The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1951, Page 1

HE DAILY ALAS “ YALL TIIE NEWS ALL THE TIME” | VOL. LXXVI.,, NO. 11,744 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — Vicious Red Counterattacks Smashed Back . UNIVERSITY $.E. BRANCH BILL KILLED Measure Falls One Short| on 8-7 Vote-Defense Bill Is In The bill for creation of a Uni- versity of Alaska southeastern branch died by a hair-line margin in the Senate today. It dangled by the thin thread of a single vote absention before it toppled off the budget wagon. The vote was 8 to T in favor, after the proposed appropriation had been cut in half to $250,000, but nine votes were needed for pas- sage. The bill was introduced by Sen, Anita Garnick (R-Juneau). Sen. Percy Ipalook (R-Kotzebue) caused a mild furore when he an- nounced, on roll call, that he was not voting. When senators pressed for an explanation, he explained that he did not want to vote against it because he thought it was a worthwhile proposal if it could be financed; he didn’t vote 3 ” because “I wouldn't feel justi- fied, with the great need my people have for schools, to start another university while failing to provide schools for the children. It would be like building a superstructure with- | out a foundation.” { He had spoken earlier of the Eskimo children who never have had schools and some of whom never have learned even to speak English. The debate waxed as warm as any the Senate has seen this ses- sion. Most of the senators got into the argument before it was over. Charges of sectionalism were tossed around the chamber. The supporters of the bill argued that the southeast branch was needed as a research center for: fisheries and forestry; that the| territory loses many of its most able young people through lack of higher educational facilities; that no expenditure would be required/ at the start for a site or fac)ljties,l The opponents contended the bud- get can't be stretched far enuogh } to include another university; that the present unsettled conditions make it an undesirable time to try to launch a new institution. Sen. John Butrovich (R-Fair- banks) summed up much of the opposition’s standpoint with the declaration: “Once the doors are open, we would have two institutions to maintain when we can’t support one decently.” He reviewed the long fight for funds for the university at Fairbanks and said it never got decent approrpriations until 1947. Roll Call T voll cai was: For—Barr, Beltz, Garnick, Hunt- ley, MacKenzie, McCutcheon, Nolani and Engebreth. Against — Anderson, Coble, Engstrom, Lhamon, Snider. Continued on Page Six) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Irc., Butrovich, Lyng, ' ASHINGTON. Diplomatic circles are now convinced the long- anticipated big four foreign min- isters meeting will not only be held this April but will be held in Wash- ington. The meeting between Secretary of State Acheson, French Foreign Minister Schuman, British Foreign Minister Bevin and Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky is generally looked upon by the diplomatic corps | as the world’s last opportunity toj reach a peaceful settlement be- tween the East and the West. In the delicate touch-and-go at- mosphere of high-level diplomacy, Washington analysts have detected what they interpret as “secret” signals from Moscow indicating that the Kremlin is willing to talk out, rather than shoot out the dif-| fereences between Democracy and Communism. FINAL DECISION ON INSPECTION TRIP 10 SITKA The final word — we hope — on the Legislature’s trip to Sitka to inspect the Alaska Pioneers’ Home came out of the House Committee on Territorial Institutions just be- fore noon today. All seven members of the com- mittee will make the trip, leaving Juneau on Friday by Alaska Coastal plane and returning on the Bar- anof, due in Juneau sometime Sun- day. Members of the Committee are Rep. W. W. Laws, chairman, and Reps. Amelia Gundersen, Doris Barnes, Frank Degnan, George Gas- ser, Stanley McCutcheon and J. S. MacKinnon. The trip has been an on again, off again proposition for several days. As originally planned, the junket was open to all members of both houses and 40 members, wives, friends and acquaintances had sign- ed up. Then the Senate back-tracked and suggested to the House (hat a committee of three Senators and four Representatives make the in- spection. This proposal was flatly rejected by the House, whereupon the Senate flatly rejected the entire trip, so CLUES IN DEATH OF | KEY WEST, Fla., Feb. 27 —(p— Two developments in the investiga- tion of the death of former U. S. Marshal Stanley J. Nichols are re- ported by Peace Justice Roy Ham- i lin. He said the blue sedan which Nichols drove here from Fairbanks, | Alaska, was found in a Miami park- ing lot over the weekend and new }infurmntlon was uncovered on the |man who was with the former | marshal when he checked in at the Folridian hotel Feb. 10. Nichols was found lying on the floor at the hotel Feb. 12. He died 11n a hospital four days later. | Hamlin said the man with Nichols was last seen Feb. 11 when he at- tempted to cash a $100 traveler’s | check. New facts about him were ‘\mcovered from a card he had filled |out in peraparation for a trip to | Havana with Nichols. | Hamlin said he gave the name iof Thomas Meffert of Fairbanks, jlisted his age as 28, a native of | Louisville, Ky., and a “professional sailor.” i A travel agency told Hamlin that NICHOLS [ of production. far as its members were concrnd.| Nichols and the other man bought Th House went along with its|tickets to Havana on Feb. 10 and plans for a unicameral inspection (the man brought them back the until someone discovered what they | following day and collected a re- thought was a serious snag. { fund. The resolution appropriating! A warrant has been issued funds for the trip specifies that it| charging the missing man with is to be an inspection by the House | stealing Nichols' car, Hamlin added. and Senate. So the House sent a Dr. Ralph Herz, who performed conciliatory message to the Senate an autopsy on Nichols, said death which said, in effect, “If you won’t | was due to natural causes. go, can we go alone?” State Attorney J. Lancelot Lester And the Senate graciously and | asked the coroner’s jury to withhold unanimously said “Yes.” {its ruling on the death, saying: e — “I am nct satisfied that there L II Is plA(ED oN was no criminal intervention.” The PRESIDENTS' TERMS | coroner’s jury has recessed subject WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 —P— | to call. From now on, no President or the [FUNERAL SERVICES | | FOR MRS, SMITH AT than two terms. | And under the 22nd Amendment | ; F\éneirtahl scxtrlices io; ;\grs. Frances to the Genstitution, which for all| g oot W lbe eld from the poaRHioalN. Jrioshs Beckrme hew: AR A oLic | Church. Bt Sfickow night, no man or woman may serve :‘S{:‘m s 9[0';100[(. 'l'k}e r'osary miore than 10 years ndhe’ WhHe| .- ¢ recited tonishbasigh Siiode House, at the Carter Chapel. g Active pallbearers will be Mike The amendment, while hmmng‘w future Presidents to two elective Monagl‘e, Tony, THOES, ERGEY 2800 terms, allows a person who hasl'me Thibodeau, Frank Heinke, Evan served two years or less of an unex- | Wmdk. Honorary. palibeasili il ba % Jack Mullen, Frank Maier, «Joe ired term to be electe H lp“s .y d’ tydce ‘on Kendler, H. R. VanderLeest, Ed As Prosident’; Bh : tae s thelJB(‘ObsOn and Neil Moore. Inter- amendment was approved by me,mem will be beside her husband Republican _controlled80th Con- | (% the Catholic plot tn Ryeegipen E;:;pgz{dr Truman was specifically Mrs, Smith-pikesd bz il & Utah and Nevada Legislatures | R€8% attack last Tuesday morning. acted in quick succession last night She is survived by one daughter; to approve the amendment. Nevada | Dolores F, Bruns of St. Mary's, completed action at 7:30 p.m, (EST) | Ohio, and five sons, Lee W, Joe M., becoring the. $6th. state o Fatify P TREPRUtE J. Francis: A, IGERTMEREy the amendment. J. §mnh, all ug Juneau, one brother, The Constitution requires that| Willam Altmiller of Taft, Calif, amendments to it be ratified by and seven grandchildren. three-fourths -of ‘the states or 86| ;DA Smith was born in Jopltn, at present — to become law. Mo, August 28, 1893, came to Alaska in 1913 and was married to L. H. Smith, April 7, 1915, and has made WIll EXTEND her home here since. The family PO has operated the Sixith Lairies for many years. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 —@®—| Officials of the Office of Price Sta- bilization (OPS) said today they| plan to extend the auto price! freeze, which otherwise would expire March 1. 1 The manufacturers’ prices of new cars now are frozen at the levels of last Dec. 1. The order was issued | in mid-December and was the first| price control order by the OPS. Officials said the order may be| extended to April 1 to give them| time to. work out new regulations for manufacturers of all kinds. | For e last two months the OPS | has beed working on a revision of | the auto price freeze that would | permit the manufacturers—in some | cases at least — to raise prices to help compensate for higher costs ANCHORAGE VISITOR James Power of Anchorage is at the Baranof Hotel. e ® o o o & o 0 o WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Hour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneaur — Maximum 29; minimum, 18. At Airport — Maximum, 29; minimum, 10. FORECAST Occasional light snow end- ing tonight. Low tempera- ture tonight near 25 degress. Decreasing cloudiness tomor- row. High temperature about 32 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a’m. today City of Juneau — Trace; Since Feb. 1 —459 inches; ® JAMES V. DAVIS WEDS IN SEATTLE; HONEYMOON, HAWAII { SEATTLE, Feb. 27 — (A — The marriage of James V. Davis, weamfiy former Alaska Legislator, and Mrs. Alyce Schultz of Oregon City, Ore., { was solemnized last night in the Mural room of the New Washington | hotel. They will leave tonight by plane for the Hawaiian Islands for a hon- eymoon of several weeks. Davis, who still has many Alaska ! business connections, came to the Seattle area several years ago from Juneau and makes his hqme on a Whidbey Island estate of several hundred acres. He met his bride-to-be shortly | after she came to Seattle six months iago to stay with a brother, H. L. Slick. Mrs. Schultz was an official of the Culinary Workers Union in Oregon City before she left to visit her brother. The ceremony was attended only !by members of the couple’s fami- lies. After their return from Hawali, Mr. and Mrs. Davis will live at their jestate on Whidby Island in Puget | Sound. | Davis was a member of the Alaska Legislature for several terms while living in the Territory. He still re- tains controlling interest in the Alaska Coastal Aitlines and serves in an advisory capacity for several fishing, cannery and shipping in- | terests. HELEN CLAIRE LISTER DELIGHTS AUDIENCE AT PIANO RECITAL Juneau music lovers were amazed and delighted as they thoroughly enjoyed the piano music of little Miss Helen Claire Lister, twelve year old daughter of Mrs. Ronald | Lister of Juneau, who was pre- !sented in recital by her teacher {Mrs. Jane McMullin last evening in the Methodist Church. The young pianist opened her program with Clementi’s spirited Sonatina and then played for her audience Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Schubert’s Scherzo, B Flat Major, preludes and waltzes by Chopin, Poldini’s Poupee Valsante, the little air of Sugar and Spice by Kettering and MacDowell's To a Wild Rose and Hungarian. Her technique was excellent and she lplayed with an expression and idepch of feeling unusual in under- standing for so young an artist. Delightful also to her audience ! was: Miss Lister's unaffected grace and the charm of natural poise. In a floor length dress beautiful in its simplicity in a style remin-mous approval, as did H. B. 74, to |dcent of Godey's Lady Book, of a !sofl shade of blue over pink and shot with sequins and set off by a pink sash and big bow, her lovely golden hair softly arranged in curls, thelittle artist looked like a fairy princess as she sat in the spotlgiht at her piano, with greens and masses of daffodils arranged across the front of the concert platform making a perfect setting in color blend. During her concert Miss Lister was presented with a number of bouquets from the audience and at the close of her recital she was called back for encore and finally left her audience with a gracious little courtesy. As the ap- plause continued she returned to the auditorium with Mrs. McMullin and the two received the congrat- ulations of the many present at an informal reception. —_——— FROM OGDEN winninghoff of Ogden, stoppinz at the Hotel M. J. Utah, is Juneau. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 27 — Closing quitation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 106%, American. Tel. and Tel. 156%, Anaconda 42%, Douglas Aircraft 104", General Electric 55%, General Motors 49%, Goodyear 73%, Kenne- cott 75, Libby, McNeil and Libby 9%, Northern Pacific 34%, Stand- ard Oil of California 94, Twentieth Century Fox 23, U. S. Steel 437%, lr‘ound 2380%, Canadian Exchange “95.75. INCENTIVE PROGRAM IS URGED Requests fo;_T;x Morator- ium, Indian Claims Set- tlement, Pass House By BOB DE ARMOND A House Joint Memorial asking that Congress establish a tax in- centive program to encourage the investment of industrial capital in Alaska was passed by the House this morning with only two opposing votes. The memorials requests that firms coming to Alaska to develop new resources be granted a moratorium on Federal income taxes until such time as the taxes they would norm- ally pay equals the amount of their capital investment, with a maxi- mum of 15 years for such morator- jum. The tax incentive program Wwas initiated by the Alaska Department of the Seattle Chamber of Com- merce. The memorial was sponsored by the Juneau Chamber of Com- merce and introduced by Rep. Mac- Kinnon. The only votes against it lwere cast by Reps. Conright and Hope. i Another memorial which, if ef- i fective, would tend to encourage in- ¢ vestment in Alaska, was also passed by the House this forenoon. This !was H.JM. 11, also by Rep. Mac- Kinnon, urging Congress “to take prompt action to investigate, and to settle equitably to all parties in interest and to the general welfare Ji" the Territory, the question of Indian or aboriginal title to all lands in the Territory of Alaska. The memorial passed without a dissenting vote. Three Bills Passed disposed of another by tabling. who ex- right and McCutcheon, plained that the matter Senate. Passed by a 20-4 vote was Rep. ing cruelty to animals. Dissenting Hope, Kay, Madsen and Wells, H. B. 57, which would allow quali- fied attorneys -to join Alaska law |ttrms and engage in practice until !such time as the annual bar exam- hnluonx are held, received unani- permit corporations to file their an- nual reports on a fiscal year basis. Monday Afternoon During its afternoon session yes- terday the House passed a bill mod- ifying the requirements for receiv- ing old age assistance benefits and a bill increasing the severity of penalties for violations of the nar- cotic Act. The old age assistance bill gen- erated some heated debates on the proposal to eliminate the citizen- ship requirement and on 2a pro- posed amendment to increase maxi- mum benefits from $80 to $90. Rep. Scavenius, commenting that he has little use for people who have lived in the country for many years without becoming citizens and adding that he himself is a natural- ized citizen, asserted that there is less and less excuse for the defal- cation because better transporta- tion makes it easier for people to get to the courts than formerly. “That is a phony countered Rep. Kay. boils down to is a question of dol- lars and cents. We have to support the aliens when they become desti- tute anyway, and we might, as well do it by old age assistance benefits and get some Federal help.” Rep. Barnes also placed the mat- ter on a financial rather than a patriotic basis. now comes entirely from the Terri- torial treasury and I think it is our duty to get Federal help when it is available,” she said. Compromise Reached As a compromise between those who wished aliens entirely excluded argument,” “What this “Relief for aliens The most important clues are| contained in dispatches to U. s. FROM SPOKANE papers from Moscow—dispamhe.s[k Mr, and. Mrs. W. Cooper of Spo- ane i ping at the Baranof lnw;. (Continued on Page Four) 000 cceevec000esev0ce00 e Since July 1 — 46.67 inches; At Airport — Trace; Since Feb. 1 — 2.18 inches; Since July 1 — 32.43 inches. ® o0 0 0 0 0 0 0 l from assistance benefits and those who would drop the bars, an amendment was adopted to permit (Convinued on Page 8ix) Sales today were 1,680,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: Industrials 25134, rails 84.95, utili- ties 43.70. In quick succession this morningtjne miles from Juneau, isolation the House passed three bills and|yag rather complete. “Being able to H. B. 29, for reorganization of the} ., 00, airport, gave us a feeling} Banking Board, was tabled at the|,r gecurity in case of an emerg- request of its authors, Reps. Con- ency,” Miller said today. will bejje. gaid that 72 inches of new snow taken care of in a comprehensive|gey a¢ the camp. An hourly weather banking bill to be introduced in the report was kept and winds up to Gasser’s bill defining and prohibit- has winter movement. votes were chalked up for RePS.|iracks up there, Miller said. | I 1 Army Prepared fo Defend All Parts of Alaska al Anytime, Declares Kepner * WINTER ICECAP STUDIES FOLD UNTIL MID-MAY Another chapter in the Juneau; Icecap Research Project closed be- hind the tail of Tom McCahill's plane yesterday as he evacuated the last of the JIRPS from the ice field, Jjust ahead of a storm. The past month’s studies resulted in a better idea of the winter char- acter of the ice field and contrib- uted to weather data. Eight men were involved in the operation and two camps were maintained. McCahill made six flights yester- day to take out the men and equip- ment. Before his first landing on deep soft snow, he made several passes over the landing place to pack the snow a bit harder each time. On the last trip the plane would not become airborne with Miller and Sgt. Calvin Anderson so Miller was left on the snowfield while Anderson was landed on the Taku River. Mac then went back, got Miller, picked up Anderson and flew them to Juneau. Others in the winter party were Dr. Theodore Haley, expendition doctor; Fred Small, assistant to Mil- ler from the American Geographical Society; Tony Thomas of the For- est Service; Fred Milan, University of Alaska; Anderson and Sgt. Adam Schmeider, both of the Air Force. McCahill was liaison for the party as well as pilot. The expedi- tion is sponsored by the Geograph—l jcal Society, the office of Naval Research and the Forest Service. ‘While the camps were only 40 air- radio contact the CAA boys at the Between February 11 and 20 Mil- 70 miles an hour were recorded. It was determined that the ice field The only sign of life were wolf The studies are to be resumed about mid-May when Milan plans to return to Fairbanks and with Ed Guerin will travel up the Norris Glacier in weasels. TEACHERS REACH | UNITY REGARDING SALARY REQUESTS Lester L. Wingard, Supt. of Pe- tersburg Schools and Legislative Chairman of the Alaska Educanon] Association, announces that a uni- form request for teachers cost of living adjustment has been reached. The teachers of the Ter- ritory are asking for a $500 annual increase for the First Division, $650 for the Third Division and $800 for the Second and Fourth Divislons. “plavka fl-hool adminilrators are finding it more and more dif- ficult to attract and keep teachers because of better paying &reas in the States, and increases are needed even assuming that the cost of living remains stable for the next two years,” Miss Marjorie Tillotson, Juneau - High School Teacher and President of the Al- aska Education Association, stated today. At the present time Warren Dahlstrom of the Anchorage Tea- chers is representing the Alaska Education Association before the Legislators, “There is a great deal of encouraging support ~for the AEA requests. This raise would represent $350,000 for the coming school year if the number of tea- chers does not increase” said he. Dahlstrom and Miss Tillotsen ap- |penred before ‘he House Ways and Means Committee this morning and presented the above salary re- quest. M. Carlson of Seattle is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. J ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 27— (M—The head of the Alaska defense command says “We are no push- overs and anyone who thinks he can walk in and take Alaska is in for a rude awakening.” Lt.-Gen, W. E, Kepner said his organization is well prepared to defend all of Alaska against any nation that may “step in and try to take it.” “My mission is to defend Alaska and that means all of Alaska,” Kepner said. “The force of men here (Alaska) is well trained and capable. We are prepared to meet the enemy whenever and wherever he may strike.” The General made the state- ments in commenting on a report made by a preparedness subcom- mittee of the Senate Armed Forces Committee in Washington, D. C., last Thursday. The subcommittee report said that an all-out war with Russia “Would force this country to aban- don certain isolated areas of Al- aska.” The subcommittee report also said it appears ‘reasonable to as- sume that little could be done to protect the Seward Peninsula area from either bombing or actual in- vasion if the Russians desired.” The Seward Peninsula reaches up into Northwestern Alaska and borders on Bering Strait, a 60-mile strip of water separating the Ter- ritory from Russian Siberia. Kepner said certain areas of Al- aska are more vulnerable but that “Any portion that is important to the enemy is important to us.” “Our strength is highly mobile and can be moved to areas where it may be needed and when it is needed,” he said. .“If we are to temporarily relinquish an area it would be with the idea of mak- ing it untenable.” The subcommittee is headed by Sen. Hunt (D-Wyo.). The other two members are Sens. Morse (R-Ore.) and Saltonstall (R- Mass.). SALMON TAX WOULD RAISE LARGE FUND The new salmon tax bill, intro- duced yesterday by Rep. Andrew Hope, if passed in its present form would raise upward of two million dollars a year for the Territory’s general fund, Rep. Hope said today. He said these calculations were based upon the prevailing prices of salmon for the 1950 season, and upon an average catch. The new bill, which would place a tax upon each salmon caught in Alaskan waters, was drafted by Ernest Spink with the assistance of C. L. Anderson, Director of the Territorial Department of Fisheries, Rep. Hope said. Hope said that he secured An- derson’s approval of the measure in its final form just before he introduced it. He said he feels that it will have the support of a ma- jority of the fishermen and others connected with the fishing industry, and that the revenues from the tax will do much to lift the Terri- tory's General Fund out of its pre- sent precarious position. The man who drafted the bill is registered in the Auditor’s office as a lobbyist. The registration gives the following information: Name, Ernest Spink. Firm or person represented: Ernest Spink. Interests: Anything to do with finances. Signed, Eruest Spink. FKOM TULSEQUAH H. R. Hammond of Tulsequah is at the Baranof Hotel. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof from Seattle in port and scheduled to sail during late after- noon for westward. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Feb. 28. Denali scheduled to sail from Ses*tle 4 p.m. Friday. ALLIED LINE IS ADVANCED THROUGH MUD Ba"le-Hard—;l;d Marines Now in Fighting Line- Hills Captured By Associated Press United Nations troops smashed back five vicious Red counterat- tacks on the Central Front near Hoengsong today as the whole Al- lied line, spearheaded by the U. S. First Marine Division, moved cau- tiously forward through mud and howling winds, It was the first report that the First Marines — the battle-harden- ed heroes of the fighting with- drawal from Changjin Reservoir last December — were in the fight- ing line again. In today’s action the Leather- necks seized commanding hills south and southeast of Hoengsong. This has become a no-man’'s land, with the Chinese Communists and North Koreans ringing it to the north on the approach to their key strongpoint of Hongchon, On the West-Central and Western sectors things were relatively quiet, although the U. 8. First Cavalry and British elements ran into stiff Red resistance 15 miles northwest of Hoengsong, near Yongdu. Reports from the front said the Red pre-dawn counterattack were among the sharpest actions met in the week-old renewal of the Allied offensive. The U. 8. Second Division | drove the enemy back. A U. 8. Army spokesman said the new forward push had thwarted or delayed a Chinese counter-offensive by four to six armies. He said 100,- 000 Chinese Reds had been shifted into defense positions and it would take them several weeks to regroup for any drive southward again. Crack Red Defenses An American regiment cracked the main Korean Red defenses on the East-Central battlefront today after Doughboys in the same sector smashed five fierce Communist counterattacks, The Reds were being chased into an unchartered mountain wilder- n s. “We have broken their main line of resistance,” said Col. William R. Quinn, commander of the U. 8. Seventh Division regiment that broke through the Reds on the East- West Highway from Pangnim to ‘Wonju. “But we're not letting them rest,” ne told A. P. Correspondent Tom Stone. “We're going in after them, and we're going to sweep them out 5f the hills and the valleys and caves.” Quinn said his riflemen and ar- tillerymen were taking “a terrific toll” of the enemy. All along the Central warfront UN forces moved ahead steadily but cautiously. GRONROOS APPOINTED { PLACEMENT OFFICER FOR ALASKA NAT. SERVICE Appointment of Harold B. Gron- ross as Alaska Native Service placement officer was revealed to- day. The appointment, it was stated, was effective Friday, Feb. 23. Gronroos was formerly the vet- erans representative with the U. S. Employment Service, Department of Labor. He has been a resident of Juneau for the past several years, a graduate of the University of Alaska, and is the newly elected , president of the University Alumni Association. MRS. MORROW AND HER SON RETURN TO ANNETTE ISLAND Mrs. Robert Morrow and her in- fant san, Richard, born in Juneau February 7, have left for their home on Annette Island where young Richard’s father is stationed with Pan American World Airways. Mrs. Morrow is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. G. Merritt of Juneau and she and her son have been the houseguests of her parents here. FROM ANCHORAGE [ J. L. Connor of Anchorage is lregistered at the Baranof Hotel. .