The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 24, 1950, Page 2

PAGE TWO 2 MAN WHO DESIGNED CHANGES, IN_NORTH STAR HERE ON SHIP J rom the architect who designed and sup- ervised the conversion of the North Star from a run-of-the-yard “knot freighter to a specialized ves- the needs of Service, | H ived in Juneau yesterday when the North Star docked at the City Wharf upon completion of | the second leg of shake-down | The ship was formerly the Rider. Nordstrom, who designed the North Sea and North Coast for the | old Northland Transportation Com- | pa; in 1935 and 1938, said the newly-converted ship “acting beautifully.” The North Star departed for Mt. Edgecumbe near Sitka at 1 pm.| today with 50 employees of the| ANS office here filling her passen- | mendation of Gilmore. ger quarter to capacity and over-; The case is the first of its type flowing into the hospital space ¢ in the Territory to be disposed of, The trip to Mt Edgecumbe ; atlhough not the first to be filed. A school and hospital, the largest!similar charge is pending against ANS project in Alaska, is desired | the Emard Packing Company of to acquaint the employees with| Anchorage. e Th e the ek so"- SAMPI'ES w“.l IWHIZ FISH, PELICAN MANAGER, DRAW $500 (HILD LABOR FINES naval| The Whiz Fish Company and its | Pelican superintendent, Thor & Goodman, entered pleas of guilty this morning in district court to criminal charges of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act. Two counts were filed by District Attorney Patrick J. Gilmore, Jr., against each defendant, charging “oppressive child labor” is type sel equipped the Alasl to suit Native ployees less than 19 years of age. The firm, according to an infor- mation filed with Judge George W. Folta, employed six minors less than 16 years of age during August, 1949. The charges were an outgrowth of findings by Leonard Evans of the U.S. Department of Labor here, Judge Folta fined Goodman and the company $250 each on each charge, or $500 apiece, upon recom- is they fill and the letters they| write, ANS spokesmen said mday.I ‘The North Star will cruise to Sit-‘ ka at 11 knots. It is 338 feet long| and has 50 feet of beam. No chang-} es were made to the length and breadth of the ship when it was converted. But apparént changes were made | to its superstructure. Formerly a well deck extended aft from the AGRICULTURAL OFFICES tests from the Agricultural Experi- ment Station are requested to sub- mit their samples before May 1. and not| keeping birthdate records of em-| BE TESTED BY ALASKA | Farmers or gardeners wanting soil | THE DAILY ALASKA EM 'NW AIRLINES T0 CONTINUE FLYING ~ ORIENTAL ROUTE Closing of Aleutian Bases May Mean Finding Alternate Fields ST. PAUL, Minn., March 24—/ —Northwest Airlines’ President said today there will be no interruption of operations to Alaska and the Orient despite notice from the Civ Aeronautics Board that some Aleu- tian air bases may be closed. Croil Hunter, the airline head, made the statement after receiving a letter from Joseph J. O'Connell Jr., CAB chairman, who said some government aviation facilities may be closed for economy reasons. Hunter said the CAB's statement ‘“does rot necessarily mean that these facilities will not be main- tained by the government.” “The Department of Defense,” he added, “has indicated that these facilities and commercial operations between Anchorage and Tokyo via |Texan "Eskimo” |Catches Cold After Leaving Alaska DALLAS, March 24—{®—A Texan ed “Eskimo” nursed a cold to- she caught after leaving Alaski for the first time since 1941. Mrs. Joe Wilma Vonah, 30, stop- ped off here enroute to San An- | gelo to visit a brother, George Watts | she has flown down from Lignite, iAIer‘« where she and her ex-GI| | husband operate a general store and inn e peratu 3 c | | | | he left Alaska, the tem- was 54 degrees. caught this cold last week when I landed in Chicago,” she said. “It was colder there than in Alaska.” But that wasn't the reason she wore her Alaskan hare parka in the Windy City and caused a traffic Jjam, she added “My husband telegraphed me | some money and said I would be wearing a parka,” she explained. “So I had to put it on to get my money.” CANADIAN PRESS QUERIES NOYES ON FERRIES PROPOSAL Evidence of the great Interest which Canadian are taking in Al- aska’s progress in road construc- tion and transportation proposals was shown today by a letter writ- ten to Col. John R. Noyes, head of the Alaska Road Commission, by |the Victoria Colonist, daily news- e Hunter said Northwest at present | is interested only in Shemya, used as an intermediate fuel stop. Should this base be closed, he said, other routing on some flights will be necessary and other alternate fields will be designated. | SENATOR DOWNEY | PIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA HE LOVES "FINER THINGS™ OF LIFE, 50 ON TRIAL AGAIN NEW YORK, March 24—d— John Donald Walker went on trial 1 second time yesterday, pictured by the government as a lover ot money, ~horses, champagne and widows—in about that order. The 49-year-old Chicagoan was convicted on a federal fraud count in 1948 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. A federal appeals court upset the conviction because Mrs. Clara Duerr Walker of Fairbanks, Alaska, whom he married in 1945, testified | against him at his trial. The government accuses Walker of bilking Mary Ashe, 55, a San Antonio, Tex., widow of $50,000. The specific charge is transporting across state lines money obtained | by fraud. Walker is alleged to have gone! ilhrcugh a marriage ceremony with | Mary Ashe in 1947 while still mar- ried to Mrs. Clara Walker. At the time of his indictment, a government attorney said, Walker made a specialty of marrying women the Aleutian chain are important|for their money. to our national defense.” & | George L. Van Bergen, a New York City builder, said he met Mary Ashe and Walker at the Waldorf- Astoria hotel in 1947. Walker boasted to him of his horse farm in Kentucky, he said, and braggel that he was planning to enter a horse in the Kentucky Derby. Later, Van Bergen said, Walker' picked up a check for more than $200 at the Copacabana Night Club after a dinner. KENAI VISITOR D. L. Spencer of Kenai is re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel RAIL STRIKE LOOMS AGAIN . CHICAGO, March 24 — (B — A threat of a nationwide strike by 80,000 railroad firemen and engine- men loomed up again today. But a union leader said he expects re sumption of talks that might head it off. The dispute involves a union de- BEN STONE IN Ben Stone of Seattle is stopping the Bnrflj)ol Hotcl, FROM PETERSBURG Rosemary Trones of Petersburg is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. FROM ANCHORAGE Willlam C. £alt of Anchorage \s staying at-the Baranof Hotel. FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1950 Average annual preciptation in Utah is only 13 inches, with some desert sections getting less than five and mountain ranges as much as 40 inches. LUTHERAN LADIES AID Home made food sale Sat. Mar. 25 11 am., at Sears Office. —adv. STORY BOOK DOLLS A new shipment of famous Nancy Ann Storybook Dolls has just ar- rived at “Alaska’s Finest Hardware and Furniture Store. 60-tf. mand for a third crew member on multiple unit diesel locomot The union has just voted heavily i favor of a strike against 160 US. railroads, but no date has been set David B. Robertson, President of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen, told a reporter today that he is notifying the carriers of the strike vote result, and asking them whether they want to nego- tiate again. WILL INCREASE PACIFIC FLEET WASHINGTON, March 24—~ The Navy announced today it will | add a small aircraft carrier and | four destroyers to the Pacific fleet | this summer. | The carrier is the 11,000-ton Ba- | taan, now being readied for anti- | submarine duty at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. { The four destroyers, all now in| the active Atlantic fleet, will be transferred to the Pacific in late| June or early July. They are the G.| K. MacKenzie, the E. G. Small, the together, If you've always longed for wall-to-wall carpet, rea 5 Right now we have the biggest famous Gulistan Carpets in ‘many of these in 27-inch wil these narrow widths this! selection of ears, and we have d’t’hs, Joined smoothly are often more paper of the British Columbia cap- forecastle to the bridge on the ship's stern. Now that well deck| has been shortened and passenger | quarters surround number three' hold which has been fitted out! to include 10,000 cubic feet of cold | storage space. There is cabin space for 30 pas-! sengers, a dining saloon, a hospital with accommodations for 16 bed- patients, and a complete X-ray| laboratory. Painted on the steel wall along the stairway to the dining saloon is a mural map of Alaska by an artistically inclined workman at Todds Shipyards in Seattle where the conversion work was carried out. | noticeable changes include the installation of water tanks which increased the fresh water capacity of the ship from 3000 to 75,000 gallons—a necessary load for a ship with the passenger capacity of the North Star, according to Nordstrom—and _a_reinforced _stem for travel through ice on far north Jjourneys. This is the second trip for the North Star on ANS duty. The ship made a run to Point Barrow last summer with re-fitting half done. Purchased from the U. S. Marinme, Commission after a special act ot { Samples may be sent to any of the agricultural in Fairbanks, College, Palmer or| Anchorage. Results of the test are| usually mailed back to the farmer | or gardener within two weeks. samples should be collected from | the entire plot layer. Two samples from a small garden will give a good idea of fertilizer requirements. Large fields will need more samples. | Five samples from every 10-acre field are recommended. Lorin T. Oldroyd will be in this district to conduct garden schools | and conferences th dairymen, poultrymen and 4-H Clubs. The exact date of his arrival will be an- nounced later. Anyone wishing to| contact him during his visit here! should call the Extension office, Green 932. BIG BRONZE WHALING SHOP FOR OVERHAUL A bronze whaling shoulder gun, so big that the next size bigger would necessarily come on wheels, is now at Arthur Skinner’s gun extension omces! Colonel Noyes, during his recent | |he could not obtain the right ship. GUN IN ART SKINNER'S | ital. URGES STATEHOOD; | trip south, conferred in Victoria with Canadian road engineers on| joint problems presented by the | Alaska Highway, during which time | the road commission’s car-ferry | proposal from Prince Rupert HEARING COMING WASHINGTON, March 24—®—| | Senator Downey (D-Calif) today | > to | urged early Senate consideration ot | Haines was discussed statehood for Alaska and Hawaii. | The Colonist asked in its letter| “As a sponsor of statehood for for facts and figures on the idea| Alaska,” Downey said in a state- to co(}nect Southeast Alaska com- | ment, “I hope it will be possible to | munities with the two highways, | get Senate action on these measures | economical than broadloom wnll-tg-wal!. ¥ He was host at a Shoreham Hotei | Hanson, and the H. J. Thomas. | 7 dinner in Washington, Mrs. Duffill S i | said, and tipped the waiter $50. TONIGHTS THE NIGHT | Doors open at 7:30, music at 7:45. i Mikes vs. Columbia Lumber at 8. VIRGINIAN VISITS | Tragedy then begins with Rotar-| Robert J. Ruschell of Alexandria,|jans vs. Lions, You cannot afford| Va, is a guest at the Baranof|to miss this event of the year nt| Hotel. the Juneau High Gym. | Juneau’s Home Beautiful Goldstein Bldg. Phone 394 to feature a comprehensive report| pefore the end of the sessions.” in a future Sunday edition. They! Downey said Chairman O'Mah-| will relate what has been done,|oney (D-Wyo) of the Senate In-| and what lies in the future. | terior Committee, had assured him| Colonel Noyes is at present go-|ga hearing on the two House-passed | ing through his files to send them | pills will be held “as soon as possible | complete information regarding the| angq an early report submitted to proposal. | the Senate.” } The Alaska Freight Lines started| The California Senator said a small ferry service several years|«alacka is ready for statehood.” argn-,ra.nz% Stev.e_ Homer proposed a| «ppe arguments against state- car-ferry service to Halnes, but|pgoq for Alaska are chiefly that it| |is so far from the mainland and| The road commission has tentative |y, " . S Jor. bonstrvotion: ot | has too small a population,” Downey large | 9 " added owr-ferries to bring panhandle | £, . o ports to Alaskan and Canadian comfi‘;:}’::tio‘:: thfi:s::yshor ;‘:‘Cr; roads, now being surveyed by mili- | nearer the ma;nland by a;r routes | tary authorities. i N s | | than Los Angeles is to Washington. | | Its present population, about 100,000, SKEE“A HIGHwAY | is small in relation to its area, but | T am certain statehood would prove | Congress, the vessel will proceed |shop in the Quilico Sports Center. to Prince William Sound after re- It's a solid bronze piece, .890 of | turning from Sitka at 8 am. Mon-(an inch in bore and tipping the day. scales at 23 pounds. Owned by John | While at Mt. Edgecumbe ANS'.O.shorne of the Alaska Native Serv- employees will inspect all the facil-}ice, it was made to shoot and kill jties—school, hospital and voca-|the largest animals on the face ot tional training shops—under the|the earth—whales. leadership of Fred Geeslin, super-|{ Osborne bought the gun at Point | visor. Lay near Wainwright, where such The trip has been termed ‘“a}guns are still used by white and na- unique method of improving the ef- | tive hunters. ficiency of administrative proce- “It has a broken firing pin right dure” by an ANS spokesman. now,” Skinner said today. “But I'm1 Nordstrom is remaining in Ju- neau while the North Sea goes|to load some shells for it and we'll to Sitka. He will go aboard for|try it out.” the trip north. In action against whales the gun araead shoots an explosive charge which FORMER JUNEAUITE | Browne, assistant manager of the going tc fix it up. Then I'm going |y OPENFROM RUPERT The Skeena Highway from Prince Rupert to Prince George, is openAE but it's rough going for general| traffic at present. { Word of the key highway’s being cleared for travel arrived today! from Canadian sources to Ralph Alaska Development Board. The report said that by April 1 safely, but right now it’s strictly a rough go. The opening is consider- ably ahead of last year’s time. The road in question blocked through the winter is from Rupert to Terrace, a distance of 90 miles, although only about 30 miles of it la great stimulation to new settle- | ment.” general traffic could use the road‘haw but a single slate of candi- \port of their candidates. | be the first national election since YUGOSLAV PEOPLE WILL VOTE SUNDAY; SAME GAG, 1 SLATE (By Assocnted Press) The Yugoslav people will vote on Sunday, but, as in Russia, they will dates. Premier Marshal Tito and his government are stumping the country urging a 100-percent sup- It will 1945. Since then Yugoslavia has split with Russia and her satellites. How It Is “How Many Diapers Are Furnished?” Six dozen SNOW WHITE diapers are furn- ished to each customer. tity are neeedd, the number will be increased. "How Ofien Are Deliveries Made?" Diapers are delivered three times each week, If more than this quan- SNOW WHITE DIAPER SERVICE Conducted MANY QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ASKED CONCERNING THIS SERVICE Have Any Changes Been Made Since the Service Was Started? Yes. Two nylon nets are furnished. Your diapers are kept separate while being laundered. Now you are permitted to include for laundering with the diapers, all the baby’s under clothes and night clothes at no extra charge. These are the penetrates the whale’s hide and explodes in its interior to kill it. T0 BE HONOR GUEST AT DINNER TONIGHT But Skinner says he won't load ex- Mr, and Mrs. Edwin Sutton will be hosts tonight at dinner for ten guests honoring O. S. Sullivan of Seattle who is visiting in Juneau a few days and is a house guest of the Suttons’ Sullivan is a former Juneau and Alaska resident and is enroute to the Westward. Several other af- fairs have been planned for him by Juneau friends before he de- parts. | plosive charges. “We'll just shoot lead,” he said. “We're not going after whales.” The gun was manufactured by S. Eggers of New Bedford, Mass., under an 1878 patent. Osborne has no idea how old it is. But it is polished and scratched through years of use. The gun does not have the con- ventional wooden stock; it’s solid bronze against the shooter’s shoulder. Will it kick? “It shouldn’t kick the guy who shoots it too hard,” Skinner said. t'll use up all its kick moving it- self.” Your Depeosits ARE SAFE BUY and HOLD UNITED STATES SAVIN T HE mansgement of this bank is pledged to conserva- tive operation. The safety of depositors’ funds is our primary consideration. In addition, the bank is 2 mem- ber of Federal Deposit Insur- ance Corporation,which in- sures each of our depositors against loss to a maximum of $5,000. GS BONDS ot DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED FIRST NATIONAL BANK of JUNEAU, ALASKA MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION was actually blocked. Numerous Juneauites take their cars from here by steamer to Ru- | pert, driving the rest of the way| to the states over the picturesque Fraser Canyon road into Seattle. S0P PC. MISS THIS AMAZING VALUE! Here's a real bargain break for all you thrifty homemakers! Just see what you get! . . . FIFTY house- hold items . . . things you meed in preparing and serving meals. ALL 50 cost only $4.991 DON'T SEND ONE PENNY Just fill out the coupon below the picture and mail it today. This sen- Sational bargain will be shipped at oncel HERE IS WHAT YOU GET!!! 24-PC. TABLEWARE SET Malabar-plate. 6 each: knives, forks, teaspoons, tablespoons. 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