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PAGE TWO . DOUGLAS NEWS COUNCIIL 1 TONIC The tonight ar the C at t After still the of tr MEETS old Council will step ou > Cour lected votes ca T ill be Pusich term flayor ar second Guy schools and inted Assistant” City Clerk, replacing sister, Grace: Ru who is ¢ cutside ior & ation u mer DIW. CLUB WEDNESDAY The Douglas Isle Woman'’s Club will hold their 1 meet- i ay evening at B o'clock at the Jumeau home of Mrs. Ar thur Walker, whose dence is at 473 Gold t. . Mrs. Leigh 8. Grant wil~ cc-hostess for the evening ‘meeting All members are urged to b present ds- this is the t of election of new officers coming year. Visitor ly invited to tend be mem! on both and 7:45 bus, so either bu 0K for transportation MAKING APPOINTMENTS With the town pletely canvassec EXPERT RATING 1g to a Post Public Re- se, dated March Rvt. Lee F f., has re- expert with Jimmie y Littlerield of d service I ng for ear A MOVE TO KNOB HILL P Mr. and Mrs. Wm and twa re n of i JFnob Hill, having ed the Art . Walker home (i and moving in during the past weekend. The Rileys rly occupied one of the . EVH. | t units WHYTE IS IN SEATTLE Charles Whyte was a PAA pas- 4 ' tenger last week, bound for Se- attle, where he will be on busi- ness for several weeks. . : 5 # COCKTAIL BIRTHDAY PARTY An afternoon cocktail party was held yesterday from 5 to 7 o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs Frank Marshall honcring Mr. Mar i shall on his birthday. Many iriends of the couple called during the hou congratulations and good wishes, and in turn were treated to a wide variety of re- freshments and hors d’oeuvres PROJE Very been made Departmel Dock oject durin the past two weeks, according to Arne dshift, Department Chief, PROGRESSING actory progre on the sat has Firt EATTLE BREWING & MALTING. €O SEATTLE, U S/A Distributed throughout Alaska by ODOM COMPAN?Y SCHOOL TWINS _ Twins in freshman class at Ch i Mark Jensen, cannery presi- | "(HER'E PlEu creosoted piling have K n and capped by the Coal driver crew he old ling I been completely de- hed ar hauled away. ! M n charge of the project t at right now is the time nteer man power, form so the build- be started. It is at with any Doug- home from their regular )w due to labor trcuble, that od crew will be on the job which will speed pro- irgent, because, ng to Jensen, fish will be canning soon after the Taku river open on that date. Canner engineérs will soon & and the mack accord- arriv- May tor tor utlined WINNER OF THE NATIONAL o0n as pos- | CHERRY PIE BAKING COM 4 orkers are most wel- son, 17, a senior at the Lucy 7 I;-v.»::m:;V,I“:f:"i;“l‘t Flower High School in Chicago. ¢ will benefit U Picture shows Valeria eating her i morning that a pay-| ©OWR cherry pie just to show how hould be started i Dou delectable it is. (International >« ation, du Phc tirs roviding | 3 ‘:v“" SINRIE 8 1 T ione to keep the mill from shut- Mr. Hawkins told the that they “had a hell of ‘{CIAL ELECTION 1 opinion 11 election regarding es-| On April 8th at 5:00 p.m. the of- independent school | ficials of the unic vere informed by ¢ be held April 20, the ILWU that n un- same time five school | able to talk with Hawkins and Il also be elected that a picket line would be estab- 1c ol director will close 6:00 am. on Saturday, t the C Clerk’s . office April eting of the t 5 p.m rion then iday night, in (he City|held Friday April 9th to di the ting will be held e: local’s action in view of the ¥ ndependent schooi | line ch was to be establish d all citizens are re-|6:00 a.m. on Saturday morning. The L e meeting voted unanimously that the ip would not be required SRS ugh any picket line es- Tomorrow evening, betwsen 6:15 ) Coroied by the ILWU to achiave nd 6:30 oclock Mrs frances | COllective bargaining with the mill. Worobec will speak over KINY re- ibers of the IWA employed e tha: K X-day Survey |y the Juneau Spruce Corp. should hat is to open in Do April | be ised t authoritative infor- 16. The clinic will be held in tie &t regarding the situation E Hall now ng will be available at 8:00 ren Douglié Wonikdes | Ao evening at the CIO Hall. r sources disregard any o lub s on an intensive ive for tration. Mike Pg- (0! information. » Mayor ol Dougla thal INTERNATIONAL WOODWORK- me take advantage this . ERS OF AMERICA portunity to get a free X-ray. Executive Committee. h: “If (llere are unknown id Pus Ryt cases of l\AIh"u'ul(M.\ in Douglas,| EDITORS NOTE: The statement “““‘g ""1‘ "bl‘““ ”"_”.“. Let’s concerning the non-advertisement a3 ouglas 100 percent. of the April 1 meeting was made to | LT g = jan Empire reporter by Nels Lee, j Vice-President of Local M-271, IWA i COMMUNICAIION who is geting as head of the Loca { pending election of a president. Mr. Lee declared that he had no pre- vious knowledge of the meeting until a few moments before it began e - PORTLAND-ALASKA STEAMER SERVICE IS ANNOUNCED NOW | Orpen Letter to the Public: | We would like to clarify certain | misleading statements made by the management of the Juneau Spruci ‘(‘nrp as appeared in the Daily Al- aska Empire on April 8, 9, and 10th, and were broadcast over lio st ion KINY. t The management stated that the | meeting of Local No. M-271 of the IWA held April 1, 1948 at which e they went on record as not the jurisdiction of the 3 * P |ILWU over loading of Juneau g:f‘?&?gfid O:;_'L 2,};:,'}“,}.2 | Spruce Corp. 'barges, was not ad- -~ . ¢ 2 s . that the long hoped-for Portland- Alaska steamship service would be inaugurated May 5. vertised. This statement is in error |as the April 1st meeting was adver- | tised in the same manner all meet- ;lhlv are by a large sign on the bul- 'Cd]". Danlel J. M('(Jfl”(_\‘. the N ; e % > director, said the Alaska Trans- lotin board near the time clock at o < R S the Jur Epfiice Corp. plant. | Pertatlon (GRmpany. . of . Bestile iR e o :iuulld putm the m(riwr.&mp Clove | jurisdictional dispute between the Hitch on the run then. o s It will load here for Southeast two CIO Unions. This is not true. The dispute is between the ILWU nd the Juneau Spruce Corp. The { IWA are merely respecting the pick- et line of the ILWU Alaska, tcuching Ketchikan, Wran- gell, Petersburg, Juneau, Haines, Skagway, Hoonah, Pelican and Sit- ka, McGarity said, - on 1, 1948 a special meet- ey 4 ing ed by the local to again 2 1o ‘arenss work pracuces w MANY KaHy 10 Al | loading b at the mill, The 0' B s ly as being unable to permit it's memboers to load barges since the The memi p advised the Labor | Relations Committee to contact the work was not under our jurisdiction Commissioner of Lakor and then inf the management the above action. On April 7, 1948 the Labor Rla- tions Committee went to the M | management in company with the ILWU Labor Relations Committee and informed Mr. Hawkins of the ¢ robbery slaying of 69-year- ; decision in an effort to ar-/old James Mocre of Hartford last at a peaceful solution to the November. Murder, Lg Senfence LAKE STEVENS Couaty), April 12 riends of Richard Hein rallied today to the support of the 14-year-old convicted (Snohomish of y was sentenced last week to life impriscnment for the butch- lem and to urge an agreement| About 85 persons from Hartford e mill mar ement and | and e Stevens contributed $180 lon; remen whi¢h would| faturday night toward costs of a void a k stoppage. The <-nm,~}>npr4‘mf‘ court appeal. The meeting mittee stressed their interest in con-) was called by Marion Loth, Hart- tinued and uninterrupted mill op-|ford garage owner, and W. L. Feen- erations aid that they were of | stra and his brother, Ted, of Lake something should Stevens that go's Marshall High Schoel are (front fo bnck, ight and Joseph Urist, Joan and Jean Howe, Rose and Ruby Goldberg, Daniel and Edward Levine, Joan and Cecifle Schiff, GORY MURDER TALE ON HIGH SEAS IS TOLD AT SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO, Calif, April 12— WAREHOUSE, DOCK, EXCURSION INLET, ' REPORTED ABLAZE Tke U. S. C. G. Cutter Wachu- ett. left here at 2:40 o'cloek this afternoon for Excursion Inlet where a dock and warehouse were report- ed to be on fire, The fire was discovered by a Pa- citic Northern Airlines plane which was sent to that area to investi- [ |Ey the Civil Aeronautics Adminis- | tration station ‘at Gustavus The CAA crew at Gustavus noti | fied Juneau CAA = headquarters which requested the southbound NA airliner to fly over that area ind investigate. Pilot Tom Com- | stock reported that the smoke had |, risen approximately 9,000 feet in | the air and was apparently covering !a fair-sized area, Assistant Regional Forester Charles G. Burdick, of the U. S. | the fire and the dry northerly winds Forest Service, when informed of |in that area, requested the Wachu- sett to investigate and take efforts to prevent the blaze from spreading i left and right): Harry [0 »—-Th2 Anna K, known in the y . fleet as a jinx boat, docked | |into the huge nearby stands of tim- sterday with two corpses—in- "ber. Forester Harold Stratton was | stead of fish—in the cold storage | § | detailed to accompany the Wachu- said Capt. told them: gents en, 49, | tional, ran amck with a galley knife. Zamora stabbed his friend, Carlos Asin, 28, a U. S, citizen A} |and war hero of the Italian cam- “pmgn. } As Asin bled to death on deck, 4 stabbed Hansen in the ly clubbed him Hansen ordered crewmen to kill > i .12 gauge shotgun. = 5, B AT H —Gumdrop IV, p Zamora with a ' Lawrence W. (Tex) Salzer, 3 did. “Zamora would have killed all of us,” Hansen told,FBI agents. The killings oceurred a week ago Since then, he Anna K had roamed far to sea Guard off the Mexican coast. Mexican Coast investi escape a p sent The FBI be filed. to - < FORRESTAL URGES UMT, BUT WITHOUT IT, DRAFT COMING ' Harold amera, 30, a Mexican Na- poon and repeated- sett, Unidentitied Death Is Revealed by Haynes Of Troller Albatross | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 12 | —P—Ole Haynes, skipper of the trclling boat Albatross, asserts that apparent lack of official interest wil result in another case of un- identified death. 2 Haynes said that remains of a skeleton he found on Niblack Is- land last April have virtually dis- ippeared. He said there is no possibility now of identifying it by clothing or dental work. Haynes said the location of the skeletcn was reported to author- ities in Wrangell. They told him, he added, that they could do noth- ing without authorization from the Juneau end. S, hippo in the Washington zoo, gets a bath from Keeper Ralph Norri: Gumdrop weighed 10 pounds at birth. His mother is Hannah and his father is Billy, presented to the zoo by Presi- dent Conlidee. FOR FISHERMEN AS THEY PUT TC SEA SEATTLE. ~{#— More 1,000 fishermen, their fam- crowded into the e Eight-Year-0ld Boy Slips Up on The!t Ballarc an Church yes- HINGTON, April 12—(@— terday 1 annual offer- Secret Forrestal told ing of s for iishermen head- ¢ Congress that pushbutton war ng to sea INDIANAPOLIS, April 12—P— 1 illusion and that total The event was the Fishermen's FPRillip Hoyt, 15, didn’t miss a of today rests upon manpower. Fostival, founded k Rev. O. dnllax: bill from his por%{et when Urging ‘prompt action on 1.7 % . 3 uperintendent of a0 eight-year-cld boy slipped out and universal military tr: n . s g€ theatre seat next to him yes- Forrestal testified before tt nweed. R e~ terday. {Armed Services committee thriad vesterany litureist| But when the boy came back “Not in our lifetime or in that of | for the 90 m ! from the theatre lobby with can- the next generation do I foresee the | dy and slipped the change back itime when a strong military poten- into Hoylt's pocket, the coins madg Itial will not be needed to back up our diplomacy.” Forrestal id that with a of UMT, the draft could as soon as the nation’s regular u t for sary indefinitely, he added The committee is holding ings on a bill by committee c {man Andrews (R-NY) sure would make men |25 years of age subject to ind | whenever Pr out the armed forces ranks. e GUERRILLAS FIGHTING IN WORLD WAR II AREA/ | ATHENS, April 12—(P—A size- | | able force of guerrillas has driven Pelopon- neuss, and street fighting is under | way, an official report said today. | mili- | tary units sent to relieve the town, 25 miles southeast of Patrai (Pat- that to get into Kalavryta, in the | Sketchy reports said two ras), had been ambushed but one of them managed through to join the defenders It was at Kalavryta where Germans killed more | Greeks during the war reach a safe level \But without UMT, a draft may be neces- The mea- | 19 through | uction | sident. Truman decidas | | | voluntary enlistments will not fill the than 2,000 I e ncise. Hoyt called police. The admitted the theft. D { I ALEX JACK DIES i | Alex Jack of Chisto China, Al- | aska, passed away Sunday at the | Government Hospital. Funeral ar- | rangements are awaiting word from | lms iamily. The remains are at | }lhe Charles W. Carter Mortuary. e PICKLE MAN RETURNS Alvin LeRpy Stewart, represen-‘ | tative and sale'man for Heinz 57 | Varieties, arrived in Juneau aboard | | the Aleutian from Valdez. He will | |be in the Capital City for two| weeks. | | { Crittenberger (above) is in charge of a unified command for the Caribbean defense system announced by the U. S. joint chiefs of staff. 4 ) When You Bring Your Truck fo DODGE TRUCK HEADQUARTERS For Expe'rt Engine Tune-up Service YOU ARE WaPPY! * Checking Points Timing. Checking Compression. Checking Condenser and Coil. Brushes, and Ge: Rate. 'R. W. COWLING CO. 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