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The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04
Chamber of Commerce
 Desires More Members

A very interesting meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held
 ., ednesday night in the Bills club looms. The annual election of d board of directors was held and the following members were elected: F. 5. Barnes, A. R. Brueger, L. NJ Campbell, James Nolan, Leo Me Cormack and F. G. Hanford. The board will meet soon and elect the officers for the coming year.
 In an effort to more adequately finance the organization and to se- cure the cooperation of men whose interests are in Wrangell. but who are not in business. a new scale of dues was voted. Dues for business houses were advanced from six to ten dollars yearly. Dues for salaried men, such as government officials and professional men, were placed at six dollars and associate mem berships at three dollars. It is planned to begin a membership drive soon.
 F. s. Barnes, president, made an excellent talk touching on the Vari- ous projects which will engage the attention of the chamber during the coming year. These include Federal Housing, Dredging Wrangell Har- bor, Addition to the City Light Plant, New Industries and a road to Pats Lake. The dredging and Pats lake road are old projects which the chamber has no inten- tion of abandoning but rather to keep pounding away until they are accomplished.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04
NATION PAYS $160.O00.000
 CANDY BILL IN 10 MONTHS

The nations candy consumers paid one hundred and sixty million dollars for sweets during tES first ten months of 1884, the National Confections' association announced. This is a gain of 16 per cent over the one hundred and thirty-nine million paid in the same period of 1883.
 The gain, said George H. Will Hanson, president of the associa- tion, practically assured the indus try that the year would close with a 35 percent gain over the 1892 figure, since 1893 ended with 20 percent boost.
 October sales alone jumped II percent, and the holiday trade is far enough advanced, Williamson said, for merchants to report that the season Is the best in several years.
 Candy bars are the most popular confection, although outranked In value by the total of chocolates. Candy bar output totaled 116,386.- 19O pounds in 1893, valued at s51,- 5O7,142 while chocolates totaled 28O,416,044 pounds valued at $57,- 40O.812.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04
MRS. GEDAKE FOUND DEAD
 ON CHRISTMAS MORNING

Mrs. Annie Gedake, widow of Sain Gedake who died a year ago, was found dead in bed Christmas morning from heart disease. She had not been dead long for her body was still warm and there was a good fire in the stove, which had been banked at 11:30 Christmas Eve by Mrs. Kate Donnelly, who has been employed for the past sev- eral months by the US. Office of Indian Affairs to take care of Mrs. Gedake.
 The deceased was one of the older Native women in Wrangell and was considered to be about 85 years of age. She had been blind and hard of hearing for 35 years and helpless for a number of years. She was difficult to take care of after her husbands death as she refused to allow anyone to stay in the house with her.
 The Office of Indian Affairs, through Miss Margaret Weightman, government nurse, supplied h e I with all necessities and she died in comfort, even though alone
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04
THIELE REPRESENTS BANNERS
 ASSOCIATION IN WASHINGTON

Karl Thiele, owner of the Dia- mond K Packing company of Wrangell, former Secretary of the Territory, was in Washington for a number of days last week. He was appointed representative of the In dependent Gamers association to appear for them on the question of maintenance or elimination of traps in view of the announced purpose of Delegate Dimond to endeavor to secure the passage of bill calling for the abolition of all traps.
 MT. Thiele said that in his opera tions at Wrangell during the past summer he packed more than twice as many seine caught fish as trap fish and that he never refused to take any seine caught fish from the fishermen for the cannery and never placed any of them on any sort of limit and that, in fact, he took fish from other seiners where they could not find purchaser.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04
Juneau Bar Opposed to
 Liquor Sales to Indian

Members of the Juneau Bar As sociation adopted a resolution last Saturday favoring the prohibition of the purchase of intoxicating li- quor and beer by Indians and Eski- mos. The committee appointed to investigate the question, made up of W A. Holzheimer, R. E. Robert son and H. L. Faulkner, submitted the report which was adopted as a resolution by the members of the association.
 The resolution, copies of which are to be sent to the Territor.a. Liquor Control Board and members of the Territorial Legislature, fol- lows:
 We. your committee. heretofore appointed to investigate the ques- tion of the sale of spirituous and other intoxicating liquors to h. dians, respectfully report that in our opinion, based not only upon common street observation but also upon the many cases in our courts wherein Indians are accused or con- victed of crime into the commission of which they have been led by the excessive use of intoxicating liquor, Alaskan Indians as a race constitute a class of persons parti- cularly liable to be injured, morally and physically. by the use of intoxi- eating liquors, and we therefore l,n tition the Territorial Board of Liquor Control to pass such regula- tions as may be necessary to inhibit Indians as a class from being per mitted t o purchase intoxicating liquors, including within that term beer
 Should the Board not now have the power. which We do not believe is the fact, to pass those regula- tions, then We further recommend that the necessary steps be taken for the bestowal of that power upon it by the Territorial Legislature or the Congress of the United States. In the term Tndians,' we in clude 'Eskimos' and the other ab- original people of Alaska.
 "In connection herewith We sub init some authorities that we be- lieve establish the fact that the citizenship of Indians and Eski- mos is immaterial to the right to classify them for the above pur- poses of prohibition of intoxicating liquors to them"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04
TEN MILLIONS ANNUALLY FOR
 ALAS. INDIANS

Alaska Indians will benefit ! greatly from the Wheeler-Howard act. the Indian benefit act passed by congress. Five of it's nineteen sections are specifically for Natives i'll Alaska.
 Large funds are appropriated for the educational and economic de- velopment of the members of native tribes and the act has been praised by members of the Indian service as well as others interested in well fare work among the Indians, says the CordoYa Times.
 Section nine of the act provides for the appropriation of S25O,000 annuaIIy from the treasury In de- fraying the expenses of organizing chartered corporations of Indians.
 Section 10 provides for the sp- propriation of ten million dollars a year to establish a revolving fund for the purpose of making loans for the operations of these Indian chartered corporations that nave for their purpose the promo tion of the economic development of the Indians.
 Section Il provides for the ap- propriation of $250,000 a year for loans to Indians for the payment of tuition and expenses in attending any recognized vocational school. Not more than $50,000 of the amount may be used for defraying expenses in institutions of higher learning.
 Section 12 is one of the most di- rectly beneficial sections of the en- tire act. It provides for the appoint ment, without regard to civil ser vice laws, of Indians to the various offices in the Indian service. Any Indian qualified for a position in the service shall always have pre- ference to the appointment of va cancies.
 Section 16 is the portion of the act describing the Indian chartered corporation, for which the money was authorized under secJCe +% It allows the right to organize for the common good of the Indians, the adoption of constitutions and bylaws, and other provisions in tended to promote the self-govern- ment and development of Indians. The organization is to be made with the aid of the secretary of the interior --------------= There are many other sections of the act, dealing mostly with the lands of the tribes in the United States proper, but the sections men, tioned here apply specifically to Alaska natives.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04
EVELYN BERG TO BE SOLD
 TO SATISFY LABOR CLAIMS

Sale of the steamer Evelyn Berg, owned by the Northwest Steamship company, has been st by court or der at the Ballard fish dock, Seat tie, on January 15, to satisfy sever al liens, mostly for labor, amount ing to about s4500. The J. E. Berg company of Ketchikan also holds a mortgage for s24,O00 against the ship.
 The Evelyn Berg originally was a steam schooner in the coastal lumber trade and was purchased last spring by MT. Berg, Ketchikan canneryman and fish dealer. He outfitted the vessel for freight car rying to Alaskan ports Later she passed into the hands of the North west Steamship company. Seattle Iongshoremen tied up the vessel by court suit, claiming back wages. In addition to the Evelyn Berg, the John c. Kirkpatrick also was tied up hy labor Hsna
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04
JUNEAU EDITOR IS HEARD
 OVER KOL IN ALASKA TALK

Robert w Bender, editor and manager of the Juneau Empire, vas aboard the Victoria last night re- turning to Juneau from a two- weeks business trip to Seattle.
 On last Friday night, Mir Bender was interviewed about Alaska on KOL, Seattle radio station.
 Questioned about the purchase of Alaska, he gave the early history of the purchase from Russia for ST. 100000, added to it the total money that had been spent on the Terri tory by the Federal Government, which brought the cost of the Ter ritory up to s209,999,OOO, sub tracted the $52,500,O00 that the Territory has turned into the Fed eral treasury, and found the cost of the Territory to date to be $751; 499, 1000. However, when the value of the minerals, fisheries products, and other products of the Territory, produced since it's purchase is con- sidered, Mir Bender said, the trade balance in Alaska's favor is over two and one half billion dollars.
 The importance of the proposed international highway to Alaska and to the United States, advance of aviation in Alaska, the Terri tory's climate, and advice to people against coming to Alaska unless they have an income or a job in sight were other subjects mentioned by MT. Bender.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04
CHRISTMAS WAS COLDEST
 DAY OF MONTH IN WRANGELL

The warmer than usual weather of the first three weeks of Decem- Der, suffered a severe drop on the 21st, as shown by the monthly re- port to the Weather Bureau, by c. ". DeRemer, cooperative weather observer at Wrangell. The warmest day of the month was on the 9th when the maximum temperature was registered at 5S Christmas Day was the coldest day of the month when the thermometer dropped to zero and the highest temperature registered during the "A hours was ' above zero.
 Up to the 21st, the coldest tenn perature of the month was 34, but on that night it dropped ten de- grees, on the 22nd, went to IS above, on the 23rd to T, dropped on the 24th to degrees and on the 25th reached zero.
 The summary of the months re- port includes the following data:
 Temperature
 Mean maximum, 35.9.
 Mean minimum, 26.6.
 Maximum, 58; date, Dec. g. Minimum, zero; date, Dec. 25. Greatest daily range, 21; date, 27th.
 Precipitation
 Total, 9.86 inches; greatest in 24 hours, 1.14; date, 18th.
 Snow
 Total snowfall, 14.7 inches. On ground 18th, none
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04
LEANS
TATE-SARBER

Miss Virginia Tate. daughter of Mrs. Flora Tate of Petersburg, and Hosea R. Sarber, also of Peters burg, were quietly married the night of December 26 at the home of Rev. and Mrs. H. Aase.
 The bride lived in Wrangell for several years when a child follow ing the death of her father, N. M. Tate. MT. Sarber was recently ap- pointed game warden with head quarters at Dellingham, in the rBis- tol Bay area. The young couple plan to spend a month at Juneau be- fore leaving for DtllIn&hsln-
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04

A. B. Anderson, general contrac- tor and shipwright of Wrangell, was found to be the low bidder on the city dam project it was revealed last night, when the Wrangell Council met in regular session at 7:3O o'clock. Anderson's bid for the contract was s19,200. Members of the council were frank in express ing their satisfaction that a local contractor had been the successful bidder, and while a formal aceep- tance of Anderson's tender has not yet been declared. it is believed that this will be forthcoming as soon as he has qualified with respect to performance, liability. and other bonds required by the Public Works Administration. MT. Anderson is in Seattle at present. but is expected to return to Wrangell in a few days. Members of the council were of the opinion that work on this project should commence as soon as possible. A call for bids on two other similar projects. renewal of Front street and a sewerage system. will be issued in the near future, it was decided.
 Busy Session
 The council convened in regular session, with Mayor Kirtland pre- siding, Council Anderson being the only absentee. K. N. Neill, of the audit section of the Public Works Administration. was present at the opening of the bids; also R. H. Stock, a well. known contractor of Juneau. After the reading of the minutes of the previous session, the clerk announced that several tele- grams had been received from con- tractors requesting a postponment of the opening of bids until the steamer Victoria arrived. The coun- cil therefore decided to defer open ing the tenders until mail off the Victoria and Northland was distri- buted.
 A communication from US. For
 No Moore Liquor Licenses
 A communication from the Dis trict Court advised the council that an application for a license to vend beer and wine had been received
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04

Ray Ready Wrangell boy who tours the world between printing jobs, wrote this week to Wrangell friends from the famous Union Printers Home at Colorado Springs where he is spending the winter getting over a severe case of pneu- monia. He asked for few copies of the Sentinel and said he expected to come home some time next spring.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04

Louis F. Paul received Christ mas greeting card last week from Fred S. Johnston, who was foreman at the Wilson & Sylvester mill at Wrangell for several years. He left for the States twenty or more years ago and is now living at Reedsport. 0reEon-
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04

Writing to the Sentinel from the Halifax Hotel apartments in Hol- lywood, California, Captain and Mrs. s. c. Harrington extended best wishes and a happy New Year to all Wrangell friends.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04
TO ALL WRANGELL FRIENDS

Mir and Mrs. J. G. Grant request the honor of your presence at a reception given for Mir. and Mrs. Alfred R. Brueger on Wednesday evening,
 January the ninth,
 from to 10 o'clock
 at the Wrangell Hotel
The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-01-04
CLIPPING BRINGS MEMORIES
 OF GOOD TIMES 20 YEARS AGO

J. c. Grant on a recent mail re- ceived letter from his brother in Nova Scotia with a clipping en- closed which U. G." had sent him from the Wrangell Sentinel of twenty years ago this week. The item follows:
 "The way that dull care got 1t in the neck last Saturday night at the Rink was sure good. The affair was the basketball game between the Fats and the Leans. The game was for blood and ever since both sides have been claiming the victory so we don't dare say who won the game, although the Leans threw two baskets and the Fats only one.
 The game was better than any circus that eyer hit the road, and was scream from the start to the finish although 1t turned out to be more of football game than bas- ketbalI, but all the same there never was as many laughs in any hall in an hour before as was l crowded into that ano everyone went home feeling that they had received their moneys worth and then some.
 The lineup looked so good to Capt. Nord, of the Jefferson, that he tied up that vessel hele 80 aa to attend the affair aud as ht leIt he stated that It certainly was worth 1t.
 Tho those who did not see the game, just read the lineup and imagine Johnnie Grant dressed up as clown, and you have the game.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-16
DAILY SHORT STORY WATER CURE He Looked Over the Bridge Into the Depths of
 theDark River Below.

to find someone to take Steliae place It had been futile. He was no longer resilient.
 These other women didn't under stand him. They didn't satisfy the deep part of him. Stella was dif- ferent. Her sensitive spirit, which had been his despair, yet was his delight. He thought of her quick, alert step as she used to come to the door to welcome him home from work at night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-16

It was fifteen minutes before twelve. He took out his pocket knife. slipped 1t into the envelope. Stella always had such time open 1 ing her letters with her sensitive tapering fingers.
 He squinted at his watch again, thin, open-faced model that Stella had given him, years ago, as wed- ding gift. He wore it on gold chain strung across his vest, and secured with a gold crossbar snubbed through the third buttonhole. Unhurriedly he began to take off the chain. Stella would never sell the watch. Why should she? The insurance would bring her $500 a year for the rest of her life. Not l a lot, but enough.
 He heard the mutter of a deep ex- haust, and felt the bridge quiver. He glanced down the approach in annoyance. Twin headlights, and a blur of green above that signified bus were turning onto the bridge. But Ed Sheldon scarcely noticed them. Standing not twenty feet from him, her piquant face aglow in the arc light, was Stella.
 She wore an old gray raincoat, and rubbers on her feet. That was why he had not seen or heard her. That, and because he had been so busy with his preparations. But she was early, nearly fifteen minutes. He forgot everything else as ne gazed into her face. It was alight with love. No loathing, no irritation at the sight of him. Instinctively he started to her. Then the bus thundered up, and he shrank close to the rail. Let it pass, let the ac- cursed headlights die away. Then he could see that light in Stella's eyes again. It must have been 8 dream. Yet he knew 1t had not been a dream.
 The tail-lights, the curtained rear windows receded, leaving only the foul heavy exhaust of the laboring 1 engine.
 In the hard shower of the arc. dim after the bus headlights, he HID CyCo h6dAA " AeNAAts' e~~D mounting spirit turned to ashes. It had been a dream. On her face was disgust, abhorrence.
 He laughed, hardly, like the arc light, and wrenched the watch chain loose. He stuffed the watch in the envelope, stopped to lay 1t on the tarred roadway of the bridge. He had been a fool to think she could want him back. He placed one hand on the rail, vaulted over.
 Stella ran to the railing, her throat aching with a still-born cry. "Edl Come back! Come back! I thought you were coming to me. Why did you do it? Why2 Why? Why ."
 The foul. heavy exhaust of the engine still fingered.
 Copyright 1935.
 The Chicago Daily News, Inc. :.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-16
BY FLETCHER D. SLATER

Even under the arc light on the bridge, Ed Sheldon did not look like a man who would commit sui- eide. His blue serge suit, shapeless in the mist, was well worn. But no more than those of hunderd semi prosperous business men of the city. His cheeks were not gouged by sickness, and he lounged on the bridge rail with the supreme con- tent that follows a well-chosen din- ner.
 Sheldon stretched. A glance to- ward the toll station, whose lights glistened a hundred yards farther on through the drizzle, showed no one coming. The long approach behind him, too, was wetly deserted. Deliberately Ed Sheldon had chosen his station under this bridge arc. The water slipping along far be- heath seemed a little less black, where the light was. It wouldn't be hard, there. A hand on the lighted rail, quick vault. .. . Methodically he drew from his inside coat pocket an empty ma nila envelope addressed to Stella | Sheldon, his wife. In it he placed his billfold, containing his drivers license-what mockery when he hadn't had a car for five years and a snapshot of Stella.
 He hesitated, took out the bill fold from the envelope. He opened the billfold, slipped out the snapshot.
 He looked quickly about, then bent his head and caressed the | glossly image with his lips. Then he replaced it in the billfold and the
 billfold in the envelope.
 He had thought it al lout. That would be all he would leave-just , that one envelope holding his bill- fold, his keys and his watch. His note to Stella would bring her tc the bridge at midnight, to this light He would wait until he saw her coming before he went over the rail He wouldn't want. anybody else to get his watch, the billfold she had given him, his snapshot of her
 If only he had landed this last job. But his insurance was due next week. He couldn't pay it again
 Suicide! It had an ugly sound. But why did people make such to-do about it? He could provide for Stella this way. He had good wad of in- surance. A reliable company. And she'd get over the shock.
 He took out his pocket comb hesitated and put it back in his hip ! pocket. No use to burden her use- lessly with things that might make her remember and cry. She would , cry. The realization of that swept /, through Ed Sheldon like a warm flood.
 Even thoug they had quarreled
 even though she had said she never 1 wanted to see him again. Oh, it
 hadn't been just that he couldn't [ find work. It had been his being 1 under foot, at home, that had finally
 got on her nerves, he thought.
 He had been away month now
 The first lonely ache had dulled
 He had even tried, half-heartedly
Evening star., 1935-07-08
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Fina ncial Writer.


Associated Press Financial Writer.
NEW YORK, July STEADY buy
ing Of steelS, tobaccoS, industrial
specialties, mail order and farm i'm
plement issues gave today's stock
market a decidedly bullish appear
ance.
All groups did not participate in the
forward push, but the closing tone was
firm. Transfers approximated 1900
900 shares.
The market apparently still was
paying little attention to Washington,
business and trade trends absorbing
most of Wall Streets attention.
The American Iron e. Steel Institute
estimated current mill operations at
35.3 per cent of capacity against 1928
per cent in the past week, which in
cluded the Independence day holiday.
Grains rallied but cotton slipped.
Bonds were mixed Foreign exchanges
advanced against the dollar. sterling
recording new 1885 top.
Many equities made new highs for
the year. Issues up l to points or
so included United States and Bethle-
hem Steel common and preferred:
Jones g. Laughlin, Republic Steel,
Acme Steel, National Steel, American
Rolling Mill, American Can, Bullard.
International Harvester, Montgomery
Ward, Sears Roebuck, Case, Allied
Chemical, Du Pont Electric Auto-Iite
and Briggs Manufacturing. General
Motors and Chrysler were ahead frac-
tionally.
The mail-order department was
especially active as reports of expand
ing sales reached the commission
houses.
Evening star., 1935-07-08
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO, July P.-Hogs, $4,000.
including 5000 direct; uneven. mostly
steady with Fridays average; spots 70
9.35as0; top. 9.S5; 100000 pounds;
940aSO; 25O-31O pounds. S.70a9.6O good
packing sows, S.00a5O.
Cattle. 10000; calves. y. 500: very little
done; early sales fed steers and yearlings
steady to 20 lower. with with later sales and
instance more for in-bStween grades.
Choice weighty steers and better grade
light heifers and mixed yeArlings holding
up best Very liberal supply beef in crop
and not as many native graAs steers as
receipts and season would sud rest Best
early sales. 100 down to 9.50s
Sheep; 10000; lambs and yearlinss
Is to 25 cents higher start; Seep firm.
improved quality considered: nattse lambs.
top. e.S5; bulk ranges. includins first
Washingtons, p.40; yesrlinss 1O0a26;
range ewes. $50; native ewes, . y00a3 Is.