The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 20, 1940, Page 2

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CHICKEN FRICASSEE - - Each 59 Each 25¢ TUNA — Medinms - - 2 for 55c ) the steamer Bar- Pisheries, who has spent the summer geanof for Ketchikan io in Als on Fish and Wildlife command of the Alask: erv. work, will le tomorrow mission patrol on the steamer Baranof for the Capt. Lendonis J. Galla States Swanson, one of f} nson vle Tripp, also of the Fish and Brothsrs operating a maning ply Wildlife Service, will 2o south on store here, was formerlv a captain ihe Baranof of the Bear and & mate on the - > Brown Bes Nl s TRUITT FLIES Subscripe to .he Daily Ala Em- 1l Jame Truitt pire 1le paper with tne largesi« {1 osterday on Territor- ' guaranteed cur on al busin FANCY % TOMATOES 2 Pounds 25¢ PEACHES PRUNES GRAPES BASKET C a | ) \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 3 \ \ \ } \ \ \ 3 ) \ § \ \ \ \ y ) y N \ \ \ \ \ N \ \ \ \ N \ ) \ \ \ \ ) \ \ \ bl ) \ \ N \ ) \ N E \ \ 3 \ [} \ \ 3 ) 3 3 3 ) 3 \ b y ) \ 4 | BACKFROM LONG TRIP National Defense Pushing Alaska Ahead, Says Gruening (Continued from Page One) draining and filling an airfield. Krctchikan, Busy. | Ketchikan is feeling a “marked quickening” of business as a result I the Army work, just as other Al-| wka towns adjacent to national de- | nse projects have, the Governor found, Duri his stay in the First Cit_v.l he visited Bell Island for the l’h'sl‘ me and came away impressed b,\" | the possibilities of that resort he\ng\ sweveloped te more than local pro- | porticns. Bell Tsland, he said, could . expande a really famous | escrt which 1d attract vacation- | rs from all cver the wozld, | Natignal Guard | The Gavernor was. present at the | nduction of Company B of the Na- ticnal Guard, at Ketehikan and wiii attend the ingduction of Company | A here tomorrow night. He said he | | vas impressed with the fine appear- | wnee of the young men enrolled at| | Ketchikan. | Progress is being made in the ef-| fort to have a National Guard air | quadron crganized in Alaska, with | | | :gmmezcial fliers who know,, the | Cerritory’s terrain to serve as vali- | able, instructors and guides to Army ‘ silots | | | A rccommend - °n has been made an Army airt.eld at Haines, and fisld ai Nome is virtually a cer- ainty, the Governor said, faw French Revolt During his flight to New Zealand st of Pan American Airways, or witnessed at New Cal- revolt of the French nst the Petain Govern- the nent He was amazed at Canton to note development of the island since his t visit twe years ago. B | | ' The rest of the New Zealand Clip- | home” «r party took the “long w flving to Australi |and the Philippifes. | invifed ‘tc continue on this ht, but returned the way he had ie as Be did not feel justified |in spending any, more time so far { from Alaska. - s s Gruenfp Wil Sail on Sqtu_rday i } Mys, Ernest. . Gruening, wife of jodt ChenifiEe is Jeaviry | stantly " cide of showed peculiax staing. on the, lips I holes in Holm DICT IS FOR SUICIDE Will, Bought Weapon on Same Day rorer’s jury this afic in a verdict find Andrew Holm, 61, picnecr G Channel mirer, wh bod found in his apartment yester dicd of self-inflicted gun wounds, motives unknswn Many elements cf evidence ¢ fuced the chain of evidence lcad up to Holm's death. Wour Ly @ 32 automatic_revclv: inac r in the apartment were decla t to have beer death-dealing, and e revealed that Holm must hot; himself somewhere out- the. apantment and come die. Will Is Revealed wag also revealed at. the inquest hcme te b (3 that, Holm had jnade his: Jast will and A \ ment, cn Saturday, leay- L ing his entire estate, total: ev- te Mrs, Lily Leng Peraile, . leaying b my Loraine, Holm, her esate, valugd at approx whe, \ sistor, p matcly, $60.000. Purchases Gun On the same day Holn made hi will, .he, algo purchased a, second- hand .42 automatic. pistol from Steve Stanworth, who identified the weap- cn. feund jin the death apariment “prebably” ;the same gun. Helm._told, Stanworth, the latter | said, that hg ‘{just wanted it 1 thie, bouse for urotegtion,” and had no use for a, helster. Further examination cf ,the body gnd- a stomach. analysis made Warren .Eyveland of the, Division of Public Heaith Laboratories, found {races of mereuty compound in: hig tests, substantipting a beliel that Holm. had aiso dranjc from a half full bettle of mercurcchrome, found beside the. bed, on which!!he was discovayed . dead, he's Not Fatal Ones Dr. W. M. Whilchead, after con- ducting his -autopsy. said n the three gunshot wounds fatal shot. The paths of tuljets which entgred tie culcusly missed any vital € as the heart or lungs. 4 One of .the bullets which <h was a three mira- nsuch have definitcly pierced the he and, which. first gave rise. fo the puzzle ax to how Holm might have kitchen to the bed- moved frcm t) oom, was found to have, struck a 1ib, glanced downward, and then struck anotier rib, going back | through the body, passing belcw the heart. Hecles in Clothing The bard-rosed bullets left ting clothing and it ‘was not. until late yesterday that holes waore found in his outer clothing which was coyered with mess and dirt, and soaking wet, indicating Holm had shot himself somewhere in the woods near town The bullets for his gun he pur- chased Saturday on the day he mads his will, from William Geddes al the Junzau-Young Hardware Geddes said Holm did not say what he was going to do with the shells and Geddes had to show Holm how to lecad the weapon. One Shell Missing Eight shells were gene f box purchased at the hardwar store when officers found the box n the apartment. Four shells were et in the gun, and there were thre »ullat holes in the boc One shel s yet unazcounted for » Where Helm o w hot, is still un- mewn, but the nature of dirt on 1is clothing, and the testimony of Marko Dapcevich who said he saw Holm “sort cf pale’ sometime after dinner Wednesday night, ccming down the Basin Road towards his "icme, indicatgs the shooting had taken place- somewhere up the Ba- in Road. Heme te Die THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, SEPT. DEATH Creditfor 'On'e-légged Miner Made, e o m the | | Unfamiliar with the gun, it is be-| lived Holm accidentally slippad he safety catch on (possible only when loaded) after firing the last shot, could. fire the gun nho more and went home-tc die er’ make fur- ther attempts to take his life. Dr. Whitehead said that a normal man might live for “a considerable length, of time” .with the three wounds Holm had, and could “prob- ably have been saved, had he been | given medical attention soon enough.” Whitehead said he believed Holm died of shock resulting from his wounds. oy, “ ...Waaren Eveland., who conducted the' stomach analysis, said the mer- curochrome probably could not have | been fatal and declared “a man | have to drink about | a pint of jg before it had any.effect.” | would pr Fingerprints Taken Ringerprints on the gun were tak- en by FBI Agent Ralph C. Vogel and will be checked later. On the jury were Stanley Nowicka John Monagle, Walter H. Robinson James S. Shake, William Bosch and Robert A, Henning. y Palice weré . continuing t}\eh‘ jn- vestigations today, and K Chief of Police Dan Ralston this afternoon tomerrow eprouté (o Juneau. She went south several weeks igo 0 attend the wedding of her son, duntington, at San Francisco, requested that anyone having seen | Holm: on. the evening of September 18, Wednesday, should comtact the Police Department, X 20, 1940. it ind high in the by sho | o o ent it to barber maga ail over the count (By the 0. S. Weather Burcau) " @ Miss Sad Mrs, Naney U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Bgylgg’g f@b Lindsay 1 v v hair in a Forecast for Juneau and vicinit b-zinp n; af 4:30 pan, 20: | M W % boyish bol Ceeasiohal ligl® showers tonight and occasional light n Saturday / . - - not much change in temperaturz: nmederate southeasterly 5 e \ a teccming mcderate to fresh Saturday; lowest tonight 46, highe { OAK HILL, W. Va., Sep ! P A= T HINE arees, metmber ithe boyish bob tha Kk fall - foods, ar can be Forecast for Sontheast Alaska: Partly cloudy exeept light shower the . Boubtrv:diy. etoim Back i’ 11 ahe jif sexving time. in th2 nerth portion tonight. Satur mostly cloudy, ot ) 1deat 3i'sD. | Thet fad. sV keep il cans of pre= | 1'ght showers, not mpch change. in_temperature. Moderate scuthea tarted in O 1 soups in the refriger- winds, becoming moderate to fresh east to scutheasterly Saturday Bédaise h E ) For a good lefto Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska. ot tion Ve D! Mcderate to fresh sputheasterly, beccming fresh to stronz cast 31 me en with utheast Saturday from Dixon Entrance to Cape St. Elias, Moderat AR U R tof ud "“f\‘ r r ‘\‘ nertheasterly, becoming fresh “Saturday from Cape St. Elias to Kodial ] heats, 4avs tiie b el : LOCAL DATA 4 hair, cu he masculine Hs Time Barometer 1e'nn. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather Mi ¢ sak ¥t i 30 pam. yesterday 20,80 50 13 Jwer Miss Sadlsriwa i:30 aum. today 30.06 49 12 Shower: L different wa Subsertbe for The T < Neen teday 30. 51 12 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS 1 TODAY ax. lempt. | Lowest 3:30am Precip. 3:30am hours temp. temp, 24 hours Wea 4 32 02 3 39 01 37 32 43 30 37 Clouc 46 Ra Wesnesenski 45 Pt.Cld | Duteh, Harbor 39 Clouc Kanatak 50 Ra Kediak 46 Ra Cordeva 45 Ra Juneau 19 Shewe Clou Rrince Rupert | Slonc Prince George Cla ttle | 0 F On a tour of aviation companies, William Knudsen (third from e 5 to Scutheakt Alaska and at some pcints in the Bering Sea & i i o7 1ational defense commission, is shown with of- 't"f“"'.'}?' h[l‘;“’,,‘nrp”m oo [\“,'.ni.,: ‘;.| biE it Tarningdale, Y. ex- | interior of Adaska. A light fall of inow was reported at Barrow. Part D ening & YP-43 pursuit plane, of the type . s making | cloudy o cloudy skies were reportedat most stations. Broken clouds (o bl : At the right is **~+ Gen. H. H. 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