The Wrangell sentinel., 1944-02-11
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thentic sources. General oupeIln tendent Claud M. Hirst, now in the States, is not expected to re- turn and dope is that selection of the man to replace him has been agreed upon. While the new ap- pointee has not yet been publical- ly named, he is understood to be from the States and has not here tofore been on duty with the In dian Service in the Territory. Pro blems arising among the native population as the result of the war emergency in the far north is un- derstood to have caused the switch in the office heads at this time Supt. Hirst who has headed the Alaska office for approximately the past six years, is expected to be assigned to other duties with the bureau in the States.
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 Race for Democratic nomination for Delegate to Congress appears to be settling down to a Governor anti-Governor fight, if the political whisperings are to be assayed at reported value. The politicOs have it Henry Roden, whether for or a. gafnst, is being euchered into the position of being the anti-Govern- or candidate through reported sup port of Walter P Sharpe, Karl Drager Harvey Smith and other avowed anti-Governor men while E. L. Bartlett. coming direct from the Secretary of Alaska office in- to the race, is being checked by the antis as a devout Governors nan. The other candidate in the race, A. Fl. Zeigler of Ketchikan, so far hasn't won a label Actual fact probably is that none of the three candidates is neither Gov ernor or anti-GovernOr, but poltti- cal fact is that some of the non candidates want to make an issue of it and apparently are going toI do; all of which is part of the price of being a candidate for of flee.
 Best forecast is that this fight isl going to be the dominating factor in the Democratic primary. Many Of the candidates for House and Senate are going to be labeled, whether justly or not; or if un-' labeled are likely to be among those who also ran. The result of his primary doubtless will be a re- vealing picture of the political stature of Gov. Gruening within the party in Alaska.
 * * x Karl Drager. of Anchorage, Alas ka politics chief obiector is in there again with the good old you can't do this to me-" Drager, candidate for the Democratic nom- ination for attorney general pro- tested both the nominations of Ralph J. Rivers, Democrat of Fair banks, and Harry Mccain, Repub- lican of Ketchikan, on grounds they were not completed accord ing to law" He held the complete declarations were not before Aud itor Frank A. Boyle when he ac- cepted them. Boyle replied that he had acceped on opinion of Attor- ney General Henry Roden, who held that as long as the Auditor tiOn before him he was required to accept. Objector Drager no doubt recognized the point that both Rivers and Mccain might be rather strong candidates for the position he covets.
 Mrs. Frank Barnes, Wrangells OPA Clerk, is on her toes guarding against violations. She recently submitted the following to the Ju neau headquarters office:
 ''On recent night in Wrangell, a young mother gave birth to her child in the taxi on the way to the hospital. Consequently, Charley Early, new operator of the Star Taxi Service, is the butt of some good natured joshing by his friends who want to know how he is going to get around the OPA ruling against taxi deliveries"
 Through on the Tongass last night was Attorney General Hen ry Roden, Seattle bound for 9 couple of weeks, then home to start doing some campaigning. V The Attorney General as you know, is a Democratic candidate for Delegate. He made some inter- esting news about this and that while leaning on the printing of- flee stove, but due to the limita- tions of time and space in the production of this peerless journal we'll have to gorego giving it to you until next week.
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