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PAGE TWO CALIFORNIA SAND BLAMED FOR PALL OVER PARADISE HONOLULU, June 16—#—The; WASHINGTON, June 16— great Pacific haze may have come|President Truman has signed legis- from the southern California desert.!lation opening America’s doors to |BANK ROBBER IS ~IMPLICATED N ~ ANOTHER CRIME PORTLAND, June 16—(®—The owner of a truck that carried Wayne | Long on his unsuccesstul bank rob- | bery attempt yesterday was slain | Truman Signs D.P. Measure The U.S. Weather Bureau popped an additional 136,000 displaced per- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALAS| CAA TRAFFIC CHIEF |WORK STARTS ON/:iiss ™ = BASING POINT < hsimanc ON JUNEAU SERVICE i i | fsays No Chaflge Because ULCom(ruenou started on the sza.pefersburg Gels 1 Deactivating Some BILLIS VETOEDi WASHINGTON, June 16 — (# — President Truman today vetoed the basing point bill — a measure that | would have guaranteed businessmen | KA lszs ooo AD D" |0N|fmy night at the home of Miss|Baranof Hotel; | y | Priscilla Parker to complete the lmflking of co 'TO ALASKA COASTAL - FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1950 FROM WHITHORSE Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Strang of Club members will meet Thurs- | Whitehorse are registered at the FROM YARUTAT Jack Hackma:r. oI Yakutat is at | the Baranof riotel. sages for ,the con- | FROM HAINES | Marie E. Riley of Haines is stop~ the Baranof Hotel. 0 addition to the Alaska Coastal St Eretate . Tuidus, w1 $5,500, Supply Dam == a work day that lasted until :-3«1{ g y llpp y am lam. Wednesday. ¢ i LEONARDO VISITS The hammering and sawing a!l WASHH_\VGI.ON' June 16 — ® —| N peonardo of Vancouver T avent . L. Murbhy s&) the central waterfront location is| The Housing and Home Finance |y, s o guest at the Baranof the entry of 205000 DP's—persons | FBI agent R. L. Murphy said, In a message to the Senate, Mr. for a two-story building, 20 by 48|Agency have approved loans total- |y 4o driven from their homes by two| The truck owner was Walter| Tryman said he was convinced the| “Transfer of alrway traffic con-|r..¢ " on the southeast side of the|ling $497160 for preparation ot o | wars. It extends the program for | Rucker of Portland. He disappeared | pjll would ‘“obscure, rather than |trol and air route approach con-im_es'em dhicture i plans for public works projects ex- ,.;o" HOOD BAY a . veRr creases the | Wednesday night, his mother re-| clarify,” isting laws relatin; 1 to Anchorage will cause no| J § PRSI { péct s 5 < 2 $ another year and increases tne clarif existing g to|trol to g be built along | Pected to cost $13,767,575. Albert Thompson of Hood Bay is number eligible for admission to | ported. pricing practices. |loss to Juneau in CAA service lu}[h‘: ::-:?uf:end“l:}l]ack sides of thet The projects include: B 341,000. | » Yesterday two boys found a man’s| 1t was the second controversial| carriers operating in’ this area,’ buildir}g aroviding shelte‘red set-| Petersburg, Alaska — $5500 lor‘reglswred AR RE e otel Upwards of 153,000 displaced per- |body—a bullet hole in the head— | measure vetoed by the President in |Norman C. Beuter told & €roub |y, entrances directly from c'mbln $106250 water supply dam. have already come to the|near.Eagle Creek in Clackaman| recent months. Both the disputed |of interested Juneauites yesteraay. |\ ¢ mmp' 7 8 ates to make their homes, | county and because neighbors said | pills widely split Demoeratic ranks.| Beuter Is Alaska reglonal air|™ o ihculateq wooden construction PAXTONS HERE . C. F. Chapman of Los Angeles reau said yester the Washing-| In addition to increasing the. total they had seen the man driving &|The first was the Kerr natural gas | control chief for the Civil Aero- i, . building will have ix]térior wali Mr. and Mrs. Orville Faxton of is at the Baranof Hotel. He repre; ton report indicated the smog-like |of displaced persons who could be- | truck that answered the descrip-| pill which would have freed inde- nautics Administration. Ifinish of combed plywood, and]Sitka are guests at the Baranot sents the Brown and Haley Candy pall contained sand from southern|come U. S. residents under the | tion of the one Long parked near|pendent gas producers from federal| “Our VHF (very high frequency) |q, 0 will e of asphalt tiles. Hotel. | company. California’s desert program, the new law also wipes | the First National Bank’s southeast | regylation. communications network: provides| oo oo T ew windows will There was a desert windstorm injout certain provisions in the or- Portlang branch, state, county and| The basing point bill would have | reliable communications between |, © o L.hl'oughou:. an Al Iobby. southern California June 6, Simp- |iginal law that brought charges FBI agents investigated. permitted sellers to discriminate in Juneau and Anchorage, as well as! o\ oo upholstered wainscoting, son said, and computation by his by President Truman and others; Murphy said Rucker’s prices to customers to meet com-|from other Southeast Alaska points | " pocides the large waiting room Washington colleagues pointed tofthat it discriminated against Cath- | made the identification. petition in “good faith,” and in the |and the Interior,” Beuter sdid | et floor ‘will have & ticek the possibility that winds had car-]olics and Jews—an issue in the| Long, in a brief FBI interview.janpsence of conspiracy, collusion orj The system 15 backed by all our o6 aqjacent baggage room and ried the sand out over the Pacitic.[1948 elections, had said only that he had stolen| fraudulent practice. former systems, which can be used | oltion " gicnaton and - radic The haze hung over more than| One change erases the require-|the truck that he used in getting jin case the VHF circuits are broken rrupted. - | N l ! rooms, and passenger facilities 1,000,000 square miles—trom Wake Jment that 30 p?rcem of the DP’s|to the bank, Murphy taxd. jar I s 4 | Walls, floor and ceiling of the dis- Island eastward past Hawaii — for |9e farmers #. that 40 percent Rucker was about 25 or 26 yearsl | “The change,” he explained, from the ic states. | 21d and had been employed at the {part of a larger program already patchers’ room will be lined with three days and nights. It began |be b5 in Seattle, Murphy | clAIMED HlNESE under way, to centralize all air| acoustic tile, breaking up over Hawaii yesterday : c 1% THE Bathd Dok i ks ai when a northeast trade wind rutfled and appx nqch hcm.mto n n !Aml.m ge, chiefly in the interests | accounting department. for private offices and the large almost dead calm (0MM|E ARMY“" also will allow | o jier Stutte and Sons have the the night before. | the right to absorb freight charges 1948 law,| His body was found yesterday and sell their products at unitorm authorized and was identitied this morning, | delivered prices. { up with this new story just as meteorologists here had pretty well saddled the blame on Mauna Loa, Hawaii's erupting volcano. The finger was put on southern California by weathermen in Wash- ington—not the Honolulu Chamber »f Commerce Which was a mite put ut by three days of dismal, color- less skies. .« Chief Meteorologist Robert H.}sons Simpson of Honolulu's Weather Bu- [United St sons The measure revises a expiring June 30 that ControlsHere FRGM LOS A*GELES GENERAL CONTRACTORS PHONE 357 Glacier Construction Co. New Building — Remodeling — Cabinet Work Plastering — Concrete Pouring Sand and Gravel Hauling e e e R O ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Petershurg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg Convenient afternoon departures, at 2:30 P. M. FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 mother Boeing Plant economy. It a dozen plumbers were on today The carpenters struck contractors who have not signed against Associated Press) Joseph McCarthy has said. plANE I"SIRUME"IS Long was running toward Lhe‘ Before long skies were blue again | truck after the bank robbery when { o ; " FAU'_IY (Riw m[s ;; fus;]lm:e nxd FBI ag:lms hg?‘nn;de! ;le\l’\ (l,”;{m;m;:?xl:: n‘c‘l“":’;‘gj ‘f::_r | contract for the ACA addition, with | brought him down, with a shatter q utilization o o] CHer | August 15 as the e 4 | left arm and wounded right wrist (By -Associated Press) ladvantage.” iucufi:;,;mf_ e N 7 (RASH SuRv'voR " and hand. He carried $9,716 he got! The Chinese _Co‘“m“‘"ms d:“:_“l o CAA (ificial assurcd the | 3 [in the bank and it was all ,.e_llandmgs on five more Wansl 1..n|gh i that cLanges will be made | plUMBER STRIKE i | covered. {Islands—40 miles southwest of Hong |,y gicated, should the plan riot| BARCUS FAMILY LEAVES BAHREIN ISLAND, Persian Gulf,| Late yesterday Long was chargediK":‘g' B‘"l "“‘;’;e“‘gij;g ";f;(‘i‘ jprove satisfqetory. | JFOR 6-WEEK - VACATION | - _(»—A survivor of Wednesday | with bank robbery and assaulting a pkl;eafdo;ee':iort;e 5]‘:“ b }slandsLaJ-: 1t traffic daes not move smdothe | ] night's second French axrhnerifaderal officer. :a n"ei ges » BAP- 4, Ih and out of Juneau, if de-| Planning to be on the car-ferry $ crash here says crew members told | l ficco;dmg o th OB Mm:]m ¢ in flights result from a too; Chilkoot tomorrow morning, the . FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 16— him the plane's instruments were gy 1 Portugies Mheso, e Comt;\hnistslh"‘“‘ work load in Anchorage, | Earl Barcus family is making last- gt O rped : faulty, showing the plane still 300 8 h s communications are interrupted | minute preparations for a six- (P—Upwards ¥f 72 carpenters and : left the island because of diffi-|if communica e, i p f b ¥ strike feet above the ground when it hit My 1 ittt ;u ly lines.|—in any of these cases, the pro- | Week vacation trip. : |the water. culty, Ut TRl acing. SEL P ‘am will be changed in the mM-| Mr. and Mrs. (Jimmie) Barcus, TO ' Lapsapmei had been the National- &M e chang e Jié 2 . The survivor, Jacques Sangnier of Rery 3 ) terests of efficiency,” he promised, | With their children, Lynne and { ists’ main blockade base, covermg | ¥ P | Paris, and his wife were among 13 4 Under the new CAA plan, entire | Donald, will drive south on the | the Pear]l Harbor approach to Can- pian, 2 persons saved from the crash.| ot R = control will be from Anchorage, | Alaska Highway, with Minot and L a new working agreement for the | [ ton, until the Nationalists with- g current construction season (et oI T oS : 4 iwith the Annette Island stat™n!Grand Forks, North Dakota, as he plumbers have been out since Zfif’i:fi‘]’:: ‘:‘,11::‘]"(‘0lg;_l’:"s;‘:fin:?1 (By Upen investigation we find absentee owners last Saturday against six Fallb.dn s | Tyesday.) I senator q‘m} <?v~ nu.\ of large rental I?ropertles are in contractors in support of their de- =4 "pay e officials in Paris #nd [made a new attack on the State favor nlftnalosl tatx. Local \'.fa;ze ea}r?erst?re opposed to sales tax or any form of taxation that is not based upon ability to pay. Teamsters Local No. 10 A. F. of L. drew from the Wanshans last i 7 7 month. las the sub-control unit for South- | their first stateside destinations. & least Alaska. In the same program,| After visiting there, the Juneau-| mand for a 50 cents an hour wage other sources hjnted strongly matiDEpaf"‘“‘“‘ one aimed at its top iacrease. the two planes were sabotaged by |security officer, John Peurifoy. ‘the tower control at Yakutat is|ites will drive to Washington and THREE ESTABLISHMENTS ibeing deactivated, and Anchorage | California, visiting and sightseeing Walkouts in the two crafts did}p,q,opina's Communist-led native| McCarthy accused Peurifoy of ar- not affect work for those contractors | o0 0 |ranging secret “payoff” favors for ON FRANKLIN PAINTING UP;\\HI assume approach control for|and vacationing. They expect to re- IKodiak July 3. | turn home August 1. Mid-block on Franklin Street be-{ pormerly with 24-hour *“all in- 9 v f tween Front and Second soon Will clusive” service, the control tower ?,h(:h:i‘:1']:;:‘?d\:w:‘ew;m-re;?‘:\lz‘[t Sangnier, son of Mrs. Harry Ad-|Q recent witness appearing befored nave a new look and a brighter one.(a¢ the Juneau airport is to operate e se last year contracisiie. of New York, said last night|Senate investigators. Today saw the start on the bigion at least an 8-hour basis. The Dagigk vet cxptred ixhat hg and his wife clung to the| The witness was \(?{i:.de:: .m‘lnr{\;qm;{:‘:‘:&C\a;p,i?‘::rlvl‘dnu's tail for several hours be- DEI)BI'lmt‘!l} employe En_imanue} k“ ;‘_en‘ 2oy o C OITISON | fore they were picked up. Larsen, who was fined in 1845 T istruction Co,, and | "ay000 795 others were clinging to |Amerasia Magazine case. McCar- job of painting the Baranof Hotel. 'staff will be reduced from seven to Beed, MRt 0o the tail, but people were washed thy says the payoff deal consisted Across the street, the Capitol The- {wo or three persons by July 1. atre is treating itself to some ele-; Beuter promised that the Juneau . |the Baranof Terrace room Friday. P-K-M-K lost 40 carpc!nen from away as they became exhausted of a pledge to provide Larsen with its powerhpuse construction job at and the waves increased. |free legal advice and loyalty clear- gant trimmings—an attractive deco- |tower will have instantaneous com- : . Mrs. Alice Schnee presided at the Ladd Air Force base and Reed.} .yey few had lifebelts,” he ®- jance. ration of cherry-red tile facing. munications with Anchorage at all ? # The long marque across the Gas- times, To supplement the service, | 1€eting in the absence of the pres- ident and vice-president. Martin lost about 20 carpenters| . .o | MeCarthy' from the $3,000,000 McKinley Man- ;i |imade in tineau Hotel has been painted, and |however, the CAA is providing com- 2 The Juneau club is furnishing or Apartment Hotel project. Eight Connecticut. “Jooks like a new woman.” jmunications drops to Pan Amef et oy -3 1000 Alaska cotton corsages for more carpenters laid down Lhelr‘S N H i h tools at the Fairview Manor Hous- ays ew ml s Examination of licensed merchant Inside the Baranof Hotel, Mzm-:cau World Airways, Pacific Nort presentation to the 1000 delegales ing project being built by Nels p dwi'h R sia a us marine officers for permanent com- ager William Hughes is hearing de-jern Airlines and Alaska Coastal| lightful “Ohs’ ’and “Ahs” from pat-'Airlines so they can communicate Mortenson Construction Co. Four struck at St. Joseph’s Hospital W'"( ‘ J b missions in the Coast Guard will l rea e o s be held February 26, 27, and 28 where Morrison Knudsen is con- structing a new wing. George Davis, carpenter’s busi- /1951, in Ketchikan, the commancir lof the 17th Coast Guard district announced today. ness agent, said these jobs all are in the excavating or preliminary building stages and will not be He urged interested licensed deck vitally affetced by the strike for and engincer officers to write forl Among Seattleites newly regis-itower operator; Ian Ogg and Jerry application forms to Commandant | tered at the Blranof Hotel arC‘McCflr&hy, representing Pan Am-g (PTP), U. S. Coast Guard, Wash- | Miss May Morgan, E. L. Riordan, A.lerican, and Alex Holden, co»man-i | | at least a week. He said he be- lieved an agreement would be ington 25, D. C. | P. Nelsen and John AKkins. ]ager of Alaska Coastal. SOROPTIMISTS MEET AT BARANOF FOR LUNCHEON former State Convention plans were discussed it the meeting of Soroptimists in latest charge was speech at New London, rons of the Bubble Room. Soft.directly, as well ]candle-lighl from attractive table Beuter met with the group in lamps gives a welcome glow. The‘(he Alaska Coastal office of O. F. lamp shades are decorated with, of | Benecke, who represented mei all things, bubble dancers. The new|Chamber of Commerce aviation lighting was used last night for the {committee in the absence of Chalr- first time, and brought enthusi-{man Tom Dyer. astic comment. Others present Francis, Juneau CAA station man- {:\ger: Dan Ward, chief controll OFFICER EXAMINATIONS (By Associated Press) were Arnold Back in Helsinki from Moscow where he signed Finland’s biggest trade pact with the Soviet Union, | Premier Urhu Kekkonen said the new five-year agreement would make jobs for thousands more Fin- nish workers. Swedish King Is 92; LES WINGARD WESTWARD l wed|Sh Klng Is L Les Wi d, s 2 s peertencen ot Flags Fly in Honor SEATTLEITES HERE reached before that time. The carpenters are seeking fto bring their wage scal to $3 per hour, | Thursday for Ugashik where he will be associated with his brother in the L. G. Wingard cannery opera- tion during the summer. The Petersburg man stopped over in Juneau on his way to the West- (By Assoclated Press) Flags flew all over Sweden today in tribute to King Gustav's 92nd birthday. The King, who came to the throne in 1907, presided over the cabinet council but spent most ward in the interest of his town’s|of the day in privacy. plans for a new school building. l Mrs. Wingard and their daughter, Beverley will spend the summer ig Petersburg. Budweiser. AGFP BEER FROM GOWANDA Dr. W. M. Muir of Gowanda, N.Y., is staying at the Baranot Hotel. EYES EXAMINED LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARQUARDT g nlll?3""‘[‘0METRIST PHONE 506 FOR APPOINTMENTS Here’s a tip for you Mom: Home Beagtiful's Baby Depariment is full of things to keep your baby happy and healthy. You'll find a coraplete line of infants’ furnishings here. 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