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The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-27
Legion Pays Tribute To Mme Schumann-Heink

A special meeting Friday night of the Legion and Auxiliary, open to the public was held at s o'clock at the Legion Dugout in honor of Madame Schumann-Heink, Mother of the American Legion" and an honorary officer of the Legion, who died at Hollywood on November IT.
 Post Commander James Lovett opened the meeting and introduced Legionnaire Charles P. Kirtland who addressed the meeting.
 We are gathered here tonight to pay our humble respects and tribute 10 the memory of one of the best loved and best known women four age" said Mr. Kirtland. A woman whose whole life has been dedicated to making other people happy by the exercise of the talents with which God had blessed her. A wom- an who during the dark days of the great war travelled from one camp to another, from one hospital to an other, singing to the soldiers cheer ing them up and doing everything that she could to make them happy until she finally became known to the American soldier as Mother -Heink."
 In recounting incidents of her life the speaker mentioned that born 75 years ago in Austria she studied music from childhood but was told by her teacher that she might as we'll forget it as she could never be a great singer. Undismayed she stud jed on and when she finally started to climb the ladder of success, one triumph followed another until she was finally crowned one of the greatest if not the greatest contral- to singers that the world has ever known.
 The mother of eight children, Ma dame Schumann-Heink had sons fighting on both sides in the great war. "Can you but picture, my friends" asked MT. Kirtland, "tha untold suffering that this dear wom- an went through during the dark days of the great war, sitting think | ing of her dear children whom she had raised from infancy to man. hood and who were now fighting against each other on the battlefield. Perhaps listening for the footsteps l that never more would come because two of her sons never did come again.
 After the war her financial for tune greatly diminished and her wonderful voice failing she carried on accepting anything that was of. fered in the way of employment She still continued to visit the hos pitals of the wounded soldiers, her boys as she called them, doing all ir her power to bring happiness into their blighted lives.
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-27
q CAUGHT
 IN JUNEAU
 AVALANCHE

Twenty-one men, women and children were trapped in a huge av- alanche of mud which roared down the side of Mount Robert at 7.30 o'clock in Juneau Sunday night. taking four houses in its path and leaving a pile of debris 20 feet deep and about 75 feet wide on lower Franklin street opposite the Juneau Cold Storage plant.
 The four places caught in the slide, one of the worst in the his tory of Juneau. were the Nickino- yich Apartments, which housed about ten families, the Watson boarding house. the Hugo Peterson building in which the Peterson fam fly lived on the top floor. and the Gus Erickson residence. Nine busin- ess places and one cabin were dam aged by the slide.
 Eight persons were injured, two seriously. The bodies of nine others have been recovered and there are still some to be recovered. Little B year old Lorraine Nanali, was res cued alive, after having been trap ped in the house for IS hours in which her father and mother lay dead. Her rescue was at once thrill ling and tragic but the little one died at the hospital about two hours later.
 The slide occurred, fortunately, at church and show time to which fact many persons in the slide area owe their lives.
 The slide swept power lnd tele- phone lines out shutting off the main power line and throwing the entire city in darkness. Immediately the fire alarm sounded and the whole town turned out to help. Bremen and other volunteers plung- ed into the debris and within two hours had removed most of the in- jured
 Light company men risking their lives in the danger of live wires striking them at any moment, bat tied through the muck to make an emergency hOok-up. Even under such handicap the light company was able to make temporary repairs ill an hour and half. During that time rescuers worked with only the light of flashlights.
 Upon receiving news over the radio of the disaster. F. G. Hanford president of the Wrangell Red Cross chapter. wired to the Juneau Red Cross extending sympathy and offer ing assistance from Wrangell Thanks for his offer was sent by Captain Newmarket of the Red Cross and Harry G. Watson, secre- tary to the governor, with word that they would advise of needs later.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-27
GOVERNMENT STARTS TAXING WAGES ON JAN. i FOR SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

from your industrial or business employment between Janary 1, 1887 and your Goth birthday A man or woman who gets good wages and has a steady job most of his or her life can get as much as $S5 a month for life after age 65. The least you can get in monthly benefits, If you come under the law at all is $10 a month.
 If You Are Now Young
 Suppose you are making S25 d week and are young enough now to go on working for 40 years. If you make an average of $25 a week for 52 weeks in each year, your check when you are 65 years old will be $53 a month for the rest of your life. If you make $50 a week, you will get S7450 a month for the rest of your life after you are So.
 If You Are Now Middle-Aged
 But suppose you are about 55 years old now and have 16 years to work before You are 65. Suppose you make only $15 a week on the aver age. When you stop work at age 65 you will get a check for $19 each month for the rest of your life If you make S25 a week for 10 years. you will get a little over S23 a month from the Government as long as you live after your 55th birth day.
 If You Should Die Before Age 65
 II you should die before you be- gin to get your monthly checks, your family will get a payment in cash amounting to 3 one-half cents on every dollar of wages you have earned after 1886. If, for example. you should die at age 64, and if you had earned $25 a week for 10 years before that time. your family would receive $445. On the other hand, If you have not worked enough to get the regular monthly checks by the time you are 65. you will get a lump sum-, or if you should die your family or estate would get a lump sum. The amount of this, too will be 3 one-half cents on every dollar of wages You earn after 1936
 TAXES
 The same law that provides these old age benefits for you and other workers, sets up certain new taxes to be paid to the United States Gov ernment. These taxes are collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue of the U. s. Treasury Department. and inquiries concerning them should be addressed to that bureau. The law also creates an "Old-Age Reserve Account" in the United States Treasury, and Congress is au- thorized to put into this reserve ac- count each year enough money to provide for the monthly payments
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-27
MIG CORMACK DOCK co. NEW
 AGENT FOR ALAS, TRANS. co

Wrangell business firms this week received notice from Winston J. Jones, general manager of the All aska Transportation Company, that since the inception of the com pany's service to Alaska in October, 1885. MT. c. C. Mundy has ably represented us at Wrangell, but due to stress of his other business ac- tivities he feels he is unable to de- vote sufficient time in our interest and therefore to our regret is re- linquishing the agency.
 Arrangements have been made with the Mccormack Dock Company to represent us in Wrangell and we are sure that your interests will be well served by them"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-27
W.RANGELL'S
 FOOD SUPPLY
 RUNNING LOW

The Canadian Pacific liner Princess Louise. sent on a specia trip from Vancouver Monday arrived in port at midnight Wednesday uitb four passengers for Wraugeli and three tons of foodstuffs. including meats and turkeys for the City Meat Mar ket and staples whose main items were potatoes. onions, butter. eggs and milk for Charles Benjamin. Campbell Brothers and Donald Sin clair
 The shipments will tide the town over for few days. sWraneeU mer- chants are used to a fwo-aoat n week service in the win,cr and We are not organized for any different sehedule.' E NJ Campbell said Wed nesday. We have numerous items on our shelves. he pointed out. pickles, ginger ale. jams and pre- serves. canned corn on cob and sim liar foods. But a family cant live on pickles and marmalade We buy our eggs for instance. at this time of year on a standing order Of I5 eases a week. We haven't storage facilities where eggs will keep for longer period Our store is com pletely out of butter and cgas. all green vegetables and practically all staples
 MT Campbell told of having to cut down orders more than a week ago sent in from Tokeen and the various fishing grounds where tho men are absolutely dependent on supplies from Wrangell The Cape Pole district was sent a pound of butter per man and other items cut down in proportion At that they fared better. because of their isola- tion than customers in town
 Charles Benjamin on Wednesday was out of all vegetables and fruits except a broken box of oranges. half box of apples. a few onions and potatoes, and most of the staples. including milk. butter and eggs. The oranges on hand were 2Ju.s which should sell for 40 cents dozen but having been brought in from Canada, carried a double duty and sold at 65 cents. which is close to the actual cost laid down here. Canadian eggs in yesterdays ship ment sold for 70 cents a dozen
 One item which is completely ex- hausted in Wrangell is unit cells for searchlights This Is serious shortage as flashlights are a pee cesity to all boatmen.
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Al Cramer, writing to Wrangell friends on November 9th from San Francisco, stated that he was leav- ing there the following day for Los Angeles and from there would go to Salt Lake City and Denver where he will be the guest of Thomas Dug gan, brother-in-law of the late J. G. Grant, who has visited in Wran- gell at various times. MT. Cramer spent several weeks with him in Denver last winter and was urged to make a return visit this year.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-27
PIONEER MAKES FIRST TRIP OUT
 SINCE COMING NORTH IN '9S'

Juneau is no longer the town that it was when I was last through here. It is just about twenty-five towns like that"
 Such was William W. O'Leary's thought when he got his first look at Juneau in 38 years, last Wednes- day afternoon, reported the Juneau Empire.
 O'Leary, who has been connected with the Fairbanks Exploration Co.,, since its first operations were com menced on Cleary Creek arrived in Juneau on the Ford plane piloted by Noel Wien, from Fairbanks. Not only was the trip O'Leary's first plane ride, but it was also the first leg of his first trip to the Out side since he first came to Alaska in '98.
 At that time O'Leary made but a short stop in Juneau enroute to Dyea from where he made the long trek over the Chilkoot Pass into Dawson. He made the Chilkoot Pass at the time of the big landslide, in which his group lost 1900 pounds of their outfit, but later recovered it. The slide was a horrible affair, he said. Tt made you stop and think to see all the dead carried away one after another"
 Married - Down River O'Leary was married in White horse, in 1904, and the next year went down the river to Fairbanks settling on Cleary Creek, where he has remained ever since at first working for himself, and recently i for the F. E.
 "The 31 years there seems like only about six" he said, thinking back over them. 'I really don't want to go outside now, except to see my wife and three children who have been in San Francisco for the past i five years. Also I want to see my mother again. She lives in Palo Alto and is now S6 years old. When 1 first came Up here I told her that I would be back within three years probably less, but the years have stretched a little."
 Relatives Here-There
 Besides his wife and three chil. dreQ in San Francisco, MT. o'Leary l tContinued on Page FO1rl
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-27

Reginald Parks, who went to Ju- neau from Wrangell about six weeks ago, is now employed by the Alaska Empire Gold Mining Company at Hawk Inlet
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-27

Reservations for passage south on the Princess Louise tomorrow night had been made at noon today by Mrs. w. L. Dundin, Mrs. J. c. Grant Mrs. Lorraine Mills, Mrs. Frederick Cunningham and son, Mrs. Charles Kraft, Grover Foster, s. Cunning ham, Tom Miehaelson and A. John son
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-27

Blanks to set the United States Social Security act in operation January I. 1937 were distributed from the local postoffice this week to, all employers. Postmaster Grant will return these cards to the social security 0oatd. After January 1 the government will start collecting rom each employer and employee tax on wages.
 While the social security board is going ahead with the task Of listing the employees and employers the act has yet to undergo the test of the supreme court, a number of firms having already started an at tack on the constitutionality of the law.
 The board, endeayoring to win support from employees placed the provisions of the act in as favcr- able a light as possible in the fol- lowing pamphlet addressed Ito em- ployees of industrial and busi. t>s establishments. factories, shops. mines, mills, stores. offices and oth- or places of business
 There is now a law in this coun- try which will give about 26 million working people something to live on when they are old and nave stopped working. This law. which gives oth- CT benefits too, was passed last year by Congress and is called the Social Security Act.
 Under this law the United States Government will send checks every month to retired workers. both men and women. after they have passed their 65th birthday and have met a few simple requirements of the law.
 What This Means Te You
 This means that if you work in some factory, shop mine, mill. store or office or almost any other kind of business or industry you will be earning benefits that will come to you later on. From the time you are 65 years old or more, and stop work ing, you will get a Government check every month of your life if you have worked some time Gone day or more) in each of any 5 years after 1886, and have earned during that time a total of $2,0OO or more.
 The checks will come to you as a right. You will get them regard less of the amount of property or in- come you may have. They are what the law calls "OId-Age Benefits" un- der the Social Security Act. If you prefer to keep on working after you are 65 the monthly checks from the Government will begin coming to you whenever you decide to retire.
 The Amount of Your Checks
 How much you will get when you are , years old will depend entirely on how much you earn in wages
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-27
TkTR A N G ELL w R I N G E R

The Wringer recently carried an item to the effect that the credit of the man-mountain twins, Ole Lilli- graven and Red Steears, was not very good with a Wrangell tonsorial artist whose name rhymes with lark. The boys went into the shop to get prettied up before going to Water fall for the winter and after getting a haircut declared to the artist that they had no money but would send it in installments through the winter. This weeks mailboat brought the following letter from Ole and Red.
 Waterfall. Alaska
 Nov. 20. 1886 Dear Sentinel:
 Tn reply to an item in the Wran- gell Wringer column of the Sentin- els November 9th issue, we wish tc say that nothing has ever hurt our feelings as much as that item did not only the humiliation of having the public know that We owe money but just as much and maybe more the loss of faith in a fellow that W, thought was o. K. and took to be 6 friend.
 There's always two sides to 5 story. Here's ours: We owed thi. fellow one dollar and thirty cent! and promised to pay a small amoun every month until paid in full. Tru, to our word, the first month we paiC him twenty cents, the second montl thirty cents. We've only been her, two months.
 Now he puts in the paper that ou credit is in a bad state and that ", were falling down on our payments He also stated that he was thinking of turning over the account to tn Alaska Credit Bureau for collection
 We believe he is making a sat mistake. We were planning to sen, a remittance on the boat now north bound for Wrangell but have t. drop it as he is turning our accoun over to a collection agency.
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-11-27

A daughter, who has been named Helena Susan, was born on Novem- ber 22nd to Mrs. Walter Johnson al her home on Front street.
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TAXES

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-10
U. S, BRITAIN
 WILL CONSIDER
 JAP AN DEMAND
Nipponese Ready to Quit E Naval Conference Unless | Action Taken at Once

LONDON, Jan. 10-Reliable sourc- essreport that Great Britain and the United States delegates reached an agreement to return to considera- ton of Japan's demands for equality at the present Naval conference.
 The British delegates have ar ranged to communicate with the French and Italian delegations but authoritative quarters indicated an agreement of all delegations is as- sured to avoid breakup of the con- ference.
 The Japanese delegates are re- ported ready to quit the conference unless their demands are considered immediately.
 British official circles said that if Japan withdraws from the Naval Conference, the barley will not col lapse but will be a six-power con- ference with the inclusion of Ger many and Soviet Russia. The issue came to the front yes- terday when it was suddenly an- nounced the Friday session had been postponed until next Monday after the Japanese, meeting with the British delegates, demanded the question of fleet equsSty be taken up immediately
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-10
GAS EXPLOSION WRECKS TOWN N
 HALL, KILLS 1
Search for Cla sses in Abandoned Cistern Causes
 Blast when Match Lit

PENDLETON, Ind, Jan. 10.-The fourth victim of a terrific gas ex- plosion was dug from the fire scorched wreckage of Pendleton Town Hall by salvage workers to- day.
 The body is that of Irwin Taylor tool maker, who dropped his glasses in the abandoned cistern under the building, and asked Town Marshal Garland Brookband to help look foi them
 When the marshal lit a match the accumulated gas let loose g blast, wrecking the two-story build ing
 The explosion injured five mem bers of the newly-elected town board, holding it's first meeting, anc buried the towns fire equipment.
 The marshal was severely burned
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-10
FIREMEN PREPARING
 FOR ANNUAL DANCE

Business transacted at the first 1886 monthly meeting of the Juneau Fire Department in the Fire Hall last night was largely of routine nature.
 Charles Samson, formerly Fire Chief of Fairbanks, was visitor at the meeting.
 Police Officer Kenneth Junge General Chairman of the Dance Committee in charge of the Fire mems Ball to be held next month reported satisfactory preliminary arrangements.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-10
JOHN GILBERT LEFT FORTUNE
Estate of Screen Actor Es- timated at Nearly
 Million Dollars

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. 10.- John Gilbert, screen actor who died suddenly yesterday at his home af- ter an attack of the heart, and only being ill one day, left fortune of nearly one million dollars. it is said. A large share of his golden reward was swept away in the stock mar ket crash in 1929.
 Tn August of that year, Gilbert signed three year contract which is reported to have paid him $500, 900 annually.
 The actors fortune inclues ex- tensive real property, annuities and securities. Gilbert's attorney declined to say whether the screen actor left g will.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-10
LAST HOPE FOR HAUPT MANN'S
 PARDON FADING
Llndbergh Baby Killer Will Not Get Opportunity to
 Appear Before Board

TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 10.-The fast hope that Bruno Hauptmann convicted kidnaper and slayer of the Lindbergh baby, will make a personal appearance before the Court of Pardons. faded this morn- ing.
 The announcement came from Gov. Harold G. Hoffmans office that the Court of Pardons will not meet tomorrow at the prison, but the session, at which Hauptmann's appeal will be taken up, will be held in Gov. Hoffman's office.
 unless some action is taken re- garding a retrial or recommenda- tons for clemency, Hauptmann will be executed on the evening of Fri day, January IT.
 Gov. Hoffman's preparations for court hearing includes assemb- ing of many trial exhibits for in- spectlon. The Governor also will oelver to the Court of Pardons a letter, affirming Hauptmann,s in hocence, signed by J. J. Faulkner ana the signature on deposit slip Ill 1853 when $2,900 of the ransom money was put in New York bank The Governor said the writing in the letter and on the deposit slip are similar.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-10
CONGRESSMAN IS STRICKEN BY
 HEART ATTACK
Wesley Lloyd of Tacoma Dies Suddenly in Na-
 tional Capital

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. = Con- gressman Wesley Lloyd of Tacoma, Representative from the Sixth Con- gressional district in Washington State, died suddenly early today at his residence here. Cause of death was not immediately determined but was believed to be the result of a heart attack
 MT. Lloyd, a Democrat, was serv- ing his second session in Congress, having been elected in 1892 and 1884 He was the first Representa- tive to serve from the new Sixth Washington Congressional district which was created shortly before Lloyd was elected. The district comprises Tacoma and Pierce Coun- ty outside of Seattle.
 The Congressman was member of the House Judiciary Committee and before coming to Congress prac- ticed law in Tacoma, where he was widely known as a criminal attor- ney.
 He was 53 years old and is sur vived by his widow and three chil- dren.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-10
By MARY JOYCE

ATLIN, B. C., Jan. 18.-(Special to Daily Alaska Empire) Left Tulse- quah December 27, three days to lnklin, IA hours travelling time.
 For the first time in my life I have seen blue water, the color of iceberps on the headwaters of the Taku Water fast, cold and cruel running between its icy banks. Travelled on gravel bars, crossing the channels of the river on log sweepers with poles from logs to ice on opposite banks.
 Chocack Lacgoose, Billy Williams to you, scolded his sons and made them put boughs over holes so I could not see water underneath while crossing. White Lady plenty scared' Crossed on my hands and knees and dogs followed like soldiers. Crossed the upper Taku another place over rapids on huge cakes of ice three feet apart held by sweepers and snags. Put a chain on Tip and each oos leii III water and pulled them out onto another cake of ice. Ice two feet wide, in places just room for Sled with water leaping over and gurgling underneath. I jumped over and just made it, but they had a chain on me, LOO.
 Sled In Water
 From Inklin House travelled to Canoe Navigation on Naxina River Followed ice on bank with open water on one side. My sled tipped over and my movie camera bounded into water. Fished it out with gaff hook made of poles.
 From Canoe Navigation two h. dians went back and I started up 5loko Mountain with Lakuata Slad-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-10
STERILIZATION
 CONTINUED FOR < ANOTHER YEAR
President Holds Emergency Not Yet Terminated
 But Intensified

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-Presi- dent Roosevelt has extended for an- other year the power to shift the gold content of the American dollar within a 10 per cent bracket and continued in effect the $2,000, 900 000 stabilization fund.
 The Chief Executive issued a proclamation saying that the emer- gency prompting the measures ap- proval in 1884 had not yet been terminated by an international monetary agreement or otherwise, but, on the contrary, continues to be intensified in diverse respects by unsettled conditions in international commerce, finance and foreign ex- change.