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The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-04
Wierd Monster Is Found EntOmbed In Glacier Ice
HEAD LIKE ELEPHANT, SHOUT LIKE PELICAN; 24 FEET LONG FOUND NEAR CORDOVA

C0RDOVA, Nov. 25-Reports of the fiding of the body of a strange prehistoric animal were confirmed here today. The animal was found encased in ice floating in the water near an island and is believed to have been encased for centuries in the upper reaches of Columbia gla- cier, gradually working it's way to the sea.
 The body, covered with red fur in perfect condition, is "A inches in length, with a tail 14 fet long. and somewhat resembles a lizard.
 W. J. Mcdonald. supervisor of Chugach National Forest, has ex- amined the strange find. The ami nal, whatever it was, had flippers 40 inches long on each side behind the head, each fiipper having five fingers.
 The skeleton is estimated to weight 1000 pounds. It has sev- en ribs on each side. The head and tail of the animal are bare but it is fiesh-covered for six feet of the midsection. The meat, according to Mcdonald, resembles horse meat. The snout, he said, is similar to that of a pelican, with head shap- ed something like that of an ele- phant.
 The stomach of the animal and a large piece of the flesh were brought to Cordova to be frozen and pre- served for scientists. The beast, its examiners reported. apparently was toothless.
 Found November 10
 The carcass of the creature was found on November 10 by Jerry O. Leary and Charles Gibson, accord ing to word received in Juneau. Ii was first seen floating in glacier ice about 15O0 feet from shore in Eagle Harbor, Glacier Island. This is six miles south in a direct line from the face of Columbia Glacier.
 The men tied on to it and took it ashore and later lowed it to the fox ranch headquarters on the is- land. There the flesh was stripped off the frame and hung in a smoke house to dry for fox feed.
 "The meat was in good condition and will probably last a month without freezing or other preserv- ing" Mir. Mcdonald said. The skeleton was in four sections, but was fairly complete. It measured 24 feet long,"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-04
THE CHURCHES ]
PRESBYTERIAN
Russell F. Peterson, Pastor

Russell F. Pederson, Pastor
 Sunday services in teh grade school building. Midweek services at the Manse.
 10:3O a. m.-Morning worship: ''The Very Christ"
 12 noon-Bible School.
 D. m.-Christian Endeavor. This is the Conservation meeting. Mrs. George Roberts is the leader, using the subject: 'The Best Christmas Gift"
 7;SO D. m.-Evening service. "A Heart Satisfied by the Advent"
 The children of the Bible School are preparing for their part in the Christmas season. looking forward to the program and tree on Christ- mas Eve. The young people hope the towns people will hear the Car olers.
 The rest of us will receive a blessing if we begin and continue to tune our hearts to the Glad Tidings" of the Angelic Host
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-04
SCIENTISTS IN DOUBT

NEW YORK-The creature found imbedded in the ice near Cordoya may be one of the smaller whales, in the opinion of Curator Bernard Brown of the American Museum of Natural History. Brown said he didn't believe it is as old as thought by it's discoverers, although he said that it must be of considerable an tiquity. The description given by Mcdonald convinced Brown that it is some marine creature, perhaps one as yet unclassified.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-04
FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION GRANTS LICENSES FOR POWER TO PULP MILLS

WASHINGTON, D. O., Nov. 26- The federal power commission has granted the applications of George Cameron and J. D. Zellerbach of Los Angeles and an Francisco, for licenses to construct and operate power plants and pulp mills near Ketchikan and Juneau. Each pro- ject will require an expenditure of $15,0OO, ,000.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-04
NOTICE

Those interested in a night school for work in citizenship training are asked to meet at the grade scchooI building next Tuesday at D. m. If twelve or more desire such a class it will be organized and a course of study to suit the majority will be offered.
 AXEL RASMUSSEN,
 Supt. of Schools.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-04
EPISCOPAL
H. P. Corser, Rector

1O:45 a. m.-Bible Sunday "The Bible for Men of Action" will be the theme.
 12 noon-Church School.
 7:30 p. m.-In the gymnasium with the young people.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-04
FAMOUS ALASKA COPPER MINE TO BE CLOSED

LATOUCHE, The Beatson mine, worked for the past 20 years by the Kennecott Copper Corporation was closed for all time December 1. The paystreak has been exhausted.
 The famous property gave employ ment to 300 men when at the peak of operation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21

are being extirpated, If they withdraw
their contributions to the racketeers? In
the second place, can 1t be assured that
alihi-proof evidence can be obtained
even with a million dollarsp Finally,
Is there any guarantee of speedy and
effective prosecution of the gangsters
even with alibi-proof evidence?
1t may take some sort of community
eruption, some municipal seismic shock
to eradicate the evil forces that have
been battening off the business of Chi
cago for some years and have caused
reign of crime in that city. The pres
ent financial ills of Chicago, which APP
parently have passed crisis and are
now abating somewhat, have nothing
to do with the crime question or the
racketeering except as the law enforce
ment agencies of the city are weakened
through lack of funds, through the
postponement Of pay days and the gen.
eral decentralization incident to virtual
bankruptcy. The racketeering evil is a
perennial one. It has reached its pres
ent proportions-laying total tribute,
1t is estimated, Of not less than hun
dred million dollars year upon the
people of Chicago through increased
prices for commodities and necessities
alone-because of the fear of the people
and their lack of faith in the honesty
and efficiency of the police and the
courts Perhaps a million dollars Of
graft money applied to prosecutions may
help to restore confidence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
False Sprinr.

Washingtons false Spring" expert
enced during the past two days is not
an unusual phenomenon, though yes
terday's temperature was higher than
has been recorded previously for fifty
six years. There have been numerous
warm spells in past Februarys and
many also in the Januarys of earlier
years. Indeed the January thaw" has
been fairly regular feature of the
Washington climate beyond the mem
DRY of living persons.
Almost annually at this season of the
year the buds begin to swell as the
trees and shrubs feel the influence of
the increasing warmth of the suns
rays. And there are just as regularly
fears lest the sprouting carry too far
and the virtually certain freezing tenn
peratures of late February and early
March cause disaster.
But even though there may be neril
to the plants in this premature heat
these days are most welcome. They
represent certain gain on the calen-
dar, or rather gain on the season, in
that every day that passes without
bitter cold or snow is to the good and
lessons the chances of dangerously in
clement weather. For in this latitude
snow and near-Sero temperatures are
perilouS. They cause illness and death.
So the bright sunlight and the warmth
of this false Spring" that Washing
ton is now enjoying are especially well
come for the sake of the public health.
But it is grave mistake to trust to
them and to make changes of clothing
to conform to the passing temperature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
Praise and Thanks for
Community Chest Service

HTo the Editor of The Star:
One Of the great pleasures of a
campaign such as the one through
which the Community Chest has Just
gone is to thank those who have rem
dered signal service in the conduct of
tnat campaign. There is no greater
pleasure in this connection than that
With which I thank yourself and your
associates for your intelligent and dis
eliminating support of the Community
Chest and its member organizations
through every conceivable instrument
tality OF your publication before and
during the recent campaign. All that
q newspaper might do you did do,
courteously, sympathetically, intelli-
gently and forcefully, with an evident
nigh regard for the principle that a
newspaper not merely is a collector and
olsseminator Of news, and a creator of
pubic opinion, but. also. an instru-
llentaLty Tor community service Of the
greatest potency
We can pick out no single member
OF your staff to thank. Won't YOU
please thank them all in my behalf
ana IN that of the board of trustees
OF the Community Chest for the sery-
Ice they have rendered through your
columns toward the attainment by the
campaign Of what I think is a very
la& degree OF success in the face of
the conditions in which our community
found itself?
1t would give me great pleasure If
you might find it fitting to publish this
letter. so that your readers might know
OF our very sincere appreciation of the
service which you have severally and
collectively rendered,
FREDERIC A. DELANO.
President, the Community Chest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
Financing a New Chain Bridge.

Reporting adversely on a bill by Rep
resentative Moore of Virginia that would
appropriate $4,000 from Federal funds
for preparation of preliminary plans
and estimates for a new Chain Bridge,
the Commissioners note the significant
fact that the Budget Bureau stamps the
proposed expenditure as not in conflict
with the financial program of the
President If amended to authorize an
appropriation payable in like manner
as other appropriations for the expenses
Of the District of Columbia
In other words, $4,000 taken from
Federal funds for the preparation of
bridge plans would not be in accordance
with the Presidents economy program,
but $4,000 taken from District of CO.
lumbia funds for this purpose would
be in accordance with this program.
As matter of fact, the Commission
ers point out, the preparation of pre-
Eminary plans and estimates for the
bridge would nat require the expendi-
ture of S1000bS at this time, as the
Bridge Department of the District gov
eminent has accumulated enough data
from other studies of the project to
enable it to submit plans at any time
and without additional appropriations
for the purpose If the construction of
the bridge is to be financed from Dis
trict funds. the Commissioners point
out, the preparation and submission Of
plans should rightly come from the
District authorities, and not, as the
Moore bill suggests, from the Secretary
Of War
A new Chain Bridge is one of the
necessary projects confronting Congress
in regard to the District of Columbia.
But due thought must be given TO the
financing. It has been proposed, and
rightly, that the State of Virginia
should share in its cost. This will en-
tail legislation by the Virginia Legis-
latIire as well as by the Congress. 1t
would be extremely unfortunate, as well
as unfair to the District, to conceive of
the bridge as purely local undertake
ing. Mr.. Moore, a good friend of
Washington and one Of Virginias able
Representatives in Congress, might set
the ball in motion now by inaugural
ing steps that would lead to some agree
ment between the Federal authorities
and the State of Virginia on the plan
of financing ultimately to be adopted.
Chain Bridge must be replaced some
time within the next decade. Built in
1874, it was never designed for a mod
ern heavy highway lead. The maxi
mum load of six tons allowed on the
bridge at present. the Commissioners
point out, must be further limited as
deterioration progresses. An adequate
bridge at or near the present crossing
is a necessary feature of the highway
system and the vicinity.
A decision as to financing the new
bridge should precede even the prepa-
ration of plans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
ID. C.'s Street Car Service
Held Far From Perfect
To the Editor Of The star:

To the Editor Of The star:
In last Saturdays issue Of The Star
you made the following editorial state
ment in regard to the street car system
of Washington: "At present 1t is, in
this city, one of the most nearly perfect
and most satisfao Iorily operating modes
of public TRANSPORTATION in the world"
Now, as a matter of fact, far from be-
ing one of the most perfect in the
world, the tramway system OF this city
is one of the poorest in the country,
especially when you consider the fact
that it belongs to the Nations Capital.
Over three-fourths of its present equip
ment is obsolete, and should be re-
placed with new rolling stock. In par
ticular do / refer to the Capital Trac-
ton Co. Largely because of these an
Cient peanut-roasters dignified with the
name of cars, but also due to the abb
sence of an adequate express system,
service is unnecessarily slow through
out the city. An up-to-date schedule
would likewise be advisable.
There has been for some time, in this
country, a fallacy beneath which the
writer of Saturdays editorial evidently
labors-the bus Is superSeding the
street car. Despite the fact that, al
though buses have now been ir~ ex-
istence a good many years, there are
nearly twice as many street cars in the
United States alone as there are buses,
and despite the fact that railways still
purchase trolley cars in large numbers,
this common error persists.
A noted traffic expert, sent here re-
Gently to study traffic conditions in
Washington, when 1t was suggested that
the street cars be replaced by buses,
remarked that the latter could not give
as satisfactory service as the former.
1t is only necessary to remember how
many cars are even now required to
transport people along Pennsylvania
avenue and then to reflect upon how
many buses are needed to supplant a
single car. to be able to visualize the
chaos that would result If such a sug-
gestion should be adopted
However, there are two unjust bur-
dens imposed upon the street railways
of this city which should be abolished.
In the first place, since most of the
paving between tracks is worn out by
automobiles, the city should at least
bear half the repair expenses, instead
Of pushing the entire burden upon the
companies. And, in the second place,
why on earth a street car company
should pay the salaries of crossing po-
licemen is beyond me.
w. d. JOHNSON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

Building in Indianapolis. He emerged
victorious in the contest between In
dianapolis and Cincinnati for a stop on
the st. Louis airmail line, in this con-
test besting Speaker Longworth, who
halls from Cincinnati. He obtained an
ALLEGATION of 100000 for housing pro-
gram at Fort Benjamin Harrison. A
new $4,000 veterans hospital, assigned
to Indiana, may be located at Indian
apolis, thanks to Ludlow's interchangeable
persistence. Last, but not least, he pre-
vailed upon the Navy Department to
christen the latest of the new cruisers
the indianapolis.
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Senator Borah, generally credited with
having induced Mr. Hoover to promise
an extra session for tariff revision, Of
fers a neat retort to the renewed ex-
postulations from the White House over
the snails pace at which the tariff bill
is proceeding in the Senate. There are
$1,000 items in this bill, 10000 of which
ought not to be there" said Borah.
That is the answer" Three months
have now elapsed since the President
business 1t could finish the tariff bill in
10 days.
Congress having provided for pill
grimages to Europe of Gold Star
mothers and widows, whose war dead
lie buried overseas is apparently not
yet done with the subject. Senator
Henry j. Allen of Kansas, tried and
true Hoover Republican and prominent
leader of the Young Guard, comes for
ward in behalf of the Gold Star
fathers. why should the fathers be
left behind?" he inquiries, and, con-
WINGED that there is no valid reason
for such discrimination, he this week
filed a bill in the Senate to provide
that all fathers who wish to do so may
go along with the mothers on the Eu-
ropean visit, all expenses paid by Uncle
Sam.
" X
The Capitol restaurant, operated by
the House of Representative for the
accommodation of the members, their
guests, visiting sightseers and the news
pa1er contingent, is having q hard
time making both ends meet. New
economies are being devised to curtail
recurring operating deficits. The size
Of the table napkins has been reduced
2 inches, and this saves 3 cents
per napkin on so dozen recently pur-
chased. The small silver of cheese
which formerly adorned each portion
Of pie has been eliminated. Hereafter
patrons who desire cheese with their
pies are assessed an extra nickel.
(Copyright, Ie3o)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
Unfair Comnetition.

Representative Wallace H. White,
chairman of the merchant marine COM
mittee Of the House, yesterday delivered
an attack in the House on discrimina-
tons undertaken by the British against
American merchant vessels. It is a
timely warning. If the United States
is to maintain an overseas merchant
marine this Government should not be
slow to come to the defense of Ameri-
can flag vessels when unfair practices
are used by foreign competitors to run
American ships out of foreign trade
and on the seas. The development of
a privately owned American merchant
marine, to play its part in carrying the
enormous commerce Of this country
overseas, has been the dream of for
vard-looking American shipping men
and Of American commerce ever since
the disastrous days to American trade
after the outbreak Of the World War
The United States was left fat. with
practically no overseas merchant serv-
ices to handle its trade in those days.
It is a situation that this country does
not intend TO face again. Further, the
United States Government at a cost of
$4,000 900 600 built up a merchant feet
to meet our requirements during the
war. The money came from the pockets
Of the American taxpayers. Gradually
these Government-owned merchantmen
have been placed in considerable num-
bers in private American ownership and
operation.
Mr.. White complained particularly,
in his address to the House yesterday
of the preferential customs and other
discriminatory regulations put in force
in recent years against the United
States by Canada and Great Britain. A
preferential tariff provides for a dis
count Of ten per cent Of the amount oil
duty charged under the Canadian tariff
act, if goods enter Canada through 6
Canadian sea or river port. In othel
words, the discount is granted if these
goods are carried in British or Cana.
dian ships. American ports, particu
larry in New England, and American
shipping have suffered from this meas
ure of discrimination. The tariff law
Of the United States Mr.. White pointet
out. are general in their application ant
the same rate of duty Is levied whethe
the imported goods enter this countr'
by New York or Boston, or through tn
ports of Canada. In order to brtn
this discrimination against America
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
Animal Rescue League
Criticized for Methods
To the Editor Of The star

To the Editor Of The Star:
AS one who has been. for the past 10
years, since I first came to Washing
ton, deeply interested in the work of
the Washington Animal Rescue League
and who was until recently a member of
its board of directors, I write in the
hope that you will publish this letter
and thus bring to the attention of
some of the people of Washington
certain conditions which should @be
corrected.
The object and purpose of the AMI
nal Rescue League, as is apparent
from its title, and as declared in gen.
eral terms in its charter. and carried
out in practice since 1914, when it
was founded, have been primarily %
rescutng from the streets stray, lost
and injured animals, Cd humanely
destroying hopelessly manned or sick
animals, CD locating the owners of
lost animals and "a. wherever possible,
finding homes for animals not claimed.
That this work is not now being
carried out and is being inexcusably
misdirected, do not believe any one
will doubt who will make even the
slightest investigation. without stop
ping to inquire into other matters of
administration, the particular matter
nave protested, and which hope to
AAB W tAAC dbbCIlLlUAl VI We
through the printing of this letter, is
the present method of destroying ami
mails, both large and small, by closing
them in chloroform boxes and slowly
suffocating them to death. 1t may be
done quickly with very young or small
animals, but it is frightfully cruel with
larger animals, as any f1rst-clasS
veterinarian or any one who has had
experience in chloroforming animals,
as have, will testify. This work of
destruction has been going on now for
more than two weeks, as was told
last Saturday by two of the present
officers Of the league. 1t is going on
notwithstanding there is still installed,
as there has been for years, an electric
lethal chamber which the official in
spection reports show is in perfect
working order. The continuance of
this inhumane practice of chloroform-
ing large animals is ineXcusable and
should be protested by every one who
cares for animals.
Heretofore and until the present
moment, have tried, in what little 1
have done in this work, to 90 along
with the league in the hope that con-
oitions might be bettered, but I am
convinced nothing short of direct &C
ton or strong public protests will have
any effect.
MARION STUART CAKE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
Chicago's Dog-Hair Remedy

The old plan of using hair from the
tail of a dog that has inflicted bite as
a cure for the wound is perhaps the in
spiration of a scheme that has just been
proposed in Chicago for the cure of the
racketeering evil. The head Of secret
committee of six named by the Associa-
ton of Commerce to fight crime has ad-
vanced the proposal to raise fund OF a
million dollars that will be used to Sc
cure alibi-proof evidence against the big
operatives of the criminal blackmail
game. This money is to be contributed
by those who have heretofore been pay
ing tribute to the racketeers. 1t will be
money that otherwise would go to the
gangsters for protection" 1t would
thus be the money of the racketeers, as
it were-tribute cash turned into pros
ecution funds.
It is a good scheme, If it works. But
there is no assurance that it will work
In the first place, who will protect the
contributors to the fund while the gang
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21

smokes and gases. and my life would
De made miserable If I were compelled
TO travel constantly in gas-producing
machines, such as buses and takes.
III you can assist in the search for
eilmmative invention to rid these ma
chimes of such gas and smoke, make
them as smooth-riding and as COM
paratively safe as the street cars are,
other Anticipated folks like myself might
be tempted to travel in them. At pres
ent l seldom go anywhere that can
be avoided where must use a bus.
The efficiency of our present two
street car systems, land the efforts of
the two companies to continue this
service and improve it, regardless of
the question of increased fares, is GER
tainly appreciated by myself and many
others, and We hope to see the service
continued indefinitely When the many
cities in the country, much larger than
Washington, dispense entirely with sur
face carlines and subway cars, and use
entirely the bus and other motor We
hicles operated by power producing suf-
locating gas and smoke-when this is
done will be plenty of time for Wash
ington to consider the same action.
SARAH e. DAWSON.