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The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
CROsS-COUNTRY CANOEISTS
REACH JUNEAU ON TREK

A sculptor and anthropologist who
padded and packed an 18foot canoe
from New York City to Fort Yukon
arrived in Juneau last week hoping
to make that their home.
Robert S. Fuller. the sculptor, and
Richard Slobodin, the anthropologist
left New York May 5, 1888. Their
route led up the Hudson River,
through the Erie Canal, across the
Great Lakes, through Winnipeg and
Edmonton by Canada's connecting
rivers and lakes, and down the ,Ath-
abasca, Slave and Mackenzie Rivers
to spend the winter at the delta.
In May they started again, up the
Rat River to the divide at the back
bone of the Rockies and down the
Bell River on the Yukon side. High
point of the entire trip, Fuller says,
was their race up the Rat River
during the breakup to reach Nc
Dougall Pass before high water
would fill the canyon and cut off
transportation for six weeks. By
sliding the canoe up over the Rat
River ice for a 3O-hour stretch with
out resting they reached the forks
just in time.
Down the Bell River and on the
Porcupine to Fort Yukon they guild
ed their craft. At Fort Yukon they
sold the canoe, took a river boat to
Fairbanks and came out by way of
the Richardson Highway to Valdez.
They reached Juneau ON the steam
er Columbia.
Fuller admits they didn't make
quite the whole trip in or under the
canoe. They loaded it on a steamer
to cross the Great Lakes and used a
railroad for a short stretch between
Winnipeg and Edmonton. But most
of IL was canoeing.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28

Public Roads forces. All reconstruct
ton work will be completed before
operations will start.
Five hundred linear feet of cul-
vert pipe have been placed leaving
an equal amount yet to be laid.
Clearing and grubbing operations of
the rock bluff at the cemetery are
completed and drilling operations
are now in progress. The city has
ditched and widened the spur road
to the city float About six inches
of beach borrow will be placed on
both the spur road and the rock
bluff section before the surfacing
is placed on them.
1.-THE fine cooperation of the pub
lie, so far, during construction oper-
ations, especially at the rock bluff
has been greatly appreciated, Mr..
Cohn said, land the same continued
cooperation during the remainder of
the reconstruction will also be
greatly appreciated"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
J. C. JOHNSON RECEIVES
WORD OF HIS FATHERS DEATH

]. c. Johnson this morning received
the sad message that his father, Al
fred Johnson, died last night at his
home in Kettle Lake, Minnesota.
Mr.. Johnson visited his son in
Wrangell last year from late July
until in December He was a tall,
vigorous man and greatly enjoyed
his Alaska trip. He made many
friends in Wrangell who will regret
to learn of his death.
He was born in Norway in 1863
and came with his parents to Wis
consin when a boy Of 13. He married
in Wisconsin and in 1899 moved to
farm he bought in Minnesota
where he has lived ever since. He is
survived by his wife, six sons, eley-
en- grandchildren, six brothers and
one sister.
]. C. Johnson went back to
Minnesota last April, mainly be-
cause he was worried about his
mother who had not been in good
health During his stay there, he
and his father enjoyed auto trips
all over the country. His father was
stricken with illness the latter part
of June and soon thereafter no hope
was held for his recovery. His son
states that so far as he knows it
was his fathers first illness.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
Alaska Interests Played By Outside
Labor Lords OF CLIO

Resolutions requesting the Attor-
ney General to have his Civil Lii
berties department investigate 1.-The
repeated coercive activities of the
agents of the mining and salmon in
terests" in Alaska and demanding
more WPA projects and direct relief
appropriations for the Territory
were passed at Everett, Wash, last
month by the convention of the
Maritime Federation of the Pacific,
CLIO affiliate.
Copies of the two resolutions were
received in Juneau at the office of
Governor John w Troy from Bruce
Harmon, Secretary Treasurer of the
Maritime Federation"
The resolution asking the Civil
Liberties investigation also demands
arrest and conviction of the kid
napers" of w. A. Rasmussen, inter-
national organizer of the Mine, Mill
and Shelter Workers Union, who
was run out of Fairbanks in May.
The resolution, introduced by
George Lane, of the Alaska Fisher
mems Union, Bellingham critigizes
the appointment of r. r. Reagon to
1.-The city payroll" and appointment
of r. e. Hardcastle as acting U. S.
Commissioner at Ketchikan. 1t as
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
Haida Lieutenant Here
On Way Join Byrd Cruise

Enroute to report for duty at Bos-
ton aboard the cutter Northland as
signed to the Admiral Byrd expedi-
ton to the Antarctic, Lieut.. Glenn
Rollins, formerly of the coast guard
cutter Haida based at Juneau, was
in Wrangell Saturday while the
North Sea was in port.
It is believed that Lieut.. Rollins
achievement in the rescue of the
survivors of the wrecked motorship
Patterson last fall led to his being
honored with the Antarctic appoint
ment as coast guard officers for the
expedition were chosen for having
outstanding records.
Lieut.. Rollins, who was accom-
panied by his wife, said he was go
ing to visit his parents in Oregon
for awhile He has until August 81
to report for duty. The Northland,
which is being outfitted in Boston,
will sail in October by way of the
Panama Canal and the South Seas
to be in the Antarctic during its
summer season. The expedition is
scheduled to return in April
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
SEA SERPENT, FREAK OCTOPUS
BROUGHT IN BY HALIBUT BOAT

An eight-foot sea serpent defying
Identification and an octopus with
two hearts, were freak catches
bought to Juneau last week by the
halibut boat Emma from Cross
Sound and ley Strait
William Pege said the serpent
was a conger eel, but the Bureau of
Fisheries claims there is no such
animal in North Pacific waters
Pege said the monster has a long
slim body and a keg-shaped head
considerably larger. Conger cells are
common off the southern coasts Of
Asia and Africa and some are found
in the South Atlantic.
Pege said the octopus has it's two
hearts connected with single
aorta.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
Wrangell Highway To Be Covered
5000 Gu. YdS. Crushed Gravel

The Public Roads Administration
of the Federal Works Agency, the
new title of the former Bureau of
Public Roads, since the recent re-
organization of federal bureaus, will
open bids on August 10 at Juneau
for the resurfacing of Wrangell
Highway, Wrangell-Shoemaker Bay
section, THE work will consist of
placing approximately eight thou
sand cubic yards of crushed gravel
on the present road between the
Public Roads warehouse and the
start of the new road, and also on
the spur road leading to the city
float on the inner harbor," A. H.
Cohn, PRA engineer in charge, said
today Surfacing operations, Mr..
Cohn believes, should start about
the middle of September
In addition to the resurfacing
project, reconstruction work has
been completed or is in progress
over these sections of highway with
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
new CAA SUPERVISOR HAS MILLION
DOLLARS FOR ALASKA AIR PROGRAM

JUNEAU - The full significance
of the Civil Aeronautics Authority
program for development of air com
munication and navigation aids in
Alaska was brought home conYinc-
ingly this afternoon in the state
ment by NJ c. Hoppin, new head Of
the CAA in Alaska, that a million
dollars will be spent by the author
ity during this fiscal year and We
hope that is just the beginning Of
it.
Hoppin arrived in Juneau early
this afternoon from Bell Island at
ter a conference with Gov. John W.
Troy and members of the Alaska
Aeronautics and Communications
Commission. j
Hoppin. whose title in Alaska as
head of CAA work here, is Superin-
tendent of Anyways, boarded a PAA
Electra Immediately after his arri-
val here, and flew to Fairbanks
He had disembarked from the
steamer Baranof, on which his wife
continued to Anchorage, where Hop
pin will make his headquarters.
At Bell Island, a tentative plan
of development work was drawn up,
Hoppin said, embodying the con-
struetion and equipping of eight
major radio range and communica-
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
CaSsiar Nickel Ores
Under Investigation

c. J. Davis, who recently resigned
as liquor enforcement officer in the
Territory, arrived here from Juneau
the first of the week enroute to in
yestigate nickel deposits in the Cas-
star.
It had been arranged that he
would join at Wrangell a mining
engineer of the International Nickel
Company from Cuniniekle, Ontario,
but the Canadian was unayoidably
delayed SO Davis took passage alone
on the Hazel B. No. 2 Tuesday af-
ternoon for Telegraph Creek. From
Dease Lake he will fly in to the
prospect which lies beyond Boulder
creek.
The nickel, which Davis is inves-
tigating, occurs in a peculiar ore, he
said, only one other deposit being
known exactly like it. That deposit
is found in New Caledonia, in the
Loyalty islands of the eastern coast
of Australia. Similar deposits oc-
cur in eastern Oregon, but the guam
tity is too small to be valuable.
The Cassiar ore is an apple green
and lies only in certain formations
next to serpentine and with
chromite association. The chrome
ore is not found in veins but lies in
pockets through the deposit.
If the Cassiar deposits prove to
be a fractional part as good as re-
ports say they are. a new field of
minerals of exceedingly high value
will be added to the known re-
sources of that vast mining district
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
Thompson Establishes
Temporary Quarters

Commander W. K Thompson, in
charge of the coast guard and light
house service for this district, &C
eompanied by his payroll officer and
a yeoman, passed through Wrangell
Saturday enroute to Ketchikan to
set up a temporary office in the
federal building.
When announcement was made
that the coast guard, after taking
over the lighthouse service, would
establish Alaska headquarters in
Juneau there was an immediate
storm of protest from Ketehikan
which feared removal of Lighthouse
service officers lead to removal of
the lighthouse depot and dock IA
cilities.
Named to take charge of the new
Alaska district in Juneau Command
er Thompson on his arrival from the
East found he had not even a type
writer much less office room at Jul
neau. He set up temporary quarters
in the Baranof hotel.
Although the new Washington
order made the transfer of head
quarters back to Ketchikan only
temporary, the Chamber of Com
merce is trying to get the order
made permanent.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
Kyichak- Naknek Area
Closed By Order Ickes

Closing of the 1899 fishing sea
son in the KYichak- Nallnek district
of Bristol Bay at s O'Clock Friday
night was ordered last week by Sec
rotary Of the Interior Harold l..
Ickes
The run of salmon in the KYiehak
and Naknek rivers which has been
disastrously poor this season effects
a number of Wrangell men who
fished IN that district this season.
The order from Washington df=
reeted that the district be closed to
fishing from 6 o'clock Friday until
6 o'clock the morning of August 3.
which is the end of the summer sea-
SON Fishermen would have had q
hours more of fishing if the order
had not been issued.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
Gillnets At Red Bay
Seized By PatrOlmen

Special Patrolman Leo V. Wads-
worth on the bureau of fisheries
speedboat Merganser Saturday after
noon seized a gillnet at the south
eastern end of Red Bay on the
northern shores of Prince Of Wales
island.
The net contained fifty-three
sockeye salmon. Wadsworth releas-
ed three Of the soekeyes which he
found to be alive, and brought in
the remainder to Wrangel
Fisheries Warden A. P. Romine
eonfiscated the fish, which he sold
to the credit of the government The
net was turned over to [. S. Com
missioner Richard Suratt.
The net was used as a barricade
across Dry Creek which has its
source in Red Lake and is a closed
area. After much search it was de-
clared impossible to discover the Of
fender.
This was the second offense dis
covered at Red Bay within a week,
Captain Daniel Drotning having pre-
viously brought in net and fish.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
HBR.
PROJECTS
DEFERRED

WASHINGTON. ID. C. - The sen
ate commerce committees sidetrack-
ing of the omnibus rivers and har-
bors appropriation providing for a
sum of S4o7,000.O0o will postpone
action on several Alaskan projects
until the January session of con
gress, it was disclosed Tuesday
Alaskan projects affected by the
committees action, and the sums
involved, are as follows
Wrangell narrows. $2,7o0.000.
Metlakatla harbor. s120.000.
Wrangell harbor Improvements,
$4,000
sitka breakwater 100000.
Kodiak harbor improvements,
$4,000.
Meyers Chuck harbor $4,000.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28

ton stations, along with six lesser
stations.
With completion of these stations
by next July it will be possible for
an aviator to fly from Ketchikan
to Juneau to Anchorage 20 Fair
banks and ON to Nome "on" a radio
beam The lesser stations will form
links in backbone of the system
along the aforementioned route,
composed of the eight major sta
tons.
Honpin said, This is Just the be-
ginning of what we hope to do. The
rest depends pretty much on the
gentlemen on Capitol Hill"
The supervisory staff Of CAA in
Alaska now includes about fifteen
men, while each station to be es-
tablished, will require about five
men each for maintenance, Hoppin
said. giving further indication of the
broad scope Civil Aeronautics Au-
thority work in Alaska has assumed.
Hoppin, tall rugged, lean of face
and sandy eomplexioned, thinks Al
aska is great. This is his first trip
to the North. his most recent sta
ton in the States being in Chicago.
where he was Regional Airport En-
gineer with the thirteen North Cen
tral States his domain.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
Paving Experiment
To Be Tried Ketchikan

Experimental paving of three
miles of road at Ketchikan with a
new type of low cost concrete which,
if it proves successful, will be used
extensively in Southeast Alaska has
been announced by the Public Roads
Administration.
Bids will be opened August 10
on the project, for which $4,000 is
available.
The cement sterilization is being
tested at Ketchikan to determine
whether it can be laid successfully
in a damp climate Method of lay
ing the material is to scarify the
road surface. spread dry cement on
it, mix the two materials thoroughly
and then add a proper amount of
water. The surface is then rolled
smooth.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
WAVE OF FIRES SET BY
DRUNKARD, Is FINED $500

ANCHORAGE = Careless setting
fire of the back seat of an auto
caused Jack Swanson, 40 to face six
months in Jail and be fined $500 by
Thomas c. Price, u S. commissioner
ON charges of drunkenness and disor-
derliness. Swanson was found in a
stupor in the smouldering back sea-
with one hand so badly burned he
will not be able to use it for three
months.
The arrest and conviction of
Swanson was expected to put an end
to a series of carelessly set fires
during the past two weeks. At least
five rooming houses and hotels
where Swanson put up for the night
reported fires in the rooms in which
he stayed
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
Fish DOCK NEWS.
By.AI Gamer

c. c. Mundy this week shipped
from Petersburg one carload of
small red salmon for export to An
twerp. Germany.
At Wrangell Mundy during the
week purchased $500 lbs halibut
which went TO the freezer.
The ARB Packing Company pur-
chased for the week From w. L.
Scott, 2 trips, 10,45O lbs. mild cure
salmon; ARB from PIT. Baker and
Cape Pole, two trips, 2882 lbs, 6227
lbs; salmon purchased on the dock;
cohoes, 1888, salmon for the free
ger, 4163 lbs. halfbut for the free
ger, 1897 lbs.
The ARB No. delivered to
Wales Island 1916 soekeyes and &c.
600 lbs. cohoes.
Gill net fishing is somewhat
slack, most of the fishermen having
tied up Some are still bringing III
small catches Fish have been show
ing up the last two days in Clar-
ence Straits also in the Stevens
passage district at Seymour canal.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
]. Edgar Hoover Reopens
Field Division In Alaska

WASHINGTON, D. c. - The de-
partment of justice, it was announc-
ed Monday night by J. Edgar Hoo
yer. chief of the federal bureau of
Investigation, is reopening its field
divisions in Alaska. Hawaii and
Puerto Rico because of a marked
increase in international espionage,
The divisions were closed a year ago
because of shortage of funds.
simultaneously, the state depart
ment disclosed restrictions against
viewing international files of the
postwar period
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
Seventh Good Fellowship
Tour Has 81 Members

Eighty-four members of the Chris
tian Fellowship Tour sponsored by
the Sunday School Times, enjoyed
a four-hour visit in Wrangell Tues
day afternoon southbound from the
southeastern Alaska cruise aboard
the steamer Alaska.
This was the seventh annual tour
by the Sunday School Times of
Philadelphia, and for the fifth time
the Rev. David Waggoner of Juneau,
veteran Presbyterian Missionary,
served as Alaska host, journeying to
Seattle to meet the party and re-
naming with them as lecturer un-
til Ketchikan southbound.
The editor of the Sunday School
Times, John w. Lane JT.. was in
charge of the tour party. whose
members came from as far south as
St Petersburg, Florida, and as far
north as Maine. The party assembled
at Chicago where a tour conductor
from the North Pacific railroad took
charge of details. Enroute to Seat
tie a side trip was made to Coulee
Dam.
On their return south a days
sightseeing in Seattle is provided
for, and Sunday will be spent in
Portland The itinerary includes
visit to crater Lake, two days at the
San Francisco fair, Los Angeles,
Grand Canyon, thence by way of
Kansas City to Chicago, where the
members of the party will go their
several ways.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28

Tourists aboard the Baranof Fri
day night got an all round raw
deal at Wrangell. The vessel locked
in rain and blew the half hour
whistle as it locked Few of the
passengers came up town. The Bar
anof is not scheduled to call in port
southbound, so the tourists aboard
have little idea of the beauty of
Wrangell and the interesting things
to see here.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
PIONEER PASSES

VALDEZ - Word of the death of
Willis H. Palmer SO. was received
by friends here this month from Los
Angeles where the Civil War veteran
lived for the past two years.
The distinguished looking. white
bearded former miner and later
truck gardener of Valdez was said
to have been the oldest living Alas
ka resident up to the time of his de
parture for California in 1897 Pal
mer told acquaintances here his or
iginal visit to Alaska in the vicinity
of Wrangell was made before the
Civil War. He went back to fight
for the Yankees, served for awhile
as an Indian Scout under General
Custer and then came back to Al
aska prior to the gold rush He came
to Valdez when it was a mushroom
tent town. shared in its heydey and
decline, and lived to see it thrive
again as a transportation center His
later years were spent raising gar
den stuff for sale, his chief products
being large red strawberries. His
greatest desire was to live to be
100.
Mr.. Palmer made frequent trips
to the States and each time became
good copy" for metropolitan news
papers with his tales of early Alas
kan experiences
He left several survivors in Cali
fornia.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
Steamship Companies
Reject Rate Request

A request by Alaska chambers of
commerce TO steamship lines serving
Alaska for reduced rates to allow
Alaskans to visit the fairs at San
Francisco and New York has met
with rejection by the Alaska Steam
ship Company and the Northland
Transportation Company.
Both companies said enphatieal-
ly that rate reductions were impos-
sible. Both mentioned labor troubles
increasing costs. and that the strug-
gle is to keep from increasing rates
still further rather than to attempt
any reduction.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
CARD OF THANKS

Ned and I wish to express our ap-
probation for the many words of
sympathy in the tragic death of our
beloved Dick. The past six years of
comradeship with him has been a
most blessed experience which not
all the pain of separation can an
null. 1t comforts us to know that
others liked him also and saw the
CLINT of gold in his character.
Axel Rasmussen,
Edward Johnson.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
LIFE MAGAZINE SENDS
PHOTOGRAPHER TO ALASKA

Wrangell it is reported, will have
a place in Life magazine, which in
the near future will feature Alaska
in one of its issues.
Herbert Gehr, photographer, of
Forest Hills, New York, came north
this week assigned to make a cam
era coverage of the Territory. He is
going first into the interior and will
stop in southeastern Alaska on his
way south next month.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28

COSTS MOUNT
IN TERRITORY

JUNEAU - Two and a half mil
lion dollars, drawn from both terri
torial and federal funds, was the
cost of AIaskass government for the
fiscal year ending June 30, it was
reported yesterday by Frank Boyle,
territorial auditor.
This is roughly 100000 more
than the previous year.
The exact figure drawn in war
rants was $2,532,88790.
Schools get the lions share, about
80 per cent, of expenditures and
welfare and relief are the next
heaviest drains.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
GOVERNMENT TO REOPEN
FBI OFFICE IN JUNEAU

WASHINGTON, D. c. = Attor-
ney General Murphy announced
yesterday that Ralph C. Vogel has
been directed to reopen a federal
bureau of investigation office in
Juneau.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28

serts that the strike of the United
Fishermen's Union in Southeast AL
aska in 1898 was "broken by I'M
lawful activities"
The resolution ON WPA and relief
was introduced by Jack Price, of
the International Longshoremen's
and Warehousemen's Union, Ray
mond, Wash. 1t claims that the Ter
ritory is being highly exploited"
and criticizes ''vigilante-minded bus
inessmen who have adopted the slo-
gan ALASKA for Alaskans."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-07-28
Jimmy Rinehart Brings
Plane Back To Alaska

Pilot James Rinehart. who last
summer based at Petersburg, flew
from Seattle to Juneau Tuesday with
a stop at Alert Bay and half-hour
stop at Ketchikan. He was accom-
panied by Charles Gamers, Portland
flyer, and Clayton Poquette and the
three intend to establish an air SER
vice base in southeastern Alaska.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-02-09

incorporation and am of the opinion
that 1t is not violative of the Con-
stitution and laws Of this state. or
of the United States.
Greek L. Rice,
Attorney General.
w w. Pierce,
Assistant Attorney General.
Executive Office
The within and foregoing Charter
of Incorporation Of
WILKES FARMS, INC,
is hereby approved.
In testimony whereof. / have here.
unto set my hand and caused the
Great Seal of the State of Arissis-
sippi to be affixed, this First day of
February, 1899.
(SEAL)
BY ths Governor
Hugh White.
Governor.
Walker Wood.
Secretary of State.
State OF Mississippi
Office OF
Secretary of State
jackson
i, Walker Who'd, Secretary of State.
do certify that the Charter OF Incor-
poration hereto attached entitled the
Charter of Incorporation of Wilkes
Farms, Inc, was pursuant to the
provisions of Chapter 100, Code of
Mississippi of 1880. Recorded in the
Records of interpretations in this
office Book No. $3.50, Page 455.
Given under my hand and the Great
Seal of the State OF Mississippi here
unto affixed this First day Of Febru-
airy, 1889.
(SEAL)
Walker Wood.
Secretary of State.