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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-13
I(KES GIVES HIS REASONS,
 RESIGNATION
Declares President Chal- Ienged His verdcify
 in PauIey Case

WASHINGTON, FeD. l3.-OeCTe- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes re- signed today with an assertion that President Truman had challenged his veracity after telling him tc be "as gentle as you can with Ed Pauley'
 Te old-line New Dealer and self styled "curmudgeon" stepped out of the cabinet after 13 years ser vice as direct result of the con troversy over MT. Truman's nomi- nation of Edwin w. Pauley, Cali fornia oil man, to be Undersecre- tary of the Navy
 "RdtY' Proposition
 Ickes has testified Pauley made him the "rawest" kind of proposi- tion involving funds for the Demo- cratic campaign and MT. Truman has said Ickes could be mistaken.
 In a blistering, 1000 word let ter, Ickes told MT. Truman he hao spoken the truth about Pauley be- fore a Senate committee, had nc apologies and asserted the Presi- dent had no right to pass judg- ment on his veracity.
 Shortly after the White House made the first announcement ol the resignation, Ickes released ths text of his letter and added details lat a news conference in response to reporters questions.
 Truman Informed
 He said MT. Truman knew in ad. vance that he would oppose Pauley's nomination at the Naval Affairs committee hearing but never once asked his reasons although gave him opportunities
 At last weeks cabinet meeting Ickes related. he informed MT. Tru- man that he had been asked tc testify. He asserted the President told him, You must tell the truth of course"
 Then Ickes quoted the President as saying: Be as gentle as you can with Ed Pauley."
 T said, I will" Ickes told re- porters.
 When a reporter asked whether he will work against Truman ir l948 if the latter is Presidential candidate, Ickes replied flatly No.
 He said he could conceive of cer- tain conditions under which ht could support him. adding loi would depend on the character oi MT. Trumans opponent.
 Position Un1endbie
 Iekes wrote in the letter that MT Truman had made his position as { cabinet member ''untenable" by siding with Pauley against him.
 T cannot stay on when you, il effect, have expressed lack of con. fidence in me-" Ickes told the Pres. ident.
 Tn Capitol Hill speculations abou the identity of Ickes' successor thu names most frequently mentioned included those. of Rep. Harry R Shepard D-Calif), Sen. O'Mahone, D-Wyo), Senator Mcfarland (D' Ariz), former Senator Worth Clark Idaho Democrat, and Gov. Rober Kerr of Oklahoma.
 Ickes asked to be relieved Marcf 3l. but President Truman made thu resignation effective Friday. Febru. ary IS. The Presidents letter O. acceptance was not made public.
 The President designated Oscal L. Chapman, a Coloradoan who hal served B years as an assistant sec. retary. to take over Ickes duties pending the appointment of per marent secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-13
DIVORCE DEGREES

Three additional decrees of di- vorce were granted here in U. s. District Court, at the afternoon session Monday. to:
 Jack B. Smith of Ketchikan from Georgie V. Smith; to Louise Wat kins, from Willie Lea Watkins and to Edgar Garnick, Juneau from Virginia Bessie Garnick.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-13
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Feb. 13.--Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is l05s, American Can 96h, Anaconda 47%, Curtiss- Wright 10i9 International Harvest CT 94A, -Laughlin 497s. Ken necott 54ls. New York Central 31ss, Northern Pacific 3l7s, United Corporation 5M. U. s. Steel 9lss, Pound $4.031a.
 Sales today were 1,680,000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 19874. rails 648l, utilities 39.72.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-13
LOSS BORNE BY VISA

SEATTLE, Feb. 13.--Loss of the Seattle -Alasks. passenger ship Yu- kon will be borne by the War Ship ping Administration, which had the vessel under bare-boat charter, it was learned today.
 Officials of the Alaska Steamship Company, owner of the Yukon, de- scribed the vessel as "a very neces- sary ship" and placed her value at $1.200,000
 With more than 4,000 ships and the average cost of insurance about S75,000 a year for each vessel, the War Shipping Administration car rieS it's own insurance on the fleet. However, insurance on passengers and cargo usually is placed with commercial companies.
 sSs..:r Shortage
 Officials of the Alaska Steamship Company said they would be short a passenger ship by April, when business shows an increase, as a result of the loss of the Yukon.
 The Columbia, which made one trip between San Francisco and Honolulu, is returning to the Se- attle-Alaska service, sailing from this port today.
 The Aleutian of the Alaska Steamship Company, which also has been operating between San Francisco ana Honolulu, will make one more trip in this route before return to the Seattle-Alaska ser vice.
 INVESTIGATION IN ALASKA
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. = The Coast Guard has agreed to send a representative to Seward and An chorage immediately to take testi- mony of the survivors of the Yu- kon, Alaska's Delegate Bartlett said today.
 The Bureau of Marine Inspection of the Coast Guard, begins investi- gation of the accident today in Se- attle where the steamship Alaska is due to arrive.
 As soon as work is completed in Seattle the Board plans to go to Anchorage and Seward to finish it's investigation.
 At Anchorage, Mayor John Man ders said he had wired President Truman, Delegate Bartlett, the War Shipping Administration and the Coast Guard at Washington asking that hearings into responsibility for the wreck be held either there or at Seward. His wife was one of the rescued passengers from the Yukon.
 ENSIGN TO WEST
 KETCHIKAN. Feb l3. = Ems. James s. Cooper of the Coast Guard is leaving for Anchorage and Seward immediately to take deposi- tions in the investigation of the Yukon wreck, Como. Norman H. Leslie announced today.
 His findings will be sent to the Coast Guard Investigation Board, preparing to convene in Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-13

The design used on the shoulder patch of the 76th Infantry Division is a medieval symbol for the oldest son of family.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-13

ROCK FALLS, Ill The 300 block on Fourth Avenue in this town has several double claims to fame. Residing there are four sets of twins-three pairs of boys. ranging in age from eight months to eight years, and a twosome of girls Ii years old.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06

The News
BY j. M. ROBERTS JR,
up Foreign Affairs Anlyst

The British and American gov.
ernments divided over Palestine
as they have not been divided
since the war debt debate of manx
years ago. But instead of a direc,
collision between individual inter.
ests, the new disagreement "a.
wolves around methods of arrivins
at a mutual-desired goal.
The British, accustomed in re-
cent years to establishing a com.
mon front with the U. S. and the,
facing the world, are piqued that
President Truman should step ont
alone in what has been considered
a primarily British matter. But il
is hardly a situation in which
pique fingers long enough to really
interfere with an international re.
Tationship.
Effects Undetermined
Whether the Presidents state.
ment will have the adverse effect
or Palestine negotiations Which
the British profess to fear remains
to be seen. The water already is
SO boiled that the tossing of an.
other pebble would hardly seem
likely to produce any great splash.
1t might, on the other hand, point
up to the principal disputants the
need for some agreement, if onlv
ali interim one, to alleviate the
distress of Europe's Jews. moving
as they are, hungry and tattered,
through the undergrounds toward
Palestine, the only star they can
see.
To over simplify, the Jews want
to make a Jewish state out Of
Palestine. The Arabs. far in the
majority. want to create a demo.
cratic state with guarantees Of
Jewish minority rights. The Brit
ish want to get out of the middle
into which they stepped after
World War I, but not at the ex-
pense of their military position in
the Levant. President Truman ap-
parently puts the plight of Eu4
ropes Jews, against whose immi-
grafton into Palestine t e Arabs
are adamant, ahead of all the
rest.
That a permanent solution will
be found quickly seems doubtful.
But the United States proposal Of
economic aid for the area in con-
nection with increased Jewish i'm
migration may contain the germ
of a possible long range solution.
President Roosevelt, after his
trip to the Middle East, was great
ly impressed by the possibilities
of developing the area. He thought
that irrigation, with development
Of natural resources, could change
the entire political and economic
face of this ancient part of the
world.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
UNRRA OFFICIALS
PROTEST CHARGES
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9th a Yugoslav UNRRA mission.
had been held for a week on
charges of espionage against the
Tito army. He will be released
with provision that he be returned
to the United States, the officials
said.
Qn Washington F. H. LaGuardia.
Director-General of UNRRA said
he was sending a mission to Yug'
oslavia to make an ~on-the-spot in
vestigation of reports of illegal di-
version of UNRRA supplies to
Tito's Army. A U. S. State Depart
ment official said such reports
called for vigorous investgiation.)
Ford, here on a visit, said that
"as far as Slovenia is concerned I
have no proof that anything is go
ing to the (Yugaslav) Army. OPP
ponents of the CTito's) government
bring us plenty of reports of his
kind Of thing going on. We try to
check On these reports, but so far
have been unable to prove any of
them"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06

We hereby nominate Henry A. Wal
lace as the Most Meddlesome Man of
the Year.
Somewhat coupled with his unsuc-
cessful flier into foreign policy-strictly
the business of MIR. Byrnes-was an
effort to settle the atomic bomb prob
lem-the job of Mr.. Baruch.
The results of the bout with Mr..
Byrnes are now history. After deliver
ing the rabbit punch, the next thing
Henry knew was that he was on the
floor and the referee-Mr. Truman
was counting him out.
Now, for a round by round, on the
.Baruch engagement.
Wednesday Mr.. Baruch stood firmly
on a sharp demand that Mr.. Wallace
correct publicly the mistakes" that
the great elder statesman charges he
made in criticizing the United States
atomic control plan. He added that the
former Secretary of Commerce had adj
mitted personally to him last Friday
that he was in error and then had not
signed a statement acknowledging the
asserted errors, which was prepared
later by representatives of the two men
at their direction.
Mr.. Baruch made it clear that the
United States delegation could not con
slider any modification in the "funda-
mental principles" of it's plan, attacked
at length by Wallace in a letter on for
eign policy written last July %.
So, if Mr.. Barueh's report is true,
Mr.. Wallace admits he made a mistake
But apparently he hasn't the intestinal
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
Taft Says Vengeance
Prompted War Trials

GAMBLER, O., Oct. 5.-W.H-
Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., Ohio,
charged today that a Esprit OF
vengeance" rather than justice,
prevailed at the Nuernburg and
Ioyko wal crimes trials which, in
their very essence, violated funda-
mental principles of American
law.
In America, he said, a man can
not be tried under a law passed
after his "crime" was committed.
Consequently, he said, the war
trials and their verdicts were
more Russian than American" in
their principles.
Il pray that we do not repeat
the procedure in Japan where the
justification on grounds of ven.
geance is much less than in Ger
many" he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
Eighth Victim OF Sun
Oil Blast Is Dead

MARCUS HOOK, Pa, Oct. s.
R-Clarence Fox, 4O-year-old Sun
Oil company mechanic, died today,
the eighth victim of Thursday
nights spectacular fire and ex-
plosions that ripped through a
section of the Sun refinery.
A check of hospitals showed
only So of more than 40 persons
injured remained as patients.
Two were listed in critical con-
dition.
Meanwhile Charles w. Taylor,
district fire marshal of the Penn
sylvania state police announced
his investigation found mo evil
dence of carelessness or anything
to warrant criminal prosecution"
He said the initial explosion, the
fire and subsequent blasts were
definitely ACCIDENTAL"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
Wilmington Pastor To
Broadcast Over WPTF

Talking Back to Life" will be
the theme of the Rev. Mr.. William
Grove, Jr., pastor of the First
Presbyterian church in Wilmington,
in the Oct. 20 broadcast Of the
Presbyterian Hours fall series.
The radio broadcasts, beginning
today, are heard from Florida to
Texas, and north to Maryland, and
are made possible by a cooperative
Southern Radio conference COM
posed of Presbyterian. Methodist
and Baptist churches.
The Rev. Groves radio speech
will be published. and made avail
able for distribution. The station
nearest Wilmington carrying the
program is WPTF in Raleigh.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
Wouldn't Seem Natural

Full employment is a reality, and
overall industrial output has hit a new
postwar high. But don't get complacent.
The Civilian Production Administration
saws that a labor shortage is looming
at the end of the year, and that more
output per hour and more hours per
week are necessary if we are to avoid
q production crisis.
Good! For a minute there, we we're
afraid we weren't going to have any.
thing to worry about.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
A Rare Dividend

The taxpayer seldom realizes a olVl-
dend on his dollar spent for war.
There are exceptions and they are so
rare they should not pass without some
comment.
AS one of these highly infrequent
examples, we point to the sea-going
hopper dredge, Hoffman, which has re-
turned from the wars and gone to work
in the Wilmington district of Army
Engineers. She is currently engaged on
returning Beaufort bar channel to its
project depth of 80 feet. After COM
pletion of her work there, she is ex-
pected to start digging on the Cape
Fear river bar.
With a war cloud no larger than your
hand over the horizon in 1889, far
sighted Army Engineers saw the need
of such craft in a national emergency.
Bids were let, construction was started
and she steamed off to the prosaic but
none the less vital work of deepening
foreign channels for our armed forces
in 1912. Altogether, she wa overseas
10 months.
Now, the dredge was built at a cost
of a million and a half of taxpayers
dollars. The contract for the Hoffman
and her sisters was let before the wild
wave of initiation. To construct her to-
day would be at an expenditure nearer
two and a half million.
But her cost isn't the point we wish
to make.
The important thing is that today
the Hoffman is as valuable a piece of
machinery in peacetime as she was in
war. The end of combat has not de-
preciated her valuation one cent. While
the termination of fighting has reduced
the value of such arms as tanks and
i gliders to a mere.fraction of their form
er worth, the Hoffman is a sound in
vestment in execution of the river and
1ldI UOI LII IOVcllloIC piOSldII. AS 1dl
as the career Of a dredge is concerned,
she has just begun her life.
It is true that a dredge is primarily
q peace-time craft.
But failure to properly care for her
would have left the Hoffman war
weary, nearer classification as junk
than modern equipment with many,
many years of service ahead of her.
The Army Engineers continued to look
into the future and think of the days
when, with her guns removed, she
would be an important piece of equip
ment in maintaining and improving the
nations waterways, for greater com.
merce.
1t is most heartening to see the Corps
of Army Engineers salvage something
out of the billions and billions spent for
war and return these benefits to the
taXpayer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06

fortitude. to put this admission in writ
ing.
Mr.. Wallace dashed back Thursday
night, declaring the United States
atomic control plan backed by Baruch
had failed to head off "a frantic atomic
bomb race" He also accused Baruch of
taking a stubborn and inflexible po-
sition" and thereby snagging negotia-
lions with Russia for world control Of
the fearsome new energy.
If Russia were in our position in the
atomic energy field, would she be talk
ing about world control? We certainly
doubt it.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Baruch contends Mr..
Wallace is only causing public confusion
in his criticism of the U. S. plan. His
~"errors," Mr.. Baruch adds, are grave
ly dangerous to the delicate negotiations
now under way"
There is nothing for the referee to do
but mark up a decision for MIR. Baruch.
President Truman and the greater
part of the nation have appraised the
values of Mr.. Wallace and found him
to be wanting. Styled the darling of the
leftists, it is to be wondered how long
it will be before they get wise and &C
cord him the same treatment.
Meanwhile, he continues to make
other officials business his very own,
hence the nomination for the aforesaid
title.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
REDS GIVE PLEDGE
OF GLOBAL ACCORD
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cal commission had not reached
agreement on many outstanding
points but said thta "these are
larger questions which remain out
side the scope of this commission"
C~onnally's mood was equally cons
ciliatory.
eve must not, we cannot have
another war;" he said. There are
some who are already talking Of
such a possibility. I cannot believe
that men have lost their reason
and nations reached the point
where they are so forgetful of hui
mainly that they want again to see
the hands of the peoples of the
world dropping with blood"
The marathon session of the
B a l k Economic commission
brought to an end the commission
phase of the conference. It was
the last of the nine conference
commissions to complete its treaty
recommendations.
The commissions will all hold pro
forma meetings to approve their
reports to the plenary sessions but
their action meant that the October
5 deadline for finishing commits
sion work was met. There was
every prospect that the conference
would now be able to wind up
Oct. Is on schedule.
The Balkan commission spent its
final ten hours wrangling over
Bulgarina Preparations and finally
adjourned at 2:45 P. M. (8:45 A.
NJ after approving with a vote
of 8 to S, short of a two-thirds
recommendation, a figure OF SlZo'
600, 900 to be divided equally De-
tween Greece and Yugoslavia.
This was a setback for Russia
which had fought odggedly to re-
turn the Preparations question 10
the Big Four without recommends
ton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
Bricker Has Early Lead
OuerH0mmQn In Senate
Contest Now On In Ohio
NOTE
DEPRESSION SIGNS
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serve to slow it down. I do not
|knW."
Grwing watchfulness was evident
in Their quarters.
/. The agriculture department
reported meat demand might
slacken IL or Is months hence be-
cause consumer income is expect
ed to turn downward in late 1947
or early 1913.
2. The ALL "labor's monthly
survey currently reports that the
rise in living costs sis now clearly
over" and 'by early next year
consumer prices may turn down."
Some companies already are cut
ting down their expansion plans.
the AFL publication said.
3. "Reconversion director John
R. Steelman's new report warns
that if price rises go much higher
businessmen and farmers may find
they have "priced themselves out
of the market and into a depres-
sion."
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
Strengthened Demand
Boosts Leaf Prices
BY The Associated Press

Boosted by strengthened de-
mand, prices for the majority of
grades advanced on tobacco mar
kets of the eastern North Caro-
lima belt last week, the Federal
and State Departments of Agri-
culture reported yesterday (Satur-
day..
During the week a total of 49,
146, 1886 pounds were sold on the
eastern belt markets at an aver
age price of $54.65 bringing sales
for the season to 258, 284, 1894
pounds at an average of $51. IS
per hundred.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
SLAVS FORCE Raj
COURIER PLANE DOWN
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planes were interfered with w
Yugoslav aircraft, one being torceu
down and the other shot down oa
Aug. 9 and Aug. 10.
Royal Air Force personnel re-
ported that this was the first TIME
their courier plane from Barr hdu
run afoul of Yugoslav authorize
since July. The plane makes reg
ular flights from Bari over Yugv'
slavia to various Balkan caplta4s'
Gin London a foreign office pre-"
officer said unofficial word OF ls
incident had been received Ou.
that there was no comment @
yeti.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
Dim Those Lights!

Dim Those Lights!
"The injured driver Of the wrecked
automobile said he was blinded by the
glaring headlights of an approaching
car, causing him to run off the road and
o%verturn his vehicle."'
Quite often that sentence appears
in the report on a serious automobile
wreck.
Each time it does it substantiates
the contention that accidents just don't
happen but there is a real, underlying
cause for every one And glazing head
lights come in. for good representation
when the various factors are listed. In
recent years, due to the large number
of old automobiles, many with defective
lights, on the highways this u has
been increased. The war kept these
cars from retirement and now, with
requirements at a slow pace, many
continue potential death machines,
especially aICer dark.
Authorities here and elsewhere in
North Carolina are pressing a concert
ed campaign to force contrary motor
lists to dim their vehicles lights when
approaching others.
But there are just SO many officers
and the territory they are assigned to
cover is tremendous. Meanwhile, day.
light hours are becoming shorter and
traffic is increasing. They can do just
50 much in hailing offenders into court
for violating this state law. Sitter SEN
fences would be a most concrete means
of impressing the guilty ones with the
seriousness of their offense.
Whether the effort to eliminate this
nighttime driving hazard succeeds de-
ponds more on the motoring public than
any other group.
1t is such a simple matter-just a
tap of a switch-to effect observance
of this law that we can see no valid
reason why anyone would refuse to
comply.
In addition, it is common highway
courtesy.
But, most important of all, it is a
good form of self protection. When you
fail to dim, there is just as much prob
ability of the blinded driver crashing
into your car as there is of him running
off the road. It is safety cooperation.
The degree to which it is effected, we
believe, will determine largely the num-
Der of after-dark accidents on the high
ways and streets.
The effort required to eliminate the
dangers of glazing headlights is so
small it is to be presumed that only the
thoughtless or stubborn will decline to
join this worthwhile movement. The
remainder of the public can do nothing
about them but hope they'll end up ex-
planning their refusal to a patrolman
and, later, a judge.
Meanwhile, if you have been guilty
of being among the careless, it's time
to mend your motoring ways. In doing
so you may save a life-probably your
own.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
General Ike Visiting
Britain's King George

LONDON, Oct. s. up Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived by
Balmoral castle in the Scottish
Highlands this afternoon for ar
overnight stay with King George,
Queen Elizabeth and the prin-
cesseS.
Eisenhower, his wife and his son.
Capt. John Eisenhower, flew from
Prestwick, the huge Scottish air
terminal, to Dyce airdrome outside
Aberdeen in a Dakota plane oper-
ated by an American crew.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
JOHNSON DECLINES
BOARD MEMBERSHIP
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tributing company, reported he is
giving his appointment considera-
ton. He said he is anxious to serve
the city as far as possible, but
added he would have to study the
act to determine if he would have
time to se-ve.
DR.. John c. VESSEL. Wilmington
physician and president of the Red
Cross Sanitarium Inc. has already
announced that he would accept his
prominent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-06
To STRIKE

CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 5.-DP-S'u,,
dents of Fuad University voted ~
a meeting today to go on strike w.
IL in protest against British tro0"
remaining in Egyrt.