The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1947, Page 2

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R Behtends Co QQUALITY - SINCE /887 DOUGLAS NEWS DOUGLAS SCHOOL BOARD AND COUNCIL MEET A meeting ity Council i the School Board was held on Vednesday evening in the City Council Chambers for the purpos iscussing ans for the remod- he recently acquired Gov- school by the School g of crnment Board James McC » Board eling for the Jlellan showed the modern apa the estimated cent or He school. bas been turned tlz School Board on a 5= mit by the ANS The present remodeling ure should show a end of that time would spokesman plans for school’s attic ments and cost by a stated the over to sar per- of ave al 1ig- at the more im- provide livi in the Doug- needed. taking over proparty the put now in v cost and portant, ages in Government are desks tchool needed ond the 10 typewriters also badly a substantial amount of supplis; 8 manual train- school rich £chool tenches and a bus which will used ng be such games. for school affairs, and basketball lan also stated the school will need more class room space if the (‘m’()“m(‘n‘l rises. Ther? is suffi ce for two regular rooms, a manual training department and a domestic science room without interference with the planne apartments. ‘The one fully hed apart- ment in the school now belng rented by School Superintendent Lon C. Rice, whosz family will join him he: soon The City has taken ance on the building for 5 years, and also on w h was in with vision that a registered be in cha at all times. Dore, owi of thz Channel Lines, tered drivers when they furn: out insur- covering it the bus the pro- chauffeur Wm Bus volunteered to provide regis- be would necessary and would also give th bus a complete check-up through- out the year to keep it safely equipped Other Board members present were Arne Shudshift, President; Council members president were Rex Hermann, Wm. Bczhl, Charles Whyte and Mayor Pusich FIREMEN MEET The Douglas Volunteer Fire De- partment held the ly meeting last ev Hall. One new memi Cunningham, was ele Department rolls The hosz committee reported that 300 feet of new inch fire hose had been purchased and would arrive here as soon as ship- ping is resumed Another community party was planned future in friends of vited. Rex Hermann chairman of Dance which i October 11. his own committee to assist in dance arrangement New maintenznce comr pointments were, Walter Fred Cunningham and Marshall Refreshment month is Arme F. Reed and Robert A fine crab feed Ar mon unn” in the Fir Fred M the ted to ge! geth inted as Annual Fall be held to Hermann was to pick e ap- Andrews Milford committ next Shudshift Wagner was presented Shelly! cl E. Hej wa, for a da est he her of er and They will leave th Mex ub. SOUTHBOUND TODAY s. Minnie Miller, mother Miller Douglas and Mrs. Jenkins of Glacier left on the Princess home in Arkansas, visit in Alaska with ught and families. Of importance during her visit re was becoming acquainted with five grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller; Darlene, Kathleen, Lauraleen Accompanying 1 nry of ye Earl- her south time in the States on| visit boat as Van- couver and motor south into New! exico to visit another daugh- before returning to Arkansas.| Jobn Nejmi is the new custodian | in th tion last signed tion Fo An was korn to Mrs. a. an couple ch na Mike Pusich, NEW CUSTODIAN the Douglas School beginning weck, following the resigna-, of Richard McCormick, who s been in that position since Christmas. ~ McCormick re- in order to accept a. posi- with the Juneau Spruce Cor ration. is BABY BOY pound six ounce boy Guy Russo at 3 m. today in St. Anne's Hospital, d was the first child of A name has not yet been csen for the son and heir. Mater- | grandparents are Mr. and Mrs who now have cight grandsons, % LAST DAY, MISERIES Tonight at 8 o'clock in the Gov- emnment school building, man class traditional All Al are pa cli upon umber ni; ing cted an the Fresh- of 1947 will undergo the initiating ceremonies. School students umni are invited to attend, also invited to stay for which will follow evening’s cerzmonies will| a week of miseries imposed the green Froshs which ne this year. This morn- nlucky nine were sub- to parading through town d attending classes in cos- High and the Tty This max the tumes ranging from ballet dancers to Robin Hoods, bathing beau- ties and undertakers - - POLICE COURT NEWS Percy Hunter, Cliff Mathews and Alberta Brown were fined $50 each this W of Smith, on morning by City illiam A being drunk and disorderly. a fisherman, the same c! ge. Charles A. Mason' was fined $25 Magistrate . Bill was fined $25 for being drunk. last night by City Police and charg- ed Tr! Mrs. Mary Dugan was arrested with disorderly conduct. She w el versonal recogn ice and has asked for a jury trial ial has been set fer tomorrow in the City Couneil Chambers, G b TP OLIVER GOES SOUTH Frank Oliver, Assistant Attorn eneral for the Territory, left on of cut High-~ Louise after her great- daughters | were | the Jenkins family to spend ~0mv| indefinite the two and Holzheimer on charges | Extended ‘Aaskan Hospifality i fo Sporis Wrifers Is Praised hospitality is all that y it ist” was the concensus of 47 but enthusiastic sports writ- who flew to Seattle. by [Pan American Clipper last weekend, fol- |lowing a tour of Southeast Alaska ! Alaskan {they Tt |tired land the Yukon Territory, aczording to a es received in Juneauw | Visiting Ketehikan, = Wrangell, | Pctersburg Juneau and White- hors: members of the Outdoor Writers Association of America |tished, took a crack at bear hunt- {ing ipated in a salmon der- by ussed conservation prob- !lems with Alaska _sportsmen and civic leaders } We like Alaskans and. Alaska,” isaid J. Hammond. Brown, speaking for the nation's top-ranking sports writers on the East Coast. “Many of us will be back next year, and n the years to come Winner of the Outdoor Writers) 'calmon derby staged at Juneau August 28-30, was Capt. Stan B | |Wadg, free lance wiiter from New ‘York City. For his largest king salmon—a 26 pounden—Capt. Wade was, presented with a wristwatch by J. D. Fessio, Pacific-Alaska Di- vision sales manager of Pan American’ World Afrways. At Whitehorse, the group were entertained by the city's business men and Yukon Fish and Game Association, and were presented with exclusive memberships to the Yukon Teepe2 Creepers and the Squaw Man's Union. During Lhch; stay at Whitehorse, the group shed for rainbow trout and gray- ling in principal lakes and streams; LEWIS HOlDS OUT, AGAINST (OBEYING I.AW lMine Union Mogul Alone Opposes AFL Signatures i to Affidavits CHICAGO, su»t 12——4«?! Opposi- tion of John L. Lewis to the signing | affidavits Dy | of non-Communist union leaders under the Taft-Har ley Act forced the AFL Executive Council today to postpone its ex- 'pected announcement of policy io- | ward the labor act. Lewis was reported to be holding singlehandedly against signing the affidavits, although the 14 other members of the council favored complying with that provision of the new labor law. Failure to swear that they are not Communists will deprive all AFL unions of use of the National Labor Realtions Board | facilities. By blocking the action of council, Lewis therefore is in |to the {iremen following thei meeting by committeemen Sante! Degan, Allan MacKenziz and Rich- ard Swanson. The crabs were do- nated by Swanson from his Doug-, las Crab Co., and ot refresh- ments were donated by the Eagles the the Colleen position of keeping all AFL unions {from utilizing machinery of ihe NLRB D U.5. and Other Lands Exchange Students on 'Rofary Fellowships “ CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—(M—Opror- Itunity to study in other lands is bvmg given to 19 young men-—-12 of them Americans—on funds memorializing Paul P. Harris, the founder of Rotary Internaticnal, who died last January. The grants ange from $1,800 to $2,900, ac- cording td an announcement in the current issuz of The Rotarian Magazine, and are made possible through a special fund of the Rotary Foundation. Twelve of the grantees are Amer- jcan graduate students who will study in Britain, China, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Argentina, Switzer- {land, Canada, France, and Syria. The other seven come from Eng- land, China, Mexico, France, Pales- ytine and Belgium, all tut one of jwhom plan to take graduats de- grees in the United States; the Palestinian will study in a Brit- ish university. Candidates for these “Fellow- ships for Advanced Study,” as the | Rotary Clubs, then screened by the “districts,” and finally select- 'ed by a special committee. Rotary ‘cmu.\ near schools in which fel- |lows study will be informed in order to facilitate personal ac- quaintance through weekend visits in homes. SURPLUS VESSEL ALLOCATED 10 MT. EDGECUMBE WASHING1ON, Sept. 12, — B— Federal war surplus equipment has been allocated to Mt. Edgecumbe Scheol, Sitka. Alaska, to be used in both navigation and ship operation and repair, both ashore and afloat, Maj. Philip B. Fleming, Federal Works Administrator, announced today. Besides the shore and shipboard instruction, he vessel will be used to transport !dents and employees of the Alaska | Native Service and freight. Outfitting of the training boat and other necessary facilities will accom- the Princess Louise enroute to Port- | modate 700 students, including 100 la w Ju two sons in about three the nd, Oregon, ith his family where he will He will return to aneau with Mrs. Oliver and their weeks. - Soft pine for many years supplied United States, visit | war veterans. Only uwo veterans were among the 400 enrollees when the school was established last Feb- | ruary. -ee — ‘Thirty - nine states will enness. 'grants are called, are proposed by, training, war veterans in said, the training grant | the major lumber requirement of divorces based on proof of dxunk—‘xs with the Standard Oil Company in that arca. | The writers returned to the| East Coast l:m Sunday | | I EISENHOWER SAYS WON'T BE DRAFTED NEW YORK, Scpl. 12.—(P—Gen~| eral of the Army Dwight D. Eisen- | | hower, mentioned as a possible | Presidential candidate, said at a news conference he would not be a | “party” to any draft movement “or [ .mylhlng artificial.” Here to visit Columbia Umverslt) | whose presidency he will assume next year when he retires from the | Army, General Eisenhower said: “It has been pointed out there is | no such thing possible in American | politics as a draft unless the draft | is an artificial stimulant. I am not | going to be a party to any such draft or anything artificial.” | Eisenhow said, “I do not think a | man who has been a professional soldier should be in any political He added that if a soldler served| in a political capacity “I do not think it is good for the Army and it is not good for the soldier.” | COOLER WEATHER . SPREADING OVER | | MAIN CORN BELT (By The Ass dted Press) Cooler weather spread over the country’s main corn belt today but | Federal forecasters said there was | no immediate danger of Irost. Temperatures dipped to the low | 40's in Nebraska and parts of North Dakota today and similar readings were predicted for Minnesota and | Wisconsin tonight. | Cool weather also was reported in the Mountain States, with ihe mercury dropving to 38 at Cheyenne, Wyo., and 44 at Denver and Lamar, | Colo. Higher temperatures, how- | ever, were forecast in the northern Rockies and the Pacific Northwest. Rain fell throughout the North Central States, with heaviest falls reported in South Bend, Ind., 1.83 inches; Detroit, 1.74, and Sioux City, ia., 156 inches. Temperatures in the high 80's were - general eastward from th2 Great Lakes while San Antonio’s reading of 97 was the highest in the Gulf States ycsl.mdm | FAMED GENERAL OF WORLD WAR | TAKEN BY DEATH NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—(P—Lieut. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard, 86, who began a distinguished military car- eer in the Indian fighting of the '80s and was decorated by four na- tions in World War I, died last night of a brain hemorrhage at Fort Jay Hospital on Governor's Island. Bullard came out of World War I with the nickname “Counter-attack Bullard” for replying, when the French asked if he planned a with- | drawal at Chateau Thierry, “I'm 30- ing to counter-attack.” | He commanded the famous 1st | Infantry Division in.the first Am- erican battle at Cantigny and in the stand at Montididier. He command- | ed the IIT Corps in the second bat- tle of the Marne and led it into the Argonne. He tock command of the Second Army in October, 1918. Bullard retired Jano. 15, 1925. He i was a native of Youngsboro, Ala. : g = CONWAYS’ PLAVE HERE Mr. and Mrs. Jack Conway, in Juneau from Sitka, are at the Bar- anof Hotel. The Conways plan w return to their home by plane Sat- urday. - >-ees - GIRL FOR SULSERS Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sulser of Sitka are the parents of a baby |girl born in St. Ann's Hospital this ! morning. The baby tipped the scales at five pounds, 14 ounces. Mr. Sulser | | ILlade: { E McConaghy, Julia J Pond, Eldon {at the home of Mrs. Rhea Smith Gastineau Hotel. ' WHOLESALE TAGS LESS, i Refail: Prices Advance ’ of Hold*Levels | < | NEW YORK., Sept. 12—M—Re- tail food prices either advanced or ties. delphia and New York stores. Choice | steaks continued to sell at $1 a pound or better. Butter command- ! led $105 in some stores in both | | cities, and chain store butter ad- vanced to 92 cents a pound. | But prices of most grades of but- ter drobped a cent a pound on the New York wholesale market. Hope of breaking the upward i price spiral also was seen in de- cllning futures quotations for food | commodities. Cheaper cuts of meat edged up- ward as demand was increased by ! housewives shying away from choice | Increased prices of poultry, {and cheese were also attributed in | cggs part to the search for meat sub- | stitutes. i - > - i 17-Year-0ld |Bride of 19 Days Murdered DENVER, Sept. 12—(P—A col- lege student told police that, with the phrase “until death do us part” running through his brain, he shot and killed his 17-year-old bride of | 19 days as she sat in her wedding dress discussing a planned ment. Detective Sergeant Arthur | well said Charles E. Geiser, annul- | Jr., 23, signed a written statement he shot |his bride, Mrs. Gertrude (Sue) i Geiser. while her horrified younger sister leoked on. GARDEN CLUB IS TO ‘ SEE FLOWER SLIDES, Mrs. Maxeine \.\’llll.mh will show colored slides of flowers of Alaska .xt the Juneau Garden Club meeting | n(»xt Wednesday o'clock. M afternoon at 1:30 Robert Webb and Mrs. \F]auhm will. be hostesses for lunch- | {eon dessert before the | meeting, which will be {social hall of the Trinity Church. Jack | business | held in the | | PSSR S S | DON DAVIS, CANNERY SUPERE ENDENT, HERE Don Davis, a General Superin- tendent of P. E. Harris Company, | arrived today by plane from Ket- | chikan. He is at the Baranof Hotel | . - i SEATTLE PEOPLE HERE | Seattle people registering at the Baranof are V. I. Thompson, Jcrry‘ C. Bryant, John Kazzimin, Mrs. F. B. Davis. A. Anderson, Mrs, anph Matsen and Charles Ellers. - e BPW MEETING | The Board of Directors of the| Juneau Business and Professional Wcemen's Club will meet at 4 p. m. tomorrow. The meeting will be held in the Channel Apartments. Ll e o WRIGHT, JR., HERE Frank Wright, Jr., cannery erintendent at Sitka is at the anof Hotel. e——— ARMY OFFICER HERE Lt. William B. Barrev of Richardson is stopping at the anof Hot‘cl | | | | | | sup- Bar- | Fort | Bar- | - FROM MlDWEbT Mr. and Mrs. Steve Howard of Omaha, Nebraska, are staying at the Baranof Hotel. i e L FROM PELICAN CITY Mike Goodman of the Whiz Pack- | ing Company at Pelican is regis- tersd at the Baranof Hotel. - D IN FROM MINE Mr. and Mrs. F. R. R. Jones and child of Tulsequah, B. C, are at ihe Baranof Hotel. e ———— AT THE BARANOF Priscilla Williams and Mabel Ruhl of Anchorage are stopping at the Baranof Hotel. 2 ST A GUSTAVUS MAN HERE Harry Carter of Gustavus is at the Baranof Hotel. e e———— IN TOWN Mr. and Mrs. John Shotter and son of Hoonah are staying at the —_——————— AT THE GASTINEAU Glen W. Reid of Petersburg is registered at the Gastineau Hotel. - — U. S. Cotton mills plan to spend about $100,000,000 a year for the next five years in renovations, at Sitka new machinery and research - FEWFOODS {Relief Seen Even Though held to their high levels today, but | |hope of feMef was seen in easing | wholesale prices for some commodi- | Eggs hit $1 a dozen in some Phila- | | Jones, |A. Warner, | Donald Rude, James Rude, A. Mc- LOUISE TAKES 81 PASSENGERS FROM JUNEAU TO SOUTH, season nearly Louise sail- this morn- 81 pass- au. were F. | With the tourist the Princess vancouver, B. C 7:30 o'clock with boarding at Jur | Sailing for Vancouver {following: Mr. and Mrs. | Stejer and Charles Stejer, Mrs. L Kelly, Mrs. J. Gorman, : N - | Tompkins, J. J. Brown, F. Oliver, | Patty Mne Brown, Mr. and Mis; IH. L. Brown, Miss P. Williams, T.! Horn, Mis. M. Miller. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Jenkins, Mr. G. Jenkins, H. Jenkins, Dorothy Thibodeau, Mr. and. Mrs. E, W. | McFarland, Jewell McFarland, Mr. and Mrs. Zales Ecton, Zales Ec- ton, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Frank But- ler, H .Butler, L. Gillespie, W. S. Unwin. Mr. | finished, ed for ing at engers A, Mrs. F. R. Jones, Miss George Dale, Dr s E. Butler-Dale, Mrs. A. Mongin, Dale Roff, and Dr. M Butler, JUMPER YOU'LL JUMP WITH JOY and jump right into this all-wool Jumper. Smart- 1y tailored with a waist- coat bedice .. . Then a smart, trim skirt that's as new as tomorrow. Choose it today in vivid shades, suitable for Aut- umn wear, in a variety of fabrics and styles. @ $4.95 @ .$5.95 ® $6.95 Womens A Baranof Hotel Building 1¢'s the Nicest Store in Tows the} E.| FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1947 ™' to St. Peter, Minn., where they check h Dr. Thomp- i ‘snn on his trip, the third which the ! university man has made this sum- mer. 5 AWOLSODIER ., attend Gustavus Adolphus College. Donald, who is majoring in pre- medics will be entering his second.| year, and Jim will be a freshman ! | During the summer, Donald has | | worked on a Fish and Wildlife boat near Wrangell and Jim has been | | working on a USED tug near Ju-‘ IS RE(APIURED o | neau. H " ks 2 ‘mswemigs pesearcy | AFTER ESCAPE “Emmfim Io j SEATTLE, Sept. 12.—(®—Seven nlslol B‘Y GRMD | hours of freedom for Pvt. Louis | Permeau, 23, who escaped from a Fort Lawton stockade work party, W, F. Thom\)son heading the ' u‘ml fisheries research program be- | ended late last night with his capture by army guards in a near- {ing sponsored by the University of | by railroad yards. Sixtesn guards -~ ’ Wu&hmgt(m and the Alaska Salmon | had searched for hln'!. “a 'Industr Inc., passed through Ju- Army officers said he Was neau today enroute to the Bristol charged with desertion from Fort Bay area. Richardson, Alaska. He was ar- - Research men stationed in the rested in Michigan and brought aveas of Bristol Bay spawning |here three days ago. ' o 7 | P WHEN YOU ASK FOR BOURBON oy ; Aok fon Rentuckys Finest i |Laren, W. Beaudain, E. S. Shlkle-) - wich, A. Ross | § - o Listed for Victoria are J. Erick-| i | son, the Rev. R. E. Baker and Col.| H. M. Francis. i For Seattle, Mr. and Mis. E. J.f Zeigler, Mrs. G. Moran, Mr. and; Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Mrs. J. Redo, J. W. Redo, Mr.| \ - lend Mrs. J. Matsen, Mr. and Mus.{ ) iJ. Richardson, Mr. and Mis. 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