THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. LXXVIII., NO. 11,900
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY AUGUST 30, 1951
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
Yanks Violate
Zone 'Every
Day/ Say Reds
TOKYO, Aug. 30—(/ft—Red-China’s
official Peiping radio charged today
American planes violate the Kae
song neutrality area in Korea nearly
every day.
The charge was injected into a
series of broadcasts acciising Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway of lying, slan
der and distortion.
The latest asserted violation was
early Wednesday. The badly garb
led broadcast heard in Tokyo said
an American bomber dropped a flare
over the site of the now suspended
Korean war truce talks.
The radio said it happened at
almost the same time Ridgway
flatly refused to reopen an in
vestigation of Red charges that
an Allied plane bombed Kaesong
Aug. 22.
Peiping called it an attempt “to
cover up the flagrant lies that he
handed the world.”
The broadcast made no mention
of the U.N. commander’s offer to
resume truce negotiations any time
the Communists are willing to do
so. He made the offer in the same
note that refused to reopen in
vestigation of the asserted bomb
ing.
Top Red commanders, to whom
the message was addressed, had not
replied. There was no indication
when they would.
10,000 Fresh Red
Troops Digging in
U.S. 8TH ARMY HEADQUAR
TERS, Korea, Aug. 30 — tPI — Ten
thousand fresh Communist troops
today dug ii»to the jagged hills of
eastern Korea behind their attack
ing comrades.
Reds hurled three small, savage
assaults at United Nations troops
north of Yanggu. All were beaten
back.
To the north, U.N. warplanes tore
up rails and road beds in their de
termined effort to cut Communist
supply lines. Pilots reported they
destroyed or damaged 62 box cars
and cut roadways in 67 places after
night attacks knocked out 270
trucks.
A fresh Communist division —
about 8,000 men — was observed dig
ging in northeast of Yanggu, which
is 27 miles from the eastern tip of
the front. The division, presum
ably North Korean, was in hills
just north of the scene of recent
bitter clashes.
CASUALTIES UP
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—(Al—
Announced U. S. battle casualties
in Korea reached 81,422 today, an
increase of 416 since last week.
JIM HOUSTON IS HERE
James L. Houston, Seattle trav
eling man, is stopping at the Bar
anof Hotel.
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
By HARRY J. ANSLINGER
(Ed. Note—While Drew Pear
son is on a brief vacation, the
Washington Mierry-go-round is
being written by several distin
guished guest columnists, today’s
being by Mr. Harry J. Anslinger,
the Treasury Department’s Com
missioner of Narcotics and the
U. S. representative on the Uni
ted Nations Narcotic Commission.
In international circles Mr. An
slinger is regarded as the greatest
living authority on the world
narcotics traffic. OB June 30,
1951, in the U. S. House of Rep
resentatives, Congressman Gor
don Canfield said: “The nations
of the world regard him as the
world’s No. 1 authority on the
subject.”
WASHINGTON. — The narcotic
peddler does not kidnap your chil
dren; he destroys them.
In extreme distress, parent..1
brought their 16-year-old boy tc
my office. The lad quivered like
the leaves of the aspen. He was
suffering the dreaded withdrawal
syndrome of drug addiction. He
was one of those who use bravado
to gain admission to the delinquent
gang.
“Tell me where you get heroin,”
I said. “I will send you to the hos
pital for a cure.”
We used an undercover agent to
buy from the “pusher,” who led
us to the wholesale peddler. Then
by progressive steps we graduated
to one of the big traffickers who
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Dewey Calls for
Drawing Strict Line
Against Communists
Finds Alaska Housing,
Rentals 'Frightful
Defenses 'Tough'
NEW YORK, Aug. 30—^Uft—Oov.
Thomas E. Dewey, back from a tour
of the Far East, says the United
States should "draw a line and let
the Communjsts know what we will
do if they cross it.”
He said southeast Asia is "the
natural target for the Communists'
next drive.”
“Our immediate and critical
necessity,” he says, “is to build
a total policy for a free world of
Asia."
In Seattle yesterday, Oovernor
Dewey described as “frightful” the
quality of housing and rental costs
he found in Alaska.
“There are military personnel
living in houses in Alaska that
would be condemned anywhere in
the states.” the New- York chief
executive said. “In Kodiak I saw
dozens of barracks built during
World War II that are just fall
ing apart. They could easily be
used for good housing.
“I'm going to look into that,”
he added.
He said more radar and ground
forces are needed in Alaska to screen
the continental U.S. from long
range bombers based in Siberia.
Otherwise, Dewey said, Alaska ap
pears well defended now, but ho
added that more must be done to
guard its coastlines against enemy
attack.
“Alaska’s present defenses would
give any attacking enemy a tough
time.” the governor said. “That
doesn’t mean that enemy forces
could be repelled. There are 10.000
miles of coastline in Alaska. But
it would be an extremely costly act
on the part of the Russians to try
to capture Alaska from Siberia-”
7 Hawaiian Reds
Face Couri Aug. 31;
Judge Backs Bail
HONOLULU, Aug. 30—Mt—Seven
alleged Communists, including Ha
waii’s top labor leader, were or
dered arraigned in federal court
tomorrow on charges of plotting
to advocate the violent overthrow
of the U. S. government.
Jack W. Hall, regional director
of Harry Bridges’ International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
mens Union, and six others were
arrested Tuesday and indicted
Wednesday.
They are scheduled to appear be
fore a federal judge who has been
asked by the government to dis
qualify himself.
The jurist, 76-year-old Delbert
E. Metzger, indicated to a news
man he has no intention of tak
ing himself out of the case.
“I have made my decision,;’ he
said. “I don’t have to obey anybody
except by reasoning and my con
science.”
Attorney General J. Howard Mc
Grath asked the disqualification.
He made the request because Metz
ger Tuesday set bail for each of
the seven accused at $5,000. The
government asked for $75,000. Af
ter the indictment Metzger raised
it to $7,500.
Metzger asserted higher bail
would be a form of "punishment
before the trial.”
The government contends high
bail is necessary to prevent the
seven from running away to escape
trial.
Prices May Rise
Even with Truman
Changes: DiSalie
WASHINGTON. Aug. 30—(iW—
Price Stabilizer Michael V. DiSalie
said today some price* may go up
even if Congress changes the ec
onomic controls law as President
Truman requests.
But, he told the Senate Banking
Committee, elimination of the
three provisions which Mr. Tru
man has bitterly denounced would
give the Office of Price Stabiliza
tion a “workable program.”
DiSalie and mobilization chief
Charles E. Wilson were lead-off
witnesses in the administration s
price boosts for manufacturers and
dealers and ban livestock slaughter
quotas. --
Wilson warned of mounting in
flationary pressures and appealed
to the Senators for "the strongest
and most effective law you can
give us.”
— EMPIRE W£NT ADS PAY —
Man Against Nature
The perpetual war between man and nature goes on e\V;n on the
battlefront as these GI’s struggle to save a pontoon bridge over the
llood'ed Soyang River on Koera’s east central front. They are using
poles to keep debris from hitting the pontoons. (#) Wirephoto.
Juneau’s JVew Construction
Totals $G Millions; Roofs
Will Be On Before Freeze
By KAY J. KENNEDY
Nearly $6,000,000 has gone Into
public and private construction in
the Juneau vicinity during the past
-year with -ootne-fetiiitfing?? ooss.'pfe’tod
or nearly so and others bt.ng rush
ed to get under cover before the
freeze up.
The largest single building, re
cently completed, was the $1,500,
000 Mendenhall Apartments con
structed by the Anderson Construc
tion Co., of Seattle and insured by
the Federal Housing Administra
tion.
The Alaska Office Building, now
going up on Main St. between Third
and Fourth Streets, is now 15 per
cent complete, Einar Haugen, of
fice manager of the Carson Con
struction Co., of Helena, Mont., said
today. The contract is for $1,058,
390. Haugen said it was expected
the building would be' under cover
by mid-November. Fifty men are
now employed on the project.
Controversy
Status of the completion of the
two top floors and Installation of
elevators for the structure is still
in controversy, he said.
The new Juneau fire hall costing
$172,000 on Marine Way is about
30 percent complete, Haugen said.
The Carson company, together
with Hall-Atwater Construction
Company of Seattle, have the
contract. Necessary steel girders
arrived on a recent freighter and
the second floor slab is being
poured with the walls rapidly
rising.
Nov. 11 is completion date for the
structure. Fifteeen men are now
working on the building.
Library Almost Done
The Juneau Memorial Library
90 percent complete, according
Triplette and Dalziel, Juneau con
tractors for the Job. It is being er
ected at the cost of $123,500 by pop
ular subscription and with aid of
Alaska Public Works matching
J3 3
tunas.
Dedication of the building is to
take place within the next month
or six weeks, according to B.
Frank Heintzleman, chairman of
the library board.
The new grade school on Glacier
Highway being erected at the cost
of $744,000 by the Valle-Sommers
Construction Co., of Juneau, is
progressing rapidly. It is now about
50 percent complete.
Thomas A. Bateman, construc
tion superintendent, said today
that the roof of the building
should be on by Sept. 15 and all
concrete work completed by Sept.
20. It is expected that inside work
can continue through the winter
in order that the completion date
next April can be met.
. Band Room
A band room addition to the Ju
neau High School at the cost of
$68,973 will be finished by Sept. 5,
according to Triplette and Dalziel,
contractors. This addition provides
for two classrooms and storage space.
Triplette and Dalziel are com
pleting $12,980 worth of ground
improvements at the grade school on
Fifth Street.
An Architects Building on Third
Street behind the Lutheran church
is 50 percent completed. It is be
ing put up by Foss, Malcolm and
Olsen, local architectural firm.
*■ James Larson Is the contractor.
It is a two-story frame building
that Will have stucco finish. There
will be four rental spaces avail
able.' --— —
Progress is underway on the new
Burford office building opposite the
Federal B»tldine Triplette and Dal
ziel are ‘the contractors. The build
ing is expected to cost around $60,
000. It is a two-story reinforced
concrete structure with a full base
ment. The contractors said that the
building will be under cover before
cold weather sets in.
Two housing projects under
way in the area include ten Al
aska Housing Authority homes at
Douglas being up up at a cost of
$150,000 by Ray James of Seward,
and a 50-unit low-income rental
project in West Juneau being con
structed by L. E. Baldwin of Se
attle for $767,000.
Clearing on the West Juneau pro
ject is going forward, Philip Hale,
project engineer said today. He said
that some excavation had been ac
complished and foundations were
being laid.
City building permits totalling
nearly $350,000 have been issued
during the past year, records at the
city cleric’s office show. This includes
new private construction and remod
eling to dwellings and business struc
tures.
1st Alaska National
Guard Unit Awarded
Eisenhower Trophy
The first awarding of the Eisen
hower trophy to an Alaska Nation
al Guard unit was announced today
by MaJ. Gen. Raymond H. Fleming
guard bureau chief.
Company B, 208th infantry bat
talion. of Sitka is the unit to receive
the award to be made annually
Special boards recommend an out
fit on outstanding performance ir
training, recruiting and other mili
tary factors.
The Sitka unit was federally re
cognized in July, 1950. The Alaska
guard completed organization of its
first postwar group in May, 1949
when headquarters company of the
battalion was activated.
New Doctor Joint
Health Department
Dr. Elizabeth Bishop recently ar
rived in Juneau to assume duties at
director of maternal and chile
health and the crippled children's
division of the Alaska Department
of Health. Her headquarters will be
in Juneau although her work will
take her throughout the territory.
Originally from Portland, Ore.,
she worked in central and eastern
Oregon for the past 10 years. She
has been district health officers of
a three-county district in central
Orgeon since 1946.
She was graduated from the Uni
versity of Oregon medical school
| and took public health training at
i Harvard University.
New 1,000-Watt Radio
Station OK'd for City
• WASHINGTON, Aug. 30— •
• <#>—The Communications Com- •
• mission today granted the ap- •
• plication of Aurora Broadcast- •
• ers, Inc., for a new standard •
• radio station at Juneau, Alaska, •
• on 630 kilocycles, one kilowatt •
• daytime, 500 watts nighttime. •
• Aurora Broadcasters was in- •
• corporated October 31, 1949, •
• by Miriam Dickey, Delmer L. •
• Day and Roall Erickson, all of •
• Fairbanks. The company’s •
• principal place of business is •
• listed as Juneau. •
Packers Open War
On Ceilings, Ask
$34-35 Per Case
SEATTLE, Aug. 30—1#)—A con
, ference opened here today on the
r possibility of an increase from the
present $29 a case celling price on
Alaska red salmon. An increase is
, expected.
William C. Eardley of Washing
ton, D. C„ chief of the canned
foods division of the Office of
Price Stabilization, is holding the
conference with 13 members of an
Industry advisory committee.
The industry has been protest
ing that salmon ceilings are "un
realistic” in view of operating
costs. The industry has contended
that prices of $34 to $35 a. case
are justified for Alaska reds.
'Aid to Blind' Law
Effective Sept. 1
An ac(f for aid to the blind,
passed by the last session of the
Territorial legislature, becomes ef
fective Sept. 1.
The law. Chapter 126, provides
assistance to any "needy blind res
ident" more than 18 years of age,
In payments not to exceed $80
per month. Payments are made by
the- Department of Public Welfare.
In order to be eligible the person
must be totally blind or have vis
ion so defective as to prevent the
performance of ordinary activities
for which eyesight is essential.
Application for assistance can be
made through the welfare depart
ment which will investigate the
case and determine the amount of
aid to which the applicant is en
titled.
lugs Ready to
Evacuate 120 Men
Ringed by Fire
VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 30—
—Two tugs stood by in Jervis Inlet
today, ready to evacuate 120 men
almost ringed by forest fire at a
logging camp at the mouth of the
Britain River.
However, foresters said the men
were holding the fire in check. Jer
vis Inlet is 80 miles up the coast
from Vancouver.
Thirty women and children were
evacuated by boat yesterday from
the flame-menaced community of
150 persons.
Reports from the camp said the
main blaze had swept up the Britain
River valley but that the wind now
was dying. The men were building
breaks around the tall end of the
fire.
The flames have already consumed
13,000,000 feet of felled timber and
more than a dozen pieces of logging
machinery.
Meanwhile, 150 fought on to savf
what timber remained on Cracrof*
Island, 150 miles northwest of here
The fire there Monday wiped out
the community of Forward Bay and
forced evacuation of 71 persons.
Officials of the British Columble
service said that although the forest
fire situation was still tense through
out the province, most other blaze.1
were under control. j
WEATHER REPORT
(U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU
Temperature* {or 24-Hour Period
ending 6:20 o'clock this morning
At Airport—Maximum, 74;
minimum, 43.
FORECAST
Unm **l vicinity)
Considerable cloudiness to
night with lowest tempera
ture near 50 degrees. Partly
cloudy and not quite so warm
Friday with highest temper
ature near 65.
PRECIPITATION
(Put 24 hour* ending 7:30 am today
At Airport — None;
since July 1—5.52 Inches.
Death Follows Hoax
A few minutes utter telling; her
father that her boy friend had
been killed in Korea, Patricia
Louise (Pat) Francis, 16, (above),
was found shot to death with a
pistol at her side In Indianapolis.
But the boy, Raymond Lowell Clif
ton, was alive In Cincinnati. Po
lice ai'e trying to find out who
told her he was dead. (P) Wire
photo.
'Old' Board
Meets to Okay
Adsof'New'
Attorney General Won't
Recognize New One-Ter
ritorial Bldg. Approved
To ratify actions of the "new”
Board of Administration, created
under the Reorganization Act pass
ed bv the last legislature, a meet
ing of the “old” board was held in
the office of Gov. Ernest Oruenlng
this morning.
Among the actions taken was ap
proval of the new Territorial build
ing, he said. However, the Governor
said, Territorial Treasurer Henry
Roden, secretary of the board which
met this morning, kept the minuter
and could furnish full information
on what transpired.
Roden said he would have the
minutes written up this afternoon
and would give a press release to
morrow.
Present at the meeting were the
governor as chairman, J. Gerald
Williams, attorney general; Henry
Roden, treasurer; Neil Moore, aud
itor; and Everett Erickson, commis
sioner of education. Frank Metcalf,
highway engineer, also a member
of the board, was out of town.
These men comprise the Board of
Administration as created by Chap
ter 86 during the 1933 session of the
Alaska legislature.
The new board, created under
the last session of the legislature
consists of the governor, the at
torney general, the tax commis
sioner, two members of the House
of Representatives and two mem
bers of the Territorial Senate.
Legality Questioned
At a meeting of the new board
in July a resolution was passed ap
proving construction of the Alaska
office building, at which* time At
torney General Williams advised
members it would be wise to secure
the approval of the 1933 board in
order that there would be no ques
tion of legality of the action.
Williams still maintains there is
bat one board.
“In my opinion,” he Mid this
moraine, “the to-called new board
la Illegal and legal action can be
taken only by THE board of ad
ministration.* '
It was reported that the board
also this morning unfroze the bal
ance of a $250,000 appropriation for
all community-owned hospitals. This
money was frozen folowing the 1949
session of the legislature when pros
pective revenues for the Territory
did not meet money appropriated.
Hospital ‘Private’
Moore, when asked if this would
include the Seward hospital, for
which he disallowed a voucher of
$82,070 last week, for construction
of a nurses’ home said:
"Vouchers turned into me listed
the owners of the hospital as the
Methodist Board of Missions and as
long as the hospital is under private
ownership I cannot, under law, re
lease th'e money. If and when the
hospital is turned over to the muni
cipality the money will be paid to
the city of Seward.”
FROM SEWARD
D. Sherman Starr oi me Alaska
Telephone Co. from Seward ar
rived here yesterday on PAA from
Seattle and is stopping at the
Baranof Hotel.
Princess Kathleen 'Badly
Holed' in Collision Near
Prince Rupert; None Hurl
Senate Will Consider
Statehood Bill Afler
Recess, Says Solon
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30— <jfl —
Senator McFarland (D-Arlzi said
today the Alaska and Hawaii state
hood bills will be taken up in the
Senate "shortly after we reconvene.”
This probably will be in January.
McFarland, the Senate maJorit>
leader, said the two bills cannot be
considered before the proposed Oct.
1 recess of the Senate.
"But right after we come back,
or shortly after, whenever that
might be, we expect to take them
up,” he told a reporter.
The Senate leader said he could
not set a definite time for the
statehood bills "because there might
be some defense measures that would
have to be taken up first.”
Present plans call for a Congres
sional recess from October to Jan
uary.
The statehood bills were passed
by the House In the last Congress,
but failed to reach a Senate vote.
The strategy of statehood advo
cates this year is to obtain Senate
passage before the issue is debated
in the House.
300,000 WillLose
Draft Deferments
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30— Ifl —
New draft regulatons now awaiting
President Trumanjs approval would
deprive well over 30QJKK) men of
Present draft deferments.
Selective Service said yesterday
that between 150,000 and 200,000
| childless married men will lose their
, defer*i,cnts under 'lie . nd*
An estimated 150,000 4-f's are ex
pected to be drafted when the arm
ed forces' mental standards are
lowered.
The new regulations will carry out
provisions of the universal military
training and service (UMTS) act.
The act also calls for reclassifi
cation of thousands of displaced
persons who are permanent resi
dents of this country but not yet
U. S. citizens.
And some 9,000 conscientious ob
jectors, heretofore deferred outright,
will be required to do essential de
fense work.
FERRY MAY RUN UNTIL
MIDDLE OF OCTOBER
Alaska ferry, M-V Chilkoot, which
runs between Juneau. Haines and
at times Skagway, will probably
cease operations about the middle
of October,' according to Henry
Roden, territorial treasurer.
The ferry made two trips tc
Haines this week. It went up Sun
day, returned Monday evening, and
then made a return trip to Haines
this morning to pick up freight it
could not carry on the Monday trip
to Juneau.
Roden said activity at Lutak Bay,
where the army is building a dock,
has caused considerable local traffic.
Date of its final trip this fall,
Roden said, will depend on demand
for service and upon weather con
ditions.
Slock Quotations
NEW YORK, Aug. 30—tB—Clos
ing quotation of Alaska Juneau
mine stock today is 2%, American
Tel. and Tel. 161 %, Anaconda 47‘4,
Douglas Aircraft 53*4, General El
ectric 5944. Oeneral Motors 49%,
Goodyear 95 %, Kennecott 7944, Lib
by, McNeill and Libby 9'4, North
ern Pacific 48%, Twentieth Century
Fox 20%. U. 8 Steel 43, Pound
2.79 15 16, Canadian Exchange 94.50.
Sales today were 1,950,000 shares.
Averages today were as follows:
industrials 269.94, rails 80.36, util
ities 45.03.
Ship Movements
Baranof due southbound Sunday
afternoon.
Princess Norah scheduled to ar
rive from Skagway Friday at 8 a.m.
sailing southbound one hour later.
Aleutian due to sail from Seattle
Friday, arriving at Juneau Sept. 3.
AT THE BARANOF
W. C. Arnold of the Alaska Can
ned Salmon Industry, is stopping
at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM DETROIT
Edna Bas of Detroit, Mich, is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
PRINCE RUPERT, B C Aug. 30
—Ml—Two cruise ships collided in
dense fog today 29 miles northwest
of this northern port.
No one was reported Injured In
the ramming of Canadian National
Steamships’ 4,000-ton Prince Ru
pert and Canadian Pacific Steam
ships’ 6,000-ton Princess Kathleen.
First reports said the 300 pas
sengers aboard the Kathleen were
transferred to the Rupert but this
could not be confirmed Immedi
ately. ,
Both ships were making slow
progress toward Prince Rupert nnd
were scheduled to arrive here
about noon.
The Kathleen was reported bad
ly holed from the forecastle to
waterline while the Rupert said
she was “slightly damaged."
There were 180 passengers aboard
the Rupert.
The Rupert left here at mid
night last night for Ketchikan,
Alaska. The Kathleen was return
ing from that port.
Both ships sail every 10 days
from Vancouver on northern crui
ses. Most of the passengers are
usually American tourists.
Skipper of the Rupert is Capt.
William Eccles. Capt. O. O. Hughes
Is Master of the Kathleen.
The Kathleen departed for Skag
way from Juneau Aug. 25. She
sailed for Vancouver on Monday.
No passengers got on or off in Ju
neau, William McFarland, CPR
agent, said.
He had heard nothing of the
collision this morning. It possibly
happened in Grenville Channel, he
said.
Intellectual Fraud
in Public Life
Beyond Law; Hoover
DES MOIKES, Aug. 30— W —
Herbert Hoover declared today
this nation is experiencing “a can
cerous growth of intellectual dis
honesty in public life which is
mostly beyond the law.”
“These evils," the country’s only
living former President warned in
a belated birthday address, "have
defeated nations many times in
human history. The redemption of
mankind by America will depend
upon our ability to cope with these
evils right here at home.
"In its frustration, the Con
gress is groping for some sort
of rode of ethics which might
protect the citizen from his own
officials. Mnch as Congress has
my good wishes, something
stronger than a new code of
ethics is needed in America.
‘Wider Laws’
“Congress can well widen the
laws so as to clutch the new kinds
of bribes and benefits they have
discovered. But Congress cannot
reach Intellectual dishonors.”
But, he said right will triumph
"because I know America is turn
ing its face away from the maud
lin left isms and the spread of
untruths of the past two decades.
“We sense the frauds of men’s
minds and morals. Moral indig
nation is on the march again.
I cannot but feel there is
strength in character and truth
and decent living. And it will
triumph.”
The nation s elder statesman this
year deferred his customary birth
day address until today. His 77th
birthday was Aug. 10.
Hoover’s remarks were made to
thousands of Iowans assembled at
the state fair.
Arctic Menu
Served Governors
In Far North
A dinner of products all grown
north of the Arctic Circle was one
of the highlight* enjoyed by Oov.
Ernest Qruening and Gov. Thom
as E. Dewey of New York i)n
their trip recently.
Gruening said today it was
served them at Kotzebue follow
ing dedication of the airport there
last Sunday. On the menu among
other things were caribou, cran
berry sauce, celery, carrots and
cauliflower.
The governor returned yester
day from Anchorage where he saw
Dewey off for New York following
his week in Alaska.
Monday afternoon Gruening
is leaving for McKinley National
Park where he is scheduled to open
the second Alaska science confer
ence to be held there Sept. 4 to 8.
He will return to Juneau Friday.