ROTC Cruise
Arrives Here;
Dance Tonight
Thirty-eight University of Wash
ington Army, Navy, and Air Force
R. O. T. C. cadets and midshipmen
arrived in Juneau at 3 a m. today
aboard the Army cargo vessel FS
210. The students, accompanied by
military instructors are on their
fifth annual 10-day Spring Alas
kan training cruise, between quar
ters at the University.
At 1 p.m. today the cadets toured
toe city anu Vicinity through the
courtesy of a women's committee
chairmanned fcy Mrs. Ernest Grue
ning. This evening, they will be
guests at the Governor's house at
a dance. The FS-210 will leave
early tomorrow morning for Prince
Rupert.
Purpose of the trip is to furnish
on-the-job training and instruction
to all branches of R.O.T.C. stud
ents in die operation, navigation,
and maintenance of a sea-going
freight vessel. The instruction pro
motes inter-service understanding
and learning. The 180-foot FS-210
has been used for University train
ing purposes since 1947. It is at
tached to the Seattle Port of Em
barkation.
Cruise commande- for the trip is
Lt. Col. Frederic w Ledeboer,
commanding officer of the Army
R.OTC ;uMt at the University. Dr.
Austin 6rimshaw, dean of the Col
ie0e oi .business Administration, is
accompanying the students as Un
iversity of Washington President
Raymond B. Allen's representative.
The ship will stop in Prince Ru
pert Friday and return to Seattle
on Easter Sunday. The cadets em
barked at Seattle last Friday,
stopped at Ketchikan Sunday, and
Skagway Tuesday.
In addition to having adiore
leave at these ports, the cadets are
having actual experience in loading
<uid unloading freight and vehicles
ficm the FS-210. At sea, they un
dergo extensive lectures, and par
ticipate in tne operation of the ves
sel.
“Highlight of each trip is the
Governor’s dance held annually in
honor of visiting R.O.T.C. students,”
Colonel Ledeboer said.
The dance at the Governor's
house is at 8 o"clock tonight.
PRINTERS INK NEW
' EMPIRE "DEVIL" DOG
Printers' Ink, a small black mon
critiL dog that seems to have adopted
the Empire office, put In his ap
pearance this morning with a half
dozen porcupine quill chin whiskers.
With the help of all depart
ments the evil quills were removed
and Printers’ Ink has now been
named official "Devil” dog for all
departments for his bravery during
the ordeal.
FROM FAIRBANKS
R. W. Slater of Fairbanks is at
the Baranof Hotel.
SERVICES ON GOOD
FRIDAY ARRANBED
IN SEVEN PERIODS
Special Good-Friday services arc
I being planned for all who wish to
go to the Northern Light Presby
terian Church on Friday, March
23. This is a cooperative service bc
j tween the Episcopal, Lutheran,
1 Presbyterian and Methodist chur
ches, though not limited to those
! groups. The public is extended a
1 cordial invitation to attend for
meditation and prayer from 12 noon
until 3 in the afternoon.
This service of three hours will
[ consist of organ meditations, de
votional meditations by local min
isters and special musical numbers.
The service will be planned and
presented around the theme "Last
Seven Sayings Of Christ On The
Cross.’
The themes have been assigned to
the ministers who will participate
and the division of the period will
fall naturally into seven sections.
There will be a short devotional
period proceeding the first speaker
of the program. Each period will
last approximately 23 minutes each
and if worshippers wish to choose
certain periods to attend they may
ascertain the designated period by
allowing approximately lb liimaiw
for the opening and 23 minutes for
each section.
The speakers and their themes
are as follows:
First period, the Rev. Fred Mc
Ginnis, “Father, Forgive Them For
They Know Not What They Do.
Second Period, the Rev. Samuel
McPnetres, "Today Thou Shalt Be
With Me In Paradise.”
Third Period, the Rev. R. E. Mc
Cluggage, "Woman, Behold Thy
Son.”
Fourth Period, the Rev. Walter
Soboleff, “My God, My God, Why
Hast Thou Forsaken Me.”
Fifth Period, the Rev. Percy Ipa
look, “I Thirst.”
Sixth Period, the Rev. Herbert
Hillerman, “It is Finished.”
Seventh Period, the Rev. Willis
Booth, “Father, Into Thy Hands I
Commend My Spirit.”
The organists for the periods will
be: Mrs. Carol Beery Davis and
Miss Lois Lawrence.
ABOLISH BUREAU
INDIAN AFFAIRS
NOW REQUESTED
I Sen. William Beltz tD-Haycocki
I introduced a memorial in the sen
! ate today asking congress to abolish
the Bureau of Indian Affairs in
J Alaska.
; The longest memorial of the ses
I sion, it includes .an allegation that
; “the Bureau lias an upbroken re
J cord of having failed to protect
i he’ property rights of‘ the natives.”
It proposes that schools and relief
of. destitution be left to the terri
tory, and that the medical depart
ment go to the U. S. public health
service.
A post office was first established
in Juneau in April, 1881.
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I WHEAT, SCOTT VS.
BLYBERG CASE IN
COURT THURSDAY
The case of Wheat and Scott vs.
H. Blyberg Is set to be heard before
Judge George W. Folta in the Dis
I trict Court tomorrow morning at
10 o’clock. Attorney Fred Eastaugh
represents the plaintiffs and J. A.
McLean is the attorney for the de
fendant.
No business came before the Court
today.
A divorce action was named in a
suit filed in the office of the Clerk
of the Court this morning. Vern
Fern Forrester asks a divorce from
Donald L. Forrester, on charges of
incompatability. The case was filed
from Sitka by Attorney Paul A.
Dupler, who represents the plain
tiff.
According to the complaint the
Forresters were married at Watson
ville, Calif., May 2, 1945. No property
rights are involved. They have one
minor child now residing with the
mother in Sitka. The plaintiff ask-'
custody of the child and $25 per
month toward its support.
SIX MORE BILLS ARE
SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
Governor Gruening notified the
Legislature late yesterday he had
signed six more bills into law’.
They include a bill allowing re
duction of the city treasurer's bond I
by the city council; a bill by Sen.'
Frank Barr ID-Fairbanksi calling
for registration of all Alaska air
craft and inspection of all carriers; .
removal of the Governor from the |
Fisheries Experimental Commissi'n,
and a bill to allow creation of third
class municipalities.
COOK GIVEN
300 YEARS,
5 SLAYINGS
OKLAHOMA CITY, March 21 —
OF—Admitted slayer William E.
Cook, Jr,, today was sentenced to
terms totaling 300 years in “Alca
traz or another safe prison where
he has no chance to escape” for
the slaying of the five members of
the Carl Mosser family of Atwood,
Illinois.
U. S. District Juuee Stephen
Chandler gave Cook, who showed
no visible signs of emotion, 60 years
for each of five counts in the kidnap
murder of Mr. and Mrs. Mosser
and their three children.
“Society stands indicted for per
mitting this child to grow up in
inhuman conditions that permitted
these crimes,'’ Chandler said.
SON JOINS HI RST
FAMILY Of YAKUTAT
A son was born to Mrs. Clifford
Hurst at 11:15 Tuesday morning
at St. Ann's Hospital. The young
man weighed six pounds and 14
ounces.
Mrs. Hurst and her little son
will leave shortly for their home,
in Yakutat, where Mr. Hurst is1
Aircraft Communicator with the
Civic Aeronautics Administration, ,
Mendenhall Glacier was named
by the Coast Survey in 1892 fci
Prof. Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, j
its superintendent.
FOURTH CUT ON
TRUMAN BUDGET
MADE BY HOUSE
WASHINGTON, March 21.—hT!—
The House continued its pecking
at President Truman's $71,600,000,
000 budget today, cutting $1,000,000
off funds for the Treasury Depart
ment’s public debt administration.
The cut was made by a standing
vote of 92 to 38. It was the fourtn
consecutive reduction voted by the
House since it star;ed debating the
Treasury-Postoffice Appropriation
Bill yesterday.
Yustel-day's cuts amounted to
$898,000.
The National Geographic Society
says Bismarck was ,t Crest D'-.ac
fancier
And No Wonder
She Fainted
And Why
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 21.—
| UPl—Mrs. Eldon Ulmer has blacked
out in a faint at least twice in
I her life.
Two months ago she fainted when
I she discovered she had left behind
i an $1,800 engagement ring as she
and her husband fled their burning
apartment.
Ulmer spent weeks searching the
ruins of the building for the ring.
Yesterday he found it—embedded
in an ice-sheathed bathroom sink.
Mrs. Ulmer fainted again.
The hoatzin, a pheasant-l.ke bad ij
of South America, holds enemies at 1
bay with its objcct-cnahl. ode:-.
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