The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 5, 1950, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 'THE DAILY VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,470 NO EVIDENCE IS PRODUCED MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS IMcKinleyParkfoBeOpened |65 MILE GALE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1950 DEATH OF PRETTY |BRIDGES CORD JUST TRAGC |~ ALKS T0 GIRL STRANGLED IN AUTO; YOUNG | MAN UNCONSCIOUS, CAB HEARS, BYMCCARTHY Asks Further Time to Se- cure Witnesses fo Sup- port His Charges WASHINGTON, April 5 — (# -- President Truman’s loyalty review board has asked Senator McCarthy .(R-Wis) for “any relevant evidence” he has dealing with his charges ot Communism in the State Depart- ment. Seth W. Richardson, the Board Chairman, told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee about the request today. The committee is in- vestigating McCarthy’s contentions that Communists and Red sympa- thizers infest the State Department. The committee itself had just failed in its own efforts to get from McCarthy by noon today the infor- mation he has about Owen Latti- more, the man he accuses of being Russia’s top agent in the State De- partment and the United States. Lattimore has called the charge a lie. In reply to the committee’s re-‘ quest for his material, McCarthy wrote that he could not understand the urgency. He also said that if the committee would promise hear- ings next week he would produce witnesses to back up his charges. Before Richardson took the stand, the -committee received testimony from State Department officers that continuous checks are made on | the loyalty of department employees and none are known to be Com- munists. MAJ. GEN. SCOTT LEAVING ALASKA, | NEW ASSIGNMENT WASHINGTON, April 5 — (® — Maj. Gen. Stanley L. Scott, the Army’s commander in Alaska for the last two years, is coming home| shortly to take an undisclosed post in the office of Defense Secretary Johnson. 1 Scott is expected to leave Alask4 about April 12. He will be succeeded in' Alaska in June by Brig. Gen. Julian W. Cunningham, Scott was Chief of Staff of the Persian Gulf Command during World War II. He became deputy director for demobilization in the Army service forces early in 1944 and later became director of the planning division of the Army serv- | ice forces. Cunningham is nrv deputy direc- tor of the Army’s organization and training division. During the war he served in the Southwest Pacific area and commanded the task force | which seized and occupied Woodlark Island. The W;shingion Merry - Go- Round iCopyrieht. 1960 by Bell Syndicate, Ine.) Bv DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON—Uncensored dip- lomatic cables show that an appal- ling famine, plus sweeping epldem-l ics and a tide of unrest are shaking the new Communist Government of China. On top of this, ‘Russia, | —under pretext of aiding a sister state in distress—is sending sold- iers and administrators to turn China into a complete satellite. It is a situation which could play squar- ely into our hands if we play our cards right. The famine, now officially ad- mitted by the Communists as a “calamitous situation” affects 80,-| 000,000 people from Shanghai to the south to Inner Mongolia in the north. Two million will die of starvation. The famine was caused by floods that cut production in the fertile Yangtse Valley 30 to 40 percent, also blocked shipment of Manchur- ian grains to the central provinces and by withholding of crops by peasants. Farmers hid their grains and cut back growing after Com- munists grabbed as much as two- thirds of their crops. Communist “thought” committees are now going through the villages and executing peasants who fail to turn over grain levies. In the cities, an ‘“austerity movement” requires the Chinese to give up stocks of rice on the shelves. Epidemics are out of control and rumor so rife that the Communists in Sikiang Province claimed that H | ! OAKLAND, Calif, April 5—®— An 18-year-old girl was found strangled today in an automobile. A young man lay unconscious in the back seat, his wrists slashed. Police identified the girl as Sally Ann Humphreys of Berkeley, daugh- ter of Alfred St. John Humphreys, member of a pioneer family. ‘The girl had been strangled witn a belt. . The automobile was parked in Contra Costa county. ‘The youth was Arthur' E. Prindle, 19, son of Lester J. Prindle, Oakland police officer. At a hospital attendants said they expected him to recover. Young Prindle and Sally Ann had been engaged for a year and were planning to be married. FEDERAL SCHOOL AID BOOSTED IN HOUSE FOR NORTH WASHINGTON, April 56 — (® — Rep. Lucas (D-Tex) says he thinks the House will pass “some sort ot federal aid program” for school con- struetion this season. He is chairman of a House Edu- cation subcommittee now hearing testimony on 13 r'ederal aid bills. He told a reporter he hopes the ful! committees will have a bill ready for the House on or soon after April 17. Rep. Lesisnki (D-Mich) is chair- man of the full committee. Meanwhile, the subcommittee heard George T. Guernsey, director of the CIO’s education department, testify that “Congress has been negligent. in meeting the needs” of the school-age population. Delegate Bartlett of Alaska, testi- fied that “several thousand Alaskan children can’t go to school,” despite a compulsory attendance law, be- cause of lack of facilities. He said Delegate Farrington of Hawaii agreed with him that in any Federal aid bill the two Territories be given the same aid status as states. One result of a 40 percent popu- lation increase in Alaska within the last 10 years, Bartlett said, has been lack of “adequate school build- ings” in every single school district. "RILEY OF WHITE HOUSE" IS HERE AS ELECTION OBSERVER Michael F. Riley, the famous “Riley of -the White House,” who as a secret §ervice man guarded the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the day he took the oath of office until he died, is in to Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman. Riley is acting in.capacity ot an observer for the coming Eskimo and Indian reservation elections to be held in Shungnak and Hydaburg April 24. ° After a short stay here as a house guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Me- grath of Douglas, he plans to take off for Nome, Kotzebue and Shung- nak to talk to the natives there and observe their mode of living, after which he will go to Hydaburg to be present as a neutral observer dur- ing the election. He will act for Secretary Chap- man in the election, to report find- ings and observations taken during the voting. From there he returns to ‘Washington, D.C. After President Roosevelt’s death, a book was written about Riley’s ex- perience as a bodyguard for the chief executive. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 5—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today ‘is 27, American Can 117, Anaconda 28%, Curtiss-Wright 9, International Harvester 26%. Kennecott 50%, New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 15%, U. S. Steel 31%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today, were 1,430,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: industrials 210.34, rails 55.80, util- ities 42.77. —_— 2 ® & @& o 0o o L] TIDE TABL APRIL 6 3:50 am,, 189 ft. 10:29 a.m., -26 ft. 4:44 pm.,, 152 tt. 10:35 p.m., 2.6 ft. High tide Low tide High tide Low tide reports of bubonic plague were “in- (Continued on Page Four) PORTLAND VS. SEATTLE TILT By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, April 5—®—The Civil Aeronautics Board ended a hearing yesterday on the adequacy of air service to Alaska with one member asserting the agency “has always wanted to act as fair as it zould to develop Alaska.” The assertion was made by Com-~ missioner Oswald T. Ryan after Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska charged the board with aggravating he Territory’s air situation by re- juiring independent carriers to naintain infrequent and non-sched- aled service. Grrening said this createg a void n air service which would have o be filled in by the board certity- ng additional air carriers and pro- /iding more mail pay. The Gov- srnor expressed the belief the non- skeds had not received fair treat- ment. Jones said independent Alaskan :arriers have resisted the law and only one of them has applied for a certificate. He said that Civil Aeronautics expenditures in the Territory for the year starting next July 1 would e $20 000,000, “about $500 for each adult person in the Territory.” | ACCIDENT, VERDICT ! | IOWA CITY, Ia, April 5—B - | Robert E. Bednasek was found in- | nocent today of the charge that he |strangled pretty Margaret Anne (Gee-Gee) Jackson in a University 'of Towa off-campus rooming house the early morning of last Dec. 11. This meant that the jury ac- cepted the defense story that the pretty coed’s death was “a tragic accident.” The state had asked con- viction for first degree murder and the death penalty. The four women and eight men who decided against the state'si theory that the beautiful blonde’s death was “cold, calculated murder" motivated by jealousy had taken earlier. Bednasek himself had appeared confident even before he received reached. Sheriff A. J. Murphy said he had to wake Bednasek up {0 give him breakfast, so soundly had the young man slept. BIG NAVY FLYING BOAT EXPLODES, i ! HONOLULU, April 5— (# —The Navy's big flying boat the Mar- shall Mars exploded today and word that a verdict had been| the case approximately 23 houn‘ TRIP ON PA(IFI(| He said this was a much greater | burned a mile off Pearl Harbor but | um than is spent per adult per- [ seven crewmen aboard escaped un- NEWSMEN "Hysteria’ Blamed for Con- viction-Wanfs fo Re- main in U. §. SAN PEDRO, Calif., April 5—(»— Harry Bridges, fresh from his per- Jury conviction, spoke out strongly upon it today on arrival for a policy caucus of longsheremen’s union leaders. “It's.later than we think in the trend toward conformity in this country,” Bridges told reporters at a news conference. He blamed “hysteria” for the San Francisco conviction yesterday, say- ing that he believed the jury was Silem away by “the current general ysteria and witchhunting craze.” Bridges also said that the immi- gration department sand “certain ‘elements in labor ganged up on me.” He said that John Boyd, Dep- uty Immigration Administrator, and Dave Beck, President of the AFL Teamsters International, were leaders of the cpposition. Asked if shipowners and em- ployers were included in that oppo- sition, Bridges replied: “We have found no evidence to indicate that.” Regarding possible deportation, Eridges said he wanted to stay in the United States, but added: on in the United States. Seattle vs Pertland Seattle and Portland staged a verbal battle before the board over which should be the terminal for he Alaska air service. Tom Alderson, representing Seattle, told the board Seattle al- ways has been the terminal for service to Alaska from the United States and with its new airport could furnish better service with a shorter distance to the Territory than Portland, Great Falls, Mont, Minneapolis-St. Paul or Chicago. He said no time was lost in ship- sing through Seattle. Virgil H. Langtry, representing Portland, Ore., urged the board to make that city a terminal for the Alaska service. He said commercc from the Portland area would amply justify the board making that de- cision. The Seattle “monopoly” on trans- sortation to Alaska should be ended, 1e said. This, he added, would bene- fit Alaskan economy. He contended it is economically wrong to confine Alaska to one Pa- sific Nerthwest gateway and that direct service from Portland would e in the public interest. Chicago Wants In J. R. Turney, representing Chi- cago, urged the board to authorize 2 direct airline from Alaska to Chi- cago. He said he believed this would \d in the development of Alaska. Gerald P. O'Grady, counsel for Juneau today as a special assistant| pyeific Northern Airlines, Who was oriticized by Gruening for saying vesterday that his company was ‘only incidentally” interested in erving Juneau, disclaimed today my intention of dropping the Ter- ritorial capital from the line’s sched- uled stops. O'Grady said he was referring only to income derived by his line from-the city. His line wants to ex- end its route to Seattle. The board took the case under dvisement with no indication when it may rule. In his arguments for the non- skeds, Governor Gruening declared: “I happen to believe in the so- called American system of free en- terprise. It is under this system that aviation largely developed in Alaska Our bush pilots are the finest example -of pioneering and their bush flying, which has matured and developed into the more important intra-Alaska carriers, is the fruit of individual initiative and free Ameri- can enterprise and that is likewlse preeminently true of he non-skeds “Let in Competition” “1f T were making policy for this board I would let the laws of com- petition operate. I would let those who are unable to make the grade eliminate themselves. It somehow runs contrary to the conception of free enterprise, which we are at this moment upholding in the world, to see individual initiative, effort and undertaking throttled by 4 government decree. (The CAB order, which resulted in reduction of serv- ice.) If you do not want to let them live as uncertified non-scheduled lines, then certify them.” Gruening insisted that any carrier certified to serve Alaska should pen- etrate deeply into the Territory and into the states. He said it seemed all lines wanted to serve Anchorage but that Alaskans wanted all parts ol the Territory served. . hurt. There were no passangers. The flying boat, smoking as it turned back toward Keehi Lagoon cff the Honolulu Airport, blew up shortly after it made a forced land- ing. Watchers said one engine was afire as the big boat settled down. Lt. Cmdr. Glenn E. Simmons, Dallas, Tex., the pilot, said he and the six crew members jumped clear in Mae Wests and two life rafts immediately after the landil They were clear when the fly- iing boat exploded and vanished into the sea. The explosion came about 10 minutes after the landing. Simmons reported the No, 3 en- 'glne caught fire soon after the takeoff on a three-hour test flight. The plane then was about 1,000 feet in the air. He immediately turned the Mars back. INTERCEPTOR GROUP {FROM ALASKA GOES 6TH PLACE, TOURNEY LAS VEGAS, Nev., April 5—#— The 352th Aircraft Gunnery Squad- !'ron, flying ‘from its home field, held ln thin lead today with two-third: jof the possible points counted in the Air Force world wide shooting tournament. Scoring along 13 points behind was the three-man team from the 33rd Fighter Group, Otis Airbase Mass. Both teams fly jets. Unofficial tabulatiohs gave the 3525th team 281 points out of a possible 683, Lt. John Roberts of Lake Crys- tal, Minn., of the 3525th team who studied to be a teacher at Man- kato, Minn,, gave a lesson to the other 56 fighter pilots from Ger- many, Japan, Alaska and all ovel the United States. Roberts’ unofficial point total was 107, Te2ssipgg him for individual honors was Lt. Marcell Webb of Hollow Rock, Tenn., Captain of the 33rd group team with 104 points. Unofficial team scores for jet tighters posted in addition to the wwo leaders included: In sixth place—57th Fighter In- terceptor group, Elmendorf Air- base, Alaska, 173. Estate of Crosson Is Sued for $2,300 SEATTLE, April 5—#—Inland Airways, Inc., filed a $2,300 suit to- day against the estate of Joe E Crosson, famed Alaska pilot. The complaint said the sum was 8 pre-payment on two airplane en- gines in 1948. It said they proved 0 be unsatisfactory and that the deal provided for a refund if the en- gines proved unfit for commerciai use. i CHAMBER MEETING Leo H. Saarela, Territcrial Com- missioner of Mines, will speak to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce to- morrow when it holds its regular|. noon meeting in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. Subject of his talk will be “Mining in Alaska and ‘ts Outlook.” “But at the expense of being un- able to speak out—I don’t know.” Asked pointblank if he and co- defendants, J. R. Robertson and Henry Schmidt, were Communists Bridges grinned and asked: “What do you think the trial was all about?” Then he answereqa: “Certainly we denied being con- nected with the Communist move- -4 ment. We never have been.” Robertson and Schmidt, Interna- tional Vice Presidents, and two other officers of the Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, Louis Gold- blatt and Germain Bulcke, accom- panied Bridges. Speaking for his co-defendants Bridges said: “They are convinced that if they had kept their mouths shut, they would have kept out of trouble.” His sentencing has been set for Monday at San Francisco, at which time Bridges said “some legal mo- tion will be made.” But he said he did not know yet whether an appeal will be filed at that time. TO CARRY CASE UP SAN FRANCISCO, April 5—#— Harry Bridges' CIO Longshore Union laid plans today to carry to the Supreme Court, if necessary. the fight against their leader’s con- viction on a charge that he lied to conceal he was a Communist. Bitterly assailing yesterday’s ver- dict of a Federal Court jury, the tunion’s officers mapped a strategy that would counter possible move: to cancel Bridges' citizenship and have him deported to Australia. But F. Joseph Donohue, the spe- cial prosecutor for the governmeni in the stormy 8l-day trial, said hc felt certain the higher courts woulc find n> basis for a reversal. May Lose Citizenship Donohue expressed belief tha Bridges’ conviction of committine perjury at his 1045 naturalizatio: hearing would result in automatic cancellation of his citizenship, fol- lowed by deportation action. Bridges 48, and two union aides convicted with him of also conspiring to com- mit perjury will be sentenced Mon- day. Seven year terms and $15,000 fines are possible. From Sydney, Australia, whencc Bridges shipped out in 1920 for tumultuous career as a labor leader in the United States, came word by immigration officials that hr probably would be allowed to retur if ordered deported. Other govern- ment officials took the opposite view but said no decision would bz made until an application required it. Liberalized DP Legislationls Winnfl First Test WASHINGTON, April 5 — (# — Benators who favor a liberalized dis. Pplaced persons bill won the first test in the Senate today by a 48 to 37 roll call vote. The action rejected the first amendments made by the Senate Judiciary Committee to a House- passed bill asked by President Tru- i man. Mt. McKinley National Park will be made accessible by highway with construction to start this spring n an east-west highway leading ‘rom midpoint in the Richardsen Yighway to connect with the pre- sent isolated 100-mile road within he park itself. This was announced today Ccl. John R. Noyes, head of the Alaska Road Commission, in an- nouncing the commission’s program for 1950, This important connecting road, 150 miles long, will go from Pax- son’s in the east to Cantwell on the Alaska Ralilroad, and pass through the abandoned mining town of Denali, until recently populated by only one man, Several years will be required to complete the new road, the colon€l estimated. i While this road, to connect North America’s highest mountain to the United States by highway, is the only important road construction to get under way this season, other road sites will be surveyed, and considerable reconstruction will be undertaken, Colonel Noyes said. The road now building to con- nect Dawson with the outside world will be finished by mid-summer,! it is expected. After completion, UNION FILES CHARGES IN CANNERY CASE SEATTLE, April by 5—IM—Rivalry | between three unions for the right) to represent Alaska cannery workers has assumed new tempo as one union filed unfair labor charges simultaneously against another union and the employer group, while a third union prepared to take sim- ilar action. The charges were filed with the National Labor Relations Board by Atty. C. T. Hatten on behalf of Local 7, Agriculture Food and To- bacco Workers, which has had the contract for a majority of Alaska canneries for the past several years. | Named as defendants were the Alaska Salmon Industry and Local 77, United Packinghouse Workers, Congress of Industrial Organiza- tions affiliate. The charges are based on the con- tention that the industry signed an agreement recognizing the CIO union as collective bargaining ageni while an NLRB election to deter- mine the bargaining agent is still pending. Meanwhile counsel for the Ameri- can Federation of Labor Alaska Fish Cannery Union, Atty. John Geisness, indicated similar charges against the employer group would 1lso be filed by the A. F. of L. union. The A. F. of L. union holds the contract for non-resident workers in eight canheries and resident em- | ployees in Southeast Alaska. The Packinghouse Workers’ Local was chartered here recently after the Fcod and Tobacco Workers was axpelled from the CIO. Both the A. F. of L. and the CIO union petitioned the NLRB for elec- tions for- bargaining rights in the canneries represented during the past years by the AF.T.W. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali scheduled to sail Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Baranof scheduled southbound 5 p.m, Sunday. from | e ¢ o v o ® 0o ¢ WEATHER REPORT | for maintenance, the Colonel point- a branch will be pushed northward into Eagle, to be finished next year, and which will open exten- sive mining areas to further de- velopment. Survey Annette Island New surveys to be completed this year include a route from Fair- banks to Nenana, and for ex- tending the airport road from Met- lakatla to the head of Annette Island, opposite Ketchikan, A new survey will be made of a road from Livengood, north to Fairbanks, westward to Manley Hot Springs and Eureka, looking: forward to ultimate linking of this important mining, agricultural and recreational district with the main highway system. Additonal surveys will be made in the Copper River region to en- deavor to find a practical and not unduly expensive route for con- necting Cordova with the main highway system, the Colonel said. An abandoned railroad right-of- way now crosses the area. Maintenance of roads will be in- creased about 36 percent this year over last. With more mileage and better standards seen each year in the system, more money is required | 1 ed out, With most roads now required to be kept open all year because of To Alaska Highway System; |SWEEPS OVER 1950 Road Care Upped 36AiJUNE AU AREA The worst gale of the year howled through Juneau yesterday atter- noon, last night and early today, leaving in its wake damaged build- ings, power lines and automobiles. At the peak of the storm,. gusts reached speeds of 65 miles per hour, toppled two garnges, ripped loose and scattered hundreds of square feet of roofing on downtown buildings, and hurled debris which cut through power lines. No injuries due to the storm were reported. The high winds, which begaQ shortly before noon yesterday, be- gan dying down this morning. First damage to-be reported was the collapse ‘of a support for the roof at the new Juneau Lumbec Company plant under construction near the charred ruins of the Ju- neau Spruce Corporation mill. Ju-~ neau Lumber Company officials said the damage will not delay the plant’s going into production April 15. Garage Flips Over At 6 p.m. yesterday a garage in front of the Burrows Welding Com- pany shop at 73 Willoughby Avenue was flipped over on its back by a heavy gust. Landing, it crumpled the roof of a car at the shop en- trance and damaged the entrance to the shop. A second garage was blown down at the Colonial Hotel on Second increased traffic, maintenance is!Street near Franklin. It fell on top planned for the Alaska Highway,lof a small truck and a car parked the Glenn Highway, part of the Richardson Highway and many lo- cal roads. More Lol Funds These local roads can not be kept open with federal funds, and more territorial or local funds must be forthcoming, he said, to keep them{ in good shape as the population grows. {““Largest stngle Improvement is the paving system now under way. Last year 145 miles of the main |roads were paved with “blacktop” and this year more than 200 miles {more will be surfaced. The 90-odd miles from Haines to the Canadian border is among those roads which are 2cped to be paved by end of the scason, the report said. Reconstruction of the Tok Cut- off—one of the system’s worst through roads—will begin and by the end of 1950 it is hoped to im- prove this road considerably., Pav- ing will be done following recon- struction. The important Turnagain Arm road, to connect the Kenal Pen- through Anchorage, will be com- pleted by, the end of 1950, it is hoped, for limited traffic. The project is a cooperative undertaking by the commission, the Bureau of Public Roads and the Alaska Rail- road, which it parallels. Final op- ening is planned for 1951. Dangerous Spots A definite program for ellmlnn-‘ tion of the most hazardous and; dangerous points, including replace: ment of weak and narrow bridges, elimination of blind turns and im- proved highway marking. Guard rails will be placed in some dangerous spots, with more planned for the future. Increased maintenance will done on isolated roads connecting Ruby and Poorman, and those roads arounq McGrath, Flat, Id- itarod and iseman. An objecnvel of the commission is to connect this | area with the main system over a | period of years, as population and economics warrant, “But this,” the report says, “is obviously a very long range ob-; Jective in most cases, as extreme distances and lack of population may make it impracticable to dol lea® The Skagway-Dyea road will cun-l tinue to be widened and other im- | provements of roads around the area will be made. Cnr-Ferry Idea ‘The commission’s car-ferry pro- at the curb. Both vehicles were damaged. A section of corrugated iron mate quee on the Caro Building, South Main Street, fell and broke a plat¢ glass window in the Miner Publish- ing Company office before being carried by the wind 300 feet across Marine Way. g0 : were r wood shingles off the City m other buildings and composition roofing off the Goldstein Bullding and the old /First National Bank building at Front and Seward Street. Composition and wood shingles | tittered sidewalks today — evidence that roof damage had been sus- tained by many buildings. At the peak of the gale yesterday evening, the Juneau Fire Depart- ment was called out twice to ex- tinguish small blazes which could have grown quickly in the high wind. The first fire call was a one-four alarm at 6:30 p.m. Firemen extin- guished a blaze caused by the back- fire of a furnace in the Decker Building, Decker Way at South Franklin Street. The second—a three-three alarm —took the fire department to Gas~ tineau Avenue and Rawn Way, where a small chimney fire was ex- tinguished. Neither blaze caused damage. § City In Darkness Early this morning a short circuit n the line between the Alaska Ju- neau Gold Mining Company’s power plant and Juneau put the city in darkness. Lights went off at 4:55 a.m. and come on again at 5:15 am. At the Army wharf a shed over 2 Fish and Wildlife Service boat was ripped off and carried away. The boat was undamaged. Windows Broken Several windows were reported broken by the force ‘of the wind. A cottonwood tree fell against a power pole at 318 Third Street. Alaska Electric Light and Power Company workmen were called to lchop it down when it threatened to break power lines. Light company officials said today that many service lines—but no feeder lines—were down in the city. “Most of the breaks can Y% blamed on flying debris,” they said. At 10 am. today workers in the Federal Building reported a skitt, adrift in Gastineau Channel, was picked up by a tug. The skiff, owned i posal to link southeast Alaska with|by the Rev. R. E. Baker, had broken [Canada is still in the study stage,,loose from its mooring at the Union |the repert says, for two rensons~i0u Company dock. It was brought | | first, for success of the operation, | roads in Canada must be improved, and second, the Haines cutoff must e kept open all year. The Skeena Highway from Prince Rupert to Prince George will not now handle trucks of any size, and has not been kept open in winter. “It is hoped,” ‘the report says, that the Canadians will soon agree to improve these roads and to keep them open the year round so bene- fits of the ferry system may be attained. “Other problems of design and operation remain to be studied be- fore a ferry project satisfactory to the Alaska Road Commission can be seriously proposed.” In Juneau—Maximum 34; minimum 31, At Airport—Maximum 34; minimunt” 28, FORECAST (Junesu ang Vieimity) Strong gusty northeasterly winds slowly decréasing to- night. Fair Thursday. Low temperature tonight about 30 and high Thursday about 40. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. todas City of Juneau—Trace; since April 1—06 inchese since July 1—60.63 inches. At Airport—09 inches; since April 1—.10 inches; since July 1—40.30 inches; e 00 0 0.0 0 0 0 . . . . . . . . . . ® e to shore by the tug Foss 19 and moored. No one was aboard while it drifted in the channel. A party of longshoremen re- ported early this morning they nar- rowly escaped injury by a flying sheet of corrugated iron. The metal . sheet, from the roof ot Winter and Pond, driven throug'. the air by a gust, struck the cur at their feet, they said. Shingles and roofing are strew. everywhere on down town stree.. and on the uphill sections. LUMBER MAN HERE A. L. Besaucon, connected with the Columbia Lumber Company and registered from Seattle, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.