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Evening star., 1947-04-17

she was active almost up until the
time of her death, and would often
insist on doing some of the cooking
because "she wanted to do what she
knew best to do"
Faced with the problem OF raising
three young daughters after the
death of her husband, Peter Braschi,
she had worked as cook for many
years.
Two daughters survive, Mrs. Lille
Mannix, and Miss Annie Braschi,
both of Washington. A third daugh-
ter died about Is years ago.
In addition to her daughters, she
Is survivid by a niece, Mrs. Mary
Stead, of the Shepard street address,
and several great-nieces and great
nephews. She had no grandchildren.
High requiem mass will be cele-
brated at 10 am. Saturday at the
Shrine of the Sacred Heart Church,
with the Rev. Morris w. Roach,
Baltimore, an old friend of Mrs.
Braschi, officiating. Burial will be
in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1947-04-17
Mrs. Braschi, 1O1,
Dies Here; Recalls
Dickens u. 5. Visit
By Wallace {. CIoyton

A Washington resident who re-
called Charles Dickens visit to
America died yesterday at the age
of .101.
She was Mrs. Margaret McAuliffe
Braschi, a native of Limerick, Ire
land, who had lived in the District
since 1865 and had been a widow for
nearly 80 years.
A woman with an intense interest
in life, Mrs. Braschi could yividly
recall the events of her early life up
until the time of her death, her
family said. When she first came to
Washington, she worked as a tutor
for a German family which owned
a lodging house near Fifteenth street
and New York avenue NV. During
this time, Charles Dickens stopped
there while making lecture tour
of America, and, her family said,
Mrs. Braschi was an unsung but
nevertheless effective heroine Of a
domestic crisis.
Dickens Complained.
Informed by the laundress that
Mr.. Dickens complained of the
manner In which his pleated white
shirts were done, Mrs. Braschi in
vestigated the cause of the trouble,
and found that the shirts were too
glossy to suit the English author.
The problem was solved when thu
young governess removed the glossy
with q damp rag.
And then 7 asked If 7 could wash
a pair of his socks, just so I'd have
something to tell my children" she
Is reported to have said.
Her family also said that Mr..
Dickens English valet became very
interested In the young Irish girl,
but she refused to marry him and
return to England.
ID. c. Growth Recalled.
When recalling the development
Of Washington in the last rs years,
Mrs. Braschi used to laugh over the
time when she considered a house
on K street near Fourteenth street
NV. to be "too far out in the coun-
try" and often spoke of the times
when she'd make trip to George
town." her family reported.
Lloyd G.. Stead, her nephew in
aw, with whom she made her home
at 1885 Shepherd street NV, said
Evening star., 1947-04-17

of an avocado pear, an airplane at
tendant said, smashed through the
window of a moving car and killed
the driver and his wife.
Cows and horses, the only sign of
life in the green fields, Craze peace
fully. They have forgotten their
panic Of yesterday. In one field an
abandoned tractor stands, it's plow
furrow in the soil uncompleted like
a sentence in an unfinished letter.
These fires may burn on for days
or weeks. The stunned city is as
yet helpless against them. 1t can
only wait and hope
In four years of war coverage
have seen no concentrated devasta-
ton SO utter except Nagasaki in
Japan, victim of the second atom
bomb.
The damage along the water front
of Texas City exceeds in intensity
that inflicted on Bari, Italy, in the
fall of 1943, when German bombers
hit that port and II vessels went up
in flames, including three ammuni-
tion ships whose. titanic explosions
killed hundreds of American troops
and italian civilians.
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already under 1t. There wasn't room
for me-"
William Bankhead, another volun-
teer, stood by the cot of his injured
buddy, James Nicholson. Both live
at Houston.
1--WE were 100 yards from the ship
when it blew up," Mr.. Bankhead
said. '"The explosion knocked me
down and I rolled under an automo-
bile. When the stuff stopped fall
ing, I looked out and saw a lot of
men lying on the ground.
Nurse Works Despite Injuries.
Mrs. Clay Martin, 3s, Houston
nurse, circulated among the pa
tients. She went on working in
spite of eight ribs broken by jagged
shrapnel. All day long she had
been in the dock area, distributing
coffee and sandwiches and treating
the inflamed eyes if firemen burned
by the thick smoke and gases.
"It rained steel out there" she
told me, YEARLY 1T was awful. A
man near me got an eye knocked
out. Another fellow got foot cut
off. I'm darned lucky to get out
with broken ribs"
Mrs. Halle Berg of Port Arthur,
Tex, who, too, had been helping at
the docks all day, assisted the newly
injured despite a new wound.
Still on his feet was J. E. Ken,
Houston police sergeant.
II was directing traffic near the
DOCKS" he said, ''just few minutes
before the ship went up. I received
a warning to evacuate everyone. I
yelled the warning to the workers.
I guess there were 100 of them
They started coming out. Then she
went off.
Conclusion Costs Hair.
II slid under a car. The concus-
sion cost me most of what hair
I had left"
Rescue workers are back at work
in the dock area. Five minutes
after today'S blasts. embalmers were
back at their jobs in a downtown
garage building.
The dead lie on benches and
tables. They are enbalmed and
numbered tags are wired to their
toes and then they are carried to
the temporary morgue, the high
school gymnasium which still con-
tains the wilted decorations of
school party.
Wrapped in Army blankets, the
dead lie on the sanded gymnasium
floor, sanded because Of the blood
stains.
They do not lie in rows. There Is
no pattern among the dead in the
gymnasium.
Evening star., 1947-04-17
U. 5. Warships Welcomed
BY Hundreds in Crete
nY The Asseeiotsst Press

SUDA, Crete, April 17.-Several
hundred residents of this war-dam-
aged town gathered along the wa
terfront today to greet the largest
concentration of American naval
vessels ever gathered in Suda Bay.
The visiting units, under COM
mand Of Vice Admiral B. H. Bieri
included the aircraft carrier Leyte
the cruisers Dayton, Portsmouth
and Providence, two destroyers, the
fleet tender Shenandoah and two
supply ships.
Two additional destroyers were
due later today.
Residents wreathed the bows OF
the ships with myrtle and decked
the town with American and Greek
flags in welcome. The ensigns OF
American vessels were at half mast
in mourning for the late King
George Of Greece.
After an additional week Of ma
neuvers in the Mediterranean the
Leyte is scheduled to proceed to
Istanbul, Alexandria and Naples
The Providence will 60 to Piraeus-
the port off, Athens-and then re-
turn to the United States, while the
Dayton is slated to visit Instanbul
Alexandria, Algiers and Gibraltar.
Nearly all England was once
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Boyle
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NCOllbIIlleQ FTUHl FlTSI faRP,)
Lines silver liner on one wing and
skirts the edge of the burning in
dustrial zone.
At least a score of raw-oil storage
tanks, each holding hundreds of
thousands of gallons, are blazing
furiously, engulfed in orange and
black waves of hurricane-fire. They
are studded through scores of other
storage tanks, still intact but which
may flame up momentarily.
Many of the tanks have been so
badly battered by the blast that
they look like tin cans crushed by
children in game of street hockey.
Waterfront Area Charred.
Our plane circles low toward the
devastated area, keeping just far
enough away so that if tank blows
up its blast won't sweep our craft
down.
The water-f front area is in charred
ruins. Only remnants remain of the
Monsanto Chemical plant that went
up after the nitrate-loaded French
vessel Grandcamp exploded yester-
day morning.
White pillars sticking up from the
ghastly wreckage bear startling
resemblance to row after row of
military graves, and many do mark
the death agony Of scores of men
whose bodies can never be recovered
A light wind ripples the muddy
waters of Galveston Bay. but there
Is no trace of the Grandcamp or the
High Flyer, a second nitrates-carry-
ing vessel that exploded early this
morning.
The waves have swallowed ships,
cargo and crewmen completely.
The fires are threatening high
octane storage tanks that can turn
the whole area instantly into one
colossal Roman candle. On the
ground, small groups of men, re-
covering the dead, are also prepar-
ing to set off demolition blasts if
necessary to try to save the rest
Of the city of $4,000
Wind Is Favorable.
So far the wind luckily is blowing
the heat, smoke, fumes and flames
south from the stricken industrial
area and away from the residential
section. A change in the wind might
cost thousands of families their
homes, as the flames already have
taken their livelihood.
Only a few cars move along the
. silent, sunlit streets Soldiers patrol
kagainst looters, waving up OCCASION
ally at planes overhead
The empty homes-their owners
Vacuated-stand in lonely red
sfed beauty like white-walled toys.
1e nearest the devastation have
shattered windows. and their yards
are Uttered with debris. Those on
the outskirts bear no signs of the
tremendous blasts.
The line of major damage is
strikingly marked, as if 1t had been
done by perfect precision bombing.
Flying Steel Kills Couple.
Chunks of steel-similar to bomb
blown shrapnel in wartime-ne in
street and yard. One chunk the size
Evening star., 1947-04-17
New Blasts Cause More
Misery in Stricken City
s,s7s.,zs A{:II;~-
by@WHIIom C buFndfd -
Assoeiossd Press stuff Correspondent

CORRESPONDENT
TEXAS CITY, Tex, April IL
The new ship explosions today that
sharpened the sorrow and misery of
this stricken city looked like a giant
sky rocket, coming as they did 13
hours after twin blasts took hun
dreds of lives and injured thousands.
1t further stunned and dazed the
weary citizens.
At dawn searchlights still probed
crumbled steel and debris that
covers uncounted scores of bodies.
The blanket of black billowing
smoke over the city is heavier than
ever, the result of several new oil
refinery fires caused by the newest
explosions of the vessel Flying High.
just after l am. I walked into a
downtown store building where the
casualty toll was being tabulated by
six men. I closed the door behind
me, walked to the center of the big
room. Just then a terrific explosion
shook the building and brought
plaster from the ceiling.
One man dived under a table, an
other hit the floor, a third rolled
up against the front door, block
ing it.
Second Thundereus Blast.
Two seconds later came a second
thunderous blast. yanked the door
open, pushing the man out of the
way and plunged into the street in
a vacant lot. I watched red-hot
steel streaming into the sky. A
frery black cloud climbed to 1000
feet. Then steel fragments pinged
on the sidewalk and pavement.
In the dock area the jagged pieces
were falling like rain
w. H. Boucher, volunteer helper
from Goose Greek, Tex, was in the
danger area, helping to free trapped
bodies from debris.
The blast" he said, "blowed the
buttons off my jacket. A piece of
shrapnel cut the right leg off
man standing right beside me. A
Red Cross nurse helped me Ak him
tourniquet. Her head was bleed
ing but she didn't pay any atten-
ton to herself. The man was
conscious but he didn't say a word.
He didn't even moan. I stayed with
him until they brought up a
stretcher and carried him off"
Fifteen seconds after, the second
explosion rescue work gqt underway.
A loudspeaker across from the City
Hall came to life with a man at
the microphone profanely urging
action. A siren walled and then
there was a chorus of walls and
patrol cars and ambulances gunned
up the street heading for the water
front.
Ambulances Discharge Casualties.
In seven minutes ambulances had
returned, discharging the first
casualties in a heavily spotlighted
area back of the City Hall. Two
dozen cots soon were filled. Doctors
and nurses administered emergency
aid and walked between the cots.
All the men were conscious, all were
silent. Some grimaced with pain.
They huddled under their Army
blankets.
+ Two Boy Scouts held a blanket
to shield Harold Keith, 20, rescue
worker from Goose Greek, whose leg
was sliced by falling steel
Il tried to crawl under a car"
Keith said, but there were too many
Evening star., 1947-04-17
First c odliIion / Regime
TO Take Over IN China
By ~ Aasoei1isd i Prsss


NANKING, April II Gen. Chang
Chun, Chinas newly named pre-
mier, win head the nations first
coalition government.
Dne-party government ended to-
day at the final joint meeting of the
Kuomintang Central Standing Com
mittee and the National Supreme
Defense Council, which approved
appointment of Gen. Chang by Cen
eralissimo Chang Kai-shek last
night as successor to T. v. Soong,
financier.
Gen. Chang, q moderate, is ex-
pected to be installed tomorrow.
Entering the first phases of multi
party administration. the two SUI
preme political bodies under the
Craftsmanship Of Gen. Chang con-
firmed the generalisSimo as chair
man of the new State Council. This
will become the supreme policy
board Of the nation during the Pc
riod Of transitional government.
Sun 70, president Of the Legisla-
tive Yuan, was named vice chairman
of the council, which consists of IL
Koumintang members, Young
China Party members, 8 Democratic
Socialists and nonpartisans.
Not participating in the govern
ment are the two largest minority
parties-the Communist and the
Democratic League The former is
at civil war with the government
and the latter is spurning any coali-
ton as long as fighting continues.
Evening star., 1947-04-17

PEIPING, April II tP).-Chinese
Communists attempted today to
seize the airield at Shihkiachwang
as fighting spread for miles around
the rail junction city 172 miles
southwest Of Peiping.
Evening star., 1947-04-17

Nearly all England was once
forest: now only two million of her
81 million acres are wooded.
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 2-bedroom home, East St., newly painted, redecorated thruout, fur llished.
 1-bedroom home, fully furn., large lot, everything electrical. Dcug- las.
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Scouts in Paris, France, and his former pen-friend, Jimmy Kelly. Jimmy and Robert had started a correspondence on March of 1945, which continued until the death of Jimmy in the summer of l946. The correspondence was continued
 by MT. and Mrs. Kelly and their daughter Claire.
 When the Kellys learned that Robert was coming East, they
 travelled five hundred miles to
 Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, in or der to spend two days with Rob- ert, whom they consider their sec ond son.
 Now the Kellys have written the
 Franks for permission for Robert to visit them at their home ID
 Cleveland on his return from his
 European trip.
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TO DISCUSS TERMS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13-lR- Secretary of the Treasury Snyder announced today that discussions will start Monday with British of ficials on easing terms of the S3,- 10000 900 American loan to Bri- tain.
 Snyder told a news conference that the National Advisory Coun- cil on International monetary prob lens. headed by himself, will con- duct the discussions on behalf of this country.
 The British delegation, which will fly here this weekend, will be headed by Sir Wilfred Eady special assistant to Chancellor ot the Exchequer Hugh Dalton.
 To Ask Concessions i Although no formal requests have been made, it is understood ] that England will ask concessions which would permit her to con serve her dwindling dollar supply by increasing imports from Brit i ish Dominions and decreasing inn ports from the United States. l The present terms of the loar agreement prohibit this.
 Snyder emphasized it was his understanding that the conference would be strictly limited to the British loan and would not delvt into other aspects of the British .dcllar crisis or European aid.
 He declined to comment on pros pective changes, saying:
 T want to find out what th' British delegation has in mind be- fore making any statement"
 Other Developments
 Tn two other developments ol the International Economic scene 1 l. Snyder scotched "persisten rumors" in London's financial dis trict that the Treasury planned t. increase it's price on gold from tn present S35 an ounce to $50. Th' i Secretary said there have been "n' : plans and no discussions" of sucl move. An increase in the gol' price would assist European coun tries with gold reserves to exten' their present dollar credits. 9. The British withdrew anothe S15C ,OOe,0O0 Of their U. $. loar leaving only s85oooo,ooo available ' At the recent rate of withdrawa I Treasury officials estimated tn loan would be exhausted in Oc tober, instead of next June 30, a contemplated.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-13
NEWS ITEMS
 FROM 5ITKA

SITKA, Alaska, Aug. 9.-Fall ar Irived practically overnight. After an unusually warm, dry summer and startling fine July, this morning the rains came and light i sleepers were awakened by the cal of ducks and geese flying overhead I Happy to see the rain and ac- | icompanying wind were Frank :, Wright, Jr., manager of the Pyra- mid Fisheries, because such con- ditions usually bring in the fish and Frank Hennessy, manager Of 1.-the Sitka Public Utilities, because of the serious water shortage from the long dry spell.
 ] Dan McGraw, partner in the l. Conway Dock Company, is being honored tonight by the Moose I Lodge with Bon Voyage party ] to which all Moose members and { Elks Club members with their ] ladies, are invited McGraw is one 1 of three Alaska delegates to the Moose convention which will be held in Columbus, Ohio on August il5. He is a Past Governor of the lodge and for eight years served as secretary. At present, he is one of the trustees.
 Also, this evening at the party, the Elk Moose bowling trophy will be presented to the Elks' winning bowling team, which captured the title in last winters tournament.
 Dancing will start at ten D. m. and later in the evening a supper will be served.
 Ms. Lydia Tilson and her daughter, Lydia Ann, will leave by plane early next week enroute to North Carolina to visit Mrs. Til sons older daughter, Mildred, who is a student at the University ot North Carolina. Mildred, a grad uate of Sitka High, studied her freshman college year at the Unl- versity of Washington, where she won a scholarship for Columbia University in New York City There she spent her sophomore year, then went on to North Caro- lima for her junior year.
 1 Lydia Ann, who graduated rom Sitka High this spring will enter Pullman College thise fall. Mrs Tilson will return to Sitka where she is postmaster.
 Mrs Tom Tilson Will leave oJ
 plane Tuesday to catch the clipper
 south the following day on ar
 extended vacation in the States
 She plans to visit relatives ane
 friends in Seattle and Portland
 Following the fishing season sh'
 will be joined by MT. Tilson, own CT of the Sitka Mercantile, The,
 will take delivery on a new ca in Seattle, then tour through ore
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-13

pon. Idaho and California, before returning to their home here.
 In Seattle. Mrs. Tilson will meet MT. and Mrs. Ben Ficken, form CT Sitka resident, who are nlak- ing their first trip west i'll ten years. MT. Ficken, with the late John Maurstad, was the original founder of the Hidden Falls lunl- Der mill. on the west coast of Baranoff Island and later U. s. Marshal in Sitka for many years The Fickens plan to spend a two month vacation visiting former Alaska friends between their home in St. Louis and the West Coast
 Mrs. Louisa Hansen is expect ed to arrive by plane tomorrow for combined business and va cation visit in Sitka. While here she will be a guest at the home of MT. and Mrs. Neil Andersen and attend to the settling Of her husbands, the late Eiler Hansen estate.
 Mrs. Martin Tengs arrived from Soap Lake, Wash, by plane We'd nesday to join her husband, who is an employee at the Silver Foam Yacht Club. On the day follow ing her arrival her husband was taken to the hospital for an emer- gency major operation. The Tengs have taken the upstars apartment in the Clarence Bands home on the Crescent.
 The Rev. Herbert Bruhn, who has been pastor for the Assembly of God for the past two years, left by plane this week for Fair banks, where he has been trans ferred. He will be joined there in the fall by his wife and young daughter who have been visiting in the middle west during the sum mer.
 Mrs. Adeline Boyce left by plane last weekend, enroute to her home in the States after visit of sew eral weeks with her son-in-law and daughter, MT. and Mrs. Max Penrod on Japsonski.
 MI. and Mrs. Russell Rowe re- turned by plane this week from a summers vacation in the States MT. Rowe is civil service em- ployee on Japonski. His wife is a teacher in the Sitka Gradc school
 The Rev. Elwood Hunter of the Prestyterian Church. returned by plane this week from months vacation in the States. He is the leader of the local Boy Scouts.
 MT and Mrs. Bill Richards have taken the front apartment over the Sitka Mercantile, recently va cated by MT and Mrs. Ken Nord- by.
 Mrs. Burr Johnson, her daugh, ters Elsa and Ann, and Mrs. John sons niece, Pat Hamilton of Port land. Oregon, returned to Juneal
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  forts to achieve economic recov- cry.
 The House of Commons voted 193 to 84 to adjourn until Oct. 20, beating down Conservative and Liberal attempts to shorten the re- cess to Sept. Is in view of the economic situation.
 Anthony Eden, speaking for the Conservatives, declared the S3,750,- 0GG eco U. s. loan would be exhaust ed before the recess ends and that the Labor regime had net told Parliament what practical steps I would take in dealing with the nations plight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-13

MIKE GOODMAN HERE FROM PELICAN CITY
 Mike Goodman, superintendent for the Whiz Fish Company at Pelican, is Juneau visitor.
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NOTIcE FOR PUBLICATION


 June 18, 1947.
 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Notice is hereby given that Forest Herbert Young, entryman, together with his witnesses, Mayo V. Raney and Harry Edward Ellingen, all or Haines, Alaska, has made final proof on his homestead, Anchorage Serial Ol0397, for the NtsNWA. SEA- NW14, sec. g, T. 28 s. R. 55 E.C.R.M. con- taining 120 acres, and it is now in the files of the District Land Office, Aneorage. and if no protest is filed | in the local land office, within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter, said final proof will be accepted and final certificate issued
 GEORGE A. LINGO, Acting Manager. First publication. Aug. l3 ,l947 Last publication, Sept. 10, l947.
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LAHORE, India Great fires
 ragged at several points in Lahore area after 24 hours of arson, train holdups and killings in which 100 were counted dead. The
 communal disturbances increased in violence as the hour approach ed fo rthe announcement due to- day of how the boundary commis-
 sion would partition the rich pro
 vince between the dominions of
 India and Pakistan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-13

When you pay TOT QUALITY why not get the FINEST-Buy FLOR SHErM SHOES at Graves.
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LOST AND FOUND

FOUND = Fountain pen, vicinity Channel Apts. Phone Black 8l5
 655-2t
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30 it. troller new engine, gear Al condition, must sell, price req
 scnahle. Inquire room 42, Alas kan Hotel 655-6t.
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WANT ADS
FOR SALE

SMALL cabin cruiser, nearly com
 pleted. Interior finished to suit buyer. See at Douglas Beat Shop or call Douglas 192 655-3t.