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Kodiak mirror., 1948-06-05

The flood in Washington and Oregon is now receding, but dur ing it's height it did much dam age, especially in the war built town of Vanport, near Portland, Ore.
 Bottom left photo shows two men struggling through waist deep water Tn Vanport, one of them earring 8 child whose head would have been covered by the water Bottom right, residents of Vanport gaze at the debris of their flooded town while water, the result of the flash flood, rises around stiH.stsnding buildings.
 Center photo show residents Of Vanport marooned atop thier homes while debris filled water swfrls through their inundated city
 Directly at the right, the pic. ture shows two youths and their cars caught in the rising waters of the flood
 Photos by Associated Press.
Kodiak mirror., 1948-06-05
Legal Notice

ASgal NOClCe
 IN THE
 DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA
 THIRD DIVISION ALEXANDER DUFRESNE
 Plaintiff. ELSIE MASON DUFRESNE
 Defendant.
 No. K-4970
 SUMMONS
 FOR PUBLICATION THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMER. GA.
 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DE- PENDANT, GREETING:
 You are hereby required to ap. pear in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, Third Div. ision, within thirty days after she last publication of this sum. mons, namely, within thirty days alter the 5th day of June 19A8 in case this summons IS published, or within forty days after the date of it's service upon you, in case this summons is served upon you personally, and answer the complaint of the a. bove named plaintiff on file in | the said court in the above en. titled action. The said plaintiff in said ac- tlon demands the following relief: 1 A decree of the said Court for ever dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and defendant; that the said Plaintiff be awarded the complete care, custody and con- trol of the three minor children of the Plaintiff and the Defend BDt.
 And in the event you fail to SO appear and answer, the plaintiff will take judgment against you for.want thereof, and will apply to the Court for the relief de- nanded in her complaint and as hereinbefore stated.
 WITNESS, the HONORABLE ANTHONY J DIMOND, Judge of said Court he seal of said Court, hereunto affixed on this sth day of May, 1g4S.
 M. F.. s. Brunelle
 Clerk
 By: C. W. Bubendorf
 T'eputy Clerk
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
NINE KILLED, 16 ARE INJURED IN BLASTS. POWER, LIGHT PLANT

TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 10.-tR-- Nine men were killed and Is in- jured in a series of blasts that shook huge power and light plant near this state capital for almost 45 minutes yesterday.
 Rescue crews still groped through debris today seeking other possible victims.
 The explosion occurred in the Kansas Power and Light Company's main plant and left Topeka, a city of 90,000, without electricity for sev- eral hours.
 The plant is in the little town of Tecumseh, five miles east of here.
 The exact cause of the explosions had not been determined but sever al workers reported they had smell- ed gas in the building.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
65-FT. WAM(AT,
 AC5 DUTY BOAT,
 TO DOCK TONIGHT

The Army T-boat, Wamcat, 65- foot craft to be permanently sta- tioned here, is expected to dock this evening in the Small Boat Har- Dor, according to Capt. Svend 0. Hansen, ACS Sector Commander in this area.
 Skippered by Master Sergeant George E. Stanford, the Wamcat comes from Seattle. Sgt. 1st Glass Fred c. Dawley is engineer and Cpl. Charles B. Long, crew. Master Ser geant William c. Lashua also is aboard, but will return to Seattle duty.
 With the emergency radio sta- tion aboard the Wamcat, the ACS can set up communications system immediately, in any port the T. boat can reach.
 The craft will be used chiefly to service nd maintain submarine ocean cable repeater stations which are spaced the length of Southeast Alaska, and for its VH.F. radio re- peater stations.
 The Wamcat gets its name from the former Alaska Communications System designation: Washington Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
FOREIGN SHIP MAY BE TIED UP,
 SAILORS UNION
Objection Raised Regard ing Curtai|mentU U. 5. Ves-
 sells on Marshall Cargo

SAN. FRANCISCO, Dec. 10.-lRl- The AFL Sailors Union of the Pa cific threatened today to tie up foreign ships carrying Marshall plan cargo if the Economic Cooper ation Administration stops shipping of bulk relief cargo in American vessels.
 Wednesday, Paul G. Hoffman, ECA head, announced he would end a policy of carrying half of all such cargo in American bottoms be- ginning Jan. 1, because of higher freight costs.
 SUP Executive Secretary Harry Lundeberg's threat followed pro- test yesterday by the Pacific Ameri- can Steamship Association and an- other by Capt. John A. Cross, Sec retary- Treasurer of the AFL Mas ters, Mates and Pilots Association, West Coast division.
 Lundeberg telegraphed Hoffman asserting the ECA chief was exceed ing his authority and said:
 We intend to use all our power, including economic power, to see that American ships receive 50 per cent of the relief cargo.'
 Lundeberg said that by economic power he meant i've will put pickets around every foreign ship carrying Marshall plan cargoes."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
C0MMANDERS' NIGHT
 OF vFW E SUCCESS

Commanders Night at VIEW. Clut was high success.
 Last nights meeting at the V.F.W post in Juneau was turned over to John T. Mclaughlin, Territorial De- rartment Commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
 Post Commanders in attendance were: Post Department Commander Harold Mayo and Past Post Com mander Huntington Gruening.
 During a very impressive cere- mony the following Veterans were initiated: Robert G. Prather, Joe Albayalde, Merle Sipprell, Donald Moe, Fred Bryant, J. Robert Camp bell.
 Following the initiation refresh ments were served.
 VIEW. conducts regular meetings each Thursday night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
Was Pearl Harbor Caught
 Mapping During Flight of
 Big Bomber, Is Question

HONOLULU, Dec. 10.-iR-Was Pearl Harbor caught with it's radar defenses down on the seventh an- niversary of the Japanese sneak at tack?
 The officer responsible for de- tectiag unannounced aircraft ap- preaching Hawaii says: Radar screens might have plotted the B-36 which flew unannounced on round trip from Fort Worth, Tex, and dropped "a useful bomb load" at sea off Hawaii.
 The officer Col T. w. Blackburn, said yesterday, 21 planes were pick ed up by radar in the two hours the strategic. air commands six-engined bomber was believed in Hawaiian skies. But the B-36 was not singled out.
 At Fort Worth the pilot, Maj. John D. Bartlett, said his big silver craft went to Pearl Harbor and then to the northwest point of Oahu island tefore turning back to the mainland on the 35ls hour flight. The surprise raid" caused some feeling in Hawaii that the islands air defense might have been caught mapping.
 Blackburn emphasized that under peacetime conditions there is no way to keep single aircraft from slipping through the defense net He said civilian aircraft do not carry equipment to send out the friendly identification signal for radar.
 Were we in state of emergency or threatened war, all aircraft would be under military control,"' Black burn said Then we could filter it."
 Spokesmen for the air force, the navy and army said earlier they had no report of any radar CT radio contact with the B-36.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
JAY(EE'S SPEAKER URGES DEvEl OpMENT
 OF SKI FACILITIES

Mark Corbett, public relations worker for the Bureau of Reclama- ton, speaking extemporaneously be- fore the Junior Chamber of Con- merce this noon, gave a most inter- esting talk.
 Corbett, who is here on special assignment to assist in putting out la report on water resources and hydro-electric potentials in Alaska comes from Reclamation Bureau of- fices at Salt Lake City.
 Development of ski areas near Salt Lake City has been one oi the main projects of the Salt Lake City Junior Chamber or Commerce Corbett, who is member of the Utah city's organization, told mem- ters. He encouraged Jaycees here to develop Juneaus ski area, which he described as top rate.
 Such recreational facilities would not cnly tring young people here, but would be instrumental in keep ing them here," he said.
 Talk of coming to Alaska has be- come almost a rage" in the States he said. Numbers of young people are looking towards Alaska as a place tc come, to live.
 Corbett went on to give a quick look at what the Reclamation Bu- reau has been doing in Alaska dur ing the past year, and what it hopes to do.
 Investigations have shown that hydro electric potentials in Alaska total more than 50 billion kilowatt hours annually, or more than one fifth of that now being produced in the United States, he said
 Mrs. Mildred Hermann was a guest of Jaycees at their noon luncheon. New members introduced were Rudy Isler and Gordon Chap pei. John Quilico presided for Pres ident Dean Goodwin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
FORMER
 JUNEAU MAN, E
 MISSING, KODIAK

Al Rhodes, former Juneau man, has been missing from his Ko- diak home since November 24, &C., cording to a telegram from his wife, Mrs. Marian Rhodes.
 Lew M. Williams, Acting Cover nor, received the wire yesterday requesting help in finding him.
 This morning, Williams said that both U. s. Commissioner A. M Vokacek and the marshal there have joined in search. The Act ing Governor has wired for luther information.
 Rhodes, who is the 36-year-old son of Mrs. Mae Kilroy of Juneau was last seen Thanksgiving eve which was stormy night at Ko- diak. He and Mrs. Rhodes lived aboard the fishing boat Tippy.
 In Juneau, Rhodes was a house painter before becoming fisher man.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
WIVES, CHILDREN. ARE HERE ON BOARD
 COAST GUARD BOAT
No Housing Found for Two Families . Children
 Are All Girls

Families of Coast Guardsmer aboard the CGC Storis were busy getting settled today.
 On board the Storis, which ar rived here yesterday morning fol permanent station here, were si, wives and four children.
 Housing has been secured for foul officers and their families, accord ing to Comdr. J. R. Kurcheski Liv- ing quarters for two enlisted mer and their wives is yet to be se- cured.
 Children of new Coast Guard of ficers to make the trip from Se- attle are all girls. According to Mrs J. R. Macleod, who is the mother of l4-year-old daughter and tht wife of engineering officer It. Mac Leod, Coast Guard daughters were good sailors on the voyage.
 The Commanding Officers wife Mrs. J. R. Kurcheski and their To- yCdl -OlQ uduSIlCl, WClt dDOdlQ Jllt Storis. Also coming to Juneau were Mrs. A. M. Glenn and her one-year- old daughter. Her husband is pay clerk with the vessel. Mrs. A. B How, wife of It., jig. How, brings with her one-year-old daughter
 Crewmen on the Coast Guard yes sel were hard work today unload ing the four cars brought on deck household effects and supplies. The vessel is already on the active duty list, on a two-hour notice for cal basis, according to Comdr. Eur cheski. The craft will be tied ur at the city dock for the remainder of the week and will then transfe, to the Al dock, he said.
 A delegation from the Junior Chamber of Commerce is to board the vessel tonight to take prepar- ed booklet containing all available recreational facilities in the Gasti- neau area, with listing of civic and social organizations. Red Mayo Jaycee member, has been named to present the information to the commanding officer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
 HAS. QUIT
 TIME MAG.
Hands in Resignation as Senior Editor, Accepted
 Statement Made

NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-tR-Whit- taker Chambers, confessed former Communist courier and key figure in the probe of alleged Communist espionage, has resigned as a senior editor of Time Magazine, his at torneys announced today
 The announcement came as Mrs. Priscilla Hiss, wife of Alger Hiss, appeared at the Federal Building to testify before Grand Jury prob ing alleged Communist spying.
 The attorneys announcement was headed Statement by Whitaker Chambers" It said
 T have offered my resignation as a senior editor of Time Maga- zine. It has been accepted.
 Both of these acts became i'm perative. when I recently began to make revelations about Communist espionage"
 Shortly after Chambers an- nouncement, James A. Linen, pub fisher of Time, issued this state- ment
 In accepting his resigna- ten now, Time does not wish to prejudge and is not prejudging his recent disclosures.
 Not until all the evidence is in can the pros and cons be weighed.
 Against the admitted disservice to his country. of a decade ago, must be set the service we are con- vinced he is trying to perform, for his country now"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
SURFACE WATER, SMALL
 BOAT HARBOR, FROZEN

Surface water in the Small Boat Harbor is frozen over, reports Bert Lybeck, street department foreman.
 This sometimes pulls out the caulking of boats and causes ship ping of water. One small troller, the 31A740, was reported in sink ing condition this morning. Boat owner H. Blyberg pumped out the water the craft had shipped and it was reported in a safe condition this afternoon.
 City Clerk Jack Popejoy states that the City of Juneau is not re- sponsible for boats sinking in the Boat Harbor It is entirely the owners responsibility, and so is the removal of any sunken craft.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
More Suspects Spotted Ln Red Lnuestigatio,
Ship Service
 ToNorfhIand
 Sfarfs Today

SEATTLE, Dec TO- -tR- The steamer Baranof was to sail from Seattle today on the inaugural run Of a new post-strike sailing sched- ule involving three vessels, the AL aska Steamship Company.
 Service to Southeastern Alaska will be reestablished on it's pre- war basis under the new schedule. The steamers Baranof and Alaska will sail every two weeks, the steam CT Denali every three weeks until its annual inspection and repair lay Up in February, the Company an- inounced.
 Appointments of agents for several Southeast Alaska ports also were announced.
 The three steamers will provide service to Southeast and Southwest Alaska, Kodiak Island and Cook Inlet. They will return to Wran- gell, Petersburg, Haines, Skagway and Sitka on a regular basis for the first time since prior to the war, the line announced.
 The Denali will sail from Seattle on Wednesday; the Alaska on De- cember IT, Baranof on December "A, the Alaska on December 31, and Denali again on January 5 in the first few trips of the schedule.
 The Denali will stop at Wrangell and Petersburg.
 G. s. Duryea, general freight and passenger agent, will transfer to Ketchikan from Seattle after Jan uary to supervise port agents.
 w. P. Lockwood, formerly acting agent at Ketchikan, has been named agent. Dick Miller has received the same promotion at Petersburg. Ap- pointed new agents are Ira M. Powell, at Haines; George w. Hook CT a. SkagwaN and Fred Arnold at Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
Comes
 Under Martial
 Law by Editl
Declaration Is Mad c by Chiang as Communists
 Move on Ranking
(By The Associated Press)

Martial law for all China unoer Nationalist control was decreed to- night by President Chiang Kali shek. The edict does not apply to the Far Western Provinces or Formosa.
 The announcement came as Chi nese Communists appeared to be trying to cut behind the Hwai Riv- CT defense line at a point 90 miles from tottering Nanking. This is the last bulwark the capital has short of the Yangtze River which flows past the city.
 More Threats
 Peiping itself was in danger of imminent capture. Chinese Nation alists abandoned Shunyi, IS miles from the great north China city
 Communists already were putting cn pressure from the southwest. There was little reason to be-
 lieve Chinese Communist broad cast that the Reds could not cap- ture Peiping and Tientsin before March or May because they "are busy c1aning up in the Nanking- Shanghai area" Nor was there reason to credit their report that the Chinese Nationalists had used new type bomb around Suchow which destroyed five mile areas. Move By COmmies The Communists were trying to cross the Hwai at a lightly defend- ed point where the river makes Ia big bend, Their main energies seemed directed against reducing i two enormous pockets of 350,0OC trapped Chinese troops between Suchow and Nanking.
 Mime. Chiang Kai-shek sees 1 President Truman late today to beg new and far-reaching aid. Indica- tions are that she will get little more than q cup of tea and a promise of serious study of the Chinese situation.
 Confidence Lest Officials on whom the President relies for advice appear to have lost confidence in the ability of Chiang's government to recover its power of leadership over the Chi nese people and reverse the Con- munist victories-with or without American help.
 The Chinese want at least a bil- lion dollars year for three years an American declaration of SUD- port for China, speedup in arms deliveries, the assignment of a large military mission with author ity virtually to take over the war against the Communists.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-tR-Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2Ss, American Can 82, Anaconda 331k. Curtiss- Wright TX. International Harvest CT 28A, Kennecott 567s, New York Central 13a4. Northern Pacific l7la, U. s. Steel 715s, Pound S4.03h.
 Sales today were 100000 shares.
 Averages today are as follows: industrials l76.41, rails 53.55, util- ities 32.98.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
DEM0LAY CHAPTER TO :. BE RE-0RGANIzED IN
 JUNEAU, MEET HELD

About 40 young men met with members of the Juneau Scottish Rite last evening for the purpose of recognizing the Royal Arch Gunnison Chapter, Order of De- Molay.
 Glen O. Abraham is sparkling the movement with the assistance ot many former DeMolays.
 Bob Bowling, first Master Coun- cilor of Juneau DeMolays, address ed the meeting in respect to what DeMolay can do. Elwin Messer, AL bert Fleek, Dan Livie, and M. L. MacSpadden, all past DeMolays, spoke on their experience in De- Molay.
 Gene Vuille, Past Grand Master Councillor of Missouri DeMolays, 1927, outlined the possibilities for member participation and officer work in the chapter.
 The Rev. Willis R. Booth, Wor- shipful Master, Mt. Juneau Lodge 147. A. F. and A. M. addressed the meeting on his experience with DeMolays in community life.
 Hot dogs, hot chocolate, and cake were served after the meeting by a Scottish Rite committee consisting of Carson Lawrence, James Well lington, Arthur Hedges, John Maur- stad and Les Holmes.
 The next meeting will be at the Scottish Rite Temple on Thursday evening, ecember B at 7:30 o'clock.
 All interested young men between the ages of IA and 21 are invited to attend
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
FOREST SERVICE ROAD ENGINEER
 FINISHES SURVEY
Jones Returns to Capital
 with Information 10 Be Presented 10 Congress

| Howard R. Jones, of Washington, D. C., chief highway engineer of the U. s. Forest Service, will be in
 a position to give appropriations
 committees a first-hand picture of
 Southeast Alaska's roa d require
 ments when Congress convenes next month.
 :; Such was the purpose of his trip,
 made in response to the request made early in the fall by B. Frank Heintzleman, regional forester. Heintzleman, who had started the
 ball rolling for a special Congress sional appropriation for specific roads in the Juneau Sitka and Ket- chikan areas so that regular appro- priations would be left for improve
 ments and extensions of existing roads, asked that the Forest Serv- ice chief engineer or his assistant be sent here. Jones is assistant chief engineer and top man in the matter iof roads.
 "This is my first trip to the Ter ritory," Jones said this week. and ,l feel I can help in the important matter of new roads for Southeast Alaska. It is hard for someone in Washington to get real under standing of the unique circumstance
 es Alaska presents. A study of the
 map helps very little, if one is not familiar with the difficult problems
 of terrain.
 T have been fortunate" he con- tinued, ito have as my companion for nearly four weeks a man who is a longtime resident of Alaska and is farliliar with all conditions, including road needs"
 Jones referred to Charles G. Bur dick, assistant regional forester, who accompanied him on most of his jaunts throughout two National Forests. The two returned Tuesday rom Anchorage, after a week in the Chugach National Forest, on the Kenai Peninsula.
 Jones, who came for a two-week 'look-see' and remained a month, is enthusiastic about Alaska and
 ts future development. He left
 Wednesday by Pan American Air ways. planning to spend day or two in Portland, Ore, en route to
 the Capitol.
 Intense interest attaches to the
 greatly expanded road program for
 the consideration of Congress. About
 512 per cent of Alaska is in National
 Forest areas, for which road appro-
 oriations amount to some $l,500 000
 year. Road funds for the Interior
 amount to 18 or 19 times as much,
 which is in almost exact proportion
 10 the number of square m les.
 The circumstance of all South
 east Alaska being in 8 National
 Forest, except for the Haines re-
 ion. creates the need for special road-planning rot customary in such
 ores. reserves.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
OVERTURNED CAR

An accident report has been fil- ed concerning the oyerturning of a car about 2 am. today on the Douglas road, near the Lawson Creek bridge. Gordon Mills oi Douglas was driving the automo- bie owned by his brother, J. s Mills. The car just barely turned over, according to Highway Patrolman Adolph O. Lubke, who investigated the accident. Luhcke re- ports that the driver was in nc way at fault, and the mishap was due entirely to the slipper condi- tion of the road
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
RALPH BEISTLINE, II,
 IS BORN IN FAIRBANKS

MT. and Mrs. Ralph Beistline are beaming with pride over the arri- val of a grandson-and MT. Beist- line is doubly pleased because the taby has been named for him.
 Weighing ' pounds, Ralph Hoov- CT Beistline, 2nd, was born to MT and Mrs. Earl H. Beistline Mon- day morning in St. Joseph's Hos- pitsl, Fairbanks. He is their first child.
 me baby's father is assistant pro- lessor of mining engineering at the University of Alaska. Maternal grandparents are MT. and Mrs Boyd Herring of Fairbanks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
The W ashington Merry Go Round
Bv DREW PEARSON
tCopyright. 1s4s. by The Bell Syndicate
 Incl

WASHINGTON - Beneath the tragic seriousness of the Chambers Hiss dispute over stolen State De- partment documents there is the humorous spectacle of news headline race between the Un- American Activities Committee and the Justice Department.
 The Justice Department, believing in the old axiom that justice moves slow but sure, at first serene ly took its time and let one high official recover from an acute case of weekenditis before working up fever heat over the Chambers-Hiss case.
 Meanwhile, the Un-American Ac- tivities Committee, knowing it fac- ed a hostile 81st Congress, saw this as the last chance to win back its huge appropriations and get new lease on life.
 The result was a headline race
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
T0L5T0I FROM SOUTH
 IS TO LOAD SALMON

A cargo ol produce was dis charged at the city dock today for Odom Produce Co. from the Tolstoi The craft, skippered by Alex Gunderson, is Pacific Amer can Fisheries vessels from Bel lingham, Wash. From here the craft is scheduled to put in at Hawk Inlet to load salmon for Se- attle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
HOUSING WANTED QUICKLY

Housing in a hurry is needed for two enlisted men from the crew of the U.S.C.G. Storis.
 Both men are married, have no children and are in need of irii- mediate li;ing quarters-not tod costly.
 If anyone who has such space available will call The Empire, the Mayors office or contact the Coast Guard it will be greatly ap- preciated
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-12-10
STEAMER M0VEMENT5

Baranof, from Seattle. scheduled to arrive Monday.
 Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver December 13.
 Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle Wednesday. Dec. l5.
 Victoria scheduled to sail from Seattle December 1G.
 Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle Friday, December IT.