The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 1, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA \49 L. LXVL, NO. 10,233 i 2 TIDAL WAVE HIT CITY ELECTION 1S TOMORROW; HOURS 8 T0 7 Mayor, Three Councilmen, School Board Member fo Be Chosen Registrants to the number of 1552 will cast their ballots tomorrow in theé city election, choosing a mayor, three councilmen and ® school di-| rector. There are two tickets in the field, one, the Peoples Ticket headed by Waino E. Hendrickson, and the| other, the Progressive Citizens Tick- | et, headed by incumbent Mayor Er- flest Parsons. .Three councilmen; aré on each ticket. | There is one| carididate, Albert S. Glover, an In- dependent, seeking a seat in the council, and Mrs, Ruth M. Pope- joy is ‘the only eandidate for| School ‘Board Director. She is an| inecumbent. i There are three polling places, First Precinct in the City Hall, Second precinet in the Gastineau| Hotel and Third Precinct at the Juneau Dairies. | “ALL THE NEWS A MINERS OF SOFT COAL ONSTRIKE Work Stoppage Threatens | to Disrupt Reconver- sio_n Program Pittsburgh, Aprii 1.—A work stoppage by the nation's soft coal; miners, backing up the traditional, “No contract, no work” policy of the AFL-United Mine Workers, be-: gan today for 400,000 workars whose collective bargaining contract ex- pired at midnight. Calm settled over the coal fields. President John L. Lewis of the Union, sai dthere would be no pick- eting. Rationing of coal was start-| ed on government orders to insure supplies for urgent uses. ‘The stoppage of production, if prolong- ed, threatened to disrupt the coun- try’s reconversion program. Al- ready, one major steel company an- nounced it would have to bank 20 | dicated today on the basis of un-| polls open at 8 o'clock to- blast furnaces. morrow morning and close at 7| - The beginning of the work stop-; o’clock tomorrow evening. |pag': found members of the union irendy for a holiday anyway—their |annual celebration of April 1 in {henor of John Mitchell, one of the Waino E. Hendrickson, Peoples union’s earliest presidents, and to Ticket. commemorate the 48th anniversary nest Parsons, Progressive Citi-|of the eight-hour day. Actually the zens Ticket. {eflects of the strike therefore will K FOR COUNCILMEN inot be felt until tomorrow. (Vot for Three) | President Lewis' principal demand g::n S. Glover, Independent. ‘ank M. Hermann, (PCT). . Burr Johnson, (PT). iorge Joregenson, (PCT). imes Larsen, (PT). ctor Power, (PCT). < 8. Sully, (PT). . FOR SCHOOL BGARD Mits. Ruth M. Popejoy. lletie Will il (Candidate as Progressive Goper;‘u“ml Fiags MADISON, Wis., April 1.—Robert | " LaFollette, Jr., United States| (h b p k tor from Wisconsin for 20% a’ge y rem ” years and co-founder of the recent- i e iy-abandoned Progressive party, an-: BELGRADE, April 1.—Premier{ notinces he will be a candidate for! Marshal Tito told parliament to- tion to the Senate “as & Pro- day that Allied planes had flown | ‘The ballot will be as follows: 3 FOR MAYOR (Vote ifor One) ‘lishment of the health and welfare ifund for minars, to be created from an assessment on each ton of coal |produced. and.. to _be administered |by the union. The operators balk- {ed. The National Coal tion |sald such a “royalty payment” lev- ied for the benefits of the union, would make Lewis “a dictator. more powerful than any America has sever known.” ifrom the coal industry is the estab-| over Yugos‘a'ia Is inon of the United States army in!times as much as $5. ; JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1946 THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS —— PRICE TEN CENTS e e S S T e | COMMUNISTS, st Recyion. MATANUSKA iUnofficiaI Imurnsfrom; FA(E I_OSS]l | Greece Indicate Popu- lists Gainers | ATHENS, APRIL, 1.—An over- whelming defeat for Communists! and other left wing parties was in- | Hundreds of Tons of Spudsl Must Be Dumped- No Market | official returns from yesterday's| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 1— Parliamentary elections, which pav- | Matanuska Valley farmers are fac- ed the way for the possible return ing the loss of a large portion of of King George II to the Greek their 1945 potato cfop because hun- throne. |dreds of tons of Alaska spuds will Clashes between Communists and have to be “dumped in the rtver"' Government forces resulted in 20 for lack of a market. deaths, most of which occurred| Marketing agents say there are| Friday and Saturday. Order 'pre- two major reasons for the surplus., | vailed in most sections of the coun- The crop was unusually good l-sci try during the actual voting. jyear, each acre yielding an increase | Returns showed that the ballot- |over previous years. Then, too, the! |ing was heavy, despite a Russian-!sudden and unexpected end of the | supported LEftist campaign to boy- | war last August brought an im- | ,cott the polls in protest against!mediate reduction in the Army| [the holding of elections at this market. | , time. Left wing elements had de-| Although the Army and the A1-| clined to enter candidates in the aska Railroad are using as many( election, which was the first in i Greece since 1936. /mately 1,400 tons are now in stor- Estimates of the number of per-/age in the Anchorage area. sons participating ranged from 65 Members of the Matanuska Val-| to 75 percent of the total elector- ley Farmers Cooperative Association ' ate. received an advance of one percent Official returns continued to per pcund for their potatoes when | come in slowly, but an official!they brought them to the Co-op tabulation indicated that the Pop- | for storage and sale. Now it ap- ulists, would gain a clear cut ma- | pears that the one cent will be all, jority of the 354 Parliamentary|that many of the farmers will real-, seats. 'ize from their crop. 1 e | One of the farmers who faces the | 'loss of almost half his crop is Early. ARMY FOR(ES I“ Berry, an original colonist. He planted 22 acres in potatoes last| i w E | spring. Thirty tons have been sold e . but 25 additional tons are without (m BY MAY '1‘ He sold a portion of his crop to i the Railroad and had hoped to sell ' ! more. However, the last Railroad, ”. Gefl.wedemeyef leaV' contract was awarded to another | : : | farmer who underbid him by four { ing Orient for U. S. | OII "'IUI’SdaY road for slightly more than $3 per i hundred. Last year the farmers re- cents per hundred pounds. The pe- SHANGHAI, April 1.—Deactiva-' ceived an average of $4.25, some- | tatoes were purchased by the Rail- the China theatre May 1 was an-| Some of the farmers, who lost.{ C. Wedemeyer upon instructions out funds to bity seeds for the new from the joint chiefs of staff in growing season. ‘Washington. - e — - ‘This will leave 3,000 to 4,000 U. S. army personnel in China to carry, on with the military advisory group, Allies Disco GOODGESTURE i — Full Team Basis Indicated After Soviet “Tem- 1EUR0PEA“ FO0D : porar Absence | CONDITIONS BAD, | wew vorsc ape 1_nwsws. DECLARES HOOVER payment in full of her dues in the| United Nations gave a boost today to hopes that the Security Council "will soon be running on a Tull team basis. | It has been one man short since g ‘Weglnesday when Russian delegate deTHOUIShmenf Andrei Gromyko walked out in pro- test against the council's refusal to|] HELSINKI, April 1. — Herbert defer the Iranian question until Hoover, head of an American Com- April 10 | mission investigating. European Members of the other ten dele-, focd conditions, told reporters to- gations could count three develop-'day that Finland's food rations can ments in favor of their hope that be maintained at their present lev- Russia might end what one offi-|el until the. end of June, but that cial called temporary nbsence"{ thereafter there will be a shortage and resumes its place on the coun- of 40,000 to 50,000 tons of grain un- Over Two hfillhion Children’ Especaily Suffer Un- | Hundreds Under.ArresI% UNIMAK IN ALEUTIANS ISOLATED many, Aprit 1—No casuatties | One Man Killed, California have been reported by the 7,000 | 7 Allica combat troops and coun- | Beach — Havoc Raised in Hawaiian Isles ter-espicnage ogents who smashed a powerful under- grcund mcvement by rounding up about 1,000 German suspects SEATTLE, April 1.—The 13th Dis- |trict Coast Guard office reported today receipts of a message from the Coast Guard station at Uni- in raids over the weekend. Gunfire was reported to have broken out in several of the 200 towns raided in western |mgk in the Aleutian chain reporting Germany and Austria, but Am- |5 tidal wave hit there at 5:30 a. erican intelligence officers sald |y, Ppacific Standard Time. The they had rcceived no word of |report did not indicate if there was any casualties, (any damage. The message said the statue of Ecotch Cap and Cape Carichef, two {points on the Alaska peninsula tip, vered with U. 8. Army Headquarters said that incomplete reports indicate the manhunt was “carried out without unusual incidents.” 'was unknown. The Unimak station Most of the sutpects seized of- |lcst contact with these points 15 fered no resistance. minutes after the tidal wave hit. - | The tidal wave coming at 5:30 a. FRANKFURT, Germany, April 1.,m. Pacific Standard Time, is be- —American and British troops have|lieved to have followed a heavy COAST Jocal potatoes as possible, approxi- il When that body reconvenes Wed- , til the end of September when the nesday. Thess were: 1. The news from Mcscow, re- leased here by Secretary-General smashed a powerful, well financed' attempt by Nazi fanatics to regain| power in occupied Germany, Allled ! new harvest is reaped. ! Hoover said 800,000 Finns—400,- earthquake that was thought to have centered in the vicinity of the Aleutians. The first earthquake ' 000 evacuees from land ceded Rus- authorities announce. a buyer. ¥ . been happy in their self-chozen cx<l sia, small wage earners and Finns living in the area ravaged by the Germans—are in “urgent need of ‘Trygve Lie, that Russia had paid in full her $1,723,000 assessment for' the United Nations working capital. She was the first’ big power to do;additional foed.” 0. | About 500,000 children over the 2. Boris Stein, alternate Russian’age of two, he added are “seriously’ delegate, has been working stead-!undernourished.” ily—end most congenially, other’ Hoover, who arrived here yes- members said—on the council com- terday from Warsaw, said condi- mittee which is drafting rules for tions in Poland were the worst he the conduct of business. ,had seen thus far in Europe and 3. 'Similarly, the Russians have|that a study by American experts takem part in meotings of the mili-' showed “over 2,600,000 children are taryistall committee which is work- | terribly sub-normal = frem under- 3 “preliminary plans for an pourishment” - .3 = international force to keep the, - e ee — — peace. “All these are evidence toat adds D S llh r.mi up all to the good,” sald one dele- gation official, who.withheld use of his name. This man expressed the | He termed the dues-payment an-| wWASHINGTON, April 1—Dr. nouncement ; "great news.” Philip 8. Smith, Chief Ala; There is still the fact that Mos- geolorist for 21 years and an 1. opinion that the Russians have not| ile from the council i i ‘nounced today by Lt. Gen. Albert| heavily on their crop, Will be with- ;_cow. and Tehran, have not replied gepior Department authority on af- to the council’'s request of last Pri- fairc in that Territory, retires to- day for clarification of the Iran- day from the geological survey. ian occupation matter. The dcad-’ He was a member of the Depart- line is Wednesday. iment’s Alaska committee and was the Public Works Administraticn |sheck came in at 4:38 a. m,, Pacific One thousand persons suspected Standard Time. of being ringleaders of the under- (e ground movement are in jail or are One Man Killed * being rounded up in a huge men-| SAN FRANCISCO, April 1—One hunt in Germany and Austria. Tie!man was killed by a huge wave that subversive movement was directed swept on the against American, British and Rus- south of here, . Those on the sian forees. 2 'strand said two great waves, much The back of the movement is|larger than nosmal, rolled up on broken, Brig. Gen, Edwin L. Sioert,/the sands. i 3 American Intelligence Chief, says. | “The movement's long-rangs plan, | designed. to revive the Nazi ideology | NO! i In 18 ;w,mqlm:gm-_ " pound R dus to ‘our security encount- today, killing at least. ered since the war,” Stbert sald. |ang injuring many others and caus- Those seized by counter-esplonage ing heavy property damage. agents were reported to include one| The wave, which some witniesses U, of an “Inner circle” of 200 Nazis,'said was more than. ten feet high, ° cach of whom was a potential new giruck about 7 a. m. German fuehrer. | “Throi uickly-cl m‘ The crackdown began ds long as'gnq n&? &.nn.yu z?:-:d htd i three months ago when Arthur AX- |y story of surprised beach residents & > mann, 32-year-old fuehrer of the o th‘:c‘ islands caught in the fury ' Hitler Jugend (Youth movement) of the wave. was jalled. The ' announcement; gmall boats were washed high up identified Axmann as undercover onto the shore and ripped open on lzader of the entire conspiracy. the coral. Clamp Put On | Seismic Disturbance The secret organization was be-| Tha wave, apparently caused by ginning to expand when American gn yndersea seismic disturbance and British forces clamped doWn. t;ousands of miles north of here, Just a week ago American agents gpent most of its fury at sea. It found Nazi activities spreading to'had sufficient power left when it . at Santa Oruz, , . 2 g it wiith] gressive Republican.” 850,000 Damage A preliminary survey reported damage of $50,000 along the Hon- ,olulu waterfront. Navy headquart- 3,000 to 4,000 men. (The current strength was not indicated.) Marines Under Navy The 45000 Marines in North/ Chifia” under Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rockey will revert from Wedemey- er’s control to the Navy, he said. Wedemeyer did not indicate when the Marines would leave China. The presence of American troops, in China has been pointed, out re-| Tabriz May Be Evacualed by Russian Forces| TEHRAN, April 1.—A U. 8. em- today. The system's daily load has' Persons becoming been estimated at 1,800,000 fares. Anticipating the strike, most of | the city’s workers were able to ar- range transportation in advance. | The walkout began as scheduled | at 4 am, (EST) although repre-| sentatives of the Amalgamated As- sociation of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes of Am- erica and the Detroit Street Rail- the dread disease. The death toll from the epidemic ‘now stands at five, and city and ve report-: county health officials ha ed a total of 24 cases in Seattle and its suburbs. As the city itensified its cam- paign against the epidemic, 26 Se- attle fire stations will begin this morning serving as vaccination national Military Tribunal today that Prime Minister Stalin agreed in Moscow in August, 1939, that he “would never accuse Germany of ,aggression tecause of her actions in | Poland.” { The agreement was that “If ag- Igression were spok2n of both par- ties would be guilty,” Ribbéntrop said. ‘The accord, Ribbentrop continued, peatedly by Russians in recent dis-| ways Department met until 2 am.,; centers for as long as the emer- | cussions concerning withdrawal of Soviet forces from Manchuria. sian army was making “ostenta- tious” preparations to evacuate that city, capital of the semi-autonomous Iranian Province of Azerbaijan. The spekesman said no actual H Official Russian sources were quoted as saying their troops would |be withdrawn before the U. S. {forces left China. The gradual| in an attempt to find a last min- | ute solution for the union’s de- mand. A union official reporudi the two Sides “deadlocked” after the long session. gency lasts, New OrnanilaiI;n was reached Aug. 21, 1939—less than two weeks before the Nazt march, iinto Poland—in the course of nego- [tiaticns for a Russian-German non- aggression pact and a secret proto- col for partitioning Poland, Fin- land and the Baltic states, movement of troops or materials! had hbeen reported in Tabriz, but) that “equipment and vehicles are! being concentrated, apparently in| evacuation of Mukden, presumably ! as the first step in a Soviet with- drawal from -all- of Manchuria, was begun last month. Typhus Epidemic Raging in Osaka ‘The testimony was given after R.| A. Rudenko, Soviet prosegutor, pro- | tested against admission of an, af- Formed; Weather Fore(a“e" Ehd fidavit by Friedrich Gaus, former |Nazi foreign office negotiator, re- KANSAS CITY, April 1.—Forma- |lating to the alleged secret proto- { The war had just ended when €rs could not be reached immed- the one-armed Axmann appointed lately to determing the effect in his trusted, 32-year-old former Hit- sheltered waters of Pearl Harbor, ler youth Col. Willl Heldemann as!where a large part of the atomic the custodian of a considerable|/tcmb test fleet is anchored. amount of cash. With the funds,| Jack Spears, superintendent of Heidemann, who 15 also under ar-|the Ala Wai boat harbor, made the rest, set himself up as the owner- estimate of $50,000 waterfront dam- menager of a Bavarfan trucking 2ge. He said he saw three or four |concern. |boats on the reef and several oth- Heldemann ingratiated himself ers had been sunk. with the American military govern-| The weather bureau here had no ment and won its confidence. In- Teport on the center of the dis- telligence agents let the military turbance, but the California Insti- government be taken in, so that the tute of Technology reported from lentire plan would be unfolded. | Pasadena, Calif, earth shocks early Organization Gets Busy |this morning in the North Pacific | Heidemann originally was suppos- in the vicinity of the Aleutians. ed to have organized active resis-! Underwater Quake & —- | All quarters here agreed that the 'wave was due to some underwater |earthquake or voleanic disturbance. | At Waikiki Beach the seawall pre- |vented flooding of the luxurious (66nti);ued-o;l Pn;]e ~-- Weather, Loofers preparation for evacuation.” : i STOCK QUOTATIONS | 'Demofn“slrafldhvifin 5 NEW YORK, April 1.—Closing! OSAKA, Japan, April 1.—The! (largest typhus epidemic which has of Alaska Juneau mine stock today |confronted the United States army is 9, American Can 5%, Anaconda |quring World War II has broken b ithis constituted a threat to the na- ;sha]l and to serve on the cease fir-| ?he washin ton tion’s peace and security. {ing truce teams and aid with re-, 3. g | t BEIWEEN Ru SS| A {tion Nursery,” began Saturday| Preliminary reports from the * night, climaxing ten months of ex- neighboring island of Hawaii indi- February 28 against plane flights|for the United States Thursday but| 33 | SMA“,POX (RIS'S; ’ but received no answer. (Tito ap-|whether he would return to China| DETROIT, April 1—A tieup of lDecrcit‘a municipally-owned trans- | covered the organization right af-| r V-E day and immediately set| | workers and others to seek pri-|tcday as two new cases of smallpox the recent White House visit of |States have been obstructed by !strength in China, which was 65,000 P GOP Representative’ William Lemke { “few misunderstandings.” at its peak, would be reduced to, vate transportation or walk to work Were added to the growing list of biimper harvest so vitally needed this year. hahded due to the drafting of only} sofis when they reach the age of 18. | to the farm. They are fancier jobs in the cities in- “Draft boards in my State are all unmarried men when Truman assured him, “The same thing is happening in my own ! “I don't think anyone should be hw Delm Whe“ deferred at the expense of men now ween 200,000 and 300,000 non-' NEW DELHI, April 1—Persons tial men who ‘are able to opposed to the Congress party and that he planned to go tomorrow with a British cabinet| over the whole draft situation soon 'mission on self determination for will be given to essential Gandhi. Four persons were in- B arm workers, he said, adding that jured slightly. i 5 ! e ey a l Lchlet for Alaska in 1933 ad 1934. ‘the Russlan zone in Germany. They | reached Oahu, however, to VISIIORS BARRED £ turned over their leads to Soviet away small homes, destroy roads : i ] “Our people cannot tolerate suchpatriation and similar residual dut- ! provocations,” he declared. jes. uel’ry il GU 2 Round' haustive secret investigation by cated that the city of Hilo was hard SRk American counter intelligence hit and its harbor facilities seriously By DREW PEARSON parently did not say to whom the!was not disclosed. | : s y b iprotest was addressed). ’ Wedemeyer told correspondents at | Portation system in a wage dispute | SEATTLE, ' April 1.—Four Seattle ; i NUERNBERG, April 1—Joachim o o vioyr mowlcs sl ! von Ribbentrop, former Nazi foreign N skainont . Stacta of North Dakota is that President ! R ot S : Truman may liberalize the draft-! The North Dakota Congressman told Truman that many farms in Lemke also pointed out that large numbers of older sons who have bassy spokesman said today reports ad. In some cases, the younger ers are being inducted, thou‘hl they reach draft age, regardless of their essentiality,” said Lemke. State of Missouri. Some of the draft boards are tdo stringent in in the Army who are entitled to! Gandhl A i get out,” continued Lemke. “How- | g " 'es serve but who have been deferred ;staged a demonstration today a few because of some physical defect.” | minutes after the arrival of Mohan- f Staff General India . i again with Chief o neral . . Eisenhower and Selective Service| Rocks and half-bricks landed | ed to e R B Amny chigls wotldy be 86 ¢ Sydney is the largest city in Aus-: e e (Continued on Page Four) over Yugoslav territory and that headed by General George C. Mar- g : E REI p ;authorlueu thers. land inundate raflroad tracks long n 'roll 'RoM H"Sp"‘ls | i A swift roundup, called “Opera-/the coasts. i L] He said Yugoslavia protested on| Wedemeyer is scheduled to leave| ! agents. Sibert said the agents dis-'damaged. WASHINGTON — Story behind| He said relations with the United!a press conference that the army|forced hundreds of thousands of | hospitals have barred all visitors | minister, testitied before the Inter- ing of farmers in order to aid the the Northwest are critically short- { served in the armed forces are not from Tabriz indicated that the Rus- needed on the farm. “I am aware of the problem,” the case of farm workers.” ever, I believe the Army could find Truman said he was inclined to das K. Gandhi for conference here Chief General Hershey. Special em- within 50 feet of a hut occupied by tralia, with 1310,630 population, 46%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, Internd- tional Harvester 92%, Kennecott 55, New York Central 27, Northern Pa- cific 31%, United Corporation 5%, U. 8. Steel 83%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,050,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today aré as follows: industrials 199.19, ralls' 64.30, utilities 41.18. PRICES SATURDAY Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock Saturday was 9%, American Can 97%, Anaconda 47, Curtiss-Wright 8, International Harvester 93%, Kennecott 55%, New York Central 27%, Northern Pacific 30%, United Corporation 7, U. S. Steel 83%, Pound $4.03%. Sales Saturday were only 600,000 shares. out among Japanese civilians in the Osaka area. An intensiffed, full scale cam- paign to break the hold of the dis- ease has been inaugurated by the 125th (Tropic Lightning) Division, jwhich has responsibility for the )iflth Prefecture and the city of Osa-| (1 g | Maj. Gen. Charles L. Mullins, Jr., commander of the 25th, said 5971 cases were reported in Osaka alone land 7,113 in the 12th Prefecture. The death rate has been eight percent of the reported cases. e TED BLANDON HERE town. He is stopping at the Bar-| anof, tion of the National Association ef Weather Forecasters with 800 members is announced by J. R. Lloyd, President, and meteorologist in charge of the Kansas City Wea- ) col. | Rudenko accused the defense of { “attempting to divert the attention of the tribunal from real issues” by dwelling o nthe reported Rus- {Royal Hawaflan and Moana hotels. Convert U. S. Planes In Japan fo Junk | At Aloha Tower inside Honolulu d onPage Bight) | i | formed to ther Bureau. A counsellor was elected for each of the eight administrative regions. Roy L. Fox, Anchorage, Alaska, was elected to head the eighth district. !s1an-German understanding prior to | {the outbreak of the war. | The Tribunal decided, however, that the affidavit could be admit- ted as evidence and that Ribben- |trop could testify on the matter. Lloyd said the association was| Ribbentrop said that at the time “provide an effective the alleged secret agreement was voice from the field in forecasting negotiated “There was not the affairs of the Federal Weather Bu- |slightest doubt in the minds of Hit- reau,” to help “solve forecasting:ler of Stalin that if all negotia- problems that are of universal in-|tions with Poland came to nhught, terest to forecasters and to advance |territory taken from our two coun- general interest of the forecasting tries by force of arms would be| profession.” |reunited to them by force of arms. | Formation of the association was In this manner, the eastern boun- of the American Meteorological So- over to the Soviet Union and the ciety. western territories to Germany.” CLARK FIELD, Japan, April 1.— Millions. of dollars worth of Ameri- e | Y L] 4 uaxe can war planes, lined up in neat | ' rows along runways of an nbn.ndnn—[ ed Japanese airstrip here, are rap-| idly being converted into junk by| MaYbe AIaSka weather and looters. i Two correspondents spent hours| —— Sunday, without authority nnd: NEW YORK, April 1.—Two “very without being stopped or question- sharp” earthquake shocks, probably ed, wandering through the two- centering in Alaska, were reccrded mile collection of planes, which on the Fordham University seismo- range from Mustangs to Liberators. graph today, the Rev. Joseph J. Rapid demobilization not only Lynch reported. deprived U. 8, air forces of the! The Seismologist said the first personnel to keep the planes Ah’-!tranmr occurred at 7:38.49 and the Ted Blandon, of Metlakatla, is in | completed’ at the annual meeting daries (of Poland) would be turned worthy—it also reduced the number second at 7:46.50 (EST). The dis- of men available to guard them on tance was about 3,900 miles north- the ground. west of New York.