The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 17, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNE MEMB . PRICE TEN CENTS ————= ER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. LXV., NO. 10,067 AU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1945 BRITISH REOCCUPY HONG KONG Formal Surrender Takes| Place Sunday - War- ships Fire Salute e | Robert A. Henning, Acting Secre- HONG KONG, Sept. “'_The\mry of the Board, Mr. Henning’s Brllls:;l]l&lon uet h:s ;fi';hufg’:: statement follows, in full: over the Governmen! 5 The formal surrender of Hong Kong| Lobby Program Launched took place Sunday, some 16 days Congressmen and various fgde.{al after the initial occupation force Officials, as well as some Territorial moved in to re-occupy the former agencies, will be well acquainted British Crown colony. |with the Alaska The surrender was received by British Commander-in-Chief in tha b region, Rear Admiral Cecil Har- storm of resolutions that T_errllnnal court. Signing for Japan were the “Progress lobby” poured into the emperor’s Hong Kong commander, mails Saturday n[cemocn'to con- General Umekichi Okada, and Vice|clude five days of wrestling with Admiral Ruitako Fujita, the Japa_‘current Alaska development prob- nese South China Fleet commander. | lems. The ceremony took place in thel The board launched a lobby pro- Government House, overlooking the‘gram to keep Alaska on the Ori- Hong Kong Bay. This same Gov- ental air route across the North ernment House, ironically enough, Pacific; to register board support was rebuilt and modernized by the of additional air connection with Japanese, because the old structure Seattle; to ensure maintenance of had sagged from the effects of pre- Haines Highway; to secure ex- war bomb shelters built underneath tension of the waiver of the. Jones it. | Act; to get tourist developments Following the ceremony, hundreds' into National Parks, and wolves out of warships in the bay shook the of the parks. ’arca with a thunderous 21-gun sa-| pressure was also applied to get ute. Crowds swarmed through down-|terjor Jand controls with the elimi- town Hong Kong. Motorists tooted ;. tion of “emergency reserves” and their horns and pedestrians l"OEl'Cd to get release for civilian use of thch_' joy at once more reverting 0| 5155xqn geologic information and British rule. ! maps. e Congress was advised of the need 18 pou"D BAB | for housing facilities in the swiftly - | \ \ | \ \ Conclusions reached by the Al- aska Development Board, at its second meeting, held here last ‘wor'k. encompass many fields of ;uctn’n,\'. according to a summary the accomplishments of the | of | meeting, released here today by | relaxation of Department of In-| and thence to the Orient, which the Alaska Development Board | considers indispensable to the future of Alaska.” | “Development Board | declared: “Considering the Oriental | route strictly by itself, " Alaska is | certain to be on the Great Circle | air route, if at least one route is certified from eastern United States through Alaska. A single North Pa- cific run, Seattle to the Orient, might conceivably result eventually in a Seattle - Adak - Orient route Development | {hyough the simple expedient of! § - for the industry. the Board when they have dug them-|p,royiging ‘better service' and ‘faster y ¢ selves out from under the SNOW-| i:p by changing the intermediate|y” Detroit and 10,000 in nearby stopping point from Anchorage to Adak. If but one carrier is certi- fied across the North Pacific, as the Civil Aeronautics Board has in- dicated, the problem becomes ele- mentary—Will Alaska be in all certainty on the Oriental route?'— via Chicago and the land route, yes; while by the Seattle-Orient water route, possibly not.” | Premier Road Project Maintenance of the Haines High- way was highlighted as Alaska’s most important post-war road pro- ject. The following statement was ordered sent to a long list of Con- gressmen and government officials: “The Alaska Development Board, at its second annual session devoted to the formulation of plans for -war development of Alaska, es to record its view that the most important road project in the | Territory of Alaska is the main- | tenance of the so-called Haines | cutoff and its continuation along | members | torial Chamber of Commerce Was the Alaska Military Highway ALPINE BATTLE FIELD REMINDS CAPT. OF HOME 80,000 AUTO Ford Indusiry Is Hard Hit-! Strike May Spread In- Italy Fighting Front- To Travel Alaska tender for recognition as Number iOnv local war hero, is back in Ju- volving 500,000 —— neau on terminal leave after cam- | DETROIT, Sept. 17—More than!|paigning in Italy with the Tenth 80,000 workers were idle in the Mountain Division as an officer of ‘Detroit area today as the huge ! the original mountain regiment, the automotive industry and the pnwer-‘ ighty-Seventh. He expects to be |ful United Automobile Wurkel’s': everted to inactive status on Oc- (CIO) Union headed for a show- |tBber 15 !down on the union’s demand for a| ginterviewed this morning in the |general 30 per cent wage increase fice of his father, Territorial Com~ missioner of Mines, B. D. Stewart, the idled 70,000 ORptain was reluctant to elaborate on his combat experiences, but did O say that Alps terrain in regions where lleaders’ went ahead with plans for |Iis chmpaigning took him is very |similar to that of Alaska, so much possible strike votes affecting 3 2 g 1 7 |500,000 throughout the nation’s!SO that it made him even more anx- t home. It's more open ! . (ious to ge aut ants. a no water, but otherwise | oo i 3 |and there | Ford was the hardest hit by the|y, oy Jige here, he declared. work stoppages, as its auto and ", e 2 i truck production lines were halted SH‘;“:;":; S e by plans oo z ey Y y, after some delay in getting because of a shortage of parts sup- v e O B B O ray. riayey (OUL Of Senttle. Not fed up with "’V‘f ) él s liihD(’l“ sey-HAayes 4 aveling, among the first things he ,;_‘;e Kuxlr‘xp"m,\' kit 'S“"‘d |wants to do is see more of Alaska. he Kelsey workers Sunday re- go piang to Joave in about a week jected a proposal by a representa- |, tyo westward and will drop in tive of the International UAW |y, qee pig oldest brother, B. D. Stew- that they end a walkout that began gpy gy =~ Alaska Road Commission Aug. 23, and which was disowned 'guioyrtonaont at Valdez by the UAW-CIO executive board " g B B1CE &8 RECn ot s g Stewart did all his fighting in Italy g . off the boards. He did get in some | ye 'ckiing in Italy, though. In Rome jOHN M‘ORMA(K S on five-day leave, he and some of VOICE IS STILLED; 1 ‘TENOR DIES, DUBLIN Strikes and layoffs |Winsor, cont., while UAW-OI bis ski-trooper companions visited the luxurious mountain resort pro- ello, in the Appenines 80 miles east of Rome, There they enjoyed a “pesyman’s holiday.” He is looking {to having a really good time on the I D |. E To D A YiTom Stewart Back fromI Capt. Tom Stewart, strong con-| moted by Mussolini at Mt. Termin- | | expanding North, and the Terri- BOR" 'o Momm ! advised of the need for an Alaskan | Better Business Bureau. | A program was begun to secure oF 1‘ (“IlDREN‘BH index of Alaskan businesses and | employment opportunities;. the Leg- | islature-approved survey of South- east Alaska for a branch of the University of Alaska was urged LAWTON, Pa., Sept. 17.—An 18- peund girl was born Wednesday to :\g: :;: x 73 i;?%“;vi";hlc'h‘n:‘:ex immediately; funds were loaned to Dr. Harvey M. Fry of Montrose, 1.e_;v.he Department of Health gt_)rv a porting the birth, said that in his 50 survey of needed hospua_l {smhues. years of practice he had delivered The Territorial Commissioner of o Agriculture was given tickets to more than 1,000 babies, and never v had seen such a heavy one. | Washington to get help for the The 14 living Strohl children in- Alaskan farmer and the board itself clude one pair of twins. The mother took a stand for the Alaska fisher- is of average build and experienced Man in demanding an Alaska scat an average pregnancy, Dr. Fry said. oD the International Fisheries Com- The other children were of normal mission. weights at birth. The Secretary of War was asked B e | to get Excursion Inlet prisoners of MISS KIDWELL ARRIVES | war out of the Territory. Miss June L. Kidwell, of Seattle,| All but one member of the Al- is registered at the Baranof Hotel. |aska Development Board returned ———————— home by air over the weekend. Still through British Columbia and the | Yukon Territory into Interior Al- aska. | “The Alaska Development Board jurged that the appropriate Execu- tive Agencies of the Federal Gov- ernment promptly enter into nego- tiations with the Dominion Govern- | ment and that Congress support | this move in every way possible, looking toward a permanent ar- | rangement by which this highway, ! ,built by American funds, may be maintained in good condition. Further Suspension Asked | Continuation of iac cones Act {suspension order, which permits o ouone him overnight recognition. | Canadian vessels to carry commerce yyocomaeis only daughter, Ms. | between Alaskan ports was urged pgon . Pyke, of Kirkham, Lanca- | by the board. | . | yThe Doerd” i s Congress‘smre' did not reach her father 4 i before his death. | | ssi and the U, S. Maritime Commisslon | - weCormack sang an official fare- to extend the suspension order past: .y ¢o the people of London at DUBLIN, Secpt. 17 John Me- Cormack, whose great tenor voice won him world acclaim as the “Golden Voice of Athlone,” died flate last night at his home at | Booters-Town, County Dublin. A week-old cold which last Fri- day developed into bronchial pneu- monia caused his death at the age of 61. By his bedside when he died were his son, Cyril, a captain in the Irish Army, and his wife, Cavalleria Rusticana at London's Convent Garden Opera House slopes about Juneau this winter. Capt. Stewart landed back in the United States at the same port from which he embarked, Newport News, on August 2, his tunic em- blazoned with ribbons representing action in the Asiatic-Pacific, Ameri- n and European-African-Middle East theatres. He also wears the €ilver and Bronze Stars, an emblem of participation in the first am- phibious landing of American troops Ly 12 this war, at Kiska, the American ners Foley of Dublin, whom he married onvsp Medal f\nd is proud fll the i 1as and Mrs. Fannie Timm, with City Council, has expressed approv in 1006— whom he martied Combat Infantry Badge, fostered by, cor n a year before his debut in 4. jave ‘Brnje Pyle as a distinctive 1 mark for the fighting foot soldiers Chee Hermann, another boy, was also a member Tenth Mountain Division. Stewart stated that their trails cross- ed in Italy once, before Chee was wounded in action with the Eighty Fifth Mountain Regiment in battle for one of Italy's Mt. Belvederes. Jupeau riet of the tion. George Sheeper added another tion to that route developed here. Capt. [/irize to his scor SUPERFORT - SHOT DOWN OVERKOREA "Mistaken idéfitity” Says Russians—Crew Escape by Parachutes TOKYO, Sept. 17 Arthur's headquarters officially an- nounces that the Russians recently shot down an American Superfort- ress over Korea, that a strong pro- test was sent to Soviet authorities, and that Russian officials have ex- pressed their regrets. The Superfort was making a rou- tine flight over Russian-occupied Korea. All of its crew members managed to escape by parachute. The Russian apology termed it a case of mistaken identity. The B-29 was shot down on August 29, several days after the Japanese |surrender. According to an Allied headquarters spokesman, Russian planes rose to intercept the Ameri- can bomber, and, by the use of sig- nals, attempted to force it to land. The big bomter turned toward the sea and the Soviet fighters again tried to force it to land. Then they made a third pass, shooting out an engine, The American pilot ordered his crew to bail out. - Evening of Fun Is Enjoyed by Women Of Mogig, Guests [ | | | General Mac- Several nover vontests and guess- ing games enlivened the evening at () the reguular social meefing of the gaB in Women of the Moose, held Satur- passing of the Pacific Nbrthwest. day night in their headquarters in the Seward Building, and the cus- tomary delicious refreshments were enjoyed at the close of the eve- ip ning’s fun. Hostesses Mary Haas and Myrtle Lind were appointed to greet the co visitors and make them welcome. | in In a guessing contest, prize win- to were Gecrge Sheeper, Mike olation going to James Sofou- al The milk bottle contest was re won by Jim Sofoulis, Jr., and Har- Ed Maurstad was given consola- tel this time in the plate-spinning contest. In the brief business session V has announced it plans to send an MILITARY GAMBLE ON JAPAN PAYS OFF 1Developmen| Board Levels Lobby Program af Lengthy 'WORKERS ARE Roster of Vifal Oqutliyes (Gruening Is For Seattle - Orient Route | Wester Says Ajaska Is Still| "Open-Minded” on Air Squabble OCCUPATION FORCES WILL BE REDUCED MacArthur Says Only 200, - 000 Americans Will Be Needed, -6 Months SEATTLE, Sept. 17.—Gov. Ernest| Gruening, arriving here last night | for a conference with Beattle's Pac-| Sreatest military ‘gamble—this” Am- ific Northwest Orfental Airline com- | °Tican landing in armed Japan— Imittee, said Alasa favors a Seattle|Nas paid off so handsomely that [eateway route to the Orient vin|OCCUPation forces probably will be cut to not more than 200,000 within Alaskan points. Y | T favor such a route, and it is|SX months, Gen. MacArthur said cniy uatural that Alaska's coastal | t0day. cities, including Anchorage, feel the| As @ result of the successful |same way,” he said. “After all, we | penetration of this conquered na- have a community of interests.” ilum. he added in a formal state- | He added, however, that *The Mment, troops will be returned home Seattle gateway is the preference it |8s rapidly as ships are made avail- only one line is given a franchise, It | able. Regular Army forces, he said, more than one line enters the pic-| Probably will be able to maintain ture, then Alaska would desire to|unaided the 200,000-man force. get as much and varied servi ‘ “There was probably no greater possible.” gamble taken in history,” his state- |ment explained, “than the initial WESTER STATEMENT | landings” where ground forces were TTLE, Sept. 17.—J. B. w“l._;cutmlmhm‘zd 1,000 to one by armed rack, ttle and Alaska contrac-|Japanese. But, he added, “the tor, yesterday quoted Wilbur Wes- |stakes were worth it. ter, member of the Alaska Develop- Unknown Quantity ment Board as saying that Alaskan, MacArthur's statement said that interests are still “o minded” | the unknown quantity at the out- over the question of air routes to set of the occupation was whether the Orient. a military government would have Warrack sald Wester told him inito be established. This would have a long distance telephone talk from!involved several million troops, he Anchorage that “the board has taken 'said; * but by working with the no official stand and will not do 50| existing Japanese Giovernment, pur- for at least 10 days." | poses of the surrender terms can be | Reports here have it that some'gccomplished with only a. small ’A“ljrko' gla\tllv: Itfl\‘:{l;kcmcasg-?:- fraction ‘of the men, time and onzon outlet to A an e ariginaily - plavned. Orient as recommended by the Civil, El;;lyu situation involved grave Aeronautics Board. |initial risk but successful penetra- Seattle un‘d Tacoma lxllPl’Ps%s have tion and subsequent progress of ed a pfllh.nn to intervene with the [ (po oheration now assures success protest against this by- ;¢ tne venture,” he sald. Once Japan is disarmed, he em- phasized, a force of 200,000 troops “will be sufficlently strong to in- sure our will” (Shanghai dispatches said today that the swift, quiet expansion of American Naval occupation along Shanghai’s waterfront was expected Wednesday. Minesweepers already are at work clearing the Whangpoo River there.) Rounding Up Criminals U. 8. Eighth Army Headquarters reperted that roundup of the Jap war-crimes suspects wanted by MacArthur was proceeding with Seattle itself, through a recently €qual smoothness—with the Japa- TOKYO, Sept. 17 History's as SE “AMBASSADOR” COMING SEATTLE, Sept. 17.—The Wash- gton State Advisory Commission mbassador” to Alaska cities to nvince the Northerners their best terests will be served if air lines the Orient go through Seattle. Anchorage, Alaska, through jts of a Civil Aeronautics Board commendation for a Chicago- imonton route and decided to in- rvene with the CAB when opposi- |named committee and the State Ad- nese Government making the ar- ory Commission, plans to inter- rests. Twenty-seven already were which preceded the social hour, it Vene in protest against the by-pass- in custody; only 17 remained at was voted to change the meeting !N night to the first and third Thurs- liberty, and two others were dead on said three other by their own hands. Evidence that the Japaucse Cabi- g of Seattle. The Comm GREGOLD IN JUNEAU Max Gregold, of Fairbanks, hi |its presently scheduled termination hep|date of Oct. 31, 1945, “until such |time as they (American steamship ‘visiting Juneau and plugging as ond Division .interests was | tonio Polet. Fourth Division mem- and Third)| | lines) can come near rendering the service that is required.” It was asserted by the board that “the development of Alaska in the icrucial year or so just ahead will | be seriously jeopardized by cur- | tailment of steamship service which | abrogation of the suspension of the Jones Act would cause,” and would also ultimately diminish the com- merce, which American flag lines | will carry. Declaring themselves “strongly in favor” of American flag lines Mormon missionary, Royal Albert Hall in 1938 and re- A pre-Pearl Harbor volunteer, tired, but came back a year later Capt. Stewart saw his initial action to sing for the Red Cross. He was at Kiska. After the Aleutian cam- jon a Red Cross concert tour when paign, he received additional train- bhis health broke down and his ing in the States, then went to Italy. | physician ordered him to leave the During the final two weeks of the | concert stage and return to Ireland war in Europe, his division spear- | | for rest. headed the attack across the Po — Valley in north Italy. His battal- 'ATOMIC BOMB IS | ion was the first to cross the em- battled Po River. Adding to the cost of that Po crossing, he said, was the fact that the battalion was in ad-| vance of its air support and Nazi troops defending a ferry landing at | i | “Ippou B A'I"“.ESHlp the point of attack were able to de-| | | press anti-aircraft guns to bear up- day nights, pending approval from |Alaska citfes already have express- headquarters. ed support for the route through Committee chairman and assist- | S¢attle—Juneau by her Mayor, Er- net might be purging itself of war- time-militarists came today in re- ants for next month, which is Mooseheart and Alumni month, were named as follows: Entertain- | ment, Elizabeth Graham, assisted ' by Grace Skaret end Brita Bland; | "¢ Refreshment Committee, Maxin: Bowling, assisted by Nadja Sheecy and Pat Hagerup, - STOPPING HERE Reed, with Karl A. Hahn, and Mrs. Venetia her | daughter, Mrs nest Commerce; Ketchikan by her Cham- city COAST GUARD Parsons, and her Chamber of ports by well-informed Japanese sources that Mamoru Shigemitsu had resigned as Foreign Mimister. No reason was ‘given immediately for the resignation, however. Shigemitsu was not on MacAr- | thur's “wanted” list, but after the | list was announced, Hgashi-Kuni frankly asked his cabinet members to “determine whether they would be acceptable to the Americans,” these sources related. Shigemitsu's stormy international r ¢f Commerce, and Fairbanks rough Jessen’s Weekly, widely read wspaper of the interior Alaska > Jr,, have ar- | career ranged from loss of his having the protection of the Jones| on the charging Americans. ‘Erandsou, Karl Hahn, arrived in Juneau and is registered fdivision's member from Nome, An- at the Baranof Hotel. ber was Leslie Nerland, of Fair- e | banks; First Division member, Jack The washlngionl'ralhnt of Ketchikan; | Division member, Wilbur Wester, of M G R d | Anchorage. erry -u0- Oun ! Gov. Ernest Gruening, Chairman et |of the Board, flew. south yesterday on his way to Washington where By DFFYLP_EARSON |he hopes to make further efforts WASHINGTON — Mild-mannered |0 carry through _Development Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah,| Board requests of Congress and the former | federal officials. faced one of the most rebellious meetings of his Military Affairs| Alaska Needs Backdoor Airline Committee in months when it met| Development Board guns were in secret sessions early last week. leveled at Seattle groups, which are At first, Senator Thomas, who attempting to knock out a recent usually kow-tows to the Army, wasiqu“ Aerunautic§ Board examiner’s flatly opposed to holding heflflngs‘hndings L_hat estimated present and on the discharge of men. He had | future air traffic to the Orient planned a joint hearing with melfrom_ the United %tates warrants Mead Committee on surplus pmp_‘a Chicago “gateway” route tnrough erty for later in the week. But|Alaska. 4 3 his committee, almost to a man,| Taking no exception to Seattle’s rebelled. ;desires to route an Oriental air- “John Snyder is in Europe,’ re- |line through the Puget ‘Sound me- minded hard-hitting Senator Joe | tropolis, but maintaining Alaska O’'Mahoney of Wyoming. “And so needs a backdoor airline connec- is Stuart Symington of the Surplus | !ion 0 the Oriental route to insure Property Board. They are the chief | the Territory a definite place on men we want to hear on _|the North Pacific route and the mobilization of material. We don’zi‘“"es‘ development through bx:oader want to waste time with under- |2CC€SS to markets, the board sent studies.” |the following telegrah to Anchor- “I think, gentlemen” countered 8¢ Times Editor R. B. Atwood, Chairman Thomas, “that we have | Fepresenting the Anchorag_e Cham- to give the Army time to p;'eparn‘b" of Commerce agam.st_ the its plans. I have discussed this | Seattle attempt to kill the Chicago matter with them and they have route: requested ' delay. They have to “Robert Atwood is author- figure out how many men are/ ized to represent l_he Alaska needed in Germany and how many Development Board in present- are needed in Japan. All that takes| D8 its view that it is not op- time. We can't rush them.” | osed dn Ang spse;to & Shaltle “They change their minds daily,”| Yun to the Orient through the snapped Senator Chapman Rever- mainland of Alaska and in fact comb of West Virginia. “Let’s hear favors it, provided it does not jeopardize the route from New York and Chicago to Alaska (Continued on Page Fm;r) Act in normal times, board mem- bers, however, said “the board feels that the Americai: lines will not be ! helped, but definitely injured, by !thrusting upon them a service | wl to render at present. War emerg- ency has deprived these lines of vessels formerly in this service; returned to them, and such vessels as they now have are obsolete and inadequate, destiner for* replace~ ment.” . In line with a policy of seeking the fullest development possible of a revitalized steamship service to Alaska, the board has also recorded its support of a proposed amend- ment to the “Ship Sales Bill,” in Congress. Under this bill, the government will dispose of vessels constructed during the war at prices of ap- proximately * one-third their con- struction cost. With the Alaska shipping trade requiring a type of vessel not constructed during the war years, and with Alaska steam- ship operators planning construc- tion of new vessels for this service as soon as possible, it is hoped Congressional legislation will clude provisions that the new ves- R {Ccn}inz;fid mf age vEx‘;/hU hich they are admittedly unable ‘the early nineteen twenties.” s NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—The New | In the final phases of that cam-; | York Times says in a dispatch from paign, assistant commander °fi ! Tokyo that the damaged 35000-ton Capt. Stewart’s division was the| [Japanese battleship Nagato, which famed “Ranger” leader, Col. William | ! was taken over by the U. S. Navy at O. Darby, who was killed in the| ‘the Yokosuka Naval Base, will be drive on Brenner Pass. | towed 500 miles to sea where an | - |atomic bomb will be dropped on DUGGAN ARRIVES | {her in an experiment that may Elmer G. Duggan, of Providence, which vessels have not as yet been | determine the future form of the Rhode Island, is a guest at the Gas- | Buests tineau Hotel. > PROCTOR ARRIVE Bert Proctor, of Seattle, has ar- rived here is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. - - MRS. IBACH IN TOWN Mrs. Horace H. Ibach, of Pelican world’s navies. | After relating that the Nagato ' had withtscod attacks by 500 United | States naval planes, the Times dis- patch continues with regard to the |atomic experiment: ! | “That is the present plan of the | United States Navy which wants io | | ascertain these details: Whether the | now | bomb will cause the destruction of City, is a guest at the Baraonf| Ketchikan, are guests at the Gas- | a single ship; what it will do to a Hotel. | task force; what *effect it will have on the water. i | “The Navy hopes to obtain the |answers in one of the greatest ex- | periments of its type since Brig. the Baranof Hotel. | Gen. William L. (Billy) Mitchell - | sank four warships from the air in KRAVIK IN JUNEAU Harold O. Kravik, of Everett,| Washington, is a guest at the C tineau Hotel. L e WRANGELL MEN HERE Joe Prescott and S. Larsen, of Wrangell, have arrived here and are | ruests at the Gastineau Hotel, D THOMPSON ARRIVES B. F. Thompson, of Pelican City, o HOUSTON HERE | Harold W. Houston arrived here 'over the weekend from Seattle, via Pan American, and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, rived here from Sitka, where they | were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Neill| Anderson and Mrs. Maude Wake- | field. They are to leave Juneau Wednesday by plane for Anchorage where they will join Mr. Hahn, who | is with the Engineering Depart- ment of the Alaska Railroad. While in Juneau they will of Mr, and Mrs. Robert Simpson, be | of a MRS. WHITTING, JR. HERE Mrs. Guy E. Whitting, Jr., of Ket- chikan, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. pu G fo S. BURKE HERE and Mrs. L. O. Burke, MR., MR! Mr. of vis cal -> lin CHARLOTTE HOWLETT HERE [ Charlotte V. Howlett, of Kansas tineau Hotel has arrived here and is a guest at ! City, Mo, is a guest at the Baranof | more than 250 harbors were under Hotel ‘ st - >-e - | VANCOUVER WOM HERE | Mrs. A. L. Curtin and Mrs, Phebe E. Bower, of Vancouver, are guests | Ju at the Baranof. Al - - VIRGINIA HUFF HERE Virginia M. Huff, of Fairbanks has arrived here and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, gu BACKTO BASIS OF PEACETIME Coast Guard announces | ganization have been turn port security organization is su guest at the Baranof Hotel. right leg to a Korean-thrown bomb at Shanghai in 1932 to _signing Japan’s surrender aboard the US.S Missouri in Tokyo Bay 15 days ago. Gen. MacArthur, from his new headquarters facing Japan's Im- perial Palace, announced that the Thirty-First, Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Eighth American Divisions would go hdme soon from Manila. The Supreme Commander also dis- clesed that he had protested strongly over Russia’s mistaken de- struction of a B-29 over Korea. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 — The the return its port security orgaulzation to peacetime basis. Wartime activities of or- i back owners and operators, itting 90 per cent *of the Coast uard personnel engaged in line - - xldmnrly demobilization, t wr'.x(‘n-L SIO(K ouoTAIIo"S ivity retained by the | private The only — NEW YORK, Sept. 17 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today was 6%, American Can 103%, Anaconda 34, Curtiss-Wright International Harvester 90%, 39, New York Central U. 8. sion of the handling of explosive rgo, both at domestic ports and fereign theatres from which mu- ions are being returned. the peak of the war Kennecott 25';, Northern Pacific 26%, Steel 71%. Pound, $4.02%. Sales today totaled 900,000 shares. Dow, Jdnes averages today were as follows: Industrials, 174.75; rails, utilities, 83.45. - FLESHER IN JUNEAU effort, rict Coast Guard control. - MRS. WILLETT IN JUNEAU Mrs. Earl V. Willet arrived ‘n mneau Saturday from Sitka, via aska Coastal Airlines, and is a - > airtons GOODRICH IN TOWN /Al Flesher, of Pelican City, has Edwin Goodrich, of Wrangell, is 1 arrived in town and is a guest at est at the Baranof Hotel, the Baranof Hotel.