The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 5, 1948, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA K. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE. TEN CENTS Y day the Empire carried an ited Press dispatch from the Times, in a column by iditor Ross Cunningham, hat word from Washing- A S WASHINGTON 5. —P—At- General sald today 1 this country can te g up laws al- Transportation Disrupfed, Schools Closed-Cold Snap Continues CHICAGO, Feb. 5.—(P—Fresh falls of snow blanketed a wide section of the country today, putting the skids on many aspects of business in some rea e is SIS Communist would only lergrou no use t Party drive he said, declarsd un- cutlaw cause meml such a law t const There be- the| | MORE CONCERNNG (rash Inevilable Unless LAMOORE WIDE AREA By Tightening Laws; Clark TALKS ABOUT g ) WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. 4‘x-c-uury Re]u[h—s; Vefd' t Thi Dwight D. Elsenhower sn}ld md;.i‘ he. fon states GOV Trrest. K. pLUNGES [0 IC IS : I s F I l E D I N F ‘ ) For his part, Mr. Truman said he | VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,803 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, rlzé'igUARY 5, 1948 ‘I;/{!'i‘x\’[BEBVAS_SOCLéIl_iV[) PBI;Z§§ EN CEN SNOW FALLS, 'Communism (anBeCurbed EISENHOWER REAPPOINTMENT OF L ¥ . FOUND 10 ‘GOVERHOR, ALASKA Rising Prices Are Halled; | OF NATION Gives Out His Suggestions WAR OUTLOOK Truman Deeply Concerned BE GUILTY ' i l N, WASHINGTON, Feb. 54—14%*(](911.& Iin e, ‘| ; S 5.—ip—pre- COMMIE CASE Russia “is in no position to fight a|* global war" now | Truman to change ¥ He added: | “You can be sure until her dif-| | ferential of strength becomes such| to lead her to think she might/ after they had d yes| - Talking to a news conference, M. | ¢ p 5, {n Zunrb:tx:f; }ox:m::f yc::e "Irunmn brought out charts prepar-|.e Eugene LaMoore alias Austin Rol- ied by the Budget Bureau lan, a local jury at 3:10 p.m., today, He said show st returned verdict of guilty of mur- the Empire has received lowing special dispatch writ- a widely known correspon- be more potent weapon, dy rises in| areas, as a prolonged cold snap in the New England States and Mid- west showed no signs of abating The . heaviest falls were along the Eastern Seaboard and Middle At- antic States but some parts of Ken- Lucky were covered with falls me suring nine to 10 inches. Light falls wers reported in scattered scctions across the country to Seattle. Ona2 snow belt was reported from upper Ohio Valley to the North antic Coast. There was rain or Al snow from Middle Atlantic Coast- g al arca over the Southeastern ¢ tion of the country. Snow In Seattle Snow fell over most of Montana, the Dakotas, Northern Wyoming and Nortiern New Mexico. In the Seat- e area, the new snow measured from two to four inches. In many sections of the snow belt transportation was rupted and schools were closed. Five thousand workers stayed on the job overnight to clear snow and slush from the main traffic arteri A snow and rain storm was most welcome in the parched northern California region, ending the worst winter drought in 170 years. The storm moved southward into the cen‘ral valleys and Southern Calif. No rain had fallen in parts of the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Val- ley for six weeks. California Sprinkle The light rain which fell in South- ern California last night was the first measurable fall since Dec. 29. It extended from Santa Barbara to the Los Angeles area but it was not heavy dis- SEATTLE, Feb. 5 sident of the Washington Pension Union, William J. Pennock, filed a $688,000 libel action in Superior Court today against the Legislature’s Un-American Activities Committee as group’s preliminary public healings drew near an end Penncck’s complaint said statements made public by the Com- mittee on Jan. 10 were untrue. The uit was filed by Atty. John Caugh- lan. On Jan, 10, the Committee, he by Rep. Albert Canwell (R-Spc kane), announced its planned inve tigation of the Washington Pension Union. The Committee marked time this forencon, pending an afternoon ses- jon at which Counsel planned to summarize its eight d; of testi- mony by more than a score of wit- ness?s, {M—The Pre- the that - o 39 AIR CARRIERS MUST REPORT OR . FACE SUSPENSION | WASHINGTON, Feb, 5-—® -The |Givil Aerenautics, Board yesterday gave 39 non-scheduled, air. carriers ten days to file quarterly operaticnal reports or face suspension. Th= non-scheduled operators are thosc holding temporary permits heavy enough to bring relief to croPs| pending formal determination by, from the prolonged drought. Ithe Board of their status. The sus- Moderating temperatures in S0me pensjon order, to become etfective sections of the country eased the peh 13 unless tha reports are filed, critical fuel shortage but in many includes these operators: areas supplies dwindled as cold — Ayiation Corporation of Seattle, weather lingered. Tn New York City, geattle, W . Golden North Air- the Navy, which had promised the| ways —1nc, Fairbanks, Alaska; City the badly needed stores of oil, Northern Airl Inc., Seattle,| withheld release pending establish- wasn ; ka Inc, An- ment of a distribution system by cr . Seattle Air Chart-| municipal officials and oil coMpan-/er Seattle, Wash.; Sourdought Air ies. Transport, Fairbanks, Alaska; To- Snow continued teddy throughoul tem’ Air Service, Inc., Seattle, Wash.. New England and in many sections ang Trans-Alaskan Airlines, Inc. of the East. Temperatures in upstat® Anchorage Alaska New Yoik were from near zero to 10 & i 4 MEAT PROBLEM IS, 'AGAIK BROUGHT UP; CONFERENCE CALLED| sm‘tk"uuqmiéus NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—Closing quo- tation of Alaskan Juneau mine stock today is 4, American Can 76 1-2, An- . Curtiss- Wright 4%, In- k. ternational Harvester 84%, Kenne- WASHINGTON. Feb. 5 P cott 447%, New York Central 13%, The administration made a bid to- Northern Pacific 18%, U. 8. Steel day ior a nationwide self-ration- 71 1-2, Pound $4.03% ing of food to cope with the cost Sales today were 1,200,000 shares.| of living. Averages today are as follows: IN-| 7o get it under way, the Agri- dustrials 169.18, rails 49.36, utilities| cujture Department called an af-| 32.18. | ternoon meeting of 18 groups rep- resenting food producers, traders and consumers. ; Department predicts there il b serious meat shortage in the sp! Congress, however, | has turned down proposals that it/ pe rationed by law. For this reason, the Department | was expected to ask the groups to’ bear down hardest on ways to - FROM FUNTER BAY Helen Radican of Funter Bay is| registered at the Gastineau Hotel. | . The Washingion Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON T g A 2 v SETTLEMENT IN KODIAK STORE (Copyright, 1948, 7 WASH!NGTON — The fiery ul- timatum of Sen. Elmer Thomas of | Oklahoma that he would not tes- (ASE REPORTED tify regarding’ his cotton and grain speculations presents the U. 8. Sen-| WwASHINGTON, Feb. 5—®—The ate with a unique problem. It will Navy said today a compromise agree- | be interesting to see whether the|meyy has been reached which will Demceratic Senator's Republican | 1imit yse of its ship serviee store at, colleagues take his ultimatum Iy-igodiak, Alaska, by civilians. ing down. If so; some historic pre- 1 - Local merchants had complained ients regarding other Republican |the Navy was competing with them Senators will be upset. | by allowing civilians to use the ser- In recent vears four Republican yics store. Representatives of the Senators have been denied their|City conferred yesterday with Ass seats or else so severely Ce‘nsul'ed‘tant Secretary of the Navy Mark E that they resigned. Another Re-|Andrew publican was S0 drastically cen- Main points of the agreement sured that he was deieated at the whi apply to civilians only are: following election. Only persons quartered at the Na- None of the above was given val Base may use the Hospital and much consideration by their col- medical facilities; purchases of any- leagues—not half as much as Sen- thing costing more than $15 from the ator Thomas has received so far. Navy store is prohibited; liquor pur- For tance, Willilam Lorimer, chases are limited to two bottles a Illincis Republican, was subjected | month (previous limit six); sale of to a bitter crossfire of investiga- '2uto accessories and repair work is " (Continued on Page Four) |gill continue. i around for he ¢ it B Activities in “bringing into the .\'pol-ica\n start a gr light of publicity the activities of in-| ¢ divid and groups.” Clark suggested to of this group, however, gress 1. Require all aliens to report their addresses onc? a year | - BY TURKEY Permit the Justice Department | aliens for a definite length| ! :n their own countries e them back 1 N Ru SIA sible for seeing that| registered under the Voor- This Act requires registra-| ich are under fo aim to overthrow the Government by forc 4. Stri then the Espionage Act|day. alony lines to be recommended later. The Foreign Minister Clark disclosed that this country taken notz of reports abroad that is “holding about 3,400 aliens his recent Forzign Poli speech to > own countries will not admit'the A icated a willingness “Atout 2,100 of these aliens,” 1 with Moscow. d, “are deportable to countries | tendentious interpretation hind ‘The Iron Curtain’.” tof my Assembly speech, Sudak said » said at least a hundred of those |in an interview. “There has not been hould be sent back to the Rus-' any change in Turkish Foreign Pol- | an the work of eat conflagration.” - subcommitte2 that Con- 1 | | they aie his Act ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 5—P— tion of v intends to stand firm against ian demands, Foreign Min- ,ister Nechmeddin Sudak declared to- cign cc aid he had whe them who sian-dominated nations are in cus-icy tody because they have been fuundi “These who understand the Turk-! guilty of “subversive activities” l!ish Policy, her ever-increasing - o> Iiriendly rolations with England and the feeling of gratitude in Turkey {have ro difficulty understanding the full espect of this false publication.” ATOMIC WEAPONS NOW EXCLUSIVE FOR AMERICANS WASHINGTON, Feb. —(A—The Gove: ent has decided that the At- omic weapons tests at Eniwetok will strictly an American family af- fair. No foreign observers will be in- vited A spokesman for the Atomic En- ergy Commission said today the Istatement in the Commission’s re- | port to Congress Monday that “only official observers are permitted” at ithe Pacific Atell test site means i“only United States” official obs ers. | Aad, he added to a reporter, there | JOB WITH A. F. L. MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 5.--(#—Form- er Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana today turned down the $20,000-a-year job as director of the AFLs political campaign, but agreed to assist the labor organ- ization without pay. Wheeler d he had “consider- able” law practice in Washington | which prevented him from devot- ing full time to the AFL's politi- cal program aimed at repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, and the Fed- eration began at once to look another candidate. | | | will be no newsmen on hand. 2 i ! This precludes a repeat perfor- esentatives of {of 1946 at Bikini. Rep 'Russia and a number of other na- s saw those two explosions So did more than 100 newspa radio and magazine correspondents N and photographers. { - e FRENCH FASHIO HOUSES GIVE 017 INTERPRETATIONS (BY FLORENCE MILLS) PARIS, Feb. 5—(®—Three prom- jinent French fashion houses today {showed their interpretations of the figure-conscious silhouette. The silhouette was launched last LAKE SUCCESS, Feb. 5 —(®—Mrs. 'season and was enlarged upon by the three name firms in their spring Franklin D. Roosevelt was called wl Isrnwmgs. speak before the United Nations Ec- onomic and Social Council today. She appears as Chairman of the| Lucien LeLong took the purist’s UN Commission on,Human Rights’ viewpoint and styled his clothes to to present a report on her group's;show the silhouette is more pala recent Geneva meeting, 'able if it isn’t faked with corsetry The 18-Nation Council decided |and exaggeration. to hear her after overruling objec-! Schiaparelli’s taste went the other ticns from White Russia made by|way. Skirts were eight inches from Delegate Leonid Kaminsky. {the floor, hips were upholstered and - B |stockings were of a hue called (AT IRAVH_S {7 ocking pink " Jacques Griffe did his shar: of " :aelping out the hips, but his skirt (CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 5.—P—A|gesigns were ten inches from the white angora cat has returned home( groung. ’;;'é%rl:“‘:':a” lonesome trip of some |~ colors tended toward shades The cat, tired and wild from its p:,‘,tl?“‘. Bl R wrey and roamings, has returned to the home!" of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Lacy. Last summer as the Lacy family' was returning to Cheyenne from At-, Hal E. Brewn, Anchorage man- lanta, Ga. the cat jumped out of, ager of the Standard Oil, died the car near Dallas. The care was, suddenly at the Olympic Hotel in| traveling at 60 miles an hour and Seattle Tuesday morning according the Lacy's didn’t telieve the cat| to advices received in Juneau. A could have strvived so drove on. | heart attack Is given as the cause.| But “Scowball,” proving cats have! Brown, accompanied by his wife, | BOMBAY, India, Feb. 5.—#—J. S Bharucha, Bombay Police Commis-! sioner, said teday six persons named y Mohandas K. Gandhi’s ass i are in custody. “Authorities are definitely on the! track of thos2 behind the widespread | conspiracy against the Mahatma,"l he said. “Two of the most import-| ant suspects still are at large, but! balf a dozen implicated by the ac-! tual acsassin are in police hands,” it is said. - Mrs. Roosevelt Is At UN ESC Meeiing i i | l of > HAL E. BROWN STRICKEN - banned, but gasoline and oil sales “nine lives,” returned to the fam-'was in Seattle attending a meeting 8€€ are registered at the Baranof e ily door step again. of the Alaska Standard Oil agents.) ! | i the win quickly, Russia won't start any Committee on Un-American| war deliterately. But little sparks' | ernor - FACE TRIAL ] NUERNEERG, Germany. 5 ALICE FREIN JOHNSON (#—Nazi Gen, Johannes Blaskowitz! ASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-Ernest leaped to his death today shortly| Gruening’s reappointment as Gov- |before he was to go on trial with 13| f Alaska appears immmcm‘other German Military leaders lur! at this time—approximately Lwo‘“’ilf crimes. | months before his present term| Blaskowitz, 64, was a veteran of/ expires re because of apmhy‘lha‘ Polish and Rus:ian invasions, or expediency on the part of his and later command:d Nazi forces opponents than warm espousal by ,in the Netherlands. He broke away his cohorts and friends. (from a file of oners on the third| President -Truman recently told | tier of the high catwalks surround- ! reporters he was considering nam- |inz the prison rotunda. { fng Gruening for a third terg, but| As guards watched helplessly, the| had not yet made up his mind, |General clamberad up a seven-foot From well informed source at'Wire fence and threw himself over the White House, that criticism of the Governor and He h his administration had been re- HOspital of a fractured chest and) Jayed to the President, but, be-;Punctured lungs i o its Aore e Tedd it His collecagues were escorted into| tepid | it was written off by He died in the 385th U.S. Military the | 'he U.S. Court for the twelfth and} Chi xecutive as “doubtless poli- 5 ar Gren Beis) $0 PB Lo il i) Nuernterg. They are nccused of re- inspired tically et 4 ¥ THe ‘same aowrce indicated that, | STRING fav thp war even bifare (he rise of Hitler. lacking evidence of mis-adminis NS tration, or even loud protestations frém responsible pers or groups. | | e o TRUMAN 1S STILL | natw the President was in aming Gruening. ! The President, it was reported, | believes it weould be unwise to turn over the Territorial reins to a new | y | granted within the 1948-52 term. ! Business interests with cxu-nswc‘ capital outlays in Alaska appear| WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—{P—Pre- | reluctant to protest Gruening’s re- ,Sideut Truman declined again today| | apy”intment because, were he to (!0 sa¥ flatly he will be a candidate be named over - their objections,,this year they fear he might retaliate by ! Told that Senator McGrath advocating more restrictions on the already-restriction-hampered cperations. (R-| RID), Democratic National Chair- 1man, had said he was going ahead fon the theory Mr. Truman will be the Party's standard bearer, the Pre- | No Excessive Affection ;sident laughed and said that was a The eight-man congressional | good hunch. | delegalion from Washington, lh(“r “You mean that Mr. McGrath's Territory's nearest stateside neigh-;hunch is a good one?” a reporter| bor, bears the Governor no asked. | essive affection because of The President then hedged a bit, cntinued carping—not always bas- saying it could be, | ed on fact—at Seattle business In response to another question firms and those of other eities inihe said he bad not discussed with) the state, {anybody the placing of a Southern Congressman Henry M. Jackson,|man on the Democratic ticket for only Democrat on the House sideVice President. frem Washington, publicly L!('noun-z ' R ced Gruening for “continual dema- { goguery and harpooning at Seam«"‘IRANSFER OF !NDIA“ : ist 1all 'during hearings here on! the shipping situation. oFFl(E RE(OMMENDED‘ Senator Warren G. Magnuson, | 4 the other Democrat of the Wash-| Congressman W. A. DEwart of ington delegation, said he would|Montana hasintroduced, by re-| discuss the Governor's renomina-9quest. a companion bill to Senator | ion with President Truman this| Butle measure which would | week., Although Magnuson dr‘-! transfer functions of the Office of | red to state his position on|Indian Affairs in Alaska to the| ening, it is known he has crit- | Territory and the Public Health icized the Governcr for past anti- | Service, as reported in last week's Puget Sound interviews and broad- | news-letter. i sts. 1 Aside from also authorizing Con- Buller Changes Mind {gress to appropriate to the terri-! Followlng the visit to Alaska last | torial government such sums as| all of Senator Hugh Butler, Re- may be necessary to provide edu- | wblican, Nebraska, chairman of | €ation for Indians, Eskimcs and > Senate Public Lands Commit- | Aleuts, Congressman D'Ewart's , it was reperted he had assur- ed Giuening he would plug for fl;cntmn of the Wheeler-Howard Act third term. i to Alaska which allows the Secre- When interviewed this week, But- | tary of the Interior to create In-| ler said he was not recommending dian resex_'vatlons upon ‘._Appruval by Gruening’s re-nomination, nor the|the Indians and which makes nemination of any other person, funds available for community en- nor did he believe his x'ccnmmen-i“m"“ s on a loan basis. This dation would have any weight atSame provision Is cntained in the | the White House if it were tender- | identical bill sponsored by 59““'{ ed. j tor Butler } Officials at the Interior Depart- e | ment refused to make any state- | ments on the gubernatorial situa-lslx pASSENGERS ARE d s name mot e weed, saia ne| FLOWN HERE BY PAA; 11 ARE FLOWN OUT believed Secretary J. A. Krug was “more or less neutral on Gruen- ing.” Authenticity of the following re-| paa made one flight yesterday pert cannot be vouched for, butlang carried 17 passengers. Seattle to Juneau: John Osborn,' Francis Boyd, Jack Wolfe, Walter, it came irom an ordinarily reliable |, sourceé. This person asserted that Mitchell, John Wiese, Howard Mil- ler. Governor Gruening planned to Juneau to Seattle: Susan Row-' come to Washington to testify at this week’s hearings on llmimllnnl of fishtrap sites, Fearing the(jand, C. H. Metcalfe, William Winn, Rose Young, Henry Saft, T. Bayer, 'Hawley Sterling, Ray Koskela, Paul Governor's statements might an-| tagonize members of the joint Groves, Ed Booth, Chester Clard. SRR Senate-House Commerce Commit- tee, Gruening was advised to re- main home lest he prejudice con-!e e o o o ¢ o o o o o firmment of his possitle and/orls TIDE TABLE probable nomination: G e Y RS FEBRUARY 6 ANCHORAGE VISITORS High tide, 0:17 am., 126 ft. Artfur J. Lappi, W. Morgan Da- Low tide, 5:42 am. 6.1 ft. High tide, 11:40 p.m., 15.0 ft. Low tide, 18:30 pm., 0.7 ft. LN I T I I I B vies, Freeland John, all of Anchor-' e Holel. . | ence DODGING WHETHER the pri of commodities, food ani all other items. Rises, he explain- ed,, since he asked for stand-by price and rationing authori in a mes- sage to the special session of Con- gress last November, My, Truman did not say whether ke is planning a special message t Congress. He said members of Con- gress have the same information he bas. CALLS FOR ACTION WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 —iP— President Truman today called price levels alarming He said that if some way isn't found to with a crash Mr. Truman teld a news confer- he feels as strongly as ever that he ought to have power to put on price ceilings and order rationing He will keep on telling Congress so but he added that the Con- gress members already know the facts. Since last November, theé President has repeatedly asked Congress for price-rationing power. say there is slight Congress will give it to him. Certainly not as broad power as he asks. While the President was talking: 1. Prices on commodity and stock markets, which fell sharply yesterday, went down some more. 2. The Agriculture Department was reported putting final touches | | on a plan for Americans to pledge to ration themselves, to eat less meat. particularly |der in the first degree without qual- | ifications. One hour earlier, the jury iloremun, Henry A. Jenkins, had re- iported to Judge George W. Folta that the jury was hopelessly dead- lecked and unable to arrive at a un- | animous verdict. They were given additional in- struction for the second time today and sent back to the jury room {where they finally reached a deci- sion Deputy Clerk of the Court Peggy | McIvor read the verdict to the as- | scmbled courtroom, The verdict car- |ties an automatic sentence of death. When LaMoore heard his fate, he it was learned |it. hurtling 30 feet to ta tile floor.|stop their rise they will come down turst into tears and began to be- rate the law officers and officials in the court, LaMoocre's partner in the murder and robbery of Jim Ellen, a local grocer and liquor store proprietor, Auvstin Nelson, was convicted last April and was to have been hanged }hers on July 1, 1947. His execution was stayed so that he could furnish evidence against LaMoors, { ‘The murder and robbery took place {at Ellen's store on Willoughby Av- |enu2;, Dec. 22, 1946. Both men weré |delended by Henry Roden and Jo- !seph A. McLean, The Government (was represented by U. 8. District (Attorney P. J. Gilmore, Jr., and | Speeial Assistant Robert Boochever. i The jurors on the case are Kenna | Adams, Don A. Baker, Mrs. Ethel W. ‘:B‘akér. C. J. Bergstrom, Gus H. Giss- Lirg, Arnold L. Hendrickson, Henry A. Jenking, Greudmund’ Jensen, Ross | Mill, Bess Y. Mize and Mrs. George Ostotne, all of Juneau; and Mrs. ©ecevcovsececan ot | measure seeks to repeal the appll- /. | hearing a faint, intermittent ship |Jane DeHart of Auk Bay. Allen J. | Marcum was named as an alternate. Y COUNCIL MEET FRIDAY ON HALL PLAN At least three matters will be dis- cussed by the Juneau City Council :tomorrow night when it holds its regular meeting in the City Coun- AL A W R 5 | ¢il Chambers. WEATHER REPORT | Revised plans for construction of (U, 8. WEATHER BUREAU ® |an Administration Building at the (Past 24 hours ending 7:20 a.m. today ® | Junzau Airport will be discussed as In Juneau— Maximum, 34; | well as consideration to plans for minimum, 21 ® the best use of the AB Hall, Repre- At Afrport— Maximum, 31; @ sentatives of the Arts and Crafts minimum, 14, ® group are expected to take part in WEATHER FORECAST {!hc latter talks, (Juncau and Vieinity) @ | An application for a retail liquor Mostly cloudy with light e license from Harold Bates will also snow flurries tonight and e ke voted on. Friday. Lowest temperature Friday morning near 25 de- grees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. tiday In City of Juneau—None; since Feb. 1, .06 inches; since July 1, 7287 inches. At the Airport— None; since Feb. 1, .04 inches since July 1, 4322 inches. ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - =~ 3. Charles Brannan, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, was plead- ing before the congressional com- mittee for power for the adminis- tration to hold down use of grain for whiskey-making. Brannan made his arguments to a Senate-House Eccnomic Sub-| committee The Administration ought to have power to ration grain to distillers through next October 31, he said. ‘That would be until after the next | harvests. .- * CANDIDATES MUST ENTER FORMS NOW 10 BE ON BALLOT Candidates, for Territorial office, are urged to make out their affi- davits and submit their Oath of | Qualification as soon as possible. | That was the word today from Se- |cretary of Alaska, Lew M. Williams |who is head of the Territorial Can- !vessing Roard which supervises Al- (aska elections. MYSTERIOUS SHIP (All IS—N(KED UP \{Vllliamu said that the ‘law al- LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 5 forms any time up to 40 days before P—The Coast Guard -reported|the election but, he said, in order ftn insure having their names in- {cluded on the ballot before the el- ecticn. Williams said that the bal- since about 1:30 a. m. but head-|iots will be printed soon and that quarters said it was not strong candidates should hurry their af- enough to determine what shipl|fidavits to his office, and no distinguishable position was | - glven. Neither could the nature| SIEAMER MOVEMENIS of the emergzency be determined. The weak call indicated the Clove Hitch, ATC, scheduled to |sail from Seattle Feb. 6. ship’s call letters were “YNKP” which would indicate it was a Nic- araguan wessel, | Princess Norah scheduled to sail Tentative Nicaraguan identity plus|from Vancouver, Feb, 6. th faintness of the signals, Coast| Aleutian scheduled to sail from Guardsmen said, might indicate the | Seattle, Feb. 7. ship was at a great distance from| Baranof, from west, here. | southbound Sunday. - ARRESTED AT CORDOVA E. W. Hull was arrested at Cor- dova yesterday by the U. S. Mar- shal there, according to U. S. Mar- shal William T. Mahoney in Ju- radio emergency call early today. The call was heard periodically scheduled S eee AUTO STRIPPED | Three tires and both doors were removed from a parked 1934 Ford automobile yesterday according to a report made to City Police by|neau. He saild that Hull was ar- Jack Haagstad of 1684 Evergreen|iested on a Ketchikan warrant Avenue. Police are investigating. 'on a bad check charge.