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Evening star., 1950-10-24

SHEET METAL MEN, several to take
charge of heating and roofing dept;
good wages and opportunity to buy
in good business. Call ewes. for
appt. OV. 1861. "a
SHOEMAKER, all-around man; good
pay, good hours. 922 18th st. NV.
Evening star., 1950-10-24
TYPIST

In collection department; competent
typist; experience not necessary:
good hours; disqualification and life
insurance furnished. Call ST. 1900
for appointment. -26
TYPISTS twhite), starting annual
salary S1,920 (S3692 wkly): excel.
opportunity to advance; permanent:
nice surroundings; liberal vacation
and sick leave: age Is to 35; per-
sonal interviews. q am. to $3.50 2. m.
(closed Saturday,: Personnel Once,
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.
ord and r stS. ne. Do not phone.
Evening star., 1950-10-24
LEDGER CLERK
MILLINERY
SAI,EST, AIDES

Unusual opportunity for persons exp.
in popular priced millinery. good
salary, pleasant working conditions:
steady and part time. Apply Mrs.
Pouris. MORTONS, 312 7th ST.
NV, millinery dept, End floor. "a
NURSE, white, undergraduate; age
23-40; live in. CO. 4754. -29
NURSE, graduate. for position of re-
sponsibility in internists otfics;
knowledge Of shorthand and typins
necessary EIJ 636D ga
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
MOTHER, WIFE OF MISSING PLANE
 VICTIM, TALK

ALEXANDRIA. Minn.. Jan. 30- R-The mother of Major Gerald F Britain. pilot of the C-54 missing in the snowy wastes of the north said last night these moments o1 waiting are torture"
 All I can do is pray" said Mrs Linda Schlichting. Major Brittain'' mother. Mrs. Schlichting said hei second husband, Alvin. operates g resort on Lake Andrews near Ale xandria, Minn.
 She commented it seemed strange her son had had mishap. My sor flew the Atlantic GA times during the war without one" she said. Mrs Schlichting said the Majors wife Mario, whom he met and married in Belgium, had been in touch witf her.
 She called me from Fl Paso or the chance that might have hearc something"
 Mrs. Schlichting said Mrs. Brit. tain is expecting her first baby 1T March.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
TRAINED RESCUE
 PARTIES ARE OFF
 FOR PLANE SEARCH

DENVER, Jan. 30-lR-Two more planes left Lowry Air Base near Denver yesterday to join the Arctic search for a missing Air Force transport in the Yukon.
 A C-82 cargo plane. carrying a helicopter, got away with crew oi five, two extra pilots. and three extra mechanics. It's the second helicopter bearing cargo plane to head north from Lowry for Great Falls, Mont, in as many days.
 A special search aircraft, the new Grumman SA-16, carrying a crew of four, two extra pilots. three extra mechanics and three para doctors also made the run.
 The doctors, trained to jump from high attitudes in rescue missions were Capt. Rufus Hessberg of Al bany, NY, and lst It's, Donald C Humphries, home address unavail- able and Neville Stiles. Corpus Christi. Tex.
 Two other planes, scheduled tt make the flight. are being held ul for repairs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
Scores Of Planes Search for Missing Graft
MORE MEN OUT IN GOAL STRIKE;
 TICKETS BUSY

PITTSBURGH, JAh. 30 LR - Bands of rowing pickets helped swell the number of striking coal miners to 89,575 today as the mo contract no work" strike surged into it's fourth week.
 Last week about 88,000 of the na- tion's 100000 soft coal diggers re- fused to work until they get a con- tract. The number of idle grew despite White House hint that increased coal production could stave off Presidential intervention.
 The strike doubled the number of stay-at- home miners in West Vir- ginia. That state, biggest coal pro- ducer, counted 10000 out of the pits out of 10000.
 In Pennsylvania, the number two coal state, 51 300 out of 100000 soft coal miners are refusing to work. The state department of relief re- ported relief applications are mount ing swiftly in coal producing coun- ties.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
TRAIN ROLLS DOWN
 HILL; LOCOMOTIVE
 G0ES p0WERLES5

SPOKANE, Wash, Jan. 30-lR- A tranScontinental train carrying more than 200 passengers car eened backward down a three-mile long hill last night dragging a powerless engine.
 None of the passengers aboard the Milwaukee Railroads Hiawatha streamliner was hurt.
 Engineer Edward Maxwell, 67, of Spokane and fireman Dick Liberty, 30, were slightly overcome by smoke and gas fumes.
 The electric engine of the East bound streamliner caught fire early last night. Maxwell smelled smoke and brought the train to a stop as it toiled up a grade near Kit titas in central Washington.
 Crew members fought the fire for two hours with liquid extin- guishers and snow. Edwards said the train started it's slide back down the hill when the brakes failed. He estimated its speed at Is miles an hour or more.
 Passengers and crew members were quiet and orderly as the train rolled through the darkness with its own lights cut off when the power failed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
ALUMINIUM PLAN IS
 INDICATED

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 30- R--Skagway and Dyea, couple of towns which haven't figured much in the news since Klondike gold rush days, may hit the headlines soon in a new rush-for aluminium.
 The Aluminium Corporation of America (Alcoa) has purchased land there in connection with a gigantic development which could lead to a $7O,000,000 investment and creation of city of 50,000.
 Ralph Browne of the Alaska De- velopment Board disclosed today the corporation has taken up op- tions on substantial acreage at Dyea, where it is proposed to erect an aluminium plant, and at Skag- way for offices and administrative structures.
 He said the land was purchased this winter after the company'S geologists completed studies of the mountains between Skagway and Lake Bennett.
 A mammoth hydroelectric power development, with tunnels through the mountains, would be the back bone for industrial development, Browne added.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
DUCK POSSESSION
 WANTED RAISED AS
 HEARINGS WIND UP

Completion of public hearings on game seasons in Southeast Alaska has been completed with return to Juneau of Dan Ralston, acting head of the Fish and Wildlife Ser vice, who spent the past week in Ketchikan and Wrangell hearing suggestions and recommendations from sportsmen and trappers of those areas.
 Recommendations, after being compiled and evaluated, will be pre- sented to the meeting in Anchorage February 13 of the Alaska Game Commission, which sets the com- ing years rules in regard to wild- life
 Big turnouts showed up before each communitys hearings, Ral- ston said. Both towns asked the possession limit on ducks and geese be raised, Ketchikan wanting 50 duck and 20 geese, while Wrangell asked for Is ducks and geese. Practically all towns in the area have asked that this limit be rais- ed, although the limit varies.
 Present rossesory limit of ducks is 10, considered too few by many sportsmen because of costs involv- ed in going after the migratory birds.
 Deer Season Change
 Both towns asked that the deer season be changed. Ketchikan's suggestions followed that of the Territorial Sportsmen. Inc, group here, for September l to November IS, setting it back eight days. Wran- gell wanted the season from Sep tember 20 to November 20.
 Both groups asked for uniform dates on game, to get away from pressure applied on certain areas by the present staggering of open ings and closings.
 Both asked that mink trapping pc clOSeQ next year, ana heIcIii- lan suggested that when opened, cnly 30 mink per trapper be allow ed, and that all be tagged.
 Marten were asked by Ketchikan to be opened from December 15 January 3l, but only after many arguments, and the motion barely carried, Ralston said. The large minority opposed such long sea- son.
 Ten days more was asked by Wrangell for brown and black bear from September to June 30. Wrangell asked that two of its neighboring lakes, Pats and Vir- ginia, be restocked, because of their being practically fished out. Cut throats were in the lakes but Wrangell residents weren't particu- lar as to what's put back ir Ral- ston said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
"AIR5KIp" BARAN0F RE5CUE5 WRANGELL; NOW THEY CAN DIG
Wrangell's got the air.

VipiloSii D 5oO oAAS "AA'
 Not only has the little fishing community south of here got the air, but she got it from the Bur eau of Public Roads, the Coast Guard, the Secretary of Alaska, and the Alaska Steamship Con- pany, no less.
 This somewhat overwhelming ar ray of titles is accounted for by the fact that a week or so ago Wrangell dried up because of freezing wea- ther.
 That was taken care of, so far as fire protection was concerned, by two saltwater pumps being hurriedly deposited on her arid Front Street by SS "Gunga Din Denali, who got them from the Army, who Secretary of Alaska Lew Williams arranged with to let them go.
 Next they wanted to get at a broken and frozen water main, but couldn't do it with pick and shovel They had large air jack, but nothing to make it kick. So they appealed once more to Will Hams, who once more got busy.
 He appealed to Coast Guard It. Comdr. Edward P. Chester, Jr., military aide to the Governor, who after looking for air all over the place, finally located an air com- pressor belonging to the Bureau of Public Roads.
 The Bureau loaned it to the Ter ritory, which in turn lay in wait for the southbound Baranof, which put it on board and dropped it this morning at the gasping town.
 Wrangell hopes they'll be able to clear up their situation soon with the equipment. A city truck daily makes the rounds with fresh water, and residents rush out with buckets, cans and whatever else will hold water to collect their ra- tion for the day. The truck gets water from one lone tap operat- ing in one end of town.
 The trouble started by the freeze catching the community without an insulating blanket of snow, and the fact a main cracked, draining what little water they had stored in their reservoir. The cracked main is what the air compressor will make a concentrated "Taku" to 70 after.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
GOLD BLAST
 IN PORTIONS
 OF NATION
(By Associated Press)

Most of the western half of the nation was locked in frigid blast today while eastern states had comparatively mild weather.
 The mercury skidded far below zero at many points from the up- per Mississippi valley westward to northeastern oregon and eastern Washington, and was well below normal as far south as northsrn Texas.
 At Bemidji Minn., the temper ature plummeted to 50 degrees be- low zero as the center of the cold wave lowered over the Dakotas and Minnesota. At Moose Lake, Minn., it was only two degrees warmer at AS.
 Chicago, with a low of above, was near the eastern edge of the cold air mass.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30

The mayor of Klawok, Frank Peratrovich, has asked Coast Guard aid in freeing the KlaWok harbor of ice.
 The cutter Citrus will be sent to the town tomorrow to the job.
 In a message to the Coast Guard. Peratrovich said the bay and chan mel at Klawok has been partially frozen for several days.
 "An emergeny exists" the mess age said. Must free boats to secure fuel and mail boat service"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
ASSAYER WOULD
 LIKE TO SEE USEFUL
 ORES SOUGHT HERB

Arthur E. Glover, for 10 years assayer in the Fairbanks district for the Territorial Bureau of Mines, would like to see prospectors get their minds off gold. and get the lure of finding metals in Alaska which could be processed and used in the Territory.
 Glover was in the city over the weekend with his wife enroute to take up the post of assayer in Ket- chikan, taking the place of Nils Johannson, leaving the department by retirement under last years re- tirement act.
 of course" he said. there aren't the prospectors there were some years ago. Economics has changed all that. Today we consider even a hunter who picks up rocks on his way through the wilderness and brings them in to us for assay as a prospector. But that's the way metals are found, many times"
 He would like to see pumice and cement looked for-materials which could be refined and used by Alas kans themselves. He feels the ores are in the ground, but must of course be searched out.
 He said he doesn't know much about the Ketchikan area, but hopes to collect specimens for his office there for the public to view, and to encourage men to go out and search for useful ores. His work in Fairbanks has been concentrated on assaying and judging finds in the Pedro and Estro Domes, the lode areas from which the huge placer beds there are derived.
 New placer fields are hard to find, he pointed out, because of no surface indications. On the Kenai Peninsula are many stream beds covered by soil which would yield rich returns, but finding them is too much of a hit-and-misS propo- sition, he said.
 He hopes to get interest up in radioactive substances, and said:
 Anything might be radioactive there's really no outward indica- ton, yet such a discovery would mean much to not only the finder but to the nation"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Jan 30@R-Closlng quotation of Alaska Juneau mlne stock today is SIS, American Can 116A, Anaconda 30, Curtiss- Wright 8A, International Harvester 2712, Kennecott 55, New York Central 127s, Northern Pacific 14A, US. Steel 28ss, Pound S2.80.
 Sales today were l.640,000 shares.
 Averages today are as follows: ln- dustrials POI .69, rails 55.54, utilities 42.17.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
TWO NATION SEARCH

WHITEHORSE, VT. Jan. 30-lR More men and mechanics were poured today into the search for a missing US. Air Force Transport and it's A occupants.
 Pace of the two-nation hunt, al- ready ranking as the largest in the history of the frozen north, was stepped up as 1t entered it's fourth day with reports of sub-zero tenn peratures bringing new fears for the survival of ary of the planes occupants.
 Temperatures at Snag. a tiny weather station 20 miles inside the Yukon Territory from Alaska over which the huge transport made it's last contact with the outside, were 10 below zero last night. Even colder readings were in prospect before morning.
 Last Position The big. four-engine C-54 radioed it's position from Snag last Thurs day afternoon. about two hours after leaving Anchorage, Alaska, on l nonstop flight to Great Falls. Mont.
 Aboard were 34 servicemen re- turning on furlough or for reassign- ment, an expectant mother and her two-year -old son, and eight crew members.
 Operation Mike" The search has been dubbed "Op- eration Mike" name taken from the missing planes commander. lst It. Kyle E. McMichael, 28, whose wife lives in San Antonio, Texas. As the long Arctic night called a temporary halt to- the gigantic aerial search armada last night, of- ficials anxiously awaited word from a ground party sent to investigate lone clue to the planes where abouts.
 Forest Rangers Clue It came from forest ranger in an almost inaccessible spot approx imately 40 miles to the southwest. The ranger said he saw a large plane overhead late Thursday, then heard an earth-shaking thud. an
 explosion ard saw billowing clouds | )f smoke.
 Highly Probable" Air Commodore Martin Costello of the Rckil Canadian Air Force, | search coordinator here. described
 Continued on Page Two)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
PROPERTY TAX INJUNCTION IS GRAINED
Collections Outside Cities Held Up Pending Suii-
 law Claimed Faulty

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 30-tR District Judge Harry E. Pratt issued a temporary injunction Saturday restraining further col lections under the new Territorial Property Tax Law.
 He acted in test suit brought by Luther Hess of Fairbanks and the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Go.
 His action technically restraints the Tax Commissioner from collect ing taxes from the plaintiffs, but its indirect effect is expected to place in abeyance general collections under the new law pending out come of a suit for permanent in- junction outlawing the statute.
 The Judge set bonds for the two plaintiffs at S1,0O0 each to cover possible government loss of $1,236 tax payment and costs of the suit pending it's outcome.
 The suit was filed jointly Dec. 6 1949, by attorneys H. L. Faulkner Juneau; Charles J. Clasby, Fair banks and Edward S. Medley, Se- attle, in behalf of the two plain tiffS.
 Law Faulty
 They ask the court to void the Territorial Property Tax Law or the basis of 15 points charging the law is faulty and inconsistent witf U. s. statutes and the Alaska Or ganic Act.
 Faulkner opened the motion fol the temporary injunction with tht allegation that the law is invalie and only an injunction would savt the plaintiff irreparable injury. Ht said that no adequate statute ex, ists providing recovery of taxes illegally collected, other than dis cretionary power of the court. He further said that in the event oi successful tax recovery, the stat utes fail to provide proportionatt interest on the recovered amounts
 Recovery Difficult
 Faulkner also said recovery oi taxes illegally collected would be exceedingly difficult in view of the Territory's current insolvency.
 Atty. Gen. Gerald Williams claim ed possible .invalidity of the ta, act was not sufficient ground fol a temporary injunction. He denied the "irreparable injury" charge ane said Territorial law adequately pro vides for payment of taxes collected under protest.
 Williams also denied insolvency of the Territory, saying the temper ary lack of fluid funds is not the same as insolvency.
 Complaints against the new law charge it lacks uniformity in as- sessment and evaluation, that tax payers living outside municipalities under the act must indirectly share municipal tax burdens from which they fail to benefit, and that the law is vague and self -contradic- tory"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
JOHNSON OF KAKE FILES FOR
 REELECTION ON COP TICKET

Frank G. Johnson of Rake filed today with the clerk of the dis trict court for reelection to his seat in the Territorial House of Repre- sentatives on the Republican ticket.
 His filing brings to five the number of his party who have filed for the primaries, to be held April 25. Eleven Democrats are on the opposing team so far.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
JACK MUT(H pA5SES
 AWAY AT HERMIST0N

John w. (Jack) Mutch passed away Sunday at Hermiston, Oregon, acording to a brief radiogram from Mrs. Mutch and received by Secre- tary Biggs of the local lodge of ElkS.
 Mutch was born Feb. l, 1883, m Stromness, Scotland. While in Ju- neau he was master plumber TOT the Oscar Harri Shop. The Mutch family left Juneau about two years ago for the states. He was mem- Der of the Juneau Ei'Ss since l939.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
FRIGID AREA SCANNED BUT
 NOT A TRACE
Greatest Hunt Ever Made in Yukon Territory for
 Plane : A Aboard

GREAT FALLS, Jan. 30-- R = Lack of sufficient heaters to pre- pare winter bound search craft for takeoff today hampered Great Falls Air Force Base efforts to get ad- ditional planes into the Yukon search for a missing C-54 and it's IA occupants.
 Despite this handicap-in sub zero temperatures that freeze a mechanics hand to metal if touch- ed without glove-five search planes left the base before noon to join other USAF and Canadian Air FclEe ships in the widespread search area.
 Search planes started leaving the field at 4:30 am. (MST) to reach the Yukon in time to begin search ing by daylight. They took off as rapidly after that hour as they could be thawed out and the mot DTS started.
 Temperatures of 28 below zero at the base Sunday warmed up to about 15 below today.
 Nearly 50 planes have been fun neled into the local base from other installations to be sent north as soon as they can be winterized and dispatched
 Helicopters have been brought in aboard C-82s. They will remain here to be pressed into service when and if the missing craft is located. Jump crews, including paradoctors. are standing by.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
AFFORDS IN JUNEAU
 FOR FOUR-DAY VISIT

Being welcomed by their many friends on a short visit here are MT. and Mrs. Fred w. Axford, now residents of Anchorage.
 They lived here from 1886 to 194O, Axford ope, nting the Topnotch Cafe, which now is Belle's. His busl- ness in Anchorage is the Carlquist Jewelry Company
 The Axfords came here yesterday, planning to stay until Thursday They are guests at the Baranct Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
Over Thousand
 Killed in Quake

TERRAIN, Iran, Jan. 30- R = Government officials rushed re- lief supplies today to the Persian Gulf area of Bushire, struck by recent series of sharp earth quakes.
 First unofficial reports on the toll had said that more than 1,500 persons were killed but the Govern ment said it believed these figures were greatly exaggerated. The Gov ernment, however, gave no figure of it's own on the possible total of dead. Rescue and relief workers in Bushire thus far have recovered only 30 bodies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
FORSYTHE, HOMER FILE ON
 DEMO TICKET HOUSE SEAT

Two more Democrats filed for a seat in the House of Representa- tives primary race to be run April 25. They are Earl T. Forsythe, Ju- neau businessman, and Steve l.. Homer of Haines, who operates a car and freight barge between that point and Juneau during summer months.
 Forsythe, former president of the cooks and walters union and we'll known baseball player, has lived in Alaska since 1884. He is 40 years old.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30

lCOpyrlgnt, lSoU, py Bell SynQlcate, 1uC.J
 (Ed Note-President Truman's
 tax message to Congress signifi-
 cantIy followed up a point repeat
 edly emphasized in the Washing
 ton Merry Co., Round that crack
 downs on tax vi0latOrs would
 yield billions in greater revenue
 Here is another in Drew Pearson's
 important series on tax frauds.) VASHINGTON-Pr Probably 99 per cent of the Treasury Departments vast army of working, under paid revenue agents are honest. However, political fixers of tax frauds arranged by certain of the big boys in Washington have had bad repercussions in the lower ranks.
 A few agents have figured that since the big boys at the top were getting theirs, the little fellows at the bottom might as well get some too. One result has been an out break of bribery in New York City, where one T-man has been indlct- ed and four others suspended. How ever, despite the fact that the sus- pensions took place six months ago, the case appears to have been put on ice.
 Some of the charges against the five include forgetting" about tax cases on the request of Tammany politicians. And if President Tru- man really means business about cracking down on tax violators, as am sure he does, here is one place to start.
 And just in case Secretary Of the Treasury Snyder doesn't know all the facts, here are some that will will interest hili..
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-30
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Denali from Seattle due some time tomorrow.
 Princess Norah from Vancouver due tomorrow afternoon or eve ming.
 Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday.