The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1948, Page 6

PAGE SIX MESSERCHMIDT GETS INJURIES; MORNING FIRE Henry escs serious injury morning when a fire of undetermined origin did consi iamage to the living room apartment in the San Francisco Bakery Building { at St. Anns Hospital and on First Juneau Baby of 48 | At 2:48 a.m. WINNAH!! Margaret Katharine Parker, pounds, 13 ounces of feminity, is winner of the Baby Derby and cross- ed the finish line at just two hours [ and 48 minutes after the New Year. | hmidt ed v this of his THE six the face The fi reported At Margaret Katharine is the daughter ( 323 am J. Goodman, of Mr. and Mrs. Lauris Parker and | a residen Messerschmidt the third charther in the| Apartme who called t 1 as she has two sisters departmer Firemen y and Lauri Anr the 2-6 alarm consic oud father, better wn ficulty in gaining access to s L Parker, has a grin from blaze which was in an insid this morning and says of the building building with a heavy sm d The firem were able to conf the flaze he living roor i m though the of the Messer- of St. Johnsbur ont, and pa- schmidt ap received heavy ternal Mr. and Mr smoke damage Bu T Messerschmidt ttempted to Gifts ! nth quell the blaze unassisted, but when vice from Snow his Christmas trec and W ) from Per- curtains caught fire, he wa ud father have been from the building. The damage donated in the Baby Derby. The was not covererd by insurance Baby Derby is sponsored by local - merchants and tt Sund Pres - STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah, SAILOR IS FATALLY SHOT BY WIFE; LEFT from Vancouver ® | this afternoon. Goes to Skagway,' s returning to Juneau Saturday | EVERETT, Jan. 1 P—An Ever- mcrning and sailing south at 9 ett wife was held without charge & ™ AT in the c jail today after the Sw Knot, from Seattle, due fatal shooting of her husband in Fride o] 2 hotel rocm as the couple pre- Denali scheduled to sail from Se- pared to go to her parents for a|atile Saturday New Years Eve visit Jumper Hitch scheduled to sail from Seattle January 3 Aleutian, from southbound 8 a The wife, Mrs. Viola Laurin Car- told Police Capt. Jack John- scheduled son, m. son that her husband, Albert A 4 Carson, 37, had been showing her R R how to use the gun DR RYAN wul | As she was calling her parents . | at Echo Lake, Johnson said he was to “shoot the gun.” i She said she pulled the trigger ABou" S(HM[S and her husband crumpled to the | floor, fatally injured The possibility or establishing an | Carson, a merchant marine sailor jndependent school district in this who returned only last week from area will be discussed by Dr. James Anchofage, Alaska, died in the am- C. Ryan, Territorial Commissioner bulance enroute to Everett General of Education, at tomorrow night's Hospital. meeting of the Juneau City Coun- - ———— il SKIMMEIY MILK | Dr. Ryan will explain the opera- For Sale. Juncay Dairies. Bring tion of an independent school dis- your own jug. 771 3t trict to the councilmen and will B S discuss its advantages and disad- ! hour. NEW YEAR'S EVE | FUNSTERS MOVE PLACE TO PLACE A survey of Gastineau Channel | clubs and bars during the New | Year's Eve celebratién revealed | that most persons moved freely | from one place to another during| the night. A large number, how- ever, did remain in one place for| their observance of the holiday. | Juneau Elks and Moose | well as the Douglas »d capacity crowds all long The Veterans of | Foreign Wars did not plan any | special observance with the result | the Jeep Club was compara- tively quiet { Both the Baranof Hotel and the Imon Creck Country Club had room d two orchestras for | he ce « Both also gave merrymakers t ach I »oth rooms filled the ever had a satisiactory crowd w! would have probably been larzer had liquor been served Sev the bars, which did 1 iinment, also had nce. The Clover Club, vern and the Triangle most of the night in Douglas, was the early morning Pamaray entertained various size during the place, during The of 1roups vening On lower South Dreamland was full up to mid- night when it closed. After that Blackie's and the Victory Bar re- ceived tonsiderable aptronage. Jack’s Bar had a satisfactory crowd | and so did the Occidental, at times, up till its mudnnight closing Franklin, the pailey’s, the Micdget and the| Alaskan had comparatively good | crowds during the evening and the | Arctic had crowds of varying size 1 The Oasis, in Douglas, closed at midnight, before most people ar-| rived (OLLAPSED LANDING GEAR SHAKES UP 21 PLANE PASSENGERS ATLANNGA, Jan. (A—Twenty- | one passengers were shaken up but none was injured seriously when an Eastern Air Lines plane collapsed its landing gear during a sudden squall at the Atlantic Airport today The plane was thrust into the air while rolling down a runway. The freakish gust then drnpped the twin- engined airliner against the pave- ment with sucn 1orce that ihe on Saturday son were booked for being drynk and disorderly Paul, Rae Scott and Paul Smith. A MERICA'S most admired, most de- sired postwar automobile now swings on the scene in a fabulously fine new 1918 version. Thrillingly different new Cham- pion and Commander convertibles add their glamor to the “new look™ that's a world-wide Studebaker style mark. Low- swung new 1948 sedans and coupes round CAPITOL AUTO SALES Empire Wantads ror Best Results vantages for this area. wheels collapsed Al out the Here's a star-studded presentation of modern motoring luxury that emphasizes anew the out-ahead dis- tinctions of Studebake: ing. The first show superb new 1948 Studebakers to arrive in town is now on. You and your family are cordially invited to attend. cture. A - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE — [UNEAU, ALASKA THURSDAY. JANUARY I A " - JERUSALEM — Six persons met e i day as Jews and Arabs continued a | Admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital To DEATH IN HOME. WELCOMED IN ROME bitter war of reprisals and counter- yesterday was Mrs. William Twen- 'l v reprisals touched off by the United hofel for surgical attention e WASHINGTON The United Nations' month-old decision to par- ~ Mrs, Gordon McDonald was dis- BABY B Y SAVED ROME, Jan. 1.—® Rome put Ste put all nations on notice tition Palestine, charged from the hospital out its flags today to welcome the [today to keep their ships, planes A Friendship Train bringing food [and people out of the Eniwetok BOISE, Idaho, Ja 1 » ~ ' ic wear o are: t e 1' “|‘]’$" v”“ i ”"” ~ Ay oiven by Americans atomic weapons testing area, start- \ ‘w»:xmr old ;vn xu. \\Az burned ® 1 ain will leave tomorrow Ing one month from now. A ‘/1 - &> o death and her four sisters and| g 2 e N S 1 which swept through a frame house | Z/0¢ and Gorizid. Y 1 ] v (’hv et pi tl(l)?,l\;l\ | Premier Alcide De Gasperi For- Aericulture Anderson said today he e Dead is Vicki Lewls, despite | €8 Minister Carlo Sforza and will recommend “:‘]’" that the gov- A P P ‘ ) heroic efforts to rescue h",r G Vice-Premier Guisseppe Saragat €rnmen uun.;a‘?m‘ ishing names of Shurtz, suffered burns as she hagled | 4°F James C. Dunn and the re- ‘)i(mx‘s:-sanr?f-nl’?:mjofvs <vl-‘x Jackie Lewis, 1, from the flames, | POTter, Drew Pearson, sponsor of ¢ 'fruman N \l The girl spread an alarm and Bud | b€ in welcoming it to the o : Walker made a futile effort to save | Shabby Reman Railway terminal P o the second child. He suffered deep| The train reaching Rome had 30 al family of Ex-King £ ¢ cuts in breaking a bedroom window rloads cf food, mainly milk, grain lied today for 60 pass- y X Flames drove him bac The cars bore large " oot th 3 9 Lewis, and three other children, #ere Italian and the flags " P i g T not at home the United States 3 Deputy St mes Brunt said o s OFFICERS OF FILIPINO F th A R Acspioalitoelrs < TR or the Annual Inveniory 5C0UT TROGP 610 3 ! >0 At the Rizal Day Banquet given F d Y d S 1 d HAS RE-REGISTERED . °"."<.0n creex Couniry Ghu riaay ana saturaay i 2 s evening, the officers of 9 MOTHER, TWO SONS <. tvoos 1o ot pousies re- i Fitn. Commaniy and. i anuary 2nd and 3rd registered for its 1948 season and auxiliary were introduced, and not 4 1‘ pERISH HOME FIRE bert Wagner will be the Scout- the officers of the Grand Order, 7 ter for the coming year. Eyes of the Philippines, as stated . Wagner recently piloted his g E SYRACUSE Jan. L—p— Trcop through a very successful yepr PROM FUNTER BAY b A mother and her ) small sons|Scout Rally at Douglas and the roi cnilders of Funter Bay is were burned to death and two oth- | Trcop is expected to make a good ¢ o i at the Gastineau. = er children were carried to safety showing at Eagle River for the ~ e fire swept a three-family Scout Camporee g SALES and SERVICE home today To date, it is the only Troop (I_""‘ i “;Jf'li"""‘»’““‘ Liles iound The victims were Mrs. Francis|that is scheduled to be in attend Pt pCDE LT I the 307 Seward Phone 62-Juneau McLaughlin, 29, occupant of a sec- 'ance 100 percent. The boys are and 15th Centuries are still N ond floor apartment, and her sons red with the Troop and ten w— Michael, six, and Patrick, four. i to be at Eagle e PG i omtiasn o it g o S D AR L SRS Tt AL R b -oe - The TRIANGLE &N SEVEN PERSONS AT SUN VALLEY i SUN VALLEY, Idaho, Jan. 1 M—New England displaced the Far 7 s Sun Valley's national in- NEW YEAR'S EVE seven tercollegiate ski winner, today, with Middlebury College claiming the t2am championship and Dartmouth preducing the individual winner. Midalebury replaced the Univer- sity of Utah as tourney titlist, edg- ing out the University of Washing- ton, which finished second. | The Vermont school piled up 1,101.3 points to 1,083.1 for Wash igten made arresls City last night of local New Year" Police David Cameron was arrested on a charge of driving an automobile while under the influ- ence of intoxicating liquor, He was released but his car was taken away from him. He will appear in court merrimakers Fred Kirkpatrick and H. O. 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