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

=& T : ‘] HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ———————m VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,415 (ONTROLS GO OFF MANY ITEMS TODAY Sweeping Adtion Is Taken by OPA-Thousands Will Lose Jobs JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — —— "PISTOL-PACKING' PASTORS WANTTO FIGHT VICE REIGN, STEUBENVILLE, O, Nov. 11— Asserting that they are “not in the least afraid of the under- world,” 11 Protestant pastors to- day demanded the right to wield guns, and to select 20 World War | II veterans to aid them in stamp- ing out a crime wave which has resulted in three Jefferson County slayings within 10 days. Demands for a vice squad of SELECTING CREW OF ALASKA RELIEF SHIP 1 { | WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — Price “pistol-packing” pastors were madef controls were lifted from nearly 100| more items today as OPA took on| the appearance of a skeleton left! over from Hallowe'en. The new list included paper an:li wood matches, milking machines]| and other dairy equipment, lighting fixtures, a few lumber, items, and a long line of indus- trial products. It was issued as the price agency | took sweeping action toward de-| controlling itself along with the| national economy. Notice was| served on approximately 10.000‘l OPA field workers—roughly one-! third of the remaining staff that their jobs will fold up in 30} days. | Even more immediately, OPA or- dered its last local price boards, 1,642 of them, locked up for good| on Monday. Today's decontrol announcement | said the latest list of articles was| freed “because their supply is in| approximate balance with demand,| or because they are unimportant in business or living costs.” 1 Farm dairy machinery freed from ! controls included churns, ice-refrig- erated milk coolers, and cream and milk separators. ; Other machinery items released | included certain gasoline and dies- @l engines and. some pumps. "~ | The lighting equipment on the| list included incandescent fixtures| for industrial and commercial use except fluorescent fixtures. | Among lumber items decontrolled were red wood lumber used for ci- gar boxes, walnut lumber and wal- nut gunstock blanks. ! Metal products on the list were| fluid shipping containers and wire; reinforcing for use in concrete. School and passenger bus bcdiesi and parts also went on the free| list. | ————— | England Hasn't 1 Any Job fo Give " Her Former King: LONDON, Nov. 1 The Duke of Windsor conferred today wnh[ Prime Minister Attlee—but didn't; get a job. | An authoritative government source said there were no suitable appointments available. The former king entered No. 10 Downing Street by a rear entrance| and left the same way after talk-! ing with Attlee nearly an hour.| Steamship officials said they un-| derstood Widsor and his Duchess would sail for New York Nov. 6. | The Duke wants a position in which he can be active. | I The Washington| Merry - Go- Round By DREV_V——_I_’_EJARSON WASHINGTON—Inside fact about the firing of ace Justice Depart- ment prosecutor John Rogge was that he was ousted on direct or- ders from President Truman. Indirectly also the orders came & Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana with reported off-stage promptings from John L. Lewis. Rogge had discussed his Swarth- more speech in advance with Attor- ney Genera} Tom Clark, and the latter knew all about the dyna- mite that was going to be explod- ed. He knew that various high- placed Americans whom the Nazis tried to use iin 1940, including John | L. Lewis and Senator Wheeler, would have their feet held to the| fire. Furthermore, Attorney Gen-| eral Clark discussed the impending | speech with at least one other| member of the Cabinet. Two days passed after Rogge's| Oct. 22 speech was delivered and| nothing happened. There was noj move inside the Justice Depart- City Council signed Robert K. Russell, in a letter, to by the Rev. President of the Steubenville Min-{po and range of their civil wa in the fatal shooting Wednesday night band, Homer. of her Navy 19. e veteran CLAREMORE, Okla. — Okla- homa's favorite son, Will Rogers, will be commemorated on his birth- day Monday with a parade, horse an colt show and free barbecue of six beeves. Neighbors and friends are invited. It will be a State holiday. ROME—Rome police have arrest- ed two suspects in the bombing of the British Embassy yesterday. One of the i only as “a man of Polish origin” The other person held is an Italian. NEW YORK—A Korean organiza- tion has sent out an appeal to all delegations of -the United Nations Assembly for a simultaneous with- drawal of American and Russian troops from Korea and for the granting of UN membership to an { Manchuria in junks. interim Korean government. WASHINGTON—The government { neay the famous Marco Polo Bridge, today dopted a “wait-and-see” atti- tude as far as the erratic cotton market is concerned. Although both c the White House and the Agricul- ture Department kept a sharp eye on prices, an agriculture spokes- man said no immediate action was in prospect. WASHINGTON — Striking AFL Pilots and Trans World Airline of- ficials studied a new but undisclosed proposal today for ending the 12- day-old walkout. While details were withheld, Federal Mediator Frank P. Douglass voiced hope both sides might agree to submit their wage dispute to arbitration and resume flight operations pending the ar- biter’s findings. /BINGHAMTON, N. Y.-In a hal- lowe'en game playmates buried eight-year-old William Russell in a pile of leaves in Judson Street. The children scattered when a car driven by Harvey E. Miller came along. It drove through the leaves and struck the boy. William died at City Hospital. CLEVELAND—The right foot of Bill Veeck, amiable President of the Cleveland Indians, was amputated today at Cleveland Clinic Hospital in an operation which ended nearly three years of treatments for an injury received by the ex-Marine on Bougainville. ATHENS — Newspapers reported 33 Leftists killed fighting troops in central Greece today as Premier Constantin Tsaldaris still strove here to form a broadened cabinet. CANTON—Four persons were re- |isterial Association, and 10 mem- i rushed vanguards to within 33 miles bers of the group as Mrs. Phyllis Jnr Dairen today, encircled 100,000 |be Ly airplane to Edmonton or Savage, 17-year-old expectant | fiercely fighting Communists ‘n jother Canadian cities and then by | some | mother, was scheduled to be ar-{Chefoo, and engaged their country- (the already-established bus service! raigned on an undetermined (-hargeimcn in half a dozen other sectors.|over the road. i The newspaper | Max Dean of Butte, Mont., As-; hus- : Jih i | nationals had driven south down the |tana, Idaho, North Dakota, Wy- eral days ago when Canadian au- opening of a Government mine { Mukden-Dairen Railway. ;Umm . Oregon and Alberta and | thorities refused to pass American | contract to discuss new working Government sources previously ‘Bl'mah Columbia, Canada, re at- goods over the Alaska Highway. U.| conditions and wages. said Gen. Tu Li-ming’s troops, fresh | tending the convention. S, Sonator Warren G. Magnuson| As the meeting opened the Bit- i from capturing Antung, would not ! . s 5 asked the State Department to uminous Coal Operators’ Negotiat- I menace Dairen itself, but would es-|® ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ © ¢ © © o act |ing Committee issued a statement tablish a 30-mile safety zone around | ° WEATHER REPORy * ‘anadian officials took several caying the Government in the view .hat Russian-occupied open port. |® (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) ® ;days to lock into the joint Ameri- ef the committee has decided to There were these other develop- © Temperatures for 24-Hour Period o 'can-Canadian agreements covering|rccpen ifs contract with Lewis and ments: s Ending 6:30 0'Clock This Morning @ 'the highway and -to get a legal that the decision had been made Nationals striking at Chefoo and | . © o o e |interpretation of several phrases by “politically minded men.” ‘Lhe Shantung Peninsula to cut off . In‘ Juneau — Maximum, 36; e described as “ambiguous.” | Lewis has demanded such reop- {he Reds’ Yellow Sea route to Man- | ® Minimum, 23. ® Notes were exchanged on ch ening but so far the Government shuria approached the suburbs of le At Airport — Maximum, 38; e 17 and 18, 1942, providing that the has not dircctly agreed to go that Yehhsien, one of the four largesti' minimum, 19. ® Alaska Highway should become an far. . derts on the northern coast, and o 3 ® | “integral part” of the CBaniflfll < b i sngaged Chinese Red forces in iwo WEATHER FORECAST o highway system and that there | othere (Juneau and Vieinity) o d be. no diseriminatory con-| o [ Y b b t suow. 30utheaslerly o ditions as between American and | e r ua e The “ait. foree, usmg, AMeriCArvy gings 25 1o 30 miles per hour Canadian civilian traffic, and pro- | planes and bombs, was attempting |, 2 ! . £ s 4 5 . |® and warmer tonight. Occasion- ® |viding for waiving by Canada of | to halt Communist reinforcements, & i by < _ | M ! dibping to Shantiing Peninswia rrom‘. al light rain or snow. Warm- @ import duties, transit and other | | slipping g l® er with decreasing winds Sat- @ charges on shipments going either n eu Ians " | ® urday. way between Alaska and the Unit- ! i Govummemdaxnd Coh mlunlis‘t . PRECIPITATION e ed States. troops engaged in an hour's clash | e (Past 24 nours eading 7:30 n.m. today) ® | The firs adian interpreta b 5 .} i Ciat ‘IhL first Canadian ir v.mpuuqun NEW YORK, Nov. 1. — Delics | ) 2 e In Juneau — trace; since ® had been to refusz American ship- recording instruments have reg 1 ive miles west of Peiping. © Nov. 1, trace; since July 1, ® pers the bonded trucking rights d"‘:‘h‘ ‘(f. e f{nnvs o ;‘m_‘ ! In northern Shensi Province, the |® 3651 inches. o the ground that Canadians did mot, €0 e S8t T LER o nave | ommunists were credited with cap- '® At Airport 02 inches; ® have this right and that hence |l otE e el uring most of Yulin's outer defenses | ® since Nov. 1, 02. inches; since ® such tregtment was not discrim-| ”d_ ;ILAI'\\I{ Yhe tremor Wlas .nd with having virtually surround- (@ July 1, 27.56 inches. o lingtory. e e e e 2d the city. @@ o e s v o8 8 o e o The provision that there should Tecorded DRLweer, SANIE. 1 B | v | Eastern Time, on the seismographs _— .- I —— |be no “import duties, transit or g = P . e 3 | at Georegtown University and Ford- ! Ms]’ R“’ES FOR similar charges” on American ship-j, ea s own or y ments, however, seemed to be in: el 2 | “E"nv BEHRE"DS conflict with l.h'é and, :\Ccurdm“l‘ SEATTLE, Nov. 1—The Alaska i Anchorage, Fairbanks to the American - Covernments gomunication System headquart- [ +s ments, ¢ 2 ok v abOH N ’ i | Th c . dnafs Hias its stations in Alaska reported the 1—Tho sixth | he Canadian decision appli which was recorded 1l IN WARFARE TOURIST TRAVEL, | ALASKA HIGHWAY, - NOT FOR PRESENT SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 1 —Cnn-l adian travel officials told the Pa-| cific Northwest Tourist Association | PG Convention that the Alaska High- | way is not likely to be opened in {the near future to tourists | Vanguards Rushed Toward . “Even should the military drop! Dairen-100,000 Com- | contror of e sona. it wouid smke! . . |years to establish accommodations munists Encircled ot e CHINA ARMY MOVES AHEAD j:md refueling facilities for any vol-| : ume of said R. A. Mec- By TOM MASTERSON | Mullen, Relations Director | for the Province of Alberta, Can- PEIPING, Nov. 1.-Chinesz Gov- ernment armies, increasing the tem- [ada He said the acccpted mode of s {travel for some time to come will| pro - government X Pao said vanguards reached |scciation President, predicted a 10 Pulantien, only 33 miles north of |billion dollar tourist industry next Dairen on the border between Man. r—almost double that of 1946 churia and Kwantung Peninsula nd said “the Northwest States Their objective is to cut off the intend to get as much of that| The United States is understood | al Communists Etrade as possible.” : Lioatung Peninsula Lelegates from Washington, Mon- from the Manchurian mainland. The SEATTLE, Nov i shipment of meat to strike-bound | Funeral services for Henry O. Alaska left here today in two planes. | Behrends, 26, son of old-time res The shipment, nearly seven tons of dents of Juneau Mr. and Mrs. Jul-| meat and lard, was carried by alius Behrends, will be held tomor- slane of Arnold Airways bound for row afternoon at 2 o'clock from | Anchorage and one from Alaska the Chapel of the Charles W. Airlines headed for Fairbanks. | Carter Mortuary, with the Rev. G.| An official of the Odom Produce |Herbert Hillerman delivering the ! Company, which was handling uh ulogy. shipments, said that another planc Ernest Ehlers will sing two ap- would load 1,000 pounds of meat fo: propriate numbers at this service. Juneau. . Preceding the public service, the Officials said the cost of shipping |Masons will hold open Lodge at meat to Anchorage was about 20 1 o'clock in the Scottish Rite| lcents per pound and to Fairbanks Temple. \ | j was 21 to 25 cents. The pallbearers, representatives ———————— lof the Elks and Masons, will be |Geo. E. OCleveland, Frank Her-, U.S. MUST CONTINUE Soon. et ™ s Livie, J. B. Burford, and Floyd/ AS WORLD LEADER “:::- | | Interment will be in the Mason- I z |ported today to have been killed i and seven wounded by a band of 15! Chinese pirates who boarded a Can- ton-Wuchow passenger vessel, en: gaged in a gun fight with the crew and made off with a fortune in Chinese currency. LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. — The |lieve the American’ people will not Tnited States today asked the Unit- ed Nations to broaden its considera- tions of a site for permanent head- letharey, | |maintain the ideals and the peace quarters to include the Flushing Meadows area of New York City and the San Francisco Bay area. COUNCIL MEETS CITY | | SAYS EISE"HOWER iic Plot, Evergreen Cemetery. { | S | . FiSHLANDINGS EASTON, Pa., Nov. 1—Dwight D. | Eisenhower said today that fail-‘ Three boats have unloaded car- ure of the United States to re-igoes of salmon at the Juneau Cold main a ‘“leader within the C°“"'!Stora¢e the latter part of this munity of nations . . . will be thelyeep They are the Fox, troller prelude to another ' world con-| skippered by Cliff Mason, Wwith " | d flict. 11200 ‘pounds of salmon; Sandy In a speech prepared for deliv- ery at the annual Founder's Day exercises of Lafayette College, Eisenhower, who received the hon- orary degree of Doctor of Laws, said: “This time, however, I firmly be- Stevens’ Wanderer, with 800 pounds of salmon; and the troller 31-T- 125, skipper Roger Bailey, with 12500 pounds of salmon. All boats ;suld to Sebastian-Stuart. BURIAL OF ANGOON NATIVE, JEFF DAVIS, e, v s e vace TOMORROW 10 A.M. perished.in battle.” | The remains of John Davis, native The Army Chief of Staff added, of Angoon who died October 28 at “It is the principal duty of yom-ime Government Hospital, will be generation to see that we do not buried in Evergreen Cemetery, with —for if the fearful tragedy of |funeral services to be held at 10 relax in their leadership or aban- don in disarmed and isolationist their responsibility to City Council will meet in regu-|global war should again engulf us,|o'clock tomorrow morning from the Jar session tonight at 8 o'clock injyou will pay the principal portion Only busi- of the price.” ness due for attention is the third The wartime commander of Al- and final reading of Ordinance 309, lied Expeditionary Forces said “The| the council chambers. ment to admonisi him. Then, on the second day, Oct. (Continued on Page Four) regulating rates charged the City United States must not shirk n.s| by Alaska Electric Light and Pow- respensitilities, er Company. | Chapel of the Charles W. Carter | Mortuary. The Rev. Walter Soboleff will officate. i s Dueling as a court of last resort onerous ' Was abolished by the Icelandic par- liament in 1006. however they may be.” U. 5. TRUCKS IN BOND T0 6O THROUGH Canada Agn;es to Such Shipping Between U. S.- Alaska Over Highway By HARRY T. MONTGOMERY OTTAWA, Ont., Nov. 1—Canada has agreed to permit truking in {kond between the United States|Lewis' United Mine and Alaska over the Alasko High-| way. ‘The Canadian Government is preparing an order-in-council to permit such trucking. Heretofore trucking in bond has not been rmitted on Canadian highways i shippers of any country except der certain special wartime ar- mngements to be satisfied with today's decision, which ends a dispute opened sev- also to the Haines cut-off, running through the Canadian Province of British Columbia between the port of Skagway, Alaska, and the Alas Highway. e WILDLIFE OFFICIALS " RETURNING FROM TRIP Frank W. Hynes, Rgicnal Direc- tor of Fish and Wildlife Service here, and Milt Furness, adminis- trative officer, are expected to re- turn here tomorrow after a five- day business trip to th> Interior Mr. Hynes has been engaged in the Karluk Reserve case at Fair- banks and Mr. Furness has made a survey of Wildlife property that area. MRS, TED SAMPLES HAS ANNOUNCEMENT OF SON'S WEDDING Mrs. Ted Samples of this city has received word of the marriage of her son, Thomas Jadro, Jr. to Miss Ruth Edna Sattman, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Satt- man of Washington, Pa. The cere- mony took place October 26, in the { United Lutheran Church. The groom is a former Alaskan, and was born in Ketchikan. Mrs. Samples’ birthday is the same day as her son's wedding day, she said. R STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 1. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 8312, Anaconda 38%, Curtiss-Wright 6, International Harvester 72, Ken- necott 45%, New York Central 17%, Northern Pacific 21'%, U. 8. Steel 173%, Pound $4.03 5/16. Sales today were 1,670,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 171.76; 56.63; utilities, 35.67. in | ‘Wage (ase Of Lewis Is ~ Taken Up cinment Talking Over Miners’ Situation-Oper- ., ators Make Response WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — The Government down to talk over Inew wage ands with John L Workers today s the private owners of the coal nes contended any new conces- sions to Lewis would be pub- |lic disgrace.” | Lewis sent a delegation headed by John O'Leary, Vice President of the AFL Mine Workers’ Union, to irepresent him in a conference with {Feceral Coal Mines Administrator N. H. Collisson; Lewis himself was ent when the meeting opened i The session was called in an- |swer to Lewis' demand for a re- Cov de eartnquake throughout the United States and was believed to center in the Aleu- tians. HONOLULU, Nov. 1.—Hawali was alerted at dawn today for a pos- sible tidal wave following an earth it ap- that shock in the Aleutians but peared at 9:45 (Pacific Tim all danger had passed. ‘The Coast Guard had been wa ed from Washington that a wave might strike Hawaii's shores at 5:19 a.m four hours after the earth <hock had registered Pelice i diately notified resi- den's 2leng the beaches which were r by a disastrous tidal wave last April 1. Manv people left their hom: Capt. John W, Ryssy cf the Coast Guard said it was apparent that the | danger was over. WRANGELL NEGRESS GUILTY OF WHITE SLAVE VIOLATION | Lee O. Teague, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI, announced today that Walter Ric! d York, 36-year- old Seattle Ne nd Frances Lil- lian Smith, 47-year-old Negress of Wrangell, Alaska, were found guilty of violation of the White Slave Traf- | fic Act in Federal Court at Seattle | on October 30. The trial of a third |defendant, Mary Mills, §5-year-old Seattle Negr: was postponed on laceount of her illness. ! These persons had been charged [with the trs | year-old white woman from Seattle |to Wrangell for purposee of pros- titution in May, 1946. The Smith | woman was arrested at Wrangell on | August 17 last after investigation ‘by FBI age representatives of ithe U. 8. Md s office at Juneau, |Wrangell and Ketchikan and the Juneau Police Department. Sentence rails, | of York and Smith has not yet been |Hallowe'en party jpronounced. Sand- are wsportation of a 34- | CCDEMANDS FINAL HITCH RESUMPTION - WORKED OUIT §S SERVICE FOR SAILING Resolution Calls for Im-'Naming of Engineering Of- mediafe Private Action ficers Last Obstacle, or Public Operation Is Report Today The Exec ¢ ard ¢ J SE AT J, 13 e s o SEATTLE, Nov. 1—The Alaska p . of Commerce, meetl- ) geoamship Company and ths Com- | | ion at 10 o'clock ! ing in a spe ses: ‘“l‘w\ Saiest gt St imittee for Maritime Unity were iy s, o ‘m" i passing names of engineering of- . ficers back and forth today to vice to Alaska “must forthwith choose a mutually-satisfactory crew be resumed by either private action | . R RS ikt e private action | (o the Grommet Reefer, relief ship It Is polrited out that, prolohation | o, re « needed [opd . SUNIISE A of the maritime strike on top of numerous cther shipping stoppages ! in the Alaska trade during the ) year is becoming “intolerable tion of engincering of- s remains the only hitch to ing the ship with a 4,000 ton ready to be loaded. ruinous to the Territory,” since i 2 " {least 95 per cent of u:“v(is :»::l\lxtx‘nw g | Merbenn CL: IR RIRRKR SIARES . e s R _ |Cemmittee met in Mayor William here are procured from the States. |p Devin's office yesterday with and lack of rail or highway trs bl y o or highway trans- i, . esentatives of the CMU, Alaska portation, together with limited air ted 3 V. e A I servipe which " tends ‘68 rogke air |0 camanip. CouBNO./ANE RIS el 1904 g i Commission and the AFL Masters. cargo rates prohibitive, leaves Al- Mate and Pilots’ Associati aska greatly dependent on Waler | howoemomt g o quedtions. as prinabortation \greement on all questions was Y jreached except over selection of Severance of such lifelines Mot | he enginsers. only “discommodes the people of | The Maritime Commission put a :x]-,la:kuf vi] but I{ntn'll‘u.]‘)l.‘\ mf great | orf in nearly-completed sailing bulk of all interstate cargo ca nlans when, designating the ship, to the Territory and brings Al 5110 specified the vessel was to be whele cconomy to a grinding and | crewed-Up under conditions pra- painful stop so that nctwiths ing & few emergency shipment tha smaller towns and limited stockpiles | nad specified the crew must’ be of essential supplies in some of the ‘named by the union xvmd the op- bigger towns, consumers are scaved | yators jointly. by shorte and air freight n a1 Lgel ] teneting (o the point | NEW- MOVE MADE that businesses are closing down in'{ gAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1| — The rapidly increasing numbers, With | pacitic Coast Waterfront Employ- ultant unemployment and en-!c.o Association has - demandek eral’ hardship. ¢ withdrawal of the CIO Lougshore- As a public service, the water- mgn's $6,000,000 lawsuit as & con- borne trade is “vested with a public |dition to negotiations to end the intercst, and, as a public service, en- !maritime strike. A spokesman has 17 on September 30, or before strike. The CMU previously rusted with essential operations for |described the action as a nuisance the necessity of neutral publiv,!suu, ‘It charges the shipowners sheuld be compelled to maintain lwith failing to meet a deadline for that scrvice or forfeit the right to jpayment of retroactive wage in- an appropriate public authority,” creases ordered last June. The th.: CC resolution continues. junion has made the operators a Concluding, the resclution states new proposal, and maintains that that “neither flagrant disregard of {its acceptance will remove the he public’s rights from any source, ! jast obstacle to settlement of the ner governmental weakness in 'hr*!monlh old strike. prem can be condoned and fulli and adeguate steamship service to | ARMY CARGO COMING Alaska must forthwith be resumed | SEATTLE, Nov. 1—Two ships by cither private action or publiciwith a total of 7,000 tons Army operation,—not only in justice t0/cargo for Alaska are scheduled to peovle of Alaska but out of re- [jeave for Alaska ect to the national interest in an| The - Lucidor, operated by the area vitally necessary to the na-|Northland Transportation Com- itional defense ipany, was posted to sail tonight for Whittier with 3,000 tons of Copies of the resolution are being ; sent to all Chambers of Commerce ;Axmy posh v The Palisana, in Alaska, as well as Seattle, Ta- { operated by the ccma, Spokane, Portland, San Fran. | Alaska Transportation =Cempany, cisco and Los Angeles; and to the | Will start loading 4000 tons Tues- President cf the United States; the {38V for shipments in the Aleu- {tians. Governor of Alaska; the Delegate to rom Alaska; the Secretar: ‘The Alaska Steamship Compaay Clngress of the Interior: the Secretaries of |reéceived word that its steamship Labor, War, and Navy; the U. S, |Victoria was discharging freight at Maritime Commission aid to the jNome today. She has cargo for respective ®steamship managements | Golovin and Solomon and will and unions involved in the Alaska {PFing to Seattle surplus Army trade. freight and other cargo. —————— - >ee— BIDY OF 'SAWMILL' 'Navy Fleef Sfeam 103:“3‘3;‘ A'S me:&nrl North for Troops fo il i Take fo Maneuvers The body of a drowned man w:m! PRI - SAN DIEGO, Nov. 1.—A fleet of discovered this morning at the Al- | aska Juneau dock. Investigating of-| nine attack transports, four cargo ficers identified him as Thorvald ;ships and numerous smell amphi- ‘Sawmill” Johns of 914 West | bious vessels amed north today enth Street, who had been em- | to pick un the Army Second Division ed off and on as a contract lat Olympia, Wash. The fleet will stacker at the Juneau Lumber Mill until October 18 urive in Olympia November 4. { The Army troops, more than 12,000 Dr. William M. Whitehead, who { stror will he brought here for will make a thorough examinaiior ous training culminating in of the body, estimated that the | cale Army-Navy landing oxer- "ises at San Clemente Island and Alise Beach near Oceanside, Calif. - - {man had been dead not more than |48 hours. Dr. Whitehead's vx.\mmm] |tion is expected to show whether | death was caused | iccidentally or ‘ : Shipped from Japan !when and where Johnson was last | seen alive. IH(-’ had no dependents, and ne i relative e known v elatves are Known, 35 ye. To Pacific Northwest | GIRL SCOUT NEWS TOKYO, Nov. 1 — General Mac- i . i3 |Arthur’s Food and Fisheries Sec- | Girl Scout Troop No. 10 met at'tjon said today it would begin 13:45 o'clock yesterday ajternoon in!gshipments in January of 50,000 the Northern Light Presbyterian cases of seed oysters to the Pacific | church parlors. We discussed” our ' Coast Oyster Growers Association for replanting oyster beds from reporter. British Columbia to Coos Bay, Ore. | —DOLORES LOHR,