The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 11, 1946, Page 1

THE LisraKy 08 CUNGRERS SERIAL RECORD MARZ 7 1946 ’Mfl THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e Y VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,191 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS YUKON WREC HOMMAIS INAVYGIVEN SENTENCED CREDIT FOR T0 BE SHOT RESCUE WORK Jap Is Convicted of WarfirU.S.S. Curb, Which Carried Afrocity Charges Includ- 213 Yukon Survivorsto | ingBataan Death March | Seward, i_n Port BULLETIN Washington, | The Navy comes in for credit in Feb. 11.—The Supreme Court vmaking vescues at the scene of has refused to intervene in the |the Yukon wreck according to proceedings by which Japanese | aboard the Alaska and| General Homma has been sen- other aids extended. \ tenced to die as a war criminal. This was further corroborated by the men aboard the U. S. S. Curb, A. R. S. 21, of the Navy, which MANILA, Feb. 11.—Lt. Gen. Ma- | P . jarrived in port last Saturday af- saharu Homma was sentenced to Fbistion day to be shot. He was convxcted’ by a military tribunal of war atro- | | | "The Curb was at Valdez when the | ous Bataan death march. v h | & 2 5 . |the scene of the wreck, was quick- H‘;’“m“ bolss "‘°‘°‘if ‘"‘w‘"fd’c“;:‘l’ |1y under forced drat, ariving near “ om "“S"l“":e Y jaine b "Plthe Yukon last Monday afternoon, - R S R S | shortly after the Coast Guard cut- successor as Supreme Commander By = bt |ter Onondaga arrived. of tue Philippines during the palmy Being of light draft days of Japanese conquest, Lt. Gen. o the Curb MacArthur Wants Wives of Gls in Japan fo Join Them WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Gen- eral Douglas MacArthur called on Congress today to provide free transportation to Japan for wives of U. S. military personnel of “all ranks” stationed there. MacArthur, in' a statement in Tokyo, said that he plans to open occupied areas to wives of service men about May 1 and that he “hepes sincerely that Congress will broaden the base (of pending legis- | lation) to include free transporta- tion for all ranks.” | COURTSLATEIS NARROWED T0 TWOMURDERS Sumstad, Sedlauk Change Pleas to Guilty Here Tomoyuki Yamashita, and 10 other convicted war criminals. While hearing his sentence, Hom- ma stood in almost the exact spot in the ballroom of the former home of the United States Commissioner to the Philippines where, bemed- alled and arrogant after the Jap- anese conquest of the Islands, he {was able to reach the closest to |the wreck and immediately began {sending lifeboats to the Yukon and start rescue work. The wreck sur- vivors were either taken aboard the Curb or to the Onondaga, anchor- ed three miles off shore. ! The crew of the Curb also strung ithe 1,000 foot breeches buoy line ifrom the upper deck of the Yukon had received the homage of the puppet Filipino Commission and collaborators in a widely-publicized {to the rocky shore, a hazardous feat in itself, by which survivors 2 |were taken from the wreck and reception. 3 {later taken off to boats anchored Within the range of his vision, 85 off shore. he stood before the five-man com-| mhe curb carried 213 survivors mission, across Manila Bay was the 't seward, and the men then took fortress rock of Corregidor and the their first rest after a continuous mist-shrouded hills of Bataan, {rom 'gg.nour stretch 'in rescue work. which he had herded Gen. Jon-; [t A, L. Larson is Captain of athan M. Wainwright, Maj. Gen..the Curb and there are 65 officers Edward P. King and their forces and men aboard. along the sun scorched roads in the, Other ships of the Navy aiding infamous death mareh. 'in rescue work at the Yukon R 5 e o O !wreck included two barges, BSP- 510 and ESP-511. The Army tug |TP-123 also rendered aid, small | @ |charges against James Franklin ur‘ | as sbosts of Rl of, MBCIREk piving Willis, negro Navymen accused of |nouncement was not already pre- iback and forth with rescued passen- | gers. 1 Minute Chat with BT Presid_egl Truman SKIERS POINT TOWARD RACE TIMES AHEAD Plenty of skiers hied up the, WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—A snow- ‘ storm, one of the winter’s worst, ! threatened today to delay Winston Churchill's return to sunny Miami after his 90-minute chat with Pres- | ident Truman. ! Washington still wondered wheth- This Morning The criminal calendar for the current District Court term here was trimmed down to two alleged mur- der cases today by changed pleas from two of the four remaining defendants, Thomas Sumstad and Louis Sedlauk. Both appeared in court this morn- ing to withdraw their previous not guilty pleadings and admit guilt; Sumstad to two counts of forgery, Sedlauk to eight counts of larceny by check. Sentence was de- ferred in both cases. Members of the original petit jury panel, ordered to report in court this morning when it had been ex- pected the Meeks murder trial would get under way, were today excused by Presiding Judge J. W. Kehoe un- til Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, the time now set for opening the hearing on second degree murder | fatally knifing a shipmate aboard a ! P naval vessel at Wrangell during Navy Day observance last fall. New jurors drawn to swell the jury panel for the two murder trials had already been instructed to ap- pear next Wednesday. Though his client is not now! slated to go on trial for his life until after completion of the Willis| case, likely next week, attorney William L. Paul, Jr., defense counsel Last o | HOUSING NEEDS DISCUSSION ON SLATE TONIGHT Local group and industrial repre= sentatives and all other citizens in-| + R u S s I A NS‘ terested in promoting a program of S public housing to ease Juneau‘si need of roofs will gather this eve- ning at 8 o'clock in the City Coun- cil Chamber, when Mayor Ernest | Parscns will open discussion onj what's to be.done and how. The Mayor has also indicated that a permanent ‘“emergency housing committee” will be selected at to- night's meeting The City Engineer the past week has been gathering what data is STALINHAS HEARINGS ON YUKON TRAGEDY REQUESTE 'BY ANCHORAGE . C ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 11 Unien'’s third, to rebuild the war- The Anchorage Chamber of Com- immediately at hand on housing'{devastated areas. ! merce adopted a resolution Satur- needs here, for presentation at the| In a broadcast election speech— day urging the Maritime Commis- meeling this evening. Tonight's|the country voted Sunday—the So-!sion to conduct hearings at once, conference is the decond on the!viet leader declared: subject. A preliminary outline of ways and means was worked out| in u similar, but smaller scale, meeting & week ago. FORETELLS SHIFT IN PERSONNEL OF | Gives Out ie; Five-Year! Program to Rebuild Devastated Areas : LONDON, Feb. 11—Generalissimo Stalin announced Saturday night a " Year Plan, the Soviet| “Now, for the immediate future, Yukcn ship disaster. the main thing is the new “\'0-} The resolution pointed out that year plan which will soon be con- many witnesses now are readily ac- firmed. Its main task is to restore cessible who, within another 10 |the areas that suffered, to restore days, may be scattered “all over !the pre-war prosperity and then the country.” censiderably to surpass it | The statement added that should “Particular attention will be de- the Maritime Commission fail to voted to raising the standard of order am immediate hearing Fed- 'me of the working people by sys-'eral Judge Anthony Dimond should |tematically reduting the cost of pe asked to convene a grand jury preduction of all goods. | “I bave no doubt that if we help & i iour scientists they will not on | to vestigat | - ) : WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. — The lcateh up but surpass those abroad — -, - first time today that changes arescientific research institutes to en-| STEH. SIR'KE IS | ' { the tragedy f Secret Padls Made AtYalta, Including Kuriles, ' VERSION OF War'on Japan, Made Public !either here or at Seward, on the, K SURVIVOR TALKS HERE 'WINN GIVES ~ SEA TRAGEDY | By Groham Hovey { | WASHINGTON, Feb. lx.—l{u.ss‘m! | clamped three conditions, including | | outright Soviet possession of the, Kuriles Islands, on its agreement at | at Yalta one year ago today to en- Juneau Man Says Pas- sengers Were (alm- a | Praises Rescue Work ter the Pacific war, ! This conditional aspect of Gen-| gy winn of Juneau, son of Mrs. eralissimo Stalin’s pledge to fight (gess winn, and one of the 485 Japan was disclosed when the text g, vivors of the wrecked Yukon, of the long-secret big three pact arrived here on the steamer Alaska, on the far east was made public |usafe and sound and glad to be on / i Washington, London andijand again.” He had a thrilling storv to tell. Winn lost a suit, a box of cigars, and numerous other personal items CveLaty 0. Slate Byrnes report- edly has insisted it is the last of | the wartime arrangements of its but he mentioned them with & kind withheld from publication.|mere wave of his hand. The ex- Yaltz secrets previously bared | perience of walting hourly for al- promised Russia Anglo-Americnn‘most sure death made their loss support for the big power veto 1h§rld1culously trifling, the United Nations Security Coun-{ This is his story of the wreck: cil and for separate UN member-| “It was snowing when the Yukon ships for Byelo-Russia and the So- left Seward at: 2:30 o'clock in the viet Ukraine rafternoon of Sunday, a week ago Agreed To Fight Japan | yesterday. Weather conditions Under the agreement made public today, Russia was to join the far' castern fight “in two or three months after Germany has sur-| ‘rendered.” This appeared to spike ! finally earlier speculation that the dropping of the first atomic bomb « cn Hiroshima August 6 prompted Russia to advance the date of its |were not good at the beginning and by dinner time the ship was pitch- ing badly. Besides the roughness of the water, the snow storm was lit- erally merging shoreline, sea and sky,” he said. “Since the ship was not outfitted with a Fathometer, the route was indefinite. After cir- cling 6 or 8 hours, the ship cut her speed and the pilot proceeded on | witiy Press Secretary Charles G. Ross !500,000000 tons of coal and 60,000,- | told a news conference, in reply to 000 tons of oil. . questions, that personnel changes! “Only then,” he declared, ‘“can “are in prospect,” but he declined lwe consider our country guaranteed to elaborate. iagainst any eventuality.” Asked whether they had to do| Stalin also told his ctonstituents the stabilization high com- |that “wars could be avoided if mandg, he left it for reporters to use |ther~ was a possibility of a fair dis- their own phraseology. {tribution of raw materials and ex- A% the same time, Ross said: ~ Iport markets” His speech “When and if a steel settlement broadcast by the Moscow is aunounced, there will be a full - — - explanation of &ll the mathematics enteing into it.” NEX'{ DA‘I’E FOR Ross sald the announcement ! wouid come from the White, House. In the expectation that criminal ed whether such an an- i proceedings will occupy the atten- was radio. arcd, he merely smiled. At to whether there would be a formal announcement today, Ross said he did not know but he re- peated that changes in personnel in prospect in top administration aple science to develop.” 1t | personnel and indicated announce-| Stalin called for Russia to pr()-‘ ment of a formula for settling the |duce 50,000,000 tons of pig iron al stee! strike was imminent. ‘year, 60,000,000 tons of steel, and' 'Price Boost May Be High | g " Enough to Permit Wage Boost for Workers WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—The ad- ministration is said today to have ,agreed finally on a steel price boost .it believes will be high enough to ipermit early settlement of the na- | tion-wide steel strike. The walkout jof 750,000 CIO steelworkers now is {in its fourth week. { A source close to 'strategy in labor affairs lannouncement of the mnew steel {price can be expected soon, along iwith a general statement on a new |a;dmh~.mrauun wage-price policy. The White House informant says White House says an are in prospect. AT ! tion of the U. S. District Court here!he believes the price boost will be Asked about a pos§lblln.y thfll\m- some time yet, Presiding Judgeisu(fic,enply high to permit settle- John C. Collet will retire as econ- {J. W. Kehoe this morning set over'ment of the steel strike on the ba- ic s be succeeded by : . : 4 3 o . omic stabilizer and i { naturalization hearings scheduled |sis of President Truman's formu- OPA administrator Chester BOW!CS!{UX' Pebruary 8. ‘la. Mr. Truman has recommended with broadened authority over PHC-; The new date set for the naturali- 'an inerease of 18 and one-half ing, Ross simply said there Was|aijon proceedings is a week later,!cents an hour for the striking steel er the sudden flight was prompted by protocol, Britain's new Labor government, or just plain pleasure. ‘The wartime leader mum. He told the Earl of Halifax, British ambassador, he did not want to talk to the press upon his arrival. - FROM NEARBY TOWNS Recent arrivals from nearby towns include Frances Warring of Hoonah; G. A. Smith of Haines, and Toney Amundsen of Sitka. All are guests at the Hotel Juneau. Douglas Island trail to find plenty | ¢ e, 5 % g vy | George Harrison Meeks, has al- of ;5808 yzi:)cxday——in Lok m:'e_‘ready taken steps to assure that was: s Nl much new snow 0r| gefense witnesses wiil be at hand free-running and most hickory rid- ' wpon Meeks answers to the indict- remained €rs elected to stay in the packed p...i that he slew Clarence J. plicd in the affirmative, f:x‘;f“es' where sliding was excel- camphell. Paul, last Saturday morn- | 2 | ing, secured issuange of summons to| ! Hardier slat addicts, making their | e pergons calle}i as defense Wit- | <way to the top of the island found | qcoq. H iconditions even better than the| p. wiliam P. Blanton, Dr. John! | previous week, with new POWder | g Glements, James Mathewson, | ‘;?;’:;:g last week's wind-crusted, pora Kuich, Doris Peterson, john V. | ' 4 .. | Ritter, John Morrison, Hilda Ren- Though few went to the summit, | quist ‘and William Didelius. The | (D & TOW WHOh. 58 Tar. A¥ the ! girst five named appeared as wit- | Upper Cabin at the head of the neces at the preliminary hearing | i trail and reported the trail in as|o; tne accusation of Kelso B. Hart-| igood condition as can be remem-|peq that Meeks made a knife attack bered—that with the Moller Race‘upon him here at the Gastinea | coming up only two weeks hence ul notsing official yet on any person- | March 8, 1946. nel changes. - eee “Ary possibility of action on that i : \Four Children Lose todey?” a reporter asked. He re- | FORTIETH FIREMEN'S | Lives, House Blaze SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 11.—Four FROLIC FOOTLOOSEST | FETE FOR FORTY-SIX coiiiem, o6 i, i, iy Fire or party, when Juneau's Vol- | ihis morning when fire trapped unteer Fire Department puts on &lihery in upstairs bedrooms i a show, the sparks fly, the crowds turn | ;yarme house in the foothills district, out, there’s plenty doing. sight miles north of Spokane. That was evident once again here | Devuty sheriifs Jack Savage and Saturday night at the Fortieth An-| cecil Hare brought Mrs. Locher nual Firemen’s Ball. As usual, it another child 4, to a hospital ‘ workers. ——————— ALASKA AIRLINES ~IN, OUT TO WEST i Arriving in Juneau over the week- end with Alaska Airlines were the following passengers from Anchor- i | age: Mrs, R. McGlon, G. A. Smith, | ! rovich, J. Hayes, Hugh Reynolds, Mrs. Robert Totten and two chil- ‘ dren, Marybelle Pyle, R. C. Watkins, }W. F. Sale, Jack O'Connor, Noran | Vopat, D. A. Brown and Jim Lam- Roy Lee, Helen Adams, Roy Perat- war declaration. Germany quit May 7 and Russia declared war on Japan August 8. The ypeference to the Kuriles in the Yalta pact was blunt: “The Kurile Islands shall be handed over . to the Soviet Union.” 1 The other two conditions for Russia’s war against Japan, agreed to by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, were: |iore most passengers. PFirst 1 i T'::’ c““d":"" thought we had hit a reef. Then - The status of the Mongoliah peqring the crashing, scraping noise {?efip‘.esk;'epur:h;: i ‘:"e" ;‘4""3"' ’l realized we were on the rocks.” la ghoul remain unchanged. n Y 2. Rights held by Russia prior to ce::‘l:‘:iitofl n({h(;th:rwzlas‘;l‘l:‘e:dahgza “the treacherous attack of Japan'pacing them was a sheer bluff of in 1904 “should be restored” These ',ck: waters of the bay churned the pact sald, were: tiercely around the ship. There Restoration to Russia of the port yag o panic. Passengers walked of Dairen and restoration of the uround the deck in orderly fashion, Russian lease on port Arthur, ‘A few minutes after the ship struck Joint Russian-Chinese administra- ' jjghts went out all over the ship uon of thé Chinese-eastern and except in the dining rcom, Dam- south-Manchurian railways which age to the botlers cut off the heat. provide an outlet to Dairen. | “Attempts to put down life boats Soviet Union Interests {were futile, Winn said. The Yu- In these projects, tne “preemin- gon was not equipped with power ent interests of the Soviet Union”'poats, Her life rafts were the type would be safeguarded, the pact that would have to have been row- said, adding that China should re- ed away from the ship. Even if tain “full sovereignty” in Manchur- |they had been successfully lowered, b waves and breakers would have The agreement wrecked them in motion. that Generalissimo Chiang Kal- shek would have to concur in the| outer Mongolia, Dairen, Port Ar-| thur and railroad lrranzemenu,' said: “The President (Mr. !dead reckoning through the storm. Apparently deciding that the course had been properly reckoned, the ships officers allowed the Yukon to resume her speed as she passed through Johnstone Bay. It was then that the ship struck the beach. AhsBt) I Scraping Noise “I was asleep at the time, as acknowledging | Passengers Calm Passengers on the deck surveyed the situation with amazing calm. They chatted, smoked; several, Mr. Roosevelt) ‘Winn among them, returned to will take measures in order to ob-'their cabins for warmer clothing, tain this concurrence on advice|Many of the - staterooms were from Marshall Stalin.” |already flooded, but top deck rooms Those agreements later were rat- Were clear. “fied in & Russian-Chinese 30-year| The loud speaker system was also treaty of friendship and alliance, |knocked out by damage to the low- signed in Moscow last A t 14, (°r quarters of the ship. Crew mem- bé et ik !bers and officials circulated among |the passengers answering questions and doing what was possible to In- “’ & | 1 Th ! i izl e asnlngton | Hotel, a month after the Campbelllwas one of the ultra events of the | ..o | inuzzl Tire. rodl i bt tes i o listens good. Those sticking to the lower |meadow areas, got in a few more j whacks at racing practice, with be- ginners grinding away at the funda- { mentals under the watchful eye of Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Most important areas the State Department must deal with when it comes to pre- venting future war are Germany and Japan. So far, the Japanese situation is under tight military control and progressing satisfac- torily. But, in Germany, the State De- partment has done little about dis- mantling German industry or get- ting adequate personnel to see that; it is done. Many experts believe that on the manner in which the State Department does this job will depend whether Germany can be- ‘ mentor Tom Stewart. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Taku, from Seattle, due Thurs- day. Goes to Hoonah, Pelican and { murder. Paul has called his defense wit- inesses to appear next Friday morn- ing. | After its short session this mom-} ing, the court stood recessed today | {until 3:30 o'clock this afternoon, when it was expected that divorce! ‘acuons and ex parte pleadings would i | be heard. | | In other action Saturcay, Judge; | Kehoe approved application for a' Raymond Maxwell, Frank Cody, Donald McLeod and G. H. Wilson arrived from Cordova. On return flights, the following departed for Anchorage: Al Dube, Phyllis J. Hansen, Ethel B. Hender- year; with more durn people, more i paputy sheriff Lou Johnson said | furn dun, more, more, moré and|preliminary investigation indicated more of that too. * |the fire was caused by an over- Once again, Juneau takes off its | hented stove. hats to the fire laddies—you can’t i i iAl Recommended as ""Walchdog" for Vels | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 11.- It was announced that,a Coast Guard rescue ship would arrive at {11 a. m. and the Yukon passengers iuuled down in the soctal hall and lon the embarkation deck to wait top 'em. MYRVEN SIDES | FUNERAL HELD SKlawnck from Juneau. | wholesale malt liquor license in the A large crowd filled the Charles STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Closing {quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10%, American Can 197, Anaconda 48%, Curtiss Wright | son, Lt. W. G. Harter, A. E. Porter and Joe Mihelic. J. A. Whiting was a passenger for Yakutat, and Lor- aine Nelson left for Gustavus. PETE GILMORES | for dawn and the coast guard. Ship Settles By late morning, the Yukon had began to settle. During the night she had taken a terrific beating from heavy seas. Not Firm On Rocks ,The American Legion's National Commander, John Stelle, has recommended that Legionnaires be- come the watchdogs over,the rights ,of veterans. Stelle declared that he would 'vecommend that National Head- | Cclumbia scheduled to sail from Seatile Wednesday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail i{from Vancouver Friday. ! Tongass scheduled to sail from Seatile Saturday. North Sea, from Sitka, scheduled southbound sometime tomorrow lmgnt, come a peaceful member of thel Denali, from westward, scheduled | First Division for Schwabacher Bros. and Company, and approved change of the registration of the license for| the Dreamland Bar here to include| | the name of Cipriano Carrillo along | with that of former sole operator | Fred K. Carrillo. | - Gail Patrick Se eks W. Carter Chapel this afternoon to 104, International Harvester 94, |quarters issue a monthly state-' ment on the’ activities of the Vet- By 8 o'clock it became clear to many passengers that all the ship attend the funeral service ' for Myrven H. Sides, well-known Ju- neau resident who died last week The Elks’ Ritual was used with the Rev. W. Robert Webb assisting. Ernest Ehler sang. The impressive Elks’ Ritual was presented by the following Past cott 55%, New York Central 31%, ! Northern Pacific 32%, United Cor- poration 6%, U. S. Steel 93, Pound $4.08%. Sales today were 1,440,000 ghares. Dow, Jones averages today were as tollows: industrials 201.14, rails Jones-Laughlin Steel 50, Kenne-: 1 Exalted Rulers: 65.11, utilities 40. Henry Messerschmidt, Exalted | ~ ARRIVE SUNDAY Mr. and Mrs. Pete Gilmore arrived in Juneau yesterday on the Baranof jand are staying at the Gastineau Hotel temporarily. Mr. Gilmore, recently discharged from the U. S.. Navy after serving in the South Pacific campaign as |eran’s Administration. lwas not firmly embedded on rock. Stelle created a stir last week The aft was free and its sides were with a charge that tHere has been|Pounded constantly by waves on a breakdown in the V-A under thethe outside and heavy equipment 'administration of General Omar 100se on the inside. Bradley. This has been denied by| It appeared to me” Mr. Winn Bradley. |said, “that when the aft came oft jas it was sure to do, it might well !pull the entire ship with it. We family of nations. | southbound maybe tomorrow but/ Some men at the top in the State Department have a real un- derstanding of this vital problem. But so far they haven't got their ideas across to those at the bot- tom. State Department members of the Economic Policy Security Com- dent of the Senate, arrived here | mittee were complaining at a close- door session that they couldn't get any money to finance their job. “Have you Seen Senator McKel- lar?” asked Joe Panuch, one of Byrne's right-hand men. “Have you e (Continued on Page Four) i nothing definite. Baranof, from westward, schedul- 1 ed southbound next Sunday, i - — COFFEY IN TOWN Senator Edward D. Coffey, presi ! yesterday from Seattle and guest at the Baranof. e 1 SENATOR WALKER HERE | Senmator N. R. Walker arrived {fromm Ketchikan yesterday. He is | stayiug at the Baranof during his visif, here. is a | | Divorce from Whife — HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 11.—Another film colony home was added today | to the list of wrecked marital lives with Gail Patrick’s announcement she soon will sue Dean White for |divorce, charging mental cruelty. | They were married in Jackson- | ‘Ville, Fla., July 11, 1944, while White was in the Navy. Since then she gave premature birth to twins, who died. Both she and White pre- viously had been married. Ruler; Arthur Adams, Leading Knight; M. E. Monagle, Loyal Knight; Harry Sperling, Lecturing Knight; H. E. Simmons, Esquire; Ralph Martin, Chaplain. Active and Hongrary Pallbearers were: 2 Active Pallbearers — A. M. Mill, George Gullufso rtin Lavenik, E. C. Sweeney. E. Cleveland, Walter Heisel. Honorary Pallbearers—J. J. Con- nors, George M. Simpkins,' John Newmarker, H. R. VanderLeest, John Reck, Frank A. Boyle. FRANCO'S SPAIN REJECTED BY UNO LONDON, Feb. 11.—The United Nations General ASsembly voted ‘nmnm\ously today to exclude Gen- eralissimo Francisco Franco's Spain from membership. The resolution was adopted by 45 affirmative votes with two ab- stentions—El Salvador and Nicar- | PRICES SATURDAY ’skipper of a landing craft, formerly | Closing quotation of Alaska Ju-!was assistant to the Attorney Gen- | neau mine stock last Saturday was | eral for Alaska before the war and 11% . American Can 97'%, Anacondalis well known in Juneau. 149%, Curtiss Wright 4%, Interna- Mrs. Gilmore formerly lived in | tional Harvester 95, Jones-Laughlin | Nevada and is seeing Alaska for the | Steel 51%, Kennecott 56, New | firs time. They plan to make their York Central 32%, Northern Pacific ' home in Juneau. |33, United Corporation 6%, U. S. ——— “Stefl 94, Pound $4.03%. 1CS REPRESENTATIV Sales Saturday were 3 — i shares. Geergiana B, Such, International { Dew, Jones averages Saturday |Cor cspondence School representa- E HERE 920,000 rai's 6€.20, utilities 39.91. i a guest at the Hotel Juneau. ama were as follows: industrials 202.30, tive, has arrived in this city, and agua. It was introduced by Pan- . ! watcher the swing of that portion of the ship with almost fascinated interest during the morning.” Mr. Winn does not agree with published statements frcm persons who felt that with a modern ship, the accident of the Yukon could not have occurred. “The ship was strongly built,” he (said. “I do not believe a modern !ship could have withstood half of what she went through before 1brenkmz up.” I* The Yukon was built in 1899 in (Continued on Page Eight)