The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 4, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LIBRARY ¢ VOL. LXVI, NO. 10,185 STEAMER NEW YORK—The great harbor of r | |New York is tied up by a tugboat strike that a union leader claims is ARE lo(AIED\QB per cent effective. The union | |official, Captain William Bradley, Frozen Bodies Brought | said that only half a dozen tugs jwere working early today. No coal jor oil deliveries are being made. Oown from Wind Swep Mountain Ice Field iv(-rsny in 1940. ELM MOUNTAIN, Wyo., Feb. 4—Nazi artillery A weary party of blizzard-battered tematically at the library while 4 searchers prepared today to work planes dropped bombs. its way up the treacherous, ice-| AT | NUERNBERG—A professor from | Louvain University in Belgium told | the Nurenberg tribunal today that |the Germans deliberately wrecked the world-famous library of the uni- | He said that twol batteries fired sys- 3 [ JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1946 MIMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS YUK 2 Governors At Luncheon For Purpose WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—Gov. In-/ gram W. Stainback of Hawaii and Gov. Ernest Gruening, Alaska, were | e, honor guests Saturday at a Capitol ! TOKYO, Feb. 4—No prosecution luncheon attended by some 30 con-|of the two Japanese who talked of gressmen. | peace in Washington even as Nip- Delegate Joseph R. Farrington, of | pon's fleet moved against Pearl Hawaii, the host, described it as a Harbor—Saburo Kurusu and form- social affair designed to give the er Ambassador Kichisaburo No- Governors an opportunity to meet mura—is being contemplated, it was memters of the House Termor:cs}leamcd today at Allled headquarters. 'KURUSU, NOMURA NOT GOING TO BE TAKEN TO COURT Japs Who Talked Peace af Sneak Time May Not Be Prosecuted areVoiage Made by British Brides; MEEKS TRIAL 9-Day Nighim IS SET TO OPEN HERE MONDAY Johnson Case Leads Line- t up of Cases for Court Term-Jury Reports George H;\.rr;s.;m Meeks, accused ' of the murder of Clarence J. Camp- bell, is to go on trial for his life one Were Thgy ALASKA LINCK IS | SEEKING SENATE IN 4TH DIViSi0 B | Sick? Yes, How! NEW YORK, Feb. 4, — Storm- | tossed and tired, but radiant with anticipation, the first group of| “British brides” — English women | who married American soldiers dur- | ing the war—reached New York to- | day on the Army transport Argen- | tina, after a nine-day nightmare voyage across the North Atlantic. A total of 451 women and 175 aboard the ON AGROUND WESTWARD SHIP STRIKES PUGET CAPE IN HEAVY WEATHER Vessel Has 450 Aboard In- cluding 342 Passengers Bound for Seattle BULLETIN—Ketchikan, Alas- ka, Feb. 4.—Ships Control of- fice of the Coast Guard reports the Cutter Onondaga alongside the Yukon at 3 o'clock this af- ternoon in Johnstone Bay, 10 miles from Cape Puget which week from today. Presiding Dis- Two Other House Mem- | children were ship earlier believed her position. to encrusted side of Elk Mountain in| WASHINGTO The House |committee. A headquarters source, who de- | which docked shortly before 7 am.| be, The rest of the radiogram J. an effort to recover the body of a|Banking Committee will begin pub- soldier—last of the 21 victims Kill- lic hearings on Thursday on leg- ed when a United Air Lines trans- |islation to continue price controls port crashed into the peak early|for ancther year. Thursday. The hardy band of searchers, led pEHRAN- The Tenran press an- by ranchman Henry Cheesebrough, ygunced today that Generalissimo | recovered three of the bodies late|giajin had advised the Iranian gov- yesterday, bringing to 20 the NUMbET | erpment’ he is ready to receive a of victims brought down the ice|mission appointed by Premier Ahm- mountain trail. |ed Quavam es Saltaneh to discuss ‘Army-trained = Huskies,* pulling |rrapjan charges of Soviet interven- :‘::vgyrug(s)g;:le‘:is:'e; reele‘?iiegdfl‘]’; | tion in Azerbaijan Province. frozen bodies from the wind-sweptj \VASH!NGT;J!\A'M The House ice field far up the 11,000-foot land- | ganking Committee today turned: mark. down a Republican proposal to! e e !clined to be quoted by name, said |ase, the new manager of the Al Members of the Naval ccmmittocl and other Representatives who have that if it is finally decided not to visited the Territories were also in- |include the pair in the list of war vited. | criminal suspects, a full statement Stainback arrived Saturday, but;of the reasons will be announced by Gruening has been here for about|the international prosecution sec- two months. The Alaskan Governor tion. plans to remain for hearings to be; Both Kurusu and the aging No- started shortly by an appropria- mura have insisted they did mot tions subcommittee on the Interior know in advance of the sneak at- Department’s supply bill, |tack on Pearl Harbor and were not Col. J. P. Johnson of Anchor-|stalling in the Washington negotia- laska ticns to cover the assault on the arrived to partici- | United States fleet. pate in the hearings. Funds for the| Shortly after the Yanks arrived railroad, owned by the Government, |in Japan, Kurusu said he was aware have to bé provided by Congress ,of the bitterness of the American — — | people because they believed he and Railroad, also |trict Judge Kehoe this jmornine set mext uday 1orntig at 10 o'clock for the opening of the i presecution of Me on the charge {of murder in the first degree. | Threz sther defendan.s will face {the jury befors Mecks ording to! {the criminal trial calendar set here! this morning. First acticn to be They are Alaska itried will be that of the United 8. Linck, Jesse D. Lander and War- | States vs. Joseph W. Johnson. John- iren A. Taylor. The latter is a !son is charged with escaping the House member from the Third Di- custody of an officer of the Umtcd’vis]on, but has taken up his resi- | States. |dence at Fairbanks. Two are to be | nominated at the April primaries. The Democratic candidate in the rth Division, of which five are nominated, are Robert Hoopse, w. AL Mo bers Candidates for Upper Body Three Democratic members of the House of the Territorial Legislature have filed for the Senate in the| Fourth Division. | Second Trial Second trial on the criminal cal- 'endar is the United States vs. G. G. | F Brown, which will follow immediate- | to ‘The wives ranged in age from | Mrs. Ben F. Butler, 16, te Mrs. Harold N. Cooper, 44, [ With her 13-months-old daugh- ter, Mrs. Butler is enroute to Roan- oke Rapids, N. C. Mrs. Cooper and her daughter, 17, by a previous marriage, and son, 15 months by | the present one, is rejoining her husband in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Thirty of the women are expect- ant mothers. ‘Three literally risked their lives 10 make the voyage. They were in | advanced stages of pregnancy, and | when the Argentina encountered | the first of several record-breaking is garbled. Presumably the cutter will attempt to rescue the passeng- ers. There are five passengers aboard for Ketchikan: Major Leonard Soholt, who filed for Territorial Treasurer; his wife and two children, and J. R. McMillan, CAA bookkeeper re- cently in Anchorage office. BULLETIN—Ketchikan Alas- ka, Feb. 4.—The District Coast Guard Office reported at 12:10 p.m. (PST) that the Captain of the liner Yukon, aground on eliminate from proposed housin, Ny a were InsiBo & ly after the completi ) . Fra 2 2 i e propo: B | Nomura were insincere in tte peace |1 completion of Johnson. Frank Angerman, Elsie R. Dale, Vic- | oo “thoy were confined to the| the rocks south of Seward, Al- Western Airlines | legislation provisions for expandinggtmn when the verdict would be an= | egotiations in December, 1941 home price controls. The committee | also refused to eliminate payment| neunced Brown, Juncau liquor store opera- “The American people view me!tor, is accused of selling liquor without an appropriate Territorial tor Johnson, Jack Leger, Robert A. McCombe, George Moore and Ever- ett W. Patton, {of subsidies for the production of | building materials. Execufives Meef; p' ' R h( WASHINGTON—By a unanimous epafe Ol' lIS | vote, the House of Representatives ihas adopted legislation authorlzing! LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4—More|the payment of subsidies to Puerto: than 150 Western Airlines execuuves‘mcan and Hawalian sugar pro- will meet here four days beslnnmg}ducers for their 1946 crop. The today to meceive instructions for ‘measure now goes to the Senate. handling a rush of air travel expect- | ed to follow the release of air lines| CHICAGO—One man djed, found| for civilian use after Feb. 15. i suffocated in a bathtub, and 2,000 The execitives will come from! guests fled to safety Sunday when! nine western states and Canada to!fire broke out on the fifth and) discuss what Vice President Thomas | sixth floors of the 14-story Con- Wolfe predicted would be “the|gress Hotel. The damage, estimated greatest influx of tourists to the at about $10,000, was confined to | west ever seen.” i the fire floors. Guests of the hotel ——— { were orderely and waited their turns pAA Sels FI lat the elevators. | NEW YORK—Dr. Karl Riedel, 66, | who had conducted at the Metro- politan Opera for the past 24 years, died Sunday. ight Record Over Ocean | With Fgrly Aboard LONDON—E. Phillips Oppenheim, British author, regarded as dean of | | writers of spy thrillers and mystery ! stores, having turned out more than; NEW YORK, Feb. +—Pan Amer-| ican Airways said today one of its| Constellation planes had set a new ! many short stories and plays, died in his sleep Sunday at his home on the channel island of Guernsey. He was 9. trans-Atlantic commercial flight rec- | ord of 12 hours and five minutes,! flying 3,400 miles from La Guardia Field to Hurn, England, with two stops ‘enroute. An airline spokesman said the| LONDON — The British Foreign plane carried 30 passengers and a|Office has announced the transfer crew of ten. The previous record|of five German destroyers and twr for the trip was 14 hours, two min- | torpedo boats to France. The ships | utes. !were part of Britain's allocatlnn‘ from the German fleet, which was divided among the United Staus.‘ Russia and Britain. The Washingioni FRANKFURT, Germany—United 150 novels of detection and intrigue, | _ with grave suspicions,” Kurusu said. TOKYO-It is reported at Gen- |ug, 4o yetter that I await a decision {eral MacArthur's headquarters that | "' " 104 Nations befors T take brought upon information by the, | the Japanese government may join any part in the future affairs of Japan.” TWO PLANES MISSING IN WEST AREAS ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 4.— Seven planes are in the air today searching for two pilots unreported jon flights in this area. SANTIAGO, Ciuie — A general! John Walatka, piloting a plane strike of the Chilean Confederation |with U. S. Marshal Bradshaw and of Labor, 300,000 workers, was ord- |a prisoner aboard, was overdue on a ared to start today, to remain in|flight from Dillingham to Anchor- force until the governmnt recog- |age, and Pilot Earl Martin, who left aizes the Nitrate Union and Farm ! Anchorage for Naknek Sunday, was Workers Union. ialso overdue. ’ — - e LONDON—Russia agreed tonight | o drop her demand for Security ! Souncil action against British in: in trials to establish Nippon's war; guilt, Japanese officials were ten- | tatively preparing charges against ! former Premier Hideki Tojo and) other former leaders. | e i | TOKYO—The British joined ini the occupation of Japan today with | the vanguard of some 45,000 Com- | monwealth troops landing in south- | ern Honshu to replace the inacti-, vated U. S. Army's 10th Corps. : i HAVANA Winston Churchill ! says he has accepted an invitation ! to chat with President Truman when the latter is on his fishing trip ;’ in Florida waters. 3reece — with the understanding hat Britain would withdraw her troops there as soon as possible. Russia had complained to the UNO | shat the presence of British troops; in Greece endangered the peace. i WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—The Su- 1 ! | | license, a misdemeanor charge Repubtican Candidates The Republican candidates for the ! Senate are E. B. Collins and An- Following immediately after the|drew Nerland. |Brown case, and rounding out the| Republican candidates for the |first week will be trial of Carroll House are Walter S. Calhoun, A. F.| ! Hambrick, Jr., charged with con-| (Joe) Coble, Albert F. Dorsh, Mau-' | tributing to the delinquency of a {rice T. Johnson, L. F. Joy, Henry| | minor. ! ! P. Karstens, George E. King, W. L. b Lengthy Trial . [ Lbmmon, Lawrence W. Meath, Irv-, | The Meeks murder trial, with its ing Reed, Sylvia Ringstad and Pat- U. S. Attorney. i ship's hospital under contant ob- servation by Army doctors and nurses. “First Bride’s Ship” | The brides came from England | Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Malta | They were destined for homes in 44 different states. | It was the first “brides’ ship” in more than 200 years to bring Bri- tish girls to American husbands. Not since the days when sailing ships brought wives to the Ameri- | aska, had radioed the ship was breaking up fast. All the passengers were still on board and the engine room and hold number 3 were full of water, his radio message sald. The Captain Chris C. Trondsen, also’ messaged that he was uncertain of his posi- tion. Previous messages in- dicated the vessel was aground snowing heavily. The Coast Guard Cutter On- 'numerous witnesses, is expected to be lengthy and may well occupy the | |full second week of the trial term. It is to be followed by the second . murder prosecution on the docket, {the second degree charge against ;James Franklin Willis, negro ac- jcused of slaying a shipmate at Wrangell. On the heels of the Willis case, Meeks will again face the jury, on the second indictment found against him, that of assault with a danger- ous weapon upon Kelso B. Hartness. Following Meek's second turn in ,Court, the jury will hear charges of rick Savage. e A Tax Refunds Made Alaska Individuals Also Seflzral Firms WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. — Thc Treasury reported to Congress to- ! day refunds made to Alaska citi- zens and business firms during the last fiscal year for overpayment of \larceny by check against Louis J. income, miscellaneous, excise, dis- :Sedlauk. Ticketed on the present 1max 1ist to make the final appear- ance is Thomas Sumstad, charged . with forgery. It is also reported that the de- . fendant named in one of two secret indictments returned here by the re- {cent grand jury has been appre- kended at Spokane, Washington, ‘end it is helieved that he may be “rz\maved here in time for trial at ‘the present term. 4 ‘tilled spirits, old age benefit and federal unemployment taxes. Refunds of $2,000 or more were (income taxes unless otherwise de- signated) : Alaska Fruit and Produce Co., Ketchikan, $2,585; Balcom-Payne Fisheries, Ketchikan, $6,089; Ollie Gray, Anchorage, $6234; Malcolm A. Moe, Skagway, $5,896; Northern { Commercial Co., Seattle, $2,380 and WASHINGTON—Chairman Vin- son (D.-Ga.) of the House Naval Committee today introduced iegisla- tion authorizing President Truman to give part of the U. 8. fleet to China. The measure carries out a request made of Congress several $15,661 (excess profits); I. G. and Laura Y. Purel, Ketchikan, $3,209; Uganik Fisheries, Seattle, $2,933 (excess profits); and Gus Uotila, Ophir, Alaska, $5,290. STOCK preme Court refused today to save! 40 Petit Jurors Japanesé General Yamashita from' As a prelude to the courtroom ac- death on the gallows. ‘tion slated to start tomorrow, 40 Chief Justice Stone delivered the members of the petit jury panel Supreme Court’s 6-2 decision. Jus- |were to report in Court this after- tice Jackson, now acting as chief U. noon at 2 o'clock Sixty names: 9. prosecutor in the Nazi trials in were drawn originally, but one- Europe, had no part in Yamashita's third of tbem have been excused | 1 Merry - Go- Round By DRF;V_—P_EAHSON WASHINGTON—Most energetic champion of the veteran has be- come Wilson Wyatt, ex-mayor of Louisville, Ky., now czar of Feder- 8l Housing. Wyatt, who believes in pulling no punches and setting his sights high, staged a closed-door battle in the White House last week which lined up the sheep and tne goats, economically speaking; among Truman's advisers. Wyatt's battle was over housing, now considered the tightest need in the civilian economy. The confer- ence was held in the President’s office,"and present were: Truman himself, Reconverter John Snyder, Press Secretary Charlie Ross, Pri- vate Adviser George Allen, and Wilson Wyatt. Wyatt brought with him a 12- page memo giving his recommenda- tions regarding the housing short- age. It was a forthright, all-em- hracing program. Instead of only 400,000 houses a year (the limit private builders say they can build), he called for around 3,000,- | 000 houses in’ two years. The program also proposed: 1. The stopping of all non-es- sential building. This meant crack-| ing down on new night clubs and most new office buildings. 2. Immediate restoration of L-41. This is the order, suspended by John Snyder, which removes con- o8 ik s i Losmicisins: (Continued on Page Four) States Army Headquarters has an- | neunced that three battalions num- bering 2423 men. have arrived at |Le Havre, France, for shipment ‘home. They are the 569th and 443rd Antiaircraft Battalions and the 40th | Amphibious Tractor Battalion. | TOKYO—Japanese Admiral No- mura says he soon will make public his own version of the Japanese- | American negotiations before Pearl Harbor, Nomura was the Japanese | Ambassador to the United States at |the time of the attack. | LONDON — Sir Maurice Drum- |mond Peterson, veteran British | career diplomat now serving as Am- bassador to Turkey, has been named Ambassador to Moscow to succeed Sir Arenibald Clark Kerr. Clark Kerr, now on a special mission to Idonesia, will became Ambassador to the United States this spring. NEW DELHI, India—Crop failure caused by drought foreshadows a famine in India surpassing the Ben- gal disaster of 1943, govemmentl quarters said today. | HOLLYWOOD, Cal. — The Pat | O'Briens are expetcing a baby abouti {May 17. The actor and his wife, | Eloise, recently celebrated their fif- |teenth wedding anniversary. They |have three adopted children. HELSINKI — The trial of eight former Finnish Cabinet ministers on charges of responsibility for the war with Russia has cnded. The War Crimes court gave no indica- | Themas H. Finigan may marry two months ago by the Secretdry of the| Navy. case. Justices Murphy and Rut- ledge dissented. WASHINGTON — President Tru- | man today nominated s:& Llfut::-'FORMER JUNEAUITE ant Colonels for promotion to the “EI.D ‘T WRAHGE”. rank of Colonel in the regular Robert E. Tremble, former Ju- army. In the list were a number | of officers who have held temporary neau painting contractor, has been arrested at Wrangell, according to wartime rank as Brigadier General. WASHINGTON—The House re-|yired reports to the U. 8. Marshal jected 130 to 42 today a sudden, sur- |here, Tremble is accused of issu- prise move to kill all labor legisla- ing several worthless checks and tion pending before it. The attempt |was first bound over to the District wa smade by Rep. B. M. Celler (D.- | Courft on a charge of issuing checks N.Y.) in a proferred amendment 10 | without funds. Later that charge a sweeping strike control measure |was withdrawn and Tremble was by Rep. Case R.-S.D). again bound over, the second time charged with forgery. He is under $2,500 bond. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive tomorrow, but no definite time at 3 p. m. today. North Sea scheduled to sail from Seattle tomorrow. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver tomorrow night. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle February 5. R FiioOM FAIRBANKS Leon R. Bagley, resident of Fair- bans, is a guest at Hotel Juneau. e WASHINGTON — President Tru- | man held a hurriedly-called confer- ence with Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach and CIO President Philip Murray today in a renewed White House effort to end the steel | strike deadlock. et MARRYING MAN KANSAS CITY, Kans, Feb. 4— girls at one time tomorrow. Finigan, a proxy bridegroom, says' two sisters in a Ohio town have been corresponding with him about a| double proxy marriage. It it somes off it will give Fini- MRS. WILSON ARRIVES gan, the “most married man in| Mrs. Izola Wilson who has ar- America,” his fiftieth and fifty-'rived from Ketchikan is a guest first wedding in the same ceremony. at the Gastineau, from service or could not be found| | for summons because of changed! |residence. The remaining 40 ven- iremen were not expzcted to be suf- ficient to furnish trial juries for all cases on the present calendar and |it is anticipated that a special addi-, | tional panel will be drawn for the| Meeks murder trial at least. | The case against former Juneau QUOTATIONS quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11%, American Can 100, Anaconda 49, Commonwealth and Southern 4'4, Curtiss-Wright 117%, International Harvester 98, Jones-Laughlin Steel 53, Kenne- cott 56, New York Central 33%, |bar operators Jack D. Jadoff ang Nortbern P?acmc 54, Usited COI!‘- Frank M. Kardanoft Is not expect- (POfaton 6%, U. 8. Bteel 96%, 'ed to go to trial, as it is indicated | csur} "' . that they will enter guilty pleas to| Sales today were 1,660,000 shares. !the four liquor tax evasion counts| DOW, Jones averages today are agalnst them. as follows: industrials 205.84, rails 6759, utilities 41.20. e (OLDTIME ALASKAN PRICEs SATURDAY | Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- DlES I“ SE AIII.E neau mine stock last Saturday was 11%, American Can 100%, Ameri- can Power and Light 17%, Ana- SEATTLE, Feb. 4—Charles A.|conda 49%, Ourtiss-Wright 11%, | Tecklenburg, 82, retired sgw,,,d'lmtemanonsl Harvester 99%, Jones- Alaska, merchant, died here yester- Laughlin Steel 53%, Kennecott day at the home of his daughter, 56%, New York Central 34, North- | Mrs. A, R. Wilson. ,ern Pacific 34%, United Corpora- Born in Hamburg, Germany, Mr.| Corporation 6%2 6, R-c49-50 Tecklenburg moved to Seattle from tlon 6%, U. S. Steel 95, Pound San PFrancisco shortly after arriy- $4.03%. {ing in this country. He went to| Sales Saturday were Alaska in 1902. shares. i Burviving are his daughter and Dow, Jones averages Saturday jone grandson. The body will be were as follows: industrials 206.97, |shipped to Seward for burial. \rails 68.18, utilities 41.71. - N MRS. MAURSTAD HERE [ MRS. WILLIAMS RETURNS Mrs, Elvina T. Maurstad, a resi-| Mrs. R. H. Willlams has returned | dent of Haines, is stopping at the to Juneau from a visit with rela- Baranof during her visit in this tives and friends in the States. She city. has been south for several weeks. 1,000,000 !can colonists on the shores of New England has there been such n| | voyage. was a strange, pathetic and even a terrible voyage. As the Argentina slipped past the idocks in Southampton, the wo- !men, lined on the decks, began 'singing “There’ll Always Be An Fngland.” Tears streamed down their cheeks. That was Saturday Jan. 26. Get Seasick On Sunday morning, as the ship passed land’s end and headed northward into the open Atlmuc,I she began to roll in a long ground- | swell. Before noon, four-fifths of | the women were violently seasick. ‘They collapsed on the decks, fell in the passageways, and sat on the staircases, with faces averted, limp and miserable. Doctors, nurses, WACs, Red Cross personnel and the ship’s crew worked frantically to get them to their cabins. Children’ were aban- doned in the cabins, or left alone, screaming, by mothers who were too weak and sick to reach them. A little boy, climbing on the deck- rail, almost fell overboard before | the horrified eyes of his motherI “vho struggled, half-crawling, across the pitching deck toward him. | Emergency Inspection Crewmen worked throughout the afterncon, swabbing the decks snd‘ corridors. By nightfall, the ship was | so0 dirty that Army doctors, Capt.| L. E. Reynolds, of Denver, Cnlo,,! and Capt. Peter Bisconti, of Sea- ford, N. Y., were worried about an outbreak of disease. Through Lt. Col. Floyd Lyle, Transport Com- mander, they announced an emer-| gency inspection of the entire ship. The doctors attributed the high incidence of seasickness to nervous strein, reaction to the emotions of fear, apprehension and high ex- citement that beset women who were leaving their homes to go to a new and unfamiliar country. e NELS SMITH DIES Nels A. Smith, resident of Ju-| neau since 1930, died yesterday morning at St. Ann's Hospital at | the age of 64. | Born October 12, 1881, in Port| Madison, Wash., the deceased came | to Alaska in 1000, going first to Nome. A diesel marine engineer, he | was employed on various cannery | tenders after coming to Juaeau. Surviving is his widow, Nola, re- siding in Juneau. The remains are at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, from which | funeral arrangements will be an-| nounced. - FIVE FROM ANCHORAGE Anchorage residents registering | ondaga, racing from Cordova under full draft, was expected to reach the scene about 1 p.m. (PST) The Alaska Steamship Company offices at Seward, where the Yukon left late yes- terday afternoon, had reported 324 passengers aboard along with a normal crew comple- ment ofs124. Navy officials here reported that the Navy tug Curb, ac- companying two mine sweepers on a trip from Kodiak here, had been ordered to turn off course and hurry to the wreck scene. Gales were probably sweep- ing the immediate vicinity of the wreck, the Coast Guard here reported, ninety-mile-an hour winds were sweeping the Bering Sea area, to the west- ward. Earlier reporws had placed the Yukon aground on Cape Puget, on the Southeast coast of Prince William Sound. The Cape juts into the sea in an area where {reacherous cur- rents flow, with glaciers com- ing down to the water nearby. The Coast Guard report of the ship breaking up came a few hours after the Alaska Steamship office at Seward said it had received information that the vessel was then in ne immediate danger. A late report, 1:45 o'clock this afternoon, says the Yukon is | sengers still aboard, 0 to 3 miles, water choppy, some waves to 15 feet spray. BULLETIN — Seward, Alaska, Feb. 4.—Steamer Yukon, Capt. Chris Trondsen, southbound to Seattle with nearly 450 aboard, grounded at midnight last night on Puget Cape, 40 miles south of here. A Coast Guard boat has reached the scene of the strick- en ship and is standing by this forenoon. The Yukon is said to be in no immediate danger. John Jeffrey, Assistant Man- SEATTLE, Feb. 4—Liner Yukon, &t the Baranof during the weekend were: R. C. Reeve, Merritt Boyle, Jerry Marshall,, Lloyd Cleaves Charlie W, Atkins, i of the Alaska Steamship Company has grounded on the Alaska Coast (Continued on Page Eight)