The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1945, Page 6

PAGE SIX GOVT. DROPS ONE CHARGE AGAINST FOUR FISHERMEN| “Court Upholds Defense Motion fo Force Election ~Trial Near End Dismissal of one charge :\gamst{ Kurt Nordgren, Richard Harris, Hagold Stolpe and Oscar Burman, resulted just before noon today here in U. S. District Court, when Judge George F. Alexander upheld a mo- tion by defense counsel Howard D. Stdbler, that the prosecution elect on which of the two alleged fish law violaticns the case would be present- ed to the jury. The Court ruled that the two charges were both based on only one criminal action, and there- allege for only one offense should be charged Government Attorneys Robert L. Jernberg and Robert L. Tollefson elected to prosecute on the second of the two counts of the'in- formation brought against the four defendants—that of fishing during; the Sunday closed period. The court ordered that all evidence and testimony relating to the dismissed charge be stricken. The defense motion was entered at the conclusion of defense testi mony, which occupied all this morn- ing’s Court session. The Government had rested its case late yesterday afternoon, at which time Attorney Stabler had entered the same mo- tion, but at that time it was de- nied. Other defense motions, for in- structed verdicts of acquittal be- cause of insulficient evidence, were denied | The prosecution called three wit- nesses in its case yesterday. J Stecle Culbertson, Fisheries Manage- ment Supervisor of the Fish and wil e Service was first to take the stand ford Close, Pat the Fish & vessel Aukle Close testified to having come up- on the four defendants upon their’ seine boat Gordon D. with their; ceine pursed alongside the containing salmon, on the morning of August 27, 1944, Sunday, in the| closed waters of the Sumner Straits District. John L. Grover, engineer| of the Auklet, was the third Govern- | ment witness. He confirmed the| testimony of Captain Close. ;‘ The four co-defendants presented | their testimony this morning, with{ Nordern, master of the seine boat, first to take the stand. The de- fense admitted that the seine was| in the water at the time charged, but contended that it had gone over- | board by accident and that it was' being retrieved at the time the Wild- life Agent appeared, that it was not being used in the process of fishing. Closing arguments by counsel were | scheduled for the Court session this afternoon, commencing at 2 o'clock. Twelve jurors to hear the case were speedily selected when the trial op- ened yesterday afternoon. Selected | to sit on the trial jury were: | Edna Radonich, Lockie McKin- non, Mabel Lybeck, Charles O. Sa-| bin, Charles E. Steele, Laura A. Tay- lor, Archie Radalet, Bertha Jahoda, ! Rose M. McMullen, Mrs. Mary Holmquist, Bert F .McDowell, Mrs. Nell Kilburn. DEPT. WORKERS OF PUBLIC WELFARE MEETING IN CITY| Conference Is Discussing Wide Program for Next Two Years Meeting here for the first time in more than two years were Pro- | fessional workers of the Depart- ment of Public Welfare attending a seven-day staff meeting, with Representatives of the Department and the U. S. Children’s Bureau and Federal Social Security Board. The conference got under way Monday in the Central offices of | the department, it is announced | by Russell G. Maynard, Director. Those attending included the following: Mrs. Azilie Aaron, Re- gional Representative, Bureau of | Public Assistance, Social Security Board, with headquarters at San | Francisco; Miss Bess Williams, Re-' Consultant of the U. Children’s Bureau, Department Labor, with headquarters at Francisc CWs { He was followed by Gif- il 1 Agent and cap wildlife Service of tr gional of San Miss Elizabetih Hanson, worker in Keichikan; Miss | Ha: Forde, CWS worker in| Jur Miss Delphina Morris, CWS worker in Anchorage; Miss THE (partment for the next two years. conferences, the members will main for several days to meet the GOVERNOR RO'I'ARY menibers of the Board of Public | | Welfare, which is convening in Ju—! the board who will be in attend- ance include Gov. Ernest Gruening,‘ 4 ’—‘f R A Chairman; Howard Lyng, Nome; Mrs. Clara McCutcheon, Anchorage, Te”S Of Alms 0 Ota”ans and Mrs. Clifford Smith, Fair-| -Harmon Tells of banks | 'I' w k Childrens’ Aid Program | - Together with representatives ofi! een age ee the Federal Agencies, the Terri- 03 g g torial Board will perfect arrange- [X ’“h‘({m ";;i:“; x“‘i"g Czl:\:: még;d |ments for the administration of the Rncfom oF R R Soth. Gl jnew Aid to Dependent Children's .. ion. jack Fletcher presiding, {program, passed by the recent ses- | TR SR TR At oo Rl [sion of the Legislature. This prt tary, Ralph Bartholomew, Who is Km{“ will permit Federal partic ‘mvxiducling a goodwill tour among |pation and will replace the !m"mcr".hc different Rotery Clubs in Mother’s Pension Program, wmd]:suutheast Alaska for the District was rvepcnlo(l by the new act. Com';wl Governor William Shannon of mencing July 1, the new program/ge,itie was the guest of honor. He will he administered without regard | expressed the points and views of the to race, creed or color, and will, District Governor very aptly in a therefore, include those children gy . speech before the Rotarians. who may be eligible, of the Eskimo, :RD!BI'Y has two things in mind at all Aleut or Indian races. The old|tjmaes club fellowship and Com- Mother's Pension Law expressly (mynity Service, he said. The latter |discriminated against such chil- |point was stressed as each Rotarian, i Jfor personal as well as civic reason. Also to come in for general plan- wishes to make the city within ning will be the newly amended which he resides the most comfort- As for the| tjuvenile Code Act, which also re-!gple and pleasing to see. moves racial discrimination fea-!development of fellowship among! tures. * |Rotarians each individual should During the staff conference and strive for perfection in his business| 'board meeting, representatives of !several other Federal Agencies will participate, including representa- Itives of the Alaska Native Service, land U. 8. and Territorial Public ! |Health Services. | Petersburg and Sitka. | | Extension of Territorial respon»! Henry Harmon, in tune with Mr.| Isibilities in the field of public wel- | Bartholomew’s speech, told of the fare and the making available of coming Boys and Girls teen-age pro-| services is a primary purpose, said 'gram of character building activities| | Director Maynard, of having the |for the general welfare of boys and staff and members of the board girls and to emphasize the need for and personal make-up so that fellow Rotarians are able to express pride in that individual. In summing up his talk, Mr. Bartholomew pointed | out the work of Rotary Clubs in |the Territory taking into considera- DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA | s Association. The five major res- '(AB MEETI"G Io |taurants which were closed by the |strike have re-opened, with strik- START ToMoRRow ing workers back on the job. Disclosure of the dispute settle- 2 |ment was made here today by Mike} Raymond W. Stough, Director o”Haas, Conciliation Commissioner for’ Alaska Office of Civil Aeronautics the Department of Labor, who ha% Board; Burleigh Putnam and Robert| returned from the Interior City J. Bartoo, also with the Civil Aero- |alter serving as mediator. nautics Board in Anchorage, have The strike lasted six days. In ad- arrived in Juneau to attend the Civil dition to the five establishments Aeronautics Board meeting which ! closed, one other continued to oper- will be held in the House Chambers ate behind a picket line. Other in the Federal Building starting to- restaurants met the union demands morrow at 10 a. m. |as soon as the strike was called. This meeting has been called to| According to the settlement reach- consider the possibilities of classify- ed, all restaurant operators. have ing the different airlines service in Signed a mnew collective bargaining agreement with the union, to be pre- tion the difference in regulation Sented to the War Labor Board for| which might be approved and ap- aPproval. The agreement contains plied to each type. The Board will small additional gains for the work- also consider the providing for regu-;"-’" over tk}e prevailing contract. It {ular dependable air service for the also clarifies provisions concerning | future. |split shifts, short shifts and vaca- Hearings will also be held on the|tions. ~The union dropped its de- application certificate by the Post-|mand for a 40-hour week wage base. ‘mnster General for regular air mail | - [service between Juneau and Skag-| SABLE FISH RECEIPTS way. Docking at the Juneau Cold |Storage plant today and unloading |fish were the following boats: The Dixon, Emil Samuelson, skipper; 6,000 pounds of sable fish, COMPLEIE JAU“ purchased by the Alaska Coast Fisheries at ceiling prices. | The Emma, Tom Ness, skipper, 11,000 pounds sable fish. The Arden, Olaf Larson, skipper, 14,000 pounds of sable fish. The Defiance, Frank Olson, skip- per; 3,000 pounds of sable fish. Catches of the latter three boats, | the Emma, Aden and Defiance, | were purchased by E. E. Engstrom, buyer for Sebastian Stewart, at ceiling prices. NO ESCAPE FOR | Completing a combination patrol trip aboard the Wildlife vessel Grizzly Bear, on which they have been absent from their Juneau headquarters for 10 days, Frank T. Hynes, Alaska Director for the PFish and Wildlife Service, and Jack O’Connor, Game Management Su- pervisor, have arrived back in Ju- neau. On their trip, the officials talked | to fishermen at Petersburg and Wrangell and stopped at Ketchikan |gressional expression of the Gov- HEAVY BLAST |Marianas. together at this time SALVATION ARMY DRIVE WITHIN (6 SECURES RESULTS Except for those men and units which have been away from the base here, the Salvation Army Fund Drive which has been conducfed within ,|the U. S. Coast Guard service here | is reported completed. One hundred percent participation of all units cdntacted to date, is re- ported, with contributions totalling approximately $51 so far, it is dis- closed by the office of the Captain of the Port -+ LT. HENDRICK>u.l! HERE Lt. Vance E. Hendrickson, former executive officer of the Captain of the Port office here, was to return to his station at the U. 8. Coast /instilling in boys and girls the love t0 meet Charles Kellogg, Assistant lof country. |Chief Biologist for the Division of Thecdore W. Law, President of Fur Research of the Fish and |the Alaska Airlines, informed mem- Wildlife Service. Mr. Kellogg, ar- bers of the further development of riving from his Chicago office, was | this Airlines in bringing in new taken aboard the Grizzly Bear as Douglas DC-3 and Lode Star far as Petersburg, where he re-| equipment in approximately 10 days. mained for an examination of the This equipment will furnish travel operation of the Experimental Fur facilities for 21 passengers, with Station. hostesses, six days a week between| Mr. Kellogg plans to continue Juneau and Anchorage and in direct north to Juneau in a few days. connection with Pan American’s Enroute, he will visit privately-| north and south bound planes. |operated fur farms in order to Visiting Rotarians today were: A.'secure first-hand knowledge of fur- |M. Spaeth, Hugo Schmolok, Ralph bearing problems and to offer what A. Bartholomew, Reputy District suggestions he can. | Governor, all of Ketchikan. | Guests at the meeting were: Rob- ert Jernberg, Assistant District At-| FAIRBA“KS (AFE |torney from Xetchikan; Keith Rob- lector of Alaska Office of Civil | Aeronautics from Anchorage; Char-i Agreement has been reached at s R. Dick, Sydney Smith, Sector|pairbanks in the dispute betwéen , Office of Indian Affairs, Land | on; Raymond W. Stough, Dir- | Traific Manager for. Pan Ameri-|the Hotel and Restaurant Workers can; J. V. Roscoe, Assistant Sector| ynjon and the Restaurant Own- PERPETRATORS OF NAZI ATROCITIES WASHINGTON, April 24—Warn- ing to | neutral countries againnst | offering sanctuary to perpetrators | of Nazi war atrocities, came from the House Foreign Affairs Com- mittee today as it approved for making it the United States’ policy to go into neutral countries, regard- less of treaties, pursue and capture enemy war criminals. The resolution was introduced by Representative King, Democrat, California, and must be approved by both branches of Congress. { It does not have the force of a law but serves merely as a Con- ernment. Previously, Allied Government, under the signatures of Truman, Churchill and Stalin, warned thel Germans against further atrocities | and declared that ruthless pursuit and punishment await those who mistraat Allied prisoners. e, TARGETS NEAR TOKYO GIVEN WASHINGTON, April 24—Indus- | trial targets of Tachikawai, just west of Tokyo, were attacked by | American Super Fortresses today, ! (April 24, Japanese time), the War Department states in a special an- nouncement from the Twentieth ‘Air Force Headquarters. The announcement further stated the attack was made by a large force of raiders from the Twenty- First Bomber Command in the . | CHICAGO, April 24—His pitching is just as good as Manager Jimmy Dykes expected, but — the hitting of Chicago's undefeated White Sox al- most has made rotund James swal- low his inevitable cigar in pleasant surprise. i The American League pace-setters, off to the best White Sox’ start in a quarter century with five straight wins, have belted out 64 hits, for an average of 13 per game, and have chalked up a .352 team percentage at the plate. L wi SUNSHINE FO Moth-Proofs Brighten the Colors in RUGS and UPHOLSTERY at the i~ Quard District Headquarters in |Manager for Pan American; Theo- Ketchikan today. \dore W. Law, President of the Alas- Lt. Hendrickson has been in ka Alr Lines, and W. E. Stump, Juneau to attend a meeting of the Ketchikan Attorney. War Manpower Priorities Commit- Y tee, where he was Navy Represcn-’ CAA MEN HERE tative on behalf of the Comman- dant of the Seventeenth Naval| District. lLounsbuxy, CAA men from An- )ichorage, are in Juneau, guests at Empire want ads get quick results. 'the Gastineau Hotel. Robert Matsen and Hewitt V. ONION SETS While They Last Ibs.for 50 Order Yours Today! Piggly Wiggly Phones 16 or 24 Ernestine Zollman, CWS worker in Fairbank: Miss Helen Waters, | CWS worker in the Central Offi and Miss Alice Brantiebury, Super- | | visor of the Division of Social Ser- | vice for the Department, with head- | quarters in Juneau Conference Issues The conference will be concerned with the general policies of the various public welfare programs of the department, staff activities, so- cial planning, existing and new programs as made available by the Yecent session of the Territorial Legislature, and continuing overall principles and policies in carrying EORGE BROTHER Super Market Orders for Delivery Accepted Up to 2:30 P. M. 2 FREE Deliveries Daily—10:30 A. M., 2:30 P. M. out the responsibilities of the De-‘ WATKINS GOOD HEALTH » AM CLEANER as It Cleans PRODUCTS | Foods, Medicines, Flavorings | and Spices, Toiletries and | Household Necesities at PRE-WAR CEILING PRICES Complete Line GARNICK’S GROCERY ! Phone 174 Come in and get your FREE Calendar and Almanac PHONE 704 Juneau Deliveries— i0 A. M. and 2P. M. Boat Orders Del Douglas Delivery—10 A, M. ivered Anytime Will Be in Service Reclining seats for twenty-one passengers. Two instrument ships for dependable schedules. Through flights without stopover. Juneau-Anchorage-Fairbanks— Juneau-Anchorage-Nome Juneau-Anchorage-McGrath Juneau-Ancherage-Kuskokwim Juneau-Anchorage-Bethel— North and southbound Seattle connections at Junea Stewardess service Juneau-Anchorage-Nome. Alaska Airlines Baranof Hotel Our First New Douglas Ship “Starliner Juneau” by EARLY MAY 6 trips weekly 3 trips weekly 3 trips weekly 3 trips weekly 1 trip weekly u. Phone 667 Darigold BUTTER TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1945 Exira Special! ROY ELWELL e o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 v ‘W GRADE SCHOOL IS T0 * 'WEATHER REPORT + GIVEPAGEANTFRIDAY 0 oocrutures o svomowr revioa o ® Ending 7:30 0’Clock This Morning @ The Juneau Grade School will e e o o 3 present the pageant, “Our Land of e In Juneau—Maximum, 54; e Freedom,” consisting of dances, minimum, 33. music and story, in the Juneau At Airport—Maximum, 54; e * High School Auditorium, Friday‘- minimum, 27, evening, starting at 7:30 oclock. '@ © @ © o © o o o o s ' Every grade will be represented @ TOMORROW’'S FORECAST e in the pageant. . Fair tonight, Wednesday e w A matinee ‘will be given Thurs- e and Wednesday night. . day afternoon for the benefit of @« ©¢ @« ¢ @ © © © o o o the High School students. . TEMPERATURES . Last year, when a similar per- e Lowest tonight 30° e formance was given by the graders, @ Highest Wednesday 55" e over 250 persons were turned away (¢ e e e e e ® e e and the auditorium was filled to R GRS 2 iy s - “standing room only.” BARTOO HERE k R i ANCHORAGE MEN HERE Robert J. Bartoo, who is with 5 J. E. Noonan and R. H. Whit- the Civil Aeronautics Board in An- ‘4| more, of Anchorage, are guests at chorage, has arrived in Juneau and ‘the Baranof. is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. Lt DARIGOLD i FEDERAL ! \ (ase \ ® o A HUNT'S FANCY HUNT'SFANCY | ™ Whole Peeled Black APRICOTS . 4 cans - - $1.59 : . 2 Pounds Scouring Pads | - $1.05 | S5cfach |- TWO JUNEAU DELIVERIES 10:15 A. M. 2:15P. M. DOUGLAS DELIVERY 10 A. M. e MINIMUM—$2.50 @ BB erts CASH GROCERY CANNERY WORKERS AND FISHERMEN Persons desiring employment for the 1945 season and purse seine fishermen at the P. E. Harris & Co. plant at Hawk Inlet, Icy Strait Balmon Co. at Hoonah, New England Fish Co. at Chatham, Todd Packing Co. at Todd, and Astoria-Puget Sound Canning Co. at Excursion Inlet, should sign up for same with Mrs. Margaret Wana- maker, or Mrs. Bessie Visaya, as soon as possible. These canneries are covered by the Membership Contract between Alaska Salmen Industry, Inc., and the Alaska Native Brotherhood, which contract is for the duration of World War II, at labor price scale fixed by the War Labor Board. . Jobs availahle include the making of cans, boxes and cartons, op- erating and feeding of the following machines but not their in- stallation, upkeep or maintenance: Iron Chinks, gang knives, butch- ers or cutters, filling (feeders and helpers) clinchers, reformers, slit- | ters, can body, pasting, casing, stitching and all other work and pre- | season work that has been done customarily heretofore which does not conflict with any work heretofore performed by the Machinists’ Union. Prospective cannery employees are reminded that said labor contract provides as follows: Segtion 2 (a) “The previous season’s employees, satisfactory to the company and available for employ- ment, shall have a preference and shall first be selected; no members of the ANB or ANS shall be discriminated against on account of any labor activities, race; color, creed, or for any lawsuit or other legal action.” WILLIAM L, PAUL, JR., ANB Secretary. Special----- OLD MR. 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