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PAGE Twou THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1950 SOLDIER, LOST 12 NEW SUIT HERBERT ROWLAND DAYS, STUMBLES INTO ROAD CAMP ANCHORAC laska {#—A Fort Richardson sing since June 10 in Chugach mot in bled into an Alasks sion Camp southeast of day Corp. Vernon hob- Road Commis- here yester- Bynum, 2 TELLS SOROPTIMISIS 'ABOUT PUBLIC SPEAKING | | It the Soroptimists properly 4 i profit by the address given them o today by Herbert C. Rowland, a past president of Toastmasters In- ternational, members of the wom- | en’s professional club will be busy | |and successful public speakers Wwho will know how to “stand up, speak | up and shut up.” Introduced by Mrs. Mildred Her- ford, Ala, wa Force hospital 2 gunshot a wound, acci# Bynum, lying on a hospital co and chewi a large piece of to bacco, told of hi 1y ordeal. He started out from Fort Rich- ardson on A two-day hunting and trip and to “see what those | ins looked like.” He could aot find the same way back in two starts and the third time started down what turned out to be Campbell Creek canyon The soldier said that on June 18 the first clear day since he became lost, he came across a trail. He| could see Cook Inlet, near Anchor- age, in the distance. Bynum said: “I heard a big animal crashing through the uhderbrush. I loaded my rifle, but stumbled as I moved| across the rough terrain. The gun} fired, the bullet entering my heel. “I shot a branch off a tree and used it as a crutch.” I Bynum said his only food dur- ing his experience was a squirrel which he shot. “not too iresh eggs,” rancid bacon and some st bread found in a pack on the tr Although hundreds of groun searchers and planes had been seek ing trace of him, Bynum said “I didn’t see anyone while in those foothills. I didn’t see I wa any- one until I stumbled into thai camp.” Bynum said he has had muc experience “back home e and added “That sure came the past 12 d Bynum is attached to the 502nd Military Police Detachment at Fort Richardson in woodlor in handy during He has a son, John, 5, living with his grandpar at Clarksville Tenn. ( & 0 OFFICIALS ARE ON TOUR OF ALASKA S5 Pictures of %p‘,\ i‘ by “One Shot [ r\m]l Were ht to the north eorge’ the lure which br rom Cleveland, Ohio. a party of six who will be Juneau Saturday Louise is in port budget director of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail way, Mrs. Whanger and their daug/i- ter, Mary, and Joseph C. Kauffman general counsel of the C & O, Mrs Kauffman and their daughter, Carl are in the group. hey will tour to Skagway, Carcross, Whitehorse Fairbanks, Mt. McKinley Park, An- chorage and Seward 18 in when the Princess E. M. Whanger, RETURNS 10 JUNEAU AFTER 21 YEARS AWAY Mrs. Marion Taylor of Oakland Calif., arrived on the Aleutian, ac- companied by her children, Gail and Brian This is Mrs. Taylor’s first to her home town in 21 years she is enjoying it very much. They are the house guests of her uncle, Abel Koski and expect to re- main in Juneau for about six week Mrs. Taylor will be best remem- bered as Marion Koskey and she was employed in the Commissioner of Education office at that time. visit and FROM San Franciscans registered at the Baranof Hotel include Cdr. W. E. Jackson Miles, Lt. Cdr. R. J. For- syth, Lt. Cdr. Marcus Miles, H. & Green, John E. Holtz and Frank A Hefner. The average American husband has about 18 neckties four-in-hands. —most of them rE H | mann, who told the club members they would “find Mr. Rowland the best looking man who had ever { addressed them and the most in- ‘(ert‘stmg speaker,” Mr. Rowland 1| told his audience that the first rule of “introducing” a speaker was “to make him feel at ease, not to am- | barrass him.” Mr. Rowland explained as a pur- H pose of the Toastmasters, that had || started as a hobby with its founder in 1924, and has now grown to anj international membership of more| than 20,000, the ' development of Community leaders—“speakers who % | can get up, think on their feet with- | out preparation. The plan of the organization keeps its memberxl active mentally. We learn organi- zation of our talks, we learn to overcome nervousness. We believe | that a person who can take con- d| structive criticism can become a' good leader . . . and the community —any community—is only as good Actress Marie Wilson models a new foundation bathing suit made | as its leaders.” The suit, a Holly- | creation, achieves of nylon net. wood, Calif., control through fabric and At the close of the meeling mem- figure bers questioned Mr. Rowland about 04 |a woman’s organization similar to were ready to start in Juneau an- other club for women. | Today's meeting was presided over by Mrs. Alice Schnee, in the absence of President Gertrude Wet- zel. At least twenty NON - SKED FILES FOR LIBEL AGAINST FAIRBANKS PAPER FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 23— | | E members of the | group are requested to be present | at the home of Miss Priscilla Parker | in the MacKinnon apartments Mon- day night to complete the 1,000 P — Golden North Alrways, Inc, corsages of Alaska cotton to send as filed a $50,000 libel suit yesterday | .o venirs to the Soroptimists con- against the Tanana Publishing| vention in Seattle next weekend. Company, publishers of the Fair-|ppe flowers must be mailed Tues- banks Daily News Miner. | The suit named an editorial, re- ted from the Daily Empire of concerning non-scheduled day and so far only 500 corsages have been made. Leaving today for the convention meeting were Mrs. Laura MacMil- J riers operating in Alaska. 1), 3 member of the Northwest afternoon. An eighth flew here Golden North declares in its suit| pecional Board and Mrs. Alice|] LANGTON. Ont, June 23—(P—| with spare parts. ~l<\imn‘nl> in the ednnrml;Thom& immediate past president | On¢ of the greatest manhunts in | 1 ‘defamatory, tending to hold| ¢t ‘club, Mrs, Bernice Morgan, | OPtario’s history widened over the! A up to public scorn, contempt aNd| vice president is mow south and | Samilton-London area today as a AUSSIE LABOR“’ES ridicule, destroy the good reputation | win attend the meeting, represent- andit-killer of two pursuers eluded afe and efficient and econom- | ; air operations and deprive the | hline of the benetits of public con- | fidence, respect and esteem and im- pair its usefulness and position a duly certified non-scheduled car- rier.” iss Wetzel, Soroptimist presi- English May Have A-Plant in "Four | of | Austin E. Lathrop, publisher the News Miner and president ul‘ b v the Tanana Publishing Company, | 0 F Y dosiond to pnipent ok s S I rive Years Charles Evar president o | Golden North, said the line started| HARWELL, England, June 23—(® operations as a partnership here in|—8ir John Cockroft, director of 1946. Owners under the incorpo-|the giant new Harwell atom re- ration are Evans, his wife, Virginia | search laboratory, says Britain may Evans of Fairbanks, and William | have a practical atomic power plant in “four or five years.” Cockroft revealed yesterday that researchers at Harwell, with this goal in view, are trying to figure out new ways to produce pluton- ium—atom bomb ingredient—faster and more efficiently. B. Frazier of Seattle. (VL SERVICE BILL HEADED FOR e I DEBATE ON FLOOR o Milifary Planes (By Assoclated Press) ¥ | The House Civil Service Commis- | In (raShes; s Dead sion has approved a bill which is| B . likely to cause quite a controversy | " Yy As'socmt.e:d il illed when it gets on the House floor.| At 1east five persons were kille in two military plane crashes in The bill would give the head of a |y 00 B EH BRI e government Department absolut il o bt gt P! ADSOTUE | A Navy jet plane on test flight authority to fire anyone in his De- partment in the interest of national | L1l in flames near Bedford, Vir- security. ginia, with the loss of at least Bs three lives. Most of the opposition to tr 4 . Y 0 the bill| “ry iy enlisted men died in the probably will come from those who think such a bill would threaten the I personal security of those who lnnght have built up many years ot | | seniority 'n the operation of the | Civil Service system. The backers lni the bill contend, however, that some way must be found to cut through the red tape that now makes it hard to get rid of people who are undesirable from the stand- point of national security. | plunge of a Marine Corps plane into a swamp near Hampstcdd‘ North Carolina. " FOR SUMMER DARIGOLD EVAPORATED MOTHERS REACH FOR IT WIiTH CONF Ask your Doctor EVAPORATED PERFECT QUALITY DISHES GUARAN- IDENCE FAMOUS SINCE 1894 | | construction and is inten c.d | the Toastmasters, learned that there munists will never be able to et-‘ be worn beneath conventional |, Toastmi: i1 ¢ 1 bathi its. (P Wirephoto. |is a Toastmistre nternational | gectively set up a news blockade. 0ver paclhc- The re s R ey ;and, some among the membershib| Tne reason, said correspondent | '] y . T 1 COOD TASTE THE YEARS! AND TODAY’S GREATEST VALUI T’Iulud C lp |uu TRY THIS FINER WHISKY TODAY! BLENDED WHISKY © 86.8 PROOF » 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS ® CONTINENTAL DISTILING CORPORATION * PHILA., PA, MOTHER IS TO SEE Prize Winner DAUGHTER RAISED G 70 SAINTHOOD VATICAN CITY, June 23 — (P — | For the first time in the 2000- year history of the Roman Catholic Church, a mother will see her daughter elevated to sainthood fo- | morrow: Mrs. Assunta Goretti, now 87, will be among the hundreds of | thousands who will see Pope Pins XII preside at the canonization of | Maria Goretti, who died in 1902 | at the age of 11 of 14 dagger | wounds received in defending her- | self from the impassioned attack of a country youth. Her slayer, now 68, Cuuwhln monastery tasks. He is Alessandro Srenelli, who served 27 years in prison for his act, and who later was one of the principal witnesses in the investigation preceding Maria’s ei- evation to sainthood. A deeply penitent recluse, he will not attend tomorrow’s ceremony. CHINA COMMIES CAN'T SUPPRESS NEWS SAYS AP MAN (By Associated Press) In a speech at Stanford Univer- sity last night, a veteran China correspondent of the Associated Press predicted that Chinese Com- | l lives in a deing menfal i Tiny Mikey Maxson of Eggertsville, N. Y., was grand prize winner in the ladies’ sailfish division of the 20th annual Fishing Festival at | Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The diminu- tive eight-year-old is in line for a handsome trophy for the 73-pound catch shown at her side. During the 25-minute struggle with the sail, she almost fell overboard sev- eral times. (® Wirephoto. Six B- 36 Ships Head Fred Hampson, is China’s long coastline. He explained that news | comes in and goes out by ship and . . Afier 38 Hours in Air is spread by word of mouth. 1 Hampson is the AP Bureau Chief ; HONOLULU, June 23— (M—Six | giant B-36 bombers tested their at Hong Kong, China, now on leave x of absence. He talked to a group |long reach with a training flight O Callfornia editors assembled at | faf out over the Pacific today, but | Stanford for the annual Associated | ¢! trouble forced a seventh to) Press news editors conferen i k to Hawail. MANHUNT CHASES |5 cei i KILLER OF TWO IN ONTARIOBUSHLAND north of Hawail yesterday, the Great Circle rou‘e which would carry them into the atomic proving grounds of the Marshall Islands. { The seven bombers took off from the mainlasd yesterday bent on re- maining aloft 38 hours before head- | ‘nv back and landing here lhis" | capture for a third day. BOW TO NEW WAGE . > 4 CANBERRA, Australia, June 23— | The fugitive cut down his two victims with a Sten gun Wednesday while fleeing a $23,000 bar holdup. Hundreds of police and vigilantes, ng rifles and tear gas, using The GUDORIHODs (Iabet U pety lanes, walkle-talkiek and ‘a blogd= | AT, todey, bawed b cRUERIRIREGY < demands for Senate passage of a hound to guide them, found nothing in the bushland just north of Lake Erie where the killer was originally thought to be hiding. British Sub Has Sand in Works; Hunt Is On LONDON, June 23—(®—The Bri- ish admiralty is on the hunt for saboteurs today after finding sand in the works of its submarine allygHo. The Tally-Ho, undergoing a r¢%it at Devonport dockyards, is a 1,900- ton patrol type submarine. It is believed to carry a new underwater breathing apparatus which allows long submersions. wage regulation to which the labor- ites objected. The opposition group, with a ma- jority in the Senate, last night had blocked passage of the regulation, providng a bonus equivalent to 56 cents weekly for a worker’s first child. The labor group had threatened to force an early general election unless the liberal-country party co- alition government agreed to dis- regard the bonus in computing { basic wage rates. Withdrawal of the labor opposi- tion was followed by Senate pass- age of the bill. Mrs. Roosevelt in Paris; Will Lunch BEAT CARDS 18-5‘ With President The Department of the Interior| PARIS, June 23—#®—Mrs. Frank- scored nine runs in a big second in- ' lin D. Roosevelt arrived in Paris tonight for a five-day stay that will include a luncheon Tuesday with President Vincent Auriol. She DEPT. OF INTERIOR ning last night and went on to whip the Cardinal Club by a score of 18 to 5 in the softball game in Ever- green Bowl. came by car from Luxembourg with Batteries were: Interiors: Morris ) her son, Elliott, his two children Brown and'and Mrs. Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister and Prouty; Cardinals: lto Luxembourg. James. THROUGH (i 10-Year-0ld Girl Gives Birth fo 6-Pound Baby OMAHA, June 23—#—A ten- year-old girl and her newborn son were in “excellent condition” in an Omaha hospital today. ‘The baby, who weighed six pounds eight ounces, was delivered Tues- day without any special measures, a hospital spokesman said. The girl (white), described as “small for her age,” had been in CLYDE SHERMAN, FARMING EXPERT, STUDIES THIS AREA What can be done to stimulate agriculture and fur farming 1n Southeast Alaska? That is the question Clyde. G. Sherman of Fairbanks hopes to an- swer after his present swing through this area—his first trip here since being appointed Territorial Com- been given blood transtusions to build up her strength. The spokesman said the girl's name and address would be with- held. The child, he said, will prob- ably be placed for adoption ‘“very soon.” Mrs. Anna M. Walsh of Astoria, Long Island, N. Y. completed a trans-continental ~trip yesterday, arriving by Pan American. She is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. flon i B Jack Pinta of Des Moines, Iowa, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. He is with Lytle and Green, con- Ilems are,” Sherman said today, “to {' TOKYO, June 23—(®—Eight men jof the 11 man crew of a superfort 'National Guard | ing gunfire yesterday Wwounded four missioner of Agriculture January 1. After several days here, Sherman will go to Sitka, Ketchikan, Pet- ersburg and, possibly, Wrangell, re- turning to Juneau in about two weeks. “I want to make a study of the situation and learn what the prob- the hospital several weeks. She had ' struction contractors. Entertainment Games and Music see what we can do to help. I'm here to learn, and I hope I can have something more constructive to say when I come back.” SUPERFORT DOWN; 8 MEN RESCUED; 3 ARE MISSING WinaDoor Prize Queen Candidate Carmen's FROLIC down 140 miles off Guam, were res- cued today by a crash boat, Three others, one of whom was seen from planes as he tried tc climb into a lifeboat, are missing. The crashboat reached the sur- vivors of a B-29 crash before dusk, Far East Air Force headquarters announced. A search for the other crew members continued. three May Turn Out to Guard Rayon Plant| MORRISTOWN, Tenn., june 23 —P—This violence-shaken com- munity awaited a decision today on whether National Guard troops will be returned to the bloody strike scene at the American Enka Corp. rayon plant. Representatives of Gov. Gordon Browning questioned about 100 men and women at Hamblen -county jail far into the night after roar- men, one critically. i They announced they would make | a full report and recommendationi to the Governor today. Mystery Sounds May Come irom Jef | Plane Maneuversi (By Associated Press) Scientists at the Ames laboratory | in Sunnyvale, Calif., have suggested | a possible explanation of mysterious | explosion sounds disturbing people in parts of California and Ohio. It may be a case of an entirely new Moose Hall-8 p. m. man-made sound—the noise of re- T“QSdaY’ June 27 search jet planes in dives and pull- 0uts at close t0 the SPEEd Of SOUNQ. | p————————————————————————— MOOSE — LIONS and Guests Planning to re-furnish vourdiningroom...? ... if you are, here’s a wonderful opportunity you won't want o miss. On display in our window is a beautiful light, modern, inex- pensive 10-piece diningroom set for only $275.00 An excellent combination that will blend beautifully with most any surroundings. 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