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The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-02-09
ALASKA COASTAL
 BREAKS RECORDS
 DURING PAST YEAR

An all record year for 1850 has been reported by Alaska Coastal Airlines. Most impressive was the number of passengers carried, a to- tai of 26,244. This represents an increase of 1925 over 1949. Pass enger miles flown total 2,329,50O. The peak load was on September 13, 1850. when 27 passengers in addition to large quantities of car go and mail, were carried in a nor mal days operation. In addition to scheduled service and contract ser vice to Tulsequah, B C., 222 char ter trips were flown for the bene- fit of sportsmen, commercial tray- elers and in emergencies. During the month of August. AZ such char ter trips were flown. Cargo and mail also showed a substantial in crease, totaling 1,59S,OO0 pounds for the year
 The increased operation is also reflected in personnel and payroll As of December 31, Alaska Coastal Airlines had 83 employees includ- ing 12 agents, eight pilots. 43 mechanics and shop employees, ' in the traffic and operations dep partment and 13 in administrative and accounting departments. Pay roll for last year exceeded $388,- 000.00. Last year also saw the ad- dition of a modern ticket office, operation and communication quar- ters and general offices.
 In July the 24-passenger Catal- ina Clipper (PBY) was certified for instrument flying and schedul- ed service. A high rate of sched- ule completion was largely due to this type of operation. This air craft has proven to be particularly useful in the transportation of cannery crews. athletic teams and other groups.
 Lower fares came into effect during 1850. On June 1, the Jun eau-Sitka fare was cut approxim- ] ately 20 per cent. Experimental winter excursion rates were appli- ed on November 1 to the Juneau- Ketchikan route reducing those fares by 20 per cent.
 Alaska Coastal Airlines is a cer- tificated airlines serving South eastern Alaska Present flying equipment consists of IA aircraft including a Catalina Clipper and five Grummans with a sixth in pro- cess of overhaul and assembly.
 The shop facilities have for many years been certified by the Civil Aeronautics Administration as an approved repair station. All over haul repair and maintenance is performed locally in accordance with high GAIA standards and is approved by CAA licensed in spector.
 Alaska Coastal shop and facilit- | les are always open to the public for inspection and visits.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-02-09
EGG AND r SUIT STARTS
 STARTS IN SEATTLE COURT

SEATTLE = Testimony started Tuesday in the $975.oOo damage suit brought by 10 persons who contend they're real-life counter parts of characters portrayed un- natteringly in the novel "The Egg and L"
 The action was brought Ey Al bert Bishop, head of the Jefferson County family said by the plain tiffs to have been pictured as the Kettles in Mrs. McDonalds novel; his six sons and two daughters and Raymond II. Johnson, Seattle.
 Each member of the Bishop fam fly asks s1OO,OOO damages. John son asks $75,OO0.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-02-09
KsAaEsll ssntllasi
PIERS INITIATE TWO
AT WEDNESDAY MEETING

It was Past Exalted Rulers night at the Elks lodge Wednesday. Two Baby Elks were taken into ths fold and were odd sundberg and Walter Wing.
 PIERS officiating at the cere- mony were Al Ritehie, Exalted Ruler; Chester steear. Esteemed Leading Knight; Olaf Hansen, Es- teemed Loyal Knight; Virgil Ney- man, Esteemed Lecturing Knight; H. B. Thornquist, Esquire and J. c. Hay, Chaplain.
 For the second time the new spot-lighting effect was used mak- ing the ceremonies specially i'm pressive.
 A good crowd turned out and en- joyed a lunch of oyster stew.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-02-09
SOUTH ON NoRAH

Harold Martindale. well known Wrangell fisherman, was a passen- ger for Vancouver on the Princess Norah Tuesday evening.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-02-09
TO VANCOUVER

Mrs Bessie Young was a passen- ger on the Princess Norah out of Wrangell Tuesday evening, booked for aVncouver, B. c.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-02-09

lives.
 It was the third major train wreck in the metropolitan aret la less than a year. A total Of neat..' 200 died in the three crackups.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-02-09
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 Free leafIst on thls subject. 'Ask for No. lol.
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-02-09
Cause Unknown

The railroad, conducting it's own plobe, sad if could offer no i'm mediate explanation for the cause of the wreck
 The dead included bankers, law yers, and businessmen, prominent in their localities and civic life. most of them home bound from New York City offices.
 In mid-morning the list of known dead stood at TT.
 The rush-hour crackup was the worst in the nation since 1918 when 115 were killed in a Nash vile. Tenn, wreck, and more dis astrous than a 1943 accident out side Philadelphia that took so
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-02-09

been put in service only few hours before the crash.
 In Newark, the FBI said it was investigating to determine wheth- CT sabotage was involved.
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"after eleven" or "about eleven
thirty" she had see a green
four-door Plymouth sedan with a
trunk on it's back, parked at the
broad Street orner A Negro in
a green coat was at the wheel.
came running across the street
from the south and entered the
car, and it roared away. She
said one "looked like a kid" and
was wearing silver-rimmed glass
es; another had on a "blue-black
coat; she could not describe the
third.
The police promptly sent out
statewide t~eletype alarms desc1ib-
ing four men (including the driv-
er Mrs. Barclay had SEEM and
stating; Trenton police definitely
certain that car in question is
1936-1937 bluish-green Plymouth
sedan.
During the following week, the
police questioned fifteen or
twenty Negroes. Then, ten days
after the murder, they began
rounding up the Six:
COILS ENGLISH: On Friday,
February 6, the police called at
247 Church Street, the home Of
Mrs. Emma English, and asked
for her son Coils. They said her
estranged husband George, who
was being held on a rape charge,
had complained that Coils was
using his car without permission.
Coils, an unemployed Navy vet
eran, was not at home, but Mrs.
English promised to have him
there that evening. He was wait
ing for the police at 8 P. M.
Ralph Cooper and Horace Will
son: At dawn the next day three
squad cars, with Coils English in
one of them, drove to Robbins
vile, a farming town about six
miles from Trenton, largely made
up Of cement houses for Negro
migratory workers. There they
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The corner patrolman signaled
headquarters at 1856 A. NJ. With
in a few minutes, squad car had
cordoned off the block, and the
police began questioning its e
sidents. Only n had anything
useful to say-Mrs. Virginia Bar
clay, who had been at her Win
dow overlooking a parking lot at
the northern end of the block.
ON THE MORNING of the
crime, Mrs. Horner reported,
these two went into the back room
with Homer to look at the mat
treess again. The third man ask
her to show him a stove. AS she
leaned over the stove, she heard
a "scuffle" in the back room; then
she felt a crash on her head. By
the time she got to the door, the
men were gone.
She described one as ''about
Twenty or twenty-three," five
feet eleven, about 100 pounds,
with a pencil mustache, and wear
ing a dark-blue double-Ereasted
overcoat. She thought the second
was about five feet six, heavy,
dark-skinned, wearing eyeglasses
and dark clothes. She could not
describe the third.
A CIGAR SALESMAN named
Eldracher was at the back of his
car, which was parked in front
of the Homer store, when Mrs.
Homer crawled to her door, and
he called the patrolman at the
corner. Eldracher told police that
about a minute and a half before
he saw Mrs. Horner, two light
skinned young Negroes left the
store and walked livery slowly"
northward. Both were poorly
dressed, and the shorter vas the
lighter-skinned of the two. Ell
dracher did not think he could
identify the men.
She said that "around eleven" or
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None of the men was found to
to own either a green coat (which
Mrs. Barclay mentioned) or a
dark-blue double-breasted coat
(Which both Mrs. Barclay and
Mrs. Horner mentioned). George
English's car, which police claim
ed was used for the crime, was
not a Plymouth but a black 49,
35 two-door Ford with a wire
wheel on the back.
Five of the men, however, sign
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What Noted People Are Saying
By international News Service

WASHINGTON President Truman Faith and free
government have always been opposed by relationships. Today it is
being threatened by a new and terrible tyranny. Hitler and Musso-
lni never had anything to match the terrible secret police of the
Kremln."
DENVER Democratic National Chairman William Boyle
Eve are faced with an opposition which has nothing to offer
the people of this country except SANDER, smears and empty slogans"
TEHRAN-Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadegh- "To
prevent a third World War it is imperativef that the conditions un-
der which SO many 1ranians live should be ended"
GLASGOW, Ky-Vice President Barley "Now it is the
duty of American citizens to see that electricity and other great
modern discoveries and inventions are not made use of for destruct-
i've purposes"
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SECOND OF A Series:
The Real Truth Behind
Case O" Trenton Six ~

EDITORS NOTE: Because of the international significance of
the Trenton Six" trial now being held in Trenton, N. j., and
because of the most brilliant, thorough a n unbiased research
made by Claire Neikind, staff writer for "The Reporter"
magazine, The Daily Express asked and was granted permission
to reprint this series of articles OF the background in the ase
of the Trenton Six"
, 1951-05-28
THE OHIO DAILY EXPRESS

picked up two men sleeping III
the same room. One was Ralph
Cooper, an unemployed farm
worker who had come up from
Georgia the yeor before; the
other was Horace Wilson, also
from the South.
Mckinley Forrest: A little later
in the day, English's brother-in-
law, Mckinley Forrest, showed
up at headquarters. Forrest, a
migrant from Georgia, told police
Mrs. English had sent him to see
what had happened to Coils. For
rest was detained.
James Thorpe: That AFTERNOON
police walk d in F~olascnek's
saloon, a Negro hangout, and APP
preached James Thorpe, whose
right arm had recently been am
putated because of a motor acct
dent. Police asked Thorpe if he
was "Shorty" or Long JOHN" He
said "No." He was arrested.
John Mckenzie: Four days lat
err police went back to the English
home and picked up John Nc
Kenzie, another migrant from
Georgia and Forests nephew.
At about midnight of that day,
the police announced that the six
men had been booked for the mur-
der Of William Homer.
THE POLICE HAVE so far
failed to explain several discrep-
ancies; None of the eyewitnesses
had mentioned more than four
men, including the driver Of the
car. Eldracher and Mrs. Barclay
had described all as light-skinned;
Mrs. Harner had said only II
had a mustache; Mrs. Barclay and
Mrs. Horner had both said at least
one wore eyeglasses. The indicted
men looked like this:
English: twenty-three, short,
slight, stocky, dark-skinned, mus
tache, no glasses.
Cooper: twenty-four, short, very
lark-skinned, mustache, nc glass
es.
Wilson,: thirty-seven, short,
fairly dark-skinned, mustache, no
glasses.
Forrest: t~hirty-five, medium
height, stocky, dark-skinned, mus
ache, no glasses.
Thorpe: twenty-four, medium
height, very light-skinned, mus
tache, no glasses, right arm am
putated. (No one had mentioned
a missing arm.)
Mckenzie: twenty-four, medium
height, medium dark-skinned,
mustache, no glasses.
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ed confessions, and some Of these
were quite detailed. One man,
Wilson, refused to confess then
or later, but he was implicated by
the others.
, 1951-05-28

TOMORROW: "The Confessions"
, 1951-05-28
By CLAIRE NEIKIND
For "The Reporter"

CONTINUED From Saturday,
Evening star., 1951-06-18
miss Suvine
Weds Airnnun

Maj. Gen. Gordon P. Saville es-
corted his daughter. Miss Ina Cor
don Saville, when she became the
bride yesterday of 1t. James
Richard Pitts. U. S. A. R.. in the
chapel at Boiling Air Force Base.
Maj. Gen. Luther D. Miller, re-
tired, officiated at the ceremony.
The bride wore a candlelight
satin gown with a train and a
veil of rosepoint lace, a family
heirloom that belonged to Gen.
Saville's mother. 1t has been
worn by many Saville brides. in
Guiding the brides mother. Gar
denias were the bridal flowers.
Mrs. G. Grover Atkinson. sister
of the bridegroom, was matron of
honor and the bridesmaids were
the Misses Rosalind Saville, cousin
of the bride; Ann Greene and
Evelyn Gardner.
The bridegroom's brother, Maj
William F. Pitts, who Is air at
itache at the United States En-
bassy in Cuba, served as best man
and the ushers were Col. Atkinson
Col. William Hudnell, 1t. F. G
Rockwell, 1t. George Gardef, Ca
Diet Edward A. Saville and Cadet
William Epling. Miss Katherine
Edwards and Miss Mary thinner
man were the candle lighters.
The bridegroom is the son o1
the late Air Force Col. and Mrs
Younger A. Pitts. His aunt, Mrs
Charles Coppinger of Liberty, Mo.
planned to be here for the we'd
ding.
After a brief honeymoon, 1t
and Mrs. Pitts will go to Ell Paso
Evening star., 1951-06-18
Exclusively Yours
Woshngtons Self Taught Baritone to Sing at SoIzbug;
Two Girl Graduates Embark on Voyage Aboard Freigher
Harris-Ewing Photo.

good friend and Holton-Arms
graduate, Camilla McCurdey, who
rushed over to France right after
graduation. Camilla's father, Col.
Farragut McCurdey, is on Gen.
Eisenhower's staff. Nell will go
on a tour with them that will
take them from London to Italy
and when they return to Paris
both girls will stay for several
months. The MacCrackens would
like their daughter to continue
her studies at the Sorbonne next
year while she has this oppor-
tunity whereas the latter has the
University of Texas in mind. Once
she has seen the fascination of
the many-faced Paris, however,
she's not apt to return in a hurry
Washington friends of Mrs. Wal
ter Dillingham; are waiting for
her to check into town while she's
i'm this part of the world. She's
now visiting her daughter, Mrs
IMyron Wick. in Greenwich, Conn,
en- route from Florence, Italy
back to her home in Honolulu.
Evening star., 1951-06-18
--Southall Photo

Miss Beulah Elizabeth Bayne. Of
Cheverly. daughter Of the late Mr..
and Mrs. Richard Scott Bayne,
became the bride Saturday after
noon of Mr.. Joseph Edward
Robertson, of Baltimore and New
York, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
H. Robertson of Portsmouth. Va.
The Rev. DR.. Ariel N. Warner Of
ficiated at the ceremony in the
Chapel of the Mt. Vernon Place
Methodist Church and the recep-
ton was held in the church parlor
Mr.. and Mrs. Robertson will
motor through New England tc
Nova Scotia and Prince Edward
Island. They will live in Green
Wich, Conn.
Evening star., 1951-06-18
Society News
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Akers Are Hosts
At Little Hunting Creek Lodge

Senate and Mrs. Leslie Bifne,
Judge and Mrs. Edward A. Tamm,
and the Commissioner of the
District of Columbia and their
wives, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Russell
Young, Mr.. and Mrs. F. Joseph
Donohue and Col. and Mrs. Ber-
nard Robinson.
The Philippine Ambassador. Mr..
Joaquin M. Elizalde and the
Cuban Ambassador, DR.. Luis
Machado. were among the diplo-
mats who motered the flfty-f1ve
miles to Little Hunting Greek
Lodge for the party. Others in
vited included the president OF the
Gridiron Club and Mrs. James
Bergman, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Vedder Fleming, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walker Buel, Col and Mrs. M.
Robert Guggenh e m, former
United States Ambassador and
Mrs. William S. Culbertson, the
retiring Ambassador to Ireland
and Mrs. George Angus Garrett
recently arrived from Dublin; MIR.
and Mrs. John L. Sullivan and Mr.
and Mrs. Morris Cafritz.
| Mr.. Akers will leave the end OF
the month for California where
he will attend the annual fete OF
1.-THE famous Bohemians in the Red
wood Forest. Mrs. Akers ano
Tomajean will join the Sheahans
at Woodmont in time for their
house warming in their new home
overlooking Long Island Sound
: Then Mr.. Akers will have brie1
visit at Woodmont and accompany
Mrs. Akers and their younger
daughter to Oysterville on Cape
Cod for the remainder Of the
summer,
Evening star., 1951-06-18
By Betty BeoIe

Washington's Col. Curt Schif-
feler, an entirely self taught BARI
tone, has received the high COM
pliment of being asked to sing
concert arias this summer at the
internationally famous Salzburg,
Austria, music festival. Now busy
making tape recordings OF Ger
man songs for the Voice OF Amer
lea in the Interior Departments
studio. Swiss-born Col. Schifeler
will also broadcast some songs for
the Voice when he gets to Europe.
(The v. o. A. inserts 15-minute
programs between its po-
litical and educational programso
He and Mrs. Schiffeler will leave
July Is to fly to Paris and from
there to Switzerland, where they
will visit Lily Pons and Andre
Kostelanetz in their villa at st.
Moritz. Then on to Salzburg,
where they will also see their
friend, Leopold Stokowski, who
has been asked to conduct series
of concerts at the festival and
who will be there for some weeks
with his young and pretty wife
Gloria. Before returning to this
country right after Labor Day
the Schiffelers hope to sandwich
in a visit to Aberdeen, Scotland
with the retired (but never tired
Metropolitan Opera singer, Mary
Garden. -.
Still in the musical vein; I'll.
the madness of improvement
says Nine. Erkin, wife Of tht
Turkish Ambassador, that take!
her to Europe the end Of June
She will go first to France ther
to Italy to study very hard h
improve her already charming
lyric soprano voice. If it weren'
for being such perfectionist sh'
might relax and enjoy a vacation
the way other people do. con
fesses the diplomatic hostess. II
August she, too, will go to tn,
music festival in Salzburg, wher'
she will run into any number o
Washingtonians, including tn
aforementioned baritone and hi
wife.
| X 4 4
Two young girls about to hav
the time of their lives will set ou
across the Atlantic Ocean toda,
on a Norwegian freighter. Fresl
from graduation at Holton- Arms
the Bill MacCrackens' daughte
Nell, who instigated the Who'll
idea, and Mimi Clark, daughte
of Supreme Court Justice an
Mrs. Tom Clark, will embark O
their first voyage to Europe. An
they are travelling about as pri
) vately as possible short of char
q. tering a sea-going yacht.
J, When the Lista pulls out {
Baltimore today she will have o
board only 10 passengers and a
Evening star., 1951-06-18

of them young. Included in the
10 will be Minis brother, Ramsey.
and his wife and the latter's
brother, sort of a family affair
from the start. Justice and Mrs.
Clark went over to see their
spacious accommodations last
week prior to the ships original
scheduled sailing for Saturday
It's departure was postponed until
today because Of the rain and the
grain-rain being the bane OF
grain when trying to crane grain
in the rain.
In eight days the cozy group
will disembark at lie Havre and
head for Paris. The Clarks will
take Mimi with them in their
car and drive through Europe
down to beautiful Italy. They'll
be gone two months altogether,
returning in time for Mimi to
begin her freshman year at Wei
lesley.
Nell, however, will join another
Evening star., 1951-06-18
Steward -Veotch

Announcement is made by Mr..
and Mrs. John Leonard Steward
of Silver Spring of the engage
ment of their daughter, Joan
Marie, to Mr.. Dolph Martin
Veatch II, son of Mr.. Veatch OF
Homestead, N. Y, and Mrs. Mary
10 Veatch of Greenwood, Ind.
The wedding will take place Au-
gust 25.
Both the bride-elect and her
fiance are attending De Pauw
University at Greencastle, Ind,
where the former is affiliated
with Alpha Gamma Delta So
lrority and the latter with Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity.
Evening star., 1951-06-18
ENGAGEMENTS Announced

Amos A. Fries of this city and at
tended Sullivan School here. He
is a graduate of Staunton Mill
tary Academy and was graduated
from the United States Military
Academy at West Point June S.
Lessie Block
Announcement has been made
by Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Walter
Lessig of Lewisdale. Md, of the
engagement Of their daughter,
Gladys Sinclair, to Mr.. Robert
Stewart Black of Manor Club, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert I. Black.
The bride-elect is graduate of
the University of Maryland and
was a member of Alpha Delta Pi
Sorority. She now attends George
Washington University.
Mr.. Black attends the University
.of Maryland and is employed at
the National Institute of Health.
No date has been set for the we'd
ding.
IWest-Pirie
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. West of
Hampton, Va, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter Jear
Haywood of this city to Mr. War
rem James Pirie. son of Mr.. anc
Mrs. James Pirie of Bloomfield
N. j.
The prospective bride was grad
uated from Radford College o1
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Mr.. Pirie is a graduate of Susque'
University of Pennsylvania
where he was a member of Phi MI
Delta Fraternity. He served a!
an engineer with the merchan
marine during World War II.
| No date has been set for tn
wedding.
Evening star., 1951-06-18

Little Hunting Creek Lodge, the.
MARYLAND home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd Akers was the scene OF a
CAV al fresco fete yesterday. Their
invitations bore a picture OF the
main Lodge with Little Hunting
Creek in the foreground and in
side the folded card an illustrated
map had the admonition Bring
chart with you" The $50 or more
guests were invited from 1.-TWO
o'clock to ?" for cocktails, buffet
and swimming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Akers stood on the
terrace of the main Lodge to re-
ceive and the pavilion built on
the lawn was large enough for a
bar, a generous buffet. Sidney and
his orchestra as well as ample
space for dancing. There also was
bar on the terrace and another
on the lawn under giant old trees
The hosts entertained the out
of-town guests at dinner Saturday
evening and staying with them al
Little Hunting Creek Lodge
which has two smaller lodges fol
guests-Were their son-in-law anc
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. S. Pol
Sheahan of Woodmont. Conn; the
formers brother and sister-in-law
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter P. Sheahan
also of Woodmont, and then
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Sheahan of New Haven, Conn
Miss Tomajean Akers, recentl!
graduated from Finch College, ha
as her guest, Miss Ann Ricken'
baugh of Denver, also a recen
graduate from Smith College, whit
will be an exchange student il
France sailing in the near future
Others from out of town VIII
came for the week end festivitie
were Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd McElro
and Mr.. and Mrs. John j. Hop
kins of New York, Mr.. and Mr.:
John Murrell and Mr.. and Mr.!
Jefferson Ford of Miami, Mr.. an
Mrs. William Tuerke and Mr.. an
Mrs. Fred Obrecht of Baltimor
and DR.. and Mrs. Edward Thoma
and Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph F
Hines of Frederick.
Little Hunting Greek Lodge wa
a part of the Catoctin Furnace eS
tate purchased in 1929 by Law
renee Richie, then secretary t
President Herbert Hoover. 1t wa
there during the summer of 1872
that President Hoover and mem
bers of his family spent muc
time. The Camp on the Rapida
in Virginia was acquired the fol
lowing year.
Attorney General and Mrs. .
Howard McGrath were the rank
ing guests yesterday and other
from official circles included Sen
ator and Mrs. Estes Kefauvel
Senator and Mrs. Homer S. Cape
hart, Associate Justice and Mr.
Tom C. Clark, Secretary of tn
Navy and Mrs. Francis P. Mat
thewS, Undersecretary and Mr.
Dan A. Kimball, the Assistant t
the President and Mrs. John F
Steelman, the Secretary to th
Evening star., 1951-06-18
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