The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 29, 1948, Page 1

VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,848 BIG AIR BASE IDENTIFIED AS EIELSON FIELD Is Reponefiquipped fo Accommodate Army's | Giant B-36 Bomber DENVER, March 29.—(®—An Al- askan air base now is equipped to accommodate the Army Air Forces'' Giant B-36 bomber, the Denver Post said in a story published last night. The hitherto highly-secret base, once known as “Mile 26,” has been named Eielson Field, and is, accord- ing to the Post, so located as to serve for launching air attacks on any ! spot in the Northern Hemisphere. | Only three fields in continental ' United States, aside from Eielson, have been previously announced as| capable of handling flights of B- 36's on a regular basis. These are lo- | cated at Fort Worth, Tex., Elgin Field, Fla., and Wright Field, Ohio, | The story said announcement of Eielson Field's existence was approv- { ed only today by proper official sources. Prior to this time, its exis-. tence had been screened behind a| cloak of official silence, and even| now its exact location—other than | that it is about 26 miles southeast of | Faircanks is guarded information. Significance of the announcement was added to the statement earlier this week by Air Secretary Stuart Symington in Washington that our B-29's based in Alaska and Labrador, | could make bomb runs over any por- tion of the Soviet Union. The Air Forces have announced: that the B-36 could carry an atomic | bomb to any inhabited region in the | world and return home without re- fueling. i The plane is designed for a normal | range of 10,000 miles with 10,000 pounds, without extra fuel tanks. The Air Forces have 100 of the giant six-engined bombers on order. SENIORS TAKE OVER | PAA ON TUESDAY 1 Tomorrow the seniors of the Ju- | neau High school will be in charge of the operation of the Pan Ameri- | can Airways city offices and field | operation at the airport. The stu-| dents will / report at the regular/ office schedule of 8:30 ‘tomorrow | morning and continue throughout the day with part supervision of the regular personnel. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Special School Election Is Tomorrow; Parficulars Given; Polls Bpen g A M fo7 Basic facts about Tuesday’s Spec- ial School Election: Time: Tuesday, March 30, 9 am. to 7 p.m. Polling Places: Juneau City Hall; | PAA. Building Auk Bay; Territor- | ial School Tee Harbor. Eligible Voters: U. S. Citizens 21 or over, resident one year in Terri- tory and thirty days in proposed district. Propositions: 1. To establish an P.M. School Board which it will replace at a date to be set by the U. S. District Court. In addition this new Board of Directors shall have the power, and it shall be their duty, to determine the amount of money which will need to be raised to operate and maintain the schools. In general, jthis is 25 percent of the cost of teachers’ salaries, educational sup- “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . ST JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1948 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NO"BIG3" MEET SAYS PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, March 29.—®— The White House said today that no “Big Three” meeting is in pros-| pect and President Truman has no plans to leave the United States. Presidential Press Secretary Chas G. Ross made this asserfion to a news conference, He had been asked about a report out of London that | | Mr. Truman, Soviet Generalissimo Stalin and British Prime Minister Attlee might meet in Berlin. BARUCH IN Fairbanks Struck by Gale; APPEAL FOR ACTION NOW Wants UMfA_Iso Tempor- ary Draft Approved - Maybe Other Controls WASHINGTON, March 29.—(®— Bernard M. Baruch today asked | Congress for “action now” approv-, ing universal military training and | | a temporary draft. He said “the time | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 29.— | [P—A 60 to 75 mile an hour galc | - 16Parked Planes Wrecked “mg 16 parked planes at the Muni- SIEAMERS AGA'“ BE cipal Airport, toppling telephone and | | 1po-.v.~r poles, uprooting trees and do- | opERATED BY Govl | ing minor damage to buildings. | | » | Forecaster Snider said the wind-! ‘storm was the worst in the 40 years |of ,Weather Bureau records. The gale swept in from the west and extended over a vast area of Central Alaska from the Brooks to) Alaska Mountain Ranges, Strongest | winds of 100 miles and hour were reported at Lake Minchumina, 150 miles southwest of Fairbanks. 'Return to Wartime Plan | Recommended by Mel- lon of Maritime Com. plies, janitorial service and other | Ross said that beyond denying | for study is over.” . | WASHINGTON, March 20.—(@- Independent School District to In- | oxpenses of operation. The cost of Clude all of the area centering ngingining the school plant and about Juneau on east side of Gas- | equipment in repair and the tineau Channel. cost of new equipment, rests one 2. To elect five School Direct-|y nqred percent upon the district, ors for the District if established. | Property Appraisal Decision: Majority vote of the entire area“for the district. | For Directors, the five persons | receiving the most votes. Voting i‘”'uutsldo of the Juneau City limits for five members. | |on the came basis as is used to ap- | praise property within the city. Tomorrow the voters of Juneaw,|p,ying determined the valuation Thane, Auk Bay and Tee Harbor | . .11 ot the property, and know- will go to the polls to de(ermlnewmg the value of property with- whether the proposal to estsblish:m the city it shall set a rate of an Independent School District t0 | taxation which will be equal both serve the entire area shall bejgge and outside the city lim- adopted. y |its for the support of the schools. The proposition to be placed be-|rTne tax moneys collected may be fore the voters is one Pr"""s"‘dhxsed for school purposes only by the present qunesu Public The present school buildings School Board and its Supermteu-}ow“ed by the City of Juneau will necessary dent. It has been endersed bY | cntiue to be used. It is pro- the Juneau City Council an the|ycple that this facilities will be Parent-Teachers Association. | turned over to the new district The Juneau Public Schools Cm._'fur the nss‘umplion of the present rently provide public school fac-lbm‘de“ obhganonv standing against |them. The maintenance of this ilities for all the people residing on the east side of the Gastineau Channel except for a one-teacher school operated by the Territory at Tee Harbor. alone. Under the proposed Independent| Additional cost for the opera- School District, the service to this;tion of schools will arise only area will remain the same. The|from the cost of appraising prop- present schools will continue to op- |erty and collecung taxes. 'I‘l?is is erate and the present transpona-l"?“e to the previously mentioned tion system will be continued. The | 1act that the school now serves Tee Harbor school would be taken |8l of the children of this area over by the Independent @School | 80d Will not as a result of this District. This change in m,gmm_vchange have any increased enroll- tion would not affect the Minfield | Ment- Home in any way as it is not a| Three polling places have been Public School. j established for tomorrow’s election. In Juneau, at. the City Hall; | Auk Bay, at the old Pan-American | building, and in Tee Harbor at the | Territorial School house. The polls an Todependent, Bohool District 16| T 0o Open SHARID 8y m. to 1., . m. and any eligible voter may cast primarily one of finance. While | serving the entire east side of |Dis vote at any: one of the three the Gastineau Channel the present | polling places. property would then become the responsibility of the Independent | School District rather than the city Financial Proposal The reason for the proposal to change from the present Juneau Public School system to that of in | erous occasions. | Mr. Truman has said repeatediy | |that he would be glad to see Stalin| Having determined the amount|and Attlee in the United States, but | gram to support the schools'that he has no intention of leaving | tarily the Board will appraise all property’ the country for any such confer- | impa i He said it would “upset prices and|gperated with the present lines act- | 1946. ence, From time to time, various people | | have suggested that discords in Rus- | sian-American | eased by a personal meeting of Mr. Truman and Premier Stalin. Senator Pepper (D-Fla) who pro- posed yesterday that Mr. Truman confront Stalin personally with a| plan for peace “in a last dramatic |effort to prevent the horror of an- ;ov.her unspeakable war.” | ACTION DEMANDED " ON CONSTRUCTION OF DEFENSE WORK \Improvements Include | Ladd Field, Fairbanks, | { forNavyatAdak | WASHINGTO:, March 2049~ |A House Armed Services Subcom-| Imittee will demand that Repub-| |lican leaders pin a “must” tag this| |week on $353,000,000 worth of Army, | | Navy and Air Force construction. | | The projects, already trimmed |down from a $5000,000,000 request, | |have been awaiting Congressional | approval since last year. | Chairman Bates (R-Mass) reporters today the Services cannot | shave another nickel off Lhelr_prm‘ gram, and Congress should get lt) {rolling without more delay. | The chaiman said the $353,000,000 = ‘clock T mornii Do B Hidy ot school district’s boundaries are ! To be eligible to vote the in-|asked would finance a good start on itlmt a “Big Three” meeting is plar-| The white-haired adviser to Presi- ; Return of wartime operation of Ined, he could not add to what M- dents also urged a hold-in-reserve | cteamship lines to Alaska was re- | Truman himself has said on num-|law permitting revival of wage and|commended today by a member of | estimated in the thousands of dol- controls if needed. told the Senate Armed Ser- Committee the proposed pro- to make America strong mili- jould have a ‘tremendous on the nation’s economy. price He vices living conditions.” But the United States, Baruch relations might be declared, must make itself strong to bring atout “the stability in the | world which lasting peace requires.|yiewpoint,” Mellon said. “The Gov- | One of the latest to voice it is|If it fails to muster all its resources | erpyment should accelerate mnmm.:erluxmng them and snapping ll\eir’ for peace, there will be no alterna- tive but to mobilize for war, in the future.” Senator asked Morse (R-Ore) { Baruch how much this country could | pogition to attack our industrial cen- spend on military preparedness “;md still have a stable economy. | | Morse estimated the program Prob-|supmit to the committee within a| ably will cost $5,000,000,000. “I think we have about reached the limit,” Baruch replied. WAR MOVES BEING MADE, NORTH KOREA (Editor's Note: Roy Roberts, Associated ress correspondent in Seoul, Korea, who on Friday was the first to report Soviet-spon- sored North Koreans repeatedly | broadcast invitations to South Kor-| told | €ans to take part i setting up a| | Russian-controlled Korean govern- | ment, today visited the boundary between the U. S. and Soviet occu- pation zones. This is what he found.) By ROY ROBERTS Damage to the 16 plarfes at Weeks Field, the Municipal Airport, was Ithe Maritime Commission, | Grenville Mellon told a House| | committee on Alaska transportation resulting from the storm, which had | lpmblems that this step should be |slackened to 25 miles an hour by 2/ i taken because of military require- | p-m. The previous record wind here ments. He said the service can hg;wm 46 miles an hour in October, | lars. ‘There were no reports of injuries ling as general agents for the Gov-| High velocity winds in the Fair- | ernment. | banks area are extremely rare. ol “We must recognize the import- Weeks Field was left strewn with| ance of Alaska from a national | Wreckage after gusts had sent light aireraft tumbling end over end, ov- ition of this essential military out- | Wings | | post. | Two larger planes, a C-46 owned | | “If an enemy foreign power threw by the Wien Airlines and a C-57 op- | us out of Alaska, it would be in a fine | erated by the Lavery Airways, were Ladly damaged but officials of the| | ters.” lines said they protably could be Mellon said the Commission will ! repaired. i | es. tacross the field. The Lowry hanger the West Coast, including Los An-JSH o IS A RE FI R ED ttle. He said the present service, Mellon added service to Alaska | | | there were three highways to the Th"d A"empt on llfe 0‘ | | | S|a 'e WINDSOR, On', March 20.—#-—! Consul here | week a plan for operation of the lin-|Was hit by a small plane careening {ry merchandise from any port on S e it s present service operates from Se- a | Government ships, is not flexible | o 'WINDSOR, ONTARIO 1] {adian ships. And he said he wished/ i L o S ' «an Official, Reported 3€(Y. 0 ‘clues today to the stealthy assail- ars a oes ant who fired two gunshots last| |night at John Bankhead, American {he drove up to his Riverside Drive ‘The Lavery twin-engine tmmportl | He said they would be able to car- | also Wwas partially unroofed :gexes, as well as from Seattle. The | ATU.S. CONSUL IN | which three companies operate with e \ should include cooperation by Can- ’Temzory instead of one. . John Bankhead, Ameri- | Ontario Provinciul Police Sougm’ | ! 2 i { Bankhead said the shots, appar- | | o I o n a ently fired from hehind a tree, struck the rear door of his car as | | ]‘ BOGOTA, Colombia, March 29_‘.‘h0m€ He was alone in the car. DEMANDS MADE ON RUSSIA Atom Bomb Talk Again fo Forefront-Other Inter- national Affairs (By The Associaied F.ess) Great Britain, France, Canada and China demanded in the United Nations today an end oi talk on Russia’'s scheme to prohibit atom bombs. The denounced Russia’s propos- als as inadequate and unrealistic, capable of helping an aggressor nation gain overwhelming military supremacy and lulling peoples into a sense of false security. The United States, through Bers nard M. Baruch, proposed atom bomb control nearly two years ago. The Baruch proposal would dis~ pose of existing atom bombs and set up an effective world control system, divorced from the U. N. veto. The Russians countered with a scheme for outlawing the bomb immediately, with controls to be worked out later. The fruitless talk has gone on since. Baruch Makes Plea Baruch today urged Congress to enact promptly universal military training and selective service legis- lation to achieve stability and last- ing peace, He called also for an “econcmic mobilization plan.” “The time for decision has come; there is no reason for pani¢ of even fright,” the Elder Statesman told the Senate Armed Services Committee. “The resources, econ- omic, military and spiritual, which the free peoples of the world hold are vastly superior to those which the totalitarians can command.” War-Like Move, Korea A reporter visiting the demarca- tion line between U, S, and Russian troops occupying Korea found So- viet soldiers and North Korean villagers building trenches, foxholes and gun emplacements at -their - boundary. There was no explan- ation and no similar activity on the American side. The trenches command roads in the five val- leys having the main travel routes - between North and South Korea, the peninsula wrested from Japan after the war, Gen. MacArthur invoked a general strike ban to stop spreading walk- outs of Japanese government work- ers. In China, the National Assem- bly mef to elect Chiang Kai-shek there will be a photographer at the ! PAA offices to photograph the substitute personnel in their re- ' spective positions and regular work will begin at 9 o'clock when the offices will be opened to the pub- |} lic. At the personnel noon hour the student ! will be the guests of Pan' American at the Baranof and at the Field Cafe. The Washington| Merry- 93 -Round By DREW PEARSON 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) (Copyrignt, ator Taft: While you and I are in frequem‘ disagreement, I have considerable admiration for your courage and tenacity. May I therefore present for your consideration a problem of vital importance to all of us. As you know, the Administration is now planning to embark on a gigantic arms program, including thousands of jet planes, new rocket-launching guns, submarines that can carry rockets close to en- emy shores, new airplane carriers which can launch bombers, fast merchant ships powerful enough to outiun submarines, and thous- ands of steel-consuming guided missiles. In addition the National Defense Department urges a lend-lease pro- gram whereby we would equip the armies of democratic nations inl Europe. While this program may not all| be adopted, yet if only half of it— including the aviation program which you yourself favor—is adopt- ed, it will result in the greatest| inflation this nation has ever seen. Already we face a steel short- age. Already our railroads are hard up for freight cars. Automobiles| are still short in supply. The man- | power shortage still handicaps! many industries. Electric power' is so low in the West that Cali-! fornia. is on daylight saving. Last | (Continued on Page Four) only those of the City of Juneau. As a result the financial burden af maintaining the public schools, except for tuition paid by the Ter- ritory which does not equal the cost of education, rests entirely upon the people within the City Limits despite the fact that the children of the entire area are being given an education. The people who reside within the city and the Juneau Municipal dividual must be 21 years of age iol' over, be a U. 8. citizen able ito read and write, must have re- sided in the Territory for one year immediately prior to the date of the election and within the boun- | daries of the proposed district for | the last thirty days. No registra- | tion is necessary prior to going to | the polls. The result of the election | will be determined by a majority |of the votes cast at all polling places when combined. government cannot be expected to long continue the support of the present situation. Particularly is, this true when a need already ex- | ALASKA DOCKS TODAY ists for additional school facilities and this need has arisen largely from the growth of the areas sur- rounding the city. One basic question which will be decided at the polls tomorrow is| ASHINGTON— Memo to Sen-|Whether the Juneau area shall re-| main a single united school com- munity or will eventually divide itself into several small districts. In the event of failure of the pro- posal the Juneau Public School | Board might be forced within the |next few years to exercise its legal right to exclude all children re~ siding outside of the Juneau City limits. Five Man Board The Independent School District would be under the control of a five man Board of Directors elected by the people of the entire area. Six persons have filed for election to this Board and their names will appear on the ballots at to- morrow’s election. They are: Rob- ert M. Akervick, Douglas P. Bab- cock, Mrs, Daniel D. Vivie, Mrs. Ruth Popejoy, Dr. Joseph O. Rude and Woodrow M. Triplette. If the Independent School Dis- trict proposition is favored by a majority of the voters then the five candidates receiving the larg-: est numker of votes will become the Board of Directors for the Inde- pendent School District. Duties Of Directors The Board of Directors will have the power to “establish the policies get, choose the Incation of any future schools, employ personnel to operate the schools and gen- erally maintain the educational system in the same manner as it is done by the present Juneau | . WITH 15 PASSENGERS The steamer Alaska arrived in |Juneau from the south at 8 o'clock this morning with 15 passengers. She is scheduled to leave at 11 o’- clock tonight on the triangle route. Passengers are Mr. and Mrs, P. E. | Privett, J. R. Bean, Mitchell Bean, Mrs. P. Kegstra, Harry Kegstra, Sam Hamada, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Fletcher, Mrs. Wella Swendson, and Karen and Marjorie Alstead. Passengers aboard for Haines are T. Kepinski, Tommy Kelpinski, W. | Pastor, Mrs. W. Pastor, K. E. Teston. | For Skagway: Mrs. Gladys Wil- liams, Raymond’ Williams, John Wil- | liams. For Sitka: Mrs, D. L. Porter, John | Visie, Mrs. John Visic, Leslie Visie, |R. J. Powers, Mrs. R. J. Powers, H. | W. Sopke, Mrs. H. W. Sopke. i R. 8. McConnell, Mrs. R S. Mc- i Connell, C. N. Gould, Mrs. Dorothy Cleveland, Mrs. Charles W. Hughes, Chas. Hughes Jr., Sharon Hughes, | Fred Byram. KIWANIS (LUB FREE SHOW FOR KIDDIES HUGE SUCCESS SAT. The Kiwanis Club free show and | Easter treat Saturday, March 27, for | |of the schools, determine its bud-. the kiddies of the Gastineau Chan- nel area was a huge success as re- ported by President Gene Vuille this morning. Over 700 children from |Juneau and Douglas attended the special show and holiday celebra- tion at the Capitol Theatre. Beebe, Mr. and Mrs. K. Alstead, H. J. | | essential projects, but the bill prob- !ably would run to $500,000,000 before Ithe work could be finished. | The Aif Force wants $3,500,000 to {build two secret installations in | Newfoundland, $12,270,677 for air |fields in the Mariana Islands in the Pacific, and $20,694,850 to improve |Ladd Field in Alaska. { The Overseas Program would cov- | er approximately $16,000,000 for Navy activities at Adak, Alaska. SR e 'Alaska Republicans | Philadelphia Hofe PHIL;.«:ELPHIA, March 29—® —Delegates to the Republican Na- tional Convention opening June 21| will take over virtually every first] class hotel room in the city i ! J.Kenneth Bradley of Connecti- cut, who is in charge of conven»‘ Iuon housing facilities, said yes=| terday the delegates will be hous- | ed in some 25 Philadelphia Hotels. | The assignment by states includes: Alaska: Essex, Whittier. e TERR., FED., OFFICES, | | BANKS CLOSED TUESDAY 1 All Territorial, Federal and City| offices and banks will be closed| tomorrow in observance of the Ter- ritorial Holiday, Seward Day. The Juneau public schools are still on| their Easter vacation but will return to their respective classes Wednes-| day morning at the usual time - { FAIRBANKS VISITOR } ! Warner Rueken of Fairbanks is in Juneau and staying at the} Baranof Hotel, iy Al JOINS F-WL SERVICE Miss Marie Fueston, formerly of| Sacramento, Calif, arrived here yesterday via PAA to join the re- gional office staff of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Juneau. HERE FROM SITKA Anna and Malfred Soley from | Sitka are staying at the Baranof Hotel. | OUTPOST 18 ON 38TH PAR- | (p—Secretary of State Marshall re- |ALLEL, KOREA, March 29—®— ceived a rousing ovation today upon ' Soviet soldiers and North KOI"eBHlan-lvgj for the Pan-American Con-| | villagers are digging trenches, fox- |ference opening tomorrow. | | holes and gun emplacements along | The crowd of 5000 greeting him| | the 38th parallel dividing the So- at Techo Airport and other thou-| | viet and American occupation zones |sands on his route to the city was of Korea, the largest to greet any of the dlplo-| | Americans don’t know why. They | mats assembling from 21 Amerlcan| assume the Soviets ordered the | nations. | World War 2 type of defensive!l Secretary of Commerce W. Averell !line to justify Russian statements|Harriman accomnanied Marshall ‘in to North Koreans — reported by |the flight from Balboa, Canal Zone. lanother occasion his car had been Police found footprints between|the first constitutional President @ post an tree at the driveway en-|of that country, torn by war with trance. | the Communists. It was the third attempt on his| Rumanian Election life in recent weeks, Bankhead said.| The Rumanian government said He reported that poisoned liquor and | the Communist-led bloc obtained candy has been sent to his home. On 90 percent of the vote in Sunday’s elections, The National Liberal and Independent Soclalist parties did not run and the National tampered with, he said. ‘The American Consul has come to attention for his tight border re-|Peasant party—deminant before striction policy. He has attributed | the Communists took over — had this to an effort to keep Communists | been suppressed. » travelers | from the north—that Americans and South Koreans plan to attagk North Korea. N !from entering the United States Ly | | way of Detroit. Violence continued in Palestine between Jews and Arabs. About 100 jwere killed and 200 wounded dur- ' Are Assigned fo Two | S ORI T by American patrols early this| NEW YORK, March 29.—Closing |month..-’rhey presumed the first qubtation of American Can today | few undertakings were firrigation|is 817%, Anaconda 35%, Curtiss-| | ditches. The activity stepped up|Wright 6%, International Harvester | ‘fshflrply about March 9; the nature |86%, Kennecott 51%, New York Cen- of the work became clear. One and [tral 13%, Northern Pacific 10 1-2, ing the weekend. In China, pro-government dis- patches to Peiping said a general government counteroffensive had set back’ Communists fighting through inner Mongolia toward Manchuria. SUSPICIOUS CARGO INSPECTED UPON twe-man foxholes appeared. The ditches became trenches six fcet deep. Sometimes they were connected by small communication trenches 2'% feet deep. Holes 10 feet in diameter were dug and giv- en turrent tops with openings for guns pointed south. No weapons were observed but at least one em- placement contains a bipod mount as large as that for an American | 81 millimeter mortar. S e \TWO ARE ARRESTED FOR JOY RIDE WITH STOLEN AUTOMOBILE ‘Two Juneau youths were arrested yesterday morning by the Territor- ial Patrol and charged with driving a vehicle without the owner’s con- sent. The pair, Bruce Gleason, 20, {and Denny Gallagher, 17, pleaded guilty this morning before U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray who fined each $45 and also suspended their drivers licenses for a period of 90 days. ‘The youths were accused of tak- ing a car, belonging to Walter Her- manson, and driving it fo Douglas at 3:30 a.m. yesterday. They were picked up by Highway Patrolman Al Lubcke thirty minutes later with the car in a damaged condition. The youths agreed to pay for the dam- ages SHIPMENT RUSSIA WASHINGTON, March 29.—M— ‘Congressslonal investigators hurried | to New York today to run down an anonymous tip that U. 8. tanks and anti-aircraft guns have been shipped U. 8. Steel 72%, Pound $4.03%. { Sales today were 760,000 shares, | | Averages today are as follows: In- | i dustrials 173,52, rails 5242, utilities 132,19, | NEW YORK, March 29.—#-A istrike hit the New York Stock and to Russia. Curb Exchanges—heart of the fin-| George Quinn, counsel for a Housc‘ ancial center of the world—today, investigating committee, told news-| |but trading continued without ser- men the committee had received an| ious disruption, iunstxnnd letter from New York tell- | Dignified exchange members and ing of the purported shipment. | brokers, many of them men who; The letter said the anti-aircraft hadn’t been seen on the floor in'Wweapons were boxed and labelled as years, rolled up their sleeves and|machinery. | did their clerk’s work, For the first| “I don't put too much stock in it,” | time since the war women and girls| Quinn said, “but we are not over-| |appeared on the floor of the Ex-|looking any angles on the leakage | change. lof potential war materials from this | Emil Schram, President of the country to Russia and her satellites.” Stock Exchange, said he had not| Rep. Ross Rizley (R-Okla), com-| been able to find any serious effect Mittee chairman, sent two more in- from the walkout. | vestigators to the New York area to “I said we would function and we|check the report, They will rein- | are functioning,” he told newsmen. iturce another committee investigator - who has been on the scene since last mrin WEATHER I" week looking into reports that boxes | JUNEAU NOT 50 600D (and crates are lying “all over the INew York waterfront” awaiting ship- | There was rain, snow, sleet in Ju- | neau on Easter Sunday but at that| |ment to Russia. JUNEAU SAWMILL OPENS | churches were well filled with wor-| | shippers who sloshed through the| The Juneau Spruce Corporation | | slush. Many of the fair sex donned re-opened its sawmill, today and their Easter finery, protected Iy |despite some difficulties from the parasols or umbrellas. The children | weather, Manager 'E. S. Hawkins | of the city had a great day however,said it will remain open indefin- Iexchanglng baskets filled with eggs'itely. The night shift will also land candy report for work tonight Pope’'s Admonition Italians, whose election April 18 will test Communist strength, got the admonition from Pope Pius XII: "“The great hour of Christ~ lan conscience has sounded.” In blessing 400,000 onlookers | from St. Peter's in Vatican City, the head of the Roman Catholic Church said Italy and the world are at the crossroads. From Communist Russia, now negotiating a treaty with neighbor- ing Finland, came accusations | against the military head of near- | by Sweden. The Moscow Army and ‘Navy newspapers, Red Star. and Red Fleet, said the Swedish Army Com- mander-in-Chief, Lt. Gen, Helge Jung, is planning to build bases for United States planes and para- troops in his country. Saturday, the Moscow govern- ment newspaper Izvestia charged the Norwegian government with planning to lease army | bases to the U. S. and Britain. .- LEGION MEET TONIGHT The American Legion will hold their regular meeting tonight in the Post Dugout at 8 o'clock. The regular business discussion is plan- ned for the meeting and refresh- ments will be served after the session. All members are urged to attend and any visiting Legion- naires ure cordially invited.