PARADE HONORS
ARMED FORCES
DAY SATURDAY
Final plans for the Armed Forces
parade and open houses are an
nounced today by the Alaska Na
tional Guard, Armed Forces Day
sponqprs
The parade is set for 11 a.m. with
route of march east on Front, street,
north to Fourth, past reviewing
stand at Federal building, then
south on Main street. A public ad
dress system manned by Alaska
Communication .System personnel
will be used as the marchers pass
along Fourth street.
Chief of Police Bernard Hulk re
quests the cooperation of all motor
ists in keeping the route of march
clear of traffic between 11 and
11.30 a.m., Saturday. Fourth street
between Franklin and Main will be
closed to parking during the half
hour period Motorists are requested
not to park on the remainder of
the parade route during the parade
Boy Scouts will assist Juneau po
lice in directing traffic. A space
large enough for the high school
band will be barricaded between the
site of the old fire station and the
site of the library. The public i
requested to keep this space clear
as the band will halt there and
play as the marchers pass the re
viewing stand.
In the event of rain, the band
will not parade but will be station
ed under thf. ma^upe jit Alaska
Electric Light Co. and the review
ing stand will be opposite them near
the Baranof hotel entrance.
Open houses are as follows: Alas
kas National Guafd headquarters in
the subport from 1 to 3 p.m.; Alaska
Communication System in the Fed
eral building and mile seven and
mile 11 stations ■ from 2 to 4 pun.;
and aboard the U.S. Coast Guard
Cutter Storis from 2 to 4 p.m.
Display windows at Juneau Young
Hardware feature National Guard
clothing while the Alaska- Electric
Light Co. window displays show in
fantry feapons of the National
Guard and a war souvenir display
sponsored by Headquarters Detach
ment, Alaska National Guard, and
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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B. WASHBURN
TO CLIMB MT.j
THIRIHIMf
boSTQN, May 18, — M —Moun
tain iclimbor Bradford Washburt),
tbejmly man who has twice climb
ed North America’s highest peak,
1)0,270 foot Mt. McKinley, is going
tip for a tthird time.
This,.-time WashburB' is aiming at
the western face of'the mountain
which "has never before been ap
proached on foot.”
The 40-year-old explorer and di
rector of Boston’s museum of Sci
ence left today for Fairbanks, Al
aska, where he will Interrupt his
preparations to speak at commen
cement at the University or Alaska.
Washburn will lead a party of
seven on the climb on which he
hopes to complete map work be
gun five years ago.
; Other members of the expedition
will be: Capt. William D. Hackett
USA,’ Fort Richardson, Alaska: T.
M. Griffiths, University of Den
ver Glaciologist;; pi,. Harry Bueh
tel and Dr. John Ambler of Den
ver; James JS. Gale. Anchorage,
Alaska; Jerry More of Denver, a
student at Dartmouth College; and
Barry C. Bishop, a student of the
University of Cincinnati.
• ' Washburn climbed McKinley in
1942 and 1947. The members of
the expedition will meet June 15
at Wonder Lake and will start with
a 10-horse pack train.
Later they will depend on sup
plies dropped by planes.
A museum spokesman said the
climbers will carry as little equip
ment as possible in tackling an
8,000 foot high snow pass at the
head of Peters Glacier.
Then they will go on to the 10,
000 foot pass which divides Peters
Glacier and the 40-mile Kahilma
Glacier, longest glacier in the Mc
Kinley range.
The party hopes to reach Kahitt
na Pass before the end of June
and will establish the main base
camp.
From that camp their Journey is
"down into unexplored Kahiltna
Glacier and up the west side of
McKinley," the museum spokesman
said.
He added: ‘‘In early July they
will explore the west ridge of Mc
Kinley. This is a much steelier
route than the east side but from
Washburn’s aerial survey appears
safer, with fewer crevasses."
EIGHT TRAVEL ON
ELLIS AIRLINES
Seven passengers arrived Friday
on Ellis Airlines with two traveling
on interport.
Arriving from Ketchikan: Joe
Krause, C. L. McCoy, Fred Bryant,
Dorothy Kelley, Roy McDougall, J.
Peterson.
From Petersburg: Mr Brown
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Undecided on Future
James N. Gape, 46-year-old salesman of Cuyahoga Falls, O., shown with Mrs. Gape and their two
children, Grade, 5, left, and David 7, has inherited an English estate worth nearly $250,000, but to get
it he must live in England permanently. Mrs. Gape thinks the l.CCO acres in Cambridgeshire would be
wonderful for the children, but the Gapes have as yet made no decision. UP) Wirephoto.
DRAFT AGE
BE LOWERED
COM.SAYS
WASHINGTON, May 18. — (ID —
A Senate-house committee, working
on a new draft law, agreed today
to lower the draft age to 18 years
and six months and extend selec
tive service until July 1, 1955.
However, this settled only two
points of difference between separ
ate draft bills passed by the Sen
ate and House. i •
The committee will meet again,
at a time not yet set, in an effort
to iron out other emergencies.
■ The present minimum draft age
is 19. The senate voted to lower it
to 18 for both active service and
for a proposed future universal
training program.
The House had set 18'-i for both
active duty and UMT. The com
promise will allaw the induction of
18 year olds for training only, when
and if this deadlock is ended.
MADELINE LANGFELT
REPORTED DEAD, SITKA
Word was received here today
that Madeline Langfelt, daughter
of Joe Riedi, Sr., of Douglas, had
died in Sitka. Her husband Henry
Langfelt works at Mt. Edgecumbe.
The message said that Mrs. Lang
feldt passed away suddenly this
morning. 3esides her father, she
is survived by a brother Joe Riedi,
Jr., of Douglas and a sister, Mrs.
James E. Scoll of Renton, Wash.
Funeral arrangements will be an
nounced later.
AT HOTEL JL'NEAU
Earl J. Fleming who has been
teaching school near Ketchikan re
turned to Juneau yesterday and is
staying at the Hotel Juneau.
M. E. Goetz of Tacoma is regis
tered at the Baranof Hotel.
87 CARRIED ON
ALASKA COASTAL
; THURSDAY TRIPS
Passengers carried on Alaska
I Coastal Airlines Thursday totaled
j 87 with 29 on interport, 34 depart
I ing and 24 arriving.
Departing for Pelican: Ken Al
len, Howard Hayes; for Hoonah:
Mr. and Mrs. Eli Hanlon, George
, Mayeda, Mr. and Mrs. G. Dalton,
Johnson Simpkin; for Excursion
Inlet; O. Syre; for Petersburg: O.
Mimhall, M. Glasbrock, T. C.
Whiteside.
For Ketchikan: C. F. Wyller, C.
McCoy; for Haines: George Towle;
for Skagway: Christine Vance, P.
Vance, E. W. Hubbard, W. Vance,
Mrs. E. P. Vance; for Sitka: Mrs.
H. Roecloud, Max Penrod, Eliza
beth Holstrom, Tommy Kelloy, M.
Rogers, Herman Wick, Mr. and
Mrs. John Garcia, Rex Utter, Bill
Howard, Mr. and Mrs. M. Mitro
vitch, W. E. Mitchell, M. F. Kelly.
Arriving from Sitka: E. Steven
son, Max Rogers. Tom McNulty, D.
Kantola, T. Curtcs, C. Cyapana, K.
Snowden, M. Kelly; from Angoon:
George Jones; from Tenakee: W.
H. Schwind.
From Haines: George Towle, D.
Wallace, C. W. Kerns; from Skag
way: B. T. Marlowe, Loretta Or
telano, James Nixon, Michael Fol
som, John Dodge.
From Ketchikan: Lee Hubbard,
James Camp, Earl Fleming; from
Petersburg: Harriet Cooke; from
Pelican: Mrs. Lammers, Edna Lar
sen.
BROWNIE TROOP MEETS
Brownie Scout Troop No. 3 met
Saturday in the Elks Hall. Mrs.
Robert Thorn, a Soroptomist Club
member helped us pot plants for
our Mothers Day gifts. We planned
a cook-out for this Saturday. Jhe
meeting closed with Brownie songs.
Marjorie Flint, reporter.
FROM CRAIG
D. D. Mesdahl of Craig is stay
ing at the Baranof Hotel.
You are invited to the
53rd Annual
DANCE
-of the
l
Douglas Fire Department
HELP YOURSELF TO FUN
While You Help The
B. V. F. B.
Purchase their New Fire Truck
SATURDAY MIGHT
May 19th
EAGLES9 HALL
Douglas
Admission i $1.20
Including Tax
Dancing at 10:30
PAA TO HAVE 11 I
WEEKLY FLIGHTS
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Pan American World Afrways
new summer schedule calls for el
even weekly flights from Seattle
to Juneau, and ten southbound,
reports Fred Dunn, district traffic
and sales manager here. The win
ter operation included seven flights
in each direction.
Dunn has also been advised by
PAA's Seattle headquarters that
the schedule, which goes into ef
fect June 1, will serve as a basic
pattern and will be augmented by
special sections when traffic de
mands them.
RADONICH FUNERAL
TO BE HELD MONDAY
Funeral services for Mrs. Thomas
G. Radonich, mother of Mrs.
Dorothy Pegues, will be held Mon
day afternoon at 2 o'clock in the
Carter Chapel. Details will be an
nounced tomorrow.
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It will be “Merry Christmas”
again today for 33 children at the
Harbor General Hospital in Tor
rance, California. Sailors of the
cruiser Juneau will play Santa
Claus. They couldn i give u.e^..yi
on time—they were on duty in Ko- 1
rea.
JET BOMBER
FALLS SHORT
RECORD GOAL
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif., May 18 —i>P)— A B-47 Boe
ing jet bomber, trying for a nonstop
record from Hawaii to Dayton, O.,
settled today for a 2,600-mile mark
to this base after encountering me
chanical trouble.
The previous announced record
for a bomber of its type was 2,28S
miles from Moses Lake, Wash., to
Andrews Field, Md„ on February
9, 1949.
The pilot, Maj. Robert W. Halli
day. 33, of Ridgewood, N. J„ said
the trouble showed up as the swept
wing Boeing stratojet approached
the California coast, and he chose
to land at Edwards Field, on the
desert at Muric. He did not say what
the trouble was.
Todays flight ended at 8:53 a.m. i
tPST), five hours and 50 minutes
after the bomber left Hickam Field,
Honolulu. It was not a speed record.
The average of 445.7 MPH was well |
below the 1949 flight, made in three
hours and 46 minutes, an average
speed of 607.8 MPH.
The rated combat radius of the
B-47 is 1.000 miles.
Temporary Wage
Ceiling May Get
Big Jolt Shortly
(By Associated Press)
The present temporary wage
ceiling is expected to have a few
big holes in it soon.
The Wage Stabilization Board is
said to be ready to approve most—
if not all—of the 11-cent-an-hour
wage boost for 220.000 packing
house workers. The board is also
expected to give an okay to a four
cent an hour productivity increase
for half-a-million auto workers.
BULLETINS
Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon
says that within one jTtar, Amer
ica’s atomic strength will' oc suf
ficient to spell defeat for Russia.
Universtal military training is
expected to evoke some hot debate
today in Houston, Texas. The sub
ject will te debated there at the
final day of the convention of the
General Federation of Women's
Clubs.
Senate House conferees are go
ing back to the month-old job of
writing a compromise draft and
universal military training bill.
: 1’AIGION =
frost flowers
Here's a delightful classic
that gains real appeal
from the huge whiten a
flowers embroidered . Jj
and appliquM on
the front of it*
soft gathered
skirt. Also
appealing i
Hs crisp little
dub collar
and cap sleeves, its lustrous
white buttons to the waist.
Al STEVENS of Course!
fit evens
COTTON SHOP
223 Seward Street
WILLIAMS DUE HOME
Attorney General J. Gerald Wil
liams was due to return to Juneau
this afternoon from Anchorage
where he has teen the past two
weeks on Territorial business.
T. P. HANSEN HERE
T. P. Hansen of Union Oil Co.
from Ketchikan is at the Baranof
Hotel.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.--Mi
Mack L. McCall bagged a bobcat
with a hammer on a city street.
McCall was driving at night in
nearby Colton when the cat ran
in front of his car. He slammed
on his brakes and jumped out, a
hammer in his hand. He Jung it
and made a lucky hit—on the head.
The animal came out of it and
lunged. McCall bopped it again with
the hammer, putting it away for
good.
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Passenger Service
Northbound
S.S. BARANOF
Tues. May 22
Seward
Sitka
S.S. DENALI
Mon. May 28
Sitka
Seward
Valdez
Southbound
S.S. DENALI
Sun. May 20
Petersburg
Wrangell
Ketchikan
Seattle
S.S. BARANOV
Sun. May 27
Ketchikan
Beattie
Freighter Service
From Seattle ,
May 25
FLEMISH KNOT
Hidden Inlet, Ketchikan, Peters
burg, Juneau, Excursion Inlet,
Hood Bay, Chatham, Waterfall.
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For Information ;
Phones 2 and 4
Juneau
H. E. GREEN, Agent
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