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The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10
GENERAL PUBLIC INVITED
TO CIVIC CLUB PROGRAM

The Civic Club will hold the
March meeting at the dugout to-
morrow Saturday at one o'clock.
The hostesses will be Mrs. Thorn
quist, Mrs. Moe and Miss Mayber-
ny. The dessert will be served
promptly and a brief business meet
ing will follow.
At 2:30. patriotic program,
rounding out the Americanism Week
programs which have been given
since March first, will be presented.
1t will consist of songs, readings, a
talk by Rev. Arnold Krone, chair
man of the Elks Americanism Week
and an essay and talk by Patricia
Wies and Isobel Moore, respectively.
These students made outstanding
contributions to the school program
a week ago and those who did hot
hear them then will be given an
other opportunity to do SO. Men as
we'll as women are cordially invited
to attend and no admission is be-
ing charged.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10
ROED --N0FF

Word was received of the mar
riage of Elmer Roed of Wrangell
when he returned home Monday Oh
the North Coast Although the
bride did not accompany her hus-
band she will join him here in the
fall when he returns from the fish
ing grounds in Bristol Bay They
were married in San Francisco on
September 7th.
Mrs. Roed was formerly Miss Ell
izabeth Noff of Virginia and has
been employed as a secretary in the
offices of the Continental Insurance
Company in San Francisco for sew
eral years.
Wrangell has been home port for
Mr. Roed since 1885 when he came
here from the Westward and bought
the John Severson property across
from the J. R. Brown residence and
adjacent to Wrangell Park. He has
been a fisherman in Bristol Bay
since 1917 and a resident of the
Territory for sixteen years.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10
NO FURTHER SCRAP IRON
ACCEPTED AT ASTORIA

ASTORIA, Ore. - The port Of
Astoria served notice Saturday that
it viii not accept further scrap iron
for shipment TO japanese ports.
This resolution by the port auth
critics broke an s-day deadlock
caused when Chinese formed a pick
ct line before the Japanese freight
er Norway Maru, protesting a pro
posed shipment of q cars of scrap.
Longshoremen refused 10 go
through the line TO load the ship,
even after an arbiter ruled such
refusal was violation of the long
shoremen's agreement
The pickets insisted the IRON would
be used to manufacture war mater
ials. With adoption of the resolu-
tion, protesting school children and
others withdrew from the ship and
longshoremen began loading the yes
sci.
Harry Bridges, west coast CI0
chief, and others said Astoria's ac-
ton in refusing further shipments
might be a precedent for other
ports on the Pacific coast.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10
PETER NC C0RMACK, JR. WEEDS
IN SEATTLE ON FEBRUARY 13

Peter c. Mccormack Jr returned
on the Northland late Friday after
noon from Seattle
On February Is he was married
at St. James Cathedral in Seattle
to Miss Mary Frances Parr of EY-
erett. Wash, the Rev Father o.
Neil. pastor. Miss Madeline Kelly
acted as bridesmaid and Leo Kelly
as best man.
Following the ceremony a deli
eious wedding breakfast was served
to a group of 30 guests at the home
of Mrs. W. A. ely, 525 10Th avenue
North Miss Julia Kelly. an aunt.
presided al the table, assisted by
Miss Helen Walsh, Miss Mary Bren-
nan and Mrs. Fred Baker
Wrangeu friends present at the
ceremony included Mrs j. g. Cal
vim Mr. and Mrs. A. W. H. Smith
and Mr.. and Mrs. W T. Hale.
The bride is a nurse at the Seat
tie General Hospital. She did not
accompany her husband to Wran-
CELL but will join him here some
time in July.
Mr.. Mccormack IS the son of Mr.
and Mrs P. c, Mccormack, prom
inent pioneer residents of Wran-
CELL. He was born in Wrangell and
received his schooling in the local
schools and at Gonzaga University
at Spokane
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10
SENATE THRIFTY WITHHOLDs
BOND INTEREST FROM BENSON

Ben Benson. the boy who designed
the Alaska flag. is going to get the
$1,000 fund set up for him BY the
1929 Legislature but he isn't going
to get $335.85 in interest which his
bond on deposit in the Treasurer's
safe has earned, the Senate voted
last week in a rare show of penny
pinehing.
Ben. it seems, has moved to Sc
attic, is married and about to be-
come a father and wants to study
diesel engineering, which isn't
taught at the University of Alaska,
where the Ben Benson fund was TO
be spent under terms of the act
passed by the 1929 Legislature.
Ben wants his money.
Senators, arguing that Ben mas
not lived up to his part of the agree
menta which was to attend the Uni
Yersity of Alaska in order to collect
the money, voted five TO three to
pocket the interest on behalf of the
Territory
"Why doesn't this boy come back
and attend the University of Alas
ka." asked Senator Roden rhetori-
cally, instead of going to some 9TH
er school"
Because he doesn't want to learn
to play basketball, he wants to
learn diesel engineering Senator
Joe Holman quipped.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10
MISS BETTY BARNES TO BE
MARRIED IN JUNE

At a delightful tea given yesterday
afternoon by Mrs. F. S. Barnes as
sisted by Miss Dorisanne Barnes, the
engagement of Miss Betty Barnes
was announced, the announcement
coming as a complete surprise to the
group of friends who had been in
Yited to honor Mrs. Amy T. Reed
of Seattle who is spending a few
days in Wrangell.
After the guests had assembled,
tiny booklets, the work of Miss
D0risanne. were distributed. They
were eleverly decorated with a fig
ure peering through a keyhole and
the contents were arranged radio
announcer fashion. On the last page
following the Winchellistic Flash!
came the announcement from Ketch-
kan, Its wedding bells in June
for Betty Barnes and Clarence Hen
ming at Wrangelr'.
The afternoon was spent in sew
ing and the guest Of honor was
presented with a dainty guest prize.
Assisting at the tea table were Mrs.
H D. Campbell and Mrs. J. H.
Clements.
Mrs. Reed is the sister of Mrs e.
NJ. Campbell and is making the trip
on the North Coast with her son
Ted who is assistant purser. She
will return to Seattle tomorrow.
Miss Barnes. for whom the an
nouncement was made, is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs F. S.
Barnes Following her graduation
from Oregon State in 1887 she
taught Home Economics in the On
tario, oregon high school and was
then elected in charge of the Home
Economics at Ketchikan. Mr.. Hen
ming is coach and history teacher
in Ketchikan high school. His home
is in Cheney, Wash, where he was
graduated from the State Teachers
College.
Following their marriage, Mr..
and Mrs. Henning will spend the
summer in Seattle where he will at
tend summer sessions at the Uni
versity of Washington to complete
his work for a masters degree after
which they will return to Ketchi-
kan.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10
NEW COMPANY TO WORK
TENAKEE GYPSUM BEDS

The old gypsum deposits in Iyou-
keen cove, near Tenakee, will be
developed again. according to infor-
nation revealed by Dave Housel
Juneau man who has just returned
from a trip outside during which
time he made arrangements for
working the property with a new
company, the Camel Gypsum COM
pany.
Housed said he would leave for
the property soon with a small
crew of workmen for driving piling
for a wharf and to erect a power
plant preparatory to opening mining
operations again.
The deposit was first staked in
1910 and worked spasmodically for
a few years. With gypsum bringing
around $3.50 to SO a ton, and the
market showing more stability, it
is hoped the Iyoukeen deposits will
develop considerably, he said
Ordinary drift mining methods
will be used, probably with finger
stopping and the ore shipped in bulk
to markets outside.
Purity of the ore, Housed said,
is 995 per cent and sometimes
richer than that
Odd in a mining sense, in this
part of the panhandle, gypsum de-
posits are OF arid semi-desert sedi-
mentary origin which would in
dictate that Southeastern Alaska did
not always have the heavy rainfall
it experiences at the present time
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10

NOTICE OF HEARING ON FINAL.
ACCOUNT AND REPORT
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA
FIRST DIVISION, WRANGELL
PRECINCT.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF LEONARD NJ. CHURCH
ILL, DECEASED.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that
the administrator of the above en-
titled estate of Leonard M. Church.
ill, deceased, has made and filed his
final account and report, and that
April "a, 1899, at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, in the office of the I'm
tied States Commissioner for Wran-
gell Precinct, Wrangell, Alaska, has
been appointed as the time and place
for hearing objections to said final
account and report.
Notice is further given that the
court at such hearing will adjudi-
cate and decree who the heirs and
distributes of said estate are.
Dated WraHgell, Alaska, February
"a, 1899.
(SEAL) Richard suratt,
Probate Judge.
Publication dates: February "a,
March 3, 10. II, 1888.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10
PASSENGER LIST

The following persons have taken
passage recently from Wrangell:
Yukon, Feb. 2S-To Juneau, Mrs
Florence Syverud, A Van Malvern.
Northland, Mar 3-To Petersburg
A. Florence, C. C. Mundy; Fred
Dolphin to Juneau.
North Coast, March 6--Father
Monroe to Petersburg.
Baranof, March 8-To Seattle
Mrs Angelina Tillery; Mr.. and Mrs,
u. NJ Bradford.
Northland. March 5-Mrs. H.
Scanlon to Seattle.
Princess Norah, March 5-To Sc
attic, John Kaer, Charles McCiin-
tick.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10
HOSPITAL NOTES

A boy, weighing pounds, Il
ounces, was born on March to Mrs.
Newton, wife of Captain Richard
Newton, in charge of the Salvation
Army work at KIawock.
Fred Barthold was re-admitted to
the hospital March as a medical
patient.
Hugh Campbell and Essendorp
Ordal were admitted ON March as
medical patients.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10
CITY COUNCIL TIKEs ACTION
CLEAN TITLE SHAKES ISLAND

The eity council It q special meet
ing this week delegated 70 Charles
Burdick. Forest Service official, full
authority to close with Axel Ras-
mussen, former Wrangell Public
School superintendent. for the pur-
chase of his interest in Shakes Is
land. kSk
land. II title to the island is cleared,
several thousand dollars will be
available at once for the restoration
of totem poles, the communal house
and other Indian antiquities on the
island.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10
ST. PATRICK's DAY TEA

A continuous musical program
will be presented during the after
noon of Friday, March II at the
Legion Dugout, where the Altar So
eiety will hold its annual silver
tea, from 2:30 to o'clock. ac-
eording to announcement made to-
day by the secretary, Mrs. Robert
Murphy.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10

two weeks Revival Campaign
at the Assembly of God Mission con-
Quoted by Rev. Rebb of California,
will begin Sunday Evening at 100
o'clock. March the 18th. The public
is invited to attend.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10
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A daughter was born to Mrs. Lor-
ance Eickworth at Keller hospital,
North Bend, Oregon, on February
%, according to announcements re-
ceived here this week Mrs Eick-
worth was formerly Miss Clara
Mann, teacher at Wrangell Insti-
tute.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-03-10

Mr.. and Mrs. q, NJ Bradford took
passage on the Baranof for ten
day stay in Seattle where Mr..
Bradford will attend a meeting of
Standard Oil Company agents.
Frank Gadd returned on the North
Coast from Seattle where he has
been a patient for the past month
in the Marine Hospital
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-21
TRADITION UPSET
 IN MAJOR CASES
Continued from Page D

(Continued from Page D first murder trial in his judicial career.
 The next move in the procedure of the trial is with the defense lawyers, who will file with Judge In- glis before Tuesday, suggestions for his charge. The suggestions are statements which would be in favor of the defendants. Special Prose- cutor Alcorn will also file such re- quests, but in different vein.
 Court will convene August 1 for Judge Inglis' decision on the mo- tions for directed acquittal verdicts and for the opening state arguments, which will be placed before the jury by Assistant Special Prosecutor Hugh M. Alcorn, Jr.
 Defense arguments will follow, with Attorney James D. c. Murray counsel for Mayor Frank Hayes summing up last. He will be fol- lowed by arguments for the state by Assistant Special Prosecutor Harold E. Mitchell, and the final summa- ton will be given by Special Prose- cutor Alcorn.
 Judge Inglis will charge the jury and the jury will retire to chambers for deliberations. Counsel are in anticipation of verdict about the 16th or 17th of August.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-21
Polish Guards Staying
 Forgotten F or Peace
Continued from Page 1)

Sicily and creating 10000 small farms within ten years would now be put into effect at a cost of some O0,000 900. The premier said he expected the population of Sicily to double and its productiveness to be vastly increased.
 Jap-British Pact
 There were indications, too, of progress toward an agreement be- tween Japan and Great Britain in the Far East after 1t had been re- ported that the United States was cool toward British informal in- quiry as to whether Washington wanted to participate in the negoti- ations.
 The Japanese foreign minister and Britain's ambassador were said to have agreed on basic formula for negotiations which would permit them to get down to practical dis- cussion of Japan's desire that Brit ain cooperate in the Japanese pro- gram in China. The formula was understood to call for Britain to rec ognize the necessities" under which the Japanese army is operating in North China-that is, to admit that a state of war exists and thus to facilitate Japan's efforts to enforce wartime blockade and other men, euvers against the Chinese. The formula was submitted to London for approval.
 Assassination Plot
 While Japan's Emperor Hirohito reviewed the massed imperial battle fleet in vast display of naval strength regarded as a hint to Brit ani, the police at Tokyo disclosed that 8 plot to assassinate three of Japans most influential personages had been frustrated on July IS.
 Three men described as tools for higher ups" and suspected of foster- ing anti-British feeling. were seized with explosives and documents show ing that Count Makino, Kurahei Yuasa, and Viscount Yoshitami Mat sudaira were the intended victims of the plot. All are members of the imperial household and close advis- CTS to the emperor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-21
LABOR DEPT. HEAD
 ISSUES REQUEST

Hartford, Conn.,, July 2i-(UP)- State Labor Commissioner Cornelius J. Danaher today requested WpA workers, laid of as result of the la months work ruling, not to swamp state employment ofices seeking jobs.
 We have recently completed a check of the WPA payrolls against our files." Danaher said. ''and all WPA workers registration cards are contained in the active file. There is no need. therefore. for the WPA workers who are laid oil to visit the employment ofiices at once. Ar. rangements have been made to rein- terview discharged workers over the next two weeks. In the meantime, the workers who have been laid of may assume that they will be given proper consideration for positions in private employment. should erdsrs be received"
 Approximately e,000 relief work. er6 will lose their iobs in Conneeti. cut by August si. state AdministFa-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-21
SPRINKLER CHECKS
 BLAZE IN OFFICE

A short circuit fire in the office of the Laube Interstate Trucking Company, 1144 South Main street, was put out by the sprinkler system shortly after 4 o'clock this morning.
 Residents of the neighborhood were awakened by the clamor of the automatic alarm on the premises which were started when the sprinkler head blew off
 An alarm from Box 47 brought Engines 3. {. 10 Truck 1. and the Booster to the scene. Office supplies were damaged by water.
 Lieut.. Eugene 4. Legge of the marshal's staff, investigated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-21

(Continued from Page D no indication that he plans to take the issue of neutrality to the country.
 No Immediate Issues
 There can't be any immediate is- sue before the country, he said, be- cause groups in the Senate have pre- cluded any action until next January.
 He noted that at his conference with Democratic and Republican Senate leaders this week, he was i1- formed that 100 per cent of Senate Republicans and about one-third of the Senate Democrats would sup- port the movement to prevent a vote on neutrality. Under Senate rules, he said, such a large group could pre- vent action, and those groups must accept full responsibility for their decision.
 Seated in his study at his Hyde park estate, MT. Roosevelt reviewed at some length the White House conference. The keystone of neutral ity program is repeal of the provi- sion for arms embargoes against belligerents and MT. Roosevelt con- firmed newspaper stories which quoted him as telling the conferees that he wanted the neutrality re- vision to give him ammunition to fire antoher shot in the cause of world peace.
 Not Too Bitter
 He said, however, that stories that the conference was bitter were made out of whole cloth. There was only one disagreement during the conference, he said, and that came when Senator William E. Borah, R., Ida, veteran isolationist, intimated very clearly that his information from Europe was better than the information received by the United States government.
 Secretary of State Cordell Hull, the president said, challenged Borah on that belief, but Borah stood by his guns. This exchange, MT. Roose- welt recalled, transpired in rather precise parliamentary language.
 When it became clear, during the conference that the Republicans would vote in a body to postpone action and Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, informed him that substantial group of Demo- crats would vote with the Republ- cans, nobody had to say any more the matter was finished, the Pres ident said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-21
LENDING BILL
 CUTS SOUGHT
Continued from Page D


 was said to have declared that he needed no additional borrowing power, and that he was in a DO. sition also to handle the proposal by Sen. James M. Mead, D., New York, to provide government insur- ance for small loans to business, without the necessity for new legis- lation.
 President Roosevelt's original pro- posal for the lending program con- templated a $3.060, ,000, 900 .authoriza. tion for various projects over a two to seven-year period. Revisions made by the administration to eliminate some of the opposition to the bill makes the total now $2.s00 900 900. The amounts to be set aside would be for the following:
 Public roads administration, $780, 000. GOO: public works administration, ss50. 100000: REC s500.00o. 900; rural electrification administration, $500. 100000: agriculture department 9G00. 900 900. and the export -import bank. eiO0.O00.000.
 Tn addition there is a separate bill t0 increase the authorization of the c. @. Housing Authority from eeo0,. oCoo00 e ef 600 100000 That is con. sidered by the president ss part oI his lending program and would maks the total eJ.6oo.o .oo0I0o0.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-21

It is estimated that there is enough gypsum in the area to supply the world commercially for 60,000 years.
 Now a national monument in the U. s. Park Service, the White Sands have the appearance of great piles of granulated sugar, rippled by the wind and blown into drifts from 30 to 60 feet high. It is 8 world of white mo vegetation grows in the heart of the sands-and the animal and insect life of the dunes-field mice, lizards, crickets, beetles-have taken on a white coloring as protection from their natural enemies. Dunes Slowly Advancing
 Prevailing winds from the south west pack the sands and cover tracks made by animals and visitors alike. Occasional gusts pick up 8 swirl of sand, moving the dunes to- ward Alamogordo.
 From this eddying movement of air and sand has sprung Spanish legend of the Pavlo Blanco, or the White Wrath, the ghost of beauti- full woman dressed in the flowing white robes of her wedding gown. who comes nightly to skim over the ridges and drop into the shadows be- yond, searching for her lover, lost and buried in the Great White Sands.
 The area covered by the sands is in the lowest part of the vast valley between the Sacramento mountains and the San Andreas range. Water can be found within few feet of the surface. It is the presence of this water that packs the sand hard be- tween the dunes and makes possible automobile travel even where there are no roads between the ridges.
 Although of chemically pure gyp- sum, from which wall board, tile, plaster of paris, sheetrock and fire- proof building material are made. the 176,000 acres of piled white sand is worth only 5 cents a ton. Every part of the earth is plentifully supplied with gypsum, though not in as pure a state as here, and consequently this deposits chief value is as a white |
 sand fairyland.
 The sands are in constant process of making and are moving toward Alamogordo an average of inches a year over their 30-mile front. At present they are about IS miles from Alamogordo, with a paved state high way skirting them and a road lead- ing into the heart of the dunes. The national monument last year had 10000 visitorJ.
 Known as the Great White Sands, there is not q particle of sand in the area. The dunes are crystlas of aii- hyirous calcium sulphate and not silica or quartz like ordinary sand.
 It is believed that the sands were formed when an inland lake or sea dried up thousands of years ago and left the crystals to be piled up by the prevailing southwest wind.
 To the west of the sands is an old lake bed which is drying up and working itself out by forming crys- tals Of seneite--pure gypsum like the sands but of different crystal struc- ture.
 0eoiogists ave advanced c theory that iiood waters from the surround
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-21

pends upon the attitude of Germany and the success of the security front in stalling off a new war threat. At the moment the con- ciliatory attitude of the Reich to- ward danzig-on the surface at least--appeared to offer some hope of progress later. An indication of the trend may come next week when Hitler is e pected to meet again with the Danzig Nazi eladers at Berchtesgaden.
 A desire to concentrate more or peace time progress than on war preparations also was hinted in Rome, where Premier Benito Mus- solini announced that his plan for breaking up the great estates of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-21
PRESIDENT SAYS
 BOOM IS KILLED

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-21

the state public utilities commission today.
 The commission yesterday author ized the New England Power Com pany to buy New Hampshire Trans mission Lines of the Connecticut River Power Company and the pro- perties of the Bellows Falls Hydro electric Corporation.
 The New England Power Com pany is incorporated in Massachu- sets, Bellows Falls in Vermont, and the Connecticut group in New
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-21

ing mountain ranges dissolve these selenite crystals and, because of the rapid evaporation in the desert air, form the white sand crystals. It is possibly because of the rapid evaporation that the crystals are here and no place else in the world.
 Because the gypsum crystals con- tain no nitrogen. no plant life can survive on the dunes. The only vege- tation grows in the open spaces be- tween the drifts. though some species are able to push their way through the dunes and appear to be growing on them. There is some animal and insect life on the sandn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-21
BUILDING PERMITS

The following permits have been Issued at the office of Building Inspector Patrick CafIin;
 Robert and Einma plel. te erect garage at els Park read, s3oe.
 Arthur WarfeI, te erect garage st sz BiFchwoed ayenus, s5s9.