Happenings
At Haines
HAINES, Alaska, Oct.^24—(Spec
ial Correspondence)— Delegate Bart
lett, Mrs. Bartlett and daughter
Susie visited Haines on October
16. They were guests at the Lions’
dinner held at the Halsingland. On
Wednesday the Delegate and his
family visited and inspected the
school. They also looked over the
different government projects in
progress in Haines.
•
The Lions Club met in its first re
gular meeting of the tall with Dele
gate Bartlett a:; speaker of the eve
ning. The meeting was held with
a dinugr at the Halsingland Hotel
at Port Chilkoot, In the short time
01 its organization the Lions club
has had withdrawn 30 acres from
Public Domain at Wells for a re
creation site. The next meeting of
the club will be on its usual night
the Second Tuesday of the month.
Emery E. Potts and Irma T.
Bonge, both of Anchorage were
married by the U. S. Commissioner
Ross L. Hevel Friday, October 12.
Witnesses were Mr. N. Solomon
and Irene Medley. Mr. Potts is an
Insurance salesman and Mrs. Potts
a stenographer. The couple will re
side in Juneau.
The American Legion held a spe
cial meeting October 23 to elect new
officers for the coming year. The
following were chosen:
Frank Young, commander; Gil
bert Smith, first vice commander;
Francis Gorman, second vice com
mander; George Gray, historian;
W. E. Shepherd, chaplain; John
Fox, sergeant-at-arms.
Ross L. Hevel was re-elected ad
jutant and finance officer. Instal
lation of officers will be held at
the next regular meeting. Frank
Young offered the lumber he has
for his house on Chisel's Hill for
the Legion hall. The offer was ac
cepted and men will go and bring
it down before snow falls. George
Gray has cut and hauled in 22 posts
for the foundation. Another party
by the group will be held Friday
at Rainey's and the proceeds will
go for the hall. The Armistice
dance will be held November 10,
at the school. Tickets are made and
will soon be on sale.
The American Legion Auxiliary
will meet in the home of Mary
Hevel unless otherwise notified.
The meeting will be held November
5 at 8 p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Powell who
have been visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Ira M. Powell have returned to
their home in California after a
three months visit in Haines.
The Powell’s have added living
quarters and a double garage to
their store on Main Street.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Nelson have
received word from their son .Den
nis and his wife that they have
presented them with a new grand
daughter. The taby joined an older
brother and a little sister on Oct
ober 22 in Lake Bronson, Minn.
Blame lor
Ship Crash
Is Placed
VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 1—(/PI—
Mr. Justice Sidney Smith blamed
one officer of the Canadian Pacific
Steamship Princess Kathleen and
two officers of the Canadian Na
tional Steamship Prince Rupert for
the Aug. 30 collision of the two ves
sels in Chatham Channel, near
Prince Rupert in Admiralty Court
yesterday.
He ordered suspension for three
months the certificates of the three
officers—J. W. Bryant, second of
ficer of the Rupert; G. G. Wilkins,
extra third officer of the Rupert,
and P. T. Harris, second officer of
the Kathleen.
Col. Lars Johnson
Reports on National
Guard Association
' Col. L. L. Johnson, adjutant gen
' oral of the Alaska National Guard
returned this week from the 73rd
annual conference of the National
Guard Association in Washington,
D. C.
Several resolutions were passed
' by the -association, he said. They
included:
1. Urging passage of a law re
quiring compulsory membership
! in the National Guard for draftees
after completion of their period of
! military service.
2. Asking the Defense Depart
j ment to set up a definite time
j schedule for the call-up of all re
; maining guard units, showing the
j name of each unit and date when
it will be called to active duty.
3. Requesting army chiefs find
! some means of maintaining the
Korean rotation plane without
"stripping” guard units of their key
men.
4. Asking Congress approve pend
ing legislation providing extra pay
for front-line ground troops.
Convicts Overpower
Guards But Lose in
Attempted Break
SALEM, Ore, Nov. 1—Itf)—A score
of convicts failed in a prison break
last night after locking up seven
unarmed guards and an engineer.
Ten were In solitary today awalt
! ing Warden Virgin O'Malley’s an
I nouncement of punishment which
| the prison discipline committee will
I recommend late today.
I The break attempt, coming as the
! men filed out of the dining room
j at 6:20 p.m. failed because an un
j suspecting guard saw them huddled
! between the control room and the
! turnkey, in an area where construc
I tion is under way. The guard, Mau
i rice Folquet, shouted at the men
j to get back inside. The men—arm
j ed with knives, ice picks and carv
| ed wooden pistols—went back quiet
! ly and the escape try was ended,
j O’V 1 lley aaid the ringVaders
| were John Omar Pinson, who mur
! dered a state patrolman and made
one over-the-wall escape; and
, Wayne Long, convicted of murder in
collection with a Portland bank rob
bery.
Four hundred other inmates lolled
about unguarded, sitting in their
unlocked cells or in the corridors,
i They made no attempt to join in
| the break.
I O'Malley became warden only six
j weeks ago.
j Escaped Leopard
Hied by Hunter;
|g@ak Sift Free
MT. IDA, Ark., Nov. 1—US—A lone
hunter killed a charging male leo
pard shortly after daybreak today,
clubbing the mortally wounded beast
after hitting it with three shots
from a rifle.
The leopard, one of two which es
caped with other animals from a
wrecked circus van near here yes
terday, had killed a dog belonging
to the hunter. The hunter and a
second dog were not injured.
The other spotted cat, a female,
was killed yesterday afternoon by
an Arkansas State Highway pat
rolman.
The^ leopards, a "'polar bear, two
black bears and several rhesus
monkeys fled into the heavily-wood
ed Ouachita National Forest after
the circus van overturned 15 miles
northwest of here.
CORRECTION
The destruction by fire of an Al
aska Communications System sta
tion at Baranof on Baranof Island
was erroneously reported in an art
icle in Wednesday’s Empire.
The article should have read that
an Alaska Aeronautics and Com
munication station in the Corbett
Shipp home there was destroyed.
The Japanese introduced the giant
African land - snail to their island
outposts during World War II so
their soldiers could have snail stew.
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A Violent Attack on Delegate
Barlett's Indian Claims Bill was
launched by Janies E. Curry during
the Washington hearing on the bill
in August of this year.
Curry is the attorney for a num
ber of Indian communities and or
ganizations in Alaska. He will no
doubt come to Alaska to attend
the convention of the Alaska Na
. tive Brotherhood at Ketchikan in
mid-November, and it is not im
probable that he will also take in
some of the Alaska hearings on
the Bartlett bill and that he will
shoot off a few more fireworks.
Curry and the Bureau of Indian
Affairs have been at war for some
time over Curry’s contracts with the
Indian groups he represents, both in
Alaska and in the states.
The regulations require that the
contracts of such attorneys J>e ap
proved by the Indian Bureau, which
is the guardian of the Indian :.. In
this way the Bureau can guard the
Indians against unscrupulous law
yers, or against lawyers the Bureau
might choose to consider unscrupu
lous.
There does not appear to be any
regulation that would guard the
Indians against unscrupulous bu
reaucrats.
Jamc F.. Curry “went to Loyola
University in Chicago," to use his
qwn words. He did not say whether
he graduated from Loyola or that he
graduated from any university. Af
ter he attended Loyola, he worked
for the United States Fidelity'and
Guaranty Co., for several years, af
ter which he engaged in private
law practice for several more years.
About 1S34 Curry went into gov
ernment service in the Interior De
partment He was first a lawyer in
the Office of Indian Affairs, now
known as the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs, for about three years and a
half.
From the Indian Office, Curry
moved into the Puerto Rico Recon
struction Administration, which is
also under the Interior Depart
ment. From there he went to an
other branch of the Interior De
partment, the Bituminous Coal Di
vision, and was attorney for the
Consumers Council of that bureau.
The Bituminous Coal Division,
which established minimum prices
for bituminous coal and otherwise
“stabilized" that industry, went cut
of business on August 24, 1943,
which was about the time the fix
ing of maximum, rather than mini
mum, prices became fashionable.
Curry left, the government service
at about the same time.
Puerto Rico became the scene of
Curry’s main activities for some
time thereafter. He established his
residence in Puerto Rico and le
presented the Puerto Rico Aque
duct Service, which operates all
water works In that territory; the
University of Puerto Rico and, at
times, the Puerto Rico Communica
tions Authority. In 1948 Curry testi
fied that he spent about half his
time in Puerto Rico and half in
Washington, D. C.
It was around 1945 when Curry
opened an office In Washington and
to handle the legal work of various
Indian groups. At about the same
time he became attorney for the
National Congress of American In
dians.
In the NCAI he is associated with
Mrs. Ruth Muskrat Bronson, who
previously worked for the Indian
Bureau lor 19 years. Some years
ago Mrs. Bronson made a couple
of brief trips to Alaska, thereby
qualifying as an authority on In
dian affairs in the Territory.
Her Alaska trips were financed
by a grant from the Robert Mar
shall Civil Liberties Trust, which is
also known as the Robert Marshall
Foundation.
A report of the Special Commit
tee on Un-Ameri(can Activities,
House of Representatives, on March
29, 1944, said of the Robert Mar
shall Foundation; “This fund of
more than a million dollars, which
originated with the rich man's son
whose name it bears, has been one
of the principal sources for the
money with which to finance the
Communist Party’s fronts generally
in recent years.”’
Another Associate of Curry in
some of his legal work for Indian
groups has been Felix Cohen who
from 1933 until early in 1948 was
a lawyer in the Interior Depart
ment and who did a good deal of
the stirring in the Alaska Indian
claims furore under Secretary Ickes.
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In his law business Curry has,
and has had in the past, a number
oi other associates, including Henry
Cohen, a cousin of Felix Cohen, and
Jonathan Bingham, both in New
York: William L. Paul, Jr., of Ju
r.enu; Henry Roden, the present
Treasurer of Alaska; Fred Paul, a
brother of William L. Paul, Jr., in
Seattle: and others in New Mexico,
Puerto Rico, Washing ton, D. C.,
and elsewhere.
Precisely What Attorney Curry
want.; for his Alaska Indian clients
<n settlement of their claims is dif
i ficr.lt to determine, but it is more
than a little. It Is clear, for instance,
that he wishes the claims settled by
| establishment of reservations. And
it further appears that he wishes
these reservations, particularly in
the potential pulp mill areas of
Southeast Alaska, to include the
more valuable stands of tinibei; and,
in addition, the waters that are
most frequented by valuable com
mercial species of fish.
It is in connection with these de
sired fishing reservations for ex
clusive use by the Indians that Curry
1 finds the greatest fault with the
Bartlett Indian Claims bill. The
bill provides that no reservation,
1 if any are created, shall extend
! below low tide line.
Attorney Curry and other lawyers
| for Indian claimants have, quite
naturally, a great desire to secure
for their clients the best possible
I settlements, since the attorneys are
'working on a contingent basis .The
contracts provide that the attorney
may receive a fee not to exceed
10 percent “of any and all sums re
covered or piocured through ef
forts in whole or in part for the
said Indians.”
investigate Alleged Violations
C\ a:'.'] Communist olficers Investigating two new a Icgcd vie lain • it the l’amnunjem end Kaceonj nru
(r (’tv zones are an attentive atldicnre as they Hat or t" a. Kezean youth—brother of a 1’2-ycar-old hoy
which the Rods say was killed by an Allied strafing plane. At left, drer-d in white ctothci, is the boy’s
f.11tier. Beside yowth in Chinese uniform is Col. Tsai Cheng Wan, aril to his left North Korean Co!.
Chang Chun San and Col. Den Harrow (light (reusers), one of the I’N investigators. Kneeling at
right is Lt. Bichard t’nderwood, IN Interpreter. Others unidentified. <m Wirephoto.
Efforts Made
To End Jap Fish
Raids on Coast
VICTORIA, B. C., Nov, I——
Joint Canada-U.S. efforts to draw
up n fishing treaty to prevent Jap
anese fishermen from raiding the
North Pacific fisheries was strongly
endorsed by top figures attending
the 3Eth annr.nl convention of the
A: relation of Pacific Fisheries
whi h opened here yesterday.
Canada Fisheries Minister R. W.
Mnvhew is heading a five-man dele
gation to Tokyo to confer with the
Japanese government.
Dr. Ernest D. Clark of Seattle,
manaver of the northwest branch,
National Canners’ Association, and
Vance F. Sutter, Seattle, president
of the Association of Pacific Fish
eries, declared they felt the Japan
ese government would work out a
"fniiw agreement" to safeguard Can
adian and U. S. fishing industry
in this region.
Both Dr. Clark and Sutter stres
sed the need for such a fishing
agreement now that Japan is on
the way to becoming a sovereign
nation again.
Mere than 400 members of groups
allied with Association of Pacific
Fisheries and associated industries
are attending the three-day confab
hero.
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