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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-12-23

Mrs. Catherine M. MCGOWAN, OAR
gan, died on December 16 of heart
trouble, aged rs years.
She was born at Dargan, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Pierce
Surviving are: six children, Alvey
MCGOWAN, Mrs. Hazel Gay, Mrs.
Irene Grim, Mrs. Eta Hetzel, all of
Dargan; James MCGOWAN and Mrs.
Lovetta johnson, of Washington, d.
c.; four sisters, Mrs George Nc
Gowan and Mrs. Ella MCGOWAN,
Dargan; Mrs. Mary Benner, of
Sharpsburg; and Mrs. Nora Renner,
Williamsport; brother, John Pierce,
of McKeesport, Pa; eighteen grand
children and one great grandchild.
Evening star., 1948-04-23
Baptist High School Pupils
To Hold Festival Tomorrow

The annual spring festival of Dis
trict Baptist high school girls and
boys will be held at 3 pm. tomor-
row ut Calvary Baptist Church.
About 100 teen-agers are expected
to attend the meeting. Speakers
will be DR.. M. Chandler Stith, ex-
ecutive secretary of the District
Baptist Convention: the Rev. Frank
Brasington, direction of missions
for the Convention, and Mrs. Clay
ton Waddell, wife of the pastor OF
Luther Rice Memorial Church.
The Baptist Teen Age Choir, a
new organization, will make its first
appearance at tbs o'clock tonight
at Calvary Church, in pre-confer-
ence program.
The conference Is sponsored by
the District Baptist Convention.
Mrs. Helen M. Willis is director OF
the conventions city-wide teen-age
work.
Evening star., 1948-04-23

Mayfiower Hotel, will honor Lucien
L. Renuart Of Miami, Fla, presi-
dent Of Optimists International.
About 800 persons from the District
and nearby Maryland and Virginia
are expected at the dinner-dance
Mrs. w. H. Whittlesey, president
Of the Opti-Mrs. Club of Washing
ton, will present the $1,000 gift to
Charles M. Fyfe, director of the
Boys Club Of Washington.
Evening star., 1948-04-23
Church Meeting Called

The Rev. Francis M. Hamilton,
rector of Grace Episcopal Church,
Silver Spring, Md, has called
meeting Of interested persons to
form an association for the preser-
vation OF the parish cemetery on
the church ground, 93O1 Georgia
avenue, Silver Spring. The meet
ing will be held at 7:30 pm. Sunday
in the Grace Church parish hall.
Evening star., 1948-04-23
|Opti-Mrs. Club to Give
Bows Club Clinic 900

The medical clinic Of the George
town Branch, Boys Club Of WASH
ington, will receive a. $1,000 gift
from the Opti-Mrs. Club Of Wash
ington in ceremonies tonight at
dinner of the Optimists Clubs OF
the Metropolitan area.
The banquet, at $50 pm. in the
Evening star., 1948-04-23
.O'Conner to Appear
On Capitol Stage

Donald O'Connor, star OF the
current Capitol Theater feature,
"Are You With It?" will make
personal appearance on the stage
of the theater tomorrow at the first
,,erfornoance or1Iv
Evening star., 1948-04-23
Benefit Showings

The Airport Drive-In Theater will
have two benefit showings of Love
Laughs at Andy Hardy" starring
Mickey Rooney tonight in behalf of
the Arlington Juvenile Safety Coun-
Gil. Feature times are tbs and $50.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
PETER WOOD FILES AS
 DEMO REPRESENTATIVE

Peter Wood today filed as Demo- cratic Representative in the next Territorial Legislature. Wood came to Alaska as a carpenter during the war, and was later made La bor Relations Manager for the Met calfe, Hamilton Kansas City Bridge Company, a firm working on mili- tary construction at Skagway.
 In l944 he became Area Di- rector of the Manpower Commis- sion at Fairbanks, from which position he eventually resigned to start his own publishing company
 Wood published the Alaska Bus mess Directory and for two and a half years, the Alaska News Let ter" He is now compiling the second edition of the business di- rectory.
 He came to Juneau in l945 and is now head of the Alaska Import Company. and operates two small restaurants here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
FREIGHT RATES T0AiA5KA 0kEH,
 CLAIMS FURNE55

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan 2.-tPl-- Robert Furness, Pacific Coast EX- aminer for the U. & Maritime Commission, stated today in re- port prepared for the commission that the rates charged by three Se- attle steamship firms serving Alas kan ports were not unjust or un- reasonable or otherwise unlawful
 Various Alaskan business firms and officials had charged that the three lines assessed unfair rates. The commission held a lengthy hearing in Alaska
 The Seattle firms are the Alaska Steamship O., the Alaska Trans portation Co.,, and the Northland Transportation Co.
 Ships operated by the companies were turnued over to them last June by the government on low rate charter basis. Until then the government had been operating the ships in Alaska shipping.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
ADVIS0RY HEARINGS
 ON SAFETY CODE WILL
 BEGIN ON JANUARY 5

The Territorial Department of Labor will hold advisory hearings during the month of January pre- hminary to drafting Safety and Sanitation Code for Alaskan In dustries. The first hearing, which will be Salmon Canneries, will be held on Monday, January 5, in the Territorial Labor offices in the Valentine Building.
 In Juneau to appear at the first hearings are Frank Wright, Jr., of the Pyramid Packing Co.,, Al Soen- ecke of the Alaska Year Round Canneries. J. T. Yolland of the Continental Can CO, Lynn Sawyer of American Can Company, and Bill Fonken of Naket Packing Go. Tcm Gardner, Bristol Bay agent for the Alaska Fisherman's Union, is expected to arrive from Dilling- ham this week to representa- resi- dent cannery workers.
 The hearings will continue through the month of January and other industries to be taken un- der consideration are; cold storage and ice manufacture, sawmill and loggings, construction and wood working, garages and machine shops The General Safety Code will be under consideration from Monday, January 26 to 30.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
BING CROSBY COPS
 TOP SCREEN RATING
 AGAIN; 4IH TIME

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 2.-tRl-Bing Crosby for the fourth successive year was the screens top box office attraction in 1947, the Mo- tion Picture Herald announced to- day after poll of exhibitors.
 Others in the first 10, in the order of their rankings are:
 Betty Grable, who moved up from ninth place last year;
 Ingrid Bergman, second in 1946;
 Gary Cooper, who was also four tn last year.
 Humphrey Bogart, who moved up from sixth;
 Bob Hope, Clark Gable, Gregory Peck, Claudette Colbert and Alan Ladd
 The western actors, in the order of their ranking, are Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, William Boyd, Bill Elliott, Gahby Hayes, Charles Star rett, Smiley Brunette, Johnny Mack Brown, Dale Evans and Eddie Dean.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
LOG RAFT BREAKS
 up IN HIGH WIND
 ON WAY TO JUNEAU

Yesterdays high winds blew a log raft in Stephens Passage all most ten miles back along the course which it had travelled en- route from Eagle River to Juneau. The raft, containing about 250,000 board feet of timber, was being brought from the Reid Logging Go. camp at Eagle River to the Juneau Spruce Corporation sawmill by the barge Midas, belonging to J. V. Cole Of Juneau.
 High winds, at 1:30 D. m. yester- day, which reached 92 miles per hour at the Juneau airport, forced the Midas and its tow from Middle Point of Douglas Island back to Point Lena, where the raft broke up in the heavy seas. The log ratt was approximately 500 feet long.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
HIGH WIND RECORD
 E SET FOR JUNEAU

The high winds on New Years Day set a new record for January maximum wind velocity.
 The recording instruments at the Juneau Airport station of the U. s. Weather Bureau showed a maxi mum wind of 43 miles per hour from the southeast for a five minute period at l:30 pm. The highest maximum wind velocity ever re- corded in Juneau was in February, 1923. with velocity of 50 miles per hour from the east.
 The extreme velocity for a mile of wind yesterday was 57 miles per hour
 The extreme velocity is the velocity of a mile of wind in the shortest time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
Third Mate, Wrecked Ship, Is in SeaHIe; Also Emmett BoieIho

SEATTLE, Jan. 2.-R-The third mate of the Army transport Clarks- dale Victory which sank off the coast of northern British Columbia ln November, arrived in Seattle to- day on the steamship Alaska. Clair Driscoll, the last of four survivors to reach Seattle, was taken from the ship by stretcher to the Marine Hos pital. Theer he will be treated for pital. There he will be treated for so-called immersion foot" caused water at the time of the wreck which took 49 lives.
 Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is continuing it's investigation of the tragedy. Driscoll will be asked to testify, but probably not for several weeks, the Coast Guard said The three other survivors already have been questioned.
 The steamship Alaska brought an- other person of note to Seattle to- day. He is Emmett Botelho. the chief of the Alaska Highway Patrol Office at Juneau and this is his first venture south of Ketchikan in 46 years.
 Botelho, with U. s. Deputy Mar shal Sidney Thompson, brought five Federal prisoners from Juneau. He plans to return to Juneau next week, but says he may visit Seattle again in another 20 or 30 years if he enjoys this visit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
PANAMA CANAL
 INVESTIGATION
 I5 NOW SLATED
By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST

WASHINGTON, Jan. ?. - LR - Chairman Thomas tR.-N. JD an- nounced today that the House Con- mittee on American Activities will make an on the spot investi- gation late this month of Com munist infiltration" in the Panama Canal Zone.
 The Panama inquiry will be part of a five-opint program the com mittee has outlined for immediate consideration. This includes a re- sumption of the investigation of Communist influences in Hollywood and hearings on attempts to steal atom bomb information, to indoc- trination of negro groups with Com munism and the spread of fascism.
 Thomas said he will conduct the Panama investigation, assisted by Robert E. Stripling Chief Investi- gator. Whether o t h er committee members will accompany them to Panama has not been decided
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
POLICE COURT NEWS

City Magistrate William A. Holz- heimer disposed of five cases this morning Fred Kirkpatrick, booked as being drunk and disorderly, was given a 30-day suspended jail sen- tence providing that arrangements are made for him to leave the city
 H. o. Jackson pleaded not guilty to a similar charge and will be tried tomorrow
 Four others, booked as drunk, were fined $25 each. They were: Gus Rosenberg, Frank Paul, Rae Scott and Paul Smith.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02

rights involved in the case which was placed by Attorney Howard D. Stabler.
 Seth D. Mills filed against Phyllis C. Mills on grounds of assertion. They were married in Seattle on June 4, 1945, and have one child which he is willing to leave in the custody of the mother. No prop erty rights are involved The suit was placed by Attorney Joseph A. Mclean.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
STAMM RETURNS FROM
 FIRE SCENE; MANAGER
 HAWKINS IS THERE NOW

Richard Stamm, purchasing agent for Juneau Spruce, returned yesterday from the lumber camp at Edna Bay, where he has been investigating the recent fire there.
 He said that as yet the cause and exact damage have not been determined, but that with the ex- ception of a loss of between S6,000 and S1O,000 in commissary sup plies, all damage is covered by in- surance.
 [. s. Hawkins, manager and vice.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
Two New Writer
 Announters Join
 AAA Broadeasiinq

SEATTLE, Jan. 2-tR-Joe Klaas, University of Washington gradu- ate and war veteran, who has won two major campus prizes for play writing, has joined the Alaska Broadcasting Company as a writer announcer, his mother says.
 Accompanying Klaas is his wife, the former Betty Jane Stanley, campus actress, who also will be employed by the broadcasting con- cern as a writer announcer. They will work in Anchorage
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
Alaska Pioneer
 Dies in Seattle

SEATTLE, Jan. 2.-tR-Otis E. Rank of Cashmere, Wash, retired apple orch2rdist and pioneer of the Alaska gold rush, died here yes terday at the age of 79.
 Rank joined the gold rush to Alaska in 1896 and established a store in Fairbanks. In 1909 he moved to Cashmere, where he owned a store and apple orchard.
 Survivors include his widow, two sons and a brother Funeral services will be here tomorrow
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
BARGE RUNS INTO
 TROUBLE, AUX BAY

High winds at Aux Bay yesterday prevented a power barge from get ting into an anchorage, and radio transmissions Gin the middle of the Rose Bowl game) were relayed from the Wachusett to Sentinel Island
 The station there gave instruc- tions to the Leota, believed to be a fishing boat, which was sent to in vestigate the trouble. The Leota stood by until the barge was able to maneuver into Aux Bay and tie up.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
VFW TO CONDUCT INITIATION AND
 ELECTION TONIGHT

Two vacant offices in Taku Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will be filled at an election tonight during the Posts regular meeting at the Jeep Club The positions of chap lain and trustee were vacated at the last meeting
 Several applications for member ship will receive action and the can didates will be initiated at tonight'f meeting.
 Following the business meeting the VFW will hold it's regular stag and card party Refreshments will be served.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
WOMEN OF MOOSE
 TO MEET SATURDAY

There will be a regular meeting of the members Of the Women of the Moose, No. 439, Saturday night 1t o'clock in the old Moose Club rooms. There will be short busi- ness meeting, then the movies of the Canadian Rockies will be shown.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
TWO DIVORCE SUITS
 FILED HERE TODAY

Two divorce actions were filed in U. s. District Court here today.
 Nellie J. Kominsky filed against Stanley Kominskv on grounds of non-support and incompability. They were married at Vancouver, B. C., on August p, 1885, and have no children. There are no property
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
SPECIAL TREAT AT TEEN
 AGE CLUB ON TONIGHT

There will be a special treat for the members of the Teen Age Club tonight at 9:30 o'clock when Jack OConnor of the Fish and
 Wildlife Service will show some new movies of bird and animal life. They're in color and especially fine, so all the members are urged to remember that tonight's the night they will be presented,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02

president Of Juneau Spruce. was due to arrive at the camp yester- day with insurance adjustors from the Alcoa Mining Company, which owns the buildings which were des- troyed by the fire
 Hawkins has been vacationing i'll the States with his family, and is expected back in Juneau around the first of the week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
Trur1an's Personal
 Physician involved
 In Stock Trading

WASHING TON, Jan. 2.-lR-Sen- ators inquiring into commodity trading want to know exactly what arrangement President Truman's personal physician had with his brok- CTS, Senator Knowland R.-Calif) said today.
 On behalf of the committee, Knowland continued, he has asked the firm what arrangement they had with Brig Gen Wallace Gra- ham, who has said he did not know that he was the holder of 50,000 bushels of wheat last September.
 The seven nations in the Arab League have an area nearly l50 times the size of Palestine
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02

"-l4: m.
 which the North America is filling southwad along the west side moved Southeast still all but this Pacific south Temperatures
 
 normal Skies the interior slightly normal Strong winds wealth ea the Westc of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL TO BE RECOMMENDED
 FOR THIS VICINITY

To help relieve city taxpayers of some of the burden for support ing local schools, Dr. James c Ryan, Territorial Commissioner of Educa- tion, will appear before the Juneau City Council at it's regular meeting tonight to explain the advantages of forming an independent school district in this area.
 Dr. Ryan will explain the various workings of such a move if it is taken. The meeting will begin at 8 D. m. in the Council Chambers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
AMELIA A. GuNDER5EN
 FILES, REPRESENTATIVE

Mrs. Amelia A. Gundersen, of Ketchikan today filed for Repre- sentative on the Democratic ticket subject to the April Primaries She is a Ketchikan resident.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
HOME GETS HUSBAND

TOKYO-+R-A Japanese girl un- lucky enough to be homely can get herself a man these days-if she is lucky enough to have home that wasn't bombed out in the war.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
NO EXCHANGES TOMORROW

NEW YORK, Jan. 3. - R-The New York Stock Exchange announc- ed today trading would be suspended tomorrow, January 3, because of storm conditions,
 The New York Curb Exchange announced a similar suspension im- mediately following news of the stock market action.
 Because of the severe weather conditions affecting large part of the country" an announcement by the stock exchange said, the Board of Governors has determined that the exchange will not be open to- morrow
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 37s, American Can 79, Anaconda 34ls, Curtiss- Wright As International Harvester 89l4, Ken necott 49, New York Central 15ss Northern Pacific 213s, U. s. Steel IT'S, Pound S403i4
 Sales today were 100000 shares.
 Averages today are as follows In- dustrials, 1810l; rails, 5395 utili- ties, 33.53.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
TIME FOR A BATH

BASEL. Switzerland-R-A ban on tathing has been lifted here be- cause recent rains replenished city water supplies
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN
. M. today

MARINE PERIOD ENDING SATURDAY EVE Yakuatsouthey south Outside waters Dixon Entrance 25 miles Aasksouthey winds Is to 25 20 miles tonight Variable
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02

FROM SEATTLE J. T. Yoland. William A. Fouken and Lynn E. Sawyer of Seattle are registered at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02
DOSKELAND RITES ARE
 HELD THIS AFTERNOON

Funeral services for Nels Doske- land, who passed away in St. Ann's Hospital on December "A, were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Charles w Carter Chapel. The Rev. c. Herbert Hillerman conduGed the service and interment was in the Evergreen Cemetery.
 MT. Doskeland was a seaman on the GrCmmet Reefer, Alaska Trans pcrtation ship and was injured at Pelican City in November.
 It is estimated that rats do an average of $63,0OO0OO damage on US. farms every year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-02

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WEATHER BUREAU
 JUNEAU, ALASKA
 WEATHER BULLETIN ENDED MERIDIAN TIME
The Nome nugget., 1948-10-04
U. s. Asks Big Four Talks Be Resumed
(By Arthur Gavshon)

PARIS, (P)-United States, Bri- tiSh and French foreign ministers met today 10 discuss Americas call for resumption of big four talks on Berlin and Germany. They met while the United Nations security council was opening debate on the Berlin crisis.
 U. s. secretary of state Marshall, Britain's Ernest Bevin and their top advisers on German affairs, met with French foreign minister Robert Schuman in Schuman's of flee, a French spokesman reported. They had before them fully translated texts of Russian note, received in the early hours of this morning, which replied to their notice to the Kremlin last week that they considered direct east west negotiations for a Berlin set clement a failure.
The Nome nugget., 1948-10-04
Russia Proposes Int'I Atomic
 Energy Control

PARIS, (ED - Russia formally proposed Saturday a simultaneous ban on the atom bomb and forma- ton Of an international atomic er- ergy control organization.
 In concession to the western powers, Soviet deputy foreign min ister Andrei Y. Vishinski proposed that the U. N atomic energy com mission and the security council draft two conventions prohibiting a omic weapons and setting up control over atomic energy, to be signed and put into force at the same time.
 The Russians previously had de- manded that the atomic bomb be banned before the control body was formed.
 Warren R. Austin, United States delegate told reporters short time later the Russian resolution was an Oriental maneuver of the type with which we are familiar '
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The Nome nugget., 1948-10-04
Russia Says It's H. legal For Council To Act On Berlin

PARIS, (P) - Russia told the United Nations security council to- day it has no right to consider western charges that the Soviet blockade of Berlin is a menace to world peace.
 Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky led off his fight to keep the Berlin issue out of the councils hands. He declared the western demand for U. N. con- sideration of the dispute was de- void of legality, as it does not fall within the scope of the secur- ity council"
 The issue, he said, should be sent
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The Nome nugget., 1948-10-04
Louis Stringer Finds Pitchblende Near Nome

The finding of a deposit of S,ra- tegic pitchblende in the area adja- cent to Nome by Louis C. Stringer veteran Alaska prospector recent yl, will possibly accelerate the de- velopment of the Second Division. The information was made known here by MT. Stringer yesterday be- fore his departure for the States via Fairbanks and Juneau.
 MT. Stringer stated that the grade of the energy bearing mate rial was given the highest geiger count of any such ores yet discov- cred and tested by the govern ment.
 Also of interest to old-timers in the area, said MT. Stringer, is the activity planned for the coming mining season of 1949 will be the opening of the coal deposits near Cape Lisbourne some 380 miles north of Nome. My company, stat ed MT. Stringer, has made ar engagements to mine claims ex- tending through 12 million tons of high grade anthracite coal, with the possibility of obtaining posses sion of the entire known deposit of more than 19 billion tons of coal in the area.
 The marketing of the coal has already been planned, stated MT. Stringer, in that the operation could be made to the Orient at a very reasonable rate, and that the supply will never exceed the de- mand.
The Nome nugget., 1948-10-04
Marshall Advocates Freedom Of Press

WASHINGTON, (P Secretary of State Marshall contended Satur- day in newspaper week state ment that we must see "that the barriers to the flow of information are reduced and as far as possible eliminated"
 It is essential to the world peace we seek, Marshall counseled.
 Striking at censorship and press control, the secretary declared that Americans should keep con- stantly in mind that no people have lost their liberties so long as their press remains free"
 He described freedom of the people to know the truth" as fun damental.
The Nome nugget., 1948-10-04
Many Hear Carl LOrnen Talk On Reindeer Industry

In the crowded Service Club at Marks Air Base Sunday night, Carl J. Lomen gave an interesting resume of the reindeer industry rom it's inception in Alaska to the present day and also gave advice as to the possible future of the in- dustry.
 MT. Lomen told of the govern ment project to furnish the Alaska native with meat and clothing through the planting of reindeer in Northwestern Alaska before the turn of the century.
 He explained that the first ex-
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