davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-18

our fellow men. We preach the good-neighbor policy with Latin America, and we send movie stars to foreign countries to tell them how great we are. But if we don't practice good neighborlinesS at home, sometimes wonder how we can expect to preach it abroad.
 Having cared for our bodily com forts with well-stocked refrigera- tors and air-cooling, and having developed the deadliest weapons in the world, it looks to me as if we would have to begin working at the science of being our brothers keep CT. Ii we don't, there may not be much of a civilization left for us to live in.
 Please excuse this kill-joy letter. l hope this prediction will be 82 percent wrong.
 Your-at the moment very pes simistic-Brother.
 DREW P. s. I am planning to run for Congress on the platform plelge of a side of beef in every deep freeze and two deep-freezes in ev- cry garage.
 (CoPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-18
SOME RELIEF IN SIGHT

It is good that small, privately owned vessels will be allowed to bring foodstuffs to Alaskan com munities short of many necessary items Indications are that there will be immediate break in the strike However unless items other than food be shipped to Alaska soon, not few industrial employers are going to be faced with curtang production and laying off employees who will have tough time paying for the food even if it's here.
 When the relief ship" sailed for Nome recently being delayed by longshoremen because it hauled cargo other than food including wasn't brought out that of the beer consigned to the Army Incidentally Army surplus food now going sale at Nome includes enough to feed that population for long time in powdered milk and eggs, beef stew, cherries and cornfakes in huge quantities.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-18
CONGRESSIONAL CREED BAG

Senator Wherry of Nebraska, Rep, an automobile dealer, intro duced an OPA amendment lifting the profit for automobile dealers. Senator Butler, Rep, of Nebraska, hig cattleman, worked for decon- trolling meat Senator Murdock, Dem, of Utah, land of the beet sugar, tackled on an amendment favoring the beet-sugar growers. Senator Hoey, Dem, of North Caro- lima, which grows tobacco, took the price ceiling off tobacco.
 Senator Radcliffe, Dem, of Maryland, where they go in for poultry, introduced an amendment boosting the poultry industry. Sen ator Ed Moore, Rep. the big oil man from Oklahoma, made sure that price ceilings were taken off oil.
 Congressman Ed Gossett, Dem, of Texas, inserted a decontrol amendment for the National Asso- citation of ManufaN.urers; Con- gressman Jesse Wolcott, Rep, oi Michigan, sometimes called the General Motors spokesman" in Congress, introduced the cost-plus- profit amendment; Congressman Fred Hartley, Rep, of New Jersey, did everything possible to help the National Retail Dry Goods Asso- ciatlon, while millionaire Senator Taft of Ohio inserted the assured profit amendment by which busi- ness was guaranteed the same lush, bonanza profits of the early war years.
 Meanwhile Congressman Giles pie of Colorado, Rep, who shame lessly battle OPA, did not seem to think it wrong that his company, Bluhill Foods, violated OPA price ceilings to the tune of S15,000; while Senators Thomas of Okla homa and Bankhead of Alabama had the gall to make speeches against OPA curbS on cotton spec ulation while they themselves were personally speculating in cotton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-18
PATRIOTISM GOES INTO
 DOLDRUMS

That is how our great lawmakers were cavorting with the public trust in the summer of l946, one year after fifteen million men had ended their fight for a principle which they thought sacred and a country which they thought was governed by unselfish Congress- men.
 However, Congress usually re- fleets the sentiment of pressure groups back home, and we can't blame Congress for everything. In fact, il the American people have gone meat-mad and money crazy. it's probably nobody's fault but our own.
 We have developed a great ma chine age. We have turned out rockets, atomic bombs, and world girdling airplanes. There isn't any thing we haven't specialized on except the science of living with
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-18
it was when, once a week, we had round-Steak ground?
 CHICKEN IN EVERY POT"


 At that time chicken was an even greater delicacy. We always had it on Sundays, and I guess most every family did, for when Herbert Hoov CT wanted to promise the American people the super-duper of food, he told 'em they'd get "a chicken in every pot" if they elected him President It got him elected all right, but now that Harry Truman has given us a chicken in every pot, and sometimes turkey to boot, we're not satisfied. Now it's to hell with chicken and Truman. We've got to have a beefsteak in every refrigerator.
 Sitting over there in Paris you will hardly believe some of these things. And if you came back on a quick trip you would hardly re- cognize some of your fellow Ameri- cans They simply went berserk over meat.
 I took quick trip through the Middle West last week, and that was all they were talking about meat. Our dangerous problems with Russia, the hopes of the Peace Conference, the relative merits Of political candidates all were for getten in the rage over meat.
 Of course, part Of this was pur- posely whipped up by the Republi- cans-a strategy they'll live to re- gret. Republican candidates drove loudspeakers up to lines outside butcher shops and made the most Of II. IL got so bad that fine, able Congressmen like Mike Monroney ol Oklahoma were in danger of de- feat.
 But in addition to the politics involved, I am afraid that patrio- tism and unselfishness and the things that have made this country great, have slid into a terrific back wash.
 It began, as 1t usually begins, near the top. And it filtered down, as it always does, to the people be- low. When folks see their leaders in Congress put hand out, they wonder why they shouldn't put a hand out, too And the last session of Congress saw the greatest greed-grab I have ever witnessed since the Shoot -Hawley Tariff Act was written under Herbert Hoov- CT. That act helped to wreck Hoov- CT. And the same selfish prejudices, the same sectional interests, the same public -be-damned attitude of the last Congress have already wrecked Truman-whether he was to blame or not.
 Everybody was looking out for himself and the devil take the hind-most-especially when it came to killing price control.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-18
KLUKWAN INCIDENT

The rejection of reservations by the natives at Klukwan this week is significant repudation of the move originated by former Secretary of the Interior Ickes and should give the Interior Department people food for thought.
 However, it is not a course for the Indians, who on more than one occasion in recent months have stated through representatives that what they want is not reservations, but payments in cash or in land they can sell for cash. Main reason for the Kukwan decision apparently that they could not secure title to the land with the power to trade or sell them.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-18
Bridal Shower
 Given in Honor
 Of Alice Powers

A bridal shower was given yes terday by Miss Peggy Johns for Miss Alice Powers, who is leaving the latter part of this month for Mobile, Alabama. The table was centered with American beauty roses. Games were played, prizes going to Miss Helen Lapnoia and Mrs. Evelyn Hollmann. Refresh- ments were served during the af fair.
 Guests were the Misses Ida Hof- stad, Frances Barlow, Velma Wind horst, Helen Laponia, Mildred Hemness, Vivian Powers, Lorene Hamil and MesdameS Pat Groves, Evelyn Hollmann, Margaret Shep4 ard and Juanita Johns.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-18
GIRL SCOUT NEWS NOTES

Girl Scout Troop No. 10 met at the Northern Light Presbyterian Church parlors at 3 p. m. yester- day The meeting was opened formally. The Girl Scout officers were there to watch new Girl Scouts invested We had refresh- ments. Joan Rhodes and Elizabeth Wyller played the piano.-Dolores Lohr, Club Reporter.
 Members of Girl Scout Troop No. Il finished framing laws and prom ise We started planning our Halloween party, and we started making Halloween decorations. This was at our meeting yesterday. News Reporter, Natalie Dapce- vich.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-18
20 YEARS AGO TIT fME EMPIRE
OCTOBER Is, 1926

Is, Pioneers Of Alaska the big this night A. Hall Banks and Territorial offices closed. M where she had been visiting 
 George w. Fota went to Ketchkan to attend court session Sam Guyo Kechikan the Admiral Watson Broker A Van Mavern went to skagway to Alaska from the westward was due at midnight report: low, A; rain
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-18
Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

WORDS They treated fine Say, They treated WELL
 OFTEN MIsPRONoUNCED: Herb HURB
 NdISSPELLED: Clientele Observe the ELE
 SYNONYMS: Euogze prace, extol laud glorify.
 a three times and is yours Let Today word oburng of obcured Ihe address unsatisfactory
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-18
LOOK and LEARN S&y &. c. GORDON

many during century? profitable S a
 of equally cigarettes?
 ANSWERS: Il 1907,
  chronology by which to each other Amphiban. g. Dewitt Clinton
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-18
MODERN ETIQUETTE RoRrRrA Ry LEE

when setting the table that the centerpece should be exactly in the center?
 practiced The should be guests precisely opposite 
 should MT Brown for the second time the occasion what should one say?
 Merely smile and say T have already met MT Brown
 clergyman wedding breakfast table?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-18
The Washington Merry-Go-Round

(ContinueG rom Page One)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-18

A Kansas woman shot her husband because he broke her nose, hit her the head with milk bottle, and tried to drown her. You know. women getting these days they won't put up with mn
Evening star., 1946-09-24
Private Firm Was Given Access
7oWAAInventories, Probe Told
Federal Agency Denied Same Privilege,
Counsel Charges at House Hearing

AS this line of questioning was
developed during the committee S
investigation of WAA dealings in
surplus electronics materials, the
congressional group pressed for
further details of the alleged use of
forged" authorization for the sale
of around 200 radio trucks, worth
81 500 each, for the very low price"
of $4,000.
This transaction, characterized as
a deal by Committee Chairman
Slaughter, was described by Mr..
Schwarz after he identified a tele-
type message to the Hallicrafters Co.
of Chicago, in which he said he had
disapproved the $4,000 sale price for
the trucks.
During questioning about the tele-
phone equipment inventories, Mr.
Schwarz denied that the Office of
Education had been blocked and
said:
1--WE were doing everything we
could to help them educational in
stitutions). I think one Of their
problems was that they really didn't
know what they wanted"
Mr.. Schwarz said it had been de-
cided to sell phone equipment
through Government regional on
ces but that later his office had been
(See WAR ASSETS, PAGE A.6.)
Evening star., 1946-09-24
Animals Surviving Bikini Tests
Arrive Here for Further Study
Pictures on Page BIZ
BY w. n. Shippen, Jr.

Test animals surviving the atomic
bomb experiments were being un-
loaded here today at the end of their
long voyage from Bikini.
Superficially, the goats, pigs and
rats arriving in "the atomic ark
Burleson. appeared in excellent
health, although exact statistics on
blood counts. weight and general
physical condition were not released
Somewhat fewer than 10 per cent
of the animals exposed to the blasts
came through the experience alive
along with control" creatures taken
on the voyage for comparative
studies and kept at a safe distance
from the explosions.
In all. some 120 pigs, 120 goats
and 1000 rats are being transferred
from the attack transport Burlesor
at the Naval Gun Factory to the
Naval Medical Research Institute a,
Bethesda, where their past and fu-
ture records will play a vital role
in development of defensive meas
ures against atomic weapons.
On the voyage from the Marshall
Islands, exhaustive records wert
kept on blood counts OF the speci.
Evening star., 1946-09-24
Moy Expected to Be Able
ToCome Here This Week
By the Associofed Press

PRESToNsBURG. KY, Sept. "a
Barring complications from cold
Representative May, Democrat, OF
Kentucky is expected to be able to
return to Washington this week, Dr..
John Archer, Mr.. Mays physician,
announced.
Mr.. May, who has been asked to
appear before the Senate War In
vestigating Committee in connection
with a munitions combine, con-
tracted a cold several days ago, DR.
Archer said. He added that unless
the cold develops into more than !
think 1t will" Mr.. May would be
able to make the trip.
The Representative, chairman OF
the House Military Affairs Com
mittee, came to his home here Au-
gust / after suffering what DR.
Archer described as complications
from a chronic heart condition.
Evening star., 1946-09-24

Testimony that a private cor
poration was given access to in
ventories of the War Assets Ad-
ministration to determine what
equipment it might desire to buy
was received by the House Sur
plus Property Committee today
as committee counsel sought to
prove that similar privileges were
refused a Government agency.
1t was brought out that the West
ern Electric Co. was allowed to 60
over WAA inventories to find tele-
phone equipment it wanted to
purchase.
E. j. Donohue, assistant commit
tee counsel, then asked a WAA
official if it were not true that the
United States Office OF Education
had been obliged to drop similar
search of the inventories while
hunting for materials needed by
educational institutions.
The official, Gustav Schwarz, at
one time in charge of electronics
disposal and now director of WAA
sales planning and control, readily
! told of the cooperation extended
to Western Electric but denied any
knowledge of the ONCE of Educa-
ton being blocked in making in
ventories.
Evening star., 1946-09-24

mems, which afford the strongest
evidence of individual reactions.
Charts also were kept on weight
appetite and behavior, and autopsies
were performed after all deaths to
determine the condition Of body
tissues.
Pets on the floating laboratory
included pig 31l," cross-bred
Poland China and jersey Duroc
shoat which swan for hours in Bikini
Lagoon after the air bomb sank
the japanese light cruiser Sakawa
and "B. o. Plenty" a long-haired
black goat with a well-developed
tobacco habit. "B. o. Plenty" sur
vived the blast in his crate on the
attack transport Fillmore.
The pigs and goats were penned
below decks in holds ventilated by
strong blower system, while the
white rats were Gagged in a storage
space near the laboratories where
Navy technicians labored over
microscopes and medical charts.
All of the 1000 rats were white
with the exception Of one black and
white litter born en- route.
Navy biologists said some rowing
rodent stoway probably Was respon-
sthle.
Evening star., 1946-09-24

The housekeeper for a prominent
retired naval captain who died here
last Monday was left. 10000 and
an undisclosed number of pedigreed
cats under the terms Of his will filed
today in District Court
The will, which did not disclose
the estates value, was written by
Capt. John Rufus Edie, rs, of 1923
Sixteenth street NV, q native OF
Washington, who died in Doctors
Hospital after four months illness.
Mrs. Bertha Schwarz, his house
keeper for 20 years, who was left the
money, felines, some furniture and
clothes, was quite happy when re-
porters told her of her good fortune.
Il am very fond of CATS" she said.
'He made me promise to take care
Of all Of them and ! will do so no
matter what. The cats are very
pretty. They were Capt. Edie,s
hobby"
She said the cats included An
Evening star., 1946-09-24
$4,000 and Pedigreed Cats
Leftto Housekeeperin Edie Will

goras, Manx, Persians and others
and lit would embarrass the captain
If I told how many"
Another bequest of 5000 went to
Miss Julia Schwarz, Mrs. Schwarz's s
niece.
Except for the bequests to- the two
women and other small bequests, the
residue Of the estate goes to ST.
Johns Episcopal Church Parish
Capt Edie's house also goes to the
church for a parish house, the will
stated, unless the church authori-
ties desire to use it for some other
purpose or wish to sell 1t, In which
case the proceeds will go to the
church.
Executors of the win were George
E. Hamilton, jr., and the Union
Trust Co.
Capt. Edie was the son Of Julia
McCauley Edie and Mai. John r
Edie, who was on the staff Of Gen
George q. Meade during the Civil
War.
Evening star., 1946-09-24
Anderson Expected
To Clarity Meat
Situation Tonight
Form Price Speech
To Dwell on Confusing
Livestock Shortage
By MoIcoIm Lomborne, Jr.

Secretary of Agriculture An
derson today was putting the
finishing touches on a speech he
will make tonight on Govern
ment price policies on farm prod
ucts. Some Government sources
said they hoped the speech would
bring an end to the situation
which, they said, finds near
record numbers of cattle on
ranges while most of the coun-
try's consumers face a meat
famine.
Aides of the Secretary said he was
expected to dwell at some length on
the livestock situation. The spsAeI
will be broadcast at 10:15 pm. from
Albuquerque, NJ Mex, where Mr.
Anderson has been vacationing.
Meanwhile, reports from. many
sections of the country showed nc
lessening of the meat shortage.
Delicatessens to Close.
In new YORK, nearly O0O dellca-
lessen dealers announced they
would close their stores tonight fol
an indefinite period because of lack
of meat.
A Johns Hopkins Hospital Official
predicted in Baltimore that unless
the meat shortage is eased, it may
become necessary to send "ou,
patients home because we shall not
be able to feed them properly"
The Office of Senator Capehart
Republican, of Indiana disclosed
that Notre Dame, Butler University
and Culver Military Academy had
wired Mr.. Anderson and Price Ad-
ministrator Porter for permission to
do their own slaughtering of live
Evening star., 1946-09-24
Stain, Eden Statements Hailed
ByWoIIoce as Hopes for Peace
Resignation Furry
Is Constructive,
Ex-Secretory Says
BY the Associated Press

Former Secretary of Commerce
Wallace said today that the for
eign policy statements of Prime
Minister Stain and Anthony
Eden have brought hope to mil
lions all over the world who are
hungry and thirsting for peace. "
In formal statement, Mr.. Wal
lace said:
THE morning press carrying
statements by both Stain and Eden
has brought hope to those millions
all over the world who are hunger
ing and thirsting for peace.
Differences of opinion caused by
various national responsibilities and
viewpoints should not stop the
search for a practical expression
of the deep spirit of longing of all
the people of all the nations for
permanent world peace.
when both Eden and Stain
seem to appreciate this necessity
I am encouraged that the recent
furry is indeed proving construc-
tive"
At news conference here Acting
Secretary of State Clayton said he
does not see any need for a new
approach toward Russia as suggested
by British Conservative Leader
Anthony Eden.
Prime Minister Stains statements
respecting the state of world affairs
at the moment, Mr.. Clayton told re-
porters, are terribly interesting and
very important but the Undersec-
retary said he had no other COM
ment now.
Asked about Mr.. Eden's call for a
new approach to Russian affairs, Mr..
Clayton said only that he sees no
need for one.
On a specific question of Ameri-
can-Russian relations, Mr.. Clayton
declared he does not consider
as correct the statements made
before the United Nations Sc
curity Council that American
troops are causing uneasiness in
China, Brazil, Iceland and Panama
Mr.. Clayton said he simply doesn't
believe American troops are causing
any uneasiness in those countries.
Mr.. Wallace's reference to the "re-
cent furry apparently was an
allusion to the events that led to
his resignation from the cabinet last
tSee WALLACE Page Al
Evening star., 1946-09-24
Present Tax Levels
Must Be Maintained.
Snyder Tells Bankers
Treosuvs Chief Aim
Is Achieving BoIoneed
Budget, He Declares
BY the Asspeioted Press

CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-Secretary
of the Treasury Snyder declared
today that "for our common
good our present tax levels must
be maintained for some time"
This is inescapable If we are to
achieve a balanced budget and a
surplus to be used to reduce the pub
lie debt" Mr.. Snyder told the Amer
ican Bankers Association.
II think that 1t is pure fantasy
if not plain demagogy to talk of tax
reduction and debt reduction in the
same breath"
Seek Balanced Budget.
The Treasury Secretary told the
bankers that in the present eco
nomic environment the Federal
Government should direct its pri-
mary effort on the fiscal front to
achieving balanced budget.
Better yet, it should strive to
achieve a substantial surplus of
taxes over expenditures to apply to
debt reduction. These are the views
I expressed the first day I entered
the Treasury, and they have the
full support OF the President"
He said the Treasury from Feb
ruary 28 until September l had re-
duced the debt by about IA billion
dollars as the result of heavy pay
offs made on maturities of market
able securities each month"
Mr.. Snyder asserted, CONSIDERING
that there are certain non-cash ex-
penditures included in the budget, !"
the Government in cash transactions
will take in more money than 1t
spends this year"
Deficit Greatly Reduced.
The deficit for the current year,
he continued, will be 81 900, ,O00, 900, +"
"a great improvement over the esti-
mate made last January" which
was $4.500, 900 900 for this fiscal year.
He Ascribed this to a reduction of
l ,000. 900 in the number of Federal
employees, and to the end of the war.
You know, 1t Is easy to sit back
and say that Government expendi-
lures ought to be cut sharply to
balance the budget" Mr.. Snyder
said. 1T is much harder, however,
to put your finger on where the
cuts ought to be made.
There are people unencumbered
by the responsibilities of ofiice, who
blandly say reduce Government ex-
penditures by such and such a per-
centage right across the board.
They never get specific about 1t.
But butchering job like that would
create more troubles than it would
solve"
He reported that expenditures for
defense would be $780,
0OO, 900 above last January's $15,-
600, ,000, 900 estimate, and added, II
certainly do not want to repeat the
mistake that was made after the
First World War.
'But / do want to emphasize that
(see BANKERS, Page A-6.)