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The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-02-10

Coming home to Alaska was the
great pleasure of George T. Barrett
Sr., whose son George T. Barrett
Jr., principal of Wrangell Institute,
last month went to Minneapolis to
bring him home" after twelve
years spent in the states.
Mr.. Barrett senior recently eele-
brated his 85th birthday. A tall
erect man in full possession of his
faculties, he says he is in vigorous
health except that his feet annoy
him by not holding up under any
extensive walking.
He was rs years old with long
chapters of adventure behind him,
first in the Minnesota woods and
then in Montana where he served
as scout in the Indian wars before
he came to Alaska in 1879.
Before the historic Clusters Mas
sacre he had been captured by the
Indians and has borne ever since
the bullet wounds received at that
time After Gen. Clusters death he
again served as scout for Gen. Mel
son A. Miles. Then the Indian Wars
were over and although he says 1t
was a great life while it lasted, ad-
venture, he thought was no longer
in Montana but lay ahead. He rode
on horseback from Benton, Montana,
to Salt Lake City and there boarded
a train for the lusty young city of
San Francisco. Just at that time the
port was in the heat of battle over
The Chinese labor invasion and the
cry was insistent that the Chinese
Must Col"
1t was hard to get job, and after
a time the young Minnesota Irish
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-02-10
SEINERS TO BALLOT THIS WEEK
ON HEADQUARTERS OFFICERS

Official ballots of the Alaska
Salmon Purse Seiners Union were
received here this morning and polls
will open Saturday afternoon, con-
tinuing each afternoon from 2 to
until Thursday when they will be
closed after the regular meeting.
The election is held to choose
headquarters officers. George Case
of Wrangell, Albert Brown, Hyda-
burg, and Arthur Johnson, Kake,
are the candidates for president.
For vice president the candidates
are Charles Gilbert and George
Matthews of Hydaburg, Frank John
son, Kake, Frank PeratoVich, Kla-
wock and William Walton, Sitka.
The names of five men are listed
for the very important office of sec
rotary treasurer. They are: John
Hadland Petersburg; E. C. Hudson.
Metlakatla; J. F. Krause and E. C.
Sukow, Ketchikan and Bill Wies,
Wrangell.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-02-10

The Wrangen Camp of the Alaska
Native Brotherhood sent the follow
ing kilograms to the legislature sit.
ting in Juneau this week:
Speaker OF House OF Representative
Juneau, Alaska
The statecraft of Alaska are GER
tainly bankrupt Of ideas if their
only solution of liquor sale by whites
is to discriminate against the In
dams of Alaska. Can you do what
the circuit court of appeals has al
ready forbidden when section 2O22
Chapter Compiled Laws OF Alaska
was before it in the Nagel ease? We
most emphatically protest any VIC
lation of our rights and have only
contempt for the present effort.
Such a law should be called a bill
to encourage bootleggers.
(Signed) Frank Desmond, Pres.
Wrangell Camp, Alaska Native
Brotherhood
The following telegram was ad-
dressed TO Senator Walker, president
of the Senate:
The organized Indians of Wran-
gell emphatically protest against
any bill that diseriminates against
Indians as such. Drunkenness is bad
no matter who is the victim. We
think the present situation is in
tolerable and ask that you support
the plan to have sale by territorial
stores to peTmittees only.
Wrangeu Camp,
Alaska Native Brotherhood.
Section 2O22 Chap. 8, CHA de-
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-02-10
Organized Fishermen Determined
To Get Just Share OF Fish

termined to get a Just share of the
fish
The fishermen have suggested
certain changes in the regulations
which in effect would allow them an
opportunity to make a decent living
and at the same time allow equal
distribution of fish to the various
canneries. In turn we had the as
suranee from Bell that he would
carefully consider our wishes while
making the regulations for 1899.
When Bells resignation was first
announced it was to become effec-
tive within 80 days! 1t is apparent
that the cannerymen prevailed upon
THE POWERS THAT BE-, to al
low him to remain in office long
enough to make regulations in ia
yor of the corporations and contrary
to the wishes of the people of Alas
ka.
Several important facts are ap-
parently being overlooked by the
canned salmon industry; namely,
that the FISHERMEN ARE SOLID
LY ORGANIZED, and determined to
stand for their rights. There are
agreements yet to be signed, and
to a man they are soured on the past
system of regulations they have been
compelled to operate under The ma
jority of fishermen were unable
during the last fishing season to
earn enough to pay their back bills
therefore unless satisfactory changes
are made what inducement is there
for one to operate?
With the fishing season shortened
to approximately thirty fishing days
the w. P. A. and c. C. C. would be
more attractive than fishing.
W. G. WIES-
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-02-10
VALENTINES DAY CARD PARTY
FIRST OF HOSPITAL BENEFITS

The first OF a proposed series OF
hospital benefits for 1899 will be
given Tuesday night, February IA,
Valentines Day, at the EIks hall
and the card players of the commun-
ity are cordially invited to enjoy
Court Whist and the brand of sand
witches and cake for which the wom-
en- of Wrangel are famous. Incl
dentally, skill in the game of cards,
or luck, will be rewarded suitably,
and the losers will be consoled in
the usual manner.
Women of st. Philips Guild will
be the hostesses on this occasion.
and the expenses will be kept at a
minimum SO that the hospital will
benefit to the greatest degree pos
sible.
Card playing will begin at 8:15
and players are asked to come at s
in order to begin promptly.
This will be one of the opportun-
tiles of the year to show apprecia-
ton for a strictly local institution
that the community cannot do with
out
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-02-10
BOAT BRINGS
FOODSTUFFS
FROM CANADA

Wrangell received its first ship
mnts OF meat and staple groceries
since the ship tie-up occurred 1asi
week with the arrival this morning
of the Princess Norah bringing
small shipments from Canada for To-
cal merchants. Most OF the food
stuffs imported were restricted To
such staples as butter, eggs, bacon
and fresh meats.
All staple supplies are running
low in Wrangel or are exhausted
with the exception Of canned goods.
The Norah this morning also
brought all mail which had aecum-
ulated in Seattle between January
% and February Z. The post office
department arranged that the Norah
ON this trip should call at Peters
burg north and southbound with
mail.
The Coast Guard Spencer, it is re
ported here, IS enroute to Juneau
with mail from the westward which
will go south on the Norah.
A meeting of the steamship COM
panies and representatives OF the
Masters, Mates and Pilots Associa-
ton, responsible for the tie-up, IS
to be held in Seattle Tuesday, but
until a settlement is effected, tood-
stuffs for clamoring Alaskans will
have to come by small boats or Can
adam steamers.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-02-10
WRANGELL ANB PROTESTS EXCLUSION
FROM CITIZEN RIGHTS In LIQUOR BILL

elared it illegal to sell give to
any Alaska Indian any lie ), malt,
beer, wine or spirituous Ii s, said
Louis +. Paul, promine member
of the A. n B. today. defined
Indian" as being any endants
of the whole or mixed bl d of the
aboriginal races coming der the
treaty with Russia in the purchase
of Alaska.
The celebrated Nagel &c he re-
called, was started from rangell
some - or % years ago, len Tom
Nagel was arrested for wing to
one Billy Hooker a bottle of liquor.
Nagel was arrested, tried and con-
yicted in the district court at Ju-
neau. He appealed the case and the
Circuit Court of Appeals reversed
decision OF district court when it
declared that Nagel had not COM
mitted a crime when he gave Indian
citizen Hooker a bottle OF liquor.
When Senate Bill No. II was dis
cussed in WrangeIl Camp, Mr.. Paul
says, it was pointed out that it
would only open back doors of liquor
stores and give assistance to boot
leggers of bottled spirits instead of
stopping sale of liquor to Indians. It
was pointed out, also that prior to
the noble experiment, sale records
show that. Further, that even
though liquor stores are open and it
is legal to purchase liquor during
legal hours. much bootlegging is GO
ing on and that this bill would only
encourage greater violation of the
laws.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-02-10
Wrangell, Alaska
-Enh- 1920

Wrangell, Alaska
Feb. 10, 1888
Editor Wrangell Sentinel
Madam Editor:
Judging from the word received
at the Headquarters of the Alaska
Salmon Purse Seiners Union in re-
gard to the fishing regulations for
1889, it is apparent that the can
ned salmon industry has prevailed
upon the Bureau of Fisheries to ig-
more the demands of the Fishermen
The word says, THE new regu-
lations provide for five to ten days
later opening date for southeastern
Alaska except in some districts
where the season will close from one
to two days earlier. No mention is
made in regard to the proposed re-
duction in traps.
1t is the duty of the Commissioner
of fisheries to make regulations SO
as to allow the escapement of fifty
percent of the salmon to the spawn
ing grounds. Rather than consider
the wishes of the residents of Alaska
Bell again has ruled in favor of the
large corporations, whose sole aim
is to monopolize the salmon indus
try of Alaska.
The small cannerymen who employ
resident labor and spend the major
portion of their earnings in the ter
ritory cannot operate, nor can the
fishermen exist with regulations of
this nature in effect. If the canned
salmon industry thinks that the
fishermen will fish or that they will
be free to operate under discrimin-
atory regulations such as proposed
by Bell they have apparently over
looked the fact that the FISHER
MEN ARE ORGANIZED" and de-
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-02-10
Senate Kills Gold Tax
Measure Eight to Zero

JUNEAU, ALASKA, Feb 10
Especial to the SentineI The Sen
ate today introduced and killed the
1ckes bill to provide an eight pei
ent gross gold tax and the accom-
panying net tax in less than Il
minutes after Senator Victor Rivers
Of Fairbanks declared it was de-
liberate effort at dictatorship on the
part OF the secretary of the interior.
Senator o. D. Cochrane Of Nome
termed the measure a smonstrosity'
The vote was s to against the bill
which was introduced only to ae-
eommodate Governor Troy who is on
Ickes payroll
Senator Joe Holman of Seward
declared the clause in the bill ex-
empting platinum from the 5 per
cent bracket was inserted because
Colonel Gibson owns platinum in
terests in the Goodnews Bay dis
trict.
The session also featured bitter
attacks by Holman and Rivers on
freight rates. Rivers said Ickes,
Burnley and Gibson hold an economic
dictatorship over Alaska as absolute
as any in the world today He ac-
eused the Alaska Railroad of serY-
ing special privileges and discrim-
lnation. He said five or six men are
building a personal success at rail-
road expense aud 5000 people and
asid that investigators from the IN
tied States Senate came north to
study conditions but looking only
a the balance sheet of the Alaska
Railroad went back and recommend
ed higher rates.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-02-10
Vim. PaulS Lose Rare
Manuscript In Fire

William L. Paul, who had arrived
here Tuesday night, received a tele-
gram from his wife Wednesday morn
ing that they had lost every per-
sonal belonging in the fire that
destroyed the Goldstein building in
Juneau that morning.
Besides their personal effects
which included many rare Indian
curios they had collected were man
uscripts and books loaned to MI.
and Mrs. Paul by the Smithsonian
Institution and the University OF
Pennsylvania which can never be
replaced.
One book, for instance, said Mr..
Paul was a copy of the report made
by Swanson who was sent in the
early eighties by the government
to write a detailed account of the
Indian tribes in the Territory. In
this book loaned to the Pauls, Lieut..
Emmons had made copious notes in
his own handwriting both correct
ing and simplifying Mr.. Swanson'a
statements.
Manuscripts in preparation by
Mrs. Paul, on some of which she had
been working for years were des-
troyed. A copy of her manuscript
on Thlinget legends, most FORUM
ately, is in the East awaiting pub
LEGATION, but everything else was
lost.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-02-10
Wholesale Liquor Bill
Causes Fight In House

JUNEAU, Alaska - Representa-
tive Harvey Smiths wholesale liquor
bill caused a fight in the house Sat
urday when Representative Karl
Drager offered an amendment that
would permit outside manufacturers
to mail liquors to wholesale in Al
aska without more than supervisory
attention from the territorial whole
sale house administration.
Smith said the amendment would
kill the measure, but Drager insist
ed it would do away with the gil
gantic task of warehousing such
bulky stock However, Drager's am
endment failed.
Previously, an amendment pro-
posed by James Davis to bond the
administrator at $4,000 instead of
$4,000 and to set his salary at
$4,000 yearly, passed. The bill con-
tinues in second reading. It would
set up territorial wholesale liquor
distribution from which Alaskan
dealers would be forced to buy on
penalty of losing their license.
Alaskan Lumber
The senate Saturday passed
the Sullivan bill requiring agricul-
tural fairs actually to spend funds
which are matched by the Terri
tory. The senate also passed bill by
Roden requiring use of Alaskan
lumber on all projects financed by
the Territory.
A new pioneer pension act intro
dueed in the house by A. P. Walker
of Craig would provide S45 monthly
for pensioners, with an optional
choice of benefits of the pioneer
home at Sitka. The residence re-
quirement of 25 years would be con-
tinuous and any absence from Alas
ka except for illness would elimin-
ate anyone from benefits. Age re-
quirements would be IS for men
and so for women.
A slashing attack on the 1897
report of the Alaska resources COM
mittee of the national committee is
made in a memorial offered in the
senate by Rivers. He alleged the
committee failed in its purpose and
asks that the study be re-opened.
Policy Of Restriction
The memorial says the recommen-
dations for "restrictory conservation
and reservation" should be ignored
and that the plan was not for de-
yelopment of resources in Alaska but
that it proposed a policy of restric-
tion at variance with its instructions
and contrary to it's authorized pur-
pose Further criticism is heaped on
the committee because its member
ship allegedly Included no bonafide
Alaskan not employed by federal
bureaus operating in Alaska"
The memorial also states that the
recommendation constitute the pet
schemes of particular bureaus or ag-
encies not facts or data as asked
by congress-"
The memorial asks that in all fu-
ture planning for Alaskan economy,
Alaska "be equally represented on
any body organized for that pur-
pose"
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-02-10
Article By Keithahn
Appears In SpOrtSmen

The radio operator of the watch
aboard the Coast Guard patrol boat
Cyane at Ketchikan, swung to the
typewriter and adjusted the volume
control on his receiving set. A thin
voice Wos piping through the static
on the 2670-kilocycle radiophone
band:
"Sos,sOS, Motorship Patter-
son ashore twenty miles south
Yakutat near Cape Fairweather.
we are breaking up slowly. Send
help!"
Thus was the vast lifesaving ma
chinery of the United States Coast
Guard put into action for one of the
most dramatic rescues in the recent
history of Alaska. The story. ship
Wreck, Stan Lillian, in the March
issue of the Alaska Sportsman gives
in thrilling detail a first-hand ac-
count of a shipWreck and subsequent
rescue that occupied the headlines
in newspaper stories and radio
broadcasts throughout the nation for
two weeks prior to Christmas.
Another thrilling drama in this
new issue of the Sportsman which
has just been published is included
in Kenneth L. Cohen's letters of a
King Cove Schoolteacher, entitled,
Battle For Life. 1t tells the story
of a hardy Alaskan who was left on
the beach of the bleak and desolate
Alaskan Peninsula without food,
clothing, fire, or weapons when his
small boat was wrecked in the boil
ing surf His companion was drown
ed in the wreck. The story of his
sufferings and subsequent rescue
makes this installment the most
thrilling of the series.
C. M. Archbold of the U. S. Forest
Service, tells of the work that the
Service is doing to restore the an
cient totem poles and native dwell
ings of Alaska to their original
state in his article, Restoration. "
1t is an authentic description of the
work being carried on, and he ex-
planned how the government is pre-
serving their historic relics for the
enjoyment and enlightenment of
tourists and future generations of
Alaskans.
E. l.. Keithahn appears with a
well-illustrated article on 1.-THE Sc
cret of the Petroglyphs" and gives
some inside information on the mys-
FERROUS rock carvings found in var
ious parts of Southeastern Alaska.
In her article, 81 Married An AL
,askan Photographer" Laura P. Ord
way of Juneau gives vivid idea of
her life as the wife of an enthusias-
tic photographer, climbing glaciers
and mountains, travelling distant RI
vers by steamer and frozen trails by
dog team, accompanying her hus-
band on dangerous assignments
while she marvelled at the scenic
glories encountered. Fine photo
graphs from these trips add zest and
fascination to the story.
Excellent illustrations, both on
cover and frontispiece as well as
throughout the magazine contribute
to make this one of the finest num-
bers published, and the stirring ed
itorial brings to light the crying
need for adequate publicity on Al
aska and what it has to offer both
to the tourist and the settler.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-02-10

Wanted: At least so people to
play cards Tuesday night for the
benefit of the hospital Pay: A jol-
ly social evening, excellent eats and
a chance to win prize out of four.
Adv.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-02-10
HEAR YE! HEAR YE!
4 Z 4 Z

MELBOURNE, Australia =
Mrs. Ethel Wilson was award
ed 1924 damages at Narrandera
after suing a hairdressing sal
on. She claimed a piece of her
ear was burned off when she
had a permanent wave.
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Evening star., 1939-06-29
Clues Indicate Slayer
OF Silent Film Star
q
Murdered Dancer
Key to Apartment on
! College Campus Is Found
i At Scene Of Killing
BY the Associated Press,

+ BY the Associated Press.
+ HOLLYWOOD, June 29.--Police
studied two clues today-a blond
wig and an apartment key-as they
CROPPED for link between the brutal
and sordid slayings of young
dancer and an elderly actress.
The clues were found on the
blood stained bed with the body OF
Margaret Campbell, Sc, silent screen
player and more recently a dra-
matics instructor at Los Angeles
City College. She was killed early
Monday with a hammer.
The key bore the number 1908" j"
which is that Of the apartment
occupied by Anya Sosoyeva, blond
Russian dancer bludgeoned to death
on the college campus last February
"a. Miss Sosoyeva's roommate,
Beulah Stanley, told investigators
at that time that a key to their
suite had disappeared. Officers said
the one found in Miss Campbells
room does not fit the door. They
were checking to determine If locks
had been changed.
Homicide Bureau Capt. Dalton r.
Patton indicated that the blond wig
might be of particular Importance.
Chief characteristic of the Sosoyeva
slayer, said a witness who saw him
flee, was a shock of blond hair.
Meanwhile. Miss Campbell's son,
Campbell Mcdonald. 25-year -old
student, was still missing. Police
have ordered his arrest for ques-
tioning. He and his mother oc-
cupied the same apartment and
neighbors said he had not been seen
since Sunday.
Patton and his aides were at
tempting to determine whether Nc
Donald, through his mother, might
have known Miss Sosoyeva and
Della Bogard, l7-year-old dancer
wounded seriously in similar at
tack March 20.
Earlier efforts to lay the Sosoyeva
and Bogard assaults to a man af-
flicted with moon madness were
intensified as officers noted that
the Campbell Staying also occurred
at a time when the moon was ap-
preaching fullness.s
Evening star., 1939-06-29

San Francisco bank marked mot
sufficient funds on hand" The at
torney said he was investigating,
but was not convinced a violation
OF the California bank check law
had been committed.
I. M. Sackin, Mr.. Bradstreet's
attorney, said property settlement
had been signed in his office and
the heiress had announced she was
going to Reno for divorce. The es-
tablished residence in the Nevada
city May 10, but denied she was
planning legal action.
Mrs. Bradstreet three years ago
sued her mother, Mrs. Maryon
Hewitt McCarter, now dead, assert
ing that she had undergone q steril-
Evening star., 1939-06-29
Salisbury Man Heads
Capitol District Lions
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OCEAN CITY, Md, June oh.
l.. Greman, jr, of Salisbury, was
elected president of the Capitol Dis
trict Of Lions International Tues
day at the close of the organiza ton S
annual convention.
Mr.. foreman was elected unani-
mously after Hugh v. Kaiser of
Washington withdrew and nominat-
ed Mr.. foreman.
The 30-year-old governor is the
youngest to head the organization,
which includes Lions from Mary
land, Delaware and the District of
Columbia
Mr.. foreman will succeed George
M. Phipps of Wilmington.
Evening star., 1939-06-29
Husband Asks Arrest
|0f Heiress on Check CHARGE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, June 29.-Assist-
ant District Attorney Edwin Myers
disclosed today that Gene Brad
street. 23-year-olc former club stew
ard, had asked the arrest of his
wife, Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay
Bradstreet, San Francisco heiress,
on check charge.
Mr.. Myers reported Mr.. Bradstreet
told him $1,000 check rendered as
a property settlement pending a
divorce suit had been returned by
Evening star., 1939-06-29
eocher Wins Traffic Case

MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 20 tP,.-
Motorcycle Patrolman J. A. Brasher
didn't count on his scholastic record
when he summoned his former
school teacher to court on a traffic
charge.
Miss Frances Clark, he told the
judge, ran through stop light.
You" replied the teacher, were
not always right when you attended
classes-and you are not right now"
Case cismissed,' said City Judge
r. j. Bateman.
Evening star., 1939-06-29
Controllers Elect

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20 R).-
Lester L. Kinsey of Akron, Ohio, was
announced yesterday as new chair
man Of the Board of Directors of the
Controllers Congress, which is hold
ing its Goth annual convention here
Evening star., 1939-06-29

ization operation at her mothers
order.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
MISSES CHOICE great at SIT!

edneoesg in
trocki
JumorD Floor
Evening star., 1939-12-31

in Brooklyn to atone for numerous things.
l myself was the victim of the II am.
Menace several years ago. The evening pre-
ceding January l, was invited to a party
by young couple who intended to get mar
ried (Which they did, but not to each other).
awoke New Years Day to find full-grown
goat in bed beside me; worse than that, my
head felt as though a manhole cover were
resting on it. Imagine my surprise and
chagrin when l reached up and found that
there Was a manhole cover resting on my
head! You could have knocked me down with
a cricket racquet, or club (or whatever they
use) or a slapstick bass fiddle or - but why
quibble? Right then and there swore that
would never again poison my system with a
maraschino cherry. Of course, it wasn't two