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VOL. LXXIX., NO. 11,973
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1951
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Garland Fund
Tie-up Denied
By Governor
• When called upon today by an
Empire reporter to explain the gov
ernor’s name being listed as an
official of the Garland Fund in an
excerpt of the California Senate
committee on un-American activities
printed in Friday’s Empire, Gov.
Ernest Gruening said he couldn’t
explain it, and reiterated that he
had never been a member of the
organization.
Reproduced were pages of the
California committee's investigation
of Communist front organizations,
including the Garland Fund, and
lists of men and women said to be
officials of the organizations. These
reproduced pages listed the Daily
Worker (a New York Red news
paper) and the Young Communist
League among other firms and
organizations as alleged benefici
aries of the Garland Fund.
Following are questions asked by
the reporter, and answers given by
the governor:
Reporter: “Were you, to your
knowledge, an officer or director of
the Garland Fund or any of its
subsidiaries?”
Gov. Gruening: “The Empire
asked me this question on Novem
ber 5, 1951, and I then replied that
I had never been an officer or di
rector of the Garland Fund, and
had had no connection with it
whatever. This reply was printed
1n the Empire on page 3, November
5, 1951, and so there is no particu
lar point in my repeating my state
ment since the Empire already had
this information, but I am glad to
do so.”
Reporter: "If yours and others’
names were used without yours or
others’ knowledge, how did that
come about?”
Gov. Gruening: “The answer is,
‘I do not know.’ It would have
been good and fair journalism to
have made these inquiries before
publication and to have secured
the answers.”
Reporter: "If you gave permis
sion to use your name, what was
your understanding of the purpose
of the Garland Fund?”
Gov. Gruening: “I never gave my
permission to anybody to use my
name in connection with the Gar
land Fund and had no firsthand
knowledge of the Fund or its pur
pose.”
To other questions concerning the
governor’s alleged connection with
the Garland Fund, Gov. Gruening’s
only replies were that he had an
swered them in his denial that he
had ever been connected with the
Fund.
TheWashington
Merry-Go-Round
(Copyright.' 1951. by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
By DREW PEARSON
rf ASHINGTON. — Exuberant
George Bender, the Ohio Cong
ressman, popped the question to
General Eisenhower during a two
and ' one-half hour relaxed chat
with the General in Paris.
Bender, a rootin’-tootin’ Taft
supporter, looked Ike in the eye
and said with a grin: "General, is
you or ain’t you, and how?”
General Eisenhower’s eyes
twinkled but lie made no direct
reply. Instead he emphasized to
Bender and three other visiting
congressmen the great importance
of his job in Europe. It was vital
to the safety of mankind to rearm
Europe, the General said, no mat
ter what individual sacrifices were
involved.
Young Dick Bolling, the clean
cut Kansas City Democrat, sug
gested in half-humorous vein:
"General, if you do run for Pres
ident, I am sure you will be much
happier on the Democratic ticket.”
Eisenhower did not answer that
one either, but Rep. Leon Gavin,
Pennsylvania Republican, did, and
in no uncertain terms.
"The Republican party is the
only party of free enterprise,” he
said loudly and firmly. “The Dem
ocrats are all Socialists and you
would not get along with them.”
At another point in the conver
sation, Congressman Bender ask
ed Ike: “What about that Arthur
Krock story in the Newr York
Times saying you and President
Truman talked politics?”
This was the only time during
the visit that the General appear
ed upset or irritated. “There was
not a word of truth to the story,”
he said indignantly and with great
firmness. He added that he could
not understand why a reputable
newsman would fall for, “such a
phony.”
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Ketchikan Liquor
Dealers Pay Total
Of $5,000 Fines
Thirteen Ketchikan liquor deal
ers paid fines of $200 each and
the Ketchikan Retail • Liquor
Dealers association paid a fine of
$2,400 after nolo contendere plea^
to price-fixing charges were ac
cepted by Judge George W. Folta
in U. S. District Court Friday af
ternoon in Ketchikan.
This made a $5,000 total in fines
paid by the liquor men in the an
ti-trust suits brought against them
by the 'U. S. government. The
liquor, dealers had previously of
fered to pay fines of $5,000 against
the association with the individual
cases dismissed. The court refused
to accept this disposition, accord
ing to P. J. Gilmore, Jr., U. S. At
torney in Juneau.
Previously, meat dealers of Ket
chikan had paid fines totalling
$2,800 in a compromise settlement
after entering no contest pleas.
The meat dealers had been charg
ed with boycotting rather than
price-fixing as in the case against
the liquor dealers.
Pioneer Alaskan,
I Dr. J. H. Romig, 76,
Dies in Colorado
Dr. J. H. Romig, 76, former
Alaskan missionary, author, and
mayor of Anchorage, and U.S. Com
missioner, died Thanksgiving Day
1 in Colorado Springs, Colo., where
he had made his home for the past
10 years, according to advices re
ceived by the Empire.
Dr. Romig came to Bethel in
July, 1896, as a young doctor to the
Moravian Mission there. He spent
41 years in his profession and was
credited with opening the first hos
pital in the Territory west exf Sitka,
i He was first to make use of an
1 esthesia in the Kuskokwim area.
1 He later became U.S. Commis
sioner at Bristol Bay. From 1930
to 1937 he wps chief of staff of the
Alaska Railroad hospital. After his
retirement, he served a term as
mayor of Anchorage.
Dr. Romig’s four children, all
born in Alaska, survive.
Court of Appeals
Upholds Alaska
Air Rate Ruling
I WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—(AV
The U. S. Court of Appeals yes
terday upheld the Civil Aeronau
tics Board’s handling of a case
involving a reduced air fare from
Fairbanks, Alaska, t o Seattle,
Wash.
The board in October, 1950 al
lowed Pan American World Air
ways to put into effect a $75 fare
on cargo planes from Fairbanks
to Seattle. Air Transport Associ
ates, which operates between Al
aska and Seattle, asked the board
to suspend the fare, then went to
court when the board refused.
The board, however, has pend
ing an investigation of this and
other fares.
The court said it found no er
ror in the board's findings in the
case, including its refusal to sus
pend the $75 fare.
Barliefi in Federal
Building Nexl Week
Delegate E. L. “Bob" Bartlett
will have an office in the Federal
building next week for Juneauites
who wish to talk to him about
matters pertaining to Alaska, he
said today.
Delegate Bartlett said he would
be in room 129 from 3:30 to 5:30
p.m. all next week including Sat
urday.
JUNEAU VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Edgecomb
of Pelican- are at the Baranof
Hotel.
WEATHER REPORT
(U. S. WEATHER BUREAU
At Airport: Maximum, 37;
Minimum, 33.
FORECAST
(Juneau and Vicinity)
Cloudy with rain tonight
and Sunday. Southeasterly
wind 15 to 25 mph. Low to
■night near 35 degrees. High
Sunday near 38.
PRECIPITATION
(Past 24 hours endlnf 7:JO a m. today
At Airport — 0.19 inches;
since July 1—17.44 inches.
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Mel Leath Stabs
Son and Self;
Boy Critical
Little 5-year-old Jimmy Leath
is in St. Ann's Hospital today in
a critical condition as a result of
i knife wound in his lung inflic
ted on him last night by his
lather, Melvin Leath.
After stabbing the boy, Leath
knifed himself in the chest ac
cording to his w'ife Mary, and 14
year-old step-daughter Carol, who
were all in the kitchen of their
home at 233 Franklin Street at
1:30 o'clock last night.
While Mrs. Leath grabbed Jim
my and ran into the street to hail
,i passing car, Carol called Juneau
police who arrived to find the
girl nearly hysterical and Leath
lying in a pool of blood on the
kitchen floor. They ordered an
ambulance and took Leath to the
hospital and Carol went to a'
neighbor’s house.
Inder Guard
Leath was placed under arrest
and guard during the night. His
condition was described by his
attending physician as "fair.”
Mrs. Leath said today that
Leath had been drinking and ap
parently went berserk as he called
the little boy to him with, “Come
here Jimmy, I want to tell you
something” and then grabbed a
6-inch blade kitchen knife and
rammed it into the child’s chest.
She snatched the boy from
Leath and ran into the street to
get a taxi or car to take them to
the hospital.
Mrs. Leath said that she would
file charges against Leath. He is
a former guard at the Federal
jail here and has been working
for a construction company on
Douglas Island. She formerly was
a waitress in the Baranof Coffee
Shop.
Atrocity
Victims
Now 8,000
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 — i/P) —
A newly disclosed report from Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway, Supreme Al
lied Commander' in the Far East,
has raised the possible total of
American prisoners slain by Com
munists in Korea to 8,000. That is
2,000 more than previously indi
. cated.
' The new atrocity report was to
the United Nations, and covered
the period through July 20. C.
Herschel Schooley, chief of the
| Pentagon press section, told re
porters about it last night, in re
sponse to inquiries.
It was described as saying exact
1 evidence of executions, obtained
through July 20, numbered about
400 killings.
This report was apparently made
days, or even weeks, before Col
James M. Hanley, chief of the 8th
Army’s war crimes investigations
section, said—on Nov. 14—that the
Reds had slaughtered about 5.50C
of their American prisoners and
290 other Allied prisoners.
Democratic Caucus
Next Wednesday
At Moose Hall
A Democratic caucus has been
called for next week by chairmen
of the preciActs, according to Earl
Forsythe, chairman of Democratic
precinct No. 2.
Forsythe said the caucus, to
elect delegates to the Democratic
Divisional convention at Sitka,
December 13, would be held in
the Moose hall in Juneau, start
ing at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Novem
ber 28.
FROM KETCHIKAN
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wagner of
Ketchikan are at the Baranof
Hotel.
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VISITOR FROM IOWA
Mrs. Peter Meland of Postville,
Iowa is stopping at the Baranof
Hotel.
Alaska scheduled to arrive north
bound Monday morning.
Baranof scheduled to arrive
southbound Monday at 10 a.m.
Freighter Yukon Princess sched
uled to arrive Monday morning from
Vancouver.
President Truman leans over th„‘ speaker’s table, hand to ear, as he
tries tc hear a remark directed at him from a guest at the dinner of
tire National Women’s Democratic Club in Washington. The Presi
dent was caught in this informal, unposed position prior to his
speech U'fore the women Democrats. lie flew to Washington from
his vacation spot in Key West, Fla. t/PI Wirephoto.
Reds Hurl
1,000-Man
Attacks
By JOHN RANDOLPH
SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 24 — i.fl —
Reds hurled thousand-man attacks
at United Nations outposts in four
sectors but today had made no
major change in the fighting front
that may become the bnMs for n
cease-fire line in Korea.
An Allied officer said the attacks
were designed to wipe out small ]
U.N. outposts in front of the main
United ' Nations line. .
"They came at us two or three |
to one, to surround small units on!
hills, then tried to kill as many as j
possible,” he said.
He called it a change from the i
Reds’ “homan sea” wave attacks of!
the past. I
I
The Red tactics apparently were
to bleed the U.N. forces at night, \
then pull back before daylight out i
of range of Allied fighter planes
and artillery.
"But even in the dark firepower
still chews them up,” the officer
said. "That’s why you can hear our j
artillery going so hard.”
The heaviest Red attack came on j
the western front west of Yonchon.
Two Chinese battalions knocked
U.N. forces off a hill on "Little j
Gibraltar” ridge Friday night but
fresh Allies counterattacked in sub
freezing temperatures and by dawn
Saturday had regained the peak.
The Reds threw in a battalion of
reserves Saturday at nightfall and
the fighting raged on in the dark
ness.
Red battalions of about 1,000 men
each hurled hit-and-rifh attacks in
darkness early Saturday at United
Nations outposts north of Yanggu,
northwest of the Punchbowl and
south of Kosong on the east coast.
Danish Arsenal
Explosion Kills
16, Injures 79
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Nov.
24—\JPi—Exploding half-ton mines
last night blasted the Danish Navy’s
arsenal here into a charred tannic
of death and wreckage.
At least 16 firemen and Navy
enlisted men were killed. Others
possibly were blown into the harbor j
or still may be lying under tire j
tangle of concrete and metal debris, i
Seventy-nine others were injured,
at least 20 of them critically.
The violent chain reaction ol
fire and explosion, which destroyed
five buildings and heavily damaged
other navy installations, shattered
windows throughout Copenhagen
set off hundreds of burglar alarms;
and knocked people out of their,
beds as far away as Sweden, 30
miles across the straits.
FROM MOOSEHEART, ILL.
Herman C. Fischer, auditor oi
the Supreme Moose Lodge from
Mooseheart, 111. is in Juneau for
a week or two. He is stopping at,
the Baranof Hotel.
Barkley
Celebrates,
War Front
CENTRAL FRONT, Korea, Nov.
24—Vice President Alben Barkley
celebrated his 74th birthday today
by firing an autographed artillery
shell at the Chinese Reds.
He said he was coming through
his long trip to Korea “in good
shape,” then added “it’s not too
rough.”
When he landed at the forward
airstrip of the U. S. 25th Division,
the division band broke into
"Happy Birthday to You."
"I expect to live to 105, especi
ally after this exhilerating trip
to Korea,” he said with a broad
grin.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, Su
preme Allied Commander, and
Gen. James A. Van Fleet, Eighth
Army Chief, accompanied Barkley
on a swing along the front in an
aerial caravan of light planes.
Agree Upon
Half of Korea
Buffer Zone
MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 24——
United Nations and Communist
staff officers today pinpointed half
I he 145-mile cease-fire line across
Korea.
A U.N. spokesman said Allied
military experts hope to complete
the job tomorrow but “couldn’t make
any guarantees."
The spokesman, Lt. Col. Howard
Levie, indicated that if the staff
officers are unable to map the
entire battle line Sunday, the
joint cease-fire subcommittees
will take over. This apparently
means the full truce delegations
cannot approve the buffer zone
clause before Monday.
The staff officers meet in Pan
munjom for the third time at 10
:>.m. (5 p.m. PST Saturday).
If they fall to reach complete
agreement “it’s not to be consid
ered a failure,” Levie said. He ex
plained that subdelegates have for
more latitude and would be able to
make quick decisions.
The staff officers met for more
than five hours Saturday. Levie
-aid they agreed on 65 to 70 miles
of cease-fire line.
“Our staff officers expect to go
back tomorrow and make consider
able progress right from the be
ginning because both sides will have
liad an opportunity to get the latest
information from the front lines,”
he said.’
While progress was made Satur
day, Levie acknowledged there were
certain areas of major difference.”
Levie said a “major” difference
would involve five miles of terri
tory or a strategic terrain point.
Several times during Saturday's
session the Allied staff officers
agreed to Qy the Communists over
disputed areas for in on-the-spot
inspection.
Levie said the Beds refused each
Advance Parties
Arrive for National
Guard Encampment
Advance parties of Alaska Na
tional Guard units stationed at
Sitka and Hoonah arrived Friday on
Alaska Coastal Airlines for the
guard encampment Nov. 25 to Dec.
3 of the 208th Infantry Battalion
(Sep).
A total of 340 guardsmen are ex
pected for the encampment at
Montana Creek from detachments
at Skagway, Sitka, Hoonah, Angoon,
Ketchikan, Metlakatla and Juneau.
Twenty-seven scouts from the
First and Second Scout Battalions
stationed in the Bethel and Nome
areas are scheduled to arrive today
on Pacific Northern Airlines.
Lt. General William E. Kepner
commander-in-chief, Alaska, is tc
ittend the Governor’s Day review
on December 1 at 2 p.m., at the
subport. The Elsenhower Trophy b
to be awarded to Company D of
Sitka as the outstanding unit ol
the battalion. The public is in
vited to attend the review.
“A lot of planning and traininf
has gone into the encampment,’
said Col. Lars Johnson, guard ad
jutant general. ‘The camp pre
ented a logistical problem that
would not exist in the States be
cause of the distance involved in
ransportation and the bringing in
i of supplies.”
The public can visit the camp ii
they are checked through the
MP's. But those visiting the camp
are warned to stay out of the rifle
range because it will be in use
throughout the encampment.
Vishinsky Asks
Big Revision
Of Arms Plan
PARIS, Nov. 24—(,W—■Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky
demanded today that the Western
Powers rewrite their disarmament
plan almost completely to make it
acceptable to Russia.
Spokesmen for Britain and the
United States immediately expressed
disappointment and discourage
ment with Vishinsky's long awaited
reply to the arms reduction plan
submitted by the western big three.
Some said, however, that they
thought Vishinsky had left the door
open for negotiation.
The Soviet demands for revision
of the western plan were incor
porated in a series of 12 amend
ments submitted to the 60-mem
ber United Nations Assembly po
litical committee. The amend
ments, to all practical purposes,
would transform the western plan
into the one the Russians sub
mitted two weeks ago.
Ambassador Philip C. Jessup,
United States delegate who is hand
ling the disarmament debate in the
political committee now, made this
comment:
“We are very much disappointed.
Mr. Vishinsky still seems to prefer
denunciation to negotiation. Sec-1
retary Acheson’s speech made it
clear that we desire to forsake in
vective and go to work. We will
proceed in the hope that progress
toward a genuine system of dis
armament is still possible.”
Vishinsky’s amendments called for
immediate prohibition of the atomic
bomb under international control:
an immediate one-third reduction
of arms by the U.S., Britain, France,
Russia and Chiha: emphasized that
the control committee on atomic
energy and conventional arma
ments be under the authority of
the Security Council, where Russia
has a veto, and cut out all refer
ence to a step-by-step census of
arms.
VIRGINIA DAVIS TO
BROADCAST DEC. 3
Word has been received here
that Miss Virginia Davis, who ap
peared here on the Alaska Music
Trail last season, will broadcast
over the Canadian network from
Vancouver, B. C. December 3 from
9:30 to 10 p.m.
FROM SITKA
Warren Strang of Sitka is reg
istered at the Baranof Hotel.
AT THE BARANOF
A. C. Sundsgaard of Seattle is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
time.
After the cease-fire line is ap
proved by the subcommittees, the
entire buffer zone clause will be
i turned over to the full armistice
delegations, which are expected to
adopt them speedily. Then the
negotiators will move on to the next
item on the agenda — supervision
>t the armistice.
Box Factory Possibility for
Juneau in Connection with
Alaska Plywood (orp. Plant
By KAY J. KENNEDY
A box factory in connection
with the Alaska Plywood plant
which will soon be under construc
tion here, is a possibility, Mark
Benhard, consulting engineer for
the Alaska Plywood Corp., reveal
ed here yesterday before he re
turned to his Seattle headquar
ers.
K. H. Leash of Western Wire
bound Box Co. of Portland, Ore.
ms here conferring with Thomas
\. Morgan, president of the cor
poration, and Renhard, regarding
vhe possibility. Leash’s company is
.n teres ted in obtaining a supply of
tpruce veneer.
If all goes well it Is anticipated
.hat the new plywood plant Will be
n production by next August,
Senhard said. Preliminary work
Russia Claims
U. S. Bomber
Fired First
i
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21—iff)—
Russia claims that the American
patrol bomber which Soviet fight
ers fired on in the Far East opened
fire first when the Red filers
sought to force it to land. The
American plane has been missing
since the encounter.
The Russian charge was disclosed
today with publication by the State
Department of the protest which
Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko handed to American dip
lomat Hugh S. .Gumming. Jr„ in
Moscow, November 7.
This country countered in Paris
today with an accusation in the
United Nations that Soviet air- j
craft attacked the patrol craft |
without warning while it was I
flying over international waters
ofr Siberia.
The Russian version was that the
twin-pngine bomber flew over the
Soviet border in the area of Cape
Ostrovnaya, on the Sea of Japan,
about 80 miles east of Vladivostok
at 10:10 a.m., Vladivostok time,
Nov. 2.
Two fighter planes approached
the aircraft “with the intention of
forcing the American plane which
had violated Soviet state frontiers
to land on a Soviet airport,”
Gromyko told Cumming.
"The American airplane opened
fire on them,” the protest con
tinued. “The Soviet airplanes
were forced to open return fire,
after which the American airplane
went off in the direction of the
sea a nd| disappeared.”
The sharply different American
account was set forth in a report
from Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s
U.N. Command, delivered to U.N.
Secretary General Trygve Lie at
the General Assembly meeting.
The aim In Paris apparently was
to forestall any Russian move in
the U.N. This country did not ask
for any action on the report.
Ridgway asserted the plane was
on a route that did not approach
closer than 40 miles to Russian ter
ritory and the crew had strict orders
not to get closer than 20 miles
under any circumstances. He ac
cused the Soviets of having "inter
cepted and attacked (the Ameri
can bomber) without warning while
over international waters, and fur
thermore, while well outside of 20
miles from the Russian coast line.”
DAN MORELAND IS HERE
Dan Moreland, employment se
curity representative from the San
Francisco Bureau of Employment
Security regional office, will be
here until next Wednesday. He is
making a routine visit to the Al
aska Employment Security Com
mission here, reviewing operations
and assisting in a training pro
gram.
TIDE TABLES
• NOVEMBER 25
•
• Low tide 4:28 a m., 4.0 ft.
• High tide 10:48 a m., 18.5 ft.
• Low tide 5:21 p.m., 12 ft.
• High tide 11:35 p.m., 143 ft.
•
• NOVEMBER 26
•
• Low tide 5:16 a m.. 3.7 ft.
• High tide 11:29 a.m., 17.6 ft.
• Low tide 8:06 p.m., -0.5 ft.
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on the site at the Juneau Lumber
Mill is to get under way after the
first of the year and building er
ection is anticipated to begin In
March.
Negotiate Contracts
Two separate contracts will be
negotiated on construction; one
for a concrete or blacktop floor
and foundations for a 200 by 400
frame structure and another for
sheathing and roofing..
There will be 20 feet clearance
between the floor to the bottom
of the trusses and possibly a sec
ond deck in part of the building.
The building and equipment will
cost more than a million dollars.
Flans are made In such a manner
that when it is feasible, additional
machinery can be installed to
Rouble the plant capacity, origin
ally to run about three million
square feet monthly.
In an effort to obtain necessary
additional storage space the Alas
ka Plywood Corp, has requested to
lease or buy a warehouse at the
city dock from the City of Jun
eau
Employment
The plant will require 50,onn feet
of logs dally that will provide em
ployment for about 25 men in the
woods and 200 in the plant.
It is expected that the plant
can operate for at least ten
months a year.
Morgan estimates that the Col
umbia Lumber Co. yards in the
Territory will be able to absorb
at. least half of the plant produc
tion.
Many Inquiries have been re
ceived from the West Coast and
ns fur east as Indiana for the Al
aska spruce plywood, Renhard said.
"Spruce plywood is particularly de
sired by furniture manufacturers
rot overlaving with hardwood ven
eers or plastic veneers,” he ex
plained.
Another advantage of the spruce
over fir, Renhard pointed out. Is
that its weight of 175 pounds per
1,000 feet (3/8-inch plywood* is
much less than fir and effects a
15 per cent in freight costs for
shipping.
Machinery
Equipment is on order and In
cludes a veneer lathe to handle
logs up to 110 inches In diameter
and 133 inches long; clippers to
cut the veneer into widths; a tran
sfer system; a barker the same
capacity as the lathes; two over
head cranes for the log deck; a
six-line, 18-section dryer 144 feet
long which will feed from two
levels; two glue spreaders; a 20
opening hot press; veneer patch
ing equplment; automatic loaders
and off-bearers; complete skinner
and trim assembly; an eight-drum
sander and one or two belt ten
ders.
The corporation has acquired
117 million feet of top grade tim
ber on a stand on Kosiusko Is
land from the Forest Service and
test runs at Everett, Wash, were
highly successful.
Renhard, who is consulting en
gineer and will supervise the in
stallation of the equipment, has
previously been with the Penin
sula Plywood Co. at Port Angeles,
Wash, when it was organized in
1941 and remained there through
1943. In 1944 he went with the Fir
Manufacturing Co. a t Myrtle
Creek, Ore. where he remained
until three years ago when he
went into business as a consulting
engineer.
Antarctic Jaunt
Planned by Byrd
For Exploration
COLUMBUS, Ga., Nov. 24——
Another trip to Antartlca is plan
ned by Rear Admiral Richard E.
Byrd, but he doesn't count on
malting the Jaunt until the pres
ent world crisis passes.
The lamed explorer said yester
day he wants to make the vast
south Polar area which was dis
covered on his last expedition
southward In 1946-47.
He added he would like to ex
ploit any material resources in
the 6,000,000 square mile area.
The 63-year-old Admiral is on
active duty as an advisor to the
department ol detense on cold
weather warfare.
ARRIVING ON ELLIS
Six passengers arrived on Elli3
Airlines Saturday flight. Arriving
from Ketchikan were Pete Ellis,
H. Washburn, Tom Williams, Bill
Bates: from Wrangell, George
Thomas: from Petersburg, Mr.
! Honson.
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