The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1942, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE . . § “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ] | ) < q ~ < 00 e =t VOL. LVIIL.. NO. 9017. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1942 . MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS . . . 5 H H I - altic Por | any Quesfions, Includin | | l i \ | | | : i | ' [] } | iven Blast FOUR STATES Answered Soon, Maybe Not LOSES WAY : I E T jDefense Transportation p -1 4. Forc lP i e 3 B : T N ool L R « Enemy Ground Crews at| ™ . oo oo iy Roval Air Force Bombers President Hints More May ' Suspect Blazes Incendiary B b k WS ACK STINNETY e Makes Safe Landing-Cap- . o . . . ' I i . ,A'v .““‘,_ s Service . . . Rabaul Machine Gun- | fion of Special Trips Make Air Raid-Leave | Be Piled on ‘Fanfastic’ .| -South Carolina Men | eaveroreo s o Jaueh on the selective e fain, Five Other Men e o . . . ! ol e Lew : AVHe ned-Also Barracks il Large Fires Burning January Program Investigate Sa § sm aSh ction with the Lew Avres storv| of Crew Inferned ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN| WASHINGTON, April 24 — The LONDON, April 24 — A strong, WASHINGTON, April 24—Presi-| BREVARD, North Carolina, April y “}“‘lkllmll:\ ):11\.“"\,‘:.':““l,::m".l.l:|”;“m(‘. MOSCOW, April 24—The first re- AUSTRALIA, April 24—Allied war- | Government has issued orders cur- force of RAF bombers “heavily at- dent Roosevelt declared today that 24—Raging forest fires, stubbornly M number of persons, several p ()[;]lUl'( concernihg last Saturday's sen- planes are continuing their al-|tailing local delivery services to tacked the Baltic port of Rostock” War Production is working out ex-|resisting the united efforts of air (A% | them movie fans, who still think sational bombing raid on the Jap- most daily attacks on Rabaul in|conserve transportation facilities 'last night and left widespread fires|tremely well and hinted that more patrols and volunteer fire fighters, a l I s o w Lew's acting in “All Quiet on the|anese Islands came today as TASS, New Britain, blasting shipping, bar-|and equipment. burning, apparently causing much|may be piled on top of the huge have spread over 32000 acres of | Western Front” was one of the|official Russian news agency, an: . racks and warehouses on that Jap-| Among the rules which will be- damage. program which was called fan- rieh timberlands in four southern Sy |great performances of all time on nounced that an American plane, anese invasion base again yester-|come effective on May 15, the Of- This is the official statement is-|tastic last January. states, the worst such conflagratioh NEW YORK, April 24—Creation ' the screen. Yet no one recognized | identified by its crew as a partici- day. fice of Defense Transportation has|sued today by the British Air Min- At that time, in his annual mes- |in years by Great Britain of a vast second the file as that of Lew Ayres, llll‘lpun( in the surprise attack on the Ground forces on the small cres-|directed that local carriers, includ- | istry. isage to Congress, the President set{ Some have attributed the huge front against Germany in Western actor. |Jap cities, made a forced landing b cent-shaped island off the New|ing merchandisers, shall be pro-| The Germans have been reported | forth a schedule asking for 185,000 blaize to incendiary sources, and |Europe, while Russia holds the The reason undoubtedly was that somewhere in Siberia. Guinea coast where Jap forces are|habited from making any special as sending streams of war supplies |planes this year and next; 120,000 Gevernor J. M. Broughton of North Nazls to a standstill on another the file of the young man who| 1t is reported that the plane car- turned his back on war and Holly-|rjed a captain and five men in its based in preparation for invasion | deliveries except to hospitals, armed | from Rostock to the Russian-Fin-|tanks and 18 million tons of com- Carclina has ordered State Bureau front, is urged by Lord Beaverbrook wood, because of convictions that of the “down-under” continent, were |services or emergency deliveries of |nish fronts | mercial shipping. of Investigation agents into Pis- in the belief that “Russia may set- o crew and that the huge bomber machine-gunned in yesterday's at- (supplies. Four aircraft are reported miss-, The intimation that these tre-gah National Fo where 14,000 tle the war for us this year.” jall by loghiniiacy unholy - business, in|was forced to land after the navi- by ! s e i ing | mendous goals might be expanded agres have been laid waste since) The British lend-lease coordinator WPich he should not articlpale:igator had lost his bearings. The SIS AR }M § D. e |to assure victory was given when Sunday [made this statement last night in [& L:\::l “““‘1‘;‘ the name Freder-|.n;ouncement said that in ac- 5 arie Dionne he was asked at a press confer-| New fires have broken out in'a speech before members of the ‘7 WS SWKES L |cordance with International Law, o Examifled | ence whether he thought that the southwest Virginia where fighters Newspaper Publishers' Bureau of' _;(.,(,(.;m" 50,5:‘:: r:-]{:m, n:, (:: Soviet authorities have interned the ! A { as a ar [ steel plants now being built or ex- are battling a furious blaze which |Advertising and said: “This 18 OUr ) oo of the 24 camps in which|Plane and its crew. : s 1F0l Ailmem | panded could raise the capacity suf- | already has consumed 12,000 acres.|chance and opportunity to bring .oncjentious ogjm‘(m work, says| Thisis the first direct word from ] | ficiently to meet all requirements.| E > - the war to an end right now.” 'there now are some 2500 young|?DV source telling of the landing g s | “No,” he replied, “I couldn’t say{ . | In blunt and frank detail, the yep enrolled. : |of any of the planes which raid- | 'TORONTO, Canada, April 24—| u a [that because there might be anel | British publisher disclosed in his since Pearl Harbor, only about|¢d Japan. There is still no word g Little Marie Dionne, smallest of the other program.” address just how close England was [20 of these have withdrawn to ]um‘rmm any other of the United Na- 2 stages of |the armed forces, tions regarding the raids. H ‘w disaster in the early famous quintuplets, has a definite The President then expressed the| 't Hidre i i TR Pt Ma Go U | personal view that: there 15 st} § the war. “It was just two years| The National Service Boawd for| The British Reuters News Agency | 3 ":; or):;xeflch :;T:‘-s;::viesivc))n L:m'e‘ too great a civilian use of steel| |ago,” he sald, “that we lost every- Religious Objectors, which acts as!said that the Moscow radio broad- i Shiyslrians reporthd Loda§ y but that War Production Board | thing we possessed save only our a clearing house for funds from|cast these reports from Khabarovsk, WASHINGTON, April 24 — The v}hen ]'“m.m was nine ‘wet'ks old | rrsrnd | officials have taken a contrary po-li Y | soldie: Guns, we lost in thou- the religious organizations which that the plane landed in Russian 2( 3 House of Representatives has passed |, {umor was removed by radium | $60,000 Raise for Terri- sition to lh; inquiry of _whether| ‘.?u;::f. vv;-hlcl:.s. “b}rnm.nftyku{mp .lx;j{u»{}tmtllli'; camis, says nm)rlsmcf Far Eastern territory. . legislation suspending for & Vear|iregtment from her right leg. The| o4 anything is being done to “revital-| | sands; " almost all of our tanks and ¢ Wulind-Siaics entered u'x war,; Thus, it was not stated specifical- | 4 the statute requiring that at least|quints will be eight years old on 'orys Purchases Indi- iz shipbuildinz.” 1te said everybody {many_ airplanes jibe ratio of men going into the ly where the American warplane | $100 worth of labor be used on un-|jay 28. | is working con this problem at the | “Our biggest disaster was our Cmps to men drafted into the army|landed. But Khabarovsk, where patented mining claims. fieds e (aied by Ireasury present time —— | naval losses. Forty-seven of our _L'l'* _"""'-"&:"d about constant. In|the report apparently originated, is The bill is expected to go to the | e acoes T : | warships were sunk off Norway, Otber words, the religious scruplesi200 miles west of the Sea of Japan, i Senate soon, will mean.that small Amu (oAS‘Al | WASHINGTON, April 24 — The InSta"ahon Of Telephones}Dunkurque_" :’:)“‘1:“1":"“"‘;‘?'- n“(,mx:‘lllle l:“)‘;" b'-“k:;‘s and 400 miles north of Viadivostok. i /ne: ines | . 5 des i - ATIRE Ta MR gt e s i aliing Soriers ai I T TR AIRLINES MAKES | Treasury ~Department announces Resiricted for War | country’s entry into the oo, | by Ealted. Biates. Oonsul Sens (E for this year without working them. | {that the War Savings Bond quota ey [ 3¢ all the rumors about Prances | gr i vooox, Angus Ward, | § OBk LivesAT e TAKU, SITKA TRIPS | for alaska may be raised o 5196 Communication ED S"YDER IS [ Perkins' “Veing. relieved. ai Secre-| , dlNg the atfairs of ihe Al S JOHN LIVES. -5 ‘Ps’l‘ b it : '] 1400 as compared with the monthiy (S ! |tary of Dabahwers 1xid end to end fuumfi at that end, it is officially K 5 il g"d: dAlh' my o 8 s Do 1 | Ayerage of B1BRARE | ERMA WASHINGTON, April 24 — Be-| S"‘RI(KE“ A'I' {they would probably reach from |“"MCunced. ] gokn '“"””“Y!vm , ; 'cl:ln n"' CP“_M‘“E“?I,"” 5"“]{“’“_“_“"’?“% Raising of the quota would cor- cause of the war demands on com- | {John L. Lewis to William Green.| LD oy ; 4 PBvins haen il ": i : e‘: a?fisié’ A:lplgf”__“’d'g _l“‘f.'f ']RL"‘laku»sl)ond with the opening of the| munication facilities, the Govern-| Nevertheless, it may be worth re-| ,,-g e sobyingopgblat. 5 Niipg b 1L (LHRSE StiDe A ‘_"d'H;'T?‘, % byl i |new Voluntary Buying Plan of the | ment, has restricted the installation | IE"AKEE HOME cording that the latest capital gos- | TONYO. April 24 — Moming 8. Mr. vaesa),'vwho. was, dbom m‘;(e]e M‘:} 0"1"001&"“50 ; for Te War Savin. Bond campaign, in| of new telephones, i sip is that John Winant, ambassa- !u-‘»\nmpeu here printed articles re- Oregon, was 8 widower and a son, kee, Mrs OT00%. =~ o 1 g Which all United States citizens The War Production Board said | heyirs S Ay 'dor to Great Britain may be brought | Vi€Wing Japanese relations with So- L2 John, of Juneau, survives. urning here were Vestal E.|° ™ ’ S 2 YIRS 4| Ed snyder,'a pioneer resident of home to head the labor department|Viet Russia and expressed belief i tel i are asked to voluntarily sign a that only persons engaged in direct v p: Webb, D. R. Niel, R. H. Stevenson, 1 2 Sl —_— i . & Tenakee, died suddenly yesterday —IF a good spot can be found for they will remain harmonious despite . |L. P. St. Germain and Ernest Man-\pedfle to contribute up to 10 per-! 1 B S . war work or in occupations essen- | - ¥ 4 L ¢ v A 2 4 | 8 . aete M F 'f ' ¢ # afternoon between 4 .and 4:30 the administration’s loyal Madaine|the world situation. No reference i Idovacheld. cent of their salaries for War| ena(mg Ortification N tial to the public welfare can be| ... ¥ ey - & AGRIDE b e asinin On‘ cid. ek gl e eloumone | 0clock on bi dock there, apparent- Perkins. This time the soothsayers made to Russian dispatches that | cheif‘l__"‘““‘f' tmipa. ere Tide 19 B L | Crimean Is Taken it (e Subze. 5. {1y struck by a heart attack. liave these facts on their side: Win-|an American plane has landed in Merr _[;O.R_ound\‘“e Polaris-Taku Mine at Tulsequah i | " Mr. Snyder’s body was brought ant apparently is restless to get|Siberia. ] ‘qud;:y ""dha s souna tHp I8 IWENIY ONE [ by Russians ; e 5 {o Juneau this morning on the back into the thick of things here| -y ] — {Sitkp l:vx; | pitge and mail | [ ‘ T |motor launch Hyak by Sam Asp. and in appointing him secretary of | NO COMMENT ] ’ By DREW PEARSON— |was scheduled. R L R 2 B | Dermott O'Toole, nephew of Mr, labor the President would not be| WASHINGTON, April 24—Offi- and ROBERT S. ALLEN | ARRIVE HERE Bl :l’:: 598 5121' “‘:_ | Snyder, was expected in Juneau COMMitting himself to either of cial sources say there is “no com- - G lUMBER (o A“D | y newspap some time this afternoon to make 1€ two principal labor factions. |ment” in connection with the in- 3 WASHINGTON—This is a mo-| . Passengers arriving here from da Russian forces have cap- funeral arrangements with Charles Questions that may be answered |ternment of the crew of an Ameri mentous week for the War Labor| SAlell WORKERS Seward today were Mrs. T. D. Car-|tured the “Golden Range” men- 4 W oL ¢ " roon—or may not: Why was Leon|can bomber in Russia k) Board. | penter, J. B. Nelson, R. G. Schilds, |acing German stronghold in Crimea s ar os ‘ Ml'lsllv(h‘l' has lived in Tenakee Henderson really sent to South | 3 It's been kept under cover, but) REA(H AGREMENI’ J. E. Peterson, J. Bockhitz, V. Bak-| The newspaper also said there are L tor aisbitbe il viiods and” wes |the America? Will Jesse Jones emerge,| PRESIDENTIAL BANTER this key war agency is in the throes| er, T. H. Edwards, Stephinie (. reports that scme Finnish military ‘uwnvr of a general store and cab- « 44 WASHINGTON, April 24—Banter. of a serious internal clash which| ey A |Bogdon, H. A. Gerstman, R. J.| detachments have apparently moved In Y Libh Gk e W““‘ - O'“w;_ b Continued on Page Three) [ing: with $5a" newssien ovet ;l:‘ | is due for a showdown any day‘bemeetnel n;eezmls uheld yesterday.| ganson and J. L. Pettit. Isouth of Leningrad for the first s Althsulehe Had bm‘l i \ 2 Tations Hrte o dhie ThRE S id’ | now. The result may be an ex-| representatives of the Jun-| g Cordova, R. W. Fitzgib- time and are now bolstering the forel e e | b ki A e y I : s i : |eau Lumber Company and the saw- i ] . E 2 e o' | plaining of feeling ill previousl also reports from Moscow that an X plosicn that will blow the lid Off.| . woivars in the offices of the bons, Molly Clark, L. J. Griger and Nazi divisions on the Kalinin front. s | he had been fairly active until the @% . American plane has been forced The issue is over the charge that|merritorial Department of Labor, a|® LeVde: Yakutat, 8. Thompson,| The ,:G"b‘de"h?‘mge:‘ i°°'_’f“’“ ’: Price of Defendlng Amer- time ne colapsed on the dock. He |down in Siberia after making the | > certain employer members of the|gtisfactory agreement was reached | ™ F Rodenberg, .4, Belmont and 1o $ivey ut t (Vse'u[ulb reported 2 i A was about 74 years old. | RETURNS FROM {raid on the Japanese at four cities, ; Board are deliberately stalling dis-| by which the terms provided that|L® McCracken; from Haines. B.|to have been taken atter fowr davs jcg Sfill Going Up, IS | His widow, who has been in Cali- | President Roosevelt continued to posal of major labor cases affecting | Juneau Saw Mill workers will re- Pawlik and from Skagway, John of sharp fighting. R .I, |fornia for the last two years for I"IERIOR TRI | withhold any confirmation. He did | war production. | ceive a 10 cent per hour differen- |Jimmie. AR P eport Made OdBY her health, survives, besides Mr.' |say however that he had received | Precipitator of the showdown is|tial over the Puget Sound Douglas T iy AR | e " O'Toole, Mr. Snyder's nephew who b s et an official communication from l Dean Wayne Morse of Oregon Uni- | Fir wage scale, it is announced to- MR. AND MRS. MORRIS WASHINGTON, April 24—Bud- has lived with the Snyders most of After an absence of three weeks Moscow regarding interment of the | versity law school, two-fisted, plam—‘da_y py M. J. Haas, Territorial Com- AND CHILDREN ARE i get Director Harcld Smith reported his life. during which he visited many parts|plane’s crew, down in Siberia. Re- 1 talking public representative on | missioner v?f Labor. ; Sy (;[N WAY TO ti_'_rx‘t}TEi‘ tcday that the war spending pro-| Mr. Snyder was a member of the ol. the Westward and Interior dis-|ferring to his saying at the Tues- j the Board. .Pnnclpnl target of| Asujle from a few additional ant rs. Robert Morris an | gram has been speeded up to an|Gastineau Masonic Lodge of Doug- dricts of the Territory, J. J. Meherin|day conference with the newsmen, i Morse's fire is Walter C. Teagle, minor changes, the 1942 agreement | their two children are in Juneau| - estimated twenty-eight billion dol- las. returned to his home in Juneau by|that the raiding planes might have k tall, bulky chairman of the board|is in all other respects the same|this afternoon on their way south lars for this fiscal year which ends PESEES : plane yesterday. {come from mythical Shargrilla, he | of Standard Ol of New Jersey and | A5 existed last year, Mr. Haas said.|irom Anchorage. They expect 0| June 30 g i Mr. Meherin, part owner of the|gaiq today that evidently one of I} an employer member of WLB. | VIRE My, MogHal TAgHly. Lo Oregon He said that the expenditures will STOCK QUOTATIONS maranot Hotel and Alaska repres- inem dia ot get back and went | . The long-smoldering controversy | HIGH “Eil luGuE and may continue to California to |be seventy billion for the next fis- | '!‘“'3\0 of Hills Brothers Coffee, iy, Russia instead, | came to a head some days ago in, et Moo b epllicdume, then e thts monin, s mes| ! NEW. YOHIE, foei) sa-clieng Lot 1 (sAuies i oelled At s s L ORI connection with the International| To BOWl I" H_Ks [stay in’ the st i | will cost three billion dollars and|quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ,(::. ::,:" FS‘::::‘::KKm:‘i«:k Ansher-) Harvester case. This case had been | S e | BERLIN, April 24—The German|that by September, monthly costs|stock today is 1%, American Can Business was good throughou the| ] pending for nearly a year. Finally| MATCHES TONIGHY |sTeveE mccuTcHEON | High Command reported today that|will be about five billion and “still|57%, Anaconds 23%, Bethlehem Territory and people seem fo b ey T Morse demanded that the WLB OFF TO ANCHORAGE new U-Boat operations are now | going up.” |Steel 54%, Commonwealth and an excellent state of ming.. F‘w:"“ i render & decision, threatening to\ ... oo o piennee league Steve McCutcheon, Supervisor in under way off the American Coast| L PR L N | Southern 7/30, Curtiss Wright 7, In- steamer brought back many S ]y: h resign Wnd’fesue & sielement Blunt- [ TR0 8 SRS allere] s o orisl DepARTent of Labor |and in the Caribbean Sea. | ternational Harvester 40%: Ken- who had been south for the winer| \J ly telling why he quit unless the|yonine” 2" 730 oclock and 9 left this morning by plane for| The Nazi communique c]ninm-dlM' D. WIllIAMS necott 20%, New York Central 7, and mining: and other industries Board acted. o'clock. Anchorage where he will look into that six merchant ships totalling | Northern Pacific 5%, United States planned to continue normal opera- | [ ] Under this challenge the Boatd| A 7:30 o'clock the Baranof will|">5¢ cla"lns for the department. He |35000 {ons have been sunk in the BA(K FROM I‘RIP Steel 46%, Pound $4.04, tions, he said. | . got down to business. After mostiplay the Molls on alleys 1 and 2 ::ge?estur? wm";:ll:”e h_’fh_bufi";ebf new raids. | i S | Interest in the war was para- of a day of dickering, Teagle fim‘l-;wmle the Alley Cats will play the 5 4 eau within a ew; AT AL s | Pl | DOW, JONES AVERAGES mount in everyone's mind and had i 1y proposed that the matter be held | Dolls on alleys 3 and 4. ys: | | M. D. Williams, District Engineer | The following are today’s Dow, Superceded any interest in polities i over the following week-end on the| At 9:30 o'clock the Frills bowl £z | ' for the Public Roads Administra- |Jones averages: industrials 94.13, Usually keen just preceding a prim- e Y | possibility that a split decision|against the Federals on alleys 1 and | OLIVER LEE, PIONEER | |tion, returned to Juneau late yes- |rails 2372, utilities 10.65. |y, election, Mr. Meherin said. | N o could be averted. This was agreed|2 and the Percy’s play the Gutter ’ OF ALASKA, IS DEAD AI.I.IES’ 'I'AlKS terday on the motorship Highway, | i o o A The buildings destroyed by the, NEW Atacks Lau"(hEd in to. Snipes on alleys 3 and 4. Oliver Lee, 10 Frgicenk: of . the | . Public Roads Administrution boat.| COL STORAGE WORKER feoent fife in Anshorage, wero alf| ‘T f . During that week-end most of | —————— Territory since 1899, died early this| LONDON, April 24—Prime Min- Mr. Williams had been gone a week | ~ AND BUYERS MEET HERE old wooden structures and in addi- aungyi Areas AgalnS' | v the employer members of the WLB| morning in St. Ann’s Hospital. |ister Winston Churchill has re- during which he made official in-| WITH LABOR OFFICIALS o0 to the Frisco Cafe building, Ch 'I' had @ secret pow-wow at which! U] u Mr. Lee was born February 18,|ceived a message from President spections at Ketchikan, Wrange:,| Meetings between representatives in the kitchen of which the fire nese 1roops they debated what stand to take on | 1372, in Norway and had been em- Roosevelt saying he agrees with all and Petersburg of the cold storage company work- CC8af: three other buildings were| —— . “union security,” the basic issue| SMAll vESSEl ployed by the Alaska Railroad at the conclusicns reached by United| The motorship Highway has been ers and the cold storage companies :f:d.lyp‘_“m‘“wd' Mr. Meherin said. NEW DELHI, April 24—Japan= rodivad a the. Harvester - gnd: &) one time. Two daughters, Mrs. States Chief of Staff General released to the Public Roads Ad-|and fish buyers were begun last p,,’_‘“,l ,”;:\"\" Cule building was com-|ese forces are driving northward number of other pending major Lo o ; Clara Estabrook of Carlo and Mrs. | George C. Marshall after his visit (o | ministration again after being un-|evening in the offices of the Ter- s i actad Bo federtc lon the Eastern Burma front, cases, Participants in_this con-| WA TON, April 24 — The|Ruth Wale of Wasilla, survive. Britain with Harry Hopkins re- der charier (o the U. §. Armyritorial Department of Labor With were awfully e, nd Falbanks| jqunching new attacks in the ference later told other WLB mem-| United States Navy announced to- e —— |cently, an informed source said|Engineers for several months. |E. 8. Jackson, of the Conciliation 4o consid ety and residents|puungyi areas just southeast of day that a small U. 8 hant |J. B. CARLYLE LEAVES ! el ion i means of handling g ot bers that an agreement on the S kil Bty merchant | J. B. | today. | e Division of the United States De- the problem, he e |Mandalay, the British official com- compromise “union membership| TS TES OO S‘;‘r“?d by an en- - FOR INTERIOR TODAY AL RS M. H. SIDES BACK | partment of Labor, in an effort s B munique in India said today. maintenance” formula could have Cmy sul ;n ;n: of the Atlantic = ‘ B. Carlyle, head of the Liquor: MAKE SITKA TRIP M. H. Sides, Deputy Collector of [to reach a satisfactory agreement. | 1t is officially announced that ’ ¢ been reached but for Teagle. ‘oast and tl _a the survivors have n.oroemem Department of the| J. 8. Jeffrey, merchandise brok-|Customs, returned to Juneau yes- The meetings were continued to- RODENBERG HERE |the Japanese are within 100 miles It was stated that the oilman been landed in an East Coast port.|Territorial Treasurer’s office, left er, and Mrs. Jeffrey, left Juneau!terday afternoon after a ftrip of day and it is hoped that nego- E. F. Rodenberg, of the Signal of the important city of Manda- | vigorously objected to accepting SRt today for Fairbanks and Anchor-|this morning for Sitka. Gil Rich,|ten days during which he visited tiations will be completed this eve- Corps, United States Army, sta-|lay, the deepest penetration of any pi e | ipinach 1s hajteved. fo- bave bk #9e °f‘l 8 5’:0" business trip in merchandise broker was also a pas-|customs offices between here and|ning. M. J. Haas, Territorial Com- lioned at Yakutat, arrived in Ju- of the (hree major northward | (Continued on Page Four) irst grown in ancient Persia. jroansain with his department. |senger for the Baranof Island (‘ll).l!’rlnae Rupert on official business.| missioner of Labor said. neau today from his post. thrusts, | ‘