davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20
JAPANESE IMPORTS MENACE
ALASKAN FISHING INDUSTRY

John Muller, president of the
First Bank or Cordova, on his re-
turn recently from visit of sew
eral months on the Pacific coast,
was quoted by the Cordova Times
as saying that while a general OPP
timistic feeling prevailed the sole
ascension in any mandatory was
found in lumber, this product hav-
ing suddenly come into demand,
causing mills to again turn their
wheels as orders increased.
Regarding the fishing industry
and Alaskan canneries, Mr.. Muller
said it was too early in the season
to predict any new developments
over the past season. Red salmon
is at present selling readily for
$1.35 a dozen, said Mr.. Muller,
which precludes any great activity
in this phase of the fishing industry
in the vicinity of Cordova.
All canneries will no doubt op-
crate on about the same scale as
last year although two companies,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20
FLU TIME AGAIN

January and February are the
flu months of the year. The flu is
best described as movable
stationary" pain. 1t moves to a
hundred places in minute with
out leaving any place, thereby up
setting all laws of nature and sci
ence by being both fixed and NOV
able.
The flu symptoms are unmis-
taxable. In the first stages you
feel like you had stolen the rattle
from a neighbor baby and sold it
to a junk dealer. In the second
stage you go to bed half undressed,
cuss your wife and vow to vote the
Socialist ticket. In the final stage
your bones melt and run together
and you cuss the silent boatman
because he doesn't come and get
you.
In the treatment of flu take
anything that's handy. Nothing
will hurt you or do you any good.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20
RICH OHIO MAN EXPOSED AS
COLORADO PEN FUGITIVE

DENVER-Betrayed by a woman
he befriended, a prosperous, re-
spected Cleveland businessman, who
for more than fourteen years has
been a fugitive from the Colorado
state penitentiary, has returned to
the prison voluntarily to ask for
pardon.
The fugitive, known n Cleveland
as Harry Stanley, the manager of a
music publishing company, said he
was sentenced to three years i'm
prisonment in Colorado in 1917
under the name of Glenn Smeeman.
After serving five months, he
escaped from a trusty gang, rode
freight to Cleveland, changed his
name, entered business and rose to
affluence. He is now married and
the father of a three-months-old
child. He is building a $4,000
home in a fashionable suburb and
drives an expensive automobile.
Stanley was arrested at the re-
quest of Colorado authorities who
were informed of his identity by
woman in Michigan. The fugitive
said the woman was the one for
whom he went to prison rather than
expose her when they were arrest
ed in car at Denver which Stanley
said he did not know was stolen.
He met the woman accidentally, he
says, on a Detroit street three
weeks ago, and she blackmailed
him when he refused to give her a
thousand dollars.
The governor of Colorado has
said he would give the pardon ap-
plication serious consideration but
reserved his decision.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20

table.
The tendency in municipal tax
alton, when rates approach excess
sive levels, is for the very land and
structures which are the founda-
tion of the whole system to become
untenable by their private owners
and unstable at real values. The
soundest way to combat this ten
dency is not by borrowing, but by
influencing property owners and
others to accept less complete and
expensive service from the NUM-
cipality than they have been ac-
customed to demand and receive.
Public revenues pour from no gold
en- horn. They must be extracted,
and not painlessly either, from the
pockets of citizens. The latter will
do we'll to get the process straight
in their minds.-Providence Journal
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20

the Northwestern and the New
England have practically decided
not to operate the coming season
other companies will no doubt
send out their normal crews.
BY far the most serious menace
to our fishing industry" Mr.. Null
Ter stated with no little emphasis,
lis the tremendous competition
furnished now by foreign nations,
especially the Japanese.
while l was in Seattle l saw a
large freighter arrive from the
Orient bearing pink salmon to sell
on the American market at sixty
five cents a dozen. Unbelievably
cheap labor in Japan makes this
possible. but nevertheless, we have
got to do something to keep this
fish off the market.
Not only is it true in regard to
fisheries but in other industries as
we'll. Tacoma, Washington, right in
the heart of the greatest forest in
the world had ship at port from
Germany unloading pulp wood with
which its holds were loaded"
ITO sum up" concluded Mr.. Null
Ter, 81 can't see any great economic
change in store for the coming sea-
son as far as Alaska is concerned.
However, things will be no worse
and l think we can safely expect
about the same sort of summer sea-
son as last year"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20
THE MEDFORD PROPOSAL

The application of Medford,
Mass, to the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation for ten-year
loan of $2,500,OOO for the purpose
of meeting its general debt pay
ments for 1898 and thus making it
possible to cut the city tax rate SO
is, as far as we know, unique in
municipal financing, although it
may have precedents.
The issuance of bonds for the
funding of short-term indebtedness
incurred through the construction
of public works is an accepted
practice among municipalities, and
short term borrowings represent an
accumulation of operating deficits
follows this same procedure, mean
while usually resolving to balance
its budgets in the future.
But for a city to borrow in order
to relieve it's budget temporarily of
debt charges and in turn cut its tax
rate is a horse of another color.
This action would make it possible
to cut the rate for the next year,
but in the year following the nor
NAL debt charges would be back in
the budget, plus the interest and
the principal payments on the new
debt thus incurred, presumably
forcing the adoption in this second
year of even higher tax rate than
would ordinarily have been neces-
sary if the money had not been
borrowed. In a situation like the
present, when 1t is hazardous for
anyone to predict the return of
prosperity to cities as well as indi-
viduals, the Medford proposal
would seem not only unwise, but
positively dangerous.
A suggestion of this kind for the
pyramiding of debt in order to pro-
vide temporary relief for taxpayers
at the cost of excessive future bur-
dens arouses speculation as to why
cities which cannot balance their
budgets on the basis of tax rates
which property owners are unable
or unwilling to pay, do not slash
their budgets.
Slashing the budget in such a
caaa would npobahIv invOiva tho
elimination of some services which
the municipality provides as well
as the curtailment of others-in
short. the acceptance of a lower
standard of municipal living But
it is better to restrict ones diet to
food that can be paid for than to
continue living high and later have
the grocer attach the dining-room
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20
NOTABLE RECORD

An unusual political career end
ed last week when the veteran
cowboy-statesman, Billy Adams,
voluntarily retired as governor
after half century of service to the
state of Colorado. His record is
notable for the fact during his SO
years of holding public office he
never requested a nomination or
campaigned for an office, he was
never defeated in an election in his
life, he never interfered with a
sentence imposed by the courts, de-
spite the fact that he is personally
opposed to capital punishment; he
vetoed a bill increasing his own
salary; he made only one official
statement in regard to his political
intentions, last fall, when he an
nounced he would not be a candi-
date for governor for a fourth term.
He was elected governor twice in
elections which were Republican
landslides; once being the only
Democratic state officer elected,
and in all three of the elections his
majority vote has been unprecedent-
ed he turned down an election as
United State senator when it was
offered to him a number of years
ago at the time the legislature ell
ected the senators. He is the ouly
governor of Colorado to serve three
terms in that capacity.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20
RECORD MADE IN FLIGHT
ACROSS SOUTH ATLANTIC

NATAL, Brazil = Jean Mermoz,
French airman, brought his plane
Rainbow here after a record flight
of IA hours and 2 minutes across
the south Atlantic ocean, from Al
RIGA. Mermoz and his six COM
panions became the first filters to
breakfast in Africa and have dinner
in Brazil. The Rainbow maintained
a speed of 40 miles an hour over
the 1962-mile course.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20
AMENDMENT
TO ORDINANCE NUMBER SO

Amendment to Ordinance No. SO of
the Town of Wrangell relating
to the use of the public highways
and all other places of the Town
of Wrangell open to the public
for the use of vehicles.
Be 1t ordained by the Common
Council of Wrangell, Alaska
that section five 60 of ordinance
number GO dated July l, 1926 be
amended to read as follows:
The annual fee for such license
shall be as follows:
Taxis and cars for hire $500.
Delivery cars and trucks over
one-half ton rated capacity $500.
Delivery cars and trucks of one
half ton or less rated capacity
$1,000.
Pleasure cars $1,000.
Motor vehicles $500.
Trailers $500,
And all licenses shall be issued
for the calender year beginning
January 1st and ending December
31st of each year.
This amendment shall be publish
ed in the Wrangell Sentinel a
weekly newspaper in the Town of
Wrangell by two successive pub
locations and shall take effect and
be in force from and after its pas
sage and approval.
Passed and approved this 18th
day of January 1888,
F. S. BARNES, Mayor.
Attest: L. c. Chisholm, City Clerk.
First Publication, Jan. 20.
Last Publication, Jan. 81.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20

problem of feeding itinerants with
out encouraging protracted loiter-
ing. Cheney police issued 1,120
meal tickets last year, each repre-
senting about half an hours work
on the municipal wood pile. House
wives have been educated not to
pass out free food to solicitors at
the kitchen door, but to refer them
to the policeman on duty. In this
way no stranger need go hungry.
but the work is sufficient to pre-
vent lettering. The wood pile is vir-
tually on a self-supporting basis.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20

Most people who can get it drink
whiskey-not because the whiskey
does them any good, but because
it is the only thing that can make
them feel as mean as the flu.
All flu convalescents should be
confined to q mad house or a dog
kennel.-Exchange
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20

The most largely attended and
enjoyable social event of the season
was the Redmen's social Tuesday
night (Jan. Is, 1919. The hall
was decorated with American flags
and emblems of the order Miss
Marie Mckinney and Mayo w. Wen
zell won first prizes in progressive
whist, John Berg the mems con-
ISOLATION and Miss Helen Hofstad
won the cut from her mother for
ladies' consolation. A musical pro-
gram featured violin solos by VIM.
Patterson. vocal solos by DR.. Bulk
ley, with w. H. Warren accompan-
list, and vocal solos by Miss Grace
Wigg, accompanied by Mrs. E. B.
Mitchell. Following refreshments
in the banquet room there was a.
dance down stairs. The committee
in charge was composed of l.. A.
Olsen, Oscar Wickstrom and Ole!
Johnson.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20

Samuel insult, public utilities
magnate of Chicago, who fled to
Athens after the collapse of his
utilities, has applied for Greek cit
iZenship.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20

Dale Hunt and Harvey Stack
pole of Ketchikan were in Wran-
CELL yesterday. They were returning
from a trip to Baranof island on
the Ella Rolfe.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20
FREE FOOD TICKETS GIVEN
AT MUNICIPAL WOOD PILE

CHENEY, Wash. One small
town of the state has solved the
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20

The Wrangell Hotel by ]. G
Grant, the Wrangell Restaurant by
Mrs. l.. E. Barron and the Boston
Cafe by l.. Nakamato this week
signed an agreement at the request
of the Federal Food Administrators
to observe the following program
of food conservation Each Tues
day, no meet (beef. mutton or
pork; each Wednesday, no wheat
or food made therefrom; each Sat
urday, no pork, including bacon
lard or ham. They also agreed: mo
bread. crackers, butter or sugar on
table until meal is served" and
two Jumps of sugar to each cup
of tea or coffee or equivalent In
granulated sugar"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20

A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Arola ON Jan. II, 1918.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20

Spanish-American war with SER
vice in the Philippines, was dis
appointed when he received letter
this week from the adjutant gem
eral declining to accept at present
his offer of enlistment in the
present war
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20

A press dispatch from Portland
says that the "Signal Corps of the
U. S. army has signed up with
2. J. Tromble of Craig, Alaska for
a monthly output of 100000 feet
of spruce. The signal corps will
soon increase the Alaska spruce
order to 100000 feet monthly by
contracts to be let to other mills in
Alaska. The timber will be shipped
direct to the airplane plants
through Prince Rupert. B. c."
AS the Sentinel has several times
pointed out, the white spruce of
southeast Alaska is highly adapt
able for airplane manufacture. 1t
has the necessary qualifications to
Withstand vibration, pressure and
strain, and it's fine close grain
makes it superior in strength to
ordinary spruce timber. The popu-
lar construction of French, Eng
lish and American aircraft for mill
tary purposes requires tough frame
work and for this type selected
spruce is used throughout.
1t is from zarembo, Prince of
Wales and Admiralty islands near
Wrangell, that the greatest amount
and the finest growths of white
spruce is found in Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20
Is YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
News Taken From The Sentinel Files of January H. 1918

c. M. Coulter who has always
taken a deep interest In the Wran-
CELL school, recently took up a sub
scription to have the ground under
the school playshed covered with
a layer of gravel. The following
each contributed IS to the fund:
Cunningham & Sorset, H. D. Camp
bell, C. M. Coulter, Chas. Benjamin,
Harry Gartley. F. Matheson, Fred
Leonard, Donald Sinclair, J. G.
Grant, L. C. Patenaude and the
Bank of Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-01-20

w. A. Lucas, a veteran of the
Evening star., 1933-05-20
HUNDREDS OF VISITORS SEE
SILVER STAR MODEL HOME
Crowds at New Dwelling in Northgate Reflect
Renewed Interest of Public i'm
Residence Building.
BY VINCENT TUTCHING.

everywhere the
public and the things that into homes has
the last flow of visitors
exhibit dwelling at 1S43 Locust road
Northgate
washngtonans have admired the simple Colonial
last Sunday public display under the sponsorship
ST1,a
Evening star., 1933-05-20

Those attending this convention from
Washington are Quinter, Carl Berg
mann, Chaplin Bauman, Horace Rus
SELL c. Clinton James, Edward c. Baltz
and Hammond Welsh.
Chief attention today centered on
two pieces of Federal legislation which
put an altered complexion on the home
mortgage business in this section anc
all over the Nation. These are thu
Federal Home Loan Bank act, which
became law last July, and the home
owners loan bill, now in Congress with
the backing of President Roosevelt.
Delegates from this city expect to find
out at this conference just what pro-
cedure is to be followed in obtaining
an even flow of mortgage money into
the local home financing institutions
through the medium of the Federal
banks and also what course to pursue
with regard to the new program for
mortgagors.
Such nationally known figures as
William F. Stevenson, chairman of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board at
Washington: Morton Bodflsh Of Chi
States Building and Loan League, and
Philip Lieber Of Shreveport, La, vice
president of the national league, were to
give the chief addresses on these sub
jects.
Explanation Of Bill.
officials of the regional Home Loan
Bank located at Winston-Salem, and
Horace Russell of Atlanta, general
counsel for the Federal Board, were
scheduled to speak on the home loan
bank system in addition to Mr.. Steven
son.
Mr.. Bodfish was to explain the pend
ing home owners loan bill, pointing
out the degree of relief which may be
expected of it and calling attention to
the money savers angle in relation to
the new deal for home borrowers.
Evening star., 1933-05-20
DEMAND FOR LUMBER
REACHES new PEAK
Orders for Week Ended May 10
Surpass All Similar Periods
in 1882 and 1888.

The high record of the previous week
in lumber orders was exceeded during
the week ended May 13, 1888, when new
business reached a total of 224,111 900
feet. the heaviest volume this year or
last. Lumber production also, was the
highest Of any week of 1882 or 1888.
and lumber shipments were the heaviest
Of any week except one, that ended
October 1, according to telegraphic re-
ports to the National Lumber Manufac-
turers' Association here from regional
associations covering the operations of
653 leading hardwood and softwood
mills. Total production was 34,O03 900
feet and shipments, 1925, 900 feet.
Orders as reported by West Coast
mills were the heaviest this year or
last; by Southern pine mills, heaviest
except for one week last September; by
hardwood mills, heaviest except for the
preceding week.
Compared with corresponding week
Of 1882, production was per cent
greater, shipments 9 per cent greater
and orders 56 per cent above. For the
19 weeks of 1888 to date, orders were
only per cent less than for similar
period Of 1882; production was 10 per
cent lighter.
Evening star., 1933-05-20

by the Washington Real Estate Board.
In.addition, 568 deeds Of trust, securing
$2,334,478, were recorded.
There were 112 foreclosures Of real
estate during April.
Evening star., 1933-05-20
781 DEEDS RECORDED

A total of 781 deeds were recorded
at the office of the Recorder of Deeds
last month, according to computations
Evening star., 1933-05-20

10 Public Acquisition of Land" brings
up to date the work and recommenda-
tions Of the committees on the subject
of land acquisition. It outlines broad
principles upon which the Nation
might proceed in gradually shaping
policy on public land acquisition and
USE
The report also undertakes to de-
fine submarginal land; to outline gen.
eral principles governing land classi-
fication, both physical and economic; to
list the major problems in submarginal
agricultural areas; to discuss the types
Of adjustment which apparently are re-
quired in submarginal areas and to
assign the division of responsibility of
Federal and State governments In land
acquisition and administration. The re-
port also contains what Is said to be
the first consistent classification OF the
various major uses of land now pub
Evening star., 1933-05-20
INCREASED DEMAND.
FOR HOMES SEEN
Costs of Sewers, Paving and
Other Improvements, How
ever, Held Too High.

With "an awakening" of the market
in new housing. builders are faced with
the problem of meeting demand for
lower priced homes In the face Of pro-
hibitive expenses in the form of mu-
nicipal requirements, in the opinion of
Lewis T. Breuninger, president of L. E.
Breuninger g. Sons, realtors.
In a resume of the home development
outlook today, Mr.. Breuninger points
out that the District government and
the building interests are in complete
accord on the need for providing sound
housing values at cost within the
means OF salaried people of the So
called middle bracket" class.
''The problem facing the builder to-
Gay, however" says Mr.. Breuninger, "is
how to develop real home values, at any
further reduction of cost, on ordinary
lots which represent financial commit
ments from 81 900 to $4,000 to the de-
veloper before he even drives pick
into the ground.
Costs Now Too High.
1.-THE logical course for the govern
ment would seem to be full cooperation
with the builder In his efforts, this tax
ing the form Of action to keep down
the cost Of the necessary facilities such
as sewer, water, sidewalk ana roadway
improvements, all of which are now
almost prohibitive.
"The failure of District authorities to
attempt any relief along these lines is,
of course, laid to the pressing need of
the city for more revenue, but this
method of collection would appear of
questionable wisdom.
1.-THE inherent appeal Of home own
ership runs too deep to be easily stifled,
but unless we can soon look forward
toward a combination of governmental
cost reductions and new tax sources so
that real estate In all its forms can be
relieved Of parts of its almost insup-
portable burden, the desire to own prop
erty may In time be killed.
I'm Washington the per capita tax
increased from $3.50 to $72 in the last
80 years. In this same period the per
Continued on Second Page.)
Evening star., 1933-05-20

basement. On this floor also is located
laundry, furnace room and two-car
garage, with overhead doors having
virtual finger-tip control.
Furnished throughout for the dis
play period by Hutchinson's, Inc, the
possibilities of the home have been well
Illustrated by the interior treatment in
this regard. Draperies and shades
were provided by the Shade Factory,
while landscaping, materially enhanced
by two large trees In front of the house,
was done by the Cornell Nursery.
The model home Is accessible from
downtown Washington by way of Six
teenth street north to Locust road,
which is one block above Kalmia road
thence east on Locust road to the
house, which Is on the north side of
the street between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets.
Evening star., 1933-05-20
USE OF PUBLIC LANDS
OUTLINED IN REPORT
Co-ordinating Federal and State
Committees Make Joint
Survey.

Types of land the public should
eventually acquire, why acquisition Is
needful, and the uses which such pub
licly owned lands would serve are out
lined in report just issued by the
National Land Use Planning Committee
and the National Advisory and Legisla-
tive Committee on Land Use, CO.
ordinating committees of Federal and
State agencies concerned with land
problems.
The publication, "The Problems of
'Submarginar Areas and Desirable
Adjustments, with Particular Reference
Evening star., 1933-05-20

licly owned, with recommended desig-
nations for each. The report through
out attempts to lay down general prin-
ciples rather than details.
The report calls for economic CLASH
fications and programs for partiular
areas-for landuse planning. 1t
stresses, however, that such planning
must necessarily be subject to change
with changing conditions-that one
plan cannot do for all time.
Evening star., 1933-05-20
Owning Building Section Washington and Suburbs
ID. G.. BUILDING AND LOAN
MEN ATTEND CONVENTION
Southeastern Group Conference Opens Sessions
Today at Winston-Salem-New Laws
to Be Explained.

Between 300 and 400 associations
the Southeast section of the country
WnstonSaem N C, the convention Southeastern Group
Conference United States Building under
william Quinr OF this city president of the conference led
delegation
sentativeS being joined building activities
S725O00O00 Of the capital
Evening star., 1933-05-19
Treasury Plans New Issue.

To refund an issue Of maturing 91-
day Treasury bills, the Treasury will
sell another issue for about $50 ,000, 900
to the highest bidder on May %.