The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 22, 1949, Page 6

CAAAAAA AL AR AR RRR R ARV PAGE SIX | for local assistance to those in dis- tress during the past nine morths. The month of March was the peak |menth for Home Service cases, | reaching a total of 50. Mrs. Livic stated the present outlook is much brighter with economic stability be- coming assured for able-bodied per- ! sons during the coming months. Detailed Report Is Made of, prsaster erepaneowmss, Assistance at Meef- | ommander Cnester, of the Dis- ing Held Here aster, Preparedness, and Relief Committee outlined plans for meet- ng local emergencies or disasters A total of 354 Home Service cases which might affect the whole com- taken care of by the Juneau Chap-| ter of the American Red Cross dur- ing the period July 1, 1948 to April RED CROSS HELP IN JUNEAU AREA NOW EXTENSIVE were from the Fire Department,| that the quota of $7,148,00 was not reached, we are hopeful that those individuals and firms who were not canvassed will mail their contri- butions or call Mrs. Livie who will contact them,” said Boochever. “As the reports of the members of this Board indicate, the activi- 1 many humane activities, and monies expended are for use in cases where Red Cross is usually the only unit that can in many instances give immediate relief. “Of all campaign contributions, | 71.8 percent are retained by the Juneau Chapter and the balance goes to National Red Cross® Head- quarters,” concluded Boochever. Members of the Board of Direc- tors present at the meeting in- cluded L. B. Avrit, Robert Drux- man, Gus Gissberg, Mrs. Arthur Walker, Frieda Romanoff, Mrs. Livie, and Chairman Boochever. STAR EXPLODES; TOOK PLACE SIX YEARS AGO CLAIM munity such as fires, slides, or arthquakes. Contact has been made vith agencies and organizations in 1, 1949 was reported by Mrs. Dan| ’I‘(:’:a“l eq\;(lipped r:'u (.;pnr:g ?nm n'c- Livie, Executive Secretary, at the| o L“f;“l ds‘” ‘)5"‘;9“ "Cfll" Bodid of ‘Diectors moetitle Wad-| SV WatSd ] He e 3 assurances of cooperation in the nesday evening. . . 2 ! coordination of this preparedness Types of cases invoived il various types of assistance to 115|jino. " cubnort ACS, and others - {97_ ve(cragsr. ‘"r“"d l;f‘rmd stated that further planning civilians. Several needy families| oo g pe facilitated upon Com- were given outright grants of| .. 0. Ghester's return. clothing, blankets, and household | Mrs. Arthur Wal i . goods after fires had burned their| VTS rthur Walker reported on| dwellings |development of a handicraft pro-| S et it ot |ETRM for shut-ins and hospitalized Mrs. Livie reported that this past|aiients, gupplies will be furnished winter had been a busy one for the\by the local Chapter for this pro-| Red Cross and because of the scar- ety g | city of work during the long winter, 1 many destitute individuals were | MARCH DRIVE i furnished with food and shelter at| Chairman Boochever called at-| various times and loans were| tention to the results of the March| granted in many instances. This re- | Fund Drive and stated that slightly; sulted in a drain on the local over $5000 had been raised with chapter funds available for such|Skagway still unreported. | Nearly $3500 was expended: “Although we are disappointed use. ...A GRAND OLD CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 22.— (M—The explosion of a star with the force of a billion Hiroshima-type atom bombs was reported last night by an internationally-known Harv- ard scientist. Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard College Observatory, said the explosion must have occurred six years ago. The flareup, however, was recorded on earth for only 20 minutes last December 7. The discovery was made by Dr. Willem Luyten of the University of Minnesota. Dr. Shapley said that the star, known as “L 726-8” is about six lizht years away from the earth. Tt is one of a pair of stars believed to be nearest the earth. The oth- er is Alpha Centauri—four and one- half flight years away. Boost Expeti;&—ln Nation's Economy (By The Associated Press) The nation’s economy was expect- ties of the Juneau Chapter cover | - y E WASHINGTON, April . St Things have been easing up on the family pocketcook for the past five months, but the cost of lving is expected to be up slightly in government figures due today. Two things are expected to raise the Labor Department’s consumer price index. They are the seasonal increase in the price of fresh fruits, meats and vegetables, and the gradual increase in rents., In mid-January, the cost of liv- ing was 69 percent higher than during the pre-war years of 1935 to 39. Also in the economic picture—: The Department of Labor says average factory earnings have dropped $1 per week to $53.37. ¥hy = 4 curity says unemployment is on the increase in the United States, but that the labor surplus is fairly evenly spread. CALIFORNIA STYLIST OF BARANOF SALON Mrs. Ilah Parmenter, -manager of the Baranof Beauty Salon an- nounces that a wellkknown hair stylist and operator will join the staff Monday. Her friend, Miss Katherine Mac- Donald, who has-been in the style department of Kahn's Department Store in Oakland, Calif., for seven years, is taking a two-months leave of absence in order to help Mrs. Parmenter during the spring rush. She is expected to arrive tomor- row on the Princess Louise. STORIS 10 60 SOUTH SUNDAY; AWAY MONTH Sailing Sunday morning at 8 IS T0 JOIN STAFF .. STUDENT PLAYERS "IN FAST COMEDY Present Two-Act Play "Dear Ruth” An all-school cast pxesents “Dear a two-act comedy by Nor- Krasna tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the Juneau High School gym- nasium. The performance is under the di- rection of Miss Helen Schaefer, high school speech teacher, Leading the cast of 10 characters are Miss Shirley Elstead as *Ruth” and Denald MacKinnon as “Bill.” Also in the cast are Sylvia Davis, Alice Jean Dayis, Aleda Warnzr, Robert Croken, Walter Johnsion, Carol Shellenbarger, gorty and Gerald Shaw. Proceeds from the admissions to The Bureau of Employment Ses|the play will go into the speech de- | partment fund for play production and other dramatics activities, ac- cording to the director, Miss Scheaf- er. >roe JUNEAU JAYCEES - T0 PETERSBURG, - PRESENT CHARTER Presentation of a charter to the ;ns\\ly' organized Petersburg Jun- jior Chamber of Commerce will te made by Juneau Jaycees tomorrow night when the Viking city JCC |organization holds its Charter Night Banquet. | Warren Houston as delegate from {the Juneau Club, sponsors for the |new sister city organization, will lprosenl the charter to Petersburg Jaycee President Don Pettigrew. | Jaycees, meeting this noon at the | Baranof, announced a business mecting to be held Monday night at the Jeep Club, with plans to be made for election of officers for TONIGHT AT GYM j—High Thespians Are o’ Gerald Ma-| | | | | Talgo “mystery train” built by ACF plant at Berwick for Spanish while on a test run. Construction details are still secret. ride on only two wheels, front b: low center of gravity, cars connec travel. (P ed by zippered fabric. Estimated to railroad, stops at Blcomsburg, Pa., Cars are smaller than conventional size and g supported by car ahead. Reported train made of light weight metals, be capable ¢f 120 miles per hour | former detective Eugene Cowan— . officer who shot and wounded L boy after Blackwell had emp- % his gun into his victims. ith a firm, thin smile on his face, the handsome dark-haired youth recognized Cowan Wwith a d of his head and a wink of his right eye. An instant later the cyanide pel- let was dropped into a pot of sul- acid to create the lethai (By The Associated Press) Planes from the Oregon Nation al Guard and the McChord Fis Air Rescue Service stood ready to- day to renew the hunt for a missi | B-26, overdue on tlight Hamilton Field, Ca , to Portla; The aerial search was called of last night because of bad weath-) E.r:r'hc names of two of the mi —’AViATIoN' WELFARE ing plane’s three passengers w BOARDS wul MEE]' EARLY NEXT MONTH umes. The boy took a deep breath and arently nds. > ead- disclosed. They were Air Force Col. Archibald Y. Smith, 49, and Army Col, Walter W. Hodge, both attached to Armed Forces Hi 8 quarters for unification of facili- May 5 has beea tentatively set fies and services in’ {is ‘western|for the: meeting of $hie Acronaut area. The Army said t pair and Communications Commission, was en route to Portland on crding to Acting Governor Lew study of service unification ir. the ie Wil proside’ "5 nine western states. - — a chairman, i Ernest Gruen Members are Sheldon Simmons, Juneau; Neal Foster, Nome of was unconscious within absence of Gov.} JUNEAUITES WILL ATTEND HEARING ON PUBLIC WORKS Mayor, Education Commis- sioner fo. Appear in Washingfon Juncau will be well represented Thursday in Washington, D. C,, when the hearing opens on HR. “.!‘:. , the Alaska Public Works Act introduced by Delegate E. L. (Bob) Bartlett. Mayor Waino Hendrickson left yesterday, with facts and figures abeout the City of Juneau, its pre- ent situation and future needs. In Seattle, he will execute the $260,000 paving bcnd issue, before going East. | | i i | Mayors of otiher Alaska cities |also plan to attend, requested to do |s0 by Delegate Bartlett. Also answering the call to help Anchorage, and William | promote Alaska’s interests, Dr. rbanks, each represent-|James C. Ryan, Territorial Com- "AGGRESSOR AGGIE' g2 L i meeting of the Public Wel-| Monday. | { ' fare Board, originally scheduled for! The %ill provides for federal funds ARMED FORCES NOW phisligmtyloi. & o al next Monday, has ceen postponed,: to 1y will be held the first: for improvements, “matching” trom ’,25 to 75 percent in a.scale which 1 | the coming year. FISHERIES BOARD 10 MEET MONDAY o'clock for Seattle, the CGC Storis| will stop at Ketchikan to load| material for the Seattle base. The Storis expects to reach Seattle the | latter part of the week and wil make supply runs for approxi- mately one month. At the conclu- sion of the runs, the ship will return to Juneau. | led to get a boost this spring, but iit is overdue. This is clear from a new batch of government re- i ports. i show fresh declines in i nog-farm employment, in factory They | workers' earnings and = working fhcurs, in business loans and in es- NAME IN CANADA week in May. Available in: QUARTS 4/5 QUART PINTS 1/2 PINTS MINIATURES | CORBY'S RESERVE BLENDED WHISKEY 86 PROOF o 68.4% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS JAS. BARCLAY & CO. LIMITED » PEORIA, ILLNOIS | 1 timated farm receipts. However, Treasury Secretary John Snyder is optimistic. He says the |latest employment figures actually are higher than a year ago and purchasing power is still high. — e FOR SUNDAY DINNER Baked Ham or Roast Turkey, at Reporting aboard the Storis yes- terday from the CG base in Seattle were Milton G. Fiamango RD2 and John L. Stephens TN. 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A, s 8 other great advances! TO HIRE DIRECTOR For the important purpose of hiring a director, as well as to set up a long-range program, memkters 4f Alaska's new Fisheries Board will meet Monday in Juneau. The first meeting of the five- man board created by the 19th Legislature was held March 25, when it was decided to allow & |month for applications by quali- fied persons. Members are Ira H. Rothwell of Cordova, who served as chairman of that meeting; Wiliam R. Wal- NEW YORK, April 22—(#— The - o Army’s spring maneuvers are get-| ting more realistic all the nme.fANOTHER RUSSIA“ |and now the G-1's can hear what 1 Axis Sally sounded like during the war. Sally’s counterpart on Imaneuvers is called “Aggressor Aggie” and In: {an actual broadcast over thc Armed Forces network she has brgged thej troops to desert to the other sidz where a party is going on. inew evidence frem Moscow that | Aggie’s broadcasts are sponsored|the Soviet Politburo may have 'by the Army to show the trocps|fired one of its members. The Po- the kind of propaganda they would |jitburo is Russia's top policy-mak- be up against in a real wer. ing Ledy. The man believed to have FROM SOVIET RANKS MOSCOW, April 22—(®—There is BELIEVED DROPPED ‘averages about 50 percent. CCMMISSION WILL SELECT TEXTBOOKS FOR FOUR YEARS Representatives, of companies puklishing elementary and _sec- jcndary school textbooks are begin- ning to arrive in Juneau, on invita- tion of . the Textbook Commission i | i ton of Sitka, who acted as secre- tary; Karl Brunstad, Kodiak; J. P. Valentine, Ketchikan, and J. H. ‘Wakefield of Port Wakefield. Rothwell, Walton and Brunstad are fishermen members; Wakefield represents industry and Valentine, the publi e L gl SR 24 MORE NAMES DRAWN FOR JURY With a heavy trial calendar and| | many. of the 44 men and women on the present jury panel servingcuted - for the more than the average jury duty|Reno police officers Leroy H. Geath period, Judge George W. Folta this'and Allen Glass as they sought to morning called for the drawing of ! question him about a robbery in additional names, November, 1947. s A venire of 24 names was issued,| At least a dozen Reno bolice- returnable Monday morning at 10|men crowded to the observation o'clock. ywindow of the small death cham- These persons, all from Juneau|ber, standing in the chill of the and vicinity, have been added to|gray prison yard. the petit jury panel: J. S. MacKin- Immediately in front of the non, Mrs. Vera Maier, Earl Barcus,!youth at the outside window was YOUTHFUL SLAYER DIES GAS CHAMBER WITHIN 3 SECONDS CARSON CITY, Nev., April 22— (P—With a wink at the buddy of two policemen he shot to death, 19-year-old David Blackwell died in the Nevada penitentiary gas chamker at dawn today. Blackwell, a former Tacoma, Wash., high school boy, was exe- fatal shooting of | R |been dropped is Nikolai Voznesen- sky. He was replaced as head of which will meet next week. All the Russian planning commission such firms were invited to send iwhen V. M. Mclotov was relieved of | representatives and-or samples. Inis duties as Foreign Minister. Thei George T. Babcock, Pacific Coast new evidence is a complete list, msmanager of D. C. Heath Company, | Politburo members, without anyiand Lecnard Hunting of Rand mention of Voznesensky. McNally are here, and at least six —_— are expected during the week-end. wan' a‘ ]ob, I.OVI At the sessions to start Monday . i iPay, Elephant Hide? jfor the period between July 1, H Y 1949 and June 30, 1953. |Notify Truman el sl TR i Danielsen of Ketchikan, Edwin C. President Truman-« is looking forischools, and Dr. James C. Ryan, liron men willing to work for the|who, as Commissioner of Education, government at comparatively low is chairman. pay. According to Mr. Truman,| As Dr. Ryan has been called to ernment offifeial has to be now— |ing started Monday before leaving, ,an iron man with an elephant Hide jthen turn his duties over to who can get by on a small salary.IEverett R. Erickson, Assistant Com- Right now the President is look- | missioner. Secretary Kenneth Royall and{’ FROM ANCHORAGE Atomic Energy Commissioner Rob- | Hazel Guy of Anchorage is ert Bacher. ‘guest at the Baranof Hotel. # - 1others ] morning, textcooks will be selected (By The Associated Press) iClark, superintendent of Juneau that's the kind of a fellow a gov- | Washington, he will get the meet- ing for replacements for Army R G Al | William J. Reck, F. F. Cameron, 7 Ethel E. Whyte, Royal O'Reilly, Bess O'Neil, Claude V. Brown, Dar- win Hoel, R. A. Hollingworth, Bes- sie G. Ross, Ethel B. Milner, Mrs. | |John Mills, Mrs. Hilden Skeie, Jennie Joseph, Mrs. James H. Stone, Charles Whyte, Knute Ny- strom, Mrs. B. Hunsbeth, Mary Coleman, Linnie Lempke, Emily Stender and Martha K. Martin. \Atlanta Police - Trying o Solve Murder Mystery ATLANTA, April 22—(P—Atlanta police still are trying to solve the | murder of the Metropolitan opera | singer, John Garris. His body was found early yesterday in an alley. | ‘The general manager of the | Metropolitan, Edward ~ Johmson, says the tenor's character.was, as |he put it, “perfect as far as We know.” The Metropolitan is continuing |its tour. .- FOR SUNDAY DINNER Baked Ham or Roast Turkey, at Salmon Creek Country Club, $2.50. 4 LT LT U R E — Arthur Salmons shows the Chevrolet and 1911 Ford 3-vassenzer he built at Hynes. Call