The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1947, Page 2

PAGE TWO ONE MILLION TONS OF FOOD FOR GERMANS RELIEVES SHORTAGE Ration -free Meals for School Children in U. S. Zone By EDWIN SHANKE BERLIN, May 23.—(®—Bremen horities announced 1wt 116 ships loaded with neariy 1,000,000 tons of food were arriving from May 1 to July 18 to alleviate critical shortages in the Amer British occupation zones ve of s were unl in Bremon and others were discharging {jod cargoes in Hamburg and Emden, Air Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas, British mili- governor, told the German to demand con- rom Americans 1 their conquer- man poli- distribute d no right sacrifices tons to ‘c food better the avoiiab stuffs. Col. Hugh D. iiester, chief of u food and agricultural divis- of the American military gov- id the 1400000 German er.ment, s sc.ool childien in the U. S. zone wculd receive ration-free meal at school daily by dJune 1. The 2,000,000 chiidren in the British zo12 have been receiving such a mecal for some time. e PROPERTY DAMAGE, TEXAS GTY BLAST, OVER $32 MILLION NEW YORK, May A— An official report issued today on the Texas City, Texas, disaster ! listed total property dam: at an estimated $32,850,000, and said 433 bodies had been recovered with 135 persons still missing. "The report was issued the Fire Prevention and Engineering Bureau of Texas and the National Board of Fire Underwriters. Texas City, a community 10 miles north of Galveston, was rip- ped and seared by a series of ex- plosions and tire last April 16-17 The report said the $32,850,000 damage estimate included to industrial property of $28,100,000 phus an additional $4,750,000 damage to dwellings and contents, mercan- tile buildings and stocks, automo- biles, and city and school proper- ty - O'NEAL NAMED T0 SUCCEED McNUTT IN PHILIPPINES KANSAS CITY, MAY 23—(P— President Truman announced today he is appointing former Democratic Representative Emmet O'Neal of Kentucky Ambassador to the Philippines O'Neal's nomination to succeed Paul V. McNutt, first ambassador to the new republic, probably will go to the Senate tomorrow. McNutt is returning to the prac- tice of law. — -ee Annual U. 8. coal production tonnage is normally 20 times that of wheat and seven times that of corn as | ! | | today ' gion RAY RAND NOW IS PARTNER IN " 207H CENTURY Harold H. Bates tc announced the purchase of a half interest in the Twentieth Century Super Mar- ket here by Ray C. Rand, who will be Bates' partner in operation of the store. Rand arrived in Juneau this week, from Los Angeles where he has been the past year or more Mrs. Rand cawme north with her husband but was to return today to a residing Los Angeles where their 11-year-old daughter is in school. After the school term is finished, Mrs. Rand and Miss Rand will move to Ju- neau, probably in July Mr. Rand said Rand once before was associated with Bates in the food business, for eight years, at San Mateo, Calif. Rand’s 20 years experience in the 100od business includes a number of “firsts.” In 1939 he opened the first “cpen front, California type” super market in New York. That market, containing 17 departments, was Ylocated at Flushing, close by the World's Fair grounds Previously, he had inaugurated the “First Pacific Super Market” in Long Beach, Calif,, in 1928. Then in 1937 he opened San Francisco's largest super market, the ‘“Food Mart.” Rand declared himself well pleas- | ed with the appearance of Juneau | and feel lan Alas that he will enjoy being a husinessman. - BOY SCOUT CAMP ORGANIZATION 10 BE IN NEW SETUP Boy Scout at le River include mplete new setup in the, op- ion and organization on a Pa- trol basis, with Patrol leaders lead- ing the activities of each Patrol Boys will camp by Patrols in tents instead of bunking in the bar- racks. Part or the Camp er of the training at camp will be setting up camping facil ities around each Patrol quarters atrol leaders and patrol members will select their camp site and be responsible for developing it into an efficient camp layout Activities at - camp this year will include all tyes of camp craft, wood craft, swimming and Loating. Two boats are now available for camp. Anyone wishing to rent or lcan boats for the ten day camp- ing season should call the Scout office. Three more boats are needed for the waterfront pro- gram. At a last night, Troop cfficers Donald MacKinnon, Ger- ald Shaw a Gerald Wade, of Holy Trinity Troop 23; Leo Jewett, Camping and Activities chairman; and District Commission Wayne Stephenson drew up tentative plans for an overnight hike in connect- tion with the summer camp. This camp is to give the boy an op- portunity to put into practice what they have learned the first few days in cnmp meeting el GAME TONIGHT At 3:30 m]u(-k this afternoon, the sun was cut, there was no rain' in the air and it looked very much like there would be a game tonight in Firemen's Park between the Le- | and Moose baseball teams. Enjoy Your DANCING and DINING in the Pleasant Atmosphere of the Baranof Hotel’s BUBBLE ROOM and TERRACE Monday Nights thru Saturday Nighis MUSIC ON SUNDAY NIGHTS U. 5. TAXPAYERS T0 GET HIT FOR | FEEDING GERMANS By DAN DE LUCE | FRANKFURT, Germany, May 23.] —IP—A bill to American taxpayers for approximately $750,000,000 for feeding 46,000,000 Germans in \sest-‘ ern Europe was described mday by‘ “a pros- | I U. 8. economie sources as pect for 1948." These sources said the British, | worriedly making deep inroads on | their post-war loan from the Unit- ! ed States, would be compelled in the next few months to ask the United States to pay Britain’s dol- lar share of German food impor Under the American-British econ omic fusion of their uccupauon} zones, each of the two countries ! this year presumably were paying ! half of the estimated cost of $692,- | 000,000 to save the bizonal popula- l ‘tmn of 40,000 000 from starvation. i Nearly .60 percent of the popula-+ tion is in British territory, but thei American Military ~ Government , agreed last winter to accept hulf‘ of the financial obligation because ' it reasoned that the U. S. zone uever could ke self-sufficient alone. e | Sovief Cigareffes, | American Style, fo | ' BeSold, Russ Zone' BERLIN, May 23.—#®—The So-, viet occupation ‘authorities plan to bring out mass-produced American- style cigarettes in the Soviet zone at a quarter the price of Amerl- can cigarettes. ) This information comes from German sources here. They say the Russians will sell the clngrettes" at three and four marks a pack—! which is about 30 to 40 cents.! American cigarettes have been sell- | ing on the black market for the equivalent of about $1.20 a pack,’ and they are expected to go high- er when the United States Army| ban on private importation nIl cigarettes goes into effect on Mon- | day. — ., ! FORMER WAC SEEKS RELEASE FRCM 5-YR.: E THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Two squads of detectives arrived. l-RIDA\ MAY 23, 1947 (A dispatch from Nicaragua re- A and “roll- garette is ALASKARESEARCH HIGHEST HONGRS " APACHE' NOW =75 - Lioyd Oshourne cause his pay is probably under| the 84,000 francs (700 dollars) a | f, i | ON AGRICULTURE ACCORDED LAYMAN' Dies, California | BESI DRESSED minimum living wage in France i IS RECOMMENDED BY PRESBYTERIANS AR The man in the black homburg Robert Louis Stevens: stepson, s hat—he's (1) a gover t offi- ¥ sboutne, T . 4 WASHINGTON, May 23.—P—| GRAND RAPIDS, Mich,, May 23. MAN IN pAR g‘“""- i % e :i];:-’dxm(z;(m«tr‘x;&f;m;:;-l\nr‘;l'[fui[\‘x: A special $144040 appropriation —(P—Wilbur La Roe, Jr., of Wash- A la lawyer 4 or somebody who'yesterday e [ 'for agriculural research in Alaska ington, D. C., fourth layman in his- wants to look like one of those: In vece S e b § § was recommended to Congress to- tory to hold the post, presided to- S, smech . > ~’('rdx ,:‘l:t i e s § day by the House Appropriailon|day as moderator of the Presbyter- PARIS—Montmartre hasitSSans-: Tne man without a hat—that's Piogs o his ‘sister, Mrs. Tsobel | committee as an important defense ian church in the USA. sters, but they are nothing like the |40 gyerage Parisian. DTS B SR Carpinteriay { measure. Delegates to the 159th general ugly-looking fellow in the sweater | R e o s e o | “This Territory has come to oc- assembly here elected La Roe to the and cloth cap who flings the girl] | cupy a very important place in|church’s highest honor yesterday arcund roughly in the upmno:'R h i 1 FAMI[Y EXPOSED : the national establishment,” the over three other candidates. Dr. dance” that still shows up in some oug ome ef committee observed in making its Robert B. Whyte of Cleveland; Dr. Hollywood fiims of Parisian nizht F 1t ! recommendation. John H. Gardner of Baltimore and life. Fl"ds Bumps _CHICAGO A black mongrel “It is now, and may for some pr Ppgul McConkey of Seattle. The 1947 Montmartre gangster is dog which wandered into the i time continue to be, an important 1t was reported a proposal to ad- the best-dressed man in Paris—if Al ' Warren Avenu: polict station a § link o t04" Skl Gf ur AU iy pomen o' She | el etk yar alh T e il Along Highway v o o maie s W} “‘E;‘r:“" Lt lue of ™Ministry appeared headed for de- pearl-gray hats and reddish brow - policer % Clatence Heyderl, " ho e Dowentigl mAary YR, of | feat, suede shoes with leather heels. F RICHMOND, Va.—(— B L food produced in Alaska “is ob- 9 carries no pistol, rarely drinks any :ni’.I(\:\l 3 "I,) H\m‘\, r;“ml]??uuu &2 “E“f" Hayden soon became the vious” the committee continued thing stronger than Vichy water.| Just ask the NiRAE © hiskiway (g;: champion although other po- '}'he committee noted also that a "Ew RE(ORD SEI BY X(” fmd nim sittiig in sldewaik deps ANRBE ¢ 9ol Waht lh: o {nm..:'n 1‘(1vn‘71‘mti tak; to . Ve rives v T - L > i the 2 n a ed only ng trailed behind highway trucks the dog home. “The pxoblem presented is of| ( lIF M'AMI RUN bling, tacketeering in forelgn oyr-| depié in the road surface and | Pciicetrafledthedogrrom ‘he such grave national import that MIAMI, Fla, M.y %3 —P—A "”“_‘I‘\' selling blackmarket auto-, their effort on riding comfort. The| Police trailed the dog from the Integration (of research activities) Lockheed Constellation of the East. !f:o‘?\lT running illegal prostitution | “roughometer” records them and station and found she had a becomes an imperative necessity,” ern Airlines spanned the continent A‘:]‘,mw e At they can be marked with paint for family of el puppies hidden the report added. in six hours, 49 ntinutes and 26!, g.”,‘m,m_ 5 ‘)'“ L“:“:‘]‘F‘L'_““:h»‘ r‘ x‘ smooth out. away in basement With its reporr, the committee seconds to et a new California- yo finer people by (heir clothes | R 7"010-(.:- b B {presented to the house the bill to-Miami speed record last night/ . L po: 4 ‘)vf ‘1 .m,',)((, " 2 " il : : from burning poison ivy to appropriate agriculture depart- for commercial aircraft ! 'The fellow with the cloth 3 I l‘n s .m\( heen . A‘m“mi‘ (f.ni class- 'un» I(\.“_v enough poison to b jment money for the fiscal year The'huge four-engined passenger R P th capiified fram the carboniferous age. harmful begmnmg July 1. It included the ship, officially timed by the Nation- T i b " I$164.940 Alaske. rescarch ttem with a1 Aeronautics. accocistion. enapea = I {the provisions that the department five minutes and 31 seconds from == = will solicit the cooperation of ‘the the record established only last = = Tzrritorial Legislature and the Saturday by another Constellation. == = | University of. Alaska in the Work. Capt. H. O. Hudgins of Miami = = The bill includes also a grant piloted the plane on its non- = = of $12,000 under the Research and flight from Burbank, Calif, at an == = {Marketing Act. average speed of about 348 miles == = The committee said that when per hour and at an average altitude == == ,Congress decides the Federal gov- of 23000 fn(.. = = ernment has finished its research S = = | Jjob, the work will be returned to = — FLYING FORTRESS = = | —————— = = = = - i MISTAKEN IDENTITY | WITH15 ABOARD = The Best for Less cwxceax Why Puay Hove £ | - CRASHES IN NIC. = B ST. PAUL, Mmmn., May 23.—®—, "= m + When Mrs. Lester Schampagne, 30, = = retumned home she saw what ap-| WEST PALy BEACH, Fla. May = = peared to be two pairs of baby 23.—(P—Eignt members of the 15- = B = feet, clad in pink booties, protrud- man crew of a lying Fortress = = % ing from beneath a sheet, at the which crashed in Nicaragua on a == P a K = bottom of the stairs to her apart- fight from’ the Canal Zone to o= SuCCE“sh'l people do it by a careful, sysiematic plan . Our every"a‘ yE | ment. Kelly Field, Tex., have been found = If prices : 2o & 3 She immediately called polce ana ulve atier wing ow, e vomi- == Shelf prices ere priced fo save you money everyday inthe week ... £ | reported two babies had been aban- son Army Air Field Public Rela- = 2% THE 7@ ¢ i FOR i ki % @ = ‘doned in her apartment building. | tions Office announced today = S fl‘” ,fi & E‘% %%AY SYS;EY@ATE& §Av5fias = ' PRISON SENTENCE =i~ CHARLESTON, W. Va,, A Kathleen B. Nash seeking release from a five year, prison sentence, contended today she was a civilian when the Army‘ tried her for participation in the theft of the Hesse crown jewels. ! The former WAC captain already | has been granted the right to petition for a write of habeas cor-; pus by Federal Judge Ben Moore, | who set a hearing for July 14. i b Alaska, Sailors Splice, from Seattle, duel May 31. ' Grommet Reefer scheduled to sail from Seattie today. Princess Louise scheduled to sail| from Vancouver May 24. Square Sinnet scheduled to sail from Seattle June 5. Aleutian scheduled from west May 27. May 23.' Durant, Ixom Seame due Mon-| da southbound ! ;l | | | | [ the sheet and found = g Hernando De Soto discovered iie memppn river in 1541. > Baranof Hotel Building It’s the Nicest Store in Town Perfect Pair! Slack Suit What sets this slack suit apart from o dozen others you'll see? There's an easy hang to the shoulders, a slim-hipped grace—such as only a knowing tailor can achieve. That's the master touch of Sacony ... applied to crisp, wrinkle-free Palm Beach cloth. Perfect pair ... perfect slack team! Misses' sizes. It's a Wonderful Buy! 22.50 - { Women's Avvaner Sacony-Palm Beach<”’ the | fate of the others not yet known) perted seven survivors, with The Morrison oificer said the wr 75 miles north of M: Public Relations e was found gua. =Peanut Qil, Quart $1.25- = COCOMALT Maited Heaith Food . Miracie Whip DEESSING Hall pi. 25 CHILY SAUCE MEXERS Canada Bry Ginger Ale Towm Collins Sparkling Water Seven-Up Cola — Card's Lemon Seda als. $.00 AT IS MEIELEK Kraft Powderad Pouid @5« B Cocalolacase1.89 UTTERMILK | | ryion suICE Pound £ ¢ |Lior 25c.doz. 1.25 JELL PLUMS ( CRAE ALASKA-—Royal Red an 79« SHRIM DEEP-C—Extra Fancy Can 79( duin Powder or Pudding 3 Pkgs. 25¢ ¢ GRAPEFRUIT APCO NG. 10 TINS Green Gage QAT E | ’ 1 (ix(;qgusl‘ru[;), GALLONS) | . 39( Peaches - $1.35 2 ans 55 f ; : £ APRICOTS SA[ !'vick . Grapefruit Juice= % i Booth—Halves § i Dr. Phiilip’s : 1 ' Can 3¢ AmtoSances13s | AN 39cE | Tomate Juice G FOOD FRISKIES Meal — or — Cubes 2 Ibs. 35¢ 5 Ibs. 9« 10 ibs. 1.49 CORN Niblets anns 45 ASPARAGUS Cut Green (an f5¢ DRIED FRUIT PEAC_HES Pound APPLES 4 5 ( e HI||illlIIIII|||lIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIlllIIIIH|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIHIIIIHIII PEARS fllfllIIIIIIllll"lllllllfl"fllll“lIIIIIIlIIlIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIHIIl = Plenty of Fresh Frozen Fruits and Vegetahles | 00