre. LIGGETT & MYERS ‘l‘ollwo Co. CHICAGO, Ill, April 24 The x‘all'm' Miss Whittier is the opening of the Board of- Trade daughter of Assistant Collector of was again postponed 'today pend-|Customs and Mrs. ing clarification of certain legal |and was a graduate of the Juneau procblems arising from action or‘ngh School in the class of 1932. - .. LOl‘Rl]\G RETU R‘\\ After a round-trip to Skagway, | K. Louring, Pacific Bottling Supply |Compan;: representative, returned to Juneau on the Victoria. the Rosenbaum Grain Corporation | which is seeking reorgamzstion‘ under the amended Federal Bank- | ruptey - Act ———— SHOP IN JUNEAU! M. S. Whittier | | | | WENDT & GARSTER | PHONE 549 | * e ——— s e e Y PAINTS—OILS Builders’ and Shelf HARDW RI Thomas Hardware Co [ | | ! | p r——— NEW HIKING BREECHES SIZES 22 TO 36 LEADER DEPT STORE || iw it A GEORGE BROS: ' B PO T C TN CCCTAT OO A TP GO OOttt T Pt P r e rrrreeo | | LUDWIG NELSON JEWELER Watch Repairing | Philco—Genenmal Electric Agency | FRONT STREET __CI ——-l‘ J UNEAU-YOUNG \ Funeral Parlors Licensed ‘Funeral Directors g 1 and Embalmers 1 Night Phone 1851, Day Phone 12 2 e © 1933, Ligawrr & MizRs Topacco Gor et Chesterfield is the cigarette that’s MILDER - Chesterfield is the cigarette that TASTES BETTER