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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10.548 NEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1947 Nation’s Telephone Service Is Still Curtailed " LEWIS TELLS 'SE“(%": lfi';gl'}m 9 DEAD IN Tg}:h?{:“fl}'"v"fs GREEK AID ;Henry Ford, Pioneer of CALLS ARE 1 ~ UNW TO GET , antoaaska BUSPLUNGE | “specreprorcase) DEBATE IS Auto Indusiry, Passes LIMITED T . BACKON JOB AT SEATTLE ' LAUNCHED Away, Dearl!orn H°,',“‘_’f EMERGENCY ~ _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS U PRICE TEN CENTS “Delbert F. . Brown deliberately WASHINGTON April 8 —®—| Labor difficulties which tied up intended to kill Robert Zuboff at & shipping to Alaska were describ- Hood Bay on February 24" was, [ b ed yesterday to the Senate Labor —_— {the opening charge made this n(-i PRV, ! - | . . . Committee by a delegation from{ SEATTLE, April 8—®—Eight{ternoon in U. S. District Court: (By David J. Wilkie) 3 i 100,000 Miners in Pits 0N 5"l Enimbee ot com: e pacsengers s am otk nere by 0. 5. ‘Dt auorney| 360, Vandenberg Makes| vermor. au's. 0 m i | ‘Walkout of 300,000 Em- : merce. driver lost their lives last night|P. J. Gilmore, Jr, as the case o |flickering light of kerosene lamps A J First Day of Scheduled Committee Chairman Taft (R-|when a heavy-Seattle-bound North|the U. S. A. against Brown came Plea to Approve Plans 1o camaiee b NG, famed | | p'oyees Continues Sec- S f ' St Ohio) promised an investigation.|Coast Lines bus collided with thejto trial. Brown is formally charg- M d b ~|- | ploncer of the automobile industry, | | A aire y Oppage “It looks to us like there is a|tanker at the South city limits and|ed with assault with intent to kill, { ade Y ruman died at 11:40 o'clock last night in ond Day-Negoha"ons {definite pattern to these labor|then plunged into the Duwamish|wound or maim as a result of; 'his home in nearby Dearborn. i WASHINGTON, April 8, (P—John difficulties to stifle Alaska,” Stan-|River alongside the Pacific high-jcharges filed against him on thel WASHINGTON, April 8, (P—Sen-, He would have reached his 84th ! (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) , L. Lewis today expressed ‘“gratifi- |ley Tatom told the committee. “We | way. testimony of Eoben, Zub_offl who( ator Vandenburg (R.-Mich.) called birthday next July 30. ¥ L sation” that coal production yes-|CAn carry guns and shoot, but there| Eleven other passengers and the|says he was hit in the ieg fromion the Senate today to approve| High flood waters of the River | The American public adjusted it- 5> lerday was “substantial” and in-|are not enough of us Alaskans to[bus driver, Melvin D. Long, 22, ofja shot [ired by Brown's rifle {military and financial aid to|Rouge running through the Ford |self to sharply curtailed telephone structed miners to resume work as |40 any good.” |Olympia, survived. ~ Some had!| quno e pae oo | Greece and Turkey in order to pre- festate had cut power and heating | |servite oty §A He. comst: t6. OaR fast as each mine is certified as| Tatom said labor difficulties are|severe injuries, but none was criti-| . - argument, sald that despite!Vent “a chain reaction which services at the residence—and a Istrike of nearly 300,000 employees safe. | hurting Alaska economically. Hecal. possible efforts by the defense to|WOuld threaten peace and security |wood-burning fireplace warmed the . {of the Bel! System entered fts Lewis, President of the APL | Said Chrl;tmas goods ordered last| One of the dead, a woman pas—;pmve that the shot was fired in|8round the globe.” | room. |second day. United Mine Workers, made public |f3ll are just beginning to reach renger, remained unidentified thisj e Gefense, he will prove that! F8r from “by-passing” the Unit-. Funeral services will be held from Calls between . dial telephones a telegram he sent to each dlstl’lcliAr::“":‘g;d R S aid?'ml);mr:i.,d Jich v ;Bmwn's actions were intentional.[€d Nations, Vandenburg declared St. Paul's Episcopal Oathedral in ‘5::::‘2:: r::.l:‘:"\lllp‘:;xe)::u%[lm:;\vl:;t g . ik i as tee’s entifie ead were: ate sl | of ¢ | calls a s, or travel- President of the union. It said mlmward WBstring the | Tareibory. &1 Teltord’ ., Mipithes . Bokbtlo: thaa M. E. Monagle, attorney for in & Senate speech, the piiopf?:;}i'Ecet:;?;lxl\nz:c::u]fzde:y at an hour to Ling. ths 16HE Alsbasice Mca: of b part: |Brown, in his opening arguments, $400,000,000 aid program -} aranteed, uninterrupted and con-|truck driver. A i i American Telephone and Tele- “Let us all hope that the belated | &\ Gt ¥ | i . i A ideclared that he will prove that:greatest act of voluntary allegiance 2 X 4 ¢ efforts of the Federal Government | SU3nt steamship sewvlce = | Mr.and Mrs. Brvin Burian, Ta-| o ghot was fired in self-defense to it an act of total faith.”" Fensal' Sofen e T CHemnlmiol to establish safety in the mines “‘l. s B nillg PRt i 4 i because of Brown's fear for his| Thus without mentioning Andrei; All Ford operations ihrougiout the Bell System, generally were 4 corrective measures to aid Alaska james Mark Sullivar, Seattle. |jfe. {A. Gromyko by name, the Foreign|the world will be suspended on {limited to emergency calls. Of the will not prove to be a spasmochc,c | can be included in labor legisla-! 1g r¢ Lydia M. Cressman, 40, ition on which the committee is'an Army nurse of Seattle. Iworking, but he said it might find| Dariene Wick, 6, Portland, Ore. that special legislation would rem-| pqpg Helga Wick, Seattle, grand- | nation’s 31,600,000 telephones, 1700,000 are dial-operated. | Negotiations to end the coast-to- (coast strike, called yesterday by the | Monagle said that he will ‘prove Relations Chairman replied to the|Thursday. Flags on all Ford prop- 18- that Zuboff is of a vicious nature ! Soviet representative’s assertion to|erty will be at half staff until after and had previously done bodily | the Security Council yesterday that |the funeral. | gesture and will pave the way for mandatory safety legislation by the HENRY. FORD Federal Congress.” . | The Coal Mines Administration|qqo p, fficulties. 2 |harm to Brown. He said that bad ' the United State§ had “disregarded” Mr. Ford's death marked» the | that he began in 1893 experimental | il it renorta dakt EACMhoWE | T {mother of Darlene. feeling had existed between the!UN.s authority, “by-passing” the|passing of not only one of the woy on a seli-propelled vehicle. 'I‘:'?"pf"demwN“;“’_"_"l Federation of Mrs. Mildred Morse, 63, Seattle| iy, men since last July. He said |organization, and ialists, | elephone Workers, were. resumed 100,000 miners, including 54,000 undermining ns}wor]d‘s most noted indust et S i Vi mes § 3 § evel- day in Washington and in man; : W, i postoffice employee (1203 James ypap he will also prove that a shot | power. but of an individualist who devel 4 BEAL, to y g?m;bm el iy Sl UMth {St) she was & sister of Dr. Fred|po yo 00 KO O on an| I know of no better way to|oped one of the most colossal fam- | WORLD WIDE INDUSTRY = |other cities over the nation. But igging coal in pits on the; | Webster, Portland. a ! ¥ | The interests of the Ford enter-|Joseph A. Beirne, NFTW President, iearlier date, from Zuboff’s fishing ! ‘destroy the United Nations' than to|ily fortunes the world has known first day of the scheduled safety: idi i- ' stoppage after the Union’s six-day mourning period for victims of the Centralia, I, blast. The UMW has 400,000 soft coal miners. in virtually every!said the unions were settling down on the globe, un-|for a long shutdown. occupied hundreds ' Pirst lifting of the strike action acres. was reported last night when Ken- Ford accumulated land wherever neth Abrahamson, President of the e wanted it. Probably the largest | Jamestown (N.Y.) Federation of single unit of holdings was in the Telephone Workers, an NFTW af- acreage that included and adjolned‘x.mge. announced a nine percent Heroic rescue work by eye wit- |nesses and passing motorists, who| |waded into the river and climb-’ s took root boat as it passed by Brown's boat.!give it a specific job which it is|out of what often had been Si7H e e Monagle also claimed that the shot | neither intended nor prepared to|culed as “a lot of crazy ideas.” ' WASHINGTON, April 8, ® - A | Pederal Conciliator says that the (Government is hopeful of a settle- ment today in the long-distance part of the nation-wide telephone trike. The Conciliator, Peter Man- no, made his remarks as negotia- tions continued between the Ameri- can Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany's long lines division and the unien. The Conciliator stressed the point that a settlement of the long lines phase would not end the entire g . g R ; |of thousands of 'bus, prevented a heavier death ! 8nd was not fired directly at Zu-! The United States is “not ‘bail- - b | empire for which he was once said |p, ADM (ARMI“E | SANTA ANA, Calif, April S,b—] The first rescuers at the scenef“o" intentionally. And—"“We plot no offense against |to have refused $1,000,000,000, out | {P—An exhumation order may be packed holes into the roof to pull! I ni 2 L 1 frightened Ay p, j; DEth stiormeys WOk W mop | - e {and an initial capital investment,|(po fields he trod as a child | i S | g Dassengers, |ty select jurors for the trial. The’ ! ¥ . 8 he s a child. pay increase had been accepted and jcase, it was indicated today as|yere were fighting for air inside’ gi01 1 includes Wort New | | mainly by his friends, of $28,000. !the State Attorney General's office > ainal panel fnclides Wity NAVVIRR. | | That was in 1903, and at his|pearbor 4 9 {the wreckage. { Curtis Shattuck, Fred S. Alexander.[ il e i) d’Dembum and River Rouge, near would return to work for the i 3 ~ escaped leath, the great empire onged | petroit, one of the largest Ford Jamestown Telephone Corporation. " yprosechbion. |kicking out the windshield, while peiq Joseph C. Johnson, Mae J. ; FHubert Mulvey, who heads theiz number of men got out without!gop:’ Wilfiam L Buskiiist, Odedis | | manufactured more than 31,000000 pagenham, England, There were i : " i vehicles. |others in Ireland, Belai Fra PRESTON, Md., April 8, (- ,Rem.] » g ’ e P v |others in Ireland, Belgium, France, Attorney General Henry A. Dietz !y the river until rescued. A Tebise I He had been planning to Cfle'l’rul‘ke)x Greece, Spain, Italy, Ru- mine, 81 year old retired Coast|court order would be sought for! Guard officer, died at his home |the removal of the body of Mrs. LOS ANGELES, April 8—(P—|day. e g R e L L 'A jovial, rotund Texan, bound for{ The surviving members of the| 3 3 : ik . He had been seriously ill for.a hushand, “because of the variance : ? . {guay, Chile, South Africa, Aus- 3 H 'two weeks ago with only one pass-|are Mrs. Edsel B. (Eleanor) Ford, g i R At various times he commanded ! surgeons before the grand jury.” | : Long | Japan, The Soviet Union operated Coast Guard units at San Francis-i The victims' daughter, Louise| 1 SEATTLE—Pan American Air- SC‘;""“D iy Wt s |son, William and Josephine Ford. 4| 10 the United States there were i vays S ow D. A. Gregory, whose home Edsel Ford, only son of the note o He was decorated for World War cd, was still held in the county I N ( o u R ].’“"y‘ fiuunces DY REDS | v | plants at Atlanta, Buffalo, Chester, e — | ‘BODY OF YACHT 2 A : edsitd | Bk vandesh id w== | til his properties MAY BE EXHUMED[ed atop the two-thirds submerged | ¥2S fired only as a scare me 1do,” Vandenberg said. | Industry Real Empire g He developed his great industrial | toll ;boff and hit him accidentally and ing out the British Empire,” ithe Soviet Union.” jof an idea for a cheap automobile jasked in the Overell yacht murder|t, safety RE'“RED USCG Outside of the parent plant at e operators and 49 plant employees {took over the investigation and, Tha pys driver bY | ori i LR HLORuiss, Janek WL, TG laufi ]'REK NORIH |exciusively to nis tamily and had | properties was huge. plant st staff of investigators under Deputy " |assistance and clung to driftwood, pion¢ Beatrice Guerin and Joseph | Admiral George Creighton OCar-|t5)y newsmen that a Superior | e R : 37 {brate his wife's birthday and their | mania’ Portugal, Germany, Den- i 2 o |59th wedding anniversary next Fri-|na,x Sweeden, Finland, Canal here last night. iWalter E. Overell, slain with her! |B u l l E 'I' | N S | Alaska, started from Brownsville| family, in additions to the widow, | qjj @ week. {between testimony by two autopsy | | " Jiraly ctihio. Il BRIRE el enger aboard his three-wheelland her children, Henry IL Ben- g piant under Ford license. co, Boston and Washington. i Overell, 17-year-old university co- i Y .\is at Harlingen, Texas, has four|manufacturer, died in May, 1943. b 1 convoy duty and figured in the|jail, and her attorney, Otto Ja-| Wil B8, Tiown. b EWithamis for i . [Pa., Cincinatti, Cleveland, Dallas, % v passengers on his tiny northboun: construction work during the next Denver, Edgewater, Aleutian Islands seal-poaching con- lcobs, said she might remain there| vehicle. His t f terri g " N. J., Heges- } g ! el . DC-4 g et ox erriel FORD FORTUNE } troversy. for another ten days to facilitate! f:n:,n m::::l?iiq tki s’w:’il:m;ly!%z Pooglic Betaine 8 mottist - Mefere DETROITR April 8, () — Henry |Wich, T, Houston, Jacksonville, walkout of some 204,000 workers. Survivors include a son, Campbell ' conferences. although a Superior imile trip in e hit s Botirs """ lreaching Los Angeles. !Ford Yimuale pmbahl)" never knew |-ansas City, Long Beach, Calif,) John J. Moran, President of the Carmine, Piedmont, Calif. ,Court judge ruled she may be re-‘ ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April s_fii g Gregory named the DUPPIES!the exact amount of the labulnus’Lo"iwme' Memphis, Milwaukee, union which represents long dis- TH N ‘lcnlz?d_ “‘8“9“ "5.'?0'00{? b"e"d' George| P—United States Attorney Ray! COPENHAGEN—King Christian Scooter, Toboggan and Klondike,|ortune he amassed in the develop- g:;“ g"le:“' P{‘:D"MF' °1k:h°m“ :&';“; e_;nployeto& is less optimistic. i Miss Overells fiance, ~GeOf8¢ pymmer started action today!X suffered a heart attack Sunday 2nd they ride in a wire basket. |ment of his great motor car enter- (O'W; Omaha, Pittsburg, Richmond, Asked if a settlement could be ex- iGollum, 21, pre-medical student, is ‘held without RQail awaiting their Calif, Seattle, Somerville, Mass, pected soon, Moran replied, “that's }SL Paul and Minneapolis, and oth- up to the Company. (HAPELADIES WILL MEET THIS EVENING STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 8, (P—Closing | joint trial set for May. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| Wills of the Overells were ad- stock today is 5, American Can;mitted to probate yesterday, pro- 92%, Anaconda 39';, Curtiss-Wright |viding that Miss Overell will be-| 5%, International Harvester 82;;come the sole heir to their $600,000 eeking to throw out the results'and the royal palace designated ~WeTe just going for the trip.”|p e lof last Tuesday's city election on|Crown Prince Frederik today as <XPlained the Texan. “I'm an oil| " go waq one of 13 original share- grounds that 653 votes were cast!regent. The ailing monarch is 76 ficld worker and a preacher — alpgiqers who pooled $28,000 to es- jand counted in violation of a local!years old. His son is 48. A palace kind of good will ambassador, pass-|y.p1ich the Ford Motor Co. in 1903. | |ordinance requiring registration. ;communique issued at noon said 8 out a good word here andi When the Ford Motor Co. filed His petition was filed in district{the king had recovered from the there. ~People smile when they g ¢ {its annual statement of assets and cowrt. He said the step was not!attack, but' had been ordered to S¢¢ & big fat man like me riding|y, ;i ities with the Massachusetts | IS PR Truman Calls Kennecott 45%, New York Central estate. However, if she should beiy; oiteq at any individual and that|“rest for a considerable period.” |this little scooter on such a long o > 3 % i ! 8 3 Tax Commissio] r the year end- | * 16%, Northern Pacific 18%, U. . |convicted of murder she would {0~ po hog no personal hiss. it : ltrip. And T lke to see them o e e ik | There will be a meeting of the Steel 704, Pound $4.02'. {et7iihe, ubietiente: ‘There was not the faintest in-| CASABLANCA, Morocco—Sixty- smile. 4 Chapeladies tonight at 7:30 o'clock 660,356 in assets. t How much of these holdings, all‘ | within the Ford family, were whol- | |ly in the name of his wife, Clara Cabinet Meef STEAMER MOVEMENTS s s b v () TOMmOrrow Tongass, from Seattle, scheduled son Edsel, has only been guessed at. i |Suti, Ivar Conn and Grover Little FRANCISCO®— Harry to arrive at 8 oclock tomorrow| Ford's personal fortune has been | ; i . Special Session to Investi- |for medical attention yesterday. orning. ’(-sl.imxted in various sources at all defendants, The council was sworn|predicts that America is. heading| NoTthern Voyager, from Seattle,;the way from $200000000 up to it : gale RISIflg Prices— | Dischargea were sharon Collier and Mrs. Kenneth Lowe. ConcernExpressed in last night. for a depression worse than due tomorrow. | #300,000,000, The action requires the incum-'the early 1930's. He says a crash| Princess Norah scheduled to sail | ; Government Hospital admitted Henry Ford was born on a iarm! |Alice and Evelyn Williamson from bents to show cause how theyjis inevitable because real wagej{rom Vancouver 9 tonight. claim title to their offices and!values have been cut, while cor-' Aleutian scheduled to sail from {in Greenfield township, Michigan,! WASHINGTON, April 8, (» — Hoonah, and discharged Juli |a suburb of Detroit, July 30, 1863.|President Truman today called a MAarvin, also of Hoonah. further why they should not be'poration profits are climbing and|Seattle April 9, calling at Ketchi- scheduledi}“s father, William Ford, was an'special session of his Cabinet for| ousted because the April 1 election!prices remain high. 1kan, Juneau, Yakutat, Cordova, i |Irhh immigrant; his mother, Mary tomorrow to explore the price situ-! BADMINTON SEASON ENDS “I hope we get a million smiles, on our trek.” All in }dicauon that any candidate in'one persons were killed and 119 {the election was inany way respon-|were wounded in rioting yesterday. isible for wiolation of the ordin-:The riot was said to have been . iance,” he said. rcaused by a fight between a Sene- ! ! The petition named the contest' galese and a Moroccan over a, (winners, Mayor Francis C. Bow-|woman. den, five councilmen, two mem: bers of the school board and one! Sales today were 1,020,000 shares. : Merrill-Lynch averages today are | as follows: Industrials 173.30, Rails 47.25,, Utilities 35.25. 4t the Chapel-By-The-Lake. ,members are requested to be ! attendance. HOSPITAL NOTES St. Ann's Hospital admitted Henry LEGION AUXILIARY e S POSTERS ARE WORK The Washington, O FD"H WALKER MerrY-Go_Round | Well, folks, in response to the imany inquiries 'concerning “who By DREW PEARSON {made them,’ the American Legion| i Auxiliary President, Mrs. James Sofoulis, announces that the clever, eye-catching ‘posters announcing WASHIEAL WS Eepub-;ni'e Mask Ball being given' Sat- licans were literally pounding on i the outer gates during the Lilien- thal debate, Democratic national committeemen from Pennsylvania, SAN member of the Utilities board as|Bridges, president of CIO-ILWU,, ™ | BORN ON A FARM | lurday night at the Elks Hall are lall the work of Edith Walker, Auxiliary member and chairman iof the dance committee. was invalid. ‘Valdez and Seward. Freste gt MOSCOW—Soviet Foreign Min-| Alaska, from = west, s ister V. M. Molotov agreed under|to arrive at 4 o'cleck this after- Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia were enjoying a unique session with Harry Truman within the White House. Spoke up vivacious Mrs. Emma Guifey Miller, Democratic com- mitteewoman from Pennsylvania: “Mr. President, I have a request to make. I want a girl whom you know very well to open the '48 Democratic Convention by singing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.” Truman grinned happily. “You know who I mean, Mr, President,” Mrs. Miller continued. “She made her debut only recently and she’s very good.” “I've heard that request before, haven't I, Gael?” Truman finally replied, looking toward Democratic executive director Gael Sullivan. “The answer is ‘no comment.’” ‘While Democratic leaders got no commitment reégarding Margaret Truman and “The Star-Spangled Banner,” they did come away from the meeting more confident of their political future than at any time since Pranklin Roosevelt died just two years ago this week. The meeting had been arranged by Sullivan as first in a series in which party kingpins will come (Continued on Page Four) Many hours of painstaking work went into the making of these iposters, which many have declared were just about the smartest} thing they had ever seen in that| line. Mrs. Sofoulis has expressed ‘her appreciation and that of the| jother members for Mrs. Walker's efforts in making and distributing the posters. FAULKNERS PARENTS | OF BABY GIRL TODAY | Robert Faulkner, technical assis-| tant in the offices of Doctors Joyce Smith and E. H. Kaser, is beam- ingly handing out cigars in special | stork-decorated wrappers bearing ! the announcement “it’s a girl.” | The young Faulkners’' first child,| Kim Diane was born at St. Ann's! at 11:05 o'clock this she weighed 7 pounds, I 1 Hospital | morning. 11 ounces. Mother, daughter, grandmother and proud father are all reported doing well. H —— e l R. C. Cook, salesman from Seat- tle arrived here by air, and is at the Baranof. STEWART IS NEW ENGINEERS HEAD The biennial meeting of Territorial Board of Engineers an Architects Examiners was complet- ed here Saturday, with election of officers for the next two years. Commissioner of Mines B. D. Stewart was elected President, suc- suc- seeds Mr. Stewart as Vice-President and Linn Forrest was re-elected Secretary. Other members of the nine- member board attending were Har- old B. Foss and Homer Nordling, both of Juneau. .- SEATTLE MISSES VISIT Rhea Black, Sadie Fenton and Elizabeth S. Mertel, from Seattle, came to Juneau with Pan Ameri- can Airways and are registered at the Baranof. .- — SALESMEN HERE Ken J. Lindsay, representing the Washington Creamery Company of Seattle, flew to Juneau yesterday and is registered as a guest of the Baranof. [problems and turn to other mat-! the!ters—the next being the question of | 1German frontiers. Western pressure tonight to halt the long discussions over Big Four disagreements on current German Omorrow. LONDON — Henry A. Wallace arrived today to start a two-week jceeding Victor C. Rivers. wmmm]tour of Western Europe in search|Macl {Mantey, Anchorage architect, | ber: of what he called “progressive people.” He said he would not go to Russia. ST. JOSEPH, Mo.—Stuart B. Al- len, 16-year old adopted son of an Episcopal minister, was arraigned today on a charge of murdering jthe sexton of his father’s church| and smiled wanly when he was ordered held without bond for trial in the juvenile division of the criminal court. ———— KETCHIKAN VISITORS Several persons from Ketchikan are registered at the Baranof. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brounty, A. E. Ow- ens, and Norman E. Somers all ar rived in Juneau by airplane and are at the hotel. (noon and sails south about 8:30 iu'clock tonight. — e —— TRINITY GUILD MEETING St. Margaret’s Guild of the The Ministers Church of the Holy Trinity willl |will take up the frontier question|bhold its regular monthly meet- |ing tomorrow evening, Wednes- day, at the home of Mrs. L. E. iI\'erson, 921 D Street, with Mes- |dames Donald Skuse and Kenyon Lean as co-hostesses. All mem- s and friends are urged to at- tend. | | o CAA OFFICIALS HERE W. Morgan Davis and J. C. Pfef- | fer, both with the CAA headquart- ers at Anchorage, are registered at !the Baranof. —————————— | HERE FROM SITKA | Mrs. R. Preston and her small | child from Sitka, arrived in Juneau | by air and registered at the Bar- {anof. eV SO HERE FROM COLLEGE Lydia Fobhn-Hansen, Home Eco- . nomics director with the Extension | service of the University of Alaska t Fairbanks, arrived in Juneau | yesterday with Pan American Air- ways and registered at the Baranof, | ]lnj“l'fgopt;;d ":f pf: Dulch | ancesiyL SN, | L. E. Iverson, President of the | W ad three sisters and Presidential Press Secretary Ch“v]Juuenu Badminton Club, announc- t?lo brothers, all younger than G. Ross said that Chairman Edwin |ed today that last night's session ;hlmselr. 4 |G. Nourse of the President’s Eco-'of the Badminton Club will con- Leaves School at 16 !nomic Advisory Council has been clude this season’s activities. Iver- Contrary to populm; belief, he asked to submit a report at that son said that, due to a lack of {AR MR n, don. of impoverishid | time. adequate facilities, badminton will parents. His father was well-to-do| Mr. Truman, who has repeatedly \not be resumed until next Septem- jas a farmer. | expressed concern over rising per, | He attended a settlement schflol‘prices, declared in a speech Satur- | near Greenfield, but quit at 16 to day night he hoped industry would ! |go to work in a machine shop in |nob g0 “whole hog for profits.” | A | Detroit. His wages for a six-day, Ordinarily the Cabinet meets on| Buenaventura Samaniego was the |week of 10-hour days were $2.50'Friday. | recipient of U. S. citizenship yes- !nnd to make ends meet he worked | The Economic Council has been |terday in U. S. District Court here. four hours a night repairing making a continuous survey of the|Samaniego, a former citizen of the watches and clocks for a jeweler price situation. Philippines, was also permitted to for $2 a week. His knowledge of | Nourse and his Council co)lesgues"Sh"lCH his first name to Ventura. mechanics was largely self-taught. (went to the White House this | e Production Dream morning for a preliminary discus- TWO FROM ANCHORAGE While working on the time-|sion with Mr. Truman. Walt Smith and Jim Whitehead pieces he dreamed of manufactur- | from Anchorage, arrived in Juneau iing watches on a mass production yesterday and are at the Baranof. basis from a standardized set OX\IOWNSE"D (luB ————— TO MEET TONIGHT| | | dies. He never attempted that, but PROS GANTY IN TOWN RN OIS S I§ CITIZEN NOW i | i | i | | did introduce the idea later into| Prosper Ganty, Hoonah business- the motorcar field with the result} man, flew in to Juneau yesterday that the auotomobile was changed | with Alaska Coastal Airlines and from a luxury to a utility. The Townsend Club will m“tiis registered at the Baranof Hotel. From the Detroit machine shop as usual tonight at 8:30 o'clock| B Ford graduated as a stationary en-'in the CIO Hall. Expectations of life at birth for gineer. It was while employed as| At 9:30 o'clock, dancing will start|Americans rose from slightly more a mechanical engineer at the Edi-|and there will also be other enter-|than 46 years in 1911 to 65 years son Illuminating Co. of Detroit)tainment. in 1945