PTARMIGAN SEASON TO
OPEN AUGUST 20
In accordance with the an
nouncement by the fish and wild
life service, the season for taking
grouse and ptarmigan in the Sec-1
ond Division begin August 20th
and ends Feb. 28. The daily bag ,
limit is for grouse 10, and ptarmi
gan 10; but not to exceed 10 in
the aggregate of all kinds of
grouse and ptarmigan in one day.
The regulation also states that the
limit for each person shall include:
all such birds taken by any other |
person who for hire accompanies
or assists in the taking. A hunting
license is necessary, except for
native-born Indian or Eskimo or
resident under 16 years of age. *
Basketball .Hilight
Today’s Olympics :
LONDON, (/P) — Basketball
bounced into the Olympic spot- j
light today on a program that in- 1
eluded eight minor sports from
canoe racing to weight lifting.
The United States meets Mexico
and Brazil plays France in the
basketball semi-finals on the'
rough floor at Harringay arena.
The Yank skyscrapers are ex
pected to sweep past the Mexi- j
cans, the second tallest team in
the tournament. Brazil is favored
over France. The winners meet in !
the finals Friday night.
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Russian Embassy
Awarded Miss
Bentley A Medal i
(Continued from Page One)
pointed for the first time to the
embassy as the source.
Miss Bentley, who says she
gave her story to the FBI in Au
gust, 1945, also told the commit
tee.
“The FBI has told me that in
; checking all of the evidence I
have given them they never have
! found any major discrepancy.”
The committee put Miss Bent
ley back on the stand after hear
1 ing Henry H. Collins, Jr., a for
I mer military government officer,
deny that he was ever a spy for
; a foreign country, but refuse to
say whether he is or has been a
communist.
Before he took the stand chair
man Thomas <R.-N. J.) announced
that a special subcommittee will
go to New York tomorrow to take
testimony in closed session from
Michael Ivanovitch Samarin, for
mer Russian school teacher.
Other members said there are
plans also to send a sub-commit- j
tee—perhaps of one man—to Can
ada to get a statement from Igor j
Gouzenko, the former Russian
clerk who was responsible for
breaking the Canadian atom bomb
spy case.
It was disclosed, too, that the
committee contemplates a recess
i of the hearings here.
Juneau May Get
Pulp-Veneer Mill
JUNEAU, (tf1)—Possible estab
lishment of a pulp mill and ve
neer plant here by the Juneau
Spruce corporation was announc
ed today by Henry F. Cheney,
president.
Here on an inspection trip, Che
ney, who also is president of the
Coos Bay, Ore., lumber company,
said such construction would be
undertaken when conditions per
mit.
He said also that the company
will stand firm in its dispute with
CIO longshoremen who have pic
keted the company’s local sawmill
since April 10.
A Seattle examiner for the na
tional labor relations board, How
ard Hilbun, arrived here yester
day to investigate possible re
opening of the case.
The Longshoremen began pic
keting the local plant in support
I of demands that they be employed
i to load barges with lumber. The
work had been done by the CIO
i woodworkers. The dispute closed
i the plant for a time before the
woodworkers went through the
picket lines.
KARL F. DEWEY RETURNS
FROM ANCHORAGE MEET
Karl F. Dewey, president of
the Nome Rotary Club, returned
this week from Anchorage where
he attended the meeting of the
presidents and secretaries of the
Alaska clubs with District Gov
ernor Ed Warner of Tacoma.
Dewey stated last night that he
will report to the club on his
meeting at the next regular ses
sion of the Nome Club.
J. SIDNEY ROOD HERE
ON BUSINESS TRIP
J. Sidney Rood arrived from
Anchorage today on the Alaska
Airlines plane. He is here on busi
ness in connection with incom
pleted leases which were held by
the army here during the war.
Mr. Rood is with the Department
of Engineers pertaining to legal
business with the army in Alaska, i
ROTARY DISTRICT GOVERN
OR VISITS NOME CLUB
Ed Warner, District Governor
for the Northwest International
District 101 of Rotary Internation
al arrived on the Pan American
plane yesterday from Fairbanks
to visit the Nome Rotary Club. It
is part of the tour of Alaska clubs
by the recently elected district
governor.
The Nome club held a dinner
meeting last night in the Pioneer
Hall honoring governor Warner,
who told the members of the re
cent international convention of
governers in Quebec and the more
recent general Rotary Assembly
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Governor Warner is a member
of the Tacoma Rotary club No. 8.
one of the oldest Rotary clubs.
He explained much in the way
of activities in which the club
may take part and develop, and
also many international possibili
ties to strengthen relations with
other countries through good fel
lowship. Warner is leaving on the
Alaska Airlines today for Anchor
age.
i _____ _
Charge 6 Witnesses
With Contempt
SEATTLE, (JP) —Six witnesses
who refused in a recent legislative
un-American activities committee
hearing to say whether they were
then or ever were members of the
communist party, were charged
in superior court yesterday with
contempt.
The actions, filed by prosecutor
Lloyd Shorett, accused the six
persons of “wilful refusal to ans
wer proper and material ques
tions before a legislative commit
tee.”
Charges were filed against
Ralph Gundlach, professor of
psychology at the university of
Washington; Herbert J. Phillips,
of the English department; Rach
miel Forschmiedt, senior sanitary
inspector for the City of Seattle;
Burton W. James and Florence
Bean James, co-directors of the
repertory playhouse in Seattle;
and Albert Ottenheimer, assistant
director of the playhouse.
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