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The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
C OF C ENDORSES PETITION
FOR CITY WATER ON FLOATS

Endorsement of the petition to
the city council submitted by W. G.
Wies, agent of the Wrangell local
A. S. P. S. u, asking that water
be installed at the city float in the
inner harbor, was voted Monday by
the chamber of commerce. The pc
tition is also endorsed by the AT.A
Frank Reed, delegate.
The petition calls attention to the
fact that the only water available
in Wrangell's inner harbor is at the
floats of the Standard Oil Company
and the Union Oil Company. Con-
sequently, fishermen living on their
boats during the winter months are
compelled to carry water in cans
over a long distance and under
trying conditions.
1t is stated that the cash expen-
diture for extension of a water line
to the float could be limited to ma
terial as there are a number of res
ident fishermen who are willing to
furnish the labor in exchange for
credit on bills now due the city.
The final paragraph asks in the
event of favorable action that water
be installed within the next two
months to enable fishermen now idle
to aid in this improvement.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
Need Of Gridirons For Fishermen
Pointed Out By WieS

installation of radio interference APP
planes. This, no doubt, is very es-
sential. We hope it lessons the inter
ference but it is not apt to bring
any revenue to the city; on the 9TH
er hand a good gridiron built so as
to allow a large boat on an average
tide, would more TIM pay its own
way as proven by other cities.
Wrangell will remain in the rut
until these conditions are corrected
1t is up to the City Council to con
slider the boat owner as well as the
car owner; To consider the home
owner rather than the corporation
After all, the home owner pays his
taxes. Why not the cannery? Work
for the betterment of the commun-
ity as a whole rather than the in
diyidual.
Respectfully Submitted,
W. G. WIES.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
5 ACRES TO Be
DREDGED IN
WRANGELL HBR.

A report has been made on the
pending proposition Tor the improve
ment of Wrangell Harbor. and is
partially favorable to the Inn
proYement desired, according to
word received here from John C. II.
Lee. Colonel. Corps of Engineers.
North Pacific Division, at Portland.
The report recommends that the
existing project be modified to pro-
vide a basin east of Shakes Island
with an area of about 5 acres to
accommodate about zoo small boats;
provided: that Wrangeu interests
will within Il months after com
pletion of the basin. install in the
new basin sufficient floats and
moorings to accommodate 200 small
boats at one time and will, when
found necessary by the Secretary OF
War, install additional moorings in
the present basin for the accom-
mediation of 200 additional boats.
The principal reason, Colonel Lee
states, for limiting the recommend
ed basin to 8 acres. rather than 5
acres as proposed by the Town OF
Wrangell and the Wrangell Cham
Der OF Commerce, is the excessive
amount of rock excavation and cost
thereof required for the larger bas-
in.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
ICkes Wants Passage
s Percent Gold Tax

JUNEAU, ALASKA, Jan. ~
Especial to the Sentinel senator
Walkers cocktail bill was reported
fayorably out of the Senate Com
mittee yesterday with Chairman
Coehrane disagreeing.
The liquor question occupies the
attention of the House this after
noon to the exclusion of all else.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes'
letter to Governor Troy demanding
an per cent gold tax was read be
fore the House with comment re-
served until later. The dictatorial
tone of the message irked everyone
Ickes asked that leg islation be
presented to him before being pre-
sented on the floor. The senator's
refused to introduce such a bill so
Attorney General James Truitt has
drafted one calling for a 5 per cent
gross gold license tax which is un-
introduced as yet.
Senator Walker has introduced
bill to establish director of Grim
inaI investigation with headquar-
ters at Ketchikan. The committee
has reported favorably.
Senator "Alabam' La Boyteaux
has presented measure to halt sell
ing liquor to Indians, Eskimos and
Aleuts.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
Local Popularity Girl
Is Married In Arizona

Mrs. T. w. Tillery, formerly Miss
Angelina Burnett, returned on the
Mount Mckinley Monday night with
Wesley Jones, 22-months' old son of
her sister, Mrs. Agnes Jones, who
was struck and killed by an auto
mobile in Long Beach, California,
on December End.
The Wrangell girl was to have
been married the following day but
postponed the wedding until after
the funeral. Following the accident
she went to live with the parents
of Mr.. Tillery in Los Angeles. The
wedding took place on December IL
at Yuma, California. The groom's
mother, sister and brother accom-
panied the young couple on the
eight-hour auto trip.
Mrs Tillery tells with loving
gratitude of the kindness of her
husband at the time of her sisters
death. He paid all funeral expenses
and in anticipation of the body's be-
ing shipped to Wrangell for burial,
had a surgeon close the gaping head
and face wounds and then had the
body embalmed.
Mrs. Tillery plans to spend two
months here with her mother, Mrs
Clarence Lewis, and is urging Mrs.
Lewis to return with her to Long
Beach with the three of the five
children of Mrs JOne's which Mrs
Lewis is keeping. Mr.. Tillery who is
first class petty officer on the USS
Arizona, is leaving for a four
months cruise to the Hawaiian is
lands but instead of going to Homo
lulu during his stay there, Mrs
Hillery prefers to have her mother
visit her in California.
Mr.. and Mrs Tillery met a year
ago in Seattle where she was sent
as the Wrangell winner in a pop
ularity contest.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
Barnes Again Heads
Chamber of Commerce

The recent Chamber of Commerce
organization meeting of the year was
attended by a good representation OF
the town as a whole, nineteen men
having been present.
In the election of officers Frank
S. Barnes was reelected president,
and L. B. Chisholm, secretary-treas-
urer, Mr.. Chisholm for the third
year will serve without pay. H B.
Thornquist was elected vice presi.
dent.
The executive board elected, com
prises the chairmen of the commit
tee as follows:
Mail, Transportation and Trails
Leo Mccormack
Membership = ]. J. Coulter.
Entertainment = q. NJ. Bradford.
Totem Poles and Shakes Island
Project = w. C. Waters.
Publicity and Advertising = F
G. Hanford
Federal Building - Van H. Fisk
Harbor Improvements = T. ]. Nc
Bride.
Each chairman will select at least
two members to serve with him 1t
was voted to continue the weekly
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
MINISTER'S ASK LEGISLATORS FOR
BETTER LAWS CONTROLLING LIQUOR

years of age or over. and that this
permit be revoked for drunkenness,
resale of liquor purchased, giving
liquor to minors. and for giving liq-
uor to those not already qualified
to purchase liquor at a Territorial
liquor store.
Should the Legislature see fit
to leave the sale of beers and wines
in private control, we recommend
that
L. Such sale be limited to those
places whose exclusive business it
shall be to make such sales.
2. Such places be required to keep
reasonable hours No such places of
business should be open past mid
night, nor more than twelve hours
in any twenty-four, nor to be open
on Sundays. holidays or election
days.
8 No entertaining of any sort,
no women, nor minors be employed
in such places of business.
4 No minors be permitted to en-
ter to purchase or to loiter in such
places of business.
5. No display of any merchandise
be permitted in the windows or
doorways of such places of business
4 It should be the policy of ne
Territory to establish no liquor
stores in native communities. nor to
issue any beer or wine licenses to
dealers in such communities.
5. - The right of local option be
reserved to each community, ineor-
porated or unincorporated, for the
exclusion of the sale of liquor, beers
and wines.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
Teachers Minimum
Wage Bill introduced

A bill introduced in the House
of Representatives by Representa-
tive Coffey last Friday sets teach
ers' minimum wages and requires
the Dept. of Education and school
boards of incorporated cities to pay
a graduated scale by divisions.
Teachers in the First Division
would have their minimum yearly
wage at $500, Third Division. ST.
$50. and Second and Fourth Diyi-
sions, $1,000.
Beginning with the second year
under this act. minimum salaries
shah be increased for a maximum
of s45 per annum for 10 years
Teachers now employed shall be
credited with time already taught
House Joint Resolution No. ? was
introduced by Representative Drager
to prevent amy agency or office"
of the Territorial Government to
incur any deficiencies after the ex-
haustion of Legislative appropria-
tions.
1
eussion a few days previously on the
House floor when Drager condemn
ed the action of certain Territorial
offices in mourning "unwarranted'
office expense deficiencies.
Drager said at that time We've
got to do something to prevent these
offices from going into debt through
the Territorial Treasury for any
thing they see fit and then sending
up the deficiency memorandums and
expect US to rubber stamp them. His
resolution states that such contin-
ued action, in disregard of the Orr
ganic Acts provisions, would lead
to disaster in Territorial finances.
The draft of the Governors de-
ficit appropriation bill given to the
House on January 10, showed de-
ficiencies for the period from April
l, 1897 to March 81, 1898, total
ing $174,786.87
The deficits are in the following
offices: Attorney Generals, S1,05O,
the Auditors office $4,000. Treasur-
er's office, $4,000 contingent ex-
penses and $4,000 for payment of
wolf and coyote bounties, Depart
ment of Mines, $1,750, office of the
Department of Public Welfare. So
S94.46 and for relief of needy, in
digent and destitute, $72,49241.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
MATANUSKA FUR FARMER
RULED OUT OF COLONY

Because a member of the Mat
anuska farm colony can't be a mink
rancher, Ballard Dean, his wife and
their five children went south last
week on the steamer Mount Nc
Kinley
The Matanuska family are going to
the state of Washington to seek a
new location for their mink ranch
which was ruled out of the govern
ment-sponsored farming colony last
year by Ross Shelly, director.
Dean said he pelted 100 prime
furs last year. He went to Mat
anuska from Wisconsin with the
second contingent of colonists which
came to Alaska from the middle
west in May. 1855
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
Interesting Cover" From S. Africa
Received By Stamp Collector

In a recent mail there arrived
from South Africa a large envelope
or cover" for Joel Wing, local
stamp collector.
The cover, six by nine inches, is
unusually large and Wing con-
siders it one of the most interesting
in his collection. 1t bears eight
stamps of the Voortrekker Monu-
ment series, commemorative of the
oxwagon trek of 1888 of the old
Dutch colonists in search of freedom
from British rule.
The stamps were issued for the
single purpose of being used on
covers mailed in Capetown ON Au-
gust 8, 1898, and all of the points
along the route of the old OK wag-
ON days of 1888, up to and including
Pretoria on December IA, 1898.
Transported by OK teams the mail
bags contained covers only. The
covers are decorated by scene of
16-ox team struggling up a NOUN
tain pass with the snubbing post
depicting the difficulties of the pre-
ceding wagon in descending the
slope on the other side.
1t is interesting to Americans who
ordinarily do not interest them
selves in stamps for the reason that
the history of the South African
voortrekkers Ia In some ways the
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27

At special bond election Jan
uary 16, the people of Klawock
voted overwhelmingly-73 to lin
favor of bond issue not exceeding
$4,000.
The Klawock bond issue will be
used to finance the city's share of
a PWA project for a city water
works. AS is customary, the PWA
will pay about half of the cost of
the project, which probably will be
in the neighborhood of $4,000.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
Wrangell Sentinel
Madam Editor:

Wrangell Sentinel
Madam Editor:
1t is my belief that if the Town
of Wrangell is to prosper, numerous
improvements are needed. The in
stallation OF water and lights on the
city floats will, no doubt, attract
fishermen, who in the past have
wintered in ports far removed from
the fishing center.
With the realization of an inner
harbor and a first class Cold Stor-
age Wrangell will without question
become one of the leading cities
of southeastern Alaska; In the mean
time any added convenience INSTALL
ed in the harbor, will attract more
fishermen and bigger and better
boats
At the present time boat owner
wishing to paint his boat is COM
PEELED to wait his turn to be pulled
upon the ways at considerable cost
and loss of time. Therefore the
need of city gridiron is of the ut
most Importance. All other cities
have this convenience. and at the
present time Ketchikan is building
several additional gridirons.
The practice of allowing free wa
ter and minimum power rates to the
industrial plants while taxing the
individual the maximum rate has
discouraged the prospective home
owner.
Likewise the council in the pas
has been more concerned with bach
street Improvement, than harbol
Improvement. The cost of city motor
vehicle licenses has been reduced
from SIS to $3.50 but the heavy and
continuous expense of street main.
tenance is paid from the general
fund
The council recently approved tn.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
COCKTAIL BILL
WOULD RETURN
SALOONS ALAS.

JUNEAU. - Alaska will go back
to the old saloon days if Bill No.
10 presented to the Senate by Nor
man R. Walker passes the Iegis-
lature.
Walkers bill would put hundreds
of small beer joints" in the Ter
ritory out of business by raising the
dispensary license fee from $500 to
$500.
Under the bill the holder of the
license would have the right to sell
or serve liquor-beer, wine or hard
drinks-on the premises. In the case
of wine. the sale would be limited
to less than five gallons to any one
person in one day.
Legislation for the regulation Of
liquor has come before the past two
legislatures and the present option
law was the outcome of a special
session two years ago after legisla-
tors failed to reach an agreement
during the regular session. At that
time Rep McCuteheon introduced an
open saloon bill but it failed to pass
The local option method has had
many criticizers and it was predi0
ted before the 1899 session began
that the liquor question would be
one of the hottest" to come before
the Legislators.
In introducing his bill today
Walker said the law would eliminate
cheap tawdry places now selling
intoxicants."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
CLUB OPENS READING ROOM
FEBRUARY AND MARCH

The Civic Club is glad to an
nounce that the reading room at the
library will be kept open evenings
from to 8 during February and
March, beginning February /. with
the exception of Saturday and Sun
day nights. Periodicals and news
papers will be on hand for those
who wish to spend a quiet evening
If the experiment is a success, the
reading room will be re-opened
again next fall for the entire win
ter.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27

history of our own covered wagon
days.
One feature of the Voortrekker
centenary stamps is the use of them
in collecting funds for a Voortrek-
ker Monument. The eight stamps
on the cover show a total postal
value of thirteen pence with an ad-
ditional seven pence charged the
purchaser and evidently to be used
for a monument. Wing states that
anyone who cares to see the cover,
is welcome to look it over at the Of
flee of Railway Express where it
will be kept for the next week or
two.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
TRANSFER OF FISHERIES
TO TERRITORY SOUGHT

WASHINGTON, D. C. = A bill
introduced in the House by Delegate
Dimond on January II would trans
fer jurisdiction, supervision, ad
ministration, and control over tho
salmon and other fisheries of AL
aska. except the fur-sea1 and sea
otter fisheries, from the Depart
ment of Commerce to the Territory
of Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
CANNERY WORKERS ELECT
OFFICERS FOR COMING YEAR

Mrs. Loyal Binkley was elected
president of the Cannery Workers
Auxiliary Union last Friday.
The full list of officers elected to
serve for the coming year follows:
President, Jewel Binkley.
Vice Pres, Ann Dunkelberger.
Agent, Sec. -Treas., James B. Caul-
ey.
Sgt. -at-arms, Joe Hernandez.
Executive Board Ethel Casey,
Frank Desmond Mae Hanford, Viola
LOTUS, Anna Person, Chas. Sadler.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
IDAHO MAN SUGGESTED
TO SUCCEED FRANK BELL

WASHINGTON, D. C. Senator
Clark, republican of Idaho, has re-
commended to Secretary Hopkins
the appointment of Claude Drake of
American Falls, Idaho, as federal
fisheries commissioner succeeding
Frank Bell, resigned.
For the past eight years. Drake
has served as Idaho state fish com
missioner.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
+ THE HONEYMOON IS OVER!

+ NEWTON ROAD, B. C.-Be-
+ cause his wife would not sup
+ port him, e. C. Elliott has ap-
4 piled for relief. Elliott came
4 here a year ago from Ontario.
+ soon after he arrived he insert
4 cd the following advertisement
+ in a local newspaper:
IAN educated man wishes to
+ meet a refined widow with
+ means"
+ The advertisement was an
+ swered and the marriage took
+ place. Now Elliott has applied
" for relief because, he claims,
y his wife will not support me
= as she promised"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27

luncheon meetings for the present
L. B. Chisholm was asked to re-
present the Wrangell Chamber at
the meeting of the Territorial
chamber of commerce which was
scheduled to convene at Juneau on
January %.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1939-01-27
TWENTY YEARS WITH
THE WRONG WOMEN

Thirty-eight years-old Chain
Rozenholts of Warsaw claims
that he has divorced rs wives.
II want to bring up the num-
Der to 50", he said in a Press
interview, land then shall be
; satisfied"
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over the great
SCENIC ROUTE
TO YELLOWSTONE
and the PACIFIC
Northwest

Visit Seattle's waterfront; climb
glaciers on Mt. Rainier and Mt.
Baker; cruise on Puget Sound to
British Columbia OF up the Inside
Passage" to Alaska,
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Pacific route: and that of the Mil
waukee Road.
BY contrast, the Great Northern
alone reaches Glacier Park, far up
on the Montana Alberta boundary
line, while at Mount Rainier, several
Of the foregoing lines again serve
this majestic peak, with its eternal
covering of snow pointing to the sky
well above the 14,00O-foot level.
Rocky Mountain Park, in Colo
RADIO, is reached by the North West
ern-Union Pacific, with their yellow
and-broWn streamlined City of Dem
yer overnight from Chicago), while
the Colorado capital also is reached
by the Missouri Pacif1cs the Rock
Island. the Burlington and the Santa
Fe. The Yosemite is tapped by the
Southern Pacific.
Grand Canyon, whose walls re-
echo to the clicking of tourists
cameras and their exclamation of
Obs and Abs" as the amazing
panorama changes from gold to red,
as the suns rays play upon its vivid
hues, has two "gateways" One may
go in from the south. on the Santa
Fe, or from the north. by means of
the colorful South Utah parks tours
of the North Western-U Union Pacific.
the trip including motor journeys
through Bryce Canyon, Zion Park,
Kaibab Forest and the Cedar
Breaks.
These motor tours are a feature
OF the all-expense journeys which
are recapturing popularity all
their own, with their freedom from
detail; their escort. to handle mat
ters of reservation. luggage and
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sets and its picturesque North Shore
after visiting the New York Fair,
and possibly detouring to view parts
of the Old South through Mississippi
and Louisiana, from the comfort of
air r-conditioned cars, as in all other
parts of the country.
X X X X
While the Yellowstone and the
Grand Canyon enjoy particular ia
vor with all Western rail travellers,
the other great national parks of the
West are also popular. The better
known ones, such as Rocky Noun
tain, Mount Rainier, Crater Lake,
Yosemite and Glacier, also attract
not only those who are making their
first transcontinental trip, but also
many "repeaters" who seek to recap
ture their first impressions of the
grandeur of the Grand Tetons, of
the thrill of the Bright Angel Trail,
of the visit with the Blackfeet In
dlans or other features indigenous
to one park or another.
Perhaps the latest and most un-
usual development is that of a
through" train from coast to coast,
made possible by the Illinois Gen.
trails operation of through sleepers
from New York to New Orleans,
which are placed in the same train
at Fulton, KY, with through sleep
ing cars from Chicago to Los An
geles. Merely by walking from one
car to the next, the transcontinental
voyaeeur may have what virtually
constitutes through" train to Cali
fornia. This train is parked at New
Orleans in the morning, with the
passengers goods locked in their
sleeping cars, and after a day of
sightseeing, they resume their
journey the same night, reaching
California the third morning.
Still another option in this trip is
the possibility of a detour into Old
Mexico, from San Antonio. Tex. be-
fore continuing West to the Golden
State
"All roads lead to Yellowstone, for
there is the double daily service
through Chicago g. North Western
Union Pacific to the largest and
perhaps best-known of all the parks:
there is the Burlington Northern
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such tours are operated, they carry
travellers by rail to the scenic re-
gions and thence the trips continue
by motor, either through a national
park, along the Pacific coastline
down into Old Mexico, or for a days
ride through the orange groves and
lovely towns of Southern California.
Swinging back East, the round
trip tickets permit extensions of the
journey to New York and thence as
far. into New England as Portland,
Me-, so that the wise purchasers of
transcontinental tickets will route
their journey in such a manner that
they will still have additional cou-
pons to permit them to continue
their trip into the New England re-
sorts, with perhaps a stay of a few
days at Swampscott, Mass, with its
new ocean house facing the broad
Atlantic, few miles beyond Boston.
Train travel, with its air-condi-
tioning, its spacious lounge and OBJ
servation cars, its intriguing new
forms of private-room space at
nominal cost and its camaraderie
especially as soon as one goes west
OF Chicago, no longer is the tedium
which some persons once associated
with extended journeys, but is a
pleasant adventure in itself
While Eastern trains are thor
oughly modernistic in the bright
exterior colors which now grace
some of the streamliners, the West
ern lines have gone in more for gay
trappings, with their bright yellow
and brown tinted streamliners:
their gray or green speedsters or the
other distinguished shades.
Few of the Western railways are
without at least one of these rail
zeppelins and many have large
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fleets now. New ones are on order
and in few weeks the North West
ern Line will replace it's 400" train
between Chicago and the Twin
Cities (flrst of the high speed
trains) with two new, sleek, 10-car
Diesel-motored speedsters in which
will be Incorporated every modern
idea which other railways have de-
vised or which human ingenuity can
evolve to make travel more luxuri-
GUS.
Similarly, the Missouri Pacific and
the Rock Island have new stream
liners on order while down in
Florida, even the bondholders of
the Florida East Coast Railway are
taking a hand in the operation of
the railroad, by calling meeting to
discuss means of financing two
streamliners to move Jacksonville
and Miami to within what might
be termed "commuting range" of
each other. The ambitious plan Is
to have each train double the road,
346 miles each way, daily.
X X X
And, when the "transcontinental
commuters" venture into the West
(See TRAINS Page a.
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travel Bureau-for illustrated folders. informatio
iares or reservations. Remember, this helpful serv
is absolutely free.
3 q feature trains to the West include the Diese
Powered and Sueamlined All.Pullman tC,n;t,
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