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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-15
TIE sTORY so FAR

The gniety Of the Christmas
party at Thunder Mesa" the de
Forest hacienda in New Mexico,
has o tragic ending when PEARL
SAM DE FOREST, oldest Of three
brothers, b found dead with an
ancient knife In his throat.
Each Of the de Forest brothers
has the first name Pearl"
PEARL JOHN Is the youngest.
PEARL PIERRE, next in age,
takes charge Of affairs, orders
everyone 10 remain At the ha-
cienda. The others ut the ha-
cienda. The others are: TANTE
JOSEPHINE, old and an invalid;
BETTY WEIGH, her young COM
panion; RAMON VASQUEZ and
ANGELIQUE ABEYTA, guests at
the party; PROFESSOR SHAW,
archeolOgist; and BOB GRAHAM,
tire salesman, at the hacienda
waiting for his car 10 be repaired.
The body Of Pearly Sam disap-
pears. Later Ramon and An
gelique learn It has been burned.
Then Pearl Pierre Is found, life
less, below q rocky ledge, the
same knife that killed his brother
In his throat.
Pearl John accuses BROKEN
SHIELD, an Indian servant, Of
the murders. Next day Tante
Josephine is dead and Broken
Shield is missing. Professor Shaw
Is investigating the basement Of
the house when someone springs
ON him. Later he Is found, I'M
conscious.
Angelique, who is jealous Of
Betty finds a secret passage in
the basement, forces Betty into
this passage and closes the door.
Bob quarrels with Pearl John
and Ramon. They lock him in his
room, but he escapes. He is pur-
sued, turns his ankle and is
brought back 70 the house. Later
he, too, Is locked in the under
ground passageway with Betty.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-15
Brain TwizzIers
By Prof. }. %. Flint

There is a story about a problem
which hotel manager faced
one night when business was almost
too good.
The hotel had only eleven rooms
and on this particular night the
manager was bemoaning the fact
that business was in such bad
shape that he had no occupants for
his rooms. Great was his pleasant
surprise when three cars pulled up
in front of his motel and discharged
twelve passengers in all. The group
walked into the hotel and each re-
quested a room. The manager,
stunned for the moment, racked his
brain for solution to his problem;
he disliked the thought of losing
a. customer. Suddenly a thought
struck him and he said to one man,
III you will wait until I have given
the others their rooms I will have
o room for you" He then put the
second man In the first room, the
third man in the second room, and
so until the eleventh man was in
the tenth room. Then the manager
said to the twelfth man who was
still waiting, Now you can have
lroom IL"
4 Yes. X does sound like something
b wrong. What's the answer?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-15
LAVA COLLECTION ENLARGED

Honolulu, CUP)-Boy Scouts have
sent to the Boy Scout council camp
on Ten Mill river reservation in New
York a piece of lava from the crater
of Halfeakala to take its place
alongside pieces of lava and stones
from otl:er states and territories of
the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-15
CHAPTER XIII

NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
NEW BEAUTY SHOP IS
 OPENED BY MRS. MOORE

Mrs. Virginia Zane Moore this week opened a new beauty shop un- der the business name of Wrangell Beauty Salon, in the quarters re- gently vacated by Dr. Eugene Wheel CT.
 The shop is very inviting in ap- pearance, the color scheme being cream and Chinese red.
 Mrs. Moore is a graduate operator with wide experience in Seattle and San Francisco shops. She owned her own shop in Salinas, California and was recently owner of the Virginia Zane shop in Seattle.
 Her equipment is modern and complete for all beauty shop serv- ices. The opening, planned for three weeks ago, was delayed by failure of some of the equipment to arrive. Now, everything is in place and Mrs. Moore's starting out on what prom ises to be a very successful business venture
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
JAYHI NOT TO ENTER
 BASKETBALL LEAGUE

Protesting that the Gastineau Channel Basketball League plays too strenuous a schedule for high school youths. Superintendent A. B. Phil lips announced recently that the Jay High casaba quintet probably wIh not enter a team in the league this year.
 When seven or eight teams plan a double round-robin schedule foI te season, it's time to think about the younger fellows who haven't the reserve strength and time to de vote to the game. Our high school players are still growing up - they cant spend all their time playing basketball" he said.
 Philips explained that while tine other players in the league do not have to qualify for participation in the league, the high school players are forced to maintain scholastic standings. If too many games are played, their grades will naturally slump.
 However, the school team will play a series of challenge contests with various members of the channel loop. In the league now are teams representing the De Molays, Elks, Douglas, Bremen, Krause and the Haida.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
Adv. Campaign Backs
 Salmon Sent Market

Ala ,ka s canned salmon will go to .-a.ket backed by the strongest ad- . .s.4g and merchandising support
 ,e. YI.ced behind a canned fish item, according to an announcement made by the advertising sommitteo 1i the Canned Salmon Industry late in November.
 Releasing details of the l93o schedule, the committee pointed out that higher prices of canned salmon made necessary by increased pro- duction costs have slowed down the sales movement of this product, md that the packers are stepping up the advertising expenditure for 1888 to further stimulate the consumption of Alaska salmon. The committee report declares that advertising of canned salmon during the last two years has produced definite results in increasing consumption but that additional pressure is necessary if the industry is to market the 1897 and 1888 packs at reasonable prices
 The 1888 campaign will include additional color advertising in the leading woman's magazines which carried this advertising during the last t.,o 9 years, and the addition of four new magazines adding several million readers to the circulation al ready reached.
 Special advertising drives using newspapers, radio, and billboard ad. vertising will also be carried on dur ing Lent and early summer to boost .almOn sales at these peak fish con sumption periods.
 The committee estimates that dur ing the coming year, approximately 150, 100000 advertising messages or canned salmon will appear in U. s magazines and newspapers. The economy and deliciousness of canned salmon meals will continue to be stressed in the industry's advertising turing 1898.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
.y '.
 COMPLETES NEW CANNERY

\. Nussbaumer. president of the Wrangeu Cold Storage. and for many years operator of the local sawmill, arrived on the Yukon Mon day To liquidate the business of the Alaska Spruce and Cedar Company, and attend to various business mat ters demanding his attention.
 sawmiIl operations closed on Sep tember 15, 1886, and since that time Mr. Nussbaumer, as superin- Jendent of construction for the Nak- at Packing Company, has completed building the Waterfall cannery, which in the past season put up lo0,00O cases of salmon, the largest pack this year by a single cannery in Alaska, and buut the Hidden Inlet cannery.
 The crews came to Ketchikan from Hidden Inlet on November 24, a number of the men going south on the Dellwood,. Mr. Nuss- baumer reported, but IYor Axberg and Norman Bakke who had in- tended returning 10 WrangelI, sign ed on instead as crew members with Capt. H. R. Coulter, who was taking the Marguerite 10 Seattle for the winter.
 Mir. Nussbaumer will leave on the North Sea tonight to join his fam fly at Mt. Vernon, Wash, where they moved this fall His plans for the future are not definite, but he will probably go to the P. A. F. as construction superintendent in it's various Alaska oannery building projects
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
Philadelphia Mayor
 Receives Alaska Gifts

The following clipping from a newspaper was receiv- ed this week by Miss Margaret from her sister in Philadelphia:
 Mayor Wilson is richer today by one bag of Alaskan ptatoes and q miniature totem pole, gifts from Mayor J. A. Talbot, of Ketchikan 
 The articles were brought here in truck driven by Al Radero, who parked at the City Hall at g o'clock exactly 132 hours and 20 minutes driving time from the starting point. Distance here was 4,722 miles. Purpose of the trip is to demon- strate the feasibility of truck trans portation from this country to AL aska.
 Director of Public Safety Andrew Emanuel acted as host for Mayor Wilson, while T. E. Willis, a direc- tor of the Chamber of Commerce, received a flag and a can of fish. H. NJ. Powell, motor company off cial, also greeted Radero."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
TERR. TREAS. RETURNS WITH
 FAMILY FROM IDAHO VISIT

Oscar Olson, Territorial Treas urer accompanied by Mrs. Olson and their small daughters Claire and Carol, were aboard the Yukon Mon day night returning to their home in Juneau from a trip to the states.
 Mrs. Olson and the little girls went south in June to visit her mother in Nampa, Idaho, where MT. Olson joined them about three weeks ago A trip to the famous winter re- sort at Sun Valley. was made just before leaving Idaho.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
NORTH SEA TO TIE UP
 IN SEATTLE FOR REPAIRS

The steamer North Sea, which is expected in port tonight southbound will be tied up at Seattle for re- pairs when she returns. The mOtof- ship Norco will leave Seattle De> cenber 10 in place of the North Sea and will continue on the run for several weeks while the North Sea is out of service.
 Construction of a new bulkhead is included in the repairs to be maue on the North Sea.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
PUBLIC NOTICE

The Town of Wrangell has ex- pended a considerable sum of money for the construction of a garbage ramp for the disposal of garbage.
 Complaints are continually being filed that certain merchants and others persist in throwing their gar, bage and refuse on the beach ad- jacent to the business district and elsewhere within the city limits.
 Public notice is hereby given that further violations of the public health and sanitation regulations will not be tolerated, and such of lenders will be dealt with as the law provides.
 -WRANGELL CITY COUNCIL
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
Lady Wishes To Meet
 "HOnarbel' Alaskan

Written on the stationery of a prominent Seattle notel, was the following letter which was received by the Sentinel this week:
 Nov. 23. 1887 MT Edator, Wrangell Sentinel:
 From time to time I have noticed letters written By Women to Papers In Alaska thinking that the men in Alaska were more Honarbel-were man are man
 De ng an old Alaskan I think they are right unless they have changed good deal since my time In the North.
 I have a friend who is 40 years Old that 1 think goo off, would like to See her meet Some good Honarbel Alaskan. as she Seems not to trust men sine a devirce. Seems Afraid, yet She is very attractive with a good sence of HumOr.
 Seems She has plenty of chances to Go out with men here. But think meby She is Sensitive about her de- v!rce
 wcu'd like her to take a Trip to the North next Spring and She Says She will.
 Would like to hear from Some Good Honarbel man-write me then I could Give her a letter of Intro doc.ion. and meby that way She Could meet Some One to Show her the Town and make the Trip more Interesting.
 fAH "ho- .orbel" Wrangell men in- teses;ed in meeting the lady, may secu '@mo ond address of her friend by calling at the Sentinel or flee
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
;: FISH DOCK NEWS :-
(By AL CRAMER) )

From Nov. l9 to 25 Jennie Eng strom bought from independent fish ermen 7OoU lbs. ol king salmon; on the 26 and 27, AFT lbs; from Nov. 2S to Dec. 2, 3696 lbs.
 Recent shipments by Engstrom have been: North Sea two tierces. Yukon, three tierces. Six tierces will be shipped on the North Sea tonight
 The Boring took 30,OOO lbs Of frozen halibut consigned to the New England tish Company; l4,276 lbs. frozen white salmon for the Con solidated Smoked Fish Co.,, 1900 lbs. NO. , frozen echoes.
 About the middle ol November, c. C. Mundy bought 5000 lbs, of king salmon, six tierces of which were shipped, the rest going to the freezer. The amount of his fish pur- chases since then was not secured. rresent prices are 18-12-9.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
HEAVY DEMAND HERE
 FOR TRAPPING LICENSES

Three hundred and sixty-eight hunting and trapping licenses have been issued by Chas. Benjamin to date this season. Thls is divided in to 219 trapping and 149 hunting liz censes. There are ten more appli- cations on file which will be issued by MT. Benjamin as soon as new receipts arrive.
 The demand for licenses is so much heavier than normal, that re> ceipts have been twice depleted this season.
 The change in open season from December 20 to January 31-an opening and closing date of ten days later than last year-is being well comed by many of the oldtime trap pers, it is reported.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
CITY COUNCIL MAKES CHANGE
 IN OFFICERS

The town council at a special meeting this afternoon made a change sn ity officers. All members of he council were present with the ex- option of Councilman Frederick Cunningham
 J. Dolan. night marshal was
 =s w.th two weeks notice and c. H. Lloyd appointed to take his place. Lloyd. who now receives $I72.50 per month as street and
 =e' commissioner, chief of police and fire chief and also acts as ha1- bor master without pay, the wages -a ths office being paid to his deputy. Bill Vreeland, will retain the same salary but will relinquish duties as street and water commits s.oner.
 To this office the -ouneil ap- pointed G. H. Close. now construc- ticn foreman for the Forest Service. He has a high rating for his effic- ieney and management of crews and his appointment is confidently ex- peeted to meet with general approval in Wrangell
 This afternoon Mir Close rendered his resignation from the Forest Ser vice in order to accept the city ap- pointment. His salary has been fixed for the duration of the Council term at S150.00 per month.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
rTW v1nRv HTTqFSS EN2
 TO VISIT HER ISLAND FOX FARM

Kay Barker, New York heiress, was in Ketchikan Monday states the Chronicle, enroute to Ushagat is
 nd. largest Of the Barren islands, between Kenai peninsula and Ko- diak island. to see how her blue foxes are progressing.
 Several years ago she stocked the island with 31 pairs of the foxes Since then the animals have been free to roam over the small island of 25 square miles and to reproduce. Tt is impossible to guess as to how many foxes I now have on the is lond." she said when asked yester- day.
 Before leaving the states she To some ski boots because she doesn't like to wear the skin boots r-s@ n tho north," but neither does she like cold feet. The boots, she said. will be used most when she goes into interior Alaska.
 Miss Barker owns Ushagat island and has lease on other Reproducing 'slHds. he aid. Some of the fox bus inesses were wished upon me. What I will do with the businesse depends somewhat on what the tock market does" she commented.
 Although New York is her home, Miss Barker is not new to Alaska. She was here for several months in Jo2 She recalled having been in a boat wreek and having been forced down in an airplane while in the Territory
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
CONDITIONS IDEAL
 FOR PELTING ON FOX FARMS

J. G. Smith, Vank island fox farmer. while intown Wednesday stated that he planned to start pelt ing today. fine cold weather last month was fine for fox farmers, he said, and the present dry weather makes conditions ideal for pelting.
 Last year all farmers in this zee ton suffered from the heavy rains and snow that fell just before and all during the pelting season. which caused the fur to mat.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
ALASKA LINERS TO CALL
 AT HAYNES AND SKAGWAY

Effective with the sailing of the steamer Alaska tomorrow, regular steamer laska tomorrow, regular northbound calls will be made every two weeks at Haines and Skagway, the Alaska Steamship company an- nounced this week.
 The stemer Yukon sailing on al- ternate Saturdays from Seattle, will mke the same stops southbound. These direct calls will replace the present shuttle service supplied be- tween Juneau and Skagway by the motorship Silver Wave.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
TWO INDIAN CCC WORKERS
 BURN TO DEATH AT RENAL

Two Indian CCC workers were burned to death at Kena1 on Cook inlet, according to information re- eived by the forest service at Ju- neau this week. No particulars were received.
 The victims were Harry Sunrise 25, ann Larry Wilson, 32.
 Fred Chase, another CCC work. CT in the Juneau area, was badly burned Monday by scalding water while taking shower bath at a nearby CCC camp. He was rushed 0 d Juneua hospital for treatment
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03

Frank p. Barnes. born and reared on the Pacific Coast and Alaska who made his first trip East last june, when he was accepted by Gem eral Electric Co. while a graduate stuueut O. otanlord University re- spouded to the SentineIs request for information regarding his work and impressions of the East in the fol- lowing letter:
 .ly uear Mrs. PriteheJt.
 want to take this opportunity to let You know now very much l app esla,e beng able to read the oeuJInel every week. Your little slo- 54n on the wrapper. Like a Letter from Home, is apt. This is my first experience at really being away nom everybody l know, because while at school, 1 had relatives quite near. But here. I'm practically in a foreign land. so letters from home, and a paper with the intimacy and local interest of the Sentinel helps a lot.
 In spite of what might pass for
 
 times, I'm really getting a thrill out o. lnee,.ng the East. People and things are really different here, al- though 1 won try to say which is yeL,s.. One thing that is very sim liar 10 Alaska is the climate, and the lake country in northern New ork state can make one think of Jne green nils and mountains around Wrangell.
 0Vergrown Version
 So lar I've mad only one excursion down to the Big City-New York but l intend to get down occasionally this winter. New York City is about l75 miles from here, so it isn't like committing in from a suburb. liked the city a great deal, but it to me as really being only an oyergrown version of Seattle or San Francisco Before storming the walls, so to speak, 1 was little in awe Of it, but after a successful ex- cursion with no accidents, I'm sure 1t will be all right to try it agaIn. Incidentally, my partner in the met ropOlitan soiree was Miss Helen Hunter. We thought that it was quite a world that would bring us together in one Of the smallest towns and then again in the largest metro polls in the world.
 25,000 Employees
 l am tremendously enjoying my work with the General Electric Go. I was amazed at the size of thel plant here, and as I studied corpor ate stru lures, was even more amaz- ed at its widespread influence. In! schenectady, there are about 25,00OI employees, which is quite a many In fact this city comes very close to being a one industry town. The only thing that saves it from shat is the local plant of the American Locomotive Works. 1 have heard that General Electric owns control ling interest in that. It's strange, but the company is so complex that even my instructor in the business class doesn't seem to know just what is included in G. E. I sometimes wonder if the Board of Directors do. Besides the plant here, there are others in Pittsfield, Mass, Bridge port, Conn.,, Lynn, and West Lynn, Mass, Bloomfield, N. J., Philadel-
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03
WRANGELL BOY WRITES IMPRESSION
 OF EAST AND WORK WITH GEN. ELEC.

phia, Pa, Fort Wayne, Ind, and Oakland, Cal. Then there are plants known as decentralized units, which are directly owned by c. E. but have their oHu managerial staff. Such as G. E. I-ray Corporation in Chicago, and the G E. Mazda Lamp Works in Cleveland, ohio. Then the company owns substantial interests in a number of companies manufae- turing switches. small motors. insul- tors, and the like. The General FL el,r.c Company proper does business 70 the extent Of about four hundred million dollars annually, so you can see that it is really big business.
 Fair Labor Policy
 | believe l can be impartial and say the policy of the company to- wards its labor is a very fair one. The wages are asOnable-forty hours a week with no work on Sat uruay or Sunday-and in the almost five months I've been here, there mas been no labor unrest at all. The ClO nave a very slight majority ac- cording to an election. There is lit tle the union could find to get mili- .aut a0out here Working and safety conditions are ideal, there is no aspeed-up", wages are higher than any comparative company, hours are reasonably short. The companys at titude is that CIO is a necessary eY- il, and the best way to combat it is to not let it have any grounds for a quarrel. IL seems to be working so lar
 Testing Department
 .ly EO.n IUr this year consists of spending two or three months in various typical departments of the pant, My Job, along with the others like myself is to test equipment which has come from the assembly department, and before it is sent to ule customer. My first three months were spent testing high-yoltage equ4 pment such as circuit-breakers, fuses, and insulatOrs. It was very spectacular, TOT we went to vol tages as high as 230.0O0 Currently I am in a Vacuum-tube test, where we test tubes tor broadcast and in dustrIal use, as we'll as mercury-va DOT tank rectifiers. In about six weeks, l shall probably go over 10 the motors and generators depart ment wnere are made the big mach ines used III the electric power plants and big steel mills of the country.
 Night Glasses
 At the sam time, l go to classes three nights a week, obtaining in- struction in Business Administration Electrical Engineering, and Advanc- ed Sales Technique. All are very in teresting being taught from a more practical standpoint than that given in a university.
 Next year 1 will go into the Design Engineering Department, and the following year into the General Off, flee. All the time, l will have to at tend classes. At the end of that time, I'll be ready to be sent to a District Office-one on the Pacific Coast, l am hoping.
 I think I had better stop now. but lots of luck for a successful season, including a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
 FRANK BARNES.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03

Tuesday night jail services at the Federal jail were started this week by Evangelist Edna M. Wal lace of the assembly of God, Mrs. Berta Vaughn and Mrs. Leo 0ster- man. who plan to continue the ser vices during the winter.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-12-03

Taking passage on the Princess Norah south Sunday were Mrs. Der ia Vaughn, Mrs. John Coulter, Ed Eordland, W. Strong, K Skuggihik. all fer Seattle