The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 26, 1935, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, NOV. 26, 1935. I ||I!|II IHIIIIIIIHIIIIIIlIlIIIlIlIIHlHHNHHHI||IIIIIIIIHII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|HlllllllII|HIIIIIlIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII- Set a Smart Table for Thanksgiving ! t.... Lovely Linens as ihe right background is so imporian informal as you please . . . . at very attractive prices. formal or as Hemstitched Table Linen with 6 Napkins $7.50 and $8.75 Hemstitched Linen Cloth With 8 Napkins 10.50, $12.50, $14.50 R RO A HAND HEMMED LINEN CLOTH WITH 12 NAPKINS—Prices ranging from 19.50 to $42.50 FILET and STRINGLACE CLOTHS, $5.95 T IllIIIIIIHIIIIHIIII|IIII|IH|IIIIIHNIII|I!H|IIIIIlllIIIII|lII|||HI||IIHIIIIHIIIH T T LT TABLE PADDING, 54 in. wide, $1.00 vard QUILTED TABLE PADDING, 54 in. wide, China and Glass Ware Di pluy U pstairs B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. Juneau’s Leading Department Store = @ STORE CLOSED ALL DAY THANKSGIVING e e T LYNCH TALK Chicago Beauty “Files” Hosiery IS HEARD IN CALIFORNIA Fresno Residents Looking for Slayer of as the police the killer of 14-year old N mer, shot to death th dow as she sat befor: in her home. No trace of has been found and no clues have been reaveled. CONCILIATORY BOARD DEBATES GULF TROUBLE First Meehng Seeks to Bring Peace to Water- front—14 Lives Lost N 1y king Gulf been w fireplace slayer HOUSTON, Tex ecneili ought hav led & the horemen's to- | ber 1 The board today The four Gulf of which the trouble striking for union are the only por that are not of the Intern: Association ———— « Live Wue lels Don MEDFORD, O by Mrs. Fred Manch( ster of Me ford bit through the insulation of live wire and was instantly killed. longs lkout Patsey Shay first meeting | Patsey Shay, recognized as the possessor of a pair of the most at~ tractive legs in Chicago, keeps Rer silk hosiery in a “library” where her stockings are catalogued in boxes simulating books with names which provide a key to the color of the hose. holds its Mexico | cente ar nition. The MINER CAUGHT CAVE-IN Kansas supplies more volcanic Pinned under half a ton of dirt, ash, used for abrasives, young quartz min- powder and soaps, k, Fairbanks, and never had a voleano. mbers. Injuries | lina, riously sprained sentences. et e SHOP IN JL'NI'.‘Al'. FIRST! SHOP IN JUNEAU! lIIWIHHIIHmWIHIHIII!IHHIINIIIIIIHIIIHIIIIIIIIHIIIINIIIBI“IIIIII!IMHIII“II REPORTED SEEN AT DISTURBANCE Many Witnesses Testify ito| Seeing “Irish Confet- ti”" in Evidence (Continued from m‘ One.) and again it may take a long time.” Nelson said Nygren had previously the Union Hall the morning of June 24, the day of the alleged riot. Both Nygren and Heard were talk- ing about the pending march of men wishing to go to work the following day which had been announced in the papers, the witness testified, | when they made the reputed state- ments. Nelson said a third man, whom he did not know, stated after Nygren was finished: “When you come to- morrow be sure and have on your heavy boots.” Faulkner on Stand Asked on cross examination if he had any idea where the 600 guns were coming from, the witness re- pned “I don't know but F'can imag- e.” The matter was dropped 'at that point. | H. L. Faulkner, prominent Juneau attorney, and Clarence l‘erguson\ were others called early this after- noon. Mr. Faulkner told of asking Mentur Peterson, one of the defend- ants, in the corridor of the Federal| Building his name. When Peterson told him, Paulkner' said he asked him if he had teken a club away from a special officer during the al- leged riot. Peterson replied that he had, the witness said, and he took‘ him to the Marshal's office where| he swore to a complaint against| Peterson charging him with resist-| ing an officer. Mr. Faulkner said | the incident occurred in the aner- noon of the day of the trouble and! { ROCKS, BRICKS ’lslcfing at the A. J. office. {of seeing Al Nygren, President of Mine told the union men to assemble at|" defendant Dupree was able to namell:xrgc number of hands were raised was Simon Graner, who, he said,|in answer to the questions. Corey was trying to keep men from reg- | testified yesterday that it was Niel | He told Heard, then Secretary of the Alaska Workers Union, who put the quastion, but Hedges said today he did not know who the man was. Heard left Juneau a couple of] moenths ago after being convicted ahead. It is the contention of the of criminally libelling Mayor Isa-| sovernment that the union men did | dore Goldstein in an article appear- run on ahead and form a human |ing in the Alaska Labor Dispateh | barricade in the street near the un- ' of which he was editor. ion hall. ! The first witness this morning was | Attorney Banfield said he saw men Mrs. Joe I. Campbell, who told of! with rocks and one man ‘with his|witnessing some of the trouble on hands taped but did not know who | Front Street, from the sewing room they were. Banfield told of being|in the Roy Rutherford residence.| 2t the A. B. Hall the morning of the | She was calling on Mrs. Rutherford disturbance and said Al Nygren |at the time, she explained. Mrs. truck his head out of a window of | Campbell told of seeing a man with the hall and called to the people in'a bolt in his hand and also some the street to come on in as it was men with what appeared to her to 1 public meeting. It is the conten- be hammer handles in their hands. tion of the government and it has She said she was saw what appeared been testified by several witnesses | to be an attempt at a second block- that the meeting was only for those |ade but that it failed. en who wanted to return to wor Late Yesierday 1t the mine which had been shu:| Witnesses late yesterday afternoon down following the walkout. were Joe Waite, Bill Karabelnikoff, Tells of Enccunter W. W. Bergstrand and L. R. Hogins. The witness explained the encoun- | They corroborated much of the tes- ter near the union hall on Front |timony that had been previously giv- Street as he saw it and told of hear- |en. Bergstrand named Beavert as ng U. S. Marshal William T. Ma- |2 defendant he had seen fighting honey admonish the men not to|With Ted Danielsen and pointed to .auze trouble and to clear the street ' Harry Datoff as the man who struck which, he said, they refused to do.|Danielsen over the head with a club, Banfield testiied that he had helped | He pointed to Mentur Petersen as the Marshal in the arrest of pmnk\nne of the defendants he saw run- Agoff, a defendant, but denied that RiNg with a club in his hand. he had aided Bob Corey, anothe" Witness Hogins identified Ed Ren- pezial officer in taking Agoff to jail |nie and Simon Graner as defend- as Corey testified vesterday. Bantield | 4nts he had seen active in the trou- said it was Alex Datoff that he es-|ble. He said Rennie drew an imag- corted to the city jail on the day of | Iary line with his foot dcross the the alleged riot. The witness said |Street near the saw mill and told there was interference with the men | the men with him. “Let’s not let a registering at the A. J. office bm‘dnnm one pass that line.” Graner, did not identify any of the defend- |the witness said, was active in keep- ants as connected with it. He re- | Ig the men from registering at the sounted seeing Jesse Paine, one of | A- J. office. the marchers’ struck, also Albert | Government Rests Norman, another marcher, but did; The Government rested its case at not know the persons who hit them.: 3:30 °°lDCk this afternoon. T CHINA CLIPPER the ~Alaska Mine Workers Union, | near the Nugget Shop, running alongside the marchers and calling to union men to drop out and go on door man at the A. B.'Hall and that | Al Nygren got by him on the pre- | following the street disorder. text that he was going into the ha.h‘ to warn those inside about too big ia crowd as the hall might be |m- HMIIIMIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIHHIIHM“IIIMWMH_‘ In the early days of North Caro- burning at the stake was an fficial manner of inflicting death MORNING SESSION | ‘Rocks and bricks were in evldence, during 'the alleged riot on Lower | Front Street last June 24, according | | to testimony of witnesses this morn- | |ing at the trial in PFederal district | court of 25 men charged with rioting | on that date. No one of the wit- \ nesses who testified to seeing L)w\ “Irish confetti” was able to identify any one they saw use either a brick or a rock as a weapon though one witness claimed he had heard several threats. Frank Jackson, an Alaska Juneau employee and one of the men who served as door man at the A. B. Hall to register for'employment the morn- ing of the trouble; Norman Banfield, Juneau attorney and a special officer on the day of the disturbance, and Bob Dupree, an A. J. employee and one of the marchers, were the wit- nesses who testified to seeing the ones and bricks. Heard Threats Dupree, a resident of Douglas, said b2 saw a number of men, who he | c’aimed were union men, with rocks (and bricks or half bricks in their | hands, threatening those who wanted {to go to work but did not aetually | see any used as a wenpon The only safe. Later, he said, Nygren smck his head out of a window and shout- | ied to everyone outside to come in. 1 The witness identified C. W. Farlin’| s one of the def«ndants he had| sen with a rock in his hand in the | cinity of the power house near the | A. J. office. Te:timony that he had seen Har:y Datoff, a defendant, hit Ted Dan- ielsen, President of the Juneau Mine | Workers Association, over the head | with a club was given by Everett |E. Smith, who also served as door | man at the A. B. Hall and was in| the line of marchers. Smith de-| clared that Warren Beavert, Ed Ren- from where the marchers left to g0 nie and Datoff, all defendants, were way Island at an average speed of in an argument with some nonv'i union men near the sawmill when Datoff struck Danielsen with the club. On cross examination, the witness said he recalled that Datoff had blood on his face as if he, too, had been in some encounter. With Corey Frank Hedges, another witness. said he was the man who accom- panied Bob Corey to the union hall a few evenings before the alleged riot and heard a man address the meeting and ask how many had guns and clubs and also how many would use them if furnished. He said & Philippine Clipper, is making prep- MAKES LANDING ATWAKE ISLAND Flies ll9| Miles from Midway Island'in 8 Hrs., 28 Min. WAKE ISLAND, Nov. 26. — The China Clipper .landed here from Midway Islands, enroute to Manila, after having flown 1,191 miles in eight hours and 28 minutes. The clipper made the previous 1;- 323 miles from Honolulu to Mid- 174 miles an hour. Twenty-one persons, employees bound to the island bases of the Pan-American line, are aboard the | China clipper, which also carries 1,700 pounds of mail and supplies. She is manned by a crew of nine. Meanwhile, her sister ship, the arations in Alameda for a takeolf | tc Manila on Dzcember 6. - Among the 20 capital crimes colonial North Carolina were bi lamy and the circulation of sedi- tious hter:\ture | U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., November 26: Rain tonight and Wednesday; moderate to fresh southeast winds. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 29.51 43 90 SE ;g 29.85 44 85 SE 14 29.74 43 87 SE 14 CABLE AND KADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY | TODAY Highest 4pm. | Lowestdam. 4am. Precip. 4am. temp. temp. ; temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Weather Time 4 pm. yest'y 4 am. today Noon today Weathe Lt. Rain Lt. Rain Lt. Rain Station Anchorage Barrow Nome ... Bethel Fairbanks Dawson . St. Paul . Duteh Harbor Kodiak .. Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan £ Prince Rupert ... Edmonton Seattle Portland ... ¥ San Francisco % | New York ‘Washington ... | WEAI‘HER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. Ketchikan, raining, temperature 42; Wrangell( raining, 42; Sitka raining, 45; Skagway, cloudy, 40; Radioville, raining, 42; Annex Creek, raining, 36; Taku Pass, raining, 34; Soapstone Point, raining, 47; Cor- dova, cloudy, 36; Chitina, cloudy, 13; McCarthy, cloudy, 14; Anchor- age, cloudy, 22; Nenana, snowing; Fairbanks, snowing, 0; Hot Springs, clear, -4; Tanana, cloudy, -3; Ruly, cloudy, 0; Nulato, cloudy, 0; Flat, snowing, 5. 26 14 0 0 Clear 04 Pt Cldy ~Trace Clear 0 Cldy Cldy Snow Clear Cldy -18 10 8 2 -4 -4 30 I N .S - Rain Rain Cldy Cldy Cldy Foggy Cldy Rain [J 04 LB RDOS® WEATHER SYNOPSIS Low barometric pressure continued today over the northeastern portion of the North Pacific Ocean, the lowest reported pressure being 29.00 inches a short distance west of Unalaska. High barometric pres- sure prevailed from the West Coast States westward to the Hawaiian Islands. This general pressure distribution has been attended by pre- cipitation over the Tanana and upper Yukon Valleys and along the coastal region from Kodiak southward to Washington, and by gener- ally fair weather over the lower Yukon Valley and the Bering Sea “oast. Temperatures were above the seasonal average over Southeast Al- «<ka, elsewhere over the field o ob servation seasonable temperatures prevailed. CONFESSION OF Comer, with a bullet in his brain, gasped an admission of guilt before lapsing into a coma. He confessed killing Ray Evans, Shawnee attorney, DYING MAN TO SOLVE MYSTERY Dl Wh kar, dnjired in Gunfight, Admits Two Killings CKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Nov. 26. Investigation of the fate of nine missing persons was focused upon the condition of Chester Comer, 25, itinerant oil field worker, gravely wounded in a gunfight before his capture yesterday. L. A. Simpson, Piedmont farmer. Simpson’s son, Warren, 14, and hid- ing the bodies. 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