The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1950, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT 5-YEAR-OLD TELLS HOW HE FIRED SHOT THAT KILLED SISTER Although he sobbingly refused to leave his mother's side while be- ing questioned, five-year-old Gene LaMoore told a coroner’s jury day how bhe fired a rifle which took the life of his three-year-old sister, Yvonne June LaMoore, while she played on a stairway landing in the grandparents’ home Dressed in his blue Sunday suit, and holding tight with one hand to his chair, the boy simply “I don't know” to questions by Assistant District Attorney Stanley Baskin until the same questions were reworded. He then gave complete answers and told how the accident hap- pened. His sister died yesterday after- noon after being pierced by a 32-20 bullet fired by the boy from a gun| placed in a corner near the stair- way by their grandfather, William | Kunz. Kunz then went into the/ yard, leaving the children alone in the house, except for Mrs. Kunz, | who is bedridden. The mother, Mrs. Betty LaMoore, | was downtown at the time of Yie| shooting, but rushed immediately | to Government Hospital when told | by a neighbor. The girl was taZen | to the hospital by Police Chief! Bernard E. Hulk. with Mrs. Jake Cropley, a neighbor, holding the dying girl. The mother is the widow of Fugene LaMoore, who died April 14 on the gallows here in Federal to- 'FAIR VOTE BEING I CAST IN SPECIAL BOND ELECTION By 3 o'clock this afternoon (press time), 215 voters had cast their ballots in the Council Chambers of the Juneau City Hall in the special election to decide a school bond issue. The ocity voting place and that uk Bay (the home of Mrs. Stanley Jekill) will be open until 7 tonight, Voters are to decide whethér the at . School District shall incur a bond- ed indebtedness fot to exceed $750,~ 000 to acquire and construct school ;bufldmgs and facilities. 'RUSS DECISION ON CHINA IN UN NOT DISCLOSED MOSCOW, May 16—(®—Trygve Lie, following up last night’s 90- minute conference with Prime Minister Stalin, met today with the Chinese Communist ambassador to Moscow. Lie conferred with Wang Chia-! Hsiang, the representative of ®™he, Peiping regime, about the represen- tation in the United Nations which the Chinese Communists seek. Diplomats have speculated that this was a topic at the Lie-Stalin meeting, which climaxed the “save- Jafl for his part in the murder of |the-U. N.” mission undertaken by Jim Ellen in 1946, |the United Nations The jury's verdict was that “death was caused from shock, as a result of a gunshot wound acci- dentally inflicted by Gene La- Moore, a minor child, and brother of the deceased.” Following is a summary of the questioning of the boy used by Baskin to bring out the tragic de- talls of the case: Q. Where was the gun? A. By the stairs. Q. What did you do with it? A. 1 shot it. Q. How did you shoot it? A. I pulled the trigger. G. Where were you? secretary-gen- eral. No details of the Lie-Stalin meet- |ing were disclosed, but it was be- lieved the Russians showed nc signs of modifying their refusal to i oarticipate in any U. N. organiza- tion seating Chiang Kai-Shek's i Nationalist government. 'HIGHWAY PARKING | BRINGS $25 FINE| | Charles McLeod of Juneau was | fined $25 this morning in commis- sioner’s court for obstructing traf- fic on the Glacier Highway, follow- A. By the stairs. Q. Were you the only one playing with the gun? A. Uh-huh. . Where was your sister? . By the window when the bul- let’ shot her. Q. How many times did it shoot? A. 1t only shot one time. @ Would you tell us pened? .'T'told her to come downstairs —TI didn’t know the gun was loaded and it shot. Q. Where did you go when shot? A. I ran outside and up to the Evergreen Bowl. Dr. Frank Maresh, physician who attended the child, said the bullet entered her abdomen and was found high in her chest. He at- tributed cause of death as bleeding, the injury and with shock second- ary. Chief Hulk said he found a bullet hole through a sideboard on the stairway landing, near where Yvon- ne was standing, apparently indicat- ing the bullet passed through it before striking the child. Mrs. Cropley said that Kunz came to her door and told of the shooting, and after calling police, she went to the house with him. Bhe found the little girl on the floor near Mrs. Kunz' bed, where she had fled after being struck She said that Mrs. Kunz told her the girl did not cry out when hit, but ran for her ‘“as she usually does when she’s hurt,” and coll- apsed by the bed. Kunz told the jury how he had placed the gun in a corner aXer returning from a camping trip, and how {t it believed there was no shell in the although he knew the chamber, magazine was loaded. Mrs. LaMoore told of the tragedy. Members of the jury were: Robert H. Burns, Joe Hunter, ‘William H. Biggs, James W. Mc- Naughton, Donald Milnes and E E. Hagerup. GERALD SOUR MASH KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY BONDED 100 PROOF Distributed throughout Alaska by ODOM COMPANY took the stand briefly to relate what she had been |ing his arrest by Alaska Highway | Patrolman John Monagle. | Monagle told Commissioner Gor- \don Gray that the car was left| | parked near Mile 2 on the pavement land that a car driven by Svend (Whitely) Thorpe, contractor, ran into it. The accident occurred the evening of May 12. Assistant District Attorney Stan- ley Baskin presented the case to the court. LEIVERS NOME BOUND T |GIVE DEGREES TO MASONS Leaving by Pan American today, J. W. Leivers is bound for Nome to communicate the Scottish Rite De- grees to a class of twelve Masons in that city. In charge of the arrangements at Nome is Norvin W. Lewis, who is| Clerk of the District Court in the Second Division, with Leivers being Clerk of the Court for the First Division. Leivers is slated to return to Juneau next Monday. Joe McKenzie of Tenakee is stop- ping at the Gastineau Hotel. | number of cont The purchase of 100 cargo con- tainers by the Alaska Steamship Company is anounced by Mr. D. E. Skinner, vice president and general manager of the line. “This will increase to 174 the ers we have in use in the Alaska trade,” Skinner pointed out, “and delivery of this order has been arranged to permit the full extension of their benetits to the steamers Alaska and Aleutian coming into service this month from winter lay-up.” The first sailing of the. Alaska is scheduled for May 6. The first for the Aleutian is May 20. Containers have proved most suc- cessful in handling highly valuable, fragile and pilferable merchandise, it was pointed out. “The decision to expand their use in the Alaska service was made only after months of experiments with different sizes and types and under varied conditions present in the ports served,” Skinner said, “and the container adopted has been de- veloped especially for the Alaska Steamship Company.” Its outside, over-all dimensions are 4'3"x6'8"x6'3”. Construction is of steel and corrugated iron with plank flooring, developing a rain- proof interior with a capacity of; 144 cubic feet. “In addition to reducing damage and pilferage of valuable commodi- THE DAILY: ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Confainers for Alaska Line CGRPORATIONS FiLE IN AUDITOR'S OFFICE A number of incorporations have been filed in recent weeks with Territorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle, including two non-profit electrical associations for distribution of pow- er, They are: Alaska Bankers Association, non- profit, for welfare and unifermity of action of banks; J. F. Mullen, G. E. B, Phillips. Mt. Kimball Construction Co. of Anchorage, $100,000 capital stock, to engage in lumbering and mining; incorporators A. Moore Elmer, Robert W. Beck, Glenn M. Cham- berlain, all of Gakona. Independent Lumber Co., banks, $400,000 capital stock; lum- ber dealers; imcorporators N. C. Banfield, Robert Boochever, John Cleveland, A. Fair- C. Dunn, S. P. Freeman, Edna H.| Swap, all of Juneau. Standara Construction Co., An- chorage, $100,000 capital stock; in- corporators Wendell P, Kay, Daniel H. Cuddy, Margaret A. Hickman, |all of Anchorage. Mutual Investors, Sitka; lode mining firm, $1,500,000 capital stock, incorporators Theron J. Cole, Dorothy Dreisbach, Roy A. Even- incorporators | canning firm, $100,000 capital stock; incorporators John W. Sweet, Will- jam R. Eddleman, Fleta Van Dyke, all of Seattle. Kenai Peninsula Electric Assoc- iation, Kenai, non-profit power dis- tributors; incorporators Cecil K. Jones, Gilford Lemmon, A. K. So- per, Ralph Soberg, Albert Munson, all of Kenai; Raymond E. Burton, James Pollard, Archie P. McLane, all of Kasilof, and Lawrence Lan- cashire, Soldotna. Air Martel, Naknek Air Base, to operate resorts, roadhouses, cafes etc., $100,000 capital stock; incor- | porators Ernest E. Weschenfelder, | Florence J. Weschenfelder, Edwin W. Seiler, Josefina B. Seiler, all lof Naknek Air Base. Kotzebue Electric Association, non-profit power distributors; in- icorporawrs A. R. Ferguson, Nels G. Hanson, Arthur J. Flatt, Ed- ward Ward, Delos H. Wesbrook, Charles E. McGovern, York Wilson, |Jack O. Jones, Thomas Richards, all of Kotzebue. Seward Yacht Club, $100,000 cap- ital stock; incorporators Galen |Hunt, R. E. Baumgartner, J. Vic Brown, Jr, all of Seward. | Homes Builders, of Anchorage, |real estate firm, $25,000 capffal |stock; incorporators Clifford Brown, |Douglas Brown, of Anchorage, and Fred E. McNeils, Spenard. 'WIRETAPPING IS UPHELD, DECISION OF SUPREME COURT ! WASHINGTON, May 16—®—The | Supreme Court has upheld the | validity of New York laws which permit wiretapping under judicial supervision. | The action came in a brief order | throwing out an appeal filed by | Herman Hoffman, of New York |City, and the New York County | Criminal Courts Bar Association. Hoffman is president of the asso- | ciation. | The order was announced with- jout the customary arguments on such appeals. | Hoffman said the association con- | tended wiretapping as carried out in New York state violates the civil rights guarantees of the Consti- | tution and the Federal Communica- | tion Act. ‘They appealed from a decision by a special three-judge U.S. District on the ground they failed to present an actual coniroversy on which it had authority to act. In other action today, the court: Sided 7 to 2 with the administra- tion today in its complaint that the Fifth Circuit Court had improperly failed to back up National Labor Relations Board ofders against two Texas companies. The cases decided were among five cited by Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman in an appeal to the high tribunal last fall. 2. Granted a hearing to ex- 1 gangster Louis Campagna and Charles Gioe whose paroles from 10-year prison sentences were re- voked after Congressional investi- gation of how they managed to wml their freedom. 3. Refused to permit three groups | to file briefs as “Friends of the Court” in behalf of movie writers John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo. The film figures are seek- ing reconsideration of the court’s April 10 refusal to review their con: tempt of Congress convictions. 4. Granted hearings to three of six persons convicted of contempt of court in Denver for refusal to answer a grand jury’s questions re- garding alleged Communist party activities. BULLETINS Diplomats are speculaiing what topics were discussed at the Krem- lin last night when Prime Minister Stalin and Secretary-General Trygve Lie of the United Nations talked for 90 minutes. ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A blast, no explanation, injured seven work- men last night on an Alaska Rail- road project about 20 miles south of here. Two workmen of the Mor- rison-Knudsen Company were ser- iously injured and brought here for hospitalization. EDMONTON Gov. Ernest Gruening, visiting here, said he {has been in Washington for the last six weeks discussing the pos- sibility of Statehood for Alaska. He was “hopeful but not over-confi- dent.” ‘WINNIPEG, Man. — Hip-booted | volunteers and soldiers piled more | and more sandbags behind the | levees hoping they would still hold‘ ties and cutting breakage of fragile |son, Theodore A, Harris, Peder A. items, containers facilitate handling, | Haugen, Ralph A. Johnson, Will-| both in the loading and unloading!iam W. Knight, Carl A. Peterson, | operation,” Skinner stated, “and thE'Peymn C. Ramer, Edwin L. Reed,| extension of their use is an added|Dorothy Richard, Ora R. Ruther- service to Alaska skippers.” ford, Ernest Somers, Keith B. C_ourt in New York City. The spe- 1 as the Red River’s flood crest surged | cial court rejected their complaint ) through the greater Winnipeg area. | In the picture above is D. E. Skinner, vice president and general manager of Alaska Steamship Com- | pany, and Mr. J. F. Zumdieck, op- | erating manager, inspecting new cargo containers for the Alaska trade at the company terminal,; Seattle. | CUT-WORK TABLE CLOTH TO BE AWARDED MAY 18 Awarding of the cut-work table cloth, being offered by the Juneauj Emblem Club, will take place Thursday, May 18, at the Capitol Theater between shows. DR. RABEAU HERE Dr. E, S. Rabeau of Kotzebue is 1egistered at the Baranof Hotel. AT BARANOF HOTEL Willigm M. Benson, USCG, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. i Snowden, D. C. Wright. . LGH Company, Anchorage, gen- eral sales of real estate, $100,000 capital stock; incorporators Lloyd G. Huff, Edward R. Green, James M. Lewis. 5 Bucey Motor Co., Ketchikan, mo- tor sales firm, $100,000 capital stock; incorporators M. J. 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