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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-12

MOlenaar brothers have put in sev- eral seasons as guides at Mt Rain fer, and brother Dee" recently made his tenth ascent of that tow ering reak.
 P-W Rainier Climb
 Both Molenaars and Miller were along on that climb, which was merely in the nature of a condi- ticning workout for the much more rigorous trek ahead this summer, but which, nevertheless, was the first postwar ascent of the Wash ington pinnacle. Theye were on the summit overnight, and recount that it blew some there.
 Miller and Ferriss have the only Alaska climbing experience. Miller climbed around in the Fairweather Range with Bradford Washburn, in 1940 It. Ferriss was with Wash burn in 194l, at Mt. Bona.
 Others have climbed in Canada and South America, as well as in tlAC OlilLCu DldttO- All Oub tNO VA the party were Harvard students and all are either members or associates of the Harvard Mount aineering Club, which is the chief sponsor of the expedition. Three are former HING presidents and a fourth was it's wartime director.
 Much preparatory work already has gene into the undertaking which was conceived while all the male members were in the armed forces. The trip was planned by mail, as the group was then scat tered over the world.
 Ouer Tynd1l Glocier
 The route tentatively chosen for the ascent of forbidding Mt. St. Elias is that unsuccessfully attempt ed by the Williams party in 1888, approaching the peak from the southwest and known as the Tyn- dal Glacier route. Miller recounts that he conferred with Williams while in New York few weeks ago and saw the sparkle of mountain addict kindled again in the eyes of the leader of that long-ago att tempt when Mt Elias was mention ed.
 The seven members were to fly from Juneau to Yakutat today by Alaska Airlines, and there they will be joined by It. Ferriss From Yakutat, the group will go by boat, 65 miles up the coast to Icy Bay, from where the climb will be launched. Icy Bay is expected to be reached about a week after leav- ing here. Two weeks more have been set aside for the trek by foot ski and hand-sled across the lower glacier reaches to the actual foot of the peak, about 25 miles inland and about 4,000 feet up. Special hand -sleds have been furnished by the Army for tryout.
 Fumes W:u Supply Ten successive base camps have been spotted, between which the ex- tensive equipment carried by the expedition will be shuttled. The camps will be supplied in advance by loads dropped from planes of the Army's Tenth Rescue Squadron, at- tached to the Alaskan Department at Anchorage. Final details for the advance supplying are now being worked out at Anchorage by It
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-06-12
TUG FOSTER HERE
 BOUND FOR LITUYA

Tug Foster of the Bellingham Tug and Barge Company is in port and expects to sail probably today for Lituya Bay to take the Robert Eugene in tow, either to Anchorage or to Juneau. The Robert Eugene recently ran aground at Lituya Bay It is said the crew members and underwater are aboard. The extent of the damage is not known here.
Evening star., 1946-05-30
Eugene'M Meyer Pleads
For Loan 10 Britain
By the Assoeiofsd Press

Ratification of the $3,750,000, 900
British loan as an aid to world peace
and preservation of free enter
prise" was urged upon Congress
yesterday by Eugene Meyer, editor
and publisher of the washington
Post.
He told the House Banking Com
mittee that granting the loan is
"the only thing that can prevent the
British Empire from being forced
into a closed economy with empire
preference, restricting international
trade and our export markets.
THE result would inevitably be the
continuation and expansion of Gov
ernment control of our own foreign
trade. When that takes place the
pressure for economic regimentation
will grow apace in our domestic af-
fairs"
While Mr.. Meyer was pleading for
the loan Representative Lands, Re-
publican, of Indiana was telling the
House, II still have confidence the
British loan will be defeated in the
House by a narrow margin" He
estimated at least $50 Republicans
and 10 Democrats will oppose it, a
majority of the 431 members.
Democratic leaders have said that
a poll indicates the loan, already
approved by the Senate, will pass
the House.
Mr.. Lands declared, The Ameri-
can people should not be required
to continually keep their nose to
the grindstone' to aid foreign coun-
tries. The time has come to
look after our own people first. The
American taxpayers cannot uphold
the British Empire forever"
Evening star., 1946-05-30
Truman, as Daddy Bosks
In Daughters Glory at G. w.

The Nations President was just
an "old daddy" riding on his daugh-
ter's glory last night.
Holding in his hand an honorary
degree given him as Mister Tru-
man." father of George Washington
graduate Margaret Truman, the
President said,
Il appreciate the honest work my
daughter did to get it for me-"
1t was a high honor, to have a
daughter graduate from George
Washington University. and for her
simultaneously to create a situa-
tion that will make her old daddy an
alun1nus also," President Truman
said.
Before he got his doctoral hood
Margaret had walked across the
platform to get her bachelor of arts
degree. But when she started to
take it from President Cloyd Heck
Marvin, he said that occasionally he
let a parent confer a degree.
Evening star., 1946-05-30

Then President Truman stepped
forward, handed Margaret the di-
ploma and kissed her.
Mrs. Truman, her mother, her
three brothers and their brothers
and their wives, and the Presidents
sister, Miss Mary Truman, sat in
the presidential box at Constitution
Hall to watch the double ceremony
Afterwards they went to a small
reception for the Trumans and Uni
versity trustees at the home of DR..
and Mrs. Marvin.
President Truman and Margaret,
flashing diamond and sapphire
graduation ring given her by her
father, arrived early for news pic
lures. Margaret interrupted the
battery of photographers to
straighten her fathers academic
cap and taSsel.
you always put 1t too far back.
daddy" she said.
Evening star., 1946-05-30
|Gromyko Says Certain Nations
Seek to Dominate u. N.

sored by the National Council
of American-Soviet Friendship in
honor of Soviet Writers Ilya Ehren-
burg, Konstantin Simonov and Mai.
Gen. Mikhail Galaktionov, who are
visiting America.
Declaring that mot everything is
we'll within" the U. N, Mr.. Gromyko
said:
"One can perceive in the activities
of the United Nations symptoms of
reversion to the old methods of the
League of Nations, which proved a
failure"
The revival of the old discredited
methods In the activities of the
United Nations" he continued, If
fraught with danger. not only in the
sense that these attitudes may dis
appoint the hopes of the peace-lov-
ing nations, and convert the organ
ization into the tool of one country,
but also in the sense of holding a
threat to the existence of the or
ganization itself"
Evening star., 1946-05-30
BY the Associotsd Press

NEW YORK. May 3e.-Andrei A.
Gromyko, Soviet representative on
the United Nations Security Council,
said last night that there is "a tend
ency on the part of certain cou>.-
tries to play dominating part" in
the U. N. Ito the detriment of the
cause of peace and security"
He apparently referred to the
United States and Great Britain,
although no Nation was named.
Mr.. Gromyko declared this may
cause serious and irreparable harm
to all the activities of the United
Nations" and added:
"It may undermine seriously the
authority and prestige of the organs
of the United Nations, and first of
all such an organ as the Security
Council which is called upon to
guard the peace"
His remarks were made at rally
in Madison Square Garden, spon-
Evening star., 1946-05-30

Disabled American Veterans planned
services at the Canadian Peace Cross
at 2:30 pm. At the same hour the
District of Columbia Branch of the
Second Division Association was
scheduled to hear Maj. Gen. G. B.
Erskine at ceremonies at the divis-
ion monument, Seventeenth street
and Constitution avenue.
At 3 pm. there were to be Me-
mortal Day services in battle-ground
National Cemetery, Brightwood,
with Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant III,
chairman of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission, as
speaker.
The Marine Corps planned its first
individual Memorial Day observance
for 4 pm. at the Two Jima statue.
Maj Gen. Clifton D. Gates, who
commanded the 4th Division of Ma
rines at Two Jima, is to speak.
American Legion ceremonies were
to be held at Mount Rainier play
ground at 4 pm.
Rice Will Broadcast.
Members of the 10 posts of Cath
oic War Veterans of the District
of Columbia will hold memorial
services for the Nations war dead
at pm. in Nativity Catholic Church
hall, Georgia avenue and Peabody
street NV. Members of the Ar
lington CVa) Post also will attend
Heber H. Rice, commander OF
American Legion Post No. 1853
Chevy Chase, was scheduled to
speak today over Radio Station
WWDC to pay tribute to the com
rades of the United Nations" who
fell on the battlefields of the world
with American soldiers during the
war.
Tribute will be paid to the 46s
District World War II dead at spe-
cial services at the Mayflower Hotel
at BIS pm. tomorrow. at which
Admiral William F. Halsey, jr., u
S. N, retired, will be the principal
speaker. The names will be re-
cited as part of the service. The
public, especially relatives of the
war dead, is invited.
The Capital Ship, Navy Club,
U. S. A.. group of veterans of the
naval service, is sponsoring the
memorial exercises. Among the
speakers will be Rear Admiral Will
liam Thomas, chief of naval chap
lains, and the Rev. Maurice Sheehy
former Navy chaplain, now head OF
the department of religious educa-
tior, Catholic University. who is
chaplain of Capital Ship.
Combat action films, featuring
the famous picture Fighting Lady,
will be shown at 7:30 pm. The
Navy Band and an honor guard
of sailors, coast guardsmen and
Marines will participate in the
memorial service.
Evening star., 1946-05-30
Memorial Day
Continued From First Page.)

cemetery at sundown to release the
thousands of petals through the
Domb-bays.
Similar ceremonies will be carried
out throughout the Nation under
direction of 1t. Gen. James H. Doo-
little, president of the association.
During most of yesterday and
early today Boy Scouts, assisted by
members of veterans organizations,
placed small flag, and a single
poppy on every grave in Arlington
Cemetery.
Organizations Place Wreaths.
The exercises at the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier at noon were pre-
ceded by the placing of wreaths by
the following organizations:
American Legion, Veterans of For
eign Wars, Disabled American Vet
Grams. Disabled American Veterans
Auxiliary, National Womans Relief
Corps, the Ladies Auxiliary of the
Army and Navy Union, Knights of
Columbus, Blue Star Mothers, the
Washington Division and Ladies
Auxiliary of the Jewish War Vet
Grams, the Washington Police and
Fire Post of the American Legion
United Spanish War Veterans Aux
iliary, District of Columbia Depart
ment: Sons of Spanish-American
War Veterans, American Gold Star
Mothers and the Daughters of IN
ion Veterans of the Civil War.
Services were held this morning
at the Georgetown University School
of Law in the law library at Sixth
and E streets NV. William Francis
|OHara, legless veteran and a senior
student, read the honor roll of A
Georgetown men who gave theil
lives for their country.
At Ascension Thursday masses il
Catholic Churches throughout the
morning, the Memorial Day theme
was prominent in sermons. Dun.
barton College of the Holy Gross
opened memorial services at 9:3C
m. with a mass.
Service at Cathedral.
Washington Cathedral arranged a
special Memorial Day service a,
II am. I...
At II am. the Fleet Reserve AS.
ISOLATION held services at the Water.
gate. Rear Admiral Robert P
Carney was the speaker and Comdr
Alvo o. Martin. Navy Chaplain
Corps. gave the invocation. Sea
Scouts of the Sea Scout ship Hart
ford took part.
The Arlington Amphitheater serv.
ices starting at noon did not in
clude the customary parade. James
G. Yaden, president of the corpora
ton and a past commander of the
Spanish War Veterans, was pre-
siding officer for the following pro-
gram:
Invocation by the Rev. William N
La Roche, department chaplain, US
w. "; singing of THE Star Spanglec
Banner" recitation of Lincoln's Get
tysburg Address: reading of "The
Americans Creed" After Gen
Bradley's address "The Recessional'
will be sung. 1t. Col. A. c. Oliver,
U. S. A. and American Legion chap.
lain. will pronounce the invocation
Taps will be sounded; the Marine
Band will play.
Legion Sponsors Ceremonies.
Three Army Superfortresses were
assigned to fly over the cemetery to
drop flowers during the ceremonies
The American Legion scheduled
ceremonies at the Argonne Cross
and the AEF plot at 1890 o'clock
Evening star., 1946-05-30
Mrs. Trumon Is Chosen
Missouri Mother of 1916
By the A..oeioted Press

GRANDVIEW, Mo, May 3o.-Mrs.
Martha E. Truman, 93-year-old
mother of the President. has been
chosen the Missouri Mother of 1946
by the Golden Rule Foundation.
1t had been planned to notify Mrs.
Truman in Washington during her
scheduled visit to the White House
this week, but when a slight cold
prevented her from attending the
White House family reunion, two
representatives of the Missouri COM
mittee made an unannounced visit
to her home to tell the Presidents
mother of the honor.
The formal announcement will be
made in New York by the Golden
Rule Foundation, Mrs. George w.
Diemer, honorary chairman OF the
Missouri committee. said.
Evening star., 1946-05-30
Two Channels Open
For5iameseC Complaint
To Come Before u. n.

NEW YORK, May 3O.-Siam S
complaint to the United Nations of
"unjustified aggression" by French
forces from Indochina can obtain an
early hearing before the Security
Council, it was authoritatively
stated today, in one Of two ways:
/. Any member of the U. N. may
bring the situation to the attention
of the Council: or
2. Siam as a non-member party to
dispute may force the matter be-
fore the Council by formulating a
charge against France and by &C
cepting in advance "the obligations
of the Pacific settlement"
Thus far the Bangkok government
has asked only for U. N. assistance,
sympathy and cooperation in a
cablegram circulated among the
membership by Secretary General
Trygve Lie without recommendation
for Security Council action.
Willing to Mediate.
However, Bangkok dispatch last
night quoted Siamese government
sources as declaring willingness to
have the U. N. or some other inter-
national organization mediate Slams
border dispute with French Indo-
china.
These sources said small French
force remained on Siamese terri
tory along the Mekong north of
Nongkhai after river crossing
which began last Friday. They de-
clared the government had received
no replies to protests lodged with the
British and American Legations in
Bangkok and no explanation from
the French.
Both Britain and the United
States indicated willingness to hear
the SiameSe case if a formal charge
is brought. France, a permanent
Big Five member of the Council,
gave no indication of what course
she would take.
Iranian Case Muddled.
Meanwhile the Iranian case,
which has been lingering before
the Council ever since it began its
deliberations here last March, was
further muddled last night by the
announcement in Washington that
Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala
had been instructed by his govern
ment to make no further statements
before the Council.
This was taken here as an indica-
tion that any further word on the
Iranian side Of the case would come
direct from the government of Pre-
mier Ahmed Qavam, which has
shown an inclination to let the
whole matter drop.
The U. N. organizations, in recess
today, will resume operations to-
morrow in meetings of the Economic
and Social Council and the Secur-
ity Councils Subcommittee on
Spain, which had hoped to complete
its report by the deadline tomorrow.
However, the subcommittee has re-
ceived from Britain and the United
States a last-minute deluge of in
formation, including $4,000 micro
filmed pages of documents captured
from German archives and addi-
tional captured Italian documents
bearing on Spain,
Evening star., 1946-05-30

world. 1t is only the beginning. 1t
is only the beginning.
When the President of the United
States, by one speech, can succeed
in getting Claude Pepper and Taft
and the Communist Daily Worker
and the Wall Street Journal. all in
accord, the country is perfectly safe.
want to tell you again how much
I appreciate. and how much my
family appreciates the honor which
has come to our family tonight
both to my daughter and myself.
1t is one that is highly appreci-
ated-one of the greatest honors
that can ever come to a man ir
any walk'of life.
Thank you very much.
Evening star., 1946-05-30
Candidate for Glass
Seat 10 Be Chosen
AT Party Convention
By the Associoted presS

RICHMOND, Va, May 30.-State
Democratic Chairman Horace H.
Edwards said last night a State con-
vention would be called to nominate
a Democratic candidate to succeed
Senator Carter Glass, who died
Tuesday.
A section of the party plan pro-
vides that if a vacancy occurs too
late to hold a primary, but more
than 40 days before a regular pri-
mary, the State Executive Commit
tee may call convention. If the
vacany had occurred less than 40
days, he said the State Executive
Committee would have made the
nomination. 'l
Meanwhile, in Washington 1t was
reported on Capitol Hill that Rep
resentative Burch, Democrat, of
Virginia will be appointed to fill the
vacancy.
Won't Be Candidate.
According to the report, he will be
named by Gov. Tuck to serve until
the November elections and with the
understanding that he will not be
candidate for election.
A resident of Martinsville, Henry
County, Mr.. Burch is a banker and
farmer. He has been a member of
the House since 1880 and represents
the 5th district.
Section 229 of the election laws
provides that candidates in regu-
lar primary for Offices to be filled by
voters of the State at large, or of a
congressional district, must file
written notice of candidacy 80 days
before the primary. Since the reg
ular Democratic primary is August 6
this year, the entry list closed early
in May.
Presumably, this would be the bar
against selection of a candidate TO
succeed Senator Glass in the regu-
lar August primary.
Call Not Issued.
Mr.. Edwards has not yet issued =
call for meeting of the State Ex-
ecutive Committee, but said he ex-
pected to do this within a short
time.
!, Gov. Tuck will appoint a Senator
to succeed Senator Glass from now
until the general election the first
!, Tuesday in November.
A Democratic nominee will be
named who will be voted on to hold
, the Office for the remainder OF
the unexpired term of Senator
Glass-or from the general election
in November through 1948.
The Governor; who is attending
.. the Conference of Governors id Ok
lahoma City, said he would delay
i his appointment until his return to
1 Richmond.
Evening star., 1946-05-30
1000 Stevedores End
4-Doy London Strike
by the Assocjoted Press

LONDON. May 3o.-More than
1000 stevedores voted today to end
a four-day strike and accept a Min
istry of Labor offer to mediate their
walkout which had delayed handling
of ships at three London docks.
The stevedores quit work Monday
in all attempt to force reinstatement
of the right to nominate their sons
for dock jobs, a custom discontinued
during the war.
Evening star., 1946-05-30
U. N. Machinery Creoks.
Mrs. Roosevelt Suys
By the Assoeieted Press

NEW YORK, May 30.-Mrs. Flea
nor Roosevelt said yesterday there
are only two nations left with vital
ity enough to lead-one is the U. S.
S. r. and the other is the U. S. A."
Mrs. Roosevelt, chairman of the
United Nations Economic and Social
Council, said at a luncheon:
United Nations machinery creaks
at the moment-and badly. We have
not even reached agreement on how
We shall set up the collective force
that will be used to back up what
we seek to achieve"
Evening star., 1946-05-30
Truman Tells 6. W. U.
Graduates His Fight
Will Continue

President Truman took the occa-
sion of his daughters graduation
from George Washington Univer-
sity last night to poke some fun at
people who think the country is
racing to a bad end.
Henry Clay predicted the same
thing in 1888, Mr.. Truman told a
capacity audience at Constitution
Hall after he presented a bachelor
of arts in history diploma to o.
year-old Margaret and had re-
ceived an honorary doctor of laws
degree himself from University
President Cloyd Heck Marvin.
Obviously referring to hot criti-
cism of his proposal to draft strik-
ers against the Government, Mr..
Truman added.
When President by one speech
can succeed in getting Claude Pep
per Democratic Senator from
Florida), Taft Republican Senator
from Ohio, the Communist Daily
Worker and the Wall Street Jour-
nal in accord, the country is per-
fectly safe"
To Continue Fight.
The end of the country has not
come, sit is only the beginning" Mr..
Truman said. He pledged himself
to continue the fight for the rights
of the individual.
The President said that the grad
uation was a memorable day for
the Truman family.
1T is a high honor to have a
daughter a graduate of this wonder
ful-this great institution" he said.
President James Monroe attended
the first G.. w. U. commencement
125 years ago, and Mr.. Truman
said he was glad to attend the 125th
ceremony.
Robert v. Fleming. president of
the universitys Board of Trustees,
presented Mr.. Truman to President
Marvin for the honorary degree. DR..
Marvin described Mr.. Truman as the
kindly servant of this unquiet peo-
pie, a man of plain taste and Or
derly life" With simplicity Presi-
dent Truman tries to find the fair
course and follow it, DR.. Marvin said,
adding:
1T is not his way to do anything
else"
DR.. Kane Hohored.
More than 1000 alumni who
served in the armed forces will re-
ceive the annual alumni association
achievement award, DR.. Chester w.
Holmes, association president, an
nounced.
DR.. Marvin conferred the status
of professor emeritus on DR.. How
ard Francis Kane, long professor
in the medical school. DR.. Kane
was unable to be present because
of illness and the honor was re-
ceived for him by DR.. Walter A.
Bloedorn, dean of the medical
school.
DR.. Edward Hughes Pruden, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church
and the Trumans' minister here,
pronounced the invocation and ben
ediction.
In addition to Miss Truman the
graduates were.
Evening star., 1946-05-30
British Lords Approve
Coal Naturalization
BY the Assoeiofed Press

LONDON, May 30.-The House of
Lords passed on the decisive second
reading yesterday a bill putting
British coal mines under government
ownership. The House of Commons
has approved the measure.
1t lacks only the formal third
reading in the House of Lords and
the Kings assent before becoming
law
Evening star., 1946-05-30
Mrs. Kothryn Houk Dies
At Home of Douohter

Mrs. Kathryn Wing Houk, 67, a
resident of the District for the past
two years, died yesterday at the
home of her daughter. Mrs. William
H. Mylander, 202 Baltimore avenue,
Westgate, Md.
For many years Mrs Houk was So
ciety editor of the Urbana Citizen,
Urbana, Ohio. Her n-in-law, Mr..
Mylander, is Washington corre-
spondent for the Minneapolis Star
Journal and Tribune.
Funeral services and burial will be
held at Urbana SATURDAY.,