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The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-02-06
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WHo KNOWS THE ANsWERl

To the Editon of The Sentinel
 At the time the finance commit tee of the Chamber of Commerce was soliciting yearly dues last week they were surprised to have several of the business men turn them down when requested to join. Only few weeks ago you published a list of the benefits to the commun- ity that had resulted directly from the activities of the chamber
 Inasmuch as these businessmen must have profited as much as any one else from the results of the eff forts of the chamber, I would like to have them answer me, either anonymously or otherwise, through the Open Forum, and give their req sons for not affiliating with us.
 We have been following through on the opening of Dry Pass, pro ject that will bring many more west coast people to Wrangell. We are trying to hurry work on the s4O,O00 road program. There are several other items the WTangell Chamber of Commerce is behind that will prove of definite benefit to the community.
 Through your columns or directly we welcome suggestions and criti- cisms that will aid us in our eff !. forts to boost Wrangell. But most of all, I would like to know why these certain businessmen, who un. deniably have profted by former ac- eomplishments of the chamber, will not chamber on the bandwagon wit Il the rest of us.
 R. N. SCRUBY,
 President, Wrangell Chamber of Commerce
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-02-06

accompany him on his hunting ex- petition to the Cassiar this spring. We consider it a brilliant idea. both from a sporting standpoint and the standpoint of economics.
 It is strange that more sportsmen have not taken advantage of their presence in a new country to test it's mineral possibilities. Hunting and prospecting seem to be natural affinities, and 1t is doubtful wheth- CT the staying of a record moose, or the finding of an unclassified sheep, would provide a greater thrill than the discovery of a mine.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-02-06

The steamer Northwestern arrived at 5:30 Sunday morning with the following passengers for this port:
 From Latouehe, W. Hentschel; from Cordova, Jack Chichenoff; i; from Juneau, c. Heilman, Jack Chamberlain, A. Van Mavern.
 The following passengers embark ed: For Ketchikan, Mrs. Art Larson and son, Mrs. Zaida Holland, L. M. Carrigan, J. F. Brennan, Mrs. F. Stump. For Seattle: MT. and Mrs. J. c. Guam, V. Johanson, Emil Mel dahl.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-02-06
A GOOD IDEA

We read with pleasure and ap- preeiation the report from Yancou- yer informing us that MT. s. De Ghandel, an English sportsman of international repute, has engaged mining enginer and a prospector to
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-02-06

Australia, New Zealand and Italy.
 Information is available to the effect that one of the largest B. C. companies sold more soekeye in the United Kingdom in the fall of 1880 than in the whole of 1929
The Washington times., 1931-03-06

A group of stores and other
business establishments for the
sale of the Scent fare tickets for
bus transportation was announced
by Superintendent of Schools Bal,
lou today, and another group was
chosen for the distribution OF
tickets for the street cars.
The list of stations where bus
tickets may be purchased follows:
Brightwood Phi a m a cy, 59l6
Georgia Ave. N. w.
O'Donnelps Pharmacy, -Four
teenth and Colorado Avenue
Northwest.
Shoemaker's Drug Store, Geor
gia Avenue and Ingraham Street
Northwest.
Washington Rapid Tran sit
Company, 4615 Fourteenth st
N. w.
Shepherd Drug Company, Geor
gia Avenue and Shepherd Street
Northwest.
Armstrong Pharmacy, Eleventh
and Park Road Northwest.
American Security and Trust
Company, Eighth and H Streets
Northeast.
Capital Traction Company
.Thirty-sixth and M Street North.
west.
Capital Traction Company
Barn, Fourteenth and Decatur
Street Northwest.
Capital Traction Company Ma,
Wy Car Barn, Eighth and M
Streets Southeast.
O'DonnelTs Drug Store, Wis
consin Avenue and P Street
Northwest.
Potomac Electric Power Com
pany Service Building, Eleventh
Street and Florida Avenue North
west.
Riggs National Bank, Four
teenth Street and Park Road
Northwest.
Riggs National Bank, Wiscon
sin Avenue and M Street North
west. -,
Riggs National Bank, Seventh
and Eye Streets Northwest.
Judd's Pharmacy, Fourteenth
and Girard Streets Northwest.
Baldwin Confectionery Store
Sixteenth and U Streets North
west.
Hay Rubber Stamp Company
Thirteenth and Eye Streets North
west.
Georges Radio Company, 214l
Pennsylvania Ave. N. w.
Riverside Pharmacy, 2134 New
York Ave. N. w.
Street car tickets are to be sold
at the following points:
American Security and Trust
Company Seventh and E
Streets, Southwest.
Anacostia Bank, Nichols Ave
nue. and You Street, Southeast.
Capital Traction Company Bus
office, 1416 F. St., Northwest.
Capital Traction Company
Seventh Street Car Barn, Water
and P Streets, Southwest.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
3-Cent Fare Tickets
Will Be Distributed
At Schools Monday

Three-cent street car and BUS
tickets for children under 18 years
of age in the District schools Will
be distributed and sold at the
schools on Monday and will be
ready for use beginning Tuesday,
it was announced today by DR..
Frank w. Ballou, superintendent
of schools.
Following conferences with the
officials Of the traction COM
panies, the plans for the admins
tratiOn of the reduced fare law
which was signed two weeks ago
by President Hoover, and the
agencies at which the tickets may
be purchased were announced.
Strip Tickets Planned
Tickets will be sold at the
rate of three cents each, in
strips of 10 for 80 cents or in
books of 40 for $120. No tickets
will be sold except upon the
presentation of an application
filled out and signed by the
pupil and the teacher. These
applications, furnished by the
traction companies. First diStr1-
button Of tickets at the schools
will occur Monday.
Representatives Of the traction
companies will visit all schools
except the elementary schools on
Monday at about II o'clock to
sell the tickets. After Monday,
all purchases will be made by the
pupils through the agencies
selected as convenient by the
companies and the school author1-
ties. Elementary school children
will purchase their tickets at the
agencies on Monday.
The applications for the tickets
must be surrendered to the agent
at the time the purchase Is made,
and for each additional purchase
of tickets, a new application must
be secured.
Not Good On Holidays
The reduced fares, which will
not be good on Saturdays, SUM-
days or holidays, will be good on
school days to and from day
schools between the hours Of 1880
a. m. and 7 p. m. Night school
students, who will be supplied
with a distinctive type Of tickets,
may use the Scent fare privt'
lege between 4:30 and IL p. m.
The traction companies will
issue transfers on the reduced
fares between street cars and
busses and vice versa, and free
transfers will also be issued be.
tween the Capital Traction line
and the Washington Rapid
Transit line at Fourteenth Street
and Colorado Avenue Northwest.
The street car companies and
the bus companies will have dis
tinctive tickets and the tickets
to be used on either Of these
lines must be purchased at the
agencies designated.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
SUSPECT SEN 7
To HOSPITAL
MISS FELVER

Louis Scott, "a, of 412 D st.
N. w, today was sent to Gal
linger Hospital for 10 days men
tai observation by Judge ISaac
Hit in Police Court, after he
had been arraigned for the al
legged theft of money from four
employees of the Palais Royal
Company.
On Monday, it was testified,
Scott was discharged from the
employ of the company. Police
charge he went to the desks Of
Mary E. Deloe, Abbie Tingley,
Grace Shrenter and Ethel Parks,
all employees of the store, and
took a total of $43.
Scott is then said to nave gone
tc a local theater. AS ne was
about to leave the theater he
saw a detective, and, fearing that
he was about to be arrested,
threw the stolen money down the
sewer in the washroom Of the
theater, it was testified.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
D. C.. Heads Approve
4 SeLUer Contracts

The District Commissioners
today approved the awarding of
four contracts for construction of
sewer projects involving a total
expenditure of $10,086.
The Warren F. Brenizer Com
pany was awarded a contract for
construction of the Piney Branch
Road area sewer system at an
estimated cost of $1,971.42; Cor
son & Gruman Co., a sewer at
Eighteenth and Irving Streets
Northwest. costing $1,884.36; Will
liam A. Pate, a replacement sewer
costing $2,970.10 at New Hamp-
shire Avenue, between M and
Twenty-first Streets Northwest; a
sewer on C Street, between Nine
teenth Street and Seventeenth
Place Northeast, at a cost of
$4,000, to the Bright-Shepherd
Co.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
FIRED
FROM FORCE

Policeman Robert F.. Langdon
today was dismissed from the
Police Department by the Dis
trict Commissioners.
Langdon's stormy career in the
Metropolitan department was
ended when he failed to file an
appeal to the verdict of the
police trial board recommending
his dismissal.
Langdon was found guilty Of
conduct prejudicial to the good
order Of the department as the
result of the uncovering of two
stills and small quantity of al
legged liquor in the basement of
his home at 1882 Oates St. N. E..
When his case was called before
the trial board, he sought a con-
tinuance on the ground that a
case predicated on the same
charge was pending against him
in court and to reveal his de-
fense would prejudice his rights
in court.
The trial board declined his
request for a continuance and
Langdon walked out of the board
room with his counsel, Harry T.
Whelan.
The discovery of the stills and
liquor was made during the time
that Langdon was held in con-
nection with the battling murder
of Beulah Limerick. He was alb
solved by the Grand Jury in the
Limerick case.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
DONORS
PAY PLEDGES
Times Staff Photo

Contributors to the Community
Chest Fund are establishing a
record for prompt payment of
their pledges, it was learned to-
day from Elwood Street, director
of the chest.
It was further announced that
the general offices of the chest
have been moved from the old
headquarters at 1418 I St. N. w.
to the Investment Building, Fiji
teenth and K Streets Northwest,
and will be ready for occupancy
tonight.
In an effort to clarity the
duties of the chest, which, Mr..
Street declares, are misunderstood
by many people, the director ex-
planned that the chest is merely
a financial agency and does not
handle relief cases. These cases
should be referred to the Council
of Social Agencies, which main
tains offices at 1418 I st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
Rail Company Asks
To Remove Tracks

The Public Utilities Commission
is expected to take action Mon
Aday on the request Of the Capital
Traction Company to abandon
its tracks on F and G Streets
west Of Seventeenth Street north
west and to supplant car service
with bus service.
The company also asked that it
be granted permission to lay new
tracks on its Takoma line in
order to improve service. Another
request was made that the COM
mission permit the company to
discontinue it's bus line operated
knightly, Sundays and holidays be-
tween Potomac Park and Nine
teenth Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue northwest and supplanU-
ing this service with cars op-
Grated from Chevy Chase and
Kensington to Potomac Park,
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
BUREAU R|LED
BY HOLIDAY
SITUATION
Many at Engraving Plant Not
to Get Off Tomorrow and
May Be Deprived of Leaves

A considerable group of en-
ployes of the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing will not enjoy
their first Saturday half-holiday
tomorrow.
The exact number of those who
will be held at work has not been
disclosed by Acting Director
Charles r. Long, and all of his
plans regarding the enforcement
of the new haIf.holiday act re-
mains somewhat of a mystery.
Employees of the bureau are
"up in the air" over the situation
and plan a bitter protest if they
are deprived of the holiday.
On behalf Of these workers,
Miss Gertrude M. McNally, secre-
tary of the Federation of Fed
eral Employees, today asked Act
ing Director Long for a state
ment of his personnel program.
To Retain FurlOughs
Persistent reports are heard
that Mr.. Long will decline to
make any change in the present
system of furloughs, on the
ground that he lacks an ap-
preparation sufficient to cover the
cost of reducing them. Employees
generally have anticipated that
elimination of the Saturday after
noon work will cut at least two
days off their furloughs every
month. =.
Acting Director Long has indi-
Gated, however, that in the alb
sence Of Director Alvin w. Hall
in Europe he will not reduce
the furloughs or take any action,
unless under specific authorize
tion of Undersecretary of the
Treasury Ogden Mills, tending to
increase the bureau payroll.
May Ask Mills to Act
Employees Of the Bureau do not
understand how, if they are kept
at work on Saturday afternoons
for an indefinite period, any real
advantage is gained except in
cases of rush jobs" Under the
law they are entitled to take
their half-holiday on some other
day, if they are deprived of their
Saturday afternoons. The pro-
visions of the new act are so
plain that they cannot be evaded,
it is held.
The "sorest spot" for the Bu-
reau workers, however, remains
the increasing amount of over
time work on Sundays and at
nights.
It appears probable that Under
secretary of the Treasury Mills
will be asked to intervene in the
situation if the half-holiday law
results in a further extension of
overtime work.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
Where Children
Buy Tickets
Times Staff Photo
MINNIE

Chevy Chase Savings Bank,
Conn. Avenue and Morrison
Street, Northwest.
O'Donnell's Drug Store, Thirty
fifth Street and Reservoir Road,
Northwest.
Riggs National Bank, Wisconsin
Avenue and Warren Street,
Northwest.
Riggs National Bank. Wiscon-
sin Avenue and Warren Street,
Northwest.
Riggs National Bank, Dupont
Circle.
Seventh Street Savings Bank,
Seventh and N Streets, North
west.
DR.. w. B. Spires Drug Store
Twelfth and Monroe Streets
Northeast.
Washington Railway and Elec,
trict Company, Fourteenth and c
Streets Northwest.
Washington Railway and Elec'
trio Company, Brightwood car
barn, Georgia Avenue and Mill
tary Road Northwest.
Washington Railway and Elec
trio Company, Thirty-Sixth and
Prospect Streets Northwest.
Washington Railway and Elec.
trio Company, Four-and-a-ha!l
Street car barn, Four-and-a-Hal1
and o Streets Southwest.
United States Savings Bank
Fourteenth and You Streets
Northwest.
Washington Mechanics Savings
Bank, Eighth and G Streets
Southeast.
Washington Railway & Electric
Co., bus office, Georgia Avenue
and v Street Northwest.
Washington Railway & Electric
Co., Columbia car barn, Fifteenth
and H Streets Northeast.
Washington Railway & Electric
Co., lexington car barn, Fourth
and T Streets Northeast.
Washington Railway & Electric
Co., East Capital Street car barn,
Fourteenth and East Capital
Streets Northeast.
Chevy Chase car barn, Chevy
Chase Lake, Md.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
MasOns Will Hear
Col. Dickson Talk

Lieut.. Col. Thomas ]. Dickson,
senior chaplain of the First divis-
ion in the World War, and who
was president of the Masonic
Club of Sanzey, France, where
the American battle flag was first
displayed on the front will ad-
dress the Worshipful Masters AS
sociation of 1881, and their guests
in the Masonic Temple at Thir-
teenth and New York Avenue to-
morrow night at 8 o'clock.
His subject will be Masonry on
the Battlefield" and he will de-
scribe the Masonic activities that
came under his observation dur
ing the World War.
Colonel Dickson will use large
maps IL by "a feet in discussing
political conditions in Europe.
Col. C. Fred Cook, grand master
of Masons of the District OF Co
lumbia will preside and intro
duce the speaker.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
BOOST ASKED
IN CHARGE
To ADULT
Two Companies Say Revenue
Must Be Increased When
School Order Takes Effect

Questioning the validity Of the
three-cent carfare for school
children, the Capital Traction
Company and the Washington
Railway and Electric Company
today filed with the Public Util-
tiles Commission a request for a
higher fare for adults.
The companies pointed out
that their revenues will be sharp
ly decreased when the lower rate
for children goes into effect
Tuesday.
No specific rise in rates was
asked, the petition merely asking
the commission to raise the fares
of it's own accord. At the time
they questioned the law which
has given the children Of the
District the lower fare on school
days.
Hanna's Letter Quoted
The letter of John H. Hanna,
president of the Capital Traction
Company, read, in part:
1--WE are advised that your
order establishing reduced rates
for school children without pro-
viding compensation for the
loss OccasiOned is illegal and
unfair to this company. In
view. however, of the popular
demand for this reduction in
school children fares we Will
take no steps to prevent en-.
forcement but will use our best
efforts to put it into effect on
the date named"
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
{ Forfeit $40 Bail
In PGDer LarcenU

Four colored men forfeited $40
each by their failure to appear in
Police Court today on charges OF
petit larceny, growing out of their
alleged theft of newspapers
from an honor system" rack at
Ninth and r Streets last night.
The men, all of whom were ar
rested by Policeman r. E. Will
liams, of the Second Precinct, in
an hour, gave their names as
Henry Green, 80, 1881 Sixth
St. N. W.; Sam Smith, 81, 929
French st. N. w.; Percy Lyon, 35,
952 r St. N. W., and Henry War
field, IL, 1912 Ninth st.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
Candy Shop Blaze
DrGlUS Noon CrOJUd

An over-heated flue in the
kitchen of the Happiness Candy
Shop at Eleventh and F Streets
Northwest, ignited grease and
caused considerable excitement in
the place shortly before noon
today.
Employees called firemen who
extinguished the blaze with
chemicals. The regular MONDAY
lunch crowd watched the firemen
running in and out while they
ate. There was no material
damage,
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
Misleading Clothing
Ads Fought by Group

More effective measure to pre-
vent exaggeration and misleading
advertising of mems furnishings is
being sought by the Better Busl.
ness Bureau and representatives
of Washington dealers.
A meeting held yesterday after
noon to discuss means of cutting
down unfair competition is to
be followed by others of a SINH
lar nature, according to Louis
Rothschild, executive secretary Of
the Better Business Bureau. One
of the detectives is an agree
ment on standard values.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
EUGnS' Indian Relics
Go to u. s. Museum

The Victor j. Evans collection
Of Indian and other ethnographic
specimen bequeathed to the Ma
tional Museum has been received
at the building and placed in
care of the Department of An
thropology.
Mr.. Evans, prominent local pat
ent attorney, who died recently,
left his animal collection and
other relics to the Smithsonian
Institution. His collection is con-
sidered one of the finest ever
received at the museum.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
MISS WORTH
SaLesman's Auto
Looted bV Thieves

Gordon White, a salesman of
Buffalo, told police today that
his automobile, which he parked
on Q Street Northwest, between
Sixteenth and even e e n t h
Streets, vas broken into last
night and robbed.
Several sample cases, desk sets,
waste baskets and book ends
were stolen. He valued the stolen
goods at SIS.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
Burglars in Store
Get 5000 Clothing

Mems and women's clothing
valued at about 5000 was stolen
from Spindler'S Cleaning and
Dyeing Company, AIS Neal Pl.
N. W., last night. according to
Arthur C. Gorbach, manager.
Mr.. Gorbach told officials that
the robbers had entered through
an open window, broken the latch
on two inside doors and ran
sacked the place.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
HOLDS PSALMS
IN ST|FFENED
FINGERS
Maintains His Innocence to.
' End; Shows Bravery as He
Goes to Death Chamber
Il Jesus is n1ine."

"JeSuS is mine."
With those words on his lips,
CORDOBA Bell, poor, friendless col
ored man, paid his debt to society
in the electric chair at the Dis
trict Jail today.
Bell had been convicted of
tHhooting to death with a shotgun
Alice Metz, Is, colored, on August
16, 1929.
"JeSuS is mine."
Chair Stops Song
Singing that hymn, Bell entered
the death chamber at exactly 10
o'clock. The song was stopped on
his lips for a moment as he stood
at the head Of the short flight of
steps and gazed on the chair, that
ugly looking machine, with its
Edeadly wires.
Then the words came to his
lips anew, and with a shadow of
q smile on his face, he walked
resolutely forward. It took only
three minutes to strap him in and
adjust the electrodes to his head
and leg.
A prison official gave a. signal.
There was q hum of the dynamo.
The body lurched forward in the
chair and then settled back. The
paralyzed fingers clutched at a
Bible held in his left hand. He
was pronounced dead a few min
uteS later.
Bell slept TRANQUILITY last night.
He read his Bible, the same book
pine carried with him to the chair.
He arose early. There was the
usual breakfast-bacon and eggs,
fried potatoes and coffee.
Bell said he was ready to die,
anxious to die. He was sure that
he was going straight to heaven.
"Jesus is mine."
He sang the words over and
over again. Col. William Peak,
superintendent Of the Jail, came
and asked him If he had any last
request. He had. It was a simple
hone. A glass of ice water.
The ice water came. And Bell,
only minutes now from death in
the chair, sang on and on. The
simple old hymns that held for
him promise of the heaven to
come.
The Washington times., 1931-03-06
TOOL KIT STOLEN

Norman C. Hunt, of Bethesda,
Md, reported today that a tool
box, which he left in a house
under construction at Legation
Street and Connecticut Avenue
Northwest. was stolen during the
night. He valued the tools at
$25.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-09
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. ID.

smoking by children-that Is, persons
who have not yet attained full adult
development physically, mentally and
morally-is ruinous TO health and
shortens life.
That brought a letter from a much
too gentle mother. She asked If I would
please interpret my statement about
smoking in simple language which
might appeal to l4-year-old boy. Her
son had developed the smoking habit in
boarding school, and she thought he
might listen TO me with greater respect
than he does to an "old fogy" mother.
The young imp would listen il could
get one good crack at him, think
Here is a case where only one eXplana-
ton will do. The explanation is that
mother for some reason or other would
like to have her son keep pledge that
he will not smoke or drink before the
age of 25 years. That is all the explana-
ton any man can ask. Even II mother
wants the boy TO wear pink neckties or
to take no sirup on his pancakes until
the age of 80. il he has any manhood
in him at all he'll do as she wishes and
grin at all the world that wants him to
do otherwise.
Yeah, and I wonder where this
spoiled child'S old man is all this time :?
If the boy is taking up the smoking
habit at IA. heaven defend the country
from the sort Of a scamp the indulgent
father will be bailing out six or eight
years hence
II mothers or dads within or old fogy
notion is not enough in such cases
then I say give EN- the CAD.
(CopyriEht, 1872