The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1945, Page 5

ALEUTS TO HEAD HOME ONCE MORE Evacuated Islanders Glad| toLeave Land of Too Many Trees Three hundred anG sixty Aleut natives will be' homeward bound in a few weeks to the grass-covered islands of the Aleutians from which! they we! evacuated® when the Japanese struck Alaskan soil in the summer of 1942, This was the announcement to- ! day from the office’ of Don C Foster, head of the Office Of IN- . oSty dian Affairs, who vrevealed that plans have been completed with the | Army and Navy to return Aleutian villagers to their homes early in April. Since their tives have been residing makeshift villages in Alaska, Burnett Inlet, near gell; Killisnoo, on Admiralty land, and Ward's Lake, near chikan. The Aleuts come from villages. ..in . the .“Chain,’ Makushin, Kashega, Un:flaska N)- kolski, Atka and. Akutan. The latter settlement. wilk for the present, ab-| sorb the few families of Biorka, Makushin and Kashega. Accompanying the Aleuts will be Resettlément Officer Harley Covalt of Bellingham, Washington, and A Glenn™Green, traveling superin-' Representatives moved — swiftly tendent _of eonstruction ;for the yesterday afternoon to finish up office of Indian‘‘Affairs: Ihearings from three Territorial Supplies for, . rebuilding villages bedies in a one-hour session and and restocking cooperative native accept an invitation (to see the stores will go along with the re- Army show “The Male Animal” at turning refugees. Biggest job will the Coliseum Theatre be at Atka where villagers burned Still on the We and Means their homes and outbuildings a few appropriation measure, Represent hours ahead of the Jap invasion tives heard from Dr. George Ha Teachers to go along are Mr. head of the Public Health offices, and Mrs. Glenn Green, to Atka; regarding the $294,000 item which Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Long, Un- principally involves tuberculosis alaska; Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Beebe, work Akutan, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry, It Benedict to -Nikolski. nearly $200,000 would be needed to There will be 360 returning vil- operate the Army Hospital at lagers out of 375 evacuated Seward, Whi¢h institution has been Fourteen of the evacuces are in made available for purchase by the the armed seryices, seven have been Territory. Hays .also declared’ the hospitalized for tuberculosis in,Ta- equipment of the hospital had been coma, and one will remain in appraised at $110,000, while the school i Skagway. While in South- ' purchase price of tHe' equipment east Alaska, 'the ' population’ of ‘the and the hospital’ combined is but Aleutians..went “slightly up” -ac-.$14,500: 4 cording to Indian Office figures It was also. explained hy which $ho¥ births exceeded deaths Ha that he had no ambitions by seven. - for a job under “the "new setup Superintendent Foster has issued that he had left'a job “paying con- a call to all Aleuts de {0 re- siderably more” to come north for turn. ' These natives, said, the Public Health Service, to do must report ‘at once to Juheau or what he called “some good.” evacuee settlements because the' Declaring there are ‘estimated to A LONG LINE of Nazi prisoners taken captive by 4th Division mi the na- at three Southeast Wran- Is-! Ket- evacuation, ship which will take the Aleuts home is the “last boat.” From a casual sur , it appes no Aleuts want to stay in Southeast Alaska. “Too many tree: they > 'HOUSE HOLDS HEARINGS ON say. \mou a- was explained by Hays that CAMEL CAVALRY IN INDIA—Brm the camel cavalry at an outpost of Indi res 0 1 MEASURES. ' would make the larger Dr. | stand in a snow-covered forest waiting to be searched after they had been embers of the U, S. Third Army during a battle near the Roer River in Ger= many. An‘anti-tank gun (foreground) is ready to meet any counter-attack by enemy armor. be possibly 4,000 tuberculosis cases 1 Alaska, the health office execu- tive officer declared that only “25| or 30" are being cared for nnw |under the present setup. ’ Secretary of Alaska Lew \Vllll’\ms {Board of Budget members Auditor ‘rank Boyle and Treasurer Oscar ?Olsnn to explain a Budget Board cut in Public Welfare office funds. Public’ Welfare head Russell May nard bad asked for a quarter mxl- lion dollars for administrative ex- pens and the Board of Budget had recommended but $100,000. Secretary ~ Williams explained that three months ago, when the board met, there was about “$17,000” left in the fund out of around $70,000 appropriated, and on the basis of the past biennium, “$100,- 000 was considered ample.” Maynard had testified that new offices and salary raises sum neces- sary, and - House members him an increase to $254,520. .- MOEN ARRIVES D. W. Moen, representing Austin Company, Seattle, con- tractors, who will build the new Snew White Laundry plant and the addition to the Juneau Cold Stor- age Company plant, arrived in town yesterday to get these projects lined up Lutheran - e Ladies 'Aid of th church will meet at the home of Mrs. John Lowell, 411, W, Twelfth ¢t tomorrow evening at 8 ¢'clock. Mrs. Andrew Hildre will be co-host- ess and members and friends are urged to attend e gl BUY WAR BONDS “The i sh Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck inspects a unit of ia where it is guarding the frontier. MBER — ATTACK lt‘:”“mw_ The Army Air Forces new aftack bomber, the A- 26 Tnvader, Ries over This ship is mdc in several models for different theaters, took the stand briefly with fellow | yesterday voted the | LINCK ASKS THE DAILY /\L/xSKA EMPIRE - JU (International) 'MARIE BRENNAN JUNEAU PIONEER, DIES ON MONDAY Was Night Operator at Telephone Company for 30 Years Marie Veronica Brennan, night; operator at the Juneau and Douglas | Telephon2 Company for 30 years,' and known and loved by many, many Junecau residents as “Rye’ died in her partment late Mon- day. She was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Butte, Montana, coming to Juneau in 1911. In August of that same year she went to work as night operator at the telephone company, |serving in that capacity until Jan- uary, 1941, when she retired because of ill health. | She is survived by her sister, Mrs. ! Agnes McCloskey, and by a nephew, James McCloskey, in Long Beach, California, also by several nieces. Funeral arrangements are pending word from the relatives in the States. The remains are at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. Marie Brennan was one of the old- time typical small-town telephone operators. Years ago, when Juneau was a small town, if anyone wanted to know where anyone was, just “Ask Marie.” If she did not know on the spot she would find out. She knew what was going on in the night life, where any card parties were held and who were in attendance. She knew when the boats were ar- rivigg and when leaving ithere was'u fire, she knew where it was| (jand what started it, Parents have wbeen known to ask Marie where their children were, that they were jat a certain place at a party and were supposed to be home “now.” |Marie would find out. Husbands > late for . dinner and wives weuld ask Marie where they were.; (Marie would mnot tell them butl ywould get in quick connection with | “hubby” and tell him to hustle home, his wife was waiting. ! i { | NEW SYSTEM APPOINTING Appointments to Terrisorial office |will have to get divisional scrutiny | before submission to the Legislature | for confirmation if a bill introduced ‘vesbexday by Representanve Alaska i Linck passes. The measure, House Bill Number 178, asks that the names of all ap- | pointees be submitted to the divis- |ional representatives of the Legisla- | ture from whose division the ap- | pointee comes. | When the divisional Representa- |tives and Senators have studied the name, they will report to the Legis- lature before that body can pass on the appointment, STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 28 — Closing quotation today on Alaska-Juneau mine stock was 7%, American Can 94, Anaconda 337, Beech Aircraft 13, Bethlehem Stéel 74, Curtiss- | Wright 6%, International Harvester 80'%, Kennecott 39%, North Ameri- can Aviation 11, New York Central |24%, Northern Pacitic 21%, U. 8. | Steel 637%. | Dow, Jones averages today are ias follows: Industrials, 160.40; rails, |61.56; utilities, 28.47. e FROM WHITEHORSE Kent L. Fuller, representing the {Standard Oil Company branch in Whitehorse, is a guest at the Bar- anof Hotel. — e FROM ELLENSBURG Mrs. Le Roy Plympton, register- ing from Ellensburg, Washington, is a guest at Hotel Juneau, | AU, ALASKA TWO ALASKA AIRLINES MAKE PLEA IMUNICIPAL ELECTION | IN SEATTLE | SEATTLE, Feb. 28 — Far out- distancing the field, Councilmen M. B. (Mike) Mitchell, Frank J. Laube and David Levine won nomi- nations hands down at yesterday's city-wide municipal election pri- mal Trailing far | | Airlines, Inc., Would Fly fo States WASHINGTON, Feb, 28—Air vices operating in Alaska want per- mission to carry passengers between the United States and Ala; as a |way of increasing revenues and en- ,x\ble them to improve service to the | Territory's interior. Arthur Woodley, Woodley Air and Don G, Goodman, vice-pres dent in charge of operations, Amsku Airlines, Inc., asked special consider- | ation of their companjes during the| recent CAB hearing. They contend- | fed it would be more beneficial to Alaska's post-war development if lhv present Alaska services were lem flying routes to the States rather | than give them to outside carriers. behind them came Albert E. Pierce, W.+F. Johnson, and Ray Olsen in that order. They will fight it out with the three in- cumbent councilmen seeking re- election at the general election March 13. Bringing up the rear, Frank L. Turco and M. J. Comber landed in seventh and eighth places respec- tively, thereby being eliminated from the contest. S e — AI IA(KS ON E. L. Bartlett, while not mentioning ‘cnher ‘Woodle! R E I ( H lAND favored competition. They said the result would be obtained if another | carrier besides Pan American gms a U. S.-Alaska route. Brenner Pass Rail Line Is Also Given Heavy Bombing from Air Both Woodley and Goodman want LONDON, . Feb. 28—More than| 1,100 United States heavy bombers ! struck at least five major freight yards in a 100-mile circle behind the Rhine, in their third week non-| | cther West Coast points, Wood- iley told the CAB if any oth rrier |was given a certificate to paralicl his routes he would be forced out of business. If his application were! denied, however, he declared the of the application of Alaska Airlin Inc. He estimated between 80 and 90 {stop offensive against Gcrmancom,-mer cent of approximately 25,000 i munications. fishermen who go to Alaska annual-| Berlin was hit for the eighth|jy would travel by air if facilities straight night by blockbuster bombs were provided. in last nights offensive against the migrant miners would undoubtedly Nazi railway system by the U. S. alsn travel the same way, Fifteenth Airforce heavy bombers.| w. A. Barnes of Ketchikan said | Medium bombers of the Twelfth|one or more additional Airforce based in Italy, struck the carriers operating from the United Brenner Pass rail line, which is States to Alaska would develop feed- the main German escape and sup- er business for lines solely serving ply route to Italy, in one of the Alaska. “We greatly appreciate the heaviest bombings of that line. service the bush pilots have giv- DRt 1) 5 PR ¢ eg us but T for one, would nct stop one of these trans-continental or }lnlcnmuonnl lines from coming in. {We are certainly not going to im- {pede progress,” he said. | R T S IS PROTESTED FROM ANCHORAGE John R. Dodge, Anchorage, guest at the Baranof Hutel is a Both Wood@_and Alaska | or Goodman's lines, | major | THREE OFFICERS {tillery officer, .| Group; - | portation officer. Other witnesses including Delegate i permission to expand ‘their service| to make connections at Seattle and| next best thing in'the interests of y . Alaska carriers ‘would be approval .. " woop 1o reorganize the firm, lenly | He said 5 to 6000‘ | | { | | | | HARRY HOPKINS OF GEN. CLARK'S IS IN HOSPITAL IN ROCHESTER STAFF, KILLED N RO Transport Plane Crashes Brought in Yesterday on While Taking Off Army TransportPlane from Airfield Says Paper ROME, Feb. 28.—Ten persons, in- ROCHESTER, Minn, Feb. 28.— cluding three officers of Gen. Mark Harry Hopkins, just returned from Clar staff, were killed Februas a trip abroad that included the 19, while en route home on leave Yalta conference, is a patient at when a transport plane hed up- St. Mary's Hospital here the Roches- on taking off from an Italian field. ter Post-Bulletin said, and added The officers are: Lt. Col. John T, that Hopkins was brought here late Walker, 32, air liaison officer for Tuesday in an Army Transport the Fifteenth Army Group; Lt. Col. plane. John Howard Faust, 32, tant ar-| He was treated here in 1944 for Fifteenth ~ Army a stomach ailment. Maj. Donold M. Kerr, trans | | | | NEW HEAD OF ALASKA AIR LINES ' Oklahoma Financier Elect-| ed President - fo Go to Anchorage ‘ TULSA, Oklahoma, Feb, 28—Thco-! |dore Law, 34, Tulsa financiar and' (drilling contractor, said he had been elected President of Alaska Airlines,! , and will leave for Anchomgc' 14 WHEN you look over in- surance n‘oliciefl. you may find that' you need more insurance, NOW, because values have gone up since . they were written, | | | This Hartford agency will gladly look over your poli- cies, without obligation, and advise you accord- Law said he would stay in Alaska ingly. until the reorganization was completed and “we can find a man qualified to take over active direc- tion of the line.” —_—————— RIDING HERE C. H. Riding, of Seattle, is stay- mg at the Baranof Hotel. Shattuck Agency INSURANCE—BONDS JUNEAU STO T COLIZEUM Bl THEATRE Bnbid LAST TIMES TONIGHT ‘SUBMARINE ALERT \_/ Butler, Mauro Drug Co. “The Rexall Store” IN COMMONS BULLETIN — LONDON, Feb. 28—The House of Commons, by an overwhelming vote of 396 to 25, defeated the motion to pro- test against the ' “Big Three” plan for the future of Poland. The vote was taken late to- night. LONDON, Feb. 28—Foreign Sec- | retary Anthony Eden told the, House of Commons “when a settle- ment is finally reached Poland will be as strong as or stronger than the oPland which existed in 1939. We at no time guaranteed Poland's pre-war frontiers,” he asserted. Eden took the floor to fight off the challenge by the rebellious but out-numbered group in the Con- servative Party against full-fledged support of the “Big Three’s” crl- mean Charter decisions. A vote is scheduled tpnight on the Canservative groups proposed amendment to a general motlon. for a vote of confidence in the| Yalta decisions. This amendment is critical of the Polish aspects. PRESIDENT T0 TALK T0 PRESS FRIDAY MORNING WASHINGTON, Feb, 28 — Jona- than Daniels, acting press secre- tary at the White House, sald the, President .was “in grand spirits and- in great shape. I never saw him looking better.” The President will meet the Washington press corps at the White House Friday morning for the first time since January 19. —ll e LOMEN HERE Joseph Lomen, of the Lomen Commercial Company, Seattle, is in Juneau. He is staying at the Baranof Hotel. ———e———— MISS GARDINER BACK Miss Lillian A. Gardiner, Director of Public Health Nursinng, Terri- torial Department of Health, has returned from an official trip to Anchorage, where she conferred | with Public Health nurses. s S ML e i FROM PETERSBURG Hugh A. Harris, Petersburg, is a guest at the Baranof. S e —— FROM SEATTLE E. R. 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