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The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
Wrangell Shrimp"
Hailed Down By
Shots Across Bow

The good ship Shrimp of the
Reliance Packing Company doesn't
resemble a German U-Boat to folks
around Wrangeu but maybe she
does to the Canadian customs. At
any rate, a Canadian cutter, sight
ing the Shrimp en- route south in
Canadian waters the fore part Of
the week, hailed her down by fir
ing three shots across her bow. A
wire to Tom Michaelson from Neil
Grant in Seattle says:
ARRIVED this morning March g..
Had a wonderful trip and a little
excitement. Canadian cutter shot
three shots across our bow before
we would stop, and boarded our
boat to see what we had aboard.
The Shrimp left here February
20 for Seattle with $4,000 pounds
of shrimp aboard and a party of
Grant, George sumption, Ken Hal
version, Chuck Wagner, Howard
Messenger and Jimmy Harvey.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
A FAST MAN AF0OT
IS CHEZ CAMPBELL

Chester c. Campbell, Chief En-
gineer on the North Coast, and Bill
White of the Wrangell Hotel used
to go to school together down in
Hoquiam, Wash, way quite a few
years ago. Since the Chief has been
on the Alaska run they renew ae-
quaintances every time the North
Coast is in port with the result, a
very spirited game of punch
board. Last week end when the
North Coast was through, the Chief
was just going to make the big
one" when the skipper blew all
clear
At the present writing Bill is a
punch ahead, and declares the Chief
is the fastest man on foot between
the corner of the Wrangell hotel
and the end of the Mccormack dock
there is in Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
Wrangell Trappers Have
Narrowing Experience On
ISkut; One In Hospital

Mike Williams, AZ, Telegraph
Creek trapper is in the hospital here
suffering from paralysis of his legs
and one arm as the result of serious
illness which struck him while
trapping with Henry Gleason Of
Wrangell in the upper Iskut River
country.
Gleason and Lee Ellis brought
Williams into town Wednesday af-
ternoon in a skiff from Lee Ellis
fox ranch on Farm Island, where
they had been held up for 10 days
due to the weather which wouldn't
permit them to cross. He was taken
Immediately to the hospital where
it was reported his condition was
favorable for recovery, although it
is expected to- take several weeks,
Williams condition is believed to
have been brought on by lack of
certain foods, complicated by inter-
nal trouble.
Gleason rushed Williams down.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
TONGASs DAMAGE HEAVIER
THAN AT FIRST BELIEVED

The Tongass of the Alaska Trans
portation Company which was dis
abled off Cone Island two weeks age
was still in drydock in Prince Ru-
pert this week but was expected to
start north probably tomorrow. She
has considerable freight for Wran-
CELL.
First report was that she broke
only her tail shaft but it was re-
vealed at dry dock that the stern
post was also broken, causing need
for further repairs, according to a
message to Agent Joel Wing.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
HOT GAMES IN
HOOP TOURNEY
NOW AT JUNEAU
( Special to sentinel)

JUNEAU, March 8-Before a
crowd estimated at 500, the South
east Alaska basketball tourney open
ed here last night. The most thrill
ling game was between Juneau high
school and Petersburg, the latter
with five seconds to play missed two
free throws and Juneau won so to
49.
Ketehikan defeated Chilkoot Bar
racks army team SO to 43, the
Krause team of Juneau beat Sitka
SIS to 81 and the Coast Guard Cut
ter Haida quint defeated Skagway
A to 26.
There will be four games again
tonight with three Saturday night.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08

river with one dog on sled over
glare ice, making two over night
camps with the stricken man in the
open. There was about three feet
of snow, he reported, but with the
glare ice the going was plenty
tough. After getting to Ellis ranch,
he found a strong Stikine blowing
and the men were forced to stay
there all last week before Williams,
who was in great agony, could be
brought in to the hospital.
Both Gleason and Ellis stressed
the need for repairing the cabins
along the river to accommodate
travellers. The original ones are vir-
tually gone, they said The Forest
Service had some shelter cabins on
the river but they have fallen into
a state of decay and the cabin spon-
sored by the Chamber of Commerce
some years ago also is useless. much
of it having been torn down for
fire wood, they reported
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
Increase Asked
Appropriations
For Territory
lBy Associated Press

WASHINGTON. March - The
House Appropriations Committee.
introducing the Interior Department
Bin asked for $1,059,56O for the
Alaska Territorial Government dur
ing 1871. an increase of $65,720 oy-
er the current year, but $500 less
than buget recommendations
The Bureau of Fisheries service
gets a recommendation of $280.540,
an increase of $12,34O over the cur
rent year, but s1,12O under the
budget estimates
The bureau was also allowed S78,-
900 for fishery market news ser
vice, an increase of $4,000. and
.$11.5OO for fish screens, an increase
of $500.
The salaries of the Governor and
Secretary remain at the usual fig
ure of $15,600.
Contingent expenses were cut
from $42,180 to $18,12O.
Legislative expenses of $4,000
are the same.
PUBIC schools get S5UiOO0 care
of insane, $205,84O.
For Roads
Roads. bridges and trails appro-
priation recommendations got an
increase of $4,000 to $4,000
while construction of and repairs
for trails got an increase of So
900 also, to $4,000.
Among other items in the bill re-
concentrations were made for eX-
elusive funds for operation of the
Territorial Government, including
fire fighting, which receives a cut
of $1O,500 to $4,000.
Education of natives is cut $10,-
1856 to $94O,595.
Medical Relief Raised
Medical relief appropriation IS
raised $751; to $492,490
Reindeer service gets $4,000 or
$500 under budget requests.
Mckinley Park is to draw S28,120
cut of $3.50
Enforcement of game laws gets
$4,000, cut of $4,000.
The Alaska Railroad Fund is in
creased by $15O,0OO to $2,775,0OO.
Mineral resources Investigations
are to draw, as this year, 100000.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
Frank Winston,
Associates, Buy
ARB Crab Cannery

A corporation, the Boardway
Canning Company, headed by Frank
Winston, has purchased the interest
of A. R. Brueger in the ARB crab
cannery and will start operations
next week. it was announced this
week by Mr.. Winston. Renovation
of the plant is underway this week,
new piling and floor being put in,
and the cannery is expected to start
under its new management the first
of the week, Winston said.
Associated with Winston will be
Ben Brodhead, who has been asso-
ciated with the Wrangell Laundry
the last couple of years.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
MAYOR FISK TO JUNEAU
ON WPA PROJECTS

Mayor Van H. Fisk made a
quick trip to Juneau this week in
connection with WPA projects here.
He went UP on the Northland the
first of the week and was expect
ing to return on the same vessel
this week end. The Mayor was 60
ing to take up with Acting Cover
nor E. L. Bartlett proposals on the
part of the city for extending the
program to include additional pro-
jects here and completing others for
which funds had been depleted.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
JEWS IN REVOLT
AT BRITISH ACTION

JERUSALEM, March 8 - British
police yesterday dispersed a huge
Jewish demonstration outside the Of
flee of General Sir Harold A. Mac
Michael, high commissioner for Pal
estine, protesting against the Lon
don governments new restrictions
on land transfers to the Jews. The
demonstration was a sequel to the
British parliament's approval We'd
nesday night of the government
policy. Curfew was Immediately i'm
posed on the Jewish quarters of the
city. Ten thousand Jews paraded
through the streets.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
TINY BOY" PARTY RETURNS
FROM VACATION OUTSIDE

After two months in Seattle, the
Tiny Boy Capt. Henry Bowman,
returned to Wrangell last Saturday
after what was described as an I'M
eyentful voyage north. Aboard the
Tiny Boy" with Capt Bowman
were Mrs. Bowman, Mr. and Mrs.
John Wellman, George Case, Nor
man Bake, Lloyd Goodrich and Del
Shannon, all of whom have been
vacationing in the Seattle district
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08

HELSINKI, March 5 - With five
days of what SO far is described as
the bitterest and bloodiest fighting
since the outbreak OF the Russo
Finnish war behind them, the Red
army seemed no nearer breaking the
determined and furious defense OF
the Firms for strategic Viipuri than
before.
Throughout the five days the Red
Army has been trying to advance
across the frozen Viipuri bay while
Finnish artillery and bombing
planes rained shells and bombs on
the invaders to hold them back.
Huge cracks in the ice, caused by
shells and bombs, opened for the
Reds watery grave. Several tanks
went through the ice and large
number of Soviet troops, it was
said, had drowned.
The Red army is making a grim
attempt to surround the important
city of Yiipuri. In the icy furniture
Uttered streets bitter hand-to-hand
fighting was being carried on by
Finnish troops against land forces
attacking them from the rear, while
other Finnish forces held back those
approaching over the bay.
In a report released by the Fin
nish high command, it was declared
that heaps of Russian dead were
piled up before their positions and
the battle, which appeared to be in
creasing in intensity was strung
along a front from ice-covered Viii
puri Bay to the Vuoks River near
the center OF the Karelian Isthmus. u.
The Russians, the report contin-
ued, had lost more than 80 tanks
and "uncounted numbers of SOL
diers"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
ONE JAILED IN
PLOT TO KIDNAP
JUDY GARLAND

HOLLYWOOD, March 5 - A cur
iously bungled plot to kidnap Judy
Garland, II, singing film star, left
a 19-year-old transient from But
falo, NY, in jail here today.
Officials said Robert Wilson plan
ned with aecomplice midnight abb
duction then grew panieky and tel
ephoned police, Judy Garland will
be kidnapped tonight" Police traced
the call and arrested Wilson near
the Santa Monica hotel from where
the call was made. Officers are
hunting for his companion.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
FORMER ALTAR BOY
HEADS CHURCH UNIT

CHICAGO, March 8-A former
Tennessee altar boy marched in
solemn procession to Holy Name
Cathedral yesterday for the en-
thronement as ruler of the largest
Roman Catholic Arehepiscopal See
in the United States. A colorful
throng of prelates and clergymen
preceded Archbishop Samuel Alphon-
sus Stritch into the historic Cath
edral where he was ordained into
his new office.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
BRITISH AROUSED
OVER SHIPPING RAIDS

LONDON, March s = Mounting
British fury over German air raids
ON shipping was marked today by
calls for retaliation by Col. Josiah
Wildwood, laborite member of Par
lament. He expressed hope I'VE
shall soon tackle the Germans with
their own weapons on their own
ground and drop bombs on military
detectives"
He made sighting reference to
the Royal Air Forces propaganda
pamphleteering flights over Ger
many. Confetti raids" he called
them.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08

After an extended vacation trip
Outside during which time he
toured the Pacific coast country, Mr..
M. H. Sides of Juneau re-
turned north on the Princess Norah
Sunday night. Mrs Sides, who &C
companied him on the trip, remain
ed in Seattle to visit a few weeks.
Mr.. Sides is a deputy collector of
customs at Juneau.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
u. S. FRENCHMEN ARE
CALLED BY FRANCE

NEW YORK, March s - The
French Consulate General in New
York said today that an undiselosed
number of naturalized American
citizens of French birth had been
called for French war duty. Under
French law, Frenchmen who did not
get governments consent to become
American, are still subject to war
duty.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
MAY
AGAIN CALL
MEN TO COLORS

EUCHARIST, March - Military
sources reported today that a new
Rumanian call to arms was immi-
nent after King Carol, speaking to
his Parliament and people. had de-
elared the Nations whole resources
would be thrown behind the army
as, "a supreme guarantee OF our in
dependence and the integrity of our
borders"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08

San Francisco, Mar. s Blonde
Phyllis Rodgers, a cloak and suit
model, was listed by police as miss
ing, possibly suicide, after her
borrowed car and a note signed
Phyllis" were discovered yesterday
on the Golden Gate bridge. Coast
guardsmen searched the water under
the bridge for several hours with
out finding a trace Of her body.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08

Powers Wilkes of Portland, rep
resentative of the Caterpillar Trac-
tor Company of San Leandro, Calf,
and Carl N. Senior of Ketchikan,
Northern Commercial Company and
Caterpillar representative. stopped
over in Wrangell this week after ar
irving on the Yukon. They expected
to fly to Petersburg and from there
gOi an tn IEzzzaan
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
MERCHANTS CLASH WITH
INSTITUTE TONIGHT
FOR DISTRICT TITLE

Wrangell Merchants and Wrangell
Institute basketball teams clash at
73O this evening IN the gym for
the championship of the Wrangell
district. Both teams have a string
of victories to their credit and to-
night will decide who are the
Champs.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
GERMANS CLAIM Il
BRITISH SHIPS SUNK

BERLIN, March 8-The official
German news agency, DNB, report
ed today that German planes raid
ing off the British coast last night
and the night before had sunk or
severely damaged II merchant
ships.
The agency said the ships were
either in convoy or operating with
screened lights.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
GRANT NOMINATED
BY PRESIDENT
AS POSTMASTER

WASHINGTON, March 8 -
President Roosevelt today NOM
mated Brigham Y. Grant of
Wrangel for reappointment as
Wrangeu Postmaster.
Grant, prominent pioneer Wran-
CELL resident, has served as Post
master for the last eight years, hav-
ing twice been appointed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. This will be his
third appointment. He worked in
the postoffice as assistant before be-
coming Postmaster.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
BETSY ROOSEVELT
DIVORCES JAMES

LOS ANGELES, March 8 - Betsy
Cushing Roosevelt was granted an
introductory divorce decree here
yesterday from James Roosevelt,
eldest son of the President. She tes-
titled that relations between her
and Roosevelt had been strained
since he first asked for his freedom
in 1888.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
PRESIDENT STRICKEN

Ciudad Trujilo, Dominican Repub
lie, March 8-President Jacinto Pey-
nabo of the Dominican Republic
died here last night. His leg was
amputated Sunday after a local in
lection developed.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
BOO NEW WAR
PLANES READY FOR
ARMY THIS MONTH

WASHINGTON, March 8 - First
deliveries on a mass order of 3,1O0
war planes is expected by the army
this month, less than a year after
Congress voted three hundred mil
lion dollars for an expansion pro
gram.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
BROWN BEAR HITS
LOG IN WESTWARD

JUNEAU, March 8-The Alaska
Game Commission patrol vessel
Brown Bear, bound for the Aleu-
tians, hit log in Prince William
Sound and returned here today en-
route to Ketchikan for repairs.
Capt John o. sellovold is in COM
mand.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08

COPENHAGEN, March s -
Closely guarded negotiations to-
ward an armistice and possible
settlement Of the Russian-Fi
nish war are definitely under
way and Stockholm is the cen
ter of discussions, it was learn
ed yesterday. The Soviet gov
nernments conditional demands
for peace in the form Of an III
timatum calling for acceptance
by midnight Friday "A pm. to-
day, Wrangell Time) have been
submitted to the Finnish gov
eminent which thus far has not
given any indication of its at
titude, informants said.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
TACOMA FIRM GETS
WRANGELL FEDERAL
BUILDING CONTRACT
WASHINGTON. March 8

WASHINGTON, March 8 -
The Public Buildings Admins
tration today awarded the Nc
Donald Building Company of
Tacoma the contract Tor con-
struetlng the new POstoffiee
and Customs House building at
Wrange1 on its bid of $685.
800.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
8 HURT IN BLAST ON
ALASKA PACKERS
VESSEL, DELEROF

SINGAPORE, March 8 : An ex-
plosion of a drum of acid aboard
the United States freighter Delarof
last night injured seven Americans
and two Chinese. The Delarof is op-
Grated by the Alaska Packers AS
ISOLATION.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
Won RIBBENTROP OFF
TO SEE MUSS0LINI

BERLIN, March 8-The Foreign
office disclosed today that Foreign
Minister Won Rippentrop would
leave for Rome tomorrow to confer
with Mussolini
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
FEDERAL JUDGE
TO PRISON FOR
SELLING JUSTICE

NEW YORK, March 8 = Martin
T. Manton, once the highest rank
ing Federal Judge, outside the I'm
tied States Supreme Court, left yes
terday for the Northeastern peni-
Tertiary at Lewisburg, Penn, to
serve two years for selling justice. -
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
sEvERsON TO KETCHIKAN

John Severson, Secretary OF the
Alaska Salmon Purse Seiners Union,
is leaving on the Northland this
evening for Ketchikan in connection
with union activities.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
FINNISH PEOPLE
OPPOSE PEACE TERMS

HELSINkI, March S-The Fin
nish high command reported that
Continued on Page Six
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
WRANGELL TIDES

= x saturday i j March : 5, is4o"
High Tide 2:O2 a. M, 1872 feet.
Low Tide 500 a. m, OF feet
High Tide 2:O6 p. M, 16.1 feet
Low Tide 8:15 p. m. 90 feet
Sunday March 10, 1910
High Tide 1880 a. M, 1853 feet
Low Tide 1874 a. M, GA feet
High Tide 2:SS p. M. 1873 feet
Low Tide S:44 p. M, OF feet
Monday March II, 1910
High Tide 2:57 a. M, 1872 feet
Low Tide 9;O6 am, 0.3 feet
High Tide $40 p. m. 15.4 feet
Low Tide 9:13 p. m., O.8 feet
Tuesday March IL, 1910
High Tide 1925 am, 100 feet
Low Tide $40 a. M, GA feet
High Tide S;43 p. m, 14.S feet
Low Tide 9:44 p. m, 1.5 feet
Wednesday March Is, 1910
High Tide 1853 a. M, 1876 feet
Low Tide 1912 a. M, OF feet
High Tide APO p. M, 1873 feet
Low Tide 1916 p. M, IA feet
Thursday March IA, 1910
High Tide 1923 a. M, 1871 feet
Low Tide 1886 a, m, IL feet
High Tide SOL p, M, 1871 feet
Low Tide 1854 p. M. "a feet
Friday March Is, 1910
High Tide SOL a. m., AL feet
Low Tide 1904 p. M, Is feet
High Tide 1854 D. m. 12.1 feet
skGW Tide K1.42 n. M a. faaa
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08
Peace Note Sounded
AS Firms, Russians
Fight Desperately

NEW YORK, March 8 - An
unoOnfirmed report from abroad
this afternoon said that fight
ing had ceased on the Finnish
Russian front. The report was
said to be based on the belief
that Finland had accepted Rus
sia's peace terms. There was no
official announcement.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-03-08

LONDON, March s-Reuters,
British news agency, said today
it had learned direct discussions
between Finnish and Russian
representatives are taking place
today, not in Stockholm but
elsewhere. %
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
"RAMPARTS WE WATCH"
FEATURED AT CAROLINA

Today is one of extreme impor-
tance in the annals Of Wilmington s
theatrical history because it brings
to the screen of the Carolina theatre
the widely discussed "Ramparts We
Watch" a feature length motion
picture produced by the editors Of
Life and 'Trne'' Magazines, in
Guiding the sensational Nazi terror
film, "The Baptism Of Fire.
In '"The Baptism Of Fire" which
Hitler and his Nazi agents tried to
suppress in America, you will see for
the first time Stuka bomber div
ing to destroy a railroad junction,
parachute troops in action, the raz.
ing of Warsaw and such startling
scenes as the spraying Of gasoline
on a trapped garrison. These pic.
lures were seized by the British as
contraband Of war and, incorporated
in 1.-THE Ramparts We Watch" &C.
cording to Major George Fielding FL
liot, take on q meaning the Germans
did not foresee. Instead Of terror,
it inspires in the hearts Of free men
and women a hatred Of Nazt methods
and a grim resolution to defeat them.
AS an added attraction on the pro.
gram with THE Ramparts we
Watch" Pete Smith presents Foot.
ball Thrills Of 1889"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
MANY Streams In Columbus County
Are Dry Because OF Lack Of Rain

berry washing or the consumers
would get a lot of grit to smack
upon. '--@-
And In speaking Of washing, re-
minds us that for such, water would
be needed. And in many instances
water is becoming problem OF
major proportions. We have heard
of many sections in which lots OF
wells and pumps have gone dry.
And in the sections where artesian
flows are frequent, the flows are
drying UP, many furnishing not
enough to supply immediate needs.
However, this has been ideal
weather for harvesting Of hay and
other crops, for building and doing
nearly all kinds Of outside work.
Lots of farmers have taken full ad-
vantage Of the dry spell and have
harvested all their crops, including
their corn; and in some instances
the stalks have been cut.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
IN. f. BEEKEEPERS
TO MEET NOV. "a
PrORram Is Planned For Fall
Gathering OF Association
In Henderson

RALEIGH, Oct. 20-A fall meet
ing Of North Carolina beekeepers
will be held in Henderson on
Thursday, November IA, it was an
nounced today by Frank B. Meach.
am, assistant professor Of entomo.
logy at N. c. State college. Mr..
Meacham is secretary of the State
Beekeepers' association which is
sponsoring the meeting.
Out-of-state speakers at the
meeting will include: Vernon Hill,
Extension apiarist of Virginia; r
&c. Asher, outstanding commercial
honey producer of Brookmea1, Va;
A. D. Hiett of the G. B. Lewis com
pany; H. J. Cary Of the A. I. Roo
Co.; and. w H. Weatherford.
Specialists in bee culture within
the state who win appear on the
program include c. l.. Sans, Elk.
tension apiarist Of N. c. State col.
lege; P. G. Craddock, State apiary
inspector; and Prof. Meacham who
teaches bee culture to State college
students.
1T is hoped, also, that several
successful farmers who keep bees
viii contribute to the program, u
Prof. Meacham said. He also
stated that Henderson appears tc
be happy choice as meeting
place because Vance county has ar
active bee club and farmers anc
other apiarists in that section arc
enthusiastic supporters of a pro
gressive program Of honey produc.
ton.
THE fall meeting in Henderson
will be both interesting and in.
structive," Prof. Meacham declar.
ed, land good fellowship will pre-.
vail. Several valuable prizes will
be presented in contests to be con.
Quoted. Weather permitting, visi'
to. local bee yard will be includ
ed on the program. The headquar
ters for the meeting will be the
Office of County Farm Agent J. w
Sanders.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-21
e University Leaders
Support Wendell Willkie

NEW YORK, Oct. 2O.-tF-- The
republican national committee to
day released a statement signed by
presidents of 20 universities an6
colleges stating they believed that
under Wendell L. Wtllkie's "phflo
sophy of government the youth ol
America will have better chance
than under continuation for 9
third term Of the present admin
istration
The signers represented the fol
lowing schools:
Union university, Schnectady, N
Y; Yale, New Haven; Clark, Wor
chester, Mass; Buffalo IN. ~; Ham
ilton, Clinton, N. Y; Colorado col
lege. Colorado Springs; Colgate
Hamilton, N. Y; Earlham, Rich
n1ond, Ind. Syracuse a. "; Mount
Holyoke, South Hadley, Mass.
Brigham Young, Provo, Utah: Dart
mouth, Hanover, N. H.; Boston
university; Capital, Columbus, o.
skidmore college, Saratoga Springs
N. T.; Toledo (O.); Coucher college
Baltimore; Butler, :. indianapolis
The Chandler schools, Boston
Washington, st. Louis; Rochester
N. w Lehigh, Bethlehem, Pa,
and Brown, Providence, r. I.