The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 25, 1948, Page 2

PAGE TWO Calf Leather Brown PHYLLIS THOMAS DEATH SUICIDE | (Continued fro Fage One; that her abovt seven y children had lived very little of the enis were divorced ago, and that the | pe time with their mother, living foster homes and with their grand parents. The other children, Shirle 14; William 12, and Barbara, 11, r side in the vicinity of San Franci: she said. According to the Thomas had worked in shipyards and as a waitress ielore comiing to| Juneau in November, 1946. Phyllis | came for a tending to return right up to depai- ture time at the airport, when her!{ mother and grandmother quarrelled ! viglently over a till at the Baranof Hotel, which Mrs. Thomas' mother, Mrs, Frederick Norris, had had to| pay. The grandmother had paid for| __ Phyliis, Jr.’s round trip. | in | 1- daughter, Mrs. | LD AN o “She. and grandma didn't gengesl with Mrs. Thomas and her| along,” the 15-year-olde witness had |daughter at the Douglas home of prevously volunteered. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Roberson the The daughter told of Mrs. Thom- |evening of October 11. Mr. White- as’ work, saying Ler mother, after|head had on October 8, made a failing to obtain renewal of the |reservation with P.A.A. to go to lease for the Bus Depot restaurant,Seattle that day, but changed it talked of gomg to work in New belore flight time for the flight on York for a friend in the clothing;October 12. business, also of borrowing money| From Scattle, where he was con- D NEW they zo after another durifng a roping demonstration at the Frank McMullan ranch near Big Lake, Tex. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Calf Leather Black LBelmont bobbing pom poms or posies’ at your toes..s with winking jet beading or a glowing touch of gold. fi:‘r bows designed by FALTER / D:LISO Calf Leather Black d/l/(. ,Bsé'nmaé é)a QUALITY SINCE /88T ‘While rider on pony at right holds calf he /2 Calf Leather Black and Brown (LIONS MEET T0 . 20,000 MEN ARE MAKE PLANS FOR BB TOURNAMENT Preliminary plans for the Gold Medal Basketball Tournament will get under way tonight when a committee of Lions Club members, with chairman Harry Sperling, meets tonight in room 212 of the Federal Building. Art Hedges announced commit- tee memkers and meeting hour at the Lions Club luncheon meeting this noon at the Baranof Hotel. Serving on the committee to get the ball rolling on the basketball in February are the following: Bill Matheny, Joe Shofner, Fred Hen- njng, Art Hedges, Earle Hunter, Dan Mahoney, Joe Werner, Les Av- rit, ‘Ed Chéster, Dade Nickel, Bud Phelps, Pete Wood and Milton ! furness. Final announcement were made | by Ed Chester for the Lions Club Ladies Night Hallowe’en dinner and dancing party Saturday eve- ning at the Country Club, begin- ning at 8 o'clock. | | do next! | 've lost my job; I can't suppert| |my children; I owe a lot of money |—I'm at the end of my rope.” She | was known to have threatened to| “jump in the bay.” "That. citizen helped her with her E“Dr NOVEMBER 15 | bills, and helped her get a job, Judge | Gray told the jury. | With the end of the hunting The verdict of drowning and sui- | season only three weeks off, many cide was returned by Jurors Ludwig : Juneau hunters are organizing boat JUNEAU HUNTERS TAKE 10 HILLS, SEASON 10 from the First National Bank to tacted, Mr. Whitehead telephoned {Kann, William L. Gresham, Joseph trips to nearby hunting areas |1emarked, too, that he thinks the Dewey-Warren ticket has a definite chance in Florida. The Nevada Sen- ator has just returned from a speak- ing tour of the South. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. States’ rights presidential candidate J. Strom Thurmond has {inished a three-day tour of Tennessee with another speech attacking proposed Lions members voted to contri- bute $100 to the local Boy Scout ve for funds. Guest of Lions today was George Matheson, Veterans Administra- | tion from Boise, Idaho. — BUS OPERATORS IN NEW YORK REJECT SETTLEMENT OFFER | NEW YORK, Oct. 25—®— A union leader today rejected a last| al by the city to post- tened strike of bus operators. minute apy pone a th and trolley The strike, scheduled for tomor- ! row, would affect 3,500,000 riders. Michael J.' Quill, International 1 of the CIO Transport Union, rejected the city" night strike nothing except a last the said prevent could Commission that it would give the bus companies a permanent iare incr rge enough nance payment tc the em- ployees of a retroactive wage in- crease totaling an estimated 3$3,- 000,000. BAN ON BOOK IS UPHELD BY HIGHEST COURT WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 a 4-4 vote, the Supreme Court to- day upheld a New York ban.on puklication and distribution of the novel, “Memcirs. of Hecate Coun- ty. The bcok was banned by New York state courts on the ground that parts of it are obsene. The tie vote in the Supreme Court let the decision of the state courts stand. Ten doflo?es In Tacoma Open TACOMA, Oct. 25.—®—Ten Ta- coma retail stores opened for busi- ness as usual today after an 11 weeks’ strike. Representatives of 15 affected | unions ratified an agreement work- ed out yesterday with the stores’ managements. They included the AFL Retail Clerks, Office Workers, Beauticians and other affected unions. e tournament, to be held sometimel arantee by the State Public Ser- to fi- MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1948 | Navy, Marine Corps or Air Force. Because of their smaller expansion requirement; these services ex- | pect to gain their strength through | voluntary enlistments. WANTED BY ARMY DURING JANUARY _ WASHINGTON, Oct. 25— — l}itica] committes voted down today The Army today asked for 20,000 Scviet efforts to seat Albanian and men by draft during January. Bulgarian observers with rights to This is the Army’s third cal’ participate in discussion of the for men under the peacetime Selec- | Greek questio tive Service. It has asked 10,000 | R men for November, and 15,000 ior‘ December. ————————— WANT ADS BRING RESULTS! SICKS' SEATTLE BREWING & MALTING CO., SEATTLE, U.S. A, Distributed throughout Alaska by ODOM COMPANY | i [ THIS $2/6345 | HUNK OF CHANGE CAN BE YOURS! No call has been made by the~ purchase The Sugar Bowl. Tk= de- U. S. Deputy Marshal Hellan, offer- !H Sadlier, John J, Fargher, Thomas| Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Carter and ceased woman owned no home or civil rights legislation. The South MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR ing to return if his presence could IN. Cashen, and Gustaf E. Almquist. | Mr. and Mis. Rod Darnell are out other property either here or 815(5-‘help‘ but sayiug he had a full| - e, where, her daughter said, in rep))’lr.cnedu]c of meetings which he to queshloning. | would like to keep. 1"0“"'" s‘[ AR S'Iops No Talk Of Marriage In the deposition, Whitehcad de- | | vav:| [N JUNEAU SUNDAY Asked if her mother ever talked scribed the evening, as Ph of marrying, Phyllis, Jr., said. “She haq done, as follows: After a da said she’d never marry again until|gcose hunting with Sam Roker- we were all grown up—she didn’t!con he and Mrs. Thomas and her | {on a hunting trip aboard the Cart- lers’ boat. 5 Dr. Josepn Rude returned last | weekend. He was accompanied 'by the Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman. Dr. Rude reported that the- closest they came to a deer was sighting some horns. the Rober- want to hurt us again.” | daughter had dinner Mike Jacejko, second engineer of son home in Dougls driving back the tugboat Sanurina, testiiled 10 (o juneau about 11 p.m. having had dates with Mrs. Thomas ! off While he parked the car, the 1rived here. As to finances, he ! Thomases went into the Baranof she often seemed to get checks Hotel, Miss Phyllis stopping at the San Francisco; he had assum- Thomas rcom on the second t1oo; ed she had a personal checking ac-, ~Mrs Thomas talked to Whitehead count there, luntil about midnight, leaving with- “What was her mental attitude?” 'out comment as to where she was and on from May of the year from Mr. Easkin questioned going. Whitehead assumed she had Congen’al, and happy-go-lucky, returied to her room except about her children,” Jacejko| The fcllowing day, when Phyllis replied. “She worried about them.”ireturned irom school at noon, she cejko said he had not seen her looked for him in the Coffee Shop, for six months and asked if he had seen her moth- Walter Hellan, Deputy U. S. Mar- er, who had not returned. They shal who conducted the investiga-' callzd the Robersons, tion, testified seeing the body on|cuggesting that he postpone his de- the beach. Mrs. Thomas was dressed | parture ty a da Mrs. Roberson in a black wcol skirt, black silk{said not to, that she would look for blouse, a dark sleev sweater her later in the day with colored stripes, long stockings Wnen Phyllis returned from school and black shoes, and a black glove t afternoon she found the hand- on her left hand Lag of her mother, hung on the out- He testified t, after paying side of the door to their room. Noth- $125 to the Baranof Hotel on Oc- ing was missing, she said. tober 4, Mrs. Thomas' bank ac-| Whitehead left for Seattle about count was down to 16 cents, and |3 pm she owed $89. His evidence cor- rotorated that of Dr. Rude as to the| Judge Gray, before giving the case condition of the body. |to the jury, told how the dead wom- A deposition was read from Er-'an had, two vears before, approach- mest Whitehead, whe was a dinnerad a prominent citizen, saying ess “Jump In Bay” Whitehead | FROM AR(IK mlp, The boat Naha, owned by Earl 1 . | Forsythe, left on Friday. In the i ? . and Mrs. Shell Sim- | Aiter a voyage of nearly 10,000 Party are Mr. ai v‘é igorm Star stopped Mons and Mr. and Mrs. Don Abel. enroute to Seattle on Next Friday, a party will leave | Sunday. The ship arrived from ©On J. Simpson MacKinnon's boat, Sitka yesterday morning at 8 and will remain out until Novem- |o'clock and sailed last evening at Per 15, the end of the hunting {9 oclock. Capt. Charles Salen- Season. Going on the trip will be | jus is in command of the vessel. Minard Mill, Joe J°"}"“°“v Skip |" The North Star carries supplies MacKinnon, Percy Re)flflldfi' Earle | and personnel to all the remote na- Hunter, Jim Orme and Mr. Mac- tive villages in the Aleutians and‘Kmn"n- |along the Arctic coast. This year| llhe vessel left Seattle on August 5] and was delayed for ten days off Point Lay due to severe storm con- | miles, the {in Juneau A N BULLETINS | ditions : | | The vessel will stop at Wrnngel\‘ sl g and Metlakatla southbound. At HIKEVILLE, Ky.—Senator Al- | Wrangell, several students for the pen Barkley described GOP cam- | Wrangell Institute will disembark. paigners as “sailing around through At Metlakatla it will load 20,000 the clouds dropping flowers and cases of salmon !honey.” The Democratic candidate he North Star was constructed for Vice-President told a crowd of lfor usé in the Arcuic in 1931, and apout 2,000 listeners that the Re- 1is made of wood. It has made VOy- putlican Party had not had a new ages to the Antarctic as well as jdea in 76 years. {trips to Alaska. Passengers for Seattle on the WASHINGTON. — Re publican | North Star were Mrs. Arthur Walk- er and son and Miss Helen M. {Cummings. Mr. Walker will join jlhv ship at Metlakalta, Senator George Malone of Nevada says he believes his party will hold the Senate by two or three seats |after the November election. Malone I Carolina Governor asserted his par- ty is the only group in the United States making an effort to pre- serve the way of life Americans have enjoyed for one hundred and sixty years, | WASHINGTON.—Two Congress- men—one a Republican, the other a Democrat—have asked their parties and candidates to avoid any action | that would harm America’s bi-parti- | can foreign policy. The appeal was magde in a statement issued by GOP Representative Walter Judd of Min- nesota and Democrat Brooks Hays of Arkansas. | | | 1 WASHINGTON.—The report of a labor department bureau says |living costs levelled off in Septem- ber after a record-breaking climb ‘durmg the five months before. MRS. JOE ALBAYALDE 10 BE ON TUESDAY EVENING A memorial service for Mrs. Joe Albayalde will ‘be held Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Chapel oi the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. The Rev. Leo Sweeney S. J. will conducte the services. Mrs. Albayalde passed away last weeks at the Seward Sanatorium. She is survived by her husband, two step-children in Juneau and her parents and sisters and broth- ers in Hoonah. { Following the memorial services here, the remains will be taken to Heoonah aboard the gasboat St. Nicholas. Final interment will be in Hoonah. Therc has been no report on what is happening this month. However, the Bureau's figures show the mid- | September cost of 1iving in big cities stayed the same as that reported for mid-August. ¥ BERLIN.—The Army has started (free instruction in Russian for all i Americans here. The classes are held twice a week. HAMBURG, Germany.—A British |military court today sentenced Fritz | Knoechlein to death for ordering }zhe ‘machinegun massacre of more | that 90 British soldiers captured at Dunkerque in 1940. e g WANT ADS BRING RESULTS! SEATTLE CAREER WOMAN ENJOYS HER . FIRST ALASKA TRIP Mrs. M. A. Marquis, in charge of publicity and special events for Best’s Apparel, women's shop in Seattle, arrived in Juneau from Anchorage by Pacific Northern Airlines Saturday aiter a trip of two weeks to Fairbanks and An- chorage. Enthusiastic about her first trip north, Mrs. Marquis is already plan- ning a return visit next spring. In Juneau she is at the Baranof Hotel, . Money piles up fast when you salt away a bit regs ularly in U.S. Savings Bonds. For example: Only $3.75 saved regularly each week grows to $2,163.45 in ten short years . . . $7.50 each week to $4,329.02 . . . $18.75 each week to $10,828.74. X So sign up today for Payroll Savings where you work. Or, if the Payroll Plan is not available to you, see your bank for the Bond-A-Month Plan. AUTOMATIC SAVING IS SURE SAVING— U.S. SAVINGS BONDS — This is an official U. S. Treasury advertisement= 5 prepared under auspices of Treasury Department and Adveetjsing Couioll, o I— D -« «