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The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-08-25
INTERESTING LECTURE
 BY MISS MAUDE FRANCIS

To a small but very appreeiative audience, Miss Maude Francis O. Washington, D. C. gave a most in terestiug lecture on o. Henry, The Man and his Work, at the Presbyte- rian church last Thursday evening Miss Francis revealed a sympathetic insight into the lie and character O. o. Henry that was Illuminating to her hearers. Several of his stories were sketehed briefly. and i'll closing Miss Francis read The Gifts of the Magi charmingly.
 The fact that her lecture was siv- en in the first protestant church to be established in Alaska was Of great interest to Miss Francis who vas gathering material for a. travel talk on Alaska. During her stay here, she visited points Of interest and secured a number of pictures. She left here for Ketchikan on the Aleutian, and after seeing the First City will visit Vancouver and Victoria southbound. Miss Francis was delighted with her visit here and expressed a desire to return and make the stikine trip OF her next visit.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-08-25
TAX NOTICE

The assessment roll of the Town of Wrangell for the year 1927 is now in my possession for the collec- tion of the taxes levied therein.
 The taxes will be delinquent on the 30th day of September. 1927. at o'clock P NJ. and unless paid prior thereto fifteen G5) per cent will be added to the amount as pen atty, and interest on said tax and penalty shall be charged at the rate of eight (S) per cent per annum from the date Of delinquency unti. paid
 PROVIDED, however, that if one half of the tax so assessed is paid on or before the 3Oth day of September, the remaining one-haif shall be due and payable on or before the 31st day of December, but if the said re maining one-half be not paid before December 31st, 1927, it shall be de- linquent and a penalty of fifteen (15) per cent will be added to the amount thereof, and interest on said tax and penalty shall be charged at the rate of eight (8) per cent per annum from date of delinquency un- til paid.
 PROVIDED. Also. that all payers of taxes who shall pay their taxes in one payment. and in full, on or before the goth day of September shall be allowed a three (3) per cent rebate on said tax.
 Taxes are payable at the Bank of Alaska.
 A. E. GURR, Town Treasurer.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-08-25
Wrangel Theatre
 Where the Most of the Best People
 See the Most of the Best Shows
Friday and Saturday

THERE YOU ARE. the season s laugh sensation with Conrad Nagel, Edith Roberts and George Faweett. Jumping out of third story win dow was the strenous experience Of Conrad Nagel which proved to the actor that comedy has just as many thrills as the "thrilHngest' serial ever devised.
 It occurred in the production of There You Are" the hilarious nev Netro-Goldwyn Mayer comedy drama in which NageI and Edith Robert1 play elopers enmeshed in a harrow Ing side-spltdng series of complisa- lions that include a stray baby. a chase with the police force and an angry father. and other humorous neidentals.
 The story was adapted from thc famous novel Of New York life by F Hugh Herbert. and the cast includes George Fawcett. Edith Roberts, Ed die Gribbon, Gwen Lee. Phillips smalley. Gertrude Bennett and oth- CTS of note. Edward sedgwiek was the director. Conrad Nagle continue in this film to do the comic work with which he proved so successful in Dance Madness There YoJ Arep is one of the funniest comedies of the season. and is destined to in srease substantially the size of this popular players already large fol lowing
 Admission prices. 25e and 1oe.
 Watch For YOUNG APRIL"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-08-25

THERE YoU ARE. the season. $ laugh sensation with Conrad Nagel, Edith Roberts and George Faweett.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-08-25
Birthday Party

Mrs. lcz phiaa Mason #as hostess Tuesday evening Co party of friends who met in celebration Of the birth dag of Mrs George H. Barnes. Those enjoying the evening we're Mrs. Div en. Mrs Thomas. Mrs xreatt and her house guest. Mrs. MeBirney. Mrs Della Coulter. Mrs. Hofs.ad. Mrs. Brown and her guest. Mrs. Wil- son. Mrs. n. D Campbell. Mrs Bid- well. Mrs. P. (. Mccormack and Inc honor guest Mrs. Barnes
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-08-25

FOR sALE-Lot 24, block 13. 50x140 on Cassiar street. S75 Gas boat, Desse, length 28 it.. beam it.. ' h.p. Regal engine, S150. Two Her cules logging jacks, $25 and $40. One pet marten, $3O See Mrs. Frank Adams.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11

ton Opposed to Blue Laws, is typical
of the times and IT Washington.
Wherever there is formed in Wash
ington an organization favoring a
principle, there must be another or
ganization formed to oppose it. The
Association Opposed to Blue Laws is
Differed by DR.. Joseph A. Themper,
a dentist, who is president, and Linn
A. E. Gale, who keeps a book shop, as
secretary. It's chief counsel. accord
ing to the 1etterhead, is the excellent
Mr.. barrow of Chicago. Sinclair
Lewis, author of ELMER Gantry." and
Rupert Hughes, who wrote a noted
book intimating that George Washing
ton had certain leanings, are listed as
Honorary vice presidents" Recently
Prof Henry FURY, high school pro-
fessor who won fame by getting into
an argument on socialism with Maj.
Gen. Amos A. Fries, soldier and
| patriot, has been enlisted as giver of
| statements. The organization has set
| itself UP to arouse sentiment against
| "all such fanatical and tyrannical
| schemes" as Sunday closing legisla.
ton, or blue laws" and has sent cir
| culars far and wide appealing. for
| funds with which to combat the well
financed, well directed and determined
bigotry lobby" against which it is
always prepared to issue a blistering
statement for the newspapers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
Sees Mussolini Lacking
I'm Pilsudski Humor

One difference between Joseph Pill
sudski, Polish dictator, and Benito
Mussolini, Italian dictator, seems to
be that the former has a sense Of hui
NOR. He let's himself be laughed at
on the music-hall stage for instance.
Also, If rumor can be credited, some
grave populations have not had their
suggestions treated with the serious
ness they would have liked. A group
of monarchists came to him one day
to point out the great advantages of
changing the republic into king
dom once more They went on to in
dictate that the only suitable person
for the throne was Marshal Pilsudski
himself. He listened with respectful
silence and meditated a moment.
There is much" he finally replied,
Every much, in what you say that ap.
pears to me to be strikingly true. But
there is one great difficulty. A King,
to my mind, should be a monarchist.
and / am not" Then with q sud.
den smile he added. as though he
had solved the difficulty, But my
daughter Wanda is--try herr Wan.
da has reached the romantic age of IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
NEW POLITICAL ERA IN SOUTH
URGED WITH ECONOMIC REBIRTH
clared to Have Brought Old Issues to Front-State
Rights or Centralized Control Is Problem

betterment and in a more resolute and
heartening attitude towards State en-.
terprises and State pride and toward
the monstrosities of intolerance, of
class feeling. of lynch law, of ignor.
ance and the like. If the South lags
anywhere now it is in politics.
Can Assert Leadership.
In very real sense some of the
oldest political issues of our history
are again brought to the front by
this development and process of in
naturalization; and in their solution
the South is once again in position to
assert political leadership. From the
very beginning of our history two
great elemental political forces have
striven for mastery in our national
life. One force, impelled by Hamilton,
found expression in what we still call
federalism. The other, impelled by
Jefferson, found expression in what
we still call democracy. The one force
is strong for an all-powerful CEN
tralized government; the other for
what 1t calls government of, by and
for the people. Both concepts have
their elements of weakness, both are
again in vivid conflict, and the
political problem of today as of yes
terday is how best to harmonic the
two.
AS applied to the industrialization
of the South, the issue is whether our
progress, our liberties and our gen.
eral welfare can best be subserved by
looking toward Washington or
toward our local capitals for govern
mental control, protection and guild
ance; whether an industrialized South
prefers to have it's larger politics
shaped by itself or by Federal bureaus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11

! museums Of Europe or America for
study and classification is not an ade.
quate allowance for this purpose. since
IL Is unsafe to describe or CLASSIFY n
species on the basis of so few samples.
the inconsistency of the law is point
ed out by Mr.. Sowerby, who writes:
Every year tens of thousands of
Skins OF antelopes, deer, foxes, wild
cats, leopards, raccoon dogs, marteur.
minks, civets, badgers, squirrels ard
many other animals, and the Feathers
mot the skins) of all sorts of birds in
huge quantities, are shipped out OF
CHINA in the course of trade. Tor
years immense numbers Of game birds
were shipped out of the country in
cold storage for consumption abroad,
ana today timed game of all sorts Il
sent out, while passenger steamers
load up with their supplies of game i'm
China without let or hindrance.
Millions upon millions OF fish are
taken from the streams and rivers
every year and consumed as food.
Thousands of musk deer are killed
every year In China and the musk
pods exported to the perfume:ies in
Europe and America. Thousands of
deer are killed every season for the
sake OF their horns when in velvet.
which are used as medicine.
"All this without the vestige OF a
regulation controlling the slaughter.
China has no museums or libraries
adequate for Identification and classi-
fication Of new species. and unless
specimens can be shipped to foreign
institutions 1t will be many years be-
fore the useful and dangerous Wild
life Of China can be understood. he
says.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11

The experience brought us an aston
ishing conviction sof' European supremacy IN
commercial aviation. ~tF n"
Air travel abroad is so simple. so safe, so
amazingly systematized. Planes in regular
service depart on scheduled time. They arrive
on scheduled time: Weather is ignored. The
planes go anyway. Journeying by air IN Eu
rope is as much matter of course as travel
by rail in this country.
Some of the ships carry as many as 2S
persons. Accommodations approximate in COM
fort the Pullman accommodations in this coun-
try. The planes have easy, reclining chairs,
excellent meals are served, and many of the
ships have bars The rail may be missing, but
scenery takes its place.
There are several great trunk lines-the
French lines, the Dutch tx. L. NJ lines from
Paris to Amsterdam and Malnno Sweden; the
great German Luft Hansa System which vir-
tualy covers all Europe. and OF course, there
is the Imperial Always operating between
Paris and London and London, Cologne and
Basic.
1 used all these trunk lines and innumerable
shorter routes. One particularly interesting
trip was S000-nile air journey through the
Scandinavian countries and around and across
the Baltic.
We had no forced landings. and our planes
departed and arrived on unbroken schedules.
Only once were delayed by fog, hanging
low over the mountains between Prague and
Vienna.
One brings chaos of impressions from
journey like this but there is one observation
which seems to more important than the
rest. Flying is safe.
And as commercial undertaking, flying in
Europe pays. Rates have been lowered vr-
tually to those for rail transportation. l few
from Paris to Berlin for $50 and was allowed
so pounds of luggage. paid $12 for so pounds
excess luggage. The first-class train fare for
the same journey is about $50.
The average planes carry about 1000 pounds
of freight express in addition to 10 or IL
passengers. Burning from 10 to 25 gallons of
gasoline an hour, they find safe margin of
profit.
All over Europe flying schedules are per-
fectly articuiated with motor and train sched-
ules. On the German lines the co-efficient of
accidents in 1926 was O.003 per cent, and there
was no loss of life in 1926.
The number of airports is constantly increas-
ing There is not city Of economic Importance
in Europe which does not have an airport.
These flying fields. with their fine appointments
for the convenience of passengers, are more like
country clubs. s%
One is waited down gently to the field
European pilots have amazing skill in land
ings-and descends to surroundings of such
well ordered ease and convenience as to sug.
gest afternoon tea and then perhaps round
of golf. You pick out your luggage as you
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
Peking Ban Against Removal of Birds
From China flinders Scientific Work

Government officials in Picking have
decreed that no specimens of birds
may be exported from China and only
three scientific specimens Of any other
species OF animal or plant life. These
regulations, very recently enforced,
will greatly hamper foreign scientists
who are studying Chinese birds, fish,
insects and other creatures. according
to Arthur de c. Sowerby, editor of the
China Journal
The bird law is a hangover from
customs regulations established some
years ago to prevent wholesale expor-
tation Of pheasants for their skins, he
points out. It was never intended to
apply to scientific collections, and its
revival cannot be attributed to any
need to save the Chinese birds from
extinction at the hands Of foreign sci.
entists. Permission to send three
specimens Of other species back to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11

Orient and will compete for trans
pacific electrical communication bust.
ness both with the Radio Corporation
and with the Postal
Thus an almost limitless prospect OF
new competition in electrical com.
munications is opened UP through the
Combination" OF the resources of the
Postal and of the Federal Telegraph
Co. of California. Neither the Depart.
ment of Justice nor the Federal Radio
Commission, after study. Is lifting Il
finger to thwart that Combination.
An official has remarked:
you can't fight giants with dwarfs.
To fight combinations you need COM
binations. And in this America there
Is going to be plenty Of business for
ALL"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
BY ALBERT C. RITCHIE,
Governor of Maryland.

Changes are coming in the South
with a suddenness and magnitude
that is almost without parallel in his
tory.
Statisticians estimate that during
the last 10 years there has been an in.
crease of more than 10000, 000, 900 of
wealth in the new South; with still-un-
developed resources Of a potential
value that are beyond computation.
The railroad mileage, which is always
fair test Of growth, alone has in
creased four fold in the last two dec
AIDES, with still larger ratio of in
crease in business and earnings. One
half of all the coal mined in the United
States came from five Southern States,
and the growth in textiles, metalurgi-
cal and other lines has been simply
enormous. The value of manufac-
tured products in 1926 is put at &c.
SOC, 100000, and Southern farm prod
uctS in the same year are valued at
Sc, 900, 900 900, of which less than one
fourth is represented by cotton. Like
impressive figures could be marshaled
as to building operation, foreign ship.
ping, motor purchases and the like.
Economic Rebirth Shown.
These few figures suffice to illustrate
how real is all the talk about the eco.
nomfc rsebirth of the South, and many
are convinced that all this is but a
mild forerunner of. what is ahead.
Those who love the old romantic South
of the blue grass and the cotton fields
may have mixed feelings as to the out.
come, but the fact is that the star of
industrial-empire is definitely moving
southwark. Every economic force is
driving it that way. With it's natural
resources, its climate. its access to the
sea and favorable location for foreign
markets, and it's fine labor and living
conditions, we are bound to see in the
South an almost unlimited industrial
development.
| New forces are everywhere at work
| in the South besides those involved in
it's industrial rise. We see them work
| ing in the field of education and social
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
BY WILLIAM HARD.

The unique feature of Washington's
present week end Is that some high.
class so-called "trust-busting may
get accomplished in this country
| through the remarkable process of
tacit permission given by the Gov.
eminent to the formation of a great
so-called Combination"
The combination Is the one between
the Federal Telegraph Co. of Califor.
MIA on the one hand and on the other
the Mackay Companies, a Massachu.
sets organization which operates
cables in the Atlantic and the Pacific
and which operates also, within the
United States, the widespread tele.
graph system commonly called simply
''the Postal"
The institutions at which this new
combination is aimed are the dominant
American telegraph system called the
Western Union and the dominant
American wireless communication sys.
tenn called the Radio Corporation of
America and also called by radical
and alarmed members of Congress
'the radio trust
The Federal Telegraph Co. of Cali
fornia is already, in a restricted
area, giving a radio service which the
Radio Corporation of America does
not anywhere give. This is a point
to-point service. not over sea but over
land, from Portland, Greg, down
| through San Francisco to Los Angeles,
Calf. Only one other such service
| a regular commercial land-area wire
less SERVICES given anywhere in the
United States.
| In giving it on the Pacific slope the
Federal Telegraph Co. of California
has been competing locally with the
wires Of the Western Union and of
the Postal.
Increased Competition Seen.
Now the Postal is to absorb-by
purchase-the whole plant Of the Fed.
| eral Telegraph Co. of California on
| the Pacific slope, in so far as that
plant is devoted to the transmission
of wireless messages.
| This might seem to be a diminish.
ing of competition, but it is also by a
grand paradox a tremendous incrjas-
! ing of it.
The Federal Telegraph Co. Of Cali
fornia, besides conducting a local
commercial wireless business, is the
| proud and ambitious owner OF a con.
siderable flock of radio patents which
1t has long aspired to send into bat:
| tie against the flock owned by the
Radio Corporation Of America.
Is the Radio Corporation Of Amer
lea a trust? mo-" says the Fed
eral Telegraph Co. of California. mot
If our competitive patents are prop
erly financially backed against it."
| So now the Mackay companies
which is to say. in practice. the
Postal-will not only take over the
Federal Telegraph Co.'s immediate
commercial business but also will un.
dertake to buy from the Federal Co. s
laboratories and factories the radio
equipment. which 1t hopes will justify
it in going into the commercial wire
less-message business all over the
United States and across all oceans
and seas.
Intensifles Land Service Fight.
The Postal is now competing with
the Western Union In land service
only by messages on wires. OF this
sort Of business 1t has In the United
States only some IL per cent? while
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11

Note-This is the first of a series of four
articles by Col. Davis giving his impressions OF
the development of commercial aviation in Europe
and the status of radio abroad. Col Davis at
tended international aviation and radio conferences
in Europe during the Summer and also the dis
armament conference The second article. dealing
with aviation tendencies in the Balkans. will be
published tomorrow in The Evening Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
"L'arnin' +" Going Up.

From the Lowell Courier-Citizen.
=, The University Of Vermont has
raised it's tuition SIS per semester,
and there are fine old Vermonters
who say it cost lot these days to
study some outlandish subject like
that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11
BY LIEUT.. COL. w. JEFFERSON DAVIS.

n n wife and recently completed 10000
M mile journey by air which took us into
W. all the countries of Europe but four.
4 The experience brought an aston
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-11

NEW Dill FIdHHeU.
It would be natural to suppose that
the Lords Day Alliance. coming
down to Washington from New York
10 lobby in behalf of a Sunday clos
ing law for the District, would find
q host of allies in the ministers of
Washington, the majority of whom
naturally indorse, as a principle. a
.eroper observance of the Sabbath.
But such is not the case. It would
be natural again to suppose that such
an organiza ton as the Methodist
Board of Temperance and Public
Morals, which. as its name implies
keeps a watchful eye on the measures
AFFECTING the morals of the Nation
would Immediately align itself will
the Lords Day Alliance and help i
eahieve Sunday closing law for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15
GROUP OF ST. PAUL
BONDHOLDERS LOSE
Federal Judge Wilkerson Refuses
Right of Separate Action in
Reorganization Suit.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 15.-The group
of holders of $1S,000,000 worth of the
Junior securities of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railway, known
as the bondholders' protective COM
mittee, under leadership of Edwin {.
Jameson of New York, met fourth
rebuff in Federal Court yesterday
when it was refused the right Of
separate action.
Federal Judge James H. WilkerSon,
In whose court the railway went into
receivership nearly two years ago,
denied motions of counsel for the
Jameson group asking permission to
appeal from his confirmation of the
recent sale of the road, for a sever
ance from the trustees of the road,
and for an injunction to maintain the
status quo of bonds held by the COM
mittee pending an appeal, if permits
sion for it were granted.
In denying the motions Judge Will
kerson stated that the committee had
been ruled not a party to the proceed
ings by himself, the Circuit Court of
Appeals and the United States Su-
preme Court, when their intervening
petition was denied.
The judge said, however, that he
would entertain a motion for
regular appeal from that part of his
confirmation order concerning APP
prevail of the reorganization plans of
the purchasers.
. The main contention of counsel for
the jameson group was that the
bonds Of the railway have mar
ket value of IL points more than the
holders would receive If they turned
their bonds over to the reorganization
officials as provided in the approved
plan of reorganization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-15
EVERETT TO ATTEND
COMMERCE FARLEY
Officially Represents Board
i of Trade at U. S. Cham
ber'S Annual Meeting.

w. w. Everett, who has been named
national counselor of the Washington
Board of Trade to the Chamber OF
Commerce of the United States, will
represent the board officially at the fif-
teenth annual meeting of the national
organization to be held in Washington
May 2-5, +. c. Graham, president of
the trade body, announced today.
Edward +. Colladay has been named
alternate to Mr.. Everett and the 10
official delegates are Arthur Carr,
Charles +. Consaul, j. Harry Cum
ningham, George w. Offutt, Samuel j.
Prescott, Ben T. Webster and Francis
r. Weller. The alternates are l.. Leo
Kolb, Paul b. Cromelin, George Pitt,
George c. Shinn, Frank p. Leetch,
Joshua Evans, jr.; Jesse c. Adkins,
Stephen E. Kramer and David M. Lea.
Eleven new members were admitted
to the board at a meeting of the execu-
tive committee late yesterday They
are: Wrisley Brown, w. A. II. Church,
jr, Walter c. English, w. j. La Varre,
Earl A. Mcdonald, Victor S. Mersch,
George 3. Mullin Co., Inc, represented
by George B. Mullin, jr, and Bernard
j. Mullin; William 7. Peake and Alex
ander w. Yereance.
George Pitt, vice chairman of the
committee. presided.