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The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
OPENING PRICE OF 1884
 SALMON PACK ANNOUNCED

SEATTLE. - The opening prices of the 1884 pack has been an- nounced by the Pacific Canned Sal mon Brokers Association and are as follows:
 Dozen one-pound tails, sockeyes, $1.6O; echoes s1.30, medium reds $1.25, pinks $1, chums 90 cents.
 Pound flats, sockeyes, $1.85; cS- hoes S15O, medium reds $40. Pinks and chums are not listed in the pound flats.
 The price of one dozen half-pound flats are: Sockeyes $1.20, echoes $1.05, medium reds $1. pinks 75 cents, chums 70 cents.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
SOVIET HEARS RUMORS JAPAN PLANS TAKING CHINESE R'Y

MOSCOW, Aug. 16.-The soviet government this morning heard ru- mors that Japanese militarists are planning to take over the Chinese Eastern railway after declaring a state of military law.
 This report followed dispatches telling of the arrest of nearly 20 Russian officials and employees of the Chinese Eastern railway by Japanese -Manchukuoan forces who charged them with revolutionary plot.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
COURT NEWS

Tony Ygaria and Paul Thomas were fined $20 each on drunk and disorderly charges in Municipal Court on August II.
 l. w. Little Sockeye" Johnson, who plead guilty to assault and battery charges, before U. S. Com missioner J. W. Stedman on August IA, was sentenced to serve six months in federal jail.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
PACK SEE. ALASKA
 FAR ABOVE 1884 FIGURE

JUNEAU, Aug. 15.-The salmon pack for southeastern Alaska up to August II aggregated 1,836,232 cases, well above the corresponding date last season, it was disclosed here by the bureau of fisheries last night.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
WRANGELL TO HAVE eco CAMP IF TEN MEN SIGN UP FOR WORK

J. M. Wyckoff, ranger of the U. S. Forest Service, Is in Wrangell today on eco business.
 He states that he will establish a camp at Wrangell if ten men, married or single, sign up before September 1.
 Those interested are asked to leave their names with Mayor c. P. Kirtland at the Bank of Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
ALASKA LINE CHARTERS
 DOROTHY ALEX. FOR ONE TRIP

The Alaska Steamship Company has chartered the Dorothy Alexan- der for the round trip from Seattle to Seward sailing from Seattle on August 25.
 The boat was chartered to re- lieve the congested freight ship ments north and the demand for passenger space southbound.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17
NOTICE TO PUBLIC

The Wrangell Steam Laundry will not attempt to operate until city water service Is resumed. Whenever city water Is turned on, we shall start washing, regardless of the regular schedules Until that time no collections of laundry will be made.
 M. o. JOHNSON
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17

The Yukon of the Alaska Line is due in port southbound tonight at o'clock and the Princess Lou ise at 8 o'clock. The Aleutian and the Northwestern are due in port tomorrow.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17

Dr. Rae L. Carlson, optometrist of Ketchikan, will arrive on the Aleutian, to fit glasses and exam inc eyes at the Wrangell Hotel dur ing the coming week.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17

The Northland, which called in port today besides having a gen. eral freight cargo for Wrangell un- loaded 10000 cases of cans for the WrangeIi PaskinK Company
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17

Miss Annabelle Scruby, who vis- ited in Wrangell last week, stopped off the Haleakala in port south bound Sunday to spend two weeks with Mrs. R. N. Scruby while Dr. Seruby is at Telegraph Creek
The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-08-17

Services were held at St. Philips Church last Sunday morning by Rev. Mather of St. Elizaheth's 8 Church. Ketehikan-
Evening star., 1934-06-06
Mills Drive Against n. r. A.
Enes'Up Friends and Foes

continue the old economic order" but
that paper concludes that ut is their
attitude that is driving thousands on
thousands of Republicans to register
as Democrats
The Nashville Tennesseean will con-
cede only that 'Mr. Mills and his as
Sociates are good pilots for going down
stream" and the Topeka Daily Capital
asserts: The speech is simply a
slashing party assault: all along the
line If the agricultural West thought
it saw proofs of hopeful change of
heart in Mr.. Mills January speech it
can now abandon the idea. All that
he needed to swing easily back into
his natural stride was some encour-
agement to believe that the Repub-
Gcan party can win the jobs back
by the old slogans, that there is still
at least 'one more election in the
tariff and that the country is getting
in shape to ask nothing more or better
than another change Of adminiStra-
ton and party"
Evening star., 1934-06-06
Germany's Economic Crisis.

International interest has been so
much centered recently in the discus
sion between the United States and
its debtors that little attention has
been bestowed on Germany's relations
with her foreign creditors. These
during the past few days have as
sumed somewhat critical phase and
may be the forerunner of even more
serious conditions.
Due to the unfayorable exchange
position into which the Reich has
been forced, action was taken last
week whereby all cash payments on
Germany's long-term private loans
abroad were virtually suspended.
Forthwith reports were spread that
the suspension of payments on the
governments own debts, the Dawes
plan and Young plan loans, would
follow.
Because of the favorable trade bal
ance she enjoyed in 1888, coincident
with substantial internal recovery,
Germany last year met faithfully all
the obligations Of her external debt.
This year conditions are far less prom
ising. For the first four months Of
1884 the trade balance against Ger
many is reported to have reached
136, 100000 reichsmarkS. The Reich
could face such situation with equa-
nimity if its gold reserve we're larger
and if there were a prospect that ex-
ports presently would again exceed
imports. But there have been such
heavy drains on the Reichsbank's gold
stocks and foreign exchange holdings,
in order to cope with the adverse
trade balance, that the reserve cover
for the outstanding note issue is said
now to be actually less than four per
cent, or what the New York Herald
Tribune, on the basis Of its Berlin dis
Pn1NAAco, SniAo thC 'Aco< -Dd11A2 upISy
level" of about $54,O0O,00O
Germany's economic troubles are
traceable to the necessity to import
heavy supplies Of raw materials at a
time when she is experiencing a re-
lentless fall in exports. The Reichs
! trade abroad has been hard hit by the
boycotts instituted in countries like
the United States as protest against
certain Hitler policies. Germany has
also seen her once rich market in the
Soviet Union shrink almost to the
vanishing point, despite government
subsidy Of exports in one guise or an
other.
| The Reichs resources are extensive
and prophecies Of German economic
or financial disaster would at this
time be premature. But the drastic
control and restrictive measures which
the Berlin government is now con-
strained to invoke plainly indicate
its realization that matters are drift
ing toward gravity. II the worst is to
be averted, sweeping changes in both
the economic and political programs
may be inescapable.
Evening star., 1934-06-06

wardrobe, who selected the order Of
the various daily assortments Of garb
that made the mayor the delight OF
Broadway and its environs. Sam, Just
returned from the other side, being
no longer in the one-time mayoral
employ-for apparently the one-time
mayoral purse does not run to a
valet-sadly reports that James is
larger equatorially and also that his
collars are pinching him. In other
words, plain and simple, James is
getting fat. Sam brings back an order
for a new outfit for Summer wear, and
intimates that the next order, for
Winter attire, will be given by James
in person OH this side. Either that,
or it is the one-time mayoral hope
that by the time the leaves begin to
change color the outward tendency of
the Walkerian figure will have ceased,
and the present wardrobe will serve.
Whispers circulate that James is broke
financially. Yet there must be some
credit left, If the order for Summer
gear is to be filled. Perhaps there is
in mind political as wen as ply
sical comeback. The blithe spirit
that once captivated Manhattan SEEM
ingly will not be downed, and it may
be that hope of restoration to the
favors Of the people of the most
crowded island in the world is spring.
ing eternally in the expanding breast
beneath the neckties that have no
rivals in Nature for brilliant variety.
Evening star., 1934-06-06
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Mr.. Neville, veteran Of 81 years in
the foreign service, entered it as a
student interpreter in Japan in 1907.
Since then, In the consular and diplo-
matte branches. he has served at a
dozen different Far Eastern posts. He
has been on duty continuously at
Toxic since 1925.
When Senator James Hamilton
Lewis of Illinois recently induced
President Roosevelt to appoint former
Gov. Edward F. Dunno of Illinois as
United States commissioner to the
Chicago Worlds Fair Lewis paid a
31-year-old political obligation. One
day, In 1903, while Dunno was on the
bench in Chicago his baflif an
nounced a visitor who was wearing a
silk hat, spats, yellow gloves. pink
Whlskers and cane, and carrying a
letter OF introduction from Seattle.
The caller was the then former Rep
resentative Lewis of Washington. He
wanted a favor-a chance to speak
on Irish independence at exercises to
be held next day and over which
Judge Dunno was to preside. Bourke
Cochran had been billed to make the
chief address, but could not keep the
engagement. The letter of introduc-
ton having acclaimed Lewis orator.
ical ability, Judge Dunno, with some
trepidation, accepted his offer to take
Cockran's place. 1T was the most
brilliant address on Irish independ-
ence to which have ever listened"
said Judge Dunno afterward. In 1905
Judge Dunno, then mayor of Chicago,
appointed Lewis as corporation coun-
sci, the beginning Of Lewis spectacu-
lar career in Illinois politics. In 1913
Lewis became United States Senator
and Dunno was elected Governor of
Illinois.
Ambassador Saito will leave Wash
ington about July for his long con-
templated visit to Japan. There have
been important developments in
Japan's relations with the outside
world since Mr.. Saito presented his
credentials at washington in Feb
rurary, and the main object of his trip
home is to report American reaction
to the situation which latter day jap
anese policy has created. One of his
purposes is to discuss naval questions.
He will have the satisfaction of re-
porting reassuringly on one point that
has caused anxiety in Tokio-the
United States has not entered into
any deal with Great Britain to gang
up" on Japan at the 1885 naval con-
ference.
X y
Secretary Of State Cordell Hull Is
breaking all records as a harvester of
university degrees. Within the present
week he has been made an LII. D. by
Notre Dame, Columbia and George
Washington.
(Copyright, 1e34.)
Evening star., 1934-06-06

SITES the population Of his section
of the city according to a system of
his own, based on the color Of the
eyes, the lines of the nose and the
mouth and the shape Of the ears, and
identifies his subjects according to
their professions or trades on the
principle, enunciated by Shakespeare,
that a spirit is imbued in what it
works in, "as is the dyer's hand"
And Mr.. c., obeying an instinct Of
his boyhood. is a practical botanist,
devoting such time as remains to him
after his bread-and-butter labors to
the pursuit Of plants and flowers of
proven or potential economic value.
Mr.. D.. setting type in a newspa-
per composing room all day, goes
home to read and re-read two favor
ite classics-the Bible and the plays
and poems of the Stratford bard; he
has made himself an authority on both
texts. Mr.. E, meanwhile, is an archi-
tect OF landscape-his pleasure is the
relation of growing things to the
architecture Of their environment; a
Georgian house, he believes, requires
Georgian shrubs and trees ito set 1t
on" Spanish residence should have
palms and vines and blossoms ma
tive" to such design. Miss F., max
Ing the most of her opportunities in
a hospital, is an adept in vocational
guidance, has piloted dozens of her
patients into careers of greater use
fulness and happiness, And Miss G.
has for her specially the expansion
OF education into the years which lie
beyond college graduation-she de-
votes herself to the business of help
Ing ambitious young men and women
to perfect their cultural capital, out
lines their reading, brings them into
contact with others who can assist
them. keeps them interested to press
on to ultimate thoroughness.
But the basic fact in each of these
cases is the fact of modest but noble
character. Their serenity is predi-
Gated on their convictions about life.
They lose themselves in work for the
sake of things outside themselves.
Perhaps it is not too much to saw
that of such plain people, spiritually
mature, American civilization is built.
Evening star., 1934-06-06

Widespread comment is made on the
speech of Ogden L. Mills before the
New York State Young Republican
Clubs in which he made a spirited
attack on the N. R. A. Special atten-
ton is paid to his charge that the
new deal is "a moose about the neck
of the people" Opponents of the ad-
ministration agree in general with his
objection to the Presidents power to
control industry.
His insistence that "the party must
reconsider traditional policies in the
light of new conditions" is commended
by the Newark Evening News. which
holds that in advocacy of youthful
leadership, reshaping of policies with
out abandonment of basic principles,
a recognition that the world does move
and that the party must tackle de
novo the problems of agriculture and
unemployment Mr. Mills calls for
what is substantially a Republican
new deal" The Evening News AYERS
that "the old leadership has failed
mo one would attempt to deny the
need of reform in many directions,
says IllC oQA4d 4NCWop WAAANA
adds that "all things necessary could
be accomplished without in any de-
gree doing violence to American in
stitutions or principles. which respect
the right of the individual as master
of his destiny" 1t feels that "the op-
portunity is open to the Republican
party to lead the Nation back to the
old American system Of government" :"
"The Mills conclusion" states the
Indianapolis News. 'is that the moose
is over our head His question is.
Are we to permit it to be drawn?' I"
That paper continues: Probably a
more apt conclusion would be that
the shackles are on, but the people
still hold the key. Already many have
declined to go along. N. r. A. COM
pliance has been reduced to a volun-
tary basis, and crop limitation is
being defeated by nominal bene-
ficiaries who cannot see that it will
profit them. 1t is seen now that stock
issue and sales regulations will never
succeed if SO onerous as to drive the
financing to other countries, and Gov
ernment credit limits will operate to
revise subsidy policies. Natural forces
are at work to permit no more regi-
mentation than the people are willing
to accept"
"The address widened the rift" ac-
cording to the Schenectady Gazette,
between elements in the Republican
party which disagree on the attitude
to be taken toward the new deal in
future political campaigns" and the
Gazette recognizes that many Re-
publicans believe that the party would
be badly defeated if it should attempt
to win votes on platform such as
that outlined by Mills" The Balti-
more Sun declares: Men in Mr..
Mills position are facing a bewilder-
ing dilemma, but in their efforts to
solve it they will never get to first
base If they persist in supposing that
they can have back the features of
the old order which they approve
while retaining tempting innovations
which make their dreams impossible
of fulfillment.''
The demand of Mr.. Mills and his
associates, as interpreted by the Port
land (Oregon) Journal, is that ''the
Republican party fight Roosevelt, fight
his stock exchange regulation and
Evening star., 1934-06-06

/ you please, say they, but not the folks
on either side of you'll
1t is a great old doctrine, and has
its good points.
This attitude Is based on the old
human wisdom embodied in the say
ing, Familiarity breeds contempt"
Living side by side, especially in
rows. does make two families very
familiar, If they indulge in ordinary
greetings and meetings.
And some natures do not seem to
be able to stand the strain.
1t is very common for one family
to think the trouble all caused by
the other. and vice versa, but the
truth is that there are always two
sides to such matters.
Whether right or wrong, unpleas-
antness is unpleasant, is it not?
| II II
Hence it happens that many closely
packed city dwellers come in time to
adopt policy of no familiarity with
the people on either side of them.
Happily this policy may be modified
in the suburban districts, mostly in
habited by persons who were tired OF
the city, that Is the reason they are
out here.
Out here it Is customary to mind
ones own business very well.
This relieves the resident of the
old restrictions.
There can be no doubt that Gals
worthy's story was about London, anc
Londoners, the city and city men.
Closely crowded cities are very
much alike the world around. un-
doubtedly their inhabitants act much
the same way.
The human pretense not to recog.
nize some one you really do know is
not confined to home districts, OF
course.
There are many amusing instances
OF two men, pretending they do not
know each other, when all the time
each knows the others name ano
something about him.
Recently this curious sort of human
comedy was enacted by two men, one
old, one young, in local restaurant
Inc younger man predicted that his
old home State would go for Roose-
welt by tremendous majority.
The older man, at another table
was from the same State. He won.
dered at the prediction, but said to q
third party, If he is from my State
he knows what he is talking about
| The prediction subsequently was
borne out almost to the number.
The two men got to know about
each other through the third party
I came to know each others names
spoke to each other, yet never talked
1t was the old city way.
Fortunately, the spell was broken
at last.
Then there is the curious story OF
two families which lived Just across
the streets from each other in town
True to city tradition, the members
thereof never spoke, but actually
came to know each other very well.
One family moved away.
Years went by then one day the
families met by chance in a cafeteria
All looked at each other, all knew tht
names, habits of the others, but not a
soul knew whether to speak or not.
AS it turned out, they did not, such
Is the force Of this queer tradition
but they might as well have. II
would not have hurt any of them, and
it would have been good gesture in q
silly world. Why should there have
to be japanese ounce?
Evening star., 1934-06-06
Works Both Ways.
From the Raleigh News and Observer.

From the Raleigh News and Observer.
Essential as the order of the N. r
A, permitting a 25 per cent curtail-
ment of production for II weeks, may
be to the textile industry, it ought
not to be forgotten that the order
means Is per cent reduction in en-
ployment and pay rolls in the textile
industry for IL weeks. Not long ago
it became apparent that as a result Of
acreage-reduction contracts on North
Carolina farms there were thousands
of tenants dispossessed, in defiance OF
reduction contracts, but dispoSsessed.
nevertheless, in North Carolina.
Surely order must be brought out
of chaos in agriculture and industry.
But just as surely unemployment and
dispossession will be progressive in
agriculture and industry as production
is decreased, since production can only
be increased as employment and Sc
curity increase. If this statement
fails to make sense, 1t is not the only
thing which seems not to make sense
in a difficult world.
Evening star., 1934-06-06
Plain People.

On occasion it may be well to re-
member that, however troubled hu-
manity at large may be, there still are
occasional individuals who face the
issues of the times serene and un-
afraid. They are persons who are no
more exempt from worry and anxiety
than their neighbors, but it happens
that they have larger reserves Of
faith, larger confidence as well as
larger hope. Perhaps they are born
that way, have natural endowment
of placid optimism, or perhaps they
have learned life's lessons with a more
effective aptitude. But be the ex-
PLANTATION what it may, they are good
to know. Their example is inspiring
to those not yet completely over
whelmed by panic.
Curiously enough, such men and
women ordinarily are what Lincoln
called plain people"-they are not of
the elect" the accredited ruling
classes" the theoretical upper crust
of society" Instead, they function in
humble spheres Of employment, are
accustomed to undistinguished rou-
tines of existence. One is a postman,
another a policeman, third a clerk
in a Government bureau. And with
these may be bracketed a printer, a
gardener, a trained nurse, a school
teacher.
Considered in this order, Mr.. A.
has for an avocation the study of
the art or science of penmanship;
he has studied scores Of different
chirographic styles or manners, has
examined hundreds Of manuscripts
and made himself a master G a
fascinating phase of literature and
history-his chiefs in the post Office
ask his help when they have a
problem in hieroglyphics. Mr.. B., pa
trolling his beat long hours on end,
has developed a particular knowledge
of the human conference.-the ,clas-
Evening star., 1934-06-06
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

John Galesworthy has somewhere
among his short stories an engaging
trifle about two neighbors who met
in the park, both investigating the
beauty Of q Japanese ounce.
These men had never spoken be-
fore, but recognized that here was a
situation out of the ordinary. They
greeted each other, spoke about the
small tree, and then went back to
their homes.
Each then became to the other
what he had always been, one whom
one knew by sight, but that was all.
This is a curious result of city hv-
ing, known to thousands of persons
to pretend not to know each other.
Yet the neighbors do know each
other very well, whether they ever
speak or not. Many years ago in a
crowded section of Washington there
was a man who came out each eve
ming, Just at dusk, and hung a lighted
out of order.
He became known as THE Man
With the Lantern"
X X \ y
Neighbors whose names are un-
known often take on names from
their houses, such as Hip Roof" OF
Red Roof" or from their habitual
clothes.
No doubt the gentleman who an
swers all unknowingly to a certain
cognomen would be somewhat
astounded at 1t, but it comes simply
from his Summer suit.
The gardens, the painting opera
tions, the home improvements of va
rious sorts-all these are known to
every one.
And not Just to "nosey" neighbors,
in any sense.
1t will be found that the persons
who talk the least often see the most
One will be amazed, at times, upon
talking to such people, to find out
that nothing that has gone on in the
community has been missed by these
eagle-eyed ones.
The talkative folk-they, of course
often seem to be busybodies, pryers
gossips and the like, but actually they
do not see and hear as much as some
of these quiet ones.
= II
Why not, of course?
There is nothing more interesting
to a human being than another hu-
man being.
City pretense is mostly just that.
Often it serves a most good pur-
pose, especially in very closely built
communities. where families really
live too close together.
Too many persons per square mile
yes. that is often the case, for it
would seem to many observers that
individual units who should live
within such a space and no more.
Just what this number is no two
persons would agree upon, of course
So much depends upon the people.
Yet there must be a theoretical
number.
Then there are certain persons who
ought not to occupy the square mile
together at all, but ought to have
many straight miles between them.
Strictly urban residents often take
up the aloof attitude in self-defense
against pushers, bounders and others
of the ilk.
No doubt, after one or two sad ex-
periences, many a person has come tc
the conclusion that they were right
Know your neighbors as much as