The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 25, 1948, Page 2

PAGE TWO DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA R AT WEDVESDAY AUGUST 25 1948 frrrrrr s s e by Brothers expert styling. Wilson Brothers Super-Seat clutch). Here and now— fabrics. cotton. B.M.BERREN e e e s USSR SKI CLUB PICNIC AT BOWL TONIGHT All Ski club members and othex persons ~ interested in learning to break the neck in pgne easy lesson are invited to attend the Ski club| picnic in the. Evergreen Bowl be- ginning at 6 o'clock tonight. Mrs. Sid Thompson, head of the | hand-rolled fag made of tea le.xvek;gmtherhmd of Railway Clérks. The agtlon culminated @ six-week woo o resident of the North be- arrangement ,committee for the!and tissue paper e o community argument on the ques-|gore nigving to Vancouver. He had | event, said that all attending are' Chase and four companions, ma- tion, and may signal a full-scale|pecn gocretary of the Vancouver | rocned nearly three weeks in the drive against the 23 legal brothels Yukunc"rfl Association for mnny! to take their own lunches and that, the club will serve ice cream and] coffee at the picnic In line with preparations to have a slope of the bowl in condition for' skiing when the first snow falls, Mrs. Thompson said that club mem- bers will discuss plans for using the hill and installing lights for night skiing. - - FINAL SERVICES FOR MRS. OSCAR MANGSOL Final services for Mrs. Ostar Mangsol were held this afternoon in the Chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. The Rev. G. Her- bert Hillerman conducted the ser- vice and Ernest Ehler sang two se-| lections. Mrs. Mangsol, who is survived by her husband, Oscar. Mangsol and a daughter, Mrs. Ada Winthers, died on Monday. Pallbearers were N. J. Bavard, Norman Cook, Fred Henning, Clar-| ence Whittanen, Henry Harmon and Chris Wyller. e CcC MEETS TOMORROW The Juneau Chamber of .Com- merce tomorrow noon will Angus Mitchell, President Rotary International, as the chief speak- er. RINGSIDER A favorite of yours—now available with Wilson half-elastic waistband, these shorts have the exclusive Wilson Brothers Achletic Shirts, rib-knit of combed From 85c¢ t0 $1.35 have | THE 11 JUDGES ASK FOR ‘f RAISE, FEES FOR | R S COMMISSIONERS' The four Federal Judges in Alas-! ka, at a meeting held last week in| ! Mt. McKinley Park, agreed upon: substantial increases in fees nllowed‘ U. 8. Commissioners in the Terri- ’mrv Their decision is subject to; the approval of the Administrative| Office of the U, S, Courts. Judge | Gforge Folta returned on Monday | following a three day conference| ,wnh Judge Joseph Kehoe of Nome, | Judge Harry Pratt of Fairbanks and | Judge Anthony J. Dimond of An- choragc. 4 Other decisions made at the| meeting included the amendmenu of several rules of court, including! to the prevailing party and lhe[ {preparation of a manual of instruc- | [tion for U. 8. Commissioner’s in} Alaska. The jutists went on record as' favoring the enactment of the Uni- form Declaratory Judgment Act.| prepared by the Commissidners on| Uniform Laws. This Act was drawn up to promote uniform legislation in SHORTS Witson PBrolhess l]ccts that are national in scope.| They also favored éxtenision of Fed- eral Rules on Practice and P:ocedure‘ to Alaska. Judge Folta, who was accompaiied | by his young sofi, Dick, took the rlong way home from Anchoarge. The sudden storm which arose on Sunday hight prevented their plane Ifmm landihg at Gustavus, Annette [and Juneau. They were taken {o Seattle, had three hours §léép in a hotel at the expense of the Airways, and came bdck td Juneau. PP R R 56 In addition to an easy-fitting (no center seam to bind or we have Ringsiders in varied AFL ANNOUNCES | PLANS 10 WORK FOR DEMOCRATS %}%a & i o e il - i R o i< e b i I e e g 'FOUND DEAD the fixing of-attorney fees allowed | autcmobile driven by Gustav Wiegner's advertisement requesting a_ companion to share.a trip to Alaska. told District Attorney Kenneth C.| Fritzler -of Kimball county, Nebras- (ka, tiat he accidentally shot M. all States and Territories on sub-;Camas' while firing 4t a squirrel with a .22 rifle. took place 100 miles north of Daw- son Creek, British Columbia. Alaska Highway, had stopped !look for a camping site. saying that after the shooting “we | became scated and pulléd out”; that later . he iound McComas' containing $1300, in his automobile. | whether McComas' body had been | for McComas | brother, DAYTON MAN MISSISSIPPI VOTE 'PUTS JOHN RANKIN (By The Associated Press) Mississippi voters yesterday voted dawn two other candidates and ex- pressed their choice to send John |Rankin back to Congress for another term. In New York, the eight nfembers of the House of Representatives who | faced opposition won renomination. Represehtative Vito Marcantonio | won the American ‘Labor Party's| nomination again in New York with- out opposition. In a South Carullru run-off wl-| ‘m’u,\. B. Hare, has won the Democratic nomination for the House of Repre- ~enhm\e~ IN CANADA DAYTON, O., Aug. 25.—(®—The | ‘disappearance of a Dayton man and his 13-year-old daughter on a trip to Alaska is solved, Sheriff' | Ben Smith said, with fiews that he had been shot and killed in the Canadian. wilderness. A man who accompanied him s been found with the daughter in Bushnell, Neb. The victim was John A. MeCom- as, 52, who left Dayton August 4 with his daughter Louise in an | O. ‘Wiegner, 24, of Dayton. McComas, a Veteran's Adminis- tration resident, had answeréd | - i i COMMODIY PRICE | TUMBLE, SHANGHAI SHANGHAI, Aug 25 —(P—Com- | modity prices tumbled as much as, 25 percent today as China completed | its first 24 hours' conversion to h.s; 'new gold yuan currency. Thé shooting, Wiegner reported.| The operation, the Central Bank! of China announced, netted thei | government approximately $1,250,000 worth of gold, silver and United; |States dollars. The receipts were in’ ipaymcm for the gold yuan whlohi in the first 24 hours also brought to |the banks an estimated total of 10/ trillion old Chinese dollars, i None of the banks in the larger |cities were able to keep pace with | Ithe demands of crowds seeking to exchange old Chinese dollars, sil- \c‘r‘ gold and American currency or the gold yuan. ‘ ——————— 'BERT PARKER DIES, VANCOUVER HOME Sheriff Smith said Wiegner had | The three persons, traveling the to Sheriff Smith quoted Wiegner as purse, found. Authorities . here did not know Sheriff Smith began a search after the man’s Alfred, of Miamisburg, O, told authorities he believed John McComas had been slain. A telephone call from Wiegncr in Bushnell to his wife here led, to hlswbeing taken into custody. S eens ; vy | Mrs. iegner has filed suit fol AR D LT T AL LT ! CHICAGO, Aug. 25—P—THe! givorce. g " SEATTLE, Aug. 25—(P— Ben American Federation of Laber today B S8 TS J. Parker, 68, who presided at the ' reatiirmed its long-standing pollcy] of not endorsing presidential can- didats, but announced the formfa- | poR(ume MEAI tion of a committee to work for the | {election of the Truman-Barkley 1Democratic ticket. FOR THREE W£EKSi Formation of the committee, to, lconsist of the international presi- dents of as many AFL Unions as are willing to join, was announced at a news conference with William |Green, Federation President, and SEATTLE, Aug. 25- (M—James Chase 49, lit a “tailor made” cig- arette, took a deep drag and said it was several degrees better than a‘G,or!(. M. Harrison, head of the | tution again last night. Alaska Fishermen File Action Today | | canadian wilderness, smoked those mother-of-necessity cigarettes and ate gopher meat and porcupine. Also homeward bound from Can- ada was Les Mensinger, 31, who/| arted a 90-mile trek for aid when | made 81 }(m» party came to grief, 'miles and collapsed | The others were C. C. Wilson of { Portland, Tom Connolly, a trapper, (and his young wife. “She's a blonde from Oakland, Calif., and can out- |walk any of us,” Chase grinned. |“None of us except the Connollys SEATTLE, Aug. 25. (M—The Alas- . ka Fishermen’s Union today flled‘ an action in United States District, Court against the motor vessels,, Loan and Grebe and the vessels operator and owner, Arthure Nelson, | | in which the Union seeks $11,198 for | wages it says are owing to members. fore.” i The union asked that the vessels | The three men from the States te condemnd and sold to satisfy the went north, he said, to look over an debt. abandoned oil pipe line runnlng; e ORIy e ST O from Normal Wells to Whitehorse,| TOURISTS VISIT JUNEAU Y. T. They started the 513-mile AS GUESTS OF CLEMENTS trip on a road paralleling the pipe |had cver been out in the woods be- line, planning to make it in four| Miss Esperance Slykhous and days. Miss Mary Allce Wittenberg of Los!| Angéles, vacationers aboard the! Before Mensinger was found, ex- hausted, the Royal Canadian Air { Force located the rest of the party on the Little Keele and dropped { supplies. ————————— | MRS. GENE VUILLE IS George Washington were guests of | Dr. and Mrs. John H, Clements/ while in port. i Enthusiastic camera fans, they were especlally pleased with the pie- tures they were able to take of Men- | denhall Glncler A,klng M pay ‘tMce the number of necessary signa- jof the Methodist Church will meet jat the home of Mrs. C. A. Elford, which provided the Democratic vice International Sourdough Reunion i at Vancouver, B. C., August 12-15, ! |died at his Vancouver home Tues- day morning. { A retired member of the British ! Columbia Forestry Service, Park-' er was Junior Past President of the International Sourdough Re- union at the time of his death. He ! i had been suffering from a long ill- | Aug. 25 (P—Reno’s| pecq | Parker lived in Dawson, Y. T.\ in the early days, and for 20 years 'RED LIGHT AREAS CLOSED IN RENO; VOTE LAST NIGHT RENO, Nev., City Council outlawed legal prosti- now operating in Nevada. However, anti-prostitutfon forces *y’ it viv y a wife and (are still not sure of complete victory. | th:!eee dsmlz“:t‘:;:d . i | Thase favoring a legal, restricted BT iy L { s e e i 10UGH POLITICAL | BATTLES LOOMiNG WASHINGTON Aug. 25—P— Some of the toughest political hut~ \tling of the presidential campaign ' The Evening Circle of the Wo-|shaped up today for seven so-called | man’s Society of Christian Service border states, including President ;Truman’s Missouri home grounds. at 8 o'clock, An effort to capture Kentucky, tures on a petition to force a special eléction on the subject. | But' their petition was not pre- sented at the Council meeting last nlght P o Sy WSCS MEETS TONIGHT tonight, Wednesday, in the Bishop Apartments, at 235 presidential nominee in Senator Al- Fifth Street. The study of “We, {ben Barkley, apparently runs sec- !the People of the United Nations.” end only to the assault on Missouri | will be continued. Democrats in the grand strategy of | - e —— nhe Republican high command. ! Soviet Russia is made up of 11| Besides Missouri and Kentucky, republics but one, the Russian So- | the Republicans intend to center a cialist Federated . Soviet Republic,|lot of their campaign efforts on occupies 80 percent of the country. 'Mnrylnnd New Mexico, Oklahoma, > —- | Tennessee and West Virginia. Most of the surface of European: TSy, Russia is less than 600 feet above! Russia’s navigable waterways to- see. level. ¥ tal about 60000 mnes in Iengm APPENDECTOMY PATIENT Mrs. Gene Vuille, of Pan Ameri- can traffic office, was an emer- |gency appendectomy patient at St. Ann’g Hospital Tuesday. Recovering rapidly, she is already planning to be back at her office soon. A SINCERE “THANK YOU” wneFrom US to YOU - Thl Baflenders Local 869 and The Gastineau Channel Liquor Dealers Associaion wish o thank the following firms and reprmntahves for their contributions in making our party a huge success: B_‘ 'ksnanronn...... r‘fi JACK i_ EST CONNERS ... ... HU ARD SIMMONS . ... .. ARD BEVEI T CARD. WALKER ......... GLAGIER ICE COMANY BACK IN CONGRESS| a 30-year-old attorney, James k * Odom Co. National Grocery Co. RAIN AIDS STREAM CONDITIONS; RHODE " MAKES INSPE(TION heavy rain storm on Sunday | e mfl has improved the stream con- ditions in the northern section of Southeast Alaska. Clarence Rhode, Executive Officer of the Fish and Wildlife Service returned last eve- ning from a flying inspection trip of the Icy Straits, Chatham Straits and Sitka areas. Rhode Said that the streams are bigh; and that there is a noticable ¥or COMPORT and SERVICE %&: Get the NEW Vice-| WASHINGTON Habit! anagine AIASklhl’ FEEL AT HOMI at . » ,mprcvcment in the e:cfipement of pmmds 15 ounces at blrth He joins fish into the streams. Rhode added, |2 sister, Mary Catherine, who is a however, that the run is still light | year old. in the areas he. visited. | - Pround grandparents are Council- - |man and Mrs. Joseph A. Thibodeau. JOHN ROBERT THIBODEAU E‘i”?iih:?‘?fi"%:‘fb.‘;::i?‘éfi na BORN TODAY- AT ST. ANN'S Carry Grocery. A con, John Robert, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thibodeau early this mornng in St. Ann’s Hos- pital. John Robert weighed six! Gengrnphers estimate that Onta- rio, Canada, has more than 100,000 lakes, less than half of which are named. 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