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The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
NATION FACES
 POSSIBILITY OF
 HIGHER TAXES

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The big. unexplained drop in estimated rev enues has postponed until next year at least, the long sought goal-a bal anced federal budget-of the Roos- evelt administration.
 A revised budget statement es- inmates at $695,0O0,000 the net de- ficit for the fiscal year ending next June 30. The President said today that with the inclusion of debt re- tirement, the deficit will be $S95,- OOO,OOO.
 He re-emphasized his determlnl- tion to retrench. He said that DO further commitments will be made by the Reconstruction Finance cor pOration or public works admins tration in recent statements regard ing community chest drives.
 He said, "Unless federal taxes are to be greatly increased. expendi- lures will have to be brought with in existing tax receipts"
 This statement, together with budget figures. again raised the dis cussion of possible tax increases des- pite recent administration assur- ances that there will be none.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
GUILD TO HOLD HALLOWEEN
 SALE AND TEA AT ELKS HALL

St. Philips Guild will give a silver tea and gift sale at Elks nall Sat urday afternoon, October 30, ac- cording to plans made at a special meeting Wednesday evening. The hours will be from 2:30 to 5.
 The Halloween season will be emphasized in the tea and arrange ments. A program of vocal and in- strumental numbers under the dt- rection of Mrs. John Coulter will be given during the afternoon and at four o'clock a comforter and a pair of hand embroidered pillow slips will be given away. These ar- ticles will be on display in down town stores during the week.
 The sale tables will contain a limited number of stuftie animals and dolls suitable for gifts and 3 table of wrapped articles or white elephants" will appeal to those whC JoVe a surprise.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
ClOSterman Believed
 Drowned In Bradfield

Roy Lindsley and Clyde Weber who were authorized by the Com missioner's office last week to in- stitute a search for 4. J. Closter- man missing since October 10th at Bradfield river, returned today with the report that no trace could he found except for a few tracks along the river identified as correspond- ing to the cleats of the shoes he had been wearing.
 Without question the unfortunate man was drowned while attempting to ford the Bradfield in an effort 10 avoid packing supplies over steep bluffs encountered on the way Up the river to his trapping camp.
 Closterman came to Wrangell about a year ago. Commissioner SuI- att this afternoon is conducting an investigation to ascertain where his relatives live so that they may be notified of his untimely death.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
WING FAMILY RETURNS
 FROM MIG DANES PROPERTIES

Mir. and Mrs. D. L. Wing and son Walter returned to Wrangell on the Alaska Tuesday afternoon from their placer properties at McDames in the Cassiar.
 On Thursday of last week they flew from Nc Danes to Carcrnss where they talked by radio phone to Joel Wing, through an amateur set at Carcross and Leo Osterman's set at Wrangell. From Carcross they went by train to Skagway and at that point boarded the Silver Wave for Juneau where steamer cOnnec- tions were made with the Alaska.
 Despite the various modes of transportation employed to reach home, the trip was in pleasane cor- trast to the ones they have made out in previous years by way of Tel egraph Creek.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
HIGH PRICE CANNED SALMON BRINGS LAG IN SALES THIS FALL

Higher wholesale prices on Can ned Salmon necessitated by increas- ed packing costs last year are res ponsible for the lag in packers salmon sales this fall, Humphrey o. Roberts, of Uganik Fisheries, declar- ed today while discussing the Oc- tober 1st report of unsold stocks is- sued by the Association of Pacific Fisheries. This report showed a total of 3,931,495 cases unsold on the first of this month as compared with only 2,793,555 cases on the same date last year Last year was a record sales year, a total of g. 652,000 cases having been sold in the twelve months ending July first.
 Sales in the three months end- ing October first are only about half what they were a year ago." Roberts said. This situation, while it is not yet a threatening one, de- finitely shows that prices to the con sumer cannot be constantly increas- ed without having a decided infiu- ence on sales The increased cost of fish and higher wages for labor have forced the price of both pink and red salmon about 25 percent higher than last year. Moreover, a smaller pack to carry the fixed costs of cannery operation has added to the cost per case. This has worked a special hardship on the small op- orators, but all packers must get these higher prices if they are so- ing to stay in business. And they cannot get more than consumers are willing to pay"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
EASTERN STARS HOLD SOCIAL
 MEETING FOR MASoNS, WIVES

Invitations to Masons and their wives were extended by the East ern Star Monday night for a bridge party following the regular meet ing of the chapter.
 For the occasion the lodge room had been decorated with bowls of autumn flowers by the social com mittee whose members for the eve ming, Mrs. I. c. Bjorge, Mrs. T. Me Bride and Miss Harding, who serv- ed a delicious lunch following the bridge games. Prizes for high scores were received by Mrs. O. Gunderson and E. C. Anderson and consolationG by Miss Margaret Weightman and Tony Saari.
 The evening ended with an i'm promptu musical and entertainment program in which Mrs. Meadows Mrs. John Holpe, Mrs. Osterman and Miss Harding took part. Mrs. John Coulter furnished piano music for daHeSng.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
Miller Transferred
 North Dakota Post

Charles W. Miller, director for the past three years of Wrangell In- stitute, received word on Thurs day of last week apprising him of his transfer to the Fort Berthold Indian Agency, North Dakota, and asking him to leave at once for Lis new appointment.
 The Student Council, Of their own initiative, asked permission to givo a farewell dinner for MT. and Mrs. Miller. This was granted and under the supervision Of Miss Gauger, tua Council, with the senior girls sery- ing from Miss McNeills apartment, at Staff House. gave a farewell ban quet with all members Of the staff present.
 Speeches made by Stanley PeraJ- oyich. Lawrence Larsen, Patricia Anderson and Frieda Davis, convey ed for the entire student body, deep est affection for MT. and Mrs. Mll- Ter, gratitude and appreciation of their work in the school and genuine regret at their departure. Mr. Mil Ter responded for himself and Mrs. Miller and the dinner ended with the singing of Aud Lang Syne by all present.
 Following the dinner members of the staff presented MT. and Mrs. Miller with set of mastodon iy- ory book ends. George Silver, whose tenure at Wrangeu Institute is longer than that of any other staIf member, made the presentation speech.
 Mr. and Mrs. Miller took passage on the Canadian liner Princess Nor ah Monday night for Vancouver, B. C., from which point they will drive to Seattle and thence to their new post
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
Ketchikan Men Lose Big
 Sums Gambling Houses

One business man was taken ter a ride" at a fulI-blast gambling game in a Ketchikan downtown place last week for about 5000, and a government official for the same amount according to the Fish ing News. Another resident who had saved $500 working at a cannery for his winter stake lost it.
 Black Jack and 4-5-6 were going full force, with the money stacked up in "cells", but nothing less than a quarter, just like in good old gam bling days.
 In another place in Indian Town gambling has been going on. It is reported that in neither place was any one barred all they had to do was to walk in, plank down their money and "be taken to the clean. CTS" sooner or later, usually soOn- CT.
 It is said the police finally "got on" to the game and issued tha same old ''edict' about poker, black jack and 4-5-6 not being allowed Meantime, "gentlemen" are allowed to meet in some of the back room places and play among themselves.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
PASSENGER LISTS

The Northland, whose regular Friday morning sailing from Seat tie was delayed until Sunday morn- ing, arrived in port here Wednes day. Taking passage from Wrangeil for ports north were Mrs. P. N. Roach and two sons, Miss Five Brood, Lillie Brood, and Dr. Rae L. Carlson for Juneau, Miss Margaret Weightman and Father Monroe for Petersburg.
 Passengers boarding the Alaska southbound Tuesday for Seattle in- cluded w. P. Sieverts, Helmer SteD- strom, Reuben Conner, Chas. Moore, J. E. Fisher, Mrs. Georgia Clark and eight steerage for Seattle, Ethel and Betty Hudson for Ketchikan.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
North Wind Chartered
 Air Clipper Service

J. A. Beck, mate on the North Sea of the Northland Transports tion Company, announced on his southbound trip Friday night that he has been transferred to command on the freighter North Wind for a three-months trip to the South Seas.
 Upon his arrival at Seattle he was to leave immediately on the North Wind which again has been char tered by Pan American Airways to carry gasoline and provisions to sup ply stations for the Trans Pacific flying clippers.
 The North Wind last year was in service south and west from San Francisco with supplies and acted as standby vessel at Kingman reel, halfway between San Francisco and New Zealand. for more than a month. On this years schedule it will be required to make but one trip from San Francisco and will go west to Honolulu, Midway and Wake islands and Guam.
 The four-masted sailing schooner, Margaret F. Sterling, idle for many years, was recently bought by a sub sidiary of Pan American, renamed Four Winds and rehabilitated for service at Kingman reef for the air clippers.
 The North Haven, in Pacific freighter service last year, is low on the east coast after having ma le the trip through te Panama Canal with a cargo of 218,000 cases of AL askan canned salmon loaded in Al aska for delivery at various ports between Charleston, South Carolina and Boston.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
DEPARTMENT
 UALLS ALAS.
 AIRMAIL BIDS

The Post Office Department an nounced Monday that it will re- ceiye bids at Washing on, D. C.. on December 15 for two Far North air mail routes.
 One of the air mail routes will be from Juneau to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. a distance of 16S miles and the other will be from Fair banks, Alaska. to Whitehorse, a dis tance of 492 miles.
 The Post Office Department said the two routes are the first leg of a trunk Line air mail route fro1a Fairbanks to Juneau into the Uni ted States.
 Contracts will be let for three years and the successful bidders will be required to begin operations not later than six months after the con- tracts are awarded.
 The Juneau-Fairbanks air mail service will have once a week round trip schedules and will connect at Juneau with the mail and passen- ger steamers from Seattle.
 Post Office Department officials said it is hoped that within the next year or two a route will be es- tablished from some point in the United States proper to connect with Juneau or Whitehorse.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
Jury Says Buyer Mine
 Prospects Is Insane

Robert Robinson. who arrived in Valdez several months ago, and ere ated quite a bit of mining excite ment when he bought up all the mines and prospects about town for which the owners would take jaw bone for pay, left on the Alaska as a stowaway, and was taken off the boat at CoTdova.
 His actions were so peculiar he was examined by pr. w. H. Chase and found insane by jury, and ordered committed to an asylum.
 Dr. Chase said that while Robin son was ont violent, he was extrem- ely irrational and had many fixed delusions which might lead to vIo- lence. A telegram from a Washing ton institution stated that he had previously been confined there for ''maniacaI depressive psychosis."
 While in Valdez Robinson carried a small howitzer in his hip pocket, which he was fond of exhibiting when arguments did not suit him. He bought everything he could buy on credit, and would have soon owned the town had he not taken a yen for the Outside, says the Valdez Miner.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
LIGHT SERVICE INTERRUPTED
 TO WRANGELL INSTITUTE

Electric service from the city light plant to Wrangell Institute was interrupted yesterday afternoon when light poles up the beach along Wrangell Highway were broken down by drift wood thrown against them by the high tide and wind. The Institute, left without light or heat, met the problem of feeding the students by serving a bountiful picnic supper, breakfast and lunch today The break was expected to be today. The break was expected to be fixed by early this afternoon.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
PRIZES GALORE OFFERED FOR HARD TIMES DANCE

Forty spot prizes, a door prize ol a fine quality white shirt and neck tie, three prizes for the girls selling the most tickets and prizes for the couple garbed in the best hard times costume, are among the inducements offered by the Cannery Workers dance tomorrow night.
 Music will be furnished by SIX piece orchestra with intermissiOn numbers by a Filipino string orches- tra, the latter music being donated for the occasion.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
LOFTUS : zUvER

Miss Vera Beatrice ZuYer, and MT. Manuel Loftus were united Tn marriage Wednesday night, October 21, at the home of the groom's sis ter, Mrs. Frank Churchill. The cer- emony was performed by Judge Richard Suratt in the presence of ] large number of friends.
 The bride is the charming young daughter of Al zuver, West Island fox farmer. The groom was born in Wrangell and is the youngest son of the late Pat Loftus. He owns the seine boat Junior B which he is now using as a fish packer.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
PORTABLE BAPTIsTRY BUILT
 FOR ASSEMBLY BAPTISMs

A portable watertight baptistry, 3 feet deep. 5 1s feet long and 90 inches wide, was constructed this week by W. J. Wallace and will be used Sunday night for what is said to be the first baptisms by inner sion in Wrangell, in services at Redmen's Hall by the Assembly of God, Brother Gum officiating. It Is planned to baptize the women con- verts Sunday night and the men at a later meeting.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
PRINCESS NORAH COMES
 FOR YUKON PASSENGERS

The Princess Norah which ;h5 Canadian Pacific sent on a special trip to Skagway to pick up passeI- gers from the Yukon who could not obtain transportation on the Louise, called in port at Wrangell south bound Monday afternoon. The trip north was made without passengers, and was a ships cruise of the 65 members of the crew.
 The only stop northbound was to clear customs at Ketchikan, but tle regular ports of call were made southbound.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
JUNEAU NOT TO PARTICIPATE
 IN EXPOSITION AT SEATTLE

The Juneau chamber of commerce last week turned down the request of Seattle to participate in the Al askan Way dedication celebration in the Puget sourd city.
 The chamber had been asked to sponsor an exhibit and contribute ti- nancial support. After considerable discussion, the chamber decided the value of participation in such a eel ebration was not sufficient to war rant another drain on local meI- chants" The Juneau Empire says.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
CANNERY WORKERS BALLOT
 FOR DELEGATE LABOR UNION

Members of the Wrangell cannery workers union balIoted this week Jc choose a delegate to the Alaska La bor Convention which meets in Ju- neau on November 16.
 Placed in nomination at last Sun days meeting were Charles Sadler Don Miller and Gertrude Halyorsen, The ballot box will be opened at a special meeting next Sunday after noon.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22

Recent passengers on the Silver Wave, of the Dahl Transportation Company some years ago, is the Pur- Juneau have met two oldtimers who used to live in Wrangell. Chas. West freight clerk for Mccormack Dock Company some years ago, is the pur ser on the Silver Wave. Martin Dahl, fish buyer in Wrangell many years age, is the skipper.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
MINER SAYS GOVT NEGLECT RETARDS DEVELOPMENT DEASE DIST. PLACERS

D. W. Harrington. who for the past eighteen months has been ln- vestigating the mineral possibilities of the Dease lake district, which in cludes the Little Muddy in the Gas siar, took passage on the Canadian Pacific liner Princess Louise Sat urday night for his home in Van couver.
 Mir. Harrington went into the Klondike in 1897. From 1903 10 1926 he followed placer mining in the Fairbanks and other interior AL aska camps. With over 30 years of placer experience he stated while in Wrangell that his impression of the Dease district is that it is one of the most highly mineralized and richest gold zones he has seen in the North. He deplores the fact that it has been so greatly neglected by the Canadian government.
 Reports Misleading
 Government mining engineers have done much to retard develop ment in the Little Muddy" said Mr. Harrington, flor their general reports have been very misleading to the public. Their assertion that the district has been extensively prospected in the past by old pros pectors is entirely false and a great detriment to the country as an in vestor whose attention has been cal led to the district on reading these reports naturally would be adversely influenced"
 Instead of having been extensive ly prospected, Harrington declares it is only the exceptional valley which has been bedrocked Valley after valley" he says. "even between Dease Lake and Boulder looks prom ising but has never been bedrock ed"
 Improper Testing Methods
 He contends that the only way 10 prove gold values in these valleys, on account of water running through the gravels to bedrock, is to run drainage to bedrock. He cites instances where incorrect investiga- tion ha sblocked development: holes have been sunk two or three feet and on encountering water have been abandoned; In one instance using Keystone drills, a hole was sunk to bedrock, then jumped 200 feet for another test hole, and then down the valley a mile and half or two miles where two or three more holes were sunk after which the valley was condemned.
 This he holds to be manifestly unfair and deems it nothing short of tragic that so much of the Cas- siar has been given a poor name in mining circles by men, some of whom were engineers for private companies, because their drill rel ports were misleading due to faulty testing.
 Checkerboarding Valley
 Harrington maintains that theI correct way to test for the coarseI gold of that district is to sink onI the start every 50 feet across the valley until the heavier concentra- tions are struck then sink in be- tween these various drill holes to determine the values of the channel. In cases of coarse gold where there is crevice gold in the bedrock he holds that it is necessary to check erboard the valley.
 What I find" he stated" is that
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22

Mrs. John Adams became the mother Saturday night at Bishop Rowe General Hospital of a daugh- ter whose weight was pounds T ounces. She has, been named Myrna according to the birth certificate filed In She CGnsRissigRaE'R 0EASsa.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22

the only creeks and valleys where mineral has been discovered are the small canyon creeks on which Na- ture was good enough to leave parts of high channel benches during the cutting of the valley; the gold was left on rims of these high benches for a very short distance but it was easy for the prospector to find. Those are the only creeks and bencnes gold has been recovered from.
 First Glacial Enrichment
 These small creeks in which gold has been recovered have headings close to much larger valleys which head into the same mountains. My impression is that the one and only enrichment in that district was placed in the present valleys during the first glacier period and water action and was cut from one of rhe richest mineral zones in the North, the valleys being cut practically to their present depth during that period"
 This is proved MT Harrington believes, at various valleys by the enrichment being found in a water wash above bedrock with, in many cases, a very heavy and deep de- posit Of clay above what he consid- CTS a still water deposit. On top Of this deposit lies a bar wash and above that glacier crush placed there during the second glacier per iod which cut from a very barren zone, leaving a heavy oyerburden of glacier crush above the original channels in which he believes the mineral lies.
 Theory Tested
 His theory was tested successfully by Pete Jorgenson last year on Dease creek where for several years Jorgenson had worked the high bench channels with poor recovery. When he abandoned the bench and sank into the channel 60 feet be- low, very rich ground was found. The rims are simply signpost, says Harrington, of naturalization lying in the deeper channel below the rim.
 Praises Courage
 To the prospectors valiantly strag- gling to develop their properties in this district Harrington gives un- stinted praise for courage in he face of so many discouraging fac tors. Failure of the Govern ment to provide even a trail results in almost prohibttive freight prieesI for the necessities of life. The couL l try cannot be developed much more, he says, without lower cost of pro- duction.
 He believes that the added reve- nues from opening up the minerali-I zation of the district would pay the Government many times over Tor extending aid and making 1t possible for more prospectors to enter the country.
 That the naturalization is there is proved by Jack Wheaton and Per cy Peacock on Boulder creek, a tri- butary of Little Muddy and by the discovery of the 53-ounce and small CT nggets by MT. and Mrs. Vern Shea on Alice creek, a tributary of Boulder. And these, he says, are just two of the many valleys from Dease creek to the. Muddy, of great prom ise.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-10-22
NOTICE

Beginning with Oct. 18th delivery the price of milk will be advanced from 1914 cents to IA cents a quart NOHEsS DAIRY.
Evening star., 1937-12-02
7 v. MOVES HEADS.
GROUP 3DTH T|ME|
Elected President of Oldest
Inhabitants-WiII Ban
quet Tuesday.

Theodore w. Noyes, editor Of The
Evening Star, was elected president of
the Association of Oldest Inhabitants
Of the District Of Columbia last night
for the thirtieth time.
All other officers were reelected at
the annual meeting at Old Union
Engine House and plans were an
nounced for the annual dinner of the
association to be held Tuesday night
ut the Raleigh Hotel.
The other officers named for another
year included l3 vice presidents, as fol-
lows: John Clagett Proctor, Christian
Heurich, Charles A. Langley, George
Spransey, Fred A. Emery. Joseph I.
Keefer. John R. Mahoney, John B.
Dickman, Elra c. Palmer, Walter E.
Allen. Jesse c. Suter, E. w. Zea and
G. I. Dietrich; and these other officers
j. Eliot Wright, recording secretary
treasurer; William E. Wise, assistant
recording secretary; James F. Duha-
mel, corresponding secretary: John R.
Mahoney. financial secretary; Harry A.
Burr, marshal; Mr. Proctor, chronicler:
Mr.. Duhamel and Mr.. Proctor, dele
gates to the Federation of Citizens
Associations
Mr.. Noyes was placed in nomination
to succeed himself by Mr. Emery, who
praised him as prince of the civic
leaders of Washington"
Civic Record Praised.
There is no man in the history OF
Washington" declared Mr.. Emery
'in whom the people have greater
confidence. There is no greater rec
ord in civic, patriotic work here than
that Of our president. There is nc
man for whom we have more affec.
tionate regard. No man has more
prestige for the splendid work he has
done for the District of Columbia. y
In seconding the nomination, Mr.
Proctor recalled that many years age
Mr.. Noyes had attempted to resign
but the association had declined tt