The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 24, 1947, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,485 JUNEAU, ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA'S FISHING SEASON L5 REDUCED Affairs in Chicago. Both this of- fice and the Bureau of the Budget roved the proposed plan and gave their endorsement to the | uransfer. While Skagway factory, SANATORIUM AT SKAGWAY T0 BE | MOVED 70 SITKA Change Is for Economical Purposes as Well as Many Other Reasons In reply to the Skagway Cham- ber of Commerce protest regarding the evacuation of the Tuberculosis Sanatorium and tranferral of all! patients to the former war-time' Army hospital at Alice Island, su-; ka, ANS Superintendent Don Fost-| er revealed today that the Super- intendent of the Skagway Tuber- the present quarters at are inadequate, unsatis- ities are ample, modern, well furn- ished, and surrounded with an at- mosphere of pleasant environment Excellent recreational facilities are available on Japonski Island at Sitka a fine gymnasium, six lane bowling alley, pool tables, in- and many other recreations in ad- in the nearby vicinity. Heating Inadequate Ralph Mize, District Construction Engineer for ANS, in commenting on the transfer said: “The heating !system of Skagway Hospital con- culosis Sanatorium was advised of sists of two decrepit boilers and the plans on the same day that ap-ithese have been limping along proval from the Chicago ANS off-!since December—a constant threat jce and Bureau of the Bud.getgto an emergency breakdown that reached the local office. It was|would force patients and personnel necessary to receive a clearance into seeking temporary shelter else- from these sources before any an- |where. During the last cold spell, nouncement of the proposed trans-|the temperature in one of the hos- fer could be made. |pital corridors was recorded at 7 Foster stated that the high cost degrees below zero, while the tem- of maintenance and operation in | perature in the ward could not be the outmoded buildings of the san-|bolstered much beyond 40 degrees. and not conducive to lh(‘E imorale of the patients, Sitka facil-: door tennis and badminton courts,. dition to good hunting and Hshmgl | | | 'ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION THREATENED l | :May Return Home Earlier Then Expected on Ac- | count of Freeze | ABOARD USS MT. OLYMFUS,: LITTLE AMERICA, Jan. 23.—(De- layed) —The threat of a sudden, heavy freeze may force the Navy's {Antarctice expedition to return| home weeks earlier than originally' planned At present, ships in the expedi-| tion's central group are anchored in! !the open water of the Bay of| Whales at the edge of the South| ‘Polar ice cap. But to the north is the menac- ing Ross Ice Pack, bigger than jever this year. extending the ice pack into the! M(GOVERN CHOSEN CHAIRMAN,ALASKA (OM. OF W. 5. A. C. Many ProMs Relative to Northland Taken Up at Meeting SEATTLE, Jan. 24—Foster Mc- Govern of the National Bank of Commerce was elected chairman of the Alaska Committee of mission at a meeting yesterday. Closer trade relations between aska and Seattle, and problems in Al of transportation and housing Alaska towns were discussed at thej meeting. “We agreed to work closely with the Alaska Development Board and similar groups,” MecGovern said. T. O. Hoagland, of the National Housing Agency, emphasized = the need for more construction workers and building materials in Alaska. Minimum number of housing units said. problems and inadequate transpor-|temperature, only one remainingius, and the cargo ships Yancey added tation facilities made continued boiler was operating and this at 90 functioning of the institution in-’percem. efficiency. The distant advisable. Also adding to the many | buildings were barely comfortable other disadvantages that were con- on this mild day. Such a condition tributing factors in the abandon- | endangers the welfare of both the ment of the Skagway Sn.nnwrmm|pn£enl.s and the personnel employ- were undesirable climatic conditions 'ed in the building.” and the flood danger which was a| constant threat because of the hos- erational costs of pitals’ unprotected river bed. luge any consideration of large ex- Economy Forces Move ipenditure to revise standing equip- One of the prime considerations ment, the ANS Engineer added. in the move is economy, Foster| Flood Threat said. The consolidation of Skag-! Mize also mentioned that no way’s 89 hospital patients and 80 work had been done on flood con- members of the personnel Will re-‘tro) for this area since 1943 when alize an annual budget saving of ipart of the hospital was washed approximately $35,000. jaway and only the combined ef- While the present Skagway fac- forts of engineers and the Army ilities will not accommodate over 100, hrevented the entire hospital from patients, Alice Island is equipped peing washed down the river. Mize to handle 150 bed patients. CON-|gajd that despite the dike which struction of necessary additional offers some extent of protection, the and Merrick might be crushed. | Admiral Richard Cruzen, task :Iorce commander, already has ex- ,pressed concern about such a pos- ! sibility. He told reporters with (the expedition that he and Admir- ’ d i ,al Richard Byrd, expedition leader; Rear Adm. F. A. Zeusler, a mem- | that day and there are no govern- ' headlights of the caravan and the | their cameras in thick gloves. If Physical condition and high op-|aboard the carrier Philippine Sea,iber of the Alaska committee 15| ment funds available for keepinog!thick steam of our breaths were their hands were bared even'for worn-out'north of the ice pack, have been enroute to Washington to make the'the service going.” location on a:heating system combined to discour-|considering an early start home.|advisory committee report, the re-| 'Qriginal plans called for a stay! 'here until early March. - > - | | LLETINS | WESTFORL, Mass. — iour mask- led ‘gunmen held up the cashier of ! .the Abbott worsted mill in Forge 1 Village today and escaped with! the weekly payroll of about $35,000.; No action was taken on the transportation problems, pending & the | Washington State Advisory Com-| JEW PLANS s. 5. LINES Three Combgfiies to Sub- mhit Proposals for Oper- WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 Three Alaskan steamship companies which kave threatencd to. discontinue ser- viée unless they have higher rates when the government returns the lines March 1 are expected to pre- sent an interim plan to Congress- men here Tuesday. Rep. Jackson (D-Wash) member of a House Merchant Marine Sub- committee, said today company re- \pres_mmn(iws would confer with his i group on next Tuesday. “We understand the companies are going to present a plan for {and I hope it will be one that will | be acceptable to all concerned. - (OMING UP 'American ArdicBaptized By Fire; Task | CLARK BEACH WITH TASK FORCE FRIGID, | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 23 | (Delayed)—The American Arctic got its baptism of fire today The primordial silence of the | frozen tundra was split by the | thunder of artillery fire. Tanks | rumbled across the ice and snow, | creating an unexpected ice fog | which veiled the advance. | Soldiers of the Army ground forc- les charged heavily across the white, bitter wasteland, their rifles crack- |ling and huming in the stillness. | Pyrotechnics flashed garishly in the blue gray twilight. It was a mock batle fought by Task Force Frigid, the first such | maneuvers ever held in a northern | Alaska winter, according to stafl | ofiicers, they said it showed how By In the event of a sudden freeze, needed in Anchorage is 1492, he| continuing the service to Alaska,”| Alaska could be defended if at- Fairbanks needs 906 units,|Jackson said. “We will give Alas-| tacked atorium, coupled with the heating{On January 1, a day of moderate bay, the thin hulls of the Mt. Olym- | Juneau 206, and Ketchikan 100, he|kans a chance to hear the proposal | The party of touring newsmen and photographers set out in Wea- sels and Jeeps before dawn to wit- “The service to Alaska will stop ness this unique test of military, We who were on the butte learned special advisory committee reportion March 1 unless some plan is equipment and tactics. It was 47 0f the ferociousness of Arctic cold, on Monday to the House Merchant| evolved to continue it. The govern- degrees below zero. A dismal ice|how it claws at exposed flesh Marine and Fisheries Committee ment has ordered the steamship fog made it impossible to see more in Washington, D. C. sult of long study of the transpor- tation problem. PLANE CRASHES; PILOT KILLED: 2 PARACHUTE OUT SEATTLE, Jan. 24—The pilot was killed and two crewmen para- | lines returned to their owners on Jackson said that bills introduced in Congress to authorize the Mari- time Commission to continue its, first road ever built in this section | present handling of the steamship of the tundra, crushed by mnks}wim bare hands felt in five min- lines cannot be enacted and an ap- and bulldozers through the spruce|utes as if they had been fishing propriation made in time to meet the situation. 4y plan presented by the ship-|thaws in the summer for only a few kerchiefs had to be kept over the ping: companies, Jackson said, would | have to be approved by the Mari- time Commission. He said that the Alaskan Development Board would be represented at the Tuesday con- ference. On Monday, Jackson i than 100 yards at sunrise. The dim | ! about all we could see. Road Over Tundra We drove for 20 miles across the | ten. Their ters froze. Reporters who tried to take notes jand birch, across the congealed tangle of moss and roots, which feet. Below that the ice never melts. We crossed the ice bridge over | the Tanana River, wound south between the snow drifts and low forest growth to the artillery em- | placement. Howitzers of 75 and 105 blasted the imaginary | | | | MOVEMADE Force Frigid TO PROTECT Shows How fo DefendAlaska LATE RUNS ice particles make it necessary to set the range at 7700 yards to hit a target only 6,800 yards away. Force Of Explosion That's one of the things the or- dinance men have learned up here They've learned too how much to allow for the diference in the force of the explosion when the gunpow- der is frigid, compared to warm powder. They've learned that the temperature is 22 degrees warmer three thousand feet above the earth than at ground level, and this ne- cessitates another change in range caleulation The party moved to a butte overlooking the flat, bleak battle field, where two artillery observe have been encamped in a tent for a month, reporting on the effect of artillery fire. The two enlisted youngsters seemed very glad to have company. | The sun was a ghastly white flare, curving in a low arc across the southern sky, setting at 3 p.n. Regulations for 1947 Are Changed by Krug- Delayed Openings By VERN HAUGLAND WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-—The Interior Department reduced Alas- ka's commercial fishing season as much as a month today to protect late-running salmon. Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug lnurmuled the regulations change (for 1947 in part to testimony by fishermen, at Fish and Wildlife Service hearings in Seattle and Alaska last year, that an alarming idelay in pink salmon runs could Ibe corrected only by allowing more of the early-arriving fish to es- cape to reproduce themselves In 1947, the opening dates for commercial fishing in all districts of Southeast Alaska except the Stikine District, will be two weeks to a month later than in 1946. The delap will be partially offset by a reduction in the period each week when fishing is closed, from 60 to 36 hours. In addition, if the runs are late and of sufficient volume, the season may be extend- ed in alternating open and closed periods—in the Alaska Peninsula, Kodlak and Prince Willlam Sound areas as well as in Southeast Alaska. Photographers Stumped Photographers could not operate | a few minutes they were frost bit- lenses jced, their shut- Opening Dates Typically delayed opening dates in Southeast Alaska are July 14 in- stead of.July 1, for the Icy Straits district; July 20 instead of July 5, Wastern district, July 28 to Aug. 23, instead of July 16 to Aug. 21’ for the Central and Southern district; 1July 28 instead of July 15, Eastern district; Aug. 11 instead of July i1, Sumner Strait district. 'lcr something they had lost in slushy ice water. Mufflers of hand- | face to warm the breath and keep 1lho skin from freezing. A C-47 plane streaked in close .to the hilltop, dropped one end of a telephone line by parachute, . then sped away at 120 miles per ,hour to lay six miles of line in a | added, | millimeter Fall fishing throughout Southeast Alaska will be permitted from Oct. 15 to Nov. 15, two weeks less than in 1946. Only one new closed 'atea has heen established in that part of Alaska—the Hole in the Wall, on the North coast of Prince of Wales Island. quarters for personnel at Skag-{the hospital lies in the pathway of| WASHINGTON— Carl Aldo Mar-| chuted to safety when an Army way would cost around $40,000 OFcarious flood threat at certain times | 7ani, 35-year-old former State De- | C-47 transport ran out of gas and $50,000, Foster said. Because such'of the year, {partment employee, pleaded inno-|erashed in the suburban Lynwood expenditure plus the cost of in-' Dr H. C. Rufus, ANS Medical |Cht today to charges of falsely| gistrict on the outskirts of Seattle stalling a complete new heating sys- ! Director, and Dr. Max Van Sandt, Stating to government officials that|jast night. tem would exceed current budget|nedical Officer, revealed that a D€ Was not a Communist | The crash followed a dramatic plans, Foster recommended the poat has been chartered for Feb- 7 | effort by airport control towers to transferring of patients and Per-|ruary 4 for the removal of patients,| PARIS — The French govern-jgyige the troubled plane to a safe members of a technical commission, | enemy, whose _#-vance appointed to investigate the feasi=. panks we were upposing. bility of a long range plan for| The projectiles made a handling the Alaskan few minutes. The wire gave tele- phone communication between the strange, observation station and the com- steamship | prolonged whizzing sound, caused mand post. transportation problem will report.|py the metal plowing through mass- | Small Maneuver The steamship companies to be es of ice particles in the air. The: -1 More artillery fire from 75, 90 represented at the conference with| ! and 70 millimeter guns. Blasts from on Fa sonnel to the Bureau of T {Island. Facilities and functions on) n :Alice Island will be consolidated so, |that the new Skagway unit will! Ishare a central mess hall with the iOrthopedic and Mt. {hospitals. Merging of positions al- jready established in Skagway will ~'I—'he W-a‘shringto Merry- Go-Round ; German states, patterned in many| respects after the United States. JERUSALEM Highly placed the Jews of Palestine act at once against anti-British underground By DREW PEARSON ! 1 WASHINGTON—It was carefully | hushed up at the time, but the pol- itical mess in Georgia might have. been avoided if the Justice De-| be combined for the furtherance| of the organization as a whole, i. e. . dieticians, physio-thrapysts, medical technicians, laboratories, and centrally operated laundry. Transportation violence, the Army might have to move in to stamp it out with dras- tic action. { i | WASHINGTON — President Tru-| man led Washington officialdom ! partment had gone ahead with al Dr. van Sandt stated that anoth- |today in mourning the unexpected | secret probe it conducted of theje, disadvantage of the Skagwayidemh of Harold D. Smith, acting |institute was the inconvenience of jDead of the World Bank, Talmadge election. Last fall, the Justice Department had FBI men making a thorough check of Talmadge intimidation and | racial discrimination at the polls. 'government regulations forbid usePePer. Va. This, under recent Supreme Ooun‘l rulings, now is the direct conum] of the Federal government and can be prosecuted as a criminal offense. The FBI investigation showed transportation for personnel. Sit- uated three miles from town, the only means of conveyance, since of government vehicles for any purpose outside of official busi- ness, is taxicab service. This was found to be too costly for the av- erage staff worker and the city} of Skagway refused to install buses| and form-| er Director of the Budget. Smith,! 48, night at his farm in nearby Cul- He died before medical aid could be summoned. LOS ANGELES — Edward P. (Slip) Madigan today announced; his resignation as general manager| of the Los Angeles Dons of the! All-America football conference.| that Talmadge had sent instruc-[to link the hospital with the town. tions to the Georgia primary polls| Transportation and freight deliv- aimed at preventing negroes from |ery from the outside was unsatis- voting. Although the evidence was!factory in that the Princess line is; conclusive, the Justice Depnmnem'thz only boat that calls in Skagway finally got cold feet. The case was{on a regular schedule and tuber- -opped. i g this run. This necessitated travel cular patients are not accepted on] One obstacle the Justice Depart- ment ran up against was the fact that Eugene Talmadge was sick and they couldnt’ get to him for interrogation. Also son Herman Talmadge outbluffed the Justice! boys and refused to answer ques-| tions unless a stenographer was present. Final factor, however, was the fear that Federal Government if- tervention in Georgia would boom- erang, hurting the very same lib- eral forces the Justice Department wanted to help. 1 MARSHALL'S WAR LEAK I One of the most significant things ! to watch regarding the State De- partment under General Marshal will be whether he continues Jim- mie Byrnes' policy of open diplo- macy. No Secretary of | l frank with the press as Bymes.l Hughes handled all press confer-; ences himself, was a master at| (Continued on Page Four) P! by either plane or mail boat only for patients committed to the Sanatorium. Sitka has the advantage of one other means of water transporta- tion in addition to daily flights out; lof Juneau and Ketchikan for Sitka.|Tesolution to set up a joint com- This, coupled with a much more favorable climate for tubercular cases and less hardship in heating problems added more weight to the| planned economy move which will’ be carried out on February 4, Dr.| Van Sandt stated. l | i STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Jan. 24—Closing| itions since 1933. He introduced a His successor was not named. ATHENS — King George II today named Demeterios Maximos as Pre- mier, succeeding Constantin Tsal- daris. Maximos is 74 and a form- er Foreign Minister. | | WASHINGTON — Senator Rob- ertson (R-Wyo) has called for a complete audit by Congress of the accounts of all government func-} mittee to audit government expen-! ditures, with a working fund of| $10,000,000. ‘WASHINGTON Secretary of State George C. Marshall will at- tend the Big Four Foreign Minis- ters conference at Moscow March| 10. BOMBAY — The Punjab Province government today outlawed the 1: quotation of Alaska Juneau mine;Moslem National Guard and ar-|tion, metal siding and a built-uj ndian: personnel and staff members' fam- |Ment proposed tcday that the Allies| jnging after it had reported iis ————— |ilies to their new quarters on Alice S€! UP & permanent federation of| g4i5 fading out and gas running low. A moment after the Sand Point Naval Air Base had brought the plane on its radar beam, the gas- Edgecumbe . QUaTters reported today that unless jege motors went dead and it plum- meted to earth less than two miles from the landing strip. The plane did not burn but wreckage was strewn over a radius of 100 yards near a watertower atop a thickly-wooded hill. The pi- lot’s body was found pinned in the wreckage. It was believed the pilot, whose name was not divulged, went to his death rather than risk the chance ; {of leaving the plane to plunge into| suffered a heart attack last| 5 o‘x’ms“wmch Smith of the JMA today, assuring | one of the lakeside h dot the area. Lt. Morris E. Smith, 26, Clinton, | !and to the Territory would be im- | Ky, co-pilot, and Lt. H. B. Kmi_‘mediately available upon the dis-/ son 26, Charleston, W. navigator, were taken to the San Va,, d | Point Naval Hospital for observa- tion after searching parties found them wandering through brush a few hundred yards from Lake | Washington. The plane, enroute from Great Falls, Mont., to McChord Field, about 35 miles south of here, had bucked heavy winds and adverse weather over the Cascade Moun- tains. '3 PERMITS FOR BUILDING ISSUED Three building permits have teen issued by the City of Juneau in the past week. an application for an estimated $1,500 job of redecorating and re- finishing, with Hans Berg as con- tractor. Juneau Lumber Mills is its own fcofntnctor on the building of a new $10,000 warehouse, with specifica- tions for heavy timber construc- P S'D?k today is 5%, American Can rested eight high Moslem league | roof, on a piling foundation. 95%, Anaconda 39%, Curtiss-Wright leaders in Lahore, 900 miles north| Hans Berg is the contractor for té‘,a. International Harvester 73%,.of Bombay. State since Kennecott 46%, New York Central called upon this province's 2,500,- Charles Evans Hughes has been as|19, Northern Pacific 19%, U. S. 000 Moslems to strike tomorrow in Steel 72, Pound $4.03. l Sales today were 950,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are; as follows: industrials 17549, rails 49.39, utilities 36.68. ‘This Bombay league | protest. o R ST Theodore Roosevelt became Presi- dent of the United States when 42 years old Mrs. Charles G. Warner on repairs and a new roof for the shed at Warner's Machine Shop. —— e - CHICAGO — The National foot- ball league today adopted 20 rule changes, including the addition of a fifth official on the field. the committee and Maritime Com- | mission are the Alaska Steamship Company, the Northland Transpor- tation Company and the Alaska Transportation Company. PORTLAND LI President Claude J. Smith of the Juneau Merchants Assocation, commenting on today's announce- 'ment that the Alaska Steamship Companies may discontinue service, said that he had been informed that one of three major steamship | companies was prepared to give service to Alaska from Portland. Nye, representative of the Portland Chamber of Commerce working now in Anchorage, wired S READY them that shipping out of Port- ' continuance of the Alaska Line ser- vice. — e 'MOTHER CAUGHT AFTER SYRINGE BANK ROBBERY DES MOINES, Ia., Jan.. 24—An attractive 35-year-old mother |two teen-age daughters was seized !less than an hour after she staged a daring daylight holdup of a |downtown bank, using as a weapon |a hypodermic syringe filled with a |mouthwash. Police Chief Jack Brophy said the |woman, Mrs. Opal Dixon, a waitress, | The Capitol Theatre took out Signed a statement admitting the $2950 holdup of thc Des Moines Bank and Trust Company, and also |the $582 armed holdup of the Uni- Ited Bank and Trust Co., | Louis last December 26. | Brophy said Mrs. Dixon would be charged with bank robbery un- der Iowa State law which carries |a mandatory life term upon con- | viction. 3 - D s SEATTLE E. L. Skeel, new president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, today pledged con- tinued cooperation with Alaska. “Alaska is our friend, and we are doing; and will do, everything pos- sible to assist in its development and prosperity,” he said. ! 60 and 81 millimeter mortars. A column of tanks plowed across the valley, and the foot soldiers moved in. It was a small maneuver, involy- ing only a company of infant battery of field artillery and a com- | pany of tgnks. But it was sufficient | to test equipment and men, which | is the Task Force's purpose. Alto- gether 800 men participated. As the firing ceases, a half track and a Weasel rolled down into the | valley and radioed the position of , wounded men., Then a helicopter | dipped to earth and evacuated them before the deadly S. E. Alaska Adjustments Krug announced several adjust- ments in Southeast Alaska district boundaries. He transferred Lisian- <ki Inlet ands Yakobi Island from (the Icy Strait to the Western dis- |lrict; Davison Inlet, ~Sea Otter {Sound, Heceta Island and other iwaters south and east of the scuthern end of Kosciusko Island, from the Sumner Strait district to the South Prince of Wales Island district; and the north arm of Behm Canal from the southern to the North Clarence Strait district. In the Yakutat district, minor cold brought changes were made in Ahrnklin and death, Situk Inlet gear restrictions to make 1‘ With late afternoon darkness, them uniform. To protect schools | there was a lull in the mock strug- of undersize king salmon, trolling | gles. (from Lituya Bay to Cape Spencer Those who saw it hoped they will ke prohibited until July 15. would never have to witness such Other Regulations . a battle fought in earnest. Southeast Alaska changes affeci= >-o !ing fisheries other than salmon: ; : 1. Closed seasons on herring, ex- 'NWA Trail Blazer, i i | ) | PLEA OF MAY, THREE OTHERS Four Appéafin Court fo Answer Charges They Defrauded Govt. : By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST | WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 —Andrew J. May, former chairman of the |House Military Committee, and the | Garsson Erothers pleaced innocent today to charges of conspiring to. defraud the government, Chief Justice Bolitha Laws, who received their plea in U. S. Dis-| trict Court, fixed March 19 - for| trial. Each of the defendants was re-| leased on $2,000 bond Appearing with the former Ken-, tucky Democratic congressman | i |cept for bait and gill-net fishing, from May 1 to June 10, and Oct. 16 Back from Orient, To Hop East Toda Nov. SEATTLE, Jan. 24—The North- of | in St.| 0 ‘ 2. Uniform closed season on but- (|ter clams from April 15 to Sept. 15. 3. Closed season on shrimp fish- |ing from Feb. 1 to Sept. 30. Dun- can Canal will be closed to all ,shrimp fishing. Elsewhere than Southeast Alaska wére Henry and Murray Garsson, West Airlines Trail Blazer is sche- {here were numerous minor changes and Joseph Freeman |duled to take off from Seattle to- qich as: " The Garssons were organizers of day to return to Minneapolis, start-| Re.definement of the sections a wartime munitions combine which|ing point of a survey flight that ¢joceq to salmon fishing in the |received more than $78,000,000 in carried the craft on a 22000 mile Bering River - Icy Bay area. ,war contracts. Freeman was their|trip to the Orient and back, by| A new limit on razor clams in the Washington representative. way of Alaska. The plane land-|pyjnce william Sound - Copper An indictment returned by a ed in Seattle last evening after a pjua. areas—40,00 cases, compared grand jury yesterday charges that flight from Anchorage with 46,000 last year. May agreed to receive $53,634.07 and - Removal of the limit on razor “other sums” from them and to clams taken from certain central use his influenee to get them pro- EKluINA SIUDE“IS bars. fitable contracts. | Extension of the Prince William The 71-year-old former Congres Sound herring area to include the man appeared tense but gave no 'o Mov[ Io SIIKA waters of the Resurrection Bay show of emotion as he stood before; area |Justice Laws to answer the charges., | In Western Area “I plead not guilty,” he said in| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 2.—A ' Ap jncrease in minimum depth a strong voice. $54,000,000 permanent installation at ¢ purse seins in Prince Willlam Similar pleas then were entered Sitka has been turned over by the gound to 9': fathoms, permitting by the two Garssons and Freeman. Navy to the Bureau of Native )0 yse of leads 75 fathoms long: The whole court arraignment took Affairs for use as a school, Alfred|ip. prince William Sound season less than 15 minutes. {Lawrence, superintendent of the ., open five days later than in May had traveled most of the Eklutna School at Seward, said to- jg4¢ night to get here and the Garsson day. he king salmon fishing season brothers had rushed to Washington| Lawrence said 250 students and'i, 1o Cook Inlet area will open from Illinois. {10 faculty members from the Sew-|fi.e days earlier than in 1946, and All four men were fingerprinted ard institution would move to Sitkala) <iimon tishing will cease four in the district building cell block at the end of the month, with 137 before making bond. | students remaining at Seward. (Continued on Page Six)