The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1951, Page 2

[ P 4 PAGE TWO A NORTHERN NOTEBOOK ! ! ‘ By BOB DE ARMOND o - e the people of Alaska shall have all ht iva iges and immun- s s 4 (Fourth of a Series) the ri Jince the Territory of Alaska wa ! anized in 19 the Second Divi- | ities of citizens of the United State: B Bat clected 24 1 ‘o the —Wwhen they shall have carved out three of Of its boundaries and organized city of | under free constitutional form Perey | four sovereign states within the in American Union—the state of Sitka, ik with its ¢ i the te 1 " the state of St ¢ ) p Sheldon A Jome; and the o P S ot & ¢ th its capital at Whe ale hat y comes, Seward wid nhee ) pi yrist to keep his me:aor 4 bright before the children of Aleska The late 5 Alaska will ever be his mon‘imen i the praise of her childrca hi. epi taph re was while he u ry : ne erm Dele te in 1 " 3 ¢ Kl ’,J' 3 3 nate of the Twen'ich i¢ rors i donediceliiog ure will not have ni % G R Pry ‘l‘ yer among it3 member d the he Le2l- | judiciary Committes, which erem ines the legal aspects of the morc e Wicker who came by |10 ¥ ¥ important bills, will have uggle title when he served as United A > . i e e Thira | 810N With laysich ot to stk ot e udge for e er ird : . Acs 4| side aavice. In ) of th? previou dicial Division of Alaska from 5 i s 0 1908, t t 1 Del sessions the Senate has had at least ) to 19 became ou hir ele- § o ‘] “ ; “‘ ; rving |On€ and generally two or three tate in Congress in 1909, serving 2| Jawyers and in 1829 there were four ntil 1917. He returned to Cc gl om January 7 to March 3 =d Locken, who come; to .om March 1 to March 3, 1921, Lo esiarcdlirs nd from March 4, 1931 to March House this session from Pe er bu R - TArCR T Wil be the first Representalive fr " Hi o earneq | that community ce 1927, wien S 3 ; 55 CAINCC wijliam E. Worth sat in the Hou im the nickname “Fighting Jim . Waa i SoR. carty 'y |As a matter of fact, Bd was alsc ; ' a candidate for the House in thc when plit in a day elections for the 1927 Legislature He ran on the Independent ticket ' with A. E. Gurr of Wrangell, N. O Hardy of Juneau and L. H. Kubley of Ketchikan. They were defeated by Charles Benjamin of Wrangell C. B. Ferguson of Craig, William L. Paul of Juneau and William E (Worth of Petersburg. partie: multitude of min: lorious free-for-all were the which has disappeared from this jast frontier. He was called “Old . ther names that would xcept in the heat and his follower. become the | to refer the father wgh that The death of Paul Herring at Anchorage and the resignation of Stanley Nichols of Fairbanks, fol- lowing upon the death of Wm. T. Mahoney at Juneau last summer, create vacancies in the offices of | United States Marshal in three of the four Divisions, a situation that Judge f Alaska ild is not yet > introc tehood tateho first Alaska s in 1916, undoubte has a right to that the ill in Congre ced ) nor. It seem have been no 1t of his’that hi nood bill eived little consideration generally forgotten, intentionally, is that », a keen student is unprecedented in the history of | the Territory. | Herring and Nichols had filled | their respective offices for a little | more than four years. Bill Mahoney i had views on:had been Marshal for 17 years. statehood that did not fit Preliminary steps have been all with the ideas of the present- taken to fill at least two of the v statehood promoter three vacancies. C. A, “Pat” Car- Judge Wickersham expressed rm.‘rnu has been endorsed by a majority his ideas—that Al is \'u)“'l( the Democratic Divisional Com- fiec di rge and diver -when he ssed the Sew- i to become one | mittee for the First Division “ame Frank Barr, now a Territorial Sena- 4 Society of the Juneau High |tor, has received the nod for the ool on March 30, 1907, In that [ Fourth Division job. Before pinning idress he said: |on the badge, however, they must “May prosperity and an. Congress the Ameri- | be appointed by the President and ed the day when |confirmed by the U.S. Senate. ECONOMIC MESSAGE IS GIVEN SKI CLUB PLANS ALL-DAY HIKE ON COMING SUNDAY A ten mile ski tour is planned by the Juneau Ski Club for this coming Sunday which will' cover the Crooks Trail on the Douglas (Continued from Page One) ski slopes, the 3,000-foot elevated e e ridge above the Crooks trail and the ski bowl at the third cabin, the price line with utmost vigor.” it is announced by Dean Williams He asked the Department of Agriculture be “granted authority The tour will be for advanced to control speculative trading and skiers and racers only. Those in. o strengthen ‘s re tiom of com- | terested in joining the hike are invited to meet at the Baranof nodity exchan: Great Threat Hotel at 8:30 am. for a Ski Club breakfast in the coffee shop prior As he did in last Monday's to the all-day hike. of the Union mes , the President Ted Bourne, one of the two emphasized the great thréat from!isple tennis pros at last. nights Communist aggression half time exhibition in the basket- He said and menacing | ja]l game here has been seen in forces” led by Russia are “arrayed | the newsreels in the past which against the free world some fans undoubtedly remember “The great manpower under | Boh Anderson and Bourne are twc the control of Soviet Communism is being driven with fanatic zeal tc build up military and strength,” he continued. “We disaster if we underestimate forces working against us.” invite the ¢ More Electric Power } Mr. Truman also said the country fmust plan to increase its electric enerating capacity “by well 0 million kilowatts during the next hree years” with a major share of lthe expansion coming from private utility enterprise ! He said he was recommending lthe development of additional pub- ic power capacity “in the Pacific orthwest, in the Tennessee Valley area, at Niagara Falls, along the fst. Lawrence river as part of the Feaway and power project, and glsewhere, to contribute needed additions to the power supply uickly as they can be built.” ! Spending on national security §ncluding foreign aid, atomic energy and stockpiling—will take 18 per- cent of the nation’s total production by the year end, as against the seven percent now being used up in this way, the President predicted. over as (By Associated P According to the newspaper Stars gnd Stripes in Tokyo, eight crew- fmen were rescued, one was killed | bases in Siberia »\"hich puts their | the fleeing Koreans had thrown in- h | planes within striking distance of | fants and children into a river. trol | the entire northern United States, and five are mis in the c of a Navy Martin Mariner p: of the best table tennis players seen in Alaska, in their zany an- ics. Bourne is from Wisconsin, and is also a golf pro from his home city. He has been away irom home for three years and whether his home town friends know of his venture to Alaska he cannot say. At least it is his state- ment in a brief interview. Bourne and Anderson are travel- ing with the Harlem Globe-Trotters on their Alaska and Pacific Coast tour, Lake Geneva, RUSSIA HAS POWER STRIKE U. 5. WITH SIBERIA AIR FORCE RICHLAND, Wash., Jan. 12—®— David F. Shaw, manager of the Hanford Project for the Atomic Energy Commission, warned today t “it is almost certain that the Russians have it in their power to launch an air attack against the United States if they choose.” Speaking before a meeting of | Richland school employees Shaw |said the Russians now have air bomber. The plane fell in the north- | including Hanford. He also men- ern Ryukyus in the Pacific south- |tioned the possibility of the use of | i, Paraguay were once reputed to west of Japan. 1 guided missiles, U. 5. NOT INTERESTED INTAIYA OR KITIMAT SAYS CHAS. WILSON The Juneau Chamber of Com- merce received a reply late yester- day in response to a telegram sent to Charles E. Wilson, director of the office of Defense Mobilization, re- garding the possible Taiya project near Skagway. Wilson's reply read: “With refer- | ence to tand court costs THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA CHILKOOT VETERANS | PAY TAXES DUE TO HAINES SCHOOL DIST. Carl Heinmiller, representfng the | Veterans Alaska Cooperative Asso- ciation of Chilkoot, today presented a check in the amount of $2173.14 to the Clerk of the U.S. District | Court, J. W. Leivers, in payment of | school taxes owed by the Associa-! tion to the Haines Independent School District for the year 1949 for a recent suit | your message of Januarylin the court involving payment of | 1 1851, T have made inquiry and ud there is no present intention nd no likelihood the near future hat the United States Government /il need or support power and ‘uminum plants at either Taiya or imat.” ‘The Chamber’s inquiry was “Un- lcrstand that extensive and com- yete plans for great aluminum lant development at Dyea near ' Zkagway, Alaska, have been shelved ‘ in favor of plant near Kitimat, Brit- sh Columbia, an inferior and ac- tually more vulnerable site in same general area just south and east of Alaskan border for reason that ‘tagway area is not defensible. We believe that such decision and rea- son for shelving s incredible and ‘we fear constitutes a policy that will greatly disturb all of Alaska ind West Coast. We respectfully rse that immediate investigation Je undertaken to ascertain if such policy exists and if so that it be reversed. Acknowleédgement and/ | reply urgently requested.” 1 | The Chamber is continuing ef-; forts to get the true facts of the case and is contacting Aubrey Sim- | mons of Whitehorse, Member of | Parliament for the Yukon Territory’ and the aluminum company, Herb Rowland, president, said today. | PRSI TS g 1} SNOWSHOE LESSONS 10 BE GIVEN ON SAT. | | FOR THE SS55 CLUB Lessons in snowshoeing will be given by William Fromholz of the! U.S. Forest Service, to members| of the Ship, Shank, Shutter and | Snowshoe Club on Saturday, Dr. I. J. Montgomery announced today. ! Members are asked to meet at the bridge crossing Gold Creek on the Basin road at 1:30 p.m. Both bear-' paw and trail types of snowshoes | will be provided, Dr. Montgomery said. STAFF. CHANGES IN KETCHIKAN HIGHWAY | PATROL ANNOUNCED | Personnel changes in ‘the Terri- torial Highway Patrol staff at Ketchikan were annunoced today by Highway Engineer Frank A. Metcalf, Chief of the Patrol. Metcalf made known the ap- pointment of Oral Freeman as a new patrolman for the Ketchikan | area and the resignation of Sgt. Casey Moran who. has served at Ketchikan several years. No ap- pointment has been made as yet to replace Moran, His resignation was effective last Saturday, Janu- ary 6, Metcalf said. Moran, he said, had mpt indicated future plans, Lieut. Emmett Botelho of Juneau and Patrolman Al Lubcke of Hain- es who is on duty in the southern district at present, will leave over the weekend for Ketchikan to assist Freeman until the return of Pat- rolman Howard Moore about Jan- uary 20. Moore is in the states on annual leave. Freeman has been a resident of Ketchikan the past four or five years, Metcalf said he has had previous police experience in the states and was highly recommend- ed for the post on' the Highway Patrol. MALLOTTE IS NAMED | the taxes. The total amount in= cluded $1629.84 due on the taxes and $543.30, court costs. A decision in favor of the Haines Independent School District was handed down by Judge George W. Folta, December 29 last, after he had heard and taken under advise- ment a suit brought by the Haines Independent School District versus the Veterans Alaska Cooperative Association. The plaintiffs peti- tioned for foreclosure of a tax lien for delinquent taxes it claimed owed by the Veterans Associations. The defendants claimed excessive valu- ation and inequality In tax assess- ment on its property. The plaintiffs were represented by Attorney H. D. Stabler and the defendants by Attorneys R. E. Rob- ertson and Simon Hellenthal. A similar suit heard in the Dis- trict Court last year involving taxes claimed due for 1948 to the Haines | school district By the Veterans | Association was also decided in favor of the School District. | TOURIST PROGRAM IS TOASTMASTERS MEET A novel table topic project in- !troduced by Wayne Richey gave| each member the problem of intro-| ducing in 30 seconds the person at his right, and provided an amusing opening for Toastmasters’ regular | Thursday dinner meeting at the | Baranof Hotel. | Marine Union | Be Replaced, Says Curran FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1951 e e | DISCUSSED AT TAKU i et SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12—(® { —Joseph Curran, president of the | c10 National Maritime Union, to- | day anounced the long-expected | opening of a full-scale organizing | campaign to “replace the Commun- ‘).fl..(npmrrd" mariné cooks and | stewards on west coast ships. | Curran said the campaign would | “pring back democracy to the thou- | {Lers on the long | gains endangered by the political | plots and conspiracies of the Com- { The Marine Cooks and Stewar j Union is one of the organizatiol | expelleq by the CIO in recent | months for allegedly following the | Communist Party line. | The NMU President told a news | conference that his union, the !largest searfaring union, thhl |some 45,000 members, decided to | begin the west coast drive only | after “hundreds, thousands of {MCS members have appealed. for help in their time of cris PROCLAMATION The following proclamation has been issued by Gov. Gruening: Whereas, John James Audubon contribu- and art American | through his paintings of birds and mammals; and Whereas, the journals of his ex- plorations in the American wilder- ness afford rare insight into the problems of the pioneers; and | Whereas, Audubon was among the | first to etpress concern about the destruction of our nation’s wildlife; | and Whereas, a continent-wide orga-, | sands of steward department mem- west coast. who so| have seen their economic! | munis ’ 1 Georges Comier, 76-year-old Paris tailor, took off. but most at Amsterdam, Holland, were grounded by bad weather. . MERCHANT MARINE INVESTIGATION IS ASKED, MAGNUSON BALLOONS BOW OUT— of the balloons in the international race ALASKA STEAMSHIP MAKES PREDICION BIG SEASON N 1951 AMERICAN MADE PLANES N RAIDS ON SOUTH KOREA SEATTLE, Jan. 12 — (% — An (By: Assoclateq. r-ress) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 12— (P — Alaska Steamship Company official the we 1t in Korea Sen, Magnuson '4D»\Vn.shl asked said today “we are planning for a oF e Few- At the Senate yesterday to create a big season in 1951 and expect to per planes vised with | Subcommitiee to investigate ~all Carry more passengers than we have jcan markings made &t least phases of the Merchant Marine, in any year since the war.” four raids 5 | including shipping service to Al- H. N. Peterson, General Traffic ¥ aska. Magnuson said the subcommittee would be set up under the Inter- state and Foreign Commerce Com- mittee and that it would also in- One definitely was identified as an American A-20 Attack Bc the type turned over to the Chinese Nationalists by the United Manager, made the prediction in announcing a plan for sailings from Seattle each Wednesday and Fri- day during the summer. There will be four steamers on the summer |after World War Two. Presumably | vestigate transfer of American service—the Alaska, Denali, Aleu-|some of them now are in the hands | ships to flags of other nations tian and Baranof. of the Chinese Reds. where regulations are nof so severe. AP et P 8 St PPt C_’"“‘"i E. C. Hawley was toast- | pjzation which bears his name is| master for the evening. “License|q.qrrying on a continuing campaign for Murder” was the topic of DI, conserve our natural resources; Ted Oberman’s speech, who ex- {panded on that subject after dis-| playing a framed Territorial driver's license. Urban C. Nelson spoke on ‘Thinking,” and Dr. John Clem- ents discussed “The New American Language.” . The evening's 10-minute speech was given by W. A. Elkins and dealt with “Skullduggery.” Ed Peyton dis- cussed “What the Juneau Hiking Club ‘Can Do to Attract Other Hik- | ing Clubs to Juneau”—a phase of our tourist program—in a short im- | promptu talk. ! Joe McLean was general critic for the evening, and was assisted by Sinclair Lorain, Ellis Reynolds, | Linn Forrest, Willis Avery, and Mi Ransome. Pete Warner was gram- | marian. | (LASSES HELD ON MINING PHASES FOR | " SCIENCE STUDENTS Through arrangements made by A. N. Eide, science instructor in| the Juneau Public High School, students of the high school chem- istry classes heard a short lecture ! and participated in demonstra- | tions in two phases of a mining | short course, conducted by Larry | C. Doheny, consulting engineer, during class periods yesterday and this morning. . Doheny demonstrated the use of the Geiger Counter used in uranium ! prospecting and the fundamentals of the blow pipe analysis of min- erals. A prominent consulting engineer in Alaska, Doheny is conducting a mining short course in Juneau, sponsored by the University of Alaska Extension Division. U .5. COMMISSIONER AT YAKUTAT TODAY Announcement of the appoint- ment of J. P. Mallotte as U. 8. Commissioner at Yakutat was made by Judge George W. Folta today. vakutat has been without a Com- missioner the past year. Mallotte owns a general store in yakutat and is the mayor of the town. Tragic Death Toll To Thousands of Korean Civilians (By Associated Press) Cold and exhaustion are bringing la tragic death toll to the hundreds | of thousands of Korean civilians in their flight southward. They beg | pitifully from soldiers, but the men |at the front haven't got the re- | sources to take care of the masses of refugees. And British soldiers |said that in desperation, some of ! The waters of the Bermejo River jglve one an unwringled old age. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN ~AND PROBABLY WILL AT VARIETY SHOW “Anything Can Happen” — and probably will, at the annual Rotary Club Variety Show scheduled for January 25 at the Twentieth Cen- tury Theater, Dr. I, J. Montgomery, chairman of the event, revealed to- day. There will be considerable audi- ence participation and laughs aplenty, he promised. A peek at the program shows that the High School Glee Clubs will sing, Kenny Allen will do a tumbling act. Bud Schultz will be at the piano with Mrs. Harold Schultz whistling. A juggling act by Neil Fritchman is on the program. Other entertainment to be fea- tured is the Shooting of Dan Mc- Grew by the Emblem Club, a poker game skit by the Beta Sigma Phi sorority, and a marimba solo by Mrs. Stebbins. A blackface mammy monologue by Mrs. G. Brown is scheduled and a blackface act by William Passey. MISS MONTEL RETURNS Miss Olive Montel of the Alaska Road Commission office staff re- | forty-eight states; and JOI American pioneer naturalists and and Whereas, Alaska is fortunate in still possessing important species of wildlife and in fact every species | present here since the acquisition | of Alaska in 1867, while not a few species have become extinct in the ‘Whereas, Alaskans wish to pre- serve these great natural assets for future generations; and Whereas, the year 1951 offers nn‘ opportunity to signalize that desire | by paying a tribute to the greatest | artists who died January 27, 1851; Now, therefore, I, Ernest Gruen- ing, Governor of the Territory of Alaska, do hereby declare the week of January 21-27, 1951, to be Audu- bon Centennial Week and do urge the observance of said week by all interested organizations and indi- viduals. UNION OIL COMPANY HAS NEW BOARD OF DIRECTOR Herbert Hoover, Jr., President and General Manager of United Geo- physical Company and United Geo- physical Company, S.A., Was today elected to the Board of Directors of Union Oil Company of California at a regular board meeting, Reese| H. Taylor, President, announces.i Mr. Hoover was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ernest Stauffen, who had been aj| member of Union's Board for, 1. Count the number of words in your ad. (A group of ram- bers up to 5 digits counts as one years. Mr. Hoover will continue as word). the active manager of the United Geophysical Company. 4, TO SITKA Roy C. Avrit, manager, and A. L. Besancon, accountant for Colum- bia Lumber Co. at Whittier, were in Juneau today conferring with Thomas A. Morgan, president of the company. The two men are en- route to Sitka to relieve Ernest Somers, Sitka manager of the com- pany, while he is on a month vaca- tion, Avrit and Besancon returned yesterday from Seattle where they had been on vacation and business. EISENHOWER VISITS | NORWAY ON TOUR, | 12-NATION CIRCUIT OSLO, Norway, Jan, 12—(®—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower came to Norway today on his morale-build- ing and fact-finding tour of At- lantic Pact capitals, He and his staff landed at Gar- dermoen Airport, 37 miles north of Oslo, in the late afternoon. Norway is the fifth country he has visited on his 12-nation cir- cuit. Previously he had conferred with highest officials in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark. Gen. Eisenhower came here by air from Copenhagen, Denmark, where Adm, E. J, C. Quistgaard, Danish Defense Chief, announced that the Danish force of 1,000 men now on occupation duty in Gentlemen: turned to Juneau yesterday by Pan American plane. 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