Special Military
Survey Committee
Enroute to Alaska
WASHINGTON. Aug. 31—l/P—Bad
weather between Washington and
Great Falls. Mont., today delayed
departure of a special House Armed
Services committee for a survey of
Alaska’s military construction pro
gram.
The group had planned to take off
for Great Falls early this morning.
It now plans to leave Washington
tonight.
The group was scheduled to stay
in Great Falls tonight and to reach
Anchorage tomorrow afternoon.
Heading the group is Rep. Hardy
tD-Vai. Rep. Price <D-I1I> was un
able to make the trip because of
business in his home district.
The committee will split at An
chorage into two groups for visits
to Farbanks, Kodiak, Big Delta,
Naknek, Point Barrow. Nome, Sew
ard, Whittier, Juneau, Haines and
Skagway.
It may make a stopover at Seattle.
Wash., as it returns from the 10-day
trip. Rep. Mitchell (D-Wash) ex
tended the invitation yesterday.
Hardy said it wi/yld be accepted "if
at all possible.”
120 Acres Under
Survey for Addition
To City of Fairbanks
A survey party from the Bureau
of Land Management office is lay
ing out a new addition to Fair
banks, according to Leonard Ber
lin, division engineer. It includes
approximately 120 acres south of
the city.
Berlin returned yesterday from
Anchorage and the Interior where
he has been the past two weeks
on business.
He said crews have finished sur
vey at Kotzebue and are now at
McGrath surveying for a town
site there.
In Anchorage he conferred with
officials at the regional office for
his department on plans for the
coming year.
He added that crews were work
ing along the Alaska railroad belt
surveying homestead tracts and
along the new Seward-Anchorage
rood on similar work.
Douglas Bid to
Recognize Red China
Brings Senate Roars
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 T
A suggestion from Supreme Court
Justice William O. Douglas today
that the United States should
recognize Red China astonished
and riled administration leaders in
the Senate. They said he spoke
only for himself in expressing
such views in a west coast inter
view.
Anger in his voice, Senator
Oonnally (D-Tex) shouted to his
colleagues that Douglas “ought
to stay home instead of roaming
all around the world and Asia
and making fool statements."
"We're really at war—in a sense
—with Red China now,” declared
Connally, chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee.
Senator McMahon (D-Conn)
called Douglas “a private citizen
without influence on the course
of American foreign policy."
Senator Welker (R-Idaho)
brought the matter up in the Sen
ate by reading a news dispatch of
an interview with the Supreme
Court Justice.
Douglas, in San Francisco after
an expedition along the southern
frontiers of Russia and China,
told a reporter that U. S. recog
nition of Red China would serve
as a means to smash China's po
litical ties with Russia.
NOTICE
Legion of the Moose. Big meet
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be there. Fun and refreshments.
900-2t
NOTICE
Regular meeting of Pioneers of
Alaska Igloo No. 6 and Ladies
Auxiliary, Friday, August 31. 1931
I.O.O.F. Hall at 8 p.m. 899-3t
NOTICE
Telephone Directories have been
distributed; if anyone has been
missed, call 420 for delivery. 899-3t
Wallace Nelson of Seattle is stop
ping at the Baranof Hotel.
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Catholic Women
Blast Majorettes
'Undress' Costumes
PITTSBURGH. Aug. 31-4^Del
egates to the national Catholic
Women's Union adopted a reso
lution condemning scantily clad
drum majorettes appearing at
public functions.
The resolution said the trend to
disregard modesty and decency of
attire is becoming bolder every
year. It added:
“. . . we utterly condemn the
dress or undress and indecent con
tortions in parades and public ex
hibitions of so-called 'majorettes.’ ”
Red Rail Lines
To Vladivostok
Cut by Air Force
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 — l/PI —
The Air Force said today that rail
lines from Red Korea to the Rus
sian military base at Vladivostok
were cut by the bombing of Rash
in, 18 miles from the Soviet bor
der, Saturday.
An Air Force spokesman said
preliminary reports indicated also
that all rail and road communi
cations south of Rashin (Najin on
some maps) were put out of oper
ation.
Saturday’s raid was the first at
tack on Rashin since August of
last year.
The key transportation and port
city on the northeastern coast of
Korea was left untouched for
more than a year on direct orders
from Washington.
At Senate hearings, Gen. Doug
las MacArthur said he had been
forbidden to bomb the city on
grounds that an American plane
might mistakenly fly over or hit
Russian territory.
The Air Force said preliminary
reports said that 97 percent of the
bombs dropped Saturday from the
B-29 superfortresses landed in the
marshalling yard target area.
The assessment, based on aerial
photographs, indicated that one
turntable and a roundhouse were
destroyed and that about 60 per
cent of an estimated 13G railroad
cars in the southern part of the
yard was destroyed.
The Air Force spokesman said
Rashin has been used by the Reds
as a stock piling and transship
ment point for arms and equip
ment. He declined to say whether
Rashin will be a target for further
air attacks.
Removal of Acheson
Demanded by Veterans
Of Foreign Wars
NEW YORK, Aug. 31—‘M—'The
national encampment of the vet
erans of foreign wars today demand
ed the removal of Secretary of State
Dean Acheson.
A resolution, adopted by voice vote,
charged the State Department pol
icy had created "intolerable interna
tional and internal situations that
can only bo solved by instituting a
new and American-like leadership
in the Department of State.”
PAINTED SKULLS EXHIBITED
WASHINGTON, D. C. — UP! —
An exhibit showing an unusual
treatment of the dead has been
installed in the U. S. National
Museum here.
The exhibits include four abor
iginal skulls from Australia cover
ed with complex, painted designs.
The collection represents a phase
of an expedition to Australia
sponsored by the Smithsonian In
stitution, the National Geograph
ic Society and the Australian Gov
ernment in 1948.
The painted skulls, says Frank
M. Setzler, head curator of an
thropology for the National Mu
seum, are often carried about by
a close relative of the deceased,
or suspended from a tree limb
near a camp. The belief is that
possession of the skull will attract
the dead person’s spirit.
Elfin Cove
News Notes
By Hazel Wimer
ELFIN COVE— (Special to The
Empire) Bobby Murphy returned
to the Cove from Juneau for the
duration of his vacation. Bobby
says that high school starts the
day after Labor Day and he must
be in Juneau a few days before.
He is the house-guest of Mr. and
Mrs. E. O. Swanson.
The seine boat A.R.B. 5 came
in the Cove for supplies August 5.
Passengers to Juneau Aug. 4 oa
Alaska Coastal was Mrs. Arthur
i Enson off the boat Olympic.
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Mrs. Laura Witton is here from
Seattle visiting her sister Mrs.!
Marguerite Butts. Mrs. Witton |
plans a two weeks visit Just miss- j
ing her sister. Helen Pride, who
left last Tuesday.
Barney Meyers on his boat Odd
will be fishing again soon after
being tied up the past two weeks
with engine trouble.
Mr. Melvin Grimsrud received a
picture of his young daughter
Saturday. The picture was taken
through the window of the nur
sery at the hospital.
E. O. Swanson on his packer
Elfin II returned from Graves
Harbor Saturday morning, loading
the fish here and going to Pelican
the same afternoon.
Bill Smith, better known to his
friends as "Picaroon Bill’, bought
the numbered boat of Arthur Pet
robord. Smith formerly owned the
boat Reliance III.
Cards to friends here from Mrs.
Jim Lingard who went to Roch
ester, Minn., August 1 states she
arrived there Aug. 7 and is very
pleased that she went because her
trouble has been diagnosed and
she is much better.
Maxine Alexander, small daugh
ter of Art Alexander, returned via
Alaska Coastal plane from Wrang
ell where she spent several days
visiting her mother.
Guy C. Riley returned from Ju
neau Thursday where he went and
met a sister whom he had not seen
for many years.
Mrs. Roy B. Elliott entertained
friends Friday evening in honor
of Mrs. Laura Witton who is vis
iting her sister, Mrs. Marguerite
i Butts, here for the past two weeks.
Mrs. Witton left Saturday via Al
aska Coastal for Juneau returning
to her home in Seattle via Pan
American.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lesher
returned from Juneau Friday
where they had attended a fam
ily reunion.
VISITORS FROM WRANGELL
John G. Almqulst of Wrangell is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
FROM SEATTLE
Mrs. H. K. Nelson and Mrs. Ber
tha Olson of Seattle are guests at
the Baranof Hotel.
Price Office Raps
Hew Mutton Chop
Styles and Prices
WASHINGTON, Aug, 31—W—The
government moved today to cut
back the prices charged on lamb
and mutton by dealers who offer
new or unusual cuts and sell them
at overcciling prices.
The Office of Price Stabilization
called this practice "an evasion of
the general ceiling price regula
tion.”
OPS said its order should bring
roll back of prices, especially
in the New York City area
which 11 msumts approximately
half of the nation's supply of
lamb and mutton.
Lamb and mutton constitute
about four per cent of the coun
try’s total meat supply.
OPS ruled that only cuts sold
during the general price freeze
period—last Dec. 19 through Jan.
25—may be offered for sale be
ginning Sept. 5.
The agency said prices on new
cuts "have been substantially out
of line with general prices for lamb
and mutton cuts." An official said
in one instance the price on a new
cut was 13 cents a pound above
what the lamb normally would
have sold for.
Jefferson-Jackson
Club to Elect
Officers Sepl. 5
Election of officers will take place
by the local Jefferson-Jackson club
at the first regular meeting at 7:30
p.m. next Wednesday night at the
Moose club, it was announced today
by Mike Haas, secretary pro tem.
Henry Roden is president pro tem.
Peter Wood will read a speech given
by Robert L. Smith, president of the
Los Angeles Daily News, which was
delivered at a democratic luncheon
in Los Angeles. The title is “What’s
Right With The Democratic Party.”
Canadian Soldier
Gets Lite Sentence
On Manslaughter
SEOUL, Korea, Aug. 31— UP)—Ca
nadian Pvt. Glen Roland Blank, 27,
Winnipeg, yesterday was convicted
of manslaughter and sentenced to
life imprisonment in the grenade
killing of three South Korean sol
diers March 17.
The sentence is subject to review.
Blank testified he had been drink
ing the night of March 17 but was
positive he did not hurl a grenade.
INFORMATION OFFICER
DUE HERE SEPT. 7
After visiting offices of the
Bureau of Land Management in
the Interior and Westward, Mrs.
Norma R. Hazeltine, information
officer from Washington, D. C., is
due in Juneau Sept. 7, according
to Leonard Berlin, division engin
eer.
Mrs. Hazeltine will stop here a
day or two on her return to Wash
ington.
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Planes Zoom to 4-Hour Atlantic Record,
14>/2 Miles Up at 1,300 Miles per Hour
ALDERGROVE AIR FIELDS
Belfast, North Ireland, Aug. 31—
! .ft—The air ministry said a Brit
ish twin-jet bomber completed a
trans-Atlantic hop from Ireland
to Newfoundland today in a rec
ord-smashing four hours and 19
minutes.
The flight beat the previous
time of four hours and 37 min
I utes, but it lost the race westward
with the sun, which makes the
swing in three and a half hours at
a rate of 600 miles an hour.
The jet bomber’s non-stop flight
of 2,072.79 miles ended in New
foundland at 11:45 a.m., EST.
The sleek Canberra jet with Its
crew of three had taken off at
12:23 p.m., Greenwich time 11:23
a.m. Juneau time.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Aug. 31—
ifl—A navy rocket-powered airplane
has shattered all altitude records, I
climbing to what aviation experts j
unofficially believe was 77,674 feet
imore than 14Mi miles). It levelled!
off at 1,300 miles an hour.
The supersonic flight in the
needle-nose Douglas skyrocket ship
was made Aug. 15 from Edwards
Air Force base. The exact altitude
reached by the Douglas test pilot,
Bill Bridgeman, was not disclosed.
The tofficially-rerognized world
altitude record is 72,395 feet,. s;t,
in 1935 by two balloonists, Army
Capts. Albert W. Stevens and Or
ville A. Anderson. The officially
accepted speed record is 670.981
m.p.h., set in 1943 by a North Am
erican F-8G. The accepted piloted
aircraft altitude record is. 59,445
feet, set March 23, 1948, by Brit
ish test pilot John Cunningham in
a Vampire jet.
TIDE TABLES
SEPTEMBER 1
High tide 1:36 a.m., 16.9 ft.
Low tide 7:55a.m., -1.2 ft.
High tide 2:12 p.m., 16.6 ft.
Low tide 8:08 p.m., 1.1 ft.
Bad Check Charge
Nets Oregon Man
4 Months in Jail
A Salem, Ore. man pleaded guil
ty yesterday in Commissioner's
Court to larceny by check in the
amount of $50.
He is Cleo C. Martin. According
to Acting U. S. Marshal Walter
Hellan, Martin came to Alaska
about six weeks ago.
The cheek was drawn on the
First National Bank here and was
cashed at the Baranof Hotel Aug.
15. Authorities said he had no ac
count at the bank.
Commissioner Gordon Gray sen
tenced Martin to serve four
months in federal jail. Stanley Bas
kin, assistant U. S. district attor
ney, handled the prosecution.
JAMES BOGGS IS LOST
James Boggs was lost overboard
near Ketchikan from the fishing ves
sel Lance Corporal yesterday after
noon, it was reported here to the
U. S. Coast Guard. J. D. Mutch of
Juneau is owner-master of the ves
sel. The cutter White Holly from
K8etchikan is aiding in the search
for the missing men, headquarters
I said.
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SALESMAN GOES SOUTH
Harry R. Forehand, heavy equip
ment and building materials sales
man from Seattle, stopped over in
Juneau yesterday after a month’s
trip through the Interior. He report
ed a great demand for building ma
terials throughout the Territory.
He left today for his Seattle head
quarters.
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