The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-20

 and Popoff stated, If you'll keep still I'll try and answc~ your ques- tion.p This brought rev flood of words from Roden who had all ready been warned .y the court sev- leral times.
 Rcden Ordered To Seat
 At this point, the court ordered Roden to his seat, declared the trial was to proceed in an orderly man. nar and counsel would refrain from attempting to argue with witnesses. Defense Counsel Irwin Goodman was immediately on his feet, demanding mis- trial on grounds that the courts re arks were prejudicial. Judge Alexander denied the motion and ordered Roden to continue with his questioning but in an orderly manner. Recess was taken shortly af- terward, and after recess the court in brief statement to jury declared that body was to disregard the in- Icident; that the sole purpose of the court was to conduct an orderly and flair trial.
 The court has no personal in- terest in this case Judge Alexander said. T do not know any of the de- fendants nor any of the circum- stances. The courts only purpose is to conduct this trial in an orderly manner. You are the sole judges of the evidence and So will disregard such incidents as occurred here
 Tells of Alleged Threat
 Indicating that plans had been made to resist the march to the Alaska Juneau office to register on June 24 previously, Lloyd Ritter stated on the witness stand that the night before the trouble he had been in the Imperial pool hall and heard Ed Rennie, one of the defendants, say, They may get to work but we'll 1 sure keep the hospitals full while they do it.
 On cross examination Ritter said he did not remember who Rennie was addressing but that there was a group of men at the counter in the pool hall at the time when he said he overheard the remark.
 
 Sees Defendants
 Popoff, the first witness called this morning, recounted how he had seen IRennie and Warren Beavert in the line of alleged resistence at the union hall. George Kodzoff and Ivan Diboff, he said, were men he saw running ahead to get into the line Later he pointed to Frank Agoff as one of the men he saw in the blockade across the street. He de- clared Simon Graner, another de- fendant, pushed him off the porch at the A. J. mine office. The wit ness said he saw Rennie pick up a pair of handcuffs which he assumed belonged to a policeman and start swinging them as if trying to hit somebody. This, he said, happened in front of the union hall.
 Howard Stabler, attorney for Kod- zoff and Bill Taroff attempted to shake the witness on his testimony relative to seeing Kodzoff, but Pop off insisted he was not mistaken in his Identification.
 Beavert, Graner, Benny Larson and Mentur Peterson were defend ants named by Jess Paine as alleged participants in the trouble. He de- clared Beavert was in the A. B. Hall before the march to the A. J. of flee started and demanded of him (Paine) Why don't you start some thing?' The witness said he saw Graner attempting to form sec ond line of resistance near the lum- Der mill and identified Larson as one of the persons he saw trying to keep men from registering at the A. J. of flee. He named Mentur Peterson as a man he had seen running about with a club in his hand After registering at the office, Paine said he was struck on the neck from behind but did not know who struck the blow.
 One of Organizers
 The witness said he was one of the organizers of the Juneau Mine Work CTS Association and that he had withdrawn from the Alaska Mine workers Union when the latter re- fused to arbitrate and said it would only mediate on the walkout trouble He denied there were any weapons to his knowledge in the A. B. hall and also denied that he had seen drunk en man there who Defense Counsel Goodman referred to as "Scotty." Paine identified picture as a like ness of the scene on Lower Front Street and it was admitted in evil dence.
 It also was brought out on cross examination that Paine signed the warrant for the arrest of Warren Beavert. He said he did so because T had reason to believe Beavert pointed out men who wanted to go to work, ~