The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1950, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE DAILY ALASKA EN 1PIRE—JUNEAU., ALASKA ) B QUALITY Raghme Kid Passes Away In Seattle: Famous Character of Early Klondike, Days, Dies |, 5 in Hospital [iyoin ! TEAMSTERS' STRIKE , SETTLED; LABORERS' | BISPUTE IS STILL ON| of Juneau's three-week-old affecting local construction } has been settlgd, and labor| hopeful today that the vould be settled in the near: | One future ctc late yesterday signed amsters’ union, Local 10, d been striking since July 3 for ing agreement. The contract signed yesterday calls for a wage of $2.08 per hour; T. B. Eric executive secretary the Ala Federation of Labor, aid. But many be able to agreement tractors and a Seatt ent General Laborer ¢ Ad picketd Teave job Prospects for an early settlement of the laborers’ strike were bright- ened today when two independent contractors signed a contract with the laborers’ organization. The laborers’ walkout was also called July 3, and Erickson said at that time that they were secking recognition of a contract already epted by some contractors here, and by contractors in Haines ag- way, Petersburg and Ketchikan.” The laborers’ have been asking for $2 per hour, and a compromise offer of $1.85 per hour the Ju- neau Contractors and Employers Association has been turned down. ALASKA BOY SCOUTS SAILING FOR HOMES SEATTLE, July cight Alaskan Boy Scout leaders who attended Valley Jamboree in i;m.s month will SEATTLE, Jul 3 time kid is de Hartley Clal the “Kid that box” in Robert “The died The rag- on, of Myfick Sr., ka d the famous drivers will not WC until an between con- Cor tion and Local 1203 (AFL), the coustruction of the go to igned poem, Grew,” a long ick was is the a gold rust d played tho f brought to way. About {907 in ¢ ured in a combination stances which led Seryice poem. Service a couple said the name were fictitious, room shootit based on act Myrick freque age of piano ever e Yukon he { of circum- to write of years ago in the poem lthough the bar- cribed in it was circumstances. tly recounted how 17, he playing Whitehorse, Y h of the boys were in the Malemute de was where by whooping how he heard music he night, in- his poem. verses with shooting poem of Myrick ,'(*(1 as one the > of he built story of a sul cription kid of years on Tans llowing old rushes, rich until 5 Thirty- 1d thei Scout to He ime stuck the rest in Daxy arod he didn't came outside He did well until the 1929 re-established time was Pa but he Seattle de. for home today The group, unde f Scout Executive of Juneau, has bec weeks Jtour. - The e Seattle since last Friday direction Power seven- been” 1n in crash, hims feat business llnn later attraction 1ag ater here During World Wa h played the piano for servicemen at the| Seattle USO. . The widow, Mary L. Myrick, a son Claude, and a daughter, Joy vive at t FROM ANCHORAGE Among Anchorage residents re- gistered at the Gastineau Hotel are william H. Gerald, Sig Johnson and J. M. Andell. NOTICE to those who subscribed to advertising in the special 1950 Soap Box section of The Empire. Please Mail Checks to: Elton E. Engstrom P. 0. Box 723 (Make checks payable to “Soap Box Derby”) — Thank You Often copied... never duplicated DANIEL GREEN Comfy S}lippers Rehrends Co. i Judge | 'ANSWER EXPECTED, EXTENSION JUNEAU | ing Alaska Be Made by Johnson on Alaska Tour When J. W. Johr dations concerning Alaska are madc tion in Washington, D.C., they be supported his personal servations on a.six-week tour of the Territory. Johnson is Special the Planning Division, wil Assistant Office is ir tions in and near Juneau, June 8 for the westward interior, returning here he lef and the Tuesday | and leaving for the capital yester- | day. | Before boarding the Pan Ame | en flight, he said, “As to progres in Alaska, everything is going well | especially well. Airports in genera are badly needed “What about Juneau?” he re peated. “Appli n for the exten- | sion to the Juneau runway, includ ing the proposed seaplane base, i still pending. We hope to have the final answer within a | w eeks.” | With Edward G. Fisher of An- chorage, Acting Chief, CAA Airport | Division, Johnson went from here to Anchorage, then drove to Tok and the Canadian border, ing airports and proposed sites. Johnson expects an airport to b built presently at the border, connection with the Customs and | Immigration stations. The neare | one at present is at Tok, 97 mile from the Canadian border. The CAA men went next to Fair- banks, Point Barro Kotzebue Nome and Fort Yukon. Construction on an airport for Kotzebue is to start August 1, anc that at Fort Yukon is under con- struction. These will accommodate Wien-Alaska regular schedules. Airlines are using the N port at Point Barrow on a re: | basis. Wien is allowed two sched- ules a week. “The traffic could | said Johnson. “The C sider additional airports | the area.” | The CAA officials firm | airports being built by the CAA | separately from the Federal Aid t | Airport program. These are the in- | ternational airports at Anchorage and Fairbanks, % Returning to Anchorage, Johnson nd Fisher headed out on the Aleu- tian chain, inspecting airports at Cold Bay and Dutch Harbor, and going as far as Umnak. Then they Paul Island, where the |U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is sponsoring improvements of the existing airport. FORMER SENATOR GORDON IS BUSINESS VISITOR HERE SINCE /887 GUILTY IS PLEA MADE BY GOLD T0 SPYING CHARGE 20—P— | PHILADELPHIA, July Harry Gold, 39-year-old chemist | who has admitted serving as courier r a Russian atomic s ring pleaded guilty today to an in- dictm ~charging him with con- spiracy to commit espionage and giving information to potential enemy. The indictment, in two parts, was read to him before U.S. District James P. McGranery in a | half-filled court room of the federal building. “How asked Guilty,” voice The defendant, his hands man- acled, was led into the.court room by FBI agents. Only about 60 per- sons were present when Gold came | into the court room. A dozen more drifted in as the proceedings be- gan. The maximum penalty under law is death. The 39-year-old Gold, a research chemist at Philadelphia General hospital and son of Russian parents, was arrested here May 23, the fir of four United States citizens a rested this year on charges of giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union. PORTLAND C. OF C. i§ IN FAIRBANKS ON WAY T0 ANCHORAGE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 20— P—Twenty emissaries of “good will” om the Portland Chamber of Commerce were in Fairbanks today on a combined business and plea- stand more, A will con- to serve do you plead?” he was aid Gold in a the | . | visited St. in Juneau from his home , where he and Mrs. Gor- e in the merchandising bus- iness, Owner of Gordon's store in Juneau, the former senator is here on business. News of the former Jane Gordon who has many friends here, is that she is now in Ankara where her husband, Col. Milton Ascham is on a mission to Turkey. Until the Korean war, dons had planned to daughter this summer. is Gor- their the visit sure tour of the territory The group is headed by George valonun vice president of the st National Bank of Portland. Among the group is Professor A. L. Lomax of the University of Ore- gon School of Business Administra- tion. Lomax will remain in the ter- ritory for a year to make a study of tfade and commerce potentiali- ties. The Portland group leaves here tomorrow for Apchorage. on tube, in Forerunner of the telev the oscilliscope, was invented 1906. OPEN ALL Chinese dishes, Italian dinners, Sea Foods, Steaks and Chicken Dinners served all night. New Country Club. 3 Store Buildings for Rent 1. Goldstein Fares Reduced One Way Round Trip 63.00. 113.40 98.00. 176.40 Homer 80.00. 144.00. Naknek A.B. 104.50. 188.10. Naknek Village 114.50.. 206.10. 109% Reduction on Round Trip *Plus Tax Anchorage Kodiak Daily Flights — Passengers, Mail and Air Cargo Connections at Anchorage for all Interior and Westward Points \\u Lrctric NORIIERA Tickefs and Reservations BARANOF HOTEL Phone 716 1/IRLINES, INC. AIRPORT, SHORTLY RecommendationsRegard- on's recommen- to the Civil Aeronautics Administra- ob- of | Airports, for the CAA. After inspec- couple of | inspect- | ir inspected twc | Fermer Senator Frank S. Gordon | in} LODESTAR TAKES FRIELE AND VOSE 10 TOP OF WORLD Ihirty hours of flying in Alaska | hown William Wihcapaw, pri-{ pilot for C. R. Vose and Ha i) B. Friele on a trip around territory’s perimeter, m than four years of Soutl flying a erican Mr group Vose's Lockheed Lodesta has compieted in t a trip to Barter Island, Pt.' the Bristol Bay area and Southeast Alaska Friele, vice President and manager of the Na Corp., salmon division & P, has been coming iska for more than thirty yes the present trip is his first the Arctic. Mr. V insur- broker of New York, a friend | 1ess assoclate of Mr. Friele, in Fairbanks a few years | »ut this time he, too, saw the for the first time ther Wincapaw or his co-pilot and man, had ever been to Alaska re, though Alaska flying i nlike that the pilot had known | n South America where he was a ommercial pilot from 1937 until { 1940, { } Meets Balchen A high light of the trip was meet 7 Col. Bernt Balchen, a relative Mr. Friele, in Anchc The to Barter Island on the Arctic vas made in his company | nd the Lodestar group were his| uests at the far north outpost Barter Island, a live polar captured by the Eskimos for' \ Philadelphia museum afforded i the party plenty of action | | with their cameras. Mt. McKinley | which they flew over, and & | ishing in Bristol Bay rivers \ | i 1 h of of to! Thoma 1| ince I in led other excitement along the | The Lodestar, which Mr. for transportation between his | 2ome in New York and his Mon | -ana ranch, left Montana July | ind followed a route to Annette,, Anchorage, where they were joined Col. Blachen, to Fairbanks, Bar- r Island, Barrow, Kotzebue, nd t to Bristol Ba In the Bristol Bay area they de- | ried the Lodestar for a smaller lane to visit canneries and tak ime out for sports fishing. After | )p at Anchorage the big plane | | »roceeded to Annette Island, and | | its passengers took Ellis Airlines | canneries at Hidden Inlet and erfall. They will return south oday “Routine flight s the way the After his Wincapaw v Vose without incide pilot reported the | South American | fle widh the | Al Air Force Ferry Command, | in the Navy five years then | with Trans World Airlines until he | ioined Mr. Vose as his private pilot. | “It's a swell job. We just spent four months in the Virgin Islands | tefore we came to Alaska.” | Mr. Friele will be north again rip, flying, vas (I ! had { served Your INVITATION to t Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. Madsen Cycle & Fishing Supply-Thomas Hardware & Furniture-Percy's summer and | i 1 it Tea P Company at Gl Michael Clifford B [cta son of M [ TWO BIDS RELEIVED ON PUBLIC WORKS J0BS | d n the airbank. school buildi en € stimated 1 w to a radiogram received by cause > former WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1950 |BABY GRANDSON OF HANS BERG IS DEAD ONLY 10 DAY e UNTIL i Baitieground COMES TO THE CAPITOL 3-montih- Clifford Ketchi- accord- the Hans and been ents u buj | home and Mrs passed away at the spital this morning at Mr. and Mrs fell recer eved to have of death. The p residents of Ju Ketchikan two years Call 416 when in need of a— BASEMENT, FIREPLACE or CHIMNEY Don’t accept inferior work from unskilled “tradesmen”, #ARL CRASS & SON The Carl th achers’ living by the Q struction wa; ka Pub- aid found of the Ala, ter en rd from | Public Works 1dqu Wa ton, D. Date for project in on a school originally afternoon, | one 2 bid week, BEHRMANN HE Behrmann of S tineau Hotel. Max the Ga OPEN ALL NI Italian dinners, Sea nd Chicken Dinners | New Country Club. Chinese dishes, Steaks 11 night. Foods GENUINE OLD STYLE SOUR MASH KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY BONDED 100 PROOF e ol STTTZEL-WELLER DISTILLIRY, §NC., Loaisville, Ky. | Distributed throughout Alaska by ODOM COMPANY GENERAL CONTRACTORS Dr. John M. Montgomery Main and Front Streets PHONE 357 Glacier Construction Co. New Building — Remodeling — Cabinet Work Plastering — Concrete Pouring Sand' and Gravel Haulmg ¥ Chiropractic Health Clinic Dr. Geo. M. Caldwell Phone 477 The Triangle Cleaners Clothes a sight? ab the phone. | We clean ’em right. They’ll soon be home. Are you ready? Are you set? Then 9O Juneau SALMON DERBY al gwmeaw July 28 -29—30 Rules Available at - Juneau-Young Hardware Co., Inc. Sponsored by Territorial Sportsmen, Ine. _——l A