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The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-01-10
ALASKAN APPROPRIATIONS

Just what the national defense program means to Alaska is fairly clearly reflected in the Presidents budget message to Congress this week. In recommending general ap- propriations for the Territory, most ly routine items, MT. Roosevelt boosts the figure over the current year by S67,490. This proposed in crease is due primarily to desire for additional road construction.
 But while roads are a natural part of the defense picture as well as furthering development, it is the direct recommendation that he makes as to actual defense bases which reveals the important part the north plays in the Pacific coast defense picture. The President asks nearly twenty-eight million dollars to speed up naval and shore facili- ties on this coast of this amount, he asks more than a million for the Kodiak Air Station, a million and a half for the Sitka Air Station and more than a quarter of a million for the Unalaska Air Station. These recommendations, it must be re- membered do not include the mil lions which the Army and Navy al ready have poured into defense in the north and the millions more which are to be set aside in their own appropriations. Neither do they include what might be appropriat- ed to the Civil Aeronautics Admin istration for the development of air fields and civil air bases throughout the Territory
 Most significant, from the stand point of development as well as de- fense, is the road appropriationre- commentators up from S70,000 this year to $684,500 starting with the July fiscal year. It may be re- called that the last Territorial Legislature appropriated arou Il d $600,000 for roads, bridges and trails No such amount has been a. vailable, but it Is probable that another substantial appropriation for this purpose will be made at the forthcoming Legislature. All of which means that the Territory and the Federal government are point ing in the same direction---deVelop- ment of Alaska through an ade- quate road system, at the same time looking to total defense.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-01-10
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districts which have no representa- tion and their problems are too easily overlooked. Reapportionment is getting very close to the Alaska must" list.
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 Alaska's "big three" tourist att fractions are the Wrangell Potlateh, Fairbanks Ice Carnival and Anchor age Fur Rendezvous Not only do- they bring additional visitors to the Territory but they serve as enter tainment features to which the tourist agencies can point in pre- senting the Alaska picture. Through cooperation of the transportation companies five boat loads of Alaska visitors were in Wrangell for the Potlatch last June 8 and 1. Many of them went on to visit other points of interest in the Territory. Majority expressed a desire to re- turn. Every one of them told their friends on their return home what they saw
 Best evidence that Alaskans themselves are becoming aware of the value of these attractions in building the Territory's tourist in- dustry is the movement now on foot to give territorial assistance to these heretofore community enter prises
 * * * *
 Home nursing the flu this week, the editoress calls up to say mo space, keep 1t short, take another aspirin and get back to bed" Here goes an aspirin
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-01-10

inaugurals have been gay. colorful affairs. President Pierce's had the presence of a dozen brilliantly unl- formed fire companies. Grants first had the greatest military display the country ever had seens the first Rooseyelts the splendor of bands of Indians lwith old Apache Geron- imo most prominent1. scores of cowboys. smart companies of West Pointers. Puerto Rieans and FiH- pinos in native costumes. There were 35,OO0 in the parade. Roose- velt I's third won't be anything like that. The note again is sim plieity-but that won't keep the crowds away
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-01-10
THIIR@UGB TB1E POLITIGALs
 PEIRISCOPB


 Appointment of Gordon WiIdes, former Tacoma engineer and for last several years one of the chiefs of Public Works Administration in Alaska. as Alaska eonsultant for National Resources Planning Board. a year round job to help Alaska plan, may be the opening wedge in elimination of Alaska Planning Council. APO is the infant of NRPB. Back a few years ago when the nation was plan-minded and before becoming defense-minded, 1t was the national organization which talked Alaska into having a planning board. It even sent couple of representatives up to show the Territory how to plan, that is. plan according to the best HOyle system. The theme song of the 1887 Legislature was A Planning We Will Go" By 1889 a lot of the boys had forgotten the tune. In 1941, the stars have been revealing to some of our observers, that with a full time Federal planner on the job the old tune will be entirely forgotten. Instead, the lads probably will be singing God Bless America so heartily they will gladly give the planning job back to the Federal government
 At the same time, Wildes is a tops engineer, considered one of the best PWA men in Alaska, knows the country from wide travel to vir- tually every point in it, and knows a plan when he sees one.
 x
 Reapportionment is getting to be more than just a subject of con- versation and sop of candidates dur ing campaign time. There is a grow ing movement to properly divide the Territory on basis of popula tion, and the reasons are obvious as re- flected in the recent census. The 194O nose count gave the First Di- vision, 24,970, the Second Division, 1,652, Third Division, 19,304 and the Fourth, 15,175. In the same year, the one just ended, election returns reveal the First Division cast 4,351 votes for Delegate, Sec ond, 898, Third, 3,407, and Fourth, 2,585. In other words, the First has virtually twice as much popula- tion as any of the other Divisions; has five times the voting strength of the Second Division, again as much as either the Third and Fourth. Yet, each division has e. qual representation in the Territor- ial Legislature, four members in the House and two in the Senate.
 Governor Gruening recently voiced the opinion that the First might be divided into two Divisions, giving the Territory five Judicial divisions instead of the present four. At the same time. he suggested boundaries of some of the other Divisions might be changed to create more equal distribution of population.
 With increased population and development, re-division becomes constantly more imperative. Coupled with the wide diversity of interests in the respective Divisions it be- comes increasingly more difficult for lawmakers to devise sound leg islation, adequate for all sections, primarily because there are vast
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-01-10

75 of all Alaska steamship revenue is dependant upaa the Canned Salmon Industry While most of the Salmon Indusys freight and passenger traffic moves in spring. and fall, it is the from such traffic that enables the ships to keep running in winter.
 This is another way in which the Canned Salmon Industry contributes to better living herel
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-01-10

ALASKA CAN BE MIGHTY PROUD of it's steamship "A service-good transportation in comfortable ships and regular mail schedules tue gear Groud It's service that benefits all Alaskans
 And Alaskas Canned Salmon Industry is glad that the business it gives Alaska steamship lines makes these all year saiings possible.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-01-10

Senate chamber to make his inaug- ural address. setting custom which it was presumed would con- inue forever. But by 1877. when James Monroe was inaugurated, the young nation already was busting out of it's traditional wesket and the ceremonies came out in the open. There were two reasons; one that the committee in charge was afraid the new capitol building wasn't strong enough to avoid col lapse under the weight of the as sembled multitude; the other that the Senate and House had got into such a row over the distribution of tickets that the only out was to move into the great open spaces where there would be room for more tickets.
 Died Month Afterwards
 William Henry Harrison l184I), the grizzled old Indian warrior of 68 summers, rode up the avenue on his white charger in a raw wind and stood hatless and without over coat for hours in the rigid wealth CT while the ceremony dragged out. A month later he was dead from pneumonia. Ever since then, they have been talking about taking the inaugural back indoors, but mo- body has figured out yet where a building could be found big enough to prevent another congressional slugging match over tickets.
 Thomas Jefferson, the first pres ident inaugurated in Washington, escorted by company of Virginia riflemen. walked across the stump studded clearing from his boarding house on New Jersey avenue to his inauguration and when it was over, walked back to his boarding house,
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refusing to take Up residence in that balf=finished executive man sion a mile away there in the swamp"
 With the exception of President Roosevelt's inauguration four years ago, President Folks in 1845 and Benjamin Harrison's in 1889 were probably the wettest Polk made his speech "to a sea of umbrellas and Harrisons triumphal march was described as "a sodden. rain=soaked parade through pools of water . James Madison took his ride from his home in Georgetown in clouds of choking dust kicked up by two troops of cavalry that acted as his escort.
 Harding's Was Sombre
 Probably the most sombre was that of Warren G. Harding, when the usual inaugural spirits were sobered by the presence of pitifully broken Woodrow Wilson.
 For the most part, though, the
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
Hold Thou Shalt
Not Kill Meet
In Chattanooga

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.
iANP)-A mass meeting ard
drama entitled Thou Shalt Not
I2ill." inspired in an effort to
decrease the murder rate among
Negroes here, :.ttracted wide at
denton from both races whee
" e W Monumental Baptist
presented Sunday afternoon at
church White and colored lead
.ers were present to discuss tine
homicide rate and means of re-
ducing it.
. Mrs. Katie e. Smith, local
Associated Negro Press cores
rOndent. was credited with cor
ceiving both the program and
drama which helped put across
the thou shalt not kill mes
sage
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
Rules Housing Provision Must Be
Made For Negro Defense Workers
Statement
Issued BY
{. F. Palmer

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(SNS)-
A statement cf racial policy in the
provision of shelter for the families
Of workers in defense industries
and enlisted personnel was issued
today by C. F, Palmer. Defense
Housing Coordjnator.
In a memorandum 10 the staff
and consultants of the Division Of
Defense Housing Coordination
made public today, Mr.. Palmtr
Defense Housing Program viii, have
said
THE racial policy adopted in the
on important effect upon the
Nations total defense productive
ty. World War records reveal the
great military and industrial con-
tribution made by the Negro.
World War experiences and the
affirmed intentions of the Office
of Production Management indi-
cate that Negro workers will con-
stitute an ever increasing factor in
defense production. To assure
equitable and adequate housing
facilities to eligible Negro person
mel, and industrial defense work
ers, the following policies are here
by adopted by the Division of De-
fense Housing Coordination:
1. "To include the housing needs
of the Negro in the Defense Hous-
ing Program by making quitable
provisions fer his housing require
ments in accordance with the pur-
poses, scope and objectives of this
agency
q. "It shall be the responsibility
of Regional Coordinators to as
certain from labor surveys and
other sources, the racial compost
ton of workers now engaged, or to
be employed in defense industries.
8. 'In making analyses of the
housing needs Of community Or
locality. full consideration shall be
given to the adequacy of housing
facilities available to Negro de-
fense workers
4. Subject to The determination
of the needs, housing will be pro-
vided for the families of Negro in
dustrial workers, families of ell
igible military personnel. and those
of civilian workers in military es-
tablishments.
5. Locality Progam Reports shall
specify the housing required for
Negro occupancy, if in the locality
under consideration there is evi-
dence of need
(a) If, for any reason, the eX-
tent of the need appears indefinite,
then at least Q statement that
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
BIDDLE TAKES UP FIGHT

Solicitor General Francis Biddle just the other
day took up the fight He told the Supreme Court
that railroads should give Negroes travelling from
one state to another accommodations equal to those
provided for whites"
This statement viewed alarming" by
Alabamas Attorney General Thomas S. Lawson who
has invited similar officials of the other ten lin
crow states for a conference You may recall that
name Lawson being one of the prosecutors in the
infamous Scotsboro His idea in this case is
that these attorney generals must intervene to keep
the Supreme Court from ruling that Negroes are en-
titled to equal" accommodations.
In other words Mr. Lawson takes the ironic po-
sition of not wanting to railroads operating in
his state made to comply with the law of Alabama
which specifically holds that railroad accommOda-
tiCns should pe separate, but equal"
Judging from recent decisions handed down by
Mr. RooSevelts Supreme Court Mr.. LawSon's argu-
ent there will not be as successful as the one he
put UP before the Alabama Supreme Court when the
SCottsboro case was appealed.
1t will not be an easy matter to convince Justices
Frankfurter, Black Douglas. etc. the Justice of
CHARGING one group of Americans the same fare as
another GROUP vet not providing both groUtps with
accommodations equal in comfort and convenience.
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
PLUSH SEATS ARE DUSTY

II during the vacation season and I'M
usually large number of Negroes crowded into one
ancient provided for them. The half of
which was used to haul baggage was equipped with
those old green plush bottom seats reminiscent of
the gay COS era Cigarette butts Uttered the floor.
More passengers crowded in at every stop the
train made until shortly every seat was filled and
several were standing. Yet the conductor who
munopolized two seats with big tin box filled with
reDorts and tickets, made effort to move them.
The lights were not dimmed in the Negro
because this conductor had to work ON his reports
or course suggestion that he move to a white
JUS behind was unthinkable. So the Negro pas
sengers ianmed as they had to suffer the fur
ther Inconvenience of trying to catch nap with
bright lights harshy glaring down in their eyes
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
0rdain Rev. Tx.
Williams In Late
Fathers Church

CHICAGO-(A AMP Rev. L..
X. Williams, .Jr., son Of the late
head of the National Baptist
Convention, Inc, was ordained
TO the ministry Sunday Il. West
Point Baptist Church, in SER
vices held al the call of Oliyct
Baptist church OF which his
father was pastor.
Hundreds of leaders i'm the
Chicago Baptist churches par
ticipated in the rites of Ordina-
tion for the young minister who
was thoroughly questioned and
examined OH three phases Of
experience: Christian expert
ence, call to ministry. and views
on Christian doctrine.
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22

Around the middle of February
according to Mrs. Butler, she left
Washington for a visit with rela-
tives in Portsmouth. Just outside
WASHINGTON, she charges, the bus
took on two white male passengers.
At the time, Mrs. Butler was oc-
cupying one of the double seats in
the rear Of the bus All other seats
were occupied. Observing this con-
dition, she alleges, the bus driver
ordered her to give up her seat in
order that the men might sit.
When asked by her where she
was to- sit, the driver is supposed
to have told her to sit in the back
cross seat, which already was
crowded with eight persons. or else
size could stand up "since there is
plenty of room. She says she had
to accept this later alternative.
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Vocational adult and nursery
education would vanish suddenly"
he continued. from the city edu-
cational system. Health clinics in
some areas would close. Colored
kids would go hungry all day with
no free WPA lunches at school,
Most of your friends and mine who
have casually mentioned they are
working as teachers. recreation di
rectors. clerks: stenographers, statis
titians musicians nurses. artists
without troubling TO mention
WPA) would all Of sudden be
nYsteriously unemployed.
MUST FACE FACTS
I'VE may as well face facts. WPA
is still the only recourse for more
Negro college graduates than you
like to admit They used to run ele-
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
Here 5 Happy Way 10
Wake Lazy Insides

Thousands turn to this way for
happy relief when they're LAZY
INTESTINALLY and it has them
headachy. bilious. Spicy, aro-
matte BLACK-DRAUGHT. by the
directions, tonight, a drink of
water; and there you are! Taken
as directed, this purely vegetable
medicine usually allows time for
sleep; acts gently, thoroughly next
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
EUROPEAN COACHES SUPERIOR

Soh arbitrarily forced INTO thlru Class dccOl-
nodatons and yet pay first class fares.
EUROPEAN COACHES SUPERIOR
In fact the third class coach of the European
lres is far superior to the filthy cinder and smoke
felled cars many of the railroads operating IN the
South tack onto their locomotives exclusively for
Negro passengers
Anvone who has Travelled in the South knows
that railroad barons have persistenty thunbed their
nose at even the slight provisions for protection of
Negro passengers called for by most Southern states
in their jim Crow railroad laws
Just about every one of the states which have
legazed jim Grow coaches have this sentence In
erted in the law separate, but equal accommoda-
tions. And Just about every railroad IN the South
Through the years has blandly ignored this portion
Of the law.
No pretense is even made at giving Negroes
equal accommodations with other passengers The
writer shall forget experience while riding
train one night en- route from Georgia to Virginia
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22

morning, so relieving constipation's
headaches. bad breath, sour stom-
ach
ELACK DRAUGHTS chief ingre-
dent an intestinal tonic-laXative,"
helps impart tone to lazy bowel
muscles. Millions of packages used
prove its merit. Economical, too!
% to 40 doses: 25c.
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
Force Woman To Stand So
White Men Can Sit On Bus

plant here where she was told
that the matter would be looked
into" An independent check with
the Greyhound company Office re-
vealed that no complaint had yet
been made by Mrs. Butler. 1t was
said. however, that under the cir
cumstances outlined by this report
er. the matter would not be hand
led i'll New York but rather in
Washington, the terminal from
which Mrs. Butler started
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
STARTS SERVING TERM

-(ANP) Edward P.
Jones. one of the three Jones
brothers who dominate the South
side policy racket surrendered
Monday to Assist u. S Marsha
Joseph Tobin and departed for
Terre Haute, Ind to begin serving
a 20 month term for income ts&
evasion.
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22

Returning to Washington three
weeks later, Mrs. Butler says she
explained tc. the Greyhound of
fees there in written statement
in which she asked for refund of
her money for the trip, 1910. The
company promised to investigate.
Mrs. Butler, grey-haired, slight,
retiring woman, also filed COM
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22

vators and work in the nations
Grand Central stations after gradu-
tion. Now they do white collar
work in keeping with their train
ing but they are ashamed to admit
their salaries are paid by the WPA.
Some actors who have achieved
prominence carefully avoid mention
of the fact their experience and
contacts came as result of their
WPA employment on the federal
theatre program The same is true
of musicians, and writers, and es-
pecially the clerks and stenasrap
crS who have recently been en-
played by the government in con
nection with defense.
'WPA has not done everything
we would like TO have seen it do
for Negro workers 1t deserves
some criticism But fair criticism
And in the midst of criticism, face
facts further and expect post-de-
tense unemployment around the
corner. The census bureau, firing
its large personnel by the hundreds
each day sees Negro clerks and typ
lists forced to seek their cid WPA
jobs, in spite of all the defense en-
ploynent. It's smart to criticise the
WPA, especially if you have a good
job or are few dollars removed
from the rest of the white collar
NEGROES on relief"
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22

railroads operating in the South
have literally gotten away with
murder in the matter of provldlnf
for Negro passengers Actually Ne
gro passengers have been forced to
pay higher fares than other groups.
European railroads have accom-
nodations in their coaches divided
into first. second and third class
and passengers selecting a third
class coach know that they will pay
a proportionately lower fare. But
Negroes riding trains in the Deep
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
Saws End Of WPA Would Mean
End OF Many White Collar Jobs

WASHINGTON, d. G. - CAMP = IT work re-
le should be suddenly pulled from under large
ban community Negro whte-coar employment would collapse III
heap Community bows Clubs settlement houses play
grounds ard the like would either close cura their program
more than Withdrawal VEPA workers., SAID
Alfred Edgar Smith OF the racial relations division of the WPA
LAST week discussing the criticism evcled the WA and its
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
Separate But Equal?

THANKS TO THE energetic determination ol
CONGRESSMAN Arthur W. Mitchell, your sole repre-
sentative in the national legislation Supreme Court
which during the past two years has shown ltsen
favorabIy disposed toward making the broad prln-
c;ples of the United States Constitution apphcaole
to ALL the people will shortly rule on the much
NEGLECTED. issue of discriminatory railroad accommo-
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22
DIFFERENCE IN CARS

Negroes then were allowed to move back to the
car just vacated by these white people The writer
moved with them. What difference to behold!
Here comfortable, individual, swivel chairs,
adjustable to the particular taste of the occupants
They were soft if packed with foam rubber and
tastefully upholstered in restful blue mohair
The concealed indirect lights were dimmed. Air
conditioning equipment kept the atmosphere at
comfortable temperature. Absent the cinders
and smoke Sound proofing and built-in springs
made the occupant ride in complete ease and COM
fort.
But the momentary paradise for these Negro
passengers shortlived. About two hundred miles
down the road the train stopped and another
car, of ancient vintage switched on
The conductor, smile mis- face. stood in the
door and yelled "All right. ell you folks move on
back here now Back to dust, back to filth back
to cement-hard seats back to rank discrimination
And this on of the railroads deluxe spe-
cals.
Encouraging is the fact that in this particular
fight of the many battles Negroes waging to ex-
tend the democratic idea to all the people we have
powerful friends
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The Globe TrOtter
Br cliff Maekay

Finally arrived in a little North Carolina rail-
road town. So many more Negro passengers came
aboard that the conductor that he had to do
something He went to the modern just
behind and had the few white people, who were COM
fo,tably scattered out seats that would
mooate possibly seventy people, to another car
just behind
The Phoenix index., 1941-03-22

A decoy owl made of rubber that
can be carried in pocket and in
flated for use has been invented to
attract crows within gunshot.