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The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-05-16

Dimond's reapportionment plan
provides for six members in each
house of the Legislature from the
First Division. three in each house
from the Second. five in each from
the Third and four IN each from
the Fourth. a total membership of
sc with Is in each house.
ass
Alaska's wildlife is in more dan
ger of being entirely wiped out
than it has been in years. The Army
is moving in with thousands of men
and demanding that restrictions for
nonresident hunters be lifted as far
as the soldiers are concerned. One
officer in Fairbanks when inform
ed the soldiers would have to es=
tablish the regular residence re-
quirements before taking game as
residents declared he would blow
the game laws sky high. vowing his
soldiers would hunt when and how
they chose. The battle went to
Washington but so far the Interior
Department is holding the whip
hand. and no restrictions have been
raised. Gov. Gruening is definitely
on record against giving the sol
diers any special privileges as is
Secretary Iekes. Fairbanks Chamber
of Commerce. with an Army base
in its town, has come out fer the
soldiers. Cordova Times has jumped
on the same band wagon. Game
men are thoroughly worried. They
vision what will happen to the
famed caribou herds, the moose of
the Kenai and stikine. sheep, goats
and so on if thousands of additional
hunters are put into the field with
resident privileges; especially If
those hunters are soldiers with good
rifles and a knowledge of how to
use them.
Counter-attacking the Game Com
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-05-16
ALASKA A La ROBINSON

A few years ago, press agent and
ex-reporter Herb Hilseher, who
knows more about it now, was
awarded the leather medal by AL
askans for writing a story in
Hearsts Cosmopolitan which was
the all-time high to that date for
mis-information about the Territory.
Even Hilscher's face gets red every
time he thinks about it, since he
has come to know something about
Alaska, and he has long wished
some one would come along to cope
that medal from his manly breast.
The deed has been done. Herb can
turn in his trophy and we'll pin it
on the chest of Ailsa Craig Robin
son, sagebrush gal from Idaho, for
her latest effort in Pacific Motor
Boat. As a matter of fact, some
body should cast up a couple more
medals, one each for Miller Free
man, President of Pacific Motor
Boat and its editor, Nard Jones,
both old time Seattle men, who
should know better, for publishing
such highly incorrect information.
But on to the reason of why Ailsa
should have the medal, and We are
going to advise Hilscher to mail 1t
to her pronto. It seems that Auth
Dress Robinson, with her husband
and children. made the Southeast
Alaska trip last summer on small
boat-round trip, all the way to
Sitka and return, stopping at var
ious towns At Ketchikan, for eX-
ample, Ailsa found a frontier type
of town with wooden sidewalks
Almost every other business house
is a liquor store or cocktail bar
Fishermen swap salmon for whiskey
in the liquor stores" If Ketchikan
can take it we can.
Then Authoress Robinson tells her
public: THE current took us so
miles in 10 hours next day to Wran-
CELL. It is just another frontier
town of dirty streets, drunken fish
ermen, the inevitable Indians and
more totem poles"
See any reason why this gal
shouldn't get the medal for mis-
statement of facts?
And here's more of the same on
Petersburg: Here is the city that
boosts the finest harbor in Alaska
and the ONLY traffic light in the
entire Territory" You don't sup
pose Earl dinner took this little gal
for a sleigh ride? Probably she did
mt see the traffic lights in Ketch-
ikan, and where, of where, is that
finest harbor in Alaska" around
Petersburg? with all due respect to
our neighbor city.
But why go on? The authoress
visited other places in Southeast AL
aska with about the same degree
of accuracy, so let's give her the
medal and send the bill to Miller
Freeman and Nard Jones of Pacific
Motor Boat. We hope for the sake
of their readers that some of the
other stuff in their publication is
more accurate.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-05-16
GEORGE A LINGO.

Date First Publication Apr 4. 1871
Date Last Publication. May 30. 1871
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-05-16
TB1R@UGH TR1E
POLITICAL
PElRISGOIPE

Effort to defeat the bill intro
dueed in Congress by Delegate Di-
mond to re-apportion Alaska on ba-
sis of population for legislative pur-
poses originates in Fairbanks. Fair
banks Chamber of Commerce with
Capt Lathrop's Daily News-Miner
as the official organ is attempting
to get a deluge of kilograms fired
back to Congress from the Interior
divisions in hope of stopping the
bill. In order to build up feeling,
Fourth Divisioners are labelling it
an "Iekes" bill So far. support for
their protest hasn't won much sup
port outside of Fairbanks. One of
the reasons may be this dictatOrial
thought offered by the News-Miner.
For instance. in the Fourth Di-
vision, it probably would result in
Kuskokwim area being entitled to
vote or select members resident only
of that area; and the lower Yukon.
the Tanana and the upper Tanana,
or some other arbitrary geographi-
cal divisions having their respective
memberships. This would witness a
considerable alteration in the man
ner of selection of candidates Not
all of the ablest and most exper-
fenced legislators now incumbent
would be able to win out again
The same would apply in other Di-
visions.
Result of this juicy morsel in the
/ News-M Miner has been growing con
vietion in the smaller communities
that they are just as much entitled
to representation as Fairbanks which
has all the representation from the
Fourth Division
Like the First Division outside of
Juneau, the Second outside of Nome
and the Third outside of Anchorage,
the Fourth outside of Fairbanks
takes the position of the majority
of Alaskans that it has become time
for residents outside of the four
traditional centers to have represen-
| tation. The Fairbanks Chamber.
made up of humans, naturally hates
to lose control. It wants all the
members elected from its home town
and, of course. wants to see its
sparsely populated division have the
same representation as the First
and Third with many times more
population. Third, conscious of its
growth which ultimately will give it
as much representation as any diYis-
ion under the Dimond plan, is failing
to go along with the Fourth in its
scheme to block the bill.
An idea of how the Third feels
about it can be CLEANED from the
pen of Roy Southworth, who does
one of the most thorough editing
jobs on his weekly Alaskan as there
is done in the Territory Veteran Ed
itor Southworth has this to say:
I'm view of the fact that the Al
aska Legislature, as now constitut-
ed, is generally recognized as not
being adequately representative of
the more populaee regions of the
Territory, and in view of the fur
Their fact that the aid of Delegate
Diond was solicited in bringing
about a change in the Organic Act
to permit an increase in the men,
bership of the Legislature, the bill
which the Delegate has introduced
in Congress for re-apportionment of
representation probably will have a
favorable reaction throughout the
Territory, even though it does diff
! fer somewhat from suggestions made
by members of the late Legislature. :"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-05-16
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
WRANGELL PRECINCT. FIRST
DIVISION.
NOTICE OF SALE OF
REAL PROPERTY.

IN THE MATTER OF THE
GUARDIANSHIP or THE ESTATE
OF A. H. LAWRENCE. absentee.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned Guardian of the above
entitled estate of A. H. Lawrence
absentee, has received a license from
the Probate Court for Wrangell Pre-
cinct. First Division of Alaska. to
sell all of the real property of said
estate. and that l will on Monday
the 9th day of June, 1871. at . o.
clock in the afternoon, in the office
of the United States Commissioner
for Wrangell Precinct aforesaid. of
fer for sale and sell to the high
est and best bidders, all of the
right. title and interest of A. H.
Lawrence, absentee. in and to the
following described lots or parcels
of land, together with the improve
mentts theron. situated in Wran-
CELL Townsite, to-wit;
Lot Ten C10l in Block Five-A C5-Al
Lot Twelve (12) in Block Seven IL
Lot Thirteen 13) in Block Seven
~.
Lot Fifteen CI5) in Block Thirteen
(13).
Sealed bids will be accepted at
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-05-16

Seattle Representative
Frank J. Dunning
American Building, Seattle Wash.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-05-16

MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-05-16

mission is considering the three-year
residence requirement before being
eligible TO a resident hunting license
Conservationists on the whole are for
it. Conceding it a little drastic. they
realize that If drastic action is not
taken Alaska WI go the way of the
old west SO far as wildlife is con
cerned; it will be wiped out.
l. W
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-05-16
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that Al
fred A. Anderson has made appli-
cation for a hzmesite. under the act
of May &c, 1884 as Stat. S095
Anchorage Serial Ne. 09604. for a
tract Of land described as Tract u
of the Wrangeu Group OF Home
sites situated near Wrangell, Alas
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-05-16

FOR SALE = Used Furniture-Li-
brary Table, Double bed and mat
tress, Kitchen Table and cabinet Blu
reau, Heater. Very reasonable prices.
See Doris Eastaugh mornings. 26-tf
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-05-16

the office Of the United States
Commissioner for Wrangell Pre-
cinct. as aforesaid at any time prior
10 said sale. Such bids must be ac=
compauied by certified check made
payable to the undersigned, or by
legal tender of the United States of
America, for the full amount of all
cash bids.
All sealed bids so received will be
opened and read in the presence and
hearing of those assembled at the
time and place aforesaid. whereupon
oral bids may be submitted by per
sons then present and desiring 10
bid
VIM. c. LAWRENCE.
Guardian of the estate of A. H.
Lawrence. absentee.
First publication, May 16. 1891.
Last Publication, June e, 1891.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-05-16

ka, Plat Of L. S Survey No. 1921.
containing $50 acres aud It is nov
in the files of the Z. S. Land office.
Anchorage. Alaska
ANY and all persons claiming ad=
versely any of the above mentioned
land should file their adverse claim
in the district land office within
the period of publication or thirty
days thereafter. or they will b
barred by the provisions Of the sta
tutes.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-13

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Jan 13
-(R-Laced in a strait-jacket
of concrete and steel, the lazy
Tennessee river which carried
pioneers on their westward trek
is becoming a busy transporta-
ton route for the South's agri-
culture and industry.
Men and machines, with mod
en efficiency, are Transforming
into reality the century-old
dream of Harvesting the meand-
ering stream as carrier of COM
merce.
Old-South romance along the
river is being dispelled by q
busting new air of activity.
Busy little tugboats are hauling
impressive tonnages of freight
up and down the stream.
This changing scene is being
wrought up by the Tennessee
Valley Authority's development
of the river by construction of
a series of high dams. When
completed in about four more
years, the dams will provide a
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-13
Creole Beauty
Dead at rs;
KeptHer YOU

OAMARILLO, Tex, Jan. 10
R-A Creole beauty who de-
serted her Baton Rouge, La,
family to deal monte to such bad
men of the old west as Billy the
Kid, Bat Masterson and Pat Gar:
rett died yesterday at 78-her
identity still her secret.
Known only as Frenchy, she
appeared in Tascosa, Tex. in the
SOS with a story of having
danced on the stage In st. Louis.
The blue-eyed belle soon mar
ried Mickey Mccormick, a roll
licking Irish gambler, and dealt
monte at his establishment.
mo one knows who am. No
one ever will know" she answer
ed all questions as to her past.
Mccormick died in 1908, with
Frenchy's promise never to leave
Tascosa. Big drives up the cattle
trail faded and Tascosa became a
ghost town, but Frenchy stayed
"A lonely crone-until friends
moved her to Claiming two
years ago. She died there.
Her body will be buried beside
McCormick's at Tascosa. "I'll
stay lin Tascosa) to the end" she
had vowed. Then I'll 60 to my
Mickey"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-13

ed the time one of the pilots
from the plant had flown them
to the west coast. Paul had
conference there, and she stay
ed in a gorgeous pink hotel on
the beach, and after the confer
ence they'd gone swimming in
the blue water. The flight back
had been made in darkness. She
recalled the pinpoints of light,
far below, when they flew over
cities; and the sense of adven-
ture which had flooded her.
Bill hadn't the money for ex-
pensive restaurants. The Club
Tortilla, where an evenings
check amounted to at least $50,
was out of the question. Yet
things with Bill had been more
fun. The magic of being togeth-
er made a cup of coffee around
the corner from the 20-cent
movie heaven indeed.
In the office, the girls were
kind. They asked her to their
homes for dinner. She refused,
gently, but she appreciated their
thoughtfulness. One of the girls
asked, But what do you do with
YOURSELF"
Another girl-the thin Gle
clerk who worked right there
in the Engineering-said, Oh,
Mr.. Elliott doesn't let you get
lonely, does he?"
There was a dreadful silence.
Martha felt anger rising inside
her. She said coldly, "Mr. Ell
lott and his fiancee are old
friends of NINE"
Suzanne wasn't his fancee.
But she couldn't let a crack like
that get by!
II made her wonder, duly, IL
il was wise TO see so much of
Paul. But that was nonsense!
Just because she used to be en-
gagged to him. Hadn't Bill him
self said, Take care of her for
me. Paul"
And then, one night when Bill
had been gone three weeks, Paul
turned up at the apartment
without Suzanne. RI
I'VE had" he explained, "a
little disagreement last night,
after we left YOU"
oh" She wondered II he
would tell her what II had been
about. But he didn't. He only
said, I'll show her!" smiling, rs
though il was all rather silly
and unimportant.
you and l." he went on. ARE
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-13
Stroit-Jocketed River
Becomes VitoI Waterway

navigable nine-foot channel
from Paducah, KY, to Knoxville,
a distance of about $50 miles.
Freight traffic on the Tennes-
see is increasing rapidly. In
1899 a total of 1,115,000 tons
of freight moved on the river.
During the first II months of
1910, a total of 100000 tons
were barged, an increase of II
per cent over the preceding
year without including Deem
Der tonnage.
Private freight terminals dot
the river banks, but within a
few days, probably this week,
a plan will be laid before Gov
ernor Prentice Cooper of Ten
nesee for development of a uni
fed system of public freight
terminals, sponsored jointly by
the states of Tennessee and Al
ALBANIA. Later, the same pro-
posal will be put before the
governor of Alabama.
The plan was formulated by
the Tennessee Valley Waterways
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-13

very like the old days this was.
They didn't talk much, driving
along. They never had. She
wondered fleetingly about Suz-
anne, hoped Paul would bring
her with him tomorrow night.
He switched on the radio. There
was a quiz program. A mans
voice asked, "Now. Mrs. Smith,
what state in the Union has the
smallest population?
Arizona" Martha said, idly.
Utah." Paul insisted.
The woman on the radio was
silent for long time. At last she
said, "I'm afraid I don't know"
"Sorry, Mrs. Smith. The an
swer is Nevada"
1--WE were in the right part OF
the country, anyway" said Mar
tina. IN e va d a, eh? you
wouldn't think-with Reno
but that's a sort of floating
population, suppose"
Paul didn't answer. Reno. The
divorce center.
1.-THE Army's just as good as
Reno for separating people,"
Martha said. "And q whole lot
cheaper >
But not quite rs permanent"
Suddenly, with . swift turn
of the wheel, he was turning
around, heading for home.
At her own door, as she
shook hands with Paul in good
night, there began a fearful
scratching from the other side.
"Butch!" she explained. II al
most forgot him. I'd better let
him out right now or he'll break
training"
Butch bounded out, gratefully,
making straight for the stairs.
"rll walk around the block with
him, Martha, and bring him
back to you"
Thanks, Paul. And I did have
q lovely time"
She remained in the little foy-
er, the door open, waiting for
Butch to come back. From the
hall closet, the sleeve Of Bits
raincoat stuck out. There'd been
no raincoat on the list of clothes
the government told him 70
bring. Impulsively. she reached
for II, brushing il against her
cheek.
Suddenly she heard q voice,
indignant and very loud. THAT
mans walking around the block
with her dog at this time OF
night, and look--her door Is
open! Imagine such goings on!"
(Te De Csntinued)
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-13

Conference, organized in Chat
tanooga last June by Valley
business men interested In the
river development.
Under the contemplated pro-
gram, public terminals would
be constructed, owned and op-
Grated by the two states under
the direction of Tennessee
river terminal authority COM
posed of three Tennesseans and
three Alabamans.
The initial investment sug-
gested calls for expenditure of
100000 for construction of Ave
or six terminals at strategic
points, and an eventual invest
ment of about 100000 in
twelve terminals to be built over
a period of 10 to IS years.
G. +. Barker, chief of Twas
river transportation division,
said the terminal project should
be self-liquidating over a long
period of time, and should meet
operating expenses much soon
er."
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-13

Kenkichi Yeshlsaws
Ereases path Of Netherlands In
dies-Japanese oil negotiations.
nually, from Dutch wells. Four
companies handle the d6al The
producers are the Ko1Oniale
standard Vacuum) and the ba-
taafshke (Shell) companies, OPP
Grating in Borneo, Sumatra and
Java. The distributors are the
Rising Sun Oil Company (Shell)
and the Standard-Vacuum Com
pany Of Japan.
On form II looks %, II Standard
Vacuum were only half owned
by Standard Oil Interests, the
rest belonging to another con-
cern-Socony Vacuum. But the
latter is also al Standard Oil.
Net result, a. far ~ Japan's
oil supply Is concerned, is that
Standards Dutch East Indies
producing company sells to
Standards japanese OIL distrib-
uting company, which sells to
Japan.
Similarly, the other Dutch
East Indies producer, Bataafsh-
Ike, Il controlled by Dutch Shell
and sells oil 70 the Rising Sun
Petroleum Co., m importer and
distributor In Japan Of Shell oil
products.
The companies involved have
practically acted under duress.
There was always the threat Of
invasion Of the Dutch East In
dies and seizure Of the wells.
From the japanese standpoint
good has come out Of the evil Of
the American embargo. From
Yokohama 70 California ports II
about $500 miles. But Il II on
~ about 5000 miles from Yoko-
hama to Palembang in tive Dutch
East Indies.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-13
Four Die
i'm Detroit
Blaze

oDETROIT, Jan. Is - R -
A family Of four burned to death
in their beds early today as fire
destroyed the home of Leon Pei
ton near the Wayne ashtenaw
county line.
State Police, digging in the
ashes of the frame dwelling,
found the bodies of Pelton, IS,
foreman 1t an automobile plant
In Flat Rock, Mich; his wife,
Mary, 50, their daughter. Doro-
thy, Is, and 4 son, Gerald, IL.
Officers said they arrived ut
the scene Of the fire at 1870 am.
but found the building Q mass Of
flames. There was no water
available with which 10 fight the
fire. Intense heat prevented
elooe examination Of the ruins
loe several hours.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-13
NEIGHBORS BEGIN TO TALK
CHAPTER Nv

CHAPTER Nv
In the days that followed,
Martha Marshal realized more
and more poignantly what 1t
meant to be what she herself
had called a "conscripts wife,"
It meant peering anxiously into
the letterbox, every morning. II
there was a letter from Bill, she
read it at once. II there was
-letterrshe went unhappily
of to work.
II meant listening to great
deal of silly, well-meant con-
ISOLATION. "As it," she thought
fiercely, "Bill had died."
It meant pressing loneliness,
even when Paul and Suzanne
were with her and they were
with her practically all the
time. But no matter how late
they stayed, there was always
the moment when she turned on
the bedside lamp in the bed
room, and the neatly made up
bed stared up at her mockingly.
II meant, too, long letters from
her sister. THE best thing for
you to do is come and stay with
us, Martha. There's no sense
in your keeping up the apart
ment lust for yourself. It's too
expensive. Well be glad to have
you."
She knew what staying with
Helen would be like Helping
with the three children, doing
the homework, sitting in the
cluttered parlor and listening to
her brother-in-law's intermin-
able business troubles. Oh, no.
Just because Bill was gone didn't
mean she must stop living for a
year.
But in everything that mat
tered, she had stopped living.
She thought, wonderingly, How
did I manage before / married
Bill? I was alone then" The
days before she became his wife
were shadowy and unreal, as II
they had happened to another
girl.
"And Of course, I was engag-
ed to Paul ;" He had taken
her about . great deal. To ex-
pensive restaurants, and the gsy
Club Tortilla. She remember
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-13
New Deal
Accounting
at The. Bar

Q ATLANTA, Jan. Is Up
New Deal democracy came to q
financial accounting in Georgia
today with the converting of q
predominatey conservative leg
islature under the leadership of
Eugene Talmadge, who takes Of
Ace as a third term governor
Tuesday.
For four years, under the pro-
New Deal guidance of retiring
Governor +. D. Rivers, Georgia
expanded her governmental SER
vices on q little New Deal" pat
tern.
Social security benefits became
q part Of the state government,
as did q greatly enlarged public
health program. Education needs
mushroomed with the guarantee
of teachers salaries for a mini
mum of seven months.
So numerous were the serv-
ices incorporated in the little
New Deal" that not even Geor-
gia's booming state revenues
could keep pace. Some incom-
ing assembly leaders estimate
that the state will be found in
debt "at least $40, 100000
Now Talmadge aides feel the
new administration faces "the
job of making the liberals pro-
gram work"
Talmadge assailed what he
termed extravaganza" in state
affairs and campaigned for cleo
ton as governor on a platform
demanding economy. He has
clashed with the national ad-
ministration in the past, but
stoutly maintains that he is no
out-and-out "anti New-Dealer"
and has no desire to run the
country"
Only recently he challenged
sharply an intimation by Rep
Roy v. Harris, righthand man of
Governor Rivers. that the incom-
ing regime might be planning to
"back up" on social legislation.
Legislative leaders are inclined
to turn over without strings the
job of trimming the state func-
tionsNto fit available money. Al
ready in the making Is legisla-
tive bill that would make him
virtually financial dictator In
state affairs.
"Our purpose is not to tear
down." asserted Senator Charles
D. Redwine, unopposed for presi-
dent of the state senate.
II think this is the first time
since the New Deal was launched
that a conservative government
has come into power and taken
over the job of making the lib
erals program work."
Rep. Randall Evans, Talmadge
choice for the key office of speak
er of the house of representa-
tives. insisted that despite crit
icism of method and extravag-
ance in the state government 1--WE
do not intend to 60 backward"