The largest single grouping of
fish is bound for France. It in
cludes 160.000 boxes of frozen sil
ver salmon and will be taken to
Seattle, where connection will be
made with a French freighter, sail
ing direct to Europe. More than
five carloads are included in this I
group, which was loaded on the
Northland at Juneau Cold Storage
dock yesterday afternoon.
Two other carloads also left the
local cold storage plant yesterday.
One, a car of halibut, is destined
for New York. The other, a car
of salmon, is bound for Seattle.
The former will be taken off the
Northland at Prince Rupert for
rail transportation.
Another carload lot was taken on
at Sitka. This shipment, of hali
but, is slated for Chicago via Prince
Rupert. The Ketchikan office of
the Alaska Coast Fisheries was to
place the ninth carload on the
Northland today. This was a sal
mon shipment, and is to be sent
to New York, via Prince Rupert.
To make the shipment even
larger, E. E. Engstrom of the Se
bastian-Stuart Fish Company an
nounced today he had placed two
carload allotments of halibut on
the Northland yesterday. One is
bound for Boston, the other for
Chicago. Both will go via Prince
Rupert.
George said this afternoon that
other additional shipments this
winter would be made, including
some fish destined for England,
but that no definite sailing dates
had been scheduled.
REAR ADMIRAL
HALLIGAN DIES
BREMERTON. Wash., Dec. 11.—
Rear Admiral John Halligan, aged
58, Commandant of the Puget
Sound Navy Yard and the Thir
teenth Naval District, is dead. He
failed to recover from an opera
tion for stomach ulcers performed
December 5.
