The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 3, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXV., NO- 10,030 “ALL THE NEWS ‘ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1945 ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ‘JAPANESE HOME ISLANDS BLOCKADED . ~ » LAVAL GIVES TESTIMONY AT! PETAIN TRIAL Tells of Agreements Enter- ed Into With Know- | ledge of British BULLETIN — PARIS — Pierre Laval ruefully admitted today that he had said “here is where we overthrow the French Republic” when he was pushing through acts which made the old soldier a vir-| tual dictator. He contended his remark was a jest. “I am not a Fascist! I am not a Nazi! I love the Republic,” shouted the haggard, white-tied former; Chief of Government of Petain’s Vichy regime. Laval admitted he had said “I desire a German victory,” He tes-| tified that he made the statement to make the Germans believe he! was on their side. On two or more occasions, Laval| cleared his throat by drinking! Vichy water. PARIS, Aug. 3.—Pierre Laval de-| _nczmunued on Page Three) ; — .- | | The Washi‘ngion! {lodged by irate taxpayers. TAXPAYERS SAY JUNK ASSESSMENT Executive Commitiee Says Some Taxes Raised 400 Percent The Executive Committee of the; Juneau Taxpayers’ Association this| noon issued a statement urging the city to junk the recent assessment for which Evaluator Howard S.| Henretta was paid $11,000 on the basis that the new assessment contains too many inequities. H The committee said tnat if more| money is needed to run the affairs! of the city last year's assessment' should be used and the miliage rate raised. | The statement was issued aft,erj the Executive Committee heard a report made by the Taxnayers'| Association representative on the! committee that has be::n author-| ized by the City Council to go over the new tax rolls and svggest| changes as a result of protests | Said the statement: “Because of the many inequities in the Henretta appraisal, some assessments being raised as much as 400 per cent and many being placed far in excess of actual value, there will not be sufficient time to {made public before Sept. 1, the Big TRIAL OF WAR | CRIMINALS WILL | BE STARTED SOON! i V OrK-ri i LONDON, Aug. 3.The long-awaited iist of major war criminals will be Three declared in a communique is-' sued at the close of the Potsdam, c";‘:‘::"r‘;‘: Wi Bl oarooik pub"c_iGemmny stared today into @& ly accused of major war crimes ‘s;’&‘-parmn‘ work-filled future, shorn Reichmarshal Hermann Goering. 1of airplanes, shipping and all war- Promising “swift and sure Jus- making potential. She nevertheless tice,” the communique signed by can hope for eventual return to the Fresident Truman, Premier Stalin’world's family of nations. and Prime Minister Attlee said it was “a matter of great importance pe; by President Truman, Prime that the trial of these major crim- |pypister Attlee and Generalissimo 1"‘“7;“‘;‘“;’ begin at the earliest gealin in their Potsdam com- possible date. ! munique. : RQP"S""“’“"? of “he L%HLDOW:PS All the sting and venom of the mre bf"m::i;m:l = o eton for [ Reich is to be removed. This in- reenchyan e iE Y l'ocedull"e( oo cludes all Nazi organizations, all 8! P OF the German Army, Navy aid Alr the ll'iflls_~ Corps, all of Germany's once-rich lo l‘6§SE’S Merchant Marine and commercial tial are to be strictly controlled, as That is the pattern laid down for Defeated Germany Has Future: Has | Been Shpm of WarTooIs5 WASHINGTON, Aug. 3-D9ffl‘t‘d;uv imports, which could feed a secret war effort, Nevertheless, Germany has been told that she can have a standard of living “not exceeding the aver- 1age of the standards of living of | European countries,” expressly ex- cépting Russia and Britain, for her living. Democratic principles are fo re- !place Nazi indoctrination in Ger- man schools, courts, and public life ! GERMANS TO BE TOLD BERLIN, Aug. 3—The German lic will be kept in iznorance of “Big Three” Potsdam decisions, ,fil«'loasl as far as any official an- i ncement is concerned, until Saturday morning, when i the communique. INBATTLING | oo oo OVER JAPAN AGREEMENTS That Is Reason Adm. Hal- AT pOISDAM sey Has Been Able to S'"R GOPERS Merry “ Go _Round | carrect the assessment toll for this Hit hmgfl_fl_d Agam 4 | “We believe that the recent ex- i B RFW PEARSON | GUAM, Aug. 3.—Low losses consti- Li. cul.yngen 8. Allen now on active | Penditure for the new assessment tute one of the reasons Adm. Hal- 5 service with the Army.) | should be charged to profit and gey's Third Fleet has been able to re- .+ WASHINGTON--One «sonclusion 3 . arawn from the British eleetions is| “wrpe new assessment, when the that the people in England were taxes on ot thinking about peace-time Pros-jy tota] more than $12,000,000, an more than 1000 carrier planes and perity and post-war reconstructionj,creqse of more than $4,000,000, from the sea/with seven naval bom- more than the military achieve-| ., 3 50 per cent increase over 1944. bardments. ments of their wartime leader. “The major portion of ‘this new Adm. Nimitz's communiques for Likewise in the U. 8. A, all the, goeeqoment is a general increase on the period July 10, date of the first political soundings of Congressmen, ,.onerty giready listed. |attack-on Tokyo, through July 30, all the reports of political experts ™ .we yecommend that last year's date of the last reported assault, indicate that the American public geecment be used, together with reported only 116 American planes is beginning to worry about What's g,y new property not heretofore and 13 British craft lost in many {loss, ‘and the new asseSsment dis- main in Japaneis home ‘witers.so [‘casded 'long—24 ‘days, assumihg it is still| there—and to hit the enemy again' automobiles are listed, and again, both from the air wlthi (Taft Talks Oul, Indicating Senate-May Cause Truman Trouble | Republican criticism of the Pots- dam'* agreements gave President Truman notice that there may be Senate trouble ahead for the peace treaties that document envisages. In a statement that lent added significance because of his Chair- manship of the Minority Steering WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—Vigorous | TOUGHNESS ONGERMANS i o { Only Complaints of Pots- | ~damAgreement Is What Was_Nof Said LONDON, Aug. 3—Veteran dip- I lomatic observers agreed today that |the “Big Three's” Potsdam com- (munique displayed a toughness | with Germany sufficient to assure ‘the world that it would be a long | time before that natlon , again !could threaten universal peace. The London press chorused ap- Germany is told she must work,, ; Berlin | | Custries which count in war poten-: newspapers will publish the test of | GETS OKEH DEFEAT 0 JAPAN IS NEXT MOVE Truman, Attlee Agree for Coordinated Program in Pacific Section By ERNEST B. VACCARO (Associuted Press Correspondent) WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN ABOARD USS AUGUSTA, Aug. 3.— President Truman and Prime Min- ister Attlee were disclosed today to |have agreed at Berlin upon a coor- dinated program for the total de- feat of Japan which may inyolve tmajor shifts in the Pacific com- mand. An AngelosAmgrican statement |said the American and British Chiefs of Staff perfected details at daily meetings in Potsdam for coor- !dinating their forces to force Japan's | unconditional surrender and the lib- |eration of Japanese-occupled terri- tory “at the earliest possible date.” The joint statement was issued OPA FILES SUITS; ASKS REVOCATION - OF FISH LICENSES In a suit filed in District Court here today, the Alaska Office of Price Administration seeks to re-| voke the license of the Union Trade and Packing Co. and Hans Nord- ness to buy or sell fish. The de- fendants in this action are fish /buyers operating in Kalinen Bay, ‘v.ho last year had criminal cases filed against them. In the trial of jone of these cases in the Commlis- | sloner’s Court at Sitka, the defend- jants were fined $1,000. This case rwas appealed and is still pending |here in the District Court. | The complaint filed today charges [the defendants with wiltully pur- | chasing fish, particularly salmon, | at prices in excess of the price per- ‘mmed by regulations, and with | othérwise defying the price control |act. The present action seeks to |suspend the operations of the de- | fendants for a one-year period, as provided by the Emergency Price Control Act. In commenting upon the filing of this action, enforcement offi- jclals of the OPA itated that certain ‘other fish buyers were also wilfully violating the provisions of the act,| {and that considerable time and! | effort has been spent to obtain the ;g;nt:u}ll;me‘:nfinlzo :: i ::nlz‘;‘ :::: jevidence against them. Action is| :plnnned for the suspension of ;':&?,“;:pz:{um' e | licenses for these other firms nlsu{ The British, the statement assert- ;ensued in this illegal operation. |ed, will bring to bear against Japan Over-ceiling prices being paid by )| of their naval, land and air forces |these firms would indicate that|which can be advantageously used Alaska fish might become con-| Thero has been rather wide spec- simultaneously aboard the Presi-| ALL HARBORS OF JAPANESE ARE CUT OFF 'No Aid from Asia Can Now | Reach Nips-Allied Of- | fensive Expecled | By Leonard Milliman ! (Assoclated Press War Editor) [ A complete perfal blockade has jeut Japan off from any aid from Asia, where g huge Allled offensive (is expected soon, American com- manders sald today shortly after reporting 119 more Japanese vessels have been sunk or damaged. The air blockade was announced by Superfort Headquarters. A spokesman Japan and Korea has been virtually |closed by history's most extensive lair-borne mining aperation. Whatever shipping manages (o run the gantlet of mines is hunted |down by patrolling American air- craft from Okinawa. Fighting On Centinent Expected ‘The expectation of major fight- Lt. Gen, Albert C. Wedemeyer, U. | 8. Commander in China. Such a campaign, he said, would be sup- ported by the American-traingd, American-equipped Chinese farces of Northern Burma.! sald every harhor of- |Ing on the continent was voiced by’ who did so well hp the. re-conquest, | signed to black market opennoni | somewhere along the line, OPA's !move to obtain license suspensions {against such buyers is intended to| market channels, OPA j said. officlals BULLETINS | | | MANILA—A meeting has been‘\ held at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's| | Heddquarters to make plans for, ! bombing raids on Japan in which! | prevent the diverting of this much areas in the Pacific. {npeded- fish - supply’ into illegal permit Gen. Douglas ulation that Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, now Southeast Asia coached in the U.'S. style of war- Commander, may be assigned to'fare by American cadres. Ul { clearing out the Japanese by-passed|goal, Wflu’pvfl' .58 WY MacArthur, nese . Pr o the American Commander In the|would involve an American landing Pacific, to concentrate on the for- on the China coast. - ward areas. | Wedemeyer's statements were ac- Mountbatten attended the Pou-icompnmod by & renewed .drive by dam conference. Generalissimo Chiang Kal-shek’s FE ik forces in southeast China. They | were reported hammering against ToKYo p Ap[kistubbom and reinforced Japanelie 137 miles northeast of Kwellln, re- ' | cently recaptured U. S. airbase | clty. f ¥ On Other Fronts going to happen ‘here at home/ after the war. The many letters’ pouring in on this writer, especially from G.1.s, substantiate this. In view of the above, Harry Tru-; man may have pulled his first im-| portant domestic boner when he; suddenly jerked Judge Fred Vinson | out of the War Mobilizer's office to make him Secretary of the Treas- ury, replacing him with the St. listed and, if necessary, in order to secure enough revenue to properly run the city for the coming year, the millage be raised. By applying this theory all taxpayers will be treated the same, eliminating 'the majority of grievances and also saving the city thousands of dol- lars in expensive lawsuits, which { there no doubt would be as the Commitee, Senator Taft (R-Ohio),' contended that the “Big Three's” agreement to give Poland at least temporary control of an eastern sli f Germany “sows the seeds mallp pbescvait.rs ese salmee B Z r.c:utoure iy y s - what President Truman, Prime In a paragraph-by-paragraph lm_,Mim.ster Attlee and Premier Stalin alysis with reporters of the under-}‘“d not say, rather than at what standings reached by ‘President Was announced. S Truman, Prime Minister Attlee and 1t seemed agreed here in diplo- Generalissimo Stalin, Taft found matic circles that the mistakes of thousands of sorties. Nimitz reported only 97 Ameri-\ can pilots and air crewmen and three British airmen lost in the same per- iod. Marianas-based B-20s have flown 27,000 sorties over Japan with a loss of only .0055 percent, Headquarters reported today. = Altogether, 149 Superforts have, proval of the Potsdam decisfons. | Virtually the only complaints — either from newspapers or diplo- |up to 7,000 tens of bombs can be! dropped in a single attack. | i ! ¥ | ASTORIA, Ore—Fishcrmen Lave IN VASION D E ' joined those in Ilwaco and Grays Harbor in protesting an OPA cut- back in the price of troll-caught' | salmon. Grays Harbor and Astoria: prices are 1% cents a pound helo! Ded?res soou- S- war' 1t In HeNlE | ships Concentrated in WARNS EARLY In .other ‘land -actions, Yanks hunted down cornered Japanese | Generals in the northern Philipe |pines and Australiuns were sup- | ported by their own light naval units in the re-conquest of nor- ‘them Solomon Islands. British forces fighting through shouthern | Burma’s monsoons have killed 8,630 | Japanese and captured 650 in the \. Other Chinese foréss are belng i . n lost te si tesult of trying to enforce this heen lost to enemy ghptaRinee i Versailles had been avoided and |last three weeks. > Louis banker, John Snyder. Actually, the Office of War Mob-| lization has come to be the Office| of War Demobilization and Recon- version, and it is one of those; delicate cogs in the governmental machine which, if it gets out of| gear, can smash. just' about every wheel in the shop. Versatile Judge Vinson, even after his many years of 'experience, was finding ‘it nerve-racking, back-breaking prob- lem—and he will be the first to admit it. Therefore, to put John Snyder, almost fresh out of St. Louls, into this intricate job is like trans- ferring a product of the sidewalks of New York into a submarine and asking him to operate it. ‘This is meant as no reflection; on Snyder. He is ‘a hard-working, conscientious gentleman, an able banker, and faithful to his good triend - Harry Truman, with whom he trained every year in the Mis- souri National Guard. But it just; isn't fair to put hing on sueh a, hot spot. " < TAXPAYERS SET | assessment.” The City Council meets tohight and. will probably discuss this latest demand in addition to con- sidering how much money the city' is to spend this year and on what. 5 5 L A | i UPPERMANENT ORGANIZATION Commifleempts Arficles| Today - Ratfification Meet Next Week Provision for permanent organ- ization of the Juneau Taxpayers’ Associgtion was made today by the 8 Executive Committee named | at” the inaugural mass -meeting first attack on Tokyo last Thanks-| giving day. They have flown a total | of 237 missions—180 missions without | the loss of a single plane, At a cost of 1,639 crewmen in the 149 Superforts lost, 56 Japanese| cities have been gutted by fire — some almost completely destroyed. AIR ATTACKS | "BEASTLY"IS JAP CLAIMS SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.—Amer- ican air raids destroying forewarned Nipponese cities were denounced as “peastly” by the enemy’s domestic radio network today, but it predicted that they will be carried out fierce- 1y to “wipe out the Japanese people.” No hope that the advertised bomb room to praise only what he called the “harsh” terms imposed upon Germany. Democrats led by Chairman Con- nally (D-Texas), of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gen- erally voiced approval of the settle- ments either reached or proposed for Europe's problems. But there were some, like Sen- ator Wheeler (D-Mont.), who won- dered why no mention was made of many continental sore spots. that closer cooperation of the big| WASHINGTON — Senator Scott | powers was assured in the recon-| Lucas of Illinois has urged that in| struction of Europe. {any Pacific peace settlement, the Dispatches from Madrid said it Power of the Japanese Emperor be was expected that the sharp lan- Wiped out completely. Lucas de- |guage of the communique telling ¢lares that the influence cf the Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s Emperor must be eradicated 1f | Spain it was not welcome in the Fasclsm in Japan is to be up- | ranks of the United Nations would 1ooted. The Senator helicves that| Ibring about® another shift in the the time has come for the Alln,-s' ! Spanish Cabinet, to make a decision on whut ttey, An authoritative source in intend to do about Hirohito. ! London closely connected with the Free. was id, t ! S, vg‘wel" ‘:orrgéul:eyt: l::,“;ll’ulish Government at Warsaw, CLIFTON SPRINGS, N'A x. "::unnl was said al gos! " caid that on the whole, the Polish The founder and first President ot] a g : the Nanking University in China, o | Government probably was satisfied < oged ¢ x:sx l:v‘r:yt:::e::::d::,z ‘trl:g;: {with the Potsdam decisions, but Dr: John Calvin Ferguson, 79, died| ol“g ki i S added there had been “some ex- today. He spent 56 ycars in China ! mnp:he'g !' w": u‘nm sending are | Pectation regarding Stettin, so we and returned to the United States, i oo e e e hs oo !didn't get all “we asked.” Polish|in December, 1043, " sources said they still hoped for T horts and not given to Serbs. ! Y pe BRADENBURG, Ky,—Army offi- % {some concessions regarding Stettin Others ;"“d‘";‘lc“’:y ‘:;"' '::f\,mmy a declaration that Stet-|cials from Dayton, Ohio, are in- no news possi ussian entry| vestigating the cause of a jet- itions, Okinafi Area ‘ SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.—Five hundred U. S. warships, including battleships and cruisers, were re-; cently concentrated in the Okinawa area, the newspaper Yomiurl Hochi Is quoted today by Radio Tokyo. The Tokyo daily warned that a landing operation against Japan might come in the near future—, “Even @s early as next month.” f If an invasion of Japan is at- tempted before 1946, the daily edi- torialized, the U. S. will be able to mount only 40 divisions.» America’s invasion potential is limited by mil- itary manpower resources now in the Pacific theatre, by the question of shipping and by the experience and | hazards of such amphibious opera- i The 500 ship fleét, said Yomiuri,! Major Alr Blow- blows of the war were Major still being struck from the air. As 100 Mustang fighters struck the Tokyo ares aggin today, Japa- riese domestic broadcasts sald that the “beastly” air offensive 'would be ‘“carried. out fiercely” with she chjective of “wiping out. the Japie. nese people.” Brig. Gen. James Doolittle, com- mander of the Eighth Alr Foree which is soon to go into action with its B-20's from Okinawa, sald the objective was to knock out Kamikaze suicide planes which would be the Emperor's principal anti-invasion weapon. ja Whatever the purpose, new re- ports of Allied alr strikes added 91 Nipponese naval vessels to this week’s toll, in addition ta exten- stve land damagé. . e into the war against Japan, why! the disposition of German prisoners" in Allled hands was not sct out,) why Greece was uamentioned and | | whether Russian trocps would be tin is a free city with commercial passage allowed Poland and Czecho- slovakia, (A" British Foreign Office com-| mentator in London said today that staged at the Coliseum a week ago.! raids could be - prevented, even .ihvgeagm from Poland. | Stettin would come under Polish was concentrated principally at re- propelled “Shooting Star” "l“““fcently captured Nakagusuku Bay crash near here, in which the pilot ' (renamed Buckner’s Bay for Lt. Gen. was killed. The plane ‘was a sister| gimon Bolivar Buckner who lost his| |ship of the eraft which flew fromjife in the closing days of the Okin-! (awa campaign which he command-| OREGON FOREST FIRE BATTLERS Dayton to New York in a record No man not préviously steeped ini the complex reconversion, demobi~ lization picture, as.Judge. Vinson,| was, can expeét to step in cold and do _the job. Result is that John Snyder sits in meetings, Mterally flapping, as curved fly at him from every direction. doesn’'t even know:. the terminology of various reconversion problems. Meanwhile, if the Japanese peace should come suddenly—as it may well do—this country might be in for a sudden stoppage of war orders, disastrous : unémployment and the worst economic dislocation since 1930. TRUMAN AND CHILDREN Mrs. Truman is certainly careful; to protect her husband regudxng' the small niceties of life which sometimes can be important. When she and the President his ears| balls!| He | city taxpayers at a meeting to be _“At its second Friday noon meet- | ing, held at the Baranof Hotel, the committee adopted articles of as- sociation to govern the Taxpayers' organization on a permanent basis. The articles are to be submitted for ratification by all interested called next week. - Thé . articles! adopted by the commmittee today provide, in part: Articles Of Incorporation Of Juneau Taxpayer's Association “We, the undersigned, all being| taxpayers of the City of Juneau,‘ do hereby associate ourselves to- gether and do hereby form nn* Association, to be-known as the Juneau Taxpayer's Association, upon the following terms and con- ditions, namely: Membership “Membership in the association {ications Commission. though showers of leaflets give ad- vance warning that the B-20s will come, was offered in the broadcast, monitored by the Federal: Commun= Widespread destructian was re-, flected in the statement that the, number of cities “which have the| appearance of cities without being harmed has Iecome extremely | small.” FIREMEN HOLD MONTHLY MEET The Juneau Volunteer Fire De- partment last evening observed its regular monthly meeting date with a very brief business session. Two fires and one fire drill were reported during the month of July. | administration in the extension of |62 minutes. It was on a routine ! Poland’s western frontiers by ihe‘““ flight from Daytopn to Texas. Potsdam conference.” | Observing that the agreements seemed to formalize a Russian sphere of influence in Poland, Bul- | SAN FRANCISCO Eighteen ! hundred hjgh-seore veterans of the ! Pacific war have arrived in San garia, Finland, Hungary, Romania| and Eastern Austria, Taft said the . “Big Three” understandings “th' WN“ alld Prancisco aboard transports within | e"md l.Tnéfiyth: g F;r:s i:tnz:‘ SVIGefllum | the past 24 hours. The men will be| can do lease Wi ! honorably discharged. The four Puppet Polish Government.” | | transports also brought home sol- 1t appears to nim, Tate said, tnat| REPOFied True |diers to be furloughed, hospital Premier Stalin “gets everything, personnel, Navy casualties and 62 he wants and won out on all po-| STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Aug. 3.— sitions he has taken in the past.” |Chances are that when G. I. Joe “The transfer to Poland of nearly |comes home, a the seed of future war,” Taft as-'a Pennsylvania State college shows. serted. “The transfer of millions of | Dr. C. R. Adams, associate profes- |Germans to an already crowded sor of Education and Psychology, area is at best a dangerous ex- who conducted the canvass, said periment.” |married girls answered an emphatic President Truman, the Ohio Sen- “No” when arked whether they are ator said, had “assumed to speak|dating while their husbands are in he’ll tind his wife or| fourth of Germany certainly sows sweetheart has been true, a poll of | lcivilians repatriated from the A Philippines. QUITO, Ecnador — The Interfor | Minister of Ecuador has arnounced |that what it calls “a subversive iplan” has been discovered and sup- pressed. A spokesman for the min- istry says that part of a baftalion of soldiers quartered at Loja was implicated in the plot, and the two/ ed.) | The editorial said that the U. 8. now has five principal bases in the Pacific—the Marlanas, Western Carolines, Admiralties, the Philip- pines and Okinawa. - e | ) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 3 — Cloelns% quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine| stock today is 7%, American Can 99, Anaconda 33, Curtiss-Wright 6%, International Harvester 82%, Kennecott 37%, New York Central; 26%, Northern Pacific 28%, U. 8., Steel 67%, Pound $4.02%. Sales today totaled 510,000 shares., Dow, Jones averages today are as! follows: Industrials, 163.06; rails,| 5741; atilities, 32.42 i -e ASK ADDED AiD Fight to Profect Forest Grove Watershed Is Winning Out PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 3.—Addi- tional equipment has been rushed to the Tillamook fovest .fire lines . in nothern Oregon, and forest officials have appealed for still more érews to help fight the flames. Fire has jumped nearly all the line along Hembre Ridge at the southern tip of the blaze. But in western Washington = county, the battle to protect the Forest Grave watershed has been successful. A yisited in Independence, Mo., he Another fire drill is to be held for the United States in settling|the-service, Army officers have been imprisonec DOROTHY WHITNEY HERE | beavy pall of smoke is hanging over was entertained by Mayor Roger . Sermon. And just hefore enter- ing. the mayor’s home, at 701 Proc- tor, Place, Triman was met by a, (Continued on Page Fowr) ~ shall consist of all taxpayers of the City of Juneau, Alaska, whose names appear upon the most re- cent assessment roll of the city, (Continued on Page Two) during August, it was decided. e CAMPBELL HERE Clarence J. Campbell, of Hoonah, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel, many of the most contrcversiall e houndaries and the terms to be im-| BENSON HERE poséd, upon Germany without any | Russell R. Benson, of Indian- consultation with the Senate or the} apolis, Ind., is a guest at the Bar- pegple of the United States.” janof Hotel, A con charges of sedition. PR 0 A TS PETTICREW HERE guest at the Gastineau Hotel, Dorothy K. Whitney arrived on a Woodley Transport from Anchorage Hotel. the Salmonberry-Nehalem area, where spot fires have been burning for days. On the extreme northern J. W. Petticrew, of Sitka, is a and Is & guest «t the Baranof!front, loggers have set a serles of . backfires,