The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 26, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE UBRARY CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD MARZ7 1940 o [ee—_ p—— VOL. XLVI, NO. 10,204 KRUG NAME —— CAMPBELL'S DEATHHOUR ADVANCED Meeks’ Dge—nse Makes Much of Curler Found Near Body Called in U. S. District Court here this forenoon as the fourth Government witness in the trial of George Harrison Meeks for alleged first degree murder of Clarence J. Campbell, Juneau physician William M. Whitehead opened wider the range of possibilities concerning Campbell's death, through elabor- ation on testimony he had pre- viously given at the Coroner’s in- quest. In his testimony at the Campbell inquest, Dr. Whitehead stated: “The body was stiff and it would be my estimate that he had been dead from four to eight hours.” Under direct examination by Asst. U. S. Attorney Robert Boochever | this morning, Dr. Whitehead am- plified his prevjous statement to the effect that he set four to eight hours as the minimum time that Campbell could have been dead be- fore he examined the corpse at the scene where it was found in the Seatter Tract, at about 1:30 o'clock on the afternoon of December 10, 1945. In his testimony today, the Doctor added that he believes death did occur earlier than the minimum JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e — PRICE TEN CENTS D SECRETARY OF INTERIOR PACKERS SET DEADLINE AS - MARCHFIRST Pullen Charges Mayor As Compefifor Seeks AEL&P DOES NOT CHOGSE T0 QuIT MERCHANDISING Read before Following is a partial text and summary of the Affidavit of W. S. fl’ullcn, read last evening to the Juneau Common Council by coun- sel for the Aleska Electric Light and Power Company, in support of that company's motion to dis- yualify Mayor Ernest Parsons from Larticipation as other than a ‘wit- the Juneau Com- hess in the hearing called before mon Council last evening, by Al-|the City Council for the purpose sska Electric Jight and Power|of regulating AEL&P rates, be- Company attorney H. L. Faulkner, | cause of prejudice: was the following letter addressed | Affidavit of W. S. Pullen to Governor of Alaska Ernest| “I, W. S. Pullen, being first duly 'Gruemng by AEL&P Manager W.|sworn, depose and say: That I am S. Pullen. {Manager of the Alaska Electric This letter, was attached, dated Light and Power Company and in May 28, 1941, to Mr. Pullen’s affi- ;:harge of the operation of its busi- aavit in support of the respon- ness, and I have been such Man- dent company’s contention that sger since July 1, 1917. That Ern- Mayor Ernest Parsons is not est Parsons was employed by the qualified to sit on an impar- Company from August 14, 1932, to [tial tribunal to regulate the|July 1939. |company’s rate: and in support of | “That the Alaska Electric Light the company’s motion to disqualify | 5, Power Company, in addition to Mayor Parsons from serving with rurnishing electric power and cur- regulating board. The complete text | chandise consisting of electric ap- jof the letter reads: | pliances, equipment, and accessor- ‘Dear Governor Gruening: |ies and.all merchandise used in “Recently thc Alaska Electric |connection with the consumption |Light & Power Company was ask- and use of electricity and electric |asked before to submit bids on var- | $0ns engaged in the sale of appli- ernment, but our bids have always end thereby became a competitor City War on Light Co., *he members of the Council on the | ient and services, also sells mer- |ed to bid on a vacuum cleaner for |4bpliances. That after leaving the! government account. We have been | employ of the Company, Mr. Par-, jous articles required by the gov- Ances, equipment and merchandise | RATE HEARING OPENING HITS TROPIC PITCH ?Council Vot—efi)own AEL & P. Motion fo Disqual- ity Mayor Parsons § Juneau's City Council opened hearings last night on Alaska Elec- tric Light and Power Company rates, with City Utilities Engineer, | Walter T. Stuart in the role of “complaining witness." But the 'rate testimony itself was an anti-| climax after the fireworks of the; preliminaries. High spot of last evening's pro- {ceedings was a motion by the light company that Mayor Ernest Par- isons be .disqualified from sitting {with the Council and presiding over| the rate hearings. The Council finally voted down the motion, but| not until the Mayor had almost hlown his safety valve. Light company attorney, H. L.; { Faulkner, put the respondent com- | {pany’s motion in these words: | “The Alaska Electric Light & “Powm‘ Company objects to Mayor | |Ernest Parsons being constituted a| {member of the Council sitting as a| iBoard to regulate the rates of the company, and the Alaska Eleectric] 1Light & Power Company moves to; disqualify Mayor Parsons from | iserving with the members of the Council on the board, for the fol-| lowing reasons: FRONTIER CUT "UNIQUE RULING” MADE, CANADIAN ESPIONAGE CASE Those Under Arrest Not Permitted Conference with Outsiders OTTAWA, Feb. 26—H. P. Hflli of Ottawa, attorney retained by| the families of two persons detain- ed in Canada's espionage case, has protested the government's refusal to permit anyone on the “outside” to confer with the 13 persons under detention. In a statement issued, Hill said that o two-man Royal investigating commission had issued a “unique ruling” which banned outside con- taet with those held .until question- ing was completed. Salmon lngu_slry Must Know at Once About 1946 Operations By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Warner Gardner, Acting Undersecretary of Interior, promised today that the |government will decide promptly whether it will restrlet salmon trap- . ping permits in Alaska this year. Gardner’s promise came after Al- |aska salmon packers yesterday told P. P. Varcoe, Deputy Minister Oi‘hlm thelr fishing boats are ready to | tle. B (e 1o nembmon that:no Wil 0 1o e RS RN WAl {have to know by March I whether years had attempted to invoke ha-| .o will be allowed to operate as in beas corpus proceedings. tr t or will h d Hill's statement said that “No S0 WA O XN b tu’ (it iy |abandon operations. counsel would be willing to take| sargner had asked that counsel such a serious step” as opening ha- |, . i 2 |for the industry submit briefs by ben.:, corpus proceedings WwIthoutya¢ gate. The counsel replied that first consulting with his client. 1would be impossible and declared PR they wanted a decision on this sea- !son’s plans by March 1, FRAN(O SPAIN | The Interior Department has pro- | posed that traps be restricted to not | | more than 20 for any one person or | firm in the next five years. After; that they would be reduced *o ten. Protest 1946 Keduction i Hearings have been held for four ! { misfortune. Alaska Bridal Couple Gels Ducking ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 26. A car bringing Dorothy Hoaldt, 25, and Nathan Smith, 26, to Anchor- age for their wedding ' ceremony crashed through a bridge railing into an icy stream and sent the‘ couple to a hospital yesterday. Jos- eph Miszen, 27, also was hospital- ized. There were fcur others in ‘the party coming here from Palmer. For Miszen it was the day's second His house had burned | a few hours earlier. ‘' - eee GOP FIGHT LOOMS ON (HAIRMAN WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—A fight between old line and other elements of the Republican Party appears/ developing today over a successor to Herbert Brownell, Jr, as GOP national chairman. 1 Brownell's call for a committee meeting here April 1 to act on his| resignation prompted immediate uggestions from Republican legis- lators that a full-time, well-paid! | FORMER WPB CHIEF TAKES ICKES" PLACE Président gys Appoint- ment Personal One- Able Administrator WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.--Presi- dent Truman today announced the appointment of Julius A. Krug, former War Production Board Chairman, as Secretary of Interfor He told his news conference tly appointment was a personal ane which he did not disclose to'men- bers of the White House inner cirel: until this morning. The 38)year-old Krug, formo: Power Manager for the Tennessco Valley Authority, succeeds Harold L. Ickes. . Krug is now in New York as a business consultant. Mr. Truman said he had consid ered a large number of names, in- cluding that of Senator O'Mahoney (D.-Wyo.) before making his selec- tion. In O'Mahoney's case, *he sald, he | decided his usefulness in the Senate | should not be disturbed. He added that Senate Majority Leader Bark- ley (D.-Ky.) was happy that he was leaving O'Mahoney in the Senate. successor be chosen. A division of opinion developed party chairman should come from Able Administrator Krug, the President sald, is a deal of experience in administrative |days and ended last night. |immediately over whether the new | very able administrator with & great 1 Deelglate Bartlett and Gov. Gruen- ; ing of Alaska, and Ira N.. Gabriel- | the west, where Republicans show- | jopne Krug last served in the gov- time he had set forth. In reply|been too high and the business has of the Compatiy. That he has many Asks Fair Hearing | o MY son, Director of the Fish and Wild- ed most of their strength in the|.rnment as Chairman of the War to Boochever's question, he stated | as_ “possible” that Campbell could | have died 18 to24hours earler.- Cause of Death ! After describing the several | wounds found on the body, Dr. Whitehead declared his Belief that a deep neck slash which severed| the trachea and the left carotid! artery was the primary cause of | death. Admitting that Campbell | could have been killed where found, | despite the comparatively little ! blood on the scene, the medical examiner discounted suggestion that | gome elsewhere. We are not com- |times complained of the company’s plaining of that. The bid on the Prices as being too low, and he has vacuum cleaner was apparently the O many occasions - threatened . to iow bid, but delivery was required force the lighi cSMpany to discon- within one day, and we were not | !inue the sale of merchandise and n a position to make the delivery }(‘lecmc appliancer and to put the that soon so that a higher bid was |“ompany out of business. accepted. This s entirely satisfac-| tory to us. “However, Parsons Electric | the unsuccessful bidder on a va- Tompany, which was the success- | cuum cleaner for the Governor's ful bidder on tre vacuum cleaner, | house at Juneau that he would put has informed us that if other bids|:he Company out of the merchan- on other equipment should be mu_:‘zusmg business. On that occasion ed for in the future and our bid|the company wrote a letter to Gov- “That in May 1841 he told af-' “(1) Under the law and all rules of ethics and fair-dealing, the Alas- ka Electric Light & Power Com- sons, by his course of conduct lead- | fant, after the company had been'!ing up to the hearing, has shown taken after a {that he is neither fair nor impar- itial and not in any manner quali- fied to take part in these proceed- ings. “(2)) That the law authorizing| the common council to regulate |life Service, had expressed the be- 1944 election, for from the east, i Production Board, having returned PARIS, Feb. 26.—The French gov-|jie¢ that it would be impracticable Where many members' think most of {to reduce the fishing traps to 20 their hardest work must be done Franco Spain closed, effective’ . . 'this year. ipany, the public utility whose rates at midnight, March 1, declaring the For3en SRR SHRER RHEY LT i{this proceeding is instituted to regu- :late, is entitled to a fair hearing 1by impartial judges, and Mr. Par- fxment today ordered the frontier Wi present situation in Spain consti-' tutes a “danger for international, security.” urged in a letter that no action be lanan of West The French cabinet’s action was of the situation by Foreign Min- ister George Bidault. = The tension between the two countries has been growing for a week. Last Friday, the consultative as- sembly voted to protest Franco's the several cuts on Campbell’s body !,s lower than that of others, we will | ‘Thor Gruening, dated May 2, 1941, |rates gives that authority to the execution of ten Spanish Republi- could have been self-inflicted. He noted that the body was stiff | pyginess, | when first he saw it and that the temperature was then approximately 40 degrees F. Cross-examination by Chief Defense Counsel William L. Paul, Jr; brought out that no post- mortem ‘examination was made for internal evidences of abnormal con- ditions. ,+ Regarding Wounds Other main points elicited by cross-examination ‘were: (Continued on Page Two) - The Washingtoh Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Not many pecple know it, but Supreme Court Justice Felix Prankfurter for some- time has been working behind the scenes to restore the House of Hapsburg in Austria: Indirectly, that may have some- thing to do with the recent Aus- trian edict barring the two broth- ers of Crown Prince Otto from the country. Although the Russians are blamed for inspiring this, actually the Soviet has supported King Mi- chael in .Rumania, Crown Prince Humbert in Italy, and has even tried to bring King Carol of Ru- mania back from ,Mexico. So it would appear that éhe Soviets and Justice Felix Frankfurter for once find themselves on the same side. During most of the war, Crown Prince Otto and his brothers lived in the United States, conducted themselves as model citizens, made many friends. Among those friends was the late Presideat of the Unit- States himself, who invited the Hapsburgs to the White House, and at one time “ordered” the U. S. Army to establish an Austrian Legion with Oito as its leader. Desite his position as Command- er-in-Chief, Roosevelt did not give many “orders” to the Army. However, he did break his gen- eral rule in the case of the Haps- burgs and ordered both the State Department and the War Depart- ment to cooperate in the establish- ment of an Austrian Legion which was to help re-take Aulgq{n. The Legion was doomed from the start, due to terrific political op- position, from the Croats, Slo- —_— e (Continued on Page Four) Le put out of the merchandising | cOPy of which is hereto annexed. “That in 1942 he was a candid- | “We repeat that we have no complaint against your office nor|and was electerd, and he endeavor- | Parsons was elected. The law pro- cialist party in Spain. any agency of ine government call- {ing for bias, but we do not care to discontinue our merchandising bus- iness and we do not believe our | customers would like to have us quit selling electric appliances and | supplies, etc, so in order to pro- tect ourselves from the threat |'vhich has becn made, we request {that in’the fliure when bids are required, that ro applications be sent the Alaska Electric Light & ‘r'ower Company as we do not de- sire to submit any more bids which will cause fricticn with any of our | competitors, and while we do not (see just how or why we should be ’ron:ed to discontinue our mer- |chandising business, we ‘'do not |want to make any issue of this matter and wouid much rather dis- ate for City Coancilman of Juneau; led, during his term of office, to ‘nduce the Council to declare war against the Alaska Electric Light | |& Power Company, and after be- | {ing unsuccessful, he resigned from | the Council before his term expired. | ‘Tnat he was zlected Mayor for the |present year on a platform which |included the purchase of certain | | public utilities in the City, includ- | |ing that of the Alaska Electric Light & Power Company, but af- fient verily believes that was not, {his intention, but his real inten- ition was to annoy, harass and in- fure the Compeny and for personal |reasons force the company out of |tbe merchandise business. l | Mayor’s Counsel “Affiant’s belief that this was nis intention und that it was not City Council, and no such authority is given to the Mayor when he is elected by a direct vote, as Mayor vides that the hearing be held by, the City Council and not by the Mayor and Council. | “The motion :,o disqualify Mr. Parsons as not qualified to take part in these proceedings even if | the law authorized him to do so, js| based on the public records of the City of Juneau, on the statement of Mr. Parsons read before the Council on February dst, 1946, which was published in the Daily Alaska Empire the following day; and on the affivadit of W. S. Pullen here-' to annexed; and the objections ana the Motion aré presented in ac- cordance with the principles of law enunciated jin . . . . . .. decisions of the Supreme Court of the United Further Citations | In support of the company’s ob- cans. Last night, Madrid dispatches disclosed, 37 persons were convicted would cause confusion and reduce the output of salmon. ! ‘The Agricultural Department taken to put the Interior Depart- lengthy explanation ,.\¢' pian into effect this year for Reeces of Tennessee and former [fear it would reduce the already Chairman Harrison short supply of ssimon for food. It | poinfed out that 1046 was a critical period in food preduction and said the Alaska supply was estimated to amount to 5,550,000 cases this year. | It added that with commitments to foreign governments the supply ‘from service as a naval officer to :m M«m» Promprey O T e He will take over. his job as a cabinet member on March 15, Iekes Quit . Ickes quit after Mr. Truman said the Secretary could have been mis- taken in testimony concerning Ed- win W. Pauley, the President’s ‘nominee for Undersecretary of Navy. Ickes told the Senate Naval Com- The list of potential candiates is ' long. Such wheel horses of the. regular organization as Walter Hal- | Virginia, Werner Schroeder of Illinois, Rep. Carroll Spangler of Towa are being suggested by the so- cnn:d conservative elements of the' ... that Pauley had suggested PATER |$300,000 in Democratic ecampaign From others less bound by GOP!g,nqc could’ be obtained from of! tratitions, such as Senator Morse ..o it the government did not press of Oregon, same the proposal that s Ralph Cake of Oregon be chosen :deslua‘:;dtgnifiu;l:: PR, o available to the United States would | ,be 30 per cent less than last year.| Put Up ta Congress Philip McBride, Seattle, Chair- for trying to reorganize the So- AlEUTIAN COMING iman of the Board of the Pacific, | ON ALASKA ROUTE SEATTLE, Feb. 26.—After more than two months on the San Fran- cisco-Hawaii run, the Aleutian will | return to Seattle Saturday and to her old Alaska trade. i The Aleutian is scheduled to snil‘; March 9 for Southeast and South- | west Alaska. She will rejoin her | Alaska Steamship Company fleet mates—the Baranof, Alaska, Denali, | and Columbia—in carrying current | heavy passgnger traffic to and frcm; Alaska. The Columbia, which also so- (6OV. GRUENING PLANS American Fisheries, testified that if the department’s plans are put into ; effect his company will have to | close some of its canneries. McBride said he believes the whole question of salmon fishing in Alaska will have to be solved by Cengress which would have to en- act legislation to govern it. | Don Foster, Superintendent of the | Native Service in Alaska, L. G. Peters, of Juneau, glso with the; Native Service, and Powell Charles, a native cannery operator at an Alaskan village, testified in favor of the proposed regulations. fo o 3 continue furnishing competitive {his bona fide intention at any time bids.” to have the city purchase the pro- MacARTHUR PRESENTED AIR MEDAL TOKYO, Feb. 26.—General Mac- Arthur was presented with an Air Medal at an informal, surprise ceremony in his office last night. . A Public Relations Office an- nouncement said the award read| “For extraordinary’ achievement | while participating in aerial flights on September 5, 1943, when the General led American paratroopérs in an attack on Nadzab,” New | perty of the light company is im- |pelled by the course which the| Mayor has taken, which is briefly | stated as follows:” 1. “In the spring of 1945 he asked the Company to submit a price at which they would sell their prop- erty and business and he was very | impatient for an immediate answer although he kuew full well at that time that no one person had auth- Crity to sell the business of the company, which is a corporation with seventeen stockholders, no one ef which and no family group of which controls the stock in the company. These stockholders were widely separated and ascattered and as far apart as Maine, Alaska, | Seattle, San Francisco and the South Pacific. . . . 2. “The president of the com- pany wrote each stockholder and | cxplained the request of Mayor jection to the right of Mayor Par- sons to take part in the proceed- ings ‘“except as a witness,” Mr. Faulkner cited that: “In Juneau the mayor is elected by direct vote and he is not a member of the Council. “Sections 2402 and 2403 of the Compiled Laws of Alaska, 1933 set up the procedure to regulate rates of public utilities (Read these two sections) : ' “Section 2402 provides that the ‘city council’ shall order a hear- ing, etc, and not the ‘mayor and council’. “Section 2403 provides that not fewer than ‘four councilmen’ shall be present at the hearing; not the mayor and four councilmen, nor the mayor and three councilmen, jcurned briefly in the San Fran- cisco-Hawaii passenger service, has | 10 LEAVE FOR HERE by the committee. Cake was one of Wendell L. Willkie's 1940 cam- paign managers, -ee MORE DETAILS ON! YUKON WRECK TOLD' AT C. 6. HEARING| SEATTLE, Ffeb. 26. — A Coast Guard Board continued in closed | session today hearing witnesses in | connection with the breaking up o!l the steamship Yukon in an Alaska ‘eloym southeast of Seward recently.’ New interest was lent by the arri-| val of the Army Transport, Brig.| Gen. M. G. Salinski, which spent . nearly two days assisting in the | 1escue of 485 passengers and crew ( by running a breeches buoy line from the Yukun to ahe narrow | neach on Capc Fairfield. Eleven The President had-io right said in a letter of resignation, challenge his veracity. Krug Is Democrat Krug, who was born in Madison Wis.,, November 23 ,1907, was gvad- uated frorh the University of Wis- consin in 1989, Associates sald he was a Democrat. Earlier in the day Delegate. Bart- lett of Alaska suggested to Presi~ dent Truman that Oscar L. Chap- man be named to succecd Harold L Ickes as Secretary of the Interior Chapman has been scrving tem- porarily as Secretary since Ickes) récent resignation, The Delegate said Chapman's appointment would creale “an at- mosphere that would be helpful to Alaska deveolpment.” BULLET!INS WASHINGTON—President Tru- Iekes to made one trip north since her| | return to Seattle. ; ‘Mass Recepfion ~ Ends Ceremonies . In Vafian City| VATICAN CITY,- Feb. 26.—Pope Pius XII, at a mass reception to diplomats and members of the Col-| lege of Cardinals, voiced his hope| last night that the war-weary world might enjoy a “just peace—a peace able to guarantee and solid |« BY PLANE TOMORRO' Gov. Ernest Gruening, on official business in Washington, D. C., for the past three months, will begin his plane trip to Alaska tomorrow, according to advices received here. ‘Whether Gov. Gruening will stop off for a brief visit in Seattle is not. known. If he makes atrahzhtll connections from the national cnpl-| tal to Juneau, he will probably ar- rive in this city Saturday. R i STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb, 26.—Closing | Iwae listed as inissing. ‘four councilmen’, but t5 all at least a tolerable life.” ~ Not Ordinary Meeting “The proceeding is not an ordin- ary council meeting. It is some- what different. It is a judicial pro- ‘The Pontiff's address, delivered in the stately Consistory Hall, virtu- ally brought to an end the formal ceremonies attendant upon the crea- tion of 32 new Cardinals. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can‘ 93%, Anaconda 44%, Curtiss-Wright 9%, International Harvester 87%, Jones, Laughlin Steel 44%, Kenne- | cott 50%, New York Central 28%, |man today congratulated Soviet Ic‘hl"'- Alex J. Zugell;:‘;/ex;‘ master | pussia on her aecision to unify her «f the transpert, pra the many | members of his crew who rtlkcd!‘"mm Lonees. their lives, and gave special com- | e " mendation to Lawrence J. Pinzok, m:x‘sn::l:fnt?d" Nir;sl:zntm 1;‘ : 22, winch driver of Moundsville, pointing Charles R. Denny, Ji. as W. Va., and Herbert Pomeroy, 20.;Ac“n. Chalrman of the Federal Sandy Ore., seaman for running a | communications Comw.dssion. Der- four-inch hawser ashore. 'They Were ny gucceeds Paul A. "orter, recciil- tossed into the stormy sea, and it/ )y nominated to b: Administrator was 16 minutes before Pinzok was|gr opa, : rescued—“so numb with cold he, T felt, warm.” | WASHINGTON— President Tru- Zugehower credited an unnamed ,.on caid today the Army and Navy Army landing barge with effecting|yaq discharged a total of 7,600,000 the rescue of 119 Yukon SUrvivors p.en and women since the close of from the beach after they had been (jo war, passed ashore by breeches buoy, ! its line dipping into the iey surf.! WASHINGTON— President Tru- * STEAMER MOVEMENTS man said today he still is backing Edwin W. Pauley for Under Sec~ vetary of the Navy. He told his news conference, in reply to a Parsons. Just as soon as the re- turns from the stockholders were all received, the Mayor and Coun- cil were informed that the stock- Guinea. That was the first American para- troop attack of the Pacific fighting. combat zone in enemy-infested air if an adequate pric lanes until all paratroops had land- Sogp s dhonleinie) oot ed and witnessed action of our trops in the initial contact with the enemy,” the citation added. — e METCALF KIN HERE Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hagerup, daughter and son-in-law of Frank Metcalf, are staying at Hotel Gas- tneau. They arrived from Peters- finite price couid be fixed until the company had an appraisal made. Company'’s Offer 3. “The offer of the company | was submitted tg the council on ¥cbruary 1, 194f, and before the MacArthur “remained over the { nolders would 511 the property and | be agreed upon. The Mayor was; mformed at that time that no de- | ceeding before the council alone and not the mayor and councilmen. An entirely different proceeding is prescribed for an ordinary council meeting, for in the same statute, section 2391, Compiled Laws of Alaska, 1933, it is provided that for a council meeting ‘four council- imen and the mayor’ or five coun- cilmen’ are necessary for a quorum | “This question has been defin- itely settled by the courts. [ “In the case of JACOBS vs. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF |THE CITY AND COUNTY OF burg on the North Sea, (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on Page Eight) Northern Pacific 28%, United Cor- ———— | poration 5%, V. 8. Steel 81%, CYCLONIC STORM #ound'sec0 Bales today were 2,650,000 shares. ¢ HIIS MElBouRNE Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 186.20, rails MELBOURNE, Feb, 26.—A cy- |b0.53, utllities 37.97. clonic storm with winds reaching a LN .. R NG velocity of 100 miles per hour swept | FROM ANCHORAGE ! this city during the night, cnusluqi Edwin W. Sciler of Anchorage is heavy property damage and dis- at the Baranof. rupting communications with the - rest of the country. H. R. HILLERY HERE | Air travel was halted and railway | H. R. Hillery ‘of Skagway is at traffic was impaired by floods which | Hotel Gastineau, returning here af-1 inundated lines in many places. 'ter several months at Tenakee. Princess Noruh scheduled to sail lrom Vancouver tonight. ‘Taku scheduled to sail from Se- attle March 1. Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle March 2. =l Columbia scheculed to sail from | Seattle March 6. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle March 9. Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- attle March 16. North Sea, from Sitka, scheduled southbound Thursday night. Denali from westward, scheduled southbound Monday. question, that his position is un- changed. WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Byrnes said today that so far a$ he knew there never was a Big Three agreement for Russia to withdraw Japanese industrial equip- ment from Manchuria. COLUMBIA, Tenn.— A house-to- house search for firearms in some Negro and White residential sec- tons of Columbia was ordered this afternoon after disorders last nizht in which ten persons were wounded and approximately 70, mostly Ne- groes, were arrested. e