The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 7, 1951, Page 1

;ONGRE:SSIONA L LIBRARY WASHINGTON, p. g, » VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,959 'HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” GOPs Win Seal In House; Lose Philadelphia By the Associated Press Republicans picked up one seat in the House of Representatives by capturing all four special elections held yesterday, but they lost their 68-year grip on the nation’s third largest city, Philadelphia. The off-year balloting, generally regarded as having no great na- tional political significance, alsc brought victory in New York City to Rudolph Halley of Senate crime and television fame and the defeat of James Michael Curley in an at- | tempt to come back as mayor of Boston. Surprising few observers, Demo- crats appeared to have retained the Kentucky Governorship, re- turning to the staté house Gov. Lawrence Wetherby and his slate of eight state candidates. The city hall at Little Rock, Ark,, fell to the Republicans for the first time in 64 years, and the GOP also took the mayoralty in Indianapolis, home of the new Democratic National Committee Chairman, Frank E. McKinney. “Clean government” campaigns were waged by the New York and Philadelphia winners. Halley won New York's city council presidency, second highest position in the me- tropolis, over Democrat Joseph T. Sharkey and two others. Halley, running on the Independent, Fusion and Liberal party tickets, rolled up a plurality of 163,000 votes. In Philadelphia, City Controller Joseph S. Clark, Jr., won the mayorakl.ty for the Democrats to end a GOP regime which had stood since 1883. Promising to clean up corruption he laid at the door of the Republicans, he defeated Dr. Daniel A, Poling, Baptist minister who was the Re- publican candidate. Some Republicans claimed a trend toward their side in the outcome of the four special House elections, but three of the vacancies were in tra- ditionally GOP districts and the re- maining one was in a district which had swung both ways in recent s years. The GOP gain was registered in Ohio, where Paul F. Schenck won a House seat from the district around Dayton, defeating Jesse Yoder. Democrat Edward Breen had resigned because of ill health. New Jersey's 9th district stayed Republican, as former Rep. Frank C. Osmers, Jr., defeated the Demo- | cratic candidate. That seat alsc was vacant because of a resignation. The GOP held onto two House seats in Pennsylvania, one without opposition at yesterday’s balloting. That was the 8th district, where Republican Karl C. King was unop- posed. In the state’s 14th district, Republican Joseph Carrigg defeated Paul Harris, Democrat. Boston’s colorful Curley, claim- ing he hadn’t the money to make a campaign, lost the mayoralty to the incumbent, a fellow Democrat ' John B. Hynes. Boston elections are non-partisan. Four times mayor, four times Congressman and once Gevernor, Curley did not raise his voice during the campaign, Despite a few prompt claims from each side, most observers saw little evidence in the spotty returns of any trend likely to mean much in next year’s bigger campaigns, when she presidency and most seats in TheWashington Merry-Go-Round ht, 1951, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON (Copy:4 o~ ASHINGTON—The Pentagon is keeping mum about it, but on Oct- ober 13, Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco called in Maj. Gen. James V. Spry, head of the U. S. military mission to Spain, and staged a sev- age interview in which he threaten- ed, in effect, to withhold the estab- ) lishment of American bases in Spain. The interview was so harsh, and Franco’s general attitude has been s0 unreasonable that General Spry is returning to the United States with the almost certain recommen- dation that there be no U. 8. air bases in Spain. Unless Sen. Pat McCarran, who heads the powerful Spanish lobby in Washington, is able to batter heads at the Pentagon, this recom- mendation is likely to be accepted. What happened was that General #Spry was sent to Spain as head of a joint Naval-Air Force mission to arrange for the much-publicized bases which Franco supposedly had (Continued on Page 4) Juneau Chamber To Have Dinner Meefing Thursday Visiting Congressmen will be guests of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce at an 8 o'clock dinner meeting at the Baranof Hotel to- morrow night. Wives of Chamber members are invited, President Her- bert Rowland said today. The Congressmen will be guests of Governor Ernest Gruening for cocktails preceding the Chamber dinner. The Taku Toastmaster club i holding its meeting at noon insteac of evening in order to make the Gold Room available for the Cham- Ler meeting Congress will be at stake. Cam- paigns had been waged pretty largely on state and local issues. Cleveland voters returned Demo- ratic Mayor Thomas A. Burke for a fourth straight term. In northern New Jersey, site of a state probe into gambling in Ber- gen county, one mayor under in- dictment was re-elected but two ‘oLhers were thrown out of office. i Mayor Robinson in Lead, Reelection In San Francisco By the Associated Press San Francisco’s Mayor Elmer Robinson claimed victory early to- day in his fight for reelection. But it won't be definite until Novem- ber 22 because of some 35-hundred absentee ballots. Robinson’s lead in yesterday's cloge election race was less than two thousand votes over Georgi Christopher, Gréek-born San Fran- cisco dairyman. But observers pre- dict Robinson will take most of the absentee votes. DAA Official Has High Praise for Juneau Ski Club Jogn White, regional director for Pan American Airways from Seattle, praised the Juneau Ski Club’s initiative in improving the | ki trail and making Juneau winter sports-minded. “The Juneau Ski Club is a live | wire organization,” he said, will do much toward attracting out- siders to this area in winter.” White said that the plans for the purchase of a Tucker Sno-Cat to solve the transportation problem would do much toward making Ju- neau a ski center. “With the launching of the Al- aska Visitors Association, it is im- portant that prospective builders of lodges and chalets have both summer and winter seasons to justi- fy their investments,” White point- ed out. John White is well known to Al- askans having been with Pan Am- erican Airways for the past 19 years of its operation in Alaska. Originally from Massachusetts, White joined PAA as an accountant in 1932 and was stationed at Fairbanks. After’ visiting the Juneau office and operations for the past several days, he left today for Annette and Ketchikan. Meehan Ruled Off ‘\Portland Docks By Coast Guard By Associated Press An international representative of the longshoremen’s union has been ruled off the waterfront as a poor security risk by the Coast Guard. Mott Meehan said he has been denied a Portland waterfront pass—but was not told the reason for the action. He is the first prominent longshore official ruled out in the waterfront screening pro- gam. . The Coast Guard refused com- ment—but Meehan says 20 others in Portland have been denied secur- ity risk clearances. So far, however, those without security cards have not been barred from the docks. Meehan is a supporter of union leader Harry Bridges—but otherwise has not been regarded as left-wing or radicak HOLM RETURNS FROM SCHOOL INSPECTION Martin N. B. Holm, educationist for the Alaska Native Service, re- turned Monday frdm a field survey of schools located in the upper Yukon region. On his supervisory trip, Holm inspected schools at Tanacross, Northway, Fort Yukon, Beaver, Circle, Steven's Village, Rampart, Tanana, and Minto, “that & JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1951 Ships Rush Aid To Survivors Of Freighfer BULLETIN — SEATTLE, Nov. 7—P—Twenty-four survivors of the burning and sinking wheat- laden freighter George Walton were pulled from stormy North Pacific waters off the Washing- ton coast this ‘morning by three vessels at the scene. But four other crewmen were feared lost when their lifeboat overturned during rescue at- tempts. Three others had died in the boiler explosion which touched off the fire that swept the ship. With three dead on the Walton, this left six unaccounted for and perhaps still in lifeboats or on rafts. Planes and ships continue the search. SEATTLE, Nov. 7T—®—A Jap- anese merchant ship pulled 12 sur- vivors of the ill-fated American freighter George Walton from the storm swept north Pacific early to- day and moved on to rescue 25 others riding bobbing lifeboats up- wind from their burning and sink- ing ship. An explosion and fire aboard the freighter late yesterday killed three members of its crew and drove the others to lifeboats to await rescue from commercial and Coast Guard vessels converging on the distaster scene. The Japanesé freighter Kenkon Maru ,the first to reach the strick- en ship, hattled rough water and a strong wind through most of the night to rescue 12 seamen in a' lifeboat nearest the Walton. | Seven were taken aboard shortiy before midnight and the others rescued about four hours later. All were weakened by cold and exposure. | The third assistant engineer on the ‘ship was listed as Willlam G. An- drews, with a daughter, Hpeal, at Zptglisan, Adaska. Meanwhile, four other vessels jwere speeding toward the scene, 390 miles west of the Washington coast. But, 13th District Coast Guard |officials at Seattle said, rescue of ‘the remainder would not be easy. !The tersley worded message from the Kenkon Maru which reached the scene at 10:30 p.m., Pacific | Standard Time last night, said: “I steer very hard in rough sea till not pick up men. Still try- ing.” But a short while later, it reported seven of the 37 men were rescued, chilled and weakened by exposure to the cold Pacific air jand wind. ! A Coast Guard flier returned from a flight over the accident sccne with the word that the en- tirc mid-section of the Walton was afire, Flampgs enveloped the super- structure and the vessel was list- ing to port and settling,” the pilot reported shortly after 3 a.m. The pilot said three lifeboats were in the water and all the boats was known to have flares. A new storm moving in from the western Pacific threatened rescue ‘Weather Bureau raised storm warn- ings at 3 am., from Tatoosh, Wash., the nearest land point east of the scene, to Astoria, Ore. South to southeast winds ranging up to 40 miles per hour were forecast. The George Walton radioed for aid at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, reporting its engine room and crew quarters swept by flames which fol- lowed an explosion. “Three men are dead and one seriously burned,” came the fran tic message from a radio operator who was driven fro mhis quarters every few minutes by the smoke and fumes, He finally had to fol- low the other crewmen overside, carrying a portable radio which sputtered out its last appeal for help shortly after 5 o’clock. . Meanwhile, the Kenkon Maru, a slow-moving ship turned from its course sixty miles away after pick- ing up the SOS. Wallowing at six knots in a rolling plunging sea, it steamed directly to the Walton. There a Coast Guard rescue plane dropped flares to guide it to the flaming ship, even though the plane was running perilously low on gas after 5 hours of shepherding the bobbing life crafts with its radar screen. Then it started home, “coming in on its fumes,” as the pilot reported. From other directions came the Greek steamer Katherine and the American John Murray Forbes. Two Coast Guard cutters, the Wachusetts and North Wind were dispatched from Seattle with med- ical crews. They should arrive this afternoon. The RCA radio-marine station at Bolinas, Calif., said it intercepted George showed signs of life. One lifeboat , operations with added hazards. The Fear Lives Lost In Fire af Bethel; 2 Buildings Burned ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 7—® —A fast moving fire destroyed two buildings in the western Alaska town of Bethel early today. Unconfirmed reports said several persons had died in the flames. The fire was first reported here by the Civil Aeronautics Adminis- tration. The town movie house owned by the Northern Commercial Co., and a “road house” or small hotel owned by Northern Consolidated Airlines were reported burned to the ground. Cause of the fire was not known. It was reported under control at about mid-morning. A further report of the fire was received at Seattle by officials of the Northern Commercial firm, General Manager Volney Rich- mond said a dispatch was received at Seattle about noon from the branch manager at Bethel. The message said were feared lost.” There were no further details. Bethel is near the mouth of the Kuskokwim river which flows into the Bering Sea. Soldier Confesses Stealing Registered Mail at Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 7.— (M—An Air Force sergeant who con- fessed stealing hundreds of regis- tered Jetters inadvertently throw- ing some military operations off | kilter, has been arrested here, Air Force officials announced. Postal inspectors said he was Sgt. James R. Carruthers, of Car- |etta, W. Va., a member of the Fourth | Air Postal Squadron at Elmen- |dorf Air Force Base. Sgt. Carruthers was arrested at | his quarters Sunday morning fovt wrta ey Watadodies, with said he subsequently confessed re- | moving some 300 registered letters |from incoming and outgoing mail | pouches since Oct. 4. At the time of his arrest, U. S. postal officials said, Carruthers had lin his possession a stolen registered |letter. Complicating matters, how- ever, is the sergeant’s confession that except for an estimated $1,500 in cash he obtained he burned the entire contents of all the mail he | pilfered. | Officials said many pieces of the | lost mail contained important gov- ernment documents and several ! phases of military operations in the Alaskan theatre were disrupted by disapperance of official communi- cations. Carruthers was on night duty. along with one other serviceman. Inspectors said they were first notified of the disappearance of registered mail on Oect. 26, and the investigation of the matter was carried on in cooperation with Seat- | tle officials. | What did he say he did it for? !To buy new clothes, the postal in- | spectors said. Carruthers will be arraigned today | before a U .8. Commissioner on mail | theft charges. Denali scheduled to sail from Se- attle Friday. Princess Louise scheduled to sail Saturday night from Vancouver on last trip of season. Baranof from west scheduled to arrive southbound sometime Sun- day. Steck Quofations NEW YORK, Nov. T—{®—Closing quotation of Alaska -Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can | 106,” American Tel. and Tel. 156%:. Anaconda 48%, Douglas Aircraft 57. General Electric 54%, General Mo- tors 49%, Goodyear 42'., Kennecott 83%, Libby McNeill and Libby 8':. Northern Pacific 52%, Standard Oil of California 487%, Twentieth Cen- tury Fox 21%, U.S. Steel 397%, Pound $2.80, Canadian Exchange 95.75. Sales today were 1,490,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: industrials 257.14, rails 78.14, util- ities 46.01. AT THE BARANOF Vernon E. Toney of Renton, Wash., is registered at the Baranof Hotel. messages that one of the dead was the second engineer and the chief engineer had been burned severely. ported at 5 pm. that the ships boiler had blown up. “several lives [ RCA said the radio operator re-| Land Claims Hearing Set For Tomorrow The House of Representatives subcommittee now conducting a series of land claim hearings throughout Alaska is expected in Juneau Thursday morning in time to open a hearing in the Territorial building Thursday afternoon. This was the information in a tel- egram from Nome from Delegate E. L. “Bob” Bartlett, a member of the party, to Gov. Ernest Gruening. The schedule now calls for leaving Kodiak early Thursday morning after tonight’s session there, Bart- lett's telegram stated that plans have been slightly altered to give more time in Ketchikan. The party now intends to go to Sitka early Friday morning for a hearing there. The Ketchikan hearing will start early Saturday morning. Bartlett's message stated that most of the group was committed to leave for the States Saturday afternoon. No mention was made if members of the group will continue the hearings into the first of the next week as originally planned to hear arguments by members of the Alaska Native Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is holding its annual convention in Ketchikan next week. No time has yet been set for the start of the Juneau hearing. Gov. Gruening said he presumed it would | be held in the Senate Chambers. | It was considered a possibility | that the group might miss a henr- ing at Kodiak and come directly to Juneau Wednesday if the weather closed in over Kodiak. Members of the subcommittee are invited to a cocktail party at Gov. Gruening’s house at 6 p.m. Thurs- day. They are expected to be en- tertained by the Juneau chamber of comunerce later in the evening. ‘The purpose of the subcommit- tee's trip is said to be to gather | information and to absorb the gen- |eral ’eeling of Alaska Indians, Al fios, and-business s !a bill to settle the land claims. The bill was introduced to the House by Bartlett. Alaskans say that much of the | development of the Territory de- pends upon the settlement of the claims, and the manner in which | they are settled. ‘Milifary Unifs 'Will March in 'Armistice Parade Armistice Day, Sunday, Novem- "br:r 11 will be observed by a par- jade and the dedication of the Ju- neau Memorial Library, which has war dead in World War IIL A parade led by color guard of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the city dock and will march up Franklin Street and across Fourth Avenue to the library. Marching in the parade will be a detachment from the USCG cutter | Storis and members of the Alaska National Guard, Guard detach- ments to be represented in the par- ade include: Company C and Head- quarters and Service Company, 208th Infantry; Headquarters and Head- quarters Detachment; and Instruc- tors Detachment. The Juneau High School band, directed by Herman Kuhlmann, will march in the parade if weather per- mits. If it is raining, the band will be stationed under the marquee of the Federal Building and will play for the dedication ceremony. The Women of the Moose drill team will also participate in the parade if weather permits. Christmas Charifies Meefing fo Be Held Tuesday in Elks Hall interested in Christmas charities | will be held in the Elk's hall at 8 ! o'clock p.m. next Tuesday. The purpose of the meeting is to !work out & plan whereby all needy and deserving families will be cared for. In the past some families have received several baskets and gifts while others have received none. The Alaska Welfare Department |is cooperating with the organiza- | tions as a clearing house to avoid | duplications. | Representatives of all lodges, or- | ganizations and clubs are invited to participate. AHA MAN IS HERE | Elmer E. Gagnon of the Alaska Housing Authority from Anchorage, is at the Baranof Hotel, before further action is taken on| been built as a memorial to Juneau’s | A meeting of all organizations | Juneau FWS Head Leads Seattle Fish Hearings SEATTLE, Nov. 7—(#—Hearings on fishing regulations in Alaska opened here today with Clarence Rhode, regional director of the Fish and Wildlife Service in Juneau in charge. Only a small group attended the forenoon session, which was devot- ed to regulations covering commer- cial fishing in southeast Alaska, but a larger attendance was expect- ed at later sessions, when several controversial issues are to be dis- cussed. The afternoon’s session was on Bristol Bay regulations. ,Regulations on Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound will be taken up tomorrow forenoon. Tomorrow afternoon will be given over to Kod- iak area regulations, and to the herring fishery in all areas. Hearing for individual areas also have been held in Alaska. Says S_E_Alaa_ Causing New Split In Territory Neil Moore, territorial auditor, who recently returned from the first convention of the League of Alaska cities in Kodiak, said today that Ithe lack of interest in the work of the League by Southeast Alaska cities Is likely. to prove costly to this section of the Territory. Moore lauded the work and plans of the organization, saying that the cities of the Interior and South- west Alaska have banded together }into what he called “a real working organization.” He says that several tof the cities now in the League | have already benefited through the | exchange of information concern- {ing city planning. Moore says that lone of the purposes of the League is to drive home to Washington of- | ficials the need and disirability of he development, of the Territory. | "“And, Southeast Alaska Will' be left with the crumbs, because with- !out representation In the League ,Lhis section will naturally be left out of most of the benefits that ac- |crue from the work of the cities taking and active part,” Moore said. Unnecessary Split ! “By Southeast Alaska cities not giving their support to this work, | they are causing an additional and | unnecessary split in the Territory,” | he stated. | Moore said that general disap- pointment was voiced at the meeting at the failure of cities of this sec- | tion to join the League. Members | expressed the opinion that Terri- | tory-wide organization could bring industry and development to most | ! parts of Alaska. He mentioned work | being done to help the growth of | a cattle industry in the Aleutians. “It has been proven that some of | the finest wool in the world comes from sheep raised in the Aleutians,” | Moore pointed out, “and there is| a start of a cattle industry there: that may be the beginning of al cattle empire. There are miles and miles of rich grasslands. “There was talk at the meeting that coordinated effort could very | well speed the spread of the pulp industry.” Moore said that a man to repre- sent the League will be sent to ‘Washington to promote Alaska’s in- terests. He said he believed the cost to belong was small compared to the probable benefits. Milwaukee Bank Robbers Escape With $97,000 Loot MILWAUKEE, Nov. 7—(®—Three men, two armed with sub-machine ! guns, held up a branch bank on Milwaukee's northwest side during a heavy snowstorm today and es- caped with an estimated $97,000. The trio entered the bank in mid- morning, according to police and Manager L. L. Wahl. The two men remained on each iside of the doorway. The third jumped over a railing and ran be- hind the row of cashier’s cages. He scooped the money into a white bed sheet as one of his companions at the door counted off the seconds As the count hit gero, the trio ran from the bank and jumped into a car at the doorway. A fourth man drove the vehicle away. | ally, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Jet Fighter Kills Son of Juneau Woman WASHINGTON, Nov. T — P — Four Navy men were killed and 10 injured Sunday when a jet fighter crashed into parked planes on the carrier Antietam off Korea. The Navy, announcing the mishap todey, gave this account: The fighter, an F9F Panther jet, failed to pick up thé arresting gear and crashed through safety bar- riers into other planes on the flight deck. Two other jet fighters were badly damaged and four received lesser damages. The pilot of the plane attempting the landing, Lt. George 8. Brainerd, of West Orange, N.J., was killed. The other dead: Airman Edward Laverne Clark, son of Mrs. Cloie May Clark, Ju- neau, Alaska; Airman Eugene A. Pfeifer, son of Alexander H. Pfeifer, Osseo, Minn,, and Airman Thomas R. Russell, son of Henry Q. Russell, Barstow, Tex. Airman Edward Clark was 19 years of age and he joined the U.S. Navy last January after serv- ing in a National Guard unit while a freshman student at the Uni- versity of Oregon. He was born in Pasadena, Calif, in 1932 and was graduated from the University High School in Eugene, Ore., in 1950, Airman Clark recelved his over- seas orders in June and just prior to shipping out he came to Alaska to visit with his mother, Mrs. Cloie Clark, who is a cook aboard the MS Hygiene, Alaska Department of Health’s floating medical shjp. At that time the ship was anchored at Metlakatla and Clark visited in Juneau with his brother, Harland Clark while waiting for transporta- tion to the Annette Island com- munity, Harland Clark is a statis- tician with the Employment Secur- ity Agency. Edward clark was the youngest of Mrs. Clark’s five sons. Her four older sous served in the U.S. Navy| during World War II and three sons were in action against the enemy is also survived by three sisters re- siding in the States. Mrs. Clark was aboard the MS Hygiene at Hydaburg when she re- ceived word from the War Depart- ment that her son had been killed. New Buffer 1one Proposal Made by Red Negofiators MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 7—{#—Red truce negotiators submitted a new' buffer zone counter proposal mdny; strikingly similar to the Allied plan —but with crucial differences. United Nations representatives turned it down. But they said they might talk about it in tomorrow’s sessions at Panmunjom. Under the Red plan a buffer zone would be .created now along the; existing front. If subsequent fight- ing changed the front lines materi- either side could propose a change in the military demarcation line for the zone. But there was no guarantee the other must agree to the change. “No adjustments could be made in the demarcation line as the Com- munists obviously would not agree,” said Maj. Gen, Henry 1. Hodes, head of the U.N. subcommittee. “It would be a de facto cease-fire. It's the same thing they have brought up for three days.” However, Brig. Gen. William P, Nuckols, U.N. spokesman, said the Allies had made no “final judgment” on the Red plan. TIDE TABLES fott a foo PRICE TEN CENTS Joint Appeal Asks World Arms Limifs * WASHINGTON, Nov. 7—(#—The United States, Britain and Prance called today. for “regulation, limi- tation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and armaments,” in- cluding atomic weapons. In a joint declaration, the three powers said any “honest program™ for reducing armed forces and lim- iting weapons must be based on “disclosure and verification” of troop strengths and weapon supplies. ‘They added: “It must also provide for effective international inspection to verify the adequacy and accuracy of this information.” The statement declared the three powers will submit to the United Nations General Assembly, now meeting in Paris, proposals for car- rying out the reduction of arma- ment and forces. It sald discussion of the program should begin im- mediately but it added: “However, such a general program can not be put into effect while United Nations forces are resist- ing aggression in Korea. ‘““Moreover, concurrently with the coming into effect of the program the major political issues which have divided the world can and must be settled.” President Truman, in a radio and television . address at 7:30 pm, (PST), is expected to explain the proposals in greater detail. His add- ress will be carried by all major | networks. $1. Louis Digging Out from Snow; Warnings Given By Assccisted Press “The bl & . to work md“:}*m to_the lhfir!* at St umrm as the city shook thick blanket of snow deposited in a sudden storm that seriously crippled the' city. A forecast of clear and warmer weather signaled the end of the {worst 24-hour snowstorm here In 39 years. But the storm swirled " northeastward. A temperature above freezing turned eight inches of snow at Chicago into ankle-deep slush. Gale force winds and heavy rain pounded the eastern seaboard and | sleet pelted storm-groggy upstate New Yorkers. Storm warning were issued to coastal shipping in a special weath- er bureau bulletin announcing that heavy rain and high southeast winds will lash the Atlantic seaboard from Maryland to New England today and tonight. L. §. Spencer, of Skagway, Killed In Action, Korea SKAGWAY, Alaska, Nov. 7— (Special to the Empire)—James (Bud) Sullivan has received word that his brother, Lloyd Spencer Sullivan of Skagway, had been kill- ed in action in Korea October 4, 1951, Lloyd was born in Skagway Feb- ruary 14, 1932, He graduated from the Skagway High School in 1949 !and shortly after joined the armed |services as a Marine. He is survived by his wife, Joyce Bloom Sullivan of Pocotello, Idaho; his mother, Mrs. Mary Sullivan of Seattle; two sisters: Mrs. Bob Snider and Mrs. Ray Carder of Skagway; and eight brothers, James and Larry of Skag- iway; Alfred, Michael and Patrick NOVEMBER $ Low tide 3:25.am.,, 21 ft. High tide 10:04 am., 15.3 ft. Low tide 4:14 p.m, 3.9 ft. High tide 10:19 p.m., 14.4 ft. e o 0 0 0 0 0 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU At Airport: Maximum, 45; Minimum, 41, FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Cloudy with rai nand south- easterly wind of 15 to 25 mph —_— RAY WESTFALL ON TRIP Ray Westfall, assistant manager {of the Baranof Hotel, accompanied his mother, Mrs. R. W. Hunter to her home in Durango, Colo. Mrs. Hunter had been visiting her son and daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Vernon here for the past seven weeks. West- fall expects to return in a week or ten days, tonight and Thursday. Low- est temperature tonight near 38 and highest Thursday near 43. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today At Airport — 0.44 inches; of Seattle; Richard who is fll in the Veteran's Hospital in Seattle; Frank of Anchorage, and Jasper with the U. ‘B. Navy. Alaska Plywood Corp. Is Officially Launched; $1,000,000 Capital The million dollar Alaska Plywood Corporation was officially born yes- terday when the articles of incor- poration were filed with the Terri- torial Auditor’s office. At ‘a mting this af{frnoon Thomas A. was named president; R. C. Avrit, vice presi- dent; and L. R. Hogins, secretary. The board of directors will be com- posed of the three officers and James Larsen and Robert Booch- ever. A plant engineer will arrive next from July 1—16.26 inches. o0 00 00 0 00 week to work out construction de- tails, Morgan said today.