The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1945, Page 1

“THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLV., NO. 10,007 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 600 NIGHT RAIDERSSTARTFIRESINJAPAN | Aussies Advance On Rich Borneo Oil Fields | GREAT PORT, | AIRFIELDS | ARE SEIZED Whirlwind %—day Thrust ‘ Results in Imporfant | . Captures By SPENCER DAVIS (Assoclated Press Correspondent) MANILA, July T7.—Australian trcops killing Japanese at the rauo‘ of 13 to 1, struck today for south-, eartern Borneo's richest oil fields| after a whirlwind five-day invas- ion thrust that conquered Balik- papan, its vital harbor, and two sup- porting air bases. The invasion’s first phase ended Thursday with a rapier-like thrust‘ across the bay three miles northwest of Balikpapan which knocked out gun position that might have harassed free use of Balikpapan's excellent port. With their backs to Borneo's fear- som jungles, the Japanese falling back toward the big Sambodja and|ference, State Department ofl'lcials‘H. Smith. Samarinda oil fields northeast of| Balikpepan had the unpleasant! prospect of meeting head-hunting Dyaks and venomous snakes when- ever they desert the coast for the unexplored interior. Associated Press Correspondent Russell Brines said the Australians had plowed into some of the strong- est Japanese defenses in the south- west Pacific when they stormed ashore just east of Balikpapan. In five days they seized Sepinggang and Manegar air fields and the port of Balikpapan itself. With the docks secured, the Aus- tralians then moved west across the waters of Balikpapan Bay, traveling in amphibious tanks and craft manned by American fighting men. Brines said that in the Balikpapan operation to date, casualties might have equalled those on bloody Iwo Jima inview of the stout enemy de- fenses, but they had been limited to 214 Australian dead, 420 wounded and 22 missing.. PAN AMERICAN HAS SEVENTEEN FOR HERE Pan American World Airways brought the following 17 passen-, gers to Juneau from Seattle, yes- terday: Mrs. Alice Coughlin, Joseph Bannerman, Arthur Knight, Mrs. Doris Birkeland, Mrs. C. C. Carter, Carla Carter, Ed Locher, Sydney Larrabe, Bernice Parker, LeRoy Parker, Mrs. Nell Parker, Virginia Ludlow, Irwin Erickson, William Holbrook, Phillipe Berthall, Clifford The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert 5. Allen now on active service with the Army.) | | WASHINGTON — Wise-owl Sec,f State Jimmy Byrnes has decided | not to consider State Department | reorganization of personnel until he returns from the- Big Three Con- ference. Most other policy matters, | unless of major importance, will; also wait. One policy matter come up for review soon—it may even be brought up by Stalin at Berlin—is our continued close re-! lationship with Dictator Franco of | Spain. : Byrne's predecessors in the State Department, led by Jimmy Dunn, have folléowed a policy of sending which will : HOMEISLES WIDE OPEN FOR ATTACK Commandiflg— General of Marines Says Japan Be Invaded—No Trouble HONOLULU, July 7.—The Japa- nese home islands are wide open for invasion and the United States can move in any time “with no trouble at all” in the opinion of the new Commanding General of Marines, in the Pacific. Lt. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, back from COUNCIL VOTES APPRAISAL FOR CITY UTILITIES Black and Veakh, Kansas City Firm, fo Be Engag- ed for grlley Job Mayor Ernest Parsons warmed up his public ownership machine last evening by pushing through the City Council a proposal for airport devel- opment, but ran into rough.going; WASHINGTON, July 7. — Judge when he attempted to “steamroller’”| Fred M. Vinson will succeed Henry | appraisal of public utility properties | Moggenthau Jr., as Secretary of the here. Treasury and with that question The Mayor finally reached his|settled + new one arose today. | goal, of immediate engagement of Who will succeed vinson as Di-| an engineering firm to handle the % | “ " rector of War Mobilization and Re- appraisal, after “detouring” his own | Yersion? IVINSON T0 . BEHEAD OF TREASURY Announcement Made from White House as to Mor- genthau’s Successor |""Vinegar Joe” Stilwell Juneau Chapfer Nearly Doubles Quota for Red Cross in Recent Drive|U. S. BOMBERS MUST MEET JAPS OWN HOMELAND i i the Okinawa wars where he led the 1, ar and other strategic ma-|17¢ Szrx;‘slgm Franco. 1If we withheld, Third Amphibious Corps, asserted selection for the company to do the | work. The Mayor battled hard to! put across Burns and McDonnell. of That one caught oificial Wash- ipgton flat-footed. President Tru- Talks of Campaign to | these or withdrew our ambassador,i ! Franco would fall overnight. H | The extreme lengths to which ‘Byrnes' predecessors in the State Department - have gone to protect, Franco is known to very few. For | instance, it has been kept a care- ! fully hushed-up secret that, in ad- 'vance of the San Francisco Con- brought pressure to bear on several Latin American governments to; that victory could be won only by the invasion, that the Americans would be met by men and women civilian fighters, but all that “won’t ke any worry to us.” “It’'s a question now of wading in and finishing this war,” he told a press conference here yesterday upon his arrival to take over as Marine Commander from Lt. Gen. Holland Geiger scoffed at the idea, cur-) Kansas City, as the firm to appraise | man’s decision to appoint the 55- the light and water companies, but| year-old Kentuckian to the Cabinet after the whole issue had nearly announced by a White House aide | been sidetracked was content when|leaves wide open a job that is so important its holder has been call- ed “assistant president.” the Council voted him authority to contract with Black and Veatch, of the same city, for the job. ! Councilman Harry Lea, who reg- istered the only negative on the final Vinson, the shaggy browed for- mer Congressman and one-time vote, stopped the Burns and Mc-| Federal Judge, will not actually be | to require advice on how to con- he said, | session- with the Committee on For- | be able to get sufficient control.” landing | Thorgaard and Major J. 'C. Clark. From Fairbanks: Edward Bur-! nell, Fred Baxter, Jirdes Baxter and/ Fred Baxter, Jr. | - -, e—— & BERNARD, ASKS DIVORCE Attorney M. E. Monagle has dis- closed the entering here with the Clerk of the U. S. District Court of an action in divorce brought by R. L. Bernard against Manda Elise Bernard. Mr. Monagle represents the plaintiff. Incompatibility of temperament is charged. The couple has no children. Mrs. Bernard now resides in the State of Oregon and is represented by Portland attorneys. ——e————— BROWN PLEADS GUILTY Hubert George Brown, charged two days ago with disorderly con- duct, following an assault and dis- turbance in a South Franklin street house, this morning pleaded guilty before U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray and was sentenced to serve 90 days in the Federal Jail here. — e, —— DAUGHTER FOR BENECKES A baby girl weighing 7 pounds, 8 ounces, was born last evening at St. Ann’s Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Benecke. Mr. Benecke, with the Alaska Coastal Airways, is expected home today from a trip ‘south. Fellow- workers at the office are expecting him to pass around the usual cigars in honor of his new daughter. Both mother and daughter are reported to be doing well, 5 .1 |rent at the outbreak of the war, that keep them from breaking w"'h‘the Japanese as fighters were “super | Franco. men.” Latin American couniries are| <At heart they are cowards and sovereign nations and not supposed they have an inferiority complex,” ! “They haven't near the duct their relations’ with European stamina we have and haven't the neutrals. .~ However, on April 4, brain we got. When_they get into | when a resolution to break reln-‘bnd straits they kill -themselves.” tions with Spain was about to be: Geiger expressed belief Japanese presented in the Cuban Congress, industralists would have stopped the the American Embassy in anana‘war before if they could. As to discreetly but vigorously protested. whether they would spearhead anv So, virtually taking orders from peace offensive—as many have the U.S.A., Cuban Foreign Min- speculated—he said the question ister Cuervo Rubio met in secret was “whether the industralists wul eign Affairs and urged that no ac-| tion be taken toward a break with i Spain. Temporarily, the resolution | Swp( FI.IES To was held up; to be passed over-| whelmingly about a month later. " Again, on April 26, the venezue-i SIIKA TH'S A- M. lan Chamber of Deputies was dis-; creetly informed that it must with-| wITH GOVERNOR draw its resolution calling for a, break with Franco. A much more diplomatically ~worded resolution Tpe four officials representing the was substituted. | Smaller War Plants Corporation, on Also, the Costa Rican Congress tour of Alaska to determine need voted 36 to 3 to break relations for their agency's services, this with Spain. But suddenly U. s.]morning took off from here for diplomats called upon the Costa Sitka on a trip delayed from yester- Rican President and Foreign Min- day by adverse weather. They were} ister, and assurances were given accompanied to Sitka by Gov. Er- that no action would be taken to|nest Gruening. break with Franco. Tke four officials plan to return In the end, such a surge of anti-|to Juneau this afternoon and de- Franco resentment boiled up at|part immediately for Cordova, from San Francisco that State Depart- Where they will continue through ment officials were powerless to Westward and Interior cities. stem the tide. 4 Howard MacGowan, Regional Dir- However, more show-downs re- ector for the SWPC, express garding our pro-Franco policy arel‘pleasure at the response with whicl certain to come unless the new his party had met in Juneau. At State Department under Jimmy lcast 10 sound ideas were discussed Byrnes beats Latin Americans to it xfifimfiufif mhz;:. ::D pi‘aiadl.s :}':f: ro-Prenos 2ol ] by revising our pro-Frzg5os oiicy. G uha, Gver Witk DM Srekiente following a dinner at which the SUGARED SPAIN appointed Secretary of the Treas- 1l | pounpilebandwager wheo 1y hfldyury until Mr. Truman returns from | the Clerk read a lengthy dissertation & by Senator Styles Bridges, of New | the Big Three meeting in Germany Hampshire, alleging to link that later in the summer. . company, through the Public Own- | When he does take office it w ership Leagus, with Socialism and |Pe his fourth lofty executive po- Marxism. sition in a little more than two Senator Impugns Firm :yelrs.D‘H!eH h"u W;:;nnmlc Stabili- The Bridges article, entitied “Tha/, 1; b ! : Kill Nipponese | OKINAWA, July 7.—Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commanding the U. S. Tenth Army and American forces {on Okinawa, told a press confer- ence that in his opinion “we must meet the Jap in his homeland and kill him,” because air assault alone would not win the war. “Vinegar Joe” then laughed and |added that he had been wrong on so many predictions that another would not affect his batting aver- age one bit. A great part of Japanese indus- The Juneau Chapter of the Red | Cross went over the top in the re- | cent drive, then beyond, nearly doubling the quota, the Rev. Wm. Robert Webb, 1945 campaign chair- man, has been informed by Allen Shattuck, local Red Cross Chapter Treasurer. The quota of the Juneau Chap- ter was $16,500, but the final report of Treasurer Shattuck shows the subscriptions totalled the sum of $31,073.49 or $14,573.49 over the top. The sum of $11,545.15 was ‘con- tributed by the armed forces in Alaska and is included in the Juneau total. The sum of $126 was con- tributed by the local Coast Guard. Juneau residents will be interested to know that approximately 17.9 per- cent will remain in the local treas- ury which will amount to $5,562.15. This amount will be usesd for emer- gencies in Alaska and especially in the Juneau area. “I am very proud of this report,” sald the Rev. Mr. Webb, this morn- FIVE CITIES SCORCHED BY Industrial Targels Are Set Ablaze While Others Badly Damaged By LEIF ERICKSON (Associated Press War Correspondent) GUAM, July % ~ New fires, touched off by about 600 night-raid- ing Superforts, blazed through five Japanese cities today, adding major aluminum-producing and ofl refin- ery dreas to the 126 square miles of industrial Japan already knock- ed out by B-29s, ; As jubllant airmen returning from today's pre-dawn, strike told of gigantic el tions that they. had lighted, the 2Ist Bomber Com- mand announced . reconnaissance photographs showed five additional square miles burned out In'recent strikes on ‘five other aitfes. They were Kure, . Himejl, Kumamoto, ing. “It shows the immense con-|Ube on Honshu Island, and Kochi lcern that the people of the Gastin- eau Channel area have in seeing that the Red Cross and the mercy for which it stands is carried to not only the members of the armed |forces but to all areas of the world try has been devastated and “we are working on second-rate cities now,” Stilwell declared. “But no Public Ownership Racket,” was read | >-0n-until March 7 of this year. from the February, 1941, issue al; Public Service Magazine, which the | Mayor later described—without ef-| fect—as being backed by privabel utility interests. The article, alleges | that Burns and McDonnell have in- | volved themselves on several occas- | ions in local politics to gain fees forf engineering work, even to the extent | of providing financial support for | candidates, and hinting bribery. It/ also cited a connection between that | company and manufacturers of| diesel power plant equipmant. Be- | sides impugning the ethics of Burns and McDonnell, Senator Bridges also questioned the professional compet- ence of the firm. | Just before the magazine article | was read, the Mayor had declnred} himself ready to entertain a motion | to contract with Burns and Mc-| Donnell, but following the reading | stated he would not make an issue | of that firm and submitted Black | and Veatch instead. | The appraisal issue was first open- ed last night by the reading of a| letler from W. 8. Pullen, General | Manager of the Alaska Electric Light | and Power Company, refusing to | furnish certain information regard- | ing the company which had been | requested by Utilities Engineer Wal- | ter Stuart to assist him in laying a | groundwork for an appraisal. ‘ Pullen Refuses Data Mr. Pullen declared he could see | no purpose in making available the | desired information until after hisl stockholders had indicated their wil- matter what the air people say, it is my opinion that air war alone won’t whip the Japs.” The General asserted he had found no evidence of Japanese | morale cracking; in fact, “all you | have to do is 2. Federal Loan Administrator for exactly one month. 3. Director of War Mobilization | and Reconversion since April 7. An admiring Senate approved his various appointments without a murmur. Some in Washington puzzled by | They don't look too bad.” The their impression that moving from|Jjapanese must feel depressed over “assistant president” to Secretary of the Treasury is not exactly a| promotion were wondering whether President Truman plans for Vin-| son to hold both jobs at once. It! has been suggested t8o that Tru-' man intends to make only one job out of it by merging the War Mob- ilization office with the Treasury. - e — BULLETINS OTTAWA—Prime Minister Mac-| however, he acknowledged > Dorothy McCulley, Sat. Winfred King Are V_lgd Today The Methodist Church was the | scene of a simple wedding ceremony this morning, when Miss Dorothy L. McCulley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, kenzie King announces the Canad- 'S, P. Field of Walla Walla, Wash., ian Government had recognized the | became the bride of Sgt| Winfred Polish Provisional Government of W. King, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. National Unity. | King, o1 Auburn, Alabama. WASHINGTON - The War De- | yous pefore a palm-banked altar, partment today assigned Lieuten- ‘ using the double-ring ceremony. | ant-General Alexander Patch w] " The bride was given in marriage command the Fourth Army at F""",by her father, Mr. 8. P. Fleld, and' Sam Houston, Texas. Patch lell the | paq o5 her bridesmaid Miss Beverly Seventh Army through southern |yejyerg France and into Germany. Sgt. Guy Amsden was best man for the groom. WASHINGTON — Superfortress| mpe prige wore a cobalt-blue suit produetion ran four per cent ahead | qreqs with white accessories. Her look around at| prisoner of war camps on Okinawa.! Meanwhile, at a secret meeting just before Byrnes took the oath, State Department officials proposed sending 60,000 tons of sugar to} Spain. This is a reduction from the previous year's shipmeni to Spain, which totaled 100,000 tons. One official sitting in on the hush-hush meeting remarked: “Wait till the newspapers get hold of this one.” State Department officials claim that if we do not sell sugar to Franco he will come into the Cubnni' market and buy it anyway in com- petition with us. However, the Cu- | (Continued on Page Four) Eden's Son Is Missing LONDON, July 7. — Sgt. Simon Eden, eldest son of Foreign Secre- tary Anthony Eden, is reported missing today on an operational flight in Burma. The Air Ministry said the Brit- ish aircraft on which he was fly-| ing as a crew member has been unreported for several cays, | Pudget Sound city by PAA plane \Are Highly Praised SWPC representatives were guests of the Douglas Chamber of Commerce —dining on venison. ‘The unexpected delay in their plans yesterday was put to use by the party members for conferences with governmental officials regard- ing the resources and potentials of Alaska. Ross Cunningham, Associate Edi- tor of the Seattle Times, who ac- ccmpanied the SWPC group here from Seattle, was to return to the this afternoon. Nisei Casualties Now Announced; Soldiers SAN FRANCISCO, July 7.—Cas- ualties among the 20,529 Japanese- Americans in the Nation's armed forces are estimated by the War Relocation Authority at 3,000, R. B. Cozzens, Assistant Director of the WRA, reported today. Cozzens also made public a let- ter from Gen. Jacob L. Devers, head of all U. 8. ground forces, in which he said the Nisei under his command “are, in my opinion, among the finest soldiers in the United States Army.” of schedule in June. The War Pro- lingness to sell their property to the | duction Board reveals, however, that | city. He indicated his feeling that i total aircraft production last ‘month | if they should so decide an elaborate | fell short of plans by 228 planes. appraisal still might not be neces- | % “ sary unless agreement on price could| WASHINGTON—Assistant Secre- not be reached. To the specific re- | tary of State William Clayton has quest for the terms of the light com- | been designated as American mem- pany’s contract for power from the ‘ ber of the United Nations Relief Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- | and Rehabilitation Council. The an- pany, Mr. Pullen stated that in-|nouncement was made today in formation could not be of value to | Washington by the State Depart- the city, inasmuch as the contract is | ment. not assignable. | That letter stiffened councilmanic| PpARIS — Supreme Headquarters necks and opened inquiry as to what | Alljed Expeditionary Force will be | action is available to the city to dissolved and the combined com- | secure cooperation from the com-|mand of the Allied Expeditionary | pany; prompted by Councilman Ed- | porces will end on or about July 13, ward Nielsen's query to the effect: | SHAEF announced today. Gen. Eis- | If the city does have an appraisal : enhower will have returned from the made and the swckholders.stlll 52y | United States by that time, and the | no—then what? }delny will give him a chance to say City Can’t Force Sale | farewell to his commanders and City Attorney Howard D. Stabler | staff, it was explained. replied that the law provides no way — e - in which the city can force a utility MRS. CARTER HOME to sell out, but that the city has | sharp teeth it has not yet shown. Mrs €. C. Carter and daughter He suggested. that, though the city carla returned by plane yesterday cannot directly force a sale, in-|(rom a three-weeks' visit with Mrs.| directly it can do much through the carter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L power fo fix rates. He cited from ratham of Hamilton, Wash. The the law that the calling of a rate .5t was made more memorable hearing would make a utility liable | Carter's hat was of white sequins with shoulder-length veil. She wore a corsage of pink roses and gardenias. Miss Leivers wore a.gown of acme blue, with black accessories and had | a corsage of red rosebuds. Mrs. Field, méther of the bride, wore grey with black accessories and a yellow rosebud corsage. The Wedding March was played by Mrs. Robert Treat., Mrs. Forrest Pitts sang “Until.” A wedding breakfast for the bridal party in the Iris Room of the Bar- anof Hotel followed the wedding ceremony. Mrs. King has been with the ACS in Juneau, coming her about a year ago. She recently went south, re- turning yesterday accompanied by her parents, and her brother Billie. Sgt. King has been with the AC# in Juneau for the past three and one-half years. The future plans of the young couple are indefinite, but they will make their home in Juneau for the present. - e —— MRS. ANSELL JOINS HUSBAND Mrs. J. W. Ansell, of Seattle, has arrived in Juneau to join her |husband who has been employed at the Juneau Heating and Plumb- | with the arrival of Mrs. for contempt of court should it it it 4 b o e brother, Lt. Lewis Tatham, who had just returned from Italy and (Continued on Page Sir) ~ | was home on leave, ing Company for quite some time. They are, guests at the Gastineau Hotel, {where suffering and hardship still predominate. I want to personally | workers on this fine showing.” ECLIPSE OF WOLSELEY, Sask., July 7.—The results of the Okinawa campaign,| weathered brick school of this little community, 70 miles :east of Re- gina, became a center of unseasonal activity today as astronomical scientists prepared to photograph and study the total 'solar eclipse next Monday morning. The moment of totality is ex- pected at 5:17 a.m. (PWT). Carpenters were on hand to con- struct wooden tunnels which will serve as the “bellows” of astrono- mical cameras. The expedition, representing the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, is headed by Dr. R. K. Marshall, Director .of the Fels Planetarium, and includes Dr. A. C. Mohler, as- tronomer of the McMath-Hulbert Observatory at Pontiac, Mich, a and Dr. Richard M. Sutton, Pro- fessor of Physics at Haverford Col- lege, Haverford, Pa. BATTIN RESIGNS WLB POST HERE Dr. Charles F. Battin, Alaska Di- rector for the War Labor Board, | congratulate every one of my co-|clouds SUNMONDAY on Shikoku, This makes the 120 square mile total. e 9 Additiona)ly, an ‘engineering works was wrecked, and an oil re- finery damaged. "¢/ AT ‘ Another major ofl réfineiy hit today in perhaps’ the'largest lof the war biazed | i K’ a . | set.” #' : | by. ;m Superforts’ 4,000 of in Japan's m.'.".f” aluminum: prg- duciiig center. P The mission was the fourth ‘in six dayé In which the B-29s -have dumped 11,000 tons of bombs- on Japan, For 4t Meanwhile assorted American tactical planes, potably 100-odd Mustangs fram Iwo Jims, beat up | airfields around Tokyo and on shu with scanty enemy opposil ,Chief targets of B-20 strikes be- tween midnight and dawn were: | Shimizu, 20 ‘miles southwest of | Mt. Puji lnd:'l’t of a plant that produced half of' Japan's aluminuf. | Shimotsu, 35 miles southwest :of Osaka and site of the big 'ofl refinery, one of the empire's ;mut vital plants. 3 | Kofu, 70 milés west of Tokyo, [city of 100,000 with rail shops, spinning mills and military ‘bar- racks. Chiba, 20 'miles southeast .of i’rokyu on Tokyo Bay, railway junc- ,tion and military depot center; ,and Akashi, home factory of ‘the The Rev. Robert S. Treat read the Pt of the University of Michigan,| Kawasaki Atrcraft Company, hit in four previous raids. Most spectacular hlow of the five was struck at Shimisu, where re- |turning fliers used the word *cods | flagration"—superlative in the fiery language of B-20 erews—to describe | the results. | o has resigned from that position to| ow H“vm return to his former post as pro-| fessor and head of the department of economics and business admin-| istration at College of Puget Sound,' ‘Tacoma, Washington. Dr. Battin left Juneau by south-| bound steamer today, enroute to; his Tacoma home, where he will. rejoin his wife and daughter. He plans to vacation on his boat be- fore going back to his teaching position at C.P.S. { D. E. Davis, who recently has been assisting Dr. Battin as inves- tigator, will be In charge of the| Alaska office as Acting Director. Dr. Battin's resignation is effective today. e L Mrs. E. O. Davis, wife of E. O, Davis of the North Transfer, re- turned last evening from a month’s, visit in Seattle, Edmonds and Vas-| hon Island. She was accompanied on the trip by her daughter, Caro- line, her son, Jack Sorri, and her/ mother, Mrs. Grace Purdue. ———— Mrs. Joe Werner and daughter Karen arrived home yesterday from a visit of several weeks in Seattle and Portland. They were u:com-i panied by Mrs. Werner's mother,’ Mrs. Alena Berg, who will spend the summer with the Werner fam- ily. l TRAVELS BY AR, - ALASKA T0 EAST Olaf Halyerson, ‘school tescher from ‘been visiting ; Juneau whi h:tb\lh to Wa 1y Minn. He is making the en trip from Kodiak to Warren :by plane, and thus far on his trip visited Anchorage, Palmer, and Fairbanks, Coming w,Ah'll; 10 years ago jon the Northwestern, now aband- doned at Dutch Marbor, he has since taught school at Bethel, Naknek, and for the past years at Kodiak He 'has 3 the summiér months prospecting Goodnews Bay Wiseman, as well as stirveying the Matan- uska Valley and on the Kodiak Naval Air Base. 5 Mr. ' HalVe Yo retarn ;hln fall, with Nome &s his next estination. After 0 years Territory, he Is : o with Alaska's: as as its natural e SMITH ARRIVES Tracy Smith, of Portland, Ore- gon, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. well