The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 14, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE OL. LXXIII, NO. 11,246 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1949 MEMBER A - SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TrumanTells of Plansto Avert Business Slump ASK SWITCH TO MONROE DOCTRINE WASHINGTON, July 14.—®— epublican Senators Taft of Ohio d Flanders of Vermont proposed pday extending the Monroe Doc- ine to Western Europe as an al- rnative to the North Atlantic aty. Their idea would be to leave the nited States as the sole judge of hat steps to take in the event an aggressive move against any ‘estern European nation. A resolution calling upon Presi- nt Truman to extend the Mon- Doctrine to Western Europe s offered by Flanders for him- lf and Taft during Senate debate the 12-nation North Atlantic ct. “This is a unilateral action we n control,” Flanders told report- Both Taft and Flanders have an- ounced their opposition to the At- tic Pact. It would bind each ff the 12 signers to consider an ttack against any one of them as In attack on all. The Monroe Doctrine, as pro- laimed by President Monroe in B23, was designed to protect West- rn Hemisphere nations from Eu- ppean designs. The Taft-Flanders resolution was troduced after the Democratic aders tried to get an agreement br a Senate vote Saturday on the act. Senator Watkins (R-Utah) locked it. He said he would not gree to a vote before Wednes- ay. INCE GEORGE SAILS THIS MORNING AT 9:30 The Prince George docked this orning at 7 o'clock from Skagway Ind sailed for Vancouver and way- orts at 9:30 o'clock. Embarking t Skagway for Prince Rupert were ic and Paul Roine of Monrovia, alifornia, who traveled over the laska Highway during the past 0 weeks in a pickup truck. At ince Rupert the truck will be aken off and the trip will be com- eted over the Skeena Highway to the States and home. For Vancouver, Juneau passeng- rs were Mr. and Mrs. Haugan of FISH LANDINGS Oscar Oberg’s Hyperien made the nly landing this morning, bringing 15,000 pounds, and was split be- [ween Alaska Coast Fisheries and ngstrom Brothers. The landing bent at 14 cent4 a pound for 1,500 pounds of small, pounds of mediums, and 17 cents a pound for large. [he Washington erry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON opyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) ) ASHINGTON— Before Secre- ary of the Treasury Snyder left or Europe he had a highly impor- ant and secret talk with President rruman in which he outlined his plans for getting the British to jevalue the pound. This is the real purpose of Sny- Her's sudden trip—despite all the publicity camouflage about consul- tion with U. 8. Financial experts, Reason for the camouflage is that he Treasury doesn't want the British public to know that we are rying to run their currency from is side of the Atlantic. Sir Stafford Cripps, head of Brit- economy, had informed Wash- ngton even before Snyder left that the United States insisted on Hevaluing the pound he would re- kign. This would probably mean general election in England. Three members of the Truman abinet also disagree with Sny- fler—Secretary of State Acheson. Becretary of Agriculture Brannon nd Secretary of Labor Tobin. Brannon and Tobin don't want to devalue the pound because the less lue the pound has the less it will buy of American cotton, tobacco, pork, etc. Sir Stafford Cripps has ewhat the same thing in mind— ough from different angle. If he pound is depreciated, the Brit- (Continued: on - Page . Four) 18.1 for 11,500 | Buying Cut By British 25 Per Cent LONDON, July 14—(®—Britiain today sliced 25 percent off her buy- ing from the world's dollar areas for this year. . Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor }0! the Exchequer, told the House of | Commons Britain’s imports "from | the United States and other dollar| !areas would be limited to $1,200,- 000,000. In 1948 Britain spent $1,- 600,000,000 on imports. Cripps announced a cut in pur- chases of U.S. tobacco. He also said the sugar ration would be lowered from 10 to eight ounces weekly and the recently derationed candy would | igo back on ration Aug. 14. The weekly candy ration would be four ounces per person. Cripps knocked off $80,000,000 of {the $440,000,000 originally set aside for the purchase of tobacco. He said this would mean a reduc- Inon of about five percent to British | users, Cigarettes already are scarce | here and lines in front of tobacco Ishmds are a common sight. OUT OF TOWN CARS | ARRIVE FOR SOAP | BOX DERBY FINALS Four of the Sitka cars entered in the Soap Box Derby this Sun- day arrived yesterday afternoon along with the one entry from Haines. The fifth Sitka car ana ‘The nightly trial runs still con- tinue with final inspection and car | check-in scheduled for Friday| night, Dr. William Blanton re-| minds the boys. B { The balance of the committees| for the race follow: Vic Power, Dell Miller, Ted Heyder, Mayrice | | Powers, Tom Morgan, Gig Ghig- lione, Monte Grisham, Harold | Foss, Lee Lucas, finish line opera- tions; Howard Stabler, Charles Carter, T. J. Cole, judges; Tom { Dwyer, Keith Wildes, Ben Benecke, {Fred Eastaugh, clerks of the course; Malcolm Greany, Brooks Hanford, photography; Don Skuse, | Henry Harmon, losers club. Dick Willilams, Rod Darnell,j | Freeman Schultz, Horace Adams, Earl Albrecht, Jack Burford, Robert Cowling, Milton Daniel, Gil Eide, | Elton Engstrom, Bill Feero, George | |Folta, Frank Heintzleman, Herb | Hillerman, Bill Hixson, Bill Hughes, Wayne Johnson, Wilford Johnsomn,| Ed Keithahn, Bert McDowell, Sam | McPhetres, Ralph Mize, Eric’ New- | | bould, Henry Sully, George Sun- borg, Art Uggen, Pete Warner, Biil Whitehead, Al Zenger, concessions. | |SUDDEN STRIKE, NEW YORK CITY, | NEW YORK, July 14—R—CIO| transit workers struck suddenly to- day against all 21 lines of the New York City Omnibus Corporation. The lines carry an estimated! 925,000 passengers daily. The walkout was called by the CIO Transport Workers Unian,: eight hours after 350 maintenance workers quit work at one of the company garages in protest against the dismissal of four employees. PARTIAL CONFESSION IN ROBERT RICE CASE { A partial confession has been (made in the case of the attack on ! Robert Rice by two sailors, about midnight last Thursday. The word was received by Deputy | U. S. Marshal Sid Thompson, who | | has been active in the case, from Capt. James R. Pahl, commanding officer of the U.S.S. Pasadena. Blood-stained clothing of two | sailor suspects will be sent to FBI | 1aboratories in Washington, D. C., | to be checked with Rice's garments ! for possibility of matching results. The sailors will be held in cus- | tody until results are known. Their | names are being withheld pending investigation. i Niagara Palls is the Jlargest cat- |aract in America and the second the five boys will arrive tomorrow.| LOW FLYING [Roden Makes Proposal that WAS CAUSE, | Territorial Banks Help Out PLANE CRASH CAB Makes-R;_port on Cali-| fornia Disaster - Stew- ardess Gives Views LOS ANGELES, July 14~4A’}—; Civil Aeronautics Board officials say that low flying and not a fight caused the crash and explosion of a non-scheduled airliner which cost 35 lives and injuries to 14. Stewardess Charlotte Grenander,; 23, told authorities yesterday that the scrap aboard the Standard Air- lines' twin-engine C-46 Commando was only a one-punch affair. She: said it occurred an hour before the| crash in the rugged Santa Susana mountains 30 miles north of down- town Los Angeles Tuesday. She named Frank Conway, Al-; man who struck his seatmate. Miss ' Grenander added that there' was' no trouble after the pilot, Cap:.l Roy G. White, came back and| talked to Conway. James N. Peyton, regional CABl chief, said the aircraft was on; course for an instrument approach landing at Lockheed Air Terminal, Burbank, but was 2000 feet too low. He said a smashed altimeter regis-: tered 1940 feet. Peyton added that the low fog may have obscured the pilot's vision, although fog was not be- lieved to have been abnormally heavy. In Present CORBUS FAMILY IS HERE ON AEL&P COMPANY BUSINESS| New President of Company Wellknown io Football Fans as All-American Though this is his firit frip to Juneau, Alaska is familiar to Will- iam Corbus, Jr., President of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, who, with Mrs. Corbus and their two children and his cousin, Miss Mary Corbus, Secre- {bany, N.Y., who was killed, as the)tary and Treasurer of the AEL & P, arrived in Juneau on the Baranof. Miss Corbus’ father, J. P. Corbus, was superintendent of the Tread- well mine back about the turn of the century and his brother, A. W, Corbus, was assistant superinten- dent, and was the father of the present president. It was then they were instrumental in starting the i light company. Most football fans, of whom there ,are many in Juneau, remember Bill Corbus, Stanford graduate 1933, as All-American Football captain in 1933 and All-American guard the previous year. His football was un- i der Stanford’s famous Pop Warner, | | i Mr. Corbus has continued his in- | terest in athletics by officiating at (RUISER AIlEEN | Pacific Confergnce games as um- WINS SECOND LEG | IN CAPITAL RACE| PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., July 14.! —(P—George H. Patton’s cruiser! Aileen, racing under the colors of ! the Nanaimo, B. C. Yacht Club,. early today won the second leg of : the 1949 Capital-to-Capital Inter- national Cruiser Race. It was one of three races which| constitute the 1,000 mile Olympia- to-Juneau run. Boats will leave Prince Rupert today on the third and final race| to Juneau. The Aileen's error of percentage | was only 1.4449. ! TULSEQUAH MINE | CHANGES AGENT | AND AIR SERVICE| 1 Lee Lucas of Lucas Transfer has] been named new local agent to rep- resent the Polaris-Taku Mining Co. of Tulsequah, B.C. 3 Lucas relieves former representa- i jtive O. F. Benecke of Alaska Coastal Airlines. The mining company also an- nounces a change in air service operation between Juneau and Tulsequah with the contract for| freight and passengers service going to G. F. Dalziel, Canadian air operator. Dalziel has formerly op- erated a charter- service out of Telegraph Creek. Air service wl the mining company was formerly handled by Alaska Coastal Airlines. Lucas and Dalziel are scheduled to' take over duties tomorrow. Alaska Coastal Airlines and Benecke will remain in service of the Consolidated Mining Co., sec- ond mining operation at Tulsequah. Princess Louise from Vancouver due Saturday afterncon or eve- ning. Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Kathleen scheduled to sail from Vancouver 8 p. m. satur-' day. 1 Prince George scheduled to sail from Vancouver July 18. Princess Norah in port at 8 a. m. tomorrow; sails south at 9 am. Baranof scheduled southbound on Sunday. CORSAIR IN PORT i Excursion yacht Corsair is in port | pire. Since he recently became AEL & P President, Mr. Corbus is taking active interest in the company an his trip to Juneau is for the pur- pose of conferring with W. 8. Pul- len, company Vice President and General Manager, as to the util- ity’s duties and obligations in the community. He succeeded Mrs, J. P. Corbus, his aunt, and mother of Miss Mary Corbus, as President upon her i death. The Corbus family lives in Menlo Park in California, and Mr. Cor- bus is Pacific Coast purchasing agent for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. Young Bill and Barc Corbus share an -interest in fishing with their parents, and the two boys | caught 62 fish from the dock yes- terday—not salmon, but it was a lot of fun and fish are fish. Miss Corbus was in Juneau last about ten years ago when she and her mother came north on com- pany business. She is a graduate of Mill College. Both Mr. and Mrs. Corbus were graduated from Stan- ford. Mr, Corbus’ previous trip to Alaska was on a naval reserve cruise in the '20s. They are at the Baranof Hotel and will remain in Juneau for about two weeks. WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAT (This data is Tor 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau— Maximum, 55; minimum, 51. At Airport— Maximum, 56; minimum, 48. FORECAST (Junesu and Vietalty) Variable cloudiness tonight becoming fair Friday. Low temperature tonight 50. High Friday near 65. PRECIPITATION (Past 2+ hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Junean — .13 inches; since July 1, 1.30 inches. At Airport .31 inches; since July .80 inches. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 14.—(®—Clos- ing quotation of American Can stock today is 92'2, Anaconda 28'%, Curtis-Wright 8%, International Harvester 26, Kennecott 47%, New York Central 10%, Northern Pacific 13%, U. 8. Steel 22, Pound $4.03. Sales today were 1,160,000 shares. Averages today are as follows; 1, | largest in the world, exceeded only with 45 tourists aboard. She sails industrials 173.59, rails' 44.38; util- | by Victoria Falls tn South Africa. | at 11:30 o'clock tonight. ities 35.37. 5| Financial Crisis ANCHORAGE, July 14.—(P—An- | | chorage attorneys are studying the | | tegality of a proposal for Alaska | bajks to come to the aid of the Territorial government during its | present financial crisis. i Henry Roden, Territorial Treas- | urer, has proposed that banks loan | money to individuals and firms with Territorial warrants as collat- eral security. “The Territory has a deficit of about a million dollars in the gen- eral fund,” the Treasurer declared. “The Board of Administration has frozen almost six million dollars | in expenditures. It can be pre-| dicted that tax revenues will be| sufficient to pay off the deficit by the end of the year.” In an effort to xeep Territorial institutions operating, Roden pro-! posed the Territory pay its credi- | tors in warrants. They in turn could borrow from Alaska banks | with the warrants as security. | “The Board of Administration | | from the Governor down pledged to request the next legislature to au- | thorize payment of interest on the i { 1 vouchers,” he said. * “Of course, we cannot promise that interest wil! be paid because the Legislature must decide.” program presented to lawyers for decision today. STIKINE CLOSED l Except for trolling, commercial 'flsh!ng in the Stikine River and other waters of the Stikine Dis- trict will be closed for the rest of { the month starting tomorrow. | Announcement is made by George Kelez, head of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Division of Flsh-j i | BAY NAT. MONUMENT Closure starts at 6 am. July 151 SR 1 and remains in effect until 6 am. | August 1. | Unless conditions change in the! I meantime, the district will be re- lopentd August 1, and remain open until September 20, the scheduled closing date for the 1949 season. | Frank W. Hynes, FWS fishery biologist, said today: “The closure is because determination of escape- ment in the Stikine watershed is 'totally inadequate for proper re- seeding of the spawning beds. Later this month, Hynes plans a i reconnaissance flight by FWS per- sonnel, with concurrence of Canad- | ian authorities, to investigate re- ported stream obstructions in tri- | butaries of the upper Stikine water- shed, which may be causing Lhe‘ marked decrease in number of fish. | 20 ABOARD PNA'S Pacific Northern Airlines carried | 20 passengers on flights yesterday | as follows: From Anchorage: Pauline Hurja, | Mary Hurja, Irene Hayes, I. Platt, | Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Rogers, Lindo Hemnes. From Yakutat: Fred Becky, Dav- id Michael, William Irving, Miss Frederica de Laguna, Edward Ma- | lin. | To Cordova: Paul Kelhofer. To Yakutat: Rose Johnson. To Anchorage: Bishop Gleason Maurice Powers, Claud Helgeson, H. L. Dushane, M. Houk, Capt. P.! Fisher, BISHOP GLEESON ON TRIP TO ANCHORAGE The Most Rev Francis D. Glee- son, 8.J. was a passenger ahoard PNA's plane to Anchorage yester- day. He will be there for about two months, so that the Rev. Dermot OFlanagan, pastor of the Cathoiic Chur¢h in Anchorage, may be atle to take a trip to his native Ireland O'Flanagan’s trip to Ireland is a jup @ purse to defray his expenses Bankers from various cities con- | ferred with Roden here yesterday | on the legality of financing the| 10 FISHING FOR REST OF MONTH WEDNESDAY TRIPS | Foster of Juneau, | A baby boy, weighing 6 pounds, TRUMAN TRIES "Selfish Inferests” Atfacked TO AVERT BIG By President for Urging Cut STEEL STRIKE InSpending by Federal Gov. Discusses Manvy Different‘ | | | | | Subjects af His News Conference WASHINGTON, July 14 (®— President Truman said today that, by the moves already undertaken, he is doing everything in his pow- er to avert a steel strike, That was his response at a news | conference when he was asked if he thought there would be a steel strike. By implication, his remark left the suggestion, too, that he is not considering any action at this time under the Taft-Hartley Labor Act. Mr. Truman said he has not yet received replies from United States | Steel and two other major com- panies to his second appeal for a 60-day truce. The President also told his ne' conference that: 1. Plans are underway up government buying in areas | hardest hit by the economic de-| cline. It will not, he said, in- crease government spending: nor! raise budget spending, nor does it | involve additional public works | funds beyond those already ap- proved or proposed. ! 2. He believes Federal Judge! | Samuel Kaufman is a good judge.!| He defended the New York jur- ist’s conduct of the Alger Hiss, perjury trial, 3. He is opposed to a $50,000,000 loan to Spain. 4. The Atlantic Pact should be | ratified without reservations. 5. He is pleased over a reported lack of harmony in the Republican { National Committee. He made the| statement when questioned about | | Rep. Hugh D. Scott, Jr., GOP Na- | tional Chairman. STARTS ON GLACIER | To do geological mapping of the Glacier Bay National Monument, Darwin Rossman, Salem Rice and James Seitz are leaving today aboard the Geological Survey boat | | the Lit-Par-Lit. i This will ke the first season in| this area and will basically be re- connaissance with work to continue | for several years. The mapping in the Monument area is a contin- uation of the same kind of work done on the north end of Chicha- gof Island. The work on Chichagof | was started in 1946. i The geological mapping is done in conjunction with the Topograph- ic Division of the Geological Su:- | vey. The crew, with Rossman in charge, will be at work in the field until October 1. | The 36-foot Lit-Par-Lit has a! special steel hull as protection | against ice in Glacier Bay. Mrs. Rossman and Mrs. Rice ac- company their husbands on the trip and will be living at Gustavus dur- ng the season’s work. With the| Rossmans are their two sons. TWO BABIES BORN | AT ST, ANN'S TODAY| Two babies were born this morn- ing at St. Ann's hospital. | A 7T-pound, T ounce baby girl| was born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence | | 4 ounces, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Frankforter of Yakutat. ’ T . 15 ON FISHERIES PATROL C. L. Anderson, director of the | Department of Pisheries, reports | that 15 men have been hired for tisheries patrol work during the | season. They have been assigned to strategic spots in Southeast Al-' aska, also the Copper River, Prince | William Sound and Kodiak areas.! On this program, as on all ac- tivities, the new department is| working closely with the U. 8. Fish | and Wildlife Service, according to Anderson. | Oberlin College in northeastérn gift from his parishioners, who tcok | Ohio was the first American col- would build lege to adopt co-education, | to stev | | great blunder. By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON, July 14 President Truman's sharp attac ‘selfish interests urging drastic | cuts” in federal spending collided | today with both Democratic and | Repuklican criticism in Congress. | So did his assertion that many | pecple would like to have a de- | pression “for political reasons.” . On the other hand, Senator Pep- | per (D-Fla) called Mr. Truman's irguments “reasonable common | sense and full of practical justifi- cation.” 4 | The President spoke out last night in telling the nation about i his new program designed to ex- | pand production and avert a more serlous business slump. He went {on both the radio and television. “We shall have to be sure,” the | President said, “that the selfish | interests do not drive us into the ditch, as they have done before.” As he did in the economic report | he sent to Congress last Monday, Mr. Truman said: “We are not in a depression.” Many people who talk of a depression, he said, would like to have on “for political rea- | sons.” One Worry, However But he added that the increase in the number of people out of work | “Is something to worry about, and something that must be cured.” The President again lit into the Republican-ruled 80th Congress of 1947-48 for cutting income taxes. He criticized it, too, for refusing to, | enact the anti-inflation program | he wanted then but now has aban- doned hecause, he said, of changed conditions. - He called those policies blunders on the part of the 80th Congress and he said “selfish interests” were to blame. Then he added: “Now these same selfish interests are urging us to commit a third They are now urg- ng drastic cuts in government ex- renditures—cuts which - would fall hardest on those expenditures which are most important to our domestic economy."” 60 Senators Hit That was an obvious reference to the move in Congress to trim fed- eral spending. In the Senate, for example, more than 60 Senators — Democrats and Republicans have signed a petition urging action on a resolution directing the Presi- dent to cut appropriations for the current fiscal year by from five to 10 per cent. BILLION DOLLAR RAILROAD SCHEME IS REVEALED NOW Network Would Be Over British Columbia, Alaska _and Yukon Terrifory VANCOUVER, BC., July 14—(M —Plans for a billlon-dollar pro- gram to spread a network of rail- ‘oad lines through Northern British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon Ter- ritory, were disclosed here by an executive of the Canada-Alaska Railway Co. Willls T. Batcheller, Chief gineer of the Compan; outlined the proposal to a meeting of thr Alaska, B.C. and Peace River Asso- clation, The finances would come from a private United Staie, syndicate. he said, with the US. government paying for a portion of the Alaska rail-laying First step in the plan would te to take over the Pacifiz Grea’ Eastern Railway, owned by the B, government and objec. of a pr posed extension program from tnat quarter. It runs rrom Sqhamish, akout 3v miles uncoast from here, to Quesnel, in the heart of the caribou country. Batcheller urged that B.C. seize the opportunity of having the in- terior of the province developed in a way “which would make a reces- sion impossible for many yea's to come.” He said if the B.C. government refused the plan, the syndicate from Edmonton to Fairbanks, Alaska: En- | health Mr. Truman explained that he is dropping his request for a $4,000,- 000,000 tax increase because he does not want to injure the economic of the country.” Indicat- ing the alternative is red ink spending, he added: “You cannot achieve a surplus in the government budget when you have a declining national economy . . if we follow the wrong bud- get policy at this time and slash our expenditures, we will decrease employment, cut down investment, weaken our defenses, and injure our efforts for peace.” Economic Spending Senator McClellan (D-Ark), chief sponsor of the economy resolution, commented that- there are certain contemplated expenditures for pub- Ue works “that would of course stimulate our economy,” but he added: “There are other savings that can and should be made, and it is the duty of the President and Congress jointly to bring about such economies.” Republicans let loose with hot- ter criticism. Said House Minor- ity Leader Martin of Massachu- setts: Hot Criticism “Every day the Democrati¢ 81st Congress is in session makes the Republican 80th Congress look bet- ter. The President may be fool- ing himself, but he isn't fooling many other people. “If cutting..taxes.last.year was such an awful blunder, “I" don"t know why the President isn't stand- ing by his original request for a $4,000,000,000 tax increase.” Senator Milllkin (R-Colo), who steered the GOP-sponsored reduc- tion through the Senate last year, remarked: “The President does not now un- derstand the value of the tax tut any more than he did at the time it was enacted over his veto. The tax reduction put $5,000,000,000 in- to the hands of most people for their own spending—the most dy- namic spending of all. “If there had not been 'a tut, 300dness only knows now deep the present depression would have plunged.” But one Republican who voted for the tax reduction said he now ‘egards it as “a mistake—one of the very few the 80th Congress made.” Senator . Flanders = of Vermont, noting Mr. Truman’s criticism of the cut, remarked: “He's got us there all right. I voted for it, knew I was doing wrong at the time, and have re. gretted it ever since.” ¢ PETITION, BIDS, ORDINANCES UP T0 CITY CouNCiL A number of problems will con- front members ot the Juneau City Council at the regular meeting to- morrow night at 8 o'clock in the Council Chambers. ' Bids will be gpened for lease of the space at the Airport Building intended for a taxicab office. Y A petition dated July 13 has been received from the Highlands Sitb- division Committee, asking that the Waynor Tract be incorporated ‘into the City of Junesu. According to Robert. Boochever, committee chalr- man, the petition ‘contains _the names of 79 of the 104 proueriy owners. 2 A number of applications have been received for the post of har- bormaster, since the death of An- drew Hildre, who held that posi- tion., Council members may also act on Ordinance 331, pertaining to a spee- ial election, and on a revised traf- tic code for the city. CANADIAN CRUISER T0 DOCK HERE FOR 4 DAYS A Canadian naval vessel, HMS Ontario, will put into Juneau har- tor for four days July 27, according to an announcement made this noon at the Chamber of Commerde, . meeting. Y & ‘The 11,480-ton cruiser, captain- ed by J. C. Hubbard, has a com- plement of 47 officers and 589 men,