Supreme Court Refuses Ruling on Seamen Hiring Halls
Senate committee dates hearing on statehood while Supreme Court again declines to rule on legality of seamen hiring halls. Upheld lower court finding that halls violate Tuft-Hartley for Great Lakes crews, risking a potential 100000 seagoing worker strike without new Congressional action.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Great Lakes
Congress
U.S. Circuit Court
New York
Circuit Court
CIO National Maritime Union
High Tribunal
New York Court
Disabled Bear Towed to Juneau by Coast Guard Cutter
A 34 foot fishing boat named Bear owned by Prank Brady of Juneau was towed into Juneau by Coast Guard cutter White Holly after being sighted near Gastineau Channel. The vessel, en route from Wrangel, arrived at the City float around 7 30 a.m.
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Juneau
Coast Guard
Gastineau Channel
Sentinel Island
Prank Brady
Wrangel
City
Washington Merry-Go-Round on Peace Mobilization
Drew Pearson notes a flood of mail urging citizen involvement in peace efforts. He argues peace requires mobilizing American energy beyond wartime urgency, warning that small erosions of public will risk future wars and urging government to harness this goodwill.
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Washington
Alaska musher expands team for long trek to Lewiston
Cecil Mushy Moore's Alaska Maine dog sled expedition grew by 50 percent after a birth of six puppies in Edmonton. The 13-dog team, traveling from Fairbanks since November 14, has logged 364 hours of travel over 60 days and will continue to Lewiston, Maine, on a 2900 mile leg.
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Edmonton
Alta
Cecil Mushy Moore
Alaska
Maine
Almee
Ena
Janie Alaska
Moore
Lewiston
Easter Seals Arrive by Mail in Territory Support
The Alaska Crippled Children's Association reports Easter Seals mailed from Territorial HQ in Anchorage to about 25 000 letters across the Territory. Proceeds fund services for physically handicapped children and adults with 95 percent of donations staying locally to be matched by Federal funds.
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Jocal Chapter
Alaska Crippled Children’s Association
Territorial
Association
Anchorage
National Society For Crippled Children and Adults, Inc
Fedanal
Spring Square Dance Festival Planned For April 29
Officers and instructors from five local clubs plan a spring square dance festival set for April 29 at Douglas High School gym. Dancers from Sourdacey Club Promenaders Bubbles and Beaux and Teen Age Club will join Douglas square dancers to raise the caller's bid with minimal errors. Committees cover program ticket sales floor music and publicity. Spectators pay at the door. balcony seating offers a good view of calico and gingham costumes.
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Douglas High School
Sourdacey Club
Promenaders
Bubbles
Beaux
Douglas Square
Carl Dolro
Ben Favre
Cliff Frutiger
Ray Nevin
Will Reedy
Fred Dawsley
Steve Ford
VFW Auxiliary Meeting Tuesday with Officer Election
The VFW Auxiliary will meet Tuesday at the CIO Hall for officer elections and final plans for a Silver Tea set for Saturday April 1. The event details note a 2 o'clock start and discuss preparations for the tea.
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VFW
CIO Hall
Stock Quotations From New York Market
Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3. American Can 16% Ansconda 28% Curtiss- Wright 8% International Harvester 26% Kennecott 504 New York Central 12% Northern Pacific 154m U and Steel 3% Pound 2.80. Sales today 1,930,000 shares. Averages today industrials 209.15 rails 54.89 utilities 43.14.
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New York
Alaska
Juneau
American Can
Ansconda
Curtiss- Wright
International Harvester
Kennecott
New York Central
Northern Pacific
U. & Steel
Anti-Trust Jury Taps Juneau Witnesses
At least nine Juneauites received subpoenas to appear before the federal grand jury in Anchorage for an anti trust investigation involving Alaska firms and businessmen. Names include Floyd Fayersoni Mangan Kang Bud Phelps George Brown Munford Cogdill Connors and others. Subpoenas were served locally and dates vary for appearances in Anchorage.
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Doe Mangan
Floyd L. (Bud) Phelps
Gua George
G. G. Brown
Brooks Munford
Odom and Company
Homer Cogdill
Emmett Connors
Anchorage
Tickets On Sale For Republican Banquet
Plans are nearly finished for a Republican banquet Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Baranof Hotel. Tickets available from Mayor Warne Hendrickson and several listed sponsors. The dinner follows the Republican Territorial caucus beginning Wednesday.
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Baranof
Warne Hendrickson
J. MacKinnon
Elton Engatrom
Fred Eastaugh
Ellis Reynolds
Earl Hunter
Howard Simmons
Ray Beach
North Star Returns From Mount Edgecumbe Trip
The Alaska Native Service motorship North Star with 50 ANS employees aboard docked after a weekend trip to Mount Edgecumbe near Sitka. The ship, in shakedown after conversion, carries 40 crew, 30 passenger capacity, and a 16 bed hospital.
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North Star
ANS
Mount Edgecumbe
Sitka
Ne Ans
Reinhold Brust
Angoon
Annoon
Prince William Sound
Lomela Vessel Reported Missing on Westward Trip
The 65 foot fishing vessel Lomela, owned by Florence Nettleton of Astoria Oregon, is overdue on a trip from Southeast Alaska to Kodiak after leaving Hoonah March 17 for the Westward. No crew numbers or search begun yet as other Southeast Alaska ports are queried for information.
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Alaska
Kodiak
Coast Guard
U. S. Navy
Sodiak
Florence Nettleton
Astoria
Ore
Hoonah
Southeast
Chapeladies Meet at Mrs Etterson Home
The Chapeladies will meet tomorrow night at 7 30 at the home of Mrs Floyd Etterson on the Frit Cove road.
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Chapeladies
Floyd Etterson
Frit Cove Road
Russia Walkout At UN Rights Commission Meeting
On Lake Success March 27 the Soviet delegation led by Semyon Tearapkin walked out after a sharp attack on Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt the commission chair. She banged the gavel and ordered the election of officers while Tearapkin finished his remarks claiming no propaganda. Roosevelt was reelected chairwoman for a fifth term and P Chang of Nationalist China became first vice president. The Soviet boycott followed a ruling that a Soviet move to eject the Chinese delegation was out of order.
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Tearapkin
Roosevelt
P. ©. Chang
China
United States
Ithen
Fisheries to Expand Pink Salmon Counting Traps
The Fish and Wildlife Service will add two downstream counting traps to study pink salmon habits this season. Six more counters under biologist Mitchell Hanavan will operate near Wrangell, Port Frederick, Sitka, and Wrangell, with Little Port Walter as an existing site. Fins will be clipped at several traps for other studies.
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Fish and Wildlife Service
Mitchell Hanavan
Juneau
Snake Creek
Wrangell
Humpback Creek
Port Frederick
Herman Creek
Behm Canal
Katlian Bay
Sitka
Old Tom Creek
Little Port Walter
Hanagan
Little Port
Walter
Wildlife Chief Probes Hangar Plans in Anchorage
Clarence Rhode service director flies to Anchorage to review plans for a 176000 dollar Fish and Wildlife Service airplane hangar. He is joined by Joe Miner predator control agent and Dave Spencer biologist returning from a San Francisco conference. Bids for construction were opened recently.
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Fish and Wildlife Service
Anchorage
Clarence Rhode
Rhode
Joe Miner
Alaska
Dave Spencer
San Francisco
Anchorage Man Visits Baranof Hotel with Corps Troop
Gordon T. White of Anchorage arrives at the Baranof Hotel while accompanying the District Engineers Corps of Engineers.
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Anchorage
Gordon T. White
Baranof Hotel
District Engineers Corps of Engineers
Alaska Gets Nearly Two Million for Schools and Public Works
The General Services Administration approved about 2 million dollars in federal funds for Alaska projects. Key awards include Wrangell school facilities 700000, University of Alaska facilities 327000, sewer and street work in Innai 30000, Anchorage independent school district facilities 590000, Anchorage repair shop and tool storage buildings 305160, and Anchorage street improvements 249500.
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Washington
General Services Administration
Alaska
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Wrangell
University of Alaska
Inneni
Anchorage Independent
Anchorage
Nearly Thousand View Arts and Crafts Exhibit Amid Alaska Reach
Nearly 1000 visitors viewed the Arts and Crafts Exhibit at Elk's Hall over the weekend. The Alnekan Arts and Crafts Inc sponsored the show with about 360 items entered by 60 exhibitors from Gastineau Channel, Haines, Sitka, Mt Edgecumbe Vocational School, and Wrangell.
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Elk's Hall
Paul F. Schnee
Alnekan Arts and Crafts, Inc
BD. Stewart
Haines
Sitka
Mt. Edgetumbe Vocational School
Wrangell
Hik's Club
William Paul
Edward Keithahn
Richard Peter
Harry Stonehouse
Baranof Arrivals and Departures List Several Passengers
The Baranof docked yesterday at 4 p.m. from Cordova and Seward. After four passengers disembarked and 21 boarded, the ship sailed for Seattle, Port 10, at 7:45 p.m. Names from Seward, Ketchikan, and Seattle are listed in the passenger roster.
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Baranof
Cordova
Seward
Soutl
Porta
Helen Brositls
Varenz Gisler
Jeffrey
Ketchikan
Winona McNett
Jonnie Bushea
M. William Krasiensky
J. P. Gilmore Jr
Mildred Maynard
J. W. Sievers
George W. Folta
Marie Jensen
Seattle
Mike Weaver
Rig Cavanaugh
Lena Paulsen
F. Huff
Robert J. Propp
Edyther
Propp
J. Arden Alred
Bonnie J. Alred
W.T. Ma~ Noney
Wayne J. Plumiey
Ralph Smith
Vasili Batikis
Weather Report for Juneau and Airport Forecast
Variable cloudiness tonight and Tuesday with low near 30 and high near 40. Precipitation totals include .01 inches past 44 hours in Juneau and .09 inches at the airport, with seasonal totals listed for March 1 and July 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juneau
Eoseeevev Ee
FBI Protest Over Opening Files On Communism Inquiry
Director Hoover warned senators that opening confidential FBI files would cripple the bureau as McCarthy probes the State Department for alleged Communist ties. Lattimore, now in Afghanistan, calls McCarthy's charges moonshine and demands a retractation.
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FBI
Commie
Washington
J. Tmpar Hoover
State Department
Hoover
McGrath
Senate Foreign Relations
McCarthy
R-Wis
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
Afghanistan
Associated Press
Fairs
Carthy
Ubeault
Cold Weather Damages California Valencia Orange Crop
Seventy two percent of the 1950 Valencia crop in central and northern California was damaged by recent cold weather. About 1700 of an possible 6000 cars will be marked, according to the Orange Administrative Committee in Lindsay.
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Lindsay
Calif
Maren
Valencia
Srbforsio
Orange
Antonio Polet Undergoes Abdominal Surgery in Minnesota
In Minneapolis on March 27 Antonio Polet, a prominent Alaskan resident of Nome, underwent abdominal surgery on Saturday. The surgeon reports Polet's condition as satisfactory.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Antonio Polet
Nome
Northwest Airlines reports annual revenue and profit
Northwest Airlines reports revenue of 40,501,017 and a net profit of 1,357,078 for the past year. The airline showed a 1948 loss of 787,474. Juneau Ski Club plans a meeting with a skiing movie at 8 pm in Arctic Brotherhood Hall. A. A. MacDonald of Tulsequah, B. C., is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
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Seattle
Northwest Airlines
Cross Hunter
Juneau
Pam
Arctic Brotherhood Hall
O Nell Taylor
Tulsequah
A. A. MacDonald
Tulsequah, B. C
Baranof Hotel
Cordova Slayings Reported At Rooming House
In Cordova Alaska the bodies of Mr and Mrs Otto Tiedeman were found in their rooming house yesterday. Police indicate a slaying and death by own action as the preliminary cause with no motive yet discovered. Tiedeman was a longtime local resident and operator of the rooming house.
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Cordova
Alaska
Otto Tiedeman
Tiedeman
Lattimore Denies McCarthy Spy Claim From Afghanistan
Senator McCarthy labeled Owen Lattimore the top Soviet spy in the State Department. Lattimore, on a UN mission in Afghanistan, calls the charges pure moonshine and says he will respond on returning to the United States. Other officials deny links to Communism as investigations proceed.
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Marvin Larrowsmith
Washington
Owen Lattimore
McCarthy
Russia
State Department
United States
Lattimore
Associated Press
Afghanistan
United Nations
Wisconsin
Jae
Esther Caukin Brunauer
Senate Foreign Relations
Senate
Bin
Hanson
Baltimore
Detlev W. Bronk
Johns Hopkins University
Walter Hines Page
Johns Hopkins
Drew Pearson
Soviet Union
Pearson
FBI
Tide Schedule and Sailings Report
Tide times and heights listed for the day with low tides at 3:10 am and 4:11 pm and high tides at 9:05 am and 10:56 pm. Denali from Seattle arrives at 7 am. Princess Norah to sail from Vancouver on Wednesday. Baranof to sail from Seattle on Saturday.
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Denali
Seattle
Princess Norah
Vancouver
Baranof
Hearing on statehood set for Alaska and Hawaii
Senate Interior Committee approved hearings on statehood bills for Alaska and Hawaii. Alaska hearing scheduled April 24 with Hawaii hearing May 2, both bills having passed the House. Chairman O Mahoney noted no time limits and that Interior Secretary Chapman will likely testify first.
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Washington
U— the
Senate Interior Committee
Alaska
Hawaii
House
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Chapman
Funeral for Nannette Gilbert Held After Alaskan Channel Plunge
Funeral services for Nannette Gilbert 40 will be held tomorrow at 2 pm in Charles W. Carter Mortuary chapel. Gilbert died after plunging into Gastinedu Channel Sunday March 19 and was pulled from the water by George Kuhns Alaska Airlines traffic representative. Survives mother Mrs Jeanette Binns of Flag Ranch Laramie Wyoming. Pallbearers include Arthur Scotty Adams Gus Schmita Lloyd Collins Carl Cassperson George Barmes and Mayor Waino Hendrickson.
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Nannette Gilbert
Gastinedu Channel
Charles W. Carter
Miss Gilbert
St. Anns Hospital
George Kuhns
Alaska Coastal Airlines
Alaskan Line
Special Council Meet To Discuss Traffic Code Changes
Juneau city council will convene a special session tonight at 8 in City Hall to continue work on the new traffic code. Mayor Hendrickson says the ordinance has passed its second reading and maysee changes before final passage. Committee reports will also be heard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Council
Juneau
Waine Hendrickson
Hendrickson
Avalanches to Order film aids mountain safety
Forest Service announces an 18mm Kodachrome film titled Avalanches to Order for skiers in the Gas Tineau Channel area. Narrated by Lowell Thomas the film shows how to recognize avalanche signs and avoid risky slopes, produced with the National Ski Patrol and Winter Sports Associations. Available in Juneau and Douglas by contacting Harry Sperling, with wider Alaska distribution soon.
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Gastineau Channel
Forest Service
Lowell Thomas
New Rangers
National Ski Patrol
Lanche
Juneau
Douglas
Harry Sperling
Federal Building
Alaskan
Garrison Foland Couple Seek Marriage License
Robert Lloyd Garrison and Donna Jean Foland of Ju eau applied for a marriage license late last week before U.S. Commissioner Gordon Gray. From Alexandria Kirk of Alexandria Va to register at the Baranof Hotel.
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Alexandria
Kirk
Baranof Hotel
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High Court
MT. Edgecumbe
Franklin D, Roosevelt
Public Works
NW Airlines
Sen. McCarthy
Nan Gilbert
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