The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIIIL, NO. 11,230 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, Ffill’AY, JUNE 24, 1949 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Alaska Withholding Tax Upheld By Decision DEFENSES URGED FOR NORTHLAND WASHINGTON, June 24.—#—An Illinois newspaperman told Senators | today the United States is spend- ing billions in Europe while “leav- ing the back door wide open” to at- tack irom Asia. He urged Congress to build up| Alaskan defenses and to recognize | the threat developing in China by sending aid to non-Communist for- ces there. The witness was Edgar C. Bundy, lecturer and city editor of the Wheaton, Ill., Daily Journal. “There is no use,” Bundy said in a prepared statement, “to attempt to elect a barrier against the spread | of Communism in Western Europe and pour billions into that area, ! while leaving our Pacific ally, Chi- na, go under with her vast man- power and unexploited resources | plus the potential subjugation of millions in the Malay states, Bur- ma, Indo-China, and India by the same forces of Communism.” CHINESE PORTS IN BLOCKADE Nahonahs Navy in Action - on Communist-Held " Water Outlets | | bedridden for several months, His { which took him also to Metlakatia. | PREMIER OF GREECE DIES; UNEXPECTED ATHENS, June 24—(®—Themis- tokles Sophoulis, Premier of Greece, died today. He was 88 years old. Death oc- curred at his summer residence at 4:15 p.n. Although he had been ill and was near death last fali, Lis death at this time was unex-| pected. Sophoulis, a key figure in Greek politics for a half a century, had been premier since Sept. 7, 1947, despite the turmoil of Greek poli- tics occasioned by the civil war with the Communist guerrillas in the north. He weathered the most recent; political storm only two months! ago, and this after suffering a\ severe heart attack which had mmy reshuffled cabinet took over in April after a scandal involving a member of the previous govern-| ment had caused the aged premier | to offer King Paul his resignation. The veneracle leader of the Lib- eral party had been an important cog in the Truman Doctrine, under which the aid of the United States went to Greece in her civil war and to Turkey, under the shadow | of the Russian Bear. “ Hydaburg Cannery Under Consirudion Eebuudlng vh new canmery : ats Hydaburg is well underway, At Walker, Alaska Native Service| credit officer réported today, Tollow- | ing his return from-a three-day trip Cannery installations at Hydauurg Explosives Threatened By Flames Closely - Glmed Naval Research Laboratory Is Destroyed by Fire WASHINGTON, June the closely-guarded Naval Research Laboratry early today and for a time threatened a nearby building containing high explosives. City firemen brought the flames under control after about a half an hour. Police also went to the scene but were excluded by armed Marine guards. The fire was confined to a two- story brick, steel and concrete building containing laboratory sup- plies and equipment. Only eight feet away, in the 50-acre, fenced-in area, is a ballastic laboratory con- taining explosives, A Navy spokesman said only a small amount of explosives were in the adjoining building. However, a man familiar with the Army in- stallation said there were enough that, if reached by flames, “the en- tire southeastern section of Wash- ington would have blown up.” A Naval Board of Inquiry was or- | dered to determine the cause of the | blaze. MRS. F. B. JAMES ‘15 FOUND GUILTY BY SEATTLE JURY SEATTLE, June 24.—(®—The bit- terly argued retrial of Mrs. Florence 24— | Fire wrecked a supply warehouse at | \TAKE POSTMASTERS NEW JoB ‘OJT OF POLITICS 1S FOR VETS | urcen, pREsiDENT lN NORIH'lemslahon Recommended! by Truman Would Aban- don Oldtime System WASHINGTON Jums 24— (A’l——; H President Truman today recom- "y from Na"ves mended legislation completely re-| _— moving postmaster appointments By VERN HAUGLAND tfrom politics. WASHINGTON, June 24— —! In a special message to Congress The Bureau of Reclamation sug-|he urged enactment of a law to| gests that Alaska turn to war vet-[authorize the Postmaster General erans for a revival of the Terri- to appoint all postmasters subject tory's once-thriving reindeer in-[only to provisions of the Civil Serv- dustry. 3 ice and Classification acts. That industry has suffered from| This would mean that the time- “a lack of interest” since it was}honored custom of the President turned over to Alaska Native} in|appointing first, second and third 1037, the bureau says. !class postmasters—cf whom there: jare some 21,000—would be aban- | The Reclamation Bureau baSlqoned. Senate confirmation of the {proposed, in a 324-page report ON|preigential choices likewise would | | Alaska, that U.S, Reclamation Law, |, longer be @ part of the routine. | now effective in the 17 Western| postmasters theoretically have states, be extended to the Terri-lpeen under the Civil Service sys- tory so that the Federal govern-liem for some time. But legislators; ment may take part in reclnma'—lon.nequantly have had a hand in Opvelopenen. picking one of the first three pass- Alaska has an estimated 200000 |30 the examination and, further- square miles .of grazing land whichly,ore the Senate for years has had| jcculd support 4,000,000 reindeer, s, say on confirmation. Fourth ! | vielding 1,000,000 hides and 150,-fcjasq postmasters are appointed by 000,000, pounds ‘ot meat “"“““"y"t.he Postmaster General and do not el 8L /have to be confirmed. These are for | the smaller offices. 5 The new legislation requested by Suggested that-They Take Over Reindeer Indus- [ However, since 1837 reindeerl | ownership has been limited to Na-! ¢ Itives, village associations have Mr. Truman is in line with a re | managed the dwindnng herds. |commendnlon of the Govemment‘ “Community ownership rosulted Reorganjzation Commission heldedl ,port said. e !Blg Purge source of food, with little or no | in a lack of interest in the herds|by former President Hoover. ; “Reindeer . were considered by | thought being given to building upl | H y {in many villages,” the bureau's re-n iy many Natives as an lmmed{.t |herds for local marketing and ex- | port. “Large areas in the north are !h’an {of responsibiiity for fl! NEWGOP CHAIRMAN 1S SOUGHT Backers ofWarren, Stas- sen, Also Young Re- publicans in Fight By JACK BELL SALT LAKE CITY, June 24— —A fight, between backer! of Har- old E. Stassen and Gov. Earl War- ren of ‘California over the choice | of a new chairman sppeared de- veloping among young Republicans here today. At the same time, an AFL labor leader told the Young Republican | National Federation bluntly that its leadership needs “a complete change in thinking” to the point where it will show home “responsi- blllty for the public welfare.” “Joseph D. Keenan, director of Labor’s League for Political Educa- tion (AFL) fired a critical blast at | GOP leaders — including Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio and House | minority leader Joseph Martin of Massachusetts—as the convention’s| second day’s sessions got underway. There seemed little doubt that! | Keenan also was aiming at GOP | National Chairman Hugh D. Scott, Jr., here for the sessions, when the AFL official asserted in a prepared | talk: Republican Swat “If recent elections have indicat- ed that the majority of Amerwm voters (ael thal t.he - lfl& Wel- fare, it is because Republican lead- | ers and many Republican candi- dates have turned a deaf ear to the | urgent requests of the American people.” Keenan's scolding, however, was (By The Assoclated Press) | gore gestroyed by fire last July. * The National Chinese Navy €n-| .he Hydaburg Cooperative Asso-| forged -a" blockade on Communist-! oiation, managed by Herbert Kittils- held _Chinese ports today. A radio|py s constructing a modern unit message ffom' the Egyptian ship| witn complete electrification, in-| | Bean James ended last night in her {likely to find their best utflunuon| | conviction on a charge of re(uslng\bv reindeer. In many -areas, rein-| to tell a state legislative commit-|deer are needed now for food and: |Lee on Un-American Actlvmesndnthmg | whether she was or ever had been* is Star of Suez, received in Shanghal, cluding individual motors on each said/she was forclbly detained by & | machine, Walker said. The sharp- Natlonal, Chinese ' warship after| freeze unit has been completed and clearing’ Shanghai. -~ |will be ready to go with the com- | The message said the ship, Which) pletion of the power plant. The| is chdrtered by an American COm-{ cannery building is practically fin- | g‘ln!. '3: Sm}’f by elght rounds|jsheq with siding yet remaining to gunfire. ssengers servers, Chinese naval Officers; cannery installations are belng put | boarded the Star of Suez. The shiD | jnto A-1 shape for the coming sea- became | be put on. i alarmed and put on their life pre-| walker said that the Metlakatla | was afterward permitted to proceed to Japan, but her captain reported the Shanghai pilot boat was ap- parently under arrest of the Na- tionalists. This is the first ship out of a Commanist-held port to be detain- ed and boarded by the Nationalists since they proclaimed their block- ade. Foreign shipping in Shanghai was_bombed by Nationalist planes enrly this week. | ' LAUREL GOODELL RETURNS Laurel D. Goodell, who has been outside since May 30, returned yes- terday via Pan American after va-| cationing in several ~Washington state cities, She formerly was on the staff of the Division of Disbursement, U. 8. Treastify Department. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON ICW!MM 1949, vy Bell Syndicate. Inc.) AS!nNGTON G. O P. Rep- resentative Jesse Wolcott of Michi- gan, ‘who leads the House fight against the public housing bill, would ' like ‘to forget all about it, but he once strongly espoused what he_npw. opposes, Back in August, 1937, cangress- man Wolcott was an outspoken| champion of the Wagner-Steagall Housing Act, which also provided | for slum clearance and lov-cosv.‘ public housing—the same program which the Michigan R,epubhcnnI now calls “socialistic.” During .the 1937 debate Wolcott declared: “I believe that the need for decent, respectable and sanitary housing for the underprivileged has been proved beyond the pendven- ture 6f'a' doabt™ ¢ 1n 'fact, Wolcott was so concern- ed about the need for adequfite public housing and l)llm clearance in 1937 ‘that ‘He arged colleagues P s A AL T T T SR I (Continued on Page Four) son. PRESBYTERIANS | GIVEN PLANETO | SERVICE ALASKA, HADDONFIELD, N. J,, June 24— (P—The Presbyterian Board of Na- tional Missions today accepted v,he' gift of an airplane service in Alaska. The plane, & Piper-Clipper, is the | gift of the First Presbyterian| Church of Haddonfield, N. J., and/ friends of the Rev. Samuel M. Lee, | formerly of Horton, Kansas, and now a missionary at Barrow, Alaska. The plane will be equipped with a two-way radio, extra navigation| alds for Afctic flying as- well as skis and pontoons. HEARING, ALASKA | BILL, ON JuLY 8 | WASHINGTON, June 24 —M— | The House Labor committee has set | July 8 for a hearing on a bill by Detlegate . Bartlett of Alaska to ex- tend to workers on federal con- struction projects in Alaska benefits of the Alaska Workmen's Compen- sation law. The workers are em- ployed by private contractors and | are not federal employm St EAMER MOVEM MOVEMENTS Pnncesa Louise lmm Vancouver scheduled to arrive Saturday after- noon. { Baranof scheduled to sail from | Seattle Saturday. Princess Kathleen scheduled to safl from Vancouver Saturday, Prince George scheduled to sail lrom Vancouver June 28. Princess Norah scheduled to sail irom Vancouver June 29, > Aleutian scheduled southbound Sunday. | o for mission | 1 a Communist party member. She is' co-director of the Seattle Reportory | Playhouse with her husband, Bur- | ton James. A superior court jury, whose mode jof selection' had been challenged early in the hearing by Mrs. James’| attorgey, ‘John Caughlan, returned | |its verdict after an hour and a half of deliberation. The original trial ended in a deadlocked jury. Tragedy Ends Years - 0f Suffering for 10-Year-0ld Girl MT. PLEASANT, Pa, June 24.—| (M—Ten-year-old Catherine Tully died in an automobile- accident shortly after doctors said her years of suffering were over. Mary Catherine had from a bone disease for years. She looked forward to the day when surgeons would tell her she would walk without crutches. Yesterday, while in Pittsburgh for an examination, the surgeons told her she was on the way to recov- ery, On the way home the cab in| which Mary Catherine was riding hit a concrete abutment. She died | without regaining consciousness. 'BERLIN STRIKERS SEEKING BLOCKADE BERLIN, June 24.—{M—West Ber- lin’s rail strikers, rebuffed by the Russian appointed rallway manage- ment in efforts to run an ‘“emer- gency service” into Berlin, urged a retaliatory Soviet zone blockade to- | day. The anti-Communist union pre- pared telegrams to be sent later in the day to the West German un- ion headquarters at Prankfurt, ask- ing all German unionists to refuse to handle freight destined for East Germany. The Berlin union styled its ac- tion a retaliation. Earlier the rail management had turned down the union’s offer to work trains run on | an emergency basts. In Frankfurt, union headquarters declined comment on the suggested | . Soviet zone boycott until the form- al request is reeejved. “It entirely possible (By The Associated Press) Two hundred thousand Hungar- ! jan Communist party members have The announcement; that| been purged. { overshadowed by the battle for the ! chairmanship between connected in the past with Warren, the 1948 Vice Presidential nominee, ernor and now president of the candidates | i ‘and Stassen, former Minnesota gov—‘ suffered i | veterans trained in animal hus-iof the purge came from party lead- | |bandry and - familiar with cattle! er Matyas Rakosi who spoke in; ‘xamng would be interested in rein—'Pnaue last night. Rakosi said lhe | deer production, contributing ma-|party had been thinned down to; !terially to the profitable develop-]| 1,000,000 members. He said the' ment of the industry. i Communist leaders had found spies “Througn proper sales promot.onland paid agents of foreign powexs\ |8 sulstan:ial export market could {in their ranks. !be established for reindeer, meat| Rakosi headed a delegation vis-| 1 iting Czechoslovakia for ratification of a Czech-Hungarian treaty of| | friendship. i Noticed It INEGROES, WHITES LivingCost, | IN DISTURBANCE; ! S"gm Drop? SWIMMING P00lé | ST. LOUIS, June 24—(@—Isolated B | disturbances between Negroes and| WASHINGTON, Juné 24— (P —: whites broke cut again last night as The cost of living nosed slightly;gan aftermath of trouble that flared downward during the month ended in g St. Louis park Tuesday. The | May 15. violence began when city-owned | The Bureau of Labor statistics|swimming pools were temporarily said today its index declined three-| opened to members of both races. tenths of one percent for the| ‘Ope white youth was serlously month. | hurt and several other persons suf- In mid-April the index had ad-!fered minor injuries in separate in- ivanced slightly, one-tenth 'of Onecidents in scattered sections of the, percent, over mid-March. Officials|oyty, - |sald actually there had been no; Chief of Police Jeremiah O'Con- really substantial change for the|nell sald extra police and squad | past two months in the consumers|carg will patrol the city for an in- price index covering large cities. | definite period in view of the tense Fluctuations have been wider.|gituation. He attributed all of the however, between the individual|trouble to teen-agers. cities, than in the national average. Prices of all major groups except rent were a little lower than the month ended April 15, the report jas a specialty product.” WEATHER REPORT | convention, | youngsters — who range said. Fuels declined 1.5 percent, house furnishings 1.3 percent and|® University of Pennsylvania. ‘Warren backers were ‘lining up| behind Laughlin E. Waters, Califor- nia state legislator who has Been helping carry the ball for Warren's tax program in his state. Hand-Picked, Charge ‘Waters' opponents charge, how- | ever, that he has been hand-picked ‘by Republican National Committee leaders, including Scott, for the chairmanship. That’'s a tough charge in this seems almost unanimous that the in age through 40 — ought to cut loose en- | tirely from the party’s “Old Guard.” Some of the delegates who would | like to see Stassen get another shot at the GOP Presidential nomination in 1952, are backing Alex Ackerman, Jr., of Florida, Ackerman, credited with strong southern backing, formerly helped manage Stassen’s campaign in his state. MORE TIRS GIVEN T0 ALASKANS BY RECLAMATION BUR. By VERN HAUGLAND WASHINGTON, June 24—(M— The Bureau of Reclamation, in a report, suggested that Alaska take a tip from Washington state, which |bas developed a $2,000,000-a-year industry in gathering, and processing shipping wild huckleberry ® | branches, and also ships common sword fronds to florists through-| out the United States. “Infinite varieties of lichens, mosses, sedges, edible berry-produc- ing shrubs, willows and dwarted birches, horetails, tall grasses and others ot potentiad export value are | found in Alaska,” it said. “Aircraft now fly flowers to Alaska. They can as well carry decorative materials, native flowers where tlle sentiment | pre-convention | Sweden occupies m area of vl'fl.-, Xafl square miles, | Sweden in 1947 was only 6,808,000. apparel 0.6 percent. . (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU Retail food prices decreased’ 0.2|® (This data is for 24-hour pe- | percent for the month. ® riod ending 6:30 am. PST) o, {¢ In Juneau— Maximum, 59: | ® minimum, 43, STOCK QUOTATIONS |3 A& Aiort— saximum. o / ® minimum, 42, 1* FORECAST (3 NEW YORK, June 24, —-m_cms-l Rhiis aad Slolati) by ing quotation of Alaska Juneau| Continued fair tonight and mine stock today is 2%, American!e Saturday. Lowest tempera- Can 90%, Anaconda 26%, Curtiss-| e ture tonight 40 and highest Wright 8%, International Harvest-|e tomorrow 62. er 24%, Kennecott 43%, New York|le PRECIPITATION o | Central 10%, Northern Pacific 13%,| @ (Past 2+ bours ending 7:30 a.m. today | U. 8. Steel 21%, Pound $4.02%. 9 In Juneau — .11 inches; Sales today were 570,000 shares. |® since: June 1,- 551 inches; Averages today: are as: follows:}e “simee’ July 1, 117.90 inches. industrials 16699, rail 4335, utii-|e At Altport’— 09" inches; | oy 141 {® since June 1, 419 inches; BRI et . |® since July 1, 68.13 inches. The estimated population ofie: ¥e iy ® 0 000090 00 0 0.0 ®'and small fruits to southern mar- ® | kets. “The peat industry is also open ® for development. Alaska has enor- ® mous deposits of peat. Alaska peat ® moss could be packed into bales | for export. The report recommended that the @ | Reclamation Bureau be allowed to : develop experimental farms in (Continued on Page Elcht) ATTORNEY GENERAL | IS TO TAKE ACTION FOR UNPAID IAXES Numerous nthm mm‘ with head- \ quarters outside the Territory will} be affected by today's judicial| opinion upholding the new net in-| come tax law, in the case brought | | by the Alaska Steamship Company. i t Attorney General J. Gerald Wil- ‘ liams said, immediately after learning of Judge George W.| | Folta’s decision, “There are many firms which have been withholding | {from salaries under this law, but| |have not paid, pending this de- ! cision. “We expect most of them to pay immediately. However, if income tax payments are not forthcom:ng within a reasonable time, this of- |tice will institute action to collec Territorial Tax Commissioner M. | P. Mullaney shares the opinion :mat numerous payments will te imade immediately. 4 l “We know there is plenty due,’ Mullaney said today, “but there is no way of guessing how much.” | “However, in many cases, busi- |ness firms have notified us thati | withholdings have been made snd lare being held in escrow. i “One concern wrote that, in Iorder to protect its employees and save them from having to make | individual claims should the law {be proven invalid, the Mtrholdmgs | were being held. This firm en- | closed a deposit slip showiny ue.ooo,l {in the speclal account.” ‘ “There are many, many smailer | ones, ranging from $450 to $1,000, and a number at about $7,000. Of course, many, other firms have not potified us at all” SPECIAL SESSION | RAISES ISSUES| ‘Today's decls‘on by Judge Oeorxe iW. Folta in which he rules thm‘ | the Extraordinary Session preced- ing the regular Legislative one was iuvalid, brings up other considera- \lu)ns besides the major tax mea- sure which was at issue. Figures compiled by the office of | Auditor Frank A. Boyle show that| {the special session cost the nx- payers $33,000. This sum includes | | salaries of members and help, per cdiem allowances, supplies, printing, | janitorial and other maintenance: services. There are only three chapters in the laws of the special session—' that appropriating funds for the; session, the income tax statute which was re-enacted, with some lrevislom. by the regular session, gnnd adoption of Alaska Laws Com-~ xplled and Annotated 1949 as the; legal code of Alaska. Tiese are | Chapters 2, 3, and 1, respectively. i While the legal code is a com-| pilation of the previous one (ACL.A. 19331 and later session laws, the 1949 code has been clted, {as such frequently in courts. Regarding legality of the special | session Judge Folta went back to | the Organic Act of August 24, 1912, which provided for the terms of legislators, beginning when they took their seats. “It follows” says the opinion, “that those elected in October, 11946, and the long-term legisla- tors elected in 1944, who took their seats the fourth Monday in 1047 {on " today's - southbound ~fiight, {address a judiclal conference in | Los ALASKA $§ EXPECTED TO APPEAL 1949 Spetial Session In- valid, Says Opinion Given Today Alaska’s new net income tax law |today passed the test of its first challenge in court. Handing down his decision in the case brought by the Alaska Steam- ship Company against the Terri- terial Tax Commnissioner, Judge George W. Folta ruled that the 1049 Extraordinary Session of the Alaska Legislature was invalid, and therefors, everything done there, However, he upheld the validity {of the income tax statute passeda at the regular session, including ratification df the withholding pro- visions of the original legislation This does not mean that some $7.900 in the custody of the court will go immediately into the Ter- iritorial treasury, (These funds are the proportionate withholdings |irom salaries of vessel ‘personnel and of 19 Alaska Steam employees |ashore in Alaska) ' The status of the case remains the same until Jjudgment is ‘en- red, - which cannot bé accom- lished until the court returns here July 6. Judge Folta was to leave to A A«.‘*’ FRPCTSE A fill 'l‘lxcommhdoncll P. Mul- {isney from 'collecting first-quarter payments of the tax was ordered April 28. The second-quarter in- stallment will be due June 30, but not delinquent until July 31. 'Asked for comment on- his ‘opinion in ‘thds case, Judge. Foita remarked, “Some questions in the complaint were not passed bn, be- cause some cbjections made by the plaintitf are. not available to the plaintiff yet. They have not occur- ted, and the couirt.does npt. rule on hypothetical cases, The' opinion does_not dltwlp pf attacks. made in th: fut! H. L. hulknnr of l'nulkner, Ban- field and 'Boochever had opened the steamship ‘dompiny’s . case in |the May 6 hearing 'with drgument against the validity of the original income tax law approved January 22, and of the special session itself. Associate counsel for the com- pany was the Seattle tirm of Bogle, Bogle and Oates. Its tax expert, Frank L. Mechem, challenged two sections of the second Income Tax Law approved March 26, and the act itself, 35 Attorney’ General J. Gerald Wil- ‘llams and hig .nlbunt., John H. Dimond, représented t.hg Terri- | torial Tax . Faulkner sald wdny that he assumes his clients wul want to ap- peal. . Before uw un was' filed here Apflx 8, sult had been trought in | Seattle by the Sailors' Union of the Pacific against withholdings from salaries of some seamen paid in Seattle. The union obtained an injunctioh in the Federal Court in Seattle. Judge Folta's 14-page decision to- day was the first of three opinions and then took the oath of office,| should have bheen called. . . The| canvassing board has no power to| {le the time rur commencement ol‘ term.” Quoting aw Alaska code ol' | April [18, 1940, Chapter 105, Sec-| {tion 1, the court cited the use ofj the word “again” as intending al return of legislators for a special| session. ' “Accordingly,” the ruling con-| tinues, “it is my opinion that the | Extraordinary Session was not constituted in accordance wtm‘ Haw. . " | One of the reason for re-enact- ment of the income tax act by the| regular session was the zeneml‘ assumption that the legality of the 17-day special session was likely to; be challenged. The special session was called ahead of the regular session. Thej| legal critics of the session based| their challenge on the contention| that any special segsion called be-) fore the regular Ilegislature is| seated should have been for mem- bers of the previous legislature, not the new one. (Connmud on Page ch) he will have to give on test cases of 1949 Alaska tax measures. He now has under advisement a case testing the validity of the in- |creased non-resident fishergen's tax, and the third goncerns -the increased fees on fish tr: # Saturday, the court ordered a temporary injunction restraining, the Tax Commissioner from col- lecting the increased fish taxes from P. E. Harris and Com- pany and the Mutual Trap Com- pany, both Seattle firms, No date has been set for hear- ing this case on merits. PR VISITOR RETURNS HOME Mrs. C. W. Wilkins left by Pan American Airways Wednesday to re- iturn to her home in Minneapolis after a month's visit with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Zenger, TAKE 0-DAY lo.u TRIP Back from 3 .10-day , boat, . trip (around Chichagof Island are El!n hoit Brust, ANS assistant tendent, and"Marvin G. Ripke, Al 8 administration - officer. They re-_ turned yesterday. " ‘ trap \