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DOWNIEVILLE, Calif. i/P>. — |
The St. Charles hotel, gold rush
landmark in which the barber
| shop still served as part time court
room, was destroyed by fire early
today.
Eight guests escaped unharmed
from the two-story wooden struc
ture. built in 1863. ,
The barber shop was owned by
justice of the peace C. W. Rob
bins, who held court in the rear
of the shop.
JUNEAU (/P)—Frank Maier, 14,
of Juneau, topped a field of 26
youths from Juneau, Douglas and
Sitka Sunday to win the 1947 soap
box derby sponsored jointly by
the Daily Alaska Empire and Ro
tary Club.
Maier will go to Akron, O., for
the national soap-box races Aug.
14-17.
MANHATTAN, Kas. f/P)—Gen
eral Dwight D. Eisenhower, en
route to Alaska on an inspection
trip, spent the night with his
brother Milton before flying to
Great Falls, Mont., today.
The army chief of staff expects
to arrive in Anchorage, Tuesday.
He landed at Fort Riley, Kas., yes
terday, flying from Washington,
. D. C.
Milton Eisenhower is president
* of Kansas State college.
WASHINGTON. f/P) — A mea
sure giving the Governor of Alas
ka the power to pardon and to re
mit fines for offenses against the
laws of the Territory was signed
Friday by President Truman.
DES MOINES, la. (/P)—A wo
man motorist protested when she
failed to pass the vision test in her
drivers license examination.
.“Why I just got these glasses j
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new.
When she returned a short time
later she passed the test easily.
“They had put the lenses in
backward,” she explained.
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JUNEAU. (#*)—Brown as ber
ries after a six-weeks’ trip, Rob
ert A. Miller, 23, Lewiston, Me.,!
and Les Welch, Orofino, Ida.,1
University of Idaho students, ar-'
rived Friday night after canoeing
north from Seattle.
They made the 1,033 mile trip I
(statute miles) in an aluminum ca
noe, after leaving Seattle June 10.
They praised the hospitality of
British Columbia and Alaska
coastal communities and plan to
remain here indefinitely.
TACOMA, (i«P) — Brought from
Juneau, to face an old charge of j
forging a $80 U. S. treasury note,
Mrs. Arlie R. Kress, 46, was or- j
dered held in lieu of $2,500 bail;
on a temporary commitment or-!
der issued Friday by Police Judge!
Frank Hale, sitting as acting U. S.
commissioner. August 14 was setj
as the date of preliminary hearing
of the charges.
Mrs. Kress is accused of forging'
the check in Vancouver, Wash., |
Sept. 6, 1944.
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ASTORIA, ’Ore. (/P) — Packers
expected tuna boats to land heavy1
catches here, following a report1
U. N. To Undergo
Test Of Power
Tomorrow
LAKE SUCCESS, (/T*)—A con
sensus of delegates indicates that
a far-reaching decision may come
tomorrow on the Balkan problem,
and with it a test of the United
Nations’ power for effective ac
tion in the peaceful settlement of
disputes.
As the U. N. security council
prepared to convene at 3 p.m. to
day, delegates said they anticipat
ed a vote tomorrow, or not later
than Thursday, on an American
proposal to set up on international
“watch-dog” commission over the
Balkans.
The vote on the plan will cli
max a week-long fight between
Russia and the United States over
the Balkan problem, which was
brought to the council by Greece
and resulted initially in an in
quiry into Balkan border inci
dents.
Eisenhower Will
Inspect Installa
tions In Alaska
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, the army’s
chief of staff flew to Fort -Riley,
Kan., yesterday on the first leg of
an inspection trip to army instal
lations in Alaska.
At Fort Riley, the general vis
ited with his brother, Milton S.;
Eisenhower, president of Kansas
State College. He is proceeding to
Great Falls, Mont., today and ex
pects to arrive at Anchorage, to-,
morrow.
He will be away from three to
four weeks the war department
said Saturday, “It is a continua- i
tion of his plan to see at first-hand
the operations of the army in the
field.” The chief of staff already
has made several inspections in j
the United States, in Europe and}
in the Pacific.
Accompanying him to Alaska
are several division chiefs and
other army experts, including Mai.
Gen. Alfred Gruenther, deputy
commandant of the national war,
college: Brig. Gen. Henry B. Say
ler, chief of ordnance research;,
and Col. H. J. Matchett, member
of the army manpower board.
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NOME INCLUDED IN
ARMY APPROPRIATIONS
WASHINGTON, <&) — The
House armed services committee |
approved legislation authorizilng
the secretary of war to spend up
to $244,940,659 for construction of
facilities of military installations, i
Included in the appropriation I
was $77,944 for the Nome ACS !
station, for the building of family
quarters, operations building and
utilities.
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that a large school of tuna had
been sighted 57 miles west of Ya
quina Head.
One vessel, the President Cool
idge, reported it already had taken i
10,000 pounds of tuna.
Eearlier last week several ves
sels^ delivered near record catches
here.
Forrestal Named
Secretary Of
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National Defense
WASHINGTON, l/P>—President
Truman Saturday sent to the Sen
ate the nomination of James V.
Forrestal to be secretary of de
fense under the new armed forces
unification setup.
Forrestal’s nomination went to
Capitol Hill shortly after Mr. Tru
man signed legislation unifying
the army, navy, marines and air
forces under one cabinet officer.
The measure was signed in a
dramatic ceremony at Washing
ton national airport just before the
President took off for Grandview,
Mo., where his mother was report
ed dying.
Mr. Truman delayed his hur
riedly arranged flight home to
await arrival of the unification
bill, which passed Congress only
Friday.
Wiry, tight-lipped James For
restal, younger in appearance than
his 55 years, is known as builder
and boss of the greatest navy in
world history.
He has “fired” admirals from
top jobs with the abruptness of a
mine explosion, but support effi
cient administrators and men who
plan far ahead.
Born in Beacon, N. Y., he is for
mer president of a New York bond
selling house, and the onyl Roose
velt cabinet minister still in Mr.
Truman’s official family.
President’s Mother
Passes On
GRANDVIEW. Mo. (/Pi — Mrs.
Martha Truman, mother of the
President died at 11:30 a.m. (CST)
Saturday morning. Death came
just one hour after the President
had taken off from Washington to
be at her bedside.
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Sundborg Critical
Of Last Legislature
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FAIRBANKS, (>Pi — G e o r g e j
Sundborg, resigned chairman of
the Alaska Development board,
said Saturday that “regressive
voting by members of the Alaska
legislature had contributed to the
Territory’s current financial
plight.
Insufficient appropriations to
meet operating expenses Sund
borg told the junior chamber of
commerce, has left the Territory
with the problem of meeting a
$70,000 payroll and other expens
es from a $100,000 monthly liquor,
tax.
Sundborg said he sympathized
with the Alaska veterans commis- J
sion refusal to repay immediately |
a $350,000 loan received from the
Territory. He said the commiss’on
now has applications for a quar
ter million dollars in bonuses and
three million dollars in loans.
Singled out for attack by Sund
borg were Joe Coble, Larry
Meath, Robert Hoopes, Maurice
Johnson and Lou Joy, all of the
fourth Division.
Congress ()kays
Sale Of Paper,
Pulp Timber
WASHINGTON, f/P) — Legisla
tion designed to establish a news
print industry in Alaska was given
Senatorial approval and sent to
the White House shortly before
adjournment Saturday, and Sen
ators Capehart <R.-Ind.>. said he
is studying the possibility of re
quiring that part of any newsprint
produced in the Territory be al
lotted to small newspapers.
Capehart is chairman of a Sen
ate newsprint sub-committee that
plans to leave Seattle Aug. 28 to
make an on-the-spot investigation
of establishing five mills in Alas
ka’s vast Tongass National Forest.
Two companies are understood
to be ready to bid for the timber
and to start immediate construc
tion of paper mills in Alaska.
Capehart, estimating that each
of the five proposed mills will be
able to produce 200.000 tons of
newsprint annually, said he hopes
that means may be found to guard
against all the Alaska production
being “tied up by the big news
papers.” He suggested the possi
bility of stipulations in lease con
tracts as one means of accom
plishing the purpose.
The measure passed by Con
gress would permit the agriculture
department to contract to furnish
paper companies with a continu
ing supply of timber to be cut on
a sustained yield basis.
The legislation provides that
money from timber sales shall be
held in the treasury until rights of
native Indian claimants to the for
est areas are determined.
Capehart said the committee
will look into the Indian claims
but that legislation dealing with
this phase of the problems will
fall to the public lands committee.
Planping to make the trip with
Capehart are Senators Cain. <R.
Wash.), Ellender (D.-La.> and
Murray <D.-Mont.> The first stop
on their itinerary will be Ketch
Hunt Continues
For Axe Slayer;
Identity Known
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FAIRBANKS. (JP) — While a
marshal’s posse of federal agents
and military police pressed Alas
ka’s greatest manhunt in the Alas
ka Highway wilderness, the two
ax victims for whose deaths the
fugitive is sought, were buried af
ter private funerals here Satur
day.
The victims were Donald R.
Harris, 33, Alaska military pro
ject employee, and Carl Ahnstrom,
68, long-time prospector and
woodsman.
Cardinal Harris, a brother,
came from Nenana for the funeral
and said the younger victim’s
father, William Harris, and a sis
ter, Mrs. Louis Simpson, live at
Green Fork, Ind.
U. S. marshal Stanley J. Nich
ols said the search for Leon Win
field Jones, 43, a carpenter on the
Big Delta military project more
than 100 miles southeast of here,
was being pressed by a posse
which was co-ordinating its action
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World Condoles
Truman’s Loss
WASHINGTON. i/P>— Messages
of condolences on the death of
President Truman’s mother pour
ed into the White House today
from all over the world.
They came from heads of states,
foreign ministers, ambassadors,
governors, other leaders and from
just plain people.
The following came from King
George VI and the British queen,
Elizabeth:
“The queen and I send you our
deep sympathy in the sad loss that
you have sustained through the
death of your mother.”
ikan. Other stops have not been
determined.
Congress Ad journed Sunday With A
Flourish; Mueli Legislation Unfinished
(By Douglas B. Cornell)
WASHINGTON CP)—Sign posts
pointing toward teamwork with
the White House on world affairs,
slugging matches on domestic
problems and hot 1948 election is
sues stand out along the rough
road the 80th Congress traveled to
•its own half-way mark.
The first session crashed to a
close in Sunday’s early hours.
Adjournment until January —
unless President Truman or Re
publican leaders call an emerg
ency session sooner—shot off a
raucous, roaring political scrap in
the Senate and a back-slapping,
rollicking song fest in the House.
Weary members now ar# beat
ing a path back home to find out
what the people think of this first
“streamlined” Congress, this first
Republican-controlled Congress in
a decade and a half.
The grass roots reaction is im
portant. Top issues already are
shaping up for next year’s elec
tioneering for a President, all 435
House members and 32 of the 96
Senators. For insance:
There are taxes and labor, the
high cost of living and the nigh
cost of government.
And there are enough legisla
tive leftovers for the next session
to concoct a sizeable dish of po
litical controversies.
Held on the hook until next
winter were such measures as uni
versal military training, long
range housing, military coopera
tion with Latin America, a mini
mum wage boost for the lowest
paid interstate workers and loyal
ty checks on government workers.
It was a political battle royal in
the Senate that kept Congress on
the job on a sabbath for the first
time since 1929.
Democrats had succeeded in
blocking a Republican bid for a
full-scale investigation into attor
ney general Clark’s handling of
vote fraud charges in Kansas City.
Senator Brewster (R.-Me.) tried
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