Bishop Crimonf Is
Honored, Spokane's
Gonzaga University
SPOKANE — The new women's
residence hall at Gonzaga univer
sity, the first in the university's
G4 year history, has been officially
named Crimont hall announces the
Very Rev. Francis Corkery, S.J..
university president.
The hall is named for Bishop
Joseph Raphael Crimont, S.J., D.D.,
first Jesuit bishop of Alaska, and
former president of Gonzaga uni
versity.
The residence hall is a spacious
four story home at E526 Sinto, pur
chased by the university and just
opened this fall. Some 35 out of
town coeds are residing there. Mrs.
Edna Mulligan is the housmothar.
The late Bishop Crimont w'as a
well known figure in Spokane and
the entire northwest and Alaska.
He was born in 1858 in Ferriere?
near Amiens in northern France.
When the Rev. Joseph Cataldo, S.J.,
one of the pioneers of the west,
went to Europe in the 1880’s to re
cruit missionaries to the United
States, Bishop Crimont, then a scho
lastic in the Jesuit order, answered
Father Cataldo’s call. He came to
the United States in 188G as a mis
sionary to the Crow Indians in
Montana.
He was ordained in 1888 and be
came a naturalized citizen in 1893.
The following year, 1894, he went
to Alaska where he became superior
of the Holy Cross mission in the
Yukon. In 1901 he became presi
dent of Gonzaga university.
During his years as the university
president he greeted President The
odore Rosevelt during his visit to
Spokane and Gonzaga university.
Bishop Crimont was named pre
fect apostolic of the Catholic Alaska
mission in 1904 and in 1917 became
the first Bishop of Alaska. He was
Bishop during both world war I and
II and saw the dog sled travel
change to airplane travel. He was
instrumental also in the canoniza
tion of Mother Cabrini.
In 1942 he celebrated his 25th
anniversary as Bishop at the age
of 84 and is listed as the oldest
Bishop in point of years in the
American heirarchy.
He died May 20, 1945, and is
buried at the Little Flower of
Terese shrine in Juneau. The
shrine was built under his leader
ship as Bishop by Rev. William
LeVasseur, S.J., who recently re
turned from Alaska and is now
supervisor of the Nez Perce Indian
mission and St. Joseph’s children’s
home in Culdesac, Idaho.
Communication
Editor, Daily Alaska Empire.
Dear Sir:
In your paper of October 31 under
the heading: New Federal Tax on
Liquor, Nov. 1st, quote:
“An example; beer will be taxed
an additional $1.00 a barrel, broken
down, this amounts to one third of
a cent a pint. Since this is less
than a cent, no increase is allowed,
but when three or more pints are
sold at once, an additional cent
may be charged to cover the new
tax, O.P.S. explained.”
It isn’t clear however whether
one cent per pint or for three pints
may be charged by the dealer. I
gather that liquor dealers have at
tended meetings with O.P.S. offi
cials and I grant that the average
dealer is an intelligent person who
would fully understand what the
new tax means. Whether intelli
gence is below par, or dealers are
after some extra cash, I can’t say,
but my recent experience proved
that something is wrong some
place.
Purchase of two pints of Bud
weiser beer at the liquor store nor
mally would amount to fifty cents
plus 1 ceijt city tax; it cost me
fifty-five cents plus 1 cent city tax.
In other words, 2 >4 cents have been
jacked up by dealers and new regu
latipn is that no raise is called for.
Drinking at bars is altogether
getting prohibitive. An 11 ounce
can of beer, better known as a
rooster, normally sold at twenty
five cents is now thirty cents. It’s
a boost of five cents on a short
beer. Some places, pints of beer
went up as high as ten cents per
pint. I haven’t tasted hard liquor,
but one can well imagine what the
price would be. Cigarettes went up
five cents a pack at the bars and
if I'm not mistaken, the tax boost
was one dollar per thousand.
Now I wonder what that meeting
between those two factions
amounted to. Are liquor dealers
getting the best of the O.P.S. or is
it that O.P.S. is too slack, or am
I interpreting it all wrong?
Most of us like a drink of this
or thal and I don’t begrudge a law
ful profit, but in this case, the way
I see it, someone is off the beam un
less the new tax is explained more
clearly, and enforced, the general
public will be fleeced as usual.
(Signed) ROMAN ELLERS
U. S. Gunboats, Also
Destroyers Turned
Over to Italy
BRINDISI, Italy, Dec. 6—UPI—Six
small American gunboats and two
destroyers were turned over to Italy
today at ceremonies in this port
city attended by top U. S. and It
alian officials.
TI •. driver of an expensive new convcrtili'e (arrj vv) ar.d six pel sous on (he (real bus all fit J from a
rapidly-filling Southern Pacific railrrad mnderaoss at Richmond, Calif., cli rin, a torrential ilo-vnprur.
It was part of a general storm that wreaked damage throughout Northern California. U?l Wirephoto.
Proud Parents
I
As proud :is only parents can be. Actor Tyrone Power and his wife, j
Linda Christian, pese with their five-weeks-old baby, Romina I’ran
i fesca, for her first picture. The baby was named after the church
in Rome where the Powers were married, iff) Wirephoto.
Over She Waves,
into Waves,
Under Waves
WITH A NAVY TRAINING
GROUP IN FAR EAST WATERS,
Dec. 6—l/PI—A woman war corres
pondent and two U.S. Navy fliers
were over the waves, into the waves
and under waves today.
Miss Charlotte Knight of Colliers
magazine and two sailors were on
a helicopter flight from the flag
ship of this training group when
the machine pancaked into the
ocean.
Four sailors from the submarine
Volador dived into the water and
rescued them. The submarine sub
merged, and the training exercises
continued.
Miss Knight’s water-soaked com
panions were Lt. Y. J. Dyson, pilot,
Bonifay, Fla., and aviation machin
ist’s mate 1-C Dewey B. Sanders of
Gordon, Ga.
Miss Knight, formerly of Salt
Lake City, lists New York as home.
Unusual Verdict
Returned in
Damage Suit
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6 — —
Verdict in an auto accident damage
suit:
To Daryl Honey, 5, and his broth
er Dwayne, 3—50 cents each. To
the elder Honeys—$1,200.
The boys’ awards, unexplained
by the jury, were said t6 be the
smallest damage settlement in San
Francisco court history.’
“One oi the most unusual verdicts
I ever heard,” said Superior Judge
Eustace Cullinan Jr.
MRS. MURPHY’S MOTHER DIES
Mrs. Zalmain Gross received
word today Mrs. Mernice Murphy
from Redlands, Calif., that her
mother, Mrs. John M. Howe died
this morning. Mrs. Murphy had
been called there due to her moth
er’s illness and Mrs. Gross had
teen looking after Mrs. Murphy's
leal estate business. Mrs. Murphy
expects to return Sunday.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Boh Behai and R. L. Thomas of
the CAA from Anchorage are at
the Baranof Hotel.
Alaska-Pacific
PM traffic Op
Over Last Year
Passenger and cargo traffic over
! Pan American World Airways' Pa
cific and Alaska routes for the first I
nine months of this year reflect a i
substantial increase over the same ]
period last year, it wa; announced '
i today by ri. Millay, division ;
traffic and sales manager.
Passenger traffic was up 20 per
cent, with 107,543 passengers car- 1
lied in the first three-quarters of
1651, against 89,444 in the same
period last year.
Cargo rose 24 percent, with 8,
121,343 pounds carried, as against
0,572,784 in the period last year.
These figures do not include the
heavy volume of military passengers
and cargo carried by Pan Ameri
can’s fleet of planes operating on the
Korean war airlift under contract
to the Military Transport Ser
vice.
Celebrities of
Movieiand Will
Come to Alaska
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 6—tfl—Four
troupes of movie celebrities leave by'
air Dec. 20 on Christmas entertain
ment tours of military camps in
Korea, Europe, Alaska and the Car
ibbean.
Forty one film players have al
ready volunteered. and 80 are ex
pected to make the junket.
Bound for Alaska are George
Dolenz, Virginia Hall, Irene Martin,
Ray Milland, Ava Norring, and
Ann Robin.
Seattle Man Pleads
Guilty Shipping
Uninspected Beef
SEATTLE, Dec. 6— UP) —Robert
Eugene Fuller of Bothell pleaded
guilty Tuesday to a charge of ship
ping eight burlap bags of frozen
beef to Alaska without federal ins
■pection.
. He was fined $50 and court costs.
The government dismissed charges
against two others named in the
indictment—Charles Robert Walt
ers and Robert R. Walters.
Bulletins
At the vacation White House in
Florida, the new committee has
taken to mean that Mr. Truman is
ready to tussle with the southern
Democrats at the 1952 parly con
vention. One White House associate
raid some southern> leaders will
criticize Mr. Truman “no matter
what he does."
Relatives are consulting; a map
drawn by a fortune teller—in hopes
of locating 76-year-old Mrs. Ann
Bragg. The great grandmother dis
appeared Sunday from her moun
tain home 15 miles from Birming
ham, Alabama. Many searchers also
attended a prayer service.
The former Secretary of Defense
and Secretary of State—General
George Marshall—has worked with
a lot of Congressmen, and he has
a high opinion of them. He told a
Cleveland audience last night that
only about fiv-' percent of the
Congressmen are what Marshall
called “sometimes troublesome."
Newsweek Makes
0^1 panics'" ek
By Willoughby
NEW YORK, Dec. 6—News
week magazine, replying to charge,
by Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby
says its job “is to report the facts,
however unplesant they may be.”
“It has always been our convic- i
tion, General Willoughby notwilh- j
standing, that 'a well-informec
public is America’s greatest secur
ity," the magazine adds in its first
public reply to the general.
Willoughby, who was Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's intelligence chief
in the Pacific, accused some cor
respondents and magazines last
week of “inaccurate, biased, pre
judiced, petulant" reporting in Ko
rea.
Newsweek’s reply is contained in
its Dec. 10 issue, out tomorrow.
Elderly Woman Dies
Helping izb Scouts
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 6— 'JR—An
elderly Indianapolis woman lost her
life last night In reversing the Boy
Scout slogan—“Do a Good Turn
Daily.”
Mrs. Daisy Lacey, 74, was struck
by an automobile after escorting
two eight-year-old # Cub Scouts j
across the street in front of her
home.
The boys had attended a den j
meeting in her home.
Big Turnover of
Offkerf Underway
h Korea. Japan
WASHINGTON. Dec. 6 — !tf) — A
shift of 13 generals, involving eight
key posts ill Korea and Japan, is
underway.
It is the largest turnover of top
officers at one time since the Kor
ti.ii war began. But the command
; of all divi. ions and coips in
Korean have been changed at least
once.
A Pentagon spokesman said the
re-assignment order was not a
shakeup of the far cast command.
He ;aid it was part of a regular
rotation of top officers which waj
started eai'ly this year. At that
t.me it was explained that the pur
pose was to spread the combat ex
perience cf Korea as far as possible,
by assigning senior officers to field
s i ty end using veterans to direct
training in the united 'States.
The re-assignment list will mean
new commanders for the 9th and
ICth Corps in Korea, the 16th
Corps in Japan, and the 24th and
7th Infantry Division in Korea. It
also will change the deputy chief
of staff for the far east command,
in Tokyo, the deputy commander
of the 8th Army in Korea and a
top member of the UN armistice
negotiating team.
Maj. Gen. Henry I. Hodes, now' the
deputy 8th Army commander and
a truce negotiator, will take over
a combat division in Korea, the
announcement says.
Maj. Gen. William W. Harrison,
Jr., now commander of the 9th
Training Division at Port Dix, N. J.,
will assume Hodes’ 8th Army job.
Maj. Gen. Claude B. Fercnbaugh,
commander of the 7th Division in
Korea, will replace him on the truce
team.
The reassignment order obviously
was prepared several weeks ago, be
fore the present stage of truce ne
gotiations.
FROM ANNETTE
Carl F. Ringwold with (lie U.S.
Coast Guard Air Detachment at
Annette is registered at the Baranof
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Alaska Coastal Carries
55 on Wednesday Trips
Alaska Coastal Airlines carried a
total of 55 passengers on Wednes
day’s flights with 16 traveling on
interport, 17 arriving and 22 depart
in'’. The airlines made only one
flight on Tuesday carrying 16 pas
sengers.
Arriving from Sitka: D. Thomas,
Mr. and Mr:;. W. Sutton, Shirley
and Lloyd Sutton. J Jackson, Dr.
Chalmers, B. Wheeler, D. Kroncke,
R. Stock, J. Grove, L. Ary; from
Ketchikan: Lorraine Singer; from
Petersburg: E. R. Pierce, Mr. and
Mrs. John Lind; f-.m Hoonah:
Lorraine Howard
Departing for Sitka: Robert Stev
enson. Gerald Olsen, H. T. McGui
Kan; for Petersburg; Henry Mason,
Bud Whiteside; for Wrangell: Ralph
Cunningham: for Ketchikan: Bergle
Smith, E, A. Keller, Don Magee,
D .F. Marx, John Christopher, Bob
Bean, Henry Roberts, Jr., Cpl. Tyd
lacka. Harry Chinger. W. O. Smith,
Perry Huff; for Hoonah: Mrs. Wil
liams, Mr. and Mrs. Don Erick
son, Mrs. James r-^.ilcom, Ed Sara
bia.
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