The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1935, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1935 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK. PEUG HURRY! | HEAR THE BOAT WHISTLE, WILL YOU SHuT UP AND GET ON THIS BOAT ? YOu CAN TALK LATER. MAGGIE: WiLL YOU LISTEN | | DALLAS, Texas, July 31.—Alas- kans will be invited to attend the Texas <Centennial Exposition at WE JUST MADE \T. WHERE WOULD WE BE IF IT WASNT FOR ME? By BILLIE DE BECK DINTY MOORE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON THIS BOAT? “cgmcz-4200 BANK ROBBER, ARRESTED HERE, HAS CONFESSED Paul Hursch Give; Seattlc Police Details of Two Holdups Paul P. Hursh, 37-year-old plas- terer, arrested several weeks ago by Juneau police and then extra- dited ‘to Seattle, confessed to the Seattle police He held up the Sea- | board Branch of the First National |manded $5,000 of Teller John DUr- ookeq inside to see what was the | Bank last. December 22 and the | First .Avenue ‘Branch of the Peo- ples Bank and Trust Company on | March 13 of this year. As men-| | T nad $500. the change. When ing it I got nervous without it. I caught a $2,000 at the First National Bsnk.“:m\l Hursh said he spent the money. |he from both robberies in “gambling jand and drinking.” | t and went to 908 East- “T stood in line with a bunch of [lake, where I was living. I counted people,” Hursh said in admitting | the money and found I had $1,800. the first holdup. “I gave a note m,o.n March 23 I went to Juneau, the teller asking him for $2,000 and |¥here I stayed until I was picked showed him a bottle which hadi!P water in it, but T said it was nitro- [ Captain Yoris said Hursh con- gylcerin. He handed me a pile of adily when confronted with money. Then T caught a bus to|ihe ¢ e against him. North 110th Street, where I was| Hurs living. “I counted the money and found \;\f fessed 1 lost his left eye, now re- by the artificial one which ) his capture, when he was a “In the middle of January I went to Alaska, and came back February o I The confessed bandit said he car- I had an air gun when I was a ried an automatic pistol and de- he said. “It got stuck and I kid went when he robbed the Peoples Bank March 13. |the eye.” “I left the bank after getting | scme money-and went through the ! | matter. It went off and hit me in D Try a bottle of Cobbs Creek. The police he held up the | banks because he “didn’t have any | ind was tired of living off | | | | | | | KETCHIKAN 1S VOTING TODAY Board of Control of Public! Utilities Being Se- lected, Election Citizens of Ketchikan are today| going to the polls to elect five members of the Ketchikan Public Utilities Board. At last reports the filings were as follows: For five-year term—Henry Er- wick, Edwin Jones and Axel Os- beérg. For four-year term—Walter B. King and S. H. Petersen. For three-year term—A. F. Bethe and M. J. Bucey. For two-year term — Percy C. Margaret Thulin Waley, 19, former Salt Like City, Utah, girl wil guard, Special Deputy U. 8. Marshal Lillian Holtz (right) leaving r :-d;‘r;l court building In Tacoma, Wash., right being sentenc 0 tioned in Assoclated Press dis-|Colman Building, through the Fed-|'scoop in blends, distilled by Con- patches received by The Empire, eral Office Building and then 0 2 | tinental Corporation. Distributed py | Charles and H. P. Hansen. | water and not nitroglycerin, was in store on First Avenue where I|wilbur Irving, telephone 10, ady.| FOr one-year term — w. K. the bottle with which Hursh threat- ‘bought a trench coat and leather - |Spaulding and C. J. Stoll. ened to “blow up the bank” unless | jacket,” Hursh said. f | TR, & w557 B adv. |Teller Gerald Tully turned over | “I handed the clerk a $100 bill| SHOP IN JUNEAU FIRST! DAILY EMFIRE WANT | | Imprisonment at Milan, Mich. for the $200,000 Geo kidnaping. Her husband, Harmon Waley, is servi catraz Island for his part in the crime, (Associated Pi We, 45-, Ph - ¢ 7 ‘ be distributed at Juheau, Skagway ALASKANS WILL and other Alaskan points. The| 8= | party will also go into the Yukon | g | Territory of Capada. i i BE |Nv‘ITED Tu { The Alaska-bound party will sail | for Juneau from Seattle August 6 and will remain in Alaska for a S IN 1936 = | The Texas Centennial Exposition {will be the main feature of the | T Lene Star State’s celebration of 100 | Frank Reedy Will Be iniyeus of independence and will commemorate the romantic history Ju neau Nex‘ Momh of Texas under the flags of Spain, on Expo Ballyhoo France, Mexico, the Texas Repub- lic, the United States and the Con- federacy, from the date of the landing of Cabeza de Vaca in 1528, over four centuries ago. Dallas in 1936 by ‘a delegation of | Reedy, who will carry the story Texans who will visit the far north- { 0f the Texas Centennial Exposition ern territory during < August and|to Alaska, first went to the north- early September this year. ern territory in 1895 and'since his Frank Reedy, of Dallas, member Teturn to the States has visited of Camp Skagway Lodge No. 1, ithem many times. He has numerous Arctic Brotherhood, will head the |friends throughout the “Territory party of Texans. Reedy will deliv- | Whom he will invite to the Exposi- er a personal invitation to attend |tion at Dallas. the exposition to Gov, John W,| - e - Troy of Alaska from Walter D.| Continental Whiskies are dis- Cline, managing director. Litera- | fributed throughout Alaska by Wil- ture describing the Exposition will ibur Irving. Telephone 10. e —— >) ADS PAY! REAL SPECIALS! 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