The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1948, Page 6

_the Wachusett to Sentinel Island. LOG RAFT BREAKS UP IN HIGH WIND ON W/AY T0 JUNEAU winds blew ir iens Passage al- miles back along the course which had travelled en-| route from Eagle River to Juneau The raft, cont 250,000 board feet of r being brought from the Reid Logging Co. | Jagle River to the Juneau by the e Cole ¢ il High winds, at 1:30 p. m. yester- ¢ which reached 92 miles per at the Juneau airport, forced s tow from Middle to nd back the raft i The log ratt | 500 feet long f D Lena where > > ADVISORY HEARINGS ON SAFETY (ODE WILL | BEGIN ON JANUARY 5 he Territorial Department of r will hold advisory hearings | ing the month of January pre- | irafting a Safety and ' Code for Alaskan In- | The first hearing, which ' Salmon Canneries, will be Id on Monday, January 5, in the Territorial Labor offices in the lentine Building 1 to appear at the first Frank Wright, Jr., of 1 Packing Co., Al Soen- Alaska Year Round T. Yolland of the n Co., Lynn Sawyer C tal C of can \ Company, and Bi 1 of Naket Packing Co. Tem C Bristol Bay agent for the Fisherman’'s Union, is expected to arrive from Dilling- :am this week to representd resi- ery workers. The hearings will continue rough the month of January and ot} industries to be taken un- der consideration are; cold storage and ice manufacture, sawmill and pings, construction and wood- working, garages and machine shops. The General Safety Code be under consideration from Monday, January 26 to 30 > - sme CROSBY COPS | TOP SCREEN RATING AGAIN: ATH TIME HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2—(®—Bing sby for the fourth successive year was the screen’s top box- *cffice attraction in 1947, the Mo- tion Picture Herald announced to- day after a poll of exhibitors Others in the first 10, in the order of their rankings are: Betty Grable, who moved up from ninth place last year; Ingrid Bergman, second in 1946; Gary Cooper, who was also four- th last year. Humphrey Bogart, who moved up from sixth; Bob Hope, Clark Gabile, Gregory Peck, Claudette Colbert and Alan Ladd The western actors, in the order of their ranking, are Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, William Boyd, Bill Elliott, Gakby Hayes, Charles Star- rett, Smiley Burnette, Johnny Mack Brown, Dale Evans and Eddie Dean. PETER WOOD FILES AS DEMO REPRESENTATIVE Peter Wood today filed as Demo. cratic Representative in the next Territorial Legislature. Wood came to Alaska as a carpenter during the war, and was later made La- bor Relations Manager for the Met- calfe, Hamilton Kansas City Bridge Company, a firm working on mili- tary construction at Skagway. In 1944 he became Area Di-| rector of the Manpower Commis- sion at Fairbanks, from which position start his own publishing company. l Wood published the “Alaska Bus- | iness Directory’ and for two and a half years, the “Alaska News Let- ter.” He is,now compiling the second edition of the business di- rectory. He came to Juneau in 1945 and is now head of the Alaska Import Company, and operates two small restaurants here. e BARGE RUNS INTO TROUBLE, AUK BAY High winds at Auk Bay yesterday prevented a power barge from get- ting into an anchorage, and radio transmissions (in the middle of the | Rose Bowl game) were relayed from i the exchange he eventually resigned to! STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 2. —Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau m stock today is 37, American Can 79 Anaconda 34, Curtiss-Wright 4 International Harvester 89%, Ken- necott 49, New York Central 15 Northern Pacific 21%, U. S. Stee Pound $4.03 Sales today wer Averal todayv are dustria 181.01; rail ties, NO EXCHANGES TOMORROW NEW YORK, Jar #—The New York Stock Exchange announc- ed today trading would be suspended tomorrow, January 3, because of storm condition The New York Curb Exchange nounced a sim pension im- mediately following news of the !stock market actic “Because of the severe weather conditions affecting a large part of an announcement by “the Board that to- the country, the stock exchange said of Governors has determined will not be cpen morrow." D PANAMA CANAL INVESTIGATION FREIGHT RATES IS NOW SLATED By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. — P - Chairman Thomas (R.-N. J.) an- nounced today that the House Com- mittee on un-American Activities will make an on the spot investi- gation late this month of “Com- munist infiltration” in the Panama Canal Zone. The Panama inquiry will be part of a five-opint program the com- mittee has outlined for immediate consideration. This includes a re- sumption of the investigation of Communist influences in Hollywood and hearings on attemots to steal atom bomb information, to indoc- trination of negro groups with Com- munism and the spread of fascism Thomas said he will conduct the Panama investigation, assisted by Robert E. Stripling Chief Investi- gator. Whether other committee members will accompany them to Panama has not been decided - SPECIAL TREAT AT TEEN AGE CLUB ON TONIGHT TO ALASKA OKEH, CLAIMS FURNESS SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2.—® Robe 1ess, Pacific Coast Ex- aminer for the U. S. N\ itime ] mission, stated today in a re- prepared for the commission the ste rates charged by three Se- mship firms serving Alas- rts were not unjust or un- reasonable or otherwise unlawful Vari Alaskan business firms ficials had charged that the three lines assessed unfair rates. The commission held a lengthy ing in Alaska The Seattle firms Steamsl Co., the portation Co., and Transportation Co. Ships cperated by the companies were turnued over to them last June by the government on a low- rate charter basis. Until then the vovernment had been operating the ships in Alaska shipping. B Two New Wnter Announcers Join AAA Broadcasting SEATTLE, Jan: 2.—(P—Joe Klaas, University of Washington gradu- ate and war veteran, who has won two mejor campus prizes for play- writing, has joined the Alaska Broadeasting Company as a writer- announcer, his mother says. Accompanying Klaas is his wife, and of are the Alaska Alaska Trans- the Northland the férmer Betty Jane Stanley campus ctress, who also will be mployed by the broadcasting con- a writer-announcer. They work in Anchorage. - Alaska Pioneer Dies in Seattle SEATTLE, Jan. 2. —Otis E. Rank of Cashmere, Wash, retired apple orchardist and pioneer of the Alaska gold rush, died here yes- will |terday at the age of 79, There will be a special treat for the members of the Teen Age Club tonight at 9:30 o'clock when Jack O'Connor of the Fish and| Wildlife Service will show some new movies of bird and animal life They're in color and especiall fine, so all the members are urged to remember that tonight's the night they will be presented -+ Truman's Personal Physician Involved In Stock Trading WASHING TON, Jan. 2.—®—Sen- ators inquiring into commodity trading want to know exactly what arrangement President Truman’s personal physician had with his brok- ers, Senator Knowland (R.-Calif.) said today. On behalf of the committee, Knowland continued, he has asked the firm what arrangement they had with Brig. Gen. Wallace Gra- ham, who has said he did not know | Scott and Paul Smith that he was the holder of 50,000 bushels of wheat last September. R The seven nations in the Arab| League have an area nearly 150 times the size of Palestine Rank joined the gold rush to Alaska in 1896 and established a mercantile store in Fairbanks. In 1909 he moved to Cashmere, where he owned a store and apple orchard Survivors include his widow, twc sons and a brother. Funeral ser will be here tomorrow. D AMELIA A. GUNDERSEN FILES, REPRESENTATIVE X Amelia A. Gundersen, of Ketchikan today filed for Repre- sentative on the Democratic ticket subject to the April Primaries. She is a Ketchikan resident R - POLICE COURT NEWS City Magistrate William A. Holz- heimer disposed of five cases this merning. Fred Kirkpatrick, booked as being drunk and disorderly, was given a 30-day suspended jail sen- tence providing that arrangements are made for him to leave the city. H. O. Jackson pleaded not guilty to a similar charge and will be tried tomorrow. Four others, booked as drunk, were fined $25 each. They were: Gus Rosenberg, Frank Paul, Rae B TIME' FOR A BATH BASEL, Switzerland—M—A ban on kathing has been lifted here be- | cause recent rains replenished city water supplies. Men’s The &tation there gave instruc- tions to the Leota, believed to be a fishing boat, which was sent to in- vestigate the trouble. The Leota stood by until the barge was able to maneuver into Auk Bay and tie up. - eee - HOME GETS HUSBAND TOKYO—#—A Japanese girl un- lucky enough to be homely can get berself a man these days—if she is lucky enough to have a home that wasn't bombed out in the war. ll. s. GABARDINE OATS 100% Wool at , $36.50 Made by Alligator in the “Gold Medal" Quality FINEST IN THE LAND GRAVES ““The Clothing Man*® Exclusive Dealer in Florsheim Shoes Juneau g s "IHE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - TUNEAU. ALASKA IRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1948 involved in the case which Attorney Howard D. rights was placed by tabler Seth D. C. Mills 'HIGH WIND RECORD IS SET FOR JUNEAU Mills filed against Phyllis on grounds' of desertion The high winds off New Year's | They were married in Seattle on Day set a new record for January |June 4, 1945, and have one child | maximum wind velocity. which he is willing to leave in the | The recording instruments at the custody of the mother. No prop-! Juneau Airport station of the U. S. |erty rights are involved. The su Bureau showed a maxi- PRIy { 43 miles per hour from t for a five-minute p.m. The highest velocity ever re- was in February, v of 50 miles per was placed by McLean Weather Joseph / {mum wind uth o — INDEPENDENT SCHGOL T0 BE RECOMMENDED the so d at 1 mum wind orded in Junea 1923, with a v hour from the east. The extreme velocity for a mile of FOR '"."s VI(IN“’ wind vesterday was 57 miles per our The extreme velocity is the velocity | TO help relieve city taxpayers of a mile of wind in the shortest | of some of the burden for support- fiine ing local schools, Dr. James C Ryan, Territorial Commissioner of Educa- | tion, will appear before the Juneau City Council at its regular meeting tonight to explain the advantages of forming an independent school district in this area. - - TWO DIVORCE SUITS FILED HERE TODAY ons were filed in rt here today v filed against on Dr. Ryan will explain the various | workings of such a move if it is taken. The meeting will begin at 8 p. m. in the Council Chambers Two divorce a U. S. District Co Nellie Stanley Kominskv grounds of e e ST non-support and incompability. FROM SEATTLE They were married at Vancouver, J. T. Yoland, Willlam A. Fouken B. C, on August 22, 1935, and have no children. There are no propert\' . DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU JUNEAU, ALASKA WEATHER BULLETIN 1egistered a; the Baranof. DATA FOR 24 HOURS ENDED AT 4:30 A. M., 120TH MERIDIAN TIME Max. temp. TODAY last Lowest 4:30 a.m. 24 hrs. Weather at Station 24 hrs. temp. temp. Precip. 4:30 am, Anchorage 18 3 8 Trace Cloudy Bairow -1 -16 -16 01 Clear 3ethel -6 ~14 -11 Trace Cloudy Cordova 35 28 31 .35 Snow Dawson -4 0 Cloudy rbanks -3 -22 -10 Trace Snow Haines 34 29 29 Trace Snow Showers Havre 47 41 43 0 Clear Tuneau Airport 41 28 30 35 Clondy Annette 44 31 37 33 Snow Showers Kotzebue -12 -31 -15 Trace Pt. Cloudy Kodiak 17 12 13 14 Snow Los Angeles 61 H 38 38 o Pt. Cloudy McGrath -3 -13 -15 .06 Snow Ncme £ ¢ 21 -12 Trace Snow Showers Northway 1 -4 -4 Snow Petersburg 41 30 30 46 Snow Showers Portland 41 45 Pt. Cloudy Prince George 38 19 21 02 Snow Showers Prince Rupert 42 33 35 05 Snow | Seattle 52 43 44 67 Rain Showers Sitka 42 29 29 46 Snow Showers Whitehorse 30 “ 17 17 06 Pt. Cloudy Yakutat 38 ! 27 217 23 Snow Showers -(§:30 a. m. vesterday to 4:30 a. m. today) WEATHER SYNOPSIS: A huge low pressure area which covers the northern Pacific Ocean and the northwestern portion of North America is centered in the northern Gulf of Alaska and is filling at a rapid rate, Cold air from the Arctic Ocean is moving southward along the west side of the low and the leading edge of this colder air moved across Southeast Alaska late yesterday afterncon. Warm moist air still lies over all except the extreme northwestern portion of the United States but this air mass | is being replaced by the cold air. Skies along the entire Pacific Coast. are mostly cloudy and light rain showers are being reported south of Vancouver and light snow flurries north of Vancouver. Temperatures along the entire Pacific Coast have, fallen several degrees during the past 12 hours but remain slightly above normal . Skies over the interior of Canada and Alaska are mostly cloudy. ccasional light snow flurries are occurring and temperatures are slightly above normal. Strong winds, subzero temperatures and occasional snow flurries characterize the weath- m along the west coast of Alaska. MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN Reports from Marine Stations at 1:30 P. M. today WIND Height of Waves Station Weather Temp. Dir.and Vel. (Sea Condition) Cape Spencer Snow 31 SSE 12 6 feet Eldred Rock Snow 29 SE 10 Smooth Point Retreat Cloudy 30 S 9 1 foot !Five Finger Light Cloudy 32 SSE 24 2 feet Lincoln Rock Cloudy 32 SE 8 1 foot Guard Island . Snow 34 S 18 1 foot Cape Decision Snow 32 El 16 5 feet | MARINE FORECAST FOR PERIOD ENDING SATURDAY EVE- [NING: Outside waters, Cape Spencer to Yakutat—southerly to south- easterly winds 20 to 30 miles per hour. Outside waters, Dixon Entrance [to Cape Spencer—southwesterly to westerly winds 15 to 25 miles per | hour. Protected waters of Southeast Alaska—southerly winds 15 to 25 | miles per hour becoming varidble under 20 miles per hour tonight. |Variahle cloudiness with snow flurries and freezing temperatures. ! OO 1 | | Billy King and his | MERRY MUSIC | MAKERS | offer a | MASKED MASQUERADE BALL | SATURDAY NIGHT January 3rd, 10:00 p. m. to 1:00 a.m. C. L 0. HALL Prize for Best Costume Admission $1.50 per couple Don R. Dotson (Includes Tax) Manager and Lynn E. Sawyer of Seattle are ~ Third Mate, Wrecked YFW 10 CONDUCT o 2o r 'NIT'AT'ON AND day with insurance adjustors from Alcoa Mining Company, whick ‘Shl , Is in Seattle; v the ldngs which wése doe ' ELECTION TONIGHT 07", e e Also Emme" Bo'elho N : Hawkins has been vacationing in filled at an election tonight during | the first of the week [} : 14 r‘.f ((h(- Ax'n;y tlxnn.spm-t Clar the Post’s regular meeting at the > dale Victory which sank off the on Cl The i S ap- act of northern British Columbis 1y aa tructee were vacased ot the | WOMEN OF MOOSE |in November, arrived in Seattle to- meetir A day on the steamship Alaska. Clair Driscoll, the last of four survivors gpj |to reach Seattle, was taken from the ship by stretcher to the Marine Hos- TO MEET SATURDAY There will be a regular meeting f the members of the Women of veral ap ions for member- | will receive action and the can- | ates will be initiated at tonight's dic meeting Sl ithetiip o {pital. There he will be treated for the VFW will hold its regular sta | rooms There will be a short busi.. ° sp-called “immersion foot” causec ang card party. Refreshments will | ness meeting, then the movies of Water at (0SS0 B WEeckibe cerved |the Canadian Rockies will be ¢ which took 49 lives. R ot " i ; i Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is : PER continuing its investigation of the tragedy. Driscoll will be asked to testify, but probably not for several weeks, the Coast Guard said |three other survivors already have been ¢ The steamship Alaska brought an- STAMM RHURNS FROM flmsm»:l,.s\.\'n RITES ARE b FIRE SCENE; MANAGER HELD THIS AFTERNOON The - - HAWKINS IS THERE NOW _ruvcrs conices o land, who passed aw: Hospital on December Nels Doske- y in St. Ann's 24, were held other person of note to Seattle to- | Rich tamm purchasing | this afternocn at 2 o'clock in the day. He is Emmett Botelho. tha chief 2gent for J 1 Spruce, returned Charles W. Carter Chapel. The Rev. of the Alaska Highway Patrol Office | Yesterday the lumber camp G Hillerman condugged ‘ at Juneau and this is his first At Edna Bay, where he has been!the serv and interment was in venture south of Ketchikan in 46 Investigating the recent fire there. the Evergreen Cemetery. years He said that as yet the cause| M. Doskeland was a seaman on e Botelho, with U. S. Deputy Mar- and exact damage have not been | the Grommet Reefer, Alaska Trans- shal Sidnev Thompson, brought five determined, but that with the ex- portation ship, and was injured at Federal prisoners from Juneau. He ception of a loss of between $6,000 Pelican City in November. i plans to return to Juneau next week, and $10,000 in commissary sup- - ———— i but savs he may visit Seattle again | plies, all damage is covered by in- It is estimated that rats do an in another 20 or 30 years if he enjoys = surance average of $63,000,000 damage on E. S. 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