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The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-12-22
FORMER WRANGELL NURSE
 RETURNS TO SALT LAKE CITY

Miss Alice T. Witt of Salt Lake City, Utah. was an Alaskan visitor recently While in Wrangell she was
 h. house guest of Mr. and Mrs l.. c. Johnson and renewed acquain- taaces with her many friends here. She was head nurse at the Bishop Rowe General hospital for two -ears and in visiting the hospital vas well pleased with it's excellent appearance and the improvements which have taken place since her regime. She stated that she mo- ticad many changes in Wrangell especially on Front street and that ''Wrangell looked good to her.
 Miss Witt made a trip to Juneau. stopping at the Baranof hotel. and was entertained by former Wrangel- Iitss who live in the Capital City. Miss Witt expects to be back in Salt Lake City for the holidays but her many friends hope that it will not be too long before she visits here again.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-12-22
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM AT SALVATION ARMY HALL
 ON SATURDAY EVENING

The Christmas program of the Salvation Army will be held Sat urday night beginning at 7:3o e. clock. santa Claus will be on hand to distribute gifts as well as candy. nuts and oranges to all the Sunday school children santa will be in town all day Saturday. visiting in the stores.
 There will be no services at the Salvation Army Hall Sunday eve ming as Lt Fletcher and Envoy Routh win participate in a program at the Institute.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-12-22
Buy War Bonds and Stamps!

NOTE-From time to time, in HIis space, there JUiH appear an article Juhich lue hope LgiH be Of interest to ourf felloty Americans.
 This IS number thirty-fouf of q series. SCHERLEY INTERNATIONAL CORP, NEW YORK
The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-12-22
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
 BACK FROM VACATION

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Presf- dent Roosevelt has returned to the White House after a three-week va cation at Warm Springs, Georgia, to face mOmentous months in the fields of war and Allied diplomacy plus beginning his fourth term and organization of a new congress.
 The President came back sun 9anned and a few pounds heavier. He arrived on a special train and went immediately to the White House to start a routine day.
 
 For the first time tungsten i. being mined commercially in North Carolina.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-07-20
G. o. P. URGES PRINTING OF FACTS

"In times like these, when whole peoples have found them
selves shackled by governments which denied the truth, or
worse, dealt in half-truths or withheld the facts from the pub
lie, it is imperative to the maintenance of a free America that
the press and radio be free and that full and complete infor-
nation be available to Americans. There must be no censorship
except to the extent required by wal necessity. We insist
emily condemn any tendency to regard the press or the radio
as instruments of the administration and the use of govern
ment agencies for partisan ends"
This paragraph from the 1914 Republican platform is of
more than passing interest to the press. 1t accurately expresses
the feelings of many newspapermen, who know, since the war,
what it is to work under sharp restrictions of information, al
though many of them undoubtedly were necessary.
Newspapermen generally feel that Byron Price; chief of the
office of censorship, and Elmer Davis, head of the office of
war information, have done good jobs. They have done them
in spite of interference by many interests, military and poll
teal. Still, these same newspapermen, as they hear the stories
of men returning from the battle fronts, realize that they and
the people have not had the full story of the war.
There are many reasons for this lack of information. Some
of them are valid ones. Much must be suppressed for reasons
of military security; the press has entered into a voluntary
compact in its censorship code and has pledged itself not to
give aid and comfort to the enemy. Too, communications from
war areas are often strained and the war correspondent must
content himself with limiting his dispatches to a minimum of
wordage, condensing his reports.
But back of this is the tendency of some military men, and
it is only human, to use the censorship regulations to cover up
failures, setbacks and mistakes. And this tendency has, all too
often, been regarded with complacency by the administration
in Washington. Outside of speculation and anonymous sources,
we have had almost a complete blackout of news concerning
our political and diplomatic negotiations with other nations and
their leaders. Some of this, too, has been necessary.
These are all serious problems in the light of the postwar
world. Americas government is so constituted that the people
must be fully informed so they can make decisions and so their
entiments can be acted on by their chosen representatives.
We cannot be like the dictatorship countries, where only one
man has full information and one man alone makes decisions
binding his subjects. This is why freedom of the press and
radio will become even more important in the days to come.
This is why these agencies of public information will resist
any attempt at greater restriction or at continuance in peace
time of war controls that they have accepted voluntarily but
temporarily, for the good of the country.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-07-20
BACK TO THE LAND?

Our returning war veterans can and will come back to the
land. but it will be a different story after this war than ever
before.
For the first time in American history, there will not be the
unlimited homestead acreage, much of it good land, that the
soldier back from the war can find as an anchor for his hopes.
So saw the experts. But they qualify that statement.
AS for homesteading, we know that much land has been
withdrawn from permanent entry. That which remains, in al
most every case, is not the best. 1t would be folly to settle on
it. We need not repeat the mistakes of % and 80 years ago.
But there are other outlets for our fighting men who look
to agriculture. Today, many, most of our younger men are gone
from the farms and ranches. Many farmers and their wives
have reached an age where they would have retired before
now, but have remained to help keep up production in a critical
time. Here, on these places, the soldier will find improved set
ups, time-proved and with the owners willing and anxious to
leave a legacy of experience and help.
Then, too, many sections of the west are entering a period
of more intensive agriculture. Irrigation is one answer. On its
postwar shelf the bureau of reclamation alone outlines prof.
ets for some $780, 900 acres in Montana. There and on existing
projects can be raised the cash crops and the feed and forage
that will go a long way toward %stabilizing permanently our ag-
ricultural economy. There, too, the landowner will find a secure
if not fabulously wealthy living.
Back to the land" has always been the cry after every
war and major depression. We may have reached the last
frontier in area and boundaries, but we have many from
tiers ahead of us in improved farming, more intensified farm
ing and a better, fuller rural life.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-07-20

of S2,150,000 for construction of
a steel cutoff wall through the base
of Fort Peck dam.
Bids on the new 60-bed Deaconess
hospital will be opened Aug. 2.
Twenty-Ff Years Ago
Taken from the Courier files for
July, 1919.
Nashua, where DR.. A. N. Currie
was chairman, was the first to go
over the top in the Salvation Army
drive.
The statewide drouth caused list
ings of pasturage available for live
stock in midwest states.
Jack Dempsey knocked out Jess
Willard in the third round at Tole-
do to become heavyweight cham
pion.
Several Glasgow young people who
attended the dance at Hinsdale Sat-
urday tagged No. 2 Sunday norm
ing in an effort to get home. The
train stopped and the youngsters
got on, but at the urgent request
If Conductor Clement they were
compelled to get right off again.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-07-20
Looking
Back.
E YEARS AGO

TEN YEARS AGO
Taken from the Courier files for
July, 1884.
One man, James Wig of Havre,
was killed and eight we're injured
when the Fort Peck bus of the
Great Falls Coach Lines overturned
as it fell down a 30-foot embank-
ment.
The public works administration
has made an additional allotment
of SOS, 900 900 for Fort Peck dam.
The Frazier-Davi Construction
company of st. Louis made low bid
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1944-07-20
AND SOME WOULD CHANGE OUR SYSTEM
Chinook Journal.

IONIOOh JUUHdIT
In reviewing the record of production reported by the war production
board up to May rs, last, the world has evidence of n industrial miracle
wrought in the United States. B. M. Baruch puts the heart of the story
in thirty-three words: THE war has been a crucible for all the economic
systems of the world, for u own, for Communism, FascSm, NazSm -
all the others. And the American system has outproduced the world"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-09
District Red Cross Needs
Women 10 Make DRESSINGS

The District Chapter of the Amer
lean Red Cross yesterday appealed
for women volunteers to make sur
gical dressings Prospective appli-
cants may call Hobart $500 for in
formation.
Surgical dressing units in the city
include All Saints Church, All Souls
Memorial Church, Archives Build
ing, Bethany Baptist Church, Blessed
Sacrament Church, Chevy Chase
Presbyterian Church, the Colonial
Danes, Sixth Presbyterian Church
Kent Unit in Spring Valley, Mclean
Gardens, Navy Department, Pet
worth Library.
Selective Service, Spring Valley
Unit. at 1900 Glenbrook road NV;
Takoma Park Presbyterian Church
Mount Tabor Church, $500 Woodley
road NV; West Potomac Dormi-
tory, Walsh House, Daughters OF
America, Library of Congress Cap
ital Library Annex; McKendress
Church, st. Benedictine Convent
USO Club at 1912 North Capitol
street NE, Burton Unit, Greenway
Apartments; Kramer School, Naval
photographic Office, Agriculture
Department and Social Security
Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-09
Construction 10 Begin
On Naval | Laboratory
Within Two Weeks
Negotiations Opened
With Lund Owners in
Two Maryland Counties

Construction OF a $500 900 naval
research laboratory on a 938-acre
site in Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties will start within
two weeks, Navy Department on
cials announced today.
]. p. Courtney, head of the Real
Estate Division, Bureau of Yards
and Docks, said negotiations are
under way with the 80 property
owners involved. He added that a
majority Of the owners already have
agreed to terms proposed by the di-
vision.
Mr.. Courtney explained that a
condemnation suit was filed August
4 in Federal District Court in Balti-
more and that the Navy was given
possession Of all unoccupied land at
that time. An order also was issued
giving the Navy possession of occu-
pied property by Tuesday, he said.
The site lies along both sides of
Paint Branch, east Of Hillandale and
west of Beltsville. Approximately
two-thirds of the land is in Mont
gomery County and the remainder
In Prince Georges County.
The laboratory will be constructed
to relieve congestion at the Navy
Yard and will employ approximately
TOO persons after the transfer OF
activities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-09
Schools 10 Open Sept. II
In Montgomery County

Montgomery County public schools
will open for the 1944-5 year Sep
TENDER IL and close June Is, the
County Board Of Education decided
at meeting in Rockville yesterday
The year will comprise 1875 teach
ing days and Is holidays. The holi-
days will include one day in October
for the annual meeting of the State
Teachers Association, Election Day
two days at Thanksgiving. six at
Christmas, four at Easter and Me-
mortal Day.
A request from the Jamestown
community for improvements in
heating and sanitation at the
Jamestown School was referred to
DR.. Edwin w. Broome, county super
1ntendent of schools, and Frank I.
Davis. county supervisor of school
property, for study and report.
A committee consisting of Julius
P. Stadler, Arthur B. Joseph and F.
K. Metzger, board members, was
named to act on bids for school
equipment and for construction of
additions to the North Four Corners,
Montgomery Hills. Rockville and
Westbrook Elementary School build
ings and Sherwood at Sandy Spring
and Lincoln High School structures
The board authorized installation
OF stokers at the Chevy Chase, Be-
thesda and Woodside Elementary
SCHOOLS and an additional hojIsr 81
Montgomery Blair High School
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-09
1urnage Holds 4 IN Bond
In Looting Of Drugstore

Charged with looting a Peoples
Drugstore at 6213 Georgia avenue
NV. early yesterday, four men ap-
peared before United States Com
missioner Needham c. Turnage to-
day on charges of HOUSEKEEPING
The case was continued until Au-
gust % and the defendants were
held under bond ranging from $500
to $4,000.
The fast work of Policeman John
E. ONeal of the sixth precinct pre-
vented the loot being removed in a
truck. When he saw four men
loading 600 cartons of cigarettes and
a safe containing $4,000 on the
truck, he arrested one of the men
Theodore Ballinger, 80, of the 1900
block of G street Sc. The others
escaped but were arrested by police
later at their homes. They were
Emmett Waller, 80, of 1900 Potomac
avenue Sc; Raymond E. Zen, 80
OF the 200 block Ninth street Sc
and Jack R. Griffith, 80, of the 400
block Thirty-second street Sc.
Ballinger and Waller were held
under $500 bond each. The bond
for the other two men was fixed at
$4,000 each when police informed
the commissioner that they already
were under $1,000 bond on a similar
charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-09
Seabee Unit Saves Cargo
OF Ship Trapped on Reef

6S the Associated Press.
Fighting wind, rain and heavy seas
Tor IS hours, Navy Seabee battalion
salvaged 1,l5O tons of cargo from a
heavily-laden Liberty ship trapped
in a reef-studded New Guinea Bav
The seabees under 1t. Comdr
John j. Mason, PHILADELPHIA. the
Navy said today, were pressed into
service when the freighter ran
aground SO miles from their base.
Despite torrential rains and high
winds which dashed the sea and sent
lighters pitching and crashing
against the side of the beached
vessel" the Navy said, "the Seabee
stevedoreS went to work.
While the sea threatened If
pound the ship to pieces on the coral
reefs, Seabees unloaded cargo over
the side =. With practically nc
sleep or food during the entire
period, the Seabees discharged 3OC
tons of material, 800 tons of fuel and
ESQ tons of water before the shin
floated free"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-09
lsiNRstionmiq


Canned Foods, Etc. - Book No. 4
blue stamps A-8 through Z-8 anc
AS through F-5 good indefinitely
Each stamp worth 10 points.
rIeats, Fats, Etc.-Red stamps AS
through z-8 and AS through c.
good indefinitely for 10 points
each. All meats except beef steaks
roast beef and choice cuts of lamb
point free. Until further notice
three red stamps will be validated
every four weeks instead of every
two weeks.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for each
pound Of waste kitchen fats you
turn in. The fact that lard, short.
entng and cooking oils have beer
removed from the ration list does
not mean fat collection is les
essential.
Sugar-Book No. 4 stamps 80, 81 and
80 valid for S pounds indefinitely
Book No. 4 stamp 40 good for s
pounds for home canning through
February %. 1945.
GasOline-A-11 coupons good for 8
gallons each through November 8
B-3, B-4, C-3 and CA coupons
good for 5 gallons each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps / and 2 in
Book No 3 good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods No. 4 and S cou-
pons good for 10 gallons per unit
through September 80. Period l,
1944-5 fuel oil ration good now
for 10 gallons per unit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-09
House Group Delivers
Pacific File to Probers
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The House Military Affairs Com
mittee announced today that its
file dealing with Pacific war con-
tracts held by Hans Wilhelm Rohl.
Germanborn contractor. has been
turned over to the special War De-
partment board investigating the
attack on Pearl Harbor.
H. Ralph Burton, committee
counsel, said the action was taken
at the request of Undersecretary of
War Patterson.
Mr.. Patterson asked to study the
files after the committee made a
report last June on contracts
awarded by Col. Theodore Wyman,
jr., to the contracting firm in which
Rohl was interested. The report
asserted that delays in carrying out
the contracts in the Hawaiian ter
ritory contributed to the state of
unpreparedness at Pearl Harbor
when the Japanese attacked in l941.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-09
District Heads Study Protest
On CitY's Aid in Baptisms

The Commissioners have under
consideration today the question of
whether 400 members of the Holt
ness Church are to be baptized on
August q with the aid of the Dis
trict Fire Department. The depart
ment is being asked to provide water
for the ceremony.
The church hopes to have its
fourth outdoor baptism at Sixth
and M street NV, but opposition
was voiced by DR.. E. F. Harris, presi-
dent of the Federation of Civic As
sociations, and a group of colored
clergymen.
The protest was submitted yester-
day. The Commissioners, who have
had to settle similar disputes in
the past, were informed the church
was not large enough for the bap-
tism to be held indoors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-09
y Per Cent Of Deaths
In District Are Natives,
Census Survey Shows
City Is 18th on Largest
Per Cent Of MortuIities
Of Those Born Elsewhere

A survey in March and April by
the Census Bureau showed that 20
per cent of persons who died in the
District were natives while 70.1 per
cent of the fatalities were born else
where.
A comparison with figures from
other States places the District
twelfth in the largest percentage OF
deaths of persons born elsewhere
Among the five cities analysed
those which have complete statistics
of their own-Washington had the
highest percentage followed by New
York with 66.8.
May Be Misleading.
1t was pointed out that the latter
figures can be misleading since resi-
dents of other cities are considered
natives if they were born in the
same State in which the city is To-
Gated. But Washington can list as
natives only those born within the
confines of the District of Columbia
Thus. some cities can claim higher
percentage Of native residents
than the District.
The Southern States and Maine
show the smallest percentage of mi
grafton between cradle and grave
and the Western States and Florida
the largest percentage of deaths
among persons born in other locali-
ties. The Bureaus findings were
based on a 40 per cent mortality
sample" which involved examina-
ton of 1856 March death certifi-
Gates and 1850 for April.
The report listed South Carolina
with the largest percentage-842-
Of native decendents. North Caro-
lima followed with a percentage of
8f.2 and Mississippi was next with
800.
Wyoming Leads.
On the other side of the picture
Wyoming had the largest percent
age-921 of deaths of persons born
elsewhere-followed closely by the
other Western States and Florida.
The large percentage of deaths in
these States of non-natives lis due
in large measure to the migration
to these States of many seriously Ill
seeking the health benefits of their
milder climates" the report said.
Reason for the Districts COM
paratively low percentage of nom
native deaths, in view of the vast
influx of Government workers was
explained. when most Federal
workers retire they usually go home
to die"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-09
Daily Dozen rderedforWACS
To Keep Down War Gains

Fifteen minutes Of exercise a day
and caution" in diet have been
ordered for the LOO WACS sta
toned in Washington. Maj. Gen.
John T. Lewis, commanding gen.
eral of the military district of Wash
ington, issued the order after he
became disturbed about gains in
weight by the WACS six weeks ago.
According to the public relations
department of the WACS, Gen.
Lewis had a survey taken of 95
WACS stationed on the north post
at Fort Myer, Va. Sixty-eight of
the girls there had gained an av-
erage of 91s pounds. This average
was made high by the fact that
seven of the girls had gained 20
pounds apiece.
Twenty-eight of the girls, however,
had lost an average of 61a pounds.
Two had sailed through Army life
without changing their weight by
an ounce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-09
Federal Blood Donors
Urged 10 Fill Dates

Government workers were urged
to relieve summer slump" in blood
donations by keeping their appoint
ments with the Blood Donor Center
during the hot months, in a state
ment yesterday by Gov. r. M. Evans
OF the Federal Reserve Board, new
governmental chairman of the blood
donor service.
Today, with our men on every
front, it is imperative that there be
no slackening of this vital home
front effort" he declared Il am
particularly anxious that Govern
ment employees, who constitute our
largest body of contributors, shall
not let down their support during
these months"
The appointment Of Mr.. Evans to
succeed Gov. M. 8. Szymczak of the
Federal Reserve Board who left re-
Gently for London on a mission for
the Foreign Economics Administra-
ton, has been announced by Lee D.
Butler, chairman of the Red Gross
Blood Donor Center.
Meanwhile, the District Council
Of the United Federal Workers of
America, the Washington Industrial
Union Council and the National
Negro Congress have launched a
drive to secure 300 to 500 donors for
mass turnout on Labor Day at
the Acacia Blood Donor Center.
Appointments are being made now
through the UFWA Offices. Pros
pective donors may write to the
Blood Donor Committee at 1912
Eighteenth street NV. or call
Executive 1895, 0340 or 0657 for ap-
pointments. Preferable hours are
from II am. to pm. and from 4
pm. to $50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-09

The majority of the weight gain
ers, said the public relations de-
partment, had need of the pounds
they put on" One of the gamers of
20 pounds did not believe herself
overweight, and none of her best
friends" ever said she was, the pub
lie relations statement continued.
Nonetheless, on the basis of these
findings Gen. Lewis ordered that is
minutes of exercise, in effect every
where else for WACs, be followed
again here. 1t was dropped some
time ago because of the WACs stag
gered hours. Now it is to be resumed
before breakfast, whether break
fast is at 7 am. or noon"
Although the WACs have been
Cautioned" their restraint at table
SIS on a purely voluntary basis" the
statement said. Those who want to
join an overweight table and have
their Galleries counted scientifically
may do 50, II they wish.