The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 1, 1935, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1935. The Weather (By the U, 5. Weaiher Bareau) Forecast for Junecn vielnity, begi g at 4 pm., June 1: Showers tonight and “Sunday; light to moderate southeast winds. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 2086 44 86 SE 9 <2091 43 84 SE 3 29.95 50 59 ] 12 RADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY | TODAY Highest 4p.m. | Lowest4am. 4am. Preclp. 4a.s, temp. temp. I temp. wmp velocity 24hrs. Wentlier g L' 4 40 0 Cear s 38 60 52 50 42 46 44 44 4“ ¢ Weather Lt. Rain Lt, Rain Cldy Time 4 pm. yest'y 4 am, today Noon today Men'’s Suits and Topcoat: The World’s Most l’upular Sellmg Clothes . MICHAEL-STERN’S SUITS len. Station Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert . Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco New York ‘Washington Cldy Clear Clear Clear Cldy Cldy Clear Rain Lt. Rain Cldy Rain Rain Pt.Cldy Cldy Cldy Clear Clear Qlear 32 34 4 42 34 42 Calm 38 42 4?2 44 42 49 52 52 52 52 56 60 Trm 0 44 r& J Trace 10 04 21 4 4 6 | 8 4 4 3 . fot Men and Young | | | = | L A 63 - 68 | 62 | L S| 6 | g | iy Priced at 54 $30.00 and $35.00 SHorts Regulars: 52 52 66 1 66 # 4 6 0 4 4 8 8 WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. Anchorage, clear, temperature, 50; Fairbanks, clear, 48; Nenana, tlear, 50; Hot Springs, clear, 50; Tanana, clear, 48; Nulato, cloudy, 40; Kaltag, cloudy, 33; Unalakleet, cloudy, 36; Ruby, clear, 52; Flat, cloudy, 40; Sitka, cloudy, 49; Soapstone, cloudy, 52; Skagway, cloudy, 46; Ketchikan, cloudy, 43; Craig, raining, 48; Wrangell, misting, 45. WEATHER S YNOPSIS At observation time, low barometric pressure prevailed over the Gulf of Alaska, interior, and Mackenzie River Valley. . High bar- ometer readings were noted -throughout the Pacific Coast States and Aleutian Islands. This general pressure distribution has been attend- ed by precipitation gver the coastal regions from Cordova to Ore- Stouts . . Semi-Stouts Short-Stouts . Long . a : = Q i Wgemnwy three blocks from the Lowell School in Tagoma, where Gebrge “to,meet his sister, Anne, qntl the fzmily chauffeur to go home for hunch. HANGS ON CROSS . COLORS—Browns, greys and many shades of blues and pin strips TOPCOATS in Blue and Grey with Full Belt $25.00 and $30.00 B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. “Juneaw's Leading Department Store” JUNEAU, YOUNG MEN . LEAVE TUESDAY ON CEORGE WEYERHAEUSER, NINE YEAR OLD VICTIM OF KIDNAPERS, GIVEN Joe Sterling and Walter Scott k| | LONG MOTOR- T-RIP,‘ % HANGS ON CROSS | {near here. HIS FREEDOM EARLY THIS MORNING (Continued 1rom accounts of the search .being napers. House Near Issaquah George said he believed t was about one and one-half mi The boy said his uncle, F. ransom shortly before his release. “Your pa will pick you up, lare leaving Tuesday' on the Alice for a three months’ trip to the cor- ners of the United States. They ex- pect to purchase a car in Seattle |and drive down the Pacific Coast Page One,) | to Southern kcn:n!ornla and Fthl:exx;ce P i ‘ is kid- |over the southern route to rida. made for him and b | From there they will drive north up the Atlantic Coast. to New York City and come west over the north- he house he was confined in|ern route to Seattle and back to les north of Issaquah. ”““““' Rodman Titcomb, paid the| HONOR .IUNEAU WGMEN AT TEA, LUNCHEON George said he was tol as he was let out on a road about four miles from Issaquah. | anm z‘MC‘ATIQfl& Jungle-Like Woods It was in a tangle, almost jungle- like country maze of woors, paved and dirt roads, small hamlets and| small farms, that George was re- leased. It had rained during the nwm‘ the grass was wet and the air was cold when George was dumped! from the automobile across Lake Washington from Seattle. George trudged along the until he came to a lighted house. I'm the Kidnaped Boy George approached the farm| house, rapped at the door and when | it was opened by Boniface, timidly said: “I'm the little boy who was kid- naped.” Boniface has a daughter about the same age as George. When they saw his clothes were wet, they disrobed him and dried the clothes 50 he would not catch cold. When | the clothes were dried, Bonifage started out with the boy for his Tacoma home. Met by Newsman i Outside of Tacoma, the farmer and the boy were met by Dreher who spotted the Ford and then directed his taxi driver to over- take the man and the kidnaped boy. Flagging Boniface to halt, Dreher thanked him and offered to rush the boy to his home in his more speedy vehicle. Boniface agreed readily and ask- | ed for his daughter’s shoes which | were taken off George's feet and returned to the farmer. Dreher then put the boy in the taxi and rushed him to his home| in Tacoma. road farm RANSOM WAS PAID TACOMA, Wash,, June 1—George Weyerhaeuser's statement that the ransom was paid for his release by his uncle, F. Rodman Titcomb, was confirmed late today in a declara- | con retreated into the mansion Ilt- kldnaper; “who forced him to wn]k several miles home. No one could | Honoring Mrs! K 18 be found who would or could say Ms. Walter Whitd, (nd‘ where or when the ransom money | Goss, who will _leaye shortly for | was paid. the south, Mys. Vasiey Dugdueff en- g o tertained with. a tea yesterday. af- " ternoon at her studio in tm Gold- KIDNAPED BOY ‘v Thirty=two. ; guests. were. presem and the tables were tastefully deco- |rated in yellow and white and were | presided over by Mrs. Nora Chase, Mrs. Katharine Hooker while Miss Audrey . Dudueff served. Music was enjoyed during the afternoon. The three .women members of the Juneau Woman's Club were 'Statement Is Issued by Spokesman for Abduct- ed Boy s Family, | tes anda tuips and tapers formea | the table decoration, cm Pnge one) | Mrs. Hermann is leaving on the ——- | North Sea, Mrs. White on June 16 the offers of heip. |and Mrs. Goss about the middle of The statement was signed by Mr. the month for vacations in the and Mrs. J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr. | states. honored at a luncheon this week After reading the statement, Bal-| given' by ‘Mrs, J. M. Clark.- Covers weype laid for 11, including the hos- (Continued 1x - \WALKOUT SITUATION nu. QUIET TODAY ! Mayq Iudore ledsxem md this morning he had received .rio, mare, | petitions asking him to call a meet- Enjoying the round-trip on the|iPg ofthe ity Oounail for the pur- Ahislga from Juneau to Skagway | Pofe of formulating plans for a pro- are Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lake, Mr.|Posed vote of all A, J. mine em- Lake is President of the W. J, Ployees on the guestion, of :return- Lake Company, a distributing con-|ing to owork. The Mayor. said he cern. had not called such.a meeting and o s | wotild ‘make no announcement un- CHADWICK LEAVES til all'the petitions had been given W. H. Chadwick, representative him. lof the United States Rubber Com-| The inion met.last night and is pany, left for Haines on the Al-|scheduled .for..another session. at aska. 7 o'clock tonight. The situation remains quiet. VANMAVERN TRAVELS er saying he did not know whether | the boy was in bed or not. 1 Asked if pictures could be Laken of the boy, Balcon lephed “Posi- tively not at this time.” - - LAKES JOURNEY .- Accused of aceosting a Juneau white woman on the street, Charles | Howard, an Indian, was sentenced to 90 days in the Federal Jail to- ~A. VanMavern, West Coast Gro- day by U. S. Commissioner J. F.|cery Company agent, is a passenger tion of an authentic source that Titcomb’s auto was taken by the Mullen on a charge of disorderly on the Alaska from Juneau to conduct. | Haines, i .. JQHN . PHILIP vk aRAeOER s ro 2y When the terrible news of the kidnaping for ranccin of her 9- year-cld con wao ‘revealed to Mre. Jchn' Philip Weyerhnll or, she collap.-d. Little George Weyerhaeuser, a curly-auburn- haired’ clender ycuth, was ab- ducied while hurrying - home from his own ccheol to a near- by -s-mincry,: where his ¢lder sister, Ann, 11, was o jein him for ‘the ride home in the fam- ily ‘eaf. . There ave two other chi'dioh in ' the Yeyerhacuser family beside George and Ann. The grief u-mzq mother iden- tified her, scn’s name scrawled cn the: back of.the enyelope | ¢cntaining the $200,000 ransom deunml 70 REGAIN LOVE, ESTRANGED WIFE iNorth Car(;ii_n; : Man Gets' Son to “Crucify” Him in Effort to Impress Wife uys.fone t HIGHPOINT, N. ¢, June 1.—J R. Riggs, 36, filling station op- erator, found nailed to a cross He confessed author- ities said, that he had arranged for his 15-year-old son to “crucify” him in hopes of causing his estranged wife to return to him. The boy, authorities said, was Don- ald Riggs, son by a previous mar- riage. “Riggs admitted he made the cross himself and got the naiis and wire and everything,” author- ities said, in explaining that it is hard to find a law under which to prosecute Riggs. The boy will be turned over to juvenile authorities. ¥ A Walls, who was passing along the road, came upon the scene about 5 am. and called po- lice and .an ambulance. Riggs was clad only in underwear. Walls and police removed the nails and Riggs was carried to the hospital. His condition is not serious. Bl B NG MINE WORKERS J. P. WEYERHAEUSER, JR. Father of the young vietim of the Northwest’s first Kidnap plot. RlCHMOND HEAD OF COMMERCIAL FIRM, VISITS CITY TODAY While the Alaska was in port today, the city was visited by Mr. and Mrs. Volney Richmond. Mr. Richmond, one of the leading busi- TANGLE; WARRANT ' ls OUT FOR ONE ness men of the Territory, is the R President of the Northern Com- corge Rutsala, mine worker, has mercial Company, operator of many becn charged with assault and bat- trading posts and stores in the tery in a charge filed in U. 8. Interior. Commissioner, J. F, Mullen’s court The Richmonds make their home today, The complaint was sworn to in Seattle, but they are on a one- by Gearge Discombe, another mine month business trip now. They are worker, who declared that Rutsala ticketed for Skagway on. the Al- struck him with his fists and kicked aska, From there, they will go him. He was treated at the hospital. into the Interior via the Yukon District Attorney William Holz- River. heimer in filing the information Richmond will return to; the against Rutsala said Discombe had States when the Aleutian makes been circulating a petition which her southbound run with the Se-! expressed dissatisfaction with the attle Chamber of Commerce dele- present .mine workers' union and 8ations aboard next month. proposed a change. There also was R e B0 9T 0 1 18 some _personal animosity between MRS. HERMANN LEAVING the two mien, the District Attorney FOR SUMMER IN STATES, reported. | gon and most of interior Alaska, while fair weather prevailed over Southwest Alaska. It was cooler while temperature changes were u this morning in Southwest Alaska, nimportant elsewhere. TWO BROTHERS ARE EXECUTED BY LETHAL GAS Slayers Pay_Penalty for, Murder—Drop Their Air of Btavado CANON CITY, Colo., June 1.— Both smiling slightly, Louis Pach- eco, aged 37, and his brother John, aged 25, were executed in the lethal gas chamber at the Colorado Peni- tentiary last night. The Pachecos were the first pair of brothers ever executed in Colo- |rado. They died in adjoining chairs | as they inhaled the poisonous fumes which soon filled the small room. The two brothers were put to death for the slaying of Clifford Smith, Wellington rancher, in 1934, They were also accused of shooting to death Smith’s chore boy, Bobby Griffin but were tried only for the one killing. ado a couple of hours before their gas execution. LT S S LAUNDRY EQUIPMENT ARRIVES Laundry equipment for the Pio- neers’ Home at Sitka arrived on the Alaska from the Troy Laundry Machinery and Supply Company | and will be unloaded Monday at Sitka where it will be installed by Robert Kahrs of Juneau. The equipment arrived a week earlier than expected. . | The men dropped the air of brav- | CARPENTERS PRESENT PROPOSALS, CONTRACTORS Carpenters did not report to work |on the construction ef the third |story to the Imperial Rooms on 'Front Street this morning, as the |result of a dispute between men and the contractor. City contractors were presented a8 list of proposals by the Car- penters . Union. this week, These \pmpo;nls included: 40-hour week, ‘eigm -hour day; $1.20 an hour for | journeymen, 70 cents an hour for apprentices; union carpenters on &ll jobs; July 4, Labor Day and Christmas Day as holidays; observ~ ance of Federal, Territorial and city ordinances; agreement to last one year. . SAM JACKSON DIES Sam Jackson, four-year-old In~ dian lad and son of Mrs. Willie |Jackson, died at the Government | Hospital at 4 o'clogk, this morning from tubercular meningitis after receiving treatment at the hospital for the last ten days. Funeral ar- |rangements are being made by the le. W. Carter Morutary, Services for the hoy will be held lon Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock in the Russian Church chapel in the Native Village, the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff officjating. . S BT STOP OVER HERE Although tickefed. as round-trip passengers on the Alaska, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Guiry and Mrs. G, Tur- geon will visit in Juneau for a week before retumlng south, They will take the Alaska south an its next run. The ‘Guirys are from &t. Paul, Minn, and Mrs. Turgeon is from Superior, Wis, Mrs. R. R. Hermann s leaving on | Rutsala had not been arrested to- the North' Sea for Seattle where day but he was expected to be in she will spend the summer months town tomorrow. He is reported to at Fauntleroy Beach. She will be have gone to Olivers Inlet on a accompanied by her daughter and fishing trip. son, Barbara and Roy ELSTAD SUCCEEDS F. 5. SCOBEE HERE Bt - Blitad,: who *has Been for many * yedrs: thei owheriof the Pé- tersbirg ‘Press of Petersburg, ‘took charge of the Mutual Benefit sick- ness«and ‘accident'and United Bene- it I#e Compahies commencing to- day, uceeeding: F. S. Scobee who is the ‘orgamizer for' the above com- panies’ in-Alaska, opening offices in this eity' November 1, 1931. Mr./Eistad has also been repre- senting ‘the companies working for Mr, Scobee since His first arriving in ‘the ‘Territory as resident agent in PBetersburg, Wrangell and Ket- chikah: Mr#Elstad stated that the head office«'0f - his companies will be retained. in the same place in the 'Old First., National Bank building and that, Miss Jepnie Hammer will succeed Mrs. Scobee upon her leay- mg for Vapcouver B'C, u join r. Boobee, wha'is now organizing Mj}ng the aba\u com- agzency throughout British 'z?a Mrs. Scopee plans to leave, ukeau about the middle of the ‘mion| Sitka business , woman, is returning to that port as & passenger from lsm.ue on the North Sea Let the kiddies lead you 'to us for delicious fee Creami, served on the lawn or on glass- enclosed porch. Tce Créam by the dish or in cones . . Home Made Cake. Ice Cream packed for picnics at no extra charge @ See the PAA planes arrive and ‘leave. THE ALASKA DAIRY On the Highway Joseph Kendler, Prop. P‘a‘cifi' Coast Coal Co P i LUMP CLEAN——HOT Clean Hot Fire—in a fl of the United States Go' year. FOB SATURDAY SPECIAL APEX BEER, case'.. $3 A Hond | prmgRs 0 o For Quick Spring Fires INDIAN "BE6" COAL ECONOMICAL A Hand Picked and Processed Coal that gwes a e o yek3dy ash. You can do no better than follow the leadership vernment, who use thou- sands of tons of Indian Egg Lump Coal every $12.50 Per Ton Bunkers W PHONE 412 Closed Satm‘days at 1 P, M.