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The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-08-29
First Salmon
Cannery Built
Here In 1887

The first eaunery that was built
in the Wrangell district was neaH
the Garnet Ledge on the main la4a
about six miles from town II was
built by Mr. Seaberg in the yea
1897. The entire pack of this can
merry was red fish caught By gin
nets The fish were hand butchered
and hand packed. The average year
ly pack was from eight to ten thous-
and eases.
The second eannery was started in
1891 and was known as the Thin
get Packing Company. James G. Ber-
rens. President This cannerv oper-
ated for several years and vs. sold
about 1900 to the Pacific Packing
and Navigation Company
Prior to the year 1900 three can
neries operated in the Wrangell dis
tficf with a total capacity of 100
600 cases. In 1900 three new can
neries were built, the largest being
operated by the Alaska Packers As
ISOLATION situated on the northern
end of Nrangell Island The con
haAAANA 1AA pun u AllE ia 1u4llGA les III
the Wrangell district for the year
1900 was $4,000 cases of Reds and
1873 $50 cases of Alaska pink There
was a total payroll that year of
100000 of which one-fourth was
received by Chinese labor Fishermen
received $50 a month and board. or
If independent. nine to ten cents for
Gohoes seven to eight cents for
Reds and three-fourths to one cent
each for humpbacks
The Sanitary Cannery was built
and started to operate in the town
limits in 1872 This was a two line
eanuery and continued To operate
until it burned in 1924
The Alaska Packers ceased oper-
ations in 1925 and the plant was
dismantled in 1880.
In 1881 two eanneries operated i'm
Wrangell, the Diamond K Packing
Company, and the Wrangell Packing
Corporation, the two canneries packs
totaling 10000 cases of salmon for
that year.
In 1892 the Wrangell Packing
Corporation packed $4,000 cases OF
salmon. That same year the Dia-
mond K Gannery operated float
ing one line cannery which packed
$4,000 cases.
In April. 1888. Karl Theile, Presi-
dent of the Diamond K Packing Com
pany. started construction of a mod
ern two-line cannery on the site
where the Sanitary Cannery had
burned in 1924 This cannery was
completed and ready for operation
for the fishing season of the same
year. The Wrange1I Packing Corp.
! operated on the saw mill dock where
| it had been constructed a few years
previous. In 1893 the total pack of
the two eanneries was 1880 and
the amount expended for labor in
these two canneries was $4,000.
For the year 1881, local buyers
handled 351,187 pounds of fresh
salmon, 131,454 pounds of frozen sal
mon, 1890 lbs of mild cured, g.
$50 lbs. of steelhead trout, $685.
lbs. OF fresh halibut, 1888 lbs. of
frozen halibut, $4,000 lbs. of fro
zen herring Totaling 1,025,897
pounds of fish valued at S88,940.
In the year 1892 the local buyers
handled 572,349 pounds of fresh sal
mon. 32.33S lbs. of fresh halibut,
10000 lbs. of mild cured salmon
valued at 5,28S.
For the year 1888 the local fish
buyers who shipped both fresh and
mild cured salmon paid out for
fish, labor, the use of vessels etc,
the sum of $110,167 Their purchas-
es for this year were fully rs per
cent more than those of 1882.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-08-29
MRS. PRUssI HOME

Mrs. Andrew Prussi, wife of To-
cal carpenter, arrived home the first
of the week after six months alb
senee during which she visited her
son and daughter-in-law in Seattle
and the middle west states.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-08-29
TO VISIT IN SEWARD

Mrs. William Bureh of Point Bak-
er is sailing on the Alaska this week
end for Seward to visit with her son
and sister for few weeks.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-08-29
TO VISIT IN STATES

Lafayette Lieurance, well known
Wrangell Legionnaire and fisherman
is sailing shortly for a visit
with his brother in Atlantic,
Iowa, his former home. Lieurance,
who was on the ARB this summer,
expects to return north in a few
weeks
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-08-29
NOTICE SEINERs

Special meeting of the Seiners
will be held at 7 p, m Wednesday
at the union hall to prepare data
for the fisheries hearing here Sep
TENDER y and to take up other
matters of Importance. A limited
supply of Union books will be is
sued to members attending.
w. G. WIES, Business Agent.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-08-29
NEW H. B. C. MANAGER

w. ]. Cobb, new Hudson Bay Com
pany manager, left yesterday for
Telegraph Creek where he will re-
place w. G. Crisp, stationed at the
historic telegraph town for many
years.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-08-29
TEACHER TO TELEGRAPH

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Walter Hughes
and two children were passengers
leaving yesterday on the Hazel B
2 for Telegraph Creek. Hughes is
a teacher at the school there.
Evening star., 1941-03-31
La Toilette Says Conveys
Will Put u. 5. Into War
B> the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 3l-Philip La
Toilette, former Governor OF Wis
consin, declared yesterday that
Great Britain did not need Ameri-
can conveys to resist invasion and
that "hostilities will be inevitable
if such a course is followed.
"The question is whether we are
trying to help Britain defend her.
self or to help her conquer all Eu-
rope" he said during a University
of Chicago Round Table broadcast
over N. B. c.
Mr.. La Toilette charged that "in-
terventionists" we're urging the use
of conveys before they are essen
tial" in an effort to get America
into the war.
las long as we can continue to
give aid to Great Britain without
becoming involved in the war, I
favor giving all aid possible" he
said. Il am utterly opposed to the
United States going over to Europe
to save Britain"
Evening star., 1941-03-31

was confined to his home for sew
eral years because of illness. He
was a member, and in an active
capacity, until stricken, of the Amer
lean Institute of Electrical Engi-
neering, the American Bar Associa-
tion, the American Patent Law
Association, the National Republi-
can Club of New York, the Wash
ington Board of Trade, the Piney
Branch Citizens Association and
the Fourth Presbyterian Church.
A Mason, he was past master OF
Acacia Lodge, No. 18, and member
of Columbia Chapter, No. l, anc
Washington Commandery, No. /. He
leaves his wife, Mrs. Lorraine M
Clement; two brothers, Armin G
Clement of Silver Spring. Md, and
Alfred Clement of Berkeley. Calf.
and two sisters, Miss Clara Clement
and Mrs. Harrington of Oakland
Calf.
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Edward f. Clement,
Inventor and Patent
Attorney, Dies al 73
Was Federal Aide
For Eight Years and
Wrote for Magazines

Edward E. Clement, 73. retired in
ventor and patent attorney. died
yesterday at his home, 1901 Six
teenth street NV. He had been i'll
for some time.
Mr.. Clement, a resident of WASH
ington since 1886, held more than
$50 patents for telephone and radio
inventions and obtained six of 16
patents issued in one week by the
Patent Once in 1925. He was a con-
tributor to several technical maga-
zines and wrote numerous engineer
ing papers and articles.
Native of Hoboken, N. j., he
studied at the Naval Academy, leav-
ing before graduation to attend
National University here He was
employed at the Patent Office from
1890 to 1898 and entered the private
practice of patent law in the latter
year.
About u wears ago he retired and
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Capacity Crowd Sees
Benefit Showing Of
Grecian Movies
Diplomats, Offieiols and
Society Turn Out for
Mac Donald Lecture

As the end of q weeks activity
with benefit celebrations in observ-
ance of Greek independence day
and in behalf of Greek war relief
a little of the ancient archipelago
was brought to the ballroom of the
Willard Hotel last night with beauti-
full Greek girls in native costume
and boys dressed like the victorious
soldiery OF that country. These were
the famous Evzone uniforms used by
the Greek troops.
In addition there was a motion
picture, in colors, given in conjunc-
ton with a lecture, Greece and the
Grecian Islands," by Byron D. Mac
Donald, for many years the con-
ductor of the Odyssey cruise to
Greece.
Mrs. Truxtn Beale. honorary
chairman of the District of Co.
lumbia Committee of the Greek War
Relief Association, Inc, whose late
husband, Truxtun Beale, was at one
time Minister to Greece, saw her
hopes realized when nearly 1000
persons trooped into the ballroom,
an overflow audience. The Greek
Minister, Cimon P. Diamantopoulos,
greeted the distinguished audience
Diplomats. many Senators, members
of the House, and Washington So
ciety in general attended the affair.
Mr.. MacDonald's two reels OF pic
lures were in beautiful color and
elected enthusiastic applause. Some
of the pictures were made as late
as 1899 and included views of the
Acropolis, many of the island cities
and towns along the Dalmation
coast, the Dodecanese Islands and
the ancient Greek Orthodox mon
asteries, or hanging monasteries, OF
Mount Athos. Shown also were
splendid views of the ancient Greek
ruins, some of which date to $500
years BIC, and recently uncovered
mosaics of the early Byzantine era.
Assisting Mrs. Beale was DIR. c. G.
Abbot, secretary Of the Smithsonian
Institution: w. L. Clayton, deputy
administrator of the Federal Loan
Agency, and Corcoran Thorn, treas
urer of the committee. 1t was ex-
pected that close to IS 1000 would be
added to the fund from last nights
benefit.
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Rodeo Performer Thrown
Loses Ear Third Time

A wild horse added unexpected
thrills to the program of the world
championship rodeo at Uline's
Arena last night. throwing Red
Hammerschmidt, 30-year-old cow
boy, - and kicking him. The rodeo
performers left east was torn off
in the accident.
1t was the first serious miShap of
the show, which is featuring Gene
Autrey, cowboy film star, and the
Evening star., 1941-03-31

third time Hammerschmidt has lost
his left ear, according to show OIL
cials.
At Casualty Hospital, Hammer
schmidt's ear was sewed on. He
also was treated for face lacera-
tions and Q possible fracture of the
jaw.
Evening star., 1941-03-31
Tungsten Ore Deposit
Is Discovered in Idoho
BY the Associated Press.

| ny luU hocoSAdbcu EIoco.
Discovery Of a high-grade deposit
Of tungsten ore in the Yellow Pine
district of Valley County, Idaho,
was announced today by the Bureau
of Mines and Geological Survey.
Tungsten is a vital defense ma.
terial.
Although maximum dimensions of
the deposit have not been de-
termined, the two agencies reported
to Interior Secretary Ickes that their
information indicated the discovery
might be of great importance.
The Yellow Pine district is we'll
known for its antimonial gold ores,
but this is the first discovery of
tungsten ore there.
Evening star., 1941-03-31

Gun carriages are being made In
railway workshop in Hyderabad,
India
Evening star., 1941-03-31

Tuliptime, inspired by the gay, valiant
spirit of spring-by the perfume of
all the flowers of spring, blended by
Harriet Hubbard Aver with the same
inimitable genius that captured Pink
Clover from Americas fields and
meadows. Don't miss this newborn
treat!
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-01

be eligible for the 85-Der- -cent-of-
parity loan, he said, and deductions
from agricultural conservation and
parity payments will be made at
ten times the payment rate for the
acreage seeded in excess of the al
lotment. Wheat producers will not
be permitted to bring their plant
ings into compliance by plowing
out the excess acreage within the
"3 per cent-3acre" tolerance avail
able in 1941.
Right now, with the planting
season at hand in most areas, is
the time for every wheat farmer to
make certain ne understands fully
the extent to which he may be de-
MED the benefits extended to coop
orators in the event he overseeds
his acreage allotment Hawk said
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-01
AAA Wheat Program to
Go Into Effect Here

Members of the Imperial County
Agricultural Conservation commit
tee Monday urged farmers to COM
ply with AAA allotments and point
ed out the advantages of the AAA
program.
They asked wheat growers to
gram which became effective in
observe provisions of the 1912 pro-
California Monday and emphasized
that acreage allotments should be
of primary consideration to grow
ers now preparing for fall plant
ings.
Marketing quotas were proclaimed
for the 1912 wheat crop, subject
to approval by tWo-thirdS of the
wheat growers voting in a nation
wide referendum. Any farm on
which the allotment is overplanted
will be subject to marketing pen
atty on the normal or actual pro-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-01
Giant Air Raids
Batter Germans

Berlin's sir raid alarm was the
first since Aug. 10. The German
communique said it was caused by
Russian planes flying in from the
Baltic. Eight British planes, it was
claimed, were shot down in attacks
over western Germany.
Moscow reported that the per-
sistent counterattacks in the central
sector had broken through German
defense lines, enabling the Russians
to widen their salient in the direc-
ton Of Smolensk.
German attempts to throw pom
toon bridges across the lower Dnie-
per, Moscow said, were smashed by
stout Russian defenses.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-01
FDR Pleads for
U.S.. Labor Unity
To Meet Crisis
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ready TO stand up as free men and
defend their rights. He warned
solemnly against any compromise
with the forces of aggression now
at large in the world
Our vast effort, and the unity
of purpose which inspired that ef-
fort, are due solely to our recogni-
ton of the fact that our fundamen-
tai rights-including the right of
labor-are threatened by Hitler'S
violent attempt TO rule the world
he said.
There has never been a moment
in our history when Americans were
not ready to stand up as free men
and fight for their rights.
NOT YET ENOUGH
These enemies know that the
course of American production in
the past year has shown enormous
gains and that the product of these
industries is moving to the battle
fronts against HitleriSm in increas-
ing volume each day.
But" Mr.. Roosevelt said, these
enemies also know that our Ameri-
can effort is not yet enough-and
that unless We step up the total
of our production and more greatly
safeguard it on its journeys to the
battlefields, these enemies will take
heart in pushing tiieir attack in old
fields and new"
Mr.. RooSevelt's appeal to labor
for unstinting cooperation in the
rearmament effort was direct and
pointed. He said that the first acts
of the Axis relationships had been
to wipe out all the principles and
standards which labor has been able
TO establish ior It's own preServa-
ton and advancement"
THE single mindedness and sac
rifice with which we jointly dedicate
ourselves TO the production of the
weapons of freedom will determine
in no small part the length of the
ordeal through which humanity
must pass" he continued.
I'VE cannot hesitate, we cannot
equivocate in the great task before
US. The defense of Americas S freedom
must take precedence over every
private aim and over every private
interest"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-01

The terrible urgency of the crisis,
the president said, calls for ever
increasing effort in the production
of weapons with which to arm men
fighting for freedom.
I'VE have achieved much" he
said, "it is imperative that we
achieve infinitely more.
we are engaged in a grim and
perilous task. Forces of insane vio-
lence have Deen set loose by Hitler
upon this earth. We must do our
full part in conquering them. For
these forces may be unleaShed on
this nation as we 90 about our bus
mess of protecting the proper in
terests of our country"
Mr.. Roosevelt scornfully rejected
the idea of compromise or appease-
ment, warning that the fight must
continue until its bitter end.
II give solemn warning to those
who think that Hitler has been
blocked and halted, that they are
making very dangerous assump-
tion," he said. when in any war
your enemy seems to be making
slower progress than he did the year
before, that is the very moment to
strike with rdeoubled force 49, to
throw more energy into the job of
defeating him-to end for all time
the menace of world conquest and
thereby end all talk or thought Of
any peace founded on a compromise
with evil itself"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-01
Family trouble
vexes Police Here

FL Centro police were irked with
the James Brooks family Of the
Eastside section of town.
Brooks, a Negro, was arrested
Saturday night for reckless driving
in the vicinity of Fourth and Main
streets. He was released on S25 bail.
Later in the night police were called
to the Brooks home to settle a
family fight.
If you people don't quiet down
and behave yourselves" officers in
formed the family group, we are
going to put the whole blamed
family in Jail"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-01
British, Russians
Meet in Iran for
Wars 1st Contact

LONDON, Sept. !. tUPl-Brit-
ish Imperial and Russian troops
have effected contact, their first OF
the war. at the town Of Sinneh in
western Iran, a British general
headquarters comrlunique issued at
Simla announced today.
The Russian and British troops
met after a march through the
mountains and high tablelands Of
Kurdistan. where the nomadic
tribes have their tents and flocks
as their ancestors did in the days
when their ancient country was
part of biblical history.
To meet the British, the Russians
thrust swiftly e5o miles southwark
from their frontier and, it was un-
derstood, completely cut off Iran
from Turkey, thus leaving the coun-
try's only free frontier that border
ing on Afghanistan.
The British marched about 100
miles eastward from Iraq for the
meeting.
Other British troops of the same
column penetrated another IS miles
east t-southeastward of Sinneh to
reach the important town OF Ham
adam. near the reputed tombs OF
Mordecai and Esther.
The British troops found the
situation quite peaceful the Simla
headquarters communique said. "Lo-
cal officials were most helpful and
the inhabitants we're most friendly.
All British residents were safe and
sound"
Only detachments of British and
Russian forces met at Sinneh. the
communique said, and the Russians
withdrew TO their headquarters
after a mutual exchange of compli-
mentS.'
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-01
vichy Depends on
Anti.Jewish Group
ToSiIenceF Foes

VICHY, France, Sept. /. tUP)-
The reorganized anti-JeWish legion
of war veterans was recognized to-
day by Marshal Henri Philippe Pc
tain as political party on which
the Vichy government will depend,
particularly for silencing its oppo-
nents.
Authoritative quarters said, how
ever, that the increased role of the
legion, renamed the French Legion
of Combatants and Volunteers Of
the National Revolution" could not
be compared with Germany's Nazi
organizations 1t will have no storm
troopers and has not been offered
any share in the temporary ap-
pointive assembly. It's role in polit-
les, they said would correspond
more closely 10 that of the Amerl-
can Legion in the United States.
On the first anniversary of the
legion's founding, Petain, in a radio
address to the nation yesterday
sought to convert it into an organ
.zation of 100000 veterans Of the
present war and the world war. ded-
icated TO support his regime.
You are the faithful men on
whom we, the government, Darlan
(vice-premier Admiral Jean Fran
co.'s DarlanJ and l will lean" he
said. Rally the hesitants and dis
contenteds to uS-those who be-
cause they do not understand our
disaster and its consequences con-
t.nue to harbor past illusions.
You will impose silence on their
whispered or tumultous criticisms. >"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-01

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only getting started in the war and
that their participation is backed
by all elements of the country ex-
cept "Marxists and Free Masons.' y
While great squadrons of Royal
air force planes dumped hundreds
of bombs on the Itch arms and in
dustrial plants of the German Rhine
and Ruhr area, Soviet planes swept
in from Baltic bases TO attack Ber-
lin.
German accounts minimized the
nights bombing but it was appar-
ent from the reports both from Ber-
lin and London that Germany had
been subjected to one OF the heavi-
est nights of air attack that had
been felt since the war started two
years ago.
On the eastern front Russian
reports assumed a more optimistic
tone and told of broadening Soviet
counter attacks which appeared TO
have stalled-for the moment-the
Nazi advances upon Leningrad and
the southern Ukraine.
1t appeared that with lengthen-
ing nights. the Royal air force is
increasing the tempo of its pound
ing Of Reich objectives, carrying
out Prime Minister Winston Church
ills reported private assertion that:
BOMBS ALL THE TIME
we Will giY. them bombs for
breakfast, bombs for lunch, bombs
for tea and bombs for dinner-and
left over for a night cap"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-01
Raid
Hits
Berlin

LONDON, Sept. l. (UP)-British
bombing planes rained bombs on
the German industrial Ruhr and
Rhineland areas during the night,
while Russian planes bombed the
Berlin area, marking the start of
the third year of the war and the
beginning of what Britain intends
to be a black fall and winter for all
Germany.
Essen. seat of the great Krupp
armament works and the Goering
steel works, and industrial Cologne
were the chief targets of an attack
which took formidable forces over
the continent.
The air ministry said that a con-
siderable" force of bombers made
the attack on Germany, and that in
addition to attacking Essen, Bremen
and other objectiveS in Germany,
they bombed docks at Boulogne and
laid mines in enemy waters.
Seven bombers are missing, it was
admitted.
1t was learned that Prime Minis
ter Winston Churchill, at a recent
private dinner party, had turned to
the guest at his side and said,
humping the table for emphasis:
I'VE will give them bombs for
breakfast, bombs for lunch, bombs
for tea and bombs for dinner-and
perhaps we will have a few bombs
left over nightcap"
The night raids had followed
dawn midnight series of possibly
the greatest sweeps the Royal air
force had made of the invasion coun-
try, and single big American built
flying fortress" had bombed Ger
many's second port, Bremen, from
the sub-stratosphere, so high it en-
countered no opposition from guns
or German planes.
The former Australian sheep far
mer who commanded the plane re-
ported that his bombs fell in the
center of the port area.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-01

duction of the excess acreage,
whichever is the smaller, unless
quotas are voted down.
L. C. Hawk. county AAA COM
mittee chairman, pointed out that
compliance with acreage allotments
also will determine the amount Of
agricultural conservation and par
ity payments which may be earned,
and will affect producers eligibility
to particiDate in the federal crop
insurance program. No producer
who cversecds his allotment will
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-01
Japan at Turning
Point in Pacific

SHANGHAI, Sept. /. CUPl-Am-
orleans arriving from Tokyo said to-
day that results Of Japanese-Amer-
ican diplomatic talks might not
only determine the fate of the pres
ent japanese government but, in
the end the question Of peace or
war in the Pacific.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-01
TonsiIectomy
SpoiIs Program

SAN DIEGO, Sept. l. UP)-A
tonsilectomy spiked the plans of
officials of the Army & Navy Y M.
c. A. to fete their 2O0OO,OOOth Wis
itor today.
Walter Guth, selectee from
Chicago, was snatched from the
steps of the "" and congratulated
as the honored visitor. He was Civ
en- a travelling bag, photographed
and taken inside where deluxe
dinner had been prepared for him.
Sorry" said Guth, as he eyed
the big meal Thanks just the
same, but I can't eat it. I just had
my tonsils OUT"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-01
DELINQUENT
COUNTY TAXES

A new short-term redemption law, ex-
piring Sept. 2S, 1941, is now in effect,
and is designed especially to help those
whose properties have been delinquent
over period of years.
Greatest savings to those whose taxes
are being paid under 10-year-payment
plans, particularly where several pay
ments have been made.
Will also help many whose taxes are
now being paid under the 5-year-pay-
ment law.
Where taxes are delinquent for year of
1910 only, this law does not apply.
Write, phone to, or call upon the coun-
ty auditor, FL Centre, California.