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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” === VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,605 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1947 * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — Coastwise Shipping Tie BARTENDERS OF URGES GEOPHYSICAL ~ ANCHORAGE ASK INSTITUTE AT UNIV. RAISE, WALKOUT OF ALASKA AND WHY CarpeniersA on Veterans' Scientist Declares Unifed Housing Project Hold , States in Midst of Keen Out, Higher Wages Competition ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 13. TRAP SITE LAW GIVEN CONGRESS I Limiting, Licensing Legis-| ( | l WASHINGTON, June 13.—(® (M — Anchcrage bartenders walked | The United States is “in the midst lation Submitted by Interior Se(relary off the job at midnight Wednesday | of keen competition” for geophys- land carpenters are holding out mri cal supremacy with all the world 5 . p higher wages on a veterans’ housing ! «and particularly Great Britain, s A B uing | Project, but a strike by plumbers has | Finland, Norway l:eulslauu_n im ‘m(, A‘:n Bar Aiaters ended and the men returned to Work | Congress was warned today salmon trap s e oress by &fter settling for a wage of $2.60 per o IngtitR RIS RMAL. s bee.nv prollmie ¥ OKrong t the hour, plus time and a half for over- hey all have established a xSecreta?yDof ‘;el\l? i time and Saturday work. |large number of geophysical ob- P | They had asked $2.75, with double | servatories and institutes,” said D Krug, in submitting a draft of! . "o " o time ¢ Sy @ s 4 S 7 2 Marti time for cvertime and Saturdays. | John A. Fleming, “and it is up to the proposed law to Speaker Martin, | * e AL bartenders are asKing s to cary our share, it seems to said it was the result of long ne- el e @ ) u 4 ¥ E et D et T ugey, a ralse. of §. The AN-|me of investigations so that we gotiations between the Department o, qge Retail Liquor Dealers Asso- | ma\y provide against the future, and _Lho salmon fishing industry. ! .. tion has offered $16. ‘“m it i Hearings on the subject were held: The carpenters balked after (hv} N m“‘: et ¢ ke 3 i go-ahead was received from Wash-| ;! slati ' it i 3 ash- 1 His statement, in support of the The proposed legislation would jngton for construction of 96 UNts | yeqnncies el : 7 a 1, 1948. It would | geophysical institute being built take effect Jan. 1 1830 ‘b WO Olin the housing project, They in-|i, glaska, was published in hear- require that trap sites be leased by |gist they be paid the $225 per hour e et the Interior Department and & gegle being paid in the city and the| o fo o weres iniroduced the royalty be paid the Department bY | contractor is offering $1.88, saving | joea” ncoio” bl for independent eich trap site operator of five Per-lthat was the amount agreed upon | oo oo & e by a and the USSR,”| EX-PREMIER ‘GREAT CONFUSION” TAX BILL NAGY IS ON o oun ciams DEADLINE ISMONDAY WAY To U-S. SefllemeniPTessing Prob- Truman, Jofin~gly Says He, | o lem, House Subcom- Troubles of Communist- mittee Is Told oM, 4 Will Act 30 Minutes Before Time Out ' Confrolled Hungary Be | wassnoron, sune 1. . Settlement of Indian land claims | Toldfo American People |ome of Alscas most pressing s ol BUFFALO, N Y., June 13.—(® ,! President Truman, “happy to be one of Alaska’s most pressing prob- { Assist- | (By The Associated Press) home again,” returned to the United | lems. Warner W. Gardner, ant Secretary of Interior, told a' Ferenc Nagy, deposed by the Com- | House Public Lands Subcommittee munists as Premier of Hungary, was | today ! | enroute to the United States today| Gardner urged approval of a bill States todav from what he described | in what diplomats said apparently | to permit the Secretary of Interior as “a grand visit” in Canada. i was an effort to draw attention of |to Degotiate with Alaska Indians (u: The President was fresh from an | the U. S. public to events in that |establish their land rights. tautomobile tour of Niagara Falls, ; central European republic. He said that no one now can be where he remarked: “I'm glad I | The United States accused Rus- sure what valid claims the Indians don’t have to go over them in a sia earlier this week of “a most|may have. In some instances, In-barrel | flagrant interference in Hungarian|dian villages hunt and fish ovor' His decision apparently made on affai in the alignment which!thousands of square miles of Terri-, wWhat he plan to do about legisla i placed the Communists, who polled | tory and could possibly assert a tion to cut Federal taxes by $4,000, ; 117 per cent of the last free vote.|right to the entire area, he said. {000,000, the President declined to in charge. Gardner described the situation | tell reporters whether he would veto Dezo Sulyok, who denounced the &8s one of ‘“great confusion,” whichll‘ Monday, the deadline for action. | | Communists yesterday in the Hun- |threatens to hold up developmeny ! Jokingly, he told them he would of the Territory. {act “about 30 minutes before the | garian Parliament, said today his ) | Freedom Party would refuse to take| He said the Interior Department ;deadline” when they pressed him for | ht as he pulled out | | part in national elections scheduled |is “not at all sure” that the pro-|comment last nig] { |for September, unless they were|posed land negotiations would be:of Ottawa after a three-day good-, supervised by an international board. | successful, but feels it best to at-:Will visit. i el | July 1. up May Be Averted OPTiMISM PREVAILS ON COAST Offshore Urfis Meet with Employers in Effort to House Clips 1.8 Per (ent | Off VA Funds Paring of A;?my Requests Brings Budget Saving fo $3,580,000,000 Make Settlement WASHINGTON, June 13.~P—| SEATTLE, June 13—#—A spokes- The House Appropriations Commit-| man for the Waterfront Employers tee trimmed $130884,220 from V9l~10r Washington was optimistic today erans Administration funds today ihat final obstacles could be ironed in approving an $8,498,409,759 bill to 4yt to avert a coastwise shipping finance 33 independent government tieyp at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. agencies next year, | The memo of agreement signed The total cut amounted to $330,- | june 6 between the coast's CIO 540732, or 39 percent below the jongshoremen and employers, which amount President * Truman asked. | would extend the present contract This brought to approximately $3.- without change until June 15, 1948, 80,000,000 the claimed savings of ljs a basis for settlement with all ouse Republicans in their drive to gther affiliated unions, he said. chop $6,000,000000 from Mr. Tru- Despite delays in negotiations man’s 1948 budget of $37,500,080,000.| with the offrhore unions and the The Veterans Administration, california clerks and checkers, em- however, was pared only 1.8 percent plovers will be “available continu- in getting $6.944,457.080 for its work | cusly to meet with any or all of during the 12 months beginning the unions at any time,” he said. !He was notified from San Francisco. Among major recipients CQV[‘I'?d.Thg longshoremens-employers :nomena of the earth concerned | Tremass Deg et 1 meteorology, rainfall, flow of | ! v id waters, earthy |~ President Truman, who denounced iy e b caphy, | the Communist coup in Hungary as “u‘ms'_ Ylcipte, _ 0ceanogrably, " ay gytrage, said on leaving Canada the earth’s m?lu'gnellsm. and mdlo”m U. 8. foreign policy had but one communication,” he vxplameg.' | objective—peace in the world and The Alaska institute, a $975.000 frjengship with every nation. His project, will be given to the Uni-i g, 4o were interpreted as an effort | versity of Alaska when it is finish- 15 oy troubled international waters. tempt this negotiations rather than [ litigation. o CONDITIONS OF | LASTING PEACE | VETO EXPECTED WASHINGTON, June 13. — (P— | Chairman Taft (Ohio) of the Senate i Republican Policy Committee indi- cated today that he is expecting President Truman to veto the in- come tax cutting bill. And he told reporters the chances “presumably are against” Congress 1 | | | jed, thie committee was told. It was authorized by Congress last year, and the Federal Works Agency — - ———— rs no| in asked $100,000 to begin work on it. | Earlier, Mr. Truman told the Can- (adian Parliament the United States :mtmdr-d to help nations who want 0 live in peace without intimidation {or coercion British Foreign Secretary Ernest 1 Bevin said Secretary of State Mar- {shall's proposal that the Onited | "« ' : [States finance a joint program or| 510N Will Bring Resulfs { Europe’s eccnomic recovery was “a | bridge to link the East and West.”| CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 13.— The State Department advisor, Ben- | (p—Warren R. Austin, Chief U. S. Jamin Cohen, estimated $24,000,000- | delegate to the United Nations de- | ‘000 would be needed in six years 10|cmred today that “the United j succor Europe. ! - | States, with half the productive Bevin said it would be “disastrous | power of the world, has decisive | {for idcological or other reasons to|power to create the conditions of | frustrate that great endeavor." Hc;permanent peace.” | welcomed the fact that Russia,| Making the first formal American | whose controlled pre: continued . A pronouncement on the new Soviet fcaustic criticism of the United|proposals for atomic control, Aus- e ;f::w;?uw::‘: ]“‘d”d“d in the Ameri- |tin sajd in a commencement ad-! ANCHORAGE. Alaska, June 13— H Al bp e ttee of the. tink L {dress at Masachusetts Institute of (®—Fire which levelled an estimat-' 1 subtommistes of the Upited No- | raghnoiony: |ed 20,000 acres of timberland in the ytions Balkan Investigating Commis- P A ke ] Ialdn was Arstting .4 Thboth the | ..k ey be thet we shall make Hidden Lake area on the Kenai: | aLung eport in e fl,i1e apparent progress for some Peninsula was being brought under | | Greek port of Salonika telling why | i i o dehes 0 5 nblume to come in these (atomic) control slowly today and the men; “INU. . HANDS i Earlier, Democratic Leader Bark- iley (Ky.) predicted after a Senabe! iMinority Policy Committee meetingl that the Senate would sustain a veto | ‘of the tax bill, if one is forthcom- | ing. i I Taft’s views on the prospect for a | i veto were expressed after a meeting | of the GOP policy group. | FOREST FIRE ON | KENAI PENINSULA | UNDER CONTROL; being able to override a Presidential dissent. U.N.Delegate Austin (aims Study and Discus- 1 i by the bill are the Office of ”‘elngreement contains a cancellation President, not cut at all; the A'-“”",clause which voids it, if other ic Energy Commission, reduced 30 ynjon agreements are not reached. percent; the Civii Service Conimis- | Situation Serious |amn. cut less than one peroent;" The Regional International Long- i the Federal Communication Com-|shoremen's and Warehousemen's re- | mission, trimmed 17 percent; the presentative’s office said it was in- Federal Power Commission, cut 12]{ormed, however, that negotiations percent; the Federal Trade Com- had broken off or were at a stand- I mission, reduced almost one third; still in San Francisco and that the the Federal Works Agency, cut 12 gjtyation was serious. The office percent, and the Interstate Com-| pas contacted various persons ant merce Commission, trimmed 10 per- groups, including the Governor “of b Alaska, trying to bring their influ- Even the President’s own budgét' unce to bear on negotiations -to bureau was cut, receiving 803392 reach a settlement. : less than the $3,470,000 it had asked.| The spokesman said that The Maritime Commission drew & 5 walkout oceur because of the stern rebuke from the Committee “small differences” between the two for its accounting and general ad- gides it would be “too bad.” ministrative practices. Alaska CIO longshoremen are A S not bound by the ‘coast contracts, 'he said, but attempts are being made to work out individual con- tracts and settlements there. The junion is sending a representative ‘w Alaska to help in such nego- ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The body | 210n%: of a man believed to be Claude E. Cox, 48, of Catoosa, Okla., was found | on a vacant lot. There were no, signs of violence and death is at- tributed to natural causes. NEW YORK VIEW NEW YORK, June 13.—(P—A na- tionwide shipping tieup, effective at midnight Saturday, was threat- |ened today by leaders of five CIO | maritime unions who charged ship | operators on both coasts with stall- ing and lockout tactics in contract ABOARD PRESIDENT TRU- MAN'S SPECIAL TRAIN — Presi- demanding that half of all timber:cenyy an Axis satellite but now in sale revenues be turned over to Al-|the Russian sphere. The U. S. rep- aska Indians. | resentative accused Bulgari S a S garia of fail- Other Brotherhood leaders did[ing to fulfill its obligation to pro- not approve such a demand and cent of the first 500,000 salmon’when the contract for the project ™ .qoony oo inuiives the natural caught and seven percent of all fld‘lwns obtained last year. xeophysics es 2 ditional amounts Construction of veterans’ homes keep all of them; those having 21 officials who will direct the com- to 29 trap sites could retain 90 pleted project say they have more | those with 40 or more 75 percent. Lease Trap Sites i | for a 15 year period, and the leases . FoR (oMMER(IAl | would have no renewal or extension ' | USE YEARS AWAY trap site owners may keep under e ten year leases sites-that are ap- says half its plants and equipment | # e A e vorator is. willing are obsolete because of “startting! O Timber Sales to sell with all appurtenant trap L IRTA KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 13— power still is probably 10 to 15 yi Provides For Auction ‘a“'SY« y Surrendered trap sites, newly! The information was made pub-iyesterday offering to poll leaders of lic by the House Appropriations jpn. ajaska Native Brotherhood to auctioned by the Department with M preference to Alaskan communi- Elven on]y.$‘l75‘000,(,)00 of the 52_“’0"_ ional House resolution which would 000,000 it asked for* the fiscal year|,uinorize the Forest Service to sell half could be used to offset Terri- 4 - torlal taxes and half of the re- desire “to fptard development A Chamber spokesman said the mainder would go to the Territory. connection with this most xmporz-.npposmo" apparently arose from Krug said two companies have Plans to spend its money or how:' oifered to sell one cannery egch.:many people will be on its payroll. | He said that the present allocation ; ) 1 ] by, McNeill and Libby 35, NakaLgPROPOSED VEI JOBS: Co., 27, and the New England Com- | pany, 23. H N D seem to favor the proposal, on| | which hearings are being held be- ifore a Washmgton Senate commit- tee, he said. N e —ee—— - The measure would provide that'was held up when funds were ex- ! operators of 20 trap sites could hausted. Alaska Housing Authority percent of them; those having 30 than 750 persons signed for housing to 39 trap sites 80 percent, and The bill also would provide \:nac‘AIOMI( E"ERGY trap sites be leased to the operators privileges. | The measure would provide that, Po“ o' Alaska WASHINGTON, June 13.- H " purtenant to an “optioned” can-.The Atomic Energy Cumnussxon;lndflns Sugges'ed nery. An optioned cannery is defin- improvements” in processes but| sites at the appraised value of the that commercial use of atomic physical assets. M—The Ketchikan Chamber of | Commerce wired Delegate Bartlett opened sites and those on which 4 8 the leases have expired would be Committee today in a report recom- | geteymine whether that organiza- mending that the Commission be|io, officially opposes the Congress- ties. i Of the royalty fish, up to one- startig July 1. . Alaska timberlands to pulp and The Committee said it had paper industry leaders. Royalties on sites owned by natives &nt project” but that it had been gne member of the Brotherhood in would be paid to them. unable to lind out how the agency | jyneau, who wired Bartlett in April of sites is; P. E. Harris Co., 64,! Pacific American Fisheries 56, Lib-' i 13.—P— | | WASHINGTON, June i | The House Public Lands Subcom- Mr. and Mrs. J. Ernesto Arizu, who mMittee has rejected a proposal to! are from Buenos Aires, Argentina, create five new jobs at $6,000 a' arrived in Juneau on their way year to help settle war veterans in| ST. LOUIS IS TIED south and are registered at the Bar- Alaska. " up AS IRANSPORI anof Hotel. | The provision, contained in a bill | Vintroduced by Reps. Lemke (R-ND) | DRIVERS SIR I KE BACK TO ARGENTINA iand Peden (D-Okla), was eliminat- | The Washington, Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON ed on motion of Rep. Crawford (R- ! Mich). It provided for five settle-| ST. LOUIS, June 13. — (#—Vir- ment directors. |tually everything on wheels that ; The Committee also knocked out|would run was pressed into service | P ihave required the Alaska Rural Re- sought a way to get to their jobs habilitation Corporation to make after an early morning strike of loans to veterans for improvements Street car and bus operators tied up public transportation im the St. {vide the U. N. with full facilitie; s to investigate Greek charges that Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania were assisting Greek leftist rebels. The Russian representative defend- ed the Bulgarian action. (Two G! Eskimos Now Training fo " Be Bush Pilofs SEATTLE, June 13. — (® — Two | negotiations and in the related ne- who have been fighting it rested for igouuuons on the regulation and the first time in eight days. veduction of conventional arma-, Alaska Road Commission crews: i 4 ments. But even if this proves to'and fire control service men who‘seemg Wip-to. Nisgesa BAID Sodnys e the case, continued study and pattled the blaze said much fine! discussion will, in themselves, I am wild game reserve land had been| OAKLAND, Calif.—Hope for early |certain in the end, bear fruit.” purned out. | settlement of the Key System Tran- Commenting on the new Russian' Another blaze which razed moresit strike, which has stalled street- atomic control plan offered Wed- than 800 acres of timber on thejcar and bue service for 500,000 esday at Lake Success by Soviet Anchorage-Palmer highway seemed |Zast Bay passengers, was seen today | Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. to be burning itself out. Volunteers, 'in a reported arbitration proposal | Gromyko, Austin said all the “basic soldiers from Fort Richardson and that would put AFL drivers and disagreements” remain unaltered fire control service crews have been trainmen back on the job Sunday. {but expressed hope that progress fighting a series of fires in this | dent Truman, enroute home from | i - ST0CK QUOTATIONS KKK TURNS BACK NEW YORK, June 13.—Closing ! GEORG'A CHAR“R| NEW YORK—The New York Gi- ants today sent pitcher Bill Voiselle and cash to the Boston Braves for Ipnc)u’r Mort Cooper, one-time star hurler of the St. Louis Cardinals who rejoins his brother cafcher Walker Cooper with the Giants. | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| |stock today is 5%, American Can iCanada, made a 20-minute sight-’ negotiations. ! Joseph Curran, President of the CIO National Maritime Union, said 1200,000 marine workers would take “suitable steps” if an existing con- tract between the Pacific American Shipowners Assoclation and the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union was permitted to run out at mid- night tomorrow. | Curran said the Pacific Shipown- ers had decided to cancel or ter- |minate the contract. He said that laction constituted a “lockout” and that all five maritime unions had |agreed that “shipowners will have [to fight all the unions, east and (west and vice versa, if a lockout ;devck)ps." 1 Curran said last night at a joint press conference with CIO west coast maritime leader Harry Bridges of the bill a provision which would |today as thousands of St. Louisans | young men from Alaska, who have |94%, Anaconda 347%, Cur()ss-wright‘ { moved into the final period of their|41, International Harvester 88,' ATLANZA) Sne 180 "dTh: B Do T calotn : ki 1hooded Ku Klu Klan surrendere pilo g program, here,|Kennecott 444, New York Central ¢ .o jts parent charter but State are believed by Veterans Admin-|14, Northern Pacific 17%, U. X % * Attorney General Eugene Cook said istration official y | 4 4 H H ful]-blodeg ;&fng be the only Steel 67%, Pound $4.02%. iit could continue to operate as a ! i PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Pri- | that the Department of Labor has vate information received here says peen notified of the threatened the tug Chilkoot, Capt. Bob Bushre, naticnal walkout. struck a cliff and sank Wednesday‘ WASHINGTON — The man who has done more to block the Taft- Wagner-Ellender housing act and low-cost housing beaver lobbyist 'Morton Bodfish of the U. S. Savings and Loan League. Able lobbvist Bodfish has issued | a confidential bulletin to savings and loan members which the gener- al public isn't supposed to know about. For it gives away one of the secrets as to how he gets legisla- tion introduced in Congress. confidential bulletin also discloses the fact that Senator John Bricker of Ohio has a personal motive be- hind some of the bills he has in- troduced on nhousing loans. After telling how Bricker had in- troduced four bills affecting savings | is shrewd eager-; The , on their homesteads and to loan | up to $3500 to veterans on their claims before they had secured title. The action also was taken on Craw- | ,ford’s motion | BUTTER GOES UP SEATTLE, June 13. — (® — The wholesale price of the two top! grades of print butter rose a cent a pound here yesterday and Cm;de-‘| !B print butter jumped two more; cents today to 64 cents. Wholesale | \price of grade-AA reached 67 cents (in print and Grade-A went to 66! cents. In most cases the rise was| passed on to thé retail consumer.| - | | ‘decision made last Tuesday by an | Louis area of more than 1,000,000 SRliEd s Tor population. The strike vote came after union! members had unanimously rejected | the company’s offer to sign a new wage contract on the basis of a| flying training. aska, and Reginald Joule, 24, Hope Poini, Alaska, planned to become bush pilots and have already been oifered jobs by one Alaskan oper- ator. The training is being conducted at Northern Aircoast Co. here, and includes a stiff ground course, pri- vate pilot study in Commonwealth Skyrangers, and commercial flight training in Fairchild PT-23's. Instructors said the two men stood abovegverage in their classes. arbitration board. .- Rofary Head,quarlers' To Remaig y Chicago | SAN FRANCISCO, June 13 —®— Rotary International winds up the annual convention with a general 600 Fishermen of Sales today were 960,110 shares. Merrill-Lynch averages today are Tom Richards, 23, Kotzebue, Al-|as follows: industrials 175.50; rails| |45.42, utilities 34.18. The stock market staged a brisk jrally in a more active volume of trading late’ today. Gold stock issues climbed on Wall Street rumors of an impending rise in the U. S. buying price, which some said would be advanced as| much as 40 percent or $14 an ounce to $49. Although .ment was forthcoming, Wall Street- |ers pointed to 193¢ when official- | {dom denied any administration in- | tentions to raise the gold price, national organization ‘“under the constitutional rights of free assem- ibly.” The Klan, in a surprise move, iveluntarily turned back its Georgia Icharter as it appeared to defend n | State Superior Court suit for revo- cation. The suit was based on a ! contention the white-robed order (operated for profit in violation of charter provisions. e, - POCKETPICKING Adam Perrin was arraigned be- official sources vigor-|fore U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray | ously denied that any such develop- | this morning on charges of alleged | Merrill, i pocketpicking and bond was set at $1,000. Perrin waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over to the Federal Grand Jury. He is accused in Behm Canal, Southeast Alaska. i WASHINGTON—The Navy has requested $2,395,000 with which to| construct a radio station at Adak, ! Alaska and $2,225,000 for a station at Kodiak, Alaska — | WASHINGTON -~ Secretary of Commerce W. Averill Harriman asked Congresional approval of the St. Lawrence seaway project as “national ingurance” of the coun- try’'s oll and iron ore supplies. MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Charles| Reno, Nev, is the new; | President of the Society for the 'Preservauon of the Encouragement | of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in STEAMER MOVEMENTS Nortue:i: Voyager, from Seattle, due tomorrow morning. Southeastern, from Prince Rupert, due Monday morning. Aleutian, from Seattle, due Mon- day. Square Sinnet scheduled to sail from Seattle today. Sword Knot scheduled to sail trom Seattle today. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Alaska scheduled to sail from Se- attle June 17 on Southeast Alaska route. Princess Norah scheduled to satl from Vancouver June 18. Baranof, from west, scheduled | get-together today after voting by was | Secret battle to keep its international | headquarters at Chicago, where it FIELD GETS CONTRACT and loan associations, Bodfish goes Walter D. Field, of Juneau, on in his “confidential bulletin” to, (alifornia Coming tonly to have the price boosted to|of stealing approximately $400 from America. |$35 an onuce from $20.67. |the pocket of Wallls George, cap- reveal this significant fact: !declared the low bidder today by l was first organized in 1905. SAN FRANCISCO, June 13 —(®— | tain of the fishing boat Valor, while | SAN FRANCISCO—The Interna- Gains in gold ranged to more | “Senator ‘Bricker, who is director of one of our largest savings and loan institutions, is naturally a staunch believer in the fundament- als of thrift and home ownership,; the Alaska Native Service on a con- | tract for painting 10 dwellings and | ! one utility building at the Mt. Edge- | icumbe school base at Sitka. The buildings are occupied by the CAA, | at present, but are the responsibility | and his introduction of these bills} carries with it an unusual interest, in their passage.” Note—Versatile lobbyist Bodfish did not mention two other Con-| Gil Longley arrived from Seward ____iyesterday and is registered at the| | Gastineau, of ANS. A et HERE FROM SEWARD Members voted 1,862 to 1,230 to ’_l‘he CIO Alaska Fishermen's Un- reject Denver’s long-standing Md‘lxon membership in California ports The Denver Rotary Club has beenvoted to accept a 12 percent wage maintaining an option on a $133,-!Ncrease from Alaska Salmon In- 000 site in the hope headquunersldlfl"iesv Inc., the union announced would be moved there, today. ~ D At « Under the proposal, voted on yes- VEVELSTAD IN TOWN {lexday, Mayor C. Vevelstad of Petersburg | for one year. is in town and is staying at the Bar-| Six hundred California anof, men are affected, fisher- /than 2 in Homestake and U. S. Smelting. Alaska Juneau, Howe | Sound, Hudson's Bayimine, Dome and McIntyre-Porcupine all rose a | point or more. George was asleep. | e ———— MISS MALAND GOFS SOUTH Miss Margaret Maland, of the Juneau Public School staff, left on the south Cermain Bulcke, President of Local tional Longshoremen's and Ware- +housemen's Union announced today | that Harry Bridges has been re- elected President of the ILWU for| ;two years. He had no opposition. southbound 7 p.m. Saturday. MRERIL BS54 COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT ‘The Juneau City Council will meet in a special session at 8 o'clook tonight in the Council Chambers to discuss delinquent tax records and other matters. o z the contract is extended last hour buying developed. The main list was slow to ad-the Princess Norah for vance, but around the start of the 'on her annual vacation. IR T HERE FROM WRANGELL Leonard Campbell of Wrangell is registered at the Baranof Hotel, {10, was elected Second Vice-Presi- !dent. J. R. Robertson was re-elected First Vice President and Louis Goldblat was re-elected Secretary- | Treasurer, : - Iceland’s hotels are heated by water from hot. springs LICENSE TO WED ‘Thoralf Foss and Iris June Adams, ‘both of Juneaugtoday applied ta U. s. Commlnlomt Felix Gray for a marriage license,

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