The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 10, 1948, Page 1

"THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIL, NO. 11,064 More Suspects Sp FOREIGN SHIP MAY BE TIED UP, SAILORS UNION Objection Raised Regard- ing Curtailment U. S. Ves- | sels on Marshall Cargo SAN-FRANCISCO, Dec. 10.—®—| The AFL Sailors Union of the Pa-, cific threatened today to tie up foreign ships® carrying Marshall plan cargo if the Economic Cooper-! ation Administration stops shipping | Ship Service “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1948 MFMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ToNorthland Starls Today SEATTLE, Dec. 10. —(®— The! steamer Baranof was to sail from) Seattle today on the inaugural run of a new post-strike sailing sched- ule involving three vessels, the Al- aska Steamship Company. Service to Southeastern Alaska will be reestablished on its pre- war basis under the new schedule. China Comes UnderMarfial Law by Edict Delaration Is Made by| Chiang as Communists Move on Nanking (By The Associated Press) Martial law for all China unaer WIVES, CHILDREN ARE HERE ON BOARD COAST GUARD BOAT No Housing_Found for Two Families - Children Are All Girls Families of Coast Guardsmen aboard the CGC Storis were busy getting settled today. On board the Storis, which ar- Irived here yesterday morning for permanent station here, were six FOREST SERVICE ROAD ENGINEER FINISHES SURVEY | tack? ((HAMBERS HAS QUIT TIME MAG. HONOLULU, Dec. 10.—(®—Was Pearl Harbor caught with its radar; defenses down on the seventh an- niversary of the Japanese sneak at- The officer responsible for ~Statement Made tecting unannounced aircraft proaching Hawali says: ! Radar screens might have plotted | de- ap- taker Chambers, confessed former NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—(®—Whit-, of bulk relief cargo in American The steamers Baranof and Alaska vessels. will sall every two weeks, the steam- Wednesday, Paul G. Hoffman, ECA;?" Denali every three weeks until head, announced he would end a its annual inspection and repair lay- policy of carrying half of all such|up in February, the Company an- cargo in American bottoms be- nounced. ginning Jan. 1, because of higher; Appointments of agents for several | freight costs. ;Soumeast Alaska ports also were| i announced. Executive Secretary Harry, ¥ Lusn‘;l:berg's threat followed a pro- The three steamers will provide test yesterday by the Pacific Ameri- |Service to Southeast and Southwest | can éteamsmp Association and an- ! Alaska, Kodiak Island and Cook| |Inlet. They will return to Wran- . Cross, Sec-| other by Capt. John A. |gell, Petersburg, Haines, Skagway Formosa. ‘!mg quarters for Nationalist control was decreed to- night by President Chiang Kai- shek. The edict does not apply to the Far Western Provinces or wives and four caildren. Housing has been secured for four officers and their families, accord- ing to Comdr. J. R. Kurcheski. Liv= two enlisted men and their wives is yet to be se= cured. The announcement came as Chi- | nese Communists appeared to be trying to cut behind the Hwai Riv- {rem tottering Nanking. This is |attle the last bulwark the capital has:J. R. short of the Yangtze River wmchiot a flows past the city. wife are all girls. According to Mrs. MacLeod, who is the mother 14-year-old daughter and the of engineering officer Lt. Mac~ Children of new Coast Guard of= | jer defense line at a point 90 miles|ficers to make the trip from Se- |the B-36 which flew unannounced jon a round trip from Fort Worth, Tex., and dropped “a useful bomb 'load” at sea off Hawaii. The officer, Col. T. W. Blackburn, said yesterday, 21 planes were pick- 1ed up by radar in the two hours the strategic- air command'’s six-engined bomber was believed in Hawailan skies. But the B-36 was not singled Jones Returns fo Capital with Information fo Be Presented fo Congress Howard R. Jones, of Washington, D. C., chief highway engineer of the U. S. Forest Service, will be in| a position to give appropriations!out. committees a first-hand picture ot | At Fort Worth the. pilot, Maj. John, Southeast Alaska’s road require-|D. Bartlett, said his big silver craft went to Pearl Harbor and then to Communist courier and key figure in the probe of alleged Communist espionage, has resigned as a senfor editor! of Time Magazine, his at-| torneys announced today. The announcement came as Mrs. | Priscilla Hiss, wife of Alger Hiss, appeared at the Federal Building to testify before a Grand Jury prob- ing alleged Communist spying. The attorneys’ announcement was headed “Statement by Whittaker Chambers.” It said: — ——————————— PRICE TEN CENT# s otted In Red Investigation Was Pearl Harbor Caught Napping During Flight of | Big Bomber, Is Quesfion NEW THEFTS REVEALED IN SPY INQUIRY Hands in ?R“esignalion as! Vital Military Secrets of Senior Editor, Accepted | Friendly Nafions Among Stolen Information By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—®— Vital military secrets of friendly nations turned up today among stolen government papers uncovered in the House Un-American Activ~ ities Committee's spectacular Red spy hunt. They involve such things as Brit- ish battleships, Chinese bombers and strategic war materials from Argentine. And as the committee scrapped furiously with the Truman admin- istration over how the spy probe retary-Treasurer of the AFL Mas-, ters, Mates and Pilots Association, | West Coast division. Lundeberg telegraphed Hoffman | asserting the ECA chief was exceed- | ing his authority and said: | More Threats ! J‘ Peiping itself was in danger of | | imminent capture. Chinese Nation- | alists abandoned Shunyi, 18 miles | from the great north China city.| and Sitka on a regular basis for the first time since prior to the war, the line announced. The Denali will sail from Seattle on Wednesday; the Alaska on De-| Leod, Coast Guard daughters were gcod sailors on the voyage. The Commanding Officer's wife,: Mrs. J. R. Kurcheski and their 10~ vear-old daughter, were aboard the ments when Congress convenes next | {month. | Such was the purpose of his trip, | made in response to the request made early in the fall by B. Frank Heintzleman, regional forester. | the northwest point of Oahu island tefore turning back to the mainland on the 35% hour flight. ‘The “surprise raid” caused some feeling in Hawali that the islands’ “I have offered my resignation as a senior editor of Time Maga- zine. It has been accepted. “Both of these acts became im- perative when I recently began to make revelations about Communist should be run, it spotted suspect number three out in Appleton, Wis. It ordered him to show up for a hearing today. The man has heen described to Communists already were putting|Storis. Also coming to Juneau were air defense might have been caught “We intend to use all our power, icember 17, Baranof on December 24,. including economic power, to see; that American ships receive 50 per; cent of the relief cargo.” | Lundeberg said that by economic| power he meant “we will put pickets | around every foreign ship carrying the Alaska on Decemter 31, and,CP Pressure from the southwest. | Denali again on January 5 in the| IDere was little reason to be-, first few trips of the schedule }neve a Chinese Communist broad-1 The Denali will stop at Wrflngell\ca‘“ that the Reds could npt ot and Petersburg. { ture Peiping and Tientsin before | Mrs. A. M. Glenn and her one-year- old daughter. Her husband is pay clerk with the vessel. Mrs. A. B. How, wife of Lt., j.g. How, brings with her a one-year-old daughter. Crewmen on the Coast Guard ves- G. S. Duryea, general freight and1 {par enzer agent, will transfer to! March or May because they “are cXaning up in the Nanking- Marshall plan cargoes.” | —— - — | DEMOLAY CHAPTER T0 | . Di i vhich destroyed fi il g BE RE-ORGANIZED IN 1. 2o, eevivors. anc. Move By Commies JUNEAU, MEET HELD' ler at Skagwayy and Fred Arnold aLied point where the river makes About 40 young men met with members of the Juneau Scottish Rite last evening for the purpose of reorganizing the Royal Arch Gunnison Chapter, Order of De-! Molay. i Glen O. Abraham is sparking the movement with the assistance of' many former DeMolays. i Bob Cowling, first Master Coun- cilor of Juneau DeMolays, address- ed the meeting in redpect to what DeMolay can do. Elwin Messer, Al- bert Fleek, Dan Livie, and M. L. MacSpadden, all past DeMolays,' spoke on their experience in De-: Molay. i Gene Vuille, Past Grand Master, Councilor of Missouri DeMolays,' 1927, outlined the possibilities for member participation and officer work in the chater. The Rev. W.llis'R. Booth, Wor-! shipful Master, Mt. Juneau Lodge, 147, A. F. and A. M. addressed the | meeting on his experience with DeMolays in community life. Hot dogs, hot chocolate, and cake were served after the meeting by a Scottish Rite committee consisting of Carson Lawrence, James Wel- lington, Arthur Hedges, John Maur- stad and Les Holmes. ! The next meeting will be at the- Scottish Rite Temple on Thursday | evening, December 23 at 7:30 o'clock. Ketchikan from Seattle after Jan- Spanghai area” Nor was there .sel were hard a work today unload- {ing the four ofirs brought on deck, househcld effects and supplies. The Heintzleman, who had started the| ball rolling for a spec.al Congres-| sional appropriation for specific roads in the Juneau, Sitka and Ket- | chikan areas so that regular appro-; i priations would Le left for improve- ments and extensions of existing! napping. Blackburn emphasized that under | peacetime conditions there is no' way to keep a single aircraft Immi slipping through the defense net. espionage.” Shortly after Champers' an-! nouncement, James A. Linen, pub- lisher of Time, issued this state-! ment: . In accepting his resigna-' { the He said clvilian aircraft do not| roads, asked that the Forest Sery- | CAITy equipment to send out the! ticn now, Time docs not wish to tommittee as a former em- ployee of the National Bureau of Standards. The bureau tests some of the government’s most secret weapons and military devices. New Witness The committee got the man’s ice chief engineer or his assistant| friendly identification signal for| name from Whittaker Chambers, a D! | prejudge 888 15 not prefidging his former Communist coutier. Chamb- uary 1 to supervise port agents. ireason to credit their report that | W. P. Lockwood, formerly aclmgjme Chinese Nationalists had used * |agent at Ketchikan, has been named @ hew type bomb around Suchow rointed new agents are Ira M.! Powell, at Haines; George W. Hook- | Sitka. W 4 | e ! (OMMANDERS" NIGHT | OF VFW IS SUCCESS | Commanders’ Night at V.F.W. Club; was a high success. i Last night's meeting at the V.F.W. | Post in Juneau was turned over to| John T. McLaughlin, Territorial De- | partment Commander of Veterans ! of Foreign Wars. i Post Commanders in attendance ivessel is already on the active duty ilist, on a two-hour notice for call ibash, according to Comdr. Kur- cheski. The craft will be tied up ‘at the city dock for the remainder The Communists were trying to .of the week and will then transfer cross the Hwai at a lightly defend- |to the A-J dock, he said. A delegation from the Junior @, big bend, Their main energies: Chamter of Commerce is to board secmed directed against reducing’ the vessel tonight to take a prepar- two enormous pcckets of 350,000 eq hooklet containing all available uapped Chinese trcops between |pecreational facilit'es in the Gasti- Suchow and Nanking. {neau area, with a listing of civic Mme. Chiang Kai-shek sees and social organizations. Red Mayo, President Truman late today to beg | Jaycee member, has been named new and far-reaching aid. Indica- [to present the information to the tions are that she will get little . commanding officer. more than a cup of tea and a,‘ - e promise of serious study of the! JAYCEE'S SPEAKER Chinese situation. | Otticials on whom the President| |JRGES DEVELGPMENT Confidence Lost be sent here. Jones Is assistant chief jradar. engineer and top man in the matter | “Were we in a state of emergency jof roads. jor threatened war, all aircraft would “This is my first trip to the Ter- ;be under military control,” Black-: ritory,” Jones said this week, “and|burn said. “Then we could mteq I feel I can help in the important|it.” ! matter of new roads for Southeast| Spokesmen for the a'r force, the| Alaska. It is hard for someone in bavy and army said earlier thefl Whashington to get a real under- :had no report of any radar cr radio | stancing of the unigue circumstanc- | contact with the B-38, 2 es Alaska presents. A study of the| " map helps very little, if one is not | familiar with the difficult problems of terrain. . % “I have been fortunate,” he con-| tinued, “to have as my companion| a i e o 0 e 05 0000 0 o . . . WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAD) . recent disclosures. | “Not until all the evidence is in | can the pros and cons be weighed. | “Against the admitted disservice' to his country, of a decade ago, must be set the service we are con- vinced he is trying to perform,! for his country now."” i ———— STORAGE BIDS RECEIVED i BY ALASKA ROAD COMM.| Bids were opened this ‘morning in the office of the Alaska Road Commission for the installation of ! bulk asphalt storage facilities at Anchorage and Fairbanks, were: Post Department mmmander!wnes for advice appear to have lost in TOLSTOI FROM SOUTH \Harold Mayo and Past Post Com-|COnfidence mander Huntington Gruening. During a very impressive cere-| mony the following Veterans were! initiated: Robert G. Prather, Joe| Albayalde, Merle Sipprell, Donald Moe, Fred Bryant, J. Robert Camp- beil. Following the in'tiation refresh- ments were served. V.F.W. conducts regular meetings each Thursday night. IS T0 LOAD SALMON A cargo 01 produce was dis- charged at ‘the city dock today| ior Odom Produce Co. from the Tolstoi. ‘The craft, skippered by the ability Chiang’s government to recover its power of leadership over the Chi- | nese people and reverse the Com- munist victories—with or American help. The Chinese want at least a bil- lion dollars a year for three years, aating b an Am - g8 i Bt m:r(l}c;:‘r:m.d:cl:;:::::) :’; :;‘mpsf C.urbett,'who is here on_spec:al deliveries, the assignment of B‘a.ss:gnment SN puting U large military mission with author- ity virtually to take over the war against - the Communists. 65-FT. WAMCAT, ACS DUTY BOAT, of OF SKI FACILITIES Mark Corbett, public relations | wlthoucmon‘ speaking extemporaneously be- {fore the Junior Chamber of Com- merce this noon, gave a most inter- ’hydro-electric potentials in Alaska, comes from Reclamation Bureau of- fices at Salt Lake City. J | Development of ski areas near Salt Lake City has been one of the main projects of the Salt Lake City Junier Chaniber o! Commerce, Corbett, who is a member of the {Utah city’s organization, told mem- |Lers. He encouraged Jaycees here :ta develop Juneau’s ski area, which |worker for the Bureau of Reclama- ' a report on water resources and| for nearly four weeks a man who, ¢ is a longtime resident of Alaska jand is familiar with all conditions, | ¢ lincluding road needs.” Y Jones referred to Charles G. Bur-| o (dick, assistant regional forester,| o who accompanied him on most of | o his jaunts throughout two National Forests. The two returned Tuesday ‘rom Anchorage, after a week in the Chugach National Forest, on| the Kenai Peninsula. Jones, who came for a two-we(k[ { ‘look-see” and remained a month, is enthusiastic about Alaska and ts future development.” He left| Wednesday by Pan American Air-' | ways, planning to spend a day or| two in Portland, Ore., en route to the Capitol. wreatly expanded road prozram for the consideration of Congress. Atout 5% per cent of Alaska is in National | Porest areas, for which road appro- oriations amount to some $1,500,000 2 year. Road funds for the Interior amount to 18 or 19 times as much, which is in almost exact proportion ‘o the number of square mles. NINE KILLED, 16 ARE This data is for 24-hour per- icd ending 6:30 a.m. PST. In Juneau— Maximum, 18; minimum, 10. At Airpert— Maximum, 9; sl ® S. Birch and Sons and Morrison- Knudsen Cempany in the flmoum;:he State Department. of $1,283,444.95. The bid is now e ! being studied and decision as to o the award will be made at a later . 1 ers has testified that while he was in the Red underground before ithe war, government workers fed him secret documents for transmis- sion to Russian agents. He has named Alger Hiss and Henry Julian Wadleigh, both form- erly in the State Departments as |two of the suppliers. Hiss, now Hhead "of the Carnegle” " Foundatfon for International Peace, has denfed all, Wadleigh Testifies Wadleigh, now unemployed and living at nearby Vienna, Va. was a witness yesterday. He refused to The low bid was submitted by'!say whether he had or had not from slipped secret information Wadleigh said he might incrim- fnate himself by answering ques- tions on that point. minimum -9. ‘ date, | Chambers has yielded some of . Intense interest attaches to the FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Variable high cloudiness and colder tonight and Sat- urday. Lowest temperature tonight around 5 degrees; highest tomorrow near 10 de- . . : RALPH o o! - eee—— i BEISTLINE, 'II, ! IS BORN IN FAIRBANKS Mr, and Mrs, Ralph Beistline are ® beaming with pride over the arri-! ® val of a grandson—and Mr, Beist- grees. ® |liné is doubly pleased because the PRECIPITATION eibkaby has been named for him. ® (Pest 24 houss ending 7:30 a.m. today ® | Weighing 7 pounds, Ralph Hoov- ® In Juneau City — Trace; ier Beistline, 2nd, was born to Mr. | e since Dec. 1, 44 inches; land Mrs. Earl H. Beistline Mon-! since July 1, 6691 inches. At the Alrport Trace; sinczc Dec. 1, 43 inches; since July 1, 46.30 inches. otday morning in St. Joseph's Hos- | |1xvi(¢'l Fairbauks. He is their first! ® | child. 1 . 1ue baby's father is assistant pro‘] ® | fessor of mining engineering at the ® ! University of Alaska. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Hering of Fairbanks. - OYERTURNED CAR ° . . ® o o o o ,ee | All interested young men between|Alex Gunderson, is a Pacific Amer- the ages of 14 and 21 are invited}can Fisheries vessels from Bel- T0 DOCK TONIGHT to attend. lingham, Wash. From here the| — | is scheduled to put CAA MAN HERE Gerard A. Belanger, CAA repre- sentative from Yakutat, is at the Baranof Hotel. The Washington Merry -gg- Round| Bv DREW PEAKSON ! craft in at attle. SRR BN b oo SURFACE WATER, SMALL BOAT HARBOR, FROZEN Surface water in the Small Boat Harbor is frozen over, reports Bert Lybeck, street department foreman. This sometimes pulls out the caulking of poats and causes ship- ping of water. One small troller, the 31A740, was reported in sink- ing condition this morning. Boat l | The Army T-boat, Wamcat, a 65- | Hawk Inlet to load salmon for Se-|foot craft to be permanently sta- tioned here, is expected to dock this evening in the Small Boat Har- Hansen, ACS Sector Commander in this area. Skippered by Master Sergeant George E. Stanford, the Wamcat comes from Seattle. Sgt. 1st Class Fred C. Dawley is engineer and Cpl. i Charles B. Long, crew. Master Ser- geant William C. Lashua also is atoard, but will return to Seattle duty. he described as top rate. “Such recreational tacilities would not only kring young people here, but would be instrumental in keep- ing them here,” he said he said. Numbers of young people are looking towards Alaska as a place tc come to live. Corbett went on to give a quick look at what the Reclamation Bu- reau has been doing in Alaska dur- ing the past year, and what it hopes to do. Investigations have shown that hydro-electric potentials in Alaska | | The circumstance of all South-| in a National | Talk of coming to Alaska has be-| bor, according to Capt. Svend C.|come almost a “rage” in the Statesi ‘east Alaska being iForest. except for the Haines re- | “ion, creates the need .fcr special troad-planning not customary in such | ! orest reserves. | D i RHODES, FORMER JUNEAU MAN, IS MISSING, KODIAK ! Al Rhodes, former Juneau man, i“]uRED I“ BLASIS ] An accident report has been fil-| ¥ ied concerning the overturning of a car about 2 am. today o6n the Douglas road, near the Lawson Creek bridge. Gordon Mills of POWER, LIGHT PLANT TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. X Nine men were killed and 16 in-{bL¢ owned by his brother, J. 8, jured in a series of blasts that|Mills. ~ The car just barely shook a huge power and light plant | turned over, according to Highway near this state capital for almost|Patrclman Adolph C. Lubke, 45 minutes yesterday. investigated the accident. Lukcke re- Rescue crews still groped through{Pcrts that the driver was in no debris today seeking other possible|Way at fault, and the mishap was victims. due entirely to the slipper condi- in the|tion of the road. m__m__lDuuglns was driving the automo-! who ’ the papers he obtained, in the form of photographs or copies, most of them came from the State Department and are dated 1937 and 1938. Touchy Subjects It is known that they contain in- {formation on such touchy subjects of the times as: i Whether Britain was going to specialize on cruisers or battle~ ' ships as the backbone of her fleet. The placing of Chinese orders for bombers in France. The size of Chinese troop move- ments during her war with Japan, Argentine sales of large quanti- ties of Tinseed oil to the Germans at fancy prices. Linseed oil is a strategic war material. Germany was getting ready to move against Austria. Some of the papers deal with the Austrian An- schluss and with other behind-the- scenes maneuvers in diplomacy and international politics. The committee showed signs of heeding the advice of the State Department on whether it should or shouldn't publish the texts of the ten-year-old documents. Some probably will be turned loose and the rest witnheld, The House Un-American Activ- ities Committee today summoned Alger and Donald Hiss to appear before it tomorrow, fired fresh The explosion occurred {criticism at the administration, and MR S (Copyright, 1945, by The Bell Syndicate, | owner H. Blyberg pumped out the c. With the emergency radio sta- ASHINGTON — Beneath the tragic seriousness of the Chambers- | Hiss dispute over stolen State De-l partment documents there is theI humorous spectacle of a news- headline race between the Un- American Activities Committee and the Justice Department. The Justice Department, believing in the old axiom that justice moves slow but sure, at first serene- ly took its time and let one high cfficial recover from an acute case of weekenditis before working up fever heat over the chambers—mssl case. Meanwhile, the Un-American Ac-| tivities Committee, knowing it fac- | ed a* hostile 8lst Congress, saw . lwater the crait had shipped and it was reported in a safe condition this afternoon. City Clerk Jack Popejoy states that the City of Juneau is not re- sponsible for boats sinking in tie Boat Harbor. It is entirely the owner’s responsibility, and so is the removal of any sunken craft. ———o——— JACK MEANS ON LEAVE Jack C. Means, a Public Survey Office engineer, left on today's Pan American World Airways flight for a month's leave. . He- will spend the holidays with his fam-| ily in Colorado. — HALF HOLIDAY DEC. 24 The Veterans administration re~' |boat can reach. tion aboard the Wamcat, the ACS can set up a communications system immediately, in any port the T- The craft will be used chiefly to service and maintain submarine ocean cable repeater stations which are spaced the length of Southeast Alaska, and for its V.H.F. radio re-| peater stations. i The Wamcat gets its name from | the former Alaska Communications System designation: Washington- Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System. ——— PETE GILMORE RETURNS Returning from Seattle this week total more than 50 billion kilowatt hours annually, or more than one- fifth of that now being produced in the United States, he said. Mrs. Mildred Hermann was a guest of Jaycees at their noon luncheon. New members introduced were Rudy Isler and Gordon Chap- Ipel. John Quilico presided for Pres-iboth U. 8. Commissioner A. M. ident Dean Geodwin. - - e - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—(#—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 82, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss- | Wright 7%, International Harvest- {er 28%, Kennecott 567, New York | e B o from his Ko- Kansas Power and Light Company’s e, Sl !main plant and left Topeka, a city diak home since November 24, ac- cording to a telegram from his wife, Mrs. Marian Rhodes. l Lew M. Williams, Acting Gover-| nor, received the wire yesterday lrequesting help in finding him. 1 This morning, Williams said that i Vokacek and the marshal there have joined in a search. The Act- ing Governor has wired for futher information. Rhodes, who is the 36-year-old | son of Mrs. Mae Kilroy of Juneau, was last seen Thanksgjving eve, which was a stormy night at Ko- | diak. He and Mrs. Rhodes lived aboard the tishing boat Tippy. ! In Juneau, Rhodes was a house painter before becoming a fisher- | of 90,000, without electricity for sev- eral hours, * The plant is in the little town of Tecumseh, five miles east of ere, The exact cause of the explosions i had not been determined but sever- | mediate al workers reported they had smell- | ed gas in the building. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive Monday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail HOUSING WANTED - QUICKLY Housing in a hurry. is needed for' two enlisted men from the crew of | the US.C.G. Storis. Both men are married, have no children and are in need of ifi- living quarters—not too costly. | If anyone who has such space available will call The Empire, the Mayor's office or contact the! Coast Guard it will be greatly ap- preciated. e MRS. LOMEN OUTSIDE | Mrs. Edna H. Lomen, City Li-! brarian, went to Seattle this week from Vaucouves Beoempie 58, via Pan American Airways, for a dug out a story that the “pumpkin papers” were hidden for 10 years. Acting Chairman Mundt (R-SD) anncunced the Hiss brothers have been called, and told reporters tha® the committee “is not going to per- mit any agency to squelch” its ef« forts to learn the truth about Com- munist spying. ‘ihat was in obvious answer to criticism from President Tzuman and the Juspice Department’s re- quest that the committee hold off and let it handle the case of the stolen State Department docu-~ ments produced by ' Whittaker Chambers. Photographers Sought Mundt said the committee also in Brooklyn . (has a line on one of 'two_photo- ‘grflphem believed to have pheto- i graphed secret documents given to ° Chambers. Mundt said the man’s & name is Carpenter. " e (Continued on Fage Eight) Denali scheduled to sail from jeqye that will last through the | Seattle Wednesday, Dec, 15, | holidays Victoria scheduled to sail from' She will ' | Seattle December 16, |H. J. Priebe, In Seattle, and Algska scheduled to sail from daughter, Mrs. G. L. Walter, Jr, ! Seattle Friday, December 17, in Wapato, Wash, this as the last chance to win|Ceived official ~notification this| were Mr. and Mrs, Peter F. Gil- | Central 13%, Northern Pacific 17%, back its huge appropriations and :™Oorning that all Federal employees, more. Gilmore, who is Juneau rep- U. S. Steel 71%, Pound $4.03%. get & new lease on life. Wwill receive a half holiday on|resentative for the Alaska Canned Sales today were 1,040,000 shares. The result was @ headline race Friday, December 24. President Salmon Industry, stopped in Avetages today are as follows: Truman signed the order - yester- Ketchikan ; for a day enroute to industrials 17641, rails 53.55, util- day. Juneau, ities 32.98. man. B TR, visit her sister, Mrs. AT BARANOF Chris V. Hansen of Seattle is at the Baranof Hotel. [ (Continued on Page Four)