The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 23, 1948, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,843 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1948 SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER A "FRIENDSHIP TRAIN" ARRIVES IN VIENNA; IS GIVEN WELCOME VIENNA, March 23.—(®—The Pa-| cific Northwest Friendshp Train ar- | rived today with 1,100 tons of food and clothing for Austria from the people of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Was.ington and Alaska. A large crowd cheered as the train puifed into the station. An Ameri- can Army band played “America, The Beautiful.” Lu wacu. weoffrey Keyes, U. S High Commissioner for Austria, maae the presentation on behalf of the Americans who donated the food and clothing. Chancellor Leopold Figl accepted for the Austrian people Mrs, Otis Lampson, leader of vol- unteer organizations of Seattle, al-| so spoke for the donors. She was cheered when she translated her own remarks into German. Also on the speakers' platform were representatives of the other states and Ralph Bartholomew, of the Ketchikan, Alaska, Chamber ot Commerce. Tie Americans have been invited FLARES REPORTED SEEN OF MISSING D, March 23.—{P—Hope for men, missing since Sunday |noon. in an Air Force C-47 plane, was rekindled today by reports that | two red flares had been sighted in | the mountains 20 miles east of Tilla- mook, Ore. A ground party was in- vestigating The report was made to. Oregon State Police at Tillamook. They said |a woman, whom they did not identi- y, saw the flares in the heavily PLANE IN GREGON AMERICANS ~ WILL STAY IN BERLIN (BY RICHARD KASISCHKE) ERLIN, March 23.—(®—Despite . Russia's boycott of four-power Gov- ernment machinery for Germany, the United States occupation Chiet said today the Americans intend to |stay in Berlin | “We are in Berlin by agreement, 5 ALASKA HEROES TO GET ARTIFICIAL FEET IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, March 23.—®—Five Alaska men who froze their feet | when shipwrecked near Kodiak Dec- | ember 31, arrived in Seattle yester- day, enroute to hospitals to be fit- ted with artificial feet, | William, Daniel and Arthur Skon- berg, brothers, will be fitted at the Veteran Hospital, Vancouver Wash. Another krother, Andrew, and Skon- berg's cousin, Berg Larsen, will be \itted at the Swedish Hospital here. Infernational Trouble Now Over Trieste Italy Rejects Yugoslav Of- fer-Communism Denounced (By The Associated Press) MILITARY STRENGTH " ISURGENT Senafe A;n_;d Services Committee Is Behind Truman's Plea WASHINGTON, March 23.—(P— Income Tax Cut Measure Passes Senate; Back fo 7 House Ioday for A_gproval [MINERS REJECT GOVT. & 555 i 2 PROPOSAL TO END 9 DAY, PRESENT STRIKE today, becomes law, - all tax cuts would be effective last January 1. Lower withholing rates would start May 1. Those who overpaid during the first foyr months would imbered upper Trask River section.|just as the Russians are in Saxony The region is approximately 70|und Thuringia (territory conquered airline miles southwest of Kelso|by American troops) by agreement,” I where the search fof the California-|said Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U. 8. Mil |Lased transport has been centered.|jtary Governor. “We intend to sta; The plane vanished Sunday after-| The Russians' boycott, which fol- noon after messaging that it was Jowed their walkout on a meeting about 25 miles north of Por!land,‘d the Allied Qontrol Council Sat- preparing for an Mnstrument ap-|urday, spread paralysis today all proach to the Oregon field. { oo lity. ETACHMENT OF .- J | quick succession, acting as D ! chairman for this month, they can- | | celed meetings of four-power com- mittees which had been scheduled through the whole Control Author- | BRITISH MOVE, to stay here to observe the distrib-| ution of the supplies, which will be under the joint divection of Ameri- can relief agencies operating within Austria. The shoes, heavy clothing, soap, flour, sugar and other items of the shipment will be distrizuted in all four occupation zones. KIWANIS CLUB ANNUAL DINNER DANCE IS ON WEDNESDAY EVENING The Kiwanis Club will hold their annual dinner-dance tomorrow night at the Salmon Creek Country Club starting at 8 o'clock. All members are urged to attend and take their ladies. The entertain- ment committee has planned an for today. They merely said they were too busy to attend. By noon they had taken part in |only one session with the Western Andrew yesterday described how | TItaly rejected today the Yugo- survivors waded ashore when the | slav offer to swap Trieste for the cannery tender in which they were|Italian town of Gorizia to the | iraveling from Chignik to Kodiak | north | went aground New Year's Eve. Trieste, of course, is international He said the men formed a circle toyj: and is not Yugoslavia's {around two women and a young boy | to barter. The proposal of the | m the party. They huddled under | ypjted States, Great Britain and !a canves in sub-zero weather until| prance to return Trieste to Italy {rescued by the Coast Guard five|wgas pelieved adverse to the Ital- !ian Communists, bidding for su- | preme power in the April 18 elec- | tions A Fcreign | said: “It is clear that Italy cannot accept the separation of a part of |days later. { s RINGWALD BLIX, e Office spokesman The Senate Armed Services Commit- tee swung its weight today behind| Fresident Truman's plea for quick ps to build up America's military forces, Chairman Gurney (R-SD) report- ed that 10 of the committee's 13! The rejection was made in a/| members already are convinced toth letter to Cyrus S. Ching, Federal a limited draft and universal mili-) Conciliation Chief, by the three- tary training have become an “abe-|man UMW committee which receiv~ solute necessity.” ied the government offer yesterday. Gurney and nine of his colleagues — John L. Lewis, UMW president, were the only Senators present dur-did nct sign the rejection person- ing a 50-minute meeting behind | ally, locked doors with Secretary of State! The committee termed the gov- Marshall, Secretary of Defense For-|ernment proposal “grotesque.” restal and Secretary of Army Eoy-l Ching’s proposal, which was ac- WASHINGTON, March 23— The United Mine Workers today slatly rejected a government pro- posal for ending the nine-day-old soft coal strike get refunds next year. The bill, as it headed toward the White House, would remove 7,400,000 low-income persons from the tax rolls completely . ‘This is because the personal ex- emptions of each taxpayer and each depeifdent would be increased by $100—from $500 to $600. In addition persons 66 and over would get an extra $600 personal exemption— making their total $1,200. And the present $500 additional exemption for blind persons would be raised to $600. The big tax cut would come from .percentage reductions. These would ALASKAN PIONEER, Italian flesh bartered for another Allies. That was a secretaries’ meet- TRIESTE, March 23.—(P—Fresh ;g ¢ which the Russians announc- detachments of British Military PO- o4 tpere will be no meeting of the lice have moved into the tense fron- | pjjje4 Goordinating Committee to- tier area of Trieste, it was announc- |y, ...qu led officially tonight. | Clay’s statement was made in an | Maj. Gen. Terence S. Airey, Chief |, to1view. It was replied to a re- {Ctvil Officer of the Allied MIlltary | uect that he comment on the Rus- Government, made the disclosure at| o poycott and on renewed sug- i diw oanteranos, ; _ [gestions in Russian-controlled news- “I have moved more British Mili-| , pors pere that the Western nowers ry Police into the frontier “’“iget out of Berlin. lin case there are repititions of the ~ | Sept. 15 incidents,” he said. i The Yugoslavs in September tried| WASHINGTON, wierci 23.—P— |to move forces into the American|The White House announced today |Zone of the Trieste Free TEFT“OI')'-ithut the United States Army will ! “We are on the alert, but I do not|continue in control of government |expect any attempt,” the General|n the American zone of Germany |said. “I don't believe the Yugoslavs indefinitely. | will be silly enough to spoil their| Plans had been for the State De- | | tag part of Italian flesh.” The Italian answer came only a few heurs after great throngs roar- {ing “Viva Trieste” welcomed Pre- wald Blix of Seattle, an henored ! mier Alcide de Kasperia and For- member of the thinning fraternity ! cign Minister Count Cario Sforza | who picneered the north, died here]back to Rome. | yesterday, ! The spckesman emphasized that Blix, 75, suffered a stroke in Van- | the Italian government had receiv- couver a week ago Saturday after|ed no official word of the report- | flying there for the annual dinner|ed proposal regarding Gorizia, He tof the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers. He|said he was speaking entirely on was returned to Seattle and taken to| the basis of press reports. {a hospital but never regained con-| Asked what other hopes of treaty | sciousness. | revision there was in regard to | Born in Norway, Blix went to!the Italian colcnies, the spokes, Minneapolis in 1892 and became aiman said: merchant. When news of the Yu-| kon gold strike created a nation- | wide sensation, Blix and others form- |ed the Scandinavian-Alaska Colon- ial Association of 59 members, with I5 DEAD IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, Mar. 23.—(M—Ring- Other FPlLascs “On the part of France, the thesis has been confirmed in the absolute manner that she wishes ell. The group included Senator Morse of Oregon. Most of what the three secretar- {cepted “reluctantly” by the mine |Startat 12.6 percent for persons with ‘operntors yesterday, called for the creation of a fact-finding board to les sald remained cloaked in com-{ nyestigate the dispute over miners' plete secrecy. But Gurney did report| sensions that touched off the walk- | when the session broke up late yes- | s terday: | However, Lewis would have to 1. The U. 8. has drawn no line,y ;ond the miners back to work be- and does not intend to draw one, a5 jore the plan would go into ef-! the final limit for Russian expan-| ... sion. The 2. There was a great deal of gen- Ching eral, rather than specific, discuulonl made of the “generally critical and more; .4, h progressively serious situation In‘ Europe.” che iclaries “1t 15 my firm belief that the com- | ¢ Benefictarics | UMW committee advised | it 1elt the proposal was to “aid the coal operators, ave dishonored their (work) agreement and to further defraud of the welfare taxable incomes—that is, incomes after personal exemptions and de- ductions—of $2,000 or less. On incomes of $2,000 to $136,719, there would be a cut of 126 percent cn the first $2,000 and 74 percent jon the rest; on incomes over $136,~ 719, a cut of 12.6 percent on the first $2,000 7.4 percent on the next $134,- [700, and 5 percent on the rest. ‘The maximum standard deduction for contributions, medical and cer- tain other expenses would be in- creased to $1,000. It is now $500. On incomes below $10,000 the top de- duction would continue at 10 per- cent. o } fund.” mittee—those that were here—left| i Therefore, they said, they could the meeting feeling there is abso-1,,, \oommend its acceptance by lute necessity for quick passage ot he mine workers both the draft and UMT measures,” I Bt a4 & Gurney declared The welfare fund to Which the| el committee referred was HOUSE, COM. APPROVES WASHINGTON, March 23— The House Ways and Means Com- 5€L UP| pittee voted 18 to 5 today to ac- interesting program and many have made reservations for the ex-| 3¢ in Txiesta by treteg: pected gala affair. The i;)arlmenl to take over government o1 the zone about June. | The decision to keep the mili- to give Italy administration of | Eritrea, Somaliland and Libya.” French officials said Foreign {Mr. Blix as Secre‘ary, and they started west in search of their fort- unes. .ewis and the operators last year.| . teing ill passed by the Sema Ching had told reporters after | u.n,eu (:"ml:l tax :fl! passed ‘:, n the work contract signed byljcx-pt the $4,800,000,000 income tax- PAN AMERICAN FLIES he cffer was made that a formal i Yugoslavs wounded an Italian po- Hatn regular ) oman in a scrape last night. The weekly at the Baranof Hotel will not ke held tomorrow. - eee NO SHOOTIN' TONIGHT All lady membeirs cf the Juneau Rifle and Pistol Club are asked t hold their fire until next week. The range is being moved to the 1 floor of the A, B. Hall and it is hoped that everything will be luncheon for the club held | |officer said he was shot after tWo! ary in control was announced by {arguments over location of the boun- | presidential Press Seeretary Charl-| { jdary line, H R les G. Ross. | Ross would not comment on | whether the decision was due to Tacoma. It left for the north Ji'ch {1, 1898 on the steamer Protection and landed at Valdez. Blix built and The Minneapolis party outfitted at | Minister Georges Bidault and per- ! haps British Foreign Secretary- Er- i nest Bevin would go to Washing- {ton mnext month to confer with SIXTY-SIX ON MONDAY Pan American (ilghts yesterday brought in 32 and took out 34 pas- sengers from Juneau as follows: | the House had called for a cut of ejection by the UMW would force i aim to turn the dispute over tol mpg m"uu action is subject { President Truman. to House approval. It virtually as- That would open up the emer-|gures that the Senate bill will go 108 . TENSIO | N MOUNTS, " YUGOSLAY FRONT; | the Rugsian walk-out on the con- | trol council at Berlin. | The text of the White House | announcement said in part: “Following a review of the pres- ent situation, 1 it has been decided | operated the first roadhouse at Cop- | Secretary of State Marshall. How- per Center. He was postmaster there ' ever, a British Foreign Office from 1902 to 1918, and United States | spokesman denied the report. The Commissioner from 1904 until 1911-:1’-‘mnch sources said the chief topics After 20 years in Alaska, Blix re- of such a meeting would be the | turned to Seattle, where he was &| Marshall plan to reconstruct non- | i postal clerk until recently. { Communist Europe, at a first-year SHOOTING AFFRAY TRIESTE, March 23 —®—An It- set up and going again next week. As for the pien, a litile more help is needed. There will be a work . party each night until the change alian policeman wounded by Yugo- is completed |slav frontier guards in a scrape last juhat it would be inadvisable to{ Funeral service will be held at 2|cost to the United States of $5,- make any changes in our present|p m. today in the Johnson and | 300,000,000 and the 50-year alliance administrative arrangements for | Hamilton Funeral Home, under aus- | of Brllla)n. France and Benelux | Germany. | pices of the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers, countries. i “This decision will not have any|followed by cremation. His widow Strong Words From Seattle: Alice Stewart, Ben| ;ency steps available to the Pres- (4 the White House without change. Stewart, John Peterson, Robert Hal-!.dent under the Taft-Hartley Act.| pouse Speaker Martin (R-Mass) liday, Mary Sue Morgan, Willlam|{ hat law provides first for AP~ | previously has predicted the House Sterling, Henry Hogue, Anne Hogue. | pointment of a Board of Inquiry- lell approve the measure by @& Eilsworth Brandenburg, S. Glg-:whlch Mr. Truman could annuunce[umm.e than three to one” vote and erich, G. McKay, R. Mattson, A.|.cday. After the Board makes itS gend it to Bresident Truman's Soini, Jae: Linden, John Pintaran.|study—a matter of a week or ten!goce tomorrow. y Minard Mill, George Welch, Geo.|days—a court injuvction could be| eGpairman Knutson (R-Minn) Jeffery, Virginia Carter, Charles|sought by Attorney wieneral Clatk|author of the tax-slashing 1,.;5.' Watson, Albert Fleek, w halt the strike. A heavy 1me|jaiion. told reporters: ’ John Jorgenson, R. W. Deweil, | ould be imposed on Lewls and| w1 hope the President wiil fall Harold Bates, James Stone, Eldon B.| his United Mine Workers | night said today he was shot after| ,querce ¢ P 5 it union ¢ rdverse effect on progress toward |survives. Carainal ~Tisseratit. of in line with the popular demand S ee - BPW TO ASSIST SURVEY The Business and Professional Wemen's Club - will assist at the mass chest X-ray each Wednes: day between the hours of 7 to 9 until the completion of the sur- vey. This is announced by char- man of the committee, Earline Hull. KING GOES EAST Chief Machinists ' Mate G. D. King, ¢f the U. 8. Coast Guard Cutter Wachusett, left here on the Baranof for three weeks tem- porary duty at Fairbanks-Morse Co., in Beloit, Wis,, where he will attend a special school S e FROM NEW YORK CITY J. G. Stone of New York City is registered at the Baranof Hotel. The Washingion Merry- 93 -Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Byndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON — It is no secret to the Russians that the biggest thing U. 8. war chiefs have studied in connection with the Russlan showdown is how we could drop the atomic bontb on Russian cities — i 'we have to. It is also no secret that the Rus- sians are obsessed A with the fear :two arguments over where the boun- idary lines lay in the free territory | The guard, Sauro Abbrescia, 23, |was the first reported casualty in {the tension produced here by the | western powers’ proposal to return | Trieste to Italy. | Abtrescia said in an interview he land cpl | patrol yesterday well | British - American - boundary line when they saw two Yugoslav civil policemen on their side of the boun- dary. An argument started over where {the line was. . The Yugoslav police, he said, op- {ened fire with a submachine gun. Abbrescia was struck in the right hand and left knee. He said he and {Auri returned the fire with their | pistols and the Yugoslavs fled. 1 ian area where the border is not well |defined and there have been many | and patrols. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Mar. 23.—(#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, Ameri- {can Can 81%, Anaconda 35, Cur- tiss-Wright 6%, International Har- tvester 86%, Kennecott 50, New York Central 14%, Northern Pac- iric 20, U. S. Steel 72, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 1,160,000 shares. Averagés today are as follows: industrials 173.50, ities 32.73. Lucio Auri were walkingf inside the The scene of the shooting lies in | arguments between opposing police | rails 51.89, util-| | developing German responsibility or self-government and adminis-| initiative.” D HORRIBLE CRIMES OF JAPANESE ARE REVEALED, TRIALS YOKOHAMA, March 23.- ] wrative | iver of a butchered American air- man was described to an eighth Army tribunal today. Maj. Tomenosuke Kusumoto, the former aide to Lt. Gen. Masazumi Inada, testified also that an attempc was made to produce a bedbug in- secticide from the unidentified air- man’'s blood. He said the medical projects were abandoned when the human tissues involved decomposed. Kusumoto, a prosecution witness, iis a defendant in another war crimes Gen. Masazumi Inada, Japanese defendants in this case, which involves charges ranging to the vivisection murder of eight Am- erican B-29 fliers. Filipino Youths fo Get Military Work MANILA, March 23—P—A sup- | {#—An attempt to make medicines from the | trial. He formerly was aide to Lt.| one of 32| B N, CALIF., VISITOR | COMPTO E. Brandenberg of Compton, : Calif,, is in Juneau and register- led at the Baranof Hotel. | ——ee — HERE FROM PORTLAND E. 8. Humman of Portland is in { Juneau and staying at the Bar- | anof Hotel. | i S A FROM TULSEQUAH, B. C. Ronald Mattson of Tulsequah, B. C, is registered at the Baranof Hotel. BB YL FROM TRAIL, B. C. W. P. Dunbar and H. C. Guger- ich of Trail, B. C, are in Juneau and staying at the Baranof Hotel. e FROM ROSSLAND, B. C. J. G. Jorgenson and C. H. Wat- |son of Rossland, B. C, are stay- ing at the Baranof Hotel. - e - IN FROM FAIRBANKS H. C. Carlisle of Fairbanks is in from Juneau and registered at the Baranof Hotel. e B. C. VISITOR G. H. McKay of British Col- i | | ! Eugene | Italy declared “no menace so grave {as atheistic Communism has ever | threatened Christian civilization.” | These were the strongest words against Communism yet voiced by lan Ttalian prelate. ! The Yugoslav Interior Ministry said the mine explosion at Rachi, near Trieste, which killed 71 per- !sons March 14 was caused “by or- der from outside.” A man bearing !dccuments in the case was killed Ly border guards while attempt- iing to cross the border into Italy, the Ministry said. Premier Alcide de Gasperi fore- cast the possible official attitude | Sunday when he said “we could not accept it (Trieste) for Gor- izia." Cold Shculder In Washington American offi- cials also turned a cold shoulder to the Yugoslav swap offer. Nervous Italians became more jit- tery following a shooting aifray | yesterday between Yugoslav and | Italian border patrols in Trieste. An Italian policeman was hit. At Lake Success, Britain's Sir | Alexander Cadogan told the United | Nations Security Council that the |advance of Communism must be halted. “There are limits beyond whic’) Lavis, Martin Jorgenson, Gard Ken-! nedy, Willlam Stolz. From Fairbanks: Henry M. Hollmann Martinsen, To Seattle: Kirk Jones, William Tuttle, Emma Tuttle, Elton Eng- strom, B. J. Hilderbrand, Carl Foss, Diane Hunsbedt. Francis Mix, Lorraine Mix, R. E. Hanson, J. Wilson, S. P, Stomelli, D. C. Sharp, Roy Carrigan, CHff Goodman, ‘To Whitehorse: George and Mrs. Maddocks, Joe Hinshaw, Walder Wandler, Ray Newmeier, T. C. Holm- es and L. Bermel. To Fairbanks: Martin E. and Pat- ricia Sather, Alden Willlams, Burt Linne and Jo Ann Linne, Mr. and Mrs, Dale Hojem and children and Al Polet. To Nome: Russell Maynard. e BULLETINS SEATTLE, March 23.—(®—A rail- road construction worker, Virgil C. Cokeley, 31, of Tacoma, was electro- cuted yesterday. Coroner John P. Brill Jr., saild a wire being strung by the crew came in contact with a high tension wire and dropped on Cokeley's head. H. K. Carlisle, and Ida F. f they did not ohey the courtfo: tax reduction, and will not order. veto the bill. i hz does veto it, he is sure to be overridden.” @ The Senate passed the bill e to 1L e “The tax cut is certain. The . ‘veto will be overridden,” Speaker ® Martin said. P o0 0 0 s 00 18 * WEATHER RE (U. 8§ WEATHER BUREAU ® (Past 24 hiurs ending 7:20 a.m. tuduy In Juneau— Maximum, 29; minimum 20. At Airport— minimum 1. WEATHER FORECAS1 (Juneau and Vieinity) Increasing cloudiness to- night and Wednesday with light snow by Wednesday night. Lowest temperature in Juneau near 12 degrees. PRECIPITATI (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. taday In City of Juneau-—None; since March 1, 443 Inches; since July 1, 79.59 inches. At the Airport— None; since March 1, 3.78 inches; since July 1, 48.07 inches. oo 0 . seo o s AL NN MILLER CASE APPEALED | 1 i HOUSE VOTE TOMORROW | WASHINGTON, March 23.—(®— e The House Rules Committe clear- e [cd the way today for a House vote e | tomorrow that will send the Sen- o late's $4,800,000,000 tax-slashing bill ® [ to President Truman. e The House Ways and Means ciCummmee approved it "earlier in | the day. | Speaker Martin (R-Mass) pre- dicted House passage of the Senate- approved bill by a margin of more thar. 3 to 1. | Conairman Leo Allen (R-Ill) told e his Rules Committee: “I hope the o | President is as eager to sign this « [bill giving American taxpayers $4,800,000,000 as he is to sign the | Marshall Plan to give other na- tions $6,300,000,000.” Chair (R-Minn Notice of appeal was filed injgn. 3.’;:".::“:‘;‘:::%@::.;::: J. 8. District Court here today by | was joined by Rep. Doughton of Mtorney Willlam L. Paul. Jr.|North Carolina, senior Democrat galnst the US.A. for James Mil-|o, the committee, in urging the Maximum, 27: . o3 ol I umbia is staying at the Barmmi} Hotel. this tide must not advance and ‘t must be dammed back,” Cadogan said. el HERE FROM BELLINGHAM O. R. Ryan of Bellingham staying at the Baranof Hotel .- - HERE FROM POLARIS i I | | | URGE UMT In Washington, the Senate Arm- ed Services Committee backed Pres- ident Truman’s pleas for quick is er and 22 other persons over 1095 | ryles group to approve the pro- SAN FRANCISCO-A son was korn yesterday to Mrs, Nancy Bridg- 'es, wife of CIO Longshore Leader Harry Bridges. OMAHA—Fire swept through a rest home here early today taking wcres of Juneau tidelands. it was dismissed from District Jourt here last week by District Judge George W. Folta. S eee EIGHT ANCHORAGE VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Morris. and The | cedure for tomorrow’s votz. Nough- ton said he suports the tax bill W G . STEAMER MOVEMENTS Aleutian, from Seattle, scheduled ———————— RUSSELL HOBSON RITES Last rites for Russell Hobson, that the bomb may be drop- ped and that they are frantically | steps to build up America’s mili~ tary forces. Chairman Gurney (R- SD) said 10 of the 13 committee | A. J. Currie of Polaris is in Ju- plementary budget outlay of $1,700,- ! neau and staying at the Baranof {000 for the military training of 13,- daughter, former residents of Ju-'to arrive at 4:30 o'clock this af- the lives of five elderly persons. i neau; Sam Kelly, Arthur Lappi, | terncon, west bound. Grommet Reefer, from Seattle, maneuvering to prevent such an attack. 2 Regarding point No. 1, a glance at the map makes it obvious that there are seven different bases from which U. 8. planes could suc- cessfully take off with a bomb lcad for Russia. They are: Japan, Alaska, England, Italy, Greece, Ice- land and Arabia. A lone-mission bomber flying from one of these bases would be massacred by Russian interceptor planes, of which the Red Army has a fairly large number. How- ever, -seven bomber missions flying from all seven bases simultaneously (Continued on Page Four) who committed suicide last week in his room, will be held at the Charles W. Carter Chapel Thurs- day afternoon at two o'clock with the Rev. Walter Soboleff reading the eulogy. Interment will be in the Evergreen Cemetery. - OLDROYD OVER KINY The Garden Club will present to to the public L. T. Oldroyd of the Extension Service at the Alaska | College at Fairbanks, Saturday evening at 7 o'clock over KINY. He will give a talk on gardening in general and it should be of great interest to those who are planning a summer garden. { 000 young Filipinos this year was approved by the House Appropria- tions Committee today. Training would begin June 1 The United States would furnish military equipment, ammunition and ,other supplies under 'the Military Assistance Pact. WEATHER CONDITIONS IN INTERIOR ALASKA A mass of cold air has penetrat- ed Alaska with temperatures as follows: Barrow 30 below, Fair- kanks 21 below, Dawson 21 beiow, Northway 26 below, | i Hotel. members were convinced both a S .. GRANT PEARSON HERE Grant Pearson, who is in charge of the Sitka National Monument |solute necessity.” and the Glacier Bay Nationa} In Helsinki, President Juho Paa- Park for the National Park Ser- sikivi assured Finns that next July's vice, was a Juneau visitor over parliamentary elections will be the weekend. The famed Mt. Mc-|free; It was the first interview Kinley guide arrived here Satur-|the 78-year-old statesman bhas day on board the Grizzly Bear |granted since the critical discus- and was expected to leave today|sions began on the proposed Rus- by air for Sitka. sian-Finnish friendship pact. B “Perhaps I am a little nalve.” he ANCHORAGE REGISTRATION [said, “but I do not think there will be any war in the near fu- Over 1500 have registered for the | ture.” city election at Anchorage up to| Leaders in other countries were noon of March 19. not so optimistic. SHANGHAI—Milton Reynolds said} J. H. Daws, and Mr. and Mrs. G. today his scientific expedition has limited draft and universal mili- onf 10 days to find the highest{ n Juneau and staying at tary training have become an “ab- mountain in the world. The expedi- | Baranof Hotel. |tion plans to measure Amrie Machin, which has been reported higher than Mount Everest. PARIS—Foreign Minister Georges Bidault's press secretary said to- day a three-power Foreign Ministers Conference was planned in the Uni- ted States next month, but the state- ment was later denied officlally in Paris, Lomdon and Washington. 1 e | IN FROM WHITEHORSE I. MacFarlane of Whitehorse is staying at the Baranof Hotel. Sherrock, all from Anchorage, are the R HERE FROM HOLLYWOOD Mrs. Ida Martinsen of Holly- wood, is registered at the Baranof Hotel. PETERSBURG VISITOR Marguerite Birdwell of Peters- burg is staying at the Baranof Hotel. B HERE FROM SEWARD Mr. and Mrs. Blanchard of Sew- lard are staying at the Baranof Hotel. |due Wednesday. | Alaska scheduled to sall from | Seattle Thursday. | Baranof, scheduled to sail from | Seattle Saturday. | Lucidor due at 4 p.m. today to {load fish at Cold Storage. 1 Princess Norah scheduled south bound tomorrow. | S e,e——— /NO BAND PRACTICE 4 TO BE HELD TONIGHT | Owing to the weather conditions 'and other comlicting engagements |there will be no practice of the Juneau City Band tonight, accord- 'ing to announcement.