The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 6, 1950, Page 2

PAGE TWO Send them off to school in jaunty, brightly colored Phocnix anklets. You'll love the casy laundering — the snug, healthful fie. All com- pletely seinforced with aylon for sturdy, longer wear, Choose from our wide selec- tions now. Sizes 6 to 11 B M Bfrends Ca QUALITY SINCE /887 SPORTSMEN VOTE FUND T0 IMPORT BIRDS, GRAYLING The Territorial Sportsmen, Inc., voted at a meeting last night to put up $2500 to import 50 Norwegian blackcock for release in a suitable sgutheast Alaska, area. This will be in cooperation with the Fish and Wildlife Service which is making ar- rangements to bring the birds from Norway. W. A. Chipperfield of the Forest Service reported that the Ferebee River country between the Chilkoot River and Lynn Canal presented the best possibilities in feed, cover and climate for this type of wild fowl. They will be under automatic pro- tection for five years following their introduction, President Jack O'Con- nor pointed out. Grayling Project A report was given on the progress of the grayling transplanting project which is expected to get under way next week. This is a three-| way cooperative deal initiated by | the Sportsmen who obtained the as- \ ‘o hold another meeting at which ime the matter of the trap-shoot- ng range and building will be taken up. SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD DUCK SHOT 2,500 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6—@— Sixteen years after a male pintail duck was banded at the Alameda County Hunting Club, it was bag- ged by an Alaskan hunter, 2,500 miles away. The California division of fish and game places metal bands on the legs of waterfowl. When the bird is shot, these bands are re- turned and used in studying bird migrations, life spans and other biological factors. The report on the pintail showéd it was banded in 1933. It was shot last year by John V. Siruck of { Ugashik, Alaska, near his home. EQUIPMENT SALESMAN HERE Harry R. Forehand, in charge of MILES FROM HOME sistance of the Alaska Department | of Fisheries and the FWS. The| Sportsmen are providing the funds for seining, and transporting this splendid sport fish to six areas near Juneau. Clarence Anderson of the ! Department of Fisheries told of the various official necessary clear- ances secured to move the fish— from the Minister of Fisheries at Ottawa, the FWS, the Forest Ser- vice and from British Columbia. The grayling are to be captured in Lake McDonald in British Colum- bita, held in pots until planes can move them quickly to the chosen Alaskan streams and lakes. The Sportsmen have arranged with Alaska Coastal Airlines to transport the fish. Clarence Rhode of the FWS has offered to carry load-for-load with the airline there- by making is possible to bring twice as many as originally planned. It is | hoped that between 3,000 and 6,000 fry grayling can be released this | fall in Alaskan streams, depending | on the numbers caught. | Funds From Derby { Ir Curtis, Secretary-Treasurer of | the Sportsmen, Inc, was not in| town, but O'Connor reported lhaci there was approximately $9,000 in | the treasury to carry out the organ- ization’s projects and launch a big- ger and better Golden North Sal- mon Derby next year. The Derby committee, Minard Mill, Jim Orme and all those coop- erating, were given a vote of thanks for their fine performance. Alaskan sales for the Nelson Truck Equipment Co., of Seattle is in Ju- neau for a few days. He is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. ‘Dorit beVague “ 55 STAR W. A. (Bud) Elkins showed a a3y F group of slides that he took last “:1 ui;-. month in connection with bird Kkx P banding in the nesting areas when: F‘IVE STAB 4,600 migratory waterfowl were tag- | 2 2 %an/ ged. He also gave educational com- | uflp"“?‘; xj#;" ments on the results of banding op- | erations and the comparative per- centages of wildfowl in Alaska. O’'Connor said that it would prob- ably be necessary for the Sports- imen to continue their project of feeding deer again this winter be- cause of the loss last winter. Woods- men have reported finding many | evidences of dead deer—but few live { ones. | ‘When the grayling planting pro-| Ject is completed the Sportsmen plan | ., HAIG & HAIG “J-,A sl s PRODUCT OF SCOTAND SLENDED SCOTS WHISKY 86.8 PROOP RENFIELD IMPORTERS, ATD.. NEW YORK THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA row on charg= eppel (R-Kans) | | public hearir es by Senator Sc that Secretary of Interior Chapman once belonged to Communist front groups. SCHOEPPL | called the hearings and .mnn\ln(‘l'd‘ | today that Schoeppel will be invit- | IN SPEE(H led to attend O'Mahoney said Chapman and E. L. Bartlett, representing Alaska as| | (Contirued from Page Ome) ‘i asked for permission to testify un= der oath at the hearing. He said Michael W. Straus, Com- | ner of Reclamation whose | Ity Schoeppel also had question- | and Randolph Fel former a Delegate to Congress, both have| Ernest Gruening and Delegate =. L. | Bartlett, who represents the Terri-| tory in Congress, of having been | instrumental in hiring to lobby for | Alaska statehood a former public relations counsel for Communist Poland. He identificd the lobbyist | as John Hampton Randolph Feltus, | 1 who, he said, was a registered “agent of the Kremlin via Warsaw” for three years before taking the Alask- an job. ed, lobbyist for the Alaskan state com- | i mittee whom Schoeppel named as a one-time agent for Communist Po- land, will testify later. | ©O'Mahoney said he will Governor Gruening of Alaska to ap- pear later. Schoeppel na i Gruen- | ing and Bartlett as having been | instrumental in appointing F | request tus as lobbyist for Alaskan statehood. | Statehood Bill May Be Taken Up in Senate by Next Week; Truman Ads | (Continued from Page 1) Hiring of Feltus The Senator said he has learned | that the Alaska statehood commit- tee, using Territory of Alaska funds, hired Feltus as its public relations | counsel. Schoeppel identified him as | a man who was “registered as an |agent of the Soviet Republic of Po- |land” for thee years from Oct. 15, 11946, to July 1, 1949 | Feltus, he said, s hired by the | Statehood committee and Governor | Gruening of Alaska and Delegate | Bartlett, representing the Territory |in Congress, were members. Schoeppel said he had been ad- vised that employment of Feltus was arranged between Chapman and Gurening, and demanded: Agent In Kremlin | icized for not bringing up the House- | passed bills before. Senator Butler (R-Neb) a foe of | statehood, told Lucas he knew of no Republican who was not ready to consider the matter whenever the Democratic Policy Committee decided to present it to the Senate. 0'Mahoney To Press For Vote “I wonder if the people of Alaska At this point, Chairman O'Ma- know that the man they employed honey (D-Wyo) interrupted to say to lobby for their statehood had | that he would seek to bring the bills been for three previous years the up as soon as the anti-Communist Washington agent for the Kremlin, |bill the Senate now is debating is | via Warsaw?” |out of the way. Bartlett told reporters the state-| Later Senator Anderson (D-NM), hood committee employed Feltus | Chairman of the Interior Subcom- | for “about three months” but drop- | mittee which heard testimony on the | ped him in July after learning of bill, told a reporter he would “not his former employment by Poland.! be surprised” if the bills were per- Bartlett offered to appear before mitted to come up. | O'Mahoney’s committee to reply. | He added that he also thought William Dougherty, Interior De- |the Senate would approve them. | partment spokesman, characterized| Another key administration lieut- Schoeppel’'s remarks as an attack 'enant, who asked not to be named, on Alaska statehood. He said Chap- |said in an interview not to be sur- | man was studying the speech and |prised if the bills were called up would have a “full statement” today. | for action. | | Dougherty’s Statement | He said he could forsee the bills | Dougherty said that Chapman: :being debated for several days and 1. Had nothing to do with the then, if no action was taken on appointment of Feltus, and didn’t |them, they would be put aside to be even know him. | taken up immediately should Con- 2. Never was a member of the gres return, as expected, before Jan- American League against war and |uary Fascism, one of the groups named,; The bills are expected to produce | | | | | | | |and | joint session with the Legion sched- | will be the subject of a panel dis- 'AUXILIARY OF [ LEGION ELECTS | DEPT. OFFICERS| Delia Saarf of Petersburg Chosen as President- -Installation Next 1 Deiia Saarf of Petersburg has been chosen President of the Alaska De- partment of the American Legion Auxiliary. Edith A. Davis of Anchor- age is named First Vice President Esther Clithero of Sitka elected Second Vice President. Other officers selected are: Thel- ma A. McKinney, Anchorage, Secre- -Treasurer; Edna Kraft, Kodiak, Historian; Charlotte Lesko, Seward, Chaplain; Izola Sims, Palmer, Serg- eant-at-Arms; Department execu- tive committee women, Nola Camp- bell and Ethel Olson, both of Anch- orage. Officers will be installed at a uled for this afternoon. Robert Dillard spoke to the Auxil- iary delegates yesterday on a re- habilitation program. Other business | included voting $1000 to the De- partment of Arizona for rehabili- tation assistance and $500 toward a guest house fund for Walla Walla, Wash. Winners of a poppy poster con- test were announced as fnllow.s:i Donna Cash, Juneau; Edison Peter, Mt. Edgecumbe and Eugene Temple of Juneau. The winning posters are being sent in to compete in the na- tional contest. The Ketchikan chapter presented Ethyl West, National Chaplain, with a corsage. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | MEETING TOMORROW A proposed road Swede Point on from Atlin to the Taku River cussion at the regular Chamber’ of Commerce luncheon tomorrow noon, Bob Boochever, President, announ- ced. Colonel John R. Noyes of the Alaska Road Commission; H. A. Stoddart of the Bureau of Public Roads and Frank Heintzleman of the U. S. Forest Service will be ispecial guests. Susy Winn will report on the Northwest Trades Association. FROM GUSTAVUS . Sam Little who is with the CAA at-Gustavus is registered at the Bar- \ tion he should make an apology ¢Mr. T anof Hotel. TRUMAN ATTACKS MARINES (Continued from Page 1) idential retraction was n He said the Mr. Truman has vil- |ogized ified and insulted the Marines, hurt | Marine GENERAL CONTRACTORS armed forces unification and dam-| aged the spirit of Marines I\!hun”‘ in Korea. i The President’s “propag re- mark was in a letter to Rep. Mc- Donough (R-Calif.) dated Aug. 29. Mr. Truman was replying to a re- quest from McDonough that tie Marines be given a representative on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along- | side the Army, Navy and«Air Force Members of the Marine Corps League, assembling for their an- nual convention in Seattle, had in- vited Mr. Truman to attend a banquet. They said he had ac- cepted and later declined because| of the press of military matters. But Nixon told reporte: “We feel he should come to the American people and te the Ma- rines, and through our organiza TH Nixon said that officers and the ff of the Marine Corps League unanimously approved his state-| ment of “indignant protest.” ! PRESIDE DISTURBED | WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 — (@ President Truman is considering sending a letter to the Marine| Corps League in an effort to .\tem‘ the furor and bitterness arising from his cracks about the Marine | Corps It was learned today. that Mr. Truman is disturbed by the reaction | to his assertions that the Marines are the “Navy's police force” and have “a propaganda machine that | is almost equal to Stalin’s.” i He conferred at length about it | with members of the White House | staff this morning. | Protests were pouring in to | his office over his statement, made in! letter to a congressman who had ggested that the Marines have representation on the armed forces | Joint Chiefs of Staff. | It was learned that the White | nmsu%%* * > House meeting discussed the ad- visability of a letter. Some of imman'’s staff urged a blanket apology to the Marines, The Marine Corps League opened its annual meeting in Washington today. Rank and file members were hopping mad at Mr. Truman. Some talked of throwing him out | of membership in the league. But national officers were trying | by Schoeppel. | considerable debate. when Schoeppel said the organiza- | tion was listed by a House commit- | missioner of the Bureau of Reclam- | engineer to work out of town, Cvusf ation, a branch of the Interior De- | Gissherg, manager of the Juneau to Formosa. PR A HEARING TOMORROW | FROM HAINES 3. Was a member of the Congress | of American-Soviet Friendship at ut time when Russia was an ally, but ! resigned 13 months before the time | BY Gus GISSBERG tee as a Red front. i 4. Signed loyalty oaths in 1933. | The Territorial Employment of- Schoeppel also demanded an in- | fice has a call for sawmill workers, vestigation of Michael Straus, Com- | section hands and an assistant boat partment. He accused Straus of be- | office announced today. There are | ing instrumental in a series of ev- | openings in Juneau for a payroll| ents which, he said, blocked some | clerk, a clerk-stenographer and a important proposed economic aid ‘ grocery clerk, also, he said. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—®—The| Alice Aslakreau of Haines is in Senate Interior committee will begin ' Juneau. She is at the Baranof Hotel. | { Pioneer of air travel in Alaska, Pan Ame.ican has worked steadily to improve service and reduce fares— NOW PAN aMerican AGA. ———————— CUTS JuNeay. SEA"".E FARES $ppoo 3"880 —ONE WAY —Ro (PLUS Tag) _UND TRIP For thig new, reduced gajr trave] fml:fl B ARANOF HOTEL __ PHONE 106 ONLY THE FARE IS CUT! When you fly Pan American, you still get all the Clipper® extras: Big, dependable 4-engine planes...the most experienced crews...fine, free food...and stewardess hospitality. 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