The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1947, Page 2

—_———.——1—_“——— i Kleufianin | Geing South Alaska Aleutian ar Steamship Comy d in Juneau ith- Mr Sandrs Clarence V 1d passengers were Mrs n, Mr. and Mrs. Lon d Mrs. Charles McGrai Mrs. G. Hagme yvd Fagersor Mis. D. M tephen Ram- and alf ar and . Mis. Nels R fr. and Mrs Lucille Horzusl 1, Walter Rol Ed 1 Gurs Gurst, Mrs ). Kibby, Be ibby, Mrs. Olaf nd, Robe:t v. Larsen, Miss Lee ] Mr. ant Mrs. E. M. Bliven and jehn Friesen, Theo- and Sarch Nigh | Mrs, L. H. Clark, Bonita and annon, D. Clark, John J. Scopez, L. A. Themas, W. J. Davies, Ji F. Mur::y, Gustav Johnson, Mr. | d Mrs. Don Apland, Ed Burke, 1 Chr Mr. and Mrs. J. { i Mrs. N. J.| i her, and 2 | -, — I i chained her to a bec OF RAINBOW GIRLS BE HELD TONiGHT Grand Offi- of the JUNEAU YACHT CLUB 10 BE [¥ CHARGE OF ATH WATER SPORTS Introduction of the rs and represents and Assembly of Rainbow for . shington, Idaho and Al- comm Jack Fletcher of the words of welcome and presen- juneg Club reported that of floral corsages, ma: he regular club d plans tation the opening of the initiatory cere- meeting last e for tha organi- cnies by the Juneau Assembly at zation to take o anagement of I ottish Rite Temple last eve- g]] water sports the Fourth of ing as conducted by Lily Ann jyly celebration faurstad, Worthy Advisor, and valy rizes will be offered for jer corps of officers. Responses competition in outboard motor made by Margaret Arnold, races. tughoat contests, rowboat Grand Worthy Advisor; Laverne log rolling competition, and Hansen, Betty Miner, Mary New- y water skiiing and long boat on, Ruth McCune and Mrs, Aimee races. Other races or novel contests Gossett, Past Mother Advisor, ail may be added vistors from the State of Washing- Under Fleet Surgeon J.O. Rude, o the Y Club is organizing a r cue service for persons lost in the woods or on mountains. Standard gun or other Is will be set up. and regular search procedures plan- Initiatory work as performed by the oificers and members of Juneau embly, was highy commended by visiting Grand Representatives mouncement was made of the nea public Majority Service ceremony Also at last nigl meeting the which is to be held this evening possibility of going ahead in th at the Temple at 8 o'clock. Rainbow immediate future 1 the chann Girls of Juneau who, have reached dredging project was d i. Com- modore Fletcher stated that funds their twentieth birthday, or have married since January 1, 1946, will for the project. which is pla ) be honored in this ceremony and enable any craft which ¢ . will receive their Majority Certifi- under the Douglas bridge to pass cates. Presiding officer for the cer- through to Auk Bay, are as emony will be Margaret Arnold, from last year’s gas tax revent Eng the Territorial Highway Grand Worthy Advisor, assisted by the following officers: Laverne Department Hamsen Isibel McLean, Bertha Plans call for contracting with W Beebe. Ruth McCune, Mary New- P. Manthey, whose large Koe ton, Marilyn Merritt, Ada Burns, crane will be placed on a Betty Lou Hared, Adriene Cooley, do the dredging g Beverly Amsden, Alfreda Dore, Vision of Highway r Leon- Emma Neilsen, Josephine Hared &rd Smith. It is hoped by the Yacht Club members to dig the channel to a minimum deoth of one fatl 0 ide Selection was made by the club members last evening of a design and Mrs. Hazel Mantyle as Mother Advisor. d Juneau girls who will be present- ed as active candidates are: Irene Williams, Befty Bonnett, Doris Ca- hill, Bawn Chapman Wood, Lucile 107 their official burgee, or flag. I Goetz Weir, Mary Wendling Kirk- Will have a blue field with a white ham, Patricia Fleek Varness, Evelyn |:_4 lar bear ‘f“" cake of ic and Spain Pasqian and Doris Clark ‘he lett JYC diagonally acress Seivers. Also to be honored but not ‘2 W able to be in attendance tonight T will be Astrid Holm, Nadine Met- MANY SEE pARSUN} caife, Lorens Krause, Neva Downs Mary Gregory, Shirley Mae Kle- DEMONSTRATE SHiiL weno, Erna Meier, Lane Roif, Doris i Graves Kosinski, Loise Standafer an estimated 400 to 500 Juneauites Hicke Justice, Dor- qrove or walked to the tide flats othea Hendrickson Fotrest, COn- past the A-J rock dump last evening stance Davis, Patricia Nelson, Joyce to see Herb Parsons, marksman ex- Smith, Beverly Verner and Della traordinary, perform with a variety Poor Robinson Special music has been arranged for ceremony by Mrs. Maurine MacKinnon with solos by Lois d ¢ quartette composed of McKinley, Betty Jean Man- Joyce Hope and Lois Law- of rifles and shotguns. The ex-GI from Tennessee was sponsored locally by the Juneau Sportsmen’s Association, and is traveling for the Winchester Arms Company and Western ammunition He was to leave today for An- chorage, Nome and Fairbanks where he will also give free exhibitions - ALMER PETERSON IS rence All friends in Juneau and Doug- las interested in the work of these Rainbow Girls are cordially invited tonight, according to announcement Tomerrow will be a holiday from “ (E (HA'RM N day night the colorful ceremony o ASKA Go E S of Grand Cross of Colors will be F R Al p R conferred on selected candidates A by the visiting delegation, assisted Almer Peterson, of Anchorage, by local members. This ceremony candidate for Delegate to Congem on the Republican ticket in 1946, was appointed Financial Chairman for be open to the public. A Grand ‘B will follow in honor of the visitors to which members of the L€ Republican Party in Alaska by Ratnbow: Tastern Riar Musons' and the Republican Central Committee of Alaska, Elton Engstrom, Chair- invited guests have been invited ; o il man, announced today il Peterson’s appointment has been i o AN QREGON confirmed by the national organiza- Mrs. F Fagerson and daugh- o ter Mary Lou sailed on the steam- 3 s p er Aleutian for Seattle, and are mer visiting relatives and friends X S5t ORCAS ISLAND, WASH. to join them later for a short vaca-' ng David Ramsay and sons tion David and Stephen will spend the -o SOUTH ON BUSIN Homer Garvin was a bound passenger yesterday with Pan-American Airw: on a busi- ness trip. Also leaving for Seattle was his son, Richard, who sailed on the steamer Aleutian next month or six weeks v her father's home on Orcs Wash. They sailed yesterds the steamer Aleuti The boys were eagerly looking f¢ warg to some good times swin and picnicking on the of the island board nir sandy beach Detective L. P. Stauss at Meadville, Pa, quoted Mary Mchalke, 20, (abeve), 6s saying her father m chair like this for two days so she couldn't get married. is held on a cruelty to minor charge. (AP Wirephoto) RIDING LESSON & Stauss said the father, s . Jack Dempsey, former heavy- weight boxing champion who now lives in Hollywood, Calif., pre- pares to give some riding instructions to his dm‘lzh!ers, Joan 12, (left) and Barbara, 10 at Palm Springs. ALASKA FBI HEAD URGES TERRITORY T0 TRAIN OFFICERS Lee O. Teague, Special Agent-in- Charge cf the FBI in Alaska, today urged that more Alaska law enforce- 1t officers take advantage of the free FBI National Academy train- ing courses to make for better local law enfo! ment in the Territ: Addressing members of the Ju- neau Caamber of Commerce, Teaguz pointed out that should Alaska be- come a State it would have to depend upon local officers for law enforce- ment instead of appealing for aid from Federal officers. Herb Parsons, expert marksman from Tennessee, was also a guest peaker, nostrating crow, duck and turkey calls. He expressed ap- preciation to Alaskans for the hos- pitality and kindness shown to him. A letter was read from Attorney General Raloh Rivers relative to the | possibility of “‘unfreezing” Territor- | ial highways road funds in advance | of road funds which will come in from the motor fuel -tax. Rivers stated that the ard of Admini- stration could not authorize any ad- vance expenditure. He said that members of the Territorial Legisla- ture who appropriated more than anticipated revenues had set a trap to put the Territory in the red and thereby force the adoption in a special session of a three per cent s tax included Mrs. MacKay m of Juneau, Phil Lynch of | 1s Administration, Port- H. K. L. Johnson, eattie wholesale job- wu FBI agent Jack St e e - FROM FORT RICHARDSON Capt. J. M. Sprake and Capt Noren V. Anderson, both from Fort Richardson at Ar gistered at the Baranof - - FROM VANCOU Newly registered as S Gastineau Hotel are R. Roy R Roberts and H. A. Simpson, all of couver, B. C. Ingram, s John Scheinick, S. A. company head from Seattle, arrived | Mt. Bdgecumbe School SEATTLE MAY0R PLARS ALASKA TRIP IN JUNE Mayor and M William F. Devin will head a group of distinguished Seattle residents who are planning a goodwill THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA [BUl LETINS OFFICES CLOSE FOR MEMORIAL DAY BUT | | WASHINGTON — Having been| OPEN SAT MORNINGI told that his 94-year-old mother is ¢ e | improved, President Truman re-| All Federal, Territorial and City turned here “Sacred Cow” from Grandview, Mo., where he has been for the past 12 days. Germany—Mrs. 1as been MUNICH, mann Goering Her- and must face trial as a Nazi Party; been | urday living with her child, Edda, about |this week member. Mis. Goering has 12 miles from Nuernberg. DENVER--Henry A. Wallace la night accused the U S. Govern- men of egging Europe into a war against Russi ithout the slight- est intention of defending Europe il war comes.” WASHINGTON—Secretary Mar- | shall announced today that the United States is ready to negotiate wih Denmark a new agreement concerning Greenland. WASHINGTON--Senator Gurney (R-SD) anncunced today that the Senate Armed Services Committee has agreed informally on all provi- sions of an Army-Navy unification kill. It will take a final vote on it next Wednesda;'. NORTH BEND, Cre,—Cio long- shoremen here have voted 223-14 to adopt a *“no ccatract, no work” policy | employers expires June 15, a un- ion official said today. ANKARA artial law for Istan- | bul and five adjoining Turkish Pr nces was extended for another six menths today. The restrictions have been in effect since 190. MANILA—julio C. Guillen, a bar- Ler, was sentenced to death today 1or attempting to assassinate Presi- dent Manuel Roxas with a grenade March 10 WASHINGTON—President Tru- man has designated June 14 as Flag Day and asked Federal State and City officials to fly the flag from staffs and homes. - - SEVEN HALIBUTERS BRIKG CATCHES HERE Seven boats teday landed 68,500 pounds of halibut at the Juneau Cold Storage. None had been bid on 1t noon. . Edmund Krause brought in 7,000 pounds on the St. Louis; Dan Twiet on the Valiant had 20,600 pounds: William Marks, the New Annie, had 5,000 pounds; Frank Olson on the Defiance, 15,000 pounds; Chris Han- son on the Cormorant, 2,500 pounds Tom Ness on the Emma, 17,000 pounds: and the Vonja, 2,000 pounds. - e~ Seaman Dies Aboard S. S. Princess Louis SKAGWAY, Alaska, May 29.— Percy Jones, 59-year-old Canadian seaman, died suddenly last night about 10 co'clock while working in the hold of the Caandian steamer Princess Louise. Th= remains will be taken to Ju- neau for embalming but burial will take place in Vanccuver. There are 1o known relatives. - -, FREIGHTER HERE Sailor’s Splice, Northland M. S this afternoon on the |cffices will be closed tomorrow in observance of the Memorial Day holiday but only one or two will take advantage of the long weekend and 'be closed on Saturday, too. Stores will be closed tomorrow but drug arrested | stores will open on holiday hours. All offices rormally open on Sat- mornir will be staffed despite the desire of imany to make it a long weekend. The only exception will be the of- |fice of the Territorial Attorney | General which amassed considerable overtime during the recent session of the Terriiorial Legislature. This lotfice will make up for some of t overtime by remaining closed | this Saturday only. i All Territorial and City offices {wil be open Saturday as well as the 1U. 8. Marshal, Customs, Post Of- | (fice and Clerk of the Court. H On paper, the Territorial Capi- {tal will be moved to Wrangell for | the weekend in order that Actmg\ | Governor Lew M. Williams may en- {joy the halid2y at home. ! | >oo e cmaR: i i STOCK QUUTAIIONS . | NEW 'YORK, May' ‘29.—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 4%, American Can 897, Anaconda 36’:, Curtiss-Wright l4%,, International Hapvester, 80%, | when the agreement with |Kenneeatis, #4%: New. York, Cepfral} f2=osoewoesosrmtcsusone covooo oo ooorrornie 1137%, Northein Pacitic 157%, U, 8.! Steel G575, Pound $4.02'%. { y Sales today were 900,000 shares.’ Merrell-Lynch averages today are as follows: ndustrials 169.25, rails 44.25,, utilties 38.38. Stocks advanced today—the first anniversary of the wartime hull market high-—with gains ranging to around a point in the main list. The gains added about half a bil- licn' dollars in market valuations. Trading was slow. ! ! Memorial Day and Saturday all ecurity markets will be closed, to- gether with most commogity mar- kets. The Clhicago Board of Trade will have a regular trading session in grains Saturday. ! Steels scored gains today ranging to a point in Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Bethlehem. In the mo- tors, Mack Trucks rose more than a point as high-priced auto shares turned narrowly irregular. - - - - . e o o o o » * WEATHER REPORT ® Temperature for 24-Hour s Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock ° ~ This Morning . g . In Juncau—Maximum, 72; ® minimum, 50. . At Airport—Maximum, 80; ® minimum 46. . WEATHER FORECAST e (Juneau and Vicinity) e Variabie thin cloudin | e tonight and Friday slightly | o cloudy. . PRECTPITATION | © (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 L. taday) » In Juneau — None; since ® May 1, 5.74 inches; since July ® 1, 9156 inches. . At Airport — None; ® May 1, 348 inches ® 1, 57.58 wches. ® o ° o o o o o BOY BABY BORN T0DAY | 10 JOHN McLAUGHLINS since since July | Mr. and Mrs. John T. McLaugh- | sit to Alaska this sum- Transportation Company freighter, lin today added another deduclicn| | mer, according to information re- has arrived in port with 800 tons to their annual income tax return. ceived by the Juneau Chamber of of cargo for Juneau. Included inthe The deduction was made possible | Commerce this week. Others in the party include E. L. structed Packard 'Clipper cabs for Brian McLaughlin, the Skeel; President of and Mrs. Skeel, Chamber, Nat 8. Kogers, representing the Seattle Ro- and a heavy skid rig for the Ju- and son are reported doing well and tary Club, and Mrs. Rogers; Mike Dederer, Vice-President of the Se- altle Chamber, and Mrs. Dederer, | and Ross Cunningham, Assnriate} Editor of the Seattle Times. ! It is understood the party will anof Hot:! Corporation have gath- the Unemployment Compensation | ered in Juneau, with the arrival of Division of the Alaska Unemploy- leave Seattle June 20. BODY OF ELZA MURPHY 10 BE SHIPPED SOUTH ‘The body of Elza Murphy will be shipped to the home of his parents at Flippin, Arkansas, according to instructions received today by U. S. | missioner said that he had received $527 from Murphy's parents to cover the exvenses of shipping the re-} mains to Arkansas, The 33-vear-old merchant seaman committed suicide here last week. Besides his parents, brothers and sisters in Arkansas, Murphy is sur- vived by his widow here - e FOUR INITIATED BY ELKS LAST EVENING At the Elks Lodge meeting last night four candidates were initiated. They were Burke Riley, Francis H. Forbes, Jr., Edward E. Meyer and William G. Eddy. Lodge meetings during June, July and August will be twice 2 month, second and fourth Wednesdays. - - BADRIAN ON VISIT freight were seven especially con- Studebaker sedan, a Ford sedan, neau Spruce Mills. b D BARANOF DIRECTORS MEET For the lirst tme in more than a year, all members o1 the Bar- Vice-President Al Shyman from Seattle. The Board will meet to- morrow, reported Manager Jack Fletcher tor. D HERE FROM FAIRBANKS Conrad Puhn of Fairbanks, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Koelnhe irom College are registered at the Baranof Hotel. B COUPLE FROM HOONAH Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Dalton of Hoonah arrived in Juneau yes- terday and are registered at the Baranof. HERE FROM EAST B. A. Halperin, M. D., of Chicago, and W. F. James from Toronto, Ontario, arrived in Juneau by air yesterday, registered last night as guests of the Baranof Hotel. - .- FROM THE NORTHWEST Mr. and Mrs. John D. Moller of Lengview, Wash, and Lulie M. Hcover of Rainier, Ore. registered at the Baranof Hotel yesterday. e ALASKANS AT BARANOF Among the persons registered at the Bavanol Hotel yesterday were Leslic H. Grove from Craig; Rich: B. Badrian, n Juneau y registered a the Baranof Hotel. liquor distributing|ard E. Hainey, Mathew Beans from at Sitka; rday by air, and is [and Mr. and Mrs. Art Franklin Irom Sitka, by the arrival of Master Timothy | weight seven Seattle the Alaska Cab Company, a 1947 and three-quarter pounds, at 10:20 a.m. at St. Ann’s Hospital. Mother father is passing out cigars, but not | out. This is the third addition to the McLaughlin family the others being a boy and a girl, twins. McLaughlin is Acting Director of ment Componsation Commission. .———— | POLICE COURT NEWS | | 'Kenneth Abodelly was fined $12 (this morning by City Magistrate William A. Holzheimer. Abodelly was arrested for driving 32 miles per hour on Willoughby Ave. | Thomas Long, fisherman, and | William Jones, both arested for be- {ing drunk, were fined $25 by Judge Holzheimer. Josephine Gounette, arrested for being drunk and disorderly, received |a $50 penalty from the City Mag- |istrate. | .4 - | HAL SHFLDONS GO SOUTH | | Mr. and Mrs. Hal Sheldon left by PAA plane yesterday enroute to !their former home in Manbattan, | Kansas, where they were called by | the serious illness of her father. Both are on the staff of the Daily Alaska Empire. | RGTEEG orcats. RN TO VISIT IN MINN. Mr and Mrs. Edwin Gunst and |little deughter Suzanne were Se- 'attle-bound passengers aboard the steamer Aleutian, enroute to Min- | eapolis, Micn., on a vacation trip. | Mrs. Gunst is the former Dorothy |Lund, daugbter of Mr. .and Mrs. |Jack Lund. | DON FOSTER BACK | THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1947 FROM TRIP EAST Don Foster, General Superintend- ent of the Alaska Native Service, ! returned to his Juneau headquarters yesterday after an absence of se eral weeks. He had been conferring | with officials of th Office of Indian Affairs in Chicago and Interior De- | partment officials in Washington, D. C. Foster leftr here again early this morning for a quick trip to Sitka to visit the Mt. Edgecumbe project w ARNOLT Sea-7Mite WARINE ENGINE but was expected to return late Welghs enly 198 Ibs. ; ; . plston die- toqay. placement only 61 cuble Iinches ; i & R develops 20 H.P. at only 2800 RP.AS Porfomns smoothly et high speeds e low speeds on fishing boats, oulliery eraft, and small runabouts. As a memorial to Sir Isaac New- ton, discoverer of the law of grav- ity, Britain is planning to build a vast new 100-inch telescope at a cost of $1000,0000 _ | - Motor Rebuild and HMarine Service Phone 863 1012 West > Sam Salzman’ == " "Yas switched fo Calvert becausc Calvert is smoother. idtn st PHONE 535 Thomas Hardware Co. ¥7 7020 ke Street, Omaha, Neb. 5 PAINTS —— OILS ®of [026 Lake Street, Omaha, 3 Builders’ and Shelf CALVERT RESERVE Blended Whiskey 8 Proof—65% Grain Neutral Spigt.s. HARDWARE ity |G Calvert. Distillers Corp., New York 5 Due to other Business interests it was necessary to close our office in the Shattuck Building, in Juneau. We wish te thank our clientele f walso Government and City Of Firms, for their ce-operation. * their patronage es, and Business Any unfinished, or future business in the Terri- tory will-herveafter Le handled through Don Paul Balmat,’ Box 855, Juneau. | BALMAT & COMPANY i Juneau, Alaska — Tulsa, Oklahoma Mary Ann Balmat George Allan Brown on your trip EAST No extra rail fare When you go east you might as well get all you can for your money.-And it’s pretty hard to find a bigger bargain than this: On your roundtrip ticket to Chicago, New York and most other eastern cities from Vancouver, B.C., Beattle or Portland you can go or return via California for not 1c more rail fare than you'd pay lo go straight east and back. See San Francisco, Los Angeles and the colorful soutliwest. Go one way, return another. See twice as much at no additional ticket cost. The friendly Southern Pacific G. Alton, Canadi 1 Gen, For information or reservations writs Agent, 619 Howe St., Vancouver, B.C.; J. W. Gaines, eneral Agent, Pass. Dept,, 1405 Fourth Ave., Seattle, Wash. cr J. A Ormandy, General Pass. Agent, 622 Pacifi: Bldg., Portlan 4, QOre. The Triangle Cleaners Off on Your Vacatien. .. Don’t delay . have your summer wardrobe cleaned and * pressed . . . ready for hours of fun and relaxation 48-Hour Service CLOSED SATURDAY AFTERNOON “For Better Appearance” CALL