The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1948, Page 2

PAGE TWO NEWS ITEMS FROM SITKA (SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE) SITKA, Alaska, March 27—Eas- ter—and still winter hangs on Snow on the ground and the tem- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1948 | for Council; Chuck Pearl for Pub- lic Utilities Board; Bill Rands and Fred Easley for School Board. Smith and their daughter Mrs. Stan|her parents in Philadelphia. Mr.! Westover. Brown is manager of the First Bank | n the Progressive Party ticket| Mr. Meland will help the Smiths of Sitka. those filing were: Dr. W. C. Char-|in starting their new venture and teris for Mayor; Russ Clithero, | hopes to be able to remain in Sitka E. E. Rottluff returned by plane Harvey Brown, E. M. Goddard and |if he can find a less arduous and [Thursday from a brief visit with| Andrew Hope for Council; Leslie|time consuming business, {his wife, in Seattle. where sha nas Yaw for Utilities Board; Keith| |Leen undergoing a complete medi- | Snowden and Wally McDonald xor\ Officers elected by Beta Sigma|cal checkup, for several weeks. He, t |reports Ruby is it as a fiddle and | chool Board. Phi at their regular meeting la Independent Charlotte Mor- | week were: President, Mrs. Harvey |will be returning very soon. ' " an for Council Brown; vice president, Mrs. Ken | Nordby; secretary, | If Community doings don’t slow "Th(- Grill will be managed by Mrs.|week from a two months visit w".h! EVENTS AT GUSTAVUS (SPFCIAL CORRESPONDENCE) 4‘ Du'ch Harbor GUSTAVAS, Alaska, March 20— Representatives of the Park Board were in Gustavus this week to nail a sign on our dock stating that| Fire Aboard. " Motorship at ‘THREE SOLDIERS BURNED T0 DEATH INKOREA BLAZE PUSHAN, Korea, March 31.—(#— Flames destroyed an American Army barracks here today, ant three United States soldiers were burned to death. Another Vessel, Shanghai Bound, :iine ana presumea deac, ana a PU'S ln'O PO” o crew iifth has been hospitalized with a broken leg. | been released. No names have is| perature hovering round freezing . corresponding However, the crocus are up other Plans for the Community House Mrs, Lloyd Tilson; recording secre- down pretty soon, a halt will have they were condemning it as unfic| bults making their appearance. Circu re ting. The circus tary, Mrs. Frank Cashel; treasurer, to be called so we can start from for use and that anyone using it| We will ain celetrate two joste through the Mrs. Robert Hagen. jccratch before we become a psycho- | would do so at their own risk. It| Easters as Russian Easter is late Chan r », are expected | The group decided to hold qulrelpathu town. With all the Loages seems to Ye Olde Reporter that| this year. The s 1l adopted to arrive tiis week. Renearsals for meetings at the Community House|and organizations of a large City, our “Government Of the People the cld Russi of trading e dances areunder way, on tie second and fourth Thursday{in a town of perhaps 3,000 people, BY the People, For the People”, eggs from ho ) e, picking he direction of Jim Reeder of each month. Founders Day(everyone has something or other has turned out to be “Warpings to up candy, cc etc., along the the finest caller in these parts, Banquet will te at Communityjhe has to go to practically every the People” instead. way. Individual 1 shows are in House on April 30, afternoon and night of the week.| That the Park Board has assumed S—— practice by various organizations. First rushing event of the sensnn!We see our friends at Lodge or Club | even this much responsibility or ¢ Bud Hodges garage the Sitka Mo- The High School Band will play was a “Come as you are” party. at{meetings and parties or in church; |rather lack of responsibility, calls | the foot of Maksoutoff Street was destroyed by fire last Sunday evening. For a while it was feared the blaze would spread to the Sitka Mercantile warehouse next door. Mr. Hodge estimated loss to tools, machinery, etc., at $1000. There was no insurance. The building, owned by W. P. Mills, was a total loss. during the dinner hour. Dinner is being served by the Presbyterian Women, Pop and ice cream will be sold by the Teenagers. The Alaska Nati Service is planning a group of northern native dances. The Le- gion Auxiliary will sell balloons and handle the Fish Pond. The Alaska Crippled Children's Association Chapter will \handle the fortune telling booth. The Altar Society is Filing on the Peoples Party tic-|putting on a tumbling act ket this week were: Dan Doyle for| These are only a few of the at- Mayor, Mac McGrath, Raiph Rogge, tractions that are being offered be- Andrew Hope and Ray Jean Blanc tween the hours of 5 and 11 on — Saturday, April for the maintenance of Community Huse which was officially acquired only this week. tors, at Charles Wortman, chairman of the E: r Lily sale for the AGCA Chapter, announced that .about $200 was taken in today through street and house to house sales. | Results of the Easter seals drive ‘)mw not yet been announced, as the returns are not yet all in. How- |ever, the newly organized local ACCA Chapter can take pride in its first project to raise money for Mrs WHITE LAUNDRY is ready to extend Diaper Service to Douglas and Nor- way Point. the Association. Mothers in those communities should The high school students are phone or write to us. busy practicing a play to be pre- Service will begin as sented sometime next month, under soon as a sufficlent the direction of Mrs. Joe Barnas, number have regist- ered. at the High School Gyf. The name of the play has not been announced but has a cast of eight characters. Meeting at the Soley residence on Marine Street, Tuesday, the Presbyterian Ladies Aid elected the following officers for the new year: Precident, Mrs. George Baggen; vice president, Mrs. Jessie Price; secretray, Mrs. Kate Robertson; treasurer, Mrs. Roy Avrit. DIAPER SERVIC $2.50 Per Week Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith have ed Melands Lunch Room ve changed the name to Imitty’s Grill. Mr. Smith, butcher t che Cold Storage Store, plans to his job for the present. Checlc @ur Specials THURSDAY Through SATURDAY o FEUSI & JENSEN, Inc. PHONE 202 DOUGLAS 10, to raise money Moose Hall Thursday evening. An Easter egg hunt and pinning the tail on the hunny were in progress wheu husbands and boy friends crashed the party. The unexpected (Line, with only one meeting a week proved up homesteads, our families at meals or bedtime. belong to ancther lodge’ or church. | If all the organizations could com- o mind a little data regarding this | M y to the Glacier Bay Nmiunali onument. With exception of the it contains| | { | SEATTLE, March 31.—(® | Unable to Quel! Blaze A fire ntinued to eat away at the motor- ip Ocean Mail today as the Coast rd Cutter Cedar ptrepared to take 200 tons of wheat in an effort to get at the blaze. I3 And maybe not then,—as they might | locality. Gustavus Dock is the Gate-| The motorship, enroute from Se- attle to Shanghai, put into Dutch Harbor, Alaska, yesterday when the crew was unable to extinguish a visitors wre promptly put to work |—to take care of all community almost all the land of this area t0|plaze in its No. 4 hold. The fire playing games ‘for the musement. On April 3 The Betas are giving a style show ant Silver Tea at the Mcose Hall. Special attraction will be modelling of the Jantzen col- lection of bathing suits dating from the gay nineties to the pres- sent day. ladies a- and Mrs. M. M. Van Sandt hosts at a dinner party in home last weekend, honoring Miss Pauline Meredith, superinten- dent of the Orthépedic Hospital, who is retiring April 1. Guests included Dr. and Mrs. Philip Moore, Dr. David Schulman and 22 of the nurses from the Hosbital Miss Meredith has done a super- lative job of helping start and or- ganize the hospital and her retire- ment is deeply regretted not only Dr. were their by the Hospital staff but by the townspeople as well, Mrs. Ray Elliott, Mrs. William Wyres and Mrs Bill Hollywood were hostesses at a late buffet supper Monday evening, to celebrate the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Lindquist. Before supper, the guests played games and enjoyed some barbershop harmony singing. Places were ar- ranged for 18. Mrs. Ralph Weeks was honor guest at a stork shower last Sat- urday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Leslie Yaw. Co-hostesses at the affair were Mrs. Roland Woos- ted snd Mrs. Caroline Schultz. Twenty-seven friends were pre- sent, each with a poem about bates or mothers. The Alaska Crippled Children’s Association Chapter met Wednes- day evening at Community House. By-laws were read and accepted; the resignation of vice president Mrs. Frank Calvin due to illness, was accepted with regret and Mrs. Carl Nelson elected to the position; e Treasurer's report was read, howing a bank balance of $623.82. Committee chairmen were announ- ed as follows: Membership, Mrs. ock Calvin; Hospital birthday partics, Mrs. Earl Shennett; Publi- ity, Mrs. Gay Helland; Jar collec- tions, Joe Eisenstein; Junior Guild, Glenn Nelson; Annual Lily Sale, Mrs. Charles Wortman; Cook Book sale, Mrs. Jim Ladely. It was announced that the ACCA cook Looks were on sale in several local stores, entire proceeds to be turned over to the ACCA head- quarters. Also that Easter baskets were being filled and would belihe mail boat Forrester for Juneau. placed on each patients tray Easter morning. It was also learned that several birthday visits had been made to the hospital with four cakes for each party, enough to provide a serving for each in the Hospital. The members voted to serve sim- ple refreshments at each monthly{;¢ meeting and a collection of 15 cents per member for the cost was made. Hostesses for each meeting will be chosen alphabetically from the membership list. Serving at the next meeting will be Mrs. Neill Andersen, Mrs. Leonard Allen Mrs. Roy Avrit and Mrs. Harry Bell. Mrs. Frank Calvin, who has been confined to her home the past three weeks is convalescing satisfactorily. Mrs. Harvey Brown and infant con returned by Totem plane this o VOTE FOR FRANK A. BOYLE TERRITORIAL AUDITOR (Paid Advertisement) iy l Skipper Gus Maci on the boat business—peace— wouldn't it be wonderful! | D 'Elfin Cove | News Noles i v (SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE) | i { ELFIN COVE, Alaska, March 25— | Mrs. Marguerite Butts gave a din- ner Sunday evening guests invited were Mrs. Ernest Swanson, Mrs. | Mary Graves, Mrs. Charles Hub- | bard and Mrs. Del Wimer. Skipper Jim Daly on the bbat! Patrica is in for supplies and with | him is his partner and family St. James is on his way to Hoonah with messages from here as Kl is out of order. Messages can be re- ceived blind but not transmitted. Mrs, Del Wimer is a passenger on the mail boat Forrester for Juneau She is flying to Seattle where she| will meet Mr. Wilmer and the cou-| ple will go to Wallowa, Oregon to visit Mr. Wilmer's Mother who is| ill. Mrs. Wimer expected to be gone two or three weeks. | ESkipper Ray Hammer on the boat Sea Hag with his two sons are in the Cove awaiting the northwest gale to calm before sailing. The Sewing Club was to have met Saturday, but it was cancelled and the ladies called on Mrs, Del Wimer, with all sorts of good eats. It was really a surprise on Mrs. Wi-| be more exact, 2,464,000 acres. To! quote from Outdoor Life Magazine fof September, 1939, it is “Adjacent | rict Coast Guard Headquarters s |to the main lines of steamer ravelithe flames were being held in che and accessible for large and smalliyy o planket of carbon dioxide g craft, it contains some of the fi-) nest scenery in Alaska.” | This 2,464,000 acres one tiona! monument without trying to drive out the few persons who live here permanently and love to call Alaska their home. So the Park | Board has not built one t il nor one shelter, in this Great Park, merely hung a sign on the dock saying ic untit for use! Henry Peterson fiew to Juneau| to be with his family after work-| ing at the airfield here, on con- struction, for a few weeks Gerdy Meyers brought over a| barge load of oil the other day the airfield, but so far has h(‘l’n; unable to unload it because of thej lew tides. It will be a couple mor days before the tides are large| enough, and of course the dock is| now condemned, so it can't be! brought in that way. i Uncle Pearl Haynes went to Ju-| neau on the mailboat and returned | ast mailboat after a pleasant holi-| day in town. ‘The songbirds are arriving from the South in great numbers and they express themselves, on the whole, quite disgusted with the fact that spring has not begun to show up, I yet. For several d the | grove arcund Ye Olde Reporters| home echoed with plaintive peeps and cries. When we began putting | out grains and cereals for them | they rewarded us with real summer | trills and warbles. Robins, wrens,| song sparrows and even the meadow Lroke out Monday. Radio reports to the Seattle Dis- id The Cutter Cedar said it was re- moving all eqiipment in its No. 1 H would (1419 to take the grain from the ship. | {think was sufficient area for a Na- The Ocean Mail is an 8476-ton i (gross) vessel of the American Mail Line. R LTS N A, FRED DUNN, GUEST * SPEAKER, KIWANIS CLUB WEEKLY MEET Du District Traffic Manager for Pan American, was the guest speaker at the Kiwanis Club's regular weekly meeting to- day nocn. He ve hort resumé cf his recent trip to Hawail. He tated that they left San Fran- co and 12% hours later arrived Honoclulu, 8:30 o'cleck in the evening, and were met at the air- port by hula girls with orchid leis and Hawaiian orchestra At 3:30 lock the following merning they went swimming in the surf at Waikiki, near Honolu- He remarked that the av- temperature 74 degrees ear around. Honolulu has re- Fred o in a the Fifty memters of a Signal Corps detachment were routed out just EUROPEANS 'TO ENLIST INUS. ARMY WASHINGTON, March 31.—(®— Immediate voluntary enlistment of 50,600 young Europeans in the Uni- |ted States Army was urged today by Scnator Lodge (R-Mass). Lodge, an Army officer in the re- cent war, asked the Senate Armed before dawn oy the fire. It des-|Services Commitfee to authorize en- troyed a two-sicry barracks and an :h tment of the “cream of the young orderly room. Officers estimate 'manhood of Europe.” the damage ut one-half million| The foreign volunteers would be dollars. | carefully screened and be eligible for e P |citizenship after five years under | Lodge’s proposal. PARACHUTE FAILS | T0 OPEN; FLIER IS i * DROPPED T0 DEATH ‘| COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, March P—A flier plunged to his death | 31. | near here last night when his para- | chute failed .to opegn as he jumped | from his diving plane only 200 icet] above the ground. | The victim was Dean Baldw Cocur D'Alene. | A witness to the crash, Fay Diag-| 1, said the plane suddenly nosed | over In a steep. dive. As Baldwin jumped, hi parachute streamed from his pack but faiied to open. His body was found 200 feet from shattered wreckage of the plane icials at Weeks Field here saia the youth was preparing for a com mercial license test. The plane was owned Aviation Industries, ¢ Coear D'Alene flying service. - CAB HAS REACHED 95 5, | of o O DECISION OF AIR SERVICE, HAWA WASHINGTON, March 31.—®— Senatcr Magnuson (D-Wash) said l e understood the Civil Acr rd has reached a| dec oving establithment i r service. (Lines Such a plan, he said, would cut down the number of mén required by the proposed temporary draft and also aid in starting the universal military training program. Herry A. Wallace attacked plans for strengthening the Armed Forces yesterday before the Committee. There was no sign, however, that his opposition to the Government’s “stop Russia” policy switched any votes in Congress on UMT or the draft Committee Chairman Gurney (R- D) told a regorter: “It is evident Congress will pass some form of sel- ective service and may adopt a uni- versal military training program. e PASSENGER AGENT AT SEATILE NAMED FOR ALASKAT. 0. SEA'TTLE, March 31.—Appoint- |ment of J. H. (Jack) du Feu, veter- an steamship passenger transpor n Company, is announced by S. J. anson, Vice President, at the com- n office here The company plans to enter the Puget Sound-Southeast Alaska pas- senger vice in May, with the mer New York-Caribbean cruise liner George Washington, now un- dergoing overhaul and alterations. Du Feu began his career in steam- p passenger transportation in 1911 a ) ul purser aboard s S the United Fruit Company in the Caribbean and Central-South Am- erican service on the east coast. He went to Vancouver, B. C., n 1920 as passenger agent for the Royal Mail in British Columbia and Al- berta Provinces. He later ‘was ap- nted assistant Pacific Coast man- ger for the line, in San Francisco. In 1926 he bacame travelling pas- senger agent for the International Mercantile Marine Co., after its sw mer. The ladies presented her with |jarks are here in numbers. A mea- a blouse for her trip south and fl“‘dcw lark put on quite a show yes- enjoyable evening was had. |terday. Thers was a puddle in the, ipath and he got into it over his, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Larson gave|leg feathers and up to his body a dinner Sunday. Guests invited and how he splashed and washed | were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Strum,ihimself in that puddle, paying no Mrs. Marguerite Butts and Mrs. Del|attention at all to the fact that Wimer. | the snow was a foot deep all around | his puddle. We shivered as we| watched but he continued washing| Nels Bjkerness is installing a new covered considerably from the Magnuson told a report- crushing blow she received 1irom “does not mean final ap]’)‘ro‘u\l the Japs® at ‘Pearl “Harbor and the route by any means. The | the residential districts have been posal first m ¢ be approved repaired for the winter touri several go ment departments The strects are lined with c clved in such an off-shore line,, nut palms and banana tree nd finally it must be approved by There is an air service between dent Truman.” |the islands and it was the 2004\ yno GAB declincd comment on | % g i 3 Four airlines have asked author- | view t many pineszpple groves ;. to operate between Hawaii and end suger cane fields. At HIo,|ype pacific Northwest. The board where they landed on the eXCUr- ,aq g hearing on the applica- sion trip and where the Pan tions last fall. American conference was held, they S i were again met by a Hawaiian SEVEN 10 BE TRIED Dunn stated that this was the first conference that the PAA has [ Y4 held @ that they have four FOR ATOM'( GolD flights a day out of San Francisco | Universal engine in his boat Amor, new tanks and making other re-| pairs. C. A. Mortensen is assisting. Mrs, Ernest Swanson gave a din- ner Monday evening and guests invited were, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Strum, Mrs. Marguerite Butts, and Mrs. Del Wimer. Roy Clements is a passenger on Mrs. Pete Brunger is taking care of Mrs, Wimer’s Cocker-spaniel dog | Pug while she is away. Pug will have a good pome. Skipper Dick Fitzgibbons on the|yjful with really old fashioned quilt-|of an excit soat Violet,” who lives in Cordova,| here awaiting weather before leavng for home. Mrs. Mary Graves is slightly ill with a cold but has continued to teach school. Mrs. Charles Hubbard is ill with a chest cold. She was having troub- le with her stoves, she called Jim Lingard and has them working again. It is 15 degrees above zero here and clear. and splashing for more than five minutes. Mr. and Mrs. little Larry returned from Juneau last Friday. Mr. James was in town for medical care and expects to re- turn there for another operation in the near future. day after a trip to Seattle where she was called by the death of a relative. Quilting has become the fad among the ladies here during these wintry days. The quilts are beau- ing and not merely comforter tack- ing for finishing. Mrs. Archie Chase has just finished a gorgeous quilted “Star of Texas” Mrs. Nell Parker has also completed a star designed one. Mrs. Betty Bonn is making almost see the windmills turning. cabin pattern. Mrs. Fred Matson is making one of a small block design with a background of sun yellow and Mrs. Alice Johnson is putting Pete James and | Mrs. Jess Jones returned Thurs- | the Dutch Windmill and you can! Miss Alice White is making the log| together a beautiful applique pat-| tern of bunnies for little Camille, | the top of which was appliqued by;l Mrs. Don D. Foster entertained | carryin 2 S SCHEME ON JURE 1 {air 1 and passengers to the | = | Islands. | i All business firms and managers! SPOKANE, March 31 —(®—Trial in Henolulu go all out to be polite jof seven persons on charges that and are more like friends in assist- (they used the mails to bflk'Ncnh-l ing in suggesticns in sight-seeing |west investors of more than $200,-! tours about the Islands. {000 in an “atomic gold recovery| Dunn said people on the outside jscheme” will begin June 1. | should be made Alaska conscious,| Federal Judge Sam S. Driver set| and all Service Clubs, Chambers of |the new hearing date yesterday af-| Cemmerce and the people of Ju-|ter denying a motion by Attorney| neau and Alaska as a whole, should | Thor Ulvestad to dismiss charges | make a combined effort to adver- Against five of the seven defendants. | tise Alaska, especially the South-| Previously the trial date had been east secti that is easily reach- ,”l for May 17. The additional time | ed by the various means of trans- iS tO permit preparation of the case | portation. Alaska has the future|Py attorneys. | summer vacation | Gy PR R | land and the progress should *’“JUMPER H“‘(H "ow } the time is ripe. i S(“EDU“D 10 SAIL pushed to the fullest extent while | Bill Feero was introduced to the| club as | following a and the | new member were visitors: Stanley| SEATTLE, -March 31— The B. Baskin, Assistant District At~ [mOtor vessel Jumper Hitch is sched-} torney; Lorin T. Oldroyd, Profes- |Wled to sail April 8, the Alaska [sor of Aericulture at the Univer- Steamship Company announces. {sity of Alaska, and Ed Ellis of General cargo will be received at {the State Steamship Co. in sfi_;?mr_ 42 up to 3 p.am., A{)rn 6 for| attle. yMetiakatla, Ketchikan, Pillar Bay, | Ellamar, Seward, and Alaska Rail- iroad points. # { Laid up since March 22 for annual 2‘ DEAD’ ‘1 HURI |inspection and minor repairs, the S Mrs. Marguerite Butts and Mrs. Del Wimer at dinner Wednesday evening. The boats Dixie and the Josie Mrs. Pete Moe. D Mrs. Hearsl Réieives stopped in the Cove from Pelican City on their way to Juneau. Mrs. Mary Graves held the Sew- ing Club in the school room Friday evening. The room was very beauti- | ful with Easter Decorations the children made of paper and cray- Divorce on Grounds 0f Mental Cruelty » GOODING, Idaho, March 31.— —Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr., - WHEN TRAIN BLOWS UP NEAR PALESTIHE JERUSALEM, March 31—®— Cairo-Haifa train was blown up on [th Palestine coastal plain today and 24 persons were killed, the Govern- |ment announced. Sixty-one persons were injured. ons. There were hen and baby|was granted a divorce yesterday on| The blast occurred at Binyamina, chickens, bunniés and Easter Lilies. The paper window curtains were blue. The table setting was very colorful and unique. The place cards were Easter Lilies. In the center was a real bird nest with Easter Eggs. The candle holders were small green paper holders. A fruit salad, brown nut-bread and butter sandwiches, deviled eggs and gin- ger served for lunch. Everyone enyoyed the evening. el ELICAN VISITO! | Capt. A. J. Raatikinen, from Pelican, is in Juneau and staying at the Gastineau Hotel. grounds of mental cruelty. District Judge Doran H. Sutphen awarded the decree which confirmed a property settlex;nent previously agreed upon by the principals. Af- ter the hearing the divorce action papers were sealed from public in- spection by a court order. Mrs. Hearst, who writes newspaper and magazine articles under the cake chews and coffee was|name of Lorelle Hearst, took up re-| sidence at Sun Valley, Idaho, Feb. 33 Hearst, publisher of the New York Journal American and son of the founder of the Hearst Newspaper chain, did not contest the divorce action but did file a general denial of Mrs. Hearst's allegations. 20 miles south of Haifa. The engine and four coaches of the train were derailed. The train was enroute to Haifa, major Palestine port. A Government spokesman said he believed there were few if any Brit ish among the casualti2: .o — ASKS FORECLOSURE Theresa Hartley, of Sitka, filed suit in U. S. District Court here teday requesting foreclosure of a mortgage against Katherine Bilo- deau, also of Sitka. The suit, plac- ed by Attorney Hubert A. Gilbert, states the mortgage amounts to $2,300 plus six percent interest. ' Sumper Hitch is expected to be re- issioned April 2. Two I_)ebm; iiy Before Completely Free, Says Judge NEW YORK, March 31—@#—In |addition to paying his debt to society by serving time in prison, a safe- cracker must pay an insurance com- {pany for damage he did to a vault |and safe, a State Supreme Court {jury ruled yesterday. The amount is $812—including in= erest—and it will be easy lor the (cunv)ct, 33-year-old Stanley Patrek, |to pay. He has $15,000 in bank ac- j counts, Justice James B. M. McNal- |ly noted. | e WASHINGTON—A bill putting a purchase of the White Star Line, (later being tranferred to Seattle and Portland and assistant general ngers agent. : was a member of the passen- |ger department of the Alaska Steam- hip Cn., here from 1941 to 1947. In addition, du Feu was assistant se director on New York-West In- idies cruises for the Royal Mail Lines and assistant cruise director aboard the International Mercantile Marine Co.s S. S. Belgenland dur- ing its da luxe world cruise in 1928- 29. He is married and lives at 1420 Warren Ave. | pa | VNPV Baby Walks af Ag 0f Nine Days; Put Ad in Newspaper LEWISTON, Me, March 31—(# —Baby Robert Normand Kolreg, who walked at the age of nine days—with support—is showing off. An advettisement in the Lewis- ton Daily Sun today armounced visiting hours for “people wanting to see walking 10-day-old baby.” (Robert is 12 days old today.) The ad was placed after many persens had come to see the In- fant, members of the family said; adding that everyone left a little something for the baby. Return I;Eoi Money System Is Now Being Urged NEW YORK, March 31.—(#—Re- turn . to a gold money system s urged by 42 members of an econ- cmists group who contend the pres- ent system in this country tends to lessen the purchasing power of the doliar. The group, members of the Econ- omists’ National Committee ‘oa monetary policy, issued a state- ment yesterday supporting a con- gressional bill to allow citizens to own gold coins and to make paper money redeemable in gold coin. The committee was formed in 1933 after the Jollar had been devaluated and other mew fiscal measures put into effect by the Roosevelt administration. It is de- scribed by Arthur W. Crawford, a member of the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce, as being of “the more 37 1-2 percent tax on platinum fox furs was passed by the Senate and |sent to the House today. When the 1930 Tarriff Act was written, there were no such furs and no duty was imposed on them, or less orthodox school, of conser- vative tendencies.” ,e > About two-thirds of the people in the United States who obtain divorces have no children. an