The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 25, 1948, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” o= VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,820 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'P.0. EXECUTIVES " HERE ON AIR WAY TO ORIENT | | Second Asfl. M. Gen- eral Would Ease Al- CLAIMS MARSHALL PLAN MAY LEAD 10 * GREAT DEPRESSION (BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL) WASHINGTON, Feb. 25—{P— Steel man Ernest T. Weir said to-| day the Marshall Plan might lead| to a depression here more serious than any threat of ‘“collapse and! Communism” in Europe. | Yet, the ehairman of the National| The second Second Assistant Post- Steel Corporation contended, the master General to visit Alaska, Administration is using “a tremen-(Paul Aiken, arrived in Juneau dous propaganda campaign” to try|yesterday by Pan American, flew to win quick approval for its multi- Lillion dollar European Recovery Program. Weir outlined his views in a state- ment prepared for House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on the ail, was on his way this af- Plan. . | ternocn to Anchorage by Pacific “To those who are aiarmed by the Northern Airlines. 3 prospect of an expansion of Russian With General Cominunism,” Weir declared, “I ! ence, general that a serious depression in the Ur railway mail service, ted States is the greatest thing Seattle, which includes fear. and as far as Alaska 1 And one is sure to come, he said,| has more to do with air mail than if huge sums “wasted through in- railway mail service. efficient spending abroad” are piled From Anchorage the P. O. m onto the “fantastic cost of Govern-|plan to covi most of Al ment at home.” post off go to Pt. Barrow, Weir said he was not making the me, Fairbanks—"Chicken and point that all aid should be denied 2, tco, because I'm intrigued Europe. their names,” Aiken said - | Longest part of their journ L will still be ahead of them. Th Jeave Anchorage by Northwest Air- lines for the Orient, Tokyo, Shang- hai, Manila, Honolulu and return to the States. Choosing winter for their extend- ed trip because the most serious operational problem as far as Alaska concerned is in winter, not summer, Aiken expressed espec- fal in i . small ai AnMbTRge b5 ithah: g 18: Boy-| o THverest. Ju S SHOWL" aly riers which provide Alaska towns anchek, E. E. Jensen, Glen Huff,: i€ i 4 Jess Morrisson, S. B. Fitzhugh. with ter mail service than was :Iune'm i Y.akl'lllll‘ LcLohg Loy| Possible in the boat and dog-team and Homer C. Nordling a3 “My hope is Juneau to Cordova: trip will grow parcel post zones strom. Juneau to Anchorage: Col. J R, for Al You iclks at present terrific premium for Parker, Don Baker, R. T. Harris,| 81¢ Pay 4 Bill Caroll, Dorothy Tmowey, Gene| Parcel post service, and this I Smith, Miss R. Mendell. {hope to be able’ to correct,” the Dorothy Whitney, R. G. Rice, visiting cabinet officer said. Dean Gioodivin, Dave ROBIGEoN, EI| “Fravkly, I 'am surprised that Martinson, R. Oberg. {Junsau does not take greater ad- J. King, T. Frazier, Al Bystrom, vantage of its air mail service. W Jacobsen, Ann Dimond, M. Mor- Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands adian, Frank Schneider, Zelda Cau- use air mail for 90 percentof first dill, Dave Schirmer, M. Dawson class mail handled. Juneau's use - - e,ee — — of air mail is only 65 percent,” Alken said. General Aiken is in charge of all air mail transportation. On this trip he will look into the possi- bilities of replacing boat mail with air mail in the Aleutians, talk to i the army in Japan about who is to the mail overseas and in la deliver to the Philippine ernment a postal agreement re- in eifect before their indepen- to with consulted Alaska Coastal, lis Air Transport, Ketchikan; and x Holden, ACA, regarding local Aiken is Aubrey superintendent Division 13, Alaska, concerned by .- 31 PASSENGERS ARE CARRIED ON TUESDAY FLIGHTS BY P. N. A. Pacific Northern = Airlines made | lights sterday and carried 31 pas-| sengers as follows: is st Sig Skar- that out of this ng a WEATHER REPORT (U. 8 WEATHER BUREAU (Past 24 bours ending 7:20 a.m. today In Juneau— Maximum, 39; minimum, 34 At Airport— Maximum, 37; minimum, 33. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) N P Cloudiness with some very ®|gunco light snow flurries tonight | he former ajr force officer, who and Thursday. Colder with ®|gpervised the first postwar e lowest temperature Dbelow ® iions in Germany, has served in freezing. ® the Post Office Department under PRECIPITATION James A. Farley and Edwin J (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 am. 1304y ® yiuin and his present boss, Te- In Juneau— .52 inches; @ cenly appointed Jesse Donaldson. since Feb. 1, 233 inches; ®|pjkep is from the state of Kan- smoe July 1,/ 79,14, inches. where, like famous Kansans At Airport— .07 Inches; ®iyyjjam Allen White and E. W. since ‘Peb. 1, 100 inchesi Howe, he cwned a newspaper. since July 1, 44.27 inch Harlee Branch, then second assis- 3¢ establishing rates Pec0eece san- ©30000000c000000000000 000 . By DREW PEARSON 1948, by The Bell Svndicate, ne.) (Copyright, R S S0 B R B tant post master general and now BRI 490005 5 a member of the Civil Aeronau- - tics Board, made an air survey The washlnglon trip through Alaska in the sum- mer of 1933 when he flew from Merry_Go_Round;Jumau to Nome with Pa Alaska Airways. — ! James A. Farley, while Post- ! master General and Democratic National Committeeman, travelled through Alaska in 1938. In his Iparty was Ambrose O'Connell, | later appointed Second Assistant, P.M.G. ASHINGTON Behind the move to shift the' grain-speculation probe from the Senate Appropria- tions Committee to the Senate Ex- penditures Committee is a strong backstage attempt to hush up the facts regarding the amazing grain and cctton deals of Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma. The drive to let Senator Thomas | off the hock is spearheaded by Senator Millard Tydings of Mary-' land, with the support of most | other Democrats in the Appropria-|177%, U. tions Committee. ~They don't like |$4.03%; to see a fellow Democrat in| Sales today were 710,000 shares. trcuble, and Thomas himself hap- Averages today are as follow: pens to be a member of this com- industrials 168.39, rails 48.96, util- mittee. 5 bt ities 31.66. During a recent closed-door Ap- propriations “Committee meeting Tydings bluntly demanded of Sen- ator Ferguson of Michigan, Re- publican, that the Thomas probe | be called off. “He’s written you a letter tell-: ing of his market transactions,”| de ed Tydings. “What more do| terday brought 12 passengers from you want? There’s no use con- | Seattle as follows: Paul Aiken, tinuing this persecution.” | Aubrey Lawrence, Oscar Harrison, “Nevertheless,” replied Fergmon,‘c‘m Heinmiller, Jack Conway. who is chairman of the .sub-upp:'o-! Stella Olson, H. W. Hanson, Fred priations committee probing grain | Irobesie, Marjorie Brown, = Jack Jadoff, John G. Mill, H. Graves STOCK QGUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—M ing quotaticn of Alask mine stock today is 4, American Can 78'2, Anaconda 31%, Curtiss- Wright 4%, International Harvest- er 86'i, Kennecott 43'z, New York Central 13, Northern Pacific S. Steel 70!, Pound > — {PAA FLIES TWELVE IN FROM SEATTLE Pan American on a flight yes- (Continued on Page Four) Electrical Power Reduced b Californi Ig California rought SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25— and Central California’s winter drought in history re- sulted today in orders to cut the ‘m}n‘\lmp‘.n\vn of electrical power al- most to wartime dimout proportions. The State Public Utilities Commis- sion, after an emergency hearing, or- dered seven utility companies north of the Teha untains to take drastic curtailment ‘measures effec- (tive at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow. Lighting of all shop windows and Sitka and back this morning foutdoor advertising except theatre, marquc banned. Flocdight- th PAA's B. P. Dunn; Bob Ellis, ing of all outdoor sports events was ¥ crdered reduced 50 percent. Street lighting will be curtailed | Housewives were asked to cut their use of electricity by 10 percent | > INTERNATIONAL GAME CONTROL | ~ 15 HOPED FOR Possibility an International Game Commission was forescen last t the annual meeting of the of Game Commission in K«-l-‘maxrh the area and the Point Reyes;| v A. M. Day, of Washington, " D. C., National Director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service who at- tended the meeting. According Frank W. Hynes, Regional F and W Director, who, has returned to his office here. Day expressed hope for the fcrmation of an International group taking in all nations for the wansplanting of game from one area to another where such a practice would be found feasible Hypres returned here Sunday on Loa: the F and W vessel, Blue Wing. Returning here on the Al- cutian were Andy Simonds, of An- ck Com W Game Management Chief, and Clarence Rhode, F an W Aircraft Supervisor. Also arriving on the Aleutian were several F and W agents; Dan Rals-, ton, Seward; C. M. Carson, Dilling- ha Holger Larsen and Slim Bragg, Anchorage; and Ray Woolfort, Fair. banks. The group will remain her: today and will be flown home to- morrow by Rhode. .- POINT REYES IS - BROUGHT HERE BY USCG WACHUSETT Details of a harrowing and herolc rescue by the USCG Cutter Wachu- | sett were told today by Commander 'E. V. Carlson, Captain of the Cutter. The Wachusett returned here at {6 pm. yesterday towing the 57-foot fishing vessel Point Reyes which had burnt out a bearing on Sunday and was drifting heiplessly in the Gulf {of Alaska. ] The Wachusett received orders from Ketchikan at 11:30 p.m. Sun- day to proceed to the scene of dis- and render assistance. It left (here an hour and a half later at 'full speed to where the Point Reyes {had been reported five miles off Por- cupine Island in the Gulf and drift- Img in a northerly direction lat the last repcrted position at 9:35 'a.m. Monday but the fishing vessel | was not in sight. Carison said that | weather conditions were extremely {poor. It was snowing heavily, there !was a 30 mile per hour wind and 'yough seas. He said that his ship had maintained radio contact until 18:27 am. when the batteries on the ! Point Reyes had failed | The Wachusett then proceeded to The Coast Guard, vessel arrived| \was finally sighted at 1:43 pm. 23 \miles from where it had last been 'reported. It was sighted through a to break in the driving snow by Ensign| €. Batdorf Get Line Aboz d The Coast Guardsmen made six ,unsuccessful attempts to get a tow- 'line aboard the stricken boat before an eight inch line was finally made (fast at 7:10 p.n. on their seventh itry. Two Coast Guardsmen, on the Istern of the Wachusett, were im- mersed in three feet of water several times during the rescue Commander Carlson | Leland ! commended age, a member of the Game|memLers of his crew for their excel- | 5 nission; Jack O'Connor, F andllent and difficult work under ad-{the Cuban base, some 30 miles east verse conditi in the face of a 5 mile per hour storm. He said that the Wachusett was “just plain lucky" |to find the Point Reyes under the {condtions which existed. } Because of the continuing rougl i seas, slow progress was made on the eturn voyage with the Point Reyes until the Wachusett reached Cross Sound. At that time, speed was in- {creased to 10 knots. Upon arrival EARLLONG WINS OUT, LOUISIANA 25— — have been recalled to n Louisiana 1l Long, brother of the late Sen P. Long, received a top-heavy Sam Houston Jones in Democratic election for Governor An unofficial count of ballots cas: in 1065 of the State's 1,878 precincts gave 239,198 votes to 135,538 for Powe E Hue ve yeste ¥ Long Jones The nomination assures Long's el- ection in this traditional.Democratic Istronghold of the deep South. Re- public who claimed only about :5.001‘ registered voters in Louisiana’s | last eral election two years ago, | have not -yet decided whether they | will bother to put up a candidate. i Yesterday's vote was a strong | comeback for the Long family. Hu- ]’ey ; widow said that if Huey him- selt were here “he would be proud yof this great yictory for the people lof tue State” | >-. - Truman Experiencing Rough Weather Trip { ! i By ERNEST V. VACCARO WITH PR |IN THE CARIBBEAN, Feb. 25— —President Truman had rough go- Hing today as the U.S.S. Williams- | burg piteched and tossed her way :mvuu'd the Guantanamo Naval | Base. ! The Presidential yacht encount- ered the worst weather of the cruise about 100 miles south of {of Cape Dame Marie, Haiti, at day- break j GUANTANAMO BASE, Cuba., i Feb. 25.—(®—President Truman ar- | Base in Cuba aboard USSS Wil- liamsburg at 1:40 p.m. (EST) today. Rent Confrol Bill runoff pri- | No Development for Alaska Until Land Ri Says Sen. Builer af Hearing DEVIN, POMEROY IN RUNOFF AT SEATTLEMARCH 9 SEATTLE, Feb, AP Mayor Will'am F. Devin and Allan Pom- {eroy, 1ormer U. S. District Attor- ney, will battle it out during the next two weeks for the city's first four mayoralty term. The two candidates led a field of seven by a wide margin in yesterday's primary balloting. Devin now completing his third two-year term, polled 32155 votes with Pomeroy second with 29,036. C. A (Bilh Fin; Seattle shipping man, ran third with 15,- 873. M. G. Tennent, former mayor of Tacoma, was fifth at 1,859. | Six councilmanic incumbents seeking re-election a field of 129 candidates. were nomi- nated | The {inals will be held March 9. - SEARS ALASKA FIELD REPRESENTATIVE TRAVELS led Twelve Mrs. Jessie McCrary, field representative of Sears Roe- buck and Company, was a Juneau passenger on the Aleutian after an absence of six weeks. In Se- attle she attended company con- ferences and spent a ort vaca- tion with her father, James Fraw- ley. For the past two McCrary has been in Ketchikan on company business, and she left Juneau today by PNA for An- chorage and Fairbanks to 'Sears ofiices. weeks, Mrs, B hlllved at this United States Naval IAUET. CLARK ARRIV TO TAKE OFFICIAL PLACE ABOARD CGC WACHUSETT Lieutenant and Mrs. R. J. Clark and infant. arrived in Juneau on board the’ Aleutian from Seattle. | plan their own ececnomic adiance- | fair Alaska | visit COMMIES HAVE WON IN PRAGUE President Benes Accepts New Dictator Gottwald ghis Seftled, WASHINGTON, Feb » A Senate committee has been told by its chairman there is no chance of further development of Alaska until Indian land rights are settled H H : man of the Intcrior and Insular — Affairs Committee, made the state- | (BY A. J. GOLDBERG) ment yesterday during mony | PRAGUE, Fet. 25-—(P—President of William E. War stant | Eduard. Benes announced tonight Secretary of Interior. he has accepted a new cabinet pre- Warne led Department oificlals Sented by Communist Premier Kie- who opposed, in a public hearing, | ment Gotiwald, composed chiefly of a bill to end Indian reservations|communists and their Left Wing in Alaska, forbid new ones and |Supporters. turn all authority of the Bureau of _ The Government radio announced Indian -Affairs ocver to Alaska 'Shortly before that the President afd the Public Health Service {had capitulated to Communist de- Warne and the other officials |MANds, Indicating the last: obstacle urged that the bills be killed. He !t iron Communist control of the urged that the Department be al- entire nation had been swept away. lowed to form resrvations to give| The new cabinet includes Social Alaskan Indians, Aleuts and Eski- | Democrats, who swung back to Com- mos a solid base on which lu.mumSt support this week. atter sey- i eral months of estrangement. Other Iparties also are represented. 2 _ Growing demonstrations brought % _ Indians Vs. Others the city to its highest pitch thus Butier told Warne he believed|gar in the crisis, with the threat an Indians should be given!or a Communist-led genera: strike treatment, but said the De- 'y, enforce the demands increasing partment hed just as much respon- | hourly, Soldiers armed with sub- sibility to other residents of the{machine guns joined police patrol- Territory He said creation of )ing the Capital as erowds jammed {large million-acre Indian reserva-.the public square. tions for a few hundred Indians| The radio, now in Communist was in efiect “padlocking the Ter- hands, said the President had ac- ritory.” cepted the resignations of 12 anti- Warne urged that a quick ans- |Communist ministers from the coal- wer be found to the question of ab-1{ition cabinet. This would clear <the criginal rights. He said. he be-{way for the Communist seizure of lieved Alaskan Indians should be|complete power. given the same treatment as In-! The president’s oilce declined to dians in the United States. Imake any statement immediately This, he said, would permit them ! byt did not deny the report. jto give the government land they| Communist Premier Klement Got- claim in exchange either for other i twald went to the Presidential Pal- |land or for cash. He said this|ace to present a list of ministers. for weuld solve the problem in Alaska !y pew cabinet. The radio said’ an just us it has in the United'announcement of a new Govern- :-Itm G : ('mem was expected momentarily. “1 cannot make an estimate of he C i the cost.” he said, “but T am sure‘gan"miixfi"' ns hmp“rgb? that the cost of land . . . will be |ed to a climax. Nowhere, now, do the much greater 20 years from now !opposition parties have a chance to than it is today. Prompt action!oppose Gottwald publicly. is likely to be the most economical . Immediately after the announce- lin the leng run.” !ment"that the frail Benes had cap- As ment | Al | !in the Juneau harbor, the Army Tug! 1415 took the Point Reyes in tow and| 'c.«zmmz it to the Northern Cormn-| mercial Co., for repairs | | KIWANIS CLUB HAS 2 GUESIS IODAY NOON The Point Reyes is a Sitka l)nul] WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—M—The land is captained by John Osbackken.|Senate today passed by a voice vote The Kiwanis Club enjoyed the! He and the three others atoard were!the House-approved bill extending presence of two guests today at their|reported in good condition and none rent controls one month beyond next regular weekly luncheon, Leif Thor-ithe worse for their experience. ‘Sunday. kildsen of Pelican and John Quilico’ - The measure now will be flown to formerly of radio station KINY. ' .i“!e Caribbean for President Tru- Thorkildsen gave a short talk and! {man’s expected signature. Mr. Tru- expressed his thanks for the oppor—i 3 i, {man is vacationing in that area tunity afforded him in being able| Several presonnel ¢hanges at the | Tne Senate acted under a suspen- to attend the Ski Meet held here;Al3s Native Service were an- sicn of its rules making it unnec- the past weekend. Thorkildsen came | Dounced today by R. Brust, Acting for the Banking Committee tc Alaska 11 months ago from Dram- | Generel Superintendent d‘“"““”'“"” ss on the bill men, Norway to live with his uncle|absence of Don C. Foster. Two| pLast night the Senate passed its Passed by Congress ANS PERSONNEL CHANG Cooperation Needed |itulated, the Government radio The Assistant Secretary conceded |broadcast a proclamation of the So- that tlement such as he pro-!cial Demoeratic Party, key to the | posed would require cooperation!crisis, denying a split in its ranks. of the natives. i The broadeast said the proclama- He said the must be tion was signed ty Zdenek Fierlinger, reasonable in | pro-Communist former Premier who 3 ',wua deposited last November as the “If this committee has no ob- | party’s Chairman when it declared W. Blackerby, Admiralty Division Jection we propose to make that | independence from the Communists, Superviscr of the U. §. Forest Ser- | AUempt and sce how far we can|Pierlinger vaulted into Party control |vice, said he has shipped several! &t | vesterday. samples of female black cotton-, M€ said the Department has| The other signer was Bohumil wood cuttings to Professor Scott g, | Authority to make such agreements. | Lausman, former Minister of Indus- Pauley at the Harvard Forestry| At almost cvery point Alaskanitry, who had succeeded Fierlinger. Ccllege, who is conducting the Cx_\«.-:velnpnm-m being held up orl Klement Gottwald, who emerged periments. !slowed up by clouds on title,” today as middle Europe’s newest dic- Lt. Clark will replace Lt. Reu-! shaw aboard the USCG Cutter! | Wachusett as assistant engineer. natives Harvard University is conducting thelr demands. an experiment to cross breed northern and southern trees. A, is Gene Thorkildsen in Pelican. Jim ki Club has been split into two teams so that the entire club will be able to compete in the two eventsd Native R taking- place in other cities, the Fur Rendezvous at Anchorage this week and the Whitehorse Annual Carnival , starts Friday through Sun-| ison of the Juneau Drug, who has just returned from a visit to his family reported on a housing project in Boise, Idaho, that partic- . ularly took his eye. The houses were of the prefabricated type and had been constructed for the purchase by ex-GI's. The price was set at $10,000 and the construction was so poor that a storm would probably destroy them. e club was also entertained with the new CPR picture “Skyline Skiing” just received -by the local office. The picture is very entertain- |ing and instructive in high altitude |skilng and shows many beautiful | scenes in the Cahadian Rockies. Church announced that it is past |dues and said the deadline is Fri- ]dny. February 27. R | 5 FOR DIVORCE | Viola D. Lane has filed suit for {a divorce in U. S. District Court | here from Louis C. Lane of Peters- burg and asks the court for cus- |tedy of their boat. They were married at Juneau on March 7, 11946, and have no children or | other property right involved. The | suit, filed by attorney Henry Rod- en, charges cruelty and non-sup- port. - - BAXTE! R FELCH HERE | Baxter Felch, salesman in the | Territory 1or Florsheim shoes and side lines, started as a salesman with his father, Charles Felch, 20 yéars ago, who was also a sales- man in the Territory. Felch came visit to the states, Church announced that the: jnew employees rrived the leutian Charles J. Mountjoy is to re- lace Louis Peters as Director of ources. Mrs. Bertha El- | linger arrived to replace Mrs. Min- ina Lee Coughlin as Supervisor of ! Education. | Miss Olive Trower, Personnel i Officer, has left for Washington, ID. C. to receive special trainiug } for her new position as placement Officer. | Harry Sperling, Jr.,, has been el iployed as messenger to succced ! John Garcia, who is being promot- ed to file clerk to replace Mis Rae Peterson. Miss Helen Angus, head of ANS file section, is taking a ¢ year leave of absence on March - HOONAH VISITORS Hilda and Jacqueline Schoonover of Hoonah are registered at the !Barano! Hotel. D g i FROM SITKA Miss Collette Foster of Sitka on | i 1 are Juneau | time for the members to pay theiri egistered at the Baranof Hotel i | i D PORTLAND VISITOR H..W. Hanson of Portland, Ore - LILLIAN UGGEN RETURNS Mrs. Lillian Uggen returned Juneau aboard the Aleutian from a two weeks business trip to Ketchikan in the interests of the Alaska Music Store in this city REBEKAHS TO MEET The Rebekahs will hold a social meeting tonight in the IOOF Hall at 8 o'clock. All members are re quested to attend, as a gala eve- lnmg has been planned R FROM VANCOUVER ) J. G. Mill of Vancouver, B. C,, is |a guest at the Baranof Hotel | - i ILLINOIS VISITOR | C. FP. Weiler of Aurcra, Iil, i ha S.|north on the Aleutian after a brief 'arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel is registered at the Baranof Hotel | lown bill to continue rent controls 14 months, The Senate bill is slated to stay in a House Pigeon hole until next month. House leaders have made it iplain, however, that rent controls eventually will be extended for at !least a year - - Fire af Ladd Field Is Cause of Big Loss FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 25 P—More than two carloads of cd and a carload cf office equip- Nt were destroyed* yesterday in a fire which burned a large | warehouse at Ladd Field ! Two army vehicles also destroyed. | Fire-fighters succeeded after a three and a half hour battle, in keeping the flames from spreading to other structures | The supplies lost were the prop- lerty of Birch, Johnson and Lytle, | civilian contractors. - FROM WRANGELL were of the | Barlow at Mr. and Mrs. H | Wrangell are registered | Gastineau Hotel. Jo Paul Little, Mr. and Mrs. B. Westby, John Putnam, S. D. Lawrence, Baxter Felch, and Irv- ling J. Cunz of Seattle are regis- tered at the Baranof Hotel -, FROM SITKA Mrs. A. B. Mosher of Sitka staying at the Gastineau Hotel. — .- FROM ANCHORAGE 8. B. Fitzhugh, John E. Peter- son of Anchorage are guests at the Baranof Hotel - e HOOD BAY VISITORS A. E. Owens of Hood Bay staying at the Baranof Hotel is is Prof. Pauley is of the opinion that the hybrid tree would be more vigorous and would bring about an increased growth rate - INSTALL DOLPHINS | Plans are being made for the in- stallation of several mooring dol- phins 1 various SE Alaska Har-| bers. This was stated today by Frank A. Metcalf, Territorial En-' ginter, who said that the dolphins will be ecspecially handy for small boats winds. Metealf has in mind such places | at Tee Harbor, Funter Bay and) Swanson's harbor where fishing , vessels and other small boats could ride out a storm. | | TO | 1 caught in storms or heavy | i — e i BOWLERS RETURN : D ted members of the Ju- neau Elk Club bowling teams re- turned on the Aleutian from Ketchikan, where they were the| guests of the Ketchikan Elks Club in a week long bowling tourna-| ment. The Juneau women's team {brought back the only partial suc- cess. They won their doubles matches, but both men and women |lost everything else to First City bowlers. | g . | OFFICIALS TRAVEL | Will Godding, of the U. S. De- hmxtmcm of Commerce, and George , Warne said. “If we really meanitator, is a veteran of a quarter cen- | business about developing our {tury of the Communist struggle for northern territory we need to act|power. © promptly to clarify native and! Czechoslovakia's Premier, now 51, white titles.” | sometimes is referred to as the na- He urged fair treatment of Alaa-;lioll'}. own copy of Joseph Stalin. kan natives from a defense stand- He has been a tested servant of the point. He said the nation needed | Moscow line and one of the elite of the loyalty of the natives. He said | Eurcpe’s Communist leaders. the natives now are in a “mood' Gottwald was one of the 10 top of suspicion.” jranking Communists who signed, the — 11043 declaration dissolving the i Comitern (Communist Internation- I.lh. His name was first on the list i Among the other signers were Georgi Dimitrov, now in complete control of Bulgaria, Maurice Thorez, | | Militant Communist leaer in R LISLE HEBERT BACK FROM BUYING TRIP, PA(I"( COAS' ('"ES}finnce: and Andrel Zhandov, who Lisic Hebert of the Juneau Young|laration setting up the Cominform, Hardware has returned from a six), successor to the Comitern. week’s buying trip to the West| Gottwald, a calm,,deliberate man Coast. While in the states he visited|who bears some physical resemb- San Francisco and attended the Fur—]hmc._. to Stalin, became Premier of |niture Mart, also Tacoma, Seattle, Czechoslovakia after the Communist and Portland. triumph in the first post-war elec- Hebert stated he had teen fortun-|tjon ate in obtaining many articles of! Gottwald was born of a peasant the latest in house furnishings and.family in Moravia, Nov. 23, 1896—St ! furniture, and most of them are|Klement’s Day, In World War 1 he already on the way to Juneau |was Grafted into the Austrian artil- | Al the latest in kitchen gadgets|jery, byt he was considered unre- :lhat madam hasn’t been able to pur-|jjable and was shifted to a search- |chase since before the war will lz('}hgn; brigade, |seen on the market again, he said,| —— et however most of the articles made, e . STEAMER MOVEMENTS of steel are still short and will be for some time, The demand for mer- jchandise is great in all lines but| | bard to obtain and possibly will be! Freighter Clove Hitch, from Se- attle, due Thursday morning. | Sundb.org of the Alaska Develop- yment Board, left here via Alaska i Coastal Airlines this morning on two-day trip to Sitka —ee NO EMBLEM MEETING The Juneau Emblem Ciub will |not meet this week because of | the basketball tournament - | O. F. HARRISON RETURNS | ©O. F. Harrison of the Juneau {Drug has returned from visiting |with his sister in St. Louis, Mo., and his family in Oregon. He is registered at the® Hotel Juneau | for the next two or three years Hebert also said that merchandise| Princess Norah scheduled to sail |is still advancing in price and dur-’ from Vancouver Friday. |ing his southern trip he had the oc-| Baranof scheduled to sail from | casion to make a price syrvey in two| Seattle 9 a. m. Sunday. {of the larger cities and dlscoveredl Aleutian, from West, | their prices were at least 25 percent’ southbound . Sunday. {higher than the furniture and hard-i —————— — warz prices in Juneau. BEVERLY HIL] VISITOR Py S. H. Koeler of Beverly Hills, RETURNS FROM EAST Calif.. is, registered at the Baranof . Hotel. | Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Kendall of + | Pelican returned from an extend- PELICAN VISITO! ed vacation in the East aboard| Chester Jacobs of Pelican has the Aleutian, and are registered at arrived in Juneau and is register- the Hotel Juneau ed at the Gastineau Hotel. scheduled -