The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 22, 1949, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT ~ 5 | (One Lefter JOHN E. PEGUES, 61, 0 VETERAN NEWSMAN, 12\0%* DIES IN HOSPITAL :"‘lm ‘Eg‘)o‘;"‘;lmpe“_‘::;r:;; ‘:gsssesls(moxraphex. will change a letter away at T: 3 y -| - Ann’s Hospital, from uremia. Helms)}:ir\:l?]m:ect:ri?.mrs, Qimderensi hldkbeen ';:x 129 h(::“::; i;l:é::m:‘“'m of Melvin C. Gundersen, 26, week ago lesday, Vi | vi sident S {ll before reaching Juneau on Lluc;cuispaigé’d e Steamship Aleutian, that day. Mr.| oo only do their names sound Pegues had been on a siX-Weekne gume they also have the same business trip to Ketchikan a"“‘birthday. Oct. 26. ‘Wrangell. | A resident of Alaska since 1912, Mr. Pegues was born in Tupelo, | Mississippi, September 28, 1888 Hl‘;y was reared on Locinvar Plantation, near Tupelo, and attended the| University of Mississippl. Mr. Pegues was a member of| an early American family. The first | Pegues came from France to South | Garolina in the 1740's. Mr. Pegues’ immediate family settled in Missis- sippi from South Carolina in 1780.‘ From Prominent Family | . The Pegues family was prominent in the development of its respec- tive settlements in the South. Its members participated in the Revo- lutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War between the States. Mr. Pegues was & veperan of World War I. When a young man, Mr. Pegues | went - from Mississippi to Texas and from there joined the Sighal Corps and trained at Fort Leaven- worth. Assigned to the Washing- ton, Alaska Military Cable System (Wameats), he came to Alaska in the summer of 1912, stationed at Circle, and in 1914 was transfer- W red to Fairbanks. In 1919 he re- Vvelopment Board would probably be celved his discharge from the army | tWice as long as the B.C. produc- and went into newspaper work on | ton. the stafi of the Fairbanks Citizen,| It has teen in production in a weekly. | Alaska this summer. Comes To Juneau | Chamber President Fred Eas. CHICAGC, Sept. 22—(M—Miss CHAMBER VIEWS PIC OF CANADA'S HIGHWAY SIXTEEN Juneau's Chamber of Commerce today watched a color movie which compares with the picture now ke- ing produced by the Alaska De- velopment Board. ‘The’ movie, produced Ly the British Columbia Department of Trade and Industry, was entitled Highway Sixteen; and by means of it Chamber of Commerce members were given a tour through British Columbia from Prince George to Prince Rupert. The picture was presented by Alaska Development Board's Ralph Browne, who said requests from other groups for presentation of the movie would be welcomed. He also stated that the movie now In 1921, Mr. Pegues came to Ju. |t8ugh today stated that the Ju-1 neau to join the staff of The Daily Neau Chamber of Commerce stands Alaska Empire, He was with The ‘Teady to do whatever it can to aid Empire first as a reporter, than as |in re-establshment of a lumber managing editor until he was ap- | industry on site of the Juneay pointed Director of the first Fed.) Spruce Company's mill, destroved !, yperty bonds to Fall in exchange |dents in recent weeks. era] Housing Authority in Alaska by fire a few weeks ago. in 1933. A lettér from Assistant Postmas- In 1939, he was made Executive |ter B. C. Burke in Washington, Secretary of the Alaska Planning DC. was read, in which piek-Ub|yast wealth. In 1932, while in exile, a guest at the Baranof. Council and served that through its duration to 1841. Mr. Pegues was on the staff of | Chamber President Eastaugh Jessen’s Weekly in Fairbanks from Stated that it ‘was through the 1943 to 1947. He returned to Ju- |efforts of the group that this step neau in the spring of 1948 and had Was brought about. been an editorial writer on The{ Dr. I J. Montgomery, head of Alaska Sunday Press. the Alaska Merit System, was we]- Mr. Pegues was acknowledged a|comed &s a new member of the foremost authority on the economic | Chamber and political history of Alaska. He | Among the guests present at the was an outstanding editorial writ- meeting in the Gold Room of the er. Baranof Hotel today were “One For years, Mr. Pegues was a|Shot George” O'Neill, retired rail- leading member of the Democratic r0ad man from Detroit, Mich, Party in Alaska. fand Dr. J. W. Smith of Reno, Active in baseball and football | Nevada. in his younger years, he was an ardent sports fan. Mr. Pegues was of the Episcopal Church faith. He was a member of the Ameri- | can Legion Dorman H, Baker Post No. 11 in Fairbanks, and was a former memker of the Juneau Vol- unteer Fire Department, retired. Mr. Pegues is survived by his! widow and sons Donald, Terry,; Rodger, Geoffrey, Robert, Richard and Willlam of Juneau, and two sons by a former marriage—John | Edouard, Jr., of the editorial staff of the San Francisco Chronicle, and James, graduate forester with' the airplane industry of Southeri California, and little granddaughter Susan, one and one-half vear old daughter of John, Jr. Profits for First 8 Months 1949 Given by NWA' SEATTLE, Sept. 22.—(P—North-! west Airlines has reported a pro-| fit of $1,668,326 during the first eight months of this year—compar- ing favorably with last year's loss by the company of $1961844 over the same period. Croil Hunter, president and gen- eral manager, said that the profit | reflected the favorable reception of the Boeing Stratocruiser service, in- itiated last month, as well as the company’s sales' and control pro- gram. The line recorded a net profit of $563,826 during the month of Aug- ust. offjce boxes for Juneau mail were prom- sed. | i 28th Stratocruiser Complefed, Boeings SEATTLE, Sept. 22— (®—The 28th Boeing Stratocruiser—21-ton, 60 to 80 passenger plane—was com- pleted yesterday, the company an- nounced. It marked the halfway point in the contracts for 56 planes. DIVORCE GRANTED Lucille M. Converse was granted a divorce from George Converse in U. 8. District Court here today. Try Liberal allowance given on your old fur coat. Trade it in on a; new one—made in Juneau. Martin Victor Furs, Inc. 95 ti !Leing produced by the Alaska De-!y,ngq were traced to Altert Fall COUNTRY CLUB New Hours Open 9 p.m.to'7 a.m. Every Night — Warm — Comfortahle — GROUND ROUND Hamburgers Hot Dogs — Beer — Cockiails loLD OIL SCANDAL IS REVIVED OVER RETURN, BLACKMER BOSTON, Sept. 22— (M—Henry M. Blackmer today was reported at the New England Baptist hos- pital. The 80-year old oil tycoon was taken immediately to the hospital after he flew here yesterday—end- ing 25 years of exile in Europe. Attaches at the hospital refused to give a report on his condition— but indicated it was not serious. The multi-millionaire financier— key figure in the Teapot Dome gcandal during the Harding ad- ministration—was believed under- going a physical checkup. Blackmer's attorney said plans still call for him to fly to Chicago jand then board a train for Denver, ‘ where he is due to face sx charges of income tax evasion next week. His sudden return to this country kindled the memories of the Hard- ing administration’s Teapot Dome fscandal. Two of Blackmer's oil i associates, Edward L. Doheny and! Harry Sinclair, were involved. | Blackmer sl'pped away to Europe in 1924 rather than testify at a Congressional inquiry into the Con- )tinental Trading Company. He was a director. It was disclosed in & | Cheyenne, Wyo., court that the company made $2,000,000 through a| paper transaction by purchasing otl‘ from one company and selling it| to another. The profits were “MI to purchase Liberty bonds. Gov- erment detectives said some of the | Becretary of the Interior in the; Harding administration. Fall was convicted of accepting| a bribe of $100,000 from Doheny in Ithe leasing of the Elk Hills Naval 1 oft reserve, part of the Teapot Dome f'eld. He was sentenced Nov. 1, 1929, to a year in prison and fined 100,000. Sinclair, who had been accused THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEA ALASKA' SAM WOOD;" - MOVIEMAN, PASSES ON HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 22—#— Sam Wodd, 66, one of the movie's best-known directors, died today of a heart attack. His death was the third among movie notables in less than a week. Comedian Frank Morgan and Ac- tor Richard Dix were the others. Wood directed Morgan recently in “The Stratton Story.” Wood's studio revealed that he lived less than two hours after an early-morning heart attack. Wood, a native of Philadelphia, spanned the era from silent pic- tures into sound. In the old days, he megaphoned such notables as years, probably his achievement was directing Whom the Bell Tolls.” “For 1 Last month Wood and his wife, | Clara, celebrated their 41st wed- ding anniversary. He is also sur- vived by. two daughters. H Unionists Clash With Non-Strikers| BUFFALO, N. Y, Sept. 22—(®—! Unionists and non-strikers clash-| ed at the strike-bound Bell Air- craft Corp. plant today. At least! one person was hurt seriously. It was the first outbreak of vio- lence since the company arnd the CIO United Auto Workers resum- ed negotiations Monday. The strike of the plant’s 1,700 production | workers began last June 138 and has) of passing along more than $200.000’ for a lease on government, oil fields, | was exonerated. 1 Blackmer’s tax troubles mirror his | Departm¢ he paid the Treasury ent egedly $3,700,784 in income taxes all unreported. NORTHWEST AIRLINES ENLARGES AIRPORT, SEATTLE - TACOMA SEATTLE, Sept. 22—(®—Work is| expected to start within 10 days to| enlarge the Northwest Airlines’ fa- | cilities at the Seattle-Tacoma In-| ! ternational Airport, officials said| today. First step in the $500,000 project will be addition of 72,000 square lfeet of concrete apron, complete with servicing facilities. H Later expansion includes plans for enlarging hangar space to ac- | commodate additional Stratpcruis- | |ers needed in contemplated Hono- lulu and Orient flights. Each Strato- cruiser occupies almost an acre of space. MINNESOTA VISITORS | R. W. Martin, M. L. Boote, J.| J. Boote and Jack Boote of Wor- thington, Minn., are guests at the Baranof Hotel. Our DROP IN ANYTIME CHILKOOT MOTORSHIP LINES M/V CHILKOOT JUNEAU/HAINES Lv. Tee Harbor ..Tuesday 9 am. 1949 Schedule of Sailings Serving— JUNEAU HAINES SKAGWAX and the ALASKA HIGHWAY Connects with all Canadian Pacific Sailings at Skagway Lv. Haines .....Monday 9 am. Friday 7 am. Lv. Haines ...Sunday am. Wednesday &.m. CHILKOOT, HAINES, ALASKA Steve Larsson Homer CARO TRANSFER COMPANY Agent Juneau, Alasks Manager Bt e e s S i SKAGWAY/HAINES Lv. Skagway ... (Time of departure is dependent on time of tide) Saturday 9 am. ..Sunday pm. ‘Wednesday p.m. ALASKA TRANSFER CO. Agent Skagway, Alaska been marked by several such inci- | FROM HOOD BAY A. E. Owens of Hood Bay is |duping the nine-hour NE'SHO " O'HEIu O'Neill said. by way of the Haines cut-off and the Alaska Highway and will fly LEAVES AFTER NINTH | TRIP T0 TERRITORV),N.,, Fuisbanks to Swadle iShot George” O'Neill, amer's, will be for fun. one-man unpaid publicity staff for| “I'll show my movies at sporting Alaska, is on his way outside after {shows if I'm asked,” he pointed a good summer of fishing andout. “But I don't solicit engage- photography ments. After all, I'm retired and i fun.” O'Neill, who describes Hizakalr aslds T BTl T NICKEL SAYS FAST BB TEAM FOR THIS YEAR [} 46 years with locomotives, he is |hav1ng some fun—‘reaping re- wards,” he calls it. He has just finished his ninth trip to the Territory; and his sum-{ ' wpnhe basketball squad may have mer on Situk River in the Yakutat|,, neight when six of our men region has already made a namefoy.quated last spring but that loss for itself through an article in Field | i1 pe made up through speed,” and Stream Magazine in whichicoach Dade Nickel sald today. O'Neill described the salmon fish-; ‘mpe six players lost were Bill Ing. jGraves, Gus Adams, Harold Sun- He will spend the winter months | derland, Bill Mickle, Milt Schultz !shnwing films of sports in Alaska.|and Jerry Magorty. | One scries of shots was taken by| Workouts start Novem'er 1 for 3 cannery director and a FWS man, | the Crimson Bears with the City the 1 - sy B . ;who went down the Situk River in|t1eague 'schedule to be drawn up an and Gl [ oria Swanson. In recenti, ., or poat and s'ghted 18 bears' the later most - notable | part of November. High CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere appreciation and heartfelt thanks to EVERYONE who extended their sympathy to us in the recent loss of our dearly. beloved wife and mother. Mr. Eli Ray Mr. and Mrs. Harry Olson and family "Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ray and family journey, | school teams to play here t! O'Neill will travel to Fairbanks THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1949 | ear | SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. B y Wil be Skagway in mid-January|The British _freighter Lochgarth jand Sitka sometime in February. 20 the Charles 8. Jones, a Rich- R - e nker, co early today off ates as yet have not been set.|yne porthern California coast, but This year the champ of the north- | nejther was damaged. ern division of Southeast Alaskn‘ The Coast Guard said the Jones high schools travels to the southern | reported by radio that it had been division for the chiampionship play- ! struck in the stern. The scene was off. Teams in the northern division 1 near Mendocino. are Juneau, Douglas, Skagway, and | ‘The Jones was enroute to Los Sitka. Southern division teams are | Angeles while the Lochgarth left Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchi- | San Francisco last night bound for @ z kan. Vancouver. MAKES BEAUTIFUL GIFTS X Whatever the occasion, these intriguing costume pieces make welcome gifts. Whether your choice is o dainty cameo pin, exquisite. earrings or other quality jewelry from our stunning array, it'll go straight to her heart. — GIFTS FOR EVERYBODY Visitors Welcome The NUGGET SHOP Come in and browse around 51759 in Cash Prizes! Boys-—===Girls----G evergone can rown-=ups enter! 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