The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 3, 1949, Page 2

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One of Ball's principal jobs while in Alaska for a month will be to | make a sea otter inventory by air- craft. With the information gain- sea otter program on an expanded | basis. “This is the first chance to dc this since the war,” said W. A. El- kins, FWS Wildlife Management Supervisor, today. The Washington men also hope to visit two of the waterfowl-band- ing crews, probably those on the Kuskokwim delta. They were to leave Juneau today, ! going first to Kenai National Moose | Range and the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. TWO TACOMA MEN DROWN VESTERDAY AT CLALLAM BAY SEATTLE, Aug. 3—®—A small outboard powereq boat capsized in | Clallam Bay yesterday, pitching | two Tacoma brothers to their death The victims, Bernard and Ray Maijala, were fishing. | A crew from the Neah Bay Coast | Guard lifeboat station recovered | Ray Maijala’s tody. Search was| continuing for his brother. OHIOAN LEGISLATOR SPEAKER TOMORROW AT CHAMBER MEETING A member of the Ohio State Leg- |islature who is a high official in Masonry and a noted orator will be guest speaker tomorrow noon |when the Chamber of Commerce meets at the Baranof Hotel. for chill days— dust flies. Styled, value! Come in and J | NEWS ITEMS FRO} | SITHA (Special Correspondence) SITKA, Alaska, July 30—Com- munity House stockholders voted | unanimously in favor of makir Community House available to the Hospital Committee for conversion into a hospital. Sixty-seven out of 97 of the shares were represented at a special meeting called Tues- day evening to determine, at the request of the Hospital Commit- tee, whether the building was avail- able for hospital use. Though a few stockholders ex-' pressed regret over losing a com- munity house, all were unanimously agreed that the building should be, put to use as a hospital sirice hopes | of acquiring a new, government financed building seemed remote, if not entirely unobtainable. Terms of transfer of ownership received considerable discussion be- fore the Community House Board of Directors’ recommendation of having shares redeemed on a dollar for dollar basis by hospital bonds, stock, cash or shares at the discre- nounced by President Glenn Green at the Wednesday noon meeting. They are: Max Workman, aLtex\dA‘ ance; John Dolenc, constitution, by-laws and convention; Lawrence Porter, finance; Jewel House, edu- cation; Carl Nelson, membership; Everett Calhoun, program; Ernest Fuess, safety; Judson Lanier, boys and girls; Ted Harris, civic im- provement; Max Boyer, community betterment; Ray Whisenhunt, con- servation; Ralph Weeks, health and welfare. Sixteen members of Women of | the Moose have formed a drill team | and practice every Wednesday eve- | ning at the lodge rooms under the direction of Ray Cogeshall. The drill team will act as Senior Re- gents Escort and have selected | new uniforms. ! Mr. and Mrs. Fred Geeslin left | Roscoe R. Walcutt, a lawyer| pers and the Mt. Edgecumbe stu- from Columbus, Ohio, will speak to dents but the entire community as |the group. As General Grand Secre- well. tary of the General Grand Chap- iter of Royal Arch Masons, Walcutt Correction: Helen and Betty Jo|has been touring the Territory with Yaw did not accompany their par-|a group of Masonic high officials. ents on the months tour of Alaska l}:(i)gx::.'aysv They're staying right at ve'era“am When Window Is Smashed; Tells Cops A second child, a boy, was born| Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Karpstein. The baby, weighing| LONG BEACH, Calif, Aug. 3— eight pounds has been named Doug- | (p—While Charles Chappell was las Carl. Mr. Karpstein is assistant|out shopping today somebody | steward at the Vets Club. smashed a plate glass window at his home. It made Chappell mad. Ann Jacoby, daughter of Mr. and| He hopped into his autoette and Mrs, Paul Jacoby, who was seriously |raceq to the police station to sign injured by a truck some time ago,|a complaint. The autoette is a has been at home for a couple of |sort of three wheeled motor scooter weeks and is now playing outdoors|steered by means of a tiller. Chap- almost as good as new. pell's is painted fire engine red. “We didm't tolerate malicious | Kettleson, who|mijschief in the Union army and I Mrs. Theodore John N. Ball left Washington, D. || life Refuges, and also is in charge sea || ed on it, Ball is to help work up a | | African swan, in Catalina Island, Cal., bird park. by plane Thursday for Juneau has been at the Pioneers’ Home where they plan to enter the Sal- Hospital following a stroke, is im- mon Derby. Last year Mrs. Geeslin |proved sufficiently to be released placed fifth and won an outboard shortly and will be at home under motor, ‘the care of a practical nurse. Dr. and Mrs. Philips Thygeson| Mrs. William Cook has been con- and daughter, Christin, left aboard fined to her home with an acute the Alaska Thursday, returning to|attack of asthma, a recurring ail- their home in Los Altos, Calif., atter |ment from which she has suffered still don't like it,” he told officers. Chappell is a Civil War veteran, 102 years old. | SMOKING REFRIGERATOR CALLS OUT FIRE DEPT. It was a 3-3 fire signal and it was 3:03 a. m. when Driver George O'Brien brought the truck back to LAN WEDDING IN MID-AUGUST | Vs . Wi S BETWEEN TAKES OF NEW FILM, Jimmy Stewart and his fiancee, New York Socialite Gloria McLean, make plans for wedding next month at Brentwood Presbyterian Church near Hollywood. Only relatives and intimate friends are being invited. (International) "~ SHOWS OFF 3 RA RE CYGNETS i RARELY BORN IN CAPTIVITY, three little cygnets, Wynken, Biinken and Nod, are proudly displayed by mother, a great black (Internationatl, PRESIDENT MEETS A FRIEND TALKING ON RUSSIAN PROBLEM, Admiral Alan Kirk emphasizes point during conference in White House with President Tru_man, who appointed him ambassador to Soviet Union. (International) GERMANY'S FUTURE AGREE ON AGRE e Y L WEDNESDAY, AUGUST '3, 1949 MEXICAN POLICE IN BATTLE WITH | ' PRISONBREAKERS MORELIA, Mexico, Aug. 3—®—| Most, of the 72 prisoners battling police in a mass jail break sur- rendered early today after an all- | night siege. At least two persons were killed. The bodies of a prison guard and | a prisoner were recovered. Earlier reports that six prisoners were | killed could not be verified. The escaped prisoners, armed with rifles, sidearms and other weapons from the jail, were sur- rounded on a small hill outside | the city. Police dug in around ithe hill for an all-night battle. | The prisoners broke jail shortly | before nightfall. They made a con- }Icentrated rush on guards and over- | whelmed them. They ransacked the weapons before fleeing, and were | believed to have at least eight rifles and quantities of ammuni- | tion. Six of the prisoners were | listed as “dangerous convicts.” Police, reinforced by troops from | the local garrison, overtook the band of jail breakers at the city’s outskirts and forced them to take up a defense position on the hill AGA KAHM, WIFE ~ ROBBED OF GEMS | CANNES, France, jail for NECKTIE GOW — Marilyn Ware models an eve= ming gown with 26 men’s necks ties, Oak Park, HL ~ 1 \ { Aug. 3— B — | The Aga Khan's wife said today | that four bandits robbed her and | her husband of jewels and money worth $450,000. The theft occurred at noon as {the Aga Khan and the Begum | with a maid and a chauffeur, left their Riviera Villa here enroute to for u Better BUY | Deauville to visit their son, the “ | Aly, and daughter-in-law, Rita - i Better TR The Begum said four shabbily | dressed men, speaking with Spanish or TItalian accent and carrying tcmmy guns, got away with one 25 ‘zcarat diamond worth 25,000,000 | francs. | The Begum said that she and her | hustand were offering 5,000,000 | francs to anyone who would iden- tify the bandits. | She said the bandits didn't take some less costly jewelry she was ‘wcaring, SEATTLE VISITORS ARRIVE VIA HAINES FERRY, HIWAY | Arriving aboard the M. V. Chil- | koot from Haines last night were | Mrs. Warren Houston and daugh- ' ter Sheila, and Mrs. Houston’s par- jents, Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Greiner | of Seattle. They made the trip tc Haines over the Alaska Highway from Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Greiner plan to spend a few weeks here visiting with the Houston's and their other daughter, Miss Betty Haggerty. Shirts finished at your request for a few cents exira ALASKA LAUNDRY Phone 15 FROM BELLINGHAM Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Grimes of Bellingham, Wash., are guests at the Gastineau Hotel. tion of the Hospital Committee, was approved. President of the Board of Directors, Jack Calvin, explained the Board's reasons for several weeks at Mt. Edgecumbe |for years. School in a research clinic with | several other specialists in eye, ear, | the Fire Hall. Today’s early morning alarm took volunteer firemen to the Windsor ANOTHER CLIPPER EXTRA— 4-anging ls bk hia! The big 4-engine Clippers are extra dependable...provide extra power speed *#=> comfort And you 3njoy world-famous ‘meals aboard the Clippers FLOWN ALASKy Dr. Phillip Moore left by plane nose and throat diseases. Dr. Thy- |Friday on an emergency call to| Apartments, where smoke from an such a recommendation which Was geson is a noted authority on an|Ketchikan where a fisherman was|overheated motor was billowing contrary to the shareholders gen- crscure eye disease found mnong‘seriously burned in a boat explo-|around an electric refrigerator. erous and spontaneous impulse to donate the building. First, that the cost of a hospital should be borne by the entire community as pro- vided by the city sales tax ordi-! nance. Second, that even though a majority of the stockholders wished Alaska natives. The Thygesons next summer to work and studies. | sion. There was no damage. plan to return! continue their| Mrs. Al Lobo, public health nurse, | will leave next week on an indefi- |nite leave of absence. She will join Mr. and Mrs. Fred Blanchard and her husband on Chichagof Island daughter Barbara have arrived by where he is stream watchman for i AGREEING ON BASIC ISSUES, Western Powers’ “Big Three” announce plans for future control, economic development of Ger- many. From left: Dean Acheson, U. 8. Secretary of State; Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Minister, and Robert Shuman, French For- eign Minister, who explains point with gestures. (International) MRS. JENNE RETU FROM TRIP OUTSIDE Mrs. Crystal Jenne, Juneau post- master, returned by PAA Monday R to give away the bullding, morally piane from New York City for o|the Fish and Wildlife Service. after a short stay outside. She had| ——— DB+ s T they had not the right to give aWay eeks visit at the home of Mr. and| A new public health nurse is ex-gone to Vvisit her 83-ycar-old the share of one dissenting stock- Mys Jack Conway. Mr. Blanchard pected to take over Mrs. Lobo's| mother-in-law, Mrs. T. H. White, holder. Instead, it will be left up to the individual to turn his hospital bond in to the Hospital -Committee if he wishes to make an individual donation. It was generally agreed who was raised in Skagway is now | duties very shortly. a member of the faculty of New; York University. 1 of Coupeville, Wash., on Whidbey Island. Returing to Seattle, Mrs. Jenne learned the University Business and Professional Women'’s Club had ar- IT’S IMPORTED. IT’S CANADIAN whishy at its best. I'T’S MacNAUGHTON’S Mrs. Robert Wheeler and daugh- ter, Jan, returned by Totem Air- lines Friday from a five weeks visit Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peterson that such action would take place. jand Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hager will|witih her parents on Hood Canal |ranged a dinner in her honor, at |be hosts this evening at a fare- the Hotel Edmond Mear Mrs. A letter received this week from'ywell cocktail party for Mr. and| New officers elected by the Teen-|Jenne is Dpast president of the Jack Comery, stationed in Tokyo, Mrs. Vincent Thomas. Thomas, an said: “went to the show couple 0! employee at the Coast and Geodetic|Arno Didrickson, President; Bary nights ago and imagine my sur- Survey Observatory, has been!van Sandt, Vice-President; Wilma prise and delight when who should transferred to Fairbanks and will|Sandburg, Secretary and Jack Reed, come charging across the screen!soon leave with his wife and two |Treasurer. but the Sitka Volunteer Fire Df'lyoung sons. partment!” Age Club Friday evening were: |Juneau club. AT BARANOF V. V. White of Petersburg is at the Baranof. SEVEnTER YEARS WEVE For speedy Clipper seifvice, call .aa BARANOF HOTEL — PHONE 106 FROM KECHIKAN NO GAME TONIGHT | Jack Comery, former SHS stu-| The Rev. Anastasius Ossorgen Lt. Comdr. Larsen of Ketchi- Wenr 74 dent, who was employed here at will be honored Monday evening| Tonight's baseball game has been|kan registered yesterday at the A” M [mfl 7 ! \ the Columbia Lumter Mill for sev-'with a farewell reception at the,called off due to poor conditions on | Gastineau. . eral years, is with the army of Episcopal Manse. The event is being|the diamond, the Gastineau Chan- S — ier a rare imported whisky, bottled under the supervision of the Canadian Gavt, for John MacNaughton Company, Ltd,, Montreal, P. Q., Canada A modern coke oven, is about 35 to 40 feet long, 8 to 12 feet wide occupation, attending a radar sponsored by all the churches of school. After completing the course the community. of study he will be transferred to! The news of his transfer to New Guam. éYork was received with deep re- gret as he has endeared himsell nel Baseball League announced this afternoon. WorLp AIRwAYS] i ® Trade Mark, Pan American Airways, Inc. FROM CALIFORNIA FROM LOS ANGELES Dolly Riedel is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel, and 16 to 18 inches About 92 percent of all stee] IS plain carbon steels, with the rest being alloy steels, EX-277 Lions Club committee chmrmen'w the community with his work &% the coming year were an-not only with his own church mem- TO SEATTLE * HAWAII * ROUND-THE-WORLD * KETCHIKAN { JUNEAU * WHITEHORSE * FAIRBANKS ¢ NOME Blended Canadian Whisky, 86.8 proof. Schenley Import Corp., New York, N. 1.