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K v “ now that Russia i§ in PAGE TWO Sew and Save... Make your self a lovely afternoon dress for less than $2.60 out of this a1 Beautiful . . . Jr. Buicher Weave Washable Rayon Fabric R e o o e e T T EIGHT lovely shades bt to chose from . . . quantity limited. g5¢ yard Pattern Books are here Bebrends, Co SINCE 1887 Aug.-Sept. Vogu R QUALITY b el R aaxnasssassnd bl LEGISLATION IS SENT, TRUMAN WASHINGTON, July 15 ) sident Truman THOMAS DECLA"S RUSSIA 10 AV™ -FORTIME; AKY+2Y- WASHINGTON, July 1 A belief that Russia will avoid r | Congress sent to Pre any time soon was otfe today legislation saying overtime ator Elmer Thomas (I pay should be ed on regular “the underlying reason” wages instead of so led premium appropriations for the Ar pay. The measure kills some 26,000 vices. claims workers have pending for “I think everyone a :* back pay. Capitol Hill action was complet- ed when the House, by a standing vote of 207 to 52, accepted Si te amendments to the so-called “overtime on overtime” bill 5 told we hed tion for another war,” Thi.i a reporter. “Not too 1 were told we might © 1y minute.” “I think we can fely cut! Some opponents shouted ‘“rob- $1,500,000,000 and pcilass a lot bery” and “grand larceny.” more out of this bill as it passed Estimates of the amount of back the House,” Thomas s: | pay claims involved ran as high as The House approved just under $300,000,000. This figure was giv- $16,000,000,000 in cash and n-|en by Rep. McConrell (R-Pa.). (BUS ROUTES IN NEW YORK CITY TIED-UP, STRIKE I NEW YORK, July 15— (#-—More than a million Wew Yorkers hunt- [ RGE _ed alternate transportation routes " today after a lightning strike im- tract authority for the Armed vices in this biggest cf el' regular appropriations. MacARTHUE 15 NOW TAR:"7 (2 SOVIEE | WASHINGTO Russia charged toiiy t (‘-Ion mobilized buses on 30 routes. Douglas MacArthar . Jap-| Riders—who could do so handily switched to subways, which were put on stepped-up schedules handle the extra rush. Others hailed taxicabs, if they could find empty ones. Some walked. The stoppage touched off yester- anese government a “brutal” campa 5 “Democratic forces” in Japan Soviet Ambassador Alexander S Panyushkin told the 1l-natiop Far ng on the rn Commission also that| American policies have brought t!m}'i,“y by the lay-off of four New “Japanese economy to a state of York City Omnibus Corp. mech_an- total collapse.” | ies, spread early today to the Fifth Panyushkih called on the com-|AVenue Coach Co, affecting a total mission to rule that workers in|%f 3‘3“’0 “"f"k“"-‘ Japanese government enterprises; A city-sponsored peace meeting may bargain collectively and go on! ast night failed to bring any strike. agreement between the companies MacArthur and . the Japanese|““d the CIO Transport Workers Union. The session was adjour: government have forbidden sznkes‘ed “subject to recall” on government enterprises. Panyusbkin declared that all the Pacific_Allies but the United States favor giving strike rights to gov- ernment workers. He charged the United States has tried “by all} possible means” to keep the com- mlission from adopting a policy on| s issue. Contempt Court Convictions of SEEX DIVORCE (By Assoclated Press) HEE The United States Court of Ap- son, rupresemcu\[peal.» has upheld the contempt ot Attorney William L. Paul, Jr., court convictons of three of the a divorce from |1l top-ranking Communists on trial on grounds of de-)in New York on conspiracy charges. ! The ruling applies in the cases s jof defendants Gus Hall, Henry | Winston and Gilbert Green. They a |are gharged with conspiracy to ad- e | vocate the violent overthrow | | | Raymond Jo by has applied fg Teresa Johnsc sertion. ‘The couple, married eight yes ago in Sitka, have two childr Barbara Ann and Ray, who, by voluntary agreement, are in liam of Sitka, |are the other eight defendants. ‘African slaves were first introduc- {tempt sentences-—~to xun sfor €d in America in 1619, the tirst{duration of the trial—are not un- shipment going to Jamestown. lawful, to| Commies Upheld of | care of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Gil- {the United States government—as| The appeals court said the con- = THE DAILY ALASKA I FINAL AIR-DROP - FOR JIRP CAMPS - on ice fiecps PACKDROPS, | drop operations to be undertaken | BRISIOI- BAY | in conjunction with a scientific | | | field expedition was completed here | : | | today as skies cieared over the Ju-| SEATTLE, July 15— (®— “Bad| | neau “Ice Cap.” | year” in the five year cycle for | | More than 800 pounds of dyna- red salmon, following a similarly! | mite dropped free fall onto the|poor year in 1944, may explain Lhe‘ | hizh reaches of the ice field 30|small pack to date in Bristol Bay, | miles €akt of here this morning |usually rich red salmon storehouse. as a Navy PBY made the final of| A Fish and Wildlife Service 18 flights for the American Geo- | spokesman suggested the explana- graphical Society’s Juneau Ice Re-|tion today as pack figures for the! { search Project expedition. 17 operating Bristol Bay canneries| Dynamite will be used by a crew | through July 9 totaled 428,831 cases of Sfanford Research Institute |compared with 985,570 cases at 20| seismologists in glacier depth de- canneries on July 10 last year. He | termination work on Taku Glacier. had no direct explanation Seismic work fs under the direction |any one at Bristol Bay. of Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, institute | Five years ago, the Bristol Ba) director. |pack was only 448,750 cases More than 12 tons of equipment |July 8, 1944. | for the glacier study expedition The entire Western Alaska total, | was dropped at seven high level |including Bristol Bay, was 444,216 camps on the ice field during th2 | cases, compared with 1,023,342 cases past two weeks. Some 300 free fall on July 10 last year. | ‘ drops and 58 parachute drops with! Central Alaska pack figures, | epecial equipment were made from {rom the south side of the Alaska | !three planes employed in the op- peninsula | | eration from the Kodlak Naval A'r iotaled 222,443 cases from 50 can- Station. Two PBYs and an RD4 ! neries. It were put into service by the Navy. es from 43 canneries on JIRP expedition members rc- st year. maining here to conduct low leval Southeast Alaska, not yet open o: | operations expect today to join 16| just starting, has packed 10,34 members of the glacier study group es at nine canneries this season already in the field. to date. The U. S. Forest Service, which _— roup, wil sct as tascn acent DR SPEER AND FAMILY VISIT WALTER SOBOLEFF | here with the departure of the re- | maining scientists. Liaison men | | will be Glen Kirkham, U. §. Forest | Service warehouse manager, and| Douglas Smith. i To return the Rev. Waiter Sobc- leff’s visit to his home in Wilkens- burg, Pa, Dr. James Robert Speer, ! pastor of the First Presbyterian; Church in Wilkenscurg, is in Ju-| from | on | July 10 B. Frank Heintzleman, Regional | Forester, U. S. Forest Service, and | Harry Sperling, administrative offi- | cer, have keen working closely with the JIRP men in getting the full- summer investigation ice research work underway. Tony Thomas, well- gi?):nl:;m his wife and sor nown local U. S. es i 4 X el ik Juneau’s Memorial Presbyterian mountaineer assigned to the ex- pedition as an observer, is already cn the ice field. Possibility that a 10th Rescue Squadron C-47 plane equipped with skis will land on the Juneau “Ice Church is one of four missions sup- rorted by Dr. Speer’s church of 1,800 members. For more than twenty years, the pastorage of the local mission has been taken cat of by the Wilkensburg church. Cap” were made known here to- . DR, day. The plane is expected to _MIS. Speer is-one of the secre- come in from Anchorage within a taries of the Home and Foreign Mission Board of the Presbyterial. 2 The Speers arrived on the Bara- nof and will remain here for about week or ten days to make experi- Pittsburght mental landings on the ice fields near the JIRP camps. Col. Bernt Balchen, commanding officer of the Tenth Rescue Squadron, and Arm- | 3 ed Forces Arctic specialisc will be | Brewnlow are looking forward to aboard the plane |csome fishing while in Juneau. | Sunday's sermon at the Memorial RED SALMON *BILLICN DOLLAR east to Copper River, ° compares with 190,7311 ¢ lined by Willis T. Batcheller, 2| clark added: 3eattle engineer, and an executive “Another employee, who is su~-| lof the Canada-Alaska RallWay |pected of working for the intelli- ! Jompany. zence service of an iron curtain 000,000, is to be extended from its |Princess i terminus | George, a distance of 80 miles. The | the South. Passengers included: two weeks, Dr. Speer and younglprogram calls for eventual ex of the River country with its fertile agri- cultural fields and mineral bearing SMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA RAILROAD SCHEME .'llSlI(e oy iven Turnpown Investigaing Brifish Columbia Govern-i-% U. N. Staffers ment Rejects Proposal FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1949 cne-half of one percent, these re- quests were denied Ly the employer. More than 7300 employees par- ticipated in the strike vote, the union said. Of these, 97 percent voted for the strike “unless the issue is satisfactorily settled.” KEATING RETURNS, TRIP T INTERIOR 50. PACIFIC 1S CALLED STRIKE ON . A '- 1Ch-" WASHINGTON, July 15—®—| SAN FRANCISCO, July 15—@--| - = with Distinct Chi |Attorney General Clark disclosed | The Brotherhced of Rallrdad| Clarence . Keating, Alaska Di- _ }rcdny that some 20 or more per-| Trainmen tcday called a strike |rector of Census, returned this af- VANCOUVER, B. C, July 15,-—‘] ons attached to the United Na- Byron Johnson said: “There is nothing new of any \ccount in the proposals . . . They | re still of a vague and ncbulous haracter and all involve the alien- ition of the people’s resources.’” Johnson said no action would he taken on the plan, which was out- intelligence work :ut merely that available information requires these investigations and that they are presently in progress.” He went on to say that one em- ployee of the U.N. “is reported 'o be a contact of a suspected agent of an iron curtain country.” 1 country, is believed to have ob-! tained a United Nations position ' through an Embassy official of that country.” The committee had Clark before 116 for a discussion of a bill to Mr. Batcheller said his company tighten immigration barrlmb‘ prepared to spend SHOD,CUO,OOD‘JEMHSL subversive aliens, including | complete the. P.G.E. to the R any coming here as official rep- northern boundary of British COl- [, .centatives of foreign governments | umbia. Another $375,000,000 would . 4 ¢enational organizations. ke required for the Alaska section Under the plan, the company | would be given first option on na- | tural resources, and he claimed ’8 S u B UND N would spend $700,000,000 in de velopment of coal, oil and mineral rights. The P.G.E., in which the govern- ment has an investment of $100,- The government does noi intend | hat its resources shall be squan- | d away in providing promotion- background for any railway al dea!” he added. - PRINCESS NORAH i ! Eiz, | | | ht passengers boarded the! Norah when she docked | at Quesnel to Prince here at 8 am. today bound for extension will cost $10,000,000. To Vancouv Miss M. P. Shaw, “We are proceeding on a sound |Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Brinkermomien, | business basis,” said Premier John- |T, Devereaux. | son. | M. Ray, P.| and E. Con- | To Seattle: Mr distance | ranze, G. Matthew, ension | nors, into the rich Peace long- The government's P.GE. e JdEINTZLEMAN SPEAKS | TO KETCHIKAN C OF (‘1 Crew members of we Navy PBY | preshyterian Church will be|possibilities. ! maing "(r,day s final flight were | preqched by Dr. Speer. — — | While in Ketchikan this week Lt. Cmdr. D. G. White, Lt. (jg) R. SRR i | i WA | on road matters, B. Frank Heintzle- E. Curtis, J. A. Seaman, ADI; E. K. ixl()NTHI.Y CLINIC HELD i man was the main speaker at the. L('wl:s:. AL3; L. Knoll, AN; E. J. "Avv RESERVISTS l NEXT WEDNESDAY, 10 A. M'J{uncheon meeting of the Chamber | Dietrick, AN. e ( A .| of Commerce. He talked on “Roads i { FORM u“lT HERE ’ The regular monthly immuniza- | g ."g o iheagt Alaska.” | | jtion clinic,will be held next Wed- Helntzloman; Wk 1+ Repibnal /e o 06 06 o 00 eo0c e - o e i inl y Who is Regional ¢ '., nesday morning et 10 o'clock m‘Fure%ter‘ returned this afternoon ‘ 'I'ONIGH'I' A'I' 6- the public Health Center at 318 | uidfin THATEC | WEATHER REPORT ¢ ) #@¥ | Main Street. i | 1 oy ° Dr. C. C. Carter, City Health s £ e ) (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU | Al men interested in formation|Officer, will be in charge of the| PRAGUE— The Czech Minister (Thi; data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 6:30 am. PST.) In Juneau— Maximum, 59; minimum, 46, At Airport— ®iof a Naval Reserve Unit for Ju- ® | neau, whether or not they formerly ® were in the service, are invited to ® attend a meeting at 6:30 o'clock ® |this evening in the Moose Hall. 1 Maximum, 59; @0 cso000cccessnescescce e | ® minimum, 41. ® Chief Yeoman Walter Farmer|whooping cough and diphtheria are = gl | FORECAST ® | will answer questions, and invited to attend. [ i (aneny, And; Nijinits) € get an organization started here. — | | Continued fair tonight and ® cphjef parmer is from the Nuvx\l' RALSTON TO PELICAN i . | | ® Saturday. Low temperature ®|peserve office at 17th District an H. Ralston, Fish and Wild- AR I “";gm nbuu’lto 45; high Sat- | pgeaqquarters, Kodiak. 'ln’(' Service Law Enforcement Su- | | urday near 70. ®| The chief says that a dozen or}pervisor, flew to Pelican City yes- | PRECIPITATION o, officers are interested, but]terday to check on fishing condi- Sa!urday, Jllly 16 ‘ (Past 24 bours ending 1:30 a.m. todds @ | o Giches he could match that|ticns and to confef with agents | m’:ce"“;lrl‘l‘;“‘; Tal"’il“ h‘::h“? ¢ |number—or better it—in enlisted there. | H“rtley ! At Airport 07 inches; .]men. i =y WASHINGTON - The Senate| - ; since July 1, 87 inches. ®| Thirty million people in the US.|agreed today to vote at 2 p* m.| Ba,r ! & ®|earn their livings through agri- next Thursday on the North At- | rsbne ot R e S e L Bl )t } lantic Security Treaty. FOrmerlY T R R i ! | | [ FWS, FOREST SERVICE | S i WORK TO PREVENT | ELLIS AIR LIENES NORTHERN BAR || BOB and GRACE | DAILY TR EAU TO KETCHIKAN | DAMAGE 10 STReAMs | DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIK/ HARTLEY | . ; : = via Petershurg and Wrangell Proprietors | | Experts representing two inter- | ested federal acendied are work With connections to Craig, | ing together to prevent’ stream s | damage to fish through timber FOR RESERVATI( | cutting. it it - | M. Armstrong, who is in 1chsrge of timber management for | the Admiralty Division of the US,! | Forest Service, accompanied Frank W. Hynes, Fish and Wildlife Set- | vice fisheries biologist, on a flight )yesterdny over Lisianski Inlet. This | was one of the first investigations of new timber areas where conser- vation is essential in salmon creeks. | Robert Meeks piloted the FWS plane. A similar party went today to Wrangell and Affleck- Canal con- cerning timber sales in that area. SAVI S BONDS THE management of this bank is pledged to conserva- tive operation. The safety of depositors’ funds is our primary consideration. In addition the bank is a mem- ber of Federal Deposit Insur- ance Corporation, which in- sures each of our depositors against loss to a maximum of $5,000. FISH LANDINGS The Ruby, skippered by Larry Fitzpatrick, made the only land-|} ing of halibut today, totaling 31,000 pounds. The landing was split be- tween Alaska Coast Fisheries and E. C. Johnson, going at 14 cents a pound for 500 pounds of small, 18.2 cents for 28,000 pounds of mediums, and 17 cents a pound for 2,500 pounds of small, There were 41,500 pounds of sal- ! mon landed from the following boats: Attu (Peter Lunde (50001, Wanderer - (8andy szewym Alrita (Albert Wallace) 10,000, 11=\shermm; (Clarence Moy) 6,500. of JUNEAU, MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT ka and Miss Marie Riley. with small children who have not { been immunized against smallpox, Convenient afternoon departures, at 2:30 P. M. Your Deposits ARE SAFE BUY and HOLD UNITED STATES FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Justice declared ‘tonight that anyone attempting tn enforce the Vatican’s order of excommunication | dgainst Communists would be | charged with treason. clinic and will be assisted by pub- ic health nurses, Miss Edna Peter- Parents Klawock and Hvdaburg, NS PHONE 612 DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED ‘ALASKA INSURANCE CORPORATION against the Southern Pacific :n iternoon from Anchorage and Fair- seven western states, effective at! »- The British Columbia govern-|tions Headquarters in New York banks, where he had gone to ment today gave the cold shoulder |are being investigateq by the Jus-{6 p.m., July 22. | establish “ranch offices. to plans for a billion-dollar raltice Department. The strike was called, the unio’}| Announcement is expected early link wih Alaska Clark, testifying before a said, because of a dispute involv- [next week, following confirmation The plan to spread a netwerk | Judiciary subcommittee, mer ng the proper makeup of crews iu{h‘nm Washingten, D.C., of those of lines through northern B. C, no precise figure on U. N. em-|.cadq and yard service on the|who will be in charge there. Alaska and Yukon Territory wasjployees. But he said the Depart-|couthern Pacific (Pacific Lines) in| The business census of the Terri- outlined here at a mecting of th2|ment “has espionage and inteili-| Orezon, California, Nevada, Utah,|tory will be started as soon as the Alaska, B. C., and Peace River|igence investigaticns pending con-|Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. |staff is engaged, said Keating. Association. | cerning approximately 685 aliens.’'| Tne Brotherhood said it had|Meantime, the headquartérs office It would take in the governmeni- | e added that about four percent!;.ked that a third brakeman he|in the House Chambers, Federal owned Pacific Great Eastern Rail- |involve persons attached 1o the|.qded to long trains under’ cer-!Buildiing, is being put in shape way, the whole project to be fi- |y, N. tain conditions and that a third|to handle the statistics. | nanced by a private United States ' Four percent of 625 would be!'iciper be added to switching crews AR LATAL IS yndicate. Aid would also be abcut 27 or 28. lin yard where switching is per-| Pythian games were established cught from the United States| “This is not to imply,” Clark{formeq on grades of more than|at Delphi, Greece, in 586 B.C. government. aid, “that these parties are L i The reaction was fast. 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