The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 17, 1951, Page 1

CONGRESSIONAL TBRARY PAERINGTAN n o~ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Il VOL. LXXVIIL, NO. 11,940 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1951 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS (risisLooms | For Brifish In Suez Area British and Egypfians Rush Reinforcements; Paratroopers Sent CAIRO, Oct. 17—{M—Ismailia in the Suez Canal area was an armed camp bristling with machineguns and tanks today, as both British and Egyptians rushed reinforce- ments there Britain faced new trouble in the Anglo-Egyptian Su- dan. One leader of the powerful pro- Egyptian Sudanese Ashigga party called upon the people of Sudan for a campaign of disobedience to Brit- ish authorities there in the cam- paign to drive the Britons out of the land over which Egypt now has proclaimed King Farouk the sole monarch. In the Suez Canal area, the British reported that the Lan- cashire Fusiliers, military and RAF forces and the Egyptian police were in control of the sit- uation after the city of 50,000 was rocked by violent rioting yester- day. A release distributed in Cairo by the RAF said “almost all the shops and buildings (in Ismailia) are closed and the town resembles an armed camp.” British parachute troops, 3,500 strong, were taking off from Nicosia, Cyprus, only 300 miles away, to re- inforce the British in the canal zone, where at least seven and pos- sibly 12-persons were killed in yes- terday's violence. Ismailia was divided into two sections, the western part held by British troops grimly alert behind barbed wire, with Bren guns nosing through. The section was com- pletely blacked out last night. No lights showed from any building, and the dark streets were empty except for pattolling British®Jeeps. The Egyptian sector was patrolled by Egyptian police on a 24-hour emergency alert. - Egyptian officials said six British army trucks were burned or other- wise destroyed by mobs in the vio- lence yeterday. Other sources said at least 17 trucks were burned. Stock Quotafions NEW YORK, Oct. 17—®—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 3%, American Can | 118%, American Tel. and Tel. 158%, Anaconda 50%, Douglas Aircraft 64, General Electric 61%, General Motors 52, Goodyear 47', Kenne- cott 85%, Libby McNeill and Libby 9, Northern Pacific 58%, Standard Oil of California 52%, Twentieth Century Fox 23%, U.S. Steel 43%, Pound $2.79, Canadian Exchange 95. Sales today were 1,460,000 shares. Averages today were as lollow_s:» industrials 27356, rails 85.13, util- ities 46.49. ' TheWashingion Merry - Go- Round =ight, 1951. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Com By DREW PEARSON ASHINGTON — The two old tyrants of the Senate, McKellar of Tennessee and McCarran of Nevada, tried to browbeat the nation's top secret out of Atomic Energy Chair- man Gordon Dean the other day. It’s none of their business, but they demanded to know this country’s exact number of atomic bombs. This is too precious a secret to be repeated around Congress, whose employees are not cleared for loy- alty like other federal employees. It would be particularly dangerous for Senator McCarran to know, since a parade of ex-Communists is constantly streaming through his office. Though they have denounced their Communist ties and come to McCarran to confess, the FBI is frankly skeptical of some of them. Nevertheless McKellar and Mc- Carran got the Atomic Energy chairman behind closed doors of the Senate Appropriations committee and hounded him to tell the exact number of bombs in our atomic stockpile. “If we are going into war, we ought to be ready, and we ought to know what we have, rasped Tennessee’s McKellar. “You are ask- ing for more money, and it is un- usual to ask for more money just before the Congress adjourns. What I would like to know is what you have done with the money that we appropriated last year?” “We have done a great deal of work, and we have expanded the atomic energy program---fold,” re- rend"Revoit Is there a phantom choir, with organ accompanist, that plays clear- ly defined church music for the lonely wanderer in the isolated canyons of the Nahlin river? Department of Fisheries men are | seeking a more scientific answer to the music and bells they heard— | and finally admitted to each other | that they heard—in the seldom | seen wilderness over 100 miles east of Juneau. And who lifted the weight off the packs of two of the men as they climbed a steep goat trail over al slide on an unnamed river? Verification about the music came from three of the four men on the field trip. And the other man ad- mits having defective hearing. The two men Whose packs were lifted by Folfals ‘ Confirmed WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 — ® —| The Senate confirmed the nomina- | tion yesterday of George W. Folta of Juneau for another term as U. S. | District Judge in . Alwska, i It also approvea the nomination of Francis Xavier Chapados to be U. 8. Marshal of Division No. 4, District of Alaska, succeeding Frank Barr, resigned. Folta is the judge for Southeast Alaska. His reappointment con- firmaiion drew lettérs of protest from five Alaskans, the Senate Ju- diciary committee reported pre- viously. One was a legislator and three were former legisletors — all from outside the division in which Judge Folta serves. Hungry Convids- s After 18 Hours prisoners at the West Virginia State Penitentiary ended without casu- alties at 9:45 a.m. (EST) today. State Police Maj. R. W. Boyles suddenly appeared on the steps of the administration building lead- ing into the two-acre exercise yard where the prisoners had milled all night. He yelled: “I have a message for you.” back some of the prisoners. Warden Orel J. Skeen's voice came on the prison public address system. “If you men care to go in your cells,” he said, “the doors are open. And when you get in, we’ll ar- range to feed you. We can’t feed you where you are.” ‘There was a surge for the door. There were some scattered yells among the leaders: “No, no, no.” Ready to Quit The main body of the cold and hungry convicts paid no attention to them. Even the leaders joined the rush. .| They apparently feared they might be identified, if they held out. When the big break came in the tense revolt, some of the prisoners were picking up and eating nuts which had been scattered in the yard for squirrels. Only .a short time earlier the prisoners had shouted defiance from the cold, foggy exercise yard. During the night, gunfire had driven back their rushes on the grocery storeroom and the power plant. Fifty heavily armed state troopers marched into their midst soon after dawn. The 1300 rioters fell back, shouting profane abuse at the po- licemen. They had been called in from all over the-state to augment the 90 guards. Moundsville is on the Ohio river 12 miles below Wheeling. 1,300 In Mutiny All but 400 of the prison’s 1,700 inmates joined the mutiny. They protested a prison cook was filthy. They said they had too little cloth- Lout spvine _gnuthing .. MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Oct. 17| —{P—An 18-hour revolt of 1300 Packs as they climbed the slide. They admit to an eerie feeling about | Ghostly Choir "Entertains’ Fisheries Men on Summer Field Trip Info Wiiderness unseen hands will swear to the strange incident, yet each one was afraid for more than a day to mention it to the other. And the music went without men- tion for longer than that. Each one was afraid his companions would think he had been in the wilds too long. They Heard Music It all happened to the field party mentioned in Monday's Empire which walked over a later-discov- ered fortune in asbestos. The four men—Bob Parker, Walt Kirkness, Karl Weidman, Jr., and Molly Mac- Spadden—were checking the upper tributaries of the Taku for spawn- ing king salmon. They had been out for weeks when the strange things began to occur—and they began to think they had been out too long. . The party went together from their camp on Teddedease Lake— where they had flown in from Ju- neau—to the Nahlin River. There they split. MacSpadden and Kirk- ness were to work up, then back down the Nahlin, and Parker and Weidman packed up the old tele- graph trail, north towards the head of an unnamed river which flows osuth into the Nahlin, They call it “2” river. Music—Bells Too Parker says he first heard the organ music—and bells, too, faintly —as they worked back south to the Nahlin. Weidman heard them too— but neither of them wanted to ad- mit it. Parker and Weidman were the ones involved in the “helping hand” incident. Parker was leading the way up over an almost unmanage- able slide when he felt someone giving his pack a boost. He look- ed around, he says, thinking to tell Weidman that he didn't need help. He then noticed that Weid- man was not within reach. He shook his head and went on with- It ‘was after they confessed to each other that they had both been hearing the ethereal, ghostly music on the trail that Weidman inquired if Parker had felt some- one—or something—pushing their ‘i(, but they do not question that it happened. Compare Notes Parker and Weidman arrived at an agreed assembly point, near where the Sheslay River and the Nahlin form the Inklin river, two days before Kirkness and MacSpad- den. They spent part of their time comparing notes on the organ and “Get on the loud-speaker,” called | choir music, which was heard most clearly here. But the music was not mentioned to Kirkness and MacSpadden when they arrived in camp. And there was no need. For MacSpadden al- most immediately began teasing Kirkness about strange music Kirk- ness claimed to hear as they work- ed down the Nahlin. MacSpadden, however, had to admit that he didn’t hear well. Parker says that they very clear- ly heard the song, “Abide With Me,” sung by, “what sounded like a boys’ choir,” and organ music and bells. It was mostly church mu- sic and choir arrangements they heard, the field men say. Weidman theorizes that buried quartz crystals might have been picking up radio waves and broad- casting them. Prospectors along the Yukon, have, with hesitation, nd- mitted to hearing similar music. Scientists might make a more valid explanation, But what about the helping, un- seen hand along the lonely canyon trail? Home Manufacturers No Longer Subject To Price Confrols Individuals manufacturing items in their own homes, and whose sales amount to $1,000 or less each month are no longer subject to price con- trol, the Office of Price Stabilization said this week. Until now, small home manufac- turers had an exemption of $200 a month. Small home manufacturers ing. They refused to come in from the exercise yard last night for the evening meal. They haven't eaten since yester- day noon. The temperature got down to 47 last night. The 90 guards on the 40-foot walls fired over their heads so no one was hurt when about 200 of the prisoners rushed the boiler room and commissary with knives and broken scissors. A few marched in front of the ad- ministration building all night. Most of them stretched out on the cold, damp pavement. A few huddled (Continued on Page 4) in blankets. produce such items as fishing lures, artificial flowers, baskets, small toys, wood carvings, small scatter rugs and thousands of similar things. The OPS said these commodities have an insignificant effect on the cost of living and to control their prices would involve administrative burdens out of proportion to their value. LICENSE TO WED TACOMA, Oct. 17—(P—A marriage license has been issued to: Edgar T. Combs and Lucille Combs, both of Fairbanks, Alaska, Infantry Driveson Kumsong Allies Within Rifle Range of Bastion; Chinese , Retreat Slowly U. 8. 8TH ARMY HEADQUAR- TERS, Korea, Oct. 17—{P—Allied Infantrymen drove to within rifle range of Kumsong on the central front today. Chinese defenders retreated slowly before the advancing U.S. 24th Di- vision and the South Korean Sixth Division. The Allies gained 1,500 to 2,000 yards in'the fifth day of their drive toward the Reds’ central Korean bastion. ‘The Reds were described officially as “slowly withdrawing.” Whether this was general along the entire 22-mile central sector remained to be seen. It was still possible for the Reds to make a stand south of Kumsong. Allied Infantrymen trapped a pocket of Chinese on the highest peak guarding the southern ap- proach to Kumsong. First esti- mates placed the number of trapped Reds at about 800. But a briefing officer said slackening resistance as American and Co- lombian troops attacked the crests indicated the number may have dwindled. The 24th Division moved 1,000 yards forward to close the last gap in the trap around the Reds. “We're going in and clean them out,” said Lt. Col Albert L. Thornton of Birmingham, Ala. U.S. troops and Colombian In- fantrymen began the assault, Artillery covered them from newly captured flanking hills. More than 40 hills have been captured in the five-day advance on Kumsong. Three Fnited Naf divisions have advanced seven miles along a 22-mile front. Allied ar- tillery moved up to strategic peaks where it could blast Kumsong, the main Communist bastion on the central front. To the east, the Republic of Ko- rea (ROK) Eighth Division drove against 2,000 to 3,000-foot ridges in an effort to keep pace with the central push. Wind Breaks Mooring 0f Three Boafs in Small Boat [Harbor High winds caused three boats to break loose from their moorings this morning at the Small Boat Harbor. ‘The Vermarco, owned by Art Kin- nan, was tied to floaj one with the Sunmore, John Winther, Jr., and the Sentinel, Vincent Anderson, tied on the .outside. Lin Geiger, harbormaster, saw the three boats floating away fron» the float about 7:45 am. The mail boat Yakobi, owned by Walter Sperl, went after the boats and tied them to the dolphin &t the entrance of the harbor. The owners were called as well as the Coast Guard. A shore boat was sent from the -Storis to help in taking the boats back into the harbor. Winther and Anderson were able to board their boats and take them back to the float under their own power. The Storis shore boat had to take the Vermarco down the channel toward the Northern Com- mercial Company before it was able to turn the Vermareo around to take it back to float one. There was no damage reported to the three boats, NO WELL BABY SESSION Due to the fact that Alaska Day is a holiday, the Juneau Health Center will be closed Thursday, October 18, and there will be no Well Baby Conference. Parents who had planned on taking their children in may phone 218 for a future appointment. ® 0600000 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU At Airport: Maximum, 38; Minimum, 28. FORECAST (Juneau and - Vicinity) ' Fair with strong gusty northeasterly winds tonight and Thursday. Lowest tem- perature tonight abput freez- ing. Highest Thursday near 39 degrees, PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport — None; since July 1—12:52 inches. Leaders Tell GOPs No More 'Me, Too"; Adopt Platform SEATTLE, Oct. 17-—M—Republi- cans think they can carry the west in 1852 if they work hard enough at it. That's the message drummed out in two days of speechmaking and policy writing at the party's western conference. The meeting ended yesterday. ‘Ten of the 11 member states voted for President Truman in 1948. Only Oregon supporteéed Republican Thomas E. Dewey. . ‘Why the optimism, then? Guy G. Gabrielson, Republican National Committee chairman, and other speakers told delegates: There'll be no “Me, too” cam- paign next year. The party has plenty of issues this time—headed by charges of Democratic cor- ruption and Communists-in- government. And it's not going to let 1948 overconfidence set in again. The conference adopted a pro- posed 20-point Republican platform for the west. The action was not final, however. Because of Cali- fornia objections against some points, dulegates agreed to keep the platform resolution open for possible change at their January meeting in San Francisco. Among other issues, the plat- form backs immediate statehood for Hawaii and would let Alas- kans elect their own Territorial Governor, now appointed, until such time as it too wins state- hood. Alaskan delegates offered no de- murrer against the phrasing which does not specify immediate state- hood. Others pointed ‘out that Alaska votes Democratic; hence the state of Alaska would send two more Democratic Senators to Washing- ton. The Alaska delegates were headed by Albert White of Juneau, controversial “general counsel” for the party in Alaska, and his wife, the Nai Committeewoman, Pakistan BuriesPrime Minister KARACHI, Pakistan, Oct. 17—(® —Pakistan buried her murdered today, ! grieved. Sobbing, sorrowing thousands lined a route heavily guarded by troops as Liaquat’s body was brought from his home to a hallowed ceme- tery to be placed beside that of the man he succeeded as this na- tion’s chief the revered Mohammed Ali Jinnah. The leader of this four-year-old nation was shot to death yesterday at Rawalpindi in the Punjab, where he had “just begun a speaking tour. The body was flown to Karachi early today and hurried funeral {arrangements were made while the ! nation trembled at the prospect of violence in the wake of the assassin’s act The crowd was orderly, obviously stunned. As the body was borne through the streets on a flower- decked artillery caisson, Pakistani officials announced for the first time that they identified Liaquat’'s slayer as an Afghanistan national. The fanatical killer, identified as Sher Akhtar, member of an organi- zation which wanted a “holy war” with India, fired two bullets into Liaquat Ali’s chest and head yester- day as the Prime Minister addressed a meeting at Rawalpindi, only 30 miles from disputed Kashmire state. The Khaksar organization, to which the leader belonged, is a Jazi-like group with a Hitler-like er, Allama Mushruqi. It often has clashed with the Moslem league, founded by Jinnah, and a man who |tried at one time to assassinate | Jinnah was said to have been a | Khaksar. | Sir Kwaja Nazimuddin, Governor | General of Pakistan, has taken over as acting prime minister of Pakistan. A moderate right winger, | he is friendly to the west and re- | spected in neighboring India. while a stunned nation Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Oct. 19.' Denali due southbound sometime Sunday. Freighter Lucidor outhbound at 7 p.m. Freighter Coastal Monarch due northbound Oct. 21. Princess Louise scheduled to sail | from Vancouver Oct. 20, scheduled - Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, | Betting Is Heavy on Churchill LONDON, Oct. 17—{#—Heavy bet- ting on Winston CHurchill and his Conservative party to win the Oct. 25 British election drove the odds still longer against the Labor gov- ernment today. In the books of Douglas Stuart, one of the nation’s biggest bet tak- ers, backers of Prime Minister Att- lee’s Labor party can put up £2 to win £7. Conservative supporters must bet £9 to win £2, The odds reflect Jhe weight. of betting money on both sides, not the bookies' opinions, a Stuart spokesman said. A few days ago Stuart was offering 3 to 1 against Labor and 1 to 4 against the Con- servatives. Stralofreighter With 11 Aboard Missing at Sea By FRANK LOCKERBY City Editor, Tacoma (Wash) News-Tribune LAGES FIELD, Agzores, Oct. 17— (M—Clerical and other non-flying air force workers today are serving as volunteer scanners in the intense search for a missing Stratofreighter plane with 11 men aboard. Visibility was good as United States and Portuguese military planes combed the North Atlantic | for a distance of 855 miles west of here. But no sign has been found so far of the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) plane reported missing on a routine flight from here to Westover Air Force base in Massachusetts Monday. The rescue planes are conducting “route and area search,” flying at an elevation of approximately 500 [ feet abave sea level. At this altitude vistbility over the search area is good, according to rescue control officers at Flight B Seventh Air Rescue Squadron here. The search plane crews are aug- mented by the volunteer scanners, working in shifts of two hours. Frank Lockerby, on a‘month-long tour of U.S. air bases abroad, ar- rived in the Azores just as a search began for a missing Stratofreighter with 11 aboard. He is delaying his tour to cover the story for the Associated Press. DYE MARKERS FOUND WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Mass,, Oct. 17—{P—A smear of yel- low dye was found on the sea to- day 490 miles east of Cape Cod by a search plane seeking a missing stratofreighter and her crew of 11. Westover officers said the dye marker was sighted by Capt. Lewis Dandolph of East Rutherford, N. J., flying a C-54 search plane, at 9:30 a.m. EST, and that it was consis- tent with dye carried in pneumatic rafts used by planes. Capt. Randolph reported he did not see a raft. Capt. Randolph’s report added impetus to a search already speeded up by reported light flashes in the area last night. Eighteen search planes had con- verged on that section of the At- lantic, about 150 miles south of Sable Island, N. 8. Heinfzleman fo Make Alaska Day Address at Sitka To speak at the Alaska Day pro- gram in Sitka, B. Frank Heintzle- man, regional forester and well- known authority on Alaska’s his- tory, will leave today on the Al- aska Coastal Airlines. Tomorrow will mark the 84th anniversary of the transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States. | Mr. Heintzleman wil return to his' office on Priday. —e e PONTIAC ZONE MANAGER STOPS HERE, ON ALASKA TOUR C. L. Messecar, zone manager for the Pontiac motor division of Gen- eral Motors, stopped in Juneau Tuesday as part of his re-contract- ing tour through Alaska. Messecar, from Portland, says he is the first zone manager for Pon- tiac to be assigned to “Alaska duty.” He was in Juneau to re-affirm the contract with the Connors Motor Co., here. His next stop will be Anchorage, where he will meet with dealers from that city and Cordova, Val—l dez, Seward and Palmer. In Fair- banks he will meet with the Nome dealer, | Seek Raise For Nearly All U. S. Employees WASHINGTON, Oct. 17— (® — House conferees sought agreement today on terms of a compromise bill to raise the pay of most gov- ernment workers somewhere around $400,000,000 a year. Benefiting would be hundreds of thousands of government employees in Washington and other areas. Not covered are postal workers and “blue collar” workers paid on an hourly basis. The same conferees yesterday reached agreement on a bill to hand the 450,000 postal workers a $250,- 000,000 to $225,000,000 & year pay | hike. The measure now awaits Sen- ate action, The conterence committee has before it a House-passed bill pro- posing a $446,000,000 a year boost in the pay of the non-postal work- ers, and a Senate bill which would limit the total to about $384,000,- 000 a year. Members said they thought the differences were not irreconcilable. Seward Dropped As Port of Call By Alaska Steam SEATTLE, Oct. 17 — (# — The strike-bound port of Seward, Alaska, has been dropped as a port of call by the Alaska Steamship Co., effec~ tive immediately, D. E. Skinner, vice president and general manager, says. Skinner said the strike, now in its fifth day, has made it impos- sible to discharge cargo at Seward, the southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad. The dispute is between the Inde- pendent Longshoremen’s and Ware- housemen’s Union (Ind) and the Northern Stevedoring Co. Skinner said Alaska Steam sail- ing to Seward woild be, “the situation is relfe: “The national defense program of Alaska is seriously affected by this strike which is interrupting the movement of cargo for Army and Air Force installations,” he added. " SHIPS GO TO WHITTIER SEATTLE, Oct. 17— (M —Alaska Steamship Co., passenger ships will go ‘to Whittier, Alaska, instead of Seward, until a strike by longshore- men at Seward is settled, the com- pany announced today. Whittier, like Seward, is on the Alaska Railroad, and passengers can get to Anchorage, Fairbanks and other cities on the “rail belt” from either port. The army, which controls the Port of Whittier, gave permission last night for ships to use the port. The first passenger vessel to call at Whittier will be the Denali, which left Sitka yesterday for Seward and is being diverted to Whittier. She is due there tomorrow. Two Alaska Steamship co., freigh- ters which had been idle at Seward because of the strike also have been ordered to Whittier, They are the John H. Quick and the Susitna. A Coastwise Line freighter, the John W. Burgess, is due in Seward Saturday, but plans have been made to divert her to Whittier or An- chorage if the Seward strike has not been settled before the week- end. Mediterranean Gale Kills 12 In Sicily CATANIA, Sicily, Oct. 17—P— A great gale, lashing the Mediter- ranean from Sicily to Gibraltar, smashed down a five story residence building here today. At least 12 persons were killed. Eight to ten others were feared buried in the debris, and two more persons were killed in other wreck- age. Damage ran to hundreds of thousands of dollars along the Sic- ilian and western Italian coasts. Want Alaska To Have Vote In Electric Co-op By Associated Press A regional meeting of the Nation- al Rural Electric Cooperative Asso- ciation in Spokane has asked the by-laws with regard to Alaska. The group wants Alaska granted the same recognition as a state in the association. This would give Alaska cooperatives a vote on the National Board of Directors. PRICE TEN CENTS MacArthur Hits Truman Korea Policy Calls for All-Out Force to End Slaughter of Americans; Applause MIAMI, Florida, Oct. 17— (A — Gen. Douglas MacArthur bitterly accused the Truman administration today of plunging the nation toward socialism and economic disaster. And he called for an all-out use of military force to end.the “un- necessary slaughter” of Americans in Korea. The five-star general told thou- sands of cheering American Legion- naires “you cannot profitably mego- tiate with Communists” and he all but proposed an end to the truce talks in Korea. He declared force is the only persuasion the Reds can understand and the best way to end the war. MacArthur's address was a slash- ing attack on the administration’s domestic, foreign and military pol- icies—perhaps the hardest-hitting since he was ousted from his far- eastern commands by President Truman. He was greeted with roaring cheers when he Began his speech in the Big Dinner Key Auditorium where more than 15,000 people had gathered. And he often was inter- rupted by applause, MacArthur’s 45-minute speech was interrupted 49 times by outbursts of cheering. The heaviest applause broke out when the general men- tloned using greater military force in the Korean war. i .MacArthur proposed a 16-point program for the Legion to support in correcting weaknesses as the general saw them—including an “atomic pry with a full com- mitment to the use as needed of the ‘atomic Wweapon,” national organization to amend its | On Tax Bill Proposed WASHINGTON, Oct. 17—P—Yhe Senate agreed today to make new efforts to work out with the House a tax increase bill acceptable to both branches of Congress: The voice vote decision was taken with only a handful of members on the floor. It was on motion of Sen- ator George (D-Ga) who heads the tax-writing finance committee. In a brief meeting earlier, the committee had decided it would re- comn\>nd a further attempt to reach agreement with the House. The House yesterday unexpectedly turned down the compromise $5,~ 732,000,000 tax measure, agreed on by Senate-House conferees after lengthy hearings. The unexpected House action threw a roadblock into plans for Congressional adjournment this week. Archie Betfs Rifes Thursday Affernoon Funeral services for Archie Betts will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Carter Chapel. The Elks ritualistic service will be used and Ernest Ehler will sing. Inter- ment will be in the Elks plot at Evergreen Cemetery. Pallbearers will be members of the Elks Lodge. They are Arthur Adams, Ervin Hagerup, Nick Bav- ard, Pat Carroll, Robert Schy and Phillip Berthold. Mr. Betts was a member of the Elks and Moose lodges and a charter member of the Kiwanis club serving as treasurer of the organization from its inception until 1946. MRS. HERMANN FOR TRIP EAST Mrs. Mildred Hermann left Tues- day on the Pan American plane for New York City and Washington, D. C.In the nation's capitol she will attend a convention of the Gen- eral Federation of Wi n’s Clubs and in New York she represent the Alaska Cancer Soclety at the meeting of the American Society. TIDE TABLES' OCTOBER 18 High tide am, 156 ft. LEAVES