PIONEERS HOLD ANNUAL
INSTALLATION
Last Saturday evening the Pio
neers of Alaska and the Auxiliary
of the Pioneer Women held their
annual installation ceremon i e s
with the following officers taking
over for the year of 1950: presi
dents. Charles O’Leary and Mary
Margaret Roell; vice presidents.
Robert Baldwin and Vallee Scott.
Mr. Kelly as second vice president
for the men; secretaries, Dan
Jones and Ann Walsh; treasurers
Antonio Polet and Helen Olson;
historians Charles D. Jones and
Carrie McLain; chaplains Lyda
Rohn and Pete Olson; marshals
Lillie Lewis and L. Mattalla; door
keeper and inside guard, W. Kroll
and Christie Waldheim.
Installing officers were M. J. I
Walsh and Karen Baldwin, Marie'
Hay and Rube Cremer.
Following the ceremony Mrs.
M. J. Walsh in her usual gracious
manner presented the outgoing
piesident Mrs. Charles Penny
ccok with the beautiful emblem of
office, made in a wreath of forget
menots and the outgoing secretary
Helen Bookman with an appropri
ate gift for her good services. M.
•T. Walsh most eloquently praised
th3 services of Robert Baldwin as
secretary ior several years and
presented him with a diamond
studded nugget tie clasp. He also
presented an appropriate gift to
Gus Bjornstad as a token of ap
pieciation from the Igloo for his
untiring efforts in improving the
appearance of the clubhouse and
always being on hand to take care
of the many things that must be
done to keep the building in order.
A party followed the meeting
under the chairmanship of Gus
Steinwandel with prizes awarded
to the following Mr. and Mrs.
Tolbert Scott, Mrs. Maurice Kelli
her, Mrs. Ben Mozee, Fred Rohn,
and Ole Hay.
Submarine ridges ring the
northern and western Pacific,
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thair crests forming such islands
as the Aleutians, the Kuriles,
Japan and the Ryukus.
A. C. S. Open For
Alaska Enlistments
FORT RICHARDSON, Alaska—
For the first time since World War
II qualified men living in Alaska
may be enlisted by the Command
ing Officer of the Alaska Com
munication System for direct as
signment Lo the famed ACS, ac
cording to a Department of the
Army announcement just received
here.
All applicants must be qualified
for enlistment into the regular
army under current army provi
sions and enlistment must be ac
complished in the Territory of
Alaska.
Applicants will enlist into the
regular -army, unassigned, for
three, four, five, or six years. Con
tinued assignment with the ACS,
however, will depend upon satis
factory performance of duty, and
no guarantee is made that the en
tire period of enlistment will be
served with the ACS.
Interested personnel will first
be interviewed by Alaska Com
munication System personnel be
fore enlisting at one of the recruit
ing main stations at Fort Richard
son, or Ladd and Davis Air Force
Bases.
The ACS has long furnished the
major communications between
Ala ska communities and the
United States. On the occasion of
the 49th anniversary of the Alas
ka Communications System, Dele
gate W. L. Bartlett of Alaska
could tell Congress:
“We in Alaska are proud of the
Alaska Communication System
and its accomplishments. As a
training ground for the Signal
Corps and as the communications
agency for all of the Territory, the
ACS has discharged its responsi
bilities in a manner which reflects
credit upon the entire army.”
Early settlers at Cape Town.
South Africa, weer French Hugue
nots fleeing religious persecution
in 1688.
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
FAIRBANKS, ANCHORAGE or SEWARD
Nationalists Fire
On American Boat,
“Flying Arrow”
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ship’s owners, the Isbrandtsen!
Line of New York, to ask the U. j
S. state department to intercede
for safe passage to the nearest
port for repairs. Shanghai is the
nearest port.
(In New York. H. J. Isbrandtsen
president of the line, called for
protection of the Flying Arrow by
U. S. naval units. He said the
shelling of the ship was “entirely
unlawful according to internation
al law.”
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(“According to standing naval1
regulations,” Isbrandtsen said,
“the U. S. navy should protect
American vessels on ...the high
seas and I hope it will be done in
this case.”
Most of the shelling took place j
on the high seas outside Chinese
territorial waters.
Two Chinese Nationalist de
stroyer escorts tailed the vessel '
from the time she passed through
Formosa Strait on her northward
trip from Hong Kong, They fired
at least 38 shells at the vessel be
fore they scored a hit. But once
their gunners got the range they
poured shots into her. Captain
Jones said the ship's steering
room was hit by 11 shells. After
deck houses and one water tank
were riddled by other shells.
(In Washington, the U. S. state
department declined comment iirl
mediatelv. Previously the state de
partment had repeatedly warned
American ship captains to stay .out j
of Chinese territorial waters).
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TAIPEI, Formosa, (/P)—A Chi
nese Nationalist navy spokesman j
said today a gunboat fired on the
American freighter Flying Arrow
to keep her from entering a mine
field and being blown to bits.
The spokesman said the nation
alist gunboat Wuling fired for ef
fect only after repeated warning
shots and signals ailed to bring the
American merchantman to a halt
off the mouth of the Yangtze river.
The Nationalist spokesman said
the gunboat’s fire was intended
onvl to disable the freighter.
He said the Flying Arrow would
have struck a mine inevitably and
foundered with possible great
loss of life if she had not stopped. (
“The Wuling opened fire to save
the Flying Arrow from complete
destruction,” he declared.
Nationalist quarters here said the
incident proved that repeated
warnings against ships trying to
enter Chinese communist ports
was not bluff.
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week to see you; may I have an
appointment?”
Big Businessman: “Make a date
with my secretary.”
Salesman: “I did and we had a
grand time, but I still want to see
you.”
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Many Patients Die
In Hospital Fire
DAVENPORT, la. (iP)—Scream
ing mental patients and calm at
tendants were trapped in a hospi
tal fire early Saturday and 31 of
them—all women—were feared to
have perished.
The way to safety for many of
the patients was blocked by barred
windows.
Coroner H. C. Wildman said
bodies of 21 women had been re
moved and 10 other women were
believed dead in the smouldering
debris.
Wildman said 37 others were in
jured, this accounts for the 68
persons he said were in the build
ing. All but three of the 68 were
women.
Except for a nurse’s aide, all
the dead and missing were pa- |
tients.
They were asleep in the three- j
story St. Elizabeth’s ward building
of Mercy Hospital when the I
flames broke out at 2 ajn.
The fire was brough under con
trol in a four-hour battle.
The flames spread rapidly1
through the 60-year-old brick
structure, one of four buildings
comprising this eastern hwa city’s
largest hospital.
Screams of the trapped women
spread the alarm.
Hours after the fire was ex
tinguished firemen worked at car
rying out melted iron beds, still
flaming mattresses, and other
smouldering debris.
Saarela Is To .Head
Mines Department
As Stewart Retires
Leo H. Saarela of Anchorage
appointed Commissioner of the
Territorial Department of Mines
recently, succeeding R. D. Stewart
wil retired January 1.
The appointment was made by
Governor Ernest Gruening who
informed his administrative assist
ant Burke Riley, of the fact by ra
dio-telephone from Anchorage.
Saarela is known to the people
of Juneau as the man who taught
University of Alaska extension
classes in mining for several years.
He now heads the University of
Alaska department of mining ex
tension and is conducting classes
at Anchorage.
Saarela, 35, was born in An
chorage—the first white child to
be born there after the town was
formed, according to Stewart.
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