The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1947, Page 1

SATURDAY 1P.M. Edition HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SAT 1 b.M. Edition e - VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,504 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY,T!]’_H‘RU;\R\' 15, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ~ PRICE TEN CENTS North Sea Is Reported Still | DEATH VOTED " DEVEL. BOARD 1 BY SENATORS Senate Bill_A_Carries Aflerg Walker Motion fo Table | Is Turned Down After a ay-igRE trial, the! Alaska Senate yesterday afternoon,| brought in a split verdict against the Alaska Development Board. A solid Se2cond Division against l!u‘i Board the major factor in passage of Senate Bill 4, which| would immediately abolish the ADB by repealing the Act which! created that Territorial agency. ! Passage of the sure by a| 9-7 vote followed -11 defeat of a move to table which opened the| ay for advancement of the bill to &tiar belore' the Laaiiature:| way for a \the matter before the Legislature,| ..t \:.q the United Ste third reading and lengthy inter- vening debate | The two roll calls taken on Lh(‘i highly controversial S. B. 4 record-; ¢d the following results: To lay| on the table—Yeas: Brownell, Enge-| breth, Peratrovich, Rivers, Walker;! Nays: Butrovich, Cochran, Collins,| Cotfey, Dawes, Green, Jones, Munz,| Regg Scott, Nerland On pas-; sege—Yeas: Cochran, Coffey, Col-| ling, Dawes, Green, Jones, Munz, Rogge. Scott; Nays: Brownell, But- rovich, Engebreth, Peratrovich, Riv-' ers, Walker, Nerland. The emer- gency clause, making the measure | immediately effective upon passage and approval, carried the Senate! by more than the necessary two- thirds vote; 13-3 Walker Moves ADB General Manager George) Sundkorg, on the stand when the| Senate essed at noon yesterday, completed his testimony shortly af- ter the body had reconvened in the afternoon. It was then that Sen-, ator N. R. Walker opened the move" leral 'to be willing to sign left him no alternative but to pass the claims. He listed four payments to which he had objected. First was or ADB funds used by the Com- mission of Agriculture to travel to Others were to the the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Alaska Native Service. Boyle's opinion was that the appropriations must be used as the Legislature has seen fit to allocate them Sundborg, during his appearance, had questioned figures obtained from the Auditor’s office regarding | ADB xpenditures. Greatest dis-| crepancy between thoso figures and Sundborg’s own records was approx- imately $4,000 in salary to the Gen: Manager. The figures obtain-| ed from the Auditor had shown $17,000 paid cut. Sundborg claimed the . correct figure neighbored on $13,000, including his own salary at $12,000 per year. | Boyle declared that, though he had not prepared the report re- ferred to, he has sufficient con-| fidence that the figures are correct) | Senator Victor C. Rivers asked if | Boyle considered it proper to bring rather than testing it in the courts. Fast On Reef RUSSIA MAY VANDENBERG FRECGHTER T-Up ASK BAN ON WARNS USSR BEING TAKEN T0 WASHINGTON,D.C. TWO-CENT HIKE IN MOTOR FUEL TAX IS SOUGHT PRESIDENT'S PASSENGERS MOTHER HAS ON WAY T0 | James Huston, Area Engineer for The Alaska Senate was boiling {the U S Army Engineer Corps'up a secret brew this morning with {in ch of the Juneau Subport, dcors locked in “Executive Sessiony - - {repofted today that the tieup of the cver an hour. Ons witness seen H Bv JOHN A. PARRIS, Jr. w INGTON, Feb. 15—A blunt|freighter Square Knot here is be-!to enter during the period when GRANDVIEW Mo., Feb. 15 A Hr Y4 LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. Feb. 15. assertion by Senator Vandenberging take the highest authorities prcss and galleryites were excluded Mrs. Martha E. Truman, tiny 94- NO Pam( When Sh|p.$fru(k Russia was expected today to pro- [that it would be a “dangerous mis-|in Washington, D. C |w nk Boj Auditor of |year-old mother of the President.| , . P ¥ pose formally that the United Na- |conception” for Russia to underes-i The new move was made after; Alacka day quietly in bed today in her| {f} Dark ngh' DnVIng tions Security Council ban immedi- | timate this country’s rank among |the Se headquarters of the In-| The Senate has only a very light little white cottage, uncomplaining ' ' i ately anv further production of |world powers gave a clear sign to- ternatic Longshoremen and |calendar—two memorials—before it|and cheerful in spite of a fractur- Ram-hghfs G'OWed atom bombs. day of mounting congressional im- 1semen’s Union had told the|today, but recess was taken until 2'ed right hip i There was a possibility that S()-‘pm)en( 2 with Soviet diplomacy. District Engineer that sinceo'clock this afterncon and it is' It was nothing new for the little 2 i A viet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko| The Michigan Republican, chair- s no contract between the!expected that another locked door' whit red lady who is the moth-| ‘th,l.A BELLA, B. C. Feb would make his formal motion when |man of the powerful Foreign Rela- au Local and the Subport offi-[confab will be ordered then er of. the nation's President, Three| Of8W;thembors praised e ‘cBures the council Teconvenes Tuesday to{tions committee and President peo={Glils on the question, that the| Two more bills ahd tWo memor-|times In the last seven years she | eous behavior of all on board the debate the whole atomic question. |tem of the Senate, declared in un-|Beattle headquarters would not or-,ials hit the upper chamber's hopper | has suffered hip fractures as a re- | Seattle-bound steamship Noith Sea In an address to the council yes- | varnished language that Russia doesjder the removal of pickets | this forenoon sult of falls at home. The last fall | Which went agrcund on Middle Reef terday, Gromyko demanded that the |not seem to share “our anxiety toj The Square Knot has been tied| Senate Bill 42, by Senator N. R.|came Thursday night as she wasiin Seaforth Strait Thursday night. United Nations ban production of |establish mutual fair play and goodjup at t Juneau Subport since | Walker, would increase the motor preparing to retire 1!\4-\1 said “the absolute lack of the atomb bomb as the first step |will. Wednesday, with all work stopped|fuel tax from one to three c Today she was cwmly quiet and panic” prevented a serious loss of toward an international atomic con-| He said the Soviet Unfon (1) |since Thursday afternoon when the |per gallon and would direct Pro- .o yeported resting comfortably as| life among the 150 people on Board trol system, but made no move upon , “ccmpletely ignored” four American | engineers and crew walked off|ceeds of the tax into a fund for zpricc Mo J:nn" Tuthan. - AN The survivo aken aboard the which the council would be required | requests in the last year to discuss: WOrk, in observance of a picket line highways, alrfields and water fac- ppoiioo oo o ministered to her.| Cfnadian National steamship Prince to act | cottlament of lend-lease accounts!placed by the longshoremen’s local. | iliti to be expended equally oy, injured hip Fiis “m‘} e | Rupert which had been diverted 4 The Russian diplomat sharply and (2) paid no attention to a The local union contends that the jamong the four divisions. It was .4 pp V,N,N: W G“_l:m ”“:‘Il'um its normal southbound course, es for con- |State Department note suggestinglAlaska Stzamship Company is act-|referred to the Taxatlon' Commit- mwyman family physiclan at Inde-| 'S Gue to arrive at Vancouver, B, O, disposition of |ing agents for the ship, which' tee. | penaanca d ho attempt to set|0t 2 pm. today. They will go by mass-de- for fi of tinued manufacture | negotiation is owned by the War Shipping Ad- E;)éllé;t\rt::::‘::.drlelll;;llo:;(l ‘l:,phnmf.zpt:,f; struction weapons. 125 lend-leased U. S. merchant ) b B e n how every dollar of money is bt qsuips B 2 tion sri R e O f:)‘mu 3 ey Terming thes> “just a couple of | Army fo carry lumber 4 symbolic incidents” in U. S.-Russian|{ The union is maintaining a picket He replizd affirmatively when lAST DlT(H 1elations, \denberg last nightjline to up its cl Rivers asked if it was his inten-| told guests at a dinner for the|existing reement tion to “impugn the docision of the ! Mich »nal delegation: | Alaska Steamship Board of Appeals.” He admitted to | Senator Gunnard Engebreth that he also had voucher trouble with oth- er Cepartments, but added that he had not near s0 many difficult- ies with other departments as with the Development Board With Boyle excused, Walker asserted that he under ‘misapprehension” when he concurrad in the “do pass” com- mittee report. and pleaded the right to change his mind when ke found he had been mistaken. He also called attention to his new bill to lter the complement of the ADB, asserting it would “make a better | board.” Senator had teen Plato To Rescue In his remarks, Walker for once { | toi un- | i alculated will and not good riences fertilize mutual derstanding are FIGHT OVER BUDGET CUT He said it would be neither un-| friendly nor undignified for this |country to “insist upen somewhat' 3 prompter official mail from Mos- | By FRANCIS M. LEMAY | cow.” F Chair-| After all” Vandenberg went on,| WASHINGTON, h. 15 the union should ke obse hiring workers to load the ship. - SENATE WILL ACT QUICKLY | ed in the im that the| “!NE"’Y DAYS IN { between the | 50 IN]U RED | The survivors were brought here Company and yfrom the wre early yesterday JAIl' SAYS JUDGE | morning 1d put up in improvised Itrain to Seattle. ; Captain Charles Graham and six crew members are remaining aboard | ship today and the tug La Pointe is standing by with a line aboard ! > 1 it would be made “for a few days ‘DID“'I IEI-I. M.l He said Motker Truman did not i v | pear to be suffering from shock - quarters — WHEN IRAIN “I" have been in several ship- H H 2 H wrecks,” said Chief Steward R. {. \Benjamin Fields, Public McGilnn o, Seattle, “Bu 1 haye | L H M » never seen one in which evacuation | Relations Mafl, in Con to small boats was accomplished in such an orderly manner.” The women anc children were magnificent,” b» said JUMPS TRACK tempt, House Com. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Benja- Juncau ramily man Gurney (R.-S.D.), of the Sen- | ‘Washington is not an inconseqent- ain F. Plelds i g % X i G At D it coes s |ial way stablon on_ an unymportent| fi’r'u"l‘m:,mlr‘:‘:;;' U‘z;;“a:\".'\‘“‘m’v""'(’_i“:i MAXVILLE, Fla. Feb. 15—An es-| One family abourd was Mr. and nounced today he will wage a last |[RFD. If we allow otkers to think oN SHlppING“)‘ Paderal: Distript Tnade ~Afexans) Sasied. 00 BRENILS : 1 eived injur-: Mrs, A. H. Kassner, with four child- ditch battle the Senate floor it is, t may get the habit; and ]d;" Holtzoft 't 90 -days in jail end| T Mo minor, when the Sea-, ren, moving from Juneau, Alaska, against a $6,000,000,000 budget slash | that could a dangerous miscon- | fined $250 for contempt of a House .\juul'(l Air Line's nm_ml;.»:md to Kent, Wash. The youngsters which he declared would “hamstring |ception for them as well as us.” o o S {committee, Orange }!lnk:nm Sgzcial, Mmml] ranged - from . 2l-month-old - Deniye . v the Army and Navy.” b o s \ WABHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Alaska’s| Defense attomeys announced they | '0, New York streamliner, was ‘de-| o Joan, 11. A 50 to 20 vote in favor of the et critical shipping situation will get, i appeal to the U. S. Court of railed on the main line about a' «rhe kid: behaved wonderfully,” by the House-Senate speedy consideration by the Senate!apneals and Fields was released on mile south of here last night !sald Kassner, “Their biggest worry i Six sleeping cars and a diner 1eft is the bicycle they had to leave be- == ACCA Officers to table S. B. 4, inaugurating a Pre- yympjeq for an apt quotation and, Committee threatened , Commerce Committee gt liminary round-up of viewpoints. g $! bond Mhactednks * Hia el FL /i f b - D O trey. oo. | Senator Don Carlos Brownell evok- Truman with his first major defeat | Senator Whitet R-Maine). com-|" Fields was convicted February 5 ¢ tracks. State Highy patrol- ! nind with our household effects in Senator Edward D. Coffey, CO-'oq y 1qugn by coming to his aid[in the new Republican-controlled | imittee chairman, yesterday pledged{py n District Court jury of failing 27 Sald aboul 30 persons WOeitne hold. That's our chief worry author of the bill with Senn{lol’ ‘l’lo"n\im one from Plato. | Congress i jauick action on a resolution intro- 4, giye the House Surplus Proper- given first ald treatment at the|pnay too." ; ‘_3‘*‘"‘-"1‘”“‘“‘“‘*‘:5‘3 Salled for the: However, it was Senator Charles| If upheld by the House and sen- | re osen a | Gucod by, Senatar. Hagnuson (D-|oy Svermition st senr all nis fi-|cene of the wreck and 20 more “ae Kassners told of beng tak- B fohy Showec|D. Jones who really brought down !ate the committee decision wil triz Wash) to authotize' the Maritime| panaint socords i oonnections with WEre taken to Jacksonville, 22 miles: oy of¢ g lifeboats lowered from }:’3{)2\9‘;‘?"“:;;‘“[‘;;“‘5 £ Pass”ithe house, when he inveighed the President's $37,500,000000 bud- s . [Commission. to contract With Pri-ithe sale of surplus bronze screen :l(;:f:::\‘.\x of here, for medical at-| ypo chip onto the tossing sea and B A & o’ i dne\ melies Srrgeetre’y thdb, tas been | get to $31,500,000,000. | vate operators for steamship Ser- wive to C, B. Warr, an Oklahoma|'“FFO% 0 eon.| then being picked up in the fish- it ey o tnillles endvts | PUE ARARHREANALS avE Lhe ADB|( Senator Brewster (R-Me., pre-| ess‘on svice 0 Mgeks {City builder L e e petsons | Dot North Isle, which brought them nlv‘\‘x’)l\:'lné(hng was Coffey’s |issue. “I‘was elected because the dicted in a radio interview last night Officials of private lines have| “qye Government contended Fields "l‘dr:\lt( 1; “n‘n.é hl,.\]‘,'t\’.h vu‘ }):" .\of\: e 3 con‘xm‘-l;' C‘ofl.ey e requested‘pem)k) of the Second Div 1sluuilhe Senate will never agree to the | said they will be u""‘h.l,“ to operate| gajleq to submit documents in re- ;[" i d i X,:_“l }”‘“ '":YJ.’H i “): The family, drenched by tossing Sirm s v call> Aublifar Pran |though I would use my own mind | reduction recommended by the com- | juneau-Douglas Chapter of the vessels to the Territory at pnrsv_x}l sponse to a committec Subpoena L("‘( Chnles vl\.m') TLI‘“’)‘” mer- | eakers were billeted Thursday it e abaluimpept g L Cams oyl et determined } mittee s : | Alaska Crippled Childrens Assocta- |T2¢5 When vl :"]‘“‘Q““; Commis- | showing division of a $4400 com- ¥ NG ol o inight h: mitvath Bowis. Here—as The querry brought out that the | to use it, he asserted This body I voted for it because it was }h.n {ttor. msh B the Couricil Ghisngbers | 51" :dsu its Alaska £ ice onimigsion received for sale of the | were most of the others rescued. Shrite Tind aecat el TaYdo o'has Leen flooded with telegramsor no reduction at all,” he said, “but | o the City Hall last night to elect ‘1‘1{11“"!1.\' 28 ; | ap.ifcreen. The government said that Pitech Dark E t a. ., vy 9 B 'T will oppose » floor » Ma; son’s T tion would al-!p@ e R ¢ numker of Development anrd‘(,f)“:?:‘ “gdcf““{ ?“’f“ B‘*”)"“ he 1]“:11]1[”;3:;2'."'\;’:" ::]“ IQ(IIM:‘ l:;l’l offi and outline a program for , ”g‘:“(;zm;mz“u“”l“" ,,:.( w:u-m- Fields made ,59 percent proflt on KlN MAY | Passengers and crew members vouchers se in his view they Connue Tosnt L AV ¥ gyt N | the newly lormed organization. ) : it pascatols [Vun AIppeRCH told of two “substantial” shocks and : g s . 1. atom of my being, this Leing pres be $4,500,000,000. | A g 4 2 b ment ships to private operators,| pields had given the House com- AR R v p 9 o llegal expenditures. Boyle Elected to the Boarda of Truste E % , “congiderable” vibration as the liner giversil jllegal exp Isured by tel 1 et! However, th te actio | who would be allowed 10 percent, i val had ed by telegrams. want to let; owever, the committe action was | o 1y yohn Clements, Victol s ‘mittee last August a memorandum | struck the reef related that his disapprova P I S s i A o padied e , . Johr ments, ctor | ofits and stand any loss. Rates| i | = R everybody in this Territory know— : hailed by Chairnran Knutson (R.- o AR g « | profits s any S S| showing one-third of the commis- it ¢ 3 B B been overriden by the Board of ;0. e gor Minn), “of the House Ways and|Lower Norman Banfield, Dr. H.|youq be adjusted to meet needs of 'gion v . Phiissus 4 1t was pitch dark and there was Appeals of Disallowed Claims, which | i 5 o I vy ‘e | HarTis, Frank Herman, Watno Hen- guch service (sl ynevie Hecpld o GlenR g 4 driving rain, one of the passeng- is comprised of the Governor, they poo i gonee y . jMeans Commitice, a8 1o ton of | drickson, Mrs. Frances Paul, Miss| " senators Cain (R-Wash) ana| Dies, 80 gasoolate; . one-third 10 | ers said. “We never saw the reef. T fhe Trpasur-| PouowinEUJOlEa Bt e roll MRLSEE BB B 08 e lon Ot Hartung, Mrs. John McCormick Py ohn, Doe” and $400 to another [ P 1t wasn't a heavy sea but more of v .was called on tabling the bill and|personal income taxes this year. WD A (s * Morse (R-Ore) joined in wrging|.«jonn Doe” with the remainder to i . i . o er. O iy T e e UL S G Committes action yesd] T aiatses GEany of Douglas, | prompt consideration of the resolu- | e Ia ground swell—pitching but not Transfers Tlegal ator Coffey then asked suspension | terday, taken in a meeting from Mrs. - Edith Walker, Mrs. Marcus (i, = | o e L rolling S i refuse: # § LA £ 5 > PN | elds was sentenced to g M o el 2 Boyle said he had first refused. oy SOU W S PO TNl into| which the press and public were|Jenscn of Douglas, Mrs. Jake Crop- | Magnuson, pointing out that Can- | 's by a Federal Court in y Thank goodoises Uie Shig MG to allow the claims because he held ‘i "\ oaging There was no ob-|excluded, is subject to ratification Jake Cropley and Robert Aker-|qdian ships carried one-third of, Gklahoma for using the mails to {onan eyl Keel, eI iy it illegal for one agency to trans- [ o, by both houses. The vote will come | VK- ; the Alaska shipping before the War,!qerraud in the sale of oil stocks.| CAPETOWN, eb. 15 The ber. 5 fer funds appropriated to it for use{™"p Lt Division Senmator E. B.|next Wednesday. | The following ofticers were elec-|cid all supplies might go by wa {He was paroled In 1938 and the|Nationalist newspaper Die Burger; Everyone was thdnkful the ship's of another —agency. Howev‘rer. “"w(:ouh» opened the debate on pas-|{ - e — {ted by the Board of Trustees: {of Canadian ports if the Territor sentence commuted in 1940 aid today King George VI might {lights stayed on and this is be- said, the Board of Appeals' action’ oo, meming the ADB an un- President, Mrs. John McCormick: | problems are not solved. \ R ot find it necessary to cut short his|lieved to have helped to avert a SEgRs, IR essential agency, he favored passage | Vice President, Frank Hermann; —He said present rates cost each vigit to South Africa because of the panic. i - jof S. B. 4 and abolition of the| v, Mrs. William Paul, Sr.;!Alaskan 10 percent of his income, | econcmice crisis in Britain and, re- The ship is wedged fast on Mid- The as lngton’uoard “temporarily strictly-‘ g Norman Banfield; Pub- [and rate relief is badly needed. | turn to his people in their hour of : dlg Reel with her engine room Ifrom an economical standpoint.” ' licity, Gene Vuille, i | I i ’ need {flooded and one hold filled with R (] Senator William Munz cited that | Mecetings will be held on the third e ® ® ® & ¢ = e ° ® | DOllAR SIOPPING In' the first public comment on | water, el'rY -0 -houn = he had been elected by the votes of | | | Monday of the month at the Coun- | WEATHER REPORT . v hitherto private speculation about | g _ “1.154 Second Divisioners, yet had cil Chambers in accordance with Temperatures for 24~Hour ; the King's role in Britain’s coal| It 1is announced the Alaska By DREW PXARSON ireceived a request from just one| | the prcgram. The membership drive Period Ending 7:30 u'Clock | IRADE OVERSEAS problems, the newspaper said “the | Steamship Company will assign the i lof his constituents to have the | was started last night at the mee This Morning. | luxury in which the royal family 'st ne Denali to the southeast WASHINGTON — Sen. Styles;Board continued; a statement that ing and $35 raised among those —— | s A Tl 18 will be received in South Africa 15| Alaska run on her next trip, calling Bridges' w-rk-end assault on David |forecast the solid vote against the | attending. The drive will be con- | 1. Jukrai-—Maximum, 30 = e AN FRANCISCO, Feb 3 {1 ahiarp, oamisst to the misery in:at Wrangell, Petersburg@and Sitka Board from that division. ducted through the various or- minimum, 32. Fluctuation of the Chin dollar | which the British people are living.” | as well as Ketchikan and Juneau has brought American trade with Capetown’s residents, in a holiday > —— v E. Lilienthal’s nomination as Chair- | man of the Atomic Energy Com- mission stems from a source other than Bridges himself. The New Hampshire Republican merely fired the opening gun in a newly-organized GOP campaign to discredit any Truman appointees| who may have served in high Fed- self-appointed “king-fish” Taft, of the Republican party on Capi- tol Hill, has passed down the wm‘d% that no Democrat of New Dealish ! tinge is to have any post of im- portance. i i In an informal Friday afternoon| caucus of a small coterie of GOP Senators, the Ohioan let his views be known, winding up with the ob- servation, “and we might as well pegin on Lilienthal.” There followed some discussion as to who would be the first to ob- ject to the former TVA chieftain’ i appointment to the atomic energy; body. “Well,” concluded Taft, “we \l\'illt pick someone who comes from anj area remote from Tennessee. Styles Bridges lives way up in New Eng- ~"(Continued on Page Four) = Pros and cons were heard from most of the members. but it was Senator Coffey who carried high the banner in support of his bill. Coffey wrapped up practically all arguments against continuing the ADB in a neat package as he made the concluding speech. Was Convinced of Need Two years ago, he related. “I was convinced of the need for such @ board . . . I did all I could for the bill” that created it. Now, he| continued, “In my mind I am sure! the Board's powers have been abus ed which is reason enough for tearing it down.” He referred to other circumstances where abuses | had been uncovered and appropri-’ ate legislative action taken. d Coffey then took issue with thej claims ma by the ADB Manager | regarding new industries created. Hz| declared that he believes Regional| Forester B. Frank Heintzleman | knows what he when he says that a pulp industry! ority, he pointed out. see a nickel” (Continued on lage Eight) within 170 miles of the South Pole Membership dues are $1. mountain range. {turned from its map-making and | gone across the pole, but did not ‘ because th {exploratory business at hand. He is day brought 'port for yesterday LITTLE AMERICA, Feb. 14 ganizations and groups of the city (delayed) Rear Adm. R. E. Byrd Tlcwjas well as neighborhood canv. today while leading exploratory it 9 AT flights by four Navy skiplanes which resulted in discovery of a majm-;pNA MAKES TRIP Byrd said his plane could have T0 JUNEAU, WEST Pacific Northo'n Airways yester- three passengers from | Anchorage %0 Juneau, and carried ! 14 out to Yakutat and Anchorage. | Eastbound, the ship under Capt. | { i | re was more important the only man ever to have flown over botl North and South poles The converted Douglas transports | penetrated far into the Antarctic| ..~ s unknown, seeking to fill in another :;;;]‘L;mi{"‘[fi’:gkes‘:-c f“(’f‘ ‘)L“*“‘f pie-shaped blank in the Antarctic|y ' S50 WIS Toue map. Sparkling sub-zero weather, | eitner brought Richard Cox, Larry ending ' long’ peripd of - blizsards|Cairns and E/ O, Genpes tom An- and overcast, gave the explorers ex- | horage to Junea. cellent visibility. The westbound plane, flown Ly Fumics S > apt. Maury Keating, First Offi HOSPIIAl NOIE cer Chuck Davis and Stewardess | . H . . . . . . . ° . . ° . . . . . ° . . . . . . . . . . | Helen Roth carried the following At Airport—Maximum, 37; minimum, 31. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Cloudy with light rain and net much change in temper- ature tonight and Sunday. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours e 1:30 2.m. today) In Juneau — .08 inches; since Feb. 1, 187 inches; since July 1, 73.24 inches. At Airport 02 inches since Feb. 1, 132 inches; since July 1, 45.60 inches " 0 0 s s 000 00 .- - TUG, BARGE HERE s 00 c0ecseccscens0®se0 0000000 o an Fran- | mood, are paying little attention to | China to a virtual stop cans are | cisco importers said today such reports. South Afr SI‘EAMER MOVEMENIS Imports from China have beel|spending a fortune to extend an un- | . !hardest hit, with American fins | precedented welcome to the royal | — lgcnernlly cancelling orders, said | family, due here Monday aboard the!| Square Sinnet, from Seattle, duve Harry Radcliffe, exccutive secre-|pattleship Vanguard. Yielding ",i:um«llmt tomorrow. ary of the National Council of public pressure, authorities decreed | Princess Norah, from South, du American Importers the closing of Capetown schools | Monday evening i The situation has not yet caus-|Monday, making the day a 100 per | Aleutian, from west due south- ed a drop in shipping, but this is|cent holiday. bound late Monday or early Tues- expected within a week unless the! - - -e - day | Chinese dollars is firmly pegged Sailor’s Splice scheduled to sail { “All we can-do is hope the Chi- (o S u s from Seattle February 21 in place straightened out, or that our own U E ( | e - government recognizes the dollar T RN D BA K Bv | AGC MEETS MONDAY 1has three different values in Chi- E | Expected to arrive in Juneau this | porter. {aska Game Commission’s annual | The first value ‘of the dollar is' Alaska Coastal Airlines completed | conference which starts Monday {the official foreign exchange rate only one flight yesterday due to morning at 9 o'clock are the follow- ‘of 3,350 yuan (Chinese dollar) poor flying weather. A flight which ing representatives from the 2nd 1 - > — jeft in the morning for Sitka was 3rd and 4th divisions: Andrew A LU EON TODAY forced to return to Juneau after | Simons, Clarence J. Rhodes, Forbes is talking about| passengers. - Tug Helen A, accompanied by, Wives of Senators and Represen- attempting three times to get L. Baker and Garnet Martin St. Ann’s Hospital admitted Har- To Yakutat—Jack Ellis, Wesley the Pcv{er Barge Lois Anderson, | tatives, women members of theithrough a heavy weather front i A is.at least two or three years away.|old Gallant from Hairles yesterday, R(,’f“‘ Hll!i\[’d. in Juneau last night irom | Legislature, and invited guests will| which blocked them at Peril Straits. TO CLEAN STRI Heintzleman is a recognized auth-|and discharged Mrs. Charles Self To Anchorage — Trelly Berling, Seldovia enroute to s:-:nttlfu where |attend a luncheon this afternoon| The flight which was completed Motorists are asked not to park Coffey added|and baby boy, Mrs. Ernest Stender Gerald Berling, Pear] Frost. Harry ' they will undergo overhauling and |at the Governor's home with Mrs.|to Hoonah and Gustavus camvied on Front, South Franklin and Ihis conviction that the Territory and baby girl, and Edwin Johns. Frost, Clavence Rader, Genevieve take on a return cargo Ernest Gruening presiding as S. Furman, Bill Featherstone and South Seward tomorrow while the invested in| Government Hospital had neither Birch, C. B. Setter, Helen Cass, Both are owned by C. E. Ander- | hostess. An attendance of around R. George to Hoonah and return,[tractor removes snow. The opara- |new patients nor discharges to re- Tcny Frank, Daniel Paulk, Howard s of Seldovia, and are surplus|98 is expected and the luncheon and brought Wesley G. Ross from tion is to staxt at 9 oclock to- Mills, Frank Marshall, Navy craft will ke followed by bridge Gustavus to Juneau Morrow orning