The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1946, Page 1

o e o g -_m.... HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ey PRICE TEN CENTS = » in | Ten CIO electrical union strike; As Meeks and Gilligan were g0- men clashed with 800 pickets. Yes- ! hopes of averting a| Organizations (alled io Meet, Teen-Age Issue Representatives from all organi- zations in Juneau are requested to attend a meeting Friday night (to- morrow) at 8 o'clock at the USO. ! Many organizations have been con- I tacted but those who have not been | {called are asked to send represen- | tatives to the meeting. ‘The meeting is called for the! purpose of ascertaining if it will | ibe feasible to take over the USO|Republican, this afternoon filed headqRarters for teen-age activities, | formal protest with Acting Gov- The USO, which has been func-!€rmor Lew Williams and members tioning admirably in Juneau for!Of the Territorial Canvassing Board over three years, will officially close |88#inst the seating of Steve Mc- its doors March 15. Cuteheon of Anchorage in the Sen- IGll.l PROTESTS SENATE SEAT OF 5. McCUTCHEON Notice Filed with Territor- ial Canvassing Board Here Today Rep. Oscar 8. Gill, Anchorage | the the The Rotary club is taking ,_helau when the Legislature convenes initiative in calling for the meet-{on Monday. ing tomorrow night and all other| @il arrived here by Pacific organizations are asked to parti-|NOEthern Airlines today. He filed cipate. the protest as a qualified elector - eoe — and resident of the Third Division. 7 The basis for his protest is “that AREAS OF ALASKA'S |5t Sicovinem "t et % {his_election, held this year, was a resident and inhabitant of the '(oASI I,INE Io BEqFo\Irth Division and could qualify as a Senator from OPENED FOR HOMES Third Division “according to Territory’s election laws. - McCutcheon received the highest { WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. — The , number of votes at a recent spec- "Imenor Department moved today ial election in the Third Division to to make more of Alaska's 34,300- fill a Senate seat vacated by the imile coast line available for settle- death of his father, H. H. Mc- {ment under homestead and other Cutcheon. But the Republicans con- { public land laws. tend he is not eligible for the post Acting Secretary Oscar L. Chap-,because he voted as a resident of {man approved a program for wider\flw Fourth Division in 1944 and the | utilization of tracts along the|Territorial law provides that to be i coastline and navigable streams | eligible to represent the Third Di- | heretofore withheld from settle- (vision in the Senate he should have ment. been a resident of the Third Divi- | In the future, Chapman said, sion for two years preceding his ionly areas along the Territorial election. shores which are “suitable, used,! An order restraining the Can- |or needed” for public harbor pur- vassing Board from seating Mec- {poses would be withheld from ac- Cutcheon will be filed by Gill in quisition’ by the public. { Diejrict Court here, Gill said: | Chapman instructed Commission= | —————— ? ier Fred W. Johnson of the General | Land Office to determine whlchnu S (o"(lllAIoRs ishore lands in Alaska might be re-, ©* = (moved from existing restrictions. STEP I“Io pA(IFI( i “These investigations are expect-, led to be followed by specific ad-| | ministrative action or recommen-.SHIpp'"G pRoBlEMS !datmu for Federal legislation set- | ting aside specifically designed, SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28.—Prob- | narbor areas and thus lifth | strictions now placed upon the use!kink in West Coast shipping g iof shore-space lands,” Chapman Federal attention today at San |said, {Francisco. Representatives of | Chapman added that he hoped waterfront employers and CfO i this action would result in a speedy | workers were called to the confer- land amicable solution of a public |ence by U. S. conciliators. not | ng re-|lems which already have put a' ot Utility Purchase Plans l | Plans by Mayor Ernest Parsons “nnd the City Council to purchase |the properties of the Alaska Electric |Light and Power Company appar- “=rtly have been abandoned. | A letter from Mayor Parsons which was received by the light !company last Saturday informed the company that the council “has |decided to defer any action pertain- ‘lng to the purchase of the property {of the Alaska Electric Light and |Power Company.” | Upon the heels of the receipt of |this letter the light company stock- {holders met here this morning and Ivoted to withdraw their offer to| sell the company to the city. A /letter has been sent to Mayor Par- sons informing him of this action. These new developments followed receipt by the city last week of |the long-awaited report from Black and Veatch, engineering firm re- Itained by the city, along with util- lities expert Walter T. Stuart, to place a value on the light company property as well as other utilities. |While no official announcement of these figures has been made, a re- liable source said that the engineers placed a replacement value of $1,087,000 on the light company property. The light company had previously offered to sell for $1,500,- 000, and the difference bétween the two figures is largely concerned with the value of the companyls |water rights, plus the light com- |pany’s bargaining margin. | The Black and Veatch report placed a much higher value on the Juneau Water Company property i{than the company bad agreed to sell to the city for. Black and | Veateh placed” a reproduction value i e, 1 LEGISLATIVE - MATTERS TAKEN UP BY CHAMBER Miss Sylvia Davis, local violinist on vacation from her music studies in New York City, and her mother, Mrs. Trevor Davis, were guests of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, ter Co. s Prce | on the water system of $327,000 and a depreciated value of $227,000. The water company's figure was 1$114,000 less than the Black and Veatch reproduction value and the engineering firm’s depreciated value was $14,000 more than the $313,000 asked by the water company. | Following it the letter sent to Mayor Parsons by the light com- pany today. It incorporates the letter which Mayor Parsons sent [to the company last Saturday: “The Mayor and City Couneil, Juneau, Alaska. | “Dear Sirs: “The stockholders of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. held an adjourned meeting today in Ju- neau. We had previously inform- ed the Council that the meceting originally held on January 14 was being adjourned from time to time for short periods in order to facili- tate negotiations with the City in the matter of the sale of the com- pany’s property to the City of Ju- neau. “On February 23rd you address- ed a letter to the company which reads as follows: “CITY OF JUNEAU Office of Mayor Juneau, Alaska February 23, 1946 “Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. Juneau, Alaska. “Attention: Mr. H. L. Faulkner “Gentlemen: “This is to clarify any misun- derstanding you may have regard- ing the rate hearing set for the evening of February 25th 1946, “The Common ‘Council, meeting as a committee, has decided to de- fer any action pertaining to the purchase of the property of the |Alaska Electric Light and Power Company. “The hearing will be held as or- dered. Yours very truly, (s) ‘Ernest Parsons , Ernest Parsons, Mayor.” “This lefter was consiGerec a. the stockholders® meeting today and since the City Council has decid- ed to defer any further action re- lative to the purchase of the prop- erty of the company, without | { | rived a short time later, in answer Vincent’s room. Vincent, Meeks policy committee |lnnd administrative problem dat- iing back to 1898, At that time, i fearful that private interests might | Ibottle up all available shore space, | | Congress directed that there should be a quarter-mile space between each claim to public land along! the shorelines in the Territory. As a result, Chapman said, the| |total area thus reserved far ex- |ceeds that which is being claimed Several disputes threaten a com- plete tieup of coastwise shipping. But the light of discussion will be played on such lmm‘edlate prob- lems as a dispute over how many lcargo checkers should be hired and the eight million dollars in retro- actfve pay sought by the Union un- der a War Labor Board order. In addition, a recent longshore vote authorized a strike on or be- stating whether or not any further ifore April first in support of a 135 cent hourly wage boost. M STEAMER MOVEMENTS : \NCHORAGE REPS. ARRIVE INCOGNITO jand developed. 1 Princess Norah, from Vancouver, scheduled to arrive tomorrow after- l at the regular luncheon-meeting in the Baranof this noon. At the business session preceding the special program of violin and piano music, the Chamber voted to go on record approving passage of a bill providing for a clearly-out- lined legal procedure for obtaining hearings before administrative of- ficies. The bill, introduced by Sen. McCarran, prescribes a definite ad- | ministrative procedure .in taking ! matters before administrative bod- (es. Its immediate passage was ad- | vocated. . | It was announced that the Cham- |ber will continue to give its sup- by Paul as to whether he had heard Patrolman Dore tell Meeks and Vincent that their “fine” would be i$50 each and that they “might just las well pay it now.” ‘The two' ;policemen left the Keystone Rooms as 10:05 o'clock Sunday evening. Gilligan definitely denied a query; “.p,"yne corporation, its plants|noon or evening. tightly closed throughout the na- tion has lost approximately $500,- 000,000 in unfilled orders; to the long idle 175000 GM production workers the cost in lost wages was ‘estimated at from $118,000,000 to | Seattle Saturday. Tongass, from Seattle, due Satur- day. Taku scheduled to sail from Se- attle tomorrow. Baranof scheduled to sail from l Reps. Bud Warren and Stanley ‘port to the Health program, and McCutcheon of Anchorage, incog- will aid the local health agencies nito under a pair of husky beav- in every pway possible. The Health ers, arrived today for next week’s’Center is seeking new quarters and legislative session. | Chamber representatives will report Whiskers are compulsory during on progress of this quest al regu- the northern city’s annual Fur lar intervals until a suitable loca- Rendezvous, Warren explained. A | tion for the center is found. action might be taken or when, the stockholders unanimously de- cided to withdraw the offer to sell its property to the City which It made and communicated to you on \January 28, 1046. ! “The stockholders of the com# pany indicated last May their will- ingness to sell the property of the company, provided a fair and rea- sonable price could be obtained. Then in order to fix a price to be submitted to the city it was nec- essary to have the company's ap- raisal brought up to date by an expert appraiser. This was done, and the City also had expert ap- praisers make an appraisal of the company's property. “The company submitted its of- fer to sell in good faith, as soon as its appraisal had been com- pleted, and we have never been notified that the City Council has given it any consideration, no coun- BINET MEMBERS TO STUDY ALASKA TRUMAN SETS Bogged Down;Appraisal PROGRAM FOR Tops Water ALASKA AID Secrefaries Krug, Wallace, i Anderson to Work for Development WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 — I there's any pioneering spirit left in the coming generation, then Alas- ‘ka may be recommended as a land of opportunity. President Truman recognized this | today , when he set up a special |committee of cabinet members to work out a program for the exten- sive development of Alaska. The plans are in the hands of Secretary of the Interior Krug, Secretary of Commerce Wallace, and Secretary of Agriculture An- derson. Pushing the project is Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska, who has called twice recently on the President. Gruening’s view is that highways and other facilities, in- cluding agricultural development, should be built to attract war vet- erans from the United States into the Territory, With the development of modern air transport, which has put Alaska on the route of the flights over the top of the world, there is no ques- tion that the north country will in time become an extrgmely import- ant area, A great many servicemen in the Alaskan theatre already have | explored the possibilities of the Territory, both agricultural and business. PSR ALN ETt Y SEATTLE—The Veterans’ Admin- istration said that in Alaska only |three business loans have been made to veterans, aggregating $6,- 033 with a government guaranice lef $3,030. i | WASHINGTON — Secretary.. of State Byrnes will make a nation- wide radio address tonight (10 p.m EST. on the subject of the prob- lems confronting the UNO. WASHINGTON=The U. 5 Sen ate is reported lining up strongly behind Senator Vandenberz and his ideas of a fitm U. 5. attitude to be adopted against Russia ; SEATTLE—Developments in Se- attle’'s current walcrfront dispute are nil. Negotiations appesr stale- . mated as two commercial piers— East Waterway Dock and Stacy- | Lander Terminal—remain tied up. SEATTLE — The President of Beeing Alrcraft says 1,200 new em- | ployees will be needed to [ill con- tracts, one of which fs an order for four stratocruisers by Swedish International Alrlines. WASHINGTON—A new pension bill has enlisted the support of Veterans Administrator Omar Brad- ley, The measure would benefit 115,000 disabled veterans of both World Wars by increasing their dis- $128,000,000; the merchandising di-| Columbia scheduled to sail from Judge J. W. Kehoe today ruled out all questions by Paul as to whether the Juneau City Council had questioned the reward incident, but Paul did secure a reply that it was on December 17, shortly {following the incident, that Gilli- gan resigned from the Juneau | Police Department, to open the Iway to the shake-up that finally brought in an almost entire new police force. Money For Aid Gilligan, while still under direct examination by U. S. Attorney Pat- rick Gilmore, Jr. stated that he | considered the $100 Meeks gave him not entering vision of the automobile industry had lost more than $100,000,000 in isales commissions and other mil- lions were lost by companies and workers dependent upon General Motors for parts. One such concern is the Pack- ard Motor Co. whose 8,000~ pro- | duction employees have been idle more than a month because of a shortage of parts supplied by GM | subsidiaries. ! Against this costly background |the corporation and the CIO Unit- ied Automobile Workers' Union ischeduled another meeting today | {with special labor mediator James Seattle March 6. North Sea scheduled to sail from Seattle March 8. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle March 9. Margaret Schafer scheduled to sail from Seattle March 13 or 14.! Alaska scheduled to sail from ! Seattle March 16. 1 North Sea, from Sitka, scheduled | scuthbound about 4 a.m. tomorrow. | Denali, from Westward, scheduled | (southbound Monday. | e e PRI R S R L WEATHER REPORT o! junior Gestapo operating with a kangeroo court already has detect- ed one false beard and the wearer has been sentenced to send his wife orchids for one -week, he re- ported. McCutcheon said beards would not be grown on a permanent basis in Anchorage due to female inter- vention. The representatives will shave before Monday’s opening ses- sion lest they be mistaken for |Henry W. Longfellow and John C. Whittier, he added. - SEN. WALKER HERE Senator N. R. Walker of Ketchi- kan, arriving here for next week’s' | ability pensions. The average in- A special amendment to the go. gefer has been made, and we as- Farm Security bill allowing acqui- Ismon and ' improvements of farm ;\;::e"!;obmng::rwl’el:beb: ‘:“:‘:?r;. ?; lands was discussed briefly and ad- geemeq o the stockholders that the vocated by the Ohamber. The ,niy course open to them at this amendment would allow Federal yime would ke to withdraw the offer funds to be used in taking over ¢, ge) Your letter of February homestead land in Alaska, Improv- s3rq4 impels this action, and leaves ing, and developing it. jus free to deal with other pros- Clifford Berg, a construction pective purchasers. worker, was Introduced as a new, .we therefore consider the nego- | member. Guests besides Miss Davis giations for the purchase of the 'and her mother, were: Earl Means, company’s property, such as they | Cordova; Col. H. W. Clark, Alaska were, to be concluded. | Development Board; Senator Leo Yours very truly, W. Rogge, Marshall Crutchers, Alaska Light & Power Co. Ketchikan; and Charles T. Smith, By W. S. Pullen, Manager” new legislative counsel in Juneau.X AR Oy a2 P icrease would amount to approxi- | mately $17.25 a month. BUDAPEST—Bela Imredy, form- er Hungarian Premier and Finance Minister died before a four-man firing squad today. He was con- victed last November of war crimes and anti-Jewish acts. | . TOKYO—Labor by women and children in Japanese coal mines will come under a ban in the Gov- ernment's new labor policy. ! CHICAGO—Three thousand per- |sons were killed in traffic acci- not a payment for complaints against those concern in the Keystone Rooms fracas, but that it was for helping to find Meeks’ money. ed F. Dewey, seeking a back-to-work _— & MEEKS’ IR'AL allegedly taking eight silver dol- VIOI_EN(E FI.ARES later got back from Vincent. This Returning to the evening’s hap- cent and Meeks first went into Rroa — room from where Gilligan returned | & Explanati on Made Re- (5. mume et o xoos | Now Threatened Gilligan, in his testimony today,| Three thousand inarci broke Details of the circumstances, first stated to him that $800 had|lent current labor dispute in the led to the blow-up of the Juneau was found in Meeks’ own room.|duty sent an emergency radio call today in the testimony of former to the Keystone Rooms at 9:40|Philadelphia. The marchers, defy- Harrison Meeks for alleged first de- |terjected that, while he and Dore | motorcycle policemen. Contributing to the story was|“I should have cut his damn throat ! for-all ensued, Earlier in the day lady of the Keystone Rooms, heard Vincent that the latter could keep yp all groups of more than two pled condition made necessary a.ed that he had worked, hard for|jeaders already faced contempt courtroom, related - occurrences at the gloomy Monday on which |been in the pocket of a white shirt.| yan 15, trict here. {examined the shirt, not finding the gog telephone workers received a establishment the landlady related,'not pay much attention to the new york between the American “Peanuts,” another roomer whose Jr., was unable to state how many | yorkers ended with no settlement Vineent of having stolen his-money, |amination of Meeks' room, Gilligan |~ .we are finished, Our answer she testified, Meeks did not want'zines and newspapers in a dr&“e‘“them were indications of & pos- had. He then disclosed that the!cent of taking. In Washington, soft coal opera- Meeks then went to Vincent’s;as Meeks had described, the wal-‘wm higher- pay for some 400,000 “Peanuts.”” The two then went in-|Gilligan also noticed $5' and $10 that Lewis wants: o redpen his by Patrolman Solon Dore, whom !identification, and noticed none. *ms actual pay and other demands asked meet in Washington on March 11. When the police arrived, Vin- if they wished to swear out a com- room, “Peanuts” denying Meeks’; Money Slipped Police [ ¥ HUNDREDTH DAY; sald that earlier that same daylto pay the police for their trouble.| bill and slipped it into Gilligan's It was not until the tWO noi0g girike, one of the longest Merry- Go-Roun discover it was of $100 denomina- day, having cost management and Column . today takes the form of ‘Washington, D. C. My dear Sister: of yours put his uniform in moth- the army. And I remember how future whereabouts on file in case After all, we had just completed down and enjoy some well-earned need you again.” formula. VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,206 A S LSRR eSS e lars, “all his money” from Meeks’ clothing. The $8, Meeks said, he i first alleged theft occurred during |“ lABOR SIRIFE EVEM.S IHAT ® Returaing 10 ¢ IN PHILADELPHIA A penings, the witness recounted that lafter the police arrived, they, Vin- . ! op SHAKE.UP Vincent’s room. Later Gilligan and Mar(hers Break Po I e Meeks went to the defendant’s| LifleS—He"O S"ike IS to her sometime later to report lh.\l.| I . 3 {1y later, the police left sy gal’dlng $100 Trans'er— | $1,700 Taken (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) ' Campbell sMovements |coroborated the landlady's ac-|through police lines today in Phila- jcount, except that, he said, Meeks|delphia, scene of the most turbu- carefully hush-hushed at the time 'been taken, later changing the nation. by the City administration, which amount to $1,700 before the money| Commanders of 575 policemen on Police force last December, were Gilligan put the time when he and|for reinforcements at the strike- revealed in the District Court here|Patrolman Dore received the call|bound General Electric plant Assistant Chief of Police Hubert o'clock Sunday evening. ing a court injunction outlawing Gilligan at the trial of George| Gilligan, in his testimony, in-imass picketing, bowled over several gree murder of Clarence J. Camp- |were first searching Vincent's| Mounted officers then galloped bell. room, Meeks remarked of Vincent:|into the picket ranks and a free- testimony of Wanda Myhre, land- this morning.” Meeks suggested ‘Olmountgd and foot patrolmen broke yesterday afternoon. {$200, if he would return the other marchers in the area. Mrs. Myhre, Negress whose crip- 1$1,500. Meeks at that time remark-i brief halt in the proceedings yes-|that money. y charges as a result of violence yes- terday in order to get her to the Red Spots On Shirt terday when club-swinging police- the Keystone rooms on Sunday, De- 'ing to search in the former’s room, terday’s was the first violence since cember 9, the day just preceeding]MGPks stated that the money had {he Philadelphia G-E strike began Campbell’s ravaged body was found |In the room, he pointed out the peantime in the Seatter Tract residential dis-!shirt hanging on a wall. Gilligan'pationwide strike March 7 of 250,- On that Sunday evening, the de-'money, but did notice “red spots” getpack. féndant Meeks, then rooming in her on the shirt. At the time he did| After a 14-hour conference in Khocked at her door and mquired‘spots and, on cross-examination by e, 4 ehone and Telgraph Co. and the ' angrily the whereabout of one Defence Counsel William L. Paul, Feedernl;,‘leon of Lo:g gine Telephone correct mame is Peter Vincent. spots there were. | h _hour dispute, Union Meeks, the witness said, accused| After a preliminary cursory ex- ;fre:m:n:l:_ge_" M;ran s;:“d:' first naming a figure of $300. She |commsnced a detailed search whitR' .\") . March 7 suggested calling the police, but,|turned up a wallet among maga- As the (clcph(‘)nc tieup loomed the police called as he did not want [drawer. The wallet contained the < rkers them to know how much money he money Meeks had accused Vin- f?elem?::)p::lcéslv orl‘\;g(: frirens o | true amount was $1,500. { Gilligan did not count the money. i i tors awaited the first move by H g Police Called e just looked at it and saw, that John L. Lewis, in attempting tc room, next to hers, where the wit-{let contained a number of $100 1 1 bills—Mee! & of his United Mine Workers. They ness first saw the defendant slap ks had said 17 of them. expect notification this weekend to. Vincent’s room and she called bills, but no $50 bills. Neither did 3 il , ace ied {he examine th 11-month old contract and believe the police. Gilligan, accompanied | ne the wallet for other "\ procident will present Mrs. Myhre did not recognize but; He turned the wallet over to was later identified by Gilligan, ar- {Meeks and the two returned to °% March 12, Fhe UMW 250-ma : is scheduled to to the call. and Mrs. Myhre were all AR 25ty cent and Meeks were arguing in!plaint, Gilligan said—but all three the hallway outside thoem'sfre(used. 1 accusations of theft. ! As the police were about to leave, The witness, Mrs. Myhre, also!Meeks insistently said he wanted| Meeks had told her of “Peanuts”|They refused payment, but as they, COS““G MIllIo"S e iwere leaving, Meeks rolled up a, Th e w a Sh in gi Onih”" 2 DETROIT, Feb. 28.~The General officers were out of the building 5 i e liest Amer! industrial that Gilligan looked at the bill 10 prsgovo. reached Its S g Ition. He went to the Alaskan Hotel $hhA oaibed fhe E01 labor something in excess of $750,- By DREW PEARSON (Editor’s Note — Drew Pearson’s | a letter to his sister.) Mrs. Gordon Lange Swarthmore, Pa. Lasts October I was at your house when that tall, handsome husband balls and went over to the draft board to report that he was out of mused we all were over the draft rd's instruction that he keep his he might be called again. This, we thought, was a big joke. a long and gruelling war, with the country just getting ready to settle years of peace. Yet the draft board clerk said: “We'll call you if we I know you will call me a pes- simist when I write this, but, judg- (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 6:30 0'Clock This Moraing o o o In Juneau—Maximum, 39; ® |legislative session after a trip to ® | Anchorage, reported that Ketchi- ® kan's trapping season was the best in history and predicted a big ® [ fishing season with all canneries dents in the country in January jand the National Safety Council | predicted a possible total of 38,000 {fatalities in 1946 on the basis of last month’s toll. ouiumn Peron Leading in ing by the way our foreign affairs, are drifting today, I am beginning | Questions addressed to Gilligan by both prosecution and defense STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—Closing !o minimum, 36. o! At Airport—Maximum, 40; operating individually for the first time since the war. BUENOS AIKES, Feb. 28.—Argen- " Crew Nearing End Argentina Eledion BUILDING PERMITS to think the thing we laughed at;brought out further that: |tine’s Strong Man, Col. Juan D. uotation of Alaska Juneau mine|e minimum, 35. o| A rough draft of a bill to provlde' last October is now mo laughing| 1—He saw no blood on either d matter at all. Meeks or Vincent at the time, Stock today is 10, Alleghany Cor- By that, T don’t mean that Gor-!though Vincent had a slight cut poration 6% American Can 94, don will be called again. We are over his left eye. Anaconda 46'%, Curtiss-Wright 10, never going to need a big army In. 2—That John Kalinowski, an- Internaticnal Harvester 9, °Jones, these days of atomic warfare. It other roomer at the Keystone, was Laughlin Steel 45%, Kennecott . . I K4 e ® 4 definite program for veterans has ® |met with the approval of veterans ® land veteran groups in Anchorage ®|and Ketchikan, Walker said. The ® i bill probably will be introduced by an appropriate committee, he add- WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Rain tonight. Variable cloudiness and showers Fri- day. Southeast winds near SEATTLE, Feb. 28.—A four-man board of inquiry conducting a se- cret investigation of the wreck of the liner Yukon off Alaska Feb. 4 said it would complete questioning of crew members today and would Peron, led in both popular and electoral votes today as the count of ballots in Sunday’s presidential election moved into the third day |with the first big Provinces ready to start their tally. Peron was ahead in three Pro- would be mass suicide to expose |53%, New York Central 20%, Northern Pacific 30%, United Cor- poration 6, U. S. Steel 82'4, Pound 1$4.03%. Sales today, were 1,170,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today were ‘as follows: industrials 190.09, rails 62.23, utilities 38.93. large groups of helpless foot-sol- diers to the ravages of atomic warfare. But what I do mean is that today, less than one year after the war is over, we are drifting on ibarelivdholm Budive. oo Ay (Continued on Page Four) present as an onlooker throughout the fracas. ¢ i 3—There was no mention at the itime of the fracas of Vincent's hav- ing a nosebleed and he saw_no noticeable quantity of blood in Vin- (Continued on Page Two) | | 20 mh.p. in Gastineau Chan- nel decreasing Friday after- noon. Little change in tem- perature with the lowest to- e night expected to be 35 de- ® grees. e o 00 00 00 ed. i A DN S R NUGENT ON TRIP Lt. Eddie Nugent, Captain of the Port, made a routine trip to Point‘ e Retreat this morning. He expects maxed by the dramatic rescue of to return late tonight. devote all next week to hearing| testimony from passengers. |vinces with an electoral vote of 32, Several passengers already have while his opponent, Dr. Jose Tam-~ testified concerning the wreck borini, led in two Provinces hav- which took 11 lives and was cli- ing 20 electoral votes. One hun- dred and eighty-nine electoral votes are needed to win. - 485 persons. Building permits filed with the City Engineer’s Office here called for an estimated $650 worth of con~ struction and remodeling work. | The three permits were for: sheet |rock walls and ceiling on the prop- erty of Mrs. G. Rice, 314 Distin} cost $350. Ceiling work for Juneau Motors, $200, R. W. Kruse, con- (tractor; one car garage shed for | George Brothers Warehouse, Ways, $100, Grant Baldwin, con- tractor,