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Evening star., 1946-12-17
DR.. Edward |. Mark Dies;
Noted Harvard Professor
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. IT,
DR.. Edward Laurens Mark, profess
sor emeritus of Harvard Univer-
sity, noted zoologist and anatomist,
died yesterday at his home in his
Tooth year.
DR.. Mark taught at Harvard for
Is years before he retired in 1921
as Hersey professor of anatomy.
After his retirement he remained
active as director of the Bermuda
Laboratory for Research, which he
helped found.
He came to Harvard in 1877 after
three years study at the Univer-
sity of Leipzig, where he received
his Phi. D. degree. He was made
assistant professor of zoology in
1883 and was appointed Hersey pro-
fessor of anatomy in 1885.
DR.. Mark was born in Hamlet,
N. Y, on May 80, 1847, and was
graduated from the University of
Michigan in 1871. He served year
as instructor of mathematics at
Michigan and as astronomer for the
United States Northern Boundary
Survey for year.
He was director of the Harvard
geological laboratories from 1900 to
1921 and of the Bermuda laboratory
from 1903 to 1881.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Clio Office Workers
Disavow Communism
BY The Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE Gen.
eral Executive Board of the CIO
Office and Professional Workers of
America disavowed today any SYM
pathy for Communism or domina-
ton by its adherents.
The statement, the first such dec
laration from a CIO international
since the CIO adopted an anti
Communist resolution at its Atlantic
City convention last month, was con-
tanned in a declaration of policy
made public by Lewis Merrill, ma
tional president of the union.
In an accompanying statement
yesterday, Mr.. Merrill announced his
resignation as a contributing editor
to the magazine, New Masses"
The Executive Board said in its
statement that it would oppose ef-
forts by any political party includ-
ing the Communists. Ito interfere
In its affairs" and that the union
rejects all ideologies which run
counter to our concepts Of freedom
and liberty
The statement added that any
effort to impose the viewpoint OF
outside organizations on the men,
bership of UOPWA will be met with
the firmest exercise of union dis
cipline."
Commenting on the declaration,
Mr.. Merrill said:
while repelling the charge that
the UOPWA is Communist domi-
mated and stating it will resist any
effort by any group to control its
affairs, the policy protects every
member in the exercises of his con-
stitutional rights and makes no con-
cession to bigotry. ~
AT the same timeit is a binding
declaration and our membership
will not permit any one to trifie
with it."
Mr.. Merrill said the union had
70 600 members in the United States
and Canada
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Controversy in Hawaii
Clarified by New Setup

HONOLULU, Dec. II (P.-Presi-
dent Truman's announcement OF a
revised Army and Navy command
setup served today to clarity a
troublesome source Of friction that
has existed between the services in
the Pacific area for months.
In effect, the new command ar
rangement for the Middle Pacific
largely establishes and redefines
the authority which the commander
in chief, Pacific Fleet, held there
prior to 1945. 1t gives the Navy
operational command of the Army
in Hawaii, and limits Gen. Mac
Arthur's command over the Army
in the Central Pacific.
Several weeks ago a high Navy
officer here expressed his opinion
in an interview that an "intolerable"
situation existed in the Pacific
command. The Navy felt that it
had responsibility in the Central
Pacific without authority to carry
out its mission.
A presidential directive in 1912
gave Gen. Macarthur command OF
fleet and Army forces in the South-
west Pacific and Admiral Nimitz top
command in the Central Pacific. In
1945 a new directive placed all
Army forces in the Pacific under
Gen. MacArthur's command. All
naval units in the Pacific, except the
7th Fleet, were placed under Ad-
miral Nimitiz's command.
The Navy contended that this
1945 directive was merely to facil-
itate the invasion of Japan, and not
intended as a permanent arrange
ment.
The Army pointed out that the
1945 directive superseded the 1912
order, and that operational COM
mand did not revert to the Navy
after Japan's surrender.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Housing Heads Ignore
Meet 10
Speed New Program
BY the Assoeioted Press


Top housing officials, ignoring
the storm of controversy aroused
by President Truman's revamped
home building program, went
into a huddle today to work out
specific details.
Housing Expediter Frank R. Cree
don and National Housing Admins
traitor Raymond M. Foley met with
silence contentious by retiring
deputy and by CIo official that
the new program would curtail the
number of new homes for veterans
Norton E. Long. a deputy admin
istrator under Wilson w. Wyatt,
who acted as both expediter and
MIA head, handed reporters state
ment in which he challenged the
administration ito show how the
new programs so-called incentives
to encourage rental housing are
anything but fraud perpetrated
on veterans for political expedi-
ency."
Mr.. Long resigned yesterday, 10
days after Mr.. Wyatt had quit in
protest against what he termed
business as usual" methods.
Refuse to Dignity" Charge.
A national housing agency spokes-
man said Mr.. Creedon and Mr.. Foley
did not care to dignity" Mr.. Longs
statement with reply. Mr.. Cree
don refused to talk TO neWsmen
about details of the new program,
which removes many controls over
the building industry and puts added
emphasis ON rental housing. but he
said he might do so in day or two.
Fresh industry support for the pro-
gram came, meanwhile, from H. r.
Northup, secretary-manager of the
National Retail Lumber Dealers
Association. who contended that
rapid construction of new homes
had been made practical and pos
sible for the first time since the
end of the war.
IF the present trend of decontrol
is pursued to conclusion" Mr..
Northup said, 1.-The critical shortage
of homes can be eliminated by the
building industry in 1947."
Thomas Attacks Truman Action.
A contrary view was expressed by
r. J. Thomas, chairman of the CLOS
Housing Committee, who declared
that Mr. Truman has sounded "the
death knell of the veterans housing
program" and that "the eX-GIs
will get no homes but the generals
and the Well-to-do will"
Mr.. Long assailed as a complete
phony" Mr.. Truman's announced
intention of making an additional
billion dollars available for rental
housing. A billion dollars of such
funds has been available to the
Federal Housing Agency under Mr.,
Foley, Mr.. Long asserted, but only
about $50, 100000 was used despite
urgent insistence" by Mr. Wyatt
that loans be made ON the basis of
more liberal appraisals.
Il challenge Mr.. Foley now," Mr.
Long said, Ito state publicly that he
has any real intention to relax this
penny-pinching policy and use his
so-called new billion dollars to
stimulate rental construction for
veterans"
Mr.. Long contended that the
rental housing plan outlined by Mr..
Truman was contained in a sup
pressed" report Mr., Wyatt submitted
to the President on November 20.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Scientists to Speak

DR.. Leonard Schultz, curator of
fishes, and DR.. j. P. E. Morrison,
associate curator of mollusks at the
National Museum, will discuss the
biology of Bikini at the meeting
of the Washington Academy of
Sciences at BIS pm. Thursday at
the Cosmos Club, Madison place and
H street NV.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Prof. Paul Longevin,
Noted Scientist, III
BY the Assoeiosed Press

PARIS, Dec. IT, Prof. Paul
Langevin, "a, noted French scientist,
was reported dangerously i'll here
today
Prof. Langevin, known especially
for his pioneer work in electro
magnetism and for his contributions
to many branches of theoretical
physics, was twice arrested by the
Germans during the Nazi occupation
of France and was held in conf1ne-
ment for long periods.
Evening star., 1946-12-17

SHRINER POTENTATE HONORED-Justice George Rowe of
the New Supreme imperial potentate of the
testimonial presented to former Po-
tentate Seuart at dinner last night at the Satler
Hotel marking ceremonial of Amas Temple
About honor Steuar present
imperial treasurer of the order Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Churchill Aide to Speak

Sir James Grigg. former secretary
to Winston Churchill, will give his
personal impressions of Mr.. Church
i'll and also discuss the Indian
situation at the luncheon meeting
of the Overseas Writers at 12:45
pm. Friday at the Hotel Statler.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
G. w. u. 'Smarty PartY1

George Washington University'S
Mortar Board Society will entertain
40 woman students at a "smarty
party" from $3.50 to pm. tomorrow
in Columbian House, Twenty-first
and G streets NV.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
Goithersburq to Light Tree

GAITHERSBURG, Md. Dec. II
- (SpeciaD. - The Gaithersburg
Homemakers' Club will light a COM
munity Christmas tree on the lawn
of Grace Church at 6 pm. Sunday.
Carols will be sung by the Girl Scout
Troop No 208.
Evening star., 1946-12-17
ScribbIers to Entertain

Members of the Young Scribblers'
Club will entertain their parents at
a Christmas party at 1880 o'clock
tonight at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifford T. Chandler, 2l13
Thirty-seventh street NV. The
program includes an original radio
Skit and club movies.
Evening star., 1946-12-17

strategic force is commanded by
Gen. George Kenney.
Areas in Commands.
The Far East Command consists
of American forces in Japan, Korea.
the Philippines, the Marianas,
Bonins and RyukyuS.
The Marianas eventually will re-
vert to the Pacific command, the
said, the present ar
rangement being designed to give
support to Gen. Macarthur in the
military occupation Of Japan and
Southern Korea.
The Pacific aid Alaskan COM
mands are roughly the same as the
former Pacific Ocean areas" The
Northeast command will include
bases and forces in the northeast
ern approaches" to the United
States. The Caribbean command
will include the islands of that sea
and the present Panama Canal De-
partment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-04-25

jealous legislators who wanted the credit but not the work
 Earlier this year Baker stated in an editorial he would vote for Communists rather than for Commis- sioner of Labor Sharpe for Territorial Treasurer Oscar G. Olson, both running for reelection. Tn his most recent blast he dismisses Sharpe n- competent and a do-nothing, completely overlooking the Sharpe fathered and fought for the
 berazed Alaska Workmens Compensation Act passed at the recent session of the Legisature-aso looking the fact that labor groups who after all are more concerned with this post than others. have endorsed Sharpe
 As for Treasurer Olson, Baker doesn't seem to have any idea of why he opposed him. but he did As far as we're concerned, both handling the affairs of their office capably and will probably tinue in that capacity when the election is
 The last time Olson for office, four years ago, he received of the largest Territorial votes received by candidate, showing that good many people for him matter what newcomer Baker says.
 Baker said Sharpe wasn't capable of handling the new Workmens Compensation Law-which shows more lack of knowledge. Sharpe organized and drew up the regulations for the Unemployment Compensation Con- mission when it was formed and was the youngest administrator in the nation It is significant that after almost 10 years the regulations drawn up by Sharpe have not been changed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-04-25
Nature HumbIes Man
Cincinnati Enquirer

N0-~-NN~---~NNN
 Even the learned gentlemen who developed the atomic bomb must stand in they read of the gigantic tidal waves which swept the Northeastern Pacific recently working fantastic de- sruction 2500 miles from the off the Aleutian Islands For their instrument of destruction, by all odds the greatest has achieved puny beside the power generated in undersea disturbances and trans mitted by of ncompressibe water to the margins of the
 The greatst known damage was at Hilo on the Island of Hawaii But the most complete disasters doubtless will be found, eventually, to have taken place on lesser islands of the Pacific The Hawaiian Islands volcanic and rather rugged, lying safely above the reach of tidal waves; and damage was limited to harbors and beaches Bat many of the coral islands and stos of the Pacific lie close to level. On many of them there is single elevation greater than 10 or Is feet Sweeping such islands, the tidal waves would leave life, no habitation
 Disturbances such these vivid reminders of the staggering power of nature There is predicting them. There is defense against them And they too infrequent to warrant mans retreat from the coastal areas subject to inundation.
 When the whole grim is tailed however it is probable that the desructon life and property will be but a minute fraction of that following either of the atomic bombs dropped Japan. The power of nature is immensely greater than that of man. But it not directed by the daboical cunning of man, and wastes itself largely in vast spaces empty of human life. The smaller disturbances which man himself can achieve planned as to work the maximum damage to his fellowmen
 Great as they have been, therefore, the disasters of recorded history classified as acts of God run poor second to the disasters chiefly wars which in their stupidity and pettness have inflicted their own kind Savage in its angry moments nature has a quality of tolerance, freedom from purposefu cruelty that man could we'll emulate.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-04-25
Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN plural, fifty" "A present" .aas
 OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Romance Pronounce the as in OBEY, A in MAN and accent second syllable.
 (singular). (pluraD.
 SYNONYMS Package, parcel packet bundle.
 STUDY: use three times it is Let vocabulary Today word SOPSTRY decepye subtle augmentation ronounc ODD action cowardly sophistry will thing deenty"John Gasworthy
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a permanent peace, and we have been haggling over it ever since.
 NO FAUL1 OF BYRNES
 The fault is not that of Jimmy Byrnes He picked up the ball late and is doing the best he can. The fault is in the delay, the procras- tinating, the lack of vision in pre- pairing for peace when the iron was hot. What so few people real iZe is that peace is harder job than war. Wars mistakes are gloss ed over or forgiven in the passion of conflict. The mistakes of peace sometimes are not so apparent. They do rot cost lives or lose bat ties immediately But their price is heavier in the end.
 The start of the war found us unprepaled and eff guard at Pearl Harbor. That error has been the talk of the Nation ever since. Months of Congressional debate and investigating have been spent trying to fix the blame.
 But We suffered another Pearl Harbor at the end of the war. We were caught off guard in regard to
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total of eight months after the war. This peace conference is al ready tweive months late, and may never start.
 The trouble, in my opinion is that during a war allies are bound together in common danger. Then, the minute war is over, they start forgetting those common ties. They start haggling over the spells of war.
 That was what the late Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox had in mind when he told some of us as early as the first year after Pearl Harbor that now was the time to get an agreement from our Allies regarding air bases throughout the world. That was also what Harold Ickes had in mind when, even be- fore the war ended, he negotiated an oil treaty aimed at eliminating all pickering over one of the worlds most troublesome materials.
 But the man who saw most clearly the need of arranging the peace while the war was on was thrown out of the Administration in the very middle of the war with his job barely started. In my opin- ion this will go down in history as one of Franklin Roosevelt's greatest mistakes-a mistake to be paid for by your oa.ldren and mine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-04-25
20 YEARS AGO {rGm 4 f F rmp1RE
APRIL 25. 1926


 Song song Alaskans at the the B. hits with the 
 opening City
  in the first game May 9.
 Sam Shuckm Alaska salesman for the City Mills short Admiral Line steamer Dorothy Alexander operating the peak Victoria c, last oasis desert between
 of registered at the officers the following night
 yesterday  Highest, 45; rain
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-04-25

With the Territorial Primary election just five days away the political scene in Juneau is very quiet com pared to former years and fights being carried on in other cities.
 plank to repeal the gross income tax now contained in the Alaska Veterans Act and the outcome will be interesting plank which has its object the repeal of any tax is bound to be popular Just how popular it will be with the veterans is yet to be seen.
 A real battle is being waged in Ketchikan between the Ketchikan Chronicle and the Ketchikan Fishing News Oldmer Sid Charles is swinging away from the Fishing News corner, and William Baker newcomer editor of the Chronicle is dishing sage advice con- corning certain candidates for the Chronicle.
 The Ketchikan free-for-al started when Baker published an editorial attacking certain candidates, including Commissioner of Labor Walter P. Sharpe, Curtis Shattuck of Juneau, running for Senator; and Dr. L. P Dawes, candidate for Senator
 Baker called Dawes "an aging, ailng doctor . among other things The Fishing News countered by stating that the good doctor, who has good many years of service to the people of Alaska behind him. has more ability in his little finger than is contained in the brain of any bynight editor in Alaska
 Baker attacking Shattuck, said he didn't amount pointing out that Shattuck was born in Alaska knows more about Alaska than MT. Baker who is new conner has made clean and progressive record in the House and able to get the Alaska Workmen's Compensation Bill through the opposition of other
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-04-25
"CCA ECT WHILE TEARS
 ARE HOT"

Sumner Welles. the man Roose- welt fired as Under Secretary of State, believed in the lawyers adage: Collect your fee while your cli- ents tears are hot
 He had begun, while the Russians were panting for help at Stalin- grad and while the British were still in sheir bomb proof shelters, to prepare the peace treaties which were to fellow the war. Welles call ed in experts, asked them to work out foundation for the United Nations. He had gone over Hulls head direct to Roosevelt and got permission to iron out the contro- versies of peace while the war was still on.
 Then personal jealousy-w which so often turns the tide of history cut the ground from under Welles work. His chief, MT. Hull, made him a personal issue, told Roose- welt that either he or Welles must go. Roosevelt chose to keep the man with the greatest political pow CT in the Senate
 Immediately the plug was pulled on all Welles' work, the months went by before Hull picked up the pieces. Those were crucial months. During them, Stalingrad was turn ed from a defeat into victory The British no longer were wor- ried about attack. The clients tears had drieo. The fee was now some thing to be haggled about.
 The only fee the great majority of the American people wanted was
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-04-25
WHAT KIND OF WORLD TO
 GROW UP IN?

It has been just two years since Lock was born. At that time I re- member writing you my fears for the kind of world he might grow up in. said:
 T am jus a Lit fearful that Cordell Hull thinks of peace as a personal peace-one which can wait until he gets round to negotiating it. as a drink waits after a game of golf; not realizing, perhaps, that the boys who are fighting over there, and their wives and child ren and the mothers who are bringing new sons into the waIld have much greater stake in fu- ture peace than Mir Eull-and may jost!c hls elbew
 ..AIr Hull has 73 distinguished years to lcck back on. But they your sn and all the other mothers sens have 7o years to look for ware to. And they must not be yea,s cTowde6 with the same heart acisas and pain as the elder states men have handed us.
 This, realize, is not the kind of letter one should write to the mother of q newborn daughter. But have hunch that the mo- thers of America would rather face these problems now, when they can be solved, than wait until il is too late"
 That was written in March l944; with the war long way from be- ing over, and with MT. Hull at that time down in Palm Beach putting on the golf course.
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peace jus5 as seriously as at Pearl. Harbor m regard to war. And no one in Congress has raised his voice to ask why, or who was to blame fo'' a disaster which may be even greater as far as the next generation is concerned. This, I realize, is not the kind of a letter one should write the mo- ther of a newborn baby. But I feel strongly that the mothers of America would rather face these problems now. And I wonder also if it would not be better to admit our failure, frankly and openly, in- stead of glossing it over and pre- tending that we have won some thing that we haven't.
 I am certain that the mothers of Russia-and their sons-are just as anxious to avoid war as we, and have little realization where their rulers are taking them. Our problem is to make them realize, to make them know that there are no basic differences between them and the great mass of the American people. When we can get to know , the Russian people, then the power to make war will be taken out of the hands of few men, and wars will be no more.
 That is our only certain guaran- tee of peace.
 With much love to your fine family,
 Your brother,
 DREW. fCoPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-04-25
HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 bat do not compep
FRIDAY, APRIL 26
HEART AND HOME

The stars are friendly to infants and young children. Mothers of girls having their first romantic ex- periences should counsel their daughters agaist those careless ways that make love no longer wonderful and beautiful
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS
 The time is propitious for start ing new projects or changing flom old methods to new Expansion may be planned with impunity.
 1AIIUNAL ISSUES
 Rivalry between old and new veterans organizations will increase through the next year or two. Re gardless of their affiliations, voter ans will benefit as these groups champion their causes.
 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
 Renewed interest in Portugal is indicated. The Azores also may become the center of attention be- force the end of summer. Spain will remain in the spotlight for some time.
 Persons whose birthdate this is are promised by the stars: A year of moderate success in several en- terprises and delightful eXper- fence in the life of the family.
 Children born today will be ener- getic, industrious and dependable. They will have almost unlimited op- portunities for development and may one day find place among this nations immortals. Their great est assets will be spiritual faith, alert minds and strong characters.
 (Copyright, i946)
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PEACE CONFERENCE TWELVE
 MONTHS LATE

Today. one year after the end of the European war, we are just sit ting down to try to prepare for the final peace conference. We do not ever know yet whether that final peace conference actually can be held
 I remember after the last war how resentful some people were ever the siowness of the Paris Peace Conference. In contrast, it was an example of efficiency and speed. It got started January IS. 1919, only two months after the Armistice and war was finished six months later,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-04-25
MODERN ETIQUETTE RoRrRrA Ry LEE

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  would think symbol of O. When is visiting necessary long distance call, who should it? The should immediately call the charges o When giving breakfast friends courses? "A. Yes
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-04-25
HOOK and LEARN 9y q. GORDON

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