The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 30, 1948, Page 2

el BACETWO — JAMES DAVIS 1S GUEST SPEAKER FOR JR. C. OF C. Pointing to the present tremen- dous interest in Alaska and its de- velopment by the government and the peoples of the United States, James P. Davis, Director of the Di- visions of Territories and Insular Possessions for the Department of Interior, spoke before the Junior Chamber of Commerce at its noon luncheon meeting in the Terrace Room of the Baranof Hotel today. He urged Alaskans not to wait for statehood to begin organizing their communities, but to present a uni- fied front to face its own problems ! now. Isolation of the various com- munities is one of Alaska’s biggest problems he pointed out. He sug- gested that Alaskans should take special interest in visiting new people to the Territory, that the Territory’s businessmen should at-| tempt to find ways of reducing costs to the consumer. In a round able discussion following his talk, Davis said he would be glad to put in the right governmental channels any detailed reports on Juneau's or any other Alaskan cities’ needs as recommended by its citizens. On the recommendation of Peter Wood, the Junior Chamber decided | to appoint a standing committee to represent it at all Federal, Terri- torial and city investigations and} hearings. Referring to a Chamber of Commexce member's suggesting that people should attend these hearings even if they said nothing, Wood said | he did not believe in having “clothes | store dumimies in the galleries” to give a “packed look,” but a group of willing and interested men and women to take part in these im- portant sessions. President Dean Goodwin suggested that a Junior: Chamber member should be present at the City Council meetings also. Adoption of the Chamber’s con- stitution will be before the member- ship next Friday and any member who has any objections to its rules and regulations is asked to com- ment at that time. A motion to alternate business and program meetings each week was | passed. Next week’s session will be Chairman Wood promised a very unusual program for the following devoted program session. Complete secrecy surrounds the program at this time, ' but Wood strongly advised all Ju- nior Chamber men and women to be present. : A toard of governors meeting is slated for 8 o'clock next Tueday at Lee Lucas’ house. Mr. and Mrs. Bd Goshen were guests today. Cioshen is here in connection with the U. S. appren- ticeship program. JUNEAU SPRUCE ASKS UNION FOR HELP ON SAFETY Members of Juneau Local M-271, CIO International Woodworkers of America, will hold a special meet- ing tonight to answer a reques from the Juneau Spruce Corpora- tion for the improvement of safety conditions at the company’s saw=- mill here. Freeman Schultz, Executive Vice- President and General Manager . of Juneau Spruce, requested the union to work with the company in the installation of safety devices and the establishment of a safety education plan at the mill. Many steps have already been taken to prevent injury. ‘This week, crews are tearing up old deck planking at the sawmill and filling in with rock before covering up the holes again. to business and Program | ‘ HOLIDAY FOR MANY| AWARD PRESENTED T0 LOCAL OFFICE OF FOREST SERVICE Members of the Alaska Region of the Forest Service were honored yes- terday through the presentation of a Superior Service Award from the Secretary of Agriculture. The brief ceremony was held in the office of Regional Forester B. Frank; Heintzleman. The presentation was made for Secretary Charles F. Bran- nan by Howard Hopkins, Assistant Chief of the Porest Service, who is visiting the Territory on official matters. The gward was made to the Alas-) ka Spruce Log Program, which was | |staffed by members of the Forest Service. The citation reads “For out- standing accomplishment under difficult conditions in providing sup- plies of spruce for airplane con- struction at a time of critical short- age during World War IL"” In pre- senting the certificate and silver meds!, Mr. Hopkins pointed out that during the period from December 1942 to June 1944 the Alaska Spruce Log Program had sent to Puget! Sound approximately 39 million| toard feet of lower grade logs. | ‘The entire project was particu- !the newly created post delphia, Dr. Phillip Maisonville also arrived tal. Scheol of Medicine, lof rotating internship at Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. SHARP IS NAMED ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 30— (P—Robert E. Sharp, now serving as Regional Director of the War Assets Administration with head- quarters here, has been named to of city Comptroller. City Manager Don Wilson said !Sharp will join the city staff in 15 days. a year. His salary will be $8,400 ————— FROM MICHIGAN larly difficult because of the remote | locality in which the eight Ioggmg] camps and approximately 700 men operated. In accepting the award for the Alaska Region, Mr. Heint-} zleman said that he was proud of the contribution made by his group: to the war effort and thanked the the award. e e UCC DECISION 10 BE ARGUED AT ANCHORAGE A motion to reconsider will be; argued before Judge Anthony Di-{ mond in U. S. District Court at] Anchorage next week in a casel -rought against the Alaska Unem- slcyment Compensation Commisxlon' sy Felton Griffon, of Anchorage, for the Alaska Territorial Federa- tion of Labor. A few weeks ago, Judge Dimond ruled invalid the issuance of credits | to employers under the experience rating amendment on the three percent Unemployment Compensa-! tion Tax. | Territorial Attorney General | Ralph J. Rivers will leave here via PNA Sunday to represent the Ter- ritory on the motion which he made. | He contends that the legislative process was sufficient to meet the; requirements of the Alaska Organic! Act. He is supported in his stand by | various firms which have entered jthe case as intervenors. Judge Dimond had held that when the bill was passed on its third read- | ing, which was one by number only, ! it was not passed by proper legis-| lative procedure. Rivers expects to -be gone about a week and will also take care of other Territorial business during his trip. ! i TOMORROW; OTHERS| JUST ANOTHER DAY' Stores, barber shops, bakeries end! City Offices close tomorrow for the Salmon Derby releasing many al- though others will get out the monthly bills. The two banks remain open the usual Saturday hours. Drug stores. will be open from 9 am. to 9 pm.; Juneau-Young, Thomas Hardware,| garages and filing stations will maintain usual day hours. Restau- rants will feed as usual and thirsts| Schultz said that first aid and accident prevention instruction will be given to all mill employees. An- may be quenched during the usual hours, at the usual places. Federal offices close as usual on Secretary through Mr.- Hopkins for!# other safety factor Will be CON-|gayygay with Territorial offices struction of thoroughfares aroun taking the half holiday as is custo- the dock edge and through thej,. ing the summer month: mill so that two roadways will be iiof d“r_ni__.,,_ i | available to company mobile equip- ment without making it necessary to use the outside highway. —— VISITING FISHERMEN Informal Tea Honors Visitor from Idaho Mrs. Carl Rusher entertained at an informal tea yesterday afternoon NO LUCK YESTERDAY m m m Dm in honor of her aunt, Mrs. J. J. Pugh, who is visiting here from Mr. and Mrs. Schultz, from Idaho, | Springston, Idaho. Mrs. Pugh will and \Irene Mitchell from Illinols |visit for another week in Juneau and were fishing in a party with Smoke | then make the triangle tour on the Thomas yesterday around the Du- pont area and had little luck with the salmon but brought back an eight pound halibut. Also coming back with the party was one of the not infrequent sad . . . sad stories about the one which got away. Fish- ing deep and baited with herring, a Alaska to Sitka to stay with her sister, Mrs. A. J. Dexter. Mrs. Pugh, whose husband is President and Manager of the Russell and Pugh Lumber Co., in Springston, is mak- ing her first visit to the Territory. Guests attending the tea yester- day were Mesdames Henry Har- a guest at the 'Batanof Hotel. B —— FROM DENVER' Robert A. Cldri‘of Denver is stop- ping at the Hotel Juneau. PRI et o cated in Philadelphia, in 1947. He has just completed his internship iat the Nazareth Hospital in Phila- this week and has been assigned to the Juneau Government Hospi- He was graduated from the University of Toronto in 1946, and for the past year has been practicing in Mayo, Yukon Territory. He séfved a year St. Ralph C. Mdredoék of Detrolt is | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA }guilty to slaying three’ members of LIONS INTERNATL. & Scher “tamiy when arrasenea today. ASKS HRM S'I'AND Daniels entered the court room . handcuffed, unshaven and sullen. He . v | looked swiftly about and faced the "ON COMMUNISM == | Judge H. H. Schlettler asked him ‘ oot |if he pleaded guilty to all three i charges of first degree murder !S'a'ehOOd for AlaSka A'SO‘ “I don’t know their names. Thgre 1 1 were three of them, though.” Daniels - Urged in Resolufion 7" iowtven vokce Judg Schilettler read the names Passed a' Mee' of the three victims—John Niebel, Mansfield Reformatory Farm Su- NEW YORK, July 30—(P—Lions perinterident; his wite, Nolarvia, | International has called for ajand their daughter Phyllis, 21. | strong stand against “further en- Daniels then pleaded guilty croachment of the Communistic - - | way of life.” | The service club issued the call| (omEMPT A('I"o" gln a resolution adopted yesterday at the final session of its four- iduy 31st annual convention at AGAI"ST (Io UNION Madison Square Garden. Other resolutions urged by the GOES "'o FED (OURI Lions included statehood for Al- [ | aska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. s e { TR T T SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.—(P- U. 8. Judge Michael J. Roche ic FAMILY KILLER put over until Monday a legally { ensnarled contempt action by West b MEADS ,mly_ Coast shipowners against the CIO | Cooks and Stewards Union. R o o I w7 ' Shipowners charged the union 1 m[km' RE " had violated the Federal maritime M strike injunction, and was in con- 3 ot " | tempt of court in delaying three MANSPIELD, O, July ' 30~(P— | vessels through labor disputes. iRoben M. Daniels, a participant in| After hearing union challenges the slaying of six people, pleaded to the legal right of shipowners to AN AL Aot fosrrelifemtmselifesrmrllfostnn SATURDAY SUNDAY B o h s FAEER & ¥ bring the matter into court, Judge Roche put it into the lap of Fed- eral Judge George B. Harris, who issued the 80-day “cooling off” ord- er requested by President Truman. Judge Harris will be back on the bench Monday from vacation. The shipowners base their charge of injunction violation on disputes which delayed the sailing of two ships in Seattle and one in San Francisco R STRIKE DISORDERS RETARD IN DAYTON; TROOPS NOT CALLED DAYTON, O. July 30—®—City officials informed Gov. Thomas J rt today that disorders at the sound Univis Co., plant had jed and there was no immedi- ate need for troops. trike- Earlier, Mayor Louis Lohrey asked the Governor to send troops here after street fighting broke cut be- tween pickets and employees seek- ing to return to work. Police kroke up street fighting be- tween pickets and nonstrikers by exploding tear gas bombs. Heavy police squadrons again forced a path through the picket line. Violence broke out when some 3,- 0C0 persons gathered to form nicket lines in defiance of a court order forbidding mass picketin LDEN NORTH MON DERBY Prizes === Excitemeint === Fun SECRETARY GAVE COMMIES ADVICE GOVT. MAN HELPED Elizabeth Bentley Gives) Further Information on | Russ Spy System WASHINGTON, July 30. — ® — Elizabeth T. Bentley said under oath today she collected military in- formation during the war from | Wwilliam Remington, now a Com- | merce Department offfeial, and| turned it over to the Russians. Miss Bentley, admittedly a form- er link in a Russian espionage sys- tem, said that at the time Reming- | ton worked for the War Production | Board where he had access to air- | craft production figures. She also told a Senate investigat- ing committee she collected Com- munist Party dues from Remington and his wife. The committee, headed by Senator Ferguson (R.-Mich.), is inquiring into Communist influences in the | government. Miss Bentley said Remington had supplied her with such information as afrcraft production figures and | internal policies of the WPB which | A0 FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1948 concerned Russia. Before she named Remington, she had testified that for years she gath- ered military and other information for the Communists from govern- ment workers. She also said she knew of “at least one” contact in the government who could “pul? strings” and get Communists into key government jobs. She is the woman who gave clues to the FBI causing the recent ar- rests of 12 leading Communists. R %m M LEAVE ON FLiGHT " TO'ARCTIC CIRCLE PORTLAND, July 30.—(®—Forty flying businessmen left here today on a 7,00-mile flight to the Arc- tic Circle and back—and even long- er route than their flight to Mex- ico five ‘moriths ago. " ‘Thé group, which flies both for fun and for business, left in 15 private planes. Three more planes will leave over the weekend and catch up with the group at White- horse and Fairbanks. Led hy L. S. White, the business men-pilots expected to reach Cal gary this afternbon. They will ily on to Fort Nelson Saturday. - e - Empire wantaas (Bev resurtst — utdoorsmen Everywhere Are Focused SCORES UPON SCORES OF VALUABLE PRIZES PRIZES WORTH THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS List Will Be Published Tomorrow i TWo JULY 31 i AUG b DAYS U £u Enter The Dérby large salmon was hooked but before taking the boat under he slipped off the hook. Also out with the Juneau Boat Rental Service yesterday was A. G. Swords from Detroit, Michigan who fished from 5 o'clock am. until shortly after noon yesterday with not as much as a nibble. Swords said he ran into fairly rough water and a sizeable wind, but despite his luck is now ready for the Derby after the trial run. Swords made a special trip from Detroit to enter the Derby to-| morrow. mon, Lisle Hebert, Norman Cook, Ray Peterman, Steve Sheldon Jr., Jay Braun, W. C. Jensen and Wil- liam Biggs. 2 DOCTORS EMPLOYED BY NATIVE SERVICE Dr. Andrew J. Wehler, who has teen assigned to the Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center by the Alaska Na- tive Service, arrived in Juneau yes- terday enroute to his new post. Mrs. | Wehler accompanied her husband and they are staying at the Baranof Hotel. Dr. Wehler was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, lo- Then Go Out and Catch Such a ‘Whopper’ Yowll Never Again Haveto Tell aFish Story ' See Page 6 for Rules > - HERE FROM OLYMPIA G. H. Matthews of Olympia, ‘Wash,, is registered at the Baranof Hotel