The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 8, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NWs ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXXIIIL, NO. 11,293 R. R. CONNECTION, U. 5. T0 ALASKA 15 NOT ESSENTIAL Not Considered in Defens- ive Setup - Chiefs of Staff at Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 8.— P#—A rail connection between the United States and Alaska isn't es- sential in the defensive setup of the United States, General Lawton Collins said at a news. conference conducted by inspecting members of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. The group arrived for a 10-day tour of Alaska's defenses. In reference to the railroad, Col- lins sald the U. S. had need for more essential things now. “Alaska can be defended from the states without a railroad,” he said. “Steamships, highways and planes are able to bring in enough men to defend the territory.” i Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sald the position of Alaska in the defensive picture is highly important. “We came to get first hand in- formation on Alaska’s needs,” Bradley said. One reporter, thinking of the Air Force’s proposed shift of Boe- ing military airplane production from Seattle to the midwest, ask- ed Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg if Se- attle and Alaska would be consid- ered inland areas in the U. S. de- | fensive picture. After several quiet moments, an Alaskan Command public informa- tion officers interrupted, saying: “This is too hot a question to asnwer at this time.” To which Vandenberg answered:, “I wondered how I was going to! get off the spot on that one 1 TRUMAN MAY ASK FOR 10-DAY TRUCE WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. —f— President Truman said today he is considering asking another 10-day truce to avert a steel strike. The President told a news con- ference he will decide about that when he’ recetves the report of his special fact-finding board. The board, appointed to study the steel labor dispute, is to make its report Saturday. The CIO steelworkers have a strike call slated to go into effect at midnight next Wednesday. , If Mr. Truman asks postpone- ment of the scheduled workout fox at least 10 days, one purpose would be to give the steel industry and union officials that much more time to study the board’s report. WSC STARTS SEASON AT LUNCHEON FRIDAY | Inaugurating the fall season of activity, the World Service Circle will hold a luncheon meeting to- morrow (Friday) afternoon at 1:15 o'clock in the Northern Light Pres- byterian church parlors. Guest speaker for the occasion will be the Rev, Fred Telecky of the Chapel-by-the-Lake, For reservation, members and guests who plan to attend are ask- ed to call Mrs. Booth, 373, or Mrs. Gunnar Blomgren, Black 630. The Washington Merry - Go- Round (Copyright, 1949, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) BY DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON— Kindly Gen. Omar Bradiey, top Chief of Staff, was attending a cocktail party giv- en by Mrs. Louise Heiberg, ex-wife of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Gen- eral Bradley isydiscreet and not es- pecially talkative, but as an officer jealous of the prestige of the army, certain developments at a Senate hearing had got under his skin. For, despite the amazing Senate investigatich disclosures, President Truman had made a statement just before the Heiberg party vigor- ously defending the chief subject of the Senate probe—Gen. Harry Vaughan. “You see this left arm,” said the Chief of Staff to one of the guests, as he arrived. “It served me all during the war and I don’t know what I'd do wRhout it. But I'd have given it gladly if the Pres- ident hadn't made that statement deferiding Vaughan.” NOTE—Though General Vaughan has vielated Army Regulation 600- 10, that no officer can raise poli- tical funds, there is nothing the I system passed by the last legisla- | means it will go into effect next jtion has, been described by Gov- CURRENCY CHANGING PROPOSED Make Paper Dollars Con- | vertible Info Gold at $35, Fine Ounce NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—#— Im- mediate establishment of a United States currency treely convertible into gold at $35 a fine ounce was advocated today at the Internation- al Gold Coin Standard conterence. Speakers at the conference, spon- sored by the Economists’ National Committee on Monetary Policy, praised the stand of Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder against any change in the present American price for gold of $35 a fine ounce. They also urged passage of a bili now before Congress to make pres- ent paper dollars convertible into gold on demand at a ratio of $35' to the fine ounce. FEDERAL TAXES FOR! TERRITORY; TRUMAN| SIGNS ALASKA BILL WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—#-- President Truman signed a bill yesterday which will permit Alaska to put into effect its expanded tax ture. The bill in effect repeals Federal taxes on business, with the pro- ceeds going into a special fund in the treasury to be disbursed ey Congressional action for the fkene- fit of schools and roads. The action now will permit these itaxes to go into the Territorial Treasury and be disbursed by the Territory. WHAT IT MEANS WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. —P— President Truman signed a bill yesterday to clear the way for the new business license tax law en- acted by the 1949 Alaska Legisla- ture. The new Alaska law was labeled | as the uniform “catch-all” business license bill during the legislative session. It carried a proviso that it would take efiect on the January 1 following congressional action and Presidential signing. That New Year’s Day. The business tax now in opera- ernor Gruenlng and Democratic legislators in Alaska as a “hodge- podge” act. It was created under the Organic Act many years ago and proponents of the new law contend it fell far short of keep- ing pace with modern business de- velomnentsA The new tax bases the levies on a percentage of gross business. It also will apply to professional men. The Territorial measure is Chap- ter 43. WEATHER REPORT (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 a.m. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum, 62; minimum, 50. At Airport—Maximum, 63; minimum, 46. FORECAST 3 PROPOSALS T0 BOLSTER BRITISH T0 SPECIAL COM. British Wanl_t; Use Amer- ican Dollars to Spend Oufside of U. S. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—P— The' three-power conference on the British financial crisis today set up a special committee to go into + Britain’s . request for more freedom in spending ECA dollars outside the United States. It was learned that Britain has told the United States that unless changes are made in present Mar- shall Plan operations they will have to spend several hundred million more dollars out of their dwindling reserves, The decision of the American, British and Canadian cabinet min- isters to make a special study of the whole question of the use of ECA funds was one of four de- cisions made today. Special groups were also assigned to work con the following three | problems: 1. Commodities and stockpiling. 2. Customs procedure. 3. Overseas investments. at today’s session—the third meet- ing of the conference which opened yesterday—was made by Secretary ,of the Treasury Snyder, the chief American delegate, in a news con- ference at the (State Department, where the meetings are being held. Snyder said that Paul Hoffman, the ECA administrator, and Averell Harriman, the ECA Amoassador in Western Europe, considerably broadened the subject of Britain's dollar earnings at this morning’s session to include the problem ot dollar earnings of all the ECA countries. same line in the closed meetings with Cripps and the other con- ferees that he has taken in public statements in recent weeks—advo- cating better British sales tech- niques and the development of goods appealing to Americans at a com- petitive cost. Asked whether devaluation of the British pound has come up, Snyder said he would not discuss evalua- tion publicly “at any time.” Pressed on the point, he sharply replied “let us drop that and go on to something else.” RICHARD STRAUSS DIES IN GERMANY GARMISCH PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany, Sept. 8—®—Richard Strauss, one of the world's great- est contemporary composers, today. He was 85. His genius ran the gamut of musical expression ‘from simple songs and chamber music to sym- phonic poems, symphonies and op- eras. “Der Rosenkavelier” and his impressionistic opera “Salome” are among his most popular works. He was a musical prodigy at the age of four and- began composing when he was six. At 12 his Opus No. 1, a “Fetmarsch” for orchestra was before the public. Impressionistic expresnnns in tone form which Strauss composed in middle life were the subject of critical debate. WORK WILL RAISE CAUSEWAY LEVEL (Junean ana Vieinity) Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with an occasional light shower tonight. Lowest temperature tonight 48, with highest Friday 65. 0000000000000 0)re00 PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today City of Juneau None; since Sept. 1, 193 inches; since July 1, 12.94 inches. At the Airport — None; since Sept. 1, .50 inches; since July 1, 7.99 inches. FISH LANDINGS Landed this morning were 18,000 pounds of black cod from the Sun- more (John Winther, Jr.) and 30,- 000 pounds of salmon from the El- fin II (E. O. Swanson). NO STORY HOUR There will be no story hour this week at the Public Library, ac- cording to an announcement made by Edna Lomen. i Work is going ahead on the causeway between Douglas and Ju- neau Island where the Bureau of ® | Mihes Laboratory is being built. ‘The work will widen the cause- way to make room for a two-lane highway and raise it farther above the level of the water, G. D. Jer- main, Alaska Director of the Bu- reau of Mines announces. Large rock will be dumped on the weather side of the causeway to protect it from storms, he said. The work is [ceing done with Bu- reau of Mines funds, and local contracting firm of Hayes and Whitley and Bureau of mines con- struction men are sharing the job. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Aleutian scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Louise scheduled to ar- rive at 6 a. m. tomorrow and sails south at 8 a. m. Baranof from west scheduled south late Sunday or early Monday. Princess North scheduled to sail ! from Vancouver Saturday. The announcement of the worky Hoffman, Snyder said, took the| died | JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1949 | CHAMBER A HOPKINS' RE FOR HARBOR Juneau’s Chamber of Commerce decided to put off giving its sup- port to the plan to construct a small boat harbor at Douglas when it met at noon today in the Bar- anof Hotel. After hearing a report from Toner, spokesman for the Boat Harbor Committee of the Chamber, members decided a further meeting with George Hopkins, Corps of En- i gineers representative from Seattle, will be necessary before hope for a new boat harbor at Junesu is Shgn- doned. return to J\lfl* Hopkins will n of Ju- Saturday. Mayor Waino Hend neau, speaking from the floor: said any reluctance in the Chamber's approving the plan should not be interpreted as a “Junuu-or-nofib- ing” attitude. “We must continue toy}rl for !a small boat harbor in Junedu, but | we must not oppose & huhr in j Douglas,” he said. He said if progréss continlies in Southeast Alaska, a, small = boat harbor will be needed in both ®Juneau and Douglas wn.pln ten years time. Dr. C. L. Polley, spmk the Housing Committee, told ber of Commerce members that un- til a few days ago the housing situation was “well in band.” But the second contingent of Coast Guard personnel, which ar- rived on the Baranof, has wt the squeeze on Juneau's housm(qnn This time, it is even moreé ser- ious, he pointed out. There are several families, with one to four children, still in hotels awaiting homes. Li. Com. Edward P. Chester, Jr., Coast Guard officer and aide to the Governor of Alaska, $aid that of the 26 families which have ar- rived so far, 12 have been ade- quately housed. However, he pointed nfiJnI those housed already mm£‘ have purchased Homes, maoaui most |« of those not housed as yet cammgt. afford to buy. Terming the first contingent a “trial balloon,” Commander Chest- er sald the Coast Guard was well satisfied with the manner in which { i found. Chamber President Fred Eastaugh suggested that people moving into| town rent their country homes to i the Coast Guard families for a few { months. Visitor at the meeting was Lyle Watts, chief of the U. 8. Forest Service. of his Alaska trip: 1. Further investigation of pulp and paper industry development in Alaska; 2 A look at the community road situation; and 3, Study of the Indian Rights problem. He arrived from Ketchikan aboard the U. S. Forest Service launch Forester with B. Frank Heintzle- man, Regional Forester, yesterday.| Other guests at the meeting were 1 C. C. Staples, Territorial Director, FHA, Robert Scott of Juneau, and Val Poor of Douglas. J. A. McLean, Juneau attorney, acted as secretary in the absence of Herb Rowland. 2 Alaska Measures Passed by House in Senale Hands No The Senate Agriculture Committee today sent to the Senate two bills designed to encourage agricultural development in Alaska. One would increase the present authorization for agricultural ex- periment station work in Alaska by $37,500 annually. This is double the amount now authorized. The other would extend to Alaska the full benefits: of legislation authorizing federal appropriations for” agricultural extension service work, instead of the partial benefits which the Territory now is re- ceiving. Both bills have been approved by the House. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—P—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can’ 93%, Anaconda 27, Curtiss- wright 7%, International Harvest- er 27%, Kennecott 46%, New York Central 10, Northern Pacific 13, U. 8. Steel 22%, Pound $4.02%. Sales‘today were 940,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 180.53, rails 45.%5, wutil- homes for the group had been; He outlined the purpose | ! line, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HOLDERS OF JOBS Gives Clue fo Improvihg of Economic Condi- fions in Nation WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 —P— The number of jobholders hit a 1949 peak of 59,947,000 in August, while the total of idle workers dropped more than 400,000, the Census Bureau said today. The bureau’s report showed that unemployment dipped to 3,689,000 It had risen in July to 4,085,000, the highest level since 1942. The report, eagerly awaited as a clue to improving economic condi- tions, revealed a marked increase in factory and other non-farm em- ployment. Secretary of Commerce Sawyer leveling-off of the recent down- ward adjustment in our economy.” He added in a statement: “We are in a fundamentally sound condition for continuing our economic advance.” The rise in non-farm employment amounted to 1,368,000. Agricultural employment, on the other hand, de- clined by a like amount as farming operations entered the normal mid- summer slack period. ‘The total increase in civilian em- ployed, therefore, was comparative- 1y, slight—227,000 workers. The drop in the number of job- less was attributed by the bureau partly to the fact that many job- hunting youngsters either found work! or left the labor market. THREE MISSING IN ACCIDENT IN INTEROR ALASKA FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 8—UP ! —Three sleeping bags, a can of gasoline and a few water soaked cigarettes are the only traces found of an Episcopal priest and two boys missing since Monday night. An Eskimo boy, 17-year-old Thomas Tuzroyluk, said he was the the only survivor when a boat ! swamped Monday night in the Tanana river. Reid, Jr., priest in charge of St. Mark's Episcopal mission at Ne- nana; Enoch Tooyak, 15, of Point Hope and Teddy Mueller, 15, of Nenana. Young Tuzroyluk said the four were on & hunting trip about 80 miles from Nenana when a large wave capsized their outboard motorboat, He swam to shore and could see no trace of the others when he looked back. The youth said he searched the river bank for a mile Lelow' the scene and could find only the articles which had drifted ashore from the swamped boat. He built a fire with the gaso- dried his clothes and hiked upstream until he found a cabin land a canoce. He paddled 25 miles (to Manley Hot Springs and re- ported the accident. Reid came here following gradu- ation from - Virginia Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Vd., in June, 1948. His wife is at Nenana, hopeful that the three may be marconed somewhere along the WASHINGTON, _Sept. 8—UP— | river banks. The river is full of treacherous undercurrents and quicksand and is 1,000 feet wide at the place where the boat sank. Bob Byers and Al Wright, bush pilots, were at Manley witen Tuz- royluk arrived and made an ex- tensive search last night. The Tenth Rescue 'Squadron put two planes into| the area today. Big Planf Damaged $600,000 by Blaze BELOIT, Wis., Sept. 8.—(#— Fire swept through the main plant of an jcecream manufacturing plant late last night, causing damage es- timated by a company official at $600,000. The two story brick structure housing the Taylor Freezer Corp. near the downtown district was completely destroyed. Firemen bat- tled the blaze for more than two hours before getting it under con- trol shortly after midnight. FROM SITKA C. Charteris of Sitka is register- ities 37.23. ed at the Baranof Hotel. AT PEAK saw in the figures “evidence of a: Missing are the Rev. Robert H., HEARING OPENS ON COLLECTION OF FISHTRAP TAX Although counsel for both par- ties had held pre-trial conferences in an efiort to shorten formal court proceedings, the opening day of the fishtrap hearing gave no in- dications of brevity. However, sev- eral agreed stipulations came out of the August 26'meeting, and cer- tain records were directly entered in evidence therefrom. The hearing on merits opened at 10 o'clock this morning in District Court before Judge George W. Fol- ta. The suit was brought against Tax Commissioner M. P. Mullaney 'by P. E. Harris and Company of Seattle, with August Buschmann, W. Laurence Freeburn and A. P. Wolf, copartners in the Mutual Trap Company, as intervenors. On June 18, Judge Folta granted a temporary injunction restraining collection of the taxes, as increas- ed by the 1949 Territorial Legis- lature. W. C. Arnold, counsel for both plaintiff and intervenors, opentd the case, summarizing points of the complaint, which asked a per- manent injunction against the tax collection, and that the measure. Chapter 11, AS.L. 1949, be ruled null and void. Operaters Open Case Attorney Frank L. Mechem ol Seattle opened the case for the fish trap operators, pointing out that plaintiff and intervenors hold the new tax law to be an unlawtul bur- den on interstate commerce, un- reasonably discriminating between | fixed and mobile gear and between cperators, and such as to increase the cost of operations to the ex- tent of forcing closure, also that the retroactive provision is invalid. E. M. Brennan, vice president and general manager of the Harris firm, was the first witness called. | He testified as to his 31 years ex- perience with the company, and to trap operations and catches, His evidence was entered that the company had made substantial pre-season commitments and paid '$21,250 in 1949 licenses fees before January 1, 1949, and that, had _Haurris officials known of increased taxes, the company “probably would not have decided to operate, un- less to liquidate its inventories.” Cross-examination by Attotney General J. Gerald Williams brought out facts of fishtrap costs and maintenance expense. Attorneys estimate the hearing| will take at least two days. Tax Measure The tax measure, approved Feb- ruary 21, 1949, raises the flat tax 1on standing and floating fishtraps from $300 each year to $1,200, and increases the catch tax on a gradu- ated scale starting at five cents a fish for a take of 15,001 to 50,000 and going to 25 cents a fish for a catch of more than 200,000. The new fees are graduated also as to the number of traps operat- ed. Co-Counsel for the P. E. Harris and Company are Attorneys Me- jchem of Seattle and H. L. Faulk- ner of the Jumeau firm of Faulk- ner, Banfield and Boochever, while Attorneys Edward W. Allen of Se- attle and R. E. Robertson, Juneau, represent the Mutual Trap Com- pany with Arnold, who also is executive manager of Alaska Sal- mon Industry, Inc. Attorney General Williams and ! Assistant Attorney General John H. Dimond represent the Territorial Tax Commissioner. Among interested parties here for the trial are Buschmann and Wolf of the Mutual Trap Company; Harry O. Low, superintendent of the Harris Company's False Pass Cannery; Walter Sharpe, assistant manager of Alaska Salmon Indus- try, Inc., and several accounting experts who are expected to be called as witnesses. This is the third tax measure passed by the 1949 Legislature to be challenged in this court. The others were the income tax and the increased license fees for non- resident fishermen. | TEEN AGE CLUD BOARD TRUSTEES MEET TONIGHT Zach Gordon, director of the Teen Age Club, reminds the mem- bers of the Club’s new Board of Trustees of the meeting scheduled for tonight. It is planned to start it promptly at 8 o'clock in the Teen Age clubhouse. FROM SEATTLE Capt. F. A. Bartell of Seattle Is a guest at the Gastineau. FROM SEATTLE T. M. Brennan, Marvin Rubin- stein, C. W. Johnson, Miss Bettye Riley, Harry Kane, J. Tyler Hall, Welham Calvert, Barrie K. Burnet and Mrs. J. L. Beason of Seattle jwant to build two models — the | B-47 and the B-52—in the same i the Rocky Mountains.” registered yesterday at the Baranof Hotel. SYMINGTON GIVEN QUIZZING, TALKFEST HELD IN SEATTLE Moving of Boeing Plant Inland Discussed-Gov- ernor Makes Argument SEATTLE, Zept. 8—(—"Nothing more than a 20th century retreat from Moscow.” That was Alaska Governor Ernest Gruening’s description of the Air Force proposal to move bomier production inland last night as members of the “save Boeing” com- mittee met with Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington. “It's much better to stay where we are instead of going through the costly | experiment of moving in- land,” Gruening asserted after Symington told the committee: “Our potential enemy has heavy equipment which could hit Seattle harder than Wichita.” Throughout the ccnference Sym- ington preferred to use the word “strategic” rather than “vulnerable” in reference to the northwest. When asked if the Boeinz plant could be defended, he replied: “We haven't sa'd the Boeing plant is indefensible.” He continued, however, to ex- plain that the Air Force did not plant, because an enemy might de- stroy “both planes. with a single comb.” Symington said the Air Force is leaving the construction of its number one transport, the C-97, antl also the experimental development’ of the B-52 Lomber in the Seattle Boeing plant. IF'S IN ANSWERS “To the best of my knowledge, the B-52 will be built here,” he replied in answer to a question, and then quickly added several ifs, including whether Alaska is properly fortified by that ti;{e. 52 Actual production work on the l§ about three years away. Symington appeared concerneu over the weakness of Alaska de- M Ameriea contestants fenses, He will leave for Alaska to- | WeAT “falsles” if they want to, but morrow to' join the Joint Chiefs of Staff ‘in their inspection tour of the Territory. The Air Secretary made it clear that work is now “light” at Boeing’s Seattle plant and that employees are facing a loss of their jobs. He said the Air Por¢e is trying to “help” Boeing by urging the: routing of more “subcontracts to the Seattle plant.” Governor Gruening pleaded with the Air Force chief “to revise the decision and not start a movement that can result only in disaster.” GOVERNOR'S PLEA Moving aviation production in- ward is “a retreat from reality,” Gruening said. It would be as wise, he pointed out, to “remove the Bremerton Navy Yard to the Mis- sissippi river.” The northwest is vulnerable, but it can b€ defended, the Alaska Governor charged. “It Is shocking,” he challenged, “to see the Air Force, which pioneered in attack, be the first to advocate retreat. “The first thing to do is to de- fend Alaska, and Alaska will never ‘te adequately defended until we PRESIDENT ISTOPULL NO PUNCHES May Campa—ign in New York-To Name " Special Interests” WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. —iP— President Truman indicated today that he may do a little campaign= ing for the Democrats in New. York's Senatorial contest this fall. Candidates will not be picked unttl later this month, but the race is expected to pit former Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Democrat, against Senator John Foster Dulles, Republican. At a news conference, Mr. Tru-~ man was asked whether he might make a talk in New York betore the election. He said that depends on wheuut he can help. The President also said that he expects to name names as his campaign against the “special in- terests” proceeds into next year’s congressional election drive. That was in response to ques- tioning ahout his Labor _Day speeches when he called for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Aet, adoption of the Brannan Farm Plan, and lashed out at “special interests” he sald had been ' using 'scare words” in an effort to m,mm the voters. Mr. Truman wouldn't say, in re~ sponse to today’s' questions, who the “special h\'.eruu" are, | ASBURY PARK, N. J, Sept» 8. sean. none of them lnl to contest Ls ector Bert Nev- ln the Miss America pageant in nearby Atlantic City, falsies are tabu. Nevins said bust, waist and. hip measurements of the 24 contestants + already- selected for the 1lith an- nual Mrs, America event herg Sat- urday prove beyond doubt that mo » padding is necessary. He sald the bust-waist-hip sta- tistics range from a 33-22-3¢ min- imum to a 38-28-38 maximum, The winner of the Mrs. ica contest this year, nets u,mo Ill EXTENSION IS OVER: SEASON ENDS TODAY After a five-day extension, fish- ing season in Southeast Alaska closes tonight at 6, o'clock. The extension was granted Sep- tember 3, end of the ' scheduled season, but a further extension was not granted so ‘that the remainder get statehood. “The oceans are no lnnger sig- nificant. The enemy we face.is more dangerous than the last. His weapons include internal disorder and dissention.” Governor Gruening included an appeal for statenood for Alaska in his talk to the conference group. He said the voting representation in Congress that would come with statehood would enable Alaska tol look out for itself. All the conferees made strong pleas for full defense of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Governor Gruening declared that the with- drawal of even one bomber con- tract from the Pacific coast would ‘set a precedeent for withdrawing the Bremerton Naval Shipyard to the Mississippi river and the atomic plant at Richland to a site behind American Indians Called, Convention OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 8.—(®— Oklahoma State Supreme Court Justice N. B. Johnson, president of the National Congress of Ameri- can Indians, today issued a call for the sixth annual convention of the Indian Congress at Rapid City, S. D., Sept. 21 to 24. Notice of the convention has been sent to chiefs, governors, headmen, officers, councilmen and members | of the run will be able to'reach the normally late-seeded streams, FWS officials said today. Traps were well filled today. Can~ ning operations will probably con- tinue for three or four days while these late-caught fish and the salmon in cold storage are More than 1,500§000 cases bf pink salmon had been packed \lp W last Friday. va The season’s iotal pack’ vm have been determined by the first of next week, FWS officlals said. SONJA HENIEIS TO WED SOCIALITE NEW YORK, Sept. 8—(P—Sonja Henie, blonde skating star, and Winthrop Gardmer, Jr. socialite and aviation executive, plan to be married a week from tcday. It will be the second marriage for Miss Henle, and the fourth for Gardiner. Announcement of the wedding plans was made yesterday by a public relations fiym. Miss Henie, whose skating skill won her a movie career, has re- cently been promoting ice shows. She captured the olympic figure skating championship three times and held the world's figure skating ' championship for . 10 successive ' years. + Her marriage-to Daniel ‘Reld Top~ | ping, tin plate heir and owner of of the Indian tribes of the United States and Alaska, the New York Yankees, ended h divorce, It i