ROBRT EUGENE
CREW IS SAFE;
CARGO INSURED
1 SEATTLE, Aug. 23—itf)—The five
man crew of the 130-ton motor ves
sel Robert Eugene was reported safe
on Addenbroke Island on the firit
Ish Columbia coast today after the
Alaska-bound ship was grounded
in sinking condition yesterday.
Addenbroke is about 50 miles be
yond the northern tip of Vancouver
Island, in Fitzhugh Sound on the
mainland coast.
District Coast Guard headquarters
received word that the five men
landed on the island late yester
day. The vessel, with more than
100 tons of cargo for Juneau mer
chants, was reported submerged off
shore. with only Us upper sections
above water at high tide.
1 (Messages reaching Coast Guard
headquarters hi Juneau this af
ternoon said that the Dorothea, a
vessel owned by Martin B. Dahl,
reached the scene of the sinking
at 11:14 a.m. today. The Dorothea
had taken the crew of the Robert
Eugene aboard, the messages stat
ed.)
The Robert Eugene Is owned by
M B Dahl and Sons, Inc., of Ju
neau, Alaska. The Seattle ageftt of
the firm said today the tug Salvor
had been ordered from Vancouver,
B. C.. to the grounding scene to
try to free the vessel.
It was learned in Juneau today
that both the cargo and vessel were
fully insured. Local merchants who
had cargo aboard were Case Lot
Grocery' Bert's Grocery, Juneau
Young Hardware Co., Thomas Hard*
ware, Juneau Bakery and Purity
Bakery. Marshall Erwin had a new
Pontiac sedan on board.
Other Boats Miaaing
Two Tacoma sports fishermen
w'ere overdue off the Oregon Coast,
They were Avery Richardson, a
sporting goods store operator, and
W F. AltenbaUgh. Both are about
60. They failed to return from a
Sunday fishing trip in an 18-loot
cabin boat.
Another missing man was Herbert
A. Lerner, who was sailing the 15
foot yacht Santa Maria from Set
tle to the Virgin Islands. His boat
was seen Sunday evening, drifting
at sea off the Columbia mouth on itc
side with a gaping hole in the bow.
Baranof Westward This
Ml.; Southbound Sunday
The Baranof sailed tlfBh after
noon at 2:46 for the westward
with Betty McOowan, Dianna Field,
B. C. Bell and Mr. and lire. B. 8.
Robertson embarking for Seward.
The Baranof returns southbound
Sunday afternoon at 6 o’clock.
SYNNtSTVDT, BERSETH
ON CANNfeRY BUSINESS
Two officials of the New England
Fish Company were here on busi
ness this week, and left for Seattle
today.
H. Synnestvedt, president, and
Oscar Bergseth, general superinten
dent visited the New England can
nery at Chathm yesterday, return
ing late in the day. Synnestvedt
planned to meet his wife in' Ketchi
kan for the rest bf the Prince deorge
cruise on which.; they arrived here.
Mrs. Synnestvedt had continued the
voyage - to IftkgWh* and Ketchikan
while her husband was. occupied
with business matters here.
TRIANGLE
Mrs. Charles Tuckett
Will Be Honor Guest
At Tea on Saturday
For Mrs. Charles Tuckett, for
I merly of Douglas, who is visiting
j friends on Gastineau Channel, Mrs.
; Chris Ehrendreich and Mrs. Leigh
Grant will be hostesses at a tea
: Saturday afternoon.
The at-home will be at the
Ehrendreich residence from 3 until
5:30 o’clock.
Mrs. Ehrendreich and Mrs. Grant
have issued no special invitations
| but invite all friends of the visitor
; to call and greet her.
Mrs. Tuckett, whose home is now
In Seattle, will be here for about
three v&eeks.
CANADIAN SHIPS
ARE TIED UP IN
RAILWAY STRIKE
VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 23—(JFI
—The national railway strike cast a
darkening shadow today across
Canada’s Pacific Northwest.
As in the rest of Canada, the
strike began shortly after dawn
yesterdy in British Columbia. In
this area 5,000 operating trainmen
and coastal seamen of the Canadian
Pacific and Canadian National rail
ways went on an enforced holiday.
The five Princess ships of Canad
ian Pacific steamships, which con
nect Vancouver by sea with Seattle
and Victoria, B. C. bobbed at unfam
iliar anchor in English Bay here.
Hedley S. Hipwell, Vancouver
tourist association president, said
tourist traffic, an imporant indus
try in British Columbia, would be
hurt badly.
Continuation of the 6trike would
be a staggering blow at British Col
umbia's main industries—lumber,
mining, fishing and agriculture.
In Juneau, W. K. McFarland, lo
cal CPR agent, said that none of
his company’s vessels are expected
to sail for Alaska until further no
tice.
DIRECT SUBSIDIES
ARE RECOMMENDED
FOR UJ. AIRLINES
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 — Ufl —
The Route Commerce Committee
voted today * <«w at sarmarkmg
subsidies to altlinej as such and not
lndlildliMs thetn in airmail pay.
Tfoe committee, by a vote of 15
to 2, approved a bill by Hep. Hesel
ton (R-Mass.) for separation of
mail pay and subsidies.
It would direct the Civil Aero
nautics Board to put the new sys
tem Into effect beginning July 1,
1951.
Any subsidy needed to keep the
airline industry healthy financially
would be paid by the Civil Aero
nautics Board.
Plenty 0< Salmon
On Columbia River;
Doesn't Help Here
ASTORIA, Ore., Aug. 23 — (M —
Sports fishermen, on the lower Col
umbia River in everything from
outboard boats to mahogany-lined
ketch, today reported the big sal
mon run is giving them good luck.
The run appeared in the river
late Monday and commercial fish
ermen have been making heavy
cgtchtt in the last week of the
commercial season.
Sports fishermen have reported
a number of catches of 40 and 41
pbunds, with ohe weighing 42. One
pRrty of fotir reported that all
njembers got salmon yesterday with
weights ranging from 26 to 35
INJURED MAN BEING FLOWN .
TO JUNEAU BY CG PLANE
A crewman from the fishing ves
sel California Rose was being flown
ffom Chatham, about 100 miles
southwest of Juneau, after suffering
a back injury today.
A Cogst Guard aircraft from An
nette Island left at 1 p.m. to bring
the injured man to Juneau. Ris
name was not given In messages
reaching Coast Guard headquarters
hete.
GRATEFUL RAILROAD
BUTTB, Mutt.—UR—'Twp Butte
girls collected $25 apiece for avert
ing a possible train wreck. Marlene
BroOkbush, 13. and Joan Beckman,
12, discovered a broken rail neat
Rocker ahd notified the station
agent. The Milwaukee railroad sent
each girl a check.
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Plumbing • Healing
Oil Burners
Telephone Bine 737 Nighti-Red 730
Barri Machine Shop, Inc.
12th and E Street
Inspecting New Equipment
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Mrs. Crystal Snow Jennc, Juneau Postmaster, tries out new auto
matic mailing machine recently installed at local Post Office parcel
post window.
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FOUR ALASKA POST
OFFICES RECEIVE
MAILING MACHINES
The Post Office parcel post wln
I dow service will soon be mechan
; ized in 4 cities in Alaska where
post offices will replace stamps
with postage meters. The new ser
vice cuts down waiting-in-line time
at parcel windows and speeds pack
ages on their way without so much
as the lick of a stamp.
The installations are part of a
new contract for special postage
meters which the Post Office De
partment has awarded Pitney-Bowes
Inc., makers of mailing machines
for business and government. The
machines will be installed in some
100 cities and towns in the United
States and Territories, twenty-four
of them getting the service for the
first time.
Here is how the system works;
the window clerk at the parcel
post window, after weighing your
package and computing the fee,
takes your money and touches
levers on the electrically-operated
postage meter machine.
Out pops a small printed label,
gummed and even automatically
moistened, complete with postage
1 of the exact value, plus the city
| postmark and date of mailing. It
i is slapped on your package, and
I the transaction is over. Time spent
i waiting in line is halved, and
I stamp-licking abolished.
I Mechanically, the new device is
| a cousin of the familiar postage
i meter usel by business firms under
government license to stamp and
seal letters in their offices and to
prepay parcel post charges in their
shipping rooms.
The new post office model com
pletely eliminates the storing, sel
ecting, handling and affixing of
the various denominations of
stamps needed to make up the
postage charges and fees, since any
value—from lc to $10.00—is issued
instantly in a single “meter Stamp.”
In a test installation in a large
Eastern post office, a queue of
sixty parcol-laden people was ser
ved in exactly ten minutes.
Hygienically minded people like
the new system because it does
away with the handling and tongue
licking of stamps.
There are major savings to Uncle
, Sam as well as postal patrons, since
the machine not only speeds up
window and counter service, but
“metered" parcels require no can
celing and postmarking and can be
more quickly sorted for early train
dispatch.
Another advantage claimed is
that post office inspectors, cashiers
and clerks are protected by auto
matic and foolproof postage control
and accounting, since the meter’s
registers can be read like gas or
water meters; and the postage, ev€n
when imprinted, is non-negotiable.
The metered mail system, orig
inated thirty years ago by the Pit
ney-Bowes Company, has now
| ‘ ' ~
[ reached the point where last year
.metered mail revenues to the Post
' Office Department were over $500,
000,000—36% of all- postage paid
on U. S. mail.
U. N. Forces Throw in
Everything to Slow
Down 90,000 Ko-Reds
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power and oxen are being used by
the Reds to move food and ammu
nition.
Again today allied planes lashed
at Red targets. B-29's hit at three
northern east coast cities—Chong
jin, 60 miles from Siberia, Songjin
and Hamhung. The superforts also
blasted rail yards at Pyongyang,
the northern capital. At dawn
Wednesdy, American and Austral
• ,i lighters took off to support
allied troops at the front.
Yaks Attack U. N. Ships
Naval patrols continued on the
east and west coasts. Warships
bombarded east coast ports. Two
Russian-built Yak fighter planes
attacked the British destroyer Co
mus Tuesday, but the ship was re
ported undamaged. Two Yaks hit
at South Korean naval units in the
Yellow Sea Wednesday.
In the matter of costs for Korea,
Secretary of Defense Johnson and
other military leaders have cau
tioned Congress they may have to
ccme back for more money on top
of the $10,500,000,000 President Tru
man asked for the Korean war.
U.W. FISHERIES INSTITUTE
DIRECTOR ON RESEARCH
Although Dr. William T. Thomp
son has spent most of the past
; several months in the Territory he
is visiting Southeast Alaska for the
first time in a year.
Director of the University of
Washington Fisheries Research In
stitute, Dr. Thompson has been in
the Bristol Bay area and other dis
tricts to the westward during the
early season. He expects to go to
Sitka for a short stay, return here
for a few day, then go to points
along and In the Bering Sea. He
arrived yesterday from Ketchikan,
and is a guest at the Baranof
Hotel.
Dr. Thompson says five vessels
manned by Fisheries Institute staff
members are in Southeast Alaskan
waters to survey the spawning
grounds. Two are in Icy Strait, the
others near Wrangell, Ketchikan
and off the west coast of Prince
of Wales Island.
The Institute started research
here in i947, and continues to try
to learn what happens to the pink
salmon runs, how to remedy the
weak runs and forecast future ones.
Its biology work here is correlated
with findings from other Alaskan
waters.
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To Increase
Number Men
In Germany
FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 23
—(>P—High American officials dis
closed here today that the United
States is considering a build-up of
its aimed forcgs in Germany to
bolster the defense of West Europe
against possible Communist attack.
Discussions are now going on in
Washington, the officials said, on
how many more troops, should be
sent.
Washington also is discussing the
possibility of acceding to West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's
demand for a well-armed police
army lo counter the Russian-spon
sored "people’s army in East Ger
many. Details of the strength of
such a police force are now being
worked out, the informants said.
American officials were said to
favor wholeheartedly the proposed
reinforcement of the U. S. occupa
tion forces here.
They point out that the Russians
have an estimated 20 or more
combat divisions, numbering about
300.000 men in their East German
done, making up part of the 60
divisions they are said to have in
Europe.
The Americans, British, and
French together have a total of
only five combat divisions, plus ser
vice troops in Germany. The Am
erican contingent now numbers
around 100,000 men.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
TO GET TWO MORE
CHARTER VESSELS
SEATTLE, Aug. 23—In'.—Two more'
ships are being turned over to the
Alaska Steamship Co. for military
sea transportation service operation,
D. E. Skinner. Vice President and
general manager of Alaska Steam
ship, announced today.
The vessels are the Clovis Victory
now in Alameda, Calif., and the
Bedford Victory, which is in Bal
timore.
The vessels will be turned over
to the Alaska Steamship Co. under
Bareboat Charter Aug. 28 and
simultaneously rechartered to the
M.S.T.S.
The steamship Joliet Victory was
the first vessel assigned to Alaska
Steam under the present program.
The company took delivery on it
In New York last week.
FRANK PHILLIPS
IS DEAD TODAY
ATLANTIC fITY, N. J.—I At—
Frank Phillips, 76-year-old Okla
homa oil magnate, died today at
Atlantic City hospital.
Frank Phillips’ acumen and his
willingness to gamble for high stakes
were largely responsible for a $350,
000.000 oil empire that spread from
Oklahoma's Osage hills across 33
states, Canada and Central and
South America.
He was the first white child born |
in Ofeeley county, Neb. A year after .
his birth, November 28, 1873. a 1
grasshopper scourge drove his par- i
ents into Iotva and he grew up on
a farm near Creston, getting his j
education in a rural school to which j
he trudged on foot over pioneer ■
wagon trails.
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Striking Rail Unions
Promise to Avoid
Nationwide Tieup
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23— OH —
Two striking rail unions promised
“for the time being” today to keep
their token walkouts from spreading
into a tieup of nationwide propor
tions.
Leaders or 300.000 trainmen and
conductors agreed to withdraw
their threat to strike one or more
major railroads when this week’s
five-day shutdowns at three term
inals and two steel-carrying rail
roads have run their course.
The White House kept up its
determined prodding for a solution
to the long wage-hour dispute be
tween the two unions and the na
tions' principal railroads.
Presidential Assistant John R.
Steelman asked negotiations com
mittees of the carriers arid unions
to be ready to resuirie talk's at anfr'
moment.
The union chiefs said through a
spokesman that they would forego
ny new walkout orders out of Jam-,
sideration for President Truman’*
peace efforts.
I Due to the destruction by fire of all records and
accounts, we would appreciate prompt settle
ment of all accounts due PACKARD’S MARINA.
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