COMMITTEE ON
FOURTH MAKING
FINAL PROGRAM
Final plans for the Fourth were
discussed by the Central Committee
at the meeting in the Baranof
Thursday evening.
The fleet of racing boats and a
large delegation from Petersburg
will arrive in Juneau Sunday after
noon and will include one high
speed artist credited with a sev
enty-mile record.
The National Guard Headquart
ers are taking on a business-like
appearance and the amusements
and concessions will all be in read
iness for the opening which will
be Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock
and on Wednesday an hour earlier:
These opening hours must be ob
served by all those having conces
sions.
Tennis Finals will be run off the
afternoon of the 4th in both Junior
and Senior classes boys and girls:
Thanks to the exceptional work of
Shirley Meuwissen and Marcia
Jartun this should be an outstand
ing feature with prizes and cup
awards for all groups. Seven S. E.
towns have been invited for finals.
The King was elected by a secret
ballot which was counted by the
secretary and chairman and the
votes sealed up in an envelope so
same could be checked after the
Glorious Fourth is past history.
The persons suggested were
George Parks, Elmer Friend, Charl
es Carter, Don Skuse, Henry Roden,
Charles Goldstein, Ray Stevens,
and Dean Rice.
Absence from town eliminated
several of these. There will be an
adjourned meeting next Monday
evening at 7:30 in the Baranof
and a full program will appear
in the Daily Empire Tuesday with
extra sheets for every one left at
several available places.
VISIT OF NATIONAL
LEGION COMMANDER
PLANS DEVELOPING
The forthcoming visit of Erie J.
Cocke, Jr., National Commander of
the American Legion, will continue
the breath-taking pace demanded
by this office. •
The Commander, tentatively
scheduled to arrive in Juneau July
8, has expressed a desire to meet
the rank and file membership of
the organization of Southeastern
Alaska, according to Vein Harris,
commander of the local post.
Invitations are being sent to Leg
ionnaires in this area, and Harris
is desirous that those planning to
visit the Capital City on July 8 or
9 send word to that effect.
The general committee will issue
a statement of definite plans in
the near future.
r'SOM DETROIT
Carleton Dean and E. R. Subert of
Detroit, Mich, are stopping et the
Baranof Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred L. Makela
of Kirkland, Wash, are stopping
at the Baranof Hotel.
ALASKA COASTAL
TO LEASE ALASKA
ISLAND AIRLINE
James Nolan of Wrangell, presi
dent of the Alaska Island Airlines
• which flies out of Petersburg to the
j West Coast and up the Stikine river.
; announced today from Wrangell
! that negotiations are in progress
[ for the leasing of the Alaska Is
land Airline equipment and facili
ties to Alaska Coastal Airlines of
Juneau.
Nolan expressed hope that nego
tiations would be carried to a rapid i
conclusion in order that people of |
Petersburg, Wrangell and Tele
graph Creek and other communities
can be assured of continued air
service.
He said that under the present
plan the Petersburg hangar would
be moved from the harbor to the
Alaska Coastal-Ellis dock float and
planes would be based in Petersburg
as in the past.
O. F. Benecke, general office man
ager, and Sheldon Simmons, stock
holder in Alaska Coastal Airways,
flew to Petersburg today to meet
Nolan to complete the transaction.
JUNEAU YOUNG WINS
DOUBLE-HEADER GAME
The Juneau Young soft ball team
won. both games of the double
header played Thursday night in
the Evergreen Bowl. The score of
the first game was Juneau Young ,
14 to 1 over the Teen Agers and
second game ended 21 to 3 over ,
the Independents.
Several home runs were the feat- ,
ure of th; evening with Forest and '
FjS juan of Juneau Young rapping
them out.
The body of Charles Buckert was
recovered from waters by Metlakatla
this noon by the U.S. Coast Guard,
it was learned at headquarters here.
Buckert had been reported miss
ing this morning. He was believed to
have been aboard the fishing vessel
Theodora and was first missed yes
terday morning. It was reported that
he was last seen the previous mid
night with two other men. His purse
was found floating on the water.
The U. S. deputy marshal has been
notified.
FIRE CALLS
The fire Thursday afternoon at
3:25 was at the Gilbert Miller res
idence at 925A Capital Avenue. The
utility room was burned out and
cause of fire was unknown. There
was very little water damage.
The fire Friday noon was for a
roof fire in the village on Capital
Avenue. Very little damage was re
ported.
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STOP-GAP
CONTROLS
IN SENATE
WASHINGTON. June 2!) —MV
The Senate Baking committee to
day approved House-passed stop
gap legis'alion to continue price,
wage and rent controls for 31 day.',—
through July 31.
The action came shortly after the
House had approved the bill, which
would continue the present law
temporarily.
The Senate Banking group, which
ook no record vote, sent the meas
ure to the Senate floor immediately.
Senate action was expected later in
the day, although the Senate had
approved earlier a more compre
hensive controls bill of its own.
House passage came on a voice
vote after a rollcall vote of 232 to
159 added a ban on price rollbacks
during July. A motion to recommit
the bill lost by a standing vote of
250 to 27.
The House plans to consider the
Senate's more complicated bill nex.
week.
The temporary measure also
keeps in operation for another
month the Federal rent control
program and the program for con
trolling Imports of fats and oils.
The no-rollback provision came as
an amendment sponsored by Chair
man Cooley of the Agriculture
committee, who told the House "the
status quo” should be maintained
during the one-month extension of
die present law.
It was approved by standing vote
f 165 to 106.
2/MS FRED,
DiSTRiCI COURT
Raymond Beach has filed a di
vorce action in U. S. District Court
against Diane C. Beach charging
incompatibility.
The couple was married Feb
ruary 7, 1945 in Elkton, Maryland.
No children or property rights are
involved.
In another action the Alaska De
partment of Health filed an appeal
from a decision and award of $6,300
by the Alaska Industrial Board to
Pernella Swanson, enjoining the
defendant from forcing payment of
he sum until the case is reviewed
by the court.
Mis. Swanson’s husband was last
overboard from the Department of
Health vessel Hygiene, last winter.
FROM KETCHIKAN
Kenneth Eichmo of Ketchikan
is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM MT. EDGECUMBE
M. J. Weeks of Mt. Edgecumbe
is at the Baranof Hotel.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary, June 29
Archbishop Joszef Groesz has been
sentenced to 15 years in prison on
charges of plotting to overthrow
Hungary’s Communist government
with American help. One of hi
eight co-defendants was sentenced
to death.
•Archbishop Groesz succeeded Car
dinal Mindszenty as leader of the
Roman Catholic Church in Hun
gary after the Cardinal was given
a life sentence on treason charges
in 1949.
In handing down the sentences
today, the court said the pro e
cution had proved that the group
maintained “close relatons with the
United States legation” in Buda
pest. All had pleaae'.'. guilty to the
charges.
The prosecutor, Gyula Alapi, who
had asked for the "severest punish
ment" objected because the sen
tences were not heavier. Hut Judge
Vilmos Olti said the sincerity of
their confessions and the fact they
had not beon convicted cf any prev
: us crime were alleviating circum
Alapi was the man who prose
cuted cardinal Mlndszenty and Am
, ■ if in businessman Robert A. Vog
el. who got a 15-year sentence on
, • charges. Olti was the
in those cases too.
I he r S. State Department has
dt rribed the trial as persecution
in the familiar Communist pattern,
aimed at suppressing “all human
n: hts and liberties in Hungary”
and at destroying church influence
there.
HIKE PLANS CHANGE
CASE OF BAl) WEATHER
The Rev. H. E. Beyer, president
of the Ship, Shank and Shutter
dub announced today that in event
, ! overcast weather covering peak
of Mount Troy tomorrow, which
would obscure,the dedication and
hooting of a flag ceremony on flic
ak, the club will meet as sched
uled but will take taxis to Thane
and lnkr on to Dupont to have
k u. h ano a fire on the beach.
CVfES TO KETCHIKAN
I OR focrtii HOLIDAYS
— 1
r, Dorotr.y Novatney, of the
Territorial Department of Educa
tion, lia gone to Ketchikan to join
her husband, Robert Novatney, for
the Fourth of July holidays.
Novatney is employed in the Ket
chikan area for the summer.
McDowells return
FROM INTERIOR TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. Bert McDowell and
three children arrived on the Prin
cess Norali from a three weeks'
car trip through the Interior and
■ over the Alaska Highway.
On July 9 the McDowells left by
boat for Valdez. The first point of
interest they visited was the ghost
mining town of Chitina on the old
| Copper River and Northwestern
1 Railroad. Mr. McDowell reported
I that many large trailer trucks were
operating out of Valdez. These
trucks, he said, can carry as muclt
as half a railroad carload of cargo.
Fairbanks impressed the McDow
! ells the most of the Alaska cities
' visited. The reason for this was
the amount of business there. The
roads and lodges were all excellent
McDowell reported.
From Fairbanks, they went to
Circle Hot Springs and recommend
a visit there for anyone.
Arriving at Whitehorse, the Mc
Dowells traveled over the White
! Pass and Yukon Railroad to fckag
way. Their car was shipped on the
railroad and put aboard the Prin
cess Noraty.
NORTH DAKOTA VISITORS
Joyce Bwingdoic r”d Vivian Olson
• f Brocket, N. Dzk. : t vesN at
the Earanof Hotel
NEW PHARMACIST
ON DRUG STAFF
AT BUTLER-MAURO
Horace W. LaC-asse, pharmacist,
has arrived in Juneau to join the
staff of the Butler-Mauro drug
so ire, it is announced by H. R.
Vander Leest, president.
La Gasse was born in Norman.
Arkansas, and attended high school
in Clarkesville. He was president of
his senior class and winner of four
letters in football.
During World War IT, he served
with the Army Air Corps fer five
years, three years of which were j
spent in New Guinea. At the end !
of the war he was discharged with
the rating of Technical Sergeant, j
La Gasse attended the Arkansas i
School oi Pharmacy at Clarkesville,
graduating from there after his four
year course. While in school lie
helped the college football team
and was active in Kicker and
Scouting programs.
He was accompanied to Juneau
by his wife, and both are enthus
iastic over the country and hospit
ality of its people.
“I expect to remain in these
pleasant surroundings permanently,”
La Gasse said.
Ivan E. Reze'.c v f Siika is register
ed at the Baranoi hotel.
ETHEL FINLAYSON, SEATTLE
BOUND TO VISIT PARENTS
Miss Ethel Finlayson was a
southbound passenger aboard Pan
American Thursday to visit in Se
attle with her parents, Mr, and
Mrs. V. A. Finlayson.
The Finlaysons, whose home is in
Idaho, motored to Seattle for a
vacation and to see their daughter.
Miss finlayson is with the Bureau
of Reclamation in Juneau.
FROM HAKE
Ernest E>berger oi Kake is at the
Baranof hotel.
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