The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 13, 1949, Page 8

THE DAILY ALASRA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ° TUESDAY, DECEMBER 183, 1949 LOST GIRL'S|Moving Govl. |V g PAGE EIGRT MAN WITH FROZEN Heavy Seas Damage FEET FOUND NEAR SUNKEN VESSEL BULLETIN — Mercado was brought in from Tee Harbor tns afternoon hospital where Dr. J. O. Rude made an examination both of Mercado's feet frosted. Mercado Hhad been badly in a e and taken to St. Ann's | and pronounced | cabin seven days before found by ! Manery Search parties combing the shore in the vicinity of St. James Bay today found a man suffering from frozen feet on the Leach at Boat Harbor, a few miles north of St. James Bay on Lynn Canal. Coast Guard Headquarters here said the man is believed to be D. B. Mercado, G1A464. A small boat was found on the beach at Boat Harbor bearingJ those numbers. I A search on the St. James Bay! area was begun after B. H. mer)" of Juneau discovered the trolling poles of a sunken fishing vessel showing above the water at the, northeast end of the tay Sunday. | The injured man was being: Lrought to Tee Harbor by the Coast Guard cufter 83524 this afternoon. A Coast Guard chief pharmacist mate was sent to Tee Harbor n:eet the cutter and bring the man | 1 Juneau after administering first' eld. i Coast Guard spokesmen said to- day that the cutter White Holly is £t St. James Bay, preparing to send down a diver to make a positive identification of the sunken craft and possibly to prepare to raise it. Whereabouts of the crew of the sunken troller is not known, and search parties continued to cover the area today. { A report from Sentinal Island light station yesterday to Coast Guard headquarters here said that a fire had been seen in the vicinity of St. James Bay Saturday. | Manery reported Sunday that a skiff with an outboard motor on; its stern was seen under the water attached to the sunken fishing vessel by a painter. | They went ahead with several con- owner of the troller | Heavy seas accompanying a wind and rain g g———— g pleasure craft onto the shores of Santa Barbara harbor. (® Wirephoto. storm which left as much as 7.50 inches of rain in some parts of the Santa Barbara, Calif., coastal strip, tossed this 40-foot fishing boat and 22 other fishing and TRACKS SPUR RUGGED HUNT KELSO, Wash, Dec. 13— (® — | Fresh, faltering tracks today spur- red 500 searchers in the hunt for Ruth Aberle, 16-year-old Girl Scout, missing two days. ). Sheriff’s Deputy Costa Watts re- ported this morning on his return from the rugged, rain-sodden search area six miles northeast of here that three men had found compara- tively fresh tracks about midnight. They appeared to be only four to six hours old, he" said. Sheriff C. W. Reynplds recruited fresh hunting parties at dawn to speed the task. Watts said the fresh tracks were picked up only a mile and a half! | from where the girl disappeared Sunday. “Whoever made them was faltering,” he said, “as there were RAIN HELPS SHORTAGE OF WATER, N. Y. NEW YORK, Dec. 13—(®—Good news for water-short New York and Northern New Jersey seeped down from their northern water- shed areas today. Steady, soaking rains of more than an inch fell in several coun- ties. The rain and muggy weather melted heavy snow cover in some areas. Streams which had been dry or only a trickle for months of drought were running again. All this will be of help to the parched reservoirs upon which the huge metropolitan area depends. City officials emphasized there was still a water shortage, however. HOOVER PLAN ADOPTION I COMING UP Truman Formulating Reor- ganization, Government ~Saving fo Taxpayers WASHINGTON, Dec. 13— — Budget Director Frank Pace, Jr., said today that President Truman | has plans for a major program of! government reorganizatic™ in the) coming year. His statement, before the Na-! | tional Reorganization Conference, confirmed expectations that a num- ber of new organization’s plans would go to Congress at the coming | spots where the person stumbled 'and fell in crossing over logs and ;through the heavy underbrush.” The region is overgrown with B[FORE BuIlDING | vines, brush and dripping ever- greens. A snow blanket gives slip- pery footing. DAMS—FISHERIES There are numerous beaver dams |in the marshy area into which the PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 13.—(®—|tracks led, Watts said, creating ap- Safeguards for salmon runs must| Prehension should they be those of pracede erection of additional big|the missing High School girl. dams on west coast rivers. Woodsmen had thought it unlikely That was the demand of the Pa- she could have survived the first cific Marine Fisheries Commission|night when the thermometer drop- which met here yesterday. ped below freezing. It was close A resolution pointed out that the to freezing last night. commission was not opposed to dams, but wanted assurance—bs-! There are rumors in Western forehand—that salmon runs would Germany that politics may be be protected. Particular concern connected with the illness of East was expressed over power proposals German Prime Minister Otto Grote- for British Columbia’s Fraser River.| wohl. An American licensed news- The commission also suggested a'paper in Berlin says Grotewohl is survey by the three west coast|under strict police guard in a Rus- states to determine the number of sian military hospital. And there salmon caught by sports fishermen. are some rumors that Grotewohl Alvin Anderson, Bellingham, was may ke preparing to resign, with elected chairman. | iliness as an excuse. MOUNTAIN VIEW GUEST | TENAKEE VISITOR Earl G. Gitze of Mountain View| H. J. Floresca of Tenakee Is a Complicafes Task 3! U. N.I LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. ]3—(1“—" U N. officials said today that trans- fer of Israeli government offices and Parliament to Jerusalem comi- plicates the already complex task of placing tHe Holy City under in- ternational rule. They said such moves seemed cer- tain to pose new problems for the 12-nation trusteeship council in its effort to impose a UN. regime in the face of opposition by the occu- plying powers, Israel and Hashe- mite Jordan. Carlos P. Romulo, President of the 1949 General Assembly which| voted to internationalize Jerusalem,; said: “If it is true that Israel will make Jerusalem her official capital, it complicates an already complicated | situation.” The United States was said to have advised the Israeli and Hashe- mite governments against any in-| flammatory measures resisting the! internationalization decision. A U.S. delegation source said the approach was made on an informal basis. | i 0L’ JACK FROST IS HEADING YOUR WAY. LOOK OUT, FLORIDA' o | DECATUR, Il Dec. 13—®—It' Duncan says— *Look Your Holiday Best With Finer Drycleaning I” has turned so cold in Central II-| linois that Jack Frost has moved south for the winter. / Frost, a retired farmer of near ,Taylorvule, told the Decatur Her- ald and Review to to cancel his sub- cription until next spring because he is going to Florida for the win- ter. He didn't say where he would winter in Florida. The thermometer dropped to 16 session to supplement those already lm-nulion schemes, including a water holiday on Friday. ’ The Weather Bureau here said {138 inches had fallen at Fough- keepsie in the last 24 Lours, 'IERRITORY'S HIGHWAY PATROL IS FEATURED IN GRADE SCHOOL WILL GET FOUR PICTURES FROM ART EXHIBIT Fine color reproductions of four famous paintings will decorate the} balls of the Juneau Grade School, | purchased from proceeds of the re-; cent exhibit of Colonial Art Com- | E“FOR(EMENI "Ews pany prints. % The pictures ordered by School| jacka's Highway Patrol is fea-: Superintendent Sterling Sears are|ureq in the current issue of the those chosen by student preference | pyific Coast International Law at the exhibit. They are “Yankee, y,.¢orcement News. Clipper,” “The Landing of Colum- bus,” “Lake Superior,” and “Por- trait of Lord Seeham.” Open Road,” the lead article in the Net income from the exhibit was magazine was written by Ralph $8197, all of which was used to| Browne, assistant manager of the kuy pictures for the school. At-: Alaska Development Board. fendance at the art show was 523| The article describes the work of | students and 29 adults, and five|tne 20-man force in its battles pictures were sold to adults. ) with weather, and tells of the ad- Superintendent Sears hopes the | ventures of some of the men on prints will arrive before the Christ- | the force. mas holidays. ! The magazine’s cover carries a —_— j photograph of Frank A. Metcalf, Onions left in the ground over|chief of the Territory’s Highway winter will sprout of themselves in | Patrol. the spring, even before all the snowj ISR is gone, giving tasty early greens.: Nugget Shop open evenings.—adv.' Entitled “Alaska’s Knights of the in the works, Pace told the conference that thel President’s program, of which he gave no details, should about com- plete the basic work proposed by the Hoover Commission for reor- ganization of the executive tranch of government, y Herbert Hoover last night out- lined his own eight-point program for government reform which he’ forecast would save the taxpayers $2,000,000,000 a year. Pace did not say which of Mr. Hoover’s points, if any, come within the program contemplated by the President, but he added: “I" can say that he (Mr. Tru- man) has had staff analyses pre- pared covering virtually the entire range of the commission’s report.” The wartime commander of the Women's Army Corps wants women to enlist in a crusade for the re- organization of the Federal gov- ernment. The one time WAC leader, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, says women should do that to improve government service and public con- fidence in the service. Wes Rose of Anchorage is regis- tered at the Gastineau Hotel. . - o ¥ ‘White sidewall tires and wheel trim rings optional at extrs cost Motoring’s "next ride” is here! Come in and go for a drive! NEW 1950 STUDEBAKER'S Wercle Kiae” COME in and go for a drive in America’s most talked about new car—the dramatically different 1950 Studebaker. . , . Come in and treat yourself to the unforienable experience of the 1950 Studebaker’s “Miracle Ride” —the grandest new thrill in all motoring. Studebaker ever magic on you. The Studebaker “next look” and the Studebaker “next ride” are selling the 1950 Studebaker faster than any car introduced before. Come in now and let this aerody- namic new 1950 Studebaker work its You won’t ever want to go back to ordinary motoring. CAPITOL AUTO SALES Juneau — Alaska is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. guest at the Baranof Hotel. in Decatur last night. There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising! MR. CLAUS says:— “Not too much time left, folks, till I'll be visiting you . . . only eleven more days in fact. And gosh, what a bulgy bag I'm going to have this year. “But every year I come a-cropper when I have to fill the special bag marked ‘for the ladies’. Just like any man I'm all thumbs (to say nothing of my blushing modesty) when it comes to putting together their dainties; and Mrs. Claus is so happily, busy with the toys and things for the young’uns she hasn’t a spare second for anything else. “So I'll just have to apply some of this efficiency business I hear so much about and get the best people I know .to lend me a hand. And since the best is none too good for the Clauses, STEVENS gets the nod in Juneau. Y s = v 0500 “Folks, you can’t go wrong in that store. Only this morning I aimed my world-covering spyglass down that way and what I saw put a gleam of joy in my old eyes . ... : ¥ Dresses—evening and daytime Petticoats Panties Sweaters Scarfs Blouses Skirts Suits Coats Sportswear Ski suits Jewelry Evening bags Lounging robes Pajama sets Cocktail gowns, blouses and hats Handkerchiefs Gloves Purses Hosiery Gowns Slips - % “Think of the pleasure any of them will give. And not for just the ONE day either, but on into the weeks and months ahead. “Yes sir, STEVENS is the store where buying is made powerfully easy.”