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COMPENSATION PLANS 0CCUPY CITY COUNCIL Chief Hoffman Asks (llv’ Fathers to Do Somethmg About Dog Situation A discussion of (hs Territorial Compensation Law and the advis- ability of the City of Juneau charging each employee the amount permitted under the law instead of shouldering the entire responsi- bility for compensation payments occupied the main attention of the City Council at the meeting last night The subject arose I. Goldstein presenteed a bill for hospitalization of a city employee who was recently injured. Several times Curtis Shattuck was called upon to clarify sections of the Ter-, ritorial Compensation Act, and to when Mayor explain insurance procedure under | various conditions. Councilman | Krause presented a plan for build- ing up a fund to take care of I)u(h injuries and sickness of employes. After a great deal of discussion the matter was continued until the next mreeting. Liquor Ordinance Passes Following the consideration of various routine matters, the second and third reading of the liquor bill were made and the ordinance which makes the Juneau laws on the liquor closing hour conform to the Ter- ritorial laws, was passed City Engineer Milton Lagergren gave his recommendations and specifications for remodeling the city jail as recommended by Sani- tary Inspector Ben Grimes. The engineer estimates the cost of need- ed improvements at $455. It was decided that the Mayor should call for bids on the job. To Purchase Chairs Mayor Goldstein reported that the $190 paid the City by the Cres- cent Shows had been turned over to the Fire Department. He also called attention to the lack of chairs in the Council chambers and asked for a vote of the Coun- cil on the proposal of buying from the Capitol Theatre about 50 chairs at $1.50 apiece. The Council au- thorized the purchase of the chairs. It was announced that the Coun- cil would sit as a Board of Equali-| zation next week from Tuesday through Saturday night. urged that a quorum of Council- men be present at each session. Garages Up Again A report was made of several persons in the Casey-Shattuck Ad- dition who have built their gar- ages in allies. Councilman Mec- YES It was| Cafferty suggested that sons, who have garages be instructed to move them. The City Engineer was instructed to wri (l‘ letters to these xhl\ p\npnst everal of the Councilmen re- pmn~d |m~ of sidewalks and \(.IH~ which needed repairing g License Chief of Police Roy Hoffman | brought up the *“dog question,” telling the Council of the great | number of calls the department re- | ceives every day to stop dog fights, care for injured dogs, etc. It was suggested that Hoffman write to Ketchikan and obtain a copy of the successful dog ordinance in force in that city. Several citizens spoke two per- on the necessity for keeping dogs, not on leashes, off the streets of Juneau The City Radio Inspector inform- ed the Council that his complete equipment would arrive within ten days and asked for use of a city car - .- FUNERAL WILL BE HELD FOR MISS BORLECK A | Body Will Lie in State This Evening and Tomor- row at Carter’s | vices for Rachel Bor- leck, daughter of Martin Borleck, who died recently in Seattle, will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Resurrection Luth- eran Church, Rev. Erling K. Olaf- son reading the eulogy. Services later at the grave will be under the auspices of the Juneau branch of the Rainbow Girls. Pallbearers will be: George Jor- genson, Martin Holst, Hans Gold- {field, Ed Jacobson, Bert McDowell, |and Hans Berg. The casket will be opened tonight at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary from 7 to 11 o'clock and tomorrow at 11, to afford the Juneau friends [of the talented high school student |a chance to pay their last respects !w her | | Funeral se | - LACHMAN VISITS HERE S. Ldlhl".‘n ilknown Alaska v“hnln\a]o representative is in Ju- neau for a few days accompanied by his son, Morton, Mr. Lachman has made many trips to Alaska in the interest of his business and this trip brought {his son along to see the country. ‘Th('\' have recently returned from (the Westward and will visit Skag- “a\ and Sitka before returning to Seattle. 0 constructed their people for | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY AUGUST 8, 1936. - CONGRESSMAN CRASHES, DIES ON SIDEWALK Representahve Plunges | Down Five Storres— Is Case of Suicide (Continued from Page One) they left for the south on a hon- eymoon. Promises To Be Good Zioncheck promised to be “good” in Miami, Florida, and to see that he was not arrested for speeding, his bride took the wheel of their | au tomobile. ' Puerto Rico where | sional | table, ja The honeymoon trip extended to the Congres- “play boy” got in all kinds of trouble, causing a near riot. He and his bride went to the Ba- hamras and while at a hotel dining drank champagne from his hat, refused to rise when the Na- tional Anthem was played and otherwise disported himself in a most sensational manner. Disturbance in New York ‘The couple returned to New York and there he and his bride raised disturbance by wading in the Central Park pool during the mid- die of the day. Back in Washington in a sub- rented apartment from Mrs. Benja- | min S. Young, he caused another disturbance by throwing the land- lady from the suite when she at- tempted to oust him. He and his wife were charged with assault and warrants were issued for their ar- rest In the meantime, the District of Columbia authorities secured a court order for his commitment to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, for ‘“ob- servance” as it was claimed he was mentally unbalanced, and a com- mission was appointed to make a report. He was later taken to a private sanitarium at Rowson, Maryland. He escaped from there by jumping a fence and disappear- ed for 12 hours and was then lo- cated in his locked office | Capitol Building. Guarded by Ken- neth Rommey, House Sergeant-at- Arms, Congressman Zioncheck was taken, under police escort to a station and placed aboard a train; for Seattle. No Airplaning Congressman Zionchegk announc- ed that in Chicago he would board an airliner for Puget Sound, but upon arrival there, he denied passage and continued to the Pa- cific Coast by train On arrival in Seattle, accom-| panied by his wife who had met | SIR! IS ROTARY CLUB meets Monday noon. A GOOD TIME TERMINAL TIME DANCE UNTIL 2:30 A. M. Complete Fountain and Restaurant service. COVER CHARGE (half the regular dance admission) 50 cents, Phone 376 for Delivery of DANISH ICE CREAM TONIGHT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE every Thursday noon. CIVIL ACTIVITY CENTERS AT The Terminal GET THE HABIT OF COMING IN! in the| Daily Cros word Puzzle animal who slang brings good 3. Disfigure Tuck 4. Unitea (7 | V7 IIIH/I ma// him at Ellensburg, his campaign for -eelection and spoke about the “menace of psy- chiatrists,” from personal exper ience. Last Saturday he announc- ed hig. withdrawal and then on Tuesday filed his declaration. He had a wide following, notwith- stand his escapades, and intended to put up a hard fight for the nomination. he soon opened | | BORN IN BOHEMIA Marion A. Zioncheck was born in Bohemia 37 years ago and was brought to this country by his par- |ents as an infant. The family lived (for a short time in New York, then imoved to Seattle where young Zion-| |check attended school, sold papers| land did all the rest of the thing |young boys usually do whose par- |ents are poor or in modest circum- |stances Entering the Umw! sity of Wash- ington he became known among the |students for what was termed soci-| alistic leanings and his duckings for |student insubordination were among {the campus list of humorous inci- |dents. At one time he led a stu- (dent strike which amounted to| nothing more serious than a little | publicity. Law. Practice Completing law school, he be- |come engaged in law practice in Se- attle and at once became known for his interest in civic affairs, especi- ally those bearing on social condi- tions. During the famous Centralia |Armistice Day shooting case, he acted as understudy and later be- came interested with U. S. Senator Homer T. Bone of Tacoma in the latter’s campaigns for public own- ership of electric power. He cam- | paigned with Bone on those issues /in Washington and Oregon and was one of the strongest supporters of the Bone power bill in Washing- ton State which finally became a law in that state and permits com- munities to build and operate their jown power plants. He was in the |fight with Bone which brought a Herbert Auspices Auxnlmry Adults 40c Children 25¢ Pl L LA ]| dilid) am ACROSS 22. Moving 1. Nearly me: hanical 7. Use = = 13, More Ignoble || BIS 28. Female sheep 14. Velvet-like | |E #5. Al: comb. fabric orm 15. Calm [E A 27. Author of 16. Funeral T s e orations of Reason™ | 17. Comparative % %5 Catsmolion ending 28. C 18. 4\mmu)l‘s vV 29, Light brown _ mother E 31, Sin £ Sus sranat 33. Profuse and 21, Musical T Dfeian instrument dle s it [e] 35, Kind of bird - Sman 36, Self quarrel i 30. Be under 13 37 1‘“{["‘;"(3‘_ obligation [ cre 32. Horse (o) g8 pul . Mountain fn [ @ Lure Alaska L 5. ru i5. Fixed 47, Bu\ulllul resolution 8. Tropical fruit 5. Cause to be valley in the 39. Pa 61. Oily taken Hawaiian i § “”“ Phone T $ Do 45. Commance 42 Tidings 63. Performed on - Night before 50 Fiexivle 44, Hard:shelled a musical Sprent rubber pipe fruit instrument 8. Ligquefy from 52 Defy 46. 64. Iterate heat 54. (‘l»_xml]“n it 49, 9. Gonkin implemen 9, COpapRey Entirely Ocean . Spreac Person or Toosely . Woolly sur- face of cloth Infatuation metal 12. Affirmative 9. Least A G S . gREEJEENgun w0 wdlld// E‘IIE’I mwi fll///. v/ il dEE 4 A W/ Ifll. municipal plant to the city of Ta- coma and later one to Seattle. Goes to Congress Running for Congress in 1932, at the same time that Bone was elect- ed to the United States Senate, Zioncheck was successful and served in the 73rd Congress. He was re-elected in 1934 and was up for re-election this fall Was Brilliant Acknowledged brilliant ways, Zioncheck's career gress started slowly. He youngest of Washington State’s delegation and worked faithfully under the guiding hand of Senator Bone and those older men in the {House delegation. Politically, he had mb!amed public office under the |Democratic banner but in his ear- |lier life he had declared himself to be a Socialist. His first term in {Congress ended with excellent re- qport of his activities and his sup- (port of the Roosevelt Administra- tion. It was during his second term, (that incidents in his private life 1pushed his name into the headlines, |to end yesterday with his untimely death in Seame AAT PLANES ARE MAKING FLIGHTS Sheldon Simmons, piloting the AAT Bellanca, hopped to Peters- burg last evening at 5 o'clock to pick up two passengers, returning here at 7:30 pm. This morning Simmons made a glacier hop with C. B. Arnold and a party including Mr. Anold’s mother, sister and two nieces. Pilot Jimmy Rinehart, in the Al- aska Air Transport Stinson, left this morning empty for Sitka where he took a charter for Port Alex- ander. Rinehart will return this evening with A. Van Mavern, H. R. Shepard and A. E. Schoettler as passengers from Sitka. The Stinson will take off this evening with a fishing party to Lake Hasselborg. in many in Con- was the STARRING Marshall Jean Harlow Leo Carrillo TUESDAY, AUG. 11 American Legion CURTIS THRUS PLANE ARRIVES ON NORTH SEA Schwamm and Smith, Presented to Lindbergh Tony Schwamm, well known Al- co-owners of the goodlooking Cur- arrived here this morning on the North Sea. Mr. Schwamm plans to fly the horsepower Wright engine, to Fair- banks in about a week or ten days cial flying. The engine, which was purchased in Iowa City, Iowa, by Schwamm and Smith on a recent trip through the States, is the same engine that was given to Colonel Lind- bergh for his flight to Paris. How- ever, the motor wasn't suitable for his plane and was never used. After purchasing the plane the! two men flew to Seattle via Texas | and Southern California. Schwamm and Smith state that during their | trip, they traveled by auto and plane through 21 States. - — FOX FARMING SURVEY BEING Here First of Week, Mr. Flory Reports Regional Flory returned to Juneau by plane last night after going to Ketchikan to meet Dr. W. A. Lloyd, principal Agriculturist in charge of the Western Division of the Extension Service for the Department ‘of Agriculture, who is in Alaska in connection with extension service work, primarily with the thought of furthering the fox farming in- dustry. Mr. Flory with Dr. Jules B. Lof- tus, Territorial Veternarian, went down to Petersburg last Sunday on the vessel Forester where they met Dr. Lloyd and Lorin T. Olyroyd, Director of Extension at the Uni- versity of Alaska. They visited var- ious fox farms in the Southeast and the balance of the party with the exception of Mr. Flory, who returned here to attend to Forest Service matters, went on to Sitka over the week-end, expecting to arrive here perhaps Monday. Dr. Lloyd probably will take a west- ward steamer here Wednesday for the Interior. SCOUTS WILL HAVE American Legion Scout troop, has announced that members of the troop will spend tomorrow at Fag- way, to pass tests in swimming and life saving. by W. H. Bacon. - WOOD BACK TO BASE J. D. Kay, flying the Stinson Reliant seaplane of the Wood- Yukon Expedition, and with mem- bers of the expedition as passeng- 6:30 o'clock for his base. aska flier, and Clarence Smith are ! tiss Thrush six-place plane which plane, which is powered by a 250 where he will engage in commer- | MADE BY LLOYD Agriculturist Is Expected\ Forester Charles H.| OUTING TOMORROW | J John Poling Scoutmaster of the erson’s pond on the Glacier ngh-‘ ers, left Juneau last evening at COUSIN OF GOVERNOR BOUND FOR SHAKTOLIK Mr. and Mrs. teachers with the Office of Indian Affairs at Shaktolik, and their son John were in Juneau yesterday on A. W. Bayne,| WHERE'S ELMER? Postmaster Albert Wile has re-i ceived a request from Mrs. Fran- ces Walters, of Marietta, Illinois, asking information regarding the) the North Star on their way toj whereabouts of her son, Elmer How-' eir northern station after spend- mg three. months Outside. The Engine in Plane Owned by [Payne family flew south from Nome erter, who has been in Juneau about; two years, working in a gold mine.} Mrs. Walters said she wrote to! {in May, attended a reunion of Mrs.| her son on May 16 and the letter |Payne’s family and visited friends| (and relatives in the Northwest. i Mrs. Payne, formerly Evelyn| (Wh)ttler 'W. Troy. Mr. and Mrs. Payne have been teaching with the Indian serv- "ice for several years. Their young son John Whittier, who was born in | Wainright eight years ago and speaks Eskimo as well as he does| is a cousin of Gov. John| was returned. “I have written sev- eral letters previously but never received any answers. I am wor- ried about him, so please give me any information you have.” LEMPKES RENEWING OLD FRIENDSHIPS English, is taking back to his home in the North a new “bike” as a| |prized possession. o e i HOLLAND SAILS SOUTH TONIGHT FOR VACATION C. B. Holland, Cashier of the Al- aska Electric Light and Power Com- pany here, is taking passage on the |Prince Rupert tonight for Seattle for a three weeks' vacation. Mrs. Holland and son, Dale, went {south at the close of school to spend ithe summer at their former home in Seattle, and Mr. Holland will |join them there, the entire family returning here the last of the month on the Aleutian, Traffic signposts at Graz, Aus- | tria, emblazoned with the Austrian | colors, red and white, and the | Heimwehr insignia are the latest political advertising venture here. ,—e—e - { Try The Empire classifieds for quick results. | ] | | | | | | | | | | ELKS’ The boys will go out on the 9:30 | bus, transportation being furnished | | e S W A. Lempke and wife arrived on the Prince Rupert Thursday even- ing after an absence of several years’ and are busily engaged today re- newing friendships. Lempke is the original owner of the Peerless Bak- ery business which he established in 1913 and later sold his interests to Theodore Hyder and associates who again transferred their inter- ests to the present owner, Henry Meier. “I note a great improvement made , in Juneau since leaving several’ years ago,” he said “and am only sorry that I eould not remain longer in your city at this time; but is is impossible owing to re- markable tourist bookings, all the transportation companies being sojd. out for weeks to come on return trips.” Lempke's headquarters are in San Francisco where he is inter- ested in a milling concern, and ha and Mrs. Lempke expect to leave for their home on the Prince Rup- ert scheduled southbound tonight. ———— Empire ads are read. ELKS’ DANCE | TONI GHT! 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