The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 22, 1945, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-~JUNEAU, ALASKA ™~ B FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1945 ns, the reported mad.mnn ]cft’ Wednesday morning, \\l'hout breakfast. He became ver cxcitvd | when Mr. Stearns made a telephone call, shouting “Don’t call the police, don't call the police.” He launched an attack on Stearns, who broke loose then succeeded in calming his visitor sufficiently to convince hour, the latter that he should go to|American Air: commercial pas- Thane. senger planes upon resumption of The two started out on the trail, | post-war travel, was announced ye: but “Tony" soon turned back to the terday by the firm’s Atlantic Div Stearns cabin. Mr. Stearns again, ion. Residents Disturbed by F'(I)t(h;m):l out of the house, but! Cost of the trip was listed Wande{lngs Of MYS'erY | force an entry through the door.|trip rate to Europe. The firm said Madman""-Search On 88 Hours Around 'World Flight ' Announced by PAA 22.—An LUNATIC IS SIGHTED IN THANE AREA 88- NEW YORK, June as hen took up a mattock to $700, or less than the present mund-“ Mr. Stearns was only able to Ch;,-,p‘xtsex\'uuon‘. already had been made | him away at the point of a gun, by 11 passengers. The route from New York, the The “mystery madman” was last | { seen, again by Mr. Stearns, on company said, will cover Lisbon, Reports of alleged “crazy | Wednesday noon, when he was re-|Marseille, Rome, ~Athens, Cairo,| man,” running wild in the area be-|ported on the beach near the|Basra and Karachi to Calcutta of tween Thane and Dupont have Stearns property, barefoot and Ithe Atlantic Division, and then re- caused widespread apprehension dressed only in underw turn via Bangkok, Canton, Tokyo, among residents of that section this On receiving Mr. Stearns’ re-|Paramushiro, Anchorage, Seattle week and have precipitated an in- | port of the matter Wv(ln?sdnv‘“"“ San Francisco to New York. | tensive manhunt by officials of the forenoon, Deputy Marshal Sid| AT TR | U. S. Marshal's office and the U. Thompson went to the scene. He found the man’s shoes on the trail near Stearns’ home and his mnck-} EARTHQUAKE inaw on the back porch of a neigh-| S. Coast Guard The wanderer was first ‘reported by Charlie Stearns, who said a man giving his first name as “Tony”|boring house, but no other trace. ‘ | appeared at his cabin, about one| Yesterday, Marshal's officers i and one-half miles south of Thane, again went to Dupont, aboard | | late Tuesday evening. The man,|Henry Museth’s boat qcmmp—uund\ described by Mr. Stegrns as being by a Coast Guard vessel. Deputy | WESTON, Mass., June 22.—A about 50 years old, of medium Marshal Walter Hellan, with 4 ufairly strong” earthquake about build, with greying hair and a very | Coast Guardsman, searched the g0y miles northwest of Boston in noticeable old scar on his head, was trail again but found no fresh ¢hs yicinity of the Northern Sea of | seeking shelter and stayed over-|tracks beyond the Stearns cabill.|japan was recorded today on the night at the Stearns residence. ‘The trail showed no marks of bare! Weston College seismograph. “Tony" is reported to be an Ital- feet. The deputies did, however,| The Rev. Charles F. Turner mxd ian, speaking very broken English,|find a hat said to belong to the the ‘quake started at 5:31.20 a. m.| especially when excited. He “talks alleged madman and a package of | | Eastern War Time, and lasted about very crazy at times,” Stearns said.| | cigarettes on the trail ‘.\n hour and one-half. “Tony” told, §tearns that he had ' Deputies were to go to the area| Tumer said the tremor with enlarged jabout 65 miles under the surface of centered | arrived from Seattle to go to work again today an at the Douglas cannery. | search party the earth and that it was doubtful l[ overnight It is thought that the man, wan- it struck any populated areas. After ing with | p- = - s dering in the open without cloth- ing, likely has succumbed to ex-! |posure No identification was Ifound in any of the clothing di: covered. Employment offices, union groups and steamship offices have been checked seeking a clue to the wanderer's identity. It is consid- ered likely that he may have taken! a room in Juneau prior to com-| mencing his eccentric wanderings. | e IS SHOT DOWN BY GANGSTERS ManKilled n Sight of Wife and Daughter in Front of Chicago Home CHICAGO, June 22—Carl Car- ramusa, 37, stopped his automobile in front of his North Side home last night to pick up his wife and daugh-| ter and as they walked to the car, shotgun assassins in a passing auto- In New York City the Foxdhnm University seismograph recorded sharp” earthquake at 5:31.28 a. m. {today in the same area. PAN AMERICAN IN FROM SOUTH WITH | SIXTEEN ABOARD Pan American World Airways flew 15 people to Seattle yesterday and a Clipper brought 16 incoming passen- gers. Passengers to Seattle were: Russell Bowell, Kenneth Tonkin, Capt. Am- mon Hatfield, Capt. Daniel Thomp- sen, Kenyon MacLean, Gerald Mit- chell, Robert Sheldon, Clarence Chamberlin, Phillip Senour, Mrs. Ruth Senour, Elizabeth Senour, Da- vid K. 'Johnson, Mrs. Jean Foley, Beulah Marrs and Ida Hammond. | Incoming were: Walter Sharpe, {Allen Shattuck, Eugene Torkilson, Ada Winther, Florence McDonald, Frank Brennan, W. J. Prucha, A. R. Borthold, Thelma Killeen, Mrs. Bet- ty McCloskey, Richard McCloskey, Gillard Sherin, Roy Griffon, Edward Short, Virgil Lewis and Grace Corn-| BECAUSE WE RIPEN THEM RIGHT! EXTRA | mobile fired three blasts, killing him.|wall. | DEEP FLAVOR . FULL Carramusa, a part owner of a| Juneau to Fairbanks: William| FRESH VITAMIN Inovelty furniture manufacturing|O'Connell, John D, Scott, George company, and a former Kansas|Harrison, Katherine Kehoe, Rich- ard Congdon, Herb Morlin, Dorothy Morlin and Mrs. Alice Couey. Fairbanks to Juneau: Frederick Cuthbert, Myrven Sides, Charles Cummins and Dick Johnson. Whitehorse to Juneau: John Car-| City, Mo., tavern operator, was to‘ take his wife, Leona, an expectant mcther, and their daughter, Virgin- ia, 16, to a baby shower. Mrs. Car- | ramusa today was removed to a hos- | pital. CONTENT Yes..o we Have | Police soid the daughter and two|michael, Ralph Frama, Mlldxed |girl companions told investigators|Steen, Cliff Furness and Bess]e there were three men in the car|Blacknall. B a ” a". a s ! from which the shots were fired into e, |Carramusa’s head. Capt. George | Homer said police had not immed- iately learned a motive for the gang-| land slaying. DIVORCE FILED A new divorce action has been filed here with the Clerk of the U. S. District Court. The complaint, | TR, S P entered by Mable Hopkins against | BACK AT WORK Russell Hopkins, alleges desertion Mrs. Mildred Steen has returned{and non-support. Mrs. Hopkins, to her duties here with the Fish|who has custody of the couple's land Wildlife Service following ajminor child, asks to retain care of | {10-day trip to Fairbanks to visit|the child and seeks $40 a month[ I her husband, who is a member of |for his support in addition to $1,000 | !the armed forces there. as cash settlement. PIGGLY WIGGLY Phone 16 or 24 | KRISTOFFERSON’S COTTAGE CHEESE Carfon 35¢ FRESH FROZEN FOODS round-the-world flight on Pan| i | declared * JAP CONVOY 15 SPOTTED OFF KURILES ' Arm yLiberator Makes Two Mast-level Atfacks- Sinks‘ One Ship By Olen Clements (Associated Press War Correspondent) | ELEVENTH AIRFORCE HEAD-| QUARTERS, ALEUTIANS, June 22.‘ | —(Delayed) —A lone Aleutian-based Army Liberator bomber patroling the Japanese Sea of Okhotsk, west| of the Kuriles, Wednesday located | . Dbine small enemy cargo ships and( jin two mast-level bombing attacks, |sank one ship, probably sank an- other and damaged two more. The Liberator apparently surpris- ed the convov 25 southwest of Shimshirou, the closest Kurile Island |to Japan proper ever bomber from the Aleutians. The B-24 dropped three 300-pound bembs on each run and expended il USO GIRL — june Bright (above) of Denver, a secretary in the FBI offices in Washington, signed up as an entertainer in a USO revue for service outside 2200 rounds of ammunition causing the United States. cne ship to blow up. It left one s flaming and two smoking. Return fire was light. H I G HFAY 0 R Catholic Newspaper | ON TRUMAN'S TakesShotaf Russia R OA D A(TION LONDON, June 22—The Catholic Herald, published weekly in Lon- don said today that Russian behav- ior in Europe was “no better” than i"}!itlerinn fascist threat and aggres- sion.” Commenting on a statement by a weekly publication of the Soviet em- bassy in Britain that “no matter what crimes the Hitlerites commit- | ted, there was no reaction or anger or indignation at the Vatican,” the Herald said that the Russians had signed a pact with Hitler. - DAHL ARRIVES Chris Dahl, of Petersburg, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. President’s Statement for New Highway Gen- erally Approved SEATTLE, June 22—President Truman'’s statement at a press con- ference yesterday that he favored early completion of the Alaska High-| way through Central British Colum- bia today met with high favor in interested circles. ‘The President prefer- ence for what is ll'lml’d the “B” route or Rocky Mountain “trench” route to distinguish it from a pro-, posed more westerly route. | Donald MacDonald, Alaska mem- ber of the Former Alaska Inter- national Highway Commission, said he was pleased at the Pr | interest, but hcped that Columbia will have a voice in the selection of the ultimate. route — and I think British Cclumbia will select the ‘A’ route.” His sentiments were echoed by Kemper Freeman, Chairman of the |Alaska Highway Subcommittee of lhl‘ Pacific Northwest Trade Asso-| {ciation. Mgr. T. A. Stefenson of| the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce | “That's awfully good news --we are now out of the realm of ballyhoo » GARLIC SALT ONION SALT CELERY SALT SAVOR SALT SEASONING Re. Please.. . . IMAKE CHANGE |created with Axis aid would be ex- | Benito Mussolini's “Volunteers” par- ‘guest at the Gastineau Hotel. Schilling Celery Salt 'Pigeon Feeders Attention i | Mayor Ernest Parsons today asked' the cooperation of all Juneau pigeon | lovers “in abating the nuisance| caused by feeding the birds on the‘ dawntown streets. Feeding may well be done on some vacant lot off the main section of town,” he stated. { FRANCO MAY IN HIS CABINET MADRID, June 22.—Some Span- jards are expecting Generalissimo| Francisco Franco to effect a long- promised cabinet reshufflé and ad-| ministrative changes—and possibly | cther action—to meet the San Fran- cisco United Nations conference an- nouncement that any government cluded from any world organization. Despite the Franco regime’s an- nouncement that the San Francisco action “does not affect our coun- try in any way,” Spaniards reading the statement recalled Germans of the Condor Legion and Italians of /ading down Madrid’s main Castell- ana in a victory celebration in April of 1936. All Spain knows the United Na- tions conference meant the Spanish ‘regime and ‘it is generally agreed where men meet to talk that some-: thing must be done, and quickly, ‘if Spain becomes a member of the World Security organization. > —— TELLES HERE Daniel Telles, of Hawk Inlet, is a guest at the Hotel Juneau. ——r———— BERRY ARRIVES W. A. Berry, CAA employee of Anchorage, is a guest at the Hotel | Juneau. | s S i ANDERSON IN TOWN A. M. 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