The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1948, Page 1

i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,956 Secrecy Pr 8 NAVY SHIPS ARE CAUGHT IN BARROW SHIFTING ICE PACK POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 4 FLOWER SHOW OF GARDEN CLUB IS SET FOR AUGUST 11 The annual flower show of the —(M—Patrol planes kept constant|Juneau Garden Club will be held from an eight ship Navy supply|the afternoon and the doors will be convoy. & open continuously $rom that hour The vessels were to rendezvous|until 9 o'clock in the evening. early today atout 10 wmiles south of| Two interesting new sections have here. There they will wait out the|been added to the flower arrange- shifting, ice pack prepared at a|ment division including competition j moment’s notice to slip into Barrow (in corsages and arrangement of Beach if the ice threat clears. [flowers with driftwood. Decoratives The deep and dangerous ice ffoes|schemes with driftwood is a new TRANSCRIPTS ORDERED IN 2 MURDERS Decision on Fates of Meeks, LaMoore The Ninth District U. 8. Circuit| Court of Appeals, at San Francisco, has ordered transcripts made in the trials of twé convicted Juneau mur- derers, George Harrison Meeks and have swung in toward shore a halt dozen times in the last 24 hours, and then moved out again. Men and cranes stoody by here to- wrinkle an will allow wide original- ity as there is an abundance of such wood in this section. . In the horticultural division small Eugene LaMoore alias Austin Rollan. This was revealed today by U. S. District Attorney P. J. Gilmore, Jr., “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1948 SMITH WINS EASILY SPY INFORMER ON | FOR GOVERNOR ON | STAND AGAIN IN MO. DEMO TICKET ~ COMMIE HEARING GOP Prima?fiigher with Identifies N. G. Silverwas- (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—P—Na- Voters in Missouri, Kansas and{than Gregory Silvermaster swore to- | Virginia primaries yesterday gave|day he never was a spy for any for- the nod for November election com- |eign nation, but admitted that Naval petition to a field of veteran political | Intelligence authorities once sought | campaigners. his removal from government ser- In Missouri, State Auditor For-|vice. est Smith won the Democratic| 1In the witness chair of the House nomination for governor with little|Un-American Activities Committee, troukle, piling up a vote score greater | Ellvermaster also refused to answer than the combined totals of his two|questions as to whether he ever opponents, former U. 8. Tax Col-{hAd been a Communist. His refusal MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS POLL TAX 'FIGHT IS evails Over That Talk With St "MISS OREGON" DROPPED to Other Business at Special Session WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—(® The! Senate today dropped the poll tax dispute by a 69 to 16 roll call vote. That ended for the special-session of Congress all official Republican eiforts to pass legislation outlawing the poll tax. Republican leaders had decided — alin ANOTHER MEETING LOOMING mand Lifting of Block- ade on Berlin (By The Associated Press) Tight secrecy prevailed today in Washington, London and Paris about the possibility of a reap- proachment with Russia on the basis of talks Monday with Prime Minister Stalin, A Moscow dispatch indicated the day for round-the-clock unloading|fruits have been added. As in the|who said that the higher court has|lector Dan M. Nee and former At<iWas cn grounds he might incriminate earlier that the efforts should be Ambassadors of the Western Pow= operations. The ships carry food as{past this show is open to the public |sent orders to Court Reporter Mild- |torney General Roy MeKittrick. himsell. abandoned. ey "'“y r:quext :.nother '::onfer tran-| Smith I E f -| The Committi mters tt t{ The » "y red Maynard to prepare the tran. m had the support of anti: e C ee mel rs then pul The action, decided upon at a ence with Stalin and ‘Forelgn Min- well as equipment and supplies for [with no general admission charged. the Navy's oil hunt, Hostesses will be Mrs. W. J. Walk- (At San Diego, it was reported that |er, Mrs, Josephine Boyd and Mrs. Vice Adm. George D. Murray and Ray Day. Mrs. W. H. Biggs will han- Iscripts as soon as possible. Appeals |Pendergast forces in Kansas City. of the two men cannot be reviewed until transcripts of their trials are back on the stand Elizabeth T. Bent- i The GOP Primary was tighter, but {1ey, th former Communist who ori- with only one fourth of the votes|ginally brought the charges of es- remaining to be counted, speaker|pionage against Silvermaster. conference of GOP leaders, repre- sented a-victory for Southern Demo- crats whose filibuster against the bill is in its fifth day. Rear Adm. B. J. Rodgers left by air for Alaska to assist operations of dle registration. In charge of flower arrangements will be Mrs. Ray Ren- shaw and Mrs. George Haen. (Murray, who commands the First | The horticultural division will have Task Fleet, and Rodgers, Pacific|Mrs. Charles Forward and Mrs. Fleet Amphibious Force Commander, |Earle Hunter handling the flowers; also will inspect military facilities|Mrs. L. E. Iverson and Mrs. Jack the supply convoy. | available. Meeks was convicted here this year, for the second time, of the murder of Clarence J. Campbell in 1945. His trial lasted 16 days. La- Moore was also convicted this year for his part in the murder of Jim Ellen in 1946. His accomplice, Austin Murray Thompson of the State Shc‘ d again that he is the man she)| Chairman Millikin (R-Colo.) told House of Representatives had piled {knew during the war who turned up a strong Jead over hic closest ri-|secret information over to her for ival,. Lawyer Manvel H. (Cap) Da-|relay to the Russians. vis. While he refused to answer ques- | In Kansas, former Gov, And,e,,‘tlom abopt any affiliation with the Schoeppel got the approval of Re=|Communists, Silvermaster read a| reporters the GOP conference agreed to clear the decks for the Senate to turn to other pressing business in | the hope that Congress can quit} by Saturday night, [ While the GOP Senators .were Joyce Davis, 18, chosen “Miss Oregon of 1948” agSeaside, Ore- | gon, and who will compete in the Atlantic City Miss America eontest, is crowned by Jo Ann Amorde, “Miss Oregon of 1947.” ister Molotov on the basis of re- actions from their capitals. This in turn may lead to an agreement for a four-power talk on Germany land other questions splitting the 1 West and East in a cold war. The Western Powers have speci- fied repeatedly there will bé no talks while the Russians continue their Berlin blockade. bk Mg+ e ,‘;‘:f“}i'ri‘éfi:fi?’&i‘ffi&i‘iefi?‘a}, ; i | Thompson in Lead-Suc- | fer as Giving U. S. Se- | enea to seal oft the Nawy's ol ex:|chairman, announced s mORnE | Higher Courf Delays Final| cessor fo Capper |’ crels fo Russians Senate Can Now Gef Down Western Powers Still De- statement saying he had been clear- | meeting, Republicans on the House | Currency Issue [ at Nome and Kodiak Island.) Clark, the vegetables. Mrs. Elton P S Engstrom is in charge of the publi- FISHING BOAT SISU city. AT JUNEAU . MARINE The halibut boat Sisu, headed by | Eric Lindegard and Hill, was taken on the ways at Junewu Ms; rine yesterday for . shaft repair suffered when she ‘struck a and is expected down sometime | this week. ] ? AT i > H, A WHITTAKER, KER ROTARY MEET! The Women's Auxiliary to the| Harold A. Whittaker, Professor | Veterans of Foreign Wars meets of Public Health Engineering at the| tonight at 8 o'clock i the Moose i University of Minnesota, was guest Lodge Rooms. AlL bers, held | urged to ‘attend. PAA mflfl? —_———-————— n HERE . ;clal t to the Territorial( Charles . Boswick ahd James (Health ; Department, _stated _that C. McAden, with PAA ‘at Athette,:Alaska "would not advance indus- arrived here yestérday - and are|trially or commercially until good staying at the Baranof Hotel. palth standards have been achieved. . e praised highly the program the 3 -t iTerritorial Health Department, un- The w asning ion;aer the direction of Dr. C. Earl Al- At £ b iprecht, has planned for the solu- ]mm of Alaska’s health problems. Merry s Go "B,ound' Johanna Marie McPhetres, new i 1daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Sam- By DREW PEARSON uel A. McPhetres, was welcomed in Ithe traditional Rotary manner. A {Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, ne) “beglnmng bank account of $21.70 was and will be matched by her father. 'ASHINGTON— One Congress-. Visiting Rotarians at the meeting man who has sadly ignored the were: R. C. Krueger, Seattle; Frank old adage that those who live injMacDermott, President of the An- glass houses shouldn’t throw stones [chorage Rotary Club, Frank Rearik, is bouncing Rep. J. Parnell Thomas 'Clay Center, Kansas, 'and Norman of New Jersey, chairman of the|Box, Manager of the Bremerton Un-American Activities Gommittee. |Chamber of Commerce and Sec- If some of his own onal op-:retary of all Bremerton service clubs. erations were scrutinized on the! Other guests included the follow- Nelson, has already been executed for the crime. The appeal of Meeks was filed | was filed by his own attorneys who later consented to a motion to dis- imiss their action but which the | nigher court ignored. He had been scheduled to hang here on April 30. LA o N 25 by a San Francisco law {irm, Merica | and Walsh. The appeal of LaMoore ! ipublican voters as candidate for the, iSenate seat being vacated by 83= year-old Arthur Capper, a veteran Hill. Schoeppel defeated wtchml {Lawyer, Harold Malofe. The former govérnor's Democratic opponent for Capper’s job will be George McGill, who has served pre-{ viously as Senator from Kansas. He; of 30 years on Washington's Capitol{U. S. Secret Service and Secretary iran up a two-to-one margin yeenw-! day over farm leader E. K. Dean. Virginia Democrats meanwhile at the tin 5 'iuptey' Whittaker; who s on a spe-| collected for the new Rotary Ann| i witness stand as carefully as he jing; Dr. and Mrs. Floyd ‘Woolcott, FOR | Fl"ED sm ':gave the same two-to-one vlcwfllgw Eddie Jack, of Tenakee, was fined a total of $200 by U. 8. Commis- sioner Felix Gray on four counts of 'taking and possessing deer out of season. Jack had entered pleas of guilty yesterday to shooting and i possessing a doe and a fawn at Crab Bay on Tenakee Inlet. i ‘The defendant told Commissioner iGray that he needed the deer meat Ifer fcod but the Judge said that all !v!olanons. such as these, must be Iprosecuted in order to protect Alas- | ka's dwindling game supply which, ihe declared, is fast being,eliminated iby illegal hunting. Judge Gray fined Jack the mini- mum sentence of $50 on each count because of various extenuating cir- cumstances surrounding the crime. Jack was represented by attorney N. C. Banfield. The arrest was made jby U. 8. Fish and Wildlife Service | Agent Jack O'Connor. e — eéd after investigation by various agencies, including the Chief of the of War Patterson. He produced a copy of a letter which he sald Patterson had writ-| ten in his bebalf. _ And, he said, Laughlin Currie had gone to see Patterson on his be- half, and that his boss, C. B. Bald- win likewise had intervened. : Currie was an Administrative sevelt. His name came into the side formally proposed their own anti-inflation bill amid prospects that it may reach the House floor for action tomorrow. Chairman Wolcott (R-Mich) of the House Banking Committee dis-' iclosed that the measure calls for: restoring installment tuying con- trols through next March 15. It al- so provides for moderate ugmemng] of bank credits. Toese steps previously had been ssistant to the late President,ngrced upon by the Republicans who ( Hamlin, pitching new: ¢ P Photo. IPITCHING CHAMP FROM KETCHIKAN | DUE HERE FRIDAY' For the first time since the land and barge routes to Berlin were closed in June, the Russlans in- , dicated & willingness to compromise on the currency issue. Their Com- sion and the German City Magls- trate propcsed to the Western Pow- ers that Russian-sponsored money be used as the only legal tender munist Eastern Economic Commis- ! 3 ‘for taxes in return for Russian i Joe Werner said lod::go;h?;rnéfil; perinission for Wes! ¢ myva !circulate in their zone. A 'edge to Senator A. Willis Robertson, |running for renomination against ‘anti-organization. candidate. 4 ;P. Hart, Jr., Roanoke attornéy. e {gurrent hearings earlier. Miss Bent- sald he had given information " Communist “ring” but that )she did not believe he was a Com- munist. Jensen;- the Juncau -champ. Fhe 1hurling contest to determine the Junior mound champ of Southeast | { NEW TUG COMPANY| 'HAS BARGE COMING! IFOR JUNEAU STEEL | J. Hawthorne of the newly organ- ized Alaska Straits Tug and Barge Co., said today that a company tug' ‘and barge are expected to arrive in; Juneau within the next few days for: removal of a load of scrap metal to! {the Bethlehem Steel Co., in Seattle. The metal, primarily taken from the AJ Mine, is ‘being handled in Juneau by Bill Manthey and the' Lemon Creek Sand and Gravel Co.! The 1,000 ton capacity barge is the former {freighter H. S. Holmes |whleh operated in Alaska waters. | Hawthorne said his tugs have | recently completed trips from Shem- ya in the Aleutian Islands which Baldwin is a former government official .and is now the campaign manager for Henry A. Wallace, Progressive Party presidential candi- | date, In his prepared statement, Silver- master said’ “I received the Degree of Bache- lor of Arts from the University of Washington in 1920, and Doctor of Philosophy (economics) from the University of California in 1932." COAST GUARD HAS | 158TH BIRTHDAY Today marks the 158th anniver- sary of the U. S. Coast Guard, old- est of the U. 8. Armed Forces. The | Coast Guard was created in 1790 by the First U. 8. Congress under Pres- ident George Washington. It was first known as the Reve- cross-examines Witnesses, they | Fairbanks, Ken Kadow of the De- would make headlines of a kind!Partment of the Interior and Dr. the Congressman doesn't like. J. P. Anderson, Ames, Iowa. s Al he e GEORGE WASHINGTON | TAKES TWENTY-EIGHT ENROUTE 10 SKAGWAY l American in income-tax trouble. However, this hasn't seemed to worry the:chairman of the Un- American Activities Committee. On Jan. 1, 1940, Rep. Thomas “kickback.” This kind of operation The Alaska Transportation ves- is also likely to get an ordinary sel George Washington docked in linvolved the transporting of war, |surplus material from there to Seat- tle. Another company tug left Seat- | tle Sunday for Honolulu where lwo‘ 'TRUMAN EXCESS | PROFITS TAX BILL | GIVEN CONGRESS WASHINGTON, ' Aug. 4—P— President Truman was proposed to Congress a $4,300,000,000 excess prof- ]ns tax. One of {ts congressional sponsors said it is designed to pro- placed on his payroll Myra Mid- kiff as a clerk at $1,200 a year with - the arrangement that she Lluneau at about midnight last night|tect ' the public from ‘“peacetime iand left for Skagway and Hainesprofiteers.” i lat 6 o'clock this morning taking 28| The bill is patterited after the would “then kick back all of her|passengers from here as follows: salary to the Congressman. gave Mr. Thomas a nes* addition to his own $10,000 salary, and pre- “sumably he did not have t6 worry about paying income taxes in this higher bracket, bécause he paid Miss Midkift’s taxes for her in the much lower bracket. The arrangement was quite sim- ple and lasted for four years. Miss Midkiff’s salary was merely de- posited in the First National Bank of Allendale, N. J., to the Con- gressman's account. Meanwhile, she never came anywhere near his office and did no work for him ex- cept addressing envelopes at home, for which she got paid $2 per 100. THOMAS AND INCOME TAXES ‘The Congressman was very care- ful about paying Miss Midkiff’s imcome tax except that on March 14, 1944, he wrote the Collector of Internal Revenue asking for a de- lay in payment for “my clerk” Myra Midkiff for theeyear 1943. “Circumstances have arisen, Thomas wrote, “which make it necessary for Miss Midkiff to re-| quest a deferment in the payment e (Continued on Page Four) na Erickson, Mr. and Mrs. Rotert Treat and child, Bill Mathney, Roy Clift and Don Little. To Seattle: Gay Golden, Mrs. Row- land and child, Harold Hanson and wife, Mrs, W. F. Cummings, Noreen Cummings, Leslie Cummings, L. W. Audas and_wife, Ed McGinty, wife and children, Mrs. C. H. Coles, A. Hicks, W. H. Nicholson and wife, H. Gi June and wife, Rideout Bur- !bank and Frank L. Rearick. To Sitka. Mrs. H. Daniels. To Skagway: Harriet Sloan, Capt. Edna Leishman and Suzanne Sch- midt. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—(®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 82%, Anaconda 37%, Curtiss- Wright 10%, International Harvest- er 30%, Kennecott 58%, New York lCentx‘nl 17%, Northern Pacific 237%, {U. 8. Steel 79%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 870,000 shares. | Averages today are as follows: imd\umu- 183.02, rails 61.44, utili- ties 34.85, wartime excess profits tax, The ex- This| To Haines: Rose Fontecchio, Hen- jemptions, however, are larger and the graduated tax considerable soft- er than the 855 per cent wartime lexcess profits levy. ——————— HERE FROM CORDOVA Cordova’ residents visiting here the Mr. and Mrs. Louis D. Banta, registered at the 'Baranof Hotel. ISRGE G, . INRER SKAGWAY VISITO Ray Carder of Skagway is a lo- jeal visitor, staying at the Gastin- eau Hotel. PB4 ———— CANNERYMAN HERE Leonard J. Wilson of Libby Mc- Neill and Libby, Seattle, is in town and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. ——— e FWS OFFICIALS Howard Baltzo, Roy Cole and Tom Berg of Anchorage, all with the Fish and Wijldlife Service, are in town and staying at the Hotel 1 Juneau. B e FROM WRANGELL ,Jm town from Wrangell, Andy ohnson is mpphv at the Bar-, anof Hotel, POTEL Navy destroyers are to be brought back to the states for scrap. Hawthorne said arrangements arc pending relative to installation of | a company tranch working out of Juneau. | ——to——— L] WEATHER REPORT . ® . (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) ® Temperatures for 24-hour period ® ending 7:30 this morning Itain of the Coast Guard Cutter | nue Cutter Service tut its name was later changed to the Coast Guard. This service, which is a branch of | the Treasury Department in peace | time and the Navy in time of war, has participated in the defense of the U. 8. in every instance that it! has been invaded. | Commander E. V. Carlson, Cap-| Wachusett, stationed at Juneau, said that although these historical facts | are interesting, “we should be more ! concerned with the meaning of the Coast Guard as it is today.” “Peacetime duties of the Coast) Guard,” explained Carlson, “in-j HEARD TODAY BY LOCAL KIWANIANS A wire recording of the speech made by Roe Fulkerson, Editorial lAluka, is slated to precede the first of the Anchoraj2-Juneau ganves which are set to get underway Fri- {day afternoon. Both Hamlin and Jensen defeated have ignored anti-inflation curbs:Ketchikan Chronicle, is scheduled proposed by President Truman. jto arrive in Juneau Friday for a Trouble In Berlin, e '} Woodenface throw with Johnny CONVENTION TALK | ‘The dispute over rival ' police lice were ‘accused of moi kfinz ings. Only 21,000 of the 2,075,000 Germans in the Western zones :of Berlin accepted the Russian pro- paganda ofier to feed all the city. Berliners expressed the hope the Moscow talks with Stalin would - Peter Dyer, the Seaftle winner overi1¢ad to a lifting of the blockade. Imore than 8,000 other boys, when|The feeling was general that no fi- 5he made his recent trip through !Southeast Alaska aboard the George, al agreement was reached but that 'the exchange of views may al- Writer for Kiwanian publications “"'Washmgton. Dyer fell by a wide(low a compromise. Winter is ap- the International Convention in Los Angeles this summer highlighted the noon luncheon meeting of the Ki- wanis Club in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel today. KINY's Howard Privett operated the wire recorder of the radio sta-| tion. Fred Dunn brougn. as his guest, Dr. F. L. Woolcott, Pask President of the Fairbanks Club, who ex- tended an invitation to local Ki- wanians to visit the Fairbanks or- ganization. He told of the boxing ring being sponsored by the north- ern club. A Loard”méeting is set for 8 o'- clock tonight, President Gene Vuille reminded members. All salmon cans for the Kiwanis project have now teen labelled. ' NEW YORK WRITER VISITS HERE FOR ALASKA MATERIAL ' land ICHM’S. 1+ Further arrangements are being made by Werner and will be an-\ ‘nounced when definite. | | | convineing margin in both | | KADOW T0 BE SPEAKER AT CHAMBER TOMORROW | Kenneth Kadow, Chairman of the: {Interdepartmenta) Alaska Committee {of the Department of the Interlur,‘ will Le the principal speaker at} the weekly Chamber of Commerce ! meeting on Thursday noon. l Important letters on the location of the Coast ‘Guard headquarters! will also be read and discussed at the meeting., ———— e ARMY SUPERS HOP,| JAPAN, ANCHORAGE TOKYO, Aug. 4—M—Two rnund-‘ { i | ~! | Miss Dorothy Dignam, of the N.!the-world B-20s will leave here at W. Ayer and Son Public Relations|8 a.m. tomorrow (3 p.n. today P. Department in New York City and |D. T. for Anchorage, Alaska, on clude the development of safety re-| quirements in the construction, op- erating and maintenance of the| American Merchant Marine, the ser- vicing of aids to navigation; opera- tion of rescue facilities ashore, afloat and in the air; law enforcement at sea for all Federal agencies; and op- | eration of ocean stations to make, |weather reports and to safeguard transoceanic flights and surface crossings.” e ——— SEATTLEITES HERE In Juneau— Maximum, 68; minimum, 45, At Airport— Maximum, 68; minimum, 40. FOREUAST (Juneau und Vicinity) Mostly fair with some high and intermediate cloudiness tonight and Thursday. Not much change in tempera- ture. PRECIPITATION (Past 34 hours endiog 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau City — None; since August 1, 1.89 inches. Since July 1, 914 inches. At the Airport — None; since August 1, 191 inches; since July 1, 6.03 inches. e 0 00 06 0 3 0 0 S e POTLUCK LUNCHEON AT PIONEERS’ PICNIC At the Pioneer's and Auxiliary picnic, scheduled for next Sunday at Fagerson’s, Mile 18, coffee will be! furnished but the eats will be a pot- | luck affair according to announce- iment made today. Among Seattle visftors staying | at the Baranof Hotel are H. S. Ream, Ffank Michun, J. Haring- ton, E. M. Brennan, Ira M. l(ersh-* ner, Albert Lyford, U. W, Kellings- worth, Harry A. Jarvinen, and tA. B, Carson. —_———— FISH MEN HERE Two representatives of the Pyra- ‘.mld Pisheries Co.. of Sitka, Jim!| iWright and A. Hedman, are in| town and staying ‘at the Baranof Hotel. ] e ) . . . . . . . [ 3 ® . . ° ® 3 . [ i | > SITKAN HER| Ernie Saukks of Sitka is in town, lregmered at the Gastineau Hotel. iminded members of | meeting free lance writer, is visiting Juneau this week gathering material for articles she will write on Alaska. Miss Dignam will also visit her cousin, Helen Dignam Hatch, an instructor at the Sheldon Jackson Junior College in Sitka. Miss Dignam's articles will con- cern Alaska advertising and selling problems. She will also write ar- ticles of interest to womeén inelud- ing a discussion of employment prospects as well as such topics as food recipes and other items {of interest to homemakers. Representing N. W. Ayer and Son, ; one of the nation's largest atver- tising agencles, she is calling on many local officlals’ for data need- ed by the eompany's research staff. She expects to visit Sitka to- morrow. R e VFW MEETING Metcalfe re- Taku Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, today that there will be a regular Post tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the VFW Jeep Club, All members are urged to attend. Commander Vern proaching, and coal is desperately ineeded, though planes have been able to bring in enough food. RUSSIAN PAPERS CLAIM CLAY TO BE REPLACED BERLIN, Aug. 4.—(®—Russlan- controlled newspapers here publish- ed on their front pages today a report that Gen. Lucius D. Clay is to be replaced as American Mili- tary Governor and Commander- In-Chief in Germany. Gen. Clay said the report was baseless. “I don't know where they get their information. I certainly have no such information,” he said. The Soviet papers claimed to be quoting & Chicago Tribune Press Service dispatch from New York saying that Gen. Mark Clark of Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer would succeed Clay. (The Chicago Tribune, in a dis- patch from Washington July 23, quoted Army sources as disclosing Gen. Clay “may be replaced this year by Gen. Albert D. Wedemeyer or Gen. Mark Clark.”) Imc next to last leg of their globe | circling hop. No attempt is‘being made by STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Louisc scheduled to sail the Air Force planes to set a new |{rom Vancouver 9 tonight. speed record. The crew were giv- Square Knot scheduled to sail en an additional day of rest after|from Seattle August 5. 3 ‘a long hop from Ceylon to Manila and thence here. s 'FISHING VESSEL ‘ SUNSET OVERDUE The U. S. Coast Guard today in- stigated a search for the mhingl ;boat Sunset, of Juneau, which was due back in port last Saturday and has not been seen since early last |week. Captain Andy Frederickson is master of the vessel. Anyone having information on Lhcl whereabouts of the Sunset is re- quested to contact the Coast Guard Cutter Wachusett in Juneau. l D | OLSEN IN TOW Willlam Olsen, Anchorage law- yer, is visiting Juneau and is stay- ing at the Gastineau Hotel. Emammmn o ! Verne M. Clark of Petersburg 1s| an arrival at the Gastineau Ho- | tel. Square Sinnet scheduled to sail from Seattle August 6. Aleutian scheduled to sall from Seattle August 7. Princess Norah scheduled to sall {from Vancouver August 7. Sword Knot scheduled to sail from Seattle August 7. Corsair scheduled ‘to arrive at 10 a. m. Thursday, sailing south at 11:30 p. m. Alaska scheduled southbound on Friday. Baranof scheduled southbound about 10 a. m. Monday. ——>e— CUPID 18 LOAFING U. S. Commissioner Pelix Gray reported today that he issued only six marriage licenses during the month of July. This, he declared, was one of the slowest periods he has ever witnessed “in his office. Gray- also Jreported that seventeen births and fourteen deaths were recorded in his office over the same period, W & .|