The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-16
GOVERNMENT TO TAKE AT LEAST ANOTHER WEEK
Adjournment Taken from Friday Afternoon Un- til Monday Morning DEFENSE HAS LARGE
 NUMBER, WITNESSES Hollis Jones and Albert Norman Testify to As
 sault During Trouble

With the government expected to take at least another week in pre- senting it's evidence, the trial of 25 men on charges of rioting will be re- sumed in Federal district court at 10 o'clock Monday morning. Ad- journment was taken at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon until Monday. No hearing in the case was held to- day as it was motion day in court and other matters were on the calen- dar to be taken up.
 District Attorney William A. Holz- heimer said today that he anticipat- ed it would require from a week to 10 days more for the government to present all of its witnesses. The de- fense also has large number of witt nesses and it is expected the case may run well into December.
 Special Officer Testifies
 Hollis Jones and Albert Norman occupied the witness stand late yes- terday. Jones, who was special po- lice officer at the time of the al- legged riot, said that he had been employed at the Alaska Juneau mine prior to the shutdown and had gone back to work there on August after the mine re-opened. Jones told how he had been commissioned a special officer some time before June 24, the day of the street trouble, and that on the morning of the march from the A. B. Hall down Front street to the mine office he had been ahead of the column of marchers with several other officers. He de- clared that he had been. hit on the head from behind during the en- counter in front of the Alaska Mine Workers Union hall and several men had gathered around and kicked him when he was down. He pointed to Harry Datoff as one of the men who had pushed him when he at- tempted to help make way through the crowd blocking the street. The witness said he did not know the mans name but he knew his face He said he thought it was Frank Agoff but he pointed to Datoff and defense counsel asked that the record show Jones had pointed out Datoff and not Agoff. Jones re-asserted on cross examination that he was posi- tive of his Identification but he was not sure of the name.
 Points to Beavert
 The witness also pointed to War ren Beavert as one of the men al- legedly causing the trouble. He said he had been told afterward the man he pointed to was Beavert, and declared he was certain of the face.
 Jones testified that he carried sap on the day of the trouble and he said some dozen other special officers carried clubs which were concealed under their clothing. He said they had been instructed by Chief of Police Roy Hoffman not to display the clubs. Defense attempt ed to bring out that other men leay- ing the A. B. Hall might have been armed but Jones said he knew of no one but special officers having any clubs. Asked if he had used his sap the witness said he had taken 1t from his pocket after being assaulted and carried 1t in his hand but had no oc- casion to use it..
 Albert Norman, who has been em- ployed at the A. J. for years and is now working there. described in de- tail what had taken place as far as he had seen, and, while Defense Counsel Henry Roden questioned him briefly about actions at the A. J. office, Nor man asserted there was no question in his mind that Simon Graner, one of the defendants, hit him while on the A. J. porch. He said he had been hit twice, the first time on the cheek which required his going to doctor for treatment. and second time in the face. The second blow, he de- clared. was delivered by Graner, whom he said he had known for long time and had worked on the same level with him in the mine. A wide smile lighted Graner's face as Norman testified to the potency of the blow which he said could only have been delivered by a big man due to the particular position in which they were standing and the