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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-17
Statehood for Hawaii?
Washington Post)

In advocating the admittance of Hawaii to the Union as fortynnth State Secretary lckes recently reechoed plea made by the residents of that Terri tory before the Twothirds of the relatively small number voters who went to the polls that occasion cast their votes for Statehood No doubt the desire for
 larger measure of control their own affairs was intensified by the arbitrary suspension Of civil liberties in the Territory during the early years of the war The question of admitting Hawaii into the Union, however is one that must be considered from the na- tional viewpoint as well from that of the islands themselves.
 The first fact to be noted is that Hawaii now enjoys as Secretary Ickes said status of provisional Statehood The islanders elect their own Senate and House of Representatives The Governor is appointed by the President of the United States but he must be
 resident the islands and he can appoint depart ment heads of the territorial government only with approval of the Hawaiian Senate Remote control over the islands from Washington is not attempted. On the contrary they have virtually complete autonomy in peacetime.
 We pointed out five years ago in discussing this issue that Hawaii stands in the very center of the complex of Pacific strategy The war has accen- tuaed the importance of this fact For it's own pro- lection as well as protection of the mainland the tie between Hawaii and the United States must always remain very close. Congress will want to consider very thoughtfuly whether Statehood would afford any conceivable opportunity for the 125000 Japanese in the islands to control State government to our disadvantage.
 Finally it seems to that Statehood for Hawaii is very minor issue among the major problems press ing for action Congress at present As soon as Con- gress finds any time to consider extension of the privileges of democracy should turn its gaze toward the District of Columbia The District has almost twice as many people Hawaii Certainly it is one in customs, language tradition and even geography with the 48 States Yet it has elected policy making body no delegate in Congress, local autonomy, as the Territory of Hawaii has. Since MT. Ickes is great advocate of putting first things first he could
 more reasonably have spoken up at this time for the extension of self-governng rights in the very head quarters of the Union
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Yes to the President of the United States"
 The last scene Tn the long-drawn negotiations was between Truman, Fairless and Murray, together. The President reiterated the need for d settlement, and told the two men he wanted negotiations resumed at the White House on Wednesday. (Yesterday9 Hairless promised to give the entire subject thorough airing with his associates in New York, and to be back in Washing ton on Wednesday. Murray said he, too, would be on tap for the meeting.
 Note Many people consider the man most responsible for the current impasse to be the ex-Mis- souri bank president, John Snyder, now up to his ears in the affairs of the world. After Snyder had lit a bonfire under two-fisted Chester Bowles to get a four-dol- lar-a-ton price increase for steel he rushed to the phone and tipped off the steel companies before he used the price increase as bar gaining weapon to settle the strike l Note 2-Bob Hannegan say
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seeks to justify selection of these two towns for new veterans hospitals, it doesn't seem far-fetched to suspect that there might have been just little dash of politics involved
 Just a few days before the VA annonced that new hospitals will be built at Tupelo and Bonham Gen. Paul R. Hawley, Acting Surgeon General of the VA, threatened quit if politics forced the VA to take over isolated Army or Navy hospitals which cannot properly be staffed with competent doctors nurses and attendants It sounds interesting.
 "The general proportion of Army and Navy hos pals were built out in the country where 1t IS m- possible obtain any high standard partime assist ance General Hawley said Any attempt to use such can result only in poor standard of care for the veterans Such are convenient to medical centers can be used and will be used
 Neither Tupeo nor Bonham is convenient to any medical center Therefore it would seem reasonable to assume that the VA already has surrendered to politics at the very start of its to improve medical care for veterans At least the VA will need more than mathematics justify these selections in the eyes of the nations veterans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-17
BIRTHDAY BAIL AND CARD PARTY TO W!kD
 UP DRIVE FOR FUNDS

"One-half of all money collected in the Gastineau Channel area will remain here to finance hospitaliza- tion, care and treatment of local sufferers from infantile paralysis and other crippling diseases" &C., cording to Mrs. Thomas s. Parke, Juneau Woman's Club committee chairman The other half goes to National Foundation headquarters, where it is used for emergency aid in epidemics, and for continuing education and research.
 Mrs. J. B. Burford has been busy this week distributing milk bottles to all places of business so that everyone will have the opportunity of putting his dimes and other spare change to work for this worthy cause.
 A Birthday Ball and card party are being planned, with Ralph Riv- CTS and his committee completing the details for the ball, and the card party committee, which in cludes Miss Pearl Peterson, Mrs. Helen Cass, Miss Bess O'Neill and Miss Dalma Hansen, working on their part of the program.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-17
OFFICERS INSTALLED
 BY SONS OF NORWAY

At a recent meeting of the Sons of Norway, held at the LOOP. Hall, the following officers were installed for the new year:
 President, Bernt Mork; Vice. president, Sigurd Olson; Judge, George Jorgenson; Secretary, Ruth Meurstad; Asst. Secretary, Anna Lowell; Financial Secretary, Gertie Berggren; Treasurer, Therese Satire; Regent, Mrs. John Sunderland; Marshals, Gudrun olson and Mrs. Ed Velde; Guards, Harold Sharing and John Satire; Trustee, Bert AL stead; and Physician, ,2Dr. J. o. Rude.
 The installing officer was Olaf Swanson, and the installing mar shals were John Maurstad and Ed Velde.
 After the installation ceremonies a social hour was enjoyed, and re- treatments served.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-17
SEASON FOR FIRES

Fire is a useful servant but an appalling master. Almost every wintertime cold wave brings its grim ,rocesson of fires each with penalty agalnst prop ortv comfort and sometimes life itself
 A fire is bad enough at any time In near-zero weather it is tragedy compounded There are few obts more heartrendering than array ot househou beonenqs piled in the and ice outside gutteo home-and some families not fortunate enough Vo escape with even that much
 The winter season is a notoriousiy nao perioo ioi fires particularly if the weather is cold II people
 ,+ coreess at least their minds are usually on other things than fire precautions And when heating plants are pushed capacity for the maintenance or comfort. fire may get out of hand at any time LOOK at the long list of fire alarms answered each day and night of near-zero weather.
 The morale: Don't gamble with fire hazards At best fire is an nsduous foe and may strike when you least expect it.
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20 YEARS AGO {yG1' TIE EMPIRE
JANUARY IT, 1926

the marriage of Snohomsh Wash January had
 left honeymoon trip to New York planning of California to Juneau some time March.
 The steamer Admiral Frank Landsom arrived in port sailing shortly after for Haines and skagway Hans Wick w Guker ] w Wyckoff l. Hebe.
 The local bowling tournament with Ke kan pns second team increased its lead 45 pins and the ladies' lead to 5S4 practically assuring clean sweep of all three the local bowers
 The Song Girls had members Renee Kathleen following included
 officers just installed Betty. Mildred Jessie Beand and Vena Hurley Committee chairnen were Nfeada Elsie Jensen.
 The Laughn assistant truck driver with the Department Chief Latmer Gray and Martin driver approved by the City Council
 Weather Highest lowest 36; rain.
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John Snyder is not from Missouri. He only migrated there from Ar kansas.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 It was President Truman per- sonally who asked that the House and the Senate attend joint ses- sion to hear General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz He is very much worried over the Senate in vestigation of demobiliZation. =. |. Gen. Lucius Clay, who has done as good a job as possible of run ming occupied Germany, is fed up and wants to be relieved =. Presi- dent Truman's new housing czar, Wilson Wyatt, is planning a with ering blast against the real estate and building industry. He will warn them that if they don't start build ing houses soon, the Federal Gov ernment will Ex-Ambassador | Maxim Litvinov is now slated to become permanent Russian Dele gate to the United Nations organi- zation if his health permits. The next quarterly report from ] reconverter John Snyder will stand /, by Snyder's prediction of 6,000,00O to 8,000,000 unemployed by early summer. The Snyder report will i also state that reconversion is still going ahead of schedule despite la l Dor disputes.
 l Copyright, 1946, by The Bell Syndicate, Incl
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HOROSCOPE "The stars incJiRe
 but do not compeW
FRIDAY, JANUARY IS


 Conflicting aspects mark today which may be perplexing and dis turbing to men and women, espec- ially those with large financial hold ings.
 HEART AND HOME
 Women will discover that stability and common sense will be more po- tent than glamor to ex-servicemen. Religious observances will mean much to them and many will not ap- plaud modern skeptism of college girls.
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS
 Bankers with global interests will profit as world finances are wisely established. When Uncle Sam lends money this year he will be less of a Santa Claus than he has been in the past. Nevertheless, he must ac- cept tremendous losses.
 NATIONAL ISSUES
 Complaints regarding Govern ment disposal of surplus stocks will increase this month when clever manipulations bring profits to the middlemen. Many soldiers and sail ors will be deprived of benefits through greed of civilians.
 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Spread of Communism is to be more extensive this year than ever before in history.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of readjust- ments which should bring progress. The wise will delay marriage.
 Children born on this day may be stubborn and selfish, because they have extraordinary ambitions. They should posses surpassing mental pow CTS.
 Copyright, 1946)
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PLAY-BY-PLAY ACCOUNT

PLAY-BY-PLAY ACCOUNT
 Here is the play-by-play account of what happened.
 When Hairless and Murray were first invited to the White House, they expected to see the President himself. However, Saturday morn ing, both received orders to report to John Snyder's office. When they arrived. they found the three "S' men = Snyder, Steeiman and Schwellenbach waiting for them. Snyder informed them that the President would not see them at once. but would be available II he were needed. Gle had spent an hour that morning posing for family photograph A short time later, the entire conference moved from Snyder's wing of the White House to the cabinet room.
 Snyder began by asking the two men if either had changed his po- sition since their conference broke up the day before in New York. Both Murray and Fairless said there was no change. Fairless said U. S. Steel had gene as high as 1t could go by offering an increase or IS cents an hour.
 Murray pointed cut that he had cut his demand from 25 cents an hour to l92 cents. He also pointed out that the steel workers were still engaged before the War La- bor Beard in a year-lone argument over a five cent an hour increase still undecided, but certain to go to the union. He urged Hairless to throw that increase into the cur rent negotiations to stave off the strike. Murray said he was willing to yield two cents of the five due to the union in the War Labor Board litigation if Hairless were willing to yield on his present pro- posal of a 15-cent increase.
 Hairless, however, did not yield He replied that his company hac a rough time getting the other stee companies to go along with l5' cent increase and that several hat done so under considerable pres, sure. Both Bethlehem Steel ant Tom Girdler's Republic Steel art among those who bucked U. s Steel hardest on this.
 Meanwhile. Snyder, Schwelien' bach and Steelman sat togethel pleading for someone to yield. Sey' eral times Snyder tried to put th' heat on Murray to cave in. Steel man and Schwellenbach failed tt join with the reconyerter on this They sat silent.
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The W ashington Merry to Round

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SEE TRUMAN

Finally. after more than lWo
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pNA BRINGS SEVEN
 FROM WEST TODAY

Pacific Northern Airlines flew in- to Juneau from Anchorage today with the following passengers: Dor is Phillips, Robert Phillips, Mrs. Florence Brown, Robert Weimer, Sagt. L. Shaeen, Pfc. Thomas D. Williams, and Pat Yancy.
 On the return trip to Anchorage were: A. w. Smith, Ray Smith, Gail Colby, H. D. Jacobs, Dr. w. G. Sutherland, Mrs. w. G. Suth- erland, Richard Sutherland, Mich ael Guzy, Glenn Cupp and Eskil Anderson.
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The Pork Barrel Rolls
Army Timesl

Army Times
 President Truman has approved recommendations of the Veterans Administration for construction ol new 2oo-bed veterans hospital at Tupeo, Miss ana . new a5nbed hospital and domiciliary home at Bon ham, Tex. -
 Oddly enough, Tupelo Miss, Pop 02lD IS the home town of Rep. John Rankin, Chairman o1 the House Veterans Committee and Bonham, Tex CPop' e34e is the home town of Speaker of the House sam Rayburn. IL, VT. Regardless of the mathematics by which the VA
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hours of argument, the three "S men trooped out of the cabinet room and into Truman's office. Ten minutes later, they came back and escorted Hairless in to see the Pres ident.
 Truman then gave Hairless straight from -the-shoulder lecture. He pointed out that the National interest was at stake, that the Ad- ministration was being generous to the steel corporations by offer ing a four dollar-a-ton price in- crease, and that the country couldn't afford to let the strike start.
 Hairless pleaded that he had no authorization from the industry to go any higher than Is cents an hour. This, incidentally, is what Murray had warned Hairless would say.
 Shaken by Irumans tough atti- tude, Hairless asked for time to talk the situation oyer further with his colleagues in New York. He said he needed until Wednesday to 1 get this done The three IS" men then entered and escorted Hairless back to the cabinet room.
 While Hairless had been talking to Truman alone, Steelman and Schwellenbach both talked to Mur- ray separately, trying to convince him that they were supporting his case.
 Then the three Truman aides es- corted Murray in to the President. Truman asked Murray if there was chance of settlement. Murray told him that the only chance rest ed in the steel companys making a decent offer which would restore some of the lost take-home pay to the 100000 members of the union
 Murray had informed the White
 House before the meeting that ii
 the steel strike was settled, ther
 all CIO unions would delay theil
 planned walk-outs until there coulc , be further negotiations. Murray , told the President that the Stee , Corporation was the piper that : played the tune for all big busi. , ness; that if Big Steel" made {
 reasonable agreement, the electri
 cal appliance producers, the meaf packers. glass makers, the autt manufacturers would follow suit. : UNION PATIENCE WORN THIN Truman repeated his plea tha : the national interest was at stake ] and said he couldn't let the strik, 2 start. Murray replied that he toC |. was anxious to avoid a strike bu
 that after five months of fruitles : negotiations, the patience of hi I members was worn thin. : The President then said tha ? Hairless wanted little more tim : to work out a deal.
 ) T believe we can settle in . . week" Truman declared. Tt woul,
 be a national calamity if the stee
 mills closed down now"
 Murray was silent for awhile 3 Finally he said, T can only sa
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dickerings had not budged them by many fractions of an inch.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-08
|C0UNCILMEN GOING
TO ANNUAL CONFAB
Mayor Will Accompany
City Officials To Ashe-
vile Convention

Mayor W. Ronald Lane and the
members of the city council will
leave Wilmington on Wednesday
for AsheVille, where they will at
tend the annual meeting of the
North Carolina League of NUM-
cipalities, which will be convened
on Thursday for a th~ee-day SEES
sion.
City Manager J.. R. Benson will
accompany Mayor Lane and Coun-
Gilman Robert LeGwin, Walter E.
Yopp, Garland S. Currin. Richard
L. Burnett, and James E. L. Wade.
Councilman Wade is a member
of the leagues state legislative
committee.
1t was stated that the Whining
ton delegation would lend its sup
port to a proposal for. having the
next session of the Legislature
authorize an increase of one cent
per gallon on the states gasoline
tax.
Mayor Lane said he thought the
proposed Increase in the ge~line
tax would be justifiable, because
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-08
SURPLUS PURCHASE.
STEPS ARE LISTED
WAA Officer Here Outlines
Procedure For Vets
To Follow

Qualification of the procedure to
be followed by a veteran seeking
to purchase surplus war property
was given yesterday by Lawrence
S. Everett, recently appointed vet
Grams certification officer of the
War Assets Administration here.
In order that a veteran may pur-
chase surplus items for his own
use, for instance, he must bring
to the certification officer his sepa-
ration papers, the correct name of
the items he wishes to purchase,
and the place where the items are
surplus and being offered for sale
if known, Everett said. In the
event he does not know the loca-
ton of the items he seeks, he must
declare the distance he would be
willing to travel in order to view
the property and the distance
which he is willing to travel in
order to obtain delivery of the
goods.
If the location of the property
sought is not known, the Char
lotte regional office, by using a
report rendered by the office here,
will attempt to locate the item and
within the distance specified by
the veteran, he added. The ap-
proximate price will also be quot
ed.
In purchasing for resale, a diff
ferent set of regulations govern
cer%tification, and can best be ex-
planned after personnel interview
with the applicant, Everett said.
In the office of the certification
officer at Room 223. the customs
house, is a list of "set aside" items
for purchase by veterans for their
personal use. Included in the cata-
logue are many items of motor
equipment, and dental and surgi-
cal instruments and other sup
plies. From ambulances to x-ray
machines, the equipment is held
for exclusive purchase by veterans
desiring to use them in their bust
ness or for other personal use.
Meanwhile, notice has been re-
ceived that beginning at 8 o'clock
Monday morning, a sale of sur
plus property will commence at
Seymour johnson Field, near
G%oldsboro.
Property in this sale will con-
sist of safes. with combination
locks, insecticide, gasoline LIANT
terms, shovels, rakes, carpenters
tools, spare parts for typewriters,
scales. fireAose, folding chairs,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-08
Wrightsuile Lions
Plan Ladies Night

The Wrightsville Beach Lions
club will observe ladies night Mon
day night at 8 o'clock when the
club convenes in the Cabana Club.
Ennis Robinson, president, an
nounced that Littlejohn Faulkner,
Wilson, district governor and
Deputy district governor DR..
Slade A. Smith of Whiteville as
we'll as the presidents of all
Lions clubs in the district are ex-
pected to attend the annual event.
An unusual program has been
arranged by the program COM
mittee, Luther Rogers, chairman,
assisted by Harris Lyon. Featur-
ed on the program will be a SIM
ulated radio broadcast by Ben Nc
Donald and his wife.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-08
GETS FREE TRIP

Harvey N. Radcliffe, local
branch manager of the Jefferson
Standard Life Insurance company,
has just been awarded a free trip
to the annual meeting of the Ma
tional Association of Life Under
writer's, which will be convened
in Cleveland on Sept. 9 for a four
day session. The Jefferson Stand
ard is giving free trips to their
one hundred top producers for the
year ending July 81, 1916. Rad
cliffe holds the 44th position in
comparison with all of his COM
pany's representatives in the pro-
duction of new business for the
current year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-08
Auto Mishap
Fatal To Virginian

MARION, Va, Sept. 7 -W.D-
Carney R. Smith, SO, Bristol, Va,
was killed Friday in a freak acct
dent in an automobile.
Cornorer D. c. Boatwright said
Smith apparently tried to change
from the front to the rear seat
of the moving car and pitched
head first to the pavement.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-08

it would increase the amount of
state highway funds that would
be available for the construction
and maintenance Of roads in New
Hanover county.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-08

adding machine stands, desks, file
cabinets, furniture, park benches,
used G. I. shoes, paint and paint
remover, and wooden storage bins.
Inspection period will be be-
tween 800 a. m. and 400 p. m.
daily Sept. 9 through Sept. 10.
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