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The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
Acting Gov. Explains Cruiser
 Alaska Fund

Several questions have been asked relative to the Cruiser Alaska Fund. what is the gift to be etc. Acting Gov. E. L. Bartlett. in the following communication, sets forth the per tinent facts relative to the fund and it's purposes:
 Governor Gruening had intend ed to issue a statement before he left answering just the question you ask-i e. what sort of gift is intended, how 1t is to be selected and by whom but he had to de- part a day or so sooner than he ex- pected and he requested me to do this.
 Tn some communities the idea seems to be that a definite goal of S10,000 has been fixed and that this sum will be used to buy a sil- yer service for the ALASKA. This is not correct. No quota has been established nor is it intended to fix enc. Whatever money is contribut- ed, whether 1t be a sum of several hundred dollars from a corporation or a dime from an individual, will be gratefully received. Governor Gruenings idea is that We should get away from the traditional silver service gift. He has tentatively sug- gested that the ward rooms on the cruiser might be presented with ob- Jects more typical of Alaska, such as paintings, bear rugs, and other similarly distinctive presents which would serve as constant reminders of the source of the gift. A Sidney Laurence painting, for instance, would give more constant pleasure to the officers and men on the AL ASKA than would a silver service.
 "As l understand it no natter what the gift might be, it could not be taken aboard the Alaska during war time. Nor would it be desirable on our part to buy an expensive gift or gifts now when every dollar is so urgently needed to aid in win-I ming the war Accordingly, the GoV-I ernOr has suggested that after the campaign has been completed, the money be put into war bonds and a presentation made at the time the Alaska is commissioned. Then after the war has ended, a representative committee appointed by the Gov ernor will choose the gift or gifts.
 Thus, everyone who donates now will be serving a dual purpose he will be putting his money im- mediately to work in furtherance of the war effort and he also will be making it available to aid in the purchase of a gift for the Alaska later on."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
Says Merchant Claims Now
 Being Settled

Persistent work on the part of the Alaska Office of Price Admins tration to break the log-jam of un- paid shipping claims, which has been a major headache for retail merchants throughout the Terri tory, has been successful, according to word received by Mildred Her mann, Alaska director of OPA from Guy Green, Jr., regional enforce ment attorney of the Ninth region, who, at Mrs. Hermann's request, has been handling the problem with the War Shipping Administration in Washington, D. c.
 According to word transmitted by Green, reports received from the AL aska Steamship Company indicate that out of approximately 1000 claims processed Is per cent have been paid and so per cent have been approved and forwarded to AL askan agents for payment. Only two per cent of the claims were dis allowed and 2O0O are still pending. Due to the manpower shortage, work on this matter has been slow ed up to some extent, the report stated. It is expected that similar reports will be received from other steamship companies in the near future.
 Unpaid claims for loss or damage to goods in process of shipment have represented a very serious problem to retail merchants, Mrs. Hermann explained. Without definite clarifi- cation as to responsibility in the matter, the steamship companies have been reluctant to settle claims until definitely directed to by w. s. A. Losses have been heavy due to inexperienced help and consider able pilfering and have greatly add ed to the merchants cost of doing business, an item which had to be- absorbed by the merchant, since it is not chargeable to direct cost and could not be passed on to the con- sumer.
 The Alaska Office of Price Ad ministration has been working on this matter for a long time, Mrs. Hermann stated, and is deeply grat- flied at the success of its efforts.
 Merchants are advised to present their claims promptly, giving all information necessary to enable the transportation companies to under stand the problem involved. Settle ment may be delayed, but they may feel sure that proper procedure has now been developed and that all all lowable claims will be paid, Mrs. Hermann said.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
NAZI SUPPLY LINES GET TWO-WAY FASTING
 FROM ALLIED B0MBERS

LONDON - British based RAF bombers struck a heavy blow at the French Riviera rail link to Italy last night only a few hours after Mediterranean based Liberators and Flying Frotresses had blasted the same area in a two-way assault on feeder arteries for Nazi armies in Italy.
 The RAF blow was quoted as heavy and we'll concentrated"
 Cannes. only I5 miles east was another target Thursday in a day light assault by Mediterranean bas- ed Liberators and Flying Fortresses while other Mediterranean based formations surmounted the Alps to blast an important Nazi bearing factory at Annecy nestled in the mountains 30 miles south of the Swiss frontier and 40 miles west of the Italian frontier
 Reports of the deadly accuracy of Allied airmen In raids on the Reich came through dispatches from Spain which said that some German civilian trains had been stalled at their stations for two days.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
GOVERNOR GRUENING AND SELECTIVE SERVICE HEAD
 NOW IN WASHINGTON

Gov. Ernest Gruening is now out of the Terrltory, having gone to Washington recently. He will join Mrs CruenIng in the east the Chief Executive and First Lady expecting to return to the Territory around the first of thte year. Secretary of Alaska, E. L. Bartlett, is Acting Governor during his absence.
 Also called to Washington for conference, is John L. Mccormick, Territorial head of Selective Serv- ice, expecting to be gone a month or six weeks. Inventory has been taken by Selective Service of avail able men and out of the Washing ton conferences may come further action in connection with defer ments, drafting of fathers and other problems of Selective Service.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
HER0ISM AT ATTU WINS
 POST HUM0US AWARD

WASHINGTON An Army priv ate, formerly a Colorado farm lab orer who led an American battalion to victory high in the snOw-bound mountains of Attu and almost sin gle handedly broke the final Jap re- sistance there, will be awarded the nations highest decoration, post humously, the Congressional Medal of Honor, it was announced yester- day afternoon by Secretary of War Stimson at his press conference.
 The Secretary told of the heroic and gallant action. Joe P Martinez, 23, of Ault Colorado, fell under a hail of Jap bullets, his rifle still at his shoulder, as he advanced against an enemy position. The event oc- cured last May as American fore es fought through one of the bitter est engagements of the Pacific war to smash the Japanese hold on stra- tegic Attu.
 The medal will be presented to the young soldiers father, Manuel Martinez, by Major Gen. Frederick Uhl commanding general of the Seventh Service Command, at Mar tenez' home near AuIt on November 16.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
DETAILS OF "SO SORRY"
 JAP BOMBING REVEALED

WASHINGTON Details of an- other "so sorry, please excuse" in- cident in strained Japanese and American relations five months be- fore Pearl Harbor were disclosed to- day by the State Department.
 In the summer of 1941, the Nip ponese promised to stop bombing Chungking if the United States would cool off and not take action over the bombing of an American gunboat in the Yangtze river. AL though the American Embassy a. greed that 26 Jap bombers had sweryed from their course to drop bombs near the American Embassy and the gunboat, and that it was a deliberate attack, the Japanese apol- ogized and claimed it was an ac- cident and promised to stop bomb ing Chungking if the United States would drop the matter. However, the Japanese navy a short time la ter subjected the city to heavy and prolonged raids. Secretary of State Cordell Hull asked the Japanese Ambassador about it and was told that the Japanese promise to cease bombing the city was merely "tem- porarily' not indefinitely.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
MARINES LIVE UP TO FAME AT BOUGAIEVILLE

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN Southwest Pacific American Mar ines reinforced by Army troops, de- finitely won the first round in the battle for Bougainyille despite Japanese attempts to becloud the fact with wild claims of having sunk many Allied warships in that area, a spokesman from General MacArthur's headquarters announc- ed today
 The six mile long beachhead in Empress Augusta Bay is firmly secured and Japanese claims of sink warships in a naval battle and sub sequent naval action reported off Bougainyille the night of November 1, is without basis" the spokesman added.
 In the naval action referred to, Japanese cruiser and four destroy CTS were sunk, two cruisers and two destroyers damaged without loss of a single American warship.
 Allied headquarters had previous ly reported the battle, in which AL lied forces prevented a Japanese task force from getting closer than within 40 miles of the Marine beachhead, while the Tokyo radio had been flooding the air with re- ports that 95 Allied war vessels had been sunk in naval and air action during the less than two weeks per iod of securing the BougainYille beachhead.
 MaeArthur's spokesman said Am ericans now firmly secured in the rear of Jap positions at Buin, on the islands south shore and had all so gained other beachheads directly athwart the Japanese supply line toI Buin in the Shorthand Islands area.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
HUNTING PARTY SAFE AT
 TOTEM BAY; STORM BOUND

Fear for the safety of four Wran- gell hunters was quieted last night when Virgil Newman, one of the party arrived in town aboard the Dorothy which had gone out to search. Party, aboard Harold Mar tindale's Nightingale, were storm bound at Totem Bay Martindale, with Harry Ferguson and Joe Weav- CT aboard decided to stay out an- other day or two and get their deer.
 Fear for the safety of the party grew after the Coast Guard search ed Duncan Canal, where the Night ingale was reported heading, with no success. Party had been expected back in town last Sunday night.
 Wednesday, the Dorothy, Capt. L. c. Bigelow, and with Charley Early and Cliff Bjorge aboard, showed off and located the hunters at Totem Bay.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
RAISE STATUS OF MINISTER'S
 TO AMBASSADORS

OTTAWA The Canadian Lega- tion in Washington, D. C., and the United States Legation here for merly represented by Ministers, have been raised to the status of Ambassadors, it was announced to- day. Thus, Canada becomes the first British Dominion to establish that highest of diplomatic offices in a foreign country, while the United States becomes the first nation to establish a similar office in any British dominion.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
OTIS STEER HAS ARTICLE
 IN DECEMBER SPORTSMAN

When George Ortell last left his cabin on Johnston Creek, in the Klondike, the temperature stood at 61 degrees below zero. He was just going to a neighboring camp to borrow some flour, thinking to re- turn the same day. Before that jour ney was ended, George Ortell dis played stamina and courage of superhuman quality. He lived through incredible suffering, and died only when life could not be lived on his own terms. George Or tell did not live to give us his story, but his friend A. A. Gillespie, tells it for him with accuracy and sym pathy, in "Sourdough Courage published in the December issue of The Alaska Sportsman.
 To live alone in the domain ot the mighty Grizzly and Brown bears has its moments of danger. Such moments always come when they are least expected, and they call for courage, alert nerves, and a steady hand on the trigger. With these attributes of youth, Otis H. Speer, of WrangeIl, went looking for adventure in the Stikine will derness. Now his youth has gone but through the years MT. Speel has acquired a substitute of exper fence and a thorough knowledge O. the out-of-doors. Big Bears art Bold" by Otis H. Speer, gives high lights of his woodland adventurei and observations.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
FINNS DEMAND
 VOICE IN PEACE

STOCKHOLM - Finland is pre- pared to make peace or armistice arrangements with Russia if it has some voice in the negotiations but never will capitulate uncondition- ally so long as it's army is unde- feated." a Finnish spokesman here said this week. Stockholm papers last week had reported the calling of a conference for Finnish and Russian spokesmen in Moscow to discuss peace terms, a report de- nied emphatically by Finnish foreign office spokesman.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
ELKS NOTES
B. p. O.. .E. Mo. l595
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By Imam Elk


 It's turkey night at the Elks next Thursday Nov. IS. Lodge will put on it's annual Thanksgiving tur- key shoot in the Elks hall with Past District Deputy Fred Hanford, PER Oar Smith and Rus WarfeI in charge of the affair. The boys re- port the birds big, fat and luscious and arrangements are made to han dle big crowd. It's your chance to take home that holiday gobbler.
 The evening of Nov. 24, Thanks giving eve, the Elks will put on the big Thanksgiving dance. PER James Nolan is heading up the committee and will have as able assistants, Hill Harrington, Bill Grant, Chet Steear, Lars Eide and Leo Lyster. This is the big one you can't afford to miss.
 Coast Guardsman Leo Lyster sprOuted antlers at Wednesday nights session after making a nice ride on the goat. Ritual team, with PER Smith acting as Exalted Ruler and PDD Hanford filling in for Virg Newman who was out getting himself deer, and, incidentally, giving some of the youngsters at school a holiday and Brother J. c. Johnson, acting as Esquire, did their work in ! the usual excellent style. Brother Hanford, anxious to ring the bell, tried to skip little, but the boys made him back up. He spent a good alibiing evening thereafter. Brother Jack Johnson, after a four-yeaT lay off, revealed he hadn't forgotten how to handle the job in good style
 Next meeting Brother Newman, il is understood, will turn in a com plete account of the terrific storm at Totem Bay and also how the big buck fell before his unerring aim He may be supported by Brother Harold Martindale, who was with the Leading Knight when the storm was so unabating-and the deer SC evasive.
 Lodge purchased s5 in Christmas seals to aid in tthe anti-tuberculos is drive and the Trustees decided tC put another $500 in war bonds. Lodge was happy to learn Trusted Brother Fisk is much improved anC expects to be back at his usual pos
 in few weeks.
 |, Communications were received
 from Brothers Bill Darsh at An
 chorage and Don MacKinnon at Ju = neau extending good wishes. . Plan now for next week. Be ol ? hand next Wednesday to get tn @ real lowdown on How to Get e Buck" in one easy lesson by Viri e Newman. Learn how the call of tn f wild is so great that man vii r miss his classes for the first time il T 15 years when the willy roebucl ' sounds from the mountainside. - I wanted the deer and I got it; n Came out of a Thursday night. nl Got a little H---, but like 1t, ,. That buck was worth it all right
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
TUBERCULOSIS XMAS
 SEAL SALE DRIVE NOW ON

More than $1S0.0O has been col- lected in the annual tuberculosis seal sale drive which opened here last week, according to Mrs. E. M. Campbell chairman of the drive.
 Seals are already in the hands of most of the citizens of the commun- ity and those who do not have them may obtain them from Mrs. Camp bell.
 The Christmas seal sale is an an- nual affair in the Territory to aid in the war against tuberculosis and a large part of the money collected in Alaska stays in the Territory to aid Alaska victims.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
RED ARMY DRIVES TO NEAR ZHITOMIR

LONDON-A Reuters report from Moscow said that the Red Army has stormed point 10 miles northeast of the western Ukraine center of ZhitOmir, on the last north and south railroad held be the German east of the pre-war Polish Ukraine boundary.
 The Germans were said, in var ious Russian dispatches, to have ap- piled the torch to the Crimean city of Kerch l05,000 population, when it was invested from two sides by Russian amphibious forces shutting across narrow Kerch Strait from the Caucasus.
 The Moscow radio declared that the German line in the Gomel sec tor of White Russia near the fam ed Pripet Morshes was broken. BEG said il was in this area that the Germans said yesterday the Rus sians were attacking with numerous rifle divisions, masses of tanks and planes. The reported Russian gain in the Zhitomir area meant in over night advance of Gen. Vatutin's First Ukrainian army of Is miles to place the Russians within To miles of the old Polish frontier.
 German cOmmunlques asserted Nazi Rumanian troops had haItea Russian attempts to extend their bridgeheads around Kerch and had thwarted efforts of the Red Army to reinforce their numbers already on the eastern shores of the Black Sea peninsula
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
TRAVELLERS

South this week on the Canadian boat were Avis Davidson, N. A. MacEachern, MT. and Mrs. Henry Roaming, R. W. Hutchins, MT. and Mrs Henry Wells Miss IsObel Moore Ray Roady, Dr. James Whal- ey, Pete Wilson, Emmett Ryus and L. B. Chisholm to Ketchikan; MT. and Mrs. Ole Gunderson, A. w. Mo Dermottt, Iris Matthew, o. w. Lind sley, Mrs. Emma Case and Nora Case to Seattle.
 The Ronnings, Mir and Mrs. Wells and daughter Isobel were Seattle bound, but were able to book pass age only as far as Ketchikan.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
DEMOCRATS AND COPS PLAN JANUARY MEETINGS
 TO PLAN FOR CAMPAIGNS

WASHINGTON-Republican lead CTS will meet in Chicago on Jan uary 10-11 to select date and place for the 1914 National Con yention of their party which, the GGP hopes will develop into g springboard to return national pol. itical power to their hands.
 The Democrats are also expected to meet in January.
 In arranging conventions, both parties have been urged by Defense Transportation Director Eastman, te hold conventions in Chicago because of transportation shortages.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
PORT CAPTAIN BRANTNER
 TO NEW DUTY; LIEUT..
 FORD HERE TO TAKE OVER

Lieut. Gg) H. R. Ford has ar- rived in Wrangell to serve as Port Captain, replacing Ensign John Examiner, who has received trans fer orders to other duty. Ensign Brantner expects to leave for Ket- chikan on the next available trans portation south.
 Lieut. Ford was formerly stat tioned at Petersburg as Port Cap tain.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
MIR. AND MRS. HERNANDEZ
 ENJOYING VACATION IN L. A

Mir. and Mrs. Joe Hernandez, well known Wrangell residents, are en- toying a vacation in Los Angeles, according to word received by friends here. They reported that they expect to go from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Arizona, MT. Herman dez' former home town, to renew acquaintances there and then go on to Mexico for short trip before re- turning home.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
ALFRED DE MARIGNY
 FREED OF MURDER CHARGE

NASSAU - Alfred de Marigny, freed of murder charge in connec- tion with the death of his fabulous ly rich father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, in the Bahama Supreme Court, hurried immediately into the arms of his wife. Nancy after the verdict was spoken. An uproar of the courtroom downed out further remarks of the jury foreman after he had announced the acquittal by a vote of nine to three. The jury re- commended immediate deportation of de Marigny which was placed ir the hands of the proper authorities
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
NAVY ADMIRAL WINS HIGH AWARD FOR WORK
 IN ATTU CAMPAIGN

WASHINGTON - The Navy an- nounced the award of the Legion of Merit to Rear Admiral Rockwell, AT, for meritorious conduct as Com mander of an assault force which assacked Attu during the retaking of that island from the enemy. - Rockwell, a native of Woodstock, Connecticut, and his wife, Mrs. Mary Allison Rockwell, now live at Coronado California.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
". R. ABERCROMBIE
 DIES AT SPOKANE. WASH,

SPOKANE Colonel William R. Abercrombie 86, early day Indian fighter and Alaskan pioneer, died here this week. He was the dis coVerer of the route now used for the Richardson highway from Val dez to Panama and of the Alaska glacier that bears his name.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
TRAVELLERS NORTH

NOrth bound on the Canadian boat were H. NJ. Olsen of Wrangell Mills and George Gunderson of the City Motor, Mrs. Gunderson and daughter, Georgina, to Juneau; Miss Isobel A. Moreno and Miss Edna V. Joseph to Skagway.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
COLISEUM THEATRE
 OWNER GIVES $50
 TO HOSPITAL FUND

The Bishop Rowe hispital fund swelled another $50 this week with the arrival of that sum for the hos pital from W. D. Gross of Juneau, pioneer operator of the Coliseum Theatre enterprises in Southeast AL aska which includes the Coliseum in Wrangell.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
CHIEF IN HOSPITAL

Chief Shakes Charley Jones) en- tered the hospital this week for medical attention. He is reported to be getting along nicely.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

The Sentinel extends birthday greetings this week to:
 Chas. Sadler November 1e
 Mrs. John Maxand, November IF Jos. Walter Kuntz, Jr., Nov. Is
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
OUTSIDE FOR WINTER

Mir and Mrs. H. A. Wells and Mrs. Wells's daughter, Miss Isobel Moore, sailed this week for the south. planning to spend the winter in Bellingham.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12

Trial by battle was used to de- eide court cases in Scotland until the close of the 16th century.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12
CITY CLERK TO KETCHIKAN

L. B. Chisholm was in Ketchikan for a few days this week on busi- ness, getting passage back on tug.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-11-12

Eating with forks was not known in England until the reign of James .L
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-09

stupehed, sstonshed drug addcts.
Their, after they had had AS much as they
could stand they were drugged again and
taken away.
They awakened in the desert at the foot
of the mountain ragged, dirty. with all the
after-effects of their drugged excesses
Was it a dream?
No. For kind old man appeared to them
They were the chosen Of Allah, he told them
They had been allowed foretaste of Para
disc.
Why had they been driven out they
babbled.E
The old man strokcd his scented beard.
What would they do to make themselves
worthy?
Anything, they pleaded.
Would thcy-kill? /?
Anything They rolled mad eyes.
And so they were sent off on errands OF
murder Their rewards were more hashish
and more glimpses of that pagan heaven.
Marco Polo reported that there were at
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-09

least four Of the hashish heavens acroE5 A-ia.
And one was in northern India.
Genghis Khan smashed one, tho Tert7rs
razed others. But as far as is tno--r Tho
Golden Kot remained until modern bonbs
cleansed il.
Although the Pr claimed 10 be The lead
of the Ismaieah Moslems, there is another
descendant of the Prophet. also their head.
The worldly Agha Khan, racehorse owner,
the friend Of kings, opera-goer, supporter
of European nightclubs and husband Of the
daughter of a French hote-keeper. is a more
benevolent leader. He is now living quietly
in England on a pittance of a few millions
year.
His people do not recognize the Hurs OF
Hassan. In fact they call them the Lurs,
the unclean ones.
One wonders If the savage Pir Of Pagaro.
while grovelling before the levelled rifles, was
able to remember the consolation ne had so
often hsped 20 his torture victims:
"Mektoub" 49, 1t is Fate.