The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1950, Page 2

PAGE TWO ARTS-CRAFTS SETS MARCH, 24, 25, 26 FOR ANNUAL SHOW Southeast Alaska Ama- feurs, Professionals In- vited fo Enter Exhibits Skilled artists and artisans busily at work in various parts of Southeast Alaska, preparing their entries for the Sixth Annual Arts and Crafts Exhibit. Those who attended the outstand- ing show a year ago look forward to the 1950 exhibit sponsored by Alaskan Creative Arts and Crafts Association. Mrs, Paul F. Schnee (Alice Bran- debury), president, announces that this one will be for three days instead of two, as interest is sO great. The 1950 show will be next week- end—March 24, 25, and 26. Friday | and Saturday hours will be 2 to 5 pm. and 7 to 10 p.m., while the | exhibit will be open Sunday from | 2 to 5 p.m. only. Heads of departments will be in| the Elks’ Hall next Thursday e?e-| ning from 7 to 9 o'clock to receive entries. | Out-of-town entries may be sent | in care of Edward L. Keithahn,| curator of the Territorial Mmcumj in the Federal-Territorial build- ing. Last year, entries were receiv- ed from Haines, Sitka, Ketchikan are, | Kelly St. Clair and by the ANS President Mrs. Jessie Bean and these were followed by a short talk by Hoonah's mayor Harry Douglas. These were responded to by sveak- ers from the visiting organizations and their organization's officers were introduced. Among the visi- tors who spoke words of greeting (Special Correspondence} |were the Rev. Andrew Gamble, ( HOONAH, Alaska, March 11--The | jyinister at Kake, Mrs. Alice Du- motorship Yukon, Skipper Marvin|gekua and the Rev. S8am Johnson, at the wheel, left for Excur‘mn}pn,‘b_\-((-rmn minister of Angoon, | Inlet to bring over a load of Wiring,| A band concert followed the ban- electric lights, tables, etc., from the | guet and then the group proceeded Inlet for the new ANB and ANS (o the Presbyterian church where Hall which is being trnnslerred“m»mmm services were held. During across to be set up here. Forty dol- | the evening services messages were lars worth of groceries were do-|delivered by the Reverend Charles |nated to lighten the expenses for|yadon, of the Pentecostal church | the trip to get the building and|gand the Rev. Sam Johnson of An- | the Sisterhood has volunteered to|goon. Rev. Betts of the local Pres- | help unload the ship when she re- | pyterian church led the prayer and | turns. Work is going ahead splen-|the Rev. Andrew Gamble, of Kake, | didly on the transfer of the h“ge‘dellvered the sermon. Music was building and its equipment. Happenings At Hoonah | also by the Hoonah Greek Orthodox Ira B. Stevenson returned from a | choir. Following the evening serv- | bus | March 11. Salvation Army hall in honor of the sitors. This latter reception was HOBBY SHOW AT HAINES REVEALS ARTISTIC WORK HAINES, Alaska, March 16—(Spe- cial Correspondence)—The Haines 1 | Women’s Club sponsored a hobby show this week in the Haines Hotel. | Erwin Cole, Skipper of the Joan, returned from a few days business trip to Juneau and has gone across | to Gustavus where he has wintered | the past few months. President of the| Emory Merrill, | Hoonah School Board returned to Hoonah Monday from a trip to Ju- neau to discuss school affairs with J. Ryan, Commissioner of Educa- tion. Mr. Stevenson, Secretary of | the Hoonah School Board was also in attendance at the conference with Dr. Ryan. and Petersburg. At least one is ex—‘ pected this year from Kake. | Both amateurs and professionals in Southeast Alaska are invited to enter. Mrs. William L. (Frances) Paul, Sr., is general chairman of dis- plays, assisted 4§y DMirs. Hiythe| ‘Walker, Vance Blackwell and Geo. Rogers. | Mrs. Henry Harmon and Mrs Leonard Holmquist are co-chairmen | of the ceramics section, Other department chairmen are: Mrs. Robert Thorne, painting; J.| Malcolm Greany, photography; A.| N. (Gil) Eide, lapidary; Mrs. Harry | Stonehouse, textile painting; Mrs. George Baroumes, leather work; Gunnar Roos, woodworking; Don Burrus, native crafts; Mrs. Edward P. Chester, Jr., hostesses; and Rich- | ard Peter and Edward L. Keith-| ahn, radio walking commentary. i SOROPTIMIST } CLUBTODAYIN | “GREEN SETTING The Friday noon meeting of the Soroptimist club in the Terrace Room of the Baranof Hotel was| bright with the green of St. Pat- | | Greenwald. Low score prizes were | | The exhibition of local handicrafts, was under the direction of Miss| Edith Auldridge and Mrs. T. DA: Gregg, Jr. Attendance at the hobby X * Ishow was very good during the lwo| set it up on top of the tower that . !cr;nerl; was l:cated at Preacher‘s'qa'vs'_ Tuesdsy and V\'cvnn?\du_\'_ mat: Polib. “Pha towir (5. b Dé moved‘“ was open. Refreshments were! down near the fire hall. |sold and the Women’s Club held a| bake goods sale on Wednesday af-} ternoon. i One of the most remarkable ex-' 10, to decide whether to continue 4 ¥ . . hibits of the show were the paint- the s OIRe f0f - Wie OML Gratn ings in oil, by Gilbert A. Smith. Parties or to abandon them. Re-| [ The landsi mes pictured sulting vote was 77 against and 9 e~ D S 2 “Cathedral Peaks” and “Takhini; o e Valley” are two of the most beau- tiful views from the Haines High- way and Smith has captured them both in his paintings. Hoonah's new fire siren has ar- rived and was duly tried out the other day. It has been decided to A vote was taken Friday, March Mrs. Albert Greenwald and two children, Ronald and baby Albert, 4 | plete without Steve Sheldon’s ivory! was very sick at the time but has A ! 4 carvings and paintings, and both! now recovered and they have re- WEre well nareamnted h i hrahame. presented in the show. | { Gilbert Smith also entered some| ivory carving and Ted Gregg ex- hibited some excellent wood carv- s as well as some cabinet work| in native woods and children’s toys ! featuring native Tlinget designs. Edith Auldridge and Martin Cor- ¢ des exhibited photographic land-, scapes and Miss Auldridge exhibited | paintings of familiar Haines scenes. | Cordes also contributed two well- done pencil drawings taken from' photographic portraits. H Ship models were contributed by1 George Grover who showed his rep- | lica of the Yukon and Teddy and ! Canasta was in session at mel Matson’s Saturday, March 4. Play- ing the game were Miss Lynne Lumbra, Miss Rosina Greenwald, Fred Gadke, Earl Fleming and iMrA and Mrs. Matson. After the | game refreshments were served. i | | Mrs. Hilda Schoonover enter- | [ tained the C.G.'s at her home last Saturday night. High score prizes for the hilarious game went to Mrs. Fred Matson and Mrs. Adam | presented by the visiting choirs and . ess trip to Juneau Saturday|ices a reception was held in the| jcan Legion, Indianapolis, criticizing | trial. | rick’s Day. The green was not the|won by Miss Lynne Lumbra and usual paper decorations. A row of | Mrs. Alf Skafflestad. Refreshments potted plants were lined on the|of salad, cake, jello and coffee were Babby Gregg, son and daughter of | Mrs. T. D. Gregg, Jr., exhibited their j THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA TO CONFER BY|GOVERNMENT MIGHT RESIGN IN BELGIUM PHONE WITH izopoto up IN AIR CONGRESSMEN te (By Associated Press) Belgian crisis over whether Leopold III should return throne heightened today. l KEY WEST, March 17—(#—Pre- King said yesterday the issue lis up to Parliament. Premier Gas- {sident Truman began setting up!i machinery today for a full-scale| Eyskens suggested obliquely {legislative conference by telephone|that there might not be a Govern- Monday with his Oongresonm{n, to call for a parliamentary |leaders. jccision on the royal question. | Meanwhile, he ignored a sugest- > intimated on his return from ‘jon by a New York American Legion | nged conferences with Leo- | Past that he participate in a three- | pold in Switzerland that his gov- way radio-telephone com’erence'y nt might resign. with Premier Stalin as a peace ges- mday’s advisory referen- which Leopold got 57.68 of the vote has split the ! ture after a National Legion of-|dum, in | fictal called the Post ‘discredited.” |percent ‘Presidential Secretary Charles C. : n. {Ross announced that Mr. Truman | ! conferred for 45 minutes this morn-| In ing with Charles S. Murphy, his i {new special counsel, and decided to || eonfer as usual with the Congres- \sional “Big Four” who normally | killec call on him at the White House |cently ‘every Monday. « |of minorities between East and i The Secretary made public a tele- ‘ West Bengal is now proceeding ’gram from Ralph G. Gregg, Na-|without hindrance. K i tion Judge-Advocate of the Ameri-’, — | roposal by the Duncan-Paris| M D l Poslt) iz New York sugge'sting the 10 ore es royers President talk with Stalin in a| To Trealy Na'ions telephone hook-up in which the WASHINGTON, March 17— Post would be represented. | . | | The Navy has tabbed 10 additional troyer escorts for transfer to North Atlantic Treaty nations un- vew Delhi, India’s Prime Min- Jawaharlal Nehru said com- rative quiet now reigns in Ben- where thousands have been in Moslem-Hindu riots re- Nehru said mass migration ov To ONE 'N NEGRO the arms aid program. Two df these 1,240 ton ships previously had FIhM".Y SI.AYI"G The Navy said the 12 will go into e | the Boston and Philidelphia Navy {P—One white man is under sent- aul snd "'-‘f(m”‘g' All were ence of life imprisonment and an- | Puilt in 1043 and 1944, massacre of a Negro family here. | layer, was given life impnmnmem} yesterday. A jury convicted him of | Se p l' h M Seen, Polish Move Neil Harris shortly before midnigmi PPr] tast gan. o, Wit is sesing o new | (UG World Bank ibeen earmarked for this purpose. KOSCIOUSKO, Miss, March 17| yards between now and July 15 for other faces trial Monday in the| . Windol Whitt, 25-year-old brick-}Russia's Hand |s the murder of four-year-old Ruby | Slated for trial Monday on a similar charge is a 38-year-old ex- convict, Leon Turner. i (By Associated Press) Observers in Washington inter- i + i rreted Polan@’s sudden withdrawal Windol Whitt and his 27-year-old | I''® R , sivigh brother, Malcolm, testified that| I\mm fl_md.‘?oill; Bank .\tnd:;-uxlfid: Turner was the trigger-man in the| ‘“"CI"“ i Bt pistol slaying of the Harris girl and | 7 the Russian ! Westinghouse EC Has Low Bid for Fairbanks Works FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 17 —{M—Westinghouse Electric Corp., of Seattle was low bidder yesterday on furnishing two turbines and two | condensers for the city's $4,500,000 utilities project. The firm bid $205,000. Other bidders were Worthington soll Rand. An will be sent out next week. CAST ASHORE IN JANUARY STORMS | WASHINGTON, March 17 | Viclent storms off the Pacific | Northwest killed hundreds of Alas- kan fur-seal pups and cast them ashore on the Washington and Ore- gon coasts in January, the Fish and Wildlife Service said today. ' Of the dead ammals, 16 bore tags , that had been applied last summer | at the Pribilof Islands in the Bering | Sea. The year-old pups are a part ot | the island crop which will be ready ifor the sealskin harvest in 1952. | ARC MAN HERE Richard J. Vasquez of the A Road Commission ,— home address Flushing, N.Y.— at the | Gastineau Hotel. | MONTANAN HERE | r. H. C. Anderson t Creek, Mont,, is registered Baranof Hotel. Ranch at the ‘ El GREEN HERE Pump, General Electric and Inger- invitation to bid on boilers|! -—| FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1950 Territoria Jaycee secretary; Bill Rugge and Bill Olson, president of the Anchorage club, all of Anchor- age; Joe Godding, Ketchikan, and Capt. M. C. Heine, Navy director of intelligence for the Alaska Com- mand. Convention, Junior Chamber Commerce Opens at Peleisburg ! PETERSBURG, Alaska, March 17 —(M—Mayor Ed Locken officially opened the third annual Alaska Junior Chamber of Commerce con- vention yesterday. Among out-of-town delegates and guests were Carl Rentsler, Alaska ycee president; Marshall Lovett, FROM PALMER S. O. Ponath of the McLaughlin Construction Company, Palmer, is registered at the Baranof Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Ari Bonkowski of Haines are guests at the Gastineau Hotel. ‘ Remember . . . EvervruiNG You TeLL THE | CENSUS-TAKER IS CONFIDENTIAL UNDER THE LAW! Elsa E. Green of the District En- | r's office t at the Baranof Hotel gine at Fort Richardson is a gues! | PO SR 1 FROM MT. EDGECUMHE | lliam F. Stuart of Mt. be arrived f | day and was an overnight he Baranof Hotel. You don’'t have m Seattle to send out for bulbs. Juneau Young Hardware will have a large new select of spring planting bulbs within a few d: at 1 than Seattle prices. 51tf of Mary Burnside, 8, and Frankie | . Thurman, 12. Malcolm Whitt also is awaiting trial, set for March 27. A Negro tenant farmer, Thomu; Harris, 27, told the all-white fury | that it was Turner who fired the| shot that paralyzed him. | District Attorney Henry L. Rod- | rs said the white men were a gered by the mistaken belief th: the Harris family had informed of- ficers of a previous foray on mej Harris home by the trio. table, a gift from the artistic Presi- | served to the guests. dent, Mrs. Alice Thorne. The plants were a collection of African violet, | strawberry begonia, coleus, copper begonia, jade plant, Christmas cac- tus, German ivy, and English ivy. At the close of the meeting cach member had a choice of plant. The business meeting of the club was of interest to the members.| Plans were made for the coming Last week’s sunny days brought a feeling of spring to us all and the children insisted on and had a pic- nic to open the season. Mrs. Ira Stevenson went them one better and took a spring dive from the airplane float. Although it was an accident, still we vote her as spring queen for opening the swimming versions of the Princess Norah and ; DELEBECQUE, FORMER a tughoat. Eddie Dire’s model air- JUNEAUITE, IS VISITOR plane was a popular entry and Nel- son Finney contributed two in-' Friends are welcoming L. A. Dele- teresting models, one of a ferris|becque on his first visit of mo e | wheel and a model of the “house | than a few hours in about a year. | truck” which brought he and his| Delebecque is sales manager for family to Haines, | the Anchorage division of Pacfic! Mr. and Mrs. Forest Nowells ex- | Northern Airlines. He lived in Ju- hibited some of their Haines jewelry 1eau from 1929 to 1942, thén in| which they make both as a hobby‘the position of district traffic man-| and as a business. Using native | 8ger of Pan American Airways. USSR of delicious Swift’s ice cream is waiting for you at PERCY’S. If you hayen't tried delicious, rich Swift’s yet, buy a quart and see if it isn’t the best you've ever eaten. Percy's has a special offer — Saturday and Sunday only you get one | ANOTHER CLIPPER EXTRA— Good odting Blathia! - | Pan American serves piping hot " meals @ and tasty snacks aloft... complimentary, of course, That’s another reason to make your next trip fi by swift 4-engine Clipper% For frequent, dependable service call ..« BARANOF HOTEL — PHONE 106 L2 AMERICAN !‘:;;\ / Worww Arewars: \_ Northwest region Soroptimist con-|season in our town. vention to be held in Seattle this | spring. i Mrs. R. Baxter, teacher in the A rummage sale will be sponsored | Hoonah school is to be congratu- by the club to be held on April 21.|]ated on winning last week’s recipe Further announcements on this will| contest in the Juneau Empire. Her be given. Carla Turner is the chair- | prize recipe is over 100 years old. man of the rummage sale. ‘The vocational guidance program | of the Soroptimist club has in-|a visit from the choirs of Angoon cluded the monthly talks given at|and Kake, when they came in Sat- the high school, by members Who| urday aboard the Princeton Hall, are in some phase of social educa- " stopping over here until Monday tion work. Gertrude Wetzel an-|morning. The concert they pre- nounced that Mrs. Edith Walker is | sented and devotional services were the next scheduled speaker at the | appreciated and well attended. high school on March 24. Her sub- | Highlighting their stay here was Ject “‘131 be “Home Economics as a | the banquet given by the ANS at career. the Hut, Sunday afternoon, honor- —————— ing the visitors. After the repast, You don’t have to send out for | George Carteeti, as master of cere- bulbs. Juneau Young Hardware | monies introduced the officers of will have a large new selection of | the Hoonah organizations of the spring planting bulbs within a few | ANB and the ANS and also those day—at less than Seattle prices. tf|of the Junior ANB and the ANS e ——— Words of greeting and appreciation SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN’S | were offered by the ANB President Hoonah was honored last week by e Lodge St. Patrick’s Day DANCE Tomorrow—10 p. m. Floor Show by the O'Flannigans Doon Prize stones in commercial settings, the | jewelry is both distinetive and at- tractive. Mrs. William Sparks en- tered her fine collection of cups,‘ dishes and other china pieces as well as an exceptional exhibit of Klukwan antiques including em- broidery, dishes and a beautiful pot- latch bowl. The 4-H Club girls exhibited and sold stencil-patterned tablecloths, dish towels, aprons, etc. The Grade School children had a poster con- test to promote the use of the library. Each room was given a first and second prize, a book of the pupil’s choice, and Louis Thompson a seventh grade student, won the grand prize. SEATTLEITE HERE He will be here several days, is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. SCHROEDER-JOHNSON MAKE MARRIAGE APPLICATION Claude A. Schroeder, 46, :u;dl Theresa Johnson, 26, both of Ju-| neau, applied today for a marriage license before U. S. Commissioner Gordon Gray | LUTHERAN LADIES AID PLANNING FOOD SALE Mrs. Hans Berg, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the Lutheran Ladies Aid, has an- nounced rlans for a food sale to be held on Saturday, March at Sears. Homemade breads, cakes, and cookies will be among the temptations spread before the in- H D. B. Hart of Seattle is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. speed you on your ACA agent you can communities ACA hol on Pan Am. . .. givin those who buy their Alaska Coastal offers you a new service—to American fo the States . . . and then to any spot on the globe! And now, for its patrons in Hoonah, Tenakee, Skagway, Haines and similar filflSK% terested public. The time of the| isale will be announced later. way. Through your local reserve your seat on Pan a, lds a special block of seats g them equal priorities with tickets in Juneau! RS 3 3 “‘3»4 AR B Qg pint FREE with every quart of Swift’s Ice Cream you buy at PERCY’S. 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