The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 25, 1946, Page 1

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LXVI,, NO. 10,203 “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1946 ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE LiBRAs CONGRESS SERIAL RECOR MAR2 7 1946 ' ¢ ST — PRICE TEN CENTS BARTLETT OPPOSES FISH TRAP MOVE BOW OF RUSSIAN TANKER SIGHTED OFF ALEUTIANS Sixteen Men—l_&—re Believedi Aboard Part of Ill-Fated | Ship-Stern Picked Up |Th KODIAK, Alaska, Feb. 25.—The Naval operations base at Adak in| i Naval operations e vesterasy pared for Congress ¢ that the bow of the ill-fated Rus-| sian ship Donbass, which broke in! ~"WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Three two February 17, had been sighted bills intended to improve the posls south of the Aleutians. |tion of the gold and silver mini GOLD, SILVER PRICE BOOST 1S PROPOSED ree Bills to Improve| Mining Industry Pre- | MacLEAN FIRST CHURCHILL WITNESS AT IS SOUGHT MEEKS TRIAL AS WITNESS se Probes MinutestENazi Defendant at Nuern-| Dalails of Finding of | berg Trial Makes De- | - Campbell's Body mand with Others | ‘The United ;;fl launched ilsl NUERNBERG, Feb. 25,—J()BChim: first degree murder prosecution of | von Ribhentrop’s attorney told the | George Harrison Meeks, in U. S.'International Military Tribunal to- District Court here this morning by |day an alleged pre-war declaration It was believed the ship's captain and 15 officers and men were on calling Kenyon (Spike) MacLean, | by Winston Cnurchill that Britain {board the floating forepart. The industry have been prepared for ins troduction by Rep. Bunker (D-Nev).! One would establish a price lfl' local sheet metal, ventilating and|would form a coalition of nations heat!ng contractor, as first wimess.:!o “destrpy Germany if she should It was MacLean, together with Lecome too strong” may have in- one of his workmen, Chet Ellis, cpired Adolf Hiller to rearm Ger- who found the slashed body of {many and to play aggressive wars. Clarence J. Campbell in exclusive; The attorney’s statement was Seatter Tract here last December made during arguments on Ribben- 10, to open the investigation that trop's request that Churchill be has led to the accusation of Meeks|summoned to testify at Nuernberg. survivors probably have been with- $129 an ounce for silver, and $56 out food for seven days. an ounce for gold. The producer The stern of the Donbass already now receives 71.11 cents for silver was in tow of the SS Puente Hills.'and $35 for gold. Twenty-three Russian crew mem-| The $56 figure for gold has the bers refused to leave the stern, but|seme logic behind it, Bunker said| {23 others had been taken aboard in an explanatory statement, “that [the Puente Hills. !was used to justify the reductiom from 40 to 25 percent in the amount 1 as Campbell's alleged murderer.: |Acting Chief British Prosecutor : . | The U. S. Fleet tug gear Was . go1q packing needed for Federal insisted that §.E. Alaska Limestone fo Be Used in New Industry . .. CAPT. McVAY ‘'FOUND GUILTY = 0F NEGLIGENCE Sentence Rem}iied, How- ver; in View of Previous QOutstanding Record . WASHINGTON, Feb. 25— The Navy announces Capt. Charles B. McVay 3rd, was guilty of negligence \PROPOSED TRAP REDUCTION HITS INDUSTRY HARD ed in-Northwest Many Packing Plants \ Would Be Forced to Close Portland, Ore., Feb. 25.—Contin-| -RllSSIan Compemlon ued experimentation in extraction of alumina and iron from Oregon {laterite and plans to bring hlgh-’ WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. — The grade Alaskan limestone into the sale of salmon trap sites in Alaskan Portland-Vancouver area are an-|coastal waters, part of the public nounced by the Aluminum Company | domain, was criticized by’ Acting of America. | Under Secretary of Possibility that marketable iron| Warner W. Gardner at a Depart- 'can be produced from the laterite— inent hearing. residue from rock decay—was re- General Mana- the Interior | DELEGATE IS AGAINST ANY REDUCTION 46 Declares Action Would Cause Confusion~Gruen- ing Gives Testimony WASHINGTON, Feb. 25—Dele- ‘gate Bartlett of Alaska urged the (Interior Department today not to | i | {ported by C. S. Thayer, manager | E. M. Brennan, sput into effect its proposal to limit ger and Vice President of the P.fnsh traps in Aiaska to 20 to one of ALCOA's Vancouver, Wash. wm-ksm_ Harris Conipany. of .Béattle fes- | persan. vr. firm turing the ‘coming He said that test drillings show the ‘nlux_nlna content is lower than ln“:{‘:dmm;.fi;:‘;?::y O:S:t:: :“";‘": the lowest grades of buaxite used| iy . i closed individual. He said a check for alumina reduction in Arkansas ; during the war, but it has a high| VS sent annually to a “Seattle | » mstitution by the company for the percentage of iron ore. " tiny | Production of alumina from e He declitad, WEERY, VR ‘laterite probably will be limited by the quantity of iron which can be where the mar. lived. “It is a bad situation,” Gardner vas paid and said he did not know ! During brief direct examination conducted by U. S. Attorney Pat- rick Gilmore, Jr., MacLean related the circumstances of his finding of Campbell’s body, at about five min- utes before noon on that dreary, December Monday. His testimony today repeated in all significant points that which he gave at the Coroner’s inquest two months ago That he saw no hat near the body a description of how the body was lying with relation to the road along which it was found; a,description of Campbell’s clothing, with pockets | turned out; the purplish blotch by the' murder victim's right eye; the several cuts about the head and the deep throat gash that ended Camp- bell’s life; the blood clots and spat- | Maxwell Fyfe the | former Prime Minister held no of- ficial position at the time Ribben- | ,trop was the German Ambassador | {m London, when the Churchill de- . claration allegedly was made. Ribbentrep’s Plea | In a written plea, Ribbentrop as- Iserted Churchill visited the Em- bassy in Londen and told him that England was intelligent and ex- | perienced enough to get other pow- s on England’s side if Germany ould become too strong.” “On this occasion Churchill stated it was unmistakable that England {would destrov Germany if she '¢hould become too strong,” the plea | added. personnel on the floting bow, and to attempt to tow it to port. The commander of the Alaska Sea Frontier here said the Navy . i A = ‘more effect in raising the price| iradio reported the Russian tanker . .o than all SS Belgorod had sighted the bow north, longitude 172 degrees 22 min- | utes west. Discovery of the ship’s forepart ended a Navy search conducted with all available facilities in the area |during the last 48 hours despite adverse Aleutian weather. | The area commander said there were no details regarding the con-| dition of the Donbass' crew, but it was hoped that both the fore and Dr. Martin Horn, Counsel for aft sections of the ship could be Ribbentrop, told the Tribunal today towed safely to Adak. | that Churchill’s alleged declaration, The Donbass was enroute o r i“was relayed nt once by Ribben- Long Beach, Calif, 6. Viadivostok Gruesome Discovery trop to Hitler.” |with a cargo of gasoline. ¥ 1t was raining slightly at the time Another Alibi | T, i I | | | he and Ellis made their gruesome, po., asserted “it is highly prob- | discovery, the witness replied to the ;10 that this statement was one | ! i District Attorney’s question. 1IN’ ¢ the reasons” that Hitler began | conclusion, the direct examination . ..., the .prosscution charged was ters on the victim's clothing, face and on the surrounding icy ground. from 4 { of MacLean brought out that the P ~ a Nazi conspiracy to wage war. murdered man’s body was left Un-| - mieq Marshal Gen. Wilhelm Keit- touched until after the arrival of Cit, thoriti lled Mac! mel today requested that Hermann y authorities, called by MacLean | ;;oerng and eight other of his by telephone from & nearby resi- gooy defendants testify in his be- IdispatChed to the scene to take off Reserve notes.” Another measure would remove the ceiling on the price: of silver. This, Bunker asserted, would have the monetary legislation introduced along those at latitude 45 degrees 45 minutes ;oo ¢o qate” Bunker's third proposal would re= 'move the tax of 50 percent of pro- ELECTION IN ARGENTINA IS ORDERLY ONE Results Will Not Be Known Perhaps for 40 Days Who Is President BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 25.—It may e At dence. Cross-examination of MacLean, conducted by Chief Defense Coun- sel Willam L. Paul, Jr., was ex- haustive, continuing the remainder of this morning’s session and still half and announced his intention of taking the witness stand him- elf. Keitel's request for witnesses and !L‘ocuments to support his defense 1wl be argued before the Tribunal | | i | be at least 40 days before Argen- |tina will know whether Iron Man Col. Juan Peron or Liberal and| 'Left Wing candidate Jose Tambori lis to be the next President. 'Tightly Knit_B;fense Force Planned - Demonstra- All ballot boxes have to be trans-;°: i In a news conference announcing when the cruiser Indianapelis went Idown July 30, 1945, with the loss of nearly 900 men, but that his sen- tence was remitted “in view of his previous outstanding record.” Although a court martial return- ed a conviction on a negligence charge—that he failed to steer a zig-zag course in an enemy sub- marine area, the sentence—a re- fduction of 100 numbers in McVay's temporary grade of captain and of 100 numbers in his permanent rank of commander, was eancelled by top- side review officers. McVay has been restored to active duty. Vice Admiral Louise B Den- feld, Chief of Navy mnel, told a news conference, however, that “I question that he (McVay) will get a command of great re- dbility.” the same time, the Navy, i§< sued severe reprimands against fo officers, two of them Regular Navy, {for faflure to act promptly when the |cruiser became overdue. | MeVay, Commander of the In- dianapolis, previously had been cleared by a court martial of an- other charge, of “culpable 'ineffi- ciency.” ] | NIMITZ COURT MARTIALED WASHINGTON, Feb. : 25.—Adm. Chester Nimitz, Chief of Naval Op- erations, exposed a skeleton in his closet—he once was court martial- disposed of, Thayer said, with ship- ments of high-grade bauxite con-| tinuing to supplement the Oregon; supply. ALCOA reports limetsone from | Southeast Alaska would be brought here for the manufacture of alum-/ inum at its Vancouver plant and other industries, will provide “the impetus for a rapid expansion of the chemical industry here,” Chest- er A. Moores, Chamber of Commerce president, said. Elimination of long rail shipment costs of limestone will put Oregon and Washington carbide and acety- lene manufacturers in & better com- petitive position, Moores said, and permit expansion of various syn- thetic fields. commented, “when a man can take {ishing season “If the regulations are promul- gated for the 1946 year,” Bartlett festified at a Department hearing, “it will cause confusion in the in- dustry and the Department should take that into account, The hearing {should be receesed and continued in Alaska next summer and no effort thould be made to put the regula- tion irtn effect this year.” Bartlett and Guv. Gruening of part of the public domain, force you to_send him a check for using 1t and never come near the place.” | AJaska asserted the salmon indus- The hearing is on a Department |try did not pay sufficient taxes in proposal to reduce to 20 the num- !the Territory und took too much ber of fish traps which may be held | wealth from Aiaska. Both insisted by a firm or person in Alaskan|tiat vesidents of the Territory waters. The heldings would be re-|should have preference for trap duced to 10 three years later. |sites and declared that if it were jleft to the recidents of the Terri- tory, all trap siles would be abol- ished. Friele Testifies H. B. Friele, Seattle, Vice-Presi-( dent and General Manager of the Nakat, Packing Company, related , tnat his company had purchased | 18 trap sites for approximately $200,000, but acdded. the government had closed six of them. | Both ' witnesses contended the Gruening's Legislation Gruening sald he favors legisla- tion defeated at the last session of the Legislature to increase the $200 license for trap sites by $100 each and set up a commission to allo- lpropoud regulation would be in- * Canada's Spy | jurious to the salmon packing in- | dustry and force the closing of | many packing plante, | Friele said the industry -fears | Russian competition after the war - Many Delails sald Russia packs 1,500,000 cases of salmon each year, Japan 1,000,000 and Canada 1.000 000. The industry believes he said, that Russia may | take over the Japanase fishing in- | dustry and export salmion to the United States. cate them. He declared the indus- try should try to improve condi- Juom e Territory and devise ! means of giving a greater return to | Aiaska for the salmon it takes out. |He sald he believed the Territory’s ‘ennre tax structure should be re- .nsedA : Delegate Bartiett said he did not believe reduction of fish traps in the long run would injure or wreck ithe salmon packing industry as ar- gued by industry representatives. He criticized hoiding the hearing in Eleven Men, Two Women, Held Without Habeas Corpus Rights !Wlshlnnon instead . of Alaska New Information Sought | where Territciial residents could Meantime Rep. Jackson (D-have testified. He said the Terri- Whsh,) announced the War De-|{ory's development will be speeded partment had notified him fishery!up if resident Alaskans are given cxperts of the Japanese Govern-(a preferentlal status in obtaining ment are being required to com-!{rap sites. tions Against Russia CHUNGKING, Feb. 25.—Chinese [govemmeul and Communist mili-, ‘ury representatives signed a mer- ngt pleted when the noon Te-i .. jerense and prosecuting at g h [ 4 cess was taken till 3 o'clock this|y . .. "compiete their debate on! afternoon. At one point, the cross-iy, i o witnesses demanded by | Ribbentrop. |ported to Provincial capitals for| tabulation and barring a landslid the poor transportation, long dis- tances and counting time rule ouf any early indications of the vote.; action on the court martial of apt. Charles B. McVay, skipper of the sunken cruiser Indianapolis, the question was raised whether any Naval officer who had been court OTTAWA, Feb. 25.—Both the FBI pile all data concerning past le-; and British intelligence authorities anese fishing activities in the Arec- ( No Politics Says Gov. are being glven complete details of tic, Antarctic, Bering Sea, Gulf of { Gruening denled that politics had Canada's “spy” investigation. i California, water of Argentina, [entered into preparation of the ded In secret be- Asiatic Russia the Kuriles Islands | Proposed regulations as suggested ger today which calls for gradual reduction of the army into a mod-. lern, tightly-knit national defense force which may aid in the na- ition’s rehabilitation. | The agreement, signed in the presence of General Marshall, pro-| vides for the reorganization of| government forces into 50 divisions 'JAP DIEHARDS STILL FIGHT NEAR MANIL to sketch the vicinity where the MANILA, Feb. 25.—A battle be- body was found; & sketch later marked for identification as De- tween Japanese diehards and Amer- fendant’s Exhibit A but not intro- (Continued on Page Eight) Harmony reigns for the first time in many months. Both sides say the elections were orderly, thanks to Army vigilance at the balfot box- es. On the outcome of the vote hinges Argentina’s future relations | with the United States. — - 4 |reprimand for running the old des- The Washington' Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Public memory is short; so perhaps it is not out of order to recail that exactly one year ago a man who had served eight years. in the Cabinet and four ‘years as-Vice President was so pillotied before the Senate that Reosevelt finally withdrew the name of Henry Wallace as head of | the Reconstruciion Finance Corpor- ation. But, last weex, delightful George Allen, who has 'back-slipped and ican-led Philippine Army * troops near the mouth of Manila Bay is iannounced as the Commonwealth government estimated that at least 4,000 Nipponese soldiers still were terrorizing the back country. Two Filipino soldiers and at least six Japanese were killed when the | Philippine First Tarlac regiment en- icountered 30 or more Japanese {skulking in the jungles of Lubang Island, only 70 miles southwest of ;Manila, on Friday, headquarters of the U. S. 86th Division announced. American officers with the Fil- ipinos said that possibly five more Japanese were killed or badly ! i additional rounds ¢f ammunition, indicating . the battle still was in wounded and appealed for 20,000{ wise-cracked with every Senator on |progress .or would be resumed. Capitol Hill, was confirmed as Di- rector of the RFC after very little and Communists troops in 10 divis- ions within 18 months, embracing 'MARRIAGE MIXUP 20 armies of three divisions eachE oF M A I and with the President of the Re- | M public as commander-in-chief. | TAKE“ Io COURI While, Chinese officialdom thus, was taking ‘another 'strike toward! | unity, agitation for withdrawal of | 1 |Soviet troops from Manchuria ap-| MANILA, Feb. 25—The Philip- peared to be mounting steadily. In pine court today issued a summons | Shanghai, demonstrators plastered ito Maj. Arthur Wermuth to answer !the door of the Russian consulate within 90 days the complaint by with posters demanding that Red|Olivia Josephine Oswald that he Army troops quit the sprawling | was already married when in De- !territory. |cember, 1941, he allegedly married CONDITIONS IN BOMBAY NORMAL; | | her. : Miss Oswald made the charge in |filing ‘for an annulment. Wermuth |had denied the marriage. i | Meanwhile, the dark-haired,| beauteous Olivia is net wanting fvr: suitors, what with every arrival of | the Pacific mail bringing stacks| martialed ever subsequently ‘at- tained flag rank. “I know on one case,” spoke up. Then, amid laughter, he explain- ed that as an ensign he was court Nimitz imartialed and received a letter of troyer Decatur ashore in 1808 in the Philippines. ————— DOOLITTLE SAYS PLANES WILL FLY 1 THOUSAND MPH BOSTON, Feb. 25.—Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, asserting planes now building “will fly very shortly” at speeds approaching 1,000 miles per hour, forecast today that “the air weapons of the future” wol he atomic-propelled, stratosphere rockets speeding fast- er than sound —probably with atom bomb warheads. “Pilotless, wingless, gyro-stabiliz- 1t is being unfol fore a two man Royal Commission, An idea of the scope of the investi-' gation wal given by one Royal Can- adian Mounted Police official who estimated that the mass of docu-, mentary evidence already gathered weighs four tons. and the'China Seas. | by fishery representatives. He said he felt certain the in- formation would help the American mdustry: W. A. Esters Cook Inlet (Alaska) Packing Company, operator of a Much of this is gnall cannery, said small packers| said to be sclentific data pertain- gear that if large canneries are ' He said efforts of the Territorial immnun to enact laws to in- | crease trap sites had been defeated by the industry after members of }:he Legislaturs m favor of the bills had been swung over to oppose it by industry representatives. ing to atomic and other wartime discoveries high on the secret list. Two of the 13 persons now de- tained without habeas corpus rights are women. All 13 are suspected of betraying secrets to’ Russia. One of the women detained is under- stood to have been a cipher clerk.’ And at least one of the men s said on good authority to be a high- (ranking government official. Others. \are said to include scientific work- ers and at least one was connected at one time with the wartimeé in- formation board. | Meantime, Canadian and Russian’ relations are strained. The Can-; adian government s said to be i ! long-rahge g1y undecided whether ‘to reply al Committee. formally and publigly to Mpscow’ charge that Canada was conduct-’ ing an anti-Soviet eampaign in its ' Jimited to 20 fish traps, the small c‘”mm Brmnhy, l_tln:la':n :;!;l:s ones will find the number of their u::“:’ “_‘:"": "n-’;: heln ds":‘: it "fi?: ;,e:‘;:: :’,‘,; t::;,y;";'m put | 018 packers had occurred in spite of . 48 out of business’ he asserted laws to the contrary, He said a few 4 4 “We can't seine fish in Cook Inlet.” ,“"“P'“‘" control the majority of Bkow"ill lo °u|l {and non-residents of the Territory AS GOP CHAIRMAN thould have aqual opportunity in getting trap sites. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25—Herbert & natural resource owned ‘bl all the Brownell, Jr., has notified party |people of the country and’ not. just On cross examination by W. C. Arnold of the Alaska Salmon In- leaders that he Intends to resign as|by Alaska. chairman of the Republican Nation- ! Justries, Inc., Brophy. said he be- Imon {isheries leved the sal were e TALKS WITH PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. — Gov. The resignation will be submitted formally at a meeting of the’ com- mittee here April 1. Brownell, political associate of Ernest H. Grvening of Alaska con- | ferred today with President Tru- man. » cross-examination. dlmost ‘no de- bate, and, in the end, without even a roll-call vote. Most remarkabie thing about the George Allen vute was that Senator Alben Barkley, who knows better, cnampidned - Allen’s right to con- tinue holding * jobs ' with private corporations while still serving in this vitally important Government post. {Army and Navy (Bulletin Hits 1Out at Russia WASHINGTON, Feb. unofficial Army .and Navy Bulletin 'said .editorially today that “Russia, despite the very generous Yalta! 25.—The, 'du'.y, a British communique says, land conditions in Bombay are now| STRIFE IS OVER BOMBAL, Feb, 26—Roydl = In-| dian sailors who participated in a! mutiny last week have returned to “practically normal.” Strikes have ended at shore in-, concessions, has been suspicious, de- vious and strangely ungracious.” | stallations, dockyards and all but| of proposals. Yanks from almost every state in the Union have asked her to marry them, Today's mail brought 25 new proposals address- ed in care of the Assocjated Press office alone. e — APT PUPIL . ’Gov, Thomas E. Dewey for more| He told White House reporters he |than 14 years, has decided to glye | ealled “to talk over a few matters” |his whole time to practicing law | prior to his departure within a few I ! ed, rocket-propelied air weapons al- |ready have achieved speeds of around 2,500 miles per hour and |we may ant.cipate that the alr; weapons of the future will also be, handling of the “spy” case. ———————— in New York. ys for Alaska. He did not ela- STOCK QUOTATIONS | prompl He has been working without sal- [Lorate. | | radio-controlled and radar-direct-| NEW YORK, Peb. 25—Closing|ary as national chairman since the! e k led,” the one-time Tokyo raid lead- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine 1944 election when he was elected Smm mm |er said in a speech prepared for itock today is 9%, Alleghany Cor- to run Dewey's presidential c,m.! 1Muuchuuus Institute of Technol- ' voration 6x, American Can 93, An- paign. He is reported to have told| 10gy’s Commencement. luconda 44%, Curtiss-Wright 9%,!Congressional leaders that he either! North Sea, from Seattle, sched- Under the circumstances, the one of the city’s 66 cotton mills are| CHICAGO, Feb. 25.—Hudebrnndo‘ Bulletin said the United States had operating, the communique said, al- 1“ncwd wisely in the perpetuation of though Royal Indian Air Force pel'-lnmn to the United States to study close relationship with Britain.” The‘sormex here still refuse to work. |three years ago, advising him to in the scandalous graft which sent |publication, whi¢h is privately) A police statement. siid the road|learn American ‘ways. | Harry Truman’s old friend, Boss owned and managed, added: |barricades had been rémoved by| Hildebrando was an apt pupil. | Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, to; “Russia is not only hostile to cap- |recruiting residents of the area as| Selected by the United States, jail. italists but to the British Labor,laborers, and that only & few minor|Junior Chamber of Commerce as' Background of this affair is im- government because it creates a incidents had been reported. one of its five delegates to the| portant. The fire insurance com-i'“‘“ feeling that the people are| A British army communique to-|organization’s first international| panies operating in Missouri had being. treated fairly.” night said latest figures on civ-|conference, Hildebrando has a good | O ilian casualties admiti to hos-|chance to show his father how well ) One corporation of which George Allen is vice president is the Home Insurance Company. It so happens that this company figures largely i been forced to impound $9,676,002! & while the question of new rate in- FRED BARTLETT HERE pitals since the begining the dis- he has learned American ways. | | Pred Bartlett of Anchorage is at turbance totaled 228 killed and 1047/ The conference is ‘el e P A A0 (Continued on Page Four) ine Baranof. injured. City. Doolittle, wartime head of Nicosia’s father sent him from Pan-|Eighth Air Forcc in Europe and the Laughlin Steel 44%, Pacific, is now a Vice President of Shell Union Oil Company. ———— PETERSRURG COUPLE Mr. and Mrs, Nels Stenslandof are follows: industrials 187.21, rails age Dewey's or anyone else’s cam- | Petersburg are at the Baranof. ————.— - WEATHER MAN HERE | !Mac A. Emerson of the Anchor- in' Pandma age: Weather Bureau is a guest at n.or, ‘he Gastineau. Kennecott 49, New York Central 28%, Pacific 28'z, United Corpornnun‘ 5%, U. 8. Steel 82'%, Pound $4.03'%. | | Sales today were 2,390,000 shares. | | Dow, !61.03, utilities 38.01. | el | FATHER, SON AT B ARANOF vate finances or accept a salary Nonhem;tmm the committee, which he pre-|from Vancouver tomorrow night. rred not to do. Brownell, 42, will continue active fe! in politics, but only as an indivi-. Jones averages today are|dual. He has said he will not man- ward this afternoon. paign this fall. Brownell is known to feel that among the national party organ- ization right now John W. Bricker the International Harvester 88%:, Jones.;had to resign to replenish his pri-{uled to arrive at 11 o'clock tonight. Princess Norah scheduled to sail Columbia, frem the west, uth early this morning Denali, from Seattle, sailed west- went lso ——————— RUTH BROOKS RETURNS Ruth Brooks, who made the jound trip to Sitka on the last Andrew Wilkan, senior and ju-|[of Ohio stands jn the No. 1 posi-|steamer, then fell a victim to the ter arrival from. Petersburg. ination. registered at the Baranof n1-|twn for the 1948 presidential nom- flu, has recovered and is again at the USO as hostess.