The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 21, 1948, Page 2

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1948 PAACARRIES 17 0K C. OF (. IS MEETING FLIGHT ON TUESDAY AT NCON THURSDAY PAA had two flights - At the regular meeting of the T R SV 2 R R A L T TS . NEGRO ISSUE Biil for Federal and carried 17 passenger: Juneau Chamber of Commerce to- l S H 0 1 0 N E Building, Kodiak, | , lows: B E H H E N n s morrcw noon at the Baranof Hotel Given lo Congress PAREROTER kb 8 1‘ Juneau to Seattle: Delbert Hanks WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—®— Ay u Miller, Mrs. H. M. Miller and | the members will vote on Senate bill was introduced in CONRIess inrant, Norman R. Lauritzen, John s A PAGE TWO : THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA o g J Bill 1834, known as the Jones Act. by Delegate Bartlett (D-|posr Ella Rock, Walter Simon, Wil-| Att Robertson will give Alaska), providing authorization for |gorq Johnson, William Hunter, Karl the Western States ‘he cutlay of up to $575,000 for a!Greenwocd, Floyd Volk, Milton Daly. at Portland, Ore., Federal building at Kodiak, Alaska, 'Howard Rusthoi, Bernhard Werne: to be used for a jail and other pjjjan Werner, Tom Mor purposes | Fairtanks to Juneau: Jac of ' Another Legal Battle May Talbot o T WILL CONTINUE until our regular closing hour SATURDPAY EVENING WaddlMoney, Blood Stains IsTestimeny (Continued 1:om Page One) at the living with Brown He 11:30 Sun- them Meeks his own room Salo where he W 1 1 up at showed aling $1960. conflicting in dant ir Room. his girl friend said Meeck day came and eveni sheaf of bill gave several about the and fing According tu_ Hartuess, . Meeks then drew him outside and request- Janunary secuting attorneys 1 over the point trongly emphasiz- clement. Defense At- commented that the rested on the modi- reprimanded by 50 admonished the remark wdoned the line without having tatement on the ard ing 9 and 10 Meeks and a fight over had accused en ev ncent had h Meek: of takin Peter V $1500 w he latter sh Meeks it want the it much mong City Policeman had I 300 detendar a brown trousers testified as saying to know he and that Gil St leather jacket Vincent had that reported h dark Meeks | 24, 1948 noticed nothing unusual about the reom, day. No one Pol of an aitempt upon Gandhi, who was making eech since he ended for peace However, the authorities said they would question the young Hindu. He was seized by members of Gand- hi's congregaticn. Police said ar army-type grenade was found in the man’s pocket but that he had made no attempt to use it was injured. stated i he had put I and the latter replied that it was at the Juneau Hotel. Then is Patrolman Botelho was reaching a spot (“I believe to e if it was damp™), Meeks grab- Led package of bills wrapped in g paper and threw them | to feot of the bed, saying, the money." { said he had won the| ambling at the Plantation | 1chorage. Serial numbers | hundred dollar bills n with Meek's pern According to Gilligan's S mcny, Chief of Police Monagle read the newspaper account of| he murder Clarence Campbell | Meeks, who could not read, and | defendant claimed that he did | knew the victim. - e - that he the mone d Meeks in a safe the life of his first his latest place fa: to examine writ the Meeks money Ciub at £ of the were t S FOR MERCY i NEW DELHI, Jan. 21.—M--Mo- handas K. Gandhi said he will ask ycuthful Hindu accused of ex- ploding a home made bemb ne his prayer meeting. The suspect could be imprisoned for life. “We should not harbor hatred,” Gandhi said. “I will request the | pelice not to troukble him but: to of not | i there was no evidence the police to be merciful with a | Result on Right of Wom- | an fo Enfer College | OKLAEOMA CITY, 21— | —The legal battle of a year-old Negro weman to enroll in the Uni- versity of Oklahoma Law School today was headed back to the United States Supreme Court, | which only last week directed the state to establish equal law school facilities for Negroes and Whites A Negro schocl of law estab- lisned here in a surprise move yesterday by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education was prandsd by Negro leaders a ‘Jim Crow Law School. At a mass meeting here, attend- ed by some 600 Negroes, James B. Stewart, president of the locai chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the association’s at- torneys will go back to the Supreme Court to contend that “some unit cf the state government is in con- tempt” of the court’s ruling Mrs. Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, Negro seeking admission University’s law school attempt to engoll in created law school, but on her application for at the State University, Dunjee, editor of a negro paper here, and a national rector in the NAACP, said An honor graduate of Langston Universi Mrs. Fisher first sought to oll in the State University law school two years ago. Denied | admission because of the state’s la requiring separate schools for Negrces, she appealed to the State lccurts and finally to the U. S, Supreme Court. - FROM MIDDLETON, Jan the to the will not the newly will stand enrollment R new. di- OHIO Imogene Ohio, is | Hotel. Sampsen of Middletown, registered atthe Baranof In as former! rich as which forest these are; 8C on former grass- - | lands. Malaria exists in 36 of the states {in the United States - o ANOTHER SECTION OF CANOL PIPELINE REPORTED OPENED ASHINGTON, Jan. 21—~f— Another secticn of the Canol pipe- line is being reopened to enable pumping dieszl oil from the Port of Skagway to Fairbanks, Alaska, the Army announced today. Reopening of the section, between Whitehorse, Canada and Big D"lta, Alaska, will cost an estimated $5,000. Sections between Skagway and Whitehorse and between Big Delta and Fairbanks were returned to use last year Reopening of the Skagway-Fair- Lanks line will ease the oil transpor- tation load from Port Whittier and Anchorage to Fairbanks, a military center ‘The Canol system was built during the war togrovide a land route for transporting fuel to Alaska if ene- my action closed shipping lanes for tankers. D GREAT FALLS, Mont.,—P— When Patrclman Jack Peterson saw a collie dog caught in the cur- rent of the Missouri River, he hur- ried to a nearby store, got a lar- iat and tossed a loop expertly over the head ot the struggling animal “It was easy,” the officer said “I used to punch co Beware CougTI;SV from common colds That Hang On Creomulsion relieves promptly be« cause it right, {o the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in- flamed bronchial mucous mems- branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un- are not derstanding you must like the way it ————————— uickly allays the cough or you arg have your money back. N CREOMULSIO \ for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis DISORDERLY -oo Only one arrest was reported by Two Men, Same Aulo, 9 : = City Police toda Oscar Coul- Charged with icn was booked en disorderly con- Drunken Driving — PENNSAT #—A po night that two men can be guilty ; of drunken driving in the samv} autcmobile and at the same place. | Witnesses teld Recorder George | E. Yost that Rebert Burns, 30, of Philadelphia, drove his automobile onto the sidewalk of John W. Mortimer. Mcrtimer telephoned police—who said they arrived to find Clarence Trotter, 35, also of Philadelphia, struggling to drive the vehicle off the sidewalk. Yost fined each $200 d sus- pended their driving privileges for two years CONDUCT KEN, . ¢., Jan. 21.— ce judge decided last A little Va-tro-nol in each nostril quickly opens up nasal passages to relieve stuffy tran~ sient congestion. Makes breathing easier, Invites restful . Works | finel . . . Grand for relieving snifly | distress of head colds. Try it! 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BLENDED WHISKEY, 86 PROOF, 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS EX-242.E8 (iIIIlIIIIIIlIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIHllIIIHHI!!II|Ii!I||I|IlIII!H_!IIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIi previously { have compassion towards him and | i ® |make him see the righteous path.” | h Gandhi Makes Tall; = i e sonieon e one washer ed a white shirt The two men wore a light gray suit and a white then went into the bathroonf, shirt, and John Gilligan, who was Meeks locked the door, rémoved his laer called to the stand, stated | cause of his recent fast for com- jacket and revealed a blood-spat- tered dark dress shirt The wit- ness said that Meeks ripped the shirt into strips and flushed it down the toilet ; He then stuffed a blood-stained undershirt in his pocket and warn- ed Hartness not tell anyone about the incident Two letters, government exhibits Number 12 and 13, were then pre- sented the prosecuting attor- neys They were allegedly dictat- ed to Hartness by Meeks, who could not write One was addressed to Dora Paul Kusich, Meek’s girl {riend, and the other to Edward Schwaesdall, a friend at Fairbanks. In the first Meeks told Dora he would give her the money ($50) he had prom- ised her, and in the second he told Schwaesdall that he was in trouble with the FBI, and to tell anyone ing g that he (Schwaesdall) did not know Meeks. He also ask- ed Schwaesdall not to write to him at Juneau. Court was recessed for the noon hour, and interrogation of the wit- s on the stand was resumed at 2 o'clock this afternoon. to YESTERDAY AFTERNOON cting testimony is begin- crop up the re-trial Meeks who is facing a jury for the second time on charges of killing Clarence Campbell here two years ago. Mrs. Wanda Myers, owner of the Key where both Meeks and gistered at the testified that who had been pbell's room on the mory f December 9, was in the building at 2 p. m., whereas Miss Johr had said left the Ke: 2 t 1 o'clock Mis Ji 1ad that Cam 10 m ) ke a bath cording Myers t he had to her about ing a bath at 6 o'clock Mrs. Myers said that had registered a r est on Dece before her day eveni a room Defense mony vious trial to Campbell had tried before 10 p. m. and p 8 o'clock Prosecu Boschever called fact that testimony to read hours of 6 and 8. Discussion Arises was heated discussion to in Johnson also stated room about but stimony tak- th t the ac- Campb ablishment shortly Sun- but counsel none re giver the attent modified betw she later There be- that Me sweater s was dressed in a dark and dark pants Accusation - Denia. answer to questions by At- Paul, Mrs. Myers stated that could hear some of the con- versation in the adjoining room where the altercation had taken ace, and that she did not hear other remarks than Meek's accusation and Vincent's denial of tak the money. Vincent had previcusly said that Meeks threat- ened to cut his throat and had said “you will never the sun rise again if you don't give me my money.” District Attorney Gilmore re- cpened direct examinaticn and ask- ed Mrs. ers if she saw Meeks. following publication of the news of Campbell's death She replied that he had come into her room at noon on Tues- day and requested her to turn on the radio. She said she comment- ed on the news of Campbell's death and Meeks stated that he had nev- er seen him Hubert John Gilligan, an assist- ant chief of police at the time of the murder, then testified that he and Solon Dore, another police- man, had answered a call to the Keystene Rooms at 9:40 p. m. Sun- day evening In torne she see Tells of Losing Money He found Meeks talking excitedly and saying he had lost $800. Meeks I told him that he had had $1700. Gilligan ompanied him to his room and Meeks showed him a white shirt hanging on the wall, from which the money had dis- peared. Gilligan finally found wallet with bills in it in a dresser and was prevailed upon by Meeks to accept a bill as evidence of his gratitude He said that ly been fight was no blood, had obvious- that there although Vincent had a scratch over his left eye Vincent had testified that some blood had run down his face. No compl were lodged by either party. tt here but a Meek’s Room Visited next day Gilligan said he r ed to Meek's m with Chief of Police John Monagle and High- way Patrolman Emmett Botelho. He ed Meeks where his shirt ying that he had no- spots on the collar and the night bef Meeks had sent it to the laundry witness said he saw pair of pants, which had been | washed, stretched over the radia- tcr. On the previous evening, he red of he ide it he also a several hundred dollar | (iluv.ur.‘ Bombls_[xploded the prayer meeting in a chair. He 21— laughed when an unidentified m&h 21— A| 'in the audience demanded that Gandhi proclaim himself @ rein- NEW DELHI, Jan man who identified himself as a Hindu refugee from the west Punjab 5 exploded a home-made bomb against | carnation of God. When t}“ a wall 50 yards from a place where | Speaker persisted, Gandhi impat- Mohandas K. Gandhi was addr iiemly told him to sit down and be ing an cpen air prayer meeting to-' quiet. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERUE, WEATHER BURLA{ JUNEAU, ALASKA WEATHER BULLETIN DATA FOR 24 HOURS ENDED AT 4:30 A. M., 120TH MERIDIAN TIME Max. temp. | TODAY last | Lowest 4:30a.m. 24hrs. 24 hrs* | temp. temp. Precin. 20 30 02 -14 -12 Trace 33 33 .10 32 34 69 -1 0 Edmonton . 21 22 Fairbanks 4 1 0 Haines 33 Havre 22 Juneau Airport 35 Annette 42 Kodiak 33 Kotzebue 21 Burbank ... 37 McGrath 8 Nome 29 Northway -6 Portland 38 Petersburg 28 | Prince George 29 Prince Rupert 42 | Seattle . 32 | Sitka 41 | Whitehorse 32 18 | Yakutat 36 | 35 #—(2:30 a. m. yesterday to 4:30 a. m. today) WEATHER SYNOPSIS: The storm which was located in the Gulf of Alaska yesterday morning is moving across southwestern Canada this morning. The storm area continues in the Bering Sea but is slowly filling this mornipg. A high pressure area is located over northwestern United States. This pressure distribution has caused warm air to continue over most of Alaska and below zero temperatures were reported only over the northern portion of Alaska this merning. Temperatures ranged well above normal over Southeast Alaska yesterday. They ranged from 24 to 45 degrees along the coast from Puget Sound to the Gulf of Alaska this morning. Rain fell during the past 24 hours along the coast from Puget Sound to the Alaska Peninsula. Snow or rain fell over the north- ern plains area of the United States, central and western Canada and over mest of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN Reports from Marine Stations at 1:30 P. M. today WIND Height of Waves Dir.and Vel. (Sea Coudition) WNW 28 2 feet SSW 24 3 feet SSE 7 Smooth wSW 21 2 feet 1 foot 1 foot Weather at 4:30am. Cloudy Cloudy Rain Rain Station Anchorage Barrow Bethel Rain Pt. Cloudy Fog Cloudy Rain Rain Pt. Cloudy Drizzle Clear Cloudy Snow Pt. Cloudy Rain Fog Cloudy Rain Fog Fog Pt. Coudy Rain 33 10 34 36 39 45 38 22 38 11 30 [ 107 2.84 9 42 44 34 47 39 47 1.63 .02 56 Weather Temp. . Cloudy 38 Cloudy 41 Cloudy 44 Cloudy 44 . Cloudy 42 Cloudy 42 Station ape Spencer Eldred Rock Point Retreat Sisters Island Five Finger Light Lincoln Rock Guard Island Cloudy 45 w 1 Zero Cape Decision Cloudy 43 w 16 1 foot MARINE FORECAST FOR PERIOD FROM WEDNESDAY MORN- ING TO THURSDAY EVENING: Protected waters of Southeast Alaska and the outside waters, Dixon Entrance to Yakutat—southerly to westerly. winds generally under 20 miles per hour. Mostly claudy with light rain | or rain showers over the entire area with patches of fog forming tonight ‘in channels. NNW 8 | munal peace, had been carried to ' { FREIGHT Refrigeration SERVICE fo ALASKA Regular sailings from Seatile and Tacoma, Washington For Rates and Information CONSULT Alaska Transporfation Company GASTINEAU HOTEL P. 0. 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