The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 5, 1949, Page 2

PAGE TWO | The little fellow thought a long time when asked to discard his rukluks and try on a pair of shoes, shortly after he was enrolled as a student at Mt. Edgecumbe Voca- tional School. “You know,” he said almost sob- :ingly to Mrs. Geraldine Miles, so-' cial worker at the institution, “my mother made these mukluks for| me, and I don't like to . . .” But after watching the otherj 600 students at work and studying —all wearing shoes—he doffed the northern footwear and now goes | Lappily about in his new shoes. | The mukluk incident is only one of fhe problems—some large, some small—which confront Mrs. Miles from time to time' in her position jas personal guidance officer for | the school. In Juneau last week for a short | business conference with Dr. Eve- | lyn Butler, welfare director for the | Alaska Native Service, Mrs. Miles is | tusy establishing her post as social | worker, the first one to be placed | on the school's staff. Four years previous to her ar- | rival at Mt. Edgecumbe three | months ago, she was with the Colorado River Indian Agency at | Parker, Ariz, working with the | Mojave tribes. A few Hopis and | Navajos were at the agency, too. | She is originally from Deadwood, SD. SOME SAVE PARKAS The Arctic children arrive wear- ing parkas and skin clothing, but | coon discard them for sweaters,| neckties and all the accoutrements of the resident Alaskans from the | States, she said. Some bring suits | for practic 'Mukluks or Shoes? A.N.S. ~ Understanding Works Ouf Problems af M!. Edgec’umbe THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Many of the children come from troken homes, they said. One- fourth of the students have no parents, one-half have only one, and the remaining quarter have toth parents, Dr. Butler pointed out. This brings up the vital problem of keeping many of the children occupied and happy during the summer three-month vacation. Many have relatives they have lost contact with or show no interest in, Mrs. Miles said, and she is at- tempting to re-establish interest in their relatives. GO TO CAMP Many years ago, Eskimos kept ontact with even distant relatives, but today, because of changing cir- cumstances, this custom has more or less faded out. Some of the children are sent tc summer camps similar to those in the States, she said, where they row toats, fish and play during the fine weather. Others are sent o relatives they perhaps have never seen before, but who take them in for the summer and a “new” family is formed. A great many students wish to 20 Outside to work or attend a University she said. But in event they are unable to, their vocational studies at the school enable them {o take up an occupation in Alaska. The Aleuts, Indians and Eskimos there have no personal differences whatsoever, she pointed out, other than occasional childhood argu- nmients bound to happen in any| DOUGLAS NEWS BENEFIT ‘DANCE SUCCESS As is usual on the Channel, when fresldenfis are asked to support a worthy cause, they turn out and do it. Such was the case again last Saturday evening when the Douglas Fire Department sponsored a bene- fit dance for Mrs. Jack Langseth. Juneau and Douglas residents pack- ed the hall and were very generous in their contributions, which will be turned over to the woman who is remembered by so many and es- pecially the Fire Department for her generous hospitality and willing hand, to purchase an artificial limbh to replace one lost recently fol-| lowing an illness. Providing excellent music for the affair without compensation were Chuck Werner and his band, Dr.| John Montgomery on the piano, | George Troycheck, drums and Wer- | ner on bass fiddle and guitar. Dur- | ing intermission, Werner also sang | several selections accompaning with | his electric guitar. MASONIC MEETING TUESDAY A regular Stated Communication of Gastineau Lodge 124, F. and A.M. will be held Tuesday evening, Dec. | 6. There will be work in the F. C.| Degree and election of new Orricers! and Proficiency work. This is the last regular meeting of 1949. { | | AND THE SNOWS CAME It did last night. Today the| snowballs are in the air and the children most happy. It snowed, the | first snow to stay on the ground‘ for more than a minute or so this year in Douglas. The car wheels| are spinning on the Third and D| stop street. The city grader has| chains on. Winter has come. Christ- | mas just around the corner. | BABY HEALTH CLINIC ‘ school. The social program set up, Dr.|ducted Tuesday,afternoon from 2|21, years. He is immediate Past |and dresses with them from the | Butler said, is preventive rather to 4 o'clock, with the Public Hp“m,'P;esmem of the Juneau Chamber little villages. And a few keep their | than remedial. An attempt is being Nurse in charge. The clinic will l:r:l | tine parkas, not for souvenirs, but?made to forestall problems before|held at the Community Methodist use when they return | they arise, rather than waiting until Church. It is conducted for mcth-Lbeen Vice President of the R. J. A well baby clinic will be con-| W, BURR JOHNSONS' LEAVE-ON BARANOF 10 LIVE IN STATES| | Of great regret to their wide | | circle of Alaska friends is the de- | parture of the W. Burr Johnson | famly, to live in the states. | Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, with their daughters, Elsa, 15, and Ann, 13, soiled at 2 am. today on the | Baranof. ! They will take delivery on a new car in Seattle, then drive to, outhern Oregon to spend Christ-| mas with Mr. Johnson's family, whose home is in the Rogue River Valley. Then they will go to Walla Walla, Wwash,, where the girls, popular and talented members of Juneau's younger set, will be entered in the wellknown St. Paul's School for Girls. Elsa, who last year won the cup bere for Women's Class B skiing, is glad there will be skiing near by, but is certain it will not compare tc what she is used to. Both the girls were born in Ju- neau, where Mr. and Mrs. John- son have lived since 1931. Mrs. Johnson has teen a resident since her early childhood. Her mother, | Mrs. George Baggen of Sitka, visited the family here before their departure. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson expect to drive to Arizona for a two-month vacation 'in the Southwest, where they may settle, although they have no definite plans. Eoth have been leaders in com- munity life in Juneau and especi- ally interested in Girl Scout work. Mr. Johnson served on the Girl Scout Council for two years. Mrs.| Johnson also was active in Trinity Episcopal Church. Mr. Johnson completed serving a term on the City Council this- fall —the term which was extended to I of Commerce. For three years, Mr. Johnson has MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1949 = —— 1 WAS COMING BACK- HONEST! 1'VE ONLY GOT DAYS LEFT TO DO MY CHRISTRAS SSHOPPING }L' 8 AT~ - BM Behrends, Co QAALITY SINCE 1847 in Alaska and to Seattle , between October 15 and March 15 ® Now’s the time to go places . . . see the sights . visit friends. Now while you can take advantage of Pan American’s annual fare reductions! Buy your bargain fare tickets between October 15 and March 15 . . . you can use them until April 15! Fly now with the world’s most experienced airline . . . stretch your travel dollars. g ¥ ers, with children under six years|gommers Consruction Company, the | | pleting their schooling. explained. of age, who if they cannot attend|fiym with which he started as ac- | 5 % during these hours, may call MIS.| countant 13 years ago. Tand started to inspect its interior.| Cunningham, phone 774 to make| y g Barrington, Jr., has bought Two plain clothes men who looked |81 appointment with the nurse.|the commodious Johnson home on like Russians aimed a tommygun } s Stk Seventh Avenue. AIOMS WENT at me and shoved me out.” FIRE PICTURE TONIGHT BETA SIGMAPHISTO | lllo Russ 143 | Roberts said he saw “huge crates” FOR CHANNEL MEN J what they contained. He added iliany other men of the channel area, | MEET TOMORROW NIGHT s | Pert, pretty and perfect for luxurious lounging, |to their former homes after com- | they have gotten under way, she sweet sleeping comfort. Lullaby-soft nylon jersey that washes and dries in minutes and no ironing necessary. Contrasting colored piping adds a new sparkle to this classic convertible collar P. J. White with Royal, White with Coral, White with Green. 12-18 ( TICKETS 600D UNTIL YOU SAVE ON BOTH ONE-WAY AND ROUND-TRIP FARES the planes but did not know| Douglas Volunteer Firemen, and| “ i " 'WHITEHORSE seemed illogical to me to havelare invited to see the picture on| tommy-gun guards on American | Hose Care and Method of Use and | planes going to Russia.” a MGM picture on Arson, which | ATl fares, plus tox Children 212 yeom, % Ruth Bader, President of Delta B.&M. Bsfzsrzé QUALITY SINCE /887 SAYS RUSSELL Roberts, who was stationed aljwill be shown tonight in the Eagles| Co iNamao Airport during the war te/ brief pilots on the northern route ! Hall at 7 o'clock, under the spon- | sorship of the Douglas Fire De-| Chapter, Beta Sigma Phi, asks alt members to attend the meeting to- morrow eveninz at 7:30 o'clock in JUNEAV 56.00 100.80 B half of bargain fare. _ o/w R/T WHITEHORSE O/W Y.T. [l /W | (Continued from Page One) |told the story in connection with department. The movie was shown | ROBOT KIDNEY CHEATS DEATH 28 EXCLUSIVE PICTURE MADE IN HOSPITAL at Milwaukee, Wis., marks milestone in science as mechanical kidney washes blood of dying man, removing uremic poison. Doctor in foreground raises cover of machine for inspection. Patient recovered. (International) P et S et et i Your Deposits ARE SAFE BUY and HOLD UNITED STATES SAVINGS 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. DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED FIRST NATIONAL BANK of JUNEAU, ALASEA MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION | v rrerrrrrrrrrrereroror has “no knowledge of the incident | or anything like it.” : No Invesugation | . The Air Force began digging| | through its records for the report |Jordan said he made. As yet it has found none, it said, adding that no| | formal investigation is being made | —just a check for any report re- in-t-i\ed from Jordan | Congressional investigators were probing the charges at the direc-| |tion of Chairman McMahon (D-| | Conn) of the Senate-House Atomic | | Committee. | Meantime, in New York, Robert E. Sherwood, who was closely as- | sociated with Hopkins and Presi- | dent Roosevelt during the war, call- jed Jordan’s statement “one of the most amazing cock and bull storles I have ever heard.” he said that “Hopkins did not discuss topmbst | secrets over the public telephone.” e | | | SUSPICIONS NEVER AIRED | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 5— |(P—The man who coramanded ex- Army Capt. G. Racey Jordan dur- |ing the war said Saturday none of Jordan’s suspicions ever had been | forwarded to him. ! Jordan said Friday night in a radio interview that the late Harry |Hopkins helped speed large ship- | ments of atomic material and doc- |umerits to Russia via the lend- |lease airplane route from Great Falls, Mont., to Fairbanks, Alaska Brig. Gen. Dale V. Gaffney, now in Fairbanks, was commander of |the Alaska Division of the Air Transport Command handling the plane shipments to Russia referred |to by Jordan. The General said Jordan served under his command as liaison offic- er between United States officers and Russian leaders - engaged in transferring lend-lease supplies over the northern route. He said none of the circumstances : | mentioned by Jordan had been |brought to his attention at that |time, and that if they had been, they would have been “referred to higher authority.” Gaffney’s wartime division head- | quarters were in Edmonton, Alta., with sub-headquarters at Fairbanks and Great Falls. ANOTHER STRANGE STORY SEATTLE, Dec. 5—(®—A former soldier says he was ordered out of a j Russian-lend-lease plane by a tom- mygun-carrying guard when hel sought to inspect the plane’s lntet-l |lor. I George F. Roberts, 33, now a[ printer at the Seattle Post-Intel-: |ligencer, told interviewers the inci- {dent occurred at Namao Airport, |19 miles north of Edmonton, Alta., in 1945, “When T first arrived at Namao,” Roberts said, “I looked into a C-47' ~ | Washingtin charges that Russian|in the Elks i hall last week for| couriers carried atomic secrets out|the benefit of the Juneau Fire- of the United States via lend-|men, at which time the Douglas| lease planes. Group was invited. The show proved | so interesting and instructive, that * g0 i Chief Shudshift and President Bob B u l l E I I N S Anderson arranged to have it shown A new drive to reorganize the here so the majority of the Fire-| men could attend. government further will be pushed The Eagles, FOE, Aerie No. 117, by former President Herbert Hoover } will hold their regular meeting next Monday. Hoover will speak in)tonight immediately fullowing the Washington before the national|movie sponsored by the Fire De- reorganization conference. \partment, in Eagles Hall. President of the Eagles, Guy A. A special House ccmmittee is get- { Russo, has sent out a special call ting ready to investigate lobbyingithat all Eagles be present, as plans by six big groups. The committer |Must be made for the annual Eagl- is headed by Democratic Repre-|es Christmas party. i sentative Frank Buchanan of Penn- sylvania. The investigation may not { EAGLES TONIGHT IS HOME start for several weeks. i Mrs. Albert E. Goetz has re- = jturned home from a month’s trip Franklin “D,. Bodss ‘_|in the States where she visited y velt, Junior,}her parents the Wm. F. Snyders of | made a speech last night in Norfolk, Virginia. He said the only way to keep the cold war from becoming a hot war is to spread the idea of American dberal Democracy. Orchards, Wash. Mr. Goetz returned on the same day from a log tow for the Juneau Spruce Co., along with other members of the crew who had towed a raft of logs to a Brit- ish Ceclumbia paper mill. Official announcement is made of the appointment of 50-year-old William Benton as U.S. Senaturi John Krugness, Jr., from Pelican, frem Connecticut. Benton, a Demo- jarrived via Alaska Coastal and was‘ crat, succeeds Raymond Baldwin,;taken to St. Ann’s hospital immed- a Republican, who is joining the|iately. His family is staying at Connecticut Supreme Court. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Johnson. Krugness is postmaster at Pelican, and a former resident here. IN HOSPITAL H The farmhands and the shep- herds are back in their pastures and fields on the slope of Italy’s Mount Etna today. The volcanoi Cpl. George W. Olson has joined erupted for three days. Then it | the operations staff at the Alaska quieted, and the flow of lava slow- | Communications System office here. ed down. ' Olson came to Juneau from Haines. e MEETING * United Trollers of Alaska * C. I 0. Union Hall * TUESDAY — 7:30P. M. December 6, 1949 the Gold Room. Detailed plans will be made for the holiday event just announced —the Christmas Ball December 17 which this group of young career women will give. BLACKERBYS DUE IN ON PRINCESS NORAH Mr. and Mrs. Alva W. Blackerby and their son Kirk, are expected to return to Juneau tomorrow on the Princess Norah. Mrs. Blackerby and Kirk have been in St. Paul, Ore, for about two months. Kirk broke his arm in a play- ground accident, and complications ensued. “Blackie” flew to Oregon to be with his family and return with them after Kirk's arm had been reset. FAIRBANKS O B AerreaR] Fa N Worto AIRHAYS, ‘\.,.J ® Trade Mark, Pan American Airways, Inc. 7O SEATTLE » HAWAIl * ROUND-THE-WORLD * KETCHIKAN JUNEAU * WHITEHORSE * FAIRBANKS ¢ NOME +INCLUDES CONNECTIONS BETWEEN KETCHIKAN AND ANNETTE ISL. 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