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The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
Work Starts On New
 Road

R. H. Stock, Alaska manager Of the Wright Construction Co.,, and member of the. firm, arrived in Wrangell on the Noctkland Sunday to supervise the initial work on the road from Wrangell to the A. F. A. Cannery.
 The road is a little over a mile In length and will be reconstructed to eliminate a few bal curves and lessen the grades. rhe road will be widened so that the grade itself will be 16 feet wide with a sur faced width of ten feet. The planked stretch of the road will be eliminated and bridges will be re- placed with metal eulvarts and good fills. The contract was awarded on a bid of S26.000.
 The Wright Construction Go. has been building roads in Alaska for the past three years. Last year they built the Ketchikan Wards Cove road which is surfaced for with of sixteen feet. It is the widest, straightest and best road in Alaska, Mir. Stock says.
 This year the company had the contract for the s90,00O extension of Tongass Highway at Mud Bay. A crew of 55 men has been at work there since early spring and go per cent of the rough grading and ap- proximately one-half mile of rock surfacing has been completed.
 Sixty tons of road building ma chinery were taken from the Mud Bay project and brought to Wran- gell last Saturday on the barge Ruby in tow of the Edward Shenck, Capt. Warren Chisholm. Seven skilled operators arrived with the machinery and have put In the major portion of the week in over hauling and repairs.
 Two shifts will be run for the coming three weeks. The first shift starts at four in the morning, has lunch and a half-hour's rest at eight o'clock. When the men go off shift at 12:30 the second crew comes on until nine o'clock. By doubling shifts the steam shovel and heavy machinery will be through here in about three weeks and will be shipped to Juneau to complete sss,0OO project for the improvement of Glacier Highway.
 MT Stock asks the patience of WTangell citizens while the road Is being reconstructed. It is obvious that a road cannot be torn up and a new one built and be open to traffic at the same time, so the road will be closed to traffic during work hours.
 Federal road building in Alaska
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
Party To Hunt
 Wild Bulls On .ChirikOf Island

Capt. AxeI Olsen, master of the motorship Ruth C., Mrs. Olsen, their son Lawrence and Dave T. Paine, foster son, are in southeastern AL aska waters enroute to Chirikof island where the three men will spend several months killing off the wild bulls. Capt Olsen Is a pioneer Alaskan having first come to the Territory in 1881.
 In 1891, as mate of the o.. Bertha, operated by the Alaska Commercial Company, he aided in landing three cows and one bull on Chirikof Island for the Semidi Prop agating Company which engaged in fox farming there for some years. The wild stock now O. To island are descendants of the ami mals landed there 40 years ago.
 Frye & Company now have a grazing lease covering Chirikof Island and Captain Olsen has a con tract with the company to kill off the bulls. He and his compan- ions expect to spend all summer and probably all of next winter on the island.
 All of the meat possible will be sold fresh to canneries and other in- dustries in the western district. The remainder will be cured and packed in tferces for shipment south. A survey of the island was made last year when it was estimated between 800 and 800 animals were on the island.
 Seven former Alaskans, several oldtimers, were brought north by Capt. Olsen as his guests. They are being dropped wherever they desire.
 Jack McCord, wellknown Alas kan promoter, is aboard with some 15 muskrats and one horse. It is reported he is to undertake to stock the island with muskrats. For some time he has been endeavoring te promote a fur-farming venture on the island and also to raise livestock tksRa.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
NEWS FROM ALL
 OVER THE WORLD
DIFFICULT TO SECURE
 JURY IN PANTAGES CASE

SAN DIEGO, May 2s-Still ap- parently without sign of the goal, efforts to secure a jury to hear the ease of Alexander Pantages and three eo-defendants on moral charges involving Lydia Nitto, a IT. year-old Hollywood Hove mart girl, were resumed yesterday, The fourth day of the trial found eight men and four women sitting tenn porarily in the jury box, Fourteen had been excused on peremptory challenges and four by stipulation flor cause"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
MAY OPEN SHOE STORE

R. L. Buxton arrived from Ketchi- kan the first of the week with line of shoes representing the en- tire stock of the Champion Shoe Store of Ketchikan. Orders for shoes are being taken at Peggy's Shoppe.
 MT. Buxton is looking over Wran- gell to determine whether the field trs,fies opening shoe store here. If he decides to locate in Wrangell, he will bring his family here from Seattle.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
TENNESSEE GOVERNOR
 FACES IMPEACHMENT

NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 2s.- The impeachment of Governor Henry H. Hotron was recommended te the Tennessee House of Representatives yesterday by committee of five of its members. The committee recon mended this after two days of in- vestigatingN the administrative acts of the governor in eonneetian with tie-ups of state funds in closed banks last fall,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
CANADIAN NATIONAL LINE
 RESUME SAILINGS JUNE

The Canadian National Steamship line will resume it's summer sehed- ule June 8, the first vessel. Prince Rupert, sailing on that date. This will be followed by the Prince Henry on June II. and the Prince George. June Is. The Prince Henry will call at Wrangell both north bound and southbound on the first trip only. It will arrive here north bound on June 13 and southbound June 16.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
TACOMA DOUBTS ASH
 WILL ATTEMPT FLIGHT

TACOMA. Wash.,-Airport of lficials here refuse to take seriously reports from Tokyo that Thomas Ash, Jr., the American aviater would at tempt a nonstop flight acress the Pacific. Tentative arrangements for a reeeptien committee that ceuld be called on a few minutes notice, should the venture be attempted, have been made.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
TORNADO SWEEPS RAILROAD
 COACHES FROM TRACKS

FARGO, N. p-Dashing along at 5O-mile eliR, the Great Northern Empire Builder, the twelve-coach coast train de luxe, bound from Se- attle to Chicago, was picked up from it's tracks and wrecked by a tornado, eight miles southeast of here late yesterday. One life was lost more than q score of persons were injured, one probably fatally, and other scores were shaken up.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
HERE FROM KANSAS

Mrs. c. E. Diemart was an arrival on the Yukon Monday afternoon. She was accompanied by her sister and brother-in-law. MT. and Mrs. F. M. Pitcher, and her husbands brother, Ray Diemart, all of Benton, Kansas. The party drove from Wichita to Seattle and report ex- cellent weather and an enjoyable trip all the way through.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
DESIGNER OF NAUTILUS NOW
 REALIZES 40-YEAR DREAM

NEW LONDON, Conn. May 29- Simon Lake. designer of the trans- Arctic submarine Nautilus" is elated that the m9ment is at hand for the little meehanieai whale to begin her long perilous voyage to the North Pole Fer Simon Lake, now GA years old, the departure of the submarine from this pert will mean the realization of dream of
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
EVERETT PETTICREW SPENDS
 WEEK HERE

Everett Pettierew arrived from Ketchikan on the Yukon Monday and will return on the Rogers in the morning. He will begin work soon with the Miller Bros. loggers, who have the sub contract from Hubbell & Waller of Spokane for clearing the extension of the new three and one-half mile scow Bay road out of Petersburg.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
ALAMEDA

The Alameda was in port this morning northbouAd, B, Angerman, J. M. Arnold, H. A. Arnold and Charles I. Carpenter were Wrangell passengers aboard from Seattle. W. M. sherman, w. J. Ryan, Chet Johnson and Olaf Floe took pas sage at Ketchikan.
 Passengers leaving Wrangell were Mrs. Lydia Fahn-Hansen, John F .Chamberlin and W. T. Mahoney tor Petersburg and Mrs. Louis F. Paul for Juneau.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
STEAMERS --
ADMIRAL ROGERS

The Admiral Rogers arrived from the South Sunday. Passengers ar irving at Wrangell were from Ke. t. hikan as follows: R. L. Buxton M. Carlson, Carl Nelson, R. C. Wakelin. J. Bryan, Mrs. L. A. Nor. ley, Laverne Morley Jr., Lavernt Morley Sr., Lena Morley.
 Mrs. M. H. Blake took passage to Sitka. 0. K. McManus to Juneau L. Berg to Petersburg and NJ. E Leblanc to Skagway.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
HAZEI. R Nh d

The Hazel B No. f returned the first of the week from Clearwater where a cargo of lumber for the O'Reilly dredge and other supplies had been taken. Passengers for Clearwater were J. NJ Jackson and George Jackson.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
N0RTHIAND

The Northland was in port Sun day evening. Tickets were sold to Wrangell passengers as follows: For ketehikan, Miss Esther Torry, Miss Elizabeth Towy. D. B. Ahlhain, Richard Wakelin, P. Paulson; For Seattle, P H. Nordrum.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
QUEEN

The Alaska Steamship liner Queen, just out of drydock after a complete general overhauling. sailed Thursday for Southeastern Alaska. The Queen is due in Wrangell next Sunday and each second Sunday hereafter for the remainder of the season.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29

So many wives are shooting the wrong husbands lately, it's a shame that the schools don't include tar get practice in their domestic science e0nRaea.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
YUKON

The following passengers arrived from Ketchikan on the Yukon last Monday; J. F. Chamberiln, Everett Petticrew, Lydia Fahn-Hansen, Olav Trablos, P. E. Verney, Tom Olson.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29
ALASKA INTERESTS AT
 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 1S- Various people living along the Yu- kon river have written the Dele gate asking that he exert his in- tluence with the Bureau of Fish cries to the end that fishing op- arations might be conducted at the mouth of the river. After a very satisfactory conference with Commissioner Henry O'Malley last week the Delegate received letter from the Commissioner reading as follows:
 Confirming our conference of today regarding the opening of the Yukon to 8 limited amount of fish ing: For a long while have been favorable to an opening of the legal area of 500 yards off the mouth of the river where gill net fishing can be conducted, but I feared that if 1t were thrown open land the salmon market became stabilized, operations might become so extensive as to be harmful to the river.
 After our discussion, I have ar rived at the definite conclusion that fishing operations can be per- mitted on the basis of allowing 5O,- 1 900 to 60,000 king salmon to be taken. This, in my judgment, will not encourage any large cRnneries to go into that field but will per- init the local people to sell and ship their product to the States.
 T shall, therefore, recommend to the Secretary of Commerce in the regulations that will be issued in December, 1s31, that the river be opened te king salmon fishing,
 limiting operations to king salmon gill nets, and limiting the season to the time when the bulk of king salmon are running. There will un- doubtedly be some chum salmon caught but only limited number. : in my judgment, and will not in- terfere with the people living along the river who depend on catching salmon to dry for their own food and that of their d9gs, I hope that this aetl9n will bring about a small industry at the mouth of the Yu- ken, conducted by local people You may give this such publicity as you desire" :" ss
 Major General Geo. S. Gibbs, Chief Signal Office of the Army, has decided that the petition from residents of Unalakleet, asking for ndio station at that location, cannot be favorably considered at this time. By reason of financial i limitations this new station could anly ps established by curtailment i 0f service elsewhere, and the Major General says that such move would not be in the best interests of the Territery:
 The poataffiea DaDarfmaut fs
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29

Tolovana, and the appointment of Henry W. Martin as postmaster.
 It has been urged by the Trade Commissioner of Vancouver that free air transportation should be furnished Canadian prospectors to parts of British Columbia, Yukon Territory and Northwest Terni- tories. By this means many weeks time could be saved during the opening of the mining season. In connection with the building of the new British Columbia-Yukon-Al- asha Highway 1t is urged that air plane service over the proposed route would do much to help the development of various mining sections. Increased flying via Ha- zelton, Dease Lake, Teslin and Att lin to Fairbanks. will also help to popularize the projected highway.
 The Pacific Frosted Foods, Inc, with unlimited capital, expects 10 send two investigators to Alaska this summer to determine just how advantageously the Birdseye quick freezing process can be applied to the preparation of reindeer for shipping.
 President Hoover has announced that on the current public bUIld= ing program the list of nrojects covers total of 75S buildings. in- yolving a total expenditure 0f $45a,060.000. One of the projects recently completed was at Juneau. where the expenditure for the Capitol building was s795,0OO. An other project now in the speclfica- 'tion stage is at Fairbanks, where the cost is to be $450,00O. Ketchi- kan is listed with $10,000 to secure a site. Ketchikan and Anchorage will each expect to receive an ap- propriation of s40O,O00 when Con- gress meets. While construction work is going on all over the coun- try and preliminary arrangements are making f9r many other projects 1t may be stated that recent inquiry at the Treasury Depart ment elicitad the fact that the farce in the Supervising Archi- tect's office finds 1t difficult to keep up with its expected program. As consequence the specifications for the Fairbanks building are not vat o0nnlafa and ff ia ofofad xufII not be ready to offer to hidders before the early part of June. The new delay means that 1t will be August before the successful con tractor is ready to start work on the new building.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29

Immediately after the services at the Redmen's Hall a parade com posed of local organizations will form outside the hall and march to the cemetery where services will be held. The order of march will be as follows:
 Colors.
 Firing squad.
 Spanish American War veterans
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29

D. R. Adams, who was a former emPoyee of the Alaska Railroad far nine years and resident of Alaska for twelve years. writes from Bolivia requesting a copy of the Howell
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29

The Postoffice Department Is considering the petition for the re- establishment et . pest0ttiee at
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29

American Legion.
 Services at the cemetery will be as follows:
 Invocation, Staff Captain Acton. | Music by Quartette.
 Decoration of graves.
 Salute to the dead by the firing squad.
 Taps.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29

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The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29

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The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-05-29

Tolovana, and the appointment of Henry W. Martin as postmaster.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-26
Clearing the Calendar

Through the routine of tenure of Office Judge
Clarence Martin is now the chief justice Of the SUI
preme court
This event may be important and of special signh-
canoe to those who believe that the constitutional
guarantee of speedy justice for all citizens is some
thing more than phrase in book
Judge Martin has shown exceptional courage in his
attitude on this matter and in the past the other
Judges have been more than uncomfortable when he
read the record of decided during the year Tor
the enlightenment Of the legal profession.
There are still cases upon that docket in which
long delay has aroused suspicion that political exped-
ency rather than the difficulty Of the legal question is
involved was the cause of delay
One of these cases is that of D. c. Stephenson, who
has spent many years in the penitentary, while his
appeal to the highest court remained upon the docket
What happens to Stephenson may or may not be
of Importance. But the state of Indiana not
afford to rest under the suspicion that its courts refuse
to decide any case.
Now that Judge Martin is at the helm, perhap not
only this case but others, both civil and criminal,
which have been pending, will receive attention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-26
Russia Is Hard

TINE real reason we fear Russia
l. is due to the hardness which
We see back of her efforts-a hard
ness which characterized America
in the time of Washington and
Jackson.
Russia blinks at nothing to get
things done.
Though supposed to be governed
by mass thinking, she holds every
individual responsible for his task.
The mechanic who smashes a ma
chine, whether through carelessnes5
or intent, goes to jail. The engineer
who wrecks a train is imprisoned.
The soap box orator who interferes
with the efficiency of plan is fred.
Here in America, where indi-
vidua1ism is supposed to reign SUI
preme, and personal responsibility
is supposed to be the bulwark of
our social institutions, we expect in
Surance companies and efficiency
systems to protect and safeguard us.
When they fail, Our first thought
is to rig up some sort of substitute
by which we can make a corpora
ton or the crowd take care of our
plumbers, lazinesS, or incompetence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-26

and to prohibition With presidential leadership
probably oud be induced to act on that popular
opposition.
Tariff modification would revive our export trade
SO largely destroyed by the Hawey-smoot bill and
foreign reprsals Hoover himself is authority for the
statement tlat American prosperity depends upon
disposng Of 10 per cent of industrial production
in export markets. Tariff modification also would
increase customs receipts, now reduced
Repeal OF prohibition-besides removing a chief
source of crime and lawlessness-woud provide jobs
and give outlet for of the farmers grain sur
plus.
Repeal of prohibition also would help the govern
ment to wipe out its present annual deficit of approx
imately one billion dollars According to the latest
figures of the Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment, the annual turnover of the liquor in
dustry now is $2,84SOOOOOO The profits go to finance
crime and corrupt officials.
Except for income tax from few large bootleggers
the government collects no tax from this huge in
oustry Instead the government pays out increas-
ing sum for the impossible TASK OF enforcing an un-
enforceable law
II the government would repeal the prohibition
law and tax the present tax-free liquor that revenue
aooed TO the enforcement saving, probably would more
than cancel the annual blion-doar deficit.
Prohibition repeal would help balance the budget.
reduce taxes, and remove major cause of national
crime and hypocrisy. And it would carry out the ma
Jority recommendations of the Presidents own Wick
ersham commission
Think it over, Mr.. President!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-26

took on the sanctity of something
which was depression-proof. And
there was talk of reserves and sur
plus and melons soon to come.
Anything which cost less than $40
or $40 was arbitrarily among the
cats and dogs. Even the naive folk
who believed the ready promises as
sociated with enterprises in oil and
copper were not Conspicuously more
foolish than those who put their
trust in basic issues.
A man who bought something at
IL and watched it decline to IS
cents is no worse off than those
who thought that United States
Steel was a certain bargain any
where in the neighborhood of 200.
When and if the turn comes. the
disinherited among the stocks may
have their chance at last. All issues
seem Of mind to make the new
start from scratch.
Copyright. 1881. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-26
Is 1t a Lie?

A SSISTANT SECRETARY OF
N WAR DAWSON charges the
reds with trying to discredit the air
show by spreading the report that
it cost 100000.
Whatever else may be said Of
this latest accusation. the reds must
have an effective publicity bureau,
since about every newspaper from
Maine to California has quoted
that figure.
But Mr.. Dawson says that it is
"a contemplate lie"
The air maneuvers, he explains
form a part of the regular annual
army exercises, and "are not costing
an additional nickel"
Not pausing to argue the ques-
ton, though there is obviously a
catch in it somewhere, are our Of
1cials at loss for words, or ideas,
that they appear unable to think
Of anything but red" whenever
criticism arises?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-26
imitation Then-Depression Now

Let's go into retrospect about this wage business
Drop back fourteen years. Then things moving
the other way Fourteen years takes to 1917 From
the start to the finish of 1917, the cost of living
u per cent Did wages rise in proportion? They did
not.
Then in 1918 another Is per cent was added. In
1919 still another 25 and Is in 1920 total in
four years of 95 per cent.
Wages finally did climb during that period but
they Jagged way behind prices. They always were
we'll down the ladder.
For year and a half now, things have been
ing in the opposite direction. Today there is much
talk about debating wages ratio to the deflaton of
living costs.
If those now promoting that deflation idea had
been as energetic back in 1917 to 1920 in promoting
raise that would have kept step with the cost of living
there would be some merit of consistency in their
argument-although We can not agree with the mere
cost Of living theory the be-al and endal of the
workingmans opportunity
We think he is entitled to what it costs to exist
plus liberal margin for things beyond food heat
light and shelter
But anyway, we could grant consistency to the
cost-of- Living advocate if he had demonstrated the
same concern in behalf of upward wages when costs
were rising as he does today about decreased wages
when costs are falling.
AS matter of fact, labor today-that part of it
which still is employed at no reduced scale-merely is
getting break that constitutes belated Offset to
the break he didn't get in the years of the big boom
And we all are entitled to breaks in this life
said breaks being, generally speaking, few enough.
Getting wages up a long hard job It's not so
difficult to fall to climb. Gravity takes of
that.
IT. therefore, labor should cave in after year and
a half of depression-a depression. by the way for
which industrial management is responsible dis
tnct from the rank and file of workngmen-and say.
"An right, we'll debate along with dividends" it
would be the same long, hard, tagging row to hoe
when things started back up.
That's the reason why labor today is justified in
resisting the tendency to debate pay during season
Of depression, which after all, bad it has BEEN is
only one and one-half years old. The memory of the
four-year rise still is too vivid.
And labor that still is employed feels it's entitled
to its break"