The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 2, 1949, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT CONGRESSIONAL PARTY TO ARRIVE EARLY TOMORROW Trap Heariflds_ to Be Held \YOUNG RECRUITS | SIGNED UP FOR " N. 6. OF ALASK Captain Shofner Makes Twin Stafes A Have Birthday PIERRE, S. D., Nov. 2—(®—The {twin states of North Dakota and |South Dakota are 60 years old to- Announcement Regard- and Evening ing Enlistments Here The Congressional sub-commit- At the regular Tuesaay tee now holding hearings in Alas- | meeting of Headquarters and Head- | came the 39th and 40th states ad- ka cities is scheduled to arrive at|quarters Alaska National Guard, | mitted to the Union. No one, in- Juneau airport tomorrow morning |two new recruits were sworn in.|eluding the President, knew which aboard an Army transport aircmn.iThe newest Guardsmen are Leo V.|{document he signed first, since This word was received late yes- ' Osterman and Walter L. Nance. |they were shuffled and covered terday by Lt. Com. Edward P.| Young Osterman was born in|gwith a newspaper. Chester, aide to the Governor,|Ketchikan and is a graduate of from Alaska’s Delegate to Congress|Juneau High, class of '49. Nance| E. L. Bartlett who is a member|was born in Hood River, Oregon,| |day. ! It was on Nov. 2, 1889, that the |pen of President Benjamin Har- | rison sliced in two the 28-year old night | pakota Territory. The twins be- During Afternoon of the party. The group Wwill hear arguments for and against abolishment of fishtraps in Alaskan waters. The message received by Lt. Com. Chester stated that the party hop- ed to arrive early enough to at- tend the Juneau Chamber of Com- merce meeting tomorrow noon be- fore beginning the hearings set for tomorrow afternoon and eve- ning at the Senate Chambers in the Federal building. The group will come to Juneau from Cordova, where hearings are! being held this afternoon. Congressman Victor Wickersham of Oklahoma, committee chairman, will preside at the hearings. Other members of the Congres- sional party are Congressman Thor C. Tollefson of Washington State and John J. Allen of California and Delegate Bartlett. With them are John M. Drewry, counsel; C Howard Baltzo, assistant chief, Branch of Alaska Fisheries of the Fish and Wildlife Service; and Joseph T. Flakne, chief of the Alaska Branch, Division of Terri- \PEACE TREATY and has resided in the territory for| the past ten years. He is now a| sophongore at J-Hi and Is the| youngest recruit to date, being 17| years of age. During the lecture period Capt. Joseph M .Shofner’ gave an in- teresting talk on Arctic operations.| Captain Shofner, who is head of the recruiting drive, reminded the| members of the Guard that any" men interested in joining the local| unit are welcome to attend meet- ings. Meeting nights are every| ‘Thursday at 8 p.m. and are held in| the Main Warehouse Office at the YOung mother with her divorced Government Dock. husband. Prosecutor Dana E. Harper said the woman, Mrs. Winona B. Med- |ley, 24, was shot and killed by Ped Bishop, about 40. Bishop then killed himself. REUNION IS CLIMAXED BY BULLET PORT ANGELES, Wash,, Nov. 2. —(M—Death, in the person of a re- jected suitor, brought a sudden WIIH jApAN 'I'o | The tragic ending took place in {the woman's home only a few |husband, Henry R. Medley. had !been remarried by a Justice of NEW, sxoR= Nov. 2—@—The = npg Medley's four-year-old son New York Times said today the gaue pejghbors their first news of BE REVIEWEDIhours after she and her estranged |the Peace. United States and Britain have de-| 1o shooting, Harper said, when :nd last night to the reunion of a | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA IKIWANIANS PLAN | ANNUAL ELECTION; SEE COLOR MOVIE Today, in view of the annual meeting and election next Wednes- day, Kiwanians took stock of their club and its membership, and found excellent comparisons in the course of a motion picture on “Basic Net Mending.” “Program Chsirman Gene Vuille pointed out such similarities as the importance of each indivdual loop and solid knot to the strength of the entire mesh, and to the in- jcreased “catch” to be made with | renovated net. The color-sound movie, shown for the first time to a Juneau service club, was made by the U. S. [Fish and Wildlife Service and is very instructive. Kiwanian John Griffin operated the projector for the luncheon program in the Baranof Gold Room. Interest was keen concerning the annual election next week and fin- al nominations were made from ythe floor. President Stanley Baskin wel- comed into membership Jack L. Sturtevant, senior interviewer of the Territorial Employment Ser- vice, giving a short sketch of Ki- wanis International background and the work of the Juneau:elub. He told of the five children “ad- opted” by Juneau Kiwanians, who provide clothes for the youngsters. In connection with a notice of the coming Girl Scout drive, Bask- in announced that Girl Scouts will sell gift packages of Kiwanis fancy canned salmon, keeping the pef- centage above cost. Dr. H. C. Harris of the U. S. Veterans' Administration staff, an- nounced the forthcoming anti- tu- berculosis drive which is tradition- ally conducted by Juneau Kiwan- tories and Island Possessions of the Interior Department. Citizens of the Territory of Al- aska went on record as being in| favor of abolishment of fishtraps at the Territorial election last year The party will go aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Storis when the hearing ends here, The cutter will leave at midnight tomorrow for Petersburg, according to Capt. N. S. Haugen, acting commander of the 17th Coast Guard District. Hearings will be held there Fri- day, after which the party will travel on the Storis to Wrangell | and Ketchikan. Part of the group will leave An- nette Island for Seattle Sunday, the others going to Sitka aboard the Storis for hearings Monday. cided to reopen the question of a| Japanese peace treaty as quickly as possible. | Secretary of State Acheson and British Foreign Secretary Ernest| Bevin “are understood to have dis- cussed this step recently and to have ordered a new and urgent study of the question,” the Times said. This is now under way in Wash- ington under the supervision of Assistant Secretary of State Walton | W. Butterworth and Maxwell M. Hamilton, according to a Times Washington dispatch by James Raston. Maberly E. Dening, British Assist-| ant Under-Secretary of State for| ervising the review in London. The Soviet newspaper Pravda has | Here are some views on the in- been keeping an eye on the doings |ternational situation from Turkey. at the CIO convention. And it says | President Ismet Inonu says he that the progressive wing of the|sees no improvement in relations CIO is being persecuted by “the and urges that Turkey keep her entire reactionary press and the powder dry. He says the Turkish rightest leadership of the CIO it-|army — with American aid—is self.” Those are Pravda’'s ownlready to defend itself against any words. ! comer. Nylon and Nylon Content Socks by HOLEPROOF Buy them . . . try them . .. give them the works for 60 days. If you're not completely satisfied with the wear, washability, long-lasting fine appearance, return them and get a new pair FREE! A host of Foreign Affairs, was reported sup-. he came running to their trailer|jans, crying: ] Dr. John Montgomery, John “Bishop's shot mother.” Griffin and E. K. Guerin were The shooting occurred several|named to plan the last three lun- hours after Medley had gone to|cheon programs for November. work in a paper mill. Their 17- Kiwanian Martin Victor was months-old daughter was in an-|comed back from his recent trip other room. to the Interior. He will have only The Prosecutor said the Med-|a short stay in Juneau, as he plans leys were married in 1945, sep- | to leave Sunday for several months arated less than six months ago,|in Chicago. obtained a divorce which became, final Oct. 10, then had remarried. Bishop, a part-time longshore. | Yonge Street is the longest street man, courted Mrs. Medley during|in the world. 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Houston’s Juneau U 122 Second Street————Phone 36 ATTENDANCE AT SHOW INCREASE| | WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—(P—Na- | tional parks and other areas ad- ' ministered by the National Park Service attracted more visitors the past year than ever before. | " The visitor total for the year (Oct. 1 to Sept. 30) was 31 1864,180, the Park Service reported, |a gain of eight percent over last | year’s high of 29,608,318. || " The number of visitors at various | gark areas for 1949 and 1948 in- | clude: (1949 figure first) Mount McKinley, Alaska, | ana 4,675. y | National monuments — | * sitka, Alaska, 6,862 and ?235 Colombians ~ Killed, 24 Hours, In Pre-EIedic)ni 1 BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov. 2—#— Some 235 Colombians have been ‘kuled in the past 24 hours in a | mounting wave of pre-election | violence, the newspaper El - Liberal !said today. Both Liberal and Conservative newspapers carried reports clashes in the interior as wiolence increased with the approach of the Presidential election, set for Nov. 217. "Queen Elizabeth Slept Here,” Title Of Brifish Comedy | LONDON, Nov. 2— (P —The' George 8. Kpufman comedy,', “George Washington Slept Here,”! opens in London"s Strand Theatre | tomorrow. The British title: “Queen Elizabeth Slept Here.” 4,820 9,470. l Ladyce (" Cameron, of Chelsea, Mass., 5 feet 7 inches tall and 122 pounds, is a_candidate for honors as queen of carnival week at Hampton Beach, N. H. HOLE IN POCKET; MAN IS IN JAIL SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2.—®— Robert Moreland is in jail today because of a hole in his pocket. Yesterday two men held up ‘Tsutomu Nakamotsu’s cleaning shop, banged him over the head| and departed with the contents of | his cash register (mostly small change) and his clothes. | Police patrolman Ralph McKin-‘ ley answered the cleaner’s call and | followed a trail of dimes and| nickels ($45 in all) to a nearly| dwelling where, he said, he found | the 18-year-old Moreland — and| Nakamotsu's overcoat. | | The second man wasn't around | and had left no trail to be fol-| lowed. | | | | LA -~ | | | ! In 1893, the U. S. Supreme Court | ruled that the tomato is a vege-| {table. But by botanical definition, the tomato is a fruit. Every tack we drive — every stitch we make is backed by thirty years of experience. The very finest of materials are used. 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