The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1936, Page 2

RAYCN DAMASK TABLECLOTHS— Hegular $4.25, NOW $2.50 MERCERIZEDY TABLE DAMASK— Regular 85¢ yard, NOW 50c yard LUNCHEON CLOTH and NAPKINS— Regular $4.50, NOW . 0 5 $2.50 GLASS TOWELING, yard . ROLLER TOWELING, yard TURKISH TOWELS, 6 for . $1.00 HEAVY TURKISH TOWELS— each 81x90 SHEETS. each . PORTO RICAN GOWNS, each .._$1.00 BABY DRESSES, B.M. BEHRENDS CO., Inc. INQUEST HELD ON DEATH OF INDIAN MOTHER Doctors Tell Coroner's _]ury ‘Mrs. Sumdum Froze to Death A coroner’s inquest into the deati o1 Mrs. Peter Sumdum was bemng held today in the U. S. Commission- er's court, with her husband, de- tained for questioning in -connec- tion with the death, scheduled to ap- pear late this afternoon. { That the direct cause of Mrs. Sum-~ dum’s death was freezing was told the six coroner’s jurors by Dr. W. P. Blanton, who performed an autopsy Friday night. He added, however, that the weman's body was badly bruised and scratehed, indicating she | had been given a severe beating. This testimony was reiterated b; Dr. J. P. Mayer, U. 8. Public Healt Eervice physician with the cutte Ballapoosa, who made a preliminary investigation at Sumdum shortly a1- | ter the death. Charles Sumdum, 11-year-old son | of Mr. and Mrs. Sumdum, told the court how his mother and father drank heavily after their return| from a trip to Juneau last week. He denied that his father beat his moth- er on the fatal evening, saying he was asleep on the floor by the stove | when Mrs. Sumdum went outside ‘o “sober up.” Charles said that he tried to bring his mother into the house sev-| TH‘EDAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MONDAY, JAN. 20, 1936. WHITE SLIPS, each LACE CURTAINS—2Y4 yards long, Regular $2.75, NOW, pair . ' COTTAGE SETS, set CURTAIN SCRIMS, yard WHITE MUSLIN, yard UNBLEACHED MUSLIN, yard . MATTRESS PADS, Twin size BATH MATS, each . ........................ $1.00 WHITE COTTON DOUBLE BLANKETS . $1.45 WILD ROSE LINING. yard COUNCIL HEADS | FREIGHT, MAIL ~ SHOTGUN CLUB SERVICE NEED -~ ATELFINCOVE Capt. Swanson, in City for Supplies, Says Develop- ment Handicapped ‘Trapshooters Elect Cfficers| for Ensuing Year | at Meeting The Juneau Shotgun Club at its| meeting Saturday evening elected officers for the coming year, and laid plans for an interesting program {for the coming season The club will hold a shoot the |first and third Sundays of every, month. A special shoot is also | being planned for Washington's birthday, and merchandise, handi-| cap and dinner shoots are planned as soon as the turnouts are large enough to warrant it. | Those elected to office were Dr. W. W. Council, President; M. H. Truesdell, Vice-President; Guy Mc- The Elfin, Capt. E. O. Swanson, arrived here Saturday from Elfin | Cove and is schedued to sail on| the return voyage today. | Capt. Swanson, who made the| commnity, stated he is having a 48-foot motorship, equipped with a 60-horsepower Atlas diesel engine, built to order, by a Seattle ship- yard. He expects to leave for Se- attle about February 15, and will return with®the new boat about trip for supplies for the Elfin Cove f U, S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecas! for Juneauw and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., January 20: Rain tonight and Tuesday; fresh to strong southeast winds. LOCAL DPATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velacity ‘Weathe 20.94 27 94 SE 12 Lt. Snow 30.01 31 93 S 6 Lt. Rain-Snow 29.87 34 90 SE 10 Lt. Snow CABLE AND KAD]O REPORTS YESTERDAY TODAY Highest 4p.m. Lowest4a.m. 4a.m, Precip. 4am. temp: temp. temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Weathe - 25 24 18 23 4 Cldy -147 -12 . -12 10 Clear » 2 13 4% 30 Clear 22 10 10 30 Clear nl2 20 -18 Clear -18 26 -26 Clear 12 26 Snow 32 36 Cldy 38 42 Rain 3 38 Rain 26 31 Rain 35 — S Time p.am. yest'y 4 am. today Noon today Station Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak . Cordova Juneau . Sitka i Naughton, Treasurer; Milton Dan- iel, Secretary, and Jack Laurie, Field Captain. 'Elr;n Cove for the Juneau market | Sunday’s shoot was led by Mort|quring the active fishing season,| Truesdell, and others shooting were | yeported that development of the| Charles Naghel, H. A. Jenkins, Guy| gifin Cove district is badly handi-| McNaughton, Jay Williams, Chflrles‘capped by a lack of orgamzedw W. Carter, H. Weston, S. Babcock, | frejght and mail service. { F. Brookhart and Milton Daniel.| preight for Elfin Cove must be| The next shoot is scheduled for|chjpped aboard the Estebeth to1 Sunday, February 2, at the clubs| poonah and reshipped to Elfin| grounds back of the Juneau Dairy. Cove, resulting in considerable de-| and the pubuc is invited. \ldy and boosting freight charges| m approximately one-third more Lhan the cost of shipment from\ Mlss BRISTOL 'S(’atfle to Juneau. | Q Although Elfin Cove has a Post | | Office and a voting precinct has! | been created at that point, no di-| Seven o'Clock Ceremony in Methodist Manse Follow- | ed by Wedding Supper rect mail service is available. A| In a candlelight wedding at seven April 1 Capt. Sw on, who buys fish at| | needed ard would do much to de-; v\clop the Elfin Cove region, Capl Swanson sald TALLY REPORTS | | l Ketchikan . Prince Rupert ... Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco New York . Washington 3¢ 36 Rain , 32 42 . Cldy -14 -10 Cldy 44 46 Rain 46 46 Cldy “ u Foggy 14 16 Clear 2 2 Clear 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 32 50 T4 43 68 14 04 06 06 0 0 114 56 SBononanl o WEATRER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. Juneau Airport, raining, temperature 34; Taku Pass, snowing, 8; Whitehorse, cloudy, 6; Burwash Landing, cloudy, -5; Radioville, raining, 38; Cordoya, mining, 38; Chitina, cloudy, 0; McCarthy, cloudy, * 20; Anchorage, cloudy, 25; Nenana, cloudy, 10; Fairbanks, cloudy, -18; Hot Springs, cloudy, -12; Tanana, partly cloudy, 2; Ruby, cloudy, 0. Nulato, cloudy, 2; Kaltag, cloudy, 2; Unalakleet, . cloudy, cloudy, 12. 18; Flat, WEATHER SYNOPSIS A storm area of large magnitude prevailed this morning over the nertheastern portion of the North Pacific Ocean, the storm be- ing centered over the western end of the Alaska Peninsula where a barometer reading of 2830 inch>s was reported. igh barometric pressure prevailed from the lower MackKenzie River Valley south- ward to California. This general pressure distribution has been at-*® tended by precipitation along the coastal regions from the Aleutians southward to Washington and by generally fair weather over the interior and northern portions o’ Alaska. Nome reported a bliz- zard, the maximum velocity during the night being 64 miles from the northeast and at 7 o'clock this morning the wind was blowing from the north-northeast at 44 miles. Heayvy snow was reported at New York City yesterday, there being 8 inches on the ground this RAYON UNDIES . .50c { WHITE SILK SLIPS, D e e s each ... Juneau’s Leading Department Store JACKSON.DA DINNERS PAID; OVER 525,000 W Forbes. Mdrm &;pgrts | Bigger Financial Success than Was Mh#mcd WASHINGTON, Mfl-flW‘ ocratic spokesman reported the | Jackson Day dinners to have proved a bigger financial sugcem; .- an- umpaued " o 5 A0 W. Forbes Morgan, m of the Party’s. National Qomumittee, estimated that ; more. than 1#275,000 'wmud be ‘turned into the Demo+ lcuuc campaign fund by dinner — One ' committees, byhe -end of the wnek He had figured on a total sum 5¥; “’}, P{AHS 1 times, and that later they found her dead on the front porch. Deputy | Mershal Judson Brown testified con- cerning his investigations made at the scene last week. Peter Sumdum, the father, was | lodged in the Federal Jail here yes- | terday morning iollowing his arrival ‘ on the Tullapoow 1 STRIKES OVER UNFAIR DOCKS TIE UP SHIPS Honolulu Seamen Frotest | Discrimination Against Union Stevedores I HONOLULU, Jan. 20. freighter is without a crew, seamen | on a second have refused to work, $425:000./ and tieup of a third is forecast over asserted discrimination against un- | ion longshoremen. SUNDAY ‘The crew of the motorship Golden | Gate walked off last night shortty| FOTLUCK s‘"“ WED. efore the ship was scheduled to il | A potluck supper, for sundly Police arrested six men after a|School members from the fifth grade fracas on the waterfront, to and including high schoel, will The walkout was in protest Ibe held Wednesday night frem 6 fo 2gainst discrimination shown 54 {7:30 o'clock in:the: Northern Light union stevedores at Honolulu. Presbyterian Church pariors, ac- BBt 5 |cording to announcement today by FRANK DUFRESNE LEAVES Clarence Rands, mm;n.n.m. Char Frank Dufresne, Assistant Execu- Th:edlnner ‘will in.ugum'g a con- tive officer of the Alaska Game Com- |test in which all the classes will vie mission, left on the Northland for |for increased membership until East- a short business trip to seamc. er, at which time the winning elass -+ SHOP IN JDNEAU. FIBS’I“ +other groups. e s e BAR.NEY COO(:LE AND SPARK PLUG WAAL--T DECLAR ! . THET ORTER BE A LESSON TER TH' SHIF'LESS SKONK NOT TER SLEEP IN TH' WOO0D PILE (will be feted at a party given by the 1 each ’. |» I ® ® 0 90 0 00 0 0o MARY JOYCE IS AT WHITEHORSE from her lodge on the Taku to: Pairbanks, arrived at ‘Whiteherse yesterday after- noep from Rebinson where she:-remained Saturday night. Her mext trek will be to Landing, from there 4o Kluane, then to Tan« ana enroute- 4o -the interior %o'o."‘ooloo will Bs‘com J}asbursmg | ments of the Treasury Department, sails op the steamer Alaska tomor- MA“!AGE UCENSE ISSUED —_— A -urhn }\een.se was issued today to Arthur White, 29, miner employed by the Alaska Juneau, and Roberta West, 33, waitress in the- Juneau -Jce Cream Parlor. —l A SHOP IN JUNEAU, FIRST! DON'T. \NBRRV "we mail contract providing for Lwice-f o'clock last evening in the Metho- dist manse, Miss Mildred Bristol be- {a-month delivery of mail, and the, incidental delivery of supplies| came the bride of Mr. Jack Peter Miss Bessie Powers was, bride aboard the mail boat, is badly; maid and Mr. Harold Stephenson | performed the ceremony. The bride was gowned in an after- | noon dress of violet blue chiffon and | carried a bouguet of talisman rosc and freezias. "The bridesmaid wore a periwinkle blue informal gown and a corsage of carnations. Following the ceremony, a wed- f{ding supper was served at Moder's Coffee Shoppe. Besides the wedding party, guests were Mrs. Bob Poole ! and Mrs. C. E. Sund. The bride, whose home was for: merly in Bellingham, Washington. arrived in Juneau Friday on the Northlend. The groom is wellknown as a Royal Blue Cab driver. ‘The young couple will be at home to their friends in the Gross Apart- ments, FIRST 1936 (0D CATCHES REACH HERE The first fresh fish delivered in | “|Juneau this year—32,000 pounds of | black cod—were bought over the week-end by Alaska Coast Fisheries at the prevailing price of 2 cents. The Hyperion, Capt. Sivert An- derson, delivered 18,000 pounds of black cod to the Alaska Coast Fish- eries yesterday, and the Fremont, | Capt. John Winters, unloaded 14,000 pounds of fresh fish this morning. i The entire lot of black cod will be plant for export shipment. Cod livers from the entire catch, an important source of revenue to cod fishermen were purchased by Alaska Coast Fisheries for Parke Davis and Com- | pany at last yeax's contract price of | 40% cents per pound. ped in cold storage to the chemical " [company’s plant in the states for ex- traction of the cod liver oil of com- merce. Halibut, black cod and ling cod livers are equally valuable, ac- cording to Wallis S. George, Presi- dent of the Juneau Cold Storag: the same price range. - — ENTERS HOSPITAL D. Halvorsen of Skagway, entered salted in the Juneau Cold Storage | The livers will be frozen and ship- | Company, and are inciuded within | Snow flurvies- turned to rain in | Juneau early this morning, with the thermometer climbing until it reached 34 at noon. Warmer tem- SEARCH FUTILE for Missing Port Al- exander Men Reporting that she found no trace Emil Hungerbuhler or Lloyd Fenton, missing Port Alexan hlllh,l the Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa arrived here at 11:30 urday night. The pair's gasboat, manned by three of the cutter's crew, was due to arrive this afternoon from Woe- wodski Harbor, where she was found abandoned. The Tallapoosa searched the south end of Admiralty Island and adjacent areas, and Lieutenant Miles Imlay, commander of the vessel, reports that investigations made there leave little doubt that the twc men are dead. John Harris and his son, Fred, combed the interior near Woewodski Harbor while the cutter scoured the shore- | line. Hungerbuhler and Fenton have been unreported since leaving on a short hunting trip last November. Inquiries have been sent to Seattle concerning possible relatives, reg- istry of their boat and other mat- ters by the Collector of Customs | office. Aboard the Tallapoosa on her ar- rival here were Deputy Marshal Judson Brown and Peter Sumdum, who is being held -for questioning in connection with the death of| his v\lre at Sumdum ast week. of Sa . SHOOTl‘NG MATCH ON THIS EVENING The first of the weekly re-entry | matches of the Juneau Rifle and | Pistol Club will be held tonight lat the indoor range of the club in | the A. B. Hall. | shots, off-hand, at 50 feet. A suitable prize for the highest score is offered weekly and to- the B. M. Behrends co., Inc. |MERCURY CLIMBS AS morning. Cold weather continued over the upper MacKenzie Valley, a tem- perature of 56 below having been reported at Fort Simpson. Moder- ately low temperatures were reported over the Bering Sea region. was best man. Rev. O. L. Kendall Cutter Amves irom Hunt qown the Pacitic Coast, according to Weatherman Howard J. Thomp- son, while fair weather was re- ported from the interior. Nome was raked by a blizzard last night, with a wind reaching a velocity of 64 miles per hour, while a storm area was found over the the Pen- North Pacific, centering over western end of the Alaskan DR. AND MRS. LIVIE MARK ANNIVERSARY WITH DINNER PARTY Robert D. Livie celebrated their first wedding an- niversary Saturday night with a dinner party for a group of friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Livie. Following the dinner event the party attended the Shrine Dr. and Mrs. JUNEAU WOMEN’S CLUB cance. HOLDS LUNCHEON TUES. Inaugurating a revival of the popular no-hostess luncheons of last year, the members of the Juneau Women's Club will assemble at the Juneau Coffee Shoppe to- | morrow for a luncheon at 1:30 o'clock. A program will be presented by the Department of International Relations, of which Mrs. J. P. Wil- liams is the head. A large reservation has already been made and a successful affair is expected S ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 20.— Pilot Kenneth Neese of the Star Air- ways flew to Iliamna and return to | Anchorage through a snowstorm to The course is 5 night's ‘prize is being donated by St. Ann’s Hospital this morning to peratures, and showers were pre- valent over Southeast Alaska and undergo an appendectomy. By BILUIE DE BECK ON 7 STAN' HIT WUZA PLUMB ACCIDENT ., bring Gust Affes to the hospital here for treatment for frozen hands. e e— SPEND WHERE YOU MAKE IT! In the group were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Davlin, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Livie, Mr. and Mrs. B, Carmichael, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rice, Mr. and Mrs. John Livie and the host and hostess, Dr. and Mrs. Livie. MISS ANN HELEN CASS | CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY In honor of her eleventh birthday. @ Miss Ann Helen Cass, daughter of Mrs. Helen Smith Cass, entertained three intimate friends at a birthday |party Saturday afternoon, follow- ng their attendance at the mati- 1ee. Guests were Misses Betty, Dorothy and Barbara Keith. e Although Texas has repealed its dry amendment, several counties find they are still dry under the unrepealed “local option” law, in ef- fect since 1898. CAPITOL CAFE AND BALL ROOM Private Booths Lunches Dancing Every Night OPEN ALL NIGHT RAIN FOLLOWS SNOW | 4lskan Hotel Li Dave Housel Prop iquor Store Phone Smg]e 02 nngs CASH GROCERS Cerner Second and Seward . o .