The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 25, 1935, Page 8

GIRL DIED FROM Brains and Beauty DROWNING SAYS | CORONER'S JURY No Explanation Given at Inquest as to How Miss | Bayers Got in Water “She met her d< ath by drowning This was the brief verdict of the coroner’s jury in the inquest held connection with the f a Inez Bay 21, whose body was found floatir the wa- ter off the Cold Storage dock Tues. day morning — no explanation was given as to how she got in the wa- ter. The verdict was returned late , yesterday afternoon after the jurors had heard the testimony of several witnesses, among them H. E. Gath, miner, who was summoned from his work to testify. Gath said he had last seen Miss Bayers between 5 and 6 o'clock Monday evening when he went with another man to look at a cabin which the girl's mother was rent- ing. The girl showed them the ca- bin, he said. He went home after Ernestine Pavey In addition to being one of the campus beauties at Ohio State university, Miss Ernestine Pavey, that and did not see her again, Lie 8bOVe is president of the Sorority testified. Gath said that later in the even- Delta Dclta, and is active council, Panhellenic society, Delta in ing he met Mrs. Don Parson, Miss numerous other student organ- Bayer's sister, and her husband on Willoughby Avenue and that they asked if he had seen her. He said he had not, but asserted that after he parted from them he walked down town and looked around for her, but not seeing her went home. Mrs. Parscn had previously testified P2 to meeting Gath while she and her husband were looking for the girl Distrirt Attorney William Holz- heimer, who directed the inquiry, caid today the case was concluded © so far as his office is concerned, unless police produce some further evidence. Miss Bayers was last seen alive when she left the City Cafe shortly before 8 o'clock Monday evening where she had gone with James T. Effler. Her body was found in the water off the Cold Storage Duck the next morning by Oscar Oberg,| fisherman. Sea Burial Due izations, ame Channel which her father, as a Southeast Ala skipper, piloted many times. When point where Gastineau nel, Taku Inlet and Stephens 'astage meet is reached, another brief service will be held and the body will be committed to the sea. This site, chosen by her family day, marks the spot where her fa- ther and her uncle, Lloyd P. Bayers, another seafaring man, consigned to the sea. - I. 0. 0. F. OBSERVES 116TH ANNIVERSARY | OF LODGE FOUNDING To observe the 116th anniversary of the founding of Odd Fellowship, Details were completed today for members of the Silver Boy I. O. O. an appropriate burial at sea tomor- row for the daughter of Capt. H. Odd Fellow's marine figure Street G. (Tay) Bayers, here who died two years ago. Funeral services for Miss Bayers of entertainment hLas will be held from the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The Rev. the Bethel Pentecostal will read the service. Then, the girl's body will be ta- ken to the gasboat Wanderer, skip- pered by Capt. Kell Larson. The boat will proceed south in the Charles C. Personneus of Channel are invited Assembly | celebration to commemorate the or- F. will entertain this evening at the Hall on Franklin The open meeting will be- gin at 8:30 o'cl and a program been arranged for the evening All members of the I. O. O F. and Rebekah Lodges on Gastineau to attend the !ganization’s birthday and a large crowd is expected to cross the Chan- nel from Douglas for the occasion. The evening will be concluded by the serving of refreshments. Mask Ball AUK BAY INN SATURDAY NIGHT 4 Prizes . BEST SUSTAINED CHARACTERS . . MOST COMICAL CHARACTERS . . . Music by Troychak Assisted by Admission 40¢ Albert Peterson LET" NEW HIKING BREECHES SIZES 22 TO 36 JLEADER DEPT. STORE . GEORGE BROS,. AR TP T T PR T T I T T e rers e rrereererteersrerreey both were | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1935. SEASON TICKET SALE FOR BALL GAMES STARTS President Holzheimer Buys‘I - First Decat as DeMolay Boys Begin Campaign The annual sale of season tickets for the City Baseball League start- ' ed this morning as President Will- iam A. Holzheimer purchased the first season ducat from the De-| |Molay boys, who are conducting | | the sale, under the direction of the| President. Lawrence Kerr, Secre- tary to District Attorney Holz-; heimer, bought the second ticket. The tickets sell for $5 and entitle the hclder to see all of the 36!} games to be played during the seascn, an average for the season of about 14 cents a me. It is! pointed out hy President Holz- heimer that it is much cheaper for! fans to buy a season ticket than! to pay a quarter for every game, the customary price to drop in the ' hat Efforts will ' be made by the bo; to cell at least 100 tickets dent Holzheimer has arranged tg |give the boys 10 per cent, or 50 cents cut of every ticket sold. If{ the geal is achieved, it would give the league $450 to start the season, buy baseballs and so on, the Da- |Moleys would have $50 for their | organization. All money, except the prize given |the boys for the ticket sale, goes toward keeping the league ope: !ing the President explainec salarie ng paid ic arv players officials. chedule for the season .anncunw:l by President Holzhcimer in the next day or two. ® e v 00000 . AT THF HOTELS e @00 0006000000 | Zynda Mrs. John W. Swets, O. Gunderson, Juneau. Gastineau J. B. Warrack, Juneau. Alaskan A. Thadeau, Tenakee. e TANANA DU The Alaska Steamshij Company’s tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock from Seattle. Forsaking his work in Germany as a film director for a similar post in Hollywood, Prince Sigvard Bernadotte of Sweden (center) has arrived in the southland with his actress bride, Erika Patzek, for whom he gave up his title. He is being greeted by Jean Hersholt (left), _ Danish film actor. (Associated Press Photo) ' NORTH STAR 10 .;::J COME BIREGTLY ‘ e Nor Affairs ship cisco yester of w men for 5 Alaska, settlement, it Ha G Lester Troast Don Erwin, anuska project, Matanuska stopping was learned today byland Watson by is e To Lead Lumber at First ! City, Juneau for Mata- nuska, Radio Talk Star, hich left with the first nd equipment headed come directly at Ketchikan of and Juneau to load lumber for the Bureau of In: San Fran- group will who talked to N. Alaska, telephone radio freighter Tanana is due at Dupont to Seattle this afternoon manager of the Mat- aboard the North GEORGE B. RICE RETIRES FROM BUSINESS T(lIlAY* 111 Health Causes Well Known Business Man to | Sell Interest in Firm | After nineteen years in the plumbing and heating business in | Juncau and Sitka, George B. Rice, |of Rice and Ahlers Company, to- | day announced his retirement from {the firm because of ill health. He hus sold his interest in thé corpora-~ ‘lion to his former partner, John L. Ahlers and the business will con- tinue in the name’of Rice and Ah- lers Company, under the direct management of Mr. Ahlers. Mr. Rice has been extremely in- terested in civic matters and served a number of terms on the City | Council in addition to being active in business affairs and an udvocate of keeping up with the times durmg the ten years since he moved here from Sitka. Previous to coming to Juneau, he was engaged in the mbing and heating business in or more than nine years. Plans Trip When Well Following the advice of his phys- ician, Mr. Rice will rest for about two months to recuperate from the ects of a severe case of influ- Star and will continue to Matanus- ka, Mr. Treoast said. The latt who has been n Washington, D. . working on the plans for build- s to be constructed in the Mat- ska Valley, plans to leave Seat- for Juneau on the Alaska sail- Star is not stopping at Seattle on its present trip, he said. ing his relatives hcme state, Virginia. “But it will only be a trip. Af-' Juneau. to anncunce any definite plans for terested dlems,” Mr. Rice said today. Gov. Troy, with whom Mr. Tro . Ah red last Sunday evening, ar € n the National Capitol by ne last week and while he is ex mely busy on T torial m: is in excellent health, N7 to Mr. Treast, who fie Washington to Seattle. resident of the Territory than twenty years and has been as- sociated in business with Mr. Rice since 1929, | — e | MRS. REFSLAND LhAVEs | Mrs. Martha B. Refsland, Asso- ciate Supervisor of elementary edu- | cation in the Bureau of Indian Af- fairs, left here for Sitka on the | Estebeth. | | More than "6,000,000 bodies are ectimated fg have been placed in PIRE WANT ADS PAY! the @atocombs of Paris. During the radic telephone con- versation with Seattle. Capt. Mayo, the Intelligence Section of the 13th Naval District, was introduced sent the Navy's greetings to “youll probably see more Navy later on,” he zaid of the M D BIRTHDAY GROUP OF (Special a which has kept him confined birthday group of the Skagway is home for the last several Women's As soon as his health per- party on Friday night, April 12, ts, he plans to make an extensive at'the A. B. Hall. in his ochle were the diversion for the ev- | ening. ter twenty-one years in Alaska, it is bridge were: nome to me, and as soon as I've gentlemen, Kenneth H. Blanchard; | bad my vacation I will return to high score for pinochle: I am nct ready just now Don Ingles, gentleman, J. McVey. the future, but I will always be in- ' committee in Juneau and its civic Ganty, Mrs. F. Thomes, Mrs. P. M. | Hern, Mrs. X is well known in Richter, Juneau business circles, has been a Pauline Selmer, and Mrs. F. D. for more Webster. on the Estebeth buying trip. | DAILY SMPIID LONG DECLARES PARTY LABELS MEAN NOTHING * Huey Says He'll Support Any Liberal 'No Matter What Ticket Runs‘On WASHINGTON, April 25.—De- |claring that “I don't give a damn ahout party labels” Senator Huey P. Long, of Louisiana, offered to support in the 1936 Presidential |campaign, Senator William E. | Borah, of Idaho, or any other ‘iman or a group of liberals includ- ing Senators Norris of Nebraska, |Nye of North Dakota, Wheeler of | Mcntana, Frazier of North Dakota, or Thomas of Oklahoma. “Nomination of one of these men will end the third party threat but if they don't do it, we'll have a third party that will split the old partlcs wide open,” Senator Long declared. | Senator Long emphas\zed his dis- regard for party labels with the declaration that' he will support any of those named “on Republi- can, Democratic, Socialist, Progri sive or any damn ticket he ruhs on.” COUGHLIN OPENS 'SOCIAL JUSTIGE PLAN CAMPAIGN Priest Explamns His Nation- | al Union Before Detroit Crowd of 17,000 DETROIT, Mich, April 25— J. Taylor, Mrs. E. H. pather Charles E. Coughlin led Mrs. F. Bookwalter, MISs|pjs National Union for Soclal Jus- tice into active participation in American politics last night. The priest promised the crowd which virtually filled the Olympia | Stadium, - seating 17,000, “to drive The Bandon left its berth at Ju- O4t ©f public life, men who have Henry V. Butler More than 250 ‘scouting, fightin, and bombing planes are g;:deg cumiE mand of Henry V. Butler, first commander of the Navy’s aircraft battle force to be accorded the rank of vnce admiral. This makes him one of the “big five” of the fleet | high command. SKAG. WOMEN’S CLUB HOLDS CARD AFFAIR SKAGWAY, Alaska, April 18—- correspondence) The Club sponsored a card Bridge and pln- The prizes won for high score at | lady, Mrs. P. I Dahl,| lady, Mrs. Refreshments were served by the| in charge: Mrs. P. H.| e BANDON LEAVES ! neau Commercial Dock at 11:15 o'~ |PTomised us redress and failed.” clock last night on the return trip | to Seattle. from here. The meeting was the first of a She took no passengers‘)smes of State conventions Father Coughlin proposes to call. On the speaker's stand were a R AT B | = | Protestant minister, a Jewish rab- MOSES RETURNS |bi, several liberal Senators and Henry Moses returned to Tenakee | gongressmen, and labor leaders. He is on a fur- - -—— Frank Metcalf, surveyor and for- mer City Engineer, took passage on !the E:tebeth for Hawk Inlet. . Goprigls 1985, The Americap Tobacoo Compasy. Never a bitter, undeveloped top leaf in me. Never a grimy, tough bottom leaf. I use only the fra- grant, mellow, expensive center leaves. . . the leaves that give you the mildest, best-tasting smoke. * I do not isritate your throat. No wonder I’m your best friend. v ", . . . " .