The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 24, 1948, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition P —————- “ALL THE NEWS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALL THE TIME” SATURDAY 1 B.M. Edition = U VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,793 GRILLING BRADLEY OF SLAYER ~ DOUBITS CONTINUES RUSSIA | CENTRALIA, Wash,, Jan. 24 f—l'P\l _ ceNTRALIA, Wasn, Jan. 3407 General Believes If Soviets baiding contessed slaver of b hnd | Haye Afomic Bomb They | Would Use It On Us | | thorities openly skeptical of the 63-| year-old retired merchant’s story DALLAS, Jan. 24—(P— Gen. Omar Bradley, the next Army that another woman ‘“got rid” of his second wife on an Olympia boat | hief of Staff, said here that “If| had the atomic bomb I ride in 1945 would hesitate After the woman confronted Hay- | C ton in a dramatic jail cell meeting | Russia ACTRESS FRANCIS 1S IMPROVING IN OXYGEN TENT COLUMBUS, O, Jan. 24—®— Actress Kay Francis continued to- day to gain on an “upper repiratory | infection” which forced her from the | stage of the Tartman Theatre to an oxygen tentsin White Cross Hos- pital | | The 43-year-old star of stage and iscreen collapsed yesterday - from ! what detectives said was an, over- | | dose of sleeping pills- and under | circumstances wnich led police to | | detain her stage manager for five hours while they investigated. As the hulabaloo over her col- | lapse subsided, Dr. Maurice R. Ros- | Heavy Fines Under New Tone Law MUNICH, Germany, Jan. 24— (P—The German economic council of the British and American zones spurred by @& 24-hour hunger rike of 100000 Bavarians—took ps today to wipe out black arketing and food hoarding and thus rations. The an state government in the'\ zone announced it would wag a similar drive and| t increase B. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1948 —— = last night, Kitsap County Prosecutor James Munro said he was convinced she “had been completely exoner- ated.” She had not been held. “Roscoe, for the love of God, tell | don't kelieve they called on trade unions and farm- ito use it on us | exs’ associations to help divert food In an interview he also said:|from illegal channels into a com- | “I don’t think she could—or would mon rationing pool. _fight now if she could help it. | The bi-zonal council, in the off, her physician, said she was| “seriously, but not critically il" | frem what he described as an “up- | per respiratory infection.” He would “I don't think there will be war ‘now’ unle some country blund- them the truth and get it off your | mind,” the woman cried hysterically as she entered Hayton’s cell |ers into it. Hayton buried his face in ]ns’ But he said he would not apply hands and did not reply. his remarks about Russia not want- Questioning of the gaunt, gray-|ing war with us now “to the long ing Seattle man almost continuously | pun.” throughout the day failed to change | There is danger of a blunder his claim made earlier in a signed | causing war because “Russia has statement that the woman took his | taken such an aggressive stand in second wife for a boat ride from |pyshing around other nations,” he which the wife failed to return. | declared. Hayton was brought here yester- | day after leading officers Thursday | to the shallow grave in Skagit County where the body of his third | wife, Mrs. Ellen Buckingham Coyle | Hayton, 46, was buried. Sheriff’s Detective Chief Adam Lyskoski reported that Hayton ad- | mitted in a signed statement he had choked her to death in their Seattle home Jan. 8. e — 3 LOCAL YOUTHS ARE CHARGED ON — eee — According to information by the Department of Labor, Henry Ben- son states that in seven Alaskan tewns a food survey showed a net advance of an average of only 1.1 percent throughout the Territory in the last quarter of 1947, as com- pared to an average increase of 6.8 percent in the third quarter. However, in almost every town, WINDOW DAMAGES ! prices dropped a little on one sor The mystery surrounding the most | {WO occasions during the half year recent act of vandalism at the Men- Period. Year end prices were sub- denhall- Lake . Skaters Cabin was|stantially higher than m June, al- solved vesterday when three local though in most instances slightly youths were arrested by Deputy U.|below October-November highs. S. Marshal Walter G. Hellan, Ac-| The charts show a percentage of cordinig to U. S. District Attorney. changes for each month in the P. J. Gilmore, Jr., the arrests were|towns surveyed in June 1947. In made on a complaint signed by resi- ' Anchorage the all time high was dent FBI Agent John R. Hayes who|in November at a 127 percent in- investigated the incident. (crease over June, but in December The three youths are accused of dropped to 115 percent. Fairbanks smashing windows and window;had a 10.1 percent increase by frames at the Skaters Cabin on the October and dropped to 8.3 in De- evening of Dec. 30 following a local| cember. Juneau had at 13.6 high basketball game. Each posted SZSO;by November and dropped to a 9.8 cash bond and was released. Sen-‘percenl for December. The high- tence was deferred until 2 pm. next|est percent for Ketchikan was in Friday. 2 | September on a 3.3 percent ad- =iy vance, and Kodiak reached a 6.3 FIVE DIVORCES GRANTED ! percent by December. Seward had Five divorces wcie granted in|a 6 percent advance over June by U. S. District Court yesterday by | December, and Sitka a 109 by Judge George W. Folta. | October. These percentages are on In a cross complaint, Marguerite 'a basis of a 100 percent for the Schnoeker was granted a decree June survey, thus the relative in- from Edmond M. Schnoeker. They icrease in food in Alaska for the will alternate in custody of their|year 1947 is an approximate 353 child. percent compared with Seattle pri- Annabelle Harsin was granted a|ces. divorce from Allen L. Hai Information concerning Seattle Joe H. Appling was granted ais taken from the reports of the decree from Orville Appling with Bureau of Labor Statistics; that the latter retaining custody of their | concerning Alaska is compiled by child |the Territorial Department of La- Lydia Dick Armstrong received | bor. a divorce from Raymond Arm-| strong. Irene Betty Flint was granted a divorce from Glenn M. Flint. - e — — e Missing Sitka Men ) Objed of Renewed The Washington “goo il Plane MerrY 7 Go 3 Round: SITKA, Alaska Jan. 24.—P—A !small plane will join today in search |for Tom Woods, 47, and James E. |Gay, 31, a trolling boat owner, who| |failed to return from the Port Mary area at close of the trapping sea-| | | By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) FOOD PRICE SURVEY 'MADE, LABOR DEPT. severest law in its six months' ex- | Dot elaborate. MR istence, decreed that all farmers| The play “State of the Union” | and food handlers must report their | Which Miss Francls has b«en; ccmplete stocks. Food not report- playing, went on last night with ed n be confiscated under the | Erin O’Brien-Moore doing the hon- | new law and fines up to $3,000 can |OrS after a huried plane flight} !be levied for false reports. |from New York. N\ The lone Communist delegate was | Folice released Miss Francis' stage [the only member to oppose the|manager, 37-year-old Howard Gra- rRaEtEe, 3 ham, after she regained conscious- S i ness and confirmed his story of what | happened to her. i | Graham was taken into custody at White Cross Hospital when police |found Miss Francis had received ]socnnd degree burns on her legs— | | burns they later decided came from | Pleas of not guilty were entered late yesterday in U. S. District Court here by six former crew iradiators in her hotel room during | |a fainting spell. members of the M. S. Coastal Ram- | bler who are charged with receiving | ‘ i s {FORMER JUNEAU MAN WITH NEW (OMPANY | /goods stolen from interstate com- | merce. ler Juneau resident, is now in Al-| Everett Nowell, well-known form- The men are charged of stealing jaska in connection with his duties! woolen jackets from a shipment as General Freight Agent for the | destined to Kodiak on their vessel. |Alaska Freight Express Corporation. ! Time will be set for their trial at a!| Nowell has been in Seward, An- later date. |chorage, Palmer and Wasilla on Judge George W. Folta also set Lusiness for the new tug-and-barge 2 p. m., Monday, as the time Iur;mnggm and will be in Fairbanks Robert Shannon, of Sitka, {0 enter pext week. " i a plea on charge of embezzling union | Born in Juneau where he attend- funds. led grade school, he attended Lin- o R R coln and Roosevelt High Schools; {In Seattle where he was a star| i ;nthlele. After attending the Univer- i |sity of Washington for two years, he ‘A l R l I N E SA l E 'S |attended the University of Wiscon- | 'APPROVED BY (CAB | WASHINGTON, Jan. 24,—(P— | The Civil Aeronautics Board yes- |sin from which he was graduatedq {in transportation and business with| |the class of 1928. | | For seven years, he was employed | |by the Continental-Tllinois Bank | fand Trust Company at Chicago and | |Houston, Texas, returning to Ju-| MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ! WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. (#—The | : |House Commerce Conynittee came Eisenhower's Exit as POS- | ftusy aluskes transpostation needs.| bl c d.d t S' t | The Committee will present its| sioie anaiaa e arts | recommendations to the House Mon-' Resolution adopted two years ago and renewed last year, directing the WASHINGTON, Jan 24 ~—(P—| Commitice to investigate the trans-| Gen. Eisenhower’s abrupt exit from portation situation in the Territo the field of Republican Presidentiall Tac Committee’'s recommenda-| jout today in favor of establishment | of transportation authority to| e (day. [ day New Political Talk Tts report is the result of a House (BY JACK BELL) hopetuls started new talk of Sen- tions include i ator Vandenberg (R-Mich) as a po-! Construction of airports at An- y. .chorage and Fairbanks and expan- Senator Sparkman (D-Ala) told sion of civil air navigation aif a reporter !improvements of the Territory’s “It looks like Eissnhower's with-|highway system, assurance of ade- drawal clears the way for Taft and'quate Dewey to run a dead heat and for!water communication with the Uni- some third man to capture the Re-'ed States and within the Territory, publican nomination. My guess is rehabilitation of the Alaska Rail- that the third man will be Vanden- road and construction of a pipline berg, if he will take it.” |or rehabilitation of existing piplines The Michigan Senator has gone!to carry petroleum products from a long way toward removing himself the coast to the interior. from consideration, He has said that| It said steamship service to the he is convinced no man ever is Territory is “far from satisfactory drafted for the nomination wnhout‘nddmg labor troubles had tied up his connivance and that he won't'such service in 1946 and 1047. connive “The rate level (steamship) is Vandenberg has observed however held to have stultified any prospect that no man could decline the nomi- | entirely on water transportation,” nation if it actually were thrust the Committee said upon him. It found that Government De- De:lines Comment ':pm‘lmt’nu and agencies “are com- The Senator smilingly declined|peting among themselves” on Al- comment today on the statement by|askan transportation 1L Eisenhower that “I could not accept knowingly, partially wilfully. the nomination even under the re-| PRI 08 a0 mote circumstances that it were| s 40 PASSENGERS ARE Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio,! former Gov. Harold E. Stassen nffllowu HERE BY pAA. Minnesota and Gov. Thomas E.| y Dewey of New York, announced candidates, were similarly silent. 18 ARE Flow“ ouI The General's action seemed to leave a ‘“draft Eisenhower” move- N ment high and dry, but some die-| Pan American Airways made hard backers refused to give up. | regular flights yesterday, bringing Leonard V. Finder, New Hmp_‘,se passengers from Seattle, seven ghire.publisher, declared in a radio from Fairbanks, and one from address last night the nation ca still draft the General. It was Finder to whom Eisenhower | addressed the letter yesterday tell- ing the voters to count him out. Name On Oregon Ballot Supporters in Oregon are going “right ahead” with plans to put his Nelson, name on their State’s Repub]icaniersml- Primary Ballot, they said. | It "Thisy is a ‘draft Eisenhower' tha Gadigan, William Little, Ken movement and I still think he can|Laughlin, George Gombert. be drafted,” declared Peter Alford,| John Kennedy, Sgt. Frances Cac- Public Relations Representative of canise, Richard Cross, Warren Wil- kins, Wayne Doney, Fred Kraun. tential dark horse nominee today. and uninterrupted coastal ' passage for Seattle from Juneau. Arrivals from Seattle were: Gor- don Kanouse, Paul Blankman, Tom | White, Jack Tessire, Delores Tes- | sire, Kenneth Spencer, Hoke Ownes. ! P. Ganty, Marylin Pelroy, Nel Timothy O'Day, Torey Pet- PARTY SPLIT, DEMOCRATIC Lifted CONVENTION Wage Increase Is Given to| Territorial hTeel at Kefchi- 40,800 Lumber Work- ; kan Is Hot One - Re- ers in Two States : sults of Election SEATTLE, Jan. 24—®—Signing: KETCHIKAN, Alaski of a wage pact granting a 7 1-2 cents| (Special to Empire)— an hour increase to 40,800 Washing- ton and Oregon Lumcer and Saw- mill Workers lifted the threat today of the Pacific Northwest's first ma- jor strike of the year. The agreement was reached here I yesterday by Representatives of the Strike Threat Jan. 24— enty per- cent of the delegates to the Terri- torial Democratic Convention walk- ed out Thursday night in a Party split in protest to a resolution in- troduced supporting the Governor for re-appointment as the conven- tion broke up in a fight in spite | Whitehorse. Eighteen persons tnok' :’P\lge! Sound, Coast Columbia, Will- {mette Valley and Vancouver, Wash., ;Cbun{‘llfl of the AFL Lumber and | Sawmill workers Union, the Ply- wood Industry and the Lumberman's :lndlhuix\l Relations Committee, Inc., (an operators’ group | It raises the base rate in the in- {dustry from $1.32 1-2 to $140 an t hour, retroactive to Jan. 1, 1948. The Union originally had demanded a 130-cents an hour boost | Although the proposal will not go tinto effect until it has been rati- jfied by individual union members iand operators, their acceptance is regarded as a formality. A strike next Monday by the 18,- 000 Western Washington workers in! “partially un- ;ne puget Sound Council had been| | threatened unless a “satisfactory”; wage increase was granted. - LEGION AUX. TO MEET { MONDAY T0 ARRANGE committee of the American! Legion Auxiliary, which was ap- inted to meet with the Sports- men's Club, met last night in the home of Sliba Zenger. it was decided that the Auxiliary would sponsor a fish pond at the Golden North Frolic ! All members are asked to see if they have any white elephants at home, and to take them to the home {of Mrs. Zenger on Monday evening i for packaging. There will be work | ] f e ‘named Mike | FROLIC CONCESSION . 5nr strong pleas by Senators Nore man Walker and Joe Green that | the resolution be withdrawn in | favor of one of party -solidarity. This is the first time such pro- | cedure has occurred in a Demo- cratic convention in Alaska and ) Alaska Republicans hailed the move 1as bettering their chances in the forthcoming election, Howard Lyng of Nome was re- elected National Committeeman. Vic Rivers of Anchorage was inamed Chairman of the Central Committee. The Pirst Division delegates Monagle and Mary Walmer of Juneau as their choice for delegates to the National Con- vention and cast all 20 votes f¢ them but the other three divisions refused to follow First Division wishes and elected Delegate E. L. ® | i Bartlett and Oscar Olson as dele- gates. INSTRUCT FOR TRUMAN KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 24.— (F—Alaska’s Democratic Territorial Convention became the first in the :United States or its Territories to jinstruct National Convention Dele- ‘gates to support President Truman 'Ior the 1948 nomination, | Ttinstructed the six delegates to ,support Sen, Joseph C. O'Mahoney Iof Wyoming for the Vice Presidency. The endorsement of the Western Senator as a running mate came af- ter several speakers cited what they said was his liberal record as a leg- Tom Hoberty, Doris Ground, Mar- ’ terday approved the transfer of the ineay in 1933, With headquarters in | operating certificate of Petersburg| juneau he covered the Territory | Air Service, Petersburg, Alaska, t0as a broker for several busines: | Alaska Island Airlines, Inc., of firmg | | Ketchikan, Alaska. | Nowell went to Seattle in 1042 as| Actually, Alaska Island has been | purchasing agent for the Alaska | cperating the Petersburg Service preight Lines, joining the DeLong! {for sometime, due to a disability Engineering and Construction Com- | sufiered by the Petersburg opera- pany in the same capacity in 1945. | tor while in Navy service, |Last September, he joined Alaska The transfer involving a Freight Express as Generaal Freight | consideration of $36,000 covers Agent. | Petersburgs’ operating rights be-| Mr. and ‘Mrs. Nowell and | tween Petersburg and Ketchikan by three children reside at 7356 ?uay of Wrangell, between Peters- N.E, in Seattle. | burg and Juneau, and certain other | routes. | Tony Sehwamm owned the | Petersburg service and sold to the iA]uska Island Airline, Inc., when he went south for medical atten- | tron. | cash their 18th { i | TIDE TABLE JANUARY 25 High tide, 1:25 am,, 155 Low tide, 7:02 am., 3.3 High tide, 13:02 p.m., 19.0 Low tide, 19:45 p.m., -3.5 i i ——————— KEARNEYS JR. LEAVING | | Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Kearney, Jr., | !son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Kearney |of Juneau will return to Seattle | today. Kearney Jr. has been to JANUARY 26 High tide, 2:10 am., 16.6 Low tide, 2 aum,, the grou Eisgenh:wor's consent is not neces-| Billy Regan,, Andrew Peterson, sary to place him on the Oregon James Camp, Thelma Camp, John ballot.” Fournie, Norma Fournie and infant ! Leslie Ann, Margaret Keating, Den- ny Keating. eson, Billy Fredson, Susan Mer- Iritt, Roland Gilmer, Mrs. Roland | Gilmer. | Whitehorse to Juneau: Nathaniel FILES FOR DEMO REPRESENTATIVE wovie e s wich, Betty Rice, Gladys Burrows, Marcus F. Jensen, Douglas grocer Mardiros Noradian, Donald Milnes, and former Douglas Mayor, filed in Franklin Rutledge. the Clerk of the Court's office today Ruth Sterling, for election to the Territorial House Richard Jones, Mrs. Norval Cavett, of Representatives on the Demo- George Lafay. cratic ticket. Ira Thomas, Wallace Dalton, Dr. This is Jensen's first venture into H. C. Rufus, Flossie Foran, Henry Territorial politics ‘although he was Tallman, Ruby Hynes, Ruth Allison. twice elected to his city's highest formerly of Nome, is a former mem- | the Westward on a business trip for the Alaska Freight and Ex- press Co. of Seattle. Mrs. Kear- ney has been visiting with her sister, Mrs. James Doolin and her High tide, 13:52 p.m., 19.6 Low tide, 20:20 p.m., -4.1 o0 000000 0 0 —_—————— office. He is currently Foreman of g the Federal Grand Jury | Jensen came to Alaska in 1929 ', SAYS OCCURRED', ber of the House and Clerk of the| pIA“o pRoDIGY. l‘ SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 24—®— | with the U. S. Bureau of Putlic Roads. His uncle, Tom Jensen, | Juvenile authorities will determine { what, if anything, to do with 15~ Last Survivor of islator and his recognition as a !lor everyone who attends friend of Alaskan and Western de- It has been announced that the: {radio broadcast which was to be, Velopment. glven last night ty Anita Garnick! Delegates recalled that the Terri- !has been postponed until Mondaytorial Party was the first to endorse |evening at 6:16 o'clock, as the studio! Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, and facilities are not available during;Alaska’s Governor, who was the repairs, Her topic next Monday will center of the Convention's hottest | Fairbanks to Juneau: Walter MAR(US JE“SE" ! Lane, Edward Caouette, Susan I—lel-l be “Universal Military Training.” | - — ¢ RD PARTY IS SUCCESSFUL AFFAIR| AWVS card party held last even-| ing at the Governor's House was attended by approximately 125 per-; sons. Mrs. Cary Tubbs won the cut! prize for Pinochle, Rhea MacFar-| lane the cut prize for the pflvnl(‘i | TAWVS | | table of tridge, Mrs. B. Riley won high score prize for progressive; jbridge and Lieut. Arthur Fontaine| in progressive bridge. Priscilla Park-| ier won the door prize, Refreshments of punch and cook-; iles were served during the evening. | {FOURNIES BACK FROM i H !; Mr. and Mrs. John Fournie and |infant Leslie Ann returned yester- !day from a Christmas vacation trip {to California and Seattle. ‘The Fournies visited with her par- \ 4 VACATION TO STATES: controversy, told the Convention: "As Alaska goes, so goes the Nation.” The only other name mentioned prominently for Vice Presidential i support was Senator Murray of Mon- tana, but his name was not includ- ed in the formal Convention dis- cussions. Fish Trap Regulations Mrs, Essie Dale of Fairbanks won over a fellow townswoman, Alaska Linck, for National Committeswo- man after Amelia Gunderson of Ketchikan withdrew. Lyng nosed out Warren Taylor Eugene Hawkins, ‘, won high score prize for the mcniol Fairbanks and Curtis Shattuck of Juneau for National Committeman. The Convention asked Congress to hold fish trap legislation hear- ings in Alaska; that the Legisla- ture give the Alaska Development Board adequate funds to continue its work; make hobby work available in the Veterans' Home at Sitka and lLuild a new Pioneers’ Home along the Alaska Rail Belt. It also asked extension of the So- clal Security Program. Delegates Named | i | Territorial officials and others named as delegates to the National nvention included: First Division-—-Congressional Del- ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Burford, in Porterville, California, and spent| a week In Seattle. They have been!C? 17. Fournie (Jackie) Hor- 1gone since December iegate E, L. Bartlett and Treasurer ASHINGTON— Bluff, genial Secretary of the Army Royall has a unique way of combining charm with an ability to put Cab- inet colleagues on the hot spot. His retention of Ed Pauley as Special Assistant to the Army has son eight days ago. | husband’s parents, while her hus- |base camp yesterday, with their v TO PIUNEERS' HOME |food, guns, traps, Gay's billfold and | |a small skiff still there. They were ithe Louise, although they seurchedi ping at the Gastineau Hotel en- | A Coast Guard party found their|Pand was on his business trip. Edward Couette and Walter H.| |unable to locate Gay's trolling boat,| Lane, both of Fairbanks, are stop-: 'E. 5. HAWKINS MAKES BRIEF BUSINESS TRIP T0 SEATILE FOR JSC | Eugene Hawkins, Manager and | year-old Jacqueline Alex Barano' Dies ner and the young sailor who be- friended the runaway Hollywood | piano prodigy during her eight- day 1ling S Prancisco night (P—N. E. Angell, who claimed to be ;¢ i B ¥ the last surviving member of the! Superiof Judge 1. L. Harris re- BREMERTON, Wash., Jan. 24— nearby Mud Bay. caused Harry Truman more trouble | Woods, a taxi owner and Gay, had than any other recent political kombshell. Perhaps more funda- mental, though little noticed, has been the hole into which Royall DRSO iy R ](),lucedlhis friend, the Attomney | Sl:fvl;z)e:"r‘(;r ‘;(l):el;i zlg;gnz]ho Feneral. ) He has given Attorney General | drowned January 15 near Point Tom Clark the alternative of either | Gardner, will be held Monday, presecuting Royall or violating his‘Jflnufll’_y 26 at 8:15 a. m. in the cath of office by failure to prose- | Catholic Church of the Nativity. cute. | Requiem Mass will be said by the The law in question is Section Rev. Robert Whelan S. J. and in- 201, Title 18 of the U. S. cwe‘termem will be in Evergreen which declares it to be a criminal | Cemetery. offense to use federal funds to| Belotto was employed by the Ju- influence legislation before Con-|n€au Spruce Corporation at the gress. The law is clear and cate- |time of the accident. He was well- gerie. It provides no excepuons“kl\own_ in Ju{xeau, hnvm; §een a or alibis. élong time resident of this city. Yet Royall has brazenly flouced‘ AR, 7 S the law in using more than $50,000 OREGON VISITORS of federal funds to pmpagandiu‘ Mr. and Mrs. James Camp of Eugene, Oregoen, are staying at the (Continued on Page Four) Baranof. |ter the season closed. Leen expected home a few days af-| route to the Pioneers’ Home at! Sitka, | Vice-President of the Juneau Spruce B0 | Corporation, left for Seattle on Pan HERE FROM SEATTLE | American yesterday. He will be gone W. A. Downit and P, W. Blank_fabcut a week to secure equipment man of Seattle are registered at|™F the company’s increased pro- {ihe ‘Basunnr { duction of lumber for new markets. | Hawkins hopes to procure two | . tugs for hauling lumber through | HERE FROM SEATTLE ; ! | Mr. and Mrs, R. L. Valentine uuz’lf's‘"ce Rupert to Outside purchas- | Seattle are registered at the Hotel Juneau. {VFW AWARD DRIV e .———— AKRON, O, Jan. 24.—#— The Gocdyear Tire and Rubber Co.| IS OVER MONDAY reported today that it was produc-| i T ing 200 specially constructed mat-| wempers of Taku Post, Veterans tresses to be used in Fhe Armys sU'- | o¢ poreign Wars, - were reminded | vival test operation in Alaska this|i,qay that VFW Alaska Department | winter. ! 3 'award campaign ends Monday. All Similar to air mattresses in s0me ypw members are urged to turn respects, they will be made of spec-|their entries in by 6 p. m. Monday. ial rubber compounds that remain|The award will be made next Friday. resilient at below zero tempera-| Entries may be turned in to Neil tures, the company said. Taylor at the Family Shoe Store. family of the first Governor of Rus-| 4 | fused yesterday to hold the sea- sian America, Alexander Baranor.Jm:n .w-yem'-)uld) wallace Wells died yesterday. The 77-year-old pio- : 4 A Bk Whs & pranddsughter of the| Of Ji00d River, Oregon, fn ERARSS VINSIan otficlal. of a minor Instead, Mrs. Angell was born on Kodiak % Sainn. Alaske, but hsd liyed iniTcd Poth Bletesse and thabiab the | vivacious starlet to juvenile court. Bremerton for the last 40 years | ! AR N | Jackie spoke up at the hearing SIHMER MOVEME"TS Navy tanker Cimarron. He was “gentlemanly and nice” at all —_— ! times during their five days to- Alaska, from Seattle, in port|gether, she said. Police found the |and scheduled to sail for Sitka, two in a hotel room last Wednes- Skagway and Haines at 11 o'clock | day morning. Jackie reiterated in tonight from Alaska Steamship|court that “nothing wrong” had Dock. occurred. “He never touched me,” Princess Norah, from Vancouver, |she toid Judge Harris, {due Monday afternoon or evening.| Whether the young pianist will Aleutian, from Seattle, due on become a ward of the juvenile ‘Tuesday. | court will be determined next week. Denali, from west, scheduled e e - southbound January 29. | HERE FROM SITKA Jumper Hitch scheduled to sail| Lymen Ellenorth of Sitka irom Seattle February 3 |staying at the Baranof Hotel. |of contributing to the delinquency | he refer-; {in defense of the sailor off the is aminations tis | employed with Pan American JRov | Oscar Olson; Second Division—How- ® o o o v o w9 @ o & ¢ ard Lyng and Judge Joseph Kehoe; WEATHER REPORT ¢ !Third Division—Harold Butcher and (U, 8. WEATHER BUREAU o |E. G. Bailey; Fourth Division—War- (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ [ren Taylor and Gradelle Leigh. In Juneau— Maximum, 40; e| A new Office of Finance Chair- minimum, 33. e iman was created and Z. J. Loussac At Airport— e 'of Anchorage was elected to the minimum, 32 o |post. WEATHER FORECAST e | The Convention denounced Con- (Juneau and Vieinity) e Bress and the Interior Department Partly cloudy this after- e ‘for what it said were efforts to take noon followed by increasing e action on 15-year leases for fish cloudiness tonight and Sun- e traps beforg the voters of Alaska day. Snow or rain Sunday e !can express their opinion on propos- afterncon. o | €d abolition of the traps at a refer- o 1€ndum next October. . Shipping Issue o) The Convention, however, approv- o ed a proposed amendment to the o |Jones Act to permit Canadian car- o riers to serve Alaska cargo needs o |8nd a change in the ship passenger o aCt so the Canadian vessels could | provide passenger and car ferry ser- Ivice between Alaskan ports. Congress was asked to speed set- tlement of atoriginal claims to ex- pedite the development of Alaska. It |was recommended, however, that Maximum, 38; . . . . . . . . . . |e le . . . ° . . . . . . . . | In Juneau— since Jan. 1, since July 1, At Airport— since Jan. 1 since July * o 71.82 inches. 08 inches; 653 inches; 42.84 inches, « o o o D Mike Tierney, of Skagway, is a' i Juneau visitor this weekend. He lcnme here to take the final ex- in the Pepsi Cola contest. I i | | (Continued on Page Four)