The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1948, Page 2

PAGE TWO British Columbia Coal NEW SKATING CLUB | Miners Are Now Out ELECTS OFFICERS Over Wage Demands AT FlR;I_ MEETING JCOUVER, B. C.. Jan. 15 Stan Perry was elected the First dustrial board officials today | President cf the ly fc 1 Ju- d investigation il the neau Dance and Figure Skating Pr¢ ence ccal Y strike Club at its meeting Tues- i ¢ 1b nd Alberta day night wn Hall Recre- d r the econd were 96 per-| meeting, all ¢ ¢ made charter members el prepared to rati oal Cther officer ¢ gner, Vice-Pr Betty nite en, Treasurer ) already refus- The group will meet every Tues- dets as the »m. in the Town Hall Rink san 0L Tih . oW rt business meeting will be port orities warh- each week followed by an in- 2 of struction and practice skating per- ming into fod. | rts to be certain the ships A committee was appointed to ufficient supply of fuel to carry formulate a club constitution and h next port of cail y-laws. These are expected to be t idian waters. Officials Presented to the mse nbership at an : if the strike contin- <Arly date for approval and adop- would not be sufficient UOm he bunkers to meet de- S 5 v e comonona GROUP HEALTH ASSN. and Smelting Company, at oi the largest coal- 5 T0 HOLD ANNUAL ©., on the world, moee e e MEETING ON MONDAY and e freighter Lakeland Victory 3 remained tied up at an Nanaimo, nnual meeting of the Ju- B. C. dock while a 10,000-ton ship- c.u Group Health Association will ment of eoal was waiting in bunk- |, held in the office of Drs. Rude ers to be loaded aboard the shid . | Ciments at 8 p. m. on Mon- transport to Allied Supreme , January 19. The Group Health iquarters in Japan on is a Co-operative, non- Irain crews employed by Can- a n which was in- an, Ltd., tied up the Lake porated under the laws of the ory yesterday when they c f Al a in 1939. wding the ship when approx- e 15 to provide as mately 8,000 miners struck in the complete medical and hos- two Provinces pital for its members and The Alberta hard and soft coal (pe: dependents as is practicable mine ruck yesterday [following a minimum cf cost. Many per- breakdown in wage negotiations _cns are unaware of this oppor between the United Mine Workers qunity to produce this nearly com- of America, an affiliate of the plete coverage for all sickness and Canadian Congress of Labor, and | accidents for themselves and their western Canada cperators. They ‘ [umilies were followed by British Columbia | Al persons interested in becom- miners yesterday 'ing members are welcoms at this The union nands $14 a day annual meeting minimum for experienced miners s and a $3 a day wage inc for > workers. The present mini- is $8.95 a day - JEWISH CRAFT | TAKES SHOT AT BRITISH PLANE s JERUSALEM; Jan 5. —A—XK plar which British military of- ficials said they believed was Jewish- nnaissanc on in the out s MUSICAL MIXER AT JEEP CLUB FRIDAY NIGHT complete to- at the Preparations were day for the “Musical Mixe Jeep Club tomorrow night which is being sponsored jointly by mem- bers of Taku Post and the Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars The mixer will feature a musical motif consisting of musical enter- tainment, contests, prizes and de- corations A large crowd is expected”to at- tend the festivities which begin at 8 am. The mixer is being given in place of the VFW holiday parties. All members, prospective members and their ladies are invited to at- y over Kfar Et ntain area south of Jerusalem, vhere Jews d in & ilot and Arabs had been bloody 24-hour battle the reconnaissance the Jewish plane a cluster of Jew- The | of plane r ed dipped down over ish scttlements and dropped a mes- sage tol- The reconnaissance pl wed it down and was fired on, but tend not return the fire, the report — e he first time the British tion since Large Shipment of eak of hostilities over par- tition of the Holy Land "I ool Fords Reach Seaitle FIRE ALARM | B SEATTLE, Jan. 15— The A 4 alarm was turned in |largest waterborne shipment of t 5:30 m. yesterday because autcmobiles—190 vehicles—to arrive here since before the were unloaded from the ireighter James ated stove in the resi- W. L. Collier at #®7A an ove! of West ‘Seventh Street. No damage | Lick. | was reported The automobiles were brought e e G o here from the Ford Motor Com- n is the fourth most com- pany's branch assembly plant at nt on the earth. Richmond, Cal — - - S - Under normal conditions, eight The barometer was invented in to 12 inches of snow equals about | 1643 by Toricelli, a pupil of cne inch of water. I Galileo. | REIGHT Relrigeration SERVICE to ALASKA Regular sailings from Seattle and Tacoma, Washington For Rates and Information Alaska Tranépb}lation Company GASTINEAU HOTEL P. 0. Box 61—Phone 879 Juneau, Alaska ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN | via Pelershurg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA Mililar’v’fi;{e in Holy Land _I!equesled LAKE SUCCESS, Jan. 15—P— ¢ J. Francisce, the Philippines member of the United Nations Pal- tinz Partition Commission, called today immediate creation of an international military force to serve ¢ Holy Land. isco presented his proposal \ secret meeting of the five-na- tion body, It was circulated among 1 Vicel for the members but has not yet placed on the Commission’s endar for discussion. Uncer the Philippine Resolution, the Commission would send a form- al request to the Security Council to set up the necessary military force to enforcz the UN Assembly's Par- tition Plan. The resolution did not mention any specific number of troops. PAULEY TO RESIGN HIS PUBLIC OFFICE WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. Edwin W. Pauley today prepared to resign from Government Service with & hot advance denial that he was smokad out by Harold E. Stas- sen's public needling of his record as a grain speculator. The California oil man, former U'zmocratic National Committee Treasurer and a close friend of Pre- sident Truman, announced that he is quitting as Assistant to Secretary of the Army Royall “sometime this h cadet-midship men from the U. 8. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, Y., on a two-day visit to Auburn, N. Y onsored by the ppine American Chamber of Commerce, are escorted through a fiber storehouse by M. M. Murdock, superintendent of the Columbian Rope Company's No. 1 mill U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERUE, WEATHER BUREAU JUNEAU, ALASKA WEATHER BULLETIN DATA FOR 24 HOURS ENDED AT 4:30 A. M, 120TH MERIDIAN TIME month In a memorandum to the Pre: Max. temp. | TODAY distributed by the Army, Pau last | Lowest 4.30 a.m. 24hrs. Weather at declared this is in accordance with Station 24 hrs.* | temp. temp. Precip 4:30 am s he made known soon after Anchorage 25 7 25 02 w taking the job last Sept. 3. Thus Barrow -23 -35 -30 0 Stassen, he said, cannot “claim cre- Bethel 25 2 01 it for bringing about my résigna- Cordo 41 36 19 tion Dawson 12 0 e Edmonton 36 -3 0 " : 3 -25 3 0 Americans Must % iaf? Havre 46 16 16 Pt. ICloudy Die Shouh Juneau Airpert 37 33 35 Rain 0 : Annette 41 g 6 Pt. Cloudy Heard in China Kodiak I | Rotzebue 9 -5 8 CHENGCHOW, China, Jan. 15. Los Angeles 78 4 0 P—Transport planes sped the ev- McGrath 0 -24 13 acuation of missionaries from this|Ncme 22 5 Trace Communist- menaced center today. Northway 4 iy 0 Civil war fighting, howver, hid the Petersburg 40 34 38 fate of an unknown number of Am- Portland 47 29 32 0 ericans and others who had sought Prince George 33 3 4 0 safety in Laohokow to the southwest. Prince Rupert 2 34 0 S Four have been killed in recent|Seattle 29 35 0 smoky d ~three of them slain by armed Sitka 35 39 Drizzle Chinese who shouted *‘Americans Whitehorse -11 22 01 y must die!” and the fourth was fat-| Yakutat 32 33 117 Rain ally injured by a grenade explosion —(4:30 a. m. yest to 4:30 a. m. today} in Communist-Government fighting.| WEATHER SYNOPS An ¢ ive area of hi re lies ovar » daalf of the United States. A low pressur: are miles of the nerthern Pacific 2 eastern portion of the warm moist air irom As mi: naries and other foreign-| all of C ia and the weste ers gatherad at the busy ChengchoW | area covering several thousand airport, one American said the' ocean and western Alaska i sed of civil warfare and of unn-‘, Bering Sea. This pressure distribu cen oreign sentiment had convinced far to the scuthward over all of warm moist flow is pro- him:* It's time for us all to get| dqucing clcudy skies over all Alas! 1 in the coastal nd cut of China again.” (There are|spow over the interior. Temper: onsid- morz than 500 in danger spots, mis- berably above normal for Janu weather prevails over w flurries were ad fog is being reperted Temperatures over the | the United States and Canada although o | being reported at 4:30 this mdrning. Widi along the west co: from Oregon to Port Hi Northwestern Stat MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN Reports from Marine Stations at 1:30 P. M. today | WIND Height of Waves NEW DISPATCHER FOR PAN AMERICAN Richard Congdon qr. became the proud parents of an- Station Weather Temp. Dir.and Vel. (Sea Condition) other kaby boy last night at St.|Cape Spencer Cloudy 3 N 16 3 feet Ann's Hospital, The little dispatcher | Eldred Rock Cloudy 38 20 1 “cot called in at®10:53 p.m. weighing 6| Point Retreat Cloudy 39 14 Calm pounds and 14 ounces. He joins two, Lincoln Rock Cloudy 39 4 Zero sisters and a brother. | Guaid Island Cloudy 37 NE 6 Zero Mr. Congdon is a dispatcher for| Cape Decision Cloudy 41 E 10 1 foot Pan American in Juneau. The family came ‘to Juneau from Annette Is- land in 1946. The father is reported as doing as well as could be expect- ed. MARINE FORECAST FOR PERIOD THURSDAY AFTERNOON TO FRIDAY EVENING: Outside waters, Dixon Er to Yakutat and the Icy Strait-Cross Sound area—easterly to sou terly winds 15 to 25 miles per hour. Lynn Canal and Taku Inlet herlv winds 15 to 25 | miles per hour. Protected waters of South Alaska south of Lynn —_——————— Canal—variabe winds less than 15 miles per hour. 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FOR RESERVATIO} S PHONE 612 THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1948 A tornado is seldom more than Trade winds are found to a dis- l l E T I N S 200 y in diameter. tance of about 30 degrees latitude 1 > oo ¢ each side of the equator. « > — CeU roags are na ed after MacAdam, an 18th Century rottish engineer, NEW DELHI—Mohandas Gandbi Tornadoes provide the strongest has entered the third day of his kno fast for comm 1 peace in I a - A i nd Delhi. Pk s are watch- g ing th: 78-year-old Hir ] condition closely, and all they can to conserve hi T . Drop In ALLS yor Hjzimer aularly d he had been He‘«‘fil'gr‘& ir ska Airdipss would T tra its mainteritticd, base here and Iee ) ttle and make. Gréat Falls \Vhdt 8 i 1try port into the United States 2 New LET US Help You to Keep Your Library Up to Date. WARSAW, POLAND--Diplomatic s #s8id today Sovizt Russia may propose to form her own em- ergency relief program for countries in her orbit in opposition to the Marshall Plan at Polish-Russian confersnces opening in Moscow to- night or tomorrow, WASHINGTON—President Tru- n is said to want partial restora- n eof the wartime excess profits : on corporations. He is said to we told Democratic Congressmen d that he wants the levy re- stored to offset a proposed cut of ‘e than three billion dollars in individual income taxes. — In distress of Cape Henry freighted. Adrian i this afternoon: n most serious. List 15 Rolling 25 degrees star- Believe getting worse.” Aid patched. rees. Loard. 1as been dis WASHINGTON —President Tru- man was asked today by a Texas delegation to support legislation ing state ownership of rged tidal lands = within boundaries. bmi B or their 2 an i QAL d Stewart Warner ograph Combinations Motoro! 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