The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 27, 1950, Page 2

racy TwoO ——— |MENDENHALL APTS. Elfi%figfig#g%k | T0 BE COMPLETED ON | CITy OF JUNEAUj SCHEDULE | NEXT JUNE congrete vation and |WEATHER SLOWS CLEANUP WORK he of slip-forms for work, time lost on exca- installment f foot use 0! OF JIRP PARTY | Mickey and Minnie? MOOSE FOUNDLINGS ARE TRANSPLANTED TO START NEW HERD | What to name the progenitors of a new moose herd? Adam and Madame? Something more Alaska-sounding? Naming the precious youngsters takes second place to the welfare of the foundlings picked up on the Kenai Peninsula a few weeks affer their birth. They are estimated to be four or five months old now. The suckling calves were found by Fish and Wildlife Service Agent Carlos Carlson of Seward. He arranged with Mrs. Frank Towle of Cooper’s Landing (near Moose Pass) to care for the young bull and cow until they should be old enough to forage for them- selves. The Isaak Walton League of Sew- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA LAURA LAW SAYS EX-RED SOVIETS KILL | SEATTLE, Sept, 27—(®—A Mos-| cow-trained ex-Communist has tes-| tified that the mystery death in 1940 of Laura Law at Aberdeen, | Wash., was a Red-inspired murder. Paul Crouch of Miami, Fla., made the statement recently when he ‘estified for the Immigration and| Naturalization Service at a deport- | ation hearing. The disclosure came | oday when attorneys completed | the consolidated portion of hear-| ngs for 10 Seattle aliens accused »f being Communists. 1 Crouch said Mrs. Law was “a member of the Communist party | who was killed by Soviet secret In a brief but impressive Cere-| oo (ne Mendenhall Apartments| Their research finished, a good mony last night at the Juneau Sub- [ in pe caught up and the building | five tons of heavy equipment dis-| port, Juneau Lodge No. 420, BP.O. [ qoreq over hedule by mid-|assembled and crated for ship- Elks presented the city with the !y vemper acec to A. K. Eske- | ment, personal gear packed—the keys to the long-awaited Juneau g, cuperintendent for Ander-|small group of young scientists| Elks Ambulance son Construction Co on the Juneau Ice Cap has had an Exalted Ruler Wallis George,| poyring is being done on the sev- j idle week. gave a brief resume of the Cily's|.nip floor walls and the sixth floor| Meantime, a ski-equipped C-47 long lack of ambulance SEIVICe.|q,p wij jured by the end of | aircraft here has been waiting out | told how the inftial drive for funds . weel The slip-forms make it]Ice Cap weather, hoping to make | fell far short of expectations and ., ple for the pouring of a floor|the half-dozen trips to evacuate how the Lodge volunteered to as- . week Conduits for electrical wir- | personnel and equipment of the sume entire nsibil £ - ing are put in as concrete is pour- [ 1950 Juneau Icefield Research Pro- plying and 8 d with wiring keeping pace with|[ject (JIRP). lance for the people of Gastn€au|ine concrete pouring Maj. Robert Ackerly, command- channel “There will be 12 stories to the|ing officer of the 10th Rescue Mr. George expres pprecia- ooariment house contrary to ru-!Squadron, with two other officers tion to Connors Motors, Who Sup-| . ovcw caid Eskestrand. “The build-)and the crew, arrived early Friday | plied the mercy vehicle at cost,|jno il he completely fireproof with |to make the final flights of the foregoing their commission and 0|6 dqoors in all stair wells andjseason. the Alaska Steamship Company.|main corridors.” They were able to make two who brought the ambulance from | quicde concrete work and the|landings yesterday, the skis settling Seattle to Juneau without charge.| . ihouce will be completed by the Guest of honor and speaker of |ong of November. The penthouse the evening, introduced by M. oviges space for the housing of George, was Past Grand €d | elevator machinery and exhaust Ruler FEfmmett T. Anderson, of .o g5, kitchens and bathrooms. Tacoma, Washington, who made|roc e the most modern Otis pas- the actual dedication and presenta- | coroor levators will be located in tion of the ambulance of the building. The the center Charles O. Harrington on crusted snow at 11:17 am, for the first one, Coming out with 2,000 pounds of drill Frederick A. Milan, Alaska meteorologist and Melvin Marcus, Yale University geologist. | equipment were University of meteorologists and Sgt. Remained only Mr. Anderson, Who iS in JUN€au | gjeyator shafts will be flanked by|Calvin Anderson, both of whom for the first time, spoke In praise iy, gtair-wells. have virtually established Ice Cap of Juneau's Elks, describing them| ‘rpe majority of the boiler room- | residence. Anderson -came. out on as an “enterprising lodge with a big he: In telling some of his experiences as Grand Exalted F r of Elkdom -up is to be completed in ap-l ately two and one half so that heat can be put for the job m, hs the building Mr. Anderson gave a n‘uml)f'l of stering. The building will be interesting facts about the Order.' ..4v for occupancy by next June. He said that there are now morc A total of 132 living units con- than 1,128000 Elks in 1,600 lod throughout the United Sta‘es sting of 88 one bedroom apart- ments and 44 utility apartments are | t possessions and that these in the plans for the apartment spent more than six millior - | house, The living units start on the ! r lars last year for the velief of goconqg floor with four utility apart-|e the needy. He described the work of yanis and eight one bedroom the Order as “being practical M| ,paryments to each floor. The living applied Christian Americanism” |, ,om of each corner apartment has and closed his remarks With a ;1500 triple window. Asphalt tile glowing tribute to the generosity gooring will be laid as the last| the second flight with 3,500 pounds of equipment. Director Maynard Miller, who had gene up on the earlier one, remain- ed with Harrington, both planning to come back on the last trip. Two Juneauites, W, E. Twenhofel and Tom Stewart, were passengers yes- erday. Weather permitting, five or six more trips were to be made today and tomorrow in “Operation Clean- 1p.” Weather did not permit this morning, but the flyers hoped for a break | this afternoon. All the student scientists will re- turn as soon as possible to their| and energy of the Juneau Lodge job on the building in the spx‘mmim\\‘.‘cr.slliflr, where classes already Elk trustee and chairman of the Ambulance com- mittee, spoke briefly as he pted the keys and certificate of owner- ship on behalf of the city More than three hundred Minard Mill, The first floor of the building vill be given over entirely to com- |t n ial space. There are to be two entrances to the commercial flcor Fourth street in addition to! and west entrances. The main| attend- eas o New York, where he is doing ! graduate werk at Columbia Uni- versity. Toward the end of the third sea- | v | old glove, and her own foraging later e son on the Ice Cap, JIRP personnel ‘thlsgweek in the woods. | ceptance by the Alaska Road Com ed the'eceremony and inspected the o;irance for the apartments will be | new ambulance ’Hm'.]mw 1 }Im"- on Fourth street i areas, School band, directed by Lyle E.| rpe garage will be in the rear of Parking problem of the apartment house is solved with| The ambulance is a new Pontiac |y parking lot in the rear and par straight eight, finished in grey ;.o gpace on the roof. The ramp and chrome and upholstered in red approach to the roof starts on leather. Siren and. emergency lights | prankiin street. complete, the exterior equipment.; The interior is completely equip- | BOB FURST HIGH MAN KIWANIS TICKET SALES ' Mansol?, played sev 1 selections the building. in their first public appearance ped with litters, blankets and em- ergency appara‘us necessary for the safety and comfort of the injured. outfitted with | The interior was funds contributed by the Junea ! Emblem Club. Verbal orchids were given to Bob The ambulance, which will go in- | Furst at the regular luncheon meet- to immediate service, will be op-|ing of the Juneau Kiwanis Club at} erated by the city under the direc- | the Baranof Hotel today. ‘The occa- tion of the ambulance committee|sion was being named high man; whose members are Minard Mill,| for ticket sales on the Johnnyl chairman, Councilman Art Walth-| Holiday benefit show last weelz. | er and Elroy Ninnis, | Gene Vuille, chairman of the com- Howard E. Simmons was chair- | mittee, reported that incomplete | man of the committee that planned | veturns to date total $327.07, halfj the dedication ceremony’ and his|of which will go to the Kiwanis committee members were Arthur underprivileged children’s fund. (Scotty) Adams and Mike Monagle.| In the absence of President Stan- |ley Baskin, Don Burris, board COMMURICATION | member, presided. He announced a' Editor, Daily Ala Paul Sutton with the |beard meeting at ncon for Oct. | 3 in the doghouse at the Baranof.| Federal} the sake of accuracy I wish to cor- rect a statement of the Mayor of | Juneau appearing in your issue of | September 23. I Among the achievements that he | has listed of the present city “d'i ministration is the new gridiron in| the small boat harbor, “the long-| est on the Pacific Coast.” As a matter of fact this accommodation | to the fishing and pleasure craft ka Empire: For | gousing Authority here, was mtrc-i duced as a new member who would be initiated next week. Norman Steinig of the Salvationj Army gave a brief talk on “Thel Church—a Factor For Freedom” in which he pointed out that the principles of freedom as (h*l)nvaledt by the church were interwoven ini Ameriean life, i MOBILIZATION i FROM SKAGWAY D. L. Stevenson and L. T. Mec- of the community was the result of a direct request from the Fisher- men’s Unicn to the Territorial! Board of Road Commissioners, and | pROGRAM wlll made possible through the fu derived from the Motor Fuel tax| BE EXIENSIVE which is administered by the Ter-| ritorial Highway Engineer. _ Very Truly Yours, i (By Associated Press) H (Signed) Secretary of the Treasury Snyder! FRANK A. METCALF | says that mobilization will hit the}] sl © |pation with an impact that few (DA HAS “IGHT OF lpeop}v anticipate 1 | Said Snyder—“I don't think that (AREFREE GOOD -"MEjp(‘ople have any notion so far oul the size of the defense program this country will get next year after The Catholic Daughters of Am- | Congr has been at work for a erica held their first social meet- | While.” ing of the fall last night in the Parish Hall. All business matters were shelved in favor of a care-| Orie party ‘tatneq the | el orilhe road, about Mile 13, to make| company and Reed and Martin, two the divide between Lewellyn and | i i % 5 n the Copper River Taku Glaciers, their home i PP Fairbanks firms, two members of in the Tulsequah area. The glacier there is at an altitude of 6,600 feet, and is six miles wide. The farthest point reached on ithe Ice Cap was by a party go-| !ing to the head of the Berner's | ay trough, a previously unexplored ‘region. The men reported an intricate network of very deep glaciers, some glacial walls being “cut” from 3, 000 to 4,000 feet. They hiked 22 miles on the round trip from “JIRP Chalet,” the control base on the rock, otherwise known as Camp 10. Other trips of considerable dis- tance were to Slanting Peak in the scuthwest section, and to Twin Glaciers Lake, Chief sponsors of the JIRP ex- pedition are the American Geo- graphic Society of New York and the Office of Naval Research. §44 MILLION FOR WORK IN ALASKA UP TO PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Sept. 27—(P— President Truman's approval of the $17,000,000,000 supplement appropri- ation bill today will make available $10,000,000 for flood control work, largely in the Pacific Northwest, and add $6,990,000 to regular fynds for construction of dams in the northwest. In addition it will provide $44,- 000,000 for work in Alaska on the Army and Navy Public Works pro- gram and other projects. The lat- ter include $1,500,000 for repair or replacement of bridges on the Sew- ard-Portage section of the Alaska Railroad; $1,100,000 for starting the Eklutna Power Project near Anch- orage; and $110,000 for replacing facilities on St. George Island, des- troyed by fire, STORK CALLS An 8-pound baby boy was born to Mrs. Karl E. Lane at St. Ann’s Hospital at 3:13 this morning. Another boy was born there yes- terday afternoon at 3:52 to Mrs. free good time which put everyone | Guane of Skagway are stopping at¢Richard Ely Hanlon of Hoonah. in a prize winning mood | the Baranof Hotel. He weighed 8 pounds and 6 ounces. Grand Regent, Mrs. Blanche Stenziano walked off with the door prize. | Guest for the evening was Mis. | Irene Tunia, who has newly arrived in Jnueau. Delicious refreshments were serv- | ed by the committee in charge who | included Mrs. Rita Thomas, Mrs.| Mary Winters, Mrs. Aurelia Thibod- | eau, Mrs, Betty Dawley and an.! Lois Poole. | It Art Peterson of Petersburg is' stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. wylime- ABSENTEE VOTING Voter: Be sure to vote Republican ticket under absentee law before you leave for the States. Republican Club of Juneau, Al- aska, Commissioner’s Precinct. 603-1mo. YELLO ““The thinking fellow Calls a YELLOW?*? ‘PHONE 22 OR 14 FOR A Anywhene W CAB | | League of Cordova. Members took | he students, they | rapyaters amons the s B I10. INSPECT PAVING < |lady in the moose family. She would | {have begun. Miller will go direct|paye only a day or two of pan-| ard volunteered to buy canned milk) police” because she was “prepar- | for the ‘“mooselings,” which NOW|ing to go with her story to place have been fed $230 worth. it before the newspapers and the By arrangement, the pair was 0 public—the inside story of Com- be taken to Cordova in the hopes munist Party activities in the State of starting a herd nearby, where|of Washington.” there is ideal moose range With! The victim was the wife of plenty of browse and feed. Dook Law, a former leader of the Coming from Seward aboard the | Grays Harbor CIO-International | FWS service ship Dennis Winn, the | Woodworkers of America. She was | young couple arrived at Cordova | found bludgeoned and stabbed to| Monday in excellent condition. |deam at her home Jan. 5, 1940, No The calves were immediately one was ever charged with her| taken in charge by the Isaak Walton | murder. Asked by a defense counsel why over their care and management, | hement\med that {ase, Crouch as well as the milk bill. This aver- |said: | aged $50 a month per moose, or| “Because it is a typical case of eight cans each a day. Each animal | people who have been murdered by weighs about 250 pounds. They were | the Communist Party to prevent kept temporarily at a small durylthem from giving information.” near the edge of town. | Crouch said he once headed the | That was a big day for cordov.,;secretariat of the Young Communist | School was dismissed so that the | League in America and was district | youngsters could see the moose. organizer for the party when he Businessmen drove buses to theleft it in 1942. dairy at 42 passengers a load (some | It was weaning day for the young | ON FAIRBANKS ROAD feeding between her pampering| Formal inspection of paving on made trips into unexplored glaclalf The creatures werc to be released | o inspect the work by the con- | i 1! -ibea general “meeting of the moose.” : 312 (ARS (HE(KED | put there last year by himself, then | pngineer, and J. I (Irv) Noble, aboard the Winn, where she was fed | the Fairbanks-College road will be ‘ from a “falsie” udder made from a8n made this week before final ac- | mission. today or tomorrow at the end ©f tractors, Williams Construction | Valley. i the Juneau Road Commission staff The only moose there now, so far | went to the Interior yesterday. as is known, is “a poor little felloW”| They are A. F. Ghiglione, Chief about the age of these Newcomers. | gcting chief of the Operations Di- He was seen about nine days 8. ! yision They ekpect to be gone about thus reassuring sportsmen that He |, week, completing their field work had weathered the winter and evi- I in that area. dently was “predator proof.” ! Interested persons hope there wil ON FIRST DAY OF CITY SAFETY DRIVE Report of the first day of the safety drive by the Alaska Highway Patrol and the Juneau City Police | revealed that 312 cars were checked. { In addition to the checking of the various items of vehicle operation each driver was given a copy of the Alaska Traffic Laws. On the first day a total of 20 warning tickets were issued for tail lights, stop lights, defective horns, poor steer- ing equipment, one license plate only, foreign licenses, and failure to Check in One But Four Are Checked 0|L SEATTLE, Sept. 27 — (® — Pan American World Airways ran into a new problem in fares on an Alaska flight — multiplication in transit. A bill for a crated dog from Fair- banks listed “One (1) live dog.” Cargo handlers here counted noses. There were four—a big one and three little ones. A check with the north brought TAKU TOASTMASTERS HAVE LADIES' NIGHT THURSDAY EVENING Tomorrow night’s meeting of the Taku Toastmasters will be the semi- annual ladies’ night and will be held at 7 o'clock in the Gold Room of the Baranof, Presiding over the meeting will be Bob Cowling with Gene Vuille, chairman. The Toast- masters, their wives and guests will be in attendance, At last week’s meeting of the Taku Toastmasters, Henry Green was elected president of the winter term, Dr. John Clements, Vice- President, William Chipperfield, Sergeant-at-Arms, and Bill Ellis, Seeretary-treasurer. Comdr. Don Morrison will continue to serve as educational chairman and Herb Rowland continues as deputy gov- ernor, (. J. BERGSTROM PASSES AWAY SUN. MORNING IN SITKA Word has been received of the death of C. J. Bergstrom in Sitka, Sunday morning. He was wellknown in Juneau having been custodian of the Baranof for a number of years. Mr. Bergstrom was born in Hon- olulu 72 years ago. He is survived by his wife, his daughter, Mrs. Ruth Carlson of Anchorage and his son, Carl Bergstrom of Juneau. The body is being shipped south on the Denali and will be accom- panied by Mrs. Bergstrom and Mr and Mrs. Carl Bergstrom. Mrs. Ruth Carlson has flown south from An- chorage. Burial will be in Auburn, ‘Washington. 14 ARRIVE; 31 OUT; PAN AM TUESDAY Pan American World Airways brought 14 passengers from Seattle yesterday. They were: Florence Chester, Helen Dunlap, June Elli- som, Edna Nelson, Dean Dudley, E Field, Warren Rowland, Ervin Hill, Desda Lorenzana, L. C. MacLean Harvey Murphy, Helen Scudder, Mrs. Fred Baxter and James Mc- Naughton. Ruth Alexander, Moses Samuelson and George Sullivan went through here bound for Fairbanks. Boarding the plane here for Fairbanks were: Mrs. X. Baggen, F. Lancaster, Jim Hortenstine, F. V. Henderson, A. F. Ghiglione, J. F. Noble, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Tyler. Going to Whitehorse were: Lewis Stanley, L. Wigley, G. Fabin, Harold L. Moats. Nineteen were southbound. Mrs. Lydia Fohn-Hansen flew to Ketchi- kan. For Seattle: Minnie Brod, Pat Flinn, A. P. Arries, Miss Toner, Blanche Stephens, Mrs. E. Martin, Raymond Lippert, Mr. and Mrs. F. Middendorf, George Babbitt, D. Hoy, J. Rozinski, V. Hillicker, Wally Krake, Lee Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. K. P. Alexander and George How- ard. MRS. BRANDT TO SITKA Mrs. Harry Brandt, wife of the newly appointed superintendent of the Sheldon Jackson Junior Col- lege at Sitka was a passenger for that city on the Denali leaving this morning. e e et e e A e At e e e st e WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1950 'NAVY TO CALL UP | RESERVE OFFICERS (By the Associated Press) The Navy expects to call up more than 15,000 reserve officers, as it centinues its buildup. There will be no sudden call for the entire num- ber, but the first four-or-five- thousand may be called up in the near future. Many of the officers called back to active duty will be doctors, dentists, electronic experts and other specialists. But there will also be substantial numbers of line officers needed. Marine Corps Is Mobilizing Its Ground Units Now (By Associated Press) ‘The Liarine Corps has compieteG mobilization of its organized re- serve ground units—a job done in 43 days. ‘The Marines have given no figures on how many men have been called, but 138 separate units from 126 cities are on active duty. Also, the Marines have called up a number of individual members of the volunteer reserves. HOONAH VISITOR Donald Erickson of Hoonah is re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel. FROM SEATTLE Ethel Hansen and Susan Shoppee of Seattle are guests at the Baranof Hotel. ¢ D. C. Dudley of Wenatchee, Wash., is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. FIRST SNOW ON HILLS First snow of the season has ap- peared this week on the mountain peaks in the “back hills” visible from Juneau. Comments around town varied, according to the view- point; the “Alice Sit by the Fires” shuddering slightly at the thought of approaching winter, the skiers with anticipation of long white slopes of powder snow and the hunt- ers with a gleam in the eye in the assurance that deer and game birds will come down into the timber to make the work a little easier in bringing 'em out. SITKA VisITORS Mr. and Mrs. Oliver and Loweil Colby of Sitka are registered at the Gastineau Hotel. GENUINE OLD STYLE KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY BONDED 100 PROOF STITZEL-WELLER DISTILLERY, INC., Louisville, Ky. This is YOUR Land This is YOUR Division : This is YOUR Vote | Our Legislators must represent US — ail of us — and men of broad vision who, with their feet firmly rooted in their home soil, ” people can look into the future with courage and de- termination on behalf of all the people. Such a man is ELTON E. ENGSTROM, born in Alaska, university trained, now in busi- ness in Juneau, and a proven leader in his com- munity — he is pledged to represent “We, the This is one of the most important votes you will ever cast . . . now is the time to stand up and be counted . . . Vote for ELTON assurance there was only “one (1) live dog” when the crate was checked in. The three extra travelers were sent along with their mother to her destination without extra charge. (Mother and pups doing fine at last report). MISSION FILM TONIGHT AT MEMORIAL CHURCH The mission study film, “Touch- ing Untouchables,” will be shown tonight at 7.:30 o'clock as part of the regular Wednesday night ser- vice in the Memorial Presbyterian Church. The public is cordially in- have a driver’s license. Warning tickets are issued giving the car owner 48 hours to comply with the safety requirements. If he does not do so in the allotted time, then arrest tickets will be issued. The drive will be continued until every car has been checked. The report is signed by Lt. E. M. Botelho. FROM PORTLAND 0. Martin of Portland is staying at the Baranof Hotel. T. P. HANSON HERE T, P. Hanson of the Union Oil Co. from Ketchikan is registered at the BUSINESS IN SITKA E. ENGSTROM for the Senate. Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Jeffrey and B. F. Kane, commercial brokers, left on the steamship Denali for Sitka, (Paid Advertisement) SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN'S' Would you let him vited, Baranof Hotel. FROM PETERSBURG Ed Locken of Petersburg is re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel. FROM SEATTLE W. Martin of Seattle is staying at the Baranof Hotel. Your Deposits ARE SAFE BUY and HOLD UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS' one DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED THE management of this bank is pledged to conserva- tive operation. The safety of depositors’ funds is our primary consideration. 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