U. S. CANNED
SALMON IS
UP IN PRICE
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prices are up almost 50 percent over
last year.
The agency gave these figures on
the progress of this year's pack:
The Columbia River pack in mid
September was slightly below the
1949 production of 175,809 cases.
The pack in the Puget Sound area
was 118,361 by Sept. 9, about one
fourth of the last year's total for a
comparable period.
“The decline in Puget Sound was
due to the normal reduced run of
pink salmon in even numbered
years, and to a disappointing failure
of the sockeye salmon run,” the
service said.
"The pack of Puget Sound sock
eye by mid-Septeviber was less than
half the production in the previous
cycle year, 1946."
The Alaskan pack of September
16 was 3,193,489 cases, compared with
4.217.703 on the same date last year.
The latter figure was 96 percent of
the* total Alaska pack in 1949.
The Alaska pack this year by re
gions and the comparable figure for
last year: Southeast Alaska, 1,151,765
cases. 2,361.199 last year; Central
Alaska. 1.419,076. compared with
1,267,953; Western Alaska 622,698,
compared with 588,550.
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NFFE MEETS TOMORROW
NIGHT IN GOLD ROOM!
_ I
At the meeting tomorrow night of j
the National Federation of Federal I
Employees, Dr. Henry Harris will |
report on his study to include the [
local federal employees in a group i
health and hospital insurance pro- j
gram. The meeting will be held in;
the Gold Room of the Baranof at 8 j
o’clock.
The local evening meetings are a |
new innovation being tried this fall. I
At this first meeting, plans will be
made for the fall banquet in Octo- ,
ber. ,
FROM PETERSBURG
Mrs. Mary L. Argali and children
from Petersburg are registered at
the Gastineau Hotel.
SITKA VISITOR
Wallace Krake of Sitka is staying
at the Baranof Hotel.
CHINESE FOOD
Tamales and Chile con came.
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all night. 616-4t
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ALASKA IN FROM
WEST; LEAVES FOR
SOUTH, 43 ABOARD
The Alaska docked southbound
last night at 9 o'clock and sailed for
Seattle at 1:30 o’clock this morning.
There were five passengers disem
barking and 43 passengers embark
ing for Seattle and wayports.
’ Disembarking from Seward, pas
sengers were: Harold Fowler, Mrs.
Signa Fowler; from Valdez: Ernest
Anderson; from Cordova: Marjorie
Anderson, C. A. Mattie.
Embarking for Seattle, passen
gers were: Mrs. William Odell and
two children; Mr. and Mrs. John
Lowell, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Lenor
strom, Mrs. Frank Penida, Doris
Penida, F. H. Walker, William A.
Richardson, Mrs. Albert Orsen,
George Herrick, Mr. and Mrs. Gor
don Bristol and two children.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Johnson,
William T. Johnson, Rev. and Mrs.
E. K. Mooers and three children;
Mr. H. Briles, Arthur E. Messett,
Agnes Milton.
For Petersburg: Mrs. J. J. Braun.
For Wrangelli A. D. West, Mrs.
Doris Barnes, Mrs. J. E. Elliott. j
For Ketchikan: Mrs. Albert
Thompson, Lois P. Quilico, Tony N. J
Yochim, Peter Bunpiani. M. W.
Krasilorsky. J. W. Leivers, Mildred
K. Maynard, L. Marie Jeuseir, R. j
McMullen, Stanley Baskin, Judge j
George Folta.
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JILTED BY GIRL,
SLASHES WRIST,
IN TAKING LIFE
WOODSTOCK, N. Y. Sept. 26—1.11
—Eugene O'Neill, Jr., 40-year-old t
son of the famous playwright, kill
ed himself yesterday in a fit of des
pondency after a broken engage
ment.
A classical student and a teacher
or drama, literature and ancient
Greek, he chose a form of suicide
traditional with the Roman stoics.
He sat in his bath and opened
the veins of his wrist with a razor.
Ulster County Coroner Ernest O.
Kelly listed the death as suicide.
Before O'Neill died, the Coroner
said he staggered downstairs. His
boy was found on the lower floor
by a neighbor who came to call.
I State Police, who searched the
house later, said they found an
1 unsigned note reading:
1 “Never let it be said that O’Neill
I failed to empty a bottle. Hail and
, Farewell.”
j Friends said O'Neill had been in
I deep depression since Ruth Lander,
j an artists' agent had broken off
1 her engagement with him last
I Saturday.
THREE U. S.
Gl ROW'S
ARE FREED
By BEM PRICE
WITH THE U.S. 24TH DIVISION,
Korea, Sept. 26—1The first three
American prisoners to be freed in
the Korean war were rescued today
by the U.S. 24th Division in its drive
through Yongdong toward Taejon.
They are Sgt. 1-C Frank Freede,
of Monett. Mo., and Long Beach,
Calif.; Sgt. 1-C Blaine E. Mackrall,
of Colome, S.D., and Tacoma, Wash.,
and Pfc James E. Martin, San An
dreas, Calif.
All were wounded. Freede and
Macrall are from the U.S. Second
Division’s 23rd Regiment and Mar
tin from the First Cavalry Division's
Eighth Regiment.
The prisoners knew that rescue
was at hand when they heard a
soldier tell a North Korean, “We
are taking this Joint over.”
“When he said that we knew he
was a GI,” Martin said that when
“those GI’s walked into that jail I
cried."
“I dropped a couple of tears my
self," Freede said. “I thought I was
too old to cry, but I found out dif
ferent."
They had been held by the North
Koreans 25 days.
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YUKON CAPITAL
MAY BE MOVED;
DAWSON HOWLS
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formed on the spot to oppose any
such transfer.
From a roaring boom town of 25,
000 at the turn of the century
■ when it was the centre of the Klon
S dike gold rush, Dawson today is
j a village of a little more than 1,000.
It still hopes for another rush
and gold mining companies in the
i distreit still dredge between $2,
| 000,000 and $3,000,000 Worth of gold
; each year.
But today the batwing doors
of the haunts of Sam McGee and
Dan McGrew swing idly back and
forth on rusty hinges, patiently
waiting for prospectors who never
come.
ENGINEERS LEARN
HAINES HIGHWAY
IS NOW PASSABLE
—
On a personal inspection yester
day. two Alaska Road Commission
engineers learned that damage to
the Haines Highway by recent
severe storms was considerably less
than previously reported. Also, re
pairs have progressed better than
expected.
Making the inspection as far as J
Mile 45 were George M. Tapley,
chief of the engineering division,
and Thoralf I. Rivenes, materials
engineer.
Tapley said today, “From Haines
to Mile 30, no damage was observed.
Above that point, there were several
breaks in the new fills and one
washout of a bridge approach—at
the bridge over Little Boulder Creek.
This has been restored.
“The broken fills have been
clearly marked, and traffic routed
through a single lane for short
stretches as necessary.
"The route was open for all classes
of traffic as far as Mile 45. There,
the sand slide area was being re
stored by the Canadian road crew.”
Word this morning from Forrest
H. McGowan, ARC superintendent
there, was that the Canadian section
is now open, and that two Road
Commission trucks c^me through
late yesterday without serious de
lay.
Tapley, said the Haines road prob
ably will be passable all winter with
out needing major repairs.
Work will start immediately to
cover ground cracks in the new fills
with a seal-coat of crushed gravel
and possibly "a shot” of MC-2
asphalt. This, Tapley said, should
j keep the water out until fills can
! be restored next year.
FALSE FIRE ALARM
Some kid pulled fire box 5-1,
Seatter Tract, at 3:30 o’clock this
afternoon giving the Fire Depart
ment an unnecessary run.
A newspaper in Sweden says
thousands of Russians are working
overtime on a chain of fortifica
tions in the Baltic. These fortified
islands are said to extend all the
way from Finland to the north
German coast.
DOUGLAS
QUITS AS |
EMISSARY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — (A —
Lewis W. Douglas resigned today as
Ambassador to England.
The White House announced the
resignation a few minutes after
Douglas called on President Tru
man.
An exchange of letters between
Douglas and the President was made
public.
Douglas resigned on the ground
of “personal considerations, includ
ing those of health.”
He resigned as of “on or about
November 1.”
Mr. Truman said he accepted the
resignation with "most genuine re
gret.”
Douglas has been Ambassador for
three and a half years.
Douglas, 56, has had some diffi
culties with his health, especially
since the time more than a year
ago, when he caught a fish hook in
his eye and had to undergo long
and painful treatment.
4-H COUNCIL REPORTS
ON SUCCESS OF FAN)
At a meeting last evening of the
4-H Club Council at the home ol
Mrs. Arthur Walker, members re
ported on the success of the recent
fair. Mrs. Lydia Fohn Hanson, home
demonstration leader, said today.
It was estimated that the profit
on the event was about $400. The
council expressed appreciation to
the American Legion Post No. 4
which sponsored the fair and the
committee of Harold Zenger and Dr.
George Caldwell; to Col. A. J,
Alexander for the use of the Arm
ory; to Bob Druxman for radio ad
vertising; to The Empire for cover
age; and to the City of Juneau.
Others to whom appreciation was
expressed included Dr. I. J. Mont
gomery, Warrant Officer Harry
Lucas, Jerry Kelly, North Transfer
Juneau Florists, Juneau Hardware.
Ernest Parsons, Frank Maier, Curiiti
Sherwood. Mr. and Mrs. Walker,
Mr. Babcock and to the three live
stock judges, Lee Smith, Milo Mc
Crigot and Joe Kendler.
In attendance at the meeting
were Mrs. Mathilda Kendler, Mr*.
Barbara Park, Mrs. Iva Hermail:
son, Mrs. Chet Ellis, Mrs. W. B.
Avery. Mrs. Bill Matheny, Harold i
Zenger, Mrs. Carmen McNeil, Mrs. |
Abe Friesen and Mrs!. Rex Her
mann.
Mrs. Fohn-Hanson extended con
gratulations to the club leaders and
cleared up some questions on club
projects, national contests open to
club members and other subjects.
She also announced that she ex
pected to fill the vacancy caused
by Mrs. Walker’s resignation as club
leader by the first of November. Mrs.
Walker is now teaching in the home
economics department of the Ju
neau schools.
FROM CALIFORNIA
A. G. Cola of Hayward, Calif., is
stopping at the Baranof Hotel.
SPORTSMEN, FWS
PLANT GRAYLING
AT YOUNG'S LAKE
Because eager beaver fishermen
have been observed fishing in Auk
Lake at the mouth of Lake Creek
where Canadian-imported grayling
have been released for propagation,
W. A. (Bud) Elkins, wildlife man
agement supervisor, today wired the
Alaska Game Commissioners re
questing that a small strategic area
there be closed to fishing.
Yesterday morning Elkins, accom
panied by Jack O’Connor, President
of the Territorial Sportsmen, Inc.,
in a Fish and Wildlife Service plane
piloted by Bob Meek, flew a load of
grayling which they planted in
Young's Lake south of Juneau on
Admiralty Island. Fifty-five mature
and 20 fingerling grayling were re
leased there.
In the afternoon when O’Connor
and Lewis McDonald of the Alaska
Department of Fisheries, went to
Auk Lake to release the last of the
grayling which had been held in an
impounding box for observation,
they found two fishermen (mem
bers of the Territorial Sportsmen,
too!) fishing at the mouth of Lake
Creek. Grayling were jumping di
rectly in front of them so O’Con
nor went to them and asked them
to release, with least possible dam
age. any grayling that they might
catch. The two fishermen agreed to
do so but did not stop fishing.
It was then that O’Connor asked
Elkins to see what could be done
about closing an area about 200
yards in an arc from the mouth of
the creek in order to give the trans
planted fich a chance.
All indications are that the gray
ling are adapting themselves to the
water there. Only $500 of the $2500
appropriated by the Territorial
| Sportsmen has been used. The pro
ject of transplanting more lakes in
this area will be resumed in the
spring, O’Connor stated.
Alberta Forest Fires
Eased by Light Rain
EDMONTON, Alta., Sept. 26—
—Cooler temperatures, accompanied
in some places by persistent light
rain, eased the forest fire haazrd in
northern Alberta today and buoyed
the hopes of more than 700 fire
fighters.
The light rain was widespread in
the northwest comer of Alberta
where big blazes have been taking
their toll in timber. An estimated
100 fires have been raging.
“The moisture will stop the run
ning fires and give the fire fighters i
a chance to concentrate on ground i
blazes,” said J. L. Janssen, the'
province’s chief timber inspector, j
“But we need lots more rain.”
There’s more trouble with the
Communists in French Indo-China.
The French army has given up
another outpost—the second this
month—to Red guerrilla bands at
tacking near the Chinese border.
Here’s a cold war item from
Berlin. . . the Communists have
taken over several hundred small
retail shops—in a new blow at pri
vate enterprise in the Soviet sector.
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16 MEN RESCUED
FROM WILDERNESS
AS PLANECRASHES
Smoke Signals Attract
Searchers - Supplies
Are Then Dropped
HALIFAX, N.S., Sept. 26—(AV
American officials today credited ex
cellent survival training with a
major role in the escape of 16 U.S.
military men from the Labrador
wilderness after their B-50 bomber
caught fire and crashed.
Brought to Goose Bay for medical
treatment yesterday, the men had
spent three days in the chilly waste
land before a Royal Canadian Air
Force search plane spotted their
smoke signals.
Supplies were dropped and a med
ical officer parachuted to the scene.
Later a helicopter and a Canadian
amphibious plane teamed up to re
cover them and fly them to Goose
Bay. *
The bomber was on a routine
flight from Goose Bay to Tucson,
Arlz., Thursday when two engines
caught fire and a third stalled.
The 12 cfew members and four
passengers bailed out about 95
miles southwest of Goose Bay.
One man who landed in water
broke his leg.
Scattered when they landed, some
of the men lit hugh bonfires which
attracted the others. All 16 had
banded together again by Friday
morning.
PROMENADERS TO HOLD
FIRST MEET SATURDAY
The Promenaders Square Dance
Club holds Its first meeting of the
season oh Saturday, September 30,
at 8:30 p.m. In the Parish Hall. All
members are asked to attend this
meeting or call the secretary at
Blue 403 if they do not wish to
be dropped from the club. It is
necessary that the secretary have
this information so that interested
couples now on the waiting list may
be admitted to the club for the
coming season.
FROM WALLA WALLA
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Vories of
Walla Walla, Wash., are guests at
the Baranof Hotel.
BIRTHDAY BLESSING. p.ter Te nl hatha. Iro
quota Indian (second from left), receives blessinc of the Connell
elders on his ninth birthday durlnc the annual Pow-wow of a
dozen tribes at the Shlnnecock Reservation, Southampton, K. X. ,
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