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The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-04-15
WRANGELL SEAPLANE BASE
 LISTED NECESSARY BY CAA

WASHINGTON = CAA today listed 33 locations in Alaska where it said airports should be con- structed or improved on a basis of existing and anticipated de- mands for air service. Listings con- tained the 1949 National Airport Program and the CAA annual re- port. The plan does not represent allocation of funds. Included were the Kodiak airport and the Wran- gell seaplane base.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-04-15
DEvENNY HOME

Ralph Devenny, Jr., son of MT. and Mrs. Ralph Devenny of Wran- gell, arrvied home from Seattle. Monday where he has been attend ing school He was accompanied by Jack Grover a school friend from Seattle.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-04-15
ARRIVES HOME .

Mrs. Robert Seimears, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Al Ritchie of Wrangell, arrived home last Sun day from Seattle by plane. MT Seimears, who is employed by the Harvest Wrangell Company will arrive on company boat in an- other month.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-04-15
BOB CORES HOME

MT. and Mrs. Robert Gore re- turned to Wrangell Monday after spending the winter in Sunnyside, Washington. They arrived in Ketchikan aboard the s. s. Alaska and then flew to Wrangell. MT. Gore is a machinist at the Far west Wrangell cannery here.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-04-15
BARANoF SOUTH

Mrs. Monte Opsata was the only passenger out of Wrangell for Seat tie on the Baranof early last Tues day morning.
 Passengers for Ketchikan were Captain Esther Wilson, Alice Anna tor,C M Marler, Helen Davis and MT. and Mrs. Ronald Carlstrom.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-04-15
APPRAISER HERE

Garret Sissons, of the General Appraisal Company of Seattle, ar rived in Wrangell Wednesday 70 make an appraisal of the local sawmill. He expects to be here week or ten days.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-04-15
$1O0.O0 REWARD

For information leading to ar- rest of person or persons who ransacked and stole various items from Gut Island gun club on Stikine Flats.
 ALSO $100.00 REWARD For information leading to ar- rest of person or persons who, in the future. break into above said house.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-04-15

JOIN THE RED CROSS = Nowl
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-04-15

of that community that they are sending delegation down to pre- sent arguments to the board to- day. The argument generally is that Anchorage and Palmer are
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Evening star., 1949-03-07
Funeral Tomorrow
For John H. Dawson

Funeral services will be held at
10:30 am. tomorrow for John H
Dawson, SO, a special representa-
tive for the Sun Life Insurance
Co. of America here for the last
% years. The services will be
held in the Hines Funeral Home
290l Fourteenth street NV
Burial will be in Arlington Gene
terry.
Mr.. Dawson died Saturday at
his home, 1440 Meridian place
NV.
Formerly with the United States
Shipping Board for eight years
in New Orleans, Mr.. Dawson came
here in 1927 to join the insurance
firm. His Offices were at 1OlO
Vermont avenue NV.
A native of Augusta, Ga, he was
the son of the late John H. Dav-
ison, who was head of the DAWSON
Fargo cotton firm there. He was
graduated from Lawrenceville Pre-
paratory School in New Jersey,
and later Joined British lumber
company in Manila, He served in
the Navy in World War I. Mr..
Dawson had been a member of the
Church of St. Stephen and the In
carnation, Sixteenth and Newton
streets NV.
Beside his widow, Mrs. Margaret
Tupper Dawson, he is survived by
a daughter, Miss Margaret Eliza
beth Dawson, of the Meridian
place address, and a sister, Mrs.
Harold v. Smith, of New York.
Evening star., 1949-03-07
Bus Diver Kills Himself
After Family Argument

A 24-year-old bus driver died
in Casualty Hospital early today
Of a bullet wound in the head
which police said was self-in-
fiicted.
The victim, father OF a 49,
month-old son. was William B.
Ford. 1872 Fourth street NV, a
driver for the Capital Transit Co.
His wife told police he fired the
bullet into his head after fam
lily argument.
DR.. Christopher j. Murphy, dep
utys coFcner, issued a certificate
of Suicide -
Mrs. Ford, who expects another
child in September, police said,
told Homicide Squad Detective
sergt: Waiter vogelsang she was
packing her bags as a "bluff"
threat to leave her husband, and
had her back turned when she
heard the shot.
She said he had been drinking
when he came home, and that
the argument followed. The
weapon was a foreign-ma auto
matte.
Mr. Ford, a former resident Of
Kokomo, Ind, attended high
school in Maryland Park and
married the former Rosemary De
Grasse more than two years ago.
Evening star., 1949-03-07
Spies
Continued From First Page,

relating to national defense. The
woman was accused of attempting
to turn over to the Russian typed
extracts of Government papers
she allegedly had taken from JUS
tice Department files.
More Arrests Hinted.
The New York Herald Tribune
reported today - without omclai
confrmation-that more suspects
In the alleged theft of United
States security documents are ex-
nected to be rounded up shortly,
The newspaper said additional
suspects might include "a fair
number of Government employees.
The Russian government Is ex-
pected to insist that GubitcheV
has diplomatic status and there
fore is immune from prosecution
In washington, the Justice Depart
ment said Soviet representatives
had told the engineer in an inter
view Saturday midnight that he II
protected fully by diplomatic I'M
munity.
The Soviet ambassador already
has called on the State Depart
ment in the case. Wilder Foote
director of the U. N. press section
has said the engineer does no
have immunity.
The FBI laboratory in Wash
ington had started examination o.
papers the FBI says were taker
from Miss Coplon's handbag a.
the time of her arrest.
Relatives of Miss Coplon. a ma
Evening star., 1949-03-07
boyd Mine Nomination
Again Fought by UNIV
BY the Associofed Press

John L. Lewis United Mine
Workers today renewed their pro-
tests over President Truman's
nomination of DR.. James Boyd as
director of the Bureau of Mines.
John Owens, secretary treas
urer of the miners union, told
the Senate Interior Affairs Com
mittee that DR.. Boyd lust doesn't
qualify" for the post.
"It is like employing watch
maker to repair steam shovel, !"
Mr.. Owens said.
Chairman O'Mahoney read
letter from Mr.. Truman in which
the President again urged quick
confirmation of DR.. Boyd. Mr..
Truman said otherwise it may be
hard to find a competent man
willing to accept the job.
Mr.. Truman named DR.. Boyd
head of the bureau two years ago,
but the Republican controlled
Senate in the 8oth Congress re-
fused to confirm him. Since
December 10, 1947, DR.. Boyd has
served in the job without pay.
Meantime, the 80th Congress
stipulated that the post must GO
to a man with coal mining" ex-
perience.
Mr.. Truman described Dr. Boyd
as "eminently qualified" for the
Job and said his appointment has
the universal approval of all in
the minerals industry who know
him."
Evening star., 1949-03-07
Red Leader. Charges 1:fiaJ.
Is Aimed at Bill of Rights

CLEVELAND. Mar. 7 (P.-The
chairman of. the Communist
Party in Ohio, sees in the trial OF
himself and II other top Amer
tcan Communists IAN attempt to
take away the Bill Of Rights from
1s0, 0,000, 900 people"
The chairman. Gus Hall. and
the other II go on trial in New
York today on Federal charges
of conspiracy to overthrow the
Government.
Addressing about 500 at a party
rally in Public Hall here yester-
day. Hall said his trial was sim
liar to the famous Dred Scott
case of SO years ago.
Hall described Federal Judge
Harold r. Medina, who is to hear
the case. as "a man who just sits
there disregarding facts" and
who "has Fascist ideas" He as
serted the jury was picked by
Wall Street. The press, he said.
was ready to cover up everything
so that the people will never know
what goes on there"
Evening star., 1949-03-07
By Thomas R. Henry
Stor Stoff Correspondent

ABOARD ICEBREAKER E r
EDISTO, Of East Greenland,
Mar. 6 Oelaye6 the Navy's
storm battling icebreaker floated
placidly across the Arctic Circle
tonight on this warm spring eve
ming, green-curtained with North
ern Lights and with the sea as
quiet as an inland pond.
I. It was a strange transition from
a few hours before when. in Arctic
cold and mountainous waves
whipped by gale from the great
reaches of icy water to the north
east, the ship was nearly standing
on her beam and amid artillery
like crashes of great ice blocks.
This is one of the first times in
history any ship has crossed the
Arctic Circle in midwinter in this
part of the world. The crossing
came at 80 degrees longitude.
Crossed Circle Month Ago.
On the same voyage the Edisto
had pushed over the circle along
the West Greenland coast a
month ago.
The passage out of the most
demoniac sort of winter. weather
to a balmy spring constitutes a
navigation epic. Two nights be-
fore the ship had been trapped
all night in a freezing hurricane
whose shoreward drift had car
ried the craft some 20 miles to-
ward the rocky Greenland coast.
Evening star., 1949-03-07
Burial at Arlington
Planned Wednesday
For Gen. Erickson, IS

Funeral services for Brig. Gen.
Hjalmar Erickson, IS, who was in
charge of the library of the Army
War College here before he re-
tired from the Army in 1882, will
be held at 10 am. Wednesday at
Fort Myer Chapel. Burial will be
in Arlington Cemetery.
Gen. Erickson died Wednesday
in Reno, New. where he had been
living since 1885 with a daughter,
Mrs. Hans Mumm, because of a
bronchial disorder. He was
gassed while serving in World
War I.
His widow. Mrs. Adriana Erick-
son, and a son, Hjalmar Erickson,
live at 1906 Dale drive, Silver
Spring.
Gen. Erickson was born in Nor
way and came to New York when
he was Is with his father. He
joined the 9th Cavalry when he
vas 10.
He served in Cuba during the
Spanish-American War and in
the Philippines Insurrection. AS
a captain in the 10Th Infantry
during the occupation of Vera
Cruz in 1914. he was provost judge
of the military court and tried
more than $500 cases. He had
recalled that his most interest
ing case was a Mexican woman
who was arrested by native po-
lice for practicing witchcraft.
Gen. Erickson sentenced her to
week in jail washing all the
prisoners clothes. When the ma
tives found her witchcraft was
unable to avert the sentence, she
no longer was feared.
Gen. Erickson commanded the
26th Infantry Regiment in World
War I and was also acting COM
mander Of the I'd Brigade. 1st
Division.
He held the Distinguished Serv-
ice Medal as well as Italian and
Belgian decorations.
Gen. Erickson was a graduate
of the Army War College. He was
an instructor there for three years
before he became head Of the
library in 1923.
Besides Mrs. Mumm. he is sur
vived by two other daughters, Mrs.
F. w. Scanland. San Diego; Mrs.
w. P. Horner, Alexandria, and
eight grandchildren.
Honorary pallbearers will be
Gen. Charles Summerall, Gen.
George c. Marshall, Maj. Gen.
Charles Kilbourne, Maj. Gen.
Upton Birnie, jr.; Brig. Gen. Barn
we'll Legge and Herbert Corey.
Evening star., 1949-03-07

tive of Brooklyn and an honor
graduate of Barnard College, have
claimed she is innocent. The JUS
tice Department said she came un-
der suspicion during a routine
Government loyalty check.
The Saturday midnight inter-
view with the Russian engineer
was conducted with members OF
the Russian Embassy staff in
Washington, Soviet representa-
tives on the United Nations, JUS
tice and State Department attor-
neys and an interpreter.
Yesterday afternoon. two men,
bers of the Russian U. N. delega-
ton staff were reported to have
been denied admittance to see
Gubitchev at the Federal House OF
Detention.
Evening star., 1949-03-07
Rites Set for H. J. MeIIett,
Brother Of CoIumnisf <
By the Assoeioted Press

INDIANAPOLIS, Mar. 7.-Hom-
er j. Mellett, 10. research direc-
tor for the Indianapolis News and
q member of well-known jour-
nalistic and literary family, died
at his home here Saturday night.
Mr.. Mellett came to the In
dianapoliS paper 40 years ago
after working on the Anderson
Bulletin and Marion Herald. He
was State editor of the News for
10 years. =.
One of his brothers is Lowell
Mellett, wartime director OF the
United States Information Serv-
ice. now a columnist for The
Washington Evening Star. An
other brother! John c. Mellett
has written many novels under
the pen name of Jonathan Brooks
A third brother. Don Mellett
one-time editor in Canton, Ohio
was slain in 1925 while conduct
ing a news campaign against vice
Funeral services for Mr.. Melett
will be held here today.
Evening star., 1949-03-07
.Fi|ibuster Fight Halls
As Senate Hoiors
.Broughton S Memory

The Senate today called halt
In its filibuster fight until noon
{ tomorrow as mark of respect to
/ Senator Broughton. Democrat, of
North Carolina, who died yester-
day. After brief period of eulo-
{ gies, the Senate recessed in his
memory.
Ordinarily the Senate would
have adjourned, but. because OF
the filibuster, that would have
changed the parliamentary situa-
ton materially.
If an adjournment had been
taken the effort to get up a new
rule for curbing debate in the
future would have suffered a set
back. Adjournment would have
made it necessary tomorrow to
approve the journal of proceed
ings during the past week before
debate could be resumed on the
motion to take up the new rule.
No Hope for Direct Vote.
The cloture debate will be re-
sumed tomorrow, but no test vote
is likely before Senators planning
to attend Senator Broughton's
funeral return Wednesday,
Senators johnson. Democrat, of
Texas and Mcclellan, Democrat,
of Arkansas are scheduled to
speak tomorrow.
With virtually no hope of get
ting a direct vote on the new rule
itself, administration forces hope
to accomplish the same result in
directly by giving Vice President
Barkley chance to give broad
er Interpretation to the old rule.
His new definition, if he gives
it. would be subject to appeal. in;
which case majority of the Sem
ate would decide the issue. Even
on such majority test of
strength, however. informal polls
indicate Republicans and South
ern Democrats would unite to re-
verse Mr.. Barkley on the ground
that the rules should not be
changed by having the presiding
officer re-def1ne them.
Tydings Predicts Failure.
The main purpose of the new
rule is to pave the way for the
Presidents civil rights program,
which always has been stymied
by a flibuster in the past. Re
gardless of how the current rules
fight ends, however, there is lit
tie chance of any of the civil
rights bills being taken up before
summer. No committee in either
branch of Congress has yet begun
to consider these bills, and the
House and Senate both will be
kept busy with major pieces of
foreign and domestic legislation
for the next two or three months.
Senator Tydings, Democrat, Of
Maryland, predicted yesterday
that efforts to change the Senate
two thirds cloture rule would fail,
and that, as a consequence. the
civil rights bills are not likely ever
to come to a vote.
Evening star., 1949-03-07
Higher Postal Rates
Urged by Donaldson
To Cut Down Deficit

Postmaster General Donaldson
today urged Congress to increase
sharply the mailing rates on mag
azines and newspapers and also
raise rates.on postal cards. special
delivery and parcel post.
Mr.. Donaldson said the proposed
rates, introduced by Chairman
Murray of the House Civil Service
Committee at the departments
request, would wipe out all but
s153,OO0, 900 of the estimated $404.-
100000 postal deficit for the 1850
fiscal year.
At the outset of the hearings
before the Civil Service group,
Mr.. Murray declared that the
postal rate increases should be
reasonable" but not drastic"
Some Glasses Unaffected.
The Post Office Department did
not recommend postal rate in
creases in first class, air mail or
money order rates.
The Post Office Departments
proposals call for a 2-cent postal
card instead of the present 1-cent
rate, a 10-cent per pound increase
for a special delivery mail, parcel
post rate boost of 4 to cents a
pound and increased insurance
rates.
In respect to publications the
department proposed increases OF
more than 100. per cent for pub
locations containing more than IS
per cent of advertising,
Extra Increases Sought.
In addition to a / to 2 cent a
pound increase, the department
would impose an additional Is per
cent increase for those publica-
tions having between rs and so
per cent advertising content, and
so per cent increase for those hav-
ing up to IS per cent advertising.
The department also proposed
that one year after the above
rates became effective. a second
step increase be made by increas-
ing these rates so per cent.
The departments proposals
were aimed primarily at the coun-
try's popular weekly and monthly
MAGAZINES with large circulations.
Deficit Cited.
Mr.. Donaldson told the commit
tee that the department incurred
a deficit of s207 100000 last year
in handling this second-class type
of mail. The witness declared
Evening star., 1949-03-07
Baby, Born in Dash to HospitoI,
To Make LeisureIy Trip Home

Back home at 5000 Shadyside
avenue Sc. today. Milton, rs, a
plumber, was awaiting word from
the family physician whether his
21-year-old wife and son can
come home today. The Tierneys
also have a daughter, 20 months
old.
Paul Tierney said I'VE passed
red lights, made wrong turns and
did everything but fly" during the
eight-mile race from his home at
5100 Alton street Sc.
II kept hoping we'd run into
some police so they could clear the
way" he added. But we didn't
see a one"
Evening star., 1949-03-07
Long Island Railroad
Cuts Employees Again
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Mar. IA large
number of incorporating en-
ployes of the Long Island Railroad
are being dropped in a curtail-
ment which the company says is
necessary to keep within its in
come.
A company statement said yes
terday that dropping the employees
is "the only alternative to the
immediate restriction of train
service"
The railroad said "a large num-
Der" of employees would be dropped,
but it did not reveal the number
Neither did it say whether they
will be considered discharged or
only temporarily paid off.
The announcement, made by
David E. Smucker, general man
ager of the road, came a day after
a union spokesman said the rail-
road would lay off 500 shop craft
employees in Queens by tomorrow.
The statement was made by Will
liam j. Mccarthy, president Of
Local 156, of the AFL Long Island
Railroad System Federation.
A $3,280, ,000-a-year increase in
communication fares became effec-
tive on the railroad yesterday, it
serves about 100000 riders a day.
The State Public Service Commits
sion granted increases of 20 to
1919 per cent.
Trustees to take over the rail-
road are scheduled to be appointed
by a Federal Court in Brooklyn
FRIDAY.
Evening star., 1949-03-07
Navy Ship Survives Gale to Find
'SprinQ' Above Arctic Circle

The Edisto was caught in heav-
ing, cracking ice all night and the
cobalt-blue ice blocks were heaved
against its sides with crashes like
big gun explosions. Progress. rela-
lively easy for the ship through
stationary ice, was virtually i'm
possible.
These conditions were among
the worst ever encountered at sea
and valuable lessons in Arctic
navigation were learned.
Snow Falls at Dawn.
A late dawn came with swirling
snow and a grey mist rising from
the billowing ice. In few hours,
despite bad visibility, the ship was
able to make her way to the safety
of the swift flowing east Green
land current. pouring south from
the vicinity of the North Pole.
There was no abating Of the high
winds which had packed the ice
mountain-high. During the night
the ship was battling rolls as great
as IS degrees.
Navigation toward the Pole in
winter up the East Coast Of
Greenland appears to be more diff
ficult even than along the West
Coast despite the far greater ex-
pense of open water on the East.
This is due to the extreme stormi-
ness and treachcrous nature Of
the ice which tends to concentrate
from 20 to 80 miles from the
Greenland shore.
The surface of the ice pack for
most of the morning looked like
an endless expanse CT frothey va
nilla ice cream topped with a
dash of cobalt blue while the open
sea was a gray-blue chaos of
deck washing waves.
Evening star., 1949-03-07

that some publishers have in
creased the prices of their publi-
cations by 200 per cent over the
price they charged before the war
While Mr.. Donaldson said he
did not doubt the justification of
these increases, he declared that
his department also faced greatly
increased operating expenses.
why should the Post Office
Department be required to sell its
services at rates and fees far be-
low the cost of the service and pass
this cost on to the taxpayers of
the Nation?" he asked.
why should not the users of
the mail pay for the service per-
formed by the Post Office Depart
ment?"
Evening star., 1949-03-07
Burmo Troops Reported
Fighting Rebels in Thai
BY the Assoeioted Press


<RANGOON, Burma, Mar. T.
Government troops were reported
battling Karen rebels today in
Thazi,, Burma's largest railroad
city. Thai is 800 miles north of
Rangoon.
Earlier reports said fighting had
passed Thai as loyal forces
pressed on to Meiktila, North Bur-
ma army headquarters occupied
by the rebels February 10.
The Karen tribesmen have been
battling the government in an at
tempt to set up their own indie
pendent state of Karenistan.
Evening star., 1949-03-07

A 9-pound-6-ou11ce boy born
yesterday in the back seat of a
car after a wild dash to Sibley
Hospital probably will make a
more leisurely journey today
back home in an ambulance.
The ride ended at 1920 am. just
as Paul Tierney, 81, pulled his
car up to the Sibley doors. In the
back seat were his brother Milton,
whose wife was being rushed to
the hospital.
Milton dashed into the hospital
"to try to rustic up some nurses" !"
One minute later. he said. Paul
dashed after him to announce the
baby had arrived.
Evening star., 1949-03-07
Dennis, Foster Call
For U. 5. Friendship
Treaty With Russia
By the Assoeioted Press


NEW YORK, Mar. 1.-Two tor
leaders of the American Com.
munist Party urged today that
the United States sign "a pact o1
friendship and peace with oul
great wartime ally, the Soviet
Union"
William z. Foster, Communist
National chairman, and Eugene
Dennis, general secvretary, made
the proposal in an open letter tt
President Truman in which they
linked themselves to Lincoln ano
Jefferson as advocates of peace.
The two Communists said theil
letter was a reply to 1.-The Presi-
dents reference to their state.
ment of March 2 as that OF
traitors
Assail Atlantic Pact.
"Is advocacy of peace treason?'
the letter asked.
Foster and Dennis assailed what
they called "an aggressive North
Atlantic Pact-a reSurrected anti
Communist Axis" and urged a
pact between the United States
and Russia as a way to peace and
sucurity for America and the
World"
Ion our part. we communists
will defend in the future as lr
the past the highest interests OF
our country" they said. 1--WE will
defend in the future as in the past
our people from all enemies. with
in and without"
The letter said neither the
American people nor the Soviet
Union is responsible for the pres
ent world pension. Responsibility
rests squarely on Wall Street and
its bipartisan puppets
Took Exception to Statement.
President Truman last week
took exception to a statement by
Foster and Dennis calling on
American Communists to coop
crate with all democratic forces tc
defeat the predatory war aims OF
American imperialists" in the
event "Wall Street" provoked war
When asked for comment Mr.
Truman said: II have no CON-
ment on statement made by
traitors"
Foster and Dennis are under
Federal charges of conspiracy to
advocate forcible overthrow OF the
Government. Dennis is on trial
with 10 other Communist leaders
but trial of Foster was separated
because of his poor health.
Evening star., 1949-03-07
Belgian Reds Approve
'Russjo-Fjrst' Stand

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Mar. 7
(P.-Belgian Communists have
joined the parade of Communist
groups in various countries to
come out for Russia first"
The Central Committee OF the
Belgian Communist Party, meet
ing over the week end, approved
resolution to the effect that:
"The Communists would refuse
to cooperate in an aggressive war
against Russia in which Belgium
would be forced by the American
Imperialism servants governing
thie country "-t-.., = Ia