The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 29, 1949, Page 2

PAGE TWO Smart with Slacks “LOOPTIE” | NAVY AIDS JIRP, DROPS SUPPLIES A Navy PBY swung over a 2,000 | foot ridge between Taku and Hole- In-Wall Glaciers yesterday after- noon, and on signal, three loads of supplies parachuted to an ad- vance party of five men from the American Geographical Society’s Juneau Ice Research Propect | JIRP). The blue cargo parachuces carry- {two jeep tins of gasoline, ineatly on the narrow ridge within ing a complete meteorological sta- | ticn, food and camp supplies and landed | a few feet of where advance climb- ers were spotted in the high snow fields up from the Taku River. First men to leave on JIRP's full summer’s extensive glacier study |on the Juneau “Ice Cap” began the a duck uppers and Jeole for extra light- Look! Rug, thick cork 1 ness. Smart with casual ¢! And th 100, bec ground wedge 's grand foot com e of shoekpre ipping !r(ml : sole, he foot-fitting las sand. Washable. ' iKeds, | head of the ascent the group are to remain at the |2,000-foot level on the ridge to set up an tion, while the will - ON TAKU RIDGE to the ice fields Tuesday| morning with full packs. Two of ccompanying three |cf the service. proceed up the ridge to the | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—-JUNEAU, ALASKA The new Comimunity Methodist Church at Douglas (cut above) will ke dedicated Sunday afternoon with intermediate weather sta- Bishop Gerald Kennedy in charge The Rev. Robert Treat, pastor Taku Glacier near the center of the “ice cap” where |ing will be built from matdrials to ‘LC dropped in by plane later this R M Rehtends Ca QUALITY SINCE /1887 yone that when certain posts e drifing by, they were rescued ised for house-posts and hence ing by the town’ became an ored nam2 cf this House known and now as ‘ish-koo-hit’ — Fove the place where salmon rest- TLINGIT WOMAN 15 YEARS OLD DIES INDOUGLAS ew. And when tne Tlingits call the House ‘Frog-House' (xixj-hit) | Death at 115 years has taken On¢ | .. yc0n the frog that sits over | L ihe Yo few “Old. timerst of the a.pool watching ior game just as| Ahaku /Arips, of THils, people did over ‘ish-Koo-hit.’ ! Annie Rassmusson, reported to| ive been bern in 1834 at Sumdum, “Her name was Kuh-dtix-ty, ‘m‘ ied Saturday at Dc . Funeral hit something’ She has and now | orvices will be held tomorrow at) departs this earth in just that way am. in the Catholic Church with | marking the pass cf ‘the old tim- 12 Rev. James Conwell officiating. | ers.’ " i nterment will be in the family lot of Evergreen Cemetery. | A funeral bus will leave Douglas | at i week. {ford Research Institute, | Calif., | bringing with them 1500 pounds of Food and supplies were dropped for the advance party ac the weather station site by JIRP men from an Alaska Coastal Air- a reconnaissance ! lines plane on flight last Saturday. The Navy's PBY, with Lt. Jeft crew of five men flew in from, the Naval Air Station at Kodiak | Tuesday to give air support to one of the most extensive glacier study‘ expeditions ever to te undert.aken‘ in the Western Hemisphere. The, plane and crew are scheduled w‘ drop eight tons of equipment ac; five main camps out of the exgm planned for the summer's explora- ' tory program on the Juneau ice tield. The third week in July the | rlane will return to drop in sup- plies at outlying camps on the ice. Two seismologists from the Stan- Stanford, | yesterday arrived here | built the | framework of the church, and the the Rev. P. Gordon Gould, of the |2 permanent weather station build- | Board of Home Missions of the Methodist Church, and the Rev. G. Edward Knight, superintendent of the Alaska Methodist Mission. The present congregation was or- ganized in 1946, and the building was begun that fall and winter. The Hans Berg Construction Co. foundation and basic m2mbers and friends of the church Baker and Lt. Felix Hart and alpaye completed the building with | volunteer labor. At Easter, this year, the building | held 100 people, and gcod attend- ance regularly has convinced the| | Church Board that the second unit | of the building, planned when the remain here through the week 10| qriginal plans were made, wili soon and the church. BERLIN STRIKERS (CLAIM REPRISALS 'HAVE NOW STARTED (By Associal ted Press) of the church, will! perticipate in the service, as will] ow pect and in the names of Lh«;se‘CthU\w Ch 'Ihr aged Tlingit woman came 0i whose glory exists almost entirely in retr for to be cted . cend at 9:40 o'clock tomorrow morning the Annie Rassmusson services the Juneau delicate instruments with which! The Anti-Communist Berlin' Taku and other glaciers which flow | the Soviet-controlled railway ‘Ban: southward from the vast Juneau agement has begun reprisals against they hope to measure the depth ot 'Railway Union charged today thal ! TWO SCIENTISTS FLYING NORTH T0 | STUDY ALEUT RACE SEATTLE, June 29.—(®— 'lwo, scientists flew north today to re- sume studies of the fast dying out who mourn her passing. The story of her heriiage as Lol a\ v her brother, the wellknown Jim- y Fex, and transeribed by \\’flliam\ aul, quoted below: “Her htisband, a’noted chief of| he Yun-yady tribe was Hi-dah- ioo-teen and reminds his contem- | soraries of the times when the rah-koo river was so muddy that one could not see the bottom. Her | father was also of the Yun-yady| tribe as his name The Aged-Grizz ey-Bear would indicate. Aleut race in the Aleutians. “Her mother was name Kah-jees-| Dr. W. W. Laughlin, Eugene, Ore., ahk to remind her that she would| newly appointed assistant professor be ‘the maker of all things useful|of Anthropelogy at the University of and desired by mankind’ She was | Oregon, and Dr. G. H. Marsh, Reno, of the ‘outside-living-people’ as| N left on a Navy plane. Dr.| their word Gahn-nuhh-tady could| Laughlin has made two previous be. interpreted | h expeditions while with the “Her sisters and a brother survive | Peabody Museum of Harvard Uni-| her. Mrs. Anne Jack is better | versity. known among her people as Dy-xe- kuhh-doo-co signifying ‘something| They said they would make their hat will be bought. Her youngest | Deadquarters at Nikolski, on Unmak is Mrs. Silas Dalton, ‘Doo- | Island. Frederick A. Milan, Univer- uhl-tin’ which described the|Sity of Alaska student, will join | ppraising look a seller gives to the | them as an assistant. i price offered for the exchange of| "f':; e ol | them westward to Attu, on the ex- er brother is Jimmy Fox who,| ;eme tip of the Aleutians, after from the time of his birth, was pro- { visits to Aleut villages along the claimed the heir to the name Ahn- | na-hla-hash, and the expectant hief of his tribe. He became such when his uncle by the same name died. The name is to remind! ster 1) Their summer’s work will take One of their expedition’s discov- cries last summer pre-Christian Aleut god. was an ancient| SJUNEAU CITY BAND PRACTICE Thursday Night June $0 a at 8 o’Clock Grade School Auditorium All present and former members now in city are | urged o attend. a Thanks |study of ice, | Twin Glaciers. They plan to fol- | taineers to be on the ice to re- "lruuon's vast housing kill today — Ice Field. The two men are C. F. Allen, | geophysicist, and S. Miller, who| | will begin their trek into the aren\ this weekend. One-thousand pounds of dynamite which the research| scientists will use in setting off | man-made earthquakes in their | attempt to learn the secrets of the\ sub-glacial rock contours is now on | its way to Juneau. Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, associate director of Stanford Research In- stitute, is due to arrive here Satur- | day to direct beginning seismic cperations on the glacier. Dr. Poulter, a pioneer in the seismic | is a veteran of two Byrd Expeditions to the Antarctic, serving as senior scientist and sec- ond in command in the 1933 ex-| pedition, Malcolm J. Greany, local photog- | rapher, will be a member of the second unit to leave for the “Ice Cap” this weekend. A four-man team will fly to Taku Lodge and ! then go by river boat between the low the route of last summer’s re- connaissance expedition to the. snow basin at the head of the two glaciers where a main camp and a second weather station is to be established. Plans are for the moun- ceive drops of equipment made by the Navy PBY this weekend. CHAMBER TACKLES HOUSING PROBLEM AT NOON SESSION With the Juneau housing problem still an unsolved quantity, the Chamber ot Commerce will open the Hotel. General business session will pre- cede the discussion, PUBLIC HOUSING SECTION KNOCKED OUT, ADM.'S BILL WASHINGTON, June 29, —A— The whole public housing section was knocked out of the Adminis- subject to a later vote. With the aid of some southern Democrats, Republicans mustered a 168 to 165 vote to knock out on the House floor a provision for 810,000 public housing units to be financed by ahnual federal payments of $308,000,000. | The rallying cry of the oppon- men who took part in the crippling 138-day rail strike. The union said 375 men were | fired without notice. The 14,000 strikers reported back to work yes- terday. Officials of the railway manage- | ment were not available for com- The strikers had gone back to work on the promise there would | be no reprisals against the work- ers. Rail traffic remained stalled, meanwhile, while crews worked to repair damage caused by the long stoppage. A railway official said | he could give no definite date for resumption of normel traffic. 52 LONGSHOREMEN AT SEATTLE CANT DG WORK FOR NAVY SEATTLE, June 29.—®— Fifty- two Seattle longshoremen have been denied passes to enter army =znc navy waterfront installations here| to do sevedoring work, a Navy) spokesman sald today. The 52 men rejected were among 1400 who had applied for such cards, he reported. The job of pro- cessing applications, which began six weeks ago, is still under way. The Navy spokesman gave no reasons for denying the passes, ex- cept to say that “it was not for| Communistic reasons.” He described the permits as a “routine procedure for clearing per- sons to work at military installa- ions.” MRS. JENNIE DILL DIES AT ST. ANN’S HOSPITAL Mrs. Jennie Dill died yesterday at 6 p.m. at St. Ann’s Hospital. She| session for a discussion of means|y;,s born 63 years ago in Michigan. ‘ol{ the Ku Klux ‘Kian and other| |of meeting the need when they | gather tomorrow at the Baranof Survivors include two granddaugh- tcrs Misses Arleen and Loneta Dill Juneau and two sons, Roy of Cold Bay, and Rufus of Grants Pass, Oregon. Puneral arrangements are being made by the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. M. V. BEA JUNE 29: JULY 6: | ents of the provision was “social- ism.” The action could be reversed lat- @ rrrrrrrrrrrerererreeay. Gailing Schedule J. W. McKINLEY Hoonah - Pelican - Gustavus - Sitka Tenakee Angoon - Hawk Inlet Hoonah - Gustavyg - Pehcan Loads Every Wednesday at Juneau City Dock after arrival of weekly illip from Seattle DOUGLAS COMMUNITY. METHODIST CHURCH TO BE DFDICATED SUNDAY be needed. An offering will be re- ceived at the dedication toward this second unit, to be add- €d to the gift by the Board of Home Missions of the Methodist Church. At the dedication service the reed crzan, now used by the church, will | | be officially presented by Charles | L. Popcjoy, chairman of the Juneau { Methedist Church Board, in be- | half of that church. A plaque will ke presented to the Rev, Gould to be placed in the church entrance | giving the data of the dedication. | | The Church key will be presented | by A. L. Conine, chairman of the| | Douglas Church Board, or some- | service { | one designated by him, to thel hishop. ! Bishop Kennedy will give the : dedicaticn message, which will be | amplified by loud speakers and wm“ lead the dedication ritual. Souven- | ir bulletins of the service will be available to thcse attending, with pictures of the Pastor, the Bishop|* | RUSSIANS START !movies to picture a grim-looking !is Russian by birth (in Omsk), | ence. | cerved for six years, including the | rect touch with Russia. Later, he | titied with the Hiss endowment, DEMITRI SHIMKIN HEBHORSTUDIES OoN M(Tl( LIFE Y Lt ] "Dmmgulshed tist.” Do you go back to early-day Russian sclen- character, with heavy beard and Fiercing eyes? A man who speaks only a few phrases of kroken Eng- lish, breaking into a bristling lan- guags unintelligible to most Americans? Then change the reel. Dr. Demitri ‘Shimkin is-indeed a distinguished Russian scientist. H2 and ! scientist by training and experi- He is a gentle-lookinz man with twinkling eyes, and his use of English is better than most. He also is a full colonel in the United States Army, in which he war. He was in charge of the Rus+ sian section of Military Intelli- ; gence in Central Europe, and in di- | was respgnsible for Eiberian air route. He is a resident of San Fran- cisco, and knows western Wyoming Letter than any place on earth, as @e did most of his field work there for his degree in anthropo-geogra- phy from the University of Cali- crnia. Furthermore, he is one of 50| ientists doing a variety of re- cearch for the Russian Research Center of Harvard Unliversity, founded a year ago on a Carnegie Corpcration grant. (Not to be iden- the Alaska- £himkin insists.) Dr. Shimkin will spend the sum- mer on Alaskan Arctic and suz-: Arctic studies, correlating his tmu- inzs with his krowleige of condt— tions in the U.2.SR. He is wm'kmgl i clesely with Ralph Browne, assist~ (ant manager of the Alaska De- velopment Board . “Believe me,” he said today, “I\ NEW ROW; CONVOY TRUCK IS SEIZED (By Asso:uted Press) | There's a new row among the} cccupation powers in Germany. | Russia touched off the new squab- ble by seizing a truck convoy as‘ it approached Berlin from Western | Germany. ‘The trucks carried vltal power | | plant machinery for West Berlin. American and British authori- | ties made a direct protest to So\."“[ military government headquarte: charging the action to ke a viola- tion of the Four-Power agreement if‘” lutmg the Berlin blockade. MINE OWNERS MUST | FILE FOR EXEMPTION | ‘WASHINGION, June 29— M— Senator Watkins (R-Utah) pointed jout today that mining claim owners must file notices by Aug. 1 in order to be exempt from 1948-49 assess- ment work. ‘The general mining laws require prospectcr c¢n public land to do $100 worth of work on his claim each year. Congress waived this provision cf the law for the year which will end next Friday but required a \notlce from any person who wants |to take advantage of the postpone- 1 ment, Assessment work for the 1949-50. | vear still must be performed. Presi- | dent Truman said he will not ap-| prove another postponement. Any claim owner who already has done all or part of his 1948-49 work may, by filing notice, receive credit on |the 1949-50 requirement. Notices are to be filed at the| office where the location notice was filed. MASKS ARE RIPPED - OFF IN ALABAMA (By Associated Press) ‘ Alabama today ripped the mask 2 organizations of that kind in’a| move to halt a wave of terrorism. Governor James Folsom lost little | time in signing legislation banning | the wearing ,of masks in public. \The legislation previously passed |the Alabama House of Represen- tatives by a vote of 84 to four. CHCGMBER sears | ! phone i ringing all over town last night in | Matheny. | mines open during contract nego- am not going to spend two !mmhs} in Alaska and pretend to be an |authority. My work this summer will ke chiefly learning. The job |will take at lcast two or three LIONS GET HOT OM HEATING POOL TOTAL AT $601.75 Temperature cn the Lions Club heat-the-swimming-pool thermom- cter stands at '$501.75 in hard cash cday with several collectable TOU’s the money bag which will swell the total to near the $700 mark. Lions, in their second radio-tele- promotion stunt to raise money, for heating ‘the Evergreen Bowl swimming pool, kept phones a half-hour radio show. i Vern Metcalfe handled the micro- phone again, with four judges and Boy Scouts on the assistant end of the show. Lions will be on the air again to- night at 6:30. Judges will be Lions President George Danner, Harry Sgerling, Don C. Foster and Bill SOFT COAL MINE OPERATORS REJECT | OFFER BY LEWIS| (By Associated Press) Zoft coal operators of the North and West have rejected the John L. Lewis plan for kegping the tiations. Lewis had offered to do this on condition ‘that the men work only three days a week. The operatars say they might risk anti-trust charges if they joined with the union in limiting production. The next big question is whether Lewis will call a strike when the |miners get tack from vacation July 5. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1949 WEATHER I(EI’ORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU (This data. is for 24-hour pe- ricd ending 6:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneay— Maximubm, 63; minimum, 46. At Airport— Maximum, 64; minimum, 46. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Variable cloudiness with light rain showers tonight and Thursday. Lowest tem- perature tonight about 48. Warmest Thursday near 58. PRECIPITATION (Past 2+ hours ending 7:30 a.m. today Someone must pay N OBODY ever wants to be financially liable for In M_eau — .11 inches; sirce June 1, 6.1 inches; ':“2";:5,2%43?0,:;:: since July 1, 11850 inches. must pay for th,e T At Airpert — .08 inches; d Th cost fm fle since Junz 1, 438 inches; By g of accl- dents comes much higher than the cost of adequate insurance! since July 1, €8.33 inches. se0c00ceteese000"000000000 Czechs Censoring (atholic Sermons | (By Associated Press) } A dispatch from Prague quotes‘ Roman Catholic officials as saying | LET this agency proteet yvyou with Automobile Insurance that fills every requirement. 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