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Evening star., 1939-01-01
National Union

Congressional Council celebrated
Christmas at Typographical Tenn
pie Senator Elmer johnson played
the role of Santa Claus and distrib-
uted presents. A bingo party will bal
held February is in Odd Fellows
Hall. Senator Michael j. Kinds
father, Potomac Council: Richard
A. Walker, chairman of the Execu- I
tive Board; Samuel Trupp, speaker,
Victory, and Edward G.. Walker,
financial secretary, Mckinley, spoke.
Election of officers was as follows:
President, Harry Selinger; vice rres-
ident, Thomas E. West, speaker,
Joseph c. Mason: ex-president,
Guy N. Brosee; recording secretary,
Elmer johnson; financial secretary,
Eugene B. Bell; treasurer, George
T. S. Boyd; chaplain, Bruce w.
Jones; usher, Frank Jones; sergeant
at arms, Clarence M. Mitchell; door,
keeper, Philip w. E. Barber; trus.
tees, Joseph c. Mason, Frank Jones,
Roy P. johnson; delegates to the
Executive Board and Hospital Serv-
Ice Association. Clarence M. Mitchell
and Harry SelInger.
Meetings this week in Woodmen
OF the World Hall are: Tuesday,
Executive Board and the Hospital
Service Association; Friday, Victory
Council.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Death Elixir
Continued From Page B-5.)

up treacherous mountain trails for
hours until he reached ramshackle
cabin in which the purchaser of
the bottle was said to live. He
found the cabin abandoned. Pro-
ceeding to nearby cabin on foot,
the inspector learned that the hill
billy in question had moved st
other side O. tn mount'n," exact
location unknown.
Returning to a telephone down
the mountainside. the officer re-
ported his dilemma to headquarters
at Washington. The orders were
that the bottle must be found or
accounted for at all costs. So the
weary hunt began all over again
on "t' other side'' of the mountain.
The bottle and it's owner eventually
we're found, the latter unharmed
and considerably surprised that ne
had caused so much fuss.
Relentlessly the far-reaching hunt
went on, from coast to coast, by
day and night, until, with a sigh
of relief, officials had seized or ac-
counted for every pint of the 240
gallons of Elixir Sulfaniiamide
manufactured by Dr. Massengill's
firm.
A letter to President Roosevelt
from the heartbroken mother of
little girl killed by the potion in
Tulsa helped to bring about con-
gressional action to prevent recur-
renee of a national tragedy like
that of Elixir Sulfanilamide. The
letter, in part, follows:
president Roosevelt:
Dear sir: Two months ago I was
happy and working, taking care of
my two little girls, Joan, age six,
and Jean, age nine. Our byword
through the depression was that
we had good health and each other.
Joan thought her mother was right
in everything, and it would have
made your heart feel good last No
vember to have seen her jumping
and shouting as we listened to your
reelection over the radio.
Tonight, Mr.. Roosevelt, that little
voice is stilled. The first time I
ever had occasion to call in a doctor
for her she was given the Elixir of
Sulfanilamide. Tonight our little
home is black and full of despair.
All ,that Is left to US Is the caring
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Y. N. G. A. News

The Central Y. M. c. A. has
scheduled the following activities
this week:
Monday-Annual New Year Day
open house, 10 to midnight.
Tuesday-7:30 pm, dormitory
Basketball League.
Wednesday-7:10 pm. Govern
ment Y. M. c. A. Basketball League;
glee club, 8 pm; Dormitory Coun-
Gil. social and dance, 9 pm.
Thursday-9:30 am, weekly staff
meeting; 7:30 pm, dormitory, bowl
ing league; pm, Washington Soc
Ger League; $50 pm, Town Hall of
the Air meeting.
Friday-7:30 pm, Debating Club;
$3.50, public speaking group; 9, Y.
w. G. A.-Y. M. c. A. dance at the
Central Y. M. C. A.
Saturday-Practice begins in the
various groups of the boys depart
---e-'+ for the annual gym night
SHOW. ~. = A. Junior hand
ball lau.-- .4oy starts in the boys
department; Junior Sunday School
Basket Ball League, 2 pm; 6 pm,
dormitory Council dinner; Senior
Sunday School Basketball League,
6 pm.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Jobs Douqhters

Evelyn Joyce was installed as
honored queen of Bethel No. S. Aft
er the meeting a dance was held at
the Masonic Temple at Fourteenth
and U streets Sc. During the open
ing of the Santa Claus lanes the
drill team of No. won five tro-
phies. Every parade awarded new
cup. On January l3 will be initia-
ton.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

Master Orville Megby of Osiris
Lodge announced that on Wednes-
day evening Bethel No. 2, Jobs
Daughters, will confer their degree
for the members of his lodge. Re-
freshments will be served.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

Petworth Lodge Fellowcraft Club
will meet Tuesday evening at the
home of Past Master Carl Gardner,
408 Emerson street NV.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

Mrs. Helen D. Robbins, grand ma
tron, and Harry j. Schmidt, grand
patron, will be hosts at a reception
tomorrow from 2 until 6 pm. at the
Masonic and Eastern Star Home.
All members of the order and friends
o., iY,uifaI
Evening star., 1939-01-01

On Wednesday evening Washing
ton Centennial Lodge will enter
tain the members of De Molay. A
cast of the boys will confer their
degree. A social will follow.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Albert Pike Consistory
Elects IFS Officers;
Meetings Are Listed
Walter Korsner
Is Chosen as
Venerable Master

Albert Pike Consistory, M. r. S.,
OF the Ancient and Accepted Scot
tish Rite of Freemasonry in the
Valley Of Washington, held its an
nual meeting last Tuesday evening,
when the following officers were
elected: j. Walter Karsner, vener-
able master of Kadosh; John D.
Hess, prior; John S. Tassin, pre-
ceptor; C. Edgar Bittinger, chan
cellor; Marx E. Kahn, minister of
state; John G. Palmer, almoner;
Monte Sanger, treasurer; Arthur B.
Hayes, registrar, and Monte Sanger,
trustee.
The incoming master will an
nounce the appointive officers at the
meeting Tuesday. when installa-
ton will be held, following the
meeting of Mithras Lodge of Per-
fection
Robert de Bruce Council also
held its regular monthly meeting
last Tuesday.
Next Tuesday evening Mithras
Lodge of Perfection will hold its
first semi monthly meeting for the
year.
Master Stein of BrightWood Lodge
announces the Fellow Craft team
has purchased and will present to
the lodge a complete set of robes
and uniforms for all the officers and
members of the lodge. The F. C..
degree will be conferred January
II. On January 25 the lodge win
hold special entertainment for
members of the District of Columbia
Fire Department and friends and
the next night, January 26, will
pay an official visit to Alexandria,
Washington Lodge.
Petworth Lodge Fellowcraft Club
will meet Tuesday evening at the
home of Past Master Carl Gardner,
408 Emerson street NV.
Master Orville Megby of Osiris
Lodge announced that on Wednes-
day evening Bethel No. 2, Jobs
Daughters, will confer their degree
for the members of his lodge. Re-
freshments will be served.
On Wednesday evening Washing
ton Centennial Lodge will enter
tain the members of De Molay. A
cast of the boys will confer their
degree. A social will follow.
Master Frank B. Blackburn of
Theodore Roosevelt Lodge an
nounced that on Wednesday evening
his lodge will hold a Masonic eve
ming. A special address will be given
by Past Master John D. Wolcott
and talks by other past masters.
On Thursday evening Lafayette
Lodge will observe the 18th ami
versary OF its founding. The speaker
of the evening will be Past Grand
Master j. Claude KEEPER.
On Friday evening Acacia Lodge
will hold the 18th anniversary of it's
founding with a dinner, entertain
ment and dance at the Mayfower
Hotel.
Master Vernal r. Brown of Will
liam R. Singleton Lodge announced
the new chaplain is Dr. A. B. Potorf
of the faculty of American Univer-
sity.
Trestleboard.
Monday-Potomac, E. A.
Tuesday Arminius, business;
King David, E. A.
Wednesday - Washington Cen
tennial, social; Osiris, social: King
Solomon, E. A; East Gate, business;
Theodore Roosevelt, social; Barris-
tiers, F. c.
Thursday-Naval, M. NJ; Hiram,
M. M; Lafayette, social; William
R. Singleton, business; PetWorth,
M. M; Semper Paratus, business.
Friday-Columbia, social; Leb-
anon, E. A.; Joseph H. Milans, bus
iness; Justice, F. c.
Saturday-Grand Lodge School of
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01
WRANGELL MASONS
JOIN PETERSBURG
FOR ANNIVERSARY

Ten Wrangell masons took part
in the Masonic banquet at Peters
burg last Saturday night, eommem-
Grating the 18th anniversary of the
founding of Petersburg Lodge No
1852, going over from here aboard
the Gunderson boat Alaskan.
L. MacKechn1e, one of the
founders of the lodge and its Wor-
shipful Master for It's first two years
was the speaker of the evening for
the affair which attracted about so
Masons.
Representing Wrangell were Err
nest Anderson, Fritz Angerman, Fred
Gunderson, News Stensland, Charles
Anderson, George Fabricius, Harry
Coulter, John Coulter, DR.. ]. n.
Clements and Frank S. Barnes.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01
SCOUT COMMITTEE TO
MEET WITH LEGION

An invitation to the Boy Scout
Advisory Committee 10 meet With
them next Tuesday evening in the
Dugout was voted by members of
Merlin Elmer Palmer Post No. 6,
American Lgieon. at their meeting
last Tuesday evening. An invitation
likewise has been extended the Pc
tersburg Post to visit the Wrangeu
Post January %. return engage
ment for the recent great welcome
given the local Legionnaires at the
neighbor city.
Sunday the Legionnaires will turn
to with the other citizens of the
community to get the skating pool
in shape while some of the mem
bers plan to route out a possible
Scout cabin site and trail in con-
nection with the proposed Gee act
iYity here this winter.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01
Officials Arrive
For Inspection OF
Proposed Airport

Flying a government seaplane.
Marshall Hoppin, superintendent Of
Always for the Civil Aeronautics
Authority in Alaska with headauar-
ters at Anchorage, Benton ". Da-
Wis. Senior Always Inspector.
Flight, CAA. and j. N. Beardslee.
Civil Engineer. CAA. arrived in
Wrangeu shortly before noon today.
They moored their plane at the
Standard oil dock and this after
noon. escorted by Mayor Van H. Fisk
and CCC Foreman Roy Dolan, they
inspected the proposed Wrangell air
port site.
Superintendent Hoppin explained
that the purpose of their trip at this
time is to scout emergency landing
fields and possible sites for estab=
fishing communication stations in
conjunction. Five such projects are
tentatively planned for Southeast
Alaska, he said. Roughly they are
being considered tor the Wrangell-
Petersburg district. ketchikan, Ju-
neau. Sitka and Yakutat. Two EN-
Urgency fields already have been es-
tablished in the Interior, he report
ed, at Talkeetna and Summit. and
three others will be, actual sites
yet to be determined
The officials were especially in
terested in the volume of traffic up
the stikine aud what might be de-
yeloped through the construction Of
an emergency wheel plane field
here; the desirability Of the site
for a field to serve commercial
traffic to and from the States and
how the Wrangell field might fit in
TO the national defense program
which is now being pushed in the
north.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01
COURT PARTY ON
WAY TO JUNEAU;
JUDGE GOES SOUTH

After completing a two-months
court term in Ketchikan, the court
party passed through Warngell Mon
day night aboard the Northland, re-
turning to Juneau where the next
court term is called for January %.
In the party were Clerk of Court
Robert E. CoughIn, Assistant Dis
trict Attorney George W Folta and
Deputy Clerk Peggy Mcleod. Law
renee Kerr, district attorney clerk,
went north last week.
Judge George F. Alexander, ac-
companied by Mrs Alexander, went
south from Ketchikan for a vaca-
ton over the holidays with friends
and relatives in Portland and other
points on the coast They expect to
return north about the middle of
January.
The Ketchikan docket was com
pletely cleared, Clerk Coughlin re-
ported, not a case being carried ov-
er.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01
COMMUNITY WILL
FIX SKATING POND
HERE ON SUNDAY

Sunday is the time for all good
men TO come to the aid of the com
munity.
Skating time is near and dads and
mothers have decided it's time to
get the skating pond ON the City
Hal grounds in shape for the first
freeze. The Legion at its meeting
Tuesday night decided TO turn to.
The civic Club had the same idea
at its executive board meeting
Tuesday.
Result. It's Xix up the skating
pond. day Sunday. Turn-to hour has
been set by Mayor Van H. Fisk for
II a. m. and all males in the com
munity are invited to show up and
make it a genuine community al
fair. Ladies of Civic Club will serve
coffee and eats during the after
noon. Wheelbarrows, trucks, shoYels
and other needed equipment Will be
provided.
Legionnaires, ElRs. Redmen. Ma
sons. Union men, all able-bodied
citizens, are being PACED.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01
ENJOY
ANNUAL TURKEY
DAY BANQUET

The lodge of the Redmen reflect
ed the real spirit of Thanksgiving
last Saturday night when 81 Red
men. their ladies and guests gath
cred for the annual dinner which
has become a tradition in the Wran-
CELL lodge.
Before a huge horseshoe table
beautifully laden with turkey and
wild geese. POSTMASTER F. G. Han
ford rose to give thanks to the
Great Spirit,
While postprandlal smoke drifted
over the room Mr. Hartford spoke OF
the blessing OF peace which pre-
walls in our land while SO many 9TH
er nations are at gar. He spoke of
the past in remembrance of the de-
parted brothers. Though only a
remnant of the charter members re-
NAMED in the lodge. he called upon
John Olson whos voiced "reminiscences
of the inception of the lodge over
thirty years ago when the Ketchi-
kan lodge visited Wrangell. Mayor
Fisk and Frank Barnes rose to
give short talks IN tribute to the
organization and its work in the de-
Yelopment of the community.
The clever table decorations were
the work of Mrs. John Wellman and
Mrs. John Severson. From a center
piece which represented pilgrim
scene complete with miniature fig
ures, log cabin, and snow, streamers
of evergreens among which were
oranges painted to resemble pump
kins reached to the ends of the
board
Though their were several on the
committee to prepare the dinner,
many were not able to give up the
time, so the preparations fell mainly
into the hands of John Wellman.
What with the able kitchen crew
of carvers and servers, however the
dinner proceeded smoothly and the
service was of the best.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01
Alaska's Biggest Roundup
Will Take Place In Arctic;
S795,OOO Available For Deer

Back in the 1890s, the first rein
deer were brought to Alaska from
Siberia and turned over for super
vision to the Morayian missions
which dot the Arctic. In this year
1899 approximately 100000 of the
animals are wandering over the
tundra of the north, the large ma
tundra of the north, the large ma
ed Some belong 90 the Eskimos,
most of them to the whites, and
some of them are as free of owner
ship as the wind that bowls down
from the pole.
To Charles G. Burdick, Admins
trative Assistant in the q. S. Forest
Service and well known Alaskan,
has been given the complicated task
of going into the Arctic rounding up
the animals, buying them up in be-
half of the government and turn
ing them over for the exclusive use
of the native people of that vast
region from the Yukon to Point Bar
row.
Straight from Interior Secretary
Harold L: Ickes, with authority in
his jeans to draw on funds up to
S795,000. Burdick was aboard the
steamer Alaska when she stopped in
Wrangell Tuesday evening, bound
for the north and the biggest round
up Alaska has ever seen. Accom-
panying him was w. ]. Clark of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, who will
serve as his fiscal agent and draw
the checks when Burdick says the
word.
Born and reared in Montana, able
TO straddle a cayJse and cut and
brand and judge an animal on the
hoof long before he ever knew there
were reindeer in Alaska, Charley
Burdick was chosen by the Secretary
from vast field of possible selec-
lions as the man best qualified to go
round up the Eskimo bosseys He
was going on serenely with the bus
mess of administration of forests in
the Juneau office when the call
came from the Secretary of boots
and saddles, Charley, the reindeer
have busted down the corral. u
Forthwith, he departed for Wash
ington, winging across the nation
from Seattle by airplane to get his
instructions from the ranch boss
Secretary Ickes, thence back in an
other plane and now bound foI
Nome. via juneau where he viii
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01
TRAPPERS PREPARE
FOR SEASON WHICH
STARTS DECEMBER 10

With the season opening Decem-
Der 10, trappers are beginning to
take to the hills to get their lines
ready. They have dntil January Is
to make their catches, and can take
everything except beaver on which
the season is closed this year.
After the closed season last year,
trappers who already have been sur
yeying possible trapping grounds re-
port there is lots of signs of fur
his winter. One trapper said he had
not seen so much mink and marten
sign in years.
Lloyd and Al Binkley left yes
terday to put in the season on there
lines in the Snettishsham district,
going out on AIS boat, the Vaga-
bond. Jack and Mrs. Brinley al
ready are in the field and among
others going out from town are Al
Anderson, Ernest Nelson, Ray Ham
mer, William Wies and Charles
Moore.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01

pick up Mrs. Burdick who will &C
company him for his winter in the
Arctic.
Burdick has a big job to do and
until June 80 to do it, that being
the deadline when Congress has de-
creed the money will be available,
$4,000 for actual purchase and
$4,000 for administrative expense.
Alaska's biggest roundup is aimed
to get back to the original thought
of 1890 of supplying reindeer for
the native population of the north.
Through the years there has been
management and Encouragement.
Half a dozen different departments
have at one time or another had
something to do with the reindeer
but in the last few years it has been
assigned primarily to the Indian Of
flee. That bureau of the Interior de-
partment has fathered the idea of
buying back the deer which have
become largely white owned and
again distributing them among the
natives for their exclusive use. Con
gress after sending up an inVesti-
eating committee couple Of years
ago endorsed the plan and at the
last regular session set aside the
money.
A large number of native herders
will be employed through the win
ter months by Burdick in the round
up which will extend from Bethel to
far north of Kotzepue. With his
headquarters at NVme, the roundup
foreman will do his supervising of
the job from an airplane in order
to cover the vast expanse of coun-
try. After the animals are all herd
ed up, Burdick's job will just start
to get tough. 1t is then he will have
to decide which reindeer belong to
who, and how many This will be
particularly difficult because most
of the animals are not branded and
the certificates of ownership are In
adequate. A percentage plan, based
primarily on sound judgment, will
be put into effect to see that every
one receives according to what he
is justly entitled.
After the agreements have been
made, the checks signed and the
deer in possession of the govern
ment, they will De re-distributed
through the area, shipped to various
islands and again become a major
item in the livelihood of the Eski-
mo.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01
MRS. MORROW TELLS
OF QUAKE IN SEATTLE

Mrs. Troy Morrow returned to
Wrangell Tuesday ON the Alaska at
ter a three weeks visit to Seattle.
The most exciting part of her trip
was experienced in Seattle during
the severe earthquake that rocked
the northwest last week Mrs. Nor
row as in bed on the sixth floor OF
a Seattle hotel when she was
Weakened by the roar and swaying
of the building. With others she
ran into the street and found other
crowds pouring from other buildings
and shows, all thoroughly frighten-
ed. Despite warnings Mrs. Morrow
returned to her room to dress and
then later when il was evident no
repetitions of the quake were forth
coming she, and other hotel guests,
returned to bed.
But it was difficult to sleep,
Mrs. Morrow said. Zone never was
sure, and the shock we had been
through was real quake"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01
SENTINEL READERS
NOW SERVED BY
ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Sentinel. Alaska's oldest
continuously published newspap-
er, takes pleasure in announcing
this week that It has Joined the
Associated Press, the worlds lar
gest cooperative news gathering
agency.
Accurate. Interesting. broad
world coyerage will now be avail
able To The Ser dnels large fam
lily of readers through the Asso-
eiated Press for the first time.
Dispatches appearing in to-
days paper were filed this morn
ing. via Signal Corps. direct from
the Northwest and Alaska head
quarters of the Associated Press
in Seattle which is in contact
with every part of the world by
leased wire, cable. telephone and
radio.
The Sentinel also represents the
Associated Press in the matter of
news coyerage for this district
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01
Soviet Russia InvadeS
Finland; HeIsingfOrs
Reported In Flames

Finland apparently faced the choice
today between Two desperate alter
natives under pressure Of the Rus
sian invasion-to ignore the threat
to destroy her capital or choose lead
ers with whom the Soviet might
deal
Resignation of the Finnish gov
eminent attested the Films plight
"a hours after Russia had attacked
their country by land. sea aud air
The end of the first days firing
found Finland pummeled By swift
Russian blows from the lsthmus of
karelia. Just north of Lenfngrad.
almost to the border OF Tar northern
Norway. Red war plane bombs set
fire to part OF Helsingfors. the Fin
nish capital, taking at least 40 lives.
and partly RACED three towns in the
twenty-mile corridor TO the Arctic
ocean.
Red troops sWarmed across the
border onto Finnish soil at points
all along the frontier. The Red
fleet seized the finnish island of
seiskari in the Gulf of Finland and
began Smelling ynpuri and other
cities and towns.
Before the resignation of the Fin
nish Cabinet, Russia had broadcast
a warning of annihilation Of Hell
sinki unless an agreement was
reached by p. m. Thursday
Russia started the invasion after
charging Finnish troops had fired
shots across the border. This was
denied by the Firms.
Reports in Copenhagen said a new
Finnish government was being or
ganized with former Premier Toiyi
Mikael Kiyimaki as foreign minis
ter. The new government, reports
said, would probably try To arrange
a truce, then begin negotiations with
Moscow
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01
W0MENS CIVIC CLUB HOLDS
DECEMBER MEETING SATURDAY

The Womens Civic Club will hold
its regular meeting at 1870 tomor-
row afternoon at Civic Center. In
stead of the customary exchange OF
gifts between members a silver Of
fering will be presented to aid in
the furnishing of the new club
rooms.
In readiness for tomorrow's meet
ing the hostesses for the afternoon
Mrs. H. r. Coulter, Miss Harriet
Caldwell and Miss Helen Johnson,
have made the rooms gay with
Christmas decorations, complete to
tree and lights.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01

WASHINGTON, Dec. President
Roosevelt has indicated to conf
dants, it is said on good authority,
that he intends to restrict as much
as possible the controversial issues
to be submitted to the next congress
sional session in January, hoping for
early adjournment.
The regular appropriation bills,
national defense OUTLAWS and care of
the needy will be the principal items
to come before the session
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-12-01
Daladier Upheld
n French Crisis;
War Front Quiet
lBy= Associated Press

Premier Daladier of France. who
weathered a Cabinet crisis yester-
day. has won extension of his rights
to rule France by decree and resum-
ed today his plans TO prosecute the
war with Germany.
The British Admiralty reported
two British planes had downed
German Dornier seaplane over the
North Sea Wednesday. while the
French high command reported "one
of cur patrols successfully attacked
an enemy submarine
Calm was reported on the Western
Front.