davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1946-05-26

why, there's Mrs Atwood Helen Bangs
cried, delightedly. How nice to see her out. u
I'll bring the flowers, Mother" said
Jennifer. GO on over and see her."
The white church, with the cemetery
around it, looked like a neat toy outlined
sharply against the sky. The Avery lot was
in the old section and Jenny carried half the
flowers there.
Morning, Jenny" Tom Lombard, the
towns youngest selectman. greeted her.
Milly Lombard called out, Good morning.
Isn't it lovely day?" and added sternly to
her twin sons, "You boys stop climbing over
those stones or I'll spank you both"
Mother! Who was Eleazer Lombard
Mother?" eight-year-old Shirley was de-
manding. Born in seventeen ninety-four.
Lost at sea-
Jennifer walked back to her car. She could
hear her mothers pretty voice, raised to
penetrate old Mrs. Atwood's eardrums. "And
1T only takes half cup of sugar." she was
saying. Nell Paine was tidying the Paine lot,
like busy housewife, picking up bits of
broken branches and pine cones.
Jennifer was smiling as she stood watching
her mother place the flowers before her
fathers stone. Dear me!' said her mother.
Look at all this sorrel! We must put some
lime up here, Jenny, or it'll get way ahead
of U.S." She made a pile of uprooted weeds.
Throw it over the edge, will you, jenny"
Jennifer strolled to the outer rim of the hilr
and tossed the weeds down the slope. She
wondered if her father could have any aware
ness of them. If so, he would be touched and
amused. Her mother had taken out clean
handkerchief and was vigorously rubbing
speck from the top of the granite stone.
Evening star., 1946-05-26

Ruth had made her angry. Hes really
the most divine man, Jen. showed him that
snapshot of you, the one in your bathing suit
and he thought you were terribly attractive. u
Jennifer made a face at herself in the mir
ror. There was something humiliating about
the way Ruth tried to find her man.
She ran downstairs. In the kitchen her
mother was setting lilac branches in pals of
water, Its perfect day, Jenny" she said.
I'm always grateful for cool spring. be-
cause then the lilacs aren't gone'
Jennlfer buried her nose in the blossoms.
I'll pick some daffies and there may be
few peony buds big enough to take
Eat your breakfast first" Helen Bangs
eyes, blue like Jennifer's, were eager and ex-
cited.
Jennifer kissed her. Her mother was going
calling, up on the hill For short moment
she would once more feel very close to John
Bangs, 188O-l937. She would smile, like
little girl, as she placed flowers before the
stones of Anne and Stephen Avery Mother
loved the lilacs 50, she always said
JENNIFER carried the pals of lilac outside.
In the fowerbeds were lilies-of-the- valley,
sweet rocket and honesty; daffodils and tulips
and bridal wreath.
Aren't you going to wear a hat?" her
mother asked.
Jennifer started to say, No." and said
Yes" She had given up week end in Bos-
ton for this. She might as we'll do it up brown.
Her mother nodded approvingly when she
reappeared with gray felt hat pulled over
her curls. care we ready?"
The two cars ahead of them on the high
way turned up the steep road to the hill.
Evening star., 1946-05-26

THERE" she declared That looks real
nice now" Her bright eyes contemplated the
ground where she would one day lie INV
land, Jenny, do you remember how your
father and used to argue about the honesty?
He declared the seeds blew everywhere and
that it was no better'n weed"
Il remember" said Jennifer.
He never pulled it up, though" she added,
smiling indulgently at her husbands stone.
In THE shadow of the church. Jennifer felt
a sandiness behind her eyelids when her
mother said softly, Mother loved the lilacs
So" Her hands, arranging them, were like
hands tucking blanket over baby. "You
don't really remember Mother, do you?"
Just little" answered Jennifer. Anne
Avery, l86l-l927. Il was only four when she
died"
Another family emerged from sedan, and
Mrs. Bangs went to greet them Jennifer
moved to neglected lot, where there was
one modern stone old Caleb Ryder's. Her
eyes held affection as she looked at it, She'd
bring Caleb some flowers in the afternoon.
She always did, each year, and she always felt
self-conscious, as though she we're showing
of, or trying to shame what inattentive
descendants he had left There we're no
Ryders remaining in the town, and apparently
no one but herself ever thought of the old
storekeeper on this day.
Her mother was calling to her Il guess
its time to CO." she said The cars are
starting"
Cars lined the sides of the town square,
and the children were gathering, little girls
in white dresses, boys in Sunday-school
clothes. The men from the Coast Guard
Evening star., 1946-05-26


loyalty to Old Caleb would
bring her strange reward
on that light Memorial Day
A Short Story
TNHE windows of the east chamber were
Il open wide, held up by sticks whitfield and
painted for the purpose. Sash weights had not
been invented when they were set into their
frames; for two centuries, their small panes
had outfaced winds roaring across the small
hills from the open Atlantic The soundless
alarm-clock of habit and duty awakened
Jennifer Bangs at seven o'clock.
She lay still beneath the ose-of-Sharon
quilt and wished she were somebody else -
almost anybody else. She was, she reflected,
the material from which New England spin
sters are made. If, in twenty or thirty years,
she was known as Miss Jenny who'd been
teaching the third and fourth grades ever
since anyone could remember, it would be
her own fault. She opened resentful blue eyes
and stared straight at the morning sun. 1t
was going to be lovely day to be a martyr.
As she dressed - pleated brown flannel
skirt, lavender sweater, soft tweed jacket -
the impatience in her sisters voice over the
phone the evening before, re-echoed in her
ears. Honestly, Jen, why ever try to do
anything for you! Here we've planned the
loveliest week end, and Tom has theater tick
cts for the four of US. You know perfectly
we'll they'd let you off"
So many different things come together to
make one decision, she thought so many
different people - possibly going all the way
back to hard-bitten ancestor on the May
tao,cer. 1t was Memorial Day, and she knew
how much her mother counted on going up
to the cemetery in the early morning. Some
one else could take her, but she preferred her
youngest daughter Someone else could take
care of the children in the parade; the chill
dren also preferred Miss Bangs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
NO RE(0NTR0L.
 OF N A T!0N' 'S DAIRY FOODS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-Dairy products went their way in free market today but with butter and cheese prices under the wary eye of the Price Decontrol Board.
 Tn announcing a decision not to reimpose ceilings now, the board declared it would maintain vigilance over the dairy price trend and stay ready for any action which might be necessary.
 A board official told reporters cheese and butter are the sore spots" Chairman Roy L. Thompson had in mind last night when he said prices are approaching the critical point"
 The board nevertheless repeated it's decision of a month earlier that mix, cream, butteJ cheese, ice cream and other dairy items should remain free from OPA controls because there has been no "un- reasonable price increase over June 30 ceilings plus subsidy"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
PROMINENT WOMAN IS
 FOUND DEAD
Investigation Into Tragic End of Wife of Former
 Senator Reynolds

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. - Mrs. Evalyn Mclean Reynolds, "A, daughter of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mo Lean and wife of former U. s. Sen ator Robert R. Reynolds of North Carolina, was found dead in her bedroom late yesterday.
 The body was found beside a switched-on radio by the family physician, pr. B. w. Leonard, who told investigators that death may have been caused by an accidental overdose of sleeping pills.
 Coroner A. Magruder Mcdonald deferred issuing death certificate, however, until he has made fur ther examination.
 In a temporary finding, the Cor oner attributed death to acute congestive heart failure" He said chemical tests will be made to de- terniine if bottle of sleeping pills found near the body had any con- nection with the case.
 Dr. Leonard had called at the family home, Friendship" to treat Mrs. Mclean, owner of the famous Hope diamond who was operated on recently for a knee injury.
 Mrs. Mclean has always dis counted the popular belief that ill fortune stems from the $2,000,00C blue white Hope diamond, once owned by Catherine the Great oi Russia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
fl PERSONS KILLED B Y
 HIGH WINDS
EngIand's Southern Coast Struck by tOO-Ni|e Hour
 GaIe-Terrifil Damage

LONDON, Sept 21--At least II persons were killed, English Chan nel shipping battered and thous- ands of acres of harvest crops in Worcestershire and North Hamp- shire were leveled in yesterdays mile-an-h winds which struck England's southern coast.
 The Air Ministry's Weather Bur eau said that a second gale which had been expected had not develop ed by late this afternoon.
 Farmers said yesterdays storm left their position the most ser ious in memory" Fl R. Overman, who farms more than 1000 acres in the area, said the losses now run into millions of pounds, and many farmers will be facing bankruptcy before the end of the year"
 Yesterdays storm finished off the 7,176-ton American cago vessel Hell cha Modjeska, which had been stranded on Goodwin Sands off Deal since September l2.
 At least g were reported injured by the wind which caused deyas- tation from Lands End to Dover and was judged the worst Septem- Der storm in 37 years. Four of the deaths occurred in shipping acci- dents.
 A plane bringing Field Marshal Lord Montgomery home from his visit to the United States, circled for two hours over Boyingdon Air dreme and was finally diverted to another field where is landed with out incident.
 The Earl of Jerseys 40-ton yacht was smashed against the dock at Yarmouth. Isle of Wight. The Earl and six companions elambered to safety.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
CHIANC'S ARMIES OPEN OFFENSIVE
 ALONG RAILWAY

PEIPING, Sept. 2l,-Chinese military sources today reported the government launched it's offensive against Kalgan by attacking Com munist held Nankou, a Peiping- Suiyuan railroad pass through the great wall, 70 miles northwest of Peiping.
 The report could not be con- firmed because of the governments blackout on official news of it's Kalgan offensive.
 Meanwhile, government newspap- CTS opened the type of propaganda campaign that usually precedes an offensive. After reporting for sev- eral days that the Communists had lifted their long seige of Tatung lthe papers today carried dispatches stating that the seige had not been lifted and government troops there fore were forced to attack Kalgan, the Communists principal North China military base.
 Government military authorities recently threatened to attack Kal- gan unless the Communists with drew from beleaguered Tatung Only yesterday, it was reported the government force had fought it's
 way out of Tatung city's walls and
 recaptured eight outposts and a railroad station.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
WASHINGTON cop SUPPORTS TOUGH
 FOREIGN COURSE
Other PIanks Oppose Con- troI|er Economy, Call
 for Free Enterprise

SEATTLE, Sept. 21-A 16-plank platform was to be submitted to the state convention of the Repub- lican party today, with the 18th plank-on foreign policy-subscrib- ing to the principle of bipartisan American foreign policy.
 we endorse the efforts and statements of Senators Vandenberg and Austin in their cooperation with and support of Secretary Byrnes and Senator Connally," the suggested plank read.
 We must protect our own rights, uphold our own dignity, and base our foreign participation on the degree of the cooperatin of other nations. We deem the time has come to tell all nations that we cannot be blackmailed or bulldozed into appeasement of any nation, and that we will subscribe to no program in international affairs ex- cept one that is founded on justice and fair dealing among the peoples and countries of the world"
 Other blanks included:
 Favor elimination of all feder- atior controls as soon as possible. We oppose the so-called planned economy administered by bureau crats, which has deprived us of food, clothing and housing"
 Propose elimination of red tape which has deprived the veteran of his full benefits in housing, train- ing, education and surplus property purchasing to which he is entitled ss a matter of right and not of charity"
 Stand for free enterprise system and right of both labor and em- ployer to organize and bargain col lectively. Government should only enter labor disputes when public health, safety and welfare are con- cerned. Labor has right to strike "as last resort"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
Farley Lauds Truman Upon
 Wallace Boof
'Disastrous" for President to Have Acted 0iher-
 wise, Holds Big Jim

PARIS, Sept. 21.-James A. Far ley, former U. s. Postmaster Gener- al, issued a statement here today congratulating President Truman cn having asked for the resigna- tion of Secretary Wallace and de- claring that it would have been disastrous" for the President to have done otherwise.
 Farley conferred at some length with Secretary of State James F. Byrres last night. He said he was here on a business trip. The text f his statement:
 President Truman is to be con- graduated on his statement yester- day. The success of the present conference, and in my judgment, the future peace for the world de- pend on backing, whole heartedly and without qualification, Secretary of State Byrnes and his associates here. This world must have com- plete confidence in our foreign policy and any action other than that taken by President Truman yesterday would have been disas- trous."
 Members of the U. s. delegation to the peace conference, meanwhile denied reports in the Paris press today that Secretary Byrnes had forced the resignation of Secretary Wallace.
 The majority of the Paris news papers said Byrnes had handed an ult;nsatu,n to President T'saneap see~ handing that the President choose between Byrnes and Wallace.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
TlEUp IS EXTENDED
 16 DAYS
Picket Lines Being Main fained-Chdrges Are
 Made by Unions

SAN FRANCISCO, Sapt. 2l.-The Pacific Coast shipping tieup ex- tended into the 18th straight day today with prospect of more dis putes on the horizon.
 Standing out among developments were:
 l. The Pacific-American Ship owners Association, taking the posi- tion that actual wage cuts would be involved in acceptance of a Federal arbitrator's award, asked for cl2ri- lieation.
 2. Striking West Coast unions kept their pickets on the line, said only a written guarantee by the operators of pay boosts would settle the strike and accused the ship owners of "stalling"
 3. A West Coast leader of the AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots said his men may just go fishing even if the current shipping dispute is settled.
 Meantime shipping remained at a standstill in West Coast harbors. except for tankers and a few ether ships unaffected by the strike. There was no accurate count of the number of ships idle but best estimates placed it at about 285.
 A maritime commission order. aimed at equalizing pay for AFL and CIO seamen on both coasts under an award of arbitrator Jeaas. i L. Fly. s6ttfed tte East Coat d.s- pute but PASA officials said it's provisions on the West Ceast plov- ed baffling. They said some West coast categories did not even exiet on the East Coast and that in oth- CTS, such as the electricians, the formula meant cuts on the Pacific side.
 Representative of the CIO Ma rine Cooks and Stewards and the Independent Marine Firemsn said they had accepted the Fly awara
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
The W ashingt ion Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON-O of the hot test reports in Washington is now almost burning up it's filing cabinet ir the Justice Department. All sorts of pressure is being brought to make s,,re it never sees the light of day.
 It is a report on certain high placed Americans who cooperated with the Nazis before Pearl Har- Dor. It was prepared by the Jus tice Departments crack prosecutor, John Rogge. on the basis Of inter views with Hermann Goering and other German prisoners.
 However, it steps on some very powerful toes, including those of United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis, so the bets are it will never be published. Also mentioned as unwilling tools of the Nazi stooges are Senator Bennett Clark of Missouri now judge), ex-Sen- ator Gerald Nye of North Dakota, ey-Senator Bob Reynolds of North Carolina (now married to the Mc- Lean Hope Diamond millions), the late Senator Lundeen of Minnesota, Senator Wheeler of Montana, ex- Congressman Martin Sweeney of Ohio and ex-Congressman Stephen Day of Illinois.
 It is significant that all the above are now out of Congress-repu- dated at the polls.
 Several of the Senators-perhaps
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
Guam Isle Is Struck
 ByTyphoon
Heavy Military Damage Done -Quonset Huts Un-
 roofed, Wide Areas

GUAM, Sept, 2l.--A treacherous typhoon veered unexpectedly and roarod today across this big U. s Naval base and three more forti- fled Mariana Islands to the north leaving heavy military damage.
 Huge sheets of corrugated steel from Quonset huts were whipped through the air like leaves in the l00-mile gusts.
 Rear Adm. Charles A. Pownall Commander of the Marianas, is- sued statement in mid-afternoon that first, fragmentary reports in' tlica.ed there were not serious in- iuries among Navy and Marine per sonnel or civilians.
 The Army reported one man suf- fereo a broken back.
 Wives and children of military men had been removed from small Quonset huts to stouter buildings and military personnel were confin- NNi ll1eACOAN tD WOA0 SHitcA Oiiob bAAN typhoon was shifting course.
 Pcwnall said there was extensive damage to buildings throughout Guam, including the Navy hospital Many hangars were reported levell- ed st Harmon field-from where B-29s used to take off for Tokyo
 Army airfields on the northern end of the Island, closest to the typhoon center, were reported dam- aged extensively.
 The Admiral said he had no re- ports from Saipan, but he doubted that it was damaged as greatly as Guam.
 Pownall estimated the typhoon's top velocity at 85 knots.
 In Guam, huge Quonset hut was lifted into the air and settled piggy back astride another.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
DISC0NTINU UANCE OF GOVT. CONTROLS DEMANDED BY FWRC

SEATTLE, Sept. 21.- Discontinu- ance of government controls to permit the national economy to re- turn to the American way as evidenced by the law of supply and demand was advocated in a reso- lution drawn yesterday by the Washington State Federation of Women's Republican Clubs.
 Another resolution opposed ap- pointment to public office of any persons of questionable loyalty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
WISE WILL C0KTINUE
 WORKING

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2l.-Presi- dent Truman in statement today said the Wage Stahilization Beard will continue to administer the wage stabilization program"
 Reports were current ill Washing ton earlier this week that there was a possibility that a new wage statil- ization set-up might be in the mak- ing as a result of a Presidential request for a study of the whole wage stabilization program by the advisory board of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
DIDN'T TAKE

SEATTLE County Clerk Norman R. Riddell received the following letter from a Marysville, Wash, resident:
 Due to technical difficulties be- yond my control, I am unable to use the enclosed material"
 The enclosed material was a mar riage license.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Princess Louise, from Vancouver, due late this afternoon or evening. At l D. m. today Agent Young had no word of arrival time.
 Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver at o'clock tonight.
 No sailings from Seattle.
 Estebeth scheduled to sail for Skagway at 10 D. m. Monday.
 Leota scheduled to sail from Aux Bay every Thursday at 9:l5 a. n. to connect with OHarra Bus at Haines for Fairbanks and Anchor age.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
POLAND COUNTS
 WAR LOSSES OF
 CULTURE CENTE0S

WARSAW, Poland Polish edu- cation and cultural institutions took terrific beating during the war and Nazi occupation. government statistics show.
 Of school buildings, 6,399 were destroyed, including g universities and college, 7l5 professional schools. 27l secondary schools, ss0 primary schools and 494 kindergartens.
 Cultural institutions destroyed numbered 3.337. These included 8 theatres, $50 cinemas, 139 museums, five art schools, II broadeasting stations Ca 100 percent loss) and 2500 publishing houses (also a 100 percent loss)
 Health centers destroyed, such as hospitals and clinics, numbered 3892. Sanitariums anti-trachoma dispensaries, dispensaries for ve- nereal diseases and sports care cen ters were 100 percent wiped cut.
 Destroyed books totaled l5,900 200 and had a vlue of $26000,o00
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
TR0lLERS ASK U. S. Lines with TO FISH KINGS SIav Bloc On THROUGH FALL Rum anian Oil
British Demands for Treaty Safeguards Hailed by
 Tie Vote at Paris

PARIS, Sept. 21. British de- mands for specific treaty safeguards for foreign petroleum interests in Rumania snagged on a tie vote. T to 2. in the Peace Conferences Balkan Economic Commission today.
 The resulting parliamentary tangle caused the American delegate, Sen ator Arthur Vandenberg, to declare this procedure has been fantastic
 Earlier, the Italian Political and Territorial Commission approved 136 to 6 the separate agreement between Italy and Austria for con- siderable autonomy rights in the Tyrol, and ordered it inserted in the Italian peace treaty over the objections of the Slav bloc.
 TvrOl Guarantees
 Under the agreement, which was signed here recently by Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber and Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi, Italy granted local autonomy to German speaking residents of the South Tyrol, guaranteed the right to speak the Tyrolese language and pledged that German-Speaking per- sons would have equal opportunity to hold public office.
 The two nations also promised to work cut mutually satisfactory rail, transit and trade facilities.
 Require Restoration
 The revised British annex to the fydmaiiian treaty which ran into 2 parliamentary snarl would require Rumania to restore or replace the losses of Allied nationals in the oil fields, annul discriminatory legisla- tion and admit key administrative officials and technical experts :nto the country to operate the wells. The first three paragraphs were adopted in a serio~ of close votes. A tie vote came on the fourth and last paragraph concerning admis- sion of key personnel, and again on the projected annex as a whole.
 The British Empire countries Britain, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa plus Greece carried the first two paragraphs to against the Unit ed States and the Slav bloc-Russia, White Russia, the Ukraine, Czecho- slovakia and Yugoslavia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
EVAN HILL TO WE'D

Tonight at o'clock at 64 Walnut Street, Natick, Mass, It. Evan Hill, If the U. s. Army, former we'll known member of the Empires re- portorial Staff will wed Priscilla Anne Fiske, daughter of MT. and Hrs. Roy Lester Fiske. A reception will follow the ceremony.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
TANGIER IS THIRSTY

TANGIER-All water mains have been ordered shut off daily in this sun baked international port from noon until pm. Water consump- tion has been averaging 4,420 cubic yards a day, against reservoir supply of $500 cubic yards.