The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-10-30

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 Death of Mrs. William A. Holz- heimer. wife of U. s. District At torney Holzheimer, in Juneau last Sunday toak from Alaska life one of it's outstanding women. Brilliant, personable. Mrs. Holzheimer was known throughout the Territory as a woman of outstanding ability For years she was Democratic National Committee Woman for Alaska and was personally commended by Pres ident Roosevelt in 1882 for her sue cessful leadership. She was prOmin- ent in wOmen's activities. taking an especially active leadership in Epis- eopal church work, hospital and guild affairs. She had lived in Ket- ehikan when Mr Holzheimer was in law practice there, later in Nome where her husband served as Dis trict Judge in the Second Division during the Wilson administration and for many years past in Juneau. To District Attorney Holzheimer and daughter, Mrs. Catherine Gregory, who survive, The Sentinel extends condolences All Alaska mourns the passing of a fine woman, who so lived that her deeds live long after in our memories.
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 We don't know what Secretary Ickes is going to do about it, if any thing, but there's a sweet battle for power going on in his U. s. Fish and Wildlife Service. reports our Washington channel. Old bureau of fisheries holdoYers in the amalga- nation with the Biological Survey never liked the idea that a Biologi- cal Survey man-Dr. Ira \. Cab rielson-was put in charge of the new combined bureau. With years of political experience back of them when fisheries was in the Depart ment of Commerce. fisheries veter- ans decided not to lose control with out a struggle. The fight has been going on for the last two years, or ever since Mr. Ickes put Dr. Gabriel son in charge Old fisheries heads backed by southern Senators with powerful committee control have made it plenty tough; kept Gabriel son from doing some of the things he would have liked to do had he and a free hand The result to date for fisheries in Alaska is what we have been seeing this past season; probably what We will continue to see in fisheries management in the future unless the unpredictable Mr Ickes gets busy and shakes out some of his political employees whose only contribution to fisheries management is their contact with the right politicians 10 hold their jobs
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 Tribute was paid to the free press of the nation during the first week in October by national leaders. but the mail being what it is these days, such comments are just now reaching our desk. Among them we find the following from Vice Ad- miral c. $. Freeman, Commandant of our own 18th Naval District
 "A free and critical press means an informed public. A free press is therefore, one of the important things for which the war is being fought. Every American life lost in the Aleutians, in the South Pa cific, on all the fronts of all the world, is dedicated to the free peo- ples of the world, and no people can be free unless their press is free
 Like you, I am mindful that in the stress of war there occurs d paradox The paradox is this the very forces which are fighting for a free press-the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard must sometimes ask that. for fleeting edition, you give up your freedom. Whenever this has been asked in the Thirteenth Naval Dis trict it has been in the sincere be- lief that by requesting silence or modification we have been protect ing the men on the firing line. A newspaperman has stated it best Ray Daniels of the New York Times: