The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 19, 1948, Page 1

B - e - VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,942 TRUMAN CALLS BLOCKADE CONFERENCE 60 SUPERS ARELANDED IN ENGLAND Will Operate with RAF in Bombing Missions While in Britain SCAMPTON, England, July 19— (M—The last two of 60 American B-29 Superfortresses sent to Brit- tain for “maneuvers”’ swoped into this Royal Air Force base today. The operation has been described officially as a routine navigational training exercise. But the giant planes bulwark American air power in Europe at a moment of rising tension with Russia over the month- long Berlin crisis. Crews of the 58 planes which ar- rived Saturday and Sunday spent yesterday servicing their planes and unloading equipment that will en- able them to operate from British | fields. Scampton, Waddington and Mar- ham fields on the western edge of East Anglia were chosen as bases because of the length of their run- ways. From this flat area the Eighth Air Force mounted its World War II attacks against Germany. The B-29s will be used in simulat ed bombing missions while in Brit- ain. Lt. Gen. Curtis E. La May,; Commander of the U. S. Air Force in Britain, said the flights probably will land at U. S. bases in Germany ‘from time to time during the course of their missions.” 2 LIONS RECEIVE KEY AWARDS AT MONDAY MEETING Lions Don C. Foster and Dr. J. O. Rude were presented with their key awards at the noon luncheon meet- ing of Lions Club in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel today. Foster {assist them in every way possible.” also received his award for 100 per ; cent attendance. Henry Lorenzen and others | thanked the committee for the very | ‘uccesssful picnic held last week | t the Lions Douglas Beach project. 7al Poor, who presided today, said hat the building of a causeway to he small island off Douglas will! nave several advantages. He said | such a construction will divert can-, nery and sewage wastes from the swimming area. Alva Blackerby and | Milt Furness were thanked for their work on the parking area at theI beach. i Following the business meeting, ! the movie “The Shocking Truth,”; was presented. 1 Guests today were the Rev. P.! HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 19, 1948 v MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS === JUNEAU SPRUCE SAWMILL BEGINS ON PRODUCTION Not Cooperate - Dis- ! counts ‘Black List’ There were some smiling faces and some glum faces at the Jun- eau Spruce Corporation sawmill here when the 8 o'clock whistle blew this morning for the first itime in over three months. The smiling faces belonged to mem- bers of the CIO International Woodworkers of America who had been out of work for three months due to a dispute between the company and the CIO Internation- al Longshoremen and Warehouse- men’s Union. The glum faces belonged to the two regular ILWU pickets and the !dozen or so other ILWU members who stood outside the plant and watched the IWA in defiance of the ILWU pickel line. Freeman Schultz, Juneau Spruce Vice-President and General Man- ager, said that there were 97 per- sons on the job today, 64 of these actually engaged in mill work. Production began today and it is expected that more men will be jadded to the mill crew as pro- [ gress is made. Fadling Comment President J. E. Fadling com- menting on the situation stated: Fadling Says_IlWU Would! return to work| HIGH PRICES WILL BE PUT UP, CONGRESS Truman Preparing Bill fo| Deal with Subject- Hot Time Indicated WASHINGTON, July 19.—®—{ President Truman will hand the extra session opening Monday an administration bill to deal with rising living costs. Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross said the President is at work on a measure embracing virtually all of the ten-point anti-inflation program he recommended to Con- SERVICE GROUP OF DOCTORS 10 WORK, ALASKA Four Medical Men Come North in August fo Treat and Perform Surgery WASHINGTON, July 19—(P—Four Oregon and Washington physicians will spend August in Alaska treat- ing ailing Eskimos, Aleuts and In- dians, Secretary of the Interior Krug said today. - 1 They will visit Alaska Native Ser- vice hospitals at Sitka, Juneau, Ta- nana, Bethel and Kanakanak and go to many outlying villages where medical service is not available. Members of the party are Dr. John E. Tuhy, tuberculosis specialist, leader of the team, and Dr. W. Charles Magin, Ophthalmologist, | gress last November. both of Portland, and Dr. Frank| “There wii be a concrete bill on Douglas, Pediatrician, and Dr. David | high price Ross told reporters. Law, Dentist, from Seattle. He said he does not know Law will introduce the use of | whether it will be submitted sim- fluoride among the natives for|yltaneously with the President’s treatment of tooth decay. The other | special message as Congress re- doctors will diagnose, treat and,|convenes on the. President’s call, when necessary, perform emergency oy whether it will follow that mes- surgery. sage. i An American Medical Association| The President, he said, has notl team of physicians surveyed the|gecided whether to deliver his mes- | medical needs of Alaska's rmuveslh,‘“’,e in person. last year. | He said that he is “unable to say This year's team will be a service{,¢ the moment” whether the Presi- dent will include any foreign af- fairs recommendations in his mes- | sage. i Truman-Barkley Confer Ross said that the President/ conferred for an hour and a half STEAMER ALASKA IMrs “The Local Unions of the IWA' |have complete autonomy. Wé,i I" 'HIS MoR“l"G- the International, supported their | y H previous position of respecting the {ILWU picket line and tried our | poration and the Longshoremen {that would allow our membership best to work out some settlement | ibetween the Juneau Spruce Cor-. | DUE OUT TONIGHT 1 With 15 passengers for Juneau and 1148 round trip passengers aboard the {Steamer Alaska arrived here from |to return to work and still re- | spect the Longshoremen’s position. . Failing to get the parties to come jto any settlement the Internation- al turned the entire matter back) to the Local Union. Now that Lhel Local has taken the action they have we will again cooperate and ;Seame at 8 o'clock this morning and bound trip at 10 o'clock tonight. Those disembarking here are as fol- lows: From Petersburg: Mrs. Ernest Sa- iriff, Mrs. Clifford Fenn, Adolph Do- len, H. O. Johnson and wife. From Wrangell: Mrs. (Miss M. Pringle, H. Venable, F. Ven- :able and Armond MeCart. From Ketchikan: A. M. Carson, Mrs. Annamae Burnett, Mrs. Jen “I know,” said Fadling, “that every avenue was explored by the Local Union beiore they took the action they did. The IWA mem- bership supported the LL.W.U. for| three long months and graduany’ saw their Local Union being; smashed. Even though there wals"'mli MadillirrxeiC.ab.y.. e mroken e 1two socul per- |ALEUTIAN IN FROM - sisted in their picketing and I am| i WEST GOING SOUTH sure had the ILWU Local given | the same kind of consideration i The Aleutian docked in Juneau matter could Have beeniat 1) g'clock this forenoon with nine that was given to them by our Local the semefl’ “i?s:?i':‘c::rynsckfllluf;mes- !pvassengers for here from Seward, g g aldez and Cordova, and left three “The International Woodwork-lnnurs later for Seattle taking 19 ers at onetime proposed that this|passengers from here for Seattle and rug. From Seattle: Mrs. R. J. Bressman Ketchikan as follows: iis scheduled to leave on her north-| Willard,, who didn't walk out of the Phila-! vesterday with Senator Barkley (D- | +Ky), his running | Democrats’ ticket. )} After the conference, ,dealt with the special session and ‘plans for the Presidential cam- | paign, Barkley left for his home in Paducah, Ky. 3 mate on the which Trouble Forecast Angry Southern Democrats, as well as Republicans, marked Pres- ident Truman as a target for hot jcritielsm in the coming special :session of Congress. ! { Senator McClellan (D-Ark) made} (it clear that Dixie party members delphia convention aren't going|{ along docilely with the President’s; summer law making program for| civil rights measures, inflation con- | trol steps and housing and educa- tion aids. i The Arkansas Senator, who, | fought Mr. Truman’s nomination: but stayed in the party, told a re-!| {porter that unless some interna- ( tional developments require Con- gressional action, the recall of the lawmakers for next Monday may iprove “tragic.” “If the President’s program, as he outlined it to the Democratic | ! convention, is carried out,” Mc-| Clellan said, “we will have either ! | uncontrolled inflation because of i WINNER OF SOAP BOX DERBY BEAMS PRIDE, HAPPINESS pride and happi- ness, Sitka’s 13-year-old Justin Ripley captured the 1948 Juneau Soap Box Derby championship with his sleek little No. 13 racer at yes- terday’s annual Empire-Rotary sponsored event. He is the first Sitka boy to win, although the island city has sponsored candidates for the past three years. The youngster, son of Mr. Mrs. J. Loyd Ripley, was practi- cally speechless with joy as Judge Charles W. Carter presented him | with the coveted Soap Box Derby | plaque which means he will repre- sent Juneau at the national meet at Akron, Ohio, next month. “I'm afraid I haven't anything to say, except thanks for a won-| deriul day,” the youth managed to | say through his smiles. Justin, who will be a high school fresh- man next fall, wasn’t any more surprised and pleased with his title than his parents, who witnessed the winning heat when he took the lead to victory from Juneau's Sandy | Blanton. H “We are very proud of our son.; Beaming with and | We think he has done very well,; and I'm certainly surprised about his winning . . . I had no idea”; Ripley said as the cameras| clicked on the Derby star. Mr,; Ripley is head of the vocational | and educational department of the Mt. Edgecumbe school. ! The white racer, “Arts and Crafts,” was sponsored by Claire Swenson of Sitka. It has red wheels, blue trim—and Justin can | festify that No. 13 is definitely not an unlucky number. Justin and Ik oar topped the scale at 259 1 i | pounds, which caused considerable worry since the qualification call for only 250 pounds. Undaunted, the champ skipped ‘dinner Saturday night and had a light Junch yesterday, and his winning car'’s floorboard is dled with hoies to bring the pair within the race specifications on weight. When Justin received his award, he was doubly pleased because he thought his parents had returned to Sitka on the 4 ogclock plane. They hadn’'t and came rushing to the Judges’ stand to be with him. His younger brother, Gregory, class entry, also was on hand to congratulate him. “I know you will treasure this| plaque and remember this day all your life,” Carter old the boy in presentation ceremonies. “There is no jealousy felt by Juneau boys, they are all good sport§ and wish you the best of luck,” the judge assured the champ as the applaud- ing crowd closed tightly the circle around the hoy and the judges’ stand. The annual event got under way shortly after 1 o'clock with the parade of entries from Cowling Motor Co. Headed by a Juneau jat ifor the loss of an airliner, | occupants rid- | Justin Ripley, 1 Winner of Soap Box Derby Classic Sunday /’tzrnoon BULLETINS SEATTLE—Tne Chlet Washakie has sailed for Bristol Bay, to pick up a cargo of canned salmon valued $8,500,000, one of the largest and most valuable cargoes ever brought into Puget Sound. SEATTLE—Purchase of the mot- orship Terminal Knot from the U. S. Maritime Commission by the Alaska Steamship Company is announced today by company officials. TRIESTE—The U. S. Army trans- port Gen. Callan has arrived with an undisclosed number of replace- ments for U. S. forces here. A like number of troops will return home. The ship also brought dependents. LONDON—Britain has repeated a demand that Russia compensate her | s 15 and freight, destroyed over Berlin April 5 in a collision with a Soviet fighter, a government of jected Britain’s first compensation demand. 3, of Sitka, Justin Ripley of Sitka swept Gown | the track yesterday afternoon to win first place in the Juneau Soap Box Derby by one length defeating Sandy Blant#h, of Juneau, winner of Class “B.” Justin, the first Sitka boy to win Juneau’s Soap Box classic, will trav- el to Akron, Ohio, to compete in the | National Soap Box Derby, next | month. Justin, son of Mr. and Mrs. |J. Loyd Ripley, wis sponsored by the Arts and Crafts Store of Sitka, |owned by Claire Swenson. He was |the only one of the five Sitka en- 'tries to place in the race. | Over 1500 spectators lined both sides of Twelth Street to see the Loys go racing down the track. The derby is sponsored annually by the Daily Alaska Empire and the Juneau | |Rotary Club. Safety first is alw |stressed in the race and this year Ithe Rotary Club constructed Kick-! {Loards along the sides of the track to | protect the spectators. McClellan In Near Win Lowell McClellan, of Douglas, came in for a near win in the Derby. Running in Class “A,” he van- 'quished three opponents from the; field, only to crackup when he was: | McClellan's car had faulty brakes| |and, after he jammd his brakes just | past the finish line, he lost control | week TOP ARMY, DIPLOMATS SUMMOMED Moves AgaEf—Russia Dis- cussed-Danger of War Extremely Great WASHINGTON, July 19.—#— President Truman called top army and diplomatic chiefs to the White House today as the Berlin block- ade drove the Western Allies tow- ard a new program of action. The conference included Under- secretary of the Army Willlam H. Draper, Jr., who has just return- ed from the danger areas along the rim of the iron curtain in Europe. Secretary of the Army Royall nd Undersecretary of State Lovett also were sitting down with the President at the mid-day meeting. The Western Powers were ex- pected to reach agreement this on a plan to counter the Russian blockade of the German capital with forceful measures on a world scale. A first step probably will be the dispatch of new notes to Moscow fficial reported today. Russia re- slated to race Ripley for tirst place.|from Washington, London and Par- is. These may warn the Kremlin directly of an extremely serious danger of war and try to refute NEW YQRK—Holders of common |of his car. In order to avoid DItting ! the Soviet arguments in support stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange got 14.4 per cent more in cash dividends in the first half of Ithis vear than in the same 1947 period, the exchange reports. - BERLIN—Fhe. offidial German ‘newspaper of the British Military | Government charges that the Rus- |sians are holding more than 10,000 {Germans in Buchenwald, former I|Nazi concentration camp. | SEATTLE — William Hinckley { Parsons, 84, prominent Seattle bank- ter and early Alaska businessman, is |dead here. SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California now has a population of 10,500,000 Ipersons according to an estimate of ‘Julian Riley, statistician in the ,Governor’s office. This is a gain of 274,000 during the past year. ROME—Palmiro Togliatti, gravely wounded Italian Communist leader, was reported “notably improved.” {The strikes and riots that grew 'from the shooting have quieted down. NEW YORK — William Nelson | Cromwell, 94, attorney, who took a ‘leading part in the organization lof the United States Steel Corp., ldied at his home here today. PHILADELPHIA | Wallace “new party” oonvention starts Friday but the vanguard, es- The Henry any of the spectators, he ran his car 'into a telephone pole. The plucky boy, suffered cuts on his legs and arms and his car was a total wreck. i The accident was reported imme-; | diately over the public address sys- jtem and the car was rushed up to | the repair pit at the starting post to | determine if anything could be done. | The crowd waited breathlessly for !the decision and when it was an- |nounced that McClellan wouldn't be able to enter the finals, everyone, clapped and cheered for the plucky racer. McClellan was awarded sec-| icnd place and Ripley gained first | place by default. McClellan was]| {sponsored by the Cottage Food Store | (o Juneau. | Jay Osterman, younger brother; 'of Dale Osterman who was winner in 1946, nosed out Jerry Wade to be ' ,winner of third place. Other winners | ‘in Class “A” were Mason Beach and | |Jerry Cropley. { Class Races Sandy Blanton flashed ahead of Keith Overton by two feet to win| {tirst place in the Class " race.| Blanton was driving the “Hot-Rod” | {and was sponsored by his !nther,' |Dr. W. P. Blanton. Overton placed | jsecond in the race and Jack Gould |Jr., flashed ahead of Don Able Jr. Ito win third place. ! Other race winners were |Gaines and Rickie Smith. Class “C” Races i Jerry McNeven, sponsored by the War Surplus Store, crossed the finish | line just one length ahead of Sam| ! | i Billy | of the blockade. Move Against Russia Other measures which are known to have been under study include: 1. Curbs on Russian ship move- . ments around the world by closing {the Pdnama ~and Suéz canals to | Soviet vessels. There has been i speculation too, that Turkey might be asked to close the Dardanelles, ' Russia's outlet from the Black Sea 1to the Mediterranean. 2. A clamp-down on trade be- tween the Soviet Union and the Western Powers. American com- merce with Russia is already cur- tailed, but from the British par- ticularly the Soviets have been getting a wide variety of manu- tactured goods in exchange for, foodstufs and other raw ma- terials. Russia On Trial 3. An appeal to the United Na- | tions to deal with the Berlin cri- sis. This might be taken before the Security Council at any time, cr before the U. N. General Assem- bly which meets in Paris in Sep- tember. Such an appeal would have the effect of putting Russia on trial before the world. 4. A direct challenge to the Rus- sian blockade system by ordering either an army-escorted train or a truck convoy to undertake the trip from Western Germany to Berlin in spite of the Russian barriers to any such movement. 8o far, officials inere have spok- . dispute be put in the hands of Gordon Gould, Lion of Buffalo, NeW | 0 c10 jurisdiction committee but! From Seward: Miss S. Elstead d {the government spending he pro- | York; James Cooley, regional di-|iye jgeq never got very far,” Said|Lena Richatd. Hss| Sl ton. Mrs. iposes, or a police state.” Republican Attack en of the possibility of a direct assauit on the blockade only as a McPhetres, Jr., to become the cham- | Fire Department truck, the color| eea)ly platform committeemen, aré : [pecianly p Ipion of Class “C.” Class “C,"" in- guard of Boy Scouts and last year's |, yiying and opening headquarters | rector for the civil service; Pho- tographer Ansel Adams and Mrs, Robert Treat. James Cooley with the Civil Service division i> & new arrival at the Gastineau Hotel. The Washington Merry - Go-Roun By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.) Ed. Note:—The brass ring, for one free ride on the Wash- ington Merry-Go-Round, today goes to Sen. Alben Barkley of Kentucky.) ASHINGTON — If you took a poll of Senators as to the best- loved man in the United States Senate, the winner—among both Democrats and Republicanis—pro- bably would be Alben Barkley of Kentucky. A few years ago the vote would not have been that way. Barkley used to have a sharp tongue and a fiery temper. Once he referred to his now good friend Senator Tom Connally as “that boob Sen- ator from Texas,”~and once, when Tydings of Maryland was demand- | ing a processing tax on shoddy (wool), Barkley remarked: “The Senator ought to know something about shoddy, since that is some- thing on which he is an expert.” (Continued on Page Four) |Fadling. “The CIO jurisdiction [commmee is made up of members of the CIO, Executive Board and hands down decisions on such {cases as this one in an effort to keep one or more CIO unions <from getting involved in disputes. Had both parties agreed to such a procedure and the Longshoremen granted jurisdiction the IWA Local {would no doubt still be supporting | them.” He added that, “such talk as is now going around about black lists would have been uxznecessary. As far as the IWA is concerned, these men. now working are good union men protecting their own interests and anytime the ILWU can establish their jurisdiction over the job they claim, the local will gladly give the Longshoremen the work.” i “The ‘black list’ in our opiniol he added, “will not be effective. !In the past the ‘black list' has been the tool of unscrupulous, la- bor-hating employers and never 1 before, to my knowledge, has it Leen used by one union man against another.” STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 19.—(®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 81%, Anaconda 35%, Curtiss- Wright 11%, International Harvest- er 31, Kennecott 55%, New York !Centnl 16, Northern Pacific 22%, U. S. Steel 77%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 2,250,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: {industrials 181.21, rails 59.48, util- lmes 34.63. D. Robertson and husband and Wil-! liam Peterson. From Valdez: E. O. Naghil. Prom Cordova: Fred Faust and!'™® Pau! Iverson. i To Seattle: Alfred Ventur, Mrs. What direction the Republican: attack on Mr. Truman will take mained unclear. Although some GOP lawmakers have taken the President to task Bertha Johnson, Dean Johnson, Mrs. for what they call a political move, W. Hoffamn, Wayne Fleck, C. 0, | there was no sign that Gov. Thom- Harrell, Mrs. H. Button, Mrs, William | 35 E. Dewey, the Republican nomi-, Twenhofel and husband, E. J. Covey, | éé, has reached any strategy John ' Mikala, A. S. Hagg, Dr. R, | agreement with Congressional lead- Marsh, wife and Raymond Marsh, ! ®TS- Jr. A close friend said Dewey stands To Ketchikan: Bjorn Selvig, Miss ready to cooperate with House Mae Robtins and William Peterson,] Speaker Martin (R-Mass), Senator [ i Taft (R-Ohio) and others in draft- ,Mimon'irrms }ing a GOP plan of action. ! ARE DUE TOMORROW o o o 0 0 00 Bishop Charles C. Selecntan’ of the Dallas, Texas Area, and Bishop |Paul E. Martin. of the Arkansas- Louisiana Area, and their wives will be in town briefly tomorrow evening | ® i while the Baranof is here. Mr. and | ® Mrs. F. A. Perkins, who has endowed | ® the Perkins School of Theology at!® Southern Methodist University, and | ® tne Rev. G. Edward Knight, Super- intendent of the Alaska Methodist ‘stslon. will also be in the group. The local Methodist churches are sponsoring a tour to the glacier, time permitting, and an opportnnity | |to meet the group in an informal | tea at the parsonage, — e ARMY MAN VISITS Lt. Col. Gordon Wildes, Jr., visit- ed his father, Gordon Wildes, over the weekend. Lt. Col. WHdes, who has been siationed at Elmendorf Field, Anchorage, since last Octo- 'bcr. was visiting for WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-hour period ending 7:30 this morning In Juneau— Maximum, 76; minimum, 55. At Airport— Maximum, 75; minimum, 51. FOREUCAST (Juneau und Vicinity) Mostly cloudy with occas- ional light rain and not much change in temperature tonight and Tuesday. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau — .74 inches; since July 1, 161 inches. At Airport — .77 inches; e since July 1, 145 inches. . [ . . ® . . . ® o0 060 0 0 3 0 0 - FRO! SAN FRANCISCO Visiting from San Prancisco, O.| the first|C. Easter is a guest at the Bar-| cnof Hotel, | striking ever champion, Frank Maier, the cars| paraded along Willoughby to the| 12th Street Hill. Clowns Hank | Harmon, his son Joey, Jack Bur-! ford, Jerry Godkin, Jimmie Long, Buddy Hunter and Jeff Pegues Lrought up the rear amusingly.; Joey rode in a wheelbarrow titled “Bossman” and Burford took life eary in his “Bed-on-Wheels.” His old-fashioned night dress and alarm clock created plenty of laughs. Apparently everyone in town | who owns a camera took the op- portunity to get a picture of theig; o $4 a share in many cases.| red-helmeted paraders along their line of march. ‘The handsome cars were the envy of every kid from 2 to 75 as they approached the flag-bedecked | track on 12th. Immediately after the race, the young champ’s auto was returned for display and safe-keeping , to| Cowling Motor Co. W. J. Beach| of Sitka was responsible for advis- ing the Sitka entries on’ the car building. Victor To Make Parka Martin Victor announces today that he will make the parka, to order, for Ripley, Soap Box Derby winner, to wear on his trip to Akron. Parkas have been a nov- elty at the National Champion- ship Derby, and Victor says his product will be one of the most worn east by an; Alaska winner. - — | PHOTOGRAPHER BACK | Ansel Adams, photographer, anfli his son, are registered at the Gas-: ltlnw in Juneau. tineau Hotel. l at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. PARIS — The Socialist ministers in Premier Robert Schuman’s coali- tion cabinet announced officially their resignations tonight, causing | the government tq fall. NEW YORK—The stock market carried through a last-ditch rally late today and effectively blocked one of the severest declines in around two years. Closing prices were down $1 to $12 a share al- though extreme losges were trimmed Ominous tone of Berlin news caused the break. ' - STEAMER MOVEMENTS Alaska, from Seattle, in port and sails at 10 tonight on Triangle Route. Baranof, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive late tomorrow atternoon or evening.’ Nothing definite at 3 p m Princess Norah, from Vancouver, scheduled to arrive tomorrow after- noon or evening. Sailors Splice, scheduled to sail from Seattle Thursday. Aleutian schedyled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Louise, scheduled arrive at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning and sails south one hour later. 3 —eo F. LEIGH KERR HERE F. Leigh Kerr of the Territorial Department of Health is register- ed at Hotel Juneau. to| cludes the younger boys, who are not eligible for the Akron trip. Ra. cers in this class are allowed all the help they need in making their cars. In the other two.classes, the icars must be made by the boys themselves. Novelty Races Just having fun, two former win- ners of the Derby and several Ro- tarians staged novelty races. In the | “Atomic” race, Herb Hillerman cros- {sed the finish line ahead of Jack| | Burford, only to have a bunch nx( firecrackers on his car blow up and give him a hot seat. Carson Lawrence sitting atop a bed flashed across the finish line in a blaze of glory and Bill Hixson in a rowboat plough- ed across ten minutes later. Prizes for the winners of each heat, for the best constructed and! designed, car, and for the top win- ners in each class will be presented lat the Rotary lunch on Tuesday noon. The loser of each heat was royally treated to a huge piece of watermel- on, hot dogs and pop by the Rotary. Indicative of the good sportsmanship that was displayed in the Derby was the fact that all the kids who had watermelon kept on smiling as they watched their opponents race again. SIS { | GARDEN CLUB MEETS TOMORROW AFTEBNOON; Juneau Garden Club meets to- morrow at 1:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Ernest Gruening.! Mrs. Earl McGinty will assist the hostess. Mrs. W. J. Walker, Pres- ident, announces corsage making will be the highlight of the pro- gram. Members and others inter- ested are invited. jin last ditch meagure. If the Russians resisted, the re- sulting clash would mean war. One of the difficulties confront- ing the Western nationals in try- ing to map out a program to deal with the Berlin situation is that time is running out more rapidly than they had thought it would even late last week. Danger Of War At the moment, top American officials regard the danger of war as extremely great. What théy are uncertain about is whether the Russians — or some dominant faction in the Maoscow governs ment — may actually want war or whether the Soviet Union is try- ing to pull off one of history's most gigantic bluffs. Responsible parties here say pri- vately they are entirely convinced that if the West shows weakness meeting the Soviet challenge now it is only a question of time until the Russians will try to bring similar pressure at other points. DAUGHTER FOR MOSHERS A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence C. Mosher in St. Ann's Hospital early this morning. The new arrival, who weighed sev- en pounds 14 ounces at birth, joins one sister. The Moshers reside at | Auk Bay. D COLLAR VISITS HERE A. V. Collar, Assistant . Chief Pield Deputy for Alaska of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, has arrived here to spend a week in Juneau on business connected with his office.