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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-04-26
HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 but do ',Ot compep
SATURDAY, APRIL 27

HEART AND HOME
 Under this configuration harmony prevails in the home, but house. wives are warned against over work and unnecessary train which result in i'll temper
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS
 Those expecting a normal supply of butter and dairy products before fall are likely to be disappointed. These items will not appear in abundance again for at least a year, it is indicated.
 NATIONAL ISSUES
 Impulsive and unintelligent criti- cism of government agencies and individuals in public office is dam gerous and there arc signs indicat- ing that those who indulge in this practice will have reason to regret their outbursts. Un-American groups inspire, encourage and cap italize on such utterances.
 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
 Determined efforts to dlscredtt UNO by promoting Big Three con- ferences will fail.
 Persons whose birthdate this is are promised by the stars: A year of unexpected opportunities to prove their worth as men and women of intelligence and character.
 Children born today will have happy dispositions, good minds and strong bodies They have the quail itias which, if properly cultivated, will assure success in their chosen fields. k
 (Copyright, 1946}
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Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

MSUSED the SCIENCE of grammar the speaking SCIENCE systemaized knowledge ART S skill performance.
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 OFTEN NIISSPELLED: Nausea. the
 SYNONYMS: Fictitious feigned, imaginary not genuine
 STUDY three times and yours" Let vocabulary Todays believes that conduct motvated wholly interest syllable philosopher S a
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20 YEARS AGO fME TIT EMPIRE
APRIL 2e, 1926

26 sssss-4
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 Presbyterian Sunday entertained the residents regular night which much enjoyed present with necklace gift of gratitude parents unrng efforts the School
 proprietor the Motor Company, following from Seattle during which he attended the convention Company Kubley, Ketchikan, and A. E. of Representatives the Clerk of Court at Ketchkn
 Weathe Highest lowest
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MODERN ETIQUETTE RyoRrRrA Ry 1EF,

that dsagreeable?
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 shall hospitality"
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LOOK and LEARN sy z. GORDON

T. What famous American ansaloon The Lady with the Hatchet"? .,1l qsal1 s.. ii 2 In journalism what assignment sheet? B. How wives children did Brigham Young Is Minneapolis capital What significance Engishmans
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 list of developments S 0
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 g. He is baronet.
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SHIFTING BYRNEs' THROAT


 No man in the U. S. Government needs more support today than Jimmy Byrnes, now struggling to straighten out the tangled skeins of peace. Yet, while he is in Par is, certain die-hards on Capitol Hill have been busy as bird dogs cutting his appropriations throat.
 One e. Eyrnes' strongest peace weapons is the good will of the Russian people. If trey are friend ly to the U S., his hand is strengthened 100 percent with their bosses in the Kremlin Proof of this is the way the Government-con- trolled Moscow radio has been blasting away at the Russian people about decadent U. s. capitalism, millions of U. s. unemployed, and alleged U. s. efforts to bulldoze Russia
 One small start toward counter acting this is an illustrated maga- zine "Amerika,' published by the State Department and circulated in Russia to the tune of 10000 copies. This is all the Kremlin will let inside Russia, though negotia- tions are now underway to increase the circulation to 50,000.
 In the middle of these negotia- tions, however, niggardly Represen- tative Louis Rabaut, Michigan Democrat, neatly ran his knife through the State Departments appropriation for "Amerika' Ap- parently disappearing of the idea of penetrating the Soviet iron curtain he and majority cf lis Appropriations Sub-Comrlittee le- cided in effect tc tell Bvrr hat he should or should not Go in Rus sia
 Meanwhile, here is a confidential repc-t nm ar official in the Am erican Embassy i'll Moscow on the job "fmerika" already has done on the Russian people:
 SLtTTING SOVIET CURTAIN
 "-n tl.e past month hospital director requested 50 copies of each issue for patients, saying il was excellent reading matter; 8 radio repair man said he would give priority on radio repair work to any customer who got him a copy; in a theatre the other night sat in front of two women who were reading the third issue oi tAinerika.' They didn't go out be- tween the acts.
 Soon a large group gathered around them. The women read the headlines aloud. Everyone com mcnted on the interest of the ar ticles, the quality of the paper and cclor work. Several weeks ago before the fourth issue. arrived, g young office worker from certain conamissariat made her fourth visit to the Embassy in single month pleading fer a copy. The girl said that doctor refused to treat hei unless she could produce a new copy of 'Amerika.'
 T was told today that we got a protesting letter from the far eff Tshuvaskay Republic, protest ing that, although they had order ed 22 subscriptions, only q had ar rived in the last mail. Copies ol .Amerika have been cent to Tad
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THREE FROM SKAGWAY

E. F. Asselin and MT. and Mrs. Fl. Evans, residents of Skagway, have arrived in Juneau. They are stopping at the Gastineau
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to continue to let him run them, too"
 And that was that.
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NO SUNDAY SCHOOL AT
 CHApEL-BY-THE-LAkE

There will be no Sunday School at the Chapel-by-the Lake on next Sunday, April 28. This is according to an announcement made by Mrs. Stanley Jekill.
 x MIKE TOML HERE
 Mike Toml of Pelican is guest at the Gastineau.
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. Ss . .
 The Irish Free State was sep arated from Great Britain in 1922
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weather: Highest, 55; lowest, 45; rain.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-19
Housing Shortage Relief

Wilmington's o S n shortage
probably is no greater than that of
other cities, but Wilmington has way
to overcome it at least in part, which
some other cities cannot do for con-
siderable time, provided certain down.
town property owners are willing to
make further investment in their
buildings.
Wilmington has many structures,
the lower floors of which are occupied
by stores with the upper floors un-
tenanted. Were owners to turn this
above-the-street space into efficiency
apartments many married couples and
small families could be accommodated
and commemorative property become
producing.
To do this would involve OUTLAWS of
$4,000 or even $4,000, but floor space
now idle and gathering dust would be
readily rented after reconversion and
IN time pay dividends on the capital
involved.
1t would surprise owners who have
not looked into the matter how many
people prefer to live downtown, despite
the beauties of the suburbs. Prob
ably applications for the proposed
apartments would exceed the number
to be made available as soon as an
nouncements of remodeling were pub
licized.
Certainly the project is worth the
attention of owners of business property
now idle and dead expense for taxes
and insurance.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-19

seems to me the new boys, and
some of the older ones, could dc
right well in any contest among
such outstanding male lockers as
Tyrone Power, Van johnson, and
the like. In fact, if they'd appear on
the screen in parts instead of walk
ing the streets of Wilmington they'd
probably be able to muster up
quite bobby-sox following.
But, letting Chief Casteen pick
it up:
"We're> getting a high type Of
man in the department now," he
said. "a good many of our new
men, especially, were in the armed
forces. Some of them held COM
missions and most of them held
ranks of other responsibility.
We've also started police
schools. In these our men not only
are taught the routine duties of
their jobs, but they're also taught
how to deal with the public which,
after all, is our Boss because it's
the public that pays our salaries
"Our men are taught to enforce
the law impersonally. There are
times when, in making an arrest,
policeman may be personally
insulted by the offender. He may
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-19
Road Traffic Picks Tn

Highway tourist traffic is reported
within IL per cent of the 1910 volume.
This, despite inclement weather, old
cars and threadbare tires.
Wilmington is getting it's full share,
as anyone who breakfasts downtown
and notes the strangers at table in pub
lie eating places can testify.
They are easily identified as touring
motorists because of their hurry to be
off and references to the distance trav.
eled yesterday and the objective for to-
day. and, sadly, because many inquire
the quickest way out of town.
The old publicity mistakenly en-
ployed to attract highway tourists
"Stop Overnight in Wilmington -ob
viously still survives.
Wilnington's job is to make it's at
fractions so irresistible that it will n,
longer be merely way station en- route
south, but an objective in it's own right
One way this may be done is to ad
vertise it's fishing resources, among
other assets, as nine out of ten Florid;
tourists go there in winter for the fish
ing.
Cold spells such as we are nov
throwing off are rare. For the mos
part ocean and fresh water fishing ma.
be CLONE throughout the year. AM
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-19
RARE AFFLICTION
BELIEVED Due To
BRAIN DISORDERS
GAM I'D AMC1cGn

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 1s.-rn
A possible explanation of an ~
tremely rare and puzzling diroe '
which gives people JekvlIe.sasSs
Hyde appearance has been re1 N,a'
ed by DR.. Robert Wartenbsrr
neurologist at the Universitv 8.
California school of medicine \"
In this disease, called nv.
gressive facial hemiatrophy ON.
side of the face usually beconon my
distorted or shrlnken. Sometin,os
it also affects the head nacl'
shoulder and even the torso bn,
it usually confines itself to one siJ.
of the body.
There is no preventative and ma
cure, DR.. Wartenberg saws ~
though surgery has helped som.
afflicted individuals. Only about
400 cases have been recorded in
medical history. Its cause has beer
a matter of medical speculation
for more than 100 years.
DR.. Wartenberg, who has treat.
ed Is of the 400 cases, suggests in
an article in the archives of neuro.
logy and psychiatry that the di.
sease is caused by degeneration a,
one Of the brain centers which ey.
ercises remote control over cell
growth in the affected areas.
This degeneration, he adds
probably is due to some hereditary
weakness. An injury to the face
or even some obscure change with.
in the system may start the di.
sease process but only if the here.
ditary weakness already exist.
The ymptoms appear very slow.
ly, often starting as a dent in the
forehead a little to one side Of the
facial midline. Sometimes it shows
up only as small bald spot on
one side of the head, or as a
whitening of a small shock of hair
or a part of the eyebrow.
sometimes 1t stops there. Some.
times it goes on until the entire.
side of the face is reduced and
distorted. 1t neither painful nor
fatal, although the degenerative
process makes the victim more
than normally susceptible to other
diseases.
DR.. Wartenberg reports that
sometimes another part Of the
nervous system comes to the res.
cue and assume control over the
growth process in the affected
area. In such instances, ne adds,
the disease is stopped and the fea.
ture are spared, excepting for
possibly a small dent in the fore.
head or a bald or white spot in
the hair or eyebrow.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-19
By JOHN SKIES

If you're anticipating breaking
any criminal laws of the munici.
pality you'd better think better Of
| it.
If you do any criminal law
breaking you might get JUDGED anc
being JUDGED is not very pleasant
unless it feels good to you to have
some of your bones popped like
they were breaking.
You see, the newest police Of
ficers in Wilmington-and there're
"A or Is of these boys who've just
Joined the department-picked up
lot of tricks about Judo, jul
jitsu, and such other of the gentle
arts you've no doubt read about
while they were in the armed ser
vices.
These gentlemen do not wish te
try their tricks, but they have them
on tap just in case criminal laws
are broken and offenders wish to
get tough about the matter wher
they come along to check up.
This fact I learned in strictly
non-professional chat with Chief
Charles Casteen yesterday. And
this chat revealed to me few
items I had hitherto suspected, but
I wanted the Chief to make them
official.
Policing isn't like it was in the
gas-lit era when burly and bel
ligerent guy with a blackjack
came over and bopped you coup.
lie and dragged you to a lookup anc
held you, somewhat unconscious
and incommunicado, until you were
able to tell it to judge.
As a matter of fact, it is seldom
nowadays that one of the new ord
er of policemen will push you over
to the curb and say to you, in a
tone Of voice, "Get over there,
Mac!"
In the old days, the Chief brushes
the cobwebs from my memory, a
great many men found themselves
in the police department by way OF
political favors. Now they gel
there through Civil Service.
Of course, I'm no judge of hand
someness among the menfolks-
when it comes to women it's en-
tirely a different story-but it
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-19
Take The Tests

The danger parents invite for their
children, if they refuse to have Their
offspring submit to the tuberculin
tests which the health department is
now conducting in the public schools is
that tuberculosis in incipiency may not
oe discovered but go on until it has
reached an advanced stage which will
require years of rest and treatment
to be arrested.
Parents ought to be grateful that
the tests are made available. Pupils
ought to be encouraged at home to
take them.
Because of the heavy migrations of
population during the war to produc-
ton centers and the unhygienic en-
vironment of so many thousands of
families there has been a distressing
Increase in tuberculosis, which can be
stamped out only by the most rigorous
observance of anti-tubercular programs.
Ihls present campaign initiated by the
New Hanover Health and tuberculosis
Association and undertaken by the City,
County Health Department is being
conducted with the most highly de-
veloped scientific tests. The object is
to save the children of the community
from later invaidism and possible un-
timely death.
The tests are painless and in them
selves entirely harmless. The cam
palgn merits countrywide public CO.
operation.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-19
Editorial Comment
THE COLONEL COMES HOME

throughout all of Eastern North Carolina
and very especially here in the Albemarle, il
will be heard with satisfaction that Colonel
George Gillette has again been assigned to
the district office of the U. S. Engineers and
before the end of the year he will resume
his post with headquarters at Wilmington
from which he was transferred five years age
for duty with the War Department IN Wash
ington and afterward on the Pacific coast.
Perhaps better than any man VINO mas helo
the assignment as District Engineer, Colonel
Gillette has understood the problems OF naVl
cation in North Cardinals tidal inland waters.
The Colonel is native, he having oeen porn
in Onslow County. He was schooled at Noi11
Cardinals State College from which ne entereo
the IT. S. Arnov at the outbreak OF the First
World War. He remained in the service aIter-
ward and is a graduate OF tae war depart
nents School of Engineering. He Is an able
engineer. s,+ ca1o
Coning home for another tour OF DUTY, Colo.
mel Gillette will find a LOU OF accuiiiolateu
work to do. Since his departure 1--we years
aoo tho District Engineers office mas been
aesoarnod primarily. with urgent work con-
nected with National defense, and little tlme
49, 49,, had for the normal act1Vltles OF the
aee;oo IIere in the Albemarle there are pend
:,+tars nat will claim his attention, nota-
h11 tho proposal to deepen me channels from
nHo,+oo and Wanchese to oregon lnlet ana
the making Of the lnle' haV4s a0le W Sea-soins
trawlers. - +roroondo,,s oo,,.o
lnese ~ the men who take their living from
~ ,eTs+ers of the Five sounds, and they are
slie ma in that they will not have to explain
or, oroble to Colonel Gillette. He has long
sae,, familiar with them. He was frequently
oeG4, officially and unofficially, in these
Waters, Waters and he will be welcomed home VIII, with
,Sna1loyed pleasure by people who Know now
linn and whom he knows.-Ehzabetn ei'S
Daily Advance.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-19
La1u Enforcement hnpers onal Business
With Modem And Courteous Officers

feel like pulling off his badge ano
getting into a rough and tumble
! fight with the offender. But our mer
are told that when they do thi!
they're degrading the trust which
they hold. They're getting down or
the same level with the offender
and are losing their heads. We
stress the fact that law enforcement
must be impersonaI and cool. Nc
hot-headed personal feeling"
You might be interested in learn
ing that good police officers are
irked when anybody refers to them
as "cops' or 'flat-feet." Those
words, too, came out of the gas
lit era. Modern policemen pre-
fez to be called officers.
When the Chief joined the depart
department in 1922 he joined as
a private. He was promoted te
sergeant in 1929, to lieutenant ir
1885, to captain Feb. 2, 1887, and
to assistant chief Nov. 1, 1887. He
was made Chief June l, 1941.
When the Grief joined the depart.
nent there were A. men on what
is no longer called the force
for about the same reason you nc
longer call them cops" Starting
salary for privates was STA pei
month, or 1886 per day for 80 days,
| if that works out right.
Today the privates are started
at $165 per month. They work
seven eight-hour days per week
and get one day off each month
After a probationary period the
privates get a boost in pay tc
$182.50 per month.
Just one more thing: the officers
here are very patient with DRINKS
the Chief tells you. If drunk is
caught on the streets. or other
public place, an officer tries to
convince him of the desirability
of going on home, or some place
else where he won't be able to
harm himself or anybody else.
However, if the drunk cannot
be convinced he may wake up and
wonder where all those iron bars
came from.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-19
YOUR G. |. RIGHTS
By DOUGLAS LARSEN

WASHINGTON Problems arts
ing from veterans being placed in
their old jobs are the source OF
the following questions:
@. In the early part of the war
a man in our plant was trans
ferred to another city by our COM
pany. He was there only a month
and was drafted. Last week he re-
turned and sought reinstatement
with full seniority rights. The local
union claims that he is not en-
titled to his job back because he
lost seniority rights when he
transferred. Just what is the law
on this point?
A. A California court has ruled
that veteran does not lose his
reinstatement rights even though
he had been transferred between
company plants.
@. When I went into the Navy
I was foreman with a construction
company on "a permanent basis.
When I got out of service a few
months ago I told them I would
like to have a less strenuous job
for awhile. They agreed, and 1 be-.
came timekeeper. After a month
and a half at that I felt able to
become a foreman again and
asked to be promoted to my old
job. They refused. Do I have a
legal right to the foreman's po-
sition?
A. Yes according to several
court decisions on this very point.
II you are able TO perform the
functions of foreman and there
Is a non-veteran in the Job, it
should be yours. You also are en-
titled to the additional pay lost
after the time the company re-
FUSED to give you your old Job
back.
y. ! was manager of a section
OF large store before l was
GRATED. When returned I found
1ne section I once ran had COM
pletely changed and there were a
lot more responsibilities think
l can fill the new job but the
company doesn't want me to try.
10 they have to give me the lob?
"A. They do not have, to give
you the old job if many new re-
sponslDllities were added, but thew
do have to give you one as good
as your old position.
'euestlons will be answered onlv
IN THIS space-not by mal.) 81
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-19
City Census Approved

The City Council is congratulated for
ordering census as soon as the fed
eral Census Bureau can get on the lob.
The vote taken at the Council meet
ing yesterday morning instructed the
city manager to proceed with the pro-
ject Immediately.
To its lasting credit, the Council
gave the census unanimous approval.
Without prejudice it may be point
ed out that the money to pay for it
was available when Councilman Le-
Gwin proposed that the work be UNDER
taken some weeks ago, that the search
which finally located it could have been
prosecuted then, and because it was
not made until public pressure was
brought to bear time was needlessly
lost, with the result that the final
count will be proportionately delayed
with Wilmington remaining in the old
and lower classification in the mean
time.
1t is not the delay, however, so much
as the advantage of having an accurate
population count that engages general
interest now.
Wilmington went through many bit
ter experiences during the war period
as consequence of Washington's re-
fusal to recognize it's growth and hold
ing all federally controlled apportion-
ments to the figures shown in the
census of 1910. Scarcities in food and
other commodities were due to this.
Nor did it apply to government deal
ings alone. Manufacturers and pro-
cessors too had no true understanding
of the situation and distributed their
wares, of whatever nature they might
be, on the basis of the consuming
capacity of that population.
Wilmington was perpetually on the
short end of the deal because it could
not show authentic figures for it's
greatly Increased population.
The Forthcoming census will change
this and will be particularly valuable in
the rating the city will have with dis
tributors and industrialists seeking
southern plant sites. AS new indus
tries are among the most desirable
mediums of economic expansion, the
larger population to be shown will have
an important part in manufacturers
decisions.
No city funds invested in the ad-
vancement and betterment of this
community promise higher dividends
than this investment in the census
now.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-19
Religion
Day. yDay
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS
TWO GREAT MEN

Once I made a speaking trir
into the South of several days
duration. with Ambassador Bryce
and, famous American. preacher
author. The great Scot was con-
stantly ask G questions; the other
man was always telling us things.
One was a growing mind; the
other had gone to seed. Old age
begins when mental acquisitive-
ness ceases. The really alive are
forever looking ahead.
Youths greatness IS Tomorrow.
But it takes present planning for
future fitness. A great Today is
necessary for a greater Tomor-
Frow.
So the programmed life, which
pursues definite goals, is the prof.
table life. Mere day-by-day exist
ence is not adequate for royal Iiv-
ing.
"A mans reach must exceed his
grasp,
Else what's a heaven for"
Give us grit and grace to live
purposely for high ends, O Lord:
that we may not be drifters
through the days. Amen. /