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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-29
Engagement of Mildred Maynard
 Announced Here

Mrs. George s. Maynard has an- nounced the engagement and forth coming marriage of her daughter Mildred to Mir John M Mancell of Juneau. The news was revealed at a luncheon in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel, given by Mrs. Maynard and Miss Maynard in honor of Mrs. Jack Kristan and her daughter Mrs. Mort Goldman. Also honored were Mrs. Marvin Kristan and Mrs. Goldman's houseguest, Miss Ann Mahoney of Los Angeles.
 Miss Maynard, United States Dis trict Court Reporter for the First Division for the past four years, previously held a similar position at Nome, where she was born and reared. Her father was the late George s. Maynard, former owner and editor of the Nome Nugget. Miss Maynard is the sister of Rus sel G. Maynard, Director of the Department of Public Welfare.
 MT. Mancell is the son of MT. and Mrs. John M. Mancell of Staunton, Illinois. He is the Alaska representative for A. Schilling & Co. of San Francisco, and has been a resident of Juneau for the past year and a half.
 The wedding date has not yet been announced.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-29
ARCTIC FL0E IS BROKEN TO $50
 MILES OF POLE
U. 5. Contingent akes Deepest EarIy-Season
 Polar Penetration

WASHINGTON, July 29-A small contingent of Navy and Coast Guard ships has penetrated through Arctic ice fields into the Green land Harbor of Thule, only $50 miles from the North Pole, and the farthest north any large ship has reached at this season of the year, the Navy Department disclosed Sunday.
 Under command of Capt. Richard H. Cruzen, who was second in com mand to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd in his 1939-4l Antarctic ex- petition, three ships broke through the ice fields Monday, July g, and steamed into Thule, which is on Smith Sound above Baffin Bay.
 The contingent was spearheaded by the Navy converted ice-break CT. the USS Whitewood, command ed by William H. Daly, another member of the Byrd expedition. The Coast Guard ice-breaker North Wind and the Naval seaplane ten der USS Norton Sound followed in the Whitewood's wake.
 FolloU Ice Northtcard
 As the ice retreats, the ships are scheduled to continue working northward in an effort to am plify existing knowledge of maya gational and weather conditions in the Arctic and to provide cold weather routine training for the crews.
 The Norton Sound, commanded by Capt. Alan Smith, Jr., carries two patrol planes for reconnaissance over the ice fields ahead of the ships. The three ships left Boston early this month. Two small sup ply ships, the USS Alcona and the USS Beltrami, are enroute to join them.
 Aboard are scientists and wealth CT technicians. Tn addition, off cers of the Canadian Navy, Army and Air Forces are participating in the cruise.
 The ships are scheduled to re- turn to Boston in October.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-29
COL. FULLY IS HERE ON
 INSPECTION

Col. T. J. Tul.y, Commander ot the Alaska Communications Sys- tenn, arrived Sunday for an official check-up of the Juneau office and 10 renew acquaintance with resi- dents in this city who are inter- ested officially and otherwise in de- yeloping present ACS facilities.
 Col. Fully who replaced Col. Fred Andrews June l, as head of tfe Alaska Communication System, said today that Juneau had not been classified in the high prior ity" bracket during the war and as a result much of the modern equipment needed for quick, accur- ate and well-defined service had not been available for this office. Plans are now underway, he said to bring the latest communication equipment to Juneau and to other Alaskan communication offices, and to add skilled installation men to the office staffs.
 Improvement In Juneau
 At present he said the Juneau office has very little of the lat est communication materials and very few installation men to orer- ate them He expects to evolve a much improved and more workable organization here in the next few months.
 Although Juneau is "on a par with other Alaskan Communication oenters,' he said, we feel the number of incoming and outgoing telegrams and the long distance calls it handles daily justifies the very finest equipment and organiza- tional excellence"
 Col. Fully came to Juneau last April while enroute to the Interior. During that time he visited all the northern-most ACS ocices and dur ing his present visit here will cover the Southeast Alaska area. He iaaves for Haines, Skagway, and Whitehorse tomorrow. Previous to his arrival here he had visited Wrangell and Petersburg.
 Stationed in Seattle, Col. Fully has taken over the office left va cant by the retirement of Col. An drews. The former head of ACS is now Vice President of the Press Wireless, Inc, in New York City, Col. Fully said.
 The Alaska Communication Ser vice, established in Alaska in 1901, has 35 stations throughout the Territory, and 200 secondary stations operated by civilians, the Indian Office and other Territoral depart ments.
 All these stations will be af- fected in the new campaign for a more coordinated and improved communication service throughout Alaska, the Colonel said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-29

workers last August. It proved to be inconclusive, and the current contest is in effect, runoff None of the labor organizations won a majority last year, but since then the independent union, Alas ka Native Brotherhood, has become a part of the AFL SeafarerS Inter national Union.
 The present ballot calls for a choice between the Seafarers Un- ion headed by the AFL's big west coast maritime boss, Harry Lunde- berg, and the CIO Food Tobacco and Agricultural Workers. The workers also may decide for no un- ion at all
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-29

activity is expected to be fully sci
 up for next summer.
 1 50 Men Employed 1 About 50 men, including conStruc-
 ton crews, are now employed at
 Wrangell mill and that staff will be doubled by next summer. That regular crew does net count in the night shift planned for the winter months. All able regular employees of the old mill are retained on the new staff and many new key men have been brought in. The regular day shift is to be manned only by full-time employees and local workers are used as far as possible.
 Chief need still to be filled be- fore the mill can go at full capacity is the development of additional power, Wagner said. Also, com pletion of the dock is essential to the plan of operation.
 Tie Wrangell operation is to serve the export market almost entirely, Wagner said. The Pres ident of the Alaskan Asiatic Lum- Der Mills, Inc, is also president of American Asiatic Trading O., a Seattle firm dealing through the world in timber exports and inn ports.
 NcW Scale Operation
 Further indicating the new scale of operation planned at the Wran- gell mill, Wagner stated that con- tracts already have been made with Owens Brothers and L. M. owens, logging firms. Owens Brothers is to supply 3Oo0,OOo feet and L. M. Owens 100000 feet of sawlogs per month to the mill. In addition the Wrangell mill will take the out : put of all small local loggers wish ing to sell to it.
 MT. Wagner left here late Fri : day, to return to Wrangell aboard the steam yacht Acquillo, which he had borrowed from Edward D.. White, the yachts owner and an old business associate.
 Though the Acquillo is currently on charter to Campbell Church, i Jr., to carry Pan American Good | Nsighbor Tours parties, MT. Wag- her was able to secure a brief i lean of the yacht while it is await ing a tour party here.
 Primarily, Wagner said, he wanted to take Wrangell townspeople for a ride, in return for their coopera- tion with him On the trip down to Wrangell from Juneau, several government officials were MT. Wag- ner's guests and the yacht party was to return here today. A recep- tion was planned at Wrangell Sat urday evening, and IS prominent Wrangell citizens were to be cruise guests on Sunday.
 Guests included in the yacht party leaving here were The Gov ennor of Alaska; Mrs Ernest Gruening; MT. and Mrs. Ralph J. Rivers; MT. and Mrs. Charles Bur dick; Fred Hanford of Wrangell; Bill Burlington of Wrangell, and Henry Clark.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-29
J. II. S. GLASSES PARTY

Juneau High School classes of l940, l94l, 1942, 1943 and 1914 will hold no-host reunion party Sat- urday night at the Fritz Cove home of Frank Parsons. Alums and their guests will meet at the Federal Building at pm. and are to call Anna Lois Davis, Apt. 610, Baranof for reservations after o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-29
MRS. GARVIN GOES WEST

Mrs. Homer GarVin and daughter Sandra left yesterday by Pacific Northren Airlines for Anchorage where they will visit MT. and Mrs. Dick Stryker. Mrs. Stryker is the former Rogene Garvin, daughter of the Homer Garvins.
 Sandra, who has been in bed with rheumatic fever for the past 6 weeks has improved sufficiently o make the trip, her father said today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-29
MRS. K. LARUE DIES

Mrs. Katherine LaRue, 37 died in St. Ann's Hospital this morning at 4:10 am. The only surviving relative on record is sister living in Minneapolis. She is being wired so that funeral arrangements can be made
 The body is at the Charles w. Carter Mortuary
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-29
NL.RB MEN OUT
 A'FISHIN' FOR GARNER VOTES
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 supervised t,- na,~ wide sg coal strike vote among more than 300,- coo bituminous coal diggers in 1945. This huge job was done in p hours.
 Since the Board was established II years ago it has conducted about 30,0G0 elections under the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Few, however, have presented the tussle with na- ture and weather that the current salmon industry vote is offering.
 Last Ballot Inconclusive
 Only one other ballot was com parable That was among the same
Evening star., 1946-03-16
By the Associated Press

MOSCOW. Mar. 16.-Pravda, in a
dispatch from Vladivostock, said to-
day the United States was removing
highly valuable property from Japan
to the United States.
A special Tass correspondent said
his story was based on reports in
Japanese newspapers and in the
Tokyo edition of Stars and Stripes.
The dispatch in the Communist
party organ said the loot reported
to have been seized by the Ameri-
cans included platinum, gold, silver,
jewelry and other property from a
German warehouse, worth $500, 900.
Pravda quoted Japanese newspa-
pers as saying that on October 10,
1945, American military authorities
took $50 pounds of platinum. some
gold and upward of 248 tons Of sill
yer from the Japanese military and
naval ministries.
Evening star., 1946-03-16
-Four Dead in Alabama
In High-Wind Storms
By the Assoeioted Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Mar. 16.-
Tornadoes and high-wind storms
which struck Alabama early today
killed at least four persons, injuring
seven others and caused widespread
property damage.
Police Chief w. B. Davis of De-
mopolis, Ala. said colored woman
and child were killed and six other
colored persons injured in Marengo
County, miles west of Demopolis,
when tornado destroyed several
farmhouses.
In Sumter County, near Living
ston, another colored person was
killed, Chief Davis said, when sew
eral tenant houses on a farm were
destroyed by tornado winds.
Demopolis and Livingson are To-
Gated in South Central Alabama
near the Mississippi line.p
Andrew Ryns of Big Sandy, Ala,
in Tuscaloosa County near Birming-
ham, was killed and his wife, Mary,
seriously injured when their home
was destroyed by high winds.
The brunt of the storm was be-.
lieved to have struck between Tusca-
loosa and Moundville.
Ell PASO, Tex, Mar. 16 (P).-Winds
lashed Ell Paso for the second con-
secutive day yesterday. An all-time
record velocity of 10 miles per hour
was recorded by the Weather
Bureau.
Trees were uprooted and some
houses were unroofed.
A 60-mile-an-hour storm Thurs.
day knocked down power lines, dis.
rupted telephone service in soma
areas and damaged buildings.
Evening star., 1946-03-16
Government Girl Beaten
With Wrench Near Home

A 20-year-old Government girl
was beaten with heavy wrench by
mysterious assailant early today,
police reported, as she was walking
near her home after an evening
downtown.
The girl, Miss Geneva S. Mehl-
man, 4311 Thirteenth street NE,
told police the attack occurred in
the 1900 block of Thirteenth street
shortly after 1890 am. She said
the man, wearing dark clothing and
gloves, approached her from behind,
and without speaking a word,
started to beat her over the head
with the wrench.
She screamed and fought her at
tacker desperately until neighbors
turned on their lights and came to
their doors to see what was hap
pening. An unidentified person
called police but the man fed before
a scout car could reach the scene.
Miss Mehlman was treated at her
home by DR.. Richard Shaw, 1924
Michigan avenue NE, for head
decorations. She was unable to give
any reason for the attack. The girl
remained at the house where she
is a roomer in undetermined con-
dition today.
Police are investigating the case.
Evening star., 1946-03-16
Housing 'BottIeneck'
Blamed by BowIes on
Reactionary Builders
Lobbyists Hoving Soy
Now, but Foce Wroth
Of People, He Warns
by the Assccioted Pres,

Chester Bowles said today a
housing "bottleneck that must
and will be broken" is the "ob-
structionist attitude of a reac-
tionary few" in the construction
industry.
The stabilization director said in
transcribed radio address that "all
over the country there are countless
able, experienced building contrac-
tors eager to get going" on the Gov
ernment program for 2,700,000 new
homes during the next two years.
Veterans, Mr. Bowles added, are
"fed up with the trailer camps,
cheap hotels and makeshift bar
racks so many are forced to fall
back on these days"
Hits Business Lobby.
"As soon as it became apparent
that the Government was deter.
mined on a hard-hitting (housing)
program" Mr.. Bowles said, "the
ousiness-as-usual boys got active
but IN the wrong way.
They wanted to keep homes
scarce-and shoot prices up instead
OF building homes. Like a plauge
OF seven-year locusts they swarmed
into the halls of Congress, plead
ISao POIJT nc naa.1
Evening star., 1946-03-16
Picture on Page A-14.)

Senor Pablo Maleve Caseano, q
lost Puerto Rican whose rapid
Spanish had the police of WASH
ington and Alexandria, the Travel
ers' Aid Society and woman Span
ish teacher at their wits end today,
finally was put on a train headed
Tor his new home in New York with
the aid of the Puerto Rican Resi-
dent Commissioner Jesus T. Pinero.
Before the little man from Oro-
cows. Puerto Rico, was put on the
noon train for New York City, Senior
Caseano made many friends and
influenced many people-or at least
gave them reason for learning
to speak Spanish.
First, however, he did a fine lob
OF harrying the non-Spanish speak
ing Alexandria Police Department
with his great capacity for getting
lost and riding in scout cars.
The swarthy islander, en- route
to New York's Bronx with his
sisters address printed on I tag
Evening star., 1946-03-16
BY the Associated Pres,

BERLIN, Mar. 16.-German
police headquarters said two
persons were known to have
been killed, two probably were
mortally injured and at least ~
Others were injured when thrVe
explosions wrecked the midtown
headquarters of German civilias
and Russian military police to-
day.
In their preliminary report the
German police said more victims
probably were buried On the debris
OF the shattered Alexander Kaserne
Building. Digging by rescue squads
was continuing.
The blast originated in ammuni-
ton stored on the grounds of the
police barracks in Kleine Alexander
street, the report said. This am
munition had been collected from
unknown owners and was waiting to
be transported away" Cause of the
blasts still was being investigated,
however, the report said.
The Russians sealed off the area
of the blast, which occurred in their
sector of Berlin.
Evening star., 1946-03-16
1rygve Lie 10 Confer
With Truman Next Week
BY the Associofed Press

LONDON, Mar. 16.-Trygve Lie
of Norway, UNO secretary general
said yesterday he had mo idea
what he would talk over with Presi-
dent Truman in a conference in
Washington next week prior to the
meeting of the Security Council in
New York March Is.
He will leave by plane tomorrow
IF am going to talk with the Pres
ident on some matters" he said, II
think they would be secret"
He refused to elaborate and re-
piled with an emphatic mo" when
asked at news conference if he
had any matters to bring before the
Security Council.
The secretary general said there
were only two items on the Security
Council agenda one, provisional
rules of procedure and, two, the
status and rules of the military staff
committee. He said he had received
no letters or complaints for any is
sues to be brought before the Coun-
r;l
Evening star., 1946-03-16
Asks Soviet
To LET UN0 Council
Settle lis Problems
Warns Thut Russiu's
Pressure on Turkey
Will Force Major Test
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

NEW YORK, Mar. levin
ston Churchill called on the
Soviet Union last night to insure
continuance of war-born SYM
pathy of the English-speaking
world for the Russian people by
submitting its international
problems to the United Nations
Security Council.
IF the Soviet government does
not take advantage of this (Anglo-
American) sentiment" he said, "if
on the contrary, they discourage it,
or they chill it, the responsibility
will be entirely theirs"
The former British Prime Minis
ter said Russia's failure to evacuate
Iran should be thrashed out in the
councils forthcoming New York
meeting, and he warned that an
early and great test for the UNO
would come from Russian pressure
against Turkey over the Darda-
nelles.
washington sources said last
night that Iran already had in
formed the United States that it
would ask the UNO to reopen the
Iran-Russian situation at the
Security Council meeting which
opens March 25)
Freedom of Straits Offered.
Mr. Churchill made the first pub
lie disclosure that America and
Britain had offered Russia at the
Potsdam Conference "a joint guar
antee of the complete freedom of
the Dardanelles) Straits in peace
and war, whether for merchant
ships or ships of war"
ITO this guarantee Turkey would
gladly have subscribed" he con-
tinued, "but we were told that that
was not enough. Russia must have
a fortress inside the straits from
which she could dominate Con-
stantinople.
But, this is not to keep the straits
open, but to give power of closing
them to single nation. This is
out of harmony with the principle
(See CHURCHILL. Page All
Evening star., 1946-03-16
Explosions in Berlin Shotter
Red Military Police Building
2 Killed, 2 MortoIIy Hurt qnd 40 Injured
BY Blasts Originating in Stored Ammunition

Many Of the casualties. were per-
sons living in the leighborhood or
traversing the streets. The ex-
|plosions spread debris over several
blocks.
Public safety ofacers Of other oc-
Fcupying powers were barred, as were
reporters. American and British
units sent a1nbulances and offered
hospital facilities.
One version of the explosions said
q German policeman demonstrating
some old German ammunition stored
in the courtyard accidentally touched
oil a grenade and ignited other ex-
plosives.
The first two explosions were
small, but the third was tremen-
dous blast heard for miles. Many
persons scurried for cellar shelters
at the first blast, and this was be-
lieved to have been instrumental in
holding down the number of casual
ties.
Numerous bomb ruins in the re-
gion were tumbled by the explosion,
and one German who suffered minor
injuries said ut was just like a war
time bombing raid, with glass and
splinters flying and walls caving in. +"
Evening star., 1946-03-16
Restaurants Allowed
To Reduce Portions
With OPA Sanction
By Malcolm Lomborne, Jr.

The Office of Price Administra-
ton will issue an amendment to
its restaurant regulation Mon
day to allow eating places to
trim menus without cutting
prices in line with the Famine
Emergency Committees recon-
mendations for a cut in con-
sumption of wheat and fats and
oils.
The amendment will require res
taurateurs to post the cuts they plan
to make and at the same time to
point out that if a customer insists
on his usual portion, it will be forth
coming.
Restaurant operators here have
delayed putting the trimming
(See FOOD Page A141
Evening star., 1946-03-16
White House Is Asked to Clarity
Suggestion to CurtoiI Bonquets
Jackson Day Dinner
To Omit Red Meats,
Gruins and Fats

A representative of Washing
ton hotelmen disclosed today he
was asking the White House for
a clarification of President Tru-
mans suggestion that mass
dinners" be curtailed during the
next 100 days, the period of the
world food crisis.
Arthur j. Harnett, executive Sec
retary of the Washington Hotel
Association. said an Interpretation
was being sought because the associ-
alton has been receiving numerous
inquiries since the suggestion was
made by the President Thursday.
Washington, always big banquet
town, has large number of dinners
scheduled in the near future, he
said.
The Democratic National Commit
(See DINNERS Page A-21
Evening star., 1946-03-16
Rebuilding Of Air Force
Under Way, Eaker Reports
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 16.-Lt. Gen.
Ira Eaker, deputy commander of
the Army Air Forces, said yesterday
the organization had begun to re-
build itself after being reduced by
demobilization and expected to
have 100000 volunteers by the end
OF June.
Gen. Eaker told the Aviation
Writers Association the air force
was anxious to release all wartime
flyers and others who do not want
to remain in service and replace
them with volunteers in belief such
men would carry on more eagerly
and harmoniously than would those
held in service when they want to
return to civilian life,
Evening star., 1946-03-16
Pablo Pushed On to New York
But His Heart Is Still Here

around his neck, first entered the
lives of the Alexandria police wher
the bus he was riding broke down
IN Alexandria. Senior Caseane
lifted his 98-pound frame out o1
the bus to take a little stroll while
the driver checked the trouble
When Pablo came back, the bus
was gone.
That was at S am. Pablo, non
plussed but unworried, decided to
look the town over and was found
9 little later trying to get some-
thing he called "agua." Eventual
", some one figured out, that Pablo
wanted drink of water.
Policemen George Gensmer and
Richard c. Burrell decided to take
Pablo down to the station house
to see what could be done. That
did It. Pablo fell completely in love
with police cars and policemen.
In voluble Spanish, he protested
against leaving the shiny scout car.
Then, they tried a Spanish teacher
on him, but Pablo was too fast
(ses PUERTO RICAN, Page A-2J
Evening star., 1946-03-16
Truman Puts Filipino
Collaboration Cases
Up 10 Native Courts
Declares People Are
Capable Of Making Own
Political Decisions
By Joseph A. Fox

President Truman, affirming
his belief that "the Philippine
people are fully capable of as
suming all the duties and obliga-
tions of self-government," today
issued statement declaring
that the civil. authorities in the
islands would be charged with
the duty of dealing with those
persons who collaborated with
the japanese during the period
of occupation. =
The Presidents statement ex-f
planned that the question of the
treatment to be accorded the dis
loyal element had been submitted
to Attorney General Clark, Secre-
tary Of War Patterson and Paul ".
McNutt, High Commissioner to the
Phllippines, for suggestions and
that his decision to leave the matter
up to local authorities was based on
their reports.
II was IN expressing his conviction
that the Philippine courts would be
adequate to deal with the collabora-
tionists that the President stated
that the Filipinos are qualified to
assume their independence on the
scheduled date for the Philippines
to become a republic on July 4.
Mr.. Truman is expected to be
present for the ceremony when the
republic is set up.
No Change In Policy.
The Presidents statement follows.
On October 26, 1045, I addressed
a directive to the Attorney General
requesting that a study be made
OF the status of those who collab-
grated with the enemy in the Phil
ippines.
I have received reports from the
Attorney General, from the Sec
retary of War and from High Com
missioner Paul v. McNutt on this
subject.
After studying the recommended
tions submitted to me. I have de-