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Auto Plunge Kills
Two, Maybe 3, in
Cordova Accident
CORDOVA, Alaska, Dec. 28—UPI—
Two persons were found drowned
Wednesday in a car which had
plunged off the Eyak River bridge
and a third person is also believed
to have been lost In the same
mishap.
The tragedy apparently occurred
Tuesday night.
The bodies found in the auto
mobile were identified as those of
Leona Anderson, 18, and Fred Ar
thur Petersen, 19, formerly of An
chorage. Mike James Jr., 19, the
owner of the automobile also is be
lieved to have been drowned.
The drownings were discovered
after Dennie Marr, while walking
along the highway, noticed a tire
on the ice. Looking from the
bridge, he saw James’ green sedan
on its side just beneath the sur
face.
The bodies of Miss Anderson and
Petersen were recovered from the
icy water. James’ body has not been
found. Petersen was visiting his
family here. They moved here from
Anchorage last fall.
James and Petersen are both
sol iiers, stationed at Army install
ations at Whittier.
9 Arrive on PAA
27 Are Outbound
Nine passengers arrived Jiere yes
terday from Seattle on Pan Am
erican World Airways, 15 were
southbound, 10 went to Fairbanks
and two to Whitehorse. Three went
through from Whitehorse to Seat
tle.
From Seattle: Harold and Anne
Schaefer, Norman Stines, L. D.
Taylor, A. Winger, Mrs. E. Beck
man, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bur
click, R. Wurster.
To Seattle: George Parkko, Mr.
and Mrs. L. W. Emma Walton, R.
Woodward, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd
Carlson and Judy; Fred Waldel,
Milton and Vivian Johnson, Shir
ley Fleek, L. McCauick, Lt. Hen
derson.
To Annette; R. S. Thompson.
To Fairbanks: *Jim Sofoulis, M.
Houser, Don Wilber, Graham Roun
tree. Mary Kanatruak, Bob Hoopes,
P. Parker, E. Byrnes, Andrew Rob
inson, Sheila MacSpadden.
To Whitehorse: J. G. Angus, L.
Modjeski.
MILK NOTICE
There will be milk delivery Janu
ary 1st, as usual if your bottles
are ouc.
Wm. r’!int, Juneau Dairy Pro
ducts. 002-2t
66 Passengers Are
Carried by Alaska
Coastal on Thursday
Alaska Coastal Airlines carried
a total of 66 passengers on Thurs
days flight with 11 on interport
travel and 41 arriving and 14 depart
ing.
Arriving in Juneau from Tulse
quah: Leonard Madjeski, John And
erson, William Shirst, Geo. Smith,
Rob. Fyfe, John Farnell, John Mc
Kenzie, Ronald Cameron; from Sit
ka: Lt. Henderson, Mary Kanayu
rak, A. Atluk, Nancy Toru, C. Bag
ayo, Clara Williams, M. Williams,
O. Sigler, N. Humphrey, R. Row
land, F .Crosby, H. Donnelly, G.
Truitt, B. Lawrence; from Fick
Cove: Oliver Colby.
From Ke,‘C**.an: Art Durgin;
from Wrangell: Roy Shangin; from
Haines: Dorothy Collecod, Carolyn
Johnson and infant, Myrna Houser,
Pete James, Johnnie Marks, Daniel
Calloway, Wilma Colloway, Harry
Eliingen, Marie E. Riley.
From Skagway: Tony Fuller, Kent
Fuller, T. J. Simpson, Dr. M. O.
Kepler: from Gustavus: K. Woods,
Marvin Woods.
Departing from Juneau to Tulse
quah: Mrs. A. Beckman; to Sitka:
Bill Featherstone, M. Mitrovich, Bes
sie Jimmy, Henry Jimmy, H. St.
Clair; to Angoon: Ronald John; to
Ketchikan: E. A. Hartley, R. G.
Williams, M. L. Turner; to Skagway:
L. M. Lucas, Mrs. L. M. Lucas; to
Haines: Dan Taylor; to Port Al
thorp: Jim Lindegard.
Kodiak Among
(Areas Getting
DPA Attention
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—(AT—
The Defense Production Adminis
tration today certified six critical
defense housing areas for rent
control and expanded three other
areas where controls already are
in effect. •
The certification does not in it
self invoke rent controls, but such
action normally follows.
The areas include Kodiak, Al
aska, which previously had been
certified as a critical housing area.
In the Kodiak area, which in
cludes the entire island, DPA said,
rents have risen and construction
of substandard conversion units has
begun since October, 1950. A recent
government survey showed an av
erage increase of 64 per cent in
rentals of non-controlled units
over comparable controlled units.
"Most housing in Kodiak is
classed as poor in quality,” the
statement said. “Accommodations
on the outskirts are termed 'de
plorable'.” ^ *
Many Stores, Offices
Are Closing Monday
Housewives will have to plan
' three-day menus without benefit
j of open grocery stores. Many stores
and offices are to be closed next
Monday.
Among those taking a three-day
holiday are Behrends Store, Bert's
Cash Grocery, Case Lot Grocery,
Twentieth Century Market, Calif
ornia Grocery, Home Grocery and
Juneau Cold Storage. Vic Power and
the Shattuck Insurance Agency will
also be closed on Monday.
Many other stores plan to be open ]
but are taking advantage of the an
ticipated quiet day to take inventor
ies.
Most Federal and Territorial of
fices will be open tomorrow to make
up for last Monday closing. They1
will not be open for business on Dec- |
ember 31, but will put in a full day
January 5 instead. These include
the U. S. Coast Guard, Bureau of j
Reclamation, Federal Housing Ad- ]
ministration, Employment Security j
Commission and others. i
The Juneau city clerk’s office will
close at noon tomorrow as usual, but
will be open for business next Mon- ]
day and close on New Year’s Day.
The Empire will be published on
Monday and banks will keep usual
hours.
Russia May Get
Entrants Into
Olympic Games
By TED SMITS
NEW YORK. Dec. 28--<*—Russia
and the United States moved closer
Friday to their first major encount
er in sports, but whether it would
occur in the winter Olympic games
in Oslo or not until the summer
games at Helsinki was open to doubt.
Many world records have been
claimed in Moscow but few athletes
from behind the Iron Curtain have
competed in the free world—and
| there have been some embarrassing
desertions from the teams of Russia’s
satillites such as in tennis tourna
ments of the 1948 London Olympic
games.
Soviet Russia has never compet
ed in the Olympics, but it took an
other step in that direction when
the Soviet Olympics Committee de
cided in Moscow to inform Finland
that a "preliminary agreement" had
been reached to participate at Hel
sinki July 19-Aug. 3.
The Norwegians are generally con- j
vinced the Russians will show up for >
the games at Oslo Feb. 14-25. The
I United States is sending a team of i
79 competitors to Oslo, and the us- j
j ual full Olympic team to Helsinki,
probably about 450.
The Central Labor Council
Offers Its Members
the Annual A. F• L.
FREE DANCE
Saturday—December 29
Starting—10:00 P. M.
A. F. L. HALL-JUNEAU
-☆
The music for this occasion is provided by
the cooperation of Local No. 672 of the
American Federation of Musicians, through
a grant from the Music Performance Trust
Fund of the Recording Industry.
The Music Performance Trust Fund is an
extension of a program of public service
originated by the Recording and Transcrip
tion Fund of the American Federation of
Musicians, James C. Petrillo, President.
All Members and Invited Guests Welcome
Free Refreshments
Differences of
Churchill with
Truman Fading
By John M. Hightower
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28— UP) —
A major source- of disagreement
between President Truman and
British Prime Minister Churchill
was reported Monday to be fading
away in advance of Churchill’s ar
rival here next month.
The issue is Churchill’s frequent
ly repeated proposal for a big four
meeting including Mr. Truman and
Generalissimo Stalin to try to
reach some understanding with So
viet Russia.
Word circulating among officials
involved in preparations lor the
' Washington talks is that Churchill
j almost certainly will ret press his
I proposal now and may not bring
it up at all.
j Officials in position to know
] said that presumably two consider
j ations figured in Churchill’s repor
; ted decision to let the whole mat
1 ter of a meeting with Stalin slide
for the time being:
1. Mr. Truman is dead set against
! taking part in any such session,
believing that the time is not ripe
and the West not yet strong
enough to make it fruitful for
peace.
2. In view of Russia’s behavior
on disarmament and other issues
j in the United Nations meeting in
Paris, as well as Russia’s continued
general conduct in world affairs, it
! is difficult to figure out what is
| sues might be taken up between
! the chiefs Oi staff of East and,
I West with some hope of strong de
sire and good will on both sides
for agreement.
FROM FAIRBANKS
Esther Sincerbean of Fairbanks
is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
• EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY •
ITU Found
Guilty in
Strike Case
•
CHICAGO, Dec. 28—UR—A Na
tional Labor Relations Board rul
ing that the AFL International
Typographical Union and its Chi
cago Local 16 violated the Taft
Hartley law was upheld Thursday
Ly the U. S. Court of Appeals.
The NLRB ruling was in con
nection with the long strike of
Local 16 against five major Chicago
daily newspapers. The newspapers
continued publishing with substi
li^c methods during the strike of
: cm3 1,500 printers.
The ITU was found guilty by the
NLRB in October, 1949, of setting
up a “bargaining strategy” which
tried to impose closed shop condi
tions in the newspaper publishing
industry.
The board petitioned the court
last January for enforcement oi
its order against ITU as NLRB
orders must be backed by court
decrees to be enforceable.
The Appeals Court also held that
the NLRB erred in dismissing a
charge against the union of fail
ing to bargain in good • faith.
Stale, Also Gamblers,
Report Big Take in
Nevada During 1951
By The Associated Press
The Stgte of Nevada reports that
it drew a record take in taxes from
legal gambling in 1951, which means
the gamblers had a record take
themselves. Gambling taxes and li
censes this year yielded one and
one-half million dollars to the state,
nearly 200 thousand dollars more
than the previous record year—1950.
Library Board
To Make Report
To City Council
Frank Heintzleman, chairman of
the Juneau Memorial library board,
.said today that the board plans a
report to the city council shortly
after the first of the year showing
the subscribers’ names, the total
amount paid thus far, and the un
paid pledges.
The board reports that eight
pledges remain unpaid and board
members and civic groups which
sponsored the library urge that
they be paid before January 1.
Heintzleman says that there were
over 300 subscribers to the library
fund. He pointed out that many
of these were groups and organi
zations and estimated that about
one-third of the persons in the
Gastineau Channel area are rep
resented by the list.
Man's Weigh! in
Death Is Problem
PIKEVILLE, Ky.. Dec. 28-,VP)—
1 Even in death, Virgil Tackett’s
weight was a problem.
When Tackett's special casket
was built at the small home on
nearby Rokdpson Creek, the fam
ily had to remove the door frame
before they could get the box outt
I side.
i Tackett, who tipped the scales
between 500 and 600 pounds, died
Wednesday in his sturdily-built
chair, a chair he found more com
fortable for sleeping than a bed.
Death apparently was caused by a
heart condition.
The 26-year-old Tackett, who will
be buried Friday was big all his
life. At birth ,he weighed 13 pounds, !
j but his parents said it had been !
! years since Tackett stepped on a j
1 scale.
NOTICE
Local 10, Teamsters party, Friday
December 28. Members in good j
standing only. 002-lt I
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"I save at least 12 ways
when I ship by
Clipper* Cargo!”
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You can't compare tea and air (hip
ping costa by weight ratei alone I
You must also count these special
economies of Clipper Cargoi
a Crating is seldom necessary.
• Shipping weights art Itit, because
you use lighter packing.
•No deterioration.
• Lower insurance costsr goods are in
transit so briefly.
• Inventory and warehouse costs can
bfe drastically reduced.
• Shipping rates go down as weight*
go up.
a Working capital works harder . • •
jaw. m
because payment la quicker.
• Documentation time and coiti are
reduced. One Air Waybill covers
shipment from origin to destination
• Goods arrive when needed ... while
the market is strongest.
• Damage and pilferage losses are
greatly reduced.
• C.O.D. and collect services available
to many countries.
• fewer handling feet.
Clipper schedules are fast, fwpent
In Alaska and to the States. Pec
rates and schedules call your Clip pee
Cargo Agent or Pan American
BARANOF HOTEL — PHONE 10G
©nfy Pon American off ft tho advantagot of
Cupper'Cargo
STEVENS ANNUAL
PRE
h now in progress a! BOTH Stores
124 Seward Sireel — and — 233 Seward Street
You have just one more day (Saturday)
in which to take advantage of striking
values that will save for YOU!
DRESSES and EORMAES
Coats Ox [Units
Robes and Pajamas
All in brightly gay colors... just-right
styles and sizes for every figure.
PLEASE REMEMBER
Saturday is the LAST.
DAY oi this big sale...
Sorry
No approvals, exchanges, returns or
refunds on Sale Merchandise.
We regret that it is not possible for
us to exchange gift articles during the
progress of this sale.