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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15
Truman Plans First Vacation
 Aboard Yathi
President Off Tomorrow on 18-Ddy Cruise to
 Coast of Maine

WASHINGTON, Aug. IS - Presi- dent Truman will leave Washing ton tomorrow for an l8-day yacht ing vacation in New England wat CTS.
 White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross disclosed plans for the cruise, aboard the Presi- dential yacht, U. s. s. Williams burg. It will carry the President into the Narragansett Bay area and up the east coast of Maine.
 It will be the Williamsburgs first voyage under the command of Capt. c. L. Freeman who was the Executive Officer aboard the cruiser Augusta, which carried MT Truman to Europe for the Big Three" conference at Potsdam. The Augustus skipper, Capt. James H. Foskett, recently became the Presi- dents Naval Aide
 Freeman replaces Capt. John H. hcNCio, lOlillCi COiiiiiidildAiiB OiAi- cer of the Williamsburg, who re- gently retired
 MT. Truman and his White House staff, plus George E. Allen, Presi- dential intimate and Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation director, will board the Williamsburg at 2:30 pm. (EST) tomorrow. They will return to Washington the af- terncon of Setember 2, Labor Day.
 It will be MT. Truman's first of fieial vacation since he entered the White House upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, April l2, l945.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15
kL0NDIkER5 ARE
 GATHERING NOW
 AT GOLDEN GATE

SAN NCISCO, Aug. 15.- Members of the International Sour doughs of the Klondike, who were among the hardy characters search ing for the fabled 'fist-sized' gold nuggets along the Yukon following their discovery half century ago, open three-day reunion here (St. Francis HoteD today.
 The meeting, first since the get together in Seattle four years ago, is expected to attract delegates from sourdough organizations in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, Yakima, Denver, New York City and scores of members at large" from else where.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15
Outlaw Group Exhorfs Jews
 To Rebellion
Terrorists Make Second Threat to Bomb Pa|es-
 fine Post Office

JERUSALEM, Aug. 15.-Terrorists threatened for a second time to bomb the General Postoffice of Palestine today after Jews were ex- horted to revolt against Great Brit ain by the outlawed Zvai Leumi or ganization.
 As on last night, the building was emptied and communications sys tems throughout Palestine were dis rupted for more than an hour. Bombs were not found in either case.
 From 50000 to 100000 armed British forces stood guard in the Mandate, awaiting possible trouble from the Jews. aroused because it. legal Jewish immigrants were being deported to Cyprus.
 Another 800 illegal immigrants reached Haifa aboard 300-ton schooner after 2l-day voyage. All faced deportation under the Brit ish policy to halt lawless entrance into the country in which the Arab population is dominant.
 Irgun zvai Leumi, which asserted authorship of the King David Ho- tel bombing last month in which 91 persons were killed. called on the Jews to revolt in a broadcast from an outlawed radio transmit ter
 The broadcast, made over a secret radio station, urged unification of Irgun, Hagana and the so-called Stern Gang similar resistance organization = into a single Jewish army under an underground Zion- ist government.
 Calling upon all Jews to volunteer their services either with the Army or the proposed underground gov- ernment, the broadcaster said:
 We must exert our every strength against two enemies = the British and time"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15
The W ashington Merry -Go- Round
By DREW PEARSON

VIENNA. Wireless) liar old Ickes did the U. s. Navy a great favor when he blocked the ebullient Ed Pauley from becom- ing Undersecretary of the Navy but, unfortunately, Ickes wasn't able to bar Pauley from other fields of endeavor.
 You don't realize how grateful the American public should be to Ickes until you've witnessed Paul ey's work elsewhere. All over Europe other Americans are now trying to pick up and put togeth- CT the broken pieces resulting from Pauley's clumsiness. Here m Austria you see the results Of one of his worst blunders.
 When any good business firm signs a contract it first brings i'll expert lawyers to scrutinize that contract from every possible angle. But when the United States signed the contract on German repara- tions, influencing whether Ameri- can boys will fight again, we brought in political pal of Harry Truman's, skilled in button-holing delegates at the Chicago Demo- cratic Convention. At Potsdam, Pal Pauley okayed the separations agreement giving the Russians the right to take German property in various areas-but he forgot to define German property.
 In Austria today, Gen. Mark Clark is now trying to atone for that omission For instance, when
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15
LINCOLN WILL
 RELIEVE A. E. kARNES HERE
Veterans Administration Director Transferred
 10 Education Field

Anthony E. Karnes, manager of the Regional Office of the Veterans Administration in Juneau since it's opening on April 20, is being trans ferred to the VA regional office in Portland, Ore, it was announced today by D. M. Shute. Deputy Ad- ministrator of the VA branch office in Seattle.
 The transfer was made at Karnes' request in order that he might re- turn to his specialized field, voca- tional advisor in the vocational re- mobilization and education division of the Portland office of the VA.
 Karnes, veteran of World War II, was commissioner of education for the Territory from 1883 to 1940, and before that was superinten- dent of schools in Ketchikan,
 Ernest E. Lincoln, who has been manager of the VA sub-regional office at Anchorage, has been de- tailed as acting manager of the Juneau office pending the perman- ent appointment of a manager He has been in Juneau for the past ten days becoming acquainted with office procedure for his new posi- tion
 Lincoln, before joining the VA. was with the War Manpower Com mission at Juneau and was also assistant director of the USES there.
 Before the war he was employ ment supervisor for Siems-Drake Puget Sound, Navy contractors in Alaska He is a veteran of World War l.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15
B BULLETINS }

WASHINGTON-The Agriculture Department says it's going to be harder than ever to obtain the better grades of beef during the late summer and fall The Depart ment has found that AS per cent less cattle are being fattened in feed lots than year ago, the sharpest decline ever recorded from the month of August.
 NEW YORK-Transjordan's ap- plication for membership in the United Nations ran into fresh diff ficulties in the LIN membership committee today. The Committee members expressed some doubt about Transjordan's ability to maintain territorial and political integrity, in view of her military alliance with Great Britain.
 WASHINGTON The White House has warned against specu- lation on President Truman's re- ply to Britain on the proposed federation plan for Palestine. The contents of MT Truman's note have not been. disclosed, although Brit ish sources already have said un- officially that MT. Truman has op- posed the partition plan submitted by an Anglo-American commission.
 Boeing Aircraft Com pany has helped to usher in the era of pushbutton warfare. Con- pany officials disclose staff of 30 Boeing-trained men is now at Wendover Utah, testing the new ly-developed supersonic rocket, "Gapa", designed to seek out and destroy the enemy. Development of the rocket was disclosed in Washington today hy the Air Ma teriel Command of the Army.
 PORTLAND M D. Mac Rae of the AFL Masters Mates and Pilots, disclosed sailing of the Augustine Chevalier last night from the supposedly closed port of Coos Bay. Captain MacRae. says the ship left with partial cargo following a union ultimatum that it would be tied up if it remained longer. The Captain declares that the port of Coos Gay is still closed
 FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus-The first few hundreds of Jews diverted by the British from Palestine came ashore on Cyprus today under heavy military guard. The Euro pean refugees, including many women and children, were placed in camp encircled with barbed wire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15
U. S. ON SIDELINEs

LONDON, Aug. IS Authori- tative sources in the British gov- ernment said today that the Unit ed States has refused to partici- pate in the plan for dividing Pal estine as recommended by Brit h-American Cabinet Committee of experts, leaving Britain to cope with the problem by herself.
 President Truman made the Unit ed States decision known in let ter saying he could neither &C., cept nor reject the plan at this time without the support of the American people, these sources said
 tn Washington, Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said President Truman has sent to the British government some sug- gestions he thought might be help full in the Palestine situation.
 (The suggestions will not be made public here, Ross said. He hit at what he termed the print ing of uninformed statements. gos- sip, and what have you" with re- gard to the Palestine situation and the Presidents part in it.
 British officials, who had made it plain that the plan for dividing. Palestine into four zones in federal state depended upon sup port of the United States, say they now feel that they have to seek new solution.
 Informants said MT. Truman had advised Britain, as the mandatory power to go ahead with any ac- tion she deemed wise under the circumstances.
 The government decided. how ever, not to make public the text or details of President Truman's letter to Prime Minister Attlee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15
CLARENCE wIsEs RETURN

MT. and Mrs. Clarence Wise re- turned to Juneau Tuesday from Seattle on the Princess Norah.
 The owner of the Juneau Hotel and his wife have been visiting relatives in Seattle for 1.-e past three weeks. During his absence, Mir Wise's duties at the Hotel Juneau were taken over by MT. Ralph Wright.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15
NOT TO
 QUIT HIGH COURT

WASHINGTON. Aug. IS = Jus tice Robert H. Jackson said after White House call today he ex- poets to be present when the Supreme Court next meets on the first Monday in October.
 That was his reply when asked whether he plans to resume his normal work on the bench.
 Jackson saw President Truman for the first time since returning from the Nazi war guilt trials at Nuremberg. He had nothing whatever to say as to whether his discussion with MT Truman today covered the public criticism he directed in June at his fellow Associate Justice, Hugo L. Black.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15
BRITISH TROOPS GUARD HOLY LAN[
Leap
 For Life
 Brings Death

SAN BERNARDINO, Calf, Aug. 15-A runaway truck, speeding 100 m.lcs an hour down long hill north of Baker, jumped off the road into brushland but remained right side up. Its driver, Joseph Davis, 27, leaped from the vehicle and was killed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Aug. Is Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is '. American Can 1o1, Anaconda 46. Curtiss- Wright 7h, Information Harvester 93la, Kennecott STE, New York Central g, Northern Pacific 27i4, U. s. Steel 88s., Pound S403i2
 Sales today were 62o,000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages; Industrials 2O247, rails 62.35, utilities 4l.35.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15
MatArthur Stamps OK on Additional
 Nip Fishing Graft

TOKYO, Aug. 15-General Mac Arthur today authorized the Jap- anese government to construct 2l1 steele fishing vessels aggregating 24,79O gross tons and IT wooden fishing vessels totaling 1,940 gross tons.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15

LONDON-At a two-hour con- ference today between Colonial Sec retary George Hall, and a num- Der of leading Jews, among them Rabbi Stephen Wise, of New York. It is said the Jewish lead CTS offered these proposals: That the proposed Jewish zone in Pal estine be increased to about 1900 square miles, that the Jews con- trol the immigration into their zone, and that they be guaranteed full sovereignty in their area with in a specified number of years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15
VA HERE NOW SET
 TO HANDLE LOANS

The Veterans Administration an- nounces that the Loan Guarantee Division is now fully equipped to guarantee or insure loans made by banks or other lending institu- tions to Veterans of World War II.
 All veterans seeking information regarding G. I. Loans are invited to use the facilities of this Di- vsion which is located in Room 203, Goldstein Bldg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15

BOSTON-An Army jet plane made a flight today from New York to Boston. The time was 2l minutes and 5l secondds. Only the smoke could be seen as the jet plane streaked through the sky
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15
REV. NYGAARD HERE

The Rev. Ernest H. Nygaard. of the Lutheran Church in Sitka, is in Juneau for a brief time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-15

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Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1946-02-01
TEN me Seeks
Safety Post

Robert S. femme, widely known
Tacoman, who, for IA years, from
1927 to 1941, conducted a large
appliance business here, and from
1941 to a few weeks ago held an
important post in the United
States Maritime Commission, to-
day issues his campaign statement
in connection with his filing for
the post of commissioner of public
safety.
I'm conversion of our city from
war to- peacetime basis, Tacoma,
more than at any time in the past
years, needs a solid business ad-
ministration viewpoint in it's city
government.
I'm filing for the post of COM
missioner of public safety, be-
lieve 1 can perform a vital service
for Tacoma, both as administra-
tive head of the department which
operates our police and fire sys-
TENS, and as a member of the
City Council" Mr. femme de-
clared.
During the war we have heard
great deal of criticism, most of
it bitter, against Tacomas COM
mission form of government. When
we adopted the present system rs
years ago. it was rated as ad-
vanced thinking by our civic lead
ers."
Mr.. femme is of Norwegian de-
scent.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1946-02-01
Val E. FaWcett
In MayoraIty Race

Val c. Fawcett. seeking election
as mayor of Tacoma, is well
known in politics. For many years
he served as commissioner of f.
nance.
During the war, while Mayor
Cain was in the armed forces, it
was FaWcett who was acting
mayor. He would not have have
had very much opposition being re-
elected commissioner of finance
but he has decided to run for the
position as mayor. He is running
on his qualifications and record of
experience.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1946-02-01
Faber Favors
Seattle Plan"

A unified police department OPP
Grating on what he called a Sc
attic plan" was advocated Monday
night by Harvey ]. Faber, candi-
date for mayor. Faber spoke be-
fore the 37th District Democratic
Club.
Faber attacked the spending of
money for plans originally drawn
up to suit conditions in other cit
les. He said his Seattle plan"
was devised to meet local condi-
tons and would not cost the city
one cent"
Basically, he explained. his pro-
posed plan calls for a unified po-
lice department. by ending spe-
cialization practiced under these
alien plans, our existing force will
be adequate not only to handle
traffic but to meet our growing
crime wave as WE'LL" Faber said.
AS an example of what he
termed "over-specialization" and
waste of manpower Faber sad
that under the Kreml plan five
men-two patrolmen. two traffic
men and an investigator-ofter
are required to handle one traffic
accident.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1946-02-01
Greto Gorbo's
Discoverer Is Decd

STOCKHOLM, Dec. Silvia
airmaiD - Erik Petschler, actor
and director on both stage and
screen, has died here at the age Of
"a. In 1921 he founded a motion
picture company in which he
served as president, script writer,
actor, and director. He first saw
Greta Carlo in a Stockholm store
when buying hats for the actresses
in one of his films, and engaged
her on the spot.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1946-02-01

No. of the Sons of Norway in
Tacoma, Paul Olson was called on
to talk of his activities in the
Sons of Norway lodge in the ma
tional capital at Washington, D.
c. He soon expects to tell his
fellow members of the Order of
Vasa of some of the outstanding
activities of the Washington, D. c.,
Drott Lodge with which he was
affiliated before resigning his po-
sition as Congressman Coffee's as
sistant.
Well-!nformed and astute politi-
cal leaders in Tacoma are taking
their hats off to the vigorous, in
telligent campaign Olson is con-
Quoting in his bid for the mayor
ship. Incidentally, if Paul is sue
cessful he will be the first mayor
of Scandinavian ancestry in the
history of Tacoma.
A visit to his campaign head
quarters in the Fidelity building
will satisfy the visitor Paul is
leaving no stone unturned in his
race for the mayorship. In three
rooms his assistants are busily
handling all of the details con-
nected with his campaign. Olson
is address ing many meetings
throughout Tacoma and is giving
series of five-minute talks four
nights a week on the radio.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1946-02-01
Eivind Anderson
Runs For Mayor

Mr.. Eivind Anderson, well-known
Tacoma building contractor, has
decided he is able to use his tai
ents to better advantage for all
as mayor of the city. He there
fore has declared his candidacy for
that position.
He came to Tacoma 80 years
ago, from Norway. Three years
later he was contracting or super
vising general contracting. He
made success of this work and
he is now considered one of our
best-known contractors. He has
on his program extension of the
business center of Tacoma, city
sponsorship in building and provid-
ing quality homes for war veter-
ans, and to use surplus war ma
terials as a government subsidy
for price control of CT. homes.
AS a business man with over 35
years of experience, it is natural
that he favOrs an active business
man administration. His slogan
is: Put More Labor on Tacoma's
Production Lines"
He resides at SIT No. Eye St.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1946-02-01

One of the four candidates ful
the mayorship of Tacoma is Paul
A. Olson, who, though a newcom-
err to the arena of municipal poll
tics, is by no means unknown in
Western Washington political Cir
cles. Prior to filing for the post
of mayor in the city elections to
be held February 26th and March
II, Paul had served for over nine
years as executive assistant to
Congressman John M. Coffee. In
that capacity he became well
known as a spokesman for, and
go-getting congressional assistant
to his former chief. During his
four years at the University of
Washington, where he specialized
in the study of government and
public administration, Paul Olson
won many honors as a campus
leader and college debate and ora
torical champion.
Tacoma's youngest aspirant for
the mayoralty post is "a years old
and was born in Spokane, Wash
ington. Paurs grandparents came
from Norway and homesteaded in
this state in 1889, while it was
still Oregon Territory. Paul's moth
err is a native of Denmark. Olson
is a member of the Sons of Nor
way and the Order of Vasa.
At a recent meeting of Norden
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1946-02-01
Russ Said To Seek
Bases On Iceland

NEW YORK = Russia is seek
ing bases in Iceland, according to
the Reykjavik correspondent of
the newspaper Information of Co.
penhage1 He reports that the
Soviet government has approach
ed the Iceland'c government with
a request to lease a base on the
east coast of Iceland, at Seydis-
ford. This port they want to con-
vert into a traffic harbor." The
matter of possible United States
bases on this strategic island is
understood in Washington to be
still under discussion.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1946-02-01
Chess Players OF The Arctic Circle

There is no illiteracy in Iceland!
The island is the most bookish in
the world. reading and publishing
many times more books per capita
than any other country. At the
remotest farm, or at the neigh
borhood barber shop, you will find
people who converse equally well
on subjects ranging from classical
history and Plato to the American
Civil War and current world news
The coasts of treeless little
Grimsey are rocky, some rising
steeply from the sea like the east
ern shore. while the western is
low and easily approached. From
the coves on the latter shore the
gras s-grown land rises gradually
to the inhabited part of the island
and green patches of vegetation
dot the black rock walls.
Both birds and eggs supply a
substantial part of the islanders
food The gathering of the eggs
is a hazardous and fearful occupa-
ton, for the hunters must be
lowered by a rope down the steep
cliffs.
Within the last hundred years.
Grimsey changed from an island
that was backward, in most things
but chess, to one of Iceland's most
progressive communities This is
saying a good deal, for Iceland
has led many a larger country in
her enlightened social reforms,
managing the change from an al
most medieval retarded country to
a successful modern nation, prac-
tically abolishing poverty and pro-
viding the most adequate educa-
ton and disqualification for its
people in the process. : From
within the Circle-Portrait of the
Arctic by Evelyn Steffansson
New York: Scribner, 1945)
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1946-02-01
PAGE TWELVE

Grimsey is a tiny Arctic island,
rising steep and lonely from the
cool water of the Polar Sea. Its
claim to fame lies in the superior
skill of its citizens at the most
intellectual of all games, chess.
Some say that the rocky island,
which lies twenty-five miles north
of Iceland, was first settled al
most a thousand years ago by
outlaws, who found solace during
the long winter nights in playing
the intricate game. They played
so often they became expert and
handed the art down from gen.
Grafton to generation until Grim
sey's fame spread throughout Ice
land History does not confirm this
tale but there has been a tradition,
reaching back to the Middle Ages,
were superlative chess players. To
this day, both in summer evenings,
and when the harvest is in, and
the shadow of winter reaches the
island isolating it from the main
land, the simple farm and fisher
folk who dwell there bring out the
chess boards and the play begins.
Grimsey is the one truly Arctic
part of Iceland, which country lies
south of the Circle except for a
tiny strip of land on its northeast
ern coast. Only three miles long
and half as wide, you can traverse
Grimsey's entire shoreline in a
two-hour walk. In summertime the
sea which separates it from the
mainland is calm and beautiful
transformed by the midnight sun
into liquid gold. But in winter the
stormy winds blow furiously, and
frequent gales whip the waves sc
roughly and so high that the
rocky foundations of the little is.
land literally CULVER. Then Grim.
sey, which means Grim's Island
is separated from the rest of the
world, for the trip to the main.
land becomes suicidal, and only the
slender but comforting thread Of
radio keeps its isolation from be-
ing complete.
Grimsey is part of Iceland, {
country which can trace its history
back through thousand years tc
It's very beginning. A land with.
out trees, where fierce volcanic
heat and magnificent blue glaciers
contrast in majestic beauty. A land
whose waters are warmed by the
Gulf Stream, tempering the eli
mate which is rainy, but never
very hot or very cold. Here a
pagan people developed system
Of elf-government and law, and
invented trial by jury. Today Ice
land boasts the Oldest parliament
in the world, which has functioned
without a break for more than a
thousand years.