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The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
York Leaves Wrangell
 Thru ChichagOf Pass

Making Wrangell her only port of call while in Alaska, the British cruiser H. Nj. S. York left here at 30 Friday night She made an im- pressiye picture as she steamed down the harbor for Chichagof Pass enroute to Victoria, instead of go- ing out the usual steamship lanes After her stay in Victoria she will go back to Vancouver and to Esqui- mault and Comox. The York is on a four months cruise and will return to her base in Bermuda in Septem. Der.
 The York was invited to come to Juneau by Governor Troy but 1t was impossible to accept the invitation because of the limited time in AL askan waters and on Friday morn. ing, Vice-Admiral Meyrick sent his official regrets and conveyed his respects to the Governor by plane The four-place Vickers amphibiar landed at Gastineau Channel at II o'clock, Juneau time, with Lieuten ants A A Murray and R. R. Wood and returned here at 4 o'clock just as Wrangell guests were going aboard the York for the tea which the officers gave from to 5:30.
 This social hour given just before the departure of the cruiser was 2 very enjoyable affair. The after deck was enclosed along the sides with canvas and canopied overhead Flags and flowers from local gar dens added touches of color and ar orchestra furnished music for those who wished to dance. Tea tables filled one end of the spacious deck and later, those who wished to gC were taken around the ship for { tour of inspection. Earlier in tht day, MT. and Mrs. Leo Mccormack Mayor Van Fisk and Mrs. Johnson were luncheon guests of the Vice Admiral and Lady Meyrick and Cap tain H. E. Morse aboard ship.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29

withhold any further action but said that he would Hike to see the relic restored if it does not inter fere with the new building"
 Leo Mccormack stated that "the dimensions precluded any other pos sible location than the federal re- serve unless bids were entered joint ly by property owners He said James Connors was in favor of the new building being erected on the federal grounds and many others wanted it there.
 Delegate Dimond said particu- larly for us not to interpose any ob- jectiOn to any site selected" MT Mccormack continued. He drew at tention to the fact that Wrangell has twice before been on the tor of the Alaska list for federal building. The first time it's place was lost because Nome burned and federal building money had to be transferred there. The next time, he said, Sitka burned and the money was used to replace the building al Sitka. Mir. Mccormack said he be lieved that Wrangell should move very cautiously "as even Santa Claus would get discouraged if hs found too many obstacles in his wa, down the ehizsnsy~
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
MISS BENDER RETURNS FROM
 ATTENDING INSTITUTE

Miss Dorothy Bender. Public health nurse for Wrangell, returned from Juneau this week after at tending a nursing institute, held daily from g a. m. to noon and from ? until o'clock for a week. Public Health nurses from Ketchi- kan and Sitka, field nurses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from out lying districts, private nurses and institutional nurses were also in attendance, invited to the sessions by pr. Sonia Cheifetz, director of Maternal and Child Health. The in structor was Miss Anita Jones of the Maternity Center, New York, and the course was sponsored by the Territorial Department of Health.
 Before coming to Juneau Miss Jones conducted an institute at An chorage with 30 nurses in atten- dance. The Juneau session was at- tended by 35 and was declared the most beneficial and successful course in health ever presented in Alaska. Lectures and demonstrations featured the five-day instruction period of the maternity institute and Miss Jones left Juneau for her work in New York on the s. 5. Robert last Saturday.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
Ellen Repp Concert
 Delights Audience

Coming here early Monday eve ming from Petersburg, Ellen Repp, contralto, sang later that night to small but enthusiastic gathering at the Presbyterian Church and left on the Aleutian at midnight for Ketchikan where she was to ap- pear in concert Tuesday night with Marsden Brooks, cellist.
 Miss Repp's program was varied and divided into four groups. Her powerful, deep-toned voice showed the study and practice which have occupied her hours in her prepar- ation for the career on which she is embarking, and her friends who heard her on her last Alaska visit are surprised at the improvement she has made The tuneful and gay old English songs; the beloved aria from Samson and Delilah; the Greig songs which are her speciality; the expressive rendition of the Monrad Johansen nursery songs; Thrane's Norwegian Echo Song where the surprising volume of her sustained notes contrasted with the sweetness of the echo; the lovely melodies of the mature" group; Annie Laurie, Last Rose of Summer and Danny Boy-all won applause that showed the enjoyment she was giving those who had come to hear her.
 Miss Repps aceompanist was her sister Mrs. Gene Torkilson of Peters burg, whose sympathetic work at the piano added much to the pleas ure of the occasion.
 An impromptu finish to the enjoy able evening was given when Mrs. Torkilson by request gave two dia- lect readings. following the con- gratulatory expressions of the friends who had remained to bid the sisters goodbye. Miss Repp was presented with a beautiful bouquet of delphinium, daisies and peonies from the H. D. Campbell gardens upon her departure She was ac. companied to Ketchikan by Mrs Torkilson who returned to Peters burg on the Alaska. On Wednesday night, Miss Repp with Marsder Brooks, cellist and Basha Hendee Brooks, pianist, gave program oy' CT KGBU which was heard by 8 number of Wrangell people.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
ARMY ENGINEERS MAKE
 OFFICIAL VISIT TO ALASKA

Colonel John C. Lee of Portland, Oregon, divisional engineer for the north Pacific division of army en- gineers, came north on the Colum- bia this week to investigate the needs of rivers and harbors projects in Alaska. He is accompanied by Mrs. Lee and James Truitt of the army engineers office in Seattle.
 Flood control projects at Seward and Fairbanks will be investigated by Colonel Lee on his way to Nome. At Wrangell he conferred briefly with Mayor Van H. Fisk, E. M. Campbell and F. S. Barnes relative to harbor improvement here.
 Not having been notified that Colonel Lee would be aboard the Columbia, the Wrangell men found it impossible to gather on such short notice the information he desired. He will be in Wrangell southbound on the Aleutian on August g at which time the harbor improvement sought by Wrangell will be pres ented in detail.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
WAR MEDAL
 AWARDED TO
 A.W.H. SMITH

An occasion so unusual that it can never be repeated here occurred early last Tuesday morning aboard the Canadian Pacific liner Princess Alice when A. W. H. Smith of the Harrington Transportation company was presented with the Military Cross awarded him in the World War.
 The presentation. a complete sur prise at this time to Mr Smith, was made at 4:30 in the morning by Mrs. George Black. member of the House Of Commons from the Yukon Territory who, with Mr. Black, was enroute to Dawson. Y. T. Mrs. Black made a beautiful and touching pres entation speech and presented the cross in true military fashion .in the name of the King" British and American flags and the ships flag were draped back of the table where the impressive ceremony took place and at which were Mrs. Black, Mir. Smith and Captain Grey of the Alice. Other witnesses were ships officers, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. S. c. Bar rington and Captain and Mrs. w. H Burlington.
 MT. Smith enlisted in the World War from the Yukon Territory, in the Canadian Railroad Troups No. 10, and left Dawson with the Gov ernor Black contingent. He was a. warded the Military Cross for dis tinguished service overseas. A lieu tenant at the time, he rose to the rank of captain before the end of the war He was twice wounded.
 When the Prince of Wales, noFe the Duke of Windsor, visited Canada shortly after war, the cross would have been presented if Captain Smith could have journeyed to Ot- tawa but he was in the North at the time, and no other opportunity has presented itself since then. Through a conversation which Mrs. Smith had with MT. Black last year, interest in the matter was aroused, the cross was received from London, and the very impressive ceremony which took place this week was the result.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29

The Wrangell chapter of the in having a visit from Mrs. Anna w. Smalley, most Worthy Grand Matron of the General Grand Chap ter, Order of the Eastern Star, the highest world office in the organi- zation. Mrs. Smalley was aceompan- jed by her husband, T. E. Smalley. who is a Past Grand Patron of the state of Montana. MT. Smalley join ed his wife at Fairbanks, after she had visited Ketchikan, Petersburg and Dawson chapters.
 Mrs. Smalley was elected to her office at the triennial Grand assem- bly at Indianapolis in September of last year, and has been travelling the greater part of the time since No vember. She has already visited grand chapters in 19 states, the Ca nal Zone, Mexico, Cuba, Yukon Ter ters She has yet to visit others in Hawaii, the Philippines, China Scotland, Prince Edward Island, Porto Rico, Nova Scotia and Can ada. More than two million East ern Stars are represented in the memberships under her jurisdiction, Mrs. Smalley stated.
 Early in September Mrs. Smalley will sail on the Empress of Asia for Ch6aa. Rsonz tA9se Rh4 win gontfn8s
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
Fed. Bldg Not To Be
 Constructed This Year

Delegate Dimond in a radiogram sent Tuesday rom Anchorage to Mayor Van H. Fisk in reference tc the new federal building for Wran- gell for winch he secured an ap- propriation of S275,0O0 for a site and building stated:
 The following telegram from my secretary at Washington is self-ex- planatory:
 The procurement division ad- yises that bids for the acquisition Of a site only for the Wrangell fed eral building is advertised to be opened August 11th. Then an en- gineer's topographic survey is to be made and architects plans drawn before bids for construction will be called for
 Am further advised that prob ably nothing can be done this year in the line of construction.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
.:FISH DOCK NEWS:-
(By Al Cramer)

In the past two weeks the ARB Company has made the following shipments: Columbia, July IS, 2307 lbs. of salmon; Northland, July 22, 529 lbs. salmon, Is tierces mildcure kings, tierces silyers, 1152 cases of salmon; Aleutian, July 25, II tierces mild cure kings, 40 tierces silyers.
 On July IT, the ARB No. 10 took 7942 sockeyes and 97 echoes to l4llnee Rupert. On July 21, the ARB No. took 5838 sockeyes and 194 echoes to Prince Rupert.
 The Wrangell Cold Storage in the past two weeks made the following purchases: 9700 lbs. halibut, 400 bs. halibut and 730 lbs. halibut, all ..t and Az.
 Salmon for the canneries so far have not shown up to expectations and fishermen feel somewhat dis outraged as a number of scout boats nave been in out lying districts and report no fish.
 For the past week trollers report that there was little squirt of sill yers along the Coronation island shores and Sumner straits at Pole Anchorage and Point Baker. Other places do not show up so good.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
BIOLOGICAL SURVEY TO ENLARGE ITS
 WORK PREDATORY ANIMAL CONTROL

The Alaska Game Commission boat Grizzly Bear called in port yesterday with Hosea Sarber, wildlife agent and Stanley P. Young. chief of the division of predatory animal con trol of the Biological Survey, aboard.
 MT Young with another biologi- cal survey scientist. Victor B. schef- fer. left Seattle on the Brown Bear They were met at Ketehikan by Mr. Sarber to whose boat Mr Young transferred MT. Seheffler proceeded on the Brown Bear to the Aleutians to continue a survey started in 1a35 in an effort to correct the bird-fox conflict in the islands and to study preservation of sea otter to the westward.
 In southeastern Alaska Mr Young is primarily concerned in the study Of wolf control. The biological sur Yey which has a cooperative ar rangement with the Alaska game commission plans to enlarge its eff forts in predatory control.
 Predators Increasing
 Wolves are increasing in south eastern Alaska and coyotes which for some years have been steadily moving down the Stikine will soon be working on the islands unless stopped
 Mr. Young said that reduction of predators will be accomplished through more intensive work by trappers and hunters. He indicated that the biological survey will send experts into this area to instruct trappers in the most effective meth ods to trap wolves.
 Accompanied by Mrs. Young and their daughter, MT Young left his Washington headquarters on July II. Enroute to Seattle he stopped at Poeatello, Idaho. and inspected the work at the biological surveys supply depot on which s10O,000 has been spent recently to enlarge its facilities.
 After reaching Juneau it is his
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
PAA To Start Flights
 Seattle-Juneau Soon

Pan American Airways has an nounced 1t will start experimental transport flights on the projected overseas route between Seattle and Juneau beginning Aug. s. The first flight will be made by a 10-ton s. korsky amphibian by authority of the United States department of commerce.
 The "baby clipper which nor mally carries 15 passengers on in- ter-island routes to the West h. dies and South America has been assigned only for the first experi- mental flights.
 It is to be equipped with special engineering gear for technical and weather research It will carry neither cargo nor passengers at the start The plane will carry a basic crew of live men: a captain. first officer, navigator, flight engineer, and radio operator. all of them pi- lots.
 Engineers estimate that it will be feasible to set up a 7-hour sched- ule between Seattle and Juneau. The distance is about 1000 miles, The initial flight base will be the naval air station in Lake Washington.
 Eventually, Pan American plans weekly service between Seattle and Juneau Announcement has been made that the huge four-motored land stratosphere planes now build ing in Seattle will be used even tually for the Alaskan service. How ever, adequate fields in Alaska will be necessary before the new planes can be pressed into service.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
Story Of Wrangell
 Told In Club Edition

The Club Edition Of the Alaska Press which is published by the Ju- neau Women's Club each year was issued last Sunday and available copies are in the possession of local club women for distribution or may be purchased at the library.
 As usual, this edition is full of interesting articles from various sec tions of Alaska. as well as a record Of the candidates for reelection to the Territorial Legislature and a sketch Of many of the new candi- dates. including Wrangell's Frank Barnes.
 An article on the activities of the Alaska Department of tne American Legion; "The Intimate Story of Al aska Salmon" by Dorothy Barono- yich of Ketchikan; Silver Gla- moura by Harriet Williamson who has raised more silver foxes since she began that work than any other woman in Alaska or in the states; Gardening in Alaska. Federation news and many other feature stories make up a collection of most inter esting reading matter.
 Of especial local value is the re- port of the Civic Club and an lis torical article, City of Three Flags Still Lives Proudly, story of Wrangell by Mrs. NJ. o. Johnson.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
Wrangell Chapter O.E.S. Honored
 By Visit High Official

on to Scotland, to return to the States on the Queen Mary next spring. Her term of office expires in 1940 during the 23d triennial session of the o. E. S. which will convene in San Francisco. Twenty thousand Eastern Star delegates will be present at that time.
 MT. and Mrs. Smalley arrived in Wrangell at midnight Monday. They were entertained at luncheon Tues day by Mrs. J. c. Johnson and at dinner in the F. s. Barnes home.
 At special meeting of the Wran- gell chapter that evening, the ritual of the order was exemplified in ball. loting, in examinations and the ceremony of initiation in which Miss Ruth Gauger was the initiate.
 Visiting members present were Mrs. Oscar Nicholson of Seow Bay Mrs. Edward Locken and Mrs. For rest Fryer of Petersburg, Mrs. Em- cry Hopper, Miss Vivian Sorenson. Mrs. A. W. H. Smith and Mrs. Hill Harrington who are in Wrangell for the summer
 Following the closing of chapter a lunch was served by a committee headed by Mrs. I. c. Bjorge and Mrs. F. s. Barnes.
 Wenesday was devoted to sight seeing by Mr. and Mrs. Smalley, per- sonal contacts with members and fCoufinrxafR 0a paga f08Bt
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
CRAIG-HART

At a quiet service in St. Philips Episcopal church at 5:30 this af- ternoon. Miss Rose Hart of Saskat- chewan will be united in marriage to Mr Gordon Craig of Stewart. B. C. The wedding service will be read by the Rev. Arnold Krone
 The bride is the sister of Miss Sally Hart of the nursing staff at Bishop Rowe General Hospital. She is a teacher and arrived here Sat urday on the Princess Charlotte from her school near Prince Albert. She was joined Monday by MT. Craig who had boarded the Colum- bia at Ketchikan.
 They are leaving on the Princess Alice due in port tonight at 7:30, for Prince Rupert enroute to Stew art where Mir. Craig is employed by the Big Missouri Mining Company.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29

The warm, sunny days that were enjoyed for a brief time beginning last Saturday brought out two Sun- day school picnics much to the joy of the children who participated. On Saturday afternoon, the Epis- copal church school went to the park, and on Monday, the Presby- terian Sunday school enjoyed an outing at the same place. On Tues day evening Miss Gwen Carruthers and Capt Margaret Morris took the girls of the Salvation army Sunday School on a hike to the top of Mount Dewey. On their return refresh ments were served and games played in the Brigadier Carruthers home
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
FOREST FIRES
 STILL RAGING
 VANCOUVER IS.

The British heavy cruiser H. NJ S. York which sailed early Friday evening southbound from a visit to Wrangell put in at Comox, B. C.. Monday, under forced draft to aid in eyacuating several hundred per sons whose homes were in danger oi destruction from forest fires along iae Campbell river
 The Canadian destroyers St Laur- ent and Fraser and the naval fish cries patrol vessel Armentieres were also in the bay and had loaned crews 10 help fight the fire.
 One of the greatest forest fires in the history of Vancouver island, hundreds of men were engaged in the struggle to check the flames. The timber losses are especially severe in the Campbell river region where the holdings of four logging com panies were swept by flames.
 The fishing village of Forbes Landing is an area of ashes and general debris.
 Three hundred refugees were centered Saturday at Courtenay, the flames by that date having swept 40 miles. resulting in nearly 200 square miles of burned timber lands and property damage running into millions. The Elk River Timber Co has lost 40.0O0.0O0 feet of felled logs.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
IDAHO MAN TO FILL VACANCY
 IN WRANGELL GRADE SCHOOL

Virgil Newman has been elected to fill a grade position in the local schools. according to Supt. George J. Fabricius.
 MT. Newman has been teaching near Pocatello, Idaho. He has had six years teaching experience and holds diploma from one of the Col orado State Teacher Colleges. He is married and has two children.
 Besides his grade work MT. Ney- man is able to handle school orch estra, band, manual training and coach athletics. should he be needed ] in snehl waEk
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
HOSPITAL NOTES

A daughter weighing lbs. oz., was born to Mrs. Stanford Hulse at Bishop Rowe General Hospital We'd nesday noon, July 27.
 Charles Bryant was admitted to the hospital Thursday as a medical patient.
 Other patients now at the hos pital are J. Longhurst, T. H. Flet- cher, Raymond Johnson, Al Sven son and L. M. Churchill.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29
+ [. * DEATH COMES TO HANGMAN *

* MONTREAL, July .22-There * passed away in Montreal, yes- * terday, Canada's official execu- * tioner. He was known as Ar -' * thur Ellis His age was 72 < years It is said that in the < course of his duties, efficient # ly performed. he had executed * not less than 200 men, who * had been convicted of the < crime of murder. x It is said that the execution * CT. whose official, if not real * name was Ellis, actually hang ed 500 during his life time. < He received $100 per execution + with all expenses. He at one * time had accumulated s50,000 * yet died penniless in a Mont < real hospital.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29

intention to make a trip into the interior He will be through Wran- gel southbound in about seven weeks.
 This is MT Young's first trip to Alaska since 1909. His father, Ben- jamin Young, pioneered the salmon canning industry in the Pacific Northwest. British Columbia and Alaska. Born on the Baltic Sea in Sweden. Benjamin Young came to the United States. served with the Confederate forces in the Civil War and then went to San Francisco and upon securing work in the sugar business from Claus Spreckels. sent to Sweden for his wife. In the early seventies with a tiny baby, the young couple moved to the Columbia river where Mir. Young engaged in salting salmon and in a tw0-room shack they worked out a successful method of packing salmon in tin cans. They secured crude machinery and utilizing the same methods in a larger way put up a pack of 26.000 cases after a process had been patented to solder the oval can in which salmon was first packed
 Benjamin Young then went up into the Fraser river country and pioneered packing it's sockeyes and on to the Skeena From there he went to the Boring Sea. operated a halibut fleet and established a can nery at Nushagak. He had owned a dozen salmon eanneries from the Columbia to the Bering Sea when he sold out in 1893.
 Son To Come Later
 Stanley Young, who entered the biological survey after his gradu- ation from the University of Oregon and a degree from the University of Michigan, plans to bring his thir- teen year old son Bill when he is little older, to Alaska to view the industry pioneered by his grand parents.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-29

Friends of Art Kalkins, a troller about 45 years of age, who came here from Ketchikan some time ago, are worried about his welfare. He was last seen Saturday night. In- Yestigation is being carried on by the Marshal's Office.
The Washington times., 1938-11-23
Capitol Theater
Stage Scene of
Competition

Swing out, jitterbugs! Swing
into this contest.
Here's a chance for jitterbugs
to turn their joyous antics into
something tangible. The prize for
the champion team at the end of
a six weeks series of contests will
be 500 in cash or weeks engage
ment at the Capitol Theater with
pay.
With the shag, the Indy hop,
flying Dutchman, and other var1a-
tions of swing frenzy, all you
jitterbugs may take fling at this
contest-which starts December
3-providing you are at least
Is years old.
But first you must file an entry
blank. Send it to the Jitterbug
Contest Editor of The Washington
Times Immediately. While you're
polishing up on your smoothest
steps, you'll get a notification
when you're to appear at the
Capitol Theater for try-out.
A week from Saturday night, on
December 3, for the first contest,
the Capitol will extend its sched-
ule and have a complete show on
both stage and screen, starting at
1870 p. m. That'll bring in the
session, with Phil Lamp
kin and the Capitol Orchestra
the down beats.
Each Saturday night for the
next six weeks the contests will
continue on this Saskatchewan
weekly prize awards of SIS, $40
and SIS. Then each weeks win
hers will get together in the grand
male to choose the champion jit-
,erbugs. And what jam session
hat will be!
Chime in on it by sending in
your entry blank in jitterbug-
quick time.