The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1951, Page 5

THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1951 'IN JUNEAD! and maybe it has ... The inside story of a perfect crime. THE YEAR'S BEST MYSTERY STORY! L T VS | TONITE!? SHOWS 7:20 and 9:30 FEATURE 7:50 and 10:00 M-G-M'’s Story of Love and Crime! RICARDO MONTALBAN - SALLY FORREST The thrilling star of “Batfeground" TOMORROW - o — L i N 0 1000 PETOM L HOW EXCITING CAN A MOVIE BE? THIS ONE'S A KNOCKOUT! SELDOM BEEN EQUALED FOR REALISM! . lookatThis.... ~ “TWINDOW?”, the window with Built-in insulation, B, that gives you all these advantages. . . Reduces heating costs. \ Permits the use of larger windows. Designed to prevent condensation. Adds to comfort and health year round. Only two surfaces to clean. Beautiful, modern, economical. See Us Today 'WALTER J. STUTTE & SON Building Materials Concrete Products Phone 34 ——— 617 Willoughby BE YOUR OWN WHISKEY EXPERT! Trust your taste buds to tell you which brand is right for you. Because the whiskey that tastes best to you is the one to buy. 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They are, for example, heavy meat-eaters and if the Territory is z0ing to provide its own foodstuffs it must have a sizeable livestock Industry. 4 And the Alaska stock rancher will bump smack into the old prob- lem of domestic livestock versus wild predators. The predators he will mainly have to contend with, depending apon the location he picks, will be wolves and bears. The opinion regarding wolves ap- sears to be almost unanimous. Al- i ‘hough it requires a good deal more aunting skill to bag a wolf than t does to bring home a bear hide, he big game hunters have showed ittle interest in wolves and hence ven the Wildlife Service regards hem as a menace. But when it comes to bears, and specially brown bears, there are wo lines of thought and the two ire, at times, almost violently op- | posed. There is one lot of people who want the hears protected, at least sartially. Another group would pre- ‘er to ‘have them decimated if nat axterminated. Among the former are the big ;ame hunters, who want bears per- setuated so they will have some- hing to hunt. Then there is a | nuch larger group, broadly classi- fied as wildlife lovers. These are somewhat romantic individuals who issert that all wildlife is inherent- ly good and should be fostered and protected. And lastly, there ore the Alaska big game guides whose interest in bears is purely mercenary. They make their living by showing the big game hunters around. Of the entire lot who want the bears pro- tected, the guides have the best case. On the other side of the fight are the stock ranchers and the commercial fishermen. The fisher- men contend, with more than a little evidence to back them up, that the bears destroy more than their worth in salmon every year. And tehind these two groups are a lot of people who have no par- ticular interest in the matter ex- cept the feeling that it would be THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 7™ EYES HAVE NEVER BEHELD ITS EQUAL! _ You Will See It SUNDAY (MOTHER’S DAY) after 3 Fabulous months in Seattle! safer to roam around the an hills if there were fewer bears in the underbrush. As Rep. Chester C. “Red” Carl- son of Cordova put it during the t Legislature: “These bears can't and they don't pay taxes. I see no reason why we shouldn't get rid oi them wherever they endan- ger our lives or our livelihood.” Any planning for large scale stock ranching in Alaska must con- sider Kodiak Island, which offers the greatest grazing area within easy reach of a market. It is unfortunate that the island also the habitat of the brown Léar Whether, in the long- run, this will be more unfortunate for the bears or for domestic livestock remains to be seen. Thus far the bears have come out on top. If Dr. Fracker is unfamiliar with conditions on Kodiak Island he coult enlighten himself by reading the literature of his own depart- ment, Nearly 40 years ago another Department of Agriculture scien- tist, the late Dr. C. C. Georgeson, wrote: is “The great brute which domin- ates animal other islands, as well as the ad- joining mainland, had proved him- self to be a menace to advancing civilization. While the bear is an interesting animal, not only zoolog- ically, but in that he affords good sport for hunters, and while the particular species inhabiting this region of Alaska is of especial in- terest because of his great size and power, and because he is prob- ably the largest bear on earth, it is also a fact that if this region is to be settled by farmers and in- troducers of live stock the area in- habited by the bear should be cir- cumscribed. Cattle, sheep and bear cannot live peacefully together.” Conditions on Kodiak Jsland and other bear-infested areas have not greatly changed in 40 years. As a matter of fact, bears of nearly all species have probably increased. A recent publication gives the num- ber of brown bears in the coastal | area of Alaska as 8,500, with 10,000 brown and grizley bears in the In- terior and 75,000 black bears in the whole country. These are nice round figures and | if they are anywhere near accur- ate they show that there are al- most as many bears as people in Alaska. There was a time when bear hides were an article of commerce and the hunters and trappers kept the animals somcwhat thinned down. Records of the old Russian-Am- | erican Company show that it pur- chased 1,607 bear pelts at Kodiak alone between 1842 and 1860, while its purchases in all of Alaska dur- ing the same period totaled 2,244. And during the first 13 years of the American occupation the traders recorded the purchase of 8,057 bear hides. No doubt many pur- chases were not recorded. Back in tie 1890’s a brown bear pelt was worth around $20 and a black about $30. Since mink were then quoted at a dollar a pelt, there was a real incentive for bear hunting. In late ycars, what with closed seasons and bag limits and the sale of bear pelts prohibited, the | annual kill has been reduced. Although the may go on for a long time, there 5 lIttle doubt that ultmately the bear will have to go, at least in parts of Alaska where man wishes to settle, just as the buffalo of the Great Plains had to go to make way for the wheat farms and cattle ranches of today. DOUGLAS EWS FIRE DEPARTMENT MEETS The Douglas Fire Department. will hold a regular meeting tonight at 7 o'clock in the Douglas Cannery building. There will be a short busi- ness session, work and refreshments. MRS. FRASER PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY IN DOUGLAS ON WEDS. Jessie Kennedy Fraser, 71, long- | time resident of the Gastineau Channel area, passed away suddenly and quietly last evening at Lhe home of Douglas Gray. She was sitting reading a news- paper when it slipped to the floor. Her heart had stopped. Several - i 'days ago she suffered a heart at- tack. Mrs. Fraser was born June 5, 1879, at Glasgow, Scotland, married Rob- ert Johnstone Fraser July 6, 1906, and moved to Treadwell in 1910. For the past 20 years she had been with the Juneau-Douglas Telephone com- pany in Douglas. Her husband died May 7, 1939. She was a life member of the Or- | der of Eastern Star. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Leonard Johnson and Mrs. Douglas Gray of Douglas, and Mrs. Ted Mack of Kirkland, Wash.; and two sisters, Mrs. Dan Douglas of Seattle and Mrs. Elizabeth McIn- | tosh of Glasgow, Scotland. Also surviving are six grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be an- nounced later. The remains are at the Carter mortuary. RUMMAGE SALE V. F. W. Auxiliary Rummage Sale Sat., May 12, in basement Memorial Presbyterian Church. Open at 10 am. i dfe on Kodiak and | | bear controversy 805-3t i "MYSTERY STREET' IS MYSTERY FILM, CAPITOL THEATRE The methods of Harvard’s famed Department of Legal Medicine in aiding in the solution of murder crimes often written off as “acci- lental deaths” are revealed for the first time on the screen in “Mys- tery Street,” now showing at the Capitol Theatre The story s with the acci- lental discovery of the bones of a skeleton near a lonely beach on Cape Cod. P Lieutenant Mor- alas is instructed to enlist the aid f Dr. McAdoo of the Department of Legal Medicine in solving the ‘ase and the latter, in a series of fascinating demonstrations, and with only the skeleton bones and 1 clump of ivy as laboratory clues, is able to identify the sex, age, height and probable occupation of the victim. Another ingenious ex- periment in which photographs are matched to a life-size scale size of the skeleton's skull identifies the victim as a missing B-girl and cir- sumstantial evidence points to young Henry Shanway who drove away from the Grass Skirt Cafe with the B-girl when she was last seen alive. It Jooks like an open-and-shut case until Dr. McAdoo makes another unexpected discovery, namely that the discoloration of one of the skele- ton’s ribs was caused by a bullet. LEGION CONSIDERS LADIES" AUXILIARY FOR AUK BAY POST The possibility of organizing a Ladies Auxiliary Unit will be dis- | *ussed at tonight’s regular month- ly meeting of Auk Bay Post No. 25,' The American Legion, it was an-| nounced today by Post Commander George F. Cantillon. open ce will also be discussed among other things, he revealed. Post Adjutant .Robert N. Drux- Iman said that official American | Legion caps and other supplies have now been received and will be distributed to members at the meeting. The meeting is scheduled to be- gin at 8 p.m. in DeHart's Store, MINIMUM PRICE FOR RED KINGS 39%2 CENTS Dockside prices established here for troll caught salmcn yesterday were 39'c cents a pound for large kings; 29% cents for small reds; |and 24% cents for white kings, An- dy Barlow, executive secretary of the United Trollers of Alaska said here today. mon here is one-half a cent less than prices established at Ketchi- kan. The diiference is port differ- ential. Colors of upon their mosphere: hottest, are stars differ depending temperatures and at- Sirius and Vega, the hlue white { NICHOLSON’S WELDING SHOP Tanks and General Welding ALL WORK GUARANTEED Under an agreement with buyers | the minimum price paid for sal-;ted by the U. 8, Marshal at Fort "THE BLACK ROSE’ IS GREAT MOVIE AT 20TH CENTURY Sweep and style that bedazzle the eye and stagger the imagination dis- tinguish the 20th Century Theatre’s incumbent attraction, “The Black Rose,” as one of the screen’s all- time greats. This is a movie in the tradition of massive, overpowering vigorously adventurous screen spec- tacles, but it has a scope and an intensity that outdo tradition at every turn. It also has a Power, namely Tyrone Power, never more effective in his impressive £ilm career. As the lithe, little lady known as “The Black Roce,” a striking new- comer named Cecile Aubry makes her debut. From England comes Jack Hawkins. And sharing acting honors with Power is Orson Welles. This cast begins to indicate the size with which Twentieth Century- Fox conceived “The Black Rose” and the caliber of material Director Henry Hathaway was given to work with. This is a great motion picture, filled with action, glamour and tre- mendous appeal. ROAD WORK IN SKAGWAY AREA GOING FORWARD W. J. Niewl, chiei of operations for the Alaska Road Commission, returned home yesterday from an| inspection trip to Haines. Plans are underway by ARC for extension of the Skagway-Dyea road about four miles which will open up considerable homesteading and lumber areas. Paving of the Haines Highway |~ to the boundary is expected to be|~ completed this summer, ARC of- Plans for summer Post meetings' ficials said. There is only about| five miles left to pave and about 25 miles of sealing asphalt to be; laid. It is expected ferry service i between Juneau and Haines will start the last of May, according to (information from the office of R. J. Sommers. The ARC also announced that, as of May 9, road load restrictions | have been lifted from all highways in the Territory and truck traffic is back to its normal load limits. The last part of the highway under spring thaw restrictions, was op- ened yesterday—from Tok to Big Delta. KETCHIKAN PRISONER WANTED IN TEXAS ON PAROLE VIOLATION Joe Jack Montgomery, who was arrested in Ketchikan on April 25, and sentenced to 60 days in jail on a misdemeanor charge, is wan- Worth, Texas, according to word received by U. S. Marshal Walter Hellan here. The man is wanted on a charge| of parole violation from the Fed- | eral Correction Institution at Sea- goville, Texas. Al —EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY— ; s Refrigeration Service PARSONS ELECTRIC, Inc. Phones——— P. 0. Box 1529——Feero Bldg. | Black 1040 and 161 Py — C.1.0. Hal SKINNER'S and reels, in addition smith service. stant repair. Every rod to high power rifl A ALL VISITING V. F. CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND James Burnette, Commander 7-0---._0--.-—.——-‘ TONIGHT Veterans of Foreign Wars 1 -8 o'Clock W. MEMBERS ARE Frank Drouin, Adjutant RERRRRRRRRRRRRKN DOORS OPE} SHOWS 7:08 — 9:30 @ News Evenls BASE PERIOD RECORDS NOW OVERDUE, OPS All retailers and others covered | by ceiling price regulations are now in violation of the Regulations if they have not prepared required rase period records, Fred G. Han- ford, Territorial Director of the Office of Price Stabilization, warned today. | The deadline for retaflers and | wholesalers was April 30, at which time anyone selling articles at re-| tail or wholesale was supposed to have completed his base period rec- ords in compliance with Regulation 9. No filing by these merchants in the OPS office is required. . How- ever, restaurants ‘and taverns must! also prepare records to establish their food-cost-per-dollar of gross sales and 1ile this information with their closest branch office of the OPS. to comply with Regulation 11. There are O.P.S. offices in Ket- ! chikan, Juneau, Anchorage and Fairbanks. | Enforcement officers are current- ‘ly checking restaurants and taverns to ascertain the degree of compli- ance. All_sellers of services, such a: laundries, dry cleaners, drayage companies, repair services and sim- flar establishments must have a ceiling price list showing the high- est prices they charged during the base period (December 19, January 25, 1951. This list must show thec type of service and the extent of the service rendered during the base period for the price which was charged. The list was supposed to have been prepared by March 1 Checking will be done soon to see that operators of these types of services have complied. These li need not office but must be preserved for inspection. All services are still under the General Ceiling Price Regulation Hanford reminded, and no price A New Service to Sportsmen We are now equipped to repair rods to continuing our gun- Now the Sportsman may have his hunting and fishing equipment kept in con- service from fishing es for big game hunt- Alaska’s Complete Gansmith Service increases since January 25 are al- lowable. WHITTIER LUMBER MILL OPERATING; EXPECT TO (UT 15,000,000 BD. . The Columbia Lumber Co. mill at Whittier is expected to cut 15,- 000,000 board feet of lumber this season, Thomas Morgan, president said today. He returned this week from there where he had been on business for the company. With the demand for lumber along the railbelt and booming business conditions there, a full order file has been booked, he said. The Whittier mill has been opera- ting since May 1. NPS VISITOR Aubrey Neasham of the National Park Service from San Francisco is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. TO TENAKEE Mr. and Mrs, G. W. Fox of Seattle stopped over night at the Baranof hotel en route to Tenakee. UNION OIL MAN PERE T. P. Hansen, representative of the Union Oil Co. from Ketchikan is in Juneau on business. R R RO ERRERRIICOON be filed with the O.P.S | 7:00 FEATURE 7 Now Thrilling Crowds :25—9:47 ORSON WELLES and CECILE AUBRY AR R RN RARRR: RRRNNNNNNANNNNNAATR -J. A. Durgin Company, Inc. Accounting Auditing Tax Wark Room 3, Valentine Building JUNEAU, ALASKA P. O. Box 642 Telephone 919 Rheumatic Conditions and ARTHRITIS Respond Rapidly By Plasmatic Therapy CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC Dr. G. M. Caldwell Front & Main Ph. 471 H. E. GREEN, Agent Phones 2 and 4 JUNEAU ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY L 2erucng e ~laska