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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-08

GaStlneau Channel area TOT 2l years and five months, Is years and eight months of which he has been associated with the First National Bank here. Prior to his joining the local bank, he was with the Treadwell mine.
 Before coming to the Channel, he spent some time with the AL aska Railroad and for two years was with the Merchants and Miners Bank at Ketchikan. He had previous banking experience in Seattle.
 Elected to the revised Board of Directors of the First National Bank are: Mir Beck, President; Wallis S. George, Joseph A. Will Hams, George Parks. A. M. Mill, William Bosch and Mir Cleveland. MT. Cleveland is the only new member.
 Capital Increased
 Also voted by the First National Banks Board at it's meeting this morning was authorization for ap- plication to the U. s. Treasury Department for increase of the institutions capitalization from $50,000 to $100,000. Upon approval, 100 per cent stock dividend is to be taken from undivided profits, each stockowner's holding to be doubled
 MT Cleveland terminated his duties with the B. M. Behrends Bank at the close of business on Dec. 31, 1945. His association with the First National Bank com menced this morning. Although very appreciative of the great services rendered the institution by Mfr. McClain. Beard President Reck declared that the First Na- tional Bank heads consider it very fortunate to have been able to secure so able a successor as Mir Cleveland. whose long experience and wide associations in local banking circles should prove in- valuable
 25 Years At Behrends
 Mir Cleveland's move to the First National ends a 25-year connection with the B. M Behrends Bank for more than a decade of which he had held the post of president. Previous to entering the Behrends Bank, he was connected success sively with the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company and with the Treadwell gold mine Born in the eastern part of the United States, he came to Alaska from Seattle to become a permanent Juneau resi- dent.
 Bank Staff
 As now aligned, the staff of the First National Bank is:
 MT Cleveland, President; MT. McClain, e-President; Earle Hunter. Cashier; Thomas Cashen. Assistant Cashier; Chester zim- merman, Assistant Cashier; Etta Bringdale, Teller; Emma Nielsen, Head bookkeeper; Christine Keat- ing and Suzie Helgesen, Book keepers; Sylvia Alexander, Stenog- rapher BACK WITu BEHRENDS
 J. F. Mullen, President of the B. M Behrends Bank, today an- the appointment, effective Jan. 1, 1946. of Harry I. Lucas to succeed G. E. Cleveland as the banks vice president.
 MT. Lucas is a former member of the Behrends Bank staff, com mencing his banking experience with that institution in 1912. He rejoined the banks staff some ago after several years absence, during which he served as a bank examiner, and for several
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
Review of an Interlude

Now that our Fl OPA-less days have passed into his tory backward glance at them might be in order There is no complete figures and analyses the period but such information as has come to hand might prove te estng.
 Everybody knows of course the main event of those 71 days Prices went up. This inevitable since subsidies were removed But several prices didn't as high expected and in others they receded after the mta jump.
 Some ardent advocates of price control scofed at the idea that housewife armed only with shopping bag and determination could influence prices It appears however that individual unorganzed buyers resistance quite potent while organized "buyers strikes didn't cut much of a swath.
 The most nearly national figure this subject at the
 moment on the price of butter large chain of food stores. Chain officials thought the price might go to 9O cents dollar pound. Instead it went to 80, then dropped 73 Since this included 13 cents formerly paid as government subsidy uncontrolled price actually
 cents lower than the last preune OPA ceiling of 62 cents pound
 In Pittsburgh retailers gave prices the after first trying to absorb the loss of subsidies Then came buyers showdown Prices eveed off about 15 20 cents above the old ceilings In meats per @ GhoG ss back to nickel apiece after the price had gone to cents after ceilings off But when hamburger went to 5O pound the housewives stopped buying it. The price then receded to in the 4Os that the buyers would accept These are typical examples though not the only Nobody liked paying the reduced prlces or The shock of paying subsidies the counter made But the pleasure of being able to buy almost anything the counter helped to the shock Food supplies in Dallas increased 78 percent while prices were gong up 70 percent With part or the increase the removal of subsidies In St. Louis the price rise higher but supply with prices.
 Food almost the only commodity that showed marked price increase when ceilings lifted And food high they certainly did not bring the runous infation that officials predicted Now the OPA is faced with the tough job of rescung large percentage o food suppy-especiay meat-from the black market where will be sold for well above its cost in the no-cengs interim.
 OPAS 5000 investigators undoubtedly face harder task than the prohibition euhs encountered There are food than there stills There are surely almost many black marketers there boot eggers With the over there less opprobrum con- nected with buying the black market than there with buying bootleg liquor. So it won't be But to it, OPA more power to you
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
PayOff on Wallace

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2O-CNEA)-If the United Nations is to become going business thing the people of the world must get used to is having inter national politicians blow their tops and shoot off their mouths for purely home consumption.
 When Sen. "Pappy" oDaniel of Texas or Sen. Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi or Cong. Clare Hoff- of Michigan Cong Robert F. Rich of Penn sylvania gets up on his hind legs and throws bucket of bile, most of the people of the United States have learned to pay strictly attention. They know what to expect from such sources. There is no surprise, any more in anything they have to say. For power and influence they might as well all be named Gerald l. K. Smith, or mud.
 But while people in the United States have learned how to take these spoutings at home, they have not yet learned how to take such mouthingS when some wild gets up international soapbox and starts drooling dymaxion bubbles of r responsible utterance
 International politics, in short, is game which the worldwide audience of citizens has not yet learned how to play, how to relax and enjoy. When to whistle and clap, or when to throw pop bottle anda Bronx cheer is not yet clear in this beau tful era of peace.
 Dr. Oscar Lange who used to be American college professor but who is now Polish citizen again and representative on the United Nations Security Council, had few words to say on this subject the other day, and they're worth noting.
 Tt is only natural that differences of opinion exist in political body" wrote Lange in the United Nations Weekly Bulletin. Therefore, he went on to say, the sharp exchanges between delegates of the Soviet Union and the Western powers only na- tura and "a regular aspect of democratic procedure
 "The world ought to welcome international dis putes." said Dr. Lange, "as means to force the gov
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
A SETBACK FOR MIR. BOWLEs
(NeW York TimeS)

N4NOW Olh 1hlCOJ
 | Those who took it for granted that former OPA director Chester Bowles would be running for Governor of Connecticut this fall on the Demo- cratic ticket were surprised On Tues day by the decision of what MT. Bowles himself sportingly described as an "unbossed" convention. MT. BowleS had an official record for which he made no apologies. He helped hold the price line under wartime conditions, and if he later failed to sweep back the sea with broom no one could say he didn't make a manful effort. But the Con- necticut Democrats were apparently skittish about a candidate with an OPA service button. They chose n- stead to run their present Lieut. tenant Governor, Prof. Wilbert Snow of Wesleyan University. Professor Snow is a poet, but this did not seem to scare them. Besides, they may have thought it desirable to split the Wesleyan University vote: Professor Shows Republican oppon- ent is pr. James L. McConaughy,
 who was for nearly twenty years president of the Connecticut insti- tuition of learning.
 To meet the stiff competition which Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin will offer as Republican candidate for the long term in the United States Senate the Democrats named former State Labor Commissioner Joseph M. Tone. But there will be little interval between the date when Senator Thomas c. Hart'S
 term expires and the date when the newly elected Senator is duly certi-
 fled and qualified. To fill this ten- porary and purely honorary vacancy the Democrats nominated former Gov Wilbur L. Cross, Connecticut's grand old statesman, scholar and
 philosopher. Those of us who do not vote in Connecticut may watch
 this campaign with detachment, mo-
 dified only by our hopes or fears for the national outcome. But unless we are dyed-in-the-wool. bred-in- the-bone Republicans we are likely
 to hope that this honor will come to Governor Cross. At 84 he is man above party narroWness, a man of wisdom and virtue one would like | to address as Senator.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
So We're Hillbillies?

WASHINGTON-There' been an unusual amount of kather whipped Henry Wallaces essay into and about the direction foreign policy taken was expected, both by MT. Wallace and those who knew what he was driving at
 Also some nonsense.
 The Secretary of Commerce and former Vice President and Secretary of Agriculture never has been orthodox fellow. He does not follow protocol He breaks rudely the traces often. He not afraid to speak out when he feels there ssome thing the public ought to know
 Of late he had sensed the uneasiness among the people over the course of foreign policy and the illustration caused by the talk about war with Rus sia. He gave notice to this feeling for he recognizes that foreign policy in these days affects every one of us directly and is not pretty little parlor game for the diplomats, as some of them still to think
 He spoke from earnest conviction.
 The noisy reaction includes the suggestion that MT. Wallace had right to speak out. Other than the fact that President Truman himself approved his right to speak, it might be pointed out that from the standpoint of knowledge and experience Mir Wallace had every right.
 It may have been forgotten or overlooked but the fact is that Mir Wallace has been closer to the de years than anybody else now in the top ranks of government He has been on the inside He has been in a position to know, and he has kept himself in- formed.
 For that reason he had not only the right to speak out, but the duty to speak out, even if his fortnight talking disturbed of our diplomats and British friends.
 From some of the reaction too it might appear that foreign policy is the private possession of handful of people-the President the Secretary of State, couple of Senator's and few top officials
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
BRITISH IMPERIALISM
(New York Herald -Tribune)

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 Any time that Communist has nothing else to say he is likely to devote his attention to British inn perialism. It does seem odd, however, that Secretary Wallace so hlithely agreed with the Communists on the subject of British imperialism in his Madison Square Garden speech. Even the most casual reading of newspapers (unless confined to "The Daily Worker") should have con- vinced MT. Wallace that the British are less imperialistic today than they have been for two hundred years.
 Consider what the British actually are doing. At the moment they are striving to give complete independ- ence to India-even though they have found it necessary to stuff freedom down Indian throats. Is this imperialism? They are making plans for progress toward self-government and eventual independence, if de- sired-in Burma. Is this imperialism? They are reducing the powers of the sultans in Malaya and simplifying Malayan government-which seems certain to lead to steps toward dem- ocracy. Is this imperialism? They are negotiating for the withdrawal of their troops from Egypt. Is this imperialism?
 It is true, of course, that the Bri- tish of this generation inherited an empire and that they canot ignore either it's existence or the need of protecting its component parts in their activities in the field of for eign policy. It also may be true that there are serious flaws at times in British policy and British actions, as-perhaps-in Greece. But is any other nation trying with such skill and grace to get out of the business of imperialism? How do British &C., tions compare with those of the saintly Russians, of whom MT. Wal lace is so fond? Who demanded mill itary bases in Turkey? Who tried to take over northern Iran-and ap- parently is succeeding? Who controls the theoretically independent Outer Mongolia? Who is dominant in Po- land? In Hungary? In Bulgaria? In Romania?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
by Peter EdSOn

ernments to state and defend their cases openly be- fore the world public opinion"
 Sometime, when the world is a little more ex- perienced in these things the cosmopolite citizen should be wised-up enough to know when a world and when to say, "Oh, that's just Andrei Gromyko twisting the British lions tail" Or "Oh, that's just Winston Churchill taking dig at the Labour gov- ernment Or, "Oh that's just cotton -mouthed Claude Pepper exercising his tonsls" Then turn to the comic page where things Intentionally, instead of just accidentally, funny.
 All this long wind-up is preliminary to tossing the plate the idea that the American public hasn't yet learned how to take Henry Wallace. It probably never will. This has positive genius for saying the wrong thing at the right moment.
 His speech on Russia should have been no great surprise to anyone He making political oration to a left-wing rally He gave them something they could lap up an dthey did even to hissing Truman
 The trouble S everyone took this speech seriously instead of saying, "Oh that's just Henry again" This was Of course, helped along by maadrot assist from the President, who got sucked into giving the speech an endorsement
 But give Truman credit. When he realized later wl1t he had done, he came right out and said he had made mistake.
 That's something of a record in itself. The only other time in recent years President has admitted he was wrong when Roosevelt gave up on trying to change Thanksgiving Day from the last to the third Thursday in November.
 Truman having sucked back his boner, everything should be keel. It's free country, and Wallace has a right to say anything he wants to. The more he says the worse he gets in bad.
 Making foreign policy is not his official business. Did anyone say, "Thapk goodness"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
Economic Men

Psychologists should be measuraby aided, it seems to us their endless study of that supposedly nonexisen scientific abstraction Economic Mana motvated trey and exclusively by the search for the almighty dollar
 by perusa of the curious behavior of the St. Louis Card nas and the Brooklyn Dodgers in their toothandna battle for the National League pennant.
 The Cards and the Flatbush Buns making every day and every play count in their scrap for honor which this year predestned to be measured solely coin of the realm The booming bats of Ted Williams and the rest of Bostons rampagng Red Sox will keep World Series date with the victors-and baseball authorities over whelmngy agreed will quickly blast into oblivion the ars tic glory which normally accompanies the winning of pen nant.
 The World Series losers will cut financial melon which will the records tell give each S4 900 piece That fact may best explain the tremendous enthusiasm the of St. Louis and of Brooklyn display for what likely be brutal beating Even in this nhationary day and age $4,000 is nothing to be sneezed at.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
by ThOn1aS Stokes

at the State Department.
 Don't the people have an interest? If what our diplomats do heads into war it is the people who have to fight it and suffer it. It is not only right but proper that somebody should be conscious of that
 From the reaction of British offciaIdom and the British it would appear that Mr. Wallace caugN somebody at something, that he lifted the lid on A preciously guarded secret That reaction not only incorporate, but in that nasty tone of bad taste that passes often for sophistcation in England
 Our foreign policy one English newspaper said is still in the hlbilly stage" That sort of comment speaks for itself.
 It is true that Henry Wallaces roots are deep in Iowa soil He has feeling for ordinary people not only Of the farm but in the great cities and not only cf our nation but all the world It is not narrow and confined and nationalisc but international He has proved that
 In the reaction, it seems, there has been re- treat into all sorts of side issues He violated the rules of diplomatic procedure it is said Also there is the cry that his speech weakened the hands of our rep- reSentatveS abroad That is the reaction former ly heard when somebody or other in Congress spoke out European nations not so naive about our type of government that sort of criticism is exag- gerated
 President Truman forced to explain that he hadn't approved the Wallace speech But he approved the Commerce SecretaryS right to make it. MT. Wallace Is planning to make more, either in the Cabinet or out. He has valdly raised for considera. ton in this country the question of foreign po- cy His speech accomplished that Such an inquiry is healthy at this juncture If our policy has taken turn contrary to peace objectVes throughout the world, it is just well to find out about it now before it is too late.
 There is too much at stake for all of us
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20

Margaret Truman is studying for an operatic career. The chances are that she will be thoughtful enough to avoid Carmen" which sounds too much like railroad union to suit Pa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
Stewart Edward White

The adventurous life of Stewart Edward White, novel, ist described in his many books Interpretation of the pioneering spirit seemed easy task to the author whose life ravelogue; in the frgd north of the Hudson Bay territory then again in the East Africa unge moun tain climbing in the Sierras fishing in remote streams of British Columbia His life indeed the open book.
 The gold rush days made real through his descrip- tons and almost any exciting event major gesture such choking leopard to death actual experiences.
 As narrator of frontier life he was adept. He had the fearesness to live exciting e and the literary craft to write all down for in The Blazed Trail which sold approximately 30000 copies quarter of century after it was written, and other familiar books.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
Views of the Press

the delight of nearby householders who watched them learn to fly.
 But it is not a question of im- portance-this matter of not hear ing of a bird. It's the same with people. The people of whom one never hears, they, too, are making the world go round.
 But "tut, tut" says the last robin, you embarrass me; the talk is getting too ponderous for the subject" And, after all, there is a very good reason, very happy req son, why one does not hear more about the last robin: Who can be sure that he has just seen one?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
Ivan Is Terrible

The Russian publication Pravda has blasted Serge Esen stein the famous Soviet movie director for his picture which says Pravda, portrays Ivan the Terrible weak charactered and without will like Hamlet" and Ivan's guard as gang similar to the American Ku Kux Klan
 That probably is that far the film is con- cerned and rather pity for Mir Eisenseins sake For the picture while dstasefu to Communist theology, sounds if it might incorporate the salient features of Hamlet" and "The Birth of Naton" With such a bnatop couldn't have missed box-oce harvest in the United Sta+"-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
LAST ROBIN

Christian Science Monitor)
 We hear much of the first robin. What about the last one? One might suppose he were of no inn portance. Which makes no sense. The first robin is probably a total stranger. The last one is an old and respected citizen. The first one may not have nest to his name. The last one has had nest, and in it's eggs the mere blue of which is an achievement. And the eggs have become baby robins much tC
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
The Firing Line By D. N. T.

Nov if you want marriage, girls, just forget the antiquated social laws that decree that man must be the purSuer. Doris Blake in the Boston Herald.
 GENESIS Antiquated social laws, Giving way to newer, Shouldn't make lady pause At being the pursuer. Let her go and get her man, Let her search her quarry, Lest she be an also-ran, Modest still-but sorry. Who's the target for tonight? What a silly question! It is fleeing MT Right, Spurning the suggestion. That he is the one who flees- An historic error
 While most obviously she's Dashing off in terror. Anticipated? I'll agree. History's dust has cloaked 'em Since, for all eternity, Mother Eve revoked 'em.
 Mrs. Roosevelt Sought AS Mead Running Mate."-headline in the Herald Tribune. Therell be no dan ger of Mead catching up with her, in any event.
 Margaret Truman is studying for an operatic career. The chances are that she will be thoughtful enough to avoid Carmen" which sounds too much like railroad union to suit Pa.
 COin- n-Operated self service gasoline pumps are on the way, according to word from New York. If you put in an extra nickel, no doubt, you'll get your windshield cleaned and a wrong direction.
 The Army Air Forces recently an- nOunced the start of another at tempt to solve the mystery of cosmic rays. The experts are far behind the times. obviously because they do not read the comic strips.
 Some unions have adopted the technique of calling a strike a wa cation" Having just returned from our own tWo-Weeker, we can vouch for the fact that the pay days in both cases are identical and unsat- isfactory.
 President Truman wore a yacht- ing cap when he went ashore at Quonset Point Sunday. If he doesn't look out, he'll become the first ad- miral ever noted in the Field Artil- lery.
 The French already have spent about three-quarters of the two-bil- lion American credit granted them since last fall When they get any, thing resembling cash crop, they're never stupid enough to save any out for seed.
 Revised controls have done an al- most complete job on the black mar ket in meat. Everything has been whitened up except the prices.
 Joe Louis has started sparring in his training routine for his fight against Tami Mauriello next month. We think it's wasted effort and that the bout will wind up, as usual, with someone counting ten before Joe gets mad.
 Australia proposes the establish ment of an international Court of Human Rights It sounds vaguely as though MT. Anthony should have something to do with it.
 Senator Bridges of New Hampshire wants to know if our Government is to continue one of "squandermania. 1" We glumly predict that it is and we wouldn't be at all surprised to read about the establishment of the SOMA. with a citizen of Missouri at the head of it.
 The nation faces soap shortage more acute than at any time dur ing the war years, as a result Of the meat crisis. It would happen just when the Plenty-of- -Hot-Wa- ter-Season is about to open.
 Nobody in his right mind" says Ed Pointer in the Boston Globe, lever worried about a meat short age when confronted with a prop erly concocted New England chow
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20

Coin-Operated self-service gasoline pumps are on the way, according to word from New York. If you put in an extra nickel, no doubt, you'll get your windshield cleaned and wrong direction.