The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1950, Page 2

PAGE TWO CAPITOL THEATRE STARTS SUNDAY KEENAN WYNN - GALE ROBBINS GLORIA DE HAVEN Based on the Lives and Music of BERT KALMAR and HARRY RUBY. e TUMWALT TO "TAKE' CONFERENCE T0 ALASKA ADVENTISTS When the president of Alaska Mission, Seventh Day Adventists, leaves about September 1 on his annual two-month tour, he will have for others of his faith a first-hand account of the recent conference in San Francisco. Besides his own Ssummaries from carefully taken notes, Pastor A. L. Zumwalt will carry tape ree- ordings of outstandinig. addresses and meetings at the quadrénnial World Conference of Seventh Day Adventists. ¢ Pk Also, he has mounted . news- paper pictures and -features on a wide paper several’ yards long, for an effective wall -display.’ Sev- eral ANgHLISt . issues wepe. D -4 lished by newspapers ‘in the City. In the more than 20 years in was the first general conference Pastor Zumwalt has been able to attend. Besides Mrs. Zumwalt, other Juneaultes attending were John W. Griffin, Alaska Mission treasurer, and Mrs, Griffin. The World Conference, ' which has met every four years except in wartime, was attended ' last month by 889 delegates from 68 countries. Only the Ifon Curtain countries were. not repres>nted, although Communist China was. The Adventists’ General Con- ference was organized 87 years ago with 20 delegates represent- ing 3,500 members, all in North America. Today there are 716,544 members all over the world—an increase of 61 per cent since 1936. Current assets include 162 med- ical units, 290 colleges and sec- ondary schools; 3,341 elementary schools and 52. publishing houses. In the past four years the Dor- cas (welfare) work of the church has raised $2,805370 for world relief, shipped 1481 of clothing to 41 countries and 1,732 tons of food to eight countries, besides thousands of C.ARE. and. indi- vidual packages. It is estimated that help has been given 'to 14, 229645 destitute persons. According . to Pastor Zumwalt's records, there are 330 members in Alaska in 14 companies (and places), and the Alaska Mission operates the Bristol Bay Mission School at Lake Aleknegik. _The Juneau office is headquarters ‘for all Alaska work, which includes four church schools. . President ~ Zumwalt's “grand tour” will take him to Seward, Anchorage, Palmer, Kotzebue, Deering, Nome and Fairbanks; to Dillingham and other Bristol Bay destinations, and all over South- east Alaska. ay SEMI-MONTHLY MEET SQUARE DANCE ASS'N. SCHEDULED FOR AUG. 19 ‘The regular semi-monthly dance sponsored by the Gastineau Chan- nel Square Dance Assoctation will be held at the Parish Hall August 19, beginning at 8:30 p.m. Gus Gissberg, of the Promen- aders, is in charge of arranging the program and reports that all the regular callers will be on hand to show their stuff on both old and new dances. Music will again be furnished by the orchestra under Chuck Werner, the “fiddler from the Ozarks.” All square dancers are urged to attend. FROM BELLINGHAM Bellingham, Wash,, visitors stop- ping at the Baranof Hotel inchude Jack Mellquist, H. O. Heal and C. L. Taylor, " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ARMY, NAVY| WAR REVIEW | | Prize Winning Photo This' spectacular on the spot photo of an.air-show stunt plane barely missing an Army B-29 was award- ed first prize for spot news pictures, metropolitan division in the California Associated Press Photo Con- test. The photo was made by Bill Crouch, Oakland Tribune staff photographer at an air show in Oak- land, Calif., last October. (P Wirephoto. | | { | 1 | | ing, New York: (@ Wirephoto. " WORLD REVIEW (By the Associated Press) | ENLISTED MEN'S FOLKS | ‘Senaté and House Committees | have approved legislation designed to provide $85 to $125 a month for the support of families of enlisted | men in the three lowest pay grades | of 'the Armed Forces. The enlisted man ‘himself would pay $40 of the total. SHANGHAI CARGO HALTED Two British shipping companies in Hong Kong have suspended cargo sallings to Shanghai. The announce- ment . was made after the China coaster; Tsinan, owned by one of the | companies, hit a mine entering |‘Shanghai harbor. This is the fourth | ship, mined in, the past few months, and the only oneé to stay afloat. The Nationalist, Chinese planted the mines to help enforce their blockade of the Communist port. | ROD NOT SPARED American children can be thank- ful they won't end their school vaca- tions -in‘ England. Three American teachers, landed in New York today after, swapping jobs with three Brit- ish: teachers for a year. Says Miss Elsie Hawk of Illinois: “They used the strap regularly. We never use a switch in Peoria.” WIRETAPPING | +A-Senate subcommittee will re- | sume hearings today in ‘a probe of | wiretapping in the nation’s capital. A Washington police lieutenant — Joseph Shimon—has been called to | answer chargés that he tapped the telephone lines of Congressmen and | other political bigwigs. | NEGRO TROOPS LANDED Associated Press Correspondent Stan Swinton—in a dispatch from | the front—says the U.S. 24th In- fantry Regiment is fighting prob- ably the best and proudest battle in the history of the American | Negro foot. soldier. Swinton says men who were in combat with the Negro 92nd Division in Italy and the 93rd Division. And Swinton quotes a White | Colonel as saying: “The 24th Regi- | ment’ fights better than any Negro |outfit "in history—including the lV.:nd," Marines Man V 5 /REGULAR MEETING OF | CITY COUNCIL TONIGHT The Juneau City Council will meet at 8 o’clock tonight in the City Hall and read two new city ordinances + for the third and final time. | The ‘ordinances (1) increase card table license fees, and (2) make pro- visions for collecting the city tax on automobiles ai the beginning of each year when automobiles are li- censed. At present card table license fees are $20 for any number of tables up to four; the new ordinance will in- crease the rate to $35 per table. Automobile tax bills are now sent out in October. A study of existing defense ord- inances will probably be made at the council meeting, according to Mayor Waino Hendrickson. Mrs. W. J. Malorey of Chicago s stopping at the Baranof Hotel. anfage Point U. §. Marine rocket launcher and machine gun crews prepare a hot welcome for the enemy from a com- manding position on bluff overlooking the plains somewhere in Korea. ground), Greenville, Tex., aims machine gun as Cpl. Leon Rothgeb, Rileyville, Va., prepares to feed bullets. Pfe. Richard Wallack (left) St. Cloud, Minn.; loads rocket launcher held by Pfe. Wilfred Diaz, Flush- Pfc. Billy Weatherly (fore- HOSPITAL NOTES William - Casperson, Al Overholt- zer, Mrs. Pearl Lane, Mrs. Arthur STAFF CHIEFS OFFFORTOKYO | ! WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — ® — General J. Lawton Collins and Ad- {miral Forrest P. Sherman, the top |Army and Navy leaders, will leave |by air Saturday for Tokyo. | Announcing this today, an Army | spokesman said the trip will be made to “determine needs and see what's going on.” “It's nothing extraordinary,” he said. “The trip is in line with | the practice of visiting the fiefd. | |All of the chiefs make such trips ! |as frequently as they can.” l In reply to a question, the spokes- |man said there had been no re- {quest from General MacArthur for | Collings and Sherman to make the i trip. | The Army chief of staff and the {Navy chief of operations are to |leave Washington at 7 am. (EST) Saturday. | Collins and Gen., Hoyt S. Van- | denterg, chief of staff of the Air | Force, made a similar trip to Jap- {an and Korea in mid-July. | Losi Vessel Found {After 3-Day Search | A three-day air search for a 40- | foot vesesl ended late yesterday | when the craft, which broke away | from the power-barge Chatham in | the Barren Island area of the Gulf of Alaska, was found by a West | Coast search aircraft from Kodiak. | The craft was sighted 20 miles } south of the position where it was ) reported lost, according to Coast icvuard headquarters here. It broke CAA MAN HERE Joseph Frydlo of the Civil Aero- | nautics Administration staff at Gus- | Schuttenhelm, John Raymond Hope, | Mrs. Veva Haviland, Linda Bloom- quist, and Elbert' Brown were ad- mitted to St.! Ann’s hospital yester- day. Bernard O. Boettcher, Robert Di man, and Margaret Mize were di missed. James Duncan of Douglas was admitted to the Government hos- pital, and Mrs. Elizabeth Lawson of Mt. Edgecumbe and her infant son were dismissed. CALIFORNIANS HERE Among Californians newly regis- tered at the Baranof Hotel are Dr. and Mrs. Hilton Lusk and Mr. and Mrs, .George K. Ramsey, of Snc-l ramento; Mr. and Mrs. . C. Van Dyke of Pleasant Grove and Jean Coman, San Francisco. NEW JOHNSON'S Cream WAX CLEANS + POLISHES * PROTECTS This great new Johnson product re- moves dirt and grime from !mtwq woodwork and kitchen equipment. Leaves a gleaming, protective figndn that’s long-lasting. Contains no oil to catch dust and dirt. This amazing créam wax works faster than any othgr polish! You can clean and polish a big table in 80 seconds. Try new Johnson’s Cream Wax today. - JOHNSON'S Cream WAX | | { | | | tavus is registered at the Baranof Hotel. LD FASHIONED.. £z sae 454 TITZEL-WELLER DISTILLERY, INC., Losisville, Ky. Distributea throughout Alaska by ODOM CCMPANY (By the Associated Press) Eastern front: South Koreans re- capture Kigye and Pohang, permit- ting U.S. planes once again to use important air strip. North central front: Allied planes, tanks and troops stall drive by 30,000 Reds on Taegu and then counterat- tack, rolling up gains. Evacuation of Taegu ordered to turn it into all- THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1950 24 ARRIVE, 8 60 ON PNA FLIGHTS In yesterday's opeartions, Pacific Northern Airlines brought 24 pas- sengers from the westward and car- ried eight outbound. Arriving from Anchorage were Bart and Melvin Anderson, Miss Chambers, Dick Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Zoberst, Thelma Clark, Mrs. Margo Britch and infant, Mr. and military base. South central front: American Marines and Doughboys give Red Fourth Division a “hell of a lick- ing” in Changnyong sector, 23 miles southwest of Taegu, taking back strategic high ground and chasing many Reds back across Naktong river from their bridgehead. Southern front: American repulse enemy attack, take back lost grounc in fierce, close-quarters battle west of Masan on extreme south of battlefronts. Air war: US. and Australian planes give close and heavy support to ground troops, rip up enemy | equipment. B-29’s take off for new raids on enemy communications. | U.S. cruiser raids Tanchon in far North Korea, hitting rail yards I with heavy guns. Lake Success—United States de- | mands unified, independent Korea as Security Council delegates try in vain to break Soviet procedural blockade on Korean situation. | ‘Washington: Army announces G. }J. Lawton Collins and Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, top Army and Navy‘ leaders, will leave by plane for | Tokyo tomorrow, to “see what's ; going on.” | Mr J. A. Lanigan, Kenneth J. Xadow, Mr. and Mrs. C. Cole, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Rushlight, F. L. Kerzie, Ben Stone, D. K. Josselyn, Mr. Riley and Mr. Booth. Board- ng at Cordova were Homer John- son, Mr. Huhn and H. O. Heal. Westbound, these persons went 2 Anchorage: Mrs. W. ‘ MRS. 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