The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1939, Page 8

78-1 LAWMAKERS MUSTER FOR PROBEWORK Represenla]i'v; Walker| Arrives by Plane fo JoinRoden, Davis | Representative A. P. Walker, of popular fisherman-legislator trolling lines at Pelican ty yesterday. put on a new cap \d came to Juneau with Senator | iry Roden to take up the duties| his He coincident to his appointment dur- ing the last session of the Legis- lature to serve on the join Alaska Legislature-Congres$ional investiga- tion of Alaska fisheries i Walker, at the Gastineau Hotel, | preferred not to comment on | investigation other than expressing the hope that “all fishermen” will| attend the hearings and “express their opinions at the proper place and the proper time.” | Senater Roden, Représenlative Walker and Representative James V. Davis will leave for Ketchikan on the first available transporta-| tion to attend the first prelimin: | meeting of the Alaska Legislature committee with interested in Ketchikan next Sunday It is not known whether or Representative Harvey Smith Anchorage, will be able to join investigaitng group at this stage. A Congressional committee pointed to make the investig Bridges and his daughter, Jacqu parties | : DENIES HE the ion SLEW RIVAL ana pavs werel YOUN G Seattle Polifician is expected to arrive in Alaska about two weeks from now. shortly after adjournment of Congress, expected this week-end Roden, Walker to hold a conference tonight to . et e o ro. Arraigned-Pleads Not — et —— MANY. ARRIVE | Guilty - Is Held {a pelitician, Stewart Jacobson ON ALEU'"AN | pleaded not guilty to first degree pder charzes when arraigned be- fore Justic William Hoar. He was denied bail. Jacobson, a former candidate for city councilman, is accused of slay- ing his rival in a love affair. The EARLY TODAY he steamer Aleutian docked e ‘ murdered man is Chester Vaughn from the rly this morning Phasri: S witt o, Of Portland, Ore. Vaughn's body has WD 8 g o B eimea, Tot been found but the state charges e iastineau Channel. gy, is some where in Lake Sam- then sailed to the Westward with a dozen from Juneau east of Seattle week ago. mamish just | vaughn disappeared a Arrivals were Mrs. H. O. Adams, myq¢ night his car was found burn- Touise Adams, Horace Adams Jr. jng north of the city. A man who Don - Bat Grace Berg, Sylvia was throwing gasoline on the car B Mrs. Hans Berg, Mrs. J. W. fled into the darkness Carpenter, R. A. Clark Jr, Mrs.| Ppolice investigation revealed that Helen Fiynn, Paul Garrett, Ray the cushions of Vaughn's car were Hamsick, Howard Hays, Don Hayes, blood-stained. A shell from a small D. F. Holden, J. Burford Jen- rifle was found in the car. Later kins, Mrs. J. B. Jenkins, Jewell an overturned rowboat, which was Kennedy, N. H. Mace, Mrs. Mace, also blood-stained, was found float- w. J. Mil Ruth Morley, ing on the lake. Wedged under the Virginia Ples Hervert Red- Sseat was a rifle which had fired the man, Mrs. Herb Redman, Mr. and |shell found in the car Mrs. Robert Stevenson, Charlotte | e o y Stevenson, Mrs, W. Sumi, Elw ’_,‘ " Westall, L. G. Wingard, Loyal Wi G SR 1en, Joe Coleman, Thomas Cum mings, B. E. Gazaway, Lyman Tan- ner, Frank Noehl, R. J. Sommers, STOCK QUOTATIONS - k. S NEW YORK, Aug. 1. — Closing Bobby - Bommeny | auotation of Alaska Juneau mine Sailing to Seward were K. N.lgpo0p today is 7%, American Can Neill, Robert Hefferman, Dorothy|jgoy, American Power and Light Irving, P. Casper, D. Miner, A. 5w, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Sargent, William Smith, R. W. Ef-| gee1 2%, Commonwealth and fner. ; | Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, To Valdez—Jackie Gucker, Mrs. Internation- General Motors 48'%, J. W. Gucker, M. M. Morrison, Mrs. | a1 Harvester 54%, M. M. Morrison. New York Central e - Pacific 97, United REVENUE OFFICE e Dow, CLOSED TILL 15TH | porw. soxEs avex # 5 | Jones averages: industrials The local office of the Bureau Ur‘r:uls 29.26. utilities 26.24 Internal Revenue will be closed un- til August 15. Deputy Collector Wesley Overby is spending a few weeks in Ketchikan on official bus- iness. Kennecott 36% 15%, Northern States - - - Empire Want Ads Bring Results. D | ———,——— | “Alaskana” by Marie Drake at all | book stores, 50 cents | Ironer your iro a LIBERAL TRADE-IN FOR YOUR OLD IRONER ER RETURNS Wl'l'.ll THE ALASKA FEDERAL Savings and Loan Assn. of Juneau SECOND at FRANKLI; Harry Bridges, West Coast CIO leade are Bridges' defense attorneys: Aubrey Grossman, Richard Gladstein and Carol King. e. Dean James M. Landis, presiding, is at the right. Be Seated THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY; AUGUST 1, 1939. - ~ (CHUNGKING 'BARS CLOSED; > Defense Staff Shown at Hearing * BLFEASL VEFOIN YN o - fighting deportation charges. This is the first picture permitted inside the tiny Angel Island hearing room, San Francisco Bay, where Left to right (backs to camera), Across table: First Lady Honors Singer Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt presents the Spingarn Medal to Marion An- derson at annual conference of National Association for the Advange- ment of Colored People, at Richmond, Va., for the singer’s outstand| vecord during the year. Miss Anderson was principal soloist at Memorial Day exercises in Washington and later sang for King George and Quéen Elizabeth at the White House, J. L. FREEBURN IS SITKA PASSENGER ABOARD NORTH SEA. James L. Freeburn, one of aska’s foremost mining engineers, is a Sitka-bound passenger aboard the North Sea After a short time at Sitka, where his nephew, Lawrence Free- burn is manager of the Pyramid | Packing Company, Mr. Freebura I will visit at Chichagof and Hirst- Chichagof mines before returning to Juneau. - ->e The Book ALASKA, Kevised and | Enlarged, Now On Sale; $1.00. IES ALASKA Electric Light & Power Co. N Phone 616 Sénator Slfiilfi Has Birthday; What's His Age WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—Sev- enty - some - year - old Senator “Cotton” Ed Smith of South Carolina observed his birthday today by grumbling that he wished people would quit re- minding him of it. In a Senate office Smith would only say: “I won't tell you how old I am. In fact I won't even acknowledge seventy-two years. 1 won't acknowledge any years at all” % LARGE IRONING SURFACE A HEAT CONTROL % NO OILING % FLOATING SHOE % CONVENIENT KNEE CONTROL % IRONS AND PRESSES ALL MATERIALS BOMBARDED “ BY RAIDERS Prohibitionm Goes Into| CHUNGKING, Aug. 1.—The pop- ulace of this war-time Capital City of China took to the cave shelters last night as a full moon attracted Japanese bombers. The raiders bombed the newly- built residential section in the sub- urbs and also governmental quart- ers. STOCK EXCHANGE - TRADING BETTER | THAN YESTERDAY Utilities Show Strength Early in Session- | Common Drops NEW YORK, Aug. 1. — Stocks| closed unchanged to fractionally | better today after a quiet session | with utilities showing strength at times, but failing to forge ahead much. Some utility preferred stocks gain- ed as much as two points, but the commons followed closely the trend of the general market. The market opened weak, gained in midday, and s off most of its gains at the close. The closing price changes were: | S. Steel off i, Bethlehem off Chrysler up %, GM off %, Nickle | | unchanged, New York Central up| | %, Edison up ', Telephone un-; | changed, Douglas up ., United Air- | ;(-mrl unchanged irregularly 1d U. Commodities were mixed in to- | | day's trading. Cotton gained at| | New York while grains were lower |at cn October cotton closed up 8 points | New York ARSI IE S S MAYOR PROMISES CLEAR STREET FOR DUCHESS TOURISTS | | - J Paving on the downtown end of Willoughby Avenue will be dry and | ready for use by next Sundaj (he] the large cruise ship Duche Richmond docks at the Gov- Wharf, Mayor Harry I Lucas announced today. Paving operaticns along one sid | of Willoughby Avenue were carried ! past the Government Dock today. | Forms will be removed and the work cleaned up so that the new street will be presentable when the 750 visitors on the Duchess arrive here for the day. .- —— Marriage vs. Marriage in Divorce Suit PASADENA, Cal, Aug. 1. — Mar- riage vs. Marriage is the title of a case in Superior Court, seeking to dissolve a marriage. Mrs. | Weaver Marriage filed suit for di- vorce against John Marriage, airplane engineer. at of ernment | Bombay’s new prohibition law. Frances | an | | Mrs. R, Hedgepath Ending Visit Here | | Mrs. R. Hedgepath, who has been | visiting with her sister, Mrs. H. T. Tripp in Juneau for the past few months, sailed south this morning on the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Charlotte. - Mrs. Hedgepath is returning to RIOTS FOLLOW Effect in Bombay- Dire Results WINGARD HERE L. G. Wingard, recently of the Bureau of Fisheries, has arrived in Juneau from the south to spend a few days here on business. He is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. - Lunch Tomorrow on POT ROAST and POTATO PANCAKES | a the BARANOF - | ‘ her home in California. | BOMBAY, Aug. 1. — Fifty-five | persons including 27 policemen were ‘ injured in roiting here today. | The rioting followed a demonstra- | tion against the enforcement of | s Six persons in the crowd that at- | made ice cream ma tacked the police were wounded by | bullets and most of the others were | hurt by flying stones. | Since last midnight. 8500 bars | and liquor shops in Bombay and | suburbs have closed to natives. | Liquor for foreigners is rationed. | - e - Schilling seanches 7 Wortll STEVENSONS BACK R. H. Stevenson, of the Juneau Radio Office, on furlough for the past several months, returned here on the Aleutian. He was accom- | panied by his wife and daughter | Charlotte. Choose Yours Now!? 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