The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ——=. VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,789 NUARY 20, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MEEKS' FINANCES ARE TESTIFIED T0 AT PRESENT TRIAL Movements Are Traced ley Witnesses Before Tragedy Revealed First witness to be called before the court this morning in the re- trial of George Meeks, accused of the murder of Clarence Campbell in December of 1945, was John V. Ritter. Ritter said that he had worked with Meeks at Gulkana, when both men were employed with the Al- aska Road Commission. He t fied that shortly after his arrival here in October, 1945, Meeks look- ed him up and asked to borrow money. He said that he loaned small sums to the defendant on several occasions. The money was all repaid out of what Ritter & sumed to be Meek’s delayed check from the ARC. David Burnett, formerly a plas- tering contractor here, then testi- fied that he had employed Meeks as a hod carrier on the Foss resi- dence, hear which Campbell’s body was found about three weeks later. on November 22, 1945. He also testified that Meeks said he need- ed the job very badly and was short of funds. Prosecuting Attorney P. J. Gil- more offered the certified death certificate oi Ralph D. Martin, who had appeared as a witness in the previous trial, and a certified copy of the court reporter’s tran- script of Martin’s testimony. These were labeled government's exhibits numbers 7 and 8, and Gilmore read the transcript to the jury. Martin had said that Meeks worked for him one day, cleaning the basement of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company. The defendant drew his pay for the day, and did not ap- pear for work on Monday morning, December 10, although he was ex- pected. Last witness during the morn- ing session was Peter “Peanuts” Vincent. He stated that both he and Meeks were living at the Key- stone Rooms at the time of the crime, and that he had stolen $8 from Meek’s rcom on the morning cf December 9. Meeks had accost- ed him as he was leaving the room and demanded the money back. Knife Attack That evening Vincent said that Meeks went to his room, accused him of stealing $1500, threatened to cut his throat, and then attack- - e, - The Washingion Merry - G_o_- Round By DREW PEARSON (Editor's Note: This is the second of Drew Pearson's col- umns on the most important problem facing the country— the danger ofi war with Rus- sia.) (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) WASHINGTON—Some observers have come back from Europe re- cently saying that the cold war has been won. I do not agree. Russian-inspired Communism, it is true, has taken some severe ed him with a knife. Wncent was cut above and below the left eye, and fell when his attacker kicked him in the ribs. He testified that he broke away and went to call the police Upon arrival of the police the money was found in Meek's room and the latter apologized for start- ing the fight, | Attorney M. E. Monagle cross examined Vincent, asking if it were not true that he had gone to Mon- agle's office the day after the fracas and had made an affidavit to the effect that Meeks did not have a knife at the time of the quarrel. Vincent's testimony was not clear at this point, but he in- sisted that the defendant did have and use a black-handled pocket ' knife. Vincent was also confused as to dates, and referred to the per- iod under discussion as 1946. There (GOPERS LEAN TO WALLACE 10 HELP OUT Believe Third Party Will " Cut Into Demo Ranks- Prediction Is Made By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—®— Republican National Committee- men professed growing confidence teday that inroads into the Demo- Kuterls Again Turned Down; " Branch Quits | WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—#— The Senate Armed Forces Com- mittee today rejected a personal | plea from President Truman to al- {low Maj. Gen. Laurence Kuter to { become chairman of the Civil Aercnautics Board and retain his Lrnnk and pay as an Air Force General. : HARLLEE BRANCH QUITS . WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—®— 1 Harllee Branch resigned today from | the Civil Aeronautics Board short- FUTUREOF ~ REICH IS ~ TAKEN UP 4 Military Governors Are/| A e - DEMOCRATS ARE VOTING | Expressing'CI{Ei(e for Gov- Fish Tr_aps, | A | BERLIN, Jan. 20.—P—The four |military governors of Germany met today in an Allied Control Council meeting which may produce im-| | portant effects on the future of the | Reich i Soviet Marshal Vassily Sokolov- ‘Delejale Bartleff Talks On Licensing System for TAX CUTTING PLANS OF GOP Alaskan WaiersEARE REACHED WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—(#— | Delegate Bartlett of Alaska said in the Congressional Record today that 99 percent of the people of Alaska oppose legislation to set up a licen-! |sing system for fish traps in Ter- | ritorial waters jIhree De(i;ivfiefiMoves An- nounced-Two Sugges- tions Ditched The bill, scheduled for & hearing| WASHINGTON, Jan, 20—@— {by a joint Senate-House Commit-| gepyblican tax cutting plans | tee next Monday, was proposed by ' reached the decision stage today. the Interior Department. It wouldl guearer Martin (R-Mass) call- [set up a licensing system for 15/ cd the House GOP Steering Com- | years, i mittee to an afternoon (2 o'clock, | EST) session to shape party policy Barictt said the measure would not require any large salmon can- ly after the Senate Armed Ser- |eky was expected to deliver the cur-; y - . cratic vote by Henry A. Wallace were ' several ubjec}mns by both the this fall will help elect a GOP prosecutors and the deilense cu\mi Bresident for (he first tiRE. 1 sel ccncerning the matter. Allel‘m e ’ prclonged interrogation of the wit-j o the committee assembled to] ness the court recessed at the‘ approve a campalgn ~budget ‘and noon hour. { apportion delegates to the June| R, ! neminating convention in Phila- YESTERDAY ‘“ITERNOON i delphia, National Chairman Carroll | Yesterday's court session on the trial of George Meeks for the slaying of Clarence Campbell was resumed in the afternoon with testimony by Dr. William White- head, who had examined the body of the victim shortly after it was, found in the Seattor tract on De- cember 10, 1945. He seid Campbell had probably bled to death from a severed arfer.\‘ “Merciful providence has sent at the'thrcat, and assumed that he | him as a candidate at this time.” had been dead for from four to| Senator Bricker of Ohio, the Re- eight hours, although he could have, publican vice presidential nominee Reece said Wallace’s entry into! the race has resulted in ‘the des-; perate eiforts now being made by | Mr. Truman to recover -his dlsrvp-: utable lost “foreign legion.” Rep. Katherine St. George of, New York assayed the effect of ! | Wallace’s third party campaign in ia specch to the national commit-; tee last night in these words: lain there for 36 hours or longer.}m 1944, told the same banquet | Heavy rains prevented a sure es- meeting “we are going to nomi-| timate. He also said there was a nate a President in June.” 1 possibility that the deceased had - - e - been killed elsewhere and removed to the spot where he was found. Dr. L. W. Hines, an optometrist at Anchorage, testified that he had prescribed lenses for Campbell in 1944, and in 1947 had been asked by FBI agent John Hayes to iden- tify a pair of glasses which proved to be the same he had made for, 'MYSTERY CONTINUES. IN DISAPPEARANCE: OF PIANO PRODIGY. vice Committee again blocked the ncmination of Maj. Gen. Laurence S. Kuter to head that agency Branch, whose resignation is ef- fective May 1, said he is “quite tired and feels the need of a com- plete rest His departure creates a third vacancy on the five ma: board. President Truman recently refus- ied to re-appoint James M. Landis, CAB chairman, when his term ex- pired at the end of 1947. A vacancy created by the resig- nation some months ago of Clar- cnce. M. Young, Republican mem- jrent views of Moscow and demand a |dissolution of the American-British |Bizonal Organization in western | Germany. ernor - Candidates in Field T address—expected to be one, |of the most important policy speech-| g NS TR |es Sckolovsky ever has made Y| rouisiana Democrats expressed {the Four-Power Councll—may CON-|yeir choice for governor today ;m”‘ ”"" answers to questions Ger-| iy one of the state’s most puzzling m‘,m'\ have Leen asking for months. political contests of recent years. The Council has not met since the' * geoying the office are former |breaicdown of the Poreign Ministers| Goyernors Sam Jones and Barl K. el in LODEoS 7 | Long, U. S. Rep. James H. Morri- |quent mxmn_uon of a new Brmsh-‘ son and Appeals Judge Robert F. |American tizonal setup in weslern»K ennon. Germany B v oanis | Eokolovsky is expected to state 20, ~P— political observers have ker of the board, never has lwen‘lh5 Soviet position on Bizonia, shown little ngl:(‘vl)\r-xxl in ideas on 1illed. Young quit to become which, it is believed, will be & flat the relative strength of the can- manager of the City of Los An-| : 5 4 | didates, probable survivors for a geles airports. BREAK SEEN I N S Ev E R E | formally demanded today the dis-! (OLD WAVE !rejection and demand for dissolu- tion of the setup, under which Ger- 'mans themselves have been given | considerably more authority. ! potential lineup of support in the | run-off by today's losers. | The Democratic nominee is cer- tain of election in Louisiana, where | pederal appropriations, and other' RUSSIAN DEMANDS Republicans have been impotent BERLIN, Jan. 20— Russia | since reconstruction. ‘The campaign, which began slow- American-British | ly and vaguely, moved to a fast soluticn of the ner to surrender trap sites and, in effect, would give “a vested pri- | vate right to what has alw been | considered a public resource.” “It is safe to say that a substan- | tial number of Alaskans are opposed to the use of the salmon traps,” (Bartiett saia The Delegate told the House that Alaskans will have an opportunity in a referendum next Octoter to vote on whether they favor abolishing ithe traps over a ten-year period. He explained the referendum, un- i |be advisory only, that Congress re- | served pow Act to legislate with reference to fish and wild life. very effort during the last 36 iof these resources to the people of |Alaska has failed,” he said. “This despite the fact that insufficient !factors, have resulted in a notably| | diminution of fish and wildlife re- | sources under Federal management. “Now it is proposed not to right der the Territory’s Organic Act will] to itself in the Organic, ion the red hote domestic issue. | 'There was every advance indi- !cation the committee would: | 1. Ignore the urging of Bernard M. Baruch to put off tax cutting | for two years. | 2. Reject flatly President Tru- ; man's request for a $40 ‘“cost of living” tax cut lor everyone with an offsetting revival of the war- time excess profits levy on cor- | porations. { 3. Throw its weight instead be- hind a trimmed down version of , the Knutson bill. Chairman Knutson (R-Minn) of the tax-writing Ways and Means | Committee told newsmen he would | carry into the meeting a demand that this $5600,000,000 bill be { second Primary February 17, and|vears to give administrative control| dopted by the GOP tax slashing ! goal for 1048, AGREEMENT REACHED | WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—(P— Rep. Knutson (R-Minn) said the ' House Republican Steering Com- { mittee today approved his bill to agreement for joint economic ad-|f{inish on the spur of a charge in the wrong which has been done but| cut taxes hy $5,600,000,000. 'ministration of their zones of Ger-; Congress last week by Rep. James many, asserting the arrangement|Demengeaux (D-La.) the Long !violated the Potsdam Agreement. |had evaded $100,000 in | Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky voiced | taxes. {to confirm it absolutely. The pend-' |ing ®kills, in House and ‘Senafe, income would do that which to my know-; issue, Domengeaux is a Jones sup- ' ledge has never before been done in that the amount Knutson wanted The committee met to shape party policy on the tax-cutting Beforehand, there was talk Campbell He re-examined them in the pres- ence of the court, and Prosecuting Attorney P. J. Gilmore then form- ally offered plaintiff's exhibit number 6 the glasses, which were found by 9-year-old Judy Foss near her home ahout a year after the crime had occurred in that vi- cinity. Defense Counsel asked that the jury be excused and entered an cbjection to the exhibit as being immaterial. He said the glasses were found a year after the crime, and that they could have been de- liberately placed there. The ob- jection was over-ruled. | | Victim’s Employment | The next witness was Arthur O. Peterson, who had been manager of the Alaska Construction Com- | pany during the period when Campbell was employed with the | company” at Hoonah and Juneau. | He said that he saw the deceased ;here on December 8, 1945, and that i Campbell agreed to do some ur- | gently needed work on the Channel | Apartments | but that he never appeared. | Peterson said that was in the habit of traveling to | Juneau, and that he may have | ccme here to draw money on his account with the company. He stated that in the approximately | seven months that Campbell had | worked with his firm, he had been paid about $5,200. Mrs. Hanna Dinsdale testified that Campbell had stayed at her on Sunday morning, ' Campbell | jolts in France and Italy, where hoarding house from November 18 attempted strikes, riots and revolu- | to 22, 1945, and again on December tion failed. But they already are 7 and 8. being revived. And everyone who knows the Soviet system also knows that when the boys in the Polit- buro take a defeat on one front it only increases their determina- tion to score victory on another. So not only will they take more and tougher punches at France and Italy, but already Soviet prep- arations for eventual we-don't know-what have intensified in oth- er areas. Meeting with a group of sena- tors not long ago, Chief of the Air Force Gen. “Touhy” Spaatz revealed: 1. The Red army now has taken over German jet-plane plants and developed jet-propelled planes that are faster than those built by the U. 8. army. 2. The Russians have lmproved‘ on the German buzz-bomb to a point where they now are produc- | ing a deadly controlled missile that will travel between 1,700 and 1,800 miles, whereas the imperfectly con- trolled German buzz-bomb merely flew across the English channel. 3. The Russians, according to General Spaatz, have complete in- formation about the location, size, and preduction capacity of every air plant in the United States, to say nothing of landing fields, con- Rex Sunderland, prietor of the Gastineau Liquor ]Compauy on South Franklin, was jcalled and stated that he had | known Campbell, and that the lat- | ter had entrusted him ‘on Novem- | ber 23 with $2,250 in 19 hundred dollar bills and seven fifty dollar i bills. \ Sunderland said he deposited | them in Behrend's Bank, and that I he met with Campbell to withdraw | the money around noon on Decem- ‘debts at the liquor store, Camp- bell then left with 19 hundred dollar bills, he said, Campbell had meantime, he said, Campbell had come around after midnight on the previous night to borrow $5, and he had been accompanied by a man and two women. Woman Testifies The next government witness was Theresa Johnson, who had become | acquainted with Campbell at the Midget Bar in November and had | spent the night of December 9 lodgings at the Keystone Rooms. She said that he showed her a large amount of money shortly be- fore he left, between 10:30 and 11 o'clock Sunday morning. She said she was unable to determine (Continued, on P;;e Four) (Continued On rage Two) formerly pro-; ber 8. After he had paid various| | (Sunday morning) with him in his Kidnapping Theory Is Ex- ! pressed by Mother of : Girl - Rumors i BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. 20.—® A taxi driver said he was “vel sure” he had seen Jaoqueline Horr er, missing 14-year-old pianist- tress, in Buffalo yesterday, but police discounted the report after investigation. Assistant ! Detective Chief Fred H. Rambuss said investigation did not substantiate the report by ! Leo Wilson that the girl he had 247 Deaths Are Report-| ed Early Today-Schools in Some Areas Closed (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) A break appeared today in the severe cold weather which envelop- ‘ed a wide section of the country for the past several days and re- sulted in the deaths of 47 persons in 17 midwest, eastern and Southern states. After reaching new lows for the season in many sections, temperat- ures generally were on the way up, affording at least temporary relief | { lof Berlin i ; driven in his cab to a railroad J station was the missing - piano Moderating Lem_peratures were fore- prodigy. cast for the chilled northeastern ! section of the country where the The girl left her Hollywood, Cal., i home, last Tuesday after an ar- ‘gument with her mother, Mrs | Clara Horner. She was presum- "ably going to her music teacher's * studio. | Her 1ather, George Wright Horn- ier, lives here. The parents were diverced in 1942, A San Bernardino policeman said ‘he saw her. A couple in Santa Monica reported seeing her near ! the beach with a young man. Per- | sons living near her home also said they had seen her there. i Meanwhile in Hollywood, Mrs. | Horner said: “I'm convinced that Jackie has been kidnaped.” DN SUES FOR DIVORCE Hardy James Leonard has filed suit in U. S. District Court here| Mona Aldene Harris, of Seattle, have applied to U. 8. Commis- sioner Felix Gray for a marriage license. the Naval Operating ‘Base in Ko- ’dlak are registered at the Baranof Hotel. — HAINES VISITORS Mrs. Agnes Thlienault and child, Ray Smith, John J. Schombel and Fred Sheldon of Haines are regis- tered at the Gastineau Hotel. JRRERE & S FROM KETCHIKAN ae TR e ey STEVE'S HOBBY SHOP Under new management. Clear- ance, 10 to 20% off. ' Open 2 to | 7:30 p. m. 788 4t ) { . i | KODIAK VISITORS i { Mr. and Mrs. Howard Miller from | thermometer skidded to as low as 45 below zero yesterday in Massa- chusetts. Similar forecasts were posted for most sections of the midwest, the i middle Atlantic states and the south. | However, snow and strong winds | were reported in northern Minne- i sota, northern Wisconsin and north- ern Michigan. There was a wide contrast in yes- terday’s readings in the new Eng- {land area where the thermometer irangsd from zero to a low of 45 be- flow in Ware, Mass., on Monday. To- ,day the thermometer gencrally was 1above zero over the area and the ! forecast was for readings in the up- !per 20's. Light snow was predictzd . for Northern Maine and New Hamp- shire. Snow fell yesterday over “sections for a divorce from Florence Leon-!of the south, with Shreveport, La., Christmas recess to consider again states and in southern Florida. Mi- ‘ami’'s 72 was the nation’s highest | temperature Monday. | 'KETCHIKAN ELKS " ARRIVETOBOWL IN 6-DAY MATCH, Twelve bowleis, from the Ketchi~ kan Elks’ Club, arrived here on board the Denali this afternoon to| take part in a six day bowling tour-| {nament against teams of the Ju-, (neau Elks. The visiting bowlers, six men and| six women, will be guests tonight at ;a reception in their honor to be held at the Elks’ Club begining at 7| |the Soviet view before the Allied| Control Council. He did not, how-' ever, raise a proposal that the U.S. Jand Great Britain give up their oc- |cupation of Berlin because of Bi- | zonia. Soviet-influenced newspapers | have been making the| suggestion for weeks. | The Marshal spoke after Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U.S. Military Gov- ernor, told of measures taken by the} two western Allies to better eco-| nomic conditions in western Ger-| many, keset anew today by hunger| strike protests and threats of strikes. | Clay left immediately after the! |meeting for Washington. { - Annual Allowance, Elizabeth, Phillip, | BeIorg _P_arliamenl | | LONDON, Jan. 20.—@—The House of Ccmmons voted today to grant Princess Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, £50,000 ($200,000) a year. The vote was 294 to 17. It came after a debate of lecs than two hours, in which a revolt by a | handful ef Labor members was | put down. H The action was taken onthe | decisive second reading of the guvernment-spcnsored measure. i LONDON, Jan. 20.—(P—Parlia- porter. ——————— ALASKA COASTAL ON 19 FLIGHTS, 46 PASSENGERS Alaska Coastal made 19 flights Monday and carried 46 passengers as follows: Juneau to Haines: Earl Draper, Mrs. Storey, H. E. Gallant, Mrs. Lola Pryer and Malcolm Miller, Haines to Juneau: Mrs. Fred B. Shelden, Fred B. Sheldon, Ray- !mond R. Smith, Herschel Jones,! Agnes Thlwault and John Schom- bel. Juneau to Skagway: Mrs. George Brown, Dean Storey, Frank Stein. Skagway to Juneau: C. A. Car- roll. Juneau to Sitka: Harriet Tietzen, Fred Coulsen, Gay Holland, Ray ean Blane, E. Phillips. Sitka to Juneau: R. A, Cook, Donald W. Close, and W. Hunter. Cobol to Sitka: Jack Ballinger, Jr. Juneau to Tulsequah: Gordon Davies, Wm. Stefanuik, W. Mc- Combs, J. Donica, Mrs. Willlams and Stephen Williams. Tulsequah to Juneau: R. Porter, D. Loebb. . Juneau to Ketchikan: L. Min- cyekiewecz, Ketchikan to Juneau: E. Rebman, Mrs. E. Rebman. ay from a month’s e E iRl odey (1om 6 Juneau to Wrangell: Al M. Cas- |the history of the United Szazes—{ would be trimmed to a smaller fig- |give title to private individuals and, ure. private companizs for a period of | - But- Knutsen came out of the ses- 1156 years to these trap sites.” | sion and fold reporters the measure Bartlett recalled he had intro-! was endorsed by the leadership. |ducea a bill calling for abolitioni His bill is opposed by the ad- |of trap sites in Alaska and he said! ministration, and its Republicans | that either this bill or another mea- | expect a veto which they claim {sure sponsored by him to transter they can override. President Tru- | control of fisheries to the Territory! man has advocated a cost of liv- | should be passed. {ing credit of $40 ior every tax- “The public good would be served ' payers and for each dependent, | if either became a law,” he -*Md.‘ with increased excise taxes to off- | “Quite the contre would result if|set the estimated $3,200,000,000 the trap vite leasing cill were to|yevenue loss. ‘The Knutson bill provides for no . tax increases. 1 ; By its action, the Steering Com-= SpE(IAl ElE(IIo" ; mittee rejected the advice of Ber- jpard M. Baruch that there be no {tax cuts for at least two years. | Knutson's bill, tentatively sched- ‘uled for House consideration late HELD TODAY CALLS - OUT FAIR VOTING 5 " 5t st | !'senal tax exemptions; for appli- { At 3 oclock this afternoon 273! cation on a nationwide basis of the votes had been cast in Juneau's|community property tax principle, special election relative to leas-|and for income tax cuts ranging ing the AB Hall basement to L. A.jirom ten percent in the high | Sturm for a system of lockers, etc., ' brackets to 30 percent in the low. for a period of five years at a ren- | S it Pt S & tal of $225 monthly. 1 { Voting started briskly when bhe‘ju"EA (l" BA"D polls opened at 8 o'clock this morn- | ing then slackened during the late] putll(I“G Io"lG“I forenocn hours, but soon after-| o rread 1 o'clock voters showed more in-| Changing practice nights from terest and although there was nev- | Thursdays to Tuesdays, the Ju- er a line, ballots were dropped neau City Band will hold a prac- into the box in fair voting. It is|tice tonight at 8 o'clock in the expected that by 5 o'clock when Grade School auditorium and Di- | oifices are closing and workers ' rector Alfred Ventur asks that all are starting for home, a heavy|musicians be on fime. vote may be cast. It is also announced that any The polls remain open tntil 7! musicians in Juneau, if they have D o'clock this evening. {their instruments and can read at | through its first reading in Decem- | ard on grounds of desertion. They ' reporting O-inch fall on the fixing allowances for Princess Eliza-! were married in Juneau on Feb. 3, ;}x:&nzn; ]elsser amouxl]ll.s falling Le'-hgand Prince Phillip, a question| Wrangell to Juneau: R. B. Bol- 1644, ‘and. have no children or|jn rortheast Texas and extreme|Which has split sharply the Labor| ‘0% | mutual property. The suit was|southern Arkansas. Schools in some Party’s ruling membership in the Wrangell to Ketchikan: C. O.} | placed by William L. Paul, Jr. sections were closed because of snow, House of Gommons. { Ohlson. | i ————— | freezing rain and sleet. | : | Juneau to Petersburg. R. H.| | INTENTION TO WED Fair weather prevailed in the 1IOPPIDg the agenda for the ope;-guar, Wm. Allen. ! i Clifford Hurst, of Yakutat, and'Rocky Mountains, the west coast! S of Commons (at 9:30 am. EST) | Juneau to Hoonah: Rollin L was the decisive second reading of Emel and Ernest C. Stewart. a Government-sponsored measure | Hconah to Juneau: George Jim. in increase Princess Elizabeth’s pre-: pelican to Juneau: F. R. Clay- sent_annual allowance of 15,000|ton, A. Zingeris, Elizabeth Pad- pounds ($60,000) to 40,000 pounds;dock, ($160,000), and provide 10,000 pounds] ph s AT T Measure Approved i or an amenamen o CANCeHing Power of ber after unsuccessfully trim substantially the proposed al-| lowarces. Conservative members ol the House supported the Govern-| ment’s proposal. | Another attempt reduce thej | (840,000 & year for Phillip. The House .advanced the bill| SEATTLE, Jan. 20.—M— The to fund is planned by Laborite Ronald | West Coast Mineral Association at| Chamberlain. | its regular weekly meeting yes- He would have Princess Elizabeth! terday adopted a resolution ap- and Phillip allowed 5000 pounds proving the bill which would, if ($20,000) each annually, plus an ex-, passed, cancel the power of Sec-! pense actount to be drawn up by the| retary of the Interior to create q _ o'clock. After the reception, LheQCompu-oller of the Princess’ house-|huge Indian reservations in Al- T. J. Dugan of Ketchikan is|tournament will begin. It is expected | hold. | aska staying at the Baranof Hotel. {to wind up on Sunday. ———-— ! The measure, introduced as a e If the air were as dense at all altitudes as it is at sea level, the layer of air around the -carth ‘would be about five' miles thick. During their visit, a Bowler's Ban-| quet will be an event at the Baranof Hotel on Saturday evening. Cap- 'tain of the visiting teams is Vern Stedman, : | tel, FAMILY HERE | joint Senate-House resolution 162, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Rebman/is ncw before Congress. It would and two children of Buffalo, N. ¥.|also rescind all reservations creat- are registered at the Baranof Ho-| ed since 1936 under provisions of the Wheeler-Howard Act. Secrefary of Inferior B A !sight, are welcome to join the {band and help out in this com- ]mumty organization. Alaska lce Classic oreaniaton. Commitfee Elecled; STEAMER MOVEMENTS g Denali, from Seattle, in port and ; scheduled to sail westward about 4 this afternoon. Alaska, from Seattle, is scheduled to arrive Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver January 23. Coastal Rambler scheduled to sail from Seattle January 23. Sword Knot scheduled from Seattle January 23. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle January 24. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine SEATTLE, Jan. 20— (® —The'stock today is 3%, American Can freighter Jumper Hitch is due here 78 1-2, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss- |tomorrow morning from Southeast Wright 5', International Harvester |Alaska with one of the largest lum- 88 1-2, Kennecott 46%, New York ber cargoes ever brought from the Ceatral 13%, Northern Pacific 19%, !nol th—1,006,500 feet of Alaska spruce U. S. Steel 74%, Pound $4.03%. |—the Alaska Steamship Company, Sales today were 710,000 shares. |1eported today. Six hundred thou- Averages today are as follows: In- 1sand fect of the cargo will go to Ta- dustrials 17527, rails 50.21, utilities |c..na and the remainder to Seattle. 32.89. (Special To Empire) NENANA, Alaska, Jan. 20— Charles Miller was elected man- ager of the 1948 Alaska Ice Classic at a meeting held here on Satur- day. Others elected on the com-! mittee are Robert Coghill, F. W. Avery, A. E. Wright, Fred Muelles | Francis Wirth and Charles Mye! RECORD LUMBER " SHIPMENT IS ON | to sail ~ WAY T0 STATES|