The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1939, Page 2

JANUA CLEARANCE of discontinued lines of MEN’S and !!"0MEN’S SHOES $3.95 STILL A FINE RANGE OF SIZES AND STYLES See Qur SPECIAL BARGAIN GROUPS of SHOES on B. M. BEHRENDS CO., Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department e CHAMBER RAPS TWO MEASURES IN-LEGISLATUR Bothersome io Business Is Claim-Criminal Act Supported Opposition to two bills pending nr‘w the Legislature and endorsement of | another w the | The Chamber went on 1¢ ing the Lecl House bill No. 9 15, because features in each. No. 9 would requ’ i Ject to license fer ot to the Auditor { while No. 19 u ers report a sioner of Labor on t hours worked by every and to furnish considerable information. Increases Bookkeeping H. L. Faulkn Chairman of the Chamber tive Committee said the measures would result inj increased bookkeeping for all em-| ploy and uld be especially | pags 1 No. | ble al he ( s unber of employ other w bothersome to the small merchant.|is a city ordinance here that pro- | ger of Northland Transportation | Archaeologist in Charge of Futhermore. able purpose large measure ready re curity laws, he brought out that the bills would mean higher prices for everybody. Legislators are not to be blamed for such measures, Faulkner said he bills serve nc valu- as they .duplicate in the information ai- v the social se-| It was also; ed as such bills are introduced only be-|more than $300,000 drilling in and | cause pressure is.exerted by “busy- bodies.” The measure receiving endorse- ment of the Chamber is the habit- ual criminal act. Visitors t Visitors introduced at today’s lun- cheon meeting were I. C. Rowland, representing = Lloyd's London which is arranging reinsurance for | the new Alaska General Insurance | Company; ‘Miss ‘Miriam Dickey, Sec- retary to Capt. A. E. Lathrop, and Henry Green, new agent for the Northland Transportation Company. A. B. Phillip urged support for the President's Birthday held here Saturday evening. I Stock Quouflous I NEW._ YORK, Jan. 2F—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 9 American Light and Powe conda % Bethlehen: Steel - 60%, Comufonwealth and saulhem 1%, £ of It’s so gude a mon would .travel a long way for a Joémzle Walker wi’ soda ....but it’s so popular RED LABEL, Byears old. 12 years old. Both 86.8 sroof. | Curtiss Wright A 24, General Mo-| | '34.67';. {rails 27 ‘Here's One Youngster |account of his plight, with his pic- | Ball to be! American Can 92, | Ana- | 3 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 26, 1939. SMITH TRIAL st NEARING END LATETODAY Gngsby Label§ Stirpnse Witness as “Magni- ficent Present” ' (Continued rrom Page One) | of embracing him. Then what are his rights?” Making reference to a “man’s home being his castle,” Grigsby de- clared, “I personally believe in the unwritten law, but there isn't any such thing, so I can't believe so0.” Blaming Mrs. Smith and Colling for Colling’s death, Paul Danzig, co-defense attorney said: “Colling | went into another' man’s home—he | breckeup Smith's family, caused his furniture to be sold, and he and she set off the chain of circumstances which places Smith before you tor d: Assistant Prosetutor George Folta made his preliminary arguments at opening of court this morning and was to make his final address to | the jury late this afternoop before the case goes to the jurors i Murdered In Revenge | Folta said Smith “murdered in | revenge without legal defense,” and mgflesed that testimony indicates “perbaps Smith intended to “shoot them both” Making reference to Mrs.Smith's | testimony that_she had been forced "|to her knees by Smith when he pointed his gpn at her after Colling had been shot and said: ‘Get down on your knges, or I'll kill you,” Folta saild: “There was hatred and murder " 4.99 Third Floor ore” International Harvester ott 33%, New York Cen- Pacific 10! Southern P. 53% Pound tors 421 52, Kenn tral 16'i, Northern -.HP\X,\\ Stores 327%, fic 15, United States Sgeel Bremner bid asked 1%, 0w, Juy Ll el | down on her knees, but when she following are today's DOW.| ;4 "Go ahead, Jack, shoot me,’ he “"“"i“"l\ \1}11;;;;})1 lals 1364 '| couldn’t go through with it” R e Further, Folta insisted the ele- ment of self defense was “non-exis- tant” and that the death of Coll- ing was “cold blooded and premed- | itated” s Court Room Crowded ¢ The court room was crowded all DENVER, Jan Roll call at|day. Wwith disappointed spectators Wyatt School on the opening day of | ™ atching the last scenes of the dra- the winter term showed one c\'n‘"" through the glass windows of pupil in the room. the coust. feten,doags Once during the course of Grlg,\- He w a four-year-old and he! by's jury address, when he made | wouldn'’t volunteer any information ference to Smith not wanting Cvrlg:‘ other than the fact that school was | py for an attorney and “showing he starting and he was there. had a. least that much sense” the An explanation from the teacher| .,.rt room broke into muffled that he was too young for school laughter that drew a rebuke from brought only tears. Finally police Judge George F Alexander and a| were called to take him home. | thréat to” “throw * you ‘out,” if you Unable to give name or address .,,% restrain your giggling” he was taken to the matron’s qum- il ters. He stayed until a newspaper NORTHlAND EXE(UIIVE I5 LEAVING FOR SOUT W. J. Manahan, Assistant Mana- T‘ e | Jones Too Eager for School | 26 ture, brought his parents to the| rescue. McALLEN, Okla., Jan. 26.—There | | | | P i vides if oil is found within the city | Co., tr will Ieave tonight with Mrs. 1e oil firm must pay the residents Manahan for Seattle aboard the | royalties. | North Coast. For the purpose the town was| Mr. Manahan has been in Jupeau | divided into 33 drilling blocks with | for the past week handling affairs! from 37 to 41 acres in each block. ‘xelah\,e to the agency transfer of | If oil is found in a block all prop- i | the Northland agency in Juneau.v erty owners in that block receive | and overseeing preliminary plans | royalties. Two oil firms have spent | for the improvements to-be made in the Northland ticket office on the: i Winter Clearance USED CARS 1937 DELUXE SIX FORDOOR TOURING SEDAN, hot water heater, mileage 8.740 1937 MASTER CHEVROLET COUPE, radio, hot water heater, mileage 7,208 1935 PLYMOUTH FOURDOOR TOURING SEDAN; heater, mileage 34,007 1931 CHEVROLET COACH 1932 V8 FORD COUPE near the city limits; he never has to! BORN 1820, ;4 12’s sensible to stick with il going stgong |in his mind when he made her get, BUDGET ASKED HAIDA COMMANDER FOR U. 5. ARMY SU((EEDS N EXAMS ALMOST BILLION o s e s Iv‘\l!rl. x\( (‘nmm rder Noble G. Ricketts, of the U.S.C.G. Haida, has Money Provides for 388, ety sased i o 310 Men to Come Under Army tions recently taken in Seattle. One more examination will com- plete the tests, the successful com- pletion of which will entitle Lieu- tenant Commander Ricketts to the Budget _appropriations for the - e CO""“a"d‘1¥VA United States Army for the 1940 fis- cal year as submitted to Congress by the President provides a sum of $455,867,200. | This appropriation will allow for | a maximum strength of officer per- sonnel to the number of 13031, an, H l BOARD increase of 329 over the previous vear, but still short of the authorized | tre th of 14,459 as established by R S = ™ Improvement Cost Would Be from $24,000 to $30,240 Report same figure as last year, 165,000. The augmentation of the Regular Army Reserve, composed of honorably dis-| charged army men under 36 yea | of age will continue in force. It is| pyopg for construction of & tunnel the objective of the War Depart-| g, the school grounds to the Ev- menk to, bolster. this group to in-| . oon Bowl were turned over by the °l‘,‘l‘.’:e75efg°m:":: {6t the National| Chamber of Commerce today to the i ‘e Juneau Board of Education. Guard will support a strength of|™q ot the proposed tunnel, as de- 205,000 men. A final increment of |, = 3 . ¢ A | termined by a Chamber Committec ?%ffi ;Z;rt};al}abt:e:d}é:‘(?\fp‘rli‘f‘ under Chairmanship of Wellman vide a total strength of 210,000 Holbrook, would hwws,:-‘a.mm if it ;} The quota of, 2320 airplanes will| TroUSh Sravel or $3.310 W [EOLES be reached in the 1939 a]mxrmn,u‘“m LG s smprete T tions, Estimates provided for the ad lidt include lahting ditign of 390 planes for the current | =—q o' ocia bhel would be 480 ¥¢ar and 219 for the 1940 fiscal year. | "¢ PROPOTCd A, WS For the purchase of airplanes in fis- | oo .t walk throuthy cal year 1940, $20,340770 will be ’I’,““‘[;f‘,(‘i“:“’. o ihogh ey il available. In the current year $33-| ;' oo % " u‘v\‘,;‘m;. that 150,646 has been provided. i S(')mn‘l‘ ralpit e Additional proyision in the esti-|, o Tl the project under the PWA Before the been recommends | obtain a long lude but Averag up sard mates_is for 30,000 Reserve Officers to be trained for fourteen days, the me number as last year. Thirty day' trainees of the Citizens Mili- tary Training Corps has been re- duced in number from 35,000 to 30,- 000 for the next fiscal year. A grand total of 388310 men will | 1 be trained and enrolled under pro- | visiohs of the budget estimates. This i figure includes Regular Army, Re-! serve Officers, National Guard and| ‘p L, senzollees, but, excludes the |, .o Amay Resgrve enroliment. | D ,Kuimux IVORY .~ COLLECTION IS - RECEIVED HERE ! tunnel is built it has d that lease on the bowl - BARTLEIT LEAVING SEATTLE SATURDAY the L. week Bartlett, nominated resident Roosevelt Alaska, \\lll m the according eivd today by the “Bob’ we [to beco I1cave |anof te Tnor's Bartlett has lr) Gov- for m off who lives been in the He is Tuesday. the great Ku k Lawrence Island at Miller Hc t several month: rive here next St for due to ar- mound in 1934 { ltion o MuseumUnpa(ks395,m 19 | Pm s received here, 395 in all Pieces from Famed Exca- |rcprecen: & hira o the St Law- i S' I. mnm- tion, similar portions YaHon on JI. LAWIeN(e |ieine displaved by the University ; |of Alaska and the Department of An_excellent cojection of fossil|the Interior Jvory, beautifully polished and| Father A. P. Kashevaroff, Cu beautifully marked, was received |tor, said the museum has no facili- ?today by the Territorial Museum |ties at present for displaying the h‘rom Otto William Geist, formerly inew collection and will make a lheuvqu\mnon for additional display |Office of Indian Affairs. The as-|cases. |sortment was mailed here from| Today Father Kashevaroff and | College. |Mrs. Josephine White, Assistant |“The: collection, one of the treas- |Curator, were unpacking the col- ures of the museum, is part ofyIPLUL)n and checking the pieces |the assortment secured in excava- against a catalog list. city |, BOUMND FOR JUNEAU | 6 TOTEM POLES, 4 NATIVES T0 SHOW AT FAIR Alaska fo Be | Represenled at San Francisco by Indian Office Alaska is to have the San Francisco Exposition after all. Six totem poles and four In- dians from Hydaburg will be at San Francisco when the fair opens, ent there by the Office of Indian Affairs here. An appropriation for he representation has been re- ceived, Charles Hawkesworth, As- sistant General Superintendent, dis- closed today. The totem poles, ood specimens, a display International all old and all are already on heir y to San Francisco from Letchikan. Next month the Na- ives, John Wallace and son Wi jam Wallace, Samuel G. Davis and Mrs, Davis will follow them. Father of Hydaburg John Walls father of Hyda- urg, who con: ations of Howkan and Klinquan it the site of the present village on Sukwan Narrows in 1911, carved f the office of the Secretary of the Interior in Washington. Davis, an ordained minister in he Presbyterian Church, is a fine Hyda orator with a good knowledge »f Indian legends and is expected to be an effective representative in San Francisco. Jones Yeltetzie, whose family the poles to the St. Louis s F. also wants to go'to ancisco, but funds are wble at present to send him. » St. Louis poles are now stand- ing ai Sitka where they were set up following return from the East. The poles to be shown at San ancisco in height and are privatel Dancing blankets and oth ples of Alaska Indian also will be shown - AT ACTIVE TODAY are owned exam- L work | Alaska Air | this morning Tran \pn" went at 10 o'clock with a | p ger load of five people. Rid- ing behind Shell Simmons in the | Vega were Jack Koby, Ed Reeves, | Everett Keyes d Miller, all for Chichagof, Martin Dahn Pelican. The ship returned this with a load of four passengers from Chichagof including Jack Little- page, Chichagof Mine Superinten- | dent. and - - ment as President of Czechoslovakia, Eduard Benes has been spending much of his time relaxing at his rustic estate near Sezimovo Usti, Czechoslovakia. e A parachute jumper who killed at Augusta, Ga., had sent a telegram to his father that morn- ing saying, | barnstorming after the show today Since his ret not | from eight to 22 feet | at dated the popu-| he poles which stand at the portals | ON CHICHAGOF RUN out | for afternoon was “I'm going to give up | | U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Jan, 2%- Cloudy, probably snow or rain, moderate east and southeast winds to- night and Friday. Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: For northern portion— Cloudy, probably snow or rain, except snow over extreme northern portion, moderate east and southeast winds except moderate to fresh southerly winds over Lynn Canal. For southern portion—Rain tonight moderate east and southeast winds, except fresh to strong over Dixon Entrance. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh to strong east and southeast winds tonight and Friday from Dixon En- trance to Cape Spencer and moderate east to north winds from Icy Point to Cape Hinchinbrook. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 30.12 37 89 8 1 29.8' 38 81 E 10 29.68 35 92 8 5 RADIO REPORTS TODAY Lowest 4a.m. 4a.m. Precip. temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. ‘Weather Lt. Rain Lt. Rain Cloudy Time 3:30 p.m. yest'y 3:30 am. today Noon today Max. tempt. last 24 hours | 38 14 -14 8 -8 10 12 4am. Station Weather Atka Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco New York Washington -2 4 -26 -2 -14 8 -16 14 28 18 22 36 32 22 34 12 40 42 46 6 18 2 -24 -2 PO NS Q wE g Cloudy Rain Sewa Clear Cloudy Pt. Cldy Clear Pt. Cldy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy 38 12 44 42 46 10 20 Baaw| e o oS 32 32 WEATHER SYNOPSIS The storm area that was noted yesterday morning as being cen- tered over the Aleutian Islands has decreased in intensity and has remained about stationary, the lowest reported pressure being 29.30 5. Moderately high barometric pi ure prevailed over the nzie Valley. This general pressure distribution has been at- tended by precipitation along coastal rgions over Aleutians and from the Prince William Sound region southward to Oregon, followed by clearing this morning over the northern portion of the Gulf of Al- aska and over portions of Southeast Alaska, and by generally fair weather over the interior and western portions of Alaska. It was much colder last night at New York and Washington, the minimum temperature at New York being 6 degrees above zero. Juneau, Jan. 27.—Sunrise, 8:17 a.m.; sunset, 4:07 pm. From lands far and near, Schilling gathers pure, fragrant spices to make your meals taste better. Insist on Schilling Pepper, Cinnamon and other spices. They’re extra good! 37 SPICES—19 EXTRACTS There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising | 7 Have a GOOD TIME . . . foraWORTHY CAUSE DANCE TO: Wes Barrett’s ‘ROYAL ALASKANS JOHNNIE W4LKER BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY CANADA DRY GINGER ALE, INC,, NEW YORK, N. Y.; SOLE DISTRIBUTOR ADMISSION $1.00