U. S. Sought To
Collect Customs On
Canadian Rifles
WASHINGTON, <JP) — United
States customs officials tried to
collect tariff duties from Canadian
troops headed to fight the Japan
ese in the Aleutians in 1943.
Lester B. Pearson, Canada’s
minister of external affairs, told of
the incident yesterday.
He said it occurred when a Ca
nadian expedition prepared to
cross the Alaska border to join
American forces in ejecting the
Japanese from the island of Kiska.
Pearson told the national press
club that U. S. border customs of
ficials ruled that the Canadians
could not enter Alaska unless they
paid duty on their new rifles and
other military equipment.
** John D. Hickerson, now assist
ant secretary of state, solved the
difficulty, Pearson said. Hickerson
arranged with the White House to
declare the Canadians “distin
guished foreign visitors.”
Meanwhile, he said, the Japan
ese voluntarily withdrew’ from
Kiska.
Pearson is former ambassador
to Washington and is a member of
the Canadian delegation to the
three-power conference on the
British financial situation .
MEMPHIS, Tenn. UP)—The mo
tion picture “Intruder in the Dust”
has been approved by the Mem
phis board of censors, chairman
Lloyd T. inford said today.
The picture is the story of a Ne
gro accused of shooting a white
man. The Negro is saved from an
angry mob when a small boy and
an old school teacher find clues
Harris Co. Ends
Argument In Fish
Trap Tax Case
JUNEAU, </P)—The P. E. Harris
company’s case against Alaska’s
quadrupled fish trap tax was com
pleted late Monday.
The packing firm rested its case
after calling commissioner of edu
cation James Ryan and Neil
Moore, assistant Territorial audi
tor, to the stand. They were called
as company witnesses in support
of the contention that the 1949
legislature increased the trap tax
to four times its former figure
when it found the Territory was
going to be unable to meet its ob
ligations.
Harry O. Low, superintendent
of the False Pass cannery, testi
fied briefly on operation costs in
trap fishing.
Then the intervenors in the
case, August Buschmann and A. V.
Wolf, placed accountant Paul Neil
sen on the stand. Attorney general
J. Gerald Williams, who is hand
ling the Territory’s case in behalf
of the tax legality, examined him
i closely regarding trap operation
costs.
The case was continuing yes
terday. The attorney general said
he would ask for a further break
down on costs and other facts in
the tender service and further
! comparative figures between trap
i and seine catches.
The hearing on the challenge of
. the law is in its second week.
to prove him innocent.
Binford said, “We approve the
picture. It doesn’t live up to South
ern ideals, but it will be all right
to show in Memphis.”
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Elliott Roosevelts
To Seek Divorce
NEW YORK, (fP)—Actress Faye
Emerson plans to bring divorce
proceedings against Elliott Roose
velt as soon as she finishes work
on a motion picture now in pro
duction.
The 31-year-old blonde actress,
confirming Monday that she and
the late President’s second son
have separated, said “Elliott and I
parted on friendly terms.”
As she stood by in a studio, a
representative handed out an un
signed statement which said:
“Faye Emerson confirmed today
the report that she would seek a
divorce from Elliott Roosevelt.
“Miss Emerson said ‘I’m sorry to
say that Mr. Roosevelt and I have
been separated for some time and
I plan a divorce when I have fin
! ished my current motion picture.
Elliott and I parted on friendly
terms’.”
Roosevelt, who was reached by
a newsman in 'Providence, R. I.,
said the breakup of the marriage
“is a personal matter—I have no
comment.”
His wife declined comment be
yond the formal statement.
Roosevelt, 38, and the actress,
31, separated in August.
Roosevelt has remained at their
Hyde Park, N. Y., home in recent
weeks and the wife has stayed at
their New York City apartment,
neither Roosevelt nor his wife is
reported to have a romantic inter
est elsewhere.
PASSENGERS ON
FLAGSHIP ALEUTIAN
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd A. Martin
and daughter Edwina, 16 years
old, of Winston Salem. North Car
olina, sailed on the Alaska Steam
ship Co. flagship “Aleutian” on
Sept. 9th enroute to Little Diomede
j Island, where the Martins will be
j teaching for the ANS this winter.
On the same sailing were Mrs.
Kermit Roosevelt, wife of the late
General Roosevelt, and her mother
; Mrs. Joseph Willard. They are
touring the Territory.
Alaska Housing In
Planning Sessions
JUNEAU, <(JP) — The Alaska
housing commission began a week
long series of planning sessions
Monday in anticipation of a $10,
000.000 federal revolving fund
which it expects to be available to
the Territory in October.
The commission said it hoped to
draw up a general program to
carry through the winter, and be
gin a concentrated effort next
spring to improve housing through
out the Territory.
Commission members here were
the Rev. Paul O’Connor, Hooper
Bay; Jack Cropley, Juneau; Mayor
Z. J. Loussac, Anchorage; Mrs.
Louis Miller, Ketchikan and Har
old Byrd of Flat.
The commissioners were being
assisted by Governor Ernest
Gruening and E. Glen Wilder,
Alaska housing director.
The $10,000,000 appropriation
was passed by both Houses and
now is in conference committee
for revision.
Seek Hunters Who
Abandoned Plane
ANCHORAGE, UP)—Two Tenth
Rescue Squadron para-rescue spe
cialists reported Monday two per
sons apparentyl walked away from
a slightly damaged plane that
crashed Sept. 4, 10 miles north of
Susitna Lake.
The men dropped at the scene ©X
the crash, reported they found no
trace of pilot Francis Brownfield
and Pat O’Donnel. Two other per
sons aboard the plane reached
safety.
The rescue specialists said they
would continue their ground
seorch on the belief that Brown
field and O’Donnel may be at
tempting to walk out of the area.
The two others, Mrs. O’Donnel
and Earl Bogey, walked into the
Sheep Mountain civil aeronautics
station Saturday night.
The four persons had been on a
hunting expedition. The para-res
cue specialists were Staff Sergeant
W. S. Murphy and Sergeant E.
Losen.
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