The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1950, Page 2

- — PAGE TWO ROBRT EUGENE CREW IS SAFE; CARGOINSURED SEATTLE, Aug. 23—®—The five- | man crew of the 130-ton motor ves- sel Robert Eugene was reported safe on Addenbroke Island on the BFft- | ish Columbia coast today after the Alaska-bound ship was grounded | in sinking' condition yesterday. Adgenbroke is about 50 miles be- yond the northern tip of Vnncouver Island, in Fitzhugh Sound on the | mainland coast. District Coast Guard headquarters received word that the five men landed on the island late yester- day. The vessel, with more than 100 tons of cargo for Juneau mer- chants, was reported submerged off- shore, with only its upper sections above water at high tide. (Messages reaching Coast Guard | headquarters i Juneau this af-| ternoon said that the Dorothea, a vessel owned by Martin B. Dahl, reached the scene of the sihking at 11:14 a.m. today. The Dorothea Mrs. Charles Tuckett ' Will Be Honor Guest At Tea on Saturday For Mrs. Charles Tuckett, for- merly of Douglas, who is visiting friends on Gastineau Channel, Mrs. Chris Ehrendreich and Mrs. Leigh Grant will be hostesses at a tea Saturday afternoon. The at-home will be at Lhe Ehrendreich residence fgom 3 until 5:30 o'clock, Mrs. Ehrendreich and Mrs. Grant | have issued no special invitations | but invite all friends of the visitor {to call and greet her. Mrs. Tuckett, whose home is now |in Seattle, will be here for about three Weeks. | CANADIAN SHIPS ARE TIED UP IN | RAILWAY STRIKE | post window. had taken the crew ol the Robert Eugene aboard, the messages stat-| VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 23—® ed.) The Robert Eugene is owned by M. B. Dahl and Sons, Inc., of Ju- neau, Alaska. The Seattle agent of the firm said today the tug Salvor had been ordered from Vancouver, B. C. to the grounding scene to try .to free the vessel. It was learned in Juneau today that both the cargo and vessel were fully insured. Local merchants whe had cargo aboard were Case Lot Grocery Bert’s Grocery, Juneau- Young Hardware Co,, Thomas Hard- ware, Junéan Bakery and: Purity Bakery. Mafshall Erwin had a new Pontiac sedan on board, Other Beats Two Tacoma . sports = fishermen were overdue off the Oregon Coast. They were Avery Richardson, @ sporting goods store operator, and W. F. Altenbaugh. Both are about 60. They failed to return from e Sunday fishing trip in an 18-foot cabin boat. Another missing man was Herbert A. Lerner, who was sailing the 35- foot yacht Santa Maria from Set- tle to the Virgin Islands. His boat was seen Sunday;eévening, drifting at sea off the Columbia mouth on ite side with a gaping hole n: the bow. Baranof Westward This Aft.; Southbound Sunday The Baranof sailed tHES. after- noon at_2:48, for the . westward —The national railway strike cast al darkening shadow today across| Canada’s Pacific Northwest. ! As in the rest of Canada, the| strike began . shortly after yesterdy in British Columbia. In this area 5,000 operating trainmen and coastal seamen of the Canadian | Pacific and Canadian National rail- | ways went on an enforced holiday. The five Princess ships of Canad- ian Pacific steamships, which con- nect Vancouver by sea with Seattle and Victoria, B. C. bobbed at unfam- iliar anchor in English Bay here. | Hedley S. Hipwell, Vancouver | tourist association president, said; tourist traffic, an imporant iuJus- try in British Columbia, would be hurt badly. Continuation of the strike would | be a staggering blow at British Col-i umbia’s main industries—lumber, | mining, fishing and agriculture. In Junheau, W. K. McFarland, lo- cal CPR agent, sald that none of | his dompany’s vessels are expected | to sall for Alaska until further no- | tice. “ DIRECT SUBSIDIES ~ ARE RECOMMENDED WAsmNo'roN Aug. 23 — B — Te . House' Cothtéree Committee voted (totlay. # Satus ‘of earmarking subaidies £6/attlifes as such and not dawn | | for business and government. “FOR U. 5. AIRLINES FOUR AUSI(A POST OFFICES RECEIVE MAILING MACHINES | The Post Office parcel post win- {dow service will soon. be mechan- jzed in 4 cities in Alaska where post offices will replace stamps with postage meters. The new sér- vice cuts down waiting-in-line time at parcel windows and speeds pack- ages on their way without so much as the lick of a stamp. The installations are part of a |new contract for special postage meters which the Post Office De- |partment has awarded Pitney-Bowes Inc., makers of mailing machines The, machines will be installed in some 100 cities and towns in the United | States and Territories, twenty-four of them getting the service for the | first time. Here is how the system works; ' the window clerk at the parcel post window, after weighing your package and computing takes your money and touches levers on the electrically- operated postage meter machine. Out pops a small printed labet, gummed and even automatically moistened, complete with postage of the exact value, plus the city postmark and date of mailing. It |is slapped on your packagé, and | the transaction is over. Time spent { waiti in_ line is halved, and| stdmp-licking abolished. Mechanlcnlly, the new device is |a cousin of the famillar postage Mis. Crystal Snow Jenne, Juneau Postmaster, tries out new auto- matic mailing machine recently installed at local Post Office parcel " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Inspeding New Equipment To Increase Number Men FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 23 —(P—High American officials dis~ closed here today that the United States is considering a build-up of its armed forces in Germany to bolster the defense of West Europe against possible Commuqlst attack. Discussions are now going on 'in Washington, the officlals said,’ on how many more troops, should ‘be sent. Washington also is discussing the possibility of acceding to West Ger=- man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s demand for a well-armed police army to counter the Russian-spon- sored “people’s army in East Ger- many. Details of the strength of such a police force are now being worked out, the informants said. American officials were said to favor wholeheartedly the proposed :reached the point where last year | In Germany, metered mail revenues to the Post 'on‘ice Department were over $500,- reinforcement of the U. S. occupa- tion forces here. the fee,! 000000—88% of alk postage paid on U. 8. mail They point out that the Russians have an estimated 20 or more | combat divisions, numbering about {300,000 men in their East German done, making up part of the 60 | divisions they are said to have in . N. Forces Throw in f . i Everything fo Slow |euwore. A The Americans, British, and French together have a total of { Down 90,000 Ko-Reds | (Continued from Page 13 only five combat divisions, plus ser- vice troops in Germany. The Am- erican contingent now numbers around 100,000 men. ALASKA STEAMSHIP T0 GET TWO MORE CHARTER VESSELS SEATTLE, Aug. 23—{&—Two more’ ! power and oxen are being used by the Reds to move food and ammu- 1 nition, | Again today allied planes lashed at Red targets. B-29's hit at three northern east coast cities—Chong- | jin, 60 miles from Siberia, Songjin yand Hamhung. The superforts also 'blasted rail yards at Pyongyang.|ships are being turned over to the 'the northern capital. At dawn|ajagkq Steamship Co. for military | Wedgents, American and A““"Bl']sea transportation service operation, 1 fighters took off to support|p g skinner, Vice President and . allied troops at the front. | general manager of Alaska Steam- Yaks Attack U. N. Ships | ship, announced today. | Naval patrols continued on the| Tne vessels are the Clovis Victory east and west coasts. Warships|pow in Alameda, Calif, and the 1 bombarded east coast ports. TWO|Bedford Victory, which is in Bal- Russian-built Yak fighter planes|timore, attacked the British destroyer Co-| The vessels will be turned over mus Tuesday, but the ship was re- | to the Alaska Steamship Co. under ported undamaged. Two Yaks hit| gareboat Charter Aug. 28 and at South Korean naval units in the ‘<lmulmneously rechartered to the iYe]low Sea Wednesday. IMsSTS. In the matter of costs for Korea,| The steamship Joliet Victory was Secretary of Defense Johnson and|the first vessel assigned to Alaska ,other military leaders have cau- | Steam under the present program. ! tioned Congress. they. may have to|The company took delivery on it | come back for more money on top | in New York, last week of the $10,500,000,000 President Tru- man asked for the Korean war. | with Betty McGowan, Dianna, Field, | rieiiding ;thétn’ in airmal pay. B. C. Bell and Mr. and Mrs/R. B, ~The committee, by a vote of 15 Robertsort’ embatking ‘for Séward. .to 2, approved a bill by Rep. Hesel- The Baranof returfis sonthbound | ton - (R-Mass) for separation of Sunday afernoon at 6 o'¢lock. mail pay and subsidies. i It would: direct the Civil Aero- sui wts'r‘-vm iy nautics Board to put the new sys- N) SETH tem into effect beginning July 1, ON CANNERY HUBINESS|igs; el Any subsidy needed to keep the Two officials of the New Bngland | airiine industry healthy financially Fish Company were hetre on ness this week, and left fot Seattle | naytics Board. today. o Beretn. enea suiien | Dlgmty of Salmon On Columbia River; Doosn'l Ilclp Here dent visited the Néw England can- nery at Chathm- yesterddy,” fetim- ing late in the. day. Synnéstvedt planned to meet fils wite in"Ketehi- busi- fwonld _be.ppid by the Civil Aero- | P | postage charges and fees, since any | is visiting Southeast Alaska for the | meter usel by business firms under! government license to stamp and: seal letters in their offices and to prepay parcel post charges in thelr shipping rooms. The new post office model com- U.W. FISHERIES INSTITUTE " new ot e mod l_pmmon ON RESEARCH ecting, handling and ' affixing ol Although Dr. William T. Thomp- the various denominations of | son has spent most of the past| stamps needed to make up the;scveral months in the Territory he value—from 1c to $10.00—is issued | first time in a year. | instantly in a single “meter Stamp.”| Director of the University ot; In a test installation in a large ;Washington Fisheries Research In- Eastern post office, a queue of |stitute, Dr. Thompson has been in! sixty parcel-laden people was ser- | the Bristol Bay area and other dis- | ved in exactly ten minutes. ! tricts to the westward during the Hyglenically minded people like | early season. He expects to go to the new system because it does|Sitka for a short stay, return here | away with the handling and tungue-.tor a few day, then go to points | kan for the rest bf the Prince George crulse o MENE ek:| ssTORIA, Ore. Aug. 23 — (b — voyage ‘'t while Hher : wha, ' obtupfed TRIANGLE CLEANERS Plumbing Sports Mmh bia River in everything from outhoard boats to mahogany-lined ketch; today reported the big sal- mon run is giving them good luck. The run appeared in the river| late Monday and commercial fish- efmén have been making heavy cgtchés in the last week of the comttiercial season. Spotts fishermeén have reported a, number of catches of 40 and 41 pbunds, with one weighing 42. One ty of foir reported that all jembers got salmon yesterday with weights ranging from 28 to 35 ANJURED MAN BEING FLOWN . TO JUNEAU BY CG PLANE| ;A crewman from-the fishing ves- | spl California Rose was being flown from Chatham, about 100 miles southwest of Juneau, after suffering a back injury today. : A Copst Guard aircraft from An- mw Island Jeft at 1 pn. to bring injured: man to Juneau. Mis name was not given in messages reaching Coast Guard headquarters hete. GRATEFUL RAILROAD BUTTE, Mot —»—Twp Butte girls colieotsd $25 apiece for avert- ing a possible trein wreck. Marlene , 18, and Joan Beckman, 13, ‘atseovéred a broken rail near Robker ahd notified the station agent. THe Milwaukee railroad sent ® Heating fishermeén, on the lower Col- ! licking of stamps. There are major savings to Uncle Sam as well.as postal patrons, since the machine not only speeds up window and counter service, but| “metered” parcels require no can- celing and postmarking and can be more quickly sorted for early train dispatch. Another advantage claimed is that post office inspectors, cashiers and clerks are protected by auto- matic and foolproof postage control and accounting, since the meter’s registers can be read like gas or water meters; and the postage, evén when imprinted, is non-negotiable. The metered mail system, orig- inated thirty years ago by the Pit- | grounds. Two are in Icy Strait, the along and in the Bering Sea. 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