The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 3, 1948, Page 1

’HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,801 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 2 VET BUSH PILOTS "OP-E—E;TION DIAPER' OF ALASKA ARETO IS NOW UNDERWAY, | BE GIVEN AWARDS ALASKA AND ORIENT ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 3.— SEATTLE, Feb. 3.—{P—Airlines House Speaker Must Look Out; It's Leap Year BOSTON, Feb. 3.—M—If House | Speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., (R-| Mass) wishes to preserve his bach- 'ROTARY CLUBSEES | NEW ATTACK PICTURE ONSILVER pLaiNG AT Meer ON JEWS IS The Rotary Club members were (P—Two veteran Alaska bush pilots will receive air medals for their daring rescue in sub-zero weather of six airmen whose B-29 crashed 95 miles north of Nome, Dec. 23. An Air Force announcement yes- terday said the decorations will be awarded to W. S. Munz and Frank Whaley at ceremonies tentatively purchasing agents in Seattle plunged bravely into “opeation diaper” as they prepared for heavy flights of Army dependents—women, children and babies—to Japan and Alaske. Northwest Airlines will take off to- day from the Seattle-Tacoma Air- port with the first of an estimated 2,000 dependents who will te trans- during the next elorhood this pertlous leap year, he would do well to examine the fences guarding his single bliss, ‘The non-partisan Massachusetts Women's Political Club, claiming 50,000 members, who would not ob- oming the nation's First , today offered Martin its collective hand in matrimony, according to the Boston Traveler. |entertained at their luncheon today with the film on silver plating| through the centuries. This film is very instructive, educational and in- teresting and was loaned by Dr. Rob- | ert Simpson and shown by Eckley Guerin 1 | The business meeting was short, because of the length of the film and only one letter was read to the! INDICATED lTruckloads of Arabs Re“ WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 ported Rolling Info Damascus for Action DAMASCUS, Syria, Feb. 3—®— Krug Warns Nation on Natural Resources; Has Special Mention, Alaska —{M— | phosphate-bearing strata of the Krug | western states represents the great- jwarned tonight that the nation|est known reserve in the world. must do a better job of house- This metal, vital in atomic energy keeping with its natural resources | also can be recovered as a by- it will find the cupboard ' product in the phosphorus. Intensive explorations 15!‘(’!‘(‘(31\' of the Interior lor else bare. | manufacture of ; INDIANS MAY "JUMP" FISH TRAPS, CLAIM 'Frances Lopinsky Allowed fo Present Arguments on License Bill WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—P—Al- scheduled at Nome next Thursda_v_‘uflrh'd to Japan effect that the Rotary Club of Ju- Truckloads of armed Arabs rolling| National askan Indians may “jump” fish traps if the bill to license traps in Terri- ALASKA—On threshold of devel- |torial waters for 15 years becomes oping several large pulp and paper 1aW. a tribal attorney told a Con- plants. Needs a great number of |Bressional Committee today. a network ! This may be called trap jumping three months. The Club announced that if Mar-| demands, he { security On Wednesday Alaska Airlines will tin gave “the slightest, tiniest hint and research in many minerals is necessary Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, commanding General of all Armed | Forces in Alaska, is expected to make the presentations. | Munz and Whaley flew their neau has been recognized for their into Damascus led many observers said in his annual report, that we begin similar flights to Alaska andiof an S this organization will|contribution to the International Ro-|to believe today that a general at-| reclaim more soil, find more petrol- continue them through March. irush to him sheaves of applications| t&ry Foundation of Paul _Hfl""‘flCk on Palestine Jews may be ap-| eum, save more coal and in gen- A heavy {which consists of the rehabilitation proaching | eral make better use of the things backlog of dependents of the flowers of Bay Statz Woman- | awaiting transportation to the Or-hood |of Rotary Cluks all over war torn| Some believe such an attack has!we have, small, ski-equipped planes to the site of the crash and brought out the six survivors Dec. 29. Heavy ground fogs, temperatures of 30 kelow and strong winds made their flights exceptionally hazardous Two other crewmen of the wrecked “Clobbered Turkey” per-’ ished in an attempt to reach an ient and Alaska caused the Army| “We would be willing, especially in| to switch from surface to air travel. these days of dire housing shortage, The backlog was created, Army of-| to move into the White House with! ticials said, when several transports|or without the much discussed porch | wer2 laid up for repairs and conver- and thus insure to the favorite son sion. | of Massachusetts the opportunity to It's the number of babies WhO pecome jis occupant as President of must be cared for that has furrowed|the United States. | the brows of airlines officials, Europe and the Far East, also the|been set for Feb. 15. exchange of students of the Rotary Clubs. Arab forces, told newsmen that “The All Rotary ny:mbers who pos-fMid<lln~ East’s finest army is moving sibly can are asked to participate|in.” in the breakfast that will be held| He said he expects to move his for the Skagway Basketball teamlhcadq\mrwn to Palestine “soon, which arrives late this evening for!and that he will assume personal di- a three day tournament with the lo-}rection of operations. Fawzi Bey Al Kaukji, leader of the { We must look ahead, Krug de- clared, to a day when we will have |a population of 155,000,000 to sup- | port—perhaps by 1960—and 165,- | 000,000 mouths to feed in 1990, | Highlights of the report: FUELS—"One of the greatest |needs of the nation today is the ! discovery of new oil fields.” Syn- small and large lodges; of hotels and camps wouid lead to a tourist business “with an income running into the millions.” Al- aska’s wealth in critical and strate- gic minerals “will be unknown so long as exploration is conducted on the present miserly pattern. An okject lesson exists in a compari- son of the magnitude between the Eskimo village 50 miles away. Three | paratroopers also died in a leap to aid the marooned fliers Citations which the medals praise both Munz and Whaley for “exceptional daring and pilotage ability” which reilect credit ‘in keeping with the high- est traditions of civil aviation in the Territory of Alaska.” | Said V. R. Ostrander of Amskn‘ | Airlines: “Have yau ever tried to buy dia-| CECIL CASLER TELLS cal high school. A report was given by Rand on:thm-mmm_\' for an ail-out fight,” he ly the Rotary booth at the Frolic held! will accompany | pers for an unknown quantity of in- |fants? Have you ever tried to de- {vise, in one day, a method of heat- |ing bottles in the air? Of mixing. ies' formulas? | “It's got me running in circles. i TR A Y | OF MART WEEK AND ) 1 . from Buyers’ Week in Seattle and FUTURE ACTIVITIES Cecil Casler returned last Friday last week and Dr. C. Earl Albrecht| offered his excuse why he was un- able to attend the booth the second night, which was a high light ofl the meeting. | The Club voted to have as their “We are organizing slowly and said. “When we strike it will be with confidence of complete victory.” SOUTHERN-DEMOS MAY NOW CALL | thetic fuels may contribute great- to oil securit; MINERALS-—Vanadium found in geological programs of the United States and those, reported in Con- gress, of the Soviet Union.” i Miss Lopinsky to come in later with | by those who don't like it," said Miss Frances Lopinsky, Counsel for the ! Southeast Alaska Indians, “but whe |is doing the jumping? The Indians were there first.” Her arguments against the bill | were set forth in a brief filed with the joint Senate-House sutcommit- | tee which 1s considering the legisla- tion. The committee concluded its hearng last Friday but permitted her brief She said big salmon canners had been buying and selling traps for years for $10,000 to $100,000 or leas- Annual Report of Governor ing them for as much as $3500 a year “What the operators are buying COAL STRIKE ‘GIVEN NEW VERSION THREATMADE o= »-. SEATTLE, Feb. 3.—(®—A rum-{ pus raised by Kodiak, Alaska, busi- | KODIAK RAMPUS - reports a most successful trip. He Buests at the next meeting at the states he met merchants {rom every| Baranof Tuesday, February 10, the| ajor town in Alaska, several from Cub Scout Troop sponsored by the, remote points all in Seattle for the Rotarians and the Den Fathers and} purpose of obtaining merchandise Mothers of each troop member. for the seasonal trade. Casler al-| It was announced that the Rotary 50 stated that the quality and sel-|Club will hold a St. Valentine's dance ections were much better than they, on Fecruary 14 at the Country Club have been in several years and the and all members are invited Guests at today's meeting were, DIXIE CONVENTION WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—@— Southern Democrats talked blunt- !ly tcday of calling a Dixie con- fvention to split away from Presi- { dent Truman on the civil rights is- ,and selling,” she said, “is the promise fof the last user of the site not to attempt tosuse it during the term Is Submi_fled fo qu. Kru NO - CEILING o e ! B i WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. P—The on)y because all of the big operators Governor of Alaska has recommend-!have combined to make life miser- ed to Secretary of the Interior Krug'gple for any newcomer who tries to establishment of “several economi-)preak fnto the industry.” cally sound trade routes” to serve: gne said the industry ought to be :price trend is up in general. {nessmen and civic officials over “ ¢ The primary purpose of this trip | competition offered by government- | W. H. Johnson of the RFC, Roy Av-, eret of the Columbia Lumber Co.; sue. One deep south Senator who ask- the Territory. He said he believed such a pro- RENTBOOSTS happy with such an arrangement but there was the danger it might be operated stores brought a sharp re- | BY J. L.LEWIS tort here yesterday. Glenn A. Diehl, district mechani- i i was to make plans for an all-Al- askan buying week for the future and it was so successful this year that the assurance of a bigger and branch office in Sitka, and Kenneth| €d 1ot to be quoted by name told gram would help the citizens of Al-'interpreted as illegal or some other Axelson who recently joined the staffi@ reporter present plans are to| of the head offices of the Columbia} ask the conference of southern aska now affected by “current exces- | sive maritime freight rates of Seat- person might get a trap site first. “As a matter of fact,” her brief 4 cal engineer for the Navy Ordnance WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—W—|p .., "¢ Kodiak, denied that the The fuel-conscious nation faced a : 5 | Navy commissary and theatre cut sible { I L. Lewis y possitle threat from John | T A . | heavily today of a nation-wide soft coal;m\ss ey { Kodiak and the Navy “town” are strike by spring. v feels Lewls told the industry he feelS| . .\ "/ uoe anart. and connected lenly by a rough dirt road that is free to “take an independent ac-| tion necessary” to start benefit, payments to miners out of then‘wear untapped $50,000,000 welfare fund.| A Lewis’ cryptic note yesterday! puzzled the mine operators. Some said they fear it may mean an April 1 strike by the 400,000 members of the United Mine Work- |, pitifully small number of peo- ers Union Lewis heads. |ple and I have the feeling that' The present bituminous contract | the merchants of Kodiak are grab- runs through next June, but can|,, = "o, { be : opened by either party at "oy pusiness leaders recently| 'Ilo DIR ( WiL objected strenuously to OpemnEiAFl polll'(Al lEAG } i A {of the Navy commissary to con- SIEAMER MovEMt“Is | struction workers. The complaint | ;was carried in person by the Ko-; MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 3.—{»—AFL diak mayor to Washington, D. C.|President William Green today an- Baranot, f“";‘ Sf;‘“)‘(ev z::;‘:»“’l The Navy replied that its action {nounced the selection of Burton K. to arrive at 1 o'clocl 5 to keep workers| Whaeler, former Democratic Sen-| 2 ! | was necessary morning, west bound. | there. |ator from Montana, as Director of Square Sinnet scheduled to sail {AFL's new political league in the from Seattle, Feb. 4. | coming elections. Clove Hitch, ATC, scheduled to The post will pay $10,000, Green sail from Seattle Feb. 6. § I said. Wheeler will appear before the Princess Norah scheduled to sail 30-member Administrative Commit- from V_ancouver,_ Feb. 6. tee of the newly-formed league here Aleutian scheduled to sail from ! temorrow. The Committee still must Seattle, Feb. 7. | approve the selection of the Execu- - Waste May Be Used, E _ | Scientific Purpose , LR : Members of the Beta Sigma Phi] WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.——| The AFL head said the wartime will meet tonight at 7:30 o'clock | Alaska salmon waste, now a throw-'isolationist views of ex-Senator, tbetter Mart Week for 1949 is already 1 planned { busi- | _Casler also rauaiked toat record- jings of the interviews were made | presumably for future broadcasts in “ Alaska. Dewey Metzdorf, Vice-President . Jof the New Washington Hotel in rdous to travel most of thelg.aiye gnd also Vice-President of Dienl said. The Navy storei), western Hotels Inc., is formerly has only meager supplies and l.he,‘Of Anchorage, and he said that any theatre is a cheap wond b“‘ld‘“giAlmskun would have priority in re- in which old pictures are .shuwn,:s“.‘.auqns at any of their hotels. he explained. : iT"“ was of great service to Alaskan “The whole controvery involves SRR S Throwaway Salmon |four ways. The total number of bea: buyers at the Mart Week in Seattle., | e erly winds. Lumber Company in Juneau. {Gowmqrs to call an All-Southern ' This report will be of interest tof ¢onvention | those attending the Golden North, The Southerners are boiling mad| Frolic and made guesses on the jar, Over four of these points. They call | of beans. There were four winners|for (1) and the prize money will be split|ia nspsuyiient practice corunission, 1 in the jar was 8511 and the four|An end to Jim Crow rules in trans-| winners guessed the same number! portation and (4) Outlawing state of 8500. Those winning are, H. M.'poll taxes. i Porter, LaVerne Kendall, E. A. Ko-| At Jackson, Walter Sillers, the‘ lass and W. B. Rice. The money will; Speaker of the Mississippi House be gent to those winning. {of Representatives flatly urged a - > - i convention call to name a so'ih- jern Presidential candidate. & e o a2 o s o o WEATHER REPORT . (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:20 a.m. today e In Juneau—Maximum, 37; © minimum, 28. ® At Airport— Maximum, 36; e maximum, 24. . WEATHER FORECAST . (Juneau and Vielnity) e Clear tonight and Wednes- e day with lowest temperature e in Juneau near 22 degrees. e Gusty northeasterly to east- DEMA&LC TTTOWDOWN WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—(P— | Rep. Abernathy (D-Miss) asked to- day that southern Governors march | on Washington for and demand al | i | | i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L | . . . . A (ers on the race issue. } He made the proposal in a tele- | jsram to Governor Fielding Wright 1 of Mississippi. Dixie Democrats !were fighting mad over President | | Truman’s call for laws . PRECIPITATION o (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. tiday e | WP Williams (D-Miss) accused the President of ‘“stabbing” his { southern friends in the back. | | Some southerners talked of call- | {ing a Dixie convention to split| jaway from the President on the| civil rights issue ‘ IS PROPOSED WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—#—A A iederal anti-lynching Proposal to permit “voluntary"” sky's- | law, (2) A permanent fair em- | the-limit rent increases popped up in Congress taday. A decision was near meanwhile on another cost of living issue--meat rationing. The suggestion for no-ceiling rent Loosts—in exchange for long term leases, was outlined by Senator Cain (R-Wash). Cain is Chairman of a Senate banking subcommittee study- ing legislation to extend rent con- trols beyond February 29. The Washington Senator told rent Administrator Tighe Woods some Committee members consider such a plan as the best way ® speed the! end of rent controls. Under the plan, tenants could re- howdown” with Democratic lead- | fuse to agree to an increase but could | not demand lease protection beyond the expiration of controls. DISCUSS MEAT RATIONING WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—(P—A against Senate Banking Subcommittee to- | the overhauling of law enforcement {lynching and racial dlscrlmmatlnn.(day voted against authorizing the | machinery. During an outburst on the floor, | government to get ready for meat! rationing. Chairman Flanders (R-Vt) told reporters the vote was three to two against his bill to let the Agri- cuiture Department set up ration- ing machinery, He sald he and Senator Spark- man (D-Ala) voted for the mea- sure. Against it were Senators tle ship operators.” ! continued, “several Indian groups I “Alaska’s transportation should represent are planning to set out not be tied down exclusively to ANY, their own traps this coming season, one American port,” the GOVernor jf this Congress does not prohibt said in his annual report. “Several|(hem from setting out traps and economically sound trade m““"'eammz their own living." shou)d.be fostered.” . | She-contended the Bill would grant Competition, he said, should g0 Taf saimon packers vested rights in the to establish equitable rates and per-iyrap sites and bar neweomers from mit the stabilization of living cosu.!me best fishing. He recommended that Territorial{ regulations be changed to permit outright purchase instead of home- steading of lands and the leasing of | ands in National Forest areas. [ He urged a program by the Public! Health Service to combat tubercu- losis in the Territory and asked that| adequate hospital facilities te es-! tablished. He called attention to the lack of housing; urged revision of the school ! system and the building up of the! University of Alaska. ! Afrport improvements are needed, | by race Ihe said, as well as a comprehensive] NEW YORK, Feb, 3.—(P—Counsel | road system by putting the Territory|for Gerhard Eisler planned Habeas !under the Federal Highway Act and Corpus proceedings today in a move ito effect release from Ellis Island of the accused “No. 1 Communist” of ! this country. The 50-year-old Eisler, a native of Germany, was arrested yesterday on a deportation warrant and held | without bail. | Justice @epartment officials said !Lhe warrant under which Eisler was ipicked up does not permit bond. But | Mrs. Carol King, his New York law- yer, said she would begin Habeas e NUMBERON COMMUNIST IS ARRESTED - - \GOP TAX CUTTING ' BILL PUT ON ICE | FOR SENATE VOTE at the Baranof. |away problem, may be a practical , - >, !source for production of sex hor-| - | mones, insulin and other useful; The Washingto n E medicinal compounds. 1 Merry - Go - Roun { A Commerce Department re-| By DREW PEARSON | search report says the Territory | has about 100,000,000 pounds each |year of such waste—heads, tails, | fins and viscera—which is hauled out to sea and dumped at consid- (Copyright, 1948, By The Bell Syndicate, | erable expense. Inc.) | The report is the first on al i study sponsored jointly by the o haw, ASHIN_GTON Bernard Sha | Commerce Department and the famed 91-year-old Irish wit and| e x : S 4 i |Alaska Fisheries Experimental Com- playwright, has written an interest- | ek s ing letter endorsing Henry Wal- mission at Ketchikan to develop | means of turning the waste to lace. | useful 3 | purposes. H"S"IV:"”' v;r Swzlel“fifo“jd"“‘r;gc‘a‘ The principle difficulty is mak- €0, Ehan says, n |ing production of items from the Republican “because a Republican = 3 ‘ may steal a horse, where a Demo-‘fhh waste commercially profitable. crat dare not look over the hedge.” Shaw describes himself as “a Communist though not a member of the so-called Communist Par- ty,” which according to friends means that Shaw believes in theor- | ies of community property, etc., but| Word has been received here of | not the terroristic methods used|the death of Mrs. Armas Helin, a by the Communists to put these former wellknown resident of Ju- | ' | i | (FORMER RESIDENT OF JUNEAU DIES IN SOUTH| ATIONS e In Juneau— .06 inches; o since July 1, 72.87 inches. At Airport— .04 inches; e since July 1, 4322 inches. o0 0 0 0 e 0o 0 o \ . KELER PLEADS GUILTY {M y EI b 1h Sh the political objectives of the La-! ar Ila e aw Lor Organization, because they were! Harry Keler, alias W. 8. McKnight,| Wi" Wed A r m y Sg' . the Taft-Hartley- Act. TR | yesterday on charges of viol:‘n.m!zi the Mann Act. He was then sentenc-| led by Judge George W. Folta to| it (oluMBIA luMBER SIAFF serve one year and one day in thei Mrs. George Washington left this | eler was accused of bringing anjattend the wedding of her sister, Kenneth Axelson formerly of the 18-year-old Tacoma girl to Alaska|Miss Mary Elizabeth Shaw, to Sgt. tional Auditing firm, has joined the ing engagement for her at a Juneau Force at Ladd Field. staff of the Columbia Lumber Co.,'night club. During their travels, ac- The wedding will take place on the Lumber Company will be comp-'as man and wife. at the airbase in Fairbanks, and troller and he will be employed at| —ee Miss Shaw's bridesmaid will aska using Juneau as the headquart-| The U. S. Marshal's office today Shaw. ers. reported that Harry O. Jackson has; The Shaw twins are well known Juneau several days ago with theirfand asked that anyone, having in-|lecal USO, during the war. They two boys, Kenneth, Jr., and Jerry. formation as to his whereabouts,| did crayon sketches for the service Baranof Hotel. 1 Jackson, who has been residing at tertainment at the club. SR oo vt NG Hannah's Boarding House, has not PO JOHANSEN WED TONIGHT |clothing is still in his room. He is SIO(K OUOI described as being about 40 years of Elsie Sherrod and Louis Johan- | be | | Capehart (R-Ind), Buck (R-Del),} ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—(®—The| land Willis Rebertson (D-VA). {8enate put the Republican tax cut- The subcommittee’s recommenda- ting bill on ice today. ! ! tion against the measure goes now! The bill may stay in the coqlerl /to the full Senate Banking Com‘}!ar “wo months or more, and when it | mittee. does come up for a Senate vote, iti ! probably will call for less than the | 1$6,500,000,000 cut overwhelmingly ap- e‘moved by the House. e GOP measure mcket,ed' through the House yesterday by aj 297 to 120 count. That is 19 votesi more than the two-thirds majority; needed to override a veto. Action by the full Senate pl'oh-I ably will be delayed until after a vote on the Marshall Plan for Europ- ean recovery. This may put off a final tax showdown until April e { Heavy Weather On | Atlantic Hits Ships| | ! NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—(P—Heavyi weather in the Atlantic is buffeting westbound shipping, giving trouble - Robbery of Seattle, Bank May Be (leared Up in Miami Arrest, SEATTLE, Feb. 3—@P—A Sealiie bank holdup described by a man under arrest at Miami, Fla., corres- I ponds in main details with the 84,400 !holdup of the Peoples National Bank | here last Nov. 3, Detective William Pendergast said today. On that date a lone robber hand- ed Teller William F. Brietenstein a note ordering him to fill a manila ‘envelope with money. He showed Brietenstein a small bottle which he isaid held nitro glycerine, and threat- 'ened to blow up the place. At Miami, Police Chief Karl Engel | | Corpus action today in an attempt to free her client. Eisler, until his arrest yesterday, had been free in $20,000 bail since being convicted in Washington, D. C., last summer on charges of pass- port fraud and contempt of Con- gress. He faces possible penalties in the two convictions totaling up to six years in addition to fines of $6,- 000. ' WRIT IS GRANTED NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—(P—Feder- al Judge Edward A. Conger late tcday directed the Immigration and Naturalization Service to bring Gerhard Eisler into court tomorrow to determine whether he is eligi- ble for release from Ellis Island on bail. The order was in a writ of hab- eas corpus which Counsel for Eis- ler, described as the number one Communist in the United States, had sought. - SQUARE DANCING AT THE TEEN AGE CLUB There wiil be square dansing to- principles into force. ,neau, at her home in Lomita, Shaw's letter, written to Miss| Calif, Jan. 24, after a serious ill- Fanny Holtzmann, New York at-| ness. torney, follows: She is survived by her husband, “14th January 1948 |two sons, Ronald and John and a My Dear Fanny, | sister at home, her parents and a I amp not a Cobdenist Liberal | brother in Wisconsin but the very opposite, a Commun- | - R ist, though not a member of the| DIVORCE GRANTED called Communist Party. On the| Amelia Jane Ronning has been| sen of Sitka will take the vows to- night at the home of U. S. Com- ! missioner Felix Gray in Douglas. ‘The ceremony will take place at 8 o'clock in the presence of friends | ‘and Commissioner Gray will read ilhe service. L e e—— CASES DISMISSED Two cases have been dismissed | i e since Feb. 1, .06 inches; e since Feb. 1, .04 inches; > - ! i Wheeler would not interfere with| primarily to bring atout repeal of' changed his plea from not guilty to |guilty in U. 8. District Court herej 3 4 At Fairbanks Friday KENNETH AXELSON JOINS ' | Federal Penitentiary. jmorning via PAA for Fairbanks to Arthur Anderson Co., Seattle Na- under the pretext of securing a sing- Charles Findlay of the Army Afr of Juneau. Axelson's position with|cording to the FBI, they registered| Friday, February 6, in the Chapel the different branch offices in Al-| H. 0. JACKSON MISSING her twin sister, Miss Jean Elinor Mr. and Mrs, Axelson arrived in|been missing for about three days!in Juneau for their work in the They are temporarily staying at thefshould contact the Marshal's office.| men and helped with other en- ELSIE SHERROD, LOUIS been seen since Friday night but his age, 5 feet 8 inches in height, light “Peb. 3 | complexion with a ruddy face, sandy/tation of Alaska Juneau mine stock hair and blue eyes. il (s S MARGARET GILBERT LEAVES Margaret Gilbert will leave this | | evening on the Baranof for An-)Northern Pacific 197, | chorage and Fairbanks, then the 75% Pound $4.03% | latter part of March will return to her home in Long Beach, Calif. Miss Gilbert has been employed NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Closing quo-|sald a man identifying himself as |Roy E. Toler, 27, admitting holding today is 4’4, American Can 78 1-2,iup a bank here in November. The Anaconda 33%, Curtiss-Wright 47, iman is now “broke” and owes a International Harvester 87 1-2, Ken-| week's room rent, Engel reported necott 46%, New York Central 13%,; et U. S. Steell WNAA MEETS WEDNESDAY The Juneau Chapter of Women's Sales today were 700,000 shares. gNnuonal Aeronautical Association Averages today are as follows: In-| will meet Wednesday night at 8 dustrials 173.95, rails 5121, utilities: o'clock in the partment of Alex- even to the big liner Queen Mary.! night, as usual on Tuesdays, at the The Queen has radioed that she’ll be | local Teen Age Club in connection 48 hours late. And the Marine Mar- | With its “Community Center night.” lin, on her way from Antwerp, haslAN Van H!meeck will be the call- sent word that she will be five days]?l‘- He will be assisted by Mrs. late. {Carl Collen at the plano and Ed Winds range from 40 to 70 miles McIntyre on the fiddle an hour in the shipping lanes ( AIll persons 19 years of age or old- > {er and all servicemen, are invited IN FROM SITKA |to be present. The doors will be Louis Johansen of Sitka is stay- ' open at 8 o'clock. The square whole, if an up-to-date New Deal granted a divorce in U, S. District from the dockets of U. 8. District European minded candidate hke;cQun from Johan Albert Ronning. Wallace is defeated, I should pre-;She was also awarded custody of | their minor children and $50 per |month for their support. Court here by Judge George W.; Folta. They are Beulah Knott vs; Stanley W. Knott and Bernice V. Tudor vs Roy A. Tudor. (Continued on Page Four) ] at Lucille’s Beauty Salon during,3263. iander Young in the Fosbee Apart- ing at the Hotel Juneau. ;duncmg will begin at 9:30. her stay in Juneau and upon her| return to Long Beach will resume her former position with the De Loit Beauty Salon in that city. - o FAIRBANKS MAN HERE M. McElwain of Fairbanks staying at the Baranof Hotel. | ments. All members are requested lto attend as the final plans for is the Nursery Lounge at the Airport Jwill be completed - — SITKA VISITOR Mrs. Elsie Sherrod of Sitka is registered at the Hotel Juneau. - eee— — HERE FROM HAINES Mrs. Albert Stoney of Haines is registered at the Hotel Juneau.