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

8 CHAMBER MEETS TOMORROW; WILL HEAR SPEECHES Sargent, Brewster to Ad- dress Commerce Group | at Bailey's Cafe [ After a break in its vy lun-| cheon meetir routine last Thurs- day when Memorial Day obsery- ance caused cancellation of session for that day, Juneau Chamber of Comme ven: tomorrow noon Bai Cafe. Two high-ranking government of- ficials, both well-known men' in the Territory, will speak, and the Cham- ber, during the business n. portion plan ider informa the meeting, will c operation of a tour booth this summe; family i of the last four years, kidnapin; of the decade—has dipped into some R. H. Sargent, C natched a child as its victim. Major kidnipings all, records of these disclose that the chil- with the United been treated with a cruelty rarely equaled in &ny adult kidnapings. In 1932, the avalanche’of Survey, and Lyman S n »d when little Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr,, (left), was n from his crib. In 1933, it was Reindeer Superintendent United States T Interior, will addur Sargent arrived h Peg McMath (wearing in 1934, year-old June Robles (second from right); and added of th the list W nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser (right), son of the millionaire Tacoma, Wash., lum- tycoon. In none of the closed cases did the tender years of the victim elicit consideration from the kid- s except in the We haeuser case. The murder of the Lindbergh baby is one of the most vieious examples of the kidnapers' disregard for the child-victim's life. Snatched from his sleep while ill with hat with a drom Seattle,on the Yi a cold, he was taken down the crude, rickety ladder to his death. The Robles child spent three tortur- party of, ‘Geolog Urvey Men.| o, weeks in a “grave-house” in the Arizona desert, chained to an underground, narrow box. Taken from The rest of the p continued N oo 51 in Harwichport, Mass., by Kenneth Buck in May of 1933, Peggy McMath was led to an automo- to the Westward Sargent will| pile, bound, gagged and blindfolded and thrown into a cranberry shack., She was released two days map Admiralty I i la after a ransom of $60,000 was paid. Li > George's elperience at not being mistreated is the Brewster is A > | exception and Fe er .- aomemonen ———— thori 1 i on other returning were A s 4 bound n Monday lc Nancy 5 % lceman Wins Kissing Derby of the Caamber m , Sitk ered a ations for the position Sn al here | of information booth manager for|frcm left on a a taree-month period this summer. 1 Inlet to| It is likely that recommendat in B. Flory and stopped | for the mber’s ratification will [at 1 y be made tomorrow. - | Althorp. Outbound passeng were | Be Kalley and Pete Samarzich | for Chichagof Aft s return to Juneau from Port Althorp and Kim- Second Weekly Plane from c o’k Fairbanks Due Today | ol e o L —Return Friday let with Mr. and Mrs. W. S vich a enger tbanks 3 o'clock afternoon at Yesterday the Pacific heed Vega Ellis, Flight er, arrived Ketchikan base on its w north from the First Cily Pilot | Ellis left here to return to Ke chikan at 3:45 with J. J. Mehc as a passen for Wrangell R. W. McCr McCrary is PAA and will pany work i L AL noon the PAA F Pilot Alex Holden and Flig | chanic Jarman, returned here from |cis its weekly trip to Sitka and® way |le points. Terr Audit t A. Boyle round trip to Sitka and! ilot R Paul Br from ly Mechanic & ! B il its [neau PAA Airport > Elect at 4 c'clock. Tt bank: in trip hi at 10 tead of is the e, accordin Repr ra aluminum Inte fic ry for Ketchikan man radio with the | due eave, if alterns f eom- <> - NCEMAN BANFIELD BACK FREOM SITKA ON | Norman Banfield, wiio 1 with H. L. ? law office, Patricia Richt Bill Haapla returned on Bill Haapla, winner of the iceman’s race for the prize of a kiss from' Pacific Alaska Airway’s Fair- | a beautiful housewife, was rewarded by Patricia Richt, queen of the aplane ‘rom a shc si- | carnival held at Seattle, Wash,, to interest citizens in the city’s parks, s trip to Sitka yesterday W senger on the flight pas- | a Weigh all factors L] judge for yourself Master De Luxe Sedan HE new Master De Luxe MOST FINELY BALANCED LOW-PRICED CAR _EVER BUILT CHEVROLET fect combination of the most de- sired motor car advantages of the day. Yet it sells at much lower prices and gives much greater operating economy than any other think of eomparing with it! See this car— motor car you would drive it—at your carliest con- venience. CHEVROLET MOTOR COMPANY DETROI'T, MICHIGAN Compare Chevrolet's low delivere . M. A. C. terms { - 1 General Motors ¥ alue KREE-ACTION COMFORT DEALER ADVERTISEMENT CHOOSE CHEVROLET FOR QUALITY AT LOW COST Master b te CHEVROLE - Connors Motor Co., Inc. JUNEAU ASKA {mateur Radio Operators Get Aid For Man Shot 1 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 5. Amateur Radiophone operators, co- cperating with the Signal Corps, brought a message yesterday that Gus Jensen, a trapper and fisher- man of Iliamna, accidently shot R Dickson left in_ his; plane for tk Jensen to t Tae m Geor o 400 mile trip to rush hospital here. 1ge was sent out by Mrs. ams of Iliamna and amateur Tom Pratt at who relayed it here. R 'WURKS PROGRAM LIASON OFFICER IS DESIGNATED {§E. Pegue;N;med to Ac- quaint Public with Infor- mation Regard Projects Designation of John E. Pegues. Territorial Director of the Natignal y Emergency Council,-as liason offic- ial in connection with the Works Program initiated by the recent cengressional appropriation, has been announced by Frank C. Walker, the executive director of the NEC. To Mr. Pegues, whose offices are in the Shattuck Building in Juneau, has been assigned the responsibility of making available to the public all pertinent information relating to the Works Program, including an understanding of the fundamental principles recognized by the Presi- dent in determining eligibility of prcjects for inclusion in that pro- Naknek ns desiring to obtain infor- concerningz the functions maticn and activities of any or all Fed- eral agencies in the Territory which may be using funds allotted for the ‘Works program may do so by call ing upon, or wiring though he will not receive any ap- plications for funds, he will be glad to tell what type and character of work relief projects are eligible for consideration under the Works Pro- gram and where applications and recommendations can be presented and expeditiously acted upon. He will also assist the public to con- tact the federal agencies receiving applications and recommendations concerning the several types of pro- Jects. Mr. Pegues. Al- e PSRN LYMAN S. PECK NOW ENROUTE TON. Y. C. Lyman 8. Peck, Vice President and General Manager of the Pa- cific Alaska Airways, who left here recently for the south, boarded a plane for Los Angeles last evening on his way to New York City, ac- cording to word received here by A, B. Hayes, Traffic Representa- tive. Mr. Peck expects to be absent from the Territory for the next *mree months on company business. He will return north in the early {part of September according to his ! present plans. 3 N { Cash Payment of Bonus to Go Over {To Next Congress | ksl WASHINGTON, June 5.— Repieseniatives of the Amer- ican Legion and Veterans of F.:cign Wars have decided to | stiek to the last against any move to dclay the campaign for ! a cach payment of the bonus | omtit next session. ISTOCK MARKET | SEES CONTEST, BEARS, BULLS Number of Issues Up Frac- tionally to More than | Two Points Today ! NEW YORK, June 5—Bulls on utility shares and Bears on non- ferrous metals contested for con- trol of the trend of prices at the session today. with the Bulls get- ting a slight edge on the market. The close was irregularly higher with a number of issues up frac- ltmns to more than two points al- though the final prices were gen- erally under the day’s best. Sales today totaled over 1,000,000 shares. CLOSING PRICES TODAY | NEW YORK, June 5.—Closing quotations of American Can today is 127, American Power and Light' 4, Anaconda 15%, Bethlehem Steel 20%, Butte Copper and Zinz, no sale; General Motors 30%, Inter- national Harvester 392, Kennecott 18%, United States Steel 32%, Pound, $4.94%, Bremmer bid 63, asked 67, Nabesna hid 57 asked 66, Black Pine Silver bid 35 asked 38. 0.7 CORNWELL. | PASSES AWAY SEATTLE, June 5—Member of the first State Legislature, Oliver T. Cornwell, aged 72, of Walla Walla, passed away here. | - GOV JOHN W. TROY IS | BOUND FOR SEATTLE | BYPLANEFROMSOUTH | Gov. John W. Troy left Los An- |geles by plane yesterday bound for | Seattle on his way home after an ~absence of nearly two months. He texpected to stop over in Portland, Oregon, to visit his granddaughter, Joan Morgan, before continuing to Seattle, and will come north on an early steamer. | After his arrival in Seattle from Juneau in April, Gov. Troy flew to Washington, D. C, where he spent two weeks conferring with |department heads regarding Ter-| ritorial business. Upon his return| {;u the Pacific Coast he visited San Diego where he was joined by Mrs. Troy and attended the opening of the exposition. He later visited his sister, Mrs. Iver S. Stone in Long Beach. | CITY CLERK IS TO HAVE NEW OFFICE A new room is being added to the GCity .Clerk’s office at City Hall. It not only will tend to re- lieve congestion in the original of- fice, but will provide space for & conference room. It is expected to be completed this week. You, too,.can utilize w. JUNEAU-Y ! tractive room by using CELOTEX. | CELOTEX builds, insulates, decorates and subdues noise — a many purpose material—at a single price. tractive finish which required no additional decoration. Many useless attics are being converied into modern living quarters at low cost now.. See us for estimates in remod:ling your attic. stock for immediate delivery. e i i KIDNAPER WINS COMMUTATION & On the day befcre his thirtieth birthday Walter McGee (right), convicted and sentenced to hang for the kidnaping of Mary Elroy, - was informed in the Kansas City jail by Sheriff T. B. Bash (left) that his sentence had been commutted to life imprisonment by Gov. Guy B. Park of Missouri. McGee said, “the Governor couldn’t have given me a better birthday present.” (Associated Press Photo) GUNMAN STILL ALIVE [scn;:: b oo Tttt vy BUT IS GIVEN LITTLE (5 o o e e e st sits as a guard at his bedside. M{'— CHANCE TO RECOVER tending physicians said there was little or no chance for his recowe | ; ery. > | Still alive late this afternoon but % with diminishing hopes for his re-| In the meantime a charge of & covery, Axel Sidoroff, who Monday sault with intent to kill has begh amuck with a gun Street district, in is uncon- the filed against him in Commissioner’s Court. ran Twelfth B. P. 0. ELKS Installation of Officers TONIGHT 8P. M. June 5 HENRY MESSERSCHMIDT, Installing Officer REFRESHMENTS LUNCH aste space in your, home and make a comfortable, at- Its unique texture and natural eolor provide an at- We carry CELOTEX in OUNG HARDWARE (0.