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The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25
ALASKA PEAS SCIENTIFICALLY
 TESTED FOR CANNERY USE

Peas grow politically in Alaska especially in the Matanuska valley and are being studied scientifically with a view of making them an out standing commercial asset Of the territory.
 This year the Agricultural EXper ment Division of the University of Alaska for the first time employed chemist to assist in determining the variety of garden pea best ad- apted for cultivation by future pea canners in Alaska
 Six acres. divided into ninety-six plots. were planted at the Matanus- ka Experiment Station. Each variety tested was planted in eight sep arate plots. half with and half with out phosphate fertilizer added to the soil. The twelve varieties sown were Carter's Eight Weeks, Blue Bantam. Gamers Gem, Alaska Twentieth Century. Gradus. Lax tons Progress. Little Marvel, Pion- ger, Premier Gem. Wisconsin Early Gem and Surprise.
 Samples from each of the -96 plots were tested in the laboratory To de- termine moisture content. ash. cal- cium, alcohol insoluble. sugar. starch and total nitrogen. High sug- ar content with low starch is sought ar content with low shr shrd shrd for in canning peas. The sugar con tent of peas begins to decrease soon after picking so that close coopera- tion between the collector of samples and the analyst was necessary.
 The analyses were performed by Alfred W. Bastress. Professor of Chemestry, University of Alaska and the field work was under the diree- tion of Don L. Irwin, in charge of the Matanuska Station. George W. Gasser is director of the Matanuska and College Agricultural Experiment Stations of the University.
 Determination of the variety best for use in Alaska can only be made by a careful study of the results of chemical analysis and the data obtained in the fiel dduring the growing season.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

Miss Jean Bunnell returned to Fairbanks recently to spend several months with her father, pr. Chas. E. Bunnen. president of the Uni yersity of Alaska. She has been ! member of the staff of the 20th Century Fox Film Corporation in Los Angeles. Calif for the last two years. Miss BunneIl was graduated at Stanford University in 1881. She went abroad and the next year at tended the Uniyersite de Grenoble and the Institut du Pantheon. In 19- 33 she attended the University of Munich in Germany and the follow ing year returned to the United States to attend Columbia University in New York City. A new Chevrolet. was purchased by Miss Bunnen att Flint, Mich. She drove it to Seattle. From there it was shipped by boat to Valdez and driven to Fairbanks from Valdez.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

Frank O'Farrell. Jr. son of Frank O'Farrell ST. of Fairbanks arrived at the University of Alaska last week from Lancaster, California. The young man was born at Tanana IT years ago and is a grandson of Arthur Harper, famous Alaska pien= eer of 1873. whe came into the country with Al Mayo. Jack Me- 9uesten, Fred Hart and Jack McKipp He also is a nephew of Walter liar per who ascended Mt. Mckinley with Archdeacon Stuck. Young Frank is a graduate of the Lancas- ter High school
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

Returning to Fairbanks from an examination of mining property in the Cache Creek district, Merle Guise reported that all the small hy- draulic plants are still nozzling In with a fair head of water, but the operators are preparing to close down shortly as things are freez- ing up at night Good cleanups are reported from the new hydraulic plants on Bird and Bear Creeks. The new washing plant which MT. Guise designed and installed on Pe- ters Creek this spring for use on gumbo and bouldery ground has been handling a thousand yards a shift and has long since cleared it. self A number of alterations in the rig are contemplated for next season. to further improve the yard age.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25
ALL ALASKA REVIEW

Got a gun?" softly inquired De- putty United States Marshal James J. Buckley of his chief, Marshal Joe E. Mcdonald of Fairbanks, as they were taking a brief pleasure drive shortly before o'clock one morn ing recently on the Steese Highway two miles out Of Fairbanks, No, breathed the marshal. And a big moose. which was close to the auto mobile. looked quizieally at the mo- tor car and the two officers, whose deadliest weapons were a fountain pen each, and trotted leisurely away out of sight.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

With 45 men working on develop ment of underground ore bodies. the Nabesna mine is driving tunnels every hundred foot level down to a depth of $50 feet on the vein sta ted Carl Whitman, head of the cOm- pany, while in Fairbanks recently purchasing mine equipment I've are drifting north and south," says MT. Whitman" and have the best ore showing at the present on the north end, or where We are drift ing back into the mountain. Our mill is handling 50 tons of mill feed { day. Just now we ave taking the mill-feed from a dump which We had stored for re-treatment by cY- aniding. We are expecting a filter to arrive soon. We have lots of ore on various levels in the mine and our outlook Is splendid for long life, especially as the ore values are holding up fine at depth"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

There will be an approximate at tendance of 500 pupils at the Palmer school this winter the school child ren from over the valley being trans ported to the school by bus. Six uus- ses will be employed in this service. Last year children were divid d in the different neighborhood schools. and some of them were taugh. at home in community groups. But this has all been changed, the school work now being done under the roof of the new aeho0lhouse.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

The Cordova Pr. A. combined it's September business meeting with an official welcome for the teachers. The meeting approved unanimously the purchase of an electric range for the domestic science department and as it's project for the present year authorized the purchase of an electric sewing machine for the new course.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

Do you know" asked the talk ative barber, that if you examined the edge of this razor under a mi croscope it would have teeth like a saw?
 "Yes," groaned his customer, but don't need a microscope to find that out"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

Officials of the weather bureau at Washington, D. c. have announc- ed the establishment of their wes- ternmost observation station and tae appointment there of a woman as weather observer. The woman is Mrs. Francis H. McMillan who is to make daily reports. The western most station is on Atka island. one Of the Aleutian group. Mrs. McMil- lan's husband is a teacher on the island for the bureau of Indian af- fairs. They are the only whites a. mong l0S residents of the islanc
 Mrs. McMillan must share honors with the northernmost weather ob- server who also is woman-Mrs. Stanley Morgan, wife of the signal corps operator at Barrow. Mrs. Nor gan has served as weather observer there for seyeal years and is very competent" said E. B. Calvert, chief of the weather forecasting service.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

Dad-Twenty-eight boys in your class and you're at the bottom! You ought to be ashamed!
 Boy Aw gee, dad. That's not so bad. Suppose there were fifty boys.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

Ducks are reported to be coming by the dozen every day into Cord0va which is in area 2 where the season opened on September Is. Among a recent bag of ducks thought to con stitute a record for hefty birds, was big mallaFd shot by Ben Cecil which weighed three and thlee- quarters pounds before 1t was dres- sed,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

According to A. B. Phillips, Super intendent of Schools, applications for teaching positions in the Jun eau schools for the school year 1937 are already arriving at his office, Teachers for this school year were chosen from over 5000 applications, last year.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25
CHANGES IN NAVIGATION
 AIDS TO BE RESTORED

The following aids to navigation are out of commission but are uo be restored, according to informa- tion received from the office of Sr perintendent of Lighthouses:
 Zimovia Strait-NIidchanne Rock Beacon destroyed March IT.
 Aids Lighted Or Restored
 Lynn Canal-Battery Point Light relighted September 12.
 Saginaw Channel - Faust Rock Lighted Bell Buoy reported exiting uished September II. 1936 was rs. lighted September IA.
 Aleutian Islands - Tuscora Reef Lighted Buoy ?, reported showing quick flashes August 24, 1886, was restored to normal characteristic, September IS.
 Permanent Changes
 Tongass Narrows - Lewis Reea Light characteristic changed Sep tember Is, 1886 to flash 1 second. eclipse g seconds.
 Stephens Passage - Midway Is- lands Light changed in elevation September IS, 1886 to 73 feet above high water on d skeleton timber tower.
 Sitka Sound - East Beacon has been permanently discontinued.
 Norton Sound = Rocky Point Light established September 12, 1936 at Western entrance to Colo win Bay. The light is flashing white, flash O.3 seconds eclipse 2.7 seconds of 13O candlepower. The light is 1Y5 feet above high water on a small white house. It is maintained from August 1st to October 31st.
 Permanent Changes To Be Made
 Lynn Canal - Katzehin River Flats Lighted Bell Buoy 1 to be es- tablished about October 10, 1886 in position of Katzehin River Flats Buoy 4 which will then be discon- tinued.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

Robert F. Stryker, 28, formerly of Seattle. a seaman on the coast and geodetic survey ship Discoverer. was found dead at the foot of cliff at Dutch Harbor on September IS. Attached to a shore party at Dora harbor, on Unimak island, he went for a walk during the night, and had either fallen from a cliff or been caught in a landslide about a hali mile from camp.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

The treasury department at Washington, D. C.. has announced that the contract for the new fed eral building to be constructed Tn Ketchikan had been awarded to J. B. Warrack of Seattle on the low bid bid of s306,00O. The structure is to provide quarters for a post office, customs house and jail and Is to be completed in 36O days.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

J. C. Ryan became irritated one evening at Fairbanks when he was refused credit for a bottle of whis- key at a liquor store and manifested his irritation by hurling a stone through the front window of the store. The petulant exhibition drew a sentence of five months in the federal jail from the [, S. Commis- sioneT,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

The seyen-mile road stretch which Matanuska Valley colonists desire 10 be constructed between Palmer and Goose Bay on Knik Arm will probably not be forthcoming for some time it has been stated by the Alaska Road Commission in JuE- eau. It was pointed out that the building of the road would material ly affect the revenues of the gov ernment-owned Alaska Railroad, and for that reason would probably not be sanctioned by the government. The road would enable shipments to be made direct from Seattle to Palmer. A petition has been eircul- ated in Palmer and Wasilla asking the Road Commission to undertake the project.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

Valdez city council recently ac- cepted the new P. W, A, school building and ordered fire insurance in the sum of S25,000 at a premium of s875 for three years.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

The 95-foot steam whaler Vest port on Sept. 14 struck a reef while skirting the shore of Akutan is- land in the Aleutians where a whal- ing station is located No lives were lost Commander R. ". Dempwolf of the coast guards Boring sea patrol force, said in a wireless message that the cutter Daphne sped to the scene and took off the crew of the ship. The Westport is owned by the American Pacific Whaling company of Seattle. It is one of seven whalers the company operates in Boring sea. The ship is valued roughly at S10O,- 900. Last year the Westport made catch of 49 whales.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

Five thousand inquiries from far mers, mostly residents of the drou h belt states, have been received in the past year at the Chicago office Of the Alaska railroad. Harold W. Shell of Chicago stated at Anchorage this week where he is making his annual visit. He said that the influx of farmers to Alaska is greater than ever before, many settling independ- ently on Kenai peninsula and north ward along the rail belt
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

Rare moving pictures of Alaskan sea-otter were taken by Warden Homer Jewell of the Alaska Game Commission and Claus J. Nitric, Bu- reau of Biological Survey natural ist on the Aleutian Islands during the recent cruise of the Brown Bear The sea-otter were seen in groups of as many as Al animals, and many excellent shots were obtained, being now in process of developing. Once nearly extinct, the sea-otter are now making a gradual return to Alas nan shores. Catching the animals is strictly forbidden.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25

A dispatch from Kodiak stated that the Surf cannery Kukak bay burned to the ground on Sept. IS. The blaze is believed to have been caused by an electric light plate. The main cannery and the superiu- tendent's house and the entire sill yer salmon pack are total loss. The companys main office is in Seattle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Book No Help to Policeman.

DENVER. Colo. R.-Patrolman
Leonard Weven, studying to become =
sergeant. ordered . book he thought
would prove helpful. It turued cut to
b about prohibition enforcement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

BY the Associated Press.
JOHNSTON CITY, ILL.,, January Is.
The fight of this mining town Of
5000 to survive the saving Of two coal
mines-assailed by subterranean floods
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
PERGLER TO SPEAK
TO BALTIMORE CLUB
National University Official to Be
Heard on Constitutionality
Here and Abroad.

DR.. Charles Pergler, dean Of the Ma
tional University School of Economics
and Government and professor of con-
stitutional law and jurisprudence in
the university's law school. will adj
dress the Luncheon Club of the Balti-
more City Bar Association Thursday
on "Constitutionality Of Legislation
Here and Elsewhere"
It is expected DR.. Pergler will discuss
the doctrine Of judicial review of legis-
lation as applied in the United States
and compare it with the situation in
European countries where an attempt
has beea made to introduce 1t, as well
as In those countries where no court
can pass on the validity Of legislation.
DR.. Pergler was the first Czecho-
slovak diplomatic representative to the
United States and Czechoslovakias
first Minister to Japan. At one time
he was . member Of the Chamber of
Deputies Of his native land. He is the
author of . volume on Judicial Inter-
probation Of International Law in the
United States" and of other works in
English Is well Is Czech. among which
Is = volume published in Prague On
1.-THE American Constitutional Sys-
tlm." ~ a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Joyce WORKING
ON A NEW BOOK
Author of ulysses" Will
Mark 54th Birthday
on February 2.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A writer who has drawn upon his
head perhaps the strangest mixture
of rapturous praise and fierce denun.
citation Of any literary figure Of the
twentieth century will be 81 years old
February 2.
James Joyce, author of the vast and
famous volume Ulysses" doubtless
will spend the birthday in his Paris
fiat weaving further words that will
affront the orthodox and delight the
ultra-modern.
For words are the passion Of this
Irish writer. Hardly had he finished
his 7oo-page psychological odyssey OF
Leopold Bloom, Dublin Jew con-
ceived as a modern Ulysses, than he
| embarked on a new adventure into
| the literary unknown-an attempt to
present a dream-world to his readers
in language compounded largely OF
strange hybrid words coined from
dozens of tongues.
Despite failing eyesight that some
times forced him to do his writing
with crayon in huge letters, he pur-
sued this work unremittingly pub
fishing it piecemeal under the title
Work in Progress"
On this birthday Joyce, if he chose,
| could raise his fine voice and sing like
some bard of old, of conquests won.
An earlier novel, his photographed
Portrait of the Artist as Young
Man. is widely read in many coun-
| tries as an outstanding example OF
| the naturalistic method.
Some of his work, notably short
sketches published under the title
"Dubliners." have found their way
into world antnologies. even those
popular with the Christmas trade.
Moreover, his Ulysses" after being
banned from America as obscene ever
since its publication in 1922, finally
leaped the customs barriers Federal
Judge John NJ Woolsey of New York,
in an unusual decision which called
the work brilliant" though dull" IN
spots, held it was "emetic," but not an
"aphrodisiac.
The Judge took note of the short,
ugly Anglo-SaXon words and refer
ences which usually are soft-pedaled
in drawing-room conversations, but
he ruled that there was no dirt for
drt's sake"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Mine Town Fights Extinction
As Waters Flood Coal Shafts

had captured the attention Of the
Nation tonight.
From the four points of the compass
have come suggestions for Harvesting
the underground waters which already
have disabled one mine and threaten
the existence of the other-and the
livelihood Of a majority Of workers
here.
Large quantities of soybeans, corn
and sawdust were dumped into the
flooded shaft several days ago at the
suggestion Of a Meyersdale Pa.) resi-
dent, who theorized that the material
would swell and plug up fractures
through which the water poured. The
water continued to rise, however, and
the task had to be abandoned.
Though the battle has not been
won yet, Johnston City is not ready
to give up.
This mine is not lost and we are
not going to think about such things,
said Roy Lyon, former mayor and top
foreman at the pit.
I'VE still have hope and we are
expecting Federal aid to carry on the
work." said Mayor Grant Anderson.
But II worst comes to worst and
the mine is lost as work maker for the
community, there is no disposition to
let the town succumb.
Engineers tomorrow will attempt to
force two tons Of bentonite clay,
shipped in from the Dakotas, be-
hind the seals In the mine. This clay
1t was pointed out, expands about
eight times it, volume when mixed
In vatag.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Copies of Famous
Wickersham Report
Now Rare in Capital
BY tho Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The famous Wickersham re-
port on prohibition, compiled
under the direction Of George w.
Wickersham, who died yesterday,
is q collectors item in the
Capital
Copies Of the report, which
stirred wide discussion when 1t
was made public by President
Hoover, are scarce. The Justice
Department has only one copy.
At the Government Printing
once. the report is "out Of print
In q store room on the top
floor Of the Justice Department,
the voluminous files, notes and
clippings from which the report
was prepared are gathering dust.
A strange odor pervades the
room, carried In the papers from
the time they were stored with
confiscated narcotics In . Treas
ury warehouse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
NORTHEASTERN LIBRARY
UNIT TO HEAR REVIEWS
Fourth Program in Public Series
to Be Presented at Branch
Friday Night.

The Northeastern Branch Of the
Public Library will present its fourth
program in public book review series
in the community room of the branch,
Seventh street and Maryland avenue
northeast, at pm. Friday, Librarian
DR.. George F. Bowerman announced
yesterday.
Ordinary Differences OF Everyday
People," by DR.. j. r. Oliver, will be
reviewed by Miss Lucille Walsh Of the
Sociology Division, Central Library,
who speaks on the subject New Books
of Psychology and Child Study" Miss
Walsh will also review Your Child Is
Normal" by Grace Adams, and Grow
ing Superior Children, by I. N. Kugel-
mass.
A new book list on Creative Home
Life" prepared by Miss Caroline Shurt-
leff. readers adviser in sociology. Gen.
trail Library, will be distributed at the
meeting in connection with a talk by
Miss Shurtleff on certain titles on
homemaking, personality and home
arts and crafts. The book review series
will continue on alternate Friday eve
nings at the Northeastern Branch. The
general public Is invited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
New Songs for D. T. D.

Members Of Delta Tau Delta college
fraternity will be particularly inter-
ested in q red network broadcast over
the National Broadcasting Co. at 1880
tonight. Sammy Hayes Orchestra In
Cleveland will play two new Delta Tau
Delta songs for the first time. they
being Delta Shelter" and MY Delta
Queen" The orchestra viii Be heard
over WRC In Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
MERRIAM MARRIES
LONG BEACH WIDOW
California Governor, 70. Is First
to Take Bride While in
Office,

BY the Associated Press.
PALM SPRINGS, Calf, January
25-In a brief. semi private ceremony,
70-year-old Frank Finley Merriam,
Governor Of California. married Mrs.
Jessie Stewart Lipsey, 66. Long Beach
widow, here late today.
Rev. DR.. George M. Rourke, pastor
Of the First Presbyterian Church Of
Long Beach, performed the ceremony
at the Winter home of Ralph Clock,
the Governors close friend and polit-
ical adviser.
Mrs. Lipsey is the widow Of A. M.
Lipsey, Long Beach real estate and
insurance operator. who died six years
ago. Gov. Merriam's wife died about
the same time.
The two families were friends in
Iowa many years ago.
Gov Merriam is the twenty eighth
Governor Of California, but the first
to marry while in Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
PLEAD GUILTY TO FRAUD
Five of 20 Admit Charges of Vio-
lating Securities Act.

DALLAS, Tex. January Is P).-
Four men and a woman. involved in
activities which the Government con-
tended represented a 100000 fraud.
pleaded guilty today to violating the
Federal securities act
Twenty-four other defendants plead
ed innocent.
Sentences will be passed Monday on
the five. Lee l. Starting, Dallas at
torney; B. c. Mead, Houston; S. H.
Mead, Dallas; W. M. Wick and Clara
Mitchell.
The Government charged that in
vestors were defrauded through activi-
ties of the Midw ,st Mortgage Corp.
the Securities Service Corp, Fl Orc
Mines Co. and Ell Preside Hotel Syn
dicate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

TcAu, T. SukkCo.
ton which has
the hearty ap-
prevail of local
police officials.
Police Chief
Ernest w. Brown
not only ap-
proves the idea,
but he already
is putting into
effect through
the boys clubs
maintained by
the department
and the assign
ment of patrol
men to aid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
STUDY ADVOCATED.
chhdren's Bureau Suggests
:. Course for Policemen
93e~
u of Nation.

The policemen Of America should
know something Of child psychology
II juvenile crime and delinquency Is
to be reduced.
This was the recommendation yes
terday of the FEDERAL Childrens bu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
Officials Finance Cab Driver.

TULSA, Okla. Up-City commits
sioners ruled taxicab driver who
had weak eyes would have to buy
glasses before he could be given
license. Informed he didn't have the
money, the commissioners gave him
the necessary amount and the license.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26
River Bed Found.

.ssDming raxing Of the Mansion House
IN London remains Of the bed Of the
Nven Walbrook have. been found 50
TT bslow ground
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