The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-06-23

District Attorney in the Second Di- vision. succeeding Charles CIabsy- who resigned recently. Bingham has been the [. s. Commissioner at Nome and before coming north was an educator in Montana. The Pres ident has appointed Bingham and the judiciary committee Of the Sen ate has approved the nomination and fg is expected confirmation by the Senate will be adme shortly.
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 John Manders Republican nom inee for Delegate 10 Congress. made his first visit to WrangeI this week. dropping in by plane and catching the North Sea in the eY- ening Back from trip Outside. Manders is heading for his head quarters in Anchorage by slow stages, keeping a weather eye to the political situation with the gen eral election coming up in Septem- Der. He expected To spend couple of days in Juneau before flying home with Art Woodley. Art who operates Woodley air lines. is his son-in-law. Manders, who has been in Alaska three years, was making his first trip by boat in Territorial waters when he left here for Ju- neau. He uses the air lines almost exclusively for travel; only way to get around in the Interior and Westward. he says.
 Manders is the law partner of Clyde Ellis. former Assistant Dis trict Attorney in the Third Diyi- sion in the COP days who is now back in the Army leaving Manders to handle the practice for the dur ation. Clyde former Department Commander Of the American Legion in Alaska. is a Major with the. Army engineers. at the moment stationed in San Francisco.
 The COP candidate practiced law for years in the Bay region before coming north and despite his short residence in the Territory is better yersed on Territorial matters than many who have spent many years in the north Hes an enthusiastic Al aska booster. visions great things for after the war. Anchorage. he reports. is pointing toward those post war days. The Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. of which he is a director. is mapping out a big program and has stirred up one of the largest Chamber memberships in the Territory. He says they have a hundred and better attending Chamber luncheons every week.
 Attorney Manders also knows the real meaning of this slobal war. His son, a bomber pilot, was killed with his crew of seven in the battle Tor New Guinea
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 Through town on the Canadian boat bound for Juneau was a party of Interior Department legal lights Among them were Felix Cohen, Sol icitor for the Interior Department: George Folta, Solicitor in charge of Alaska and Solicitor Simpson Of Montana. Another official aboard was Don HageUJy, Bureau of Indian Affairs
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 Report is that the Governor may drop in on Wrangell this week end, and he may be accompanied by Democratic Delegate Nominee E. L. Bartlett. Ever since coming to AL aska the Chief Executive has been planning to make the Stikine river trip, having heard it's praises sung by some of WrangelI's boosters. He might make it this time.
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 ROund-tripping to Juneau this week by plane on city business was Alaskas top-flight Mayor, Fred G. HanfOrd of WrangelI. His Honor is making fine progress with his pro gram to get cooperation from the Indian office in cleaning up the east end of town, provide for proper sewage and sidewalk facilities. May or got back in time to get in on the concrete pouring for the new paving on Front street, and yester- day was wheeling a barrow of con crete with the best of them. The planning to moke the Stikine river shoe repair man, are grateful to the Mayor for putting Mikes place and The Sentinel first in the Met rOpolitan Area" Alaska's Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper published in the second oldest town in the Territory. is now on a paved street; first. as usual, since 1902