davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1949-08-09
AcfVafed Shell Premium IS the mos
powerful gasoline your car can use!

YVES, many Of today's engines have
1 been stepped-up,. they call for
more powerful gasoline! Now She'll
gives you the most powerful gasoline
your car can use-Shell Premim-lfs
+activated." No other fuel can top its
power in your car!
This is made possible by Shells own'
specially produced power comPonents
and BY Shells own blending methods!
Actually, Shell splits molecules to get
more power for today's more powerful
engines. So you get 4 gasoline that's
"activated"! ,.s ,5. -.
Get tsdkful of "activated She'll
Premium today. Your Shell Dealer Is
the mao 10 ses.
Evening star., 1949-08-09
Activation makes
the difference

Shell splits molecules: Shell scientists
take the finest available crude-acfivase
the noleeules b. splitting them and
reasfanging the atoms sccofdng 70
SheaPs formula for perfectly balanced
sasoline. The fesult-Sheil Premina.
the most powerful sasoiiss 1ssf
ese eaa usa
Evening star., 1949-08-09
Sociability on Calendar.

But these are minor difficulties:
the Democrats will meet with
nothing but sociability on the cal
endar. It is q remarkable fare
we'll for Senator McGrath, who
assumed direction of the party
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-01-14
FRANK REED PASSES AWAY AT BREMERT0N
 AFTER LONG nLNES

Word was received here by The Sentinel from Mrs. Frank Reed of the death of MT. Reed at Bremerton an January 3, 1949 at 435 a. m.
 The Reeds were Wrangell pion- eers, having come to Alaska in 1913, ard had lived here continu- ously, engaged in fishing, until forced to go south a year ago be- cause of Mir. Reeds i'll health.
 Mr. Reed was 76 years old and besides his wife, is survived by two brothers, J. c. Reed of Port Angeles and George W. Reed of Seattle. and a sister, Mrs. Bertha Brophy of Ocean Park, Washing ton.
 Mr. Reed passed away at the Pu- get Sound Naval Memorial Hos pital at Bremerton and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery on the morning of January 5. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Fred Opperman.
 The many good friends of Mir. and Mrs. Reed here will regret to learn of the passing of their Wrangell friend.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-01-14
Wrangell Electric & Supply NEW HI CHAIRS
 MUSICAL ROCKERS ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE 6 LNOLEUMs Everything For Fisherman and Trapper

Lynn Canal and most of the north end of Stephens Passage are closed to trolling the year round. The Stikine district and Behm Canal are closed part of the year.
 Seems to me someone was rather careless with their facts.
 According to the communica- tion, the gillnetters on the river here make an average of one thousand dollars during the May king season. Assuming they were all reds and using the AS prices, this means he caught 5O,O0O lbs. of fish. Now to break that down to fish. We will give them some in their favor and assume the fish averaged 20 pounds each, and we have total of 25O fish. The large majority of these are mature fish ready to spawn. They have lodged trollers and sea lions and their other natural enemies and would,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-01-14
!! COMMUNICATION

Wrangell, Alaska Wrangell Sentinel Wrangell, Alaska Dear Editor:
 I believe there were several mis- statements in communication (from a gillnetter) you printed in last weeks paper.
 One: The trollers are interested in conservation so long as it does not effect them.
 In repudiation of this who asked to have Behm Canal closed to trolling during May and June and got it? The trollers them selves! They also asked to have the Taku and Stikine districts closed during these months to ALL commercial fishing.
 Two: The statement Is also made that trollers may fish where they please, when they please.
 Someone should read the regu- lations! The waters from Icy Point to Lytuia Bay Bradfield Canal,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-01-14

if not gillnetted, reach thel spawning grounds and reproduce
 I believe the average king has some 5000 eggs. Let's say 10 per cent or fewer reach maturity, or 200 per female or 100 per fish. One gillnet takes a potential 25,- 900 fish that would return and complete their cycles.
 If gillnetters do not deplete the salmon, I would like to ask what the difference Is in the sockeye run now and fifteen years ago. Re- member, there is no other gear used on Stikine sockeyes.
 Are the Wrangell gillnetters conservation minded? They have asked for an earlier June opening, but their Petersburg brothers were against this as too many black spawning king salmon are caught in the early part of the season.
 P. W. Binkley
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-01-14

Games were enjoyed by the youngsters, and at the close of the afternoon Ice cream and birthday cake were served.
 Invited were Lorene Lyster, Richard Sorset, Judy Ritchie, Sheila Denny, Julie Iversen, Mary Lee and Francis Lindsley, Karen and Richard Campbell, Aurora Marie, Noel Kathleen, and Bonnie Mae Grant, Rose Marie Cunning ham, and the honor guests small brother, George.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-01-14
TO JUNEAU

Mrs. L. T. Campbell and two children, Karen and Richard, left on the Denali for Juneau, to be gone during the legislative session now being held there. Mrs. Camp bell will work in the office of the House of Representative.
 Mir. Campbell expects to go up around the first of February and join his family for several weeks.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-01-14

accident and that in the same way one may interpret typhoid immun- ization as insurance against the unexpected arrival of typhoid fever in Wrangell. This service is being given free with the CO., operation of Dr. John o. Bange- man, Health Officer and the Alas ka Department of Health.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-01-14
NURSE GRADUATES

Velma Aardel. daughter of Sig Aardel and former Wrangen girl, graduated from St. Mary's College of Nursing Sunday January 16 in San Francisco. Miss Aardel grad uated from Wrangell high school in 1914 and attended a university for two years before entering the nursing school in San Francisco.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-01-14
HEALTH CHATS
By Arne Bulkeley Public Health Nurse

The monthly Well Child Confer ence will be held January 21. 1949 in room 2O1. Federal Build ing from g to Il a. m. Dr. John o. Bangeman will be present to examine and to immunize the children. Parents are reminded that this service is for everyone in Wrangell but that it is a confer ence for well children. Children who are i'll should not attend
 Typhoid immunization has been started in the local school. As stated before, this service has been offered to all children whose parents give consent and is given for their protection. It may be pointed out that people take out insurance against the unforeseen
The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-01-14
MRS. BEALS ENTERTAINS
 FOR DAUGHTERS BIRTHDAY

Mrs. Val Beals was hostess last Monday afternoon at the Beal's home for a number of young friends and relatives of her daugh- ter, Sharon, on the occasion of her fifth birthday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-04

F0LTA GIVES High|ighfs EXPLANATION On Fish Trap
 ON DECISION Decision


 KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 4.--lR Federal Judge George w. Folta explained here today that his de- cision against Alaska's quadrupled fish trap tax law is based entirely on the case of Freeman vs. Smith.
 It is a 20-year- old case in which nonresident fisherman named Freeman contested the $250 license fee levied by the Alaska legislature. He contended successfully that the license fee threatened his rich share in the Alaska fishery that was guaranteed under the White Act.
 The circuit court of appeals rul- ed in that case that the high i- cense actually interfered with his equality of sharing in the Alaska fishery.
 Folta said his ruling is that the new fish trap tax likewise abolishs ed the right of trap owners to share equally in the Alaskan fishery, as the White Act guarantees.
 Judge Folta told a Ketchikan Chronicle reporter that his decis- ion skipped over the other three points on which the law was at tackled. holding that the progressive tax on traps themselves, while four times the previous level, is not shown to be unfair.
 The Chronicle said the Judges explanation showed that he threw out only the portion of the measure which pyramids taxes on fish taken in traps.
 The newspaper said the Judge told it's reporter that if the Terri tory had the right to control its fishery, as do states, the measure might well have been sustained even though it eliminated part of the traps. 4
 The Smith in the Freeman Smith case was Territorial Treas urer and tax collector at the time.
 The Chronicle said the court rul- ing is expected to cost the Territory an estimated $1,300,000 in revenue this year. although the previous graduated tax on fish taken in traps will govern and provide con- siderable revenue from the large run of pink salmon in southeast Alaska. They are largely trap caught
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-04
ONE ETAx0N FISH TRAPS
 |5 UPHELD
Territorial Treasurer Rod- en Makes Explanation
 Judge Fo|fd's 5 Decision

On interview with the Territorial Treasurer, relative to Judge Folta's decision on the validity of Chapter II, enacted by the recent legislature which imposes certain taxes on traps and trap-caught fish, he stated today that the ruling ans nounced in yesterdays Empire is of far reaching effect in the economic life of the Territory.
 When announcement of the decis- ion was first made some doubt as to it's full impact was expressed by many, including counsel who represented fish trap operators at he time the case was heard a short time ago.
 They maintained that the entire chapter had been held invalid. MT. Roden stated that there Was no substantial reason for expressing doubt as to the meaning of the decision. He explained that Chap ter II imposes two separate taxes --one on the trap and another on the fish caught in the trap. r In his opinion, Judge Folta, us- es this significant language after calling attention to what seemed to him to be an excessive and practically confiscatory imposition, said:
 Viewing the Act Chapter ID against it's legislative background and in its factual setting, I am convinced that the tax on fish taught in traps is so severe as to result in impairing the right re- ferred to (the right granted by Congress to fish with traps) and hat therefore Capter II is to that extent (to the extent that it at- empts to impose a tax on fish caught in traps as distinguished from fish caught by seines) void.
 Chapter II, substantially provid- ss the following tax on traps:
 On traps located on tide flats. $500 per annum; on pile driven or floating traps $1200 per annum; and an additional tax of $500 per trap for the fourth to tenth trap; an additional $12O0 per trap for the tenth to the twentieth; an addi- tional $500 per trap for the twen- ty-first to the fiftieth and an addi- tional $2000 for all traps over fifty.
 This provision remains effective under Judge Folta's decision.
 The provision which is held in- valid imposes the following tax on trap-caught fish:
 The first l5,000 fish are tax free: from l5,000 to 50.0O0. the tax is Sc per fish; from 50.o00 to 100000, 10c per fish; from 100000 to 150,0o0, 15c per fish; from 150,0O0 to 200, ,0O0, 200 per fish. and on all fish over 100000 the tax is 25c per fish. As before stated this latter tax is held invalid under the decision.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-04
De|eqate Bartlett predids
 Statehood for Z Territories
 WiIIBe Passed Early, 1850
By CHARLES D. WATKINS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4-R- Statehood for Alaska and Hawaii early next year-if the Hawaiian dock strike is settled-was pre- dicted today by Delegate Bartlett of Alaska.
 Bartlett said he believed that both statehood bills will be acted upon soon after the next session of Congress convenes in January.
 'The two bills are so closely re- lated,7 Bartlett said, that they cannot be separated or acted upon singly. If the Hawaiian strike is settled it is the belief there is an excellent chance we will get state hood next year"
 Bartlett said the Hawaiian situa- ton "is another illustration why statehood should be granted to the two Territories.
 There is no douIct but that a Territory has more difficulty in handling strike such as the pre- sent one than a state"
 He said the question of state hood is uppermost in minds of Alaskans
 Our people have concluded that only by achieving statehood can we attain the things we need" he said.
 "The failure of Congress to act upon the Armed Forces construc- ton bill is one very good evidence.
 There $l3o,o00,O0O of construc- oion in the Territory is ted up be- cause a House committee chairman declined to have the House act upon it at this session.
 If Alaska had had voting repre- zentation in the House that situa- Sion might have been avoided.
 However, I believe there is a strong chance that we may be able to act upon the bill before Congress adjourns."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-04

Here are the highlights of the fish trap tax law held invalid by Federal Judge George w. Folta'
 The tax on hand-driven or stake trap located on tide lands ',oosted from SIS to $500 a year.
 The tax on pile driven or float ing trap boosted from $500 to $l,200 per year.
 In addition anyone operating more than three traps shall pay m additional $500 per trap for the fourth to 10th traps, instead of the former $50; an additional sl 200 dnstead of $300) for the 10th to 20th traps; an additional Sl,600 instead of $40O) for the 21st to 30th traps; and an additional S2,CoS instead of $500) for all traps of a jingle operator over 50.
 It also provides an additional ax on fish caught in any one pile driven or floating traps be evied as follows:
 The first l5,000 fish tax free; from 15,OO0 to 50,000. five cents a ish; from 5000 to 100000, ten ,ents a fish; from 100000 to l50,- 100, fifteen cents per fish, and all fish over 100000 at 25 cents per iSh :"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-04
TEA(HER5' ASSOCIATION
 NAMES YEARS OFFICERS

The Juneau Classroom Teachers Association resumed winter activi- .ies in a recent business meeting. officers elected for the ensuing Jear are as follows: President, Ethel Murphy; Vice-President. Gil Eide; Secretary Treasurer, Ruth Johnson.
 Committees appointed by the President are:
 Financial: Ruth Johnson, chair man; Dolores Mattila and Helen Schaefer.
 Professional: Dwight Dean, chairman; Marjorie Tillotson, Genevieve Mayberry. Dade Nickel.
 Social: Rosalind Hermes, chair nan; Margaret Midland, Avis Amat, Stella Gallas, Harriet Berg.
 The first item on the fall social agenda will be hobo party in the jungle" of the grade school gym on Thursday. Oct. 6. The so- cial committee will be in charge.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-04
THIRD TERM FOR 0LD5 I5
 THROWN OUT
Senate Subcommittee Un- dnimousIy Rejects Ap-
 provdI-Up 10 Senate

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4-RAA Senate Commerce subcommittee voted unanimously today against approving a third term for Leland Olds on the Federal Power commits sion.
 The subcommittee includes four Democrats and three Republicans.
 The full Interstate Commerce Committee is slated to meet to- morrow morning and may act formally on the subcommittee's recommendation then. Since the full committee has only 13 members, the subcommittee constitutes a ma- jority of it.
 Olds, 58, has served on the coml- mission since 1889. He was, first appointed to it by President Roose- welt.
 President Truman nominated Olds for another term, but he can- not serve without Senate approval.
 The subcommittee voted to re- commend that the Senate reject the nomination. That would mean put ting Olds' name before the whole Senate for vote.
 Olds has been under fire for articles he wrote in the 1920s and for his views on federal regulatory powers over the natural gas in- dustry.
 Friends of Olds have contended that the attack upon him stemmed from big power and national gas interests.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-04
Military Building
 In Alaska
Construction Program Civ en New Boost-vin-
 son Takes Action

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-lR-- A oig military construction program for Alaska, U. s. outpost against aggression across the Arctic, nov ed step nearer today
 Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the House Armed Services Committee announced that he will ask the Rules Committee to approve author .zation measures for $137, ,738.712 and bring them up in the House.
 Vinson told his committee the Rules group has refused to let a $500, 100000 overall defense con- struction program go before the House, but he believed it will per- init the Alaska section to be acted upon.
 The Alaska section contains au- 5horization for construction of $25, l64,000 in Navy projects; $38, ,430, BOG in Air Force projects, and $66, ,480.- TOO in Army projects.
 Vinson said he also will ask the called up at the same time con- tains authorization for $7663.21s for construction of Alaska Com munications system project.
 Vinson said healso will ask the Rules Committee to approve in- elusion in the Alaska bill of au- shorization of $13,883, ,000 for con- struction on Okinawa.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-04
ANCHORAGE TO VOTE ON
 SALES TAX
Other Proposals Besides Officers Are 10 Be De-
 eided at Polls Today

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. A. R-Voters went to the polls here today to elect a mayor, three coun- cilmen, two members of the util- ities board and a school board member
 Also on the ballot are proposi- tions calling for one per cent sales tax and civil service for municipal employees.
 Resident of the Anchorage school district, which takes in all of great CT Anchorage, also will determine whether the school board should have sole authority over the dis trict's financial matters. Authority now is shared by the board and the city council.
 z. J. Loussac, a retired druggist, is seeking his second term as may or He is opposed by Arthur l.. Lintner, importer, and Arthur L. Engebreth, mercantile store owner.
 Nine candidates seek two three year terms on the city council while four, including Donald Rozell, the lone incumbent up for re-elec- ton, seek the lone two-year coun- cil seat at stake.
 John Manders, former Anchorage mayor, opposes Fred Axford, jewell CT, for the three-year term on the utilities board E. Wells Erwin is unopposed for the boards two-year vacancy.
 Four candidates vie for the five year vacancy on the school board.
 City officials have promised to cut real and personal taxes from 20 to 18 mills if the sales tax proposal is approved. The proposi- tion calls for fourth of the tax's returns to go into the general fund for municipal purposes and places the remaining three quarters in a trust fund to finance city improve ments.
 Balloting on the school board aut- onomy issue will be held apart from other voting, the city attorney rul- ing yesterday that placing the issue on the ballot for referendum vote was illegal. The school board de- cided, however, to go ahead with the election when opinions from two local law firms declared 1t le- gal.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-04
The w ashinqton Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON
Icopyrisnt. is4s. by Bell syndicate. Inc

lcopyrient ls4s. by Bell Syndicate. Incl VASHINGTON-Ray Wakefield, who had served his country long and faithfully, was found in the bathtub the other day with his wrists slashed. His death, shortly thereafter, did not provoke the same storm that followed the suicide of another high public official last spring, but it should not pass un- noticed.
 Ray Wakefield was Republican who made a career of government. Beginning as a California district attorney, then as a California rail- road commissioner, he worked his way up to be Federal communi- cations commissioner. Most of his adult life he spent serving his gov ernment, and both Democrats and Republicans testified that he served it we'll
 When his term expired on the Federal Communications Commis- sion. in 1947, both Republican and Democratic Senators, together with
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-04
SLAYER IS GIVEN SWAT,
 SLAIN MATE

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. A. PA grief-stricken husband landed solid blow yesterday on the chin of a 20-year-old native charged with the fatal sta.bing of his wife.
 The distraught husband, Reed Peterson and John F. Chebetnoy met in the corridor of the Federal Building where the youth had ap- 2eared in court to hear the murder charge read.
 Chebetnoy is charged with first degree murder for stabbing 28-year- old Alice Peterson last Saturday at Girdwood.
 Peterson was leaving the U. S Marshal's office as Chebetnoy step- ped out, accompanied by members of the marshars staff. Quickly Peterson moved toward the youth and threw a single punch. Chebet- noy toppled backward. He made no effort to shield himself.
 Bystanders seized Peterson and took him down the hall.
 Mrs. Petersons body will be sent to her former home in Macedonia, III. She had teen in Alaska only a few weeks.
 The couple was celebrating Mrs Peterson's 28th birthday at Glacier Lodge on the day she was slain She was found dying in the women's rest room with deep gashes on both sides of her throat.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-04
RUSSIAN BLOC IS
 AT WORK
Cze(hosIovakia Is Sixth Cominform to Scrap
 YugosIdvia Treaty
(By The Associated 1sress)

Czechoslovakia today became the sixth Cominform nation to scrap it's treaty of friendship and mutual assistance with Yugoslavia.
 It was part of a sudden spurt of Russian block activity affecting the Balkans, Germany and China.
 The Czech government, besides scrapping the friendship treaty with its former Cominform part ner, demanded the recall from Prague of the Yugoslav Ambassa- dor. It said the government con- sidered the Ambassadors presence undesirable and accused his En- bassy staff of including spies link ed with an unnamed Western pow CT.
 There was no immediate indica- ton the requested recall of the Yugoslav Ambassador would lead to a formal breaking of diplomatic re- lations between the two countries However, break in relations be- tween Premier Marshal Titos gov ernment and the countries of the Cominform has been predicted.
 Tn Belgrade, Tito warned the So- viet bloc that Yugoslavia is ready to defend itself to the last breath. He charged before his army offi- cers that Russia has been forg- ing its irons" against his country, and he accused Russia of trying to endanger small people" Tito spoke at the conclusion of Yugo- slavia's biggest troop maneuvers this year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-04
100000 Men On
 Strike
Gunfire and Death Breaks Calm of Steel, Coal
 Industry Wa|kout
(By the Associated Press)

Gunfire and death broke the brief calm in the strife scared mine fields as the twin strikes of 100000 steel and coal workers ground on today at a staggering cost of more than $3O 900 900 a day.
 Violence flared in Tennessee. A Virginia miner was killed in a rock fall. Pickets wrecked ma- chinery at Pennsylvania bituminous pit.
 Americas economy staggered and creaked in the wake of the two pronged pensions shutdown.
 John L. Lewis 100000 soft coal diggers who work in the bowels of the earth east of the Mississippi have been strike-idle since Sept. 19 That's 16 payless days.