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VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,640_JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS
New Arrests Made In Drive On Red Ranks
U.N. FIVE
YEARS OLD
THIS DAY
General Observance Over
Entire World-Important
Address Today
(By the Associated Press)
The United Nations, born of the
agony of the Second World War,
marked its fifth anniversary today
around the world, with the Com
munist and non-Communist nations
warning each other against hurtling
toward World War III.
President Truman went to New
Fork for a major foreign policy
speech before the U.N. General
Assembly, pledging this country’s
continued devotion to the cause of
peace.
Tones of Freedom Bell
Half a million people in Com
munist-encircled Berlin heard the
first challenging tones of a free
dom bell—a gift of the U.S. as a
symbol of hope to the free and to
the oppressed alike. Its voice was
relayed throughout the world by
more than 2,000 radio stations as
part of the U.N. Day celebrations.
East Berlin Communists tried to
drown out the bell’s message.
Millions in the Soviet Union were
reminded of the anniversary by
Communist press articles praising
the concept of the United Nations
but declaring that it now has only
two paths to choose from—the path
of “serving peace pointed out by
the Soviet Union" and the path of
“abetting aggressors.”
U.N. Troops Advance
Victorious United Nations troops
in Korea continued their final push
toward the Manchurian border to
free that war-torn country from
Communist armies. In liberated
Seoul special services were held,
with speakers including President
Syngman Rhee, U.S. Ambassador
John J. Muccio and Dr. Chong I!
Hyung, excutive director of the Ko
rean Association of the United Na
tion.
In London, Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin said that in Korea
the U.N. had “weathered its first
big storm.” He said the use of United
Nations forces in Korea “has made
the possibility of peace nearer than
it ever has been.”
In Indo-China
The capital of Communist-be
(Continued on Page Fight)
The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
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By DREW PEARSON
PORTLAND, Ore. — Sometimes
politics looks a little clearer when
you get off and take a long-range
view of it.
At any rate, I have been taking
a bird’s-eye view of all the rum
pus kicked up in New York over
the question of how Governor Dew.
ey inveigled, enticed or “bribed”
Lt. Gov. Joe Hanley out of the gov
ernorship race. And it seems to
me that my colleagues of the press
back east are missing a big part of
the story.
The story really began about the
last week in August wh-u Winthrop
Aldrich cf the Chase f ational Bank
telephoned his brother-in-law. John
D. Rockefeller Jr., at Bar Harbor,
Maine, asking his help in getting
Lt. Gov. Hanley out of the race for
Governor. This was before Dewey
get !nto the picture.
And the moral of the whole story
is that when you get the big-money
boys into politics something always
smells.
The story is all in the back fi-es
of the Washington Merry-Go
Round and since the politicos are
still gasping for breath over it
maybe the details are worth retell
ing now.
The story began last August
as follows: “Powerful efforts were
made over the week end to per
suade Lt. Gov. Joe Hanley to with
draw from the race for governor in
favor of Tom Dewey.
■•Winthrop Aldrich, head of the
Chase Bank, conferred in Bar Har
bor with his brother-in-law, John
D. Rockefeller, and togehter they
telephoned Roy Howard, head of
the Scripps-Howard newspapers and
a powerful Dewey backer. They also
phoned Frank Gannett, head of the
(Continued on Page Four)
More Returns,
4th Division,
Jones Leading
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 24—W)
—Returns from the heavily Demo
cratic precinct of Kwigillingok put
Democrat Tom Jones into an 11
vote lead for the fifth seat in the
lower house of the Alaska Legisla
ture for the Fourth Division.
Alden Wilbur, Republican, had
held a dwindling margin for the
seat since the counting started after
election day, Oct. 10. The Kwigil
lingok vote was 34 for Jones and
three for Wilbur.
Standings in other legislative
races remained unchanged. Repub
licans were assured of the two Sen
ate seats and three of the five
House seats. Democrat Glen Frank
lin had one house seat clinched.
The final result of the Wilbur
Jones race will be decided by the
counting of 130 absentee ballots
today. There are only about 30
votes unreported from small outly
ing precincts.
If Jones should remain ahead, it
would give the Democrats an ap
parent 15 to 9 lead for the 24 seats
in the lower house. They held a 19
to 5 edge in the 1949 legislature.
AMERICAN TROOPS
OUT OF KOREA BY
CHRISTMAS, REPORT
TOKYO, Oct. 24—tfl—Informed
sources said today most American
troops may be out of Korea by
Christmas.
They said General MacArthur ex
pects the first elements of the
Eighth Army to begin moving back
to Japan by Thanksgiving.
All four divisions of the Eighth
Army and perhaps other American
units should be out of the Korean
peninsula by Christmas, the in
formants added.
British and most other Allied
units also presumably will be with
drawn as quickly as possible.
The informants said' the time
schedule depends upon the swift
elimination of organized Red Ko
rean resistance.
The battle-hardened South Ko
rean army is believed capable of
maintaining law and order after
formal Red resistance ends.
Both MacArthur and President
Truman have said Allied forces
would.be withdrawn as soon as pos
sible to permit the Koreans to man
age their own affairs. MacArthur
reportedly stressed the necessity of
this at his Wake Island conference
with the President. He argued that
a prolonged occupation would pro
duce repercussions among the proud
Koreans.
No date has been set for the new
Korean election ordered by the
United Nations. MacArthur, it is
understood, believes it may be pos
sible to hold one around the first
of the year.
PHIL BRADLEY TO
DISCUSS MINING,
C OF C THURSDAY
Phil Bradley, Jr., consulting en
gineer and member of the board of
directors of the Alaska-Juneau
Mining Company from San Fran
cisco, is in Juneau this week re
viewing the physical situation at
the mine and looking up old friends.
He will be a speaker at the regular
luncheon meeting of the Juneau
Chamber of Commerce Thursday
and will discuss the relation of gold
mining to inflation and the import
ance of it in defense production.
Bradley was reared in Treadwell
and while this is only his third
visit here in the past ten years, he
is glad to be back in the Gastineau
Channel area.
FLIGHTS DELAYED
Bad weather yesterday delayed
two Pan American World Airways
flights. The flight from Seattle
arrived but the southbound plane
did not leave. A flight from Fair
banks overnighted at Whitehorse
and was due here today.
Today's flights were scheduled to
arrive on time.
Helen M. Hay of San Francisco
is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
SHIP CASE
HEARING ON
IN SEATTLE
Meeting for Purpose of
Determining If Full In
vestigation Necessary
_
SEATTLE, Oct. 24—141—A brief
hearing was held here yesterday to
determine whether a Maritime dis
pute which has halted passenger
service to Alaska should be inves
tigated by a Congressional commit
tee.
Rep. Hugh B. Mitchell (D-Wash)
conducted the closed hearing which
was attended by representatives of
the Alaska Steamship Co., govern
ment agencies and an AFL union
official.
The Marine Cooks' and Stewards’
Union (Ind), one of the principals
in the dispute, carried out its an
nounced boycott of the meeting.
Union spoksmen said last week
they would not attend the meeting
unless it was opened to the press
and public, charging it could not
'expect fair treatment in a 'Star
Chamber’ session.”
In a statement issued after the
hearing, Mitchell called the absense
of the union representatives “an
afiront to a committee of Cong
ress.”
He said he would report facts
gathered tcday to the House Com
mittee on Labor and Education.
“It will be up to the committee
to decide if there will be a hearing
by full committee, and whether
representatives of the Marine Cooks
will be subpoenaed,” Mitchell said.
Mitchell said a closed executive
hearing by a Congressional commit
tee is “customary procedure to
develop facts without prejudice”
and learn whether a full scale
hearing is warranted.
Passenger service was suspended
,o Alaska after protests by the
stewards’ Union over security
screening procedures by the Coast
Guard brought repeated delays.
BLOOD TYPING IS
RESUMED ON THURS.
• ..._
Because of the observance of
United Nations Day today and this
evening, the blood typing program
will not be resumed until Thursday
evening, October 26.
Those who have not yet been
typed but desire to take advantage
of the service offered should be at
the high school building at 7.30
Thursday, the blood typing commit
tee has announced. Sponsoring
agencies are the Juneau Chapter,
ARC, the Medical Association, the
Territorial Department of Health,
the hospitals and the Civilian De
fense, assisted by a large corps of
volunteer clerical and other work
ers.
20 PASSENGERS
ON PNA TUESDAY
Fourteen passengers arrived in
Juneau yesterday from the west
ward on Pacific Northern Airlines
and six departed.
From Anchorage: Mrs. M. D.
Curry, N. B. Holm, Mrs. L. Carlson,
Mrs. E. Atwood, Major Jack Hop
kins, Sonja Hopkins and Charles
Cook.
From Cordova: Dr. A. C. Powell,
Dr. John Schiack, Mrs. Walt Cor
liss, J. P. Hanson and Mrs. D. H.
Kay.
from Yakutat: George and Annie
i Alton.
To Anchorage: Fred Muson and
1 Martin Zatloukal.
To Yakutat: Alex James, H.
I Carle, Charles Thomas and W. R.
Whittenburg.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, Oct. 24 — Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2%, American Can
102, Anaconda 37; Curtiss-Wright
9%, International Harvester 32%,
| Kennecott 67%, New York Central
! 17 >4, Northern Pacific 27, U.S. Steel
41%, Pound $2.80.
Sales toddy were 1,790,000 shares,
j Averages today are as follows: in
dustrials 231.39, rails 69.44, utilities
1 41.03,
I
AL JOLSON
DIES WITH
QUIP, LIPS
Veteran Jazz Singer Pass
es Away Suddenly in
San Francisco Hotel
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 24—UP)—
1 A1 Jolson, the veteran jazz singer
who was the first U.S. star to en
tertain troops overseas in both the
Second World and Korean Wars,
died unexpectedly last night with
a quip on his lips:
"Hell, Truman had only one hour
with MacArthur. I had two!”
Then . . .
"I’m going, boys,” the famous
Mammy Singer told two longtime
friends with whom he was playing
gin rummy in the St. Francis hotel.
He died quietly, quickly, of a coro
nary occlusion . . . and without
pain, said the house physician.
Jolson, 64, had returned only two
weeks ago from Korea, where he
sang to Allied troops. He had a
two-hour luncheon chat with Gen
eral MacArthur in Tokyo enroute.
President Truman and MacArthur
talked privately just an hour on
Wake Island a week ago Sunday
in their historic get-acquainted
meeting.
With Jolson were two old friends,
song writer Harry Akst and Martin
Fried, Al’s accompanist and ar
ranger. They had come with him
from southern California for a
scheduled guest star spot on a Bing
Crosby radio show, to have been re
corded here tonight.
Akst telephoned Jolson’s fourth
wife, Erie Galbraith, whom fie
married in 1945. She was at Encino,
Calif. She was reported to have
collapsed with grief.
Jolson was riding the crest of a
popularity wave for the second time
in an entertainment career that
began in 1899. His popularity with
the troops was unsurpassed. In
World War II, he traveled to Europe,
Africa, India and the Pacific, en
tertaining GI’s for the USO.
On his return from Korea, where
he gave 42 shows in 16 days, he
said:
"Know what it feels like to be
back? I’m going to look up my in
come tax and see if I paid enough.
Those guys are wonderful! This is
a much tougher war than the last
one, believe me.”
He entertained GI’s at the front
when the American beachhead in
Korea was at its smallest and under
constant attack.
“I was singing up there for some
guys and there was a lot of noise,”
he related.
“So I says to an officer, 'Why
don’t you tell those kids of yours
outside to stop shooting off those
rifles?’
“ ‘Those aren't our kids,’ he told
me!”
A1 was bom Asa Yoelson on May
26, 1886, the son of a Jewish cantor,
in what was then St. Petersburg,
Russia. His father trained him for
the church. But he had other ideas.
TRIBUTE TO MEMORY
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 24— OH —A
: shocked movie industry paid lavish
tribute today to the memory of
i one of, its greatest enterainers, A1
Jolson.
Norman Krasna and Jerry Wald,
producers of what was to have been
his newest show, “Let’s Sing Again,"
a story of the USO, said:
“A1 Jolson is a war casualty,
just as were so many of the tried
kids he sang for.”
There were others:
George Jessel—“The world has
lost the greatest entertainer' it has
ever known.”
Jimmy Durante—“A kind, gen
erous, unselfish person.”
Larry Parks, who played Jolson in
“The Jolson Story’’—“The world
not only has lost its greatest en
tertainer but a great An: : an
as well.”
Edgar Bergen—“To me the Ameri
can stage reached its height 10
years ago, and one by one we have
I been losing our great entertainers.
Now we have lost the greatest of
them all.”
Eddie Cantor—“He was a leader.
There can never be, there never
will be another A1 Jolson.
BLANCHARDS HERE
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Blanchard
1 of Skagway arrived here on the
Princess Louise. They are staying
at the Gastineau Hotel.
New Enemy
Column Seen,
Korean Front
WONSAN, Korea, Wednesday—Iff)
j —Air Force pilots yesterday report
led they spotted a large enemy col
umn moving south from Kanggye.
reported last-stand capital of the
North Koreans.
The airmen did not give the
makeup of the column, nor specu
late on its destination.
Hard-driving South Korean troo;»s
have been advancing from the
south on Kanggye. which is not far
from the Manchurian border.
There were no estimates on the
number of enemy troops in the col
umn. U. S. officers said they did
not have any information other
than the bare statement from re
luming pilots.
JUNEAU OBSERVING
UNITED NATIONS DAY
BAOET TONIGHT
j Juneau participated in United
| Nations Day observance today
through its schools, service clubs.
Boy and Girl Scouts, and a banquet
which will be held at 7 o’clock to
night at the Baranof Hotel.
A program was held at the High
Schoofc this morning. Boy Scouts
rang the Liberty Bell in front of
the Federal Building. The Rotary
Club dedicated the main part of
its program to the observance.
Gov. Ernest Gruening will be
master of ceremonies at the ban
quet and Mayor Waino Hendrickson
will be featured as the main speaker.
There is a full schedule of speakers
representing most of the clubs,
organizations, governmental agen
cies and ministers in the Gastineau
Channel area.
High School Program
Observation of United Nations
Day took place this morning in the
high school gym. Following the
playing of the Star Spangled Ban
ner by the Juneau High School
Band, Jerry Shaw led the audience
in salute and pledge to the flag.
Superintendent of Schools Sterl
ing Sears introduced the program
and Mayor Waino Hendrickson who
reviewed the Korean situation as it
was before and after the United
Nations entered the picture. Dr. I. J.
Montgomery. representing the
American Legion, gave a talk on the
favorable attitude toward the United
Nations by the men who had been
to war.
Mrs. Joe Kendler and the Men
denhall 4-H Club presented a United
Nations flag to the Juneau schools
which was accepted by Carl Weid
man, Jr., president of the student
body.
WEATHER DELAYS
WELFARE MEETING
A meeting of the Alaska Welfare
Board scheduled for this morning
was delayed until 1:30 this after
noon due to late arriving planes
carrying board members. Mrs. Evan
geline Atwood of Anchorage arrived
yesterday and the Rev. Fr. G. Edgar
Gallant flew in this morning from
Skagway. Mrs. Francis Longley of
Nome and Ivar Skarland of Fair
banks arrived on a delayed flight
from Fairbanks today. Gov. Ernest
Gruening is chairman of the board.
• •••••••••a
• •
• WEATHER REPORT •
• Temperatures for 24-Flour Period •
• endlnr 6:20 o'clock this mornln* •
• In Juneau—Maximum, 39; •
• minimum, 34. •
• At Airport—Maximum, 39; •
• minimum, 34. •
• FORECAST •
• (Juneau and Vicinity) •
• Partly cloudy tonight and •
• Wednesday. Lowest tempera- •
• ture tonight about freezing. •
• Highest Wednesday near 40. •
• •
• PRECIPITATION •
• (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today •
• City of Juneau—0.18 inches; •
• since October 1—6.93 inches; •
• since July 1—29.03 inches. •
• At Airport — 0.08 inches; •
• since October 1—2.70 inches; •
• since July 1—22.04 inches. •
*1666666***
CHALLENGE
TO RUSSIA
BY TRUMAN
"Fool Proof" Unanimous
Agreement Needed on
Disarmament Plan
By Ernest B. Vaccaro
FLUSHING MEADOW, New York
Oct. 24—141—President Truman pro
posed today a unanimous agreement
among nations upon a “fool proof"
disarmament plan to pave the way
for a concerted war against want.
The President made it clear he
feels the United States and other
free nations have no choice except
td use their collective strength to
curb aggression as long as “there
are some who will resort to war"
if it suits their ends.
A “fool proof" disarmament plan,
he told the United Nations General
Assembly, must outlaw not only at
omic and hydrogen bombs but cover
conventional war weapons as well.
Given a rousing welcome on the
Fifth Anniversary of the United
Nations, Mr. Truman avoided nam
ing Russia of its Communist sat
ellites.
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Soviet For
eign Minister and chief Russian
delegate, was among those who
greeted him upon his arrival at the
Assembly hall. Vishinsky and the
six other UN vice presidents sat on
the platform with Mr. Truman as
he spoke. They arranged to attend
a subsequent reception and a
luncheon with the President.
Challenge To Russia
His speech was a thinly-veiled
challenge to Russia to agree to his
disarmament plan, which called
for international inspection to as
sure compliance.
The United States and other free
nations, Mr. Truman said, will con
tinue to build up their military
forces as insurance against aggres
sion until there is unanimous agree
metn on “international control of
atomic energy and the reduction
of armaments and armed forces.”
The United States, now commit
ted to that course, will follow it as
long as necessary, the President
said in an address at the United
Nations General Assembly on the
Fifth Anniversary of the day on
which the UN charter came into
force.
Armed Strength Required
He left the door open for east
west peace talks both “in the Uni
ted Nations and elsewhere”—a re
ference he did not expand—but
said the free nations have learned
the hard way that negotiation alone
will not preserve peace. There must
be armed strength as well, he
said, to resist aggression.
Mr. Truman’s indictment of Com
munist aggression followed the
lines of his San Francisco speech
a week ago.
At that time, he said “the Soviet
Union and its colonial satellites"—
in both Europe and Asia—are main
taining vast armies which pose “a
constant threat to worid peace."
World Disarmament
Much of today’s talk was devoted
to the hope of world disarmament.
In that connection, he said, the
UN might well consider whether
its work in that ljeld “might
be revitalized” through merger of
two groups it has had working on
the problem, one on general dis
armament and the other on con
trol of atomic energy.
Mr. Truman offered these three
“basic principles” for disarmament:
What Aggression Does
“First, the plan must include
all kinds of weapons. Outlawing
any particular kind of weapon is |
not enough. The conflict in Korea!
bears tragic witness to the f&ct
that aggression, whatever the wea
pons used, brings frightful destruc
tion.
"Second, the plan must be based
on unanimous agreeemnt. A major
ity of its nations is not enough. No
plan of disarmament cap work
unless it includes every nation hav
ing substantial armed forces. One
sided disarmament is a sure invita
tion to aggression.
Must Be Fool-Proof
“Third, the plan must be fool
proof. Paper piomises are not
enough. Disarmament must be bas
ed on safeguards which .will in
sure the compliance of all nations. |
The safeguards must be adequate;
to give immediate warning of any
(Continued on Page Eight)
II. S. Planes
Are Reported
Fired Upon
Claim Chinese Communist
Guns Shoot Across Man
churian Border, Report
(By the Associated Press'
Two American observation planes
flying inside North Korea were re
ported fired on today by Chinese
Communist guns shooting across
the Manchurian border.
The incident was reported by two
U.S. Marine pilots as United Na
tions forces raced to within 30
miles of the border to seal off dls
organizd remnants of fleeing North
Korean Communists.
It was exactly four months to the
day since the powerful North Ko
rean armies invaded South Korea.
Today als<J is United Nations Day,
the fifth anniversay of the U.N.’s
founding, being observed around the
world.
Aggressor Crushed
The North Korean aggressors
were crushed by combined forces of
the United Nations sparked by
Americans. The Korean war was
the United Nations’ first peace en
forcement action and was backed by
53 non-Communist nations.
A Marine spokesman said the
border incident took place late Mon
day near Manpojin, Korean strong
hold near th border-marking Yalu
river. It occurred 20 miles northwest
of Yanggye, reported new command
post of Red Premier Kim 11 Sung.
Ack-Ack Radar Controlled
The officer said that the Com
munist Chinese guns fired 40 rounds
of heavy anti-aircraft shells at
the two planes but neither was
damaged. The ack-ack apparently
was radar controlled.
The Chinese Communists have
complained to the United Nations
in the past that American planes
have violated their territory. They
announced today that a nine-man
delegation is leaving for New York
to attend a U.N. Security Council
session when their complaints will
be aired.
The incident erupted along the
uneasy border as South Korean
forces chased a remaining 25,000
Red Korean troops northward in
the final roundup of the war.
Establish’ Bomb Line
As a precaution against similar
incidents a new United Nations
bomb line only 12 miles south of
the Manchurian border was estab
lished. A bomb line is usually kept
20 miles ahead of forward troops.
Organized resistance on a large
scale ceased—although there still
were remnants of 16 Red divisions
to be dealt with in the north. The
U.N. forces counted 323,000 pris
oners.
FIREMAN-BRIDEGROOM
HAS 10 MAKE 3 TRIES
FOR MARRIAGE LICENSE
With his wedding planned for
Friday evening, Joe Sadller began
to think he never would get the
marriage license.
Joe, who lives at the Fire E* 11,
started for the U. S. Commission
er's office yesterday to sign the
application.
Boom! went the fire alarm, 2-4.
With other firemen, Joe hurried
to Front and Seward.
That didn’t take long, but by the
time Joe got started again, it was
almost an hour later. Up the hill
again.
2-1 this time. Now to the Nativb
Village.
In the breather before the 4:56
p.m. signal 2-9 Joe made it on
the third try.
Now on the Commissioner’s re- j
cord, is the application of Joseph
Byron Sadlier, 24-year-old driver,
and Eileen Marie Byrne, Alaska
Native Service clerk.
Their marriage will be Friday
evening in the Catholic Church of
the Nativity.
Jack and Sonja Hopkins of An
chorage are staying at the Baranof
Hotel.
STEAMEMOVEMENTS
Baranof from Seattle, freight only, i
due at 7 o’clock tonight.
Princess Louise scheduled to sail
from Vancouver Saturday.
SWEEP-UP
KEEPS UP
BY GOVT.
Executive Committeeman
ot Communists Among
Those Taken, Custody
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—MV-An
executive committeeman of the
Communist Party was taken into
custody today in the Justice De
partment's continuing sweep-up
of alleged alien Communist leaders.
At least half a dozen other arrests
also were made.
The newest arrests took well past
the one-quarter mark the roundup
of 86 foreigners the Department
describes as among the most active
Communist organizers, lecturer?
and propagandists in the United
States.
Announcing the latest arrests, tha
Department identified Jose Estrada
Castillo, who was taken into custo
dy at Dallas, Tex., as a member of
the Communist Party Executive
Committee. He is a 57-year-old
Mexican who has been in this coun
try since 1919.
The Department is rounding up
the 86 with the aim of deporting
them or forcing their departure
from this country.
In other developments:
1. The Communist Party and its
affiliated groups continued to ig
nore the law’s provisions that
"Communist Action” and "Com
munist Front” groups must register
with the Justice Department and
disclose their sources of funds.
Some groups are required also to
list intWidtMrt members.
2 A large group of persons op
posed to the new act sought to
enjoin enforcement of any of its
numerous provisions, and particul
arly the Communist registration re
quirement, in the U. S. District
Court here. The 107 plaintiffs from
32 states Included Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn, member of the Communist
Party's national commitee; and Wil
liam L. Patterson, attorney and se
jrelary for the Civil Rights Cong
es*;.
THIRD ARREST 5N SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Oct. 24—(fll—A third
irrest was made here today by im
migration service offipers hi their
.oundup of subsersive aliens.
Taken into custody was Cecil Re
ginald Jay, 59, a member of the
Communist Party and a native of
[ Great Britain. He is employed as
head maintenance man at a West
Seattle housing project.
Yesterday Justice Department
agents arrested a fish cannery un
ion official, Ernesto Mangaoang,
and a book store proprietor, Boris
Sasieff.
COUNT OF ABSENTEE
BALLOTS EXPECTED
. BY LATE AFTERNOON
The three First Divison convass
ing Judges were hopeful at press
time (3 p.in.) that their count of
absentee votes could be completed
by 5 p.m. today.
However, it had taken most of
their four working hours since
starting at 10 a.m. to certify the
qualifed ballots of the 375 received.
First, they had to open and check
the contents of the large precinct
envelopes, then do the same for all
the small ones. *
Judges are Mrs. Edwin Sutton,
Mrs. Harold Gronroos and Mrs.
Russell Maynard. They met in the
office of the Clerk of the District
Court, as did absentee ballot count
ers in their respective courts in
other divisons. By law, this tally
must be made the second Tuesday
after a general election.
Special interest attaches to the
absentee count in this division, as
the eighth position of eight House
seats can well be juggled among
Amelia Gundersen <D>, now in that
spot; Vernon Metcalfe (D) and
Marcus F. Jensen fD).
Although all are identified as
Democrats, Jensen is an outspoken
opponent of Gov. Ernest Gruening.
A. C. McMaster, from Anchor
age is registered at the Baranof
Hotel.
I. B. Houser of Haines is a Ju
neau visitor. He is staying at the
Gastineau Hotel,