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The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
Good Response To Air Raid Alert
 Here Sunday

The Wraugell Civilian Defense Council reports a generally success ful practice air raid alert held last Sunday afternoon.
 Participation Of the Military Police. Fire Department. Territor- ial Guard and Coast Guard added definite realism to the practice Six civilians acted as mock cas- ualties and were discovered along their routes by the Sector Wardens who either rendered first aid or called out first aiders from Sector Posts. Dr. Clements made the round of Sector Posts inspecting work of the first aiders and reports good work in most eases.
 Attendance by Civilian Defense members was fairly good; four war dens from all Sectors not reporting all of these working or out Of town Four messengers were absent, four nurses absent and four first aiders absent. The number of absentees noted above indicates nearly a fifth of the total assigned organization did not report for duty for one req son or another. Fifty-eight members answered the signal and, according to the Head WardeDs Sector re- ports. filled their posts with com petanee and good will
 Wrangell Institute reports that all there responded immediately to their alarm and were in the build ing shelters within four minutes.
 Two arrests were made in Sector One for violation of instructions and were brought to headquarters for questioning and warning. Those whose business renders it impera- tive they should be out during an alert should secure identification, giving authority for being on the streets. Contact the Director of Civ ilian Defense for such authority.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
Free-Lance Rowing
 Reporter Interviews Victim
 Of Sundays Air Raid Alert

I was busy working on Sunday afternoon when fellow came along and handed me a paper.
 You're casualty" sez he, and you're supposed to flag an ambu- lance so you can be taken to a first aid station for treatment. He handed me the paper and left
 I read the paper. It said I had been badly burned on the left arm with Lewisite gas. I went on work ing. Pretty soon the fire siren be- gan to blow. It blew for about five minutes. Before it stopped all Of the dogs in town were bowling long loud and profanely and men in white hats with white bandages a. round their coat sleeves were dart ing all over town.
 Pretty soon I saw a jeep coming 1t was acting pretty wild It was full of soldiers and wasn't keeping in the road at all, but cutting cor ners and bouncing over ditches Ii reminded me of a runaway horse with the bit in it's teeth. The mot. or sounded like throwing Japanese vases through a plate glass win dow
 I felt it was my patriotic duty to follow directions, so risked death by getting out in the open. Jagged the jeep.
 "Whadd'ja wantZ" they hollered
 I'm practically burned to death with Lewisite gas" I said.
 You're not either" they yelled back. Tt isn't time for you to be burned yet"
 70. K.," I said meekly. 'Pll sui fer it out the best I can" So went back to work Pretty soon z soldier came along. I went out tC the edge of the street and opened my mouth to flag him.
 Get the h. outta here," h. snarled, "get inside so you won get hit"
 Who's gonna hit me-?" I start ed to argue, but then I noticed h. was carrying a gun. was in nt condition to match bare hands witl sawed-off shot gun. He had tw' shells, too. which made it nor ! dangerous.
 But I'm in a terrible condition, ! whined. i've been burned"
 "Oh yeah?" says he. Well, keel cool. Someone'n be along"
 Keep cool? After you've been an nointed with Lewfsite! | sat down and waited som
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
STANDARD OIL MAN
 TRANSFERRED TO JUNEAU

Don L. MacKinnon. employee of the Standard Oil Company here. has received word that he is being transferred immediatly to the Ju- neau branch. He expects to leave. with his family, on the next Can adian boat north. MaeKinnon, who has been stationed here for several years. will be going home to go to Juneau. He is the son of Mr. and aIes. Loekie MacKinnon, pioneers of that city. Don is a brother of Simpson MaeKinnon. now a Lieut.. Commander in the Navy. and a widely known Alaskan.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30

At noon today. Wrangen was as sured of going over the top in the Second Victory Loan drive for its quota of s15,000.
 The figure last night stood at SI3.106.25, the Post Office reported. and additional purchases of bonds were being made today One bond purchaser had guaranteed to make np the difference if the drive was short at the end of the day. The figures are at cash value, not at maturity value.
 Tt is little short Of phenomenal said local bond sale Chairman Van Fl. Fisk. " In view of the fact that many Of our citizens are gone and this is the slack season of the year here. I think the citizens Of this community have done a marvellous job. Please extend my congratula- tions to all of them. They have done a magnificent job"
 On best population checkup now available. one taken by OPA several weeks ago. Wrangeu now has ac- tually about 600 persons in the com- munity, the result Of some 100 men being in the armed forces, several hundred others in war work and their families temporarily out of the community. On this basis, the bond sale represents S25 for every man, woman and child in this community.
 According to reports. Fairbanks was over the top, having raised s4oO,000 the opening day of the drive; Sitka was over. Ketehikan was tagging to raise a quarter of a million and Juneau was apparently over it's quota. Alaska on the whole Mas over the top with plenty to spare.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
HITLER AND LAYAL CoNFER

BERNIE Sources with Axis con- nectfons reported today that Pierre Laval. chief of government of Vichy France. was conferring with Adolf Hitler. Such a meeting had been forecast in the round of conferences held by the Nazi chieftain with Premier Mussolini and leaders of Axis satellite nations. Laval has been negotiating with the Germans since April II regarding further allotments of Frenchmen to work for Germany.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
Germans Claim
 SOYietS Driving
 New Offensive
By Associated Press1

LONDON-The German military commentator. Capt Ludwig Sertor. ius. declared in a broadcast that the Russians had launched theil large scale attack" on the Nazi Kuban brfdgehead in the Caucasus Moscow remained silent as to oper- ations there and reported no major action anywhere on the Russian front The Germans long have been eliaging 10 the Kuban district in a narrow segment around the Black Sea port of Novorossisk and much of the activity reported Of late has been in that area. German accounts of Russian offensive movements of ten anticipate those of the Russians themselves. who nearly alw a y s withhold news Of major operations until they are well under way.
 Another Nazf commentator re- ported from the front chat the Rus sian had attacked in regimenta1 and divisional strength in the Ku- ban and also had mounted heavy assaults south Of Lake Ladoga on the Leningrad front He called the attack a vain attempt but was vague from that point on.. going back to the action earlier in the week in which. he said, the Bol- sheyists had suffered heaviest losses.
 Dispatches from Moscow reported that the Soviet air force was attack ing German communications and airdromes on a day and night schedule with destruction of more than 90 German planes in a 24- hour period. The Germans claimed the destruction of 5 Soviet planes without Nazi losses.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30

more. 1 could see a girl sitting un- der a nearby tree She said she'd been wounded and was slowly bleeding to death I remember ad- miring her nerve, TOT she was wig orously chewing gum in the face of death. I went back to work.
 I heard a car coming. It was full of men in white hats so l figured it was an ambulanvc I flagged it. It was an ambulance. cleverly cam ouflaged as a laundry panel pick up.
 I'm injured said as the swiftly moving yenicie slid to a grinding stop. Gea.s elashed and brakes screeched as all the men in white hats yelled, We don't be- lieye it!"
 i've got a paper to prove it," said proudly, pulling out my affa- daYit of injury.
 70. K" they said sourly. "get in" They were supposed to carry me in, but they just opened the door and I got in just as if it had been the Black Maria.
 They took me to the first aid station and started taking off my shirt. Then somebody read my shipping tag and discovered I was in the wrong place. So they put my shirt back on, put me back in the Black Maria and took me to the right place.
 There were a lot of nurses and other people there. They took my shirt off and sniffed. They said was supposed to smell like geran- iums. I could tell by their faces that I didn't smell like geraniums- but I may have at that. Some people just don't like the smell of ger aniums.
 They washed my right arm care fully and treated II with a lot oi things. The fact that it was my left arm that had been burned, ac. cording to the affidavit, didn't seem to bother them or make any diff ference in the treatment.
 About that time rne- raid was ov CT and all of the casualties wert i miraculously healed. I learned al terwards that some of the victims were treated with large amount! of coffee taken orally. wasn't treated that way, but maybe tha treatment is reserved for the dainty ] victims who smell ike geraniums! G M
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
JOHNSONS HOME FROM
 WINTER TRIP OUTSIDE

MT. and Mrs. J. C. Johnson, well known Wrangell residents who have been south for the winter, return cd to Wrangell this week. Mrs Johnson spent the winter at her former home in Olympia. Wash. while Mir. Johnson underwent med ical attention on the coast and in the east. Travel, reports Johnson is a No. 1 problem Outside. It is next to impossible Co get around. They were glad to get back to their lovely home in the north end
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
TRAVELLERS

In bound on the Princess this week were Mrs. NeVa Coulter, Mir and Mrs. z. NJ. Braford, Catherine Johnson, R. J. Beeman, R. S. Mel son, I. A. Thatcher, Annie Tinkle- paugh, Mrs. Doris Miles and daugh- ter. H. Law and John Zailo.
 Going south were Sgt Hamilton Law to Ketchikan; Miss A. V, Fl. kins of Petersburg, Johnny w. by. akanoff, Patrick Bean. Boris S Kostrometinoff, Jack J. Suckinaw Willie A. Sharshnikoff, Mrs. c. P MacCreary and daughter, Phyllis and Miss Alice Nicholson to Seattle Harry DaIgity to Price Rupert
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
EMBLEM CLUB
 DISCUSSES INSTALLATION

At it's meeting lasr Friday mem- bers of the Emblem Club had as their main topic Of discussion the coming installation of officers by the Petersburg chapter. It was found that it will be necessary to elect three more officers, however, before installation can take place, to take the place Of two officers who have left town.
 Tentative plans were made for the entertainment of the Petersburg club, with a party Or dance the highlight.
 Next meeting of the club will be Monday night, May when dues oi s3.0O will be payable. All members are urged to turn out.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
CHILD HEALTH
 CONFERENCE MAY '

The regular monthly Child Health Conference will be held at the Health Center in the Federal Build ing on Friday May 7th from 1:30 to 3:30 D. m. The clinic is open to all well children of pre-school age. Immunization against diphtheria is usually started at g months followed by vaccination for smallpox. Al though this will be the last confer ence under the supervision of the present Public Health Nurse, ar- engagements may be made to con- tinue them with the assistance of the Nurses Aides wno are now in training. Notice of this will be giy. en at a later date.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
sKAGWAY PM. SOUTH

It. '. hdIItIIy, fOsIWasLer dl Skagway, was aboard the Princess south bound this week for a long delayed rest and vacation. With it's boom conditions. Post Office at Skagway is a busy place. the Post master reported, with four clerks required to care for the influx of business as a result of vast increase in population due to war projects. Looking over WrangelPs Post Of flee, Postmaster Rarferty comment ed; If I had just half of this space"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
Ice Goes Out
 At Nenana
 4 Winners
.RH As..eialeLl- -Prezs.

FAIRBANKS - Hhe ice went out at Nenana at 7z22 p. m Wednesday. ArIt 2S. and a kitty" of SS0,oo0 awaits division among four entries. Three winners were on 7:21 p. m. and one on 7s23 D. m.
 Tickets of the lucky ones bore the za.les . August Juatsnen and Mar io Lester. Anchorages Foster Pool. Juneau, and Allan W. Less, Fair banks with q others on his ticket.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
IMPORTANT MEETING TONIGHT
 OF CIVILIAN DEFENSE

Wrangen Civilian Defense Coun- cil announces an important meet ing at the Fire Hall tonight at p. m. Sector Wardens are requested to individually contact their assistant wardens as the matter of wardens carrying arms is to be discussed.
 Instructors at First Air posts are asked to round up First Aiders in their sector.
 Your cooperation is asked. The meeting called for last Tuesday was attended by only ten out of some 75 members.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
AT THE HOSPITAL.

Paul Thornquist, son Of MT. and Mrs. H. B. Thornquist. underwent an operation for appendicitis last Friday night and Is convalescing nicely.
 Al Cramer entered the hospital this week for medical attention.
 Peter Mccormack, III, infant son of MT. and Mrs. Peter Mccormack. Ii, is getting along nicely.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
PRESIDENT BACK AT DESK
 AFTER 7O0O-MILE TRIP

WASHINQTON-President Roos- eyelt returned yesterday to Wash ington from a 7,652-mile, 2O-state tour impressed with the military and industrial proficiency of the country and holding the idea, too, that the wartime establishments ought to be used after the war for training young people.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
SAY ROM1IEL
 HAS LEFT AFRICA

ALLIED HEADQARTERS, North Africa-German troops in Tunisia are being showered with pamphlets citing captured Nazi documents as serting that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and his staff left Africa several weeks ago. The pamphlets tell the Germmans that they have been left behind 10 die and call up- on them to take the last chance of saving their lives by surrend- ering
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
PVT. HARRY DALGTTY
 DALGITY BACK TO STATION

Pvt. Harry Dalgity, son of former Mayor Tom Dalgity, left this week for his Army station after a two weeks furlough, spent here with re- latives and friends. Feeling and looking fine, Dalgity reported Army life was o. K.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
IR. LESTER WILL BE
 HERE COMING WEEK

Dr. R. N. Hester, ear, eye nose and throat specialist, from Ketch- ikan, plans to be in Wrangell a. around May 1 and will be at the Wrangell Hotel, according to a wire to Tine Sentinel
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN

Sunday: Sunday scnool, 10 a. m. Morning Worship, II a. m. Clipper Club, p. III.
 Tuesday: Wrangell Institute, ! D. m. Cub Scouts, 7:30 p. m.
 Wednesday: Laddies Aid, 2 p. m. Prayer Service, 7:90 D. m. Mission ary Society, 8 D. m.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
SAILS FOR SOUTH

Miss Alice Nicholson, sister of Mrs. Leonard Campbell. sailed south on the Princess after a two weeks vacation visit here. Miss Nicholson is with the National Bank of Commerce in Seattle.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
VISITS DAUGHTER

Mrs. Annie Tinklepaugh, mother of Mrs NJ. L. Miles, arrived from ketchikan last week end and is Yis- iting her daughter and family for a few weeks.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30

Mrs. c. p. MacCreary and daugh- ter Phyllis sailed south this week on the Princess. en route to Mac Creary's former home in New ter sey where they expect to stay while Mir. MacCreary is engaged in war work at Skagway.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
LEGION AUXILIARY

Regular monthly meeting Of the American Legion Auxiliary will be held Monday evening at D. m. in the Dugout.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIsTs

Services for Saturday. May 1, are: Sabbath School. 10 a. m. and Preaching Service, II a. m.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
Victory Loan Of $15,OO0
 Raised Here

The Bond Drive closed this afternoon at 5 o'clock with S15,065.OO.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-18

y. 5. Treosur, Dept
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-18
knowledge Test
BY DR.. SABINA II. CONNAIJy

Fill 10 blank: (aJ Hibernia
+ IS the ancient name for -; (b)
Swabia is the ancient name for
; (cl Hellas is the ancient
name for -
> Give another word that
means tho same as the underlined
one tal Elimination of dining car
construction; (b) stout ally; (c)
virtually in our hands.
answer yes or no: (a) Is
chicory an adulterant of tea7 (b)
is chlorine in salt? (c) Is scurvY
caused by lack of meat?
What state: (a) Was settled
by The Spanish in 1857 III vas
settled by the Swedes in 1927?
lc) was settled by Americans in
1912
5-What is measured by: (a)
An Audiometer7 Oh a barometer?
(c) a thermometer?
67FiH the blank: (a) Hitch
your wagon 10 a -===ii[ Emerson;
tb) Truth sits upon the Lips of
dying Arnold; Cc) "A land
flowing with milk and ---"
Bible.
Where would you 60: (a) To
visit the birthplace of Moham-
med? thl TO visit the birthplace
Of Christ? tc) 10 visit the BIRTH
place of Joan of Arc?
ANSWERS on Opposite Page)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-18
Quick Que tions

1t is claimed that all mans
voluntary acts are dominated by
three primary emotions. What are
they?
2-Can you identify any two OF
the men whose mounts these
famous horses were la) Buceph-
aloS (bl Traveller? (c) AL
Borak? I'd Silver.
3-The rings on target al one
rifle club are marked Is. II, %,
"a and "a, the latter being the
bulls eye. a prize is given the
markSman who scores exactly 100
IN exactly SIX shots. What rings
must he hit?
4-Warnlngs OF possible Ger
man retallatory air raids on the
United States have been repeated.
Is there any instance OF a plane
flying nonstop between the two
countries?
5-What mans voice do YOU
suppose is heard most often in
broadCaStS from Britain?
6-One Of our major parties
gave It's presidential nomination a
third time 10 what candidate who
had been defeated for the office
twice.
Who made the accidental
discovery Of the new miracle drug.
penicillin, in mold7
8-What kind Of animal is born
and-iives all-itS fife III the water.
like the whale?
ANSWERS on Opposite Page)
Copyright, 1913 by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-18
.riston's Brave ChaIIenge
1THE makers of the Constitution sought to protect
- Americans in their right to be let alone.'=

CT HE makers OF the Constitution sought to protect
Americans in their right to be let alone
The late Justice Brandeis
Dr. Henry w. Wrston, president of Brown Univer-
sity has joined the growing list of distinguished Ameri
educators, writers and businessmen who are not
afraid to speak vigorously in favor of the traditional
American economic system and point the dangers
to the American people of the twin that have
raised their heads in Washington GOVERNMENTAL
ABSORPTION OF INDIVIDUAL ENTERPRISES AND
IRRESPONSIBLE BUREAUCRACY.
IN HIS book challenge to Freedom" just published by
Harper and Brothers, Dr. Wriston says that the real
liberals those who for the sterilization of the
free competitive captalstic system under which have
become the freest people in the world and the reaction
aries" the state Socialists the Tory regimeners in
Washington
Government by bureaucracy control of business by
administrative regulation manipulation of the economy
for political purposes-these are STARK REACTION.
Not all the cascades of beautiful words about new
social goals, bold social engineering security
cradle to the grave wash away that neradicabe
fact" he says.
DR WRISTON vigorously denounces the wholesale
- planning of our lives and businesses
In describing 1.-The war between individualism and
statism' Dr. Wriston says
There is place for monopoly, either politics or
in economies What need is a vast expansion of pro-
ductive energy through myriad of new enterprises
IF that does not occur, the armed forces will be
demobilized into some and drearer WPA debt will
multiply private enterprise will wther and we shall be
delivered into the hands of the system we defeated i'm
war. Bureaucracy is static and nonproductive. 1t
consumes wealth; it does not produce it,"
[ IE STATES that the Iago of the whole communistic
L l trend of the New Deal in Washington is the English
labor leader and professor who has used the L. A. and
Harvard University in PARTICULAR his soapbox for
years-Harold J. Lask.
He quotes Laski follows on the decay of
democracy:
1T possible to believe in the permanence of the
democratic ideal in the brief hour of its triumph in 1918
Since then events have increasingly proved that it was
unsuited to the conditions of our age"
That sounds like Mussolni or Hitler
THAT un-American doctrine has tainted this admins.
L tration from top to bottom.
We commend to the-AnaeriSaE- public yVristen,s
Challenge to Freedom"
We commend it also TO President Roosevelt as good
reading for his next fishing trip
Ereasurp amar0
NM ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-18
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER:
Old Boycott Racketeer
Steps Into Sales Breach
BY wEsTBROOK PEGLER

by WESTBh
A n OLD union friend of mine.
"A whose speciality was boy
colts and blacklists until he got
Just filthy rich from being
bought off. has been telling me
that he has opened up an office
in Washington with branches in
central points out around the
country, organized a staff Of
old-time smear pamphleteers
and word-of-mouth rumorists
and gone back to work as a
patriotic service.
My friend says that the way
things are now, why there
never was such a need. A cry
ing need he calls it (being
quite a steady reader Of the
butchers paper or bleeding
heart, PRESS for boyeetts and
he has come out of retirement
strictly in the interests of our
national morale.
His clients this time are not
pressure groups. unions or ra-
eial or religious factions but
his old victims, the big manu-
facturers and merchants, espe-
cIally the chain stores.
They knew his work in the
old days and figured that If
any one could save them he
could and put It up to INN 10
forget bygones in the interest
OF national unity and the war
effort and sacrifice his hard
earned ease.
THEY had tried everything 10
Il keep the customers away
They posted signs in their mer-
AlldlldANt bhAltA III
zone tn a customer.
Don't be a hog.
mo butter today.
THE Gust omer Is never
right"
But it did no'good. So finally,
one bright executive who used
to fight my old union friend all
over the country and call him
all kinds of a liar. which he IS,
called on him 10 help.
My friend heSitated al first,
partly from honest confusion,
! because he couldn't immedl-
ately adjust his mind 10 tho
idea Of a friendly boycott but
once IL penetrated he stuck out
his hand and said he would put
forth his best efforts on a
coSt-minus basis.
Don't you mean cost-plus
the executive asked.
"My God, no. mean minus.
said my old union friend III
make another dollar. my taxes
will run me into the red. II
can run up some expenses 10
deduct. I might barely get by.
/ Don't think I am being mer-
cenary. After all, a man IL en-
titled 70 a modest living, isn't
he ."
So then they sat- down to plan
a campaign
THE executive, who sells
Il nothing, said he would have
10 cut sales AT least so per cent
right away and my union friend.
lust speaking off the end Of his
tongue without thinking, said
II will have a picket line In
front Of your New York place
this afternoon and hope 10
cover you from coast To coast
In a week. IL will be like old
times"
Picket line" the executive
yelled. "You are out OF touch,
oldtImer. You can't get pickets
these days with this manpower
shortage. McNutt would slap
them all into the army and
navy"
My old friend was loaded 70
that one, however. so he pulled
out the new and augmented Nc
Mutt list Of nondeferrable and
nonessential occupations and
handed II across the desk.
Look that over" he said.
"See II you see pickets listed
there. Picketing IL an essential
occupation"
well, you are out Of touch