The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1951, Page 5

TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1951 SNOWPLALE or %flmfi CapITUL® LEAVES TONITE! SHOWS 7:06—9:35 FEATURE 7:35—10:05 MGM presents RUDYARD KIPLING'S daries ERROL FIYAN wih DEAN STOCKWELL Tomorrow We Are Privileged To Present ONE OF THE FIVE BEST PICTURES OF THE YEAR! JOAN CRAWFORD in “"HARRIET CRAIG" WITH WENDELL COREY from a Celebrated PULITZER PRIZE PLAY! A Fascinating Story of a Woman at war w'th every- thing and every- one who stands in her way! Stock Quofations NEW YORK, July 31—/®—Closing quotation stock today is 2%, American Can 111%, American Tel. and Tel. 157, Anaconda 44, Douglas Aircraft 50%, General Electric 557%, General Motors 47%, Goodyear 90, Kenne- cott 74%, Libby McNeill and Libby | 8%, Northern Pacific 48'z, Standard Oil of California 48%, U.S. Steel 40%, Pound $2.79 15/16, Canadian | Exchange 94.75. Sales today were 1,550,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrial 257.86, rails 80.52, utilities 49.84. —EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY-— of Alaska Juneau mine 'Millions in Jewels In 'Kim," Now at (apitol Thealre Two-million dollars worth of jew- els, encrusted on elephant trappings, were a spectacular feature of a fab- ulous ceremonial procession staged by the Maharajah of Bundi for the M-G-M location company film- ing Rudyard Kipling “Kim" in India. The spectacular feature shows at | the Capitol’ Theatre for the last | times tonight. With the Maharajah’s permission | Director Victor ~Saviile photo- graphed the ceremony, making this the first time the century-old ritual has ever been filmed in Technicolor | The director declared that recreat- | ing such a spectacule on a studic | sound stage would have been both financially and artistically impos- sible, “It was like the 1000-and-one Arabian nights all rolled into one,’ he reports, Errol Flynn heads the cast of “Kim” in the role of Red Beard with young Dean Stockwell playing the title role and other stellar roles played by Paul Lukas amd Robert Douglas. 102 Persens Fly ‘With Pan American Monday: 48 Arrive Pan American World Airways carried 102 passengers in and out of Juneau yesterday with 48 ar- rivals and 54 departures. From Seattle: Kenneth Allen, Mrs. L. B. Avrit, P. Canniff, V. Christiansen, Louise Davis, An- |thony Dimond, William Johnson, [capt. L. C. Parry, H. Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. George Prescott, M. |Sandell, Gilbert Bodey, Robert D. Wilson, Evelyn Kyles, Jessie Fra- George Randall, Joseph Mor- From Fairbanks: Mae Lechleite, | Vera Mostaugher, Katherine Brad- ley, Mary Carrol, Lt. and Mrs. Ar- |thur Smith, Chester Miyasto, Mr. |and Mrs. P. Kortum, 'T. Sussman, B8. H. Beckstrom, Emil Notti, Biil ey, Richard Sullivan, J. Ab- Henry Leirer, Sr. Mukka, H. Makazawa, Martha Newbould, g Kather Komuck, Betty From Whitchorse: Harry Hal- {sall, L. T. Grimard, M. Larocqu T. J. Hellevaara, Sven Koatman. To Seattle: Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Drowley and two children, B. Me: ser, Dick Seymore, Mrs. S. Dekan~ tor, Mr. and Mrs. G. Phillips and child; C. F. Troxoll, C. Burkes, E. Zollm Alkert and Dorothy Ken- Lillian Kea, A. Bandettini, |Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lewis, Mar- tin Kobbevik, J. W. Hanna, Mary |and Hundston Gary, Mr. and Mrs. obert Marcum and three child- ren; Nick Jasprica, Art Anderson, Mrs. Samuelson, ‘- Floyd Phrener- ton, Al'x, Georgia and Biren Jo- hansen, Reider Jacobson, Albert and Edward Money, Donald Mac- | Gregor To Ketchikan: C. Albrightson, Max Patashrik, Frank Lahtonen, W. Brindle, Emil Netti, S. Panian, Grant Brown, Gilmer Sund, T. Bonstead, C. W. :Churchwell, W. Boos, Ray Downing. | TIDE TABLES @ August 1 e High tide 12:42 am., 15.6 ft. e Low tide 7:21 am, -0.7 ft. |® High tide 1:50 p.m., 14.2 ft. { e Low tide 7:22 pm., 42 ft. e o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ANNOGUNCING New Sales Representative for Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc. PA At this time, we are featuring aSPECIAL SA LE in LADIES' HOSIERY b ¢ John G. Olson Box 1898 Phone Green 490 S. Baker, | Eric | Rasmus | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, AL ASKA ing the Westwara hiaii 60 ago this month on a new that gave half- a dozen sattered along Alaska's rugged western coast the first regular mail service they had ever had. Although Southeastern Alaska had been receivirg mail from.San Francisco, Portland or Port Town- send with reasonable regularity almost from the day the Ameri- can flag was hoisted at Sitka, the western villages had not and 1s a result they were isolated from the world to an extent that is hard to realize in this day of ra- dio and the airplane Such mail as they did get came to them on the steamers and sailing vessels of the Alaska Commercial Company. It was car- ried free of charge by the com- pany, but at bef® it was irregular and uncertain. In 1890 the resi- dents of one village complained to Governor Lyman E. Knapp that they had been without mail for as long as a year at a time. The first contract for carrying the Westward Mail was let by the Postoffice Department on May 18, 1891, to the North American Commercial Company. This was a newly organized concern and it had outbid the old Alaska Com- ial Company for the sealing se on the Pribilof Islands. The mail contract, starting on July 1, called for monthly trips in April through October, sailing from Sitka with stops at Yak Nuchek, Kodiak, Unge, Sand Point, Belkofsky and Uns 1, with the option of mak- ing other stops where business offered. The population of Western aska was small in 1891—there no Cordova, no Valdez, no Seward and no Anchorage but it was incr ing. There were government schools at Kodiak, Afognak, Kar- luk and Unalaska, while Kodiak, and Point and Unalaska had postoffices. Mission schools had been established by the Metho- dists at Unga, the Baptists at Woody Island and the Swedish Evangelists at Yakutat. Industrial Development was com- ing along, too. Salmon canneries were operating at Orca and Odiak on Prince William Sound, at Ke- years route villages le three-year Al- was nai and Kasilof on Cook Inlet, on | Afognak Island, at Karluk, Uyak and Alitak on Kodiak Island, and at Chignik and Thin Point on the uth side of the Alaska Penin- sula, as well as in Britsol Bay. And in those years a salmon can- nery operated for a season last- ing four or five months. Unga, Sand Point and Pirate Cove in the Shumagin Islands had codfish salteries that worked nearly the year around, and on Unga Island the Apollo Gold Min- ing Company was opening property where it was soon to be operating 40 stamps and employ- ing 200 men. Gold miners worked the beach | placers from Lituya Bay to Cape Suckling, too, and there was a little coal mining on Cook Inlet, at Chignik and on Unga Island. Whaling vessels cruised during the summer months on the Fair- weather Ground or to the south- ward of Kodiak Island, and a big fleet of sealing schooners moved up along the coast each spring and on into Bering Sea in the summer. Sea otter hunters combed the rocks and reefs from Kodiak Island westward to Attu. Fish and furs were the main products of Western Alaska, with minerals trailing along in third place, started on the mail route in July 1891. If the people along her route were pleased by the new service, they were somewhat disappointed when they got their first look at the Elsie. She was only 77 feet long, meas- uring 65 tons gr She was, in fact, nothing but a cannery ten- ter and had been used in that service at Karluk. The mail in those years con- sisted of letters and newspapers— there was no such thihg as par- cel post—and the Elsie had room enough for the mail and for some [reight. But although she some- times carried from eight to a do- zen passengers, in addition to her regular crew of nine, she had next to no accommodations for them. The company promised to put a larger vessel on the run as soon as possible, and it did so & Icouple of years later. round trip the Elsie On each IF YOU DRINK WHISKEY Forget the Rest the | when the steamer Elsie | had to travel something like 2700 miles of what seafarers generally agree are among the world's most hazardous waters. ~Most of her route was virtually unsurveyed and there were no lighthouses or buoys to mark the dangers. Safe travel in those waters de- pended mainly on the competence (of the skipper, and the Elsie had one of ‘the best, Captain J. E. Lennan. A State of Mainer, Cap- tain Lennan had spent 37 years at sea when he took charge of the Elsie, 17 of them in the waters of Alaska from Dixon Entrance to Point Barrow. In later years he was pilot for several seasons in Revenue Cutters and Navy ves- sels and still later he was pilot in the little steamer Willapa, the first vessel of the Alaska Steam- ship Company. The four trips of the 1891 sea- son were completed by the Elsie without special incident and she went to San Francisco, leaving the western villages no better off for communications during’ the winter months than they had been pre- viously. Kodiak reported the fol- lowing spring that it had been out of touch with the rest of the world from November 13, when the steamer Bertha sailed for San ¥ cisco, until March 28, when the schooner Kodiak arrived from San Franciscs The Elsie’s first mishap came during her sixth trip of the 1892 season, when she was in command of Captain W. Thomas. She was between Cape St. Elias and Yaku- tat, bound eastward, when the forward crank of her low-pressure cylinder snapped. Captain Thomas sailed her back to Nuchek, then went in an open boat the 65 miles to the Pacific Steam Whaling Company’s can- nery at Orca, near the present town of Cordova. He borrowed the little cannery tender Salmon pick- ed up the mail and passengers from the Elsie, and steamed to Sitka. A local blacksmith named T. C. O'Reilly designed and forged a clamp to hold the broken crank | | l together. The repairs were completed when the Salmon returned to Nuchek and they enabled the Elsie to fin- ish her. season’s schedule and get back to San Francisco. The following summer, 1893, the larger and more commodious steamer Crescent City was sent north to carry the Westward Ma'! {and the Elsie went back to pack- ling fish, for the Alaska Packers | cannery at Pyramid Harbor. | Many years later 'her upper | works were rebuilt to give her | better ~passenger accommodations |and she was placed on a local imall, freight and pasesnger run on Prince William Sound, in com- mand of Captain Charles Svens- son. Her end came on December 31, 1910, when she foundered at i Valdez. Last Meefing of Wrangell Picnic Commitiee Tonight Final meeting of the Wrangell | picnic committee will be held to- |night at 8 o'clock in the Triangle | building. It is estimated that about 100 former Wrangell residents will at- tend the picnic next Sunday which will be held at the Auke Bay re- creation area. Picnic hours will be from 1 p.m. until evening. At tonight's com- mittee meeting arrangements will be made for transportation of those wishing to 80 . At the last committee meeting it was decided that each family attending from Juneau would be asked to contribute three or four dollars a fomily to cover cost of food, which will be prepared by a local restaurant to “give the housewife a day off.” 1t will also pay for the cost of one of Sher- wood's ponies . for the afternoon for entertainment of the young- sters. '* There will be games of horseshoes and races for the older | folks, too. ‘ Any person who has not sent in the postal card, signifying his intention of attending, should do so immediately in order that food can be ordered according to the number present. N. W. Carlisle of Olympia, Wash., is stopping at the Hotel Juneau. | | !country either originates THESE DAYS * By GEOR! E. SOKOLSKY (Copyright, 1951, Syndicate, Inc.) King Features STATES RIGHTS the present Americans generally took great pride in s history and tradi- tion, and were usually offended by federal encroachment upon states rights. In public addresses and private conversation, the refer- ence was to “these United States” rather than to the United States.” Like" so much else that has had deep roots in American tradition, this long-held attitude has lost some of its meaning. Maybe it is due to the automobile and good roads or to radio and tele- vision. rather that this tendency be attributed to the propaganda efforts of the new deal to make states administra- tive adjuncts of a national admin- istration propaganda has been continuous and intense for 18 years, during which an increas- ingly large number of Americans have become interested in or de- pendent upon federal treasury checks. In the so-called tidelands cases —California, Louisiana and Texas —the Supreme Court has been laying down doctrine, which, while dealing with oil, can be widely applied to the lessening of the sovereignty of the states. Mr. Justice Douglas in the Lou- | isiana case stated: “The marginal sea is a national, not a state concern. National in- terests, naticnal responsibilities, national concerns are involved. The problems of commerce, na- tional defense, relations with other powers, war and peace, focus there. National rights must there-' fore be paramount there.” ‘The learned Dean Roscoe Pound who taught law to some of our Supreme Court justices, asks: ) but as to such things as are specified, namely commerce with foreign states (E. G. obliga- tions) and conduct of war, are not the rights or powers of the Uni- ted States paramount also over Up to generation, 16 think should I the whole land? Such rights, in-[gyom, G. Osage, M cidents of external sovereignty, are not incompatible with owner- ship, dominium, as distinct from sovereignty. For example, the power of eminent domain of the federal government extends for federal purposes over the whole land. Private land may be used for national defense throughout the whole land. It is not for that reason excluded from private ownership. Private land may be used for national defense through- out the country and is none the less private property because of this.” If Mr. Justice Douglas’s theory is correct, why should there be any private ownership of proper- ty in the city of New York? The financial affairs of the nation, in- surance, banking, publishing, etc. are concentrated there. A very large part of the international and domestic commerce of this in New Forest Fire Threatens Island Early Sunday After a six-hour battle, a for- est fire on Barlow Island--near Point Retreat was brought under control by a crew from the U. S Forest Service Sunday. The fire was first reported by A. W. Blackerby, forester. The boat Ranger 10 was dispatched to the scene early Sunday morning. Aboard as fire-fighters were Lacy Johnson, assistant ranger; Clar- ence Wittanen, skipper of the boat, and crew members, James Wright, Graham Rountree and William Orme. Johnson said the fire burned an acre and a half area and, had the wind shifted, the whole island would have been endangered. Evidence, Johnson said, indica- ted that the blaze started from a campfire left burning in the woods. He pointed out that fires should be built on the beach, or if built in the woods, litter should be well cleaned out at the site before starting the fire. “A fire left unattended in woods can smoulder under the surface for days, eventually cov- ering a large area,” Johnson poin- ted out. “Light rains will not put out this type of camp fire,” John- son added, “it should be exting- uished with water.” Pan American fias Many Weekend Passengers Pan American World Airlines carried 185 passengers in and out of Juneau over the weekend with 84 arrivals and 101 departures. From Seattle: Ike Alhadeeff, R. and Edward Bolton, D. E. Cole- man, Gov. E. Gruening, Mrs. Rich- ard Harsh, Joyce Hope, Rita and Pinky Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. F. Lawrenz, Ed More, Mrs. P. rison, Faye Nelson, Peter the Nord- mann, C. Thompson, Mrs. Tup- per, Roziel Zenke, Bob Fluck, N. Jolly, Dorothy Sparks, T. Carpen- ter, Jean Ellis, Buddy Gomez, J. O'Leary, Zella Jones, Elma Arm- | strong, Marel Dietz, L. O. Elgren, and Mrs. Ward Garrett and three children; Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Glover, Marvin Helwig, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hulk, S. Kra- mer, Ruth Lysne, Agnes Reigen, Billy Vann, Clyde Watley, A. Wise, Webster and Marjorie Buell, M. Femmer, Mrs. C. Johnson, R. H. Larsen, Christiana Larsen, Gene Raleigh, Mrs. James Sparks and two children. Mr. Phyllis Andrew, E. Anderson, W. Bolton, M. Brownlow, Mrs. A. Burton, W. Carson, Ellis Dean, Mr. and Mrs. L. Forrester, Helen Glasoe, Gerald Goebel, Ted Lup- ro, Art Mataye, Jack McCullough, Mrs. J. McKenzie and Mae; Lloyd Mellema, J. Miller, Shema Mon- ten and child; Mae K. McKen- York or is handled there. The United Natoins is situated in that city. . Surely the Empire State Tower would, in a war agajnst us, be employed in the national defense. Should it not now be confiscated, according to the reasoning of - Mr. Justice Douglas? The intellectual difficulty which the followers of Oliver Wendell Holmes face is that they are for- ced by their theory of the law to accept it as an instrument for the exercise of power by the ad- ministration in authority ~without moral restraints. If that theory is applied in all directions, it must produce a state in which no indi- vidual can have any “inalienable” rights. Yet, the Declaration of In- dependence specifies that ‘that was the reason for the founding of our country. In the tidelands cases, these de- cisions probably ~will not affect the actual production of a barrel of cil for private use or the na- tional defense. Therefore, that is not the issue. The issue is the right of the state—of any state—to its sov- ereignty and the right of the in- dividual to his property, as the constitution provides. It is a qu tion as to whether we are li under the constitution or under a tule of thumb federal jurisdic- tion which Mr. Jusjice Douglas calls paramount national rights. As Dean Pound so aptly put it in an article in the “Baylor Law Review": “If sovereignty with responsibil- ity for defense and international relations did necessarily and in- separable involve dominium, that is ownership of land, all private ownership of land would have to be given up.” If defense has to be by air, for instance, at what point up in the air do private and state rights end?Dean Pound argues this point zie, Ted Peterson, Stan Pearlman, Joseph Withers, W. McCullough, Mrs. D. Decanter, A. Vevane. To Seattle: Paul Sutton, Dixie Tandy, Maxine Wright, Betty Jane Brown, Jack Richardson, M. Tangvik, Art Wegge, Earl Anc C. R. Anthony, John Butler, A. Nicholson, Harvey Everest, F. Buttram, Virgil Browne, Dr. Hugh Jeter, W. V. Mountin, Florence Jones, Joe Moreland, S. Moore, R. Danelovick, M. Sparling, Oscar Larsen, Mrs. Sparling, Baz Har- ris, Alta Harris, Mrs. Hollum, R. C. Garrison, A. J. Brockett, Mrs. J. Thines, Sig Olson, Mr. and Mrs. A. Waring, Donna Massey, A. Sodini, C. M. Johnson, Mrs. M. Day Harry Murry, J. Martinson, B. Wiles, Jim Tennyson, Tom De- vans, Mrs. F. B. Kerr, Marvin Ir- wins, Evelyn and Adelaid Bloom- field, Mrs. Paul Jovik, E. N. Bruce, BEffie and Wendell Segertsen, R. Miekes, Ed Bunner, R. Chubb, W. R. Ross, Mrs, J. A. Williams, Wal- ter Lewis, Jack Edwards, F. Curtis, Harold Viuhkola, K. Morris, R. Stolk, A. Haley, W. Chinn, P. Coleman, Talbort McGar, Capt. and Loretta Baker, L. Peters. To Annette: John Ball, Richard Anderson, Joe Peratrovich, L. Nel- son, Mr. and Mrs. V. Verillion, F. Lorenz, E. Byrn Harold Mead, John White, A. J. Cook, D. Bell. with clear logic, ending with this conclusion: under the conditions of warfare today the argument for national defense would make the United States owner of the whole land as well as of the shore of the sea and the sea adjacent to our territory.” Actually, these three decisions of the Supreme Court could by | judicial fiat alter the structure of American life. 86 PROOF — 4 YEARS OLD and Buy the Best Mor- | V. Scheu- | !.‘tl‘ THEATRE * WHERE TONIGHT and DOORS OPE 7:00 The Most EXCITING Lov STARRING Edward ARNOLD Margaret O'BRIEN Robert PRESTON Danny RODUCING : Betty Py Suar of " Call Me M Karin OOTH T o | M B AnchoragéWWorvkiérm Nabbed Affer Waving Gun at Passengers REDDING, Calif,, July 81— — An Anchorage, ‘Alaska, construction worker was detained in a hospital here today after 20 bus passengers had been terrified with a cocked and ioaded 45 caliber revolver. Chief of Police Scott Linecum identified the man as Lyman Taft | Lee, 43, who said he worked for Brady and Swalling Construction | Co. of Anchorage. Homer Zellers, 36, of Redding, driver of the Continental Trailways bus, said Lee, about 10 miles north of Redding, pulled out the gun and ordered him to drive straight | through to San Francisco. { “I watched him in the mirror and kept driving,” Zellars recounted yes- terday shortly after the accident. “No one made any move and pretty soon he moved up to the front of the bus still pointing the gun at me.” As the bus crossed the Sacramento river bridge north of Redding, Zel- lars continyed, “This guy decided that he ought to turn meé over to the police and suggested that I stop 50 he could gete out and call them.” The driver said he told Lee that he would, if he liked, drive him to the police station. He agreed. Zel- lars drove to the main intersection near the police station and, parked there, began blowing his horn. Patrolman Eugene Kingsley vame out and disarmed Lee. ATTENTION There will be a meeting of the Women of the Moose, in the Moose Lodge Rooms at 8 o'clock Thursday Evening, August 2nd. Senior Regent Jannett Frances will ke in charge 874-2¢ VISITOR FROM HOMER Joe Sparks of Homer - came. ‘in spolitan Opera St | DiLCENTURY HITS ARE A HABIT! WEDNESDAY SHOW STARTS 7:19—9:30 e Feud that Ever Echoed Thmqh the CANYONS JENKINS' GARRETT S0 YOU THINK ROMEO WAS A LOVER! Israel Election TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, July 31, — (M—Oificial returns from 987 of 1500 polling places today showed Prime Minister David Ben-Gur- ion’s Mapai (Labor) party lead- ing with 38,63 per cent of votes counted in yesterday's parliamen- tary elections. The conservative General Zion- ists were second with 17.76 per cent throughout the nation. Results so far gave the Com- munists ‘only 332 per cent and the leftwing pro-Russian Mapam 11.85. One ted that the election Gurion’s victory, but Ben-Gurion’s dilemma.” His comment referred to the fact that even if Mapal winds up with 48 or’49 seats'in the 1208 member parliament it still would be difficult for him to muster ald lies for a stable coalition governs ment. : 6, 11 Out on : Princess Norah - * Six passengers arrived this morning on the Princess Norah from Skagway with 11 embarking |southbound. Disembarking from Skagway: Dr. and Mrs. G. Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. E. Madsen, Mr. and Mrs. Goddard. Embarking for Seattle: Dr. and IMrs. R. M. Gill and three child- ren. 1 | For Vancouver: L. E. Reynold- ison, Miss Mary M. Corbus, the | Misses Christoferson, Miss Ruby Nolan. For Prince Rupert: Lingard. political observer commen= was “Ben= it also is Mrs. James FROM FAIRBANKS . Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd W. Martin yesterday on PNA and is ‘stopping at « the Baranof Hotel. |of Fairbanks are registered af the Baranof Hotel. Anchorage Kodiak Homer Naknek A. 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