The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 7, 1938, Page 8

DE CASTO MAYER ADMITS PART IN BASSETT DEATH Says Will Plead Guilty, But Must Stand Trial Doing Life Now Mrs. De Leols Honored at Tea Thi§ flfternflon Co-hostesses at tea, Miss Gretcher DeLeo and Mrs. Arthur Adams en- tertained at the home of Mrs. Adam this afternoon in honor of Miss De- FILIPINOS WHO WEDDED WHITES GET KKK NOTES Klan Gives Coast Guard Messmen One Day to Leave Miami MANY GATHER FOR GIRLS' CLUB TEA GIVEN YESTERDAY More than a hundred mothers and teachers called yesterday afternoon for the tea at which the Girls Club entertained at Junmeau High School, with Miss Myrtle Moe, ad- viser; Miss Beatrice Primavera. president of the Girls’ Club, and Miss Mary Jean McNaughton, social chairman, in charge. Mrs. Floyd Dryden, Mrs. R. [ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1938 MISS TORKELSO! NAMED HEAD OF RAINBOW GIRLS Election of>aficers Held at Meeting This Afternoon 'NEW DISPLAY CASE COMPLETES MARKET IN GROCERY HERE Completing what proprietor Nick Bavard maintains is one of the finest meat markets of its size on the Pacific Coast, a large new meat display case was last week installed for the meat department of the California Grocery on South Frank- lin Street here The attractive new case replaced the heavy, cumbersome one former- ly on the same spot and comple- Lower Maternal Death Rate in Alaslfa_flepunefl Territorial Department of Health Issues State- ment Covering 1937 There were 178 deaths of infants under one year of age for a total of 516 births, which amounts to 247 deaths per 1,000 births or prac- tically one out of four children born dies before his first birthday. All adverse factors which are re- sponsible for the high maternal and infant mortality rate of the United States as a whole are just as det- rimental to the safety of childhood and motherhood in Alaska. Moreover there are some factors which are indigenous to Alaska and which centribute toward a higher mortality rate. These are the vast- Leo’s mother, Mrs. Roy J. DeLe — Robertson, Mrs. Walter Scott, and sien’of ¢ Che: erEiRice: B meslee WALLA WALLA, Wash. May 7 :finfj;:“:‘?n ‘A‘,'f]‘:i“;u“‘“”"i with her rlwfil\fi;f‘g;emé ::'\:I;E;l;":‘“‘ :\f;i’ami;lli\er Winn presided at the Ml\\‘vKi‘lllhlv’lil\‘L; 1(:11:(:1:?‘2 r:‘:u:l ments 8 fl“rrll‘ll’lll‘ ll?::k sir:xsmlle;‘_cem;-) The following statement of con- personnel sparsely distributea Earl De Casto Ma today con- Quer g hundred guests were in- the Philippine Commission after Assisting in serving were Miss f;l‘lfw S:;: “; ;‘Olmmw Gm\\ ‘mi: Rn“.;‘ ()L;‘S(:hl’ :;-‘m wmd(w\! 1 Yoo d”’f\'ls l:xr ;n:?l.er:aty and infancy through the Territory; difficulty in fessed to Warden James McCauley, yiteq to call during the afternoon. Francaskio Rubia and Pedro Acoba. Louise Hildre, Miw Mary Stewart. afternoon in the Scottish Rite Tem- weeks ago. v I oS the past year Was transportation to place of medical his part in the ten year old sIaying | aprs ‘Elmer A. Priend, mother of | messmen infths Goast Guard, mar- | Miss Sue Stewarl, Mk Iean Tay- | e succeeding Miss Edithbelle Hel-| The two mew cases, along with & issued today by the Territorial De- aid ‘in 'case of emergency, and of James Eugene Bassett, naval of- njpg Adams, was in the receiving ried white women. lor, Miss Pauline Mestrezat, and | oy '.‘;“ ; E,“(.d as Worthy Ad- v Af” F ik e Pggie A bird b ?r i Jpfeance eng seEsdidion of » ficer line with Mrs. DeLeo, Mrs. Adams, The two messmen received Klu Miss Mariann Dobson, Rl y T o et | e, WOER S LSRR, mAenol Ak Pl Ot e AR Lon it Mayer’s mother, Mrs. Mary Ellen anq Miss DeLeo. Klux Klan wamings to leave town| Corsages, made by Miss Ratherine | ' of B e i N e s SO S| desthy peioeel T R St I o 0 URETEE ing D Smith, 73, previou confe-sed she Presiding at the t tables were | within 24 hours. ety ;md Miss’Mildred obeon, | oum-x: q«lm-!‘vd‘ 1.‘;. .«,r-x‘\}L ‘“:(‘ln ;(»Cf-nt Liixp to Lvtille SL:iex 1(“: 1937 for a total of 1229 births re- quently for stubbornness to medi- had aided Mayer in kil Bassett! prrs. Oscar Olson, Mrs. John Wals ez i 3 were preseriad G iy QS By An- Miss Torkelson ‘“,( ane : J;’,‘,H.lv,; ruit an vegf’ a mdx.y "rh by ported for f’”‘ me period of time ca] care. and three other persons. mer, Mrs, Harry I. Lucas. Mrs. Guy . nabelle Hogerup wha wa-s B ired Worthy A ; iate Ad\.lhol 1 \”llv '",OSL n.nodorn (_\.pf‘ flfl,'ls suf l.::m-'L-. m'f!\.e Territory. A naticnal campaign for safer In Seattle, officers sought paris peNaughton, Mrs. Robert Bender wn'taheads tu n a dance selection on the pru"’l'dm. i (4“‘”“‘\' M“‘m}'d \‘;];:‘ 4 “.nge i s B ;‘.m.\cluul This gives a maternal mortality motherhood and infancy being of Bassett's dismembered body, in and Mrs. R. E. Robertson Also apheRPIngTon NN progrnm’wr Hope; Christina Jthl.sfx.n \]u “n] ?.\smlmem of 111 fresh fil“lf and rate of 89 per thousand live births, jaunched by the United States Chil- places where Mrs. Smith said they isting in serving were Mis o Maiy Stetist RRRERELes - 1.0- ff“va.‘ ‘Rmmdu Alberta .(‘%’ntnh](—'s L.n .x(“u:o.n. A ’\1 8y- |8 slightly lowm-_rlemh_ rate, than dern’s Bureau, supported by the had been hidden Simpkins, Miss Myrtle Mo s Kaufiann Mo wheRE .. | e pointed U Sprinkiing: sysiem. forhing 8 Phe et of. the previdus Ex' yedts M uhsdion] . protessionishigughout e Mayer expressed his w ne's' Mi's Alice Palmer, Miss Edna Har- eava nmurrflw The string ensetabls; BhEhbosad of Other ”“,“N\ were appointe : f) ur. the txle»lm.\e(l” m?k l\,u,m. he which the average was 10.1 matern- United States. to plead guilty, but under Wash- pole, Miss Pauline Monroe, Mis Miss . Ann ‘NEGFFIN) RAG Kailxr-|1-w: the mllmk‘:ng stations Iv““?f“" green foods on d'h])lzl_\ always fresh. a] death per thousand births. How- Iy is Boped that AlkskRewill Wigre ington®law, he must be tried beforz g 2 Dooley, Miss Nell McClos- . .. Torkelsen, Miss SYIvia DR, Misc Hermann, (ylmplaln. Mary Stewart, The new vegetable {Mk has aroused ever, even this year’s record com- equally in the benefits of this cam- a jury before his punishment is de- Miss Jane Alexander, Mrs. W ur VIrg”"a Shirley ‘Davis, andt MISTM1thea Drill Leader; Beatrice Bothw 1 considerable favorable comment pares unfavorbaly with the rate as paign and through education in termined. He is now serving life a5 ¢ Overby, Mrs. Roger H. Stevenson Rands, Wis LGl RNEIRNEEL | | Confidential Ohestver, Betty: Bise, sfrs FREIE O the store since its given for the United States as 2 the importance of adequate matern- an habitual criminal Mrs. W. C. Overby, Mrs. M. E. Mon- musical GEAEHERS) Outer Observer; Sylvia Davis, Mus- installation several weeks ago. whole, which is 5.6 maternal deaths al care and through the exfension = -0 agle, and Mrs. Howard E. Simmons = Sailing tomorrow aboard the Prin- L lag g iy \ian, aae Paul, Cholr '“”””L"" & R per 1,000 births. and improvement of facilities for NEW STORE FRONT Mrs. Alice Bach Coughlin and| cess Louise, Dr. and Mrs. W. M 'F"v‘“ Im/fl“‘l"-‘“‘r?‘:nli 1:“:}::?\!:‘:‘ White infant mortality of Alaska such care a continuous improve- Mrs. Jo-ephine White assisted dur-| Whitehead, acgompanied by theil it U e el b i NLRB char Es Fl"’ on the other hand compares Very ment in this field of health will NOW BUlLDlNG FOR ing the afternoon two young chilgren, are leaving for fanne ”Lu:n 2T, I!fnhll,xlll]\vi. VE /:n favorably with the average given follow, MEN’S WEAR SHOP _ Spring flowers and candles formed a vacation of several weeks in the bath ]"““’ il S b for the whole of the United States. Pl 320 BRI a setting for the occasion States. TIGKETS Gu UN :nell, Patriotism, and Lorein Vian w k For 447 reported white births . BT >oo f i AL la, Service ur ers Ina e there were 18 deaths of infan “ Alieraiions;under Wy, at the Tri- l,r?;li]:gsx::fm!;‘?sflxs:mn!:‘m [‘;/(l‘,”:i Choir: Maydell George, Lila Sin- under one year of age, givin;a al;: us v 5 us ems b ST JUNEAU MEN TO WORK e o o050 @) E MONDY S5 S s | i, e e of 03 por 100 : ’ LG s with his family there for some time ) I M 2 “er a flr E ive births against the United SITAPUR, Indi lone police- ';‘","m. » ”.",‘ ‘7"',"i"‘i’.“”m:, b MINING PROPERTY IN 7, trip will mark the first visit of Wor Beryl Marshall, Dorothy g States figure of 56 per 1,000 births. man sAwpped a x:ubAof ;lln(lill.x at g \‘:’:;F w:,’wf;‘mf“‘:_',m‘“ oo LISTANSKI DISTRICT Mrs. Whitehead and the children Fors, Bernice Mead, Lillian ")‘-‘"“- T Two hundred and sixty-six breed the point of a gun from destroying P'all(‘lr.‘ Sosmer S BN o dation W g with Dr. Whitehead’s mother, Mrs. Wwith the opening contest of the g":“:lll‘;\ i""" *f"x“’”-i";1“]\‘{;'.']‘(“_2‘:‘”;2;;:;_' NEW YORK, May 7.—Flinore M. births were reported for the year a Moslem village. The Hindus were ripped out to prepare for the new Atticles of incorporation were S. B. Whitehead, and has been long | 1938 season but one week away, & !<:| 7 i : Herrick, Regional NLRB Director, 1937 with 155 mlanl»dflefxfhs giving enraged by the Moslem sacrifice of und modern store front which Mr., [led this morning by the Lisianski anticipated. cneentrated drive to dispose of sea- Gt said she is ting complaints @5 mortality rate of 56.5 per 100 a sacred cow. against 200 fur manufacturers live births. The death rate among —_——————— Henning plans ‘The new {ront will afford the store increased window display space. It will provide an ample door set- back into a deep “V” from the street and flanked by windows on both \sides. Framing for the windows and door was taking shape today while floor-laying progressed in- side, preparing for the opening of the store, which Mr. Henning ex- pects to celebrate about the fifteenth of this month .- Mining Company, @ local corpora- tion formed for operations on the fermer Jack Koby claims in Lisian- ski Inlet on Chichagof Is'and. J. G. Shepard, M. E. Monagle and Gor- don Wildes are the incorporators and directors in the company. With them are Ross Gridley, former head of PWA here who is now in Port- land, and E. R. Hoffman of Port- land. » The new company has acquired the claims from Koby and work al- ready has started in driving a tun- nel, some machinery going over last Dr. Whitehead plans to attend the University of Virginia Hospital for two weeks, and also will visit in ‘Washington and New York. On their return West, the Whiteheads will visit in Seattle for a short time and will stop in Wrangell to be with Mrs. Whitehead's family for about a week. e | HosPITAL NoTES | L2 + Ross Peterson, a surgical patient, on tickets to all Gastineau Chan- nel League basehall games will open n Juneau and Douglas on Monday, it was announced today by League President William A. Holzheimer A crew of salesmen and saleswo- men will cover the entire buiness section of the two cities and as much 1¢ possible of the remainder of the | section during the next week, ac- cording to plans, President Holzheimer emphasized n his announcement today that the 1son coupens will entitle the hold- ers to view all games played by the ROBERT COOGAN IS UNDER GUARD FROM ABDUCTION Flood of Clani( Letters Causes Police: Ring The Director charges fur proces- sors with locking out thousands of fur workers in violation to the W; ner Act. e EASTERN STAR T HONOR MOTHERS AT MEETING TUESDAY A short business meeting is sched- uled by the Order of Eastern Star for Tuesday. evening when members ag ¢ f dple .re are elev- | Was dismisse ay from 'S p . will gather at 8 o'clock. Following £ MISS BINGAMAN week, Monagle said. There are eley-| %45 disiissed today from St AMNYS | eague teams, in both Juneau and for Protection i ap b P i en claims in the property which is Hospital. glas, o vill affor hold- UENARS IDACHIINN, 6 SPEoul IapLu - i TO BE BRIDE OF 1ocated one and one-fourth miles e it i, z er’s Day program will be held d h of ourlh US| Vincent Libson was admitted yes- | &S, D0, responsibility tg contribute; LOS ANGELES, May 7.—Jackie »n rainbow girls are to take south of the head of Lisianski In- " V€S- | when the collection hat is passed Coogan’s - brother Robert, is uing*t part in the program which will also JOHN F. TANDOO Tuesday morning at a ceremony to let. The firm is capitalized at 10,000 shares of non-par. terday afternoon for medical atten- tion at St. Ann's Hospital. at the individual games. The season | ticket holder need only flash his | card and the collector will be on his guard today as an aftermath of a tlood of cr k-letters that have come in since Jackie sued his mother feature the Girls’ Trio and the In- strumental Sextette. Mrs. E. J. Cow- ling is chairmal of refreshments for native infants is appallingly high. Try an Empire ad | Elks’ Baseball DANCE =35 TONIGHT Admission be performed at the recto of the Otis Ol . 3 % RS S son, a medical patient, | s ahaimer i i . i Church of the Nativity, Miss Heler: was admitted yeste. day to St. Anns | WAV Prexy Holzhelmer suid for four tajilion dollaky the evening. $1.00 Margaret Bingaman of Juneau is M t Hospital, e, Mrs. Coogan said she was forced s A N (_: t:;mm:- the bride of John F a"y fla s e o hl\‘(\.fl‘vt\\"\‘l\:ea to guard 13 year, pry The Empire classifets for Music hy—Wesley Barrett and his Royal Alaskans £ m 00. ; Elizabeth Kunz, a medical pa- old Robert, fearing an abduction at- poqipe % The Rev. William G. LeVasseur s HEnE: ke BRIk tr o the - G | tempt. Little Robert broke his arm 3 § will officiate at the services. Mr. ea e Xc a“ e ot x i . yesterday while playing at school 4 ernment Hospital 3 GO My S Tandoo is employed by the Califor- t Hospital yesterday. Bah DIB |Tumm' ittt o Al nia Grocery. [N ] Margaret Johnson, who has been |'TORELLS SAILING FOR MAYBE $0 SEATTLE, May 7.—The follow- ing arrivals from the halibut banks sold fish here tod: receiving medical care, was di ed from the Government H pital | today. CHICAGO, May 7. — Parents of five weeks' old Helaine Colan, have LONG VISIT, GERMANY Western banks: Tordenskjold, es e s i decided to let the baby die of a| Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Torell, well 39,000, selling at 9% cents and 7 THOMAS FUNERAL tumor on the optic nerve rather known Juneau residents, are sailing SHANGHAI, May 7—The Japan- cents, Funeral services for George than authorize an operation which |on the Princess Louise in the morn- ese claim they have found the body of a Soviet Officer in Yuwangshan which the Japanese occupied Wed- nesday. The implication is given out that the Soviet officer was prob- ably aiding the Chinese. e Try The Empire classifieds for results. Local banks: Bernice, 15,000, Syl- via, 18,000, both selling for 9% and 6 cen cents; Evolution, 14,000, selling for 9% and 6 cents; Freya, 15,000, Arne, 18,000, moth selling at 9% and 6 cents. ——————— Try an Empire ad. The face of RusSELL PATTERSON Skillful illustrator, sculptor, cartoomist and motion picture scenic director Signs of Skill High, rather square Forehead with crown well-developed above brows. Semi-aquiline Nose with long, narrow nostrils. Lower Lip presents a wrinkled appearance. Thomas, Jr., are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday from the chapel of Wesley, 10,000, 9% and 6/the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. The Rev. David Waggoner will of- ficiate and interment will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery. ———— Today’s News Today.—Empire. will mean removal of the child's eyes and life blindness. Dr. Herman Colan, father of the baby, and Dr. Morris Hershman, maternal grandfather, consulted a brain specialist before the decision. ———— “Alaska” by Lester D. Henderson. |ing on an extended trip to Germany. | They expect to be gone the greater part o’ a ye: visiting friends and relatives in rious parts of Ger- many - > Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire Office. Be Sweet to Your MOTHER but...the new G-E “I bad thought an electric range was slow intense cooking heat instantly”’ gives clean, @ You can cook a meal as fast or faster on a new General Electric Range than by any other method. And economically, too! 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