The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 15, 1948, Page 8

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1948 INSURE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ~ TRY TO REFLOAT TRAFFIC SIGNALS RAILROAD BARGE: FOR FAIRBANKS HEMlqgvK DOCKS FAIRBANKS, Nov. 15.—(®—Civi- | ~ Blast Aboard *| Tacoma Ship = e e e r———— AL WHITE | TELLS WHY, : lization is gradually encroaching ion this one-time roaring goldrush GOP UPSET Albert White and his wife, Mar- garet E White, returned to Juneau on the Princess Loulse automobile trip of over 5,000 miles The Whites visited in Detroit, Chey- enne, Denver, Santa Fe, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Long- view, and Port Townsend. The| ‘Whites reported that they had warm weather all the way until they| reached the Oregon coast. White, an active Reputlcan in Alaska, stated as to the election that Republicans should take a cue from their leader, Thomas E.| Dewey, and support the adminis: tration in unity. As to his views as to what caused the upset, White -said, that the farmers who are nominally Repub- | | after an | .wo and UnderProbe TACOMA, Nov. 15.—M— Investi- ators are seeking today the cause of a blast and fire which killed injured six aboard the wift Swedish motorship Los An- zeles Saturday. Fire Chief Charles Eisenbacher said earlier the explosion was set Jff by a short circuit in a gener- | ator. The Los Angeles, on her maiden voyage, was at her mooring at Port Tacoma pier No. 2 preparatory to a scheduled Sunday departure. The 2,000-ton vessel had been loading 7,600 tens of general cargo for Scandinavia. e LR R ) Strong off-shore winds past two days have hampered ef- | forts to refloat the Alaska Railroad | barge, grounded near Caype Spencer. L. G. Galtz, skipper of the Coast Guard cuter Hemlock, which came | into Juneau for supplies this morn- |ing from Cross Sound, said that the | barge is still in a bad way and ef- | forts are being made to get the |craft afloat before new storms hit the area | Glatz said that no cargo has been {taken off the barge as yet, but if the weather comes in before she is off the rocks, they will undoubted- |ly take off the cargo in an attempt |to save it and the Large. | The tug Christine Foss is stand- |ing by the grounded barge while | the tug Teton has proceeded to Hoo- nah. Glatz said that the barge caught . 0N the rocks in the center of the, | hull, has several holes in the side, for thel.amp, ‘Today—the traffic signals! A stop-and-go light has been in- | stalled at Fairbanks’ main intersec- tion of Second Avenue and Cush- man Street, the terminus of the 1,523-mile Alaska Highway. Police Chief George Norton said drivers will get “the easy treatment” the first few days \ “After all,” he pointed out, “we've | been driving dogsleds and autos around here for more than 45 years It takes a spell to get into civilized )ham!s" | Juneau has had |for several years - - ICHAPELADIES HAVE WEEKEND MEETING traffic signals with NORTHERN Insurance Agency TELEPHONE 57 HENRY M. HOGUE, Manager Family Group Protection OFFICES—Cowling ‘Motor Building @® Marine @ Liability @ Casualty ® Glass ® Theit ® Robbery @ Burglary @ Fire @ Workmen's Compensation WEATHER REPORT (U. S. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Perlod lican in Republican states, no doubt voted Democratic. The farmers all have new cars, plenty of money, and | want the high prices for wheat, corn, | and cattle, to remain permanent. | White said that 150,000 votes in those farm states would have put| Dewey in and in Ohio 300,000 voters did not vote in the election. ‘White said: “Now with the Demo- crats in control and as they prom- | _ ised prosperity, Alaska should come | > ;’hut that it is not shipping too much | + The Chapeladies met at the home | water. He said he had no report on [of Mrs. C. F. Palmer last week and |damage to the 2,000 tons of critical |Mrs, L. Bowman was hostess for the | supplies on board headed for Sew- oecasion ard. Tho: ¥ W se present were Mesdames H 5 CBIohE hak | 1 el The Hemlock, which has beenim'ipbra [l O Criar et Vit iiaa | ‘vy w7 3 In Juneau— Maximum, 42; minimum, 36. At Airport— Maximum, 38; E ey barge wi H ¥; minimum, 26, stand:ng by since the b Wentprake, Jennie Pederson, Fred Tel aground in Fern Harbor, Cro lecky, E.'W. Reddekoop, W. M. Trip- | Sound November 2, left here at lette, Dave Horton, H. E. Lindegaard ‘:cglowoclnck today to return to the p Congdon, Frank Maier, Clyde |8 3 |Hill, Floyd Epperson, John Hag- |meier. Vieiting at the meeting was Roland Rougeau and Edwin J. Brink, both of Hartford, Conn., were injured when this light sports plane crashed into a tree top on a farm near Trenten, N. J. (# Wirephoto. Cevecoesense FORECAST (Juneau and Vielnity) Mostly cloudy with snow or rain showers tonight and - e Lowest into its own within the next year. Al | Before the next election, we should | D be on the upgrade, everyoné fully | employed and Statehood, and elec- | tion of our own Governor should be an accomplished fact. If these prom- | ises are not kept, no doubt the vot- ers will take it all into considera-| tion when they go to the polls in| the next election. Jthat air search units still have no|day afterncon in woods on Douglas ® July 1, {trace of the Alaska Air Express air- Is: |liner that went down November 4 fied as the body | with 17 passengers aboard. e GRUENINGS PLAN TRIP TO MEXICO, WASHINGION D ( |agent from the Juneau CAA office, PV eE | left yesterday morning for Annette, | headquarte: Gov. an rs. Ernest Gruening plan to leave tomorrow for a trip whiel' will take them south and east until just before Christmas. They | will board the C.P.R. lines Princess | Louise tomorrow enroute to San| Francisco. e | After a stay in the Bay City, they will fly to Mexico City, going from there to visit on the ranch, near| Taxco. owned by William Sprat- ling. There they expect to be joined by Mr. and Mrs. Keith Roberts who already have left Juneau Spratling has been in Alaska to | make plans for instructing the Es- kimos in jewelry making with Alas- kan jade, which is very similar to the malachite known south of the border as Mexican jade. Flying back, he has reached Annette Island, from which he hopes to take off tomorrow | in his two-seater Ercoupe. | Governor and Mrs. Gruening Will jon Ajagia at over 50 church meet- Carter and Don Moles of the Cart- # to Washington, D. 0., on Alaska | ings He attended a Methodist Min- before returning o Ju-|jsterss gchoo! at Purdue University was taken. business. neau in time for the holidays. | OF PLANE IS SIGHTED S8T. JOHN'S, Nlfd, Nov. 15.—A —Planes searching for a U. S. B-| 25 bomber missing since Nov. 5 to- day spotted the wreckage of a plane 10 miles from Gander. It was, however, believed to be that of a plane missing since the war. Land 'parties were organized to move in to the wreckage, the second wrecked plane spotted since the search for the B-25 began. The first, a wartime wreck, was spotted Nov. 8, also near Gander. The B-25 disappeared on a flight from Washington to Stephenville, with six crew members aboard. e COL. ALEXANDER OUTSIDE | were continuing from gitka, Yakutat and Annette. aid of keys found with the body | and their Margaret, at Lima, Michigan. |lecture tour in Indiana | was present at an Inter-Denomina- tional Columbus, Ohio D s |the coast, the Treats visited with Juneau Lumber Mills. His wii Mr. and Mrs. Earl Phoenix, Arizona. Rev. Treat said | that Mrs. McGinty had fully recov- ered her health following hospital- was a member of the B. P. O. E. | ization at the Mayo Clinic. | Mrs, Don Degree at nlans to return to Alaska next Sep- to be in Beston. ‘ember. er, F. M. Newman, resides at 4216 ‘eave for Metlakatla this week. He Seward. FOR DOWNED PLAKE, ASWORTNEWMAN, STILL NO TRACE MISSING JUNEAUITE The CAA reported this morning | The skeletal remains found Fri- d have been definitely identi- | of Wort Newman, cldtime Juneau resident who has Coast Guard and Army planes peen missing since January. | the search today yye,ification was ade by the John C. Bowen, flight operatlons .4 yaundry marks on the shreds of clothing “There will be no inquest,” U. 8. er Felix Gray said today. are no suspicious circum- . REV. ROBERT TREAT stances conceraing nis aeatn. 1 L) appears he got lost in the woods walking, and died ot while out AND FAM“_Y REIURN either heart failure or exhaustion.”| ‘The body, found in a reclining position in a sheltered location on slope, was discovered by Robert Bell of Juneau about 2:30 Friday. Bell, on a hunting trip, had started | up the hillside about a quarter of 2 mile from the road near the Roy Eaten property north of the bridge. Bell returned to Juneau, and| The Treats drove to the States contacted Bob Lougheed, Douglas over the Alaska Highway and visit- Island resident, who had been de- ed Rev. Treat's parents at Empire, layed in joining him. The two men | Michigan, and Mrs. Treat’s parents returned to the spot Saturday | morning with U. S. Commissioner | a month's Felix Gray, U. 8. Deputy Marshal | He spoke Sid Thompson, and Charles W.| The Rev, and Mrs. Robert Treat young daughter, Mary returned home o¢n the Princess Louise following a three months vist in the States. During Rev. Treat's absence, the Rev. G Edward Knight of Seward I been pastor of the Methodist Church in Juneau. Rev. Treat was on er Mortuary, to which the body longtime em- | Newman was a ployee of the Alaska Juneau Mine, working as an electrician in the car | shops when the mine was in oper- | n LaFayette for a week and also Missionary's Conference at On their return driving trip to ation. He later worked in the McGinty at died several years ago. | Newman was born April 11, 1881, | in Hillsville, Va. In Juneau he| He is survived by a stepdaughter, | In Tulsa, they visited with Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Parker, the former | McMullin. McMullin iS Nona Saylor of Juneau, whose’ ompleting his work on a Master's home has been in Portland, Ore., Tulsa | University, and although she was recently thought | Newman's broth- | The Rev. G. Edward Knight will SE goth Ave, Portland, Ore. R vill preside at services at the Dun- san Memorial Church there before FOX TO MAKE ARC -eturning to his headquarters at SURVEY AT HAINES —_——— J. C. Fox was to go to Haines| MRS. BRINGDALE RETURNS today, there to pick up a six- or| Mrs. Etta Bringdale, who has eight-man crew for a survey re-| been in Seattle tor the past three garding the future asphalting of | months, returned home Sunday the Alaska section (42 miles) ox} 2vening on the Princess Louise. the Haines Cutoff. | Tuesday. tempera- IMrs r2e Cantillion. k | e RUGGED ALASKY | - TERRAIN MAPEED, SPECEFIC PURDOST LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 Navy said today that 30,090 sqi miles of rugged Alaska terrain were photo-mapped in a summer-long project undertaken in coope: with the Department of Intevior. » e eiiet egl g . fl@@fl! fiS | In releasing pictures of Lockheed P | PWV2 Neptune planes from Navy ~ Photographic Squadron One flying S Southeast Alaska, the Navy said the : 5 5 fo> was done to determine water s w"-‘:“" b “‘“"A;_'::l’:_"mpm“" rower possibilities of the Panhandle - = At > area from Skagway couth, to esti- of the FEagles this evening at 8| mate paper pulp resources and sup- oclock at their hall in DOuglds.| ply more accurate maps, , . ° ® ture tonight near freezing. ¢ Gusty northeasterly winds. “ * PRECIPITATION ® (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a m. today In Juneau— Trace; since ® Nov. 1, 1469 inches; since 61.20 inches. © At Afrport—Trace; since ° 1, 707 inches; since ® July 1, 42.16 inches . Py OES MEETING The Eastern Stars will meet to- morrow evening at the Eagles’ Hall Worthy Matron Edith Barras will | preside. A special program has keen planned, and relfreshments will be served. WELL BABY CONFERENCE | The Douglas Well Baby Confer- | ence will be held in the Douglas School Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 4 p. m. The Clinic will be held twice a month from now on. | is requested that all children | who did not attend the conference | on Nov. 5, attend this week if possible. Miss Mae Krueger, Public Health Nurse, will be in charge. >~ | PATROL BOAT UP FOR NEW PRIPS Coast Guard patrol boat 83-524 went on the ways this morning to trade a pair of bent propellers for new props. The boat will be upf for several days. C. J. EHRENREICH-CPA BUSINESS COUNSELLOR Accounting-Systems-Taxes PHONE 351 Room 3—Shattuck Bldg. STERLING GIFTS of Lifetime Beauty Y% Pay tribute to your charming hostess with o gift she'll weasure for- ever. 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