The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1939, Page 8

ROOSEVELT T0 BE ASKED 10 HALT HANGING Ketchikan iafive's Attor- ney Will Appeal for Commutation An appeal directly to President Roosevelt for commutation of the sentence of Nelson arles from hanging to life imprisonment will be made by A. H. Ziegler, attorney for the native who has been sentenced to hang at Juneau July:21, if an attempt to Bave the District Court furnish a transcript of testimony is not successful Ziegler, in Juneau from Ketchikan filed notice of appeal but W1 1OL %) Motor and Centrifugal Pump about | 60 gals. per minute, 1 20 hp Elec- ble to appeal the case unless ript is prepared by the court client being without funds rles was found guilty of mur- edr in the first degree by a Ketchi- kan jury which declined to recom- mend against the death penalty. The Ketchikan Indian was accused of killing his mother-in-law. He was sentenced to hang July 21, but since | pinyc from 1 inch to 1% inches, | the notice of appeal was filed May 1 has at least 90 days. or until August 1. to perfect the appeal. So the execution is automatically until then - Chapeladies to Give Picnic at 6 P.hflomorrow The annual picnic of the Chapel- adies will be held on Spaulding’s Beach tomorrow evening starting at 6 o'clock All members of the Chapeladies and their families are invited to attend the affair. - - BAILY. ALASKA EMPIRE. TUESDAY 84! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1939. ISALVAGE FROM " WRECKED SHIP LISTED TODAY At the salvagers of the wrecked motorship Patterson continued their unloading today of miscellaneous things taken from the broken craft, 1 a list of salvage took shape, showing | “everything from fish to rope,” rep- resenting a total of somewhere be- tween $5,000 and $10,000 Capt. J. V. Davis, representative here of the San Francisco Board of Underwriters, supervised the un- loading today and storing of the sal- | vage Chet Ellis' on South Seward Street The list of salvage is as follows: One Lang Range (2 oven), 1 sta- tionary Gas Engine Fairbanks Morse hp., 1 Fairbanks Morse Water Pump, 1 Centrifugal Pump about 100 5 tric Motor DC, 2 Relays for 20 h.p. Motor, 3 Switches for 20 h.p. Motor. 1 Rix Compressor, 1 Bundle Sail Canvas, 1 Toilet Assembly—tank and bowl flush type, 1 Toilet ship type, 1 Wash Sink regular, 1 Sink ship type. 1 Toilet, 1 Small Pull Switch About 10 coils rope about 1200 1 coil rope about 200 pounds 2 inch, 1 coil cable about 40 feet cord wound, 1 4-wheeled Truck, 3 buckets Linol- stayed | eum Paste, 1 2-ton Yale Chain Hoist. | 1 keg of Chains, 3 Hoisting Nets weight about 225 pounds, about 8 Turnbuckles, about 18 Blocks (wood- en) for rope, 2 Galvanized Steel Blocks, 1 Snatch Black, 2 3-ton Jacks, 1 Outboard 16 h.p. One medium Tank for CO-2 Hose and Sprayer--complete assembly, 1 Hot Water Tank, 4 Pilot House Win- dows, 4 Bundles 240 feet % inch Pr sure Pipe for CO-2, 3 Bundles var- jous lengths with fittings, about 100 feet for CO-2, 115 foot 1'% inch Pipe, in the old second hand store of { | CITY SPENDS, EARNS MORE DURING YEAR 11939 Fiscal Year Audit Is Submitted to Council by J. C. Cooper (Continued from Page One) | | [ was impossible, Cooper concluded. | Recommendations | Noting that all recards were found | in the past year, bond retirement, | | | | in good condition, Cooper recom- mended that deposits' of City funds | should be made more frequently and | that an office fund of not more han $200 be established to take care | of small accounts. Total assets of the City were list-‘ ~d at $772,69547, including $137,-/ 998.90 cash on hand and in banks, | current assets of $16.706.50, build- ings worth $137,203.72, equipment | $11,006.40, land worth -$81,074.37, pre- paid insurance of $856.22 and $387,- 949.36 in permanent improvements. Included in the cash in banks is $132,02266 for PWA construction.| One of the items in current assets is $13,530.27 in delinquent taxes. | Buildings were valued as follows: | {new school $60,778.76; old school |$47,250; new dock $16924.96; old |dock $1,500; city hall $10,750. Permanent improvements include: general $285049.80; completed by PWA, $75316.39; PWA under con- struction, $3977.34, and 1938 im- provements worth $23,605.83. Half Million to the Good Biggest item in liabilities is $289,- 000 bonded indebtedness, which in- | i { 13 lengths 1 inch Pipe about 55 feet cludes $90,000 in school bonds, $44,- with some fittings, 1 Sling for Cars. |000 in sewer bonds, $62,000 in old One Electric Drill Assembly. 1 As-!issue PWA bonds and $93,000 in sembly, 3 Tool Boxes (1 medium, 2 new issue PWA bonds. With bond small) with some tools, 1 Box with interest of $4,500 and other current Tools miscellaneous sorts and 3izes, |jighilities, the total liabilities come |5 gallons Paint, 8 gallons Shell Ol {t5 only $306,440.18, which compared 3 Bundles Hardware, 3 Barrels Chain | with ascets, leaves Juneau $466,- Young People to Hold Conference The Presbyterian Young People’s Pieces (shackles and miscellaneous ship equipment), 1 gallon Grease, 1 jug White Lead, 6 Fire Extinguishers, 2 2-inch Fire Hose 50 feet each. Nineteen barrels Red Salmon, 13 * _ | crates Sterilizer, 1 box Sterilizer gfi:‘;fi:;“i;a:“;;e }:;e-éti i;:.lvhk; b(;.: Parts, Box No. 1 Miscellaneous, Box Knudsen of Skagway is the Dean. No. 2 Miscellaneous, § Life Preser- Dr. Thorne from the Young People’s | Y™ 2 Brass Megaphones a’_‘d 1 Department of the National Board Pipe, 1 roll Gas Hose, 2 rolls Air will take part in the Conference Hose, 1 barrel Blocks, szflut House . . Gt Signal Controls, 1 Chain Drive for same, 1 box Blocks For each 100 pounds of feed it One coil New Rope 600 feet 1-inch consumes a steer returns 2.8 pounds 1 coil Rope about 100 feet 1'z-inch. of edible human food solids; the'S Blocks with Ropes, 4 small bundles Jamb 3.2 pounds; poultry 42 pounds Rope about 300 pounds, 1 coil Copper and the hog 15.6 pounds. Cable with flexible copper on the > — outside, 3 Lamps for same, 12 Tanks News Today—Empire. CO-2, 2 Valves for same, —_— Valves, 1 Hospital Bed, 1 Frame for Today's 1255.29 in the black. | City revenues during the year totalled $132,766.78, including $98,- |449.36 in taxes, $1,630 in fines and forfeitures and $25,842.45 in licens- ies. License receipts during the fis- iu:l year were $4,925 from liquor, $15,846.056 mercantile, $3,530.50 auto, 18393 drivers, $50 dogs, $97.90 mis- {cellaneous, $960 permits and $40 card tables. Refunds of $8,799.41. school fund ‘313.000. municipal wharf $17,800, |borrowed from banks $54,000, and {territorial collections of auto licens- |es to the amount of $9,324 and Jschofl] taxes of $7972.50, when add- ed to the regular city revenues, (the fiscal year to $243,662.69. MISS DOROTHY QUACKENBUSH (Miss American Aviation 1938-1939) like oll charming T. W. A. hostesses, is af your service clear across the country. Covvrieht 1939. LiccerT & Myzms Tomacco Co, I0GIVEN WORK NEWPARKING TEN BARRELS 1 barrel brought total cash receipts during | ON PWA STREET ~ RESTRICTION | IS PROPOSED PROJECT HERE | $10,400 Job Gets Under City Coundil Holds Long Way Tomorrow, Says Meeting-Meefs Score OF OIL FLOW AT CHINITNA Dorothy Quackenbush, with her smile and her Chest- erfields, keeps smokers happy Jfrom coast to coast. Chesterfield’s happy combina- tion of the world’s best tobaccos gives smokers just what they want in a cigarette . . . refresh- ing mildness, better taste, more pleasing aroma. When you try them you will know why Chesterfields give millions of men and women more smoking I ame horse, who broke a $100,000 | | wire, was bought by him when he | | was a 40 to 1 shot. | [ avenstrite and Howard are polo | | buddies. Howard is California’s | | Buick dealer, and Havensrtite has oil wells scattered over the country. | As a result, the two men, strong bruisers in any man’s language, are “three goal men,” which means “class” in polo ranks, and belong to the well known Midwick Country Club of San Mateo. But right now, Seabiscuit, Kayak pleasure...why THEY SATISFY New Chief-of-Staff Sterilizer, 2 band Trucks, 1 Auto-! mobile Sling, 1 Life Boat (steel) One Barometer, Box No..1, Box| 11, and all the other fine flesh of the Disbursemen s world known Howard stables are in | Disbursements totaued $247,367.- |Iniskin Hopes Rise-Presi- | City Engineer of Pflb_lems | No. 2, 6 Cargo Rollers, 1 Flare Gun You're in step ! Lights, 1 Peavey. 'NORTH STAR AT " ATA, FARTHEST WEST OF CRUISE | | | J The North Star, Office of Indian ‘Aflairs vessel, was at the ‘extreme iend of its western trip today, at Atka, near the end of the Aleutians. | The vessel is to start back toward Juneau " tonight, returning without Iswppmg at Seward. | % * When You Lunch Tomorrow | LUNCH at the BARANOF On Baranof Style HAM HOCKS and | Every Month in the Year AUCTION SALES DATES 1939 1 September .6 12 October 11 9 November 8 December 13 CLOTHES — Timely style, always authen- tic and in good taste — Timely fabrics, most of them exclu- sive; all top-notch 100% wool- ens — Timely tailoring, im- pressive outside, because thorough inside — Timely value, finest in the country! 8$29.50 up FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter June July August Special Sales Held On Request of Shippers Advances will be-made as usual when requested. Transferred by telegraph, if desired. EXCHANGE 1008 Western Avenue Seattle, Wash. l THE SEATTLE FUR} |93, including $140.448.07 for City |1 Galvanized Flare Box, 1 Bras government and items for pen 3 40 | | Cylinder Flare Can, 1 Large Port ‘em \ipeovemmts, FWA Bz';:\:‘ | morrow morning on a $10400 WPA | | 2 S+ | proje¢t of street improvement here, | sidewalk in front of his home on | WPA work, equipment, etc. People .are becoming,more care- | |on time, are buying fewer graves |and building more homes, accord- ing to the comparative incomes of | years. Library fees in 1939 were $435.55 as compared to $352.45 in, the previous year; cemetery income was $881 as compared to $1,132.50 and building permit fees paid 39602 in the year just ended as com- | pared to only $528 in 1938. License collections showed a se- vere drop, from $3598698 in 1938 | to $24,88245 in 1939, the biggest loss being in ‘liquor licenses,” down from $19,981.81 to $4,925. | Wharf Prospers The municipal wharf reported a | compared to $1,106.34 in the year o | previous. Incomé was $15,401.64 and expenditures $11,477.26 in 1939, while | comparative 1938 figures were $14,- 111536 and $11,450.53, Still owed the City are delinguent taxes amounting. to $13,530.27 of which almost half, $7,167.01, are | lor the year 1938. During the year {$5,16051 in delinquent taxes were | zollected, for years as follows: 1932, {39; 1033, $13.50; 1934, $13.50; 1935, | $22033; 1936, $88885, and 1937, | $4,015.33. [ POCKET PICKING " 1S CHARGED TO | Sigfuson was arrested by City Police today and bound over on arraign- ment for a hearing before U. S. | Commissioner Pelix Gray. . | sigfuson is accused ‘of picking the pocket of Frank Perez A gold nugget |and = wrist watch allegedly taken | from Perez were recovered from Sig- fuson, according to police. Sigfuson is being held under $1,- 00 bail. grand jury, as pocket picking is a felony. b HALDEMAN LEAVING | Dr. J. C. Haldeman, Tuberculosis | Clinician for the Department of Health, is leaving on the. Yukon. to- A crew of 40 men is starting to- | ik (rorf’.’\ge Oxlei 2 City Engineer Milton Lagergren an- | Calhoun Avenue if the finished walk nounced today. | was more of Juneau. streets are included in the are aiready in for the walk, which project plan. | must be 18 inches above the slab in Julius Heineman has been engaged | order to meet the Gold Creek Bridge the City for the past two fiscal as Timekeeper on the job, and algrade, City Engineer Milton Lager- | Foreman is to be selected by Mayor gren said. Harry 1. Lucas, under authority| A petition was received from half voted at last night's City Council a dézen women living on Basin Road meeting. |asking that the city surface the A e T road, which they claimed is in such condition that it endangers their ou'slde Amal“‘fl 1 property and the lives of pedestrians. Io 'lom P'i(e | Erection of “Children Playing” signs A"e' 17 vears | The McLean Agency asked by let- Tom Price, U. S. Commissioner at ‘::l;;::eabi:?;:s: f:the cltyis tieans | along the road also was asked. \ ‘Wants Insurance Anchorage, and Mrs. Price arrived | geyeral applicati £ A in Juneau today on the Yukon to Phileations {or {TR I ¢ i than a foot above the level | |less about returning library bookS Minor improvements to a number | of a slab leading to his door. Forms | dent and Horse Owner Are on Yukon Hopes that Alaska will really have | a large oil producing .area Wwere raised today when Russell Haven- strite, President of the Iniskin Oil Drilling Company, passing through Juneau on the Yukon, received a wire advising of unusually favorable oil indications at the drilling site. Havenstrite received a wire from his brother Homer, at the Chinitna Bay drilling, advising that when the | capped hole 17500 feet deep was re- opened today, actual oil and high gas pressure showed. | The wire said “800 pounds of gas | pressure had been built up during | the winter,” and that ten barrels of I | | ;clean yellow high gravity oil had been |- drained off.” Havenstrite said today that he| the background. Today’s wire from | the oil drilling operations looks “like the real thing,” as Havenstrite says. | To date, Havenstrite estimates that with oil and two draglines on gold placers in the Interior, he has | invested $1,000,000 in “Alaska. < At present he and his partners have a dragline operating in the Ophir dis- i trict (and Havenstrite carries nug- gets as big as'quarters and four bit | pieces from the ground) and this summer will put another drag to work in the Kaiyah Hills between the Innoko and the Yukori Rivers. Havenstrite said he and Howard expect to be returning south aboum% mid July. e — MRS. MEYRING 10 JOIN PILOT MAIE% Mrs. Gene Meyring, wife of the | | | | | Brigadier General Marshall ~ President Roosevelt has named net profit of $2,365.88 last year as| spend a week before returning to their home after a three months’| visit in the States. | It was Price’s first trip Oustide | in 17 years and he admitted he was fascinated by the spectacle of “mi timekeeper and foreman positions | nas hopes “to really hit the well this were received. | summer,” as drilling continues to The Juneau Women's Club thank- ! jower levels. ed the city for its assistance in| “We've Got It putting up signs pointing out the | Heretofore, ever since drilling op- Territorial Museum. erations began in 1936, Havenstrite Curtis Shattuck offered to write has been “hopeful,” but unwilling to popular PAA pilot, arrived in Juneau today on the steamer Yukon with her small daughter, Barbara Joan. | {( +Mrs." Meyring and her daughter | will continue on to Fairbanks to join. | Gene Meyring, and while stopping | Brigadier General George - Mar- shall new chief-of-staff- of the United States army, to succeed Major General Malin Craig on his. retirement in August. Marshall is many people.” The Prices drove t0| jnqyrance on the medical aid feature New York and went through the | ot workmen's compensation through grounds of the World's Fair five|pjouqs This is the first year that days before it opened. They have|goh jnsurance has been available also visited the San Francisco Fair. | peve Their daughter, Mrs. A. D. Haver- | 3 stock of Seward, made the trip with | them e i SORENSON RETURNS BUSY SUMMER AT e | Paul Sorenson, Superintendent of FROM TRIP BELOW 516 SIGFUSON Charged with pocket picking, Sig DILLINGHAM AWAITS MRS. BRADFORD On her way to Dillingham on Bristol Bay, Mrs. A.-H. Bradford was in Juneau today, a passenger the Hirst-Chichagof Mining Com- pany operations, returned on the Yukon today 3 Sorenson has been vaeationing he hoped to fly to the mine this afternoon. e Outside for the past monthiand said | | make rash statements. He comes | straight out today and says “I think | we've got it.” Basis for his hopes, he explained, lies in the fact that in oil drilling parlance, 800 pounds of gas pressure to build up in a capped hole over the winter is of considerable mag- nitude, and that the “cléan yellow | 0il” is of what is known as “45 grav- ity,” nearly twice as much as the |average “25 gravity” oil taken in | california. Because this oil and gas have accumulated during the winter, Ha- venstrite says it is proven that the oil is “still below,” and that a. good reservoir is likely not far distant. Howard, Jr. Aboard The Iniskin people, often referred over in -Juneau, will visit with her | many friends she hasn't seen for the FREEBURN AND FAMILY past three years. RETURNING TO SITKA ———————— Lawrence Freeburn, Superinten- REQIONA !‘OE:?: Fil MA | dent of, the Pyramid Packing Com- FRONE. HE zME oA | pany at Sitka, passed through Ju- HOME FROM CAPITAL o0 o the North Sea today with his wife and baby, returning to Sitka to spend the summer canning season. —— After spending two months at ‘Washington in connection with For- est Service ‘business, Regional For- ester B. Frank Heintzleman returned | WILL JOIN SISTER to Juneau today on the Yukon. Be- FOR VACATION HERE ;| Council this afternoon and dropping tween moving into a new home &f the Baranof, trying to attend ‘the session of the Alaska Planning around to theoffice to catch up on mall, Heintzleman was too busy to | be interviewed . this afternoon, but | Margery Whittaker arrived in Ju- neau on the Yukon to spend two months visiting with her sister, Dor- othy Whittaker, teacher in home economics at the local high school. The two will remain in Juneau for 1f boundi-over after the/ | hearing, his case will go to the aboard the Yukoni With the village booming—twelve new houses have been built there this spring and other new building 4, is in progress—Mrs. Bradford is add- ing a bakery and a butcher shop to the interests of the Lowe. Trading Company of which she is President. The Lowe Trading Company oper- ates the trading post, theatre and restaurant ‘at Dillingham and with, its new enterprises will assure Mrs. Bradford a busy summer. Since she went south last fall, Mrs. Bradford has made a trip to Hono- lulu, visited friends in California and spent the rest of the winter and spring in Seattle where she has been occupled- with - preparations for the' MRS. COUNCIL RETURNS FROM VISIT WITH PARENTS on the Yukon today after an ab- intgon. e TO EEK RIVER has placer ground on the Eek River, lday for medical work at Seldovia and Kodiak. P Today's News Today—Empire. summer at Bristol Bay. ——— Try The Empire classifieds for resulls. ing the winter Outside. - Today's News Today—Empire. | { | Mrs. Walter W. Council returned | sence from Juneau of several weeks. Since she returned from Washing- i ton, D. C., where she and Dr. Coun- cil spent sometime, she has been|take in a little fishing and bear visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. hunting, while meditating on the Henry Apland at Arlington, Wash- | beauties of Kakak II, Howard stable Al Jones, mining prospector who calendar, and of Seabiscuit, {is returning te his workings as a|samp race if it hadn't been for a | passenger on the Yukon after spend- | leg injury. to as the “Mickey Mouse Oil Com- pany,” because of -much movie col: ony money in its’original financing, now has a new backer in C. N. How- ard, Jr., of the famed Howard family, stablers of some of the world's finest | horses. | Howard, Jr. is aboard the Yukon with Havenstrite, making his first | trip to the Westward, and hopes to i horse who won the $100,000 grand | prize at the Santa Anita handicap, | biggest purse in the horse racing who | Howard said would have won the 40 to 1 Shot And here’s one on the inside, How- ard said today that Kayak II, this promised to “tell all” tomorrow. | two months during the summer and .- will then go south for a trip before DRAWING FOR' RIFLE +school ‘o) again in the fall, CLUB AWARDS TO BE Y‘ (e ——— —— HELD ON SATURDA INGZALL: TONIGHT evening,| Newly elected officers of the Cath- d Pistol olic Daughters of America will be held at|installed at a meeting starting at the Triangle Inn, it was announced 8 o'clock tonight in Parish Hall. Five today. The drive is being staged candidates will be initiated after to aid in securing funds for new the_ installation, range equipment and enlarging of B shooting facilities. — e RETURN FROM SOUTH At eight o'clock, Saturday drawing for Juneau Rifle an Club prize awards will be | Remember pienic season is here so keep the refrigerator well stocked {with relishes, catsup, sandwich _| mixtures, cheeses and potted meats. Mrs. Grant Baldwin and Mrs. E.| Then you can ‘whip up an out-ddor J. Kirchofer returned home to Ju-,meal in a jiffy. neau after visiting in the Pacific| —t—— Northwest for several weeks. They| Try The Empire classifieds for came home aboard the North Sea.!results.