The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 18, 1937, Page 8

FORMER NAVY OFFICER ASKS TO CHANGE PLEA l‘dlmwmth. (_halged with Lon:pna(\ with Japan- Says Not' Guilty \V\qnw.rn\ reb. 18 John worth, former naval officer, was charged with conspiring ommu naval secrets to apanese governgnent, asked on of the Federal District to change his plea of nolo jere entered Monday to “not ese, his previous plea was normous pressure and ) contende made jant, though not an the same ] effect as regards proceedings the indictment. Such a plea not debar the defendant from the truth the charge other proceedings a same matter. be within the discretion Justic James Proctor to whom the petition is addressed to grant eny Farnsworth's petition to his plea r naval officer, unshav- nervous from lack of sleep. paced his cell in the city jail hos- pital and told newspaper men of is intention to have the charges t him brought to trial 've got to go through with this thing and fight it out in the courts, Farnsworth said. “I've been told that if I threw myself on the mercy of the court I might get a light sen- tence, but conviction for treason is nothing to laugh off. “When this thing comes to trial there will be a lot of things aired in Court that will hurt some peo- ple’s feelings,” he added. - - “Sweetheart of Yukon” Is Named By Pioneers doe of THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 18, 1937. \W% ¢ MOMENT WIDE SKIRTS IN DANC FROCKS Wide skirts mark many of the dance frocks created by American designers for spring parties. Tea rose lace, shimmering with a iracery of silver threads makes this one, which is finished with a frilled shoulder line. It is worn over a taffeta slip applique with a silver band and bow knot, clearly visible through the sheer lace. T | | MALLOTTES ARE GUILTY, THREE LIQUOR COUNTS Convicted Woman Sent to Hospital — Foster Lar- ceny Case This P, M. Returning a sealed verdict at the opening of the Federal District Court session this morning, the pe- tit jury found Joe and Hazel Ma lotte, of Yakutat, guilty of posses- sion, and sale of intoxicating liquors in containers not bearing stamps as evidence of payment of inter- nal revenue, and without a license from the Territorial Ligquor Board to purvey liquors. The conviction was returned on counts one, four, and seven of the indictment, which included the a2bove cited charges. A verdict of not guilty was found by the jury on the other six counts of the in- dictment. Judge George F. Alexander w impose sentence on Mr. and Mrs Mallotte at a later session. On mrv- tion by defense counsel Mrs Hermann this morning, thac Mx\ ! Mallotte was in urgent need of hospitalization, Mrs. Mallotte was | released on her own recognizance to enter a hospital. Business of the Court at its session this afternoon was to be | the empanelling of a trial jury |for the case of the United States versus Frances Foster, charged with |alleged larceny in a warehouse, at Juneau. The defendant is alleged to ‘hme feloniously removed a bed from the warehouse. She contends that lthe bed was her own property. eummsnss O NIGHT AIR TRIP Fly in Darkness from Oasis in Syrian Desert to ‘ Persian Gulf | | i | have been forced to the beaches in (be kept up continuously. Three of THREE ACCUSE IN SLAYING AT EXCURS. INLET {Prisoners Broughl to Ju-l, neau Today by Deputy | i | U, S. Air Mail to China Service About March 24, WASHINGTON, Feb 18 —| Through air service between the | United States and Chira will be started on March 24 or a few days‘ later by Pan American Airways, Postmaster General Farley stated today. At the same time he disclosed a cut in the cost of Pacific airmail postage of from 20 to 33 per cent. The new rate schedule cuts the cost of a single letter between Ha- waii and the United States from 25 to 20 cents, between Guam and United States from 50 to 40 cents and from the United States to Manila from 75 to 50 cents. Je rate to Hongkong and Macao, Chir will be 70 cents. Rates for ters to the United States from China and the Philippines will not be announced until the British and Philippine postal administrations -nm them public. - .o DEER FEEDING T0 GONTINUE . ==z Continued snow over Southeast' 1t i5 alleged tlmt the three had | ka. now reaching to depths of | renased liquor at Hoonah and! four and five feet in the hills, and |, oqyrning with it to Excursion Inlet, | ehtly crusted over, has resulted |y;je wmills accompanied John Mc~\ in the hardest winter on wild deer |Kinley to the latter's house, where! f“‘b‘e',;‘;eg:::; gfir‘"’s ;fi“:f‘fb“" :hey continued to drink. They '(,:Nn(f i< Alask:eraanfe CO; {were soon joined there by Albcrt‘ {Mills and his wife and daughter. ml\/;:or;.)urrcsne declared that deet ‘Anel more drinking, Willle Mills ' e *|went out, and John McKinley got into an argument with the, older man and the two women had| clubbed Albert Mills with a piece| of stove wood. Then Frank McKinley, John's The Seal, under Warden Douglas brother, who had been in and out Gray is working in the Icy Straits of the house, returned and joined district; the Marten around Wran-|in the fray with an open pocket gell Narrows under Warden H. R. knife. Sarber, and the Grizzly Bear out After the fight was over, and of Ketchikan under Warden W. R.|Albert Mills beaten, it is alleged Selfridge. The Forest Service has that Willle Mills, his son, returned co-operated with the game commis- to the sceme with a rifle, which sion in assigning CCC men to the 'he fired, shooting in the leg Stan- Marshal Samples Resulting from an alleged drunk- en fight last Saturday night at Ex- cursion Inlet, three Indians were brought to Juneau today aboard the motorship Estebeth to face in- dictment by a Federal Grand Jury on charges of assault with .dan- gerous weapons, two of them with alleged intent to kill. | Taken in custody by Deputy United States Marshal G. W. Sam- ples at Hoonah, the three accused are : John McKinley, Frank Mc- Kinley, and Willis Mills. The three, were bound over to the Grand Jury | by United States Commissioner | George Malcolm at Hoonah follow- hnv the verdict of a coroner’s jury | [h:\t Albert Mills, the father of jwnl:e Mills, had died as the re- sult of club and knife wounds in- flicted during the alleged melee. Deputy Samples brought the prisoners to Juneau and is to return immediately to brlng the body to the all sections and that feeding must the commission’s boats, the Seal, Marten, and Grizzly Bear are now working on the feeding problem. Storu Are to Be Closed Next Monday The anniversary of George Washington's birthday will be observed in Juneau next Mon- day, as elsewhere. Housewives are urged to remember this in placing their week-end or- ders as stores will be closed on the holiday. A | VACATIONISTS FOLLOW LETTER BACK TO HERE Hard on the heels of a letter from them just received in Juneau by Elmer Benedict, his brother {Merton Benedict and Chester Zim- |merman are aboard the Princess! Norah returning to Juneau today from a vacation in the States. the Game Management Division the Department of Agriculture, now enroute from Washington, C., to Juneau to attend the annual meeting here of the Alaska Game Commission, day by Frank Dufresne, Executive Officer of the Commission. CROUD COMING - T0 THIS CITY of of is D. W. E. Croud, assistant chief it was announced to- Mr. Croud is to leave Seattle on February 27 and arrive here in time for the 15-day session commencing on March 2. Here, he will be joined |by the four members of the Game Commission for the meeting. The four commissioners are: Erving K. When ‘they left they intended| | Reed, from Fairbanks, representing to seek sunshine as far south as ‘Mexico, but their letter indicated that they got no further south than the southern part of Oregon; but were- enjoying themselves im-| mensely, even without sunshine. The missive was signed: Mert| “Beer” Zimmerman. - e Crash of Steamers Under Investigation PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 18. Maritime Inspector today moved to the scene to investigate the sink- ing of the Italian motorship Feltre in the Columbia River yesterday morning. The Edward Luckenbach, the other freighter in the crash, has arrived here under her own power, tied up and dxscharging of freight has started. | The Feltre is valued at one mil- lion dollars. - e One House Legislature Proposed in Washington OLYMPIA, Wash,, Feb. 18.—The | House Committee on Constitutional Revision, has unanimously recom- mended one house for the Washing- | ton State Legislature commencing with the regular session of 1943. Benedict and “Sweetie-Pie”| | tant { Holbrook here this morning of the | breakdown of the enginés of the Forest Service vessel Forester, route from Juneau to Ketchikan for (general overhaul. |the Fourth Division; Earl N. Ohmer, from Petersburg, First Division; Frank P, Willlams, from St. Michael, | Second Division; and Andy Simons, from Lakeview, Third Division. e Mo FORESTER BREAKS DOWN Word was received by the Assis- Regional Forester Wellman en- No particulars were contained in the radio advice to Mr. Holbrook, except that the vessel is safe, hav- ing been towed into Ketchikan by the Coast Guard Patrol boat Alert. S s cohe stays /;'e.r/l longer. thanks o the Cream Tartar in Schilling Baking Fowder ELECTRIC HAWING EEATTLE, Feb. 18 apman, of Dawson, was given the title “Sweetheart of the Yu- kon” at the banquet of Daughters of Alaska-Yukon Ploneers given here last night and attended by two hundred The Sweetheart of the Yukon was ntroduced by H. D. Cowden, pion- eer of the Forty Mile district Pat Cotter won the honor of being the “biggeést lar that ever came out of the North” with a story of alphabet soup that had to be trans- lated to be eaten Virginia boats in the Ketchikan and Peters- ley Harris, a fifth man who arrived BAHREIN ISLAND, Persian Gulf, bur districts to help with the feed- on the scene. » | Feb. 18—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh ing. | The charge entered against John and his wife, flying overnight from It is the first time that feeding McKinley is assault with a danger-| an oasis in the Syrian Desert, has been necessary around Ketchi- ous weapon; sagainst Frank Mc- HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Feb. 18 landed here this afternoon. They kan in 15 years, Mr. Dufresne de- |Kinley, assault with a dangerous | The est, it is said, is making plan to go on to Karachi, India, a clared. He further stated that the | weapon and stabbing with intent to authority to carry the title '1,000 mile hop, tomorrow. 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