The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-26

defendant Dupree was able to name was Simon Graner, who, he said, was trying to keep men from reg istering at the A. J. office. He told of seeing Al Nygren, President of the Alaska Mine Workers Union, near the Nugget Shop, running alongside the marchers and calling to union men to drop out and go on ahead. It is the contention of the government that the union men did run on ahead and form human barricade in the street near the un- ion hall.
 Attorney Banfield said he saw men with rocks and one man with his hands taped but did not know who they were. Banfield told of being st the A. B. Hall the morning of the disturbance and said Al Nygren
 truck his head out of window of the hall and called to the people in the street to come on in as it was public meeting. It is the conten- tion of the government and it has been testified by several witnesses that the meeting was only for those men who wanted to return to work 1t the mine which had been shu. down following the walkout.
 Tells of Encounter
 The witness explained the encoun- ter near the union hall on Front Street as he saw it and told of hear 'ng U. s. Marshal William T. Ma honey admonish the men not to cause trouble and to clear the street which, he said, they refused to do. Banfield testified that he had helped the Marshal in the arrest of Frank Agoff, a defendant, but denied that he had aided Bob Corey, another Jpecial officer in taking Agoff to jail as Corey testified yesterday. Banfield said it was Alex Datoff that he es- eorted to the city jail on the day of the alleged riot The witness said there was interference with the men registering at the A. J. office but did not identify any of the defend- ants as connected with it. He re- counted seeing Jesse Paine, one of the marchers' struck, also Albert Norman, another marcher, but did not know the persons who hit them.
 Mentions Nygren
 Witness Jackson said he was a door man at the A. B. Hall and that Al Nygren got by him on the pre- text that he was going into the hail to warn those inside about too big crowd as the hall might be un- safe. Later, he said, Nygren stuck his head out of a window and shout ed to everyone outside to come in. The witness identified c. w. Farlin as one of the defendants he had seen with a rock in his hand in the vicinity of the power house near the A. J. office.
 Testimony that he had seen Harry Datoff, defendant, hit Ted Dan ielSen, President of the Juneau Mine Workers Association, over the head with a club was given by Everett E. Smith, who also served as door man at the A. B. Hall and was in the line of marchers. Smith de- clared that Warren Beavert, Ed Rem nie and Datoff, all defendants, were in an argument with some non union men near the sawmill when Datoff struck Danielsen with the club. On cross examination, the witness said he recalled that Datoff had blood on his face as if he, too, had been in some encounter.
 With Corey
 Frank Hedges, another witness, said he was the man who accom- panied Bob Corey to the union hall a few evenings before the alleged riot and heard a man address the and ask how many had guns and clubs and also how many would use them if furnished. He said $ ssNv1pssSNjlps>- -r1Nsss-~1fess'