The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 3, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,235 CANNERY WORKERS FLOWN T0 Force of Tidal Wave Completely Spent Is WOMAN IS ~ MAYOR AT WRANGELL "Mrs. Doris Barnes Defeafs Incumbent Hanford by Vote of 183 t0 133 WRANGELL, Alaska, April 3.— Wrangell elected its first woman mayor yesterday in one of the larg- est elections, 318 votes being cast, | | [ | | Stateme RECONVERSION IS HITTING HIGH SNYDER CLAIM Civilian Production Now at | | i | { | JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e e T PRICE TEN CENTS nf; Danger Over | v g i ; | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 3.— | @ N i |Rumors and tidal wave scares wer2 # & | squelched last night for Algskan and Aleutian residents as an of-| ficial release was issued by the| § Commander of the Alaskan Sea! | Frontier at Kodiak, saying in ef-| fect there is no further danger. | The statement said that all ob servations indicate “the force of the| tidal wave is completely spent in| {all sections of the Aleutians.” | HENDRICKSON IS ELECTED| MAYOR HERE| Parsons Defeated as 1,281 Residents Cast Ballots | at City Election The people of Juneau yesterday ( cast a total of 1,281 votes to sweep Waino E. Hendrickson into the mayor’s office by a margin of 241 votes over incumbent Ernest Par- R e | RESULTS OF TUESDAY'S ELECTION i Precinet Precinet Precinct Neo. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Totals 223 3 w»Y 195 518 FOR MAYOR: Waino Hendrickson Ernest Parsens FOR COUNCILMEN~—2 Years: Albert S. Glover Frank M. Hermann W. Burr Johnson George Jorgenson James Larsen Victor Power Henry 8. Sully FOR SCHOOL BOARD—3 Years: Mrs. Ruth M. Popejoy Total Vote Cast 302 508 579 589 658 448 616 60 230 223 263 138 236 277 375 387 487 883 1281 e e | e v onany asia own. | Highest Level Achiev- ed by Nation | Mrs. Doris Barnes was elected Mayor with a“vote of 183 against| ! | WASHINGTON, April 3—Amer-| jncumbent F. G. Hanford who re-| ceived 133 votes. J et i s The new mayor is a widow and |ica’s civilian production now stands Jeader in Repuyl;lcan politics. The | “at the highest level ever achieved defeated candidate is at present alby the nation, in war or peace,” representative who attended the ex- | Reconversion Dirctor John W. Sny- traordinary session of the Terrnor-!de;m‘:l"’;ff:] :g;’s“!;-a i i o 8 s ;i::ldle?lslature at Juncath SR iy exceeding a rate of $150,000,- Gouncilmen elected were Leaman| 000000 a year—non-farm employ- Ellls, a fisherman; Andrew Bar- ment has climbed to a point high- low, a fisherman; Lennie Engstrom, No further effect or recurrence| of the wave is expected, the re- | lease added, and it said the Navy| “denies all responsibility for the groundless and panic-breeding ru-| mors widely disseminated with such | harmful effect both in Alaska and in the continental United States.” The Associated Press did not carry such rumors. [ The Navy statement asked that “In the future all concerned with the dissemination anu publication of news relative to naval installa- tions in the Alaskan-Aleutian area refrain from action until offical er than before V-J-Day, when war fish buyer. | plants were running full blast, Sny- Virgil Neyman, school School former teacher, was elected to the Board. KETCHIKAN ELECTION KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 3.— A. Mitchell Spaeth, Dr. C. M. Carl- der told President Truman and Congress. | The feare | ness has not cccurred, Snyder said, land private wage payments have | climbed back almost to the wartime |level of $82,000,000,000 annually. The number of job-seekers in «d sharp rise in jobless- son and Ed Brooks were elected w! the city council in yesterday's elec-i :":“ oty Jounpn unopposed | o Jast fall’s official estimates of [ Rvennn SN ,000,000 unemployed by this Maurice Oaksmith was elected to| "> *° ® O the Utilities Board over-Johii Wick |~ - e by a vote of 694 to 529 ! DI Wepnt (4 : 4 The 56-page statement was the B. B. Hougtaling was reelected |, . ohimistic of six quarterly re- to the School Board over Jack Nel-| |, jssued so far by the Office of February was “still below 3,000,000,” Snyder estimated. This compared and accurate reports have been re- ceived.” Roundup Report Rounding up area and local re- sults of the submarine earthquake, and tidal wave, the navy state-! ment reported “According to pres-! ent veports the only regions in this' area affected by the tidal wave which demolished Scothic Cap light-, ‘house rbor, | R S Harbor, where an exceptionally high tide: and minor damage was experienced; ( abnermel - tider - flucsmationsy were experienced at Adak.” “Unga, Perryville, King Cove Ikatan and Cove Bay have all re. ported normal conditions, with no 0 The voters also favored paying the Mayor $25 and Councilmen $10 for each meeting. - By a vote of 653 against 445, voters showed preference to fourth Madison new school site. ELECTION AT PETERSBURG ‘PETERSBURG, Alaska, April 3.— Carl Vevelstad today was Peters- ’'s new mayor after defeating ter Jorgensen by a landslide 290 46 votes in yesterday's mtunicipal ions. John Longworth, C. A. Wilder and Richard Colp won highest vote “eounts for city council posts, with Dr. W. W. Bailey in fourth posi- , possibly slated for Vevelstad's vacant place on the council. j Arnold Wasvick was elected to the School Board. Petersburg voted 213 to against extension of cocktail bar hours from 11 pm. to (Continued on Page Two) e eee | War Mobilization and Reconversion. damage or casualties sustained at' But Snyder emphasized that strikes any time.” | !and the threat of inflation made Meanwhile with the bay calm and | the first 1946 quarter “sobering and the tide normal, the citizens of Ko- | | |sons, and also voted two members 4 “and George Jorgenson, the lattef D 3 4 SEDUCTIVE _ Movie Actress Rita Hoyworth was cho- sen one of the most seductive women in America by a group of beauty experts, all members of the Society of Illustratars HOMMA DIES ITH BULLETS INHIS HEART | cf Hendrickson's “People’s Ticket” |into douncil chairs. New council- | | 1 | | men are James Larsen, Henry Sully | | BOARD T0 HOLD | HEARINGS HERE Survivors of Disaster Ask-| ed fo Appear at City Hall Saturday | candidate running on Parson's l"Prugtessh'o Citizens’ Ticket.” { The,contest for ¢he third council |sent was close with Jorgenson beat- {ing opt W. Burr Johnson by a | scant 10 votes. Heaviest vote was seen in Pre- cinet No. 3 where a total of 487 votes were cast. Votes received were as follows: For Mayor: Hendrickson 759; Parsons 518 |ficer in Charge of the Marine In- ] spection Office, U. 8. Coast Guard, For Council, first three elected: | P ? | i p m- |Larsen 658; Sully 616; Jorgenson | Juneau, announced today that mem- | 1 589; Jghnson §79; Frank Hermann it u“‘-uymfo“., Bm";d MJIHV::;‘ 508; WVictor Power 448, and Albert iaiioa: SrEie L U | 'q Giifer 302 $ (aboard the Columbia Friday morn- .Mflem}:ston;s' ligest margin’ of | 108 <ADEl 0, 0 conduct hearings here. jvotes was received in Precinct NO': The hearing will be held in the 2 3 City Council Chambers, City Hall, Pargons campaigned on a publicigy g giclock Saturday morning. In ownership of utilities program and p. event the Columbia is late in| ‘ yester ‘ay’s election climaxed a long gypiving, the hearings will be moved {geripi #f hearings concerning the yy. to. Monday. moning, in_ which proposed” purchase of the Alaska|cqse ample notice will be given. Electric Light \and Power Com-~| 71y is requested that the follow-| pany and a change in rates. Yes- jng persons, and any others, who terday's vote was an indication that | were aboard the Yukon at the time, the public sentiment in favor of of the disaster, contact the U. S| public ownership is fading. The un-!cgoast Guard and Marine Inspec-| seating of Parsons could also be ta- |(jon Office, 125 Federal Building, 1 COFFEY WRITES 10 KRUG, ASKS INVESTIGATION President of the Senate Edward| D. Coffey Monday dispatched a letter to Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug asking an investiga- tion of Coffey's insurance business kooks to clear him of a ‘charge made before former Secretary Ickes that ness {rom cannery interests. The letter reads as follows: “Honorable Jullus A. Krug, Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C. “My Dear Mr. secrotdry: “It has been breught to my at- tention that at a recent conference held in the office of your predeces- lobbyists influencing the Alaska Legislature, attended by Governor of Alaska Ernest Gruening, that it was intimated my vote in that leg« islative body had been Influenced by insurance business given to my| firm by Alaskan salmon packers. “You can readily see the serious- ness of this charge. I have never handled any salmon company ac- counts and I invite you to delegate 120 midnight | | aifficult.” “While production has been good, 'it would have been even better if ;labor-management disputes had not ! put out the fires in steel furnaces, ! stopped some automobile assembly | lines, curtailed production of elec- | tric equipment and other vital | components. “These losses slowed down the | flow of consumer goods to the mar- | ket and increased the inflationary | pressure which stem from shortages in the face of huge demand.” The man-days lost in January | due to industrial strife equalled one |day out of the month for every | non-agricultural worker and delay- ed “by many weeks” the return ol some needed goods to market, the | Reconversion Chief said. e FLAT FETE Jap Who Ordered Death March on-Bataan Ex- ecufed in Disgrace | diak were sheepishly discussing to- | day the joke about themselves, | which was no joke at the time. When the rumors were hottes| cne false alarm emptied the city in about 10 minutes, but they do say there was no panic. But several| MANILA, April 3Tt Cen. Ma- familics spent the night on mghisgharu Homma, a black hood over ground. ;hls head and a white target over his heart, died before a U. 8. Army | KING COVE WAVE lm'ing squaq early this morning,!| jcalm and silent to the end. | BELLINGHAM, Wash., April 3.— | g g v A wire received this morning byI GThe ].sto;:!(y A‘{?‘"}?s‘} ,v.ho WEE | Pacific American Fisheries head-iwi:{’:‘m? 2? l,l!:‘eull;;mpl;ine‘:, d'i‘e!de q;az}t;r's ::::a(rt)mtl(t;:lg ::1:8 SP"“‘ for ordering the death march on. L) 488t e ¢ PaSS | gataan and condoning widespread cannery was relatively light. {440 0ities in the Philippines. | Cannery tenders were rounding! up scattered piling but no great| The execution tcok place at Los| material damage or losses of per-Banos, 20 miles south of Manila, ul.k sonnel were reported. fabout 1 a. m. It was there that!' | The tidal wave that swept away Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita had ' Scotch Cap lighthouse, about 75 ,been hanged in disgrace. Homma | miles south of there, was about 10 {had headed the Japanese in victory ;Iceb high when it reached King in the Philippines—Yamashita in' ken as a reaction againgt hlgher‘m- phone 594 at once: isnme one from your office to in-{ taxes, even though the administra- for the authorizing of the new as- sessment. The new city officials will be | (sworn in Priday evening at the re- | Williams, Tom C. Johnson. gular meeting. Outgoing council. men are Don Skuse, Harry Lea and John Young. ! REPORT RUSSIANS | ARMING, TRAINING KURD TRIBESMEN BY JOSEPH C. GOODWIN TEHRAN, April 1—(Delayed)—A Kurdish chieftain said today Rus- sian techniclans had arrived at) Saujbulagh (Mehabad) in norm-! vestern Iran to train Kurdish | tribesmen for what he termed a |gin, A. Prokofics, Mr. and Mrs, Olaf Aase, D. AD-|o00 my hooks and records to de- | tion before Parsons was responsible |drews, Wm. Harris, Arthur Hamil- {40 ine the true facts in this re- ton, Peter Howard, Victor K"m"'\specb. I will also be glad to furn- Oble Stapleton, yop o Jist of agencies and insur- Roy Sandbank, Wm. Winn, Fred unce companies in Seattle and else- |where with whom I do business, in The Board has conducted hear-| qer that your office may deter- ings in Anchorage and Seward and| ..o what my business contacts is now enroute to Seattle. jare. I also suggest examination of M R 51 T |the records of the Territorial In- |surance Commissioner at Juneau. SHIp | “I very much resent the insinua- ;nom made against me at this hear- North Sea Sails for Sitka {ing and feel I am entitled to have iyour office know the true facts. “I realize that since this confer- ence was held you have taken of- lflce. but due to the slow mail |service to Alaska, this is the first opportunity I have had to take the 'matter up with your office and I Irespecuully request that the mat- |ter be investigated. I believe Mr. Chapman was also in attendance. | “I expect to be in Washington, ALASKA PLANES T0 BRING MEN T0 PLANTS First Clipper Load of Fish- { ermen North Today- Ship Tieup Cause | sEATLE, April 5. —with ships {tied up by a strike of longshore~ men in Alaska ports, more cannery- men and fishermen will be sent to the northern salmon plants by air- iplane this year than ever before, it was learned today. The first clipper-load of fisher- imen and cannery workers to go by air to Alaska this year, left Boe- ing field at 5 o'clock this morning by Pan American World Alrways, ienroute to Cordova. The flying fishermen and can- nerymen will transfer to Pacific Northern Airlines and Alaska Air- |lines planes at Juneau for the last leg of the air journey. These com- ' panies operate in conjunction with | Pan American World Airways in Lt. Comdr. Howard Solloway, Of-|the Senator was influenced by busi-| the transportation of Alaska pas- ' sengers. | Sixteen employees of the New: | England Fish Company’ were a- I board the Clipper that left Seattle | this morning for Alaska. The flight 'to Alaska is expected to require /10 hours, 4 Fishermen and cannery workers | were flown fo Alaska in 1945 for » cor, relative to charges of Industry|the first time, Later this spring, “men will be sent to canneries on | Bristol Bay by plane. The flight today was des as the . ! of & series" | “Ataskn | cunnieries this spring. * — e — BULLETINS WASHINGTON—Retail prices for milk, butter and cheese are “quite [likely” to be Increased soon, gov- gemment officlals predicted today. MANILA, —A iyrhoon with a center velocity of 100 to 115 miles tan hour is moving toward the Phil- ippines and may hit northern Lu- ,zon by tomorrow, the Philippine | Sea Frontier announced today. DETROIT—The Ford Motor Co. announces that because of inability |to obtain sufficient steel supplies |it will close down a portion of its , operations from tomorrow night {until April 10. Approximately 18,- (600 production workers in the De- troit area and 16,500 employed in branch assembly plants in other ‘lscctksns of the country will be laid off. | TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.—An es- L. C, in April of this year and!timated 35000 acres of northern |would appreciate an opportunity to! Michigan woodlands were a smoky Idiscuss this Alaskan situation with'ruins today as hundreds of weary | defeat. TFhirty eninutes after Homma Last Night Without |“general drive for a free Kurdis- Cove. CHICAGO — Policeman Edward tan.” "The Washington: | Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—Now that Col- onel Peron is finally confirmed as President of Argentina, the State *Pepartment faces its toughest pan- American problem—to recognize or Tiot to recognize. “ Btrongly influencing this question ‘may be a secret document with the EM “OK, FDR” in the corner, ving the late President’s approval Argentine recognition. “ At one time Secretary Byrnes gwore that such a document did not exist. He told Nelson Rockefel- N . der, former Assistant Secretary of State, that he, Byrnes, knew FDR better than Rockefeller and that e was convinced Roosevelt could fot have okayed Argentine recog- nition. s % But Rockefeller produced th do- ‘cument and Byrnes had to admit 4hat the signature was authentic. This column is now able to publish ithe full text of the secret Roose- Welt decision to recognize Argen- ? tina. Behind this decision were some hitherto confidential but highly Amportant negotiations. They began 4n Mexico City in the winter of 4945, during the Chapultepec Con-i ference. At that time Roosevelt was Jdn Yalta. At that time, also, the Foreign Ministers of Brazil, Mexico and Peru, together with the Ecuadorean Atfibassador to the United States, ithoroughly discussed with Nelson — 3 (Continued on Page Four) { Mendenhall was ready to drive | home after work when he discov- | ered a flat tire on the car parked' | station. i As Mendenhall finished his job,! Iponz:emnn Frank Sheehan came“ jout of the station and thanked him ' for fixing the tire on his car. i The two policemen own automo- | biles of the same model and nor-| |of the station. But Mendenhalls| machine had been moved from its | usual parking place. | POSTMAN'S HOLIDAY KANSAS CITY—John A. Mar- shall was surprised to see neigh-} bor William N. Deramus, President of the Kansas City Southern Rail-| way, boarding a miniature Swopcl‘ Park train. Deramus hurriedly explained he was accompanying his two-year old | grandson. When he completed his| ride, the railroad execufive report- “I would say the line’s roadbed is in good condition, its rolling stock well handled, and I hear its financial statements are more than satisfactory.” —_————— FROM SEATTLE | i i | ! | | ‘both of Seattle, are at the Baranof. it A Qs The length of the Panama Canal from shore line to shore line is 40.27 miles aud from deep water in the Atlantic to deep water in the Pacific it is 50.72 miles. WAVE-RAVISHED HILO HONOLULU, April 3—The multi-' million dollar debris of seismic !in front of the Chicago Avenue waye-ravished Hilo yielded seven,of 1 more bodies today as weary volun- teers, spurred by a threat of con- tagion, continued their unceasing search. The earthquake-born disturbance —now completely subsided— took | possibly 176 lives as it pounded! —to California and to Peru. ‘The Territorial government of these hardest hit islands, pushing! the roundup of 6,000 fresh diapers and huge stocks of food for deso- lated died, Lt. Gen. Hikotaro Tajima was hanged for the atrocity slaying of ‘three American naval fliers in May 944. * Shows No Emotion Without perceptible emotion, Homma strode to the execution scene between an escort formed in double ranks. A chaplain walked with him. Homma stool silent, his arms | mally keep them parked in front shores from the Aleutians to Hawaii {bound behind him, as the officer lin command read the charge, find- ing and sentence. ‘The Japanese indicated he had no last statement. Weeks before he had written to an old friend in Hilo, found time to elicit a Japan that he knew he could not|® ‘pledge of U. 8. priorities for the|escape the death sentence. |vast rbuilding task ahead. Damage| | A former Kurdish member of |Iran’s parliament declared in Ham- |adan that “Kurds of Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Syria, meeting at Meha- |bad, have proclaimed a new and |greater Kurdish state” centered at|] {the Iraq oil city of Mosul. | Neither of these informants; |could be identified by name. ‘ The Chieftain, who said his life| iwould be in danger if his presence iin Tehran was disclosed, said the | military forces of Ghazi Mohammed, the head.of a recently proclaimed {“independent Kurdish Republic” 'seated at Saujbulagh, had “obtain- i 20 tanks, four trucks and a; number of mortars from a Russian| unit in Mlyanduab,” northwest ofl | ishables and other freight consign- | Unloading Here — Five hundred-fifty tons of per ed to Juneau sailed away from this port still in the holds ef the Norih sea when that vessel pulled out for Sitka at 6:30 o'clock last even- ing. Local longshoremen, of the In-; ternational ~Longshoremen’s ant Warehousemen’s Union CIO) re- fused to unload the North Sea car- go pending settlement of demands for increased wage scale and retro- active pay. The stalemate so far developed your. Yours very truly, EDWARD D. COFFEY, President of the Senate.” ARG GG AL A MOSCOW PAPER DISCUSSING OIL AS NEW TROUBLE MOSCOW, April 3—Devoting one- third of a page to a review of “the question of oil in Anglo-American regarding union demands has re- rejuqions” Izvestia said today that sulted in virtual suspension of ac- .y yiyalry had entered a new phase rose into millions of dollars and i most insurance policies did not! cover wave destruction. Territorial Dead The Territorial toll of 79 dead nndi 85 missing included: Hilo and thel island of Hawaii 55 dead and 73 (Continued on Page Five) — .o STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 3. — Closing | auotation of Alaska Juneau mine as the officer in charge raised his stock today is 87, Alleghany Cor- poration 6%, American Can 95%,| Anaconda 47%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, International Harvester 94%, Ken- Jerry Noonan and W. A. Stall,|necott 56, New York Central 27%,!once-victorious Japanese command- Northern Pacific 31%, United Cor- poration 5%, U. S. Steel 85, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,560,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 203.12, rails 65.15, utilities 42.28. jed over his head. The four-inch | saujbulagh. (A Tehran dispatch filed earlier Apologizes “I have failed to 1ulfill my task| with justice and charity,” he wrote. and received in New York yester- k “I do not blame anybody . . . I day quoted a. Kurdish chieftain as want to go—to the place where saying Russian troops were with- Japanese soldiers fell and where drawing from Miyanduab.) American soldiers sleep. I must apoligize to God for all my sins.” While the twelve men of the fir- ing squad watched, Homma was bound to a post and the hood plac- NORTH SEA OUT 10 SITKA LAST NIGHT The Steamer North Sea left for Sitka at 6:30 p. m. yesterday with the following passengers: Mrs. Julia | Widmark, Mrs. Annie Henry, Ray arm. There was tense sllence as|Peterman, 8. J. Thompson, Dave the men took aim. |Miller, G. Erwin Hube, Henry R. | Hube. Seconds later the crack of rifies ripped the tropical night and the! Fred Heathers, Floyd Ogden, Ole | Okerman, Joseph ‘Monxoe, Carl Peterson, Pete Olsen, Harry Hig- |gins, Eddie Aligays ad Mrs, Andrew | Hope. round white tarket was put over his heart by the medical officer. ‘The firing squad unlocked rifles dead. M R FROM SITKA er was —— - — PETERSBURG MAN D. E. Pettigrew, of Petersburgisa Hotel Baranof guest. Mrs. Fern Harris and Peggy Rig- ling, both of Sitka, are stopping at the Baranof. | tivity In this and most other Alas- cince the end of the war. a ports; including Sitka. Only «No matter how the English mon- mail and passengers were pul a- opolies endeavor to obstruct the of- | shore, here by the North Sea. At fensive of American capital, the i Ketchikan, the dispute has tied up serious shifting of positions in the the Alaska Line freighter Derblay struggle for oil becomes more and since Monday and the Alaska more apparent as benefitting the Transportation Company steamer latter,” the government newspaper Taku since Sunday. said. The Alaska Line vessel Victoria' One of the most obvious features has been laying idle in port here supporting this reasoning, Izvestia isince her arzival northbound at continued, was a British-American 19:50 o'clock Tuesday morning. Stiil agreement of Sept. 24, 1945, by aboard her are 150 tons of Juneau- which the paper said American oil consigned freight. Also aifected here is the mail project firm control of America’s { boat Estebeth, which is due to sail oil output, but gained recognition land way ports. Members of the in regard to “new districts,” which T Jongshore union met this afternoon Izvestia said the American press {to discuss problems. concerning the described as Far East. | Estebeth. Estebeth operators stated | BT g BN P definitely that the vessel will sail| ANCHORAGE VISITORS i as scheduled, with mail and pas-, | sengers even it without freight. | W.H. O'Shea, W. R. (Ted) Car- iter, and G. S. Patterson, of An- chorage, are at Hotel Baranof. (Continued on Page Two) industrialists not only managed to| at 6 o'clock this evening for Sitka for their long-advocated principle | firetighters prepared to renew their ,battle against an anticipated out- break of more forest fires. | NEW YORK—The Franklin Del- {ano Roosevelt stamp collection | brought a total of $210875, in an jauction sale at the Parke-Bernet Galleries, officials of H. R. Harmer, Inc., stamp auctioneers, said today. The appraised value of the late President’s philatelic collection ha? been placed at $80,000. ! NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.—Liquor dealers in Niagara County, have decided on beerless Wednesdays for the duration of the current beer shortage. Beginning on April 10, some dealers will close their places of business on Wednesdays, others will remain open, but will not sell the brew. ! RALEIGH, N. C.—Thomas Dixor, 82, author of “The Clansman,” up- on which the great, silent motion | picture, “The Birth of a Nation” | was based, died at his home here {early today after a long period of il health. MER MOVEMENTS Tongass scheduled to sail from . Seattle April 5. ! Princess Norah scheduled to sail {from Vancouver April 9. |"Northern Voyager scheduled to isail from Seattle April 12. 7 North Sea, from Sitka, due Pri- day morning southbound. Columbia, from west, due Friday ymoerning scuthbound. 1