The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 11, 1950, Page 1

SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,449 SNOW FALLS OVER PART OF NATION (By the Associated Press) Fresh falls of snow carpeted wide areas of the midwest and Rocky Mountain states today. Heavy falls were reported in many sections. The snow belt extended trom Michigan and the northern portions of Illinois and Indiana westward to ‘Wyoming and southern Montana. Falls in northern Iowa and southern ‘Wisconsin measured more than five inches. Temperatures remained on the chilly side in most parts of the mid- west and northeastern states. The mercury dropped to 14 below zero at Pembrook, N.D., and the below freezing line extended across the northern tier of states into northern New England. Temperatures moderated over the southern siates and were near nor- mal levels. They also were around seasonal readings over most of the Pacific coast region. Some rain fell in northern California and Ore- gon. Elsewhere fair weather pre- vailed. % ALASKAN AIRFIELDS BIDS OPENED; LOW SUMS BY FOUR FIRMS Seven bids for the construction of small airports throughout Alaska were awarded to four firms byl George S. (Tony) Schwamm at his office in Anchorage, Secretary of { Alaska Lew M. Williams announced | today. Only one Alaskan firm is among the seven, the remainder being con- tractors from the Pacific Northwest, most of whom have done consid- erable contracting in the north. Schwamm heads the Alaska Aero- nautics and Communications Sys- tem. Work will be done with the Territory’ contributing approxi- mately one-third the money and the Civil Aeronautics Authority the remainder. Lytle and Green won three jobs: airports at Dillingham, $145000; Kotzebue, $208,225; and Fort Yukon, $123,200. The Seldovia and Ninlchik fields went to the J. S. Ramsted Company of the Seattle, the former for $47,~ 280 and the latter for $23,040. The Skagway airport job was won by the Munter Construction Com- pany of Seattle, for $113,773. The Palmer Construction Com- pany won the work on the airport in their own community for $121,227. Bids for Seward were not opened because it was feared funds would} not go around. Schwamm reported an exceilent showing, with 19 bidders submitting 43 bids. There were two Lypes allowed to be submitted—with and without surfacing. It was not known here if the above bids were for one or the other. GORDON ANDERSONS MOVE TO CALIFORNIA Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Anderson and their three children were booked to leave today for San Fran- cisco, where Anderson has been permanently transferred. For more than two years Ander- son has been maintenance mechanic here for Pan American World Air- ways. FROM HOLLYWOOD Allan D. Greenwood of Holly- wood, Calif., is a guest at the Bara- nof Hotel. The Washington Merry - Go - Round Copyrient. 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Ine.) Bv DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON Ambassador Lew Douglas made a special visit to the Pentagon this week to dis- cuss with Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson the idea of with- holding U. S. military secrets from new British Minister of Defense Emmanuel Shinwell and from Brit- ish War Minister John Strachey. The two British Cabinet members are colorful left-of-center Labor Party politicians, one of them ac- cused of having Communistic con- nections, but with enthusiastic followings in England. Shinwell is a hot-headed .British Pole, re- presenting Ramsay MacDonald’s | radical mining constitutency. and thoroughly hated by the British general staff. Once, during a parliamentary de- bate, when another M.P. demanded g A S (Continued on Page Four) ,Russla and sentenced to 14 years in “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1950 LARGEST JUNEAU BUILDING PERMIT ISSUED YESTERDAY A building permit was issued late yesterday by the city for the con- struction of what will be the largest building in Juneau—the 1l-story apartment building at Fourth and Franklin Street. Construction will begin early next week, according to Clinton C. Staples, Alaska director of the Fed- eral Housing Authority. He made the announcement after taking the final preparatory step prior to con- struction—the releasing of FHA in- surance on the loan which will make possible the construction. The 134-unit structure will be called the Mendenhall Apartments and will cost about $1500,000. It will be built by the Anderson Con- struction Company of Seattle. Walter E. Hutchinson, FHA at- torney, was on hand for the final closing of the deal. Sponsor of the apartment build- ing project is the Mendenhall Cor- poration whose officers include Ray- mond Wright, Willard Wright, Ray Sumpter, and Martin Anderson of Seattle, and Fred Eastaugh of Ju- neau. Final release was also given the insurance for a $1,230,500 loan which will finance the building of the 108-unit Ferris Court Apartment! building on Bowden Street in Ket- chikan. The building will be con- structed by the Baldwin Construc- tion, Inc., of Seattle. ACHESON ON SPOT IN RUSS SPY CASE; 6. 0. P. LEADS OFF WASHINGTON, iarch 11—®— A new Republican drive against Secretary of State Acheson appeared to be developing today behind the scenes of the Communist hunt in- spired by Senator MecCarthy (D- ‘Wis). Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the GOP floor leader, brought the at- tack into the open yesterday with criticism of what he called Ache- son’s “bungling” in the Gubitchev spy case. Wherry said the Secretary demon- strated “unfitness” for his job by his offer let Valentin A. Gubitchev; —convicted with Judith Coplon of espionage conspiracy—escape a 15- year prison term if he leaves this country. The Senator said Acheson should have let the law take its course adding that Russian propagandists already are calling the move a sigl of weakness. Rep. Fellows (R-Me) made 2 similar statement in the House. Although only five other Repub- licans joined Wherry in voting against Senate confirmation of Acheson on Jan. 18, 1949, there were indications that the Nebras- kan’s attack had the backing of a far larger number of his party mem- bers who would like to see the Sec- retary of State dumped overboard. FUCHS STRIPPED U.S. A-SECRETS, CONFESSON HINTS WASHINGTON, March 11—®— Dr. Klaus Fuchs, confessed Russian spy, may have stripped the United States’ scientific cupboard bare of all its latest atomic secrets. Further, it is considered likely among those familiar with the situ- ation that he could have passed on to the Soviets highly “educated guesses,” to say the least, about the rate of U.S. A-bomb produetion and the size of this country’s stock- pile. Both are closely guarded sec-! rets. So is all data connected with development of the potentially more deadly hydrogen bomb. Fuchs was familiar with the theory of the H-bomb, too Members of the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee who saw the Fuchs’ confession for the first time yesterday took a grave view of the matter. Senator McMahon (D- Conn), committee chairman, de- clined to say what was in it or an- swer questions about it. The confession, passed on by the British, reached the joint commit- tee through the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Atomic Energy Commission. AEC officials met with the committee behind closed doors to go over the docu- ment. Fuchs, a Communist and leading British atomic scientist, was con- victed on March 1 of betraying | | ward, expecting to go to work im-| rraced since the 1938 Southeast Al- JOB-SEEKERS RUSH MUST BE HALTED, WARNS GOVERNOR A “job rush” threatening to assume proportions of another Klondike, might well engulf Alaska with destitute job-seekers from the states unless a warning is broad-| cast to stop them, Gov. Ernest Gruening said today. ‘The recent widely-publicized pub- lic works program to get under way this summer has attracted nwner- ous unemployed men and women to| the Territory, he said, many of| whom are without funds and areli already a burden to many commun- ; ities here. The Federal Housing Authority has issued contracts for some $30,- | 000,000 in construction of apart- ment houses and other types of buildings, and jobless workers from outside are already treking north-! mediately, although an authority has estimated a bare 10 percent would obtain work—when it begins. Compete With Alaskans 1 Many unemployed are ah’eady( crowding into the Interior, he said, while the thaw is still many weeks away—and these in the face of} many skilled Alaskans awaiting | opening of construction themselves. | “It should be clearly understood, the governor declared, ‘that it should be the policy of all contrac- tors to give priority of employmem‘ to qualified Alaskans and not given to these ‘rushers’ until all our own people have been placed. “It would be desirable,” he con- tinued, “if all agencies concerned— such as employment service, labor ! unions, Chambers of Commerce,| and city mayors—widely publicized ; the fact throughout the United States that no one should come here | in hopes of work unless he has been approached and given prospective employment either by a contractor or invited to come up by union of- ficials.” H Bare 10 Percent 1 The governor noted that George| Davis, secretary of the Carpenters union in Fairbanks, predicts that in view of the prospective influx al- ready begun, that no more than 10’ percent of these newcomers will get employment. “This influx is unfortunate,” he said, “because many of these people have no funds, and are not getting work, thus not only causing a bur- den to the community involved but creating an entirely unnecessary problem. “The situation is likely to become serious,” he warned, “and every effort must be made to head it off.” FATHER OF PETERSBURG SKIING HERE IS FOR TITLE .l MEET - AS SPECTATOR: ersburg merchant, will be as ready as the ski racers when the start-| GREEN LIGHT GIVENR.R.'S USE OF COAL WASHINGTON, March 11—®— After midnight Sunday, the nation’s railroads can fire up their steam locomotives and use as much coal as they need. An order removing all restrictions on coal burning train service was issued yesterday by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The ICC clamped on the restric- tions in January to offset a coal shortage. They were further tight- ened during the coal strike. The railroads were authorized to restore coal-burning passenger serv- jce to 75 percent of normal last night with all restrictions called off Sunday at midnight. A freight service cut was dropped earlier this week. DR. DAHL RETIRES AFTER 24 YEARS INSKAGWAY AREA “From his 1926-1950 babies,” says the engraving on the new wrist watch Dr. Peter 1. Dahl is wearing. A 17-foot scroll accompied the gift, signed by more than 200 “babies” up to 24 years old. Many other children he brought in the world have gone away and were unavailable, The watch is but one of many handsome presents given the‘sood doctor by the community he served for 24 years. Dr. Dahl of Skagway was, for all that time, the only physician between Juneau and Whitehorse. As company doctor for the White Pass and Yukon Railway, he cared for employees and their families with a 10-bed hospital at his dis- posal. As the only doctor in the area, he cared for everyone who needed him, Now, Dr. Dahl has decided to re- tire, and do some of the things he hasn’t had time for in 25 or 30 years, He and Mrs. Dahl came here yesterday, and will leave on the Princess Norah Tuesday for a well-earned vacation. “I think it was the genes of the Vikings that brought me to Alaska,” said Dr. Dahl, when asked how he happened to come here from In- wood, Towa, nearly a quarter-cen- tury ago. “My father came to America from Norway in 1865,” he went on, “and just felt the urge to keep go- ing, too.” Dr. Dahl was born and raised in North Dakota and studied med- licine at Northwestern University i pefore establishing his practice in the Iowa city. He and Mrs. Dahl have taken a prominent part in community ers says “Go" at the Southeast|,erairs in Skagway. Dr. Dahl served Alaska Championship meet here today and tomorrow. as chairman of the school board, and he has been active in Masonic He won't be racing—he hasn'ti, . ps lodges. He is a past ex- aska classic here, when he was seen in action in the cross-coun- try and jumping competition—but he'll be one of the keenest spec- tators. He's considered the father ot skiing in Petersburg. Wikan was born in Norway, but he didn't ski in the old country— unless barrel-stave skiing can be considered a branch of the sport. “There was too little money ar- ound our house for us to get skiis,” he said last night. “So I skiled on barrel-staves.” He didn’'t manage to get proper boards until he was in the United States and 24 years of age. Then he began skiing in earnest—long before it was. anything but an eccentric form of amusement here He kept it up. And he made skiis for his children as soon as they were old enough to ride them. He was a booster for skiing in Pet- ershurg and one of the originators of the Petersburg Ski Club. wikan came to Juneau yesterday for the weekend skiing meet—but just to watch. “It's a good sport to watch too,” he said. “You get outdoors just watching the skiers, and I'm a great believer in the outdoor life.” CIO Tranport Workers President Michael Quill has urged the Presi- dent to seize and operate the strikebound American Airlines Com- pany, claiming maintenance inade- quate, On April First, top defense of- ficials from the 12 North Atlantic countries will begin a series of British-American atomic secrets to’ | prison, meetings in Holland. The United alted ruler of the EIks. Mrs. Dahl has held office in both Eastern Star and the Emblem Club, besides living the busy Tife of a doctor’s wife. Among her going- away gifts is a handsome tooled leather handbag given her by the children of Pius X Mission. At the big farewell party for Dr Dahl in the Skagway High School he was touched by the speeches 0! appreciation and the thoughtfully chosen gifts which went with them Besides the watch, the High School gave him a gold nugget tie clasp; The Elks made him a life member; the Masons gave him a motion picture screen, while the card accompanying the new pro- Jjector read, simply, “From the peo- ple of Skagway.” After such long and close asso- ciation "with Alaska and Alaskans it will be difficult to forget the Territory, says Dr. Dahl—nor does he intend to do so. “In all that time, I never got farther away than Whitehorse and Dawson,” he said today. “I hope to return some time and go into thx interior and to Nome and the Al- eutians. I'd like to do some fish- ing to the westward—why, I haven't eaten or caught even a catfish tor 30 years.” On a leisurely motor trip Aacross the United States, Dr. Dahl plans to do plenty of other things 1or which there hasn't been time or convenience. First, the Dahls will visit thew son, Roger, and his family in Se- attle, where they will make the acquaintance of their new grandson Eric Roger, born on Washington's Birthday. They plan to linger un- til fall, to see some football: haven't seen a game in 25 years, said the doctor. States will be represented by De- Secretary Louis Johnson, The couple will go to the middie MEMBER A THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY 1 P.M. Edition SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VA EMPLOYEES DIG $235 FOR LIBRARY FUND; MORE COMING mployees of the Veterans; Ad- ministration in Juneau are donating funds for the erection of the Juneau Memorial Library and have $235 in hand, with more to come, it was an- nounced today by Dr. James C. Ryan, acting director of the drive. Dr. Ryan was informed by Neil Fritchman, chief of the vocational rehabilitation and educational di- vision of the VA, that a popul subscription made by the agency’s 40-odd employees would probably raise between $30 and $40 more than the sum already gathered. Fritchman sparked the drive among his fellow workers, who dug —and are still digging—down gen- erously. He believed he could an- nounce the final figures within a few days. This sum brings the library fund drive down well below the $7,000 mark passed yesterday with an- nouncement of a $250 contribution by the Hotel Juneau. This means that slightly more than 90 percent of the needed $70,000 is on hand or pledged. Money need not be paid immediately, but may be contributed over a two-year period, Dr. Ryan pointed out. Fed- eral matching funds will be avail- able through the Community Fa- cilities agency as soon as the needed money is raised. Regional ~Forester B. Frank| Heintzleman, directing the drive, i was called on government business to Washington several weeks ago. The Women of the Moose, who some time ago announced their pledge of $500 for the library, de- livered a check for that amount to Dr. Ryan yesterday. They decided to withdraw the sum from their treasury immediately, rather than hold benefits and parties to raise the money over a period of time, MANY (OMMITTEES NAMED FOR WORK BY DIRECTORS OF ACCA The monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Juneau- Douglas chapter of the Alaska Crip- pled Childreny” Association was held Friday noon in the Iris Room of the Baraof Hotel with President Mrs. John McCormick presiding. The financial report for the per- iod ending February 28, 1950 was read by the Treasurer Franz Nagel howing a net income of $1641.99 and that $1,214.61 was sent to Ter- ritorial chapter headquarters. Auth- .nrxzanon was given to the local I'chapter to transfer all polio funds {to the Territorial headquarters. It was reported that two dozen 'ast pants had been made by the American Legion Auxiliary, the ma- terial having been furnished by the Alaska Crippled Children’s As- sociation. The offer of the Triangle Clean- s to clean, free of charge, used lothing turned in by the Asso- fation for the Orthopedic Hospital it Sitka was accepted and a letter »f appreciation sent, The following committees were ippointed: Peter Warner was nam- :d chairman for the distribution of :ans with Vic Power, Andy Robin- son and Franz Nagel to serve With him; Mrs. George Folta is chair- man of the committee for labeling the cans. Mrs, Al Zenger, Sr., chairman, ind Mrs. 8ig Jackson of Douglas were appointed on the sewing com- mittee. Membership committee includes Miss Bess O’Neill, chairman, Miss Pearl Peterson and Dr. Hefiry Har- ris. Mrs. Leigh Grant of Douglas was named chairman of the hospit- al committee with all members of the Board to serve with her. Previous appointments include: Publicity, Mrs, Dewey Baker and | I ! DR. WILLIAMS BACK Dr. Richard H. Williams returned to Juneau yesterday, Mrs. Williams planning to follow later. They went outside before Christmas. Dr. Wil- liams is at the Baranof Hotel. FROM ANCHORAGE Arthur G. Taylor of Anchorage 1s registered at the Baranof Hotel. west, when. the hot weather is over, and they expect to spend Christmas with their sons in the East. The eldest son, Lewis, is with the Rockefeller Foundation, and son Bob is associate professor of pol- | itical science at Yale University. | An unhurried return by way of Texas is as far as the Dahls are planning right now but both |are sure that Alaska will see them | again. Maybe the doctor will take seriously the suggestion of many | friends to “write that book.” The Dahls are registered at the | ning, RUSS SPY T0 LEAVE U.5. NOW NEW YORK, March 11-—#- entin A. Gubitchev, convicted Soviet spy, reportedly will accept the U. S. Government’s offer ot release from a 15-year prison term on the condition that he go homc r| to Russia. The government had told the 33- ear-old engineer that he can pick his own penalty for conspiracy and attempted espionage against the United States. He could get out, and stay out, or he could go to prison for 15 years. It was reported that Gubitchey plans to leave the United States March 20 abard the Polish liner Batory— the same ship on which Communist fugitive Gerhart Eisler tled this country as a stowaway last May. Both the New York Times and |the New York Herald Tribune said they had learned of Gubitchev's decision. The reported sailing date 1s four days ahead of the deadline set by Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan Thursday when he meted out sén- ! tences of 15 years each to Gubit- chev and his co-spy, 28-year-old Judith Coplon, The Judge, on recommendations of the Justice Department and the State Department, said the Rus- slan’s sentence would be suspended if he made his exit within two weeks—“never to return.” 34 ARRIVE VIA PAA; 15 DEPART Pan American World Airways flights yesterday brought 34 persons | POSE CALLS FOR PRAYER CRUSAP® T0 INVOKE PEACE VATICAN CITY, March 11—#— Pore Pins XIT declared in a world- wide encyclical today the arma- ments race leaves “the souls of all ful and suspended.” He called a “crusade of prayer” on Pas- v, March 26, to invoke rtune remedies to ! | Frevent evils | The Pope said: ‘Although war has ceased al- most everywhere, nevertheless the desired peace, a solid and stable peace that could happily resolve the many and always increasing motives of discord, has not ar- rived. Many nations place obstacles in each other’s path and as trust fades there is a race to re-arm leaving the souls of all fearful and suspended.” JOE SADLIERS MOVE TODAY 10 PELICAN After a long residence in Juneau, Mr. apd Mrs. Joe Sadlier will make their home in Pelican, the couple planning to move there today. Al- though Sadlier has lived here off and on since 1918, this will be the first time he has been in the im- portant fish-processing center in Lisianski Inlet founded by Kalle Raatikainen and Henry Roden. Sadlier, who has been cashier o} the B. M. Behrends Bank for fcur years, will be manager of the First Bank of Sitka agency, bookkeeper for Raatikainen, Alaska Coastal Airlines agent, and enforcement j agent for the US. Fish and Wild- life Service. Mrs. Sadlier has been appointed postmaster of Pelican. Their son, Joe Sadlier, Jr., who bought out the Lucas Transfer: Company, will remain in Juneau. Sadlier, who first visited here 32 years ago, returned in 1921 to make to Juneau and carried 15 from here to Seattle, Annette Island and Ket- chikan. To Annette Island: Frank Smith; to Ketchikan: Robert Jones; and to Seattle: Edna Lomen, Jane Browne, T. Muir, Max McFayden, C. T. Davis, Edwin Emano, T. O. Given, Tom McCahill, Fred Hen- Mrs. James Cook, Clarence Rhodes, John Bear, Doyle Lathrum and Don Windell. From Seattle: Arthur Bonkowski, Reinholt Brust, Don Burrus, Doro- thy Durgin, John Eldemar, Ed Field, Walter Hickel, Thomas Hughes, Elizabeth Hughes, Jessie Hulburt, Ed Kaakinen, C. N. Schoonaover, Elsie Weed, Richard Williams, and Mary Sommers. From Fairbanks: Sue Kennedy, B. M. Benson, Roger Francis, L. H. Hanson, W. E. Hutchison, Leroy Nickoli, Alan Greenwood, Sheila MacSpadden, and Lila Thurston. And from Whitehorse: A. G. Tay- lor, Mary Driver, Teresa Porter, Joe Kutchan, Ken Kolkind, Made- line Perchie, R. C. Suave, Peggy Browse, Patrick Bogan, and J. M. Rathje. 10 ARRIVE VIA PNA, 760 T0 WESTWARD Pacific Northern Airlines brought 10 pessengers from the westward yesterday and carried seven per- ons from here, Arriving were Mrs. C. T. Davis from Cordova; Tony and Albert Weed from Yakutat, and these passengers from Anchorage: G. T. Bogi, Y. J. Broze, Andréw Ohls, Frank Smith, A, V. Collar, Robert Jones and J. W. Williams. Outward bound were Felix Toner and Glen Walker, booked for Cor- dova; Hazel Frankforter, for Yak- utat, and Walter J. Hickel, Richard Gillian, William Burke, and Perry McClain, for Anchorage. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Princess Norah from Vancouver due to arrive at 4 o'clock this af- ternoon and sails for Skagway at 11:30 tonight, Denali from Seattle scheduled to arrive Tuesday. Baranof scheduled to arrive southbound at 10 p.m. Sunday. Tranportation, Mrs, Earl Bland. The chapter will write to Delegate Bartlett endorsing HJR No. 403 authorizing special emergency as- Alaska, The local chapter voted to as- sume the responsibility of a special teacher two hours a week for the children in the chronic disease ward at St. Ann's Hospital, being part of the Alaska Crippled Children’s program. The next meeting of the Associa- tion will be a no-host luncheon ,Baranof Hotel, at the Mirror Cafe on April 14, sistance for welfare programs for this| e his home. For eight years, he was { with - the First National Bank ot Juneau, then was in Seattle for the next 14 years, associated with the Pacific National Bank. In 1943, he ; returned here to live. Sadlier is a prominent member of the Elks, and is immediate past exalted ruler of Juneau Lodge No. 420, BPOE. Mrs. Sadlier (Dorothy Olsen) grew up in Juneau. FROM PETERSBURG , Andrew Wikan of Petersburg is { stopping at the Baranof Hotel FRED DUNNS MOVE INTO BARANOF HOTEL AT BARANOF HOTEL A. V. Collar is registered at the Baranof Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. B. Fred Dunn and their daughter, Lynne, have moved from their Second Street residence and are at home in the Baranot Hotel. FROM MT. EDGECUMBE Among visitors from Mt. Edge- } cumbe, registered at the Baranot Hotel, are Max N. Penrod, Henry A. Wolfson, H. E. Toner and B. E. Stevens. FROM TENAKEE W. D. Trim of Tenakee is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. Chinese Nationalists say air raids |continue on Communist-held is- lands in the Chushan Islands. At Formosa, new guerrilla victories were reported in western china. e v » o = o v WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum 36; minimum 23, At Airport—Maximum 36; minimum 14. FORECAST (Junesu and Vielnity) Continued fair tonight and Sunday. Low temperature to- night about 28. Sunday 42. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours endiog 7:30 a m today City of Juneau—None; since March 1272 inches; since July 1—60.63 inches. At Airport—None; since March 1—72 inches; since July 1—39.41 inches. e o o o & 0 o 0 o . . > T ®000000°0v000°c0000 " e o o e o s v 0 TIDE TABLE MARCH 12 Low tide High tide Low tide High tide 10:29 p.m., 11.7 le le . e . MARCH 13 Low tide 3:52 am., 6.4 High tide 9:59 am., 14.0 Low tide 4:53 pm., 10 High tide 11:36 p.m., 13.2 ve oo e 0 v . s 1t. 1. i BEZ BUYING P.E.HARRIS, SAYS REPORT SEATTLE, March 11—®-—Nick Bez is negotiating to buy P. E. Harris and Co., of Seattle, one of the largest packers in the salmor industry, the Post-Intelligencer says this morning. Neither Bez nor Harris could be reached for comment The newspaper reported a verbal agreement exists and final papers will be signed Sunday or Monday. Purchase price was not revealed. It was recalled the properties now comprising P. E. Harris and Co, were bought some years ago for $7,- 500,000 and have been augmented onsiderably since. Bez is part owner of the West Coast Alrlines, heads Pacific Ex- plorations, & deep-sea fishing com- bine; purchased controlling interest several years ago in the Columbia River Packers Association, and has many other business interests in the states and Alaska, He gained national attention a few years iago by being prominent in ex-Gov. Mon C. Wallgren’s party to entertain visiting President Tru- man. NO DEAL COMPLETED SEATTLE, March 11—(M—Nego- tiations are underway today for the sale of the remaining Alaska tish- eries properties of the P.E. Harris and Company with Nick Bez as prospective purchaser. Bez and the company officers said, however, that no transaction has as yet been arranged. E. M. Brennan, vice president of the P. E. Harris and Company, said the firm, which previously sold its canneries at Rose Inlet, Ketchikan and Kake, has had various negotia- tions for the extensive properties it still holds. He said that no deal has been completed. BUSMAN-O'HARRA WAIVES HEARING, POSTS §1,500 BAIL FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 11— (m—Kenneth O'Harra, president of the O'Harra Transportation Co., was free today on $1,500 bail after being arrested on charges of income tax violation. O’'Harra posted the bail Thursday night to gain his release from the Federal Jail. He waived preliminary hearing in the U.S. Commissioner’s Court. He and his wife are charged with listing $135,709 in gfoss receipts on his 1944 income tax return, when it should have been $181363, and paying $832 excess profits tax in- stead of the $9,088 the government says was owed. O’Harra’s bus firm, which spread to many Alaska cities during and after the war, has been in receiver- ship for two years. RED (ROSS DRIVE T0 BEGIN WITH KICK-OFF BREAKFAST MONDAY Juneau Red Cross district cap- tains and their lieutenants Wwill meet in the Gold Room of the Bara- nof Hotel at 9 o'clock Monday morning for the kick-off breakfast which will begin the 1950 Red Cross Drive here. Goal for the 1950 campaign is $5,953, according to Robert Aste, assistant chairman of the drive. He said the campaign would continue through next week. The breakfast will be a no-host affair. The campaign will be carried on under the leadership of the district captains: Mrs. Neil Fritchman, Mrs. Harold Foss, Mrs. R. Hollings- worth, Mrs. Steve Vukovich, Mrs. Harold Stratton, Mrs. Ray Taylor, Mrs. Jake Cropley, Mrs. R. Som- mers, Mrs. B. D. Stewart, Mrs. Bert McDowell, Mrs. Madge Wade, Mrs. Chris Wyller, Mrs. J. Braun, Mrs. Orin Addleman, Mrs. Ralph Baker. Mrs. Ralph Rudolph, Mrs. D. C. Langdon, Mrs. Dan Ward Jr., Gene Vuille, Bill Ray, Albert G. Hammer, Harold Zenger, Peter Warner, and 1 H. C. Leege. Mrs. Eugene White will be in charge of the drive in Douglas. Pear] Peterson and Helen Roff will spearhead the campaign in the Federal Building, and Mrs. Don Morrison will be in charge of the Red Cross booth in the post office. DR. BENSIN HERE Dr. Basil M. Bensin of the Uni- versity of Alaska is a guest at the Baranof Hotel,