The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 5, 1948, Page 2

PAGE TWO Ak oo NGOl THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ; Marold Chrislofel, SOVIET UNION G Tease o0, lsio ~ OPESEBT, CRAND JURYl Serve PrisonTern NEWYORKCiry SEENS SPIES; FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1948 LAST RITES FOR MRS, ED ANDERSON SATURDAY, 2 P. M. Last rites for Mi Ed Anderson will be held tomorrow afternoon at ‘Change Made in Army Air Force Strip Dancer Gels WASHINGTON, March 5—(®— |Changes in command for four gen- WITH SKI CABIN, OF PALESTINE personsteav Fawzi Bey Enters Holy City During Night-Slight Resistance ADAMASCUS, Syria, Match 542 —Fawzi Bey Al Kakji has establish- ters of his Arab volun- my_in' the Nablus area of 'n Palestine Ap_officlal source here said the rabs mow" “control all eastern Pal- esting fuom Safad to Hebron.” (This would 'be .a strip 100 miles lon ex- tendfag irom the far north to an area south of Jerusalem) Fawzi, Bey and his headquarters company rode into Palestine during the night, They joined Arab concen- s surrounding Tubas, in the mountains north of Nablus. Fawzi v reported to his Damascus he: ters that his “invasion” Ww completed without incident Haganah said 30 Arabs were killed and many were wounded in a four- hour battle with Jews last night on the plains of Sharon between Tel Aviv and Haifa. The battle erupted when Arabs at- tacked a Jewish settlement at Mag diel on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway, said a communique of the Jewi Militia issued in Tel Aviv, ¥ D OVER, GOCS DOWN y UL, GREENVILLE, Miss, March 5— . g een to twenity crewmen were dead or missing today from the 180-foo. towboat Natchez, which rol- led over and sank last night after a treacherous M. .ppi River cur- rent swept it against a bridge piling below Lere, Capt. William A. Howell of the tuglo:t Sohis-Latonia, and which brouglt 11 survivors here, said “there could hardly have been any other” saved ti. crewman escaped, how- s he was with tie barges and d the Natchez at the time. Natchiez carried a normal crew of 28, but survivors’ figures on the actual number this trip varied from 26 to 32, Howell witnessed the end of the Natchez from his pilot house. “The curxepf cgught, 'hcr and rol- led her over,” said. “She went down in about a.minute, The men below—firemen, engineers and so on —had no chance. The men picked up were mostly deck crew.” The Sohio-Latonia picked up nine survivors, of whom two died on boa Four other men, rescued by other boats, were transferred to the Sohio-Latonia to be brought here. Howell, of Cairo, Il1, said the dis- aster was “by far the worst” in the 12 years he has been on the river. He is 28 years old! The boats were taking tows of crude oil from Mayersville, Miss, to St. Louis. UNFROCKED PRIEST DISAPPEARS WITH ~ BIG LOOT, JEWELS ROME, March 5.—P—Italian po- lice announced they are investigat- ing the disappearance of $450,000 worth of jewels in connection with the flight of an unfrocked Vatican priest. ¥ Police said last night Eduardo Prettner Cippico, who had been a trusted attache of the Vatican Secretariat of State, was given the jewels for safekeeping during the German occupation by friends and a member of his prominent Trieste family. The Vatican defrocked the priest so that Italian police may arrest him without violating the Lateran treaty. The Vatican announce- ment said he had coniessed many ¥swindies and falsehoods.” 07 ‘BilS REFUSES EXMIT FOR ANNE T0 i FORMER KING WASHINGTC+., March 5—®— 1aly Catholic -~ Welfare nce News Service says' Pope refused a dispensation st Puincess Anne, a Ro- Cu.nolie, to marry former Mihai of Rumania. Mihai is ber of the Greek Orthodox (Mihai sailed from Southhamp- ton, England, aboard the Queen Elizabeth today for the United States. He told reporters he would retwrn to Europe soon to marry Princess Anne, who is in Paris.) The NCWC News Service, which goes to many Catholic publications, says in a dispatch from Rome its information on Pope Pius’ refusal of a dispensation came from “very reliable sources here which are en- tirely unconnected with the Vati- can.” f ing Place Dir-| ty, Chopping Up Build- ing for Firewood Because of the lack of wood at the Upper Ski Shelter on the Doug- las Island Ski Bowl, A. W. Black- erby, Admiraity Division Supervisor cf the U. S. Forest Service, ex- pressed alarm today over the be- havior of some persons who have| facts to stutemts at -Louisiana taken advantage of the free fac- State University. She even brought ilities the: recently a band along. He said that all of the wood Using the visual instruction tech- rried up there last summer has nique while some of the boys.as- n u bt t there is otHer sembled before the LSU fieldhouse wood which has been cut for use yelled “take it off,” “Stormy” got there which was not carried up. down to a bra and a pair of black Blackerby reported that some and white striped panties. visitors have torn down and used At this point a group of mus part of the shelter and part of cular young men hustled “Stormy the wocdshed in an apparent lack of | off her improvised lecture platform consideration for the comfort of and dumped her in a knee-deep others and without realizing the ' pond trcuble it took to erect these fac- She emerged to cloak herself ilities. He also saidthat nearby in a fur coat and comment that trees, which had appearance value, “Boys will ke boy: GERMANY BOUND HALTED BY FOG lined two suggestions of persons using the These suggestions conform the old unwritten law of the BREMEN, Germany, March 5.— M—The U. S. ship Gretna Vic- tory, carrying American food to iorm and Austria, was reported docrs. They dare: “Parties going to the upper cabin American m li- wiga . off cials said she chculd leave early enough to carry eu t. dock yesterday. a sufficient Supply of wood be- ark for their own use ach party should leave and dry in Bremen to welcome are tive 'representatives which donated the gifts Real Dunking BATON ROUGE, La., March 5 P—For her revealing enterprise in offering university students here a short course in a very lib- eral art, “Stormy,” the strip-tease dancer, got dunked. tormy,” whose real name is Stacie Lawrence, came up from 'w Orleans to present a few bare official out- for conduct upper cabin with out- fore Th tour er the PITTSBURGH, March Two bandits escaped with approxi- mately $20,000 in a payroll robbery today at the Allegheny General Hos- nouzh woed for the next party to iire” a .hu.ch, president of the Ju- « ok Club, is arranging to dig §ihigd «u wood which has already been Waiting it and mark its location with a Sihp g. he will also leave direc- as ns at the cabin for finding the mber and January. vood which is kept only a few hun- inciude Ralph Bartholomew Jied yards away. hikan, Alaska. Blackerby also requested that the representatives will make a abin ke left clean for the next of relief agencies, charitable erson. “This includes the dish- s.cuis and displaced persons’ Le said. ast week, it took Toswm Germany and two hours to get the dishes i distr.bution of the c¢d that had been left dirty -cod the previcus party. Remember, > > - all sportsmen leave a clean camp.” . e pleaded that persons, using wts’l (oASI ROAD cabin, follow these suggest- wons to enable all persons to en- S'I'UDY IN (ASE OF Jjoy the facilities provided and, at the same time, safeguard Forest "BOMB ATTA(KS" Service property - | WASHINGTON, March 5—(®— Hospl]Al IS ROBBED How to keep roads around cities open if the West Coast is bombed OF szo ooo pAYRou. !.s under study by the Federal Roads r officia i | Coiwumissioner Thomas H. Mac- 5@ |Donald of the Public Roads Ad- ‘mxms:rmmn told the Senate Appro- riations Committee today his agen- |¢y is locking into the situation, par- pital, | ticularly in Washington and Oregon. Dr. George L. Wessels, Hospital| “We want to determine what pat- Superintendent, said the unmasked (eFDs are going to be necessary to kandits fired two shots and held develop roads around the metropol- nurses and other employees at bay.|itan area in case of danger of bomb The gunmen grabbed a money box Attacks,” he said. and fled in a waiting car. | MacDonald asked the committee - to add $1,000,00 to the amount the | House previously voted for a high- » . way testing and research laborat- Joe Louis Visifs oty beng Balt st Langley, Va. S e House 0' (ommons MORE DOGS IMPOUNDED | city Police impounded three LONDON, March 5.—(®—Joe Louis| more dogs yesterday and two this visited the House of Commons today | morning in their current drive to and was cheered. clean up the City of some of its Capt. Stephen Swingler, . Labor|canine troubles. Owners may claim member for Stafford, was host to‘[hell' dogs by appearing at the the boxer and his wife, Marva, and | City Clerk’s office. took them to gallery seats during’ 5 & R p a dull debate. There were cheers'! The Sahara Desert is about the from xnemhe;s who recognized him. size of Europe. FEUSI & JENSEN, Inc. PHONE 202 DOUGLAS SP_CIAL ¢ for SATUEKLAY CHOICE POT ROAST, Ib. FRESH GROUND BEEF - - [b. ALLSWEET- 2 Ibs. Swift Bland Lard, 3 Ib. . (all purpose) 3 Ibs. § WASHINGTON, March 5.—(® Harold Chrisoffel, former CIO Union officer in Milwaukee, today was sen- tenced to serve from two to years in prison for denying under oath he was a Communist. Christoffel is a former President of Local 248, of the United Auto Workers at the Milwaukee plant of the Allis-Chalmers Company, He was convicted on six' counts of perjury before the House Labor Committee a year ago. Christoffe] testified he had never been a Communist or had connec- tions with the Communist Party. NEW 'YORK, March 5.—(®—Rus- sian vodka and caviar, American Manhattans and Martinis, and In- ternational polite talk were blended last night as the Soviet Union oper ed an exhibit at Rockefeller Center Outside, pickets who were Lithuanian political marched, with placards “We prctest the Soviet exhibit of lies,” the pickets’ signs pr as the USSR opened its fir: e exhibition in the US the war said they refugees, large- since U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERUE, WEATHER BURL ¢ JUNEAU, ALASKA WEATHER BULLETIN DATA FOR 24 HOURS ENDED AT 4:30 A. M., 120TH MERIDIAN TIME Max. temp. | TODAY last | Lowest 4.30a.m. 24hrs. 24 hrs.* | temp. temp. Precip. 23 6 0 -21 0 3 0 29 01 -12 ] 20 0 -2 0 17 -2 30 ‘Weather ar 4:30 am. Pt. Cloudy Clear Clear Cloud Clear Cloudy Clear Snow Clear Snow Rain Pt. Cloudy Clear Station Anchorage Barrow Bethel Cordova Dawson Edmonton Fairbanks Haines Havre Juneau Airport Annette Island Kodiak Kotzebue Burbank McGrath Northway Nome Petersburg Portland Prince George Prince Rupert Seattle Sitka Whitehorse Yakutat *—(4:30 a. m. yesterday to 4:30 a. m. today) WEATHER SYNOPSIS: The series of low pressure centers which originated just north of Honolulu have continued to move into the Gulf of Alaska during the past 24 hours. One of the series was moving north- ward just off the coast of Dixon Entrance this morning. Due to the high pressure over the interior of Canada and Alaska northerly winds have been flowing southward in Lynn Canal and caused snow as iar scuthward as Sitka and Juneau during the night. The snow fall is ite heavy. Five inches of snow fell at the airport during the vast 12 hours and a total of 59 inches fell at Haines during the past two or three day Rain fell during the past 24 hours along the coast from Oregon to Frederick Sound. Sncw or rain fell along the coast irom Frederick Sound to Prince William Sound, over the Aleutian Islands and at scattered places over western Canada. Temperatures over South- east Alaska were above normal yesterday. Another mass Bf cold air is moving southward over central Canada this morning. MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN Reports from Marine Stations at 1:30 P. M. today ‘WIND Height of Waves Dir. and Vel. (Sea Condition) SSW 18 2 feet NNE 34 feet NNW 29 5 feet ENE 21 2 feet SSW 20 3 feet ENE 12 1 foot Guard Island Pt. Cloudy SsSwW 8 1 foot Cape Decision Pt. Cloudy swW 10 1 feot MARINE FORECAST FROM FRIDAY MORNING TO SATURDAY EVENING: STORM WARNING—Lynn Canal and Taku Inlet—northerly winds 35 to 45 miles per hour. Protected waters of Southeast Alaska Trace A5 3 0 Trace 0 0 .01 Clear Cloudy Clear Rain Cloudy Cloudy Pt .Cloudy Cloudy Rain Snow Cloudy 3 19 Station Cape Spencer Eldred Rock Point Retreat Sisters Island Five Finger Light Lincoln Rock Weather Snow Snow Snow Snow Pt. Cloudy Pt. Cloudy Temp. 31 23 south of Lynn Canal—southerly to southeasterly winds 20 to 35 miles | per hour becoming southwesterly winds 15 to 20 miles per hour by to- night. Outside waters, Dixon Entrance to Sitka—westerly to south- westerly winds 25 to 35 miles per hour decreasing to 15 to 20 miles per | hour by Saturday night. Outside waters, Sitka to Yakutat and Cross Sound-Icy Strait—easterlv to southeasterly winds 10 to 20 miles per hour. Cloudy with rain and s portion. P.0.Box 2719 JUNEAU MARINE CO., INC. MARINE RAILWAYS Boat Repair New Construction Sales Surveys Appraisals Estimates Phone 29 REORGANIZED JANUARY 1, 1948 BOB JENSEN Vice President JACK WARNER President ARCHIE B. BETTS Secretary-Treasurer Relax While You Truvel When you go by steamer, you ¢an relax in the luxuri- ous comfort of staterooms, lounges and decks . . . sit back and enjoy the scenery as you sail. - Eat the Best Food —No Extra Charge The Alaska Line is famed for the excellence of its cuigine. You will marvel at the deliciously prepared meals. The cost of all meals is included in the fare, Your berth, too! Sailings Are Frequent paniiiry /N Sailings every week for Ketchikan and Seattle 8. S. BARANOF DUE SOUTH MARCH 8 Calls at Petersburg, Southbound S. S. DENALI — MARCH 9 Stops at Wrangell, Northbound Causs at Petersburg, Northbound ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY ow over south portion and snow over mnh} claimed * { | | i NO COMMENT Rep. Nixon (R-Calif) Says' N. Y. Investigating Suspected Ring WASHINGTON, March '§ A hint that the Justice' Department is seeking indictment of a suspected spy ring was dropped today during the Congressional uproar over Dr. Edward U. Condon Rep. Nixon (R-Calif) tossed it out at a House un-American Activities ommittee meeting where the Com- ce Department stuek by its guns 1d retused again to hand over its loyalty records on Condon, Rep. Rankin «D-Miss) had pro- posed that the Committee make puzlic all its records on Condon. Nixon .objected. He said a New York Grand Jury is investigating spying by Americans and aliens. He (<aid its finidings might be “prejudic- e | 1 | [ i | | | if the complete files were ma public. - Flash Picture of Mussolini Starts Riol_in_ Theaire ROME, March 5.—(®—A picture . Benito Mussolini flashed on the creen and started a riot in a Napies theatre last night. Dispatches saia many aplauded as the photograph of the dead Duce ippeared in Charlie Chaplin’s film, ‘Monsieur Verdoux.” ‘That started the fight. A woman and two men were ar- rested. 2 > COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT The City Council will hold a egular meeting tonight in the City Council Chambers. Principal em of discussion is expected to be the proposed. City street im- ~rovements. The meeting will be in at 8 p. m D ‘When the facory was cult was coler b weather. black roof of a large painted white, the re- an interior which was several degrees in hot erals were announced today by the! Air Force. They included: Brig. Gen. Edmund C. Lynch, Com- | mander of the Aleutian Sector of the Alaskan Department, to head- quarters as Assistant Comptroller. 2 o'clock in the Chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary with Dean C. E. Rice officiating. The pallbearers will be Joe Thomas, John Homme, Vern Lee, George Marcum, Frank Olson, Steve Stanworth, Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery. SOUTHBOUND 10:30A Lv. JUNEAU 11:30A 12:00N 40P Lv. Ar. WRANGELL KETCHIKAN 9:00A :20A Lv. Ar. (*or JUNEAU SITKA earlier) JUNEAU HAINES SKAGWAY JUNEAU to— Mon. Wed. Fri. Angoon Baranof Chatham Chichagof Cobol Elfin Cove Excursion Ln. Funter Gustavus PETERSBURG .. Juneau—Sitka WINTER SCHEDULES!! Effective: October 1st to April Ist Passenger and Express DAILY Juneau—Ketchikan NORTHBOUND Ar. 3:40P Lv. 2:50P Lv. '2:20P Lv. 1:30P 11:50%A 10:30A Ar, Lv. TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, SATURDAYS Juneau—Haines—Skagway (All Times PST °120) JUNEAU to— Hawk Inlet Hood Bay Hoonah ... Kimshan Pelican . Port Althorp .. Superior ... Tenakee . . 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