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The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
CIVIC CLUB EVENING
 MEETING HUGE SUCCESS

First evening meeting held by the Wrangell Women's Civic Club and Library Association took place Wednesday evening in Civic Center. Time Of meetings was changed from Saturday moons to an evening because a great many members work and are unable to attend dur ing the day. The Wednesday even ing result was very gratifying when over twenty members and their guests turned out.
 Election of officers took place. Mrs. H. B. Thornquist is the new President. Mrs. George Sumption was elected Vice President and Mrs. H. H. Hungerford, Treasurer, and Mrs. Peter Mccormack, Secretary. Mrs Peeter McComack, Secretary.
 Mrs. Mccormack made an inter- esting report on nursing and Mrs. George Sumption told of activities in Nurses Aide Mrs. J. L. Ripley reported that ". A Chipperfield, of the Forest Service and in town recently. had given the Civic Club high praise for the manner in which they had kept the park in shape. The club pays for policing the park and keeping it neat and it was voted to continue this ser vice.
 Mrs. Val Coulter, City Librarian, gave a comprehensive report on h- brary affairs.
 Tn order to establish entertain ment for people of the town who tnjoy tennis, Mrs. Norman Whitak- CT was appointed chairman of a committee to arrange for a tennis net to be put up on the school ! tennis court.
 A guest speaker of the evening ' Miss Dorotha Jackson, Public Health Nurse from Juenau, gave 6 report on health topics. :, At the close of the evening . social hour was enjoyed. Members brought their own sandwiches and coffee was served by the club. Il Next meeting will take place or the third Wednesday of August. al U E. m
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
Alaska Fish Pack Now Over
 l,5OO,OOO

At last weeks end Alaska s sal mon pack for the season stood at virtually l 50O,O00 cases. according 10 figure prepared by the [. & Fish and Wildlife Service.
 Bristol Bay has slightly more than a million cases through July IT Cook Inlet had up 93,000; Cop per River. 61,O00 (final for that district): Prince William Sound, 150.000; Yakutat. 5000 and ley Strait Western and Eastern district comprising Southeast Alaska dis tricts open. 160,000.
 ngen-Petersburg three can neries had Up 16 520 cases through last Saturday of which 6.850 were halves. This compares with 15.969 cases for similar period last year Ketchikan had up 33,253 against 23,729 at the same time last year
 Pack figures in the Wrangell- Petersburg district through last Sat urday were:
 Farwest lhalves) - Reds, 2,236, pinks, 2,l87. chums 2,434 echoes, ?; tails. Kings. 4, pinks, 276, chums 1,7S7, echoes ?; totals, 6.85O halves. 2,O71 tails.
 kaylor - Reds, S17, kings, 2, pinks, 494, chums, 533; total, 5,S46.
 P 4. F. - Reds, 25, kings, 20. pinks. PSI, chums, l 419, echoes, 8 :; total 7TE2. urraud +otal for die trict, 6,520 cases.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
NEITHER SNOW, WIND NOR RIOT

GREENWOOD Miss.-Local draft board No. l of Leflore county found one transplanted southern Negro. who had sought industrial work iR Detriot, eager to report. His reply to it's order to show up for ex- animation said: Tt was a riot here and was dangers to try to come. But I'll report anearly. It take me about three days to get their. I'm comein if l haft to walk. I'll report Friday morn. l would of been their but eouldent get their, its so danger oi getting kill here. I had to stay in house that was polices orders. cant get near me local board here
 Peoples are killin one another sC bad so look for me Friday morn"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
Patton Leads Slashing Way
 ACOSs Sicily
By Associated Press

Palermo, leading city Of Sicily fell early Thursday afternoon in the path of American troops who. under the leadership of Gen. Geo. "Rlood and Cuts" Patton. had swept like a prairie fire across cen tral Sicily from the southern coast where they landed less than two weeks ago. Simultaneously, with the fall of the Sicilian capital. other American troops were clos announced from Washington that sault on the Eternal City where, re- ing in on Marsala large seaport on Sicilys west coast, and that its fall is imminent"
 On Sicily's eastern coast the Brit ish Eighth Army. commanded by Gen. Montgomery. was hammering steadily at the outskirts of Catania where the Nazis this week threw in greater numbers of reserves in an attempt to staye off the inevitable fall of that city.
 Meanwhile. during the We k. Rome was bombed. Americ a T heavy and medium bombers last Monday midday carried out an as sault on the Eternal City where. e. ports said, Axis troops were being hidden.
 Bringing home to the heart of Fascism the grim meaning of their warning of last week To get out of the war or be knocked out the aerial attack on Rome was carried out by specially trained crews who executed a precision attack on the city. pin-pointing targets. supposed ly protected by their proximity to some of the most sacred symbols and monuments of Christianity
 4 strong force of American heavy bombers spearheaded the attack in which a terrific force of explosives burst on Rome.
 Prior to the bombing attack went leaflets telling the Italians why their ancient city had to be bomb ed The Fascists, the leaflets said had been capitalizing on the hal lowed precincts and have system atieally concentrated war machin- cry there.
 German troops, as well as Ital- ians, have been tunneled through Rome by railway and .'it is this from this war engine that weapons to kill our soldiers are coming" the Allied message said.
 Bombs were dropped first during a daylight raid at l1:13 Monday morning. The bombing was an- nounced by the War Department at 2:29 a. m, or before the bombers had time to return from their mis- sion. An Algiers radio broadcast, at the time. announced that the re- turning planes were just then con- ing back
 It was the first time during this war that a report of a bombing had been released before the attack actually started. The reason for this announcement was to forestall or discount a flood of Axis propa- ganda claiming Rome had been bombed indiscriminately.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
BARNEY AVERSION
 PASSES AIR CORPS
 TESTS; DUE FOR WINGS

Barney Iverson, son of Mrs. Peter IYerson and WrangeH high school graduate of last year. has passed his examination for the Army Air Corps and is expected home next week on furlougb. Barney enlisted in the Army last fall in Juneau by voluntary induction. He won avia- tion cadet training and has just passed his tests for regular air corps training and following his furlough will report for aviation pilot training in the States.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
TOKYO IN BLACK0UT AS AMERICAN PLANES
 BOMB IN KURILEs

American omers attacked the Japanese Kurile island group, northeast of the main Jap main land Wednesday. dumping damag- ing loads of boms on Paramushiru, main Jap base in the area, and causing heavy damage to installa- tions. it was announced this week. Complete blackouts are reported by radio Tokyo to have been in effect in Japan since the thrust antlcl- pating blows at Tokyo and other Jap key cities.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
ROME RADIO SAYS CHURCH PROPERTY HIT
 IN ALLIED RAID ON ROME

LONDoN-The Rome radio this week broadcast an assertion that church property had been damaged by American planes in their raid on Rome last Monday A Stefani dispatch said the outside wall" of St Lorenzo had been devastated by bombs dropped by Anglo-Saxon avi, ators.
 The broadcast also added that the Pope had visited the scene The church is about 1000 yards north. east of the railway yards. one oi the prime objectivts of the Ameri can raid.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
THE KIDDIES' PICNIC
 MUST GO ON DESPITE WAR

LONDON-Realism wasn't served very well during recent war games in southern England when two un- perturbed mothers, pushing baby carriages flanked by two chubby toddlers and two dogs, marched calmly across a bridge past tanks and armored cars at the very peak of the battle for the span. Burst ing cannon crackers and skulking soldiers didn't bother them at all as they pushed firmly through a smoke screen and on to a nearby hillside for little Kamily picnic.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
WRANGELLITES BACKING
 KURILE BOMBING WITH
 PURCHASE OF MORE BOMBS

AS American bombs fell on Jap ans Kurile Islands and Allied fore es slashed their way across Sicily, Wrangell's home front defenders rallied to the cause this week and
 backed the bombs with bonds Yes terdays sales of bonds at the Post Office totaled $2,800 (maturity value). Sales for the month up to last night were s8.SO0. Yesterdays s was the largest single days sale of bonds since the bond drive in April. Indications were that Wran- gell residents were making July another Bomb Tokyo month with sales likely to go well over $10,090
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
WILLKIE WILL RUN
 IN 1914; ENDS SILENCE

NEW YORK-Wendell L. Willkie chooses to run again for the office of President in 1944. he announced this week, clearing up one of the years biggest political mysteries.
 Willkie in announcing his de- cision, said he will challenge Col onel Robert H. Mccormick, pub fisher of the Chicago Tribune, for the Illinois preferential primary vote in a hammer and tongs cam. paif=x
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
1T S A BOY FOR THE
 EINAR OTTESONS

Early Monday morning, July 19 a son was born to MT. and Mrs. Einar Otteson, well known Wran- gell couple. Sharing congratulations with the happy parents are Mrs. Christine Darwell, mother of Mrs. 0tteson, and Mrs. Hannah Otteson, mother of Einar, two of Wrangell's best known pioneer women.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
TO JUNEAU

Miss Mary Mccormack. daughter of MT. and Mrs Leo Mccormack, and Mrs. Ben Bennest, wife of a member Of the local Signal Corps, left on the Canadian steamer for Juneau last week end.
 Miss Mccormack has taken a position with the Indian Bureau and will remain in the capital city while Mrs Bennest will return q week or so
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
POPE LAMENTS BOMBING
 OF ROME IN LETTER TO FDR

WAsHINGToN-No comment was available at the White House to- day on Popo Plus letter to Presi- dent Roosevelt lamenting the bomb ing of Rome Asked for comment at a press conference, Presidential secretary Stephen Early responded that he had nothing to say.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
AMERICANS BOMB BURMA

NEW DELLA U. S. communi- que reported that heavy bombers Of tht 10th U. s. Air Force yesterday dropped 12 tons of high explosive bombs on Mamtu mines near Lashio, in Burma. Hits were scored on sep eration plants, and damage was re- ported to railroad and water sup ply and housing installations.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
RUSS WARFELS PARENTS
 OF BABY DAUGHTER

MT. and Mrs. Russell W. WarfeI are proud parents of a girl born last Saturday, July 17. She joins a brother, in the family cirlce, Mother and daughter are doing nicely and "Pa" WarfeI was back on the job at Campbell Bros. Mon- day morning with a wider smile than usual
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
COMMITTED

George Tucker, old timer from Rake, klawock and points on the n est Coast, was committed to Morningside Hospital in Portland, Ore, this week in U. S Commis- sloner K. J. suratts court after a Jury hearing.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
WHO HAS SOME LIGHT
 ORANGE FLANNEL CLOTH

U- s. Coast Guard needs some light orange flannel cloth to make s. P. (Shore PatroD arm bands Any person who has some should contact the Coast Guard office in the Federal Building. How about some of those old Potlatch blouses?
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
CANADIAN OFFICIAL
 TO VISIT WRANGELI

Dr. Walker, Deputy Minister of Mines for Canada, is expected through Wrangell first of the week.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
ST. PHILIPS CHURCH

Fifth Sunday after Trinity. 11:00 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
AMERICAN SUB LOST

WASHINGTON The Navy an nounced yesterday that the Ameri- can submarine Triton. bold raider Of Jap shipping, must be presumed lost" on a war patrol. It was the tenth U. s. undersea boat to be lost in this war, including eight in com bat in the Pacific and two through accident in the Atlantic
 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
 Sunday, July, 25 Morning Wor- ship II a. m. Subjtct, Christ and the Diseontented Heart"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23
UP THE RIVER

Passengers up the Stikine this week on the river boat were Gik- bert lEzTSverras and ". R- Paistex-
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-07-23

Alaska Historical Library Juneau, Alaska
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
slDEllNEs

DON'T FORGET: Germany,
France and Poland will continue
to exist. The German people
have NO thought of invading
any country"
Adolf Hitler said that on May IL,
1893. On September l. 1889, the
Nazis invaded Poland.
uGSIDER. Helen Moscicki's ar
ticle on this page is fitting tribute,
we think, to the spirit of a fighting
Poland. The author herself is a Pole
who escaped with her husband
from the Nazis and is now living in
New York. For years she shared
enthusiastically in the work of her
husband, a high-ranking Polish Dip
lomat. Her father-in-law, Ignace
Moscicki, was Poland's president for
Is years.
MIRACLE. This is tall tale. But
"Yank, Army paper, vouches for it:
The first shipment of Wacs arrived
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at an Army Air Base in South
Dakota. Immediately a bunch of
the boys went on maneuvers, won
dates with the prettiest lady soldiers
for the camp movie. But when the
CTS came to collect their girls, they
found the Wacs assigned to KIP.
The boys took over KIP themselves,
sent the girls to barracks to dress.
The khaki knights and their ladies
finished in time for the last show.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29

VYoU pick up your newspaper. 1t is one
of those days, perhaps, when the
d headlines say: Berlin Bombed" You
glance at it, think to yourself: Berlin
again, eh? Well, we are making good
progress today -" And you pass on to
other news.
lean read some news as casually as that,
too. But not that particular news. Nor
could you if you had known, as | did, the
little newsboy...
1t was four years ago, in Warsaw. Hun
dreds of enemy planes filled the skies.
Exploding bombs rained upon the city,
spreading a furnace of fame that reached
the heavens. The air trembled and shook;
buildings and homes rocked and crumbled.
The smoke spread like gray mist through
the streets, plotting out gaping holes.
Lay after day the siege went on, the
bombing by air and land 1t went into the
second week. And the desperate, heroic
resistance still continued.
Each morning the people scanned the
transparent blue sky, searching for clouds
to shield their town, if only for brief
moment, from the devastating enemy fire.
But not cloud could be seen.
Each morning they looked up to the sky,
too, for the help they expected. But no
help came.
The little newsboy, like the rest of
Warsaw, stuck to his post. High above the
roar of the bombers, the din of exploding
shells, the cries of the wounded and dying,
his gallant little voice rang out. 1t was no
longer the gay, lifting voice we had known
in happier days. 1t was shrill and piercing
now. He seemed to be trying to drown out
the internal noise of war as he ran to and
fro in the burning square, disregarding the
hell of flames and death which met him
at each step.
The acrid fumes filled his little lungs,
choking him as he called out the headlines
with all his strength. And the people would
run out, snatching papers to search for
ray of hope, their eyes alight, waiting for a
miracle.
Dur the miracle did not come Gradually
the hopeful light in the eyes of the boys
customers died out, leaving their faces
gaunt and gray, but hardening in des-
perate resolve to stand it all and not
give up.
Days and nights became endless night
mares of horror, each more terrifying than
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29

probe tactfully for the causes behind
an attack of Mysteries, loan an
evening coat to a wide-eyed young
ster invited to her first Annapolis
dance, and plan a picnic for 40.
Recently, white-haired resident
burst into Miss divers Office to say
she'd misplaced her false teeth and
couldn't go to work. Barton's house
mother cheerfully helped her turn
her room upside down till the teeth
were located behind a bureau.
Girls coming in YEARLY from the
four to-midnight shift find her sit
ting in the lounge to ask how the job
went today, and have companion
able lemonade as they listen to a
late news broadcast. Women troop
ing off to work in the morning find
her helping the desk clerk sort the
mail. To combat loneliness, she and
her assistant whip up Saturday
night dances, with a truckload of
partners from nearby Army camps.
BLUES CHASER. When a 49,
year-old got word that her brother
had been killed in Africa, Miss
Oliver took the stunned youngster
out rowing on the Tidal Basin. For
hours they rowed silently, until the
girl was tired enough to sleep.
Skittish young residents who
breeze in from a date at 3 am. sew
eral nights in row soon learn that
Pat Oliver can be as firm as she is
understanding. you can't do
good wartime job on four hours
Sleep" she'll point out quietly. To
help check absenteeism, she works
closely with personnel heads of gov
eminent agencies where her charges
work. She chats with an offender,
discovers theunderlying cause, helps
the girl talk it out of her system.
Result: the number of residents
who've quit jobs can be counted on
one hand. -HnDEGARDE D0ls0N
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
D.C.WoHDER

NANNY! One of the liveliest
jobs in wartime Washington be-
longs to pretty, blond Patricia
Oliver. As head of Barton Hall, new
dornitory for government workers,
she's house mother to 568 women,
from l8-year-olds to grandmothers.
In the space of an hour she'll
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29

the last. Hours slowly dragged on -.
constantly increasing rain of fire falling
from the skies. There was no water. No
food. Nothing but terror showering down
upon crumbling homes and crumbling
hopes. But Warsaw still stood proudly
amid her smoking ruins.
Each hour the news which the boy had
to dispense grew worse. Tragic faces grew
more tragic as they looked at his head
lines. His newsbag had become like Pan
dora's box, filled with creeping black
things of terror. Town after town in smOk-
ing ruins. fortresses bombed to dust -.
radio stations silent.
Still he had no better news to give He
had to keep running about with his papers.
But his eyes, once 50 gay and laughing,
now shone feverishly; his face became pale
and drawn; he clenched his small fists with
hatred for those who were destroying his
square . >. his city his Poland. Gone
were his humorous little comments on the
news. His voice grew husky and fainter. He
was afraid to hear the things he had to say
If only miracle could happen.
And then, one day, the shrill and
strangely strong voice of the little newsboy
rang out again:
Special edition! Special edition! Our
pilots bomb Berlin!
Great victory! Our army has thrown
the enemy out of the landv
j HE people stopped in the streets, not
daring to believe their ears But the boy
kept shouting, his eyes burning, his voice
rising to wild pitch of enthusiasm. The
frantic crowd pressed around him, besieg-
ing him with feverish questions.
Where does this news come from? What
is this special edition? Is it true?"
The child remained silent a moment,
gazing at all those anxious faces. Then
with eyes bright with unearthly light, with
voice once more strong and clear, he spoke
1T is my special edition But it is true,
because it must be and it will beI'
He was found the next day, his papers
clasped in his arms, in his square in the
heart of Warsaw. A bomb had found its
mark.
That was four years ago. He did not
live long enough to see our pilots bomb
Berlin. But we have lived to see that day.
And soon we shall see the fulfllment of the
rest of his special edition - the driving
out of the enemy from the land.
1t must be, and it will be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29

Amid the bombs in Warsaw four years ago,
little newsboY had fevezed dream :.
by Helen Moscicl<i
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29
THIS WEEk
- ~ AGAIN e -

HlSTORY'S GREATEST MURDER TRIAL 4
by Herbert Hoover and Hugh Gibson
DECORATION FOR A HERO. ....... &
by Everett kkodss Cusfis
REVOLT At FORTY FATHOMS. $50. 9
by Prince Hvberfvs ~ Loewsnstsin
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by Eleanor 9Ierhem
by Lvpton A. Wilkinson
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Cover by Pictorial Fsotwes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29

Names and descriptions Of all characters 10
fiction stories and semi fiction articles In this
magazine are wholly imaginary. Any name
which happens to be the same n that Of any
person, living OF dead, L. entirely coincidental.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-19

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-19
Curran Goes Over
 Boston Protest

Albany, N. Y, May 19-CUP)- Secretary of State Thomas J. Cur ran today studied a complaint by Boston Boxing promoter Eddie Mack against the New York State Boxing Commissions refusal to recognize the Willie Pep-Sal Bartolo match as a featherWeight title affair.
 Attches of Governor Thomas E. Dewey referred the complaint to Curran last night after receiving a telephone call from Mack, who has booked Pep to defend his crown against Bartola in a 15-round march at Boston, June 8,
 Recognition Refused
 The commission announced yes terday it would not recognize the title aspects of the bout because Pep had agreed to make his first defense of the championship in New York. The Solons further demanded that he meet the winner of a June 4 fight between former champion Shalky Wright of Los Angeles and Phil Terranova of New York.
 Lou Viscusi, manager of Pep, has been directed to appear before the commission tomorrow He will be asked to match his boy against the Wright victory.
 The Massachusetts boxing com mission already has notified the New York Solons it has sanctioned the -Bartola title match.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-19
Junior BaSeb all Loop May Organize

Managers of teams in the class of of the Silver Stars, Pine Hills, Cracker Hills and Cadets who are interested in the formation of a junior baseball league which would play Sunday afternoons are re- quested to contact Bil, DerWin at the park department office some time this week.
 If enough teams are secured for a Six-club circuit, the league will be organized and games played every Sunday afternoon at the new brass mill fields at Hamilton park which are being refitted for base ball.
 MT. Derwin feels that there are enough junior clubs in the city to make a league. Most of them are playing independently said the park department official this morn ng, but it's a lot more fun com peting in an organized circuit they play according to rules and where there's an official champion ship at stake"