The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 28, 1949, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIIIL, NO. 11,208 _— Bridges Say MADDOX DOCKED IN JUNEAU LAST NIGHT; REMAINS TWO DAYS It was all a mistake. But the mistake was not made by the USS Maddox. | The Maddox arrived in Juneau, | docked at the government dock | smartly. at 8 p. m. Friday. Eight o'clock last night was the ship's scheduled arrival time. Somewhere along the line the little matter of Greenwich Time— Zebra in navy code—was eliminated or skipped or misunderstood, and the news and radio announced last night that the ship was expected in Juneau at 4 a.m. Saturday (today). Though officers aboard the Mad-' dox might have wondered about thel absence of greeting commmces! or brass bands they understand | what happened. | Abcard the destroyer with its| complement of 22 officers and 300 | enlisted men is Comdr. M. L. Mc-!| Cullough, USN, commander of Des- | troyer Division 92. | Commanding the Maddox is| Comdr. C. E. Mott, USN. The ship | will remain in Juneau until day-| break Monday morning. Visiting Hours Visitors may call aboard the! Maddox between the hours of 10| am. and 4 p.m. today and Sunday. | The USS Maddox is on a two| weeks naval training cruise from Seattle to Alaska and return to Se- attle from where it will continue to its base in San Diego on June 4. Enroute to Juneau the ship was | in Nanaimo, British Columbia, May | 23 and 24th to participate in the| town's Jubilee Celebration in honor of the 100th anniversary of discov- ery of coal on Vancouver Island, the 75th anniversary of the incorpora- tion of the town of Nanaimo and! the celebration of Empire Day. | Personnel Among the personnel of the Mad- dox, 10 of the 22 officers are in the regular navy, 12 are naval re-| serve ofiicers. Of the 300 enlisted men, 200 are regular navy men and 100 are in the US Naval Reserve. | Reserves aboard the ship are| from the 9th and 13th Naval Dis- | tricts, principally from the North- west. H The Maddox, “sleek and graceful | as a greyhound,” to quote an officer | who is pretty proud of his ship, is| 2200 tons, 375-feet long and capahlei of a speed of 33 knots. Lt. Comdr. “Chris” Christensen, | USNR, of Seattle, was pilot of the | ship through the inside passage to! Juneau. Sailing along with the Maddox as | far as Ketchikan was the USS| Moore, also of Destroyer Division 92. The Moore will remain in Ketchi- | kan until Monday and the two! ships will meet off Dixon Entrance! and travel south by the outside| route. T Monte Snow, Civilian | Only civilian aboard the ship-is| a Juneau pioneer, Monte Snow, now | on the editorial staff of the Seattle | Post Intelligencer. Snow, brother of Postmaster Crystal Snow Jenne,i is visiting his sister and his son, Joe Snow, with the VA in Juneau, ‘‘wel] known baseball player, and will | retwrn’ to Seattle aboard the Mad- SAGE o Con der Mott, while in Ju- neau, i renewing friendship with Douglas Gray, a classmate of his at the US Naval Academy. Among reserve officers aboard the | U. 8. Maddox are; Paul V..Carvell, | Billings, Montana; Robert O. Cros- key, Portland, Ore.; William D. Honey, Tillamook, Ore.; Tracy K. King, Ellensburg, Wash.; Harold C. Nelson, Portland, Ore.; James W. Pettit, Jr., Portland, Ore.; Robert J. Preble, Aberdeen, Wash.; Ira W. Rimel, Pasco, Wash. John B. Sproull, Portland, Ore.; Glenn O. Malleny, Seattle. SEVENIN, 11 OUT ON THE DAILY PLANE DOWN, THREE MAKE THEIR ESCAPE CORDOVA, Alaska, May 28—(#— “We're thankful we're alive!” That was the straight-from-the- heart comment of William Beek- JUNEAU BASEBALL STARS MEET NAVY; GAME ON SUNDAY Maybe they can't run as fast on the bases as their ship can travel |in the bounding sea—maybe they |can’t hit as hard as their five inch |guns, but it is/ safe to say the | Juneau All-Star baseball team will | krow it has been in a cattle tomor- | lrow afternoon when the US.S.| A JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1949 s Indictment on RUSSIANS JAMMING ULS. VOICE NEW YORK, May 28 —(®— The Voice ot America admits the Rus- sians have regained the upper hand NAVY HAS RECORD INPACIFIC WAR Arriving on her first trip into Alaskan waters the U.S.S. Maddox pulled into Gastineau Channel last night at 8 o'clock and tied up at the government dock for a week- end stay in Juneau. ‘The ship which is on a Naval man, Eric Rosdail and Robbin Ray- iMaddox players leave the field. Al- dal when they finally arrived here |though their regular fleet team is in the growing battle of the air-iReserve tralning cruise with her ways. jSister ship the U.S.S. Moore, now yesterday. ‘The three men were flying in a Stinson Ranger from Palmer to Cordova Thursday evening. They | flew more than three hours in an overcast before getting lost and running out of gas. Pilot Raydal set the plane down on a tiny, rough strip of beach near Ellamar at 2:30 a.m. Friday. The plane flipped. over on its back in three feet of water. Hanging upside down among a cargo of duffle bags and luggage, the three men managed to scramble tc safety. Cannery owner Milt Brown and the crew of the Ellamar Packing Co., put them up the rest of the night. ‘They were brought here Friday morning and later flown to An- chorage. STORES, OFFICES 10 CLOSE MONDAY Housewives are busy stocking up for the long holiday week-end for stores, as well as other business firms, are scheduled to be closed Memorial Day. For Federal employees, the week- iend extends from Friday to Tues- { aay, as U.S. Government oftices are closed today. Territorial and city GIRL SCUUTS TO JOIN IN MEMORIAL PARADE Girl Scouts will join other organ- izations in the Memorial Day parade observances, Scout leaders announced today. Scouts are asked to meet at the side street by the Baranof Hotel at 11:15. The Mariner Troop will Le in charge. Every Girl Scout, Brownie and leader is asked to| | participate, and all thosé who have |not here a number of the players {of the team form the nucleus of! the nine that will appear here| tomorrow. And what they may lack in team experience will be more than made lup by the old Navy spirit. The game will start at 2:30 o'clock in| Firemen's Park, and a good sized Navy rooting section will be on !hand to back up their team. | The teams will line up as follows: | U.8.S. MADDOX JUNEAU Treatman Phelps | McGee Nielsen | Calkitt Cope—Houston | | Colvin Selmer | Russell McClellan' Ludecke Cantillion | | Guest Rolllnson! | Parker Snow | | Dam Allred Schy—Palmer | | Navy substitures—Gualco, Geer,| |Eurris, Huey, Brown, Meadows, | Dean, Donovan, McKay, Kugelberg, | ! Elmore, Trosclair and Main. ! The club is under the manage-| ment of Ens. Bruce Keener, USN. 2nd 3rd c 58 rf . of I 1st Pitcher I DEMS AIM ! ¥ | TO ADJOURN offices will also be closed Monday. | l N A u G u S T WASHINGTON, May 28. — & —| Democratic leaders were reported today to be aiming for an August 15 | {adjournment of Congress—even fl% several of President Truman's meas- { ures are left untouched. , i An influential Democrat who ask- | !sd not to be quoted by name told | a reporter the President's assertion | Congress ought to stay in session | until it passes most of his program | | doesn't mean that’s going to hap- pen. | Despite Mr. Truman’s statement that American broadcasts to Russias virtually have been drowned out by a record 205 Soviet jamming sta- | tions. “We are getting through only for brief and scattered periods,” the Voice spokesman said. Working with the British Broad- casting Corp., the Voice has only 61 stations with which to beam Amers: ican information to Soviet listeners. The Russjans are using as many as seven or eight jamming transs mitters against a single Voice sta~ tion, he added. Jamming first was stepped up by Russia last April 24 until it virtual- ly blanketed the Voice broadcasts under a cloak of confusing noise. The Voice threw more transmit- ters into the contest and began | broadcasting around the clock. This worked for a while until Russia stepped up her jamming operations again. The spokesman saia the Voice broadcasts have been trimmed to bare news essentials of major im- portance so that Russian listeners who do pick up-the Voice briefly will be interested enough to listen. SCOUTS 10 CAMP TOMORROWP. M. FOR TWO WEEKS Tomorrow afternocon -at 12:30 o'clock, approximately 50 Juneau and Douglas Boy Scouts will leave for their two-week summer camp at Eagle River. Troop 613 sponsored by the Amer- ican Legion post has 24 members going. The Episcopal Church troop 23 has 18 Scouts and the Lions Club Troop 614 several Scouts. Yesterday afternoon the bedrolls of the Scouts were taken to camp. Transportation is furnished the Scouts to the end of the road, but each Scout must pack in his own equipment for the two week’s per- uniforms are urged to wear them.|that every one of a score or more Troops are also asked to carry their troop flags. of his deserves priority rating, there | were signs that he may have to be | iod. The trail to the camp from the |road is a mile and a half long. | Maurice Powers, Boy Scout execu- A Voice spokesman said last night. ' ir. Ketchikan, although new in con- | truction is old in war experience, | having been times toward the end of the war in Japanese waters. Based at San Diego the ship is i commission for peace-time uses, but which is ready to do her part in any national emergency in a hurry. She is flagship of Destroyer Division No. 92. Her normal com- plement during peace fime is 257 men while at full complement dur- ing wer time she has a roster of 230. After a brief period of air-sea rescue duty in the Philippine Sea |in October, 1944, the Maddox made her battle debut as a unit of Task Force 38 during the November strikes against Luzon and the Vi- sayas. Combat air patrols her control shot down two Jap planes. She functioned as strike picket ! with another task group duting the carrier raids on Formosa and Luzon Ke.lu'ly in January, following which |she entered the K China Sea with Task Force 38 to participate in the successful strikes on the China coast. On January 21, while on picket duty off Formosa, the killing: one officer and seven men, W / geven ‘offlcers and tWenty-seven mien,” and' " causing lcm-nx\dex'n!)le damage. While on a picket station on May 14, the Maddox was attacked simultaneously by four planes. One was shot down and the other three turned back after dropping bombs and torpedoes widelof the mark. "During her wartime tour in the Pacific the Maddox, in addition to the above activities, also rescued seven pilots, two aircrewmen, and one seaman from the sea, and de- stroyed with gunfire 21 Japanese mines. 2 DANCES TONIGHT FOR MEN ABOARD under fire numerous | one of the fleet that has been kept | under | Maddox was hit by a Kamikaze, | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VALIDITY OF FISHTRAP TAX ‘Harris Company Asks In-/ junction Restraining Tax Collector challenging The first suit the | by the 1049 Legislature has been | {Iiled in U.S. District Court. | liminary injunction restraining M. | P. Mullaney, Alaska Tax Commis- | under the new act, rather than the $21,250 paid for licenses issued { January 21, 1949. Inull and void. The company owns three salmon let and Kake, the majority ot fish being supplied from floating pile- |driven traps owned by it. | Holding currently valid War De- | | partment permits and Territorial | fish trap licenses, the company Ap- computed on the basis of the grad- |uated Alaska fish trap licénse tax| then in effect. ! Based on 1948 operations, the company would be required .to pay | $132,547.81 for similar operations in | 1940, --The Harris. firm alieges tire act to' be invalid; charging that, as the companjy engages exclusively {in interstate commerce, an unlaw- |ful interstate commerce burden is, placed contrary to Article I, Sec-| tion 8 of the federal constitution.! The complaint further cchayges | | unreasonable discrimination” against fixed-type fishing gear and in favor |of mobile types and discrimination against some fish trap operations |in favor of others. It alleges that the tax would in- crease the cost of fishing to such | level that the company would be { forced to abandon traps and opera- | | | | clause violates both the 5th and ! 14th amendments,” as well a® Sec~ tion 9 of the Organic Act. tions, also that the retroactive| E. M. Brennan, Vice-Pfesident. | OF ALASKA STEAM | T0 BE WELCOMED' | President STil{ner Makes Reply to Suggestion | by Rep. Jackson 5 SEATTLE, May 28—(P—President Gilbert W. Skinner of the Alaska Steamship Company said today his| concern would “welcome” the Can- gressional investization proposed at validity of the fish trap tax passed | Washington, D.C.,, by Rep. Jackson i Ha (D-Wash), | He commented on Rep. Jackson's | | to look into the financial affairs of the Alaska Steamship Tompany, |pany and all | services. Jackson said there was a dif-| Alaska steamship ‘vhn( found by the Maritime Com- | mission in an audit. “We submitted regular quarterly! sion for the period in question | May 1, 1047 to Dec. 31, 1848).” Sk'n-; ner said. 1 FIGURE: AVAILABLE “We went through a full rate! !and to the public.” Of Jackson's statement that the | Commission reported its audit | showed $180,000 of the company’s! Yrofits resulted from ship repairs in its own yards, Skinner said: “Our maintenance and repair di- ivision has :een operated by the company for the past 20 years. Dur- ing the war this department saved considerable money for the War Shipping Administration, for which we were operating agents.” DISCREPANCIES The higher profit figure men- | tioned by Rep. Jackson included | | profits obtained from the main-| |tenance and repair division, but | should not do so under terms of the operating interim agreement, | Skinner said. The figure was also taken before depreciation, which is always al- ilowed by the Treasury Department,| | he added. | Jackson said that Alaska Steam-, I ship Company reported that May | 1, 1947 and Dec. 31, 1948, it made profit of $678,008 before taxes but ' {and W. C. Arnold are signators for | that the Maritime Commission’s; ASKA EMPIRE| %] “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS ly ‘Smoke Screen’’ {VISITING SHIP OF |SUIT TO TES T|INVESTIGATION 10 LEADER NOW FACES 2 CHARGES Ififerente Giv;n If Eisler Refurned He May Be Witnessr at Trial SAN FRANCISCO, May 28—(®P— 1ry Bridges, stormy labor leader charged with perjury and fraud in connection with his citizenship ( P. E. Harris and Company, a|statement in the House that “"‘hearlnc. says the indictment is an Seattle corporation, seeks a pre- | Merchant Marine committee plans| ggministration “smoke screen.” ‘The Australian-born Bridges, nat- sioner, from collecting $132,547.81, the Northland Transportation (;om-funlued in 1845, posted bail of $5,000 yesterday. Trial was set for June 9. Federal Judge Louis Good- man refused to increase ball to $20,- The complaint also asks judg- ference in the amount of progt|000 nor would he release Bridges ment and decree that the act is reported by Alaska Steamship and|vn his own recognizance. Bridges, head of the CIO Long- sheremen’s Union, twice defeated government efforts to deport him, in canneries, av False Pass, Hawk Xn'\reporzs to the Maritims Commis- | 1939 and 1841 Wednesday, he and two'top aides, J. R. Robertson and Henry Schmidt, were indicted in connection with his naturalization here in 1945 Bridges was accused of swearing plied December 20, 1948, for 1949 investigation taking several months|{alsely that he was not a Com- licenses and received them January and all of our figures and profits | munist. 21. The tax amounted to $21,250 were available to the Commission!S0n were accused of conspiring to | detraud-the government. He, Schmidt and Robert- Schmidt and Robertson also post- ed $5,000 bail each. Schmidt cur- rently is directing the' Hawailan waterfront strike at Honolulu, | Bridges sald “This is the result |of at least certain elements in the administration connected with anc. | surrounding ‘the President to stlence |any criticism of the administre- tion.” . 3 The attempt to raise Bridges' bail | was made by F. Joseph Donohue, | special assistant attorney general. |He cited Gerhart Eisler's jumping & $23,500 bond and fleeing the United States on a Polish ship. (Eisler, taken off ship in England, was freed yesterday by a London court which rejected a United | States demand for extradition.) Donohue said that if Eisler could be returned he might be a witness in the Bridges case. “He has made certain - statements under oath which may be pertinent in this case,” Donohue said. “They estab- lish a fact that may be part of !our argument.” the company, which is represented !py Frank L. Mechem of the Seattle audit set the profits at $1,348716.| A former Bridges associate, Mér- “Congressman Jackson obviously | Y Rathborne, disclosed he had satisfied with final action on a half | t ve, reminds parents and friends law firm, Bogle, Bogle and Gates, + dozen. . And Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) pre- LIONS, ROTARIANS |of the Scouts that the regular vis- Officers and enlisted men aboard NAVAL DESTROYER and H. L. Faulkner of Faulkner, dicted that one of these—proposed repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act—may | reach the President in such form that he will be tempted to veto it. | BULLETINS NEW YORX — Major security IN JOINT MEETING Lions and Rotarians will call a halt to perennial good-natured feuding Tuesday and hold a joint nroon luncheon meeting at the Baranof. Cause for the unprecedgnted fraternization is the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, regular meet- itor’s day is Sunday, June 5. U. . NAVY UNITS LEAVE SHANGHAI; REDS CLOSING IN SHANGHAI, May 28.—#— All ing date for the Lions Club. Ro- | tarians agreed to the joint meeting on their meeting date. FROM TANANA Registering yesterday, at the Baranof from Tanana were Blanche |E. Stevens and Hilda C. Toner. 'The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) | VW ASHINGTON— The State De- partment’s “Voice of America” re- and commodity exchanges today began their summer schedules when most of them close on Saturdays through September 24, PORTMARNOCK, Ireland — Sam McCready of Ireland won the British Amateur Golf Champion-; American naval units safled this morning from their anchorages at the mouth of the Yangtze River. ‘The ships had been taken down the Yangtze as the Communists drew closer to Shanghal. Shanghai appears to be returning to normal under Communist rule, the U.S.S. Maddox will be enter-|Banfield and BoocHever, Juneau. tained at two parties in their honor | R being 'sponsored by city Officlals o o o 6 o 6 6 © © o o and local women’s organizations. 1. A party at the Elks Hall, under . the co-sponsorship of the City of | Juneau and the Business and Pro- | fegsional ‘Women’s Club, with music for dancing getting under way at 9 o'clock. All young people of Ju- neau are invited to attend. e The American Women’s Voluntary | o | Eervice club will entertain for offi- | o |cers from the Maddox in the CIO| , union hall from 9 to midnight. Offi- le icers and wives from the Cutter| g WEATHER REPORT (U 8. WEATHER BUREAU ‘This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 a.n. PST. In Juneau— Maximum, 68; minimum, 49. At Afrport— Maximum, 70; minimum, 33, FORECAST (Jeneas and Viclaity) Increasing cloudiness this L LA ol ‘SALARIES, STEAM ship today by defeating Willie! but the absence of sufficient ship- Turnesa of Elmsford, N.Y., 2 and 1 in the 36-hole final. WASHINGTON — President Tru- man is cruising today aboard the FPresidential yacht Williamsburg. WASHINGTON — President Tru- man has signed legislation authoriz- ing sale of less than one acre of lend to the Russian Orthodox ichurch of South Naknek, Alaska. ping means a food crisis is almost BRITT IN WITH BARGE Btoris have been invited to nuenu." . certain to come to the city of six million. i ACS SOFTBALL RESULTS ACS beat CYO by forfeit last night. ACS boys appeared on the afternoon and Sunday with intermittent light rain by Sunday evening. Highest temperature today about-62 degrees. Lowest tonight near 45 degrees, PRECIPITATION fPast 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. foday In City of Juneau—None; since May 1, 4.3 inches; since July 1, 111.39 inches. At the Afrport — None; since May 1, 335 inches; since July 1, 63.91 inches, ® & 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o0 . . K] * Expecting to be in port two or o three days, Capt. F. (Pat) Britt|g brought in the Fish and Wildlife| ¢ Bervice power barge 1915 this| o morning from Kodiak. The craft| recently was acqoired from the| g Army, for us off Ketchikan as sum- | o mer operations base for.the FWS scene at 6 o'clock sharp for warm- | stream improvement program. | o up and were still warming up at! After having the barge equipped o 6:45 p. m. when Father Sweeney|here, Britt and his crew of three| appeared and forfeited the game,|will take the 1915 to Ketchikan,| »y o ® Vear from Alaska Steam and is not in possession of all of the, facts, which will be clearly brought | out at any investigation to be held, Skinner commented. OFFICIALS GIVEN WASHINGTON, May 28.—P— Salaries of officials of the Alaska Steamship Company and Northland Transportation Company are made | public by Rep. Jackson (D-Wash). He put in the Congressional Rec- | ord a statement from the Maritime | It said that Gilbert W. Skinner, teen a key witness in the grand Jury hearing leading to the indict- ment. Rathborne said he broke with Bridges over policy during the war. He sald he later decided that “the only real interest and objective of the Communists in our labor un- lons is to promote the policies of a ioreign power, the Soviet Union." RADIO CIRCUIT FROM SEATTLE 10 ALASKA 1570 BE STEPPED UP WASHINGTON, May 28—P—A Lew high-power radio circuit to president and partner in the two shipping companies received fl(.floflK $22,500 a year from Northland. Other salaries it R. Anderson, vicc presideny and partner, $24,000 from Alaska Steam | and $22,500 from Northland. D. E.! inner, partner, $22,500 from listed were: | manager, Northland, $31,249; Law- | rence Bogle, vice president, Alaska | Steam, $20,000; J. W. Baker, vice, :Improvt communications between ithe strategic Alaskan area and the United States is planned, the Army £ignal Corps says. The circuit will connect the Seattle office of the Alaskan Com- munications system and Anchor- age. The 8ignal Corps also said it is | Northland; William Semar, general C°NGUCng” research in the far north directed at learning more about the problems of radio com- munication there, including inter- | fe produced ot Most of the CYO boys are either|then fly to Seattle, where Britt is, president and general manager of |\ ence by the so-called PACIFIC NORTHERN Pacific Northern Airlines carried 18 passengers on Friday flights with seven arriving and 11 departing as follows: From Anchorage: H. J. Collins, Phyllis Ring, L. E. Allen, A. W. Hackwood, Felix Toner, David Dorne, Ingvar Iverson. To Yakutat: Michael Hickey, Carl Christofferson. To Cordova: Fred Pasnow. To Anchorage: Cecelia Cavanaugh, Angie Grominolf, Mary Melovidov, Lt. B. Wingo, Fred Michels, Lyle Andrews, Joe Mahoney. FROM KETCHIKAN C. D. Tandy of Ketchikan is at the Baranof. Oswald Newman, cently carried an unusual broadcast | jto Europe. It told about a police ohief who was not feared and hat- ed, but who was so loved and re- spected that the American people were raising money voluntarily to build a boys’ school in his honor. ‘That police chief is J. Edgar Hoover. From the State Department's viewpoint this was excellent propa- ganda. Furthermore, it was true. And in Europe it was news. { In the United States it was not especially considered news—for a | very good reason. We have come to take the fair-minded head of the FBI so much for granted that we don't realize that in many parts of Europe, the head of the. secret police is a figure synonymous (Continued on Page Four) WASHINGTON—Both Houses of Congress are in recess until Tues- day for the Memorial weekend. DETROIT—Ford and union ne- gotiators have been in almost con- tinuous session all through "the night and early morning hours. From time to time during the night, the negotiators let it be known that they were very close to agreement which would end the 23-day-old strike. MANILA—A Chinese Communist broadcast heard today said 40,000 ‘Natiortalists' had been captired in the Shanghal campaign. The Reds #lso claimed that two Nationalist warships * were sunk and seven damaged in the Shanghai fighting May 23. out of town or interested in swim- ming as a sport more or less. The game will be counted an official win for the ACS. FROM PETERSBURG Clarence Walters and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ohmer of Petersburg are at the Baranof. FROM METLAKATLA Charles A, Ryan and Walter Wes- ley of Metlakatla are registered at the Baranof. i HONOLULU, May 28—(P—Forty husky dairy farm hands began un- loading cattle feed yesterday from the strikebound freighter Hawaiian Citizen. ~ skipper of the Pelican. 1915 is moored at the Steamship Company dock. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from (By The Associated Press) Seattle today, due Tuesday. ‘The cost of lives of the nation's Princess Norah schedujed to sail Memorial Day weekend began to from Vancouver 8 tonight. mount early today. Princess Louise scheduled to sail Sixteen accident deaths were re- from Vancouver June 1. ported before noon Eastern Stan- Aleutian scheduled southbound dard Time. Fourteen resulted from early Monday. 3 accidents on overworked highways. The National Safety Council pre- WILLIAMS TO WRANGELL dicted a, total of 215 traffic fatal-| Acting Governor Lew M. Williams ities, not including those who may had nothing it fishing on his die later of their injuries, The mind when he left for Wrangell, to, Council sajd it expects more thin The BSP | Alaska | HOLIDAY TRAGEDIES| BEGIN TO MOUNT UP the same company! $12,000; and W. P. McCarthy, assistant treasurer" $14,800 from Alaska Steam. | Homesteading Bill For Alas_kg Okehedl WASHINGTON, May 28— (P —| The House Public Lands committee has approved a bill aimed at stim- ulating homesteading in Alaska. Under it, the Departments of In- terior and Agriculture would assist homesteaders with loans and through development of speci!i spend the holiday weekend at his| 30,000,000 vehicles will move during favorite sport. He plans t& return ' the three-day holiday, given good| ‘Tuesday. weather. areas. | Homesteads up to 2,560 acres in size would te permitted. [ Northern Lights. In a summary statement in con- nection with the 48th anniversary of the Alaskan Communications | System, the Signal Corps noted that the Territory is connected with the United States by three types of transmission, radio, land wire and submarine. cable. I S R R S . . NO EMPIRE WILL BE PUBLISHED MONDAY There will be no publica- tion of the Empire on Mon- day, Memorial Day, but any important news events will be bulletined. e90ececcee @90 0000s0coe