The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 24, 1947, Page 1

THE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ]UN'EAU. ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1947 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT§ == VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,742 4-H DELEGATION FROM ALASKA IN SOUTH IN PARKAS SEATTLE, Nov. 24.—®—Three Alaska high-school pupils, the Ter- yitory’s delegation to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago next week, stopped off in Seattle luuknml very Alaskan in parkas and muk- | luks—the first they ever had worn Eldest of the three is Flo Alice | Dinkel of Wasilla, 17 years old _ The far north attire she wore was | her own, having been given to her by an Anchorage fur shop just be- | fore she left for “outside.” Flo Alice’s hoy companions, Lynn ! Sandvik of Palmer and Richard Dangler of Seward, each 16, wore borrowed parkas and mukluks, how- ever. “They wanted us to w Richara explained, a trifle ishly “It's colder was when we ice aid The bably v r them,” sheep- than it > Al- today Alaska,” here left ccld-weather clothing vas welcome, at that, as the rs sat in the November chill at University of Washington | tadium for the University-Wash- ington State College game pro- the It was the first foctball game Flo Alce i seen. She has lived in Alaska since she was 6 years old. Richard used to see games be- fore his family moved to Seward four years ago, and Lynn has seen Army teams play in Alaska. Lynn won his Chicago trip as a member of a garden club, and Ri-| chard belengs to a poultry club and Flo Alice to a clothing club. Lynn’s garden was the big money maker, the youth having cleared $800 on his products, mostly potatoes and celery, this year. Richard's pullets Just are beginnmng to lay—at $1.10 a dozen The club members are accompan- ied by Mrs. Robinson, home demon- stration agent for southeast Alaska e, UNBEATEN, UNTIED FOOTBALL SQUADS NEW YORK, Nov. 24—P—Two college ioctball elevens—upper Iowa and Southern Oregon College of Education—were knocked off the unbeaten and untied list over the weekend leaving 14 teams with per- | fect slates today. Of these, only four, Notre Dame, Penn State, Michigan and South- ern Methodist, are major elevens. Penr State and Michigan have al- 'MA’ KENNEDY 1S FOUND DEAD ON COTTAGE FLOOR HFRMOSA BEACH, Calif., Nov 24— (P—Weary Mrs. Minnie Ken- | nedy, revivalist and mother of the late Aimee Semple McPherson, on of world's most evangelist from whom she often estrang- | ed, died yesterday he age of T8 The body of Mrs. Kennedy, known as "Ma” to the thousands who | flocked to Aimee's Angelus Temple, was tound on the floor of her tage by Helen Monroe, her tary. Her physician, Dr. Curtis ney, pronounced her dead of na- tural causes, and Police Chief F. C Harlow announced there would be no need of an investigation M:s. Kennedy and her red-haired dauehter, Aimee, frequently —were at odds but at one time, in the midst cf their bLickerings, she told reporiers “Aimee is my baby: I wish her well and pray for her.” Aimee died in Oakland in Sep- temrer, 1944 - = Snow Storm Raging Northern Sections; Another Cold Wave The Asscciated Press) The heaviest snowstorm of the seascn was blow.ng out of the Great Lakes and northern midwest- ern states today, a forer! or of another cold wave for the a The snowfall at Chicago was (By ex- pected to measure four inches by midmorning. The Weather Bureau said, however, that most of the snow came with the temperature novering arcund the freezing mark and that it turned to slush as it fell cn the warm ground in east- ern Iowa, northern Illinois and northern Indiana A cold wave “ccnsiderably below nermal” was moving eastward from | the nigh plains area and was ex- ected to spread over most of the’ the Wea- midclcwest morning, ther Bureau said. Temperatures at| Chicago were expected to begin ping this afternoon from a of 32 degrees to around 15 to- MOrTew. The midwestern cold blast ex- tended from North Dakota, where Fa reported an icy -9 today, in- to the southwest, the Weather reau said. | Ramn was reported in the Ohio| d Tennessee valleys but else- where the nation generally had clear | or partly cloudy weather with tem- | exchange No Pumpkin Pie Thanksgiving Day At White House SHINGTON, Nov. 24— There'li be no pumpkin pie on the White House table Thanksgiving because the recipe calls for and Thursday is eggless day Mr ry Sharpe, housekeeper the Executive Mansion, gave explanatior. to reporters and that mince meat pie be at that said will | substituted The Thanksgiving menu, other- wise traditional. It includes musiroom soup, roast turkey stuff- ed with oyster dressing. cranber- ries, giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, buttered peas, celery, molded fruit salad, cofiee, candy and nuts. he President, Mrs. Truman their daughter, Margaret, and a few friends will sit down to the dinner at 7 p.n. (EST). The turkey is a 20-pound fowl presented by a friend - PRICE CEILINGS ARE T0 BE RESTORED BY CANADIAN GOVT. OTTAWA, Nov. 24 P C:umd;l; will restore price ceilings to many precessed foods, the government an- not 1 today. Tie announcement came in the midst of increasing protests over the government’s decision to (\HI‘ mports in an eft to ease a shor- tage ot U d States dollars Finance Minister D. C. Abbott said marked price increases om many ioods in the last week could not be justified by increascd costs. He anncunced ceilings would go back on the more important var- jeties ot canned fruits and vege- tables, and said the government was prepared to reimpose controls on tresh produce and canned fruit’ Juices Prices of goods have soared—ro- ckefting as high as $500 in the new program announced last week, re- stricting imports’ r: from au- tomoniles and § to fresh | fruits. The government hopes to upwards of $300,000,000 on foreign and make the national economy more nearly self-contain- ed Mcanwhile manufacturers, im- porters and consumers sought ap- pointments to present their cases to government officials as effects of the new curbs were felt throughout the Dominion. In Vancouver union officials warned that restrictions on imports save | JIM KLEIN TAKES FIRST PLACE IN ANTLER CONTEST Jim Klein, young Juneau man now in his sophomore year at| Washington State College, has been announced the winner of the ant- ler contest sponsored Sport Center. The winning set was Douglas Island during week of the hunting n cording to the standards of Boone and Crockett Club of Amer- taken the on| first | se NEW CABINET IS FORMED IN FRANCE; STRIKES SPREADING SENATE IS New!nquiryls IMPLOREDTO Now Looming BIG 4 MEET ONTUESDAY, Nation Is Treatened with ~ AID) EUROPE InMeyers(ase PEACE TALK \Economic Disaster as Pre-‘ b pumells mier Schuman Takes Hold | e, Needed fo Stop Com- Ac-| Schuman, chosen Premier of France | the! by the National Assembly last Sat- | PARIS, Nov. 24 urdav night, announced today t Many Others May Be In- volved in "Joy Riding” on Watrime Govt. Bonds Vandenberg Says Hurry| munist Aggression | he 24, —(M— | WASHINGTON. Nov., BULLETIN Washington, ica, Klein's set rated a total of|formation of a new coalition Cnb»‘ 94's points jinet and immediately plunged into|Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) ask-| Nov. 24.—(® r Secretary W. Honorable mention in the con-!the task oi dealing with a spread- |ed the Senate today for speedy ap- | Stuart Symington said today test goes to Jim McCormick, stu-|ing wave of strikes that threatened ;proval of $587,000,000 emergency aid | dent at Douglas High School, whose! the nation with economic disaster. |for Europe to defeat the “lurking walkouts are Bishop| antlers taken near totaled 93% points Klein's winning antlers this ,\'eari are a smaller set than those which won the same contest last year. That set had a total of 102 points, points more than the prize set this year. | Don Black won the prize for the (most symmetrical antlers, with a set that measured only 1/16 of an| Point |inch off. Black's were taken on Gl Peninsula, and are rated a| |much better set than those taken! by the Rev. Herman Beyer which won last y ymmetry award. The prize for freak antlers goes ilo C. H. Donahue. His buck, a |three pointed, was apparently struck on the left side of his head when the horns were still in the velvet | The blow, wnich may ve been administered by be: was 50 a ¢ hard that the skull was caved in; and although strangely the deer did not die, its left horn is a! heavy, bony nubbin growing out and downward from the depres- sion in the skull ! Buck Harris explained this morn-' ing that. spread and thickness of horn is tut one basis of judg- ment in deciding which set of ,antlers in a contest is the larg=+ (est | !t The procedure followed is to take, right and left horn separately.! Fi the circumference of the burr is measured on the righ):! horn; then the length of the main beam, the length of the main| tine, the length of the second tine,) and that of the eye guard The same measurements are ;taken on the left horn, and each 'set of measurements is added, and! ithe two totals subtracted to get the difference between the right iand left horns. | After measuring the full spread! i the antlers, that figure is add-| led to the total for left and right| horns, then the penalty for ) varia- | ;liun is subtracted before the final iof Already tied up by nine out of every 10 France. All the country's railrcads capital were closed. The situation was further plicated by the ances arising from a one-franc harbors and most of her coal mines werc| idle, and all grade schools in the|presiding officer's com- threat of disturb- | Austria. the Air Force has stopped Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers' retire- ment pay, ‘s taking steps to re- call his decoraticns, and is pre- paring court martial charges against him. tyran: of “Communist aggre | sion ™ | | Vandenberg, who heads the For- eign Relations Committee, left his in chair to open ! il |debate on legislation to author:ze | By DONALD SANDERS winte: relief for France Italy and; WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—®— | Quartruple trouble built up for Maj Tris measure simply approves the | Gen. Bennett E. Meyers today as a crease in subway fares in Paris,|principle of aid up to $597,000,000 | pessible new Senate inquiry threat- which went into effect at 6 a.m.,|worth. If Congress approves it, se-|ened uneasy moments for “"many todav. | parate bills appropriating the mon- | others’ whose idle cash went “joy Guardsmen Mobilized Te servists of the 1947 class, Schuman announced the tion of his new government 12:16 am. after 36 hours of gotiating with the leaders of major political parties except t Cemmunist and Ge Charles Gaulle’s Rally of the French People | (RPF) New Cabinet The Cabinet France's since her liberation domination—is composed of pubiican members Movement (MRP), of the Socialist Retaired as Foreign Minister the new governmnt was Gorges | Bidault, a member of the MRP, Jects in some instances have “gone ¢, yniform to tace a court mar- who is scheduled to depart for Lon- | WTON8:" g tial | don tonight to participate in the| HE said he wants the Senators to| Miltary, Trial ‘ Big Four Foreign Ministers confer- | Understand that they can “support| pfeyers' war-tme boss, General| enoe, which opens there. tomorrouw, | this bill without any sort of com-|or tpe Army H. H. Arnold, revived The remaiidor of the Gube |mitment to any other relief Pro-fcccuiation cver a possible military was constituted as follows: \grams which Congress may subse- | jq) just before the War Investi- quertly confront.” |gatwe Committce’s hearings came Interior—Jules Moch Justice—Andre Marie Socialist). Armed Forces—Pierre Henri Tel gen (MRP). Somal Affairs, including Labor— reaction,” the Michigan Senator de- | gtatement is sever Daniel Mayer (Socialist) ineet the threat several thou- sand mobile guardsmen were rush- ed into the city last night and re- who re- cently were recalled to duty, were assembled in readinss at Fontaine- bleau, 40 miles south of the capital forma- ne- all seventh | from German six members of Schuman's popular Re- five Party's rad'ca]l right wing, three middle-of- the-ruad radical Socialists and one moderate Independent Republican. (Socialist) . {ey will have to be passed before aid | ridinz” on wartime Government becomes an actuality. | bonc The Michigan Senator told his| Ti quoted words are those of | colleagues that the international|Sepater Tobey (R-NH). He hinted | unity which won the war has “fal-|thac his Senate Banking Commit- len apart.” [ tee may take up where the War In- ‘A new type of Communism is on | vestigating Committee lefl off after the march,” he said in a prepared | disclosures which brought denun-| | address. In t¥ United Nations, | ciat! of the retired Air Force which is still the world’s best|Gen ranging from ‘“rotten ap- Ibridze across the ominous gap, this| ole snake. new aggression boycotts what it Grand Thefes. i Act | cannot defeat or veto. Firet, however, Federal Grand! “It operates not only through! jyres nere and elsewhere were due ruthless pressures on often terror-|y, peay a review of testimony in| fzed satellites. It operates through| ey Meyers was accused of hold- | interral subversion and sabotage in ' jo qireraft stocks and pocketing other lands where its trained and | jronig trom his own secretly own- | disciplined minorities faithfully| ¢q sub-contracting firm while De- | contribute to the chaos and confu-! ... Chief of Air Force purchasing |sion which encourage Communistic| " grucifically, Attorney —General | conquest.” Clark said the Government's ob- In oifering the bill, forerunner|jootie will be to indict Meyers on jof 8 proposed long-range EUropean | cngyges of war fraud, perjury and {recovery program, Vandenberg told|,,.ome tax evasion. {his colleagues that he shares the| Still a fourth question remains “disappointments” of some other i, pa gnswered: whether the two {Senators that previous relief pro-jg., grricer will be ordered back 15 al at he | de in Vandenberg said, too, that he re- 'y, 4, aprupt close Saturda TMay Be Last Attempt to | Reach Seftlements with | Germany, Austria LONDON, Nov. 24.—(®—Approxi- mately 500 aides, secretaries and |experts put the finishing touches today to preparations for the Big Four Foreign Ministers conference, | whiza convenes here tomorrow for ;Whul many observers believe may |be a last attempt to reach unified peace settlements with Germany |and Austria. Sovjet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotoy arrived yesterday by plane and French Foreign Minister | Georges Bidault—last of the four :pl’ln(‘l]?ul participants in the con- terence—was expected tonight. | French Representat.ve | Donubts over the identity of France’s representative were cleared laway list night with Bidault's re- |tenticn in the new coalition Cab- (inet tormed by Premier Robert Schuman. Immediately after his appointment Bidault announced his intention of departing for London today and named as his stants Rene Massigli, Am!| to Bri- Gen. Georges Catroux, Am- bassaqaor to Russia; Rene Couve de Murville, aide on political affairs, and Herve Alphand, aide on econ- omic afiairs. Important Conference Bi:tish informants said that Bri- ten’s Foreign Secretary Ernest Be- vin probably would see Molotov and U. S. Secretary of State George Marshall some time during the day. Marshall arrvived here Friday. | Ssan after Molotov's arrival the | Soviet Embassy announced that his principal alde in the discussions | would be Deputy Foreign Minister | Andrel Y. Vishinsky, who was ex= | bected to depart for London as soon as Db:s duties at the United Nations Assembly In New York would per- mit Russians Attend leading members of the Soviet delegation include Marslzat V. O. Sokolovsky, Russian Com- mander - In - Chief in Germany; Georgl N. Zarubin, Russian Am- Many Other (Radical grets that President Truman “saw | |1it to tie this interim aid program it- | into his anti-inflation message.” “It invited an erroneous public clared The last of a parade of witnesses bassador to London and A, S. Smir- who accused the dapper Meyers of |nov, Soviet representatives in the | falsenoods, Arnold declared: | Deputy Foreign Ministers’ Council “The penalty for a ialse official|discusgions on Germany and Aus- —the first basic | tria. London hotels were crowded with Hm\:ml for a court martial.” ready closed out their reu.ulm" se: peratures near the seasonal nor- ¢ Cacait Sonits Lid ‘Sacetabls “.()m‘nguro is arrived at. | | sons. although at least one, if not ;¢ o | .U~ ‘s Tui Th:nc"ul‘t(“\a?b:d O Following are the complete mea- Overseas Paul Coste-Floret - i Perjury Cited |delegation stafls as well as with both will appear in post season e ~ "“ IS mB"‘_“.h“é‘”‘ S bin mines | Surements and figures taken on the (MRP). ! | He was referring to Meyers' an-!some 300 newspapermen assembled clashes. The Irsh and mustangs‘ 2 ‘\”f !"]“ LR : ol g Siprize winning set turned in by| FPublic Works—Christian Pineau IERRITORIAL GUARD l:‘,wr-r to an official 1943 question- |from all over th- world to cover the each still have one game left Ofl‘ploneer o' Sea"le and logglug catnps WA |Jim Klein. All measurements are (Socialist). | naive inquiring whether top pur-|conference. thews regular programs. ' In Toronto there was a Iun OBy inches and eights of inches: | Fconomic Affairs and Finance—, MEHI“G 0“ fR'DAY‘cm.smg officers held any aviation | - Upper Iowa was beaten 6-0 by fruits and vegetables {R.Horn L.Horn |Rene Mayer (Radical Socialist). | | stocks. | er Towa s ewin 60, Moma Dagses AWAY, s e commaan oras, oo g S e | s Rine Gy 5| p cmer s o the T Mevrs epd st the ume e six straight wins. Southern Oregon g | oo ropskiG “asifipe 9 banned; 181-8 17 Length main beam dependent Republican). o lm(_:nm.dmm.“ (?rs :‘ Lal‘m t. ‘he‘u\ none. But a committee inv | arges and ane Coliege lost Friday night to the | TTLE, Nov DM, Vl_g(m(k from returning Canadian| g 7.8 7 1-8 Length main tine W.ar Veterans—Francois Mitter»”'wrm »uflt', e 1ueq.un:? f:n (Rot‘“fifl“"' testified that the General dhiltornia. Akgics, 318, breaking 'a | e O L Reatie | o8 o the B8, Oanadians are 3558 53-8 Length 2nd tine and (Radical Socialist). e e e riday might. Nov,|account showed he had some $35 In wor'd ls Tes'ed' 15-game winning streak, seven this| Y3 E%I0E T BONCE amily |Permitted to spend up to $150 a| 3-8 32-8 Eye Guard Commerce and Industry—Robert | ;o€ & B P OF BY Dok OV it | 1] year. 2 k A 2o |year in the States, but can't bring; 39 1-8 39 5-8 LaCoste (Socialist) |4 2 ! e . B ¥ home here Sunday morning. She;| % e | While the possibility of a separ Other teams, besides the Big Four | . the wite of W. W. Ewing, home toys, ‘typewuters, clga)ettns‘! 39 5-8 - 39 1-8 levase 4-8, the dif-| Agriculture Plerre Pflimlin ’v"I‘ne“p‘ulrp?‘seunf l'.‘he meeutl;‘g lt“[_() ate investigation into gpcc\llallvt! g s utcess u with all-winning records include| «"poio and Clark, real e tate | 784105, electric razors or many other | ference between left and right MRP) give Tiin L iCHE et ns Al s O e Government bonds was | {of Ewing an ark, real es | 1 AncidAbe the b v posul of Territorial Guard equip-|deaings in Government bonds was| SR Canieron Aggies of Oklahoma, West | .. item; included in the ban. thorns. Puklic Heaith—Mme. Poinso-Cha- b inted by the Meyers hearings, * Ghester (Pa) Teachers, Denison,| o ) | i s i | 15 7-8—Spread puis \MRP ment and to fssue all discharges|Pointed up by th yers hearings,| SAN DIEGO, Calif.,, Nov. 24.—(®— e & s | T ML bR LA RO R li it e A < A 2 | that have hot already been issued.|Tobey told a reporter he has had|The XC-99, world's largest land issourl Valley, *| Tuesday at the Butterworth Funer- i o i 5 : e | There is some surplus material |the matter under study for siX|plane has passed its first aerial Pepperdine, Jacksonville (Ala) Tea- |, i -8—Right horn ! f months. | Bl e A st oy |81 HRE 1 | 15 7-8—Spread . lon rand which will be distributed 5. test. ¥ ¥ A ‘N-' Mrs. Ewing was born in Char- " L e Ma Gen Hawle (among the members, with the re- * o | The six-engine, double decker J.) Teachers. Missouri Valley owns .. Mick b ved to Seattle | e . n % S e rth ok SRR Lo B el S e e e { 9458 - 4-8 (difference) mainger to be given to charitable | giant, designed Lo carry 400 troops, paing el with her parents in 1888. Her fa-| orgavizations Members must be Mea' Dealer ls fo rose gracefully after a 4,000-foot 98 1-8 Total Points. TOMORROW NIGHT'! Resigning from VA longest in the nation, !ther, A. T. Mears, established one Mot Dhvnatt aske s 1) gits presint at this meeting to qualify | takeoff run at Lindbergh Field here tof th _mty; em-l;wdayt drug stores. e ters who entered antlers in the Lo ] {aor any of the surplus goods. yesterday and cruised for an hour Married in Sealtle in 1889, Mrs.| The annual banquet and Hec““"lccmpemiun go to the store and| WASHINGTON, Nov. 24— a o esa e‘uver San Diego with a nine-man | crev.. It was the plane’s first flight. | Ewing accompanied her husband of officers by the TerrltormlSporLs-lpick up their trophies as soon as Maj). Gen. Paul R. Hawley said to who earlier had spent two years in | men’s Association will be held to- { possible. day he will resigr as medical direc- Davwson City, Y. T., to Nome at the morrow evening at 7:30 at the Sal- i tor ‘of the Vhterans Administration | i SIO(K alrfi‘flous PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24—(®— NEW YORK, Nov. 24—Closing| Geo0e Rookstoll, 32-year-old north | The Washingto Merry - Go-Round “The plane handled beautifully,” said co-ptlot Russell P. Rogers, chiet test pilot at the Consolidated Vuitee Aircraft plant here. “It al- {most took to the air itself.” .- onorary Degree Is | height of the Nome gold rush there. mor Creek Country Club. The etlasbive Das 31 quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | « \ 32- n | They remained in Nome until the}'!‘shm'pshou(ers of the organization | The resig"'m“". one month be-|stock today is 4, American Can ;hl:;fl3;:";0:);‘:-:22};;‘:},5 ;:101 l:lllae"n: | retirned to make their permanent who were lucky during hunting sea- | tore the General's 5TtH blrthduy.j‘zz"v Anaconda 36}, Curuss-wnghl‘”w”' L s P Rlan by LDREW PEARSON : y |home in Seattle. {son have contributed game for the iwm follow by a month the retire- |5%. International =Harvester 86,1 " " 0 ci 5 per customer. } & ieiard ooy of | son, rd, ghter, | dinner. TSA members and their . % | Kermecott 48, New York Central| s WASHINGTON — Secretary of | A son, Howatd, and a daughter,) dinner. All Given Ma"ha“ He | ment of Gen, ‘Omar Bradley as|Kennecot New Yo Al badanlicrt rer 4 - ¥ Mrs. V. O. Str 1t | 1a are invited to attend the af- | : | et g | Under his plan, Rookstoll said,| S Mrs. V. O. Stringiellow, both of|ladics are o attend a y Veterans Administrator. Bradley fs: 13%, Northern Pacific 19%, U s.“m e ) T e emona el'VlteS State George Marshall, who ought to know something about Commun ist propaganda, takes an opposite view from the House un-American Activities Committee regarding propaganda in American films. He‘ seems to think Hollywood has done a pretty good job. i At en informal luncheon with Sam Goldwyn and movie czar Eric | Johnston, Marshall recalled an in- | cident irom his stay in China. One evening he invited Chou En- lai, the No. 2 Chinese Communist, | to his home in Chungking for a mov:e. The feature was “State Fair,” a musical of rural life in| Ohio. Atterward, Communist Chou in- credulously asked: “Is that the way farmers live in America?” Marshall admitted it may have| been given an overdose of techni- | color but explained it gave a fairly | accurate picture of conditions on a typicdl Ohio farm. Poker-faced | Chou could not hide the deep im-| pression this made upon him. | At the same luncheon Army Chief | of Staff Ike Eisenhower joined (Continued on Page Fo;r) | “asking Americans | shortage of box cars.and then ship- Seattle, also survive. | Wanis fo Know Why | Cars Given Russia WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—®— A sesolution asking the Admini tration for details of shipment of 216 freight cars to Russia this| year when a car shortage exists| here will be presented to the House today by Rep. Mundt. Mundt said in a statement that to stop Com-| munism abroad, permitting Ameri- to be wasted through aj can food ping the box cars to Russia so she| can build a Communism more ag- |the Naticnal Baseball League have; gressively——all during the same six- | month interval—is a whirling der- vish program which would make a| self respecting corkscrew turn green with admiring envy.” e — CAA MAN HERE | Paul Griffith with the CAA in Yakntat is staying at the Baranof.) fair. President Milo Clouse announces that the election of Vice-President, Secretary-Treasurer and five direc- tors will be held. There will be no election for President as that Is an appointive office. Other very important business Is to be determined and a large at- | tendance is requested. ST. LOUIS CARDS REPORTED SOLD NE'W YORK, Nov. 24—#—Bil Corum, sports columnist for the New York Journal-American, wrote today the St. Louis Cardinals of been sold to Robert Hannegan, Postmaster General, and the Skou- ras brothers, movie magnates. Corum said the purchase price was $3,500,000 and that the deal woula be officially announced in St. Louis tomorrow. e Sell it with an Empire Want-Ad. Makes Statement OXFORD, Eng., Secretary of State Marshall declar- ed Saturday that agreement among | the bhig powers during the war, jwhen their existence was threaten- | {ed, seemed easier than at present,! “when the facts of the hazards are not quite so clear.” Marshall spoke at Oxford Univer-) sity ceremonies in which he re-| ceived an honorary degree, Doctor | of Civil Law. The degree was con- !Ierred by Lord Halifax, Chancellor jof the University. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah, from Vancouver, {due at 7 this evening and sails for 1 Skagway at 10:45. Baranof, from Seattle, due some- i time tomorrow. | Alaska scheduled to sail Seattle tomorrow. Denali scheduled to sail from Se- attle Saturday. DRI AN Y from to succeed Gen. Dwight Elsenhow- |Steel 6%, er as Army Chief of Staff. Eisen- | hower will become President Nov. 24.—®— Columbia University early in 1948. ——— s o006 veve s WEATHER REPORT Temperarure ror 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock ‘This Morning In Juneau—Maximum, 47; minimum, 42. At Airport—Maximum, 47; minimum, 42. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Mostly cloudy with light rain. Slightly colder tonight and Tuesday. Southeasterly winds occasionally reaching 15-20 m.p.h. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) In Juneau — .1.38 inches since Nov. 1, 9.92 inches; since July 1, 51.58 inches. At Airport — 23 inches; ®. since Nov. 1, 388 inches; e since July 1, 31.04 inches. " e o 0000000 Pound $4.03%. | ” Sales today were 790,000 shares. ono week Gilkur every mapih.” acds) p g *_|ing that the average butcher mark- | of} :v:tralg]e.‘s 1;‘:{1:; ,m:; i; 1;“"\?::;_’lup for profit is 35 percent which 1::;“'331 G“; i o : ! means “my plan assures at least a| { saving of 25 percent monthly for! | .- - | « | AMERICAN LEGION eacr customer.” i o | "NMEET TONIGHT £ T get 500 patrons,” Rookstoll | OVER IRELAM | said, “the weekly fee will be cut to | | |75 cents.” Legion,| UP to moon 185 customers had €810, gigned up for the plan | > EAU LUMBER IS 5 LOADED FOR SOUTH, | | Juneau Spruce Corporation be- | At 1 am., Sunday, the Juneaulgan today to load the first ship- Volunteer Fire ‘Department was ment of a 1,200,000 board feet con ‘call«'d out to answer a 3-4 alarm | signment of lumber to Seattle. The | |on First Street where they discov-iumber will be taken cut in three |ered that the floor mat of an autoshipments. !had caught fire from a lighted m-‘ Alaska Steamship freighter Jump- garette. The fire was extinguished |er Hitch is taking the first load | before the Department arrived. jof 375,000 board feet on today. Next .'t At 10 p.m. the Department was week the Coastal Monarch will be o [called out again to fix a plugged |in port for the second shipment, sewer in the Sam Paul Apartments and as yet an unannounced freight- | ! Juneau Post, American {members will have a regular meet. {ing tonight starting at 8 o'clock in ' | the Dugout. Following the bllSll\EhS‘juN | session “Wings Over Ireland” will be snown. i - TWO FIRE ALARMS | | September, For Moose Director PITTSBURGH, Nov. 24.—(#—Fel- low leaders of the Loyal Order of Moose planed a special memorial service here today for their supreme organizer and general director, for- mer Senator James J. Davis, who died early Saturday at the age of 4 Private funeral services for Da- vis, the Welsh immigrant boy who became Secretary of Labor in three Cabinets and was thrice elected U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania, will be held tomorrow morning. Burial will be in Unicn Dale Cemetery. Il of a kidney allment since Davis succumbed at a sanitarium near Washington. Since his retirement from politics in 1944 he had remained in the capital to direct the Moose organization, whirh he helped build up to its | 700,000 membership. - SEWARD GUEST Tracy Huffman of Seward is re- e lat Front and Main, ler will pick up the final load. gistered at the Gastineau Hotel.