The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1946, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT LOCAL AREA Changchun's R COMBED FOR LOST PLANE Juneau-mnd Army Transporf Missing Since Yakutat Take-off Army, Navy and Co; Guard are Ji d in a search « ¥ ea between Juneau and Y for an Army C-45 (Beachcraft) two- éngine, light transport plane miss- ing since Friday on a flight frc Anchorage to Juneau Aboard the missi cra are a pilot and three passengers. (Names of those atoard the plane have been disclosed by Army authorities at the Alaska Air Depot, Anchor- age.) The lost plane took off from kutat, for Gustavus, late Frida morning, after refueling. No word had been received from it by the time its fuel would have run out, according to unofficial reports her One lead to the lost crait was a report of an unidentified plane over Haines Friday afternoon. It was thought that the missing craft might have followed the wrong beam from the intersection point near Cape Spencer. The search is being conducted from Yakutat and Fall Expedted ~ During Today ‘Communisfira)ps Capture | Railway Station - Go Deep Into City The ecngagement of Miss Ruth B Scheol {teacher, and daughter of Mrs. Perle Crenkite, Alemeda, Calif., to Jim Cronk h Cronkite, Jim Moscrip fo Wedon May 28 Junior Grade Moscript, Pan American Meteorolog- ist, and son of William Reed Mos- crip, of San Francisco, {announced last weekend at a Sun- day afternoon tea at th Calif., w home of the bride-elect and Miss Rose Olive s decessors THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ACTIVE WINTER FOR' DOUGL AS NO STRIKE BY ALASKA MW UNION (Continued jrom Page One) the ASPSU and ANB have spent thousands of dollaps in surveying -such bad eonditions and securing commitments from can- 'MARIA ITURBI HERO ENDS STORMY LIFE IN FATHER'S HOME Pianist lturbi Finds Daugh- ter Dying from Self- Inflicted Gunshot BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, April 17—A revolver wound in the tem- ple. brought to an end today the BOATMEN FOLLOWED {NOW BY BRIEF LULL, The customary, annual lull, that| NEWS O.E.S. INITIATES FOUR Taking advantage of the mild | spring weather, a record number of {Juneau Chapter members attended |oceurs the week before the week be-| the Nuggett Chapter No. 2 OES |fore the halibut season starts, today! {had Small Boat Harbor machine| |shops resting up in anticipation of | next week's rush business. :F ! The Juneau Welding and Machine | Shop announced construction of a /new pump for Herkert Savikko's| troller. Savikko, of Douglas, re-| {cently sold his Nuisance II, ac-| meeting last evening in the Eagles all. Initiated into the order were rances Grant, The hall was greatly improved | by the seats loaned by Charles M. Leigh S. Grant, | Wilma Jensen and Thomas B. Jen- | | sen. H e * WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17,1946 it with their daughter and family. here. Mr. and Mrs. Hirtz are from Bloomington, Calif. and this i§ their first Alaska visit, although they have two more daughters now residing on Glacier Highway be=: sides Mrs. Allen of Douglas. They are Mrs. Lloyd Derry and Mrs. Howard Gaines. 1 TERR: GUARD MEETING Capt. Wendell Cahill, of the Douglas Unit of Territorial Guards, announces there will be a meet- ing of the unit of Guards tomors row Thursday evening at 7:30 o'elock in the Nat, hall. There will be a further practice in small bore rifle range practice. BULLETIN — Peiping, April |King neriss for PrOVEIEMES ~.. strife-ridden life of Maria Tturbi cen | Tuckett, and by the painti and R T Vie-General Marshall arrived | A graduate of San Jose State](enis of magin e e o The | ero, 26-year-old daughter of the GWrng a troller. The shop also has! o ®0 BAC L L ety oo C.C. ME&TS TOMORROW by plane from Tokyo today to lege, Miss Cronkite has been!iy oo ety . oncert pianist, Jose Iturbi |ordered a new block for Frank o o :| The Juneau Chamber ot Come i y Y housing .and plumbi 1 F Willi t H h for Leigh Grant, Glen Kirkham and v 7 his role as China’s On the Juneau School st are hecoming more. freg he was found by her father, ly- Py W PO, o DRER. IOk e ATk merce will ‘hold their regular nhibe’ o8 on Chmmunis September. Mr. M 5l daniih warthne WL rte on the floor of his bedroom, trollers } | Following the meeting. refresh- |\uncheon meeting {bmorrow: noog assault on Manchuria’s capital educated at th e BenatitinG Afani 3 | her afire, a .32 caliber gun Larry Bahm, of the Motor Re- g/ : % in the Gold Room of the Baranof r benefiting Alaska reside ur X build Co., is preparing his crujcar ments were served in the dining . of Changchun raged toward | Washington, and i Al tiiewseason is $0o Jabe, tG-al iy Near her outstrstched arm. She PG Co. '8 Drepaiing his erulssri oot Cue’ Boroing ackethiding o u. MINe Mits Hele Care Field ALlmbe dent of Bellingham, Wash., haslyp.o© i B0 U009 TS Y d two hours later in a hospital, |the Vagabond, a 32-footzr, for the| | o T o o iT oY eten Carlyle| ReEPTesentative, American Red The special U'S. envoy, ac- with PAA in Juneau for' the ' geicine conditions in cannerie rein specialists admitted there Summer. . land Mary Pinkkley. | Cross, as guest speaker. She will two years. was nothing they could do to save | have some interesting stories tor companied by Mrs. Marshall, Fid 8 8 d immediate attention and in the Crville Wheat has installed a new| The dining ta i i stepped ont of his four-engine | The ! I take place Maypqst peor conditioris’ have her digine: i Bla'. halibib Boak & Tk 1o dascektad e ;:l::;r::ul\‘xcrm {80 Of, Wia TSNS SESNILDE of Uil transport plane nine hours af- |28. After a honeymoon ip 10 ayeq considerable tuberculosis Iturbi, near collapse, was at her pycker (31A791), which he bought! & Red Cross in Alaska. ter taking off from Tokyo, . the couple will reside In gng contagious skin diseases at bedside. Her two daughters, center jast winter in Petersburg. Now| VISITING HERE | i SRR A where he conferred with Gen- certain points, resulting in. consid- for vears of court battles with her |awaiting a new wheel, Wheat willl Mr, and Mrs. Jacob Hirtz, par-| Lyle L. Lohr and E. J. Asselin cral MacArthur. b ook ST erably lessened net take-home pay. father and her former husband, take the Tucker out May 1. | ents of Mrs. R. L. Allen and Ernie , s ot 1l BY PEIPING, ! Changehun, torn Manchr to an overwhelm- ing force ¢f Communist troops, was forecast at Sino-American troop | headquarters today as China hope- | fully awaited the arrival of peace- seeking General Marshall. P! pril 17—The fall of A capital of civil war-; e ARCCAMP AIGN FUND HERE NOW $6,44.T1 IS REPORT TO BPW( “The Business teresting luncheon and Professional {Wamen's Club held a busy and in- < and busin Latest news dispatches reported mecting today in the Barano! Ccmmunist forces had penetrated Gelq Rcom, with Mrs. Irma Pur- decp into Changchun, seized itS jnoton presiding in the absence of Gustavus, and no first-hand know- only railway station, and disrupted A y - » ~¢ Mrs. Lillian Uggen, President. ledge of its progress is available| ommunication formerly controlied o here, though it is known that the search continues today. { Nine Plane Search Lt. Col. William B. Wright, chief of personnel and basz services of the Alaska Air Depot is directing' the search in Southeast Alaska and has had nine planes at his disposal at Gustavus: Two B-24s, three C- 47s, one C-45, two Coast Guard emphibians and a Navy PB4Y Privateer. No civilian planes have, been called to aid in the hunt, though airliners on the Yakutat-| by government officiais. out three more days. In Chungking, officials estimate the governments new First Army would require at least a week to push the 90 miles from Szepingkai north to Changchun against the Communist harassment. The arfly was moving afoot with: mules hauling its American equip- ment. Marshall was expected to arrive Miss Chairman report of $8,400. Mrs. Elsie Werner, BP.WC. ih charge of the Red Peiping observers doubted that cyog Campaign Drive, reported a government troops there would hold tota) of $6,528.72 received in the ! Juneau-Douglas area, 4 minute donations reported after her brought mount to $6,644.29, leaving the lo- newly seized €81 quota $1,725.71 short of the goal WaS made, while Betty McCormick, last- the report- ing for the Juneau Chapter, AR.C., announced the following amounts received from Skagway, $350, and Gustavus leg were held up for j idafterncon from Tokyo, where tat 1ot yet reporting. pE A | BP.W.C. members will meet to- der to clear up the lanes for the nacArthur., He is returning from|Morrow night at 8 o'clock in the some time Friday afternoon in or- lost plane. “ It is stated at Anchorage that Major Charles E. Mosse, command- ifig officer of the Tenth Rescue Sguadron, who is directing the séarch from that end, has more réscue units available to move into Boutheast Alaska at minute’s no- tice. 9 Seach Hampered Low-lying clouds and scattered ghowers in the mountainous reg- ion over which the hunt is pro- ssing have hampercd search ef- , it is said, -holding the search craft to the lower land and water areas. “wo squads of Jand-rescue men from the Tenth Rescue Squadron, |he conferred yesterday with Gen. import: 'from Petersburg, 806.32, with Yaku- ant Washington conferences Red Cross office in the Shaituck |with President Truman to try to en- | Building, to complete packing pack- ages for France, and are requested force the peace agreement he nego-| tiated in January, disregarded after United States. | Associated Press Correspondent’ Tom Masterson, one of five Ameri- can correspondents isolated in |Changchun by the embattled Com- munist and government troops, managed to send ocut a reporting the Reds the Capital's only railroad station.| That gave them transportation for supplies and for reinforcements, should they decide they need the latter. ‘They have an estimated 40,000 troops in the area, opposed by gome 4,000 government troops and he tape. tain good dispatch names of whom had captured through the International B.P.W.C These packages clothing, used will but which was to bring with them heavy scissors left for the OF a knife for cutting boxes to theé !correct size, and also a measuring con- foed 'stuffs, soaps and other necessities Taking the place of the regular social meeting next month will be a business meeting and election of officers to ke held Monday night May 6, in Room 207, Baranof Ho- tel. Mrs. Crystal Jenne, Miss El- sie Werner and Miss Jeanne Haas (a publicity AMWU can only regard the FTA- CIO strike celled for Aprfl 21 as stunt of, no practical benefit to Alaskans. B 33 PASSENGERS ARE FLOWN HERE BY PAN AMERICAN Pan American Airways yesterday flew the following passengers to and from Seattle: To ‘Seattle: Bee Bowley, Clara Christensen, Marianna Brandes, Ag- nes Van Wettering, James Plecas, Evelyn Plecas, Axel Hanson, Lu- cia Hand, George Hand, Alex Mac- Dickeken, Harold Jolson, Jerry Turner, Ida Garnvick. From Seattle: George Moore, Wallis George, John Sundholm, Charles McDonald, Tom Templeton, Thomas Conrad, Mary Widner, Dean Core, June Schmidt, Gloria Schmidt, Ollie Estes. Clarence King, Edward Kapper, Berand Vaughan, Carl Jones, Ol2 Alsdick, Emmett Easterly, Sanford Wagner, Art Lee, John Anderson,| Sophie Roach, Leo Roach, Gail Miller, Marline Miller, Vivian Mill- er, Gregory Vhas, Gerald Willard, Evelyn Hill, Carl Peterson, Don| Olson, To Whitehorse, Frank Nelson, Frank Hunt; from Whitehor: IN, OUT YESTERDAY The following twenty-one pas- sengers were flown by Alaska Coast- al Airlines yesterday to Hawk Ir- let: T. Conrad, J. Sinmdholm, L. W. Swanson, Louis Karstens, T. B. remained at home with their nurse. Det.-Sgt. Arthur H. McBain, cali- ing the shooting “clearly a case of suicide,” said Iturbi told him he returned home shortly before mid- night and was playing the piano in his drawing room when he heard a shot. Rushing upsteirs, he found his aaughter sprawled by a bed. Ex- tinguishing the flames in her bru- nette hair, he called an ambulance. Miss Iturbi, a slim, Latin girl then 18, was married in Bedford Hills, . Y., in 1936 to Stephen Hero, 20, a violinist. Their two dal{ghters are Marie Teresa, 9, and Maria Antonia 8, DIGNITY HURT LOS ANGELES, April 17.—Ar- thur Grevelle, 29-year-old circus attendant sees nothing funny about having to eat meals off the mantle. He got too close to a tiger's cage last night as he put a cover over the enclosure. The big cat reached through the bars, bared his claws, and grabbed Grevelle by the seat of his trousers. The attendant was treated at a nospital for lacerations but doctors could do nothing for his wounded dignity. R e B 'ELLIS AIRLINES : from Ketchi- passengers yester: kan: W. A. Bates, Vance Simpson; to Ketchikan, Mae Lewis, W. H. Greenlee, Eleanor Bodahl, William Ihly, Mrs. Sam Sharp; To Peters- burg: Chris Hennings. - MEMORIAL CHURCH TO RECEIVE REPORTS The current lull follows a highly! active winter. Harbor Master A. F. Bixby said today that more than P; Hirtz their son, arrived on the rincess Norah for a summer’s vis- of Skagway, are stopping at thg Gastineau during their visit to thil city. : 200 fishing boats were serviced on the Small Boat Harbor grid in the last five months. 3 Bixby recently cold his charter yacht, The Leota, to B. Smith for use on the Skagway mail run. The Lecta was used by the Navy for two years and.réturned to Bixby in THIBODEAU’S GROCERY WILL BE CLOSED ON GOOD FRIDAY FROM 12 NOON TO 3 P. M. 1945. Bixby has not replaced the boat. i e - PNA FLIES IN FROM ANCHORAGE WITH 15 \ On the regular Juneau-Anchor- age run yesterday, Pacific North- ern Airlines flew 35 passengers be- tween those cities and to Cordova and Kodiak. H Arriving here from Anchorage' were: Harold Jillson, Judge Hellen-| thal, Roy Eaton, Walter Gray, Ma- | bel Cropley, Alton Cropley, Stan-| ley Rude, George Dale, Willard Beatty, Neil S. Lyons, Mrs. Neil S. Lyons, John B. Boyanchek, Les- lie A. 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