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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
HARB0R NEWS

Robert zuboff of Angoon has had the engine of his boat, the Guide overhauled by the Bowling Motor Company.
 Tn for repairs is the barge BE No. G. a fish-buyer from Hoonah. AXel Nielsen is her skipper
 The Aegir, skippered by Francis Hyde is on the grids today pre- paratory to receiving propeller re- pairs. He expects tc leave the HarLor around the first of the week.
 In from Graves Harbor is the Arctic whose captain is Althul Nicholson. Skipper Nicholson had his boat on the gridiron at the Small Boat Harbor yesterday get ting the engine tuned up and making other minor repairs. He expects to go out tomorrow.
 Robert E. Smith is in with his 31B328 to obtain supplies and ma terials. Up until the present time he has been fishing in the Deer Harbor area.
 Motor Rebuild installed a new engine for Frank Olson in his boat, the Defiance
 .Dr. c. c. Garter IS busy getting the Blue Boy ready to leave for vacation.
 The Leota is being "dolled up by Ter skipper, Burras Smith, who plans to go fishing in the near future
 The Fair Tide II, explained by Rev Byron Personeus, is on the Small Boat Harbor gridiron, receiv- ing repairs
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
COURT TERM IS SET 5EpTEMBER
 E, kETCHIKAN

Presiding District Judge J. w. Kehoe this morning set special term of Court to convene at Ketch- ikan next September 25 The grand jury is called to meet October l and the petit jury on October 8. Petit and grand jury panels are to be drawn in the District Court here on August Is.
 In other Court action this fore noon. Lena Mitchell was granted a divorce from William James Mitchell She was awarded S100 per month for support of two minor children placed in her custody, plus attorney fees.
 Two other divorce decrees were signed by Judge Kehoe yesterday afternoon: To Jennie Parker from Albert F. Parker and to Evelyn Nina Holman from Henry Mertz Holman.
 Also yesterday aftern n, the Judge signed orders dlSmlSSlng the following civil actions.
 Fred Carrillo vs. Emil GalaO, ct al; Alaska Credit Bureau vs. How ard Mace; Audrey Peratrovich vs Thompson Peratr / ich; Alaska Credit Bureau vs. James G. Mart2 Jr.; Alaska Credit Bureau vs. Mel- win Gray; Matthias A. Everson vs. Olga A. Merson; Jack Borhaven vs. Gas Screw Vessel Phyllis Es teban Palisa vs. Anita Palisa; AL aska Credit Bureau vs. Earl Ritter; Alaska Credit Bureau ys Rex K. Pickering; Alaska Credit Bureau vs. Harley A. Morris, etc.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
She Planned Dive But There Was
 Real Catch In X

GREAT FALLS, Mont.-Clarence Kommers watched woman ner- ycusly pacing a bridge over the Missouri River and was ready when she climbed to the rail for a sui eide leap.
 He jumped just bit faster than she, caught her wrist as she tunb- led toward the turbulent water and held her dangling over the railing until policemen helped him haul her back to safety.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
Two Construction
 Firms Get C0nIrafis
 For Adak, Atiu Jobs

SEATTLE, Aug. 9. = The 18th Naval District discloses a Seattle construction firm and one from Minneapolis will share in a seven and half million dollar contract for Navy housing at Adak and Attu in the Aleutians.
 The announcement says the con- tract was awarded jointly to the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredg ing Company, and to Johnson, Drake and Piper, Incorporated, in Minneapolis. It calls for construc- tion of houses for dependents of Navy personnel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
GOING TO FAIRBANKS

Jessie McCrary, Field Supervisor Of Sears Roebuck and Company, will leave Sunday by plane for Fairbanks on a business trip.
 Nome, Anchorage and river towns are other stops on her itinerary before she returns to Juneau some- time in October. tf
 This is my first trip to Nome, and I'm so excited she said today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
Weather Bureau i. Will Now Help 10
 Develop Network

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-Legis- laticn authorizing the weather bu- reau to participate in development of an international network for reporting meteorological data was signed today by President Truman.
 The measure also directs the weather bureau to coordinate na- tional information and research about weather conditions, particu- larly as they affect flying.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
PRINCE WILLIAM
 SOUND FISHING
 SEASON REOPEN

The Regional Office of the Fish and Wildlife Service here today an- nounced re-opening of the con- mercial salmon fishing season in the Prince William Sound district not including Copper or Boring rivers.
 The Prince William Sound sea- son closed at 6 o'clock am. August T, per regulations, and the reopen ing was from 6 o'clock am. August 8 for an undecided period
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
Man S5 Is Father for First Time

SOUTH PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 9.-At the age of 85 Joseph Curtis Beedle is a father for the first time.
 A son, named Joseph, was born three days ago to his 42-year-old wife, Mrs. Opal Beedle The Beedles were married 14 years ago.
 The father, whose red hair is only slightly peppered with gray, formerly was public prosecutor at Holdrege, Neb., and retired 10 years ago as an attorney in Los Angeles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
WALMER RETURNS
 FROM ELKS CONVENTION

John Walmer, Clerk of the Court, returned yesterday by plane and reports that he had a wonderful time at the National Elks Conven- tion in New York City which was in session July 9-14.
 MT. Walmer was the District De- putty of Southern Alaska for 1944- 45 and delegate to the convention this year from the Juneau Lodge. Deputy for l945-46 was Fred West.
 Other Juneauites at the conven- ton were MT. and Mrs. Leonard Holmquist and Ellis Reynolds.
 Walmer spent two weeks in New York.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
TARRANT IS HERE

$. G. Tarrant, Vice-President of Pacific American Fisheries, arrived yesterday on business trip and is at the Baranof. Mrs. Tar rant will join him here next week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
HERE FROM PELICAN

Mrs. Shirley Hartley and Mrs Rose McGee of Pelican have been spending the last several days vis- iting in Juneau.
 Both made the trip to Juneau to receive medical care and to at tend to some general shopping Mrs. McGee has been visiting with her parents, MT. and Mrs. D. Fem mer.
 They plan to leave via Alaska Coastal Airlines sometime today weather permitting.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
MARRIAGE LICENSE

A marriage license was issued yesterday to Gilbert Sensmeier and Violet Elizabeth Hansen of Yaku- tat in the U. s. Commissioners Of- flee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09

'-(4 30 a yesterday to 430 a today) WEATHER SYNOPSIS The which filling the Gulf Alaska has moved into the northern portion
 
 the Valley miles recorded Southeast
 
  States norhweward to the southern Yukon Territory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09
MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN Reports from Marine Stations at 12:30 F. M. today

MARINE FORECAST FOR PERIOD ENDING SATURDAY EVE MING Protected to Yakutatvaab winds miles
 Dixon Entrance to Skawesey norhwey winds Is miles hour Variable cloudness with scattered light
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-09

Juneau Young Hardware Company Mohawk rungs, S58.50 to $75 at
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Evening star., 1946-05-15

on great-power expansion and tyranny.
Whereas, at the beginning of this war
there were eleven small and medium
sized states in Eastern Europe which,
had they empowered themselves through
even loose federations, could have acted
as check on any superstate absorbing
their power to Its own, today there is
just one controlling power east Of Ger
many.
In fact this concept led, through Po-
land, to the first partition of Europe
And in Germany itself, the country
which occupies the Central European
position, the United States, Great Brit
ain and the U. S. S. r. all meet.
X y
They meet, by reason of Germany's
unconditional surrender-the surrender
not only Of her armies but of her state
in complete vacuum. There is no
German government. Nor have the AL
lies jointly taken over Germany for the
purpose of mutually disarming and neu-
tralizing her as a possible bone of con-
tention between themselves. Nor did
they agree in advance on a common
political. social, or economic program
for either Germany or Europe They
lldFC QlFlUeQ DStNeeu
selves, undertaken her de-nazification
and re- observation-disclosures common def
initions or programs-and the result
could be, and was, foreseen by this
column.
Each great power, and especially
Great Britain and Russia, who by
reason of their geographical positions
and national securities in a world of un-
trammeled power politics, cannot be un-
interested in any part of Europe. They
must. under present conditions, try to
win all or part of Germany for their
own spheres. Thus the united struggle
against Germany is rapidly developing
into competition for Germany.
This was bound to happen the day
the Allies abandoned the Atlantic
Charter, and sold themselves and their
peoples the concept of unrestricted
great-power world mastery.
free Europe, free in all its parts,
OF domination by any external power,
be it British, Russian or American, is
not only necessity of democratic prin-
ciple, but Of peace. This, which has
been called "idealism" is already being
demonstrated as a fact of reality. The
irrationality of political programs does
not destroy the logic of history.
tReleased by the Bell Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1946-05-15

ance with the Soviet Chinese treaty of
August, 1945, and the agreements of
Cairo and Potsdam. Fighting has fared
China in spite of the Chungking truce
and the Intervention of the Marshall
teams"
In the meantime, Gen. Mao Tse-tung,
the Communist boss in Yenan, went to
Moscow to pay his respects to his chiefs
and further coordinate the activities of
the rejuvenated and greatly strength
ened Communist forces with Russias
aims in the Far East
Gen. Marshall, however, has not
changed his conviction that his prin-
cipal task must remain the pacification
OF China, although the Yenan leader
may appear to be obeying Moscow's
orders. The pleas of Chang for effective
assistance are receiving the Ambassa-
doris most sympathetic consideration,
but are not being fulfilled because the
overall policy of the American Govern
ment is to extend help to China only
after it has achieved political unity.
The arguments of the Chinese leaders
that Washington's request is tanta-
mount to placing the entire country
under Moscow's direct control are being
brushed aside. The contentious of some
of Chiangs collaborators that this policy
means, in effect, establishing the regime
of Gen. Mao throughout the country are
being received with skepticism. Some
OF the "old China hands" see in these
arguments nothing but the desire of the
shrewd businessmen around the gen.
eralissimo to continue to drink at the
trough filled by American monies and
goods.
The reported decision of Gen Marshall
to hold off a $500 100000 loan to China
until political unity has been estab-
lished Is considered by Chiangs en-
tourage as severe rebuff to the recog-
nized Chinese government. They say
that the only way to reach a lasting
agreement with the Yenan Communists
is to yield all power to them and place
the country under their absolute control.
Under such setup. there would oe no
reason for Chang to remain in office.
He is popular neither with the men who
play the first fiddle at Yenan nor with
Moscow
1t is true that there is much dead
wood in the Chinese government.
Under the pressure of war Chang has
not yet been able to clean house. But
all Americans who have had dealings
with him recognize him to be an honest
and upright man. The struggle in
China is not between liberals and re-
dictionaries, as many observers contend,
but between political group headed by
Chang which wishes to maintain
China's sovereignty intact and another
headed by Gen. Mao, who has been
placed in Office to coordinate Chlna's
policies with the Soviet's aims.
Under these conditions, Chang is re-
ported to be ready to quit as soon as he
becomes convinced that he cannot ex-
pect active American support.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Dynomic Policy

Prom the New York Journal Of Commerce.
There is general agreement that the
battle on rising costs can be won only
through increasing productivity Der
man-hour in American industry, Higher
living standards also can be achieved
only through greater productivity.
Higher productivity, in turn, is depend
ent in large measure upon the substitu-
tion of more efficient machinery for
existing industrial equipment. ANY in
huence that discourages equipment re.
placement interferes with economic
progress.
Machinery manufacturers have un-
dertaken comprehensive research pro-
gram to help formulate "a dynamic
equipment policy for America" They
will attempt to measure the adequacy
OF the present depreciation changes Of
American industries, in the light of ris-
ing prices and other pertinent factors.
Business managements, from such stud
les and critical appraisals of their own
experiences, will be in position to reap
praise critically the depreciation policies
they now pursue to provide for replace
ment of capital assets,
Evening star., 1946-05-15
This Changing World
Bv Constantine Bro,pu

Last week was moving time in China.
The Communist headquarters were
transferred from Yenan to Changchun,
the old capital of Manchuyia, and the
National Government returned to Man,
king from its temporary seat at Chung
king.
What is more important than these
changes, however, are the reports-so
far without official confirmation-that
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek is con-
templating moving himself out of the
presidency of the Chinese Republic and
becoming private citizen in retirement
These reports are based on the fact
that the generalissimo is beginning to
lose hope for effective American support
and Is at loss to understand our
policies.
Gen. George c. Marshall was sent to
China as President Truman's special
ambassador with much greater powers
and freedom of action than any other
diplomatic representative of the United
States. His predecessors were given
general instructions to support Chang
to the utmost as a short-range policy
but to bear in mind other possibilities
for long-range policy.
Gen. Marshall was appointed special
envoy after the end of the war and was
told to attempt to reconcile the differ
ences between the various Chinese po-
litical factions, especially Chungking
and Yenan. He had two important as
sets; personal prestige and the privi-
lege to decide whether and when the
Chinese could obtain large loan from
the United States.
Gen Marshalls first task, when he
reached Chungking, was to bring about
a cessation of hostilities between the
National and Communist forces He
proceeded on the assumption that the
struggle was a conflict between two
Chinese political parties fighting for con-
troll of the government. Gen. Marshall
refused to believe that the Communists
were acting entirely on instructions from
Russia and, like the other Moscow
sponsored puppet organizations, were
serving the political interests Of the
U. S. S. r.
Our special ambassador was heartened
in his belief that he was confronted
with only two antagonistic political
groups when he started truce negoti-
ations and the Yenan representative,
Gen. Chou En-lai, agreed to his pro-
posals for truce. Three e-man teams
representing the United States, the Ma
tional Government and the Communists
were organized to put into effect the
Chungking truce agreement. The idea
worked in areas where the National Gov
ernment forces were predominant, but
did not in areas where the Communists
had the upper hand.
Thanks to the invisible support" of
the U. S. S. R., the Communists man.
aged to bring about 350000 men into
Manchuria and they occupied most Of
the province before Chang had a chance
to send his own troops to take over the
government of the country in accord
Evening star., 1946-05-15

the greatly increased Russian oil pro-
duction of the future The Russians
are sure that, after a number of years,
the industry in the Urals and east of
the Urals-the area called their second
Baku'-will become increasingly pro-
ductive. The immediate situation is
alleviated somewhat by the fact that
on the island of Sakhalin, which the
Russians had leased to the japanese,
considerable oil supply is now avail
able to them. Also, it is certain that
under the Siberian continent there are
great quantities of unprospected oil,
which, however. have not been suffi-
ciently identified.
X \ X
II the reasoning of the Swiss and
French experts holds good, Russian in
terest in Iran is a time table affair.
rather than a purely political move
Russia has no interest in more land in
Iran. But, until her own new oil re-
serves are developed or synthetic oil
begins to flow from her inexhaustible
quantities of coal, three million tons
OF oil drawn from Iran could determine
the success of Russia's gigantic pro-
gram of industrial development
Released by the Associated Newspapers, Incl
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Middle in Iran


Our postwar world is full of COM
plexities, but no situation appears
to be so bewilderingly scrambled as
that in Iran, or Persia. The air of
Teheran, the capital, is thick with
rumors, complicated by official state
ments and radio broadcasts over
government t-controlled wireless sta
tions, which are often denied in the
next breath or followed by other
statements contradictory in charac-
ter. The personnel of both the CEN
tral regime. headed by Prime Minis
ter Ghavam, and the autonomous"
provincial regime. headed by Pre-
mier Pishevari, are alike suspect,
having already shown themselves to
be opportunists or pawns OF foreign
interests. To complete the picture,
a veiled censorship on news dis
patches by foreign correspondents
exists in Teheran. while in Azerbai-
jan an iron curtain" Moscow style,
results in a complete blackout on
reliable information.
For nearly fortnight an Azerbai-
jan delegation has been engaged in
discussions with the central govern
ment in walled estate outside of
Teheran under conditions OF COM
plete secrecy, Those discussions
have apparently broken down with
the departure of Premier Pishevari,
sin huff" according to an un-
named official of our Embassy. This
breakdown followed his insistence
upon demands which Prime Minis
ter Ghavam declared impossible"
of acceptance, according to a Lon
don broadcast heard by NBC. Ap-
parently Premier Pishevari contin-
ues to insist upon virtual independ-
ence of the central government,
however that status may be thinly
disguised.
The question, meanwhile, of Rus
sian withdrawal of it's troops from
Azerbaijan remains a mystery. Mos
COW does not deign to give any in
formation. A central government
delegation is refused the opportunity
to enter the province. AS for for
eign correspondents in Teheran,
they are baked in their plans to
go thither by the departure OF the
Soviet Ambassador to Iran on a
hunting trip" he being the only
one authorized to issue the neces-
sary priorities on the Russian planes
which are the sole practicable means
of getting to Tabriz. the Azerbaijan
provincial capital.
Such is the situation which con-
fronts the Security Council in its
handling of the Iranian case, that
remains on it's agenda. It is impos-
Sible to believe that this muddled
situation is accidental. It has all the
earmarkS of deliberation. Yet how
to penetrate the factual fog is some
thing else again.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
On the Record
By Dorothy THOMPSON

Columnist Walter Lippmann, having
returned from Europe, has been writing
reports which have attracted wide at
tention and created considerable alarm,
for Mr.. Lippmann is a cautious reporter
and not one TO indulge in baseless con-
lectures. Mr.. Lippmann reports that
Europeans expect another war, and that
there are signs that already struggle
for Germany has begun between the
Soviet Union and Great Britain, who
share the occupation of Prussia. His
tory, he warns, may thus repeat itself,
and Germany's enemies rebuild and
rearm her.
I have no doubt that this is an &C
curate diagnosis. Its probability has
been nightmare troubling this colum-
mist since l943, when the plans for
defeated Germany, eliminating finally
in Potsdam, began to be aired
This commentator wrote against these
plans while they were taking shape,
if indeed they were taking shape, for
in those days our only information was
in the form of leaks The criticisms
which others as well as myself directed
against them were, however, widely un-
popular. We were attacked as wanting
soft" peace. Yet, precisely what Mr..
Lippmann reports as happening was
predicted in detail by this column in
a series of articles written two years
ago
am recapitulating this with the en-
phasis that nothing is to be gained at
this point by looking for scapegoats.
The developments grow out of the ma
ture of the arrangements made by the
Allies for the control of Germany and,
in the Dumbarton Oaks plan for the
control Of the world. The developments
were predictable because they are
logical.
Our overall world peace rests on con-
dominium of the three great powers,
none of whom accept any restrictions
on themselves. 1t was anticipated that
clashes between them would be avoided
by the creation of spheres or orbits. For
this conception Mr.. Lippmann has been
the most brilliant apologist.
Yet, the great-power condominium
and the orbit" concept have been lead
ing inexorably to the gravitation OF the
smaller or defeated states, voluntarily
or involuntarily, into the sphere of one
or the other Of the great powers, thus
removing the elements of elasticity,
which have always furnished check
Evening star., 1946-05-15
RuSSia'S Oil Resources
By Raym ond Molev

The extreme interest of the Soviet
government in Iranian oil becomes more
understandable as the facts come out.
An excellent summary Of Russias oil
situation, based, in part, on French ma
terial published by H. Peyret and, in
part on official Russian notes, has ap-
peared in Swiss newspaper.
Twenty years ago, Russia was the Sec
ond largest oil producing country in the
world. She was the first great nation to
build pipeline and to use oil, especially
naptha, as fuel for locomotives and
steam engines. The four eil areas in
use, however, were all located in the
southwest of the country, close to the
Black Sea.
Due to the enormous pressure put
upon Russian production by the second
World War, the oldest Russian resources,
in the Donets Basin and in Baku, were
utilized to the utmost. Fully aware of
the danger of Hitler's threat to the Cau-
casian oil fields, Stain threw everything
in Russia's power to the defense of the
line before and in the Caucasian Noun
tains. When Stalingrad was besieged,
Stain was saved by oil.
There is no doubt that the Russians
fear that the old Black Sea oil fields,
which deliver much less than they did
before, will never again come up to their
prewar production. Under the five-year
plan, 1946-l950, it has been necessary to
anticipate 26 per cent lowering of sup
ply from the fields which had been
counted on to supply 90 per cent of the
production under the first five-year plan.
Russia is now transferring a good
deal Of her production of oil to the
Ural Mountains and, east of them, to
newly explored Asiatic oil areas. These
eastern areas are scheduled to deliver,
In the next nve years, SO per cent Of
Evening star., 1946-05-15
NOTHING Is Free

See hov the dog,oood blossoms poise in
air
Like clustered butterflies about the
tree,
Ahghting in their ,Dhite-,pinged beauty
1Uhere
Nothing sustains them that the eye
can see.
The pale young leapes repeat the nys.
terry,
As from, the parent bough they seem
to fare
Upon an airy, insubstantial sea
And drift upon invisible currents
there.
Nothing Is free, ho,Derer free 1t seems:
The bird that rises In ecstatic flight,
The shining moment OF the poets dreams
Fall back to earth. Noon darkens
into night.
Their hour In golden sunlight at an end,
Blossom and leaf to their opn source
descend.
NEz BARCLAY KIRBY.