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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1945 S NOW DRESS IN NATIVE 'NAZIS OUT--CZECH B ¢ CZECH GIRLS in native costume, which they were forbidden by the Nazis to wear, cheer and wave flags as the Czech brigade passes through Prague in review. Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Huebner, commanding general, Fifth Corps, and Czech President Edouard' Benes review the unit. & (International) costume. HAINES HIGHWAY THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - LISTED AS MAIN - ROAD NEED HERE Rivers PropB;es Liberal Enabling Act as State- hood Prep A long stream of witnesses knpt: Congressmen composing the House! Ccmmittee on Territories glued to| their seats at the Elks Hall yester-| aftenoon as the public hearing following the noon re-| | Frincipal witnesses were: B. Frank | | Heintzleman, Dr. James Ryan, Dr.| C. Earl Albrecht, Ralph J. Rivers, Allan Shattuck and Howard D. Stab- ler. Paul Satko, Eagle River farm- er, concluded the hearing with tes-| | timony regarding difficulties in se-| | curing land titles in Alaska. ;,Fullu\ving an introductory state- ment by Homer Garvin, Regional Ferester Heintzleman outlined Alas- | ka's principal highway needs, list-| |ing as first in importance the all- year arterial road from Haines to| Fairbanks and Anchorage. Such a| route, connecting with the sheltered water lanes of the Inside Passage| would be the natural entryway to the Interior, he represented, and is of | paramount importance. It is more vital to Alaska than the proposed T'ar West link to the Alaska High-/ y, Le said, though both are need- | { Attorney General Rivers discussed Alaska’s Organic Act, declaring it i | | JUNEAU, ALASKA FIRST BRITISH AUTO A;zkl\)sfi v"‘MA'SKA‘(fiAflM ? IN'S. E. FLIGHTS Alaska Coastal Airlines’ outgoing passangers yesterday were the fol-| lowing: ‘ To Hawk Inlet: Mrs. R. Renshaw.| To Tulsequah: Florence MacPher- son. Tu Pelican: Max Weinstein Harlan Hanson. To Hoonah: O. N. Requam and Edward Cox. To Excursion Eeinden. and Inlet: Leonard Abbott and Julius Bentman. From Pelican: Leonard Harji. From Hoohah: Lottie Gréenwald. From Skagway: Ralph Tierney and Pat Carroll. From Ketchikan: Don 8. Davis; Ax Benecke and Alex Holden, From Square Cove: Adrian Roth, Waikke Kohoven, Lynn Forfest and Ray Renshaw. Morning flights took the follow- ing to Sitka: Elizabeth Moffett, An~ na Nelson, A. L. Miller, M: T. Ben- nett, A. B. Kelly, H. Lockage, M. W. Goding and Homer Angell. To Hoonah: C. L. Bickel, M. M, Keep, Lester Purcell, P. Morgan and Cliff Robards: To Skagway: ‘Timothy Bennett,| To Ketchikan: T. A. Ryan, Har- § |Charles Denelly and John Harry. To Ketchikan: Wm. J. Burke, Ron Livingstone, Art Benecke and Alex Holden To Wrangell: Paddy Thomas. To Square Cove: Don Kaiser, Weikk > Korhoven and Ray Renshaw. | Incoming passengers were: From Hawk Inlet: Don Haiser, Bob Meek, Weilke Korhman and Mrs. Renshaw. From Tulsequah: and Wm. Dunn. From Excursion Inlet: Willlam R. G. C. McCartney vey Kyllonen and Bill Baker. To Petersburg: L. S. Farmer. 1 WINGARD HERE | Lester L. Wingard, of Petersburg, |is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. RSy L | KEEP HERE | M. M. Keep, of Hoonah, is a | guest at the Hotel Juheau. | L e — | GRIMES -IN JUNEAU | O. L: Grirhes, of 'Kodiak, is a 'guest at the Baranof Hotel! | i | ‘.,- | the 7 The patrol $-36, and S-39 other vessels torpedo boats include 46 and various In addition LCT's (land- s) have been stricken try but that these not included in the ause they were not HAVY GIVES REPORT ON U. S LOSSES 10 — The that 107 107 total commissioned > - e MRS. BEALL HERE Mr. and Mi BH Puyallup, flew to Juneau yesterday on a Pan American Clipper from Ketch 1 and are registered at ineau H 1 - - FRANC AKERS HERE WASHINGTON, Aug. Navy announced today naval v , including three de- stroyers and three submarines, have been stricken from the Navy 1egister “because ~* loss C lam- age cither as the ..sult of enem) aetion or perils of the sea.” The destroyers are tne Parrott Frances Akers, of Honolulu, is a Tuckers and Worden. The sub- guest at the Hotel Juncau. Beall, of U. . DEPARTMENT CF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU JUNEAU. ALASKA W THER BULLETIN DATA FOR 21 HOURS ENDED A% 4:30 A, M., 12TH MERIDIAN TIME I TODA 24 hrs, Precip. 09 FAR more SNOWS, trained as himself in zone with ther at 4:30 a.m. Raining Raining Clear Raining Cloudy Lowest 4:30 am temp. temp. 59 59 Staticn North Car Anchorage Barrow Bethel Cordova bawson Edmenten Fairbanks Haines Juneau Juneau Airport Ketchikan Kotzebue McGrath Ncme Northway Petersburg Prince George Prince Rupert San Francisco Portland Seattle Sitka Raining Cloudy B P Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cloudy erds ep cliff Raining Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cloudy | Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cloudy | Raining 46 54 59 54 57 50 59 51 51 Whitehorse 61 32 48 Yakutat 57 49 50 *—(4:30 a.m. yesterday to 4:30 am. today) MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN Reports trom Marine Stations at 10:30 A. M. Today | ‘WIND Height of Waves Dir.and Vel. (Sea Condition) WNW 16 1 foot greatly SSW 15 Calm Calm Calm {and Mrs. N er, B, C. The rems Juneau on Magazine: ap Weather Temp. Cloudy 51 Cloudy , 50 Cloudy 51 Pt. Cloudy 59 W 4 Lincoln Rock Cloudy 52 NW 9 Zero Point Retreat Cloudy 52 .8 4 Zero MARINE FORECAST FOR SOUTHEAST ALASKA: Wind in Lynn Canal 20 to 25 miles per hour. In channels along coast mostly westerly to mand. The northwesterly winds under 15 miles per hour backing to southeasterly in the box "0 to 15 miles per hour Saturday. Elsewhere in Southeast Alaska variable, the Army Station Cape Decision Cape Spencer Five Finger Light Guard Island Officer at As recrea | Inlet camp ing matter winds under 15 miles per hour. Variable cloudiness with rain showers|deliver them to the men at Ex-‘_t.lon of Federal Employees. J cursion Inlet. over north portion. £ “Chica”, Robert L. FALL FROM CLIFF IS FATA 10 CREW (EMBER OF NOAH tie he slipp: expedition with two companions young man’s parents are Mr. |at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. |EXCURSION INLET J pERSoN“El wA"T :Juncau Chamber of Commeice plans ‘ sonnel at Excursion Inlet, according | party still in town was an the hook. to Lt. B. E. Buck, Special Services The Taku trip’ would be made aboard cutmoded. He proposed that Con- gress vote an enabling act under which Alaska could become a State.! Such an aect, setting forth what cconemic and land controls would be vested in the future State, together with rebate of a portion of Federal intornal revenues derived from the Tertitory, for a five-year trial per- icd, would do most to prepare the Territory for statehood, he declared, and would enable Alaska residents Lo cetermine the feasibility of state- hood % Commissicner of Education Ryan lvceated a single school system for Territory, under Territorial con- trol, with Foderal tuition payments for natives. Health Commissioner Albrecht set forth the Territory’s health needs as: Eolution to the tuberculosis prob- lem, correction of environment con- diticns and adequate medical care. % Mr. Stabler and Mr. Shattuck dis-| d statehood and the basis on a could find it practical.' 2 were Veteran Ad-' 0 ator A. E. Karnes and NFFE President Alva W. Blackerby. CONGRESSMEN UPSET NOW ON ALASKA PLANS Schedule Calls for Depar- ture for Cordova, An- chorage Tomorrow With a day-long public hearing,| held here yesterday, under their Lelts, Juneau's Congressional visitors were taking it relatively easier to- els Peterson of Vancouv- day—with future plans for their| Alaska investigations very much up in the air; as a Tesult of Pacific war developments. ‘This morning a plane load of five members of the House Committee len Territoriss took a quick look at Sitka, to return this afternoon. The at home in the Arctic the only husky a Marine war dog finds the tropical Pacific war I addy Marine Pvt. Bennett, of Durham, olina, (International) terscn, o1 Vancouver, B. of the engine room Prince. Norah, lost his ay afternocn in Skagway, and went over while on a sight. iins were brought to the Norah and are now - i for a glacier hop for the entire party wer ancelled d t READI“G MA"E ‘weu?hcr.c nézwever, ‘;e boaot ;A;;fll‘:; this aftegnoon. for s ol all kinds will be Taku Glacier preciated by the per-|those members of the Congressional |Dr. J. 0. Rude’s boat, under Cham- tivities at the ber auspices. Rep. Hugh Peterson, Alaska Dele- the camp. ational a are ve limited, read- | is always much in de-igate Bartlebt and other members of magazines may be Jeft|ths Committee were guests at noon in the Post Office, where tcday at the delayed monthly lunch- will pick them up and 'ecn meeting of the National Federa- Delegate Bartlett was listed as MARKING THE RESUMPTION of trade between England and the United States, the first English post-war car to be sent overseas reaches a Brooklyn, N, Y., dock. The auto is a four-door sedan. (International) cge. Hearing at Anchorage Mon- day, August 13. The program for reception of the Congressmen at Anchorage is in the hands of city officials and the Anchorage Cham- ber of Commerce. From Anchorage, the party may visit Homer, Kodiak and Matanuska Valley. If the tour is eentinucd beyond Anchoruge, a rail trip to Mt. Mec- Kinley National Park and Fairbanks is on the docket. From Fairbanks, the party may possibly go to Nome or Pt. Barrow. The return trip from Fairbanks is planned over the Haines Highway to connect with a boat at the head |of the Inside passage for return to the States. Alaska officials who will accom- pany the Congressional party on its travels past Juneau include: Gov. and Mrs. Ernest Gruening, Secretary of Alaska Lew M. Willlams and Lt. Leave Juneau by plane tomorrow Warren M. Caro, Naval Aide to the merning at 8 o'clock, for Cordova, Governor. | where & brief hearing will be held. - - — Tcmorrow afternoon, fly to Anchor- Empire Want-ads bring speaker at the meeting and the issue concerning Alaska differentials for Federal employees was to be the principal topic of discussion. These Congressmen makeing the Sitka flight were: Homer D. Angell, (Ore), Marion T. Bennett (Mo), R. L. Miller (Neb), Harry D. Larcade, Jr. (La), Augustine B. Kelley (Pa). M. W. Goding, Acting Chief, Alaska Branch, Division of Territories, Dc- partment of Interior, also went along. This evening, members of the Ccngressional party are to be dinner guests of Gov. nd Mrs. "mest Gruening, at the Governor's house. 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