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The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26

Port of Whittier
 15 Oct. 1851 Dear Lew:
 Why don't you write? I've writ ten couple of letters to you I be- lieve and l still haven't heard from you. You couldn't be that busy. could you? I've written to darned near everyone in Wrangell and I can't seem to get an answer. I can't imagine what is the matter. Maybe it was best I didn't write at all, then I wouldn't have to worry about getting any mail.
 Ralph Devenny arrived last week and seeing that he is a qualified baker, they made him an MP. Talk about a fouled up Army. He might be able to get into a bakery yet, though George Miyasato, Tiny Bowman and myself all got pro- noted to PFC, all within a month. came into the Army before all these guys and I made it before some of them, cant understand it! Alden Holt is now doing the work of a supply sergeant and Bowman got reassigned to a boat, a tug, to be exact. Other than that there isn't much doing.
 I got relieved as Public Inform ation Officer. A sergeant took it over and now I am an officers clerk, according to the Army-Of- ficers' Assignment and Classifica- tion Specialist, which calls for a sergeant. Might make it some day. We'll, don't know what else to talk about except that I sure ap- preciate The Sentinel and sure would give anything to talk to a babe. I guess you know there are n't any here, just HOO G.I.s.
 As ever,
 Murlin
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26
SAYS RED SALMON
 SHORTAGE AIDS PINKS

A story in the Tuesday Seattle Post-Intelligenser quotes McGov- ern and McGovern, Seattle brokers, as saying the shortage of Alaska red salmon and the low price of chums have combined to put pink salmon in a strong market spot.
 They claimed that low prIces knocked the autumn chum catch out of competition last week when Puget sound fishermen started stripping their nets for winter storage after voting down a can nery offer. The drop in 1851 chum plces had forced packers to slash their rate to fishermen, the story stated.
 It added that military buying available from "a disappointing Alaska season, and pinks seem now has dried up most stocks of reds like the most active market"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26
ALASKA HAS EIGHT NEW ATTORNEYS

Seven men and one woman were admitted to the Alaska bar through examinations conducted in Juneau last week.
 The o0ly woman candidate, who successfully passed the test. Wa Mrs. Gladys stabler, wife of Wraa- gelIs city attorney Howard D. Stabler.
 The men were Thomas Stewart Juneau Charles NJ. Gore, Ketchi- kan; w C. Christianson, Sitka: Earl M. Gregory. John l.. Radar and John D. Shaw. Anchorage: and James A. von der Heydt, Nome.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26
SURE, ADVERTISING PAYS BUT "FOXHOLE SERVICE NOT INCLUDED

UNDATED = The man who said it pays to advertise only told half of the story. He could have gone on to say how many thousands of people you reach by advertising.
 Take for example, the case of George Hamel, taxicab owner in the states.
 Hamel advertised as follows:
 Just tell us where you are and where you want to go and we'll provide immediate service"
 In a brief time, a reply came back:
 We're about 16 miles beyond beyond the 9Sth parallel Take the main supply road, turn right and we're in the first foxhole in a rice paddy. We'd like a cab immediate ly."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26

FOR SALE - Boat Empress, length 49 it. inches, built in 1889, recorded 1948; anchor winch 200 fathom -- year old cable; equipped for seining and halibuting and tuna seine winch, halibut gurdy and 24 skates gear complete with anchors, flagpoles, bags, buoyliue and 30 punches ganched hooks; packs SO,OOO lbs. halibut main hold; 60 h.p. Atlas Diesel; Philco direction finder; radiophone, 50 watt; iron mike. electric drive on turntable. kolite fathometer, 53O fathom. Price $22,- 900. Owned by Olaf Rasmussen. Anyone interested write c/o Ket- chikan Instrument Co.,, Box 1852, Ketchikan, Alaska. 49-2tc
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26
ANB WILL ELECT OFFICERS DELEGATES TO ANNUAL
 CONVENTION IN KETCHIKAN

Election of officers for the local camp and election of delegates as representatives to the annual con vention in Ketehikan will be the main order of business at a meet ing of the Alaska Native Brother hood Sunday evening, Oct 2S at ANB hall. The meeting is sched- uled for p. m.
 Starting Monday, Nov. 12 and continuing throughout the week, the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood will hold it's annual convention in the First City
 Delegates from Wrangell and q program of the convention will be announced in next weeks Sentinel
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26
HAYNES CUTOFF
 CLOSES NOVEMBER 1
As ever,
 Murlin

The Haines Cutoff is scheduled to close Nov, 1, according to Brig. H. W. Love, commandant of the Northwest Highway Division at Whitehorse, Y. T.
 The road is closed each winter when snows cause difficulty in maintenance.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26
EMBLEM CLUB MEETING

Election of an historian will be on schedule of a regular meeting of the Wrangell Emblem Club on Monday evening at 8 o'enck.
 Plans for aiding in ,he coming Elk Club dedication. Nov. 2-3, will also be diseusstd.
 Entertainment and refreshments will follow the elise of business.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26
HOLBECKs TO SEATTLE

MT. and Mrs Eilert Holbeck ane son Douglas. left on the Denal Monday for Seattle where they VIII spend the winter.
 Holbeck is associated with a Petersburg salmon cannery. Mrs. Holbeck is the daughter of Alr. and Mrs. B. Y. Grant of Wraugeu
 Mrh. Holbeek and sDougio" vfs- tted the Grants for a time before going south.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26
TO JUNEAU JAIL

Alice Young was found guilty of drunk and disorderly conduct last week by U. S. Commissioner Joel Wing and was sentenced to 35 days in jail and S5 days suspended. She was taken to Juneau by U. S. Deputy Marshal Jack Krepps where she is now serving the sentence in Federal jail.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26

Following is a letter re- ceived from Pvt. MurIin Ever son, former mechanical super intehdent for The Sentinel. which will probably be of in terest to our readers
 Port of Whittier
 15 Oct. 1851
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26
TO SEATTLE

Eight passengers were booked to Seattle from Wrangell on the Denali Monday when it arrive here from the Westward. They were. Roy Corrigan, Ray KaEala, Mrs. l.. c. Bigelow. Mabel s. Fin lty. MT and Mrs. James Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Hanson
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26
BRANs0N LEAVES

Jim Branson, who has been In WrangelI off and on since 1949 as a boat operator for the Fish and Wildlife Service, left Monday for Juneau where he will receive seY- eral days briefing before going to Anchorage as a deputy enforce meut officer for the Service.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY g

FOR SALE - Kenmore washing machine with pump, in good con- dition, $55 See Mrs. Ernest Rude or call 860A. 49-tfc
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26
MRS. MOORE HOME

After a months visit with rela- tiveh and friends in the Seattle area, Mrs. Ed Moore returned home on the Baranof Monday
The Wrangell sentinel., 1951-10-26
HAGIVIsT WITH BPR

William Hagiyist. who has been employed by Che city as a mainten- auee man. has joined the Bureau of Public Roads staff here and is working with Roy Lindsley on the local road.
Evening star., 1951-01-15
Policeman Injured
By Assassin Hurt
In White House Fall

Pvt. Donald T. Birdzell, White
House policeman hurt during the
assassination attempt on Presi-
dent Truman's life at Blair House,
returned to. work today but was
back in the hospital again within
a matter of minutes.
He slipped on muddy pavement
as he crossed the White House
grounds and injured his knee.
A Secret Service spokesman
said he slipped as he was coming
in one of the entrances. His leg
began to swell, and he was taken
to Emergency Hospital.
X-rays were being taken to de-
termine the extent of the injury.
One policeman. Pvt. Leslie Cof-
felt, was killed in the gun battle
with two Puerto Ricans who tried
to shoot their way into Blair
House, the Presidents temporary
residence. One of the gunmen.
Grissello Torresola, was killed.
The other. Oscar Collazo. was in
jured and captured. He has been
charged with murder, and Is to
go on trial February 10.
Evening star., 1951-01-15
Convicted Gambler Gets
2-Year Term in Raid Case

Deane J. Kennedy, one of II
men convicted on. gambling
charges after a raid by United
States marshals on a Bladensburg
house March Is, today was SEN
fenced to two years in the Mary
land House of Correction.
William (Snags) Lewis and
three other defendants were ac-
quilted of gambling charges grow
ing out of the raid. The search
warrants on which they were ar
rested were held to be illegal.
Ten others were sentenced jan
uary 2 in Prince Georges circuit
court, but sentencing of Kennedy
was postponed pending a medical
examination. Kennedy's attor-
neys told the court that their
client was suffering from diabetes
and other physical disorders.
Kennedy noted an appeal today
and was continued at liberty under
$4,000 bond by Judges Charles C
Marbury and John B. Gray, jr.
Five of the other 10 men were
sentenced to two-year House OF
Correction terms and fined $500
each. The other five were SEN
fenced to one-year terms and
fined $500 each. All noted ap-
peals.
Evening star., 1951-01-15
Detective Outrun
ToCnsis at Home
By Rescue Squad

A police safe squad detective
answered an emergency radio call
to his own home yesterday, only
to discover he had been outdls-
tanced by a rescue squad.
Answering the call for help, Pvt.
William C. Clark, jr., of 5048
Thirteenth street NE, arrived
home shortly after the rescue
squad had released his 2-year-old
daughter Lenore from a locked
trunk, where she had been con-
fined for 20 minutes.
The inside job came about when
Lenore had climbed into the
trunk in a basement playroom
while playing with her sisters,
Grace Alice. 7, and Denise, 4.
Grace playfully slammed down
the lid and Denise obligingly fast
ened the lock.
When they couldn't bulge the
lid the girls ran upstairs to tell
their mother, Mrs. Grace Clark,
who was tending their brother,
William Clark III. 8 months old.
The experience didn't frighten
Lenore, who came out smiling
with tales of a "big bad wolf in
the trunk with her.
Evening star., 1951-01-15
Truman Asks $4,000
For FIood-ControI Job
On Anacostia River

President Truman today asked
Congress to appropriate S25 5,00C
for planning the long needed flood
control project in the Anacostia
River.
The estimate is included in the
budget for the Army Engineers,
and if appropriated. would be
made available to the Office of Col.
Alan j. McCutchen, the District
Engineer here.
The long project was au-
thorized last year by the 81st Con-
gress to cost a total of $4,531 200.
1t was approved as part of the big
Rivers and Harbors bill sent to the
White House last May.
Recurrent floods along the An
acostia had caused much damage
and frequent backing up of water
at Bladensburg, where traffic was
often stalled on important high
ways.
The project would include
dredging of a navigation channel
80 feet wide with a depth of 8
feet below the low-water level be-
tween Fifteenth street Sc. ano
Bladensburg.
Flood control installations Woulc
be provided at BladenSburg, Ed
monston, Riverdale. Hyattsville
Brentwood, Cottage City and Col
mar Manor.
Congress approved the work
after study by the Army Engi-
neers, which recommended the
project.
Evening star., 1951-01-15
Boy, 6, Kills Brother
In ,22-RifIe Accident

A 6-year-old Berwyn MD boy
accidentally shot and killed his
8-year-old brother yesterday.
Prince Georges County police at
Hyattsville said Charles Norman
Clark, son of Mrs. Mary Frances
Lose of Metzerott road, apparently
died instantly after .22-callber
bullet struck him in the heart
The mother and stepfather, John
G. Lose, were away from home at
the time, making the rounds OF
Mr.. Loses trash collection route.
Mrs. Lose told police that when
she returned home she was met by
David, 6, who told her, Mamma
some one has shot Norman" Mrs
Lose found the boy dead on a
living room couch.
The mother called police. Be-
fore they arrived, she had Learned
from David that a third son
Jimmy, 8, had gone into the par
ents' bedroom and brought Out
the rifle. He handed it to David
who pointed it at Norman ano
pulled the trigger, police said
Then David took the gun back tc
the parents room.
Mr.. Lose said he kept the rife
in a shed at the back of the house
DR.. John T. Maloney, a county
medical examiner, issued a GER
tificate of accidental death.
Evening star., 1951-01-15
Harvard Street Fire
.Routs 10 From Beds

About 10 people were routed
from bed early yesterday morn
ing by a two-alarm fire that swept
through a three story rooming
house at 1928 Harvard street NV.
Neighbors reported seeing sew
eral Jump from windows in their
night clothes. Flames could be
seen throughout the front rooms.
Robert Walker, Sc, occupant of
a first floor apartment where the
fire started, was slightly injured.
He was taken to Emergency Hos
pital, where he was treated and
released. Mr.. Walker, police said,
managed to escape through the
front door.
Evening star., 1951-01-15
Winchester Woman, 703 IsLife
OF Her Own Birthday Party
Mrs. SIout Visits
Other Residents of
Nursing Home
Special pispofeh 10 The Sfor

WINCHESTER. Va. Jan. Is
Mrs. Elizabeth Sloat is literally
the life of the party. This is her
103d birthday. But one never
would guess it.
At the Maplewood Nursing
Home, where she lives, she visits
each of the other residents every
day. When needed, she assists
III their care. Her health is good.
Mrs. Sloat walks and talks with
the best of u.s." an acquaintance
said. She has many interests.
Today's birthday celebration
will be relatively small, by request
of the family. But Mrs. Sloat will
realize an ambition.
She will be taken for the first
time to see the new parsonage of
the Market Street Methodist
Church, of which she is devoted
member. There she will receive
a cake and flowers.
She cherishes a friendship with
little Anne Woodrow Dunlap,
whose parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. w.
Dunlap, operate the nursing home.
Anne is just 100 years younger.
She was 3 years old in November.
Evening star., 1951-01-15
First GAO Section Begins Move
Into New Office Building

Charles E. Wilson's Office OF
Defense Mobilization.
William E. Reynolds. Commis-
sioner of Public Buildings was on
hand to give Mr.. Warren the
keys. Paul Hauck, top man on the
job for the contractor John Nc
Shain, Inc.. also was present.
Target date for completion of
this building was October /, 1851" "
Mr.. Hauck said. Here we are
opening part of it for use in
January and it will all be COM
pleted by July /. We are a bit
proud of that performance"
GAO has about 5000 employees
in six buildings in Washington.
There are more than 1000 more
in the field. principally in st.
Louis and Cleveland where the
audits of military expenditures
are carried on. All the Washing
ton employees will be housed in
the building.
And remember" said Mr.. War
rem to reporters. Gin any four
month period. this agency re-
covers enough of Uncle Sans
money, already paid out, to pay
for this building"
The GAO's audit. he explained,
RECEIVERS from $75 million to 500
million annually for the Govern
ment. Administrative cost of the
agency is about $50 million a
wear
Evening star., 1951-01-15

burg's citizens. They are more
disturbed when they read that
the underworld character killed
at dawn last Wednesday in a
Georgetown after-hours club, had
been in an alteration at the
Crossroads Restaurant in Blad-
ensburg during the night: that a
Bladensburg bungalow was raided
by United States marshals from
the District as the headquarters
of "Snags" Lewis gambling opera
tions: and that the Bladensburg
police chief has raided a house
owned by a Bladensburg council
man as a gambling place. raid
termed illegal by the town coun-
cilmen because they had sus-
pended the chief prior to firing
him.
Talk of Reform Ticket.
At times there is talk of running
a reform ticket for Office, but
nothing comes of it because no
one wants to carry the ball.
Evening star., 1951-01-15

lean-too built outside against the
chimney is a lock up for unruly
slaves. He used to winter about SO
slaves in shacks on the hill. He
used them to work a farm he had
about six miles south of here.
Slave Shacks Still Standing.
Certainly I'll be glad to show
you around and tell you what I
know of the battle of Bladensburg.
But first let me show you the slave
shacks that are still standing in
the yard of the Elks Club across
from the George Washington
Inn"
Mrs. Cristofane got in her car
and drove the reporter past the
Peace Cross to the Elks' parking
lot. The shacks she pointed to
were very ordinary looking old
board shacks.
Those were Smith Suits slave
pen," she said. HE was a slave
dealer, of the same family that
Evening star., 1951-01-15

Bladensburg's mayor, Andrew F.
Gasch, is of an old and respected
Bladensburg family. His grand
father was a merchant in the
town more than 100 years ago.
The person who knows the
Bladensburg story is Mrs. Felix
Cristofane, the former Susannah
Kyner, who has lived in Bladens-
burg's big house since her father,
a retired Union Pacific Railroad
executive, bought it in 1904. Mrs.
Cristofane, was was born in
Omaha. has a id-WeStern
directness and vigor about her
that has amazed her fellow towns
people in Bladensburg since she
was little girl. One of the things
she has interested herself in is
Bladensburg history.
The Cristofane home, "Bostock. "
is big brick house painted white,
on the slope of a hill facing
Forty eighth street, the old Marl-
Evening star., 1951-01-15

borough road. There is little sug-
gestion of its antiquity from in
front because a front porch built
by her father runs its full width.
At the right rear are the old
farm buildings and intruding in
front of the house at the left is
the rear end of a huge roller skat-
ing rink which fronts on the
Defense highway. High on the
chimney in large letters are the
initials &C. L." and the date
"1746."
What do the initials stand
for?" this reporter asked her.
They stand for Crisopher
Lowndes," Mrs. Cristofane said.
He was young man whose
father was London factor in the
American trade. He married the
daughter of a wealthy Maryland
planter, bought two lots in the
Bladensburg subdivision, which he
added to later, and built this
house. That brick buttreSS, or
Evening star., 1951-01-15

The General Accounting Office
began moving today into it's new
S25 million building that occupies
most of the block bounded by
Fourth, Fifth, G and H streets
NV.
At 9 o'clock this morning, a
group of so comptometer opera
tors of the Reconciliation and
Clearance section were at their
desks, untying the traditional red
tape from bundles of papers and
starting to process them. They
had moved over from the old
Southern Railroad building at l19
D street NV.
The new building. which has
a million square feet of floor
space and is second in size to
the Penatgon, is not completed
The first of its seven sections has
been opened to relieve the short
age of Government Office space
in the current emergency.
Lindsay Warren, Controller
General. came over from his
office in the old Pension Build
ing, across the street. to see the
new quarters of his agency. His
Office will be moved over next
week.
Three hundred thousan
square feet of the new space
already has been assigned t.
Evening star., 1951-01-15
Insurance Plan
For.Hospita|s
Pays Directly
New System Goes
Into Effect Today
In District Area

A new hospital admission and
payment plan for patients covered
under group contracts of private
insurance companies goes into
effect throughout the Washing
ton area today.
Instead of paying the whole
hospital bill and later getting
reimbursed for the insured part.
patients will have to pay only the
part of the bill not covered by
their insurance.
The Hospital Council of the Ma
tional Capital Area and the
Health Insurance Council, which
Jointly announced the new ar
rangement, said it would benefit
thousands of Washington resi-
dents covered under group hos
pitalization plans of private in
surance carriers.
Companies to Pay Directly.
Until now, these grcup-lnsured
IL patients were treated like any
others. They had to pay out the
full amount for their hospital
stay. Then. later, they would get
check from their insurance
company for the part of the bill
covered by their insurance policies.
Under the new arrangement,
the hospital will be paid directly
by the insurance company for the
benefits covered in the patients
policy.
Another feature of the new ar
rangement. it was announced, will
be an admission certificate pre-
sented by the patient when he
gets to the hospital. The an
rlouncement said that would ia
cilitate the patients admission.
The hospital admission certifi-
cate, prepared by insured en-
ployers. unions and associations.
replaces all the various forms pre-
viously used by individual lnsur-
ance companies. and Immediately
establishes the patients eligibility
for benefits.
Takes Form to Hospital.
The certjfcate-dated currently
SO there is no question about
whether the patient is still en-
ployed-will be given to the pros
pective patient by his employer.
The patient takes the form to the
hospital with him. The certif1-
cate itself carries uniform
claim form by which the patient
authorizes the hospital to receive
direct payment from the lnsur-
ance company.
The hospital council said 81
area hospitals will participate In
the plan. The health insurance
council said 28 companies writ
ing group hospital insurance will
participate.
Officers of both groups said the
ARRANGEMENT not only would meet
the convenience of all those in
sured under group hospitallza-
ton contracts but would help
solve the most obvious problems
facing the hospitals.
Similar plans have been intro
duced in Chicago, st. Louis, Mill
waukee, Cleveland, New YORK,
San Francisco and Minneapolis.
Evening star., 1951-01-15
Musicians Seeking Band Wind Up in Police Hands

Police Headquarters, police found
a newspaper clipping that told of
two boys holding up man near
Mt. Union and taking a car. The
boys admitted the holdup, police
said, explaining they needed the
car to get to Richmond to join a
hillbilly band.
Park police turned the two over
to a Pennsylvania State policeman
yesterday who returned them to
Mt. Union.
Evening star., 1951-01-15
One Man Believed Lost
In Oil Burqe Explosion

The Coast Guard today reported
that one man is believed lost in
the explosion of an oil barge on
the Potomac River about IS miles
from Washington.
The barge was being towed by
the tug Coral Sea when the blast
f1ared up. The barge sank near
Colonial Beach, Va. Two patrol
craft, one from Washington and
the other from Crisfield, Md, were
searching the water today for
traces of the man. He was not
identified.