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Renovación de la Educación Secundari:
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Santiago de Chile, martes 3 de abril

LISTO BL PROYECTO
| SOBRE LOS SUELDOS,
SALARIOS Y PRECIOS |

El Ministro de Economía ~ y
Comercio puso ayer término a
la redacción definitiva del pro-
jyecto de ley sobre estabilización
de sueldos, salarios y precios.
En él, según nos expresó el pro-
pio señor Tinsly, autor del pro-
yecto, han sido consultadas to-
das las observaciones hechas por
-los demás Secretarios de. Estado
‘en los dos últimos Consejos de | Asuntos Interamericanos, depen-
Gabinete, | diente del Gobierno de los Es-
. El proyecto en cuestión consta | tados Unidos, acuerdo que, en lo
‘de 16 artículos en los cuales está esencial, va dirigido a obtener
contenido lo fundamental del sis- | la cooperación de ese organis-
tema que el Gobierno desea em- | mo para la realización del “Plan
plear para poner en marcha su | de Renovación Gradual de la] bie
Miciativa en favor de la estabili- | Educación Secundaria” elabora*| fialado y ?
zación de los sueldos, los salarios | do por nuestro Gobierno, | | puesto norr
y los precios, | | El convenio se basa en la Re- bera apt
El señor Tinsly presentará este $ 4.542.30
yroyecto de ley a la aprobación la Fundaci
‘inal del Consejo de Gabinete nacional. -
lel jueves próximo, y en segui- É Para la,

nistro,de aportes ec
técnicos y mediante
ción cooperativa de
2a de intercambio
res de ambos paíse;
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convenio consulta '
de un fondo cor
por aportes de
Chile y de la -
subvenir a los.
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arrollo del pre
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firmó un decreto
del Ministerio de Educación, por
el cual se aprueba el convenio
celebrado entre este Secretario
de Estado y la “Fundación Inter
Americana de Educación Ins”,
corporación perteneciente a- Ja
Oficina del Coordinador de

solución N.o 28, aprobada en la
Primera. Conferencia de Minis-
tros y Directores de Educación
de las Repúblicas Americanas

le urgencia, al Congreso Nacio- | tiembre y octubre de 1943. | consulta —
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educadores de cada uno de los
dos países, contribuir al estudio
y colaborar en la solución de

de realiz

dos, dar ,
e interca

1 de Ingenieros Industriales

és Br ae ga :
“En la Escuela de Ingenieros
wWustriales del Estado se efec-
© ayer'un sencillo acto con
otivo de iniciarse el período de
ases. Asistieron el director,
iuchos miembros del personal
yeente y administrativo de la
scuela y, numerosos alumnos. .
“sa ceremonia se inició izando
pabellón de Chile a los acor-

de la Canción Nacional, to-

a por una banda militar.
5 continuación el Inspector
ieral dió la bienvenida a los
VOS alumnos, a* nombre de
Dirección y profesorado, re-
éndose, en forma breve, a lo
: significaba la carrera de in-
iero industrial, esto es, la me-
-y porvenir del futuro egresa-
-+ y profesional de esta Escuela
-«z0=-resaltar, además, aquellas

talidades que deben completar.

¿A Personalidad de uñ futuro in-
eniero, tanto en su aspecto: mo:
al como en el carácter, hábitos
* Ideales, |

El alumno del 3.er año de Me:
alurgia, don Humberto Díaz, a
¡ombre de sus compañeros, re-
1bió a los que. ingresan, pro-
sunciande un discurso, en que
os exhortó al trabajo y al estu-

——____++e—____.

Y CONFERENCIAS —

1e visita E los

| Francés de Cultura, una confe-

.Tencia sobre “La resistencia del

“pueblo belga”, que dictará el se-

for Rayn yven, dirigen-

ra ening de |
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‘América Latina, en comisión de
Gobierno. i te eek SS eee ies
' La conferencia será en fran-

lés y la entrada a este acto es

Íbre, no habiéndose distripufdo

.Avitaciones personales

EN LA SOCIEDAD NACIO-
VAL DE CONTADORES.
Tañana tendrá lugar la brimera
eunién del Círculo de Estudios
'ontables y. Tributarios, corres-
-Ondiente al mes de ubril, en el

- alón de la Sociedad Nacional de

“ontadores, a las 6.30 P. M.
» En ella disertará el señor
attillermo Jofré González, cone,
idor jefe de la Dirección Ge-
€ral de Impuestos Internos, so-
“Te el tratamiento tributario de.
98 dividendos, acciones liberadas
participaciones que distribuyen
_ 18 sociedades anónimas, tant:
Fespecto de la empresa que las
paga, como en cuanto a las per-
sonas que las perciben,
¿ CONFERENCIAS DEL PRO-
¿ FESOR LOPEZ-REY. — Ayer
| lunes” dió su primera conferen-
| Cla-sobre el tema “Problemati-
ca de una Enciclopedia de Disci-
plinas Penales”, el profesor es-
¿| pañol, Dr, jfanuel López-Rey,
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4 Hoy, a las 6.30, continúa el
|| Dr. López-Rey disertando sobre
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cal (Pío Nono con Bellavista).
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(4, 6.30 P. M., su primera sesión
., 3 | del año en el local de la Escue-
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los problemas que aféctán a la
educación secundaria del otro, y,
en lo específico facilitar la rea- |
lización de] plan del Gobierno
Chileno, ya citado, con el sumi-

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Después de manifestarnos que
el Gobierno continúa entregado
de lleno al estudio del delicado
problema que afronta la industria
del cobre y de las posibles so- |
luciones que podrían lograrse en
a postguerra, el Ministro de
Economía y Comercio - nos de-
claró que desde Ja semana pa-
sada están radicadas en Wásh-
inNton las conversaciones co-
rrespondientes a la petición de
prórroga del Convenio de Mine- },
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ADES POLIT ( A 5 he de 1941 fué una he a muer de? ent entre la Izquierda y E Beret de Maipo «que consolida- iio
Las elecciones generales de Sena- la elección Presidencial del año 38, hi- | Ct ee a ES p Hs +
| dores y Diputados del año 1937 dieron zo que en la lucha eleccionaria de di- IT Oe en aquella €
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Pe ? como resultado una mayoría derechista p os a y blema de estudiar la for |

1.— Senadorés seño.

| provincial en el Senado y una igual- Verecha se presentaron cada cual fé- |! |
‘edo Duhalde Vásquez.

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dad de condiciones en la Cámara de rreamente unidas, para lograr la ma-

finitivamente adoptaría ' Convención
Alfonso Bórquez Pé- Diputados. — « a yoria en el Parlamento. el país, Sabido es que |. mientras lo
ical; ener. Allende o Tenemos que fueron elegidos Ing Ese ano correspondió a Vátliria | |. Bernardo O'Higgins esta- teriormente
SOC | : |. senadores. - señores. Carlos Haverbeck, | elegir. cinco. parlamentarios. La DO ba fuer nene COMPTO> o Rapes iar

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apa = completando -la geet erie Concha, e ie anida: listas, e n los Siguientes la te de empresa que in- . Teas Kas
dues. los * comunistas han D putados fueron ungi os. los se- = LA. NUMERO UNO tentara con tanto éxito — tural de
“sus fuerzas al candida-. nores Carlos Acharán Arce, - liberal; ites > el Ejército Libertador ca- la que E
nocrático señor Quijano. | Juan Osorio Gómez, demócrata; Luis! | Eduardo Rodríguez Mazer, socialis-

pitalista de la empresa

rá | por alg:
“andidatos a diputados. |

Urrutia Ibáñez, conservador; Pelegrín. ta; Clemente Escobar Delgado, demo-

más tono” democratic
a la’ Convención y est

nocrático: Daniel Ba-
arela, socialista autén-
diputados los señores
e Escobar. democrati-
Siando Barrios Tllanes,

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tados, -porque Valdivia abarcaba hasta | ron a la Izquierda con diez mil tres-
lo que es hoy la Provincia de Osorno. | cientos ochenta y seis votos, y a la vieran representadas
LA LUCHA DEL AÑO 1941 | Derecha con cinco me: setecientos dos ||} das las provincias.

El triunfo del Frente Popular en votos. ge eres | Gobierno autorizó

| ! que intentara con tanto | José ,
s en esta Lista son los Meza, radical; Pedro Castelblanco, ra- | erático; Pedro Salvadores, socialista; éxito el Eiército Liber-_ por Oss
René Moyano. radical; dical; “Manuel Antonio Luna, democra-| Fortunato Santibáñez, socialista. tador de los Andes. Y ber:
fe Escobar Delgado, de-, tico; Jorge Dowling, socialista, y Fran-| — Esta lista, con un total de 3.891 San Martín, aunque lu- oriund:

din Role ee | cisco Javier Labbé, conservador. votos, dió un diputado, el socialista chaba por la Indepen- vincio
ta: Juap Pulear Monto. | Entre los triunfos electorales de|don Eduardo Rodríguez M. ia cents ae a8
ical y César Ramos Ro- esa lucha eleccionaria, se destaca el LA- NUMERO DOS | e ae ae dar ass ad
nunista. | i| obtenido por el socialista Jorge Dow- Pedro Castelblanco, radical; Sa- ! ee
a ee . FE : O'Higgins de un estatuto ¿Hu
JAN 0 2 Senadores ling, ya que dicha organización políti- | muel Valck, democratico; Rene Moya- dictatorial y visube crea. via?
s José Maza Fernández, Ca se debatía en ese entonces entre | no, radical; César Acuña, inconformis- | ha un Senada EE tvo: og
F ogi ae ieee pañales y su acción organizativa se | ta; Mario Contreras, comunista, _ No era nada más que en per
a ae dienitads realizaba a hurtadillas para evadir la Esta lista, con un total de 6.495 el nombre ya que el pro- ee
do inearites los señores vigilancia y persecusión del régimen | votos, dió dos diputados, los señores pio Director tenia inge- de
+ Acharán Arce. liberal; imperante. : Pedro Castelblanco y René Moyano, del [1 Tencia-, directa” eh su n
2rmo Pinninghoff, con- - Otro triunfo que alcanzó resonan- | Partido Radical. | elección, : c
der; Jorge Bustos: León, cia y que fué recibido con ¿júbilo por LA NUMERO TRES : Este sistema tué sien-. r
al, que repudió esta Lista las fuerzas de la Izquierda, fué el del Carlos Acharán, liberal; Julio do cada vez es a

S señores Ananias Zapata democrático don Manuel Antonio Luna, | Contreras independiente. o oe es que.€ a of

Be ive, que 80-51) “ae on anteriéses elecclones había sá. Con un total de 2.762 votos, dió un cada, Se. Ip Oe aoa a0

A E US y rrotad divisiones de su| diputado, el señor Carlos Acharan Ar- formar la Convención

* renunciaron a ella una vez lido derrotado por A eS ee es Preparatorla que se cons-

ritos. Partido. Aunque en esta oportunidad | ce, libera _. tituyé en forma solemne

‘STA N. o 3. — Senador, los democráticos estaban divididos en : LA NUMERO CUATRO ee el 23 de. julio de 1822. -

CarJos Haverbeck, liberal tres fracciones, a saber: democráticos, La lista cuatro estaba formada por |. En el acto de la consti-
‘esista y diputados los se- demócratas y democracia unificada, | Jorge Bustos León, liberal independien - tución se dejó expresa
Jorge Bustos León, libe- logró imponerse para, en su corta ac- | te, y Alfredo Lea Plaza, vanguardista. constancia de que talta-
eta, Aledo Lea: tuación en el Parlamento, convertirse|- Did 2.940 votos, resultando elegido - ban los señores Diputados
A es en el apóstol de la honradez parla- | el señor Bustos León, del Partido Li- | por 40S: gt ome a aR /
aude ace an omo mentaria. Su repentina muerte provo- | beral, - a ee Sie O
Ojeda. que van com- dá ay > - 120 ELECTORES | “por no. haber — flegada
la list | co una elección extraordinaria, en la | - 16.120 ELEC’ $ | fe eee
9 sta. ° ; A : q : la 16.120 elec oportunamente las actas,
\ N.o 4.-- Senadores que triunfo el señor Samuel Valck. En resumen, votaron 16.1 elec» dee Gan el objets: de arde
Leonidas Leyton Ley- En esa ocasión tuvimos ocho dipu- tores, cuyas preferencias favovecie- | | |
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ROGAN Poner REUNIC
iO DE LA PLAL Aj Asi lo expresa la Orden del Dia emitida por

la Jefatura de la Plaza de nuestra ciudad,

as en la Provincia
aina completa de los Je-
znados para fiscalizar el
3 de toda la Provincia de.

Valdivia, el General de
ellano; Corral, el Mayor de

Lanco, el Teniente de Ca-

Fiegelist; Panguipulli, el
or Catalán M.; Mafil, Ca-
{ Fierro L.; Los Lagos, Ca-
ul Gomez Cristi; Futrono,
rique Slater B., y Reumen,
ifonso Straub.

DE LA UNION
arabineros, don Luis Gue-
¿de Ejército, don Andrés F.

: Carabineros, don Luis A.

DE RIO BUENO

abineros, don Carlos Sand-.

apitan de Ejercito, don Luis
egento Segundo de Carabine-
s Sepulveda.

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el fin de asistir a los fune- |, ;
a desde la señora Tránsito presentantes de los partidos
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¡primer Presidente de la Ins-

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TEXTO DE SUS DIVERSAS DISPOSICIONES

En los siguientes términos
está concebida la “Orden del
Día”, emitida por la Jefatura
de la Plaza de la ciudad de
Valdivia, a cargo del Gene-
ral. de Ejército señor Leocan
Ponce Arellano:

“De acuerdo ‘con lo dis-
puesto por el DIS. N.o 809,
de 7-II-45, que me nombra
Jefe de las Fuerzas para las
elecciones erdinarias de Se-
nadores y Diputados que de-
ben realizarse el domingo 4
de marzo del año en curso,

ORDENO: . ;

1.0) Desde las 7 horas del
día 4 de marzo, hasta las 24
horas del dia en que la Jun-
la Departamental Escruta-
dora termine sus labores, asu
miré el mando de las Fuer-
zas del Ejército, Carabineros
y Servicios de Investigacio-
nes de la Comuna de Valdi-
via, fijando desde luego como

¡ puesto de mando el local del

Cuartel General de la IV Di-
visión de Ejército, en Arau-
co N.o 663 (Teléfonos 559 y
666.) :

2.0) En cumplimiento
artículo 130 de la Ley

al
de

Elecciones y con el objeto de

velar por el mantenimiento
del orden público durante el
desarrollo del acto electoral,
las siguientes disposi-

'a) En el puesto de mando

de las Fuerzas estara a dispo..
con sición de los Candidatos, de

sus apoderados y de los re-

de que trata el artícuio 131
de la Ley General de Hlec-

a e ee een

¡ d) Se mantendrá libre

a e

Una interesante misión cumplirá en nuestra zona el Sr. Edward Chapin

ciones, En ese libro podran
verificar personalmente vl
cumplimiento de las disposi-
ciones legales y reclamar, en
cualquier momento, de lus
seguridades y garantías indi

‘viduales a que tienen dere-

cho los electores, dejándose
constancia en él de los hechos
que motiven los reclamos,

b) Durante el día cuatro
de marzo hasta las 24 horas
del mismo, No podrán cele-
brarse manifestaciones O reu
niones de ningún género,

i ec) No se permitirá la tor-

mación de grupos de dos y
más personas en las puertas
de los locales en que funclo-
nan las Mesas Receptoras y
Secretarías de Propaganda.
z
expedito el acceso de los elec
tores y el libre tránsito
ias calles que den acceso #
los locales en que funcionen
las Mesas Receptoras, | core
asimismo a los locales y a las
Secretarías de los Candidatos
o Partidos. e

e) Se impedirá toda clase
de presión, de hecho o de pu
labra, sobre los electores.

f) Durante el día de las
elecciones es prohibido a tu-
da persona el uso de bande-
ras, divisas u otros distinti-
VOS, |

g) El Jefe de las Fuerzas
visitará cualquier lugar © si-
tio cuando recibiere denun-
cia escrita, de persona res-
ponsable, de que en ellos
eslé practicando el cohe

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tundentes o cortantes~ .

bas o cualquier otro elemen.

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'en- Ayer arribó a nuestra ciudad el señor
dej lEdward A. Chapin Ph D., entomólogo Je-
A0- | | fe del Museo Nacional de Estados Unidos,
el en Wáshington, quien fué invitado por el
sC1- no : os ~ A 1
de Ministro de Agricultura, senor Manuel Ca-
ey.) ES nueya, durante su visita a dicho pais,
jen | | con el fin de que haga estudios sobre las

| | yariedades de insectos en las diversas Zo-
esta | i nas de nuestro territorio. Este funcionario

een, mere: een mcmama

de- oe acompafiado del senor Raul Cortes,
idos | | entomodlogo del Departamento de Sanidad
au- | | Vegetal, quien ha sido comisionado por el
¿POP | | Gobierno para colaborar en las investiga-
on ciones del distinguido visitante.
a | UNA ENTREVISTA —
ade | |. En conocimiento de la visita a Valdi-
im- | | via de los señores Chapin y Cortes, nos
‘de- | apresuramos a entrevistarlos en el Hotel
rado | | Paluce, en donde se encuentran hospeda-
nte. | | dos. ae
2 be | El señor Edward A. Chapin nos dice
se | ¡que su visita se debe a la gentil invita-
de | | ción que le hiciera el Gobierno chileno por
qe intermedio del Ministro señor Casanueva,

quien se impuso de las investigaciones que
se realizan en el gran país del Norte so-

nos dice nuestro entrevistado, es estudiar
cuanto concierne a mis funciones de en- i) Se cl
tomólogo y espero que mis investigaciones mo. las €
, ad de
en que
misión

reporten algún beneficio para Chile y pa-
ra mi país.

_ Estoy profundamente agradecido, nos.
dice el señor Chapin, de la buena acogida |
que he tenido en esta tierra, que me re- |
cuerda la región de los lagos en mi patria”.

- VISITA A LOS ALREDEDORES |
Ayer los funcionarios visitantes acom- |
pañados del Inspector de Sanidad Vegetal.

ES ~ r » \
de Valdivia, señor René Salas, realizaron

una corta visita a los alrededores de Yal-.
divia, para imponerse de la flora y las ca-
racteristicas que presentan las diferentes
especies y que acusan la presencia de in-
sectos. En esta excursión los señores Cha-
pin y Cortés reunieron interesantes datos
que luego recopilados con los de las dife-
rentes provincias. del pais serán presen-
tados al Gobierno chileno. |
Esta tarde los funcionarios menciona-
dos partirán a Temuco, en donde haran

estudios en la zona maderera.

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Préximamente
nuestra zona el entomólogo

- señor Edward A. Chapin, del

Museo Nacional de Estados

Unidos. .
Este distinguido científi-

co viajará al sur del pais,

acompañado por el funcio :

mario del Departamento de

Propaganda Agricola senor
‘Raul Cortés, La jira del se-
fior Chapin abarcará toda
la zona comprendida entre
Temuco y Puerto Montt.

El viaje obedece al propó- ' una
| dando cuenta de esta. jira.

sito del científico nortéame-

estudio acerca de

ricano de hacer un acabado

ción beneficiosa y dañina
de los insectos chilenos ‘con

relación a nuestros bosques.

| zona debe

visitará y El señor Chapin es conside- |

rado como- una autoridad
en entomologia, motivo por |
el cual, su viaje a nuestra
considerarse co-
mo de gran importancia.

A su regreso a Santiago
levantará un detallado in-

forme al Ministro de Tie-

rras y Colonización. acerca.
de sus observaciones en el
terreno mismo.

La Oficina del - “Agrónomo!
Provincial, que ha recibido
comunicación oficial

se ha preparado para dar!

la ac-! todas las facilidades nece-

rias pata que este distin-

guido hombre. de «ciencias

lleve a cabo su misión.

A jarras de Estados Unidos e
- continúa visi santo h rein

HOY SE TRASLADARA A LA ZONA DE PUYEHUE

Ae SAREE MA DN A en ETN

| Como informaros teria y ponerlos opor-
oportunamente, se en-. tunamente en conoci-
cuentra visitando esta miento del Ministro de
region, el señor William Tierras y Colonización.
Chapin, entomólogo del :
Museo Nacional de Es-
tados Unidos, quién es-
tudia las diversas va-
tiedades de insectos be-
neficiosos y perjudicia-
les de la madera y
| nuestros bosques, como
un medio de completar
su estudios sobre la ma-

. Después de su visita
a la Genética de Cañal
Bajo, durante el dia de
ayer se trasladó a Pto.
Octay, acompañado del
funcionario del Depar- -| 3
tamento de Sanidad ,
Vegetal señor Raul Cor- |
tés y del Inspector Re-
gional de dichos servi-
cios, senor Francisco
Teuber Echenique.
En el día de hoy este
distinguido visitante y
eminente hombre de
estudios, continuara vi-
sitando la zona y se
trasladara a Puyehue,
en donde estara posible-
mente dos dias, impo- “|
niéndose detalladamen-
te de la acción de los
insectos sobre los árbo-
les, especialmente en lo
que se reficre a la ma-.
dera aprovechada por la
Fabrica de Madera Ter- |
ciada de la “Somasur”,
ubicada en la orilla Bel ih oe
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‘orales finaliza preparación de este acto, - it

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| | EM me E Chapin, acompañado del fun- dicial de los: insectos nativos

| [| o wee Wid cionario de] Departamento de mobre la madera.

if A mis corr cligionarios liberales y am Sanidad Vegetal, señor Rat ve

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for Raúl Corrales y el Je- | Agrénomo . de la Provincia, |
fe de la Oficina Regional de en colaboración con la dea
Sanidad Wegetal, señor Fran-' perativa Agrícola de. Emtr
cisco J. Teuber . Echenique, Lagos, mantiene en ese la. :
isitó la zona de Puyehue. gar. |
pe su visita. el señor Cha-! Hoy-- posiblemente conti-

pin llegó hasta los estab le oi, |: muara viaje a la provincia.
mientos e y les/de:la So- ' | de Valdivia.

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Chile - 19l5.

Feb. 8. My train was on time in Miami and 1 took : a bl a
ony m4 the Hotel Pittsburger. When I arrived there .:
was no room ready so I sat down to wait for Loomis. Ye a
appeared shortly and helped me get my baggage to the PAA
office for inspection. . All went smoothly since all films Bi
and papers had been inspected and sealed by the Washing- |
ton censor. My baggage weighed in at 23 kgs. and I left
all exeept an overnight bag.
and I was free for the day. i

We drove out to the Coconut Grove station to whe the | |
day. 1 wandered around the station building while Loomis
did some paper work and then we drove around the station

My ticket was then checker 0

in a pile of decaying palm seeds. At noon we had lunch ©
in the small restaurant run for the benefit of the station _
employees. In the afternoon Loomis took me to see the a
plantings of one of the possible sources of natural rubber.
We stopped at several likely looking places to look for

snails but everything was too dry. oe
At about 5 we drove to Loomis“. home and with lirs Loomis _

and their son we went to dinner at a Chinese restaurant in —

Mami. Right after dinar we parted and I went to the —

hotel and to bed.

Feb. Y. 1 was jpaliod at hagas to go to the airport. Polo
sumo We] etnia ARO some reason I resent

ary MIAMI Pinkie 0, U. S.A. se EWE the 85 cent charzce
| Ar CAMAGUEY de

... | lv CAMAGUEY (Gen. 1. Agr), Cuba? « | LOY the trip from the — li
dj sra a | PAA office to the air-
== a port in the Company Pe
At no other alae that I now | of is there a charge for
such a trip. Our plane was not ready on time so we sat i
and started to get acquainted. One of the passengers was
Juan Varleta, a cousin of Raúl Cortés, on his way home to _
Santiago. Another was Alice Bennett, a clerk from Ottawa
going to take a job in the British Embassy in Santiago. Ne
At 9.30 the mechanics released our plane and we started Bit,
for Camaguey. The airport there was not at all interest-
ing; it was well away from the city and was not at all
attractive. Then on to Kingston. Land planes land on
ae Palisadoes, well down toward Port Royal. Madeleine —

Hodge was not on duty so I could get no news of anyone ee
The system has been changed - if you want a
drink you go to a small bar at one side of the waiting —
room. We pushed off for the long hop to Balboa ais eee
pared for lunch which was good as always. Our plane wan |
a four motored Boeing and very comfortable. We

Bill Komp was at the Balboa wi td si after ici i

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ner was on duty, otherwise the lab was nearly deserted. | vs

ing my bag we went to the Hotel Tivoli where he had made
a reservation for me. Before leaving the airport we

learned that there would be no plane the next day so I “uth
could have a good night’s sleep. I lay down until dinner Eat
time, then ate and went to bed. | A

Feb. 10. Komp came to the hotel at 9 and we started out
to do some sightseeing. First he did some errands in ‘i
Panamá City, which merges imperceptibly into Balboa. Next a.
we went to the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory. Capt. Mitche- Y

I saw the animal rooms and the breeding cages where the aN
mosquitoes are reared for the experimental work with malar—-
ia. As Mrs Komp was away, Bill had lunch with me at the © i
hotel. Marston Bates and his wife, who was Nancy Fairchild,
were up from Villavicencio and Mrs Fairchild was down from Ne
Florida. Nancy had just had her third child. We all ate q
lunch together and certainly both Marston and Nancy are bc
attractive.

After lunch we called Zetek on the phone, found him in,
and went to his home for a short call. We talked about the
work at Barro Colorado Island mostly. From there we went
to the airport to check my passage for the next day and then
out the Canal Road to the first set of locks. We were able 4
to go across the canal and see the beginnings of the dupli- ig
cate set of locks that is being constructed. Back to the
road and on to the Pedro Miguel locks and the Culebra Cut. a
We stopped to collect at spots along the road and near the
Cut we turned in to the grounds of the Plant Industry Ex-
periment Station at Summit. Collecting was not good but I
did pick up a few interesting things. From Summit we went
back to the hotel for dinner.

ticket was checked, I
went to the lunch coun- re
ter and had breakfast. ie

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Feb. 1. a at l; AM and to ) the airport by bus. After my

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| roomy nor as comfortable
as the one out of Miami. Our first stop was Cali where I
bought six packs of Piel Roja cigarettes for a dollar bill.
Should have had at least eight but there was no time to a
argue. At Guayaquil I had a bottle ready and picked up two
mantids and some other things on the airport windows. Just
after leaving Guayaquil we were ordered to put on our belts, — u
even though we were not leaving or approaching an airport. _

Almost immediately we ran into a short but sharp storm with i

rough air. At the Talara airport I found some ascalaphids.
Chiclayo airport is a desolate place in the desert; there
were no insects or other life around the field. We reached
Limatambo airport, the field that serves Lima only a few
minutes late and were taken by bus to the Hotel Gran Bolívar
for the night. I changed ten dollars into 66 soles so that
I could pay my hotel bill and have a little extra. Instead
of trying the hotel dining room Iwalked around in the vicin-
ity of the plaza major and found a pleasant looking restau-
rant. As I went in I met Varleta, who had already found an
old acquaintance from Argentina, a Dr Guzmán. The three of
us had dinner together.

Feb. Le Up at 3 AM era for a bm the plane left near-

[TuWerr RT Ss sat. jly on time. Our flying
dol ¿Pron chas Lv LIMA (mata .P . 15° had been larsely over wa-
| 8:30} 8:35 8:35] Ar ARE ie e ARO i

{2 eal -8:50| 8:50] Lv AREQUIPA, E ter and quite smooth;

" ARICA, Chileye.

bic south we were

Pa [7 y ANTOFAGASTA, Chilefy.
¿8B.-:---=s]erá2: €.) At SANTIAGO (Los 2h! time and the air was no-
odebiy rougher. It bud belly wore dh Lima and when we came
to Arequipa I thought it looked quite hot. On leaving the
plane we had a delightful surprise; Arequipa is at 8100 ft.
and the air is cool and crisp. The landing field is placed
right at the foot of El Misti, a beautiful snow-capped peak.
Arica and Antofagasta were more like Talara, hot and deso-
late. Between Antofagasta and Santiago there was no sched-
uled stop but we came down for gasoline at Vallenar, a new
and still uncompleted airport. Another plane, which left
Limatambo just after we did and which we caught sight of in
nearly every airport, was not as heavily loaded as we and
was able to fly straight through and so reached Santiago
a few minutes ahead of us. Nevertheless, we came in on time
and I found Raúl Cortés, Carlos Muñoz, Ramón Gutiérrez, the
U. Se Vice Consul and others there to meet me. I went
through Customs easily and was loaded, with my baggage, into
a station wagon and taken to the City Hotel where 1 took
Room 09, After disposing of my bags, Raúl, Ramón and I

walked about the central part of Santiago until time for

dinner. Ramón excused himself and Raúl and I had dinner
in the hotel dining room.

Feb. 13. Raúl came to the hotel at 9 to take me to the
American Embassy to call on Paul Guest, Agricultural Ad-
visor. I arranged with him to take care of my mail, etc. |
Then I went to the office of the Cultural Relations Offi-

cer, who proved to be Phil Thayer; it was my first meeting _
with him in thirtyfive years! We had a good talk, partly |
about my work and partly about his doings since we lost
track of each other. As T started to leave, he invited me

to dinner tomorrow night at his home and to luncheon on a
Thursday. From the Embassy we went to the Department
of Agriculture (Sanidad Vegetal) which is on the out-
‘skirts of Santiago in the Quinta Normal. I was intro- me
duced to the Director, Luis A. Belmar P., the Subdirector
Sergio Tartakowsky H. and Leonidas Durán, Chief of the |
Section of heriioubiutel Loology. I also saw Raúl '”s ‘4
laboratory and the small and very poor collection of "i
insects. At l, we were in his office to meet the Minis-
ter of Agriculture and Lands, sr. don Manuel Casanueva,
who was in Washington last year. Raúl and don Manuel
drew up plans for a trip for me which would include the
part of Chile between Santiago and Chiloé Island. Raúl
would accompany me and we would leave Santiago on the 17th
for Puerto liontt. As soon as we left the Ministerio, we
went to take up railroad tickets on the "Nocturno" which
leaves Santiago daily at 5 PM, Our tickets were paid for
by government transportation requests. Next to a bank to
change 200 dollars into 6,320 pesos and then for "onces"
we went to a restaurant specializing on fruits of all
kinds. Between onces and dinner we took a long walk about
the city, going up onto Santa Lucia, a queer hill rising
up in the middle of the city and landscaped to death. We
again had dinner together in the hotel,

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Feb. 1h. As soon as I was up I arranged for my laundry ‘i
and then went out for breakfast (two glasses of jugo de 0
uva con azúcar) and to order a supply of professional
cards, having forgotten to bring more than two or three.
I left one for a sample and the new ones are to be ready
the next day and will cost BP 30 oer hundred. That done,
Raúl and 1 went to the Quinta to talk over the trip with
Belmar and Tartakowsky and to prepare typed copies of our
projected itinerary. “e will have an extra day in Puerto
Montt because the schedule of boats to Chiloé has been
changed. We came in town for lunch and then went to the
imbassy to leave a copy of our itinerary with Thayer and
Guest and to set directions for getting to Phil’s home.
After onces, I started for the Thayer’s. Was too early
so I walked around several blocks to kill time and arrived
at 0 sharp. iirs Thayer is very pleasant and so are the
two children. Phil told me that while the little girl
does not admit to be able to speak Spanish, she goes to
the kitchen and jabbers away with the cook. Before com uh
ing to Chile, the family had been in the Far East for some
years so this was the first experience of the children i
With Spanish. After cocktails, an excellent dinner was
served by a nice quiet criada. We talked until late and
I had to run for what might have been the last trolley.
As I couldn*t understand the conductor and he couldn’t

understand me, I got off the car when I thought we were
somewhere near the cathedral. There was a small group

of police standing on a corner and I approached with some }
reluctance and asked, in my best Spanish, how to get to i
the Plaza de Armas and the cathedral. To my complete sur- i
prise they understood me the first time and gave me di-
rections in slow and very clear Spanish, It was fourteen
blocks to the hotel.

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Feb. 15. Raúl called for me at 9 and we went to the Museo
Nacional. I first met Sefior Frage, now the librarian but
formerly an entomologist specializing in the Tabanidae. At
present and for some time in the past, his eyes have been
giving him trouble. It was pitiful to see how he clings
to the belief that "they are much better today and will be
completely well soon." From the library I went to the of-
fice of Miss Grete Mostny, a refugee Austrian-jew archaeol-
ogist who has been recently working in the desert region of
Chile. She was very pleasant and finally ran down by tele-
phone both Ureta, who is technically in charge of the Chil-
ean National collection of insects, and Carlos Muñoz,
Director of the Department of Forests. Before they arrived
the Director of the Museum, Dr. Enrique Gigoux, came in and |
I was introduced and started on a tour of the building. 0
As Dr Gigoux was 05 years old and unable to climb stairs ho
and devotes only two hours a day to the museum, it should
not be surprising that the institution is in a very run down
condition. Dr Ureta is a practicing physician and when con-
venient, comes to the museum for one hour each day. He and
Muñoz came together and we were admitted to the collection
of insects; a room perhaps 18 by 10 feet equipped with cases
to hold about 250 drawers. The collection was a rather grim
Sight and none of the types of Germain or Philippi could be ©
found. It was explained that they probably had been stolen.
Raúl had spent the morning at the Dept. Sanidad Vegetal
and came for me in time to go to the Club de la Unión for
lunch with Thayer. There were six of us, Thayer, Guest,
Casanueva, Janney of the Rockefeller Houndation, Raúl and
myself. The party broke up at three and Raúl and I went
to the hotel to talk and read some in "Time for Decision"
(Raúl had the Spanish translation). After onces at the
American Milk Bar we went to a movie, "Andy Hardy and his
Blonde Troubles." Dinner at the hotel and bed.

Feb. 16, We first went to the D. S. V. and I prepareda |
‘ eurriculum vitae for Sr Casanueva. Then I went to the Im= |
seum and while waiting for Ureta, I talked New World arch- 0
aeology with Dr Mostnf$, When Ureta arrived, I asked to see
the collection of Theclinae so that 1 contd | tell Bill Field my
about it. Found that Chile has less than ten species in i.

Ye went back
to town and
for lunch TI
took Raúl to
a restaurant
specializing
in Juan Fer-
nandez lob-
ster. We had
cold Lobster
and white wine
but little
else. Then
back to D. S.

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Las Ultimas Noticias (Santiago) Feb. 16, bottles, etc.
| in preparation
for our trip. At 5 we went to the Hotel Carrera for onces
and then walked out to Santa Lucía where we sat and talked.
until time to go back to the hotel for dinner. After which
1 packed and went to bed.

Feb. 17. Raúl appeared at nine and we went to the Embassy
to leave BYM’s letter to Guest and to say goodbye to him
and Thayer. From there to the drug store for an extra sup-
ply of razor blades and some tablets of Entero-vioformo as
a precaution against intestinal infections. Then to the
De Se Ve to say goodbye to Belmar, Tartakowsky and Durán
and to the 1 Museum for the same purpose, e Mostny and
Ureta. Raúl found and introduced me to R. A, AS to
whom I eave the data sheets on porpoise skulls. He prom
ised to arrange for Bre vograpia of the types and offered
us a ride back to the y de At the hotel I found that my

cards had been delivered. I paid my bill and checked out
but left my baggage at the desk for the time being.

Raúl had engaged a taxi for h.15 and he was on time to
the minute. We loaded all baggage into the cab and went
to the station, going aboard our train at 1.30. We had
a compartment for the night and next morning at Loncoche
we changed into a first class coach for the rest of the
trip. This change was necessary because the sleeping car
is dropped from the Puerto Montt train at Loncoche and is
sent to Concepción.

Our train left on time and until dark there was no change
in the scenery, cultivated fields, small towns and small
groups of houses, many windbreaks of casuarina trees. We
saw many hundreds of acres planted to sunflower, Chile’s
es to secure an adequate supply of vegetable oil.

Chilean trains, those who wish to eat in the dining car

are given tickets which admit them to a certain seat ata

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certain time so that there is no standing. We went to bed
about 10 after a mediocre dinner.

Feb. 18. Up at 8.30 after a good night’s sleep. We were
now in the grape country and many vineyards could be seen
from the train. As we approached the city of Osorno we
had our first sight of the Osorno volcano, the most sym-
metrical of all of Chile’s snow-capped peaks. From here
on, one or more snow-caps were always in sight. As the
train sped on between Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt we had
our first close view of a lake, Lago LLanquihue. Reached
Pto. Montt a few minutes ahead of schedule and went across
the street to the Hotel Miramar. We took a large double
room without private bath but not too far from the large
bathroom that served that end of the floor. We washed and
walked to the Plaza de Armas where we found a clean German

tearoom, Café Olimpia, which served excellent "onces".

After eating, we strolled about town ending up at the fish
wharves. Two or three small fishing boats were in and the
fishermen were selling beautiful 20" mackerel at two for
five pesos (.16). In the shops nearby were strings of
dried mussels and dried shrimps, dirty and most unattrac-
tive. Back to the hotel to write a letter home before
dinner, which was served at 8.30 and was quite good.

Bed about ten.

eb. 19. Another good night and up at eight. First we
made our reservations on the boat leaving Pto. Montt for
Castro (Chiloé I.) tomorrow night at 10. Our boat will be
the SS Chacao, 258 tons nett which seems small. Then to
the postoffice to mail letter. Back to the hotel for our
nets and bottles and up onto the hills back of the town
where we found fair collecting. Took my first Chilean
vcarabaeid, Pinotus torulosus, as well as some weevils and
odonata. Dinner at the hotel at noon. After dinner we
started out in another direction but found the collecting
very poor, everywhere it was too dry. We gave up at about

- 5 and went back to the Olimpia for onces. Then a turn

around town, another visit to the fish wharves (no new
kinds of fish to be seen) and back to the hotel to write
cards to Willis, Parfinowich, Schmaltz, Sweet and Carpen-
ter. Dinner at 8.30 and bed shortly afterward.

Feb. 20. After breakfast we went northeast from the hotel
and found a much better collecting place. It was high up

on a side hill, with bog conditions. We collected all the
morning and, with time out for lunch at the hotel, all the
afternoon. On our way back to the hotel in the afternoon,
we were stopped by a man who told us that we were on the

property of the city water supply and we definitely should

not be there. Explanations from Raúl proved sufficient to
keep us out of jail. At the hotel we ordered hot baths.

Isla Tenglo and harbor of Puerto Montt.

It proved to be quite an ordeal. First the maid lights a
wood stove and after half an hour she calls for one of us
to bathe. The second bath doesn’t take quite a half hour
to heat. Baths are extra and cost four pesos each.

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After our baths we went to the Olimpia and then back to the
hotel to pack the small bag and the market bag for the trip
to Chiloé. We turned over the suitcases to the management
to be held for our return and our soiled clothing to the
maid to be washed and ready for us on Friday. We had dinner
and then took the bus to the boat. Stayed on deck (a very
small deck) until after the boat pulled out and then went

to bed. Our stateroom was very small, hardly larger than
the bunks, one over the other, and a tiny handbowl.

Feb, 21. Slept well and although the boat was small and
not particularly clean on deck, there was no vermin in the
stateroom. le were up and out on deck by 7.30 and found
ourselves in a group of small islands, making stops every
few minutes. At Achao we landed three lighters of pass-
engers and one of freight ~ mostly fruit and vegetables.
At none of these islands is there a wharf so everywhere
landings are made by lighter. Next island after Achao was
Chaulinec, a smaller island directly out from Castro. Here
we landed a few people, some groceries and four casks of
wine. The wine casks are merely thrown overboard and al-
lowed to drift ashore. From Chaulinec we turned in toward
Castro, running between Quehui and Chelin and stopping at
each of them. After leaving Chelin we went to lunch, per-
haps the most disagreeable meal that I have ever eaten.
The dining room was crowded, we were seated at tables of
twelve and the food was served without neatness but with
much dispatch. The ceiling of the room was black with
flies with more than an occasional large roach. Every so
often a roach would miss his footing and drop onto the
table. While at lunch we stopped at Pulquedón on the is-
land of Lemuy. That was the last stop before Castro where
we arrived about three. We were landed by rowboat at five
pesos a head and our baggage was adopted by a small boy

SS Chacao lying off Castro

who carried it to the hotel, five city blocks away and all
up hill, for ten pesos. The Hotel Luxor was practically
new, a frame building of two or three stories. It was
clean and we had a small room each. Our only complaint
was that the partitions were thin and not noise-proof. We
walked a bit about town and sat for some time in the plaza

until time for onces at the hotel. We went back to the

plaza to collect aphids and coccinellids that we had seen |
earlier. Took two species of Coccinellina which were |
feeding on the aphids which were attacking the leaves of
linden. Raúl went across the street to a bookstore and
returned with a copy of Kim (in Spanish) to read after

going to bed. Castro is a small town built almost entire-

ly on high ground overlooking the water. The waterfront

Waterfront of Castro

is lined with warehouses and is where the railroad which
connects Castro with Ancud starts. Dinner at the hotel was
fair and we went to bed shortly afterward.

Feb. 22. Woke up to find it raining quite hard, my first
bad day since leaving Washington. However, it let up just
as we were ready to go to the station to take the autocar-
ril for Ancud. We were late and so had to take the second
car which was really fortunate. The first car goes through
to Ancud without stops and had we gone on it there would
have been no chance to collect anywhere along the line.

The second car carries the payroll for the maintenance of
way men of the railroad. We left Castro nearly on time and
by 9.15 there was blue sky in the south. We stopped where-
ever there were men to be paid, sometimes at a station and
sometimes between stations. Collecting would have been
better if it had not rained so hard earlier. At Mocopulli
L found some carabids and a small colony of termites in a
bit of wood lying beside the track. Snyder later identified
the species as Porotermes quadricollis (Ramb.). About noon
we stopped at Puntra long enough for lunch, There were two
restaurants, perhaps we got the poorer of the two. In all,

the trip was tiring but we reached Ancud in due time.
The autocarril is no more than a nine passenger station
wagon mounted on steel wheels and running on a railroad
track. The one and only hotel in Ancud is the Plaza
and it is the worst yet. It has all the inconveniences
imaginable - the bathroom was filthy, the toilet out of
order, no mirror for shaving, the bowl and pitcher in
the room was dirty ~- but there were no bedbugs. After

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dropping our bags in our room, we went to the Escuela to
meet the director, René Prado Solis. He was very pleasant
and took us over the building and grounds. There are two
types of agricultural education given in Chile - the usual
courses in the universities leading to the degree of In-
geniero Agrénomo, open to students who have finished in
the colegios, and the Escuelas Prácticas, giving practical
training in farm practices to boys with little or no for-
mal education. At Ancud there was a dairy barn but it
was not in any sense a model dairy and several acres in
crops common to the region. The plantings were well
cared for and seemed to be flourishing. All about the
school were araucarias, sometimes singly and sometimes

in rows. Raúl met a friend who was invited to dinner
with us at the hotel. He said good night early and we
went to bed. At least the bed was clean and comfortable
and I had a good night.

Feb. 23. We were up at 7, packed our two small bags and
went to the boat. The Lemuy is less than half as large
as the Chacao and a little dirtier. There being no wharf
at Ancud, we were lightered out to the Lemuy (108 tons
nett). Since the trip was to be entirely by day, we had

no stateroom so we had to keep our bags always with us.
The sea was flat and
there were some clouds
but plenty of sun. We
have seen porpoises
every day and today
saw seals (or accord=
ing to one passenger,
sealions) for the
first time. The gulls
that follow the ship
are very handsome,
white with black wings
narrowly edged front
and back with white.
(Herbert Friedmann
later identified the
species as Larus dom
inicanus Licht.). Also
there were many cormo-
rants. At Chalao men
came out to the boat
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sale, about 25 urchins
Cathedral, Ancud. for 12 pesos. Several
baskets were bought by
the cook and many of the passengers bought baskets. I
watched the people breaking open the urchins and eating

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the gonads, with or without salt and pepper. There was
a salesman, a young German Jew, aboard that I had talked
with some. When he saw that I had not bought any urchins

he insisted that I eat one of his. Before I could make
up my mind whether I cared to try one, he had plopped
some into my mouth and I had to take it. At lunch we
had dishes of it for the first course, Sea urchin go-
nads are rated a great delicacy in Chile and while I
found them not unpleasant, I certainly prefer oysters
or clams. After stopping at Calbuco, there was one
other and short stop before we reached Puerto Montt at
6.30 PM. We took the bus to the Miramar where we were
expected. A new room, No. 5, was assigned to us and
we found the change satisfactory. First of all, we had
hot baths, shaves, and changed our clothing. The laun-
dry that we had left
was ready and every-
thing had come back.
When the girl gave
it to me, Raúl was
in his bath and 1
tried to negotiate
with her. Before
she would take any
money she evidently
wanted me to do
something. She kept
saying "Conforme!"
which I learned la-
ter means "Check it"
Finally 1 opened the
bundle and spread
the contents on the
bed. The girl was
pacified and accept-
ed 0 pesos for the
two lots. We had
dinner and I wrote
a letter home. Also
I found some fruit
(had had no fruit Araucaria araucana.

since leaving Sant-

iago) and ate a half kilogram of white grapes and drank
a large glass of peach juice. We leave for Pto. Varas
in the morning at 8.30.

Feb. 24. Paid bill at hotel after breakfast and went
across the street to the railroad station. We reached
Pto. Varas at 9.30 and went to the Hotel Heim, a small
and unpretentious place on a side street. It proved
clean, comfortable and not expensive. A double room
with meals was a hundred pesos a day (3.00 US). We
walked about town and along the beach of Lago LLanquihue

where we found several small crawfish (Aegla sp.) and

many specimens of a snail crawling on the rocks. I

exposed the last two films in the pack and turned it

in for development and prints. After lunch at the hotel

Raúl lay down for a nap while I read, or tried to read,
a "whodunit" in Spanish. At 5 we went dom to the din-

sl room for onces and then to a hill at the back of the

Railroad station at Puerto Varas.

town which had been converted into a religious park. We
found the collecting good and took one or more species
of Scarabaeidae, Lucanidae, Carabidae, Nitidulidae and
Scolytidae. At dark we quit and returned to the hotel
for dinner. There was a fiesta in costume at the hotel
and we both decided to go to bed immediately. I read
Kim for awhile. Raúl had started Kim and before he had
finished a page, threw the book aside with the remark
that he didn’t like it. I could get no explanation as
to why. Later I found out the reason - Raúl is exceed-
ingly sensitive about the dark color of his skin and
the opening description of Kim reads "though burned
black as any native". That was too much for him. He
finally gave me the book to keep with the dedication
"Here is a book that Lalo adores and that I am not able
to read." "Don Lalo" was his name for me, derived from
the nickname of his own brother Eduardo.

Feb. 25. This day was Sunday and I started Raúl off
for eight o’clock mass. I got up leisurely and at 8.0
went alone to breakfast. We were going to Ensenada by
the nine o“clock boat and Raúl didnt get back to the
hotel until 8.50. I ordered coffee for him and thanks
to the fact that the boat was twenty minutes late, we

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made it. The trip across Lago LLanquihue in the steamer
takes about three hours and is very beautiful. Behind is

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Puerto Varas, from near the railroad station.

the town and directly in front of us is Volcan Osorno,
with its white cap blending with the fluffy white clouds.

Volcan Osorno, from Ensenada.

To our right we could see Volcan Calbuco, not by any means
as perfect a cone as Osorno but of interest since it was
in full eruption as late as January 6, 1929. The snow caps
were small because it was late in the Chilean summer. We
reached Ensenada at 11.10 and collected in a swampy area
between the hotel and the lake. After lunch we had two
hours before we had to be back on the boat. Collecting was
not too good but we took some good things. Mostly it was
too dry and it seemed like the end of the season. Back at

our hotel at 6.30 PM. Feeling the need of some, I went out

Volcan Calbuco in winter
(Photos by E. Karl, Pto Varas)

to buy some fresh fruit. Grapes were out of sight, 12
pesos per kilo; apples were good and could be had for
a peso each. I ate apples and sorted insects until

dinner was called at 8.30. It was excellent - pejerreyes.
fritos, asado de tenera, tuttifrutti and aguita de menta.

1 must introduce the custom of aguite at home.

Feb. 26. Up at 8 o’clock sharp and had breakfast. As we
are leaving tomorrow for Osorno, we went first to the correo
to send a wire to Teuber giving time of our arrival. Then
we went back to the park on the hill to collect. Took some
good things there and in the pasture below, especially some
thrips, staphylinids and weevils. On our way back to the
hotel we stopped at Karl’s to pick up the prints and films
of the Chiloé trip and to leave certain films for extra
prints. After lunch Raúl took a nap while I sorted catch
and read some more in "Kim", Went out for onces at 1.30
and, in spite of a gentle rain, back to the pasture for a
little more collecting. Back at the hotel I wrote a letter
to Clara. That night we took in a movie, "Felipe Derbray",
made in Argentina and very melodramatic.

Feb. 27. We were up at 7.30 and packed before breakfast.
I paid the hotel bill and we got the 9.15 train for Osorno.
No Teuber at the Osorno station so we went to the Hotel
Burnier where we settled our bags in room 317. We then
went to the office of the Department of Agriculture where
we expected to find Teuber. Instead we learned that he ex-
pected us on a later train and would be at the hotel at 2 PM.
He was on time and brought a letter from Guest enclosing a
valentine from Sophy and Hilda, no letter from Clara. First
impressions of Teuber were very favorable. He is obviously
germanic with his blond hair and blue eyes and was courteous
and not at all blustery. We talked about Chiloé and made
plans for our time in Osorno. "Tomorrow to Puerto Octay and
the next day to Puyehue." That afternoon we drove out to a

Experiment Station at Puerto Octay

small station where seedlings of Monterey pine are being
grown for use in reforestation. While the Monterey pine
is of little importance in this country, it has proved to

be well adapted to Chile. Where the soil is too poor for
farmimg this pine grows well and makes a good stand that
is ready for harvest in from fifteen to twenty years. Fur-
ther, it is selfseeding which means that the planted for-
ests will be perpetual. We went back to the hotel and at

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Osorno. Plaza de Armas. Note modern church.

5.30 a new man, sent by Teuber, appeared and drove us to
the Estación Genética which is about 9 km. out of the city.
There I met José Suárez (has been in the United States and
is a friend of Ben’s) who took us all over the place. The
work there is mostly with forage grasses, testing for re-
sistance to drouth. That night Suárez joined us for dinner.

Feb. 28. Started for Puerto Octay early, Teuber driving the
Ford 2 ton truck and we reached the Experiment Station about
11 AM, The trip was a bit tiring as there were no springs
in the seat and the road was not first class. Sr. Silva,

the Director, took us over the grounds where they are doing
much to improve the potato, working with a dozen North Amer-
ican varieties and many wild strains of S. tuberosum. One
strain from Chiloé has tubers that are long and slender,
(about 8" x 1"), and have jet black skins. This particular
strain is of little use as food but does have a very high.
resistance to leaf-curl and scab. I saw tubers with skins
that were black, violet, red, rose and white and with white
or yellow flesh. Thousands of seedlings resulting from
controlled crosses were growing in beds and these would be
studied ami the best of them multiplied for use in breeding
work or for introduction into the commercial trade.

For lunch we were taken to a small hotel right on the
shore of Lago LLanquihue. It was originally the summer
home of a wealthy Chilean but was abandoned after an unfor-
tunate accident took the lives of several of his guests.

it was first offered to the government but was not accepted,

After a very
good lunch,
the proprie-
tor joined us
in a walk in
the woods near
the lake. In a
rotten stump
I found about
l¡0 specimens
of a cosmetid
and one small
scorpion. The
best collect-
ing was under
stones and
E aa wi logs. On the
The hotel at Puerto Octay. way back to
the hotel we
found a dead tree on fire. We all took off our coats and
put it out with some difficulty. When I picked up my coat
I found that sparks had landed on it and there were two holes,
one of which was in a conspicuous place. When we got back to
our hotel in Osorno we had hot baths which did a lot to raise
our spirits. My suit was by now-a sorry looking mess but a
thorough brushing did help it a lot. It was my only good suit
in Chile and if Raúl hadn’*t been such a dude I wouldn’t have
been wearing it.

Falls of Pilmaiquen, with Puntiagudo and Osorno.

Mar. 1. Teuber, Mrs Teuber, Corral, Suarez, Cortés and I
started at 9.30 AM for Pilmaiquen in the station wagon.

The ride was much more comfortable than the one yesterday.
We stopped to see the falls and to take pictures and also

to visit the new hydroelectric plant there below the falls.

Termas de Puyehue

Cortés, Suárez, Teuber, Mrs Teuber, Corral.

From Pilmaiquen we went to the Termas de Puyehue where there
is one of the finest of the Chilean hotels. Rates were up to
7-50 (U.S.) a day per person, which in Chile is very high.
First of all, we went in for a swim in the enclosed pool,
fed from thermal springs. The water was a little too warm
to be invigorating but for a short time it was certainly
pleasant. Then came the very excellent luncheon in the hotel
dining room; the food and service both sumptious. I noticed
that there was an evident desire on the part of some of the
party to be photographed with the hotel as a background.
After lunch we went out to get a bit of collecting. First
to a small group of hot springs that came out of the ground

on the edge of a small stream. The collecting was the

best that I have seen so far and it was too bad that we

had so little time. On the way back to Osorno we stopped

at the Fabrica Madera Terciada "Somasur" (a plywood fac-
tory). Here was my first chance to do anything to amount

to with the problem of insect damage to forest trees. The
yard was full of barked logs of various species of trees

and a man was sent with me to tell me the kinds as I

asked. Having made some estimate of the frequency of at-
tack of various types of insects on the various types of
trees, we went inside the plant and watched the veneer |
coming off a a and aman how ihe the insect burrows

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Enclosed bathing pool at hotel

penetrated the log. It was fairly evident that the
amount of damage was relatively slight. There didn’t
seem to be any really important pest of the forests in
Chile which is a very good thing. Chilean forests are
not like ours; a Chilean forest may extend for miles
and contain only two, three, four or at most five kinds
of trees while ours often contain twenty or even thirty
kinds. Therefore, if a pest attacking a single species
of tree gets a foothold in the Chilean forest, it may
seriously injure or destroy 20% or more of the trees
while in the United States a similar outbreak might
account for as much as 10% but rarely more and usually.
less. Reached the hotel at 8.30, had a very wea
hot bath and dinner.

Mar. 2. This is a day of rest. We walked about the
city in the morning. At noon we entertained Teuber and
Mrs Teuber at luncheon (I like them both very much).
With the departure of the Teubers we went to our room

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and read and slept until about l.30. We then took our baths,
dressed and went down to the lobby where we found Jorge Ramsay
A. 1 gave him the note from B Y M and later did the same to
"Pepe" Suárez. After onces we took in a movie - an Argentine
comedy and quite good - followed by a good walk before dinner.
After dinner we packed, paid our bill which came to P 1201,60
for both, took another walk and went to bed.

6.145 for early
breakfast, and
by taxi to sta-
tion for the
7.15 train to
Valdivia. The
trip was very
pleasant and
not long. In
the Valdivia
station I waite
ed with the
baggage while
Raúl went hunt-
ing for a taxi.
Usually our ho- |
tel was near Valdivia. View from our hotel window.

the station but Note advertizing painted on pavement!

this time it was | |

on the far side of town, facing (as usual) the Plaza de Armas.
Our room was N° 9, a large corner room with full length windows
and a bath built into one corner of the room. While we were at
lunch we were called on by René Salas M., the assistant agron-
omist of the Department of Agriculture stationed at Valdivia.
fe was a very nice looking youngster, perhaps 25 years old.

At 2.30'he came back and took us first to the offices of the
Department and then to the motor launch (official) in which we
vere going down the Río Calle Calle to Niebla. The trip took
about two hours so we were ready for onces when we reached the
hotel. Back of the hotel were many remains of old Spanish
fortifications, the outer defenses of Valdivia. These were
very interesting, being carved out of the living rock rather
than built up out of masonry. The rock is moderately soft,
easy to cut with knife, and the walls of the trenches and
store rooms were covered with initials and dates. The earliest
date that 1 saw was 1610, ten years before the final overthrow
of the Spaniards by the Chileans in this region. These forti-
fications are on the very edge of cliff overlooking the water.
Ve found a footpath wnich led down onto the beach where we
collected, getting a few interesting things. At 7 PM we were

back at the launch, ready to return to Valdivia. As the
sun set, the cormorants came in in long lines to settle
down for
the night
on what
seemed to
be sand
bars along
the main
channel.
Twice our
motor re-
fused to
run and we
drifted
back while
Salas tin-
kered with
it. lt was WS
9.30 before e.
we were at |
the wharf.

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Election
day but all
seemed go-
ing well.
Considering
the large
number of
police who
were every |
where to be Fortifications at Niebla

seen, that |

was not surprising. At 9.30 Salas appeared again and

we took the launch for a run around Isla Teja. This
island is made by a dividing and then rejoining of the
Río Calle Calle and is really part of Valdivia. We went
ashore at one place (Raúl nearly ruined his almost new
saddle shoes by jumping onto a mud bank that looked
solid) and found fair collecting. Salas joined us at
the hotel for lunch. He asked many questions about the
United States and chances to go there for study. Raúl
was in a very bad humor, in fact he had been ever since :
we left Puerto Varas, and he told Salas that "in the
United States, negroes and South Americans were treated
alike." Then, for fear that I had missed that gem, he
repeated it in English. I managed to refrain from com-
menting. We left shortly after lunch for the railroad

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station because the politicians had most of the taxis
and it was best to grab one when it was available,

While waiting for the train to start, we collected on
some rose-bushes that were growing beside the tracks.
The train was half an hour late leaving Valdivia and

we lost another 0 minutes in Antilhue. Reached Temuco
about an hour late but as the hotel was adjoining the
station we were able to get our room, leave our bags and
get to the dining room in time for dinner. After dinner
we walked to the Plaza and back before bed. No election
returns in up to that time.

Mar. 5. At 9.00 AM we went to the Escuela Práctica de
Agricultura. We were met by the
Director, Sr. Oscar Muñoz M. and
the Professor of Biology, Sr.
Luis Picasso Stagno. They were
both very pleasant, though I came
to like Picasso the better of the
two. The school is one of several
in Chile that gives instruction
to poorly prepared farmers and
others in practical agriculture.
These schools are most like our
Agricultural College. Short Course.
We were taken over the school to
see the classrooms and laborator-
ies and the dining room and kit-
chen. I was introduced to Edwin
ihl, 1.4. from Santiago, who was
| in charge of the work dealing
| with white grubs "gusanos de pasto".
He did not have an adequate lab~
oratory nor library and had not
kes been trained especially for this
Co work. He was intelligent and in
Edwin Ihl C. . time he will commence to get re-
sults. At 12.30 we returned to
the Director’s office and were invited to lunch at the
Faculty table. The food was excellent and I was assured
that we were having the same menu and food (except for the
wine) that the students had. We were to go to the Fundo
Trianon in the afternoon and as there was a prospect of
some collecting there, we went back to the hotel for our
nets and bottles. The school is to be removed from its
present location to the Funde. Ihl joined us and we col-
lected some white grubs as well as a centipede, a scorp-
ion, two large and brilliant carabid beetles and other
items. We returned to town about 6.00 and were the guests
of Muñoz at a swell restaurant for onces. We looked like

tramps! Then back to the hotel to change clothes and go
to call on Sr Gilberto Montero to see his collection. He
has accumulated about 2) drawers of miscellaneous insects,
only part of which were labelled as to locality and almost
none were determined to genus or species. I noticed

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View of Temuco from

nothing that seemed out of the
ordinary run. While we were
there, [hl joined us and we
all went back to the hotel for
dinner. After dinner Raúl
wrote letters and Ihl and I
went for a walk. We found a
bench in the Parque and sat
for quite a time discussing
the relations which exist be-
tween the United States and
the Latin-American countries.

Mar. 6, The morning was given
up to sight-seeing. First we
went to the recently organized
Museum of the Araucanian Indi-
en. There were about ) rooms
devoted to pottery, stone im-
plements, weaving, etc. Since
Temuco is the present center

of the Araucanians that are
left, such a museum is quite
properly located here. While
we were there, [hl joined us
and we walked about town,
crossing the bridge over the
Río Cautín. We saw many Indians
coming into town with produce
for market. Every Indian woman
wears an enormous silver breast
ornament, no two of which seem
alike. After lunch we went to
the Temuco office of the De-
partment of Agriculture where
we found Picasso and Ihl. We
took the Department truck and
drove out about 20 km. east of
the city to the Fundo Cooper.
Collected more white grubs etc.
Back to the hotel for a bath and
rest. Before onces I went to the

dive shop for my last two film packs. The films themselves
looked not too bad but the prints were very yellow. We had
left some freshly emerged flies to harden at the Escuela

and we walked toward the school intending to get them. But
remembering how bad the light is in the laboratory, we
changed our minds and went back to the hotel.

Mar. 7. Up and again to the Escuela Practica. Reached there
at 9.30 and met Picasso, Mufioz and Ihl. Raúl, Ihl and I went
up to the top of Nielol, a heavily wooded hill near the city
which has been made into a park. We took a narrow and rather
steep foot path through the woods and found some good collect
ing under stones and logs. We had a light lunch in the res-
taurant at the top and then started down to join the others
for a real meal at the Escuela. Raúl talked for about an
hour about his trip to Easter Island. We went back to th
hotel about 1,00 for a rest and at 5.30 met Picasso at the
restaurant for onces. As we were to meet Ihl at the hotel

at 8.30, we had time to look about in the stores. I bought

some silver, a bracelet and four ash trays. We went to dinner :

at 9.00 and were joined at table by Alvarado, who will go to
Angol with us. After dinner we went to our hotel room and
talked igor LOS IO.

Mar. 8. Up late, had a bath and a shave, packed and went to
breakfast. Ihl came at 10.00 and the two of us walked far
out Avenida Germanica and back by another route to the rooms
of the Sociedad Agronómica, arriving there at noon. Picasso
met us there and took us to his home for luncheon. As we
sat down at table, Mrs Picasso noticed that she had lost the

set out of her ring. It was a large topaz and of course, the i

discovery cast a slight gloom over the luncheon. However,

when we left the table and went into the living room, Ihl saw

the stone on the rug and all was well. Back to the hotel to
discover that there was no train to Angol until tomorrow.
Alvarado decided to go part way and spend the night at the
hotel in Renaico which is less expensive. Raúl and I pre-
ferred to stay in Temuco so we took another room for the
night and left a call for .45 AM. Leaving Raúl in the
room writing letters, Ihl and I went out for onces and to
buy some fruit for breakfast. I found some beautiful big.
white grapes at l cents a pound. We also looked in the
stores for a machete but without success. For onces I had
an iced coffee milkshake (pronounced café lao). Pack to hotel
for early dinner and bed.

Mar. 9. Up at l.l5, dressed and ate some grapes. Train was eN
waiting when we came out on the platform. We were ten minutes

late in leaving Temuco but arrived at Renaico on time. There a
we waited about 50 minutes for the train from Santiago that
was going to Angol. Bullock and Alvarado met us in the station A
at Angol and we all got into Bullock’s car. First to the a

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office of the Intendente of the city, where Bullock had

some business, then to a hardware store. While I was
looking around 1 saw a short Collins cutlass which I
bought for 100 pesos (3.00 US). We drove to the Plaza
where we waited for another of the Vergel missionaries.

This was ir, Houser from So. Dakota, in whose house we

are going to stay. Mrs Houser is an Oberlin graduate
and they have had two children there. The son graduated
in 1941. Lunch was ready for us and it was much like a
North American dinner.

ln the afternoon we wandered about over the farm. I
was impressed by the fact that there they had a climate

that was suitable for both the citrous fruits and apples,

pears and peaches. We were shown through Bullock’s small
museum. For some years Bullock has been collecting the
heavy doughnut-shaped stones that were used by the Arau-
canians as warclub heads and he now has a very large col-
lection (about 500 of various sizes). He has also found
a precolumbian cemetary where the burials were in urns. |
Three of these urns have been dug up intact; they are
about four feet high and perhaps 30 inches in diameter.
We had dinner with the Bullocks at about seven; after _
dinner we talked mostly about the war and the extent of
the Nazi penetration in Chile.

Var. 10. -A very good breakfast at 8.00. Bullock called
for us dont: 10.30 and with a laborer, we visited an e-
mormous stump that was completely overgrown with black-

berry bushes. The laborer cleared the stump and chopped

into it in several places but we found no termites. |
Vr Houser was attending a Rotary Club lunch in Angol so
we had our lunch with Mrs Heuser. In the afternoon,
Bullock turned me over to a small boy of 12 years. José

proved to be a good collector, as well as an agreeable

companion. Bullock told a good story about José - A

new overseer told him to take a hoe up to the barn and
then called after him "Do you know where it belongs?"
José replied with scorn, "I’ve been here for seven years
and you have just come!" Returned to the house at ).00
to put away the catch and pack. We leave Angol tomorrow

morning on the 8.00 for Concepción. Dinner with the Hou-

sers and after dinner Bullock came over with some leps
and dragonflies for me and some flies for Raúl. Later

. the Housers, Raúl and I played Chinese checkers under a

new (to me) set of rules. Bed at 11.30.

Mar. 11s Up at 6, hs, breakfast at 7.00, started for la.

“gol at 7.35 and pulled out of the station on the train

for Concepción at 8.13. At the last minute I gave Mrs
Houser a hundred pesos for social work (enough to buy a
good pig for some worthwhile boy to raise).

At Concepción we went to the Hotel Cécil, just across
the street from the new concrete railroad station which
was built after the 1939 earthquake and fire. On January

New railroad station, Concepción.

25 of that year, a disastrous quake which was centered not
far from Chillán shook Chile from Chillán to peri o
causing great loss of life. There was still much evidence
of the denne to be seen in Concepción where « some 10,000
people were killed and where much of the destruction was
caused by the fire that followed the quake. There are many
new buildings in the city but there are still many vacant
_ lots and standing walls without roofs, floors or windows.
Chillan was much harder hit. As the quake came late at
night there were very few people on the streets and that
fact multiplied the number of people killed. Chillán had
a total loss of life of 30,000 and most of the buildings
were rendered unfit for habitation.

After lunch we walked out to the University of Concep-
ción campus. This is the South American university that
most resembles a North American university. It was started

in 1920 and for many years did not have sufficient funds to
operate properly but a few years ago it was permitted to
partake of one of the national lotteries from which it gets
some 0,000,000 pesos a year. The buildings are modern and
include Biología General, Veterinaría, Derecho, Educación
and others. We will have to come back as we could not find
anyone to take us through any of the buildings. Back to.
town for onces and a shoeshine and a movie. It was Las
Tres Hermanas, with Barbara Stanwyck. Not bad for Holly-
wood. Dinner and bed at 10.30.

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