The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 24, 1945, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA | FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1945 " ;//'4 7‘{ q SIZES 8% TO 3 Complete Runs ‘ Perfect school oxfords, toes, wing ti In both bro and blac ) runs arc complete. pa ZSFLOWNOUT 10 SEATTLE BY PAA: 15 BROUGHT IN Pan American Airways flew 25 passengers to Seattle yesterday, .nd an incoming Clipper brought the following from the Puget Sound city: Ruth Kunnas, Wini- fred McDonald, Barbara McDonald, Hakon Bjarnason, Oliver Powell, Herbert L. Faulkner, Josiah Thayne, 11a Gudelj, Virgil McVicker, Elmer Preston, Willlam Spratling, John Carlson, Theodore Wiehe, Roy Lar- son and Bernard Mullen. From Whitehorse—Arthur let, Jr. From Fairbanks—Albert Eide and George Curtaz. Yeu- Outgoing passengers included: Martha Brown, William Brown, Richard Ellis, Solvelg Havdal, Jchnnie Dulaney, Lillian Dulaney, Eugene Gininola, Vern A. Lee, Hugh McLeod. Lt. William Lee, Elmer Berklid, Margaret Sechler, Robert Sechler, Shirley Davis, Andrew Clark, Frank Morehouse, William Gaunt, Teresa Crabb. Edith Crabb, Charlotte Patterson, Francis Patterson, Edward Payette, Joe Azzano and Virginia Belgrove. To Ketchikan Ben Boucher, Zelma and May Weight. To Whitehorse—Ewart Johnston. To Fairbanks—James MacKinnon and Larry Hagen. Alleged White Slaver, Anchorage Angle, Is NowonTrialinSeattle SEATTLE, Aug. 24—Accused of transperting his wife, Sarah, from Seattle to Anchorage, before and after marriage, for purposes of prostitution, Robert Scott, 38 years old, card dealer in a club, today went on trial on charges of viclation of the white slave traffic act WANT STOP PUT 10 "PRIORITIES” ON AIR TRAVEL ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—Airline officials are discussing with the Army a proposal to “almost” elimin- ate the system of air travel prior- ities. ‘The proposal was made by the air transport associations, representing 22 airlines. A spokesman for that organization said that under the plan priorities would be granted only to military men and public offi- cials making trips of extreme neces- sity. U. S. Marshal William T. Ma- honey was greeted today, on his return from Ketchikan and Craig with a wire from his son, Pirst Lt Dan Mahone which stated that the latter in New York City, ¢ where 1 plain or caps . ure August Clearance 500 PAIRS BOYS' AND GIRLS' SCHOOL OXFORDS It starts tomorrow, our feature sale of growing boys’ and gir and walking oxford to $1.70 on each save on a whole y: moccasin k and R M Rehrends Ca QUALITY SINCE /887 was stationed with the U. S, Ninth Air Force. Lt. Mahoney expects to be trans- ported to Fort Lewis, Wash., and there receive leave that will per- mit him to come to Juneau to visit his parents. Ruling s Made On Men of Air Forces FORT WORTH, Te , Aug. 24— Enlisted men of the Army Air Forces Training Command will not be sent overseas if they have am- assed 55 or more points. This has been announced by the command headquarters here. The score of 55 points is 20 points under the lowest score announced as yet by the War Department for exemption from overseas duty. ——s "The Gravegt;ger 0f Ausiria” Caughi SALZBURG, Austria, Aug. 24— American Military Government au- i thorities have announced ine cap- ture of the Nazi who was known as “The Grave Digger of Austria.” He is August Eigruber, former Nazi leader of the Upper Danube region, and said to be one of the few Nazis permitted to address Adolf Hitler as just plain Adolf. PROMINENT NAZIS WILL BE BARRED, " MANY POSITIONS | | FRANKPFURT-ON-MAIN, Aug. 24 —In an effort to de-Nazify every phase of German life, U. S. Army Headquarters has issued a decree barring all prominent Nazis from important positions in private busi- ness or the professions. Heretofore, military government authorities had directed their at- tention largely to ousting known Nazis from governmental and public positions. FILM PRODUCER, " WIFE, SEPARATE HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 24 — David ©O. Selznick, film producer, and his wife,” the former Irene Mayer, daughter of Movie Executive Louis B. Mayer, have separated, Selznick announced yesterday. He said no immediate legal action is contem- plated. They were married April 29, 1930, and have two sons. .- Eisenhower Sieals Show, Belfast Visit BELFAST, Ireland, Aug. 24—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower stole the show at the Belfast Opera House last night. The audience gave the general an ovation which lasted several minutes. It took the playing of the British and American na- tional anthems to restore silence. Today, Eisenhower will receive the honorary freedom of the city. school You save $1.00 pair. Now you can ear’s shoe needs . .. Reg.3.25103.95 GOee, Férlrlr;hrs, : But Japs Are Getting Nice SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24—Japan is taking “measures for supplying lodgings and food as well as trans- portation to the American occupa- tion forces,” and English-language broadcast by the Domei news agency said today, and a “laision oflice” has been established to facilitate coop- eration with the Allied command. LARGE FORCES FOR OCCUPATION WILL BE NEEDED CAMP LEE, Va., Aug. 24 — Un- dersecretary of War Robert Patter- son declares that even though the fighting is over, large forces must be used for some time in the oc- cupation of Germany and Japan. In an address prepared for a graduating class of Quartermaster Corps officers, Patterson warns that no matter how emcie‘ntly per- formed, the task of demobilization will not be a swift process, and that therefore many men will have to be kept in the Army to complete the demobilization job. .o The basic unit of currency China is the Chinese dollar. in BEES MAKE BETTER HONEY THAN ANYBODY evmicuPioas HiLLs sROS COPFEE INC 'ICELAND FOREST CHIEF HERE FOR ALASKA STUDIES Island Country Is Findin Seed Source in North- land Territory Following a trial blazed by his grandfather in 1875—but with a dif- ferent end in view—Hakon Bjarna- son, Chief of the State Forestry Ser- vice of Iceland, arrived in Juneau yesterday afternoon. Forty flying hours brought the forest specialist here from his native island common- wealth in the North Atlantic. Forester Bjarnason's purpose in coming to Alaska is to study forest growth, principally in the Prince Williams Sound and Kenai Penin- sula regions, where climatic condi- tions are most nearly like those of his isolated land. He expects to remain in Alaska until mid-October and will spend the next week in Juneau on research. He will view Southeast Alaska forest areas on a trip to Sitka next week. The Icelandic government is en- deavoring to establish forest growth in the southern coastal regions of the country, sufficient to care for domestic needs. Mr. Bjarnason pointed out that it was 10 to 12 thousand years ago that his' coun- try was glaciated over during the last ice age. In the relatively short period since the ice retreat, natural seeding of the isolated island has necessarily been limited. Iceland now has some natural for- est areas of larch, birch, mountain ash and willows. The birch forests in particular, he said, have been fos- tered by his predecessors at the for- estry helm, until they now make a good showing. His service is now trying to establish coniferous varie- { | ties from imported seed. He is es- sa pecially interested in Sitka spruce and hemlock seed from Alaska. It was in 1935 that Iceland first cpened correspondence with the Alaska Forest Service and since then some seed has reached his country from the Cordova and Kenai Lake |sectors. Though that seed has been in Iceland soil only a few years, al- |ready it has proved superior to seed {obtained from areas of northern {Europe and Siberia. It is even bets Iter than seed of Alaska origin that in 1937 was obtained from Norway. The Alaska via Norway seed has produced trees now about 12 feet high, but much better results are expected from seed obtained from properly selected Alaska localities. Besides studying the native condi- tions of Alaska forest growth, Mr. Bjarnason will select areas most similar to his land. He will try to |arrange with inhabitants of thosé areas to ‘send a continuous suppiyp of that seed to Iceland. He declar- ed that the Alaska Forest Service, articularly Regional Forester B. | Frank Heintzleman, former Assi ‘tant Regional Forester Weilman Hol- breok, and supervisors at Cordova have already been most helpful to his country. Iceland now has much larger nurseries and can go into tree culture on a more extensive scale, which prompted the Iceland govern- ment to send Mr. Bjarnason to Alaska. He believes that Alaska is perhaps the only place in the world —except perhaps South America— where conditions the same as Ice- land’s can be found and where for- ests are now thriving. i Mr. Bjarnason obtained his for- estry training in Copenhagen, as Iceland has no forestry college. He has been connected with the Ice- land Forest Service for 12 years now. That service is very limited, he said, ccmprising but five men in all. Oth- er Iceland students are now study- ing forestry abroad. One of them, | Vigfus Jakobsson, he expects to meet “Homey? . . . We make nothing else but!” say the bees. “Coffee? . . . that’s the only product we’re interested in!” say Hills Bros. Such undivided at- tention to buying, blending, roasting, and packing America’s favorite beverage is the reason people say this of Hills Bros. Coffee —“Now that’s what I call good coffee!” at Cordo a fore: l'y; student at the University of Wash Two MEN mow" |ington, is spending the summer there. | Y 1 Mr. Bjarnason left Iceland July | A'I‘ SKAGWAY As i | spending more than a fortnight in {31, and though he spent only 40 hours | |in the air before landing here aboard | a PAA plane from Seattle yesterday, |his Alaska arrival was delayed by |New York City. | A tragic accident in Skagway last | This is the forester’s first trip to' night took the lives of two men,| I Alaska, but he is not the first of George Lee and Ray Hart, while a| his family line to set foot on Ala_ska third, Charlton Bettinger, is in the; Shurlbl.\' flrflxl{q kth;' U“Rl\lfd‘ hospital, though reportedly not s purchase of Alaska from RUS-| serjously injured. sia, his grandfather, Jon Olafson, l1éd| The three men had driven out ;‘,‘ ""Pe}mzo‘éxk Ifii‘?:gg’;oé{::‘ from Skagway to Hart's cabin on kg ik -'Long Bay, about six miles from| That party was to have been the youn {orya visit with two Alaska forcrunner of an Alaskan colony of poaq Commission men who have Icelanders. However, after the eX- poan Jiving there. pleratory work had been:' accom=1 "o thair return’ to town;' Sbout |pliched, transportation difficulties y6.3) owlock, the car went '0“ the thwarted the design. Grandfather| ~0 T 0 T I5-foot embanik- Olafson returned to Iceland to report, wfeht into the bay below later settled again in Wisconsin, Deputy U. S. Marshal Luuis R then finally closed his years back' f fl’ ( i b s in Iceland Pl}lm xmtt‘ esltbc Coast (t}tu:udi pge 7 ! who immediately began an attemp A booklet recounting the adven- tures of that exploratory party ;‘:_o{e‘f::e:o“_‘;‘ob"di“sa T:e Sfl'bzgs on tlie shelves of the Alaska Territor-| U8 augre, -and, Harvs. pocy; {81 Litvbid" tive, /'3k» was' publlAteqirecovered. The Body oi CHEOIS 188| by the United States Government, in l}a}i”x;ot vet been found, at last| hoth English and Icelandic. gt 8. | Mr. Bjarnason today commented Bettinger, who was last employed by the Alaska Juneau Mine Com-| on the terrain of Southeast Alaska as being very like that of Iceland—!Pany, was taken to the hospital for soil | 137 | this | ject was brought home to the Come the Governot ahd other Territorial officials back here this morning, Alaska Delegate E. L. Ba e is remaining at Fairbanks for another week. ROAD NEED IS i} IMPRESSEDON | CONGRESSMEN e Cusiom of | Gov. Ernest Gruening, reiurned | morning from accompanying 'hglwnehg the House Territories Committee through Alaska, stated himsdlf as| R " d' b J hopeful for good results from !hc} eso e o aps Congressional visit. & 4 Although not all the Congressmen| RANGOON, Aug. 24—With the went to every place, nearly every €xception of the Singapore area, part of the Territory was visited by | Jap forces throughout Southeast a representative group, he declared. Asia haye laid down their arms, Nome, Kodiak, Homer, Barrow, Ft. and even are reverting to the pre- Yukon, Seward, Anchorage, Palmer, War custom of bowing low, when Cordova, Mt. McKinley, Fairbanks, | they meet! Allied ' personnel. Haines and Skagway, all were seen The Allied Southeast Asia Com- by some members of the group—in | mand still has not received pre- addition to their Southeast Alaska |liminary word of surrender from calls, he pointed out. |the Commander of = Singapore, upen the Congressment as the pri- | are expected to take the sternest mary need of - Alaska—along \vith‘meq,sures to force Itagaki's capi- more self-government—and it was tulation. B effective impressing, the Governor CAPITOL CAFE thought. The Haines highway pro- Sout'llern Fried Chicken Choice Steaks mittee in a way that should havei results. | ‘The last of the Congressional {he difference being in the heavy for- | treatment. |group is now southbound aboard DINE and DANCE 1 est cover heree. He declared that he - eee the Princess Louise, which brought knows of one particular place In At} , o 4 i PR ET e v erir R e ever e erteeerev e v v ey western part of his country where| S TS T S FERRRFOFRRREE the view i ry much like that which' WE e i i ATHER REPORT ©, ¢ he ‘STES BEEES. To ‘%heG‘Ff_d‘:T‘l . (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) o/ P “;”d”"; here out over GasUneau o g peratures for 24-Hour Period @ Channel . Taats The Iceland official said that the § “"“"‘”""’ "':"‘ ':"" - Y has left lasting imprint on his ; Jand. Teelanders have prospered from’® In Jurieau—Maximum, 89; ‘, of work and high wages on one' ® minimum, 48. . R H.-of L. \nd—bit have lost much, too. Tee-|® At Airport—Maximum, 68; e land war casualties, per capita, are © Minimum, 42, CANNERY DANCE A reater than those of the United ® £ + i { " States. Much of the country’s ship-| ¢ © @ F()RbCAS’l_‘ arve ek — ’ ping was lost, particularly fishing' ® =~ Juneau and vicinity. DOUGLAS EAGLE HALL craft, which supplied England. © Cloudy tonight and Satur- Tceland is most closely tied econ- ® day with occasional light Saturday, Auust 25 — 10 P, M. rain. Little change in tem- i J cmically with the British Isles, he ® id, and her future depends in a © peramre. . _.50¢ large part on British policy. 3 Tax 10¢ Most American troops have now ©¢ ¢ © ¢ ¢ o o ¢ o ¢ o o i TOTAL - - 60c departed from Iceland. It is now| e cnly near the great airfields estab- MRS. YAW HERE lished ther> that one meets Ameri-| Mrs. Leslie Yaw arrived on an can soldiers. The American, he said, Alaska Coastal Airways' plane from made many friends among Icelanders Sitka yesterday and is a guest at —and tock away with them many the Gastineau Hotel. Iceland girls, as wives. e Mr. Bjarnasen is personally ac-| The Dutch, seeking a half-way quainted with Tom Redlingshafer, pcint to India, colonized the Cape son of L. H. Redlingshafer, who was of Good Hope and pressed north formerly District Fiscal Agent of the from there to found an empire. Forest Service at Juneau. Young Redlingshafer was among some troops stationed on Iceland. ALASKA SALMON PACK 15 LAGGING , WASHINGTON, “Aug; 24 -~ This season’s pack of Alaska salmon is | lagging nearly a half-million cases behind last year's produetion and the total for 1945 may be the smallest since 1927. | This outlook was reported today by the Office of the Coordinator of Fisheries. By Aug. 11, the pack had reached 3,230,111 cases, com- pared with 3,694,449 cases by Aug.' 12 last year. Alaska salmon fishing continues until the latter part of October. | D HAVE MEET TONIGHT, enting the fall season, the Teen-Age Club will hold the first! party of this summer, tonight from| 8 to 11:30 c’clock in the Elks ball- rcom. This party will be very in- fcrmal with refreshments of coke | and hot dogs served and an evening of dancing planned. b ' Hotel's Bubble Roor DANCING EVERY NIGHT Admission: Gentlemen _ACCORDIAN MUSIC AR RRRRRRRRRS RRRRCE R R AR R AT REIRRRTS APPEARING NIGHTLY ALASKA'S M=o <> ~ NOCOVER CHARGE 4 : Under POCTU POVE ALASKAN CAB Stand af Alaskan Hofel ORVILLE WAGNER EPVUsenflmmeafimenfimmrenfipmmenll JEANNIE’S CAFE ' ITALIAN SPAGHETTI Gpen from 6 P. M. to Midnight New Management PHONE 777 - ELROY (Sonny) FLEEK NOW OPEN UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Specializing in “ DINNERS T . aaae. asans e T | Everywhere roads were impressed Gen. Seishiro < Itagaki. The Allies PPV e N IR C IV Y YRS TP EE ey v v revey swv e <) o