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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18
'AMG Probe in Reich
Opposed
By State Department
BY the Assoeiaisd Press

The State Department was report
ed today to frown on a proposed
Senate investigation of the Ameri-
can military governments in Ger
many and Austria.
Senator Brewster, Republican, of
Maine told reporters he understood
that Is the departments attitude.
He predicted the Senate War In
vestigating Committee, nevertheless,
will approve hearings in Europe al
though he said some Democratic
members have lost their enthusi-
aSm."
"The kid-gloves boys at the State
Department should not be afraid"
Senator Brewster commented. 'The
American taxpayers are entitled to
know why we are dumping bill
lion dollars into the American
zones alone and why we have 250,-
600 OF our troops tied up there"
Senator Brewster disclosed that he
and Senators Ferguson, Republican,
of Michigan and Knowland, Repub-
lican, of California, committee
members, went to New York last
week to confer with Secretary of
State Byrnes and Senators vanden-
berg, Republican, of Michigan and
Connally, Democrat, of Texas about
the diplomatic and political angles
to the proposed European hearings.
Policy Shaping Feared.
The Maine Republican said this
conference developed some cool
ness" for fear that the War Inves-
tigating Committee might be trying
to shape diplomatic policy. Policy
making is a job for the State De-
partment or Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, of which Senator
Connally now is chairman and
which. Senator Vandenberg is to
head when the Republicans assume
Senate control in January.
Senator Brewster said Mr.. Byrnes,
Senator Connally and Senator Van
denberg were assured that the war
inquiry group has no desire to tell
the diplomats what to do.
I'VE did not try to tell the gen.
erals or admirals what strategy or
tactics to use during the war when
we investigated matters within the
War and Navy Departments" SEN
ator Brewster said.
The Senator added that the War
Investigating Committee wants to
look into reports regarding the mo-
rale and conduct of occupation
troops, the costs of occupation, "the
great deal of administration and
where the fault lies, and the $125,-
600, 1000 we are spending on displaced
persons in the American zone"
Prepared to Fly.
Senator Brewster is slated to be-
come chairman of the war probes
group in the Republican Senate.
He said he, Senator Ferguson and
Senator Knowland are willing toI
fly over for the hearings. He said
Democratic Senators Mead of New
York and Mitchell of Washington
also are reported willing to go.
Senator Brewster expressed belief
they could complete the hearings
and return before Congress meets
January 8.
Senator Brewster talked with re-
porters before a closed session of
the committee to hear testimony
by 1t. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, deputy
military commander in Germany.I
The final decision on whether toI
hold hearings in Europe may hinge
on what is learned from Gen. CLAY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18
French Movie Actor
Sentenced to 10 Years
BY the Assoeioted Press

PARIS, Nov 18.-Robert Coquil-
lard, who acted in motion pictures
under the name of Robert lie Vigan,
has been sentenced to 10 years
imprisonment following his convic-
ton of cooperating with the Ger
mans during the occupation of
France.
Witnesses at his trial testified he
had acted for a German-controlled
film company and had sung, under
German direction, on the Paris
radio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-18
YWCA Teen-Age Talks
To Be Held Tomorrow

Conferences on teen-age prob
lens will be held at the Seventeenth
and K streets YWCA tomorrow with
the arrival from Atlanta, Ca, of
Miss Leta H. Galpin, national board
staff member and head of the
Southern region teen-age program.
The need for stronger programs
for adolescents will be outlined by
Miss Galpin to Washington youth
leaders
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-07-19

The pressure suit. which enables air crews to ascend to a 62.0O0- foot altitude by maintaining nor nal pressure on the body, repre- sents the product of years of study and exhaustive tests.
 In appearance 1t resembles a deep sea divers outfit. topped by a large goldfish bowl. It is designed to eounteraet the loss of external pressure which would otherwise result in certain death at such heights, and allows personnel wearing it complete freedom of movement.
 This newest advancement for protection of air crews brings their Comfortable range of operation" to within little more than 10000 feet of the last published world s altitude reeord-that set by An derson and Stevens. U. S. fliers. who attained a 72.394-foot altitude in 1885.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-07-19
CANNERY WORKERS
 ENJOY PICNIC MONDAY

The eannery workers F. T. A. (CIO) employed by the Farwest Company enjoyed their annual pie nie Monday, July 15, at the Wran- gell Community House. The Rev. John J. Goudie, s. J., pastor of the local Catholic church and Bill Buhrman of the Farwest Company were present.
 The Filipino community of Wrangell was very we'll represent ed by Victor Yillarma, Hernando Villarma, Adeline Jackson, Alma Jackson. Lucille Campus. Dolly Yularma, Julia Gatardo, Johnnie Conception, Mir. and Mrs. Francis Bernardo. Mrs. Lily Tordillos and Mrs Mary Bernardo were hostesses of the day.
 Before leaving for home the pie nickers visited the waterfall and according to the crews delegate. Buddy Tirazona. a good time was had be all Tirazona has been com ing to Wrangeu for cannery work since 1894. Ignacio Nayarrette is foreman of the cannery crew.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-07-19
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that Thomas Herman TrembIe, entryman. together with his witnesses. John c. Johnson and H. B. Thornquist, all of Wrangel. Alaska. has made final proof on his homestead, Anchorage serial O9S12. for lot 1, lot 3. Sig SEA- NEA see. 31. lot 4. S12 sWA . NWl4 sec g, T. 60 s. R. S3 E. c. R. NJ. containing 141.65 acres, and il is now in the files of the District Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska, and if no protest is filed in the local land office within the period of pub lieation or thirty rays thereafter, said final proof will be accepted and final certificate issued.
 George A. Lingo
 Register First publication May 31, 1946 Last publication July 26, 1946
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-07-19
TAX COLLECTIONS DOWN
FOR LAST FISCAL YEAR

TACOMA-For the first time in six years, Internal Revenue col lections in the district of Wash ington and Alaska have taken a drop, according to the annual re- port of Collector Clark Squire.
 Collections for the fiscal year ending June 30 totaled $549, 9,984,- 015.5O as compared to $63S, S,547,- 819 for the preceding year. That is a drop of 13.9 per cent.
 However, this is the third largest collection year in the history of the office. The total two years ago was S624,28O,369.
 Since 1924 there have been Il years in which this district show ed a decrease and as many years in which it showed an increase. LOW est collection year since World War was 1893, the amount being but $5,451, ,O0O. Since 1883, nine years have had increased collee- tions.
 A year ago there was a decrease in revenue in seven states: Massa- chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti- cut, Virginia, North Carolina, Ney- ada and Utah.
 The recent decline in the Wash ington-Alaska district is due pri- marily to a drop of 24 per cent in income and excess profits col lections from corporations and a 12 per cent decrease in collections from individuals, amounting to a. bout 45 million dollars in each classification. Employment tax col lections fell off nearly four mil lions, or 145 per cent, but miscal- laneous tax revenue increased four and one-half millions, or g per cent.
 During the year just closed, cor porations paid $137,S71,359 in in come and excess profits taxes and indivuals paid S336,471,6S4 in in come and withholding taxes.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-07-19
INVERTED FISH BOWL"
 PERFECTED BY ARMY
HEADQUARTERS .ALASKAN

HEADQUARTERS ALASKAN DEPARTMENT-One of the great est developments made by the Army Air Firces during the war was unveiled to the general public recently. with the first showing of the new Inverted Fish Bowln all titude pressure suit used in stra- tOsphere flights. The suit was dis played to an audience attending the first of the Sound Off' pro- grams. presented by the U. s. Army Recruiting Service at the Columbia Broadcasting Studios in New York City.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-07-19
15 PER CENT OF ANIMALS
 KILLED IN A-BOMB TEST

ABOARD T. S. s. Mt. McKin- LEY-The atomic bomb which burst over Bikini lagoon July 1 has taken the lives so far ofonly 15.3 per cent of the animals expos ed to its blast and radioactivity. Viee-Admiral William H. P. Blandy said this week.
 Ten per cent of the animals. ne said. were killed outright. Deaths from radiation are expected to oc- cur during the next three months but mortality so far is at the "'ex- pected rate"
 His report said 29S2 of the 3519 animals used in the test were still alive.
 (Blandy's statement was in sharp contrast with that of an of- ficer who reported at Kwajalein Monday that the animals were dying like flies.1 He indicated there soon would be no animals left to take home for further study)
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-07-19
HOWARD HUGHES BETTER
 AFTER CRASH INJURY

LOS ANGELES-Howard Hughes was somewhat improved this week after his experimental photo re- connaissance plane crashed and burned in Beverly Hills on its maiden flight
 His doctor said Hughes average pulse beat now is 20, his average temperature 1O1 and his white blood count. 16,O0O They admins tered a blood transfusion late Tuesday night to give him a lift since he had moderate anemia.
 The airplane bullder-pilot has nine rib fractures. a collapsed left lung and severe burns.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-07-19
HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION.
 REHABILITATION PROGRAM
 NOW UNDERWAY IN ALASKA
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON - 4 highway construction and rehabilitation program, designed to open up potential agricultural districts as well as attract tourists, is being undertaken in Alaska.
 While work is being pushed as rapidly as possible, Edwin C. Ar mold, Director Of the Interior De- partments Division of Territories and Island PoSsessions, said Alas ka's road system cannot be used extensively by tourists before the summer of 1947.
 Arnold said the Alaska Highway through Canada will be ready for increased tourists travel next year. There already is some travel over this highway, but the road is not open to tourists because of the lack Of filling stations, repair shops, and eating and sleeping accom- modRtions.
 New Highways
 In addition to repair and con- struction work necessary to put AIaska's 2,S00-plus miles Of roads back in good condition, the Alaska Road Commission soon will begin work on two new highways leading to agricultural districts. One also will serve an important mining dis trict.
 The Road Commission, under an $80O,OOO Congressional apprOpria- tion, will start building a 125-mile highway from Kenai Lake on the south coast, to Homer, in the southern part of the Kenai Pen- insula.
 This highway, Arnold said, IS primarily intended to serve one of the most promising agricultural areas in Alaska, in the southwest ern part of the Kenai Peninsula. It will furnish road connections with the Alaska Railroad, provid- ing farmers of southwestern Kenai Peninsula good access to markets for the first time.
 Road From Tanacross
 Another new road will run from Tanacross, on the Alaska Highway and the Panama River near the Canadian border, to Eagle, on the Yukon River. This will open the Fortymile mining area to traffic from the territory's road system for the first time. The Fortymile, which stradd1es the Alaska-Canada border south of the Yukon, had been handicapped by the high cost of freighting, Arnold said.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-07-19

This new highway s1se TEf open the way to the settlement of seme agricultural land, and will give AL askans a second road from the south coast to the Yukon River. Richardson Highway now connects Valdez with Fairbanks. where it joins the Steese Highway, extend ing to the Yukon at Circle.
 The Congressional appropriation Tor the present fiscal year provides a total of S1.360,0OO for initial construction work on the two new highways. There also is S1,16O.90O bridges and trails, and S79.1OO for
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-07-19
NATIONAL FOREST
TIMBER FOR SALE


 Sealed bids will be received by the Regional Forester. Juneau. Alaska. up to and including August 15. 1946, for the merchantable red cedar poles and sawtimber marked or designated for cutting along the shores of Wrangell. Etolin, Mitkof. Kupreanof, Deer, Bronson. Woron- kofski and adjacent islands, and along the mainland from Bablar Point to Eaton Point, on the Ton gass National Forest, Alaska. esti- mated to be 5O0.0O0 lineaar feet of red cedar poles. and 200 NJ. ft. B. NJ. of red and yellow cedar saw timber, more or less No bid of less than 12e per linear foot for poles S inches to 12 inches butt diameter, 1t per linear foot for poles over 12 inches butt diameter. and $1.50 per M fl. B. NJ. for cedar sawtimber, will be considered. $5O0.O0 must accompany each bid, to be applied lon the purchase price, refunded, or lretained in part as liquated damages, laceording to the conditions of sale. lThe right is reserved to reject any and all bids received. Before bids are submitted, full information con corning the timber. the conditions of sale, and the submission of bids should be obtained from the DiYi- sion Supervisor, Petersburg, Alaska, or the Regional Forester, Juneau. Alaska.
 First publication July 12. l946 Second publication July 26, 1946
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-07-19
AIR TRAVEL FIGURES
SFATTIR T0 ALA

oGA11LE 4u ALASKA CLIMB
 SEATTLE Air travel between Seattle and Alaska is continuing to climb, with 2,559 persons flying by Pan American Clippers during June, J. D. Fessio, Traffic Manager said this week. This figure is slightly higher than May. and 225 percent over the same month last year.
 Up until the present time. only a small percentage have been tour ists, the bulk comprising essential traffic" Fessio said. Travel az encies have not been asked to en- courage tourist travel to the ex- tent of displacing regular business and family travel necessary for Al aska's welfare.
 A party of eight which flew north last week on a 60-day trip is the largest group of tourists Pan American has handled this year. according to Fessio
 These reservations were made last year, before the great increase in Alaska travel had become evil dent,1 he said. We will continue to handle only a mall percentage of tourists untH we have taken care of our Seattle and Alaska GUS toners who utilize air transporta- ton as a speedy and vital method of transacting their business"
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-19
Will RECEIVE SpAULDING
AWARD FROM NNBl

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 49,
(ANP)-H M. Morgan, proprietor
and originator of a chain of barber
colleges rapidly increasing over the
nation, was to be presented the
Spaulding award at the 46th annual
session of the National Negro Busi-
ness league, according to George w.
Cox, Durham, N. c., chairman of
the award committee.
The awardee, who resides in Ty-
Ter, Texas, has established barber
colleges not alone in his home city,
but in Houston, Little Rock and
Jackson, Miss. Two other institu-
tions of similar character are n
the making.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-19

past two months. The Brambleton
sore spot in Norfolk, Va, where
whites are attempting to prevent
Negro families from moving into a
so-called white community, has al
ready led to two clashes between
whites and Negroes and may any
day result in serious interracial
clash.
Fulton county, Georgia, remains
dangerous spot. Race tension is
bad in Pittsylvania county, Virginia,
which few years ago gained plen-
ty unfavorable publicity through
the Odell Waller case. All the bad
rural employer-employe conditions
out of which the Waller case devel-
oped still obtain there.
In all of these localities there is
bad feeling between white and Ne
groes. Travellers from Alabama and
Georgia report here that no Negro
is safe in the small towns and rural
areas of these states where white
mobs at the least provocation may
take the law into their own hands
and deal swiftly and ruthlessly with
innocent Negroes.
Lawless whites all over the south
are plainly incensed over the recent
! decisions of the United States SUI
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-19
NURSE dies SAVING
PATIENTS FROM BLAZE

FLORENCE, S. c., August 49,
(ANP)-Mrs. Queen Esther McEl-
veen, registered nurse who had
served nearly Is years at the tu-
berculosis sanitarium midway be-
tween the Florence Darlington
highway, died a heroic death.
True to the tradition of her pro-
fession, Nurse McElveen died try
ing to save others.
Fire broke out in the orderly
room on the second floor of the
building housing Negro patients
about 9 pm. Monday. Nurse McEl-
veen and another nurse braved the
soaring flames which were soon out
of control and brought out each of
the 81 patients. Not taking time to
count them, no gambling on having
rescued all of them, Nurse McEl-
veen took last plunge into the
flaming fury to be sure nobody was
left. The flaming structure col
lapsed and when firemen retrieved
her body some hours later, it was
chared beyond recognition. But all
of the patients were saved.
L. w. Coker, business manager of
the sanitarium, estimated the. loss
at $4,000 for the building and
$4,000 for equipment in it. The pa
tients will be housed temporarily
in one of two white buildings near
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-19

DANVILLE, Va, Aug. 49,
(ANP)-Race tension is spreading
in several southern states, accord
ing to reports reaching this city
through persons who have recently
travelled in the lower south. The
danger spots are confined mostly
to small towns in rural areas where
democratic principles have never
had much of a chance.
The worst spots, perhaps, accord
ing to these sources are Athens,
Ala, where a mob of more than
1000 whites, the majority of whom
were young boys, chased Negroes
off the streets on Saturday after
noon, August 10, after two white
and one Negro boy engaged in a
fist fight in front of a movie house !;
Monroe, Ca, where four Negroes
were shot down by white mob on
July 25; Columbia, Tenn, where
Negroes were mobbed on February
"a, and a few towns scattered
through Mississippi, Florida and
Arkansas.
Race riots are likely to burst out
in any small city or town below the
Mason and Dixon line, these sources
say. This city has had 3 wave of vio-
lent deaths and murders within the
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-19
ssOfflcers'' Lead
NC. Lynch Posse

WILSON, North Carolina, Aug.
10 (ANP) An armed posse of 20
or 25 men led by supposed ABC Cal
cohol beverage controD officers
hunted down and shot to death J. G.
Farmer, 20-year-old farmland who
lived with his parents on the Thad
Sharpe plantation close to Bailey, a
small town near here, last Saturday
after fracas between the youth
and constable.
The trouble began when Farmer,
with two friends, a boy and a girl,
were engaged in play while await
ing bus at a small stop near Will
son. Constable Bissette who drove
by, ordered Farmer into his car.
When the youth replied that he
had "done nothing" the officer
struck him with a blackjack and
drew his gun. Again ordered into
the car, a scuffle ensued in which
the veteran seized the weapon and
shot Bissette through the hand.
Farmer then fled.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-19
GIRL 5T0WAWAYS
DEp0RIED; WANTED
TO WE'D SWEETHEART5

HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 49,
(ANP) spotted by immigration
authorities several days after they
had slipped ashore here, two Eng
lish girls, Joan Marie Cook, 20, and
Renee Morris Zegansky, II, are
now aboard ship returning to the
United Kingdom, after their failure
to marry their Negro sweethearts.
The two girls met two messmen,
T. J. Hanna, %, and Theodore Bell,
25, in London last spring and agreed
to marry them if they were smuggled
into America. They arrived in Gal
weston, May 19, as stowaways
aboard the S. S. William C. Endicott
and slipped ashore. They had been
in the United States several days
living with a Negro family in Hitch
cock, Texas, before immigration Of
ficers rounded them up and put
them in a Galveston jail. Their two
sWeethearts received prison SEN
tences for aiding aliens to enter the
country.
On board the ship Roy James Cole
returning to England, the girls ex-
pressed their regret that they die
not get to Pittsburgh to marry theil
sweethearts, but Renee remarked
"We learned lot about America
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-19
Race Tensions Increase In The SOutl

preme court outlawing Jim crow
travel on interstate carriers and up
holding the right of the Negro to
vote in the Democratic primaries in
the south. These disgruntled ele-
ments are also sore about the few
advantages Negroes gained in the
armed forces during the last war
and the integration of Negro work
ers into skilled jobs within the past
five years.
White demagogues like Bilbo and
Rankin have taken advantage Of
this situation to foster race hate in
their own selfish interest. They are
seeking to maintain their political
hold on the illiterate and prejudiced
white southerners by encouraging
this type of race hate.
Unless federal government takes
a firm hand in maintaining order
and law in these troubled areas in
nocent Negroes will be at the mercy
of white hoodlums and reckless and
prejudiced local officials including
sheriffs, police, judges and prose-
cutting attorneys. Not many of these
can be depended on to met out JUS
tice to the lawless whites nor to pro-
tect the Negroes.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-19
2LYNCHINGS ADD TO "RE|GN OF TERR0RRp

Two more lynchings-were re-
vealed this week as the anti-Negro
reign of terror continued to grow.
One was j. G. Farmer, 20-year-old
World War II veteran of Wilson,
N. c., who came back determined to
resist local fascists after fighting
abroad against Hitlerism, and the
other was John G. Jones, 28-year-
old resident of Minden, La, who
was freed after white woman re-
fused to press charges that he had
annoyed her.
This violence comes on the heels
of the Athens, Ala, riots, the quad
ruple lynching in Walton county,
Ca, and two additional murders
nearby the binding of Issac Wood
ard at or near Aiken, S. c.; a lynch
ing in Mississippi and the riots in
Columbia, Tenn. Revival of the Ku
Klux Klan and reelection Of the
white supremacists such as Bilbo
and Talmadge are also involved.
Observers tie up the wave of anti
Negro violence with the southern
organizing drive by both AFL and
CIO unions. The khan, originally
aimed at Negroes, Jews and Catho-
lies, now operate against organized
labor, particularly the CIO on the
ground that it is "a bunch of COM
munists." Klan lynching threats
have been made against white union
organizers.
Since any genuine union drive
must include both Negro and white
workers, labor leaders point out
that interracial trouble hampers
organizing efforts by creating ad-
ditional friction between white and
colored workers. The klan is con-
sidered 'front" for anti-labor
forces.
Other factors include the SUI
preme court white primary deci-
sion, the illegality of Jim crow in
terstate bus travel, wartime gains
made by Negroes and the militancy
of returned veterans. All are used
by klansmen to inflame whites.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-08-19

by, neither Of which was damaged
by the blaze.
Funeral services for the nurse
were held during the week and many
hundreds Of citizens of both races,
from both cities and the nearby ter
ritOry, overflowed the church.