The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 10, 1944, Page 6

'IDA Il IS BEACHED RYUKYU ISlES‘ OUTSIDE HARBOR: ARE ATTACKED NEARLY SWAMPS The southeastern that hit Juneau BY U. 5. FLEET last night bounced up the boats moored in the small boat harbor, | snapping lines, scratching-up one boat, the Sea Pigeon and putting the |Tda II in a sinking condition so | that it had to be towed outside the harbor and beached by the Coast Surprise Raid Made by Car- rier Planes-Ships Sunk, Guard. Planes Desloyed | The harbormaster today warned A all boat owners leaving their boats PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 10— |in the harbor to have good, strong Sweeping the Ryukyu Islands, |lines on them and see that they ar come 200 miles south of Japan |Properly moored. He said winter i and only 500 miles from the |coming on and more violent storm: can be expected. Two winters ago two boats became {50 weighed down with ice that they sank in the harbor and had to be raised |CERTIFICATE IS REQUIRED China coast, carrier planes of the Third Fleet sank or damaged 58 ships, also small craft, and de- stroyed 89 planes yesterday, Ad- miral Chester W. Nimitz an- nounced this afternoon. The planes attacked in great force and achieved a complete. | ot BEFORE PURCHASING CAR This is the first American strike into the islands com- | .y Lo TG by a manding the sea approaches be- | o0 to o P o new, twean: Fhoctiew and Shanghal. |, girct obtain a purchase cer- Halsey's planes also attacked |y at0 from his local board” every naval and merchant ship |poj;0 . Johnson, Territorial Ra- they could find and bombed and strafed island installations. Preliminary reports ated 12 | tioning Executive, cautioned today. An application for a used 1942 , it was explained, must be ac- large ships, including a destroyer, | oypanieq by a statement giving were probably sent down and |0 mage, body, type, serial num- many luggers sunk. ber and current or previous license More than 15 Jap planes on |,iuee number of the specific car he | the ground were destroyed. The American plane loss was small | and no surface ships of the fleet were damaged. wishes to purchase “With so few cars on the market |today, even used 1942 cars held for resale must be rationed to eligible | YRR (1 T users” stated Mrs. Johnson, “and {anyone who has spch a car for sale buyer to his local board for an ing a sale.” | >ee | ANCHORAGE TODAY o\ vk yorzeiMeR Seven passengers left Juneau “”‘i DIES IN SEA"I-E‘ Anchorage this afternoon aboard | a Woodley Airways plane. They are | T, Mrs. Henry John, Fred R. Spalding, Frank H. Holzheimer, 77, brother Gaby E. Lambkley, Ludlow Ander- of Judge William Holzheimer of | son, Palmer O. Seely, John B, Juneau, passed away in a Seattle| Sledge and Paul Miller. | hospital yesterday morning as a gt gy {result of heart trouble. The de- ROIARIA"S v I E w |ceased has many friends in Juneau, made during a visit here. For years |he was a prominent attorney of | Seattle then gave up the legall | profession and for years operated | [the wellknown Snoqualmie Lodge, il on the staff of one of the large S |city offices in Seattle. Major Marvin Marsden, chief or-| g vivors are his widow in ganizer among the native residents|geattie and two sons, Merle Holz- of the Far North for the Alaska peimer veteran of the First World Territorial Guard, was guest ywa, and now in the Navy in this speaker at the Juneau Rotary Club goqong war, and Frank Holzheimer, meeting this noon in the Guld\Jl,_' well known Pacific Northwest | R of the ‘Bamnot Rotel. |mining engineer and geologist of - Color movies taken during hisigeaiile travels were shown for the first time and Major Marsden gave a running account of the scenes. Ray Harrington of Pan Ameri-| can Airways, was initiated into the| club by Harold Foss. | Guests included Lawrence Lyman | of the Department of Labor from Portland, Oregon; Dr. George Dale of the Alaska Office of Indian Af- fairs; Ted Carter, agricultural specialist, and Roy Jackson, en- forcement attorney for the War Labor Board for this region. PALLBEARERS CHOSEN ~ FOR WINTERS’ RITES Pallbearers for Frank Winters, whose funeral services will be held at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Carter Chapel, are as fol- — e 'NINE PERSONS LEAVE FOR WHITEHORSE, PAA Two flights were made to White- | horse today by Pan American planes; | the first carrying Alvin Leonard, Dr. Robert W. MacCalmont, Nancy | MacCalmont, and Desmond Kidd, and the second carrying James Rob- erts, George Avison, Barry Bell, ! | Elsie ~ Rafferty, and Charles Mc- | Mahon. Earl Ellingen was a pas- | sengers for Fairbanks on the second [ flight. L McCORMICK TO PETERSBURG John McCormick, Territorial Di- rector of Selective Service, left to- lows: R. M. Marshall, Jack Flet-{day by plane for Petersburg. He cher, Bob Vernon, Harold MacKin-|will confer with the Petersburg ley, Osborne Nygard, and Wayne|and Wrangell draft boards, return- Johnson. ing here within a week. FRUIT CAKE FIXIN’S Candied Pineapple Citron Orange, Lemon Peel Pitied Dates - Raisins Currants - Mixed Fruits Shelled Walnuts - Almonds Pecans - Filberis Get Yours Now DOUGLAS DELIVERY 10 A. M. TWO JUNEAU DELIVERIES 10:15 . M. 2:15P. M. . : INIMUM—$2.50 AR ert CASH GROCERY ‘SEAL SKINS SOLD - IN AUCTION; 288 . BIDDERS THERE { ST. LOUIS, Oct, 10. — Approxi- mately 25,000 sealskin pelts sold for ($8.71 down to $8.12 in the semi-an- (nual fur auction of the Fouke Fur Company. | A lottery was necessary to deter- mine sales because many of the 288 963; and 75 Safari Brown from the Northwest Coast, $2,441 e PREPAREDNESS | POSTWARPLAN | CAUSES STORM WASHINGTON, Oct. 10..— Gov-| ernment plans to put the United States in a world organization back- ed by force headed for a storm of | national debate today, with Presi-" dent Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull apparently seek- the debate the question of whether | Congress should have .to give ap-| proval each time the world or- ganization calls for American men, melucea 12600 BESS (ROSS HERE | buyers bid to the ceilings immed- ! military Government - School ' at| |iately. Pelts sold Charlottesville, Georgia. His family | Matar: Brown Alaska sealskins, ' accor | 3 went with him, according to a $477,520; 8,378 Safari Brown Alaska, ON WAY Io HOME letter received in Juneau from Mrs. |83 1327 Alaska Blacks, $39,- Riegle. ing to prevent a possible disagree- With 10 precincts yet to be heard Juneau,” writes Mrs. Riegle. ment of any single issue from wreck- | from. Lt. Col Riegle was one of the| ing the whole enterpri This | Mrs. Cross is staying at the most highly esteemed Army officers| strategy is considered responsible |{Baranof Hotel. ever stationed in Juneau. for the determination with which ——————————— sy | officials refrain from bringing into| Some 35,700,000 miles separate Tungsten is said to be the most THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA Vice Admiral Kirk LT, COL. RIEGLE ~ GetsNew Command IS ON "SPECIAL | WAR MISSION" i : Lt. Col. Roy W. Riegle, former France, Admiral Stark announces ¢ oy 2 €S |Commander at Duck Creek, has | Kirk commanded the western i Task Force during the Normandy 'éceived orders from the War De- | » partment and is now “on a special | |invasion and previously led the Task iy war mission. Force in the Sicilian landings. AR PR R Col. Riegle was ordered back to 'the States last July to attend a| LONDON, Oct, 10.—Vice Admiral Alan Kirk is now Commander of the |United States Naval forces in Mrs. Bess Cross of Kotzebue ar-| rived in Juneau today via Pan American Airways from Seattle and plans to continue to Nome Wed- nesday or Thursday, after a brief visit with friends here. Mrs. Cross made the trip to Seattle with the body of Boris Magids, her brother-in-law, who died last month and was buried in the States. The well-known Alaska business Col. Riegle graduated after a six weeks' course and was sent to the| Northwestern University in Chi-| cago to study the Japanese lan-! guage for a period of six months. | However, after just one week, he| received an order from the War Department to proceed immediately to the west coast for overseas duty | “on a special war mission.” Mrs.. Riegle writes he had four wotHAn - Pemberatio didadbiiror days to take his family to the home » Democratic candidate for |y, ‘pryporia, Kansas, before he left the Territorial House of Represen-/ . . tatives from this Secorid |DibMr, | 1° YeBt coast. ! is tied with Republican candidate “I am certaln that no other as- P. G. Baker for the fourth seat in signment he may draw will be as the House and the Second Division |dear to him as his tour of duty in the sun from Mercury, its nearest planet. difficult of all metals to melt and work. | guns, ships, and planes to suppress the threatened aggressor. i An authoritative analysis by the | State Department of the Dumbarton | Oaks security plan, revealed yester-, day, shows it fails to call for any' such strong commitment on the part of the United States. It provides instead only the promise to unde take to supply forces in accord with constitutional proces — L DSTROM SERVICES { Funeral services were held this afternoon in the Chapel of the Carter Mortuary for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lundstrom who died a few hours after birth on Sunday. The Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman read the eul- ogy, followed by interment in t.he] Evergreen Cemetery. e o o o ° o . WEATHER REPORT . . (U. S. Weather Bureau) . . . . Temp. Monday, Oct. 9 . . In Juneau: Maximum, 52; e ® minimum, 42. Rainfall, .70. . L] At Ajirport: Maximum, 50; e ® minimum, 45. Rainfall, 1.23. e ® o 0 0 06 0 0 00 0 0 A AT R S TN, ~ ONLY FIVE MORE DAYS to get your Christmas packages ready for loved ones overseas. All the Fixin's for Fruit Cakes, Candy and Cookies Juneau Deliveries—10 A. M. and 2 P. M. Douglas Delivery—10 A. M. Boat Orders Delivered Anytime! R R R T Phone 93 GEO RUM-Bicardi - RUM-Goddard's, Buy NOW Let us asso LIQUOR STORE Buy your TOM AND JERRY SUPPLY NOW while selection is com- plete AND AT A SAVING AS WELL while our stock lasts . . . . Specials ===-- R UM ----= Specials | RUM-01d Timothy, our ceiling $4.00, fifth, NOW $2.95 | RUM-Imporied Casablanca, our ceiling 5, 5tt NOW $3.25 RUM-Romaica: our ceiling $5.50, fifth . - NOW $3.95 | = Buy Your Supply TODAY ~-BRANDY =ea-- | V.S.0. BRANDY - HENRY MARQUIS J. BAVET 5-STAR BRANDY IMPORTED BRANDY While our stock lasts SPECIAL DISCOUNT IN CASE QUANTITY!! EORGE BROTHER LIOQUOR STORE Phone RGE BROTHERS 95 -+ - Fifth, NOW $4.65 125 Proof - - . Fifth, NOW $6.85 Fifth $4.65 Fifth $4.50 Fifth $4.75 Fifth $6.75 . . . . rt a case for you to your choosing. | ervations, privileges, | dividual property holders’. PROTEST Hon. Richard Hanna, Seattle, Washington Dear $ir: At a regular meeting of Igloo No. 6, Pioneers of Alaska, held at Juneau, Alaska, on September | 29, 1944, there was a very earnest discussion of the Petitions filed by the Indians of Southeastern Alaska to be given exclusive rights of occupancy of large sec- tions of land and the exclusive right to fish in the bays, inlets and waters. By unanimous vote, the President and Secretary were instructed to address to you as the presiding officer at the hearings to be held in Seat- tle on or about November 15, 1944, the following representa- tions and protests with the re- quest that this communication be read into the record at the hearings: “The lodge of Pioneers of Alaska is composed of the first settlers of the Territory and their descendants who were born here. Many have been in Alaska from 40 to 50 years, and many other members were born, reared and educated here. “The early pioneers came to Alaska on the express or im- plied invitation of the Govern- ment of the United States, which bought Alaska from Russia with public funds, taking title ‘free and unencumbered by any res- franchises, grants or possessions by any as- sociated companies, whether corporate or incorporate, Rus- sian or any other, or by any par- ties, except merely private in- (Ar- ticle VI, Treaty of Cession.) “The Territory was opened up to settlement; the land laws of | the United States were extended the townsite homestead to the Territory, laws, mineral laws, | laws, and it was represented to settlers from the States and foreign countries that those who were sufficiently enterprising and willing to endure the nat- ural hardships of the long jour- ney to the Territory, the perils of exploration and the many other natural obstacles to settle- ment and development which existed,. could obtain title to lands, the right to explore and develop the mineral resources, the right to fish in the waters and ‘such rights as under the, circumstances are the reward of hard - labor, endurance and sac- rifice. Alaska has been settled on that basis. “It is a matter of general and universal knowledge that the lot of the pioneers of Alaska was & hard one. They came here, settled, took up lands, develop- ed mines, fished in the waters, and, with the assistance of large amounts of capital which they attracted here by their efforts, they developed the fisheries to their present state. “Now. these pioneers and their | descendants find vast sections of the country being set aside in reservations, including millions of acres of the Territory which are still mostly undeveloped, but in which the pioneering has al- | ready been done, and it is now proposed to set aside further reservations, including reserva- tion of the waters, and to give the exclusive right of fishing thereih to the Indians on the pretext that since their ances- tors fished in the streams flow- ing into the waters where the fisheries are now developed, and roamed about on the land from place to place hunting game and fur-bearing animals, that they are now entitled to the exclusive use and right of occupancy of those lands and waters regard- less of the claims of the white settlers which have been estab- lished and maintained through the past seventy-five years with the sanction and encouragement of the Government of the United States. “No one can doubt that the Territory would never have been settled by whites and would never have reached the present state of development if the pio- neers could have known that titles to land and fishing rights would some day be in jeopardy and held to be subordinate to exclusive claims of Indians, and we cannot now understand the apparent reversal of policy of the Government if the' Govern- ment, as now constituted should permit the establishment of these proposed reservations. “The Indians of Alaska have been well treated, not only by the pioneer white settlers who have always respected their ac- tual rights, but by the Govern- ment also, and we defy anyone to show the contrary. They have been deprived of nothing; their rights have always been protected; they have every right in the Territory which a white man has, including even the right . to_ assist in making our laws. This is evidenced by the fact that three Natives of the whole and half-blood were nom- inated as candidates to the forthcoming territorial Legisla- ture, and two of them have been elected and will sit in the House of Representatives next January. “The lot of the descendants of the aboriginal races of Alaska is better today than at any time in their history, and as they be- come better educated and a little farther advanced in the ways of the whites, they will all grad- ually become assimilated. The whites want them to become .as- similated and have done every- thing in their power to bring that about. All the privileges of the whites have been very rapid- ly extended to the Indians. They are well treated by the whites and certainly well cared for by the Federal Government. It would be not only a mon- strous injustice to the men and women who pioneered Alaska to now establish and set up claims of any one group, whether In- dians or whites, to exclusive rights of any nature, and to grant these so-called aboriginal claims now pending, but it would be greatly detrimental to the Indians themselves. It would be equally unjust to give white persons any claims or rights under them which are not also common and available to the Indians. No such claims now exist or have ever existed. “We are persuaded from our long acquaintance and associa- tion with the Indians, that they did not initiate any such claims —it was done for them by out- siders, and if they are granted, it will mean that the Territory will be ruined for both whites and Indians. Even if only a part of the asserted claims are granted, the principle will be es- tablished like a rule of law, and thereafter, so far as property rights in the Territory are con- cened, nothing but confusion and uncertainty will exist. “This subject of exclusive In- dian rights, based on ancestral or aboriginal occupancy, was so ably discussed and with such common sense and logic, by President John Quincy Adams at the observance of the anni- versary of the Sons of the Pil- grims on December 22, 1802 (printed in 8th Annual Report, Bureau of Ethnology, 1896-1897, Pages 536 and 537), that we beg leave to quote his words, as fol- lows: “‘There are moralists who have questioned the right of Europeans to intrude upon the possessions of the aborigines in any case and under any limitations whatsoever. But have they maturely considered the whole subject? The In- dian right of possession itself stands, with regard to the greatest part of the country, upon a gquestionable founda- tion. Their cultivated fields, their constructed habitations, a space of ample sufficiency for their subsistence, and whatever they had annexed to themselves by personal labor, was undoubtedly by the laws of nature theirs. But what is the right of a huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidently ranged in quest of prey? Shall the liberal bounties of Provi- dence to the race of man be monopolized by one of ten thousand for whom they were created? Shall the exuberant bosom of the common mother, amply adequate to the nour- ishment of millions, be claimed exclusively by a few hundreds of her offspring? Shall the lordly savage not only disdain the virtues and enjoyments of civilization himself, but shall he control the civilization of the world? Shall he forbid the wilderness to blossom like the rose? Shall he forbid the oaks of the forest to fall before the ax of industry and rise again transformed into the habitations of ease and ele- gance? Shall he doom an im- mense region of the globe to perpetual desolation, and to hear the howlings of the tiger and the wolf silence forever the voice of human gladness? Shall the fields and the val- leys which a beneficent God has framed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes be condemned to everlasting barrenness? Shall the mighty rivers, poured out by the hands of nature as channels of communication between nu- merous nations, roll their waters in sullen silence and | eternal solitude to the deep? | Have hundreds of commodious | harbors, a thousand leagues of coast, and a boundless ocean | been - spread in the front of | this land, end shall every pur- pose of utility to which they could apply be prohibited by the tenant of the woods? No, generous philanthropists! Heaven has not been thus in- | consistent in the works of its hands. Heaven has not thus placed at irreconcilable strife its moral laws with its physical creation.’ “We most respectfully and | earnestly protest the ‘granting of these exclusive rights based on aboriginal occupancy, and we suggest that if any agency or branch of the Government, or | any person or group of persons in the Government sincerely be- lieves that any Indfans or group of Indians have been deprived of any rights which they should legitimately enjoy. that they pro- ceed in the courts under existing laws and in the manner pre- scribed in the Constitution of the United States and the laws enacted thereunder. Courts have been established for the orderly adjudication of all claims of any person against another or of one group against another group, and we see no reason why the court procedure prescribed and established by the Government should not be invoked in the settlement of these so-called ab- original claims, if they have any merit. Very respectfully, W. O. CARLSON, . President,. CHAS. W. CARTER, Secretary. IGLOO NO. 6, PIONEERS OF ALASKA.