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Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-31
Plane Inventor
Has Close Call
ny United Press Leased Wire

COLLEGE POINT, N. Y, May
3l.-Ivan Sikorsky, airplane manu-
facturer, G. Colyer and an unidenti-
fled mechanic were thrown into
Flushing bay today when their
hydroplane crashed into submerg-
ed object after a forced descent.
The aviators managed to scramble
out on a wing and shouted TO men
on a nearby dock, who came out in
rowboats and rescued them. Z They
were not injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-31
SEEK TO UNITE CHURCHES
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WASHINGTON, May 3l.-The
general assembly Of the United
Presbyterian church today voted to
maintain for another year the com.
mittce seeking means of uniting it
with the Southern Presbyterian
church,
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-31
WOMAN STILL ASLEEP
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FRESNO, May 31.--The condition
of Mrs Clara Drummond 20, was
still critical T. day as 81 lay asleep
"r i h'.c" , coz ~ ne -, -ra
sccutive lay according 10 attca.
a'aut9 al th? county losp:,aE
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-31
TILDEN TO MEET CocHET
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ST. CLOUD, France, May 81
William Il. Tilden, former world
champion, and Henri Cochet, who
defeated him at Forest Hills last
year. will meet in the semi-f finals of
the French hard court Champion
ships.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-31

A woman arrested as careless
driver said she believed in the
equality of sexes. She got 60 days.
She II have to think up a better
answer than that.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-31

Two men arrested in Detroit de-
MED they were robbers, and claimed
to be bootleggers. The police
thought at first they had caught
some lawbreakera
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-31

"Britons Praise U. s. Libraries. .
says headline. But they don
like our bookkeeping.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06
LETTER FROM MISS GERTRUDE
 OSBORN

The members of the Wrangeil Moose lodge are in receipt of a let ter from Gertrude Osborn who, with her brother Albert and sister Anne, has been a member of the Mooseheart school home for the past six years. After thanking the lodge for their Christmas re- memDranee Gertrude added the fol- lowing description of Mooseheart:
 .I have never told you very much about Moosehcart so will endeayor to tell you a little about it. The program for the day is the same every day. We get up at o'clock in the morning, breakfast at o'clock We each have our respect i've assignments such as the kitch- ell, dining room, and living room. Every room in the house is swept three times a day, and mopped at least three times School is at 8:10, tardy at 6:20, come home for din- ner at 11.50, school at 12:5O for the Is grades. 9-12 grades have vocational training all after noon. At $50 we all gather at an assembly building where oar super 1uiGuuHuI, and we have a regular program. At 4:45 We come in the house, because it is dark, but in the summer we stay out until o'clock. Supper is at o'clock, Bible study at 7:30, and school studies at 7:45 which are finished at 8:45. We are al lowed, if needed, to stay up until 9.30. Lights gre out Ut ten o'clock. That is our program every week day and it is a very good one.
 I have told you this so you could know for sure of our kind treat ment here. I intend to stay until I graduate. ] like it here very much; yes, after six years l like it.
 l am taking Up shorthand, typ ing and bookkeeping now and like them very much. Perhaps l shsll need such training when leave here.
 Al Huffman, a boy that used tf be at Mooseheart, came down from Alaska not long ago. l talked to him and he told me what line town Wrangell is and now l know may well be proud that came from there.
 If any member of the lodge has a picture of my dear father, l wish he would be kind enough to send me one, please
 LOST - A leather mitt. Finder ,vr.I1 ,,1oo.o yotifu fba Sentinel
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06
HIGH TAXES RETARDING MINING DEVELOPMENT
 IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

P A. O'Farrell. globe-trotter, sa- Yant, newspaperman. and mining authority. has an interesting and instructive article in the Financial Times of Montreal concerning the development and future prospects of British Columbia in general and the port of Vancouver in particu- lar. He says:
 sThe gold and silver resources of British Columbia aDd the Yukon are also fabulously rich. In the Portland Canal area alone more gold will be produced in the twen- tieth century than California pro dueed in the nineteenth. Only one mine in this district has so far been properly equipped. This is the Premier. It has an aerial tramway, a 4O0-ton mill, and in six years 1t has made net profits of more than 0,000,000. In addi- dition to this sum the Dominion and British Columbia have received several millions in income tax.
 "The Premier pays more income tax than all the farmers of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba com bined. Were it not for the eXhor- bitant income tax policy of the Do minfon and the Province the Pre- mfer would now be milling 1200 tons of ore daily and earning net profits of S5.000.000 a year.
 Thus, excessive income tax is choking gold and non-ferrous metal production in the richest mineral region of the world.
 "The Premier is now paying SI.600,000 in dividends, and com potent engineers who have exam ined it's ore reserves assure me that out of it's own mines the Premier can keep on paying dividends for the next twenty years and most porbably for a much longer period. Its high grade ore runs S200 to the ton. It's milling ore averages $9 in gold and 10 oz. of silver to the ton and the concentrates pay taxes and dividends
 Tn one British Columbia mine the ore for eight feet across the vein averages $19 in gold. Its gold values are double those of the Hol- finger and, fully equipped, 1t could produce fifteen or twenty million dollars a year. But taxation in the Province keeps investors away and the millions necessary to equip and develop it's gold mines are not forthcoming.
 Tn Quebec where no income tax is levied, gold mining development is being pushed with extraordinary ropidity. But in British Columbia the government grabs 10 per ceGt of the net smelter returns and the Dominion filches another ten per cent. Income tax extortion explains why the Premier does not enlarge it's mill to four or five times it's present capacity"
 The above also appeared in "Un- biased Opinions" of Spokane, with the following paragraphs added:
 "The ablest constitutional law yers insist that the Dominion in come tax is unconstitutional. 1T so, the sooner the matter is brough before the Privy Council, the bet ter.
 "The grain miners of the prai- ries are expert tax dodgers, and it is due to them that the gold produ- cers and manufacturers of the Do- minion have been saddled with an unconstitutional income tax"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06
TOWN TEAM DEFEATS KAKE

The Town Basketball team took kake,s measure last Tuesday night to the tune of 26 10 II. The game was one of the fastest and most az gressiRe played on tho floor this year. The Rake team after being defeated the night before by the high school strengthened their line up with q new center. Robert Sha= quain. who was the mainstay of the Rake team.
 Tune was called by referee Bailey and the battle was on. Stump SCOT ed the first basket for the town team and Shaquain followed with one for Rake. The town again took the lead on a basket made by Lee and another one followed from Osborn. kake again came up with basket from KakkIen Alter short serimmege Osborn again SCOT ed for the town. Shaquain got away for one more field goal and kakklen made foul that was calI- ed on Osborn. Stump scored twice from the field in rapid succession and Rake retaiiated with lou made by Shaquaiu. Stump was hurt and time out was called for Wrangell and Willard substituted for Stump who was forced to leave the game. The game from there on was mostly Nrangell shooting and missing till the end of the half. The score stood s to 12 i'll favor of Nrangell.
 The second half started with a change of lineup on both teaus. Stump went back in for Willard and Osborn took ee1 ter with Lewis paying standing guard. Rake sub stituted Gordon for kakken. and James for Grand. The last half was mostly Wrangell's game with the visitors unable to break through their defense and Wrangell playing a better shooting game. Lewis made only one of his sensational shots from the center of the floor that night and Prescott broke through to receive and convert a pass from Osborn. Lee scored two more field goals and Stump and Osborn both made one field goal and one foul shotz Shaquain and Dugoqua both made a field goal, which was the only scoring done by Rake the last half. Stump, Osborn and Lee showed good floor work and pene- trated Kake's defense often. Pres colt played his usual good game as guard and broke up play after play with his speed and jumping ability. The game ended with the score PC to 14 in Wrangell's favor.
 The Town team seemed to get their stride for the first time this season and outplayed Rake in every department of the game. If the Town team continues at it's present rate the High school had better be- gin to consider the game that they have to play off to decide the tie tha. is now existing between the Town team and the High school
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06
WILD ANIMAL CENSUS

We fancy that there will be rather unusually widespread inter est in the wild life census" ire quently completed by agents of the federal government, working with scientists of the~ several states. The figures tabulated are significant in marked degree and will be of ines timable value to the government in it's work of wild life conservation in future years. Guesses will no longer be necessary, now that ap proXimately correst figures, care fully gathered and properly tabu- lated, are easily available. Our wild animals are, in very truth, a precious item of the national prop erty list The figures recently listed show that there are 605, 300 deer in America. The elk popula- tion is given as 72,000; antelope, 7,500; brown and black bear, 46,- 200; grizzly bear, $500; moose, 5000; mountain goats, 17,000; mountain sheep, 12,000, and cari- bou, 150,000. The report omits a report on the number of buffalo for the reason that they are not permitted to run wild but are, in tected reservation aras outside the national forests. In recent years there has been a most gratifying specialization of public sentiment in support of measures for the pro- tection and conservation of these wild animals. Our national forests provide plenty of room for them, and they should be kept largely as exhibits of the wild life onee so abundant in America. Americans are justified in taking great pride in their wild animals, and proper pride presupposes a spirit of inter- est in preserving them.-Cordova Times.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06
SITKA TAGGED DUCKS
 KILLED IN MISSOURI

The Alaska Game Commission has received, through the post master at Sitka, a letter from a party in Missouri which states that two mallard ducks were recently killed in that region which bore tags with inscription "Sitka, Alas ka," and the date April 4, 1926.'
 If the person who tagged the birds will address the Alaska Game Commission at Juneau the Commis- sion will furnish further details as to where the birds were killed and who reported finding them.
 The Commission is much inter ested in this, for the reason that the banding of ducks is being car ried on extensively by the Biologi- cal Survey, to ascertain their move ments and all such information relative to the movements of birds is quite valuable.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06
MASQUERADE DANCE
 DECIDED SUCCESS

The New Years masquerade dance given by the Pr. A. at the gym under the management of the president, Carl Arola, was a deeid- ed success. The dance was well at tended and those present entered into the carnival spirit of the even oing and had a jolly, good time
 Prizes were awarded as follows: Best dressed lady, Mrs. T. J. Me Bride; best dressed gentleman, Mrs. Olive McLaughlin; best sustained characters, J. Brooks Hanford and Carl Anderson; most comical char acters, Mrs. Willard Jenkins and Mrs. W. J. Bradley The affair netted around $60 which will be applied on the gym building fund
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06
PREMIER PASSES TEN
 MILLION DOLLAR MARK

Word has been received from the head office of the Premier Gold Mining Co. in New York that at a meeting of the directors there the regular quarterly dividend of eight cents on the share had been declar- ed, payable on January to share holders as of record December 15 This is the same quarterly dividenf that has been disbursed for the pas few years, representing $400,000 9 quarter. Total dividends paid by this company are now in excess of the $10,000,0O mark.-Portland Canal News.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06
Enenn
AUTOMOBILE LICENSES DUE

Automobile licenses and drivers licenses are now due and payable to the town clerk.
 Section 5 of Ordinance No. 63 provides that
 "The annual fee for such li- cense shall be as follows: Taxis and delivery cars and trucks $15.00; pleasure cars, $10.00; motorcycles, $500; trailers, $5.0O; and all licensdN shall be issued for the calendar year be- ginning on January first and ending on December thirty-first of each year"
 The fee for a drivers license shall be $2.00.
 J. w. Pritchett,
 Town Clerk
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06
Recovering from Illness

William Ryan who made Wran- gell his headquarters years ago, and who has resided in California for several years, has been in the Sacramento hospital for number of weeks. He hopes to be discharg- ed shortly.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06
Dance Postponed

The dance that was to have been given by the Wrangell Fire De- partment on January 15 has been postponed till the date of their an- nual dance on February 22, at which time they will give a big af- fair representative of the days of '9S.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06
Adiudged Insane

Charles H. Piltzer, aged 25, was adiudged insane Tuesday after noon. The unfortunate man is sui fering from a hallucination that ne is in constant danger of being mur- dered by the Masons and Elks.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06
NEWS FROM THE
 OUTSIDE WORLD

ROME - No birth control was the basis of an edict issued by Pre- mier Mussolini by which he plans to put into force measures main taining his boast, that. Prolific we are, and prolific we intend to remain.n
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

NEW YORK, Jan. IA decrease in the supply of suckers in the night clubs was noted by the New York World today. It says the clubs, at their best, are no more than a poor substitute for the old time saloon back rooms, and at their worst, hangouts for white collar thieves.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

NEW YORK - Customs author ities struck a blow at organized gem smuggling by arresting Franz Pielemans, a Dutch seaman, as he left the pier after shipping on Red Star liner Diamonds valued at $125,000 were seized on Pieleman. The seizure was held secret for "A hours in futile effort to locate the consignee.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

Two successful basketball games were played at Petersburg on We'd nesday and Thursday of last week. The first game was between Wran- gell Hi and Petersburg Hi, scoring 29-6 in favor of Wrangel. The second game, Thursday evening, was between Wrangell Hi and Pet ersburg Town Team. This score was also ill favor of Wrangell.
 The Ketchikan basketball girls are expected in Wrangell in about two weeks to play a game with the Wrangell girls basketball team.
 New song books received by the high school were dedicated Tues day by singing America the Beau tiful."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

FOUND-Gold Neck Chain with locket containing picture of girl Owner may recover by paying for this sd. Inquire ssenttnsA
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4- President Coolidge and his aides are disturbed over he report that Mexico and Latin American eoun- tries are planning an anti-Ameri- can move, by uniting Central America as an anti-United States nation.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

MANILA, Jan. 4.- A Japanese firm has paid an option on Fuga Island which they are seeking to buy from the owner, the press re- vealed here. yesterday. The gov ernment of the Philippines is talk ing steps to prevent the island from falling into foreign hands.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

CHICAGO - The Federal dis triet court ruled that income tax levies on bootleggers must be pre- sented by trial in court.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

BRUSSELS Princess Astrid, bride of Crown Prince Leopold, will receive only a million francs q year-one hundred and forty thou sand dollars approximately, for household expenses, it was reveal ed here yesterday.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

AUSTIN, Texas. Jan. 4.- Ma Ferguson. woman governor of Tex as. granted 29 full pardons yester- day bringing her clemency list to 2,993.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06
SCHOOL NOTES

Wrangea hlgu school has been praeueIug on tNo pays Ior the past two months. one 0t euem, "Buy- ing Jimmie a oult. ls golng to De given at an assembly 10 be he'd this coming Friday. Later il Will be used in a P.-F. A. program. The other play. A Resular f1&.. Mi De given Tor the puDac sometime this month.
 In a fast game N u. $. defeated the Rake school team last Monday evening by a score of 22-I3.
 The game was unusually last be- ing marred only by small amount oI roughness. Nrangeil drew tIrs1 blood by a pass from tip-otf to N heeler under the basket from which position he scored. Four baskets III a TOW were obtained be fore hahe gOl a basket. However. the visitors soon got their eye 50 that the halftime score was 12-lI in IaVor ot WrangeI.
 Rake Was ill the lead for short time when they scored q long shot. then last goal Co be obtained dur ing the hal. The combination oI Desmond, Wheeler and Engstrom worked smoothly so that the thlrG quarter ended 20-l3.s
 In the final quarter the kake referee disqualified Desmond IoI returning the ball to him with un- necessary force. Goodrich substl- tu1ed and by a pretty piece oI flool Work the ball was tossed through the hoop tor the final points ot the gone. Score. 22-13
 Bailey and Lottus played all ex- eeptonaIly line game al the guarG positions. They had 10 be every. where Tor the Rake forwards prov ed to De no sIouchers i'll handing the ball.
 The WrangeIl girls team was victorious at ketehikan New Years Eve when they played against the kayhi team. The game was very last and close as the final score SHOWS, 14-16. This was Ketchi- kan s first out of town game and Nrangelss second this year The nne-up was as follows:
 Rita Robertson, Marjorie John son, R. F. Marjorie Charles, Ger trude Garlstrom, L. F. Daisy Race, Dorothy Johnson. J.C. Agnes Murphy, Virginia Tozier, s. G.. Christine Burke, Etolin Coulter, R. t. Margaret Bogen, Irene To- zier, L. G.
 Substitutes for Ketchikan:
 EYeiyn F'rederickson Tor Mar jorie Charles; Elizabeth Grigsby TOT Christine Burke; Elizabeth angsby TOT Daisy Race.
 substitutes for Wrangell:
 Gertruue Goodrich for Marjorie Jonnson; Marjorie Johnson Iol EtoAn Coulter.
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

GUATEMALA CITY, Jan. "A short hop of 55 miles to San Jose, Guatemala, and then llO miles to San Salvador. are the next stages ahead of the U. s. army goodwill fliers. They expect to leave here, today.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

I. G. Grant left on the Princess Mary Friday night on a business trip to Seattle.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

CALEXICo, Calif.-General No bile, the Italian army flyer who pi loted the dirigible Norge over the North Pole, arrived here yesterday enroute to Japan, where he will SUI peryise the building of a dirigible for Japan.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

NEW YORK = As Judge Landis, baseball czar, summoned 38 players in a new probe of baseball, Jimmy 0'Connell, former Giant outffelder, charged that Major League pitcherg had given him a signal when to hit in one game and that hit had resulted in a two bagger. He made other charges involving Giants players. President Johnson of the .tmerican League issued a state ment saying that Swede Risberg and other players who caused the present investigation should be ir Joliet penitentiary.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

WASHINGTON The decline of A=1esizan sea power and the deteri- oration of the US Navy was aired in both houses. as Senator Johnson fIayed President Coolidge's policy of cutting lhe Navy and allowing T. s. sea forces to sink below the position of Japan.
 Johnson said, with war debtors hating the United States and all the world envying it's prosperity, it is folly 10 impair the national de- fense. Senator Hale urged that the Navy be built up to at least the 5-5-3 ratio.
 The House appropriations eom- mittee reported a navy appropria- ton bill. backing up President Coolidge. by emitting funds for three cruisers and two dirigibles, and also reducing fuel oil used by the navy. The bill will be fought on the House floor, but powerful in= fluences are said to be backing the Presidents stand.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

NEW YORK Because he was just too darned lazy to live, be- cause life offered him no new thrills, and because death did, Rid gy Vile. student at the University of Illinois, committed suicide yes terday.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

MOSCOW The Soviet govern ment has forbidden dancing of the Charleston in public as an indecent product of the fat American bour gaoisie
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

ROME Representatives of the Catholics of Mexico took an oath in the presence of the Pope to resist until death in defense of thier faith.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

PARIS = Reports that Charles Chaplin, film comedian, is seeking a Paris divorce revived protests against the methods by which American divorces here are obtain ed similar to those in Mexico.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

BERLIN, Jan. 4.-Herr Vanlaar hanged himself in his cell in the Essen prison it was reported by the lssen police, Sunday. He was una @ to face suspicion that he had divulged the secrets of the Krupps famous seyenty-mile gun to France.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

NEW YORK Friends of Gov ernor Al Smith said his boom for president has been started too soon, and they are trying to chill it off.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

WASHINGTON - 4 bitter de- bate on prohibition and the govern ment's alleged policy of poisoning commercial alcohol marked the re opening of Congress.
 Senator Edwards led the vets with the presentation of a bill 10 resubmit the Eighteenth Amend ment to the country. Representa- tive Fairehild, in the House. offered two bills to prosecute government officials responsible for tne Use of poisonous denaturants.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

CALEXICO, Calif.- More new quakes shook Mexieali and Calex- ico, here yesterday while the crews of men at work repairing the dam age of the two-day seize of trem- blers. Some damage was done.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

NEW YORK = Government in the United States is by one-third representation. according to a sur= vey by John Hayes Hammond. showing that 40,0O0,0o0 failed to vote in the 1926 elections; this amount being almost twice as large as the number of those who voted
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06
PIT. A.

The High School Dramatic Art Club, Miss Vessel, instructor, will furnish the entertainment for the Pr A. meeting Thursday evening, January 18th. A one-act play, Buying Jimmie a Suit opens the program The cast is as follows:
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

CHICAGO - The American Fed eration of Labor announced plans for a gigantic 70=story building here costing $75,oO0,o00 to house all union labor activities of the city.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

SEATTLE-After chase of 1000 miles, Owen Griffiths, aged g. years, was jailed here today as the slayer of the Whitehall girl. The suspect is being held on an assault charge in lieu of $5,000 bail.
 Officials declared that the vita evidence against Griffiths is the fact that he appeared hatless at the ranch about the time of the staying.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-01-06

LOST - A leather mitt. Finder will please notify the Sentinel