Two Sailors Died
When Discoverer
Ran Into Stortn
JUNEAU, (/P) — Coast guard
Cmdr. Z. C. Hawley said here yes
terday on his return from a hear
ing in Ketchikan that two young
men missing from the mail boat
Discoverer met death 10 days ago
in a storm.
No trace has been found of the
bodies of the victims, Donald
Johnson, Northwestern University
student, and David Charley, deck
hand:
Hawley said the inquiry estab
lished that the two were swept
overboard while apparently trying
to lash down a lifeboat in the
early morning storm.
The master of the Discoverer,
Capt. Charles Moe, testified that
Johnson is believed to have been
washed from the upper deck when
the vessel rolled heavily, and Car
ley lost his life in attempting a
rescue. The two men were report
ed to be good friends.
Hawley said nothing was
brought out at the hearing to sub
stantiate unconfirmed reports of
labor trouble on the mail boat.
George Washington had formal
command of about 14,000 men.
Steel And Coal i
Strikes Pinching
Industry In States
(By The Associated Press)
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The pinch of the coal and steel
strikes grew slowly tighter Sat
urday. There was little indication
that the pressure would ease soon.
Cyrus Ching.jthe top federal me
diator, said things weor “no closer
to settlement” Friday night after
three days of talks with U. S. steel
leaders. He set another talk for
today.
In the coal stoppage, western
and northern operators stopped
talking yesterday with the United
Mine Workers amid a flurry of ac
cusations. But UMW and southern
operators’ negotiators were a lit- '
tie more optimistic about breaking
their stalemate as soft coal diggers
east of the Mississippi wound up
their fifth idle week.
However, the nation’s railroads
were beginning to curtail service
with their coal-burning passenger
trains. The interstate commerce
commission ordered those roads
, with 25 days’ coal supply or less
! to cut back 25 per cent in use of
| their steam locomotives for pas
j senger hauling after midnight to
morrow.
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In Alaska
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Russ Apple. Alaska Boy Scout
Council field executive, on his
third visit to Nome this year ‘o
help Nome’s two Scout units and
to assist in starting a third, said he
found some misconceptions of the
Alaska Scout Council existing
here especially in the .field of fi
nance.
Apple said the Council was ,
started four years ago by the
people of Alaska who were at that i
time dissatisfied with the “mail
order” service received by the
Scout troops from the Portland of
fice. Nome’s troop 666 was receiv
ing' this type of service then.
When the Council was started
there were 151 boys enrolled in
troops in Alaska, Apple revealed,
and as a result of the formation of
the Alaska Council there are now
more than 1300 Alaskan boys in
Scouting. This growth came about
because of the direct control of
Alaska business men of the Scout
program.
North of tht Alaska range, dur
ing the last three years, Scout
membership has increased 300 per
cent, from 195 Scouts in Septem
ber, 1946, including Nome boys,
to 319 Scouts as of September,
1949. Nome itself. Apple added,
has had added the Marks AFB Air
Scout Squadron for the older boys.
The proposed new unit will be
for boys of 8, 9 and 10 and will be
the home-centered Cub Scout pro
gram.
The misunderstanding in 11
nance, Apple said, centers around
the basic policy of the National
and Alaska Council, Boy Scouts of
America that Scouts pay their
own way in Scouting so that the
things a Scout uses in participat
ing in Scouting, such as camp food,
transportation, uniforms and in
signia are the Scout’s own respon
sibility.
If he is given these things, Ap
ple said, by a benevolent town or
sponsor, the boy is becoming an
object of charity, and is losing
valuable Scout training in sav
ing toward a goal. He also will
look for things “for nothing" in
his adult life.
Three Areas
Apple revealed that there are
three areas of financing in the
Boy Scout program designed
around this policy — that of the
Scout troop, pack or Squadron,
that of the local council, and that
of national.
Scout units set up their own op
erating budget for a year, based
on the activities and program they
anticipate. Major source of income
for the unit is dues, paid to the
unit weekly by the boy, generally
ten cents or more a week. The
dues paid in by the boy members
is supplemetned by a revolving
fund set up by the sponsoring in
stitution, plus supplementary
money-raising activities by the
Scout themselves. These activities
take the form of a show, dinner,
food sale, salvage drive, clothes
checking, or some other activity
in which value is offered for
money received. Public solicita
tion of money is never used, since
this area of financing is reserved
for the Alaska Council. A public
solicitation of money for a Scout
troop violates the principle that a
boy pays his own way and earns
his own expenses whenever possi
ble.
Council Finance
The second area in Scout fi-1
nancing is that of the local coun- j
cil, of which there are 4'20 cover- |
ing the United States, and its pos- j
Anchorage Pilot
Still Missing
ANCHORAGE, oP)—Hopes ro.->e
and then waned again Friday for
the safety of a pilot who has been
missing for nearly seven weeks in
the Alaska wilderness.
The missing flier is Francis
Brownfield.
A report that he was safe in an
isolated cabin near Tangle Lakes
came from Amos Fleury of Cop
per Center. He said he heard it
from an amateur radio report.
A check of all available sources
along the Richardson Highway
failed to disclose any substanti
ating reports.
One amateur radio operator
said there was a remote possibility
that Brownfield could have walk
ed into a mine near Tangle Lakes.
The general belief, however, is
that if he did the mine operator
would have found some way to
send word out or could have
brought him out. The message
was reported to have been heard
Tuesday morning.
Another member of Brown
; field’s party hiked to safety after
I a grueling 24 days in the wilder
ness. He was Pat O’Donnell, who
was left on a river bar by Brown
field after a forced landing. Brown
field’s plane was found at North
' Susitna Lake a week later, slight
ly damaged.
sessions. This includes the cost of
administering the Boy Scout pro
gram within a specified area,
which in Alaska includes the
whole Territory. These funds
bring Scouting to Alaska and
provide the machinery which
makes the program available to
sponsoring organizations and all
boys within the area. The growth
of Scouting in Alaska from 151
boys to more than 1300 is the re
sult of the worth of the Alaska
Council, and the financial support
given by the people of Alaska.
Almost the only source of income
for this purpose is the once-a-year
public finance campaign, at which
time everyone who makes his liv
ing in a community is given the
opportunity to support Scouting
for boys and to assist in extending
the program 4o more cmmunities.
Just as the Alaska Cuncil refrains
from infringing on the sources of
income available to Scout troops
and packs, so troops and packs and
communities must leave public so
licitation as the prerogative of the
local council to provide the ma
chinery that makes Scouting pos
sible. Of course, part of the funds
raised in this area comes directly
back to the boys, but not individ
ually. as in the case of better
Scout programs through training,
Alaska-wide Air encampments
and general council services.
The third area, Apple said, is
National financing, by which the
National Council provides the
services to local councils, includ
ing the printing of handbooks,
program guides, training aids,
membership controls, technical
consultants, uniforms and insignia,
and the general stanardization of
the whole program. Major source
of income on the National level is
from the annual registraiton fee of
fifty cents for each Scout and one
dollar for each adult. The Nation
al Council does not infringe on
sources of income available to
Scout units or to local councils.
Apple said that all communities
in Alaska are having annual Scout
campaigns this year in order to
service existing units and to make
Scouting available to more com
munities and boys.
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