A NORTHERN NOTEBOOK
By BOB I)E ARMOND
(Fourth of a Series)
Since the Territory of Alaska was |
•’ . anized in 1912. the Second Divi
i n has elected 24 men to the
Y< rritorial Senate. Twenty-three of
[hem have hailed from the city of
home. The 24th. the Rev. Percy
ijalpok, who takes his seat in the
senate on January 22, will be tin'
rst Second Division Senator from
i utside of Nome. Ipalook, an
alumnus of the Sheldon Jackson j
Junior Cohere at Sitka, live ; at;
\Vales.
The late Judge James Wicker -
■ am may rightfully be regarded as
n-.e. father of the Alaska Legisla
’ re. It was while he was serving
his second term as Delegate'in Con
■■ ess from Alaska that he intro
duced and secured passage of the
0 rganic Act that created the Legis
lature.
Judge Wickersham. who came by j
1 .s title when he served as United
s'• ates Judge for the tlien Third ;
! idicial Division of Alaska from
3 *00 to 1908. became our third dele- i
' ite in Congress in 1909, serving
util 1917 He returned to Congress
from January 7 to March 3, 1919:
:,-om March 1 to March 3. 1921,
nd from March 4. 1931 to March
: . 1933.
His career in Congress earned
; im the nickname “Fighting Jim. ’i
And his political campaigns in
Alaska, in a day when both the
h ajor parties were split and there
ere a multitude of minor parties,
v ere glorious free-for-alls, the like
which has disappeared from this
hist frontier. He was called “Old
v. ick”—and other names that would
‘. it be printed except in the heat
n: a campaign—and his follower ; .
k ere the "Wickites.”
In recent years it lias become llic i
r i istom in certain circles to refer |
M Judge Wickersham as the father;
of Alaska statehood, although that;
, iiild is not yet born. Inasmuch as |
; introduced the first Alaska;
utehood bill in Congress in 1916, j
o undoubtedly has a right to that j
nor. It seems to have been no |
lit of his "that his statehood bill
■eeived little consideration.
3ut what is generally forgotten,
•. d perhaps intentionally, is that
, idge Wickersham, a keen student
Alaskan affairs, had views on
Alaska statehood that did not fit
all with the ideas of the present
nay statehood promoters.
Judge Wickersham expressed one
' his ideas—that Alaska is loo
,rge and diversified to become one
ate—when he addressed the Sew
'd Society of the Juneau High
chool on March 30, 1907. In that
.ddress he said:
“May prosperity and the Ameri
m Congress speed the day when
the people of Alaska shall have all
the rights, advantages and immun
ities of citizens of the United States
.—when they shall have carved out
of its boundaries and organized
under a free constitutional form
four sovereign states within the
American Union—the stale of Sitka,
with its capital at Juneau; the state
of Alaska, with its capital at Valdai
thc state of Seward, with its c .pit:
at Nome; and the state of Tan i'.t
with its capital at Fairbanks. Who,
that day comes, Seward vvi.l nee
no panegyrist to keep his tee u r.
re the children ;
Alaska will ever be his mono:: on .
the praise of her childrt .1 hi epi
taph."
The Senate of the Twra ic.h If ,
gislature will not have a in; i
lawyer among it: members and the
Judiciary Committee, whir’i e ■•am
ines the legal aspects of the more
important bills, will live to : Tuggle
along with laymen or to sre!: on'
side advice. In each of th? prwiow.
se; • ions the Senate has had at least
one and generally two or three
lawyers and in 1929 there were lour.
Ed Loeken, who come:, to t’x
House this session from Pe cr In:
will be the first Representa! ive fro . ;
that community since 1927, when !
William E. Worth sat in the House
As a matter of fact, Ed was a'sr
a candidate for the House in the
elections for the 1927 Legislature
He ran on the Independent ticket
with A. E. Gurr of Wrangell, N. O
Hardy of Juneau and L, H. Kubley
of Ketchikan. They were defeated
by Charles Benjamin of Wrangell,
C. B. Ferguson of Craig, William L.
Paul of Juneau and William E
Worth of Petersburg.
The death of Paul Herring at
Anchorage and the resignation of
Stanley Nichols of Fairbanks, fol
lowing upon the death of Wm. T.
Mahoney at Juneau last summer,
create vacancies in the offices of
United States Marshal in three of
the four Divisions, a situation that
is unprecedented in the history of
the Territory.
Herring and Nichols had filled
their respective offices for a little
more than four years. Bill Mahoney
had been Marshal for 17 years.
Preliminary steps have been
taken to fill at least two of the
three vacancies. C. A. “Pat” Car
roll has been endorsed by a majority
of the Democratic Divisional Com
mittee for the First Division arid
Frank Barr, now a Territorial Sena
tor, has received the nod for the
Fourth Division job. Before pinning
on the badge, however, they must
be appointed by the President and
confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
CONOMIC
MESSAGE
IS GIVEN
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the price line with utmost vigor.”
He asked the Department of
Agriculture be “granted authority
to control speculative trading and
o strengthen its regulation- of com
modity exchanges.”
Great Threat
As he did in last Monday’s State
of the Union message, the President
emphasized the great threat from
Communist aggression.
He said "large and menacing
forces" led by Russia are "arrayed
again.,t the free world.”
“The great manpower under
the control of Soviet Communism is
being driven with fanatic zeal tc
build up military and industrial
strength,” he continued. “We invite
disaster if we underestimate the
forces working against us.”
More Electric Power
i Mr. Truman also said the country
jjnust plan to increase its electric
(generating capacity "by well over
J20 million kilowatts during the next
[three years” with a major share of
{the expansion coming from private
’utility enterprises.
| He said lie was recommending
khe development of additional pub
lic power capacity "in the Pacific
Northwest, in the Tennessee Valley
area, at Niagara FalLs, along the
jst Lawrence river as part of the
fceaway and power project, and
elsewhere, to contribute needed
additions to the power supply as
ouickly as they can be built.”
r Spending on national security
including foreign aid, atomic energy
and stockpiling—wilj take 18 per
cent of the nation’s total production
by the year end, as against the seven
percent now being used up in this
way, the President predicted.
(By Associated Press)
According to the newspaper Stars
ttnd Stripes in Tokyo, eight crew
men were rescued, one was killed
and five are missing in the crash
of a Navy Martin Mariner patrol
bomber. The plane fell in the north
ern Ryukyus in the Pacific south
west of Japan.
SKI CLUB PLANS
ALL-DAY KIKE ON
COMING SUNDAY
A ten mile ski tour is planned
by the Juneau Ski Club lor this
coming Sunday which will cover
the Crooks Trail on the Douglas
ski slopes, the 3,000-foot elevated
ridge above the Crooks trail and
the ski bowl at the third cabin,
it is announced by Dean Williams
The tour will be for advanced
skiers and racers only. Those in
terested in joining the hike art
invited to meet at the Baranoi
Hotel at 8:30 am. for a Ski Club
breakfast in the coffee shop prior
to the all-day hike.
Ted Bourne, one of the two
table tennis pros at last night's
half time exhibition in the basket
rail game here has been seen in
the newsreels in the past which
some fans undoubtedly remember
Bob Anderson and Bourne are tw<
of the best table tennis players
.seen in Alaska, in their zany an
:ics.
Bourne is from Lake Geneva,
I Wisconsin, and is also a golf pro
■ from his home city. He has been
away lrom home for three years
and whether his home town friends
know of his venture to Alaska he
cannot say. At least it is his state
ment in a brief interview.
Bourne and Anderson are travel
ing with the Harlem Globe-Trotters
on their Alaska and Pacific Coast
tour.
RUSSIA HAS POWER
STRIKE U.S. WITH
SIBERIA AIR FORCE
RICHLAND, Wash., Jan. 12
David F. Shaw, manager of the
Hanford Project for the Atomic
Energy Commission, warned today
that “it is almost certain that the
Russians have it in their power to
launch an air attack against the
United States if they choose."
Speaking before a meeting of
Richland school employees Shaw
said the Russians now have air
bases in Siberia which puts their
planes within striking distance of
the entire northern United States,
including Hanford. He also men
tioned the possibility of the use of
guided missiles.
U. S. NOT INTERESTED
IN TAIYA OR KITIMAT
SAYS (HAS. WILSON
The Juneau Chamber of Com
merce received a reply late yester
day in response to a telegram sent
to Charles E. Wilson, director of the
office of Defense Mobilization, re
garding the possible Taiya project
near Skagway.
Wilson's reply read: "With refer
ence to your message of January
1951, I have made inquiry and
i.id there is no present intention
r.d no likelihood the near future
hat the United Statps Government
/.ill need or support power and
i*. uninum plants at either Taiya or
Kitimat.”
The Chamber’s inquiry was “Un
Icrstand that extensive and com
pete plans for great aluminum
llant development at Dyea near
kagway, Alaska, have been shelved
in favor of plant near Kitimat, Brit
; ih Columbia, an inferior and ac
tually more vulnerable site in same
general area just south and east of
Alaskan border for reason that
tag way area is not defensible. We
believe that such decision and rea
son for shelving (s incredible and
we fear constitutes a policy that
will greatly disturb all of Alaska
and West Coast. We respectfully
: r ;e that immediate investigation
)e undertaken to ascertain if such
policy exists and if so that it be
reversed. Acknowledgement and
reply urgently requested.”
The Chamber is continuing ef- '■
forts to get the true facts of the j
case and is contacting Aubrey Sim- i
mons of Whitehorse, Member of
Parliament for the Yukon Territory’
and the aluminum company, Herb
Rowland, president, said today. i
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SNOWSHOE LESSONS !
TO BE GIVEN ON SAT.
FOR THE SSSS CLUB
Lessons in snowshoeing will be
given by William Fromholz of the
U.S. Forest Service, to members
of the Ship, Shank, Shutter and
Snowshoe Club on Saturday, Dr. X.
J. Montgomery announced today.
Members are asked to meet at the
bridge crossing Gold Creek on the
Basin road at 1:30 p.m. Both bear
paw and trail types of snowshoes
will be provided, Dr. Montgomery
said.
STAFF CHANGES IN
KETCHIKAN HIGHWAY
PATROL ANNOUNCED
Personnel changes in the Terri
torial Highway Patrol staff at
Ketchikan were annunoced today
by Highway Engineer Frank A.
Metcalf, Chief of the Patrol.
Metcalf made known the ap
pointment of Oral Freeman as a
new patrolman for the Ketchikan
area and the resignation of Sgt.
Casey Moran who . has served at
Ketchikan several years. No ap
pointment has been made as yet
to replace Moran. His resignation
was effective last Saturday, Janu
ary 6, Jlelcalf said. Moran, he
said, had inrfat indicated future
Dlans.
Lieut. Emmett Botelho of Juneau
and Patrolman Al Lubcke of Hain
es who is on duty in the southern
district at present, will leave over
the weekend for Ketchikan to assist
Freeman until the return of Pat
rolman Howard Moore about Jan
uary 20. Moore is in the states on
annual leave.
Freeman has been a resident of
Ketchikan the past four or five
years. Metcalf said he has had
previous police experience in the
states and was highly recommend
ed for the post on the Highway
Patrol.
MALLOTTE IS NAMED
U .S. COMMISSIONER
AT YAKUTAT TODAY
Announcement of the appoint
ment of J. P. Mallotte as U. 8.
Commissioner at Yakutat was made
by Judge George W. Polta today.
Yakutat has been without a Com
missioner the past year.
Mallotte owns a general store in
Yakutat and is the mayor of the
town.
Tragic Death loll
To Thousands of
Korean Civilians
(By Associated Press)
Cold and exhaustion are bringing
a tragic death toll to the hundreds
[ of thousands of Korean civilians in
their flight southward. They beg
pitifully from soldiers, but the men
j at the front haven’t got the re
: sources to take care of the masses
i of refugees. And British soldiers
i said that in desperation, some of
! the fleeing Koreans had thrown in
fants and children into a river.
The waters of the Bermejo River
in Paraguay were once reputed to
I give one an unwrlngled old age.
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CHILKOOT VETERANS
PAY TAXES DUE TO
HAINES SCHOOL DIST.
Carl Heinmiller, representfng the
Veterans Alaska Cooperative Asso
ciation of Chilkoot, today presented
a check in the amount of $2173.14
to the Clerk of the U.S. District j
Court. J. W. Leivers, in payment of
school taxes owed by the Associa
tion to the Haines Independent
School District for the year 1949!
and court costs for a recent suit
in the court involving payment of
the taxes. The total amount in
cluded
$543.30, court costs.
A decision in favor of the Haines j
Independent School District; was j
handed down by Judge George W.
Folta, December 29 last, after he
had heard and taken under advise
ment a suit brought by the Haines .
Independent School District versus
the Veterans Alaska Cooperative:
Association. The plaintiffs peti-!
tioned for foreclosure of a tax lien :
for delinquent taxes it claimed owed j
by the Veterans Associations. The
defendants claimed excessive valu- !
ation and inequality in tax assess- 1
ment on its property.
The plaintiffs were represented
by Attorney H. D. Stabler and the
defendants by Attorneys R. E. Rob
ertson and Simon Hellenthal.
A similar suit heard in the Dis- :
trict Court last year involving taxes
claimed due for lp4g to the Haines i
school district ay the Veterans J
Association was also decided in
favor of the School District.
TOURIST PROGRAM IS
DISCUSSED AT TAKU
TOASTMASTERS MEET
A novel table topic project in
troduced by Wayne Richey gave j
each member the problem of intro
ducing in 30 seconds the person at
his right, and provided an amusing
opening for Toastmasters' regular
Thursday dinner meeting at the
Baranof Hotel.
Comdr. E. C. Hawley was toast
master for the evening. “License
for Murder” was the topic of Dr.
Ted Oberman’s speech, who ex
panded on that subject after dis
playing a framed Territorial driver’s
license. Urban C. Nelson spoke on
“Thinking,” and Dr. John Clem
ents discussed "The New American
Language.”
. The evening’s 10-minute speech
was given by W. A. Elkins and dealt
with “Skullduggery.” Ed Peyton dis- j
cussed "What the Juneau Hiking j
Club ‘Can Do to Attract Other Hik
ing Clubs to Juneau”—a phase of
our tourist program—in a short im
promptu talk.
Joe McLean was general critic for |
the evening, and was assisted by
Sinclair Lorain, Ellis Reynolds, !
Linn Forrest, Willis Avery, and A1
Ransome. Pete Warner was gram- j
marian.
CLASSES HELD ON
MINING PHASES FOR
SCIENCE STUDENTS
Through arrangements made by
A. N. Eide, science instructor in
the Juneau Public High School,
students of the high school chem
istry classes heard a short lecture
and participated in demonstra- j
tions in two phases of a mining!
short course, conducted by Larry!
C. Doheny, consulting engineer, \
during class periods yesterday and j
this morning. «
Doheny demonstrated the use of j
the Geiger Counter used in uranium
prospecting and the fundamentals
of the blow pipe analysis of min
erals.
A prominent consulting engineer
in Alaska, Doheny is conducting a
mining short course in Juneau,
sponsored by the University of
Alaska Extension Division.
ANYTHING (AN HAP N
-AND PROBABLY WILL
AT VARIETY SHOW
“Anything Can Happen” — and
probably will, at the annual Rotary
Club Variety Show scheduled for
January 25 at the Twentieth Cen
tury Theater, Dr. I. J. Montgomery,
chairman of the event, revealed to
day.
There will be considerable audi
ence participation- and laughs
aplenty, he promised. A peek at the
program shows that the High School
Glee Clubs will sing, Kenny Allen
will do a tumbling act. Bud Schultz
will be at the piano with Mrs.
Harold Schultz whistling. A juggling
act by Nell Fritchman is on the
program.
Other entertainment to be fea
tured is the Shooting of Dan Mc
Grew by the Emblem Club, a poker
game skit by the Beta Sigma Phi
sorority, and a marimba solo by
Mrs. Stebbins.
A blackface mammy monologue
by Mrs. O. Brown is scheduled and
a blackface act by William Passey.
MIS8 MONTEL RETURNS
Miss Olive Montel of the Alaska
Road Commission office staff re
turned to Juneau yesterday by Pan
American plane. She has been south
since before Christmas on annual
leave vacation.
Marine Union ;
Be Replaced,
Says Curran
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12—b?)
—Joseph Curran, president of the
CIO National Maritime Union, to
day anounced the long-expected
opening oi a full-scale organizing
campaign to “replace the Commun
ist-captured” marine cooks and
stewards on west coast ships.”
Curran said the campaign would
"bring back democracy to the thou
sands of steward department mem
bers on the west coast who so
long have seen their economic
gains endangered by the political
plots and conspiracies ol the Com
munists.”
The Marine Cooks and Stewards i
Union is one of the organizations
expelled by the CIO in recent
months for allegedly following the
Communist Party line.
The NMU President told a news j
conference that his union, the
largest searfaring union, with
some 45,000 members, decided to
begin the west coast drive only
after “hundreds, thousands of
MCS members have appealed. .
for help in their time of crisis.”
PROCLAMATION
The following proclamation has
been issued by Gov. Gruening:
Whereas, John James Audubon
has made distinguished contribu
tions to American life and art
through his paintings of American
birds and mammals; and
Whereas, the journals of his ex
plorations in the American wilder
ness afford rare insight into the
problems of the pioneers; and
Whereas, Audubon was among the
first to express concern about the
destruction of our nation’s wildlife;
and
Whereas, a continent-wide orga-,
nization which bears his name is
carrying on a continuing campaign
to conserve our natural resources;
and
Whereas, Alaska is fortunate in
still possessing important species
of wildlife and in fact every species
present here since the acquisition
of Alaska in 1867, while not a few
species have become extinct in the
forty-eight states; and
Whereas, Alaskans wish to pre
serve these great natural assets for
future generations; and
Whereas, the year 1951 offers an
opportunity to signalize that desire
by paying a tribute to the greatest
of American pioneer naturalists and
artists who died January 27, 1851;
Now, therefore, I. Ernest Gruen
ing, Governor of the Territory of
Alaska, do hereby declare the week
of January 21-27, 1951, to be Audu
bon Centennial Week and do urge
the observance of said week by all
interested organizations and indi
viduals.
UNION OIL COMPANY HAS
NEW BOARD OF DIRECTOR
Herbert Hoover, Jr., President and
General Manager of United Geo
physical Company and United Geo
physical Company, S.A., was today
elected to the Board of Directors of
Union Oil Company of California
at a regular board meeting, Reese j
H. Taylor, President, announces.
Mr. Hoover was elected to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of
Ernest Stauffen, who had been a
member of Union’s Board for six
years. Mr. Hoover will continue as
the active manager of the United
Geophysical Company.
TO SITKA
Roy C. Avrit, manager, and A. L.
Besancon, accountant for Colum
bia Lumber Co., at Whittier, were
in Juneau today conferring with
Thomas A. Morgan, president of
the company. The two men are en
route to Sitka to relieve Ernest
Somers, Sitka manager of the com
pany, while he is on a month vaca
tion. Avrit and Besancon returned
yesterday from Seattle where they
had been on vacation and business.
EISENHOWER VISITS
NORWAY ON TOUR,
12-NATION CIRCUIT
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OSLO, Norway, Jan. 12—(/PI—Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower came to
Norway today on his morale-build
ing and fact-finding tour of At
lantic Pact capitals.
He and his staff landed at Gar
dermoen Airport, 37 miles north
of Oslo, in the late afternoon.
Norway is the fifth country he
has visited on his 12-nation cir
cuit. Previously he had conferred
with highest officials in France,
Belgium, the Netherlands and
Denmark.
Gen. Eisenhower came here by
air from Copenhagen, Denmark,
where Adm. E. J. C. Qvistgaard,
Danish Defense Chief, announced
that the Danish force of 1,000
men now on occupation duty in
Germany would be handed over to
the Eisenhower command.
SCHWINN BIKES AT MADSEN S
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BALLOONS BOW OUT — Georges Cornier, 76-year-old Paris tailor, took off. but most
of the balloons in the international raee at Amsterdam, Holland, were grounded by bad weather, v
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
MAKES PREDICTION
BIG SEASON IN 1951
SEATTLE, Jan. 12 — W — An
Alaska Steamship Company official
said today "we are planning for a
big season in 1951 and expect to
carry more passengers than we have
in any year since the war.”
H. N. Peterson, General Traffic
Manager, made the prediction in
announcing a plan for sailings from
Seattle each Wednesday and Fri
day during the summer. There will
be four steamers on the summer
service—the Alaska, Denali, Aleu
tian and Baranof.
AMERICAN MADE
PLANES IN RAIDS
ON SOUTH KOREA
(By Associated t-ress)
On the western front in Korea
one or more two-engine attack
bomber planes disguised with
American markings made at, least
four raids.
One definitely was identified as
an American A-2G Attack Bomber—
the type turned over to the Chinese
Nationalists by the United States
after World War Two. Presumably
some of them now are in the hands
of the Chinese Reds.
MERCHANT MARINE
INVESTIGATION IS
ASKED, MAGNUSON
WASHINGTON, Jar.. 12— M —
Sen. Magnuson (D-Wash) asked
the Senate yesterday to create a
subcommittee to investigate all
phases of the Merchant Marine,
including shipping service to Al
aska.
Magnuson said the subcommittee
would be set up under the Inter
state and Foreign Commerce Com
mittee and that it would also in
vestigate transfer of American
ships to flags of other nations
where regulations are not so severe.
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Mr. Seller
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