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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
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Bartlett Warns that Delay Will lose Pulp Indus
 try for Alaska
(By CHARLES D. WATKINS)

GAP Special Washington Servlce)
 WASHINGTON, July 3-tR-Dele- gate Bartlett of Alaska urged to- day that quick action be taken on the question of sale of timber in the Tongass National Forest of Alaska to paper mill companies.
 He said in statement that de- lay might lose to the Territory the chance to get the industry estab- lished.
 Bartlett said Indian leaders from Alaska, their counsel and officials of the Forest Service and the h. terior Department are trying to reach an agreement concerning the Indian claims that they own much of the land involved.
 Legislation permitting the Forest Service to sell stumpage rights to approximately 16,0O0,000 acres of land to paper companies to estab- lish five paper mills costing $30,- 000,000 each, now is pending be- iOIe SOilSi ieSS.
 TAGGED CONDEMNATION
 It provides that the receipts from the timber sales be held in the Treasury until the rights of the Indians have been determined.
 The counsel for the Indians op- posed the legislation on the grounds that it would take the property of the Indians without their consent, he said it constitut- ed condemnation of the land for use by private company, which he asserted is prohibited by law. He urged that the Indians be given patents to areas the Interior De- partment has found rightfully theirs and be permitted to sell the timber to the paper companies.
 Forest Service officials contend this would create an impossible administration situation and that the paper companies will drop all negotiations if they have to deal with the Indians.
 Bartlett said it had become ap- parent that any bill aimed at clear ing the way for the paper mills must be agreed to by both sides if it is to get through this session of Congress.
 NOW OR NOTHING
 We are working to see if some formula cannot be reached which will satisfy all parties and which, at the same time, will allow the paper industry to go to Alaska without further delay" Bartlett said.
 T fear it is not a proposition of merely deferring entry of the in dustry to Alaska for another year if we do not do anything now
 Representatives of one company have told me that if they cannot count on the Alaska proposition now they will have to move to an- other area which they have inves- tigated.
 We cannot afford to lose this industry It means too much to the whole Territory. The indus try will bring year-around employ ment to Alaska and will roughly double the population of the re- zion. They would create payroll bigger than anything we now
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
Juneau Ready For Biz July Fourth Celebration
5T. PAUL WANTS ANSWER FROM
 JUNEAU (. OF (.

The problems of trade relations between Southeast Alaska and the midwest occupied the major portion of the Juneau Chamber of Com merce meeting this noon. A letter from the St. Paul Association of Commerce to the Chamber was read, and Phillip Briggs, owner of the Briggs Steamship Company, spoke.
 The St. Paul letter quoted letters received from Southeast Alaska merchants, seeking a new trade route with the Midwest via Prince Rupert and stating a representa- tive would be sent to St. Paul. Other letters were quoted as say ing that Southeastern Alaska merchants are making every ef- fort to contact and purchase their supplies in the central states,' and Southeastern Alaska merchants are turning more and more to the midwest and east for their mer- chandise
 The St. Paul Association pointed out it has worked since last De- tober on the problem, working out arrangements for warehousing in St. Paul and consolidation of rail shipments to Prince Rupert
 A trip of wholesalers and manu- facturers to Alaska fell through |" because Briggs couldn't let us know. just when he would be ready to start the letter said. A representative of the Alaska Mid west Company, the company form- ed in St. Paul to buy for Alaskans on a monthly fee basis, made a trip to large Alaska city and received such poor reception he returned, the letter said.
 The letter asked the Chamber of Juneau to answer this question:
 Are Southeast Alaska merchants ready to back up their desire to get away from the Seattle monop- ely? Or do they wish the new route. as club with which to scare Seattle?'
 The letter suggested sending rep resentatives from Alaska to St. Paul or inviting St. Paul represen- tatives to Alaska.
 Briggs said the letter was good expression of how the men of St. Paul feel, but that they are ''mis- informed and have mistaken ideas"
 He said that some of the larger merchants are now buying in the Midwest and Interior merchants are purchasing goods which they bring from Prince Rupert on char tered boats.
 He suggested that there is lack of coordination between St. Paul and Southeast Alaska merchants which must be worked out. He presented the following problems to shipping on the new route:
 l. It is hard to get any large producing area interested because of the limited market and small population of Alaska.
 2. Manufacturers absorb rail costs in shipping to Seattle, but do not yet in shipping to Prince Rupert.
 3. There are no distributing or warehousing facilities at Prince Rupert.
 4. There is no interport traffic because rates are the same.
 He said he believed there are solutions to these problems, how ever, that he hopes to get inter port rates down and some manu- lecturers are now absorbing ra-I rates to Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle July 4.
 Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver July at pm.
 Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle, July 8.
 Princess Norah scheduled to ar rive at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morn ing and sails south one hour later at 9:30 o'clock.
 Aleutian, from west, scheduled southbound Saturday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
MARGARET FEMMER HOME

Miss Margaret Femmer. who has been attending Northwest Univer- sity, has arrived home via PAA yes terday for tEe summer. Miss Fem mer resumes her position on the reporticrial staff of the Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
CUB SCOUT NOTICE

Henry Leege, Chairman of the newly formed Cub Pack Committee, has requested that all of the Cub Scouts meet at the corner of Winter and Pond to participate in the par ade, July 4. All boys are requested to be present by 9:30 to receive their flags and marching instruc- tions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
SOAP BOX DERBY BOYS
 TO MEET AT 9:45 \. M.
 GET READY FOR PARADE

Soap Box Derby entrants are re- quested to assemble at 9:45 o'clock tomorrow morning, at the Winter and Pond Corner, to take part in the parade. Rotarians will be there and pass out the helmets and T. shirts, and will give instructions on lining up for the parade.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
WRANGELL SEA SCOUTS
 ARE HERE FOR FOURTH

The Sea Scouts from Wrangell arrived early this morning aboard the Bielby to participate in the July Fourth celebration and join with Ship TIP to march in the parade. They will be here until Sunday.
 Charles Eslick, skipper of the Sea Scout Ship, is in charge Mrs. Eslick accompanied her husband.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
SHOCK 0UOIA7i0NS

NEW YORK, July 3. = Closing quitation of American Can today is 931s, Anaconda 365s, Curtiss- Wright 4M, International Harvester 92, Kennecott 46A, New York Gen. tral 14B, Northern Pacific 1915, U. s. Steel 697s, Pound s4.02&.
 Sales today were l,250,000 shares.
 Merrill-Lynch averages today are as follows: industrials 181.74, rails 1906, utilities 35.48.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
AFTERNOON FIRE

A three-nine fire call brought the Juneau Volunteer Fire Depart ment out at 2:10 this afternoon in order to extinguish a roof fire at 433 Nelson St. The fire caused some damage to the roof of the house, belonging to Sam Dapcevich, but was quickly put out.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
NOTICE TO SEA SCOUTS

There will be a meeting of all Juneau Sea Scouts at the Evergreen Bowl tonight at 2 o'clock. All boys having uniforms are requested to wear them.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
POLICE COURT NEWS

Four men were arrested by City Police yesterday for being drunk. One man, Paul Kinch. forfeited $25 hail this morning. The others were fined S25 by City Magistrate Will liam A. Holzheimer. They were Ince Herman. Willie James and Weston Anderson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
PETRICH RETURNS

J. T. Petrich, Assistant U. s. Collector of Customs, has returned to his office from a six weeks an- nual inspection tour of all Customs Offices in the Interior.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
FORREST FUNERAL RITES

Last respects were paid this morning by host of friends of the late Mrs. Alrert Forrest. for whom Requiem Mass was said at the Church of the Nativity. The many beautiful floral pieces attested to the esteem in which she was held.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
P. O HOURS

The Juneau Post Office will be closed all day tomorrow but will have one window open on Saturday morning to accommodate all busi- ness for that day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03

Harry Rosen and Margaret Lin- loff, both of Juneau were married this morning by U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray. Dan Aston and Mrs. Duncan L. Wright were witnesses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
Alaska Highway Strip Turned Back 10 Inferior Department;
 Announce Development Plan
R Special Washington Service

WI oRNNAdi oNh NitS
 WASHINGTON, July 3.-lR-The Interior Department is preparing to open land along the Alaska High way to settlement, a bit too late for development this summer.
 An official of the Departments Bureau of Land Management, who withheld his name, said the War Department has relinquished the strip of land through Alaska upon which it built the road, thus return ing the land to Interior Department jurisdiction.
 Communities Planned
 Earlier this week, Assistant Sec retary of the Interior William E. Warne told reporters the Depart ment is working on plans for the establishment of communities along the road, which now is so thinly settled as to be unsuitable for tour ist use.
 The Army withdrew from public use land strip 20 miles wide upon which to build the first land route linking the Territory to the United States.
 Later the width of the Army held strip was reduced to five miles. The most recent action, returning all of the land to the Interior Depart ment, is expected to be announced within fw days.
 Make Sites Available
 The Interior Department is ex- pected to make attractive sites along the road. in it's Alaska portions, available to builders of hotels, stores, garages and other properties which will provide facilities for travellers and help develop the Territory.
 The road extends for 1,520 miles from Dawson Creek, B. C.. to Fair. banks. Alaska. Warne said Canada has made considerable progress with it's roadside development Among its new facilities are hotels at Watson Lake and Teslin Lake.
 The early goal. in the Alaskan sector, is for settlements no more than 100 miles apart.
 The road is gravel surfaced and open the year around. A Canadian American board screens would-be travellers to make sure that they and their vehicles are capable Of making the long trip.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
NO EMPIRE ISSUED
 FRIDAY, SATURDAY

The Empire, like all other businesses in Juneau, will observe the 3-day holiday, as it is called. This means there will be no issue of the Empire Friday or Saturday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
. . . WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 O'Clock
 This Morning

In Juneau-Maximum, 56; minimum, AT.
 At Airport-Maximum, 56; minimum. A.
 WEATHER FORECAST
 tJuneau and Vicinity Variable cloudiness tonight and Friday. Intermittent very light raiE tonght. Continued warm Friday.
 PRECIPITATION tPast 24 hours ending 7:30 am. todsy) In Juneau-Trace; since July l. .68 inches.
 At Airport - .02 inches: since July 1. .86 inches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
BEZ HERE FROM SEATTLE

Nick Beg, wellknown canneryman of Seattle, is registered at the Bar dnof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03

The regular meeting of the Ju- neau City Council will be postponed one week until Friday, July II.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03
FIRE DEPARTMENT
 MEETING JULY 10;

The Juneau Volunteer Fire De- partment will hold it's regular monthly meeting next Thursday, July 10, instead of tonight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-07-03

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Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
In Short

Announced: BY the Kremlin, the
monetary rate of exchange for diplo-
mats in Russia, eight rubles to the
US. dollar; the old diplomatic rate.
IL rubles to the dollar.
Died: Earl Baldwin, 80, three times
British prime minister, who forced
King Edward VIII, now the Duke Of
Windsor, to abdicate in 1886.
Sailed: From Leghorn, the last
American occupation troops in Italy.
Declared: BY Claude R. Wickard bt
the Rural Electrification AdminiStra-
ton, that the nation faces a serious
shortage of electrical power.
Reported: BY Successful Farming
magazine, cross-section poll of g.
100000 American farmers showed 50
per cent never had heard of the Mar
shall plan, only IL per cent could exc
plain its details.
Voted: BY $4,000 AFL Western
Union employees, coast-to-coast
strike Except in New York City, on
December %.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26

This is the stop-gap aid advocated
by President Truman as preliminary
to the four-year European Recovery
Program, also known as the Marshall
plan. The President appeared Novem-
Der II before the reconvened session
TO formally request interim relief for
the three European countries. China
was added to the program by the
House.
In a special message before adjourn
ment, Mr.. Truman asked Congress to
vest administration of ERP in an in
dependent, one-man agency to be
known as the Economic Cooperation
Administration.
BY agreement, consideration of ERP
went over to the regular session which
vill open January 8.
Party Lines
Harmony between the executive
nd legislative branches disappeared,
owever. on the domestic front.
The Republican Congress would
AVE none of its Democratic Presi-
.ent's requests for standby wage
price controls and rationing powers.
instead, it drafted a substitute which
provided for voluntary agreements"
oy industry to hold down living costs.
1 In a legislative test of strength, the
COP attempted to speed the bill
through the House on take 1t or
leave IT. basis. This procedure bars
amendments and limits debate but
requires two-thirds vote for pas
sage.
Republican strategy failed. For the
first time since early New Deal days,
not a Democrat broke party ranks to
vote for the bill The vote was 2O2 to
1888.
Family Costs Up
Meanwhile the Bureau of Labor
Statistics calculated this week that
the cost of maintaining city family
of four has risen about $3.50 year
since March. l946. 1t found living
costs highest in Washington, Seattle
and New York, and lowest in New
Orleans. Kansas City. Mo-. and Hous-
= ton.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
POLITICS: Eisenhower as a Dark Horse

Political strategists for Governor
Dewey and Senator Taft regard Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower as potentially
the toughest man to beat for the Re-
publican Presidential nomination.
Dewey forces say the retiring Army
chief of staff may become the strong
est dark horse imaginable if the New
York governor is unable to break
through the line Of major candidates
and favorite sons early in the conven-
tion. They concede privately this line
up will block any first ballot nomina-
ton at Philadelphia in June.
Taft hackers believe, too, that
Eisenhower may be the man they
have to beat to get the nomination.
All major candidates, including for
mer Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Min
nesota, are likely to concentrate on
Eisenhower, trying to force him into
the open and on record on controver-
sial national issues as early as pos
sible.
Gen. Eisenhower, who will retire
early next month, is scheduled to be-
come president of Columbia Univer-
sity June 7.
Regardless of the Eisenhower devel-
opments, Gov. Dewey is said to be
determined not to announce his can
didacy formally before the conven-
tion. Sen. Taft, an avowed candidate,
is not expected to ride the campaign
trail during the next few months. Taft
counts on writing his platform in
Congress.
The Dewey camp claims 400 con-
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
Disaster
Double Last Yeur's

The American Red Cross reported
this week that the 1947 disaster death
toll in the United States up to Decem-
Der l was 1866, about twice last
years.
Two hundred anc eighty-seven dis
asters occurred in 46 states and Alas
ka. They included 141 fires, so floods,
Al tornadoes, three hurricanes, 21
other storms, 80 explosions, minor
earthquakes and serious accidents.
The Red Cross listed the years five
worst disasters:
Texas and Oklahoma tornadoes last
April, worst in 10 years.
Texas City explosions and fire last
April with a toll of over 500 lives
and more than $500 injured.
June floods III seven midwestern
and eastern states.
September hurricane and floods in
Florida and the Gulf states.
New England forest fires in Oc-
tober.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26

well as from planes is feasible, ac-
cording to report released by the
Department of Commerce.
TT should be possible to seed
clouds over great areas by means of
silver iodide generators on the
ground" said the report by General
Electric scientists under contract to
the. Army and Navy on man-con-
trolled weather projects The cost,
they predicted, would be very low
in comparison with plane projects.
Very fine particles of silver iodide
serve as effective cloud icing agents
at temperatures under FIVE degrees
below zero, Centigrade, the scientists
said.
They found it probable that thun-
derstorms might te profoundly modi-
fed" by dropping dry ice over de-
veloping storms as soon as the tops
of the thunder clouds reach freezing.
The storms should be less severe,
hail should be avoiGed, but the storms
will last longer, it was said.
Atomic Speculation
Meanwhile, as official secrecy closed
in on the atomic proving grounds the
US. is building al Eniwetok in the
Marshall Islands, scientists noted it
was almost a year and half since
the last A-bomb tests at Bikini.
Nuclear efficiency of the Bikini
bombs, by official statement, was of
a very low order--about one-tenth of
one per cent of fashionable materials.
There are reports that nuclear
physicists working on military appli-
cation of atomic energy recently
asked for new tests to check their
pencil-and-paper computations, indi-
eating that bigger ano better bombs
theoretically are here.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
OR L; ! ) .ie ' 35N <
LONDON Three & One No Longer Make Four

THE breakup of the London
i conference apparently will
usher in an era of even more in
tense rivalry between Russia and
the western powers. While the Big
Four foreign ministers were in
session there was some hope, at least,
of compromise. Now the split between
the wartime allies is widening.
Division of Europe into east and
west camps will not lessen that ten
sion. Border incidents seem inevita-
bic where spheres of influence over
lap. Major friction points will be at
Trieste, Greece, Iran, Austria and
Germany, among others.
The United States, Britain and
France undoubtedly will bring about
the economic merger of their occu-
patton zones in Germany. That possi-
bility was discussed even before col
lapse of the conference.
Russia can be expected to weld
eastern Germany into her ring of
buffer states. Economies of the satel-
lite nations will be mobilized to form
a "ruble bloc to combat the dollar,
sterling and franc areas cooperating
in the Marshall plan.
Propaganda Barrages
Trade will languish across the new
artificial barriers bisecting Europe
but propaganda will not.
The United States, for one, will
beam to eastern Europeans facts
about the Russian refusal to compro-
mise on German and Austrian repara-
tions. 1t also will broadcast material
on the suppression of individual lib
critics, forced labor, economic looting
and concentration camps in eastern
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26
Education
a Critical Appraisal

Sweeping revision of the American
educational system in 1,700 colleges,
universities and professional schools
was recommended this week by the
Presidents Commission on Higher
Education.
Although colleges now have more
students than ever before, the COM
mission claims the nation is neglect
ing many of its brightest students.
1t proposed that colleges double their
enrollmentS BY 1860, from the present
2,240,000 to 4,6N0,000. Graduate choolS
should increase from 175,000 to 600,-
600 during the same period if they
are to meet national needs, the COM
mission said.
The report was compiled by a COM
mission of % civic and educational
leaders appointed by President Tru-
man in July, 194e 1t is the first of
six on Higher Education for Amer
ican Democracy"
The commission recommended that
the federal government provide di-
rect aid to colleges and universities
and underwrite national system of
scholarships and fellowShips.
Free public education, now available
through high school, should be ex-
tended to the frst two years of COL
lege for all who can qualify, the edu-
Gators said. They also recommended
creation of hundreds of community
colleges at the junior college level
1t advised -evamping curricula to
fit the modern age and not to train
young gentlemen for leisure in the
old European tradition. While it
stressed the Importance of research,
the report advised graduate and pro-
fessional schools to revise their pro-
grams in order to graduate we'll
rounded persons rather than mere
specialists and technicians.
Milford chronicle., 1947-12-26

exert influence in national elections.
There is another, possibly even
more important, factor in Lewis for
saking the AFL. He is able to COM
pete, once again, with both the AFL
and CIO in organizing workers OUT
side the coal industry
In both politics and union organiz-
ing, Lewis alreadx has tools at hand.
Politically, Lewis has Labor's Nom
Partisan League, a long-dormant
predecessor of the CLOS present Po-
litical Action Committee.
In his first breal with the AFL in
1886. Lewis formed the League as
part of the CIO which he also orr
ganized Lewis abandoned CIO lead
ership in l94O as he had promised to
if Franklin Roosevelt won third
term. When Lewis walked out of the
CIO in 1912, Labor's Non-Partisan
League went with him. Lewis has
nursed it along ever since-on linn
tied scale.
Lewis has been nursing, too, his
District SO of the miners union. This
- q UNIV Dfdncn WlLnout miner,
a catchall for workers in various in
dustries, including railroads and
chemicals.
Angry with the AFL because its
leaders signed the n-Communist
pledges required by the Taft Hartley
Law, Lewis may run into difficulties
in organizing workers. Unions whose
officers signed the pledges have ac-
cess to the National Labor Relations
Board and through it advantages over
non-complying unions.
A strong foe of Communism, Lewis
opposed signing the pledge because
he wants total war against the Taft
Hartley Act. An independent labor
leader once more Lewis is in posi-
ton to go his owl way now in at
tacking the law in the courts.