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The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-11-15
French Records Might
 "Shotu Up" Old Houses

French notaries public preserve their records with attentive care. They file and stack away the notarial acts which they draw up, just as their predecessors have filed and stacked for centuries. There are offices which have been preserving this old paper for several hundred years.
 This is natural enough, as the pa- per tells the story of French families. But all this makes weight, collects dust, fills space. A new law, there fore, authorizes notaries to send to the official French archives all docu- ments more than 125 years old. But the interested families have a right to insist that the documents remain secret. What a catastrophe, indeed, if 1t should be learned through an official paper, that the ancestor of this or that great family, pretending to be descended from the Crusaders, was in the Eighteenth century merely lackey who succeeded in making moneyl
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-11-15
Annual HarUesting of
 Birds Nests in Siam

One Of the important features of the export. trade of Siam Is the birds nest industry. According to the lat est available figures, the shipments for one year amounted to nearly 20.- 600, the value of which was more than $112,O00.
 The greater part of the Slamese nests go to China. Hongkong and Singapore. The value of these nests lies. of course, in the fact that they are edible. They are considered a great dellcacy in the Far East.
 The nests are found fin the islands of the Siamese coast and are the products of species of bird pertain ing to the swift tribe. The harvest ing of the nests occurs during the period from April to September
 In the construction of the nest the female bird plays the leading part. al- though some assistance is lent by the male. About three months is con- sumed in the building of the first nest. It is taken by the hunters be- fore the eggs are laid. Thereupon the birds proceed to the construction of another nest. which. however. Is finished in about thirty days. When this is taken the birds begin . third nest and again they take three months for construction. In this nest they are allowed to rear their young. But when the young have flown this nest also is taken.
 Those nests that are taken at the beginning of the season are deemed to be the best in quality.
 The Chinese not only hold these nests in high esteem as table deli cacy, but they contend that they pos sess high tonic properties.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-11-15

! H. F. Swift arrived from San Fran cisco last week, expecting to catch the Ella Rohlffs for the West Coast, but just missed her by one day. Con- sequently he returned to Ketchikan on the Dolphin and will go from there to Klawack.
 The papers up north tell the fol- lowing story of Harry Raymond. the genial and good natured travelling man: Harry had been made a special deputy marshal by Marshal shoup at the beginning of the strike at Treadwell, for the purpose of assist ing in the protection of property. He was an interested spectator as the troops came ashore and took a com manding position. He was particu- larly pleased with the gatling gun. and made close inspection of it. He had just replaced it's rubber coat, and was standing near, when the curios- ilt OI tue CloNdHlduS kcQ DuuCu 0l them in his direction. A spokesman asked Harry what kind of machine it was. He replied that 1t was a new kind of picture making machine, and promptly grouped a dozen or more men in front of it. After spending several minutes waving them to this side and that, forcing them back and beekoning them nearer--all of the signs being promptly obeyed by the men who had pursed their faces into pleastantest smiles-the drummer deputy, apparently satisfied with the focus. quickly took the coat off the wicked Joking little gun. In ten seconds there was not Slovenian in sight. They flew in different direc- tions.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-11-15

The store clerks of Wrangell have in circulation a petition asking that stores close on Sundays, also at 2 o'clock P. NJ. on week days.
 Messrs Taught and Reed returned Tuesday from a six weeks trapping trip to Etolin Island. They captured one big otter and seventeen mink.
 George Card went up to Juneau last week and took out special joint papers to run the steamer Gleason which he recently purchased.
 Mir. Monroe came over in the Ella Rohliffs from Ehakan, where he has been running the store during the past several months.
 The U. S. lighthouse tender Colum- bine came in Sunday and tied up at the wharf. Ten minutes later the re- port was current that she had come to place a buoy upon the rock which stands just out from Point Shakesty. The steamer pulled out Monday morning, however, and the rock still stands unmarked, as a menace to shipping in the bay.
 Ed H. Lyons came down from. Pe- tersburg last week to get his new launch, which was being built by Stedman- He left Sunday with the hull in tow of the Anita for Peters burg, where Frank Waterbury will complete the boat by building and finishing the cabin and putting in the engine.
 Somebody said Frame of the Ju7 neau Transcript came near getting. his "can torn off" by one Lezinsky, a couple of weeks ago. The row was
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-11-15
YEARS AGO

A reprint of the news items of the Alaska Sentinel, issue of April 25, 1907, follows:
 Mrs. W. D. Grant is again very low in a hospital in Seattle.
 Jack Collins has been repainting his office building on Front Street.
 The Clatawa came in Saturday evening with two tons of king salm- on.
 Robbie Burns" came over from Lake Bay last week to spend day or two in town.
 Woodbridge & Lowery came in from Ham Island Tuesday in their gasoline steamboat.
 Oscar Carlson and John Hagsrom, 'fo'mast men of the old school, shipped on the Columbine.
 Miss E. Hofstad came down on the Seattle from Scow Bay, where she had been visiting her sister.
 Attorney c. E. Rodman has moved his offices into the Eunice Felthan building opposite The Midway.
 Postmaster Worden has bought the Cagle house now occupied by c. NJ. Coulter, and will move into it soon.
 Gus Lehner and Charley Jackson are all fixed up for rapid transit. having just installed a coal oil en- zine in their dory.
 MT. Schlothan and Claire Snyder are building a new furnace for the steamer Challenge at the machine shop at Ketchikan. They expect to have it completed in about six weeks.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-11-15

the result of Frame,s iconoclastic comment upon Mr. Lezinsky's action in connection with the strike at Treadwell.
 To avoid relaying freight at Ket- chikan or Wrangell. the cannerymen and merchants of the west coast have made arrangements with the Alaska Steamship Go. by which the Farallon will make two trips per month. car rying mail and freight from Seattle to all West Coast points. This will put dent into the carrying business of the Ella Rohlffs, and also into the wharfage at Ketchikan and Wran- gell.
 The April meeting os the Wrangell Chamber of Commerce was called to order by President P. c. Mccormack at s:oO o'clock Thursday eevning. April II. (1s07)
 This meeting, being the regular one for election of officers, the fol- lowing were 'railroaded' into office for the ensuing term:
 P. 0. Mccormack. president.
 A. V. R. Snyder. 1st vice president
 F. Matheson. End vice president.
 J. E. Worden, secretary.
 L. c. Patenaude, treasurer.
 H. P. Corser, D. Sinclair, L. J. Cole. George Snyder. Fred s. Will son. J. G. Grant, NJ. F. Inman, di- 'rectors.
 Under the head of new business, MT. Corser spoke favoring an attempt to get Carnegie library established at Wrangell. The board of directors were appointed as a committee to look into the matter.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-11-15
Goue America Its Name

America is name first applied with little warrant to what is now North and South America by Martin Walde- seemuller. young geographer of St. Die, a town in the Vosges mountains. In a Latin work, "Cosmographiae h. troductio," which Waldeseemuller edited in 1907, he used the name America" in honor of Amerigo Yes pucci, whose narrative of the latter's voyage of discovery in the New world Waldeseemuller had .retd. Because Americus discovered it." Taldeseemul- Ter wrote, ''it ought to be called the land of Americus or America"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-11-15
Bad Luck for Thief

Most thieves hesitate to rob a church. Some of them have real re- ligious scruples concerning churches; others let them severely alone, not through any sentiment, but for the reason that they fear such thefts will bring them bad luck the rest of their lives. A thief confided to a detective that he had nothing but trouble since he had stolen a prayer book from a pew. He had desired it only as a sou venir, he said, and after the theft his conscience pricked him so badly that he had seriously thought of returning it. While he was deliberating what he should do the prayer book mysteri- Ously disappeared
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-11-15
The WorId's Water

The amount of water on the earth is so large that the human mind can scarcely grasp its significance. Ac- cording to scientific authorities, it Is 327,000,000 cubic miles. Rivers and lakes in all countries only total a mere million cubic miles, the remain ing 326,000,0O0 miles being taken up by the five great oceans-Atlantic, Pa cific. Indian, Antarctic and Arctic. Scientists tell us that If the earth were not composed of huge mountain ranges-which project above the sur face of the oceans, and thus form the countries in which we liye-our globe would be covered with water to a depth of nearly two miles.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-11-15
For 500, ,0o0, 900 Years

Geclogists say that if we could make a great film showing in propor. ton the successive geological periods with the appropriate plants and ami malls and scenery for each successive age, and could arrange to unwind the whole film in, say, fourteen hours. be- ginning at ten in the morning. man would begin to appear on the film about ten minutes before midnight Organic evolution has been proceeding slowly for far more than five hundred million years. so we must not expect to see very much change in a lifetime. ---Pr0f. !. Arthur Thomson.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-11-15
Meaning of the Name Ida

Ida and Ada are practically synony- nous. In early times, however, Ada was believed to be derived from Adah, meaning ornament, and the name Adah was given to the wife of Lamech in the Old Testament. But later ety. mological authorities believe that Ada is merely a Latinized form of Fad, meaning happy or rich, and the same as the German Ida. Ida's gem is the turquoise.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-11-15
Crotu Stuck to Home

Arthur Wardell's tame crow, Bill, entertained visitor at Norway, Maine. A black brother, evidently just back from the South, called on him. After a few minutes of conversation, the wis itor flew away. Bill escorted him as far as the woods, then turned and went back to his old perch behind the house, finding home ties strongest and old friends best.
The Washington times., 1928-10-03
RUBBER 7 RADE
SHOWS BIG
UPTURN

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. s.-The tire
INDUSTRY is bringing to a close rec
ord.preaking third-quarter year and
VIII enter the final quarter-year with
lar more aggressive production
scheduled than ever before at this
particular season, according to B. H.
Iram. president of Grams Automo-
ity.
Crude rubber consumption so far
TINS year has eclipsed all previous
marks. and for the entire year
should materially exceed earlier esti-
mates of $4,000 tons. Tn fact,
crude consumption in the first nine
months of this year will total fully
go 200 tons. and it is calculated that
the American industry will use 1O0.-
700 tons during the final quarter.
making total for this year of APP
proximately 425, 900 tons.
The Washington times., 1928-10-03
P|NESS GETS
AUTO AID

Credit for the greatest stimula-
ton of human activity during the
last century if not for all modern
time must be given the automobile.
according to John r. Lee, general
sales manager of Dodge Brothers.
1.-The motor car has been the
prime contributing factor in our ma
tional welfare and prosperity-eco-
nomicalIy and psychologically-d
ing the past % years" said Mr.. Lee
in recent address in New York.
The industry has given profitable
employment to 1000 900 persons
who form a large percentage of our
total population when the custom
airy four dependents of each en-
ploye are considered. The purchas.
ing power of. wages and salaries
connected with the manufacture and
sale. of cars and associated indus
tries, represents billions of dollars
annually.
when people have cars. they
want TO go. In order to go. good,
wide highways must he built. and
roads lead to fellowship and under
standing between communities and
the wholesome recreation of out
door travel. Russia would present
different picture today if 10000
900 motor cars had been poured into
that vast country. India. China,
Africa and the Far East countries
are slowly being aroused to the ad-
vantages of the motor car Re-
mote districts have been pierced by
automobiles. Bus lines have been
started. The motor car is com.
pIetely changing the habits and Gus
toms Of most provincial people
everywhere.
Yet with all the cars owned
and being bought today, the pleas
ure and convenience of possessing
an automobile has not been grasped
by millions who are financially able
to buy First sales to this market
and requirements on the present
market indicate that the surface
has barely been scratched in the
automotive industry, and that years
of prosperity are ahead.
"rhe future happiness-even the
very life of millions the world over
will depend upon road develop
ment, increased power facilities and
the use Of millions OF more motor
vehicles"
The Washington times., 1928-10-03
CHEW. DELIVERS
MILLION CARS

DETROIT. Oct. 3.-Keeping pace
with the most insistent demand in
its history the Chevrolet Motor
Company has delivered more than
one million cars into the hands of
owners since the Introduction Of
the popular digger and better"
model last Januar" /, it was an
nOunced at the company's offices
here today.
This sensational achievement of
delivering l 900 900 cars in nine
months is without parallel in
the history OF the manufacture of
tribute 10 the manufacturing abiI-
ity and far-sightedness of the com
pany. 1t is regarded here as A fur
Their indication of CheNrolet's
leadership as the worlds largest
automobile producer.
How Chevrolet marched TO this
height of popular acclaim may be
noted in the fact that within 80
days after the Introduction of the
new car more than quarter mil.
lion new Chevrolets were on the
highways in the service of their
owners. Two months later. or on
June /. half million cars were
in use from Maine to California.
Another two months saw $50 900
Chevrnlets providing dependable
ira nspOrtation in every city, town
and hamlet in the Union. And
then came October when the fun
million mark was achieved.
The Washington times., 1928-10-03

half feet high. Either of these
could be used for introducing fresh
air or for exhausting contaminated
air.
Absorption Tested
Ten cars were spaced at 30 foot
intervals and operated at speed
of ten miles. Tests were made with
various methods of introducing
fresh air and removing the con
taminated air.
Each driver and observer was
subjected TO physiological examina
tions before and after tests. The
actual quantity of carbon monoxide
absorbed by each person was de.
termined by examining a few drops
Of blood drawn Immediately after
the tests.
Introduction Of fresh air at the
bottom of the tunnel and removal
of foul air at the top was found TO
be more efficient than the reverse.
After the completion of the Hol-
land Tunnels. the report states.
tests of the tunnel atmosphere
showed results exactly as predicted.
The Washington times., 1928-10-03
INDUSTRY
IS UNIQUE

Millions of automobile tires turned
out every year by American manI-
facturers are the product of an arti-
fetal climate created by air condi-
tioning experts employed by the big
companies
From the time the crude rubber II
cut from the trees in far-off tropics,
through all the vagaries and diff
culties of manufacture until the fin
ished tire is finally mounted on the
motor car, the air specialist has
created almost the entire gamut OF
weather to refine the product, speed
up output, cut costs and protect the
lives and health Of many thousands
of workmen.
Introduction of ingenious mechani-
cal facilities for controlling air con.
ditions in practically all processes
of manufacture has placed the tire
and rubber industry on the greatest
mass production basis In history and
is bringing down costs to the lowest
on record, according to engineers In
the industry who are striving to de-
velop a punctureless. supertire. good
for 10000 to $4,000 miles.
With all rubber-producing nations
seeking trade pacts which are ex-
pected to stabilize the crude rubber
market, combined with greater pro-
ductive efficiency of American
plants, such leaders in the industry
as Fisk, Firestone, Goodyear, Good
rich, United States Rubber. Miller,
General and others, are confident
| that they will benefit and share
more than ever with the record.
breaking prosperity of the automo.
bile industry.
The Washington times., 1928-10-03
Henry BercOvitz Asks
Court to Change Name

Henry BercovitZ, an assistant sx-
aminer in the United States Patent
Office and law student in George
town University Law School, has
petitioned the District Supreme
Court to allow him to assume the
name of Henry Berk.
BercoVitZ. who is native born
American, declares that he is known
by the name Of Berk among his
school friends and associates and
that when he begins the practice
of law, the latter name will be
more convenient and practical than
the one 70 WHICH he was born.
The Washington times., 1928-10-03
MAY BOND AUTO
OWNERS

BOSTON. Mass. October "a
bill probably will be submitted to
the Massachusetts legislature during
the present session to require bonds
from drivers of motor vehicles as a
substitute for the compulsory in
surance act.
A special committee of the Amer
lean Automobile Association, which
will sponsor the plan, is now de-
veloping it.
The failure of the compulsory TN
surance act was practically admit
ted by Motor Vehicle Registrar
Parker of Massachusetts who re-
Gently addressed the Motor Truck
Club of Massachusetts and declared
that the law had not diminished &C.
cidents.
The Washington times., 1928-10-03
PRESSES
Do THE WORK

When an automobile owner en-
deavors to straighten a fender bent
or dented in a collision he is apt
to wonder how such heavy and re-
sisting sheet steel, as is used for
tenders in the better automobiles,
ever was formed in such smooth,
graceful curves.
It requires the largest and heavi-
est machinery in an automobile fac.
tory to accomplish this work. ac-
cording to Oldsmobile engineers, who
explain the various processes in the
manufacture and finish of auto
mobile tenders.
Giant presses mold the heavy
The Washington times., 1928-10-03

Ne,U Style-A fresh interpre-
tation of dynamic symmetry;
new sIender-profile radiator;
longer, still lower body lines;
balanced color combinations;
new arched window silhouette;
new bowl-type lamps.
Ne,U PerfOrn1ance-typicaI
Chrysler brilIiancy of getaway,
astonishing power and pickup
from the new "Silver-Dome"
high-compressiOn engine;
marked smoothness and quiet
ness at all speeds; unusual
economy of gas and oil; new-type
internal expanding four-wheel
hydraulic brakes give instant
stopping in any weather.
New LUXURY Of Riding
New rOOminess, affOrding
ample space for five adults.
Exceptional ease of riding due
to long spring base, flexible
springs and hydraulic shock
absOrbers.
New EIegGnce-Interior
appointments of a distinctive
richness and elegance; fine
quality fixtures throughout;
high-grade mOhair upholstery
for closed models, genuine
leather, pigskin grain' for open
models.
The Washington times., 1928-10-03
Packard Ships Car
For Chang Kai-shek

The Packard Motor Car Company
has just shipped a car for which
a road will have to he built before
it can be operated. When it is IN
loaded at its destination. several
houses and a few business places
will have to he torn down to move
it to the owners home.
The car goes to Chang kai-shek.
genera lissimo of the Chinese Ma
tionalist army. 1t is to he delivered
to General Chang's home town,
NingpO. China. Although a city
with a population of nearly 400 900
Ningpo has no streets or roads
over which it would be possible to
nnnraln an alIIOmOhile-
The Washington times., 1928-10-03
The Dutch Refuse

AS the industry enters the final
month OF the British restriction
measure, there appears to be no con.
eerted effort to enforce any substi-
1ute restriction. Dutch rubber grow
ers. it is officially reported at Wash
lngton, have refused to join hands
with the British in any voluntary
restriction program. Although the
British rubber ban. which was
started five wears ago. is not Off
clally lifted until this November 1,
the law has been practically inopera-
i've ever since the British prime
minister last April announced it's alb
solute end on November 1.
From a retail standpoint the tire
industry should enjoy substantial
squirt in renewal sales during
October. due principally to heavy
motor travels to and from thou
sands of football games in all Sec
tons Of the United States. After
this October squirt, consumer buy
ing may be expected to diminish
and to hold to rather low levels
until early spring.
For Spring Delivery
Manufacturers are expected to
take advantage of this slack in re-
tail sales to build up inventories
for spring delivery. 1t is assumed |
by most manufacturers that the |
industry will enforce this year. as
in the past. the spring dating GUS
tom with dealers. although final
decision very probably will come
from the new rubber institute.
Twice in previous years the in
dustry has tried to eliminate the
spring dating plan but in each III |
stance has been forced to revive it |
hurriediv to enable dealers to or. /
der heavily in vance for spring |
and early summer delivery.
The Washington times., 1928-10-03
QUIZZED IN DEATH

READING. Pa, Oct. 3.-Kostas
a Reading barber, cousin of
Charles j. kaldes, believed to be the
man found murdered in a burning
automobile near Hershey a week go
Sunday, is detained by the State 20.
lice from Troop r.. Harrisburg. it
was learned here today. He is held
Tor questioning Haldos was taken
10 Leban non by troopers and new
angles of the case were checked.
The Washington times., 1928-10-03
WOMAN DIES AT CHURCH

UNIONTOWN, Pa, Oct. 3.-In the
midst of church services at the Sec.
ond Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Mar
garet Jane Poundstone, aged 20, OF
Balsinger. collapsed and died within
few Y1inufes
The Washington times., 1928-10-03

weight, and the added power of
large electric motors. The com
bined pressure exerted is 265 tons
when the upper die raises he steel
has been changed to a perfectly
formed fender with the superfluous
metal neatly trimmed from the
edges.
The Washington times., 1928-10-03

steel tenders used on Oldsmobiles as
easily as housewife cuts Tough
for cookies. An oblong sheet Of
steel is laid upon the under die OF
one of these presses and a lever Is
thrown. The upper die closes down,
pressing the steel between the two
die faces with its own ponderous |
The Washington times., 1928-10-03
Tunnel Tests Clear
Poisoned Air

Tests which made possible to devise the methods used
to rid the Holland tunnels of carbon monoxide constantly
off by the thousands of passing through them
daily described by A. C. Fiedner engineer
experiment division of the United Mines
research report the engineering foundation.