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The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-12-06
WRANGELI MANS NAME
  ON CASUALTY LET GIVEN BARTLETT BY NAVY DEPT.

The name of Robert W. Sher' .eI. Wrangell Marine. is contained .iu a casualty list, listing A.asEl's dead. wounded and prisoners of war. for World War II which be given Delegate F. L. Bartle't
 Shermer well known here. Tae raised in Wrangell and join ts Marines in 1940. At present ho and his bride are in the south
 Shermer came home from nav recently with the Purple Heart. won in combat with the laps n Saipan He served all through all of the South Pacific campaigns from GuadaIcanal on and besides tbe Purple Heart has several other citations
 The casualty list reaveals tn t .14 Alaskans were killed in Naval service during the war. six were wounded and one was a released prisoner of war. Bartlett said the list. mot complete, but as far as e had it was as follows:
 Those who lost their lives were Ayen Mayer Anderson. Ketchikan. Joe Deganahl, Juneau Theodore |W Hoxworth. Anchorage; O. Clark Jones. Fairbanks: Robert S Johnstone. sitka; Kenneth Ernest Mckinney, YakuLat; Robert OlsoL Jr.. Anchorage; David W. Pat.er. son, Jr., Anchorage. Jerome Ris ard Rice. Ketcldkan. Albert Savik- ko, Douglas; Theodore S. Selten- reich. Juneau; John Earl Simpson, Tairbanks: Irwin Andrew, Rubid lThompson. Ketchikan and WaF- land l.. Weyand. Anchorage.
 Those wounded in Naval en- lgagements were Charles W Busa Kodiak: s. Leland Daniels, Ketch- ikan, George E. Hamilton, Craig. Erlin Winther HusYik, Petersburg; Thomas Richards. Kotzebue md Robert W. Sharmer, Wrangel.
 Robert Victor Mallory of Kcteh- iEan was a prisoner of war bu is POW declared safe.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-12-06

pleasure to be in position to assist in any way in emergencies of this kind. All during the strike period Ione of our employees was allied with the GNU Unions and have been ready at all times to carsy cargo of the type that Alaska is looking for on short notice.
 Yesterday we noticed an article in the daily press commenting on the fact that a convoy of 30 trucks left Seattle on 5000 mile trek to Alaska. and out of this convoy oc go units. 15 were carrying gas and oil to make the other units seIf-sustaining through the barrea wastes of Northern British Colum- bia and in Alaska where no sup plies are on hand for such conveys This certainly seems to he a ridie- ulous move when for the asking We could put two barges on berth twice a month to move more cargo than all the trucks and planes you could muster could move 10 Alaska in a period of many weeks. The cnly requirement. that we ask is that we cannot go with less than full loads. which would be l50o tons per barge.
 We might further state that the |. S Navy made Pier 91 in Seat tie available to receive any surh cargo that was consigned 10 Alas- ka and we very reluctantly had o advise them. after the Navy De- partment in Washington approved the loading of vessels al their pic. that there was no cargo 10 be had.
 Yours very truly
 Foss Launch e Tug Co
 Paul 4. Pearson. Mgr
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-12-06
JUNEAU HAS TELEPHONE
 SERVICE WITH INTERIOR

JUNEAU Alaska Communica- tions System last week official y .uaugurated new long distance
 iro telephone circuit connecting Anchorage and Fairbanks in Ceu- sa. and interior Alaska with Jt- uaau. Skagway and Haines n Southeast Alaska This telepho lo circuit is made possible by com buning the use of ACS submarine
 e1fs-. the Yukon and Whit, horse railroad sircaits and the AL en telegraph line facilities
 Ir the inauguration ceremonies held in Juneau Tuesday. officials Iof Juneau, Anchorage and Far banks were connected and ex- changed greetingg, while three r8- do stations broadcast the conve-. sations.
 Acting Governor Lew Williams spoke to Mayors of the various towns and in his conversation vi h Major Reed, Fairbanks ACS offit .. Tn Fairbanks said:
 aI commend the Alaska Commun. ications System for this excelle service it is now prepared to give IIs. General Ingalls,. Chief Sigma Corps officer in Washington. Col Fully in Seattle. Major Campbell and you, Major Reed. Capt. Buoey in Juneau and the rest of the able staff of the United States Army Signal Corps are to be congraui. lated, and l am happy to do so in behalf Of the Territory of Alaska with which they have been so co. operative through the years.
 Acting Governor Williams sum ned up the possibilities of the new service perfectly when he ask d Anchorage and Fairbanks officials to "call us up anytime.'
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-12-06
CANNED SALMON IN
 SEATTLE STARTS MOVING

SEATTLE-Alaska's salmon pack much of which has moved no far ther south than Seattle because of the maritime strike, got a lift ais week
 Under a special agreemen. 1.- 100000 cases of the canned al- mon, stored at two piers here, win be loaded in freight cars and nov ed east.
 Officials said 88 per cent of this salmon is earmarked for the government.
 The fish loading began when the Salmon Terminals, Inc, agreed 10 pay a l5 cents an hour increase to AFL checkers. CI0 longshore- men previously had received this increase
 Shippers estimated this week that there were 6OO,0OO to 8OO,000 cases of salmon in the holds of strikebound Seattle ships in ad- dition to cases still awaiting ship ment from Alaska.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-12-06

lie waterfront and to the Govern or's personal representative. Com mander Chester, 10 this effect.
 Because of the Tact that We are not a regular carrier of this type Of cargo and that the barge did not have it's own derricks or cranes aboard. We set a rate of s35 a ton te the Seward anu Cordoya area and $20 10 Southeastern Alaska area. Our representative was told by Seattle shippers that our rate was toe high and that tnsura ace would be too expensive on a barge and lug combination. However. we question that. as we were quoting a rate of PA C on the value of any cargo so shipped
 If appears 10 us that the Alaska cities might secure some sort of an explanation from their Seattle ra- Trescutatives why space of this type when offered was not accepted readily especially in view of the fact that the newspapers have car 1ied daily articles that freight was being flown to Alaska at the rate of $500 per ton.
 This Company for many years has enjoyed is association with Alaskan commodities and has carried a varied line of cargoss. mostly heavy freight and oil pro ducts. We would consider it a
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-12-06
PAUL PORTER QUITS OPA;
 fE#= MERGER WITH CPA NEAR

WASHINGTON4 Merger of OPA 2nd the Civil Production Adminis- ,ration moved a step nearer this week with the Presidents accept enee of the resignation of OPA Chief Paul Porter
 Even as it entered it's final days as an independent agency. the OFA girded for a finish fight in Federal District court over whether still another of its scarce powers-sus- lar rationing-may go by Inc boards.
 The continuation of sugar con- trols. a top official. told a reporter. may be decided this week when a Federal Judge hears an attack on legality of rationing regulations brought by the Maple Leaf Diaries. Inc. of Brooklyn. New York.
 The resignation of Porter, who succeeded Chester Bowles last Feb ruary was dated November 15. and effective December {.
 Discuss Consolidation
 IL was made public by the White House this week in a move taken as signal for the consolidation which had been talked over or several weeks by top administra- ton advisers.
 Presidential Press Secretary Charlie Ross told reporters that ac- ton could be expectetd In a few days
 The new agency it's name as yet unannouncad. would carry on controls deemed still necessary al1 proceed with. gradual liquidation cf OPA and CPA.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-12-06
Toss Company
 Offers Sea Going
 Barges To Alaska

In a letter received this week by lhe Wrangcn Chamber of Cen5- merce from the Foss Launch and Tug Company, the Foss Company tells of efforts made bv their cor cern to get food supplies 10 Alaska
 The Floss Company said it has two 15O0-ton barges available to haul supple. to the Territory and had offered them for this purp9,e.
 This combined 3ooo tons would go a long way toward supplying Alaska, especially Southeastern Al aska where small boats have been bringing freight 10 WrangeII in an average of 20 ton lots at SIP per ton.
 The Floss letter is as follows.
 November 25. 1946 Chamber of Commerce Wrangell Alaska
 Gentlemen:
 For the past ten days we hava read with considerable interest .he acute situation confronting Alaska cities with regard 10 food and sup plies in general.
 This does not seem to make sense. to us, because for the last two weeks We have had clearance from the waterfront Unions to load one or two covered sea going barges of 1900 tons capacity. and word was passed around the Se8f-|
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-12-06
NOTICE

 IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA WRANGELL PRECINCT, DI- VISION NUMBER ONE NOTICE OF HEARING ON FINA!. ACCOUNT AND REPORT OF ADMfNISTRATRIX IN T H E MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MELVIN SHELTON, DECEAS- ED.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVE !, that the adminstratrix of the = bove-entitled estate has made and filed final account and report of her administration, and that Jan uary 29th, 1947 at o'clock P. Nj. Ii the above entitled Probate Court has been appointed the time and place for hearing objections to said final account and report. Notice is further given that the Court, at that time, will adjudicaie and declare who the heirs of the deceased person are.
 Dated Wrangell, Alaska, Noyem Der 18th, 1946.
 RICHARD SURATT
 Probate Judge First publication Nov 19,1946 Last publication Dec 20, 1946
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-12-06
RInWELI.s SMITH

Mir and Mrs. George Bidwen are leaving Sunday night on the Priu- cess Louise for the south. They will spend the winter in San Diego.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-12-06
OPEN HOUSE

MT and Mrs Neil rant we @ hostesses to large number ,f friends al a Thanksgiving Day open house at their home. Guests called between the hours of 2 anl D. m.
Evening star., 1946-03-03

which I have come upon the neu-
roses of the American heritage
which have resulted from the de-
cline in prestige by common consent
decreed for our citizens in propor-
ton as they move in time and mile
age from the legendary ariStocrats
of the seaboard.
What it means to live on modest
street in proSaic Midwest town and
know that your ancestors lived in a
mansion on a vast plantation, what
such knowledge, handed barrenly
down, does to the receiving genera
tions-this Mrs Furnas has demon
strated with the profoundest kind of
understanding. At the same time,
I missed the humor, the capacity for
the cosmlc laugh which 1 had come
to associate with her. 1t is not to
be found in "A Serpents Tooth. .
81 Serpent's Tooth" is a coldly ana
lytlcal study. 1t comes nearer being
a blueprint than work about par
ticular human beings.
1t is concerned with the genera
ton Of a family which is growing
up with the present century. But
to make us understand this genera
ton, Mrs. Furnas produces the
family genealogy back to the Revo-
ton. The Laceys of the present
are typical Midwest combination
OF breeds. Virginia planters more
or less legendary, Kentucky blue
bloods, North Carolina Quakers
Pennsylvania Dutch, New Jersey
small tradeSmen and vague French
strain all mingle in the daughter
and son who grow up in the modest
street. And the children are con-
scIous of their inherited influences.
Their mother, who lives in a dream
OF her family's lost aristocracy
grinds the legend into them. Their
father, who stands as the current
representative of the noble Quaker
tradition of freedom and idealism,
but who is neither free nor idealis-
tic, adds to the puzzle. What Mrs.
Furnas does is to show us the last
ditch battle which the children fight
for their innate integrity.
The parents represent the begging
down of their separate ideals, which
was common to the fin de steele gen.
Grafton. The children represent the
continuation of the ideals in a new
environment hampered by the
weight of the old. The fight centers
in the struggle of the mother to
destroy her daughter, lest the
daughter, developing, become the
reality of the dream in which she
herself has bootlessly lived. But
Mrs. Furnas, in her broad concep-
ton of the national aspect of this
conflict, almost destroys the per-
sonality of her characters. She has
come close to writing treatise. 1t
is an excellent treatise-a grim and
deadly treatise. 1t has what treatises
ought to have-accuracy, scientific
understanding, thoroughness. But
life is lacking from it. And, Is life,
great and abounding life, seemed in
her earlier work to be her particu-
lar genius, this work will disappoint
her admirers accordinglv.
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his religion. That. at any rate, Is
the Interpretation which Mr.. Well
ard develops in this book.
The work is not biography. Al.
most all of it is given over to the
generals part in the recent war
The famous Louisiana maneuvers
the North African and the Stellar
campaigns and finally the brilliant
charge of the Sd Army across France
these in turn receive Mr.. Wellard's
attention. And in each event ht
interprets the general as the servitol
of the war god. rather than as ar
officer in command of an army.
The slap heard round the world
also gets chapter. Mr.. Wellarc
reminds us that there were two oc.
casions-not one-on which Pattor
struck hospitalized soldier anc
offers the explanation that the sight
of wounded men created a conflict
in the generals otherwise unified
war-love and made him for the mo-
ment doubt his deity, so that. in
the resulting uncertainty the arch
priest of martial Violence lost con-
troll of himself. The idea fits the
rest of the Interpretation.
1t is plain to the reader that Mr.
Wellard did not like Gen. Patton
and saw much in him that was re-
pugnant and ridiculous. But he is
nearly reverent when he talks OF
the generals genius.
The book was written with Mrs
Patton's assistance. She is report
ed as disagreeing with some of the
Interpretation but approving the
facts.
Evening star., 1946-03-03
NLove Miss Till Bean

By Hka Chase. doubleday;
$2.50.) 80,
Ilka Chase, as a novelist, seems
to have a passion for heroines who
are successful in business and trou-
bled in love. In her previous work
of fiction, I'm Bed We Cry" she
gave us cosmetic queen with COM
plicated heart troubles. In this new
novel she serves us up modiste
of international fame and similarly
twisted amours.
I held my judgment somewhat in
reserve on In Bed We Cry" There
seemed to be enough irony and wit
in it to promise that Miss Chase
might grow from neat and rather
smarty story teller into mod
erately adult novelist. But Il Love
Miss Till Bean" destroys the hope
1t is the first book all over again
except that the irony and wit have
undergone conspicuous fading.
It's story is of little Quaker girl
whose widowed mama marries ar
Italian travelling salesman ano
goes to Perugia to live. The con-
Evening star., 1946-03-03
Bu William S. Haas. columbia
University Press, $780,
Reviewed by
JOHN C. HENRY.
JOHN C. HENRY.

Strategists and planners of World
War II knew long before the out
break of that conflict that the vast
mountain -ringed wastes of Iran
would be an important piece in the
final jigsaw picture of victory. 1t
had been thus in World War I and
it was a centuries-old pattern OF
martial geography even then.
In literal sense Iran is a cross
roads linking Europe and Asia with
natural even If poorly developed
highways of peace or war running
north and south between the Cas-
plan Sea and the Persian Gulf and
east and west between the Mediter-
ranean and India. In the two great
wars of our time Russia and Britain
have joined to preserve this natural
advantage but in each case the Ger
man strategy envisioned campaign
of Persian conquest. Fortunately,
German preoccupation with other
things provided sufficient time in
each case for the Allied nations to
move first or with greater strength.
William Haas. German born
professor who spent five years in
Iran and is now associated with the
Iranian Institute and School for
Asiatic Studies in New York, covers
these military and political ma
neuvers in this volume He does so,
however, as part of more compre-
hensive and detailed dissertation on
Persian history, religious influences,
culture and internal developments
within the country.
While this division of emphasis
may be justified in the authorship
Of an overall volume on Iran. it. is
believed that todays readers-Seek-
ing. enlightment on the entire Mid
die East complex and particularly
on the troublous manifestations
Of Russian British discords-would
have welcomed substantially more
detail and space on the present fac
tors of controversy. To such read
Evening star., 1946-03-03
The House Near
Paris

By Drue Tartiere, 1Dritten with
NJ. r. Werner. (Simon &
SchuSter; S275.)
Drue Tartiere is best known ts
Americans as Drue Leyton. under
which name she used to play the
part of the blond heroine in the
Charlie Chan movie mysteries. She
married Jacques Tartiere, a French
actor, in 1887 and went to France to
live. When the war broke out her
husband went as liaison officer to
England and later was killed fight
ing in Syria. After the French
armistice she refused to return to
America and threw herself into
the French resistance movement.
Her book is the story of her ef-
forts in the patriotic cause. 1t is
somewhat milder than other similar
accounts which have appeared, but
it has the appeal of simplicity.
Mrs. Tartiere stayed first in Paris
but, fearing that certain of her ac-
quaintances were collaborators, she
moved to Barbizon where she took
little farm. Parachuting resist
ance men soon came to know her
plain" as place where they could
land and be among friends. She hid
them and helped them on their way.
Airmen who had made forced land
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Brief Reviews
BIOGRAPHY.


Willis Rodney Whitney, by Johl
T. Broderick. Fort Orange Press.
History Of the well-knoWn scientist
Rather poorly done.
FOR AUTHORS.
A Manual of Copyright Practice
by Margaret Nicholson. (Oxforc
University Press.) A thorough GOV.
erage of the subject.
HUMOR.
What Men Don't Like About
Women, by Thomas D. Horton
Iouis Greenf1eld.) A catalogue OF
the old male peeves.
The Chain of Command, bv Bar
rie Stavis. Bernard Alderman. }
Little narrative about the difficulty
of supplying the armed forces with
certain indispensable.
NOVELS.
On Winters Traces, by Mathi
Boynton-H Hamilton. Appleton-Cen-
turyo Novel of middle-aged wife
getting divorce and beginning again.
Trade article.
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Amonq the Authors

stores had a window when I was
there, showing costumes mama"
had exravagantly bought in Paris
and had worn on her gay rounds
They were so gorgeous I wanted to
go right back to those fashions.
which, of course, require what
mama" had-"the smallest waist in
Michigan"
Stories like Kenneth Horan's
Papa Went to Congress" and Jess
amyn Vests The Friendly Persus-
sion," and Isabel Scott Rerick'S
Outside Eden" are more of tonic
than jonquils or other bright signs
'of spring. They keep us laughing
outright or chuckling to ourselves.
and are much tastier than sulphur
and molasses. A.
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ings also got to know of her as one
OF the dependables who would ar
range for them to return to Eng
land.
Along with this story of patriotic
labor. Mrs. Tartiere tells at consider
able length the tale of her struggles
to get food enough for her household
in the German-imposed starvation
She also gives a rather revolving
account of her brief internment
after America entered the war and
OF the trick she successfully worked
to get released as an invalid. The
book is interesting, though not sig
niflcantly different from other re-
sistance stories which have ap-
peared.
(Cae nNOKS Do0a - ny
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By Carolyn C0geins

Kenneth Horan is one of the most
popular writer's in Chicago-maybe
the most. In addition to her news
paper writing, her latest Papa Went
to Congress-" is unloaded by the
ton in Chicago stores. The story is
as true as it is amusing, and the
author is as clever as her story
telling. She is pleasantly rounded,
gray haired and wrinkles. This is
partly from pep and partly because
she has enough wit to amuse even
herself.
She actually had a father in Con-
gress, and was part of the family
she writes about. The Chicago
River book festivities could not have
gone on without her. One of the big
Evening star., 1946-03-03

tie Till grows up among step-rela- :
tives who are thus indifferent to con-
ventional morals, her own Quaker
ism holds. She becomes, as time
! goes on, a dressmaker known, under
the name of Matilda Rechetti, Inc,
to two continents, but at heart she
remains Miss Till Bean. And so
! though she has an unhappy mar
riage and is subsequently courted by,
apparently, all the men in the world
she waits for the man she loves.
He delays until she is about to be
a grandmother but does finally put
in an appearance.
1t is pert, smart-alecky writing
and has no more significance than a
comic strip. M. C. R.
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route home from China via Manila
when she was caught there by the
outbreak of war. Masquerading as
a neutral Danish citizen, she out
witted the Jap secret service and
eventually obtained passage to
Shanghai where she rejoined her
husband. Both, with their child
eventually were placed in a con-
centration camp.
After many hectic experiences,
which she recounts with a rare
sense of humor, Mrs. Carlisle and
her child were returned to this
country on the liner Gripsholm.
Despite the flippant manner in
which her book is written, Mrs
Carlisle tells the reader:
Il would like to try desperately
to dispel any and all notions that
I have not felt the tragedy, the
sentiment, the emotion that have
come with living in prison camp.
1 have. Generally, you will not
find these feelings here, but you
will have to take my word for it.
I have"
A thoroughly entertaining book.
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keynote mas Deen
deep pathos or
even or.
Kathleen Car
isles volume is
unique, within
t h e scope of
m y r e a d / n g,
in t h a t S h e
tells her story in
highly humorous
terms.
An American
girl who married
a British GUS
toms official in
Shanghai, Mrs.
Carlisle was en-