The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,480 MARAGON ON TRIAL; LIED IS CHARGE WASHINGTON, April 17 — @ John Maragon, who uSed to have highly placed friends in the White House, went on trial today on charges he lied to Senate investi- gators about his' business and fi- nancial affairs, And the swarthy little Greek American who used to be a Kansas City bootblack heard himself de- scribed by the prosecution as guilty of perjury and by the defense as a “peanut man among princes” who wasn’t trying to harm or deceive anybody. The government has accused Maragon of lying to the Senate Committee that investigated five percenters last year. Five percenters are people who collect a fee, usually of five percent, for negotiating business affairs with the federal government. A jury of nine men and three women, plus a man and a woman as alternates, was picked to hear the case in federal district court. Three were Negroes. Judge Jennings Bailev was assigned to the trial. * 18 ARRIVE HERE ON DENALI; 16 DEPART| The southbound Denali docked LOYALTY BOARD PROCEDURES ARE UPHELD BY COURT WASHINGTON, April 17—(@®— The U. 8. Court of Appeals today reaffirmed its ruling that govern- ment loyalty board procedures are constitutional. At the same time, in a 2-1 de- cision, it rejected claims by 26 post office department employes that they were victims of racial and religious discrimination and of decisions based ‘“solely” on guilt by asscciation. The group includes 12 negroes. and eight jews, from Cleveland, Philadelphia, Detroit, New York City and Plainfield, N. J. The 26 brought a civil suit in District Court here after receiving loyalty board “notices of proposed removal action” The notices said the board hda found reasonable grounds for belief that they were disloyal to’ the United States. Hawkalnlel Bound Fish Boaf Loses Man During Strait Storm SEATTLE, April 17—(®—A Bel- lingham fisherman was thrown overboard and presumed drowned yesterday when the fishing vessel Doris E ran aground during a storm in the Strait of Juan De Fuca. The lost man was David Claude fldlsdiaal o 8 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS | i 1 l | 155 PASSENGERS ARE CARRIED VIA PAA ON SATURDAY, SUNDAY Pan American World Ahways flew two sections to Juneau Sat- urday, one terminating at Juneau and the other going through to Fairbanks. In the two flights 34 Passengers were brought north and the return trip took 15 passengers and one infant south. On Sunday's flight, 46 passen- gers and two infants were brought to* Ketchikan and Juneau and 10 persons returned to Seattle from here. A total of three infants the two days. Saturday’s list is as follows: Seattle to Ketchikan: Betty Ba- nks, Carl Brown, August Murphy, Grace Murphy, Edward Overbay, Mrs. T. A. Peterson, Stella Shirley. Seattle to Juneau: Carl Baier, Mrs. Bosley, John Cheney, Helen Cheney, Agnes Vesledahl, R. C. Deseln, Catherine Gleason, Cal Guyman, Doris Hanesbury, Melvin Hemphill. Kathleen Kohl, Mrs. H. E. Len- degaard, Sam Manuel, Charles Manuel, John Nurni, George Robin- son, Jean Robinson, George Robin- son, Cheryl Robinson, Stanley Bas- passengers and was carried during | kin. | Seattle to Whitehorse were: Afe Brown and Harry Clarke. Going through from Seattle to Fairbanks were: Sonja Anderson, Earl Ellingen, Rose Hedlund, Lu- icille Hubbard, N. O. Kupoff, Char- les Laumeister, Mrs. M. B. Long- ton, Charles McKnight, W. Moore, here at 2 am. today from Sitka)Graham, 24, second engineer aboard Phillip Tyler, P. Hubbard, Arnold and Seward, and, after 18 persons had disembarked here and 16 had embarked, it sailed at 4:45 a.m. Arriving from Seward: W. C. Auld, R. M. Arwine, Mary Goff, Mr. and Mrs. John Peterson, and Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Sweeney; from Sitka: Arthur Adams, Norman Ban- field, John Bratset, C. A. Carroll, Harold Glaser, Mrs. Dorothy Gray, L. Holmquist, M. E. Monagle, Vic Power, Ellis Reynolds, H. E. Sim- mons and Manley E. Sweazey. For Petersburg: ‘Mrs, Merlin Bell. J. Bell, Lyndia Bell, Merlin Beil Jr., Lucy Dewitt and D. A. Noonan; for Ketchikan: Ray Peterman and Mrs. Myrtle Wood. For Seattle: Christoper Elling, I. J. Cunz, Elizabeth Mosher, Mrs. Ray Peterman, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bunch, Ruth I. Glenn, and Albert M. Glenn. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Sedttle scheduled to arrive 11 p.m., Tuesday. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Wednesday. Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. IMPORTANT BOARD MEETING TONIGHT President Val Poor, of the Lions Club announces that there will be an important board meeting tonight of the Lions Club at 7 o’clock in the Doghouse of the Baranof. It is requested that all members of the Mt. Edgecumbe concert com- mittee and all chairman of various other committees be present. FROM SEATTLE Registered at the Baranof Hotel from Seattle are: John Bratset, Harold Glaser, John Peterson, Rob- ert Arwine, Carl H. Dunn and Daniel L. Cole. The Washington Merry - Go - Round (Copyright, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEAKSUN ASHINGTON—With Congress Iacing an early, election-year ad- journment, one of the worst legis- lative log jams in history is piling up in the Senate and threatening to stall the Truman Fair Deal pro- gram. *Despite this mountain of un- finished work, however, Democratic leaders have found time to take up two bills completely contrary to the Fair Deal Program—the Kerr Natural Gas Bill and the Basing Point Bill, driving loop- holes in the Antitrust laws. As a result, some Republicans are thinkink of reversing the tables on Truman and making a whistle- stop campaign of their own. They would use Truman’s own npeechul against the 80th Congress to at-l tack the 8lst Congress . Disregarding the politics, how- ever, here is the legistative outlook: Congress has less than four months to go before adjourning for the election campaign, Even now, Senators and Congressmen — £ (Continued on Page Four) | l I | the 69-foot vessel. His mother, Mrs. Mary Graham, lives in Bell- ingham. He was thrown through the open top half of a dutch door on the vessel’s galley as it rammed ag- round five miles south of Friday Harbor. A’ companion ship, the 78-foot fishing vessel Fairweather, also ran aground at the same’time. Both vessels, each carrying 10 men, pul- led free under their own power. ‘The two vessels were .bound from Seattle to Hawk Inlet, Alaska. They are owned. by the P. E. Harris Company, Inc. Bellingham relatives said today that Graham's father was lost by drowning in Alaska from the same fishing vessel during the war. The younger Graham was an Air Force veteran and had served in India, his sister, Mrs. Leora Gall- anger, said. He had made several trips to Alaska for fishing seasons in the past. MERIT SYSTEM EXAMS TAKEN BY Hi SENIORS Alaska Merit System examina- tions were given during the week of April 9 to 175 high school sen- iors in 18 Alaska High Schools. These examinations were for the positions of Jr. Clerk-Typist and Jr. Clerk-Stenographer. Particip- ating schools were Anchorage, Cor- dova, Douglas, Fairbanks, Homer, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Mt. Edgecumbe Vocational School, Nav- al Operating Bdse School at Ko- diak, Palmer, Petersburg, Seward, Sheldon Jackson at Sitka, Skag- way, Sitka, ‘Wasilla and Wrangell The Alaska Merit System pro- vided the examination material and instructions for administra- tion. Teachers administered the examiations in their schools during the school day. Pupils who passed the examinations will be eligible for appointment when and where shey choose. BEACH ON CAMPAIGN TRIP IN SE ALASKA Ray Beach, Republican ' candi- date for Territorial Labor Com- missioner, has returned from a campaign trip to the interior and western Alaska and has left for Southeast Alaska towns. He will campaign briefly in Ketchikan, Wrangell and Petersburg and ex- pected to visit Sitka and Skagway before the primary next Tuesday. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 17—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2%, American Can 117%, Anaconda 29%, Curtiss- ‘Wright 9, International Harvester 26%, Kennecott 51, New York Cen- tral 14%, Northern Pacific 16%, U.S. Steel 32%, Pound $2.80%. Sales today were 2,520,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: in- dustrials 214.41, rails 55.31, utilities 42.89. 4 FROM KETCHIKAN Elmer G. Johnson, of Ketchikan, is staying at the Baranof. Wrede, H. T. Justice and Abe Romick. Boarding at Annette Island for Juneau were: Lorin Oldroyd, T. J. Reese, Mrs. L. A, Runnels. Flight 913, the second section from Seattle brought the follow- ing: Cary Jensen, Stan Oaksmith, Maurice Oaksmith, Edith Purdy, H. F. Shaub, J. Weir, W. Wick- strom, Dr. Hester. Seattle to Juneau: Mrs. A. An- | derson, William Campbell, Martin Campbell, Elmer Culver, Max Dor- min, Mrs. M. Dormin, Helen Mon- sén, George Osage, K. Raatikai- nan, Mrs. Raatikainan, F. Schultz, M. Dailey. Saturday’s passengers out of Ju- neau were: To Whitehorse: Wm. Mendenhall, F. Hickey, Ethel Beck- er, Ethel Page and infant. To Fairbanks: Ruth Rock, Wallis Miller, George Kuberra, Milton Ward, H. Stripger, F. M. Tyvoll, Joe Braver, Don Lawson, Joseph Kehoe, Mrs. J. Kehoe. Juneau to Seattle: Elspeth Eas- son and infant, Herman Hanson, Audrey Click, Ada Thomas, Ken- neth Spencer, Jonathan Brice, Glen Miller, Esther Peterson, J. C. Mc- Lean, Mrs. McLean, L. I. Riley, R. W. Whelan, Janet Sabrosky, Faye Clem, Patricia Clem. Sunday’s flight from Seattle brgught to Ketchikan: Stanley Ad- ams, Bob Bakerm, Robert Belt, J. B. Cotant, Mrs. Cotant, Lynda ‘Co- Jtant, Tom DeBoer, E. H. Hodge, |H. R. Hyde, L. J. Isrealson, Millie Johnson, James Lamhan, Floyd Miley, F. Nelson, J. Ruffcorn, Mi- kal Ruffcorn, B. Schwellenbarger, Len Severson, George Vollen and D C. Wise. Coming to Juneau from Seattle were: Marvin Aasboe, Daniel Cole, R. Chamberlain, Mrs. R. Chamber- lain, Susan Chamberlain, Tom Dy- er, C. H. Dunn, Andrew Erwig, Ralph Farrell, Ben Hamberg, R. Havestein, J. Higgins. John Holden, Jack Havkman, Al- bin Johnson, Ray Kays, Kather- ine Kozinsky, R. Montgomery, N. G. Ottke, Merle Strickland, G. Ringdahl, Nedina Walsh, J. H. Wakefield, B. Wickstrom and Gor- don Wilson. Going from Juneau southbound were M A. Riley to Annette and Elwood Moore to Ketchikan. To Seattle: O. F. Benecke, A. French, Kenneth Loken, Mrs. K. Loken, John MacLahlan, A. J. Miller, Kate Smith and Anita Wegner. ATLANTIC COUNCIL FOR PEACE PROPOSED BY BIDAULT, FRENCH PREMIER By the Associated Press Premier Georges Bidault of France proposed a “supreme At- lantic council for peace” to unite economically and militarily the lib- erty-loving nations of the west. He hopes the ‘Big Three foreign min- isters will discuss the proposal when they meet in London May 8. ELIZABETH MOSHER DEPARTS Elizabeth Mosher, who served sev- eral years in Alaska as child wel- fare consultant with the Territorial Department of Public Welfare, left on the Denali for work with the Family Service Association in Grand Rapids, Mich. Miss Mosher was a member of civic and religious groups in Ju- neau. | Fishermen's UnionPadIs " Okehedin$.E. SEATTLE, April 17—{»—Mem- bers. of the Alaska Fishermen's Union have renewed without change their contract with the AlasKa Sal- mon Industry for operations in Scutheast Alaska “during the 1950 season. Oscar Anderson, union secretary- treasurer, said about 1500 workers employed from Juneau to the Ca= nadian border are involved. The minimum wage for workers under the contract is $271, with board and lodging and transporta- tion to and from Alaska. Wages range upward according to job clas- sifications. An industry spokesman said un- fair labor practice charges filed against the union would be with- drawn as a result of the contract agreement. The industry filed the charges with the National Labor Re- lations Board Friday because the union refused to man tenders ready to leave for Alaska. DOUBLE-HEADER SATURDAY ONPNA WESTWARD FLIGHT Pacific Northern Airlines flew a double-header from Juneau to An- chorage Saturday to accomodate an overload of passengers bound for the' Westward. On the two flights to the Hub City were: Mrs, Ray Fowler and three chil- dren, A. L. Ersconson, N. W. A. Miller, Agnes Vestedahl, Cal Gut- man, John Nurmi, W. W. Mait- land, H. Lucas, W. Crawford, R. Brosier, B. Taylor, Frank Clayton, Mrs. J. B. Nelson. A. Michaelson, E. E, Green, C, J. Coffey, Mrs. J. Reese, Carl Bair wes booked to Homer and Mrs. Bosley, Sam Manuel, Charles Man- uel and Melvern Hemphill were destined for Kodiak. Coming down from Anchorage Saturday the following were dis- embarked at Cordova: Wendell Kay, H. K. Johnson, R. A, Stamp, A. A, Johnson, Walter Farrell, Bill Conover, Glenn Vale, Scotty Stev- ens, John Castle, Gilbert White- head, Dr. McKinley, Mr. Price and Ray Lee. W. Walsh and Ray Beach were brought on to Juneau. Flying from Anchorage to Ju- neau Sunday were: Pete Hansen, Mrs. Charlotte Miller, Joe Stick- man, Mrs. J. Stickman, Dr. Stick- ler, Cleorge .C. McGrath, John Wardberg, Ellwood Moore, M. A. Riley, Bud French, Elmer John- son, Karl Brunstadt, and discharg- ed at Cordova was John Castle. Going to the Westward Sunday: To Homer: Ervey Andrew, Ben Hamburg, Ralph Hooestien, John Holden, Albin Johnson, Gunner) Ringdahl, B Wickstrom. K. Ed- | r sinki was booked to Kodiak B’idlenrly morning of April 14 through|that he could take a half dozen! for Anchorage were: Louise Mil- ler, Judge George Folta, Marie Jen- sen, W. A. Manley, E. E. Rasmu- son, Joe George, J. Hageman, Roy Hayes, Ralph Farrell and Gordon Wilson. "FLOATING SCHOOL" FROM EDGECUMBE IS ON TOUR IN SOUTH SEATTLE, April 17—#—A “float- ing school” with 23 students aboard arrived from Alaska Saturday. The school is the 114-foot diesel- powered vessel Edgecumbe owned and operated by the Alaska Native Service. Except for her Master, Capt. Ben- jamin L. See, and a few other pro- fessionals, her crew was composed of students from the Edgecumbe Vocational School, which is located on Japonski Island near Sitka. Fourteen of the students are on a training voyage, as part of their courses in navigation and marine engineering. Nine are students in other vocational lines at the-school, who were selected to make the voy- age as a reward for outstanding scholarship and leadership. The visitors were taken on a tour of the Post-Intelligencer -plant. The visitors were accompanied on their trip to Seattle by J. Loyd Rip- | ley, head of the vocational shops at the government-operated school. ‘While south they will also visit Edison Technical School, industrial plants in Everett and Bellingham, and technical schools in Tacoma. Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Kapanski jare at the Baranof Hotel regis- ltere‘d from Skagway. ELIGIBILITY RULES UNCHANGED FOR SPECIAL ELECTION All voters qualified to vote Juneau’s general municipal elec- tions are eligible to-cast their bal- lots at the special election Thurs- day when the city property trans- fer ordinance is put up for ap- proval, city officials said today. Polling place will be in the Council Chambers of the City Hall, they said, and voters will register when they ' vote, The ordinance to be ratified pro- vides for the granting of the Arc- tic Brotherhood Hall property and the selling of the City Hall prop- erty and the vacant lot adjoining it to the Territory as a site for a new Territorial Building. Price tag on the city property to be sold is 860,000 which will be used by the city in purchasing a site for a new municipal building, razing the A. B, Hall and City Hall, and clearing lease obligations to the L. A. Sturm lockers in the basement of the A. B. Hall, city officials stated. , The ordinance provides that a contract for a Territorial building must be let by January 1, next year and if construction has not started within two years and a half frem the date of the ordi- nance, the property reverts to the city. They pointed out that this may be Juneau’s only chance to get the aew Territorial office building con- structed here.. Anchorage is ex- pected to make an all-out effort at the next session of the Legis- lature to have the new Territorial Building located there if a start has not been made here. Construction of a new Territor- ial Building was authorized by the Territorial Legislature at its last session. QUILICO BURGLARS IVE JUVENILE 15, BOUND OVER Two juvenile lads captured Sat- urday by city police after the burg- larizing of Quilico’s Sports Center not 24 hours before, were charged this morning with two counts of burglary and grand larceny and bound over to the grand jury. Alvin Frederickson and Charlie Jimmy, both 17 years of age, waived preliminary hearing in commis- sioner’s court, with bond set at $3,500 each. . A third lad involved in the case, Raymond Dennis, 16, was remanded to the public welfare department under whose custody he has been as a juvenile delinquent. District Attorney Patrick J. Gil- more, Jr., drew up the complaint, which was signed by Police Chiet Bernard Hulk. The boys waived juvenile jurisdiction in the case, which will bring their case before the district court. The store was entered during the a trap door in the floor of Skin- ner’s Gun Shop, in the rear of the sporting goods store. In signed statements, they admitted taking in the neighborhood of ten pis- tols, a sholder holster, flashlight, ammunition and several jackknives. All the loot has been recovered with exception of the flashlight, a five-cell variety. The Frederickson lad believed himself to be 18 years old, Gilmore said, but a check of birth records showed he was born September 29, 1932. The Jimmy boy will be 18 on July 10. ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WEATHER ‘REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 41; minimum, 33. At Airport—Maximum, 41; minimum, 32. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Cloudy with intermittent rain and southeasterly winds 15 to 25 miles per hour to- night and Tuesday. Lowest temperature tonight 34 with highest Tuesday 42 degrees. SPRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today ® City of Juneau—0.13 inches; since April 1 — 159 inches; since July 1—62.16 inches. At Airport — 0.04 inches; since April 1 — 0.86 inches; since July 1—40.97 inches. AT GASTINEAU A guest at the Gastineau Hotel is Manley E. Sweazey of Fairbanks who represents the Northern Life Insurance Company. ®ecececcecccccccooe ® 000000 ®sccec000000000 0 ' 'J-HiGH DEBATE TEAM TAKES GOLD CUP FOR S. E. CHAMPIONSHIP A victorious J-Hi debate team re turned yesterday afternoon by air | from ' Petersburg carrying the gold icup symbolic of the debate cham- pionship of Southeast Alaska. Neither the Juneau affirmative nor negative team was defeated in| the series of matches held April 1+ and 15 with the negative winning over the Ketchikan affirmative in the finals Saturday night. The final debate Saturday night was close, with’' Juneau winning over Ketchikan, 320-300. A possible 378 points could be earned in deba‘e and the Juneau 320 score was tops for the meet. Final point tabula- tions showed Juneau on top with 305 points in three debates, Ketchi- kan next with 792 points in three debates, and Petersburg with 490 points in two debates. Weidman Tops Carl weiaman took the place of Elton Engstrom, Jr, regular first negative speaker, when Elton was unable to make the trip because of iilness. Under the point system em- ployed by the judges, Carl was ad- judged best debater of the tourna- ment, which included teams from Petersburg and Ketchikan. Second speaker of the winning negative team was Connie Willlams, followed by Henry Haugen, third speaker. Members of the affirma- tive were Robert Secrist, Nella Jer- main, and Carl Weidman. Richard Kleingbeil was alternate and Miss Helen Schaefer, coach. The question was: Resolved, that the President of the United States lshould be elected by a direct vote !o( the people. J-Hi Wins Easily In the first debate held Friday night, the J-Hi affirmative won easily from the Kayhi negative. Three matches were scheduled on Saturday and the Ketchikan af- firmative started things out by winning the decision from the Pet- ersburg negative in a morning tilt. The J-Hi negative squad, the only negative team to win a debate, theni defeated thé strong Petersburg affirmative in a 2 p.m. meeting to set the stage for the final held at 8 p.m. that night. During the past month J-Hi de- baters have worked constantly pre- paring for the trip. The affirma- tive won four straight panel dis-| cussions held before various civic organizations. The negative side won the final public debate held April 4. | MINFIELD CHILDREN ENJOY SECOND HALF OF BIG EASTER PARTY The * children o©: ine Minfield home had the second half of thew Easter party Saturday, and they loved it. The first half was held on Easter Sunday evening, after a Coast Guardsman in a local bar started { the ball rolling by wishing out loud orphans to a movie. Two men and a woman joined him in the venture which soon in- sluded Easter baskets and a movie for all the children in the home. The Easter baskets were delivered o the children Easter and the movie was postponed‘because Miss Minnie wield, who acts as mother to all the shildren in the home, just couldn’t -et them ready in time for the ihow. : But Saturday afternoon the children were ready—neatly dressed and well-scrubbed—when the bus, supplied free of charge by the Yel- ‘ow Cab Company, rolled up to the door of the home. They were brought in to the Capi- tol Theatre and ,entered, free of charge. Then they sat smiling through “Blondie’s Secret” and “Racing Luck.” , The Coast Guardsman whose wish had started the party was with them, and so were the men, the woman and Yellow Cab who had joined him in making his wish come true. SPECIAL COUNCIL MEET * T0 BE HELD TONIGHT The City Council will meet in special session fonight at 8 o’clock in the City Hall to read and pass for the final time the new traffic code for Juneau. The ordinance modernizes and' brings under- one cover all previous existing traffic ordinances. 1 | l | ! PNA PILOT AND FAMILY R. H. Chamberlain, his wife and lt.hree children, are registered at the | Baranof Hotel having just returned | | from a vacation trip outside. They lexpect to leave immediately for | | their home in Anchorage. TimeBombin British Plane Starts Query LONDON, April 17—@—Who put a time bomb on a London to Paris airliner last week—and whom was Le trying to kill? In an all-out attempt to answer this question, Scotland ¥ard be- gan today to dismantle a two- engine British European Airways Viking at Northolt Airport. The Viking limped back to Lon- don last Thursday night with its tail assembly almost torn away. BEA’s first version was that it had been hit by lightning over Northern France. The stewardess, suffering from a broken arm and shock, was taken to a hospital. The 28 passengers—including a babe in arms—escaped injury. ‘The lightning theory was aban- doned last Saturday. BEA's chiet press officer asserted all the evi- dence pointed to sabotage. He said an explosion apparently occurred in the plane’s tollet, next to the little Kkitchen where the stewardess was preparing food and drinks. The plane staggered home with both sides of the fuselage blown out and the riddled tail essambly hanging by only the top struts and the flooring. The pilot landed with the wing allerons alone. One of the passengers was Ralph Strauss, a Marshall Plan official. He pooh-poohed suggestions that he was the target of an assassina- tion attempt. London newspapers searching the BEA passenger lists for Thursday said one of the travelers on an earlier plane was Rear-Admiral Eric Longly-Cook, director of British Naval Intelligence. CANADIAN C. OF C. T0 WORK WITHUS ON B. (., ALASKA MONTREAL, April 17—M—The Canadian Chamber of Commerce announces the establishment of a Canada-United States committee on the development of the Canadian Northwest and Alaska. The committee, sponsored jointly by the Chambers of Commerce of the two countries, will undertake studies of the area in relation to transportation, natural resources and defense. The first meeting of the commit- tee will be at Asheville, N.C.,, Aprii 217, Canadian members of the com- mittee are Dr. Charles Camsell, former Deputy Minister of the Fed- eral Department of Mines-and Re- sources; Maj.-Gen. W. W. Foster ot Victoria, Canada’s Northwest de- fense chief during the war; W, G. Swan, Vancouver, B.C., presidént ot the Vancouver Board of Trade, and Howard Firth of Dawson City, sec- retary-manager, Dawson branch British Columbia Chamber of Mines, During the war, joint studies ot this area were undertaken under the sponsorship of the Joint Eco- nomic Committee set up by the Canadian and U.S. governments. McCaslin Elected Presldfll of PNTA VANCOUVER, B.C., April 17—#® —Clvic booster Frank E. McCaslin of Portland, Ore., was elected presi~ dent of the Pacific Northwest Trade* Association at a meeting of the directors here yesterday. The two-day, 23rd annual conference of the association opened today. Regional vice-presidents named include B. Frank Heintzleman, ot Juneau. it CREATIVE WRITERS MEET The Creative Writers will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Methodist church parsonage. Mem- bers are reminded to take their manuscripts for mailing, also man- uscripts for reading. FROM FT. RICHARDSON Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Sweeney, of Fort Richardson are guests at the Baranof Hotel. AUXILIARY MEETING Regular meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary will be held to- morrow night at 8 o'clock in the Dugout. J. P. Valentine, member of the Fisheries Commission, is registered at the Baranof Hotel from Ketchi~ kan. ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS SLAUGHTER ACQUITTED; LOBBYIST WASHINGTON, April 17 — (B — Former Representative Roger C. Slaughter of Kansas City was ac- quitted today of a charge of vio- lating the lobbying act. Federal District Judge Alexander Holtzoff made a rule of innocent after a brief trial. He heard the case without a jury. Slaughter had waived a jury trial. The government presented only two witnesses. One was Raymond J. Barnes, President of the North American Grain Association of New York. The other was Dillard Rogers, he House of Representatives Clerk ‘n charge of receiving registrations by lobbyists. With Barnes on the stand, Frank Patton, Justice Department attor- aey, introduced expense accounts ind a record of a check for $7,500 paid to Slaughter for attorney's fees by the grain association. ¢ Rogers was called to testify that Slaughter had not registered as a ‘obbyist. The defense said it ad- mitted that, The whole case hinged then on whether Slaughter did lobbying. He contended that he did not—that his services to the grain association ‘were as an attorney. Holtzoff in effect ruled with him. The case had attracted particu- lar attention because Slaughter is 1 Missouri Democrat who was “purged” from Congress in 1946 by President Truman. §100 10 LIBRARY IS MASTERPIECE BY ARTS AND CRAFTS AnwAhsknn Arts and Orafts, Inc,, nas _this morn- ‘ng ort Vg W t-hl:n which che Juneau Memorial Library board keeps is funds—in the shape of & $100 check. Mrs. Alice B. Schnee, retiring president of the group, presented the check to B. D. Stewart, acting chairman of the board. Mrs. Schnee originated the non-profit organiza- tion, which sponsors shows annually and supports Alaskan artists in sheir efforts to present their work ‘o the public. * The $100 engraving job brings the amount nbeded for the drive down around & corner to $1,965.19, Stewart sald. Total amount needed ©0 erect the building is $70,000, vhich will be matched by federal (unds through the General Services Administration. Mrs. Schnee, In a letter accom- vanying the check, explained the sroup is non-profit, having been in- corporated on that basis several years ago, and that board mem- vers could think of no better way ‘o dispose of surplus funds than to lonate it to the Hbrary. The money was received by the group through generosity of patrons of their annual shows, last one held 1t the Elks’ Hall here about a month ago. Mrs. Alice Thorne sueceeds Mrs. 3chnee as president, whose last of- ficlal act was donation of the amount to the library. Board mem- bers were unanimous in their de- sision to make the contribution, she said. KETCHIKAN STRIKE WON'T HARM FISHING Fish caught by members of the United Trollers of Alaska will be handled over the strike-bound Ket- chikan wharves, Andy Barlow, executive secretary of UTA, said today. A contract providing for the handling of UTA members’ ftish in :ase of a strike was accepted and signed by Barlow and other UTA vepresentatives during a recent meeting in Ketchikan, Barlow said. The agreement was made with Local 61, International Longshore- men’s and Warehousemen’s Union. i | FROM PALMER Caroline Miller, registered from Palmer, Alaska, is stopping at the Baranof. EARLY IN TOWN Charles Early, proprietor of Wrangell Electric, and prominent business man of that town, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. M. J. Winninghoff, salesman re- ! turned yesterday from a trip to Sitka and is registered at the Gas- ‘unnu Hotel.