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The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29
FORMATION WANTED
OF MRS. MARIE CROWLEY

Information Is desired as to the
whereabouts of Mrs. Marie Crowley,
who was born in Paris January 2.
1881 and who used to live in Nome
until the month of November, 1913
when she left that city for Juneau.
The last communication from Mrs.
Crowley was received from Juneau
in 1914, and it disclosed that she
had been divorced from her hus-
band, Jerry ]. Crowley. in 1918
and since then had been residing
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29
YOUNG BOSTON MAN TO
SPEND SEASON IN CASSIAR

A. H. Bryant, general manager
of the Cassiar Hydraulic Mines,
Inc, returned last week from a
business trip to Vancouver and
Seattle. He was accompanied by
his nephew, Alfred Bryant, who
was graduated from a Boston high
school two months ahead of his
class in order to make the trip
across the continent to go into the
Cassiar for the season.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29
Local Items

The election board at Tuesdays
primary election was composed OF
L. NJ. Churchill, A. Nj. Myers. S.
Cunningham, Harry Ferguson, Mrs.
J. C. Johnson. Mr.. Cunningham
could not serve, so the board ap-
pointed 4. F. Carlstrom. to serve
IN his place.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. f. A.
Cooper, north of Wrangell, was
utilized as the polls for Stikine
precinct in last Tuesdays cleo
| lions. The election board members
were: G. E. Diemart, judge, F. A.
Cooper and Mrs. r. j. Suratt clerks.
Fred Jensen, representative OF
the Liggett & Meyers company,
tobacco manufacturers, was a bust
ness visitor in Wrangell this week.
H. Kittlesby, superintendent for
the Diamond X Packing Company,
arrived ON the tender Marguerite
Wednesday. He was joined here
by Mrs. Kittlesby who had taken
passage on the Rogers. They will
occupy the Mundy house recently
vacated by Fred Cunningham.
Mrs. E. J. White, wife of the
late Stroller" White, was pas
senger on the Yukon Monday for
Juneau where she will take up
| her duties for the summer season
as assistant to the curator of the
Territorial Museum. She has spent
the winter in California.
A j. TONY" Dimond, Demo
cratic candidate for delegate to
Congress, and Thomas Judson,
mayor of Juneau and candidate
for nomination to the House of
representatives. spent Sunday in
Wrangell.
The Sentinel has received a let
ter from Seiji Mona, president of
Hochi Shimbun, newspaper of
Tokyo, asking consideration in
behalf of Mr.. Seiji Yoshihara, a
staff aviator of the Hochi Shin
bun, when he arrives" in this To-
cality on trans-Pacific flight.
1t was not stated, however,
whether Yoshihara planned to stop
in or near Wrangell on his flight.
1t is assumed that the letter was
sent here largely in the event that
Yoshohara changes his itinerary
OF is forced down in this vicinity.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29

What more shall l say inquired
the visiting speaker of the Sunday
School after an already lengthy ad-
dress. Say amen, and sit down."
cried a red headed boy.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29
Territorial Notes

The municipal year just ended
in Fairbanks was a good one from
the financial standpoint. Starting
the year on March 81, 1881, with
deficit of $3,0S1.65, it ended the
year with a surplus of $15,43S.SS,
making a net gain of S1S,520.53.
Mrs. Peter Kastrometinoff died
at her home in Sitka on April "a.
She was born in Douglas in 1902
and lived at Chichagof and later
at Sitka. She was taken i'll two
years ago and rushed to Seattle by
plane and from there to Mayo Bros
Clinic. After spending some
months there she returned to Sitka
and has been slowly failing since
that time.
H. w. Raney, deputy prohibition
agent for Alaska went fishing out
from Juneau last Saturday and
landed a 45-pound king salmon.
The proposition of forming a mu
tual benefit society as an adjunct
of the regular igloo, is being con-
sidered by the Pioneers of Juneau
the plan being for each member to
contribute a certain amount to a
fund to be used as death benefits
in the event of the passing of any
member of the group.
Chester X. Trip, son of Mr..
and Mrs. H. 1. Trip of Juneau,
will fill the office of assistant GUS
todian-engineman at the Federal
and Territorial building in Juneau,
pending a civil service examination
to fill the position which will be
left vacant April 80 by H. ].
Fuller.
Porter Berryhill has been ap-
pointed chief engineer of the AL
aska railroad that post having been
made vacant recently by the death
of C. H. Holmes.
Homesteaders of the Kasilof dis
trict were busily engaged the first
of the month in putting in their
wood supply for the coming year.
The district has a community wood
saw which is hauled about from
place to place, reducing logs to
stove wood most of the homestead
ers lending a hand with the work.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29

in Juneau as Miss Marie Crowley.
Any one having any information
about Mrs. Crowley, please COM
municate with the Governors Of
flee, Juneau, Alaska, as important
information is ON file there which
should be transmitted to her.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
H. P. CORSER, Vicar.

Fifth Sunday after Easter
10:45 a. m. A May Day Address
IL m. Church School
Remember the Hospital Benefit
Program, May Day afternoon in
the Coliseum Theatre.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29

Chicago's new post Office will be
equipped with conveyor belts that
can handle 100000 letters and
hundreds of tons of newspapers
and parcel post packages an hour.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29

Despite the widespread use of
electricity and kerosene as illumi-
nants, more than 100000 pounds
of candles are used in the world
each year.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29
NEW TELEPHONES

Recent installation of residence
not listed in the
telephone directory are as follows:
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29
NOTICE

Notice Is Hereby Given to all
property owners and dog owners
that dogs trespassing on private
property are declared a nuisance
and upon the filing of a complaint
by the property owner, the dog
owner will be subject to a fine.
WRANGELL TOWN COUNCIL
By L. B. Chisholm, City Clerk
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29
THE SALVATION ARMY
Captain Worthington
NI1 p OtH II " O1 tK1 II . 20
Commanding Officer

Commanding Officer
Sunday, 800 p. m. Company
Meeting.
Sunday 1880 p. m.
Friday, 3:45 p. m. Band of Love
Friday, 1880 p. m. Pictures.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29

Porter Berryhill has been ap-
pointed chief engineer of the AL
aska railroad that post having been
made vacant recently by the death
of C. H. Holmes.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29

Fred Jensen, representative OF
the Liggett & Meyers company,
tobacco manufacturers, was a bust
ness visitor in Wrangell this week.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-04-29

H. W. Raney, deputy prohibition
agent for Alaska went fishing out
from Juneau last Saturday and
landed a 45-pound king salmon.
Evening star., 1932-05-03

asked for information as to the work
ings of the Washington program.
Calculated to stimulate employment
in the building trades, as well as to take
advantage of the present low cost OF
building materials, completion OF the
Evangelical Lutheran Church OF the
Atonement at North Capitol street and
Rhode Island avenue will be undertaken
at an early date, it was announced to-
day.
Plan Drive for Funds.
A drive for funds would be launched
at once. The amount to be spent was
not made public. but it was said the
structure, when completed, will rank
with the city's finest churches.
The Special Committee to handle the
project is headed by Hans P. Caem-
merer. secretary of the Fine Arts Com
mission. Rev. G.. M. Diffenderfer, for
mer pastor of the Luther Place Memo
rial Church, will direct the special effort
to secure building funds during the
month of May.
HEADQUARTERS will be maintained in
the parish hall at the corner OF North
Capitol street and Rhode Island avenue,
and committees will work from this
center.
Rev. Howard e. Snyder is pastor of
the church.
Evening star., 1932-05-03
AVIATOR IS HELD
.0N MURDER CHARGE
Capt. Lancaster in Jail in
Shooting of Mrs. Keith
MiIIer's Fiance.
Sy the Associated Press.

sy the Associated Press
MIAMI, Fla, May 3.-Capt. W. N.
Lancaster, British flyer, was In jail to-
DAY charged with f1rst-degree murder in
the shooting of Hayden Clark, writer
and f1ance of Mrs. Jessie Keith Miller,
woman aviator. Authorities said Lam
caster has confessed to forging two sui
eide notes.
The flyer was detained yesterday on
a warrant sworn to by State Attorney
N. Vernon Hawthorne, who said he
probably would go before the Dade
County Grand Jury today to seek an
indictment. Hawthorne has exonerated
Mrs. Keith-Miller in whose home the
two men were guests at the time of the
shooting April 81. He said she would
be called as grand jury witness.
Declared Love Triangle"
Hawthorne, who described the rela-
ton Of the trio before the shooting as
forming a love triangle" said Lancas-
ter confessed, in the face of statements
by a handwriting expert, that he wrote
the two notes, addressed to himself and
Mrs. Keith-Miller, but denied killing the
writer Lancaster, Hawthorne said, ex
planned he wrote the notes to remove
suspicion from Mrs. Keith-Miller and
himself.
When Clarke was shot, he was col
laborating with Mrs Keith-Miller in
writing her life story for publication. 1t
was during this work that their romance
began.
Upon their decision to marry each
wrote letters to Capt. Lancaster, then
in st. Louis. After telegraphing his
congratulations and asking them to
postpone their marriage until he might
arrive to act as best man, Lancaster
came here hurriedly by airplane on
April 20.
Immediately after the shooting Ian
caster said he and Clarke talked In
their room at the Keith Miller home
Evening star., 1932-05-03
c. AR. TO CONDUCT
DR.. T|NDALL RITES
Members of Association of
Oldest Inhabitants to
Attend in Body.

Members of the Grand Army of the
Republic will have charge of the sim
pie rites this afternoon, which will pre-
cede the burial of Dr. william Tindall.
Oldest employe of the District CT Co.
lumbia. who died Sunday night, in
Arlington National Cemetery.
The services, to be held at o'clock
ut Almus r. Speare's funeral home,
1923 Connecticut avenue, will be at
tended in a body by members Of the
Association of Oldest Inhabitants of
the District of Columbia, of which he
was a member.
DR.. Tindall entered the service of
the District as secretary to a former
mayor in 1868, and was secretary to
Gov. Cooke under the territorial form
Of government which followed. He
was made secretary to the Board of
Commissioners in 1874, and continued
in that capacity until 1915, when he
was made assistant secretary, and
later chief Of the information bureau.
which position he held at the time of
his death. BY virtue of special act Of
Congress he was kept in the service of
the District after his retirement age,
and in all served the Government 63
years.
Born In Wilmington, Del, DR.. Tin
dali was recognized as an authority on
District history, and was author Of
History of Washington" which is re-
garded as a standard work by scholars.
He was also scientist of note, and
at the time of his death was working
on a new coSmic theory, said to have
been similar to Einstein's theory. He
had written scientific papers on the
flight of projectiles.
He is survived by a daughter. Mrs.
Kate Samuels, and three sons, Philip,
Arba and Nelson Tindall.
Evening star., 1932-05-03
ENGINEER TO HEAD
BUILDING ADVISORS.
Joseph EhIers Named Group
Chairman in "Washington
Program"

Joseph Ehlers, contraction engineer,
will head the Advisory Committee be-
ing formed to aid in the Washington
Program" for property renovation, 1t
was announced this morning by H. @.
Outwater. director of the Property I'm
provement and Business Cooperation
Committee of the District of Columbia,
the business mems organization behmo
this effort.
Mr.. Ehlers now is technical director
of the National Construction Confer
ence set up by the building industry
of the country to make an economic
study of the industry.
Will Advise Owners.
With his associates on the Advisory
Committee. who are still to be chosen,
he will counsel property owners VINO
are planning to improve their buildings
or grounds by repairs or additions. A
real estate man, banker and architect
are also to be on the committee.
The Property Improvement and Busi-
ness Cooperation Committee already
has set up a merchandising council,
headed by Charles R. French, advertis-
ing manager of the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association, to aid par
ticularly the smaller merchants in their
problems. The washington program"
is designed to help both the business
men of the Capital, by creating de-
mand for their products, and the prop
erty owner, who now is able to invest
his money with most return because of
prevailing prices.
Get More Inquiries.
Meanwhile the local movement con-
tinues TO draw attention on the out
side, requests for details being received
this morning from Wilkesbarre, Pa,
and Pontiac. Mich. at headquarters in
the Shoreham Building
Several other cities have previously
Evening star., 1932-05-03

tracted here. the defendant was the
lawful wife of Ralph Charnock and
could not enter into a legal marriage
with Smith.
The case turned on the question of
the good faith of the woman in con-
tinuing as the wife Of Charnock after
he had told her he did not nave an
absolute divorce from his former wife
The lower court erred in diSmissing
the bill, Justice Robb declares
Evening star., 1932-05-03

for some time before they retired, and
that later, when he was awakened by
an explosion, he saw Clarke, wounded
in the right temple, lying unconscious
in bed. The author died eight hours
later.
Lancaster and Mrs Keith-Miller were
held three days while police conducted
their first inquiry. The flyers have
been partners since a flight from Eng
land to Australia in 1927. Mrs Keith
Miller told Hawthorne low finances
caused her to solicit Clarkes aid in
writing her life story.
Since the shooting the aviatrix has
Evening star., 1932-05-03

The first printers had to compete In
the market with the manuscript writ
ings turned out by the clerks in the
monasteries and. to compete success
fully. In striking their fonts Of type the
T0 oeeibla tbe stvIn "a Tr,tiSU 0,TSe
in the district where they set up their
presses
Evening star., 1932-05-03
LAWYER WINS REVERSAL
IN ANNUL MENT FIGHT
Wife of D. F. Smith Leagally Wed
to Another When She Married
Him, Opinion Holds. .e

David Fillmore Smith, local lawyer,
yesterday won from the District Court
of Appeals reversal of the District
Supreme Court which had denied him
an annulment of his marriage to Ger
trude A. Smith, which took place here,
July 81, 1926. In an opinion Sy Justice
Charles H Robb, the appellate tribunal
held that when the marriage was con-
Evening star., 1932-05-03
Rolph Discovers
Gideon Bible i'm
His Travelling Bag
By the Associated Press.

BY The AssOcloted Press.
SACRAMENTO May 8. A
Richmond, Va, hotel is shy at
least one Gideon Bible, which
Gov. James Rolph, jr., Of Cali
fornia found in his travelling bag
yesterday. He will return it.
Gov. Rolph opened his bag and
lifted out three books. He stared
in astonishment at one of them.
Goodness sake" he muttered,
II seem to have picked up q
Gideon Bible somewhere.
Rolph grinned a bit, scratched
his head and decided the Bible
should be returned, with apollo
gies.
Evening star., 1932-05-03
LIEUT.. QUESADA RETURNS

Lieut.. Elwood r. Quesada of Wash
1ngton was relieved from duties as
assistant military attache for air at
Havana, Cuba, under Army orders to-
day and assigned to active flying duties
Mt Boiling Field.
Lieut.. Quesada is in Washington and
Is expected to report at the flying field
Immediately.
Evening star., 1932-05-03

Everyone with for individuality will delight in these
carved English oak Reproductions of XVII century motif
This group has the fnenes which characteristic of this
house and possesses oldenme charm The bold primitive
carving, the quaint and original forms and the venerable
appearance of the oak though treated by the hand of
me show sympathetic fidelity the originals and
impression of antiquity. You will love these reproductions.
Evening star., 1932-05-03

Though a desert, Sinai, by reason of
its geographical position as the link
between Asia and Africa, always has
been and always will be of considerable
importance, and as a battlefield has
seen more invading and retreating
armies passing through than any other
country in the world.
Evening star., 1932-05-03

affirmed her love for Clarke, but main
tanned her belief he took his own life.
The charge against Lancaster under
Florida law precludes admission to bail
Evening star., 1932-05-03
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To carry off this poisonous matter, nothing is
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Castorla, you know, is pure vegetable prep
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1t contains no harsh, harmful drugs, no narcotics
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-08-21
SPEEDBOAT CLASSIC
TO BE BROADCAST
Gar Woods Race Against Kaye
Don, September 2 and 3, Will Be
Heard Over N. B. c. Chain.

Gar Woods speed battle with Kaye
Don for the Harmsworth Trophy, SYM
bolic of world speedboat supremacy, will
be described over National Broadcasting
Co. networks from microphones along
the course and from an amphibian
plane circling Lake st. Clair.
The special broadcasts, arranged
through WJR in Detroit, will be heard
over a WIZ network Friday and Satur-
day September 2 and 8, and If tie
results from these two races, then
again for the final on Monday, Septem-
Der 5.
Kaye Don, representing Great Britain,
will drive Miss England III, owned by
Lord Charles Wakefield Of Hythe, in
which he recently made 119 miles an
hour. Gar Wood, veteran American
speeder, will pilot Miss America x, 80
foot hydroplane, powered with four L.
cylinder motors.
Each race consists OF f1ve turns
around a measured 7-mile course, max
ing a total Of IS miles. The course is
in Lake st. Clair. of Crosse Pointe,
Mich.
Don is expected to make desperate
effort to capture the trophy. which
Wood has held since 1920. This Is the
eighteenth international Harmsworth
competition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-08-21
KALTENBORN TRAVELS
IN EUROPE'S CAPITALS
Columbia's Commentator Inter
views Government and
Trade Leaders.

H. v. Kaltenborn, Columbia's news
commentator. has been travelling from
capital to capital in Europe interviewing
governmental and economic leaders and
developing background material for his
broadcasts.
In Rome recently Kaltenborn paraded
in a full-dress suit and stiff -bosorned
shirt in the Italian MONDAY sun-the
costume being that prescribed for e
radio speaker accorded the honor of a
private audience with Pope Plus.
Vatican City authorities invited Kali
tenborn to inspect the Station HVJ.
whose opening last year was featured
by a papal address heard throughout
the world. Kaltenborn soon will return
to the United States and will resume his
radio talks in mid-September.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-08-21
AMERICA TO FIGHT
| PRESS CENSORSHIP
Delegates to International
Radio Farley at Madrid
Against Regulations.
MERICA's delegation to the In

MERICA'S delegation to the In
n terfiational Radio Conference
"A at Madrid, strengthened by the
4 \ addition Of a new member, will
go instructed to fight vigorously
against the imposition of censorship on
news or other communications, as pro-
posed by certain European nations
This was the announcement of Acting
Secretary of state william r. Castle,
jr., made on the eve OF the delegations
departure.
To allay. the fears Of American news
papers, which protested the failure OF
President Hoover to appoint press ad-
visers to the delegation. Mr. Castle
said that the delegation will oppose ex-
tension of news censorship lust as
vigorously as 1t would fight if repre-
sentative of the press were on 1t ="
simultaneously, he announced that DR..
Irwin Stewart, communications expert
Of the state Department. had been ele-
waited to the status of a delegate.
Thus the delegation Is increased to
four members. the others being Judge
E. o. Sykes, acting chairman Of the
Federal Radio Commission. chairman;
DR.. C. B. Jolliffe, chief engineer Of the
commission, and Walter Lichtenstein,
secretary. First National Bank Of Chi
cago. code and cipher expert. There
are seven technical advisers. appointed
from other Government departments
and identified with radio or telegraphy.
The delegation sailed Wednesday.
Austria, CzechUslovakia, Japan and
China are understood to be fostering
more rigid rules for pres censorship at
the international conference, held every
five years. The present telegraph con-
yention IN which the limited Statpx IL
not party provides that governments
may stop outgoing press messages If they
consider them dangerous to the safety
of the state" The new proposals. which
will be opposed by the American dele
cation, would amend the existing regu-
lations to permit censorship of mes
sages considered dangerous to the ECO
nomic interests of the state" Another
proposal is that the senders Of the mes
sages are not notified when their dis
patches are held up or censored. This
latter proposal was called "pernicious'
| by Mr.. Castle.
fConyriRht 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-08-21

cast regularly over N. BIC. net
works.
CITATION WMAL has agreed to
- continue to relay programs of
the Columbia Broadcasting
System until completion of an
other Columbia outlet In Wash
ington. Under present plans
WMAL will begin operation as an
independent station on Novem-
Der l.
The decision to function as a
purely Washington station was
made following an extensive sur
vey of broadcasting needs here.
WMAL officials believe there is
ample material for a full-time
schedule of Washington programs
as we'll as a place for major
local station in the Nations
Capital
Tentative schedules under the
new system of operation already
are being drawn up. WMAL will
continue to broadcast most of its
current remote control programs
from local hotels and night clubs.
OrcheStras and entertainment
features, without regular radio
schedules in the past because of
lack of available time, will be in
cluded.
Arrangements are being made
to continue the present policy of