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The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
Explorers On Way To
Study Alas. Wild Life

Explorer, big-game hunter, seulp-
or, author, naturalist and lecturer,
James Lippitt Clark is on his way
% Alaska.
Four expeditions into Africa after
lions. rhino, giant Gland and other
great game of the Dark Continent;
a dangerous hunt in the Russian
Pamirs and the THAN Shan Mount
aims of Central Asia after the Mar
co Polo sheep and the ibex; repeat
ed trips to Wyoming, New Bruins
wck, Alberta and the Cassiar have
provided their thrills, but DR.. Clark
declares his experiences incomplete
without a trip through the interior
of Alaska, where he plans to study
sheep. moose and bear, in eonnec-
Continued on Page Two1
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
DIM0ND SEEKS TO HAVE NYA
PRIVILEGES EXTENDED ALAS

Delegate Dimond is actively
working to have the recently estab-
lished National Youth Administra-
ton extend its activities to Alaska.
This Administration has been set
up at the request of the President
to provide relief, work relief, and
employment for persons between
the ages of 16 and 25 years who
are no longer in regular attend
ance at a school requiring full
time and who are not regularly en-
gagged in remunerative employment.
1t is intended that the chief func-
ton of the NYA will be to extend
aid to college students who are de-
sirous of pursuing their college
education but are financially unable
to do so. This will be in the form of
work relief and will average about
SIS a month. Financial aid is also
available to high school students for
food, clothing, text books and other
essentials necessary if they are to
continue in school. This, however.
is limited to Sc month.
In carrying out the functions of
the NYA, it is intended that funds
will be available after September l,
1885, for the period ending June
80, 1886. The Delegate believes that
such aid will be of material assist
ance to many students in Alaska
who might otherwise be unable to
continue their education.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
New Game Commission
Boat Is Brought North

The Brown Bear, new l15-foot
flagship of the Alaska Game Com
mission, called in port here Tues
day morning after visiting Ketchi-
kan and the famous bear creek Of
the Anan game sanctuary.
Aboard the Brown Bear were H..
w. Terhune, executive officer OF
the game commission, ". b. Crouch,
assistant administrator of Game
Management under the Bureau of
Biological Survey in Washington,
D. O., H. c. Hansen, Seattle naval
architect who designed the ship,
and Capt. John Selleyold, command
ing.
The Brown Bear, newest and lat
est of the game commission fleet,
was constructed at a cost of S125,-
900 for patrol duty in the Aleutian
islands where the heavy seas are
too dangerous for any OF the or
binary patrol boats.
The boat is powered with twin
diesel engines capable of 400 horse
power. She carries a crew OF ten,
one of whom is a radio operator.
Her sturdy construction insures her
fitness for navigating Westward
waters where seventy, eighty and
even ninety-mile gales are a com
monplace. Included in her equip
ment is a radio direction finder to
provide safety in fogs.
The Brown Bear is enrOute to
the Aleutians, but lack of appro-
priations for winter use will bring
her back to Juneau soon and in
stead of being in service as in
tended the boat will be berthed at
Seattle for the winter.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
CLARENCE BAUMSTAD NAME
OF MAN BELIEVED DROWNED

The name of the man drowned
Sunday night, August 4, from Carl
Arola's boat, Violet A. was Clarence
Baumstad instead of Leonard Hal
stead, which was the information
given to the Sentinel last week.
The unfortunate man was born
in Eglon, Wash, about 80 years
ago. His home was in Kingston,
Wash, where his mother, a sister
and three brothers survive him. He
came to Wrangell this summer and
Joined Arola's fishing crew not long
before the accident.
Arola states that the boat was
anchored at East Point, Woronkof-
sky island; that Baumstad insisted
on staying up on deck. The fact
that he was not ON board was dis
covered at $3.50 in the morning.
While no one saw what happened
there is no question but that in
some way Baumstad fell from the
boat into the water and was
drowned.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
CORD0vA COMMISSIONERS KEPT
BUSY WITH DELUGE OF ARRESTS

ClimaXing a series of arrests dur
ing the first few days of the week,
reports the Cordova Times, was the
virtual cleaning out of a beer dis
pensary known as the Drift Inn"
on lower First Avenue when the
managers and several customers re-
fused to heed warnings of city Of
ficers.
The proprietor, Doris Graham,
was arrested earlier in the day by
Patrolman N. j. McCrary when she
was alleged to have violated Regu-
lation Two of the territorial liquor
regulations which prohibits selling
of liquor to intoxicated persons.
The woman was released on her
own recognizance and was given a
warning to desist. When the dis
pensary continued to be a nuisance
throughout the afternoon and eve
ming, she was again arrested on the
same charge and also a charge was
preferred against her of being drunk
and disorderly. She was fined $25
on each of three charges. Also ar
rested with her on charges of selling
and giving beer to intoxicated per-
sons, drunkenness and disorderli-
ness was Pearl Lubbe, a bar attend
ant, who was fined $25.
Six persons in the establishment
were taken to jail on drunk and
disorderly charges. Earlier in the
week six drunk and disorderly cases
had been disposed of, six illegal
fishing cases in which pleas of
guilty had been entered were each
fined $25, two warrants were out
for assault and battery charges and
a seventh warrant for illegal fish
ing.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
AN OPEN LETTER
Editor Sentinel:

Editor Sentinel:
The humiliating spectacle of a
drunken child of six years on the
main street of Wrangell should
prove to the community that the
chairman of the police committee
of the town council, Antonich,
should have the backing of every
law abiding citizen in the city.
Mike has been criticized because
he has stood steadfast in his pro-
gram of law enforcement. But he
cannot see that the law is enforced
"a hours of each day. He is COM
PEELED to depend upon appointees
of the city to back up his program.
But when drunken men wander
around the streets from one beer
parlor to the other, at all times of
the day or night, do not wonder
that he is ready to throw up his
hands in dismay.
There is a certain translation of
the law by authorities here that Of
fers the argument that so long as a
drunken man can stagger through
the streets he shall not be arrested
unless he causes disturbance.
Where this construction of the law
came from /, would like to know.
In conversation with VIM. A.
Hesse, member of the Territorial
Board of Liquor Control, I was in
formed that in other municipalities
the law was not so construed. And
they may accuse Bill Hesse of sew
eral things, but not that of kidding
you along. He further stated that
the responsibility for law enforce
ment rested squarely on the mu-
nicipal authorities. And to prove his
point as we were engaged in con-
Versation staggering drunk
steered his zig-zag course up the
street and was pointed out by Mr..
Hesse as shining example of lack
of law enforcement. Mr.. Hesse stat
ed that the city's part of the in
come from license fees could be
held up pending proper law en-
forcement.
Personally, / believe Mike Anton
ich is doing a good job. l believe
the law should be enforced, and
that few words of encouragement
would show the chairman of the po-
lice committee that the majority of
US appreciate what he is up against,
and are willing to go the limit with
him on the matter of law enforce
ment
R. N. SCRUBY.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
Baby Girl Dies Under
Sad Circumstances

TIL eight-mOnths-old baby girl of
Mr.. and Mrs. Syerre Larsen died
this week under distressing circum-
stances.
Statements OF the different per
sons knowing the most about the
ase are conflicting but it seems
certain that the baby died late Sun
lay afternoon. The father was cut
with a SEEMING crew on the fishing
grounds and the mother, a young
native woman, it is claimed, left
der four children, the oldest barely
six years old, alone from Saturday
evening to Monday afternoon while
she was out on drinking party.
Sunday was a hectic day for the
six-year-old. He narrowly escaped
drowning while trying to CLIMB
aboard the fishing boat of his
grandfather, George Shakes. By two
o'clock, it is reported, he was found
on Front street very drunk The
statements as to where he secured
the liquor he drank are again con
flicting.
M. B. Pointer, friend of Lar
sens, states that when he heard of
the babys death about O'Clock
Monday afternoon he went to the
house. When he opened the door a
half grown puppy and the dead
baby were alone in the house. Rigor
mortis had set in on the baby. He
found the two boys, four and six
years old, and took them to his
home where he cared for them I'M
til after the funeral Wednesday
night. The two-year-old girl was
staying with a relative The babys
death certificate gives tuberculous
meningitis as the cause of death.
A tragic angle of the case is that
the mother normally is kind and
loving and takes good care of her
children
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16

Will Rogers, dearly beloved hum
orist, actor and public figure, and
Wiley Post, the gallant one-eyed
aviator, met death yesterday a short
distance from Point Barrow, ac-
cording to reports received from
the northernmost outpost of civiliza-
ton. when the airplane in which
the were touring the north fell
from a height of SO feet while max
ing a take-off, and buried itself in
the shallow waters of a lonely
tundra lake.
The first report of the eatastro-
phe was rushed to Point Barrow by
a painting Eskimo runner who told
of seeing the huge red ship fail
from the skies and half bury itself
in the lake.
Army Signal Corps men at Point
Barrow Immediately ordered a fast
launch and hurried to the scene
of the accident They reported find
ing the plane submerged in two
feet of water and completely
wrecked. The searchers Immediately
recovered the body of Will Rogers,
but it was necessary for them to
tear the plane apart in order to re-
move Post from the water. The re.
lief party then made a survey OF
the area and found a group of Eski-
mos camped at a small river nearby.
They claimed that the plane had
scared over them and made a per-
feet landing and Post, apparently
having lost his bearings, asked
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
NELSON ISLAND PRIEST WILL
SPEND WINTER IN SEATTLE

The Rev. Paul c. Deschout, S. j.,
passed through Wrangell last week
enroute to Seattle where he will
spend the winter Father Deschout
left his mission on Nelson island on
June 4 and Travelled until August
II, trying to reach Seward where he
could board a ship for the States.
He first went to st. Michael where
he learned he could not get passage
and then had to go down the Yukon
as far as Nenana and then to Fair
banks and down the Alaska railroad
to Seward.
Father Deschout came to Alaska
in 1929 after completing his studies
at Louvain, Belgium. He spent the
first four years at Akulerak where
he was engaged a great part of the
time learning the language of the
natives. He has made quite a COM
prehensive study of their language
and carries a fair conversation in it
at present. He has passed the last
year laboring among the natives on
Nelson Island. His headquarters are
at Tununak on the island, and from
there he visits the $50 natives liv-
ing on this bleak island. There are
but two other white people on the
island, the school teachers, a man
and his wife.
Father Deschout is very DESTROYS
of returning to the island and is
looking forward to year from now
when he will return to the island.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
SURATT FILMS WILEY POST
AND ROGERS FOR PARAMOUNT

Richard Suratt returned Tuesday
from Juneau where he was sent by
Paramount by special plane from
Ketchikan last Friday to take NOV
ing pictures of Post and Rogers at
Juneau.
Through the offices of Joe Cros-
son, close friend of Posts, the two
men were persuaded to pose for Su-
raft with Rex Beach, who had
reached Juneau by steamer a day or
two before, and Crosson. Suratt
shot a number of pictures, which
will be the last taken by a news
reel company of beloved Will Rog-
ers and his intrepid companion.
Wiley Post.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
CHILEAN INDIAN DIES SAT;
LIVED AT WRANGELL 10 YEARS

Frank Schwanke died Saturday,
August 10, and was buried the fol-
lowing Monday. Death resulted from
tuberculosis and heart disease. De-
ceased was born 81 years ago in
Valparaiso, Chile, of a Chilean In
dian mother and German father.
He left Chile early in life and
served many years on sailing ships.
He had lived for the past 10 years
in Wrangell with the Kananasty
family.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
Heat Disease Takes
Life Of Joseph Louie

Joseph Louie, prominent Indian
resident of Wrangell, died Wednes-
day afternoon from heart disease.
His exact age is not known but he
was somewhere in the early eigh-
ties.
He was born in Angoon near Kill
lisnoo and was married to Hoonah
Indian girl about 81 years ago.
Both were part of the gold rush in
the Cassiar in 1873. Afterwards
they took passage to Victoria, B. c.,
on the old stern wheeler Alyexan-
dria.
Louie and his wife lived at Van
couver and New Westminster for
many years. Their children were
born there and during those years
they embraced the Roman Catholic
faith. They returned north in 1905,
settling at Wrangell where they
have lived ever since.
The Sisters and Brothers Society
was founded by Mr.. Louie to pro-
vide a social and general welfare
organization for Indians living in
Wrangell but who were born in
other villages. He maintained lead
ership throughout all the years the
society has been in existence.
The deceased is survived by his
aged wife and three sons, two of
whom, August and Thomas, live at
Wrangell and the third in Cali
fornia. Funeral services will be con-
Quoted tomorrow at 10 O'CLOCK by
Father Monroe.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
WrangeIl Dist. Salmon
Pack Is 34O,339 Cases

The six canneries of Wrangell
district put up a pack of 82,789
cases during the week ending Au-
gust 10, according to information
filed with w. B. Newcome, acting
agent at Wrangell for the U. S. Blu
reau of Fisheries.
The district pack on August
tenth had reached 340.339 cases.
The figures at this date for the
years 1884 and 1885 follow:
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
K
PACK PASSES
100000 MARK

With all whistles blowing full
blast at o'clock Wednesday night
the Diamond X Packing Company
announced that it had reached
pack of 100000 cases. Yesterdays
pack brought the total up to 105.-
600 cases which establishes a new
record for the company.
The Diamond X last year packed
$4,000 cases during the summer,
then fall packed 1900 cases. The
record this season is, therefore.
most satisfactory
The Wrangell Packing Company
is pleased also with its pack which
on Thursday night was approx
mately $4,000 cases.
The A R. B. Packing Company
pack to date is 25,186 cases, OF
which 1888 cases are half flats
Canning operations during the past
week slowed down awaiting the Sti-
kline coho run, which, expected
around the fifteenth, will be com
ing in soon.
The season closes in Wrangell
district on August % and during
the next ten days each eannery will
undoubtedly considerably increase
its pack.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
WRANGELL
PROTESTS
DUCK REG.

In a conference with W. 3. Crouch
of tn Bureau of Biological Survey
who was here from Washington, d.
c., lat Tuesday, C. P. Kirkland, as
CHAIRMAN of the Wild Life Gonser-
vation Committee of the Wrangell
Chamber OF Commerce, took up the
points embodied in a resolution
which the chamber recently sent
to J. n. Darling, chief of the Bio
logical Survey and to various eXecu-
tives connected with the bureau.
The Wrangell chamber asks for
the elimination of Alaska from any
restriction that may be found nee
essary with regard to the hunting
of waterfowl in the United States
and that the open season for hunt
ing ducks and geese in the Terri
tory be placed from September 1 to
November 80, inclusive. Its re-
quest is maintained to be reason
able inasmuch as fewer than $4,000
wild fowl are killed in Alaska an
nually and almost all of these are
local birds which remain here the
year around.
Direct Flights
Careful investigation by the Blu
reau of Biological Survey has shown
that the flights from the breeding
grounds of the Yukon are over
outside Alaska waters directly to
Oregon and California and the flight
birds which might be shot in south
east Alaska are too few in number
to have any importance whatever
in the conservation of water fowl
The Wrangell chamber holds that
Alaskans should not be restricted
from taking their own local birds
in order to make the regulations
conform to those made necessary in
the states through indiscriminate
drainage of marsh lands and the
uncontrolled slaughter Of millions
of birds on private club holdings.
The resolution was presented af-
ter a careful study of the situa-
ton and sincere belief that the
season requested will have no det-
rimental effect on the present or
future supply of water fowl.
Mr.. Crouch listened attentively to
Mr.. Kirkland's presentation and 1t
is not unlikely that his visit here
will change his viewpoint and that
of others in his department so that
Alaskans will be freed after this
year from the injustice of having
to comply with regulations of val
lie in the States only
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16

Wiley c. Fletcher, manager of
the Pilsener Brewing Company at
Ketchikan, has been business Wis
itor in Wrangell this week. He stat
ed that while the Ketchikan brew
cry has had its share of delays in
getting under way, everything is
now going smoothly and the con-
Germ, which is owned entirely by
Alaskans, is most optimistic regard
ing fatHEe sperxfteza,
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16

A birthday party was given at
the Wrangell Hotel parlor by Billy
Baines and Rosie Campbell of Met
lakatla Wednesday evening. TWEEN
ty-four of their close friends en-
joyed the evening dancing. Lunch
was served at midnight at the Jen-
kins Cafe. Baines is a brother of
Miss Campbell and their birthdays
kan ON the same date.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16

@. P. Kirkland was recently ap-
pointed game warden at Wrangell
The appointment carries no salary
and not the least important part of
his work will be to represent the
viewpoint of the sportsmen of this
district before the Alaska Game
Commizzi1n
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16

Colleen and Lee Carlson, six and
four-year-old grandchildren of Mr..
and Mrs. Oscar Carlson, who have
been visiting here during the ILL
ness of their mother, Mrs. Ellery
Carlson. are returning to Petersburg
the first OF the week,
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
WILEY POST and WILL ROGERS KILLED
I'm PLANE CRASH near PIT. BARROW

them the way to Point Barrow
They said his engine started mis-
firing when about so feet over the
water aud crashed, killing both
men. The bodies of the victims
were badly bruised and Posts wrist
watch was broken. It had stopped
at exactly 8:19 p. m.
The bodies of the two men. which
are now in charge of DR.. Henry
Geist, Presbyterian missionary at
Point Barrow, will be returned to
the states, according to word from
relatives.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16
HOSPITAL NOTES

Mrs. o. Gunderson, who has been
ill at Bishop Rowe General Hospital,
is reported to show considerable
improvement.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16

John Erickson, captain of the
Marguerite, who has been a medical
patient for the past week at the
hospital, was dismissed Thursday
night.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16

Hall Ferguson spent Tuesday and
wednesday at the hospital due to
knee injuries received in cannery
work.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16

Mrs. Ralph Madison and baby
daughter were dismissed to their
home Wednesday.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16

Fish shipments during the past
week were as follows:
stikine Sea Food Co.. $500 lbs.
shrimp meat
Reliance Shrimp Company, 1000
lbs. shrimp meat.
A. r. Brueger. tierces mild
cured kings and 2 tierces mild
cured silvers.
Salmon pack shipments during
the past week included 2872 cases
by the A. R. B. Packing Company,
$500 cases by the Wrangell Pack
ing Company and 1920 cases by
the Diamond K Packing Company.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16

Mrs. Joseph Demmert. a medical
patient from Klawack for the past
several weeks, is making a good re-
covery.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16

PONCA CITY, Okla.-Mrs. Wiley
Post, who Is visiting relatives here,
received word of the tragic death
of her husband and Will Rogers to-
day, and was almost Frustrated with
grief.
Il can't believe it. can't be-
lieve it," she kept saying.
Post is survived by parents, by
three brothers in Maysville, and a
brother and sister in Dallas, Texas
HOLLYWOOD. Calif.-Mrs Will
Rogers, who is vaeationing in the
mountains while her husband went
on the Alaska jaunt with Wiley
Post. was informed of the death of
both today and was reported to be
seriously i'll from the shock and
grief. Friends kept her closely
guarded and she was unavailable
for a statement.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16

Wilbur Olin was brought to the
hospital this week as a medical pa
,tient from nearby logging camp.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1935-08-16

Wayne Foley, who entered the
hospital this week for injuries re-
ceived at Karl Thiele's Narrow
Paint trap, is greatly improved.