The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 8, 1947, Page 1

D 5 » SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,498 Says U. SENATORS 0.K. EXTENSION OF VETERANS TAX Commissioner Haley States Need for Additional Money in Fund A probable six months extension | of the Veterans sales tax was voted yvesterday afternoon by the Alaska! Senate after a lengthy questioning| and mild mauling of Veteran Af-| fairs Commissioner Norman Haley.| Vote on Senate Bill 13, the measure | fixing March 31, 1949, as dohmte; termination date for the Vets tax| was: Twelve yeas, two nays and| two absent. Negative votes came from Senators O. D. Cochran and| Gunnard Engebreth. | Commissioner Haley was called| to the Senate stand immediately, as the afternoon session opened. Bill author N. R .Walker describ ed the purpose of his measure as to insure that collection of the tax will continue until the next le;;is-i lature will have met and had a chance to act upon it. Under the automatic repealer clause now inl the Vets act, it is anticipated that | by the end of September, 1948, the allotted three and one-fourth mil- lion dollars will have been received into the Veterans Revolving Fund and the tax would become inopera-| tive. Walker gave his view that the Vets Board should not Le left with- out funds coming in during the in- termim between when the tax might expire and the following leg-' islature meets. To support his] point, he asked Haley regarding need for funds in addition to the! original allocation ta the veterans.: Haley replied that the Veterans! Board could use any additional; revenue up to scven, eight or 10(lation” have been voiced. The le-{ing to put over a smear against|the scenic wonders and beauties million dollars. As the program now shapes up, additional revenues | will be needed at least to double} the original three and one-quarter million dollar fund. H In answer to Senator Victor C.| Rivers, Haley said that talks with! various legislators who had a part| in passing the Veterans Act had| indicated to him that the $3,250,000 | set aside for the program hadi besn considered by them as a “start ! Rivers then suggested tnat it. had never been considered that! three and one-quarter million would cover the whole program. But this/| brought prompt rebuttal from Sen-, ator Cochran, who exploded: | “Yes sir! Absolutely!” | It was then brought out that ap-; proximately 1,600 veterans have | been, added to the eligible roll since the number to be benefitted by the veterans program was first) estimated; also that extension of The Wasixiingioné Merry - Go- Round | By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—While the Navy is handing out prison terms to en- listed men” who sell cigarettes on | the Shanghai black- market, and while the enlisted men’s barracks in Shanghai—an abandoned ware house—are almost unfit. for human | habitation, the high-ranking admir- als continue to get away with mur- der. An admiral can sell his car on the Shanghai market at an exorbi- tant price—$8,200—can ship it toi Shanghai at Government expens on an LST boat, can use Govern. ment radio communications at pri- ority rates to arrange for the deal— and nothing happens. But if an! enlisted man sells a carton of cig- | arettes in Shanghai-—he's out of luck. To illustrate, here is the almost unbelievable series of radiograms ! exchanged between Adm. C. M. Cooke, Jr., Commander of U. S. Naval Forces in the Western Pacific, and his friends regarding the sale of an automobile, presumably his. Admiral Cooke, now at sea, was not | available for comment, but the ra- diograms tell their own story. Here they are: | “From Admiral Cooke to Lt. Commander Cornell, probably at Suite B, Cathay Hotel. ‘Car being transhipped from Okinawa on LST 1141 departing 5 October and pro- bably due Shanghai 7 October. You are authorized to remain in Shang- (Continued on Page Four) ' lanswers from Haley, complete lu‘: | January i banks. ier's measure for a small boat float virtually shut down the Philadel-! |at Ketchikan, before it. Walker ad- phja wholesale produce market. i for opinion. !make the President of the ‘daily from friends in Twin Falls “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition BRUARY 8, 1947 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY. | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS the tax from October, 1948 to the end of March, 1949, is expected to add at least $750,000 to the Vet- erans Fund, putting it akowve the $4,000,000 mark. Presentgrate of return from the tax is about one and one-half million d?llan per year. Senator Cochran then took over the questioning to find out what proportion of eligible veterans has received Lenefits, how many appli- cations are on.hand dnd what fu- ture demands upon the funds are| expected to be. He received these| WIDEPROBE OF UNIONS PROPOSED House Committee Would| Investigate Alleged Racketeering 20, 1947: Bonuses paid, 584; pending 664. Loans made—direct, 180; lhrmmh; 121 S S Unanswered applications for loans By MAX HALL on hand, 353, totalling $2,260000] WASHINGTON, , Feb. 8— Thel asked. House Labor Committee, which Total paid out in bonuses, ap- started out to write a new lakor proximately $253,000 {law, sought today to broaden its{ (hearings into a $50,000 investigation indiy o G oo v ik e as they were mainly asked during| Chairman Hartley (R-NJ) told the maritime strikz to meet short|reporters that if the House grants term emergencies. Such action the money, the committee also will would make the recipients eligible “make any other investigations in- for loans. Also, he is looking for|to the entire labor situation which| lessened demand for bonuses in would help in writing a bill.” | the future, but a greatly spurred! This, he said, would involve ,\end-; demands for loans. Many eligibl2/ing cub-committees into the field to veterans, he said, have not wanted|look into complaints. Three days to go into business or buy homes|ago he disclosed plans to send out under prevailing high prices. | investigators who will get the views But it was Haley's explanationiof rank-and-file union men on la- that even those veterans now with |por legislation lcans still might be eligible for suc-| Hartley first announced the com- c " | or additional loans that si-mittee’s new plan last night after| lenced Senator Cochran—with alhearing testimony from eight wit- qulp. nesses representing Philadelphia Vote on the bill was then taken,'fryit and vegetable dealers without discussion. { These witne: testifying under As on two previous occasions, theioath, said officials of local 929 of Senate adjourned yesterday after-!the AFL Teamsters Union had “co-! noon with S. B. 18, Senator Walk-!erced” and “intimidated” them and, vanced his bill to third readin®.| Hartley also disclosed he was! then requested that it be continued|sending a telegram to the FBI and !until Senator E. B. Collins could be the Philadelphia Director of Pub-| present to vote. Senator Collinsjic Safety, asking “complete protec-; was reported ill yesterday. ltion” for the witnesses hecause| During the two days, so far, that! these men are seriously afraid of | S. B. 18 has been argued off Rnd\phys]efl‘ violence.” on, all the traditional pros and| Lewis G. Hines, Legislative repr cons evoked by any bill COH!ider"sentmive of the AFL, told report: ed within the class of “special legis-'ers the produce dealers were “try- gality of the measure has been at-)the union.” | tacked and defended. Merits of the| >~ proposal have been extolled. The! Attorney General has been called | “Demands on | One new twist has developed discussing S. B. 18—Senator Walk-| i er’s challenge to Senator Cochran! | that the latter personally elect to erman i test the validity of the measure in | Court. ] The Senate was to convene again L L] i this forenoon at 11 o'clock, with ov'e' nlo : S. B. 18 still before it and with| i ancther controversial measure up i for amendment. The latter Iis Walker's S. B. proposing to| Senate and Speaker of the House, rather! than the Governor, responsible rorf appointment of the Tax Commis- sioner. It would also raise the! Tax Commissioner’s salary. e White Rus;iamAsks Huge§ Reparations, 40 Years | Allied Control | | | LONDON, Feb. 8—White Russia! | asked today for $1,500,000,000 rv-‘ 16, L D i 5 T B ® Iparations from Germany and 40 iyears of Allied supervision for the WEATHER REPORT ® |country. It said the Ruhr area,: Temperaturés for 24-Hour @ inow jn the British zone, should bef Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock ®iplaced under Four-Power control. ! This Morning. ® | These views were presented in: ® a memorandum to the Big Four; At Juneau—Maximum, 46; @ {Deputy Foreign Ministers, who minimum, 26. ® ‘earlier agreed that Allied troops, ® |should withdraw from Austria with-| ®.in 90 days after a treaty of inde-' ndence is signed with that cour-' At Airport—Maximum, 32; minimum, 16. WEATHER FORECAST ®!try. : (Juneau and Vieinity) . The agreement also accepted the| ® |principle that control authority Fair and warmer tonight e luver Austria should end when tbe and Sunday. ® .treaty comes into force, reliablei since July 1, 45.10 inches. FRIDAY FLIGHTS | Pan American made flights to; and from Juneau yesterday, carry-| Long-Range Worry | | ing the following passengers: | Seattle to Juneau: Fortuna Har-t igraves, Harry Smith, Kenneth Berg, James Brown, Ted Wood and Stuart Houston. From Whitehorse to Juneau: J. Edward Goguen, Roland Moreau and Marguperite Bidwell. From Fairbanks to Juneau: Em- ® 0 0 s s 00 0 o0 GALENA, Idaho, Feb. 8. — Mrs. Pearl Barber, snowbound here for the last two weeks is worried about filing her income tax before the March 15 deadline. Otherwise being marooned does not bother her. A radio and tele- ma Porter, Faith Cushman, Edna phone keep her in contact with|Stanley, Mabel Green and Esther the outside world, and she says she | Norman. has been averaging two phone calls| Juneau to Seattle: Del Holser, Joseph Casey, Walt Lee, Homer C. Murphy, Roy Ferguson, James Mc- If the road over Galena Summit| Cormick,ore GgeGeny rebA ,(to isn't opened befors March 10 sM](:ormick. George Kerney, Ray Ab- plans to head for Ketchum onjrena and Frederick Monream. snowshoes. ' Juneau to Fairbanks: Phyllis Otto,; and relatives in California. S. Must Com { “bettle-nec i1 sons were difficult. Each room was | members, and other persons contri- |deau, Pat Oakes and Mrs. Ralph COLOR VARIETY ATFL CONVENTION SHOW ATTRACTS ADJCURNS AFTER LARGE AUDIENCE OFFICER ELECTION . R | Alaska Terr 1 Feders )] Benefit for P-TA Scholar- oo ot “eerans aitemmoon . wound up its c Ve business ship Fund Shows [and sajoune ‘without continuing : into extra sessions, Profit of $400 RN tisiness b o calonage | after completion of work on the | revision of the ATFL constitution | and its final approval, was the elec- tion of officers for the coming year. H. Felton Griffin, representative of the Anchorage painters and the Well over 300 Juneauites turned out last night to enjoy the biggest | and best movie and slide showing ever presented in one evening in| this city and the scores attending | proved the Alaska Color Variety | Central Labor Council, was elected Show was an owstanding suc-[President. New Executive Secretary, cess. Traffic was heavy through- who will maintain the organization | out the school corridors as the crowd | Office full time in Juneau, is Miss | flowed from room to room and|Laura Johnson of the made its way around the three |culinary workers floors where the various slides and | FElected to the newly-created posi- movies were being projected |tion of Treasurer, which under the ! Given for the benefit of the P- |0k constitution had been attached | R ECn0aID: Fund, (8 ;’;‘;“,fi,fi !tive Secretary was Mrs. Dorothy V. | Show realized a profit of 2 $400, according to Chairman Mus, [F1Um of Juneau. Mrs. Plum is Presi- Trevor Davis. The P-TA expresses |dent cf the Juneau Central Labor 2 iy Council and President of the culi- | sere gri e ne eight indiv- | incere gratitude to the eig) {nary workers local | iduals who contributed their out-! ) HA standing collections and gave their | Vice-Presidents are Mrs. Lillian time and eifort toward the omgl.‘lAngenn:m of Fairbanks, Miss Pearl 2 Gibson of Anchorage, R. arris | tainment and all personswho loan-|ibson of Anchorage, R. T. Harris | 2 5, . < Of Juneau, Charles Skinner of Ko- | ed their equipment and services BOFRINY 150 0§ DBaikT epvebentative generously to insure the success| o ., PPEIPLLAINE of the undertaking. the Kodiak fishermen; Herb 2 ! Wetmore of Ketchiks a B 4 There were guides in costume to p .- ‘;“k, > st | escort the ‘jrnwd and -‘t’;“" it ‘},“i‘;} Honorary Vice-Presidents are Len} all were directed properly to avold|gajy yopresenting the United Fish- { in the corridors, and cermen of Ccok Inlet; and Les there were gracious hostesses Pre-| Gy, representing the Marine | j siding over the punch-bowl and ice- | woricers of outheast Alaska | worm tables where thirsts were | quenched during the ..termission, | Fairbanks was selected as the lo- | | while sther dainty Muses circulat- {cation for the 1948 convention, trays of popcorn., Among the highlights of conven- | [tion business were these Audience Is Impressec {ment of the labor bills now before | Everyone came prepared tc Se€ the Territorfal Legislature, and en- ' a good show and according to the ' dorsement of Henry Benson as Com- | enthusiastic response and well sat-|mijgsioner of Labor, a discussion | isfied comments during the shOW- concerning the importance of keep- ings and following the final cur-fing politics out of the labor ranks. | tain, the audience was not omly — Ower resolutions of particular | pleased with the pictures but high- significance passed by the conven- ly impressed with the grandeur m‘ ed around with | tion included a resolution and mem- | orial strongly opposed to repeal of | the Equal Rights Bill passed by the | Legislature two years ago, and now up for possible repeal; a memorial | urging retention of the Alaska De- | velopment Board; i Resolution and memorials urging | repeal and revision of Section 27 of | the Jones Act, which discriminates | against shipping American goods to Alaska in foreign bottoms; a reso- lution urging repeal of the portion of the Hatch Act which prohibits | participation of Federal employees | in politics; that are typical of this country. It was hard to decide which were the favored shows but safe to say all were tops and of such different scope and variety that compari- filled to overflowing throughout the evening and the only regrets ex- pressed were missing out on some of the shows since there was not quite enough time to cover all eight from start to finish. Attracting first attention on the ground floor were Henry Harmon's movies of wild animal life in Al-| Resolution and memorials fup- | aska and A. N. Eide's slides of the porting and urging Statehood for Interior, Arctic and Southeast Al-'Alaska; the resolution asking that | aska. On the second floor E. L. Keithahn, Malcolm Greany and Dr. J. O. Rude handled the projectors with Keithahn showing slides de- picting scenes of Southeast Alaska and local shots of Juneau, while Greany presented pictures on wild life, the Alaska range, and the Pribilof Islands and Dr. J. O. Rude ran his movie of a trip down the Yukon River. { Arctic Scenes Shown Alaska hold a referendum vote on | the question of fish traps was | strongly supported by convention ! delegates. i Tonight at 7 o'clock delegates will | gather in the Gold Room of the ! Baranof Hotel with their guests for | the convention banquet, at which | President Griffin will speak outlin- | ing his aims and hopes for the ATFL during the coming year. The | | banquet will be followed at 10 o'clock | The top floor featured movies of al;h;::::“tfi d“"“f' "N’ el Eskimo life and Arctic scenes pre- iJuneau mu' gt musls proviced byl sented by Dr. George A. Dale aud S in another room, Mrs. J. O. Rude displayed her slides on Wild Flow- ers of Alaska. Third room on this floor housed Trevor Davis’ movies of aerial and motor boat views of | the Prince William Sound and oth- ! er parts of the Territory and close- | up views of Alaska bear. Pacific Northern Airlines brought | Deserving of much credit for|(he following passengers and crew | PNA MAKES TRIPS ANCHORAGE-HERE | | |stant and Stewardess June Rees.| Passengers leaving Juneau for An-| | | chorage were Vernon Holt, Richard | Hubner, Eugene Carrol, Owen Keys, | Zena Keys, Mrs. M. Korhonen and | child, Mike Korhonen Jr., F. Har-| | graves, Harry Smith, James Brown, | (Kenneth Berg, C. . Mattson. K N R R |MANY AUTOS ABOARD ’ SQUARE SINNET ON | WAY FROM SEATTLE Freighter Square Sinnet of the Northland Transportation Company sailed from Seattle Friday noon for Juneau and other Southcast Alaska | |ports. According to advi are many autos aboard for local| ,agents and others. A buting their fine work. Guides for last night’s show were Evelyn Hollmann costumed as an Eskimo, Tom Morgan a pilot, Jef- frey Pegues, a ship captain, Lynn Bodding as Miss Alaska, Don Wing- erson, prospector, Paula Kay Cook an Indian woman, Dick Keithahn a hunter, Hayes Miller a fisherman and Sylvia Lister a flower girl. Popcorn girls were Diana Larsen, Lois Laurence, Aileen Kronquist, Mary Whitaker, Jean Penrod and Donna Jewitt. Serving the punch and ice worms were Mary Thibo- e Temperatures above freez- @ (sources reported. 5 | their efforts in making the affair|from Anchorage to Juneau yesmr-l e ing except in valleys shel- e The deputies considered also anjga real success are the Rev. H. E. gay: | | o tered from the .West. e | American proposal to give smalli Beyer and Mr. and Mrs. Don Fost- | Capt. Maury Keating, First Offi- | . e [nations a bigger voice in draft-|er who handled the radio and news cer Norman Cavett, Stewardess,| ° PRECIPITATION e |ing recommendations for the Ger-|pupiicity, Mrs. Henrietta Berg, Ms. | 1 ouise Leitner with Paul O'Connor, | @ (Past 24 bours endirg 7:30 teday) @ {man and Austrian peace treaties. |Treyor Davis, Mrs. Lesley Sturm, Harvey Smith, D. W. Bolton, H. E.| e In Juneau — 0 inches; @ A T Mrs. Glenn Oakes, Mrs. K. T. Mer- | steward, J. G. Bereskin, Del Hos-! ® since Feb. 1, 128 inches; ® 22 ‘ p ASSE“GERS rit, Mrs. Helen. Webster, Emily Mc- | sler, M. McCullough since July 1, 73.25 inches. ", Spadden, Ralph Wright, Mrs. A. B. ' yesterday's flight out of Juneau' e At Airport — G inches; Phillips, Mrs. Ralph Rivers, and ¢, Anchorage carried Captain Geo. | e since Feb. 1, .82 inches;’'® (ARRIED BY pAA the many other committees, P-TA|\cCracken, First Officer Tom Con- | 4 { . . Rivers. AL, L It takes many tons of ore to ob- tain an ounce of palladium, one of the rarest of preeious metal which' is classified in the platinum- family group. bat Russian Propaganda Fairbanks | & to the position of the present Execu-/ : endorse- | | No Pulp, Paper Planis Here for 3 More Years Heintz WINDY 1t in a storm for this H0-mile-an-hour wi Kansas City busine MOOSE INITIATE 8 NEW MEMBERS Juneau Lodge No. 700, Loyal Or- der of Moose held a special initia- tion last night in the Moose Hall for eight members of the LT 452- USED. Those initiated were Her- bert J. Lockhart, James M. Brum- any post ol when a d hit the ss district, bough, C. L. Tambke, Robert W. Ginnett, Earl Logsdon, Frank S, Dardin, Frank E. Musarra and Leonard Shadduck ELUSIVE FIRE BOISE, Idaho,—Three tire trucks rolled out to an inter ion in the business district after an on- looker reported a car on fire On arrival firemen learned the motorist had leaped into the klaz- ing vehicle and driven off for the fire station after the alarm was given. In fact, witnesses near the| fire station, said later, the trucks almost ran him down as thov sped out fn answer the call The unidentified driver then turned bis sr:zing vehicle -and fellewed the engin:s By thz time he arrived atgthe intersection from which the X was firsi given, the firemen had returned to the station by an- other route. The department is still wonder- ing what happened to the car - \Kuwashima Swings For His Afrocities SHANGH..I, Feb. 8—Capt. Joichi Kuwashima, one-time chiel medical officer of a Jananese prison camp | at Mukden, has heen hanged at the Changhai Ward Road jail { Kuwashima was medical officer | at the camp in which were confined Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, and Lt, Gen. Arthur Perefval, British com- mander who swrendered to the Japanese at Singapore He was convicted last year of cal- lons and brutal treatment of soners by an American Tribunal, anc sentenced to deat e e e SHAVERS HAZARD | HAYS, Kansas—"I'm not a man to complain, but these darned razor blades weren't worth taking home,” A day later Binder apologizing “there wasn't wrong with your AZOY George. My daughter was |)dl‘k.‘ anything blades, put her cream and that caused all the trouble.” | leman Asserls WASHINGTON, Heintzleman, Forest Service rector in Alaska, has reported Secretary of Interior Krug Alaskan paper and pulp development is at least thres years away. Heintzleman informed rector of the Division of ies Edwin G. Arnold, and other In- terior Department officials that half a dozen excellent millsites al- rcady have been surveyed in South- east Alaska Feb. 8-—Frank Di- Krug, Territor- to Di-| MARSHALL - PUTS BEE ONU.S.S.R. Says U. §. ‘Must Back Up Foreign Policy with Military Power WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—-Diplo- mats today viewed Secretary Mar- | shall's first major policy statement itee of determined count- against Soviet world i propaganda and attempts to link | atumic energy control with disarma- Here on a short visit, Heintzle- man provided ur ‘c-date informe- ! ment tion for an addvess Krug is to make| Marshall declared the United Monday befc.t the Inland Daily|St must back up its foreign Pross Association at Chicago. | policy with real military power until Heintzleman declined to see re- ‘b“(f“' e R Ll » 2 . | basis of collective security.” porters after the meeting, bub “ 817 gy e unin imanny thers-must spokesman for the Interior De-| ° AR AR O - B1d: i MG o dediars )(. a universal military training pro- o le"“gilp. developraent] ETRID "r‘x‘» .\l]p‘:?l‘\: the armed services [must await a settlement of Ab-|" g MOAPONEL SR original Rights to forest lands. | PEENL. DOl eretitie L Alaskan Indians claim the area | (CeS 1Ot agree with the Russian view oW SHAODAISSE. by 1he ,r'mmw&‘lhm atomic energy control can be | National Forest—virtually all of | 4°81¢ With as a ‘part of the dis- | Southeast Alaska—as hunting and| i oament question. In any case " | tishing lands. |be solved i | He said that after contracts have been signed and construction is un- der way, about three years will be " 'required before actual production can begin. He estimated that plant costing $20,000,000 might have a daily output initially of 150 tons 'and within a 10-year period might full-cap- expand production to acity 500 tons a day a The Tongass Forest area contains| a | there can be no disarmament until there Heintzleman added that the ques-| s m,m;"w“‘;“"““"'0"“1 security, ton of long-term contracts be- |y S0 g {tween the Forest Service and pulpl, .. "o 0 fn q"':f De"bsm by . | paper industry -also would have to ' A State partment | must blanket the earth with truth Jin the midst of a riot of propa- (ganda. If the United States con- tinues to give the world an accurate statement of its position, Marshall i ared, others will acent the truth in the end. The State Department is prepar- ing to beam its first broadcasts of news and other propaganda to Rus- | sla_on Feb. 17, REQUESTS TURNED DOWN 1178,000,000,000 board feet of timber,' |sufficient to produce 800,000 tons WASHINGTON, Feb. 8- Under- ulphate or sulphite paper a'SeCretary of State William L. Clay- newsprint year, or more than 1,000,000 tons of |00 told newsmen today the Rus- Krug has estimated that | $1ans have ignored four U. S. re- Alaska can permanently supply | GUests to begin settling their Lend- about 25 percent of the present | Lease debts newsprint consumption b h“d on sald even a call by Am- | Sites already have been explor- Amacor It Bedal arnith on the | Moscow Foreign Office last month €d for hydro-clectric plants capable, noquced nothing but * of producing more than 800,000 (M i R o horsepower. e sl AN 2T Clayton had testified at a House ‘Merchant Marine Subcommittee VANDENBERG NOT SEEKING NOMINATION Is Not Candidate for Presi- dency on Republican Ticket, He Says GRAND RAPIDS, Mich,, Feb. §.— U. S. Senator Arthur H, Vandenberg (R.-Mich.) declared today: “I am not a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, don't ex- pect to be and have no wish to be.” Michigan’s senior Senator, here for an address before the State Re- publican Convention, made his statement at a vress éonference and added, “But a man would be rn- tirely numb if he were insensible o the compliment the suggestion im- plies.” Vandenberg said in his prepared speech that “Republicans intend to do something about th. candalous ‘portal-to portal’ (pay) outrage.” > ASSASSINATION OF JAP PREMIER IS PREVENTED TOKYO, Feb. 8-—Plans for the aseassination of Premier Shigeru Yoshida were frustrated with an arrest by policz in Matsuyama, on Shikoku Island, Kyodo News Agency reported The prisoner, identified as Asao Yamakawa, 25, of Matsuyama, was |Jess Binder told storckeeper George reported to have had on his per- | Philiip. son when arrested a pistol and complete plans for carrying out the as nation Yamakawa reportedly asserted he had 10° comrades in the plan, three ces there|toothpaste where I keep my shaving of them already in the Tokyo area. The Tokyo metropolitan police force began an immediate investigation. + hearing that three formal diplomatic requests for settlement of accounts had, at best, recefved an*‘“unsat- isfactory reply.” When Clayton declined to disclose 1x-nx|(l-n|s» of the Russian note yes- terday, Subcommittee Chairman | Weichel (R.-Ohio), threatened to ‘.subpmnu Secretary of State Mar- shall. i - R Delayed _I_igneyinoon | CHICAGO-- Edward W. Predl, 28, ifell downstairs at his home and | suffered a broken leg while enroute Ito his church wedding. But he arrived in a wheelchair only two hours late. | The bride, Miss Betty Conway, 21, and 150 relatives and friends wait- led.at the church- without know- !ledge of Predl's misfortune. j After the wedding the bandaged i bridegroom returned to Evangelical Hospital in an ambulance. The bride went alone to the wedding |dinner and reception. LSRR STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Aleutian, | Monday. Tongass, from Seattle, due about February 13. Square Sinnet, from Seattle, due |about February 19 Princess Norah due from Skag- way at 7:30 o'clock Sunday morn- from Seattle, due late ing and sails south from Juneau lat 9 o'clock. North Sea, from Sitka, schedul- ed southbound sometime Monday | Northern Voyager scheduled to sail from Seattle Feb. 14 ZIMMERMAN IMPROVES Chester Zimmerman, cashier at !the First National Bank, who has | been in Seattle for the past several | weeks receiving medical attention, is reported much improved and expects to return to Juneau early next month. His wife accompanied him to the States on his emergency trip down to Seattle about four weeks ago and the Zimmerman's are now staying the Claremont Apart- ment Hotel, Fourth and Virginia Streets in Seattle, while he tinues under a doctor’s care, con=