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The Washington times., 1933-09-29

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Sept. 29'
Covering in fright as he saw a
crowd of more than 400 men as
sembled in front of police head
quarters, Elvin E. Fair, 22-year-old
killer suspect, trapped in Wash
ington yesterday, was returned
here today and lodged in the city
Jail.
Crowd Orderly
The crowd, however, was order
ly and made no attempt to reach
the prisoner.
Hagerstown officers who re-
turned Fair from Washington
said that he admitted staging the
attempted holdup in which Reu-
ben N. Sollenberger, auctioneer
and filling station owner, was
shot and killed.
Asked if he fired the fatal shot,
Fair replied:
Il don't know how it hap
pened."
The Washington times., 1933-09-29
DC. Rail Merger Hits
Capitalization Mark

Articles of Incorporation for
the new Capital Transit Com
pany, to be formed by merger of
the Washington Railway and
Electric and Capital Traction
Companies, were filed yesterday
in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds.
The articles provide for an
authorized capitalization of $24,-
100000. which is the largest cap
italization ever recorded in the
local records office, according to
Jefferson Coage, recorder. The
incorporation tax amounted to
$4,000. with a recording fee of
$215 additional.
The Washington times., 1933-09-29
World Time Tables
Collected as Hobby

WOONSOCKET, r. I. Q.N.S0 .
Buel w. Hudson has a unique
hobby. He collects time tables.
He has gathered 5000 of them
printed in 20 different languages.
He said:
"WhO would dream that Cairo
the land of the ancient, has one
of the fastest trains in the
world or that in India it is nee
essary to get off the train to
reach the dining car because the
trains have no corridors"
Hudson revealed that there are
500 such collectors throughout the
country. most of them railroad
men.
The Washington times., 1933-09-29
Holy Rosary Feast
To Be Held SXnd0y

The patronal feast of Our Lady
of the Holy Rosary will be OBJ
served Sunday at 1890 a. m. at
Holy Rosary Church, Third and
F SITS. N. w. There will be a
solemn high mass with the Rev.
Gaetano COST. C. M. c., of New
York city delivering the sermon.
In the afternoon, $50 small chill
dren will carry banners in the pro-
cession representing the Is mys-
terieS of the rosary.
The Washington times., 1933-09-29
BULB USED 80 YEARS

ADA, Ohio, G.N.S).-An elec-
trio light bulb from Ada, which
has been in constant use for 30
years, is on display at the Worlds
Fair at Chicago. The bulb was
purchased by w. H. Freud at the
st. Louis exposition in 1903.
The Washington times., 1933-09-29

ing given equitable treatment in
the NRA Set-up. She said:
The President asked that
there be no strikes during the
NRA pCWiOd. And he Substi-
tuted a board of arbitration for
the workers right to collective.
bargaining.
ct is tremendously impOr-
tant to recognize that trada
unions, which are making the
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
Street Committee
RS. l. C. BJORGE RETURNS
HOME FROM SAD MISSION

Mrs. l. C. Bjorge returned north
on the Northwestern Saturday
morning with the remains of her
mother, Mrs. Martin George, who
passed away from heart disease in
Astoria, Oregon, at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Martin Burk-
land, three days after the arrival of
Mrs. Bjorge. Mrs. Burkland and her
two young sons were also aboard
the Northwestern and Mr. Bjorge
joined his wife at Wrangell.
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon at the Methodist
church in Juneau and interment
took place at Evergreen cemetery
where Mr.. George is buried
Mr.. and Mrs. Bjorge returned
home on the Northwestern Wednes-
day morning. Mrs. Burkland is eX-
pected to stop off in Wrangell on
her way south next week.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
WEDDING BELLS TO FOLLOW
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES

Miss Erma Grant, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Grant of Wran-
CELL, will be graduated ON June 8
from the University of Washington
at Seattle.
She has completed a five-year
Liberal Arts course having majored
in French and Spanish. Her work
in education during the past year
entities her to a high school teach
ing certificate, but she will not
use the certificate as her plans
have changed lately from a school
room to a home career.
The announcement of her en-
gagement to Mr.. Harold Thomas
was a feature of a recent party
given in her sorority house on the
eve of sorority sisters sailing for
the Orient.
Miss Grant will return home the
latter part of the month and her
marriage will occur at Wrangell
in August. Mr.. Thomas is describ-
ed by Wrangell friends as being a
very fine young fellow. He is en-
ployed at Bremerton, but lives in
Seattle and the young couple now
plan to make their home in Seattle.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
UNION DIRECTS COLUMBIA
RIVER FISHING OPERATION S

Sam Roman, head of the Alaska
Trollers' Association in Wrangell,
on Thursday received a wire from
Seattle headquarters, signed by W
Freeman, committee chairman cor
corning the report that Columb
river fishing was going on. The
telegram follows:
only boats fishing on the Col
umbia river are operated under
direction of the union for direct
relief of fishermen No fishing is
being done by trollers there o"
here. Some fish is reaching Seattle
from North Island, British Colum-
bia. Delegation went toward Eu-
reka. Expect complete tie-up. Buy
ers commencing negotiations, moth
ing definite yet"
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
NEWS FROM
ALL OVER
THE WORLD
ELEVEN CONVICTS KIDNAP
WARDEN IN JAIL BREAK

LANSING, KANSAS - Warden
Kirk Prather last night telephoned
the state prison here that he and
two guards taken as hostages by
eleven escaping prisoners, were re-
leased unframed, Is miles south
west of WEIGH, Oklahoma.
The eleven desperate criminals
are still at large, but three women
hostages taken with their motor
car which the men Communicated
in their flight, were released uu-
harmed at Pleasantown.
The convicts kidnapped the war
den during a prison baseball game
and escaped, using two guards and
the warden as protection against
being shot. One guard was shot and
a convict was wounded in the leg
by a guard on the prison wall as
the escaping men fled.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
DELIGHTFUL PROGRAM IS
GIVEN BY NATIVE PUPILS

delightful program was given
by the pupils of the Native Room
Sunday afternoon at the A. N. B.
hall.
The stage was decorated to rep
resent a garden scene. A little boy
playing hockey to go fishing lay
down on messy rock, went to
sleep and dreamed of fairies and
brownies who popped out from a
Book of Magic for his diversion,
the fairies in beautiful colored
dresses and the brownies in dark
green suits.
The children put on the program
and acted as their own stage man
ayers, while their teacher, Mrs.
Carlotta McDade, sat in the au-
dience.
The program consisted of songs.
poems, folk dances and toy orches-
ira numbers learned as part of their
regular school work at various
times of the year. A May Pole dance
learned for the occasion concluded
the entertainment.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
TEACHERS TO SPEND SUMMER
VACATION GRADUATE STUDY

The Wrangell school term will
come to a close next Friday and
most of the teachers will leave
for the states in a short time
Miss Johnson, Miss Aitken and
Mr.. Fabricius plan to enter the
University of Washington for grad
uate work; Miss Eide will take sum-
mer work in education at the Uni
versity of Colorado at Boulder,
Colorado; Miss Brunsvold will take
gradu9te work at Northwestern
University and Mr.. Gray at Chi
cago University. Mrs. Coulter plans
to take summer work at the Valley
City Normal, North Dakota, after
a visit at her former home in Mon
tana. Miss Hagerty plans to enroll
for summer courses at Berkeley.
Mrs. McDade will attend the Wash
ington State Normal at Bellingham
Supt. Rasmussen will leave in a
few weeks to visit his mother at
her home in Oxford, Indiana.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
Alaska Has 1876 Miles
OF Vehicular Highway

William Hesse, Territorial High
way Engineer, who has spent the
week in Wrangell, has left on the
Northland last night for his head
quarters in Juneau.
He will leave soon for a trip to
Anchorage and other interior points
on highway inspection and at Fair
banks intends to take a plane for
Nome.
There are 1876 miles of vehicu-
lar roads in the Territory of which
245 miles have been built exclusive
ly by the U. S. Bureau of Public
Roads, 1031.75 miles by the Alas
comparatively by the Alaska Road
Commission and the Territory of
Alaska and 1873 miles exclusively
by the Territory.
In addition to the roads, winter
sled roads aggregating 1920 miles
have been built, and 1892 miles
of trails, principally winter trails
which require tagging.
SeVenty-four aviation fields have
been built by the Territory which
has also erected 275 shelter cabins
for the benefit of winter travellers.
In the past the Territory has
maintained about 374 miles of tel
ephone line along the Yukon which
Mr.. Hesse says has not only proven
valuable to those who live there,
but is a source of weather informa-
tion to those who travel by plane
or otherwise. 1t is not believed, he
said, that sufficient funds will be
available this year to expend any
money on the telephone line.
Wireless telephones have been
authorized by the last Legislature
as a means of connecting the isolat-
ed districts of the Territory with
United States Signal Corps stations.
Two such stations, stated Mr.. Hesse,
are now in use and have operated
successfully. The land lines, he be-
lieves, will ultimately be abandoned
by the Territory.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
ASTORIA PICKET BOATS CLEAR
COLUMBIA OF FISHERMEN

ASTORIA, Ore, May27-High
waite and determined picket boats
from Astoria today had practically
cleared the Columbia River of
fishermen who have been fishing
while 1000 gillnetters and cannery
workers here have been demanding
8 cents a pound from packers for
salmon.
While Governor Meier's newly
appointed Cancellation board pre-
pared to open arbitration negotia-
tions here today, SO picket boats
from Ilwaco and Astoria moved up
river and gave notice to As boats
at Mayer that they intended to
usurp the river if the mid-river
gillnetters insisted on fishing
while the stricke was in force.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
High School Seniors
Will Receive Diplomas

Five members of the senior class
at the Wrangell high school will
receive their diplomas at the an
nual commencement exercises to be
held at the high school auditorium
" ednesday night.
The graduates will present a
large part of the program. A capac-
ity crowd of relatives and friends
of the members of the class is eX-
pected for the ceremonies which
will start at 8 o'clock.
The program will open with the
invocation by Staff-Captain j. Ac-
ton. Following the singing of Am
erica by the audience Margaret
Ferguson will deliver the Glass
Greeting and Marjorie Benjamin
the Glass History, after which
Gertrude Goodrich will read the
Glass Will and Dorothy Voss the
Glass Prophecy. A selection, CLOSE
Harmony" will then be sung by
"a high school quartette.
David Davis, the only boy of the
class, will then present a short
skit, "Deestrick Skule," in which
he enacts the role of teacher
Leroy F. jackson, director of
Wrangell Institute, will deliver the
address. At the conclusion of these
ceremonies, Supt. Rasmussen will
present the class to the board of
education, and Mrs. Biorge, as pres
ident of the board will present the
diplomas to the graduates.
An original selection, 1.-The Sen
Tor Farewell" will then be sung
by the Girls Glee Club. The music
of this song was composed by Miss
Brunsvold of the high school fac
ulty and the words were composed
by the girls of the glee club. The
audience will then sing Alaska, My
Alaska" after which benediction
will be pronounced by the Rev.
Russell F. Peterson. Miss Dorothy
Johnson of the high school faculty
will be piano accompanist for the
music of the program.
The graduates are Marjorie Ben
min, Margaret Ferguson, Gertrude
Goodrich, David Davis and Dorothy
Voss. The honors of the class were
won by Marjorie Benjamin, vale
dictorian, and Margaret Ferguson,
sa1utatorian.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
COuncilmen Transact
Much kOullne business

The regular meeting of the town
council was held last night with
Mayor Dalgity and Councilmen
Anderson, Angerman, Bidwell, Han
ford, Sumption and Sorset present.
Matters of small routine oc-
cupied the greater part of the
meeting. Among the communica-
tions read was a letter from John
II. Dunn, clerk of the district
court of this division, in which he
called the attention of the council
to the fact that under the recent
act of the Territorial legislature,
one-half of all the licenses col
lected for handling beer in incor-
porated towns goes into the city
treasury; that there appeared to
be no one in the Territory upon
whom is imposed the duty of seeing
that this law is enforced and un-
less the police officers in the sew
eral towns take this duty upon
themselves it will not be enforced
and the towns will lose a consider
able amount of revenue.
Mr.. Dunn added that any one
authorized to handle beer must havs
on display a license issued by the
District Court and that the only
person so far authorized in Wran-
CELL was J. G. Grant.
Alex Cresa appeared before the
council and asked to rent the build
ing belonging to the city on low
er Front Street, used as a ware
house for several years past, by the
Diamond X. Packing Company. He
stated that he wished to start a
saltery in the building. 1t being re
ported by Councilman Hanford that
the site was desired by another
person whose business would add u
payroll to the town, motion pre-
vailed to lay Mr.. Cresa's request
on the table until June Is to allow
the council time for further inyes-
tigation of a proper rental charge
and other details.
Street Committee
Councilman Bidwell reported for
the street committee that Episco-
pal street was opened but not com
pleted; that owners of property
abutting ON Cow Alley were not
favorable to the expense of new
ytreet. He had Investigated the walk
reading to the ball park, he said,
md Street Commissioner Lloyd had
Continued ON Page Four
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
CASSIAR MINERS LEAVE TO
DEVELOP MINING PROPERTY

The Hazel B No. left Monday
on it's third trip of the season for
Telegraph Creek and Stikine river
way ports. The following passen-
gers were aboard:
M. and Mrs. Ben Cambron who
are returning to their mining prop
erty on Gold Pan Creek in the Cas-
star, after spending the winter in
Wrangell; Father E. Allard who is
making his annual visit to the
Indians of the Caesar He is accom-
panied by Father Bose on his first
trip to that section and by two
little Indian girls, Agnes and Mar
tina Shorty, who have been in the
mission school at Fort st. James
in British Columbia; Jack Wheat
on, who is returning to Flat Creek
between the Big and Little Muddy
rivers in the Cassiar, which he pros
pected with very encouraging re-
suits last year. He was accompan-
led by Frank Bobner, we'll known
Cassiar prospector; c. j. Frazey,
who is returning to Mosquito Creek
which he works with the Gibson
brothers and J. S. Hicks, who is re-
turning to the Muddy river district
for a prospecting trip.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
LEGION Holds
MEMORIAL DAY
OBSER VANCE

Wrangell observed Memorial Day
with a beautiful service held at the
Coliseum Theatre Tuesday morning
under the auspices of Merlin Elmer
Palmer Post No 6.
A community chorus under the
direction of Miss Valborg Bruins
void of the high school faculty.
sang, "Teuting Tonight" and Am
erica" A double quartette COM
posed of high school girls and Mrs.
Sharnbroich, also under the direc-
ton of Miss Brunsyold, sang Mem
orial Day"
The program included vocal
solo. There is no Death by Mrs.
Sharnbroich, recitation, In Elan
ders Field, by Doris Ann Barnes,
and a solo, THE Trumpeteer," by
Miss Brunsyold. Miss Dorothy john
son was piano accompanist for all
the musical numbers Prayer was
offered at the beginning of the pro-
gram by the Rev. Russell F. Peder-
son, of the Post, and benediction
was pronounced by the Rev. H. P.
Corser.
The address was made by Leroy
F. Jackson, director of Wrangell In
stitute, and a Legionnaire, who
saw active service in France dur
ing the World War. His address in
part follows:
Nearly 1000 years ago." said
Mr.. jackson, the Man of Galilee,
who lived, suffered and under
stood as probably no other being
has lived and understood. spoke
these words: Greater love hath no
man than this that he lay down his
life for his friend
To-day, in the midst of a world
Of selfishness and greed, in the
tussle and turmoil of getting
things for ourselves, we stop for
few hours to honor unselfishness,
to consider the deeds of men who.
all for the common good We offer
words of appreciation for their
splendid sacrifice and deck their
graves with floral tributes.
For many years the American
people have been holding this serv-
ice of commemoration, and decade
by decade new names have been
added to the rolls of our hero dead
The list is now a long one, covering
the casualties of many wars" and
the speaker touched briefly on the
Revolutionary War, the War of
1912, the Civil War, Spanish Amer
lean War and the World War.
Mechanical Slaughter
Because we praise and honor
our warrior dead we do not there
by honor and defend war" declared
Mr.. Jackson. War was never a
lovely thing, but in our modern age
Continued on Page Two
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
COMMISSIONER DUE
IN WRANGELL ON JUNE 10

Frank T. Bell, newly appointed
United States Commissioner of Fish
cries, will leave Seattle June on
the Brant for trip to Alaska, ac-
cording to word received by Shir-
ley A. Baker, local fisheries agent
His itinerary includes a stop at
Wrangell on June IL where he will
hold hearing in order to give in
terested persons an opportunity to
express their views on fishery mat
ters.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
BILL GIVES VALUE OF GOLD TO
ALL LEGAL TENDER MONEY

WASHINGTON, d. c. Acting
quickly, the house Monday night
voted that legal tender money may
be used henceforth in contractual
obligations of government and pri-
vate citizens. Passage of the bill,
designed by the administration to
give the same value to all legal
tender money as was held by gold
before the government called gold
into the treasury, was accomplished
by a vote of 2S3 to 81 The bill
was sent to the senate where the
banking committee had already ap-
proved it.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
MISS MARJORIE MAJOR WILL
CROSS CONTINENT BY PLANE

Miss Marjorie Major who has
charge of the health center at
Wrangell Institute, left on the
Northwestern Wednesday morning
for Seattle to spend the summer
vacation in the states. From Seattle
she will travel by plane to New
York City, and then by railrod to
her home in Philadelphia, On her
return north late in the summer.
she will stop at Chicago for visit
with her friend, Miss Ann Bowen,
who is in charge of the anthropo-
logical department at the Field
Museum, and to see something of
the Chicago Fair.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
EILER HANSEN APPOINTED
SUPT. OF PIONEERS HOME

Filler Hansen, Of Sitka, who was
ka experiment stations from 1917
until the stations were closed last
year, has been appointed superin-
tendent of the Pioneers home at
Sitka by Gov. John W. Troy. The
appointment becomes effective June
Is. Hansen succeeds H. Kettleson,
appointed to the position by for
mer Gov. Scott Bone.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1933-06-02
FISH BUYERS and union DELEGATES
REMAIN DEADLOCKED IN FISH STRIKE

year we might have had a good or
ganization by now. | haven't fished
for almost two years. l simply de-
cided that l couldn't make a living
at it at the prices we've been get
ting, and stopped"
Two Buyers
The Wrangell Cold Storage, COM
mission agent for the San Juan
Fihsing and Packing Company and
C. c. Mundy, agent for the Chase
ishing Company and the Washing
ton Fish and Oyster Company, re-
sumed buying and packing fresh
king salmon Thursday morning, at d
ter ten days of inactivity. Both
buyers announced their intention
the day before, and told inquirers
that the price would be 5-3-2, sub
ject to change at any time.
A. R. Brueger, independent buy
er who operates at Pole Anchorage
during the summer, declared that
he was not in the market for fish.
Il am not buying at present, -
said Mr.. Brueger. Il don't know
when the strike will be settled
There seems to be no basis for a
settlement"
L. Engstrom is not buying. II
have not bid on any fish yet" Mr.
Engstrom stated.
y Strike Deplored
PROFESSIONALLY the attitude OF
many business men of Wrangell to-
ward the strike has altered within
the past week. Nearly all of them
were, and still are, of the opinion
that the fishermen deserve a bet
ter price for their product, but
whether the strike will accomplish
this end is very much doubted.
Nearly all agree that the out
side fisherman is confronted with a
situation that makes his calling a
hazardous one, from the standpoint
of profit. They maintain, however
that this does not concern the hand
troller, nor the power troller who
operates close to home, fishing only
for few weeks during the Stikine
run of salmon.
The local run, they say, offers
an opportunity for the down-and-
out citizen to recoup after a winter
of enforced idleness, and does not
have any marked effect on the out
side market.
81 don't believe the handful of
fish caught by local hand trollers
would affect the market very much, :"
said G. P Kirkland, of the Wran-
CELL branch of the Bank of Alaska
yet the money earned in this way
would insure a number of fisher
men against distress next winter
Allowances should be made for such
conditions. This would not nullify
the strike
THE fishermen and buyers should
get together and settle these things
in the winter, not wait till the fish
Continued on Page FOUR