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The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-02-19

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 1917
Because of serious doubt In the
mind of President Wilson in refer
ence to the real intention of Off
cial heads of the German subma-
rine activities, no action will be
taken for a few days to relieve the
ship blockade of the American ports.
President Wilson is said to be-
lieve that the next few days will
show how far Germany intends to
press her announced hostile policy
against the neutrals. Under that
belief. the President says that
caution is necessary. while the re-
lations are strained.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-02-19

WASHINGTON, 2:3O pm. Thurs
day, Feb. 81, 1917-The diploma
tic officials today do not attempt
to disguise the fact that the Ger
man situation is growing graver
and more menacing every hour. It
is believed that only a miracle can
prevent war.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-02-19

SHOE REPAIRING Neatly ana ex-
pertly done. Prices reasonable.
Henry Anderson
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-02-19

NEW YORK, Feb. %. 1917
The poor tenement women say that
they will continue their demands
until the mayor causes the lower
ing of food prices.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-02-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Cole, who
have been outside for more than a
year, arrived from Spokare on the
City of Seattle. Mr.. Cole will take
charge of the tin shop of the St.
Michael Trading Co.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-02-19

Mrs. e. P. Walker entertained
on Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. La
Bounty who left for Skagway this
week. The game of hearts was
played and prizes were won by Mrs.
Johnson and Mrs. Weber.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-02-19

CLEANING, Pressing, Repairing and
alterations. Mrs. Wellesley, Pic
neer Building
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-02-19
ADS

MRS. OSCAR CARLSON, Nu-Bone
Corset and Lingerie Shop, on
Church Street.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1932-02-19

H0USEWORK WANTED Mr.
Carlstrom. Phone 17R2.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
SHANNON INQUIRY
SCOPE W|DENED
Complaints of u. S. Competi.
ton in Other Than Barges
Now Taken Up.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, August 24-The
Shannon Congressional Committee,
after completing its hearing on Gov
ernment operation of Mississippi River
barge lines, turned its attention today
to other complaints of unfair Federal
competition with private business.
Members of the committee, headed
by Representative Joseph B. Shannon
of Kansas City, Mo, will report to
the next Congress on their study OF
Government competition with private
business.
James L. Donnelly, executive vice
president of the Illinois Manufacturers
Association, told the committee yes
terday an increase of $3,775, 100000 in
Federal expenditures in the last l9
years to a large extent can be traced
directly to the Governments business
and commercial ventures. Most of
these. he said, have been operated at
a loss
Hearing on the barge service opera
ton was concluded with testimony from
Rome c. Stephenson, South Bend
banker and former president of the
American Bankers Association, speak
ing in behalf of railroads, and from
c. C. Webber of st. Louis, president
of the Upper Mississippi Barge Line
Co, and George c. Miller, Mishawaka
Ind, manufacturer, who said he op-
Grated barges on the Ohio River 20
years ago.
Miller told the committee he would
produce evidence of secret contracts
with shippers which, he said, had been
made by the Federal barge service.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

Earle-"War Correspondent" at 11:2o
am, 1855, 4:40, 7:25 and 10 pm. Stage
shows at 1:O5, $50, 6:35 and 9:1o pm.
R-K-O Keith's-"Age of Consent
at 1852 am, 1852, 1852, 5:52, 7:52
and 9:52 pm.
Blonde of the Follies," at
1915, 2:35, 49, tbs and 9:35 pm.
Loew's Fox-"Speak Easily" at 10:45
am, 1886. 4:27, 7:18 and 1000 pm.
Stage shows at 1914, sos, 5:56 and
8:47 pm.
MetropoIitan-"Cry of the World at
11:21 am, 1905, PSI, 4:36, 6:21, s:o6
and 9:51 pm.
CoIumbia-"Isle of Paradise" at
1910, 1:50, 1925, sos, 6:45, 1925 and
1905 pm.
Tivoli-"Lady and Gent" at 2:2o
4:04, 5:55, TAO and $50 pm.
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farms" from IL am. to II pm.
Ambassador - Washington MasQue
Parade" at 6:15, 8 and GAS pm.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
SUSPECT PARENTS
POISONED FAMILY
Louisville Police, Investigat-
ing Death of Five, Lean to
Murder Suicide Theory.
BY the Associated Press.

LOUISVILLE, KY, August 24-Be-
lief that either John Callahan or his
wife put enough poison in food to wipe
out their entire family of IL was eX-
pressed today by Detective Capt
William Oeltjen as police investigated
the deaths of five members Of the fam
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Callahan and three
of their children, Cecilia, 6; Virginia,
6, and Kenneth, Is months, died with
in "a hours after they ate a breakfast
Of pancakes and preserves Sunday. The
other children, George, IS, and Doro-
thy, 4, probably will die, physicians
said, as the poison has paralyzed their
kidneys
The deaths were first laid to food
poisoning by Investigators, but analysis
by the city health department revealed
enough poison powder in the food to
kill the entire family. Four other chill
dren escaped by not partaking of the
breakfast. John, jr., H., and Leo, 13,
had arisen early and left home, and
Marie. 20, and Ray, II, slept late.
Callahan had been out of work for
some time. The surviving children
said, however, neither he nor his wife
/ appeared despondent or expressed de-
sire to end their lives.
Though adhering strongly to the muir
de- and suicide theory, police also in
Yestigated the possibility some enemy
of the family might have put poison
in the food or the poisonings were acci-
dental
Evening star., 1932-08-24
PRISONER RELEASED
ON HABEAS CORPUS
Justice 0'Donoghue Frees Man
Held on Manslaughter Charge
for Maryland.

District Supreme Court Justice Daniel
w. O'Donoghue yesterday released on
EabeaS corpus James Monk, charged
with manslaughter in Prince Georges
County, Md. and arrested July 16 by
police here at the request of county au-
thoritieS. The court held that the de-
tention while awaiting requisition pap
ers from the Governor of Maryland
since the date of the arrest was un-
reasonable.
Col. William A. Peake, Jail superin-
tendent, against whom the writ was is
sued, answered that he was holding the
prisoner on an order of the Police Court
which at a hearing August 16 had re-
manded Monk until August %.
Attorney James K. Hughes for the
petitioner claimed the new law giving
Police Court Judges jurisdiction to hold
prisoners to await eXtradition limits the
time of detention to 80 days Or to a
time in which a reasonable opportu-
nifty is given for the arrival of the pa
pers. 1t did not take anything like 80
days to get papers from Annapolis, he
claimed.
Assistant United States Attorney
William A. Gallagher opposed the re-
lease of the prisoner. claiming the
question of a reasonable time under
the law is left to the Police Court
Judge.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
American Honored at Paris.

PARIS, August "a (P).-Edward Tuck,
dean of the American Colony received
a flood of congratulatory messages to-
day on his Goth birthday anniversary
Evening star., 1932-08-24
YRS. MCCORMICK HOLDS
GAINS MADE IN ILLNESS
Her Vitality Astonishes Physicians.
Rockefeller Visit to Chi
cago Rumored.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 24-Mrs Edith
Rockefeller Mccormick continued today
to hold the gains she had made against
the malady which threatens her life.
Her vitality has occasioned astonish-
ment among her physicians, who, how
ever, hold that her recovery cannot
be expected.
The fashionable hotel in which she
lies was filled with rumors that her
father, the elder John D. Rockefeller,
might undertake the journey to Chi
cago. This, however, was discounted
by relatives, who said they did not see
how it would be possible for the 93-
year-old man to make the trip.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
MINISTER'S WILL FILED
Rev. Joseph G.. Williamson Leaves
Estate to Widow and Daughter.

EState 20 WluOW anu OaugHlel'
Rev. Joseph G. Williamson, former
Washington clergyman, who died last
March in Brooklyn, N. Y. left an estate
valued at S92,818, according to an ap-
praisal filed in the Brooklyn court.
His widow, Mrs. Lide E. Williamson
is to receive $77,687, and daughter,
Mrs. Estelle w. Douglas. 3133 Connect
cut avenue, gets $4,000. The remain
ing estate is to become a trust fund
for two grandsons of the minister.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
ART LEAGUE. PLANNED
TO PROMOTE WORK HERE
Education and Loan and Sales
Exhibitions to Form Basis
of Groups Program.


Plans for organizing an Art League
of Washington" for the promotion of
art education and loan and sales ex-
hibitions have been announced by
Charles Val Clear, who will be the
director. 1t is expected to lease a head
quarters for the league near Dupont
Circle in time for opening September
Is with an exhibition of members
work. Glasses will open october l, it
was announced.
League instructors will include Sewell
Johnson, portrait and water color; Mar
garet Casey. high school children; Rob-
ert Gates, lithography, wood cut and
water color; R. C. Parr. commercial;
Antoinette Fulton. batik and crafts:
Margot Broxton, sculpture and compo-
sition, and Mr. Val Clear, anatomy, life
and art history.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
Oldest Graduate Is SO.

AURORA, Ill, August "a [P)-Ira
Smith Dunning, Aurora's Oldest resi-
dent and the oldest living graduate of
the University of Michigan, observed
his 98th birthday anniversary yester-
day. He was graduated from the uni
versity in 1863. as a civil engineer.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
Steel Plea Dismissed.

CLEVELAND, August "a tP).-A suit
to block afiliation of Republic Steel
and Trumbull Cliffs Furnace Companies
was dismissed in Common Pleas Court
late yesterday by c. A. Niman, who was
appointed a special referee.
Evening star., 1932-08-24

Cuba has cut its public works budget
so per cent.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
EXTORTION LAID TO BOY
Threatening Letter Charged t
Child of 12.

YOAKUM, Tex, August "a P).-
Harold Shumake. u. was held here
Yesterday as an extortionist.
Several days ago r. C. Flick received
a letter threatening injury unless $1,000
was left at midnight in barn in the
eastern part of Yoakum. Flick left 2
dummy package at the barn, but no one
appeared.
R. C. Garbade received a letter Sat
urday demanding that S1,375 be left at
the barn. Officers arrested the boy
when he appeared at daybreak Sunday.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
TWO DIE IN JOB RIOT
Miners Use Pickaxes Against Po.
lice at Katowicz, Poland.

KATOWICZ, Poland. August "a up.
Several men were reported killed and
many wounded yesterday in a bitter
fight between jobless miners and the
police near here.
Police sought to prevent the miners
from digging coal in group of closed
pits and sealed the mines after driv-
ing out the interlopers. The clashes
we're understood to be continuing, with
the miners using pickaxes against po-
lice weapons.
Evening star., 1932-08-24
DANCING.

PEYToN PENN STUDIO. ~, ST, NV.
Met Instruction IN mode-n h-u rom
daneinS' AL styles private, OF class .-ass-.s.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-07
{[I9 Tf25 Il2y3i

for each pound of cooked chopped
spinach, sprinkle with bread crumbs
that have been well buttered- Pour
over olive Oil or butter and heat
thoroughly. Serve hot.
Consomme Royal.-Beat two eggs,
add salt and one-half cupful of milk.
Pour into square shallow pan and
cook over hot water until the custard
is firm. Cool, cut into small squares
and serve in hot consomme.
Glazed Peach Fritters.-Peel, stone
and cut into halves, firm peaches.
Toss about until we'll covered with
sugar, being careful not to break them.
Canned peaches may be used. Take
two cupfuls of flour, one-half cupful
of water and mix this batter with the
whites of two eggs well beaten, add
ing salt and tablespoonful of melt
ed butter. Bring some hot vegetable
oil to the proper heat, dip each peach
into batter then fry in the hot fat
When lightly brown drain on a paper
and sift over powdered sugar. Place
in hot oven for few minutes to
glaze. Serve on doily-covered plate
while hot.
70. 1892. Western Newspaper Union.)
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-07
EVERYDAY FOOD

TAKE a center cut of fresh salmon,
l. cover with cold water and plenty
of salt. Bring slowly to boil, re-
moving all scum, and simmer until the
6sh is tender. Drain we'll and serve
with the following sauce: Take six
tablespoonful of butter, the yolks of
two eggs, put them into double boil
er, stirring briskly until the butter is
dissolved. Mix two tablespoonful of
-four with the egg mixture, add the
Juice of lemon and one cupful of
milk, little grated nutmeg and pep.
per and salt Stir constantly, until 1t
thickens to smooth custard.
Pike a la Tartar-Cut a fresh pike
into slices and lay the slices into a
marinade of olive oil, minced onion,
salt and pepper, finely cut mushrooms
and parsley. Cover the fish with bread
crumbs and broil, brushing with the
marinade. When the fish is q golden
brown, place on a hot platter and
serve with parsley and a tartar sauce.
Spinach With Egg.-Boil spinach in
very little water. Beat up two eggs
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-07

want no trouble. Gun play, with it's
attendant publicity, is the last thing
they DESIRE
The beer supply Of New York is con-
trolled by possibly six men. They are
the manufacturers and wholesalers.
The beer they furnish is of fine quail.
ity, made by experts from the best ma
terials Distribution is scientific.
Greater New York is divided into dis
tricts, with clearly defined boundaries.
In each of these districts there is
distributor, jobber, or middle man
call him what you please. If he at
tempts to do business outside his al
loted district, discipline is swift. Oh,
no; he is not put on the spot or beat
en- up or anything of that sort. That
is not the manner in which big bust
ness works. His supply Is cut off.
That leaves him an outcast. Should
he try to get rough, something might
happen to him, of course. Many en-
gagged in the trade were pretty tough
citizens before brains high up showed
them there was more profit in being
business men. They are not going to
let few outlaws jeopardize their
highly comfortable living. And an out
slider who becomes obnoxious also may
be dealt with firmly.
what was the real low down on
Legs Diamond?" l once asked man
in a position to give me correct an.
swer.
Diamond was just fresh mug" he
said, 'who got the idea he could mus
Gle in where he didn't belong"
"How about Capone?" asked.
"Capone," he answered, twas the
front guy for smarter men,"
This same man told me that, count
ing all types, from a room back of
store to the elaborate establishments.
there were 10000 speakeasies in Great
er New York. Add the proprietors
and employees of these places to driv.
ers, handlers, workmen and the rest.
and you will see that the result is
quite an industry. OF course, great
part of the money obtained goes for
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-07
LITTLE JACK HoRNER

+ TITLE JACK HORNER, whose
- manners when eating his Christ
mas pie have scandalized more care
fully brought up children for some gen.
erations now, has proven an even more
scandalous child to the historians who
have recently delved into his past.
For they have found that Little Jack
Horner, like many of the ditties in the
famous Mother Goose collection, is
based on a real story involving impor-
tant people and matters of conse-
quence, which some early, gossiping
rhymster has artfully cloaked beneath
the simple phrases and sing-song
rhythm of a child's poem.
Jack Horner, later Sir John Horner
and ancestor of the-fdmily even today
living at Mell's park, Somersetshire,
England, was steward to Bishop Whit
ing, the famous abbot of Glastonbury
cathedral, back in the days of King
Henry VIII. When Henry broke with
the pope and began his devastation of
the rich monasteries of England, he
demanded that Bishop Whiting turn
over to him the title deeds to various
valuable church estates. The bishop
had the valuable papers concealed be-
meath flakey pie crust and entrusted
them for delivery to his steward. But
young Mr.. Horner so runs the legend,
being less innocent in real life than in
the poem in which he sat so demurely
in his corner, opened up the crust en-
route and extracted the title deed to
Mell's park for himself. A Christmas
plum indeed! The fact that the king
later knighted Jack Horner might in
dictate that this story is fiction and
that the plum" was in reality royal
gift, bestowed on that occasion.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-07
ELIZA HARRIS

MO MATTER how many times the
l escaped slave Eliza ''crosses the
ice" even when 1t is on a wobbly stage
hastily set up for a one-night stand,
over blocks of ice that have sharp cor
ners like packing boxes. to the bayins
of bloodhounds that sound suspicious
~ like the rest of the company howl.
Ing behind scenes, and even when Eliza
herself is very obviously only Mrs.
Shelby in black face: this scene will
remain one of the most popular in
American literature
Harriet Beecher Stowe, in whose
novel, Uncle Toms Cabin" Eliza made
her first bow to the American public.
has herself asserted that the scene is
based on real incident, and that
Eliza was a real person Her state
ment. moreover, is cOrrOborated by the
historian Henry William I1lsop who
vourhsafes for the truth of the orig
inal story of ELIZA crossing the ice"
This story was told by one Levi r.
Coffin reputed president of the under
ground railway by which sympathetic
nortlerners aided escaped slaves In
reaching Canada and freedom. who for
twenty years maintained refuge sta-
ton in his home at Newport. IEd. He
told OF seeing slave woman child in
arms, crossing the Ohio river on the
floating cakes of ice. When the WON
an reached shore. he said. she was
taken to the Coffin home. where she
was cared for and prepared for the
rest of her journey. and given thu.
name of Eliza Harris which Mrs.
StOsve used In her novel.
&C. 1892 Western Newspaper t1nion.)
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-07
Who Was
Who?
MARK TWAIN
By Louise NJ. Comstock

"MARK TWAIN" most st Of of US s. know
AVA as the pen name of the famous
American humorist Samuel Clemens,
and the story of how he earned it Is
a familiar one, though not exactly true.
Sam Clemens first job, so this story
goes, was aboard one of the old side
wheelers which plowed their dignlt1ed
way up and down the Mississippi past
his home in Hannibal, Mo. The JOY
the humblest river craft inspired in
small Sam he has described in "Tom
Sawyer" which is. after all, his own
boyhood put into book. Such was
his pride when at last he was given
the responsibility of calling out the
soundings: "Mark one" or mark
twain" according to the height of the
water on the boats side, that the one
he called most frequently stuck to
him as nick, and later as pen name.
However attractive this story, the
truth of the matter is that Sam Glenn
ems was not the first "Mark Twain"
The name was first used by an old riv-
er pilot named Isaiah Sellers, who
used to write for the New Orleans
Picayune quantity egotistical para
graphs about his own adventures. usu-
ally starting out, "My opinion for the
benefit of the citizens of New Orleans"
Clemens, then cub pilot, wrote bur-
lesque on Captain Sellers articles and
published it in rival paper over the
signature Sergeant Fathom." Sellers
was so chagrined that he never wrote
again. In 1868, when he was with the
Enterprise of Virginia City, New,
Clemens took the name for his own,
using 1t for the first time in signing a
letter to the Enterprise written from
Carson City,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-07

protection and graft. The beer men
have nothing to do with the importa-
ton of hare liquor. That is a sep.
arate racket, in the hands of half a
dozen different gangs.
A smart, personable girl lost her po-
sitiOn as private secretary and
couldn't get another. She figured her
assets as an education, knowledge
Of stenography, and portable type
writer. She also figured that there
must be number of persons in a big
city who had no use for a permanent
secretary, but who hated to write or
answer letters. The only way she
knew to find them was to look up
names in the telephone book and then
try to sell her idea by a house to-house
canvass. Her proposition was that
she would come once week, take die
tation, and type letters for dollar
an hour, with minimum Of one hours
work. Getting the first customer WAS
the hardest. Now her business has
worked up to $35 week. That is to
say, she has an equivalent of five Gus
toners day. One recommends her to
another and she is hoping to increase
her business so as to gross $50 weekly.
The thing is, of course, to try to get
as many of her clients as possible ir
one part Of the city.
e. 1882. Bell syndicate)-wNU Service.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-07
MyNeigbbor
Says:

NIHEN washing ceilings or walls
w tie rag around your wrist. This
will catch the water that may run
down and prevent it running down
your arm.
Dry celery leaves and parsley, then
pulverize. Keep in salt shakers. They
are worth the trouble to prepare and
make tasty garnsh.
To remove peach stains from linens.
stretch the stain across a bowl and
pour boiling water through it until
the stain disappears.
Lace window curtains should always
be soaked for an hour in cold water,
to which a little borax has been add
ed before being put into warm suds.
(G by the Associated Newspapers)
(WNU Service)
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-07
How lit Started
By Jean NelDfOya
Why 1. 1t a Pneumatic" Tire?

Why Is II Pneumatic" Tire?
A S EVERYBODY knows, there are
4 \ two kinds of tires-those which
are solidly rubber throughout and
those which can be used only around
an inflated rubber tube.
This latter kind Of tire, as we know
is called pneumatic tire. But why
is it known as "pneumatic"?
The answer illustrates again how
much our everyday English owes to
it's classic forbears.
For the word pneumatic" as ap.
piled to tire, indicating that it must
be used with tube inflated with air
Is derived directly from the Greek
word "pneumo" meaning lung. after
the obvious similarity in their func.
tioning, so far as the necessity Of air
is concerned.
20. 1882. Bell syndicate.)-wNUs Service
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-07
Cheero Chapters Fun for A the G GbMdspg
SENTENCE FUN

I'm each of these sentences is
concealed the name of some famous
man. Read the sentences out loud
for 1t Is by tricks of pronunciation
that the names will reveal them
selves to you.)
1. Down by the stream woman
was performing what looked to be
a mountain task, literally washing
tons Of clothes.
2. A boy was pulling something
out of his dogs coat. "This burr
goin' to stick forever 1t SEEMS" he
said laughing.
8. Views of a delicate spider web
stir many people to wonder over
the intricate skill of these tiny
creatures
4. Twenty golfers rounded the
largest link on the eastern hemis-
phere In record time.
8. Fla you match?" said one
teamster to another. "Shur man,
and here T. u.s." he answered.
6. A man with a parro! was IT.
ritated by the silly question Of
every passerby who said, Polly
want cracker?'' Finally, exasper-
ated he said angrily, INA. polly on
to you" and fastened home.
Z. There wasn't q real reason per-
haps but Rose felt sad when she
saw the other girls preparing to go
to that very special party
8. A farmer was amused at
watching one of his neigkbors try
ing to persuade a mule to pull an
extra load. "Guess he don't be of
the same mind as you about that
thar load, now do he?" he laughed.
9. A negro was telling his friend
about ghost he had seen the night
before. II tell 20 massa saw 1t
with his own eye, as shore as l be
standin' heah!"
(To help youth the first SEN
tence is the name of Washington
written as two words. you see, and