Mrs. WHHams
Entertains Club
With Flora Talk
The Juneau Business and Profes
sional Women's Club met at lunch
eon in the Terrace room of the
Baranof Hotel on July 30. The
meeting was presided over by Mrs.
Mavera Morgan in the absence of
Hallene Price, president, who is in
Haines for the 4-H Club encamp
ment and then will go on a vacation
in the Interior, to be gope about
a month.
Guests introduced at luncheon
were Mrs. Cline, social worker from
Los Angeles, and Lois Morey, form
erly of Anchorage, now in Juneau
with the Territorial Department of
Education.
Guests were entertained by pic
tures of flowers and shrubs native
to Alaska, shown by Mrs. Maxcine
Williams, known as an expert oh
northern flora. Mrs. Williams, whti
has written several books on tire
subject and has another in the mak
ing, highlighted the showing of the
pictures with comments on each.
She said that many of these beau
tiful flowers are now in bloom above
timberline on Mt. Roberts.
Mrs. Morgan announced that Vera
Knickerbocker, second vice presi
dent, had tendered her resignation
because she was leaving her posi
tion at the Alaska Department of
Health for the States. She said she
"hoped to be in Alaska again some
time.” Opal Sharman has been
appointed hy the president to fill
out Miss Knickerbocker’s term Of
office.
It was announced that members
or guests attending the banquets
during the convention can now
order the pictures at the Baranof
Gift Shop. There will be a busi
ness meeting August 6, at the Bara
nof.
RETURNING HOME AFTER
VISITING HERE FIRST
TIME IN 19 YEARS
After completing her first vis
it to Juneau in 19 years, Mrs. Pal
mer Lillevand is soon returning j
to her home in Seattle. ;
Mrs. Lillivand is the niece of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Leivers, and has
been their house guest for the past
three weeks. She is the former
Gladys BendickiSen who lived here
with her family when she was a
small child.
This is her first visit In Juneau
since she came up with her hus
band on their honeymoon 19 years
ago.
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Chicago Visitor
Catches Big
Dolly Trout
Miss Catherine -Burgess, of Chi
cago, sister of Mrs. Bert Barrer,
departed yesterday for Seattle on
f>an American Airways after spend
ing two weeks visiting here.
She is an amateur photographer
and is talcing back a collection of
pictures she took of local attrac
tions. A weekend at Taku Lodge
provider! a . highlight of her trip
when -she caught a 3-pound, 6-ounce
dolly vardeo trout that measured
221 i inches long. She entered it in
the Juneau- Chamber of Commerce
Trout- Derby.
Mlw Burgess will resume her stud
ies at Northwestern University
where she is majoring in psy
chology. "Alaska Is so wonderful,
I’m coming back to spend the entire
summer next year," she said. .
Mr. and. Mrs. Bert Barrer are
publishersTif-the Alaskan Magazine.
Har/jman May Be
Replacement for
Dean Acheson
NEW YORK. Aug. 3—^—The
New York Post said today that Am
bassador-at-Large W. Averell Har
riman is likely to be appointed Sec
retary of State to replace Dean
Acheson before Oct. 1.
In a dispatch from Washington,
the Post said its information came
from a highly placed source close
to the White House.
“President Truman is reported to
have decided that he will let Ache
son retire at the first opportune
moment and to have settled on Har
riman as a successor,” the story
saidl
In Washington, Rogy Tubby,
assistant presidential press secretary
Said in response to an inquiry about
the story :
"There is no such plan in the
works. There is no plan whatever
to relieve Mr. Acheson as Secretary
of. State,”
Harriman Is now on a special
mission to Iran.
Saying that President Truman in
the past has refused to consider
Acheson's offers to resign, the Post
added: f
“In recent months, however, he
has come around to the view that
Acheson's retirement would be best
for everyone concerned, including
the embattled secretary himself,”
39 Aliens Ordered
Rearrested by
U. S. Government
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—(iff—The
government today ordered the rear
rest of 39 aliens who are fighting
deportation and are now free on
bonds furnished by the Civil Rights
Congress.
In a statement, Attorney General
McGrath made it clear the Justice
Department no longer regards bonds
offered by the congress as accept
able.
He said he had directed that the
Immigration Service call for the de
livery into custody of the 39 pros
pective deportees for whom the
congress., has. furnished, bonds
amounting to $111,000.
The attorney general said the
aliens may be released again if
they can supply acceptable bonds to
replace those originally posted by
the Civil Rights Congress.
The deportation proceedings
against all of the aliens in question
were brought on charges relating
to alleged subversive activity or
membership in the Communist
party,
VISITORS FROM LOS ANGELES
Mrs. A. C. LaPierre and Mrs. B. R.
Bates of Los Angeles, Calif., are
guests at the Baranof Hotel.
Disputed Judgeship •
Appointment Put
Off by Subcommittee
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, —(A>)—
A Senate subcommittee put off
for a week a hearing on a Chicago
federal judgeship appointment op
posed by Senator Douglas iD-Ill).
Chairman McCarran (D-Nev)
postponed the hearing on Presi
dent Truman’s controversial nom
ination of Cornelius J. Harring
ton at the request of the justice
department.
Peyton Ford, deputy Attorney
General, asked for the delay to
give the department additional
time to study Harrington’s qual
ifications.
The hearing had been scheduled
to start this morning. It was put
off until next Friday.
The Justice Department's re
quest was surprising since the
usual custom is for the White
House to “clear” a nomination
of a federal judge with the de
partment before it is sent to the
Senate.
Douglas seeks to block Senate
! confirmation of Mr. Truman's
[choices for two of three Chicago
Judgeships: Harrington and Jos
eph J. Drucker. The Senator rec
ommended two other men.
Douglas and the President
agreed on a third judge nominee:
Joseph Sam Perry.
Douglas has said he denounces
the method of the appointments
of Harrington and Drucker as
“personally obnoxious.”
On the basis of past perform
ances, the Senate likely will up
hold Douglas’ position on the
nominees.
'Totem Pole' Team
Arrives at Haines
ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE.
Aug. 4—(Special)—Final elements
of 196th Regimental Combat team
arrived at Haines last night and
early today and prepared to take
part in Exercise Totem Pole, Head
quarters, US. Army, Alaska, an
nounced. As troops of the National
Guard unit streamed into the fish
ing village, waiting trucks lined up
to convoy them up the highway to
the official staging area.
The exercise, which will cover
850 miles of Alaska roads, is ex
pected to be the most successful of
all summer training operations in
the TendtaM; according to Col.
Wallace J. Wtefaols, maneuver com
mander.
[Mobster Waxey
Gordon Charged
With Dope Peddling
NEW YORK. Aug. 3—Ml—An in
ternational dope racket charge was
lodged against Waxey Gordon, the
prohibition era beer baron whom
racket-busting Thomas E. Dewey
sent to prison on an income tax
fraud in 1933.
The 65-year-old mobster, who has
a police record dating back to 1905,
was held with three other men in
a total of $500,000 bail.
U.S. Attorney Irving H. Saypol
said that if Gordon is tried and
convicted in Federal court in New
York state he could be sent to prison
for life as a fourth offender under
state law.
Saypol said the four prisoners had
pure heroin worth $180,000 when
diluted and sold in the underworld
retail market.
Alaska Muskrat Is
Main Item on
Fur Exchange Sale
SEATTLE, Aug. 3, —UR— The
Seattle Fur Exchange announces
it will have 85,750 muskrat furs
at its Aug. 9 sale, mostly Alaskan.
There are also 2,000 Alaska and
northwest beaver pelts.
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Alaska - Appear
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 4, — Itfi —
Triplets 4toere born at Provicjence
Hospital here Thursday night to
Mr. and Mrs. John Samuelson.
They were the first triplets
ever born in Anchorage and were
believed here to be the first in
Alaska. .
A boy and two girls compose
the trio. The Samuelsons are from
Bethel. The father is a pilot for
Alaska Airlines. The mother and
triplets (6 to 6>i pounds) are do
ing nicely.
Elfin Cove
News Notes
By HAZEL WIMER
ELFIN COVE — (Special to the
Empire) — Another Alaskan Tim
ber Wolf was brought into the Cove
a few weeks ago by Roy B. Elliott
who was trolling in Port Althorpe
when he saw the wolf swimming
and thought it was a dog. When
he got close enough to see better he
saw that it was a wolf and shot her.
That is two in one day here. Some
read that fifty years ago wolves
were around here, and some old
timers say there are wolves in Ten
nakee.
E. O. Swanson on his Packer Elfin
II landed a load of salmon in Peli
can Monday.
Mrs. Robert Edenso and Mrs.
Ernest Rude gave a weiner roast
and marshmallow toast on the
beach Monday for the children.
Frank Thomas had a serious fire
on his boat while at anchor in
Bingham when the oil ran over in
the stove catching the galley on
fire. Fred Soberg was first to
notice the fire just before he drop
ped his anchor and went alongside
the boat using his foamite that
stopped the spread of the fire while
three other boats pulled anchor
and helped him.
Red Stears on his packer Consul
D. came from Pelican Saturday
leaving the same afternoon for
Dixon harbor.
Skipper Otto Anderson on his
boat Ella B. came in from Bingham
Saturday for supplies. Mr. Ander
son said there were a few cohos
there but fishing was scattered.
John Redlinger was on his num
bered boat with his pilot Henry and
fog closed in and they were very
close to the beach when John saw
wolves. Johln shot orife of the
largest seen in these parts.
FROM NAKNEK
Bert Davey of Naknek, is regis
tered at the Baranof Hotel.
JUNEAU VISITOR
Mrs. M. W. Twitchell of Seattle
,s registered at the Baranof Hotei.
All New Building
Banned Until Oct. 1
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—W—The
National Production Authority to
day banned the start of all new
construction until Oct. 1 unless the
projects use only minor quantities of
steel, copper and aluminum.
Most residences may go ahead, as
well as small stores and even some
amusement places—hitherto prohib
ited.
But the order will “freeze” tem
porarily the start of new factories,
office buildings, schools, hospitals
and public buildings.
Wedding Song
Must Have Been
'Crossing the Bar'
LOMITA, Calif., Aug. 3—l/W—They
met two years ago in a bar, so
Clarence Van Volkinburgh and Mrs.
Venell Kelley decided to be married
there.
Municipal Judge E. L. Morris of
Gardena read the vows yesterday
and a juke box gave out with the
wedding march. The best man was
the owner of the bar and the maid
of honor was a waitress.
The bride is 61, her husband 55.
She’s a great-grandmother and Van
Volkinburg is a grandfather.
They had a reception for guests—
in the bar.
Peron Slaps War
Powers on Striking
Rail Workers
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 3, —(ffl—
President Juan D. Peron today in
voked wartime emergency powers
for the second time within eight
months in an effort to break a
three-day old strike of railway
engineers and firemen opposed to
his regime.
All rail workers were placed un
der military control last January
25 when a widespread rail strike
was broken by conscripting work
ers into military service.
The announcement on the pres
ent railwaymen’s strike came as
pro-Peronist unions began boom
ing Peron as a presidential candi
date for another term of office
with his wife, Eva, on the ticket
as vice-presidential candidate.
TWO RECEIVED IN
WOMEN OF MOOSE
Kay Hulk and Eleanor Corbett
were received into the Juneau
lodge of Women of the Moose at
a meeting held Thursday evening
at Moose hall. Senior Regent
Jannet Francis presided.
Chairman of various committees
submitted reports and the drill
team announced it would hold a
baked food sale August 10 at Sears
and Roebuck store. Those wish
ing to contribute food can have
their donations picked up by call
ing Mickey Dudley.
Next meeting of the lodge will
be held August 16 at the Moose
Lodge rooms.
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Halibuter Burns,
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4 Crewmen Saved
PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., Aug. 3—
(jP)—The story of a ship fire off
Alaska was unfolded yesterday when
four crew members of the Vancouver
halibut boat Hilsen reached Prince
Rupert.
They told how their vessel caught
fire and sank Sunday off Forres
ter Island, Alaska, following a short
circuit in the ignition.
The blaze spread so quickly that
the crew had less than three min
utes to take to a dory. They left
everything behind. The Hilsen was
carrying 3,000 pounds of halibut.
After three hours afloat, they
were picked up by the American
halibut boat Denny Joe which trans
ferred them to the fishing boat
Leading Lady.
They went to Ketchikan, Alaska,
and from there to Prince Rupert.
Aboard the boat were skipper
Peter Ivarson of Vancouver; his
father, Arne; Einer Hanberg of
Prince Rupert and Alfred Carlson
of Digby Island.
Auxiliary Police
Asked for by
Civil Defense
Four auxiliary policemen for every
regular police officer is the plan
recommended by the federal civil
defense administration, Fori Land
reth, Alaska director of civil de
fense announced today.
The plan is designed to clarify
some of the problems facing states
and communities whose emergency
services have already been estab
lished. he explained.
Uniformity of police action Is
stressed, together with the import
ance of coordinating the police
functions with other civil defense
operations in the event of disaster,
Landreth stated.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
Edna Barorich of San Francisco,
Calif., is stopping at the Baranof
Hotel.
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