The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 14, 1948, Page 1

VOL. LXVIIL, NO. 10,990 Brid MAINE PUTS [ROCKS, TEA WOMANINTO | GAS USED IN 0. . SENATE| OIL STRIKE] Mrs. Marga_ra Smith El-{First Mass Violence Takes eced - New Records, - Majority Percentage seat with two new ncore!:f PORTLAND, Rep. a Senate —majotity and percentage—in y Place in Richmond- Workeiin Plant SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14.—P— 4Hundreds of CIO ofl refinery strik- ers fought a rock and tear gas bat- tle with police for two hours foday er/in an .unsuccessful effort to keep non-striking AFL. maintenance men es Join ASST. SECY. OF INTERIOR IS ON WAY T0 ALASKA ells of Profising Lime- rock Deposit in Mf. Mc- Kinley National Park SEATTLE, Sept. 14—®—C. Gi- rard Davidson, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, said today a promis- ing deposit of limerock just inside Mt. McKinley National Park is being explored with a view to de- velopment of a cement industry in Alaska. Davidson sald cement prices in the Alaska interior are more than | terday's Maine election—anoth g double Seattle prices and are a big factor in high costs of housing in the Territory. g He said the Interior Department’s pollcx. against industrial develop- ment in national parks has been relaxed in this case to allow ex- ploration, because of importance of the . proposed project. Davidson said the deposits lie out of a plant. lts as indicative of a| A policeman, a state highway pa= mn(m::cwry for the Dewey-|trolman and four strikers were hos= Warren ticket In November. l’piuuzed but none was believed in{ The 50-year-old Senator-elect | serious condition. lled her vote “wonderful” and| Cameras of three news photo- f‘ r of a great Republican graphers were seized and the film Bt ” gexpued. Several photographers were an. 4 roughed up. An Oakland Tribune mwlupmmehcwd LAl A ™ gy ! slam. She and other GOP leaders hail- fli sc to the Senate, Mrs. Smith also is time at “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1948 AIR FORCES 'ON FLIGHT Defailed Schedule Is AR ounced fo Take Place, Saturday's Birthday -, B-29s that will fly from ovel pases to 25 points in the U. on Air Force Day this Saturday.: In addition five huge B-36 ers will fly over several M cities and towns on mon: ights from their Fort Wi bases and return. All of the B-29s except six heduled td land at noon I their varied destinal Routes of the B-28s include: Elmendorf Air Force Base, An-| chorage, Alaska; via San Praneis- I WASHINGTON, = Sept. lt—(fl‘l WASHING' The Air Force announced today|Eight U. 8. Air Force bases named ! the detalled schedule of ‘the 80fin honor of airmen killed before MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS s Picket Line Of Longshoremen ELMENDORF |5 AIR BASES|Kamen Won't Give Testimony |ARMY SIGNS IN ALASKA TO| On Atomic Secrels; President | DOCK MEN IN BE DEDICATED, Again Hits Out at C Are fo Be Named in Honor of Those Killed Before or During Last War TON, Sept. 14.—P— or during the last war will be formally dedicated September 18. Next of kin of the airmen being ihonared will attend the ceremon- ies. Five of the installations to bel| dedicated are in Alaska, but be-| | ] ! CLAY GIVES HIS VIEWS ON BLOCKADE Does Not Look for Armed (lash - Governors Have first_ of her sex elected without first having served by appoint- ment. . straight GOP offices, Repub- of practi- g mgn.d Dr. M"y M*h'mdmondffim it m% m mm"' T e S et ATOMIC RESEARCH AR1, set in the 1928 Gubema-| THe Richmond petice deparimet \ E‘fi“ ers qn-:.;ll et g By Associated Press) -Hgr. percentage, 714, was 1.1} p s S BER A y - CSS' : me the o-'mm' ool ‘:‘m,:,:.lm st Los Angeles offered to set- 'nmehh“pmux’o;:“h:lw:\t;{ 'J?’:fi: ;’Z....ip when the total vote Was ‘& boost of 19 cents per hour, y because of what he calls the less 3 B { of the 31 W}::m‘m' “thréatening atmosphere from O R) 14LT18; Louis|Croase retrometive from July erick. G. Payne, B. Lausier, Democratic Mayor of Rep. term in the First District, Charles P. Nelson, Mayor of Augusta, won Mrs. 's Second District House seat and in the Third District, Rep. Frank Fellows was returned to-his fifth term. | 4 ‘Governor ‘and | bomb. It was the first mass violence of California’s 11-day-old strike over |gasoline suppl! wages, a strike which has curtailed les up and down the Some five-pound rocks were flung during the fighting. Most of the violence occurred at Septemter 1 was also reportedlylm Brookhaven National Labora- | asked by the union. Standard Oil company spokesmen here said the company had rejected the union’s proposal. The companies are offering a 12'¢ cent an hour increase. ——————— adjacent to the lines of the Alaska Rallroad, offering easy transpor- tation and valuable freight for the|Force Base; Montgomery, Ala., 4,500 | 1924. government line. He is om his way to Alaska. ————————— DR. PHILIP MORSE iny: that hé res'gned as head o {tory on July 17th and returned to his teaching post at the Massachus- etts Institute of Technology. Dr, Morse was particularly bitter akout the investigations being cos- ducted by the House Un-American { Activities Committee. He said that ithe committee had been probing the scientists in a “non-legal }layn.lty of SEVEN STATES POLLING [umm "A'm"s With -the Maine voting out, of | MEHS Iflum AY: the. way, politicians kept an eye{ today on Primary voting in seven 1co and Chicago to Maxwell Air miles. and Racine, Wis, to Birmingham, ifcause of travel difficulties, cere- monies will be held at bases in the United States. The Eielson Air Force base Hat Fairbanks, Alaska, is being nam- | ed Eielson, in honor of Capt. Carl B. who flew the first U. S. mail into Alaska February 21, Four years later he flew Sir Hubert Wilkins across the Elmendor{ via Sacramento, Calif.,|North Pole. He was killed November 9, 1829, ® Ala., Municipal Airport; 4,404 miles. jon a eross country flight in Alaska. Elmendorf via Las Vegas, NevA,l and Nashville, Tenn, to Randolphthe Rapid City, 8. D. Air Porcel The ceremonies will be held at Air Force Base, San Antonie, Tex-(base. as; 4,664 miles. ton, W. Va.; 4,494 miles. ormer Mayor of i SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. |Funeral services will be condu here tomorrow for Thomas Erd- mann, 50, former mayor of Seward, who died of a heart attack Sunday night, Erdmann, who came here from | ness and was active in clvic af- !tairs. He served as mayor in 1945. OVER 6,000 | | ) 1 l I | Gareinagpng W i | p— ' aska, o cted‘wnmm’ Cape Air Force base at Umnak, 4, 1942. He had attacked eight 1Jap planes in an attempt to pto-] tect other American ‘planes.’ He was posthumously awa the| West- at # will honor Maj. Marvin July 18, single-plane strike against Japa- nese-held Kiska. He was awarded the Air Medal posthumously. Ceremonies dedicating the fleld in his honor will be held at Mc- Chord Base at Tacoma, Wash, Not Cut Conferences (By The Assoclated Press) The American Military Governor in Germany, Gen. Lucius D. Clay, said today: “I don’t think war is just around the corner.” He said if the current steps to end the 82-day Russian block- ade of Berlin fail, the crisis could be brought before the United Na- tions Security Council as a threat to peace. The Russians, of course, could trot out their much used i veto. Clay said of the negotiations mutual agreement. Western diplo- !mav.s may ask for a third talk about -Berlin with Premier Stalin i in the Kremlin. Clay said that he rded | doubted that Communist. attempts | i to seize power in Berlin were plan- ned as interfgrence to the Gov- erriors’ conferences. . .. ‘ e . E.. BERLIN — The Russians senten- | who was killed in action ced five Germans at a secret trial| 1042, while engaged in a to 25 years at hard labor for tak- ing part last Thursday in the giant rally against Communists, They were accused of rioting against Russian soldiers and their German jpolice, The harsh sentence did ;nothing to endear the Russians to { Marks Base at Nome, Alaska,|anti-Communists. ity council will meet Thursday on|said that “quite a number of them” |namlc research project was tbe: El"atmuphere of suspicion” that' he( other suusd for indications oté mv“m IS 'ss“ |mmee ey ic sclentists. - | Bations}. ghenda —_— The sclentist said that at least| 3 Republican ticket. ~ Candidates on: the Democratic side were M.lyof! ‘The security council was called, at | “copditions improved.” and James M. Shields, & -SUPDOTter 4j,o. request of Hyderabad, ty Brit-! Dr. Morse added that the “uncon- .manner.” He added that one reason 1 1 In Minnesota, Benator JOsePh: p,prg gept 14—(M—The United|550 people in top government jobs Hubert Humphrey of Minneapolis of Henry Wallace's Progressive Par-igin gir Alexander Cadogan, presi-|genial” atmosphere is making it REGISTERED { AT BOEINGS iwill be named in honor of Maj. tJack S. Marks, who was shot ;down in flames while making a 'second bombing run leading a 1light of heavy bombers in an at- jtack on Japanese naval forces in iawarded the Air Medal. Kiska Bay, July 17, 1042. He was | BERLIN — Louis Glaser, retir- 1 itlon and political affairs branch jof the American Miljtary Govern- ,or, asserted Russia and Commun- ism have lost the political battle {in Berlin and have resorted to ing chief of the civil administra-, Ceremonies dedicating the Marks'rioting and force. Base will be held at Bolling Field, | FRANKFURT — Two American ifor his resignation as head of the said had been created by theséom- | Ball bid for renomination on the|n.iione announced today the secur-have quit during the past year. He the invasion of Hyderabad by India.|would go back if--as he put it— ty. expected to make a major effort to win the Senate’ seat now held by Edwin C. Johnson, a Democrat who has not always gone along with the Truman administration. Battle In Michigan Although Michigan reported lit- tle primary interest, a close battle was in prospect in November’with Senator Homer Ferguson expected ‘to tangle with former Rep. Frank Hook. Mr. Truman put in a plug for Hook's Senate candidacy when he opened his campaign in Michi- gan on Labor Day. Two New England Republicans, Styles Bridges of New Hampshire and Leverett Saltonstall of Mass- achusetts, are unopposed in their renomination drives. : Two Governors’ battles are slat- ed today. In Washington, Gov. Mon Wallgren, close friend of Mr. "Truman, is battling former Gov. Clarence D. Martin in the Demo- cratic primary. The winner is ex- pected to face another former Governor, Republican Arthur Lan- 2 d In Colorado the Republicans are |y, ent of the council,” for September. t will be the first U. N. meeting in the Palais“de Chaillot where the general assembly convenes next week. . ————————— HIKERS AT WHITEHORSE John Guernsey and Ernie Jacob- son, former members of the Em- pire staff, who left Juneau Sep- tember 3 for Skagway to hit the highway to the states, arrived at Whitehorse Saturday, Sept. 11, af- ter the'hike over the White Pass and Yukon Route. They Were un- decided whether to continue south over the highway to the states or hike to Fairbanks, according to ad- vices ' received here. The Washington Merry - Go - Roun By DREW PEARSON d! increasingly difficiit for the gov- ernment to get qualified people to work on atomic projects. Russia Puls In i Demand on ltaly's African Colonies PARIS, Sept. 14—(P—Russia de- manded tonight that all of Italy’s African colonies be placed under international .trusteeship. The United States, British and French delegates to the four power talks on the future of the colonies opposed the proposal. The Russians proposed that the colonies be put under an adminis- Nations, trusteeship gouncil. PHRIRG <07 pil irl Skier Missing iG trator to be named by the United' TEVAREAES LN M. 8., RS CL I LR oo O ML S Washington, D. C. Thornbrough Base at Cold Bay, Alaska, will be named in honor of Capt. George W. Thornbrough, who was killed in action June 4, SEATTLE, Sept. 14—(®—Overi1042, when his plane was unable {6,000 workers were Tegistered by|to return to its Alaskan base be- quitting time yesterday, the Boeing: cause of bad weather. He had been Airplane company announced, as{attacking units of the Jap fleet. ‘Lhe 145-day-old strike of the aero mechanics' union ended and the back-to-work movement got under way. | A P Logan, industrial relations director, said more than 1000 of them have been given job assign- ments and reporting dates. He said others will receive reporting dates {“in the sequence needed.” The union listed a membership of 14,800 when the strike started. | l i 'WESTERN ENVO He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously. OFF 10 KREMLI, MEETING MOLOTOY MOSCO! Sept. 14—(P— The The returning workers will re-|iee western envoys went to the icelve the 15-cent hourly increase offered by the company before the strike, ——— THREE-SIX ALARM The Juneau Fire was called out at noon today to put out a small fire on the roof of Mrs. Mary Doogan’s house on Gold Street. The roof was dam- aged slightly. Kremlin today for a meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Mo~ lotov. This was the first four-power meeting in Moscow since Augusi Department {39, when U. S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith, French Ambassador Yves Chataigneau and special Brit- ish Envoy Rrank Fobertssaw Mo~ lotov and his deputy, Andrei Vish- insky on the Berlin questions. glle, in the November election. | (CoPyrieht; 1648, hy Tne Bell Smdicate. OnWhu Gh b Pt v <0 e ' The three Westerners met among In Vermont, Gov. Ernest W. vy mn ( r e o o 5 o o ® % o o ofthemselves just before they went Gibson tangles with Lt. Gov. Lee! (Ed. Note—Today the brass pEERR . e |to the Kremlin. The new meeting E. Emerson for the Republicannj ring, good for one free ride TACOMA, Sept. 14—P—Search|® WEATHER REPORT © |followed the return of Francols nomination. on the Washington Merry-Go- |parties ranged over Mt. Rainier’s!e (U. 8. WEATHER. BUREAU) » | Seydoux, French political adviser | P e OB | Round, goes to Gen. Omar (deeply fissured Whitman glacier to-{ e Temperatures for 34-Hour Period o |in Germany, with reports on the % Bradley, U. 8. Army Chief of |day looking for 17-year-old Eliza-{e® In Juneau— Maximum, 65; @ talks held in Berlin by the four M“D mm(! IS Staff.) beth Ayrault of Tacoms, missing{® minimum, 43. o { Military Governors. 1 W s % T on a ski trip.since Sunday night.{e At Airport— Maximum, 66; Ol 4 — s ASHINGTON - If war should| Rangers attending the k serv-}® minimum, 34. L % m lm“‘ AI 8 come to belucuer‘ed Berlin, the|ice mountain climEing "x::rm . FORECAST o’m I‘p“'s lo ¢ {men at the top of the U. S. Army |instruction schools ‘joined the hunt.| e (Junesu and Vieinity) . The Jmu City Band will hold today are among the most compet-| Two skiing companions reported|e Slowly increasing cloudiness. © m m, jum the “second ' practice of the fallloy ang civilian-minded that this|to Park Superintendent John' P.le Not much change in tem- | George M. Tapley, Chief of En- season at' 8 o'clock tonight in thel foC o) has seen around the War|Preston that they had left Miss|e perature, tonight and Wed- o |gineering Division for the Alaska Grade School - auditorium. Last{pepartment in many a year. Ayratlt at the top of the glacier,| ¢ nesday. % Road Commission, arrived on Sat- Tuesdsy night there was 8 €00d| Tnis gporaisal, by the way,|on the east side of the mountain.le PRECIPITA TION efurday from Washington, D. C., attendance of high schoolers and! rec jrom a long-time and vigor-|wbile they climbed higher. When|e (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ |accompanied by his family. Mr. many oldtime veterans. ous critic of the brass hats. they returned, she was gone In Juneau — None; &ince ofand Mrs. Tapley and their two . Divector Joseph Shofner has both| " pespongible for this new deal ———————— Sept. 1, 916 inches; since o|children, Betty and George, Jr., old.and new selections to be put 1a1,,5,5q the Pentagon Building are WADE LEAVES July 1, 2148 inches. will reside in the home formerly practice by the band and Wantsigeners) Eisenhower and his suc- — At Airport — None: since ©|occupled by Mr. and Mrs. Don o ! Poster. all the former members to W eogeor, modest Omar Bradley. out as well ‘as any musicians in Juneau desirous of joining the It is important for n:g American (Continued on Page Four) Hugh J. Wade, Territorial Di- rector for Federal Security Agen- cles in Alaska, Jef¢ today for Fair- banks on a routine business trip. ¢ Sept. 1, 6 inches; since July 1, 1431 inches. Mr. and Mrs. Foster and their o dAughter are moving today to their home at Auk Bay. {pilots on the food run Berlin parachuted into the Russian zone ,early today and have not been heard from since. LONDON — Britain rejected .again a Polish protest against she ! 8ix-Power agreement for a West- iern Germany government, 1 | ' [ | tr | BERLIN — Russian zone south of Berlin mys- teriously, killing two Russian sen- ies. PARIS — The expected deadlock among the Big Four powers over Italian colonies developed. Russia, which asked the meeting, contend- ed it had no power because only the French Foreign Minister was present. { H — e — INCORPORATION Corporation papers for the Mat- anuska Valley Telephone Co, have been filed in:the Territorial Audi- tor’s office. Signing the papers were M. S. Sands and Dorothy Sands of Palmer and Lester P. Corliss of Anchorage. Capitaliza- tion is listed as’ $200,000. - - — NEW YORK, Bept, 14.—M—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau | mine stock today is 3%, American Curtiss- | Can 83, Anaconda 36%, Wright 10'4, International Harvest- er 27%, Kennecott 562, New York Central 167:, Northern Pacific 21%, U. 5. Steel 80, Pound $4.08%. Sales today were 710,000 shares, Averages today are as follows: industrials 180.63, rails 60.40, util- ities 34.70. STEAMER MOVEMENTS All American steamers tied up pers arrived, rushed in the fire| by ‘coastwide s@rike. Princess Louise scheduled to { Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday.. A report said 15, tons of munitions blew up in the'Parliament has opened in London.l ongress WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—(P— Dr. Martin D. Kamen, a nuclear physicist, today repeated his state- ment that he never has disclosed any atomic energy secrets to un- authorized persons. Further, he said, he would not disclcse any atomic energy infor- maticn to House Un-American Ac- the Atomic Energy Commission as- sures him “committee members have been cleared for access to such re- stricted data.” Kamen, now a professor at | Washington University, St. Louis, was dismissed from the atomic bomb project by the army in 1944, He was called for questioning by the House committee today at a closed session in its investigation of alleged atomic espionage. Before the committee met, the | scientist told reporters at a news conference that het would refuse | to answer any committee questions. | Heaccused the committee of hav- ing “already released to the press derogatory innuendoes about me.” He said he has “nothing to con- ceal.” He repeated his insistence that the is “not a Communist, never {has been a Communist.” | Elmendorf via Santa Barbara, i Alaska, will be named in honor of | four Military Governors have not| pgaijer President Truman assail-' Calif, and Knoxville, Tenn.; t0lgng Lt John J. Cape, who w“‘been broken ofi but suspended by | o) Kanawha County. Airport, m"“'ikuled in action in Alaska June ‘ed Congress from a new quarter \with a charge that “some politic- fans” are endangering the nation's !saiety by “smear” tactics agalnst scientists, i The House Un-American Activ- | itles Committee which he did not lmenuon by name—was the obvious {2 rags- o B Tigman v gy that tomic experts are being driv- en from the government in these “hazardous times” by “totalitarian” nd “un-American” procedure, | _ The President stoked up his feud [with' the House committee, head- ‘ed by Rep. Thomas (R-NJ) in an unexpectedly fiery address last ‘night to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He term-( {ed the talk “non-political.”, A short while after Mr. Truman (spoke, Dr. Philip M. Morse an- nounced that he had resigned as |head of the ‘Brookhaven National Lakoratory partly because of the | “atmosphere of suspicion” against atomic scientists created by the | House group. PARLIAMENT OPENS FOR WARM SESSION: KING MAKES PLEA (By The Associated Press) A special ten-day session of | King George the Sixth rode 'in state to Westminster and asked the ! members of Parliament to. curtail | the ancient power of his Lorgds. The King asked the legislators ‘w amend the Parliament Act of 1911, by which the Labor Govern- ment intends to cut in half the ‘two-year period in which the House of Lords can delay legislation. This iis intended to help the government | force through one of its most con- troversial measures—nationalization of the iron and steel industry be- | fore the general elections of 1950. This seems destined to be one of the most controversial legisla- tive sessions of recent history. Fire Laddies, at (all, Lose Roast; | Weiners Today PASADENA, Calif, Sept. 14— ~—The Pasadena fire laddies slid down the center pole, grabbed their tin hats and roared out on the ol' hook 'n ladder for a fire at a pottery plant. While they were gone, somebody smelled smoke in the fire sta- | tion, peeked in and discovered that there was fire from whence the | smcke emanated. No use calling | the fire department, so—a caft to the police With siren screaming the cop- | station and discovered—a burning roast” The firemen had left the iwas a five-pound roast. Weiners today at Hose Co. No. 4. ) tivities Committee members unless COAST STRIKE | Action Taken Despite Offi- | cial "Boycol’ by Bridges and His lqngshonmen SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 148 —Accusing the Army of “strike : breaking” in the 13-day-old Pacific maritime tieup, Harry Bridges' C10 Longshoremen’s Unijon said today it would seek to extend its:strike tactics to foreign ports. Thirty CIO pickets, including i Bridges, appeared at the Fort Ma- son hiring office after the army called for individual dock workers ito handle the growing backlog of | military cargo in West Coast ports. “The union intends to resist this strike breaking with all the re- sources at its command, includ- ing a call to longshormen over- seas to refuse to unload scab jcargo at ports of- destination,” a junion statement said. Bridges turned up on the picket line himself, haranguing volun- teers. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14.—P— iThe Army began signing up dock men today to load its strike-bound lclrlou despite an official “boy- icott’” by Harry Bridges' CIO long- ‘shonmm. Army spokesmen accepted a num= ,ber of men appearing at its Fort 'Mason offices this morning, requir- ing all to sign the government loy- jalty pledge, ’ Bridges s elvil serv- ice employment offfeé instead of ,the union hiring hall. : Four men in the white caps ‘of CIO longshoremen stood in_ front of the office. They wore no picket or other insignia, however, and made no move to interfere with thase 'reporting for Army work. - + Effects of the 13-day-old coast tie- up were mounting. ) | Some 200,000 tons of Army cargo yhad piled up. More than 300,000 :bushels of wheat were reported piled on the ground in Washington. ‘The C. & H. sugar retinery at Crock- lett, Calif., announced it would close idown October 1 for lack of raw ‘sugar. Alr shipment of supplies was started to Pacific areas and Alaska. | The Army acted today after the ,shipowners last weckend {urned !down an offer by Bridges' interna- itlonal longshoremen's and ware- {housemen’s union to work Army |cargo during the strike at pre-strike rates and “working conditions.” The shipowners announced they would not dedl with Bridges' union on grounds “you can't do business with communism.” HURRICANE LASHES BERMUDA, WIND AT 123 MILES PER HOUR MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 14.~(B— The 1honeymoon and vacation resort of {Bermuda cleared away debris. to- day in the wake of a severe hurri- cane that lashed the area with winds ‘of 123 miles an hour. No loss of life was reported and property damage was not extensive according to reports. The hurricane had winds of 140 miles per hour in a small area’ |near the center and heavy squalls and gales extended outward 200 miles from the center. It whirled northward at 16 miles fan hour and the weather bureau Isaid it probably would make a Islow curve to the north northeast, {accelerating in a forward move- ment. All shipping in its path was advised to exercise extreme cau- tion. 12 60 SOUTHWARD ON PRINCESS NORAH { Twelve passengers boarded the : Princess Norah this morning when (the vessel docked at 8 o'clock on ‘her way south. Bound for Seattle were seven. Five will leave the ,Ship at Vancouver. The ship sail- ed at 10:30 o’clock. Passengers leaving here were: J. Neusihin, W. Logan, Mrs. Arthur, Dorothy Thibodeau, Miss A. Cea- safl from Vancouver Wednesday. home fire burning. The only loss sar, R, Phillips, Col. T. J. Tully, {Miss Crumrine, Mrs, Crumrine, Mr, and Mrs. Polmer, Mrs. H. Porbes.